Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-18
ALEXANDRIA, d. c.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NAY 10, 1851.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY IS, 1851.
The National Journal came to US in new
dress. and enlarged and improved appearance.
1t will continue to be faithful sentinel, and me-
rits the support and confidence of the friends of
HENRY CLAY.
The New York papers contain decision Of
the Superior Court in that city, which may be in
teresting. The facts were that the defendant in
a court below had been tenant to a succession
of landlords on certain premises now owned by
the plaintiff, who pending his tenantry purchas-
ed the premises. When the defendant was about
to remsve, he insisted on taking away CRATE,
and several articles, termed in law, fixtures,
which he had put up for his own convenience. un-
less the landlord purchased them-the landlord
forbid HIM, but he removed them Notwithstanding
leaving the premises as he found them.
The inferior Court before which the trial was
held gave Judgment for the plaintiff upon which
a eeriorari was brought. After argument, the
Superior Court reversed the judgment of the court
below, stating in their decision that the liberal
advancement of an improved state of society had
much soitened the old law on this subject: that
many fixtures for the benefit Of trade were now
removable, which formerly were the property Of
the owner of the freehold; the same principle
should now govern the relation of the landlord
and tenant. as to houses for residence, such
relation now, partO0k much OF the character OF
a commercial one, the owning and renting hous-
es being almost a branch OF trade-and an extern
sive one.
In this view oft, 1T can hardly lie called an extern
sion of the law, to say that tenant who onl y re-
rpd
venience--without any injury to the landlords
premises-is not in the exercise of lawful act
IA contrary rule, independent of its injustice,
would not benefit the landlords themselves-who
are interested in securing the convenience and
comfort of their tenants, especially IN case like
the present, where no manner OF injury has been
sustained by the removal.
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Con,plimental!-Ther is, says the Philadel-
phia Gazette, "but one real poet south OF the
Potomac Pray who is he? and quere? how
many real ones are there north of the Potomac?
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The last number of the Englishman's Maya
zine contains an account of a visit to Napoleon's
Tomb, by "a veteran" The character of the
scene, says he, is profound and awful loneliness
"a dell grit in by huge naked hils-not an OBJ
ect of vegetable life to relieve the general aspect
of desertedness, except the few weeping willows
which droop above the grave. The feeling of So
ltude is heightened BY an echo, that esponds on
the eas. elevation of the voice. ''With what
singular emotions took my stand upon the slab,
which sheltered the dust of him for whom the
crowns, thrones and sceptres, he wrung from their
possessors, would of themselves have furnished
materials for monument! There the restless
was at rest; there the Emperor of the French.
e Tel H. No. (oHo raf
the Rhine, Grad Master of the Legion OF Ho-
nour, reposed with almost as little sePuichrai
pomp as the humble tenant of country church
yard" u.,
'..4fer Hte's fyul feuer he sleeps 'oeH'
An anecdote is then related, connected with
his visit which forcibly shews the enthusiastic
feeling with which the French still regard the
memory of Napoleon:
GA French frigate arrived from the Isle of
Bourbon, having on board regiment OF artllle-
~. The officers solicited and obtained permls-
sion to paw tribute of respect to their old lead
er,s ashes. l accompanied them to the ground,
and rarely have | witnessed enthusiasm like
theirs. On the way not an eye was dry, and
some who had served Immediately under Z" the
Emperor" wept aloud As they drew nearer
tn the spot, their step became hurried and ire
pular, but the moment they saw the tomb. they
formed two deep, and advanced with uncovered
heads, folded arms, and slow and pensive pace.
When within five or six yards of their destina-
ton, they broke of into single files, and sur
rounding the grave, at uniform intervals, knelt
silently down. The commander of the frigate
aud the others in succession, according to their
rank, then kissed the slab; when they arose eve
nv lip was fixed-every bosom full
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Who has not laughed at the we'll drawn but
broad caricature of curiosity in the person of
Paul Pry? The author of that excellent comedy
tells US, that the idea of the character of his he
70 was suggested by fact which friend related
to him. An idle old lady, living in narrow