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OLD SERIES, VOL. LVII.
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AUGUSTA.
'3'RIDAY’mORNING, DECEMBER 30.
Brother Jonathan Extra.
8. A. Hoxmm has laid on our table one of
these mammoth sheets, which is as remarkable
tor its size as the great collection of handsome
illustrations. It is altogether a rare specimen of
the progress of typography.—See advertisement.
Immense Cabgo.—The N. O. Tropic of the
Slatiast. says:—The splendid packet steamer
Louisiana, Capt. A. W. Tufts, from Grand
GuU, arrived st this port yesterday, with lUTt
bales of Colton!!!
This is by long odds the largest cargo ever i
brought to this port, and yet with this immense
load on, the guard* of the Louisiana were at | '
least a foot above the water I
ThelJmT. G. Salter, late of Haddam, Conn,
was recant!J?tried in that State on a charge of (
robbing the mail. He was discharged on the ;
ground of insanity, and has been eent to the 1
Hartford Asylum. 1
The machine shop of E. Kingsley, Esq. at Can- ,
ton, Mass, was destroyed by fire on Friday night j
last. Loss from S4OOO to SSOOO, partly insured in c
Dadham.
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Correspondence of the North American. t
New Yobk, Dec. 25, 1842. i
Nothing of interest since my Inst, and as j
Christmas falls on Sunday, the carousing spirit
is checked, and I have no fights or any thing of (
the kind to roeord. 1;
The steamboat R. L. Stevens leaves here a
to-morrow for Albany, or as far as the ice per- t
mits. j
The report that Alexander Barclay. Esq. 'is to v
be the Counsel at this port is confirmed. More
than a hundred applications were made for the a
birth, which is one of the best in the country, n
worth about $10.00(1 per year and does not re- gi
quire any large outlay of time. j
The only arrivals are the Sheridum, from Li- a
vorpool; Cladiator. Britton, Liverpool, and the .
Magnolia, from Guadeloupe. t|
From the N. O. Tropic of the 23d. e
Reception of Mr. Clay. s
The reception yesterday, of the great States- t
man of Kentucky, by the people of N«w Orleans, J
was all their warmest triends coul I have desired ;
Tne day was cold and cheerless, but it did not t
for a moment dampen the ardor of the many
thousands who left their homes yesterday morn
ing, for the purpose of honoring the greatest man
of the age. At an early hour the “din of pre- ‘
paratian,” visible in all quarters of the city, gave
token of the approach ot some pageant which in
terested the whole community. At every corner f
and doorway, groups of anxious citizens were >
seen in deep converse, while ever and anon the r
■brill blast of a bugle, and the deep roar of the 1
drum, as a stray squad of s..ldlers hurried post, i
gave undeniable indications of something more d
than ordinary. T 8
At 10 o’clock, AIM., a convoy of Steam Boats b
hearing some hundreds of citizens, left the land- fi
ing at the foot of Poydras street to meet Mr. a
■Clav at Carrtltoii. This convoy consisted of p
the Crejr tfiffiflWMs—WfflrWn n
ern, Capt. Throckmorton- — Henry Clay. Capt. s
Jones—Missouri, Cppt. Grice—and Phoenix, o
Capt, . . , The convoy proceeded in the b
order in which the boats comprising it here num- f
bered, bearing up at a gentle speed, until a short
distance above Lafayette, where the steamboat 1
Luda, Capt. Clarke, and the Ambassador, Capt. t
Brenham, on the former of which was Mr. Clay r
and suite, were met. A salute was immediately t
fired from the Luda, and answered from the Grey s
Eagle, when the convoy was brought “about,” I
and formed in the following order: *
Ist. Steamer Luda, Capt. Clarke, bearing Mr. I
Clay,suite, and deputation from New-Orleans. <
2nd. Steamer Grey Eagle, Capt. Snailcross,on r
the starboard quarter. 1
3d. Steamer Henry Clay, Capt. Jones on the 1
larboard. f
4th. Steamer Great Western, Capt. Throck- I
morion, on the starboard, 1
sth. Steamer Ambassador, Copt. Brenham, on '
the larboard. 1
6th. Steamer Phoenix, on the starboard rear. 1
In this position the squadron proceeded to the
city, m idst the shouts of persons on board and t
on shore, and the stirring strains of two capital ‘
bands of music, one on the Luda, the other on >
the Grey Eagle. 1
From the moment the convoy passed the upper I
■nd of the ship landing, the firing of salutes, I
commencing at the ship Pennsylvania, was com
menced and continued from nearly every vessel i
from Lafayette, a large number of persons of both i
■exes were present. The gentlemen greeted the i
illustrious guest of the city with loud and long I
continued cheers, and the ladies. Heaven bless ’
them, waved their white kerchiefs as long as a I
■ingle vessel was in sight. I I
As the convoy approached the city, the first I
gun was fired from the Place d’Armes, and an- 1
sweredfrom Poydras street wharf, until a salute
of 100 guns was fired. Gaily and gracefully the I
line of vessels swept past ths city, receiving and !
returning the cheers of the assembled thousands I
who lined the long row of vessels in port, throng- <
ed the streets, and crowded the houses and every <
available point affording a view of the most mag- 1
nificent pageant ever witnessed in this city. As 1
the convoy moved on its majesticcourse upon the
broad bosom of the Mississippi, those who were 1
so fortunate as to be on board, enjoyed, a speeta- 1
cle grand and imposing beyond description. Far
as the eye could reach up and down the river,
one dense forest of masts was presented, and from
them floated thousands of streamers and flags of
every nation on earth ; —the red cross of Eng
land, the tricolor of France, the lone star of Tex
as, and the banner of the free, our own stars and ,
etripes, hung out in gorgeous array, dallying in '
the breeze that bore them up anove the countless I
thousands whose eyes were riveted upon them.
As the convoy passed Slaughter-house Point,
the flag of Texas, and the broad pennant ofCom
modore Moore, was seen sweeping out from the
ship of war Austin. By order of the gallant
Commodore,|u salute of seventeen guns was fired
just as the Luda passed abreast of him. A little
lower down, the Texian brig of war Wharton,
Captain Lothrop, was riding at anchor, and he
too fired a salute of seventeen guns. Well merit
ed and moshappropriate was this compliment to
one who, more than any living man, deserves
the proud name of Freedom's Champion! The
sternest foe to tyranny, the oppressed of all na
tions, have ever found Henry Clay a friend. His
voice is attuned to liberty, and it never yet was
mure when freedom needed an advocate.
Having passed down as far as the Lower Cot
ton Press, the convoy returned to the Poydras
street wharf, where Mr. Clay debarked, in the
preae~.ee of perhaps the largest and most enthu
siastic multitu le ever assembled in New Orleans.
When ha lauded, he was received by the Com
mittee of Arrangements and addressed by the
Chairman, Wm. Christy. Esq-, in a brief speech.
Mr. Clay responded briefly, but we were unable
to catch a solitary word he uttered. We were
■ot near him, and the crowd was so dense that
We found it impossib.e to get within hearing dis
tance.
At the conclusion of his remarks, he was seat
ed in an open barouche drawn by four white
horses, and the procession formed. The Hon.
Alexander Porter, Ex-Senator of the U. 3.;
Glrady Burke, President ot the Clay Club, and
William Christy, Chairman of the Committee of
Arrangements, were seated in the barouche with
Mr. Clay. The procession formed in the follow
ing
order.
1. A Deputy Marshal.
2. Military Escort, composed of the Louisiana
Legion.
3. Grand Marshal.
4. The Honorable Henry Clay and others, in an
open barouche, drawn by four gtay horses.
5. The travelling companions of Mr. Clay, and
Committee of Arrangements, and deputa
tions from other portions of this and other
States in carriages.
6. Secretary of State, Attorney Genera’, Dis.rict
Attorney and State Treasurer.
7. The Governor’s Suite, in unifcim and mount-
ad.
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8. The Governor elect, and members elect of ihe
State Senate and House of Representatives.
9. Major Gen. John L. Lewis and Staff, Briga-
dier Generals Horatio Davis and Leonard
and Start, and other Militia officers in uni
form and mounted, agreeably to rank.
10. Veterans of 1814 and 1815.
11. Judges of the Supreme and other Courts,
and officers of the several Courts.
12. The Mayor of the City and General Coun
cil.
13. The Mayor and members of the Council of
the City of Lafayette.
14-- The Recorder and Aldermen of Municipality
15. The Recorder and Aidermen of Municipality
No. 2.
16. The Recorder and Aidermen of Municipality
No. 3.
17. The officers of the Texian Navy.
18. Major General Gaines and Stall', and other
officers of the United States Army.
19. The officers of the United States Navy.
20. Foreign Consuls.
21. The Fire Department.
22. Strangers.
23.,Citizens and strangers on horseback.
24. Military Escort, compcsed of the Washing
ton Battalion.
25. Citizens generally.
At the given signal, the procession moved down
Poydras street to Camp, down Camp and Char
ters to Esplanade, thence to Royal, up Royal and
St. Charles streets to Poydras, thence to Caron
delet, and thence to the residence of Dr. Mercer,
where Mr. Clay remains during his visit.
The reader has now a brief apd meagre sketch,
a mere skeleton of the most —•*..
ever known in the of
the Great South" West.’ We reel thal we are
wholly incapable of presenting any thing like a
correct view of this great and enthusiastic out
pouring of the entire population of a whole city,
and we would fain confide the duty to abler
hands. But from the moment the procession
moved from the landing, up to the time when
Mr. Clay was set down at bis lodgings, the route
presented a scene such as is rarely witnessed in
any ordinary lifetime. Every street through
which the procession passed, was crowded to suf
focation, literally crammed and choked up with
a dense mass of people anxious to do honor to
the talents, genius and patriotism, of one whose
name and fame is part and parcel of the common
glory of the country. Every window and bal
cony. within range of the route of Mr. Clay,
was filled with the beauty of New Orleans, and
thousands of the lovely maids and matrons of
the city showered with their smiles, blessingsand
benedictions upon bici whom a a whole people de
light to honor.
When Mr. Clay was set down at his lodgings,
CaronJelet street was for an hour a dense and
moving mass of people, and it was not unt 1 he
appeared again and again upon the balcony, that
tho crowd were satisfied to disperse, which they
finally did after greeting the “old man eloquent”
wi;h loud and ofc repeated cheers.
We have not now time or room to say more,
and many incidents connected with the reception
must bo deterred to another day. The whole
scene was worthy of Henry Clay, worthy of
New Orleans, and resembling more the triumph
ant entry of somo renowned warrior of old, than
the advent of a plain private citizen of the Uni
ted States, who, without office, patronage or pow
er. comes among us with nothing save his own
sterling virtues, great talents and undoubted pa
triotism, to win the hearts of his countrymen.—-
It was indeed a spectacle of moral grandeur
which will not soon fade from the memories of
those who witnessed it.
Execotive Defabtmbnt, Dec. 23, 1842.
Fellow Citizens of the Senate an d
House of Representatives:
In mv communication laid before you on the
Bth ultimo, I had tho honor to invite'your atten
tion to some measure to restore credit to the
notes of the Central Bank, the currency on
which lhe State is forced to rely in conducting
its operations, and the principal circulating me
dium held by the people in many sections of lhe
Slate, and in those sections too where they have
been the unwilling victims of successive Bank
failures. The degree of Stale embarrassment
and individual suffering which will follow tho
present ruinous depreciation of. these notes, can-
TwWwvU ... - nwaysi l .
sufficient to avert these evils, siii be a measure
of absolute relief to the people, and will be hailed
by them as an effort of patriotism to ahie'.J them
from ruin, and to save the State from dishonor.
In the same communication, I asked that time
ly provision should be made for the payment of
the interest of the public debt; and ns specie was
required for the purpose, I recommended that
the tax on Bank slock be required to be paid in
specie, and that a sufficient amount be raised to
pay the entire interest on the public debt; provid
ed that the notes of tho Central Bank Bro at a
greater discount than five per cent in the pur
chase of exchange. Reflection on the proposed
measure only strengthened my conviction of its
necessity to sustain the government in the pres
ent exigency. Those only who have had the
experience, know the difficulties into which the
past policy of the State has brought public af
fairs; and that it is impossible to surmount them,
without bringing in aid the interest of those who
assume tho right to regulate tho value of every
Bank note circulating through the country.
I have not been an inattentive obseiver of the
action of the Legislature on these important mea
sures; nor can I be insensible to the danger which
impends, of leaving me without the means of
meeting tho engagements of lhe State, for lhe
performance of which her faith and honor have
been repeatedly pledged.
On yesterday, I addressed a note to lhe Treas
urer, requesting him to report to me the probable
amount that will remain in the treasury after pay
ing the expenses of the Legislature; and to sus
pend all payments from that department, except
upon appropriations actually made, and warrants
legally drawn thereon. 1 have received his re
port. I transmit copies of my note and the re
port,from which it will be seen that the probable
amount remaining in the treasury will bo
$119,857 15. The taxes have been princi
pally paid, and but an inconsiderable additional
sum may be expected from that quarter. If the
public lands are sold, the proceeds will not be re
ceived in time to meet the necessities of the gnv
ernment, and the amount that may be expected
from them is too uncertain to be relied upon—
besides, as a measure of revenue, it is only tem
porary. It will be remembered also, that the
taxes now imposed wilt no. be received untd
October and November next, and must be main
ly applied to demands upon the treasury for lhe
political year 1844, which cannot fall short of
lhe amount made for lhe present or political year
11843. If the appropriations of a general nature,
and which are absolutely in the admin
istration of the government, are made by the pre
sent Legislature, they may bo estimated at the
I sum of SBO,OOO. To this must ba added the
I sum of $50,000, cstima ed to defray theexpeu-
I see of protecting the Florida frontier, and the
sum of SIIO,OOO for the payment of the interest
on the public debt. To meet these indispensable
demands, there will be remaining in the treasury
on the adjournment of lhe Legislature, a sum
not exceeding $120,000, amounting to precisely
one half of the probable necessary expenditures
of tbe year. How is ’.his deficiency to be sup
plied! The income to be derived from the sale
of lands will not come in before July and Au
gust. There is but one reliance, and that is the
tax on Bank Slock. It is known that these in
stitutions reject tbe notes of the Cen’ral Bank—
and can it boa hardship to require them to pay
the government dues in specie or specie funds,
the only currency they will receive! This tax
should be required to be paid on the demand of
the Executive, whenever the interest on the pub
lic debt Is to be paid. If the matter is deferred,
a treble hardship will be imposed on the people
necessarily by the next Legislature; for, unless it
is the settled policy to refuse the necessery sup
plies to meet the solemn obligations of the State,
a tax must be imposed the next year to supply
tbe deficiencies in the present year, and the in
creased amounts fer the years 1844 and 1845
for it will be remembered, that the revenue to be
raised by the General Assembly at its next- ses
sion. cannot he made available for the payments
from the treasury for ons year thereafter.
A tax on Bank stock, to an amount sufficient
to pay the entire interest of the public debt, sub
ject to be reduced, provided exchange can be ob
tained at moderate rates tor Central Bank notes,
imposes no hardship. Th* Central Bank is now
required to apply the whole of its means to the
redemption of its notes, and is prohibited from
making discounts for any purpose whatever. No
interest is payable on its bills in circulation, while
the notes which it bolds on the people are bearing
anjinterest of 6 and 8 per cent, the larger amount,
all that are lying over, bear an interest of 8 per
cent, and the accruing interest will be a fund to
supply the place of lor.ses, so as to increase the
amount of gobd ass?:s The only effect of lhe
measure will be to restere credit to the notes of
an institution which has been prostrated by the
legislation of past years, and that without risk of
loss to those institutions whose interest it will be
made under the proposed regulation, to sustain
it. Unless this suggestion is adopted, if any
calculation for the future is to ba made from the
experience of the past, I can assure the Legisla
i tiou that exchange to an amount sufficient to
pay the interest on the public debt cannot be ob
tained for Central Bank notes at any price.
The funds to bo received from the General
Government upon the military claim, have been
already appropriated, and a large part of the a
mount received has been already paid out; and
the Executive has made engagements, under the
direction of the last Legislature, far beyond the
balance on hand.
I have deemed it to be my duly to submit this
statement to you before your session closes, hop
ing that not one representative of the people of
Georgia will be willing to see his Stale reduced to
the condition she must be, by a failure to raise
the necessary supplies. By a revenue law pro
viding for every necessary expenditure of the
Government, in sustaining its economical admin
istration and honest engagements, confidence will
be restored at home and abroad, the currency
will become better, and the character of the State
for integrity of purpose will be placed beyond
the reach of the calumuy which has hitherty as
sailed it.
[Signed] CHAS. J. McDONALD.
From the N. O. Picayune (if the 23d.
Later from Mexico and Campeachy.
We note the arrival here, yesterday morning,
of the U. S. ship Falmouth, commanded by James
Mclntosh, Es-q., in 17 days from Vera Cruz and
15 days trom Tampico, with $130,000 in specie.
The “Falmouth” experienced very heavy
northern gales after leaving Tampico which car
ried away one of her quarter boats and did other
damage.
By this arrival we have received our private
advices from Vera Cruz to the Ist inst. The
commonly .goporte d ve§^nSr
that the government were about to make impor
tant modifications in the new tariff; —the rate of
duties upon cotton goods would be much aug
mented, it was thought. Strong opposition to
this change was anticipated from British interests.
Tiie country continues in the same restless and
uncertain position. An intelligent Mexican, in
writing of it. exclaims bitterly—“while every
thing in this unhappy country requires immedi
ate reformation and organization, yet every thing
is settling down into a state worse than ever as
O 1 ”' rmutarfl it.
A body of 200 men arrived at Vera Cruz from
Jalapa on the 30th of November, to be embarked
immediately for Campeachy, whither $30,000 in
specie had been sent for the pay of the troops
some 4 or 5 days previous.
On the evening of the 20th of November the
Mexican steamer Regenerador arrived from Cam
peachy. She brought unfavorable news, and
came to ask from the government more men,
mare money and more provisions. Several at
tempts had been made by the Mexican troops to
carry Campeachy by assault, but they were as of
ten repulsed, and with severe loss.—Sickness too
was ravaging both the troops and the fleet; about
800 men were said to have died, and 400 more
were at that time actually in the hospitals
Things go ill, indeed, for the Mexican government
and yet the adherents ofSanta Anna endeavor
to palliate and distort these reverses and misfor
tunes.
From the National Intelligencer.
Washington City, December 18, 1842.
I desire, through the medium of your paper, to
take a brief notice of a published letter of the Hon.
John C. Spencer, Secretary of War, dated the 19th
of October last, and addressed to Mr. Lewis K.
Faulkner and otheis, in Which, are contained char
ges and imputations upon the late Cabinet of Mr.
Tyler, of which 1 was a member.
I regret the necessity which obliges me to this
course, and engage in it iu no spirit of controver
sy, but from a sense of what is due to my own cha
racter and to the ti ue history of the transactions
referred to in that letter. It contains the follow
ing passages :
“In proof of the absence of all selfish, interested,
or ambitious motives on the part if the President
in the course which his convictions of duty prompt
ed,! may now advert to a fact long known to me,
which has been promulgated inthe newspapers of
the day, vouched for by at least one Whig editor,
staled by a Representative in Congress, from .Mas
sachusetts, in a speech lately delivered at Newbu
ryport, upon authority, and hitherto not denied.
That fact is, that, previous to returning the second
bank bill to Congress with his objections, in full
view of the assaults to be made * upon him, and
with the purpose of removing all cause of agita
tion as well as to secure himself against unjust
imputations, submitted to his then
fie should, In the messggo then
from public lire at t:,'~xvira:
lion of the existiijg term ; and that,against his do
ing so, all thetnembers of the Cabinet then pres
ent, protested, on the ground that such an annun
ciation would not have the effect to produce peace
or quiet, but would only change the dilection ot
faction ; that no one had a right io expect such a
step from him, as he had not been elected Presi
dent, and no obligation existed that should inter
pose any barrier between him and a direct vote of
the People.
“In connexion, and yet in contrast with the pre
ceding, is another fact of an extraordinary charac
ter, which, though known by many, has lately
been distinctly promulgated. It is shadowed in a
letter of Mr. Ewing's, in the statement made by
him, of a proposition having been made to the
President, that the majority who had passed the
first bank bill, would consent (o postpone the sec
ond to the next session of Congress, if they could
receive assurances in the meantime that no hostile
movement would be made on the part of the Pres
ident. The full meaning of this statement has now
been developed by lhe declaration of a member of
Congress, that a message was carried from the
Whig leaders in Congress to the P.esident, to the
effect that if he would engage not to disturb any
member of his then Cabinet in the enjoyment of
their offices, the second bank bill should be postpo
ned. Tbe answer to such a proposition may be
easily conceived. The efllct of that proposition
was to prove the identity of the members of lhe
Cabinet, whose places were deemed in jeopardy
with the hostile members of Congress, and if the
design was to precipitate matters, it was most ef
fectual.
“You will require no aid to determine which of
the actors in these scenes exhibited a lofty disin
terested patriotism, and which evinced any tenaci
ty for place or desire for power. These facts are
full of instruction, and furnish a key to many mys
terious transactions.” .
To the statements and imputations made in the
above passages, it is my intention to reply as plain
ly and as briefly as I can.
I shall endeavor to abstain from all personal or
or intemperate remaras. It is not my object to
assail others, but to vindicate my own conduct,
and to do that by a calm statement of facts.
The first of the foregoing paragraphs of Mr.
Spencer’s letter, relates to the advice stated to
have been given by all the members of tho Cabi
net “then present,” at a certain meeting to which
the President is said to have submitted the ques
tion “whether he should, in the Message, (the ve
to to the second bank bill) then about to be trans
mitted to Congress, announce a resolution to retire
from public life at the expiration of the existing
term.”
-8o far as that paragraph might be considered as
implicating me, it is unnecessary 1 should say
more than that I was not present at the Cabinet
meeting referred to, and have no prisons! knowl
edge of opinions which may have been expressed,
or advice given, by members of lhe Cabinet who
may have been present. The fact of my absence,
ai.d that of Mr. Badger, will appear from a letter
which I send you for publication with this, receiv
ed from my friend, the Hon. T. Ewing, dated the
Gtii instant, and written in icply to a brief note of
mine, calling his attention to the letter of Mr.
Spencer, which I had then seen in the newspapers.
Mi. Ewing, it will be remembered, was Secretary
of the Treasury, a member of the Cabinet, and, as
he states, present at tbe meeting referred to.
From his statement, it further appears, that the
advice then asked and given, was confined to the
question of inserting in ihe veto message, then con
templated by the Piesident, a declaration of his in
tention not to Dea candidate for re-election to ihe
Presidency ; a question on which, I presume, very
few would, on reflection, differ from the advice
stated by Mr. Ewing to have been given to the
Piesident, however strongly they might have en
tertained the opinion that Mr. Tyler eugbt not to
be a candidate forre-eleciion,and however prompt
they may have thought he ought to be in publicly
announcing such a resolution.
They might, consistently enough with these
opinions, as it seems to me, have still thought that
such a declaration by the Piesident would have ap
peared incongruous and out of place in a veto mes
sage on a bank bill, especially after the omissi >n
of it on other occasions, to which it seemed more
appropriate, and thatit would look, in this instance,
like an unworthy aud tremulous attempt at pallia
tion and deprecation of censure.
The most careless reader will not fail to observe
tbe wide difference there is between the statement
of Mr. Ewing and that of Mr. Spencer, as to tbe
extent of the advice given by the Cabinet; the
former confining it, so far at least as he expressed
any opinion, to the isolated point of the insertion
of the s uggested declaration in the veto message,
while the latter amplifies it into a decision against
the President’s making such a declaration at any
time or in any manner—into a decision “that no
one had a right to expect such a step Rom aim,”
and that there was no “barrier belween him and a
direct vote of the People.”- .
My general ;cquaih".ance and association with
my colleagues of that Cabinet, would not have in
, dined me to believe that they entertained the opin
j iens thin ascribed tb them by Mj. Spencer.
But, whatever tbe advice given or opinions ex
pressed $t the Cabinet meeting in question, tbe fact
now disclosed of my absence exempts me from all
concern in respect to it, and dispenses with the ne
cessity of any further personal explanations on my
part. And here, as to this matter, 1 might conclude.
But I am unwilling to leave this part of lhe sub
ject without reteience to a conversation I once
held with the President, in which the same ques
tion or mattci that it now appears, was submitted
to his Cabinet in my absence, became the subject
of allusion. I do notiemember exactly its date,
but it was only a few days before my resignation.
It was very brief. I regarded it as a casual pri
vate conversation, and therefore forbear now to
AUGUSTA, GA. THURSUI*
repeat it, but am entirely willing to do so upon
any proper application. In my judgment, it is not
material to any matter in issue, and is of little or
no consequence in any respect. And I allude to it
not for any importance that I attach to it, but sim
ply on account of the fact of its occurrence
The other charge, as made, and intended by Mr.
Spencer to be understood, is of a much more expli
cit, grave, and personal character. He virtually
accuses the then Cabinet of a dishonorable “tena
city” for office, and of attempting, through the in
tervention of the “Whig leaders in Congress,” or
in concert with them, 10 bargain with the President
for their retention in office.
The charge is so made as to involve indiscrimi
nately all the members of the then Cabinet, inclu
ding Mr. Webster, who remained in office, as well
as those (being all the others) who resigned. But
I can hardly suppose that Mr. Spencer intended
thus to implicate his own colleague, Mr. Webster.
The resigned members of the Cabinet were proba
bly the only objects of his attack. In the integri
ty and honor of those gentlemen, my late colleagues
in office, I have ihe most pcriect confidence, but 1
am not authorized to speak for them, nor shall I.
For myself, I auswer that, so far as concerns me,
then a membei of the Cabinet, this charge, in its
whole length and breadth, is totally unfounded- 1
oppose to it an absolute unqualified denial.
I do not know, and never Knew, of any such mes
sage to the President as that stated by Mr. .Spen
cer. I had neither art nor part in any such mes
sage, not iu any device or negotiation for securing
to myself a continuance in On the contra
ry, 1 had become dissatisfied wrtlxMre administra
tion of Mr. T}ler, and my consequent determina
tion to resign my office was avowed and known to
many friends now in this city.
The cause of my retirement is truly set forth in
iny letter of resignation • and, under tho imputa
tion of “tenacity” of office, now cast upon me, 1
hope I may be excused for adding, that in the cir
cumstanccs of my position, as I regarded thero, no
•office. W, ir ~
In corroboration of his statements, Mr. Spencer
reiers to promulgations in newspapers—to a speech
“by a Representative in Congress, from Massachu
setts,lately delivered at Newburyport, upon autho
rity and to “the declaration of a member of
Congress.”
In this promulgation, speech, and declaration are
to (he same effect with Mr. Spencer’s statements,
they arc answered by this reply to him; and though
I do not, otherwise than from this letter, know
their import. I shall without trouble of further
search or inquiiy, content myself with saying that
they are incorrect to the whole extent the}' may
vary from the statement of facts I have here made.
From information received, I suppose that I may,
withcut hazard of mistake, infer (hat the “Repre
sentative in Congress from Massachusetts” and the
“inember of Congress” abovs alluded to, are one
and the same person, and that the Hon. Mr. Cush
ing is that person.
Upon perusal of this statement, I trust that those
gentlemen will be convinced of their error; but, if
not, I desire that all controversy in respect to the
facts in question may be new finally settled, so far
as I am individually concerned.
Before leaving my residence in Kentucky for this
place, I had read Mr. spencer’s letter, and had
heard of Mr. Cushing’s speech, but it seemed to me <
most proper to postpone any leply till I could make
it here in the city of Washington, in their presence,
and in the presence of those members of Congress
who were here at the date of the transaction, and
to whose information or testimony they might wish
to appeal. At the end of the present session those
members will be widely separated, and no oppor
tunity equally favorable to a thorough investiga
tion, now is the time. For myself, I rest secure
in the unimpeachable truth of the statement I have
here made.
Respectfully, yours, &c.
J. J. CRITTENDEN.
Mr. Ewing’s Letter.
Lancaster, Ohio, Dec. 6,1842* 1
Deir Sirs Your favor of the JOth ultimo is f
hand. I had noticed the paragraphs in Mi. BpeiV
cer’s letter to which you refer, but had not felt t»
necessity of reply ing to them, as they cannot, ift.
my judgement have the slightest weight in formiiij|
or modifying the opinion of the public. From Mk
Spencer’s own showing, he couid have no
ledge whatever of the matters to which he volun
teers his testimony; and he stands in such a rela
tion to the parties tint, had he knowledge of the
facts, very small reliance could be placed on bis
opinion. Indeed, eveiy thing considered, between
a statement or an opinion of the Secreiary of War
and of the President’s doorkeeper, touching these
matters, the title to credit and respect would be
entirely in favor of that of the last-named funct
ionary.
Mr. Spencer’s first assertion, which I understand
is backed by a statement of Mr. Cushing, (though
I have not seen the statement,) namely, that the
Whig members of Congress, in concurence with the
Cabine'; picpcsed to postpone the bill to create a
Fiscal Corporation if the President would agree to
know, wholly witnouf • otfc<ranon. Ther?w??nD
proposition of that kind made to the President on
behalf of the Whig members, or any of them, with
my concurrence or knowledge. W hat some mem
ber of Congress may have proposed, and some mem
ber of the Cabinet concuned in, I know not; but I
was never consulted on any such proposition by
any member of Congress or the Cabinet; nor ever
either advised or sanctioned it. And, moreover,
the.person who is said to have carried the proposi
tion to the President had not in any respect my
confidence.
I joined in au effort to postpone the bill, on the
strong Representation made to us by Mr. Webster
that the President was on that subject in a state of
mental derangement. When I address members of
Congress upon it, some expressed apprehension,
others a belief, that the President had determined
to abanden the Whig paity—that he was then en
gaged in negotiation with the opposition, and asked
for time merely to effect his arrangements. I was
told by some that he itfuccd to say to M«mthat he
desiied the postponement, or to give them any as
surance, either in manner or matter, to allay their
apprehensions. To tnis state of things, and noth
ing beyond it,l alluded in that paragraph of my
letter of resignation which is referred to as “shad
owing forth” the alleged proposition. The person
who carried the proposition to the President, if any
such were carried, can tell, and he ought to be re
quired to tell, what members of the Cabinet were
consulted and concurred in it.
The statement with respect to the President’s
proposition to decline a re-election is much less
wide of the truth, though its degree of verity was
of couise wholly unknown to Mr. Spencer at the
time he ventured the statement. The conversation
referred to occurred on the 4th day of September,
in the absence of yourself and Mr. Badger, and im
mediately after the Committee on Enrolled Bills
brought the bill to create a Fiscal Coiporation to
the President for his signature. He said in sub
stance that he shoud probably be compelled to veto
the bill, and he thought of accompanying the veto
message with a solemn declaration that he would
not be candidate-for re-election, and wished our ad
vice as to the matter. In the course of the conver
sation, he also said he had indited a sentence, In
tended for insertion in his inaugural, expressly de
claring that he would not be a candidate for re-elec
tion, which he withheld, lest its effect should be to
turn the batteries of Mr. Clay and his friends on
Mr. Webster.
Mr. Webster having replied, and objected te the f'
declaration suggested by lhe President, I said that s
1 hoped he would not feel himself compelled to ve- e
to tbe bill; but, if he did, I did not think it advisa
hie to accompany the veto with the proposed de
claration, as there appealed to me no connexion *
whatever between the two subjects, and I did not 1
think such a declaration would nave any tendency
to reconcile the people' to the 'veto. This is tbe sub
stance of what 1 said on the subject; what was said
by the other membeis of the Cabinet Ido not re- s
member with sufficient distinctness to state it ex
cept that we all concurred in the opinion that such ;
declaration,at tfiat time, aud those circumstances,
ought uqi to be made.
Besidgj tbe reason which I adt’a*''—'-'““ *’ -»■ £
others ir cured tome, _ Wblcn 1 <ud not think proper e
to suggest, but which were, in my opinion, decisive t
of the matter. I was well aware that the Presi
dent was at that time exceedingly unpopular, and
believed, if he vetoed that bill,he must become an
object of almost universal datestation. The oppo
sition hated him as a renegade from their party. ;
The Whigs had begun to look upon him with dis
trust and aversion, as one who had betrayed them i
and deserted their principles. For him, at that ,
time and under those circumstances, to declare so.
lemnly in a public paper that he would or would
not be a candidate for re-election would, as I ,
thought, make him the subject of public ridicule .
and contempt, as he was already of public indig
nation. My advice, therefore, was given seriously i
and in good faith, though I did not for a moment (
believe his proposition was so—no more than I be
lieved as a fact his statement that he had penned 1
such declaration fcrinsertion in his inaugmal, but
withheld it lest it should turn the batteries of Mr.
Clay and his friends against Mr. Webster. His
suggestion seemed to me to convey the idea that
the Whigs, the Cabinet included, cared little about
measures if we could clear the way for the succes
sion.
I write in haste. This paper is at your service,
to retain or use as yon see lit. it contains tbe facts
as they were, partly from recollection, partly fro®
entries on any journal,
I am, very truly, yoms,
Hon. J. J. Crittenden, T- EWING.
Washington, D.C-,
The Right Rev. John Dubois.—The funeral
service of this venerable prelate took place this
morning at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Bishop Du
bois, says the Courier, was born in Paris on 24th
of August, 1764. In September, 1787, he was
ordained priest. The French Revolution break
ing out soon after, he emigrated to the U. States
in 1791. He arrived in Richmond Va., in the
month of July of that year, and was most kind
ly received by the illustrious patriots of that pe
riod, the Washingtons, the Heniys, the Ran
dolphs, and the Marshalls, of Virginia, to whom
he came recommended by letters from General
Lafayette. During two years he continued a
mong them, improving himself in English, and
at the same time giving lessons in French. In
1734, Archbishop Carroll appointed him pastor
of a congregation in Frederick, Maryland. In
1808, he founded St. Mary’s college. In 1826,
Ds. Dubois was appointed Bishop of New York,
. end died consequently in the 16th year of his
piscopacv, and the 55dh of his priesthood.—ZV
Y. JEtis. Post,
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j‘ Both bourn «übmL TWLg
tfhort holiday RLrtClUil ’ ’ TVi* . “
r. g«d during the Jay .< ' '■ ' '
y on Tarione av'>.
1- committee*, S t
con.id.lUft vt
it went intq Etc :
.- Inthe H ’«” e : u-J;
1- the o«i‘ <■' • : .
peal the bankrupt .nr V I -
‘J iog the day, withr I’
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In our paper ; Vj.Qj i
1 cixl Memg. of lire GajSS,? t*"/’
t urginq upon that iw-ifa, ■ ‘
H< l;<an urn .uni srisK'
l ea on tho Statedr hr, wqMk ■' , d
- will require 110,0* 0 ; g
' necessary to <},■ X; aft
, comemnta of our owir. -'
to us, that perhaps
who happen to be ho Ar#!.
> perty, known as B_.uk
ti n unsavory docuni. •»t,d| r
especial beurft', to sUn 981
hope thorn will then
- 4 U .. s -:
vesliglffdu
and what portion the ■ ■' < '
the people, which ha* j •*’W ,
stilts. We haVe, ii
loti,l.outers in the r,oi : v
rrd to Buy oflhoM i-i.-K-
ted to be insolvent, ’■ .
position is to tgx the i •"
The dumber ■
specie ttanlri .fi.Lr^i,; oiftfe.person <;
of these, i*sl bold ifrs*
—327 liold’in trur >
lualeu or orphans. . i X”'' l '|t ■
2763 persons, whe jj l '- t«
to Georgia, that - G,;.; '
message, to raise, fe' f " ■’ Sank fttock,
(eielusivo of the other if 'beae p- sons
pay) the sum of -ineM ■
djllars'’ to pay lire o
This is a plain stateineu® «. -#»■» : s will appear
by the bank reports m.-J ir i- r. Wo
propose to my
use and value of the i. .vlre-.« £ers
the Governor was derj£s >• \th s
for whatever m:y be sili'r- I: oken
and insolvent i'lStitutHH SMsi;
bility, be made to apply*- f iustiljtions
from which tt .a ”• 'm® t t n drawn,
bad tlie Gove- . B*'T -■ f 'tai, because
these banks p ’ • ’ meat itrnir
engterinentit. V-r _ ex :ite the
sympathies of the rwL . i .. higV
bantfed injust e amt A ■ -h.clritwopoE
<•<ll£ impose upn ;) JL . A ' : widows
and orphans- si. will | * > a happen
to have prefer: J i- 1W o : m bank
stock, rather th: \or do we
purpose to enter ■ - . .on of what
bank stock is, or . /|rt ; * f> tn other pro.
perty, that it Shi .A j e ,.p eTßiy
Other species of . $-t» ,e;t o taxation, as
the only art<cle Ltitife?. oi; an Mormons
amount, of n.on- y whjl •
entering in -, -i < <«|
make the p. y ,• appearl?
a tenfold nr ihe
furnish a fraud, this
corrupt n cotimendmon, which has been
gested by-the Governor to be perpetrated upon
that small but respe/able class of our fellow cit
izens who are tho ovners es bank stock.
To show the extraodinary characterol this worse
than corrupt proporiion.let us but advert to a few
facts, which cannot til to satisfy every unprejudi
ced man of ‘.he Ijui character of the Governor.
The white popui-finof the Slate of Georgia,
according to the ll ’tjcensus, was 296,806 souls.
These paid, in 18$ . according to the report of
the Comptroller, rflCoin November last, a tax
of about $220,000 tan ' by the act of the Lcgis
lature just passed, he amount of taxation to be
paid the ensuing jjar, will be $275,000, or not
one dollar to each ihite inhabitant; while, if lhe
proposition of thflGovcrncr had been adopted,
the 2768 persons, tho own Bank Stock in Geor
gia, would be comlelhd to pay sllO 000, or an
average of 40 dollqseach, exclusive of the taxes
which they pay ci; other property. Comment
upon such a preposition, is unnecessary.
Hear thir own Witnesses.
The action of tb Legislature just adjourned,
is drawing down yon lhe majority the merited
indignation ol an i|jured people. The Dahlonc
gah “Times,” anput and out Locofoco print,
says :
“We haveprivae information, that our Legis
lature was to havl adjourned on Saturday last.
For all the good hey have done, we think the
people would hnM been glad to have dispensed
with their service several weeks ago, which
might have avertef the evils they have ignorant
ly or wilfully entiled upon them. But such
have been the upsind downs of our Legislatures
for many years, rkulring from ignorance, folly,
stupid ty and the tcursed perverseness of party
spirit and party dill, that as soon as one Legis
lature had passed l law, as they supposed for lhe
general good, anoher repeals it, and erects upon
its ruins another lore obnoxious,”
Again, alludinnto the Election to fill the va
cancy of the late lon. R. W. Hambersham, the
same Editor remirks:
“GEORGE V. CRAWFORD, Esquire, of
Richmond, is the Whig candidate. It is not our
province to say truck in relation to this gentle
man’e talciris ondworth. Rut we will osv how
ever, that ho is' u Whig out and out,J possessing
talents equal to tie most talented of his party.”
“The Second Deluge.”
Under this casion, the Globe of Friday even,
ing gives the Maiisonian one of tbe most severe
and—to every me but John Jones—amusing
castigations whih we have seen in an age.
It appears th». John— whose imagination is
always on etu ' who Jias for twelve months
been heralding I'.uo: r conspiracies,” “astound
ing disclosvasj' an other monstrosities— the
creature es ni* X C' zed fancy—lately announ
ced that a ‘ storm • c brs Bg,” which
‘ ‘ Wuuia raise up rocks,
Aui straighten crooked sticks.”
He said—
“I: is obvious that a storm is brewing in the j.
political firmament. The elements of discord
ate rising above the horizon in every direction.— •
Like fitful gusls on lhe darkly overcast ocean, we '
observe, ever and anon, some aspirant vainly eir- t
deavoring to catch a favorable br> eze—getting up ,
spiritless meetings here and there, and procuring
laudatory articles to be inserted in certain politi
cal journals, bat tbe next week, or the week after,
at farthest, the wind abandons his sails, and he
is left becalmed— powerless, and unnoticed on
the Dead Sea of public opinion.”
On this wonderful medley of incongruous im
ages, the Globe thus comments:
“This is but the overture. It is finely got up
Observe how graphically the silly “aspirant.”
“like fitful gusts,” is described, who, unmindful
of impending late, when "a storm is brewing;”
when “the elements of discord are rising above
the horizon”—when the said “fitful gusts on the
darkly overcast ocean” are sweeping—undertakes
“to catch a favorable breeze.” The reader will
rematk the curious phenomenon that occurs in
the midst of this uproar of storm and ocean.—
Indeed, it amounts almost to a miracle; for the
tremendous blow—in which the aspiring mariner
is represented as setting his sails for “favorable
breezes”—instead of tearing them to pieces, a
bandons his sails without more ade; aud “be is
(left becalmed, powerless, and unnoticed on the
Dead Sea of public opinion.” But it will be
seen, from tbe next paragraph, that he is not let
: a, enure— I
gs
t! '* W^ UP h V nM I
'■ V W •” but this w
VTIIKfaWL 1 , Irf? their.
it.- i. i uLi'l’lOMZ-' t’l ' -\TB-
j They will break'the tiitdgs of the money -lender
I anil cast out thorn who fell- doves! Old thinj
j will bo made.inew-,”
1— ,
1 Public Meeting. ‘
ft, Inqftredienceto i stall for a meeting to take into
I cansideralion the propriety of inviting llsnry
J C&y to visit this city, a number of hisafrieiids
assembled at the City ffallthis Say at 3j o’clock
when the Hon. Daniel-Hook was called
(q.theChfiir, and James Hope appointed Secre
tan.
The Chairman having in a few pertinent re-
, marks stated the object of the meeting,
Richard H, Wilde. Esq. rose, andjafter a very
imp-esaing and eloquent eulogium upon the life',
character and distinguished public services of
that purely American Statesman and Patriot,
Henry Clay, submitted fte following resolutions
to the consideration of the meeting:
’ jfesolued, That the Chairman appoint a Com
mittee of thirty-five, to invite Hrnry Clat, of
Kentucky, in the name of the citizens ot Rich
mond county, to visit diem at such time as may
suit his convenience.
Resolved, That this Committee -be authorized,
in the event of Mr. Clay’s accepting their invi
tation, to ntakn-qdl necessary arrangements for
his reception.
The resolutions having beeujead, their adop
tion was seconded by Win. T. Gauld, Esq., and
.they were adopted unanimously.
The Chair then nominated the following gen
tlemen a Committee under tile first resolution:
B. H. Wilde, W. W. Holt, BtH. Warrer H I.
A. Kibler, A. J. Miller, H. H. Cumming, C. J.
Jenkins, T. S. Metcalf, J. J. A. C.
Caldwell, Eli Mustin, W. M. D'Antigfiac, F.
M. RobcrtsM, M. M. Dye f C. A. Greiner, Jno.
B. Campbell, G.T. Dortic, C. B Hitt, P* Flam
ing, A. G. Bull, P. Stovall; S. Nfiliini; KF.
Boferia%G,.A. Laroche, R. A. Allen, W. J.
Kve, Crawford, W. E. Dearing, W. T.
}■ G. McWhorter, J. H.
J l°'f err ' /
Esq., was added to the Committee. ' ’
Whereupon the meeting adjourned.
D. HOOK, Chairman.
Augusta, 30th ~
The members of the Committee are requested
to meet at the office of Peck & Dearing, this
day at 10 o’clock a. M.
Illinois JSsitatom.—Sidney Breese has been
elected a Senator of the United States for six
years from the 4th of March next, to succeed
Senator Young, whose term of service will then
expire. This is a change of persons but not of
parlies, both Senators being very decidedly anti-
Whig.
Fatfthe Chronicle and Sentinel.
Mr. Ebitor:—l am informed that the long
and tedious Legislative session of 1842, has by
some me ans been brought to a close. It cannot
have been compelled to adjourn for want of a
quorum, because, by the “new democratic arith
metic,” all arising from that source
may be readily obviated!
T/ue question which naturally arises among the
people, and which, is incessantly asked and reit
erated, “what have the Legislature done for the
country!” will continue to be echoed and re
echoed again. Tu this and to like inquiries, ev
ery el Aade and diversity es response may be anti
cipated—from evasive answers and doubtful re
pipes, to harsh reproach and positive condemna
tion; from open and. manly acknowledgement, to
ehame faced denial and unblushing falsehood.
Near the close of tho session, when the wan
ing month of December had warned them of the
consequences of their misspent time, and had
startled them for a moment to a hurried review of
the past, they turned and saw “the Baku whit
ish on tbs wade!” What did they then!
Did they, like men desirious of retrieving their
temporary (errors, arouse and shake off th»
effects of a passing indulgence of intemperate
passions and. rally to the service of the coentry
and to the pr osecution of their legitimate business’
No. Like children suddenly detected in somo
petty inadvertence, they sought to shift the blame
on their neighbors. "Yes— these full grown men,
democratic legislators of Georgia, cried aloud,
“We’ll tell the people on you when we go home,
■yuU B.vgbty Whigs; you would neither pass this
i-™ that, nor you would not let us do it, so
you wou.ldn’t.” b» i» r .■ -’ - nreeared for
subterfuges as puerile in character as this; and let
them also bear in mind that those who have re
sorted to those undignified excuses, had a legis
lative majority of more than fobtx !!
“Relief for the people,” and “solicitude for their
constituei >ta,” hung like honeyed accents forever
on their 1 ips, while their actions, their recorded
deeds, those trumps which will be heard after
their sweet words shall have been forgotten,
prove the hollow hypocricy of their empty pro
feesions.
I had intended, to give a condensed history of
the condaret of the last Legislature, but I am hap
py that the task has been assigned to much abler
hands; and my only object now is to prepare the
public pnind for the address of lhe committee,
which will appear in your paper alas early a pe
riod as practicable—and in which the earnest in
quiries of the people will be truly and fully an
swered.
Another Nomination ot Mr. Clat.—Ata
Whig meeting in Knox County, East Tennessee,
on the sth instant. Mr. Clay was enthusiastically
nominated for the next Presidency, and Govern
or Jones for re-election. They consent to a
National Convention. We givo the following
extract from the Address:
“Entertaining these opinions upon these great
questions of Federal palitics, it is natural in this
juncture of public affairs, when the dominant
1 power of modern Democracy in union with a re
creant President, makes null the popular will,
that our choice of a candidate for the Presidency
in 1844 should lee directed to tome citizen, by
whose election our wishes upon these subjects
may be completely realized, and who at the same
time had proved himself patriotic beyond the
shadow of reproach, wise and eloquent, true of
heart, frank and generous, honest in his convic
tions of truth, pure in his political motives, firm
in his purposes, and elevated in his ends of con
duct. Need we mention his name ? It springs
unbidden to the lip of every true Whig. Hexrx
i Ceax of Kentucky!”
; .1 WW
<aij»n whioaMsny ■■ 'mireitiic.
•spirit of jmprovemeßt and .compromise Vth&h 1 <lfe
imguishesjaer country and its lustirMiatiSf it In
comes us to inquire whether it be possible to saewai
the.MvWttses wffotded by thp -pmfet baUt
through the agency of aUuitefi States Bank sb mod,
ified in its f/rincipl s and structure fe to Obviate.
cmstitutunal owl other objections. It hi thought
practtceble to organize seen a bank, withthe rteces
sary qjfwpfe as a bbakch or the Tbeasuby Ds-e-
PABTMBwr, based oh the public and private DE
POSITS, without power to make loans or pur
chase mor [.urv, which shall remit the fundr. of gov
ernment; and the expense which may be paid, if
thought advisable, by allowing its officers to sell
bills of exchange to private individuals at a moder
alepremium. Not being incorporate'body, having
ho stockiwtders, debtors, or property, and but few
otficers.it Would hot be obnoxious to the cossrt-
TtnzwtAt. objections which are urged against the
present bank; and having ho sieans io operate on
the Mp«, fear, or interests of large tnassw of tfie
community, it would be shern of the in.luenco
which makes that bank formidable. Tae States
WOULD BE STItEHOTHENKD, BY HAVINC IS
HANDS THE MEANS OF FURNISHING THE LOCAL CA
TER CURRENCY THROUGH THEIR OWN While
the bank of the United States, though no paper,
would check ths issue of State banks, by taking
their notes m deposit and for exchange, only so long
as they continue to be redeemed with specie-’’
Taking the last definition of Gen Jackson’s opin
ions on the currency as the standard of -democrat
ic’ doctrine on the subject, we may presume that
the policy of the party, when it comes into power
will be to introduce the Sub-Treasury again, and
along with it a Bankrupt law including corpora
tions. By the two-told operation of this system
the power of the Government may so embarrass
the Banks as to make them cease business or sns
pet d specie payments; and in the lattercase imme
diate liquidation will follow. The field will then
be clear for the Government to move ia. A cur
rency exclusively metallic will no,t do—although
the idea of it may suffice as a party theory white
the war against all Banks is going on. What sys
tem will be jatroduced when the extermination of
State institutions shall have been accomplished
whatspecies of Government Bank, gigantic and
rise up —it concerns us not now
to Uis anough to be assured that, be
Arrorm what it may, it will be the instrument of
political power.
In great political movements the end is seldom
avowed at the beginning. The progress is step by
step; and some intermediate object continues from
time to time to draw on the advancing
During Gee. Jackson’s the primi- I
plea dgeiaxed by hie party respecdug tlieeurteniy j
—ns in sty seen from the extract quoted Rbove
from hie Message in 1830. Thejtak of Dw Uni
ted SUtes wasto be prostrated then. \ stood in
the way of political dewgns t? *h<=h it would net
beeortltsubservient. «>e displea..
tee?'x a “ k, i
ta-hffilJhatffiev could furnish J‘‘better
currency” thxu M>cu exßtedg-Ateor jbr j,
was desired.
We need not follow the various steps Which fi
nally brought up the Sub-Treasury—a system
which Gen. Jackson himself had once denounced.
The success of the Whigs in 1840iateirnpted the
progress of the Van Buren policy; nor could the
party prevail upon its Southern members to allow
State banking corporations to be put at the mercy
of the government. The policy temporarily inter
rupted has not been abandoned. It will be urged
anew as soon as opportunity offers, and with a sys
tematic energy which the party could not exert in
Van Buren’s administration. The coalition then
with Mr. Calhoun was too recent; the heterogene
ous elements had not become blended. If Mr. Van
Buren comes into power agaiu he will expect to do
without Mr. Calhoun —there will be no faltering
in his trained bands. With Mr. Benton as the
leader of the party there will be at least unity of
purpose and of action so far as hostility to the
State Banks is concerned.
It is well enough to look forward to probable re
sults when tendencies arc apparent. We can bet
ter estimate the nature of political actions by con
udi ring to wbat they must lead. The course of
tho Jlcksoa-Van Buren party in reference to the
currency has been so remarkable that in thinking
of that party one caanot help considering them in
connection with that subject. The bland teachings
of the author of the Sub-Treasury .gently insinu
ated into the mind of General Jackson, have made
the old chief a wonder in financial knowledge—
and lie announces h s opinions now with as much
dogmatism as he formerly maintained opposite
views. It is to be understood, however,that the
latest opinions from the Hermitage are the only
orthodox ones.
Indiana Senator.
The National Intelligencer of the 28tb says:—
Judging from letters and papers of a recent date
trom Indianopolis, it would seem to be very doubt
ful whether any election of a United Slates Sen
ator will take place in Indiana at the present ses
sion of the Legislature. It appears that lhe
Whigs had a majority of 10 votes in the Senate,
and their opponents a majority of eight in the
House at the commencement of the session, giv
ing the Whigs a majority of’2 on joint ballot.
It had been the practice for years to elect a Sen
ator on the Friday of the first week of the ses
sion; and lhe Senate agreeably to custom, passed
a resolution to go into the election on that day
but the House was not ready. The resolution
was laid on the table. A contested election was
pending, (which was soon decided by ousting the
Whig member, bringing the parties to a tie, ex
cept that one Democrat was pledged, before his
election, to vote for the re-election of Mr.
Smith.) Hence the resolution of the Senate to
go into the election was adopted in the House
until it was ascertained by lhe majority there
that a Whig member, representing a Democratic
county, had been instructed by bis constituents
to vote against a Whig Senator, and that he
would obey the instructions : when the re
thc day, passed, and sent lb the Senate.—
When it reached the Senate it was laid on the
table by the majority, to give the Whig counties
an opportunity to instruct their Democratic rep
resentatives to vote for a Whig Senator. So i(t
seems that the parties are on the alert; and as one
holds the Senate the other the House, it is prob
able the whole may go down to the People with
tbe other important elections of next summer,
including that of a Governor, Lieut. Governor,
Representatives to Congress, and members ot
the State Legislature.
The Lead Trade.—The extent of lhe mining
business, says the Galona Gazette, and its impor
tance to the country, may be judged from the
fact, that the product of these mines alone has
this year been worth almost a million of c 1 -liars;
and this at the low price which the art : -le has
borne.
Noted Reading.—The Boston Qmrterly Re
view says, —“throw away the last nev novel; go
with tne thorugh these dark lanes, olind|courts,
into the damp cellars,’unfurnished jarrets, where
poverty, vice and crime are crowded together,
layer upon layer, where breeds the corruption
that pollutes our whole moral atmosphere. Here,
my friends, is a volume that may excite you, here
ia a work which you may read, b orget your
luxury; forget your luxurious ease; blush so-your
repinings, your sentimental whimpering your
vapors and indigestions, and remember tlat you
are men and women; and that it is your business
to make this earth a paradise, and every human
heart a meet temple for the living God.
Youth is designedly odd, and prideshimself
on it; the man is UDinteniionclly ani raor *
lilies him.
Using Gen. Jackson to the Last.—A cor
respondent ot the Ohio Statesrnau w
fndiunopolis, says, “it is the desire
racy of Indiana that Gen
over the next National Conjj<ri!—E,.
m {eet an<3 two
, iGIU ’. 1 _»<ritelrilled on the 17th inet.near
inches tn
tants to their wild retreat, afe I
I r ■as mteii as speakbigyA l -- ’ ' lau . v , e |; in Snau- «
: .. 1 ty-twk**! the ptvyth-
iMsufe. * b ’ tte > ‘iialef
the stfeng 'mpßßx ... - _ ''■/tWLt*ffe
premia tteWWatiOMnty to Mpwce »D U>e
forcei.TXtfUlrounded them. Itmay exert*univer
sal astoaishiMail, whea the faet beconrcs known,
tfiat there actually
fiundred miles, a distr.ct of people,
ei-ned themselves forages and that they coitrttoe 1
to do so without assistance qr protection. It would
be a lesson to mankind to ascertain how they have
managed their self-governing principles, and how
they bare preserved the national indrviduzlity.
Three centuries have transpired since the conquest:
find if neither Yankee nor Irishman have found his
way among the Lacandroaos before this,it deserves
the careful consideration both of the psycho legist
and the statesman.”
Typb Setting Machine.—We understand
(hat Capt. Rosenborg’s Composing end Distrib
uting Machines are about to be pul to the practic
al test of their efficiency and certainty in the office
o| Messrs Clowes and Son, the most extensive
itl London. The journeymen have styled them
‘•The Infernal Machine,” and view them with
feelings of alarm. We shall wc believe, be ene
bleci to give a report of the progress of the trial,
Ate issue of which must be particularly Interest
isg to newspaper proprietors.
Meanwhile we transcribe the following account
of the machines from the Illustrated London
Niws which contains an engraving of tho Cont
ptptng and one of the Distributing Machines.
Ju one of our early numbers was given an ac
count of a new mode of composing-types, the
inAntion of Messrs: Young and Delcambre.
WeAavc new the pleasure of representing two
viewj, one of a Composing and-lho other of a
Distibuting Machine, both invented by Captain
Rosenborg, and ur|every way
to ary previous ones.
“The setting up of the types, which Messrs.
Youig sud Delcambre were able to Ht 'lt®
■ ate -ii 6,000 an hour, Capt. Rosenborg .{states he
can'do at the rate of at least 10,800; and the dis
tribation of the types, which under Messrs.
Ycurg and Delcambre’s arrangement, furnishes
occupation for 4 hands, (boys,) Capt. Rosenborg
does by means of one, withthe aid of machinery.
■The mode of working with the machino is as*
follawK-rl'ka chiefoompositor, who sits at the
machine, having ffis oopy tufeie him, performs
from their teepefeiste feimpartments and are laid
down upon an endloss belt or chain, which is
constantly passing through the middle sf the ma
chine from tho right towards the left.—By the
motion of lftiy chain the'types wShn liberate and
which is revolving at d cor.siderable speed, the
-typu- sro horizontoUyi one above the
other in the same order as the kepttrr
ed upon, and are thus formed into lines, thelinee
being supported by a T shaped slider, which is
made to recede in the! same proportion as the
types accumulate upon it. As each line is com
pleted, (of which the compositor is informed by
the dial, and warned by tne bell,) the compositor
takes hold of a small wich by his left hand, by turn
ing which, the lino completed is lowered to the
bottom of the receiver, while by moving with his
hand a lever, the lino is removed from tho re
ceiver to a justifying stick. The time consumed
in this operation is less than a second. As soon
as the line is removed into the justifying stick,
the assistant compositor detaches, with bis left
hand the upper end of that stick, the end being
moveable upon a fulcrum and, having lowered it
into a horizontal position, he reads the line, the
types standing now in a vertical position. —Hav ]
iug corrected such faults as may have occurred
during the composition, he by removing a slider i
which constitutes the bottom of the justifying ,
stick, causes the line of type to drop at once from
the stick into the galley, where he spaces it out.
The principal feature of novelty in this ma
chine is lhe endless chain, on which the types
are deposited, and by which they are conveyed
into tho receiver, and the advantages are, the
types are carried forward in a straight line by
the endless chain, free from all chance of distur
bance, and subject to little of no friction; and
that as many letters may be set at once as hap
pen to follow in uninterrupted alphabetical se
quence ; and, in practice, there is a vast number
of words and syllables which lhe compositor
soon learns to dispose of in thia way, by one
stroke of the keys. For example, act, add, all,
accent, adopt, envy, are words, the letters m
which, following in their natural order, may be
set up by one pressure of the hand on the keys ;
the endless chain carries tb« types forward in
the order in which they were deposited upon it,
and nothing can occur to disturb that order- 3o
also with such syllables as db.ojf, dem, opp, and
Zm. The saving in limo from lhe use of such ac
cords, (as they are termed) may be thus illustra
ted. The word accentuation contains twelve
letters, and wauld require twenty Jour move
ments of lhe arm of a compositor to set up in
tbe ordinary way ; but with Capt. Rosenborg a
machine, it is act up with only three strokes on
the keys, as thus, accentu at-ion.
Capt. Rosenborg states that he has proved, by
■ actual trials, that his machine is capable of dehv
' ering or cleaning out types, (supposing them to
! be composed without regard to order of sequence)
: to the amount of 400 in a minute and 24,000 in
’ an hour. Already, a young man, with only a
! few months’ practice, and without a previous
’ knowledge of printing, is able to set op about
taining ab»ut 60 letters and spaces, (this we wifi
« neseed,) »nd, assuming that he is able to do so
’ for a coi tinuanee, that is equal to about 10,800 in
(t an hoi.r. .
e Wj now present the view of lhe Distributing
Marline, by which, a lad can distribute and re
h pliee io the composing machine, 6,000 inters in
r, a i hour; but this would offer no hindrance to tho
b [eneral operatiensof any printing office adopting
d ihe system of composing by machinery, for there
might be as many more distributing machines
employed as composing machines, or the relative
f speed of the two required ; for instance, three of
r- the one, or two of the other, five for three, and so
on.
The cost of Captain Rosenborg s two machines
must, we think, be greater than that of Messrs.
Y’oung and Delcambre’s one; but Captain Ro
senborg himself is of a contraiy opinion. The
machines lately shown st work ia Howaid street,
Norfolk street, and Strand, are the first complete
ones of the sort, and what they may have cost
furnishes, of course, no criterion by which to
judge of the price at which they could be manu
factured in considerable numbers for sale. They
are now in Htril for some further improviments.
and will be Egain submitted to inspection ii Loy
don, when the alterationsand amendments
finished.
The sum of £640 was lately given infrg
land for the bulb of a new tulip, called “W
Citadel of Antwerp.”
AFatkktMobe or Making L*' l£ » s -
The Legidaturc of New Humpshin'* 4 adopted
the fotjewipg:—
p-cson of good mot'; character, on
application u tbe Supreme Cou. edai-.1-ted
ted to practice as an attorney.
2. “Every party in a cau 4 prosecution, or
suit, may appear, plead, purs .> or defend in his
proper person, or by any c £pn giod moral
character.”
Thar, dmocmtic any I*-
VOL. VII. -NOI
M
' ribusij vt
and now
‘J** ’^ ,h bu, a "•'•.* t/’ J - ?,
dow . so ! iurwCtelE ..u .- few ■•uimi'
.proJJ LS*. Lea-, . t
trbjrcr: rfow*,..,. p v jfe'
falls upon the community nt Mhen tha*
are ill able to bear it, Sth. m>rity efjp, J
ibii cdSfirty owe as much or mqre than we s&u *•
able W psy . As if all this was pot suffteisat,
"last cerite Sa/arz”—-the failure of the Ocmulge*
Bank caps tho climax ~pf your rascalitiea, and
leave* us no recourse, inasmuch as the Grand
Jury of your county have decided that the Presi
dent, Ihrectors and Officers are “all honoreble
men,”—and the author of all the viilany is that
notorioußseoundrel, ‘'Nobody ', One word more
as to your mode of trading. A neighbor of min*
went to Macon a few days ag*. with Thirty-two
Dollars of hfe Bills,, and in offering to
pass them wni insnlled several times by sefim of
tho merchant, and finally had to let them gofer
Eight Dollars, and that taken in goods. If a
farmer carries a load of Cotton to your market
to sell, be is very apt to be aheated out of it, if
he is not a very shrewd man. For instance, a
neighbor of mine carried a load of Cotton to Mo
con about two weeks since—ha was met about
half a mile this side, by a halfdozcp street buyers,
al! of whom seemed anxious tq Buy the cotton.
He asked them what it was worth: they told
him that four cents was as much sa any would
bring. Not being satisfied with the price, h*
stored it in one of the ware houses, but sold y
before bo left town for six cents. Thus yor
a former is imposed upon ih divere
they will not stand it any longer than they
help themselves. Quite a number of fenaare i
shipping their cotton now, and k soqn a* th
Central Rail Road is completed to Mason,, you
will discover quite a falling off in the busiMwof
tho place—they will go where they can get good
money for their produce, and have justice done
ahem. Albany win won command a conaidoia
lla portion of the trade<ths.t is now carried to
Maccn; and tho trade which Macon has bad-
North and East of her* will return to Auguate,
from the fact that they can have juiiice dene
them and where there is net so much danger of
Bastaining loss in tlig depreciation of the eurraeuy
MMa cprtaioly for thfeintereut of Macon to pumas
Houston county, Nov,-IMS,
charter of the Ca otiftl Bank ot Georgia, and for
otht*r purposes.
An act to establish a tobacco inspection In the
town of Rome, and t- • provide for the sppointtneiii
of Inspectors.
An act to exempt as! free white persons <rf sit
ty years of age and upwards, from a poll tax
thoughout this State.
An act to alter and amend an act of 1823, en
titled an act to amend tho eetray laws of this IhaMM
so far as relates to the time of advertising and
tolling horned cattle, sheop, goats or hogs, before
they arc sold.
An act to provide for tho method of collecting
rewards which may be offered for the apprehend
cion of runaway slaves, wlho may hereafter bo
lodged in any of the jails of this State.
An act to repeal so much, of an set, as relates
to the county of Scriven, compensating grand
and petty jurors, passed December 23d, 1837.
An act to repeal an act entitled an act, to a
mend an act, to incorporate the town of Bruns
wick, and for other purposes therein mentioned,
parsed 26th December, 1837, and for other pur-
poses. As
An act to alter and amend lhe road laws
this State, bo far respects the county of
and to appoint five commisaionara of t
each military district in said county, for tho pur
pose of trying defaulters, and carrying said road
laws into full effect, and to provide for th* filling
of viftancins in each board.
An act to authorize bis ICxcelfoncy, to furnish
the corps of Floyd rifles of the city of Macon, with
seventy five stand of anno, and to grant certain
privileges to tbe Augusta Artillery.
An act to amend an act, entitled an act, to lay
off, define and keep opan the main slue* of Broad
river, so as to prevent tbe obstructions of fire
passage of fish, and ti» appoint commissi sis f-a
tho same, passed December 18, 1834.
An act to legalize the adjournment of ’ e <aal
November term of the Inferior Cou ’ A Craw
ford county.
An act to compel persona reside.i iu checaon
ty of Cobb, in the State of Georgia to fi*» i»
and pay tho tax upon taxable prcf..:.ty '•a-.ch
they hold in the said eounty in the B»me.
An act to alter and amend an act incon >iias
the Bank of Brunswick with Banking pr.».
to ba located at Brunswick; ar.4 ala* to
ize tbe removal of said Bank.
An act to add tbe residence *' Je.nes M. Bry
an, now a citizen of the coun Glynn, to tbs
county of Wayne.
An act to incorporate the •a* Caiola
Turnpike Company, and to grim: certain privi
leges to tbe same.
— -br-Tij awiand t- - tmu
relation to the City of August
An act to change the pool seboel eyer«» i
Education in Emanuel coun. }, to a common
school system; to provide for of»
Board of Commissioners to
effect, and to authorize said boijrd t. < .
surplus funds at intersst.
An Odd Resolution.—l •>< Virginia Log
islature, on the 15th iust., a Mi. Hi pkins offer
ed a resolution to inquire intr- IhesTpedieucv of
punithing slaves, free negro soar mulatloea, for
attempting to administer pm: ofi. —s Mfi. w
cn by a request that the Commi toe on
tare, be instructed to inquir- into ibe expedh 'i
of hiving ail tbv pigs M lhe common* akh c iri
their tails to the left; to tsport by t il. v
wise. /
Foas Revinembuts.—T ie e
s«gar on horseback,” dtc 11 >u mui.
*)Hake a mendicant an *{<l*o . n,4nd he wit
/ot dismount from his st<w Li he visit.’ n.
Nicholas.”
f —e—
Who ha tbu» oimnyA!—Wi« •»
frank, sincere, honest, ger>r.:cfta, coaruoas, tn
honorable, and candid, sued a one is a true g»~
tieman, whether learned, or rich. 4 , .borer.
Capt. Fresmait Guar mastw of ■.» barqix-
Franklin, of this port, cles. 1 yesurd'. tor Tn...
dad de Cuba, being hia.erg :'v sever., 4 voyag* <
that port, in the employ of -Mrs. Bao; Burg.
& Sons, besides seteral so <ee to other pan.
the world—during tbewi.Jo of which he i.-
never met with any accident . icient to call 11.
on the underwi iters, and has lost but on; n.
by desertion. In all of his . .ges he has n ■
seen a United Slates Gove itnon vessel, ei
at sea or in a foreign port* ' Jeurnal
Oj’The Ohio I.egislatur »us -rptuled v> •/'
passed some yeais since to 'let!.. oa« <0 .
recover his fugitive slave. <i- or:. 4
first fruits of the aacende ■->( I. .0
The “natural alhes of the F ’ itb ,
ertheless. '