Alton Telegraph (Newspaper) - June 4, 1842, Alton, Illinois coin m on to bo clmr or 00 flay S 1 any o For one or tl 00 For ouch BO to yearly AGENTS FOR THE TELEGRAPH For convenience subscribers and J advertising friends in lho neighboring towns named have buon duly 1 10 reecho payment lions us voll as for advar for I Ridge J I I I JAMES I Hix i WESLEY I JAMES I1 All letters on should bo directed tho BAILHACHE fo From tho Albony April A STATESMAN IN V The following lho members of the Legislature of the distinguished from will bo read with grateful interest by all appreciate wisdom and The tribute here paid lo the and eloquence of HENRY has been earned by a long lifo of devotion to the honor of his CLAY is eminently the great of this Re His brightens the pages of onr and Diplomatic history from lo During thru long Oilier public man has dono for his country and In him the true in of lho American people have always found a zealous In him the inju red and oppressed always found an elo His sympathies take him to lho side of all And as it is happily expressed in iho Let tor of our ho stands identified with oil is enlightened and philanthropic in American annals for nearly forty LETTER OF THE WHIG MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK TO THE the Honorable HENRY in Congress from the Stale of members of the Se nate and Assembly of lho of have hoard wilh deep concern that you have resolved lo retire on this day from lho Coun cils of the From lho year when you first enter ed the Schalo of Iho United until this more than half lho period lo human you will ono or Iwo shorl boen constantly engaged in lho service of your that long period of our eventful no important measure which has lo tho prosperity or tn the honor of is which if not o by has not al least received cordial and eloquent J The course of your policy has in all things been eminently In as a on lho head of lho of yuu havo secured fur your country abroad the of her sister ai homo you have protected our seamen and our and extended our fostered our industry and sustained domestic nnd com our emancipation from colonial depen True lo your lo your and above lo your it lias been your rare lu ho a cherish ml leader among your political and the foremost champion of their at same timo lo Urn respect and possess lho generous confidence of al fellow citizens of every political Jt is nnl wilhin ho compass dwell upon the numerous monuments of your wisdom and your live in History of the Tho eviden of your expanded philanthropy am devotion to human arc n part uf tin records of grateful But thero u one great measure moro than any has occupied your and lo which wo may bo permitted particularly to a demanding in an especial manner tho P inn vital policy wan adopted by you at Iho commencement of your political life in tho halls of It was the of your and your triumph un entering the of vou reestablish iho return in and was enjoyment of iJt wo lo tender you We speak in our own names but wo speak lho sentiments of those whom in other things wo have honor lo when wp acknowledge lho vasl debt of which wo owe you when we declare cmn conviction that through your whole you havo been governed loftiest and the most unsullied in And when we assure you lhal wo follow you in your retirement with our prayers lo Him with has hitherto boon the guardian of our that health and may be fur many tho success mea you havn labored tu establish and Ilm proud been Moved oilier members of the Legislature 1 March have by of Honorable tho com which you did mo lho honor to transmit to him for on the am I have perused il wilh lively and Such a from a source highly distinguished and res presented at tho close of my public will be cherished by in my retire with the highest nnd wil add groat lo consciousness I ft in all public stations to which 1 have icon I have and faithfully to perform my whole duty lo pub In the brief but flattering which you have taken of my public you lovo justly conceived of my con With respect lo lho measures them lo lho adoption of which may havi I will nut undertake lo any decisive Of their influence lho the honor and er of Hie the nnd if a of my agency in maturing them shall survive are and cv ir will be lho mosl and impartial of and of But you havo rilly attributed lo mo a genuine American in whatever concern I have had ie nnd especially in reference to a system of National Divided as mankind ever have nd will continue to into I is the solemn duly of whilst il deals liberally lowards constant y and sedulously to and its own To at lo legislate for or lo expect or them lo legislate for would be n iko vain and It wasa view of condition of the ml instructed by lessons of experience drawn rom Us nnd tha practice of other un that early led me lo a conclusion in fa or of the Protection of the Domestic Indus ry of our Aly oon additional from every ion I could give the nnd from both ast and experience in lho United Free trade is a beautiful ex sling only in tho imagination nd and practically repudiated by II An indispensable condition lo tie adoption of by any uno is its by instead of regulating according 10 that wo cv ry behold and And nations which make lie nearest approximation to are iu iho easl During the last nine about onehalf of our imports havo een admitted free of and as lo r n descending scale of duties has icen in which is now rapidly hring ig them If there were any reality in 10 boastful promises of the partisans of freo our country at to lein the enjoyment olan enviable lut directly lho reverse is its melancholy con Never were the products uf uro selling at more discouraging prices and ho great Southern of which vas lo have been so highly benefited by n re of is now sold al a price less han il has commanded at any time since with Great Nothing can bo moro erroneous than lo les 01 mo observance as other pape of the protective ing on this or nomination ui inn protective policy have never controverted the right ol lo give such incidental te lion and the friends of that looking U lln than lho name of ana among the or letter e i ir thls These ecl whether u made hare in mm of ll n form ofo Revenue a Tho lo inform him how ci v lf had been Up on copies were not fur mv and cordial acknowledgments for coria on copies were not fur for lowards me con al not knowing who have or bo lo en mo let tho Presidents ro Author of oor being for I havo it proper respectfully 10 his upon upon our and upon I iho your friend and THOMAS HART THE ABSTKACTED We do not lo or condemn iho appointment of Churchill Postmaster ol Those who np him need no Nor do wo design lo heap scurrility on for the of which ho has been guilly in n deliberate and dignified to expose tho nnd which led lo Iho commission of the il both In nn official nnd moral And when crime is commit even if were dono by an the criminal should bo punished and not fur Iho purpose of satisfying Iho vengeful feelings of lho wronged and but us an example to dolor others from the com mission of like nnd to warn all men in future lo beware of tho unprincipled of Many months it appears lhal Whig friends of Churchill recommend ed him for lho office of Postmaster at Several wero written hy his staling explicitly his claims and his We du not lhal wo have authority to say tho President who receives hundreds of such letters and hundreds recommending the same man did not read the Wo know they wero sent Department to be filed with tho Granger was the Postmaster Nor havo wo inquired whether his successor after his own read Certain il is lhal il would require twelve months for him to rend nil letters of n filed by nnd that lho oilier duties of Iho uf fica are occupy his attention six teen hours lho Those are matters having no bearing whatever on turpitude of the which must forever brand with infamy name of iho one com provided it shall appear to tho world thai an unjustifiable and dishonorable deed has been II is had a knowledge of Dul would go lo the supposition that ho did not read lho let ers surreptitiously obtained hy Thomas Hort nnd published hy Bui we will proceed more immediately lho business iu The nomination of Churchill was sonl lo tho The licad uf lho committee called lho Postmaster General fur tho papers recom mending Ilm Tho following is the Postmaster Generals reply complying with tho request 1884 and in Iho great Period life have you waver in iho support of ibis policy I farewell counsels have now with Hn weight of vm the great measure which your ardent patriotism at Iho com of If protection ive given li given lias not been always adequate lo the it is because it hns not been such us o propped and sir bear mu lesli the wealth and many hundred to the population of our the existence of any real between lho of and A them would bo as unnatural am as between members uf the hn nun Each prospers when all ol them Agriculture but lil llo because its position secures i against much foreign rath protection to commerce and is thu besl form uf prelection tu ag a diversity in lho occupations of if all aro engaged iu uno can bo nu produced tur mutual domestic exchanges and conse no homo by fur lho most in war and and must val u a hi o of all our presold embarrassed until wo within our own muro of the sup plies necessary tn and depend less upon Foreign Until thai Ob ject is we shall be exposed tu an exhausting drain uf tho pre and to sudden alternations of delusive prosperity and real Ono obvious modes of accomplishing is tho regulation of our Foreign trade by means of a adjusted stim production at homo nnd diminished importations from And all experi ence has shown on whatever object our Manufacturing industry has been successful ly its price to tho consumer has been almost invariably This is tho necessary of lho law The is how lho Manufacturer can ho benefited by an increase of if the ho l reduce Tho answer ho is benefited by ning of a greater extent of home and by the greater steadiness which prevails iu Whilst foreign in order tu share any part of is first lu submit lo a reduction ill lho of his equivalent lu the du nud his commodity is finally excluded from market hy lliD operation uf tho prin ciple uf I Fortunately fur the harmony of enl parts of lho and dan ger of reviving topics which formerly Led and exasperated the actual wants of the Treasury now require a Tariff mado 3 Mav Postmaster General have received your leiler of ibis making inquiry lho publication of certain wilh lho nomi nation of Churchill ns Postmaster at in I havo to thai when I received of let ters which you transmitted through mo tu the Thomas Beniun and Iho Lewis Senators from requested lo the lellers and papers referred lo as limy represented the State the menl was proposed lo bo I delivered them lo who has subsequent ly returned them to As lo the publication of sumo two or of in the newspapers u which you I have only to nei ther myself nor tho other members of committee any whal ap pears in the newspaper And I have therefore sent lo Iho lion Thomas Benlon your communication ol this in order he may any further should any bo de March i DEAR compliance witli your re quest iu behalf of Iho I send you the papers on filo recom Samuel as ol I may be In a of Churchill from lis justifies mo in recommending ifm to Iho President as a gentleman of of strict and Very Your obedient Wo havo said wo do not know hud read tho W presume A few weeks tn our utter as been co we beheld a coarse and inn on Iho Administration in n signed by lion and followed by the publication of Ih ujr ui mi inn was brought before the S letters svnt lo the Sou rose in his own i e lie in secret from Iho if which Iho injunction of secrecy had and hns not been Wo sny wo beheld this with utter aston for history had us lhal suc The astonishment wo felt at such i event as nefarious as it was u also felt hy lho and iho matter was seriously considered by ll Executive branch of the uno could suspect that a would diiro even if nature had endowed him will so un Among papers sent woro two let ors from Wash Ip tho President of the Jolted which had by my received placed among ilm ar to inquire you or authorize copies uf lo bo and by whom they Your early an hour lo da as will suit is Tn In n To this letter the following reply was Very Signed SAMUEL So had complied wilh the request of Demon and am permitted them lo examine the Thi A respectful request frum th Senators representing lho Suite iu which liu was was very complied They very naturally wislie merely to examine the and of cours were lo du Thoro nu fur no permission lu Of course would have indignantly spurned fuel dishonorable proposition 1 Linn would cut out his own rather I lion ler it I No I both and Linn wore imposed And yot fueling ilm of his guill often trembled at the thought uf conse of a and lacked lho cour age lo proceed alone in lho nnd his He must prevail uu hii lo join him iu Iho simple re quest to be lo examine let Linn did it bul mark what Behold thu holy horror on his the repulsion in his when Demon after obtaining possession of the papers intimated his de termination lo publish Linn turn ed from his colleague in At thai ho washed his hands uf all partici pation iu tho lie fled repentant fruit Iho dork chamber into which ho had been bo before cold hearted assassin dagger was in Slid s tho man wo conceive Linn lu From lhal moment his connection wilh tho The head thai con lho act lefl wilh none bul ils iwu hand lo execute Even Ben on bul his evil genius led him deed had been guill had e been in wos as well to go in os lo His own degradation had and only consolation nin his was tu make lho uf a course his Tho deed was Tho mailer was brought before Iho could say Uu saw it all him huw much 10 wos He grew and luiden personal un lho HUM Hutu Ho applied term irtie sumo lull I ail ucl was a gross violation of limes lu the hood of one of tbo De and History had us thai Pickering was censured by This his of es He must attention frum th was liy a lie must divert frum ut Iho for lho same deed of tho individual lu a political ul from his u nek uu lho lu return to lho Inters T lMk f Mr and services to the Those words Mi Mils in For ho cull lio conduct of n of ttm of lib of flea for base Hu u was o connection ol ro This ho subsequently ac n to clandestine and send them off fur pub The writers of tho loiters surely md nut furnished Bunion wilh wilh the permission to use them in ibis man Then how could it occur Had the Deportment been To put en end to his the President addressed a oiler to asking information un lho The General vas as ignorant as Iho of the Ho therefore addressed he to POSTOFFICE May tho UUh last I received rom yuu u written in which tiu mo on behalf of Iho Semites on tn semi iho m Ilia Samuel Churchill o he at Wilh I bearing uuuu tho ion uf a the propriety uf hose lnj been referred to tha i u wos not But w docs ho about party recommended and itAo recum him Wo do nut wish to wo know uf him fur good or what wo leurn from tho may been capable nnd Hut Benlon will ilu ny while conducted Ben tona special the Bon frequently him his reward ha will not deny lhal lien wrote to on more linn one u be pa lien to nil and sacrifices for the parly ho will tint deny tlint ho President in Watsons be his appointment on account of hia party services will not ho then addressed u lot IT to ihu deman ding the nf nn nf his in connection with the and that the appointment teat ah under in at no other person recommended We will close this article by giving Wick I reply to the athe President of the United States irf of tho od in which you to bo informed m 1 manner inch copies of certain let nns i j m received and but for indispensable t M tho have met with more Tho originals of these and olh upon tho samo had boen placed mu nuo filo by my ho having re n ff I from iho President my Upon I find 1 i V pigs aro and at no copies of loiters wero riven not nu copies uf these woro given by any person connected wilh this Depart Thero exista a regulation of long which denies the right of any ono lo pive or take copies from nny let tors on filo in this Benlon has no application for copies of these loi and if ho they would not havo furnished him or other Upon the of from a member of the committed on Postoffices and which I was the nomination of ni Postmaster at had been re letter in behalf of that thai I would send the papers on recommending Churchill for In accordance with the prac tice in similar t sentto Me all thu them iho originals of loiters by his as will appear reply of that a copy of which is marked I did this under the opinion u not improper lo furnish such when desired by a of the and more especially when it by me lhal such papers were pro by the rules prescribed by the in reference lo all papers com mitted to relating lo Executive 1 might bo able more to comply with your and whether copies of had been taken wilh lho sanction of the committee or lho I addressed to Senator n a copy of marked is herewith sent lo which I received his a copy of also From this correspondence it will that the tel lers in question woro delivered by Me Rubens lo a Senator from the Stato of nnd afterwards returned by him lu tho I was gratified lo by tho letter of that copies of these let ters had nut been taken wilh his knowledge or or thai of tho com Very your obedient The frauds committed by the party at the late Municipal Election in the Cily of York aro fully exposed by numerous which fill no less than four columns of he develop ing an entirely noir system of obtaining convicts o outweigh the of tho Whigs at the The following facts are proved upon briefly in Lho All tho paupers in the wero sent o Iho polls to vote for Morris and the The papers of u de ceased pauper by tho name of ivero used tu a living pauper to Somo fifty or sixty convicts wore discharged from on the night preceding tho without tha of taken to and for an hour o nnd we know not other to vote for Ro ort Morris ami his associates Upon such facts no comment can be THE BY The touching description of the of a young and beautiful s from Along the crowded path they bore her now pure as Iho fallon mow that day on earth had been Under that where sho had when Heaven in its mercy brought her 0 peaceful she passed and ho old church received tier in its quiet They carried her lo her old elio hail many nnd many a lime eal and laid on tho The light streamed on it ho colored window he houghs of trees aro ever rustling in the and where the birds sing nil lho dny of air among those branch in he some chan ting light would full upon her lo ashes tu dust to Many a young hand dropped ils little many a stifled sob was All sincere and truthful hi their Iho scrvino tho Mourners stood ami villagers closed round lu into tho grave tho pavement stone should ho One called to how he had seen Iho very and how her Imd fallen on her an she was gazing with a pensive face 1 pon lho Another told ha had that so delicate ai should he hold how had never lo enter the church alono at ui had loved to linger there when nil and oven to climb the tower vith no more light than that of the moons ays stealing tho loop holes in the hick old A whisper about among tho oldest how they had called lo mind how sho ad look oil and and her early Home it might be so in Thus coming tu the grave iu little and glancing to and falling T in whispering groups of or lio church was cleared in limo of all hul ho BOX tun They aiv tha vault covered und the stuno fixed when the dusk of evening nd come and no sound disturbed the stillness of ho place when the ight moon poured in her light on tho and on wall and and most of it seemed to pon her quiet the calm when all outward thoughts and inward 01 and worldly hopes and fears are led In the dust before with tranquil nnd they turn od ino child with DO GOOD FOR BY A TALE FOR Dear Children you would bavo of tho Revolt old me the following story I onco had a who though a camo to mo ono bright hay and I want vou to come said They rive nnd 1 will nol hai What can I dol said You yoke Thai I nnl lime to said I luo not but they must If you do not care of I shall said lho clover in an ger you I cannot lake care of thorn lint I will payroll for all said will find that a hard 1 So squalling lho news from tho was thai of wero My children went and found mangled and inlo tho said all keep sfill and lot me punish In a few days the shoemakers hogs broke into my corn I saw Icl remain a long Al las I drove all and picked up lho corn which had torn and fed them with it in lly this limo the shoemaker camo in great Have you seen nny hogs said you caling sumo corn which lore down in my In your field said hogs like you were mndo lo cal How much mischief have Ihoy O not said lo and lho to to be equal to n bushel and a Ol said ii cant said the and I will pay you every cent of I you My geese have boon n deal of The and went Tho next when wo came lo lho shoemaker determined to pay nie for my said I shall lako noth After somo wo parted but in a day or I mot him on Iho and fell into conversation in the most friendly Hut when I ho seem ed loth lo move and I For a mo both of us wero At last ho I have something laboring on my what is il Those 1 killed of your geese and 1 never shall rest till e of yo you kn I am And tho came in his O said mind 1 suppose my were I never took any thing of him for il hut whenever m inlo his after ho seemed ho could show how patient he could said tho oh conquer and you cai any You can with where you can conquer ii no A following which wo clip from the Knickerbocker o Lbe past is lho tiling of tho we havo seen fur many a day I knew Deacon Ho was Ilia of my early nnd I with him fur a considerable lie was never known to give money in charity and that was a had hapenny which had come back to him near twenty limes in Die way of am which he al lasl gavo away in n fil of ties Ihy in alio must hole td cook her to wash and iron her and those of her to nurse her chil dren teach her daughters to do tha If she lias they may be and aud there may be when can bo Shn may bo loo poor to So that daughter should know of A Lisp OF Hen in ono of his recent speeches in actually limited that the peo ple of his district would not lot a per be established in it and that On examining ibis accor ding to the Utc we find thai of a population of about only 801 of those years Can or read or And this Is tho who wants to havo tho of Members of Congress increased lo per and to bo placed in such able standing as lo bo above of lho Jack common or working i1 that any could elect man to tho ho now K Couc on you here a rtf for cming of colic or I havo tried il more Imn a dozen limps with severe of leKy ache from colic or grubs 1 cannot failing in n instance to al ford almost instant t Simply nib tho largo vein on cither both sides of tho n celt of wilh spirits of Rub it the length of neck over and in twenty minutes tha will anu for an hour or l treated and upon a res o always when applied thus taken lo the polls nf to to his wife low many other to vote for in economy nnd dis irl Morris and his Locofoco manors of benevolence tho most implicit 10 know On ono special a day I Iho good lady mado ip a halch of custard si in lhal afler Ihoy were done the courage to but up they sour and nnd then endeavored to force Item down the throats of her hey wouldnt go Sho thru hem all over again n hoping u asto hy tho addition lash and culinary This was a The parlor folks quietly ned being helped o and the girls turned up their noses tho old ladys ingenuity was nol had n sick a pour who had been languishing for iu i consumption and with characteristic ha sho determined to administer tho rejected pudding to Il was accor dingly ngain dressed over arid served up in tho pf a nnd carried to the sick woman by lho lady Hut tho was loo ill lo eal them nnd next day and the passed nud still remained At last lho who Imd looked at tho nico things witli a ventured to taste one She il was sour sho lasted ngai and sure of whole was then consigned lo lho pig aod ils occupant camo iu immediately thrust his inlo the and then it and thus tho custards lost ro But the Deacon enjoyed the credit of lho good deed aod months I hoard tho poor pick woman lamenting the bsa of her could only have eaten them when were first brought dear that wo man has been talking about yoti again She has been telling be you over hoard she railed away about yoi i whole hour And you hoard i that I takes two lo make a slan der one lo tell il and one to listen to early education of the daughter ought lu ho moro more extensive and heller the education of the sou because the daughter in rally becomes a wife and n and retires from world to her own peculiar Tho if not educa ted for his at is compelled by hy the world all around by rivals in by his oi as n y s by to educate ho is always learning something useful for him lu It no It is not so with tho who must learn ur never Be a woman ever so weal unrivalled Insto manufactured for 10 port In hni lo any la form uniform Rood Hnd entire freedom from lo or become in anv way hy The will keep 11 supply of the to I hoy fat lole Ihr following valuable HI viz fc by Thomas mo of Ilm has bean at for in the with un in nil an nilI luch ni weakness or of lho or nny oilier of the For tiers of n of this 10 he licit in Am i J tin it entirely vere ns in lub lining worms as nny Vermifuge In more U ii now in tensive nie in the A full ol nil the re Ding and for sale il ICr NEW Juil from by T T w A P L E S anew anil JL of ROODS which they will fur nt their on of of description Pilot Drover of Iho very new hirKo of every quality anil Cm and Silk Velvet Veilings A of Veilings and other every bpantifiil Silk nnl Pocket Km of Tailors Trimm ings niiH u of Remly Cloth 1 e II f which will lie sold Low for October informs lib In hue nmi will kci p on two doors of the I n of of every ami lions Silk and mid J other wihins lo are u mil for HMD oiler for on favorably half ol of well nf and Hie half of the of sn Uon in six uf the anil IJO The above lands Bri ill anil a milo or of town nl heavily and of section 33 hall of of lho half of 25 and Ih of lying in town ship rangi well of The lut lands liom 10 to 11 milts of in of of ilioiu i and contain in ull House and Lot in ii wi II contains four uf o and is aeon tenement Lol in Upper US tho premises lately od hy House and in Upper BOW occupied by James This anil and lul upon which it Hands or Tilt on ht ho city of null I ill iy William on Iho corner of fie com and in the ol and by 4 These loo well unown to a are now renting for 10 nit of property ii owned by geiltla 11 are of of he are to lull any oor or nil nf which iull to uve ror further Jie to M ill eull ul tile of tt Two donrs of
