Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-08-14

Some excuse for removing on officer is necessary and
if this is not supplied by his own misconduct, he is
forthwith charged with defrauding the Public.
OF again.-We learn that the President, and
Secretary of War, contemplate second trip to Old
Point, for the benefit of the health of the former,
which it appears is but Indifferent. Three trips i'll
four weeks, beat the late 'travellng Cabinet, all
hollow. But let it be remembered, that Sir Oracle
says "every public agent is entitled to portion of
ls timc"-when he ''opes his mouth, let dog bark"
The President it is understood has been afflicted
b. diarrhpa. The Baltimore Chronicle of We'd
ncsday, says:
letter the editors of the u S. Gazette, dated 5 inst at
Washington, says-"General Jackson has been nds
posed On Wednesday nigh the physicians in attendance
almost the whole night, engaged in cuppng him. think
is much apprehension among of the prominent members
should battle the skill of the healing physician; that case
there would probably be Noroang than have We,
Witnessed"
The Post 08fce.-Judge Mclean would not give
into the proscrptve system, unless the rule made
to work both ways, and Jackson Post Masters who
have abused their trust, removed, as well as such
Post Masters as had favored the other side of the
question The wisdom and necessity of this rule,
are eyemptied by the following statemen. from the
Martinsburg Gazette
The Telegraph says it is authorized by the Post
master General to say
"ha satisfactory evidence given to the Depart
ment that Postmaster had far devatcd the
line of duty from his official instructions stop
impede the circulation of any newspaper, whether be for or
against :he Administration, had oc transactions
rendered facilities to party the exclusion of another
Postmaster would instantly from Office bou,
| gard TO his political professions
Now WE authorized" to say mot by the Post
master General but by authority equally respecta
be] that satisfactory evidence " has been "vvcn to
the Department., that the Postmaster at Boonsboro'
Maryland, chad far deviated, well from the strict
line OF his duty" to stop and impede the Mails 90
/ ing from Virginia. We are further sauthorizcd" to
say, that he has been regularly reported the De-
partment, aud that IT Is believed, notice will be
taken 1T, nasmuch as the Postmaster is "go the
whole hc:y' Jackson man. For the satisfaction OF
lnteliigencer, Nat. Journal, Con. Wing, and Phenx
Gazette, have been stopped and impeded somewhere
on the route, waist that chate and delicate sheet the
Telegraph, comes on regularly. Public interest does
not require ths-We "have confidence in the prili-
cples of any officer who does not make the public in
tcrcst his first and last consideration"
Latin.-Thc Baltimore Republican thus winds Ut
an account of the adjournment of the Circuit Court
at Washington:
'Watkins is guilty, legally at last as well as NOR
ally throughout; the iW,eS discharged; are dis
charged The farce is ended-Eruent onuuus"
! This may have been rhical-but the Ed
tor should look more sharply after his proof sheets
No man the less respectable for understanding
Latin; it is the atecaton of learning not possessed
that is ridiculous