Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-12-23

College. at Annapolis, Maryland, and la. 4,
cepted the appointment.
NoxrsoRp STOKES has been elected by tbe
7 legislature, Governor of the State Of North Ca
roina. in the place of Governor Owen. who dc.
clined a reelection. On the 9th baliotng. tie
votes were for Gen. Stokes III, and for X. y.
Spasht -. a
The Legislature of the State Of Indiana met a.
Indianopolis on the 9th inst. Isaac iiowK was
elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
With respect to general politics, there is said to
he majority of from 90 to so votes on joint bal
lot in favor of national republican principles
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The Harrisburg in,ellisencer thus notices Mr.
WILKINS, the newly elected Senator to Congress
from PennsylvaD,a:
..Judgc wilkins is a staunch friend of the
American System-an enemy to Indian Bills
friend to the National Currency, and opposed
to the whole policy of the National Admini.tra.
ton. We are satisGed-aye. gratiiied."
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The American ship Louis Philip |. Benedict.
master, from Philadel phia, was saluted on enter
inc the por, of Havrc with 81 guns. by the can.
noneers Of the National Guard. The skip Car.
ried the trl-coored flag at the fore.
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The Nicholson Clain-The Philadelphia ChrG.
nic!c Of Friday last says: {. In the Nicholson
case. which has occupied the Circuit Court for
many DAYS. Judge Hopkinson yesterday deliver
ed an elaborate and very able opinion in favor of
the defendants affirming the constiu,ionali,v
of the legislative acts under which their title is
derived. The jury, in few minutes, returned
verdict consonant to the charge of the Court"
a1Taa54e5ss
National Rpubiicnn Conce"tion--The Frank.
fort Kentuckian, of Friday the 10th instant,
states that the State Convention Of Na'ional
Republicans convened in Frankfort. 4 few hmsr.
before that paper was put to press. NolwIih-
standing the extreme inclemency Of the weather,
and the nearly impossible state Of the roads. the
Convention was numerOusly attended. IL Is one
the most august and influential assemblies shat
has ever met in Kentucky. 1t organized bv
choosing.
Gen. James Garrard, Of Bourbon, President
and
Col. John Payne. Of Mason. Secretary.
Onsthe list being called over. Delegates APP
peared In The first instance rom IS counties
out of the "a in the Stale No duubt SAYS the
Kentuckian that in the course Of the day, Dele
gates will come from most of the remaining coun.
ties. At the time of that papers going 10 press,
the convention had only organized. and appoint
ed committees to prepare preambles, resolutions,
sc. -s33cE5a-
! The Philadelphia Gazette has publis' ed state
ment of forty cases of Imprisonment BY masls-
trates of the city and county of Philadelphia. IN
which the sum total of debt was but $50 Az,
while The costs amounted to so IL. In one #
these cases, a man was imprisoned so days
debt Of f,cO cents. In another case 4 g.
81 so appears to have been divided int0twuc-.ts
Of seventy five cents.
We have ever becn opposed to the praotcr #
imprisoning the honest debtor. Punish Il J,
as severely as you please, but do not lock up TO
unfortunate poor man.
LmpOsiiOnin Medicine.-It is said that NJ.
merous frauds and authorizations in medicint 10
New York have been exposed, and certain al"h.
ecalies and druggists have associated together,
under the title of - College Of Pharmacy" vrh
view to introduce into the preparation and lie
OF drugs and medicines, more know ledse
care then arelnow generally exercised thereI..-
1t has been discovered that calomel is ~,
with white lead, red precipitate win red I,
common bark with Peruvian bark, and II Z e.
case several thousand lbs. Of stuff called j. y
were .Old at An average OF six cents per pcJud
when the real drug was selling By the quantity at
forty five cts.
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