Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-13

II e. nEIOfWStftS s1uUsNttstIW me
i. of Jacksonism and Reform to which the presen.
administration have given impulse is most per.
yading one. 1t operates in all quarters. We
meet It in every department Of The government.
and in all the branches and ramhcations Of each.
From the chief officers Of the government to he
most inferior understrapper; in the great afaa
Of state and 10 the quiet circles OF society, N
land and On the water, at hemc and Abroad.
the same spirit Of reform is eytrni, no, to ray
rampant
From the following extract Of letter FROM
Washington. il would appear that til, new spirit
Of reform has been showing itself among or
Government agents at Bogota. In the absence
If other aud filter materials for improvement, ID
that distant quart il seems that reform has
been wrought upcn his excellcney Free Tom
Noore.y Under other administrations, some.
thing might be said about dignity and pcoprietr,
in its representatives IN foreign countries. b.,
under the new light influences. these old fashioa
ed words seem to BIZ rather cut OF place. Ihey
hare probably been reformed out OF the yocas:
Jury:
"Ertract to Ike q. &otes Gazette. ddted
"WAsgINGToy, aug SO. 1885,
ait is said, that the Department has received
accounts from Colombia, which remove ali doab:
on the subject Of personal fraeas between hi.
Excelency, T. p. Moore, and his Secretary Of
Legation Report goes 50 tar, as TO assert. tia
persoam ckaSiisemeia was, in tins case, inflicted
on the sacred person of the Minister. 1hi. ia
new procedure in diplomatic annals, a new mode
of furtherng the interests, and raising the cha.
racter of the country represented; and must lave
curious effect on the people ut Bosota. aud tie
Hgnitarips Of the court which is held there. -
Whether the outrage may appear to 5e of III:
flagiuous character, which, in the eyes Of our
present administration, ought To call for the re-.
call of The parties, cannot at present be predicted
with any certainty. Under the preceding adm.
nistraiion there could have been no ditfcayn
predicting the result; but new STANDARD Of ms..
ners and morals is now erected"
: 1t is rumored. says the correspondent VI tie
US. Gazette. that a misunderstanding had arisen
between the President and his nephew and vi
vate Secretary Mr. Donnclson and his lady, and
that in consequence. Maj. Heath had hegnsp
pointed secretary in Mr.. D.'s stead. The cause
Of he misunderstanding is the dc,erlninaionCf
Mr. aud Mrs. ID. not to associate with some q
the Presidents political family: We kHos nc
how much of this rumor is entitled to credit
Bat. PIT
We learn that Mr.. Van BUREy took rid
upon our Rail Road previous to his deparnr
from Baltimore, and that he was electrified viii
the excursion. We wish he had done thi; b.
fore he prepared the Veto Message against h.
tcrnal improvement!-l6d.
/
Origi,a Uniformity Of Climufe.-It appns
from the observations Of geologsts. that during
the earlier periods of the earths formation, ;hae
did not exist. among the then created annas
and vegetables, that kind Of geographical dlslFi
button which characterizes the organized beng
of our time. 1t is certainly no slight prOuf d
: the former distribution Of one and the sam.
climate over the whole earth. when in coeva fo.
nations, we ind the same fossil remains in wlds'
/ ly different degrees Of latitude. This it Il, al
lodged, has been verified b. observation. The
same ,or very nearly allied organic remains "
those of the tertiary and diluyia strata Of he a.
sins of Paris and London, of the sub-Appnln.
hills, and Of the shores Of the Baltic have been
we are told recently observed in the same KIDD q
strata on the banks Of the Irawadda IN x
Birman Empire, in the neighborhood VI the Be-
maputra in Bengal, and in Jamaica.
In conclusion, We need only cast glance 4
the acknowledged loquacity Of some Of de e.
tinct gigantic pachy dermata, rs he elephant
rhinocerous, &c. to be CONVINCED, that. II Tie r.
riod Of creation Immediately precedin. oufOa0
| there may have existed. on both shore, Ct nc
Atlantic Ocean, to distance extending "m 'o'
mouth of the Lena, in 20 degrees north Ilil'''
to the tropic, a climate at least very aual9go'
to that III the present tropical regions. From W.
preceding and other we'll known taoi;' sc @'
venture to infer, that it was after the de.us.'"-
there first appeared those differences OF Gina.
| which we are unable to show had existed q a''
prior period. -Edinburg Philosophical Jov7a.