Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-02

The motive which led to this i'ofrid TRANSACTION
i, supposed to be money. nut II Is not ascertain
ed mr. believed by Mrs. Boil that they obtained
any An inquest was held, and the jury return
ed. verdict of murder BY some person or per
suns unknown. Tie murderers approached the
bouse with a horse aud sleigh or sled WITHIN lou
Yards. and then Oh the common fed their horse
with a sLeaf of oats. as appeared by the marks Oh
the snow and the tracks.
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.aufI Explosion al GibrGHer-fX'rac, oil d
letter dated Gibraltar. December loih. address.
ed by a bombardier of the 9th Battalion oil hoyai
Artillery. TO his father in London:
"A number of men belonging to our corps
were at land pratice. on Saturday The I'm OF
November; they were firing from the Qneen's
Galleries at a target placed on the sea shofe,
from seven twenty four FOUNDERS, with round
shot. These Galleries are passages cut out NJ 'he
solid rock. facing the Spanish line. ihe men
who work the guns on this line OF batteries are
quite secure from the shot or she'll Of an enemy
At the time our men were firing. the wind "as
blowing very strong from the west; and Ii Is sup
nosed that when one gun went of. the flash from
II was carried by The wind TO the next gun,
which also went of.-aud the Hash of the second
vas driven I'D the galleries. into a magazine which
contained a large quantity of gunpowder. Inc
magazine blew up in an instant, and a sergeant
and nine gunners were killed; and SIX gunners
and a drumme we're dangerously wounded; ard
ore of the wounded men died soon
The men Who we're killed as well as those wound
ed. presented an awful speciaCIe: it vas Impossl-
Die to recognise any OF their features. and their
bodies were only distinguished by their names
BEING on their shirts. | was on the hospital guard
at the time, for which [ I'm thankful TO a KIND
Providence. or ] should, perhaps, na}e shared
the fate of these brave fellows. who thus prema-
turelv persisted in tic prime of life. On the 29th
they we're all buried with military honors: the
bodies were preceded by the band Of The 45d re-
siment, followed by the widows and children OF
The deceased three of whom were married. and
the various corps in the garrison. No sight ev-
err so fully convinced me of the uncertainty OF
human life as this. while | witnessed the bodies
of eleven men who only two days before were IN
the prime of life. carried in solemn procession
to the graveyard.
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State of Maine, Us. Pedlars Of Vooden Clocks
On Monday last a bill vas twice read IN the
Legislature of Maine. prohibiting Pedlars from
travelling from town to town selling wooden
clocks. on the penalty of thirty dollars for each
one sold in violation of the law. Is not this rank
| fIGUSON UdluS tIC ~ "
New England pedlars? Weknow that these clocks
go. exceIlently well-we verify believe and will
vouch for it, that not an advocate OF this bill IN
Maine keeps as good time, or obtains IN his more
meais. a lick as unlimited. or should by chance
his tick be about ceasing, or when 1t has actually
ceased. there is not one who has the kCy-Igoid-
en- one of course) to wind up. and 90 tick again.
Why if this bill pass into a law. what would be-
come of our excellent New England friends,
wholesale dealers in clocks, natmegs and other
notions: Well may they exclaim
he Pediar's occupation gone"
Much We fear, that this may be their exclama-
ton before long, for the bill has passed to a third
reading. This, Dogberry would nave sand as
most tolerabIe and not to be- endured"
IN Y. Aer.
Presidential nomination. As we stated yes
terdav. the s.republican'' Qieaven save the mark
members of the legislature met OH Monday even
inc. and nominated Gen. Jackson for another
! term of the presidency. Among those who were
prominent actors in this nomination. were some
who in 1924. denominated him a murderer a
.yiolator of the constitution and laws a 'tyrant,
a .federalIst.' and. greatest and most OF all, zone
who had not a single feeling in common with the
republican party Now these same men call
him a 'moralist. a patriot, a 'phllanthroPlst,, a
republican, and 'One whose great object IS the
promotion of the interests OF rcpubilcanlsm.'-
Were these consistent men right then. or are
they wrong low? If they were republicans in
1894, are they not federaIists now! We leave
it for their organ to answer.
C.RBauy Dai. .Adr.
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Mr. Crockett yesterday stated that he had sup.
ported the present Administration when General
Jackson come into power, as well as his colleague,
Mr.. Polk; but he went on to say that he was a
Jackson man still-But General Jackson was not,
for that the General had left the principles which
he avowed when he was elected. Now, said Mr..
Crockett, that he is off from his principles, | am
off from him.-NaL. jour.
CONGRESS-.
In the Senate on Monday, before tie reading
of the journal,
Mr.. Hendricks rose and said: 1t becomes Mr..