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BOWKSTIC.
From the Sew York E tines*.
MAJOR DOWNING—THIRD LETTER.
To the Representatives yf the people of the l.nited
States of North America, in Confirms at H'ash
inarfn.
Rocknvay, Sept.
AV/fi the wreck of the Two Tofhvt. 5
Nonokablk Gents-kme!*. —I have been wai
fin for this day lo come ever ince the T* Pol
lies was run oil *hote by Captain Jumper, so dial
1 could lav ilie case right afore the hull people ill
•ne awing, for there i* no way of getliu any mat
ter well attended to, that belong* to the people,
till their representative* *ll git together at Wash
ington ill Cringles*. I look upon yon jest as I
would nn a barrel of cider Idled down to a quart
—for the hull barrel is in that quart, and jest so
the hull poeple are in you.
1 suppose you all know that the Two Pollies i*
on shore, noil that owiii to that condition she is
in considerable peril—both m ist* are broken oft',
snd very leelle more than her hull i* left. It is
pretty well known how she got into this snarl—
and ilies ne\t thing I* to see if some plan can’t be
• xkVoii to get her out on’t. You have the pow
er to do tin*, ami as every body knows and feds
that theic is not and never has lien nd ne'er will
be again, a -y vessel oflaai that ean compare with
the Tv* Pollies,” -it is vein duly to see that
some means are taken lo get her oIF shore. liv
erv body who has been oft’lo see the hull of this
vessel, says theie aim nothin that floats that
conies anv way nigh Iter for beauty and strengbt
fnr tho’ the has now ben Ilium pm on ill* beach
(or a considerable *pell—she is as sound and as
strong from her keel to her deck limbers as ever
•lie was—this owni mainly to the manner she w,i*
first built—for you know—and if yon don’t know
I now tell von, that she was-bill jest at the cluse
nfthe last war, and all ilie limbers in her was
care ully taken fiom every Slate ol the Union
and she wn hilt by the nation—every State
serdiii a caipenler to see that every part on her
wa well pnl together—and every carpenter too
brought timber from Ins own Stale to put into
in r live o ik—locust—pitch pine—cedar—and
all kinds used 10 ship kiltlin—and a completer
job never won lunched into the water. So long
a* she belong'd 10 the nation all went on well
enol she crnild do .cmsi in trade and a foreign
trade—she has lien round Capes and pints ol all
names and -piatnr—•• Cme Horn,” •• Cape of
Omul Hope,” *• Cape ILitera**,” pint ” Lank
Out,” ‘ Pint Judith,*’ and ” Pint no Pint.”—and
every body at home and abroad that kuow’d any
thing about sicli kind of craltt, has been beam
In sir there waul sicli a vessel in all cication.—
Well it tn-ned out in an m il day, that “ the Gov
ernment” haul’d down dm national flag, and said
it waw’l acceidin to the constitution tw own tich
a vessel, and that mate* only should awn and
ini ’em. No sooner Said lli.ta done, all the
State* turned to ami bill tan hurry a hull batch
of vewels pretty much alter dm fashion of Mr.
Jefferson's gun (mats—but “old PemiSvlaitia,’ a
k©*wing old critter, and well knowin what the
“Two Pollies” was composed on, struck in and
bought and hoisted her ft ig on the “Two Pollies.”
She knew as things was goin. if all hands went
ou shure, tlie “ Two Pallies” would stand the
best elianc.© of gettin oftT with least damage—and
os things now stand. I don’t see but she was about
right—lor the “ Two Pollies” is as sound now as
eve she was, and only wants I■ft in over the sand
hank lu Ir.ad her and ©nee afloat will be as good
at ever she was.
Tlte busmans now is how shall she be lifted off’
O* tilt* pint there is a good many opinions.—
Some say she o.iglit to wail and take tire chances
for high tides and low trade, and go oil’ with all
the rest—and lliat if Congress makes anv appro
priation it ought to be shifted round among all
the vessels new ashore—but this is piilty much
like the caudition I once lell’il oil about the wag
ons in the mud. Now my notion is, we had best
try an “ experiment” with one—git her off ff we
can —and then with her aid, try lo get the rest off
—lor there aiut power in all creation to lift ’em
all off together. I have a great likin I must say
lor the “ Two Pollies, ’’ I know what she is hill
*n-for tho’ she has changed stag, she aintchan
ged owners, and her keel and knees and plank
and floor timbers—they are all the same—and
siic i* worth savin for the good she has done and
can do yet. And this is ;ny plan—Congress
owns a considerable pile o f empty hogsheads lay
in round at the Nary Yard, at Brooklyn— All I
want is to have the use of a few on ’em lot a
spall —it wont cost the country a dollar—for
them empty casks aim worth nothin till a pinch
or a war or some sich kind of thing comes—and
I promise to return them all afore they are wan
ted for other work.
Some on you may say that empty casks sound
too much like credit—and you won’t let ’em he
used, unless they are fill’d with stones or iron or
■and or silver or water, or something that sounds
sohd and nietalic—hut all I’ve got to say about it
is—that kind of work wont lilt any tiling off
shore—give mo the use of the empty casks to do
the liftio and call it credit or what you will I’ll
promise to git the “Two Puliies” afloat with ’em
—and then you may fill ’em as please—but
if you want to push the “Two Pollies” deeper in
the sand you can do so by rolling on top on Iter
your casks fill’d w ith heavy metal, of iron or
gold or stones or silver, for in any liftin work one
is about as had as tother, and the heaviest is the
worst.
I don’t mean “to commit” myself and say
that 1 go for empty casks before full ones for all
kind f work—that ain’t my notion at all—but I
say when a vessel is on shore and you >vant to
lift her olf tnipry casks are bettet than full ones
—and when you git her utT, ihen turn to and fill
op your empty casks for ballast, and keep ’sin
sa.
If your honorable body then, will jest pass n
resolution and say. “that the owners ol the ’Two
Pollies’ shall have the use of a few empty cask*
mark’d •Y. S.’ on condition that the same be
used to git said vessels off shore —and ©n condi
tion 100, that the said * I’wo Pollies’ will engage
to drag nff shore all the oilier craft, (worth savin”)
and ra.er i in said empty casks uninjured”—then
I can only say you wills.ee alongshore about as
brisk a time a* you ever see’d in your burn davs.
If any on you are afiaid “totaketlie resprin
sihtlily,” you can turn the hull scrape on’t on me.
Tin: time is come when yon must do something,
and the plan I propose is sound and won’t cost
nothin—not half at much at any rale as it will
to pry your expenses in makiu long speeches
about it.
Every thin ia aground. The “ Two Pollies”
— ” rhe Tieasury"—and “ industry of the
country"— lb© hull scrape is in the mud—jest
• h -re i expect.-. Iwe should he and as I tail'd you
three year* ago—bull dom want to say nothin
more about it. Koine folks I know want me to
sharpen my axe and slat round and chop up folks
—tint th rt anil my notion. lam wilhu to say
you all 01*111 for the best—but you made a great
mistake, and the best of folks makes mistake*
sometimes, and the only difference betwixt good
folks and bail folks is—that good,folks is soon a*
ihsy see their mistake turn to and amend it—whilst
ti id folks try to brow beat and threaten and bully
and g.t out of it th*t way—hot this won’t do.
I lie tiji shot of the mutter is tire Country is
in trouble—industry which is its stand by, is at a
Stand still—and no one Imt office holders git any
thing to live by and they are paid out of the earn
ms ofthe people—every thing depends on the in
dostiy of the people—if you check or obstruct
that—every thing must go to smash and in little
time the people won’t be able to pay y„„ V our
expenses in goi,, t 0 Washington to make laws for
’em. You will bring their noses to the gtind
siones and as I’m one on ’em my nose will be
ground too hut I hope you’ll let mo grind my
axe auo on the ame siono, and if I only can keep
omo ns sharp as tother, I wont have the worst on’t
now I fell you.
Your fellow citizen,
_ ... /’ lilajar.
Dowiwogvilfe Militia, 2,| Brigade.
From the Sew York Mr press.
MAJOR DOWNING—ON THE MES
SAGE.
If the Major calls this •• only takin the bank off
o/i'l” we don’t know what w ill be left of thefmvber
bvjllie time lie has got the “square ou’t”—hot we
w ill not, hy any remarks of our own, detain our
readers from a production, the perfect good tem
per of w|}icli is only equalled by its true and un
alloyed patriotism.
Nigh the wreck ofthe. Ttsa Pollies, t
llockateay, Sept• 11 1*37. )
To Uncle Sam.
Mv Old Friend:—l have been readin the
.Me*s.iae over from top to bottom—-and from bot
tom I* lop—and from the middle ran’l both ways
and I roll’d it over jest as a carpenter does ■ log
and draw'd chalk lines In gif the square oli'l and
sharpen'd mv ax, and began to clip ©if. It is
more than a day's job, and I don't know that I
can promise, ia this letter, to do more than git
the hark off. It is a plaugv long Message, seein
that it speak* of only one matter—hut tins come*
from our great folk* in office ttsitt sich lung
words, andstringiu on ‘em together like ingons,
when a few short ones wnnld tell the same story.
I remember one day when I was to horn Uncle
Joshua got a letter from Washington, from a
friend of liisin who had gune there to ask the Gin
ernt to make Uncle Joshua Postmaster. He told
a long story about the delay—and that the Gin
eral was sink—and that the doctor said that he
was now “ cnnwallerenl “Con what ?” ask
ed Ant Nabby. “ Why canwalleseot,” said Un
de Jnsliit i. rubbin his spectacles. “ What in
n.itur is that complaint now,” ask'd Ant Nabby
again. “ I don’t know,” says Uncle Joshua,
“but alt I hope is it ain’t the name °l anew party
—it is one or tother, I am afraid—and if it is the
latter, we must all brush round and turn ** Con
wallessent’ as soon as possible, or I shan’t git my
office, that’s sartin"—and jest then I cams in,
and it was well I did, or Uncle Joshua would a
had all Downinville call'd to a public nieelin,
and the hull Jackson par'y would hate gone right
over to the “ Conwallestnl party” in no lime.—
But as soon as I tell’d Uncle (Joshua what the
rale meaninof die word was—and that it was on
ly the Doctor's way of sayin th© Gmeral was
••gillin heller.” “Well,” says lie. I’m glad tt is
no worse—for its a hard matter. Major lo change
the name of a party ; hut why in natur din'iit the
mail say so—‘ gitlin better’ is plain Ingli.sh, but
* Comwallesent’ is jest no word at all. * I was
afraid,” says Ant Nabby, ‘ it was liidrafoby.'—
” Hidrafiddle slick,” says Uncle Joshua, • I
know’d it wan't that—for a dog would jest as
soon dare to bite a hot padding as to hit* the
Gineral.” And so we all canclmled the best w.it
was to use plain langnagv—and it has been a les
son to me evtr ©ince.
Now as to lltM tne**g©. every body thinks he
kunws wkat it menus aiad all ilknt part ©n’t th it
has any ®f the “ Coawallesetu” aatur alront it is
so sugar'd over, pritty much every h©dy swallows
it right dawn. But that aife't aiy way, I know
there is always two sides to a pewter platter. If
I have time I mean to rub off all the sugar and
gildin, and see what is left ou’t ; aad then if I find
in the “ rale grit,” I'll go it, and advise every
body to go it; but if on tliegeantrary, 1 find it
wont hold water and ain't sound doctriae. 1 wont
go it, and ne mae in all Downinville will go it.
Every hody says that I have hearn speak ©a’t
(and every body is talkin *f eolhin else jist now.)
that there is “ no mistake” in that message. Now
I think I sec a good many inithikss about it, The
first mistakeis.it is too long at both eends, and
not short enuflF in the middle,—seein now that the
Globe folks have lost the prirdin on’t you
wont see so long a one agin ia one spell, s® long
as them Consarvalives folks ktepthe printin
The next mistake is, it says a leelle too much
about separatin “ The Government” from the
general consarms of the pvopl \ “ lass for the
goog® a ought to be sasi for the gander,” Congress
began right off lo try the Experiment, first on
the,printin line and see how that will work, and
the first thing we see is the Globe felks, that
Itaint been separated new lor goin on 11 years
from a good jgbO.OOO Tit a year of “ Th© Gov
ernment,” routid ripM olf. and another pig fi.is
got holt. 1 dont like t s©e a man or a pig lose
Ins lit, unless he deserves it, and if 1 can find
out that the Globe fefke dont deserve to lose
theirs, they shall have the printin of all my let
ters for nothin.
The next mistake is in talkin too severely agin
the bauks, and separatin all consariisof “ the gov
ernment’’ from them. I should like to know
now who first ask’d to be coknbctkd—was it
“ the Government” or “the banks.” Mr. Kin
dle, perhaps, can answer this, and tell us wha
sent him round among the hanks—sonic four years
ago. The banks, to be sere, have get a prittv
hid name jist now—a jist so the old quaker’s dog
got a bad character, aodjeome near the loss of his
life by it; his master said he would not kill him,
hut I'll give thee a bad name. “ Rad dog, bad
dog;” says he, and away went peer Towser, and
afore he got round the corner, the boys all art<* r
him—with sticks and stones—• had dog mad do*’
and the folks scampered, and the old w/line'll
slaut’d the doors shut and it was;nigh upon all
over with poor Towser.. If it had’t been for his
gittin to the river and as taon as he tenk the wa
ter and swam like a duck—every body slop'd
and said ” well that dog hainl got the hidrafo
by.” And jist so it will be with our hanks, they
will git afloat t rights, and then a good many
folks will say it was a gre*t mistake to alius© ’em 1
so. I dont think if* Uncle Sam’ cuts sich shine*
as lie has of late, that lie will find a bank nr “a
natural person,” as Mr. Wright says, ready to
lake him in as a partner agin na any day es
pecially if lie goes on the principles of “ separa
tin himself jist when suits him, without regardin
his “ agreement of copartnership,” as lie did a
spell ago, itli the United States bank.
The greatest mistake “ Uncle Sam” ever made
is when he talks of separatin himself from any
class or portion of the people—for if it warn’t for j
“ *De people” of all classes—on whose earnint l
he lives—he would not have a shoe to his foot or
a shirt to his back—who oa airtlt is “Uncle!
S.tm oil his own hook unless lie means to put j
on a cock and Ital like lionaparte, or some sich
hind of folks, and say he is ‘The Government,’
ami hi* word is Law, and so forth—and that lit
will keep his own money, and wont trust the pen j
pie with it, or loan it to ’em, as other folks do, I
lor general prosperity. I guess if the Whirrs or
1 the old Federalists put* Uncle Bam, in ofilce and !
, said lie was one of their parly, and lie talk’d so— j
the democrats would soon grease his fiddle strings ‘
so he could’ot play a varse of Yankee Doodle or
“God savethe Kings” Mother. The fact is Lu
cie Sam is * considerable oT a man, so long as lie
remembers that lie osar of the bull people, nnd
n it a party only, and tho’ he may cut a shine for
a spell >llt what lie calls his parly—th® n.itur of
“ ,lle S le “’ family of the people,’’ is sich, that as
soon as they feel lie treads on any of their toes
they will grumble, and especially them folks that
pay the taxes—they dont see why they who are
called on because they base earned property, to
|uv the taxes—should also beheld up as enemies
of them folks as liaiot got any property vet —if
ibis is the doctrine, then the best way is ‘ for no
man to work. A rich nun now-©.days is talked
nn by some folks pretty much as the Quaker did
ol his dog—now what on airth can a rich man
do with his money in. this country ? Does he
pile it up in gold and silver in lus'celli.r ? Not
he. if he lias got any mother wit in him—lie
knows he did ill make Ins money that way—--no,
no, he keeps it movin. he loans it out to them
that have good characters and arc industrious, he
builds houses, takes a share in rail roads and ca- j
tials and hanks, and you wont catch him doin ‘
any thing that will check prosperity, if lie can
help it, for lie prospers by general prnspeiity ; lie j
dont very often want office, and ifhe did lie
could'nt bnv one nor trtle nother.
The message is partly full of the causes that |
1 ronghl us into our present troubles, and i* only
true on that pint as far as it goes, but it doitt tell
L i If I had (piled that story of Ze
kel Biglnw’s watch'w i/zin’ so, and begiiinin jest
artcr it begun to wiz, folks would not know to’
this day what made it wizso, but I begun at the
heginnin ou't and telled hnw Zekel twitched
out me balance wheel or klicker, and then the old
watch th it bad been goin as true as the lidos for
iwenty years, went wiz sureetinf, anil soon went
lo smash, ami jest so it was in England, they
twitched out their klicker jest about the same
time, and wized a way jest as we did.
I'll tell more about this hereafter, and in iny
next too (’ll try and explain what I consider an
other mistake and a pretty important unetoo, and
that is about ‘private bankin’ heiu considered
better than corporate hanks, it is a long story to
show tli.it ‘hank hills’ is a sill ill part of llankin liu
i liens, and that tile most (I lugerotll part ol a very
different natur, anil that all our hanks could yet
git along easy emif, if it was only their own hank j
hills, they had to pay in specie, and all this I
will try lo show, and then see how it comes about
that hanks suspend paying specie and vet may |
h as sound as ever, and we shall then see, that is
ony one thing morn Ilian anv other thin, brought
about this slate us tilings, it was ‘ over action’ of
private hankers, corporate hank hills now in the
worst of times may not he worth as much as gold
and silver, hut the hardest currency I guess that
folks holds iiow-a-days, is the currency of private
flankers at home and abroad. I dont know sir
tin, hut that ismy notion, and if so I think ‘ the
Government’ is mistaken in crackin up private
bankin, as the best, and I would advise jour
• Uncle Sam’ lo separate from all (hat kind of
currency.
I have only one wordrnoreto say toUncle Sam
and that is, not to let the government talk 100
much of • separatin.’ it did wrong when it struck
off • E Plnribus Unitin’ from the new coin ; I did
not like that, hut I thought it would stop theie,
and not try it in other matters. The fact is the
Government aiut Uncle Bam alone, or Uncle
Bain aim his party, alone, it is the peoples prop
erty ; and no matter how much Uncle Sun may
try to separate himself, the people wont let him,
for without the people, the hull people, and
•totlai n but the people, they know that Uncle Sam
would soon become a poor and raeged old man
and have no money t© pay his debts, and no one
would take his note, therefore I say. Uncle Sam
dont say any thing more about separatin, but
stick to the old sign board, E Pluribii* Union ;
and i ■” you want any further advice, git sich kind
of folks about you, as von. or any good citizen
would like to appoint your executors,|and guard
ian* of your estete and children, and to take
good care of vour widow, if yon left one; these
kind of folks are safest, tho’ they may not he as
good politician* ; amt dont discaid a man tho’ he
may own house, lots or new land, and paid his
neighbor ton mneh for’em, this business at home
is bettei (as bad as it is called) than specitlatin
round Cape Horn, or any where abroad, for the
profit and loss is all at home, if A pay B ton
mneh it is no matter, its all at hunie. and iliese
mistakes soon cute theniselvei, and depend ti’t a
man who owns a leelle land, he it a house, lot or
farm in anew town or on the skirts of and old
©r.e, wont give a worse vote for the b©st interest
of his county, than if lie lived on the pay of an
office, or spent his earnius talkin politics and
driftkin whisky at an election. This is sound
doctrine. Uncle Sam. and if yon dont find it so
in practice, then I aiut you friend.
J. DOWNING, Major
Sd Brigade, doivningvill© militia.
From the Newark Sentinet.
\ HEAR THE V. lit)REN SENATORS.
Patriotism is prevailing over pattv. The dis
| tiiignislied Administration Senators, (livks,
j r*I,M.*DE, Kino, of Ga. and tipton, deeply
! impressed with its inonstroiisiniquilv. have bolrljy
i declared themselves against the whole governing
J policy of the present Executive. Mr. King, ful
j lowing the example of M jssrs. Talmadge and
j Rises, spoke his mind fully and made a fearless
J exposure of his view* Conner nine the conduct of
the Administration, in the language of strong re
| link". If an enemy bail said it !
| We annex a brief ami imperfect sketch of this
| speech in order the more smelv to secure for it
the attention of out renders. The truth will pre
vail at last ;
Mr. King of Oa. addressed the Senate, lie
declared the experiment of the dcposlto Banks
to have totally failed, lie had predicted this
failure, step by step. He characterised this ex
periment as one of the grossest systems of fraud
and delusion ‘hat had ever been attempted to he
produced fiom the commencement of the world !
He believed that if the President nad not tormen
ted and tantalized these hanks so much, they
would have don® better; but they never could
have constituted an efficient agency. He con
sidered that throughout (lie whole of the mes
sage there was not a single fact in reference lo
the present distress to one line. The administra
tion seemed to think it impossible that they could
| lie the cause of the distress ; THE MESSAGE
WAS MADE UP FROM STUMP SPEECH
! f, ' s - QU \ (’K POLITICI ANS AND SCRAPS
FROM FOREIGN WRITERS—In refer
ence to the statement of the message, that the
expansion of paper issues in Great Britain, Irad
proceeded port passu Milt the experiment in this
country, he showed front documents that in
1 Great Britain, from the Ist of January 1834, to
j the Ist of January 1837, the increase of Great
! Britain had been about 400,000 pounds; In the
I U. States, it had been 100 millions in the same
j period, lie went ou to read from evidence giv
ip” before the British Parliament, extracts to re
| lute the positions taken by the President in his
message. He came to the conclusion front bis
Calculations, that instead of thirty millions which
the message exhibited as out debt to Great Bri
tain, we actually owed Great Britain at the time
one hundred and ten millions. It was melon- i
cltoly to see our young and vigorous nation j
treated us a bankrupt; and yet we at e called from
the contemplation of ruined fields and unproduc
tive crops, and desired to think of the glory ol
the specie circular. Glory had depreciated us
much as rug money, and is found to rest on no
solid foundation.
He adverted to the policy of the specie cur
rency, and the pertinacity with which the ureas- !
lira was adhered lo against the will of rite peo- !
I l^ e a,,< l against the decision of Congress, fore- ■
ed upon the country as a blessing, while it ben- ‘
I efitted only the unprincipled speculator. H#
; maintained that a U. S. Bank was the least dan-
I gerous and most effectual agent. lie was shock
ed at the remark of Mr. Calhoun, that he would
I Mol do • I "J’ ‘hing to place the Pennsylvania Bank
of me U. S. in attitude of triumph over the gov- j
eminent, and asked what government. The gov- j
eminent of the Hermitage, or the government of!
the White House? lie was shocked to hear
such sentiments. There had aonre mot# grey
ha.rs over the bead of our voting republic with- !
m the last live years, than should have grown
upon it ma century. He disowned any inten
tion to desert the Democratic Republican parly;
fiom that party alone had lie a right to expect
any tiling, hilt lie found it necessary lo take hi*
stand AGAINST THIS EXECUTIVE USUR
PATION OF THE POWER OF RF.GU
LATINO THE FINANCES OF THE
COUNTRY. Th© motion now submited pro-1
poses to continue the finames io the hands of the ;
Executive, lie did not know what course to
take. He would move lo postpone th© further
consideration of the measure until th© regular
session of Congress. 6
He did not believe that he ever could bring
himself to vote for the amendment of the sena
tor fiom Smith Carolina. ll® denied that there
had been a depreciation of the sound currenc* of
Hi© country, but, on the coulmry, that it had'ap
preciated in consequence of iSe diminution of
the paper circulation, and ridicul ‘d all the and im
or and denunciation which had been raised
against paper money, with the depreciated pa
per of the banks, any one could purchase provis
tons. clothing propnty in lands or houses H
lower rate ll.an he could before the suspension of
spec.e payment*. Did It® , 0 | oal , n|)l
ey on good secm.ty, h© could lend the demecta
ted paper at a higher interest than lie could have
untamed for a spec.e loan before the suspension
He said tint no man was evvr trore bvet by spir
its ofliis own creation. Whenever any plan of hi
was frustrated, lie immediately thought that the
world had conspired against him. He concluded
by moving to postpone the further consideration
of the hill until (lie first Monday in December.
Mr. Tipton then took the floor, lie agreed
that this was a time of great distress, and that 11
was tire doty of eveiy man to show his hand. Hi
thought the first step to the embarrassment of the
of ,oe country teas the pulling down of the Vai
led States Rank, and the removal of the depos
ites. He intended to vote fagainst the amend
ment of the Senator from South Carolina, but
he would vote for the lull proposed hy the gentle
man (tom Virginia. He would vote lor the bill
lor the postponement of the bill.
Mr. Hives wt.rde some explanations, and the
Senate adjourned.
We annex from the National Intelligencer, the
following summary of Mr. Talmadge's eleven
conclusive reasons against the sub-treasury
scheme —•
Ist. This system il carried into effect, will
he the cause of total ruin and perdition to the
country.
2nd. It is physically impossible to he carried
into execution in New York
3d. It w ill produce a complete universal, anti
far spread stagnation of business.
4th. It will cause the working men tube thrown
out of employ mem all over the country, making
the manufactories and every branch of business
to come to a stand still for want ol money to car
ry them on.
bill. It will render the resumption of specie
payments impossible.
6th. Il will render money ruinously scarce.
7th. It will cause properly of all kinds to fall
to a ruinous degree of depreciation.
Bth. It will throw gold and silver in the hands
of office-holders, giving them 10 or 12 per cent,
more than Congress has allowed them for I lie i I
salary, while it will leave to the People a depie
ciated currency.
9th. The public funds have been always safe
in former depositories ; they cannot be safer in
the hands of individual officers, spread over the
country.
10th. The hanking institutions of the coun
| try will be obliged to wind up their concerns.
11th. It is an anti-republican scheme danger
ous to liberty ; it is an alliance, not a divorce—
a marriage within the unlawful degrees of pow
ers which are too near in kin, and ought not to
be married.
Mileage of Members of Comgress.
There are altogether two hundred and ninety
four Senators and Kepxcsentatives in Congress.
ITltey are allowed for traveling charges at the
rate of eight dollars for every twenty miles go
ing to, and for every twenty miles returning fiom
Washington to their respective places of abode.
The average distance is urobanly not far from
500 miles each, or one thousand n-ilrs going and
lemming. This at $8 for every 20 miles, amounts
for each member, to the sum of SIOO, which
multiplied by {94. will produce the aggregate
sum of ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN
| TEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOL
. EARS each session, whether ordinary or spe
cial.
And it matters not whether the special Ses
sion runs to or falls short of the ordinary or reg
ular Se-sion, and whether members have one day
to go home or not, or whether one does actually
1 go or not : they constructively travel the whole
| distance, and upon this construction they arc l
---! lowed for traveling charges at the above rate—so
that if the Special Session continue until the
SOth day ot November next, (during all which
lime they will receive eight dollars per day) iliey
I will receive their mileage for the special .•'ession
I which with the mileage ol the Regular Session,
. will in the aggregate amount to TWO HUN
DRED AND THIRTY F IVE THOUSAND
j TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for one going
i and returning.
1 By the like construction the Senate, which was
I specially called, at the late inauguration of the
| President ot the United States, although they
were at the time at Washington, and did not hy
I reason of such special call, tiavel one mile, were
allowed and actually received double mileage,
that is mileage for the regular and mi lease for
i the special Session ; the lalter ameniiting to
twenty thousand light hundred dollars.
This [is one year, there will he tanen of the
1 people's money ONE HUNDRED AND THIR
TY EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUN
DRED DOLLARS lot traveling which mem
bers never performed. ■*
Constructive Treason in Great Britain lias de
prived many an innocent person of bis life, and
constructive traveling in these United Slates will
deprive the people of their money; and il is to
be apprehended, if such constructions are toler
ated, they will ere long deprive them, not only ol
their excellent Constitution of Government, but
| of their liberties.— Sewark Sentinel.
The Madisonian , itie orehii of the Rives and
Talmage parly, shows neither the President nnr
the Globe any favor. Speaking of the chimeri
cal scheme of the presidents, ex, and regnant,
to substitute for onr present mixed currency an
exclusively metallic one, it savs;
“ The scheme commences an imliiect war np
jon the credit system. It would create tico curren
cies, one for the Government and another for the
! people. Officers of Government, who are the
servants of the people, while the pkopi.k who are
the sovereigns would be shirked off with paper.
1 made inconvertible perhaps ny the Government’s
own acts. 11 the Government is to adopt for it*
, self an exclusive metallic currency, why not give
the same to the people ? Hut the people do not
want an exclusively metalic circulation, and
apart from its impracticability, they never could
i gel it if they did want it. What is good currency,
for the people ‘is equally good for the govern
| mem. and surely what is acceptable to the mas
ter should also he acceptable to the servant.”
The Madisonian will have seen hy this time
| that the scheme has ittdecd created •• two curren
cies j one for the Government, another for the
people.” This is made unquestionable hy the
late note sent to Congress hy the Secretary of
the Treasury, informing ike members that they
shall if they choose receive their salaries iit spe
| cie, w hile.the laboring classes at Washington and
elsewhere in the public service, get nothing but ;
bank notes ten and twenty per cent, below pat. j
The closing lines ol the Madisonian's paragraph
almost persuade us that there is yet hope ol the
Repuhlick. But a few months ago it would have
constituted a charge of high treason, [before
Judge Butler] to have even hinted that “the
Government,” —“ my Government ” had an 1
equal in power) attd decapitation would have
l eeu thought tort lenient a punishment for hint
•dio would have dared to say that “ the govern- j
ment,” had master. — Newbern S/nctatur.
The Poor Indian. —The editor of the Peoria
111- Register, makes the'fidlowiug feeling remarks ‘
in relation to the sufferings of the ludtatisou the
Western frontier—and die course adopted hy the
Government towards those unfortunate beings.— 1
Pout sun.
“ The situation ot our ted neighbors on the
low frontier, growing out of lire non payment of
the annuities, is painfully distressing. Persua- |
ded to part with their lands, some of which it had
taken them years to improve,—and promised an !
annuity which would make it unnecessary for |
them any longer to labor in agricultural pursuits, j
they were led to change their mode of life, and ]
spend the fanning season without making in it
any provisions for future subsistence. Higher to
the credit of the government had been preserved
—I lie annuities were promptly paid—and the
confidence of lire Indians in our public laiih in
creased and strengthened.
The last year’s supplies being exhausted, they
repaired as usual, to the agency, tu receive those i
of tho present year. Their disappointment fell j
upon them like a thunderbolt. It was as if a
blight were to sweep over a well cultivated coun-
try, and utterly destroy the Harvest just as it was
about to receive the jyckle. Could n country
chastised by Providence fail to receive the com
miseration of every civilised nation in > he world ?
The famine in the Cape Verd* Islands seven
vears ago, was not more terrific in its conseqneo
ces, than the sufferings which the Sacs and Fox
es saw before them. And yet—will it he credi
ted?—there are men who deem it all matter ol
derision—party slaves, who ware the collars of
masters so abjectly, as to stifle every leeling that
elevates man above the brute. We fear that the
events related are hut the beginning ol trouble on
that frontier. We predicted it six or eight weeks
ago, from indittalintis that were not to lie mista
ken. The oppressed party, with a forbearance
that white men might well imitate, sought to re
lieve the cravings of nature try roaming the des
ert in quest ol food when they fell into an en
, counter o tin their natural enemies, and saw elev
en of their number slain hefuic them. This rup
ture w ill make it still more difficult to obtain sub
sistence in the forests, and they most fall hack
upon the settlements. Unless they are supplied
with food peaceably hy the government, there
fore they must take it forcibly from its hor der in
habitants. If resisted, the liiootl of their oppo
sers w ill smoke upon their altars.”
Treasury Report —Our columns are crowded
to-day watt, ttic interminable twaddle of Secre
tary VVo idbnry on tbe engrossing subject of our
financial condition which he handles with all the
ingenuity that parly obliquity petmits, and leaves
—just where he found it. The tone, tenor and
intention with the mandate from the Hermitage,
and the burden of his song is—give the control
of the public levenues to the Executive. One
startling fact is inadvertently made evident by
this Report, a fact which fully establishes the
gross impositions practised on a credulous peo
ple, and proves the nicoinnetency of those in
whose statesmanship the nation has blindly con
fided lor eight or nine years; \iz., that with the
twelve or fifteen millions in tbe Treasury, and die
many millions deposited with tbe states, the whole
financial skill of “ the Government” is unable to
command a sufficient supply of ready money to
keep the machine in motion! Mr. Woodbury
calls on Congress for “some collateral aid” to
keep him afloat, notwithstanding the vast amount
nominally at Ins command, and which would
have been realty so had we been guided by statrs
; men instead of being ruined by blind experi
ments.— Sewbein Spectator.
H ho Receives Gold! —The Long- Island Star
answers, —“While the Government is making
1 boast of its specie, ami proposing to pay ineiii
! hers of Congress in gold and silvei. the w'ork
\ men employed by them in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard cannot even obtain the best bills. We
j learn that all the variety of illegitimate paper
1 rags, (not hank r:rg) are put afloat in payment
■ lor labor.” The members of Congress have the
‘ eagles counted down.—The mecliunicsdie palni
j eo off with the rags of the Tieasurv.
Gold Humbug. — The administration imported
| the French indemnity in gold and paid cointnis
sions and premium fur it without consulting tbe
‘claim tuts; and yet they now refuse to pav litis
j very gold to the persons to whom it helmuis, tit
the same lime that they are paying it out to mem
bers of Congress in the hope offtlnr hv hood,
winking the representatives of the people as to
the true state of this linmbug system. — Sewark
Sentinel.
Tile Cincinnati Gazette states that the editor
had just seen two drafts front the General I’osl
j Offlce, transmitted to a banker in tit it city, with
! iust iirerions to receit e the specie circular and
convert it into common currency, at eleven per
cent, premium, or U. S. Rank notes at six per
I cent, and remit the proceeds! (so says the pa
| per) the contractor gets specie:, while the farmer
| who sells the teams or supplies the oats, or tiie
j driver lor Ins wages, or the tavern keeper for bis
j snppoit must lake rags!
The bonds of the U. S. Bank, transmitter) to
England, were ill high credit and great demand
at me last dates from that country- The London
Times of the 18tli August says:*
** One ol the effects of the present abundance
| of money, which might easily have been antici
pated, has been that of taking off nearly the
whole ol the United Stales Bank Bills sent to
tins country. At first their reception was a
doubtful one, and they lell afterwards into dis
credit, hut they are now sought for with avidity
and are with difficulty to be obtrined. Thisdii
ficoliy will probably vanish with the ariival of th
next packet from New Yoik, which is now hour
ly expecietl ; but in the mean time the marks
for them is as slated. For some of those which
tall due in April tile price of 98 was given, which
is little more than 4j per cent.”— National In
tclligencer.
OviKiotis Abroad—The Boston l)iily Ad
i Vertiser publishes me following extract of a let
ter from a gentleman now travelling in Europe,
j a inercant of great business and experience, as
j showing the eflect produced on our citizens abroad
|by the aspect of things here. The letter is da
j ted at Geneva, July 29.
“lean assure you it is no small mortification
to an American, to find that the reckless extrav
agance of his couutiyuien has not onlv spread
such universal embarrassment on the whole busi-
I ness of the country, hut involved in bankruptcy
jor difficulty, nioi vor less extensively, e very house
in Europe which has been to any extent connec
ted with those speculations. To the total de
i rangement in all our money transactions hy the
success of the miserable warfare carried on
against the United States Bank, and lire conse
quent throwing into the hands of irresponsible
brokers, slock-jobbers, and speculators, those
great operations ol exchange which that institu
; lion had lor many years managed with so (•rich
economy and safety, all or nearly all of the con
j sequences now realized arc to be attributed s for
i not only did that institution manage these trans
action* with economy and safety, hm it stood as a
sure and certain check on any attempt, on the
i pan of indir rdtials or State institutions, to intro
duce that recklessness, which, since the desiruc
; non of that bank, has produced the results now
j witnessed.”
! A passenger on board of the steamboat Napo
poleon, lioiii New Brunswick, a day or two ago
while leaning over the railing lost overboard a half
eagle and a one dollar Ini; and not being partial
to the sinking fund system, he immediately dove
for the treasure while the boat was under full wav
lie dit. t ol course find his “ bullion,” for it had
gone down as it is doing in Wall street, and the
[ salt ’vaicr currency— current they call it at Cum
; uiunipaw— took him down too, till he found him-
I sell at least a hundred yards astern of ,|,e boat
|on “coming up to blow.” Grpt Fisher was
prompt m stopping the steamboat, and finally eot
“ our feliow citizen” on board. The “ metallic
basis is of course fast in the mud, but strange
to say, >lie rag currency was found bv our sub
marine explorer of the hard money mysterv
within a foot of his own nose, us he rose from
the fruitless voyage alter the eagle. Me ol course
secured this pan of his •’ floating capital ” and
erawled on board the Napolcon-no Xa,,olton
and or to him, poor tellow, but a Kayclton sans or
We understand, however tl,a. the submersion has
washed out every particle of Van Burenis... there
Wlri'” mTerli ‘ 1,8 C *" ,e a B*'*l sound
Wing—utterly eschewing “ mint drops” as a
confounded humbug, and considering dollar notes
oil a good bank as about Hie safest “ circulation”
hat a man can depend upon when he is over
board in about five fathom of salt water. Noth
tng hut ducking will ever bring some other people t
“"•* lve k"ow of to their senses.- V T r„
zette.
Unexpected confusion.- The whole Jackson
party, the Globe the loudest of all.
Jackson, wisdom when he placed the public!
treasure in the deposite banks, and the Whia
were abused for predicting the inevitable resiifi
of su foolish an arrangement. Now hear wlnt
this same Globe publishes to the world :
“ No man can look to the causes which pmdu
ced the present catastrophe, without perceiving
that the connection of the State Hanks with ths
Government brru rhi dawn the calamity upon both
and the community.”
Perish Ciedit ,” ami nnr Government is un.
questionably bankrupt.—We received, hut in,,
late fur insertion to-day, a Bill introduced hv C
G. Cainbieleiig, which passed two readings, and
w ill, it is believed, become a law, authorising th e
issue of Treasury drafts to meet the current de
mauds. This is the ‘collateral aid’ demanded liv
Mr. Woodbury. Those drafts are to be redeem
ed hv the Treasury at the expiration of one vein
to bear no interest.during said year, and but five
per ocut after if pitrtnyiit he refused when de
manded.— Sewbrrn dictator.
Vermont is ever true. Jennisnn is elected Guy.
ernor over his opponent by 4000 umjnriiy. T| )e
Senate is IT Whigs, 13 lories. The Whig nta
jority in the house is 40. Last year the sire n n t |,
of pailies in the two branches was about The
samet
Even allowing whir ilie friends of Mr. V.m.
Ilm en claim, that lie was elected by a clear major.
I ity of the votes of the whole people—which w e
do not allow—the changes against the ndminiMra
lion have beet l so great since the pre-iilenli.il elec
lion, as to place him in a meagre minority, even
tiv their osvn showing. In (the States in which
elections have taken place, the whig gain nnv
be estimated us follows:
In Tennesee. 14,000 In Indiana, 7,000
Rhnld Island, 1.200 In X. Carolina, 8.000
In Kentuek.y 7,000 In Maine, 8,000
22.200 23,000
22,209
In Six States. 45,{00
Sewark Sentinel.
Another Abolition Press destroy! dnt Alton.
(III.) A friend on tbe morning of tile 22d, in
forms us—•• The steam boat Smeller, about dusk
of yesterday evening, put on shore a press sup
posed to he for tile Rev. Elijah I*. Lnvjciy’s new
abolition office, which lie and his friends had giv
en nut, was to he r e-estahlished inour town. The
packages containing the press were immediately
placed in the store of Geary and Waller. Dur
ing the evening there was much excitement
among the citizens, relative to the expediency
■if permitting a press of this kind to he landeil
nr to remain here The consequence was. that
at 12 o’clock in the night some six or seven per
sons proceeded to the store of Messrs. G. and \V.
pressed open the door, took the press tlieielrnm
and threw it into tile Mississippi. It is now gen
erally believed that .Mr. Lovejoy will not in future
persist in the re establishment of an abolition
press in Alton.” We learn verbally that no
types were found nor auv other fixtures than the
press.— St. I.ouis Republican.
A Meteoric Ptone. The Colombia Regis
ter Says that i meteoric stone, weighing 500 lbs.
f II on the tar hi of Ezekiel Harrison near Orange
ville, [Pa.] on the night of the otli ins!., and
crushed to death a valuable ox, afterward sinking
ten inches in (lie earth.
JNO. FRASER A CO.
COIVXRZISSIOrj TrZTIKCIZJLZi’ZS,
CHiIIIM.i:STOSS’, s. t.
C. DAV, Macon, Geo.
Sept *2O 2w ins3o
a Tii<nii*sMA\ .ni:i>iciM>.
il \ V IUETY of vegetable Medicines as used in the
Thompsonian practice. For sale hy
J. 11. A W. S. ELLIS.
Sept 27 31 Cotton Avenue.
■ BECKWITH’S FILLS, Hrnndreth’s Pill.-*,
.■# Evan’s Camomile Pills, for Heart-burn, Dyspepsia,
Toilet Powders, superior Soaps,
Locn-Foco, Lnucifer and Friction Mutches,
llhtok and him* writing Ink,
SmilV various kinds, for sale by
J. 11. A W S. ELLIS,
Sept 26 31 Cotton Avenue.
[Drugs and Medicines.
A fresh Assortment hy
J, 11. cV H . s. i;IX9S,
COTTON AVENUE, MACON.
('I \LO.MEL, extra fine, Sulphate Quinine,
J London Blue Pill Mas.*,
Superior bleached Sponge for surgeons.
Extra strong Aqua Ammonia, llydriodutc Potiissa,
Kreofcote, Black Drop, Citric Acid,
Superior curve Thumb Lancets,
Acet. Morphine, Sulphate do.
Silver spring Lancets, Pocket Cases.
Prussic Acid, Oil Cubcbs, Oil Copniva,
Otto Rose, Alcohol,
Hondeman’s Sarsaparilla.
Turkey and Egyptian Opium, Ac.
Sept 27 * 31
iie. w.w. pli.i>gek-i>i:ntist,
riIHANKFUL to the Ladies and Gentlemen of.Macon,
I find the public* generrlly for their patronage inform*
■ t!w*m that he expect* to continue hi* practice in Macon
; and the adjoining village* ; and insert the heal kind of
! . incorruptible Teeth, from one to a full set, in the moat
| natural manner, w ith prompt attention to all operation*
oh the teeth embraced in tho practice of his profession.
CERTIFICATES.
Forayth ( G. Atoms M. I). King, Judge Supr. Court.
Macon, G. Win. Green, M. D. Win. B. Ball, M. I>.
.Srpt *2O 2wUl
Central Kafl-RoaTl A Ranking Cos.
of Georgia.
Savan s. ui, Sept.2o, 1C37.
tN Installment of Ten Dollars per share on the Cap*
itl Stock of this company—<one-half to In* applied
to bankin? and the other half to the Bail Rond—i* re
quired to he paid in, on or before Monday, the Uth dny
of December next. Stockholder* residing at Mneon or
its vicinity, run make at the Branch Hunk cf
this institution, at that place.
By order oft In* Board of Director*.
JOHN OLM.STEAD, Cashier protein.
sept 27 31
KFItoVAL ~
OC TOR If. LOOMIS has removed his I)RtG
BTOU E to the store upon 31 u I berry street, second
door above the Post Office,
wept 27 31
70 JLJBT,
BRICK Dwelling House coiner of Cherry and third
streets, formerty occupied hy Mr. Ossian Gregory.
Possession given Ist October. For terms applv to
sept 2d y\ REA & COTTON-
Ofoigin-Moitroc County*
Inferior Court sifting Jor ordinary purposes, tlejitemoer
Term. 11137.
IT appearing to the Court upon the information ol
Richard Simmons and Jesse M. Calloway, the a*
rities for William Brown and SarahShockley,nowfc*ran
Brantley, administrator and administratrix of the rslnte
of John Shockley, deceased, that said administrators r*
mismanaging said estate. It is on montion ordered,that
the said William Brown and Sarah Shockley,now Sarah
Brantley, shew cause at the next term of this court wh
the said Richard Simmons and Jesse .M Collaway sbotihl
not Im- discharged from till further liabilities as securities
for the faithful performance of said William A: Snrdi n*
ndm’rand udm \ of said estate; and it is further order****
that this rule hr entered on the minutes of this <°u r '
and that service be perfected according to law.
A true copy from die minutes of said court this 1
sept. 1037. EEBRIDGE G. CABANISS.c.c.®*
sept 27 •’*
pAIJH MONTHS nltfi Sale ,"l!
-1- he made to the honorable Inferior Court of i 1 ‘j
county, w hen sitting for ordinal} purpose. for ***** ‘•
,<■ll the real estate Mid negroes belonging to the ®*l®‘
John Crnwfljrd, deceased, tor the benefit of the creu* 0
of,aid deceased. l).tV!ll('lHWl , 'tlKl , ,)i;, , r?.
till) EON 11 ARNES, J „.
Bnrnesi ille, sept 2l> zl—
Ij'XKCL’TOU'K SALlC.—Afiwbi* W *“
-A order of the Inferior court of Monroe count) re ‘
for ordinary purposes, will be sold before the’oourt not*
door in Wnvue eountv, on the first Tuesday in Drcru*
neet, Lotof Land No. 1)6, in the 2d dist, ofWaynccount.,
containing 490 acres. -
Also on tho first Tuesday in Drremhrr next, ’.
the court house tloor in Paulding county, Lot N<> .|
the first dist. and third section, containing 49 * (tj
volti ii the property of James Pim kanT, dec’d. 1” ,
Monroe eountv. Sold for the benefit of the heirs ol
decousnd, ‘ JOHN PINCKAKD, ? r xr ’ r s.
PEYTON PINCKARD, S
_Sepi S6 iL
Ij*Ol T K MOlM’llk after date application wt* l
be made to the inferior court ofUpson count) * r ,
sitting for ordinary purposes for leave to sell the re
and personal catnte of Cailton G. Smith, deccntfjh
said county. J. J* SMITH*
Sept 26 ‘