Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-08

termination was put to the festivities OF the even.
ing BY the man Of proverbs handing over his card
to the stranger. Nothing. Of course, was spoken
of by the grave part Of the company but the disa.
preeable quarrel. and the still more disagresable
results to which the next mornings dawn must
unavoidably give rise.
"Next morning came, and the gentleman be-
gan to bestir himself, as according to the rules OF
honor, he must do, when there is a personal in
Jury to be avenged. With the nan of proverbs.
he was deeply enraged, and to refresh his memo
nv as to name and address. he had recourse to the
card put into his hands over night. He looked
first at one side, then at the other; but name or
Mace ON neither could be found; but in place oil
that, there was traced, in good legible characters
-. Nothing should be done in a hurry but CATCH
ing feas.' The effect Of this was irresistible.
Mr.. - fell into an uncomfortable ft OF laugh.
ter. and with very altered feelings from those
with which he left his couch, Immediately called
upon a mutual friend, where such explanations
were given as to the quarrel OF the evening be-
fore, that a hostile meeting was in a moment
ouashed. Had it not been, however, TOR this
fortunate incident Of proverb.gatherins, there IS
no saving how matters would have ended We,
knowing all the circumstances, are entitled to
say, that, but for this excellent sphorism, one or
TWO VdiuaOie lives uiSnt q oSe" "
notions Of false honor.
Embarrassing .Ansmcr. Come here, little
g,rl; thou knowest thy Decalogue," said Mrs.
Fry to a white-headed, chubby checked child, Of
about nine years o. age, . What art thu enjoin'
ed BY the fourth commandments Murder,
ma'am, ii you please"
.4sfronomy Sir J. Herschell has flushed his
series of calculations on the double stars, and is
about to set out for the Cape Of Good Hope to pur.
sue the inquiry in another latitude.
NJ Dacier. We have Just received ihtelli-
gence of the death Of the illustrions NJ Dacier,
perpetual Secretary of the Academy Of lnscrip.
t,ons and Bellies Lettres at Paris On February
4th, at the age Of nlnety-one.
Aparty of coloured emigrants left Louisville,
XIV. on the aed ult. for Liberia. 1t numbered
one hundred aud six persons, ninety six of whom
were m~anumitted in Kentucky, four were from
east Tennessee, and the others were free Among
the latter is an emigrant from Brown County,
Ohio, who goes out a. a representative Of three
hundred persons in that county Who contem-
plate emlsra,ins to Liberia provided his report
BE- favourable. The emigrants left Louisville
10 high spirits, being literally provided with mo
ney and provisions BY the people Of Kentucky.
They were to be conveyed I'd New Orleans, free
of expense, to the elegant steamboat Mediter-
ran-an, accompanied by the Secretar, OF the
Kentucky Colonization Society. AT New Or.
leans the charge of the emigrants viii be as
sumed by Mr.. Savage. oi Ohio. who will accom-
pany them to Liberia.
C~afalni.-A letter from a friend at Florence.
of the I'D uit. mentions among other Of the en-
~joyments there, an occasional visit to the fine
villa of Catalini. {" whose voice and beauty of
person (he adds) have scarcely lost any thing
since | heard her, seventeen years ago, at the
Hague, aud who now ENJOYS the ot,um cum dig
ni'afe, respected aud courted by all. and even
more estiu,able for her frank friendship of man-
ner, aud perfect freedom from every species of
pride and ALLEGATION. than her great talents,
which she never exercises but at her own house
for the qualification Of her friends" 1t is pleas
ing to hear such an account of one who has afford
ed us such delight.