[These two letters from Messrs. McKim and Johnson, recommending different persons for the same office, and written on the same day, apparently did not seem as incongruous to an earlier generation as they would appear to-day.] To the Honorable the Executive of Maryland. Understanding that Nathaniel Williams, Esq. of the City of Baltimore, is a candidate for the situation of Attorney General of the State we beg leave to inform you that this gentlemen stands high in his profession and is in our humble judgment competent for the place he solicits. We have known him for many years and bear this testimony to his capacity With the greatest pleasure. We have the honor to be very respectfully The office of Attorney General of the State being now vacant Permit us to recommend Thomas Kell Esquire of the City of Baltimore as a competent person to fill that situation. Mr. Kell has been for the last twenty years Deputy Prosecutor and lately Assistant District Attorney for the City in which e reside. During the whole of that time his conduct has been such as to obtain for him the highest commendations of those who have witnessed the talent and industry with which he has discharged the duties of his office. Mr. Kell has also, as the Executive knows, received at various times the most responsible offices in the gift of the people. For this reason we feel sure that his appointment to the station of Attorney General of the State would be generally approved of. Respectfully, ISAAC MCKIM. R. JOHNSON. WM. OGDEN NILES TO JUDGE THOMAS KELL. Tuesday Morning, Dear Sir; With the view of keeping the wolf from the door, E. P. Roberts and myself have resolved to publish a little daily paper to be entitled "The Evening Gazette" and unless I place too great reliance upon our combined experience and industry, and upon the obligations which the party in this city and throughout the country due to my late father and myself, I believe it will succeed at least until December next when its publication will cease. But having been reduced to poverty and almost want by the vile doings of that wretch Reigart, recital of which would cause you, as it has caused many of my father's old friends to shed tears of sorrow and indignation. My means are very limited just now in consequence of the inability of this friend who has promised to assist me to render the means available. I want $50 to pay some necessary expenses, and if you loan me the amount for a few days you will greatly oblige, Judge Kell. Yours &c. WM. OGDEN NILES. Recd the above sum of Fifty Dollars for my father 18th. Aug. 1840. SAMUEL V. NILES. [The following pathetic note from Maria Clemm addressed to a former member of the judiciary will appeal to those interested in the life and associates of Edgar Allan Poe.] Sir: I am not myself personally known to you, but you were well acquainted with my late husband Mr. Wm. Clemm and also I believe, with many of my connexions. For their sakes as well as for my own I venture to solicit a little assistance at your hands. For a long time I have been prevented by continual ill health from making the exertions necessary for the support of myself and children, and we are now consequently enduring every privation. Under these circumstances I feel a hope that you will be inclined to give me some little aid. I do not ask for any material assistance, but the merest trifle to relieve my most immediate distress. Very respy. MARIA CLEMM. COLONIAL MILITIA, 1740, 1748. On June 15th, 1739, the English government authorized and empowered Governor Ogle to "issue forth and grant commissions of Marque and Reprisal to any of Our loving subjects" against the King of Spain and his subjects (Arch., 28: 179). War was not Formally declared until October 19, 1739; but at a meeting of the Council, July 31, 1739, it was "ordered that the Colonels of the Several counties transmit to this board with all convenient speed an account of the several men listed in the militia of their respective Counties (Arch., 28: 175) and on August 24, 1739, Governor Ogle Issued a proclamation commanding "all military officers within the Province to have the several men under their respective commands Frequently mustered and disciplined, and ready to march upon any emergency to serve his Majesty and defend this part of his Majesty's Dominion (Arch., 28: 181). It will be observed that at the head of the return for Cecil county, in response to these orders, it is reported "they are but at present very Few armed as the [law requires] in such cases.' Therefore, it must be borne in mind that this is merely a militia return and actual military service cannot be inferred from its face. Another proclamation was issued by Governor Ogle on June 30, 1740, calling for enlistments in the force for the expedition against the West Indies but there is no apparent connection between that service and these returns. The returns for 1748 were made in response to Governor Ogle's order of December 21. "In obedience to his Majesty's commands signifyed to the Governor by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in order to know the number of militia in this Province, it is ordered that the Colonels of the several counties require an immediate account to be taken of the several men entitled in the militia of their several counties" (Arch., 28: 437).-EDITOR. CECIL COUNTY, MD. A List of Foot in Cecil Co., 1740. To His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq Governor of Maryland. In Obedience to your Excelencys Honours Orders Dated July the thirty first and August the Twenty fourth Seventeen hundred and thirty nine, I herewith Transmitt a Trew Account of all the Militia both Horse and foot in the County of Cecill and under whose Command they are but at present Very few Armed as the [law requires] in such Cases. Troops under the Command of Capt. John Baldwin Viz.— Foot Company under the Command of Capt. Edward Jack William Ewing, Sergt. William Orre James Campble John Currier Randall Marshall Robert Patten Peter Justice Thomas Tenney John Clark Roger Perryman Tobias Long, Corpl. William Brown Jedediah Alexander Nathaniel Ewing Troopers who were under the Command of Capt Thomas ohnson Deceased. icholas Hyland, Lieut. Edw. Johnson, Qr. Mstr. William Barry, Corpl. James Alexander Cornt. John Hankey, Corpl. Robert Holey, Corpl. James Veazey Peter Boyer Michael Lunn ན་ illiam Wallis Samuel Jones John Ricketts Thomas Edwards ་ Foot Company under the Command of Capt John Veazey iz. John Pennington, Lieut. Benjamin Childs, Corpl. Joshua Meakins, Corpl, homas Ward, Ensign Edward Morann, Corpl. William Morgan, Corpl. Valentine Silcok, Sergt. John Roberts, Jr., Corpl. James Price Corpl Michael Riely, Sergt. |