Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-11-12

would advise all the colonies to follow the .ra,n-
pie OF Grenada, and reduce their numbers by in.
sututing licenses, and extorting fines from such
as dare to sell without.-BayEe's Hest Indies.
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Lore and Poefry.-Should there be in this en-
llshtened age any incredulous person who still
denies that love is productive of poetry and that
OF the swee'est kind, let him read and ponder up
ON the following tribute of Dumfries lover. 10
the charms Of his fair one:
"Oh honey IL is very sueei,
But sugar 10 70 s.oeeter,
Ind my ioue as far erceb sugar.
lis sugar does sattpetre %
-sneaEa&~
Census Hnecdofe.-A marshal in our neigh
boring counties, on making a call at the house
OF one Cornwell. who to use an Eastern phrase,
was at the time pretty well corned. enquired who
was the head of the family. sShe is." replied
the man. pointing to his better part. ''Yoa are
hOarder, suppose" said the census man.
"Yes board here, except DRINKING and Lopc-
INc;" land where do YOU DRINK and LopGE?"
Il drink at the grocery and lodge in the barn.
Portland .7dpocate.
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hdfe Kearncy and Polly Hopkms-The
Richmond Compiler says:-We understand,
that the celebrated runners Kate Kearney and
Polly Hopkins have been sold by gentleman
of this city for 1875 dollars, to a gentleman of
the North, for the Long Island Course. Their
loss to our turf will be a cause of much regret
to the southern Sportsmen. Petersburg INTEL.
--ne0asaHs>
appointments by the President.-FREDERIcK
LIsr, Of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of the Unit
ed States, for the Port OF Hamburg, in place of
John Cu,hbert, removed.
NATHANIEL NILES. Of Vermont. now in Paris,
to be Secretary of Legation to France, vice
Charles Carroll Harper, resigned.
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A man has been fined in Pittsburg; twenty dol
lars for HoRsE-wHIPPINo. SO as to draw blood
Mrs. Ann ROYAL. The defendant was an anti
mason. The Statesman says,the defendant plead
ed guilty to the charge; but it was insisted by his
counsel. Mr.. Lowrie, that the penalty ought To
be light-merely nominal fine, owing to the bad
character of the prosecutrix, and in particular,
because of her abuse of the mt masons.
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The following paragraph is from Bcknel's
Counterfeit DetectOr:
1--WE learn from source we believe to be
responsible, that the ordinary rate of discoun,
at the Boston Banks, with the exception of the
Branch Bank of the United States in that city. is
HE perceat l, has also been mentined to Us.
that the Parent Bank Of the United States is. in
gradually Withdrawing its capt.
4al from the Branch Bank of the Literary Empo-
rum"
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A question, something like our Sunday Mail
question, has lately Occasioned considerable dis
cussion in Liverpool among the rail road directors
with respec, to travelling on the rail road between
that city aud Manchester on Sunday. One party
was against travelling altogether on that day. and
another in favor Of it Without any restrictions; hut
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tiers between their couscienCes and their pockets.
declare it rs very wrong to travel on the Lords
dav but that nevertheless the carriages should be
run for the accommodation of those only who
journey from necessity. As that word necessity
is one of large import. aud it would not always
be very easy to ascertain mans motive for
desiring to travel, the conscientious party at
last agreed that the coaches might he run on Sun
day out of church hours. Verily.this conscience
is a convenient scarecrow IL Post.