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BY AUTHORITY.
[B/ an error of the press, the act of
Congress published in' this paper, on the
34th nit. entitled “ An act to authorize
the Sccrenary of the Treasury to ex
change a stock bearing an interest of live
per cent forcertain stocks bearing an in
tersl of six and seven per cent" win da
ted March 20, instead of April 20; of
which error the publishers of the laws and
all other persons will please to take no
tice the true date of the act being •• A
pril 20, 1822 ” .Yut. Jnt.ofthe 2<linst]
[PUBLIC ACTS ]
AN ACT making Appioptions for the
Eimport of CSovernment for the year
one thousand eight hundred and tvven
-1 y-t a'o ami for other purposes.
Pc it enacted by the Senate and House
of llepicsentalivesof the United Slates of
America in Congress assembled, That
the following Rums be, and the same arc
hereby, respectively appropriated for the
»■ rvice of thf year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty two ; that is to say :
!•', r compensation, granted by law, to
the Sena c «nd House of Representatives,
their officers,‘and attendants, in addition
to an unexpended balance of two hundred
and fourteen thousand and sixty seven
dollars and fourteen cents, two hundred
and one thousand live hundred and twen
ty-one dollars and eighty-six cents.
For the expenses dtpre wood.slalione
rv, printing) and all JVier contingent ex
penses of the two Houses of Congress, tor
ty-five thousand dolbys.
For the expenses of the Library of Con.
gress, including the Librarian’s allow
ance for the year, one thousand nine hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For books for the Library, one thousand
dollars.
For compensation to the President of
the United States, twenty-five thousand
dollars- *
For compensation to the icc President
* of the United States, five thousand dollars
For compensation to the Secretary of
. Stale, six thousand dollars-
For compenta'ion to the Clerks in the
Department of State, by the Act of the
twentieth of April, one thousand eigh
hundred and eighteen, fifteen thousand
nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in
said department, including the messenger
in the Patent Office, nine hundred and six
ty dollars.
For the contingent and incidental ex
pences of the Department of State, includ
ing expenses of publishing the Foreigi
correspondence of the confederation Con
gicss, for extra coppying of bapers, and s
deficiency in the appropriation for prio
ing the secret journals of the old «/Oii
gress, twenty-four thousand four hundred
nnd ninety-two dollars, and fifty six cents
For compensation to the Secretary of
the Treasury, six thousand dollars
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Secretaiy of the Treasury,
ten thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars,
in full of ad allowances.
For compensation to the Fist Comptrol
ler of the Treasury, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the First Comptroller, per act of
twentieth April, one thousand eight hun
dred and eighteen, seventeen thousand
eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For Compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full of
all allowances.
For compensation to the Second Comp
troller of the Treasury, three thousand
dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the second Comptroller, per act
of the twentieth of April, one thousand
dight bundled and eighteen, nine thou
sand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Fm compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full of
all allowances
For compensation to the First Auditor
Os the Treasury, three thousand dollars
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of tin First Auditor, per Act of the
twentieth of April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, (fifteen thousand
two hundred dollars
For compensation to the messenger in i
Said office, seven hundred dollars, in full
of all allowances.
For compensation to the Second Audi
tor of the Treasury, three thousand dol
lars-
For compensation to the clerks in the i
office of the Second Auditor, sixteen thou
sand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars in hill of
jtll allowances
For compensation to (he Third Auditor
of >he Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compcnsat on to the clerk* in the
office of the Third Auditor, per Act of
the twentieth of April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, twenty-eight thou
sand six hundred dollars;
F«r compensation to the messengers in
•aid office, one thousand and fifty dollars,
ia full of ail allowances.
For compensation -to the Fourth Audi
toi. of the Treasury, three thousand dol
lars.
For compensation to the clerks in th«
office of the per act of
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the twentieth of April, one thousand eight
hundred an eighteen, fifteen thousand and <
fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in i
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full 1
of all allowances. 1
For compensation to the Fifth Auditor t
of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Fifth Auditor, per act of the
twentieth of April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, ten thousand [five
hundred dollars
For two cleiks to complete the duties
I of the Commissioner of the Revenue,
transferred to the office of the Fifth Au
ditor, two thousand five hundred and fifty
dollars.
For one clerk on the business of the
Agent of the Treasury, transferred to the
office of the Fifth Auditor, one thousand
one hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full
of ail allowances.
For compensation to the Treasurer of
the United Sla'cs, three thousand dol
lars.
For compensation to the clerks in tlu
office of the Treasurer of the United
States, per act of twentieth of April, me
thousand eight hundred and eighteen, five
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to an additional clerk,
as allowed by act of appropriation of one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen,
and one thousand eight luunlred and
twenty; and also, for an assiffilnt to the
chief clerk, one thousand two hundred
dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full
of all allowances.
For compensation to the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, three thou
sand dollais.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of said Commissioner, per act of
twentieth of April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thou
sand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full
of all allowances.
For compensation to the Register of the
Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Register, per act of twenti
eth of April, one thousand eight hundred
and eighteen,twenty-two thousand five
hundred and fifty dollars
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, including the allowance for
stamping ship’s registers, eight hundred
dollars, in full of allowances.
For compensation to the Secretary of
the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,
two hundred and fifty dollars-
For allowance to the person employed
in transmitting passports and sea-letters-,
for expense of translating foreign langua
ges, in the office of the Secretary of the
Treasury; for stationary, fuel, printing
and alt oilier incidental and contingent ex
penses in the Treasury Department, and
the several offices therein, including the
expenses of stating andpiinting the pub
lic accounts for the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty six
thousand dollars.
For allowance to the superintendent
•n l four watchmen, employed for the se
em ity of the State and Treasury build
inga; for the repairs of engines, hose, and
buckets, one thousand nine hundred dol
lars.
For compensation to the Secretary of
W ar, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Secretary of War, per act of
wentieth of April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, twenty-ihrec thou
sand four hundred dollars
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dol
lars.
For compensation to the Paymaster
General, two thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of die Paymaster General, four
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Fur compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full
of all allowances.
For compensation to the Commissary
General of Purchases, three thousand.dol
lars.
For compensation lo the clerks in the
office of the Commissary General of Pur
chases, two thousand eight hundred dol
lars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full i
of all allowances. <
For compensation to the clerks in lire i
office of the Adjutant General, two thou- i
sand one hundred and fifty dollars i
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Ordinance, two thousand i
nine hundred and fifty dollars. j
For compensation to the clerks in the t
office of the Commissary General of Sub
sistence, two thousand one hundred and 1
fifty dollars. ;
For compensation t» the clerks in the I
Engineer Office, two thousand one hun- !
dredaiul fifty dollars.
Fum compensation to the clerk in the i
office of the Surgeon General, one thou- <
aand one hundred and fifty dollars. \
For the contingent expenses of the :
War Department, including fuel, station- >
ary, and other contingent expenses, six
thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of *
the Navy, nix thousand dollars. s
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Secretary of the Navy, per t
aci of twentieth of April, one thousand t
eight hundred and eighteen, eight thou- c
sand two hundred dollars.
For compensation lo the messengers in t
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, t
in full of all allowances. s
For the contingent expenses of the
said office, two thousand dollars. b
For compensation to the Commissioners J
of the Navy Board, ten thousand five hun- fi
tired dollars. t
For compensation to the Secretary to
the Commissioners of the Navy Board, o
two thousand dollars. u
For compensation to the clerks in the ]j
office of the Commissioners of the Navy
Board, per act of twentieth April, one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
three thousand five hundred and fifty dol- ■
'.are. 11
For compensation of three clerks and s
a draftsman, as allowed by acts of appro
priations since the first of January, one I
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, t
four thousand dollars. s
For compensation to the messenger in f
said office, seven hundred dollars, in full i
of all allowances. s
for die contingent expenses oi said
office, two thousand dollars.
For allowance to the superintendent
anti four watchrr.en employed for the se
curity of the War and Navy build.nga, and
for the incidental and contingent expen
ses, including oil, fuel, and candles, two
thousand and sixty eight dollars
For compensation to the Postmaster
General, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to two Assistant
Postmasters General, five thousand dol
lars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
General Post-Office, per act of*wentietl\
of April, one thousand eight hundred
and eighcen, twenty-two thousand seven
hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars,
in full of all allowances. •
For contingent expenses of said office,
four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Surveyor Ge
neral, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Surveyor General, two thou
sand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Surveyor south
of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of said Surveyor, one thousand se
ven hundred dol ars.
For compensation to the Surveyor in
Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thou
sand dollars
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of said Surveyor, .wo thousand dol
lars.
For compensation to the Surveyor in
Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Surveyor in Alabama, one
thousand live hundred doilais.
For compensation to the late Commis
sioner of the Public Buildings at Wash
ington City, four hundred and sixty-six
dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For compensation to the officers and
clerk in the Mint, nine thousand six hun
dred dollars.
For persons employed in the different
operations of the Mint, nine thousand and
fifty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses
and repairs, cost of machinery, and for al
lowance of wasteage in the gold and sil
ver coinage of the Mint, eight thousand
one hundred dollars:
For compensation to the Governor,
Judges and Secretary, of the Arkansas
territory, six thousand six hundred dol
lars.
For the contingent expenses of sai l
territory, tbiee hundred atul fifty dollars.
For compensation to me Governor,
Judges, and Secretary, of the Michigan
territory, six thousand six hundred dol
lars.
For the contingent expenses of said
territory, three hu ndrtd and fifty doliais.
For compensation to the Chief Justice,
the Associate Judges, and District Judges,
of the United Stales, including the Chief
Justice, and Associate Judges of the Dis
trict of Columbia, seventy-eight thousand
two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Attorney Gc
neral of the United States, three thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the
office of the Attorney General, eight hun
dred dollars.
For compensation to the Reporter of
the decisions uj’ the Supreme Court, one
thousand dol ars.
For compensation to sundry District
Attorneys and Marshals, as granted by
law, including those in the several terri
tories, eight thousand nine hundred and
fifty dollars
For defraying lire expenses of the Su
preme, Circuit, and District Courts oflhc
United States, including the District of
Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in
aid of ihe funds arising from fines, penal
ties and forfeitures, and for defraying the
expenses of jirosccutions for offences a
gainst the United States, and for tlisafe
keeping of prisoners, thirty thousand dol
lars.
For the payment of sundry pensioners
granted by the late and present govern
ment, two thousand nine hundred and
forty-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For making good a deficiency in the
fund for the relief of seamen, thirty thou-.
sand dollars.
For the support and maintenance of
light houses, beacons, buoys, & slakages,
including the purchase and transportation
of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs, and im
provements, and contingent expenses,
forty.one thousand one hundred and four
dollars and sixty-eight cents, in addition
to an unexpended balance of fifty-three
thousand four hundred and twenty-six
dollars and sixty-two cents.
For rebuilding the light house on Fay
erweather Island, winch was blown down
in the gale of third September last, three
thousand dollars.
For building a light house on the Bod
kin, and two light houses on Norm Point,
in Maryland, in addition to the sums
heretofore appropriated for those objects,
six thousand six hundred dollars.
For placing buoys in the channels
through the shoals of Cape Ha leias and
Cape Lookout, and in the channels thro’
the Frying Pan Shoals, and over the bars
at Ucracock and Cape Fear, one thousand
six hundred dollars.
For stationrey, hooks, &c. for tiie ofii
eers of Commissioners of Loans, six thou
sand nine hundred and sixty.nine do.lars
and sixteen cents. i
For surveying the public lands of the 1
United States, actually performed in one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, |
one hundred thousand dollars
For payment to John Trumbull, for pain
tings commemorative of the most impor
tant events of the i evolution, six thou
sand dollars. I
For the prohibition of the Slave Trade, 1
being the amount carried to the Surplus t
Fund on the thirty-first of December last, 1
forty-seven thousand six hundred and for
ty-seven doilais and sixty-seven cents. t
For the payment of balances due to t
officers of the old internal revenue and
direct tax, fourteen thoosandfifty-six dol. 1
lars and ten cents. s
For the discharge of such miscellaneous 1
claims against the United States, not o- .
therwise provided for, as shall be admitted
in due course of settlement at the Trea- r
wiry, six thousand dollars-
For the salaries of the Ministers of the f
United Stales to London, Paris, St. Pe- n
tertburg, Lisbon, and Madrid, with the j
salaries of their several Secretaries of Le- f
gation, and the salaries of the Charge dcs I
Affaires at the Hague and at Stockholm, I
sixty-four thousand dollars. s
Vor an outfit to a Minister at Lisbon, 1
nine thousand dollais. (
For the contingent expenses of those ’
missions, ten thousand dollars. j
For expenses of carrying into effect the <
fifth, sixth, and seventh artides of the i
Treaty of Ghent, concluded on the twen I
ty-fourlh of December, one thousand i
eight hundred and fourteen, including the i
compensa ion of the commissioners, a
gents, and surveyors, and their contingent
expenses, twelve thousand five hundred 1
dollars. <
For the salaries of the Commissioners,
Secretary, clerk, and messenger, logeiher ■
with the contingent expenses of the two
commissions under the treaty with Spain, ,
of the twenty second of February, one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen,
thirty thousand dollais.
For the expense of ascertaining the
longitude of the Capitol, 4 to wit: For the
compensation to William Lambert two
thousand dollars : to William Eliiot five
hundrtd dollars; to Oswald Dann one
hundred dollars j and for contingent ex
pens' s three hundred and sixty dollais
and ninety-two cents.
Sec. 2. And belt fu> titer enacted,Tbit
the several sums hereby appropriated
shall be paid out of any money in the
Treasmy not otherwise appropria ed :
Provided however, lhat no money appro
pr aled by this ac , or by the act making
appropriations for the miiitaiy service of
the United States, for the year eighteen
hundn dan.l twcidy-two, and towards.lnc
service of the year eighteen hundred and
twenty-lines, shall be paid to any person
fur his compensation, who -.3 in arrears to
the United States, until such person shall
have accounted for, and paid into the
Treasury, all sums lor which he may be
liable : Provided fur tlvr, That nothing »n
this section contained shall extend to ba
lances arising solely from the deprecia
tion of Treasury No es received by such
person to be expended in the public ser
vice; but, in all casts where the pay or
sahoy of any person in withheld in pur
suance of tins act, it shall be the duty of
the accounting officer, if demanded by
ibe parly, his agent, or attorney, to re
port forthwith to the agent of tlie Trea
sury Department, the balance due; and
it shall he the duty of sa d agent, within
sixty days thereafter, ;o order suit tube
commenced against such delinquent and
his sureties.
Sec. 3, And be it further enacted, That
he expense tor postage incurred oy mar
shals in taking and returning the fourth
census of the United Slates, not exceed
ing two thousand dollars, fie paid out of
an unexpended balance of an appropria
tion for defraying the expense ot the
fourth enumeration of the inhabitants ol
die United Stales.
PHILIP P. BARBOUR,
Speaker of the House ol Representatives,
JOHN UAILi.AUD,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
Washington, April 3U, 1822.—Approved,
J v.VStvS MONROE.
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. Milt i iGN,
Prom the New York Commercial Advertiser
of May 4.
South A milira.
By arrivals at Philadelphia, Buenos Ay
res papers have been received to the 6th;
Monto Video to ihe f6th February; ami
Cara ecus to the Gdi April The former
contain the official documents relative ti
the incorporation of the Banda-Oriental
with thp United Kingdom of Portugal,
Brazil, and Algarva; but no translations
arc given.
’I he Caraceas paper, which is printed
in Spanish and English, and is entitled
“El Anglo Columbian,” contains the last
Message of President Monroe to Con
gress; logeiher with some remarks on the
present sure of the war in the province
of Coro, and at Puerto Cube To. No new
facts are elicited; but the vviu r confident
ly predicts the speedy expulsion of the
remaining royalists from the soil of the
Republic. Such, he says, “is the debdi
>ated state of the Spanish force, that vic
tory ur defeat must prove equally fatal to
them. To maintain themselves on the
post will soon be impossible; to advance
Irom it, destruction. What Moriilo was
unable to effect with 12,000 veterans, will
scarcely be attempteil by the contempti
ble Morales with 1500 dispirited, beaten
vagabonds, beset on all sides by the same
troops who defeated the last Spanish ar
my on the held of Carabobo. These una
vailing sallies and fruitless expeditions
are 'he last efforts of despairing debility,
the convulsive kicks of the dying Jack
Ass.” Humous, it is added, were con- 1
fidentiy circulated that advices had been 1
received from Spain via Gibraltar, ot the '
intentions of that country to recognise die *
Independence of Columbia. “ The liberal '
and decided policy of the Court ofPortu- 1
gai, (says the Editor) with the steps al- '
ready taken in the chamber of Represcn- *
tatives of the United Slates, and the Bri ‘
(ir.li Parliament tn Europe, in support of 1
this measure, incline us to believe that if 1
an iota of common sense be mingled in £
the Councils of Spain, she will hasten to
•avail lie; sc If of the few advantages she
still possesses to treat with Columbia on
mote than equal terms of commercial pro
fit,”
The intelligence of the recognition of
the independence of Soutli t America by
the United Stales, has excited greatjov
throughout the Republic of Columbia
At Havana, the news was received with
perfect indifference.
from the National Intelligencer^
Wc have received from ou r Consul at
Malaga, whose politeness we take this
mode of acknowledging, a file of the Uni
versal, a Gazette printed at Madrid, up to
the 22d of February
Erotn these Spanish papers it appears,
that things are more tranquil in Spain
than the French papers represent them to
be. The excitement which existed among
the people in Madrid has, in a great mea
sure, subsided. This is lo be attributed,
in some degree, to the prudent conduct of
Hi ego, who, immediately on his arrival in
Madrid, exerted his influence to calm the
minds of the people.
On the subject of the ultramarine pro
vinces, as the Americas are called, great
feeling is exhibited, and attempts are
made, through the public prims, to pre
judice the public opinion, and to convey
false impressions. Late in February, San
Martin is represented to be shut up in
Lima, reduced to great distress, and his
surreeder to the Royalists anticipated—
Uis stated in a Cadiz paper that an ea- i
gsgemenl had taken place in Car&ccas, in I
winch the Americans were defeated will) 1
great slaughter, and Bolivar, with his se
cund in command, left dead in the streets
of that city—the latter pierced with three
balls. \Ve find several other' ilticles
equally false, but calculated to keep alive
the hope of recovering possession of the
American provinces.
On the first proposition to reject the
treaty formed by OUuiioju, it was object
ed tha» it was unnecessary to repeat what
had already been done by il. M. ministers,
and that to do so by a public act might
piove injurious, as it might induce the
government of Mexico to assume a hostile
attitude, to the great detriment of their
commerce with the Island of Cuba. C‘-
Hoitnojii was generally blamed for having
entered into this treaty, and especially
fur having assumed so faise a basis as the
probable consent of the Spanish nation to
die independence of Mexico.
the acknowledgment of the independ
ence of Chile by 11. M. F, M the King ol
Portugal, appears somewhat doubtful.—
The only evidence of the laol is a leltei
from he Portiigniae agent iu Buenos
Ayres to the agent of the Chilian govern
ment iu that city, and published in tile
Gazette of Santiago de Chile. It is scarce
ly probable that so solen u an act as the
lecognition of tluse new governments by
Pm legal would be made known in so in
ter- a a manner.
iIUMi I rti I C. ~~
Sainr Jay being the last day , of the pre
sent session of Congress, on which bills
could pass the House in which they origin
nated, was a very busy day. Both floes, s
sat till nearly midniglil In the House ol
Representatives, bills were passed, with a
rapidity which would appear U> be incon
slstent with a proper deliberation, were it
not that these bills were reported by com
mittees who had laboriously examined the
subjects of the claims embraced by them,
and, on full consideration, had reported
favorably upon them. Cinder these cir
cumstances, the assent of the House to
them was little more than a matter of
form. These pills were received hy the
Senate, and are to be acted upon there
this day and to-morrow. The House of
Representatives has before it many bills
from the Senae also, which will suffi
ciently occupy tire whole of its time for
the two days. On the last day of the
session, under (lie new rule, no bill can
pass either House ; that day being allow
ed to the President to consider and re
turn to the Houses the bills presented for
his signature.
flic reader will understand, therefore,
tliat no bill which did not, on or before
Saturday, finally pass the House in which
it originated, can pass at the present ses
sion 1 bus, the Compensation bill, the
bill to reduce and fix the Military Peace
Establishment, and a host of others, are
laid over until the next session—among
which, we are sorry to say, were syrhc
bills of great public interest, and that one
particularly which proposed to authorize
t he President to cause to be made surveys
ol routes for certain Roads and Canals,
and estimates of the expense of construct
mg them.—[Aar. hit. 6th nisi.
We have arrived at the last day of the
present session ol Congress, as to any
Measures which have not yet passed the.
House in which they originated ; Hie three
last days of the session being, by the new
rule, devoted, in each House, to bills
which have passed in the other House. A
large proportion of the business which has
originated in ll)e House of Representa
tives is yet undecided, and must lie over
to the next session. The compensation bill,
which occupied three days of the time of
the House, (sitting eight hours each day,)
and which is yet in suspense, has defeat
cd many bills. The bills was yesterday
h;id on (he table, and may be considered
as one of those laid over to the next ses
sion. The subject of fortifications, and
the contracts under them, have also occu
pied much time, and has been the means
of preventing the consideration of many
important propositions. The appropria
tions for those objects, however, were yes
terday passed by an overwhelming major
ity in the House of Representatives—and
much other business was afterwards trans
acted.
Nat. hit of the 4th inst.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman resi
ding a Washington city, to his friend
111 Pittsburg.
tou doubtless have seem some time
since ft notice In the National
calling a meeting of Masons in the senate
chamber: as you may probably not know
the object, or the proceedings of the meet
ing thus called. I will slate' them—lt was
to obtain the sense of those masons, mnv :
in our city, from different pans of the uni
on, on the propriety of establishing a Gen
erul Grand Lodge, a considerable number '
attended, whom were go me oft lie 1
most distinguished men in the country, ■
and after some discussion, 'hey unanimous- 1
l Y that it was expedient and. n-'-ces
sat) to proceed to the Formation of « Gen.
«?i»l Grand Lodge, and for this purpose'
appointed a committee of eleven to ..p-n
a correspondence wild the several grand
■ lodges lnroughont the union, and to re
commend to them the appointment of del*
effates, to meet in this city in February
next, to consider the subject, and if three
fourths of those represented should agree
to the formation of such a Lodge, to em
power them to proceed to the formation
of a constitution, which is to he submitted I
to the approval of the State Grand Lodg-j
cs —Mr. Baldwin from your city is one of
the committee.
Kefs Phil Ga:.
FBOJI THE BICUMOXD ENQ.OIKEU.
U. S, Bank Stocks.
The extraordinary depression of the 1
stock of the Bank of the U S. has sur
prised most persons, and puzzled manv.— 1
No one dreamt of its comingdown to'9B; ’
though a very small quantity has proha- ’
bly been soid at that price; The depres
sion has been coming on gradually ; a sen- ’
sation lias been for some weeks felt thro’- 1
out the continent owing to the high rate
of exchange and the large export of spe
cie ; though for a week or two, the stock
has fallen.tvitli an accelerated and aston
ishing velocity. It is owing principally j
to iht export of specie, and partially per- a
haps to an over-purchase in U. S. Bark (
stock.—Some also ascribi? it in part to the,
astabHsbment pf some new ■ Jr
ton. The fact, however,« Hm B
been a demand tor money
York, and perhaps elsewhere-,..
targe portions of the U. S. Ilw . Cll
have been sold to obtain it ti • 6 'l
«“"*•. «»•«•«*
very abundant in London, as the PI SK
tion to loan bank paper at 4 per cent TO
sufficient evidence, and from Rnffl* a*
in no other way we may obtain a
.•able supply. Bank stock will rise a.:
and perhaps, soon—though we era
idea it will mount quite as high as\i " *
cent, as the N- InuHigeiicer-thr,*.
the dividends will no. probably
so high a price. We give a few m'l-M
from other papers on the. effects andn'H
sea of tins great depression • C ‘ ; W
U fl.-B.WJf STOCK. P
The rapid decline in the - prices cf< M?
ted States Bank Stock,.in New York «■«
produced many Conjectures as mftß
cause which some persons have attribf. B
to a sudden and general demand
ney, and a consequent c ff er of a h r > ■
mount of Stuck in the market. If ; f;
the cause, '«• amount offeied mustiit’B
been very considerable to effect siid'C
material change from Monday’s
which were stated to be 105 OnWH
day morning salts were effected at"® Il
in the af.ernoon they declined tn w'■
and on Wednesday morning a further/'I
clension took place when they
at , lin’t. Fed. G'l- ■
1 riere has been, for the lastfevv
an cxlWtordinary fluctuation in the m c '|
ot public stocks, indicating a teninLJ
sciur.ity of money, United States’ W.l
have fallen and U. Slates’ Bank
hare fallen, within a few weeks, froniil iH
to 105 dollars. To this depressfe
stocks several causes contribute whicCH
however, are temporary in their nature-1
an t good information induces us to bc-B
lieve. that, in the course of a few week ■
we shall experience a direct reverse in
the present state. [Act. f c
By this operation, we apprehend iou.E
will be ruined : a few will make theiffoiE
tune—slocks, having got below zero, , v a
romount, anti rise higher than evey
rit it gets beyond reason, w-heh it nii6 P n
again depressed. Let no stockhkhil
meanwhile, sacrifice his stock V'lihW
one month it will beat 110, and vvithH
two months, at 120. [ Iwl K
The balance of trade, so much agiiJß
us ; and the export of tpetfe to India aubjß
present season, have produced, in Keit*
York, a very great mercantile depression.!
The holders of United States bank stick!
suffer severely : on Monday, that stack*
was at 105, oq Tuesday at 102, ami cuf-
Wednesday at 98, an unusual rapid iief
clension. [Aumv,. 0
Gambling in the Stocks -••United Stales!"
Bank Stock, which, since the P*‘eincl7
the Bank, stems to have been the speci-li
al aim and prey of jobbers and gamb;etj,|
was yesterday sold at 98, having fallenij
qtie day 8 per cent, and since a monthoJf
six weeks, from 115—anel all this withou
any sort of relation to the real and fair vs
lue of the stock, but simply from the m
ture of the contracts entered into so
sale or purchase. All this is well encu :
understood here in the city, but our com
try readers, and those out of the StalcA
migiit, without some explanation, suppott
that a real depreciation had occurred in
the Slock Tlie truth is, that from ths
great, abundance of unemployed capital
floating iu our market during the past
summer, a vast amount ot U. S. B.iis
Stock was purchased on specula'io/r,
chiefly by the brokers, in the hopes of t
rise, and money borrowed, at a low inter
est, on a hypothecation of it, to enable
Hie purchasers to pay for it. The revival
of commerce in part, the excessive im
portation, in a greater degree, having ba
creased the demand for money; the loans
on Bank Stock arc required to be paid as
they fall due, and in order to pay them
tlie Stock isthown into a market novrr.3
bare of money as before il was redundant
of it, and sold for what it will bring. Tlie
market being thus overstocked, the price
naturally falls, and, the sales being impe
rative, it falls even lower than, notwith
standing the glut, it shou.d do.
[A Y. Me*
[ln order to avoid misconstruction cf,
die hurried extracts in our last, the fol
lowing is published, as more in full.]
[Ed. Jhig- Chroiu
Monday, April 29.
The Senate proceeded to consider (]i(
message of the 12th April, nominßiinS j
Nathan Towson and James Gadsden Un
military appointments, together with the'
report of the Military Committee there,
upon.
On the question, “ Will the Senate a I
v ise and consen* to the appointment of
Nathan ’’owson to be colonel qf the second
regiment of artillery i" It was determined
as follows :
V/:A3.
Messrs Harbour, Brown, of I.on. Brown,
of Ohio, Eaton, Edwards, Findlay, Holmes,
of dlfiss Johnson, of Ken Johnson, of },m.
K ng, of .‘liab. Knight, Lanman, Farrott
Rodney, Southard, Stokes. Talbot, —ir.
Na vs.
Messrs Barton. Benton, Chandler, Dick
erson., Giiilavfl, Holmes, of Mump, Jving.d
■u’• y Lloyd, Lowrie, Macon, Morril, Not
bin, Palmer, Pleasants, Ruggles, Seym'ia:',
Taylor, Thomas, Van Boren \j.\
Dyke, Waikttr, Ware, Williams, of Jills'
Williams, of Ten. —2s
On the question, “Will the Senate v
vise and consent to the appointment «
James Gadsden to be Adjutant General
It was determined as follows:
| Yeas,
i Messrs. Barbour, Btown,of Lou. Brown,
of Ohio, Eaton, Edwards, Findlay, Holmes,
of Miss. Johnson, of Ken. Johnson, of Let-
King, of Alab. Knight, Lanman, Parrott,
Rodney, Southard' Stokes, William?, of
Miss.— lT.
Nats.
Messrs Barton, Benton,Chandler, Bit**
erson, Gailiard, Holmes, of Maine. Kin#
of N V. Lloyd, Lowrie, Macon, M-nTtf,
Noble, Palmer, Pleasants, Buggies. Sej'
mour, .Smith, Talbot, Taylor, ThoirwP*
Van Duren, Van Dyke, Walker, Waft,
Williams, of Ten.—2s.
So it was resolved that; the Senate ' r)
not advise and consent to the appoint nc-pt*
of Nathan Towson and James Gndsden.
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