Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-12-05

ces, the roads are INSTRUCTED in the neighborhood
Of Fredericktown, Md. BY the STOW that fell on
the night of the 2lst ult. Our paper maker, who
brought US four realms Of paper this week on
horseback, from Washington county, assures US
there drifts as high as the top Of the fences.
through which no wagon could possibly make ITS
way. We had another pleasant sprinkle Of snow
on "Wednesday night.
Large Diride,d.-T President and directors
Of the Harrisburg, Pa. Bank have declared d.
vidend for the last six months, ofsixteen per CT.
out of the profits of the institution. and directed
the same to be paid to the stockholders or their
legal representatives, after the 10th instant.
Mr. Wright, a newly reformed District AttOr-
ney of West Florida dies harl under the potion
lately administered iohim b. the great physician,
whose elixir for all The Ills OF state Is the arbitrary
fiat OF his own autborlty without investigation.
We incline 20 thrS, IN this instance, that the
performance of the duty which '.nscrlbed Oh the
iis. the lash of rcfnrm was more ustlv applied
To the subject of hs article than IN many others.
MIR. Wrluht first saws I'm letter to Er,Oficial,
that it was because he did not subscribe for the
Cube that he was reformed! In the conclusion,
however, of hi, Jeremiad 10 the fe!egraph,he says
incendiaries have been busy with his character.
The Official rejoins that he was dismissed for mo-
torirus iacOmpetency.'
lfWe are not greatly mistaken, this is the same
person against whom the District Judge, Collect
or of the Por,, and Delegate to Congress, all pro-
tested on account of his incapacity One OF the
Marshals of the Territory represented to the Go.
verument, that such was the universal belief OF
the Incompetence of Mr.. Wright in the District,
that notorious offenders and criminals went un-
punished for want Of prosecutor with sufficient
ability to conduct the public business. All these
represe ntatIons we're dlsregarded by the Presi.
lent. and It was not until Mr. Wright made Sc
veral signal failures in prosecutions in which the
feelings of the President were excited, that he
! thought of his dismisslon for notorious ncom-
peiency"
| This is the fifth removal of his own officers ap-
pointed by himself in Florida, for notorious in
competency: and what is worse, notorious deln-
quency and detalcatiOn. In little more than
two years, five removals OF ms reformed officers.
after the removal Of twelve without cause. We
think such selections show marked Incompetent
cv in the President himself, which we trust will
be sufficiently notorious to grant him leave to re-
tire to his Hermitage, 10 repent of the indscre-
ton of attempting to discharge public duties tor
which he is - notoriously Incompetence We in
tend soon to commence the publication of a series
Of the cases of refo of Jackson officers since the
4th of March. 1899, which will exhibit ''back
list" rarely ever equaled in any government.
National Journal
! Distressing Occurrence -Cap,ain Simpson OF
the brig Phebe, arrived at Castine on Monday
last from Boston; on the 10th instant, ten miles
). +. from Manhogin, saw vawl boat drifting
before the wind. aud found it contained boy
about ten years old and dead body. They
were both taken on board, when the boy gave the
following PARTICULARS dead body was his
father, named Gershom Orr. of Topsham-that
they started, with their boat laden with produce,
| from Pleasant Point, on the 1ith instant, t. the
month OF the Kennebec, to trade for fish. When
| near the mouth OF the river, severe gale came
on and blew them oft to sea--that his father soul
led nearly all the first night to make the light al
Se.uin-,he next day he was 50 much exhausted
as to let the boat 90 before the wind. The sea
was heavy and exertiOn was in vain; sometime IN
the following night The boat was dashed against
the rocks aud lost her rudder and only oar-hls
father then tore up the stern seat to steer WITH
When Captain S. fell in with the boat, Mr. Orr
had been dead several hours, and the boy wa.
asleep, The body was buried by the captain on
South Fox Islands. and the boy brought to this
town, aud sent home to his widowed mother
belfast (Me. Adr.
| Turing the Oratorio in st. Paul's Church.
while the choir engaged in one of the choruses o
Handles Messiah, were singing the interroga
uun-Uho is the King Of Glory?-a vivid fash
Of lightning bazed in at the windows and star
tied tie audience with its glare. But the impress
sion rose to sub.imity when. as the response wa.
sung-the Lord! strong dnd-a peal Of thunder
uttered deep bass in heaven
The coincidence of circumstances in this cas-,
was SO unexpected and yet so much in unsor
with the grandeur of the subject OF the chorus
that the most unmusica ear could not but detec
the harmony of Handel's Messiah in the strange
duet of human voices with the voice of the thun
her.-Badger's Nv. y Messenger.
The following, from Cork paper, is not bad:
Durinp the week two Middie, of very tende