Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-12-31
DIS CODE.

nave prepared one which may supercede the pre-
seat very defective and heterogeneous system, it
system it can indeed be called.
Georgetown Gazette
The Committee engaged in digesting the code
OF laws for the District have progressed conside-
rably in their labors, and will, We understand,
be able to make report about the middle Of mex,
mouth, or perhaps earlier. We shall take the
first convenient opportunity Of making our read.
ers acquainted with the general system which they
have marked out and intend to recommend.
Never before have we known so many and so
loud complaints made relative to the mails. Al
NEST every newspaper that we take up contains
paragraph on the subject, and "ur merchants
and men OF business generally are much incom-
nodded In addition to the delay Of the mails,
there great irregularity in the receipt Of let
ters and newspapers. The Post Office Depart
ment seems suddenly, as the printers say, to
have been Knocked Into pi. We sigh for re-
turn to something like order and punctuaity.
The wrath of the nullifers at the Presidents
Proclamation is excessive. We give sample.
The Sump'er, 5. c. Gazette thus speaks OF it:
Tnls plt.ful production Of the malice of ty-
rant, whc acknowledges no ties or bonds but his
own desporic vii. has been produced, we sup
pose. by tn IL ''rerGent vote ven by his - ma
tive state" !: -" .ent aud Vice President
We dso~u rran' i. a brOther-although he
claims S",, "a a. his =" native State" as
| the am - I'D !. -.feI, who was created in
| fieaven
These +" ped to make Gen. Jackson
! Preside t,e ioadest once in his support.
! Sume Of the jackson Journals do not seem
well pleased at toe late accession to their ranks
of those whom they have heretofore been de
nouncinc aud vilitying he Pennsytvarlan
very candidy owns that it does not like the a
pearancs Of the Boston meeting, and intimate
..caution as to their new friends The Boston
Globe repudiates them altogether. Ii wants no
thing but 'the old democratic republican arty.'
Why all this fear because Messrs Webster,
Otis. Perken, sc. want to come over? General
jackson can whitewash them.
Let him pronounce the magic words open Sc
same, and they will be admitted into the penctra
10. as good republicans as Secretary McLane IS
Aud why should he not add the term democratic
or. il our readers please, Jeersonian, for the or
cans will show mos, conc lusively that the prOcla
nation is the real Jeffersonian doctrine
Telegraph.
Mr.. Webster long ago said that the dyeins
process at the White House had got to be yer!
easv and expeditions system. There is no dan
ger, however, We can assure the Pennsylvania
of Mr.. Webster's taking advantage OF the new
discovery in politics.
The Brig Caravan, Doane, arrived here frou
Hallfax on the eth inst discharged cargo o
MoIasses &c.-took in return cargo, and sailet
on the seth. This was quick work.
We regret to state isays the Boston Dali!
Gobe) that gentleman OF this city received {
letter from an officer Of the United States Army
dated Fort Gibson, Nov. 18th, containing th'
melancholy intelligence of the death Of Col. john
! 2. Decatur, brother of The late Commodore De
catsr Colonel Decatur died Of typhus fever.
after an illness of about ten days.
Under the head of prospects Of the PRESS il
deserves TO be mentioned, that the conductors oil
pubic journals have been very literally consider.
; ed in the new French Ministry. The Due de
Broglie. Minister of Foreign Affairs; NJ Gulzot,
Minister of Puohc Instruction; nj Theirs, of the
Interior; all have oeen editors OF public journals.
VI Berun de Naux, who was named as Proml-
nent candidate, has alsu been an editor.
MathEmal icnt Instruments &c
reSiE subscriber has received, per schooner Aexan'
I L.. IS E,,a hatna
matcs inStc meis, with luck, brass corners, and
land velvet Inning; ous wood scales, feet lons IVORY
and lockwood ditto, six inches long, hes quality; rest
surveying CHAINS, OF two aud tour poles length. with
brass hsndiesi diyer, pro,racor aud parallel rules;
pstent rulers, and double states
| dec Sl-eoSt EliZ KENNEDY.
ice AoWse 10 Rent,
| ON RE.ASON.ABLE TERMS
Gi.W( IL IS IN perfect order aud keeps Ice better
9.k. han any other Ice hnuse in town 1t is situated
ater street, near the Potomac River. and not much
expense for filling it, and if properly managed, will
pay nd Emf