The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-08-21


hi'p ior five thousand dollars : 10 hieh Gen. J.
replied
To the Judges Of the Superior Couri Of the M,..
slssippi Territory. sitting IN Adams eou,f,,
The representation OF Andrew jackson. VIM
"ns summoned as garnishee Al The sun ul-----
bi"nnr' hasseu against Aaron Burr depending
IN said court
/ Your respondent states thai while NJ Camn
jackson near Washington, in the Territory n
fo'es"id, in the month ofMrch last, a. comman
ding officer of a detschnent of Volunteers from
the state al tennessee, ordered by The PreSidsn
OF thu Unmtcd States, toi the protection of In,
Lower county, aud few day before the lroops
started on their return TO Tennessee lac was sum
moned as earuishee in The SUIT aforesaid, that
his duty imperIousy required his ACCOMPANYING
the volunteers 10 Tennessee, consequently hr
could not appear at the tune To which he was
! mmoned but he made statement on oath and
ehtwi,h his atforneyto he presented TO the court.
and did hope that statement would have dis
charged him, rs II was hereby shown 70 the
court that he owed the defendant Aaron Burr
nothing.
Your respondent now show 10 YOUR hands nv
the annexed affidavit of William Easian, ihat
/ the said Aaron Burr is indebted 10 him the a.
mount of five hundred dollars aud upwards. aud
which your respondent positively states is the
fact.
But, least these statements should not he
satisfactory to the court--lour respondent is
willing 10 answer on oath under an order of
cour, ntrrroga RES TO I've filed by the court or
the plaintiff and this h- ptays may be ordered
nv your honors as il will he ont OF the power OF
ysnr respond nj To appear Al the ensuing term
ofsaid court ~ Consequences of his beng NOW
under orders 80 command an expedition against
the Creek indians, and will march in five or SIX
days
Your respondent further states 10 yo,ir hands
thai 1t rs not in contempt the authority of thr
court thai he does not appear hui the reason he
lore stated ANDREW JACKSON. =
do certify that some time about the lOth of
November 1906 purchased n bill of exchange
tr9m Aaron Burr drawn by him on George NJ
Ogden OF New York at ninety DAYS sight for
Eve hundred dollars with Andrew jackson as
indorser, and said bill was sent on to New York
AMI presented TO said George NJ Ogden for &c.
cehancc, which he refused, and the said hin
was noted for protest as was informed, and n,
III" expiration of the ninety DAYS the said hill
was returned to me protested for non-pavmenf
aud Aaron BUR- having left this country made
application 10 the ndorsrr Andrew Jackson
Tor payment, and about the Isl day of April
1907, he The said Andrew Jackson Maid The
amount of bill with charges add interest n.
mounting TO five hundred aud nineteen dollars
"iven under NV hand at Nashville this 9Th day
o. September 1873 WILLIAM EASrAN !
now, IS u not strange thai jackson shonld
have been 40 long aud intimately conne cted with
Burr. as he himself admits. aud as is proved by
his friends Coffee aud EasIan, if he had no In
tereSt IN the. success of the schcme7 Ia any .
vent. II is known that none but intimate friends
endorse for one another; and il ia not little Gu.
ROM that this endorsement should take place nm
| tyiwo days before his letters 10 Mesrs Claiborrs
and JeGi rson mere wyitter ! : fever there wa !,
a clear case, made out, this is that case As
for Gen. CnfIees assertion that jackson and
himself believed Burr TO be an agent Of the 90.
vernment, that has heretofore been proved to he
impossible nor is his urging this plea AT II srr
pisng, SINCE it was necessary 10 his own
as we'll as Gen. Jacksons vlndication. We
are compelled, for want Of time and room. to
bring our remarks on this last evidence, abrupt.
Y to close.
! hen'uekV Elections, II he following are the
latest newspaper returns received from the Ken
! 'htNY P'fC'onNs-NR nave neafd rRTbnIiU, how .
ever, that sufficient returns had heen received
at Lexington (keniucky, } to authorize it to be
pronounced, with csrt anty that MetcsIfe had
been elected by at Ienst 5000 majority --Whar
renders this information more entitled to credit,
Is. that. We learn by the same source Of two other
facts not mentioned IN the nevspapcrs--,o vii,
the success ofhe administration candidates IN
Indiana, and the destruction oil the printing OF
fee Of TRUTH Adnocate by the .Jacksoniam in
Cincinnatli'--lhus, while the administration
are steadily co"quering AZ the polls, by the mi d
influence of reason, The Jacksonians are endea.
sorlng 10 deter their opponents by that same
violence of temper which distinguishes their
chief 1t will all work right in shori time
From tho National journal, Aug III
| KENTUCKY ELECTIONS
! Bv the Western Mail of last night We b,yo
| received few additional returns from Ken,nc
ky which give the following results. All tbo.e
are iul returns which are NOT marked othe,v,.e