Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-08-20
Friract of a letter 10 The u s. Gdsetie, dated
n 4

Il JtTucf OF tetfef 10 iHt u. y. uuEttc, Ouitd
Washington, hug !.
Whatever may be the expectation of the
counsel for DIR. Watkins, do not believe that
the motion for arrest of Judgment and new ,ri-
ais, will be successful. II Is my firm convic
ton that The court are as honest and as indie
pendent as men can be hut IS they have o.
vercome any weakness which may have biass
cd, mperceptibly no doubt, their judgments IN
favor of the accused, before his letter To Mr..
Souihsrdwa produced, and as they acqniesced
in all the motions of the counsel for the United
States, 10 Instruct, he jury, have bur linae ey-
pectaton unless there should be urged
some points which are not now thought Of,
that any rehesIlng of The case will be had.
We have had DR. Sanderson. of the Bait
more Republican, before the grand jury but
IL is understood that he refused H. give up the
name OF the author OF the series Of hbels ou
the court, inrr, counsel md officers, which
were published in his paper i'll the shape OF
letters from Washington. The grand jury
worn cut by long AT enhance and harrassing
Investigations, and probably apprehenslge OF
being plunged into new business, "hch
might lead TO a sill further detention, did not
deem il worth therrouble to coerce the pubs.-
err Had they done so, and obi med a name,
il is very possible that II would not have been
the name of the real author, as il is strongly
would lave been put forward 10 bear whate-
yer consequences might have resulted from the
correspondence, person attached TO The
Telegraph Office, is known TO have deposited
the letters in the post office every morning soor
after day break.
General jackson has been much indisposed.
On Wednesday night the physicians were ia
attendance almost the whole night, engaged
in cUppng him. think there is much APP
prehension among some OF the pt ointment mem.
beis of the administration lest in one of these
paroxsms the disorder should battle the skin
of the heali physician and in that case
there would probably he more NortOnising
than we have yet witnessed"
Nm. B. LeWisli appears that the timely
notice taken by the National Journal of the de-
falcatlon of this gentleman, at the timesOfh
appointment "a 3D. Auditor, 81 of the consistent
doines ofthr Keiormers, has been tended with
a usctel efec to the u. 5, Ireas ury. In this in.
stance that paper has done good service, Not
wrhsianding their exalted Oatg wings in The
matter Of economy aud reform, thesereormers
vii be none he worse or beng well looked tC.
Al least the puchc Interests will. in all lkrl-
hood. be subseryed thereby. II is an old re-
mark, that they who are mosi roci}frouS IA
praise ofietorm, are not always the most likely
10 practice these homey virtues. The sub
Joined paragraphs We extract from the Joufuai
of Friday .-BaH Pdtriot
II is false Says the Kentucky Gazette tht
M jor Lewis asa deaulier.' We have repea-
teddy asked lrhere and When the deficiency
was made up But we have been answered
only by stubborn silence We must there.
for, nswcr the question ourselves
Oul original -. erence 10 tue subject was on
tie 10Th July, and that wa Immediately fol.
lowed by the assertion, that Major Levi was
defaulter when General jackson app ont,d
him 10 be The S cond Auditor
About the 10th 81 l2ih OF Jniy, Mrj0r Lear.
rs Sciited ms accounts al Tie 1reusurg, I'D i'm
med.aely afterwards tho dec.ai anon n ade i
appearance. thaf Major Lewis is not a d. a. Tier
AM Thai Ne does not owe the L. State. "A cent
The jackson editors may boast of their re-
forms as much as they please. aud make the
ar n. & with Hail to the Chef at the bar
ishment OF every hunesiand expei fenced Gle k
from office. We have the satisfaction To know
that by our timely notice of TIE drtalcaiion If
M'Jor Lewis we have brought some thousands
mt" the public Treasury, AID by diuinishiug
the list # public drfaulteIs, effected one refOrn1
which will advantage he country more than
all the reforms of q neral Jackson"
Mr.. Henry Clay was NJ Bardstown last
week Mas pre- sent at an examination Of the
students OF ST. Joscph's College. and visited
some other iniere ting public institutions in
that vicinity. On Thursday be parlook ofa
public dinner, 10 which he lad been some line
previously invited by the citizens OF Nelson
County.