Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-19
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. CO.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPT 10. 1882.

ALEXANDRIA, ". VI
WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPT 10. 1882.
/, Null fcafion.-A committee of correspond.
ence has been appointed in Richmond County,
Georgia, to ascertain from the different candi-
dates for Congress and the State Legislature,
their sentiments with regard to the all engrossing
subject, both in South Carolina and Georgia
The answers to the inquiries of the Committee,
as they come in, are published; and among the
last thus given. we find Judge Clayton's reply
1t will be recollected that this gentleman arrived
home a red.hot nulifier, and sealed his vows to
the new faith BY giving as toast, HE that dal-
lies is dastard-he that doubts is damned"
We give an extract from this production Of Judge
Clayton's, showing the form and shape that null
LITIGATION. is to assume when it comes" as come
it will"
and therefore nuH and cold. would notify the
general government of this fact, and if the law
was not repealed, or modified. so as TO lay re-
venue duty only, which should be adequate to the
just wants of the government, on or before the
last day of the first session of the next Congress,
that is 10 say, in the year 1884, and If, further
IT should attempt to enforce the law after that time,
thus unrepealed or unmodihed, within the limits
of Georgia. this State would be no longer mem
Der Of the Union This is nv mode of resistance,
but an free to confess, that am prepared for
any and all other modes that will rid US Of the
oppression"
General Duncan. understand that this
gentleman, member of Congress from Illinois, has
followed in the train OF the multitude, and come
out against the Administration. Among the prin-
cipe causes Of this step, were the Presidents
Veto on the Bank Bill, and his rejection of the
Chicago HarbUr Bill.
MichigGn.-This Territory is about taking
measures to enter the Union. The legislative
council nave passed an act requiring meetings to
be held of the white male inhabitants who are 81
years "f aye, in the organised townships Of the
territory, on the first Tuesday Of next month,
and that vote shall then bt taken on the ques-
ton whether il is expedient for the people Of the
territory to form State Government, and returns
of such votes are to be made to the Secretary,
and laid before the legislative council as its next
session.
Commitment 10 Merh.-The Insurance Com.
pauics Of New Orleans have presented beau,i-
full service of plate to Captain atnall, of the u.
States schooner Grampu., as a testimony Of their
regard for the va!uc of his services in protecting
/ American commerce in the Bay Of Mexico.
t. from Venezuela papers received by the Lucy
Ann on Saturday, at Baltimore, we perceive that
the Cholera has broken out in Chill with great
violence A letter from Popoyan says that in
one week it destroyed s63persons at Valparaiso,
and sol a, Santiago de Chilli.
! A gentleman Who arrived in the Providence
steamboat. at New York. informs that on Friday
morning there was white frost in the eastern
part of Massachusetts, and probably through tho
greater part of New England. The corn is back
ward, and though perhaps not materially injured
by this FROST is very liable to suffer severely from
similar ,isltations in future.
We regret to learn. says the Princeton C0u-
rer, that the Hon John Sergeant, who was ex.
pected to have delivered the Annual Address be-
lore the Literary Societies of the College Of New
Jersey, has recently declined the invitation.
Eighty shares Of United States Bank stock
sold in New York on Saturday, at l6.
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! TcoMMUNIcATED.
Two SpOrismen occupied themselves on Sun.
day evening, near town, in the novel amusement
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