Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-12-31
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December 90, 1872 %
- RreHMoND, Dec. q.
Day Of Rurning, Since our last paper,
several Of our Worthiest families have been cover
ed with ahIhrning. Death has struck down the
old and the young.
On Saturday last. our Society was deprived Of
Mrs. Catharine Gamble, one of the oldest and
most esteemed inhabit ants of this City. She was
the relct of the late Col. Robert Gambe. and
the mother of Messrs- John and Robert Gamble
tot Florida. Of Mrs. Writ The consort of WIN.
Writ, Esq. of Baltimore, and Of Mrs. Cabelt4h
wife of WIN. II. Cabell, ESQ one Of the Judges
of the Court of Appeals.
On Sunday, Mrs. Mary w. Marshall, in the
Goth year of her age, the amiable wife of John
Marshall, Esq. the Chief Justice of the United
States: neaving an aztec tomato husband, six
children. and large circle of friends to lament
her death.
On Sunday morning, O'Clock, an amfabls
family and numerous acquaintance were deg
we'd Of Philip Haxall, Esq. in the 62d year of his
age, for many years one Of our most respected CT
tizens. and the proprietor Of one Of its most vau
able manufacturing flour mills. He was dlst'n-
gushed for the great enterprise of his character,
a,A the amenity of his manners. We have lost
in him one of the most useful # our fellow cit'-
Zens. ~
Yesterday morning. died of the scarlet fever.
Julia. the only daughter of DIR. r II. Cabel, and
the grand. daughter of Mrs. Mayo of BelviIIe.-
Sire was in the ninth year of her age-the delight
Of her parents, and an object Of great interest TO
every one who saw her Accomplished beyond
her years. graceful in her manners, aud sweet IN
her dispositions, her premature death is lamented
by the old as well as the young.
A melancholy mortality has, during this fall
and winter, come over our city. More heads OF
families have been swept off than we recotlect
for many years. The season has been peculiarly
fatal. There have been more cases of influenza
within the last ten days. than has taken place for
a lons time past. Many families have had SIX or
EIGHT sick at once. vet but few of these have
ended fatally. II is diseases. more desta6uve
than the influenza, under which many ri our
more aged inhabitants have fallen victims.
We have never witnessed less gay, indeed
we say more gloomy Christmas.
address to the Poles BY their Con,t,ymen Il,
England and France.
Poles!-Conhdcnt inathe enlightened spirit Of
the age, and in the sanctity of your cause, you
rose to throw off the yoke of the oppressor. The
world, in establishment, has witnessed your achieve.
! ments: but nations whom honor, duty, and even
interest. commanded to assist you, have puslani-
meusly betrayed the common cause. Future ages
| will show how base was their conduct, how short
sighted their policy. The contest is at an end:
| the sword of the Autocrat has triumphed. Eu-
rope, by her callous indifference to your misfor-
| tunes participates in the unhallowed act. Po-
land is no more: erased from the list of nations,
she is doomed anew to long slavery.
Countrvmen What can we expect from the
nd fury hos al
detied, and if an une pected effort of humanity
should attempt to spare our sufferings feelings Of
patriotism would be more deeply wounded than
they have ever been by every cruelty and torture
formerly devised to suppress them; for what.
short of the independence Of Poland. can satisfy
men who have sworn to die for her freedom?
Poles You have hitherto done all that be-
came a great and noble nation. You have spar
ell sacrifice to attain your great object; thou
sands of YOUR brave brethren have already seal.
ed with their blood their greatest compact with
Heaven to die for their country. But it the
sword of the enemy has spared our lives let US
remember that we are bound to devote every hour
that remains to US to emulate the heroes that have
fallen, and whose honor and glory are our most
sacred trust. No inducement of fortune. rank.
or interest shall betray US into any act unworthy
of our most solemn vows; these must be guard
ed as spotess as the name of Pole, which will
henceforward be left to Europe as that of patriot
ism and devotion.
Poles! let us leave that wretched country. now
no more our own, though soaked with the best
blood of her defenders-let US leave Europe
hear,less spectator of our struggle and our des-
pair. American is the only country worthy of
affordng an asylum to men who have sacrificed
every :hIng for freedom; there Poland will BE- en-
shrined in our hearts, and Heaven will perhaps
bless our devotion.
THE ALEXANDRIA PHENIx GAZETTE,