Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-10

owner treats him with all possible Kindness al
it would be unpardonabls indeed The did not.
Provender without stint, atrack and manger, and
a soft and delicate bed, proclaim the ProPr'etor's
gratitude. The door is left open to allow his
egress and insress at pleasure. but it is observed
that Archy only comes out to drink, and having
done 30. Immediately returns TO his stable.
Except those of the fnny tribe, it is c%onjec-
tured that Sir Archy's posterity out-numbers
that Of any living animal.-Rieh. IPhig.
Vioen, Assault wiM intention Of Robbery.-
Between eight aud nine o'clock, this morning.
and Immediately after a young gentleman, son OF
J.B. Wood, Broker, had enter his fathers office
in Wall street, with a trunk OF money, a fellow
came into the Office and asked whether he pur-
: chased suvereisns. He was answered IN the
! affirmative, aud young Mr.. Woods, opened his
trunk and commenced placing the money in the
drawers, when he received a violent blow
in the temple from a short bludgeoh, which he
had not before seen. Pruyidenlialiy the blow
was not fatal. and the young man was enabled TO
spring over the counter. and cal for assistance.
Meantime the fellow became alarmed and ran
towards Pine street, closely pursued by several
persons. Finding his pursuers close upon him,
hs rushed into the store Of Messers. Bunnell.
Cochran & Co.. No. 46 Pine street, and attempt.
ed to escape by the back way, but the walls were
too high for him to get over. and he was arrested.
Information was sent 10 the Police Osice, and
Mr.. Hays came do~n and recognised an old ac-
qualntance, whom he took, under his protection,
to the Police Office. The fellow told US his
name was Fusdick, and that he had recently
come from Baltimore.
He had taken up some package Of money and
thrown them behind an iron chest in the Office
N. Z. Com.
United STATE, Bank Stock in London. 1T has
been calculated by many intcrcstedin the United
States Bank here, that when the report OF the
Committee of Ways and Means, in favor of the
United States Bank made to Congress on the We.
~ heel Of the session, should reach London, it
would appreciate very favorable on this stock.
The ship South America brought dates down to
the 1st Of April. The passage of Mr.. Gays
Bill, together with the adjustment of nuli,fca.
ton, which had created much interest in Eng
land, had been received. Whether the report
favorable to the Bank had reached there. does not
appear; letters from the Barings, which we have
seen, do not mention it.; If the intelligence had
been received. it had no fleet, as Bank stock was
quoted at R22 to EGG los, which is similar ia
previous quotations. Ii should also be recollected
that the New York Packet Of the LIST OF March.
which took out the adjustment Of the Tariff, also
took out the sales of stock in this market. al near.
" the low est rates, about one hundred and three
per ceut.--New York Daily .4du.
When il was intimatrd in the Commercial Ad-
v%ertiser, that a Cadet, dismissed by sentence OF
coart-martial from West Point, and subsequently
restored by the President, sIgnaliLed his return
by erecting a hickory pole in honor OF his bene
factor. and upon refusing TO take II down, when
ordered, was put under arrest-ir0m which, and
all the consequences of his military disobedience,
he was again released by The President;-we did
venture u doubt as to the accuracy OF the state
ment could not believe that Gny President
OF The United States, much less one who owed
his place to his achievements as a soldier, would
NO far disregard all order. rule and propriety, as
to permit an act cf,per.onaI sycophancy to atone
for a gross breach OF military discipline. But
the fact is otherwise; and we owe the dmende no
norabe, therefore, to the Commercial Advertiser
for having questioned the Authenticity Of its ori
ginal statement. ~. J. timer
Libel Sut.-The Pennsylvania Intelligen Ger,
in uu,icing the TRIAL a, L. Fem, Editor Of the
Telegraph, for publishing a libel on John Zear.
ing, saws: The jury found a verdict of "not gull
IT," bu, al the sauae time de creed that the man
whom they pronounced not guilty, should pay
the costs!
The earliest precedent we have of decisions al
all akin to this principle is, we believe. recorded
in the history of New York, by Mr.. Knicker.
hacker. The case was that Of a civil suit or &C.
ton for debt. The worthy magistrate on taking
up the statement Of accounts as submitted by the
parties. and posing them, one in each hand,
found them to be OF the same specif, gravity, or
equally :. balanced" in the literal sense. lie
therefore decided with much judgment that there
was no cause Of action on either side. and order
ed the constable to pay the eosts.-Bah Pat.
A CAV spark, who had taken lodgings at a pub.
lie house m London, got considerably in debt;
and. absen,iug himself, took new quarters. This
so emaged the landlord, that he commissioned
his wife to go and dun him-which the debtor
hearing. Of. declared publicly that if she came he
would kiss her. And will he? quolh the lady
will he?-Give me my bonnet, Molly, iii see
whether any fellow on earth has such impudence.
Nv dear, SAID the COOLING husband, pray don't
be rash. you don't know what a man may do
when he is in a passion.