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From the Charleston Courier, 31s/ ult MEETING OF THE NAT’L MASON IC CONVENTION. We have received u pamphlet containing the minutes of the proceedings of this body, at its session in Baltimore Md. which com menced on Monday, Bth Muv, and closed on the 17th. The following is a list of the officers and members: Dr. John Drove, of Va. President. Rev. Albert Case. ofS. C. Secretary. Rev. Dr. W. E. Wyatt, of MJ. Chaplain. Charles W. Moore, of Mass. Thomas Clapham. of N. 11. William Field, of R. I. Ebenezer Wardsworth,,of N. Y. Daniel A. Piper, of Maryland.* Nathaniel Seevers, ofDist. Columbia. John H. Wheeler, ofN.C. . Lemuel Dwelle, of Georgia. Edward Herndon, of Alabama. Thomas Hay wtfrd, of Florida. John Delaficld, Jr. of Miss. John Barney, of Ohio. S. W. B. Carnegy, ) f ... T uc> . >of Missouri. Joseph roster, The pamphlet contains forty-eight close ly printed pages, and yet much of the do ings of the body were not included. We are informed bv the Delegate front this State that the business was conducted in perfect harmony, and the members separated from each other under the kindly influence of Masonic principles. It is expected to meet at Winchester, Va.in May, 5846. The following letter, addressed by the Convention to the fraternity throughout the United States, was written by our delegate; the Rev. Albert Case. To the Masonic Fraternity of the U. States. Brethren—The venerable Institution of Masonry was planned in wisdom, and es tablished on the firm and unshaken founda tions ofLove and Friendship, in ages long since rolled away. These foundations were laid broad and deep by those master spirits of yore,-who, we trust, are now conversant with oilier scenes in that blissful and iivi mortal Lodge which no time can remove. They constructed the Temple of the choi cest materials of past ages, and it is ours to embellish it with the finest ornaments of modern times. Masonry is therefore ven erable with age. It nobly lived in the hearts of those worthy spirits of ancient days, be fore even science had thrown her beams over the world, or put forth the embodied expressions of her glory in the combination of letters into words. This fair Fabric of Masonic splendor was planned, reared, and finished for do rability. It has withstood the shocks of time, the revolutions of ages, the concussion of cm pires, and the convulsions of hostile conten ding nations. When they have rolled garments in blood on fields of war, and shaken tlirones to the dust, she lias stood in her retiring and soli tary grandeur, retaining all her ancient glory, and continually gathering around her brow fresh wreaths and new accessions of majesty and splendor. Regardless of nation, kindred, tribe, or tongue, she speaks a language understood and felt by all, and has united the heartsof her votaries in the same mystic tie of endu ring Love and Friendship ; and by the mild glance of her eye has melted even the rough Indian into tenderness, and turned away the tomahawk and scalping knife from the victim at which they were aimed. While every thing unsoiled in nature falls, and even Kings and Kingdoms are lost in the vortex of revolutions, and thrones crumbled into ruins, and totter and fall from their bases, Masonry towers above all that is awful and ruinable in nature’s realm; stands unmoved as the mountain rock, and undismayed listenes to revolu tion’s stormy voice. She has passed through the dark ages of superstition and bigotry, when wars and commotions convulsed the world to its centre, and when change seemed to sway a sceptre of universal em pire. We, in this happy land of the brave and the free, have raised our eyes, and gazed upon her venerated splendor. Thousands became entranced, entered the sanctuary of her consecrated Temple, and the tide of popularity, rather than prin ciple, has swept some of the unworthy, un hallowed and profane into her holy of ho lies. A hand stained with crime lias been rais ed against her principles, a night of dark ness has gathered aronnd her brow, and an army led on by unprincipled recreants has assailed her fortress in more than the hor rors of war. Convolving clouds of stormy darkness have gathered round her. The lightnings ofvcngeancc have shot their fires of death, and the rolling thunders of human wrath and indignation have been iieard in reverberating peals. The storm has spent its violence. Her enemies in despair have retired from the field of conflict. The un principled have been castot#of her sanc tuary, and many of those who were neither cold nor hot, have been spewed out of her mouth. Having thus passed the fiery ordeal of public scrutiny, opposition and rage, she lias come forth from the furnace, purified from evil men, and from those stains which of the time-serving and unwor thy, had fixed upon the bright escutcheon of her cl aracier ; she has put on her beau tiful garment, and, shining witii renewed accessions of splendor, she stands among us in the firm majesty of war worn gran deur, like some lofty Appenine, sublimely towering to Heaven, while the very earth rocks at her feet. On her venerable head which pierces the dark cloud, we see the beams of the Om niscient EYE resting, and around jt, the Light of Eternity playing; while on her stainless vesture, Faith, Hope and Charity are written. There she stands, and will stand till tire last vibrating pendulum of time—till the pillows of Wisdom, Strength and Beauty, that support and adorn the Fabric of nature shall fall. 2; non remains -Vr us in add. that the ?v-1 tem involving the Work, Lectures and | Ceremonies as agreed upon after mature deliberation by this Convention, will bo laid before you by your respective dele gates. To that whioh may be emphatical ly termed a National System, believing it to be in accordance with the ancient Land Mark and usages of the craft, we invite and urgo a strict and unswerving adherence. It being the solemn duty of all who wear the Badge of a Mason to square their ac tions and to keep themselves within the bounds of morality, a strict watchfulness is necessary on the part of all faithful Ma sons, and in these instances where a depar ture front duty, after repeated admonition, is wilfully persisted in, the Lodges should exercise their powers and clean the sanc tuary. To all faithful Brothers, we say— stand like men to your posts of duty and imitate those worthy Masons of yore. Be true to your principles, and the great moral edifice will stand beautiful and com plete Together Brethren, be true and faithful. ALBERT CASE, CHS. W. MOORE, NATII’L SEEVERS, J. DELAFIELD, Jr. From the N. O. Republican , 27 th instant. MOST IMPORTANT FROM CAMPEA CHY. ANOTHER BATTLE. By the arrival this morning at 2 o’clock of the schooner Rosario, Capt. Ducey, we are put in possession of late and most im portant intelligence from Yucatan. With out further preface, we give the account of the action which took place on the morning of the 16th. between th.’ naval forces of Texas and Mexico, contained in the follow ing letter from an esteemed friend on board the Wharton. “ Texas Brig of War Wharton, J OfTCampeacliy, May 17. 1843. $ Wo had another engagement with the Mexican squadron yesterday morning at 4 o’clock. The wind being very light but fair, we stood out in company, but as usual the steamers stood out to sea, before we could get within range of them. Having escorted their sailing vessels out several miles, they bore dov. n for us, and it being then about 10, A. M. and the wind having died away, we perceived that they intend ed giving us a fight. Lying as wo were all becalmed, our gallant little Commander, at 11 o’clock, made signal to attack the ene my, then about a mile and a half to wind ward, or rather seaw'ard of us. This we soor; answered, and brought our long Tom to bear on the iron steamer Guadaloupe, the Commodore at the same time engaging the Montezuma. The action here continued iiot and heavy for about two hours, chang ing our position but very little, and the steamers occasionally hauling off to repair damages, or probably to try and get at such a distance a.> would be too great for our shot. But as they shortly after returned to the fight I am induced to believe they 1 hauled off to repaii damages. On one of these occasions, when the Montezuma, af ter receiving a brisk fire from the Commo dore, hauled off and stood away, the Com modore, finding himself within range also of the Guadaloupe, opened his fire on her and with the first shot carried away her sig nal staff, which dropped gracefully over her taffrail. The sea breeze about this time sprang up, and the action again be came general, the Commodore engaging the Montezuma, and nur little beauty the Guad aloupe. The action now as well as the day, be came very hot ; shot flew aronnd us in ev ery direction, but none of them took the least effect, whilst our shot, I am sure, must have done immense damage. We have not been able to ascertain to a certainty, but all are of opinion on board that wedamaged the machinery of the Guadaloupe very ma terially. One thing is certain ; she was enveloped in her own steam fora consider able time, and’was seen afterwards to work with one wheel. About half past 1, P. M. the attention ofthe steamers seemed direct ed to the Commodore, and they rarely de signed to give us a shot, although we kept up a brisk fire on both. About 2 o’clock, one of our seamen was blown to atoms by t he gun at which he was engaged. He was ramming home the cartridge, and the captain of the gun not seeing him at the muzzle, fired, and blew the man to pieces. From this time until 3 o’clock the action be came general, and very hot. The Commo dore received several shot in bis hull and bulwarks. At 3, the steamers hauled off and the Commodore, having received a shot between wind and water, which caused his vessel to leak much, wore ship and stood back for the anchorage. He made signal for us also to withdraw from the action.— We gave the Guadaloupe a parting broad side, and followed in the wake of the ship. At 4, came to anchor offCampeachy,where we learned that the ship had received 15 shot. She wa.4 shot in almost every direc tion, below and aloft; yet what is most mi raculous,'did not lose a single spar. She had 2 killed and 25 wounded ; among the latter is Lieut. Wilbur and Midshipman Bryant. A number of amputations have taken place, a great pity, as a better or braver crew never trotted a deck. It was with great reluctance we with drew from the action ; but the magazine of the flag ship .had 25 inches of water in it, and as they bad no powder it was useless j to remain a target for the enemy. The I Mexicans seemed very glad that the day’s work had terminated, as they did not make the least effort to follow up the engagement. The loss on their side must be very great, as at the commencement of the action their decks were lined with men. lam quite confident that if the action had lasted one hour longer, and we could have got a little closer to them than we were, we would have captured them. You will, no doubt, think it strange that I have said nothing as yet of the gun boats. Had I commenced writing yesterday, I could not have written of any ‘bine •'.* but (heir bastardly cowardice ! but not so,when I am cool, my contempt for them is so great f can scarcely say any thing about them. There are two top-sail schooners and four very line sloops, each of which carries two long 24 pounders ; the most efficient kind of guns that can be used. Our Commodore made signal for them to take their stations and attack the enemy, but instead of that, they beat on and ofTOarnpeachy and did not come within three miles of the enemy at a ny time. Whereas, had they come boldly to the light, their size would have protected them, while their long guns would have so disabled the enemy as to malco them easy prizes to us in a very short time. Capt. Boylan, or rather Commodore Bovlan, has shown himself an infernal coward, and has damned himself for ever in the eyes of those who beheld his conduct. The .walls and churches in Campeachy were crowded on our return, and thousands of brunets waved their snow white handkerchiefs a los bra vos Texanos. This morning, about -5 o’clock, a very warm engagement took place ashore, be tween the Campeachyanos and Centralists. From the suburbs of Campeachy, or the western part outside the wall, being in pos session of tlieCentralists, they opened their fire, which was returned with compound interest from the walls. From the heights also, out side Campeachy, the Mexicans poured in their shot. F'riday Night, May 10. The troops ashore have been engaged for upwards of two days and nights. The loss on tlie Central side is very great; the Yu catecos have had only 10 killed. In our action on tlie 17th, the Gliada ioupe had 42 killed ; I know not how ma ny wounded. The Montezuma had about an equal loss. g. w. w. VVe learn verbally, that on the day fol lowing, the Cdmmodore had repaired dam ages, and intended immediately to put to sea and renew the engagement. A Tragic Scene. —Amongst the many heart-rending details that have been given in the foreign Journals of the sad effects of the earthquake at Gaudaloupe, we find the following in a letter published in the Paris Conslitutionnel. After describing many dis astrous occurrences, the writer says: “Suddenly I beheld the lifeless body ofa man in the prime of life, and near him a beautiful young woman. She appeared absorbed in grief; one could almost ima gine her a marble figure weeping over a tomb. Jn hercheeks was still discernahle the faint blush of a rose and a smile was on her lips—and yet she was dead ! A young girl, to escape from certain death, rushed from her father’s house, but, at the moment when she considered herself safe, a house fell near her, and part of the ruins held her firmly to the lower extremities.— She c:alled loudly for help, the more so as the flames appeared advancing with a gi ant’s pace. A soldier endeavored to extri cate her, but in vain. Siie then besought him to cut off her two legs, in order to save her from the fire which had already reach ed her. The soldier yielding to her en treaties drew his sword and prepared to cut the legs, when, his heart, failing him, he fled. The young girl was soon consumed.” Mesmerism. —There has been a grand experiment touching Mesmerism in Balti more. A “Professor” was challenged to the trial. He came up to it like a man.— He selected his subjects from the audience. One was a little colored boy. The Profes sor was eminently successful in nearly all his experiments, and this was the more ef fectual, inasmuch as he knew nothing of the boy. After all was over, the opponents called up tlie lad, in the presence of the audience, and questioned him as totheope ration of Mesmerism, and the little scamp confessed that he had been deceiving all hands, that he had not been asleep ; so that tlie whole was pronounced a glorious “hum bug.” But is this correct ? Suppose a man com plains to a physician ofsome internal pain, and having deceived him, receives certain medicine which he declares hascured him, is the physician to suffer because of tlie cheat ? Not at all. Where there is dis. covered a co]lu%>n between tlie Mesmer iserand his subject then the exhibition is to be declared a humbug. — U: S. Gazette. LIVING WITHOUT SLEEP. A recent number of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, contains a letter from Mr. Robert F. Gourlay, giving an account of his extraordinary sleeplessness. Accor. ding to Mr. G’s. own account, he was first bereft of sleep in the year 1833 for six weelfs, when about 40 years of age. Prior to that time he had never suffered for want of sleep, although at times a little sufficed for refreshment. Mr. G. was confined in London, as he alleges, by British tyranny, three years and eight months, and it was during this period, he thinks, that a habit of living without sleep began to form.— During his confinement he felt very little need of sleep, and the greater part of his time in bed, which was never more than six hours in the twenty-four, was given to rev eries, chiefly, he declares “ as to schemes for bettering the condition of the laboring poor of England,” &c. Soon after his liberation, Slaving first vis ited Scotland, he left Edinburg for Ameri ca. He had no sleep until he reached Liverpool, where he took a warm bath be fore going to bed. This had the desired effect, and procured him a few hours of re pose. The next morning he embarked for New-York, which he reached in 42 days, without having had one wink of sleep. Im mediately on landing at New-York he pro cured a warm bath, got into a comfortable bed and slept soundly. From that time forward he did not sleep for three years. He took laudanum, but that had no effect, he drank whiskey in tlie hope tiiat it would induce sleep, but it only made him sick. In the early part of 1837, while in Ohio, lie was attacked with erysipolis in tlie leg, and during five months was without sleep. Mr. G. had recovered his health in some degree when intelligence readied him of the deatli of two of his children. He then lay two weeks in great agony, and from that time to this, a period of four years and six months, he lias been entirely deprived of sleep. The last six months of his life have been spent at Boston. His health has much improved, and he entertains a hope that as soon as lie is able to take exercise, lie will recover. On various occasions of late he has been almost asleep. When the body of Paine was taken from the house where hedied, in the city, to New Rochelle, to be buried, a negro man, who had been assisting, inquired when the in torment was completed if there was to be no prayer. “No!” was the response.— “What! no prayer?” “No, unless you make one !” “ said he, “is noth ing to be said ?” “ No, unless you say it!” “ Well said the ne.gro, sticking his spade in the ground— . “ Poor Tom Paine ! here lie lies, Nobody laughs, nobody cries! Where he has gone or how lie fares, Nobody knows, and nobody cares!” During a brief visit at New Rochelle last summer, we found the old negro still living and, his account of the funeral is an instruc tive commentary on the .mournful effects of a long course of vice and intemperance upon one of the most gifted men of his day. Newar/: Advertiser. Falsehood and Distrust. —lt is scarcely possible to immagine a more melancholy situation than that of a weak and helpless woman separated bv falsehood from all true fellowship, eitiier human or divine; for there is no fellowship in falsehood. Tlie very soul of disunion might justly be said to be embodied in a lie. It is in fact the sudden breaking asunder of tiiat great chain which binds together all spiritual influen ces : and she who is guilty of falsehood must necessarily be alone. Alone, for she has no sympathy of feeling with the beautiful creation around her, of which it has truly been said tiiat “nature never deceives.”— Alone, for in that higher world, where all her secret, thoughts and acts are registered, its very light is truth. Alone, for she has voluntarily become a stranger, a suspected thing, an enemy to that one friend in whose bosom she might have found shelter and repose. It is a fact which scarcely needs to be re peated, that the closer the intimacy, and the more important the trust, the greater is the individual injury and consequently the violation of personal feeling when that trust is abused. Thus when a uiiild is first made to understand that it has bifcn deceived by its mother, the very life of its soul seems for a moment to be quenchld. When the fatherfinds tiiat his prodigal son has return ed but to take advantage of affection and credulity, his wounded spirit sinks, and his weary heart is broken. But when tlie hus band looks witli earnest eyes into the coun tenance whose beauty was once his sun shine; when memory fijesback and brings again her plighted vow, with all its treas ury of truth ; when he thinks of that fond heart which seemed to cling to him in all the guileless innooence of unsopliicated youth—oh ! it is horrible “to be discarded thence,” by the dark venom ofdipirust, per petually reminding him that me bright and sunny tide of early love, upon which he trusted all the riches of his soul, is but a smiling and deceitful ocean, whose glassy surface at once reflects the hues of heaven und conceals the depths of hell .-Mrs. Ellis. . The Bangor Whig of the 23d inst. has tho following article under its editorial head: Animal Magnetism—A Home case and a strong one. —An operation has been per formed in this city which goes far to estab lish the fact that there is something in Mes merism, beyond all dispute. Mrs. Davis, of Eddington, has suffered for some time with a tumor in the right shoulder, and was advised by her physician to have it removed. Wiiiie thinking upon the subject, she heard of Animal Magnetism, and came into the city several days since to have its effects tried upon her. Mr. Wm. E. Small, of this city, who lias recently been practicing Magnetism among his friends and found to be a successful magnetiser, was called upon and succeeded in mesmerising or in putting her into the magnetic sleep. This was repeated sever al times within a few days, when the phy sician and several friends met for tlie pur pose of removing the tumor by a surgical operation. Tlie excitement of the prepara tion, Mrs. Davis remarked, was so great that she doubted whether Mr. Small would be able to Mesmerise her sufficiently for enduring the operation. Mr. Small commenced magnetising her, and in eleven minutes she fell asleep and the operation was continued as much lon ger, when the Surgeon Dr. George B. Rich, made an incision in the shoulder, over the tumor, of about two inches in length, and inserted a hook into the tumor which was about the size of a hen’s egg, and dissected it out and dressed the wound. During the operation, Mrs. Davis mani fested some slight uneasiness like a person in a troubled dream, and one or two slight spasms in the opposite arm. On bejjpg ta ken out of the sleep she was told that they bad not been able to extract her tumor, to which she replied that she had feared they would not as she was so rnucli excited about it. She was at length apprised of the re sult, of which she was previously quite un conscious, and the only sensation of which she was in any way conscious, was that of being asleep and wishing to wake up but not being able. Nor had she suffered any pain up to last evening. We have this stalement, substantial!; , from those who were present; and the par ties are of the highest respectability and i have no motive for an erroneous statement. AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE CON- | FLAGRATION. About five o’clock on Thursday after noon last, a fire broke out in the stables at tached to the Washington Hall in this city, which, before any ojlWt could bo made te stop tin- progivrs oitlit tlanets, was cpihmu nieatod TO the Hotel- which was speedily wrapped in flaifles. From tlfc Ilqtel it crossed the street, cohnninfleaied lo rever al small buildings on the north, and- proceo- I ded with fearful rapidity. Capt. Bond’s store was soon on fire, and notwithstanding efforts were made‘to blow tip the buildings in advance, the whole ofthe two blocks or squares south of Washington Square and east of Monroe street were speedily con- , sumed. | Some,hopes were entertained that the fire might be arrested here—but the intense heat communicated the fire across Monroe street, which spread with fearful rapidity carrying destruction and ruin in its prog ress to the Court House uquaii, north of Mc- Carty street. Here fortunately the flames were stayed, but not till seveTi squares, all the entire business part of the city, were le velled to the ground. The scene was aw fully grand and terrific. The active exer tions of our citizens prevented the fire from crossing Adams street, or almost the entire city would have been destroyed. From the Capitol to the Court House square, and be tween Adams and Calhoun streets, there are but three or four buildings standing— the Planter’s Hotel, Dr. Randolph’s dvvel ling, Dr. Taylor’s office, and one or two small buildings on M’Carty street, occu pied by Mrs-. Rea. Her store at the corner was blown up, but did not take fire. Our city’ is a perfect mass of ruins—and so rapid was the progress of the flames, that very little property was saved from the general destruction. Many goods taken from the stores and removed to supposed places of safety, wefe also consumed. The loss is variously estimated at from three hundred thousand lo half a million of dollars —and with very little insurance— perhaps not $30,000 insured.—Tallahas see Floridian. A Needle Manufacture. —Among the curious things 1 was permitted to examine at Haverstraw, nothing awakened so mnch interest as the machinery for making nee dles. Let every good house wife rejoice with me. We are no longer to be depen dent on foreign countries for an article of such primary necessity as needles. This, I am told, is the first attempt of the kind in America, and is now almost perfected. I saw needles in the various stages ofthe pro cesses by which they are made from the wire, prepared on the same premises ; and was surprised at the facility afforded by the curious machinery which human ingenuity has invented to lessen the manual labor, and multiply the numerous operations.— The wire is first cut into lengths which will make two needles each.. The depressions where the eyes are to be made and where the grooves are found in the finished arti cles, are stamped in both needles by a sin gle stroke of a machine, with which a sin gle hand may turn off 20,000 in a day. It is then turned over to a boy, who, with an other machine, punches the eyes, and a gain another separates the two needles, and smoothes away any irregularities left or made by the former processes. But the eye ofthe needle is still rough,and must be bored by another process which leaves it so smooth as not to cut the thread. After this a man grinds a handful at a time on a com mon grindstone, holding them in his left hand and giving them a perpetual rotary motion with the right, so that when the ope ration is finished they must be round as well as sharp. They are now to be case hard ened, and finally burnished, all which is done - by simple processes, in which immense numbers can be subjected to the operation at the same time.— Dr. Bond's letters from Rockland. There is an anecdote extant, admirably illustrative ofthe powerful, irresistible and artful qualities of forensic oratory. A coun tryman being present at the trial of a crim inal, and having iieard all the evidence, was told not to make up his mind on the sub-’ ject until he had also heard the speeches of the counsel. Accordingly he sat and very patiently listened to the address of the coun sel for the crown, or prosecution, to the ju ry ; when the speaker closed, the inexpe rienced auditor was asked whether lie thought the man guilty or innocent. “O, guilty,” he replied, “ofcourse ; nobody can get over that.” The counsel for the pris. oner then took upthecase, and in the course of his argument so distorted the testimony and exhibited its inconsistencies ; so bela bored the prosecution for pressing his un fortunate client with all the extremities of legal power : and so pathetically appealed to the sympathies of the jury, that the coun tryman came to the conclusion, that “the man was not only innocent, but very hard- , ly dealt by, withal.” The gentlemen of j the bar were then followed by the learned judge, who, with quiet and dispassionate tone and manner, faithfully reviewed the evidence throughout, portraying both its strong points and its weak, divesting it of its irrelevancies and presenting it clearly to the unprejudiced contemplation of the mind. When he had concluded, the coun tryman was asked to decide. “Why dang me,” is the recorded response of the clown, with the traditionary embellishment of scratching his head, “dang me, sir, and dang my feyther, if I can tell whether the man be guilty or not.” The toay the Yankees get over the Virgin ia Inspection Law. —The Norfolk Herald observes : “Capt. Maryatt says, the first thing tiia Americans do after the passage of a lav-', is to devise some scheme to defeat its execution and render it of no effect.— i Such indeed seems to be the case in regard ! to the Virginia Inspection law to protect the slave property ofher citizens against the I legislation of New York. Virginia has I passed a very efficient law ; but Yankee in j genuity has discovered a way toevacl* it i A friend assures us that New York vessels now clear from Jersey City, where they procure their regular papers, Which cost them one dollar, sail for Virginia, discharge tfieir cargoes, and returning, clear to Jer sey Citj?—thus eluding the inspection law ” Spicy Correspondence.. —The followiurr tart letters havo passed between the Hoik Mr. Bilrke, (a Loco Foco member of Con” [ gress from N. H., ami tie; Post-HasU General. The mutual coihplifnents are far from flattering; but we have too much 1 politeness to say that the parties speak falsely of each other. Nt: w Port, (N. H.) May 8,1843. Sir—At the request of several ofthe in -1 habitants ofthe towu of Lempster, N. H. I send you the enclosed petition for the estab lishment of anew post office at East Lemp- Kler, and the appointment of a post master. The petition is respectably signed by indi viduals of both political parties, and’the re quest they make for the establishment of a post office is reasonable, and in my opinion should be granted, as East Lempster is ve ry near the centre of the town of Lempster, on the new mail route fromGilsum to Go shen, at the point of intersection by that route,, of the route from Claremont via Lempster to Boston. This is the truth a bout the matter, although 1 do not suppose that such a consideration would influence your official course in relation to it. I make this representation in regard to the site of the proposed office, because my constit uents who are interested request me to make it, not because I expect or wish to have you give any heed to my suggestions, having now'no favors to ask of you, in your official capacity at least. The signers of the petition also request me to add my recommendation to their own for the appointment of Mr. Samuel P. Caul kins, to the office of post master. If he were an honest true hearted democrat, I should scorn to do it. Humble as l atn in the po litical word, I would not now, for reasons which you can readily understand, recom mend a friend for office to you, or to any of the corrupt and venal clique who constitute the present administration. I speak politi cally, and the epithets I use I apply to the administration as a whole, and not individ- and of course exempt yourself from their application But in relation to Mr. Caulkins, it is suf ficient to say that ho is one of the three Hill renegades in the towm of. Jjempster, and, therefor c, a very proper man for you to ap point. He possesses the very qualifications” for which the members of the present ad ministration (yourselfexcepted) are most distinguished viz : treachery to his princi ples and his pa<ty —and therefore, must be an acceptable acquisition to the corps of office holders under the command of Capt. Tyler. 1 hope you will appoint him, sir, for I know of no man hereabouts w ho would represent the Administration so well (al ways excepting yourself) in their two lea ding characteristics, viz: destitution of prill cipie and political lenrgadism. Your late appointments in this vicinity have ail been of the ultra blue light federal stamp politi cians, and the renegades have taken such conduct on your part in high dudgeon. 1 do not know what more I can add to recom mend Mr. Caulkins to your favorable con sideration. Respectfully your obedient servant, EDMUND BURKE. To the Postmaster General of the U. S. Post Office Department, May 18th, 1843. Sir: I received from you two letters, one enclosing a petition for a new’ office, and the other -tor the appointment of a Postmas ter at the town of Goshen, in the place of the present incumbent, who is represented as insane. These petitions are in respectful languge signed, i have no doubt, by worthy and respectable men, and shall receive the at tention which is always due to such appli cations. 1 have only to regret that the pe titioners had not selected some oilier organ of communicating with this Department than yourself. Perhaps I ought to express my regret that a man, w ho has the endorse ment of a certificate as a member of Con gress, could so far forget (if he ever knew') the courtesy wdtich should characterise a gentleman in his official correspondence, though opposed politically, or personally unfriendly, as you seem to have done in this instance. I have no apology to make to you for any official act, nor explanation to give, if you desire it. No gentleman lias the right to force his offensive language into my . possession, under the sanctity of a sealed letter, or under the privilege of official cor respondence ; and 1 should regret to know if there be one ofthe signers to either ofthe petitions so constituted, so destitute of a cor rect sense of propriety, as not to express his condemnation of your conduct as their or gan in tit is instance. Your favorable or unfavorable opinion of me, or of my official acts, is alike indifl’ei ent to me. I look to the judgment of good and just men. In accordance with a rule^ I have ever observed in public and private life in such cases, I send you back your o riginal letters to be disposed of as you please, and take the liberty to inform you that any further communication from you must be at least respectful in its language, if not, I shall not give myselfthe trouble to return it—certainly not to regard it as wor thy of official notice. (Signed C. A. WICKLIFFE. Hon. Edmund Burks. Newport, New Hampshire. A Penny paper in New York says that a strong-fisted servant girl in that city was re cently assaulted by a couple of scoundrols, named John and Elam Mile, and that she flogged them both. VVe have heard that a miss was as good as a mile, hut here was a case in which a Miss was as good as two Miles, and adittle better. ‘No tick here,’ as th” man said to the w atch lie bought a’ auction.
