Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-17
From the St. Louis Organ.

From the ST. Louis Organ.
War at JeferSon-Proclamation of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES yet"-Rencon-
tire in the Rotunda, bet,oeen the Junior
Editor of the Reporter and the Cl,que's
Candidate-Skirmish bet,oeen DR.. Penn
and gentleman from the Fifth Ward
Retiracy of the Forces-HostilitieS to be
Rene,oed-Ihe Star Of 81. Louis unsul-
Hedly Glorious'
Allah be praised! young man. who has
been on a collecting tour in the upper
counties, has Just arrived from Jefferson
City, and he has given us "grand talk"
detailing the posture of affairs more salts
factorily than any other person with whom
we have hitherto conversed. Open your
eyes, oh! We citizens, for verify We will be
astonished with our revelations of the "mys-
teries of the iniquities' which the CLIQUE
are jealousy trying to perpetrate!
On Friday the I'd day of December,
1912, Mai. c. F. Jackson, of Fayette, late
Cashier of the Fayette Bank, brother-in-
law of 1t. Gov. Marmaduke, organ of
Gov. Reynolds, and mouth piece of the
Central Clique, rose in the hall of the
House of Representatives, and opened the
war by formally reading proclamation.
The proclamation begins with specious
whereas and ends with grand imposing
and pretensive resolutions" addressed to
the Bank Directory, and explaining, by
ndirection, why the people of st. Louis
should be prescribed. Instantly Mars let
slip the dogs of war-Jackson raved mag
nfcentIy, Hudson inveighed furously and
Kennett explained admirably, and "the lit
tie Irshman" assailed categorically, and
all in state of the most exquisite excite
ment imaginable! AS a specimen, "the little
Irishman" (who is a great favorite with
the House, said, that the very least he
could say was that the resolutions of the
gentleman from Howard, impugning the
character of the st. Louis Directory, were
ungentlemanly! Upon being called to Or
der by the Speaker, he attempted to ex-
plain, but did it so a,DkWardly that he was
called to order again and again, until, at
last, he told the House, with great frank
ness. that he wished to give no one any
offence whatever, and assured the Speaker,
that. in the unfortunate expression which
had dropped from him, he bad only meant
that the author of them had not acted the
gentleman! Thereupon, amid prolonged
roars of laughter, it was unanimously
voted that the Speaker should never call
upon a newly caught Irishman for an &C.
PLANTATION! The matter was ultimately set
tied to the honor of both, and the day
passed on without blood. Hudson was not
whit better!
In the meantime, DIR. Penn, the candi-
date of the Clique for the Presidency of
the Bank, and the Junior Editor of the
Reporter, were exchanging salutations in
the Rotunda, the purport of which may
be gathered from one of the Editors ex-
clamations-"For one, sir, tell you, that if
you succeed in your attempt to run over
st. Louis Democrats here, when you come
to st. Louis, will help give you hell, sir!
If necessary, sir. will mount upon every
curb stone, will use my pen, and, if needs
be, my fist, or any thing else, to repel from
our limits the man that would sully our
honor or trample upon our rightsP'
About this time "the gentleman from the
Fifth Ward" emerged from the Senate
Chamber, in state of great excitement,
followed by Judge Yancy of Kickapoo
Prairie, who had been telling Fifth Ward
of the flare up in the House against St.
Louis. "What is the meaning Of this ask
ing of information, for the first time, on the
last day but one before the election was
the angry and abrupt question-and, "be-
cause we want TO look into the dark places
of the bank and see if the rumors of cor
ruption and gross Encouragement are
true" was the hot reply. Those who
make such charges, TO say the gerry least,
are not whit better than my friends in
that Directory, and not half so honest
was the scorching retort. DO you insin-
uate any thing against me, sirl" said the
irritated Receiver General. mo, STRIP said
old Fifth, advancing upon him with the
look of tiger, 81 inSinuate nothing, sir, |
directly charge that he who says aught, di
rcctly or indirectly, against the honor Of