Litchfield enquirer., 1835-02-12

Ou1CGS-MO tb do. In the same debate an episode in regard to the post office occurred. Mr. Calhoun | said it was due tO the people, not one in thousand of whom could ever see or read the ] documents connected with the 1 post office affairs, that the Senate should pass a declaratOry resolution by unanimous vOte.- for he could mt suppose that any one here ! would uphold the post office in its fragrant a. buses, for the purpose of letting the people know that there was one department of the General Government which condemned and discountenanced the corrupt administration "f the concerns of that institution. You will see that such resolution has been intrOdu- ced, and it's consideration postponed for the present. Mr. King, Of Alabama, in reply. spoke dOuhtingiy as to the fact of the exist ence of any improper practices in the post office, but if any should be proved to exist. he allowed that it was reasonable and proper tO
 take measures to prevent lhtir recurrence.-
 But he did not think it comported with the
 dignity of the Senate to dash at once into the
 discussion, and denOunce the Department be-
 fare the Reports were well understood and l digested. It to be apprehended that if we
 wait for Mir. King and his friends to digest the 1 report of the Post Office Committee. the De-
 partment will come to a dead stand still. 
 Fron the Nationat Inteiligencer of Nonday Since the publication of our paper of Satur.
 day last, information. which has reached US from various quarters, leaves no doubt of the
 insanity of Lawrence the unhappy individual
 who attempted to discharge two pistols at the
 President cfthe United States, in the portco |ofthe Capitol. on Friday. The persons who
 know him are not surprised at the occurrence, and would hardly have been surprised at any thing he had done Or attempted, He has, it appears, fancieG himself, to be some other
 person than himself; tO have mistaken his Own identity; or at least to have misunder-
 stood his relations with the rest ofihe world.
 When being conducted from the Capitol to
 the Marshars Office, he answered to the ques-
 lions as to his motive, that he had intended to
 kill General Jackson because General Jackson
 had killed his father. When asked again.
 how Gen. Jackson had killed his father, he
 would answer nothing. His father. we heal.
 died natural death, in this District. some ten
 or twelve years ago. The answer was, of
 course the effect of the halucnation. under
 the influence of which he attempted the out rage upon the person of the President.
 We have had the curiosity to ask, whether
 he was any thing of a politician. thinking that
 he perhaps might be politically insane. as per-
 sons are sometimes religiously so. We were
 informed that he was never known io have
 talked or thought about politics. His ac- 1 quaintas1ces seem tO think that he thought
 himself entitled to be King or Governor of this country, or something of that sort. and
 broOded over the notion that Gen. Jackson
 stood in his way. It is certain that he inquir- ed the evening before, of some one, whether
 the President would be at the funeral, and was answered in the affirmative. His being
 at the Capitol armed, was, therefore, almost
 certainly. the work of reconciliation.
 Alter committing the above to paper. we
 were politely favored with the following au-
 thentic statement made by highly intelligent Magistrate of this city, who has taken the
 trouble personally to investigate the question
 of Lawrence's insanity:
 :. Washington. slss Jun. 1885.
 have made all the inquiries could. to day, in regard to the unhappy man (Lawrencr) who made the attempt yesterday upon the Ilfe of Gen. Jackson, and the result has been perfect conviction, upon my mind, of his ab- solnte insanity. ~-...
 went first to the house where he boarded. lie had not been there long, but. one of the boarders said he had been some time con vlnced that he was not of sane mind, and that he had previously mentioned it. He boarded at Mr. Shields. near the Unitarian Church. but did not keep his clothes or any thing else there. Nothing was known there of his hav- ing had pistols. -
 2d. ] went t0 Mr. R.'s, in the west end of the city, whO married q sister of Lavrence's Both ne and his wife told me tha. they had no doubt of Lawrence's mind being more or less unsettled for eighteen months past. They gave as evidence of t, first, that about that tune, he had left here, with the avowed intpn- ton of going to England. and had proceeded to New York, where he remained some time, and then returned. saying that the ship-Own. CTS had all entered into a combination against him. and had refused to give him passage to England; that they knew he had large for tune there's .and that their object was io prevent his getting away, SO that they might passess of it. some time ago Lawrence attempted to kill his sister, Mrs. R.) and her husband had him arrested and confined for while in jail. He d'd not reside with them, and, indeed, had narbsred such . resertTeHr against MT. R. that he did not speak with him. They did not know fhis having pistols of late. hut Mrs. lt' says he formerly had a pair of small hrass pistols. which had belonged to their father they had fiints. but ahe had heard that he wanted to get them altered to be used with the percussion lock. She thinks # she saw them she could say whether those he used 1 were the same.
 Lawrence had shop where he did his 1 painting. MT. Drury had a room adjoining tnfs, and the latter says that for a tong time ne mas observed l.. to be very solitary; taci- | turn m regard to his intercourse with others, out very m0ch given to talking to himself--l