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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN._
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review.
Italy, with Sketches of Spain and Portugal;
by the author of Vulhek\ 2 vols. Philadelphia:
Key f Biddle, for sale in New York by J iVilty
f Co.—The pampered child of fortune, “ Eng
land’s wealthiest son,” the luxurious, the highly
educated, the solitary Beckford, here presents
us with letters descriptive, at a period long gone
by, of the beauties, the fairlandscapes, and other
natural phenomena of Italy,—scenes which as
the preliminary advertisement, in referring to
human institutions, well says—w’hilethe ‘‘old or
der of things, with all its picturesque pomps and
absurdities,” has disappeared, it “ is not in the
power of revolutions or constitutions to alter, or
destroy.”
The singular being who now publishes, after
the lapse of half a century, letters written in the
heyday of youth and brilliant hopes, is kow n
only by report to the present generation by the
fantastic wonders of Fonthill Abbey. His east
ern tale of Valhek, so highly praised by Lord
Byron, has not, that we are aware, been re-pub
lished in this country. It struck us when we read
it—many years ago—as quite as remarkable for
its pure and idomatic French,in which language
it was written, as for its lively picture of Eastern
manners.
It is among the agreeable impressions of past
days, to have wandered in company with Mr.
Canning—then the British Ambassador at Lis
bon through the deserted halls, the doorless
apartments and roofless galleries of the beauti
ful dwelling which Mr. Beckford had so pictur
esquely embosomed amid the exquisitely pictur
esque mountains of Cintra. It had long been un
tenanted. Its frescos had faded; and even in
that lovely climate the damps had cast down
the stuccoed ceilings, beneath which, in other
days, the Wanderer had dwelt and revelled —
All within was desolate; but without and around
Nature was beautiful, magnificent, and boun
teous as ever. The contrast was striking; and
it recurs not the less strongly to memory now,
from the reflection that the polished taste, the
fancy, and the gentle courtesy, of the distin
guished orator and statesman whose remarks
we then—a traveller from a distant land—lis
tened to w ith so much delight—are numbered
too among the things that w ere.
But we are wandering from the matter before
us. These “ Sketches” are by a master hand;
they evince throughout high refinement, a
quick and admirable perception of the beauti
ful in art and in nature, and a mind rich in
knowledge and instruction. Venice with her
lagoons, her Rialto, and her bridge of Sighs—
is materially speaking, the same now as when
Beckford saw her; but her population, her com
merce, her nobles, her wealth, and her crimes—
. how shrunk away! Hear of Venice as it then
was:—
Acocst 2, 1730.—Our route to Venice lay
winding about the variegated plains 1 had sur
veyed from Mosolente; and after dining at Tre
viso, we came in two hours and a haifto Mestre,
between grand villas and gardens peopled with
statues. Embarking onr baggage at the last
mentioned place, we stepped into a gondola,
whose very motion was every agreeable, after
the jolts of a chaise. We were soon out of the
canal of the Mestre, terminated by ar isle which
contains a cell dedicated to the Holy Virgin,
peeping out of a thicket, whence spire up two
tall cypresses. Its bells tingled as we passed
along and dropped some paolis into a net tied
at the end of a pole stretched out to us for that
purpose. ,
As soon as we had doubled the cape of this
diminutive island, an expanse of sea opened to
our view, the domes and towers of Venice ris
ing from its bosom. Now we began to distin
guish Murano, St. Michele, St. Georgio in Alga,
and several other islands, detached from the
grand cluster, which I hailed as old acquain
tances; innumerable prints and drawings hav
ing long since made their shapes familiar. Still
gliding forward, we every moment distinguish
ed some new church or palace in the city, suf
-fused with the rays of the setting sun, and re
flected with all their glow of coloring from the
surface of the waters.
The air was calm; the sky cloudless; and a
faint wind just breathing upon the deep, lightly
bore its surface against the steps of a chapel in
the island of San Secondo, and waved the veil
before its portal, as w e rode by and coasted the
walls of its garden overhung with fig-trees and
surmounted by spreading pines. The convent
discovered itself through their branches, built in
a style somewhat Morisco, and level with the
sea, except where the garden intervenes.
We were now drawing very near the city,
and a confused hum began to interrupt the even
ing stillnes; gondolas were continually passing
and repassing, and the entrance of the Canal
Reggio, with all its stir and bustle, lay before
us. Our gondoliers turned with much address
through a crowd of boats and barges that block
ed up the way, and rowed smoothly by the side
of a broad pavement, covered with people in
all dresses, and of all nations.
Leaving the Palazzo Pesaro, a noble struc
ture with two rows of arcades and a superb
rustic behind, we soon landed before the
Leon Bianco, which being situated in one of
the broadest parts of the grand canal, com
mands a most striking assemblage of buildings.
1 have no terms to describe the variety of pil
lars, of pediments, of mouldings and cornices,
some Grecian, others Saracenic, that adorn
these edifices, of which the pencil of Canaletti
conveys so perfect an idea as to render all ver
bal description superfluous. At one end ol this
grand scent? of perspective appears the Rialto;
the sweep of the canal conceals the other.
The rooms of our hotel are spacious and
cheerful; a lofty hall, jor rather gallery, painted
with grotesque in a very good style, perfectly
• •
clean, floored with a marbled stucco, divides the
house, and admits a refreshing current of air.—
Several windows near the ceiling look into this
vast apartment, which serves in lieu of a court,
and is rendered perfectly luminous by a glazed
arcade, thrown open to catch breezes. Through
it I passed to a balcony which impends over the
canal, and is twined round with plants forming
a green festoon springing from two large vases
of orange trees placed at each end. Here I
established myself to enjoy the cool, and ob
serve, as well as the dusk would permit, the va
riety of figures shooting by in their gondolas.
As night approached, innumerable tapers
Slimmered through the awnings before the win
ows. Every boat had its lantern, and the gon
dolas moving rapidly along were followed by
tracks of light, which gleamed and played up
on the waters. I was gazing at these dancing
fires when the sounds of music were waited
along the canals, and as they grew louder and
louder, an illuminated barge, tilled with musi
cians, issued from the Rialto, and stopping un
der one of the palaces, began a serenade, which
stilled every clamor and suspended all conver
sation in the galleries and porticos; till, rowing
slowly away, it was heard no more. The gon
doliers catching the air, imitated its cadences,
and were answered by others a distance, whose
voices, echoed by the arch ot the bridge, ac
quired a plaintive and interesting tone. I reti
red to rest, lull of the sound; and long after I
was asleep, the melody seemed to vibrate in my
ear.
August 3.—It was not five o’clock before I
was aroused by a loud din of voices and splash
ing of water under my balcony. Looking out,
I beheld the grand canal so entirely covered
with fruits and vegetables, on rafts and in
barges, that I could scarcely distinguish a wave.
Loads of grapes, peaches and melons, arrived,
and disappeared in an instant, for every vessel
was in motion; and the crowds of purchasers
hurrying from boat to boat, formed a very live
ly picture. Amongst the multitudes, 1 remaik
ed a good many whose dress and carriage an
nounced something above the Common rank;
and upon inquiry 1 found they w’ere noble Ve
nitians, just come from their casinos, and met
to refresh themselves with fruit, before they re
tired to sleep tor tne ciay.
Whilst l was observing them, the sun began
to color the balustrades of the palaces, and the
pure exhilarating air of the morning drawing
me abroad. I procured a gondola, and laid in my
provision of bread and grapes, and was rowed
under the Rialto, down the grand canal to the
marble steps of S. Maria defla Salute, erected by
the senate in perlormance of a vow to the Holy
Virgin, who begged off a terrible pestilence in
1630. The great bronze portal opened whilst I
was standing on the steps which lead to it, and
discovered the interior of the dome, where I
expatiated in solitude; no mortal appearing ex
cept an old priest who trimmed the lamps and
muttered a prayer before the high altar, still
wrapped in shadows. The sun-beams began
to strike against the windows of the cupola, just
as I left the church and was wafted across the
waves to the spacious platform in front of St.
Giorgio Maggiore, one of the most celebrated
works of Palladio.
When my first transport was a little subsided,
and I had examined the graceful design of each
particular ornament, ami united the just pro
portion and grand effect of the whole in my
mind, I planted my umbrella on the margin of
the sea, and viewed at my leisure the vast range
of palaces, of porticos, of towers, opening on
every side and extending out of sight. The
doge’s palace and the tail columns at the en
trance of the palace of St. Mark, form, together
with the arcades, the public library, the lofty
Campanile and the cupolas of the ducal church,
one of the most striking groups of buildings that
art can boast of. To behold at one glance these
! stately fabrics, so illustrious in the records of
' former ages, before which, in the flourishing
times of the republic, so many valiant chiefs
I and princes, have landed, loaded with oriental
j spoils, was a spectacle I had long and ardently
I desired. I thought of the days of Frederick
Barborossa, When looking tip the piazza of St.
Mark, along which he marched in solemn pro
cession, to cast himself at the feet of Alexander
the Third, and pay a tardy homage to St. Pe
ter’s successor. Here wpre no longer those
i splendid fleets that attended his progress; one
solitary galeass was all I beheld, anchored op
: posite the palace of the doge, and surrounded
| by crowds of gondolas, whose sable hues con
trasted strongly with its vermillion oars and
I shining ornaments. A party colored multitude
I was continually shifting from one side of the
! piazza to the other; whilst senators and magis
1 trates in long black robes were already arriving
; to fill their respective offices.
I I contemplated the busy scene from my peace
ful platform, w here nothing stirred but aged de
' votees creeping to their devotions, and, whilst 1
' remained thus calm and tranquil, heard the dis
, taht buzz of the town. Fortunately some length
i of waves rolled betw’een me and its tumults; so
! that I ate my grapes, and read Metastasio, un
disturbed by officiousness or curiosity. W hen
i the sun became too powerful, I entered the
nave.
The second volume relates to Portugal and
Spain; and is not less striking than the first.—
Beckford’s delight in the beauties of Cintra on
this occasion, led him to his subsequent resi
dence there.—A'. V. Amer.
PHILOSOPHICAL AND CHEMICAL LEC
TURES.
rpHE subscriber intends to commence his
! X annual course of Lectures on Chemistry,
Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy, on the
; evening of the 16tli instant, at 7 o’clock. Dur
; ing the past summer, he has made considerable
additions to his collection of Apparatus, and has
enlarged and otherwise improved his Lecture
room," which will now accommodate, with con
venience, those who may wish to attend from I
the town. BENJAMIN HALLOWELL.
Alexandria Boarding School, 10 mo. 13,1831.
oct 13—4t_
STANDARD MEDICAL WORKS.
EBERLE’S Practice of Medicine. A Trea
tise on the Theory and Practice of Medi
cine, in 2 vols Svo; by John Eberle, M. D. Pro
fessor ofMateria Medica and Obstetricks in the
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. “ This
is one of the most valuable works on the Prac
tice of Medicine that has ever issued from the
American press.”
The Practice of Physic, by W. P. Dewees, M.
D. Adjunct Professor of Midwifery in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, 2 vols Svo.
A Compendious System of Midwifery, chiefly
designed to facilitate the inquiries of those who ,
may be pursuing this branch of study; in Svo, i
with 13 plates; 5th edition, corrected and en- i
larged; by W. P. Dewees, M. D.
Dewees on the Diseases of Females, 3d edi
tion; with additions, in 8vo.
Do on the Diseases of Children, 4th do, Svo
Just received and on sale by
oct 11 .AUG. JACOBS. 1
REVIEW.
Memoirs or Vidoco.—There is no better read
ing for an honest man than the mfemoirs of a
rogue, written by himself. The renowned one
whose name is above, was chief of the Police
in Paris for seventeen years—after he had been
practising in his vocation about as many more.
His appointment confirmed the authority of the
proverb concerning the wisdom of setting one
thief to catch another.
In his preface, Vidocq laments that he had
entrusted his manuscripts to a man of letters,
from whom, however, he rescued them, when
the literato had spoiled two volumes of the four.
He was offended at the interpolations of pue
rile language attributed to himself, and at the
suppression of some of his candid explanations,
or rather of some glozing comments, by which
he disguised from others, and perhaps from him
self, the true character of his life and actions.
However, the words attributed to him seem to
have disturbed him as much as the actions; per
haps be blushed more to have his talents ob
scured, than his morals—at any rate, this is a
failing that belongs to better men. He would
rather be guilty of a crime than commit a blun
der.
A book so full of adventure, and that lifts the
curtain which conceals all the rogues of France
and their system, must needs be interesting; but
it would have been good service, to morals and
taste, if the publishers had suppressed many of
the details, and made a book of about half the
size. There are narratives in it, more adapted
to the state of society in Paris, than in New
England.
This illustrious man was born at Arras, in
1775, in a house next to that in which Robes
pierre was born. The boy shadowed forth the
man; he was athletic and bold, a terror to his
comrades, and a curse to the dogs and cats of
his neighborhood. His first robbery was that
of his father’s chest; but other villains, more
experienced, initiated him into more adven
turous acts, Reing obliged to leave Arras, with
out the ceremony of taking leave, he fled to
Holland, that he might come from thence to
the New World: but fortunately no ship was
ready, and this quarter of the earth had one
scoundrel less. Had he arrived and taken to
politics, there is no telling how high he would
have risen. Then he became servant to the
merry-andrew of a travelling menagerie, and
took lessons in tumbling. This life offering few
attractions and small pay, he moved the pity of
an exhibition of puppets, who compared him
in his menagerie to Daniel in the lion’s den—
though the parallel extended no further than to
At this “ theatre of amusing varieties,” (for
so it was called.) the life was too pleasant to
last, and being discharged, he carried the pack
of a travelling doctor. His next resource was
the army, and he enlisted and deserted to the
Austrians, whom he left in the same manner,
to enlist in another French regiment, in which
he killed a German hussar whilst crying “sur
render! surrender!”
At last he was so securely lodged in ptison,
that it was no easy matter to escape, and some
of his perjured comrades implicating him in u
forgery ot a public document, to enable one ol
them to escape, he was sentenced to the galleys
for eight years—for he protests his own inno
cence. An attempt to escape, in which he was
caught in a hole that he could neither get through
nor back, without losingsome of his flesh, caus
ed him to he removed to a stronger apartment,
where from the society of sharpers, he was in
troduced to that of bandits, burglars, and as
sassins.
He escaped again, and fled to Ostend, where
he engaged in smuggling, a pursuit of too much
comparative honesty to interest him long.
“ Parricide,” says he “ is the only crime with
which I have not been charged,” while he af
firms that he was never sentenced for any but
the forgery of his companions. This however
carried him to the galleys, where he had both
high and low companions. Among others Gen
eral Sarazin, who was lately there working out
his penalty for bigamy. The manner of march
ing to Brest, where the prisoners are situated,
is peculiar. The convicts are attached in pairs
to a chain, which the whole lines ol them carry
between them, so that all must move together.
But Vidocq found means to escape from
Brest, became a schoolmaster and sacristan, and
afterwards went to Holland, where he was im
pressed into the navy.
“ His singular futility that he had to submit to
unresistingly,” (for a thief likes a good excuse
as well as an honest man loves a good motive)
soon threw him on shore, and into bad compa
ny. His “imperious necessity” brought him
U^Ulll ClllJUIJg clliu Veil lieu llllll IIIC
Bicetre. Here he was so well known and es
teemed for his courage and actions that lie “had
a complete Court.” But, said he, “ this prison
glory was now hateful to me—the more 1 read
the soul of malefactors, the more 1 pitied socie
ty for having nourished in its bosom such off
spring.” These new views of his old comrades,
however,opened upon him as he was negotiating
with the police for the employment and wages
of a thief-taker and a traitor. Enjoying in the
prison the highest reputation for fidelity to his
comrades, (though without the modicum of ho
nor that belongs to thieves) the secrets of the
inmates were his, and he revealed so many that
the police had a great accession of prisoners.—
He shall speak for himself:
“ Each day increased the number of my dis
coveries. Of the many who were committed to
prison, there were none who did hot owe their
arrest to me, and not one of them for a moment
suspected my share in the business. 1 managed
so well, that neither within or without its walls,
had the slightest suspicion transpired. The
thieves of my acquaintance looked upon me as
their best friend and true comrade; the others
esteemed themselves happy to have an opportu
nity of initiating me in their secret, whether for
the pleasure of conversing with me or in hope
of benefitting by my counsels. It was principal
ly beyond the barriers that I met with these un
fortunate. One day that I was crossing the
boulevards, I was accosted by St. Germain, who
was still accompanied by Boudin. They invit
ed me to dinner; I accepted the proposition,
and over a bottle of wine they did me the ho
nor to propose that I should make a third in an
intended murder.”
He did make a third, to betray his comrades.
If he did not originate the plan, he encouraged
it. He says, that to incite them, “I concluded
I might, without overacting my part, affect a
degree of impatience about it. “ Well,” said I,
“ when is this famous affair to take place?”—
“When?” said St. Germain, “the fruit is not
yet ripe.” Already had several meetings taken
place and yet nothing was arranged. Once
more I hazarded the usual question. He was
impatient for blood. He says elsewhere—
“When individuals have been pointed out to
me, whether because their connections and ha
bits rendered them suspected, or because they
led a free life without any ostensible means of
I support, to cut short their exploits, I held out a
I snare for them, and l confess it,—without shame,
_I did not make the least hesitation in doing
so.” Shame, what ic that to M. Vidocq, more
than colors to one born blind. Verily we have
read no book since Paul Clifford, with so shame
less a hero. He is a wretch—a horrid wretch
—as near an approach to the “lather of lies,”
as man can make, and live.
These records of crime—these graphic
sketches of every variety of caitiff, confirm a
good man in the system that holds together the
moral elements of the world,—the system of the
diametrical opposition, the eternal difference
between right and wrong. The reader rises sad
from such a book, though he may have been in
terested in the perusal.—Boston Courier^_
~~r DRAWS THIS DA >
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To be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
Washington, on Tuesday, October 14
HIGHEST PRIZE $15,000!
Tickets 85 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
The 1st or 2d drawn number will be en
titled to 89; 3d or 4th to 89, &c. &c.
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. W. VIOLETT,
Lottery and Exchange Broker,
year the corner of King mul Fayette Streets,
Alexandria, D. C.
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To be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
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Tickets 85 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
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To be had in a variety of numbers of
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CAPITAL PRIZE $15,000.
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 125
The 1st or 2d drawn No. will be entitled
to 89; 3d or 1th to 88, Ac.
For sale, as usual, in great variety, by
JOS. HI. CLARKE,
{Sign of the Flag of Scarlet and Gold,) King si.
Alexandria, D. C.
I)HA It'S THIS DA Y
Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 19 for 18*31.
To be drawn at the City Hall at Washington,
on Tuesday, October 14
HIGHEST PRIZE $15,000.
Tickets «5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
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On sale in great variety by
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Uncurrent Notes and Foreign Gold pur
• chased._
WANTED TO HIRE,
A GOOD Cook and Washerwoman. En
quire at this office._oct 13—3t
TOBACCO MANUFACTORY, AND SNUFF
AND SEGAR STORE,
Corner of Prince ll'«/er Street*. Alexandria.
SAMUEL V. HILL respectfully informs his
friends and the public that he has on hand,
and will constantly keep, a supply of the
finest CHEWING & SMOKING TOBACCO;
and also an assortment of the various kinds of
SNUFF; and the best Spanish and American
SF.GARS. Chewers, Smokers, and Snuffers,
are therefore requested to call at his Store, cor
ner of Prince and Water streets, near the Far
mers’ Bank, and purchase these articles, of the
best quality, on the most reasonable terms.
oct II—3m_ _
BOOTS AND SHOES.
AD. HARMON has just received, by brig
. Wankinco. and other arrivals, a part of
his Fall Supply of BOOTS AND SHOES, se
lected by himself, with great care, from the
principal Northern Factories,comprising almost
every variety, viz:
Men’s thick Pegged Shoes and Brogans
“ fine Calf Shoes and Bootees
“ fine Kip do do
“ thick water-proof Boots
“ fine Calf and Sealskin do
Boys’ coarse and fine Shoes and Bootees
Ladies’ Leather and Morocco Walking Shoes
“ Sealskin do do
“ Lasting and Sealskin Slippers, vari
ous qualities
Misses’ and Children’s Leather and Morocco
Shoes; and Bootees a great variety
Alan in Store,
Ladies, Gentlemen’s, and Children’s Shoes
and Bootees, of his own manufacture, warrant
ed prime. All of which are offered, either whole
sale or retail, as low as at any store in the Dis
trict. oct 10
LAMP OIL.
WINTER and h ull pressed Sperm, warrant
ed pure;
Refined Whale;
Common do in hogsheads, tierces,
and barrels, or by the gallon.
For sale on usual terms.
THOS. VOWELL,
One door north 2d Presbyterian Church.
Wanted, FLAXSEED, for which the highest
market price will be paid. oct 10—eo3t
TAN-YARD FOR SALE,
In the thriving Town of Occor/uan, Prince Wil
liam County, l 'a.
MWe will sell the TAN-YARD, containing
32 Vats, 6 Haudlers, 1 large Latch, 2 Limes,
1 Pool, 2 Bates, Sweat Vat, and Patent Bark
Mill. There is a constant stream of pure water
from two springs, with sufficient fall to convey
the water to any part of the yard; also a good
Dwelling House, large Currying Shop, Bark
House and Beam House, all in good order, and
most of the buildings put up new in 1830; the
whole Lot containing an Acre of Ground, en
closed with a good fence. There is a constant
and full supply of Bark of all kinds to be bought
! I°wi ant* there can be bought from 560 to 700
; hides every year of the finest kind. It posses
I ses a great many natural advantages, there be
, ing no tannery for a considerabld distance from
i it. We will sell it a great bargain, say the re
duced price of 8700 Apply to us in Alexan
dria, D. C. or to S. M. & S. H. Janney, in Occo
quan. C. C. SMOOT & CO.
oct 7—eolm
ECr* Charles James Faulkner, of Berkeley,
j will be supported as a Representative for the
Congressional District composed of Hampshire,
Frederick. Berkeley. Jefferson, and Morgan.
ALEXANDRIA:
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 14, 1834.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
The Globe announced last Saturday, that on
Monday It expected to favor its readers with
accounts of a “ Glorious Jackson Triumph in
Connecticut.” Having carefully examined
yesterday’s official Mud Machine, and not see
ing one word either about “Connecticut” or a
“ Glorious Jackson Triumph,” and supposing so
unfortunate an omission would be a grevious
disappointment, we beg leave, in lieu of the ex
pected and predicted “ Glorious Jackson Tri
umph” aforesaid, to offer the following, w hich to
our taste is equally as agreeable.
Connecticut.—Notwithstanding the apathy of
the National Republican party, great numbers
of whom could not be drawn out by an extra
and minorelpction, and a misunderstanding be
tween the Whigs and Anti-masons, which in
duced many of the latter to keep aloof, and oth
ers to vote the administration ticket, the Whig
party has prevailed by about 400 votes: so that
Messrs. Trumbull, Miner, and, E. Jackson, Jr.,
are elected to supply the vacancies made by the
resignation of Messrs. Foot, Ellsworth, and Hun
tington.
Correspondence of the A'. V. Journal of Cm.
Hartford, Oct. 9, 1834.
The returns in this State have come in frum
all but six towns, and the result will show that
the Whig ticket has succeeded by about 30n p|u.
rality.
There was considerable exertion made to
have the Anti-masons drop their candidates,
and from the result it has partially succeeded.
The highest Anti-masonic vote ever given in
this State, was about 4,000—now it lias dwin
dled down to S00 or less.
Correspondent of the Ar. V. Journal of Com me ret.
Hartford, Oct. 10. IS31.
Gentlemen:—I wrote you yesterday the pro
bable result of the Congressional election in
this State, which l find to day, on a personal ex
amination of the returns, corroborated. There
has been some difference ol opinion as to Hit*
actual plurality, owing to the candidates not
running alike on the Whig ticket. Generally
the highest vote on each side has been taken,
and the result would therefore not he unilorin
in getting at the Plurality. The followingst.ite
ment will show how it stands in the several
Counties:—
U’higr maj. Admin, mw.
Hartford—full returns, I t
New Haven, 400
Middlesex—full returns, 203
Fairfield, 74
Tolland—full returns, 116
Windham—do do, 47
New London—do do, 27
Litchfield—do do, 291
752 480
480
272 highest plurality.
Anti-masonic vote about 800.
This result is as near the truth as can be ob
tained until the official canvass is published.
Mr. Trumbull has run the lowest—his plurali
ty will be thus:
The highest on the Whig ticket - - 272
Deduct the number of votes Trumbull has
received less than Miner - . . 105
From returns of all but a few towns, say
about -.w
The Antimasons have given Mr. Miner nor?
votes than any other candidate on that ticket.
In Wethersfield, owing to local feelmg, Mr.
Trumbull’s name was struck off from 58 vote*.
The whole number of votes given for Gover
nor last Spring was 36.600; and this fall, for '
Congressmen, there will be about 35,000.
Mr. Webster and Mr. Taney.—It will be re
collected that Mr. Taney has recently contra
dicted, in the harshest manner, and most posi
tive terms, an assertion reported to have b*'?n
made by Mr. Webster, relative to the appoint
ment of an Agent to examine the Pet Dank*.
The Boston Patriot, on tnissuojeci suy>;
“ Mr. Webster is habitually cautious and ge
nerally exact; and, whatever political partisan*
may affect to believe, the public will not readi
ly believe that he has knowingly made a state
ment unauthorized by facts. We find, iii look
ing into one of the public documents distributed
from Washington, at the commencement of the
last session, that in Mr. Duane’s instructions to
Mr. Kendall, when he was despatched as Agent
to make arrangements with the State hanks.'t
is mentioned, in paragraph numbered 5, of what
are declared to be the “ President’s views,' that
the banks are also to “pay any expenses of M
Agent, temporary or permanent, whom the Se
cretary may appoint to manage their affairs
In submitting his propositions to the Baiting
banks, as appears in the same document.!h'
fifth stipulation is as follows: “ Your bank-hi
pay a due proportion of the expenses attend
the appointment of an agent, from time to ti®'
either temporary or permanent, to examine w
report upon the accounts of the banks to beer'
ployed by the government:” The same cona
tions were tendered to the other banks, ander*
tered, it is believed, into all or nearly all the con
tracts.
“ Whether this is the official information*
which Mr. Webster referred, we do not know -
Official information it is, and it proves that tr.^
President directed Mr. Duane to stipulate <•
the payment by the banks of a temporary or p**1’
manent agent; and that this was one of |hec'’^
ditions on which those deposits were ofW'1- '
the selected banks. Our readers will al‘° * ''
recollect a letter of Mr. Whitney. signed n„
self, ami addressed to the editor of the
which he admits that he did himself app-)^,
this agency, thus to be created by the rresiut*
and paid by the banks. ,
“ Mr. Taney maintains, that no such a<
has been appointed. By whom. then. aP; .
banks inspected? By whom is this compl|C
machinery managed? Wliy wasthe stip11
made by order of the President? ^<Jw ..n0[
Mr. Whitney to apply for the office? “ J*
incumbent on us to answer these <P1'
Mr. Taney, and those who join with him i-^
pugningthe accuracy of Mr. Webster s
ment, must do it.”
Hon. Francis Granger has been nonli,ia'[-1
for Congress, by a Whig Convention in t!‘e _
district of Mew York, which comprises 0°^
County.