Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-15

From Georgia we learn that great Meeting
was held at Athens, the Seat Of the Universit, OF
Georgia, during the Commencement, few days
ago at which VIM. II. Crawford presided; and
in the proceedings Of which, Mr.. Berrien, Judge
Clayton, and several other gentlemen, took part.
The subject OF discussion was the Tariff, the Pre-
Idcn,ial Election being put aside to make way
tr il. A proposition was made BY Judge CLAW
i0u, which was agreed TO, for recommending
County Meetings to choose Convention, 20 meet
at Milledgeville III November next. to deliberate
upon the mode and measure OF redress against
the expressions of the Tariff" We DO not know
what has got into Judge Clayton lie appears
70 be truly amable and really sensible gentle
man in the private walks OF life; but, wherever
we find him in public, he seems to be ripe for vio-
lenCe. II was he, the reader will recollect, who.
on the occasion of the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Cherokee case, spoke of Georgia's
blowing the Union into ten thousand atoms before
,he would submit to it. We hoped that the
Judges visit to Philadelphia would have Modified
his Southern prejudices little: but the Report
Of Mr.. Adams, or something else, stirred his bile,
aud his oyerturn in the stage as he was going
home has not Iessened the flow of it. We had
much rather have read his promised reply to Mr..
Aiams's Report. than have heard Of his sudden
4 conversion to Nullifca tion.-Aat INT.
.iaoiher Flrs-About half past ten o'clock
n, night, the Lumber Yard belonging to Mr..
KIRBY, on McEdery's wharf, was discovered to
De IN TIRE. The lire was no doubt cOmmunicat
ID By an incendiarv, and when first discovered
va, pretty we'll under way. having communicate
ed 10 several stacks of lumber. We understand
that much injury has been done to the Hose be-
onsins 10 several OF the Fire Companies--they
faS,Ng been cut BY very sharp knife, in differ
at places, and some of the links so much as
10 render them useless-during the time Of the
IRE. IAIS fact, IN cOnnexion with other circun-
.,ances, makes il matter of some consequence
20 cur citizens 10 be on the alert, and to be par
clarly careful in seeing every thing secured
OsI''e retiring. The loss of Mr.. Kirbv is not
NFry considerable. the indefs;igable and very ac-
'eeHeruOns OF the Fireman having arrested
"amvS and saved the principal part at the
in5et. Fortunately, very fortunately, there
As but li,c wind al the time, as from the posi-.
'u where it was communicated. had there been
lth ~lnl from the South, the fire. in all proba-
ty, wuald have swept over the Whole yard,
produced fishtfui destruction Of property,
IBah. Gas. Of Monday.
from The Cincinnati Com. .9drertiser, fig. Z.
yesterday morning, between two and thsee
Clock, there an alarm of FIRE: bur from its
ING continued only for minute or two. many
's0ns Who had risen and looked out, seeing no
Use Tor alarm, retired to bed again. The fact
The hre was raging in the interior Of the build
oathad not yet burst cut. 1t was the new
Splendid Hotel, called Pearl Street House,
%uoy David Griffin, Esquire, and occupied
NApt henrie. The building was five stories
;" and the flames burst simultaneously from
cellar, through the first floor, and from the
%Ssory through the roof; thus affording incon-
. s1oe evidence Of its being the work Of an in
vary What loss Major Henrie and the nu-
dodgers for the House was fulr sustained,
I've not been able to learn, but it must have