Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-04-16

nv favors He had, through them, possessed
himself of fine Arabian horse, by which he ex
pected to make something. And the gentleman
appointed to the present mission had married
relation of his wife. And if they went on in
this way, and the Administration should last
long enough, he was not without hope that all his
friends would come into power"
At meeting Of the Board Of Directors of the
Columbian Insurance Company Of Alexandria,
on the 18th instant, WILLIAM H. MILLER was
elected President of that Institution, in place Of
Mordecai Miller, deceased.
We copy the suhjoined from the Intellgencer.
expressing at the same time our fervent wish,
that the hopes there expressed may be realized.
We hear from Georgia that considerable num-
Der OF the Cherokees have agreed to 20 beyond
the Mssissippi; and that indications rather favor
the belief that The body of the nation will upon
certain conditions, voluntarily emigrate. 1t has
always been our own opinion. that it might be to
their interest and general welfare to do so.
The Globe Us. Senator Bibb. Northumberland
ing the hitherto unsupported Jacksonlsm of Mr..
Bib, the assertion that he would have voted
against Mr.. Van Buren,, has placed him under
the ban. The Globe by huendo accuses him of
comspiring with Mr.. Clay-of equivocation or
something worse, and with secretly doing that
which he is afraid to expose to the light OF open
day. Mr.. Bibb, in note to Mr.. Moore, ackuow-
Buren-and this note is the cause OF the outbreak
ing Of the Globe.
The New York Daily Advertiser, q paper
friendly to the American System, thus notices
the bill reported by the Committee on Manufac-
lures in the House of Representatives in Wash
ington, {. to pre- vent frauds on the revnnue. -
"We publish to day the bill before the House
of Representatives of the United States, for the
prevention of frauds the revenue. We can
not conceive II possible that II can pass in it pre-
sent shape. TIE provisions it contains must be
so burthensome and oppressive, as to amount We
ry nearly, if not absolutely, to prohibition, Of
the importation of the goods subject to the regu
larions specified. The idea of unpack,ng and
examining every package. and marking or stamp
iug every piece of goods specified in the Sc
cond section. i, perfectly preposterous. If ever
adopted. and executed, it must be in great
measure not only fatal to the trade. and serious
detrimental to the national revenue, but in this
port. will require an immeasurabIe increase OF
public stores, which must add a vast expense to
the government, as well as Inconvenience and
loss to the merchants"
From Nerico.-The New Orleans papers con-
tain further extracts of letters from Tampico, in
relation to the movement made there BY a few OF
the sedtious soldiery, under the mistaken impress
sion that Santa Anna had gained victory. The
schooner Two Brothers arrived at New Orleans
on the eth ult. having left Tampico on the 18th
The following extract from the New Orleans
Mercantile Advertiser is sample of the various
bunging versions Of Santa Annals total defeat
The papers brought from Tampco are up tc
the 18th ult. and which confirm the news brought
BY the Jaapona, that General Santa Anna had
had an engagement with the troops of the Gene
raj Government, and in which Santa Anna was
victorious The only difference in the state.
ments brought By the Jalapona and Two Brothers
are, the former announced that the army ct the
government had lost 800 men, whereas the loss
Of 700 men by the latter is given as the loss OF
both armies Those officers and soldiers of the
government armv who were taken prisoners, and
who would not join the army of the couqueror.
we're sent immediately 10 Vera Cruz"
| 1t appears, by date of the 18th, that Genera
Montezuma was at the head of the fifty soldiers
who took possession of the cannon at Tampico,
and & e, salute in honor of the supposed vic.
tory Of the insurgeut chief. He issued procla
nation, which could scaroey have been dry, be.
fore he must have found out his error.
! Unshin gfon Irring's neO Work.-We have
read, saws the National Gazette. part of Wash
ington Irving's new Skeich Book, the scene OF
which is Spain. the most romantic OF European
countries. and the best known by the gifted au
thor His style has lost nothing of its peculiar
charm.-his descriptions are as graphic as usual
and enIlvered with racy anecdotes and happy
reflection.
Accumulation. -TheNew York Courier &En
nuirer has nlac.d the name of WILLIAM l.. MAR