Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-15

io"o WIN canes OF - percussion lock pistols
both very dangerous weapons In unskilful hands,
but apt to be carried oftener than they are used.
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1t was the bill appointing Solicitor of the
Treasury which was rejected in the Senate on
Thursday, and not the bill concerning the Attor.
ney General, as was inadvertently said yester.
day.
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The Senate have amended the resolution oftbe
House Of Representatives, passed some weeks
ago, proposing an adjournment on the 18th, so as
to propose an ado .nment on the s1st, which,
We suppose, will be finally fixed upon as the day
on which the present session of Congress shall
terminate.
The Charleston Mercury made, lately, the fol-
lowing assertion
"The uniform practice of that system Inter
nal Improvement proves that the South, so far
from partaking equally, has been totally exclud-
ed, and that the system itself has been wholly
used as an engine for the oppression of the South
and the enrichment of the North"
A writer in the Charleston Courier, in reply,
presents an authentic list Of appropriations, which
warrants these statements:
''Of the amount appropriated to works of in
ternal improvements more than four millions
were for roads and canals, in which Southern
States have a direct, and in some cases an ex-
elusive interest. The aid given to single canal
in the State of Virginia. exceeds, by more than
$4,000 dollars, the amount appropriated to roads
and canals in all the Northern States!"
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A popular Boston periodical has the sub
Joined remarks on the state of amusements in this
country:
There is singular inaptitude in our people to
amuse themselves, and to do this innocently and
usefully. Whether it arises from the influence
of the Church, or from the operation OF republic
an institutions OF, what we are more inclined to
believe, from the pressure Ofpublic opinion on
every individual. from the dread Of imputed in
decorum, the fear of one another, which, we are
inclined to think, prevails here more than any
where else in the understandable as we all are,
without any protecting barrier of rank or cast to
public opinion, and dependent for Offices and
honours OH the popular breath-from whatever 1t
arises, we believe II will not be denied, by any
rejecting man, that the fact is as we state it.
Gently and usefally, amusing themselves. In
Europe, there are thousand harmless dOmes-
tic Comes or gvmnastic exercises. to while away
the tediousness of a winters evening, or the oc
casional leisure of a summers afternoon. But
our amusements are too apt to be drinking, ca
rousing, mad frolic or monstrous excess. They
are also very expensive. The 'play-day' with
our people, is day of much expense; and they
seem TO have no conception OF any other way OF
passing it. 4 French family will calculate to
sous, what days amusement shall cost, calcu-
late il with the utmost economy: and they Will
90 forth into the gardens and public places, and
have happy day, without being Obliged at even
ing to remember the adage about the fool q his
money! Our tastes are not so simple. There
is the same difference between us In this respect,
as there is between French cookery and ours:
we do not make the materials 90 third part so
far. So it is in the other. We have waste,
mispense, exhaustion, riot, where we might, if we
understood it, have economy, frugaitv, simpIi-
CITY. pleasure What causes there are amongus
which have made amusements, to so great an eX-
tent. occasions of resistance to public sentiment
or domestic restraint, occasions OF fear. stealth,
and consequent recklessness and excess 1T behoves
our Christian moralists, preachers, parents and
rulers, deeply to consider"
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The Massachusetts Journal of Saturday con-
tains several documents relating to Colombian
affairs. one of which is proclamation of Paez,
dated Valencia I'd March, declaring B0tcar an
Outla,c, and Offering a repard Of $4,000 for ms
heaa!!! The following are extracts'from tais
document
Considering that Simon Bolivar has not re-
ceiyed from any legitimate government, authori-
ty to make war upon u.s.
Considering that the defence of our lives and
homes is of nataral right, that in no wise we have
provoked This war, but that on the contrary we
have maintained ourselve in an attitude, just,
moderate and decorous respecting the rights OF
our neighbours
And in fine, consulting the safety Of the coun,
try, which is the supreme law, we have decreed
and do decree: =.
I. All the citizens are authorized to kill Simon
RoI,yar. his officers and soldiers, who shall be
found making war, in the territory of Venezuela,
or committing any act Of hostility against her