Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-07-26
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PHILADELPHIA AZ JuiJ ~.
Ecfract cfa tettsr to Iae s@'or' aa'ea
Harrisburg Juiy ~, 1910.
{. A b1ut 9 O'clock on me moflins ut
Thursday the 18th Instant, wonan 4nd
| two men arrived bere aid put ap at BIS
sells avern. 0.e OF the men caied am,
SELF Birch. & the other OsCsN u. Jones (;
the woman was called Mss Jones, ana
aid to be the sister Of owen. Que OF tae
men, which of them | do not know, wait
ed on the governor OF the consnonweaah,
land sone conversation, touching the case
iol Richard .Smith, being interrupted by
1.-The entrance into the room oi Shfrd
3erson, stranger requested the go
vernon would favor hin with his company
IaIone: this was refused; it was urged,
land then peremptorlly refused: upon
(which the stranger departed. | ought to
Inform YOU that il is understood mere that
some ten days ago the governor had re-
Eceived at Sein's Grove, letter, by eA-
/ press advising him that some desperate
attempt was likely to De made by DIS
Carson and others, to eXtort nom illm .
ipardon for the unfortunate smith, who is
! now under sentence OF death. 1t as be-
;Iisved that this information caused Ike
;governorto return TO tins place, which
lie reached On ednesday, the day be,
fore these strangers arrived. mere can
BE no doabt but it was the governors
knowledge Of what als contemplated
the strangers having no letters oil nitro
!! duction, and bis manner ald coayerSa"
ton. which induced the governor con-
ltrary to no usual custom, 70 refuse 70
this man a private audience.
The general department OF Miss
Jones, her conversation about larson,
Smith, &c. &C. AID the runner which
had previously got abroad, led to sus-
picion that those peOpla were not what
they pretended to be, & that Miss Jones
was no other than Mrs. Carson herself,
although she frequently spoke OF MIS-
Smith as OF a third person, 6 even went
SO lar as to declare that If she were MIS-.
Smith, she would have taken such mea-
sures as wouli; have prevented the posi-
biIity OF the governors having slgaeu the
warrant, &c. Suspicion beng o1ue ex-
cited the strangers, who appeared TO be
acute and cunning observers oilah that
passed. took the alarm and said that hav-
ins failed in their object, they Should 90
that night, Friday, as far as Middetoan,
GU tkelr return to Philadelphia. They
accordingly sat out, but instead OF going
toward the city they went up towards
Seliu's Grave.
8 In the mean time depositious were
takes and warrants issued against Mir.
Birch, and Mr.. and Miss Jones, < they
we're arrested at Armstrong; tavern, a.
bout ten miles up the river, and brought
back to this place. Miss Jones would
have persuaded the two men to resist the
officers Of justice, but this they dcclin-
ed.
The prisoners were this morning.
brought before Judge Fahnestock, who
after hearing the testimony declared bel
would commit them; upon which Misst
Jones, desired thather commitment might
be, and it accordingly was, made out in
the name oil Ann Smith, alias Cafson.-l
1t as not five minutes before this avow-
Il that Jones had Insisted and she hadl
1ncarred that she was his sister, and her
name Jones. She had bundle with herj
% the gig, in which was ted up a sail
RS roundabout, check shirt, &C.