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PUBLISHED every THURsday m o r Inthp r’ JAM b S Van NEsis . * M i saillte5 aillte on the corner of Oglethorpe and Randolph Streets. terms^ advance™! h* ‘ dol * ars P er annum, payable in months ’ ’ f ree a ' s and a half at the end of sit “®” hs * or four dollars, (in all cases) where pay is not m ide betore trie expiration of the year. Wo subsertpo j,, received for iess than twelve months * payment in advance, and no paper discon tinued, except at the option of the Editor, until all arrearages are paid. ApvEtiTisiMEPiTsconspicuously inserted at i re dol lar per one hundred words, or less* for the first In sertion and fifty cents for every subsequent contin uance. Those sent without a specification offf e nu.noer ofinseruons. will be published until ordered ou, r and cnarged accordingly. Yearly Advertisements.—For over 24 and not exceeding 3 i lines, fifty dollars per annum ; fo over 12 and not exceeding 24 lines, thirty-five dol lars per annum ; lor less than 12 fines, twenty dol lars per annum. * 2. All rum and figure work double the above prices. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates, and with strict attention to the requisitions ol the law. All Sues regulate! by law, must be made before the court house door, between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in the evemug—those of 1 >nd in the county where it is situate ; those of persona property, woere the letters testamentary, of adminl ■strati in or of go trdiamqip were obtained—and are requited lo be previously alvertised iu some public gazette, as follows: Sheriffs’ Sales unler regular executions for thir ty days ; tin ler mortgage ti fas sixty days, before the dav of sale. S w,E3 of lan 1 and negrops, by Executors, Adminis trators or Guardians, for sixty days before the day of sale. Sales of personal property (except Negroes) forty days. Citations bv Clerks of ‘he Courts ol Ordinary, upon application for letters of administration, must be pub lished foi thirty days. Citations upon application for dismission, hv F.xec- R'ors, A l.nuustrators or Guardians, monthly for six months. Orders of Court*ofOrdinary, (accompanied with a copy of the bond or agreement) to make titles to land, must h * published three months. Nonces by Executors, Administrators or Guardians, of application lo the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell the land or negroes of an est ate, four months. Notices by Executors or Administrators, to the debtors and creditors of an estate, fir six weeks. Siiebipfs’.Clerks ofOourt &e. will be allowed the usual (eduction. O’ Letters on business, must be post paid, to entitle them to attention. BOOTS, SHOES ANI) BROGANS. AL AEG K and well assorted stuck of the above named ardcles can be found a* N >. 13, Haj'tie street. Charleston,S. C. The subscriber- are pleased to infirm their customers and the country merchants generally, that they have secured their Fall and Winter Goods, and shall be pleased to serve them persona ly or by order. They also will say that thev have an unusual large assortment ol Negro Brogans, both black and russett, adapted to planta'mu use. All of which will be bold un reasonable terms.” H. STODDARD & WOOD, Formerly li STODDARD, MILLER & Cos. No. 13, Hayne-st. Charleston, S. C. September 23 31 4t ” \V ARE-HOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS. WE have associated under the firm of Yonge It Spencer, for the transaction of the above bu siness, and hope to receive a share of public patronage. We will occupy the old stand known as “ Yonge’s Ware House on Front street, which is now 1 ring put in good order, and intend having if enclosed with n substantial br-ck wall. We will attend to the sale of Cotton ot other produce on waggons or tit store, at tile usual rates. We have a good sup dy of Barging and Rope, which we will furnish to our customers on aei'otnmodauiig terms. WILLIAM P. YONGE. RICHARD P. SPENCER. Columbus. Sept. 9 31 ts BROUGH r TO JAIL IN Columbus, f Seorgia. on the 11th August, a no gro m in wh > says his name is DICK ; he is ratti er of a copper color, s .y- he belongs to Madison Hey w itxl, of Talladega county. Ala. The said negro lias been run i vay for nearly two years. H b oke j t I from me 27 It .lulv, IH4 >, and lie then said he be l.-t *-d to E l v ird William--, of Talladega comity, and then went by the name of Joe; his are 23 or 24 yo.es; 5 feet, 8 inches high. The owner is requested to rout • forward, pthive property, nav expenses and take him away. ‘W. BROWN, Jailor. (September 9 31 tl cap rtoN. tj OST nb nit a mon'li ago. a no'e suppose,! to Ln JSuA made payable to Thomas Taggart or bearer signed by Hoxey & Mitchell, da 1 some lime in 1837 fir sixty two dollars and some odd cents. I forewarn all net's >ris from trading for said note, as payment on Raid note has been stop >ed. MICHAEL Med g a ID. ScnferrtVr 23 33 3: EDUCATION. Mil. F. A. HALLAIJR. respeotf.illv informs the citizens of Columbus and its vicinity, tha he will open an Ktiuiish and Classical School at the Upper end of the City, near Mr. V\ iiey Jones’ dwel lin''house, commencing on Monday the 12ih mst.at the annexed prices for a session of 12 weeks. I. The I.at n and Greek Classics, the Rend ing and Speaaihj’ of the French, Spanish, Italian and German Laniiaes, Algebra. Geometry, Natural Philosophy, Nc. >lO 00 gj. Readun:. Writing. Composition, Arithme tic, Gwopraphy, English Grammar. &c. 8 00 No deduction from the prices will be made for ab sence. from School, except in case of sickness of more than two weeks. No withdrawal from School during the session allowed unless paid lor the whole time Tuition considered due at the middle of the session. Columbus, July 9 22 3t ’ r NOTICE. - TIIFi public are caufmtto I against trading for two notes ol two hundred and fif.y dollars, each payable to Elisha Hitts or bearer, as l shad noi pay the same unless compelled bv la v. DRURY S- ALLEN. Wehadkee P. 0., Ala. July 22 24 St he Enquirer will copy 3 times and forwatd their accounts to me. COT TON BAGGING. Direct Importations. THR subscribers have just complete.! their sea son’s import of Cotton Baggin 1 *, consisting of Don Joe 4 l inch, weighing 2| lbs. per varJ. 41 “ “ 2 “ 41 “ “ H “ “ 4l “ “ l£ “ “ 4 q a 1! “ “ 41 “ “ 4 “ ‘ Inverness 4J 11 “ “ Double E. I. Gunny 44 “ “ * “ \\ ° Also, Scotch superior 3 strand. Hale Ro.e, India and English. Which are offered to the planteis and merchants of Georgia, at such prices and o.i such credits, for city acceptance, as will render a home purchase more ad vantageous than one m a northern market, and enable supplies to be sent immediately into the interior, du ring the exis'euce of good tver navigation, and at the nrevailiU'’ very low rates of freight. prevailing j ANDREW LOW & Cos. Savannah, May 13 U 11 SEVEN TV-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD THE subscriber, residing in Columbus. Georgia lost about a month since, a valuable negio man for the appr< hension of whom in any secure- jtul so that he can get him. he will give twenty-live dollars; and if the said negro man has been deemed away by anv white person, or been iurnishetl with tree |a|vrs, (neither of which is improbable) he wd give m addi tion fifty dollars, if sutiicient evidence of that tact, be communicated to him to ensure Ule ccnvicl.on of the B, s'ud l ne" > rois about 2S years of age of snail stature, and named Elije. He is behoved tr have never shav ed and his appearance. ... consequence, is somewhat singular, the hair being long on his n,,p. r lip. W hen spoken to, he almost invariable puts h.s fmger to .he sfde of his head, and scratches Ins hair, and Ins spor e ls accompanied by a slight hesitancy. He has f marks ot a gun shot, just above the knee, in the right Thiah it is thought; the hone was fractured, and the wound ts still visible. The negro, when he said anv hnc about running away, which he occasional lrA T " a -T A SoStiSvKm!“ ca'iimb'l*, Gl. Gir. 1-1 _ notice. ALLp rsonv who Inve not paid their City Tax are requested t . call at the O and Oily Council Chamber, at the M irk-'t House and pay their City Tax hi the ir-tliv > r < ■ oh*T next. ,1. BE ILUJXE, City Treasurer. September 23 S3 TRDPT SALE. By virtue of a IV. I of I’riie bearing date, lith July, Ilist we will s.Ji |! private s: e the Bank ing House .l id Lot. ‘VI h a.I I>. .V.■!...•■ ts ‘hereon. situate on new of llml; 1. streets. Tiel .♦ con .tins te’ n RmUo ~ and 147 feet 10 nee so. >; -ho <tr *■', an < 'iU re ceive in pivm nt f> he - mi” ‘he Hi Is “* ihe ( ha tahoochee IJei it .i I t i I ? <’id eg Cos upany ol <-eor g,a. The titles are Kills;, u’ -V- . W.I. I*. Y>IN iii, Columbus, July 22 41 i VOLUME I.] SIX CENTS REWARD. WHDTLL be given for a man calling himself SAM s’ v UEL HOKE, a saddler and harness maker by trade. Said Hoke is about five teet 7 inches high, dark complection and dark hair, weighs about oue hun dred and thirty pounds. Said Hoke left this place hav ing in his possession a gold watch, which he came by dishonestly, also left wiliout paying his board and oth er dues, audit is generally believed that lie will make his way for North Carolina; the h’ nest portion of the community is requested to keep a look out for the vil lain. and all papers friendly to the suppression of crime will please give this one insertion. BENJAMIN A. BARRON. Greenville, Ga. February 16, 1641. TO BRICK MASONS AND CARPEN TERS. SEALED proposals will he received by the Clerk of the Inferior Court of Heatd coun'y. for the buil ding of a court house in the town of Franklin, Heard county, until the first Monday in June next. BHs to be for three sizes, viz : one 40 bv 50 feet, one 30 bv 50. the other 40 feet square, a bill for each ; the ha! and court room below, finished ; also a bid fur each finished complete, after the stvle of the court house it LaGrarige or Newnan. For further particulars a|. [>ly at the Inferior Clerk’s Office. By order of the In ferior Court. B. BLEDSOE, c i c April 22 11 to WHISKEY, RUM, GIN, &o. ALWAYS oil hand, and fur sale by JOHN D. HOWEI.L, Corner of Crawford and Broad-sts. September 16 32 if SHOES AND HATS. OF various quality and sizes, for sale hv JOHN D. hOWELL, Cotnor of Crawford and Broad sts. Sept.-mbor 16 32 ts COTTON AND WOOL CARDS. sale by JOHN D. TIOWELL, Corner ol Crawford and Broad-sts. Srntember 16 32 ts RAW IIJDES WANTED. A NY quantity will be ourehased at fair prices, J.R. by JOHN I). HOWELL, Corner of Crawford and Broad-st. September IS 32 ts GLASS AND PUTTY! 571IRST qua ity Window Glass anti Putty, for sale 1 by JOHN D. HOWELL, Corner of Crawford and Broau sts. September IS V 32 if SALT, IRON, Sue. A constant supply of salt and assorted Iron, always on hand. JOHN I). HOWi'.I.L,” Corner of Ci awford and Broad-sts. September 16 32 ts CROCKERY. FINE and common Ware, for sale by JOHN I). HOWELL, Corner of Crawford and Broad-sts. September 22 33 ts DRY GOODS. SI APLE and Fancy Dry Goods, of every des cription, suitable for the trade, for sale hv JOHN D. HOWELL, Corner of Cra vford and Broad-sts. September 23 33 ts FINE LIQUORS. WINES. Brandies, and Holland Gin, of superior quality, for sale by ’ JOHN D. HOWELL. Corner of Craw ford and Broad-sts. September 23 33 ts | CAS HNGS. ATS, Ovens, Spiders Skillets, Fire-Irons, and, JL other articles in this line, for sale hv I JOHN D. HOWELL, j Corner of Broad and Craws >rd sts. September 16 32 ts WOODEN WARES. fl LARGE ,ud well assorted lot of Tubs, Buck /sa. ets, Sugar Boxes, &c. For sale bv JOHN I) HOWELL. Corner of Broad ami Craws rd sts. SeiitPmbcr 16 32 tt WHITE LEAD AND OIL. ENGLISH and American White Lead and I in seed Oil, for sale by J. D. HOWELL, Cottier of Crawford and Broad-sts. September 23 33 ts BAGGING, ROUE AND TWINE. A GOOD supply of the above articles for sale on ill accommoda mg terms, at the Ware House of WM. P. YONGE, August 5 26 ts Front-street. 1 ->QQ LBS. o. Cotton Yarn, from No. 5 to 12. in elusive, just received from the Richmond Factory, a superior article. For sale by J. D. HOWELL, Corner of Broad and^Crawf ud-sts. September 9 SI if COTTON WANTED. ONE Thousand Bales of Cotton wanted, for which good p.ices and good money, will be givetl. JOHN D. HOWELL. Corner of Broad and Crawford streets. September 2 30 ts HENRY D. DARDEN, COMMISSION MERCHANT Apalachicola, Florida. August 26 29 2tn NOTICE IS hereby giv"rt that Thomas Moore is no partner of the firm of MeGoligh and trews. Sept. 2 30 2t Me .J HIGH & CREWS. DR. TAYLOR flT AS removed his oltb et” Preston’s Row, a few 2L doors East of Preston’s Corner, where he may generally he found, unless when professionally -ngage Feb. 9. ! JOHN L. LEWIS, “JJf S mv authorized Agent to transact, any bttsines ti if in toe, during my absence from Columbus. M. A. ROBINSON. June 3 17 ts NOTICE. ■ffOHN L. LEWIS, Esq. will act as the Ag'-nt of 4*5 the un lerstgned, during his temporary absence in Alabama. N. W. COCKE. June 17 H? 2t DISSOLUTION. TvIIE co-partnership heretofore existing at Apa laehicola, between Ihe subscribers, twlwr the firm of GohNiein is Cos. was dissolved on the Ist Jan iirv Inst. The outstanding business will be settled bv H. D. Darden. DAVID GDI.OSTEIN,’ IL D. DARDEN. August 26 20 2m wTg~ M. DAVIS, A TTORNF t AT LAW, Apalachicola, Florid i. PRACTICES in the Courts of the Middle am H. Western Districts, and tbs Oeurr of Appea's Refers to Hon. J. S. Ca-hojk, John Fox taine, Esq. and S. R. Bosjj k, Esq., Columbus. Georgia. 10-52 t. fjg'VlE subscribers having connected themselves tn M. the practice of LAW, will attend all the Countv Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and the adjoining counties of Alabama. Olhee in Mclntosh Row immediately over Allen Sc Young’s Store. ALFRED IVERSON, June 14. 19tf J.M.GVFRRY. WVNNTON FEMALE ACADEMY. E second lerm of this Inslitu'ioti will coimm-nrr Jl June 3k, Monday, and continue tweniy two weeks, uiti iu will be §l7 50 per term. For wcod and incidental expenses 50 cents. Payment in ad vance. K. YY. B. MUNRO,’ Principal. June 24 20 4t BROUGHT TO JAIL ON the 22d day of February last, two negro bovs. Sandv about 25 years old, yellow complected, who savs he belongs to Phi ipSchlev. Esq. of Colum bus, Georgia. The other a b y Daniel. 20 years old, black coniplection. who says he belongs to Patt Ing ram of Alabama, living 20 miles from Columbus, Ga. on the Montgomery stage road. The owners of said negroes are requested to come forward, comply with the terms of the law and take thi m awav. ROBERT REAVES,sI.’ff, Stewart co. March 25 7 ts LIBEL FOR DIVORCE. C T. Wynn vs George H. Wynn. IT appearing to the court, that the defendant in this case resides out ofthe jurisdiction of this court, on motion it is ordered that service be perfected, by pub lication in some public gazette in this State, oace a month f>r three months. . _ A true copy from the minutes ofthe Court, April lerm, 1841. A. LEV ISON, Clerk- April 29 ,I,JUI COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1841. LETTERS OF RESIGNATION. Washington, Sept. 11, 1841. Sir ; Circumstances have occurred in the course of your Administration, and chit fly in tne exercise by you of the veto power, which consitams.me to believe that toy longer con tinuance in olTice, as a member of your Cabi net, will be neither agreeable lo you, useful lo the country, nor honorable to myself". l o n e tne j s.ice, Mr. President, to believe that tins conclusion has been adopted neither capriciously, nor in any spirit of puny leeling or political hostility, but from a sense ol duty, which, mistaken t ough it may he, is yet so sincerely entertained, that I cheerfully sacri fice to u the advantages and distinction ol office. Be pleased, therefore, to accept this as my resignation ol the office of Attorney General ol the United States. Very respectfully, vours,&c., J. J. CRIiTENDEN. Tiie President. Treasury Department, Sept, 11,1841. Sir ; Alter the most calm and careful con sideration arid viewing ihe subject in all aspects in wfi ch it presents itself to my mind, I have come to the conclusion that I ought no longer to remain a member of your Cabinet. I therefore resign the office of Secretary of the “Treasury, and beg you to accept ibis as my letter ol resignation. Jo avoid misunderstanding, I distinctly deflate that 1 do not consider tt difference of opinion as to the charter of a National Bank a sufficient reason for dissolving the ties which have existed between us. Though I look upon that measure as oue of vast importance to the prosperity of rise country, and though I should have deeply deplored your inability or unwillingness to accord it to ihe wishes of the People and the Slates, so unequivocally expressed through tii ir Represenlatives, still, upon this alone, unconnected with other con h'oiiing circumstances, I should not have felt hound to resign ihe place which I hold in your Administration. But those controlling circumstances do exist, and I will, in mv own justification, place them in connexion before you. • It is but just to you to rav, that the bill winch fit si passed the two Houses of Con gress, and which was returned with your objections on the 16:h of August, dio never, in its progress, as far as I know or believe, receive at any time either your expressed or implied assent. So far as that hill was known lo me, or as I was consulted upon it, I endea vored to bring its provisions as neatly °s pos sible in accordance with what 1 understood to he your views, and ralher hoped than expected your approval. I knew the extent to which you were committed on the question. I knew tlie perlinacity with which you ad hered lo your expressed opinions, and I dreaded from the first the most disastrous consequences, when the project of compro mise which I presented at an early day was rejected. It is equally a matter of justice to you and lo nysell lo say that the bill winch I reported lo the two Houses of Congress at the com mencement of the session, in obedience to ilieir call, was modified so as to meet your approbation. You may no’, it is true, have read the lull throughout, and examined every part ol it; hut the itilh fundamental article, Which bionmo llio c.ntoouoJ U.i.i of |>. in ciple, was freely discussed between us, and it was understood and unequivocally sanc tioned by yourself. The last clause in the bill, aiso, which contained a reservation of power iu Congress, was inserted on the 9m of June in your presence, and with your ap probation; though you at the time told me that, in giving your sanction to the bill, you would accompany it with an explanation of your understanding of that first clause. In this condition of things, though I grcaiiv regretted your veto on the bill as it passed the two Houses of Congress, and though 1 foresaw the excitemeutaml agitation which it would produce among the People; yet, considering the changes which the bill had undergone in its passage, and its variance from the one you had agreed to sanction, 1 could not find in that act enough to disturb the confidential relations which existed be tween us. I was disposed to attribute this act, Ira light witli mi.-cnief as it was, to pure and honorable motives, and to a conscientious cjnv.clion on your part that tiie hill in some of its provisions, eonflicfed with tiie Constitu tion. But tha: op: ton of your course on the bill winch has just been retu. tied to Congress with your second veto, 1 do not and cannot entertain. Recur t ■ what has passed be tween us with respect to it, and you will at once perceive tiiat such opinion is impossible. On the morning o! the 16th of August, I caiied at vour chamber, and Ibtuid you pie paring tiie first veto message, to be despatched to the Senate, l iie Secretary of War cajue in also, and you read a potion of the message to us. He observed u.at, though the veto would create a <xreat sensation iu Congress, yet lie Thought tiie minds of our friends belter prepared lor it than they were some days ago, and he hoped it would be calmly re ceived, especially as it did not shut out ail hope of a bank. To this you replied, that you really thought the re ought to be no diffi culty about it; that you had sufficiently indi cated in your veto message what kind of a bank you would approve, and tiiat Congress might, if they saw fit, pas such a one in three days. The 13th being tl re day for our regular Cabinet meeting, we as embled, ail except Messrs. Crittenden and Granger, and you told us tiiat you had had a long conversation with Messr.-. Berrien and Sergeant, who professed to come iu behalf of tiie Whigs of the two Houses to endeavor to strike out some meas ure which would be generally acceptable. That you had your doubts about the propri tty of conversing with them yourself, and thought it more proper that you should com mune with them through your constitutional advisers. You expressed a wisii tint the whole subject should be postponed till tiie next session of Congress. You spoke of the delay iu the Senate of tiie consideration of your veto message, and expressed anxiety as to the tone and temper which the debate would assume. Mr. Badger said that on inquiry he was happy to find that the best temper prevailed in tlie two Houses. He believed tiiey were perlectly ready to take up the bill reported by the Secretary of the Treasury, and pass it at once. You replied, “ Talk not to me of Mr. Ewing’s bill; it contains that odious fea ture of local discounts which I have repudia ted in my message.” I then said to you, “ j have iio doubt, sir, that the House, having ascertained your views, will pass a bill in con formity to tiiem, provided they can be satis fied that it would answer the purposes of the Treasurv, and relieve ‘the country.” You ihen said, “Cannot my Cab.net see that this is brought about? Y"ou must stand by me in this emergency. Cannot you see that a bill passes Congress such as I can approve without inconsistency?” I declared again my belief that such a bill might he passed. And you then said to me. “■What do you un derstand to be my opinions? Slate them, so that I may see that there is no misapprehen sion about them.” “THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.” I then said that I understood \ou to be of opinion that Congress might charier a bank in the District ol Columbia, giving it its loca tion here. To this you asssented. That they might authorize such hank to establish offices of discount and deposite in the several Slates with the absent of Hie States To tins you replied, ••Don’t name discounts: they have been the source of the most abominable corruptions, and are wholly unnecessary to enable the bank to discharge its duties to the country and Government.” I observed in reply that I was proposing nothing, hut simply endeavoring to slate what I had understood to be your opinion as to the powers which Congress might constitutionallj confer on a bank; that on that point I stout correcied. I then proceeded to say that I understood you to be ol opinion that Con gress might authPiize such hank to establish agencies in the several Slates, with power to deal in bills of exchange, without ihe asseiit ol” ihe Slates, to which you replied, “ Yes, if they be foreign bills, or hills drawn in one State and pay;* hie iu another. That is aii tiie power necessary lor transmitting tiie public funds and regulating exchanges and the cur rency.” Mr. Websier then expressed, in strong terms, his opinion that such a charter would answer all just purposes of Government and be satisfactory to tiie People; and declared iiis preference for it over any which had been proposed, especially as it dispensed with the assent of the Slates to tiie creation of an in stitution necessary for carrying on tiie fiscal operations of Government, lie examined it at some length, both as to its constitutionality and its influence on the currency and exchan ges, in all which views you expressed your concurrence, desired that such a bill should be introduced, and especia'ly that it should go into the hands of some of your friends. To my inquiry whether Mr. Sergeant would be agreeable to you, you teplied that he would. You especially requested Mr. Webster and myself to communicate with Messrs. Berrien and Sergeant on tiie subject, to whom you said you had promised to address a note, but you doubted not that this personal communi cation would be equally satisfactory. You desired us, also, in communicating with those gentlemen,- not to commit you personally, lest, this being recognized as your measure, it might be made a subject of comparison to vour prejudice in tiie course of discussion. You and Mr, Websier then conversed about tiie particular wording of t;.e 16th fundamen tal article, containing tiie grant of power to deal in exchanges, and of the connection in which this grant should lie introduced ; voii also spoke of the name of the institution, de siring that that should he changed. To 1 his I objected, as it would probably he made a subject of ridicule, but you insisted that there was much in a name, and litis institution ought not to be called a hank. Mr. Webster undertook to adapt it in tiiis partii uhr to vour wishes. Mr. Beii then observed to Mr. Webster and myself that we had no time to lose; that if this were not immediately attend ed to, another bill, less acceptable, might bi got up and reported. We tiiat we would lose no time. Mr. Webster accord ingly called on Messrs. Berrien anil Sergeant immediately, and I waited on them by his appointment at b o’clock on the same day, and agreed upon the principles of the b 11 in acoor.iut.au j-rtm- expressed wishes.-- And I am apprised of the fact, though it did not occur in mv presence, that after the bill was drawn up, and before it was reported, it was seen and examined by yourself: that your attention was specially called to the 16th fundamental article: that on full examination you concurred in its provisions: that at tiie same time its name was so modified as to meet your approbation: and the hill was’ re ported and passed, in all essential particulars, as it was when it came through your hands. You asked Air. Webster and myself each to prepare and present you an argument touch ing the constitutionality of the bill; and before those arguments could be prepared and read by you, you declared, as I tieard and believe, to gentlemen, Members of the House, tlitijl you would cut oH your right hand rather than approve it. At’ler this new resolution was taken, you asked and earnestly utged the members of your Cabinet to postpone the bill but you would neither give yourself, nor suf fer them to give, any assurance of your future course, in case of such postponement. By some of us, and 1 was myself one, the efloj-t was made to giatifv your wishes, in the only | way m winch it could be done with p oprielv ; that ts, by obtaining the general concurrence of the Whig Members of tiie two Houses in the postponement. It failed, as I have reason to believe, because you would give no assu rance that the delay was not sought as a means and occasion for hostile movements. During ihis\easnn of deep feeling and earnest exertion on our part, while we were zealously devoting our talents and influence to serve arid to sustain you, the very secrets of our Cabinet councils made their appearance in tin infamous paper pr.tiled in a neighboring city, the columns of which were daily charged with flattery of yourself and foul abuse ol your Cabinet. Ail tins 1 bore; for I felt that mv services, so long as they could avail, were due to tiie nation —to that great and mag nanimous People whose suiirages elevated your predecessor to the station which you now fi i, and whose united voices approved his act when lie summoned us around him, to he his counsellors; and I felt it at what was due to his memory, to tiie injunctions which he left us in his last dying words, and to the People, whose servants we were, had not alt been performed until every means was tried, i and every hope had tailed of carrying out tiie true principles upon which tiie mighty move ment was founded that elevated him and you to power. Tins bill, framed and fashioned according to your own suggestion of which I and ano ther member of your Cabinet were made by vou tiie agents and tiie negotiators, was | passed by large majorities through the two I Houses ol Congress, and sent to you, and you j rejected it. Important as was the part which ■j 1 hail taken, at your request in the organiza tion of tins bill, and deeply as I was commit ted fbryonr action upon it, you never consult ed me on the subject of the veto message.— You did not even refer to it in conversation, and the first notice I had of its contents was derived from rumor. And to me, at least, you have done noth ng to wipe away the personal indignity arising out of (lie act. 1 gathered, it is true, from your conversation, shortly after the hill had passed the House, that you had a strong pur pose to reject >t, hut nothing was said like softening or apology to me, either in reference to myself or to those with whom I had com municated at your request, and who had act ed themselves, and induced the two Houses to act upon the faith of that communication. And, strange as it may seem, the veto mes sage attacks in an especial manner the very provisions which were inserted at your re quest; and even the nare ofthe corporation, whieh was not only agreed to by you, but especially changed to meet your expressed wishes, is made the subject of your criticism. Different men might view this transaction in different poinis of light, but, under these cir cumstances, as a matter of persona! honor, it would be hard fur me to remain of your coun sel, to seal mv kps and leave utexplamed and undisclosed vvhete iies in mis transaction the departiue from straightforwardness aid can dor. So far indeed from admitting the en couragement which you gave to this uiil in ns inception, and explaining and excusing your sudden violent hostility towards it, you tlnow into your veto message an interrogato ry equivalent to an assertion that it was such a bill as you had already declared could not receive your sanction. Such is the obvious 1 eflect of die first interrogatory on tiie second I age. It lias all the force of an assertion J.itliout its open fairness. I have met and refuted tins, tiie necessary inference from your language, in mv preceding statement, ihe correctness of which* you, 1 am surr, will not call in question. Your veto to the first bill you rested on constitutional ground and the high convic tions of conscience'; and no man, in my opin ion, had a right to question your sincerity. I so said, and 1 so acted, for, through all the contest and collision that arose out ol tiiat act, you had my adherence and support. But how is it with respect to this? The subject of a hank is not new to you; it is more than twenty years that you have made it an object of consideration and study, especially in its connection with constitutional powers of the General Governmennt. You, therefore, could not be, and you were not, taken unprepared on this question. The bill which I reported to Congress, with your approbation, at the commencement of the session, had the clause relating to agencies, and the power lo deal in exchanges, as strongly developed as the one vou have now rejected, or equally without the assent of the States. You referred spe cially and with approbation lo that clause, many days after, in a conversation held in the Department of State. You sanctioned it in this particular bill as detailed above. And no doubt was thrown out on the subject by you, in my hearing, or my knowledge, until liie loiter of Mr. Butts came to your hands. Soon after the reading of that letter, you threw out strong intimations that you would veto the bill if tl were not postponed. That letter 1 did and do most unequivocally con demn, but it did not affect the constitutional ity of the hill, or justify you in rejecting it on that ground: it could affect only the expedi ency of your action ; and whatever you may now believe as to the scruples existing in your mind, in this and in a kindred source there is strong ground to believe they have their origin. If I be right in this, and 1 doubt not I am, here is a great public measure demanded by tiie country, passed upon and approved by the Representatives of the States and the People, rejected by you as President on grounds hav ing no origin in conscience, and no reference to the public good. The rejection of this measure, too, continues the purse with the sword in the hands of the Executive, from which we strove to wrest it in Ihe contest which elevated your predecessor and you to power. I cannot abandon the principles for which, during all my political career, I have struggled; especially I cannot be one of the instruments by which the Executive wields these combined, accumulated, and dangerous powers. These, sir, are the reasons for the impor tant step which I have felt it my duty to take, and I submit them as its justification. I am. vci y reSpecilUlH , yours, To the President. T. EWING. To the Editors of the National lnte ligcncer. Washington, Sept. 20, 1841. Gentlemen ; Doubts have been attempted to be cast upon the correctness of Mr. Ewing’s Matefiient in relation to the part taken by the President in getting up the F.seal Corporation B.l!, by urging that there was an impropriety m making it which ought to deprive it of credit. There ate circumstances in tnis case distinguishing it from all others that I recollect of tiie kind. It grows out of a matter of of ficial business, tiansacted between high public tunctionaries, and is of public or genetal con cern. The public and open conduct of one ot these high functionaries is in direct opposi tion to what the other had, by his express di rection and authority, affirmed as to Ins inten tions and purposes. There can, I humbly submit, be no serious question in such a case upon liie point of personal propriety, when tiie injured parly seeks to vindicate his honor by disclosing tiie truth. The obligations ari sing out of confidential relations, in piivate or public fliers, are founded in mutual trust. He tiiat disregards his own confidential jiietig ges and engagements cannot allege ihe obli gation of confidence, in the same transaction, against the natural right, of self and •fence be longing to tiie injured party. For any tiling that cm ever be known to the contrary, it may have been tiie object oJ the original pit dire or engagement to sacrifice those who trusted and were misled by it. For these reasons, 1 do not hesitate to furnish, (or publi cation, tiie accompanying statement, which contains ad the facts and circumstances with in my knowledge, that occur to me as being material, connected with the subject of differ ence. Ido this as an act of justice not only to Mr. Ewing, who requested it, hut to mv sdl anti the public. 1 avail myself of this occasion to sav tiiot I have, at no time, regarded a difference of opinion between tfie President and myseif in relation to a Bank, however important the subject, as sufficient of itself lo justify a re signation of the office which I lately he!J in tiie Executive Administration of the Govern ment. Nor was it because tiie President thought projier to trifle with or mislead his Cabinet, as tl.ete is but too much reason to believe lie intended to do, in the affair of tiie last Fiscal Bank Bill, that l resigned my place. There were other, and some of them pre-ex , istiug causes, for such a course, which many will regard as sufficient of themselves; and which could not have been overlooked. But (t was possible to explain or remove them, and .therefore they were not properly acted upon. The last act of the President, howev er, was conclusive of the true character of ail tiie other occurrences or circumstances which had previously awakened curiosity or excited distrust. I shall, at my leisure, state the reasons more at large which impelled me to the course I have thought proper to adopt, and at the same time furnish a narrative ot all the causes, so far as they fell under my observation, wh ch have resulted in the separation of Mr. Tvler from the party which brought him into power, and the breaking up of the Whig Administra tion. I am. respectfuilv, vour obedient servant, JOHN BELL. Messrs. Gales & Seatox. STATEMEFT. I called to see the President on official bu siness on the morning (Monday, lbth August) before the first Veto Message was sent in. I found hitn reading the Message to the Secre tary of the Treasury. He did me the honor to read the material passages to me. Upon reading that part of it which treats of the su perior importance and value of the business done by the late Bank of the United States in furnishing exchanges between tire different States and sections of the Union, I was so strongly impressed with the idea that he meant to intimate that he would have no objection to [NUMBER as. a bank which should be restricted :o deal in exchanges, and interrupted him in the read.ng, and asked it I was to understand, by what he had just read, that he was prepared to give his assent to a Bank in the District of Columbia, with offices or agencies in the Stales, having the privilege, without their assent, to deal in exchanges between them, and in foreign bills. He promptly replied that he thought experi ence had show n the necessity of such a pow er in the Government. 1 could not restrain the immediate expression of my gratification upon hearing this avowal. 1 said to the Pres dent at once, that what i had feared would lead to fatal dissensions among our friends, I now regarded as rather fortunate than otherwise : that his veto of the bill then before him would lead to the adoption of a much better one. 1 also congratulated him upon the happy circum stances of the delay which had taken place in sending in his Veto Message. The heat and violence which might have been expected if the Veto had been sent in immediately upon the passage of the bill, would now be avoided. Time had been given for cool reflection, and as the Message did not exclude the idea of a Bank in some form, no unpleasant consequen ces would be likely to follow. He expressed his great surprise that there should be so much excitement upon the subject; said that he had had liis mind made up on the bill before him from the first, but had delayed his Message that there should be time for the excitement to wear off; that nothing could be more easy than to pass a bill which would answer all necessary purposes ; that it could be done in three days. The next day, having occasion to see the President again, he requested me to furnish him with such information as the War Department afforded of the embarrass ments attending the transfer and disbursement of the public revenue to distant points on this frontier, in Florida, &c. He at the same time requested me to draw’ up a brief statement of my views upon the subject, showing the prac tical advantages and necessity of such a fiscal institution as lie had thought of proposing. Such information as l could hastily collect from the heads of Hie principal disbursing bureaus of the Department 1 handed to him on the evening of the same day, knowing that time was of the utmost importance in the state in which the question then was. He received the statements I gave him with manifest in difference, and alarmed me by remarking that he began to doubt whether lie would give his assent (as I understood him) to any bank. The next day (Wednesday, 18th August) Wfis the stated time for the weekly meeting of tlie Cabinet wi ll the President. Mr. Web ster, Mr. Ewing, and myself, went at 10 o’- ctock in the morning, anti were informed that the President was engaged with Messrs. Ber- rien, Sergeant, and I think Mr. Dawson, of Georgia. We waited until they retired, and the President made his appearance about three quarters of an hour afterwards. Mr. Badger came in soon after the President joined us. Messrs. Crittenden and Granger did not at tend. The conference which ensued was a long one—lasting two hours at least, according tc my recollectjon- I cannot pretend to de tail all that was said ; neither can I undertake to give the language employed by the Presi dent upon every point, nor of the members of Cabinet. I can only state the substance of what was said upon those points which most attracted my attention. The President commenced by staling that he had been waited upon that morning by a Committee of Members of Congress, who de sired to know his views upon the subject of a bank—such a one as he could sanction. He had given them no satisfaction upon that sub ject, but bad informed them that, he would first consult wiih his constitutional advisers—his Cabinet—‘through whom he thought it most regular that his views should be communica ted. He asked the opinion of his Cabinet upon the correctness of the ground he had taken ; remarking at the same time, that the habit of expressing his views to Members of Congress upon subjects of so much interest subjected him to great embarrassment and much misrepresentation. That question be ing disposed of, the President adverted briefly, but without much connexion, to the relation in which lie stood to the Bank question, and his disposition to go as far as he could to com ply with the wishes of his friends. He spoke of the relation tiiat existed between him and his Cabinet, and how necessary it was that he should have their support. Would they stand by him 1 He much preferred that the whole subject should be postponed until the next session ; but if it was necessary to act now, ho thought a plan might he devised which, with tlioir co-n|ifirntion, rnfoht bo carried through. He wondered why the Senate con tinued to postpone acting upon his Veto Mes sage, which was yet to be disposed off. He supposed it might be to hold it as a rod over his head ; and had some doubts wheiber it was proper that he should consider further upon the subject until the Senate had decided what they would do with the hill then before them. Someone present assured him that the ‘ postponement of the question pending in the Senate was intended to give time for reflection, j and to prevent an intemperate debate. The President then gave the outline of such ! a bank or fiscal institution as lie thought lie J could sanction. It was to be in th£ D.strict j of Columbia to have the privilege of issuing! its own notes, receive money on deposite and j to deal in bills of exchange between the States j and between the United States and foreign j States. But he wished to have the opinion of I his Cabinet upon it. His own consistency and repu afion must be looked to. II? conn-; dered his Cabinet bis friends, who must stand by and defend whatever he did upon the sub- i ject. lie appealed particularly to Mr. Web ster for his opinion upon the point of consis-! tency ; and whether there was not a clear : distinction between the old Bank of the United Stales—a bank of discount and deposite—and the one he now thought of proposing ; and j whether the constitutional question was not different. He reminded us that, in all his former speeches and reports, he had taken thej ground that Congress had no constitutional i power to charter a bank which had the power of local discount. Mr. Webster pointed out j the distinction between the two plans in a j manner which appeared to be satisfactory to j him. The substance of what he said was, as i I understood him, as follows : He had a deci- j ded preference for a bank upon the plan then 1 proposed over either of those which had been j previously spoken of. He reminded the Pres-1 ident that he had expressed his preference for, a bank which should be restricted in its deal-, ings to the bills of exchange, when certain, gentlemen from the city of New York were present several weeks before. He then thought, as he did now, that it would answer all useful purposes. One ground of this pre-! ference was, and it had great weight with him, ; that the plan did not contemplate the consent 1 of the States as, in any way or at any time, necessary to its existence or efficiency. lie’ thought the plan proposed at the commence-j ment of the session generally known as Mr. Ewing’s bill, as incongruous and objectionable j on this ground. His general course of think ing on such subjects led him to prefer that whatever power this Government asserted, or was authorised to assert, should be exercised independently of State authority, and of the interference of the States. He thought there could be no doubt of the constitutional power to charter such a bank as wa£ then proposed, according to the President’s own mode of flunking upon that subject, if lie understood them. Certainly there was a clear distinction between such a bank and the late Bank of the United Stales. The one now proposed was to be limited in it*; operations to such objects as were clearly within some of the granted powers of the Constitution, or such as were cleatly necessary in the execution of others. I’iie privilege of issuing its own notes, of deal ng in exch mges, and of receiving moneys on deposite, all appeared to have immediate reference to or connexion with the power giv en in the Constitution over commert e between tiic Slates, over the currency and the neces sary fiscal operations of tiie Government in • tiie collection, safe-keeping, and disbursement of the public revenue. These were all sub jects of national, and not local or State con ! cent. The distinction between this plan and the late Bank of the United States Jay in this; : t:,e pr.vilege enjoyed by the old Bank, of deal j ing in local paper, or discounting notes having | no circulation, as it might be, but between the diffeie.it States or commercial points of the same city, had no connexion with the trade or commerce between the States and remote sections of the Union nor with the transfer of the public mbuey from one point to another | and it had, therefore, no necessafy connexion with any of the great national objects for which the bank was chartered; nor could it be claimed as an incident to any of the great powers given to Congress by the Constitution. 1 hat privilege, lie apprehended, was conferred I upon tiie late bank from the belief that without ! it the stock of the bank could not be made I profitable ; and it was therefore, considered as a necessary incident to an institution which was itself but the offspring of an incident power. Experience, he thought, had shown clearly that such a privilege was no longer important or necessary. By confining the dis counting privilege of tiie proposed bank to bills of exchange between this country and foreign States, and between the several States of the Union, this objection would not lie against it. Tiie President expressed his regret that he had not used the words “bank of discount and deposite” in his late Message, so that the dis tinction lie now took might be clearly inferred from that Message, and lie could not then be charged with inconsistency. Mr. Badger said lie thought nothing would have been gained bv the use of the terms “bank of discount and deposite” in his message ; for, as to the charge of inconsistency, it might, and probably would, be made against him for party effect, if he sanctioned the bill then proposed by him, in asmuch as dealing in or buying bills of ex change would be discounting, and to that ex tent make it a bank of discount. When all the material points appeared to be disposed of, and the members of the Cabi net present had expressed their decided appro bation of the plan the President had suggest ed, he said that, after all he would notTanc tion a bank in the form just agreed upon, if he supposed that it would be made the ground work or basis of a bank with all the powers of the late Bank of the United State'-. He never would give his sanction to the power of local discount. He feared that, at the next or succeeding sessions of Congress, the Whigs would be bringing forward amendments eiD grafting this power upon any charter he might now approve; and he appealed to his Cabinet to know if they would stand by him, anu use their influence in preventing any such move ments while his Administration lasted. Mr. Webster and others gave him all proper as surances upon this point The President thought a capital of fifteen millions of dollars would be sufficient. A name, he said, was important. What should it be, Fiscal Institute would do. It was objected to, and the name of Fiscal Bank pre ferred by a member of the Cabinet. He re plied that there was a great deal in a name, and he did not wish the word bank to appear in the bill. The President then inquired if he was un derstood. He said there must be no misun derstanding of what he proposed to do. Ad dressing himself to Mr. Ewing, he asked him if he thought he understood his views fully; Mr. Ewing undertook to recapitulate. He understood the President to have no objection to a bank in the District of Columbia, with offices of discount aid deposite in the States, ! with their assent. The President interrupted him abruptly, by saying be did not understand him at all: he was not willing to sanction any such bank. I understood his objection to be to tbe power of local discount. I supposed Mr. Ewing intended to say that he understood tiie President had no constitutional objections to sucli a bank. Mr. Ewing, however, without explaining, went on to say, that he now un derstood the President to have no objection to a bank in the District of Columbia, with the power to issue its own notes, receive moneys on deposrte, with offices or agencies in the States having the privilege, without their as-* sent, of dealing in bills of exchange drawn in one State or Territory and made payable in anoiher State or Territory of the Union, and in bills of the United States and foreign States or Nations. The President said he was then understood. He requested Mr. Webster particularly to communicate with tbe gentlemen who had waited upon him that morning, and to let them know the conclusions to which he had come, i le also requested Mr. Ewing to aid in getting the subject properly before Congress. He re quested that they would take care not to com mit him by wliatthey said to members of Con gress. They might express their confidence and belief that such a bill as had just been agreed upon would receive his sanction; but it should be as matter of inference from his Veto Message and his general views. He thought he might request that the measure should be put into the hands of some friend of his own upon whom he could rely. Mr. Ser geant was named, and he expressed himself satisfied that he should have charge of it. He also expressed a wish to see the bill before it was presented to the House, if it could be so managed. I then said, addressing myself to Messrs. Webster and Ewing, that no time was to be lost in communicating with gentlemen of Con-’ gresthat there was danger that JVJr.Ewing’s bill would be taken up and reported to the House immediately after the bill sent back to the Senate with the President’s objections was disposed of. As the members of the Cabinet rose to de part. or just before the President requested Messrs. Webster and Ewing, as they had turned their attention more particularly to the su -jeci.to furnish him with written arguments up’ n :he points they had been discussing. lie warned them to fortify his opinion, and lay up for tui ure reference. JOHN BELL. W ashing ion, Sept. 20, 1841. Harrison Promises, anp their Realiza tion. —At this time last year tbe stock market here and abroad was much influenced by the then approaching presidential election. High hopes were entertained here, and held out in London, that with the success of the whig party such measures would he adopted as would immediately restore the credit of their securities. This illusion was shared in an ex traordinary degree hy all those connected with speculative property, state, corporate or real. Letters from abroad were Written, promising higher prices as soon as General Harrison should be elevated to the presidential chair. Contracts were paraded in the papets here lor produce, at prices depending upon the event of that election. What has been the result? The year has rolled round, that election was successful for the whig party; but how has it answered expectation ? Real estate is now as dead as ever, company stocks have sunk to the lowest eho, and explosion, alter explosion takes place everyday.— N. Y. Herald, Sept. 18.