The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-23
Highly Important from Westchsster-Great
Excitement In XhIfa Isiains.

statement made in the paper of yesterday. This al
fair has created quite a stir in White Plains Last
evening Mr.. Sprague called at our office and assured
solemnly that he had no set-to with Sullivan in
prlson-and that, in the excitement of the moment,
he committed The assault in question Our in varla-
BILE instructions TO all reporters are to state
thing but well authenticated facts, without bad feel
ings or unustifable motives. If Sprague has been
misrepresented, it has surely been unintentonal,
while the mode he took to set it right was allogeth-
er illegal and hasty. We trust that no extreme
measures may be pursued.
Col. WEBB-HIs CONDITION OF MIND IN PRIsoN-
We are afraid that old friend and fellow suffer-
er, COL Webb, of the regular army, is hardly in the
right frame of mind receive acts of kindness mer
cy or pardon. The Rev. DIR. Anthem should by all
means visit him, for since his confinement he hs.
exhibited some strange alterations OF temper
Let us unfold our budget.
AS soon as the Colonel was imprisoned, notwth.
standing all he has said and done against us, fell
sotened to the heart at his melancholy condition
wounded and in prison on such an affair accord
ingly got up petition on Sunday last, and by Mon
day night had it signed by nearly 500 as respectable
names as there are in New York. l sent il up to the
Governor fast as possible so as to throw my little
mite of sympathy into his case, and aid h is pardon
and liberation, as much as possible.
In addition to all this sent note to Mr. Gilbert
Davis, corner of William and Pine streets, who keeps
a famous wine cellar there-ordering half a dozen
OF Champagne to be sent to Webb's apartments in
the Tombs-also a similar order to Henriques. 81
William street, an equally famous segar store, to
send box of hisbest Regalas. The following con-
tains the order for the latter:-
DEAR sm
called and requested us to send up to Col
Webb 100 good Regaas. Do you it If So please
in writing 100 good Regalias S. but we have good
article for So the 100
Your obedient servant
HENRIQUES, 81 William st.
Send the best.
j. G. BENNETT
BY some mistake the wine was not sent-but on
Monday afternoon the segars reached Webb's apart
ments. On the young man entering, he found Webb
attended by four friends, black servant waiting be-
hind. He presented the box of segars, and stated
the message. What was Webb'srepIy? Any thing but
what we expected. Col. Webb looked at him like an
oldfashioned thunder cloud saying-"l have nothing
to say to you, but tell Henriques that if he had
brought them himself, and dared to offer them,
would have kicked him out" The messenger
astonished at such treatment on mission of kind
ness, rereated precpately, while the four persons
present laughed outright. He returned to 81 William
street,segars, reply, and all in general box of as
constituent. A further correspondence, verbal and
written, has passed between COL Webb end MIR.
Henrques, in relation to this unnecessary insult, but
what is its tenor we do not yet know. Henriques
has spunk, and will hardly brookit
Now, really this affair seems strange, and posi-
lively indicates that Col. Webb wants advice and
prayers of no ordinary kind. Here we have been
getting up petitions aiding him in his difficulties,
and doing every thing we could with propriety and
delcacy to increase his comfort in prison. till the
pardon is procured-til the veto on the sentence is
certain. Acting on such motives, and in such
way, the Colonel certainly behaved very unhand
somely to Henriques, who had nothing further to do
in the matter than what we have related. Instead
of wine and segars, old friend seems to require,
in a greater degree, the pious prayers of some
clergyman.
We shall, therefore, endeavor to procure the Rev.
Mr.. Miller, or the Prophet, Joe Smith, or some
other eminent and plous person to call upon him
(the Rev. Mr.. Anthem has hardly power enough)-
TO put him, by prayers and other devotions, into
right frame of mind, while we follow out the petit
ton till he gets released. The wine and segars, we
believe we shall send to the poor prize-fghters at
hte Plains, who are in pretty much the same pre-
dicament with the gallant Colonel, and who will
soon be in as much need OF pardon Will
they refuse them, and insult the messengeril We
hope not.
In the meantime we call upon every humane per-
m New XOrk he oc l.
who have not signed the petition in favor of poor
God-torsaken Webb, to come to the Herald Office,
corner of Nassau and Fulton street, and toput down
their names forthwith. Come income income
in We have now well on to thousand, and we
mean to make it five thousand, if we can, before
Friday next, the last day of grace. On Saturday
the Colonel receives his sentence. Although he be-
HAYES badly, we shall not.
CHEAP LITERATURE. We perceive that sort of
check has been given to the cheap and trashy tera
ure OF the day, by the authorities of South Carroll
ma, in the following paragraph from Boston pa
peri
The agent ofhe New Word~ at Charleston SC writes
peous letter. in which he states that he had been held
bail in the sum Of thousand dollars the complaint
of the South Carolina Association for having sold Ger
tain number OF our Journal Containing discourse BY the
late Rev. William E. Charming on Emancipation in the
west lndles In what age are we living Is this free
country Do southern friends think to pei peuate
heir peculiar institutions by like this3 Do they
stand in dread ofa mild elevated Christian DISCOURSE set
ling Firth facts relative to foreign country7
We do not see what cause there is for complaint
here. 1.-THE Southern States are to be deuged with
such trashy and incenday stuff as appears from time
to time in the "Tribune, ""New World" and other
papers here, what security is there for the safety OF
The property or lives of southern men or their inst-
utiono They have only acted in self defence, and
who can blame them! Look at the violent and in
cendiary attacks made on the institutions o the
south by Dickens in his late "Notes one of the most
outrageous assaults upon southern men that has yet
appeared in this country and yet the "NewWorld"
and Brother Jonathan literally flooded the south