Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-24
REFORM.

Whv need the ln'e.ligsncer mince the matter;
Does it not know that there Is prescription hi |
going about containing. as We have understood |
from 100 TO $50 names If clerks vino are TO ).
returned; and that there Is memOtla, or meme
rails alss handing around TO collect signatures
requesting their dismissal from ofl,e.
One report is. that signatures have been D.
tanned and afterwards names appended as nLs
,duaIs who are to he the subject, oI the relOIa
which individuals were not IN contemplation 4
the persons signing We have also heard :Ia.
drv singular things about the mtercp'ioa Of 1
certain letter or letters, which were laid b,ine,
certain great parsonage; which letters he wished
To retain, but which We understand are flied With
other documents as vouchers Tor the CORRECTNESS
Of the reform. Tie said letter or letter. ha'n.
something in them rejecting on some hOHoreAs
members of the lover cabinet.
Ii is further said that Secretary McLane his
to his honor be i, said, expressed his decided d.
appreciation of the whole transaction.
II is further said that three individuals, whose
names are pretty we'll known in the CITY, ara The
principal agents under the Government III lhi
transaction; that it has the sanction OF The Pfs'
sident, and that the memorials and Proscrp'oa
list have been LAID before the President, and re-
ferred by him to the cabinet, 1--WE know 10, "heh
cabinet. whether the upper or lower and more
over, there is no clerk can say that his Ille Is D.,
own-his official life we mean-unIess he n%
the real true blue. So much for the on dlid
the CITY. The whole transaction IS disrePusae
to the administration, and TO the parties conce'a
ed in it, There may BY possibility be son. 'i
cuse for the agents, a. they may have uoUsN
that their owo safety depended upon 1t. and i'h
it was better to be hammer than anvil; and m'!
may have acted by-orders. How Tar this ''e
case We do not know; we offer It as mere 'n''
geston Of possible exienuatlon OF insIf e0'"l''
~. S. Telegraph
Whilof The Tennessee Rirer-Ihe Tr0ne'
see is the largest branch OF the Ohio. II ri''' III
Virginia and runs south westward about iow
miles, then wheeling TO the north about si>'! mus
from it, junction with the OHIO It's current i
so uniformly rapid, thai: requires eight men u
proceed with boat ten miles day. lbs cav
not b. done better than by pulling The bat '"',
ward by the bushes on the shore. il seheI"
width is from so TO 100 rods 4 boat vii o.
sccnd by the rapIdIty Of the stream sixty to '-''
ty, or even a hundred miles 10 day, ateofon'
TO the season. In summer. the water oil TIE u,
yer isso warm that it is unpleasant unless ''"'a
on the deck Of the boat, BY tie air OF The nisa''
The Muscle Shoals are about 500 miles 10"
its entrance into the Ohio. Al this pace w,
river spreads to the width of three miles. arr
forms number of islands The passage .!
boats is difficult and dangerous, except when ''
water is high. 49,,
From these shoals TO the place called The "h'''
or Suck. $50 miles. the navigation al TIE 70,
is excellent, to the Cumberland Mountain "F''
the river breaks through.
This mountain is sometimes so steep 'ha' e''"
the Indians cannot ascend it on foot In QUE
place, particularly, near the summit OF the tno''
tain. there is q remarkable ledge 4 rocks o.
about thirty miles N length and 200 leet n.y.
with a perpendicular front facing The sou'he',
mnre noble and grand Than any artificial 'o''1
cation in the known world; and apparently efu'
IN point Of regularity.
The WhirI, as il is called, is about lat - os
1t is reckoned a greater curiosity than the olI''
ing Of the river Potomac through the Blue Kdss''
so we'll described BY Mr.. Jefferson. :.
The river which aboveis half mile "iu'' y
here compressed to 100 yards, or eighteen 'O'c
Just at the entrance of the mountain. a large 1t'
projects from the northern shore, in an oo'Gu'
direction, which renders the channel stu na,'
rover. This causes sudden bend, BY "n'"
the waters are thrown with great fOrce agala'Ss
The opposite shore. From thence they reoOu"I
about the point Of the rock, and produce "" ".
IF 80 yards or 240 feet in circumference y!
he dexterity of the rowers, canoes drawn NV, wv
his whiri have sometimes escaped without dah'
lge. 10 less than a mile below the "n,'
he river spreads to its common width, down 10
he Muscle Shoals; and thence runs in a rega'
ar and beautiful stream to its confluence WIZ
he Ohio.-Rambler.