Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-09-10
YANKEE DOODLE

YANKEE DOODLE,
An American gentleman in Paris, sf,e, o..
an account Of the Fourth Of July eeleora,',, :,
that capital, adds:
I must not omit to tell you how much w. ,,..
ed yankee Doodle" At home W, , L"e'',
have heard it with pleasure, but Within, .S..
ing. Here, when il vas struck I'd, il tou,,..
the electric chain that binds US all to the p,,,,,.
land we have left, and all seemed to he in.n,.i
with one impuIse--to "applaud 70 the ,s,,
echo, that should applaud again" kuo. ~,
whether the tune in the abstract be good Or h,f.
but if music, like poetry. is to be praised .,
cordine 10 the number Of associations !, as,ts,,
or the images it renews, Yankee Doodle ,bou5
have, with US, no parallel; and Won Weber o..
yer made such strain 10 his life.
"Take a Sco'chmsn from his hiII,v and ;,
the ends OF the earth tickle his ears with ,u'J
Robin Grey, or Aud Lang Syne, and it amin
lates time and space. He
'Treads the loved shore he sighed to leave behind
He is back in Imagination (which is reali,y,-u|
much as words are things,) to the brae,de, Il,
heaths, the broom, the red.plaid, the blue bu
nets, the " honest men and bonny lasses" OIL
grind in the hard ears Of the Swiss On The Gun.
berland road his unmustal Raaz DIES Faches, o.,
on no s"eeter organ than a cart wheel, and l.
is no longer in the AlleghsDies. He is anor,
his Alps, in some red log cabin, with one ,rt
sunk into the mountain, and perched 90 the tf
so steep that he must ascend it with hand. nd
feet. Or he IS beside some clear mountain l,ks.
little mirror Of the Al ps, or some waterfall q
sheet Of foam from their snowy summit
know not what are the images raised 10 d,
minds of others by 6 that good old tune" d|
which ! spoke, but to me il is the glass Of Sr.
rey's magician, and presents an image Of beaaly
1t shows me a green land Of long rivers ~
broad Iakes,-a land flowing with milk and 10
ney-a land Of steady habits. white ehursha
red school houses, aud many newspapers
anthracite Coa-I'he Frederick Time, nj,
tons that bed of Anthracite Coal has been r.
Gently discovered 10y Mr.. Purcell, engineer a
the Virginia side Of the Potomac, about Is OIL
miles above WIliamsport.
Mississippi. Franklin E. PIummer has al
signed his seat in the House of Representstra|
with view to his being candidate for h,
States Senate, in opposition to Mr.. Pond'rr|
and J. +. H. Claiborne, Of the county Of HOaa
offers his services to the people, 10 place dN
Pummer.
Execution lie Blanc, the murderer vi
executed Oh Friday at Morristown at qurs
past IL o'clock. He was apparently resisnsI
bis fate. The green 10 that place where
execution took place vas crowded With sNl
tors. 1t is calculated that no less than l.Ml
persons were present Of which the usjn'1
were females.
Helio,o Fever.-The yellow fever. il is stat.
BY Capt. Donaldson. just arrived at New ih
FROM Havana, is making great rarasrs sng
the shipping at that place Three persons d'da
the disease on board Capt. Donaldson's ,e.seIt.' |
ing the voyage, and several others are nOas"
with it.
Compliment to Mr.. Durant, the .EronaT>
Al meeting last week. (says the Aban, D'!
Of the inhabitants Of ~
town Of New Scotland, TO appoint deI's'a
to political county convention, a resolution P'' |
sed recommending to change the name thers"'
/" DURANT," in compliment to the dss'og'N
ed Eronout who terminated bis late anal s
uey from Albany, in that town.
During the first eight months Of the pHh'
year, there arrived at New York lS45 's''sH
bringing ss,o59 passengers.
The Worcester Woman states that the PhI bs'
Kappa Society Of Yale College. has elected D'O'
Webster its Orator for the next Annl'ef'a''
These literary clubs seem DESTROYS OF being CIV
.inguished. The selection Of two Orato" owl
the alumni of other Colleges, in two sueee"'
years, looks as If the venerable institution dN'
Haven was rather destitute of timber oil rs w.
growth.
Judge Switzerland, we understand, D"
ength resigned his seat in Congress ana m' r.
vernon has issued writ to Sheriff Duncan
,,;.;n. min, IN ru.ko proclamation Tor a. W.