The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-25

wind continued to blow fercely all night, ana
continues gale, cutting as razor, to this
hour"
The Boston Courier Of Monday, says, "such
masses of. snow as are now piled up in ouI
streets, it is believed have been unparalleled
for several years. 1t commenced showing about
one o'clock, P. NJ. on Friday. at first moderate
y with little or no wind But, as the dav de-
clined, the snow fell faster and the wind became
more violent till ten or eleven o'clock, when the
storm was furious, and so continued through
the night. Some of the drifts in our streets
were five or six feet deep, and we understand
some in the vicinity are twice that depth
The roads are so blocked up in every direction
that intercourse with the country must be ex'
tremely difficult for several days"
THE CoRREsPoSDENcE. We close the publ
cation of the correspondence between John
Quincy Adams and Harrison Gray Otis and
others, this week, and shall commence the ap
peal to the people in our next. In the mean
time. we may remark that the letter of the
President; although written with consummate
ability, reflects no credit upon him. 1t is a
studied and artful evasion of the questions put
to him, and to which, we think, those who pro.
posed them were entitled to a definite reply
| That the President might have been, original
| ly, honest in his Impressions, we think very
probable. for we have no doubt that hundreds
of people did believe as he Processes to. Yet,
after the lapse of twenty years, when the polit-
ical excitement, under which that opinion was
formed, has passed away, on a review of the
! 10 hali
that he was, himself, surprised to find how
weak that evidence was, and that, in this d.
lemma, rather than at once to acknowledge
that he had, under erroneous impressions, CIV
en- currency to groundless calumny, he pre-
ferred evading the question, as he has, and leav-
ing the subject still in the dark, at the same
time protesting to have evidence to substan-
tiate his charges. That he has any evidence
stronger than is contained in his letter, and in
the public newspapers of those days, we do not
believe. If he had, a regard to his own repu-
tation, now so deeply involved, would compel
him, forthwith, to produce it.
The subject is one which suggests a long
train of reflections and remarks, but we willing
ly leave the subject to the good sense of our
readers, believing that the space, which any
further observations of our own would occupy,
may be more proftably appropriated
TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY Gen. Jackson left
home on his way to Washington on Sunday,
the 18th ult., when nearly the whole population
of Nashville turned out to witness his departure,
which took place amid the roar of cannon, fred
on the occasion. On his progress he arrived at
Maysville on Sunday the 25th, where the thun.
dering of artillery again announced his arrival,
and the whole population of the town met him,
and the air resounded with boisterous greet
ings. Such are the accounts given by his own
friends. We have looked in vain for those marks
of reprobaton on these proceedings, which
were so lavishly poured upon President Adams
last summer, for quietly riding ten or twelve
miles in the edge of Sabbath evening Even
those papers in this State protesting to be
friendly to him, whose moral sense was so deep
Ily outraged then as to call for thu most pointed
animadversons, are as silent n0lc, as if nothing
of the kind had taken place. To what cause
are we to attribute this difference' Can il pro-
coed from disposition to propitiate those into
whose hands the sceptre of power is shortly to
pass? Ifso, according to the disinterestedness
of their motives, may their reward be.
tors and Postmasters, we can say that the mail
under the new arrangement has, till the recent
storm, been received at the Office in this town
more punctually and more regularly, than in
any former winter for many years. We are
! glad to find that the benefits ofthe new arrange
ment begin to be more generally realized and
acknowledged The Boston Advertiser speaks
in high commentator of it, and the Gazette,
which originally opposed it, cOnfesses that on
trial, it is satisfied that it is an Improvement,
and it would be unwilling to have the old ar
rangement restored. We thought so; and,
what is more, wo said so. Indeed, the voice Of
opposition appears, now, to be entirely silenced
RAIL ROADS. 1t is now likely that the whole
subject of the construction of rail roads will
be referred to the next session of the Legisla-
ture, giving the people. in the mean time, an
opportunity to elect such men as will correctly
represent their opinions on this highly impor-
tant subject:
Bath BANK. The situation of this bank, as
appears by the late return to the Legislature Of
Maine, is such as will induce prudent people Ia
decline taking its bills. A great part of the
capital is loaned out to directors and stockhoId.
ers on a pledge Of stock, and the amount Of
bills in circulation is, we believe, eight or ten
times as much as the remaining or active cap
ital.