Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-20
ALEXANDRIA,, d. c.
j., may MORNING, NAY 90. 1851.


l!ls an e,.o Of honor il not essential amongst
ID: ne 80 ssS, and most enlightened. Our opin-
ven Gs ,ssd on this head by that excellent and
% = n nan, Bishop Heber ''seli respect says
f'a' .Ss most powerful and one OF the most use
- onr mental habits. it is the principle to
d o. W. a. noblest actions Of our nature may be
Sta w traced-the nurse of every useful
a'' 81" How farit may be occasionally abused,
my hr !, NAV itself be consistent with the
DO" - If our holy religion, are questions
aaI'T% long been disputed with violent and
SnfG l1 acr;mony. The first objection I am
la l' n,snared nor inclined to deny. To i'm
aeia' ,;dn every human invention is liable; nor
~ considered as subject Of blame, that
81 -, hest institutions are only chance OF
''ea w. Rnt that sense Of honor is contrary to
ms -, Of religion, though Vaudeville (perhaps
1e liz admits the charge, appears. to say no
-. Of il, hard and hazardous assertion. II
81 indeed, be readily allowed, that there Is only
tive which can deserve the name OF virtue;
- r0ndemn as Illegal or impious every other
" ~, or nrinciple. would be in opposition TO all
l''" s,D,S and feelings of mapkind; and would
;ae,;table inference, lay the axe to the root
y az ,Da noyrrnment itself. Like every other law
tI r,": Os honor are occasiOned by the wants
y ~;ces Of the world; like them, too, they must
Nv. ,hs,r influence from the weakness OF our
go The perfectly virtuous man, If any such
~, Ia needs no such stimulus or restrictions:
!, Gor our sake, for his own, let him not with
- f.om rs, who are not SO fortunate, those
a,,,ry restraints and penalties which fence our
S.M.. by our passions, and united in the case of
"",n hapoaess, the powers of this world and
ne next.
", find the following unique account of a
e. mann in a Mobile paper. Editors in this coun-
:, have certainly "a way of doing things" as
veil as Othe" folks:
An HRp-Sunday morning at about tour
.,,,k. one Of the prettiest storms ever exhibit
Ain Mobile. was witnessed. The wind blew
E-m the Northwest, like the last trump
Iph,n,ng decorated the mantle of night with
,oJen e6ains, and unrolIed and spread out all
ser the earth her sheets OF hire. Hail Tell
liking in the ligh,-like diamonds FROM the
,gds-and about as biz as piece of chalk. F"
-GAsS
The Norfolk papers announce the return OF
~, Companies Of u 5. Infantry to Fortress
Monroe, hom Wilmington, n. e. where they
re been stationed during the winter. They
are m through the Dismal Swamp Canal to
Norfolk, under the command Of Major Il. NJ.
AlaBr.
b. the Georgia Courier it appears that ninera!
.a very pure and burning with strong heat, has
.ey been found in considerable quantities on
/ De banks and sand bars of the Savannah river
/ 5r several miles below Augusta. II seems that
' ne mineral was first noticed by Judge Course on
/ Ms plantation after the YaZoo fresh. which Hood,
ne Courier believes, first tore it from the place
Il formation. and that succeeding torrents CONT
med 10 wash away more and increase the depo-
ates below; and consequently it is presumable
/ hat strict search would end in the discovery OF
rich coal bed within less than twenty miles
DOve Augusta.
We find the following in an article in the Dc
MOer number of the North American Review.
which il would be we'll for some of the "exclus-
I've patents' TO read:
The vocabulary Of apprehension has been
alausted on Massachusetts, for withholding her
militia from the general government, although
4led Tor in manner nop acknowledged to have
been contrary to the Constitution of the United
States and of Massachusetts. There is not a
nan IN the United States, who will hazard his
| npOta,iOn as a statesman, by saying, that the
node in which the Massachusetts militia were
aled out was constitutional; we mean separat-
| as The officers from their companies, regiments
and brgades. Massachusetts did undertake to
'&gy the laws creating that draft. And what
Is been the consequence? The annihiiation OF
he party that recommended that measure: re-
Fo1Sh and outrage from their opponents through
re CnIpn: and the privation, for nearly twenty
cars, of milion and half of dollars from
,i' treasury, Pa'riatieaty aud taiilfaly advanc-
DIOR the public service"
AZ the New-York Tammany Dinner the fol-
''ms toast was drunk:
By Geo s. Guion.-George Washington,
'louas Jefferson, James Madison. James Mon
~ aud .indrep Jackson-rhe name of Martin
a. B'Hrenm will add lustre to the scroll. Dlrge
I'D nine cheers.
Adfge aud cheers is just about as appropriate
"CouPins such names together.
-aNeB>
Inc Nashville Herald contains the following
'a;enent:-
To ths Pubic. On the 18th January, Maj.
L. Allen, the present sub Agent tor the Chick
SAWS, and mySeif, impellel by what we cOnSl-