Note: "Inst." means "instant", and
refers to the current month.
"Ult." means "ultimo", which means "in
the last month."
AN INSULT OT WHIGS OF
N.J.--Horace Greeley proposes to send over an Editor from New York, to
manage the Whig cause in New Jersey, "who cannot be bought."
This is as much as to say, the Whig Editors of New Jersey can be bought.
What has Mr. Brown, of the State Gazette, to say to this polite insinuation?
What an insult to the Whigs of New Jersey? Mr. Greeley seems to think
that all the Whig Editors have their price. He is afraid to
trust them.
Will the Whigs of New
Jersey avail themselves of Mr. Greeley's generous offer? We should
like well to see that fellow "who can't be bought," and notice the
ear
marks by which we shall be able hereafter to distinguish a Whig Editor
who can't be bought, from those who are in the market for sale.--Monmouth
Democrat.
After the 1st of July,
Dr. Swayze, Dentist, will be absent for two months, on account of professional
engagements at Newton, N.J., and therefore those wishing his services before
his return are requested to call as soon as convenient. We are sorry
to thus announce so long an absence of Dr. S., but we know his services
are highly appreciated in his native county, where he was established for
three years previous to his locating in this place, and his friends there
still insist upon his making them a professional visit annually, and thus
he wisely takes July and August to spend among the hills of New Jersey.--Boston
Whig.
Strange Doings In the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum!
We have just been informed of a startling
fact relative to the management of the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum, which
is only the more singular because of the ominous silence of the Trenton
papers in regard to it.
We learn from a source of the utmost reliability
that on Monday, the 29th ult., Mr. Jaques Quick, of Hunterdon County, N.J.,
was taken from the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum by a writ of habeas corpus,
and brought before Hon. Stacy G. Potts, one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court, at Trenton. E. W. Scudder, Esq., appeared as his attorney,
and Hon. W. L. Dayton was counsel with the Managers of the Institution.
Dr. Buttolph, the Superintendent of the Asylum, was called and examined
under oath. From the examination, it appeared that the patient, Quick,
had been confined to the Asylum by his friends, for about ten months, for
alleged insanity, caused by intemperance; but the Superintendent refused
to swear that he believed him to be insane, and acknowledged that he had
kept him there because his board was paid, and because he would not promise
to obtain from intoxicating drinks upon being discharged.
When this statement was made, Mr. Dayton,
on the part of the managers, threw up the case, and the Judge very properly
discharged the victimized patient.
Mr. Quick is a wealthy farmer, unfortunately
somewhat addicted to “potations deep,” but the secret of the affair is
that, having made a will highly satisfactory to certain parties, he had,
while in an angry mood, threatened to change it to their disadvantage.
The law, the fear of detection and the prospect of the gibbet restrained
them from committing open, violent murder, but they managed to get their
victim drunk, and in that state had him confined in the asylum, doubtless
expecting the treatment he would there receive would eventually drive him
mad, or that the fact of his supposed insanity would vitiate any after
will, and leave them to control his property. – N.Y. Nat. Dem.