Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-01-19

Que Of the identified by Mr.. Stewart, gen.
'ian of this county who was passenger in the stage
" .,.n IL was robbed, who are informed states,
that from similarity of voice, size and other pa leu
lars. he believes him to be the who took him our
OF the stage and tied him. The man identified was
lodged In the jail of this county yesterday--he is
man with red whskers, upwards of six feet high and
made III proportion; when taken first, he gave him.
self the name OF Thompson, but afterwards gave him
sell that of Blood; two other persons we are inform
ed, were arrested at Ebensburgh by three or fou,
entsrprsing individuals Of this county, ON suspicion
OF being concerned in the Same offence and were
brought to the Yellow Springs, (within fifteen miles
of this place. last night. The same two persons we
are informed coming up in the stage from own
On Wednesday last happened in company with . gen-
tlcman from this town. the Conversation turned upon
Inc rooong OF the mall when the men evinced a
complete knowledge OF every circumstance attending
it, they Informed that two of tho men who had
been robbed lived in this county and one of them
immediately on the turnpike: at the first place the
stage stopt in this county, those two men took ont
their trunks and quit it. The next day they for
warded their trunks in the stage, and took private
roads themselves, until they reached the upper end
OF the county, where they were aud some susp.
con excited against them, which induced the follow
ing and apprehension ofthcm.
| From the Political .4rcna
| AsnIhGroN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is in eve
metropolis, and especially at every seat of egis.
iation a vast auiouato of news which from IFS ,cru!i-
ar character does cumc within the legitimate
sphere OF the Political Journals OF fireplace, but which
nevertheless is highly interesting the public, and
with which it Is important the public should be ac-
quanted. II may be stigma ICED, by the ias,iiions
rs gossip, scandal boarding house chit chat &.c
but It is certainly true that no description of ;ell
gence is received more graciously by tho majority of
newspaper rcaders-Eor whilst making this lcclara-
ton, can we join in the piteous whine which has beer
raised by some over the denrav'ty taste in the pub
lie cvinscd by 'his marked partiaiv We conceive
q in thc
nay, IN The manners and amusements of those to
whom they have delegated the task of makipp and
executing their l'1ws. Faey have right To BE in
formed how far the conduct Of their Ip ilncoparie
OF government square with those principles of virtue
~ morality, upon wb CHI republican institutions are
passed, and without which they oailnot Tor n day exist
european n'nnachs nave their accredited representa-
yves ne0' las The phrase gues) governments; and
VINO VIII say that those representatives confur them
selves to the guardianship of the political and cam
mercai interests OF heir respHcva coun,r;e. Is it
not more than probable, that they exercise an esnio-
mage upon The society four ropolis; and that ev
cry tagrant instances immortality in conduc. or de-
Pafturc IN manners from the simplicity becoming re-
pocaas, Is carefully noted, and made the basis ofun
olncial report to gladden. Legitimacy BY the accumu-
lated proofs of the tendency of liberty to lceptious
ness, ana OF mans incapacity to govern himself,
In the desire OF the people 10 know every thinp
cl'''9 10 the state OF morals and manners at Wash
ihsstot-thc parties In embryO-the iniric7es OF as.
plring polltlcans-and the dust -licknp dsuustinn
crnglng sycophancy of office hunters we rcDea we
cannot discover that depravity OF TASTE with which
they stand charged. Many Editors viowiny ,bs .sto
III similar point OF view have regular correspondents
at w uShlngton who from time to time furnish tho
| floating rumors of the day. We will moi pretend to
y tat mistakes do no, that the correspon-
dtnt is uniformly prophetic We beey however that
whether veracity penetration Is taken into the ac
count hfse letters WILL bear favorable comparison
WIN the Eultoria matter OF most prints in the coun-
ana put To the blush that OF the particular prints
VINO effect to consider them their wri ers and tho 10
whom they are addressed, as deserving the most
abundant contempt condemnat ton. These remarks
are elcifed by long TRADE in the Enquirer Of Tues
nay, concerning Letters from Washington got up
6y miserable editors and mrrcenary correspondents
Now when the reader is told, that the u s Gazette
at Phlladelphia, the Commercial Advertiser of New
ORR, and the Charleston Courier, decidedly In the
first class of American Journals, are subsequently,
SINGLED out for Reproductions he NAV form his ou,n
opinion as to the applicability of the term miserable
applied to their editors But the CORRESPONDENTS re
'aercen1ry! How far receiving con,pansatation for
their abors is calculated render them unworthy of
respect or belief is question upon which we would
no. lightly pass opinion. In England tho genius
OF Scott, Moore and Campbell spnrns not the price
winch Its productions command. But be this as it
may, Mr. Ritche should reflect that every e,nisern
bte editor cannot, like him, command the rratuitous
epistolary favors of Honorable Senators and others
entitled to the frankiug privilege. Were it not that
he himself tells US, the same article that there p.
those whom mo experience emil rhien we should
be lost IN admiration Mt the icrncr y the editor
Enqurei in abiding however remotely to The sub;cct
ofietters from Washington. Can he suppos" that his IA
nous Ia Room Litter wilino: be thrown in his teeth,
Can he imagine that the public have forgotten ,b.
circumstance that mendacious-and yet strange to
say, prophetic epstle In the multitude of s,lefters
from W nshlngton,' with which, according to the En-
luirer country is literally ovcrrun can one sim
gle instance be odduced of such downright, unso.
phlstcated falsebood-a fasehood srgravafed bv the
subseq uent miserable effort of tho an, ,or 10
lis enor'nty? "Ps true, 10 blame attaches To tho
etoF of the Enquirer for giving the letter place in
his coiuDls-'le responsibility of the writer and his
orc'ai aton, ought to have been ample guarantees
LOT MS Vefacliy. But we do censure the Enquirer
Tor Withholding for weeks, any correction of the err
for although he was promptly assured that his CORES
pendent was indebted to ina einatiou for his facts
Fave hundred presses copied and comment ed on the
aud"cous letter; thousands of '0ld-fs!ioned repub-
ncans, like the writer, Indignantly incurred over
the OBJECTIONS OF the times and the potnp and c;rcrm
s so OF r"y;'y which obtained at Washington