mwm??? nwMPWM??
Inches Produced
1st row thinned to 6 100 lbs. seed cott.
2d 44 ? to 8 90 ? " "
3d * 44 to 10 106" M
4th 14 to 10 106 ? 44
5?h ^ 44 44 to 12 82 * 44 44
6th * ? to 16 100 44 " 44
7th 44 44 to 18107 u 44 44 444
8th 44 44 to 20 105 44 44 44
9th 44 44 to 22 118 44 44 44
17 th 44 44 to 24 91 41 *44 *
11th 44 44 to 7 122 4' 44 44
The difference in the product of the
different rows, I suspect is owing to the
In manure not having been equally distribu
ion, torn jaimcuu logei precise (jumpsawv
quantity putunder each bed. If any thing
is proven by this experiment, it is, that
between sixinchesand twenty.four, there
is but little difference in the product; but
the same experiment must be repeated for
several years before the question, whether
one distance is better than another, can
i>e settled. Last year was very wet and
the weeds grew unusually large; this
may account for the rows having the
greatest distance producing as much as
the others; but in a dry year the result
may be -very different. To make a satisfactory
experiment, [ would suggest that
it be made upon cotton to which no man.
lire is applied, on account of the difficulty
ofspreading the manure equally on the
different rows.
J. A. GILLESPIE.
Marlboro\ So. Ca.
P. S?The land on which the exper.
. iment wan made is upland, sometimes
called oak and hickory land.
CON?B.%TS or THE rARMERS* REGISTER, so
v. vol. ix. .
ORIGINAL COMMUICAT~OJC9.
Answers to the general queries on the effects
of marl in regard to some farms in James
City and Surry counties?1. Of H B. M.
Richardson, of James City county, Va.?II.
Of Boiling Jones, of Surry county?III. Of
Petor T. Spratley, of Surry county IV. Of W.
C. Jones, of Surry county?Capacity of the
clays and rock-marl of Virginia to foim hy.
draulic cement, and the applicability ofrocktnar!
to horning lime?A legacy for young
farmers?Desultory observations on the bank
ing system of fhis country, and the effects of its
different modes of operation?continued?
<Jreat defects of the agriculture of lower
fSortn Carouns?On the proper nomenclature
ofgrasses?Ctushed co n meal?feeding horses
?preserving baccn?Rohan potatoes?Admissions
in favor of the new four-field systemTemporary
winter farm pens. Rye a stibsti.
tnte for clover in Ohio?Proposal to try Hnssey's
reaping machine?Caution to silk cultural#?General
results of diary of the weather,
? . n - i* /n! i r* v * n f \
Kept ai rorircss ajonroe, ^uja roini isonuon,;
Va?Siik-worm rearing in Akans-is. Importance
of calcareous soil to grape vines?
Range of the thermometer, and state of the
weather at Washington, Ark , through 1840
?Rotation of oats and tobacco, both profitaWe
and meliorating?Sweet-scented vernal
grass on poor land. Protection of buzzards?
Erratum?Egyptian cotton cultivated in Missi>aippi?
Monthly commercial report?The
season and crops*.-Summary for news.
SELECTIONS.
Prize essay on the cultivation of tobacco?
Best time for cutting timber?Different effects
vi nitrate of soda.?Nitrate of soda?3/ode of
rendering wood imperishable and incombustible?The
honest and beneficial credit system
contrasted with that which cheats and robs
the couutry.?The American cotton trade?
Quality of milk?Anti-friction? Diseases of
cattle and horses?-Horse distemper?On salt
?h a prevention of disease in horses, cat tle
and sheep?Cotton culture in India? Weeds.
DOCUMENTS
ACCOMPANYING THE PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE.
FROM TTIE PEF \RTMEN"T OF STATE.
Mr. Fox to Mr. Webster.
Washington, March 12, 1841.
The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary anc Minister
Plenipotentiary, is instructed by his
Government to make the following official
communication to the Government of the
United States.
Her Majesty's Government have had
under their consideration the correspondence
which tock place at Washington j
m Decenvber last, oetwecn the United
States >ecretary of State, Mr. Forsyth,
comprising two official* letters fiom the
undersigned to Mr. Forsyth, date*l tne
13th and 29th of December, and two fiffi-j
cial efters from Mr, Forsytn to the undersigned,,
dated the 26th and 30th of
the same month, upon the subject of the
arrest and'imprisonment of Mr. Alexander
McLrod,. of Upper Canada, by the
authorities of the State of New York,
upon a pretended charge of arson and
murder as having as having been cngagod
in the capture and descruction of the
steamboat "Caroline" on the 29th of
December, lb37.
The undersigned is directed in the
first place to make known to the Gov.
ernment of the United States that Her
Majesty's Government entirely approve j
<>f the course persued by the undersigned ]
in that correspondence, and of the Ianftmgo
adopted hy him in the official let- j
tors nhove mentioned.
And the undersigned i? now instructed
again to demand from the Government of
the United States, formally, in the name
of the British Gavernment, the immediate
release of Mr. Alex. MeLeod.
The grounds upon which the British
Government of the United States are
these: That the transaction on account!
<>f which Mr. McLeod has been arrested "j
and is to he put upon his trial was a!
transaction of a public character, planned j
and executed by persons duly empowered ;
by Tier Majesty's Colonial Authorities to
take any steps and do anv acts which j
might Ik; necessary for the defence of
Her Majesty's territories, and for the pro. i
lection of Her Majesty's subjects; audi
loot consequently those subjects of Her
Majesty wJ.'oeugHged in that transact:')?:
? - . w **' f
were performing an act of public duty for
which they cannot bq.niatle personally i
and individually answerable to th^dnws
and tribunals of any foreign fcpuntjjfc, J
The transaction in question maynave
have been, as Her iVFdjesty ^Government
are of opinion that it was, a justifiable
employment of force /or the- purpose of'
defending the British territory from the
unprovoked attack of a ?band of British
tebels and American pirates, who* having
been permitted to arm and organizg them,
selves within the territory of the United
States, had actually invatjed and occupied
a portion of the territory of Her Majesty,"
or as it may have been, as alleged by Mr.
Forsvth in his note to the undersigned'of
i / *
the 20th of December, "a most unjustifiable
invasion in time of peace of the
territory of the United States." But this
is a question essentially of apolitical and
international kind, which can be discussed
and settled only between the two Governments,
and which the courts of justice
of the Slato of New York cannot by possibility
have any means of judging or any
right of deciding. :,? > '
It would be contrary to the universal
practice of civilized nations to fix individual
responsibility upon persons who,
with the sancticn or bv the orders of the
constituted authorities of a State, engaged
in military or naval enterprises in
their country's cause ; and it is obvious
that the introduction of such a principle
would aggravate beyond measure the
miseries, and would frightfully increase
the demoralizing offects of war, by mixing
up with national exasperation the
ferocity of personal passions, and the
cruelty and bitterness of individual re
venge.
Her Majesty's Government cannot believe
that the Government of the United,
States can really intend to set an exam-*
pie so fraught with evil to the community
of nations, and the direct the tendency
of which must lie to bring back
into the practice of modern war atrocities
which civilization and Christianity
j
have long since banished.
Neither can Her Majesty's Government
admit admit for a moment the validity
of the doctrine advanced by Mr.
Forsyth, that the Federal Government of
the United States has no power to interfere
in the matter in question, and that
aranf mnof root ?rv?r>lv and I
HIV/ UV/VIOIMII HIVI IIIKUV i 1 wi, r,... , waaw
entirely with the Stateof New York.
With the particulars of the internal
compact which may exist between the
several States that compose the Union,
foreign Powers have nothing to do: the
relations of foreign Powers are with the
aggregate Union: that Union is to them
represented by the Federal Government;
and of that Union the Federal Government
is to them the only organ. Therefore,
when a foreign Power has redress to demand
for a wrong done to it by any
State of the Union, it is to the Federal
Government, and not to the separate ,
State, that such Power must look for redress
for that wrong. And such foreign
Power cannot admit the plea that the
separate State is an independent body
over which the Federal Government has
no com. -?l. It is obvious that such a doctrine,
if admitted, would at once to go a
dissolution of the Union as far as its relations
with foreign Powers are concerned;
and that foreign Powers, in such case, instead
of accrediting diplomatic agents
to the Federal Government, would send
such agents not to that Government, but
to the Government of each separate State;
and would make their relations of peace
and war with each State depend upon
the result of their separate intercourse with
such State, without reference to the rela
i . I Wl aL i
lions they mignt nave wirn me rest.
Her Majesty's Government apprehend
that the above is not the conclusion at
which the Government of the United
States intend to arrive; vet such is the
* w
conclusion to which the arguments that
have been advanced by Mr. Forsyth necessarily
lead.
But be that as it may, Her Majesty's
Government formally demand, upon the
grounds already stated, the immediate release
of Mr. McLeod; and Her Majesty's
Government entreat the President of the
Uoited States to take into his most deliberate
consideration the serious nature of
the consequences which must ensue from
a rejection of this demand.
The United States Government will
perceive tijat. in demanding Mr. McLeod's
release, Her Majesty's Government argue
upon the assumption that he was one of
the persons eng&gcd in the capture ot the |
Steamboat " Caroline;" but Her Majesty's
Government have the strongest rcasons
for being convinced th.ut Mr. McLeod
was not in fact engaged in that transaction
: and the undersigned is hereupon
instructed to sav that although the circumstance
itself makes no difference in
the political and international question at
issue : and although Her Majesty's Government
do not demand Mr. McLeod's
release upon the ground that he was not
concerned in the capture of the "Caroline,"
but upon the ground that the capture
of the " Caroline" was a transaction
of a public character for which the per. (
sons engaged in it cannot incur private !
1 ?" I ./M.nAnclllllif |m V(?t thp (nir. |
HD(1 persuiJtll iraimiicuiiinT., ^- ,
eminent of the United Slates must not i
disguise from themselves that the fact j
that Mr. McLeod was not engaged in the
transaction must necessarily tend greatly
to inflame that national resentment which
any harm that shall he suffered by Mr.
McLeod at the hands of the authorities of
the State of New York will infallibly exrite
throughout the whole of the British
Empire.
The undersigned, in addressing the
ptWiDt official communication, by order |
* v m )
of his Government, to Mr. Wbest**, i
Secretary of State of tlx) United States,
has the honor, to offer to him the asSura
ope of his. distingu shed considers- i
Hpn. H. S. FOX.
ITie Hon. Daniel Webster, Ac. Ac. Ac, I
- * v ' %. I ~ * . . r,
: ~~ '
: Jiff Wr,bsterAtOdfr+ Fox, ? i
Departeent op 8t^,te.x ?<
Washington, TlpriZ 24, 1841.
,The undersign Secretary of State of i
the tlnited States, has the- honnor to in? i
form Mr. Fox, Envoy Extraordinary and
MinisterJ Plenipotentiary of Her Britanie '
Majesty, I that his note of the 12th of
March was received and laid before the
President. - ,K*
Circumstances well krowft to Mr. Fox
have necessarily delayed, for some days,
the consideration of that reply.
The undersigned^has the honor now to
say that it has been fully considered, and
that he has been directed by the President
^<1 \Tt- FttY tK % fnllAli.SM/V PO
IV auviwi ?w Mi* * ^ iviivnujg iv
P!>':
Mr. Fox informs the Government of
the United States that he is instructed to
make known to it, that the Government
ofHemMajwty entirely af prove the course
pursued by him in his correspondence
with Mr. Fohsvth in December last, and
the ianguage adopted by him on the ocra.
sion; and that the Government have in.
structed him "ngain to demand from the
Government of the United States, formally,
in the name of the British Gov.
eminent, the immediate release of Mr.
Alexander McLeod;" "the grounds upon
which the British Government make this
demand upon the Government of the Uni..
ted States are these: That the transac.
tion on account of which Mr. McLeod
has been arrested, and is to be Put upon I
his trial was a transaction of ajpublic char-!
acter, planned and executed by persons
duely empowered bv Hei MnjeStiy's colonial
authorities to take any step and to
do any acts which might be necessary for
the defence of Her Majesty's territories,
and for the protection of Her Majesty's
subjects, .and that coniequently shoae
subjects of Her Majesty who engaged in
that tranaction were performing an act of
public duty, for they cannot be made
personally and individually answerable
to the law and tribunals of any foreign
country."
The President is not certain that he
understood precisely the meaning inten.
ded by her majesty's Government to be;
conveyed by the foregoing instructipn. ^
This doubt has occasioned with the
President some hesitation but he inclioes
to take it for granted that the main purpose
of the instruction was to cause it to
be signified to the Government of the United
States that the attack on the Steamboat
"Caroline" was an act of .public
force done by the British colonial authorities,
and fully recognized by the Queen's.
Government at home, arid consequently
an individual concerned tn that transaction
cannot according to the just principles
of the tyw of nations, he held personally
answerable in the ordinal y courts of law
as for a private offence; and that upon
this avowal of Her Majesty's Government
Alexander McLood now imprissoned on
an indictment for murder alleged to
have been committed in ' that attack,
ought to he released by 8'ich preceedings
as are usual and are suitable; to the
case.
The President addopts the conclusion
that nothing more than this could have
intended to be expressed, from the consideration
that Her Majesh's Government
must be fully aware that in the U. States
as in England; presons confined under
judicial process can be reloaased from that
confinement only by judiciral procses..?
In neither country, as the undersign
supposes, can the arm of the Executive
i; _;li~
power inierrer, oirecny or iorciuiy,
to release or deliver the prisoner.?
his discharge must be sought in a manner
conformable to tbe principles of law and
the proceedings of courtw of judicature.
If an indictment, like that which has been
found against Alex. McLeod, and under
circumstances like these which belong
to his case, were pending against an indi. j
vidual in one of the courts of England,
there is no doubt that the law officer of
the Crown might enter a nolle prosequi,
or that the prissoner might cause himself
to be brought up on heabeas corpus and
discharged, if his ground of discharge
should be adjudged sufficient, or that he
might prove the same facts, and insist on
the same defence or exemption on his trial.
All these arc legal modes of preceeding,
well known to the laws and practice
of both countries. But tie undersigned
does not suppose that, ifsuch a case were to
arise in England, the power of the executive
Government could he exerted in any
more direct mrnner. Even in the case
of Ambassadors and other public Ministcrs
whose right at exemption from arrest
is personal, requiring no fact to be ascertained
hut the mere fact of diplomatic
character, and to arrest whom is sometimes
made a highly penal offence, if the
arrest be actually made, it must be discharged
by application to the courts of
law.
It is understood that Alexander JfcLeod
is holden as well on civil as on criminal
process for acls alleged to have been done
by him in the attack on the "Caroline,"
and his defence or ground of acquittal
must be the same in both caces. And
this strongly illustrates, as the undersigned
concieves the propriety of the foreiroimr
observation: since it i9 ouite clear
r? c ' i
that the Executive Government cannot
interfere to arrest a civil suit between private
parties in any stage of its progress,
hut that such suit must go on to its regular
judicial termination. If, therefore,
anveourse different from such as have
now been mentioned was in contemplation
of Her Majesty's Government something
would seem to have been expected
from the Gavernroertt of the United States i
1
Is tile- conformable to the usages ofHhe
English Government as to those of the
United States,' and to which this Govern*
merit cannot accede.
The Government of the United States
therefore, acting upon the presumtion
which It already addopted, that nothing
extraordinary or unusual was expected
Dr requested of it, decided, on the recep*
tion of Mr, Fox's note, to take such mea*
sures as the occasion and its own duty
appear to require.
In his note to Mr, Fox of the 2flth of
December last, ilfr. Forsyth, the Secretary
of State of the United States, obser*
ves, that "if the destruction of the Caroline'
was a public act of persons in Her
Majesty's service, obeying the order of
their superior authorities this fact has
been before communicated to the Government
of the United Spates by a person
authorized to make the admission and it
will be for the court which has taken cog.
nizanceof the offence with which Mr.
AfcLeod is charged to decide upon its validity
when legally established before it;' &
adds, "The President deems it to be a
proper pccasion to remind the Government
of Her Britanic Afajesty that the case of
the 4Carol:ne' has been long since brought
to the attention of her Afajesty's princi.
pal Secretary of State for Foreign A (fairs,
who up to this day, has not communicated
its decision thereupon. It is hoped that
the Government of her Afajesty will percieve
the importance of no longer leaving
the Government of the United States uninformed
of its views and intentions upon
a subject which has naturally produceed
much exasperation, and which has led to
such grave consequences."
The communication of the fact that
the destruction of the "Caroline" was an
act of public force by the British authorities
being formally made to the Govern,
ment of the United States by Mr. Fox's
note, the case assumes a decided aspect.
The Government of the United States
entertains no doubt that, after this avow,
ai of the transaction as a public transaction,
authorized and undertaken by the
British authorities individuals concerned
in it ought not, by the principles of pub
lie law and the general usage of civilized
States, to be holden personally responsible
in the ordinary tribunals of law for their
participatian in it. And the President
presumes that it can hardly be necessary
to say that the American People, not distrustful
of their ability to redress public
wrongs by public means, cannot desire
Urn nnniahmnnt nf inttivirlnnlo when the
act complained of is declared to have been
an act of the Government itself.
Soon after the date of Mr- Fox's note,
an instruction was given to the Attorney
(General of the United States from this
Department, by direction of the President,
which fully sets forth the opinions
of this Government on the subject of Mr.
McLcod's imprisonment, a copy of which
instruction the undersigned has the honor
herewith to enclose.
The indictment against McLeod is
pending in a State Court, but his rights,
whatever they may be, are no less safe, it
is to be presumed, than if he, were holden
to answer, in one of the courts of this
Government.
He demands immunity, from personal
responsibility by virtue of the law of nations,
and that law, in civilized States, is
to be respected in all courts. None is
either so high or so low as to escape from
its authority in cases to which its rules
and principles apply.
This Department has been regularly
informed, by his excellency the Governor
of the State of New York, that the Chief
Justice of that State was assigned to preside
at the hearing and trial ofMcLeod's
case, but that, owing to some error or mistake
in the process of summoning the jury,
the hearing was necessarily deferred.
(Concluded on the Fourth Page)
Copy of a letter of instruction from the
Secretary of Stale to the Attorney General
accompanying the letter of Mr. Webster, to
Mr. Fox in record to the case of Mcleod.
Copy of instructions to Mr. Crittenden, en>
closed in the above.
Department of State s
Washington, March 15th, 1841. )
Sir: Alexander McLeod, a Canadian
subject of Her Britanic Majesty, is now imprisoned
at Lockport, in the state of New
York, uader an indictment for murder, alleged
to have been committed by him in the attack
and destruction of the steamboat Caroline,
at Schlosser, in that state, on the
night of the 20th of December, 1837; and
his trial is expected to take place at
Lockport, on the 22d inst.
Y'ou are apprised of the correspondence
which took place hetween Mr. Forsyth,
late Secretary of State, and Mr. Fox, Her
Dritanuic Majesty's minister, here, on
this subject in December last.
In his note to Mr. Fox, on the 26th of
that month, Mr. Forsyth says: "If the
destruction of the Carolina was a public
act of persons in her Majesty's service
obeying the order of their superior authorities,
this fact has not before been
communicated to the government of the
United States by a person authorized to
make the admission, and it will be for the
court which has been taking cognizance
of the offence with which Mr. McLeod is
charged to decide upon its validity when
legally established before it.
44 The President deems this to be a
proper occasion to remind the Government
of Her Britannic Majesty that the
case of the Caroline has been long since
brought to the attention of Her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, who, up to this day, has not communicated
its decision thereupon. It is
honed that the Government of Her Mains
?1 .
ty will perceive the importance of no
longer leaving the Government of the
United States uninformed . of its views
and intentions upon a subject which has
naturally produced much exasperation,
:
and which has led to such grave consequences."
\
I have now to inform vqu thafMr. Fox
has addressed a note to this Department,
under date of the 12thinst.Hn which; unHer
the immediate induction and direc- j
tion of his Government, he demand^ foj/0
mally and officially, McLeod's immeorate
release, on the groflnd that the transaction,
on account of which he has been arrested
and is to be put upon his trial,
was of a public character, planned
and executed by the persons duly empowered
by Her Majesty's colonial authorities
to take any steps, and do any acts, which
might be necessary for the defend of Her
Hajesty's territories, and for the protection
of Her Majesty's subjects ; hnd that
consequently these subjects of Her Majesty
who engaged in that transaction were
performing an act of public duty for
which they cannot be made personally
and individually answerable to the laws
and . tribunals of any foreign country; and
that Her Majesty's Gevernmont has farther
directed Mr. Fox to make known to
the Government of the United States
that Her Majesty's Government entirely
approve of * the course pursued by Mr.
Fox, and the language adopted by him in
the correspondence above mentioned.
There is, therefore, now, an authentic
declaration on the part of the iJritish (jov.
ernment that the attack on the Caroline
was an act of public force, done by military
men, under the orders of their superiors,
and is recognized as such by the
Queen's Government. The importance
of this decloration is not to be doubted,
and the President is of opinion that it calls
upon him for the performance of a high
duty.?That an individual forming part
of a public force, and acting under the
authority of his Government's not to be
held answerable, as a private trespasser
or malefactor, is a principle of public
law, sanctioned by the usages of all civilized
nations, and which the Government
of the United States has no inclination to
dispute. This has no connexion whatev*
er with the question whether, in this case
the attack on the Caroline was, as the
British Government think it, a justifiable
employment of force for the purpose of defending
the British territory from unprovoked
attack, or whether it was a moat
unjustifiable invasion in time of peace of
the territory of the United States, as this
Government has regarded it. The two
questions are essentially different; and,
while acknowledging that an individual
may claim immunity from the consequence
of acts done by him showing that he
acted under national authority, this Government
Is not to be nnderstood as changing
the opinions which it has heretofore
expressed in regard to the real nature of
the transaction which resulted in the destruction
ofthe Caroline. That subject
it is not necessary, for any purpose connected
with this communication, to discuss.
The views of this Government in
relation to it are known to that of England
; and we are expecting the answer
of that Government to the communiaation
which has been made to it.
All that is intended to be said, at present,
is that since the attack on the Caroline
is avowed as a national act, which
may justify reprisals, or even general war,
if the Government of the United Slates,
in the judgment which it shall form of the
transaction, and of its own dut> should
see fit so to decide, yet that it uises a
Question entirely nublic and Dolitical. a
1 # I
question between . independent ' nations,
and that individuals concerned in it cannot
be arrested and tried before the ordinary
tribunals, as for the violation ofmunicipial
law. If the attack on the Caroline was
unjustifiable, as this Government has asserted,
the law which has been violated
is the law of nations, and the redress
which is to he sought is the redress authorized
in such cases by the provisions of!
that code.
You arc well aware -that the President
has no power to arrest the proceeding in ,
the civil and criminal courts of the state
of New York. If this indictment were
pending in one of the courts of the United
States, I am directed to say that the President
upon the receipt of Mr.# Fox's last
communication, would immediately have
directed a nolle prosequi to be entered.
Whether, in this case, the Governor of
New Y<rk has that power, or if he has,
whethei he would feel it his duty to exer.
cise it, are points upon which we are not
informed.
It is understood that McLeod is holden
nlan nri civil nrnrpss. sued out apninst him
... | o
hy the owner of the Caroline. We suppose
it very clear that the Executive of
the State cannot interfere with such a
process ; and, indeed, if such process were
pending in the courts of the United States,
the President could not arrest it. In
such and many analogous cases the party
prosecuted or sued must avail himself of
his exemption or defence by judicial proceedings.
either in the court which he is
called, or in some other court. But I
whether the process be criminal or civil,
the fact of having acted under public authority,
and in obedience to the orders of
lawful superiors, must be regarded as a
valid defence, otherwise, individuals
would be holden responsible for injurious
resulting from the acts of Government,
and even from the operations of public
war.
You will be furnished with a copy of
this instruction for the use of the Execu.
? ? * .1 n
tive of New York, ana tne Attorney uenera!
of that State. You will carry with
you, also, authentic evidence of the recognition
by the British Government of the
destruction of the Caroline as an act of
public force done by national authority.
The President is impressed with the
propriety of transferring the trial from
the scene of the principal excitement to
some other and distant county?You will
take care that this be suggested to the
prisoner's counsel. The President is
grat.fied to learn that the Governor of
k.
I I II I
^ ^ New
York has already directed tjiat the
trial take place before the Chief Justicvf
the State.
Having consulted with the Governor,
you will proceed toLockport, or wherever
ptoe the trial may be holden, and furnish
the prisoner's counsel with the evidence
of which you will be i# possession mater,
ial to his defence* You will see tHkt he
have skilful and eminent ^ounpel, if such
be not already retained ; and. although >
you are not desired to- act as counsel,
yourself; you cause it to be signified to
him, and to the gentleman who may coo*
duct his defence, that it is the wish ef
this Government that, in case bis defence
be overruled by the court in which he
shall he tried, proper steps be taken immediately
for removing the cause, by writ
of error, to the "Supreme Court of the
United States. ?
- The President hopes you will urn such
despatch as to make your arrival at the
place of trial sure before the trial comee
on ; and he trusts you will keep him in*
formed of whatever occur* by means of
a correspondence through ibb Depart*
ment*
I have the honof to be Mr* Attorney
General, your obedient servant,
, < DANIEL WEBSTER.
, y i
, Hon. John J. Crittenden.
Attorney General of the United States*
Bangor, (Me.t) June 4.
WONDERFUL PRESENCE OF MIND? PROMT
ACTION.
We learn that two men, whose names
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we have not ascertained, were yesterday
~ ?n. Jn i ?...
i Liixii11a mil ui uunii mu inaiu iit*
er; when approaching Great Work's Fall#
they found it impossible to make land as
i^ usual, and were rapidly swept towards
the Falls. In an instant they cut a log
clear from the raft, and both jumped in- ?
to the water, one upon each'side of the
log, clinched their hands over the top of it,
and gallantly and safely passed down
over the Falls.?Whig,
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AMUSEMENTS OF TIIE NOBILITY."
The young Earle of Waldegfave, and
a boon companion by the name of DufT,
were lately indicted at the Court of
Queen's Bench, in London, for assaulting
and dre dfully beating an old watchman,
in the course of their nocturnal rambles.
They pleaded guiltv, and, after an impres.
si ve admonition from the Judge. hit <?Lord- .
ship" was sentenced to pay a fine of
?200, and Captain Duff to pay a fine of
?50, and both of the defendants to he
imprisoned in the Queen's Bench Prison
for the term of six months,
ANOTHER CHARLESTON ARTIST.
Our city, in the letter of a late correspondent,
was truly styled the mother, of
artists. We had the pleasure,yesterday M
afternoon, of visiting the studio pf Mr.
Thomas Wighfman, over the grocery
store of Mr. Nichols, corner of Meetm|?
and Society fctreets, and found it adorned
with a number of excellent portraits, the
creations of his young but tasteful pencilHe
not only excels iu catching the living
lineament, but his drapery is uncommonly
rich and beautiful?indeed the bridal
drqss of one of his beautiful subject# is
(if the expression be not tnom<ucu/f?r)*
master-piece?it is certainly a model- /
Mr. Wightmau; a native of thin city,
is the son of one, and the brother ef #uother
of our worthy citizens, and is a highly
promising pupil of the celebrated portrait
painter, toman, on whose style ho
models his own performances. He will
leave this city, to-morrow, for the North,
there to complete his studies, and will
probably return among as, in a year or
thereabouts, to claim from bis fellow-citizens
a share of their patronage. - Mr.
Wightman's studio will be open to-day,
for the reception of such visiters as n?y
be desirous of seeing tbo promise of youth,
and comparing it hereafter with the per* -,
formance of maturity. ,
- Charleston Courier.
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\ The New Orleans paper of the 10th,
give an account of a scene which occurred
in court on the 8th, which musthav#
been thrilling in the extreme. An iodivida.
ni namefjJGeorge A. Hamilton had some
days ago i been convicted of forge, y.?
When called up to be sentenced, the nsual
question as to what lie had to say before
sentence should be passed. To thi* he
replied in an address of an hour in length
in which he endeavored to show that he
was the victem of conspiracy, and that
he was entirely innocent of the charge.
The Judge replied to him, that his remarks
had failed to make any other impression
than that of pity for his situation
and the still stronger belief that he wat
guilty of the charge. Tne Judge then
sentenced him to four years in the penitentiary.
Just at this moment some
gentleman exclaimed, 44he has a knife in
his hand," but before he could be preven!
ted he plunged it into himself in two pla
f ces, once in the abdomen and once in the
region of the heart. He soon faintad
from loss of blood, and was taken to a
private appartment, followed by his wife
who has sat by him during the trial.?
Physicians examined and dressed the
the wounds, and ascertained that they
were not necessarily fatal.
The awtul sentence ot the law was on
Friday last executed upon Mad.son Johnson,
in the 22d year of his age, who win
convicted in our Superior Court of the
murder of Henry Beasley.
He was taken from the Jail about XI.
o'clock and conducted to the gallows under
the guard of our fine volunteer company,
followed by a large crowd of Spectators
from the town and country, where
he addressed the people nearlv an boor
f u r V * ** . \ t
in an unfaltering voice?warning- 11^
and especially the young, against thkerit*
practices of gamblings intemperance a#,'v^' 1
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