Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-28

IAodeSt fI0p0SQS.-A he nuuh"e'S e'9 -
fellows They lay claim to all the chlvalry Of
the age-ail the elegance Of the times; yet some
times things slip out Of quite different charac
ter. Not long since, valiant corps at New York,
at the close Of /. days fes,ivi.Irs. offered their
services 70 march to South Carolina and I" do the
thing" for the pul,iers. In the last Columbia
Telescope, full blood, We find the following pro-
posal:
One serious word, however, to the officers oil
that valiant corps, who declare themselves not
to march against Us. If they mean any thing
more than mere bravado; il their appetite Tor
fighting be, of sudden. so keen. they can DC
accom- modated, without the pain OF Journey OF
thousand miles. Modification may prove blood
less; they may therefore miss the martial least,
for which their mighty stomachs are SO set. IL
they will say the word. we promise them that
they shall each, from their Colonel to their Cor
poral, find Suuthera antagonists, who will come
to New York, expressly to crafty them: and
will, if it IS necessary, Slit the ears OF every pal.
try braggart Of an officer in their Regiment OF
slaves. We know gentlemen enough, tn This
tocn. ,co are perfectly ready to do phaf 'oe men
tion, if the Regiment in question 10tH accept the
proposal, and send on the names Of their officers.
We have not yet heard whether the New York
corps has accepted the terms. -" Slit their ears''
aud that too a; their own expense. yfUa.
nian. -
Great Efforts are making by those who think
that the term Siate Rights can make any pill
paIatable in Virginia, to win converts TO the neD
DOCTRINE Of Secession, Tor friendly hos
tilifu, J by quoting Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.. Madi.
son as its authors But what is the fact? Mr..
Madison expressly dsavows il; and. in the de.
bate in the Legislature, Mr.. Randolph, the grand
son Of Mr.. Jefferson, asserted that his grand
father never did believe that State had a
right peceaby to sccede. but always spoken oil
it, as he did in his correspondence, as revolution.
ory mouemenf. He also read two letters
which he had received few DAYS before, from
Mr. Madison and VIM &. Rives, both OF whom
had lived on terms Of the closest intimacy with
Mr. Jefferson, and both of whom say, in the most
unequiSocal terms, that they never did hear him
speak Of secession as peaceable resort
The truth is, It is a new fargled doctrine, in.
vented BY those who are NuiEfyers, but Who can.
not swallow the name. II II be not SO, IS it not
strange that, while the Seceders deDouhce ullI'
ficaton as monstrous heresy, and the Nuiiify-
ers denounce Secession as Disunion and Treason,
(see Mr.. Calhoun's last letter to Gov. Hamilton
vet both Seceders ard Nuhfyers work together
as tremendously as If they Ieiiered the same creed
cession and Modification are she same thing in
their results-and If there BE- any preference to
be given to either. it is to Nulifc atsn, as being
slower u It's operation, and Of course less dan
gerous than Secession -Lyachturg Iirginiaa.
.4n,iquity An oak was recently felled, say:
a Penu.,i,an paper, IN tue Gor,h side of Muncy
Mountain, Lyco,ning County, Pennsylvania,
h,c fiu0 he Ia be
400 wear, oil and to hav. been marked BY cut
ting instrument 500 ears ago. the aye OF the tree
being about $50 years. The instrument used il
making these marks, was probably hard stoB.
Carved or ground into shape, bearing some re
sembia nee TO our axe, bat much smaller IN size
Ii Is added mat the marks are Of such nature IA
to leave 10 doubt that they were produced b!
such cause.
! Remarkable Instance Of Presence Of Mind. -
In the awful and destructive hurricane which oc
CURED IN the vicinity of Liverpool. in October
last, and which caused the loss of the ship Gre
clan, Of Boston, the English ship William Neil
son struck on the banks, went to pieces, ant
every person on board, twenty-six 10 number
q; Dsrished! The letter bag was picked up uPor
the shore the following day, and on opening
it, il was found to contain quantity Of ctaf
which the Captain, with presence OF mind, ID
the hour Of death, seldom ParalleIed, knowins
the Importance of the letters which it contained
was supposed to have placed there for the pur
pose Of rendering 1t buoyant!
Sdgaeity Of a Quadr,psd. The Thomastor
Journal states that pig weighing about eighty
attempted to cross Mil River on the ice; afte,
proceeding short distance he broke through, whet
instead OF drowning, he very deliberately com
menced swimming under the ice in straight
line for the shore he was seeking. The ice wal
about an inch thick, anil being transparent, al
his motions could be observed, and in this man
ner he swan TO the shore. four rods, and when
arrived there braced himself on the bottom and
with his back burst up through the ice, and go'
out without the least assistance.