- Ash
- Houston— John H
- Churchman
- Brent Daniel
- Southard Samuel L
- Rush Richard
In the Garden Eastern Seedling bed there are five young Catalpas which
Ouseley when they first came up
mistook for Lilacs. I trimmed several of the wild cherries— In the
Nursery the shoots which I yesterday unwarily laid bare to the Sun have
perished. Many others suffer for want of shelter from his ardent gaze;
but the Season has been extremely favourable to my plantations; and I
have about 1500 trees alive, of this years growth, many of them
flourishing. There has been as yet no drought this Season, and I have
wild cherry trees more than two feet high, while none of those that came
up last year attained in the Season more than ten inches— That tree is
in this climate almost an Evergreen—returning its leaves verdant till
December, and putting them out again in March— There was a man here this
morning by the name of Ash, who came for a
subscription to an Episcopalian Theological monthly magazine— Mr Houston
a Clerk, in the fifth Auditors Office introduced a Mr Churchman from New-York, who
said he was the nephew of John
Churchman author of a book upon the magnetic Poles—
Mr
Brent and Mr Southard were here together.
Mr Brent, with Letters from Mr
Lawrence Charge d’Affaires in England, and from Mr Offley
the Consul at Smyrna. He had also a Note from the Chevalier Bangeman Huygens Minister
from the Netherlands whose house was robbed last Saturday by three of
his own Servants— They were pursued and two of them with most of the
stolen Articles were taken in the State of Maryland, and are now in
prison at Baltimore— Mr Huygens applies to
have the men brought into the District for trial— And I requested Mr Brent to have an application 37to the Governor of
Maryland made out, demanding that they may be delivered
over to the Marshal of the
District— Mr Lawrence’s Letters relate to
the new changes in the British Ministry—the retirement of Mr
Huskisson and Lord
Dudley; and the formation of the Duke of Wellingtons Military
Cabinet. Mr Offley’s Letter mentions the
admission of an American merchant vessel at Constantinople in April, and
gives a decided opinion that access to the Black Sea, might now be
easily obtained by Treaty— Mr Southard had
another Letter from the ex-Surgeon C. B.
Hamilton, grossly insulting to him and to me— This was in
his own hand-writing— This sort of brutality is not uncommon and without
remedy to public men to whom the use of the horsewhip is interdicted— I
desired Mr Southard to call here Monday
Morning, to make the arrangements for sending my despatches to Commodore Crane, and Mr Offley— Mr Rush was here and consulted
me upon some questions which relate to the execution of the new Tariff
Law— Different measures have been adopted respecting appraisements at
Boston, Baltimore and Richmond. He proposed to adopt a general
regulation which may extend uniformly to all the Ports— He had also a
Letter from Mr
Dwelle requesting a final decision with regard to the
adoption of his Hydrometer. I wasted much of this day in idle reading,
and the evening was so warm and calm, that I found myself unable to
write.