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THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
VOLUME I.]
Account of a visit to the Seal of Sir Walter
Scott, in Scotland, in 1833, hy Baron
D ‘Ha ussy, Ex-Minister ol Marine under
King Charles X.
Sir. \\ alter Scott had laid aside his liter
ary vizor many years before my visit lo Edin
burgh. He resided, at the latter period, at
Abbotsford, a country seat about thirty-six
j miles distant from the capital. Having been
; informed of the anxious desire I had often
’expressed to make the Baroneua acquaint
ance, lie was good enough to address me a
polite invitation to cotne and visit him.—
M* de 13 accompanied me. The
road lo Abbotsford, which it took us seven
; hours to reach, passes through a mountain
ous country wholly devoid of picturesque ap
! pea ranee ; cultivated, it is true, but yet with
j out habitations. This road lies at the foot ol
a valley of monotonous aspect. Within four
miles of Abbotsford, Melrose is visible: it is a
Ismail town washed by a river, tbe stream of
j which s rendered available for manufaclu -
i lug purposes. Two miles farther on, you
j cross the Tweed, and arrive by a rapid de-
Iscent at chateau of Gothic architecture
situ.ited at the foot of a high hill. Recent
| plantations increase the beauty of an exten
sive pat k. On the opposite side, the view,
i somewhat impeded by mountains, looks on a
praiiie , at the extremity of which flows the
(Tweed, her tranquil waters embellishing
without animating the landscape.
It is from the court-yard alone (hat one has
a full view of Abbotsford, and can fotm an
idea of tlie hizarrerie of its architecture. Sir
j W alter Scott, who has drawn on tbe middle
| ages lor his subjects .as well as his characters,
! seems also to have recurred to that epoch for
the style of an architecture which he has
adopted with all its originality, and with all
its faults, even to its minutest absurdities.—
That irtegularity which is the reproach of
the chateaus of the eleventh century, exists
at Abbotsford in a most remarkable degree.
The architect must have Combined many odd
whims of fancy or memory to vary as he has
done the form and the dimensions of the win
dows, and to load many parts of the facades
of the building with ihe most incongruous
ornaments, in order to render the whole a
unique specimen of the confusion of all order.
A peristyle attached to the house conducts
von to a large room, in which are ranged
arms and armoury of all ages a vl countries,
as well as other varied objects of curiosity.
To ihe left is a narrow hall, whence you pass
into the dining-room, which communicates
with the drawing-room. At the end of the
drawing-room is an apartment cn spacious
dimensions, appropriated to a library, filled
with rare and choice vvotks tastefully bound
in the gothic style. At one end of the library
is a door, which communicates with Sir Wal
ter’s study. A dark narrow staircase, wilh
high steps, leads you to the first story, on
which are many small rooms; you are con
ducted to them by a narrow corridor, in which
two persons cannot walk abreast.
The furniture of this singular mansion is
in perlect keeping with its architecture. The
greater part is of historical origin; and tiie
original destination of many articles is marked
on brass plates, which have been engraved
tor the purpose. In order to form a correct
idea of Ihe richness and variety of this col
lection, it shoo and be known that ail men of
rank and fortune in ihe three kingdoms con
tributed to furnish the house with many curi
ous articles in their possession; and that Ab
noislbrd lias thus become a sort of museum,
tuilitig in itsel all iha 1 the country in which
die lettdai system has prevailed the longest,
could supply of most value in that character.
As vve were about to alight from our car
riage, we saw approaching us as quickly as a
nail would permit him, a gentleman, support
ing himself on a cane, apparently front fifty
live to sixty years of age ; thick set, of middle
-tature, of a pleasing rather than expressive
countenance. Nome grey hairs mingled with
ihe fold of perfectly white locks which fell
carelessly on his shoulders. Hta eyes were
blue, small, and apparently without expres
sion. His nose wis deeply and thickly set,
and his cheeks full and fleshy! There was
altogether a sickly air about his person, but
particularly in the expression of Ins head. At
any other place than at Abbotsford, vve could
never have suspected him to be the man, the
lame of whose celebrity was spread over the
literary world. Such was Sir Walter Scott.
lie received us with unostentatious hospi
tality, was penurious in word-, but prodigal
in kindness. In a lew moments vve were
welcomed, lodged, and made acquainted with
;he customs ol the house. Our host excused
himself lor his inability to converse with os
in French, which he understood, but could
not speak. Our superficial knowledge of the
English language m ade us regret exceedingly
this circumstance; which, in a measure, pre
vented us from judging, as we ought, a mind
which we came purposely to study.
We entered the drawing-room, preceded
hv two immense grey hounds and two Scotch
terriers, the constant companions of the Ba
ronet. We were presented to Miss Scott,
then to three or four neighbours, and lastly
o some members ol the family, who, togeth
er, composed the party then slaying at Ab.
botslimi. At this interview Miss Scott, who,
j though her mother was a Frenchwoman,
does not speak our language, evinced no in
clinairorr t> contribute, even in her own, to a
conversation which her father strove to keep
up by commoti-place remarks, After a little
we broke ground on a subject which we con
ceived most likely to he agreeable to our host,
ry rendering the homage of our praise to Iks
varied works, and by leading the conversation
I io those particular productions ot his pen
which are connected with the history and
romance of the middle ages. Our efforts
were vain. The remarks which we made
| could no? animate our hort; and the brevity
of his replies caused the conversation to flag.
Sir Walter conducted us to the apartments
destined for onr use. I sat do? nin an arm
chair embroidered hv Mary Stuart, opposite
a portrait of Henry Dirnley; on a tahie which
had belonged to the Earl of Essex, was placed
a small mirror which had reflected the fea
mr. sos Anne Boleyn. This furniture recalled
i leas to my mind wb'ch l in vain tried to
suppress. Proscribed, and und r sentence of
an inexorable tribunal, at the very moment I
was looking at these objects, it is not wonder
ful that a certain similitude of misfortune
s! o’ 1 I have visihv aflected me. Nothing
contributes more than exile to the develope
mei t of sentiments of pity and sympathy.
Oi entering the drawing-room, I found
Miss Scott in a most elegant dress, which
appeared io have exercised a very favorable
influence on her manners towards the com
pany. From that moment her deportment
was graceful in the highest degrep. She is
remarkably handsome, though she had not
made that impression upon us in the morning,
owing to the pelisse in wh'ch she was wrap
ped up. and t e large straw bonnet which
concealed her well formed features and her
animated black eves.
The dinner was served upon silver in the
Engl sh style. When the cloth was removed
the ladies retired. The gentlemen remained
a fu l hour l iter, but ihe conversation pro
duced no bril'iant rally on the part of our
host.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1841.
On our return to the drawing room, we
! found toe library door thrown open, which,
| aided by the lights suspended from the ceiling,
enabled us to judge of the extent and fine
proportions of this apartment. M. de 13
sat himstli down in the library with Sir Wal
ler, whom lie was desirous ol bringing to the
topic of politics, on which in .Scotlann he was,
as well as in literature, a high authority.—
During the conversation, which was long,
and cartied on in the language of the respect
ive speakers, I was engaged with Miss Scott
and the persons who surrounded her. In spite
of, perhaps because of, the difficulty tve found
in the interchange of our ideas, midn ; ght had
arrived before we perceived its approach.
I was up at eight o’clock the next morning,
and was taking a survey of the grounds. Sir
Walter joined me; gave me, with the utmost
complaisance, all the explanations which 1
desired, and proposed that we should take a
detailed view of hi* library. It was in tiiis
conversation that I was enabled to judge of
the character of his mind, and satisfied myself
that his imagination could not completely
shine forth without the aid of his pen. Spar
ing of observations, he doled out his words
succinctly, and in a homely fashion. He
seemed generally to want ihose extensive
views which I had supposed h m lo possess.
The observer tvho had so happily seized the
characters or Louis the Eleventh, of Eliza
beth, of Marv Stuart, of James the First, as
well as the customs and manners of the prin
cipal personages of his novels, appeared to
have exhausted all his thoughts in his works,
ami to have left his memory a complete void.
In a word, the author of Waverly, Quentin
Durward, the Antiquary, and so many other
productions of distinguished merit, appeared
indifferent to the object of upholding by h:s
conversation the idea which ins works afford
ed of the power and versatility of his genius;
not that he disdained to expend his erudition
or his wit in conversation, but that he seemed
to want Ihe faculty or the habit of it. It must
be said that he was suffering at this time the
first attacks of ad sease which, eighteen
months afterwards, terminated in his dissolu
tion.
We take the following from the Sayannah
Republican.
The Presidency. —lt will be recollected
that the Loco Focus of the city and county
of Philadelphia held a public meeting *in July
las', at which a committee was appointed to
communicate with Gen. Cass, to ascertain
whether he would consent to be a candidate
for the next ‘residency. The General, un
der date of P tris, August 19th, in a long letter
which is pub shed in the American Sentinel,
consents to the use of his name, provided it
be.brought forth by a general Convention.
From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer.
HON. C. A. WICKLIFFE.
Our readers will have observed that this
distinguished citizen of Kentucky lias been
appointed by the President, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, Post Master Gen
eral. G >v. Wfckliffe anived in this city on
Wednesday last. We understand he will ac
cept the seat in the cabinet, tendered him by
the President, and after returning to his resi
dence in Nelson, will depart lor Washington
as soon as the necessary arrangement of his
private affairs can be made.
We regret to observe that the Washington |
correspondent of the Louisville Journal, and
perhaps other papers, attribute this appoint
ment to Gov. Wickhffe’s supposed hostility to
Mr. Clay—a motive equally disparaging to
Mr. Tvlcr and to Gov. WickhlFe. Those
who ate in the least acquainted wilh the po
litical history of the country know that the
President and the Post Master General served
together many years in Congress,and that the
most intimate relations, both personal and po
litical, subsisted between them. The admira
ble system, indomitable industry, and superior
ability displayed by Governor Wicklifle in
the various stations which he has filled readily
pointed him out as in every way admirably
qualified to discharge the duties of the high
station to which he has been called. We do
not feel disposed to draw any invidious com
parisons between Gov. Wicklifle and any
other gentleman; but we confidently believe
that his appointment is highly acceptable to
the people of Kentucky, and predict, that, un
der his administration, the Post Office De
partment will he conducted with method,
economy and to the satisfaction of the Na
tion.
Tamed Rattle Shakes. — Mr. McFarland,
of lowa, has at the City Hotel, seven large
rattlesnakes which he has been taming for
some time and lias so far succeeded, that he
handles them without any apprehensions.—
Five of them he has had since May last, and
so far succeeded in domesticating them, that
tie suffers them to crawl all over his person,
and about his face, lodging their heads in Ins
bosom, &.c. They seem to manifest no hos
tility to l,is touch, but are ready to bi ev\ ben
ever any other person approaches then..—
Whenever one manifests a disposition to
strike, Mr* McF., by rubbing it tames it im
mediately. lie opens their mouths and ex
hibits their fangs, which have not been remov
ed from any of them. One of them is sup
posed, from the number of rattles, to he up
wards of fifty years old, and are all of the
largest size. They were taken in lowa. It
has heretofore been thought by many natural
ists, to be impossible to tame this reptile, but
Mr. McF., lias disproved this theory. Mr.
McF. intends exhibiting them for a short time
in the city. Spectators are in no possible
danger from them. The exhibition wiil be
highly interesting (o the naairalists and the
curious. St. Louis Republican.
Cos resjiomteftce ot the Courier.
Washington. Oct. 1,
The Prince de Joinville, accompanied by
the French Minister (Mr. Bacourt) and sev
eral French naval officers, arrived m this city
on Tuesday, in the cars Irom Baltimore. At
two o’clock the same day the Prince paid his
respects to the President. Yesterday, alter
visiting the navy yard, the Prince dmed with
the President. The whole diplomatic corps,
Mr. Forward, Mr. Legare, Commodore Mor
ris, and some ol the highernaval and military
officers were at the dinner. In the evening,
there was a very brilliant s iree, graced with
all tne fashion and beauty of the city. Those
of the members of Congress slid here —Mr.
Benton, .Mr. Mouton, Mr. Rhett, Mr. Cushing,
and o hers, ex-Secretarv Forsyth, and many j
naval and military officers were present.— .
Music bv tbe marine band, and dancing, en
livened ihe scene. There has seldom been a
more gracelul and beautdul party at the ex-;
ecutive mansion. The prince has every rea- j
son to be pleased with his reception by -the j
executive chief of the nation p.and the Presi
dent has properly responded to the general
sense of the country in treating with such
marked attention and courtesy, the represen
tative of our first ally.
But two of the Cabinet are now here. Mr.
Webster is in Massachusetts; Mr. Upshur is
still detained in Virginia by the illness of his
bmther; Mr. Wickliffe has not yet arrived;
ini the vacancy in he \\ ar Department has
I not yet been filled.
It is understood that the President has of
-1 tered the War Department to someone who
“THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
will probably accept it, andtlnt the appoint
ment wiil be announced in few days.
The pressure and clamot for office are as
great as ever; and the President and Secre
tary of the Treasury are more vexed and
harrassed by these applies ions than by every
other portion of their public duties.
The excitement on the northern frontier, if
not quieted, will soon lead to mutual aggres
sions and retaliations, and involve that part of
the country in a border war. The adminis
tration are using everv effort to preserve the
peace, and at the same time to maintain the
dtgni’y of the country.
From the Charleston Mercury
MESSRS. CLAY'AND BERRIEN.
These distinguished worthies are put in a
straight in the following remarks from the
Globe. It is no new position for Mr. Clay
and lie wont mind it—but we suspect the
Georgia Senator will look and feel a little
awkward. He has just come out of one
contest with the Globe, in which the loss was
all on his side. lie commenced that contest
intimating that he had a sovereign contempt
for that paper; a feeling which if he had
then, he is not likely to entertain very soon
again.
From the Globe.
The Disclosures of the late Secre
taries—The statement! of the retreating
Cabinet make some developements which are
worth scanning, asexhibiting the morality of
I the leading managers of Federalism. Like
all betrayers, these informers against the
President are obliged to betray themselves,
and the public gets an insight into what would
otherwise remain the undivulged mysteries of
their dishonest policy. We shall take occa
sion, from time to time, to point the public eye
to the hearing of some of their recent confes
sions. For the present, we will call the rea
der’s attention to a striking characteristic
of Mr. Clay, which the developements of
Messrs. Ewing and Bell bring lo light.
It will be remembered, especially by every
Senator, that during tbe debate on the first
veto, Mr. Clay denotinc-d certain members of
the House as “ a cabal,” charging them with
having private conferences with the Presi
dent, to influence his course in regard to mat
ters pending before Congress. Mr. Clay de
nounced this as a sinister mode of bringing
Executive influence to bear upon tbe action
of Congress, and he utterly repudiated, as
subversive of the Congress, the secret con
coction of measures wfith the Chief Magis
trate, by sending members to him to get his
imprimatur on what * the party might pro
pose.
These lew senfimenfs, uttered with evi
dent approbation by his party in the Senate,
created a sort of buzz in the gallery.
When the Fiscal Corporation bill was un
der consideration in the House, it was whis
pered about that Mr. Berrien of the Senate
and Mr. Sergeant of the House, had, as a
committee, waited privately on the President,
to get his view, so as to enable them to frame
a Bank bill to “head him.” When the bid
came up in the Senate lor discussion, the sto
ry of the crim* con. between the Whig com
mittee and the President was alluded to, we
think by Mr. Linn, Mr. Clay rose in bis
place, in the presence of Mr. Berrien, and
solemnly denied that any member of his party
in the Senate (whatever might have been the
case in the other branch) had ever waited on
(he President to ascertain his views in regard
to the new Bank bill which had been intro
duced after the veto of the fi st. This sol
emn and absolute denial had the effect of dis
crediting with many, the general report of this
Whig mission to the President, and Mr.. Clay
had the effrontery to make the statement in
the face of all his Federal friends, who knew
it to be false ; and they had the depravity to
countenance it. Asa commen: upon the ve
racity of the Senatorial leader of Federalism
and his followers, we append the disclosures
of Messrs Ewing and Bell upon this point.
Mr. Ewing says:
“ The ISth being the day fir our regular
Cabinet meeting, we assembled, all except
Messrs. Crittenden and Granger, and you
told us that you had had a long conversation
with Messrs. Berrien and Sergeant, who pro
fess* 1 to come in behalf of the Whigs of the
two Houses to endeavor to strike out some
measure which would be generally accepta
ble.”
Mr. Bell says:
“ The next day (Wednesday,lSth August)
was the stated time for the weekly meeting
of the Cabinet wilh the President Mr,
Webster Mr. Ewing, and myself, went at
ten o’clock in the morning, and were informed
that the President was engaged with Messrs.
Sergeantand Berrien.and 1 think,Mr.Dawson
of Georgia. We waited until they retired, and
the President made hisappearance ahontlhree
quarters of an hour afterwards. Mr. B ulger
came in soon after the President joined us.—
Messrs. Crittenden and Granger did ni t at
tend. The conference which ensued was a
long one —lasting two hours at least, accor
ding to my recollection. I cannot pretend to
detail all that was said; neither can I under
take to give the language employed by the
President upon every point, nor ol the mem
bers of the Cabinet. 1 can only slate the
substance of what was said upon those points
which most attracted my attention.
“The President commenced by stating that
he had been waited lip >n that morning by a
committee ot Mena bets of Congress, who de
destred to know Ins views upon the subject of
a Bank—such a one he could sanction.”
“ The New York State Anti-Slavery So
ciety” held its 6th Anniversary Meeting at
Utica, on the 15th September. The Conven
tion is said to have been numerously attendee
—Aivan Stewait, President. Among other
resolutions, they adopted the following :
“Resolved, That the liberty parly nas the
strongest claims to the sympathy and suppoit
of alt the friends of freedom; and, that all
who have access to the ballot box ought to
express that sympathy, and give their suppoit
by voting omy tor abolitionists,
“Resolved, That the success of anti-slave
ry efforts the past year, is just matt-r of mu
male ingratula dons, solemn thanksgiving, and
God given encouragement.
“Resolved, I hat in the trial by-jury law
of l>j4o, we recogn ze a shield beneath which
the fugitive from slavery has hitherto found
pro;e ‘tion,
1 “ Resolved, That slavery in the District o’
Cilumb a, and the act of 1792, requiring the
North to deliver up the fugitive slave we
will in the coining winter petition Congress
to abolish. ’
Look out for squalls, then, at the next ses
’ Bton of Congress. Toe Fanatics led on hv
i Adams, Slade, and Granger, &c. &.e. and
supported bv the Whig party of the North,
’ and a squad of two Whigs, from Virginia,
i See. in the attack on the 21st Rule of the
j House Mr. Gilmer loid the people of Ani
! hert how the land lies, as we are informed’
by the following paragraph from the Lvnch
i burg Republican :
“ Gov. Gilmer, in his speech at Amherst
Court house Monday, diverted to the tact
| that only one Whig metaber of the House of
| Representatives from th; fire States, voted
agaanst rescinding the rile which “stan^cd
the door against the Abolitionists,” and that
whig member had been formerly read out of
the Whig) church by the Clay clique / The
Governor also mentioned the tact that every
avowed Abolitionist in Congress is a Whig.
The Southern people will, .ere long, find out
who are their real friends.” —Enq.
From the Boston Courier. ( VY hig )
THE VETO POWER.
We have it now from a responsible source,
that less than fifty members authorized tins
unanimous manifest , and, what is better still,
not a single member from Massachusetts was
present to give currency, even by passive si
lence, to this ridiculous ebullition of party
spleen, as uncalled Ibr by any considerations
ol patriotism as it is absurd and despotic in
principle. It does indeed make the heart glad
to know that not one member of the Massa
chusetts delegation lias to answer to lus con
stituents for such egregious lolly.
If the Address is to be considered the plat
form of Whig doctrines, to which all must
subscribe or be ex-communicated, we appre
hend it will not be long before there will be a
new church. It is not credible that men ol
sober reflection can pledge themselves to the
support of all that is put forth in the address.
Take, for instance, the first point, which is
solemnly put forth as indispenstble, and which
must be subscribed to as the first principle dt
Whig orthordoxy, —namely, the restraint of
executive power, or, in other words, the tak
ing from the President the veto power. We
believe the exercise of this power lias never
been objected, and we have so much confi
dence in the integrity of parties as to believe
that President Tyler would now have met with
approbation, instead of denunciation, if the
power had been applied to a measure of the
other party* ‘L'ltere have been some attempts
made to interfere with tbe organization ot the
courts, and to restrict tbe power of the judi
ciary ; and it would have been practicable, at
almost any time within the last twelve years,
to have obtained a majority of both Houses
of Congress, which would, in the madness of
party spirit, have abolished the supreme court.
Suppose a bill of such a character should
have passed the Democratic Congress of 1835,
and President Jackson should have placed his
veto upon it, —would the party which is now
so loud and bitter against the exercise of the
power, been ready to crucify him for such an
act? Would they not rather stave taken the
position now assumed by their pol.tical oppo
nents, and, whatever they might have felt to
wards him, as a political adversary, would
they not, lor this single act, have haded him
as the saviour of the country ? They would,
or we mistake entirely the honesty and patri
otism of the parly with whom we have been
connected. When the excitement of the mo
ment shall have passed away, and the people
have had time lo rub their eyes, and open
their ears to hear, and their hearts to under
stand, we believe they will be ashamed of the
folly and ill-nature which now pervades a por
tion of the community.
We admit most freely, that the veto power
may be abused, but it is no more susceptible
of abuse and misapplication than the power
of a majority in Congress. Many people
seem to mink that a minority has no rights,
and that unconditional submission to the ar
bitrary will of a majority, —no matter how
small,—is the bounden duty of the minority.
Such, however, was not the doctrine of the
Whigs during the administration of Genera)
Jackson. Such was not the doctrine of the
Democra ts during tlie administration of Wash
ington and tbe elder Adams, nor was such the
Federal doctrine during the administration of
Jefferson and Madison. A minority was then
supposed to have some claims to consideration,
and had a suitable case occurred for tbe ex
ercise of the veto power, and had it been ex
ercised for the protection of those rights a
gainst the assaults of a mad majority it would
have been hailed, as it should always he, as a
salutary provision of protection and defence,
for those who had not the power of numbers
to prottet themselves.
In these remarks we have not touched tbe
question whether the veto has been used by
President Tyler judiciously or not, and we are
not at preset.t disposed to discuss that point.
But that the framers of the constitution did
wisely in giving such a power to the President,
and that it would be gross injustice to the
people to deprive him ot that power, vve can- ,
not for a moment doubt. Men who are not
bound to political parties, who go for the
country, the whole country, and nothing but
the country, we feel quite sure, will agree with
us, and to their decision it may safely be left.
Opinion of Lord Brougham respecting the
dangerous monopoly of a National Bank.
Dangerous Monopolt of the Bank of
England.—Much has been said upon the
proceedings of the Bank of England during
the late panic of the country. Without wish
ing to throw blame*npon the conduct of that
body, 1 cannot help expressing my conviction
that, an end must come to that system which
exerts So powerful an influence at present, not
only on the money market, but on the whole
tralle of the country. Some chafige ought to
be effected, by which the interest of the whole
empire, together with the fortunes of every
lamtly in it, should be withdrawn from the
absolute control and direction of fhur-and
tvventy men j be they bankers, or be they
merchants, whether they are to be looked up
to as a political corporation or a powerful
commercial company, it. is too much to trust
the whole property of the country t* the ab
solute will or caprice of a few men, left in the
exercise of a power which is constantly
changing all the relations of that property —
sometimes increasing their issues and raising
its value, then as suddenly contracting them
and leaving commercial transactions in a state
of corresponding embarrassment—now re
stricting their discounts, and now enlarging
them—now restricting their issues and lower
ing the rate of interest, and again suddenly
enlarging their issues and raising the rate of
interest. .|pst sueh as we have lately wit
nessed are the fearful consequences of that
system upon all the property of the country —
such are the confusion and disorder which
must continually prevail in all its concerns, so j
long as the influence ol that system is allowed j
to prevail.
I mean not to sav I distrust the present ;
Bank Directors; but’l distrust, and ever shall
distrust, the wisdom of any set of men placed
in their situation, and who, unless they possess
the gft of prophecy, cannot be safely en
trusted with powers such as those at present
vested in the Bank of England, without check
or control. Let the monopoly of the Batik
of England he restricted, and let other com
panies have an opportunity of raising them
seelves up in opposition to them; then, and
not till then, will the money market and the
j commercial transactions ot the country be
j placed upon a steady and secure footing.
February 2,1826.
! Trouble in Canada.—The British armed
! s'eam ships Minos and Toronto, are moored in
1 the river between Navy Island and the Cana
| than shore. We learn that last night, some
j persons unknown got a cannon on the Island,
1 and fired several times at the vessels, with
: what effort we are unable to say.—Buffalo
’ Ccmmercial-
[NUMBER 36*
The McLeod Case.— Another comply
of United Stales soldiers, we understand, is
about to leave the city, to keep the peace in
Utica during the trial.—New York Express.
We do inn believe that the Government so
utterly misunderstands the character of our
people, as to send “U. S. soldiers to keep the
peace in Utica during the trial.” But if they
do so misunderstand us, wt mistake both the
character of the court and of the citizens of
Utica, if they permit it to be assumed that
bayonets are necessary to enforce a due ad
ministration ol justice in the heart of the most
enlightened poition of our Stale.—Albany
Evening Journal.
Tbe Evening Journal gets itself into un
necessary heats about a statement for which
there is no foundation. We hope the recent
course of the Journal does not arise (rom an
over-anxiety either to foster the McLeod ex
citement, or to find fault with the Federal ad
ministration. Yet it could not, if it wouid, put
forth a more incendiary and unjust paragraph.
The United Stales troops alluded to were or
dered to Rome to protect the property of the
United States, consisting of several thousand
stands of arms, &c.—a measure judged to be
necessary, on information and advice received
by the Government here.
The Federal Government has no desire to
“assume that bayonets are necessary to en
force a due administration of justice” in New
York, though we are quite satisfied that, if
justice is duly administered in all matters con
nected with this controversy, it will be no
merit of fellowship with “Hunter’s Lodges”
in high places.
The state of facts upon which tbe Presi
dent’s timely proclamation is predicated, would
astonish tbe people of the United Staies were
tbe details spread before them. To say the
least, they indicate the necessity of great pm
dence and judgment to preserve the peace of
the country. —Madisonian.
OFFICIAL.
To the Hon. S. R. lloebie, Acting Post
master General.—Sir: Information having
been received in a form entitled to attention
that the Postmasters at *********, Pennsyl
vania, and ********** } Ohio, have so far vio
lated the obligations which they impliedly
assumed on taking office under my Adminis
tration, of abstaining from any active partisan
ship, or in any way connecting their offices
with party politics, or using them for party
purposes, I have to request that inquiries shall
be instantly instituted into their conduct, and
that if the charges against them be found to
be true, they be immediately turned out of
office, and citizens appointed in their places
who will otherwise conduct themselves. The
Post Office Department, in ali its operations,
should be conducted for the single purpose of
accomplishing the important objects for which
it was established. It should in an especial
manner, so far as is practicable, be disconnect
ed from party politics. It was established for
specified purposes of equal importance to ev
ery citizen. To convert it into an engine cf
party, to be used for party purposes, is to make
it the fruitful source of the most alarming
evils. Ramified as it is, and extended to every
neighborhood, the purity of its administration,
and necessarily of its agents, should be par
ticularly guarded.
For a Deputy Poster ster to use his frank
ing privilege (a privilege bestowed upon him
for the sole purpose of exonerating him from
oppressive charges in the necessary correspon
dence of his office) in scattering over the
country pamplets, newspapers, and proceed
ings, to influence election?, ir, to outrngo n.ll
propriety, and must not for a day be tolerated.
Let this be left to the politicians. I should be
happy if one or two examples shall be found
sufficient to correct an evil which has so ex
tensively prevailed.
I will take this occasion, also, to add for
your instruction, that the appointment to, and
continuance in the office of postmaster of any
one editing a political newspaper is in the
highest degree objectionable. It involves
most of the consequences above stated—intro
duces politics into the post office—Diminishes
es the revenue—and confers privileges on one
editor which all cannot enjoy. In a word, it
is my fixed purpose, os far as in me lies, to
separate the Post Office Department from pol
itics, and bring about that reform which the
country has so loudly demanded.
Sent. 28, 184 T. JOHN TYLER.
’ Another Murder. —An elderly man by
the name of Daniel Ferguson was found dead
on Sunday morning last, in the house of a Mr.
Sion Best, about three or four miles from this
place. The deceased appeared to have come
to his death by blows inflicted on the head
with a stick or some other weapon, being much
mangled and bruised. Upon disclosures made
by the family who resided in the house, Ste
phen L. Jernigan was arrested and brought
before Z. L. Daniel, Esq. who after a proper
hearing was committed to jail to await his trial
at the next spring term of the circuit court—
said Jernigan is an old offender, although
young in years—and if found guilty for this
offence, and executed it will not be the first
time he ever felt the halter draw —having been
tried once, before his honor Judge Lynch, (who
never suffers just ice to go unsatisfied) when
he was both whipped and hung—though, not
until he was dead, dead, dead! —lrwinion (Ala.)
Shield, Oct. 6.
Murder.—On the night of last Monday, a
gentleman named Jernigan was brutally as
sassinated in Greensboro’, by two men named
Edward and John Lanier.
The circumstances, as we learn were these.
Mr. Statham, a tavern keeper in Greensboro,
had expelled the Laniers’ from his house for
disorderly conduct. Two hours after as Mr.
Jernigan w r as proceeding towards the stable of
the tavern, in company with Mr. Stathain, he
(Mr. J.) was assaulted by trie Laniers, knocked
down by a blow on his Head, and then stabbed
through the heart He died instantly. The
assassins had been lying in wait for Mr. Stat
ham and mistook Jernigan for him.
We have been furnished with a desorption
of these murderers, which is as follows :
Manson E. Lanier is of quite athljtic form,
about six leet high, about 27 years of age, has
dark or black h,.ir, brown complexion, dark
eyes, with sullen down lock, exhibiting a de
cided bad countenance, ‘i he trout and middle
fingers on the right hand are mutilated by the
passage of a rifie bail between them, the front
ringer is inclined to turn toward the middle ol
the hand,- He has pretty good command of
carpenters’ tools, and is a good rough work
man, he is apt to use spirituous liquors if in
vited, after which he talks freely, but without
oxcitement he has but little to say, weight 175
or 80 lbs.
John Lanier is about 20 or 24 years old, of
erect and active form, about six leet high, dark
hair and dark eyes, of a brown or swarthy
complexion, has a scar around one of his eyes
caused by a burn when a child, we.ghs about
150 lbs.
As there is reason to suppose that these vil
lians are attempting to escape in this direction,
people would do well to be on the lookout for
them. A large reward will be paid for their
apprehension.—Washington (Ga.) News, Oc
tober 7.
The appropriations ol public moneys made
during tee late extra session of Congress, a
mounted to §19,700,277 98, ot w hich §590,-
957 00 were for the expenses of the extra
es^iou.
Fro'n i he Courier and Enquirer.
CIRCUIT COURT AND COURT OF OYER
AND TERMINER.
Utica, Sept. 27, 1841.
Before Judges Gridley, White, Jones,
Roberts and Kinney.
This court met yesterday for the term, and
:he grand jury having Keen cmpnnneled, were
charged at some length ;.ud with great per
spicuity hy Judge Gridley, the presiding
Judge. The petit jury were then sworn*
uid among the first cases was that of Alex
inder McLeod. In this case Willis Hall,
c.sq, Attorney General o* the State on the
part of the prosecution rose and said .
Il the Court please, I desire to call the
witnesses in the case of the People vs Alex.
McLeod, and those called will’ please to an
swer their names. [ Twenty-five names were
here called, and hut one answered] Mr. Hall
then said, the proper evidence of the service
of subpoenas upon the witnesses will he filed,
and I shall then ask for attachments to he is
sued against those who do not appear. I
would remark, that a large number of wit
nesses are in attendance on the part of the
people, and though it seems that many of
hem are not in court at present, I presume?
that they will shortly arrive, and I therefore
propose to set down the trial for an early day,
is early as the convenince of the court and
prisoner will admit. I am not disposed to
call on the case to the prejudice of the party,
h it l am anxious to call it on as soon as pos
sible.
judge Gridley—l understand that vmu are
now ready.
Mali —I am now ready if the prisoner is
ready to go to trial.
I he Court—Perhaps nn conference with
’.he counsel oh the other side, some arrange
ment may he made convenient to all parties.-
Spencer—l inform the counsel that we are
not now ready, and that we will not be until
next week.
The Court—this is very unfortunate: I
would wish to have it brought on as eariv as
circumstances will permit.
Han—l should be exceedingly reluctant to*
put it off till next week. Independent of the
witnesses, many of whom come from a dis
tance, it is to be depreciated, that a case
which has caused such excitement, should be
delayed after the witnesses have arrived.—
With that view, I suggest that it should be
taken up as early as possible.
• Spencer—We expected that we should be
able to call it on earlier. 1 bad so arranged
with my associates, but from various causes
and necessary to detail great & unexpected
delays have arisen in taking of the commis
sions. Among them, the Provincial Parlia
ment is sitting and witnesses had to be exam
ined who are extended from Lake Ontario t<y
hake Erie. Air. Gardner lias been several
weeks in Canada and has not yet returned,
and some of the Commissioners have alsonotr
been returned.
The Court —Three packages of Commis
sions came in this day.
Spencer-Yes, these have c< me in, but more
are expected to arrive. I say it is not possible
to bring on the trial until Monday. Bradley
has said so also, and it was understood be
tween him and Wood but Mr. Wood did not
so understood it, and therefore 1 do not think
we can bring it on until Monday, and at
present 1 cannot say if he will be ready evert
ilien, and therefore wish it to be distinctly un
derstood that we shall not be able to go u>
trial unlit Monday, and perhaps not then.-
Hall—Much as I regret that the trial should
be put off, I am not disposed to (dice the
prisoner to trial unprepared, though in this
case the long delay which has occurred, takes
from it any reasonable exercise lor a further
postponement. The whole summer was be
fore him: and no reason has been given why
(hose commissioners have not been taken be
fore him; and no reason lias been given why
those commissioner have not been taken be
fore. I will allow it to pass over this day,
with the privilege to again cail it up previous
to Monday, of which I will give due notice,
trusting uiai tie may ne ame to go to trial at
an early day.
Spencer-*! will inform the Attorney Gen
era], that the last thing we desire is an unne
cessary delay.
Hal!—l wish the case to go on as early as
possible, in consequence of the great incon
venience which must arise to so many persons
its being retaided. I also request the Court
to impress upon the minds of the jury the
great proprietor of avoiding any conversation
in relation to this question. 1 also make the
same remark in regard to the witnesses.
Spencer—ln that we very heartily concur.
As respects the jury, they should not converse
even with each other upon the subject. I
hope they will be strongly charged to paitic
ulariy mark every man that speaks to them
in relation to it. There is no one here more
anxious to have the trial conducted impar
tially than the prisoner’s counsel.
Court—ls the Attorney General calls on
the Court, and insists on his right to bring ihe
case to trial, the prisoner must be prepared
with affidavit ii his counsel wish to postpone
it further.
Spencer—l trust he will not move on the
trial until Messrs. Gardner and Bradley ar
rive.
Hal!—l do not wish to he misudersfood. I
do not wish the trial called on until he is pre
pared, but it lie has thought proper to Jet
ihe session pass without executing his com
missions, though he understood that the trial
w'as set down last May for ttiis term and this
place, if lie now wishes to put it off without
giving good reason, all the circumstances au
thorise nte in (oicing it on you with more?
rigor than I would do under oidmary circum
stance. I will therefore not make any stipu
lation further than leaving it until the middle
of this week before I make any call upon the
court jto adovv the triai to proceed.
Spencer—l must correct the Attorney Gen.-
who is not right in saying the trial whs set
down for last May. ihe motion was heard
.n July term, and it was the middle of July
before the venue was brought here, or it was
known when the trial would take place, and
since that time the Commissioners have been
out,
Court—l s’ all only remark, that if the At
torney General calls on the case, and is not
satisfied with an ornal explanation, then, in
the tegular course of business, it will be in
ncumbent on the prisoner to shew cause why
the trial is to be postponed, fdo not bv any
means say, that the Court will act 6trictly or
rigorously in the case if he can show cause
of delay, but the Court 13 undoubtedly bound
to see that such cau-e be shewn.
‘1 he Couit then addressed the Jury a?
follows:
Gentleman *-—lt was my attention had not
the cjutiH Suggested it, to charge the Jurors, 1
that as some of them will have 10 uy a most
important indictment, and one which has cre
ated great excitement through tLe enure
Slate, it is possible that the Jurors may have
beard and spoken much on the subject. It is,
nevertheless, desirable that they shod J hear
am) know as little as possible m relation to it
before they are impauneled to try the ?ause,
inorJerih.il they shouid then know it from
the mouths of the witnesses, and enter upon
the case without having formed anv previoi s’
opiin ‘iii>i predilection, and hence the necessi
ty ol their not conversing with any person
wha Soever in relation to the facia of this
case. Fhey should enter into no conversa
tion, or hear no suggestion from one side or
•he other. It is true, that if any man ap
proaces a juror with the view or intention of
influencing Ins mind, his doing so is highly
criminal, and the man who so acts is subject
to indictment; and if any person attempts nv
suggest to a juror facts or circumstances, or
in anv way tamper with him, it is the duty
Os such juror sac 9 or circumstances, iW