Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-30
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
,s,7URnsY MORNING. APRIL so. 1881

We have a communication from a correspond
ONT WIN comments somewhat harshly upon
:. the course pursued BY the editors OF the Ma
t;oual InteIliaencer with regard IN Mr.. lngham. ;"
In declining the publication of this ~communlca-
t,on. il is due to our correspondent to otter a
few words in e xplanation. Our own opinion OF
Mr. Inpham is well known. We always looked
with disgust upon the rank prescription which
overran lis department of the Government. We
believe him to be vindictive in his resentment
contracted in his views-weak in his Judgment
and vicious in his disposition. We consider
him the very model of a determined pGfiizaa.
and nothing more. We see nothing Of the states
man displayed in his character, and set'im down
as fit only to flourish IN the hot led az party
Our friend, of the intelligencer NAV not think
of the ex-Secretary as we do. and they have an
undoubted right to speak a good word FOR INN
without giving reasonable ground for offence =
And, If we recollect Alright. the commentator
bestowed upon MIR. Ihgham by the Intelligencer,
was only a qualified one-tot the amount that lie
was the most industrious of the Cabinet. or words
to that effect. So that to call the editors Of the
Intelligencer up before the public. and especial
ly too, under groundless suspiciont would be
unfair and unjust-It would be doing unto others,
what we would not they should do unto us. MIR.
Ingham has had enough excavations heaped up
OF his head, without invoking the powerful aid
of the Intelligence.
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We remember some time since we gave great
offence to those whuse good opinions above all
others We prize, in consequence OF our objections
to fairs conducted by ladies, We then as we
propriety of these - gatherings" and urged mild
lu c,,rh nrouunontc in sItppnrt at thic UpinInp 40
our poor judgements dictated. We were however
so roundly rated, that we quit the tield-only TO
return however with the following quotation from
the remarks ofa Quaker Lady, which have been
recently published in New York, and which con-
yey much good sense in plain language.
sin truth, what can be more unfeminlne, than
the situation of a we'll educated female while I'M
der this high state of excitement at one of these
fairs. Just look 1t the bold look, and the course
and decided tone and manner of the one who is
thus engaged. She bargains and sells like a ven
due master in a country village, or like a market
woman ia the public market, and has to submit
to the coarse jokes and vulgar gaze of those per-
sons who ought never to approach her but with
respect and Difference. A woman in one night at
one of these fairs, loses more of the respect Of her
interiors, thon Il whole life. Of dignified reserve
can restore. 4 low vulgar fellow. who stands
before her and exchanges w~ords-jokes il. fact
for she must be pleasant and winning in her man
ners, or she will not sell her wares-will ever
after consider himself on a par with her. He new
err can get it out ofhis head that he once banded
words with her, and bought a glass Of lemonade
OF her, for which, under the cloak Of religious mo-
tives, she charged him twice as much as he could
have purchased it for at a common-may | say it
tavern.
A correspondent Of the Charleston Courier re.
marks: "Now it requires not the power of divi.
nation to predict that the time is not distant,
when this contraband article, ycleped NuAifca-
ton. like the stolen beef from the butchers stall,
shall be stoutly disowned. Some of ITS present
abettors will swear downright, that they Were
not the ~originators, and others will aver most
strongly that they are not the supporters, of the
How very appropriate the remark Of
the poet.
Facilis descensus .7yerni:
ned r voi are Gradum,-
iiic labor, hic opus est"
IsES
Mr.. Peasants. the editor of the Richmond
Wing. contemplates publishing a Journal, devot-
ed entirely to Foreign Intelligence. He is every
way competent to conductthe proposed work.
1t Is to be issued weekly.
AsS>
The Mayor of Philadelphia having received in
formation that several individuals, within a fcw
days, have been attacked in the streets by dogs,
has determined to anticipate the time fixed for
enforcing the ordinance authorizing him to take
measures for preventing the evil. The operation
of the Dog Law therefore commenced on Mon
day last, instead of the first of Nav, the day
in the advertisement Of the High Consta-
BILE.
aNSA
Militia bill has passed the House Of Repre-
of New York, by a vote of 64 to Is,
reduces the number of parades to one,
and that for inspection and review; exempts Off
GERS and prlvates of uniformed companies after a
service of ten years; excmpts persons having
consciencious scruples by paying two dollars
for the support of the common schools;
lbolishes the present exemption Of students and
others; repeats all laws which require uniformed
companies TO meet four times a year; and abolish
IS Imprisonment for absence at parade, or for Ge-
elect to provide equipments.
This is something like reform.
(SC