New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-08-15

:. s.sOuthworth-A Card from L. Hartman.
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mud IN the SuniEy Alas Of Yesterday date
'hst the Edi'or CT that psper, :. 5. soUrswoRrs
aias JOIN SNirs, JS. Of Arkansas. aha,
WILLIAM CARSoLt. IN OF Rutherford County
r. Sc. has delivered himself Of nearly column
OF his customary compound Of tNacdle por,en.e snd
misrepresentation ~ the expense Ct Mr. Senator Web
.ter M Collector Maxwell. the Baii-or. Pa,,se ard
my humble self
lie starts out with cock and bull story ,hst
recently took = letter from Mr.. Webster to Mr. Max
wei asking for myself olhce in the New York Gus
tom Hou.e-thsi Mr. Maxwell declined giving ne the
sppoinimeut-thst in the course OF lew day. re-
appeared before the Collector with letter from ,
mel ber Of the Cabinet which bad the effect to csu.c
M Maxwell 10 tender 70 IRE either OF several Of
rces al OF which declinsd-snd that was hnsily .p
pointed 10 temporary place in the Custom House 81
- day
swsys knew that Souihworts possessed an uncom
fancy and iresdtuliy gwen 10 misrepresen,s
ton set bad the charity 60 believe that It with
him constitutional detect snd not species cf maj
ice sforethought But regard 70 the srticlc alluded
70. constrained TO declare that II maliciousy
parsded before the puolic-or esrly last week south
worth met in the New York Custom House. and, in
reply his questions the subject, be W. distinctly
told by me that had DO appointment in the Custcm
House. and that had sought none at the hands OF Mr.
| Maxwell
| The simple truth is have not exchanged word
with Mr. Senator Webster for the past siS yesrsthN
have neither taken nor sought take any letter from
ths, iisting uished senator to Mr. Collector Maxwell
nor any body ese-and in anc that have spoken
nor written 20 Mr Maxwell in my lite.
Ny business in the City OF New York and IN this
place has boen solely private nature and has had
nothing TO do with politics nor citces. have applied
tor no place the New ors Custom House. and would
not accept of one If Il were rendered to me.
extract the following paragraph from southworth 5
aiarrhea OF twsdils against
VI H,rrm,. b,. r,-,. os- hun,-r
e-ra y. s--,- 10 - 90 ,tWs.hosoa 40, A-
aoa,y .'iich'i 90 me Custom, 80 .o,.e' 'nse s- -.'
| ~, s-at .n,u he's ~ OF Tho War D-p.r,m.ut"
This is sheer Misrepresentation have never been
an office holder in my lie consequently have held no
place in the and Ofce any situation In the War
Oicc, under Mr. Rel. Here two more extracts
from the -ame TRADE OF fustan and
A. 'ssa Of NJ HANNA 80, Fae 's.t ~ on. Of n. t,.s'
~,,b- astv- 81 ~ Hsupshf. md ouo-.i
G-a-rs lay bra, camp throughout s nsrrn var As a. lnds rub
| s-r ss-at Ih..- s-f-s llac,u',c,..
NJ Hartman sss 80 -g-nt g Cspf.n ipr 10 lds rubber
ubtt1gf cous,t sfh the department
shah 49, boz - 0--f nan a. s-n"a' imposition
bat M G-usr. lay
morals and hatf,. hs goat deal Of be
Ys1ss, bout hun sd r-'a-f o political ~irre ana
dealer Bf,'o gop I'D cantsoa'y 'c.ai'- nay
- r~s.ded o.. o'-u nemtefo .ny PAT. or ,uoa A, srf
he .o,o-. NJ H.nsn h. indeed Ia. Psn,a bnssi On
Do &, Count, and stare Ns- YofE sho.s pen
fu '-a@ iri.h saoth-r n','s- Of shat
mp ucencs and boi ari dc.snleJ not
P.,oa..- -b.a bee especially eh-'P ,rdn..y
'~ 40 mo- % g,'., 50 ..P- a D .i. .aa va.'np.o
Now there was ao account published OF me IN one OF
the gazettes OF New York The account alluded to
appeared in the Herald and related to Mr.. Hartman
expressly told Souhworth at the time he sccosted
me on the subject that the article had reference
whatever 90 me-ihat not the person referred TO
| Why then did he not have the courtesy to let me
| alone
| was never the agent OF Capt Taylor, the Indian
| rubber submarine man. and never obtained any con
tract tor him with the War Department, any Other
Department do not believe he ever had contract
| with the War Department Win the Navy Depart
ment, understand he did have several contracts.
IS 10 the charge that have been dealer In OF
retailer OF gossip scandal Of any kind hurl 1t back
INTO the teeth Of the notorious gossip ger
and scandalzer who makes IT, and defy him ~ point
out IN ali my editorial lucubrstiOns and newspaper cor
respOndence solitary scrsp OF evidence 70 sustain MS
impudent assertion. This charge comes with an III
grace from who has been stepped 10 the eye brows
| 10 mag, IN gossip and scandal all his fe-whO
started ana published the gross scandal and iasehood
upon Senator Poindexter in 1884 insinuatng tina, he
gated the maniac Lawrence to shoot General Jack
son and who, when he found that P0ndexter was al
| ter him with sharp stick took 70 his bed 81 Gsds
bys Hotel in Washington, and commenced takns med
cqs and shaking at such rate 10 cause the bed %
nearly walk OF from ts proprety with its load OF DO
pounds Of and physlced misery. As 10 the fiR9
| thai there 10000 penny alners in New York who
are my superors have nothing 10 say. ought 10 be
satisfied with the very general republication which has
been given all the country 10 my correspondence
| tor the Baltimore Parrot and ann II have not writ
ten 10 the Muachausen the Guiuv, the SoHthuorti
style, the public have AZ least found me reliable.
| For II years have | been labOrug, with such poor
| abilities as ! could command, In the Wing cause. /
have been turncoss nor political Judas nor
traitor my party -outhwortn has been all three OIL
these 10 has gone out OF the recollection OF the
public mind that previous 10 the years 1886 ,. :
-Outhw0rtn the most ultra and rsbd Wing partizsn
and writer In the country that his abuse OF the Loco
| Focos including Gen. Jackson Martin Van Buren,,
| Blair Kendall and company. was so outrageous that
many VI his Wing contemporaries were ashamed of bis
course and quarreled with him tor bis notorious lack
VI truth and decency and That nnally ne got so des
perate that be put forth shOsde foy9ery In the shape
of etter purporting have been written by Mr. JEFF
erson, favor OF Manufactures, which Mr.. Jefferson
Not long after this Overwhelmingly disgra pro
cedure south worth 10 the Loco Foco party
neck and heels where he properly belonged and wnere
| he mas been ever since o. course he wss rewarded
with an Office Ia the New FORK Custom House, which
| he held, believe tor II years
And the impudent niscresnt says that nI obtain
al Office from the Wng Administrator IL will be
evidence u what insOlence and impotence can do :
lie thinks the Circumstance would assume peculiar
aspect OF vsgsbondism
| President Taylor and MS Cabinet will all bear
witness that have never hung about the skirts,
b0rd ,esed called upon either Of them for
an oihce Ny friends recommended me for place, II
| true but II was given 20 one who, unlike myself
asd opposed Gen. TsylOrs nomination and election,
while smother place was rendered 10 me. And this l.
| the whole Of H.
IL 10 nice business tor a fellow who has turned
hls party, sold himself for ONCE and been
| iying cut Of every pore Of bis hide tor twenty
| years past, 20 charge 'vsgsbondsm' upon Wing
who receives an Office after eighteen years faithful
| service 10 the cause Of his party
shall be IN New York, AZ the Clinton Hotel, on Wed
nesday next where ! shall BE- plessed 10 see the re-
douotabe Mr. So1thnorth, and earn what he has 20
say for himself regard 10 his grsr1toas attack upon
T. HAhklhAh.
John w. Is. Weller.
Trym bs K,p1bc.
The prompt recall Of Mr.. Commissioner Weller
nigay honorable 70 the Administration and We hope