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rVBLISHKD DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY IT EDGAR SNOWDEN. | Dm ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, for the conn- ! try, it printed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Country Paper (tri-weekly) is furnished tor ! |5 par annum—payable in advance. Jmkmipticn—the Daily Paper is furnished at $3 ! par annum—payable half yearly. No aubacription is received from the country, tm laaa accompanied by the cash, or by a re^pon- : aMe name. __ _ SATURDA^iQRyiyo, JUNE 2). j [Communicated. It is right and proper that those having charge j of the public interests, should know the tone of public sentiment in regard to their conduct, a3 the j agents of the people to whom they are response . bk. Enjoying, as we do, iu this country, the rich est blessings of free government, it is the pecu liar privilege of the American citizen, obscure * and humble though he may be, to express, with- * cut reserve, his opinions of public men aud public , measures. Doubtless, the very singular position occupied \ by "the unhappy casualty now at the head of the Government,” has attracted the attention of all. | He is, in fact, not responsible to either of the great parties of the country. The accidental accession j of John Tyler to the Presidency is sincerely depre-j eatsd by all parties, notwithstanding “the Cap-' tain” told John Minor Bolts that the death of Gc- J • as • r\. • 1 I ... • __l. I Mm narrison was a c/ivme uics*mg, inasujuui j «*" (Tyler,) was the only man i/i the United ! 8tui$s who could carry out the true principles of | lha Constitution, reform the abuses of the Go- j • vornmtnt, aiid save the country from impending TUin! Now, Mr. Editor, I belong to the old Jefferso- j nian school of politics, and believe that the glori-1 out doctrines of *03 furnish U3 .with the only sale guide to a purely Republican administration of the Government. Having no sympathy with the Whigs, politically,! will not pretend to speak their ; sentiments > but associated as I am with the De mocratic party, end daily hearing the full and free expression of their sentiments, I can under take to speak for them with some degree ot accu racy, and can bear testimony to the extreme in difference with which they regard ‘-his Acciden ey.” I am thoroughly convinced, that there 1 is not an intelligent, disinterested Democrat ; in Virginia, who would support Mr. T}ler for1 the Presidency, or has any idea that ho stands the dightoi possMe chance for the nomination by a Na tional Convention. Indeed, if there is in the Do- i moeratic ranks, that lirara avis” a ‘-Democratic | Tyler man,'’so frequently spoken of, but so seldom j seen, 1 have yet to meet with him! “The Captain’’ believes, no doubt, that !»c will ba the candidate of the Democratic party, and o ▼en suffers himself to be fluttered by that hungry, squalid, woc-begone,desperate throng who daily beaethis mansion (when he i? not on an electioneer- ; inr tour.) and hen the crumbs of Executive favor. It must be humiliating to every light-minded Am- , erican citizen, to see such a man presiding over the destinies of the nation,—a man who, even it he were honest, would be about ns capable of ma* waging the reins of government as Phaeton v. as of1 driving the chariot of the Sun. The Democrats have no idea of receiving into their arms one who has preted faithless to his own • party, because ho might in turn prove a traitor to • them. They have no idea of putting aside their | tried and trusty servants w ho have labored in their cause year after year, and have stood by | tham through all their reverses and difficulties,; to take up such a man as John Tyler, w ho has no claims upon them whatever, and would give hun nlf to either party. They know his motive and will stand aloof from the man God forbid that the Democratic party should rally around a man j tainted with treachery, and whose whole history ; IS marked with duplicity and selfishness. Did he not proclaim in Richmond on a memorable occa tion, that he would take office from the devil ' himself? Had not Henry Clay b en the groat acknowledged head and leader of the Whig par ty, Mr. Tyler nevvr would have been found beg and suing for grace in the Democratic ranks or vainly endeavoring to form a party of his own. Whore is the virtuous an 1 enlightened man who eon lay his hand on bis heart and say, he confides In the honestv. sincerity, and patriot ism of John 1 T>hr? If there is such an one, I know him not ’ j If Mr. Tyler wa3 not in heart and principle a \ Whig, as an honest and honorable man, he should i Ml bare allowed his name to be used by them in the late Presidential canvass. If he teas a \\ hig, he should not have deserted the party, through! whose instrumentality he has been raised to the dignified and elevated post he now occupies Who has Mr. Tyler selected as his const it u tma)aids and advisers? Such men as John C. Bpencer and James Madison Porter ; mercenary political hirelings, who always accommodate their principles to circumstances, and w ho, it is teared, would at any time, sacrifice tho interests ot the country to their own personal views,—t>" e willing tools of his own treason,—the despised and rejec ted of all parties! What arc we to think of John Tyler's sincerity when we contrast his present conduct with his tees! Of "fVgriin Presidents and travelling Cab: Ml* dre^1 Perhaps John Jones can explain this. But it is enough to know, that the course of the Pnaifcnt has met the stern reprobation ol the retorting of both parties, and that notwith itending the peurerful aid of his friend Jones, k* wil)joon retire from the office he so nmvorthi “unwept, unhonored, and unsung:” rc tlnmt te the fullest extent, the truth of the old adage, “honesty is the be it policy.” A VIRGINIAN. Culpeper County, Va., Juno IS, IS43 [CoMMUNIC \TEP. NellQOfWgo, being in conversation with a gen* tlemai en the subject of Music, 1 was as torus bed hj hieaeymg that Alexandria was the most bar heieM place for music he had ever seen. Ilia sheenstinn might have been intended as a re iiethm upon the good taste of our citizens, but 1 was gfterwards convinced that the want of task . 1JL ■■■ f ~\m ■■■ III a ill I I hi it i iib mi—— WJ)S on the part of the individual; for I am can not conceive how any one who has “music in his soul” can attend our churches and listen to the pealing anthems as they rise from the well regu lated choirs, or pay the least attention to the re hearsals of cur societies, or t!:c music discoursed by cur young men, when they occasionally lhvor us with their serenades, and then entertain the opinion expressed by my friend. It occurred to me, last Monday night, while revelling in the harmony of sweet sounds that proceeded from a com pan v of amateur musicians, that had he been present his sentiments would have undergone a change. I thought, while listening to the spark ling tones of the violins, as their performers eli cited frem them points of sound as bright as the stars, accompanied by the majestic voice oi the violinceilo, that a person must have been more than barbarian that wouid not have felt and yield ed to the influence of such strains. There was one piece of music, (the name 1 do not know,) that particularly attracted my atten tion. The first violins led off in a few bright and sparkling notes, which were afterward repeated by the second violins and bass, forming a grand and pleasing fugue, and which closed with a few of those soft and streaming rotes of celestial quality which produced indescribable emotions of pleasure, and I found myself involuntarily leaning forward as if to catch the last notes of the music as they fell in soft, and yet softer cadences upon my car. I thought of King Saul and the youthful Minstrel, and that surely if his music partook of the quality of that to which I was then listening, it was not at all wonderful that the evil spirit could not withstand its influence. This Instrumental Club, 1 understand, i* com posed of young gentleman, amateur musicians, who regularly meet for their own improvement, and although not luider the direction of a teach er, they discourse inu>ic that could not fail to grati fy the ear of the most fastidious. I could not help thinking how much better it would be, ii _ _ - L - __11.. * I'. Q 1 AVOUHinfC umij; iiivjii tnw iwv.. ~ ~. loafing about the streets, or what is worse in re velry, would forui themselves into music clubs or societies. By doing so, they would not only promote their own happiness, but contribute largely to the happiness of others. Besides the club just named, there are classes under the direction of Signor Garcia, and Pro fessor Pitatt, that have made astonishing im provement in tlie performance of music. There is also a “Social Music Society*' under the di rection of Mr. Harrison Bradley, a gentleman of acknowledged musical talent, and whose suc cess as a leader is well known to our citizens, and is a guarantee to a-1 who may feel disposed to unite with the society, that the time or means required will not be mispent. Alexandria, June 23, 1843. ZENO. [communicated. A *!roll on that delightful promenade ground recently brought to the notice of our citizens, is not now a rare thing, for hundreds of our “belles and beaux, and mai ls and matrons," take the op portunity during these delightful mornings and evening* that we have, to enjoy a walk on the banks of the Potomac, where the eye can be feast ed with such a prospect of “ wood and water," and such a succession of moving if not living ob jects sailing on tho noble river, as is not to be found within a circuit of several mile*. If even mg, as it has bcmi dcsenoeu, is a urnc 10 enjoy the scene him this esplanade, I do not think that aur voting ladies should omit a morning walk, so is to catch the sun as he rises, and him dip lus early rays in the clear stream that rolls at their feet. 1 ain not, however, capable of des cribing the enjoyment that may be experienced iy those fond of Nature and Nature's works, by a visit to the place, but would turn over this sub ject to others who have already favorably im pressed the public on the subject. Alexandria, June 23. EARLY DAY". — -*wTi1—1 FIRST CASE UNDER the LATE TREATY —We mentioned a few days since, that a man near Fairley, Scotland, had died very suddenly in January last, and that, suspicions being excited at the manner of his death, the body was exhum ed, and the stomach found to contain a large quantity of arsenic, leaving no doubt as to his having been murdered. Also that his wite had left Paisley and taken passage on board a vessel bound for this port, and was pursued by one of the “rural” local police, who arrived here in the Acadia, and she was demanded of the United States auth rities under the provisions of the late treaty. The Rritisii Cunsul, it appears, retained Wm. M. Price, IPq. ascoursd in his behalf, who sued out a warrant from the United States’ ?*lnr shaPs office, to which was appended the affidavit of th* rural policeman from Seollaud, and the document given to the proper officers, with orders t > remain at the narrows and quarantine, and on the appearance of the vessel, to arrest the mur deress. The stuiy of the inuruei having got abroad, it liiini r thr* arrowed had an 111 i ’ I |V mm • ■ W - ■ . • • -- abundance of money in her possession, fears were ent rLained that the vessel might be boarded be fore. she readied the port and the guilty woman, by tho force of bribery or otherwise, be taken off and escape. But such proved not to have been the case. The Brig Excel, in which she hau ta ken passage from Liverpool, arrived below yes terday afternoon, and she w as immediately ar rested. It was truly an unexpected, and we need not say, unwelcome surprise to her—she wept, protested her innocence, but all to no pur pose— the officers were inexorable, and the fair, but a> it is belived, so deeply w icked young vvo 1 man, was brought up to the city, and her first ! lodging place in the new' world was, as it appa rently deserved to be, the Tombs. The facts, so far as we have heard them, are said to be something like these : The gentleman , to whom she was married was a man of wealth, who settled -flOlK), or ToOOd upon her on the day . of her marriage, and her father settled <11000 ' more; thus placing at her immediate disposal, | nearly $10,000. In three weeks from her ruar ' rUge the husband suddenly died. The wife, pre vious to her marriage, had been attached to a i young man named Spear, and, wrc understand, j afterwards left the neighborhood in company with i him, which caused the suspicion, and led to the i discovery of the husband having been poisoned. It was then reported at Paisley that the wife in tended leaving Liverpool for New York, and af i fidavits as to the particulars were sent to Sir James Graham by the rural policemen, who rc . ccived orders that if Sir James supposed she could be demanded under the treaty, to proceed to Liverpool, and if it was ascertained th«it she had embarked, to take the steamer, and pursue her. He did so, and arrived here on the 3d of this month, since which time the most vigilant ! means have beer, taken for her arrest on the ap pearance of the vessel, and, the result has been ; that which we have already described. rl he name of the unhappy young woman instated to .be Christina Oocran, alias Gilman, she having i probably embarked under an assumed name.— She finds to her sorrow that the guilty, in living i to this country do not escape the sure visitations of justice, and if the accusation is true, that they will pursue her till she affords that awful retri bution which the mind can hardly bear to con template. An examination of the case will pro i bably take place this forenoon.—,V. 1. Express. ■ I a ■ M ■Mill 44 BREAKERS AHEAD—LOOKOUT.”— Mr Clay, in his Lexington speech,declared that no man cotild accept or hold office under Mr Tyler, } without heing disgraced, and that on the exit of | the Administration a clean sweep should be made. , j The motive for this remark cannot be misunder I stood. No man knows better than Mr. Claj that 1 Mr. Tyler’s proscription of thoroughgoing and i sincere men of both pasties, and his appointment | of deserters and time-servers who come in as 1 third-party men to assume stealthily (like the fox ! in the fable) what they never conquered, has ren- ; i dered his appointments generally odious, and ere- j I ated a wish for the universal sweep which he i threatens. He is, therefore, anxious that the De | raocratic party should admit Mr. Tyler to its em ! braces—acknowledge an identity ot principle ! ! with him—recognise h:s appointments as Demo j cratic appointments—become responsible lor ! him, for his measures, and his administration—j ! take on itself the obloquy of the Whig removals ; he is making; and, by adopting him and the state i ' of things brought about by him, preclude all hope • ] of reformation, even in case of a change of the j 1 Chief Magistrate by the election of the nominee j j cf the Democratic national convention. It Mr. j ; Tyler could fasten himself, and the results of his j | mal-administration, on the Democracy, Mr. Clay ( i is well assured that it would have the effect, not , ! only of imparting new energy to his own party, ! but that it would paralyze the exertions of every i hone9t-hearted Democrat in the Union. No high- j ! spirited, true-minded friend of Democratic princi- I i pies would have any faith in the doings of a con- j ; vention which received Mr. Tyler and his pat- . ; ronizing instruments into its bosom—which ad j mitted his interference, and looked to the exer tion of his executive influence as a means of con sum mating its objects. All are aware that Mr. Tyler, on entering office, denounced the in terference of office-holders in elections, and yet his “striking down' one set of office-holders and “lifting up” another, is made the ground of his claim to admission into the Democrats conven tion; and it is apparent that it is through their ac tivity that he hopes to obtain the balance of pow i or between the parties in the State Governments | and, through that, possibly, the control over the i delegations of some of the States in the national ! nominating convention. For our own part, we utterly repudiate all connexion with the Presi dent and his Administration, and abjure its at tempt to thrust it is executive patronage and office holding influence upon the party which lie once so actively assisted in hunting down, under the outcry of “the spoils party.” We trust it will convince him that it seeks no spoils from him, and that it will not recognise the patronage he may bestow on a few apostates—who may rc ! sume, or assume, the name of Democrats—as a consideration for which it will surrender its prin ciples, admit affinity with his, or ailow that it au thorizes any claim on its gratitude. To the hon est, unfaltering Democrats, who have been al ways the same thing, whether in or out of office, we shall always give the right hand of fellowship; but Democrats made by Mr. Tyler's letters pat ent arc none of us, and should not be allowed to be with us.—G/cbe. Neither the Globe nor any other print can di vide the Democratic party. We care nothing lor : the Globe’s abuse of the President, since the great mass of the party is disposed to accord him a ‘fair chance.’ This is all he asks, or his friends for him. His friends, of course, prefer him to any other man; but they do not demand that the friends j of his opponents shall prefer him. They will not ! assail his ri als, unless they assail him; because, j failing in their first choice, they intend to unite on one of his rivals. They do not entertain the determination to ‘‘support him and nobody ilse;” they will succeed with him if they can, and this • may be relied on; but if they be disappointed in having him as their candidate, they will prefer ! any true Republican to Mr. ('lay Hence we rc- ! card the Globe’s assaults on the President ami his friends, as nothin* less than assaults on the Demo cratic party, and wo consider its eagerness to u nite with the Clay prints in \ inlying this Adminis tration, a dc ire to curry favor with, the Dank If’higs in the nut Congress.—Madisonian. The Madisc man seems to think it hard that oh- 1 jectioris are made to placing John Tyler on the j list of those, whose claims to the Presidential no- | initiation are to be submitted to the Democratic j National Convention, and that journal daily ar- | guts the question at considerable length, in an endeavor to show that the policy complained of . is illiberal in the extreme, and that it would be | the part of sou/.d discretion to “conciliate Mr. ! Tyler arid 1.is friends.” It also assures the pub- j lie that Mr. Tyler will not war against the demo- j cratic party in 1841, and, therefore, concludes ’ that it is cruel for democrats to war 3gainst him in 1843. All this is specious and plausible en ough, and it has at least smoothness and compar ative amiability to recommend it, after the bul* j lying tone so often resorted to by the organs of Tylerism in reference to the democratic party in general, and its journals in particular; but, as Mr. Tyler was in the Whig Convention of 1840, and suffered himself to be used at that time to aid in the overthrow of this same democratic parly ; which is now required to ‘conciliate1 him, it cer tainly appears to be rather too much to ask that he should he allowed to enter the Democratic Convention of 1814, on the same footing with those who have borne the brunt cf the battle for years and never dealt a blow hostile to the demo cratic cause. As for Mr. Tyler s “friends,11 so far at least as Pennsylvania is concerned, the least said about many of them, in this political connection, the better. If democracy were dis posed to ‘conciliate*1 hi?**, as a man of good inten tions probably, but of weak judgment and uncer tain purpose, it must beg to he excused fiom con ciliatory measures toward men, whom it has sha ken off with great effort, whom it regarded as worse than a nightmare long previous, and to whom it would vastly prefer an open and ack nowledged enemy. These “w iends*1 interpose a fatal barrier to the Madisonian’s measure of {con r* i! 1 :i in. 1 . Much iniiTht nerhans be accorded to ~ ’ -- V vJ 1 i Mr. Tyler, ifNif<?were deemed sincere in bis re pentance for*Aberrations from the democratic path; but a3 the-deer opened to him, must of ne cessity be so wide as to admit renegades with whom no communion rail possibly he held under any circqfcpstances, this proposition to lift the latch cvi<H?ntly requires “a deal of mighty nice consideration.” We should say indeed that the thing w as inadmissablc.— Pennsylvanian. Correspondence of\. Y. Express, Boston, June 21. Nathaniel Greene, (former Postmaster) it is said, yesterday received his commission as Pust muster of this city, vice Geo. Win. Gordon, re signed, and who goes Consul to Havre. Robert Rantoul also received the documents for Collector. i Correspondence of the iV Y. Commercial. Uvertiser. London’, June 3, 1843. The King of Hanover arrived in town yester day, hut not in time to attend the christening of the infant Princess, ‘Alice Maud Mary;’ for whom he otfici3ted a3 sponsor by proxy. His reception by the persona assembled at his landing was of the most chilling and repulsive character. Some hundreds were present on the custom-house quay, at the time, and as he passed through the avenue which was formed for his passage, r.ot a voice was raised to welcome his return to his native land; and almost before he had passed the entire line, this repulsive silence gave way to hisses and groaii3. A gentleman standing on the custom house steps silenced this, by exclaiming in a loud voice—“Do not hiss the poor old man; but let us thank God that he is not King of England,”—a suggestion which was loudly cheered. QUICK WORK.—The chairman (Mr. Buck ingham) at the Faneuil Hall dinner on Saturday, said that the ox which furnished the beef for the dinner tvas slaughtered last Tuesday. His bones , were sent to Norwich, they were manufactured j into buttons, and here they are said he, as he pul led them out of his pocket: I will give you, there fore, he continued, i “Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce.” i There is to be a Sabbath school procession at ! Georgetown, D. C., on the 4th of July. i LATE FROM TEXAS.—The arrival of the | steamship Neptune, at New Orleans, brings Gal- j veston dates to the 10th inst. We copy the fol lowing from the Picayune : The subject of President Houston’s proclama tion against Com. Moore appears to be the gene- ! ral theme of the papers and the public. Relative to this the Houston Telegraph, the best and ablest edited newspaper of the Republic, says: "We have noticed with pleasure that the proclamation of President Houston against Com. Moore is not published in the Brazos Farmer of the 30th ult. We hope this is a tacit acknowledgment on the part of the Executive that the proclamation is re- j yoked or suspended. j Major-Gen. Rusk had issued orders to the Bri gadier-General of the 1st, and 3d Brigades to proceed forthwith to organize their Brigades ue cording to law, dividing them into six classes, and requiring the 1st ard SM classes, particularly to keep constantly on hand one hundred rounds oi ammunition, and to be otherwise prepared for i;n- j mediate service. The Telegraph states there are few exchequer bills now in circulation in that section, and they are rapidly appreciating in value. A few days j since they were selling lor 45 cents cm the dollar; ■ and now they can scarcely be obtained lor 50or 60 cents, and it is thought that in a lew days they will be nearly at par. The Galveston Civilian says: “Gen. Murphy, the recently appointed Charge d’Affaircs from the i United States to this Government, came passen ger on the Neptune and will proceed to \\ ashing ton by the next boat. We deeply regret to state that linn J. M. Eve, the late incumbent, is hopelessly ill of consump tion, and is not expected to survive more than a few da vs at farthest, and his death at any moment; would not excite surprise. We scarcely know” a man whose exit would be more seriously lament-: cdby our citizens.” LIFE LN .NEW Ytliliv.—.Most ol tncse vwio j went on to attend the celebration have come j back witlf the epidemic influenza, and, indeed, j few have escaped it of those who remained in New York. It has attacked horses and cows,] 1 understand, as well as tenderer humanity, j and with very much the same symptoms. Of; some hundreds of emigrants who arrived lately, : not one escaped it while lying in quarantine.— i So no blame to the Croton water, as has been at-; tributed. 1 am told that a special envoy was sent out to j France by the Repealers after their late meeting, ; bearing Major Davkzac’s speech and some thuu- i sands of printed copies of President Tyler's letter of reply to the invitation to the Repeal gathering. If the sentiments of the American President arc j available as a firebrand for (VConnell, and open- ; ly used as such to kindle Frenchmen into joining ! an Irish war upon England, it will lie a yi\ tty bone to pick in Parliament and Congress. We ! shall hear of it pro! ably. I regret to see by the laic papers that .Mrs. 1 Ware, the poetess, has died at Paris. She was a woman of very charming talents, an 1 probably, ; had she lived, would have given u« a most inter- ‘ csting bock of travels. Many of her poems arc - exceedingly beautiful. Mr. Kendall, the very clever editor of the I'i t avune, ha* passed through the city on his way to a trout-stream in Vermont, on the hanks of which he means to divide the summer betwixt the (Pil ing rod and pen The narrative of adventures on the prairies and in the prisons of Mexico, wiiitt n by so graphic and bold a hand, will he mo t spicy and readable. 1 trust he may not find the trout too beguiling. i have been reading lately an admirable book • on classical studies, written and compiled chiefly by that ti; e scholar and mellow Professor, Cok n flics Felton, of Cambridge. It is made some what gay and gossippy hy the correspondence of l)ic celebrated | hi!ol< gists, and w ould well repay I perusal even hy those who arc too fond of the present to be bothered much with the past. The author of the Yellow phr-h Correspondence has pul out a new book of Iri-h stoiies, just r> i published by Winchester. I nis gentleman, Mr. Thackahv, is a ci-dcvant mnri of fortune, reduced to his pencil and pen fv;r a livcliho* d, and a very clever man he turns out to have been, obscured till middle life, having had money enough to live without shining. It is questionable whether lie thanks Heaven properly for removing (nun before him the golden cloud which like to have been •‘the grave of his deserving.” “Strife and Pence,” by Frederick \ Bhe mf.r, has been translated by a Boston lady in a stvlc quite as admirable, 1 think, as Mvrv How itt’s first translation of ‘‘The Neighbor?.” 1 commend this sweet book to the perusal of your readers. The True Sun, of this morning, has the follow ing very frank advertisement: “Wanted.—A young man, who has been at sea eight years, got. m">0t) in tin, go( d-lookine, honest, and good-tempered, wishes a Wife with the aforesaid qualities, (immaterial about the tin.) Any letter addressed ‘William, Brook lyn Post Office,” will be treated confidentially.” The new opera, “The Postillion of Lonju meau,” has been very delightfully given at Nif; i.o’s. The French company havo much impro ved upen acquaintance, and the Prinut Dtnva, Mademoiselle Halve, is quite the town rage.— ,V{ ?e York Cori esp'.ndnicp <f Ihc Iniilti genen*. w THE FATE OF MIL WEBSTER'S L\T IX. —Our reader’s have noticed in Mr. Webster's oration, the hnppv quotation from Sallust:— “Puicrum est hcnefaecre reipuhlieir; ctiarn bene dierr baud absurdum est *’ It i- somewhat a musing to see the fate of tiiis quotation in the va rious published reports. In the ‘'official in t.ic Courier, the last two word- were omitted :—.Mr. Webster, of course not needing them m his inan useripi; had not written the phrase out. at length; and the compositors fcl lowed ccpii. The United States Gazette gives it thus, “puicrum c,£t, bene , faccre, bene dicerc, here ah secundum est.’1— The Journal of Commerce only leaves out cliam. The X’. V. Herald gives the following:-“Pul crum cat, bene facc re, bene, dicere, baud ab se cundum est,’1 an effort of originality and ingenui ty only inferior to an. exertion of the same print, on occasion of a former speech of Mr. W*s, when it read “Adsum qui feci, be or me must perish,'1; for the beautiful line “Me, me. adsum qui feci, me. in me convrr tite ferrum.” In tiie New York Tribune.the place of the quo tation is ingeniously supplied thus:—“ * Other reporters said nothing at all about it. — Jteu ton Advertiser. ABOMINABLE OUTRAGE—The Calais (Maine) Journal state- that an abominable out rage took place in that vicinity a few day** since. It appears that on Saturday, the r»u inst.. the Custom House Officers of St. Stephen made a seizure of a small quantity of leather, in posses sion of one Wm. E. Colwell, shoemaker at Miil town village. It was supposed to have been in formed against, and Mr. Colwell made a vain at tempt to induce the officers to give the name of the informer. Suspicion, however, became fixed on John Tobin, a very worthy young man. He was seized at trie toll hou-c on this side, by a par ty of men in di-guise, and convcved across ?hn bridge, into the Province, to a field owned by R. M. Todd, Esq., where, without heeding his pro testations of innocence, ho was stripped of bis clothing, thrown upon the cold ground, and in that position was compelled to remain for an hour. He was then tarred and f athered, and the process of shaving performed on his face, which consists of tar as lather, roughly put on with sticks and then scraped otf with some rough in strument. TEMPERANCE CONVENTION—The To tal Abstinence Societies of Jefferson, forming the Temperance Union, held their quarterly meeting at Shepardstown on Saturday last. It. was an aL fair of great interest, and produced universal sa tisfaction, not merely to the delegates and other members in attendance, but to a very large con-1 course of spectators, many of whom were Indies. f Charlestown Free Pre^a. ' THE MACKENZIE CASE.—The Vote in the Court Martiab.—In our'paper of the 15th April, we stated that awe had teamed front an undoubt ed source that aPhough the decision of the Court Martial in Capt. M’Keny.ie’s-cr^c was technically j in fdvor of acquittal, a majority of the members, 1 viz: seven out of the twelve, were of opin-j ion that the charges, or some of them, had been * Capt. M'Kcnzic, considering this publication not only injurious, but believing it incorrect in point of fact, commenced a prosecution against us for libel; his counsel stating that they had no vin dictive feeling to gratify, and no wish lor pecu niary satisfaction. \Ve publish below the result of the examination of Capt. M’Keever, one of the members ol the Court. It proves that our information was erro neous—the vote of the Court being nine in Capt. M’Kcnzie’s favor to three against him; and on the first charge, the three last voting with a very ma terial qualification. Com. Downes’ testimony has also been taken. It agrees substantially with that ol C aptain M - Keever, upon the three charges. j [Omitting unnecessary details of this ca^e, as reported in the Journal o?Commerce, wc give the substance of the questions and answers in thi> tes timony of Capt. M’Keever.) How many members of the Court were present and what were their names r Answer. Twelve—Captains Downes, Bolton, Read, Slont, Turner, Storer. Myself, Wyman, Paige, Gu inn, Sc Commodores Ogden & Shubrick. What was the vote of the said Court upon the j first charge, to wit, thot alleging that the said Alexander Slidell M’Kcnzie had been guilty of murder on hoard a United States vessel on the ! high sea? ? Answer-—On the first charge nine members voted that the charge was not proven; three voted that it was proven in the second degree—by this l understood them to intend that the act w as proven, hut without malice. i Wint u':is ih<- vote unon the second charge, to wit, that alleging that the said Alexander Slidell M'Kenzie had been guilty of oppression? and spe cifying that that oppression consisted in hanging Philip Spencer, Elisha Small arid Samuel Crom well? Answer—On the second charge, nine members voted that the charge was not proven—three vot ed that it was proven. What was the vote upon the third charge, to wit, that alleging that the said Alexander Slidell McKenzie had been guilty of indicting illegal punishment, and specifying that such illegal pun ishment corcji'ted in hanging Spencer, Small and Cromwell ? Answer—Nine members voted that the charge* was not proven—three that the charge was prov en. It K possible that on thi * charge eight voted that the charge was not proven, and fourth it it was proven. But my strong impression is that on all the charges ihe vote stood nine for not proven, three lor proven. If them were four who voted that this charge was proven, one of the four also voted that the act was justified by, necessity. These answer.; settle the c/jestion of Captain .M’Kei.zie’s morn! and legal position with refer ence to his command of the ►Somers.—«V. 1. Jour of Comm ret. ESCAPE FROM THE MiSdOt BI PENI TENTIARY.—We learn by the Oceana, that on Saturday morning last nine prisoners escaped fr« m the Penitentiary at Jefferson ( ily. 1 Ik y effected this purpose, h\ knocking down the guard at one of the gates, after it had been opened by him.— Buffalo Bill led the way. and was followed by the other?. Another of the guard, mcing the prison ers making for the river, hailed them, but root iv iag no answer, he fired at Buffalo Bill, and put four buck-shot in his bodv. One account is, that lie \va« dead—another, that he was yet living, but could nut possibly survive. It is also said, that another prisoner was shot down, and that ali but three bad been apprehended. A day or two will bring a lull account of the atfair.— St. I.unis ,N(?r lire. - ~ ~ * " * i PANTISOCRACY.—It is admitted on all hands, Messrs. Editors, that the being or becom ing a citizen of tiie Unite 1 States—whether na tural < r by adoption—constitutes a man at once (even though unable, perhaps, to govern his wife or childn n cr self) a < omplete politician, and ca ble to d '*idc not only what, in the matters that he knows least of, a best for thE country, but for ail others. -Nay, so clear is the fact that e ven European nations are forced to acknowledge it. They see what an enormous growth of wis dom America ha-, far even beyond ( nr own pro digious consumption; and instead of being of fended at our meddiing w ith tlnir affair-, are de lighted to get the fruits of our over production, of our stiperflui'y of political sagacity. It i manifest, indeed, that the civilized earth is fal ling into a state of pupilage to us, and that after a while Providence itself will be able to shut up shop, or, at most, only look after us, while we re gulate all the rot of the world, arid deal out the duties and the fate of nations as Heaven’s vice gerents. Of this espan.-ive stale of thing-* Gen. V/a$u iv'.tov was too short sighted, far too Mile the great political philosopher, to have had any con ception ; for in that famous Farewell .Address (his last great le gacy of wi-dom and patriotism) he inculcates it as the leading, the supreme rule ol our foreign p iliey, that we wee to shun mix ing ours* Ives with the aiiairs of other nati ns, maintain friendship with all, but have entangle ments with none. Ot course, then, ail these narrow’ notions of lus are to go for nothing. It is our l>usino> to thrust ourselves into t' c inter nal affairs of all countries; they all desire, nav, expect it ot us, and will lake it most unkindly if we allow them to regulate their ow n matters in thenr own way. I « * • i *1 - i • . . . * 1 hi.ii uo arc ncrw i i Keep tnceartii !>i order, mid are God’s delegates for that purpose: 've lock alter the rest ol the world; and, in re turn tor our taking so much trouble olf Prow- < deuce's hati*:-, it will o! course take such excel- ' lent care of ours that wc need pay no attention < to them. Nature, it is well known, dues nothing ] in vain, and the enormous surplus of public dis- 1 eretion which lias been bestowed upon us, so far : beyond what we ever make use of at home, can 1 only'have been intended tor exportation to other countries. i For some time human affair* have gone rather < i'l. To go back no further than to the time of i Nebuchadnezzar, the grazier, that potentate : treated the Jews very foully; and the matter ought to be set rizht. Ry SoostrL, by Alexan der the Great, and finally by Titus, the Arabs, < and many more, t:. pour Hebrew's have been 1 kicked and culled and bulleted without end We i ought, it there is any sympathy, any brotherhood, • any care in u* for the cause of human rigid*, to i go and restore them to thoir sacred city—a tiling 1 that calls to us with the mod sacred invitation; 1 fur as every body knows) as soon as wc shall < have done that, the niilicnium is to eonimet.ee. j Didn't Cyrus enslave Lydia and our republi- t ran brothers, the Ionian?: And shall wc sutler ; that wrong to freedom to remain tmredressed, i dow n to the present day: It is time to bestir our- i sedves, and take Asia Minor out ol the hands of ■ those barbarous Turks. I What right have the French to Gaul: Why, ' ihey seized it from we can't exactly say whom, i that had half expelled the Romans; who had U- i ken it lrorr. the Gauls, who had wrested it from nobody precisely knows what people, who had got i it none can say how. fl his is ail the title that < Johnny Crapaud has. \\ c should at one declare it void. Let an ejectment be at once filed against Johnny Crapaud in the District Court of New j \ork, Maj. Davezac and the Hon. John McKeon well teed to enforce it with thfir utmost jurispru- i dential skill, and wo warrant Johnny Crapaud I dished and ousted. j i then those poor fellows, the Italians: why vv ill not Austria let them eat their maccaroni and play the fiddle in peace: The mighty genius of American freedom should assert her insulted prin- 1 ciples every where—in Italy, and by the Ganges —where Poland bleeds beneath the knout, and in farthest Siberia—on the Danube, by the crce- i ping Don, w here Meander winds, on the Amazon, and from the Yang-tzc-Kiang to the St. Law rence.—Sat. Intelligencer. V From Ijulics' Gazelle of Fashion. FASHION’S FOR JUNE.-Wc have this month an unusually large and elegant variety 0f summer fashions, embracing every novelty of i|1(. season, both in Fieuch and English costume. Chapeaux and Capots are made of the lighten materials, many entirely ot lace, with the brims quite transparent. Jotujuiile and \\ hitc crape will be fashionable. Capotes ct taffetas, ribbon and entre deux of blonde, the brims edged with a ruche, and trimmed w ith ruses, an*, the prettiest for half dress; those of silk are trimmed with black lace for walking, and white lace for half dress. Italian and rice straw, or chip, as it is of ten called, are very fashionable. Paletots, Mantclots, Scarfs and ramail> are in great request. The mnntcau Marie Antoinette i > admirable tor a tall and graeelui figure. '] ;.«• pardessus Odette, a new version of the cama.j and the new'muslin pajetots arc much admired! as is also the scarf ami mantelet. Those for full dress are cut low in the neck, and composed of lace or India hius.'ul Robes.—There is a great variety in the of robes. Some are laced up in front; some arc thrown open in lappels, either in a single piece j or in a collar, with a Iappcl on each side; while some arc tight to the shape in front, cut down t little in the centre ; the backs high and full. h ;. cod corsages, too, arc in favor. Tight sleeve* though in the ascendant, have not excluded tlu» derni large ones. The mache Louis XIII and XV are much worn. Flounces, particularly of lace are very fashionable. The new est materials f r half dress are the gras de chine, Sicilian and M, L»ri taffetas ; grenadine, plain and figured barege and the pekin cameleon, a large changeable *j|k of three colors. For full dress, taffetas persn;* and the royal mandarin. Caps.—Caps keep in favor, but arc much sl»or ter at the cars. Colors have not much altered.— For plain silks, bonm t*, or ribbons, pink. v.Int.* and a new shade of gray, are most in request. Wo find in thp Now York Tribune some notice of a RcViry limiting Loom, invented, after much labor and study, by Mr. Lraswus French, < t 1 Springfield, Conn., which knits Stockings and Hosiery of all kinds of perfect shape without seam or blemish, with a rapidity and cheapness hitherto unparalleled. Fz.e!i machine, it is said, \vill knit one set!: nrr /our, while one girl can ea sily tend ten* maehines,:n.c!/in /anid/vd e:ac!un< s may be driven by one lu re power. 'Hie Ke\. John Fier, oint declares it the greatest mechani cal invention of the age. 1 u!.k“t!ie clumsy and cumbrous stocking in whines of t inner (levs. \* \\\ ighs but three }>nuutl , and maybe placed r.| the centre table of any lady*- drawing-room. |f will knit onttor, woollen, silk, or any fabric, from the finest to the eoar-rst. A d:>infereste<l friend of the Tribtu e write- from Boston, • I have been looking at this machine with a>! n -b ment for t wo or three day-. 1 had heard of it before, but it takes seeing to make believing in tliCsC days.’’—Bui; i. Here . h.i> > loan K..X rrr aunnasacri OBITI ARY. DRATfl OF HON II. S. HF.GAKF.—llcar rived in Boston ( ar!y on Friday la-f, somc-.vli indi-p'osed, but v. ry s ightly so, in consequence ».i the fatigues of a hurried j uin.oy from Washmg t on. Fver. in the latter part of the evening of that day, aftpr having attended the Mayor’s din ner, where he, almost wholly abstained from food, he complained of little inconvenience, and thought a night's re-t would quite restore him. Hut about one o'cloc!;, on Saturday mornieg, he was seiz'd with symptoms of obstruction of the bowels, io - unc degree of wf.it fi fie had for merly been subject, and ot which the three lau attacks had been of increasing severity. Dr. Thomas, an eminent physician from Washington, ...1, ... — . « 1 « I . /% « rt «* nn/l ♦ a tviAct i n a: u ;ui ii iv. l i of whom, he is, v.heu at home, the regular fami ly ph\*io!an, was immediately called, ami in stantly present, being lodged in the Tremont House, wliere Mr. Lcgarc than was. During Saturday, no anxiety v. hnteyer was felt about the ease. ():i Sunday morning early, though *t;ll no appn hensirn** were entertained, Dr. Thomas de sired that Dr. Bigelow might be called in. Dr. Bigelow agreed with Dr. 'I lu ma* in hi* views of the ease, "lie saw Mr. Lcgarc several tine 'dar ing the day; and, in the latter part of thealte:* rsoon, accompanied him in a carriage to tin limn' of Mr Leg.a re’s friend, Mr. Tieknor, in Park street, as to a situation more quiet, comfortable and airy. Dr. Thomas and Dr. Bigelow were both with their patient til! late in that evening. (Sunday) and again in early the next morning; •agreeing entirely in the course to be pursued. Mr. Lcgarc parsed a more comfortable night than the one preceding; but in the forenoon of Mon day, graver symptoms made their appearance. Dr. Bigelow, therefore, desired the attendance of Dr. j. C. Warren, Dr. Thomas being absent at Low ell, with the presidential party. I hose two em inent pb}sieians were with Mr. Lcgarc until late at night, and Dr. Bigelow wa^with him constant ly, through the whole night, and until after hi* death early on Tuesday morning. B it at no Bar during I he seventv-eight hours <d its continu ance, did the disease «ee:n in the slightest d - grcc to yield ;1hnii. h various and unremitting ef fort s were mad.; to arrest it during its whole pro rr * • go, • f;> ^ | Mr. Leg-»re S'di’eivd ocenMornPy severe pain n tL'* ear!v stages ol nis e* mps *uu. hi.t, hi the l.t* thirty-six hours, though fre<; ica'.Iy incommode 1. he could hardly be said to sutler more thanorve or twice, and then only tor a lew instate Through the last night and t!o< ugh even his L mouicrds, .he was easy and tmi <pul; and from lit’'' to last, his mind was clear, firm, and perfer* composed Knowing his constitutional tenden cies, he apprehended the termination of hi> dis ease from a very early period; arid made every needful dispositi n touching his a‘.fairs, private and public, in ca'O his eriticipations should he re alized. He desired, on Monday, that tlic uny* ened despatches received by hirn, from England, he day be.fore, fhould be delivered to tl*e Prur ient of the l tided States, t igetlier with nil pa* >ers under bi> control belonging to the Govern nent, except such as rire. in those Department' it Washington, of which he was the head. TbL ivasdoncsoou after the President returned from r_11 'Pi » t> :.i • i :_ic -n » • . ■ i jvj r* mi. i iiu i III, HUU III 'eceived them with great sensibility, and h-ciiio i piite unable to reconcile him^eif to the idea, that ic and the n itiori were about to -u- '.ain so great \ h »•; of which this was to hi:;i the first distinct earning. In all other p »ir;f-i, both andi-t hi tuftarings, and during the e:;I;uisti >n that DlLw d them,— .Mr. Ecgare wa-> equally tranq- i a*. 1 mlhcted;—showing at each moment the after donate spirit and the vigorous powers which invc, from youth upward, marked his manly am! ionic character. He in ire than once thank ! Jod,that, having left Washi igton with great i - uetance, he was dying in the mere performs:.f:c d'his public duties; but he cvidenly ft It no r.: ijrets, except when '.peaking of a much \ >vcd .er,—the only remaining memo rofliN im.ncJ; ite family, to whom he ha I always been mo5*, enderiy attached. His last words,—a few mo ments before his death, and after his eaten ti tenses had partly failed,—were of her.—Hut -» ranquil wa-% the closing scene, that the friend 11 whose arms he rented, was not conscious that hi* spirit had passed, until the attendant physicEri nadc it known to him. The post-mortem examination was thorougi * and carefully made; and the result was a dov lil 111*' I It te stl: ic s • At Harpers-Fcrrv, of Pulmonary ('on«umpti Mr. WILLIAM CREUZE.V, in the 46th year - lis age. Suddenly, at ‘‘The Forge,” on the Eastern jank of the Shenandoah, in Jefferson countv, on ihe 15th instant, Mr. DA MEL MrPHERSON, in the 69th year of his age. I he Boston Daily Advertiser announces the ieathofVVM. SIMMONS, Esq., Senior Justice :>f the Police Court of Boston. He died on Sa turday morning after a protracted illness, at thp age of 61. Judge Simmons had held fiis respon-i Me office for many years. {TJ* The Alexandria Gazette READING I ROOM isoj>cndail\.