Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-05-15

The Commercial Advertiser, in com.
menting upon the great improvements
| which have been made in science, and
the rapid march of mind, remarks, that
Dogs can now answer questions on or
biography better than members of Con-
gress and candidate for the Presidency
can do.
From the Massachusetts, Journal.
Coineidence-On the morning that
our last number but one issued, con.
tanning an extract, and statement IN
relation to Gen. jackson, we received
the missouri Republican," a paper
published at st. Louis, containing the
elaborate and able address of the late
Administration Convention in that State.
This Document occupies l55 wide
columns, and is signed by J. c. Brown,
President, and Michael j. .Noyes and
j. Jones, Secretaries. 1t contains the
following passage in relation to General
Jackson and Col. Burr.
"lf great injustice has not been done
to Gen Jackson by some of the most
conspicuous of his present supporters,
bis fidelity to the Union and attachments
to our institutions, has not been unwa-
veripg,"
We we'll re ember that his declara-
ton, that the Kentuckians had ''inglori
ously fled" at n. Orleans, gave rise to
an angry newspaper controversy, be-
tween him and Gen. Adair, now his pc.
lItical friend. In one Of bis publications,
Zen. Jackson charged General Adair
with having been concerned with Col.
Burr in the reasonable misdeeds of
1906 Z. To which Gen. Adair replied
"This affair relates to him (Jackson)
| and myself alone. Whatever were the
intentions of Col. Burr. neither or
gGnized TROOPS, nor did write CONF
DENTAL LETTERS, recommending INN to
MY friends. nor did / think it necessary,
after his failure ,cas universally knocn,
to SAGE myself 10y turning iNFoRMER OR
STATES WITNESS" Evidently meaning
that Gen. Jackson had done all these
! things; and il is not to be disputed that
Gen Adair perfectly understood the
nature of the charge and the RESPONSE
| bility under which he made it. Col Burr
/ had himself told Gen. Eaton that he had
attached to his interest the most dis
tiDguished citizens Of Tennessee, Ken
tuaky and the Territory of Orleans"
The impressions which these statements,
made by gentleman now engaged IN
the same political enterprise, were cal
culated to produce, are by no means
weakened by the Fecoliections associa-
ted with the name Of the individual
whom General jackson has selected as
one OF his confidential friends, to whom
he first communicated the unhappy fee
llngs which the disappointment of his
ambition excited in his bosom. Samu
ell Swartwout figures conspicuously in
the history of the reasonable transac :
tons OF 1905, and in consequence of
the disclosures produced by the investi-
cation OF these transactions, he lett the
United States, and remained in Europe
until March 1911, when be returned to
New York where he was in 1915, and
still is, it seems enjoying the confidence
and friendship of Jackson. 1t is not
our intention to enter upon detailed
examination of the subject. We have
referred to the statements of some of
General Jackson's most ardent supper.
ters, which we are not authorised to dis
pute If he suffers by them, it will be
borne in mind, THAI they are made by
his own political friends.
With these facts before them, the
friends OF Gen. jackson have, 1--WE think
imprudently,) invited a comparison be-
tween him and the founder of the repub-
lie; by insisting that he is a second
Washington"
One of the proudest displays of the
resources of Pennsy lvania, has appear
ed on the Susquehanna for the last ten
days, that ever was witnessed by our
Oldest inhabitants. During the whole of
the day, from FIVE to fifty arks and RATS
are seen approaching at one time, and
as they pass a new succession appears
Our banks, as is the case at the villages
generally on the river, are lined with
them, and our shops and streets are full
Of hardy pioneers, some going and some
returning, all cheerful, with sufficien
cy of money to indulge their reasonable
wishes.
They envy not the shipping trade of