Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-28

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FRIDAY MORNING, NAY %, 1880.
uS II will be remembered tina, resolution passed
tho House ofRepresentntiyes ufornght ago, calling
on the Secretary ofthe Navy tor information respect
ing the accounts Of Purser Tmberluse tho first bus
band of Mrs, Eaton, whose deficit and tho causes of
II, have occasioned SO much comment and spccula-
tion. Ehat information has not becu furnished, al
thought Is said that the accounts of Purser Ran
doiph, Undertakes successor and who ifrumor be
worthy OF credit, Was attempted saddle with his
delinquency, hsVo been settled by the order of the
PRESIDENT himself The Journal conlectures that the
call OF tho House will be obcyc6 at the last moment
OF the Session, whom il viii be too late to uoiice 'mu.
tilaioos md gar blngs" and when there will be no
opportunity ofeciting the agency which official per
sonages have had in those mysterious transactions.
Fhere never vas period ofiho government when SO
much of its proceedings wps skreened from popu-
lar observation. Why it should be deemed neces
sary TO have secrets in matters purely domestic, at all
| We never could conceive any suficien, reason The
reason which justi6es and requires it, in foreign az
fairs, does not apply to home transactions, in which
the people of the u. States are only Interested
administer it, as something apart from the people,
and the latter as not bong safc con6dsnts in the
transactions of government which belongs 10 them.
OF tho momentous questions which have occupied
nearly third part of the time and attention of the
Senate IN secret session. the people know nothing but
what has leaked out. Whore can be tho necessity
of acting on nominations, or debating questions of
constitutional law in conclave? WHY should the
President of tho o. States, the agent uRd servant of
he people, be considered too sacred to be approach
ed and Intercepted as TO the reasons which lave in
fuenced him in the discharge of his public conduct
HIT be said that custom has consecrnted the course
the customthat Is without reason has no claim upon
respect, and ought TO be abolished. The people have
a right to know all that is done, and the reasons
for It. ... ...-...
o. 1t Is thought by Hr Randolph's persona
friends here that he will accept the mission to Russia:
conclusion that few could have come to, a pyiori
Beaufort Y. Watts offs c. to be Secretary of f,e-
cation (saith Madame Bumor.) y .-....' r..H-ss.
| AZ We repubished the rejection by the Senate OF
Wharton Rec:oI as Indian Agent, without comment.
That rejection is accounted for by tho Nat Journal
as follows '"-'a-. a"8 -..u ..gI 20 lsr.a
n,Fhe nomination Of rr Rtctor 20 an Indian Aa,e, ,v
rejected by majority Of This man. will he re-
eollsred 0sd from the punishment which awaited him for
70 aud though the friends Of the
scbborny Prsed 10 endeaVorng force Rector through;
and he had PaTtSans enough the Senate in this
ADDITIONAL the moral sense of the community We n
dasand that though the record Of read to this
body 20 OF its mes were obscquous enough
GS' The Reporter published ct Orange Court
House,) OF the e2d, states thut on the 5th Gov.
Barbour met upwards OF 200 electors at Locust
Grove, whom che addressed in speech of about
two hours characteristic of "nblity, addresses, and
eloquence.f- -. n ..g,-.. ~. 800 70. .
The canvass apparently partakes of more heat
and intenpcrance than usual IN Virginia cleo
tons. Col. Barbours opponent is understood to be
Mr.. Davis, for several years delegate from Orange
in the General Assembly, and gentleman of worth
and probity.
rs The DanVille Statesman Of the eIst informs,
that at the April term of the Superior Court of Law
for PlttsylVuna, Stephen Abston and Jesse Abston,
we're Putupon their trials, upon Indictment charg-
ing them With "forging and connterfeng the current
silver coins of tho b. States, Of the denomination of
half and quarter dollars, the being current in
the State of Virginia" and 'for passing tho same
with intention to defraud snndry persons" Counsel
for the Prosecution, Wm. u Banks--for the Prison
CTS, James B. RrsQuo, Ferdinand ". Risque, A.. e.
Clements, and r. J. Shelton, Esqrs. The Jury reti-
red but short time, and returned verdict Of not
gRihy.
The Statesman raises this queStol--'' whether or
not, the jurisdiction of the federal government over
this subject (counterfciting coins exclusive,
or whether The States have concurrent Jurisdiction
If concurrent, and Congress shall make the penalty
DEATH and the States, confinement in the Penitentio-
ry, which is TO be first inflicted"
Without feeling competent 10 argue the question,
we should imagine, that if the Jurisdiction be con-
current the tribunal which first tuhcs counzance,
excludes the other, man cannot be punished
twice for tho some offence. Concurrent Jurisdiction
We presume is only precedent TO cognzanee end be-
comes exclusive, when that cognizancc has been
assumed bya competent tribunal