Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-22
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
c,7yRn.3Y N0RNIGG, LaNUaRY %. 1881,
s~7.No mail Yesterday, north of Baltimore.

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49,, Elsc,;,n held at the Bank of Alexandra
-, tbe 18th instant, the following gentlemen
wore duly elected Directors for the ensuing year.
Eob, Roberts. b. T.. Harrison,
" Miller, James n,o"'
Jon. Butcher, IcnGh IhonipSo"'
HIM. c. GaroiaG, I'm bGfncMm'
Frederick Foofe, George Johnson
Alta meeting of the Directors, Jan. 81, JONAH
.r,,oupsos was unanimously elected President;
,,hareupon he arose and stated 10 the Board MS
,dyanced aye, as reason for declining the &C
reotance Of the office of President.
IL was then unanimously
GesoIrea, That the thanks OF this Board DE
Dresepted to JONAH THoMpsoN, Esq. for the able
and impaI tial manner with which he has presideu
over it for long series OF years.
An election Of President, to supply the va
rapcy occasioned By the resignation OF JONAH
rEoMPsox, Esq. was then made, when JOHN
RosERIs was unanimously elected.
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In r;vipg an account of the recent attempt IN
the Legislature of Kentucky, to elect senator
from that state. the Frankfort Commentator says:
MIR I.udd. Senator from Washington county,
and Mr.. Thomson, Senate: from Mercer. Mes
ere Brown. Representative of Owen. ChlieS OF
hath. aynes, of Caldwell, Dyer OF Ohio, and
Gr;usby. Of Bu!let-athough personally IN Ia
vor of Mr.. Clay, and decidedly opposed to the
nresent administration, voted throughout for some
one Of the Jackson candidates: under tie impres-
son tLat their counties contain mojOri'ieS an ia
ror offhe present administration, and that they
were under some pledge, or obligation, express
orimplied. to act accordingl p-NOne the friends
of the administration voted for Mr.. Cnttenden.
Mr.. Daiarnett, Senator, from Madison county;
Nessrs. Speedsmith, Representative, OF Madison
and Sprigg, of Shelby. each Of which counties
contains a large majority opposed to the present
administration; and Mr.. Guthre. OF Louisville,
and Mr.. Wilmington of Woodford, both OF whom
were directly and positively instructed, by ma
joritIes of their constituents, to vote Tor Mr..
Crittenden, voted, throughout for some one OF
the JACKSON candidates. Ii the above named
CLAW members from supposed Jackson countess
or ana one Ofthem,h had voted their own sentiments
ar if the s;,iu Jackson members from Clay coun-
ties, or am one Of them. had been governed by
the will of their constituents, Mr.. Crittenden
would have been elected on the first,or any sub
sequent vote"
From MarseiHes We are favored, SAYS the
New-York American, by commercial friend,
with file of the Semaphore TO the lst ult. The
only item of interest is the annunciation that the
failure Of NJ. Bricogne, Receiver General OF the
District, for about five millions OF francs. will
not affect the commercial houses of Marselles.
Private letters speak of general stagaaon OF bus
mess arising from the uncertain condition. of pub
! lie affairs. We subjoin the only note OF sales:
Sales at Narseilles, 50th November. as report
i ed per Desdemona, arrived last night:-j0, 600
Pipe Slaves at sol. per $50 slaves; s. bales New
Orleans Cotton, at S5f. per 90 ko., duty paid.
Fatal Afuy.-'rhe Wheeling Gazette of 9Th
INST. states that Mr.. Joseph hewitt, police officer
Of that place, in an atfray with man named Hen.
ry smith, was stabbed in the heart with a dirk
Knife bv Smith and died in few minutes after
wards. Smith is confined in Jail and was TO have
been brought before an examining court on the
"a 18th.
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a Rich Eaiioy.-We notice in one Of our late
English papers, that Mr.. Donaldson, "a gentle
man connected with the Edinburgh Advertiser
has left property to the amount Of ego, 900, the
whole of which he has destined to be employed
10 the foundation of an hospital for orphan and DIES
ntlte children, To be erected in the neighborhOOl