Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-04
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uOyD3Y NOR WIG. .7PRN 4, 1881
The New York Comnerciai, in commenting
nnon Major Eaton's unique style ct writing, In
forms ms that it. naturally enough, ali along sup
nosed that the basis Of this style wa, tennessee
Enelish indebted. which auction had led MN
70 adorn with some strange diversions ana diS-
tionary words not rightly understood. But ADDS
the Commercial, we learned secret some Time
since. which has rectfed our notions Oh the SUD-
iect. Our Mars. it appears. has been a-studyihs
Latin with so much earnestness, that he lhli'ks
in that language, even to forsetiulness oil his own;
50 that when he comes to render hisgowinS IDEAS
from the glorious phraseoiogy which Ceasar Vi VI
csro would have used, into OR mother tongue
he is embarrassed, and often selects an inapPtica-
bic word from among the number oi definitions.
This accounts, also for the diversions. queer Po'
>l,ions of a,lycrbs, &c which though classical IN
the original of his thoughts. are nightly awkward
IN The result OF his laburs to express them.
The Comnercial;then refers to the late Produc-
ion wide Gazette 29h ult) OF the splendid Sc
cretary, and continues: We fear, however, that
some grammatical peculiarlties Cannot DE ju5:'ii-
ed, even on the hypothesis we have no" assumed
The simplicity and minute details OF circums'an,
ces, in the third paragraph, are touching, and
even verge on the sublime. When these two
great men actually sat down Observation-Disclosures
Nir Grunlv's bed room, it seems wonderful that
conscious nature did not exhibit some sigma!
portent: such Is all earthquake Or at least thun-
der storm
We observe too, in the Boston Courier an ar
ticle to this effect
Secretary Emon's RicoL Chung, by mperi-
al appointment Superintendent OF Customs al the
port of Canton. saws in one OF his magnificent
manifest0es, - 1t is on record that Il pr0cIana-
ton has already been ssued.'' &c. Mr.. Eaton
:. Recollection retains the fact &c. How for
tunate that such an eXpanse OF water separates
these dignitares. Two stars keep not their STA
ZION in one sphere"
The Globe of the 9th ult says: ''We contrast
under cur political head, the firm, judicious and
orthodox remarks of many conspicuous Editors
of the Republican party, with the sIckiy al cap
tandum bagetelle of General Green's new allies
| Among the "Repubcan" papers referred to
above, along with the Richmond Enquirer is the
.Hierandfia Gazette. Our "Republic anism" be-
ing thus stamped by such high authority. we pre-
sumo we shall hereafter pass as current coin with
the "sreat Republican party. "--En"iable situa-
ton!
The Columbia Telescope holds a very hostile
tone towards Mr.. Van Burcns Editors Ii speaks
of the Editor of the New York Courier, as IS the
| tremendous Captain Webb, at once the rhersites
and Archilles of his party; and cautions Mr.
Van Buren, to beware, and adds:
''The hirellng zeal of his mlniOn5 may uutrun
all discretion. as it does all decency. The pub
lie sense is not so lost, but that general indig
nation may be excited, when it is seen that men
of the most distinguished service and highest cha
racter, to whose talents and zeal the cause OF
jackson owes much are to be thus set upon,
the instant that they shrink from any part Of the
measures of the administration, with which their
principles are irreconcable.'
A0sp
From Mdia.-The Boston Daily Advert ser,
has received Calcutta papers to Nov. &c. The
Cholera prevailed at Calcutta. and several En-
ropeans had fallen victims to it. In Jessore it
was raging To great extent among the natives
A resident from the Court of Ava was expected
at Calcutta. The British Envoy at the Court of
Ava, was on the best terms with his Burmese
Majesty. Baboo Ram Mohun Roy had taken
his passage, and was about to sail for England. -
The object of his visit was made subject Of
speculation in the native papers.
-<NsS
The National Gazette, speaking OF the quarrel
between the Telegraph and Globe, correctly re-
marks:
s.. When one of q fraternity of counterfeiters
turns states evidence, it is always and naturally
the general desire of the friends of the brother
hood that his testimony should he suppressed
Tie editor of the Telegraph has been baited, and
has turned upon his assaiants. He is not non
mi recordo witness. He will not be muzzled.
There has been a sad mistake in reprinting
Gen. Jacksons celebrated political motto
s. Never to seek nor to decline officc.'' His
friends assure us that he is the most consistent of
men. If the original of his must have been:-
" Always to seek and never to decline Office"
We observed it stated in late Philadelphia !
paper, that the tolls received -at the Che
sapeake and Delaware Canal amounted in