American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-20

clmens OF our manufacturers to exhibit to the inhabitants of
that country, with the audable design of inducing them
send orders and open trade with merchants and
uacturers This circumstance the origin of the SANDER
Mr. arker busted msefto propagate and which he said
he had from Custom House Officer
Mr. Harker again say the base sanderer who
said at Dover that " Mr. Rodney had taken goods
consignment and that you had your information fran
CUSTOM HOUSE OFFICER" Will YOU make some a.
tenement for your baseness by giving the name Of the
Custom Hpuse Officer from whom you received your inor
nation?
Disappointment the LIT Of mortalsWe sincerely condoe
with the literary world the great and unprecedented
they have lately been doomed to experience
The circumstance to which alude is this Twelve
months ago, more, the learned gentleman who prints
paper called the Delaware Gazette, skilled in all of
ancient and modern lore, made tour through the lower
part of the State, back again, and mmoTtaZed his
name by publishing that unrivaled literary production
called " A Journal Of Ride. In that sad g Journa
normed not that the Journalist met with elephants
or pismires, crocodies bull frogs, dragons gnv-
omous, any trihes of this kind but that he man
who had 5a winters and more, whose hair
gray land who old man land that he what,
If possible, stranger still, pond, the water wherein
was as green grass (!
To hegmen the comparison he might have said! green
himself But it's best not to stretch too much travel
ers have such name for seeing wonders.
After sending forth to the world such production as
" journal of RIDE need we be astonished the
excitement which was produced amongst the ira when
il was announced that It's framed author about to
take another ride? Not at all And should we wonder
that they should expect 10 be grated by the perusal of
les journal of a Rlde."t by And above
ALL ought to be surprised that it is overwhelming
disappointment tem that the Journalist has taken his
ride has returned and has issued JUurnasnd intends TO
publish none In no wise.
We think however, that the learned author might have
made some kind Of apology his disappointed expect
ants. lie might have plead the multiplicity of and
concerns he had his hands such trying make MIR.
Crawford Presdent-takng care Of the Custom House
Boats-abusng his bettersand endeavorng TO extricate
himself from snares in which he had fooishy
entanged himself. But no--he does not deign TO give
ham The Least
earned by his first journal, he would fan have them
believe that he perfectly indifferent whether he
gathers any more.
But the real truth of the matter is some very unpleasant
circumstances took place during the second ride is not
the agreeable thing in the world for to tell
especially in print, how, where he formerly received
with respect he had afterwards for his baseness and
science been treated with and contemplated owned
upon and detested object too filthy to come in
tact with the hands of decent and at last compelled
to fly for his hide,
Lnbor,ant Decision-RonERT SHANNON, notorious Of
fender stole horses Pennsylvania in 1921 and was
pursued by the into the State of Delaware appre
hended and committed to Newcastle Jail. He broke iai
and afterwards apprehended in Philadelphia, brought
before the Mayors Court found guilty and sentenced to
II years hard labor. In November 1885, pardon was
procured for him, condition, that he should leave the
state forthwith, and never return to it,"-whch he
copied these terms. The Mayor subsequently receiv-
ed information that he lurking about the city issied
to several consabes, and he apprehended
and commitment issued against him by the Mayor in the
following terms.
lCIrY OF PH1LADELPuI,, SIS.
| The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
To the KEEPER Of tie Peaiten,idry, greeting.
i You hereby commanded receive the bo!y of Ro.
bert shannon, charged the oath of John Mclean that
he the said Robert Shannon, is the person who
,duy convicted Of larceny in the Mayors Court of the
said city, and pardoned condition of his leaving the
sae which condition, appears, before me- he has failed
Ito comply with, by his being found at large in the said
lefty Now, therefore, you hereby commanded to re-
ceive the said Robert Shannon and him dcan on former
sentence and judgment of the said Mayors Court suf
fer the penalty and servitude therein directed"
On Tuesday the 10th inst. the defendant was taken be-
fore the Judges of the Court Of Quarter Sessions on
writ of habeas corpus-Iudge IIallowel, presiding.
Mr. Brewster, the counsel for Shannon, stated mum.
Der of points upon which he should contend that the pri-
soner ought be discharged but those he chiefly relied
lon in the first place. that the Governor has right
under the Constitution, TO grant conditional pardon and
secondy, that the commitment of the Mayor wrong
that he ought to have committed him to the county prison
Ito have him freddy jury After speech of consdera-
BILE length, and citing number of authorities to sustain
his argument, reservg to himself the right ofconcIuson,
the Attorney General, Mr. Duane about addressing
the Court in behalf of the Commonwealth when the Court
Informed him it unnecessary. Judge Halowe then
stated that it the ,aniaoua opinion of the Court the
commitment OF the Mayor not only correct but legal
hattas to the other pontthey also unanimously Of
pinon that the governor had right to grant conditional
pardon that the pardon in the of contract
into by the defendant and the citizens of the COM
monweath, through their executive that he bound
by it. he had his choice in the first instance whether he
would accept it or not and that they had right to
tort unconditional pardon from the Governor. The
: prisoner was remandcd to the Penitentiary.
81 - doJJrD
Janaca.-They fearful of negrn nsurrection at
: Jamaica the 14th January.
.1iartnique.-A recently contemplated instruction Of
1.-THE free persons of ceor in that Island has been
ed, and so 40 of the rngeaders arrested Of whom
were persons of property. Their design was to murder
all the whites and place the Island under the government
, of President Boyer.
The Chesapeake and 0ho Canal Bill has passed the Senate
of Maryland. committee has been appointed to mature
plan eecuay to apply the pecunary resources
that State in just and reasonable proportions the