Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-11-11

in doing so reduce them to something less than a
ruinOus rate. -N0f Int.
Correspondence Of the ". Y. Jour. Of Com.
WAsRINoroN, Nov. ?, 1881.
Seeing MIR. John Nelson, commissioner to Ma
pies, in our city to day, | resolved at once to call
at the State Department, and ascertain the amount
of claims upon the Government of Naples; ex.
pressly with the view to your and your readers
information. These claims have arisen through
the various v~exations to which the commerce OF
the United States was subjected, during the wars
Of the French Revolution, since 1905. In re-
gard to Naples, as filed in the State Department.
thew amount to one million, seven hundred anu
ninety dollars. and thirty-two cents.
In looking into these claims, | find them to be
on account Of seizure. sequestration, and capture,
mostly without adjudication, appropriated to the
uses of the government of that day, at the head
of which was Joseph Bonaparte, who has, by the
amenity and hospitality of the American people,
lived in undistrrbed and splendid exile among
them for 16 years.
The claims of American merchants upon Hol-
land amount to something like $500, 600, arising
out of like circumstances with those upon Naples.
II is no doubt recollected that another Of the Cor
sican fraternity Was at the head OF the govern
ment; and under his regime a like system OF spo-
liatiOn obtained. go,
II j. possible that Mr.. Nelson may accomplish
a liquidation of the claim upon Naples; but the
nation is too exhausted aud wretchedly poor to
nav any thing. The claim upon Holland ought
to be pressed even to r~eprisals; because that people
are able TO nay. They are as much under obiiga-
tons to account with their creditors as the sub
iects of Bernadotte-since both were under the
authority of the Grand Robber.
The social relations of our community are ap-
preaching fast to the purity and cordiality neces-
sary to confidence and reciprocity. Now and then
a meteor springs from the morass of the malign
influence, and trails a few PAGES, exhibiting such
names as Lewis. Kendall, and Blair. to which a
gaseous vanity has recently appended a ridicu.
lous GEOLOGY, in the person OF a p0mpous animal
in the Treasury Department, equally entitled to
respect, whether he disclaims against sin or against
smut;-the very frog in the fable stralning his
pismy dimension to that of the noble animal to
whose hoof, he might be sometimes llable.-Ihe
| certificate of French Strother Evans against the
statement of John c.. Calhoun? Poh! poh!!-
poh! .sCredat Judeds!! If Horace had lived
in our day, he might have learned that sometimes
there may be ''high life beioW STAIRS Let US
adjourn this matter - crim-con," as the august
paieytamiiias said, when another one would have
salm mem. con.
The Keene n. ii. Sentinel, in a paragraph
headed a. Religious Fana,icism," states that 'on
the Sabbath succeeding the late four days meet.
ing at hcworth. a respectable member OF the
Church began the Lords Prayer, at a prayer
meeting held in the Town House, and gradually
raised lis voice till he was heard distinctly thirty
or forty rods. In he afternoon, he seized his
mother round the waist and his sister by the
.- -. ill., ,tao, and NTH HarcuIaan cfrpDpth-
bore them up the aisle, overturning several fe-
males. He was secured, and has since become
calm. He said he supposed he was going to hea'
ven, and seized his mother and sister, as II to
bear them with him.
AT a PRAYER meeting after a four days meeting
of the Monadnock Association. a preacher dec'a-
red to the people, that on a certain day Jesus
| Christ would be IN - Parish, and all who
wished TO become acquainted with him might, II
they would only attend; and if they did not, they
must he set down as inevitably lost, and lost for
ever.
At Hancock and at Rindge. what is called the
- Judgment Hymn"-which, says an orthodox
| writer, has not in it 8. a thought which does not
belong to the lar. and to the law not as inctud-
| ing the Gospel, but as cohtra-dlstinguished from
,t"-was performed; and, to give effect, mot the.
~atricaL, by any means the trumpet was intro
duced at intervals, the pc former being conceal
ed. Such exhibitions may, and doubtless die,
alarm many on these occasions.
The worst effects to religion and morality are
to be apprehended from such attempts to force
people to become religious. How different were
the mild and persuasive means used by the bles-
sed Jesus and h,s Apostles!
On the 18th instant, Mr.. Clay was invited by
the citizens ut Vincennes to partake of a public
dinner. We subjoin the correspondence which
took place on the occasion. Mr.. C.'s letter is
rendered highly interesting by its illusions to
past ents.-LouisuiM Journal.
VINcENNEs, Oct. 10, 1881.
SrR-At a public meeting Of a lumber of the
citizens of Knox county, on the 1st inst, it was
intimated, as probable, that our town would soon
be honored by your passing visit; and feeling a
lively sense of gratitude and respect for the
statesman who has contributed so eminently to
promote his country's prosperity and glory, the
citizens present spontaneously determined on in-