Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-29
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. CO.
ryrRsnsY MORNING. AUGUST a9, 1858.

The National Intellisencer 10 engaged 10 Sc
- Of numbers on the Bank question. They are
'hIs and strongly written, containing many just
.0asc,iobs upon the situation Of the President,
md the disgusting idolatry and syeophancy Of
49, who surround him, - who crock the plant
SO,ss OF the knee, that thrift may follow fawn.
:"nn The fiat has, however, gone forth. II Is
~" ~ oDnion, that the Bank deposits will FIRST be
Osmoyed. and then the Bank be put down. We
r.se no hope for the continuance OF the instito-
."a, mr. any alteration in the determination OF
-. the rule or ruin men"-who are now so
:"Jn.,riously at work preparing the public for
,1s even, which they will bring TO pass. Nor do
40 believe that any great Impression can be
made upon public opinion in the premises, until
n.cno;sry embarrassment shall come upon the
ppsoD,e like a desolation, prostrating the weak
and causing even the strongest to quail.
ur;,cr in the Louisiana Courier, speaking OF
Mr.. B. w. Leigh, says:
:. With more talent than Daniel Webster, 10
.,.onmend him to the exalted station OF Presi'
hsnt he has none Of the Inconsistencies 1T the
Nv England statesman to dim the lustre OF his
fame. and render him an object Of distrust among
hi, fellow. countrymen."
This opinion may we'll be questioned. Ii by
,,L,,. is meant judgment, discretion, learning,
,nJ sloouencr, Mr.. Leigh is not Mr.. Webster's
.n,srior, Mr.. Webster's change Of position on
,be Tariff, brought about by the change IN the
coDdition Of his constituents, does not. " dim the
Iu,,re of mis- fame. Mr. Leigh is not TO be ele-
ya,ed by depressing Mr.. Webster.
Washington Irving would as soou, no doubt,
,b;,k of writing the life OF the Cync Of old as of
Inhn Randolph; SO that the Richmond Wing
NAV come down from its stills, aud no longer fear
,nrb an INSULT to the Old Dominion. There
wa, nothing IN the life and character Of Mr..
Randolph 10 warm the feelings or interest the
hear, If Irving: he and all the world looked up.
on the eccentric and unhappy man in the same
nyh, He is gone, however, and let US tread
lightly on the ashes OF the dead.
:, The earth ,eas tererish and did shake"
GSHAKsPEARE.
The shock Of the Earthquake felt here on Tues
day morning, was experienced as far as we have
heard irom-in Washington, Baltimore, and the
adjoining counties Of Maryland and Virginia.
letter tom the loreman at Mr.. Bard's Stone
Quarry, in Stafford County, Va dated on Tues
dsy morning, SAYS" We have had a remark
able shirsrmg Of the earth here TO day: the work.
men say the rocks have the fever and ague.' !"
Gentlemen residing in the country say that
sounds sinilar to that which preceded the shock
in the morning we're heard two or three times
during the day.
The Charleston, Kenawha, Banner states that
the Cholera has disappeared entirely from that
section of country, and that business aud travel
have been again resumed
By a letter from Col Sands, Assistant Agent,
it appears that Purtion oi the Pottawatamie Ma
ton Of Indians are now on their march to the
country allotted them west Of the Mississippi.
The Keunebec (Maine) Journal denies that 1t
Is sickly in Augusta aud the neighborins towns.
The story about the cholera there is all smoke.
Interesting and Painful Neps.-The editors
Of the n. Y. Gazette have received letter from
friend, dated Eastport, Aug. 19.-Ir states,
II have seen Capt. Tucker. of schooner Lead
or, Just returned from the Magdalene Islands.
who informs that Mr.. Audubon, week previous
TO the ed Of June. had been at an adjoining har-
Dor, where he remained two days.
CAPTAIN Tucker also informs, that this has
been most disastrous season among the h>her
men belonging to Newfoundland, (about sOo) in
fishing for seal among the floating ice IN the sPrns
tbs supposed they we're lost IN violent gaze
in the spring. which destroyed the vessels among
the ice"
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