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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.