American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-02-21

" NV heH'pclS anu inc record OF proceedings
in reference to the subject. DIR. Collins ex-
pressed great reluctance at being compelled to
refer to these matters, but as it was the frs,
Tune IN his life that his character for integrity
had been assailed, he could not let it pass m
noticed. He scorned to notice the mere inu-
endoes contained in the article.
Dr. Collins, (whose speech we have but
briefly alluded to- concluded by stating that
ne called upon the proprietors of the paper in
winch the advertisement was inserted, and had
received from them the name of the author,
which was read to the Branch by the clerk.
Mr. Barnes felt conscious that no person could
feel more surprised at the charges contained in
the article than himself He knew them to be
false. lie had never heard it intimated before
that the President of the Branch, Mr.. Howard
had ever opposed the interest of the Public
Schools, but on the contrary, he had known
him to be always favorable to them. As to DR..
Collins, he thought the attack most nknd, in
deed, for ne had ever been devotedly the warm
and fast friend of the schools. He proposed
some action should be taken by the Branch in
vindication Of its members.
Mr.. Howard, (B. II. Richardson, Esq, in
the chair,) did not desire the Branch should
give importance to the matter by taking any
u,
sent a card for publication, calling upon the
author to appear over his proper signature,
when he would be prepared to deal with him as
the circumstances of the case would require
lie desired, however, to ask the members, land
some Of them had sat in council with him for
number of years, to bear him witness as to the
charge, that the president of the Branch had
been uniformly opposed to the High School;''
n pf bn Inc, bal
heard him use the expression, or any thing of
similar import, "what has little ragged-muiiins
to do with education?n to which a general
expression of opinion, on the part of the mem
bers, fully sustained Mr.. II. and stamped the
charges with talsehood.
Mr.. Barnes then submitted a resolution,
which was unanimously adopted; which we
give as certified to by the Clerk, as follows:
"Resolved unanimously, That the members
of the Second Branch of the City Council of
Baltimore, have seen with astonshment and
Indignation, the gross and false charges made
against Robert Howard, Esq President of this
Branch, and DR.. Stephen Collins, member
thereof, in an advertisement published in the
American Republican, of this morning. signed
"A Former Pupil of the High SCHOOL, Whilst
the members of this Branch admit the right of
all persons to comment on or condemn any or
all of their official acts, yet they cannot ac-
knowledge the justice propriety of having
their conduct msrcpresented by advertisement
or otherwise, in the public papers; nor suffer
false charges, affecting the honesty and in
tegrlty OF any Of their members, in their Off
clal acts, to be so made without publicly ey-
pressing their condemnation Of such conduct -"
by order, A. ii. PENNINGTON,
Clerk of The SpcOud Rroucb
In consequence Of the space occupied in no.
tclng the aioregoing, we are compelled to omit
the further proceedings of this Branch.
ITEMS OF News. Chancellor Buckner, of
Miss, has declined e-electon.-Mr. Chas.
Norton was recently assassnated in his own
house in the Cherokee nation.-General De
Buys has been reelected State Treasurer of
Loulsiana.-Phllips, the vocalist, was giving
concerts at Natchez at the last accounts
The officers Of The U. S. Army and Engineer
corps recently gave grand ball at Pensacola.
The legislature of Virginia has changed
Norfolk from borough to a city,. T. G.
Quimby has been arrested at Haverhill Mass,
charged with passing counterfeit money
VIM. McCrackan, Esq, aged Ga, long a mcr-
chant Of the city of New Haven, died on Sa-
turday morning last.-Capt. J. F. Tinker, Of
Seaville, Me-, on the 4th inst, during a gale,
fell overheard from the brig Gulnare, at sea,
and was drowned.-Jas. Hasty of Standish,
Me-, and Henry Elting, of Kingston, N. Y. re-
Gently committed suicide. -Mr. Mordecai
Benton, resident of Montgomery CO., Md,
was drowned in the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal, Oh Sunday the 9th inst.-A female has
been fined Sl20 and costs in Massachusetts, for
violating the license law.-On the l. 18th inst,
the Hon. Coddington Billings, President of the
Whaling Bank, died at New London, Conn.
Rev. Joy H. Fairchild is to be tried
for alleged seduction, on the s5th of next
March.
PERSONAL News. w. P. Hallett, ESQ.,, of
N.York, it is said, has been nominated as Con-
sui to Liverpook--John W. Edmonds, Esq,
has been nominated by Gov. Wright, as the
successor of Judge Kent, on the bench of the
Circuit Court of New York Washington
letter says the Hon. James Buchanan has been
rendered, and has accepted, the Department of
State under Mr.. Polk, and that MIR. Walker
will be invited to the Treasury. Tyler,
the Presidents lady, is said to be making spen-
did preparations for farewell party at the
White House.--Presiden Tyler has engaged
apartments for himself and family at Fuler's
Hotel on and after the Sd of March.
LOOK Our. Counterfeit $40 notes on the
Bank of Virginia, at Richmond, are in circula-
ton i'll Philadelphia. The engraving is very
coarse.