Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-30

II UuCSllbtioUtt hS
6ed Inv his constituents as General Jackson him.
self. This. however, will soon be tested, as he
ha. Gene ont against the general, and is o can
didate for reelection.
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Without meaning 20 disparage our ia'e oecre.
tary Of State. we must express our c0nvictioh tnat
he found his functions & liabilities too oppressive
to be much longer borne. The internal ponce OIL
marty. the management of the President, the Tor
lion relations. s. the incidental Iabors & anxletics
of his station. proved beyond his strength and
COURAGE. He had in prospect, for the next WIN.
for. an adverse or intractable Senate; an awiui
imnediment-enoush to stop the wheels OF the
executive government. AS far as he was pecu-
Ii,rly obnoxious to any set Of men or party IN
that hodv mr. in both houses Of Congress, he was
himself a material obstacle for President JACK
son; if thew could create a majority against ns
plans real or supposed. His retirement WIN
this view of the case, might be deemed necessa-
nv for both independently OF the known estrange..
ment or tends between the heads OF departments
President Jackson could not meet the next Con
rress with the same ministers. The attempt
would have been desperate. HIS situation will
not be much improved unless he should select un-
exceptionable, qualified men as their successors,
with considerable weight of character, who shall
maintain a perfect mutual understanding, and
prepare for him a message very different from
the last in doctrine, texture, coloring and drift.
Nat. Int.
BosToN, April 25.
The u. S. Ship Peacock, Capt. Mccall, ar
rived at this port yesterday from Havana, whence
she sailed 18th instant, with two of the pirates
of the brig Orbit. of New York. The following
is a list of Officers on board the United States
ship Peacock:
Edward r, Mccall, Esq. Commander; Jos.
Myers, lst Lieutenant; G.. ]. Van Brunt, ID
do; t.-nssa Paine. Sd do; Thomas J. Chew,
Purser; Solomon Sharp, Acting Surgeon; Will
liam d.. Porter, Acting Sailing Master; Charles
Green, Charles Pierce, William H. Brown. Cla-
renee Watkins. Midshipmeu; Henry J. Handy,
Captains Clerk; John McNelly, Boltswain;
William w. GoUlwin, Carpenter: joseph RI
chardson, Gunner; Thomas J. Buycc, Sail Ma
ker. Passenger, Mr.. John PIERCE, Jr. of Bos-
ton, late of the u. s. ship Nincennes.
eSe-
We mentioned in noticing the arrival of the
u. S. ship Peacock, at Boston, that she had on
board two persons accused of mutiny. The Bos-
ton Traveller furnishes the following account of
their examination, previously to being committed
for trial.
Examination OF the P,rafes.-The two mutt
neers, Joseph Cadet "a black and Thomas Co.
louett q mulattoI brought from Havana in the
u. s. ship Peacock, were yesterday examined
before Judge Davis of the District Court. The
District Attorney, Mr.. Dunlap. read the accusa-
tons against the prisoners charging them, IN con-
~nection with a Portuguese, Don Juan who
acted as principal, with the murder Of Captain
Samuel Woodbury., master Of the brig Oibit. of
Mn, YAH ,rI I,nJor.o and fatinn Dnecoscion
of his vessel. Mr.. Dunlap then proceeded to
ant of whom were Thomas Bowen and James
Strike, seamen on board the Orbit.
Bowen, a mulatto. testified that he was a ma
tive of Baltimore-that he shipped on board the
brig Orbit, January 18th, 1880, at Bahia, S. A.
Samuel Woodbury., master, bound to the coast
of Africa, where they arrived after about 40 days
passage-that while there. the prisoners were
shipped on b8ard-that they came tosether-that
also on board, was a Portuguese, called Don Ju-
ant; that Colonett said he came from the
West Indies, or Mexican Colonies-that no &C
cident happened to the ship, until the night of the
18th August, Is or so days after leaving the coast,
when witness was at the helm, and the Captain
asleep aft upon the hen-cOop. The Portuguese
came forward and asked for tobacco; went again
aft, when he conversed with the prisoners. Wit
ness next heard blows aft, and looking in the
direction, saw the Portuguese standing by the
Captain, holding an axe, with which he saw him
strike the Captain two or three times upon the
head; after which, he hauled him from the hem
coop and threw him overheard. CoIonett at the
same time was standing near with a harpoon in
his hand. and when witness enquired what the
Portuguese was dong, he told him to shush."
They both asked witness to be concerned in the /
murder. The Portuguese now took command
of the vessel, with Colonett as mate, they divid-
ed the dollars and gold dust among them, and
shaped their course for st. Thomas, as Colonett
said he belonged there, and they could land with
out being discovered. CoIonett, who can read
and write, kept a journal, and. on the 18th day
of August, he writes that the Captain died (giv-
ing particularly of a long and lingering disease;
to which were affixed the names of all the crew.
The journal was produced in Court.
Strike corroborated the testimony of Bowen;
said he joined the Orbit ON the coast Of Africa
that about the time of the murder he heard con-
~versatlon about taking the vessel. SC. that he
went below, when hearing a noise he went on
deck, where he met the Portuguese holding an