Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-26
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. c.
ER1DaY MORNING. JULY 2s, 1858.

months cruise on Inc Wts' "u IL.
GERS and crew all we'll. During the most VI .e
time. she has been on active service amo"e '"e
islands, having visited those ports ~here ouf
commercial interests rendered her presence "h'
~portapt. She is last from Jamaica, "h'c" que
left on the lst instant. No event hau .ranSp"eu
TO disturb the quiet Of the island up 10 "a' ua'e'
The Jackson Conventions, assembled at Anna.
polls on Saturday, noHinated the non; Isaac Mo.
Kim. as a Candidate to represent the DISTRICT
nonr,h Coue essional District of Maryland in
The next Congress. The National Republican
Convention, it will be recollected, a short time
ago nominated Col. William Steuart to the same
Office. The District comprises. the hrst n'e
wards of the city of Baltimore. the city Of An
napolis. and Anne Arundel county.
A Cool ScoundreL On Saturday last, in New
York. when Wall street was full Of people, a
Sailor stepped into an eating room IN the vlcini'
~. took out his pocket book and handed a ten
dollar bill to the barkeeper, requesting that ine
change might be given him in silver. At TINS
mument a fellow who had been eating oysters
seized the poke! book, which contained Sl2o'
darted gu, of doors, and ran up Wall street,
where he attracted many a gaze. but the sailor De-
ing slow on the pursuit, the villain had made SO
much head way before the cause OF his haste was
discovered, that he effected his escape!
A Virginia toast which should be stereotyped
for the benefit of the Old Dominion.
.The greatest legacy we can bequeath our
children, 10 habits Of economy, industry, patriot
ism aud ambition TO excel in all the useful branch.
es Of knowledge"
The Columbia Times seems to regard the &C.
LIBERATION of our National Anniversary. as rather
unconeenial with the spirit of utilization
wishes the nation of South Carolina to have its
own festival-and would select for that purpose
the Lt of February, the day that Was 10 have been
the birth day of notification. The following are
the remarks of the Times: how redOlrnt are they
of that peculiar love Of Union Of which the nul.
liiers boast!
I" Fourth of july Celebrations. Throughout
the whole State of South Carolina, the fourth OF
july, which has hitherto been hailed as the ami;
versary Of freedom, the Jubilee OF a nation, and
the most glorious epoch, in the annals o! history,
appears to have been celebrated not with the
warm heart, Overlooking with enthusiastic rejoi-
cinss, and pouring out the Offering of its graft.
tude 10 the author of our Being as a nation; but
with frigid indifference, or most commonly with
curses upon the powers that have fixed upon the
South an insuppo,table weight Of injury and in.
suit.
.sIf a reform OF existing abuses in the admins.
tration Of this government is delayed much long
er. celebrations of the fourth Of July will be-
come Questionable. TIE people seeing such
unsavory fruits from a tree Of 81 much promise
as our government was in the beginning, will at
length lose their faith in it, and the 4th OF July
will be regarded rather as the precursor of Ty.
ranny than as a birth. day of Liberty. We have
heard many say that the'first Of February. 1885.
would have been a more appropriate day for the
national festival Of South Carolina. (.!D
The office Of the " Tuscaloosa Inquirer has
exchanged hands-and they have established a
new paper under the title Of the " Fiug OF the
Union" Mr.. Pleasant NJ. May has become its
Editor. The first act of his political life was a
~slngularl moveneut-and the sigour OF his
pen is calculated to extend his reputation as an
Editor. The following sketch is extracted from
the first No. that he has published:
"Ihave ever advocated a rigid construction
of the Constitution of the United States: | have
desired that this sacred charter Of our liberties
should be preserved i~nviolate. l have opposed
the system of internal Improvement andthe Bank
of the United States. because | believed as | now
believe. they are unconstitutional | have also
been opposed 20 the Protective policy OF the Gen
eral Government, because in my judgment, it
was not only unconstitutional, but in its opera.
tons, unequal, unjust, and oppressive. The
first political document wAich I eUer penned, con.
sisted of a preamble and resolutions in opposition
TO The Tariff which ! had the honor, al the ear.
hest possible period after Ihad attained 10 my
majority, to introduce into the popular branch of
the Legislature Of South Carolina, Of rhih DO.
dy / was a member from my native District. l
had the modification to witness the total defeat
of the proposition I had submitted for considera
fion; all the members uoting against IL, crcept
myself. This event was eminently calculated
to shake thy confidence in my own opinions, out
I continued my opposition to the Tariff, both by
defamation and newspaper essays. endeavor.
ed to arouse my fellow citizens to a sense Of
their rights and Of the wongs which had been
imposed on them BY unwise and improvident leg
islation. have lived to see the triumph of the
principles for which | contended, not oaly in my
native State, but in all the plantation States, and
also, in many other sections OF the union.-Up.