From the Hollidaysburg Standard,
Texas Prisoners.
The following letter limn Capt. JOIDTI
HOLLIDAY, formerly of this place, to
his brother, A. L. Holliday, will be read
with interest by his relatives and acquain
tances!
CASTLE 01' PEItOTE, ( \ lexica)
April 30, 134.2,
Dean 13ROTIIER :-1 wrote to you on the
21st inst., but not knowing whether you
will ever receive it or no, have now a
line opportunity of sending you this letter,,
as some of my fellow prisoners have been
released by order of the U. S. Govern
ment, (and it would only require a word to
procure my liberation.) The prisoners
%vim have been released, belonging to the
ill-fated Santa Fe expedition, will be down
this evening in the stage, on their way Jo
the land of Liberty, the U. S. of America.
One of the number is Kendall of the Or-,
leans Picayune, and one of the name of
Sniyely, a merchant from Ohio, who will
be the bearer of these few lines. The
others are Texian citizens, who have no
more claim on the U. States than myself,
they having friends in the north, who had
influence with the President, and got an
order for their release. lam pleased to
see all get away tha4an, though it is un
certain whrtn I shall !be fortunate enough
to get ou4 myself. • The Texian arms
dust decide our fate. We have different
rumors as regards the movements of the
Texian forces. There is a report of fifty
thousand near the Ran Grande, on their
march to this country. but 1 cannot vouch
for the truth of the report, as the Mexi
cans will not allow us to have any news'
communicated to us by the few foreigners'
who are permitted at times to call on us.'
The foreigners all through.this country. l
have been very kind to us. tact, some
of us owe our lives to them, fu all the
large cities that we came through, gat our
way from Santa Pe, we found them very
liberal in furnishing clothin g and money.
In Chihauhau, they raisena large sub
scription fur us—ac Zacataeas also; and
furnished transportation for the sick to the
city of Mexico. In San Louis Potosi,
and also in Guarewtrater, we found the
English mining companies very liberal
indeed. We passed in our route, through
the richest mines in Mexico, which are
principally worked by English. Mexico
is a delightful country, in the way of
climate, scenery, rich mines, and fine
water, and can boast of the richest cities
in the world, but oh, God, deliver me from
such a population. In this country, (riot
as it is in the north) the population con
sists in cities, large Hesiendoes, Ranchoes,
4'c. We passed some of the Hesiendoes
on our march, with a population of from
lassoo VaNar
one man --slaver for life. The poor in
this country are slaves to the rich, and yet
they boast of a free country! Poor, delu•
ded people, they suffer the sword and
priesthood to rule, wielded by the tyrant
of tyrants, Santa Anna, who has over
thrown Bustamente, and declared himself
supreme dictator. A Congress is to sit
on the Bth of May, and it is thought Santa
Anna will attempt to crown himself. Tie
will meet with opposition, and no doubt
but there will be a revolution in May or
June.
The castle in which we are confined, is
a beautiful place, and one of the strongest
fortresses in Mexico. It is a heavy mass
of stone masonry, mounting one hundred
and filty heavy guns, and capable of gar
risoning' five thousand soldiers, situated
about one hundred miles from Vera Cruz,
on the road to Mexico. It is one of the
highest points in this country, being only
one hundred miles from the en ist, and
about 13,000 feet above the level of the
sea, in latitude 17. In the adjacent,
mountains their is perpetual snow, which:
makes it very cold, though in the valleys
below it is perpetual summer. The stage
runs through this place from Vera Cruz to!
Mexico. The stage drivers are Ameri
cans, and they frequently call and see us,
bringinging in all the foreigners who travel
in the stage. The Texian navy has bloc-,
kaded the Mexican ports, and should a
force zoine by land our fate would soon be,
decided. We still remain in irons, and'
the men instead of being treated as pris
oners of war, are treated as common con.
victs. The Mexicans are throwing a large'
force at Vera Cauz, to protect that city
from the Texian fleet. Santa Anna is
raising a regular force of sixty thousand
men. Nothing more at present.
In my last letter I gavo you an abrevia
led account of our capture and journey to
the city of Mexico from Santa Fe. Do
write on receipt of this, and direct to the
the care of the American Consul, at Vera
Cruz, and to the care of Kendall and
Lumbsden of the N. Orleans Picayune.
Remember the to my friends,
Your affectionate Brother,
JOHN HOLLIDAY.
AN AMERICAN IN INDIA.—We under-
Maud, says the N. Y. llerald, that it was
a natural Yankee who had taught the
Alfghans to resist the British power so
lung, and who left the seeds of diploma.
cy and discipline with them, that recent•
ly burst forth so successfully at Capool.
Ills name is Dr. Harlan, a native of Phil
adelphia. Harlan was found occupying
a high rank in the Afighan army when
Capool was first taken by the English.—
l'ke British captured him, and sent him
uolc to Europe. He is now in this
gentry and :says that with a military
*der, the Afrghans could overrun all
ilia and China, create a new Mogu(
ipire—rival Genghis Khan—and drive
British cutircly from the east.
Riots in Ativ Orleans.
The resumption of specie payments by',
the New Orleans Banks has caused a de-'
'preciation in the Municipality issue of
small notes or certificates. This led to
serious riots on the 520th inst. We extract
I , he following from the New Orleans Pica
yune of the 21st:
"About eight o'clock yesterday morn
ing a crowd of some thousand persons
collected on the public square. They
were principally men who do business in
a small way about the lower markets--
Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, 4.c. Af
'ter some brief but agrarian address from
some of those among them, they proceeded
to the building in which are the Mayor's
office, and the Treasury of the first Muni
cipality. Here they became exceedingly
clamorous, and gave indications of their
determination to outrage bojh law and
order. They were met by the Mayor,
who assured them that all excitement and
apprehension about the Municipality notes
were groundless—the Municipality would
provide for the payment of them at par
value, and he therefore requested them to
disperse and go home. This did not seem
to satisfy them; every man was loud in
urging his own complaint. The Mayor
said it was impossible for him to reply to
them all, but suggested that a committee
of three from among them would come up
to his office, lie was prepared to hear any
thing they had to say, and to give them
such advice as he thought most conductive
to their interests. A committee was ap
pointed, who, with the Mayor, retired to
his office, and it was in their absence that
some one in the crowd cried out in French,
," down with the brokers! down with the
brokers!" which seemed to be the signal
for a general rush up Chartres street.--
On reaching the corner of Camp and
,Canal streets, they simultaneously broke
•.
vionue'.;; ; ; lour of
'the Exchange broker's offices, located
there—some appropriating to themselves
'the spoils, some In-caking the counters and
windows, and dashing tile/Ape - 6e about—
all appehrinvindined to carry on the
work of destructipn. IVith the love of
law and ordercharaeteristic of our citi
zens, they ran to the rescue, drove off and
dispersed the mob, and secured some eight
of those most prominent in the work of
robbery and demolition.
"The whole city now became a scene
of general excitement. It was rumored
that an attack would be made on the
Municipality jail, and an attempt to res
cue the prisoners caught in the act of
plunder. The citizens of this Municipali-
I ty, to the amount of some hundreds, at
once armed and placed themselves under
'the command of the veteran Col. White.
,The Washington Battalion and the Legion
turned out--the "great guns" were put in
Ibloc , bore the appearance
of a city under Marti%
Nothing, however, occurred through the
day, after thesacking of the broker's offi
ces, except a faint demonstration that was
made about half past 12 o'clock, to attack
the Second Municipality jail which was
at once suppressed.
The names of the brokers whose stores'
were yesterday broken into and,plundered
are Valentine & IVilliams, A- S. Barker,
'E. W. Nauce, and Itaitlell. The
amount of gold and silver taken from
them is variously estimated at from five to
,ten thousand dollars,"
Destruction of one-fifth of the
City of Hamburg by Fire.
The city of Hamburg, the great coin•
mercial emporium of Germany, one of the
most flourishing on the continent of Eu
rope, is a heap of ruins. Her merchants
were rejoicing at the
. prospect held out to
them by the promised improvements
in our commercial tariff; now they are
' mourning over their richly stored ware
' houses in ashes, their houses devoured by
the flames, and their prospects of increas•
' in. a prosperity scattered to the four winds
of Heaven. The tire, which broke out on
Wednesday night, the 14th inst, and
which, there is every reason to believe,
' was the work of an incendiary, extended
to fifty two streets, most of which were
reduced to ashes, on a rough calculation,
the loss of property was from three to four
• millions sterling, put it is believed that
' the total loss will be double that amount.
No person can tell how maney lives were
lost, but a great number of persons must
have perished. The canals through the
city were dry, so that no water could be
found. The fire raged from Wednesday
night till Saturday morning.
' On the latter day, at 9 o'clock, the
' Danish, Hanoverian, and Prussian troops
entered the town, and, being well supplied
with gunpowder, commenced blowing up
the houses to arrest the progress of the
flames. This was completely effected on
Sunday morning. The Senate ordered
every person to leave town, and nothing
could exceed the heart-rending spectacle
of thousand of poor people frantic with
their 'losses, and without the means of
procuring food and shelter.
The destruction of ,Haniburg is one of
those calamities which will be felt in every
part of the commercial world. Great as
may be the credit of the senates and people
of Hamburg with foreign states, a centu•
ry will elapse before th city can be re•
placed in all the prosperity 'destroyed in
this conflagration. In the midst of the
confusion, an incident occurred charac
teristic of the government and the people.
A public notice was every where put up,
that the vaults under the Bank, containing
the gold and silver bars, were fire proof',
and that the Bank books were all removed
,in perfect safety.
'fhe liamburzer None Zeitung, of the
10th inst., thus sums up the result of the Glaring Fraud.
.
sad catastrophy : . On Monday the 23t1 ul t a man calling
"Sixty streets, containing from 1500 himself JOHN CHENEY, presented to
2000 houses, lie smoultering on the Randal McLaughlin. Treasurer of this
ground, and front a fearful but picturesque cot,„ty, two certificates, purporting to
ruin. Two splendid churches, with stee- have been given tiy Selotnon Suter, Esq.
plea exceeding four hundred feet in height. o f East Huntingdon township, for premi
,oother church with its tower, the it , th Mils on Silk-and on said certificates, which
Haus, where the Senate hold their sittings, are vile Eorgeries, the said Cheney ob.
the old Exchange, the Repository of the tained from the Treasurer $56 621.—.
Archives, the building of the Patriotic Said Cheney is about 5 feet 10 inches
Society, are all destroyed, The Reich- high, rather slender in person—light col.
spool Amt, nearly all the great booksel , ored hair —fair skin, and the cheeks slight
ly tinged with red; he is of easy address
lers, the offices of two newspapers, (the
Borsenhalle and the Correspondent,) near. and is quite intelligent, though rather iv-
Iv all the great hotels and inns, (the Old served to conversation : wore a dark frock
London, the Belvedere, H o t e l, d e Russia, coat, and white hat with a scarf—and
St. Petershurgh, Street's Hotel, the when he left here, rode a light sorrel horse,
Crown Prince the Wild Man, the Bremer with bald-face, and three white legs—he
kmithaus, the Black Elephant,) the prin- was pursued by two men beyond Pittsburg,
cipal magazins ties modes and repositmes but could nut be found ; his general ap
of fashion, and nearly all the chief apoth pearance resembles that of a Clergyman.
ecaries, are destroyed. The following Editors of all papers will please copy this,
ate safe.—The Seller where the bullion is to prevent innar impositions throughout
deposited at the Bank, the Catharines- the commonwealth. Should he be arres
strase, der Wandraluno, du Reichen., feel and brought back to Greenburg, a lib.
&Erase, dze." leral reward will be given.— / t estmoreland
Intelligencer.
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Ten Thousand Lfves .Losin
TREMENDOUS EARTHQUAKE IN
THEISLAND OF ST. DOMINGO.
By tilt' politeness of Captain Morris,
of the brig Wm. Neilson, from Port au
Prince, we have La Patriote" of the
11th May, published at that place, which
gives an account of a shocking earthquake
that occurred in that island on the 7th of
May, at 5 o'clock in the evening.
The principal destruction of lile, or;
which we have an account, was at Cape
Haytian, which town was entirely de-1
stiled. It contained about 15,00 0 in -1
habiints, two•thirds of whom aro thou't
to be dead.
The approach of the earthquake was
I indicated in Port au Prince by great heat,
and heavy clouds that covered the neigh
boring hills, and followed the direction of
the South. West to the North-East.
The vessels at anchor, some of the sai•
lors report, experienced the shock before
they saw the houses agitated, which see
med to indicate that the shock came
from the west.
There were two shocks at Port au
Prince very distinctly felt, the first not so
long as the second, which last endured
about three minutes. Every person
strove to get out of the houses, and the
streets were filled with the alfighted pop-1
ulation. A little longer, saysthe Patriot,
and Port au Prince would have been the
theatre of a disaster similar to that of,
1770, of which disastrous year the re-'
membrance was rushing into all minds.
The Patriot also says that there is hard
ly a house or a wall that has not suffered
stzuristenin-,'
llaVit i ate7 s4) -2: 1 11 t h rt 4 6 2 e ' Senate on se",
where the arms of the Republic are scalp
tured, is detached and broken. The in
terior was uninjured.
On the Saturday night succeedint and
on Sunday, there were other shocks.--
Mass was interrupted, and the persons
present ran hither and thither, while many
women fainted.
On Monday morning at 12 o'clock
there was another shock. The weather
all the while was changeable, now extreme
heat, now rain, now fair, and now signs
as if from a storm.
On Tuesday again there was another
shock, and since then, save the Patriot
"6 it seems to us that we walk upon a qua , .
king earth."
SAINT MARC.—A letter from this
town says that the earthquake was felt
there with violence. Many houses were
seriously damaged, and some destroyed,
but no loss is mentioned.
At CONAIVES the shocks were yet
more serious. The greater part of the
houses were overthrown. A fire broke
out at the sama time, and there was not a
drop of water in town. All the houses
that were not burned suffered from the
earthquake. It was in the streets that
the writer of the letter giving this account
was inditing in. The Church, the Prison,
the Palais National, the Tresury and the
Arsenal were all destroyed.
This letter concludes at 8 A. M. by
saying:
Iris only a half an hour since that we
felt a very great commotion. At present
we are ignorant of the number of per,ons
killed or wounded. All the prisoners
who are not buried in the ruins, are esca
ped. God grant that Port au Prince may
not have experienced such a disaster."
GAPE HAY rIAN.—The town of
cape Haytian has entirely disappeared,
and wills it twothirds of the population.--
The familes that could escape are fled to
Fossette, where they were without an asy
lum, clothing or provisions.
The President of Hayti has given or
ders to the physicians and officers of the
hospitals to leave the city immediately in
order to give succor to the distressed.—
Other aid of all kinds was about to be
despatched by water to the distressed.
LATER.
In addition to the above disastrous in
telligence from the Cape, a courier arrived
from the city a few hours previous to the
departure of Capt. Morris, who stated
that a fire broke out after the earthquake,
which, on Monday the 9th, destroyed the
powder magazine, and with it the miser
able remnant of the inhabitants who had
escaped the earthquake. The towns of
St. Nicholas and Port Paix are also said
to be destroyed. Other parts of island
had not been heard from when Capt. Mor
ris, left; but it is conjectured that all the
towns on the north arc a mass of ruins.__
N. Y. Express.
Tue M ORDER OF PROFESSOR 114r15.
, The Baltimore Patriot illustrates the im
propriety of admitting persons to bail,
charged with high crimes, by a pertinent
reference to the case of young
Semmes.
It will be seen what the result of the bail
in this case has been; and a similar result
may be expected in all cases of the like
atrocity.
. _ .
The - circumstances, says the Patriot,
under which young Semmes committed
the murder, are in the recollection of
most of our readers. In a sort of rebellion
which had been got up by some of the stu
dents of the Virginia university, Semmes
took part. Professor Davis, as was his
duty, attempted to quiet it, and for this
purpose appeared among the rebellious
students whilst they were engaged at night
in violating the rules of the Institution.—
He was unarmed and meditated no vio
lence to any one. He only hoped by his
personal efforts to restore older and bring
the refractory students to a sense of duty.
The students were masked—or at least
Semmes was--and Professor Davis ap
proached him, and raised the mask, and
saw who he was. As he did this Semmes'
shut hint with a pistol, and of the wound
thus inflicted he subsequently died. The
criminal was arrested, identified and ar-I
raigned—and the charge, as we learn from'
the Chadottsville Advocate, " proved to
the satisfaction of three preliminary tri
bunals." In this emergency, and when
there would seem to be no escape fur him,
but in the clemency of the Executive—and
this is invoked in vain—an application is
made for him to be bailed. Great talent
i,. enter ... /1 4,110)41 L .st tlti all that wealth
land station can do are brcught to his aid.
Where law failed, or was agallat the ap
plication, appeals were made to the syn.-
pathy awl humanity of the judges in behalf
of the criminal, who was represented as
on the verge of the grave from the effects
of his confinement in prison. To all these
appeals we would have judges fully alive.
They are but men, :kwl they may properly
sympathise with file/As and relatives thus
afflicted. Neither can they be expected
to be indifferent to the fate of the criminal.
But above all, feelings of sympathy must
rise the sense of justice and duty in the'
breast of the upright judge. From the
circumstances under which the applica
lion far bail was made to them in this case
—the undoubted guilt of the culprit and
I the wealth of the relatives—they could
not but regard it as a question, of how
much money shall be paid that the crimi
nal may go free. However specious and
plausible the reasons were that his coun
sel urged in his behalf, this was tho real
question before the court, and if they did
not so reward it, there can hardly be found
another man in the Commonwealth who
did not difflur with them.
Under the misguiding influences brought
to bear on the case, Semmes was admitted
to bail in the sum nt twenty-five thousand
dollars. He walked from his prison, and
oas instantly hurried from the State.--
W hen last heard from he was in Texas.
The culprit, of course, never appeared to
answer the charge, and at a recent session
of the Sit preme Court of Virginia, his bail
was forfeited. Legal proceedings were
instituted under the bail bond, which weie
soon thereafter stopped, by a relative of
Semmes front Georgia paying into Court
ihe whole amount ot 'the recognizance.—
, Thus the victim escaped punishment, and
the laws were prostrated.
In connection with this matter, there is
one thing which strikes us as not only
proper, but just. The State Treasury has
been enriched to the amount of twenty
five thousand dollars by the forfeiture of
the bail. To this money who basso good
a claim as the widow and children of the
murdered man? It is but a poor remune
ration for the loss of a husband and father,
but as it was the price paid for the life of
a husband and father, it should be given
to his bereaved family. To such a prop- ,
osition we can see no good objection; and'
if made in the Legislature, would meet,
we suppose, with no opposition.
AN EFFECTUAL CURE FOR FELON.-..
Bathe the part affected in ashes and wa•
ter--take the yolk of an egg, six drops of
the spirits turpentine, a few beet leaves
cut fine, a small quantity of hard soap,
one tea spoonful of' snuffor fine tobacco:
then add one tea spoonful of burnt salt,
and one of Indian meal ; it never fails to
to effect a cure if applied in season.
Emigrants continue to pour into Texas.
RETRENCHMEIsiT,—*The members of I
Congress seem disposed to shorten every
thing in the way of salaries, except their)
own. In the House, a Report of the select
committee has been submitted, which
among other things recommends that the
President be required in all cases of re
moval, to communicate his reasons to the
Senate, that the offices of the Second and
Third Auditors be abolished, ditto the
'board of Navy Commissioners, the Com
missary General of Purchases, the Solici
tor for the band Office, the Recorder of
ditto, that the Clerks in the Departments
be reduced in number and in salaries,
that the Clei ks in the Land Office be re
duced, also the Clerks in the office of
Indian Affairs. Some members should
propose an amendment, to the effect that
members of Congress should not receive
any pay, after sitting for more than three
months, during any single session. Eco
nomy is a very good thing, but the poor
Clerks should not be made the onv suf
ferers.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
o::rThe Keystone says, it Judge Barton's
decision in the Biddle case be correct,
" that the ancient, time honored and dear
ly prized instution of trial by jury, so far
as regards criminal cases, is a mere farce,
and it rests in the arbitrary will of a judge
to say, whether those who wilder, burn
houses ; and steal, or who commit the
,more heinous crime of robbing and tui fl
ing penniless upon the cold charities of
an unfeeling world, hundreds of aged
widows and helpless orphans, shall go
through even the forms of trial prescri
bed by the laws of the land, or be turned
loose upon society, to continue their dep.
redations unmolested."
' This comes also, from the tWgitit of al
Governor, who has Made the trial by jury
and the requirements of justice " a mere
farce," by the "arbitrary" exercise of the
pardoning power, and has said to the mur
derer, the robber, the swindler, the cold
blooded destroyer of a wife, the counter
feiter,
the horse thief,and those who have
committed " the more heinous crime of
robbing and turning penniless upon the
cold world, hundreds of aged widows and
helpless orphans"—you shall go through
thejorms of trial prescribed by the laws
of the land, and then I will PARDON)
YOU AND TURN YOU LOOSE
UPON SOCIETY TO COTINUE
YOUR DEPREDATIONS UMW
' LES TED !
This comes from the organ of a Gov•
ernor, who by the arbitrary exercise of his
will, has said, in two cases, at least, that
1" even the forms of trial prescribed by the
laws of the land" shall be disregarded,
and a PREVIOUS PARDON be eaten•'.
Jed to culprits INDICTED by a Grand .
Jury of their country I--liar. Tele.
SOMETITING TO Mt REGRETrED.WC
do not like the tone assumed by some of
our contemporaries in relation to the sus
( pension of hostilities between Stanley and
Wise. Remarks are frequent, especially
smog the locotocos, which are calculated
to peeurb the stilled waters, and yet the
same presses were the most severe in their
censure of, the proposed duel, and would
he the very first to condemn it, should it
conic off. Wo think that both the belli
gerents have shown more true courage in
returning to thein..position, as before the
accidental rencontre coming from the race
course, and the spirit of mutual conces
sion strikes us as highly creditable. We do
not believe that either are cowards, and if
they must fight, shall not oppose any
objection, for it is none of our business;
but for the sake of decency and our na
tional credit, let it be deferred until Con
gress rises, and as private citizens they
may then pop away at each other with
Paixham bombs if they choose.
It is a strung evidence of the demorali•
zing tendency of party spirit, to perceive
the studied afort made by those favorable
to the late General administration to fo
ment difficulty between these hot young
bloods. The motive is easily seen through
—if Wise and Stanley fight, as they both
assisted to elevate Harrison to the Presi
dency, a blow will be struck at the victo-!
Hoes party of 1840 over their most guilty
shoulders. No party is responsible for
the private acts of individual, and those:
who tend, by their actions or ill-judged
sarcasm, to convert Congress into a duel.
ling pillory, should be execrated by the
moral sense of all men, irrespective of
ilparty bias.—Pe. Telegraph.
Tue Ex IION. C. F. MITCUPILL--
The New York Express says, the case of
C. F. Mitchell, convicted of forgery and
now nut upon bail, was called up in the
Snpreme Court yesterday, when no coun
sel appearing to oppose ; the Court order
ed that a new trial be denied and that the
court of General Sessions proceed to sen.
tance the prisoner. It might have been
added, when they catch him.
Why don't the Ex-Honorable migrate
to Pennsylvania and apply to Gov. Porter
for a pardon. We'll warrant him one, at
a small premium, for all past offences--
and would consider his chance fair for a
previous pardon" for any future delin
quencies which would be likely to beset
him.
FATAL PUGILISTIC _ONTE S T.-•1 . 1
great
fight between Broome, the champion of the
light weights, and Bungarec, the Austra
lian Giant, for £3OO aside, came off within
a few miles of New-market. The fight
lasted for an hour and a half, Broome be
ing finally declared victor. Both men
were much punished, but Bungaree was
so badly beaten that he died within two
days after, at a 'public house six miles
from the place of contest.--Eng. Paper.
Bungai ea was so badly beaten that licl
died within two days after ;" and as a fool
diet!' so died he. The Boman Gladi a to r
died with some show of dignity. He had
claims in his death to sympathy. it no t re .
spent. Ile was the involuntary victim of
the cruel and wicked sport of others. B u t
Bungat re went to the slaughter of his own
accord. Had he died alone without any
one to witness the spectacle, except his
antagonist, human nature would then he
sufficiently humiliated in his death; but
the presence of an encouraging crowd, in
the heart of a Christian land, gives it the
last stamp of moral degradation. It was
enough, were such a thing possible, to
make the Roman victim leap from his
grave in contempt and scorn. But the
dead will sleep on, though the agonies in
which they perished be made the amuse
ment and mockery of mankind. The
jeers of the living can never invade the
immunities of the grave.—A. American.
THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL
..One country, one constituti o n, one destiny."
Ilunliigdon, June 8, 1842:
V. B. PALM ER, Esq. (No. 104 S. 3rd St.
Ph:ladelphia,)is authorized to act as Agent
fur this paper, to procure subscriptions and
ad vertisments.
Gen. Jackson and the 51000
Fine.
-The Loco Focos, having Wed in their
attempt to array the Whigs in the United
States Senate against General Jackson,
and the refunding of the fine of $lOOO im
posed upon him by Judge Hall, are now
engaged in falsifying the actions and the
feelings of the Whig portion of the Senate.
But this attempt to make political capital
is so palpable, and the conduct of the men
who pretend to be the friends of General
Jackson, in voting against refunding the
$ WOO, must satisfy every reasonable mind
that they are not as friendly to the Old
Hero as they would have us believe them
to be. This deception and misrepresenta
tion Is characteristic of the Loco Foco
party, and is at this day too well under
stood to have any favorable effect.
We here insert a portion of " Oliver
OlalschooN" letter of the Isnli ult. to the
editor of the U. S. Gazette, which gives a
correct account of the action of the Senate
on the subject. It is in these words:—
"The proceedings of the Senate were of
a very interesting character to-day, rich,
racy, piquant and almost laughable. The
bill to refund to General Jackson the fine
imposed upon him by Judge Hall, of $lOOO
and interest, was under consideration,
and in support of it, Mr. Tappan made a
speech. The friends of the bill had all
along averred that it was not their design
in asking for the refunding of this fine, to
cast the least censure upon the judicial
tribunal by which it was imposed ; all they
wanted was to do an art of simple justice
to Gen. J. Very well ; a proviso was ac
cordingly offered, decluving that in refun
ding this money, Congress did not intend
thereby to cast censure open the tribunal
by which the tine was levied. Upon this
amendment the ayes and noes were de
manded, and stood ayes 23 noes 22, so the
proviso was adopted. And now came the
question ,upon engrossment and third
reading of the bill. Upon this Mr. Linn
demanded the ayes and noes. but on a hint
being given by Mr.evier and some oth
ers, he withdrew his Alrunand, which was
renewed by Mr. Talniatige, and being ta
ken were as follows:
AYES—Messrs. Barrow, lia7thkQer•
rien, Clayton, Conrad, Evans, Grahami.....
Henderson, Mangum, Merrick, Porter,
Preston, Rives, Smith of Ind., Sturgeon,
[Loco] Talmadge, Woodbridge -17.
Noes—Messrs. Allen, Archer, [Whig]
Bagby, Bates, [Whig] Benton, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Craft, [Whig] Cuthbert, Fulton,
King, Linn, Mcßoberts, Millen, [Whig]
Morehead, [Whig] Sevier, Smith of Conn.
Tappan, Walker, White, [Whig] Wilcox,
Williams, Woodherry, Young -24.
Amin—Messrs. Clwate, Crittenden,
Huntington, Kerr, Phelps, Seuthard, Sim
mons, Sprague-8.
So the pretended friends of General.
Jackson voted, with a single exception,
against refunding him the fine, and the
Whigs, with the exception of six voted
for it. Henceforth let not the Whigs be
charged with being unjust to the Old !lc
ro, nor the Locoa claim to be his " peculiar ' II
friends.' The above vote stands record
ed on the journals of the Senate and speaks
for itselt. Buchanan, you will observe,
voted against refunding the tine, while
Sturgeon voted for it."
if the Loco Focos are siticerc in Weis