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n.i ea<'h day did Theodore discover something
new m the traits of her character to admire. The
domestics ol the establishment began to consider
her, not as one of their own number, but as the
mistress of the place, and consulted her or. many
uccasicns as ifshe actually was—none of them but
old Margaret having served under its former mis
tress. As has been previously stated, when she
urst came she was remarkably pale, and to the
domestics very retired and even distant iu her
jn.inner. A change in both hail taken place,
dhe iulhieaß of youth to 4 vehq e itself,
and her cheeks began to tinge with a iiusli, whilst
her movements to and fro were distinguished by
an observable increase of activity, and to the ser
' ants, who voluntarily rendered* their deference,
she uas complaisant and kind. In the eves of
‘J heodore she seemed to grow younger, and more
and more to resemble liis lost wife. We all have
our peculiarities— Mrs. West had hers, and her
husband fancied that iu the seamstress he detec
ted a similarity ol predelictions, taste and prefer
ences. There was the same small white hand,
the same pretty little foot, and—but for the dark
hair—ln* would often have concluded that it was
really Julia standing before him.
'1 here was mystery around her ? Was she a
widow or not ? She did not say she was, nor to
the contrary. To have asked her the question,
would uot have incurred a breach of politeness,
nor would it have bern anything more than an
ordinary interrogation. But so it was—as it of
ten will occur—notwithstanding his desire to know,
he could not summon sufficient confidence to
make the inquiry-—something always transpired to
deter him—a trivial thought perhaps, or a vet
more trilling incident, lie was himself conscious
this inconsistency, nor did he at all suppose
-Trs. lienact would be oifended if he asked her
the question, but—and thus the time was wasted
in delay. The mere interrogatory would imply
nothing,-—it would by no means reveal his motives
for asking: but so delicate were his own feelings
on the subject, that the cause which actuated him
could be seen through, he considered as inevita
ble.
“But why do I entertain these thoughts,” he
would say. “Os what importonce is it to me,
whether she is a widow or not? I’ve no intention
ol asking her hand, have J ? have 1 really such
inteutions ! No!—no second-marriage shall des-
Tl ".V the hallowed charms that breathe around the
early remembrance of the first! But what is
this- -this warmth within my heart for her ? is it
hue,—or i* it gratitude?”
Jbiily and almost hourly within each other’s
society they were, and had consequently every
possible opportunity to study the disposition and
♦ lie character of one another. “That she has
’•”‘ en the direct means of restoring me to health i
■".n convinced," said Theodore, “and am I not in
• buy bound to make her a recompense ? But
' hat recompense ? She is here residing under
♦in- same roof with me, and I have become so
in*., ii attached to her, that 1 am only contented
' hen in her society. If she is a widow—as 1 be
li -ve she is—under the present circumstances, is
it riot imperatively my duty to offer my hand ?”
Thus it continued till September, 1832 Mrs.
Bermet had been nearly a year at the mansion;
a i I by this time Theodore had prevailed upon
himself that it positively was his duty to make the
o.lcrof his hand—provided there existed no oh
stacles to the union. “Could I bear to part with
i—r ! no! then why not make her my wife?”
lie would ask himself. “Besides, (he world is
censorious, and it' I defer it longer, the tongue of
scandal will perhaps be at work.”
A tcordingly he fiually resolved to avail himself
•of tin fust opportunity, to make the necessity in
quiries. and, in ease there was no hindrance to a
marriage, to offer himself if she acknowledged a
reciprocity of feeling.
• Margaret— do you think he loves me?” said
tae seamstress, speaking with an air of playful
ness to the housekeeper.
“\ es, I do,*’was the plain good-humored an
swer.
‘•lint as well as lie loved his wife whcu he first
married her? do you think that ?”
“Why, indeed tna’in, that’s a difficult ques
tion for me to answer—bait I see no reason why
o' should not love you as well as her. To tell
} s ’t the truth, 1 believe he now loves you because
he once loved her. If it was’nt for your dark
hair, you look so much alike that were you both
■>'<.ruling together, I could’nt tell which was
which.”
• She had linht hair, had she not ?”
*• \ es—-beautiful. She never wore caps as you
do ; and, but lor your cap and the color of your
hair, you are as much like she was as two could
jios-ibly be.”
"ilut should Theodore make me a proffer of
marriage, would you advise me to accept it ?”
“Certainly ! —you have been married once—
so has he—and if you make matters suit, marry
him. There lie is now, out on the piazza—go to
him, and if he should take it into his head to
make you a proposal, don’t refuse.” So saying
the old woman laughingly retired from the room,
and Mrs. Bennet went out to meet the person
spoken of.
At this period Mr. West was in his twenty
eighth year—still handsome, but pale compared
v. iih w hat he once was. Ilis sorrows had not alter
ed him materially—he was not as vigorous as
formerly, but returning health and regular exer
cise it was expected would restore him to his ori
ginal strength, lie was seated when Mrs. Bennet
approached, and us she sat down beside him he
took her hand in his own, at the same time calling
her attention to the beauty of the sky and the
setting sun. Scarcely a breath of air stirred the
foliage of the trees, and the scene seemed as calm,
as quiet, as holy, and as pure, as an infant sleep
ing. As the radiance of the suulight, fell upon
the countenance of Mr. West, it seemed to im
part an unusual beauty to its expression, and ab
sorbed with her thoughts and feelings the seams
tress gazed on him with a look he could not but
understand. Yes—that gaze—that one look, re
vealed it all—she loved him!
“How much like her— how like the w ife that
I have lost!” he exclaimed. “Mv wife and child ;
both dead—both lost! A child that 1 idolized—
a w ife that I adored!”
••Adored !”
“Yes, —though T injured her, 1 loved that wo
man as a man has seldom loved! Had I loved
her less,—better, better, would it have been for
ns ! There was one who secretly envied ourhap
t>ine>s —he poured into my ears the poison of
jealousy, to which I listened with ready hearing
—(relieved the falsehoods that he uttered, and
treated her so cruelly, that she was forced to leave
m“ —forced to its This suited the villain’s
scheme—on board of a vessel she was ensnared,
and out at sea he tried— yes—but she rebuffed
his hellish purposeswhen he, rather than she
should ever he restored to her husband’s arms, in
owl x uJood murdered her !”
‘•How know vou this ?”
“From his own lips I received the account of
it. With fiendish smiles of triumph lie cried it
in my ears. A relation too—a cousin of my wife.
Oh ! it was the darkest plot that ever came to
light! But she—so fond and so confiding, so lov
ing—and so loved—to think that she should fall
a sacrifice ! I remember now how she implored
to know the cause—how at my feet she knelt,
time after time, and 1 walked off in silence and
contempt or else abuse! it comes home to me
now aud whilst I live I can never forgive myself.
It the sea could render up its dead, aud give her
hack to me alive, then might I hope for happiness,
but not without!”
“ You loved her though, through it all you say, ”
“I did.”
“She would forgive you, then, I know, were she
alive—for such is w oman’s love! ever readv to for
get, to forget and to forgive!” Here, abruptly
rising, she hastily entered the house; and though
the movement astonished Mr. West ho did not at
tempt to follow her, liis thoughts were in a kind
of reverie, and leaning back on his scat, he suf
•'‘rod bis mind to indulge iu ii, whilst his eyes w an
dered far over the shadowy scene till the twilight
rendered it dim and darkness of night entirely hid
it from his view.
“Why, bless me, girl, you are weeping,” said
Margaret, as the one who left the side of Mr.
West entered the apartment, aud fell upon her
neck.
“Weeping! yes! but they are tears of joy 1
shed! of joy! Me loves me still, and lain once
more happy! These arms again shall cling a
round his neck! these lips again shall mingle kis
ses with his own! what joy! what bliss! and then
to know that 1 am hr ; again—that he is mine
what rapture! rapture!” Thus she exclaimed in
the fullness of her heart, and added, “the past
shall be as easily forgot as ’tis forgiveu.” Turn
ing to Margaret, she continued, “here, this cap
and this false hair, away with them,” as she tore
them from her head and dashed them aside, whilst
the flowing ringlets of her own bright locks grace
fully fell over the snowy w hiteness of her neck and
shoulders. “My wedding dress! bring me that!
quick, gdod Margaret, quick!” The dress was
brought and put on. “And now the piano, draw
it out from the wall. Bring a lamp—quick
there is no time to he lost. Peace—peace, my
fluttering heart!” Her agitation was considera
ble, as she gave the necessary orders, but Mar
garet bustled about aud performed her command
with cheerful alacrity. It was now qfffte dark,
and as the lamp was brought into the main, its
brilliant light shone upon the glowing cheeks and
white satin dress of her whom we have hitherto
seen in an humbler guise.
Mr. West was still in the piazza, still abstrac
ted iu his reverie, when all at once im heard the
l»ng solemn keys of his wife’s neglected piano
touched—and then a voice—“ That voice! that
tone! I have heard before!—and hark—that
song—“twas Julia’s favorite—” he exclaimed, as
he rose from his seat and rushed into the house.
There, at the piano, was indeed Julia—his long
and lost wife restored to his arms !
“I said she was innocent—l always said it-—”
cried Margaret, not merely pleased, but in an
ecstacy of delight. Here she is, after all—after
five years absence, alive and as pretty as ever.
Bless me—l wish I was young again ;if 1 was
J’d dance and cut capers like a "Frenchman.”
“Ah Julia ! for how much must I ask to be forgiv
en ? ' said the husband, folding liis new found
treasurer to his bosom with the fervour of devoted
affection.
“No !” was the answer, as 6he returned his
caress, “this blissful momeut is an ample recom
pense. !
Little more remains to be told. In the feroci
ty of his revenge, Byard had asserted that Mrs.
\V est was dead—murdered by himself. We
have already seen tlint this was an untruth. The
tacts were briefly thus. Alter she was on board
ot the schoonar the villain harrassed her continual!v
with his nefarious purpose—so rudely at times
that she was constrained to shriek out. Her
shrieks were heard by tlie seamen composing the
crew, who mentioned it to the captain with fre
quent remonstrances. He at first pretended to
be perfectly unaware of it ; said that he had not
heard it—that he would look into it. The ladv
and gen flemeu were merely passengers, he said
—man and wife, for all that he knew—a private
quarrel perhaps—at any rate he would sec into
the matter. '1 lie shrieks were however repeated,
the crew reiterated their remonstrances, and the
captain, who was in the pay of Byard, called them
mutinous dogs threatening* to represent them as
such to the government if they did not hush. “1
know my own business! mind yours!” Neverthe
less the sailors were not intimidated by his men
aces, and coming to the conclusion that it was
their duty to rescue the young lady, whoever she
was, they one night, whilst Byiud and the captain
were asleep in their berths, seized them aud ef
fectually secured them with hand-cuffs. Julia
was now free trom the insults and importunities
of her persecutor. The vessel was heavy laden,
and had been regularly cleared at the custom house
for a commercial cit y in South America. The mate
now took the command, and in the course of two
weeks they arrived at the port of destination. The
matter was immediately disclosed to the consul,
who luckily proved to be one of Julia's near re
lations-—However, at her earnest request there
was no publicity made of it; the captain and Bv
ard were set at liberty, the sailors rewarded, and
the affair hushed. Julia remained with the con
sul till his recall, when she returned with him and
his family tv the United States, and arrived at Phil
adelphia just at the time ot the occurrence in
which Garcia was killed. Mr. West was danger
ously sick, and her desire to he w ith him was so
intense, that her relatives consented, and with the
prompt assistance of old Margaret, it was so ar
ranged that she should enter the establishment uo
dei the character aud disguise of a seamstress.
As lor the wretch, Byard, he was now no more.
He lav in prison for several
tor awhile and apparently unconcerned, hut as the
time ol iris trial drew nigh he became distressed,
and evidently dreaded it very much ; the nrnht
preceding the day on which it was to commence
he committed suicide. The keeper on entering
his cell the next morning, found him a corpse.
He had inflicted two wounds upon himself, one
in the arm, the other in the throat, and bled to
death.
Tt is estimated that the printing business in the
United States gives employment to two hundred
thousand operatives, and thirty millions of capita).
The Great Western was to start from England
on her second voyage 2 -th May, and is expected
to arrive at New-York on the 10th inst.
tiu: ummuiA Miimoii
Front the Vicksburg Register.
rhe following article, cut from some paper,
was lett on our desk during our absence.
CALL TO-MORROW.
Two AVords nicely put together for the accom
modation of debtors at large; or, if the reader
likes it better, large debtors. Alas! that glorious
morrow which sever comes! that pay day still
hoped for but never known ! Master button calls,
bv request, w ith his bill as long as his yard-slick,
with lm name flourished at the bottom, immedi
ately under, -received payment,’ and directly op
posite, ‘errors excepted ; ’ for tailors never allow a
discount for cabbaging. His heart is bounding
w ith the blissful anticipation of‘money in both
pockets ; already he pictures a good tat dinner at
home—his cheerful fireside : his wife’s smiles,
and his prattling children’s welcome. ‘Staff, the
constable, shall be paid,’ says he to himself, ‘lor
lam tired of telling him to call to-morrow.’ At
length he reaches the dwelling of liis liberal pat
ron, the knocker falls thrice from his hand ; and
then comes a livered waiter—iie presents liis bill:
then follow s a doleful shake of the head by the
waiter, with the astounding, ‘cal! to-morrow.’
Poor fellow! with a hard effort lie smothers his
indignation, for one hasty word might lose him a
liberal patron.
Again he seeks his shop, and mounts his board
with a heart as hot and as heavy as his goose.
His journeymen come Cos him for their wages
‘callCo-morrow,’ he exclaims bitterly; ‘call to
morrow,’ re-echo they into the ears of their cred
itors—and ‘call to-morrow, first coming from a
gentleman of the upper walks, never stops untill
it rolls gracclessly from the mouth of the boot
black's landlady, who, in answer to his request for
dinner, shrieks out, ‘call to-morrow.!’
Could we tell all the evils that attend poverty,
to ‘cal! Jto-moirow,’ there might be some hope of
a man’s struggling through the world; hut that is
impossible. I once had a friend who was unfor
tunate enough to make all lus customers his debt
ors. in winding up his business, he sent his bills
in, but w as repulsed w ith the deadly battery, ‘call
to-morrow. ’ That morrow never came—his fam
ily were destitute, his wife died brokeu hearted ;
and within the damp walls of a prison, he soon
followed the beloved partner of his prosperity and
adversity. In vain he bade death ‘cal! to morrow:’
the fell destroyer pays one visit: and it is his last.
Mr. Editor, if any one should ask you, if t*us
communication has a direct allusion, tell him to
‘call to-morrow,* aud you will answer h»m.
Benedict.
New York, .Tune 4.
STEAMBOAT SIR ROBERT PEEL.
Correspondence of the Commercial Advertiser.
Bkockvu.ee, May 30,1338.
Gentlemen—The Sir 11. Peel was burned bv
an armed force from your side. 1 send you the
captain’s deposition. No time to say more.
I I‘l‘er Canada —Kingston, s. s.
John B. Armstrong, now of Rroekville, in the
district of Johnstown aforesaid, gentleman, maketh
oath and saith that he was master ofthe steamboat
“Sir Kobeit I eel, plying this season between
Prescott and Niagara, and Lewiston. That he
left Prescott on the trip upward, with the said
boat, on the evening ofTuesday, the twenty-ninth
day ol May inst. with a considerable number of
cabin and deck passengers. That the boat arrived
at an island called Well's Island, where the said
boat usually stopped to take in wood on her upward
trip about l 2o clock at night, and stopped at a wharf
on the south side of the said island, for the purpose
of taking wood, as usual. That about 2 o clock in
the morning, when they had nearly finished taking
iu the wood required, this deponent was in the
gentlemen’s cabin below, and was alarmed by a
great noise and shrieking on deck, and upon going
on deck this deponent found that the boat had
been suddenly attacked by a large number of arm
ed men, who were in possession of her.
1 liis deponent was seized by several armed men
and forced on shore, and he saw many of the pas
sengers and men of the boat on shore, who had
been driven oll'theboat by the armed force attack
ing her. The boat was then cast off from the wharf,
and this deponent learlul that it was the intention
of those seizing the vessel to arm and man her,
with a view of attacking some place in the prov
ince, directly after she w as cast off from the w harf,
left the place, and procured a row boat to bring
him to the' Canada shore, in order to send an ex
press to Kingston with the information. This
deponent, while proceeding to procure a boat to
bring him to the C anadu shore, aud about twenty
minutes alter the steamboat had been cast off from
the wharf, saw that the said steamboat had been
set on lire, and was burning furiously, and this
deponent lias no doubt but that she w as completely
destroyed, although coming off from the Island,
fertile purpose of sending to Kingston as aforesaid,
he lost sight of the vessel before she was utterly
consumed.
This deponent thinks the men -attacking the
steamboat numbered from fifty to seventy men,
but it is impossible for him to speak as to their
number with certainty; and they were armed with
pikes, muskets and bayonets, and had boats with
them, iu w hich they left the vessel after setting her
on tire ; and this "deponent firmly believes that the
said steamboat was attacked and destroyed by
persons who had come from the American or
southern shore of the St. Lawrence. The depo
nent cannot say whether any lives were lost of
those on board the said steamboat, but the said
steamboat, and the persons on board of her, were
totally unarmed, and could not and did not offer
any resistance, not at all expecting any attack to
be made upon them
From the Osuego Palladium, Extra, May 10.
By the politeness of Colonel Daniel Griffin,
we have been furnished with the following state
ment of tlie disgraceful burning of the British
steamboat Sit Robert Reel, by an armed mob,
while lying in American waters. The statement
ot Mr. Cossait, who was a passenger on board
the ill fated vessel, is abudantly confirmed, and
may be implicitly relied upon.
Steamer Great Britain Oswego, May 30, 1838.
[t being requested that I should make a state
ment ot the unfortunate burning, of the steamer
.Sir Robert Peel 1 have to say that l was a passen
ger on board flic said vessel on my passage up
the St. Laurence from Prescott; and at about
bait past one o'liock this morning, while we were
lying at Wells’ Island 7 miles below French Creek,
we were boarded by a baud of unknown men,
dressed in disguise and with painted faces, to the
number of twenty-five or thirty, armed with guns,
bayonets and pikes.
All the female passengers were driven ashore
hall dressed, and the gentlemen’s cabin door being
closed we were all ordered to surrender
and on doing which we were all allowed to come
on deck and were all sent on shore at the point of
the bayonet, many of us with but a small portion of j
our clothes upon us. We were told that none of
ussnould be molested if no resistance was made.
A tew of us succeeded in taking a little of our bag
gage along with us. On the yessel befog cleared
ot all the passengers she was set ou fire and burned
to the water’sedge. Unfortunately, one man, (Ist
mate,) who was asleep at time of the assault, was
much burnt, but jumped overboard and was picked
up by our own boat. We were somewhat roughly
used. One of the men, who seemed to have some
authority over the rest, made use of the followiag
expression, “Gentlemen, remember the Caroline.”
~ “ en tlie v,, ssel was completely on fire, the
said lu.ifians took to their boats, three in number,
ami rowed toward the American shore, and w e saw
or heard nothing more of them.
At daylight, or there about, we were taken off
the ls.and by Capt. Smith, of the steamer One
ida, who kindly returned with us to Kingston.
WM. COSSART.
of the Island of Madeira.
To he heard of at Messrs. Maitland, Kennedy
& Co.’s, New York.
State of New A ork, Oswego co. ss—William
Cossart, being duly sworn, doth depose and say,
that the facts above related, in relation to the
burning ol the Sir Robert Peel, are just and true
according to the best of liis recollection aud be
lief.
WM. COSSART.
Sworn and subscribed this 30th day of May,
1838, before me. JOHN II LORD, J. P. *
Arrest of Pirates. —We learn froma gentleman,
direct from Oswego, that ten of the pirates who
burned the steamboat Sir Robert Peel, have been
arrested. One of the number is an American, the
others from Canada. It was reported that some of
the property ot which ilic boat w.„, plundered was
found in possession of the men.— Albany Evening
Journal.
Bhe Watertown Jeffersonian says that three are
in jail in that village. Os those arrested are Na
than Lee, of Clayton, in Jefferson county : Bates,
Hugh Scanlan and two brothers, Warner—all Ca
nadians except Lee,
The officers of justice are on the alert, and but
little doubt remains that the plot will be fully ex
posed, and the offenders brought to merited pun
ishment.
>B, rCP A ? '•P.’T. 1 1. vp ~x
Prom the National Intelligencer, of Mail 31.
the specie circular repealed.
Our readers will learn, we do übt not, most of
them with great satisfaction, the Joint Resolution
repealing, in effect, the Treasury Order of July,
1836, and prohibiting the Executive from making
any discriminating and partial orders concerning
Government money iu time to come, which passed
the Senate on Tuesday evening, passed the House
of Representatives yesterday almost with the
svvftuess of an arrow, and now needs only the Pres
ident’s signiturc to be a law. The unexampled
majorities in both Houses show the strength of the
general dislike justly entertained against this cel
ebrated Circular.
Here is the end, then, of one Experiment, aud
most sincerely do we rejoice at it. We eon u at
ulute tlie couutry that Congress,in so decisive a
manner, has extinguished one of those measures
w hieh have so much annoyed and distressed the
community.
It is remarkable with what pertinacity the Exe
cutive has withstood public sentiment* in regard
to this pernicious measure. The solicitations of
friends, and the reiterated decisions of Congress,
have alike been unavailing to produce its repeal.
Throe fourths of the Members of the last Con
gress pronounced its condemnation bv the bill of
February, 1837, which General Jackson put in
liis pocket, and would neither sign, nor return to
Congress that i might be passed into a law with
out liis signature. Then there was the sub-Treas
ury bill of th o extra session which passed the .Sen
ate, and which contained a clause repealing the
Specie Circular, Next, there is the sub-Treas
ury bill of this session, w hich has aiso passed the
Senate, containing (in its 23d section ) a similar
rescinding clause, moved by Mr. Webster. And,
now, here is the joint resolution, in the identical
terms of that section, substituted by the Senate,
on motion of the same gentleman, for the propo
sition of Mr. Clay, which has received the salic
iton of overwhelming majorities in both Houses.
Thus has the So nixie four different times and the
House of Representatives twice, declared n effect
that this Jacksonian Experiment No. 2 ought not
only to he revoked, but that it ought to be & made
unlawful lor tlie Executive ever hereafter to issue
or authorize any sitnular order. Yet, up to this
moment, has the Executive rlong to the measure,
regardless of the injury which even his partisans
avow that it inflicts on the country; regardless
of the public will, most emphatically spoken
through the Representatives ofthe People. Yes,
clung to it with a tenacity which is totally unac
countable upon any other hypothesis than that the
Executive will has been controlled by some “ma
lign influence,” either proceeding from the Her
mitage or exerted here by the original coneoc
ters and advisors of the measure. Be that as it
may, the fate of that “experiment” is sealed. The
odious and unconstitutional discrimination must
now be given up. Congress has pronounced its
fate in a voice that must be heard, and with au
nanimity that leaves no hope to its friends, even
from tlie Vela,
Blamenble, however, as we hold tlie President
for adhering with such obstinacy to this oppressive
measure, which he could at any moment have
abrogated with a dash ofthe pen, it must yet be
admitted iu candor, that he has only acted in ac
cordance with the solemn pledge which lie <rave,
on entering on liis high trust, “to triad its the
footsteps of his illustrious predecessor,” and those
who approve of such pledges, under any circum
stances, must award him praise for the fidelity
with w hich he has redeemed that pledge. He
has certainly “trod in the footsteps” as long as he
could, though they have led him through a
thorny path. General Jackson’s popularity,
it was arrogantly asserted by his adulators “could
stand any thing.” A sad popularity, it has been
to the country ! Fortunately, though he left his
obnoxious measures as a legacy to the incumbent
of the I residency, he could not bequeath with it
Unit popularity by wl ichhe was enabled to sustain
them, and trample in the dust the acts ofthe Peo
ple’s Representatives.
Prom the same of the 2 d instant.
ANEW TREASURY CIRCULAR.
A Circular was yesterday issued from the Treas
ury Department, addressed to all Collectors and
receivers of Public Money, founded upon the
joint resolution repealing the Specie Circular
whic h recmverl the approbation of tlie President
ofthe I ruled States on the day after its final pas
sage at the Capitol. 1
The Circular instructs these officers to receive
the notes of banks in all branches of the public
revenue, under the following restrictions.
1. None are to be received but such as are
payable and paid on demand, in the legal curie,
cy of tin# United States ”
2. No notes to be received of a less denomina
tion thau twenty dollars.
3. No notes to be received of any denomination
unless “payable, on demand, in gold or silver coin*
at the place where issued and “equivalent to spe
cie where received.”
4. No notes be received of any bank which
since the 4th of July, 1836, has issued “any rote’
or bill ot a less denomination than five dollars.”
The provision ofthe act of June, 1836, relered
to in this hist restriction, the reader will recollect
has been made the subject of special consideration
in the Senate, upon the.motion of Mr. Webster
directing the Finance Committee of that body
“to inquire into the expediency of repealing or
modifying those (irovisions ofthe said act which
prohibit the receipt, in payment of debts and due s
to the United States, of the bills of all banks which
issue bills of less denomination than five dollars.”
THE SUB-TREASURY SCHEME.
A sudden panic has seized the editor of the
Richmond Enquirer ou tlie subject of the Sub-
Treasury bill, lie is astonished to learn, bv his
private lett*,-.- from Washington, that there is now
a probability tiiat the hill will pass the House of
Representatives. The Public lias, he says, been
lulled into a lalse security as to the fate of this
measure: it was thought that the public voice Lad
consigned it to the sleep of death, when ail at
miev it is IwimiJ to be roujiiig ltseu iv. np .
possible triumph i s>n<l
i,at f!u ‘ probabilities arc in regard to tlie Sub-
Treasury bill we are ourselves unable to sav.
We perceive, how ever, that the sagacious and
generally well-infunued Washington correspon
dent of the New \oi k Courier expresses the o
pinion that there is a majority of the House a
gafosttheb.il; but a majority so small that it is
believed every member must be at his post to en
sure its defeat. If tins be fact as well as opinion,
it devolves a high responsibility on every individ
ual member of tin: House of Representatives, and
tiie country will “expect every man to do his du
ty.”—ib.
A SOUTHERN BANK
A correspondent ofthe Richmond (Va) En
quirer suggests tiie incorporation of a Common
Bank, with a capital of 40 millions, by the South
ern States. r i he following are the outlines of the
project 4
Iliiits on a &outlfeni Buik of America.
I o lice tlie South from Abolition influence
and the oppressions ot Northern commerce, let
the Legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana
and Mississippi pass a joint charter for a South
ern Lank ol America. The capital to be about
forty millions, and divided in someth'ug like the
following pro pi Minus: V irginia six milfoils, North
Carolina two, South Carolina seven, Georgia five,
Alabama five, Louisiana and Mississippi five!
Each of these States to have one or two branches
but the mother or principle Board to be at Charles
ton, South Carolina, as the most central point;
aud each State to have a Representative in that
Board. Each State to hold three fourths ofthe
amount of capital held in and assigned to it; and
appoint a proper proportion ofthe Directions.
Let the States issue scrip bearing six per cent in
terest for one sou it i the amount of capital assigned
them send, and sell that to Europe or elsewhere,
bit specie. 1 liis would produce ten millions.
Require individual subscribers to pay specie or
good current bank notes, which would produce
ten millions more, and would be mainly bank
notes, making twenty millions to commence with,
I he .States would owe to the Bank twenty mil
lions more, for which they shun id issue scrip
file the same with the branches respectively
in the .States issuing it, subject to it sale at any
time to tuise specie to prevent a suspension of
specie payments, tint not to carry interest until
actually sold. Neither the whole corporation,
nor any branch, to discount more than twice the
amount of its capital stock, nor to circulate any
note of less oe- oi f.c ition than ten dollars. Fail
reports to be estabhshed.every quarter of tire year
of the business r.f each branch, and annual reports
to be laid before the Legislatures w ithin -which
toe branches shall he respectively located with full
right of starch and examination by the Legisla
tures.’*
trom the corns/ ond/ me rs the Mvrntry.
"WASHINGTON, June 1,1838.
An altercation and a Jighl took place to-day in
the House,between Messrs. Bell and Turney,
both of I er.nessee. The House, at an early hour,
resolved itself in a ■Committee ofthe Whole, (Mr.
Howard in the Chair,) upon the bill making ap
propriations for the prevention nnd sufrpression,
of Indian hostilties—Mr. Bell’s amendment still
pending.
i he debate has been suffered by tire Chair, for
some days, to fasten upon m; nv irritating and
vexed personal and political questions, and anions
others to embrace tlie very ferocious politics of
the State of r l earocssfc Mr. Turner, who had the
boor last night, at the adjournment, resumed bis
remarks, and, continued his attack upon Mr. John
Leh, bringing up various charges against that in
dividual. Mr. Bell replied, and declared his col
league to be the scavenger of his (Mr- Bell’s,)
personal and party e pponents; an instrument,
employed here to defame him, by those who were
too cowardly to do it themselves ; a tool, and the
tool of tools. Mr. Turney, who sat next in front
ot Mr. Bell, rose, and turning to him said, “that
is false, basely false." Mr. Bell instantly struck
him, and Mr. Turney returned the blow. Many
members immediately interfered ; but about half
a dozen blows were interchanged, though with
out the slightest injury to either party. The
Speaker meanwhile resumed the Chair, and called
upon the Sergeant-at-Arms to preserve order;
but order was already restored though much
gitation prevailed. Mr. Mercer offered a resolu
tion requiring the members concerned in this unu
sual assault to pledge themselves not to prosecute
the matter out of the House. Mr. Bell remarked
that the occurrence was the result of a momentary
impulse of feolii g, which had now passed by,
and there was no doubt that, without any inter
ference of the House, the parties would settle the
question amicably between themselves. A Iter
some debate tliis resolution was laid on the table;
and Mr. Pennybaeker offered a resolution requi
ring the parties to apologize to the House,-— 3
motion to lay this on the table was lost—yeas,2l,
nays 135. Mr. Bell tlienroseand tendered avob
untary apology to the House, adding, that as to
the cause of this breach of order he would not
make a single remark. Mr. Turney then rose,
and said, in w hat lie had done he intended novio*