New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

The Fracas At the Capitol. In his letter addressed to Congress, Col. Russell Jarvis says that Mr. John Adams declared in presence of the ladies who were of his party at the levee, "that their being at the President's involved an impropriety and that if I knew the estimation in which I was held in that house, I would not suffer myself to be seen there, and that he intended the remark to be heard by those for whom it was intended, and hoped it was so heard." And Col. Jarvis further says, "those ladies and the father of Mrs. Jarvis, who was a political friend of the President, deeming this a gross indignity to themselves, and a violation of the hospitalities of a house to whose inmates they were paying a complimentary visit, he immediately retired."

In the common acceptation of language it must be understood, from this declaration, that Mr. Cordis, the father of Mrs. Jarvis, retired in consequence of the remark of Mr. John Adams. Is it not possible that the coloring given to the affair in Mr. Jarvis's letter is a little too deep? We have heard from very good authority, that whatever remark Mr. John Adams may have made, in the hearing of those ladies, it was thought so entirely unimportant that it was not the subject of any conversation among them after they retired. It is positively asserted in this city, that the gentleman alluded to, so far from having "immediately retired," in consequence of any remarks made at the levee, never heard of this which Mr. Jarvis calls a "gross indignity," till he arrived at N. Y. on his way home. Not having seen the gentleman ourselves, we will not be responsible for this rumor as a fact, but we have heard it from so many sources, that we can have no doubt of its truth.

It is probable, from the tenor of the remarks made in the Senate by the metaphysical Mr. Tazewell, and responded by the plausible Mr. Van Buren, that those gentlemen look upon this as a trivial affair; and as all the opposition members of the Senate, except Mr. McLane, voted for laying the President's Message and Mr. Jarvis's letter on the table, it is also equally probable that a majority of that honorable body will pursue much the same course in regard to these documents, that they did with the memorials of Mr. Sparrowhawk and Gen. Duff Green.—[Bost. Cour.]