From the Boston Commercial Gnzr,,r
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7He &flirH ofI'ohticQt .H,iti- -MaSontu copy below, two articles, relating to q rc- markable affair which ccently took place in the western part of the State of New-York. the hot-bed of political anti-masonrv. The account of the outrage said to have been com mitted on the Rev. MT. Withcrell, referred to in these articles, has been extensively plib- lished in the anti-masonc papers.

 From the concorI Patriot

 VHlany and Ryhocracy.-A story has been circulated in all the Anti-Masonc and Clay papers, just previous to the election in New York, that an attempt had been made to mur- der MT WithereE, a Baptist hreacAer and a seeding mason, residing in Washington county, N. Y. Witherell was absent from home some five miles on an appointment to hreach. It being rainy, he did not return. but renamed at the house of one Hale, ano- ther anti-maSon. In the night, Mrs With erell was alarmed by hearing footsteps ap- preach her bed room: when the door was thrown open, some person exclaimed in a rough yolcc, "now, you damned william, we will inhct cn you the penalty of your obliga- ton. A blow was aimed at Mrs w. ohich struck ehe head board; one of the men then opene' dark lanthen, and discovering that the Rercrend Mir Witaerell was not there. drove rapidly ofin wagon. A poor fcl- low of the name of Brown was arrested and tried for the outrage; but it appeared on the trial, and by the ReUercnd Mir Withclell's ozon teStimonv, that the Reperrnd Ar WITHERELL AND HALE THEM SELVES COMMITTED THE OUT RAGE {! This reverend hypocrite went with Hale 10 hiS ozon house at the dead of night and frightened hi8 o7cn q,ifc half to dcath, for the purpose of accusing the ma sons, and to aid the Antis and Clay men at the election This is Anti-masonry to the life; and the Reverend MT Withercll mani tested as much principle in this transaction as we have ever seen in anti-masonry any where

 From the L. States Gazette.

 Some weeks snce,we placed in our columns, without comment, an account from the wes- tern part of the State of Ncw-York, of an out rage said to have been committed in the house of Elder Witherell, seeding mason. The statement our readers will probably recollect was, that in the night, while the Rev. gen tleman was absent, some rufiian entered his house and proceeded to his bed, and with a long butcher knife, attempted to stab Mrs w. on the supposition that her husband was m bed. The murder was prevented by the knife hitting the head board, the wretch at the same time eXclaiming that he would pun lsh the perjured wretch, meaning Elder w. MT David Brown was taken up on suspicion, and the testimony of Mir Witherell's family was near conUicting him, when, on a cross eramination the Elder, it appeared that on the day previous to the outrage, he, { the Eider, had contriped Me hiot in La7v- yer's O6ice ! and that 4fr Hale, q piolent anti-mason, conSented 70 actthe assasSin, and frighten Mrs W 7yHh Mreats of vengeance on her husband, so That her testimony might De used 70 qfect the election.