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\ > *. ^ JMtfre have been fields, which make ex^Hlient haj. Miwllasgell, we believe, is the only QJtc who cuts and cures much of it. Blades and oat straw are prineipally depended on for feeding stock. Live Stock.?Cattle kept in largo numbers, but there is very little attention paid to them, and no provision m^de for; their support, they only being valued for; making manure and affording beef for the Plantation now and then. Within ! a few years the Durham breed has been introduced. We saw some very fine ! half-bloods at Mr. Hasg'-lPs, and also ai i the Rev. Mr. Johnson's, which ha* a voting bull of the pure blood. Mr. Husgell, i who first introduced the breed, was so j unfortunate as to lose his bull. Mr. 1 -J- - - C...1 t'niinn> AVm. Thompson nas ais<> ;t nuc b ?!l of the pure blood. Horses and jtfu#*.*?Mules are gene ally w u ked on the larjre Plantations, as also are pares Icept for breeding. The descendants of j tbe Germans (wno are in considerable j numbers in this Parish) work horses in preference. II ice horses are bred by a ! few individuals. Sh^enare kept on ev-; ery Plantation for the use of the table; : generally they are of the common kinds, but some few are in the possession of the i South Down and broad tailed-Afiican.? GA/itiJkre to bp met with in s.n ll nufn-j ? bers on most Plantations; thev are a!s > j kept only for the taMe. //%'* ?About' two thirds of the number required f.r its consumption are raised in the Parish, the remainder are purchased. Nearly j all are of the common breed. Some of I the Woburn were introduced a rew years ' ago f om Philadelphia by Mr. Dallas.? Mr. Haskell has a pair. The sow is the i , finest animal ot the kind we have seen. W e do not mean as to size, for we have seen larger, but size combined with sym? - * filio innocn roc from flit. fin .if Illfll V* v.'i?v mv.Uv">u?vo ii vim \<i< v? y "" ihc snout to the root ol' the tail four feet seven inches; width across th% hips ten inches^ across the shoulder thirteen inches, girth ne-r the shoulder thr<t' feet and eleven inches, beigdi in front twenty-three inches, behind twenty^fivc. Sneis now hut a fen month. At five months, site weighed one hundred and fifty pounds. Poultry.? A sufficient number of to wis, docks, uirk'?s. and geese, are raised ihroughoti! the Parish for its consumption. In die lower p .ri the) ,are raised in cons durable quauti i s for the Charleston market. * Gardens and Orchards.?Tfv sc are comparatively but little attended to. Chi every plantation there is a garden, but no. fortunately, here as we have found it elsewhere, very liltlo attention is bestowed, <>" it, a few common vegetables being genonliv ail that is grown there. We would like to see this department more attended to. Our Planters really arc not uvare of the great benefits, (not ;o speak of the comforts and real luxuries, to he derived from a well managed garden. Yet wherever we have visited in lite country, whether nenror far from the city, with but a very lew exceptions, we have not come ae oss any King d^serv ing the name of a garden, in the immediate neighbourhood of cities Excepted. There are no doubt inany, but our meeting with so lew shows bow rare tle*^ are. The above remarks are applicable to the kitchen g?r den. Still Iew< r are the n:t< mpts 10 eulti vnte flows an I exotics. VVo have had die ! pleasure, however, of visiting tl.r< e or four j plantations, (and we have heard of several others which we hope to visit ere long,) where these were nor only-cultivated in the open grounds, but green-houses w- re ??rec. ta.i fnr nmterfion of the* more d'heu'e. ( At Col. KdtVard Richardson's we saw a I large display of tulips and h)'<cirrhs. They i were between fifteen hundred and two thou- j sand of the former planted in beds hy ?h?rn- ! selves. The hyaehinths wt re also nu- ' nierous and in lull blown. Only a f?-w of the | tuhps were open, which we regretted tnueh. i The flower garden is immediately in front of the house, and of I ?rgo size. It is not as j yet finished and stocked, hut will be soon. I Amongtlie exotics which stand tint winter! J without protection wt? noticed the following : ; Fyrus Japotuoa, (both the white and red. varieties ; Cvdonm s i ns< s ;&pirea criii> a ; S. cella ; Magnoliy purpurea ; Crythnna Cristigalli, [which blooms, Col. II. informed us, three tnn? s during the year ; | Hex ferox: Clematis flnmu'u VVisferia, Cousequaua, [growing with gr?*at luxuriance]; i\rus ?n:?. lus flore plcno; Coroi.elln : and many others. There are many rotes and honey-suckl *. Among the Imtcr are some hybrids grown by Col. Richardson of great beuut/i Many j of our showy native shrubs, such as Kahui- j as, Rhododendrons, Magnolias, Gwtfonia.s, j &c. havo with geod taste been introduced. There i* n!sn a gro^n-bouse containing the j rare and delicate ptorws ; w?? took no no'e of them. Thek tchen garden is well laid j off and better stocked than any other we saw, but even it was compnru! v< ly hot indifferently supplied to what it might have been. That we may not he supposed to have fix'd too legh a standard in this.respect* we will hero enumerate what v? g? nbtea might be had in die rrion h of January, ; which ali will admit, is one of the very worst , for obtaining >1 full supply. We can oh. tain from the open ground with hut ordinary euro and attention, and without resort to ' #r!il1eial neat, or protect'ou, (except the ; winter be uncommonly severe,) lire follow*. < ing, viz. cabbages, caul flowej.c, hro *ol;. j bedts, carrots, salsafy, parsifps, whih* and ? ? tu??,ir>o rutn ft > ClIUW IUIII 111, IWI't I I ?.N ?v^. . , ^ I o lettuce, spillage, nud radishes. Lot our i planters enquire among themselves, and in- j form us who has had the 0110 half of tin; a. bove at any time during the winter in his * garden : nnd yet they are all of ??asy cu! ure. 1 The cauliflower is u little uncertain, and may at times require the protection of n little ! straw, but the rest are easily raised and ; ought to be in every garden. Wc will en- I deavotur to supply our friends, sometime ( hence, with nil the ioformunon necessary to 1 enable them to have them. With respect j lo orchards wc neither sa w nor heard ot any along the river. A few peach trees and wild plums are to be found on every 1 plantation, but no regular orchard is plant-i I j / S % W * * JU f ed. The Germans m the interior of the I Parish, however, bestow more attention on | them. They invariably, we have been informe?l, plant peach orchard when they make a S"ttl?*ment, which is kept up. They also cultivate the apple in small quantities, 1 hut it is said not with much success, perhaps I more owing to the kinds cultivated than 10 any other cause. In the neglect of the orchard the planters of 3'. Matthews are not nloii",for unfortunately throughout^fcpreatest part of the lower section of tlwWS ate, no attention is bestowed on it. We know of some exceptions to this nnnnt, where fruit tre.sofall the kinds which succeed in our climate are can-fully cultivated.* Iu neglecting the orchard our Planters deprive fhernHfjt/s of many luxuries which all the 1 money thev may make by c<?t;on cannot J supply?and why should this he so ? The j ground is of no consequence,?there is enough and !o spare. Trees of ihe very best ! - r?imin >utiiprll pan 5o ob v;t: kmf's i hi ........vj tamed a: small cost. An o!<l hand, one .who can do little eiS'% could he f?nproprui*ed to this work, which would not require his attendance but nt certain seasons.? Why then, we repeat, is the orchard so neglected? The absence from the plantation for some of the summer months is not a satisfactory answer for most live | where they c in sti'i enjoy their fruit, and even if they did no', a good orchard would certainly >?dd to the comfort of their negro- s. If the children eat the green f uit, it is the fault of th?* Planter, for this can and ought o be guarded ng linsf. [To be Continued.] I THE GAZETTE. " J we-\es?a\ ,uoa:in?i, Jt'tvi: ci. Gen. Thompson's "Circular'' we in- j ! sert tikis week, according to promise.? ! Sire fourth page. We shall, next week insert, on the othe.r side, part of the address of the "Democratic National Con! vention." I Col. Thomas Sumter, the only sum-! ! vin* son of Gen. Sumter, and father of j .he Hon. T. D. Sumter now member of j i Congress from this district, died at his! j residence near Siateburg, on the 15th ! ! inst. in t!:e 7*2d year of his age. He * was for several \cars a member of Con- ! !gr-ss, and afterwards, Minister to ilea- ' I i A Whig Convention lias been held in | Alabama, which j-eems from the repor1 ; of its proceedings to have been :>n anij mated meeting. # The number of dele| gates was nearly 600. and the number of: i banners and badges over 50. An e!ec| toral ticket was nominated and a coinj mittee appointed to prepare and publish ! an address to the people of'the jjfa c in favor of Harrison and Tvlf.r. The t published proceedings fill more than t I eleven columns of a large newspaper. Celebration at Fort Mekis.?The battle of Fort Meigs was celebrated on j the ground, June 11th. It is estimated i tiiat there were 26,000 persons present. ! Our columns were full before the account reached us. The material parts of ii shall be copied next week. Gen. Harrison was present and addivsed the multitude, lie also addressed a large crowd assembled to me??t h m in Colum- j bus, on his way to Fort Meigs. A sketch j of his Columbus address has been published, and it demolishes the ground of objection so much harped upon that he refuses to declare Ids principles. The FoitMeigs address is also to be published. The "Great Western" arrived in Now Vork on the 19th, bringing news from j England to the 4th inst. The season j was favorable and crops promising.? ! Cot'on dull with a decline of one fourth ! of a penny. A special messenger came out with despatches to the British Minis- j ter. The King of Pruss a is dead. Two men, one white and the other' black, were lately bitten by a mad dig in Charleston. CoNGRfcss.?The Biukrupt hill still occupies the Senate, and :hc Sub Treasury bill the II >use <d Representatives. A bill to estimate the mileage for members of Congress according to the shortest j O O line from their homes to Washington has I ? passed the House, and is before the Senate. The present law allows mileage to bfi charged for the distance on the "most usual road." The most usual road and the one actuall y travelled from the homes of many members is much longer than the mostd rect road. Some charge ? by the direct route and some by the circuitous. The object of the bill is to make | the pay uniform, and to reduce it in ma-! nv cases. The saving to the country bv ! J / passing the bill, it is stated, will be j $50,000 annually. The pay is 8*3 for every 20 miles. Considerable political discussion has taken place in th'c Senate , on the motion to print 20,000 copies of1 < the Report of the Military Committee on Mr. Poinsesit's scheme for organizing and disciplining the militia. Mr. Poinsett's scheme has proved to be very unJ j popular, and its living been endorsed t ~ T?U*LL?**-* , ?^ >'y the President was operating very se- t riouslv to the disadvantage of the ad- J J . t sinistra ion party. A main object of| the report is to prc.vent or remove any j injurious impression on the public mind j < from this cause. The motion to print,1 2d,000 filially prevailed. A motion to j j accompany the report with Mr. Poinsett's !, scheme failed/the administration sena- j tors voting against it. But a motion af- i terwards made to print 10,000 copies of j1 the paper separately from the report, and j1 accompanied by* reports on the same sui) j ject by Gen. Harrison and Gen. Knox i along with some old militia laws of Congress, prevailed. A bill allowing the c'aims of the heirs of Fulton, passed the House, but was rejected in the Senate. It is a custom in t ic House for menv li hers who consider themselves misrepre-! presented or erroneously reported, in the newspapers, to rise in their places, -...1 flin ITrvittp fliov (lid ! iliiu / Cub IU uiv n/'.cv .. .i.-v L..^ I sav. This custom has a few times been followed in the Senate. On the 17th inst. Mr. Clay of Alabama, charged the National Intelligencer with having misrepresented him, by withholding part o'! an explanation made by him on some* occasion, when the reporter of that paper states he was absent. Mr. Clay of Kentucky censured the practice of correcting in the Senate the misrepresentations of newspapers which called forth replies, i rejoinders &c. when Mr. Walker offered i the following resolution which lies over. Rrsolcerf, That a select committee be j appointed to inquire in'o the propriety j of selecting an equal number of reporters, of both political parties who shall be sworn to r port correctly, ns far as practible, the proceedings of this body. In tiie House on the 12th of June, j Mr. !5otts of Va. moved the suspend the i rules to enable him to offer the following preamble and r-sdution, avering the facts therein stated to be derived from a nnvcnnil Pvnmin'ilum (if flio rPr.firiU in the the case. Whereas hy r f-.fnce !o the proceedings of a Naval General Court Martial, hold in tho mouth of M ?v, 1539, on board the Uni fed Stat* s ship M.-?c- doniun, tlvn lying in! Pensacnla Bay, l(?r tin? trial of L\ George ' .Mann Moo". of Virginia, r?i":lio U. S. Navy, j on charges and specifications origin *lly preferred ng- i ist him by commander Uiiah P. j Levy; among ot! er irregularities complained of - by flic? accused, the following faefs ! w.il appear, which call loudly for redress, j to wit ; Til t*, on t ie 30th day of May, James i Mitclc'il. the steward, a negro s rvaut of' the said Commander Uriah P. Levy, of the | II. S. ship Vuudalin, was caiiod and stvorri as a w itn* ss on behalf of the prosecution, j t?, t*-s i:v against It ? s*id L eul* nant ffooe; i that the accuse*! objected 'o the examination 1 of tin? ujtness upon (lio ground that lie ivas a colore I man ; t wit the Court alter delib. i era ion. di<1 not coosi l?'r the objection a va|nl i one, and ordered the ex-iminnrio'i to proceed; that t ?e aceusc J then offered ;!?o following ; prot's', which was, at bis request, spread upon ti c record : 'The accused h gs i-avn *o stalo to tins Court, most dis iuell\, that ho solemnly pro tests against t'io evidence of this wi'ness i luting received and recorded. It is far from the wish of loo accused to ouject fo any ovL dence which the Court may do? in legal; hut the witness is a colored man, and there fori*, in the opinion of tho accused, is not a j conipotent witness oven before this tribunal. , 4 G. M. HOOE, 14 L'eutcnnni Uni'ed States Navy." Whereupon the witness proceeded to do- ' liver his < vi l? nee before tlio Court ; upon j the conclusion of winch, the accused oiler- j ed tin* following paper in writing, which, ?t id* request, was also spread upon tin* record: ,4 T o accused having protested against j the evidence of luis witness, on the ground that lie conceives Ids testimony to be alto, j gejher illegal ; thai lie knows it would bo so ' considered before tin civil tribunals of this Torritorv, the forms and customs of whic h, he humbly thinks, should be as clos?*lv fol. ! lowed by a court martial as possible; tlir-re- ; f ro n>ks to spread upon the record tlio fact that he cannot consent to, and has totally I declined cross."xnmiiiing t1 is wi'ness. GKOIIGE MaNN IIOOE. 44 Lieut. U. S. N." j That, on the same day, to wit, the 30 h j day of May, Daniel Waters, a negro cook,} mil private sprvtini oi tt?i? said OT'giuai pro- ' secutor. Uriah P.. Levy, was called, sworn,'; and exninned before the Court ; whereupon ' tfo? arete-:- d pr-sented the following paper ; in writing, which,%t his iequea.1, was spread i ipon tie* record, to wit: ' The Court having decided to receive j and record he ;?-st ninny of colored persons, ; the accused, in p-gard to this witness* can j only rei:era'e his objection as set foiih in 1 die case of iM.tele H, the Captain's steward. ; The accused will pursue the same course j with this witless that he decided to take with i the other colored man. GEO [IGF* MANM HOOK, ? Lieut. U. S. Navy." | Tim! lf-10 (.mi.! nrn 'rr?c??->il niif.l lV?/l?a. I , * "'Ul ???\y ?! |.. Otflll ff VUIIW J i lay, fh" 5th of June, when ! Itc Court entered ! up its judgment, of whicli ihe foliowir;g is tiic conclusion : " And tiiu Court therefor*! hath doth sent- i eneed the said Leu'. Geo M. Ilooe to be j1 dismissed from the West Indbi srjuadron, j' nfter having been reprimanded in general 1 < triers by the honorable the Secretary of the j: Navy." ' IJ Which s'dJ proceedings are endorsed. j 1 1 "ApprovH, J.K.PAULDING." Tlia', on the return of the President of 1 he [Jn.ted Slates to the seat ef Government.! he said Lieut. George M. flooe addressed : ' * t remonstrance to LIis Excellency the Pres- Fl den\ complaining vof iho irregularities of til he Court, generally, v hicli remonstrance an includes with the following statement : un ? Tin r-! is one o her point in the prucee-' th Jinffs of the Court (touching their legality) ni ,o which I invite the particular attention oi yoifr Excellency. It respects a matter wl to which ail Southern men are el -eply sens'- va live-?and, if not overruled by your F.xcei- j le leney, wdi assuredly ciroe many valuable i Wi men from the Navy. In the progress of the proceedings of this court, two negroes, j Vt one the cook, and the other private steward j ^ of Command* !' Levy, were introduced as w witnesses against me. I protested against * ' their legal competency to be witnesses in : af the Territory of Florida, on the ground that th tliey were negroes. Tiio Court disregarded my exception, and, as tin; record shows, su they were allowed to he examined, and to sf testify on mv trial. Tin's I charge as a pro- ! -~?.ri'tn'r i I f?:;l and erroneous on the nar. of ; " ! . _ the Court, and, if so, according to established : l'< law am! precedent, must vitia'.e ;u;J set aside j a' ilicir whole proceedings. Ml which is j P1 most respectfully submitted to yuur cutisid. l' eralion mid final decision by " Vour obedient servant, ^ " GEO.vGB MANN HOOE, ' L eut. U. S. Navy." . That, after an examination of the record, ^ the President returned the same to the Navy Department wilh the following endorsement: "The Pres dent finds ncthinj i:i the proceeding? in the case of Lieut. 11 one which requires his interference. AI. V. II.' |e And whereas the introduction of negroes j and private servants of the prosecutor as wit- I nesses t(k-testifv againt the characters of gen- j u tlcrnen ??f the Navy, in the service of their P? country, is a practice, though sanctioned by w tlie President of the United States, that will , I nol be justified, an ! ought not to be tolerated 1 |j by Southern men, or "Northern men with ; n| Southern principles," and, if not corrected, | ^ must operate as a serious injury t<> the Navy, j , to the it;i?,iillation of its ollieers, and to the tn. j . finite-discredit of the Government; I liesolced, therefore, That the Secretary of j ct the Navy no required to communicate to tiii? j ti House a C'.py of the proceedings of the court- | ti mar ia] held for the trial of Lieu!. G. \1. llooe, j C( that his wrongs may he promptly redressed, i u and the evils complained of corrected without j delay. I y The motion to suspend the rules was lost, 05 \ to 55; a majority, but not two thirds, voting tr for if. it Gen. McKay, of N. C. then asked leave to h offer a resolution simply culling for a copy of I '' the proceedings, but concluded again, to post. ^ pone it till next day, which is the ast wc have j n. i r I " seen on the subject, wiougn we nave .1 rcpur- , ^ of the proceedings in the House for several j a davs afterwards. I n ; GEN. H ARRISON'S OPINIONS. | ,, The followingcorrespondence between 1 p. Mr. James Lyons, one of the candidates j n on the Harrison electorial ticket in Vir- i " . . . i P ginia, is so connected with the politics [ of the country as to entitle it to a place t in our columns. In explanation of a ,T part of (Jen. Harrison's letter, it is proper j f' to state that it had been said lie was a j f federalist, because he 4?ad received of- j 11 tree from Mr. Adams, and had expressed j 1! himself, in a debate in Congress, per-1 11 sonally friendly to that individual. Mr. I rr Randolph charged him on the floor of the (, IIo use of Representatives with being a I o federalist; it is to his reply to this charge I I tl that he alludes in tins letter. d From the Ricliinoml Whig. Q Richmond, April 11, 184D. p Dear Sir : The circumstances which this letter will explain, will excuse me, s< I hop", for intruding myself upon your' 'I attention. j o Among the numerofjs charges which oi have been put into circulation against| a you by the presses and partisans of Mr. |' ? Van iluren, the two most relied upon j ?i and deemed most potent in the South j I are: that you are a fe?le?alist and an 1 abolitionist. Satisfied, from the evi- < ? deuce before them and the whole conn- o try, that these charges are equally un-' pi sustained by truth, your friends have ! r< met, denied, and. as they believe, refuted them. As the prospect of your election H incteases, however, and the heart of the w patriot revives with the hope of the w success of one from whom he expects a d wise, economical, and republican admin, li; istration, the malignity of your enemies w seems to increase, and titc spoilsmen il become more reckless arid desperate in c.1 their ejFortsto retain the power by which ai they make their spoil. Of this the con- si elusive evidence will be found in the si Richmond Knquirer of the 10th instant, I tc in a production purporting to be an ad- J n; dress from the Van Buret) Central Com-i rn mittee. In that address it is roundly tit asserted that you are a federalist and an I ill abolitionist, and that your friends in the i ui South support you, knowing that you I fr are so. This statement is made here at with the knowledge of the views enter-1 tn ta ned by the Whigs of Virginia, as j M expressed in the Address to the People I ot of the State, published by their Conven- j p; tion, which was held in this citv in the i af month of February last, of which I send you a copy by the mail of this day. I m regard the charge, therefore, as an im- s*; pudent falsehood against you, as it ccr- I i tainly is against the Whigs of Virginia, A at whom it is especially levelled: and j lo if made by an anonymous scribbler in a 1 i?a newspaper, might be passed by with j bii contempt. But as the charge is now j bu put forth in an imposing form, and the j vc subject of abolition is one of absorbing! jo; interest and paramount interest and par-j 0!j amount importance?and as I could not, t0 and 1 am sure the Whigs of Virginia, cx and the South generally, would not vote i!)( for any abolitionist living to be "resident j rCj of the United States, (scarcely sooner i}l( than they would for a Florida Indian,) mi ind as I have been placed before the j \V f'eoplc of this Slate for the office of cv ector upon the Whig ticket, I have ! a pr ought it due to you,- to the Whig cause, tenti d to myself, to a'sk you to furnish, ' of tfi ider your own hand, your denial of can! e charge, in a letter to me, which I ! was ay publish. j mrv 1 beg leave to say that the denial j iho Inch 1 expect will, i:i my opinion, ad- | L"g nice your cause with all good and j nppi llectiug men througli the land; but Bon liether it will advance or injure it, it I son equally due to yourself and to us,?that I dare >u should furnish it, as I am satisfied ! p?-ec at you would be as unwilling to ad-|Le? mce that cause by any." fraud, as we j pUb louid be to be made the instruments, | for | tparcntly, .or dupes of-it. Be pleased, j vov: ere fore, to say to me, whether you pc.(j ill entertain the scntimcnti upon the cin ibject of abolition expressed in your | ,ne ieech at Vincennes, in 1935; whether j.siiii )u were a member of an abolition so- j t() ii ety in Virginia; and whether you have j 0|>j< ssignated the Richmond Society as an rri >>1 ition society; ami what was yourjt\|r. >1 i tical connexion, if any, with the old ! \ edoral party. i j?ue With great respect, I am, sir, your Sj)e, iend, &c. "i Rev JAMES LYONS. !ane To Gen. W. II. Harrison, Cincinnati.1 cau hio. | .)l0, * i , ; will Gen. Harrison's Reply. oft North Bend, June 1st. IS 10. j con My I)dar Sir: When 1 received your j fur.| tterot the 14th April, I was very un- j re|;l ell with a violent cold in the head, St.j|; i li intermittent neuralgia, or sun f??j tin, as it is commonly called, which j)ns, as so much increased by writing that 'pcl was obliged for some time to do very ! jnt ttle in that way. When 1 recovered, ! t;le iy unanswered letters had increased t?? | not fearful a mass that I have not yet) HCC pen able to get through it, even with ; (j0 ie assistance oT my conscience-keeping ' Dj i nnmittee. And although I have adopted , , ie method of getting rid of a large por- | |m(J on of them to the (lames instead of the ,n ammittec, such are the interruptions to ; r(.c hich 1 am subjected by a constant (;0 ream of vin'teis, thwt i am ab!o to make I ,.rn ery little progress in lessening my file.? "on have in the above my apology for j( ea ini! you with apparent neglect, which 1 j |?. was impossibl^iat I should do, as well j ,[l;l cm your high smmliog in socie'v, as from (j,e Hi regard I f?v I for you in consequence ??{ ; i:u. ie long and intimate friendship uinl con- I ,r() rxion between our fami'ies. Hut for: t\(J iese reasons, candor induces me to say ! ^|y int I could n'*ver have brought myself to I R,, nswor the poli ieul part of your Mfer at I 'fu 11. I nm convinced that, upon r fl-rfion. L|1(J will vmipself think that it was to'allv I ,un nuecessarv, f?r I cannot suppose that my ^ x crsonnl friends and connexions in mv j 'fit alive State could think thai I was less ol ? 1 n0[ entlemnn or honest man thin those ardent jp? clinicians furiht'r South?Stanly, Alford, jOgure, Dawson, King, die. &c. They j0? ike it for granted that I could not suffer .IC( iv Vincennes speech and oilers to lie f0 , noted by my friends to show my opinions no n th" subject of Hbolitionisrn, ff I did not \ cn?J old those opinions at this time; they have 1 t.0l I'Tcfore, treat"d with scorn and contempt ft,.| le charg" of my being an abolitionist, and ,jK, :uly assert that ! have done ar:H snff red ] lore to support Sou'hern rights iIimm had, a j ideed, h greater number of applications (|,0 <>m individuals (nine-tent!.s at least of my ./>[< ppomnts) reqtiir.ng me to reiterate what j have s ?id or written upon the subject ol IUV in L1. S. B ink, abolitionism. dec. I have t imed to answer them of lire at all; \jr mongst other rvrsons, because it was- LrU, bysica'ly impossible that I should do it; co, nd as they rcou.ru mv opinions iti tnanu- ,.v rrripf, particulai ly addressed tot '.< writers, |jjs ley would not he.satisfied will n?y writing I ne letter and a printed copy to vvQ rjc-h. 1 was d termined, however, to wj vail myself of the first favorable ?PI'or* I |j, UMfy, and, referring to the letters Hii'i {^ nd speeches I i;ud made on tie subjects j have mentioned, to endorse litem nil.? In 'his I have re *ently done in a letter to a | j j nmmittce appoint d !>v the Whig members j jf the LegiMa'ure ofN -w York*. You will j robably see it published by the time tins caches you. ig; In relation to the dh'ossion b' tween Mr. Landolph and inys- If. in the Senate, olj.jj hirh a statement is annexed to the address ^ t'at h"tter evidence could be given thai I'rc ir no possibility of satisfying my po.. ^ ticaI enemies by any thing that I eould rite, than the garbled account of which j<jf iey have given of that discussion? If the | ,.?j barge made upon me by Mr. Randolph is j . uthentic taken from a newspaper report, ' truly my answer to him should be con- , dered so also. It is worthy of remark, p^ to, that Mr. Randolph m;fde no reply to _ ty answer to his attack, and that be is ^ at a man to leave a matter in that situ t i , on if he could avoid it. The truth is, ' . laf I believe he really regretted bis attack j ' )on me. Me repeatedly loid me so, and j eqifnilv solicited me to bury the hatchet, i !',tJ a friendly dinner with him, w hich I agreed ,n<1! do. At that dinner were Mr.- Calhoun, ' [r. ILiya'', and Gen. Hamilton, and iffrnfy ' hers, all but myself of the then Jackson i irty. Our friendly intercourse was never j 'terwards interrupted. jan^ In reply to your inquiry as to my con. j I'u'} won with the old Federal party, I will | I ate to you the circumstances under which | van eceived two unpoinfmerits from Mr. John j ot dams. In the year I79G, (Jen. VY ayne 1 oon ft the army on a visit to Philadelphia. 11 el been recently married, and tendered to j in my resignation as his Aid-de-camp, it ho declined receiving it, saying he could I rv well dispense with my services in his; Grt iirney. It was during this trip tint he i last itained the promise of Gen. Washington ! yea give mc a civd appointment, as I had j by press (I my determination to leave the toe s Army. This promise the President I to b pealed to my b,*o In r, Carter B. Harrison j net n in Congress, with some very kind re-! stil inks upon my conduct in tiie Army.? | Go hen Gen. \V ashington left the Presiden-; , I have reason to believe that he obtained j * omise from Mr. Adams to fulfil his iniorts. When the office of the Secretary 1'.* Northwestern Territory became va? t. Mr. Adams appointed mf, although [ opposed by Col. Pickering, thcSecre.. of S:a e. In 1799, I was elected by Republican parly of tho. Tefritoral i.,lanire to bo their candidate for tho .witmoot of delegate to Congress.^veen Mr. Arthur St. Clair, jun. (the of Gov. St. Clair,) the Federal Candis , and myself, the votes were divided d.scly as the t^o parlies s'ood in the slature, with tiie exception of one Reiican, who was induced by his regard the Governor to vote for his son. The i was 11 to 10?not one of the nine eralists voted for mo. Before I left einnaii, the Rppub'ican members made promise not to stiff r my known oppo>n to H>e measures of tho Administration irerlerc will the attainment of tae great ct for which I was sent. Upon my val at Philadelphia, I was received by Adams in the most flattering manner, liis dinner parties, wlrcre I was often a st, he secined to take great plensaro in ikine of my fath? r's services in tho * 'olutionary Congress, relating 'many cdoteg -to.show his devotion to the and liu: effect which his pleasantries rluced in cberring them in the gloom ch the occasionally unpromising sta'e iicir affairs often produced. 1 had no versalioti with Mr. Adams oh politics lier than to explain to him my views ia ion to the change in the system of ing the public lands, which I was glad jo he approved. As soon as the Irfw was sed for the divsision of the Northwestern ritory, I was informed that it was the tit .'on of Mr. Adams to nominate me to Government of Indiana. I hesitated a moment to declare that 1 would not opt it, although very much pressed to so by several l-ading Federal members 4^ Congiyss.. I was no; long in discovering motives of those gentlemen. Thero I been some meetings of the Territory, which resolutions had been adopted ommendtng me to the President for the' v<Tinfie;it of tliff Territory, (Norlhwcst.) instead of Gov. St. Clair. I'iioso r.-srjJurttjns*, with correspon^nt losses, had been forwarded to the Pres. trland Senate Now, it so happened t two d's inguished Senators had fixed ir eyes upon the same office. One of m, who had been most urgent for me to to Indiana, had large"possessions in the rthwratorn Territory, whic h w is probaone reason for his wishing to go then* t the main object was to secure the rri ory to the F< derul party, when ?t mid become a S afe, which it was known u'd bo tli'-? case. To carry out this plan, vas necessary to g?-t me out of the way, e appointment was pressed upon mc, withstanding my refusal to take it. At gih, my re lations and friends, the Messrs. jliolas, Wilson Gary of tho Senate, and in of the House, prevailed on mo to :?pt it. They pointed out the advantages myself, and assured me that there wat doubt cjf lift. Jefferson's election in the itj fig November, and that I would bo itinned Governor of Indima, and some publican succeed Governor S . CLif in Northwstern Territory. [ therefore accepted the appointment with eiLTWI;nHl!ini us iii <iuiii?t iiuu nu tuivd ill choice of (he PrtsuJenf, thai I would e no p ?rr in -the contesh I have thus given yon n full account of connexion with the IVsklency of Mr? urns. I w II conclude by saying that . Jefferson |<Ht no time, af or his inauration, io assure me of his favor and h 9 1 fi'fence, and I think ihcre is Sufficient * d rice thai I retained botli to the end oC ^ A1i.ninistrat.0n. In unsw r to the inquiry why f used thtr rd "abolition"' in designating a society of ich I was n member in Ihchmond, in year 17t>l, instead of the word "bane," widen is known to be the one by 1 eh lire society was really dist nguithed, that I can say ujion lire subj# ct is, that if id really term it an Xboiition Society, a t which I still hardly b< lieve, [fori have been able to see the paper containing address to the people of the District in .*2,] it must have been from forget fulness icti might easily happen utter a lapse of years. At any rat-, the word abolition s n<>! understood io mean in 18*22 what it v incaus. There tan be no doubt (hat society of which Mr. Turilon Pleasants s a member, ami winch, in his publicai in the Richmond Whig, he calls the Uiiianu Society of Richmond," [and by ? title Jud^o Catch, who gave me the tificate in 1&S2, also designated it,] was same ot which i was a member. Mr. msants was a member in 17D7, I in 1791 Mr. Rwbeit Pleasants whs the President he loimer period, as he was when i wtur mtitd. I do iio; \tish what I have said above to published, but I liuvc no objection that facts should be stated, and reference Je to me as having furnished them. . have written to a friend in Congress, , Jos. jWdliiitns, of 1 ennesse, showing connexion which existed between the milton roir.ly Corresponding Committee myself, ar ' authorized him to makeit lie. was about to muko soma further obscrons, when t was interrupted by a party gonilenieu from Louisville, and must elude by assuring yoi/J that I am, Very truly, yours, W. U. iiARRISON. 4 tuber a novel incident occurred in :en!ield, Massachusetts, on Friday . A man who had been absent thirty rs, and of whom nothing had beenheani his wife, ra'.hcr unexpectedly returned laiinhis "betterhalf." Suposing him e deaI lis wile a few years since marl another man, with whom she was 1 living at the time of his return, w the parties have settled the affairs have not been able to learn. Greenfield Courier,