Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-02-04
LARGE SWINE.

LARGE SWINE.
Capt. Gershom Wheelock of Shrewsbury
has killed hog, 90 months old, weighing 584
lbs. Oliver Chickering OF the same town has
Killed another 10 months old weighing 65Olbs.
MASSACHUSETTS CLAIM.-The Governor of
Maine has communicated to the Ieq;sl..
lure OF that State, most extraordinary
correspondence, relative to the war claim
OF this State on the General Government.
The following remarks from the Salem Oh.
server on these documents, are SO applica-
bic to the case, that we extract them for
the benefit of our readers.
" They furnish us with the following
important intelligence. To wit-Thaf
the Agents Of Massachusetts had been
IN Washington, but had taken new de.
Parture thence to Brooklyn, Long Is
land, where, for aught that appears to
the contrary, they took up their sum.
mer residence. From this place is
dated their letter to Gen. King. who
had been appointed the Agent Of Maine.
10 Cooperate with ours, in which tn ev
refuse to recognize his credentials. on
the ground that the plenipotentiaries of
Massachusetts had been invested with
all the authority, which could be ex-
ercised in the case, and therefore, that
Gen. King could play neither first nor
second fiddle in the concert.
This rebuff was courteously commu-
nIcated by the agent of Maine, 10 Gov.
Lustis' who, as courteously declined an
interference betwe en- these potentates.
but expressed a reasonable wish, that
their misunderstanding might not prove
PreJudIclal to the public interest. Gen.
King then gives vent to his irritated
feelings, in formal complaint to his
own Governor, in which he laments the
deviation Of our Agents, from the course
proposed by Gov. Brooks, and acknowl.
edges, that the respect, which he feels
for his parent State, Restraints him from
afflxing to the arguments of our agents,
the character they deserve. He adds.
what is very consoling, there is neither
aprospect ofthe claim being allowed
nor any symptom of favorable i'm
preston having been made by their ar
guments.
1t seems by these documents, that
Gen. Kings claims to the honour of
settling the state claims, are 10 be ad-
Justed first, and then-we shall find
what Influence our Agents exercised,
during their charming summer resi-
dence, on Long Island, towards attain.
ing the object of their mission.''
IHE GREEK QUESTION, it seems, is put
to rest for the present, the committee of the
whole having risen without asking leave to
sit again. In the course of the debate.
greater displays of oratory and eloquence,
have been exhibited, it is said, than on any
other occasion for many years. Indeed, the
quantum of talent, in the present Congress.
we apprehend, is unusually large. The en-.
comiums, which have been paid to the first
speech of the mover of the resolutions. from
all quarters, must be exceedingly gratifying
to the citizens of Massachusetts,, and to his
constituents in particular. It may safely be
affirmed, that no speech, since the celebrated
one of Fisher Ames, on the British Treaty,
has ELECTED such unqualified praise. We
annex some extracts, from other journals, in
relation to it.
From the Washington Republican.
The remarks of Mr.. Webster were
most able and emphatic; p. displaying
profound thought, enlightened views,
an extensive range of political observa.
ton, rather than studied att ention to
tinselled phraseology, and superficial
ornament. 1t might truly have been
termed one of those intellectual festi.
walls which are now and then given, in
the course ofthe session, to relieve the
every day fare which is so regularly
and plentifully dealt out to US; and
while Mr.. Webster was so happily re.
calling to our memories the debt we
owe to Greece for our architecture.
our political institutions, and our ideas
of rational liberty, we could not but
extend our ideas little further. and
add that we also are indebted to her
for the Demosthenes who was then ad-
dressing the house.
From the National Journal.
THE GREEK QUESTION.
"We never listened to more rich
display Of classic lore, to a more elo-
quent exposition of the natural rights Of
man, or to a more able discussion of ma