Litchfield enquirer., 1835-04-09

jeel yet, nor would tell 'em when would; but I'd Keep S. ny eye on em and as we have go. judgment. glt mix up in some fight with their neighbors in En- rope and wouldn't have quite much power to inure us as they no" have, I'd hOpdown upOn 'em and make
 em pay evry dollar, or lend their enemies hand in gly'n .em sound thraehn-DOt that am alear'd lo night 'em right of now, but then my notion is t wanted to fight chap who only owed me money, I'd do II only Tor the mere sake of hraskin him, sSnd should take my own time, and when could do % without his being able to give me a scratch or black eye But in defence ofhOnor or liberty, and the rghta of citizens and such like, I'd go ai it, fI thought I'd come out oft with 2ny one eye and shoe string eft J. DOWNING, Major, Downingvle Miliiia| |2d Brigade. ] Hugh [. Whie.-It is probably known to many of our rea,lors that Judge White, an 6rignal Jackson I but not Van Buren man, delivered very forcible speech upon the sujec, of Executive patronage, at the time Mr. Cahouas report was before the Senate. We make brief exrac, from this speech ., ahe pres eat time to show readers how distinctly he had in his,'' n6d's eJsn the c6drss of ceraia politicians in this State who have busted ,heHpelves in having Posinasters removed from office, and appointing in their places echoes ofihe will of "the party" Extract from Judge Whie's Speech.
 I s asked by the oppone 0f shis bill, what bene- ft its friends expect fom sa,ement of the of the removal, when the nomination of successor presented tothe Senate7 answer for myself. wish to cut up by the roots the dcmoraIizng tendencies of office huniing. wish to make such provisions by law Gs sriN shield the Ce Magistrate from snpositions being prartised wp or him 70 iadace him @ renore men from ece. wish o shield him from being imposed upon to the cha rac,er of those who apply for office.
 Asthe law now stands, whenever a man may cast fancy for an office filled by his neighhor, all he has 10 cambent, and to make favorable impression the
 fitness of him who desires to be the successor. These objects can be accomplished by aking characters up paper, secresy. efore te e6cer is a,udre oft, his reputation 6aed 6y secret aud confdenlial comms- nicatons made by sone o those he had esteened his trieHds; they are lodged with ihe Executive, where .sey % re%a," , sSa upon ,e we'd. When this s accomplished, the scuffla commen- for successor. and paper characters are procured for perhaps 'alf dosea applicants; and very ire worst character of any of the group, s dressed up, ssd by ,sS Ss him the snccessnr, and he is nominated io the Sem ate. The business will not end here aI the disap- pointed appiicans then go to work with SenatoTe to defeat confirmation of the nomination, each hoping when that is done, he stands next best wi,h the Exe- cutiye, and will procure the ofice. Under the present e'ate of things, society will he come demoralised; men will be constantly cODeting bat possessed by their neighbors; and for lhe sake of procuring what they c0Csf they will bear themseycs and procure others also 10 bear taise.witness.
 under the laws, as they now stand, the business of
 
 cd and Ewnished pih funds to dsTay the espense ef coming 10 Washhgton, Jy the p'rposs ot hGving one ses put n, by means Of Gri taesr secretly gotten p @ @ on w @ cs acters with which to turn 0ht incnmbents; and the other 6iled with good characers with which to pro- vide for his coRst3HeRfs # From ths Raleigh Register o,'Ms l7th inss. Murderer Arresied.-Few things are more | certain, than that atroci0us crimes will be ul- timately exposed and the perpetratOr punish l ed, however the offender may think to elude Justice, by interposiDg time and space be- tween him and the scene of his villany. An other instance of this has just been, afforded by the apprehension, in Orange Co.,, in this State, of the individual who murdered poor Porteus, on Cox's mountaiu, in Alabama, in the month of October last We hare rarely ever heard of more cold biooded and unpr0- soked murder than it was. The victim was ] clerk in the store of Messrs. WE Phillips & Go. of HuntsvilIe, Alabama, and was travel ling on business, when he was met by the murderer in the road, and inbumanly butch cred, for the sake of his money. Ever since, he has been wandering about, leading vaga-
 bond life, his troubled spirit not permitting
 him to rest long in one place. II will be re-
 collected that he was in this city. or its imrne
 diate vicinity in December last, and disposed Of part of his plunder to n negro boy. and amongst other things, shirt collars marked with the name of Mir. POrteus. The prompt steps taken by Mr. Mordecai (in whose ser vice the negro was) to spread the alarm, has been, we have no dpubf, the pr0ximate cause of his detection. His name is supposed tO be John CGllda, but he says, we understand. that his name is Campbell. He Is tailor by trade.
 Ssslden Death.--We are informed, that on the roth inst, Jonathen Finch, at North Cas- tie, Westchesier county. N. Y. was called upon to open grave for one ofhis neighbOrs. He proceeded to the place ofinterment and commenced the work. While engaged iu the labor, he made casual remark 10 the person who went to point out the spot for the grave. that he did not feelyery well. He was advi- sed to give up the undertaking, but he thought he should Do able to accomplish Il, and his guide went away, leaving him Ut work. Soon after. another person went to the grave yard found the grave about half opened, and Mi Finch lying in it struggling with the last ago. nies of death, and before he succeeded in re-
 moving him to the house he was corpse: Ssamiord Sentinel. T A young girl was lately discovered on board ofa Belfast vessel lying at the London docks. disguised as sailor. in which vocation she had been acting for many yearss Her story is quite romantic. Love for the eaptai0 of a II ..s.,.l p.A has sSs sea n ;oin him in America.