Phenix Gazette

The Secretary of the Navy has left this City on a visit to North Carolina, his native State.—It is believed that there remains now not one of the Heads of Department at the Seat of Government.

We do not complain of the absence of the President and all his Cabinet, though so general an absence of the high officers of the Government is unusual, if not unprecedented. We know that occasional absences are unavoidable and justifiable. But we feel for the distress which this aberration must cause to the Editor of the Richmond Enquirer, its New York coadjutor, and others of the same family, who uttered such bitter denunciations a year or two ago whenever the President, or one of his Secretaries, found it necessary to visit his domicile to look into his private affairs. If we remember right, one of these Editors carried his patriotic indignation to such an extreme, as to offer a reward for the apprehension of the fugitive, when President Adams, after the decease of his father, retired for a few weeks to the shades of Quincy: and no member of the Cabinet was allowed to leave this city for a day, even to visit his sick family, without a hue and cry being raised upon his trail.—Nat. Int.