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THE CLOCKMAKER. [Sec ond Series, j Ih.c Ctcokmaktr. or, th» Sayings and. Doings oj Samuel Slick of Slickville. The present tour is presumed to be from W ind sor to Shelburne, ami so along the coast to Hali fax ; and during its continuance the Clockmaker is made to make good use ot the time in com municating his pertinent and dry remarks to his fellow traveller, on the voluntary system, elective councils, slavery, smuggling, CanUda, shampoou iug the English, and twenty other matters of no small interest, which though often treated jocu larly, are'always treated significantly aud ably. The chapter on the voluntary system is capital ly illustrated Iby the opposed characters and practices of a hypocritical spouter and a truly re ligious pastor ; and Slick shines in all his glory as a sketcher of the first, who happens ffi be an old schoolfellow of his, whom he finds most comfort ably and luxuriously “located” in one ol the new cities lately built in Alabama. He prefaces the sto ry of his visit with an axiom of general applica tion. “Whoever has the women is sure of the men, you may depend, squire ; openly or secretly, di recly or indirectly, they do contrive, somehow or another, to have their own way in the end, and, tlio’ the men have the reins, the women tell’em which way to drive. Now, if ever you go for to canvass for votes, always canvass the wives, and you are sure of the husbands.” Having inttoduced himself to Ahab MoMrum’s richly furnished and beautiful house the follow ing narrative describes the rest: — “1 was most darnted to sit down on the chairs, they were so splendid, for fear I should spile ’em, there was mirrors and vases, and lamps, and pic tures, and crinken crankums and notions of all sorts and sizes in it. It looked like a bazar a’ most,, it was fill’d with sncli an everlasting’ sight of curiosities. The loom was considerable dark, too for the blinds was shot, and I was skar’d to move for fear w’doin’ mischief. Presently in comes Ahab, slowly sailin’ in, like a boat droji pin’ down stream to a calm, with a pair o’ purple slippers on, and a figured silk dressin’ gound, and carrying a’most beautiful-bound book in his hand. May I presume, says he, to inquire who 1 have the ouexpected pleasure ol seeing this momin ? If you’ll gist throw open one o’ them are shutters, says 1,1 guess the light will save us the trouble of a\in, names. 1 know who you be by your voice any how, tho’ its considerable softer than it was ten years ago. I’m Sam Slick, says I—what’s left o’me at least. Verily, said he, friend Sam uel >’m glad to see you, and how did you leave that excellent mail aud distinguished scholar, the Rev. Mr. Hopewell, and my good friend your fa ther?—fs the old gentleman still alive? If so. he must auow be ripe full of years as he is full of honours. Your mother, I think I heer’d, was dead-—gathered to her fathers—peace be with her! She had a good and a kind heart. I loved her as a child: hut the Lord taketh whom he loveth. Ahab, says I, I have but a few 1 minutes to stay with you, and if you think to draw the wool over my eyes, if might perhaps teke you a longer time than you are athinking on, or than 1 have to spare:—. there are some friends yeu’ve forgot to inquire af ter tho’—there’s Pol’y Bacon and her little boy. Spare me, Samuel, spare me, my friend, says he, open not that wound afresh, 1 beseech thee. W ell, nitys I none o’your none sense then; shew ine then into a room where I can spit, and feel to home, and put my feet upon the chairs w ithout adama gin’ things, and I II sit and smoke and chat with you a f'«* minutes ; in fact I don’t care if 1 stop and breakfast with you, for I feel kinder peckish tiiis momin’. Sam, says he, atakin hold of my liir.J you were always right up and down, and as i. •rai a shingle in your dealing’s—l can trust u, I know, but mind, —and he put his lingers on i: ps —-n ini is the word :by gones are by goncs vo;; wouldn’t blew an old chum among his Is. would you ? I scorn a nasty, dirty, mean :.:ti a, rays 1, as Ido a nigger. Come, fuller me, ri.tr, s.tys he, and he led me into a hack room, ~v.h an oncarpeted painted floor, furnished plain, i . Diiie shelves in it, with books, and pipes, anti ; cigars, pig-tail, and what not. Here’s liber • -hail, said lie, chew, smoke or spit as you please; io as you like here: we’ll throw oft" all reverse v; but mind that cursed nigger; he lias a foot .;c a cat and an ear for every keyhole—don’t talk too loud. Well, Sam, said he, I’m glad to see you too, my boy, it puts me in mind, of old times. Many’s the lark you and I have had to gether in Slickville, when old bunks—(it made mes! art, that lie meant Mr. Hopewell, and it made me feel kinder dandry at him, for I wouldn't let my one speak disrespectful of him afore me for othin’, 1 know,) —when old hunks thought we ias abed. Them was happy days—the days o’ light heels and hearts. I often think on ,em, and iiiink on ’em too with pleasure. Well, Ahab, •"tvs I, I don,t gist altogether as I do; there are some things we might gist as well a,most have left •'•one, I reckon; but what’s done is done, that’s a iact. Ahem! said he, so loud, 1 looked round m»l I seed two niggers bringin’ in the breakfast, and a grand one it was—tea and coffee, and Ind ffiau corn, and cakes and hot bread, and cold bread, fish, fowl, and flesh, roased boiled, and fried ; pre sarves, pickles, fruits; iu short, every thing a’ most you could think on. You needn't wait, said Ahab, to the blacks ! I'll ring for you when 1 want you, we'll help ourselves. Well, wheu I looked round and seed this crittei nlivin’ this way, on the fit o, the land, up to his knees in clover like, it did pose me considerable to know how he worked it so cleverly, for he was thought always, as, a boy, to be rather more than half onder baked, consider able soft like. So, says I, Ahab says I, I calcu late you’re like the cat we used to throw out of the minister's garret, window, when we was a boardiu* there to school. How so, Sam? Said he. Why says I, you always seem to come on your feet somehow or another. You have got a plaguy nice thing of it here ; that’s a fact and no mistake (the critter had-three thousand dollars a year:) how on airth did you manage it! I wish iu my heart I had ataken up the Lade o’preachin’ too; when it does hit it does capitally,that,s sar tin. Why says he, if you'll promise not to let on to any one about it, I’ll tell you. I’ll keep dark about it, you may depend, said I. I’m not a man that can’t keep nothin’ in my gizzard, but go right off and blart out all I hear. I know a thing worth two of that 1 guess. Well, says he, it’s done by a new rule I made in grammar—the feminine gen der is mere worthy than the neuter, and the neu ter more worthy than the masculine: I gist soft sawder the woman. It ’taint every man will let you tickl" him ; and if you do, he’ll make faces at y in enough to frighten you into fits; but tickle Lis wife, and it’s electrical—he’ll laugh like any thing. The) arc tho forred wheels, start them aud, the hi ud ones toiler of course. Now it’s jnajtly women that tend mectin’ here; the men iuks have t heir politics and trade to talk over, aud what not, and aiu’t time; but the ladies go con- 1 sulcrahle rigular, and w e have to depend on them, the dear critters. I gist lay Hffself out to get the blind side of them, and I sugar and gild the pill so as t 0 make it pretty to look at and easy to 9wallar. Last Lord’s day, for instance, I preached on the death of the widder’s son. Well, 1 drew such a pictur°? the l o ne watch at the sick bed, the pa tience, the kindness, the tenderness of woman’s hearts, their forgiving dispositions—(the Lord for give me f° r saying so, tho’, for if there is a crea ted criftef that never forgives it’s women; they seem to forgive a wound on their pride, and it skins over and looks all heal’d up like, but touch ’em on the sore spot ag’in, and see how cute their memory is) —their sweet temper, soothers of grief, dispensers of joy, ministerin’ angels. T make all the virtues ofthe feminine gender always, then I wound up with a quotation from Walter Scott. Thev all like poetry, do the ladies ; aud Shakes peret Scott and Byron, are amazin’ favorites ; they go down much better than old fashioned staves o’ Watts. “Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, cov, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.” If I didn’t touch it off to the tunes it’s a pity. I ■ never heerd you preach so well, says oue, since you was located here. I drew it from natur’says I, a sqeezin of her hand. Nor never so touchin’, savs another. You know my moddle, says I, lookin’ spooney on her. I fairly shed tears, said a third : how ofteu have you drawn them from me ? Says t. So true says they, and so nateral, and ua tur’ is what w e call eloquence. I feel quite proud, savs I, and considerable elated mv admired sisters .for who can judge so well as the ladies ofthe truth of the description of their own virtues? I must say I felt somehow kinder, inadequate to the . task too,' I said- -for the depth and strength and beauty of the female heart passes all umierstand- When I left ’em I heard ’em say, ain’t he a dear man, a feelin’ man, a sweet critter, a’most a splendid preacher; none o’your mere moral lec tures, but areal right down genuine gospel preach er. Next day I received to the tune of one hun dred dollars in cash, and fifty dollars produce, presents from one and another. The truth is, if a minister wautsto be popular, he should remain sin gle for then the galls all have a chance for him; the moment he marries he’s up a tree, his flint is fixed then : you tnay depend its gone goose with him arter that; that’s a fact. No Sam they aie the pillows ofthe temple, the dear little criters. And I’ll give you a wrinkle for your horn, per haps you ain't ger yet, and it may be pome use to you when you go down a tradin’ with the benighted colonists in the outlandish British provinces. The road to the head lies through the heart. Pocket, you mean, instead of head, 1 guess said I; if you dont travel that road full chisel it’s a pity. Well 6ays I, Ahab, when I go to Slickville I’ll gist, tell Mr. Hope well wliat a most a precious, superfine, superior darn’d rascal you have turned out; if you ain’t No. 1, letter A. 1 want to know who is, that’s all. You do best all, Sam, said he; it’s the system that’s vicious, and not the preacher. If I didn’t give ’em the soft Sawder they would tieilher pay me nor hear me ; that’s a fact. Are yon so soft in the horn now, Sam, as to suppose the galls would take the trouble to come to hear me tell ’em of their corrupt natur’ anil fallen condition ; and first thank me and then pay uie for it ?—Very en tertainin' that’ to tell ’em the worms will fatten on their pretty little rosy cheeks, and that their sweet plump flesh is nothin' but grass, flourishin’ to-dav and to be cut down, withered and rotten to mor row, ain’t it! It ain’t in the natur o’ things, if I put them out o’ conceit o’ themselves, l eant put them in conceit of trie ;-or that they will come down handsome, and do the thing genteel, its gist onpossible. It warn’t me made the system, but the system made me. The voluntary don’t work well. System or no system, said I, Ahab you are Ahab still, and Ahab you'll be to the eend of the chapter. You may deceive the women by •the soft sawder, and yourself by talkin’ about sys tems, but yen won’t walk into me so easy, I know, t ain’t pretty at all. Now, said I, Ahab I told you 1 wouldn’t blow you, nor will I. I will nei ther speak «f things past nor things present. I know you wouldn’t Sam, sa>d he : you were id ways a good feller. But it’s on one condition, says I, and that is, that you allow Polly Bacon a hundred dollars a year ; she was a good gall and a decent gall when you know’d her, and sire’s tr. great distress* now to Slirksville, I tell you. That’s unfair, that’s otikind Sam, said he. that’s not the clean thing ; I cant afford it; it’s a breach o’ confidence this; but you got me on the lrip, and I can’t help myself, say fifty dollars,and I will. Done, says I, and mind yottr’e up to the notch, for I’m in airnest —there’s no mistake. Depend up on me, said he. And, Sam, said he a shakin’ hands along with me at partin’, excuse me ntv good feller, but I hope I may never have the pleasure to see your face agin’. Ditto, says I, but mind the fifty dollars a year, or you will see me to a surtinty —goodb’ye.” London A up. 15. THE AMERRICAN MINISTER AND MR. O’CONNELL. 23. Portland place Aug. 9. Sir : My attention has beeu called to the publi cation, in the last Spectator, of a speech which purports to have been delivered by you at a pub lic meeting in Birmingham, in which yon are re ported to have used the following langugc in re lation to myself. •1 believe their very ambassador here is a slave breeder, one of those beings who rear up slaves for the purpose of traffic. Is it possible that America would send here a mau who traffics in blood, and who is a disgrace to human nature?’ 1 desire to know from you whether this is a cor rect report of what you said on that occasion, and with that view address to you this communication. I am, sir, Very Respectfully, Your obedient servant, A. STEVENSON. To Daniel O’Connell, Esq. fee. 16 Patl Mall, Aug. 10 Sir. In consequence ofyour letter of yesterday’s date, I examined the report of iriv -speech at Bir mingham, in rhe Spectator of the 4th inst. and have no hesitation iu saying, that the paragraph you have selected is not a correct report of what I said on that occasion. The very next sentence, does, to iny mind, show that the report could not be correct, and hav ing examined another report since, as well as from distinct recollection, I repeat, that tho report is not correct. 1 have the heiwr to be, sir. THE GEORGIA MIRROR. Your very eb’t servant. ' DANIEL O’CONN EL. To A. Stevenson. Esq. 23. Portland Place , Aug. 11. Sir: Ihavethelionorto acknowledge the receipt \ if your note of last evening, in answer to the one | from myself ofthe preceding day. Presuming that you intended your reply as a disavowal ofthe offensive expressions contained in that part of vour* reported speech which had allusion to myself, and to which your attention was called. 1 am satisfied with the answer you have given. As an incorrect report of your speech has been male public through the press, 1 beg to inform you that 1 deem it due to myself, that the corres pondence which has taken place should also be pub lished. I ant, Sir, Very Respectfully, Your obedient servant, A- STEVENSON. To Daniel O’Connell, Esq. fie. From the Richmond Enquirer. MR. STEVENSON AND MR. O’CONNELL. Long’s Hotel, London, Aug. 15, 1838. Dear Sir—Knowing the deep interest which you foe I in every thing which coueerns the American Minister, f hasten to enclose you by the packet ofto-morrow from Liverpool, his correspondence with Mr. O’Connell. You will of course have seen the reported bru tal outrage, which this Irish Caliban made of both our country and Mr. Stevenson on tiie first of August at Birmingham , w here the abolition of the negro apprenticeship in the Britsh West In dies was celebrated with very extraordinary mani festations of blackguardism aud abuse. The moment Mr. Stevenson read Mr. O’Con nell’s speech, he hastened to my lodgings, and requested ine to convey such a message to Mr. O’Conell, as should leave no doubt of its import.™ As I was perfectly aware, if he placed himself : n the hands of this patriot, (who is as false to his friends, as he is mean and treacherous to his ene mies.) some unfair advantage would be taken, and that if Mr. S. and myself were not lianded o ver to the police, a message would only irritate a fresh cataract of Billingsgate from the most co pious fountain of low vituperation any where to be found in her Majesty's dominions—-in this stage of the preceding, I was so fortunate as to have the councils of that gallant and inteligent officer of our Navy, Capt. Mathew C. Perry, and Dr. M’Cauley of Maryland, a gentleman who is also so highly esteemed and so advantageously known by us all at home, who both liappeued ac cidentally to be in Loudon. These gentlemen suggested to me from a much better knowledge of Mr. O’Connell’s character than I possessed myself, that he ought to be approached iu the form of an enquiry, tn the first instance, whether the report of Iris speech was correct—and if he avowed it, that then I should wait upon him with an open letter, to ask whether lie held himself tesponsible, according to thsense in which such responsibility, is acknowledgeed for an ‘outrage unprovoked and monstrous upon the feelings of a gentleman bearing so high and distinguished a personal and official relation to his own Government, as the Minister of the U. 8. If he did avow such a responsibility, at once to ten der him a peremptory challenge, w ithout an “if” or "but” in the whole context, in strict conformi ty to the instructions of my principal. As Mr. O’Connell, however, had publicly a vowed, from the fact of his once having accident ally killed lus man,(free doubtless of even the crime of homicide, as I question from his valor, wheth er he ever took sight at his opponent.) that he will not fight, whilst he claims a special immunity and impunity to abuse any man not only in the United Kingdom, but in the whole world; 1 was satisfied that no satisfaction could have been ob tained, even by shis course. I therefore readily consented to apian which enabled Mr. O-C. to lie himself out of the difficulty—-which -he had successfully accomplished at an expense winch, considering the small amount of character which, the Rant Mastor of Ireland has left, he could ill afford. That Mr. O’Connell not only used the language reported and attributed to him in the London Sun and Spectator, but was more offensive, there can be uo doubt. I shall not leave England without going to Bir mingham, investigating the facts and fixing the lie upon his brass in indelible characters. Indeed it is said that he made, likewise, in bis Speech, an outrageous attack upon the character ofthe great parent ofottr country—a man the pu rity ofwliose memory is outraged by tba very ap proach es such ’a vulgar miscreant as O'Connell unquestionably ie. Many very worthy persons in our own country, who are ever very sensitive on a!i '•ubjects con nected with a delicate sense of Conor, may share with the universal sentiment of Eugland,that a man wlio, like O’Connell, has been voted by a large majority of the House ofComvnon, a public cal umniator, is benath the notice of a gentleman ; and I assure you, this opinion is beginning to obtain sncli general authority here t that no member of Parliament would any more think of calling the Great Begggar-man out, than the shabby mendi cant who stands at the door of St. Stephens, and begs “vour honor for a penny.” But, both Mr. Stevenson and myself, know what Virginia asks and expects of her sons. At least, that they should at all times show a willingness to resent any iudignity offered abroad to their country in their own person. lt tbe correspondence had taken a turn which would have rendered it necessary for me in person to have borne an essage to Mr. O’Connell for Mr. Stevenson, I had determined to have taken Capt. Perry with me as a witness; for O’Connell is. I am told, always surrounded by a goodly portion of his tail, in tl\e shape of ruffians, only inferior in bru tality to their great prototype- Witluyit provo king the slightest aggression on our feelings or persons, »ve should nevertheless have ocen pre pared to have met it. We should have endeav ored in this contingency to have made ourselves as ugly customers ns possible to the immaculate patriot and his disciples—-which we would have had some claim, to both Capt. Perry and myself have, in avoidupois, a!:on» as much Irish blood in otr veins as the august Milesian himself. If. however, iu an Irish scrimmage. I had acci dentally stopped iiis wind, I feel confident my es cape would been connived at by the English peo ple ; for I should lutve entitled myself by this act to their everlasting gratitude for expelling in self defence , one ofthe greatest pests, with which, in His inscrutable wisdom, the Almighty lias plea sed to indict on the British Empire—a man who, having extorted nnt money from the po 0 r deluded -paupers of his own country, is selling f or a large sized lump of Whig patronage in Ireland, the iu terests of a people he has dishonored and betrayed. 1 feel that 1 owe you au apology for using such abuse against this mau. But is not our country aud our couutr meu the theme of his perpetual, unceasing scandal, more foul and audacious than the civillised world has ever yet witnessed ? If Ishmaelstrikes, shall we notstrike too ? Chris tian charity itself would pardon a retaliation so pro voked aud so justifiable. 1 need not say that our friend has in this, under a 1 the circumstances ot the case acted in all res pects in a manner worthy ofthe old Commonwealth from which he came. Your obedient servant, J. HAMILTON, of S.C. Thos. Ritchie, Esq. From the Missouri Republican. WESTERN INDIANS. We publish below a copy of the letter of the Sec retary of War to Gen. Gaines, and a copy of a late despatch from Gen. Gaines to the Department, giving his reasons for not attending the council. The conduct of the Cherokees io this matter is somewhat singular, and their refusal to give any explanation of tueir intentions is at least, ground sufficient ,o justify the Government in keeping a vigilant eye upon their movements. That there is great heart-burnings and much discontent amongst than), we have the assurance of individ uals who have lately been with them. The move ment of Gen. Gaines will not be without its effect, to keeping them still, and suppressing any hostile intei tious they may have entertained. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDEDCF.. WAR DEPARTMENT, l Aug. 25th, 1838. Sir: — l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter ot the Bth inst., covering oue from Lt Col. Mason ol Uic Ist. Dragoons. The information communicated by that officer is calculated to rouse our vigilance, aud every effort ought to be made to ascerntain the motives and real object of these moments among the In dians. But upon mere rumor and conjecture, however plausible, the E>ecutive does not think itself authorized to adopt the measure you pro pose. Indeed the President has no longer the legal power to accept the services ol volunteer*, the law that conferred tt having expired on the Ist r f May last. The commissioners of Indian Affairs has been instructed to direct the Agents oi the United States to proceed to the council ground without delay, and to demand an explanation ol these movements among the bordering tribes; and you will be pleased to cause a sufficient escort ol dragoons to he furnished to accompany them. The regular force myour Division shall be aug mented as soon as practicable to do so; and the Department reposes on your vigilance to be in formed of all further hostile indications on the part of the Indians on that frontier. 1 have the honor to be, w ith great respect, sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) J. IL POINSETT. To Major General Gaines commanding Western Division U. S. Army, St. Louis, Mo. A true copy— J. C. Reid, Aid-de-camp. Head-Quarters, Western Division, j Steamboat Platte, near Boonvillc , V September 10th, 1838. ) Sir:— lliad the houor in the last month to notify your Excellency of the invitation given by the Cherokees to the Chiefs and principal Braves of the Indian Nations, inhabiting the country near our Western Frontier north of Red River (excep ting the Usages and Kansas,) to attend a great council to be balden about the 11th of the present month, at the Cherokee Council House on the w aters ot tne Arkansas. Having intimated to the War Department my intention to visit the council, 1 deemed it advisable first to ascertain whether the chiefs of the nations west of the State of Missouri w ould or would not attend. I have now the satisfaction to announce to your Excellency the fact that two of the most respec table of these nations—namely—the Delaw.ares and Shawuees, have positively refused to comply with the invitation of the Cherokees to attend the council; aud that these nations have assigned for their non-atteudance die-Very prudent reason that the Cherokees, in their invitation had failed to explain to the nations invited , the object of the in tended council. It was therefore interred by the Delawares aDd Shawuees that the nation calling the couucd, had some sinister motive in this art ful concealment, such as might give just cause of Qlfence to the United States. They had there fore manifestly determined not to '-attend “the great council.” Lt. Colonel Mason reports to me that he had not been able to ascertain whether the Chiefs or Braves of any of the nations west or north-west of the State of Missouri had consented to attend, but he was under the impression that most of them would follow the praiseworthy example of the Delawares and not attend the council. Such a determination would effectually prostrate any hos tile schemes which the Mexiean party of the Cherokees,may have had in view against our fron tier. Believing the conduct of tire sc friendly Indians on this occasion, will operate as a salutary rehuke upon the restless and intriguing part of the Cherokee nation, and their old friends, the faith less part of the Creeks and Semiuoles—a rebuke w ell calculated to restrain, eliection, their spirit of intrigue and hostility, m deeming the moral effect of such a rebuke coming from their red neigh bors, to be altogether better than if it had come from tne, or from any other officer of the Govern ment ; 1 have determined not to pay so much res pect to the “great council,” as to make it the visit which I had intended. . Brigadier General Arbuekle, the commanding General of the 2d Department of this Division of the Army, is stationed near the spot where the council is to be held; and having been Cot some year past on duty near the southern Indians, is well acquainted with the character of their chiefs, and will not lad to inform himself of their designs and j keep in check. I expect soon to re- \ port of their conduct in the great council, and ! should it contain any thing particularly interesting ; to the State ol Missouri, 1 will lose no time in sending you a copy. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant. (Signed) EDMUND P. GAINES, Maj. Gen. I . S. Army, < 'ommandin <r. A true copy— J. C. Reid, Aid-de-Camp. Men would live exceeding quiet, if fwo w ords mine and thine, twere taken away. Time \s the herald of truth.' From the Georgia Journal. We have a great deal of the proposed the Executive and monied power. Not lt b . f " 01 v°,ce, these ast.tute politician* mean a se„JJ 1 ' we understand the phrase. The action J n , h</li Jessica do not square with each other TbHif* 0 ’ idem possesses the Executive power, no one Tn deny. 1 hey propose to invest the P r T t H with the power to appoint men to at! the ,m winch they design to create, to receive and l the publ.c revenue. Ifhe can dismiss from offi* the man who can dismiss them from office i* control the revenue. The Secretary oftheT “ sury .s to be invested will, discretionary L,T' tty to increase the bonds required as L? h ° r ' the Collectors of the revenue The p nt - v can dismiss from office the Secretary of thT'P CDt sury. Gen. Jackson dismissed Mr n„o , a * cause he would not do an unconstitutionif Now let us a ,am.liar case. Our friJn i . neighbor, John Smith, has been an earn?, amJ decided adherent of the President, he j, an honest man, though a poor one. I„ quence of m„ t *om.cs, he receives the am on, meot o. oo..cctois ot the Customs fortheVort nf Savanna.., mm a bond is required of him t 0 ri, amount oi <w»,<>oo. lie executes the t 7 , tune it is discovered that an i, 1 llort made on the people in his vicinity ’j j? be ed by the Secretary (piivatr ly) to h, a ,' r T cular manner towards the men-hants fcJvini bus’ mess with him. To adinmwi,-..,.,. ' ° U! “ be indulgent and accommodating TANARUS, fori merchant, harsh and oppressive 1 1* PP ° B1 * «"•" »•••> -ho— hr "ceTr “SS'T'’'!' ““ ««l»rtiallv J an .. * 'Secretary ofthe Treasury scruples to en lorce the obedience ol this honest Collect.- r i- a told b, i,l,tt-Stste*- you will not do lt, retire and 1 « m / , 11 *'•» "ill ” K-rlwi,,:; sic" ! , Join. S.„i.h that his b „,„| Utoo , s-00 000 'liJur'T, fiive »'« «'• ' » S-00.000, and it he fads, must leave the office the office. gIVB 11,SeUOm,OUS securit .v, and leaves Now here i« a palpable case, where the President can control the officers who are to receive J keep the publ.c revenue ! and if,here be any truth til logic he must of course be able to control he public revenue itself. Then already possess. and o rr VP,,,,W[ ' r ’ , hCis enablc 'i to direct mshoit, all offices invested with ffinnev power' J T O l ,era tion the Van Buren party call a lhvorre ! a Separation ! ! a total Divorce ! / ' Do these impudent politicians suppose there are no Dictionaries to be had, that they thus attempt to swindle the country out of the 'meaning ofthe English language ? CONSEQUENCE OF “THE DIVORCE." From the Madisonian. The situation ofthe puhlid money at this time, scattered all over the U States by tie order of Mr. Secretaiy Woodbury , in defiance of the public Will and in Direct violation of a positive law of ron gress. Congress having five times rejected the Sub treasury scheme, which hail for its object (among other tilings) the keeping of the public money by Executive officers, appointed by and liable any moment to be dismissed by the President, nearly every body supposed, when Congress adjourned, that when the banks resumed specie payment, the deposite law of l83(i would compel the'Secretafy to revoke his circular, issued shortly alter the hanks suspended requiring the Receivers anil ( ol lector:; to keep the money and that it n-ould hr deposited in banks to the'credit .of the Treasury, as it had been previously. But what must be the astonishment of Congress when they meet? What must be the indignation of the People of the United States, when they hear that the public money is scattered over the country, in tin hands ot Receivers ami Collectors, and that t ot . single deposite bank has been selected nor is it in tended that one should be seUe-.-ted. W ho can tell what these .Receivers and Col lectors are doing with the public money W’lint to prevent them from doing it l What check has the Government over them under this beauti tul financial system of Mr. Secretary Woodbery '1 hey make their’own returns to the Treasury Department, and state what they please in them. How can the Secretary know that the money rep resented to be in their hands is actually there! i he banks under this system have made wo returns to it. If the Collectors deposit the money in bank they have it placed their to their own private cred it, and can check for it at any time for tlieir earn private purpose. Under the deposite law of 1836, the Collectors and Receivers were required to de posite the revenue they collected in the bank, every week, to the credit of the Treasurer ofthe United States and, of course, when thus deposited, it could not be touched by any one without the au thority of a Treasury draft. The banks were re quired to make regular returns every week of the deposites made by the Collectors and Receivers; and, by looking at these bank returns, the Secre tary could always detect any delinquency on the part ol the Collectors and lleceiveres. But hav ing separated Bank and State," (to use the un meaning slang of the day,) he lias separated l he public money from all sorts of safeguard over it. The Collectors can at any time use, the public money without the Government’s knowing any thiug about it; and, if it should be misapplied or embezzled, where is the security? The Collec tors at New York collect during the year, 12,000,- 000 dollars, and he gives security iu perhaps fifty or one hundred thousand dollars the penalty ot his bond ? The banks under the deposite law gave any se curity that was required besides the security ol government was perfectly secure and will not Use by them a single dollar, unles by one ol the Sec retnry's family banks at Boston. But this great invention of modern finance which is to immortalize its wise authors, — “the separa tion of Bank and State"—why what a perfect farce it is f Is it supposed that the People are to be eternally made the laipcs « (huntings, at:tl to be deceived by the sound of catch phrases ? The whole amount oftliis new discovery in »* nance, of “separating Bank and State cotisits-in depriving the Government of the means which the banks would afford it of detecting misappltra tion of the public money and the better security of its safekeeping. In every other particular the eoimexion is just as great as it ever was. Is td' 1 the revenue paid at this time in bank paper? ' s it not deposited in the bank by the Collectors 8t their own private credit, provided they dont On** proper to use it. And cannot the banks use it or bank upon it, (to use another modern phrase,) when thus deposited in the same way they did be fore, if it suits their interest to do au ? The rer»