Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-04

was Interrupted every few moments by ioud ana
lonr continued cheers. Our limits do not per
init US to give even an abstract. lie closed by
Offering the following toast:
The CITY of New York: Rich, Populous. and
Hospitable; the London of the New World;
what NAV be her opuence. what her population,
where her commerce. and its Kindred labors, en-
couraged and protected like those Of London,
shall annually reap two harvests, one from the
ocean and one from the land.
The following Letter was read:
New York, March 90, 1881.
Gentiemea-I thank you tor your invitation to
the dinner, to be given to Mr.. Burgess, on We'd
nesday.
Itwould give me much pleasure to meet you,
and your friends, and to see him; but lndispen-
sable obligations call on me to be IN Boston, on
that day.
pray you, gentlemen, to accept the tender OF
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Toast enclosed from Mr.. Webster
The United States: while other nations are
moulding their governments into free forms, may
we not break the pattern.
! By Col TrumbulI. Rhode Island: Equally
distinguished bv the beauty and loneliness of her
daughters, as by the intelligence, frmness, and
rectitude of her sons.
L
Poland, struggling to escape from the iron grasp
of Tyranny: May Providence raise up for her
Washinaton--the shall she be free.
By Z. III. Schenck. Cd Vice President. The
| American System: A System recommended By
Washington, advocated Dy Hamilton, defended
| by Clay, and wisely adopted by the American
| People: May it never be nulilied
By f. Nj. Bergman, Esq. Henry Clay, of
Kentucky-beloved in the East and IN the West,
honored in the North, and envied in the South
may he soon occupy the highest p ace in the gilt
of free People.
By b. Tiffany. Our distinguished Guest:
Like the keystone of an arch, the harder it is
pressed, the tirmer it stands.
BY Joseph Iioxie The erasing Clerks of the
General PosgOffce: Their skill in that line would
be more usefully employed in erasng from the
Nations Annals the History of the present Adj
mnstratiOn.
BY Guest. The Secretary of State: May
his next puJGc dinner in this city. the given at
:: Jackson House." at the expense of SHE Par
ty," and not at the Poor House, at the expense
of the public.
Cot. Knapp, in short address, paid high
compliment to the State of Rhode Island, and
offered the following:
Rhode Island: A small jewel, of great price.
-aaess95e9es~
RICHMOND, March 81.
The Senate was engaged much of its time
Yesterday in the consideration Of the Judiciary
Bill. After considerable discussion on the prin-
ciplcs of the substitute, which was opposed by
Messrs Edgington and Mason and supported by
Messrs. McCOmas of Wythe, and Morgan, the
question was taken, and the substitute rejected
by an equal division Of she Senate.
AyEs--Messrs Branch. Wyatt, CabeIl, Book
err. Campbell, Joynes, Dade, McCarty. Beae,
PattesOn, Cravens, Cowan, David McComas.
Beirne, William McComas, Morgan--i6.
NoEs--Messrs. Holt, (Speaker.) Mason,
Dromgoole, Alexander, Harvie, Armistead. Ber-
| nard, Cooke, Winston. Chinn. Gibson. Penny
hacker, Opie, Boyd, McWhorter, Edsington
10.
after the substitute was rejected. there was
some discussion on the number of circuits and
Judges. The words twelve circuits were strick-
Ell from the bill. MIR. Chinn proposed to in
sert in the blank, words to this effect, - ten dis
trcts and twenty circuits" SO as to have one
Judge for each circuit, s. to each district. Mr..
Nc WhOrter moved to insert the words "sixteen
circuits'' which was carried.
AYEs-Messrs. Branch, Wyatt, Cabell, Book
err, Campbell, Joynes, Dale, McCarty. Beale,
Patteson, Cravens, Cowan, David McComas,
Bierne, William McComas, McWhorter, Nor
gan-l7.
NoEs--Messrs. Holt, (speaker.) Mason,
Dromgooe, Alexander Harvie, Armistead,
Bernard, Cooke, Winston, Chinn, Gibson, Pen
nybacker, Ope, Boyd, Eagington-l5.
And then the bill was recommitted with view
of arranging the Circuits and the details. The
number of Judges will probably be fixed by the
Senate az c.
The bill directing new survey of the James
River, with the aid of another engineer, assOcia-
ted with Mr.. Crozet, was ordered to its third
reading in the House of Delegates.
Bills were passed. For establishing rail
road from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, with
capital of $500, ooO.-e For "a rail road from
the Potomac, to Ashby's Gap turnpike, with
capital of $500, OOO.-And For turnpike in
the County Of Pittsylvania, with a cal ital of
100000.
We have little doubt that the Bank Robber APP |
pretended is the notorious LOWELL JONES, who |
formerly resided here, and was celebrated as an
adept at opening locks, and for which he served
Tour in the Virginia Penitentiary. The descrip-
ton given of the fellow in the slip from the Stan
dard office answers TO the Dissertation of ZONES