Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-19


We received. Yesterday, the Northern Mail
due last Saturday. No Southern Mail was re-
ceived Yesterday. 1t continued to snow nearly
all day.
We understand that the Committee tor the
District of Columbia, in the House ut Represen-
,atives, will devote tomorrow, from 10 O'Clock,
A. NJ. in their Committee Room, to hearing the
parties who are disposed to appear before them,
IN relation to the bill for the organization Of the
Judiciary OF this District.
-ANsS
Several benevolent gentlemen have deposited
IN our hands donations to the amount of forty
dollars. for the support and continuance of the
Soup House during the present Indictment sea-
sou. They will have their reward in the consci-
BUSINESS of doing trul y noble and charitable act
Part of the above was from the collection Ia
ken up in ST. Mary's Church last Sunday. the
balance having been applied by the Rev. Nh
SNrrH to the relief of the poor in other ways.
We observe that Charity Sermon is to be
preached next Sunday evening, on behalf of the
Female Onesimus Society. How amiable does
the female character appear. when engaged in
dispensing blessings to poverty and wretched-
ness. There is both truth and beauty in the ex.
preston of the poet, when he exclaims,
o! Woman! when pain and anguish wiring the brow,
minsterlng angel thou!
1NSN
letter was read in the House Of Represen-
tatyes, on Monday, from Mr.. George Waiter.
stOn, containing an eloquent description of the
situation Of the poor, and of the heavy tax laid
On the city In consequence OF the numerous stran
gers who come there in consequence Of the as
'emblng Of Congress in order to prefer claims,
or on other business, and who are thrown in dis
tressed situations owing to the absence of friends
1t will De seen that congress has contributed tt
the relief of the poor of Washington.
-&SsA
The National Journal, In commenting upon tn,
counter report of part of the Committee or
manufactures, says
So subservient are the authors of this counte
report to the views of the Executive, that the,
even respond to his humanity insinuatiOns agains
Mr.. Clay, whom he fears beyond all living men
and hates as much as he fears. That he SHOULD
have been able to infuse this dread and emit
INTO the breasts Of even a minority of the Com
mittee on Manufactures, is a strong CORRIDORS
ton OF the impression that there is at this me
ment in Congress an unparalleled, anti-republ lear
and most dangerous subserviency to Executiv
opinions, 1t behOOves the people to be wary
This is crisis Of great peril.
&NSS
The number Of cOasting vessels that arrived 1
Philadelphia last year, exceeded that of 1929
one thousand and seyenty-seven.
-1NeS
Collector Of NeW London.-Welea with r.
greet that the President has determined to reno,
Capt Richard Law, from the Collectorship
New London, and has nominated Thomas Muz7
IN his place. Capt Law is well known in tn
community as gentleman Of integrity and no
or. He was particularly popular some yea
since, as the commander of one of the Sound stea
boats. He was early in the naval service of b
country, and sailed and fought with Truxton-
and has moreover always been democrat, al
an original Jackson man. But notwithstandil