Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-28
ALEXANDRIA, d. G.
MONDAY uoRNisG, MARCH ss, 1855,

The Baltimore Chronicle says:-"An impor-
tant crisis in public affairs is at hand--and the
question is TO be resolved, whetht the national
government shall be administered on fixed and
established principles, or according TO the theo-
rems and speculation of visionary ami lncompe-
tent politicians? Whether. in fact. 1t shall be
the government of the people, or Of individuals"
This is the true state of the case. AS the
country il now administered unquestiOnably we
are governed By petty civil tyranny. There
are few men under the patronage of those III pow
err who dare to call their souls their own and the
ban of exclusion has been Illuminated against all
who do not bow to BaaI. This eifectually places
us under the control of party. unfortunately
the leaders Of this party we know TO be rapacious,
selfish weak politicians They hold the reins,
and drive the car Of state. Thus are We brought
to the miserable condition in which we find our
, selves placed. Thus has the country desenerat-
ed.-Thus have the names of Adams, CLAW,
Rush. Barbour and Southland been suppIanted by
those of Jackson, Van Buren,, IngIam, Eaton
and Branch! Heavens. What falling off,
What wretched declension IN the scale of ma
tional honor! What pull back upon the honest
pride OF an American, who slories in his cOun-
try, and in herfame! We know Of nothing cal
cuated to mortiy an American abroad more
than the reflection that here as well as elsewhere.
sterling worth. principle integrity, and honor,
cannot stand when opposed by intrigue, cunning
hypocrisy, and deception. Cant and Craft rule,
all the world over.
The Hon. Mr.. Bnrses. tie distinguished Re
preventative IN Congress from Rhode Island, was
originally mechanic, having served an appren-
Ic N at I'm {,
learn from an article in the Providence Amerl-
can Of tuesday, which says" After carrying
on the business for some time, he left it, got a
collegiate education, studied the profession of law
became member Of the State Legislature. Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court. Professor OF Ora
tory and Bell Lettres, in Brown University. and
member of Congress. In every capacity in
which he has acted, he has been the same indie
fahgable laborer that he was in his cooper's shop.
He was there thought to be first rate workman:
and the people Of Rhode Island still believe him
to be first rate workman"
ANsA
writer in the Baltimore Chronicle is very
severe upon the recent Report of General Hayne
in the Senate upon the petition of John Sarchet
and others, praying for reduction of the duty
on iron. Sachet, he says, is an unnaturaIized
Ensllsman, and therefore appears in most de-
llcate light before Congress, when he asks them
to withdraw protection from American citizens,
in order that the Iron Masters of England NAV
fattCn on their ruin.
He further says rhat the Report has an appen-
dix, consisting. in part, of selections from news
papers. The first is an article against the Tariff.
copied from the South Carolina Columbia Teles-
cope, edited by DR.. Cooper, another Engishman,
who has been for the last four or FIVE years teach.
ing the South Carolinans notification and disu.
Mon, and who has dared-impudentl dared, TO
hint at an alliance with England; the second is
table of duties on iron, which has no Maternity
whatever; the nextis kindred article from that
veracious paper. the Banner of the Constitution,
published in New York, and whose support is
shrewdly suspected 70 be derived from British
sources, as its principles are utterly at war with
every thing American-the next in succession is
an editorial article from the New York Courier
and Enquirer, breathing statements congenal
with the others.
OF all this he complains most vchementy.
(GSS
The recent Bank Robbery at New York has
led writer to suggest the use of lock lately
invented in Europe. which not only bids defiance
to all pick-locks, but also shows if an attempt has
been made He aIludes to the Patent Detector
Lock of Chubb, which was exposed to the follow !
ing severe trial: A notorious convict was offered
$50 if he succeeded in picking one of these locks.
Being furnished with tools, he eudeavored for
three weeks to pick the lock, but failed because,
as he said I" his instruments did not exactly fit /
the lock-" He was then furnished with some
blank keys, and allowed to examine the construc-
ton of the lock, that he might understand the
principle. After several weeks trial. he gave it
up, and declared that he did not think it possible
for any man to open them with any fale instru-
ment whatever.
There is common impression that any lock
can be picked, but the above shows that a lock
tan be made perfectly secure. with the addition
al value Of showing whenever an attempt has
been made for that purpose.
&NSS>
The Brunswick RcUokaiOn.- Editor Of
the New York Evening Post gives the following
account of an abortive attempt, on the part of
Duke Charles. to recover his authority, extracted |
from the London Court Journal. The a,coun,
is said to be written by the Duke himself, and is
given as his BY the Journal in which it appears:
''He was expelled from his territories in tho