Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-09-25
l.trst. CoIoneI rremont,

His DEMAND Fon AN IMMEDIATE TRrAL The
Washington Union Of Saturday evening rlblshes
letter ircm Colonel Fsemoot, addr essed to the
Aliutant General reporting his srfivai in Wa.
shington under arrest, and mating tie following
request
I. Acory OF tic said charges fled against me
by the said general.
q copy Of the orders rnacr which the said
general brought back from California to the Ua.
ted States myse'fsnd the Typographical party of
which formerly had the con,mand
3. "A copy Of the com N uniesticc from Senator
Benton asking Cor my arrest ana trial on the
charges made in the newspapers against me, and
which application from him adopt and make
my own.
4. That charges and specifications in addition
TO those filed by Geocrat Kearney, be made oat
in form against me- OF all the newspaper publ.
cations which have come, or shalt come to the
kno wledee of the office, aad on all other ufor.
nation, oral or written. .9.- ea .a
| 5. that I nay have a trial as seon as the wit.
nesses now ia the Uaited States can be got to
Washington; for, although the testimony Of the
voice at Cat,ioraia. through some Of its most re.
spectacle inhabitants is essential to ue, aud also
that of Commodore Stockton, who has not yet
arrived f'om that province, yet 1 will aot wish
the delay of waiting for these fat DISTANT witnes-
ees and will go Into trial on the testimony nav
in the United Ststes--patt Of which is now in the
State Of Missouri, and may require thirty days
TO get it TO Washington l Therefore ask Tor
trial at the end of that time
These requests have the honor TO make. and
hope they will be found to be JUST, and will be
grauted wish fall triat aod speedy one -
The charges aeAins: ire by Brigadier Geucral
Kearney, and the Subsidiary accusations made a.
gaiast the in newspapers, whea was not ia the
country. impeach me in all the departments Of
my Conduct tmiiitary, civit political and moral
while ia California, aud if true, wo"'d subject
me 10 be cashiered aud shot under the raies and
| articles Of war, add to iafawy ia the poltc opin.
ion. II is my intention to meet these charges
and accusatinn. in ali their rxteat; aad for that
purpose 20 ask a trial upon every poiot Of allie,
CATION TO forms aad technicaiities, AID allowing
the widest rs"ge TO all possible testimony.
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The failure Of the well kaowa house Of Ps,xx,
WARD & Co. of New fork, has created ve-y
general SENSATION throughout the commercial
| communities Of the county. I
The New York Suc has this pasagvaph on the
| subject r.r.I rf 1 '.H.
"This painfui occurrence calied satth gene.
| raj outbusst OF regret aod sympathy 10 every
quarter of the city. Their bosor and integrity
were proverbiai, and their Bills Of Exchange a.
current in Canton, LoNdon AID Paris, as ~ Wall
street The eveat is public calamity, white
national Importance. They have not fallen from
misslaaagement or indiscretoa OIL theis part
They are an .ameyfcms sacrifice TO British R.pw
diGfion , Their downfall has been produced by
the return Of Bits of Exchange which they had
drawn on bsakers, against shipments of produce
sent forward to England Btitish mere chaats
have the produce bat refuse 70 pay 70: il, MesMs,
| Edward Prime, Samuel Ward and John Ward
who composed the arm, weidrd the experience
OF half century, daring which time, they OF
their parents, had passed anscatbed through the
severest commercial revalsions. At the organi.
zaton Of the late Prime Ward h King, they took
| from their private fortunes and invested in the
frrn sir hundred thousand dollars in specie, eve.
| ~ dollar Of which has been swallowed up by the
vapacious nav Of British reputation. This
they wisely concluded, was enough to lose II
their capital bad been five millions it would have
blame them under the circumstance, for sus.
psnding. II was the only jadicous course TO
pursue, They did perfectly right"
WANT OF SELFCoSr,prscE Mr. Cough, the
temperance lecturer, is, it seems, not firmly es
tablished in his temperance principles. He said
in a lecture recently, that he had so little conf
dence in his own power to resist temptation, and
so fearful lest at any time he should again fall
that no sum Of money however large, no prospect
Of worldly advantage would induce him 10 pass
night in a room, with no compsnon but bottle
| OF rum. -t.. .r ts i
HALF Avn H,Lr--I.egh Hunt, though born in
England had American parents. His father was
a royalist, and ncd 10 the u,oiher country at the
time of the revolution HIS mother was sister
OF the celebrated PAINTER, Ben iamin West.
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| The GREATEST NEWSPAPER Fear EVER PER
ro3SED.-The greatest toat ever performed IN
ne~sPaper printing was that executed upon the
Ledger presses night Before last, when the
two new presses, QIoe's Last Fsst,) werc for
The first time put IN oprrs,wm together. Each
of these presses s capable of printing sbou,
ZOO Impressions in an hour, bu; thus rate OF