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THE TIM ES *
h union of .he stales
CPLUMBIJS, APRIL 29, 18*l>
From the Enquirer, of yesterday.
COTTON. Bales
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Received previously - S-1,2'7
Tola! receipts ... - - 34.971
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Price 10 to 10j cents.
The Young Men of the Democratic party,
hold their Convention at Milfedgevillc on Mon
day next. The Convention will be large and
with the enthusiasm now prevalent in our
ranks, we have no doubt, a course of policy
will be pursued which will end eventually in
lasting good to the country. Let ‘.heir be no
faltering then, Democrats of Muscogee. I,e?
every one who is selected as a Delegate, at
tend tliio meeting. Let our own county be
fully represented. Shall it he said that the
nine hundred Democrats of Muscogee, shall
not have a full voice in this Convention?—
The following gentlemen have been appoin
ted Delegates:
John M. Bethunc, Esq. \V. K. dcGraffen-
Teid, D. P. Ellis, John Quin, James Kellogg,
F. A. Ncsbit, Esq. T. Everett, J. R. Jones,
John L. liewis, Esq. John Sturgis, Hightower
Thorn, Henry Kendall, jr. VY. YVade.
YVe present to our readers to-day, the re
port of the committee appointed to investigate
the affairs of the U. H. Bank. Such a glaring
instance of fraud and corruption, has never
before been brought to light, in the annals of
any country —yet the conductors of this insti
tution, that lias prostrated the fortunes, and
wasted the substance of the people—these
men are the very individuals whom the Whigs
would place in stations of trust and profit—in
blllations where the funds of the people would
be placed directly under their influence and
control Could vve suppose that after having
read this report, any rnan in sound mind, and
good judgment, would propose to the people
a re-chartering of tills reservoir of pollution,
we would beg leave most respectfully to dif
fer witn father Solomon, who pronounced that
“there was nothing new under ths sun.” We
wish every man who lias the prosperity and
welfare of his country at heart, to read this
report attentively, and then ask himself if he
could conscientiously support any man or par
ty, whose purpose it was to engraft upon the
people the miseries which must and will fol
low from the re-establishment of a U. S. Bank.
The Races over the Western Course, com
menced on Monday last The weather has
been highly favorable, and every person who
has attended the Course, delighted with the
Accommodations and liberality of the propri
etors. For the race to-day, three crack nags
have been entered. Those who delight in the
sports of the turf, will be amply repaid by a
visit
For the Times.
Mb. Editor : I would suggest to my fellow
citizens the urgent necessity of a close and
impartial perusal of the Constitution of their
country, which is (in my opinion) founded on
the true and legitimate principles of Republi
canism. Having originated by a delegated
power of the people, it is the undeniable privi
lege of the people to scrutinize all and every
act—Executive, Legislative and Judicial—ol
the Government True, men differ, and ever
will, as to laws best fitted to govern a free
people; yet the Constitution is the only chart
whereby they can direct their course. As
one of the people, I cannot conceive how it
can possibly be constitutional for the Repre
sentative body of the General Government to
create an enactment, obligatory on the people
beyond the time of their representative capa
city. I not only have reference to a United
States Bank, but to any enactment for a lim
ited time ; but more especially, if the time lim
ited extend beyond the time of the body rep
resentative, as it would unquestionably come
in collision with the true meaning of Republi
can suffrage, and fetter both the minds and
nets of future legislators in the representation
of their constituents. Asa citizen of the
Republic, I feel induced to protest against all
such legislation. True, there has been men
of worth and talent who supported a United
States Bank ; yet such having been the case
is no argument of the justness or the consti
tutionality of the procedure, but merely serves
as a precedent, and must inevitably fail under
the test of constitutionality. I may be thought
by some of my fellow-citizens presumptive, in
arraying my judgment against men of more
classical and profound information, yet, as a
freeman, I would urge the maintainance of
those views until confuted by stronger argu
ments than mere assertions that are supported
only by implication or construction. Would
the body politic but scrutinize the Constitu
tion, and the principles embodied therein, I
candidly believe that their minds would revolt
at all such aggressions on their rights, and no
serpentine charms or delusions of the crafty
would ever be sufficiently majestic, to turn
this Republic’s fate in with any of the past.—
Reader, guard well your right of suffrage, ere
your liberties are manacled beyond retrievc
ment. Why is it ? how is it ? that this tirade
of calumny and abuse is still kept up by the
public presses opposed to the past administra
tion ? Surely it can be for no other purpose
than to justify themselves in their perfidy,
allay their smitten consciences, allure the
wavering, ar.d delude the ignorant. Be not
trammelled by the vain delusions of political
aspirants ; but look ere vou step.
A MECHANIC.
The President has taken up his residence
in the Mansion assigned to his official station,
and, at the appointed hours, has received uis
friends there during tire last two days. A
mong the visiters whoyestarday paid their re
spects to him were ex-President Adams and
the Hon. Mr. Southard, President pro .'cm, oi
the Senate, now on a visit to this city.
Mrs. Harrison, junior, and her Sons, with
Mr. C’oupeland and Mr. Henry Harrison,
nephew and grand-nephew of the late Presi
dent, still remain at the Presidential Mansion,
Col. Chambers and Col. Todd left this city a
few days ago.—Nat Intelligencer 17th insi.
An excellent hit —We fin ! the follow
ing good one in a New Orleans paper. —•• A
talkuig match lately came ofi in this place for
five hundred dollars a side. Ii continued lor
thirteen hours—the rivals being a Frenchman
and a Kentuckian. The bystanders and judg
es were ail talked to sieep, and when they,
waked up in the morning, they found b rerich
man dead and the Kentuckian whispering in
hit ear!”
, YOUNG MEN’S DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
At an adjourned meeting of the Democratic
i Y oilng Men of Muscogee county, on motion,
Mr. W. Wade was called to the Chair, and
W. K. DeG raffenried appointed .Secretary.
Mr. I). I’. Elii., Chairman of the
appointed for that purpose, offeLyMw
ii’.g preamble and resolutions, were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, a call ha3 been made upon the
Democratic Young Men ‘of the Stale ot Geor
gia, to meet in Convention to ue held in
Milledgeville, on the first Monday in May next,
for the purpose of adopting measures for the
advancement ot Democratic principles: And
whereas, we have a strong and abiding confi
dence in the truth and justness of the princi
ples of the Democratic party, as set forth in
the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention,
and beiievmg that they are the only ones upon
which this government can be equitably ad
ministered—this confidence is strengthened
by the reflection, that these principles were
cherished and supported by a Jefferson, a Ma
con, and very many other noble Fathers ol
Democracy and equal rights, who only lived
for their country’s good. Therefore, we deem
it to be our duty, inasmuch as these valuable
j and equal rights have been bequeathed to us
i and our posterity, and for the good and perpe
tuity of this Union, to tenaciously claim and
1 manfully defend them against the encroach-
I merits of Federal power.
I And although the Democratic party have
j been deJeated in the election of. their Chie!
| Magistrate, and the progress of the true State
’ Riedits doctrines mav meet with a momentary
check from Federal Legislation, they may he
stayed for a time, by the exercise by Congress,
of powers not granted in the Constitution, and
which were denied them by the framers of that
instrument j yet we have a permanent and
unshaken confidence in their ultimate suc
cess.
Be it therefore resolved, That we heartily
approve of the object for a call of the Conven
tion to he held in Milledgeville in May next;
and bail the meetings Jieid throughout the
State on t his subject as an earnest of the in
creasing strength of the Democracy.
Resolved, That we are opposed to tiro crea
tion of a National Bank, because it is uncon
stitutional, and therefore inexpedient; and in
support of this doctrine, we quote the language
of John Tvler, who said: “ Fur, sir, inasmuch
as 1 bclicce the creation of this incorporation
unconstitutional, 1 cannot, without a viola
lion of my oath, hesitate to repair the breach
thus made in the Constitution, 0“ when an
OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF OF DOING SO !
without violating the public faith. But be
lieving also, that it is expedient to put it
down, and other gentlemen feeling them
selves at liberty to follow up that inquiry, I
propose to express to you my views on that
subject.”
Resolved, That we are opposed to the levy
ing a Protective Tariff, because we deem it
unconstitutional, unequal and unjust in its op
erations ; and in support of this doctrine, we
quote the language oi John Tyler, who said:
“ In the names of the great actors of that very
edifice, [Faneuil Hall,j 1 invoke honorable
Senators to pause, ere they decide that this
grinding system shall receive no abatement.
Its oppression, if that were the only circum
stance, would be as nothing in comparison
with the alienation of feeling which it has pro
duced. What can compensate for the loss of
affection on the part of even a single State in
this Union? Flatter not yovrselves this is ex
clusively a South Carolina question. No, sir,
it is a Southern question. Every State on the
other side of the Potomac feels alike interested in
it ; nor labor under the morbid apprehension
that to grant relief can produce the slightest ten
dency to disunion. Do you seek to give perpe
tuity to the Union, practice not injustice ; for,
as certain as fate itself, they who sow injustice
will reap iniquity.”
Resolved, That we are opposed to the con
struction of works of Internal Improvement,
by the General Government, because such an
act would result in injustice to one or the other
section of the Union ; and in support of this
doctrine, we quote the language of John Ty
ler, who said: “ I was in that Congress which
was the first to enter gravely into the discus
sion of the constitutional power of this Gov
ernment to make roads and canals. I then
attentively weighed all that was urged by the
advocates of the system—if system that may
be called, which is none—and my decision was
against them. Every subsequent reflection has
confirmed the •opinion then expressed; arid the
experience of the last six years lias satisfied me
that, in its exercise, all that is dear and should
be considered sacred in our institutions is put
to hazard.”
Resolved, That our motto ever has been,
“measures, not men,” and believing that the
action of the General Government should be
Confined to a strict construction of the Consti
tution ; and vve fear from the recent associa
tion which has been formed between John
Tyler, our present Chief Magistrate, and those
who have always advocated Federal doctrines
ami Federal measures, and the tone of his In
augural Address, that he will renounce his
Republican principles and approve of those to
which he has always been opprsed. We
therefore regret that he should take leave of
those principles which had always found in
him a zealous defender, and in his official ca
pacity sanction measures which can only find
for a support, the dangerous doctrine of “ a
liberal construction of the Constitution.”
On motion, the following gentlemen were
appointed to select delegates to attend the De
mocratic Young Men's Convention: Messrs.
Ellis, Adams and Sturgis. On motion, the
Chairman was added to the Committee.
On motion, the proceedings of this meeting
be published in the Democratic newspapers of
this city.
The meeting then adjourned, sine die.
W. WADE, Chairman.
W. K. DeGkaffenkied, Sec’y.
The following is an extract of a letter from
the Paris correspondent tit the Boston Courier:
March 15.—After weeks of uncommon dul
ness in the political world, vve have now more
excitement than we have had before for the
j last year. Even the Eastern question, and
j the talk of war between England and France,
! did not make half the stir that, .he talk of war
between England and America occasions at
i this time. Mr. Pickens’ report, has made more
I noise in Europe than it did in America, and
however it may be denounced as a party docu
ment, however inconsiderate and inappropriate
it mav have been, however untimely its ap
pearance, we all know it to be true. There
are many tilings in it that might as well have
been felt cut, and much that it was useless to
say, but to Americans in Europe it is a paper
of importance, and, however the English pa
pers mav sneer at it, the report has hod its
effect. The English government has altered
it 6 tone, as will be seen by the Whig, and
even the Tory papers; for aii the papers in
London, in affairs where this country is con
cerned, are of one mind. There is not that
braggadocio tone to-day that there was last
week, and now, instead of threatening war, the
papers taik ot the lolly of it, and wonder that
the Americans can wish it. I wish there was
iialt the nationality in the American papers
that there is in the English, and that, the lead
ing papers would not give so much opportu
nity as they do to foreigners to sneer at our
government and at our institutions. Avery
silly and bombastic article, from the New York j
Express, concerning the report of Mr. Pickens, j
is extensively copied into the English papers.!
and; because it suits their view’s, every Eng
lishman insists upon it that the Express is the
most influential paper in America. Ev and
by I shall begin to despise the American press
a most as much as I do the press of France,
which is neither governed by sense, nor honor,, j
nor love ot country, nor even common justice i
It is to he hoped that if we have war—and that i
vve shall have it sooner or later k certain— 1
tie whole country will be ol one mind; that]
we shall have no opposition, but that every j
one, newspaper and all, will march, shoulder :
to shoulder, and fight the country’s battles, j
not only with the sword, but the pen. The
pen is a powerful weapon—it it does not con
quer the enemy in the right, it encourages the
w arrior, and teiis him his duty, and iiow to
perform it.*
I kno.v, from good authority, that both the
English and the French governments are
frightened at the present aspect ot affairs. —
Louis Philippe has said, within a week, that
the Anglo-American questions gave him more
uneasiness than he experienced last summer
about the Eastern affairs —and with reason.
If war is declared, the English will attempt to
blockade the American coast, and that w:Ji in
terfere with French commerce in a manner
that the French people will not like ; Amer
! ican prizes will seek French ports for shelter
; and adjudication—a point which the English
! will remonstrate against, and a shelter which
; the French will insist upon giving ; the Lng
i lish will claim the right to search 1* renen ves
j --els for American property and /imorican cit
| izert -, and this the French will not submit to.
The consequence of tins will be, that in six
weeks or two months, either England will de
clare war against France, for protecting Ainei
ican property, or Franco will declare war, tor
insults and injury. In addition to ail this, the
French army and navy are wide awake, and
anxious for a fight, and if England and Amer
ica go to war, a light they will have, and Lou
is i’hiilippe cannot present it. There are
many things that make France and America
natural allies, and many things, spite of all
reasoning on the subject, that do, and forever
will, make England the natural enemy or ri
val of both countries.
McDonald and relief.
Having now experienced to our hearts’
content, t.ie bitter fruits of “ Harrison and Re
form,” and the ruinous consequences of “ YVe
would not if we could,” let us turn away
from ttie humbugs and gulltraps of the past,
and rally to the standard of “ McDonald
and Relief.”
In view of his Message of the 14th of De
cember last, imploring ol the Legislature
“some act of Relief” lor a suffering people,
and of the abrupt and unfeeling answer which
he received trom those in power; who that
feels for the distress of his countrymen, and
beholds the wide-spread desolation which is
sweeping like a pestilence through the land,
and is not ready to sound the watchword of,*
McDonald and Relief?
Where is the rnan who can look upon the
present condition of tiie people* pressed down
as they are by the loss of a cotton crop, and
the peculiar derangement ot monetary and
business affairs, and have the cold hearted
presumption to tell them it would be impossi
ble to relieve them? or the reckless hardihood
to declare that even if their necessities deman
ded assistance, and it was in their power to
grant it, they “ would not if they could?—
Such men were found in the last Legislature
ol Georgia, and a majority too, ol a party
which had boasted its exclusive devotion to
the interests of the people, and who came in
to power upon the express understanding,
that they would reform the errors ol Govern
ment —relieve the people, and open a bright
and prosperous day upon the country. How
well they have redeemed their pledges, is to
be seen in the accumulation of distress, and
the ruin which now stares thousands in the
face.
They promised to revive the credit system
—to foster the Banks, and make money plen
ty. They promised to regulate the currency,
and make good money lor the people, and
what have they done ? They have closed up
the Banks, d<*unged and depreciated the cur
rency, and made money so scarce, that none
can be borrowed.—The sheriffs and consta
hies are selling out the people by wholesale,
and there is no arm to save them. —Even the
Genual Bank—their own institution, has
been shut op against them, and they have
been denied the use of-their own credit, in a
time of tiieir greatest need , and all these ca
lamities have been brought upon them by
the unfortunate and deplorable experiment ol
“ Harrison and Reform,” winch can be, and
will be reformed, by the triumph ol McDon
ald and Relief.
The issue is made up, and is now before
the country. The great jury of public opin
ion is empannelled. The case stands upon
the docket,
McDonald anu Relief vs ‘We would r.ot if we could.’
—Ljeclment.
And now “ to the law and the testimony.”
In our next, the case will be argued by the
counsel on both sides of the question. — Stan
dard of Union.
From the Pennsylvanian.
New York Charter Election. —The
i cit'd inn by the people of New York of Mr.
Morris, late recorder of that < ity, to the office
of Mayor, exhibits an exemplary triumph of
honesty over corruption. Mr. Morris was re
moved from office of Recorder, because, exer
cising the duties of a committing magistrate,
he did precisely that which lias always been
practised by the police of New York, Phila
delphia, and every other city in the Union—
that is, he took possession of papers and ef
fects going to prove the guilt of a criminal—
We a.I ki ow that this is continually practi ed
in reference to counterfeiters and other crim
inals. ‘Phe W higs have never complained
of it befoie, and probably never will again,
unless another case shall arise of tlie expo
sure of a fraud upon the purity of elections—a
greater outrage, in the eyes of honest and in
telligent men, than counterfeiting bank notes.
‘Phe papers seized by Mr. Morris con
firmed the evidence of the importation ol ille
gal voters into New York. Govenor Seward
and his friends did not wish this to be proved.
He therefore removes the Judge who would
see that justice was done—a mr.n admitted
by his political opponents to be of excellent
talents and character. And who does he ap
point in liis place? A Mr. Tailmadge, who
it instated by two Whig papers ol’New York,
|is a man of most profligate character. And
■ why does he appoint such a man ? Presn
| mably, because he wishes a judge who will
i suffer the guiitv pipe-Uvers to escape unpun
ished.
The Whigs a e great sticklers for the inde
pendence ol (he judiciary. Cut here is the
most audacious attack upon that indepen
dence ever made in the United States, and
hardly a W hig paper is found willing tn con
demn it.
Our Whig neighbor of the United States
Gazette, who complains that the judicial office
is not sufficiently independent in Pensylvania,
has no words of censure of tins transaction.—
Will he say that Mr. Morris was wtong in
seizing the papers of the gully? Why then
does he not condemn the seizure ofEidridge’s
papers, and the other analagons instances of
the practice of our “Whig police in Philadel
phia ?
The people of New York city, as we have
mentioned, have done something toward the
righting of this wrong by electing Mr. Mor
ris as Mayor. May of the State of New
York complete the execution of justice by re- j
moving Govenor Seward and his pipe-laying !
subordinates, at the nextelectiom
.
From Florida. — We learn from a pas
senger in the Gen. Clinch, Capt. Brooks, from
PilatlfQ, that an express rider passing from
Tampa to Fort Clinch, on the \Vihlacooche i
river, was shot between Anutaiiga swamp
and Fort Clinch. Two balls were found in j
the mail bags which were brought in by the I
horse, and first, by his presence, gave notice J
of the attack.
Id. Woodruff, 2d Infantry, died at Fort 1
Holmes a tew days since.
J'totn iiuninalud.
One ol
started in construction to :
be given to as main
tained by the federal party, and repudiated by
j the democratic party, is that of Expediency.
YY ith such a doctrine the constitution is noth
img and every thing. Let such a doctrine oe
j admitted and prevail in this country and any j
! power wanted by any party at the head of the j
1 government, can logically be deduced, as ex- ]
j pen lent, from the federal powers dg legated in
the constitution to any of the three branches
constituting the government, lysiich a doc
trine be admitted, and such men as YYebster,
Calhoun, Van Buren, Clay, and others of
] equally eminent talents, can,” by the logical
j powers they possess, easily show, in the most i
| plausible manner, the and of I
! course the constitutionality, of any power in- |
: tended to be assumed. No other doctrine has !
ever been started hv the federal party, so de
structive ot the constitution, as the one now
under consideration. YY e have ever contended
against this doctrine, and we shall continue to
do so, especially at this time, when we find
men who formerly repudiated it, have adopted
and intend to be governed by it when holding
the highest offices in the country.
YVe stated in our paper of last Tuesday, that
President Tyler won and, without the least hesi
tation, sanction a bill for the charter of a na
; tionai bank. vV hat evidence had vve for such
lan assertion ? YVe had the evidence of Mr.
l’yler Himself, in his declaration made before
and since his election. Before his election he
declared, in the language of Gen. Harrison,
that as Congress is vested with all powers
necessary and proper to carry into effect the
granted powers, lire incorporation of a national
bank becomes necessary and proper, and of
course expedient, in case those powers grant
ed to Congress could not be carried into effect
without resorting to such an institution. This
is precisely the uoctrme advanced by Mr. Ty
ler, and it is unequivocally tlie doctrine of ex
pediency. And were vve not justified in
drawing the conclusion vve did from his ad
dress to the people of the United States, that
he would find it—nay, that he had already
found it— necessary and proper, and of course
expedient, to charter a national bank ? Mr.
Tyler is opposed to the sub-treasury. If Con
gress repeals the act establishing that system,
who will have the receipt and disbursement of
the public money ! The State banks or a
national bank. As the State banks have been
tried as the depositories of the public money,
and the plan completely failed, there is no
other resort but to a national institution. But
as the charter of such an institution involves
a constitutional question, Mr. Tyler catches at
the doctrine of expediency, in order to remove
the constitutional barrier which actually exists
to a grant of charter by Congress. The ques
tion then that Mr. Tyler will have to decide,
according to the position lie has assumed, will
be the expediency of a national bank, and not
the constitutionality or unconstitutionally of
a charter. Aid the people of this country
should anticipate how that question will be
decided. Mr. Tyler has ingenuity enough to
show most logically that the assumption of the
power by Congress is expedient. If lie had
not sufficient ingenuity, Mr. Webster is at
hand, and no man is better able to give
assistance to the President in such an under
taking.
The President has declared the charter of a
national hank unconstitutional. He now de
clares that if such an institution be found ex
pedient, it becomes constitutional. To what
lengths would such a doctrine lead, if admit
ted in construing the federal constitution?—
The constitution gives power to Congress to
exercise all powers necessary and proper to
carry into effect the general powers granted.
Congress has power to provide and maintain
a navy. It is evident that Congress possesses
the nesessary and pr oper power to provide for
the building of ships, to regulate their con
struction and armament, and to organize the
naval force in the most efficient manner. Such
powers are necessary and proper, and must be
exercised in order to carry into effect the gen
eral power granted to provide and maintain a
navy. Such powers are not expedient: but
they are of absolute necessity, because, with
out the exercise of them, there would be no
navy. The power to provide and maintain a
navy, is constitutional; the power to build
ships is, of consequence, constitutional also. —
Mr. Tyler has declared that the power to char
ter a national bank is unconstitutional; but if
found expedient, that power becomes constitu
tional. The word expedient is not to be found
in the constitution ; but Mr. Tyler says that if
the power be found necessary and proper , it is
expedient. Well; let us then adopt his con
struction of the word. The power to charter
a national bank becomes Constitutional, it it be
ascertained to be proper and necessary, and of
course expedient. Necessary and proper for
what ? To carry into effect a general power
constitutionally granted. Very well. YVhat
constitutional power granted ? Let us open
the constitution. Wiiat does this instrument
say ? The Congress shall have power to Jay
and collect taxes, duties, and excises, to pay
the debts and provide for the common defence
and general welfare of the United States. I;
a national bank of absolute necessity to carry
into effect this power ? Have not taxes, du
ties, and excises been collected without the
awenev of a national bank, or even of state
banks? The Congress shall have power to
borrow money, to regulate commerce with
foreign nations and among the several states,
and with the Indian tribes. Js a national bank
of absolute necessity to carry into effect these
powers ? The Congress shall have power to
establish a uniform rule of naturalization, to
coin money, to establish post offices and post
roads, to declare war, &c. is a national bank
of absolute necessity to carry into effect those
powers? But, may say Mr. Tyler, the Con
gress has power to provide for the general
welfare, and it is expedient for the general
reef are to charter a national bank. It Mr.
Tyler adopts this expression of the Constitu
tion, which has been the principal doctrine
maintained by the federal party for every in
fraction of tin's instrument, during Mr. John
Adams’ administration, we shall have nothing
to say; because such a construction of the
constitution, with the doctrine ot expediency
now maintained by the Preside;)', virtually
renders that instrument as malleableas wax in
the hands of those to whom the government is
confided: the constitution becomes, as we said
above, nothing and every thing.
The recent report on the condition of the
United States Bark, made by a committee of
Stockholders, reveals some things that may
well excite the fears ol the patriot, for the
safety of Lis country, where a giant monied
power, under the force of a national charter,
can be converted into a machine to carry out
its own end, without regard to the public ruin
that must ensue. Think of the enormous
sum of only four millions to Mr. Thomas Bid
j die, the brother of Nick Biddle, once esteemed
j a leetle the greatest man in the world. Bid
! die’s private cotton speculatians, to the a
rnount of the Batik, and the officers generally
from the cashier down indebted hundreds of
thousands, and these sums, paid as far as paid
at all, in depreciated or worthless stocks. It
was surely time for this rotten concern* to go
over board, being sunk by the weight of its
own misdeeds, and for the country to see tjie
beauties of its systems of financiering. Surely,
the people, with their eyes thus opened, will
| now seek to guard against having such a
monied tyrant imposed on them perhaps, for
ever. If true to themselves, they may still
resist it.
A Good Oxe.—A boy was asked, Does the
Leopard ever change his spots?” “Oh ves,
when he is tired of one spot he goes to an
other.” 1
UNPRECEDENTED SWINDLING.— The Phil
adelphia Enquirer, a whig paper, contains
some curious developeuiems, in relation to the
Bank of the United States, of Pennsylvania.
An adjourned meeting of the stockholders,
was held at their bank.ng house on the sth
inst., when a report was read, made by a
icominittee appointed by the stock holders at
a previous meeting.
Passing over me mass of details of active
\ and'fijßjspendeo debts, the committee stated
“tnaibnt a siuali proportion were regular
mercantile transactions?” and the report sta
ted that •‘under this heap, 43 individuals and
firms owed upwards of $-20,000 each, 15 up-
I wards of $50,0(H) each, and 9 upwards of
SIOO,OOO each.” In another part, it was said
mat 52 individuals had loans of more than
| $20,000 each, and that four others had loans
! amounting to $560,000. The totals of the
amount was named, and left a result 0f514,-
320,000, to represent $35,000,000. The rel
ative states of the Bank were given, lor the
years 1636—’39, and ’4l—on loans of $12,-
000,000, raised in Europe, there was a loss of
more than $1,000,000, produced mainly, by
the disadvantageous terms on which these
loans were made.
Mr. Jaudon received $7,000 per year, as
Cashier, and when he was appointed agent
in England, was allowed by the Bank, $5,-
OCO for loss on the sale of iiis furniture, and
more than SIOOO for the expense of himself
and family m going to London. Twenty
thousand dollars are said to have been paid
to Barings—one thourand dollars a year'to
Mi. Jaudon’s brother for his services. The
sums for foreign agents’expenses up to IS4I,
is estimated at $335,970. in 1837, the loans
had increased more ilian $7,000,000, while
ihe discounts had decreased, about $9,000,-
000.
The report cites particular cases, in which
certain ex-officers of the Bank had become
indebted to the institution in very large a
mounts. The history of the great cotton
speculations of the Bank, were referred to
In 1837, up to July, the amount advanced
for the purchase of cotton, was $2,188,000, —
in the first periods ol the great cotton specu
lation, a profit was realized, but by the last
shipments $900,000 had been lost.
From March 1835, the power had in a
great measure passed from the Directors in
to the hands of the officers of the Bank, who
formed themselves into a kind ol exchange
committee. An ex-officer of the Bank had
taken a loan 0f5500,000 of the Reading Rail
Road, in his individual capacity, and the Bank
had afterwards“ assumed the responsibility.”
These are only a lew of the items of mis
management, as gleaned from this report. —
They show enough to satisfy any one that
the institution lias been most outrageously
managed—and yet this is the institution,
which some of our whig politicians wish to see
resuscitated by making it the basis of a Na
tional Bank. They would take Ins broken
down corrupt institution, as the fiscal agent
of the General Government; the depository
of the people’s money. If the directors and
officers have not proved faithful in the man
agement of a capital of $35,000,000, will they
do so, with a capital of $50,000,000. We
fear not, and are therefore unwilling to trust
the money of the people in their hands.
The Observer is as silent as the grave n
bout these tin gs, and for him, no one would
ever know that such tilings were. Wed he
may he silent, and so should every man who
ever had so little lionestv as to advocate such
a swindling shop as the United Sthales Bank.
SOLEMN PROVIDENCE.
“Gut down and withered in ari hour!”
Tire Boston Atlas of Saturday morning con
tained the following notice of the intended
voyage of its editor, Major llaughten, to Eu
rope :
“ Mr. Ilaughton, the proprietor and senier
editor of this journal, will sail in the Acadia
this afternoon for Liverpool. During his ab
sence, he will leave the editorial department
of the Atlas under the sole charge of Dr. Thos.
M. Brewer, junior editor. The business trans
actions of the office will also be conducted by
Dr. Brewster, as his authorized agent and at
torney.”
The Boston Mercantile Journal of Saturday
afternoon contained the following melancholy
announcement:
“Death of Richard IJaugiiton !—We
have this day a melencholy dmy t.o perform :
that of recording the death of our contempo
rary, Richard Ilaughton of this city, the editor
and proprietor of the Boston Atlas. At about
12 o’clock, while Mr. Ilaughton was making
arrangements for his departure, and apparent
ly in the possession of as much health as he
had enjoyed for some months past, he was sud
denly attacked with illness, probably appo
plexy, and immediately expired.
“Mr. Uaugton was well known as an able
editor. In industry and enterprise he has
seldom been equalled—his political knowledge
was very extensive, and under his direction,
the Atlas had exercised a great influence in
matters connected with our state and national
governments for several years.
“Mr. Ilaughton had many warmly attached
personal as well as political friends, for he
possessed many qualities honorable to human
nature —and Ins sudden and premature death,
he being only about forty-five years old, will
carry sorrow to many a manly bosom.”
Major liar hton was originally destined for
orders in the Episcopal Church, and his stu
dies were dueled to that end. But he very
early showed an inclination for political life,
and during the latter years of Mr. Monroe’s
administration he edited a paper in Washing.
ton called the National Republican it was
in the interest of Mr. Calhoun, when with
him Messrs. Crawford, Adams and Clay were
aspirants for the Presidentship. The National
Republican died during the administration of
Mr. Adams, and in 1328. Major 11. came to
New York, and was for a period employed as
an assistant in the office of the Journal of
Commerce. Hence he removed to Boston,
where he established the Atlas, about nine
years ago. He was a gentlemen of very x-e
----spectabis talents and great enterprise—but an
imprudent politician.
It may be noticed as a striking coincidence,
that tiie Atlas, on the very morning of the!
most unexpected death of its editor, but a few
hours before its occurrence, contained a dirge
beginning:
“ Weep! for the word is spoken—
Mourn! for the knell is knciMeiJ-*.
The master chord is broke l
And the master hand is cod •”
True, the ‘word’ had already been‘spoken,’
and before the sun was down, ‘ the master
hand’ was ‘cold.’—X. Y. Com. Advertiser.
Ms. Epsv’s Theory or Stoe.js —Mr. Ep
sv, it appears from the foreign correspondence
| of the Boston Courier, has succeeded in bring
j ing his theory of storms before the members
!of the Frencii Academy of Sciences. Jfe liad
delivered his course of lectures to an audience
composed of some of the most eminent philos
ophers of France, when a committee was ap
pointed by the Academy to make a report upon
‘he merits of his discoveries. The committee
state that his lectures contain “an immense
number of well observed and decisive facts,’’
and many new and ingenious views, deserving
the attention of European meterologists.—
They also regard the theory as admirably
adapted to the advancement of physical geog
raphy, agriculture and pilotage, and recoin-;
mend the Academy to accord their highest ■
approbation to his labors. M. M. Arago. Bou- j
illet and Cabinet were the members of the;
committee.—X. Y. Evening Post.
The first trial.— The bark Clarion, with j
Errickson’s propellers, started from New York j
on Wednesday, for Havana, with the power of;
her propellers only, and, says the Journal of i
Commerce, went down the hay, against wind j
and tide, at the rate of about sin and a half j
mile; an hour.
The Bxtf.b Bit.—A good story is t* oHi
chap in North Carolina who went the entire
figure in the way of marrying all the girls who
would have him, without waiting tor any of
them to die off as the law directed. After hav
ing married the thirteenth, some of his first
loves carne down upon him and had him lodged
in jail. But a person so fond of perfect liberty
and who could get into Hymen’s not se with
such ease, found little difficulty in getting out
of the jug, and tiie next news of him iie was
running at large with a heavy reward offered
for his apprehension. He was shortly recog
nized by a gentleman, who, anxious to get tiie
reward, invited him to his house, desired him
to sit down, and called his wife to chat with
him as an inducement to detain him there,
while he made some excuses for leaving a few
minutes, and starting for a constable to arrest
the runaway. What was the poor man’s as
tonishment on returning with the constable, to j
find that the gay Lothario, taking advantage of
his short absence, had absconded with his
wife ! This makes the fellow's stock on hand
i fourteen !
A Good Resolve. —The following, among
other resolutions, were unanimously adopted
by a meeting of the Democracy at Tammany
Hall, held alter the recent election of Mayor:
“Resolved, That the triumph they have ob
tained, on this important occasion, over their
political opponents, by electing Robert 11.
Morris, whose zeal and firmness had marked
him as a victim, while it fills their hearts with
patriotic and honest pride, has been achieved
under circumstance which solemuv warn them
to confirm the relaxed discipline of the Demo
cratic party.
“Resolved, therefore, That they pledge
themselves, hereafter, to frown on every at
tempt that may be made to divide the cham
pions of Republican principles, and ever to
sacrifice to the success of the noble cause they
sustain, every personal or local view, in order
that the whole strength of the Democracy
i may always bear with full and undivided
I weight, in aid ol the great principles of equal
j rights aid of universal suffrage, unshackled
by oppressive laws.”—Baltimore Republican-
Another Insult. —How much longer is
the insolence of Great Britian to he borne by
the United States? How money more of our
vessels will have to be searched, before a rep
resentation is made and redress demanded by
our Government? We have recently recor
ded a number of instances of British cruisers
overhauling American vessels and searchidg
them, and we now have another to add to the
catalouge. Captain Wyse, of the Leonidas,
at this port from Rio de Janeiro, states that,
on the 1 Dili of March, in latiiiude 6 30 S. lon
gitude 35 47 W. he was fired into, and
brought to, by the British sloop of war Rose,
ihe boat sent on board, the paper demanded
and examined, under the plea of supposition
that she was a slaver. After detaining him
fir some time, she was allowed to proceed.
These repealed insults to lhe American flag
are insufferable, and should be lamelv sub
mitted 10. The free citizens of the United
Stales never car. acquiesce in the right of
search, on the high seas, unless they have
lost the spirit of independence which anima
ted their lorelathere.—Baltimore Sun.
One of the new appointments is that of
Bela Badger as naval officer of the port cf
Philadelphia. This Badger is one of the veri
est party hacks in the country, one of the least,
scrupulous of his class, notorious even to in
famy, the Philadelphia associate of Glentworth
in the election frauds of 1838 and 1839 —tiie
man who recruited the rogues employed to
come on to New York and vote at, our elec
tions, and who, according to his own confession,
wrote the letters which appear in the Client
worth papers, under the borrowed name of
George W. Rhawn. It will he recollected
that those letters speak of consignment of
laired voters as a shipment of yarn, and that
Badger admitted in his voluntary affidavit that
he bad used this figure of speech to avoid de
tection, if the letter should happen to fail into
the hands of the other party.
This fellow now is rewarded for his services
on that occasion by a salaried office bestowed
by Mr. Tyler. The next mail probably in
forms us that James B. Glentworth is appoint
ed postmaster of the city of New York, unless,
perhaps, the fact of his being rather the hon
estest man of the two should be deemed a
disqualification.—N. Y. Evening Post.
Circulars. —The present Federal Adniiu
tration seems to have resolvt and to distinguish
itself by issuing circulars. There is something
of a mandatory nature in a “by authority” cir
cular, however unnecessary or silly—some
thing indicative of power ire an “order,” though
it may emanate from a craven or simpleton.—
But neither circulars, nor orders wili serve in
this enlightened age, as a cloak lbr tyranny or
political knavery. VVe publised some days
since, a circular of the puritanicia, anti-pro
scriptive cast, evidently designed to divert
public attention from the removals being made
to enable -the new Administration to comply
with a portion of its promises to hungry ex
pectants —and the two additional documents
of that description v\ hicli follow these remarks,
have the sam > object in view. The first is de
signed to elicit testimony to justify the dismis
sal of the principal men engaged on the public
buildings at Washington. It is intended as a
covert, while it is really a very open effort, at
what may be regarded as political subordina
tion of perjury, with a view to increase the
patronage of the Executive, and necessarily
his capacity to reward corrupt and uproarious
partisans. In this service, Gen. Murphy will
probably prove very efficient.
The ether document, over the signature “of
A. K. Parris, is designed to effect a double
purpose—to elicit statements which may make
a false impression in relation to the financial
condition of the Government, by exhibiting a
fictitious excess of disbursements over the
revenue, and to draw forth statements on which
officers may he falsely charge J with paying out
money without authority. In other language,
the new Administration is fishing for proof to
sustain a charge already made, that the late
Administration bequeathed an enormous pub
lic debt to its successor. In terms yet a little
p’airier, preparations are in progress for the i
concoction of lies to sustain a he already ut
tered and published.—Louisville Advertiser. |
The oldest Republic on Earth. —The
American (.£larieily Review coniains a let
ter from G. W. Irving, Esq., giving a sketch
of his visit to San Marino, a small republic in
Italy, between the Appenines the Po and tiie
’ Adriatic. The territory of this state is only
j 49 irules in circumference, arid ins population
j about 7000. The republic was founded more
I than 1400 years ago, on moral principles, in
j dustry, and equally, and has preserved its
| liberty and independence amidst all* the wars
! and discords which have raged arond it. Bo-
I napurie respected it, and sent an embassy to
, express his sentiments of friendship and Ira -
lemily. It is governed bv a Captain Regent,
I chosen every six months by the represenia
li r cs ol the people, G 6 in number, who are
chosen every six months by the people. Tl>e
taxes are light, the farm houses neat, the fields
well cultivated, and on all sides are comfort
and peace, the happy effects of morality, sim
plicity, liberty and justice. Mr. Irving was
received by some inielligent citizens in the
most hospitable and affectionate manner:
they were delighted with him because fie was
an American. They professed a profound
attachment to our country, and look to it as
the preserver of their own pure principles.—
They were intimately acquainted with our
institutions and affairs, and had a library well
furnished with books and pamphlets relating
to America.
Men who stutter and stammer are often
met with, but. who ever heard of a female af
flicted with an impediment in her speech.
Biographical Dictionary
published IrT this country, with additions by
Eleozar Lord, is the following article:
“John Tyler, Govenor of Virginia, was e
lected in 1608. He was one ol the leading
Revolutionary characters of Virginia; was
many years a member oi the House of Dele
gates, and in 1781 succeeded Mr. Benjamin
Harrison as Speaker. Atter being Govenor,
he was Judge oi ti.e District Court of the U
nited States lor Virginia, and died at his seat
in Charles county, January 6th, 1833. He
was simple in his manners, distinguished for
the uprightness and fidelity with which be
discharged his official duties, and enjoyed in
an uncommon degree the esteem and con
fidence of his fellow-citizens.”
The Benjamin Harrison here spoken of, was
the father of William Henry Harrison, the
late President of the United States ; and the
| John Tyler above mentioned, we take it, was
the father of the present Tyler. It is a singu
lar circumstance, that President Tyler’s fa
ther should have succeeded President Harri
son’s father in the office of Speaker of the
House of Delegates in Virginia, and that his
son, President Tyler, should suceed the son of
Benjamin Harrison in the ofiice of Chief Mag
istrate of the nation.—Providence Journal.
Disease in silk worms. —Mr. Gideon B.
Smith, the intelligent and ardent advocate of
the culture of silk in this country, has ad
dressed a letter to the Editors of the National
Intelligencer, in which he states that bv an
examination of some plates in a French jour
nal he has just received, representing the
different stages of the disease, called Musca
dine, in silk worms, he is satislied that it is
the identical disease which destroyed a great
part of the silk worms in this country last
summer. By the ravages of the disease in
Europe, taking one year with another, the av
erage loss oi worms has been from forty five
to fifty per cent, per annum. lie announces
a remedy and pre\ entive for tire disease, which
is fortunate at this season, just before the
preparations for tbe ensuing crop ns well as
important in the incipiency of the culture
with us. The remedy is the free application
of air slaked lime to the worms, and also to
the floors of the cocoonery, and whitewashing
all the wood work of the fixtures. “The lime
should be sifted through a fine seive on the
worms two or three times a week, if healthy,
and once a day if diseased, in the morning be
fore the first feeding, and after cleansing the
hurdles. The quantity of lime to be sifted o i
the worms may he just sufficient to whiten the
worms and loaves well; and it should be
commenced when the worms are half grown,
say twelve to fifteen days old. This remedy
has, during the past two years, enabled those
persons in France who used it to save and ob
tain cocoons from ninety seven per cent, of
ail the worms hatched.”—[Richmond Compi
ler.
The Second Thought. —The Cleveland
(Ohio) Advertiser says, “In Ridgeville, Lo
rain Cos. where Gen’l. Harrison received a ma
jority of 17 in November, the Democrats have
. now carried all their candidates for township
officers, with one exception. Party lines were
drawn, and a more warmly contested election
was never held in that township.”
Exploring Expedition.- By the arrival of
the ship Lainanne, we have dates from the
Exploring Expedition up to 21 of December,
1840- The Exploring squadron was lo sail
lor the Norlli West coast, to survey the is
lands in that (attitude; and it was expected
they would return to lie U. States in May,
1812. ‘I he death ol Lient. llendetson and
Midshipmen Wilkes, is spoken of as a great
loss to tiie squadron, and they both arc much
lamented. A funeral service was preached
j on hoard the flagship Vineenness by Chap
ain Eliiol.—N. Y. Express, 16th ins!.
The most painful aspect in which Ihe recent
disclosures as to the administration of th
Bank of the United States can bo regarded, is
that which shows their effect upon tlie inoral
and commercial character of our whole com
munity. They depict such an utter destitu
tion of honesty in tiie discharge of high and
sacred trusts, and they seem to involve so
many of < ur heretofore chief citizens, that one’s
heart shrinks in contemplating the shame and
degradation lo which, in all other parts of our
country and in Europe, they must sink the
once honored name of Philadelphia.
The reputation of a great city is the most
precious property of its inhabitants. It is long
in acquiring, and, when lost by signal and gen
eral debasement, is hard, very hard, to recover.
Every man’s position is affected by it; his
means of activity and enterprize are abridged,
if not destroyed ; he is discredited by the brand
of his residence; the soul-satisfying pride of
home gives place to a humiliating conscious
ness of lowered cast; lie walks among stran
gers, dreading that a finger will be pointed at
him : and lie is tempted to shut himself up
from all intercourse, because be cannot help
despising those among whom his destiny has
placed him, and whom the rest of the world
have decreed to be infamous. Is there a sin
gle individual in Philadelphia who has not felt
j himself despoiled, by the flagrant misdeeds
committed in the Bank of the United States,
of his civic inheritance of fame and honor ?
Talk of Baltimore as Mobtown, or of Vicks
burg as the domain of .1 udge Lynch ; but what
soubriquet importing pollution and crime do
we now run the risk of having retaliated upon
us? -
And is there no avoiding or remedying this
calamity ? There is but one course. The
poison must be traced through ail its ramifica
tions and info its most secret recesses; it
must be resolutely expelled; and the men
who have infused it into the system of the
community should be indignantly surrender
ed as the only fit objects for universal scorn.
Let us not seem to love and to shelter the vi
ces we so loudly disclaim ; if we do, we shall
in vain plead for a charitable interpretation of
our conduct.
The Collector Besieged.—ls Mr. Curtis
were not blessed with an equable temper he
j would be unable to bear up with any degree
| of patience under the trials to which lie is ex
! posed. From the moment at which he sits
| down to his desk in the Custon House until
i the hour when his daily duties terminate, he
i- literally besieged by applicants for office.—
j There is a constant human stream setting
j from the door of his office towards his desk.—
j If this were only a temporary annoyance it
j might he philosophically borne, but it has con
-1 tinned for three weeks, and “the cry is still
I they come.” In vain he cries, with Macbeth,
j “I’ll see no morethe line seems as though
| it would stretch on to the “crack o’ doom.”—
; Wo understand Mr. Curtis has already re
’ ceived and filed away something like 7,000
i letters. More applications have now been
i made by manv thousands than can possibly be
I attended to. W o mention tins to show that
I new petitioners have a slender chance, or, for
| (he most part, no chance at all. Tins contin
ued rush upon Mr. Curtis is inhumanity to him
and of no benefit to them. —IN. V. rimes and
Gazette.
We are requested to state that the case of
Gaines and wife, versus Chew & Relf, and
others, came on for argument on Saturday last,
before the United Spates Circuit Court for the
Eastern District of Louisiana, Judge McKin
ley and Lawrence presiding. The argument
in this case, which involves some very impor
tant legal questions, especially the sunremaev
of the laws of Lousiana, will be resumed by
Sir. Barton this morning, at 9 o’clock, to which
time the Court adjourned; and we have no
doubt that, from the notoriety of this case, the
immense amount of property involved, and the
eminent counsel, engaged on both sides, it will
attract a large share of public attention.