Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-06-18
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. c.
TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 1s. 1883.


yesterday argued before the Circuit Court at great
length, by the District Attorney, F. 5. Key.
ESQ, and WALTER JONES. Esq. on behalf OF
Mr.. Peasants: Present, Judges THausroS and
MoRsELL. The opinion Of the Court was given
by Judge Thruston, ordering the attachment to
be issued; stating. at the same time. that it was
a subject Of much delicacy and doubt-that
he entertained doubts, but that. being called up
So decided. On motion of Mr.. Jones, it was
then ordered, that the attachment be accompa'
MED with recital Of the grounds on which it
was issued. The attachment is made returnabl e
TO the Court the first Monday in October, being
the 6rst day Of the next term Of the Court.
We request attention to the excellent advice
and recommendations Of the Board Of Health, as
published in today's paper We shall have, by
strictly following the course laid down, compare
lively little or nothing to dread from the disease
against which it is designed to guard our town.
Every citizen ought to take up the matter with
determination, possible, to preserve the present
excellent state Of public health.
We should have been pleased had the extract
Of "a letter from gentleman in the neighbor'
hood of the District" published in the Richmond
Wig. Of last Saturday. and ON which there are
some comments in the same paper, been publish.
ed entire and unmutilated. As it is, the mystic
houo
powers Of research. Used in the particular con-
nexion in which they stand, it would, we think.
have been no more than fair, TO as, to have IN
serted the sentence sentences entire. We
cannot be supposed to know the aim of the writ
er. aud hence will not undertake to reply to that
which perhaps was not intended. We are un-
console of having given cause for imputaion
on the particular subject referred to, or indeed
on any other occasion or matter. II any impu
tations are intended, we indignantly cast them
OIL But we will not suffer ourselves to deal
with shadows. IL this paragraph meets the eye
Of the gentleman who yrote the extract publish
ed in the Wing. we should be pleased ii he
would let US know the substance oi TIE suppress
ed sentence or sentences spoken Of. He certain
" will not refuse SO reasonable request Or
cannot the Wing itself inform as what is meant?
We Yesterday saw letter from the venerable
JAMES Manson. expressing, in the warmesf
terms, his interest IN the American Colonization
Society, and enclosing donation OF Fifty Dol
lars, to be applied to the funds OF the Society.
We quoted, last week. from the Pennsylva-
man, the Jackson print in Philadelphia, to show
the wre,ched and disgusting syeoPhancy, subser-
viencv, and aduation, which was inflicted upon
the President during his stay in that city We
add. to-day. extracts from the New York Jack
son papers, which even 60 beyond the Pennsy'-
vanian, and exhibit absolutely basphemous lido
latly. which is as hateful as the other was dis
gusting The first extract below compares Ge-
neral Jackson's entree into New York, IN point
of subimity, to the GREAT DAY OF JUDGMENT!
The second records sAs devotion Of the people,
in initiating those Of did who pressed forward t"
our Saviour to touch the hem Of his garments
And me third absolutely supposes that Heaven
itself inierfer-d greet the Presidents arrival.
The New York Standard says
Next in our ideas Of the moral sublime, 60
that great spectacle which - the just made per-
feet" will present to an admiring universe, is the
spectacle presented by the congregation OF Tree
ole to render spontaneous and uncourted honor
to the great and good, and just. Of the rulers
whom such people have exalted. Such spec
,acle is now being presented" &c.
The New York Evening Post makes this state.
ment-
In their ungoyernab'e desire to see the
Chief Magistrate. men did not seem to care Ior
auy hazard. A friend Of ours, one of the imme-
date escort Of General Jackson, informs Va that,
though mounted on spirited horse, many per-
sons did not scruple to run between the legs OF
the prancing animal, at the imminent risk OF De-
Ing trodden down, so that they might grasp me
hand of their beloved President, or even touch the
hem Of his garments
'Tha Standard also cave