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ciation was such a* not to be easily effaced from
I my memory. You bugau by expressing the
*m, respectfully, your obedientservant.
JOHN MACPllERSON BERRIEN.
To J. II. Eaton Esq.
Monday Morning, 8 o'clock, hHcrfMenco. “ You.toldus that
Sm-I have received your note of the 13th . J,,, ll .,j beeu m , lde U|)on the mind of
nsiunt. It i»! " - ...
offer somethin:
I £ ienilly regard which you felt for those gentle-
1 men and myself, and by stating that this was the
ltn.ay become necessary for mo to K H combination existed be-
cthing in reply, lor the present I ; , we0|| MeJslft and Branch, and my-
erigageinems winch prevent me Iron d<>- | M |,- «dudo Mrs. Eaton fr
ore than to acknowledge that it has «««" < \V«*liinguirs—ihat he was «>
I prosentaiion
have
ng more
received.
Very respectfully,
Mr. Berrien.
23.li June, 1831.
from the society Ol
mind, that the distussion would take such a
range as to iuvolvo all the parties to that trans
action in the necessity of making explanations,
I Imd commenced tho preparation of copies of
a statement of the conversation which you have
referred to, ns well as that between you and
mu, ns that between General Jackson aud my
self on tho same subject, intending, as soon as
tliev could be completed, to send one to him
J. H. EATON.
June 2~tl, ISdl.
Sir—I have not Imd leisure to reply to your j termination would be announced to us in lit
..xcitud by this re- {and another to yourself,
onsidcri.ig it an attempt to wound j Upon the receipt of your letter, I imme-
..iiu through Major Eaton—that the President j diulely wrote you a note, expressing uu imen-
h.,d seen with pain the want of harmony a- j timt to wait for the further comparison of our
mong the members of bis Cabinet—that liu was ' recollections before 1 made any duterminatiou
determined lo have harmony, ami that Ids de- as to the disposition ot my statement. But
announced lo us io the : two articles in the Globe of the lllll insl.
You added that you had ; which you have no doubt seen, reached me
letter of the lSili until today. Ii involved course of the week. . ^
inniter which it beiioted me to give a lull and 1 in the mean time sought this interview with the before my letter was mailed, and arrested us
culm consideration to. That has been giv- approbate: it of ilie Piesident, from motives of, progress. These articles, as far as they relate
«.|t, j regard for all parlies. You mentioned, as eir- j lo this subject, bear on their face the evidence
I felt indisposed !o believe that these attacks ! cumstnnees which had contributed to produce ; of having been authorized by Goncral Jackson
of General Green could bo authorized by you, {.this impression cn the oiind of the President, and yourself, and leave me no choice as to the
or .were made under your sanction. Your de- i that Messrs. Brunch, and Ingham, and myself, 1 publication of my statement,
duration is evidence of the correctness of j had successively given large parlies to which i The article which I supposed to have been
l take oc- 1 Mrs. Eaton had not been invited—and while I authorized by yoo, shows that you have also
what ( was before impressed with . . . _
elision, therefore, with pleasure to acknotv- you disclaimed any disposition on bis part to ! taken a different view of this matter since your
1 edge the frankness with which you have disa- require an intimacy between our families and j letter lo me bel'ote referred to was written
vowed ail agency in this nefarious business. I-i. — .i—. , ,J 1 •— -»■■>
Respectfully, vour most obedient,
J.M. Berrien. ' J. II. EATON.
that of Major Eaton, you added, that he would j could not otherwise icconcilc your remon-
1 in future expect that at least on such occasions ' strance against a publication of what you then
| as that to which you had referred, (that is to ! deemed a confidential conversation, with the
j say, when large or general parlies weie given,) j authority alleged by tho Globe to publish denial
u ! that Mrs. Eaton should he invited. 1 replied j of tho statement alluded to; at least without a
“ ! to you that not having been previously advised ! previous interchange of recollections between
Washington, Mil June, 1831.
Sir - —Your note of yesterday was received
in the course of the day. I was too much in-, . . . , , ,. •. .• - , , , _ .
disposed, however, to reply to i. at tho ,„ 0 . | of the intention to bold tins u.lerviow-liavmg all the par .es concerned. I do not however
mum, and do so now merely to prevent mis- | l,ad " 0 coi.lerc.ice will, .he other gentlemen, l , concur wt It you in the opinion t hat hero ever
* , * • i nmcl l\u Oiiiieiiiiii'i, /1 ei.l/ilc niaiinriailila liir it'lnt t tl'uc >mtr nltllit'lf lltll ftl cfiPl'PiJU linttllCilfl (111 fll f*. flP
conception.
In your note of. the 17th Inst you
culled
must be considerod solely responsible for wliat j was any obligation ofsecresy imposed on mo, or
I ilicti observed that I \ those associated with me, to be implied from tho
I was about to say.
upon me to lauclioi. or disavow llie sto/mr/^ ! W0,,M ,,ot P 0 ""'* i'*o President or any other j friendly character of the conversation referred
* - * - *• -I mint In ramifnln ilia «a<iiii1 mlaciMiiiMii nl ni(r«iH | |j) § Til© COlWilUniCUtlOn made tO I11C Oy ^OU
timt my continuance in office would depend
upon the consent of my family to visit Mrs.
Eaton, and invito her to their large parties, I
considered at tho time, though not so intended
by you, as in its nature offensive. It could not,
therefore, carry with it the confidential obliga
tion which belongs to the usual intercourse of
frendsiiip. I regarded the proposition as
wounding my feelings, and had determined to
resign my office, even after you informed that
Gen. Jackson had changed his ground from
which I was only dissuaded by the earnest re
monstrances of the friends I consulted, who ur
ged, among other considerations, that although
my personal respect for the President might be
tore in this niatier. The replies of the other j impaired, my services in the Department were
gentlemen were, according io my recollection, j for tlto country, and while it was faithfully
substantially the same—but I shall enclose co-I preserved,*! could not be unfaithful to the
pies of your letter to them and leave them to j Administration.
mu tier. To do this was the only object of that
note.
You are quite right, however, in believing
timt 1 imd no agency in procuring the publica
tion ol the statement referred to. And advert
ing to the spirit of your last note, 1 have no
hesitation in thus confirming tho conviction
which yon have expiessed.
I am, respectfully,
JN. MACPllERSON BERRIEN.
To J. If. Eaton Esq.
Colonel It. 31. Johnson to Messrs. Berrien
ami Ingham.
Great Crossing, 30th June, 1831.
Gentlemen—The Telegraph has alluded speak for themselves,
to some communication made to you by a
member of Congress, authorized by tho Pros!-
’ diiii;—the substance of which is, that the Presi
dent wished to coerce a social intercourse be
tween your families and Mrs. Eaton. I see
the Globe denies it. I have thought it barely
possible that the allusion could be made to me,
because if I had ever communicated such an
idea, 1 should imvo done the most palpable,
gross and wanton injustice to the President;
lor he disclaimed on nil occasions, any right or
desire or inicmion to regulate the private or
social intercourse of his Cabinet. Ttie Pre
sident had been induced to believe that a part
of his Cnbinc; had entered into a deep laid
scheme to drive Major Eaton from tho Cabi
net, and of this he complained. I did* not be
lieve it, and, as the mutual friend of all con
cerned, Iproposal that I should have the op
portunity to converse with that portion of his
Cabinet hcfi.ru lie had an interview with
them, and lie acquiesced; and the interview
which I hud with you resulted, as I understood,
in a belter understanding, and in fact I consid
ered it a reconciliation. Whatever came from
me, upon the subject of a social intercourse,
was the suggestion of my solicitude to restore
harmony among friends. My object was
peace and friendship. I havo never consid
ered myseff at liberty to say any thing about
this interview except to a discreet and confi
dential friend. I certainly should not think
any of the parties justified in representing for
publication or nowspapers, what any of tho oili
er parties said, without submitting, such state
ments far mutual examination; for the plain rea
son that such conversations are so easily mis
understood. I may well remember wliat I
have said myself, but mny not so easily repre
sent what you have said, or intended to say.
I have not myself soen the necessity or pro
priety of any allusion in-nowspapers to our in
terview, which was among intimate and bosom
friends, where the conversation was free and
unreserved, and for the object of pcaco and
friendship. But if any should consider it ne
cessary, then the groat objoct should be, to state
tho conversation correctly; for thcro can bo no
motive to misunderstand the facts. For fear
that allusion should have boon made to myself,
as the membet of Congress, and believing it
barely possible that I may have been misun-
dertood on the particular point alluded to, I
Iiavo felt it my duty, and due to that perfoct
friendship which lias ever existed between us,
to make known these views, that tho proper
correction may be made ns a misunderstanding,
without the necessity of any furmul publication
from cither of us, and without even a disclosure
ns to what member of Congress allusion was
made.
Sincerely and truly your friond.
RICHARD JM. JOHNSON.
Messrs Ingham and Berrien
MR BERRIEN TO COL. JOHNSON.
Washington, 7th July, 1831.
Dear Sir—Yours ot tho 30ih ult: addressed
jointly to Mr. Ingham and myself has been du
ly received. I have noted your view of tho
occorrenco td which it refers, with a perfect
disposition tn meet you in the spirit of frank
ness aud of good feeling, which is expressed
. in your letter. It is an cvideuco of my reluc
tance to engage in controversy, that I have ab
stained from going before the public, notwith
standing the multiplied misrepresentations with
which tho newspapors are teeming. I still de-
siroto avoid this necessity—but as circumstan
ces beyond my control may render it indispen
sable, I acquiesce with tho less reluctance, in
the interchange of recollections which you pro
pose.
I am tn speak of what occurred at the inter
view which took place between you, Messrs,
Brandt and.Ingham, and myself, at my house.
You had, as I afterwards understood, held pre
vious conversations on tho same subject with
one or both ot these gentlemen, but 1 was per
fectly unprepared for the .interview, until the
moment when you announced its object at my
house. The impression made by your ffnnun-
tu me in wliat terms it was conveyed, provided
the substance was retained—but that from this
I would not depart. J understood you to dis
claim any intention on tho part of the Presi
dent to require an intimate intercourse between
the families of Messrs. Branch, and Ingiiam,
and myself, und that of Major Eaton, but to
express with equal clearness his expectation
that when we gave large or general parties,
Mrs. Eaton should be invited—and it was my
purpose to deny altogether his right to inter
his wife, and to inculcate the same course as to
my family, and if any other representations had
been made to the President they were false.—
Having prescribed to myself this rule, and al
ways acted upon it, I had done all that tho
President had a right to expect. That the so
ciety of Washington was liberally organized,
there was hut one circle, into which every per-
son of respectable character disposed to be so- alone
cial was readily admitted, without reference to ' '
the circumstances of birth, fortune, or station,
which operated in many other places. That
we had no right to exert official power to re
gulate its social intercourse. That Mrs .Eaton
had never been received by the society hero,
and it did not become us to force her upon it;
that my family had therefore not associated
with her, nnd they had done so with my appro
bation, and that the President ought not, for
the sake of his own character, to interfere in
such matters. But if lie etiose te exert his pow
er to forco my family to visit any body they did
not choose to visit; he was interfering with that
which belonged to me, and no human power
should regulate the social intercourse uf my
family, by means of official or any other power
which I could resist. If I could submit to such
control I should be unworthy of my station, and
would despise myself.
That it was eminently due to the character
of the President to have it known that he did
not interfere in such matter j, and that the course
we had pursued was preservative of liis honor
and political standing. I had taken my ground
on mature reflection, as to wliat was due to my
family, to my friends, and to the Administra
tion, without any prcjudico against Major Ea
ton or his wife, and had fully determined not
to change it, whatever might be the conse
quence.
Colonel Johnson said that lie had been re? est degree by a feeling of that nature.'
quested by tiie Presideunt to have a converse- I saw no ground. thernfb™
ha wax resolved to have Tiarmonv •
net, and ho wished us to join 4
the slanders nguinSt Mrs. Eaton i
to the President that I bad neve
it incumbent on me to investieail .l** 1
of Mrs. Eaton; such a .ervice d >J»
judgment, come within the sconsTi
to the Government; it bcloniTj ,*!
alone to determine such matters <wl
of the administration could not l
opinion of the community, even if,
properly used to control the relatinn.
tic life in any case. The society
ton must be the best judges of whom i, J
receive. I regretted the difficult
Major Eaton lahured under, and i,
he my duty not to aggravate th cm ,1
tended at an early day to have had' 1
sation with him on tiie subject, with j
have our social relation defined, b U t„
•unity had offered, without vuluntee,
nnd it had not been done in that» ■
course I had taken was, however JSl
great care to save his feelings as iJj
hie, consistently with wliat was
my family, and the communiiy J.il
we were associated. I considered,! 1 1
A proposition tints disposed of could be ro-
Tho impression which this conversation I gnnled as any thing rather than imposing an
made upon my mind is clear nnd distinct; and it I obligation of friendly confidence. Bui I find an
is not probable that it could have been effaced ! additional reason for publication growing out of
from my memory. My own disposition was j yotir letter; its apparent disagreement front my
instantly to resign my office. In consenting to | statement, and its admonitory suggestions could
retain it, I yielded to tho opinions of those in j not fail, whenever tiie whole matter shall be
whoso judgment I had confidence, and tn my
sense of what was due to the interests of Geoi-
giu, at that particular juncture.
My remcmbcrauce of this conversation is
moreover confirmed by a recollection of wliat
occurred on my subsequent interview with the
President, in which a particular reference was
made to it. When lip spoke ofa combination
between Messrs. Ingham, and Branch, and
myself, to exclude Mrs. Eaton from society, I
claimed, os matter of right tn know tho names
of (lie persons by whom such a representation
had been made. He said the impression had
been derived from the various rumors which
had reached him; spoke of the parlies which
hud been given by those gentlemon and myself,
to which Mrs. Eaton had not been invited—
brougiit out, which is inevitable in tho presout
state of tho public mind, to expose me to the
imputation of having shrunk from doing what
duty to my own character, if not to the country,
seemed io demand. I cannot therefore accord
in your desire that no publication shall be
made, any more than I can in the views of tho
obligation ofsecresy which you havo suggested.
I would prefer however, to accompany the
publication with that of your letter of tho 20th
ultimo, but not having received any intimation
of your wishes on that subject, it will require
sorno deliberation to determino what is most
proper to bo done in this particular. I can
assure you that this determination will he
exclusively governed by a desire to do wliat,
under all circumstances, may appear most likely
of my family to ho a sacred trust, beU
clusively to myself, as a member 0 f*_
The administration had nothing t 0 (j.I
more than witli that of any oilier yl
and political power could not bo p ro .,1
cried over their social intercourse ,Ml
important to his reputation to have j.r
stood that he did not interfere in such J
That I was not aware of any want oft,
in the cabinet; I had not seen the i
symptom of such a feeling in its delil*
and I was perfectly certain that m
duct had never been influenced in tbj
muw mwi uvv.ii iiiimuu . uiiiivs uu vis vuiiieiuiit.co| iihsj ii|i|ivui ssivas imuij
and added that the reports against her were ! to meet your own wishes. 1 have now only to
foul calumnies. I remonstrated against his
having adopted an opinion dishonorable to any
member of his Cabinet on a mere rumor, hut
expressly declined to discuss the question of
tho truth or fulsohood of the reports to which
he imd referred—telling him, that, without un-
dettaking to decide whether they were true or
false, it wus my purposo merely to conform to
tho gonerul sense of tho community of which I
Imd become a member; and that I could not be
induced to cliango that determination. The
decision of the President not to pursue this
matter furthor, I understood at tho timo to
havo been produced by the.represcntn'ions of
some of his most intimate personal friends.
Such is my understanding of tho conversa
tion referred to in your letter. I look to it as
tho origin and continuing cause of tho distraction
of tho party, which has thus lost the means of
doing much good which it might have effected.
But I am not desirous tn bruit it to the world.
If, without imputing to me tho allogcd want of
harmony in the Cabinet, my retirement is pla
ced on tho ground of the President’s mere will,
so far as I am concerned, it is well. I do not
dispute his right to cxerciso that as ho thinks
Gl; but, for tho sake of my children, I will not
submit to tho continued misrepresentations of
tho public journals. Tho best legacy I iiavo to
bequeath them is tho untnrnishcd reputation of
their father, i can easily conceive, also, that
a state of things may exist, in which a sense of
duty to the public will compel me to speak.—
But I hope such an emergency will not arise.
I ought perhaps to add, that I have already
stated to Major Eaton the substance of this, so
far as it was necessary to answer a call which
ho made upon mo to uvow or disavow tho state
ment in the Telegraph, that my family had re
fused to associate with his. It was uot noces-
sary, however, to mention your name, and it
was consequently not mentioned. 1 spoko of
the interview as having been had with "a gen
tleman who represented himself as actiug, and
who I doubt nnt did net undor tho authority of
tho President.” Having now replied to your
letter, I will only add, that, should our recollec
tions differ, I shall regret it. But that I have
taken great care not to put down any thing
which is not distinctly impressed upon mine. .
1 am, dear sir, respectfully yours,
JOHN MACPllERSON BERRIEN.
Hon. It. M. Johnson.
MR. INGHAM TO COL. JOHNSON.
New Hope, July 13, 1831.
Dear Sir—1 havo receivod u copy ofyour
letter of tho 30lh ult. to Mr Berrien and my
self, forwarded by him from Washington, re
lating to an allegation made in the newspapers,
that General Jackson had required,' through a
member of Congress, oi Messrs. Branch, Ber
rien, and myself, thut our families should asso
ciate with Mrs. Eaton. I had also noticed thu
publication in tho Telegraph to which you rc-,
ter, and another of the same import in a New ] uuy tiling to aggravate tho difficulties which
York paper _ of on earlier date, nnd supposing Jic labored under, Lut to observo total silcnco
it probable, io the existing state of tho public and neutrality in relation to tho reports about
add that in making tho statements of these con
versations, I have relied not merely on tho
indelible impressions made on my memory,
but on memoranda put on paper at the time.
I have not tho slightest recollection or any
note of your having adverted to any fact or
circumstance alleged by General Jackson or
yourself, as evidence of unkind feeling for,
much less hostility to, or n conspiracy against
Major Eaton on the part of Mr. Branch, Mr.
Berrien, or myself, or of any want of harmony
in the Cabinet other than the simple and isolat
ed fact, that our families did not visit Mrs.
Enton and invito her to' their parties. Nor
have I any noto or recollection of any pro
position made by you to mo individually, or
jointly with tho oilier gentlemen, as a moans
of removing tho alleged difficulties, other than
that our families should visit Mrs. Eaton,
nnd invito her to their large parties. I cannot
but persuado myself titat my statement will call
to mind matters which mny havo escaped your
recollection, and satisfy your judgment that,
whatever may havo been tho nature of your
instructions,*! could not have understood them
differently from what 1 Iiavo.
I havo tho honor to bo, very respectfully,
yourob’t serv’t, S. D. INGIIAM.
Hon. Richard 31. Johnson.
Mr. Ingham's Statement, a copy of which was
enclosed in his tetter to Col Johnson.
On Wcduesday, ‘.he 27tli of January, 1831,
Col. Johuson of Kentucky, waited on me in
tho Treasury Department, and after some
preliminary conversation, in which he expressed
his great regret that my family, and that of
Mr. Branch and Mr. Borricn, did not visit
Mrs. Eaton, ho said that it had been a subject
of great excilcment with tho President, who
had come to tho determination of having har
mony in his Cabinet by some accommodation of
this matter. He, Col. Johnson, was the friond of
us all, and had now conte at tho request of tho
President to -see whethor any thing could bo
doue: who thought that witen our ladies gave
parties they ought to invite Mrs. Eaton, and as
they had never returned her call, if they would
leave tho first card, and open a formal inter
course in that way, that tho President would be
satisfied, but unless something was dene of this
nature, ho had no doubt, indeod he knew, that
the President was resolved to have harmony,
and would probably remove Mr. Branch, Mr.
Berrien, and myself. 1 replied to Col. John
son, that in all matters of official business, or
having any connexion therewith, I considered
myself bound to maintain an open, frank, and
harmonious intercourse with tho gentlemen I
was associated with. That tho President had
aright to oxpcct tho exertion of my best
faculties, and the employment of my time, in
tho public service. As to tho famliy of Mr.
Eaton, I felt an obligation on mo not to say
tion with the Secretary of the Navy and tho
Attorney General also; but, from what I Imd
said, he supposed it would be of no avail. The
P resident iiad expressed a hope timt our fami
lies would havo been willing to invite Mrs.
Eaton to their large parties, to give the appear
ance of an ostensible intercourse, adding that
he was so much excited that he was like a roar
ing lion. He Imd heard that tho lady of a for
eign minister imd joined in tiie conspiracy a-
gainst Mrs. Eaton, and lie Imd sworn that he
would send her and her husband home, if he
could not put an end to such doings. I replied,
timt it could hardly ho possible that the Presi
dent contemplated such a step. Colonel John
son replied, that lie certainly did; and again re- !
marked that it seemed to be useless for him to
see Mr. Branch and Mr. Berrien. I told him
that each of us had taken our course, upon our
own views of propriety, without coucert; and
that lie ought not to consider me as answering
for any but myself. He then proposed that 1
should meet him at Mr. Brandi’s, and invite
Mr. Berrien, that evening at 7 o’clock; which
was agreed to. Colonel Johnson came to my
house about 6, and we wont up'to Mr. Berri
en’s, having first sent for Mr. Branch. On our
way to Mr. Berrien’3, Colonel Johnson re
marked that the President had informed him
that he would invite Mr. Branch, Mr. Berrien,
nnd myself, to meet him on the next Friday,
when ho would inform us, in tho presence of
Dr. Ely, of his determination; und if we did not
agree to comply with his wishes, ho would ex
pect us to send in our resignations. Upon our
arrival at Mr. Berrien’s, Colonel Johnson re
newed tho subject in the presence of him and
Govornor Branch, nnd ropeatod substantially,
though, I tiiought, rather more qualifiedly, whit
he imd said to me. lie did not go so much in
to detail, nor do I recollect whether he men
tioned the President’s remarks as to the lady a-
bovemontioned and Dr. Ely—those gentlemen
will better recollect. Mr. Branch and Mr. Ber
rien replied, as unequivocally as I Imd done,
that they would never consent to have the so
cial relations of their families controlled by any
power whatever but their own. Mr. Branch,
Mr. Berrien, and myself, went the same eve
ning to n party at Colonel Tnwsnn’s, where a
report was current thut wo were to bo removed
forthwith, of which I had no doubt at the timo.
The next morning, Col. J. cam6 to my
house, and said that he ought perhaps to have
been more frank last evening, and told us posi
tively that the President had finally determin
ed on our removal from office, unless we u-
greed at onco thut our families should visit
Mrs. Eaton, and invite her to their largo par
ties, and that ho had made up his mind to de
signate Mr. Dickens, to take charge of tho
Treasury Department, and Mr. Kendall to
take clmrgo of tho Navy Department, and
would find an Attorney General somewhere.
I observed that my course was fixed, and
could not bo changed for all the offices in tho
President’s gift, and it made no more differ
ence to me than to any other person whom the
President designated to take my place. In
the evening of tho same day, Col. J. called
again and informed mo that lie had just been
.with the President, who had drawn up a paper
explanatory of what he intended und expected
of us; that some of his Tennessee friends Imd
been with him for several hours: that his
passion Imd subsided, nnd ho had entirely
changed his ground: He would not insist cn
our families visiting Mrs. Eatou; he only wish
ed us to assist in putting down the slanders a-
gainst her; that he believed her innocent, and
he thought otir families ought to do what they
could to sustain her, if thoy could not visit
Iter; ond that ho wished to sec mo tho next
day.
Col. J. added that tbo President had been
exceedingly excited for several days, but was
now perfectly calm and mild. The next day
I waited on the President, and opened tho
subject by stating that Col. Johnson had in
formed me that ho wished to sec me; to which
ho assented,. and went into a long argument to
stow how innocent a woman Mrs. Eaton was,
nnd how much she hail been persecuted, und
mentioned the names ofa number of ladies who
had been activo in this persecution, aud thut
the lady of a foreign minister was also one of
the conspirators; adding that ho would send
her and her husimnd homo, nnd teach him and
his master that the wife of a member of Ins
cabinet was not to be thus treated; that Mrs.
Eaton w«j ns pure and chaste as Mrs. Donal-
son’s infant daughter, bat there was a combina
tion hero among a number of ladies, not
those of tho Hoads of Departments, to drivo
her out of society, and to drivo her husband out
of office, but ho would bo cut into inch pioccs
on tho rack, before ho would suffer him or Ids
wife to bo injured by their vile caliramos; that
saw no ground, therefore for i,
change on my putt in this respect. T|
the President replied, in a changed toJ
he had tho most entire confidence inJL
rity and capacity in executing theduiiaj
department, and expressed Iris perfecttT
tion, in this respect, with my whole J
he had never supposed for a mompnii
official acts had been influenced in iliell
grec by any unkind feelings towards ijj
ton; and he did not mean to insistonb
lies visiting Mrs. Eaton: He had b«
excited, for some time past, by theo_
tion against her, and he wished us to aid]
putting down their slanders, addins I
was excluded from most of the iniiu,
parties; and, when invited she wash
tiiat the lady of a foreign minister befon
red to had insultnd her at Enron Knj
party. I remmked that, some injostitj
be done to that lady on that occasion; i
she might not choose to associate *i
Eaton, I did not think she intended |„
her; sho might have supposed that the!
some design, not altogether respectful!
self, in iIip offer of tho attendance to ssi
the Secretary of War. whoso n/th slw 1
visit, instead of that of the Secretary oi
which, according to the usual, pracl’q
probably considered herself entitled to, f
I was present, and saw most of ol
happened. She evidently thought her
grieved at something but acted with i
nity on the occasion, T saw no nope
insult offered to Mrs. Eaton. He rep!
he had been folly informed, and knowat
ir, and but for certain reasons which h,
tinned, he would have sent the foreign 1L
before referred to, and Ids wife, how]
diately. After some further corners
this and other matters, in which I co
the President as having entirely waird!
mand made through Col. Johnson,!
family must visit Mrs. Eaton, as thect
for my remaining in office, and in i
expressed himself in terms of persoi
ness towards me, I took my leave,
not show me, or read, any paper on tl
ject.
Cherohees.—P resident Jackson Jias dire
office for enrolling emigrants to be agiiid
in the Cherokee Nation.
The new sectof fanatics, called Mon
said to exceed at piescnt one.thousand,is
day increasing in number.
Pabulum of Scribblers.—The publisi
Philadelphia Saturday Courier offer a pi
one hundred dollars for the best originsW
may be forwarded to them oa or before*
December noxt.
Theory.—A Air. Horatio Spnfford atrribd
heavy showers of raiu that usually •«*
fourth of July, to the firing of cannon on*
We think it more rational to refer theta to*
densalion of vapors arising from whiskey i|
that occasion.
The American Society for encourajiMl
tlemcnt of the Oregon territory propw
said) to enlist one thousand men for thJ*|j
to rendezvous at St. Louis, Mo. in hear
Each man is to receive a tract of land out!
lamott or Alultomah.
Pitcairn’s Island, celebrated as the t
Christian anil such other mutineers oft«J
as escaped tho arm of justice, and Mlh****
ony of their descendants under the |»i«Pr
anco of Adams the American, has be«#
by its whole population, who bate !
heite, of which Island tho elder feenwj
tives. The motive assigned for thisitifij
the quantity of water and other meant*
tence on Pitcairn’s Island were unequal*
crease of the people. . r j
The black colony at Wilberforce,io lB
ada, founded hi tho early part of
ed people expelled from Ohio. consuu*'
dividnals, who otto 2000 acres of 1>»* j
000 acre# are cleared but only 350
lion—about one sixth of an acre unoci^
colonist—a fine sample of negro provi
industry. „
The’Paris Constitntioncl of May
is settled that Hungary is the
Charles X and his family retire °® '*? j
rood House, (the ancient palace of t%
Kings at Edinburgh.) The Duclitw*
leme possesses in that country ejtJ 1 *’
000,000 francs a year, which was I.eli -
aunt. Thcro will be thus, in th®
minions the members of an ex - im|
royal family of France. ^
Quarter.—A Highlander, w h® 54 .^|
having been surrounded, had cut tw ,
with the broad sword; with the tb®
their number, being the last in reir -
highly chafed, was slopped of*
Frenchman returning from the P L * ‘g
charged him with his bayonet, but s .
the disadvantage of his wcap® B > l
“quarter!” “Quarter yu,” said
ray soul I’fo nue time to qusrtcrjtSJJ
he contentit to* bo cut in t«r a ‘
head fly from bn shoulder*-