Newspaper Page Text
Tin; TIMES.
T)e union of iho states and the sovereignty of he states
COLUMBUS, JUNE 3, 1811.
From the N. Y. Herald, Extra.
New Vurk, Thursday, May 27, 184!.
One o’clock, p. m.
Steamship President. —Another ray—an
other gleam of h.pc was received in this city
thin morning. We give it as we hear it.
A letter from Montreal, dated May 22, states
positively that Captain Dunn, at Quebec from
England, saw, about April 21///, the Steamship
l'resident standing for the Azores.
Fourth of July. —ls it contemplated to let
this sacred day pass without the slightest no
tice 1
New Congress. —The present
it is said, by an exchange paper, is, in the Sen
ate, composed of 30 Whigs, and 22 demo
crats.
..The Whig majority in the House of Rep
resentatives is estimated by the Journal of
Commerce at 47. in this estimate the im
practicable Whigs are counted with the
Whigs proper.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
On Monday last, the 31st ultimo, the two
Houses of Congress assembled, in Washing
ton City, agreeably to a call contained in the
Proclamation of the late President Ilarrisom
issued in March last.
In our next we shall endeavor to spread be
fore our readers the Message of the Acting
President, Tyler, and such other matters as
shall have transpired in the Senate and House
of Representatives during the first two or
three days of their meeting.
The Mercury, of Charleston, represents the
meeting held in that city on the occasion of
the presence of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, on
his way to Washington, a few days since, as
the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in
Charleston.
The Monitor, (Whig,) published at Tusca
loosa, received last evening, states that Re
turns from nearly all the Counties in Alabama,
for Congress, have been received, and that
the remaining counties to be heard from, will
vary the majority but little if any. As far
as heard from the vote stands thus: Whige
16,139 —Democrats, 21,554.
governor McDonald.
The last Macon Messenger says that the
friends of Gov. McDonald urge his re-election
solely on account of his relief Message. This is
a version of the case, of which we were not
before apprised. We had supposed, and so
understood, that his claims to re-election were
based on more substantial and elevated
grounds—on bis attachment to democratic
principles, and his resolute and unflinching
adherence to those doctrines and measures
which form the ground-work of the republi
can creed. Ilis relief Message, although or
iginating in the purest motives, and designed
to accomplish great good, is only one among
the many considerations which influence the
democratic party in again yielding Governor
McDonald a warm and ardent support.
The Messenger will, in due season, be ap
prised of all the grounds occupied by the
friends of the present Chief Magistrate in
support of his re-election ; and will, probably,
be kept busy during the summer in contro
verting their correctness, before the people of
Georgia.
Keep Cool. —No one can forget the vigo
rous and concentrated opposition which the
merchants throughout the country, and es
pecially in the large cities, presented during
the last year, to the views and wishes of the
democratic party. Their hostility to the late
Administration was founded on the unjust and
unwarrantable assumption that Mr. Van Bu
ren and his party were bitterly opposed to the
Banking and Credit system, in all its forms
and shapes; and what was designed to be a
proper and wholesome regulation of those
systems, was characterised by the class to
which we have alluded, as impious and down
right destruction. We have nothing to say
against the merchants, or their particular opin
ions. What we mean to state is simply the
fact that no body of men in the Union
were more untiring, bitter, and unsparing of
both time and means, from the commencement
to the end of the contest, in efforts to defeat
the democratic party, than the merchants.
They had a perfect right to do as they pleased,
and adopt such measures as to them seemed
proper, to sustain the boasted credit system, as
it then existed in all its illimitable perfection.
All this, we say, they had an undoubted right
to do.
Well—-the merchants succeeded—but*
some how or other, these systems, although ex
isting now as they existed then —are out of
joint, even in the eyes of the merchants ; and,
within the last few days, several meetings
have been held in this city to regulate the
Hanking system—with what success we have
not learned. Keep Cool, gentlemen!
STEWART PRESENTMENTS.
In another column will be found the Pre
sentments of the Grand Jury of Stewart
County, at April Term, 1811. Reference is
made in them to the distresses of the times—
the derangement in the Currency—and to the
extreme injury and loss to which defendants
in execution are subjected from the tact that,
in many instances, Sheriffs and collecting of
iieers are instructed to receive, in discharge
of debts, only specie, or notes of suspended
Banks at 1(3 per cent, discount. To obviate
the latter difficulty, it is proposed to enact a
law to suspend the collection of judgments
unty. the defendants have time to sue the
Banks, and obtain specie from them. It is un
questionably a matter of great hardship, and
often absolute impossibility, to obtain specie,
and thus satisfy the demands of the inexorable
creditor—but the Grand Jury have recom
mended certainly an improper measure—the
passage of an unconstitutional law—and one,
which the members of the Grand Jury of
S ewart, and its intelligent Foreman will per
ceive, on reflection, would be a direct violation
of that clause of the Constitution which de
clares that no “Slate shall pass any law im
pairing the obligation of Contracts.”
We learn from the Bangor Democrat that
the President of the Frankfort Bank has been
arre sted on a charge of swindling, and bound
over for trial- The substance of the charge
against him is that ho took toe tmaU ot the
bank, purchased stock ot various persons at
fifty per cent, sold it at par, kept the profits,
and paid the bank in wild land at pel
acr ( e that was worthless.
THE LATE RESIDENT IIARRISON AND ,
HIS SALARY.
In transferring the subjoined articles from
the Worcester Palladium arid Boston Post to
our columns, we have no wish or intention to
say aught against a just and liberal appropria
tion by Congress, to idemnify the family of
Gen. Harrison for whatever expenses may have
been incurred by his removal to Washington—
his brief residence there—and the expenditures
of his household subsequent to his death, in re
turning to their respective homes. An appro
priation ample and full, to meet all these ex
penses, is just and proper, and will, we pre
sume, be opposed by no one. Nor does any
one, we imagine, desire that, in addition to
his salary for the month he occupied the Pre
sidential chair, an exact statement should be
made out and submitted of his incidental ex
penses in reaching Washington, and ol those
to which his family was subjected after his
death—and an amount corresponding with
such statement be given by Congress. If one
year’s salary will fully idemnify for all expen
ditures, or go a little beyond —give it; or appro
priate such sum as shall be known to be ample
and sufficient to cover all expenses and losses
to which his family and estate have been, or
will be subjected in consequence of his pre
mature and unexpected death at the seat of
the National Government. It should be ob
served, however, that there is a limit to these
expenses and losses, beyond which Congress
has no right to go. One hundred thousand
dollars, or four year’s salary, which lias been
suggested as the proper sum, is beyond the
limit, and, therefore, ought not to be given.—
Besides, if a gift is to be made, corresponding
with thesupposed rnagnitudeof Gen.Uarrison’s
services and sacrifices previouslo, and alter his
elevation to the Presidency—there are others
with claims fully equal, and whose private
sacrifices for the country were quite as great—
whose families and heirs would, under the
precedent, be entitled to aid from Congress.
The heirs of Jefferson ar.d Monroe certainly,
and perhaps those of Madison, would come
within the rule, and Congiess would he oblig
ed, by every principle of honor and justice, to
relieve their necessities. It is proposed to
give this large sum, admitted to be far beyond
his incidental expenses and losses after his
election, and in consequence of that election,
because he died while President. A large
share of it, therefore, is appropriated to repay
former services. In this view of the case,
Mr. Jellbrson, Mr. Madison and Mr. Monroe
were, and their representatives will be now,
entitled to full and- ample indemnity. The
circumstance that they did not die in office
does not, in the slightest degree, affect the
principle.
The idea of giving an enormous sum—a
large fortune to tho family of Gen. Harrison,
is undoubtedly the suggestion of some indis
creet friends who, availing themselves of the
circumstance of the death of Gen. Harrison, in
Office, and of the political excitement which
preceded and attended his elevation to the
Presidency, and that has not yet subsided—
seek to obtain what lias never been yielded
heretofore, and that will, at a future period’
reflect no credit on the authors of the scheme’
for its great impropriety, and its manifest in
justice towards other and more distinguished
men, who have been the predecessors of Gen.
Harrison in the Presidential Chair:
“ The projects of soliciting contributions for
the benefit of Gen. Harrison’s family, is de
rogatory to our national character, while the
recommendation by a meeting in Philadelphia
of giving them $100,090 from the public purse
is extravagant. We think it no more than
justice that liis heirs should receive $25,000
from the national treasury. —a year’s salary—
but beyond this we hope that Congress will
not so, and we think it would be more con
sistent with true respect for their late favorite,
if Gen. Harrison’s friends were to abandon all
the eleemosynary projects which have sprung
from the circumstance of his decease.”—Bos
ton Post.
“ Splendid Charity.— The National Intel
ligencer has made the absurd suggestion, that
every voter in the country subscribe one dollar
for the benefit of the family of the late Presi
dent, It has been caught up by the federal
ists, and a meeting has already been held in
Roxbury, to ‘set the ball in motion.’ While
those who choose, make such a disposition of
their money, it is to be hoped they will not be
censorious upon others who do not so readily
see the propriety of the measure. Mr. Jeffer
son served the country eight years as Presi
dent, and. his last years Were embittered with
poverty which no one relieved. Mr. Monroe’s
situation differed but little from that of Mr.
Jefferson. Mrs. Madison has lived, since the
death of her husband, in very straightened
circumstances ; and these were cases which
seemed to invite public sympathy as strongly
as the one to which it is now directed ; and
no one will be so presumptive as to compare
Gen. Harrison’s services to the country with
ttiose rendered by either of those eminent
statesmen. Whatever it may be right and
proper for Congress to do, to relieve General
Harrison’s family from any embarrassments,
to which it may have been subjected by his
accession to the Presidency, every reasonable
man will acquiesce in. But the objectofthis
I movement is too apparent; it is to create a
public sentiment in favor of government char-
J ities to certain families, and then to throw that
sentiment upon Congress, to extort appropria
: tions of the public money for a purpose to which
it would never be voteJ without an external
pressure from a largo portion of the people.
“It is the duty of our rulers to be just as
1 well as benevolent ; and as nothing has ever
i been done in the aid of families of former Pre
sidents, so there is nothing in the present case
to give it any peculiar distinction from them,
or to make it a precedent lor the future action
of the government of the people.”—Worces
ter Palladium.
‘ - INFIDEL AND LICENTIOUS BOOKS.”
The “Presbyterian Presbytery of Niagara,
New York,” have passed a formal resolution,
declaring that Byron’s Works and Bulwer’s
Novels “are books of an infidel and licen
centious character,” and that the vending of
them “is a practice vso poisonous to‘the minds
of youth, and so subversive of sound morals
atul serious piety in the Church and in the
World, that it is contrary to the Gospel, and
should be discontinued by all members of the
Church of Christ.”
Judge Duvall. —The venerable Judge Du
vall, who some years since resigned his seat
on the Bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States, is residing in reasonable good
he-.ilth, on his estate in Prince George’s Coun
ty, Maryland, in his 89th year. He was born
on the (3th of December, 1752. His mind,
autograph, and punctuation, are, we under
stand, as clear and distinct as at any time of
his lift—a remarkable instance of the good
effects of regular habits and a sound constitu
tion —American.
[Judge Duvall’s father lived to the age of
90, and h:s grandfather. 93, cultivators of the
same estate on which the venerable Judge
resides.]
HON. R. 11. WILDE,
The fine talents, and distinguished literary
taste of Mr. Wilde,have not been unemployed
during his residence abroad, as the following
notice from the New Yorker will show:
“We observe, with much pleasure, that
proposals have been issued by A. V. Blake, of
this city, to publish by subscription the elabo
rate work which has engaged the labors and
attention of our countryman, lion. Richard H.
Wilde, during his recent protracted residence
in Italy. The writings of Tasso, especially
his Sonnets, abound in broken revelations of
his ill-fated love, and the inward conflicts and
trials which grew out of his unlortunate con
nection with the Princely House of Este.—
The facts of his Madness and Imprisonment,
too, are familiar to every reader of his Biogra
phy. Still, much connected with this portion
of his History remains in deep mystery; and
the labors of Mr. Wilde have been exclusively
directed to the elucidation of these most inter
esting points in the life of one of tho world’s
greatest Poets. His Manuscripts have been
i read by many of our finest scholars, and pro
nounced eminently worthy of a wide populari
j ty. The w : ork will be contained in two octavo
| volumes, and will do high credit to American
i scholarship.”
We have witnessed the operations of the
Shingle Cutter, mentioned in the subjoined
| article from the Columbus Enquirer, of yester
day, and find that the representations concern
ing it are correct.
“Shingle Cutter. —We have been re
quested to call the attention of the public to
Messrs. D. C. McMillen &. Co’s, patent shin
gle cutter, which .Mr. B. 11. Torrance, the
agent, is now exhibiting in this city. We
have not seen the machine ourselves, and can
not therefore speak from our own knowledge
of its construction or performance. From the
testimony of others however it is certainly a
valuable invention. It is said to cut 5,000
shingles in a day, or from 109'to 120 per min
ute, all ready for use.”
Mr. Turpin G. Atwood, the individual men
tioned in the subjoined notice from the Colum
bus (Miss.) Democrat, of the 22d of May, as
having been most atrociously murdered, was
for many years a respectable citizen cf Jones
county, Georgia, and for a short period subse
quently a resident of this city.
Murder. —We understand that a most a
trocious murder was committed at Kosciusko
in this State on Sunday evening last. The
perpetrator of the deed is said to bo one Wil
liam A. Walker, generally known by the name
of ‘•■Buck Walker,” a notorious blackleg. His
victim was a Mr. Turpin G. Atwood, repre
sented as being a very worthy citizen. Os
the provocation or particulars of the murder,
we have heard ’nothing - . Walker, it is said,
has been arrested and conveyed to Vicksburg
for safe keeping.
The Banks of the Union. —The number
of Banks in the United States is about. 700—
with 130 branches, an aggregate capital of
$360,000,000.
City News. —The Honorable Charles F-
Mitchell was yesterday put to the bar ol the
Court of General Sessions, and called upon
to plead guilty to an indictment charging
him with forgery in the third degree. He
made no reply to the question of the Clerk, but
one of his counsel, David Graham, Esquire,
moved to quash the indiement. He did this,
he said, on the ground that, on the finding
of the indictment, the court was improperly
and illegally constituted—in fact that it was
no court; as by the constitution and the laws
of the State, the aldermen had no right to sit
as judges, and formed no part of the court, as
would appear by the statute passed tho 14th
of May, 1840, which enacts that the court
should consist of a Recorder and two Asso
ciate Judges. Mr. Graham denied the right
of this court, as then constituted, to receive
a plea, and gave notice of his motion to quash
the indictment., lie was replied to by the
District Attorney, who required the usual no
tice, which the court acceded to, and the mo
tion was set down for argument on a future
day of the next week. Mitchell was taken
back to prison, where it appears he is pestered
with visitors. Is this right or decent I—N.
Y. Times.
From tho Ohio Statesman.
A SLAVE CASE —THE BITTER CUP RETURNED
to Kentucky’s lips. —The cooing - and bil
ling between the Kentucky slave holding ora
tors and the Abolition Whigs of Ohio, by
which the latter by pipe-laying and mental de
lusion were successful in defeating the De
mocracy, is resulting perhaps just as it should,
as a judgment upon the former.
At a recent trial in Lebanon, Warren Go.
before Judges Hitchcock and Lane, (Whigs)
a case of forcibly rescueing slaves from their
owner, as they were passing through Ohio to
Missouri, was brought from the court below,
on a writ of error! We give so much from
tho report of the trial from the Star as will
show the main points decided :
“Several exceptions were taken to the opin
ion of the court below, one of which was
founded on the charge of the court that
it made no difference whether said colored
persons were or were not slaves in Virginia,
as even if the}’ - were, and Rains was carrying
thern to Missouri, no person had a right to in
terfere forcibly to rescue them from his pos
session. A writ of error was obtained, re- .
turnable to the late session of the Supreme
Court. The judgment of the Court below
was reversed, on a legal question arising on
the indictment, and the court adverted to that
part of the charge of the court below, last
above stated, as excepted to. In relation to
this point, the court expressed their unhesita
tating opinion that the bringing of slaves into
this State even with the view of passing
throng it to settle in another slave State, of
itself, made such co’ored persons free ; and
any claim of right, and an attempt to carry
them into a slave State, in order to retain them
as slaves, was an offence against, or in viola
tion of, the laws of Ohio, (the law against
kidnapping) which any citizen had a right to
represent even by such force as was necessa
ry to rescue them from such illegal custody
of any person in whose possession they might
be found.
“The much vexed question, therefore,
whether the owners of slaves in Virginia, or
other slave State, can carry them through
Ohio, in removing to another slave State has
been settled in the negative, so far as the
the opinion of two of the Supreme judges can
settle any point.”
This is the greatest triumph the Abolition
ists have secured, and goes fully to confirm our
former expressed opinion, that no slave hereaf
ter escaping to Ohio, or coming with his mas
ter, need ever to return again, except it is his
wish to do so. And we regret to say that the
conduct of Kentucky has been such that few
persons seem to care any thing about how the
matter ends, provided the negroes will not fill
up our State or harbor about our villages.—
Slaveholders, for the last year, have become
the greatest aids and white-washers of Abol
tionism, in the Uniom—they must bide their
own time of getting their eyes open.
Rain. —-Our readers are no doubt aware
that we have had considerable rain this Spring.
Tiit following comdarative statement of the
quantity that has f .Hen during the months of
January, February, March and April, for a
few years back, has been handed to us.
1837. 11,008 inches
1838. 11,300
1839. 11,738
1840. 11,885
1841. 22,494 .
—Pennsylvania!!.
George W. 1 ore. —We are again, as al
public journalist, compelled to not ice the case
of George VV. Lore, which still continues
to keep alive no small degree of excitement
in our community, and which no doubt is
looked to with considerable interest abroad.
We stated last week that Lore was brought
to Irwinton, in obedience of a writ of Habeas
Corpus, issued by his honor Judge Booth, to
the Sheriff of ltussell county, into whose
hands he was placed for safe keeping for the
purpose of enabling him to give the required
bail, in a bond of $20,000.
The case was brought up on Wednesday
evening last, prid opened by Judge Barry on
the part of the ‘prisoner, contending for the
right of bail, under a decision of the Supreme
Court of Alabama, in the Simonton case,
which we understand alone influenced the
Judge, in extending bail to the prisoner,
after his trial at Clayton, it being then consid
ered by the Court, that that case, and the
one under consideration, were analagous.
On the other hand, it was contended by
Messrs, i’etit and Calhoun, on the part of
the prosecution, that the cases were not ana
lagous, and the prisoner not entitled to bail—
it being a palpable violation of the Constitu
tion of the State, which declares that “All
persons charged with capital offences against
the State may be admitted to bail except in such
cases where the testimony is exidem or the
/; resumptiongreat.” The prosecution earnest
ly contending that if the testimony is not evi
dent, yet the presumption is very great, there
fore, object to the granting of bail. After the
argument had been concluded, the Judge re
manded the prisoner into the custody of the
Sheriff'of this county, until the next morn
ing, at which time he would be prepared to
give a decision as to his admissibilty to bail,
remarking at the same time, if we did not
most wofully misunderstand him, that his
mind had undergone a change in relation to the
similarity of the case of Simonton, to the one
under consideration. He further observed
to the audience, that should he refuse the pris
oner bail it would not be because of the num
bers, which had assembled on that occasion—
that they either very much overrated their own
abilities, or greatly underrated his determina
tion if they supposed he was to be influenced
by their array. The Court then adjourned.
The next morning, the Judge admitted the
prisoner to bail, and he is now at liberty. A
very great excitement was the consequence
a meeting of the citizens was immediately
called, and a resolution passed, as the opinion
of the citizens, that the bond taken by his hon
or, was insufficient. Lore in the meantime,
had secured himself in his dwelling, and we
understand, “armed to the teeth,” conse
quently, could not be readied by those who
felt the deepest interest in bringing him to
justice.—Shield.
To raise good Radishes. —Take pure sand,
some depth from the surface, or pure earth be
low where it has been 1 illed or moved, or sea
sand, washed by the waves, make abed in the
garden, six or eight inches deep, and they will
grow well without manure, and be free from
worms ; we have tried it frequently and never
failed.
Radishes that are grown very early in the
season, are of slow-growth and inferior to those
grown after the weather is warm enough to
hasten them, as the faster they grow, the more
tender and finer the flavor.—Yankee Farmer.
Another revolutionary soldier gone.
Died at Mountville, Troup county, Georgia,
on Sunday morning 23d ult. Mr. JOSEPH
JOHNSON, in the 87th year of his age. Mr.
Johnson was a native of Halifax county, Va.
where lie resided until some two or three
years b ifore the commencement of the revo
lutionary war, when he removed to Chatham
county, N. C. where he resided until about
two years since. He was one of the few who
enlisted and served in the American anny ‘for
arul during the war’ at that hour which tried
the souls of men. Ilis papers show him t.o
have entered the army as Ist Sergeant of the
company to which he was then attached, and
afterwards, to have been promoted to Ist
Lieutenant. He fought in some of the most
important battles of the Revolution, and was
once taken prisoner and retained six months
by the British.
Mr. Johnson has been truly favored by Pro
vidence in having endowed to him a strong
natural mind and a good constitution, which
remained but slightly impaired until a short
time before his death, lie had never been a
member of any Church or made any proles
sion of the Christian Religion, but, as he ob
served a short time beforo his exii, he died “like
many in olden times, with calm composure
after having acted his part.” It is sufficient
of him to say that lie lived 63 years at one
place with a character unsullied.
One of the Raleigh, N. C. papers will please
publish the above. a friend.
Great change and no improvement.—
We have before us. several copies of the en
dorsements of the new clerks in the Post Of
fice. Such writing ! Dip a bed-bug in ink,
tie a coal of fire to his tail, and put a sheet of
paper beneath him, and lie would make marks
quite as intelligible, and much more pictures
que. Send for the schoolmaster, St. John,
your clerks need him. —Phil. Spirit of the
Times.
The following gentlemen were admitted on
Friday evening last by his Honor Judge Well
born, to plend and practice in the several courts
of law and Equity in tins State, as Attorneys,
Councillors and Solicitors: Lemuel T. Down
ing, W. W. Murray, and James M. Pierce.
Their examination is said to have been high
ly creditable, and showed that, they are well
qualified for the arduous and intricate profes
sion to which they have devoted themselves.
—Enquirer of yesterday.
The remains of the late Gen. Glascock,
were taken to Augusta and interred with fu
neral honors on Saturday the 22d ult.
A considerable conflagration occurred in
Raleigh, N. C. on the 19th ult.. by which prop
erty to the amount of four thousand dollars
was destroyed.
To MAKE A WRITING APPEAR AND DISAP
PEAR at pleasure.— Dissolve equal parts of
sulphate of copper and muriate of ammonia in
water and wine, \\ hen you would make the
writing appear, warm the paper gentlv by the
fire; the writing will appear in a yellow col
or, but as soon as you take the paner into the
cold air, the writing will vanish. 1 his may be
often repeated.
The frigate Brandvwine, we hear, is to re
turn forthwith to the Mediterranean. The
residue of the squadron, it is possible, if not
probable, has received such information, after
the Brandywine parted company with it, as to
induce it to return to the Mediterranean sta
tion.
It is said that Messrs Bates and Cryden,
the two English Bankers who have recently
visited Washington, went here to urge the
President to recommend in his message to
Congress an assumption of tne State Debts
by the General Government.
Gov. Fulton and Mr. Cross, Senator and
Representative of Arkansas, arrived in Cin
cinnatti on the 18th, on their way to \\ asli
ington. The next morning it was discovered
that their r.egro servants had fled, and they
could no where be found.
Tiie Exploring Expedition*.— Capt. Law
rence, of the ship Champion, arrived at Ed
gartown from the Paciflc Ocean, reports the
United States brig Porpoise, Capt. Ringgold,
at Tahitti, January 26, to sail on a cruise the
next day.
The Porpoise had visited many of the Fe
gec Islands, and several others laid down in
the charts ; ofliecrj and crew a!i well.
From the N. Y. Herald, May 17.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM PHILADEL
PHIA—ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURES OF
THE U. S. BANK—PRIVATE LEDuER.
Last evening we received from our special
and exclusive correspondent, in Philadelphia,
the first of a series of “awful disclosures,”
containing the assets of the U. S. Bank, from
the famous “private ledger,” of which we
have heard so much of late.
We have only room for a small portion to
day, but these curious and amusing disclosures
will be given exclusively by the lleralJ, to
the American people, as fast as they are re
ceived —and ripe for exhibition.
1 o-murrow another meeting of the swindled
and silly stockholders takes place at the U. S.
Bank in Philadelphia, and we have according
ly despatched one ol our reporters to give us
full accounts of their doings.
i he following is the first extract from the
Private Ledger:
Philadelphia, May 15th, 1841.
SINGULAR DISCLOSURES —EXTRACTS FROM THE
PRIVATE LEDGER.
Jas. G. Bennett, Esq.
Dear bir: I promised you further extracts
from the assignment of tile U. S. Bank, and 1
now embrace the first chance to make such
extracts as I deem most important to you. I
can have the use of the book but for a short
time ; so here’s at it:
List oj Slocks and Loans of Incorporated com
panies.
Bonds of Williamsport and Elmira R. R. Cos.
150 bonds of §IOOO each, (redeeinuale
Jan. 1, 1840 ) §150,000 00
Loan ot the Delawaie & Chesapeake
Canal Cos. 337 693 30
“ “ “ Cumberland Valley Rail
road Cos. 240,010 CO
“ “ •’ Danville & Pottsville Rail
road Cos. 116,333 S3
“ “ “ Beaver Meadow Railroad
and Coal Cos. 51,316 74
Bonds of Camden & Amboy R. R. Cos. 20,000 00
“ “ Lutle Schuylkill Nav. It. R.
& Coal Cos. ‘ 550,490 00
584 shares capital stock of M iners’ Bank,
Pottsville, par value §SO, 29,010 CO
722 shares capital stock Union Bunk of
Tennessee, par v due §IOO, 72.200 00
S4O shares capital slock Pennsylvania &
Ohio canal, par value §lCo,'‘ 74,0C0 00
Bonds of the cit v of Mold e, viz :
-10 bonds,each §IOOO, rei/ble Nov. 1,1836, 40 OCO CO
18 “ “ 1000, “ Feb. 1, 1846,’ 18.000 00
6 ‘i “ 1000, “ “l, 6.000 00
Total Stocks and Loans, §1,705,233 37
Immediately alter this list comes the account
of the
Debt ill D. of Columbia. Ag’y of B. U. S. Wash’ll.
When due. Drawer. End. Per Sec. Si cby R. Est.
1841, Jan. Barry, Robert, toCush’r, §224 23
“ Oct. Carter, John da §1,635 12
“ “ Crary, John S. do 1.635 12
“ “ Corcoran, do 816 56
“ Aug. Johnson & Irwin do 742 82
1842, “ do do do 517 06
1841, May. Makall,B ~ do on st’k 5,052 50
“ “ Meade, Walter, do 817 56
“ Oct. Jewell, Will.. (to 817 56
“ Jan. Monroe, TANARUS., Col Monroe, 382 96
“ May. Monroe, W., W. Mornie, 100 00
“ “ da do 1,477 85
“ Apr. Ringgold, W. S. W.
C. Smith, 909 45
“ Oct. Swartwout, S., Carshier, 2,043 90
“ “ Selden, Dudley, do 817 56
“ Apr. Smith, W.&Co. do S .580 00
“ “ do do 3.687 28
“ Oct. Smith, Clem, do 899 31
“ “ Thurston, R., J. L. Thurston. 325 00
“ Mar. do do 353 63
“ Apr. Thurston, W. W. & C.
Smith, 4 850 40
“ Jan. Tliursion, J. A., Win.
Brent, 74 53
“ May. Watterson, G, J P Ingle, 128 23
“ Oct. Wheelwright, J, Cashier, 817 56
“ Mar. Wub.-ter, Daniel, Ed.
Curtis, 1,000 00
There are several others cited, but gener
ally for smaller sums, which, together with
the above, make the following, viz.
On personal security, §ls 732 93
On real estate, 22,813 36
First Class.
Suspended Debt. Cona’d good. Per Sec. R. Est
1836, Nov. Clark, M StC. G li Dyson, 151 57
“ “ “ “ “ Pat. B’k, 7,CM 000
1837, July. Chew, Samuel, L Lawrence, 200 00
June. Brent, W L. Wash’ll & Cos. 130 03
1839, Oct. Crary, John S, to Cashier, 820 00
IS 10 “ do do 1 635 12
1839 “ Carter, John do 820 00
1840 “ do do 1,635 12
“ “ do do 1 330 90
1839 “ Corcoran, AV W do 400 00
184 J “ do do 665 45
“ “ do do 817 56
“ May. Crittenden, Joel do 296 69
1823 “ Digges. D. D. J/n' Baker! } 1’439 l ’ 439 t 8
1839, Jjtly. Gales & Seaton, Cashier, 3.890 42
“ do do do 2.573 37
“ do do do 2.573 37
“ do do do 2 573 37
“ do do do 2,583 37
C Bell,
1325, May. Jackson, F. B J G Jackson, 2,853 33
R J Me gs,
1837, Dec. Kent, Jos. Walter Smith, 1.961 87
This is scarcely one-half of the list, but I
am obliged to stop for (he present.
RECAPITULATION OF ASSETS OF AGENCY AT
WASHINGTON.
Active debt, personal security, 15 732 93
Real estate, 22,813 36
Suspended debt, Personal, 44.951 43
Real estate, 69.072 15
Bank of Columbia, 22,149 00
Domestic Bills of Exchange 300 00
Real est ite 2S 407 04
Notes of other banks 5 .308 50
$205,734 41
This is only the first delicate slice —the ad
ditional disclosures will be dreadfully amus
ing—excrutiatinglv interesting. From the
information we have received, vve are prepared
lo believe that Nicholas Biddle and Ins asso
ciates have been deceived, juggled with, cheat
ed, and humbugged by the politicians—and
that the property and interest of the stock
holders of this bank have been squandered
upon these lazarones that corrupt the society
of this country —the office-beggars and politi
cians. Mr. Biddle is probably an innocent
and injured man. This begins to be our be
lief—not absolute as yet —but we shall know
more of the truth when the additional disclo
sures come forth. One thing is certain—the
swindling financiers of Philadelphia seem re
solved to help themselves to all the valuable
assets of the bank—and to let the foreign
stockholders whistle for their property.
On all hands, see what a condition tiie coun
try is in! From New York to New Orleans
nothing but robbery, swindling, plunder, inso
lence and arrogance amoi g all the financial
classes. The judgment of Heaven is com ng.
Satan and a legion of devil-', armed with scor
pions, will soon be let loose upon the finan
ciers and politicians.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 10.
ASSIGNMENT OF THE U. STATES BANK.
REFUSAL OF THE AGENCY HERE TO TAKE ITS
PAPER.
The U. S. Bank, it was stated some time
ago, was about making an assignment of pro
perty and effects, for the security of its note
holders generally. YY e looked upon this
movement as, to some extent, a redeeming
feature—as showing that its managers were
not disposed wholly to exhaust or embezzle
the little remaining means of the institution,
without making some provision for the large
amount of its notes outstanding in the hands
of innocent holders.
YY r ell, the assignment is made—and for
whom is it made ! the note-holders at large 1
Look at the transaction itself, which is thus
stated in the Philadelphia journals:
The property and effects assigned are as
follows:
Bonds, al Philadelphia, $108,924 35
Real estate, do 1,242,661 61
Real estate, Mobile, 1,258,06/ 99
Property and effects, Buffalo, 434,912 7^
Stocks and loans, Philadelphia. 1,705.233 37
Property in District of Columbia, 447 ,707 38
Property and effects in CiP.cinnati. 1 099.279 91
Bills and notes,office at New Brighton, 372,<21 33
Bills, notes, and real estate, office at
Pittsburg, 655.502 65
Bills and notes, office Erie, 337,138 97
Total amount, $7,772,250 3o
And the assignment Is made for the benefit
of tits following Bunks —which are holders of
post notes of the U. !?. Bank to the several
amounts stated :
Bank of Pennsylvania, $1,363,745 31
Philadelphia 1.069,454 50
Farmers’and Mechanics’, 783 846 51
Commeicial, 350.000 00
North America, 437,488 CO
Mechanics’, 521.855 61
Manufacturers’ & Mechanics’, 160 369 30
Kensington, 21,350 00
Northern Liberties, 214 477 ‘2l
Penn Township, 160.857 90
§6,078,444 94
Such are the objects and ends of the assign
ment of the Bank’s assets. The security of
other Banks, the holders of post notes —not ol
the community generally, the holders of de
mand paper, is the primary object. By this
collusion and underhand juggling, as it seems
to us, the banks named are made favtred cred
itors, and the means which ought honestly to
be devoted to the redemption of the whole cir
culation, are swallowed up in paying but a por
tion of it.
Yesterday, we learn, upon good authority,
the agency of the Bank in this city, received
notice from the Bank, that, the paper of the in
stitution would no longer he taken in payment oj
debtSj or any other transaction with the agen
cy. This, of course, is an immediate conse-
I quence of the assignment. The whole assets
; of the Bank here are pledged for the redemp
tion of certain post notes, held by a few favored
bankers in Philadelphia; not for the honest
liquidation of notes taken in good faith by tra
ders. mechanics, and farmers, throughout the
i whole body of the community.
In the meantime what will become of the
immense amount of the United States Bank
paper abroad upon the public ! What will be
done with the large quantity afloat in this city,
and daily arriving here from below ? We
know not. Discredited, as it. is, by the agency
of the Bank here, we fear it must depreciate
still farther, and a consequent loss to the hold
ers ensue. They will lose, because associated
gamblers, of a kindred character with those
who have already fleeced the public, have ar
ranged, by collusion, if not fraud, on the part
of the United States Bank, to absorb the whole
means of the concern at. this point. The pa
per of the Bank must be handed about from
hand to hand, a ragged remnant of the great
regulator, so debased as to hardly be worth
the rags and lamp-black it was first made of—
while, for the assets of the institution here,
funds equivalent to specie will be demanded.
The whole country will be blessed with the
continued circulation of the U. States Bank
paper, bottomed on “confidence restored,” while
the fare,red Bank creditors at Philadelphia
cooly pocket the real money which they drain
from the country upon the credit of the Bank’s
assets, and laugh at the fools that are silly
enough to be honest, when gambling, collu
sion, and fraud, succeed so well!
Oh! let us have another U. S. Bank, by all
means. What say the victims to this crown
ing piece of fraud and iniquity ? What say
the note-holders generally, who are left lo take
pot-luck, while the bankers of Philadelphia
come in for full pockets, and a fat return for
their fair business transactions ? Certainly;
let’s have another “ great regulator.” Perhaps
it will regulate this one !
France.-—Cardinals. —'The number of
FrenchCardinalshas varied at different epochs.
Before the revolution there were generally
four, sometimes and seven ; and very rare
ly, ten. In 1791 there were Jive. Some
months after the Concordat of 1804, Napole
on demanded the purple for the Archbishops
of Paris, Lyons, Rouen, and Tours, and made
them each a yearly allowance of 30,0000
francs, and 45,000 for expenses of installation.
Under Napoleon, there were never more than
five cardinals ; though he claimed to have one
third of the college composed of French prel
ates. At the revolution of 1830 there were
only four ; and in October of the same year
theallowance made by Napoleon was counter
manded by a royal ordinance. The election
of his present Holiness, which soon followed,
convinced the French Government of the
importance of maintaining a. certain number
of cardinals to represent the interest oi
France in such an importat matter. Accor
dingly, since that time three French prelates
have been invested with the purple; vix., M.
do Cheverns, Archbishop of Bordeaux, in
1836 (he died soon after) ; M. de la Tour, d’Au
vergue, Bishop of Arras, last year; and now
M. de Bonakl, Archbishop of Lyons. In the
two first of these cases a sum was voted by
the Chambers to maintain the dignity of the
function, and the same principal has just been
recognized in the case of M. de Bonald ; a
sum of 45,000 francs having been voted for the
expense of his installation. There are now
(we believe) three French cardinals, t?z , the
Prince de C’roi, M. de la Tour-d’ Auvergne,
and INI, de Bonald.—Univers.
Soaking Corn for Horses. —A gentleman
who resides in Baltimore county, and who is
one of the most successful farmers in our vi
cinity, informed us a few days since, that he
saved at least one th ird of his corn by the man
ner in which he fed it out to his horses : He
has two hogsheads placed in his cellar, where
they are secure from fre zing. Tiise lie first
fills with corn in the ear, then pours in a suf
ficient quantity of water to cover the corn.—
After the ears have been thoroughly soaked,
lie commences feeding, gives to Ins horses two
thirds of the usual quantity allowed. As one
of these hogsheads becomes empty, lie rclils
it; and by the time the other isemply the one
last filled is sufficiently soaked for use. In
this way the cobs become so softened that the
horses consume the \*|hole of them, and they
are thus made to add one third to his stock of
food. He assures us that the horses eat the
cobs with avidity, keep in good order, and are
just as competent to perform plantation labor
as when they consumed the grain alone. The
success of our informant should stimulate his
agricultural brethren to follow his example, as
the labor of preparation is nothing compared
with the great saving effected.—Baltimore
Farmer.
Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain.
In Mr. Culloch’s new dictionary there are sta
tistical returns relating to cotton manufacture,
which go as far back as 1097, when the total
value of cotton goods was only £5,915, and
the few r cottons imported, 1,976,859 lbs. No
great increase took place till 1795, when
Whitneys invention came into operation; from
that period the increase of the trade has been
beyond all precedent. In 1838, were imported
not less than 507,850,577 lbs. and the total de
clared value of cotton goods exported the pre
vious year was considerably above 20 milhc ns
sterling. The total value of the cotton goods
and yarn annually produced in Great Britain
is estimated by Mr. Culloch at $31,000,000,
and by Mr. Baines at somewhat less. —N. Y.
Sun.
‘YY T< vll, Patrick,” asked the doctor, “how do
you do to day r” “O dear, doctor, I enjoy ve
ry bad health, entirely. This rhumatis is ve
ry distressing indade. Whin Igo to sleep I
lay awake all night, and my toe is swelled as
bi<r as a goose’s hen’s egg, so when I stand up
1 fall down directly.”
Botts —Infallible remedy. —Take half a
pint each of gin, molasses, vinegar and sott
soap: mix and shake them well together, and
while foaming, pour the medicine down the
horse’s neck; in five minutes the horse will
be free from pain. This, Mr. Lovejoy says,
“has been tried some fifty times with success,
not failing in a single instance.
Brussels. —The Society of St I rancis
Regis in Brussels devotes itself to promoting
marriages among the poor who lead irregular
lives, ‘in the year 1840 this society has sol
emnized in the city and suburbs 223 marria
ges, and legitimated 191 children, at the ex
pense of 1,893 francs, 34 centimes.—Journal
Historiqne ct Litteraire de Liege.
From the Savannah Republican,Mav 25.
We received a day or two since the follow
ing remarkable letter from Macon. The mis
sile appears to be a delicate hint to us to sup
press tacts which have come to our knowledge.
What we have published we derived from the
best possible authority. Ifour statements cad
be proved incorrect, we shall be l.;q pv wi cor
rect them. Our unknown tonus] uulen ,
therefore, should have proceeded to point out
wherein our statements were erroneous, in
stead of endeavoring to screen the guilty,’ I y
reference to events in this quarter. The trut/i
is that the remarks in the Republican w ere ne -
ther “ unjust, ‘malicious nor yreinalurt ."—
They were true statements mac.e to the public
utter the facts had been correctly ascertained.
High times they are indeed when an Editor
is to be charged with a want of humanity and
decency becase he is bold enough to expose
fraud.
It belongs to an independent press to expose
these defalcations as well as their autliers, to
draw the line of demarcation with a fearless
hand between morality and vice, between hon
esty and dishonesty, and to make a clear and
broad distinction between men of honor and
ot conscience, and those that merely assume
the outward appearance of men of honor. To
that object we advocate the strictest scrutiny
into the affairs of all the Banks in this State.
All is not yet discovered. We recommend
that committees be appointed by the stockhol
ders of all the Banks in order to count the cash
and declare existing deficits. Let us know
the whole truth without any more delay. I,et
the innocent, confiding stockholders and bill
holders know how far they have been mulcted
by speculation Presidents, Cashiers and Direc
tors. Aye, “let the galled jade wince,” but
apply the scrutiny and see how many honest
men can bo found in the land. It is time for
roguery to receive its just due, and for hones
ty to be at a premium. Let those who have
done wrong come out and openly declare it,
now when rascality is so common that each
new declaration ol it hardly makes a sensa
tion upon the public pulse. Now is the time
we say. Let all the cash be counted. Look
to the packages which are sealed and labelled,
and look to it that the Cashiers do not supply
deficiences by temporary loans. While wo
write anew defalcation is announced in the
Branch of the Central Rail Road Bank at Ma
con. Let us have a complete list of these de
ficits,-rub out old scores and begin anew.
Perhaps “A Subscriber” has notread our
motto correctly—it runs as follows: “Bo’
just and fear not—let all the ends thou aim’st
at, be thy Country’s, thy God’s, and Truth’s.”
Ilavo we adhered to it in the'present instance
or not I Let the public judge.
MacoN May 21st, 1841.
Messrs .Locke &. DaVis:
Gentlemen.—l notice a Communication in
the papers of your cSy reflecting in the most. 1
unjust and disgraceful manner upon some of
the Gentlemen Who have been connected 1
with the Branch State Bank of this city.
The citizens of Macon may not be distin
guished for their morality and integrity, but
really, I yet believe they will Compare with
most other cities. Doubtless you recollect a
“Bank Robberyor something like it,” occur-’
red in your city, which has not yet been ex
plained to the satisfaction of the curious pub-:
lie. Now if the Directors of the Branch of
the State Bank here, had determined to do any
thing dishonorable, would the doors and vaults
not have as readily yielded to false keys with
out violence or trace of detection, as the Plan-’
ters’ Bank of your city.
Character is a sacred article, and he who’
deals lightly with the reputation of another,
must put a low estimate upon his own. The
article alluded to is unjust, malicious and pre
mature, and exhibits a wanton recklessness
of humanity and common decency. I look
upon it as highly injudicious in the press to
forestall public opinion by admitting such com
munications. Bo mindful of your motto and
oblige, a Subscriber..
‘ r: Dead Letter Office.—A writer in the
YVorcester Palladium gives the following ac
count of this department of the General Post
Office:
“The dead letter office, in the Post Office’
Department, is a great curiosity. The dead
letters are returned to the General Post Office,
with the quarterly account from 13,000 post
offices which now exist. Five clerks are em
ployed in the dead letter office. The envel
opes are taken from the packages by one
cterk who ties a string round the contents ami
casts them into a basket —tlie next clerk as
sorts them and compares them with the post
bills—sending the letters to a clerk to be
opened—on opening, the letters containing
no valuable inclosure, are thrown into a basket
and destroyed. Those containing valuable
inclosures,- are returned to the office where
I hey were mailed, and sent to the owner if
found. If not claimed,-all money is placed in
a scperate fund, and the account recorded,- so
that it canjbe paid to the owner at any future
period if claimed. They open about two 111111-’
dred and titty thousand letters per quarter—
there are now several cart loads in the office
unopened. The work of opening and assor
ting is - very tedious and laborious.”
Representative Population. —YY r c see it
sta'ed that New Jersey will lose a member of
Congress, if the ratio is fixed higher than 62,-
()00.‘
Georgia will retain her nine members, if the
ratio adopted should be as high as 64/)00.
Savannah Georgian.
Velocity of Lightning.— Until within a
few years, the velocity of the electric fluid has
been a matter of conjecture merely. Late and
ingenious experiments, however, have proved
conclusively that electricity travels with a ve
locity nearly four times as great as that of light
being at the rate of 400,000 miles a second.
Potatoes. —Potatoes may he planted from
the time the ground becomes dry until June ;
but the late crops will not, ripen as well as tho
earlier ones, or produce as good table pota
toes. A moist soil, with abundance of vegeta
ble mould, is the best for potatoes. If the
ground is inclining to be wet, they may be
planted on ridges; if to be dry, this root will
do best in furrows. For the table, the Pink
Eye, Mercer, and Foxite are highly esteemed ;
fur field culture, or for animals, the Sardinia,
Long Red, Merino and the Rohan, are roost
valued. The Rohan requires the whole sea
son to mature, but it is very productive and
easily gathered.
Another Violation of the Constitution
of the United States. —The Supreme Court
of Ohio, sitting at Lebanon, \Y T arren county,
Judges Lane and Hitchcock, on the Bench.—
Judge Lane delivered the opinion of the
Court.
That if the owner of a slave voluntarily
bring him into this State, or permit him to
come, although it should be for the purpose oi
visiting or travelling through irorn one State
to another, the slave in such case becomes a
free man the moment he touches the soil of
Ohio.
Glorious news from the Empire State.
The New York papers bring us the pleas
ing intelligence, that the democrats have gain
er! one hundred and eight towns in that
State, since the Presidential election last fall.
The Spring contest at the town elections have
been unusually animated, but the right has
triumphed gloriously,
The First Newspaper. —lt is stated in a
foreign periodical that the first printed news
paper, of which any trace can be found, was
printed in 1455, and gave intelligence of the
peace of Karaman with the King of Cyprus,
an the conquest of Servia by the Turks in
1454. This statement is made by E. Grochet
of Brussels, from a marginal note in the hand
writing of Adrian de But, a Dutch monkish
writer of the fifteenth century.