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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.
