Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-04-16

Correspondence Of the Shephcrdstown Register
GRAFTON County, New HAmPsuIRE,
April lsl, 1850.
MEssRs. HARDY & NCANLY:
The satisfaction with which | have
pPrused few numbers of your able paper,
which curiousIy enough perhaps, have
srolled away up among the Granite Hills,
has induced me to address you a single
line, and this, gentlemen. must be my
apology, If need One-n0i being q rcgu-
lar correspondent of the " Register"
was reloiced 10 receive evidence some
months since that newspaper had actu-
ally been established in the quiet little vii
lage of Shepherdstown, and can have
lille doubt that the citizens have taken
strong held of the work and evince, by
their ready support and generous subscrip-
linns determination to succeed the lahors
Of the self-sacrilicing editors. A selfish
motive, moreover, will operate in their
I4ninds--priHe at seeing thus issued from
their midst periodical which in all re-
specls compares so favorabIy with others
in Jefferson and adjoining counties. May
your SUCCESS ee""e''ie"' 0e aou"uah'y
eqma' 10 your eAPe''a''o"S'
nc CIie dh-"oS"fnIi'@ 'oP'c q! 'h'ettS'
in New England, for the last three weeks,
has been the trial of Prof. Webster. This
second act, so 10 speak Of the " Par&man
tragedy has Just been brought 10 acioSe,
and the 7erdlct, however just IN ltSeli, has
surprised every one. The question is not
as i,.rbaieT g"i"y? hut, H0s he PROF.
z" @"t"j! ana thl> question has been an
Swcred hy many of oar FIRST lawyers and
Judicial Uncertainties "ecldediy IN the neg
.GiiVe. Mr.. Choate himself said on hear
ing the evidence Tor the defence, " Web
sier can never be convicted on The testi-
nony However me case mt&W maze
terminated had other legal advisers been
empIoyed-wIih that we have now moth
ing To do. Hope has gwen way 10 de
sPalr, and Indignation which was once so
Hie IN community against Webster has
no" Ofah e%cha''eeH l"t '',e "eePtSl > III
paihy i"r his family and pity i"r his own
miserable late.
HIS vile and daughters had been con-
stanlly assured during me trial that lhelr
father should "ith0"; do"b' be acquitted
on Saturday night an ana $" nr'n was I'''>
expectation among ~ DS'eT i,ieiuS '''%'
carriage was PT0''Ueu 0"u ''e'u IA Le"u'
mess before Inc pii'"'e e"''ance i'""'
our' square, dl tie ''"'e '''e jury %e'e
10 return 10 ''ie No"l' Eoo,''' ~ cd'ty i''"
at once 10 I%ihoFiuSe anu restore nun !"
the bosom OF his rXP%c'ahl iami'y. IGN
cts had also been taken ny all lhe mem
berS OF tie tami!y-lnc!ndIng one Tor i'r'
" e"S'er 'l'i'S'i'-'"' '',0 "oN' "., p"I nv
which was 10 sail 10 rayai on the 2Glh OF
The month.
But the one word " G"tHy, has dash
ed all these hopes and no'hing now re-
mains bat Tor hIm to prepare hImseh Tor
tn" Tragedy cioS'h9 ac'' ana lo' .''S
stricken family to submit TO the terrible
change OF circumstance winch must ne
'he necessary consequence OF the father
convict on.
! see by the papers that strong eh"Fl
will he made to procure commu'auon OF
tie sentence; but, by private letter from
an intimate acquaintance OF Gov. Briggs
il seems that the Governor gives no en-
rouragcment for such an expectation.
Much has been said IN hasSachuSe',s
within year of the majesty of the law
as suhservient to private iaerest'and spec
ulalions have been rife with regard to me
fate of Webster on this account %" ASH
ing:on Go"de was hnhg lis ''e 60!
"but he was black and Po"r,and iF'eno'eS,;
Prof. Webster's station Will save "im'
or as Attorney Clifford said III Ills closing
aIpument: