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SSSTb’ d*t from Washing-
V ’ t thirty witnesses had been examined
‘UrE hvtirds.and his own examination was
• Vlr o| , The u riter of a letter says :
f/a'm well informed that his appearance
‘ , havc excited commiseration, it a single
|JI ‘ nfe w ere known, connected with his
c “’ . to extenuate it. But what can be
■ .ht of this infatuated naan ?—He alleged
!i Stephenson, the Receiver, wrote to the
Vetnrv of the Treasury, a letter enclosing
nr it ward's) publication &e r l he provoca
„ given by Mr. Crawford is affected to lie in
leclaration that no such letter can be found
L files of the Department, and that no
, v appears to have been made to such a
/Edwards, on his recall, to divert the pub
mention, and to arrest the current of pub
"inion, throws into the press a copy of the
ical letter from the Receiver to the Secre
v opportunely obtained in the land office
Kdwardsville and fie assures the world he
! prove much more to the disadvantage of
Crawford than he had promised to do
II what now? Has he a certified copy of
fuhenson’s letter, taken from his officiaflet
book, with proof of the original having
written by Stephenson and transmitted ?
ihe has not : —Has he, then,the Secretary’s
,wer which addicted as he may be to sup
,s,ion, he, the Secretary could not suppress?
\ j. (lirll3 out that he —Edwards himself—
letter fur Stephenson, and tills boasted
nvis the copy of his own copy, in his own
nil-writing,—and he does not know whether
.phenson copied his letter and sent it or not.
t on his examination before the Committee
Congress in February, 1823—he Says —‘ I
tv him (Stephenson) write the letter and ert
isethe publication, and I have no doubt the
cretary received it.’ ”
“But one word more: Edwards,
his A. B. papers, and again in his
emorial, charges the Secretary of
e Treasury with a gross mismanage
ent of the public funds. To sub
antiate this charge, he has summoned
itnesses from far and near in great
umbers and at great expense. It
ow appears in evidence that, as re
ntly as about the 22d February last,
>declared to Gen. Noble, a Senator
otnlndiana, that he conceived Mr.
rawford to be an excellent and hon
able man, and one w ho had managed
le fiscal affairs of this nation, in times
B extreme difficulty, in the ablest
Banner and with the purest integrity.
Be dilates too, particularly, upon the
Blarged and just views of Mr. Craw-
B:. as manifested in the measures he
B’- Ue and to save the people of the wes-
B:n country from ruin, and upon the
Bnsequences which would have re-
Biteil from a different policy.
B Another letter says “ It is whisper
-81, indeed at Washington, that tlie
■resident hau declared his resolution,
Ik soon as the Committee should ad-
Ijcjrn, to give Edwards “ his choice, to
Bugn, or be turned nut. If this be
Bue,among other reports. I presume
Br. E. would find very little difficul-
Bin deciding “ which of the two to
Bouse.”
llThe last accounts from Mr. Craw-
BM,represent his health as so far im-
B' j ved, that he is free from disease,
Bd needs only time to regain his
Bength.
B Th <* following, we have been informed, are
particulars of the murder ot James Slone,
county, mentioned in our last It ep-
B’” ,0 have been one of the most delibe-
B r and chl blooded we ever heard of. Slone
B e ’ a young man, lately from North Carolina,
bore a goqd character. He had been hi-
Rav,(the murderer) to work on his
■station. About a week before the deed
committed Ray and Slone had a small
■fference ; at which time Ray cut n large
■>ck and told a neighbour lie intended to give
■icne a beating with it They were after
■ards apparently friendly. and on the 12th
worked together till dinner —after dinner
■av ordered Slone to leave him, to which he
■jplicd he had no objections, and started.—
B^ ll he got to the gate Ray called him back
B r ‘d commenced with liis club, and iiumedi-
B* e v beat him to death. Kav then mounted
■ahorse and rode olTand we believe has not
been iieard of.
A>U’ Hampshire. —There having
:cen no choice of Governor by the
Kople at the late election in New
ampshire, the choice has-been
tiade by the Legislature. Mr.
torrill was chosen bv a large ma
°nty, 7
’ P ur Pse of nominating a suitable
-411 ‘ y r President, the votes stood thus :
J-Q. Adams, ltil
” m. H. Crawford, t
Geti. Jackson, 1-
Ihe establishment of a floating
MM off the shoals of Cape Hatte
s' s a n object of great importance
t , 1 ., e ,ra tle between Savannah and
-astern States, and will add
of ti t 0 t l le terta *uty and security
rend’ navi S a ti° n . it has been id
y ® tat cd that the vessel is
a f r ,. ln her station, the bearings
Wy' 1 J iave ccn i iven * ihc
t */ ork P a pcrs state, that she is
tow*. ( a .' C Vess el of 350 tons, with
r ul cables and anchors, and
e.viuuits two ligtHs of twelve wicks
each, one elevated sixty feet, the
other forty’ feet above the water .
In foggy weather the bell will be
rung at intervals. Capt. Elliot of
the Navy, has gone out in her to
remain on board to experience a
heavy gale of wind, in order to test
her utility and safety. The next
vessel will be anchored off Cape
Romain. Georgian.
The Huntsville Bank, in the State
of Alabama, is to resume specie pay
ments on the 19th July, so far as to
redeem in specie one-habf of the
amount of notes which may b e pre
sented for payment, issuing new notes
payable on demand, (that is, as we un
derstand, whenever it shall be able to
redeem them.) It is said to be the in
tention of the Bank to surrender its
charter, and wind up its affairs.
By this measure, a large additional
amount of what have been termed un
available funds will be realized to the
government.
Ihe amount of claims, allowed as
valid bv the Board of Commissioners
under the Florida Treaty is 85,454,-
545 IS—only five millions were stip
ulated by the treaty, ami appropriated
by Congress, so that an abatement
ot 8 1-3 per cent, will reduce the
amount of each claim allowed to
891,G0, 1-3 in tlie 100 dollars. The
Board have recommended to the Sec
retary of State, to publish the list, and
it is probable he will do so.
The Spanish Claims.— The coarse
adopted by the Executive Depart
ments,in relation to the awards of the
Commissioners under the Florida
Treaty, has been more prompt than
we supposed the necessary arrange
ments for paying the claimants would
permit them to be. Ou receiving from
the Commissioners the list ol claims
allowed, the Secretary of State forth
with transmitted it to the Treasury
Department; and, as many of the
claimants were already present,in per
son or by attorney, funds were imme
diately placed, by that Department,
in the Branch Bank of this city, for
the payment of such of the claimants
as should apply for it; the conse
que ce of which was the payment
in the course of yesterday, of a large
amount of the ciiThns. The onl y de
lay which will now take place, in any
case, will be the shortest time requis
ite to ascertain whether the claimant
applying, is in any way indebted to the
government.
St. Charles, Missouri, May 13.
New Mexico. —We have been po
litely favored with the perusal of a let
ter from a gentleman in Franklin to
the Secretary of State in this place,
representing that the Governor ot the
Province of \ew Mexico had des
patched a special messenger to the
Council Bluffs,to apprize the comman
dant of that post lie should arrive
there on or before the 10th day of
June next, with fifteen hundred men.
“ His object, as we understand from
the express, is, to make an impress
ion on the Indians between this place
(Franklin) and Santa Fee, —to secure
the trade, and facilitate the inter
course between Missouri and Santa
Fee is of much importance to our citi
zens, ami we hope great care will be
taken to secure and place it on a safe
foundation. There is much wealth to
be drawn from this source, and perhaps
the wav may be opened for that lau
dable enterprise, which has been pre
vented from ascending the Missouri,
to draw from the bosom ol the wilder
derness an immense wealth which
must now be left to perish where it
grows, <■! l>e gathered by the citizens
of some other government,to the great
loss of Missouri.
Burlington , Vt. June 4.
In our paper of last week, we
mentioned the destruction of the
college. In the evening of the same
day, the house in which President
Haskell resided, was discovered to
be ©n fire, but it was soon extin
guished. It was again on fire the
next morning, as we stated last
week in some of the last impres
sions of our paper, ihe fire took
in the wood house, adjoining the
kitchen. It was got Udder with
some difficulty, ihe wood house
was wholly destroyed, and the
house so much injured that the fa
mily were compelled to leave it.—
Mr! Haskell’s family returned to
his own house in the lower part of
the town. Saturday evening afire
was discovered in the end of the
wood house, but was soon pftt out.
On Sunday, during service, the
roof of the house was discovered to
be on fire, but was extinguished
immediately. These repeated .ires
excited great anxiety, and, on a vi
gilant search, it was pretty well as
certained that they were coinmum-
cated by a servant girl. She was
apprehended, and we understand
has confessed the fact.
As we suggested in our paper of
last week, the Corporation of the
University met on Tuesday last,
and, we are informed, voted unan
imously to rebuild the college.—
The scholars have already been ac
commodated with rooms for study,
and a large and commodious buil
ding procured for the use of the
library, and attending prayers.—
The exercises are continued as
usual, and every thing has the ap
pearance of going on prosperously.
Extract of a letter to a gentleman in
Philadelphia, dated Paris,Jlpril 27.
Gen. Lafayette has concluded to j
go to the United States. The old !
gentleman says he is at a loss to ex-’
press his feelings upon the occasion.}
lie, however, declines the honor of
going in a national ship, and will take 1
passage in one of the llavie P ackets.}
He is not certain what time lie will
embark, but I think some time in June
op July.”
UF.UT. KEiNNON’S TRIAL.
We have received from a friend at
Washington a Copy of the Secretary’s
Report of the Proceedings of the Court
Martial at Norfolk. It fills a pamph
let of 147 pages. It sets out with a
correspondence between Mr. Steven
son, and the Secretary—the former
cuquiring whether the proceedings ol
the trial Were to be published; and
the latter assigning his reasons for de
clining the publication. Among oth
ers, he savs: “ Should the Department
publish the proceedings of the court
martial, Ihey will be calculated to con
tinue a state of things in no way ser
viceable to Lieut. Kennon, Com. Por
ter, or the navy generally ; but would
probably produce discussions, excite
feelings, and create controversies,
alike injurious to all. There are mat
ters in the defence calculated to en
croach .strongly on discipline and good
order. ‘I fv peace of the service de
mands that tiie matter rest as it is, so
far, at least, as this Department is con
cerned.”
On Mr. Alexander’s motion, howe
ver, the House of Representatives call
ed for the trial, and it is accordingly
published.
The evidence occupies a considera
ble space. The most interesting wit
ness, of course, is Commodote Porter
himself. No ingenuity of the Prison
er’s Counsel, (Gen. Taylor) could ex
tract from him the confession that lie
was the author of the attack upon
Lieutenant Kennon in the Savannah
Georgian :
“ Question. —Were you the author
of that publication, or was it publish
ed bv your request, orby your direc
tions ?
Jlnswer. —I know the author: I ful
ly concur with him in opinion, and am
prepared to substantiate all the facts
contained in that publication. I de
cline anv further answer.
Question. —Is there any “ mysteri
ous piliev in keeping back the name
of the author,” w hich induces you to
keep back the name of the author, or
whv do you decline naming the au
thor ?
Jlnswer. —I decline answering the
question on tlie ground that I avail
myself of the warning I have received
from the judge advocate.”
Various allusions were afterwards
made to the same subject —various at
tempts by the Prisoner’s counsel, to
worm out the confession from the
Commodore —but he was met by the
same obstinate but expressive si
lence.
The Defence is a bold and masterly
one. Gen. T. arraigns the conduct of
Commodore Porter, and asserts the
right of Lieut. Kennon to defend him
self in the public prints againsl his
anonymous accuse.r He asks what has
the discipline of the navy to say to a
matter altogether personal in its ori
gin ; and what justice there would be
in punishing “ the inferior for not hav
ing respected the character and rank
of a superior, which had lurked under
the disguise, and behind the mask of an
anonymous libeller.
“ This, (says he) is the case, as the
world will understand it And what
does the good of the service, and the
discipline of the Navy demand ? It
is on this matter I presume to speak.
In what consists the discipline, so
much talked of, but so little defined ?
Does it require of the inferior unhesi
tating obedience, absolute submission,
uncomplaining acquiescence, entire
deference to his superior on all mat
ters, in all situations whatever, in all
the relations of life, whether connect
ed with the service or not? Does it
confer on the superior unrestrained
authority ; absolve him from all duties,
make his will, his caprice, his passions
the rule of his own guidance, and the
laws for the observance of his inferiors
in all matters and under all circum
stances whatever ?
If this be discipline, it is certainly
but a vulgar acquisition, requiring noj
high excellency to attain it. It needs
only brutal passions in the superior,
and passiveness, more than brutal, in
the inferior.
If this be discipline, then I am a
stranger to it. I see in it absolute
despotism on one side, abject slavery
on the other; b’ut I see nothing more.
Perish the navy, before this becomes
the relation between superior and sub
ordinate !”
The Court acquit the accused of all
the specifications alleged against him
—yet thev “ express their decided dis
approbation of those parts of the de
fence,where the accused labors to point
out to the court the discipline of the
navy as it is, and as it should be,’’and
particularly of “ certain passages,
| which they designate in their opinion
—declaring that they cannot, by their
1 silence, give sanction to sentiments,
which, though clothed in the mantle
of defence, are calculated to diffuse
1 principles of insubordination in the
! navy!”—The world will not re-echo
this sentiment. F’venin the Navy an
inferior has his rights—particularly
when his superior chooses to throw oft’
his rank or to forget his obligations.
Richmond Enquirer.
The Gen. Santander. —A memori
; al has been forwarded to the President
| of the United States by the several in
surance Companies in New-York, on
j the subject of the late captures by the
General “Santander which is repre
sented to be ow ned and fitted out at
a port of the United States, and man
ned principally by American citizens.
About 5570,000 of Spanish property
on board tle captured vessels has been
i insured in New-York; and the me
morialists recommended to the Pres
ident to despatch a vessel to the Col
ombian government to demand resto
ration of the property detained.
Orders have been received at
the Navy Yard at Gosport, Virgin
ia, to fit out the North Carolina 74.
It is understood that she is to be
got ready for sea in ninety days.
TOBACC9. —From 4 Boon’s Lick,’
300 miles up the Missouri, 38 hogs
heads of prime tobacco were lately
sem to and sold in New-York at a
high price on account of its excel
lent quality. Avery few years ago
the territory which produced this
article was wilderness.—This is a
fine Country for hemp.
The last Arkansas paper, 20th of
April, states that the troops have been
removed from Fort Smith to the mouth
of Verdigris, where anew post is to be
established forthwith.
The same paper gives an account of
the death of Mr. Nathaniel Philbrook,
sub-agent to the Osages. Mr. P. was
drowned in attempting to cross Grand
river. It is supposed that had lie suc
ceeded in getting to the nation, the
Osage murderers would have been de
livered to him—a great majority of the
nation being friendly to the United
6’tates.
We learn further from Arkansas,
that the citizens, on the upper White
river, are very seriously alarmed at
the deportment, of the Indians in that
quarter—these are the Sliawnees, Del
awares, and other Indians, who have
been removed to that section of the
Territory within the last two or three
yt*irs. The old Chiefs have warned
the whites—that their young men can
not be restrained—and that they fear
they will proceed to the worst extre
mities. There are no troops in that
quarter —and the settlers will have to
defend themselves—we fear, against
fearful odds. —Mobile Merc. Adv.
Extract of a letter from Capt. \Vm.
Carter commanding the U. S. sloop
of war Peacock, dated “At Sea,
long. 3, N. lat. 29, VV. 23d April
1824.”
“ 1 have the honor to infoi m you
that we have progressed thus far,
all well, with the exception of hav
ing been struck, after being out a
few days, by lightning —both the
fore and mainmast were stricken at
the same time, and four men kil
led—several, who were severely
burned, are doing well.”
The resolution directing the
choice of Electors of President and
Vice President, by a general ticket
has been passed by the Legislature
of Massachusetts, and signed by
the Governor. In the Senate,
there were eightecu yeas, and se
venteen nays.
It is rumored in Canada, that the
British ministry propose to form a
Union of all the British Provinces
in N. America, and to place at their
head a Royal Duke, as Vice Roy.
A Quebeck paper say*—'“ We do
not know what a want of informa
tion may lead ministers to adopt.
| There is only’ ont thin# of fvhicn
we are eeriain, viz : that no change
of the existing Constitutions of the
Canadas can be* made which will
either answer the views of the pro
moters of these changes, or be sat
isfactory to the great majority of
the people of both Provinces.”
A suit has been brought at Al
exandria, before the Circuit Court
of the United States, by the hol
der of the ticket, for the 8100,000
prize which was drawn in the
Washington Canal Lottery, against
the corporation of Washington, the
vender of the ticket having failed
to pay the money. It is said that
a number of the most eminent law
yers in the nation, have been enga
ged by the parties.
Baltimore Shot. —The Baltimore
Shot Tower, which was lately inju
red by fire, is again in full opera
tion. A ton of shot is manufac
tured in an hour.
It would astonish the reader,
could he examine the records of
our bordering settlements, and
mark the progress of improvement
and civilization which has taken
place since the declaration of inde
pendence. What may yet be ex
pected at no distant period, may
easily be imagined from what has
been witnessed within the last 20
years. On the 9th of December,
1799, William H. Harrison presen
ted his credentials as a delegate
from the Northwestern Territory.
That “ territory” is now divided
Into the states of Ohio, Indiana,and
Illinois, and the territory of Mich
igan, and there is a vast tract of
land nortlv-west or north of those
states, out of which other states
will be formed in a few years ; and
the present population of the dis
trict then represented by Mr. Har
rison as a delegate, is about one
million, and sends eighteen mem
bers and one delegate to the House
of Representatives of the United
States.— Even. Gaz.
DIED—In this town, on the 28th inst Mr.
Samuel Knapp. aved about 21 years. He was
on his way from Mobile to Connecticut, (his
native state) anil was taken sick immediately
on arriving here, and survived but six days.
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold at the Market-
House in the town of Louisville,
on the first Tuesday in September
next, Lot No. 209 in the 15th district
(old) Wilkinson county, containing
20acres of land ; il being the real
estate of John Patridge, late of Jeffer
son county, deceased, and to be sold
for the benefit of the heirs and credit
ors of said dec’d.
JAMES T. HUDSON, Adm'r.
June 30, 1820. tdsls
SVenfTs Sale.
WILL e sold, on the first Tues
day in September next, at the
Court-House in the town ot Macon,
between the usual hours of sale, the
following property, viz:
One negro girl named Charity, one
set Mahogany Dining Tables, 1 set
Mahogany Tea ‘fables, 1 Mahogany
Side Board, levied on as the property
of William Bivins, to satisfy an exe
cution issuing on the foreclosure of a
mortgage in favor of Shadrach Bivins.
Terms of Sale— Cash.
JON A. A. HUDSON, Shf.
June 30, 1823. 15
GEORGIA—EARLY COUNTY.
ta HKREAS Jeremiah Fowler ap-
T ▼ plies to me for letters of admin
istration on the estate of Laden Smith,
late of said county, deceased.
Th'eseare, therefore, to cite and ad
monish all, and singular the kindred
and creditors of said deceased, to be
and appear at my office within the
time prescribed by law, to shew cause
(if any) why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand this 22d day
of June, 1824.
N. McBRYDE, c. c. o.
30d15
GEORGIA—EARLY COUNTY.
WHEREAS A. J. E. A. Jackson,
applies to me for letters of ad
ministration on the estate of Samuel
C B. Jackson, late o.fsaiil county, de
ceased.
These are therefore, to cite and
admonish all, and singular the kin
dred and creditors of said deceased
to be and appear at my office, with
in the time prescribed by law, to
shew cause, if any, why said letters
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this 22d
day of June, 1824.
’ N. McBRYDE, c. c.o.
30d15