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‘For the first timo since hi* clerkship he |
could not enjoy that favmite meal, his tea, j
the black bitterness in his thoughts over,
powered the flavor of the green leaf; it
turned the milk, and neutralized the sugar
on his palate. ,f!e took hut one bite out of
his crumpet, and then resigned it to the cat.
Supper was out of the question.
/ With night and sleep all his horrors in
creased. The faoe of Mr. Pryme, no lon
ger florid, but pale as a plaster-cast, was
continually confronting him, now staring at
him through transparent waters, and now
between massive iron bars.
The next moment his phantom wasswept
away by a mighty rush of black waters,
like those in Martin’s grand picture of the
Deluge, and on or beneath the dark flood
again floated the palo cfligy of the suioide
entire and apparently struggling for dear
life, and sometimes shattered he knew not
how, and drifting about in passive frag
ments. Then came a fresh rush of black
waters, gradually shaping itself into an im
mense whirlpool, with the white corpse-like
figure, butmagnifird to aeollossal size, ra
pidly whirling in the centre of the vortex,
whilst obscure forms, black and white, of
of children, females, savages, and, alas!
not a few gigantic Demon shapes, revolved
more slowly around it.
In short,, the poor fellow never passed
so wretched a night since he was born !
chapter VI.
The morrow came, and the Hour —but
not the Man.
Messrs. Grimbie, Phipps, and Trent were
assembled round the office fire ; poor Phipps
looking as white as a sheet, for ten o’clock
had struck, and there was no Mr. Pryme.
At five minutes past ten the Secretary
came in from his own room with his golden
repeater in his hand—he looked anxiously
round the office, and then in turn at each of
the three clerks. Mr. Phipps sighed, Mr.
Trent shook his head, and Mr. Grimbie
shrugged up his shoulders.
‘Not here yet V
‘Nor won’t be,’ muttered Mr. Grimbie.
‘What odds will you lay about it V whis
pered the giddy Mr. Trent.
‘The office-clock is rather fast,’ stam
mered out Mr. Phipps.
•No—it is exact by my time,’said the Se
cretary, and he held out his watch for in
spection.
‘He was always punctual to a minute,’
observed Grimbie.
‘Always. I fear, gentlemen, we must
apply for a war— ’
The Secretary paused for he heard the
sound of a foot at the door, which hastily
opened, and in walked Mr. Prvme !!!
An appavation could scarcely have
caused a greater trepidation. The Secre
tary hurriedly thurst his repeater into his
breeches-pocket. Mr. Grimbie retreated
tohisown desk ; Mr. Phipps stood stock
still, with his eyes and mouth wide open ;
While Trent, though he was a loser on the
event, burst into a loud laugh.
‘I am afraid, gentlemen,’said Mr. Pryme
looking very foolish and stammering, ‘f am
afraid that my—my —my ridiculous beha
viour yesterday has caused you some—
some—uneasiness —on my account.
No answer.
‘The truth is—l was excessively anxious
and nervous, and agitated—very agitated
indeed!’
‘Very,’ from Mr. Trent.
The little florid man colored up till his
round, shiny bald head was as scarlet as a
love-apple.
‘The truth is—after so many disappoint
ments—l did not like to mention the thing;
the affair—till it was quite certain—till it
was over-for fear-for fear of being quizzed.
The truth is—the truth is— ’
‘Take time,’ Mr. Pryme, said the Secre
tary
‘Why, then, sir—the truth is—after fif
toen years—l’m a father—a happy father,
sir-a fine chopping boy, gentlemen—and
Mrs. P. is as charming—that’s to say, as
well— as can be expected !’
COLOR OP THE AIR.
When we look at the sky on a clear day,
it appears like a large blue arch set over
our heads, and seen through the (supposed)
invisible substance called air. But this is
not the case ; there is no blue dome above
us, and when the sky is viewed from any
elevated region of the earth, as at the top
of a high mountain or a balloon, and where
we would expect that this supposed blue
vault would be more distinct, and manifest
its blue tint more decidedly, it appears not
more blue, but dark or black. In propor
tion as the spectator rises above the surface
oftheearth, and has less air above him,
and that rare, the blue tint gradually dis
appears ; and if he could attain a height at
which their is no air, the sky would be to
tal darkness all around, except in the di
rection in which the sun’s rays fall upon
him. This leads to the inference, that the
air itself is a blue color. But how does it
happen that we see this blue color of the
__ftir only when we look kt the sky, or at a
distant mountain or forest? Why is not
the blue color seen in the air surrounding
us when we look towards a house or wall
not so far removed, or even in the air in a
room, or in the air contained in what we
call an empty glass vessel? Avery sim
ple experiment will explain the reason of
this apparent anomaly. If we take any
large glass vessel which contains a liquid
ofadeepcolor, and have several glasstubes
of different diameters, from an inch to a
fifth or 20th of an inch, and fill these tubes
with liquid out of the large vessel, though
we have the same liquid in all, and hence,
in all the matter which causes the color, it
will be seen that the tint will gradually be
come more faint in propootion as the diam
eter of the tube is less, until, in the smal
lest, the liquid is clear arid colorless like
water. The intensity of the color is just
in proportion to the mass at which the spec
tator looks ; and a very small quantity of
that which, in large quantities, has a strong
color, does not present any color at all, and
thus, though the great body of air which is
opposed to tfs, when we look a a clear sky
or any distant object, transmits a sufficient
quantity of blue rays to produce an impres
sion oftliat color on the eye, the smull quan
tity in u glass, in a room, or evon within
the compass of a few miles, contiot convey
enough of the blue rays to the eye to pro
duce the color which the air manifests in u
large body.— Chambers.
SECRET WRITING.
Write upon paper with a diluted solution
of muriate of copper ; when dfy it will not
be visible, but on being warmed before the
fire, the writing will become a beautiful
yellow.
Write with a solution of muriate of co
balt, and the writing while dry, will not be
perceptible ; but if held towards the fire it
will then gradually become visible ; and if,
the muriate of cobalt be made in the usual
way, the letters will appear of an elegant
green color.
Write with diluted nitre of silver, which
when dry, will be entirely invisible; hold
the paper over a vessel containing sulphate
ofamonia, and the writing will appear very
distinct. The letters will shine with the
metalic brilliancy of silver.
Write with a wsak solution of sulphate
of iron, let it dry m\d it will be invisible.
By dipping a feather in tincture of galls,
and drawing the wet feather over the let
ters, the writing will be restored and ap
pear black.
Write with a similar solution, and when
dry wash the letters in the same way with
the prussiate of potash and they will be re
stored to a beautiful blue.
SPIRIT-UAL MAGNETISM.
Tire Providence Journal thus relates the
effect of the magnetic fluid upon a lecturer
who was revealing the mysteries of animal
magnetism to the good people of that city :
“ The Lecture on Animal Magnetism
last Thursday evening, was the most amu
sing, if not the most instructive, of the
course. The lecturer, after a short exor
dium, in the course of which he got his di
agram upside down, and in other ways ap
peared decidedly under the influence of the
fluid, came to a full stop with—‘Ladies
and gentlemen, the fact is, I am drunk, dc
centli/ drunk, and 1 shall not lecture to
night. You can have your money hack, or
you may come again for nothing at some
other time when 1 am sober ; but it is quite
out of the question to go on at present.’—
His associate, Mr. Colby, resumed the lec
ture, with an apology, which was doubtless
as good as the case would admit of.”
EFFECTS OF MILLERISM.
The wife of Jonathan Leveridge, a res
pectable mechanic ofNewark,New-Jersey,
while laboring under derangement of mind
caused by the Miller doctrine, on Friday
administered arsenic to herself and two of
her children, one aged 3 years and the oth
er 12 months. Before she committed the
rash act she sent her three eldest children
to her aunt’s, in the neighborhood One of
the children died at 12 o’clock, the other at
2 o’clock, and the wife died about 6 o’clock.
At a Millerite meeting in Providence,
last week, the minister got the audience
worked up to such a pitch, that they were
every moment looking for the end of all
things, which he told them would be an
nounced by the sound of a trumpet. A
waggish boy, taking the hint, procured a
common fish-horn, which lie blew with a
perfect tempest of wind, thereby producing
such a climax that some of the fanatic mass
were frozen with fear.
/
The Millerites at Providence had deci
ded that the great end of all things was to
come about last Wednesday, and prepara
tions were made to meet it. Over one
hundred passed the night in the burying
ground, on the west side ; some of whom,
if report speaks true, were dressed in their
ascension robes. They went there to wit
ness the resurrection of their friends, with
whom they expected to rise into the clouds.
A Ferocious Dog Mesmerized.-The Mes
merizers in Ireland appear to go ahead of
our American professors of “ the science.”
At a late meeting of Mesmeric authorities,
(as reported in the London Medical Times)
it was stated by Dr. Elliotson, the Presi
dent, that “ the Duke of Marlborough had
informed him, in a letter from Ireland, that
while at the Marquis ol Ely’s seat, in that
country, and strolling out in the morning,
he came upon a ferocious dog, chained in
a farm-yard. His grace durst not approach
the brute, but, standing at a respectful dis
tance, he mesmerized him ; and going up,
actually embraced the sleeping brute
The dog remained in the sleep for thirty
minutes. Transcript.
At your own door. —The celebrated John
Randolph, on a visit to a female friend,
found her surrounded with her seamstress
es, making up a quantity of clothing.—
“ What work have you in hand ?” “0,
sir, I am preparing this clothing to send to
the poor Greeks.” On taking leave, at the
steps of the mansion, he saw some of her
servants in need of the very clothing which
their tender-hearted mistress was sending
abroad. He exclaimed, “ madam, madam
the Greeks are at your door /”
A HUMANE WIFE.
The Pennsylvanian gives the following
account, and thinks the lady alluded to
must have been a relative of the celebrated
Widow Grizzle, of eel-trap memory :
“ Pooh, pooh 1” said a humane lady, im
patiently, to her expiring husband, as he
strove to give her a few last words, “don’t
stop to talk, but go on with your dying.”
A young woman never looks so pretty as
when she has on her check apron, making
warm biscuit for supper.— Ex.paper.
Oh, Pshaw ! we think she looks far pret
tier with a brickbat in one hand and a cab
bage stalk in the other, chasing a hog out
of the door yard.— N. Y. Sunday Mercury.
cultural.
OUR CLIMATE.
A Mr. Locke, who is highly spoken of
as a gentleman of undoubted scientific at
tainments, has been delivering a series of
lectures at the North, to establish a doctrine
which has been for some time promulgating.
His theory is, that the climate of every
country is constantly and regularly change
ing from its greatest degree of cold, to its
greatest degree of heat, and then from heat
tocold again. Each progression, Mr. Locke
conceives, occupies about 333 years, and
our own climate, since the year 1791, the
period, of maximum cold has hern gradual
ly getting milder, whilst during the same
time, the climate of Europe has been un
dergoing an opposite change ; thus, Mr.
Locke asserts, that the United States will
soon posses, as ho declares they formerly
did, the. verdure of the vine clad hills of
France, whilst France will again be bound
in the icy chains of the ancient Gaul.—
This variation in climate, Mr. Locke thinks
is attributable to the same cause that pro
duces the variation in the magnetic needle.
The fact of regular and gradual varia
tion in climate, for which Mr. Locke at
tempts to account, is said to be fully estab
lished by a reference to history.
Subsoiling Draining and Irrigation im
England. —The advantageous effects of
draining upon wetsoil, must be just as great
as the injurious effects of too much water ;
while the good effects of Irrigation and war
ping—both merely systems of applying
weak liquid manure in large quantities—
and of the subsoil plow, as an instrument
by which the water is permitted to diffuse
itself more generally through, and the at
mosphere to act upon the tenacious subsoil
so as to make a change, as it were, in the
general character of the component parts of
the soil, may be philosophically demonstra
ted ; but this is unnecessary, for we have
proof positive of millions of acres before our
eyes. Thus the fens of Lincolnshire, Hun
tingdon], and Cambridgeshire, which fifty
years ago were stagnant marshes, are now
luxuriant pastures. 206,000 acres of the
Lincolnshire fens have been reclaimed, and
in other counties many thousands more,
while 25,000 acres oflhe single fen of Dee
ping are drained by two engines of 60 and
80 horse power! Chat Moss, a yawning
morass in 1820, is now a golden grain-field
with incipient villas ; while the several
statements of Messrs Dennison, Crafts, Gra
ham, &c. exhibit a change from sterility
to fertility, and afford practical evidence of
the draining, warping, irrigation and sub
soil plowing, which are really illustrations
of what these operations are doing for all ;
the general results being, that wheat in
these countries is no longer a luxury con
fined to the rich—it is now the staff of the
poor man’s strength—the quaking morass
and the aird moor now wave with the gol
den grain, and the earth which once gave
back only four times the seed, now returns
from eight to ten fold. Instead, too, of win
ter being the season of starvation to cattle
—when existence was all that could be
hoped for—it is now essentially the season
for fat and plenty ; for if the turnip cultiva
tion has given to the grazier the power of
increasing the quantity, the skill of the
breeder has equally increased the quality
of his stock, and this is seen in the weight
of cattle and sheep exhibited at Smithfield
market, at three different periods, viz
1810 : average of cattle, 26 st. 6 :lbs,;
sheep and lambs 2 st. each.
1830: average weight of cattle 39 st. 4 lbs.;
sheep and lambs 3 st. 8 lbs.
1840: average weight of cattle, 46 st. 12
lbs.; sheep and lambs 6 st. 6 lbs.
Such then is a brief glance at the prog
ress of this branch of agriculture.
[Hannuw.
New Method of Growing Asparagus. —
The Editor ofthe Horticultural Magazine,
recommends a trial of the following meth
od of growing asparagus, which is prac
ticed at Nice, and of which a high account
is given in the London Gardens’ Chronicle.
Take a quart wine bottle ; invert it over
the head of a stalk of asparagus just rising
from the ground, and secure it by three
sti'eks so that it cannot be knocked over.—
If left in this state, the asparagus will grow
up into the interior of the bottle, and, being
stimulated by the unusual heat and mois.
ture it is then exposed to, will speedily fill
it. As soon as this has taken place, the
bottle must be broken, and the asparagus
removed, when it will be found to have
formed a thickhead of tender delicate shoots
all eatable, and as compact as a cauliflow
er. American Farmer.
CORNSTALK SUGAR.
We have on our table a specimen of su
gar made from cornstalks, by VVm. This
tlewait near Richmond, Wayne Cos. Indi
ana. The sugar is well grained, and e
qually as good as New Orleans sugar. It
was made with the simplest kind of ma
chinery, constructed by a carpenter ; and
there is no difficulty in the process. The
maker says that a thousand pounds per
acre may be made, and it is believed will
be a profitable product. If so, what anew
field of production does it open to the West 1
With wheat, lard oil, beef, pork, and sugar,
the lands of Ohio will be as valuable as
those of the Nile.
That there is nothing visionary in this i
dea, may be seen by a single glance at pri
ces. An acre of corn sold on the farm will
not, on the richest lands, average sl2 per
acre year after year. If an acre of that
corn will produce 1,000 lbs. of sugar, and
is sold at only 4 cts. per pound on the farm,
the the product is S4O per acre. Now is it
probable that any manufacturing process
will absorb the difference between these
prices ? This subject was noticed two
years since in the report of Mr. Ellsworth,
Commissioner of the Patent Office, and if
we mistake not, he then stated that an acre
of corn would produce 1,000 pounds of su
gar. The practical results of this matter,
time and experience only can determine.
If many new propositions are useless, it is
also true that many practical truths aro ve
ry slow in being received.
Cincinnati Chronicle.
Sallaratus. —This is the name of a prepa
ration of potash used very extensively by
bakers and housekeepers to lighten the
dough of cakes and biscuits. It is injuri
ous to health in a high degree, and is espe
cially so to that of dyspeptic persons. All
ulkalisare deterious to the coats of the
stomach. Sometimes they will afford pre
sent relief to a burning stomach, but the
use of them should always be avoided.
POLITICAL.
From the N. Y. Courier fy Enquirer.
A NATIONAL CURRENCY ANI)
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
The doctrine of the Locofoeo party of this
country, as promulgated through their lea
ding presses and by thoir public men, is
that Government has no right to regulate
the currency ; that the power to do so is not
granted bv the Constitution, and that it will
regulate itself, by demand and supply,
without any legislative interference. On
the contrary, we have always maintained
that it was the duty of the National Gov
eminent to furnish to the people a national
currency ; that the exchanges never can
be regulated underthe present system ; and
that, until a National Bank is chartered,
the Exchanges will be subject to periodical
fluctuations and ruinous to the safety and
stabilit v of trade.
It is sometimes important to refer to the
past views of leading public men—not so
much to detect then) in inconsistencies of
opinion, as for the purpose of justifying our
selves in the views we, in common with the
great party we belong to, entertain on the
subject of currency. We have never doubt
ed the powers and the duties of the General
Government on this subject, and what wc
proclaim now, we have always proclaim
ed, in that it is the duty of the Government
to provide a national currency which shall
be received in payment of public dues in
all sections of the country.
We have now lying before us a speech
of John C. Calhoun, delivered in the Senate
of the United States, Jan. 13, 1834, on the
“ removal of the Deposites.” It is able
and profound, and maintains the doctrine
that under the present system a Bank of
the United States is necessary to presetve
the stability of the currency and give it u
niformity of value at every point of the Un
ion. In one passage of his speech, he hints
at opposition to the present system of Bank
ing, but expressly declares that while the
system continues a United States Bank is
necessary.
The system does continue and will con
tinue, at least for many years, and until it
is broken up, according to the views of Mr.
Calhoun, a Bank of the United States is in
dispensably necessary to preserve, not only
uniformity in the currency, but the stabili
ty of the Exchanges, so essential to the per
petuity of trade.
We shall quote freely from the speech of
Mr. Calhoun, and leave to the public to de
cide on the question of his consistency.
“ But let the point at issue be determin
ed, and I, as far as my voice extends, will
give to those who desire it, the means of the
freest and most unlimited inquiry into its
(U. S. Bank) conduct. lam no partizan
ofthe Bank. lam connected with it in no
way by monied or political ties. I might
say with truth, that the Bank owes as much
to me as any individual in the country, and
/ might even add that, had it not been for my
efforts, it would not have been chartered f
“Standing in this relation to the institu
tion, a high sense of delicacy, a regard to
independence and character has restrained
me from any connection with the institution
whatever, except some trilling accommoda
tions in the way of ordinary business, which
were not of the slightest importance either
to the Bank or myself
“ But while I shall not condescend to
notice the charges of the Secretary against
the Bank, beyond the extent which I have
stated, a sense of duty to the institution and
regard to the part which I took in its crea
tion, compels me to notice two allegations
against it w’hich have fallen from another
quarter. It is said that the Bank had no
agency, or at least efficient agency, in the
restoration of specie payments in 1817, and
that it had failed to furnish the country with
a uniform and sound currency as had been
promised at its creation. Both of these al
legations I pronounce to be without jusi
foundation. To enter into a minute exam
ination of them, would carry’ me too far
from the subject, and 1 must content myself
with saying, that having been on the politi
cal stage without interruption from that day
to this—having been an attentive observer
of the question of the currency throughout
the period—that the Bank has been an in
dispensable agent in the restoration of spe
cie payments—that without it, the restora
tion could not have been effected short of
the utter prostration of all the monied insti
tutions of the country, and an entire depre
ciation of bank paper, and that it has not
only restored specie payment but has given a
currency far more uniform between the ex
tremes of the country than was anticipated or
even dreamed of at tjie time of its creation,
I will say for myself, that 1 did not believe,
at that time, that the Exchange belweefi the
Atlantic and tile West, would be brought
lower than 2J per cent., the estimated ex
pense then, including insurance and loss of
time in transporting specie between the two
points. How much it was below the anti
cipated point, I need not state ; the whole
cfommercial world knows that it was not a
fourth part at the time of the removal df the
deposites.” Again:
“ If you have a right to receive bank
notes at all—to treat them us money by re
ceiving them in your dues or paying them
away to creditors, you have a right to cre
ate a Bank. Whatever the Government
receives and treats us money is money, and
if it he money, then they have the right un
der the Constitution, to regulate it. Nay,
they are bound by a high obligation, to a
dopt the most efficient means, according to
the nature of that which they have recog
nized as money, to give it the utmost stabil
ity and uniformity of value. And if it be
in the shape of bank notes, the most efficient
means of giving these qualities is a Bank
of the United States, incorporated by Con
gress—you give the highest practical uni
formity to the value of bank notes—so long
as you receive them as your dues and treat
them as money, you violate that provision
of the Constitution which provides that tax
ation shall ho uniform throughout the Uni
ted States.”
Whatever the Government receives and
treats as money, “is money,” and it fol
lows that they have the right to regulate
its value and uniformity.
We are not discussing the constitution
ality of a United States Bank—we desire
only to shew that such an institution, from
experience, can regulate the currency, and
that the whole of the present State banking
system as in existence, is indispensable
both to the Government and the people.
These were the views of John C. Cal
houn, and have always been and still are
our own.
it is notorions that Government receives
and pays away daily, paper money for its
dues and disbursements; therefore, the bank
paper which it receives “ is money,” be
cause it “ treats” it as such. This is, at
least, the view of Mr. Calhoun, w hose opin
ions at that time were in accordance with
those of the Great Whig Party with which
he then acted.
AMERICAN INDEBTEDNESS.
Under this caption, a late number of the
London Spectator has the following re
marks :
Several letters have appeared in the dai
ly papers from holders of American Stocks,
urging the British government to lend its
aid, at first by remonstrance, and then by
more “vigorousmeasures,” towards the re
covery of their claims. That suggestions
of this kind should occasionally’ appear,can
not be a matter of surprise when we con
sider the extent of the injury sustained ; but
it is to be regretted tlrat they should find
insertion in our journals without one word
of correction, and thus go forth as the ex
pression of public opinion. At the time
when these persons parted with their money
they were satisfied with the mere promise
to pay of the respective governments to
whom it was lent. They acted upon their
own estimate of the value of such promise;
and if that estimate was erroneous, they
must abide by the consequent loss, as they
would contentedly have taken the profit if it
had turned out to be correct. If the. British
government is to assume the task ofcollec
ting the debts due to its subjects, it will be
proper that its opinion should at least be
asked before those debts are permitted to be
contracted. Had it been consulted as to
the propriety of staking the peace of the
world upon the good faith of the State of Ar
kansas or the Territory of Florida, it is
probable that some of the present claims
would never have existed. Moneylenders
would find little difficulty in disposing of
their capital, and little need for circum
spection, if they could recklessly part with
it to foreign States under the assurance
that Great Britain will at all times step in
to enforce the punctual payment of their
d'vidends.
We believe that the feelings expressed in
these letters, are shared only by a very
small minority of American bondholders ;
and it may be well to intimate to the wri
ters, apart from all National considerations,
the injurious effects which they must inevi
tably produce upon their own interests.—
One moment’s reflection will teach them
that it would be better for Great Britain at
once to pay their demands from her own
treasury, than to rush into a war, which
must involve the immediate expenditure of
a far greater amount, and eventually, un
der the most fortunate circumstances, leave
the matter in a somewhat worse condition
than that in which it now stands, —namely,
with the promise to pay of a nation exhaus
ted by war and exasperated by blows, in
stead ofthe promise of the same nation in
prosperity and friendship. It is evident,
therefore, that their appeals can have no
effect upon the British government ; and it
only remains to inquire what effects they
are likely to produce upon the indebted
States of America. In regard to ’hose
States, there can be but three points of re
liance, —first, their intutive sense of honor:
second, their sense of pride and hope of fu
ture credit ; third, their feelings of regret
at the misery which must be inflicted, by
their defalcations upon those who have
shown confidence in their faith, and a de
sire to promote the prosperity of their coun
try. On the first alone, it is evident, no
sufficient hope can be grounded. On the
second and third, the great chances of their
creditors rest; and no more certain mode of t
destroying those chances could be found I
than that which has been pursued, fly de- ]
nonneingthe American people as iucorri- !
gibly dishonest, we lead them UHlie belief;
that it is now foo-lat-e to take any s*jp bv
which their pride or their credit can bo re
stored, and that matters, therefore, cannot
bo worse whether they pay or not; whilo
by our threats of resorting to force, we ex
cite a spirit ofdislike that must effectually
prevent them from looking with any regret
upon our losses.
A REMINISCENCE.
It has been a question, much agitated
heretofore, who was the originator of the i
dea of the law, passed some twenty-fivo
years ago, to provide for the support of the
surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Re
volutionary war. The credit of that meas
ure has been given to different individuals
of high character, both in and out of Con
gress, who are known to have Urged the
passage of the first act upon the subject.—
It has been charged sometimes to have been
a Northern measure, the fruit of Northern
cupidity, &c.—and it lias been occasional
ly reproached as a Federal measure. Ac
cidentally turning over some portion of the
history of Congress yesterday, we were sur.
prised ourselves to find tliut the Revolution
ary Pension System actually originated
with John Randolph, of Roanoke, (even
that distinguished Federalist,) who moved
on the first day of December, 1807, that
“provisions ought to be made, by law, for
‘an adequate and comfortable support of
‘such officers and soldiers of the late Revo
lutionary army as are still existing in a
‘state of indigence, disgraceful to the coun
try which owes its liberties to their valor.”
Tins resolution was debated in Committee
ofthe whole two days, and on the 4th of the
same month was agreed to, and a commit
tee appointed to bring in a bill accordingly.
Before thatcommittee reported a bill, how
ever, viz. on the 18th of the same month, the
embargo was recommended by the Presi
dent, and passed by Congress on the 22d—
from which time the deficiency in the reve
nue and the growing interest of our foreign
Relations so absorbed the attention of Con--
gress, that it was not until after the close
of the war which followed that Congress
recurred to the subject, under the recom
mendation of President Monroe ; when in
March, 1818, the existing provisions on the
subject were in part enacted into the law.
National Intelligencer.
SIGNIFICANT !
The New-York “ Morning Post” •estab
lished by Mr. Calhoun, and in political ri
valry to the “ Evening Post,” which sus
tains the fortuges of his rival Mr. Van Bu
ren, has “ knocked under,” and is to be i
dentified after “ Saturday next,” with the
Evening Post!
In this little fact there is great significa
tion. Van’s object has been all along, to
train, to seduce, to gull and flatter Mr. Cal
houn with the appearance of strength, to
induce him to consent to go into Convention !
This is accomplished, and we shall find the
Calhoun papers, one after another, “keel
ing up.” By next Christmas there will
not one be left out of South Carolina.—
There are very few of them now, but by
that time there will be none! Calhoun is
considerable at an abstraction, but in the
knowledge of men and things and the world
as it is, Van can beat him and give him
! High, Low. lie will count Jack and the
Game in every hand, and if the Jack is not
out in due course of shuffling, Van will
turn him up.
What egregious folly to imagine as Cal
houlism does, that the game is a dead
match, and that the cards will be dealt or
played fairly ? Clay is the man who will
show them both “ where Toney hid the
wedge.”
HARD MONEY TIMES.
At a constable’s sale a week or two a<ro.
in Pike county, Missouri, says the Hanni
bal Journal, the following named articles
were sold at the prices annexed :
3 good horses, each $1 50
1 large ox,’ 12|
5 cows, 2 small steers, 1
calf, the lot, 3 25
20 sheep each / ‘-WD
20 hogs, lot
Dining table,
1 eight day clock, 2 5o
1 lot of tobacco, 7or 8 cvvt. lot 5 00
3 stacks of hay, eaqh 25
1 stack of fodder, 25
“ Truly,” adds that paper, “ we are be
ginning to feel the benefits which flowed
from the destruction of the United
Bank ; the consequent influx of worthless
paper, and the ultimate return to purely
specie currency. The rich may well re
joice at a policy that more than trebles their
wealth; but as for the poor, God help
them !”
A WICKED HOAX.
The National Intelligencer says : There
was published in the Madisonian of Tues
day last a formal account of a Meeting said
to have been held in New Brunswick, New-
Jersev, of “Old School Republicans,” at
which resolutions were passed declaring
their preference for Mr. Tyler, for Presi
dent, and Levi Woodbury for Vice Presi
dent, at the next Presidential election ; de
nouncing the late rejection, by Congress, of
the Exchequer bill as “ a direct insult to
the intelligence of the American People,”
&c., and directing said proceedings to be
published in the Madisonian. Letters have
been received in this city from respectable
gentlemen of New Brunswick, under date
ot Thursday last, declaring this publication
to be “ all a humbug. No such meeting
was held, and no such persons as are nam
ed in it are to be found.” The only amu
sing part of this imposition upon the credu
lity of the readers of the Madisonian is the
language put into the mouth of the chief
orator on the occasion, who is represented
to have alluded to “ the ooatemptiblo efforts
of a few old party leaders to manufacture
public opinion to deceive the appointing pow
er at. Washington for their selfish purposes'\
in a manner to command “ enthusiastic ac
clamation.” After which the resolutions
” were with entire unanimity !”
