Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-02-22

| feeling oil regret, that this distinguished
citizens should have given such con
sequence TO wretched calumny, as TO
have presented il to the House of Re
representatives., for inves igation The
public will learn, with correspondent
satisfaction, that the investigation is at
an end. For particulars connected with
this investigation, we refer our reader.
to the Report of the Committee. and
the projsi Of report offered by the mi
norily oftbe Committee. The testrno
ny, &c. accompanying tho Report, I'll
three or four hundred manuscript pages
OF these papers, we intend, at least. to
publish, as early as convenient, the
better Of Mr.. McDuflie, protesting
gainst the proceedings of the Commit.
tee. -Na:. iat.
NJ. Calhoun. report of the Sc.
lect Committee, appointed by the House
Of Representative at the request of M
Calhoun, will be found IN our columns
to-day. II will be perceived, as was
Universally foreseen, that ,r Calhoun
is fully acquitted of all the charges, Ell
Their direct or implied, made against him
by the notorious Nix. This latter char
acter, by the by, must feel very une as,
in the situation in which both the report
OF the committee and that OF Mr.. Flo, d.
have placed him before the community.
As to the too reports, we are at loss t.
determine according 10 the manual"
By what rule Of PaIlianen tary proceed
ing the minority of a committee, and
particularly a single individual, is per
mtied to make a report Of the result OF
the Investigations of the com nittee.
The Report places Mr. Calhoun in ra
Their an unfav ,rable light a TO his rrfe
renee to the Secretary of War, in his
communication To the House of .tepre
sentalives, reque sting the investigation.
When Mr.. Barbour read Mlx's letter to
Hancock" he pronounced 1t base
caiumny; and as soon as he found that
copy of it had been published, he re-
quested Col. Johnson to inform Mr.
Calhoun of the manner in which the let
ter had been received at the Department
and that it had been seat to Mr.. Clark,
its owner, through the Post office. Col
johnson made this communication TO
MIR. Calhoun hut a short time before the
latter made his communication to the
House, in which he Mr. Calhoun says,
cit appears. from its Ia newspaper state.
ment that am accused of the sorolid aud nta-
nous crime OF participating in the profits OF Il
contract formed with the government. through
the Department OF War Whine was entrusted
with the discharge of its duties, and thai The
accusation has been officially presented as the
| basis OF official act of theW War Department
| and consequently 10 be placed among IT'S records,
| os lasting stigma on my character
Now really, after receivingthe COM
munication of Col. Johnson, that the
letter had been returned to Clark, we
cannot see how Mr. Calhoun could make
such statement as the above. The
call upon the House for the investiga
ton was deemed unnecessary by many
of Mr.. Calhoun's best friends, par'icu-
larly so after he had received the expla-
nation from Mr.. Barbour.
We cannot avoid, on this OCCASION
a very appropriate one, by the BY, -ex-
pressing our regret, that so much of the
attention of Congress, and indeed of
officers of the Government, should be
taken up with the concerns of individu-
ais, to the great detriment of the pub.
lie business. Every public man who
feels himself agrieved byra newspaper
paragraph, must have committee and
take up the time Of Congress with long
speeches, to wipe the foul stein off his
tair character! When will the people
/ of the United States send such men to
| Congress as viii attend to the business
for which they were sent there?
Ban. Pot.
Miss Stephens, the celebrated vocal
ist, and MIR, Matthews, the comedian, will
sail from England for the United States
during the approaching spring or sum-
mer. They have both been engaged
by the Managers of the New Y rk Fhe.
aires. This country seems the land of
promise to all professions.
On the eth Nov. at Ziotoria, in Po-
land, boy eight years old. threw up
from his stomach, with the most violent
Efforts, live lizard, four inches long
and an inch thick.
o. II. ". Stull, ESQ. has been appoin.
ed Post Master at liagerstown, Mary
nd, in place of Mr. Kennedy resign
| ed.