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. o'clock in the forenoon, why an assign- \a BREE PRESS fs THE PALLADIUM OF OUR VOLUME I. . THB TELEGRAPH is EVERY WEDNESDAY morNINcC, By E. P. PELLET & B. 'P. COOKE, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Office, one door north of the Bank of Chenango. TERMS... Do village subscribers, delivered at their houses, the 'Peceorarx will be afforded for two porrars per annum. Mail subscribers, Two por- zaxs for the same term of time. 'Fo those who call at the office for their papers, one porra® and Fir'Ty cexts will be charged. Payments, in all cases, to be punctually made, half yearly; and no paper will be discontinued, unless at the option of the editors, nntitall arrearages aré paid Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates. Legal notices as prescribed by the statute. A dis- count made to those who advertise by the year. All letters and communications addressed to the e:litors, either intended for publication or ordering papers, must be ros't PAID. 'CARDS, HANDBIL LS, BLANKS, h AND EVERY VARIETY OP Sob Drinting, Executed in a superior style, and at short notics. GUNSMITHING. IRAM RISLEY, grateful for past, and solicitous to securea continua- tion of future favours, respectfully begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he continues to car- ry on the © @G@unsmitpiitg HMusiness, In all its various branches, at his old stand in the village of Norwich, four doors north of the store of T'. Miluer and nearly oppo- sits the Telegraph printing-office, where all orders in his line will be thankfully re ceived and promptly executed. | He in- tends to keep constantly on hand a gene- ral assortment of RIFLES which, for du- rability, cheapness and elegance of work- manship, he will warrant not to be sur- passed by any in the county; and which, when held upon a ©\ dead level,\ exactly in range with the object, and with a stea- dy nerve and a clear eye, he will also warrant -to \shoot to kill ;\ equal, at least, to the famous Riffes of \ Old Ken- tuck,\ in her best days. < Expert marks- men, therefore, and all who may wish to become so, as well as sharp shooters of every description, are invited to give him a call-in which event he has no doubt that, in lieu of \a flash in the pan,\ a \ bargain\ may be struck, alike satisfac- tory and advantageous both to the buyer and the seller. Although H. R. deals in \ instruments of death,\ yet, as \ the staff of life\ is, to him, of some consequence, he will receive, in part payment for the former, corn, rye, wheat, &c. and will not, if strongly ur- ged, refuse the cash-inducements, he be- lieves, sufficiently strong to excite those who have a superabundance of the latter to make an exchange. Norwich, April 8, 1829. NoTICE. LL those who are indebted to the subscriber, (who have not contracts to the contrary) are requested to settle and pay immediately. _ As it is disagreca- ble to be obliged to resort 40 legal means, he hopes he shall be spared that necessi- ty; but debts of from one to five years' standing ought to be settled. T. S. FOR SALE. Paints of all kinds ; Dye Stuffs, many articles of which are calculated for cloth- bers. _ A gencral assortment of Medicines of the best quality for family uses. Apatceut $Aruicines. Thompson's celebrated eye-water, tinc- tum colchion, draf clder, rattle spake's oil, &c. Also, glass, earthen and stone ware, paint brushes, lamps, gold and silver leaf, spirits of turpentine, copal varnish, &c. all very cheap for ready pay. On hand, a quantity of Cider casks and CIDER VINEGAR. THOMAS STEERE. Norwich, April 8, 1829. lif Y order of John Noyes, esq. a judge of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Chenango, notice is here- by given to all the creditors of Lev: Pratt, of said county, an insolvent and imprisoned debtor, to show cause if any they have before the said judge at his of- fice in Norwich, in said county, on the twenty-second day of May next, at ten 1tf ment of the said insolvent's estate should not be made for the benefit of all his cre- ditors, and his person be exempted from imprisonment, pursuant to the act entitled © an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,\ passed April 7, 1819.- Dated April 8th, 1829. 1w6 B Y order of John Noyes, esq. a judge of the court of common pleas in and £3r the county of Chenango, notice is here- by given to all the creditors of Jorx B. Strpss, of Norwich, in said county, an insolvent debtor, to shew cause if any. they have before the said judge at his of- fice in Norwich, in said county, on the second day of July next, at tefi Welock in the forenoon, why an assignment of the said insolvent's estate should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and his rson be exempted from imprisonment, pargoant to the act entitled \ an act to abolish Imprisoninent for debt in certain cams,\ passed Aprm7, 191% Dated A- \wretched human beings, they are not the REPORT OF COMMITTEE, &c. 2 MLL A of the facts and circumstances relating to the kidnapping and presumed murder of WiL- Lrast Morean: and of the attempt to carry off David C. Miller, and to burn or destroy the print- ing-office of the latter, for the purpose of prevent- ing the printing and publishing of a bobk entitled © Illustrations of Masonry.\ * Prepared under the direction of the several commit- tees appointed at the meetings of the citizens of the counties of Genesee, Livingston, Monroe and Nidgara, in the state of New-York: with an Ap- pendix, containing most of the depositions and other documents to substantiate the statements made, and disclosing many particulars ofthe trans- action not contained in the narrative. CONTINUED. [No. 11.] The following is the address of judge Throop (now acting governor of this state) off his sentencing the prisoners: You have been convicted of a daring, wicked, and presumptous crime-such an one as we did hope would not in our day have polluted this land. - You have rob- bed the state of a citizen, a citizen of his liberty, a wife of her husband, and a fa- mily of helpless children of the endear- ments and protecting care of a parent. And whether the unfortunate victim of your rage has been immolated, or is in the land of the living, we are ignorant, and even you do not pretend to know, It is admitted in this case, and stands proved, that Morgan was, by hypocritical pretence of friendship and charity, and that too in the imposing shape of pecuniary releif to a distressed and poyerty bound prison- or, beguiled to entrust himself to one ef your number, who seized him, as soon as a confuderate arrived to his aid, almost at his prison door, an: in the night time hur- vied him into a carriage, and forcibty\trans- porte: him out of the state. - But, great as are the individual wrongs which you have inflicted on these helpless and heaviest part of your crime. | You have disturbed the public peace-you have dar- ed to raise your paricidal arms against the laws and constitution of your government -you have assumed a power which is in- compatible with a due subordination to the laws and public authority of your state. He was a citizen under the pro- tection of our laws; you were citizens and owed obedience to them. - What har- diliood and wickedness then prompted you to steel your hearts against the claims of humanity, and to dare set at defiance those laws to which you owed submission, and which cannot suffer a citizen's liberty to be restrained with impunity, without vio- lating its duties of protection, assured to every individual under the social com- pac. - Will you plead ignorance?! Some of you, at least, have had the advantage of education, and moral instryetion, and hold respectable and responsible stations in 'society ; and all of you have learnt, what every school-boy in this happy land, this free and intelligent community, knows, ! that - the unrestrained enjoyment of life, ! liberty and propertyis guaranteed to eve- ry individual living obediently under our laws. - Our constitution shews it, and the declaration of our independence declares, { that the unmolested enjoyment of lit »rty and the pursuit of happiness, are the una- lienable-rights of man. - So sacred do we hold personable liberty, that cven the im- ; prosoment of a seaman from one of our (ships has been considered a sufficient cause for national war : man here is not like mon in other countries, a submissive vassal, but every citizen is a sovereign : and I am happy to say that here he pos- sesses that intelligence and high sense of feeling which befits his elevated station. Our laws will resent such attacks as you have made upon their sovereignty. Your conduct has created, in the people of this section of the country, a strong feeling of virtuous indignatiom The court rejoices to witness it-to be made sure that a citi- zen's person cannot be invaded by lawless violence, without its being felt by every individual in the community. It ts a blessed spirit, and we do hope it will not subside-that it wili be accompanied with |a ceaseless vigilance and untiring activi- ty, until every actor in this profligate conspiracy is hunted from his hiding place and brought before the tribunals of his country, to receive the punishment merit- ed by his crime. We think we see in this public sensation, the spirit which brought us into existence as a nation, and a pledge that our rights and liberties are destined to endure But this is not all : your offence was not the result of passion suddenly excited, nor the deed of one in- dividual. It was preconcerted, delibera- ted upon, and carried into effect, by the dictates of the secret councils and con- clave of many actors. It takes its deep- est hues of guilt from a conspiracy-a crime most dreadful, from the 'depravity of heart it evinces the power for unlawful purposes which it combines, and from its ability to defy the power of law and vlt- mate danger to the public peace. Hence it is, that the crime is considered fall, when the wicked parpose is proved to have been formed: and the subseqzent carrying fato effect the object of the con- sptracy, doves not, in the eye of the law, prd 8, 1999. 1=19 . __ NORWICH, CHENANGO COUNTY, (N, Y.) WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1829. The legislature have seen fit, perfiaps from the supposed improbability that the crime would be attempted, to make your offence a felony. Its grade and punish- ment has been left to the provisions of the common law, which treats it as a misde- meanor, and punishes it with fine and im- prisonment in the common jail, | 'The court are of opinion that your liberty ought to be made to answer for the liber- ty of Morgan : his person was restrained by force ; and the court in the exercise of its lawful powers, ought not to be more tender of your liberty, than you, in the plenitude of lawless force, was of his. ~ With regard to you, Lawson-It ap- peared in proof that you was an active agent in this affaiir-you went forward and took this man from the jail, and de- ing with a carriage to receive him, Whe: ther you accompanied that carriage or not, is not in proof. But in your excusatory affidavit, you say nothing about it, leav- ing it to fair inference that you did accom- pany him in that carriage. | Theré -is no- thing, either in your affidavit, or yeur proof to the court, which does much to mitigate your offence, except so far as they shew that your poverty has not been accompanied by idleness, and your tharac- ter has not been stained by other trans- gressions. Under all the circumstances of your case, the court feel it their duty to sen- tence you to two years imprisonment in the common jail of this county. C As to you Chesebro-It appears b your affidavit that you did not lay your hands upon this man to carry into effect the conspiracy; and it appears by un- questionable proof that you did not leave this village with the carriage. | But you admit, at least tacitly, in your affidavit, that you was one of the conspirators ; and your language to the jailor, when he cal- led upon you the next day to account for your conduct, and warned you that the public would demand an explanation, showed an unsubdued spirit. | It has been satisfactorily proved to us that you are a thriving inechanié-that you have a re- spectable standing in the community, and up to the period of this transaction your character for industry, honesty, quiet and moral deportment, was without reproach. Under the circumstances of your case, the SUUrt sentence you to one year im- prisonment in the common jafi of this county. As to you Sawyer, your affidavit, which from the uniform good character you nave | proved, we fully believe to be true, stutes that you had no knowledge of the con- spiracy, and took no active part in it.- But your accompanying Lawson at his re- | quest, to the jail, to inform the jailor's: wife that she would be safe in receiving! the amount of Morgan's debt from Law-, son, and letting hiin go, with other cir- on which he was committed to the jail of Ontario county. of September he was released by a person pretending to be his friend, but directly in front of the jail, notwithstanding his cries of murder, he was gagged and secured, livered him over to those who stood wait\ ling to serve the cause of humanity, and calculated to lead to the discovery of his present.situation, or the particulars of his fate; if he has been murdered. Signed- On the night of the 12tl; and put into a carriage, and after travelling all night, he was left, (as the driver of the carriage says,) at Hanford,s Landing, a- bout sunrise on the 13th, since which he has not been heard of. His distressed wife and two infant children are left de- pendent on charity for their sustenance. The circumstances of the transaction have given rise to the most violent fears that he has been murdered. Itis, however, hoped by his wife and friends, that he may now be kept concealed and imprison- ed in Canada. All persons who are wil- assist to remove the distressing apprehen- sions of his unfortunate wife, are earnest- ly requested to communicate to one of the committee named below, directed to this place, any facts or circumstances which have come to their knowledge, and are T. F. Talbot, D..E. Evans, L. Cary, Wm. Keyes, Wm. Davis, John Lay, T. Fitch, L. D. Prindle, K. Southworth, Ja's. P. Smith-committee. Batavia, Oct. 4, 1826. [No. 13.] Geneser county ss.- John K. Larkin, in the town of Byron in said county, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that on the morning that Wim. Morgan was carried of? from Batavia, he this déeponent, went to Andrew Adams to borrow a saddle ; before this deponent had got far off said Adams called to him and said he must have a saddle, for he, Ad- ams, was notified to attend a special moet: ing of the masons at Le Roy, at ten 0'- clock - same morning-Adams also un- derstood to be a freemason. And this deponent asked Dr. Taylor what the fuss was, to which Dr. Taylor replied, they, the masons, had orders, from the grand lodge to notify a special meeting : - And this deponent further saith not. JOHN K. LARKIN, Subscribed and sworn to, this 9th day of March 1827, before me, ___ ANDHEW DIBBLE, J. P. Gexesem coumty ss.-John South- worth and Luther Wilber, of the town of Byron in said county, being duly sworn depose and say, that some time after the abduction of Wm. Morgan from the vil- lage of Batavia, in the month of Septem- ber last, they, the deponents, with others, had a conversation with Dr. Samuel Tag- gart of said town, who is reputed and un- derstood to be a freemason, about the car- rying off said Morgan, in which Dr. Tag- gart said there had been a rumpus at Ba- tavia, that Morgan was taken away and Miller's office (meaning as the deponents cumstances, were sufficient to have con- victed you, if you had stood trial, and you‘ acted wisely in pleading guilty. You, state that you had no idea that he wast under restraint, until you saw him enter} the carriage a short distance from you, and that you did not suspect that he was' forced into it, until in the progress of your' walk, you picked up bis hat: that you\ was then surprised and confounded, and did not therefore give the alarm; but you spent the rest of the evening at a public house, and gave no intimation of what you had seen. - This, then, was your offence : you should have given the alarm; you should have raised the hue and cry, and endeavoured to effect a rescue. _ You, however, expressed in your-affidavit, and and have always evinced, a feeling of re- morse. - The court therefore sentence you to one month imprisonment, in the com- mon jail of this county. . As to you Sheldon, you denied ary participation in (he conspiracy, and put yourself upon trial. As to all the acts nmvided against vou, there was a myst ry, and I doubt whether you was the man,. You was at the time confined on the limits of the jail : you was most strong- ly indentified in an appearance at Batavia, and although your proof of an alibi was not complete, there is much in it to shake our faith in the fact that you was the mysterious stranger whom the witness saw. Your confessions of guilt, however, were clear and indisputable, and fully warranted the virdict: and the only ex- planation of them you offered, was the ungracious one, that your confessions were the vain glorious boastings of a drunkard and a Har. Taking all things into consideration, the court have adjudg- ed you to three months imprisonment in the common jail of this county. [No12.] To tu®s purrrc.-On the 11th day of September, Wm. Morgan, a native of Virginia, who had for three years past resided in this village, was, under pretext of a justice's warrant, hurried from his home and family, and carried to fandaignui. Thesame night he was LeXamined on a charge of petit larceny , and dischatged by the jostice One of \the peteces who took him away , immediately obtained a warrant against him in a yivil ! elevate the degree of the crime sci, for an alledged delt of two dollars, understood, the printing oflice of David C. Milter, a printer of Batavia) had been set on fire; and on some person present saying he had not heard any thing of the affair, Dr. Taggart said he had known it for a length of time; Dr. Taggart fur- ther stated that he should not he afraid to bet a thousand dollars that Morgan was not in the land of living; that he had ta- ken a voyage on lake Ontario without float or boat, and would never be seen a- gain by any human being; and further saith not. JOHN SOUTHWORTIH. LUTHER WILBER. Subscribed and sworn to, this ninth day of March, 1827, before me, ANDREW DIBBLE, J.P. GexesEE county, ss. -Elias Wilder, attempt to publish the secrets of free- wosunry, and that the said Cyrus Grout told this deponent that the masons had sent to the Grand Lodge, for instructions, and when they got word from them, {(meaning said grand lodge, as this depo- nent understood,) there would be some- thing done. saith, that after the abduction of said Mor- gan, he, this deponent, had another con- versation with said Cyrus Grout, and of said Morgan, and Grout said he, Mor- gan, was gone a fishing on the Niagara River or Lake Ontario-and further saith not. ELIAS WILDER. Subscribed and sworn _to this Oth day of March, 1827, before me. ANDREW DIBB J.P. Lyman D. Prindle, being duly sworn, saith that on the 4th day of Oct. last he nothing about it ; «appose of the tow n of Elba, in said county, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that about two or three weeks before William Morgan was carried from Batavia, he, this deponent, had a conversation with one Cyrus Grout, whom this deponent under- stands, and verily believes, to be a free- mason, on the subject of said Morgan's And this deponent further others, on the subject of what had begome [No. 14.] GexEeser ss.- met with James Ganson at Rochester, who beckoned to him to come to bim, Garson; be entered into conversation with him, this deponent, relating to the bave rescued Morgan if be bad knven it. Garson sald, \* let me tell you, you know ' there kad been carriages resdy Ahuevery reed leafing in- to Canandaigua to receive Morgan; in case he had been pursued, he could have been shifted ; and let me tell you it was the case, or let me tell you it is like- ly that was the case; let me tell you, if you could hang, draw, and quarter, or ~ gibbet the masons, them that has had a hand in it, it would not fetch Morgan back. He is not dead, but he is put where he will stay put, until God Al- mighty calls for him !\ And further saith not. ._ LYMAN D. Sworn the lIth day of Oct. 1826, bofore me, C. CARPENTER, J. P. . [No. 15.] Letter from George Ketch- um to Mrs. Morgan. ' « Rochester, September 14, 1826. Mars. Mornean-Make yourself con- tented ; I have learned your husband is well, but cannot learn where, or which way he went; when lcan learn, I will give you the earliest information,. Be faithful to what I said to you, and you will find friends ; keep your own council and communicate to me through the post office. - When I write to you it will be handed to you by the person I deliver it to-you must not pass a word with him; but write all the-information you can ob- tain by following what I advised. - Com- mit this to the flames as soon as you read it. «Your friend, « You have the name on a small paper I gave you.\ * N, B. A line was rum through the postscript as above, but the words are per? fectly legible. [No. 16.] Coury or GenEsrE, ss. - Jolin Mann, of Bufalo, blacksmith by trade, deposeth and saith, tat in the latter part of August last or carly in Sept. and very shortly before he heard that an attempt had been made to burn the printing-office of David C. Miller at Bata- via, he was riding with one Richard How- ard, of Buffalo, a book-binder, who then worked with Mr. Haskins; and in the course of the ride, he, said Howard, asit- ed deponent to procure a keg of spirits of turpentine, as he thinks, saying ho wanted to switch Miller's office with it, avowing at the same time his object to destrmy the building for the purpose of suppressing a publication, which Mor- gan and Miller were about making re- lating to freemasonry. This deponent ° declined to assist in the act, intimating to him, as he believes, that he had no mc- ney to do it with. After he heard that such attempt had been made on the office of Miller, said Howard told this deponent that he had with others, who aided and assisted him, attempted to burn said of- fice-that he had called at a store west of Batavia, and bought a broom or brush to spread the turpentine with, and with his dark lantern had set fire to it; that the fire was lighted up and he ran off ; that some person ran after him, and he supposed was about to overtake him, when he turned and dashed his lantern into his face, which stopped the pursuit: that upon reflection since he concluded that it was a friend who ran after him, but had never found out. - He believed then, and still does believe, that How- ard's object was to implicate him in the transaction. JOHN MANN. Sworn this 21st day of Feb. 1827, before me. W sr. H. 'I ISDALE, first judge of Genesee, [No. 17.] Gexesse county, ss.- Thomas G. Green, late of the town of Henrietta, in the county of Monroe, car- penter, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that during the summer and, until November in the fall of the year 1826, he resided in Buffalo. Some time between the 20th of August and 7th of Sept., this deponent was requested by Richard How- ard, of Buffalo, to attend the lodge in the village, but for what purpose he did not state-said there would be but few there. In the evening deponent fell in with said Howard, and went to the lodge with him. After the lodge was organized, and had proceeded to business, (the publication of Morgan's book being understood and de- ponent being in the chair,) Howard pro- posed that something be done to prevent the publication of said book. B, Wilcox, of Buffalo, opposed the use of any rash or violent mtasures, and wished to know what measures it was intended should be adopted. Howard proposed that he and another person, not now recollected by de- ponent, should be a committee to attend to the business, and that they should be left to use such measures as they should think proper, so that the book should be sup- pressed. Wilcox still opposed all ideas of violence, and it was concluded that no rashness should be used in the suppression intended. Soon after, Howard requested this de- ponent to go to thelodge with him that evening ; that there was going to be but few. In the evening this Geponentstart- ed to go, fell in with Howard and did not . &o. They walked to the | disturbances at Batavia about the taking} thence to the terrace back of the £. away of William * Morgan. | This depo- where Howard asked defenent if e pae neut expressed hisopitmon that be could willing to tm In €CppR \ proper, of ® Hoa. He said
