Lynchburg Virginian

POLITICAL ITEMS.

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PROSCRIPTION LIST, NO. XXVI.

"Off with his head—So much for Buckingham."

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT

Salem, May 9.—Jeremiah C. Stuckey, Esq. is appointed Postmaster at Lynn, instead of Jonathan Bachelder, Esq. removed. The latter is a very worthy man, as well as his successor, and is removed for no misconduct.

Concord, N. H. May 18.—Mr. William Low has been appointed Postmaster at this place, vice Joseph Low, Esq. removed

The citizens of Concord, for whose benefit a post office was established here, generally regret the change. General Low, the late Postmaster, is one of our most substantial and respectable citizens, and has at all times faithfully and impartially discharged his duty. No charges of unfairness or mismanagement have been or can be substantiated against him.

"The patronage of the Federal Government," so far as this post office is concerned, has never "been brought into conflict with the freedom of elections" General Low has always been a Republican. He was an officer in the late war, and to his prompt and valuable services he was mainly indebted for his appointment to the post office. The change therefore has not been made because the citizens of Concord desired it; nor because the late incumbent was incompetent, unfaithful, or partial; nor because he has at any time used his office for electioneering purposes; nor because he is not a Republican. It is because in the independent exercise of his rights as a citizen in "the freedom of elections," which the President professes to hold sacred, he did not support General Jackson. His successor did support him, with earnestness and zeal.

Boston, May 19.—George W. Ewer to be Postmaster at Nantucket, Mass. vice Thomas Macy dismissed.

New York, May 21.—Dr. Hogeboom has been appointed Post Master, in Schodack, Rensselaer county, vice Stephen Merchant, Esq. removed.

Eli M. Todd, Esq. has been appointed Post Master in Waterford, in the place of Samuel Demarest, removed.

Surveyor General.—It is reported that Gen. Lythe, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has received the appointment of Surveyor General, in the place of the Hon. Edward Tiffin, removed. This office is worth $2000 per annum.
[O State Journal.

In the progress of "reform," we understand that the Hon. Syms Gardner, one of the Senators from Lincoln District in the Legislature of Maine has been removed from the Post Office in Bowdoinham to make room for Col. Josiah Merrow.
Wise. Citizen.

From the Scioto Gazette.

The Augean Stable.—The cleansing of this mighty fabrick proceeds with a regular and steady pace.—Since the publication of our last number, the following additional stall has been purified by the salutary process of Jackson and Reform.

James B. Gardiner, to be Register of the Land office at Tiffin, Ohio, in place of Platt Rush, removed.

The following biographical sketch of this man may not be uninteresting to the reader. In 1806, implicated as one of Aaron Burr's conspirators. During the last war, he edited a violent Federal paper at Marietta in Ohio in which he denounced the war and Mr. Madison and the Democratic party, as traitors and tories, and for which he was ridden on a rail through the principal streets of that town In 1824 he proposed to establish a paper in Cincinnati, in favor of the election of Mr. Clay to the Presidency. In 1824 or thereabouts, he became the editor of a village newspaper at Xenia, by means of which he so arranged it as to get himself elected to the Legislature In the legislature, he was charged with having obtained his seat by bribery and corruption. & the fact having been satisfactorily established, he was expelled from that body In 1828, he offered for State Printer, as the competitor of Judge Bailhache, and failing in this, he forthwith changed his coat—raised the Jackson standard—seized upon the bargain—poured out through the columns of his paper, the most atrocious calumnies against Messrs. Adams and Clay—buzzed for Jackson and reform, and has at last been rewarded for his apostacy and his crimes. by an office from President Jackson, the annual emoluments of which are said to be worth fifteen hundred dollars!!

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PEOPLE

George Blake, late District Attorney for Massachusetts, and Major Melville, late Naval officer at Boston, to be Representatives in the Legislature of Massachusetts, from Boston.

General Dearborn, late Collector at Boston, to be a representative in the Legislature of Massachusetts, from Roxbury.

Joseph E. Sprague, late Postmaster at Salem, to be a member of the Senate of Massachusetts.

All the above named gentlemen have been removed by Gen. Jackson from the situations they lately held, and the reason assigned for these removals was that they were demanded by the voice of the people. The people have pretty plainly and promptly denied that statement by immediately electing the removed officers to be their Representatives. What will the people say to this act of the people?
[Nat. Jour.

To the Editors of the National Intelligencer.

Gentlemen: The appearance of an abusive editorial paragraph, in relation to myself in a paper published in this city, the badness of whose character renders it, in most cases, almost disreputable to notice in a respectable print, will be a sufficient apology to you and the public for the publication of the following letter from the late Postmaster General. I am confident that my fellow citizens of Washington, who have been for the last twenty-two years well acquainted with me in my official station, as well as in my private deportment, would consider such a course unnecessary; but there are others, whose good opinion I value, who might be imposed on by the bold insinuations in the paragraph alluded to.

I will only add, that I never have contributed a line for the United States' Gazette, on any subject; yet, having seen the report of my conversation with Dr. Jones, as published in that paper, I pronounce it to be in substance, and almost literally, correct.

Respectfully, yours,
GEO. McKEENY.
May 28, 1829.

Washington, March 12, 1829.

Sir:

I have received your letter of yesterday, and can assure you that I have always had the highest confidence in your integrity and efficiency as an officer in the Post Office Department. And I take pleasure in also assuring you, that I have never permitted any circumstances to interrupt my friendly feeling for your prosperity and happiness,

With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN McLEAN.

George McKenny, Esq.
City Post Office.