Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-04-05

ton will cost the State five thousand dol
lars. Was Mr.. Hazard ever known to
present bill against the State for any Of
the important services he has heretofore
rendered the public--no, never. The
labor Of the committee, in this invcstiga-
tion has indeed been very great.-Who
caused this investigation to be gone into'
sCpThc A Mt IN A SON S.sns
The article in the last Rhode-Tsland
Republican, over the signature of'Rhode
Island,' purporting to come from Ma
tioual Republican, is rather too contempt
ible, and manilests spirit of too much
niggardly meanness to entitle it to any
thing like a respectful notice at our
hands. The writer has in the lulness Of
his malignity, given all who know him
most distinctly to understand throughout
the whole Of that article, that HE is sore
IN his heart-that he is disappointed, n
chagrined, discarded politician. The
public ought to be Informed, that the X.
/ Republican ever since it was so un-
fairly and unjustly wrested from Mr..
Read, the late proprietor, has been snug
ly located in corner Of Maj. Bulls
Store-that Maj. Bull is the principal,
and Elisha r. Potter, Esq. the next lar
gest proprietor, and that Mr.. Bull is the
real editor. The young lad who has unad-
viscdly advertised himself as the "printer,
proprietor publisher and editor" is mere
child Of straw, being yet in the very
midst of his teens. Maj. Bull, it is no
torious, IS the leading manager and con-
ductor Of that paper, and we will hold
him alone responsible for whatever abuse
may be found in it's columns. We scprn
the affected modesty Of the writer Of the
article in the Republican-he refrains
from calling the members by name, but
still he does not hesitate to calumniate
and abuse those Of them he particularly
breads and envies. We will say to the
real editor Of the Rhode-Island Repub-
lican, that it is very dangerous for him
or any other man to attempt alcays to be
cunning, and that it is the more DANCE
rous to do so when his own interest is in
any way connected with the occasion in
which he undertakes in that way to make
an exhibition of himself. The author of
the article to which we refer, affects to
be n National Republican, and says that
the reason why he did not offer that arti-
Gle to US for publication was, that as it
was intended for and calculated express
ly to injure two Of the ablest Represen-
tatives this town ever had, he supposed
that we should have refused to publish It:
he was entirely right in his conjcctures.
Tho fact is, this writer is laboring under
some malignant and malicious influence
he has fresh in his recollection tho oc-
currences Of last April, when the freemen
superseded him ard placed Mr.. Ruggles
in his seat by one hundred majority, save
one, and that one vote was put in by this
very modest gentleman himself, and for
himself 1t is not necessary for US to say
that Mr.. Ruggles more than fills the
place Of his immediate predecessor-that
he is gentleman Of first rate talents, and
has the entire confidence of the whole
National Republican freemen Of this
town. Moreover, Mr.. Ruggles was So
licited and urged over and over again, to
run against Maj. Bull-he was in fact
literally compelled by his friends, to stand
as candidate against him, and this fact
was as well known to Maj. Bull as il was
to every freeman in the town. Yet this
modest editor Of the Republican, asserts
in his ".Naiionoi Republican" commune
cation, that MIR. Il. solicited the opportu-
nifty Of running against him as second
Representative. Was such suggestion
fair or honorable' There is no doubt as
to the object at which the writer Of that