The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-02


other was II the room he would have had it.
Knapp, when he made the confession, desig-
mated the place where the assassin told him the
club was concealed-and the persons to whom
the confession was made, went according TO
the directions he gave, and at their first at
tempt, drew it out from under the steps of the
Howard-street Meeting house. 1t is a weapon
well adapted for the purpose heavy biud-
geon, or Indian Club, made of hickory, twenty
two inches and half long, with a smooth sur
face, ard large oval head, loaded with Lead
and of such form as is best adapted to give a
mortal blow on the skull, without breaking the
skin or drawing blood.
Knapp acknowledges himself to be the writ
er OF two anonymous letters, one addressed to
the Chairman of the Committee of Vigilance,
charging the gentleman who is the Executor
and residuary legatee of Capt. White, with be-
ing the murderer--:he other addressed to the
gentleman thus charged, and purporting to be
from the assassin himself, demanding 5000 dol.
lars as the promised reward for his services, &c.
The wretched criminal, in few days after
the murder, found that all the designs which he
expected to accomplish by the murder and the
destruction fthe Will, were totally frustrated
for the paper he had taken from the iron chest
turned out to be an old VIII, and in his guilty
haste he left behind the real VIII, Just made.
whether Palmer took part in the murder, or
only knew the particulars from information re-
celVed from some one or more of the accom-
PlIees, the disclosures as yet made by Knapp,
do not determine
The sensation which has been created by
these appalling disclosures is beyond descrip-
ton. The person who has made the confession
and who appears to have been the instigator of
the deed, and the employer of the assassins TO
perpetrate 1T, has heretofore sustained a fair
M fha &c 1ha haJ
never been directed toward him. The depth of
misery into which his amiable young wife, and
numerous respectable connections have been
thrown by this dreadful development, has caus-
ed the hearts of thousands to bleed for them.
U Our readers will perceive that the pro-
ceedngs at Washington continue to be charac-
teristlc of our present pure and oirtu0us ad-
ministration. Fraud and perfdy have triumph
ed over right and justice in the passage of the
Indian Bill. That people will be driven from
the land of their fathers, and we shall be sad
died with an addition Of twenty FIVE millions TO
the national debt, to crafty the all-grasping Gu
pidity of Georgia and her neighbors
John Randolph, the vilifer of jefferson, Mad
ison, Monroe, and Adams, after having sought
in vain for foreign embassy from former ad.
ministrations, has received the appointment of
Minister to Russia, as an evidence of the "Jef.
tsrsOnian principles of our present rulers.
The Senate, probably under fear of the Sec.
ond Section" have re-considered two more of
the nominations which they had once rejected,
and confirmed them.
So we go! What will be the end thereof?
BY the official returns of votes for Governor,
we find that Gov. LincOln's majority over Judge
Morton is 16,46S, and his majority over all
other candidates (including Judge Morton) is
1858. His majority last year when there was
no organized opposition was 1921 1t will
therefore, be seen that after all the efforts of
the Jacksonians, with all their boasts, and with
the aid of the multitudes who were induced to
vote for Judge Morton under false prstences,
but who would not do it again, they have d.
minished Gov. Lineoln's majority but 5e8 votes
And this, let it be remembered, Is the compare
son of contested election with one which was
not.
JAcKsoNIsM IN THE LEGISLATURE An op-
portunity was given of testing the strength of
the Jackson party in the Legislature when the
vacancies in the Senate we're filled, Isaac Cur
tbs, Jr., one of the candidates for the vacancy
in Berkshire being Jackson man. The result
of the ballot was, for Samuel M. Mckay 1884
votes, Curtis 10, and 6 scattering. The mum.
Der of Jackson men in the last Legislature was