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SYSTEMATIC FARMING.
T/te New Husbandry. —Every good far
mer lias his system, liis theories ; they may
he true or false ; written or unwritten : hut
he has them and acts upon them. We
should not sneer at theories therefore, pro
vided they are good, or probably good. If
they have been proved they must be receiv
ed as axioms.
The mind of a real farmer will not be
idle, even in winter, He forms his plans
and he has time to review them. He hesi
tates in regard to new methods which he is
inclined to adopt, and he consults other far
niers who may have tried them, or in whose
opinions ho has confidence.
Dut we have some men among us who
say they they can do nothing at farming in
the winter, therefore it is useless to read on
the subject till the spring opens! Oh wretch
ed tnan that you are. Will you wait till
harvest time before you sow your seed !
In summer will you say you have not time
to read.
You must now adopt anew system of far
ming, if you have not al ready ; for the state
of the market is such that you will not get
enough to pay your laborers. You must
think a little more and lav plans to raise
something that will repay you.
A part of the new system of husbandry,
is to read and consider well in the winter
season when you need not be in a hurry ;
to raise your corn & potatoes on less land;
and devote the surplus to grass ; to lay
your grass lauds so that a man will rake
an acre in halfan hour instead ofhalfa day,
and with a rake that will pay for itself in
a single day ; to turn to manure what
grows on the soil rather than purchase ma
nure from a distance—to enrich your fields
by raising grass rather than impoverish
them by raising grain.— Mass. P/oughi,ian.
AGRICULTURE.
We heard incidentally the other day a
- suggestion in relation to the cultivation of
LoAII go, which we would commend to Plant
ers as a worthy subject of inquiry. It is
said that Indigo can be cultivated, the
leaves dried and packed close in boxes, and
then sent to Europe or wherever there is a
demand for the article in that state.
This plan, which it is said can be pur
sued to advantage, exempts those employed
in the culture of this article from the dan
gerous maladies which always attend the
conversion of it into the state required for
use, and thus removes one serious objec
tion to its cultivation, for if we are correct
ly informed, it is only while the indigo
plant is undergoing this change, that its
manipulation is prejudicial to health. We
learn that there are establishments in Eng
land where the leaves are converted into
the form required for use. Perhaps some of
our readers may be better informed in this
regard than we are, and if so, we should es
teem it a favor if they would impart wha‘
they know about it. Perhaps, during the
present low prices of Cotton, some of the
planters might be induced to direct a part
of their efforts towards this culture.
We noticed the fact for a long time
since, that tobacco was grown to some ex
tent in Floyd county, and sent to Mobile
for a market. Experiments are now being
made on a small scale at least, in the low
country, to ascertain if tobacco cannot be
grown to advantage. There can be no rea
sonable doubt from the success that has at
tended the growth of tobacco in Florida,
that the results will prove favorable in the
low country of Georgia. The Spanish to
bacco for cigars, it is supposed, will be
the most productive. For our own part,
we do not see why Maryland and Virginia
should have the fee simple right to be the
sole producers of tobacco in the United
States. Some time since, a convention of
tobacco planters was held in Baltimore for
the purposeof petitioning government to in
tercede for the remission of a portion of the
enormous duties which are now charged
upon the article of tobacco in England,
France, Prussia, Austria, &c. It has
been asserted that abundant proof was ad
duced, to convince the convention, that it
was the part of sound policy to leave things
as they were. The efforts of Mr. Wheat
on aud others, are still, we believe, direct
ed to the accomplishment of that object,
but what we mean to say, is, that those in
terested, had such conviction forced upon
their minds, that their enthusiasm dwindled
into indifference. The reason for this is
said to be that they virtually had a monopo
ly of the business, and feared competition.
They were already making handsome prof
its, and were apprehensive that the diminu
tion of duties abroad, would operate to some
extent in causing an increased culture in
this country.
SWEET POTATOES.
Mr. W. McKinley, of Lexington, Ga.,
lie: mtributed to the “Soutlrern Cultiva
■- fc. trtielc on the culture of Sweet Po
rn’ -.i Uv this plan, he says, time and
la. “.re and two bushels are pro
duced i-j ,: ■? old ay. The follow
ing is an * x tft 1 his communication:
“The old met;.’ of planting sw.-vt }. ;a
toosiu hills and n. , in tin . dry clsma.-*-.
and on our hard upper v.intry la- ’at- is
i all wrong. Potatoes nr., t hav. moisture
earth to do well. Lut th- v lack
HB|r common culture.
u iest forms in who .
■HHHH 1 fiat culture is the ■
■HHHHB ■•'ii.-s, or any tiling else, in
Olid c ’ n our day lip-
JHHHHHV be planted as flat.
“v. ... ,'lanted af easily
“First, break up the land well ; then lay
ut rows four feet wide with a shovel
plough , run deep in the same track with a
renter; and then, if you want it perfect,
deeper Still ia the same furrow with u com
mon newground coulter. Next, list upon
both sides of this in the same way ; that i,
with shovel rooter and coulter ; one right in
the track of the other. This makes deep
work, and the deeper the better. It is soon
done. Your ground is now ready—deep,
loose and moist, and will keep so all sum
mer.
“Now for planting and culture. With a
rooter draw a shallow furrow on the top of
the list, just over the first shovel track, to
guide you in dropping. In this drop the
seed, cut roots, sprouts or vine-cuttings, 12
or 15 inches apart, and cover lightly.—
Plough them a few times, just like corn,
running close to the potatoes with a rooter,
and finish off"each working with a cultiva
tor, or some other plough to keep the mid
dles fiat.
“This mode of culture is not one fourth
as troublesome as bills ; the crop is won
derful. This is not theory, but is my con
stant practice. By this mode the vines ne
ver turn yellow ; the crop comes forward
early in August, and the owner has no
chance to talk about small potatoes.
The improvement in the breed of our
hogs, which the public spirit and enterprise
of many of our farmers have undertaken,
deserves to be encouraged ; but at the same
time the native breed should not be neg
lected. We have been informed by some
good and experienced farmers, that hogs of
the common stock, if well attended to, and
properly managed, are equal and in many
instances superior to the issue of any foreign
breed. This is exemplified in a hog of the
common native stock, raised on the planta
tion of Dr. Albert Rees, in Sumter county,
in tfiis State, the particulars of which are
thus stated by the Doctor himself. Length
from head to tail 7 feet 9 inches ; girth, or
circumference, 6 feet 7 inches; weight
when killed and cleaned, 932 lbs.; age two
years. Augusta Constitutionalist.
*6?slls.
From the Pennsylvanian.
Every one who writes letters, lias been
puzzled at times, both at the beginning and
the end of an epistle, to know exactly what
degree of cordiality to assump, whether the
party addressed should bespoken to as ‘Sir,’
or ‘Dear Sir,’ or ‘My Dear Sir,’ the embar
risment often being still greater when a la
dy is the person to be approached, as “Ma
dam” is rather distant, while* “My Dear
Madam” is almost equivalent to a salute.
Difficulties of a similar character environ
the mode of giving the signature. ‘Obedi
ent Servant’ is formal; ‘Respectfully Yours’
is as cold as an icicle, while other phrases
may bo’ der too much upon the familiar ;
but in such cases, no general rule can be
laid down. Every one must judge for him
self. Still however, something may be
gained from a knowledge of the practices
of others in any matter that perplexes us,
and the following anecdote relative to the
graduations of epistolary address, may per
haps be found advantageous. It is from
the New York Sun.
Legal Meaning of the Term “Dear.” —
The following scene, which took place in
the office of an attorney, is a tolerable good
illustration of the different degrees of res
pect which legal gentlemen are in tho ha
bit of doling out to their clients, and of the
cause of that respect. The attorney in
question about to address a ‘newly-caught’
client in some matter of business, had cal
led on his clerk to write a letter to his dic
tation. Attorney, Take a sheet of letter
paper, James. Clerk: Yes sir,—Attorney:
Address at the top, Mr. D , and then
say, “New York, March 28th, 1843.”
Clerk: yes, sir. Attorney: then say, ‘Sir,’
but let me see: has Mr. D paid his ac
count? Clerk: he has, sir.—Attorney:—
Then address him “Dear Sir,”Clerk: l for
got to mention, sir, that Mr. D called
yesterday, when you were out, and stated
that he wished to consult you as to raising
an action against Mr. P . Attorney:
Oh, did he? then you may say, “My Dear
Sir:” Clerk: Yes, sir.
AN UGLY CUSTOMER.
Don’t put on no Extra’s.’ —A wager was
made a few days since on board a steam
boat, between a couple of Jokers, one of
whom, pointing to an extremely ugly man,
bet a bottle of wine that an uglier customer
could not be produced. The other, who
had seen one of the firemen as he passed
on board the boat—a man whose face was
screwed out of all shape—at once took up
the bet and started down stairs for his man.
The joker had an impediment in his speech,
but he nevertheless soon made known his
business to the fireman, and obtained his
consent to show himself to decide the wa
ger. When inside the social hall, the ug
ly man whose nose was on one side of his
face and his eyes on the other, began to
screw and work them about, to give his
face a greater degree of ugliness. ‘S-s-top,’
said his backer, ‘D-o-n’t put on n-n-o ex
tras. St-st-and jest as tiie Lord made you
—you can’t be beat]’ The other acknowl
edged that he had lost and paid the wager.
N. O. Pic.
SECTS.—We know one Leonard Jones
who got up a sect of ‘Live Forevers,’and
actually had followers who believed they
would never die.—They had an establish
merit in the lower part of Kentucky, and
were getting along quite well until an op
! idemic thinned ofT the believers. Jones af
j aids tried to form a sect of “Non Eat
and got some disciples to this school,
i hey -■ to eat less and less every day
I anti; t.k ntirely lived upon nothing.
Hi- made :. I effort to conform to his own
| creed, u .- happened to stop at the Galt
House, in Louisville, two years ago, where
a roast turkey “■ moved his bowels that he
fell from grace into the grease of the sauce
pan, and subsequently turned Mo-mon, and
perhaps Miilerite, since.—JV, O. Bee.
A SURGICAL BLUNDER.
Many years i ;o, a hale old sea captain
resident in this city had the misfortune to
break both his legs, and the accident was
accompanied with many wounds of the
limbs; so that both fractures were supposed
to be what is termed “compound,” or in oth
er words, the wounds were deep enough to
ooinmunicate with the fractured bones;
which renders such injuries peculiarly dan
gerous. Several of the most eminent stir
geonsof the day all of whom, however, are
at rest with the patient, met in consultation,
on the case; and it was universally deci
ded, that one of the limbs must be sacrificed,
as it was impossible for the vital powers of
the patient to accomplish the cure of so
many complicated injuries. One of the
limbs was broken in a single spot; the other
was absolutely crushed, and of course the
surgeons decided on the amputation of the
latter. But the condition of the patient
compelled them, after dressing the limbs, to
delay the operation till the succeeding day;
when they met, by appointment, at an early
hour. Arrangements being completed,
without removing the envelope, the attend
ing surgeon proceeded with the operation,
and when it was completed with all thede
licacv, rapidity and skill for which he was
justly celebrated, he discovered that he
had amputated — the wrong limbi
The patient was vigorous; and in due
process oftime, the task ofhealing the more
severely fractured leg; with which alone
liis constitution had now to contend—was
successfully accomplished. The grave
had long covered this surgical blunder,
when the busy tongue of fame at last whis
pered the truth in the ear of the fiery tem
pered old man, who was not in the first in
stance aware of the error; and he—very
naturally though erroneously, concluding
that, if his constitution was adequate to the
cure of the worst injury, it could not have
been embarrassed with the healing of the
lighter hurt—immediately had the bonesof
liis leg disinterred, and preserved them ev
er after, in a parlor closet, whence, in very
early boyhood, I have repeatedly seen him
take them, shake the dry relics while re
peating their unhappy history, uttering
scarce utterable anathemas against the
whole honorable fraternity of surgeons,
past present and to come!
I have already alluded in a former essay,
to the facility of healing wounds displayed
in the inferior animals, as in the case of the
salamander or w ater newt; but the subject
is so immediately connected with the ar
guments of our next essay that it maybe
proper to offer some further illustrations.’
The power of healing extensive wounds
appears to be enjoyed by animals in de
grees of perfection inversely proportioned
to the complexity of their structure. If we
cut a human being in half, both pieces
must die: but it is said that when an earth
worm is treated in the same manner botli
pieces live, and become perfect animals.
There are many other animals that per
ish w hen their heads are stricken off yfe't
live for a considerable time. Every child
is aware of the propensity of the hind legs
of the bull-frog to “jump out of the frying
pan into the fire” when being prepared for
an epicurean palate. The head of the
snapping turtle will bite severely—many
days after it is severed from the body. It
will not die—as the popular faith errpne
ously teaches us that the tail of a small
snake will die—‘at sunset.’ I w'as once
dining upon a delightful dish of soup,
made from the body of one of these rep
tiles, when my favorite water-spaniel com
menced howling most piteously in the yard,
when a servant rushed into the dining
room, pale with fright, exclaiming “Oh!
Mr. ! Caesar’s mad!” A glance from
the window convinced me that there was
‘too much method in his madness’ to be
symptomatic of hydrophobia; and going
out, I used every endeavor to seize him
and examine into the cause of his suffer
ings; but in vain. Tossing his head in the
air, and then thrusting liis muzzle violently
against the ground, he careered many times
most furiously around the yard veiling, and
eluding me at every turn. At length the
race was suddenly arrested. With his
feet thrown forward, his nose signifficantly
pointed to a spot on the ground immediate
ly before him, and an expression of coun
tenance in which bewilderment and pain
were rapidly giving way to a knowing,
but very dogged look of satisfaction, he
stood motionless and silent. The mystery
was explained. In smelling about for a
dinner, he had encountered the amputated
head of the turtle, upon which we had been
making our repast, and he had beep in
stantly caught in the trap. There lay the
head dissevered from the trunk more than
twenty-four hours previously, and in the
viee-like jaws was seen the end of the dog’s
nose—completely bitten off!— Philadelphia
Literary Age.
NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON.
Napoleon and Wellington were not mere
ly individual diameters; they were the
types of the powers which they respective,
ly headed in the contest. Napoleon had
more genius, Wellington more judgment;
the former combatted with great energy, the
latter with greater perseverance. Rapid
in design, instant in execution, the strokes
of the French hero fell like the burning
thunderbolt; cautious in counsel, yet firm
in action; the resources of the British cham
pion multiplied like the vigor of vegetation
after the withering stroke had fallen. No
campaign of Wellington’s equals in genius
and activity those of Nrpoleon’s it) Italy
and in Fi ance; none of Napoleon’s ap
proaches in foresight and wisdom that of
Wellington’s at Torres Vedras. The. ve
hemence of the French Emperor would
have exhausted in a single campaign the
whole resources which duringthe war were
at the disposal of the English general; the
caution of Wellington would have aliena
ted in the very beginning the troops which
overflowed witth the passions of the revo
lution. Ardor and onset were alike im
posed on the former by his situation, and
suggested by his disposition; foresight and
perseverance were equally dictated to the
latter by his necessities, and in unison with
his character. The one wielded at pleas- j
ure the military resources of the halt oi
Europe and governed a nation heedless ot
consequences, covetous of glory, reckless
of slaughter; the other led the forces of a
people distrustful of its power, avaricious
of its blood, but invincible in its determina
tion. ■ I
And tho result both, in the general war i
and final struggle, was in entire conformiiy |
with this distinction. Wellington retired
in the outset before the fierce assault of the
French legions, but ho saw (Item for the
first time since the revolution recoil in de
feat from the rooks of Torres Vedras; lie
was at first repeatedly expelled from Spain,
but at last he drove the invaders with dis
grace across the Pyrenees: he was in the
beginning surprised: and well nigh over
powered in Flanders, but in the end he bas- I
fled all Napoleon’s efforts; and rising up j
with the strength of a giant, crushed at once
his army and his empire at the battle of
Waterloo.
The personal and moral character of the
two chiefs were still more strikingly op
posed and characteristic of the sides they
severally led. Both were distinguished
by the unwearied perseverance, the steady
purpose, the magnanimous soul, which are
essential to glorious achievements; both
possessed personal intrepidity in the high
est degree; both were indefatigable in ac
tivity and iron in execution; both possess
ed the rare qualities of moral courage and
fearless determination.
But in other respects, their minds were
as opposite as the poles assunder. Na
poleon was covetous of glory. Welling
ton was impressed with duty: Napoleon
was reckless of slaughter, Wellington was
sparing of blood: Napoleon was careless of
his word, Wellington was inviolate in faith;
Treaties were regarded by the former as
binding only when expedient—alliance va
lid only when useful:—obligations were re
regarded by the latter as obligatory, though
ruinous; conventions sacred even when o
pen to objections—Napoleon’s wasting war
fare converted allies into enemies, Wel
lington’s protecting discipline changed en
emies into friends; the former fell be
cause all Europe rose up against his op
pression; the latter triumphed because all
Europe joined to share in his protection.
There is not a proclamation of Napoleon
to his soldiers in which glory is not men
tioned and duty forgotten; there is not an
order of Wellington to his troops in which
duly is not inculcated nor one in which glo
ry is alluded to. Singleness of heart was
the great characteristic of the British He
ro, a sense of duty his ruling principle ;
falsehood pervaded the French conqueror,
thirst for glory was his invariable motive.
The former proceeeded on tho belieflhat
the means if justifiable, would finally work
out the end; the latter on the maxim that
the end in every case would justify the
means. Napoleon placed himself at the
head of Europe and desolated it for fitteen
years with his warfare; Europe placed
Wellington at the head of its armies and he
gave it thirty years of unbroken peace.
The one exhibited the most shining ex
ample of splendid talents devoted to tem
poral ambition, the other the noblest in
stance of moral influence directed to exalt
ed purposes. The former was in the end
led to ruin, while blindly following the
phantom of worldly greatness; the latter
was unambitiously conducted to final great
ness while only following the star of pub
lie duty. The struggle between them was
the same at bottom as that which, anterior
to the creation of man, shook the powers of
heaven; and never was such an example of
mortal government afforded as a final re
sult of their immortal contest. — Allison’s
History.
MESMERISM.
As this new science is attracting great
attention in our city, and indeed the entire
country, we lay before our readers some
account of its discovery :
ANTHONY MESMER—THE DISCOV
ERER OF MESMERISM.
Translated from a late German Encyc/opee
dia published under the auspices of Ger
man Literati.
Anthony Mesmer, the discoverer of the
animal magnetic cure, was born on the 23d
of May, in the year 1733, in the town of
VVeif, in the Canton Thur, Switzerland.—
Though needy in circumstances, he pur
sued the study of medicine at Vienna,
where he graduated and soon after marry
ing a lady of fortune, was enabled to settle
there as a physician. He had been early
attracted towards what is strange and mys
terious in nature, and on taking his degrees
in 1766, published a treatise on the “influ
ence of the Planets upgn the human body,”
which, howeve, only resulted in his univer
sal ridicule. Not disheartened in his own
peculiar views of things, he in 1773, com
menced experimental cures with the miner
al magnet, being furnished with several a
dapted to his purpose by his friend the as
tronomer, Maximin Hill. By friction with
any afflicted part, he soon became convin
ced of its healing efficacy. Several per
sons of rank cured in this way, now soun
ded his praise, his professional bretheren
however raised great opposition ; detrac
tions and prosecutions pursued him contin
ually, and he resolved to quit Vienna for
Bavaria and Switzerland, where he again
resumed his magnetic cures. Subsequent
ly, however, returning to Vieqa, he erected
there at his own expense, a Hospital for the
Poor, where he practised his peculiar mode
of treatment.
Up to this time he had continued the use
of the magnet, but now soon discovered that
without it, and by the simple process of ma
nipulation, remarkable phenomena were
developed, which led him to conclude, that
in the human body itself must be secreted
a fluid of the same nature with, or similar
to, that in the magnet, which he called the
animal magnetic fluid, aud for which the
iron magnets he used, had only served as
conductors. Instead of publishing his dis
covery,, Mesmer continued to shroud him
self deeper in his mysterious sec ret aud belt .
gan now to be universally looked upfin as I
a swindler or mere visionary, which an oc
currence at the time tended to confirm ; he
claimed to have cured the celebrated vo
calist, Miss Paradis, of blindness, which was
by no means the case. Harassed on all
sides, he again quitted Vienna in 1777, and
turned towards Paris. Here his first de
but was a small work entitled: “Remarks
on the discovery of animal magnetism”—
Memoir sur la deeouverte du magnetism
animate,” Paris 1779, inwhiuh he set forth
the principles of his system. This was at
once treated by the Doctors of Paris, as a
mere “cobweb of the brain,” —d’Eslon a
!one, a member of the Medical Faculty, be
came his convert. Louder on the other
hand was the applause ofthe public, who
dazzled by the charm of novelty as well as
by fortunate cures, and the mysterious co
lorings which Mesmer well understood how
to impart to them, raised him into an idol
of wisdom ; and so great were the numbers
of the sick that sought his relief, that he in
a very short time acquired 400,000 francs.
Astonished at his sudden success, the
French Government offered him an annu
ity of 20,000 francs on condition ofimpar
ting to them the secret of his treatment. —
Mesmer, however declined, and was in
consequence, so bitterly persecuted by his
adversaries, that he changed his residence
for Spain. Hisabseuce however, was but
short, he returned principally to counteract
d’Eslon, who was also practising on his
principles, adopting with eagerness the pro
position of liis zealous disciple Bergasse, to
deliver lectures under a subscription of
188 Louis. He likewise erected a secret
Society, under the name ofthe “Harmony,”
in which under the severest vows of secre
cy, his scholars were initiated into the my
steries of his art, by which means lie again
became possessed of upwards 150,000 dol
lars. Animal Magnetism, however, now
was fast losing its mystic charm, falling
gradually into the hands ofignorant quacks, ■
which laid it open the greatest abuses.—
Mesmer’s reputation was lowered in the
eyes ofthe well informed and scientific, par
ticularlv when he refused to impart his se
cret to the Government and rather prefer
red to make it known to the ignorant. He
still continued to withdraw his school from
the scrutiny ofthe learned, and even re
fused communication with a committee ap
pointed by “the Academy of Sciences,”
considfcng of such men as Franklin, Jussieu
and Lavoisier.
There were continued contests arising on
the subject of Animal Magnetism, until the
breaking out ofthe French Revolution turn
ed the attention of the public to more im
portant events.. Mesmer finally left Pari
and lived for many years at Morsburg, oil
the Boden lake, where on the sth March,
1815, he died at an advanced age. He had
the satisfaction, however, in his latter days,
to preceive that his merits were more duly
appreciated. Without seeking to excuse
the secrecy in which he enveloped himself,
it must be conceded, that lie was the first
who turned the attention of the learned to
the examination of the nature and effects of
animal magnetism. His system was pub
lished by K. Chr. VVolfart, at Berlin, IQI4,
under the title: “Mesmerism or a system,
theory and application of Animal Magnet
ism as a general means of cure, sor 1 the
preservation of mankind*”
POLITICAL..
LET IT NEVER BE FORGOTTEN,
That the country was in a very prosper
’ ous condition, when Gen. Jackson was e
’ lected to the Presidency, and that neither
party then found anv fault with the cur
rency cr ‘i IV.. i States Bank, which
had . . . . for the Government for
/ears, aud ;■ r lost a dollar of the
Public Money.
That G i Jackcn assailed the Bank be.
cause its Directors refused to make it a po-
Teal in .••..blue, enJ.be took ftqm its > cults
o Public money, and out It ion ;h. vaults
of numerous Pet rt/.olcs, telling them
■/ / ! h.3 Secretary,’ to discount freely
upon it.
That these Pm U- . h<t did as they werp
required, aud there! ;- caused other banks
to loan frgelv, and hundreds of now banks
to be chartered, which made paper money
so plenty that it began to be issued for spe
■ eulating purposes.
That these speculations wore so numer
ous and reckless, that the sales alone of the
Public Lands rose from Un average of a
bout three Millions of dollars a year in val
ue, to twenty five millions in the year 1836,
and imports increased even in greater pro
portion, and all trade and commerce was
driven forward into the most reckless and
ruinous excess of speculation.
That in this same year, 1836, the last of
Gen. Jackson's administration, he referred
in his message to these ruinous specula
tions in the Public Lands as an indication
of public prosperity ! and his party througii
the country called on the people to sustain
his administration on account of the higli
wages and high prices which they obtained !
Now, o the other hand, let it never be
Forgotten,
That the present exhausted and depres
sed condition of the country is the effect of
the reaction of the speculating times of Jack
son and Van Buren—that, when the specu
lating fever left the country in 1836, the
country fell prostrate and palsied with debt
—which has brought on the long train of
evils predicted by Whig statesmen, such as
Repudiation, Bankrupt laws, Slay laws, &c
That Mr. Webster in 1834 predicted as
follows —“ 1 have already endeavored to
j. warn the country against irredeemable pa
i per ; against bank paper when banks do not
| pay specie for their own notes; against that
. miserable, abominable and fraudulent po
licy, which attempts to give value to any
paper, or any bank, one single moment lon
ger than such paper is redeemable on de
mand in gold and silver. And I wisli most
solemnly and earnestly to repeat the war
ning. I see danger of that state of things
ahead. I see imminent danger that more
or fewer of the State banks will stop 6pe
, cie payments. The late measure of the
i Secretary, and the infatuation with which
it seems to be supported, tend directly and
strongly to that result. Under pretence,
then, of a design to return to a currency
whiclt shall be all specie, we arc likely to
have a currency in which there shall be no
specie at all. We ore in danger of being
overwhelmed with irredeemable paper—
mere paper, representing not gold or silver;
no, sir, representing nothing but broken
promise, bad faith, bankrupt corporations,
cheated creditors, and ruined people.”
That Mr. Clayton in 1832 predicted as
follows—“ The loss of confidence among
men—the total derangement of that admi
rable system of exchanges, which is now
acknowledged to be better than exist in any
other country on the globe, overtrading and
speculation in every part of the Country,
that rapid fluctuation in the standard value
of money, which like (lie unseen pestilence,
withers all the efforts of industry, while
the sufferer is in utter ignorance of tho
cause of his destruction; bankruptcy and
ruin, at the anticipation of which the heart
sickens, must follow in the long train of c
vils which are assuredly before us.”
Composition or the Tyler Party.
This country presents al this time a
spectacle, which, except for its effects on
its prosperity, would be pronounced as the
most ludicrous and most laughable since
the foundation of the Government. When
General Jackson attained the height of his
power, he had about him the basest and
meanest of all creatures that he could
muster out of all the moral filth of thecoun
try, but the Kitchen Cabinet of his time had
at least the merit of possessing talents of no
mean order. Blair and Kendall et id genus
omne were masters in political knavery,
hypocrisy and cunning, but they were no
fools. They went for the greatest amount
of pi under, just asLocoibeoism always goes,
for the greatest good ofthe greatest number
when it is about to adopt some new scheme
of rapacity to pick the pockets of their op
ponents on a large scale.
The aspeot of affairs is changed at
Washington in one respect. Tho advisers
of President Tyler are, a groat many of
them, most insigniffioant in point of talent,
and as worthless in point of character as
were Blair, Kendall & Cos. An enumera
tion of a few of the appointments recently
made by the President will serve to illus
trate our meaning.
In one case a notorious-gambler who had
been arrested once for obtaining goods un
der false pretences, and who after the re--
ceipt of a commission as bearer of despatch
es to a foreign court, and while on bis w'ay,
was arrested for a perjury committed about
the time of his appointment, was renomina
ed to another responsible office.
In another instance a member of the Le
gislature in one of th? largest Western
states, who had been publicly and notorious
ly expelled from the body to which he was
elected, for perjury or forgery, or perhaps
both, was nominated as reoei.ver of public
moneys. j
Avery notorious instance oV a not less
aggravated character.has ocCured in the ap
pointment of a travelling agent ofthe Post.
Office, who stands publicly accused of
cheating a poor widow out of her pension
while lie was at Washington procuring his
own appointment. This man is a daily
frequenter of the White House and one of
the prime advisers and movers of Tylerisin
in a neighboring state. He procured the
appointment of a Post Master who stands
charged with a similar crime. A similar
office has been conferred on a man who in
the year 1885, at the time of the great fire
in New York, acting in the capacity of
Magistrate in a neighboring city seized a
parcel of goods knowing them to be stolen,
and instead of restoring or attempting to re
store them to the owners in this city, put
the proceeds in his own pocket.
In this State, in an important village, a
1 Master was appointed who had been
ti -tected in a forgery of large amount. In
famous at home and held in utter contempt
by both political parties, John Tyler, with*a
certificate of the facts of the case before
him still retains him in office. The Cash
ier of a Bank in one-case has given notice
to the correspondents of the institution to
which he belongs to send their letters to a
Post Office in an adjoining village, as he
could not trust money in the itands of
the new Post Master. We at the Express
office receive similar intimations of chan
ges in the direction of the papers of our sub
scribers to neighboring places, when the
parties do not reside where thoy receive
their letters, because they dare not trust
them in the hands ofthe new appointees.
In Philadelphia, one or two ofthe promi
nent Tyler men are serving out their time
in the penitentiary. One favorite Loco
Foco, who had been dismissed as a default
er, and who has been loitering at the. White
House to be reinstated, has been publicly
charged with obtaining money under false
pretences, and will soon be brought to trial
for the crime.
We might extend this catalogue to el
iViost any length, but our limits will notal
low more at this time.
Independently of the notorious fact, that ‘
in the political world President Tyler has j
selected men for office who have been uni
formily cast offby both parties as unworthy
of confidence.—men ofthe day, mere Swiss,
who go for office, but who fortunately, do
not often obtain it because they are mere
Swiss, who fail of fastening themselves on
either party because they are well known
and universally despised by all parties, —IS;
added a list, which, is here presented, of
men appointed to office who should be, and
more of whom are likely to be, in States
Prison.— N. Y. Express.
Keep it before.the people, that the ave-;
rage annual appropriations'under the Van
Buren Administration, were $26,155,790 :
whilst the appropriations by tho last Whig
Congress for one year and six months werj
$21,499,255 —which would make sons
year about @16,833,000. Andris
tion was made, too, under the adverse
circumstance and difficulties thfcw/t in 1
way of the Whigs. ’J . M
