Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-19

now expect change daily, aud no doubt 1t Will
no a sudden one At all events, the season OF
heat will be here in few weeks more; and IL
becomes every citizen to look well after his pre-
misses and the public authorities OF the CITY TO
avert a general supervision, so that nothing be
s,,fFared IN remain of character to invite dis
ease The important work OF purlhcatlon
should commence before the warm weather sets
in In fact. for the good of the city, andfo the
general health, it cannot commence LOO sooil
We have felt it our duty to invite attentlon 10
this subject. Health is the first OF temporal pies
sings-more important than any otheI niat'ei
likely to engage our attention; let us tieh neg
lect no suitable means for its preservation.
Baltimore Patriot 1
An Ingenious Rogue-Perhaps, for ingenuity,
the following trick played by Russian at Mos
COW. could not be surpassed in London or IA
r;s respectable looking man fell senseless
in the streets from fit, when person in the
crowd started. forward, exclaimng, "oh, my
master. my poor master?" He now very coolly
transferred the contents of the unfortunate gen
tleman's pocket into his own, not forgetting MS
watch; and them with all the concern magma
Bile requested the persons near him 10 Watch MS
poor master while he ran to procure an equlpase
70 convey him home. On being observed 10
nass coach stand without stopping, the cheat
was detected but it was too late, Tor he contrlV-
ed TO get clear off with his booty.
They are digging in the Wall street church
yard probably to erect building IN Iront u
the sessions room, which may rent Tor ooo or
| 1000 dollars per annum, to accomplish WHICH,
thev have invaded tombs and sepulchres, ana
we saw dozen souls gathered together
and tossed in heap in one corner. we thought
we recognized the small well turned head OF a
| splendid girl, who we remember when youth,
as the admiration Of the pave in front of Trln-
tv Church, as she walked in beauty like the star
| nv night graceful and accomplished she was
the girl, of all others, who was the dazzling at
traction of the ball room, and happy was he
who could secure her hand for cotillion, or
4 encircle her slender waist in a waltz; many a
glass has been drained Of its ruby liquid to her
| health and happiness, and wherever she ap-
reared there was charm thrown around her
person, and the graces might have contended
with her for witching precedence.
| She was accustomed to attend divine service
in the church near which her remains are notno
permitted to repose in peace, and when the old
chime of Trinity bells proclaimed the hour OF
| PRAYER on the tranquil Sabbath, she was seen,
with meek and pious look, vending her way
down the aisle her mild blue eye piously and
| pensively cast down, with her white cambrlc
| handkerchief carefully enveloping the crimson
covered PRAYER book; and when choiristers lift
ed up their voices to the loud swell of the deep
toned organ her liquid notes floated through
the fretted vault above, and assembled like pure
incense to the throne of Grace.
She was intuitivey modest; and if by acct
dent any one took the freedom Of this ladys
chamber, and found even curl deranged, or
a bodice out of place. deeper than the fra
grant rose would her bushes speak her
| embarrassment; and yet, omnibus driver
with his sooty hands, his rude and vacant stare,
was twirng round that scull; thus sacreligious-
| y exposed to the gaze of the curious and prylng
world, and thrusting his dirty fingers in those
sockets which were the easement OF eyes that
| once beamed with goodness and love- Ianitas
pdnitdtum.
The cupdity of man is every where alike; the
!, auyi sacra flames embraces every object dead
or alive; and they who deposite the body in the
sepuchre under the prayer that it may repose
until the last trumpet shall sound, will sell the
! land and the sacred bones it contains, to erect
a building which shall yield ten per centum per
annum; and if the Spectator can count his
gains thereby, he will run street through the
middle of the church yard, though he scatter
the bones of all that was good and lovely on
earth, which may impede his passage, to the
right and left of him. Such violations OF the
grave among the Turks are punished with death
with us, who boast OF pufer Ialtn, we make
money out Of it.
How fortunate is it that Westminster Abbey
is not in the neighborhood of Wall street, or
within the reach of Corporation improvements:
The bones OF Addison, Gray, Parnel, Gold
smith. Johnson, Chatham, Canning, Nelson,
Abercrombie, Pitt, Fox, Burke and hundreds
of immortal spirits whose remains lie there,
quietly and triumphantly inurned, would be toss
ed in promiscuous heaps for every Longing va
gabond to kick over or picked up for phreno
logical virtuosi, to be scraped and cleaned,
and made decent for the purpose of adjoining
shelf in their study.-N Y. Star.
The Washington Globe says of the President,
"Having accomplished his great object" he will
calmly await the day, when his conduct will APP
pear to all his countrymen, as not only constitu-
tional and lawful, but wise and eXpedient."
This reminds us of story we have heard of
an lnkeeper in Hamburg, who was very desir-
Gus to procure custom for his house, and who
gave out that gentlemen making bets of dinners
could at once be furnished with them at his Ho
tel, and that he would calmly wait for payment
until the bet was decided. Two wags accord
ingly made a bet-one Of them asserting and
wagering dinner with the other, that Whenev-
er ST. Michaels church steeple should fall, ii
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