Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-05-26
ORDERS NO. S.


ORDERS NO. 5.
ApJufAsT GssKRAL's osFieE,
Providence, hag IS, 1912.
Sir-Yo are hereby ordered to report
yourself, with the men under your com
mand, armed aud equipped for service,
forthwith, to the Department, for further
orders.
By order Of his Excelency Samuel w.
King, Governor and commander-in chief.
ELISHA DYER, Jr.
Adjutani General Of r. Island.
1.-THE above have been issued to the eff
ficent chartered companies out Of the CT.
lty; those in the city are under arms by
order Of his Excellency the Governor.
From he Providence Journal.
SECOND EDITION.
Wednesday, half past o'clock, p. NJ
! We were in hopes that we should no
have to record any thing that looked like
fight, farther than what is given in auolh
er column.
But IL seems the small body of Suffrage
men who were l.t on :he field Of STRIFE
IN possession Of lae caution, which they
promised to deliver up, in case that Gov,
King with his party would retire, alter
his departure, at once commenced throw
ing up breast work, and arranging mat
ters 10 place ihemselyts on the defence
declaring that they would NJ; give up The
cannon.
They did not muster at first more thar
| City to siAty, but we believe their force:
have been increased within the last 9oul
1 by deiachmcn hts from Woonsocket anf
! Gloucester. The cannon of which thR
body is in possession, belong TO Tie Ar
tliery Company, aud arc tha same az
we're taken yesterday afternoon, as thai
COMPANY state, without leave. The Ar
tiIlery Company have just gone up witt
their swords, 10 demand their cannon
| We have sent a messenger off to loarf
what will be the success OF the mission
Should the cannon not be given up, they
will be taken by force, it is said.
Fire o'clock.--Our messenger has JUS
returned from the ground, and reports
that the body Of the Suffrage party, il
possession of the guns, will moi delive
them up. They have built a breastworl
about 3 feet high, and indeed they say
TO maintain their position. The Artlle
ny have left the ground.
Ii is expected that Gov. King will agail
call out his lrit nds to dispense those men
and take the guns from them.
Correspondence Of The N. y. Gem Advertiser.
PRwIDEScE. "Wednesday M prnnr.
Among those who took arms at the ca
Of the real Governor, were Messrs. job
Wbipple, Moses b. Ives, Crawford 4
len and others whom have not time I
enumerate, with the elito Of the youn
men Of the city, all under the command {
Colonel Leonard Blodget. The city wa
under vigilant patrol, and every thin
was prepared for the worst. Among tn
volunteers was the venerable and hig
minded Sullivan Dorr, the father Of ii
insurgent, and every member Of his fam
~ connexions capable Of bearing arms.
Mr.. DORIS Sword. MIR. Dor made
great flourish, last Monday, about hi
sword, which he drew and brandshed i
u most fearful manner, and told gres
story about lis having beiongt 10 an oil
fcer who fell fighting for his country
This sword belonged to a Lieutenan
named Riell, who died ordysentery On ID
passage from ST. Marks to Providence
and all the blood that was ever upon it
would no, wet the point. - Prov. Jour.
TIE QUESTION IN RHODE ISLAND.
a brief statement Of the facts pertain
ing TO the unhappy controversy in Rhode
Island, which We trust has been brough
to close, may be al use Just now t,
SOW how the case stands and how ii la
rcaeht d the present crisis. The subion
I'd statement is taken from paper draws
up by Messrs. Whipple, Francis and Pot
ter, the committee appointed by Gov
King, 10 inform the President of the Unit
cd States Of the true state Of the existing
difficulty in Rhode Island. This docu
meni sets forth as follows:
That the people of Rhode Island have
no fundamental law except the charter q
King Charles the Second, granted in l66:
and the usage of the Legislature under
1t. Legislative usage under their char
,ers has been decided by the Supreme
Court Of the United States to be the fun
damental law, both in Connecticut and
Rhode Island.
That, from the date of the Rhode Is
land charter down to the year ls4l, a
period Of nearly two hundred years, nc
person has been allowed TO vote for town
or State officers unless possessed Of com.
peten. estates, and admitted free in the
several towns in which they reside.
That, since the statute Of 1923, no per.
son could be admitted freeman Of any
town, unless he owned freehold estate
OF the value fixed BY law, (now one hun
dred and thirty-iour dollars, or the cid.
est son Of such ireeholder.
That, until the past year, no attempt
has been made, TO our knowledge, to es-
tabllsh any other fundamental law, by
force, than the ono under which the peo-
pie have lived for so long period.
That, at the January session Of the
Legislature in 1871, petition signed by
five or six male inhabitants, praying for
such an extension of suffrage as the Leg
stature might, in their wisdom, deem x
pedent 10 propose, was presented.
That, Influenced by that petition, as
well as by other considerations, the Leg