Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-12-20

Lieutenant Randoiph's Trial.-The trial Of
this gallant officer comes on this morning.
Richmond Compiler, Dec. II.
A bill Incorporating the Trustees Of the Fin
castle Female Academy was before the Hons.
OF Delegates, yesterday, and passed, sf,r,
some opposition. Our readers will be amused =,
the statement, that the objections to this bill
we're founded on the apprehension Of danger from
incorporated institutions. To what lauyh,bIe
lengths will not mistaken principle carry those
who adhere to It through thick and thln:-NM
Lieutenant Randoiph.-Mr. Tyler has intro
duced a bill for the repeal Of the act of Congress,
under which this gallant officer is incarceraed
We learn that the question Of tie constitution.
ality Of the act will be considered, on a motto
for his discharge; but, waving all connection with
his case, except as it displays the use to which
tue act may BE- applied, it is now obvious. In,
under il. the most innocent citizen may be in.
INJURED forever in prison, without the benefit Of
trial bv jury-a privilege secured TO British sub.
jects nv a charter which no crowned head can
violate with impunity. liza drilled majority DE-
feat the nil, will it not prove that We are less,
free people than our ancestors were under III,
BRUSH Cro.n?-1etegraph.
The Senate Committees Perhaps in the cir
cums,ances attending the organization of the Sc.
mates Standing Committees, there may have
been something which. without explanation, may
puzzle our readers. and the public generally
Neither Mr.. Clay nor Mr.. Calhoun. for exam pie,
have been placed at the head of any Committee.
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The votes which MIR Clay received Tor the pO.,
of Chairman Of the Committee Of Manufactures,
were probably thrown not by his political friends.
who all voted for Mr. Fre!inshdysen for that
post, blu by their adversarIes. Mr.. Clay, and
those who acted with them. had il in their power,
beyond doubt, to have placed whom they pleas
ed on the Committees; and they seem TO have
exercised this power discrectIy aud with LIBERAL.
ty.-Nat. I'M.
We mentioned. some days ago, that the late
report Of the Committee Of the Directors Of the
Bank of the United States WAS supposed to hiy,
been wholly or in great part prepared BY the
Hon. Mr.. Bnnev, of Philadelphia, now re.
preventative in Congress. THIS belief ~asa
pressed to US by "a friend well acquainted IN
Philadelphia. and seemed probable from the
eminent talent displayed in the composition Of
the document, considered in connection with the
high reputation of Mr. Bnney, and his vel
known friendship for the Bank. We have SINE
learned, however, from source entIrey salts
factory, that Mr.. Binney had no agency what
ever in preparing the RePort.-Bah Gas.
Embezziement. young man who had acted
as clerk of the steamboat Providence was arrest.
ed on Saturday evening. charged with having
appropriated about $1,000 which he had collected
belonging to the Company, to his own use. After
a long search the delinquent was arrested at
porter house 10 WaInutst The greatest part
Of the money was found in his possession. and al
so 800 in lottery tickets which he had purchased
under the vain hope Of finding relief
from the favors Of the blind goddess On aPPI'
cation at the Offices where they we're purchased,
the money was returned IN exchange for the tick
cts, and the young man was committed to answer
the charge a. the ensuing sessions.-N T. Com