Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-11

was impassioned, his retorts ACRIMONIOUS Drn'
cient in refinement rather than IN Strength MS
STYLE was less elegant aud correct than animated
and impressive. Bot it swept away your !ee'-
ings with il like moutain torrent, and me iorce
Of the stream left you little leisure to remark up
on its clearness. His estimate Of human nature
was, probably, not very high. IL may w ''a'
his past associations had not tended to exait IT,
Unhappily. it is, perhaps, more hEe'y 10 nave
been lowered than raised BY his subsequent eA.
perience. Yet then, and even since, except
when that imprudence, 50 natural to genius, pre-
vailed over his better Judgment, he had, general
~, the good sense, or good taste, to adopt lofty
tone Of sentiment, whether he spoke OF measures
or of men. of friend, or adversary. On many &C.
casions he was noble and captivating. One. ]
can never forget 1t was the fine burst OF Indig-
nant eloquence with which he replied to the
haunting question, ''what we have gained by
the wars"
s'Nor may pass over in silence representa-
tive from New Hampshire. who has almost 90.
liberated all memory of that distinction, by the
superior fame he has attained as Senator from
Massachusetts,. Though then but in the bud OF
his political life and hardly conscious, perhaps
of his own extraordinary powers, he gave pro-
mise Of the greatness he has since achieved
The same vignr of thought; the same force Of ex.
pre ssion; the short sentences; the calm. cold,
collected manner; the air Of solemn dignity; the
deep sephulchral unimpassioned vo,cej all have
been developed only, not changed, even I" the
intense bitterness Of his frisid irony. Inc pier
cling GOODNESS of his sarcasms was indeed pecu'
liar to him; they seemed to be emanatlons from
the spirit of the icy ocean. Nothing could be at
once so novel and 60 powerfui-'t was frozen
mercury becoming as caustic as red hot iron.
Earthquake in Nova Scotia.-The Halifax
Nova Sco,iaI of Aug. %, contains the following
paragraphs
Extract of letter dated Windsor, Aug. 10.
1--WE had smart shock Of an earthquake
here Ell Sunday morning at about quarter before
five. II appears to have been srn.'bIy felt at
the College. Academy and the ne,ghborhood OF
the Spa Spring | understand at the former
place i, cracked some Of the pai-terng 1t was
so early that few people in the village felt IT, al
though some were awakened by it. BY some il
is said that it was not accompanied by any rumb-
ling noise, aud by others that it was; but all
concur in saying that it occasoned a strong tire.
mulous motion. The academy was rocked rath-
er alarmingy. and a cottage not far off, was
moved in a manner that made the timbers credk.
and to suggest the idea of ship in motion. /
cannot ascertain its direction, but should think
it .as nortn and south. Did you feel il in Hail
faxl lan sorry to say, that was so last asleep
that | missed H."
Extract Of letter dated Brier Island, Aug
l6 -. On Sunday mprning last, about hall past
:, we had very he.vv shock OF .n earthquake.
Ii ,strd abu'I IL minute. and was so vl1lpnt that
{ could not stand sIIi o. nv feet in the bed
roo u. but nad 10 seize the bedpnSt for support
a. H.,
ken dawn
LIvERPooL. N $. Aug. 9th On Sunday
moruin., last. ..nnu: o'ciock, the 10th inst. ma
nv Of our inhabI,an's felt slight shock OF an
earthquake. nave since been informed that it
was more sprereiy felt at Shelburne, shaking
down the paister,ng IN some of their buildings.
WARsEsroS. (Va.) Sept. 8.
Distressing Occu,re,,ce On Friday evening
Aug. Slsr. we had a most awful vistalion.--
While Chief Justice Marshall. was sitting
In the house Of his son James, a shock Of light
ming Frustrated before him. his SONS James and
his grand son John. the son of Thos.
Marshall. and Two other grand children. John
and Mary Harvie-,he fluid pervaded the whole
house Messrs Geo Alexander. Henry Mar
shalt and John II. Thomas. we're also shocked,
nat Frustrated. For twenty minutes
all of the first FIVE were considered as dead; the
appli alton Of ice water was immediate. and
prov ed to be eficacIous IN the restoration Of all.
The Chief Justice, Maj ArbIer and Thos. G.
Marshall were in the room with the sons. but
were not injured. although. so much shocked as
no, to see the lightning hear the thunder-ths
sufferers are al recovering
Horrible Suicide About 8 o'clock on Friday
night last Mr.. James Heath, q Young man Who
resides in his fathers family abuut 10 miles north
of this place. went to the house Of a Mrs. Lucas
a near neighbor, where young iady-Miss
and deliberately shot her with
his rifle in which he had put two balls. Provi-
dentialiv, however, in eevating the piece to the
window through which he fired, its muzzie
struck the glass. which caused the young lady
suddenly to move from the position in which she
was reclining a, the moment If time he took his
aim, and thus escaped with her life; though not
without having received both balis-one between
the thumb and fore finger of the left hand-and
the other through the same arm above the elbow.
which caused very painful fracture ct the os
hnmeri We learn that she is doing we'll and is