Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-30
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. CO.
MONDAY MORNING. JULY 80. 1882.

Favorable news received from the cities and
towns to the North, with regard to the diseas
with which they have been afflicted, ought not to
induce relaxation On our part ia the Precaution.
airy measures which hsve been adopted. Should
PhiIadeph escape, it will be an evidence Of
what general cleanliness may effect, and all other
places should follow % good an example. We
would recommend renewed exertions on the part
of the Board Of Health and the citizens general
Iy, to continue and preserve the excellent health
which We now enjoy. Cholera or no Cholera,
we shall enjoy the advantage Of this throughout
the warm season.
The Globe, in reply to Mississippi paper
which had denounced Mr.. Plummer, the Repre-
sentative from that State, for supposed detection
from the Jackson Party, denies that there is any
ground for such suspicion, and declares that s'no
man has ever proved his FIDELITY more tho
roughly" to jackson. than this same Mr Plum
mer.-Gracious Heaven! that a Representative
Of free People should be Iauded for FIDELITY
to man! What are we coming tor
]. Howard Payne, the dramatist, has arrived
at New York in the packet ship President, from
London, after an absence Of nearly twenty years
from his native country.
The President took the Piedmont route through
Virginia. He left Orange Court House on Wed.
aesday morning last.
Mr.. Clay and family passed through Frede.
ricksburg on Monday last, and proceeded to st.
Julien. the seat Of his old friend Judge Brook.
After spending day there, he. on Wednesday,
resumed his journey. He will pass some days
at the Virginia Springs.
Honorabie.-As far as we have seen, as yet,
not one press in the country, except the venal
Globe.-which of course must speak as it is paid
to speak,-has attempted to vindcate the course
Of the President in the case of GwIN.
We have also not yet seen or heard OF a man
who attempts to justify this monstrous abuse Of
power and gross and outrageous violation OF the
Constitution.
How long this may continue, we cannot say;
but we arc afraid that even the case Of GwIN
NAV be forgotten in one loud I" Hurra for Jack
SON."
We have received copy Of the Address Of
the National Republican Convention, recently
held at Staunton, which we will lay before our
readers in our next.
The Mayor of Washington, at the request OF
the religious congregations OF that city. has Off
cially recommended Wednesday, the LIST day OF
August, to be observed as day Of Fasting, HUI
initiation, and Prayer, in the metropolis.
Reaunciai,on.- Albany Daily Advert.
ser states, that the following communication was
handed to that paper for publication, by re-
spectacle citizen.
1--WE are informed that Governor Pitcher, NJ.
c. from Washington County. avows himself now
decidedly opposed TO the reelection Of Andrew
Jackson; that he 10 decided Clay man; and
that unless another electoral ticket should be no.
minated, he shall vote for that already before the
public. lie says no honorable man could have
STAYED at Washington the last winter, and not
been convinced of the utter incOmpetency OF An
drew jackson for the situation he now nils"
A letter from Matanzas, under date of the 9th
July, states that all vessels arriving from the
United States after the LIST Of August, without
bill of health certified BY the Spanish Consul,
will be subjected to the most rigorous quarantine.
not less than forty. and perhaps sixty days So
great is the dread Of the Cholera there that vesse
from any part Of the world are put in strict qua
rantine.
ooMMuNIcArED.
Pro bono p,t6lieo.-" What is every body's
business is no body's." AS a traveller, and one
that has experienced the Inconvenience Of which,