The New Hampshire Gazette

THE PROSECUTION.—In our last we alluded to a report, that Gen. Upham, the coalition candidate for Governor, had prosecuted the publishers of the N. H. Patriot for an alleged libel. The report has since been confirmed. The following account of the suit, &c. is from the Patriot, of the 22d ult.

After the federal party had blustered through the street, threatened and swore—and sent reports into the country that we had been prosecuted for libel, forgery, murder and treason, and that our office was attached and our persons in jail—the writ came down upon us on Thursday evening, and we were not a little astonished to find that the smugglers had abandoned the ground they started with, and had commenced an ACTION AGAINST US—FOR MATTER CONTAINED IN THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE MERRIMACK CO. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION viz—"that Upham had paid the money of the Government to support that infamous paper the Signs of the Times." We thought they might as well have prosecuted the Chairman of the Convention and the delegates, as the editors of the Patriot. On reading further, we found we were also prosecuted for calling Upham "THE FEDERAL CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR"—and finally, before we got through, we found something about SMUGGLING, but NOT A WORD ABOUT FORGED LETTERS. Those forged letters which figure so conspicuously in the Journal, were passed over in silence in the writ—NOT A WORD IS SAID ABOUT FORGED LETTERS in the writ—That part seems to be given up—and they have acted wisely in so doing—Those letters will not easily be got rid of.

Some of the coffin handbill editors are crowing, because we took so little notice of their candidate for Governor in our last paper. Take care gentlemen that you do not crow before you are out of the woods. People who SAY BUT LITTLE, GENERALLY THINK THE MORE.

The opposition Address.—We have never heard so many remarks made upon an electioneering article, as we have upon the "Decatur Address (as the federalists call it) to the electors of District No. I. It is certainly a curiosity. Perhaps the author would do well to deposit a copy of it in the museum for the amusement of future generations.