Mr. Solicitor General Draper then moved the mind a train of interesting reflections. Consecrat- and townsmen of the city of Portland. Absence, court that sentence be passed upon the following ed by the landing of the immortal William Penn- from the city since the moment of its receipt, has persons, convicted of high treason: Samuel Chand- the sublime spectacle of harmonious intercourse prevented my answering it at an earlier period, and fer, Benjamin Wait, Jaines Gamble, John Grant, and mutual good will between the civilized and will I trust, be accepted as an excuse for my appaMurdock McFadon, John James McNulty, George the savage-the principles of justice and peace, es- rent neglect. Buck, David Taylor, James Wagoner, Garret Van Camp, John Vernon, and Alexander McLeod. These persons were separately asked whether they had any thing to say why the sentence of the Jaw should not be pronounced against them. In the case of Benjamin Wait, his counsel moved that the verdict be set aside, or. the ground that Mr. Wagstaff, one of the jury, was not a liege subject, but a citizen of the United States. After a few remarks from the solicitor general, the court decided that it was now too late to interpose that plea. One or two others made a few brief remarks, when the judge proceeded to his painful task. He told them that in all probability mercy would be extended to some of them, but to whom no one then knew; that the jury by which they had been tried had recommended some of them to mercy, which, of course, would be represented in the proper quarter. He urged upon them all the importance of preparation for another world, and then pronounced the following sentence, (after calling each by name:) That you, and each of you, be taken to the jail from whence you came, and that on the 25th day of the present month of August, you and each of you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead; then your bodies are to be quar. tered: and then may God have mercy on your souls." To this last expression, there were several who responded "Amen." One of the bailiffs, a stout fellow, who stood close to me leaning on his staff, burst into a flood of tears, and I assure you this soon became contagious. RH. M. JOHNSON. tablished upon the basis of equal rights, growing I assure you gentlemen, that the kind sentiments To John C. Brown, Jacob_Collar, Peter_Rambo, others. a MR. PRENTISS OF MISSISSIPPI. Hon. S. S. Prentiss. Portland, July 23, 1838. DEAR SIR: A very large number of the citizens It was a scene I pray I may never again be cal- of Portland are desirous of tendering to you in a led to look upon-sixteen fellow beings whom an public manner a hearty welcome to this your native earthly judge had limited to a life of three weeks! place. Located as you are at quite a distance from and these men in the prime of life, inany of them us, among a high-minded and generous people, we with the blood of youth coursing in their veins-beg of you to be assured, that we have not been their average, I think, is not more than twenty-five. THE VICE-PRESIDENT. ly, in the battle field and in the councils of the na- HON. HENRY A. WISE. unmindful of the valuable service you have rendered to your country, in sustaining with success, and an uncompromising integrity of purpose, the sacred rights, and privileges of the citizens of Mississippi, From the Petersburg Intelligencer. District of Kensington, and in maintaining at a very early period after taking This gentleman paid our town a short visit on his County of Philadelphia, June, 1833. your seat in congress, the great principles of the way to the Virginia springs. He left Petersburg on To the hon. Richard M. Johnson, whig party, on the success of which, the prosperity Saturday; during his stay he was called on by a Vice-president of the United States: of this country and the happiness of its citizens so number of our citizens, and was tendered the comVENERATED COLONEL: The undersigned, a deputation of your numerous friends in this district, mainly depend. The bold and daring attempt to pliment of a public dinner, as will be seen by the shut out Mississippi and prevent her citizens from following correspondence: have heard with great delight, that you purpose rebeing heard in the councils of the nation, was well turning home, after the close of the present ses put down and nobly destroyed by your untiring exPetersburg, August 3, 1838. Dear Sir: The whigs of Petersburg have heard sion of congress, by way of Philadelphia, and avail ertions, and we trust that the chivalrous spirit of of your arrival in their borough with unmingled satthemselves of the opportunity to tender you a hear- the citizens of that state, will long remember the isfaction. They seize the occasion as a fit opportu ty and cordial invitation to gratify the general de- zeal and noble efforts exhibited by you, which broke nity to carry into execution an intention long entersire that prevails in our good old democratic district, of manifesting our respect and veneration for a corrupt combination and gave to Mississippi tained of paying you the compliment of a public the favorite son of the west, who has always brave-her rights, as one of the most valuable states in the dinner, as a slight testimonial of respect for your union. The wicked spirit and party manœuvring talents and approbation of your course in the national so evident in that high handed measure, is seen and legislature. The undersigned, a committee on befelt in almost every public act of congress, produc- half of a large number of your political friends in ing the most destructive effects, which is testified Petersburg, therefore request the pleasure of your The wild and visionary speculations of the past and convenient to yourself. to, by almost every individual in the community company to a public dinner to be given on any day present administration, are ill suited to a republican form of government and the recent indications of elections throughout the United States, give high and cheering hopes, that those who are now in power will have to quit their places, for others who will devote their talents to the best interests of the people. To the whig members of congress the eyes of the whole American people have been turned and To the hon. Henry A. Wise, Battersea will continue so to look, and the people have every assurance that a cause so holy and just, as that advocated by them will finally be triumphant. Their reward will be the gratitude of a free people, which is more durable and honorable than any monument that can be erected by man. We have been requested to earnestly solicit you to accept of a public dinner at such a time as may be most convenient for you, when your fellow townsmen and citizens of this city, will have an opportunity of manifesting to you the feelings which warm and animate their hearts. Peter Rambo, John A. Klufkee, Washington, July 16th, 1838. GENTLEMEN: Your communication is received, inviting me to visit you, together with your fellow citizens generally in the "good old democratic district" of Kensington. For the honor in which you do me in this "cordial invitation," please accept the tender of my grateful acknowledgments. It had been my intention to visit Philadelphia on my return to Kentucky, had the session of congress terminated at an earlier day; but my long absence from home, renders it necessary for me to forego my inclination and to inake no delay in returning. We are very happy of being the organ of this Under other circumstances, it would be highly gratifying to repeat the salutations, which, on a former occasion, were so kindly reciprocated by the republican citizens of your district; the recolPortland, August 6, 1838. lections of which, are always associated with GENTLEMEN: I received some days since, your agreeable sensations. The site of Philadelphia, favor of the 23d inst. inviting me to partake of a with all its environs, never fails to bring to the public dinner with a portion of my fellow citizens We have the honor to be, WM. ROBERTSON, Battersea, August 3rd, 1838. Gentlemen: I have to return you my most grateful acknowledgments for the invitation, in behalf of the whigs of Petersburg, "to a public dinner to be given on any day convenient to myself, which you did me the honor to present in person this morning. I arrived here a few days since, and have been delayed in passing to the White Sulphur springs by the kindness of friends, without the least expectation of this manifestation of regard, or a greeting like this in a land of strangers. But whigs know each other by the instincts of gentlemen and of patriots, and under ordinary circumstances I should be tempted to obey your request; especially when 1 find myself assured that you have seized on the occasion of my casual visit here to execute a design long entertained of paying me the compliment of a public dinner as a testimonial of your respect and approbation. I hardly dare decline to name a day for the cloth to be spread around whose board we should learn to know each other better, and pledge to be better whigs than we now are, even in the day of our country's trial, and it may be our country's triumph too. But, gentlemen, I regret to add that a severe at-f 12. Wm. C. Preston-An early, able, and con- them, we know, have seen the day when they detack of disease, which commenced before I left sistent supporter of state rights-a fearless and elo-lighted to do honor to Mr. Calhoun, and they, no home, and prostrated me quite by the time I reached quent advocate of southern principles-a deter- doubt, now regret that that day has probably passed the hospitable mansion of your neighbour, judge mined enemy of tyranny and usurpation-while forever; but his colleague is now attracting the symMay, has deprived me of the bodily strength to do there remains a single heart in Carolina alive to pathy and the admiration of all in the land, whose the duty of "table-talk" or any other kind of dinner the dictates of honorable feeling, or a tongue that sympathy and admiration are worthy the regard of service; and an appointment to start on my journey dare utter the words of truth, his services cannot noble soul; and they indicate not only their own to morrow morning, will compel me to decline your be forgotten or go unrewarded. feelings, but those of the state rights party generally, invitation. On the reading of the last toast, Mr. Preston in declaring that this is the worst administration that came forward, inost heartily and affectionately ever cursed a free country, and merits unabated hosgreeted by the assembly, and addressed then in a tility. Mr. Preston only echoed the universal whig speech of very great eloquence, in relation to his sentiment on this point, in saying, "that the Stuarts own public course, and the political questions now inust be driven out, whoever else may succeed." before the country. The committees, we under- It is the settled conviction of the opposition, that stand, have requested a copy for publication, but the reigning dynasty have perpetrated enormities severe illness in his family has thus far prevented which the people of this country can never forgive, the eloquent senator from furnishing it. if they wish to preserve the public liberty and pub[We will publish Mr. P.'s address as soon as lic morals, and it is their settled determination to a copy of it is received.] exert whatever abilities they may possess to expel these miscreants from office. Even if they had not sinned beyond forgiveness, the character of their offences is such as to assure us that we cannot, without being treacherous to ourselves and country, re. pose the slightest confidence in any of their promises of amendment. [Richmond Whig. A better day, however, is coming, I hope, for us and all the whigs of the union. I hope I shall soon be re-invigorated by the genial air and waters of our own native mountains, and, if God spares me even to return this way home, I will tell you when I can meet you. Cordially meet you as brethren of the same faith and the same fathers, in the meat and the drink of a whig dinner, to gather new strength and catch new inspiration in a cause of which every patriot should be proud, and in which every Virginian should never tire. May the genius of our country, whose is that cause, and the avengers of her wrongs, and the people are they, conspire to keep Petersburg an asylum of the thrifty free and a holy abiding place of their principles and their house-hold Gods. I am, gentlemen, HENRY A. WISE. To Messrs. J. D. Townes, P Durkin, John Bragg, P. C. Spencer, Wm. Robertson, and Jabez Smith, committee. THE PRESTON BARBECUE. A number of volunteer toasts were also given, and the following letter from the honorable Waddy Thompson read by one of the committee. CORRESPONDENCE. Halifax court house, Va., July 3d, 1838. Dear Sir: At a meeting of many of the whigs of Halifax, convened for the purpose, we were appointed a committee to invite you, in their name, to visit their county on your return to your home in South Carolina, and to dine with them at their court house on such day as may suit your convenience. Greenville, July 22, 1838. Gentlemen: I regret that it will not be in my power to accept your kind invitation to a dinner to be given to the honorable Mr. Preston on the 28th inst. Concurring as I do entirely with that gentleman upon the currency question which now agitates the state, added to every consideration of a personal character, would have made it agreeable to me to have been with you; but I cannot. I have lived too long, and seen too much of the fickleness of public opinion, and the instability of From the Columbia Telescope. personal popularity, to be much surprised at any The barbecue dinner advertised for last Satur- thing of that sort. But I confess that there is We give but a feeble expression to their senti. day, the 4th instant, took place according to ap- something which I am at a loss to account for in ments, when we declare to you that your steady depointment, and was attended by the largest and the violence, denunciation and proscription, with votion to and able support of, principles dear to all most respectable collection of citizens that we which three of us are treated: who hold and ex- true whigs-your constant, unwearied and eloquent have seen in this place for some years. About press opinions, which, twelve months ago, were defence of the constitution when attacked by many 12 o'clock the company assembled in a shady lot held by nine-tenths of those who now denounce and defended by few-your efficient and manly reat the upper end of the town, and partook of iced us. Two years since, colonel Benton proposed a sistance to the tyranny and corruption of the most drinks of various kinds until 1, when they sat measure for the gradual collection of the dues of the dangerous administration which this or any other down to a sumptuous dinner, laid upon five long government in gold and silver only. His measure country has ever been cursed with, have called up ranges of tables, conspicuous alike for the excel- provided for the infusion of specie into the circula- feelings of gratitude and respect which they would lence of the materials and the handsome style in tion, by driving out by degrees all bank notes un-be delighted to have an opportunity personally to which it was prepared. Much credit is due to the der twenty dollars; and in this particular was cer- express to you. committee of arrangements for the judicious man- tainly a wiser measure than the late sub-treasury ner in which the proceedings were conducted; and bill. It was not supported, as far as I know, by a also to Mr. C. Neuffer, under whose direction the single newspaper or politician of any party in the dinner was prepared. Chancellor David Johnson state, and was ridiculed and scoffed at by the oppoacted as president, and colonel A. Blanding, doc-sition party without one exception; if there was an tor Robert Henry, and Joel Adams, esq., as vice exception it has escaped my notice and may be presidents. REGULAR TOASTS. 3. The speedy and firm union of Texas with the United States-A measure of vital importance to the south; and in comparison with which the subtreasury and United States bank sink into insignificance; we must be united. shown. It cannot be forgotten that less than a year ago, 1. The state of South Carolina-She cannot join when the reverend Mr. Fisk rose to address a pubat present in the pitiful scramble for office, with-ic meeting in Charleston, in favor of these antiout dishonoring herself in the eyes of the world bank opinions now so prevalent, even the sanctity and degrading herself in her own estimation. of his robes did not protect him, and he was knock2. Governor P. M. Butler-The gallant soldier; ed down. It was regarded as a sort of political the vigilant commander; the careful magistrate blasphemy. Now, I do not object to gentlemen whether called on to defend the frontiers of his changing their opinions; but I do think that we, invaded country, or to devise means of rebuilding who now hold opinions which one short year past a prostrate city he has shown himself willing, were the opinions of the whole state, have a right prompt, and efficient. to ask some little toleration, and that, in despite of some evidences heretofore given of devotion to the state, we should not be denounced as traitors. It was an administration measure, and it is therefore not to be wondered at, that the great mass of the administration party should support it. It has the 4. The Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston support of a distinguished individual, who has long rail road-An enterprise worthy of the devotion enjoyed, above all others, the confidence of the nul of such a man as Robert Y. Hayne; a man cal-lifiers, and it is, therefore, not to be wondered at, culated to grapple with and overcome every diffi. that the state should be carried in its support; but culty in the way of its triumphant and final ac- that it should be regarded as a question so clear, complishment. that honest men may not differ about it, and so vitally important as to supersede all past ties, personal as well as political, and a sufficient reason for again blowing up the angry flame of party spirit, and dividing and weakening the south, which has so many reasons for being united-I confess, exceeds my comprehension. 5. General James Hamilton-The south rely on his talent, zeal, and enterprise in securing for her a direct foreign trade. 6. John C. Calhoun-A Carolinian and an able senator. May he live to be president of the United States. 7. F. H. Elmore-A worthy son of South Carolina-We esteem him too highly to proscribe him for honestly differing from some of us on a matter of doubtful_policy. 8. Hugh S. Legare-The ripe scholar, the honest statesman, and the uncompromising patriot. May he continue to enjoy the rightful exercise of his own clear judgment upon all questions wherein South Carolina may have an interest. 9. Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren-par nobile fratum. If South Carolina is true to herself, or has the least regard for consistency, she can give her vote for neither of them-she cannot, nor will not be drawn into a choice of evils. 10. Our distinguished senators and representatives in congress-South Carolina values them too highly to sacrifice any of them to the blind zeal of party or the malignant envy of demagogues. 11. The fair of South Carolia-Their smiles are only for freemen. I send you the following sentiment, Your friend and ob't serv't, At a time like the present, when they find many of those whom Virginia has been pleased to honor and to trust, failing one by one from the faith of our fathers, they turn with an honest pride to a native born Virginian, who, in another land, illustrates, by his life and his character, the political creed of the Old Dominion as she once was. We feel that we do no injustice to the sentiments of the meeting, when we say that it is their earnest desire to accord to you a yet more decided and unequivocal mark of the high estimation which they place on your character and services. We cannot permit this opportunity to escape without expressing to you our individual concurrence in these sentiments. While the south, now the weaker portion of the confederacy, finds herself on every side assaulted in her dearest rights, it is a source of much satisfaction to know that we have such a champion as yourself on our side. We have the triple security of talent, integrity, and a common interest. Hoping that we may be permitted to return to the meeting whose organ we are, an affirmative response from you, we are, with sentiments of distinguished consideration, Your most obedient servants, James C. Bruce, P. H. Gilmer, Thomas Davenport, Committee to correspond. Columbia, July 14, 1838. Gentlemen: I have had the honor of receiving from you, a committee of the whigs of Halifax, an invitation to a dinner at your count house. Your letter was received at the very instant I was quitting Washington, and not read until I was on board the boat. Travelling with the mail, there was no moment at which I could acknowledge and thank you for this flattering testimonial, elicited, I doubt not, more by the kindness with which you have regarded my wishes and purposes to do good, than by a just consideration of the efficiency with which I have prosecuted them. COMPLIMENT TO MR. PRESTON. From the Petersburg Intelligencer. Read the following interesting correspondence be- I came into the senate, gentlemen, at the moment tween Mr. Preston and a committee of Halifax when the unparalleled usurpations of the executive, whigs. The compliment whether considered in consummated by the seizure and detention of the reference to the terms of the invitation, or the signa- public treasure, brought into existence the whig partures attached, is one of which any man may be proud. ty, composed of all those who struggle to preserve The committee was composed of gentlemen, who, the constitutional limitations of power, or the prinfor intelligence and sterling republicanism, are sur-ciples of free government. Against those usurpapassed by none in the commonwealth. Many of tions, so utterly destructive of every thing that the revolution won and sanctified, we have continued to ! With care and deliberation I reflected and con feated. a cluded upon the course to be pursued. On Friday Mr. Hunter and I found the two seconds arranging the terms of the meeting. After some conversation with them, in which Mr. Hunter and myself announced our object in calling, I retired apart with Dr. Martin, who said he saw with pleasure from my letter to Mr. Whiting, that I had manifested a desire the affair should be amicably adjusted, inquired as to the mode and terms in which I conceived the controversy might be settled with due regard to the honor and character of the parties, and presented me with a note he had prepared to that effect, endorsed "INFORMAL," and with the express understanding that it was not written by him as the second of Mr. Segar, or with his knowledge or consent, but solely upon his own individual responsibility, dictated by his own willingness to hear any proposition for peace, and induced by my letter to Mr. Whiting, Mr. Segar's second in the first instance. struggle, with a zeal which thus far has not been rewarded by a proportionate success. In 1833, the public money was found in the hands of the executive, unregulated by law; but even gen. Jackson was unwilling that it should continue thus, and earnestly recommended that the dangerous trust should be taken from his hand, and placed in the custody of the law-now in 1833, a willing se- After despatching these communications, I sought nate proposes to place in the hands of this president, second for Mr. Savage. Fortunately, I thought exempted from legal restrictions, the funds his pre- of a gentleman and a soldier in the city, general decessor seized. If there were no other indications Felix Huston, whose character in private life, and of the progress of right principles, the patriot whig in command of the army of the republic of Texas, might be disposed to surrender in despair-but re- has been no less distinguished for sagacity and bucent events administer consolation, and teach us manity, than for firmness and chivalry; and on the confider.ce in the permanence of our free institu- morning of Saturday, the 19th, I procured his sertions. The power and patronage party has been re- vices. He found Mr. Savage unused to armas, and buked by the house of representatives at each ap- undecided as to the terms of a meeting. He caused peal made to it, by a stronger and stronger voice. him to decide immediately upon the weapon and The people are coming-have come-to the rescue distance, and despatched a communication forthI immediately required that Mr. Segar's letter of the constitution. The mad and wild projects of with to Mr. Segar's friend, leaving further prelimi- of the 20th should, on my authority for the fact a painpered and reckless party are and will be de-naries as to the time, place and position to be agreed that it was written under a mistake, and because upon when they should arrive in this city. it was an offence subsequent to the challenge (in But, at the same time, it is my deliberate conclu- Wednesday, the 20th, at midnight, I was visited no case allowable) be withdrawn, and that the sion, painfully and reluctantly arrived at, that no de- by my friend and colleague Mr. Hunter, at my room. challenge and acceptance should both be withdrawn; feat, however disgraceful; no warning, however He said he had important information to give me on and I pledged myself then to both seconds, in case soleinn; no experience, however disastrous, will turn a delicate subject, but before he could proceed, he of such withdrawal, to propose a mode of adjustthe party in power from the error of its ways. Its must exact a promise that I would not act upon it ment to which neither party could justly except. whole organization, principles and practices are under any contingency. Extracting the promise, Mr. Hunter approved the justness and reasonablewrong, essentially immoral and revolutionary. As he told me Mr. Key, the district attorney, had just ness of this course; and the seconds were both comlong as it is in power, the country will be tossed with received information from bishop Meade, that this pelled to accede to the withdrawal of the three paviolent agitations, harrassed by sudden changes, sub-duel was in prospect, urging his interposition and pers. I then named the hon. F. W. Pickens and jected to rapid alternations of factitious prosperity mine to arrest the parties on the event. I had an the hon. S. S. Prentiss as referees, with power to and real disaster, be divided into sections and classes, interview with Mr. Key myself, immediately, and call in an umpire to adjust all points of honor and in bitter hostility to each other-while a general un-promised him secrecy on my part. though I could dispute in difference between the parties, and to certainty, confusion and anxiety, will pervade the not promise any direct co-operation. The warrant, make their decision final and conclusive, required public mind. These are the necessary and inevita- then, had already been issued. The next evening, the seconds to lay before them all the publications ble consequences of the domination of such a party on Thursday, the 21st, general Huston came to my and correspondence, and denied to the principals as now govern the country-our only hopes are in room and informed me that the had just been the right of communicating with the referees or of a change of the dynasty. Let us expel the Stuarts dining with judge Thurston, and heard him say he appearing before them. The seconds accepted in whoever may replace them. had issued a warrant for the apprehension of Mr. due form the proposition of reference, without conSavage. His first impulse was, of course, to in- sultation by either with either principal; and withform his principal, but I found no difficulty in pre-out the knowledge or consent of either. The revailing on him to assume the responsibility of keep ferees sat immediately, disagreed in no particular, ing the information secret from Mr. Savage, and of and decided and adjusted the affair by a written allowing the opportunity to arrest him. I took award, which I approved, and I believe every man care, however, to consult with Mr. Allmand, of of chivalry will approve, as equally honorable to Norfolk, upon the propriety of general Huston's the board and to the gentlemen whose case they acting upon the information he had received at adjudged. The seconds could not withhold their judge Thurston's table, and he, with a due sense approbation, and thus happily terminated the affair. of the risk and the responsibility, approved of the course of secrecy towards Mr. Savage. He was therefore kept in ignorance of the danger of arrest until late on Friday evening, when he received a letter from Mr. Segar, through me, complaining of procrastination, intimating the probability therefrom of arrest, and excepting strongly in other respects to Mr. Savage's course. As soon as general Huston saw this note, he could no longer withhold from Mr. Savage that it was imperiously necessary then that he should forthwith leave the District. He advised him to keep close quarters for that night, and to depart early the next morn ing. Friday, the 22d, at about four o'clock, P. M., Mr. Segar arrived, and forthwith despatched Dr. Martin, his friend, in search of Mr. Savage. At about 10 o'clock at night, Mr. Savage was apprised of Mr. Segar's arrival. I was informed of it by Robt. E. Taylor, esq. early the next morning. Mr. Savage's departure was of course, delayed, and he was properly concealed from the peace officers. Is there any man who will look back upon the history of the last eight years, and believe it possible that our country can produce any other party or set of men who in the same space can do as much mischief? The kind temper in which my fellow citizens of the whig party of Halifax have been pleased to regard my humble efforts, will be a stimulus to increased exertions in the common cause of the whigs and the constitution. For the favorable terms, gentlemen, in which you have been pleased to couch your communication, I beg you to accept my sincere thanks, and that you will be assured of the high respect and considera tion with which I am your obedient servant, AFFAIR BETWEEN MESSRS. SEGAR AND SAVAGE. Having published the card of Messrs. Huston and Martin, (see page 323) in justice to the parties concerned, we give place to the following: From the Norfolk Herald. tation of the recent affair of honor between Mr. Segar and Mr. Savage, we are requested to give an immediate publication to the following letters; Washington, June 24th, 1838. GENTLEMEN: The affair of honor in which you have been involved is now terminated, and I think it due and just to you both, that I should furnish a statement of the facts of the mediation by which I have the consolation to believe, your differences were honorable adjusted, and their trial by arms peacefully prevented. Mr. Savage arrived in Washington, Thursday, the 14th inst., and called upon me immediately at the house of representatives. He informed me that he was challenged by Mr. Segar, gave me a detailed account of the causes, showed me the correspondence, and applied to me to be his second, assigning among other apologies for calling on me, that he could not permit several of his friends in Norfolk, who were ready and willing to serve him, to be disfranchised. I declined to act as his second on the instant, but promised to procure for him a friend with whom his life and his honor should be safe; determining to reserve myself in a position where I could ren der him and his antagonist a much more essential and grateful service than it is ever in the power of seconds so effectually to render their principals, whatever may be their dispositions or address. As soon as I ate my breakfast, I visited Mr. Se. gar in company with the hon. F. W. Pickens and my colleague, Mr. Hunter. He met the interview in all respects as became him. I told him my relations public and private to him and to Mr. Savage entitled and commanded me to take them under my jurisdiction as a mediator; that his challenge was informal and irregular, and his letter of the 20th, complaining of Mr. Savage's course since the acceptance, was founded, I knew, and vouched, upon a mistake on his part; and that both the letter and challenge must, upon my authority be withdrawn. He replied very properly, that he was ready to correct any mistake he had made in his letter; that he knew nothing of the etiquette of such affairs, was willing to correct any informality in the challenge, and cared nothing for forms, only for substance; that all matter of form was in the hands of his second, but that he could not consent for him to withdraw the challenge for any other purpose than to make it conformable to the rule of propriety, and to the code under which he sought redress; and when reformed and corrected, it should be renewed immediately. We assured him his second should and would do nothing more than his duty, and left him to seek the seconds, Dr. Martin and general Huston. I informed Mr. Pickens of my course; that he must no longer advise; as he was to be, if succeeded, a referee, and to leave the rest to Mr. Hunter and myself. I My object in addressing you this letter-to state, fairly and fully all the facts in such manner as to hush and silence beyond all cavil or contradiction forever, every whisper or suspicion against the conduct and bearing of either of you in the adjustthe field-is now attained. ment of your affair of honor without a meeting in In conclusion, perinit me to assure you both that and gen. Huston whom you selected as your seyou owe much to the excellent friends Dr. Martin conds. Their conduct has been closely under my inspection, and I am proud to bear testimony that to their prudence, discretion, and nerve in assuming responsibility, you owe the good fortune that one or both of you are not now numbered with the wounded or the dead. They both have acted as jealous and watchful guardians of your honor, and at the same time, as generous and magnanimous friends of humanity and of your everlasting peace of mind. They have saved your consciences from bloodshed and your characters from all reproach. It is enough to say of the gentlemen who kindly served as referees, that their names are vouchers to a nation, and their decision needs not the authority of their names. As to my friend Mr. Hunter and myself, we were volunteers, and claim but one obligation to us, which we now enjoin, that you shall both "forget and forgive" the past-meet as if you had always been in peace with each other, and when you return to your homes and your families, afflicted to mourning by the threatening of your recent hostility, you shall earnestly co-operate to appease the excitement of your numerous partizans and friends, and endeavor to restore tranquility to a county which has bestowed upon you both the highest honors and confidence in the gift of its people, who have been agitated and disturbed by your differencies and feuds. We are confident you both know how to display courtesy in conciliation, as we are sure you would have stood the severest test of courage in combat. For myself, permit me to say that I shall ever count it a consolation for the character of "duelist," which I despise, which I thought had nothing to recommend it, but which has undeservedly in the estimation of some attached to me, that it had an influence, perhaps, in drawing your affair of honor within the control of a disposition I have ever felt and manifested on every occasion of the kind to interpose my mediation for an amicable and honor- You both have my good wishes, as you have had Came down to dinner, both parties, (for it would have been no gratification before he was showed one. to me to obtain the slightest triumph over your ad- but ate nothing; requested a cup of tea to be sent In the evening he came down, and versary,) no danger, no obloquy, no tenderness of to his rooin. feeling, no appeal, however earnest or eloquent, conversed with Mrs. Mays, and appeared compos could have induced me to compromit in the smallest ed. He had complained of a pain over his eyes, measure, the character or feelings of my friend. I and Mr. Mays recommended him to make use of a repeat it I do full justice to the spirit, the fair sulphur spring in the neighborhood. He appeared ness, the eloquence, the general accuracy of Mr. anxious to do so at first, but finally declined, stating Wise's statement; and yet the reader, uninformed that he would not be able to rise early. He retired of all the circumstances, might infer, not only that I, to rest at the usual hour, carrying a short piece of representing the challenging party, had yielded too candle to his room, and let it burn out. The next promptly and easily, but that I had even volunteer- morning the boy went into his room with a towel ed upon the spot, overtures, which would have and water to wash with. He directed the servant been in direct opposition to the known determina- to clean his boots, which was done; and when the of my friend, and to my own ideas of duty and pro- boy took them up, he told him he had no further priety. With the warmest admiration for the course use for him. The boy immediately left the room, of Mr. Wise, and the fullest confidence in the jus- and in eight or ten minutes afterwards the report tice of his intentions and the generosity of his feel of a pistol was heard, though it was thought by the der his eye, without delay. Truly your friend, ings, I request that you will bring this letter un- inmates of the house below to have been a gun fired off out of doors. The hour for breakfast arrived, and the girl carried it up to his room. She found him dead." Jos. Segar, esq. J. L. MARTIN. House of representatives, Jos. Segar, esq. A phial of laudanum, about half full, was found on the table. It is supposed that he drank too little of it, which, with the excitement, &c. failed to accomplish his object. The boy said he found him lying on the top of the bed clothes, and looked out of his eyes as if he was very sleepy. There were two beds in the room, and it is thought that he was sitting on the one which he occupied, with his body inclined towards the other, where he shot himself; the other was directly opposite, and he was found half way under it. No blood was found on the bedding, though a piece of the skull bone was found lying there. The brains were thrown about The pistol the room, though very little blood. must have been placed a little below the right temple, as all the upper part of that side of his head was blown entirely off. The following lines were addressed to the landlord, and left on the table in DEATH OF PETER W. GRAYSON, ESQ. OF such a position that the eye would discover them immediately on entering the room. TEXAS. From the New York Evening Star. Mr. Mays. I pray you pardon the frightful scene I have made in your house. Washington, 26th June, 1838. DEAR SIR: Having read, at your request, the statement of Mr. Wise, I am happy to express my warm admiration of its tone and spirit, as well as my acknowledgment of its general accuracy. I would take the liberty of suggesting the introduction of the circumstance that I had called on Mr. Savage on Friday twice before I succeeded in finding him-once early, and again later in the evening. I think it would be well to mention also, that gen. Huston and myself had, before the ap: pearance of Messrs. Wise and Hunter the next morning, promptly agreed that a meeting should take place on that day. But there is one fact which, in justice to my character and feelings, and as well as your own, should certainly not be omitted. I allude to the resistance which I manifested for a considerable space to all overtures of pacific arrangement. This I did, not from a spirit of bravado or from obstinacy, but from a sensitiveness to your honor, and also from that want of cou fidence in my opinions, however decided, which can only be derived from inexperience in such matters. I solemnly declare that I would a thousand times rather have accompanied you to the field, than enter into a compromise without a positive conviction that its result would leave your honor without a stain. Mr. Wise will recollect that his appeals to ine and those of his colleague, were most earnest for a long time in the presence of general Huston until I thought it indelicate to protract the discussion in the hearing of the latter, and I accordingly requested Mr. Wise to step with me into the next room. I there exhibited to him a letter, which I had previously prepared, in which I sug gested the terins upon which alone an arrangement before our readers the authentic details of the late We have the melancholy satisfaction of laying could be effected. This letter contained a solemn suicide of Mr. Grayson, which has occasioned so declaration, that my act was without the knowledge much remark throughout the United States. They of Mr. Segar; not in my character of second; not designed for the ear of the opposite party, and have been politely furnished us by John G. Tod, upon my sole and serious responsibility. Mr. Wise esq. of Texas, his friend and associate in the coun-I at once approved of its spirit, but objected to the mission appointed by the Texan government to stipulation of conditions, as incompatible with his purchase vessels of war in this country. Mr. Tod plan of arrangement, and desired me to address hit left Texas two weeks after col. Grayson, and ara note, simply requesting him to suggest his views rived at Lexington July 14th, and, two days after in reference to an amicable and honorable adjust-that, received the unexpected and distressing inment. This I did, in a letter marked "informal telligence of the death of his friend, which took and confidential," which bears date, half past ten place at Bean's Station, a town in the Cumberland A. M. whereas the last paper drawn up between His own last memorial of himself, supported as gen. Huston and myself is dated nine A. M., prov-it is by the concurrent testimony of those who have you. ing that considerably more than an hour had elapsed from the interruption of our preliminaries, until known him from youth, prove that he has fallen a victim to a morbid melancholy, which, without any I wrote my note in accordance with the suggestion of Mr. Wise. Upon examining Mr. Wise's state- special cause, has preyed upon his existence for ment, it will be seen that he has inadvertently con- many years. And here it is important to prefounded my two letters, as he speaks of the one the exciting situations into which his career has mise, that a more temperate person, considering last described, as already prepared, and having been immediately shown to him. Those facts are im-thrown him during several years past, has rarely portant, because I had fully made up my mind, much as I desired in my heart a pacific termination, PARTICULARS OF HIS DEATH. The following to listen to no terms* until I had positively convinc. is the memorandum taken by Mr. Tod from Mr. ed myself that they would result in an arrangement Mays, the landlord of the inn at Bean's Station, where col. Grayson committed the fatal deed. which ought to prove entirely satisfactory to iny principal. In a later stage of the proceedings, I had great scruples about the right or propriety of binding my principal by the decision of the referees, and this again was the subject of a protracted resist ance on my part, nor did I yield my scruples, until I had obtained the approval of Dr. Linn of the senate, in whose judgment I had the most perfect confidence. mountains of Tennessee. existed. You will, ere long, learn that I have not been wholly an unworthy man. I have to request you to write to colonel James Love, formerly a resident of Bartonsville, Ky., who, think, is there at this time, though intending to remove with his family, in the fall, for Texas, informing him of what has occurred here, and of my wish that he would be good enough to come to this point, and take charge of my baggage, examine, and do with it what he will see is proper. In the neanwhile, I hope the best care will be taken of it. You will find money in my pocket-book to defray all my necessary expenses. I beseech you again to pardon the trouble I give P. W. GRAYSON, of Teras. The following is a copy that he left for Lis friends: To my friends. I go to my grave for the quiet the world can never give me. The fiend that pursued me for a long time previous to 1830, and then let me rest, ('twas when I went to Texas,) has started on me again with redoubled fery. To save myself from the horrors of a medhouse, I go into my grave. Fareweli! To you and the few kindred of my particular affections I yield the last pulsations of my heart. P. W. G. I have no doubt but the following lines are the Wythe Court House, (Va.) July 28, 1838. MY DEAR POTTER: I wrote you last from Har rodsburg, as I was on my way to Barboursville and last he ever wrote. They were written with a Bean's Station. When I got to Barboursville, I pencil on about a page and a half of blank paper found that col Love had been over there, and got contained in his will, folded up with the above letall the effects belonging to our much-lamented ter and some others papers, and endorsed "impor friend Grayson. He gave me all the papers rela- tant papers, &c." I copied them myself from the ting to our mission, and a copy of the two commu- will, although the latter was dated Galveston Isnications which I herewith send you. I only re-land, 10th June, 1838;" yet, as a pencil was found I omit other particulars as not being to the pre-mained there until the next stage, and then went lying on the table, and it appeared as if it had latesent purpose, but will merely observe, that after to Bean's station, where I intended to communicately been employed, I am pretty certain they are the the reference had been made, I deemed it necessa- with our government, as well as with my friends last lines he ever wrote, and contain the last troury to excuse myself to Mr. Hunter and others, for McKinney, col. Hill, and many others, who will bled ideas of the closing scene. I give them to my apparent pertinacity, by attributing it to the hesitation naturally springing up from a want of expect, and think it strange, if I do not give them you "verbatim," underscored, &c., as he left them: a full and early account of this distressing and confidence, on account of inexperience in such heart-rending occurrence. While at Bean's Stamatters. I had gone, however, into the business, tion I telt too sensibly that it was useless for me to with the principles upon which I should act, fully undertake to write any thing, for there was such a matured; yet I wished myself sustained by the feeling of gloom and distressing reminiscences conjudgment of others of more authority, not so much nected with the place, and I decided to leave there for my own satisfaction, as for that of my principal. at once for Baltimore. I find myself compelled to Anxious as I was for arrangement honorable to remain here until to-morrow, hoping that I will be well enough to prosecute my journey. But I am digressing. Probably it will be better for me to give a kind of preface here of what occurred before he committed the deplorable event. I noted it down from the landlord's own lips. "Mr. Grayson arrived at Bean's Station on the 8th inst. from Knoxville; appeared restless and im patient, as he asked two or three times for a room *To prevent all possibility of misapprehension, 1 will state, that when I speak of terms or overtures, I allude to those proceeding from the mediating friends. The attitude of gen. Huston, as representing the challenged party, was one of decorous reserve, until his reception of my first note. J. L. M. "It is necessary to my poor shattered name for me now to confess that at least ten years of my life I have been a partially deranged wan "I have always kept this a profound secret, from an indescribable horror I have ever felt at the idea of divulging it. A rueful scepticism was at the bottom of all. The period of my suffering in this state was from 1820 to 1830. In this mood so disqualifying and adverse to mental exertion of any kind, I actually wrote a sort of essay upon the influence of law, &c. Went tc, and published it off hand, without examining proof, or correcting it in any way. This I did for excitement alone. with a view and hope of bringing my mind back to something like sanity again by a strong desperate leffort at mental energy. "This I write in my last hours of existence. I sincerely think as a sane or living man. Whether I shall be in Bedlam or my grave soon, I know not; I am in the hands of malignant fate, and the worst that can befall me will, I am sure.. "P. W. G. "The last trap to catch my soul, and send it to a very hell of torture, was the good feeling of my friends, urging me and prevailing on me to be a candidate for the presidency of Texas! Oh, God!!" In reviewing all the facts connected with this distressing and lamentable occurrence, I think we may safely say he has fallen a victim to his own morbid feelings, produced by the slang and calumny of those opposed to him in Texas for the presidency. His ardent friends pressed this thing upon him contrary to his own convictions, and he has fallen THE RISE OF WATERS. "The printer, silly man, made more blunders in as flour, and the toll may be paid at that place to traordinary attended at the coronation of her majesthe type than I had nyself made in the manuscript, Troy or Albany. To a limited extent, therefore, ty, and who were seated at the table beneath. We and, worst of all, put my name in the title page the quantity of wheat, and flour made from the need not describe the splendid aspect of the hall, the against my express orders-awful exposure of my same wheat, are both reckoned in the foregoing number or rank of the illustrious visiters, or the gorweakness, which I have ever hoped, however, was estimate of wheat and flour. The amount of toll geous munificence of the dinner. The latter was inconfined to a few persons only, who might, by ac-paid is, therefore, the fairest test of the increase of deed served in the most profused and sumptuous cident, have picked up the strangely contrived, business at Buffalo, and this shows an increase of style; to reverse a well-known, ill-natured criticism, ill-written, crazy production, which contains a good | 85 1-2 per cent. the turtle and venison were hot, the wines were demany thoughts that I approve even yet. liciously cooled. At about half past eight o'clock, grace was said, and then the crier, according to good The Toledo Blade has the following interesting old custom, announced that the lord mayor drank "A article on the subject of the rise of the waters of the hearty welcome in a loving cup" to all his royal and great lakes. The fact here mentioned, as account- distinguished guests, who were enumerated in classes, ing for the rise, now meets our eye for the first time, according to their style and decrees. This announceand furnishes a plausible reason for the phenome- ment was received with loud cheering, and the cup non: went round the table and was highly relished as well The unprecedented rise of the waters of the great as the good old chivalrous formalities with which its lakes from the head of Lake Superior even to where contents are received. On the toast of the queen's they meet the waters of the Atlantic in the river St. health, extraordinary enthusiasm was manifested, and Lawrence, has seemed to baffle all speculation as to the rest of the royal family, that illustrious duke obon coupling the duke of Sussex's health with that of its cause. It is beyond dispute that whole farms have beer. subinerged, that wharves and streets have served, in a short and elegant speech, that there were been rendered useless. From all accounts we have so many distinguished statesmen from all parts of seen, we are inclined to think that the rise since Europe about him to-day, that it was very possible 1835 has been between three and a half and four they might not all agree with him or amongst themfeet. An old and intelligent settler of Cleveland de-selves upon some matters of opinion; but in one common object they were all united, namely in paying He congratulated the country that the distinguished respect and homage to the distinguished lady who held the sovereign sway of these realms.-(Cheers.) foreigners who graced the present happy occasion with their presence had had, during their short sojourn in this country, ample means of seeing that the people of this country had loyalty in their hearts and freedom in their breasts. (Loud cheers.) They Would see that in England every man showed respect and honor with willingness where it was due. They were all subjects-he was a fellow subject with them all-and ready, at all times, to give allegiance to his sovereign cheerfully, because he knew that in so doing he and all of thein secured their independence sacrifice. a TOLLS AND TRADE OF THE NEW YORK CANALS. From the Albany Argus of the 6th inst. 1838 1837 Increase $45,963 97 $9,360 52 The whole sum received for tolls on all the state canals from the opening of navigation to the close of July, for 1837 and 1838, is as follows, viz: 1833 1837 Increase $677,351 95 $150,583 95 66 1,010,140 The foregoing statements show an increase com. paring this year with last, of 18 per cent. in the quantity of merchandize transported on the canals; an increase of nearly 30 per cent. in the amount of tolls, and an increase of 87 per cent. in the aggregate quantity of wheat and flour brought to tide water. The quantity of flour and wheat shipped at Buf. falo from the opening of canal navigation to the 31st July, for the years 1836, 1837 and 1838, was as follows: 20,592 261,892 77,197 93,687 246,577 bbls. flour, bush. wheat. equal to bbls. flour. In 1836 73,079 In 1837 40,709 In 1838 153,940 463,188 The increase of wheat and flour cleared at Buffalo, comparing this year with last, is equal to 163 per cent. in favor of 1838. clares that he has seen the level of the water seven ring a season of extraordinary depression. The pier at Monroe was six feet out of water when first com pleted. It is now nearly immersed. natural cause. and honour. The lord mayor then gave, "The sovereigns and states whose representatives have honored the city with their presence this day." (Three times three The lord mayor then gave, "The health of the forand cheers,)prince Esterhazy returned thanks. The duke de Nemours returned thanks, and was received eign princes who have honored the city with their presence this day." (Three times three.) The with loud cheering. We have heard several explanations, some of which were ridiculous; some were surmises unsupported by a single fact; and some at war with established facts. The latest explanation, however, is founded in good sense, and traces the phenomena to a direct It is said that a large river which has hitherto discharged itself into Hudson's bay, has been from year to year impeded in its course by the accumulation of drift wood, stumps, &c. similar to that of the great raft of the Red river, till finally it has become completely dammed, and has cut out for itself a new channel into some one of the great tributaries to Lake Superior. The account comes, we believe, through the fur traders, who have traversed those remote egions. If this single fact is satisfactorily established, the explanation becomes a truth. waters of Lake Michigan have not risen to the same It receives confirmation from the assertion that the height as the waters of the other lakes. This lake is linked with Lake Huron by a channel distinct from that by which Lake Superior is connected. The toast of "her majesty's ministers" was receivThere would therefore naturally be only that rise ined with marked cheering from all parts of the hall, on which viscount Melbourne rose and thanked the Michigan which would be caused by the setting back of the waters, if this great accession, this threatening deluge owes its origin to the feeders of Lake Superior. We are not well informed as to the comparative level of Lake Michigan, though we have understood repeatedly that it had not risen in so extraordinary a manner as the other lakes. Can twenty years may have arisen from the alternate it not be possible that the fluctuations for the last rising and falling of the great northern food allud-promote the welfare of the whole civilized world. (Loud cheers.) ed to, in dry seasons finding vent through its accustomed channel, but occasionally becoming dammed and discharging portions of its accretions this way, till finally it has burst all barriers, and turned its course hitherward, and caused a more sudden, more We call the attention of publishers and scientific company cordially, confidently trusting, as he said, that the good feeling which now existed between this country and all the great states represented by the distinguished men then present, was a guarantee that unanimity, peace and concord, would long, very mote from the present day; a happy state of things, long, reign amongst us-ay, to a period very far rewhich could not but strengthen the prosperity and of Wellington, and marshal Soult, duke of Dalmatia,” The next toast proposed was "Field marshal the duke tremenduous cheers; in the midst of which, a great portion of the company stood on chairs to catch a glimpse of the two warriors, who had risen in acknowledgment of the compliment. The duke of Wellington said he entertained a high sense of the honor of being associated with so illustrious an individual as him whose name had been given in company with his own on the present occasion. He was glad to find that the merits and services of the illustrious stranger who was now amongst FOREIGN ITEMS. them, had been properly appreciated by the people of this country. (Cheers.) And he had no doubt that Entertainment at Guildhall. The grand city ban the illustrious guest of the corporation must fully quet to the ambassadors and foreign princes now in appreciate the cordial feelings which had been maniLondon took place on Friday, and it was beyond fested towards him, not only on the present occasion, every other consideration which the extraordinary but on every other occasion when he had presented and magnificent scene awakened, a truly ennobling himself to the public. He (the duke of Wellington) and touching thing to behold the veteran heroes was delighted that the king of the French had chosen Soult and Wellington-the opponent chiefs of a long so distinguished an individual to represent him on warfare, vying with one another in reciprocating the the occasion of the coronation of their illustrious warmest testimony not to their individual merits as sovereign. The conclusion of the nob'e duke's obgenerals (for that were a theme which either of them servation were completely drowned with cheers. would almost disdain,) but to the bravery, the moral The duke of Dalmatia, who sat about twelve seats valor, and the highmindedness which characterise the away from his grace, seemed to pay great attention two great nations whose troops they so many years to what fell from him, with the assistance apparently commanded; and re-echoing the assurance of the of a gentleman who stood by him, and interpreted cordial sentiments of friendship and respect which what the noble duke said. now exist between these two great nations. The The duke of Dalmatia then proceeded, amidst reThe condition of things in Canada has essentially preparation for the august occasion were on the same iterated cheers, to address the company in the French increased the quantity of wheat cleared at Buffalo, scale of splendour as that which was exhibited on language. He spoke with great feeling, but not with a portion of which ordinarily would pass through the occasion of the late visit of her most gracious powerful voice. He commenced by observing that the Welland canal to Oswego. The wheat which majesty to the city. There was even an addition to the expressions made use of by the duke of Wellingis floured at Black Rock, in most cases, is first the splendour, as the wall around the chief table was ton, had entered into his very heart. Never had there cleared at Buffalo and pays toll as wheat to Black ornamented with richly emblazoned shields, of several lived a nobler-minded, a braver, or a more honorable Rock, and after being floured is cleared at Buffalo foreign kingdoms and states, whose ambassadors ex-man than that illustrious general. The French na The tolls received at Buffalo from the opening of canal navigation to the 31st July, for 3 years, were as follows: In 1836 In 1838 $68,428 47 57,236 43 106,142 33 Increase this year over 1836, $37,714; and over 1837, $48,906, or nearly 85 1-2 per cent. a |