Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-09
ASSAULT ON SENATOR RIvEs.

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ASSAULT ON SENATOR RIvES.
The Charlottesville Chronicle gives an account
Of the rupture between Mr.. Gilmer and Senator
Rives, which we mentioned last week. They
had met in tavern to talk their differences over,
when, at the close of the conversation, Mr. Gil
mer demanded that Mr.. Rives should acknow-
ledge the injustice Of his mistrust Of his friend
ship, which Mr. r. refused to 'lo, as he
said, he could not do it without classifying his
conscience. Upon this Mr.. G. attempted to in.
fc, on SIR. r. the Randolph punishment, which
he followed up with a blow. when both went
hard at il, and Mr.. r. came OF rather worsted-
he being much smaller and weaker than his oppo-
nent. We are sorry that such an atfray should
have occurred.
Garrison's Lberator 10 reference to his holding
slaves pronounses Gen. Washington. Hypo-
critic. Thief. kdnspper," aud adds that he is
now IN He'll! What monster is fanatic! ex
6nims the Romney Intelligence. But then.
why quote the senseess rawlings Of such-a mon
stsr and such fanatics
The papers viH mejdie with the next presiden.
tial election. Its with great difficulty that they
can be kept from entering at once, vigorously, in
to new political campaign, ranging themselves
under such leaders as MrLean. Webster. Van
Buren,, Cass, &c. Sc. For ourselves, we touch
not, handle not the unclean thing. "Sufhcient
INTO the day is the evil thereof"
The person Who carried off the Telegraph from
this Office on Sunday, will please return it. as we
presume, he knows, it does DOT belong to him.
We perceive il is the intention of Nj. NJ.
Noah to star,a semi weekly newspaper in New
York. His talents as writer are OF too good an
order to remain dormant.
An American gentleman has presented to the
hospiiable monks on Noun, St. Bernard. CRATES
for the burning Of species Of caa which is found
in the ueighborhood Of their hospire The monks
have found they answer very veil and are much
pleased with the present.
Yesterdays mails brought US no-news of the
extension or increase of the Cholera, and we in
dulge the hope that its rage is, in some degree,
at least, spent. 1t has entirely ceased at. New
Orleans.
The accounts Of the celebrations Of the Fourth
Of July bring US statements Of many accidents,
&c. la New York, in particular, there were
several.
We are pleased to learn that the health Of the
President has much improved since his return
from the North.
Girard College The corner stone Of this In.
stitution was laid on Thursday at Philadelphia,
and the ceremony witnessed by large and res
pectable sssembsge Of citizens. An address
was delivered the occasion BY Nicholas BID
die, which is spoken Of By the National Gazette,
in terms Of unqualified admiration. The public.
like the auditory, says the editor, will feel its ell
oqueuce and beauty, and the force Of those apt
and poa eriul considerations by which Me- Bid
die recommends so noble an institution.
Black Hawk and suite arrived at Buffalo on
the Sunday morning following, in the Steamboat
Uocle Sam FOR Detroit They awaited them
selves Of the opportunity. whilst a, Buffalo, to
visit the Senecas In that neshboshood.
a Slarer Captured We learn from the Ber-
muda Gazette, that II b. NJ schooner N,mble
has captured slave schooner with one hundred
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SLAYER appeared Of Barbadoes on the 1S,i, Of
May, then on her way 70 Trinidad. in conse
quence Of her not being allowed TO stop at the
Havana, from the existence there Of the Cholera.
Our cSuutyman ]. Fenimare Cooper, Esq.
writes to friend that 5000 drunkards were
committed to prison in Paris, last year, and that
there is less drunkenness in America among the
oative population than in any other country.