The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-01
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
{" The appointment of Mr.. Thos. P. Moore 40
Minister to Colombia, appears but i'll calculated
10 elevate the character OF our country abroad
or at home. 1t Is one of those aDpointnents
maze exclusively on the ground of reward and
without reference to fitness and qualifications
" Much discomfort has been excited by the
treatment of Judge M'Lean A great effort
is made by the friends Of Gen jackson to i'm
press 1T upon the public mind, that he selected
the situation to which he has been appointed
III preference to retaining the post Office de-
partnent. But it is well known by the friends
ol Judge M Lean, that if he could have remain
e." IN the post office without injury to his own
ieelngs and character, he would not have re
IN uiShe" IL ior any situation which General
Gaz ''" l. %"
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE. Accounts or the,
swarms of office seekers who are now ,hroa ~
ing Washington, have somehow brourbt 70 nnr
mind little circumstance which IS said toy
have occurred in New York. For some v,c,n,
Office in the county of Washington, a few wear,
since, there were twenty or thirty apnl;coi;on.
and the attendance Of these expcctants nj A.
bany, made much sport. About that time.
there happened to be two Irishmen standinn
upon the bridge at Waterford, one of whom dis
covered an animal commonly called skunk
!or IN pointer phrase: an essence pedlar) float.
ing down the Hudson upon a cake of icn
," Arrah, Jamie" sad Pat, "what kind of Instr
Is 1t Jamie, who was in reality as ignorant
about the animal as his countryman, cooked his
nat upon one side, and replied with great gray
ny" Faith, and it's one Of the candidates for
the elarhshap in Washington no doubt &"
Isaac Hill, Amos Kendall and certa;n
o'ners, VINO nave ftoated into ctdrkShtp, at TIE.
seat Sc OF government don't diffuse a bad odor
through the new administration, then we shall
"o""'"ieuSe thal our story has no application.
Term0nt american
REWARD OF TREASON. We copv from toa
Gazette of the United States the following
paragraph =" An article from SMYRNA sovs
Inc Emperor of Russia has given an estate in
'he Crimea IN Jussuff Pacha, producing the
annual rent of $4,000 measures of corn, a gold
sword, and considerable sum of money This
Jussutf is the person who delivered up Varna to
the Russians" Americans should be- SLOW, in
believing that the high-minded Emperor Mich
olas mas thus openly rewarded the treachery of
the Turkish Arnold. But all accounts agree
that on his arrival at Odessa he was received
WIN hlgh honors, had splendid hotel assigned
nm, was attended by guard of honor, and dis.
played great wealth in his visits TO the theatre.
ana IN public places. 1t is possible the above
display OF wealth by the traitor may have been
the Plunder OF Varna,-of which he had for a
long time the command and was second in
command when the place was surrendered.
lis treachery has been acknowledged in the
RUSSIAN bulletins. All his estates in Turkey
nave been conhscated, and his person ont.
lawed-Centinel
The Cabinet is filled up. The Southern in
nuence seems wholly to have predominated,
even to degree that, we presume, no friend
oil the successful party had expected, and no
opponent ever imagined. The chief Executive
Offices stand thus =
South of the Ohio and Potomac Presidcnt-
General Jackson, Vice Presidential Cal
noun, =; Sec'ry of War-Mr Eaton, 3; Sec'ry
OF Navy-Mr: Branch, A. Attorney General
Mr.. Berrlen, 8; Postmaster eneral-Mr. Bar
rvs.
North and East sec'ry of state-Nrr. Van
buren,, l &; Sec'ry of Treasury-Mr Ingham, g
we note it rather in humiliation and pain,
than In 4nger-Penn Village Record
JOHN appears to be the most fortunate name
at Washington there is John G. Calhoun.
vlce-Presdent, John II. Eaton, Secretary of
War. John Branch, Secretary of the Navy.
John NJ Berrien, Attorney General John
Lean, Associate Judge Supreme Court
John Pope, Governor of Arkansas. John w
Campbell, District Judge Ohio John Chan
der, late Senator United States, Collector Of
Portland