Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-03

may be done under other circumstances WIN sha!'
capitals-but generally, the large capitals nave
greatly the advantage, as there are some hea'y
items which are attached to business wnetner
the operations are large or small. I1Ee Tor IN
stance, a cotton factory-The rent, the agency
and the oyerseers will cost about as much for
1900 spindles as for 2500-consequentiy tue cost
of running the additional one thousand Is compa-
ratively triaing. s..
featuring is so backward In Virginia. l should
probably say that one great cause has been that
hostility which has existed in the minds OF many
persons who believed it to be the interest oil the
State to be mostly agricultural, partly CONNER
oial, and not at all manufacturing, except IN the
merely domestic OF household way. Others hav-
ing seen the want Of economy in the Virginia
character have thought that this alone would pre-
vent success-OtheIs who lacked knowledge have
imagined that 1t was something which could not
be done by US, aud therefore were not disposed
TO use any efforts. At any rate Tor the establish
ment of factories upon respectable scale much
money is required, and here few individuals who
themselves have that amount, care to risk 1t III a
business with which they themselves are totally
unacquainted and of which they have seen no
practical, profitable experiments in their own vi
entity; and by their own people. Hence has
been the necessity Of JOINT Stock Companles-A
man would venture few thousand dollars u he
could do so without endangering the bulk OF has
estate. Of late some persons have gone INTO the
business They have procured knowledge which
is somewhat difused this has inspired more con
idence-public opinion is changing, and manu-,
featuring becoming more popular as it is found
to be not SO formidable or intricate but that tmay
be proftabv conducted by Virginians.
Up to this time. those who have been engaged
in the business have had to encounter many oil.
ficuItes, which those WIN follow may now avoid
or overcome much more easily"
<aeS3B-
Case of Joseph NOurse, late Register of iat
Teasury.- attention has been called to an
article in the Official" under the above head.
and we are fair to confess that we have not yet
met with one, even emanating FROM The same
source. more in keeping with the whole character
of the dominant faction. Nothing is too elevated
in purity or character for its denunciaiiohs-ho
part of our institutions are too sacred to protect
it from vi,uperaiion and the grossest caiumny.
We were appraised that 1t was an object OF great
feeling to the "greatest and best" that Mr..
Nourse should be adjudsed defaulter. Hekneu
H..
upon their personal veracity as to the cpnvcrsa
ton which was alleged to have occurred between
them when the latter was elected from Office
We knep that the most wanton and cruel course
Of persecution had been pursued in relation IL
this gentleman when he had voluntarily offered
to give the most ample security to cover any a
mount which jury ofhis country would find that
ne was Justly indebted to the government. w
L. of a
almost unprecedented writ had been issued in his
absence, to sequester all his tangable property,
and that no decency or delicncy was observed in
the proceeding. NE knsw that he had sought a
safe guard frsm the vindictive and indignant feel
Justice. WekneW that he had resortcd to the only
forum which the Law allowed in his case, that Of
"a Court Of Equity. We knew that the Judge
who alone had or could take cognizance of the
cause, had decided OH the matters of law with
Mr.. Nourse We knep that the substantial mer-
its of the case had been submitted at the instance
Of the District Attorney, to three as competent
and disinterested men as the United States can
furnish Ueknew that in making the reference,
as well as in the selection of the Auditors, the
personal and political antipathies of the President
were consulted We kneW that these gentlemen,
against whom no man can be found to breathe an
imputaton, were unanimously ofopnion in favor
of Mr. Nourse's claim to its whole extent. We
kne,c that this report was fully sanctioned, and
that no exception to it was taken by the learned
counsel for the government.-He kneaU thatat the
personal instance of the President, against legal
advice, an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court.
We heW that counsel was employed to assist the
District Attorney in the management of this case,
at the President and Heaven only knows at what
price. NE knew that it was argued in the presence,
and with the aid of the officers of the Treasury De-
partment, by two gentlemen of high standing in
the profession, against single individual on the
part of Mr.. n. We knee that one of the Judges,
going into the hearing Of the cause, with proposes
sions unfavorable to the claim, was convinced,
and so declared himself by the argument on behalf
of the Government, that it was legal and equit-
able claim. We knenD that the opinion of the
Court was unanimous and unhesiating. ne
knew all This and n1ore-Ue knee the violent
antipathy which the President has to any law, or
any court whichis not in accordance with his own
notions Or feeIings-and his perfect indifference
to the sacvi6ce of any of our institutions which
initiate against these feelings. We knew also
the contemplate sycophancy with which his adu.