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rsMary Barney. - Mayo D
rRobert - Miller Samuel N.
- Connell John
- Greenough
Mrs
Barney came this morning, and requested of me a Letter to
Mr
Tyler, recommending her Son, for the appointment of
Surveyor of the Customs at Baltimore the place which her husband held by my appointment,
and from which he was removed by President
Jackson. Mrs Barney thinks
this a substantial title to her Son to be restored to the Office, and
she could not comprehend the scruple of propriety upon which I declined
to furnish a Letter in his behalf— It is so distressing to refuse a
favour to a woman, that I am almost out of humour with myself for
adhering to principle. Dr Mayo came to ask again for
his interrogatories, upon which my deposition was taken before the
mayor, last February. The Doctor’s action against Blair and Rives for a libel, charging him with having purloined President Jackson’s Letter has been non
suited upon demurrer; the Circuit Court of the District having decided
that the word was not actionable— The Doctor has repeatedly applied to
me for these interrogatories, which I had mislaid, but which upon
overhauling my papers I had found and now returned to him.— He promised
to send me a copy of them but I do not expect he will— Mr Samuel N
Miller is a young man originally he says of Milton hill;
but now and for several years past commorant in Nantucket and a
sea-faring man. He applied three or four years since for a Commission as
Lieutenant of a Revenue Cutter, with very strong recommendations and his
Commission was already made out; when a Letter of remonstrance from
Dutee J. Pearce to Levi Woodbury, threw him all aback and
his Commission was with held. He shewed me Pearce’s Letter— The
objection was that Pearce had rejoiced at the defeat of the democrats
when Peace lost his election— Mr Miller
proposes now to renew his application, and I told him I would mention
his case to the Secretary of the
Treasury— I went to the Navy Department and left with
Mr
Semmes the Chief Clerk, two Letters from Josiah Butler of Deerfield
New-Hampshire applying for the Office of Naval Store keeper at
Portsmouth— One from J. T.
Williams, Washington, soliciting a Midshipman’s warrant for
his brother Clarendon
Williams— One from John
Prince H.R. Boston—for the Office of Navy Agent Boston—and
one from T. O. Brackett Boston
asking either for the Office of Steward of Chelsea hospital or for that
of Naval Store keeper Charlestown— I mentioned also the application of
Mr
Kavasales of which I had spoken to Mr Badger
the Secretary.— Mr Semmes said he would
probably be here next Monday. I had promised to speak also to Commodore Morris who is going out in
Command of the Mediterranean squadron, but Mr Semmes said he was absent, at Boston. I took walks of half
an hour of exercise before dinner and at Sunset. The Ladies went to Church— Mr Connell and Mr
Greenough here this Evening.