Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-16

District, John Bell was reelected without oppo
sition.
The veteran Editor Of the Richmond Enquirer
who has breasted % the battle and the breeze"
for many years, has put himself, as ne calls IT,
upon " the confessional" and is telling the PEG
pie why he thought General Jackson would be "a
CURSE" before there was chance Of his being
elected-and why he thinks he is great bIes
sing now that he is elected. He is also showing
that he ALWAYS was for State Rights, and always
will be for the same words.
The Editor of the Wing, too, younger though
hardly an inferior soldier, has put himself upon
the {" confessional" and is explaining why it is
that, after supporting John Quincy Adams and
Henry Clay and all their measures,-not except.
ing, or at least hardly objectng to. Internal In.
provements, Tariff, Bank, SC. &c.-he is now
violently opposed to all these things. and turned
Nullifer of the South Carolina school.
We leave these gentlemen. for the present, at
the CONFESSIONAL" expecting shortly to see
them upon " the stool Of repentance" We do
not know that they deserve a worse punishment
than to have their own writings for the last Sc.
ven or eight years given TO them in I" BROKEN
DOSES"
The persons already nominated as candidates
for the office Of President Of the United States,
are Mr.. Van Buren,, Judge Mclean. Governor
Cass, Colonel Johnson, Mr.. Leigh, Chapman
Johnson, Philip P. Barbour, General Winfield
Scott, and Major Jack Downing. The last a
very good hit at this array of names put up for an
office which has just been filled, and which is Of
so little consequence now, that. mention it, and
half dozen aspirants start up, not ashamed to
claim its honors aud covet its power.
Mr.. Leigh, taken up, at present, by portion
Of the newest patent Democrats, is denounced by
some of the old Democrats, or rather those who
call themselves so, as b" the champion Of the Fee.
deraists of 1913 and '99"-" the author Of Alger-
non Sidney" the man who has publicly pro.
claimed that the people are not to be trusted I"
AZ having " aristocratic notions" &c. &C.
What with. the impotence and officiousness of
Mr.. Legh's friends, and such hard sayings. we
would not be surprised were he to back out from
the tumult. We are also very sorry to see that
the Multiplying paper in Virginia, the Jeffersonan,
has espoused Mr.. Leish's cause. Mr.. L. will
not be the first man who has exclaimed, "Save
me from my friends!!"
BY the Steamboat Potomac, arrived yesterday
at an early hour from Norfolk, We received our
usual supply Of papers in advance Of the mail.
They contain nothing new, however.
We have received the first number of the Anne.
rican Mechanic, a small but handsomely printed
sheet. intended to be published once week in
1t will be devoted particularly to
the interests of the Mechanics and Working
Men. We wish it every success in all its eff.
forts to promote the prosperity of those who are,
in truth, the bone and muscle of the nation. II
sufficient encouragement is received, the next
aumber is to be issued on the Gath inst Mr..
Samuel Briggs, at Mr.. Smiths Foundry, is the
Agent.
The fast sailing packet ship Canada, Capt.
Britton, arrived from New York, at London on
he e9.h June-being only the 18th day from the
ime she left the dock at New York until she was
locked again at London. This is the shortest
,assage ever made between the two ports.