Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-23
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
s,ryRDaY MORNING. APRIL %, 1851.

this week has been unusually large, lit now being
the season for the farmers to purchase their STOCK
of fish, Nearly fifteen hundred barrels were
received on Monday by wagons. and the receipts
nv water were considerable. A gentleman has
informed US, that in riding out on the Middle
Turnpke Road one evening this week. about one
and half miles. he met and passed IN that dis
lance. coming to and going from market. about
Gfty wagons. The advantages to be deriied from
good roads and canals are incalculabe.
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In another column of this mornings Gazette
will be found the last DAYS proceedings ct the
Virginia Legislature The election of the Judges
completed the business of the session. nave
endeavured to keep our readers apprlsed, da'ly,
of the most important business transacted. ana
NAV. in the course of next week, find room Tor
sketch of the acts OF general nature which nave
been passed. This session has lasted live MONTHS
the longest ever held.
aAsH
The Georgetown Columbian states that the
tolls received on the Canal between the 2lst OF
March and the 10Th of April, amounted to eight
thousand four hundred dollars. This is highly
gratifying.
Our readers are already acquainted with all
that is known relative to the resignation OF the
late Cabinet There was yesterday no further
news from Washington. and opportunity was 81.
ven for conjecture and speculation. We shall
postpone some remarks we intend to make until
next week.
The regular contest. commenced in Philadel-
pha between the Jackson and Clay parties. will
rapidly extend itself throughout Pennsylvania,
and, from present appearances, we have the pros
pect of gratifying result.
3Asn
Part of the extensive canon foundry OF Major
Clarke, several miles above Richmond, has been
destroyed by fire; loss estimated at 10 to l.OOC
dollars, and no insurance. 1t is supposed to
have originated from carelessness of the workmer
leaving fire on going to breakfast
ANSN
| John NJ. Fielder has been elected Represen'
tative in Congress from South Carolina, in the
place of Judge Martin, resigned. Mr.. + wa,
opposed bv Mr.. VIM o. p.~"ton' VINO received
lo-x,- VIC
A public dinner was siven at Columbia on Sa-
turday last, to Governor Hamilton. Mr.. Senator
Hayne, and the Hon Mr.. McDufic. We shall
look with interest for the addresses which may
be expected from these gentlemen on the coca.
sion.
A respectable number of the citizens of Pen.
deton, South Carolina, gave public dinner to
the Vice President of the United States on the
LIST instant. The following toasts were given:
. Our guest and felow-citizen, the Vice Pre-
sident of the United States-The secret intrigues
of cunning aspirants may ALLEVIATE some; but
candor. honesty and talent, must take the sta
ton to which they are entitled in the confidence
of the great body of the people,"
To this toast Mr. CALHOUN responded in
short but pertinent and feeling address, in which
he abstalned from any angry allusion to general
politics, but expressed great qualification in find.
ing his conduct approved by his constituents pre-
sent. The toasts says the Camden Journal
were pretty unequivocaly anti-Jacksonian. and
what is worthy of notice, the President Of the
United States was not toasted at all.
Low
From, Bordeaur.--Capt. Myers, of the brig
Homer, at New York in 90 days from Bordeaux.
informs the Editors Of the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser. that on the day he sailed, the
that the Poles and the Russians had had severe
batte--that the Poles gained the victory, and
had taken 10000 prisoners, and that an insur.
iCSSoh hoo out Jul fNUSSids anu Dart OF tne
army had been recalled on that account-that
there was great rejoicing in Bordeaux on &C.
count of the victory gained by the Poles.
This intelligence could be no later from Pa.
ris than our more direct advices, and relates to
events already known.
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DIR. S. 6. Howe. the able advocate in the cause
Of Greece, has returned in the ship America.
Capt. Eldridge, arrived at Boston on Sunday last
rom Liverpool.
The Fredericksburg Arena. speaking of the
reelection of the Judges of the Court of Appeals
says:
g 1t is not merely with reference to the worth. |
private and public, Of the old members of the
court. that we express our unfegned pleasure at
heir reelection. We view it in another light !
Is the triumph of considerations of public good
md respect for long tried services. over party
,rejudices. Of these four gentlemen, three were
decidedly opposed to the election of Gene.
al Jackson, and are now opposed to his re-elec-
opinions were never concealed-and
ret we find they are elected almost unanimously.
~ a Legislature composed of men of varv i;a: