Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-14

now and then to talk in season; and as this NAV
be as fitting Il time as any other to trespass upon
your GOOD nature, hasten to tax that gallab,rr
which has never to my knowledge been found IN
arrears to our sex. | am so provoked, Sir,-M,
| viii Law the burthen of my grels before Won
first, and leave YOU to suggest all alienation at.
terward. You Of course, are aware, Sir, of the
delightful substitute for the prosaic colilhon ami
antiGuated contradance which we now enioy in
the pewitchng waltz. This dance, the most
beautiful of :. the poetry of notion" invented
to kindle the veins of the phlesmatic Germans
borrowed as an ennui-dctroyer by The Iistless
Enalishmen, and imported by US as graceful
s..fety valve to let off our more easily reused
scnsii:ities last best gift Of Terpsichore
has not been allowed to become fayoric amcno
us, without violent opposition from male and
female Mawworms of fashionable life,-those
quee people, who hold that French ribbon is
more fitting girdle than the sleeve of "a Wkal.
er" for lady's waist, and think it improper for
the pulses Of a gentleman's wrist to beat againsr
her person.
.. These opinions, -which belong to that Go.
THO age when a knight was fined "A round sum
OF forms, and had his shield reversed. for pres
sing lad VS. hand in the dance,-l need no, tell
YOU have had little or no influence in checking
the popularity of our new ballroom favorite.-
But, sir our bigoted censors finding that the
waltz. like Mr. Brougham, hourshed in the On.
position, have resorted to the most unwarrantsl
BILE stra,agem to ruin it in the favor of our SEX
There is a bartarous species of satation las nv
cousin Pedantius Quidnunc would term IT, known
as the GaIlipot, or some ouch Uia appelIatioh
which these hypocrites call kind Of waltz, and
toy to draw into notice. for the sake of bringing the
d.. 4 y,
the spirit Of hoyden in my pen to describe hi.
horrid romping dance Indeed. Sir, you cali
form no idea OF lis rudeness. The waltz. The
real poetic waltz, can have nothing urged a.ains,
it but its too seductive efeminacy. II mobt
be danced by Pers, and only disturb to leld
grace to their raiment of woven air; but the
gaHOpade would ruifle even the cloth habit and
squared beaver of British amazon Did Won
ever see the tramp-march in - the Lady of the
Lake." Mr.. Editor! Sir, Sir, is not th. - some
weak invention of the enemy! or do YOU men
really expect that because we defer taslloqs.
ness to grace, our sex will sacrifice de!icscy to
fashion,"
-ass,-
One of the Charleston Delegation III Congress.
perhaps Col. DRAYToN, writes as follows:
:. am much grarifed at the tone Of feeling
SMITH. | cannot subscribe 10 every hing in hi.
late address to the people Of South Carolina but
extremely regret the failure of bis reelection.
If he is not in all things now what he was in 1885,
impute it to the jealousy arising from the cir
cumsiance that The s. general welfre party" Of
that day have jumped upon his :. radicai pah"
and are disposed to run far ahead of him. on his
:. o'cn ground" They have always perseCuled
him so much, that he is not willing TO pull with
them in the same traces; nor does he believe
them politically honest. He views them as seek.
ers for the :. high Places" regardless of the
means they may find it necessary to use IN order
to attain their object. | hope and believe he
judges them Tor some of them at least too IN,
charitably. Be this as il may, he at any rate dis.
trusts them. 1t is natural, therefore. that under
such circumstances, he should ''fake The Studs."
and pull back, rather than 60 forward VII.
party whose perpetual hostility towards him taS
destroyed his confidence in them. II, ander I
such auspices, he leans little too much on the
side of submission, land | am not sure hut he
does can excuse him now as have done be-
fore, on the same ground"
-&NsS
As punning has of late become an art in which
some OF contemporaries strive TO excel, the
following from the Village Record in relation to
Judge PECK. may not be deemed amss
- The Peek measure occupies considerable
space in the public eve for one so small.
:. Peek peck-ed at Lauless in very LauieSs
manner; and now LuWiess is peck-ng at Peckby
lawful means.
"A Larger who was Mwless might naturally
expec-t to be peck-ed at.
Peek, though clear and sharp as quartz, has
got, by his ia,rless conduct, into peck Of trou.
bles.
Peck, it is said. dealt out unjust MEASURE 70
LancleSs, -struck him from the rCIl,-seaiedIlm
up in prison, and threw him out of Court; from
the aspect of afirs, the mhter will be reduced to
a point pretty soon; and we should not be sur
prsed if Peek should be struck from the capacity
of judge
.NarM Court MariaL-The editors Of The =
New York Post learn from correspondent II Z
that the Court Martial for the
trial of Commodore Creighton assembled on the
Sd instant, when the Court was organized. the +
charges read, and the plea of not gully entered +
There are two sets of charges preferred against
the accused both having relation to offences al 4
legged to have been committed while in command