Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-04-24
ALEXANDRIA,, ID. Co.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL "a. 1852.

TUESDAY MORNING., APRIL "a. 1852.
We mentioned, the other day, that Congress
should be influenced by the claims OF justice TO
aid our Canal, and referred 10 the fact that we
were shut out from a fair competition with ou6
sister cities, who had now the main Canal brought
to their own doors out of the general fund. The
following statement will demonstrate this:
By a return of the articles which have passed
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for the year end
ing Nov. so, 1881, we find the following. viz:
Tobacco Sc hhds.
Wheat 1896 bushels.
Bran. corn, rye. &c. 14.e67 do
Flour l89,SSl barrels.
With various other commodities Of Whiskey,
FIaxseed, Pork, Lime. &c.: of these only So, l65
barrels Flour arrived at the Port of Alexandra,
viz: $500 barrels by the canal boats, and Se.s6S
transshipped at not less than six aud a quar-
ter cents per Dbl. freight. We offer this state
ment without omment
1t is a very correct remark, Ut the Leesburs
Genius of Liberty. that 1.-The signs OF the times
are portentous. The golden days of the repub-
lie. ii is feared, are about to be succeeded by a
new order of things; which. owing much OF its
success to the catch-words of party, and the spe-
cious promises of reform, is the more dangerous
as it is the more deceptive" And yet Mr.. Van
sidered the .'golden age of the Repub'ic"!!-
The editor will see, then, how entirely he diff
fers from the great rejected" For our own
parts, we consider this, to continue the mithoio.
gical figure, the age Of IRON so we'll described by
Ovid, whose words may be aptly applied to our
day and generation:-
ODE duro est u TINA ferro.
Pro,inus irrumpit vera pejoris ip avum
Omne nefss: fugere Cuhor, verumque hIesque:
IN quorum subire locum, frsudesque, dolique,
InsidiS que, ct Wis, ct amor sceleratus habendL"
Our readers will remember Mr.. Patton's mo.
ton, iu the Houseo of Representatives, to prevent
the publication Of Houston's trial. We mention.
ed the fact of the honorable gentleman's having
withdrawn 1t by general consent. While it was
before the House, however, Mr.. Davis, of Massa-
chusetts. pertinently "desired to know whence
that House got its authority to say to the public
press of the country, you shall not publish what
is done in public here" VIZ. Wayne, of Geor-
eia, utterl, denied that the House possessed the
power implied in the resolution offered by the
gentleman from Virginia. Mr.. M'Drthe remar.
printer before the House for publishing its pro-
ceilings to. the world" On this occasion. Mr..
Wilde. of Georgia, remarked, truly, that the
House was forbidden hv the Constitution to med
die with or touch the freedom of the Press; and
Colonel Drayton said" The freedom of tho
press and the freedom of speech are the two
great bulwarks Of liLerty;-if either of them be
impaired, the liberty Of the country was impaired
in the same proportion"
The New York papers state that the Insurance
Companies of that city, in consequence of the re-
cent heavy losses Of vessels upon the coast, have
determined not to underwrite vessels or car.
goes under charge of any master. whose vessel
has been lost under circumstances which warrant
the suspicion of carelessness or incompetency.
uuuI HEs CoIuuS' respecting o""e "S wv"
investigated by a committee appointed by the
Companies for that purpose.
NapLes.-The Paris papers state, under the
head of {" Naples. 10th February" that four
American ships Of war had arrived at Syracuse,
and that Mr. John Nelson, the recently arrived
Charge DIES AAaires of the United States, had
delivered his credentials to the king on the 29th
January. That passage Of the Presidents Mes
sage relating to our claims on the Neapolitan Gov
eminent had caused, it is added, great sensation
at Naples.
Galignani's Messenger announces the death of
the celebrated Champsllion, in his AZ year, after
a long and painful illness. by his death" SAYS
that journal, "the scientific world %sustaius an
irrcparable loss. The obscurityo of Egyptian his