Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-08-11

RICHARD IL LEE, Secg.
Mr. Lghsm to Gen JacAson Another let
ter from the late secretary of the Treasury
to the President has been received here, oc.
cupying seven columns of the Washington
Telegraph
That paper says, "nothing yet published
in the course OF the late unpleasant contre-
versy, will more seriously effect the charac
ter and popularity of General Jackson" than
this letter of Mr.. Iaghams. We viii endea.
vor to give to our readers next week. In the
mean time we will give one extract; what
could place General jackson lower in moral
worth, than the open charge in this extract,
Of q ,c0nt # veracity What language can be
palmer unless indeed, ASSASSINATION, or
MURDER, had been named, than, "ifthcre
tcas to be any more ,crismg Il would b. ia RED
INK"
Notwithstanding you say in your letter TO
Nlessrs. Campbell, Smith Lewis and Ran.
Delphi. that "Slr lnghaM's letter. received
by you at O'Clock on the morning ofthe 22d
oil June, gave (y9u) the first information
that Vou) had on the subject Of his difficult
Ties" yet risk nothing in saying, that your
examination with the other testimony IN nv
power, would have afforded ample proof Of
the extraordinary fact that ycu were well APP
p1sed OF what was going on anterior 70 that
date. The feelings which governed YOU on
tbs occasion may be understood from the fact
that you justified Major Eatoa's medtated
assault upon me, and from the dcclaralionof
enc of your devoted friends, that in con
versatioa he ad with you before theintended
assault You informed BIN of the controversy
between Major Eaten and myself and said
That. II there was TO he any more writing,
1t would be in "red ink"
Mr. iusham's opinion of the Presidents
character, may be further gathered by what
follows:
Il have already adverted TO the manner in
which our official connexion has been main
tanned on my part. The documents before
me show how that relation has been main
tanned on rour part. 1t commenced in sus
pieion, and continued under brooding, but
restrained hostility; was marked near its
close, 10y wanton and desperate design. fos
tered in the breast of your most devoted ard
| most confidential friend, to assaIl my life;
and. failing in this, it is now terminated with
still more unrelentiag and injurious purpose
of destroying my reputation, and rsbbng
| my children of their only hope of bequest."
Meas from Epyope Packet Ship York
arrived at New ! ork, on Thursday last,
bringing London dates TO the 26th, and Lii
verpool to the 9th Of June.
Ireland experiences great distress-wanto of
emploJment-want Of food, in short every
| want that flesh is heir 10, continues to per-
wade this unhappy and wretched country
| Twenty-one persons were massacred in the
county OF Galway. and about the same num-
Der were wounded, and all of il grew ont oil
the sale ofsome cattle distressed by the Re-
| Mr.. McCiin,ock for t;thes
The NEST important iten OF intelligence j.
! from the seat OF war in PoIcaad The Rus
sian commander in chief, field marshal CONT
Deiaitsh, died very suddenly on ths l0,h Of
| June.
The runners are various as 70 the cause Of
his death, lntemperance, apopiexy. chole
| "a moFbus, and suicide, are mentioned. We
| are inclined to the belief that it was the lat
! ter He has been more tian matched by the
| Polish commander in the stratagems Of war,
and the probability Of being superseded, in
all probability produced the catastrophe.
| Col Richard N Johason.-This gentleman
| figures largely in the controversy now going
On between Gen. Jackson and The members
Of his late Cabinet. II may be useful TO re-
I, fresh the recoliections of our readers with
some important facts connected with Col
Johnson's political life. It was this gentle
man, who made the declaration to one of the
editors OF the National intelligencer, soon
after Mr. .9danfs' administration commenced
that, at must be put ds,cn evel if ii acere as
pure as the angels that sit at The right hand
u God" 1t appears to US extremely natu-
raj that man guilty Of such an impious de-
claration, should have been selected by the
President TO be the bearer Of so dishonora-
/ bic message, as that he carried to Messrs.
Lagham, Branch and Berricn
Col Johnson has always contrived, direct
ly or indirectly, to have his hand in the u.
States Treasury: lie vas the contractor for
the supply Of the troops on the Missouri
commonly called the Yellow Stone Expedi
ton. He has indirectly large contracts loi
carrying the mail. tits not generally known
that he has a school in his Immediate neigh
borhood for the education of the Choctaw
Indian bsys; from which he derives a len
thousands per annum-so say the western
papers
/ The character Of the Hero and Statesman