Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-07-21


In consequence of the death OF his father,
MIR EDGAK SNowDEN has become sole pub
Usher and Editor OF the Alexandra Phoenix
Gazette. The paper has been for some time
past under his editorial management and "a
bly, conducted, and we sincerely hepe It will
receive an increased patronage from the pub
lie.
DR.. P G. Randolph, first Clerk in the War
Department and brother in law of Maj. Ea-
ton, has resigned. He was the bearer of the
challenge from Maj Eaton to Mr. lngham.
We find the following paragraph in the Al
bany Advertiser. 1t furnishes fact which
We have always predicted relative to MIR.
Mclean:
ave have known, for some weeks past,
that the anti-masons had addressed a letter
to Judge Mclean, of Ohio and, we have rea-
son to believe, for the purpose OF ascertain
ing whether he would consent, If nominal
ed, TO serve as their candidate for President.
Whether this letter was addressed to HIM
"by authority" or as the mere suggestion
of particular individuals, we pretend not to
know, nor DO We care. 1t has drawn forth
from him, however an answer, which the
anti-masonic journals will experience no
great pleasure in publishing. For their edi-
fcation and amusement, however. we take
leave TO state, that judge Mclean has expli-
city declared, that he would not denounce
masonry, If he was certain that such denun-
citation would elevate him to the Presidency"
In the y. 5. Gazette Of Friday, we find
\ the following OMNIBUS paragraph The allu.
| SION, we presume, is to Mr.. lngham:
| ''We have it, In not quite SO much conf
dence as TO keep the fact from our readers;
l nor so much oil freedom as to enter into de-
tails, that before the summer closes, an ex-
position may be looked fer from distin-
i guished Individual recently dismissed from
an important office, and almost hunted from
Washington, which will go far towards clear
ing the deck oil the splinters that now en-
cumber it
The unfortunate Administration party at
this place seems 10 be puBging deeper and
| deeper into difficulty,-al the changes that
| have been made have not produced the de-
sired harmony--and it is believed that Others
| are soon to take place. "The accomplished
scholar and gentlemen"-(H Heaven save the
| mark VIM. b Lewis--th Heaven born A.
mos, and even the Postmaster General, are,
if we may believe rumors, to taste the sw eeis
of ''retiracy We feel almost tempted to
sympathise with s'the old mani at these rel
terated severances from his friends.
In addition to the displacements to which
we have alluded, it is also whispered that
sundry individuals, suspected of being too in.
timately connected with Messrs Calhoun and
| Ingham. are to'be unceremoniousIy dismiss
ed. The fiend of prescription is as impartial
as Justice-and all who venture to differ with
the minions OF the hour are doomed to pun
Eishment.-yhati0,sai Journal.
| When the Cabinet proper was dissolved, it
was alleged that Mr. Barry should be retain.
leo, because serious charges had been prefer.
req against him, and 1t was necessary that an
investigation should be made. All those who
twefe erected were coinpllmented for the zeal,
land ABILITY, and iaiihfulness, with which they
mao discharged thelrrespective duties. MIR.
FAIRY was retained, because he had been
charged with unfaithfulness. This was, to
pc sure, rather an awkward kind Of reason
70 assign-but 50 it was When DIR. Ran
roiph appeared to have been guilty Of that
enormous and lnexplaeable offence, in the
'kErs OF uen jackson, carrying challenge,
is explanations are bsld unsatisfactory, and
e IS compelled to resign Why not leave
pun N cffce until bis case could be investi-
Eateds- fbid
II is believed that an investigation is on
Toot IN relation to the conduct OF Van kleek,
10 supplying the Departments with fuel, and
that he will be "hauled over the Goals ID.
From the Philadelphia Sentinel
L (rx
The following extract from Kentucky pa
per explains Francis P. Blar's hostility to the
Bank of the United States. IL Kentucky
F0tes are but fifty cents head in the mar
ket, as he says, and be ought to know, there
Ire ut least fifteen hundred reasans ,pbv ba