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I HR■ LjWtWW-KL ■■■■■■■■na.i ■ * CONG KSB. REPORT Oj the Committee of Finance, on the Message of the President on re-nominating the Bank Directors. Mr. Tyler, from the Committee on Finance, to which was referred the Message of the Pre sidetit, of the 11th of March, re-nominating Henry D. Gilpin, Peter Wagner, J no. T. Suili van, and Hugh M'Elderry, as Directors oi the Bank of the United States, submitted the iol lowing Report: The Committee have icstowi d upon thesub ject th ; reflection which respect for'the Chief Magistrate would at all times command, The President, at an early day oi the session, sub mitted the nomination to the Senate, of live poi sons, as Directors of the Bank ot the L uiteu States. To one of these nominations the Se nate assented ; and the person nominated was appointed. In regard to the four others, being the same persons now re-nominated to the Sen ate, no definite decision was made until the 27th day of February, when they were each sepa ately rejected by ayes and noes. The subjects, in the mean time, with which these no minations were in some degree connected, had ' undergone a fid' and elaborate discussion in the Senate. The decision, therefore, was well cal- ; calated to satisfy the. President that tne Senate entertained decisive objections to the confir mation of these four persons ; and the journals of which the President usually sees a .opj, could not fail to show tuat each and every one of them was rejected by a clear majority of the •whole Senate. The precise character oi the objections taken by each and every member of tire majority, or even the general character oi such objections,it would be presumptuous in tin committee to attempt to ascertain. They can not be expected to go into private conference ■with members, and to interrogate either those of the majoiity or minority, upon tins or anv o fher questions, as to the r> asens oi their votes. It must be obvious that from the Constitution of the Senate; from the manner oi its pioceed ings ; from the absolute right of every member to vote for or against particular nominations tor reasons of his own, whether others concur with -him in those reasons or not, the grounds of the votes of individual members can never be set forth, nor authentically known. The Commit tee cannot undeitake any inquiry int> such grounds of individual opinion; nor do they know any form in which the Senate itself, if it ! were so inclined, could compel individuals to state the reasons ot their/votes, Ihe Com mittee, therefore, o not suppose it pr per for the Senate by any proceedings to be adopted on its part, to undertake to set forth the reasons of members for rejecting those persons. It is enough that the Senate in the exercise, oi an unquestionable constitutional ng. t lias refused its advice and consent to the nominations. — This has been officially certified to the Presi dent, and the committee think there is no mound for further inquiry* ' The t'r’-siueui innand. in all light to inquire into tne reasons of the seen- i ate tor rejectmg any nomination; and. yet the message irnmemately undertakes to infer, from facts and circumstances what lu ose reasons,, which influenced the Senate in this c,.. se ' n,l ‘ s . have been, and goes on to argue, much at against the validity of such supposed reason,./ The Committee are of opinion, that if, as the President admits, he cannot inquire into the reasons of the Senate for refusing its assent to nominations, it is still more clear that those rea sons cannot, with propriety, be assume-., and made subjects of comment. In cases in which nominations aie rejected, for reasons affecting the character ot the per sons nominated, the committee think that no in ference is to be drawn, except what the vote shows ; that is to say, that the Senate withholds its advice and consent irom the nominations. And the Senate, not being bound to give rea sons for its votes in these cases, it is not -—nos wouF it Tie proper ror it, me committee think, to give any answer to remarks founded on the presumption of what such reasons must usve been, in ihe present case. They feel themsc.'ves therefore, compelled, to torego any response Whatever tothe message of the Pre sident, in tins as well by the reason before assignee, as out respect to that high officer. The President acts upon his own views ot public policy, in making nominations to the Senate ; and the Senate does no more wuen it confirms or rejects such nominations. for either of these co-ordinate departments to enter into the consideration of the motives of the o ther would not, atd could not tail, in the end to | break all harmonious intercourse between them. i This, your Committee would deplore as highly | injurious to the best interests ot the country. The President doubtless, asks himself, in the case of every nomination for office, whether the person be fit for the office ; whether lie be ac tuated by correct views and motives-; ano whe ther he be likely to be influenced by tho e con siderations which should alone govern him in the disci urge of his duties ; is he honest, ca nable, and faithful ? Being satisfied in these particulars, the President submits bis name to the Senate, where the same inquiries arise, and its decision should be presumed to be dictated by the sarnie high considerations as those which govern the President, in originating the nomi nation. For these re .sons, the ( ommittee have altogether refrained Irom entering into any discussion of the li gal duties and obligations of Din ctors of the Bank appointee by thi Pre sident and feenate, winch iorm the mam topic of the message. The committee v»ould not feel that it had ac quitted itself of its ob.’igations, if it did'not avail itself of this occasion to call the attention of the Senate to the general subject ot re-nomination. The Committe do not deny that a right ot re-nomination exists ; but they are oi opinion,- that in very char and strong cas. s only, should the Senate reverse decisions which it lias de liberately formed .and officially communicated to the President. In nnlitaiy and naval ap pointments, it is possible that questions, not oi persQnal fitness for office, but of the right of in- dividuals to rank and grade, may’artse between the President ami Sen to; and that nomina tions mly be r< j< < ted, pe. t ing sti li questions, which might properly be r< newed under othei laws, or a new state ot circumstances. And in regard, too, to diplomatic appointments, the question n y, perhaps sometimes turn, not on the fitnes- of the p rson nominated, but on the propriety of any appointment, or of any .-u h mission as is proposed. If new nf<>ru.ation should be given, shedding new light satisfacto ry to the Senate, in such case as it may be a proper reason tor agreeing to m initiations once rtje< ted; nor will the committee say that there may not be other cases in which a person once | rejected may be properly again presented to the Senate. But the committee think that in a ase in which the decision of ihe Senate has cen deliberately made upon the sole question of the fitness of the persons for the offices to which they are nominated, and its assent has been withheld, it ought not, without very strong and clear reasons, to change that decision upon are nomination. The conn ittee lias caused t e journals of the Senate to be examined in reference to the practice of re-nomination, and tiiey find that, <lurin<_ the presidential terms of Gem VVasbington, Mr Adams and Mr Jeffer .sou, no instance ot re-nomination to office once occurn u ; and set theie aie not wanting instances oi the rejection of nominations made by those iliustrious < itiz< i s, the motives, for whi li it would be difla. uil now to ase< rtain. To illustrate this, it is only.m cessary to seieit the case • t ( olr nei Fishbur , a gallant soldii i of the revolution, who was,n minatec bj General Washington as the ( oilector of Savannah, am was rejected by the Senat, . Alii.« >gh th. . President was ol viousß n ortifi d by the deci sion, the nomi ate n having b< < u i am in a great rm asure upon his peisonal kuowli dge of tho individual, he contented himself aitei the rejection with addressing a letter to tin ‘ em.ti, containing his reasons for the imnimalim of i t cl. Fishburn, and acc. mpanteu that message with the name of another individual. During the administration ‘of Mr. Madison, two instances occur of re omimitions of tin same poisons to tne same offices to which th-y iiad originally been nominated. Abraham Quackenbash was nominated as an Ensign and rejected—renominated and coiifiimec. Ami George Brown was nominated a Collector foi the first collection district of Maryland, ano af ter a rejection, was renominated am confirmed, j What reasons influenced the President to pi r sue this course in the two instances rest rred to, or the Senate to concur in it, the Co> mittee have nov. no means of ascertaining. Luring t e administration of Mr. Monro , tin instances of renomination became more tr< quent; but se veial <>| them were non mations to military ap po ntments, and in a majoiity ol the cases no wir. et vote rejecting the nominations had pass ed the .• enatc- Thecas s . frenomin tmn b Mr. Monrot; aitei a rejection, w< ic Jas. Ga s den as .Adjutant Genetti an, Nathan Tows-n as Colon. I; ( harles V.t? vent, as F avy A gent and Duff Greet as e< eivt i; all of which wtrepijitivu on .... ..... .. i„. two 1 first nominations Were pureb military, and in volved an interesting and difficult qu< stion oi grade, and in the <> ■r.iou.fil - Fit merit called j for the most minute .u e.V qrat« mv. siig.itiou. 1 V hat motives imped, t, to tut- renoniination oi the two last, the Committee cannot undertake to say. During ’be four years oi Mr. J. Q. Ida s ’ amuiri.-tiaiion. no instance oi renoni ination appears tc have occurred; unless the nomina l of Amos wb< >. nomina tion previously made by M>- Momoe had been postponed, anc that <1 Peter Sa.'.'ly, «hose nom ination by Mr Monroe had been U P n ,he table at tiie last dav of the bWsion, . o at the commencement of the .-u< ceeuing iW ( u ( tive session was again presented to the Senate, are to be considered as renominations. Since the 3d of March, 18k9, four instam es of renom inations, after rejection by thi J enatc, have oc - curred. In two of these instances the persons renoniinnteil were- again rejected; in thr thud, tho nomination was agreed to; anu tiie fourth is the case flow before us The committee perceive, with regret, on in timation in the message tbai tho Pr< sid nt mav not see fit to send t the Senate the names oi any other persons to be Directors of the Bank, except those whose nominations have been al ready rejected. While the Senate wul <x<r< i e its own rights, according to its views ot its du tv it wn'l<-av< to othei ■ fixers of the Gjvern n.ent to decide for themselves on the maimer they will perform their duties ih comn ntce know no reason why the?e offices should not be filled, or why, in this caso i?o iurthei nomm- I ation should be made, after the £en a,t . IUS tx . ? ercised its unquestionable right < 1 rej«' fi fl g P ar tit ular persons who have bee n nominate d, Jdiy more than mother cases. The f‘enate will be . ready, at all times, to receive ai-c consent to it. i It c laims no authority to control hm in his nom- | inations, bu u cannot surnenoei the exercise of its own rigl t j oi deciding tor itself on the propriety ot advising und consenting to appoint ments to office. It cannot depriv. itsi It of its own powers; it cannot surrender its own coiisti* tutional character; it cannot, through apprehi n sion of any consequences whatever, iorlcar from ex re ismg its high duty of giving or oi re ! fusing its advice or consent to i,on.inations ot the President, in all eases, according te iis con scientious sense oi its ov n obligations to the < Constitution and to the country , li these offi i ces of bank directors remain unfillet., the fault will not be the fault of the Senate, 'i h< case ’| is like others cases of rejection. In ot h< r cas es, other persons have been nominated in place of those rejet ted by the henatt and t onfirmed; and, if a different course sh ill be ad pteu on this, occasion, it is a coir sc for which the Sen ate cannot bt r sponsible. Their power P* "Uhl oldmg their asst nt from the President’s nom'inations is not altogether vam and nugatory; it g> v «‘ th ‘ n ‘ b > ,he Consututmn to b< exenwd P r(l P er case “’ ami in their own discretion When exercised by them, the rights of no other br »cn ol the government art itifungi d; ik ♦ 1,1 '• • as tJl ‘ done its own duty, and, httYffiJ done this hon- estly and conscientiously, it cannot fear any consequent es. '1 he committee recomm nd that the Senate do not at vise and < onsent to the appointment of these pt rsons thus re nominated. '1 he report was read. Th, S.enati procce ded to consider the mes sage renonn ating Henry D. Gilpin, and as bank directors. On tlu ques mn, “W ill the Senate advise and < unst nt to the appointment of Henry D. Gilpin, Pett r Wagi r, John T. Sullivan, and I!ug McLloeryi” It was determine, in the negative—Yeas, 11, J ays, 30. On motion by Mr. CLAY, The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voteu in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Brown, 1 orsyth, Grundy, Hen dricks, Hi I, King, <>i Alabania, Linn Robinson, Shepley, VA hite, W right. T hose who voted in the negative, are, Messrs. Beil.'Bii.h, Black, Calm un; • ham bers, (lay, (. layton, Ewing, h relmghuysen, K nt,KmgofGiOigia. L eigh, Mangum, Moor , ?. audi.in, Poinm xter, Porter, Pn ntiss, Prt ston, Robbins, Silsbe., Smiu, boutbard, Sprague, Swii’t, Tipton, Tomlinson, Tyler, Waggaman, Webster, CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERCURY. Ji athnigioi, vi ay, 1, Lb 34. The Senate have rejectee the government spies again, by and increased majority of 3U to 11. i i.e Message oi ihe Prsieentand the tie pint oi the Committei on these worthies, will be published, aim mmt increase the tide ot pop ular .ndignation against ihe old Despot, who seems delermim d to dragoon all branches ot the 1 ov rnmerit into his will. Le declared pos itively ttmt h< wcuJu nominate no otheis it the L . nat< rejected the spies, and I suppose he will kt ep iiis word. Theie weie several memorials presented in the benate to-day, from 1 ennsy.vama, reproba ting the c ourse of the administration m relation tothe removal of the deposites, &c. Mr. Me-1 Kean presented two: one from Northumberland, | and the other from Branford County. They entered into a labored argument to snow the fallacy oi'all the reasons advanced to sustain the Executive; anu then, aitei painting the desola ti. n which had followed t..at measure, they de nounce the President in lue most violent terms, dir. AicKc an slab g that ti.t memorials were signed uy th. great, st portion oi the voters in both c ounties, ot both politn 1 partu s. Ihe most influential Jackson men Were n.otig ihe sig ir- «d < ach, atm they all com uired m the opinion that a qu> stion of such vital impoi rance to toe w iioit- c uuutiy, ought not U> be m«m< one of party— Mr. W ebster asked Mr. McK. au il . the expe rimeni was not generally deprecated by the fi ic nos of the administration m Pennsylva nia. aim Mi. McKean replied, that so lar a» ue knew, it was a veiy unpopular measure; anu me memorials jusi presented stated and pri.ved the! la. t. Mr. McKe an also presented the proceed- . inus nt a small cian f vifac e hunting patriotic H< roites, who to the amusvmeui u* un. Styled t. > m elves “Democratic, Republican, Jackson anu Woli men!” The times of Praise Go: Ban l>. nes appear to be tne mud. 1 which I our ±ory politicians ure uesiiuus oi mpying; and if report speaks true, we shall have a fresh supply of soldi. >s in the District before long, in ord r to admimst: r Mr. McLuffie ’s recipe to the C< ngress of the L mteu Mules. Mr. Lfay presfcuti d «. memorial from Bai.. Eagle town ship in ( ntre County, Pennsylvania, denounc ing the removal ot the ueposites, the Protest, and every other despotic act of the President, which were neithe r few nor inconsiderable. — Ih. y lalk very plainly of i tsisung al ail haz ards, the lawless, usurping anu vindictive • ourse of the President. Mr. Chaniut i s presented the proceedings of ti.e people ot Baltimore, to the numbei oi te n thousand, who had met te try the Prot. st agr al l to tiie desire oi the Presi dent. They touim the Hero guilty on almost eve ry count in the indictment, of conspiring x gainst the constitutional rights of the benate, ti c Republi- an in.-titutmns of the country, and tu. hl.< rt es of the people ln< advocates on the. trialhao all been the warm aim early inenus of the President, Messrs. Harper, Kene. y and Me Mahon. The latter gentlemen, is decided ly on- of the most piomi ing men in the United States. In the House, they are nibbling at the Approbation Bill They are not willing to let Jackson get mom y te. hold out as baits to mem bers ol Congress to betray their constituents.. . Correspondence oj the Baltimori Patriot. Washington, May 1, 1834, 1 An important day this has been. Again the Government Spies, as Mr. L ailioun called have been thrown overboard,- anu what i !s the mvre jovous, the Jackson men nave come Ito our aid. Iht: >• • “ onl “ a,eo ol thte United States’ Bank imVe been rejected again, ayes 1 HIRIY- nois fc} ciitenl 1 ipton went with us, and so did King,otG<orgia,aim Moore, ot Alabaii a. Even Benton found the pili too Litter to take, arm he was not in the Senate. | This is a great, a signal victory for the Senate, the country, for liberty and the constitution. . The days of the Idol have departed. As the injunction of secrecy has been remov- | ed, we shall soon have a copy of tne record published, . nd with it the President’s Message, and V’.ebsttr’sßeport. This essagt, 1 am told, ac.vanc<s principles as monstrous as those advanced m the Piotist, ano, u coup detat, as M i . Ritchie < alls the P.otest, will uo just about as much good to the administration. Never did w. h ve a betti r illustration than we have had tor the few nays past ot the olu lalm quo tation, n Deu- vult perderi, pnus otmi tat.” U uoes se< m,as if the Ki.cien Imherm a<> sagacious, were tn fact demented. As tor W ebster, we can trust him to answer what may i come from either of the Cabinets. , The discussion in the Senate to-day was be gun by Mr. Chambers; who led ofi in a speech of about an hour and a half in length, on pre- ■ senttn,. your Baltimore Resolutions. i his ■ I speech called up Grundy,—and an encounter of wits and words followed, branching off into the I Panama Missi n <i< bate; and Gtut cy’s old votes and speeches for the United t fates’ Bank during tie war and towards the < lose of the war. Clay said it was a W hig Bank. Grundy replied that it was the first time he ever h<ard a bank called a . hig. Clay told him he was in favor of the U. S. Bank in 1814. Grundy denied it, and Clay read a resolution he offered in the Congress of 1814, for the establishment of a Nation. 1 Bank. Grundy sai< that it was only a resolution lot enquiry, ( lay then read a speecn of Grurmy’s. Grundy then told Clay he was only in his condition, lor Le bad chang ed his opinion on thi. question, but he would plead theN. Y. statute oilimitations, and square accounts with Mr. Clay. Grundy is a good natured Jackson man, with a Whig heart, and the soon, i he parts with bad company the bet ter Extract of a Leiter from Washington, to the Editor oj the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. This is creeping out with the use of ambigui ties; but what snail be said ol alterations made ill th. Protest to be sent to the Globe, lor dis tnbmion among th< people? I will state the facts as they transpir. d in th> Senate. Mr. Ewing states that 40,U00 of the Protests had b. en printed for distribution, but tLat before they weie struck off, tnere were sundry altera tions made in it, so as to make it 1> ss reprehen sible than when read to the Senate ! ! calling Mr. Taney “ the” Secretary of the Treasury, instead of “my” Seen tary. The Secretary of tin Senate being called upon to state bow this was, declared that Mr. Douelson, tne private secretary of the Presid- nt, came to him »>n tne day succeedinglhe presentation of the Protest, and asked to be allowed to make a few verbal alterations oi errors winch he sam existed in the document. But the Senate Secretary be lieving that he bad no authority to allow such ' change, told Mr. D. that it could not be done, but afterwards at Mr. D’s dictation he had made pencil marks above the words in the paper I proposed to be struck out, which now remain. Mr. Clay called the Senate and the whole country to witness, that the day after a Docu ment sent to the Senate by thi President of the United States was read and debated, the Presi dent sent is private Secretary, and alters its phraseology, and distributes it to tiie people, withits most odious features comealed ! ! Fi om the Washington Jh'eics. A PREDICAMENT. If any thing wi re necessary to prove the subserviency of a Party to the nictation of one : man, there is amusing evidence ol tne tact in the conduc of the friends of Gen’l. Jackson,! with leference to his Protest. Soon after it was published, it was lauueu to th. skies tor the democrat y of its principles, tor -the precis ion of its language, sot its correi t delineation oi the powers ot Congress ami ot the President. 1 In the cityof New-York, a meeting was called ' j to express .heir entire approbaiK-n of this au tnir.ible State-Paper. It was eclared to be a ""‘V Q, ‘- u<< at anu glorious toui ensemble. It was the very thing, in rctcrvr.ee L> that part, in which the President claims the < ntir< cus.o. y of the pu. be money, one of the i cs> lutions Declares mat it i$ a “ Slate Paper in which the duties oj the Executive, in eejere. ee to the Treasury Leparime t, arc de. rly a.id c< erectly expounded, according to the spirit as i well as the letter oj the Coastliulion. ,, But what I follows? In the midst oj th. u joy and rejoie- > mg, a suppleim nta. message comt s, in which tin Pie ident states, to then confusion, that h< uid not mean what he said—that he discards the only meaning of which this document is suscep- i tible. The quere is, what will these committed \ . triends of the . r side nt out Will they persist in the correctness of their resolutions, and laud i the Protest and not the disclaimer, or act out: the part of‘Guzzle,” m the following unpubhsh i d Tragedy: “Lord Brimstone. — This ebony cudgel is white, ano I take the responsibility ut maintain— mg it. Guzzle.— Unquestionably, my Lord ; it is the purest while I ev< i saw. Lord B. Since I’ve got on my spectacles 1 find it black ; I was mistaken, dll any rate il shall be black. Guzzle. Black as the devil hnnselj ; and I’ll be sworn to it, before seventy-five inquisi . tions.” UNION STATE RIGHTS. i The Unionists have the effrontery to call themselves State rij. hts men. W hat do they mean by State Rights? Do they belu ve m the South Catolina doc-I trine, which is the old Virginia ami Kentucky doctrine, of Nullification? u. Do they believe in the present Virginia doc trine of Secession? If yea, they must ackowl edge that the State has a claim to their whole allegiance, if she Las a rigut, at any time, by . seceding, to release them from all obligation whatever to the federal Government. But, we understand that ablmtigh no formal public re cantation has been made by or for Lol. Dray- ■ ton, of his belief in the right of sect ssi< n, yet ■ after consultation among themselves, the.Union' ! party have found it convenient tv their pi esent purposes, and their present argume .ts, to re solve not to believe in the right oj secession. We ask them, then, what is th< Mate nights in which they believe, the exercise of which cun be available against the usurpation and oppres sion of the Federal Government? If besides thinking with the Cowrie*, that the idea of the Federal Government beeou ing a marked mon archy’under the chi cks and balance.- of thesys t; m, is laughable- they also think that Feder al usurpation and oppressioi, in any other shar‘d is impossible—then what is the use of State' Kights, or what their sincerity in affecting to value them? But if they admit that there may he Federal oppression an<: usurpation—ami yet deny the right of Nullification and the right <.f Secession, we ask them wbai State rights they .lai.n except such as Congress, th- Judicial. ‘j and the President, may graciously allow them . I From the Washington JVelrs, THE PROTEST. The principles recently' avowed by the Pres ident in his celebrated Protest, to the benate of the Unites. States, have shaken the confidence of many of his friends, anu confirmed the opin on of his opponents, that the prominent acts of bis administration, evince a disposition toci.ncentiate all the powtrs of the Govern ment in his hands. After assuu mg. rriaiiv po sitions and claiming many powers, that are alike ur< concilable with the Constitution, and destructive of the rights of a >n or-dinat. branch of our Government, the President in this strange docurn. nt. gravely informs the Senate, that “ Congress can not therefore take out of the hands of the Executive Department, the custody of ihe public propei ty or money, without an as sniiijdion oj Executive power and a subversion of the first principles oj lhe Constitution.” Ihis new ami alarming a-sumption of power, this bolu declaration that the property and money “of the Pcople are in the custody oi the Pres* ident, and beyond the control and legitimate supervision of Congress itself, produced upon its annunciation, a burst ot indignation that has compelled thi Pnsident io explain away the m<>st matinal part of this objectionabl manifes to. His retraxit sho s, what the voice of the People, when b- Idly assembled, > an accomplish. And i demonstrut. s also that th. President either does not understand what he s. to < .ingress, <>r can shift with great convenience. . his opinions uno principles. AA e place, in jux tapositi. n, an extract from the Protest and the Coaici!, to siiow our reavers how admfrably they han. onize. xi, Jackson on Thurs- JI Jackson on JWbn day day. Public tn ney is but It was not my ioten— a spe< les ot puohc pro- tion to deny in the said perty. It cannot be message, the power and laiseu but by taxation or right oi' tne legislative customs, nor brought department io provide into tiie treasury in an by law for the custody, other way, except y safe keeping,and dispo law; but whenever m sition of the public motto howsoever obtained, its ey and property of the custody always has U. States. been, and always must * * * * * be, unless ihe constitu- I admit, without re - tion be changed,nittust- s rve, as I have before eu to tne Exe’t ve De- done, the constitutional paruue..t. Ao officer power oi the Legisla— can be created by Cun- ture to prescribe, by gross tor tiie purpose < flaw, the place or places taking chaige of it, in which the public mon wtiose appointment ey or other property is w um not, oj tue con- to be d posited ; and to I stitution, ut once de- make such regulations ! voive on tne Pr. si ent, c ncerning its custody, I atm who would not be removal or disposition, lesponsiole to him tor as they may think pro tiie i.iitnful perform- per to enact. Nor— ance oi his duties. Th< 1 claim for the Execu— legi dative power may tive any right to the unooubtidly binu him [possession or disposi atid the President by tmn of the public pro any laws mat they may perty or treasure, or thick pioper to enact ; any authority to inter* tiii yma urescnLe in fer with he same, ex—, wuai place parllcuiaf cepf wße portions oi the pul lie sion, disposition, or au-' moneys shall be kept, thority, is giver to him anu lor what reason it by law. Nor do I claim ay lie removed, as ihe right in anj u.anner th y ma . .direct iiiat to supervise or interfere I supplies for the army or with the person entrust -1 navy shall lie kept in ed with such pioperty ; particular stores ; anu or treasure, unless he' it will be the duty of tiie‘be an offici r whose ap t'resident to sec that p< intment is, under the . thi law is faitnfulh ex- constituti n and laws, ecuted, — vet will the devolved upon the Pres ! < ustody remain in t eK t nt, alone, . r m.con- Exec’tive Department junc non witU th. Sen -lof the Government.— ate, and tor whose con | Were the Congress to duct he is constitution*’ assume, with or without ally responsible. a legislative act, the power of appointing ot ficers iniiepvi.uentiy of the President, to take the charge anu custody ot the public pioperty contained in the milita.y and naval aisials, ma gazim sand storehouses, it is believed that such an a. twouk. be r.gaid ed by all as a palpable usurpation of Executive powei subversive ot tne orrn as well as th fun* darnent.il principles of ■ our uoverturn nt. But where is the diffi ience in principle, whether the public property be in the to m ot arms, munitions of war and supplies, orj in gold or silver, or bank notes ?—None can be perceived—none is be lieved to exist. Con gress cannot therefore, take out of t e hands of , the Executive Depart ment, the custodj of the public property or mon ey, without an assump tion of Executive pow er, and a subversion of the first principles of the constitution. Unfortunate. — At Marion, Twigs county, ob Friday ‘>ii inst u dispute occurred between two UXeP.,J«h»e-J*tttcbcr"afict Joseph Sawver. when Hatcher nibbed his fist in Sawyer’s face ; upon • whicii the latter struck his antagonist several . laws on the head, with a heavy walking stick. Hatcher was completely stunned, and never had his nason afterwards—be died of his wounds on mo ay, sth inst. Intemperance has thus added an dher to its many crimes, for it was indeed, tne cause of this unhappy event. Both men had families,— -JWacon Messenger.