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POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
F,((rut from the Report of the Atijsri
ly of the Commlttoo on (bo Foot Office
end Poet Roidi, who worn •athnrlzed
to enquire Into the condition of (he Poet
Office Departments
to t certain object. Thie hoe jttet eo
v-c-I.- i. .u.n... >■ General
■ Mr. Jefferson, In hie letter to Nathaniel
Macon of May Mth, 1801, pays (hat “a
»ory early recommendation had been |ir
on to the Poat Maater General to employ
no printer, foreianer, or rerolutlonary to
ry, in any of Ilia office! V Ilia reas-ns for
the eacluaion of the Pointer Imm any
connexion with the Post Office Depart
ment ie obriona, and if we would pioacrre
thepreu from corruption, and prerent it
from exerting a corrupting influence orer
the community, that recommendation
oogbt to be eateemed aa a precept, and
treligioualy obeenrrd in the preaent and in
all (inure tlmea. Dili tbia admonition hu
paaaed unnoticed, or la diaregaided, by
rboae who now conduct (he affairs of this
department. Large eums of money ap
pear to hare been expended in auch i
manner that lie obrious tendency ia to
extend the influence of the department
orer the public press, and through that
preu orer the people.
William Smith, whose extra allowance,
ae stated in the Htue Book, (p. 256* and
and258‘) amount to $11,139 a year, is
rhe proprietor of an efficient party press
in Culpepper eonnty, Virginia.
Horatio Hill, said to be the conductor
of a violent parly preu in theMate of Npw
Hampshire, is u contractor to carry the
mail on no leas than fifteen mall ruutes,
and, instead of extra alia,, ao. es, his con
tracts are noted in tiro margin. “with
VKWsfafer fmvileqb.” which we un
derstsnd to mean the pririloee of carry
ing and distributing newspapers at pleas
nreon his mail tomes
Hay and Bennett were contractors for
carrying the mall from Bellefonte to
Meadrille, in the State of Peonaylrnnia,
from the 1st of January 1828. to Hist of
December. 1831 On the 5th of January
1830, they obtained an extra all-wnnce of
$500 a year for increased expedition, and
it is said that Bennett therenpoo pur
chased an opposition press in Mendville,
and arrayed it at once on the side of the
administration.
IT At the lettings in October. 1830. this
route was adrertised to ruo through in
two days and seren hours. E. Platt and
Co. hid for it at 1.980 dollars; Moore, Li
bo 5c Co. at 2,450 dollars, and Benjamio
Bennett at -$350 pt. 525,7oO" in broken
bids, equal, it is belied, to $1,575, for
the whole route. The bid of Benjamin
Bennett is marked accepted, and the ac
ceptance erased,and that of J. B. Rennet,
(the owner of the press) is accepted at $3,
500, through in two days. But the sche
dule which appears to hare been made out
at the lime of executing the contracts
states that, on accouni of the usual fresh
cts and destruction of bridges, and other
material changes in theioad since the I5lh
of Oct,.1831. it is agreed to run tin mail
through in two day and a half etch way,
making fire hours longerlime than it was
fixed at by the adreitisement, and pro
posed for the other bidden. Supposing
(he bid of Benjamin Bennett to be ficti
lious, or made by arrangement, merely to
enable the department the better to para
orer lhecootraclto J B. Bennett, there
•2 211,. ji wJWHgwG UiMiduVutt Qojkv iower
aod Valid bid, nod that at which it was
•track off, f1,520 a your, equal in four
yeara to $6,080 which appears to be the
extra expense incurred by the department
to place this contract in the hands of a
newspaper editor.
The ’‘ineuknlalexpenses," comprehend
ing the secret service fund of the depart
ment, present an intereating aubject for
consideration. No law appropriates mo
ney lor those expensea. Coogress exer
cises uo cootrol over them. The Post
Master General, at his merediscreiion.se
lecte the objects of his patronage, which
be dispenser from the rerenuo derired
from poetages. and it guided by that dis
cretion alone in fixing the amount ol that
patronage. He may employ one primer
and one trarelling agent, or one hundred*
ofeacb at bia pleasure; and he may pay
each of them aa much at he pi rates. If,
by tipi improper exercise of this ami his
other nnreitraioed power, the department
becomes bankrupt, then, by the construc-
tion which he bettowron the Constitu
tion, he (not'Congresa alone) may borrow
any amount of money, on the credit of the
. nation, to supply the deficiency. Sub
joined is a statement of these incidental
expenses from the year 1790, prepared by
a cletk, at the request of the committee,
accompanied by a view of the ••contingent
expenses,'* and of the sums appropriated
by low for the salaries of the officers of the
department, which must not bo confound
ed with the "incidental expenses." By
this the Senate will perceive that, from a
sum less than two thousand dollars, theso
expenses, under former administrations,
gradually increased formaoy years, there
boiog an avcrsgo annual addition ol about
tine thousand dollars In 1829 they had
■welled to the sum of $56 47L. exceeding
the sum expended in any former tear; and
ie the year commencing July 1,1832, em
bracing ibo period of the last Presidential
election, they amounted to about $88,(190,
being a sodden increase of near 82O.000
oyer the corresponding expenditures of
any former year.
Of theso espouses no detailed account
is required to bo rendered to Congress—
lo report of the varioue items which f-rm
their aggregste amount is published.
1 uo muney to defray them constitute
: what may bo emphatically called the te-
■ crot service J and. The fund commnoly
so called, which is placed in the hands of
iho President to deftay the contingent
expenses of foreign intercourse, is not so
properly entitled to the deisignoiion.
in J* •huitodYlNil* amount by tbs
will of Congress, whose approbation ia
requisite to its existence. 'J’his fund is
unlimited by aught but tlto will of him
who Uses It, and is as free from iho con
trojnflaw uiif it were the treasure of
no independent Government. That fund
s* a !|p (tioitgi) by, l/o ,c|p cfsjigropriatloo
msny objects as the Post Mister
may nleot. Whatever expense* ha oho
sea to ooniider a* • incidental," to hit da
pinmentt bn pays; and the oaly accouni
whioh ha rentiers for It ia confined to a lin-
in hi* annual report, Ihuat “Th, ineidrn
tal expense! forfeit vest were $87,701”
The nonsequenoe of this state of thing,
Ie, that, while thy aeeret -entice fuud To
the hands of the President is 30,000 dot
lars. tbe fund expended during the our
rent year by the Past Master Ueneral for
the "incidentalexpenses" of his department
hu now increased, as appears by the ea
limits In his last annual report, to thrice
that sum.
. At in early day of the aexslon, one of
your committee drew the attention r.f the
Benetetothia aubject by a resolution
calling for an account of these expenses,
for the period intervening between the
30th September, 1881. ana the 30th Sep
lember, 1833. Months elapsed before a-
ny answer wee given totbn resolution, nl
though, ns will be seen by reference to
Ihe report of the Post Mailer General on
this subject, hereto annexed, the whole
of it might hare been transcribed from
the PostOffiee book* in one day. When
after repealed Inquiries for tbit paper, it
waa at length, for the Drat time, communi
catrd to the Senate, it appeared in aeeret
aeasion, in company with another paper
giving an account marked "confidential."
On tlte last paper, over which the vail nf
aecrecy still hangs,yonr committee make
no comment, but to tlto papnr on which
the injunction of aecrecy does not rest,
they invite the attention nf Ihe Senate.
While examining this document, with
a view to the correction of the -bases
which it disclosed, the attention of your
committer was arieatrd by Ihe extent of
official patronage to printers whioh it de
velopes. and the amount nl that patronage
as exhibited in Ihe “Blue Hook.” The
resolution of Congress, of th- 14th July
I833directe.l that there ehould be inclu
ded in the next (preaentjun-Tiion of thie
book a correct list ol al I printers in any way
employed by the department or ofiioer of
the Government within the period between
the 30th of September 832, and theSUth
September, <833, with Me compensation
allowed to each.
The resolution of Congress lo enable
t o Secretary of State to comply with it
enjoiiie it upun the several head* of de
partmente, directing ur incurring the ex
pent, to cause the lilts and the matter
thereby required lo be added, lo the de
partmeni of State. The document in the
Blue Book (page 182, S. 4.) entitled
'•List of all priuters employed by the Poet
Office DapaYtment between the 30th of
September,1831,and the 30lh of Septem
ber, 1833, With the compensation of each,"
is the official paper furniahed in obedience
to this resolution, and is the first publica
tinn ol any portion of the incidental ex
peniee that haiever been made in obedi
once to she requisitions of law.
The object of the resolution was to in
terpose the check orpnblie opinion to ar
rest the ablt-e of official patronage to prin
tars, no other check haring been provided.
To the end, also, that this patronage
might not be abused, withonl detection by
employ irtg the owners afrits press, in any
other way than ia printing, it provided,that
the list to be fuvnished should embrace
all printers in any way employed with the
compensation to each, no matter for what
allowed. If a printer be mail contractor,
it was intended by the resolution that tbe
fact should appear. If any one of those who
control the public preu, enjoys for years
a monopoly in supplying the department
with articles lo the great profit of the con
tractor. the fact was designed to be shown
in • rder that the public might judge of
the extent and influence of the Execu
live patronage over the ptess so controll
ed. But an far from accomplishing this,
or any other proper object of thie part of
the resolution, it has been the means of
eliciting a report from the Poll Office De
partment precisely calculated to atiaiead
(lie public in refereocs to the whole inb-
ject.
On the list ofprintersio the BiueBook,
True St Greene proprietors and printers
of the Boston Statesman, are thue elated
lo he employed:
True 5c Greene, for priming
blanks, 6,09( 73
For advertising proposals, 206 511
And from th* accurate examination of
the original tuuehera far three payment!
to them, lb* following, faeta appear t
First, that the teal aum paid for “tit*
printed blinks.” (Including the preaa
work, type sotting, and the paper, un
which the blanki were astuallv primed)
was $10,403 25
And that the Nil aum paid
for wrapping paper and
twine, wae *
13.444 50
So tjiat the lum paid for
the printed blanki Ilona es-
ceeda the euma published ip
the Bins Book by
*9,907 73
9.564 00
. It will be i
conn
Total compensation reported
in the Blue Bunk, . 6,899 *5
But the exhibit now made by the ac
count of iho department, hereto append
ed, ehnws (hat they hare been emplo/cd
during the whole time, (as the present
Post Master General had in fact for year*
before employed them.J in furnishing pa
per, printed blanks and twine, tn the a-
mouot of 29.907 75
See the amount of the following items.
1022., January 25,True 5c Greepe’scom
pensation for furoiabing blauks, paper aod
twine, to various post offices in Now York
aod elsewhere, from (he 1st Octo
berto the 31st December, 1851, inclu
aivo 3,944 jo
May 9 True 5c Greeno’a
compensation for furnishing
paper and twine, 5cc., from
1st J.iruary to Ihe 31et of
March, 1832, inclusive m
Aug 7. True 5cGreene,
do. fur blanks paper, and
twino, from 36th June, 1832
Dec. 15. True 5c Greene
do Ibr blanks, paper, and ,
twine, from 1st July to tbe
Doth September, (832,
1833. Match 33. True 5c
Greene du. for blanki,paper,
anil twine, from lit October,
1832, to 31 at December,
183i. ■
April 23. True 5c Greene,
do. for blauks, paper, and
twine.froin lat October,1831,
to 13th April, 1833,
July 24 True 5c Greene,
for paper, blanks und twine,
fmm 1st October, 1832, to
39th September, 1833
Oct. 16. True 5c Greeoe,
for blanks, paper, and twins,
from 1st April to Jat Octo
ber, 1833
2,144 35
2,824 10
2,455 05
2,163 85
3,727 *3
3,022 12
0.6*5 95
29,90? 7 ,
Real Compensation,
So that the printers of "the Boston
Statesman,” thus employed by the depart
ment, received compensation for the arli
clea which they were employed to furnish,
within the period named in the resolution
exceeding by $23,008 50, thoaums nub '
liahed by the depart/nept jo the Blue
Boot,
Secondly. It'sppears that the only
erldoooeupon which these large turns
were paid ia the certificate of Nathaniel
Greene, the Post Manor at Boston. He
ie the brother of Charles Greene, of the
firm of True 5c Greene. He undertake!
to certify, in all cnea, that blanks, paper,
and twine, were furniahed lo the rartnua
Post Masters-in New York andelarwhere
to the piscine amount stated in all (lie
vouchers. He is the same person who
edited “the Boston 8tateaman" before
that press waa transferred lo its present
proprietors-, and from Ihe information we
have had, it appears lo us. that the Past
Mas er himself was intereeted in it at the
time of granting his certificates.
This is but one of a class of cases pre
sented by “the incidental expenses,” and
wn think it proper to remark that, profits
blnaa auch coniracts are,there is no com
petition admitted for thorn, no advertise
ment or other notice invites other poraona
to outer the lists in rivalry with the favor
ed newspaper editor upon whom such
Compensation ie to ’be bestowed. Estab
lished in a city where tie patronage from
other Sources than Executive favor was
probably not very great, the press of “iho
Boston Statesman” appoars by the vouch
era and receipts to hare been •uatained in
the year 1832, when the Inst Presidential
election occurred, by the employment of
ill proprietors in rendering services to the
amount of nearly lixteen thousand dol
lars, which was paid out of Ihe revenue!
of thin department. •
And duw it also appears that Hill and
Abbott, (printers nf the New Hampshire
Patriot) were allowed, during the same
period when True, aod Green were em
ployed, *7.543 26 fur “blanks, paper and
twine,” of which $4,238 83 was fur print
ing blanki, though the sums appearing in
the Blue Book, as paid to them, amount
only tn $1,494 36.
Horatio Hill also had mail conliaclsfor
which ha received $6,272. with “newspa
per privilege,” aa wo have seen, though
Iho Blue Book does not ootice the fact iu
ia the list of printers; nod lliil and Ab
bolt appear also on the list ol mail con
tracts both for Maine and New Hampahire
with Hill and Morse, T. S. Abbott 5cco.
Hill aod Crane, and Babbitt and Hill.
During the name period Shadrach Penn,
who ie the printer end proprietor of the
Louisville Public Advertiser, was employ -
ed to furnish blanks, pnper and twine, tn
the amount.of $9566 36, olthoogb in t)tr
Blue Book his name appears on the list
of printer! aa many way emjiloyed by tits
department only for the sum of $2297 91.
Other eume were paid within the. same
period to other persons, for “paperand
twine “ amounting to $24.562 61. The
euma allowed during these two years, ns
appears by the voucher* and accounts for
printed blanks, paper and twine (not in
eluding the large sumi paid to other edit,
ore for printing “ mail ptoposals.) amount
to more than seventy thousand dollars.
The account now exhibited by the
department shows that Frabeis P. Blair,
editor of the Globe, received from the ‘'0th
of December, 1831, to rhe-26th of Octo
bar, 1833, inclusive, the sum «f $21.634
90. He appears on the Blue Book for
only. 814.371 57. But as the department,
on me application of luu uutnutitice, aunt
us only a part al the voucheie for this
account, aod deferred sending the rest
until it ia now too late lo examine them in
time for this report, wn cannot aav bow
far the official statement in the Register
is cortect, or incorrect. The rates at
which this printer is employed are enor
moos, aod in oar opinion, are not to-bo
justified by reference to soy thing which
has occurred in the past history of this
department. We herewith submita spe
cimen of the rates paid him for advertising;
and accompanying the same n a statement
ol the rales and sums allowed for printing
advertisements in July, 1830 Thi-sum
allowed for printing these advertisements
Is it will be seen, about four times the
amount then paid for them. See the
statemenra marked X.
During the interesting period betweeo
(bo 1st ofJuly aod lhe3otb o' December
1832. tha "incidental ex anaes” were
$22,958 07. Within that.timo $13,673 31
waa paid for printing, to iho editors aod
primers of oewapapera, besides $5 160 16
for other articles by them eo)iplind. Of
Ihe sum so paid lo printers, Frauen P.
Blair received $8 - 80 50 “for 1 priming pro
posala for carryiog iho mull Irom.tlte 20th
of July, 1832, to Ihe llth of October,
1832,” a period of two months and iwrn
ty-two days. The period immeeiatcly
preceding the Presidential election was
Ihe time aelectcd for paying fr. m th ia de
partment In this single editor about one
hundred and sixteen dollars for every day
his paper issued from the preaa. Al tbe
same lime “the mail proposals” appeared
not only in the city prints,and others hav
iog extensire circulation in different parts
of tho country, but in the moat obscure
country papers, some of which having
consumed the aliment they fed on, have
linen perished for the want of it. We pre
sent a few examples, and inquire ’ what
posiible purpuae. except that nf support
ing o parly press, while an excited politi
eal canvass Waa proceeding in iha State
of New York, where the following expen
diturex made.
1832. . ack 5a Andrews, for
publishing proposals for
carry ing the United States’
mail in New York, 31st
October, 1832
Bryan 5c Leaph 5tco. for dit
to in Now-York,10th-Sop-
timber, 1832
James Stryker, for ditto in
New York, I9lh Novem
ber, 1832
James Wright,for publishing
in “Sandy Hill Herald.”
New York, propositi! for
carrying the mni' in New-
-* rk. 12th -
lean by reference to the ao-
it now furnished by the department,*,
while the Globe weekly, eemi week
ly, und daily, waa publishing these. Vary
’mail pro points" for the whole Uninnjand
While the Albany Argua, and the Courier
and Enquirer were publishing the -an r
fur the Stale of New Yoik, end tratismli
ting them to ever) part of (hr State from
whioh e bid could bo expeoted, these four
papers, some of ihem scarcely circulating
through a single county in tho interior,Ik
published, two or three limes a week,were
kept up at an expt-nsa of $1,636 35 fur
two monilia' printing ol the mall prupo
•ala for the whole State. For tlteen and,
other similar expenditures now roughl
In light by tho-locumeat annexed,we can
perceive no precedent! in the former hla
lory of the dopartmenl.
The year 183* was also distinguished
by the amount ul axpenae incurred far
the services ol sundry agents and secret
emlsarloi who were put in inntlqn at an
nxpense of nearly ten thousand Julian for
that year These ttipa ul inveiilgailun do
not all appear tin the lace uf the account
The aum ol $66(15 Is credited fur eums
paid In S. Gouveroeur. tho Po-t Master at
New York. From on endursemeot on
one of the voucheie to support this charge
it appears that he has received credit on
Ihe books of the department for that a-
mount, by him paid, for Ihe incidt-nial ex
penses ul Ins office, (ruin which wo infer
lhal, bribe direction of the department
he made these payments and was allowed
them on settlement lor postages. Mr.
Gouvernsuris nut rcapuusibh lor tlie-«.
payments oidered by thi department. A
inoug the receipts is one of I’. S. Lough,
borough, travelling ugeul, lor one hundred
dullara paid him the 4tlx (lay ol'Jtiue 1832,
and seven of Barnabas Bates, anotltet
traveller, for $1253 cash paid him as “spe
cial agent,” Letween the lat of Aug-et
and tlto 1 th of December, 1832, ioclu
sively.
Air. Barnabas Bales in October, 1833,
f presented an accouni,of wltTch the follow-
ng ia a literary copy:
“General Pint Office,
"To B. Bates, Special Agent, Dr.
”1833. April 30.
To services from July I, IBS'?, lo date 3U4
days, nl 3 per diem, $912 00
Do do eapenaea during the
same, $-2 50 760 60
Do do steamboat and stage fBre,
Do do $2 50, 184 00
'A 1 !!*
FRIDAY I FTKRNOON
June 90 mat.
07* Al a meeting of tlie oiils'iti of
Savannah, held at Ihe Exchnngaon Thura
day evening, 19th Inat. for the purpoae of
making uirimgome-'ia for celebrating the
approaching Anulveriary of American In
dependence. Colonel War. T. Williams,
Mayor of Ibo city, waa railed tn the Chair,
and R.G.Guerard, appointed Secretary.
On motion of Oul. Jarnoa Marshall, it
was
Resolved, That a committee of ten citl
Rene be appointed tn “take arrangements.
Whereupon the lollnwlng citizens were
nominated by rhe Chair, and confirmed
by Ihe mealing t
Win P. Bowen.
1, S. 1 ''Lyon.
John I. Dews,
Dr. T. (I. Barnard.
Wet II Miller. '
Gordon, Eaq it
tcOllMPJI|OA**D.j
O. P. Riciiardiukc will be l(1 .
ported for Alderman, at the ensuing *|,c.
Hon. tu fill tho vaoanoy occaitenrd by the
resignation of N. J, Bayard, Eaq *
' 80 Many Votxr».
07“ A eutresboodout of (hr Lharle.i.-
Mt'cuty, at Wellington, under dmui Jr
Iho 11 th Inat writes aa follows!
"The Seosto has proceeded with th.
queailun I.r printing the report, of aJ
Commute# on tbe wretohed condition
the Poat Office Department. The
.ministration party, to n mao, am «—
to a large number of these repairs b.t».
spread before the people. Mr. ~ ”
$365 25
441 90
.413 ^0
$1,856 lid
So that Air. Barnabas Bates act agouti
price on his travels, and although, by an
endorsement, it appears dial that .Mr. C.
K. Gardner, the first Assist.mi Post .Mas
ter General, doubled about Ihe allowance
ol 50 cents of the $2 50 per diem for “ex
penses,” in addition to the “per diem lor
services,” and the “steam boat and stage
fare;" yet, on putting the question endura
ed on-jhe voucher—“shall the additiucal
50 cia be allowed under the circumstan
ces,” the Post Al .aler Geueral it oderwritea
—“allowed,"and on the 15th of October,
1833, Alr.Bnies gives a receipt lur a crctl
it allowed him nn account f r the whole
amount off 1856. Tho most curious port
ol ibis matter liowev r, is that the depart
at'-nt hits directed Air. G uverneur to pay
rhea" agents fortr-velling. as it appears
they did, as “special agents,” ia N. Yelk
and New England, and then covered and
concealed (he charges under Ihe name of
Vincidental expenses of Ihe Post Office at
the city of N. Y ark." By the returns for
the first quarter fur 1833, 'it also appears
t at P. a. Lnughhutuagh who receives
an annual salary from ihe Treasury uf
the U..ritates ol sixteen hundred dollars
aa “general agent” of Ihe Pn t Office de
prrtment waa paid in aJdition tits retu the
aum of 53.467,60 as “special agent,“ for
the e\peases in trauelling Ik Virginia, N.
Y-rk. aud rhe Western ritatet, per tinier
the Poat Master General, from Ihe Ur No
vember, 1831, lo Slat December 1832,
makinp ibe whole sum i.ahl that tifficr
during ihat t period, $4.1167 66, During
the seme period, il will be seer fruit, the
account that other agents received $4,-
()99 40, which, with the payim-m to Rates
made by Gouverneur.make $9,51 .60 lur
travelling agents in about one tear. It it
in evidence before the committee, by O
B. Browo, that Mr. Loughborough star
ted on another trip of investigation about
four weeks ago.
Finally, Iho incidental expenses from
the lit of July, 1829, to the 1st ofJuly,
1834, by the returns made fur tho four first
era, and Ihe Post Mnstet General’s es
iitnates, for the last, amounls to the sum
uf $357,579 04; llitia exceeding the inci
deotnl expenses of the five yeats previous
lo the 1st January, 1829. by the sum of
one hundred anil eixly thousand five hue
dred aod lorty une dollars. The neceasi
IV for legal restraint in this matter, wn
think, too apparent lo require further com
ment; and we now dismiss this part of the
subject.
tin the whole, your committee hare
found Iho affairs of the dopar-mem in a
•late nf utter derangement, resulting us it
Is believed, Irom the uncontrolled disete
tiun exercised by its officers over its con
tracts aud its funds; and their habitual e
•aaion. and in some instances their total
disregard nl the laws which hare been pin
ritled for ihcir restraint. And yuur com
mittec nee no means within the power of
Congress of extricating il from its present
condition, and restoring il tu a healthy
and efficient action, without providing by
a la» mure atrtcl system lur its govern
ment; prescribing to its officers mure sp"
cial rules for the performance of their sc
veral duties; raking from Ihem, as far as
possible, all discreliuo, when Ihe atcep
tance of a contract, ot the disbursement
of money la coi'Cerned,establishing a more
strict system uf accountability and enfnrc-
Ing an ubservance'uf the lows by penal en
actment.
Hhould Congress advance unt of the
treasury fortlie support of Ihe department
the sum of money naked lur by the Poar
Alaater General,or even the whole amount
of its debts, it is not probuble, while un
der the management of its present officers,
with no ulher means than now exist to
control and reslrain them, that its tlcbti
would be liquidated, nr ill efficiency ro
stored. Under this impression and belief,
your committee cannot recommend the
appropriation of any money to relieve the
wanta of the department until there be
•ome farther guarantee for its proper and
injudicious a,-plic lion.
Adam Cops
Chat. Stephens.
Win. II. ririh-s.
Joseph Gaurge.
Al. Hopkins.
On motion of W. W.
was
Resolved, Thnt the Committeo be an-
tlmrized.loaeloct an Orator far the day,
and n Reader of the Declaration of Intle
pendonco. und lo make such of the nr
rnngeinenti as may ba appropriate to the
otcasioD.
Resolved, T. al tha Committee he au
thorized to fill »ll vacancies which may
occur in their body, having a regard to
the feeling- which govern this meeting
On motion uf Levi d. D'Lyon, Eaq. It
wtis
Resolved, That tho Committee ol Ar
rangementa be authoriz'd to contract fur
a dinner, iho coal of which ahull not ex
ceed four dollars to enuli sultscribor.
And, nn motion of Joseph L. SltalTer,
Eaq- it waa
Resolved, That the thanks nfthe meet
ing he (onderetl to' the Chairman and
Secretary
On mntin , the meeting adjourned.
WM. THORNE WILLIAMS.
Chatman
Robert G.-Gukraro, Secretary.
The Geml'-men co -ipusing the
Cominiltae of Arrangements for the nele
braliun ol th'fourth rlav ofJuly, will as
sembleto morrow at 12 o’clock. Al. at the
Exchange.
([/•Read the Post Office Commitleo
Report, and then any who is tlto corrupter
of rite Press, Andrew JockaoD. or the
Bunk.
([/“ We are indebted lo Danik Ciian-
dlei., Esq. for a copy, in pamphlet form,
of hia Address nn Ihe Rights and Reme
dies of the Slates, delivered before the
Slate Rights’ Association of Wilkes
couoty. the 3d inst.
[^The appointment by tho Presi
dent ol Colonel Wtn. Alnxwell of Liberty
cuunt), as .Marshal of the District of
Gcurgta, bus been cuofirincd by tiro Sen
ate.
A Company (says tho Charleston Cou
rier.) are establishing a Paper Mill, at
the Voucluse Cotton Factory io Edge
field district, (S. C.) We wish them suc
cess.
'York
tember, 1832
July, till Sep-
413 10
II.63P 25
(IT'The New Oilcans Mercantile Ad
eertirei ol the 9th inst say-:—“In our
paper uf Saturday last, in alltqliug lo the
robbery of the Canal Bank we stated “that
one of the Tellers in the Bank, a'ter Ihe
business waa over, nave Ihe contents of
his drawer tn the Purler, Guodouin. to be
pul in the vault.” Wehaveainca learn
ed th <[ the above ia materially incorrect.
The Teller deposited hie muney himself,
and it was t«ken from rhe vault, and Ihe
Teller waa in no wise whatever, lo blame.
The Porter, Gnndonio. haa since been ar
rested. und the wholo of iho money re
covered ”
For Sale.
A Lot of LAND In the Cherokee
Country, No. 182, in the 7th‘ Dis
trict, 1st Section.—For particulars, ap
ply at ihit.Office.
upril 22 95
More Shipwrecks.—A fotv days sines
(saje the New York Gaulle of the llth
insi) we published a list of too square
rigged vessels, bound from the old soun
liy to Q-.ebec, which have been cast no ay
this season, accompanied by the loss of
456 lives.beaitles all on board a barque un
known The Alontreal Goalie received
last eveaing, adds eight mote lo Ihe num
ber uf vessels, accompanied with the lose
of 248 lives, making a total of eighteen
vessels, and 704 lives lost! I It does set m
to us, that aftor making all due allowances
for difficult navigation, such' as constant
succession of diiaatroua shipwrecks indi
cates that crazy ships are employed, or
that they are commanded by incompetent
men. Tho latest date or the lose of any
ol the vessels mentioned is May . lOth
Aod yetthe number lost up to that dale,
wasoearly one eleventh of tho wholeoum-
hor 1405) arrived prior to the *7rit, (17
da)« later.)
A vessel believed to bo from Cork, and
to have been wrecked near the Magdalen
Islands, about the 9th May, said to have
250 emigrants on board, of whom two, tho
only Sttrvivura, had arrived at Charlotte
town. Prince Edward Island.
Brig Patriot Anderson, Irom Aberdeen
for Quebec, luat nl Capo Rosar, Gasps
Alay 7-no lives lost.
Poor Business—The crew of the Pole-
mac, at Boatun. complain loudly at having
been nearly rhraa weeks in Boston with
out being paid off. The President having,
iBken (he responsibility to dismiss the U.
8. Bank as tbe public ngenl.our lars must
therefore suffer, with every other class of
citizens.
Col. Crocked /ats/.-A gemletnsn
having mentioned to the Colonel that Mr
Van Boren was very anxiou. l0 pu ,chase
.farm above > the ”flat,”.„«. r Kinder-
hook-” Go ahead," roplio.l , he Colonel,
• It ii only among thejfaf* bo can ebcceed.’
said yesterday, that they would .pro,lues "
too great an nlToot on the. fall elaetions,and
he waa unwilling, therefore, n, , hi,
should aid that purpoia. While Mr F
made this frtiuk admission,, he did not ora*" "
tend lo deny a aiaglo fact alined |„ ai5.II--
report. Butthereia no apology brrthe
administration party in withholding them
from the publio,because their own report
is In ho printed along’with the report of
the majority, llutlhntiuih ie, their own
report remlore the whole subject suflieiai,i
ly black to bringdown thn condemnation
of every honest und candid man, no mat.
lertu wind parly lie may belong It doe*
0"i de y a single fact staled by the tna
joiity, and only offers a very lame apology
fur s. me nl the eourmities of tlto Orpin,
mud, Messrs. Grundy and Forsyiu dal
fended tun adininldlratlon as wed its could
lim e bom expected, to tlat; but all liiiro
given up Mr. Barrv » a hopeless case —
He has been abandoned by common con-
scut of the udininislrntion from whioh I
infer (hat they want tis place. Air, Leigh
reminded them that, ticcoidi. g t„ jack-
aun’e noijoui of tho Cunstituttun, it was
him-clf, and nut Mr. Barry, that was re
sponsible for the shameful conditions of
tb. D. on ment. Mr. Leigh deliroredn
very clear and able upt-ech, and showed
that it w e impossible tMr Barry could
have ncted as he did, without ihe siciioa
ofJackson. ir L appeared to speak
from authority of Air. ilarry on this pcint.
It is mean in the President to suffer ,Mr‘
Burry to bo sacrificed, if he, tiimneir.ia Ibe *
real author ol the abuse Mr. riuiilhard
also delivered a scry able speech, ao . de
fended Air. Monroe from tint obluquy
which would attach tu him, by adducing,
aa a precedent, his generous and'
patriotic efforts duriug the late war
whan he bun owed money un bis own ac-
couol io seal .in the country at No, Or
leans, when a foreign army hud Invaded our
s',ores, our Tr saury empty aod Ihe ol-
lluoal r redit exhausted. Uo this memo
rable oemotion, Mr. AL, at the head of tho
War Department,burrowed money tn sus
tain the Loops ut New Ori .ns, and now,
io the midst ul pence, with an ..vetflowing '
treasury, and Congress in session, tho
head of thn Denurlinont burrow, money,
and instead of making it knouji to i.on-'
press, he conceals the fact ana repi events
the Department aa in a highly fl .uusliiag
and healthy condition. Thore is Utile
doubt but 30,<|U0 .will. be priuted. do
great is rife excitement on this subject,
that Stevenson is forgotten.”
Ede.-uon, (N. U.) June II.—Tornado.
On Wednesday last, our neighborhood
was visited by a ornado ol nnususl vio
lence, accompanied with considerable hail
ami the moat vivid and incessant flashes*
of lightning weaver witnessed. It passed
7 miles to the North of this place, io a .
directum nearly East, and though its du
ration did not exceed two minutea, and*it
was routined to a narrnwglaoeul not mure
tuuu twu hundred yards tn width, still it
left sad iraces.of its fury wherever it pin
ed.
At Air. James Cuffield'a where il seems
lo have commenced its ravages, its effects
were truly disastrous aod distressing.
Air C hud ette'rttlmbl' negro ioaratna-
unuusly killed, three others - badly u an
gled, and some 9 or 10 others mare or
teas buYt— liis dwelling was considerably
injured—his Gin House, (a large and
substantial building,) Rope Walk, distil
lery, smoke house, and several quarters
wore razed tu their very foundation, and
some othei buildings unroofed or other- -
wise injured It then passed on through
the plantations of Mi. Mills Badhatn, Air.
Collins, Mr. Juhnat.in, and Mr. Wilker-
son, on each uf which huuaes were blown
dnwn and ulhers unrooted Air. Wil-
kcrsoi, had every house blown down.
As it proceeded it seems to have moder
ated io violence, and in thn latter part of
its course we hear of no injury mureie-
rinus titan that done by chimniea, fences,
Sic. being blown down.
We underi'and tho storm was also suits
Severn io the Counties of Tyrrell, Wash
ington and Bertie, and what is remsrk-
able we hav accounts which will be lound
in our columns,of (he ravages of aTatna-
tlo, nn the same day in same dozen coun
ties of Virginia, much more extensive sod
not less destructive than the one which'
occurreu in neurly thn aame region not
much morn than a month aince. What
ever may he the cause, il appears'that
uur atmosphere hus,oriate, been in a state
very favtiuiable lo Elecliical chan,
ges, ami the galea at sea and liar ieaues
on land, have almost given pur Climate a
West India chan/cter.
Racing—North and South.—The south
ern ap.tinmen ore wending their way
Iminawardi, slowly cheerily, amt with
overflowing^pockets, from the New Vurk
races. They stop in this city a few day*
by the way—visit uur "picnics”—talk of
time, points, nage and phrenology—gin
n supper or two. and then ant out for the
mountains of Virginia to cool their, cop
pers, or (he race grounds further Sonin
lo win new laurels.
The Virginia sportsmen have punished
the Now Yorkers terribly during the last
week. Thn truth ii.lhe Northern ipordog
characters are no mstoh whatever for the
Southern. Now and then tho North oioy
win a crack race—such as Eclipse ana -
Unary—and brag of it fort'd yeara altar
—but tha balance of trade II decidedly a- .
gainer the North. On an average or*> _
certain number of yearn,Virgin!* undouWjjgD
cdly punishes the North tn a pret y bana- ~
some sum, Col, Johnson, the Napoleon
of the turf, and his sohoal-io Virgtoia,
know their business with tits aecoraoy of
mathematics. The Virginia •pirtimj®
Are men of eeionce—the Northern bilk*
are only amateurs Thn Virginians study
the horse,night and day,rain and •noshine
— tlln Nnrlhfasri nantlamnn MllV fOllOW ••
-the Nonhein gentlemen only
ocasaiomlly, as a fashionable porsuiti-^
This make* a wide ilifferetlee. ’ • \
We trust that on the return of th! geB'.