Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-26

pers 10 b. avouching and celebrating the perfect
harmony OF tho cabinet, when discord had alrs.dv
vacated the Tour departments L. Is asked whether
each OF the other three supoosS himself
TO be deemed candidate FOR th. Office at Pre- ,iden
whether Mr. Cahouns pamphlet and the rcvela-
lions of the Washington Telegraph produced or
FASTENED the catssroph"t whether Mr. Randolph is
TO return speedily from London, via s.. Pctcrsburph
IN order Ia succeed one Of the seceders.
We have, to-day, the correspondence between the
President and General Eaton II is little vague on
the part at tie Secretary of War, notives but
sympathetic, fond, and encomi.stic on both sides
This is a busy, talking world, which, "ui,h icenti,
Gus breath, blows the wind as freely on the palace
rs the cottage" Hut enquiries Who wrote
the Presidents answer to the General, though most
people insist that his letter the other Secretary
va, prepared by another hand than his own, and the
wickedest ascrbe it to NJ Van Buren. The common
wonder is that President and ministers having unlm
tied confidence in each others abilities and virtues
should have consented to soparate,-an act which i'm,
plies that they could trust the judgment JUS
uce OF the People. To experience hostility and cal
jimmy 10 the universal and inevitable lot of political
administrations. Suicide has be en- admired AZ
mode OF eluding enemies and traducers. What il thu
President HIMSELF dismayed Disguised with the sc n
tments which widely and roundly exprssse ed
concerning his Incompetence, should abruptly resign
tooi-should act towards the People, the Secreta.
ries of State and War have done towards him, the
sponsble Chief Then would come Mr. Calhoun to
fill his place, with the editor of the Washington Tele
graph his standard bearer, and train of Nulfers
from South Carolina, vengeance agains, those
'vital principles Of Union" which the exSecrs.
tares had 'laid aside every hing but desire to sup
port"
How will this total change at Washington be con-
strucd abroad 1t vii. be unfavorsby in refer
ence either To the President his ministers, his court
the very nature of our institutions. 1t is there
fore. sort OF NATIONAL scandal which may usslmi
late government In the estimation OF the Euro
peans and South Americans, to the governments Of
nd nrttni yhprpt
revolutions affect the very essence of things, and
arise, indeed, believed to result, from radical
vices Of constitutions and politicians. An earty
frequen. recurrence of it would then niure the
cause itself Of republcanisn; at u crisis too, when
the principles Of freedom and despotism ire in des-
perate conflict for the mastery. The mischief at
home would be considerable, moreover. in the ope-
rations OF the several branches of our fedora sys-
tenn. New in high and arduous office, whatever
may be their general intellectual vgor and culture,
hare learn their busnss IN detail intuition does not
exist here; experience is indispensable for eff
cheney. There is no government IN which ministers
OF state, and the chief gstate himself directly
charged with so much particular enquiry and employ
ment:-so much drudgcry and minute RESPONSE billy,
they are in that of our Union Hence there is ne
in which frequent substituons, secretaries at least
inconvenlent and di.adva nta gsous for mere
business with suitable President they not like
lyto happen,-and, with such head when they
do occur, they will admit al once of full candid,
tisf Glory explanation. On the presen, OCCASION all is
involved, mysterious, or vague, tina; has been sub
mitted to the public. We annex The reading of the
National IntelIisencer only because is plausible,
but as it shews how varously the explosion is un-
aerstood even on the immediate theatre.
1y The New York Courier and Enquirer publish
ss in letter from the seat Of Government, the
scheme of the new Cabinet, in which Mr. Forsyth is
eomprehended as Secretary of the Navy, and Col.
Drayton. Of War. MAY. Noah is said TO be in
Washington; and this letter may be his, and possibly
near the mark. Perhaps contemporary, if he
would eondescend, could tell all about it.
u The Rhode Island State Elections have result.
ed in the absolute overthrow Of the Jackson party
The New BEDFORD NEws-The- Lunar, arriy.
ed at New York lett Antwerp and Flushing after
the Franklin at N. Bedford; but the Captain heard
nothing Of the war reports
The CounRrER DEs ErArs USI. asks, ''may no.
France have 10 battle all Europe. after the Poles
are extermnated by the Russians after Italy has
been reduced 10 SUBJ ecton by the Austrans Antwerp
in possession Of England, and Belgium invaded by
the Pruseians?
ExEcurroS OF THE Pirates -James d. JEFF
fers, alias Charles Gibbs, and Thomas J. Wan<lev
were executed on Friday at ~ o'clock, upon r lie
Island. pursuant to their sentence.
bbss statement of horrible atrocities in which he
pretended 10 have been conspicuous actor, is salts
factorily proved To be sheer fabrication, pro
1lounced it to be when we first saw t.-The laudable
eagerness ofthe Editors of the Journal of Commerce,
TO be before hand with their contemporaries in every
thing got the ascendancy Of their good judgment
this occasion. They have enough to boast Of after
this item s subtracied from the catalogue Of their
achievements in the race of giving the earliest and
most authentic information, Foreign and Domestic
to enable them with good grace to own they we've
in this instance imposed on.-Thc fellow had heard
that lone murder makes a v,llain-many hero d"
and having natural anxiety for posthumous fame,
made himself the hero Of all the tales of Piracy told
on the TO- ecaste, by sailors in the first watch, when
sailing in the neighborhood of the scenes Of their
depreciation, well as hero of the late war, claim
dnQ to have belonged to the Hornet and Chesapeake
in their actions. The tale it did very well 20
Ate to marines but not To sailors" for Of the
gallant tars Of the Hornet and Chesapeake soon
detected, and caused him to own the imPosure as
to his having been shipmntc of theirs. aud other