Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-05-28
whole No. 1923.

the Revolution. are exceedingly minute
and valuable. The instructions Of tho
British Government to its officers here.
and the military correspondence relating
10 the American campaigns, throw im-
portani light on the dispositions Of their
Government, towards the colonies. and
on the operations and plans of the Bril-
fish armies The whole mass of mate.
rails thus collected will set many events
connected with our revolutionary strug-
gle in anew point ofview, and viii enas
BILE Mr., Sparks 10 write its history with
more authenticity and impariiality than
has yet been done The posihumous
papers of Gen. Washington, with histor-
zeal aud explanatory notes by Mr
Sparks, to be published in London by
Murray ~ Y Evs. Pos.
Hoyti aud France learn By let.
ters from HsJti that the French Com
missiouers concluded treaty with the
Haytisn Government on the tenth oe
April, by which the tune of payment
OF the debt due to France 10 extended
forty years, without interest Haytian
Coffee is to be admitted into France
during that period, in French vessels,
at duty mid rate between the French
Colonial and Fereign duty, or about ~
sous per ID less than the foreign.
No other privilege is to be granted to
France over ether nations The oper-
alton vi this treaty so far, a. American
commerce 10 concerned, will be to cue
of cur carrying trade from Hayti, In
the article of Coffee. but leave us to en-
joy all other advantages which our en-
terprize can command Logwood, hides
cocoa, tortoise she'll &C. will now pro.
badly form much Of the cargoes Of our
vessels trading to Hayt, and as these
do not pay good freight', our traid must
fall of. -
There is aptuess and humor in the
following from The Bennington Journal
Of the Times.
HARD CASE.
@Tbere was an old woman she lived in shoe
She had 30 many children she didn't know what
Some she gave potatoes, and some she gave
bread,
Some she gave whipping. and sent them to
bed"
We can never think of the above pa
thetic lines without being foreibly struck
with the similarity Of condition existing
between the old ladY and The new Pres
ident of the United States. So many
calls for Office, so much struggling forthe
crumbs that fall from the Treasury Ia.
BILE, so many mouths TO be stopped, and
so many hungry maws to be filled, that
Gen, Jackson's condition, though in
the Presidential palace, must be qoite
as uncomfortable as that of the poor
needy tenant OF the shoe. Indeed il is,
in some respects, much worse. The old
woman had the extent Of her difficulties
before her, and knew what she had to
do, how far she could 60 ia relieving the
wants OF her children, when the eata.
bles we're spent how many oil the young
sters she mus, satisfy with birch instead
OF bread. But the President can see NO
end 10 the calls and importunes for
office. If he gives potatoes to some
and bread 10 others, the crowds who
remain are numerous and too turbulent
to be silenced by whipping, Foreign
embassies will 20 but little way among
so many hungry exrectants; seats in
the Cabinet are very limited; judgeships
and attorneyships will satisfy but few
mouths; Co1ptrollers' and Auditors
Offices are soon disposed Of; The larger
Collsctorships and Post Offices stand
no chance among so many; in short alb
the richer offices in the gift Of govern
ment are but as mere crumb Of bread
in the hands of the old woman of tha
shoe, to satisfy the cries Of her numer-
Gus family.
The minor Offices are more plentiful.
but what are they among so man3s
The potatoes Of the treasury they may
be called, but such food as they ara.
soon swallowed, and but small part oe
those who were crying Justify for food
have bad morsel. What is to be done
with these. Are they to be treated in
the summary manner of the old WOMAN
OF the shoe, who whipped those she was
unable to fsedf But where with could
the nation supply birch for so extensive
a faggellationi The forests would fail
before the half OF ii was accomplished.
Would il not be better to create few
Thousand offices for the special benefit
Of applicants stthe present crisisi Whip
ping is out Of the question, and so for