Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-03-31
ALEXANDRIA,, ID. c.
MORNING, MARCH 81, 1856
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.
Washington, March so, 1880.


DEAR SIR: The Senate, you will perceive,
yesterday ventured to reject teco more of our ex-
cellent Presidents nominations. l should be
disposed to praise them for this extraordinary in
dependence, if were not afraid of alarming
them into rctraction. Promising as are the
looks, and luxuriant as is the growth of this
plant, such is its extreme sensitiveness that the
merest touch viii wither it.
The reieetions referred to, are the nominations
of John p Decatur, as Collector of Portsmouth,
On. H. in the place of the slandered Upham,
removed; and of Cushman, as U. S. District At
torney for New Hampshire. Decatur got but
ONE vote.-I will not guess whose that was.
Like LEE, such was the infamy of his character
that but one Senator could be found who dared
TO sustain him. Cushman fell from mere imbe-
lity-incompetency. How great anu glarinS
his defects in intellect must have been, may be
imagined, when we look at the constitution OF
the Senate. 1t is really too bad that our worthy
Chief Magistrate should be so egregiously lmpos-
ed upon as he has been in the cases of Lee, Heca-
tur, Cush,aaya, and some Others He had her
culean task to perform; and every good and pa
triotic man should have put his shoulders to the
wheel, in aid of him, Least of all was 1t to
be expected to find such men, as c. j. NJ. ct al,
obstracting the course of justice.
.Sicarfacom has got throug h-but Noah rubs
hard. By the way, l think you ought to say
something in favor of the Printers. There seems
to be disposition, working its way even into the
Senate. to push the Printers aside witho ut fee or
reward. This is as unjust as it is illberal; land
If were one of the craft, would at least look
unutterable things at all such ildisPosed persons:
d, YOU want to know why Sicort'coW was con-
irmed in his placer Guess. May be it was
from an apprehension that worse might get his
place! -see9s
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.
The ship James Chopper has arrived IN HamP-
ton Roads from Liverpool, whence she sailed on
the elst February. We have received from the
Norfolk Beacon and Herald Offices .proof-slips
containing the annexed items, extracted from the
LIVERPOOL Chronicle of the Goth, and the London
Globe of the 10th ult., the latest papers brought
by the ship. >,
In relation to the distress Of the country, the
Liverpool Chronicle says: ''The country con
template, with intense interest, all proceedllles
in Parliament; for they are sansuine enough 70
believe the legislature cannot remain insenslole
- their wants. and that the distress has become
an severe and extensive, as to force on the far-
lament the propriety Of attending to their COM
nlaints. We fear the country is doomed to Dc Dc
ds,nno;nted: that no reduction IN the taxes SUI
6ciently extensive will be submitted to; put tha''
as the last expedient. and the only one' 'he pa
, per will be re-issued."
SIGNS of great trade IN LiuerpooL-Mr. Pa ar
tho rece;yer of customs duties, passed on wed
nesdav last, 18th Feb. not fewer than 24o ent1e'
far goods ipyards, being the greatest number
nassed by him ON any day during the % years nc
: has been in the Custom-house; and the export ex
/ else surveyor, on Monday preceding, cleared
| greater quantity of excise debenture GOODS otN
s 800 than was ever cleared IN any one day
| since Liverpool was place OF trade.
, london, FEB. 16.-We have received the Mes
1 ssrrer des Chambres and the other Paris paper
of Sunday, but their contents possess very h''l'
;ntsrest. There are, indeed. long details
nna,rels between the different factions IN Greece
e Sut these accounts reach generally IN so exag
ou. form. they are not worthy of attention
? The Turkey mail arrived this morning. In
2 49, from Constantinople are to the lSth, an'
f from SMYRNA to the 4th Inc capI.a eonu of a.
K TRANQUIL. but trade was dull on account Vi uD
: drain of money for the Russian Substitutes