Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-31

.,d,siduals, whom the Government first de-
u '.J Of Office, and then prosecuted todeprive
Frnm; honest earnings in the public service
W. rJIshrown was a Clerk in the Navy Depart
NJ. md and secretary of the Navy Hospital Fund.
SeS services as disbursiny agent OF that Fund,
!" C%a~missioners allowed compensation Of one
tsOVt Under this allowance he had received
et o cen add claimed balance of $3.50 due him
80 ,;ne Of his dismissal from office. Instead
~. his claim, the Government instituted
d pm ,a;Sst him for the recovery of the $500
M had received, and the case came on for
'n''n the Circuit Court of this District on
La, 1 ' last. After full hearing Of the evil
'ua, s and headings, the Jury retired between
cav .oJ three o'clock, and on the opening of the
,,oar, Yesterday morning rendered verdict tor
=, J,Cendant to the full amount OF his clam, as
UO The Jury impannelled in the case Of the U.
80. asaipst Thomas Filfebrown, Jr. find upon
''-" ";,i9g the accounts filed, that the Unit
,,,s, are indebted to the sand Fillebrown in the
,rn Of $3.50"
Z. = stated. mthat when the President saw the
90, creatures he laughed heartily" "This."
~. The Richmond Wing, "struck us as the
~, sensible act Of his administration. The
,',gb m,oht, however, have been on the wrong
,Ie Of tie mouth.
The Richmond Wing, in replying to an article
u Southern paper, says
MIR. Clay would come into the Presidency
,,,b an ardent attachment to the Union; with a
Termination TO preserve it, by sacrifices to the
shes even by sacrifices to the prejudices, Of
,,s South. We know his private sentiments,
,nJ INCH we assert them to be. No man is more
r-nly attached to the Tariff. more thoroughly
n,r,nsded of its consttutionality, more deeply
rnp,inced that in the present position OF the
aorld, the Tariff is necessary to protect our vi
,,I Interests and national independence. But he
i, Repab can. and admits that the first object,
n. cardinal principle of Repubicanism, is that
Ne people should be happy and satisfied with
5,ir Government. That any portion Of the peo-
nI,of the L. States. are uualterabiy and irrecOn-
.cably opposed TO the Tariff, even though that
oDOo,ition be the merest ami sheerest preju-
fte. is with every Republican, an argument for
its modification"
We, with the Wing, know these to be Mr..
Cars private sentiments. The South will find
aim open, honest and candid. His own opinions
he viii never yield; but for the happiness and
auiOn of his beloved country, he is prepared to
do any thing that honor can sanction. The
So1h has more to expect from HENRY CLAY than
il has from the crooked, time-serying, vaciatlng
policy Of Andrew Jackson.
~SSx
Another revolution has taken place in Colon
bl. We cease to regard these affairs as matters
d much consequence.
>aASb-
The citizens of Richmond are stirring them
selves in the cause of Internal Improvements
Several projects are on foot for increasing the
trade and commercial facilities of that place.
-1NsS
The FIRST Court in the new County OF Page
Va. was held at Luray, on the esd inst. VIM.
A. Harris, Esq. was elected Clerk, and F. l..
Smith. Esq. Attorney for the Commonwealth.
VI. B. Sinclair, Esq. has been appointed. by
Judge Scott, Clerk Of the Superior Court of Law
,ad Chancery for the County of Prince William.
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