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* ‘The price of Lihsrtv is eternal vigilance.”
From the Halifax Journal.
I urther Correspondonee between the Citi
zens of Bertie and Governor Branch. I
TWWaor,T4//t May. 1831.
Sir: The undersigned, citizens of the 2d
Congressional District, reposing entire con-.
fideacc in your talents and political experi
cnff£, arc solicitous that you should become a
candidate to represent this district in the next
Congress. We do believe that the present
state of parties renders .il_essentially impor
tant that we should be ably represented in that
body. The recent attack on the administra
tion by Mr. Tazewell, however correct the
principle for which lie contended, we are
constrained to believe mainly resulted from a
disposition on his part, to render odious the
then administration. We greatly deplore the
discord and disunion that have been produced
by the alleged intrigues of Mr. Van Buren,
and by the publication of Mr Calhoun; of the
•xistence of the former, we are destitute of
the proof, but the baneful influence of the lat
ter is too palpable to be overlooked by any
friend ofthe President. At the next session
Of Congress, it is believed that an etFort (with
•ome, perhaps a last effort) w ill be made to
modify the present tariff, so as to render it
less burthenseme to the South. The renew-
al of the charter of the D. S. Bank, may be
expected to become a topic of discussion in
the course of a few more sessions. We firm
ly believe that such an institution has no
"warrant in our constitution, and are perfect
ly convinced that it it were constitutional,
that its dangers far transcend its benefits.
We have sir, frankly stated our feelings A
opinions. We trust that they arc in accord
ance with yours, and we are free to say, that
if the fact be so, that there is no man in this
district or State whom we would select to rep
resent us sooner than vourself.
GEO. B. OUTLAW,
ROB. C. WATSON, &c.
lion. Jon\ Branch.
Enfield, May 31st, 1831.
Gentlemen: Yours of the 14th instant,
post marked, \\ indsor the -Ist, came to hand
a few days past. The confidence which you
have be en so kind as to express in my talents
arid political experience, and the desire you
have manifested that 1 should become a can
didate to represent this District in the next
Congress ot the United States, together with
the frank manner, jn which you have given
- Jouropinion of certain men and measures!
with a view to elicit mine, merit iny respect
ful consideration and shall receive my prompt I
Attention. 1 most decidedly concur with you
in believing that discord has been introuuc* 1
ed into the ranks ot the administration by the
.intrigues of selfish politicians. A short time
I trust, will be sufficient to enable the intel
ligent enquirer to obtain the whole truth.
‘ Until then, perhaps, it would be the part of
prudence to leave the question open, and rely
on the righteous judgment of the people.—
However, recognizing your undoubted right
to know all my opinions, both as to the prom
inent men and leading measures of the conn
try, I will with that frankness which has ev
er characterised my conduct, give you unre
servedly my impressions, under a confident
hope that as you have called for them, at a
period when I must necessarily incur a heavy
responsibility in giving them,’ that you will
extend to me your generous charities for any
error into which I may be thus incautiously
led ; for there is nothing about which men are
so apt to differ, nay to err, as their opinion of
men.
In the first place, then,'as to the motives
which influenced Mr. T. in his course in the
Senate of the United States on the Turkish
mission. I profess to know nothing. With
Mr. Nan iluren, i have had frequent, person
al and official intercourse, and the time was
when he possessed my confidence. Mr.
Calhoun s private virtues and public services,
particularly during the late war, together with
his high order of talents, always commanded
wiy respect; but hislatitodinous political doc
trines during Mr. Monroe’s administration,
znet my disapprobation, lienee it is that no
oae correctly informed, has ever considered
me his pblitical partisan. As to myself, I can
truly say that I have no person in view for
the succession. lamat a loss to say who a
mong the prominent politicians I ought to sip
port. Fortunately for me and the country,
this question may yet be advantageously post
poned.
Tha present controversy between General
sack3on and Mr.Clay, can never divide South
ern politicians to any extent. The “Ameri
can System,” the hobby of the latter, has but
Jew advocates among Southern planters, and
its author still fewer adherents. On Gen.
Jackson then, who is himself a planter, we
must depend with a Coiifidcnt reliance on the
justice of Congress lor relief against the op
pression of a system of exactness, which if
persevered in, must ultimately lead to the
most calamitous results. The gn at and fun
damental principles which divide our country
into parties, are of momentous concern, and
are every way worthy of the untiring vigil
ance of the American people. The Journals
of the Senate of the United States for the six
years that I was a member of that body, will
best shew my opinion on tim Tariffs of 1824
and 18, which now threaten the repose of the
Union, and the prosperity of the Southern
country. These afford an earnest of the course
which I shall feel it to he iny duty to pursue
-in reference to any measures which may he
calculated to repeal or mitigate this “bill of
abominations,” as it has been emphatically
called by one ctf its present most active anil
cffi 'icnt supporters.
Tlie next point, to which you invite my at
tention, is the Bank of the United States. I
ran unable to perceive how lean vote for tlie
renewal of the charter in any Form. My o
pinion in relation to Banks is of long stand
ing and has, in North Carolina at least, be
come somewhat a matter of public notoriety.
I have believed that it was the intention foj
the : Miners of the Federal Constitution, that
the currency of the U. States should have 1
been metallic, and I inferred this from the j
technical language employed,and the exclu-l
Rive power given to Congress to coin money j
and gjiii-X* its vuiuC, with the positive ii.-!
THE MACON ADVERTISER, AND AGRICULTURAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
hi Lotion oil the states to do the same thing, or
to emit bills of cre-dif, or to make any thing
but gold and silver coin a tender in payment'
ot debts. But the ingenuity cf man lias
sought out many inventions, and the person
would bethought mad, who, at this dav, would
seriously urge the above opinion, findingev
erv State in the union has chartered Banks
and thereby indirectly regulated the value of
money as effectually as though they had the
power to coin it.
A national bank has been recommended by
the President with certain well defined pow
ers. I am persuaded that the President’s
views have noVer been fairly presented or un
derstood. He, lam sure, never Contempla
ted the establishment of such a hideous mon
ster as his political opponents have conjured
up. Such an institution in the hands of the
executive, for any other purpose, or with any
other powers than the transmission of govern
ment funds, from one part of the union to an
other, I should deprecate as the greatest ca
lamity that could befal the country.
I bus, gentlemen, I have responded to you
fully and freely. 1 have no concealment in
politics. My principles remain now, as in
K!4B, when they were first formed at College.
They have undergone no change that I am
sensible ot. *• 1 hey have grown with my
growth, and strengthened with iny strength.”
I have the liour to be, with'the highest
respect, your fellow citizen.
rp „ JOHN BRANCH.
I o Messrs. Geo. B. Outlaw,
Rob. C. Watson, &c. &c.
From the Washington City Globr.
MESSRS. ADAMS AND RUSH.
Our late President and his Secretary of the
I reasury have recently given us a strange ex
ample ol the lorce of sympathy—and of the
striking mfierencc in its operations upon great
men, and upon ordinary mortals. When
Morgan was first carried off, ami as it is pre
sumed destroyed, it produced general indie
nation among the people—a virtuous excite
ment, which actuated them to make great ef
forts to ascertain the perpetrators of the crime,
and bnngthern to punishment. This was the
natural feeling and conductofan honest com
munity—it was an occasion which called for
extraordinary interference, and Messrs. Ad
ams and Rush would have been excused, un
iter its impulse, if, remote as they were from
ttie scene, they had interposed to have the ex
isting laws executed, or to have instituted
others more effectual for the future. But it
was not until after the man who .is supposed
to hare foiled Morgan was in his grave and
all the rest suspected had been tried and ac
quitted, or punished according to the grade of
their offence, that our Ex-Dignitanes began
to interest themselves in the matter. Their
sympathies never were touched until they felt
that they could give the affair a political com
plex'on. I his reached their instincts, and
after Mrs. Morgan herself had forgotten her
wrongs, and married a mason, the tears of our
politicians began to flow.
ihe editor cl this print is not a mason, nor
was he ever connected with any secret associ
ation. He will not undertake to defend, that
winch he does not understand. But may we
not e permitted to ask if the new-born zeal
ol Messrs. Adams and Rush, against masonry
is not rendered suspicious by their associa
t.ons. hey are known to be devoted friends
of Mr. t lay, a mason of high order, and to ex
ert all their political influence to secure liis
election to the Presidency— and yet these
men seek to identify themselves with the anti
masonic party, t u wield its influence in favor
ol Mr. Clay, by separating it from the sup
port ol the 1 resident. It is known that it, the
ast contest a majority of the masons opposed
the election el General Jackson—that the
votes o! town and professional gentlemen were
lorthe most part against him—and that he
was called by the farmers, and men wholly
unconnected with artificial and professional
associations, to the station in which he acts
lor their benefit. But now the leaders of jun
tos appeal to a class ol' citizens, the anti-ma
sons, and seek to make a trainband of them
to give success to schemes which depend for
their accomplishment upon secret coalitions,
professional associations, and the hidden and
*i ill uenee of a great Incorporation
ot wealth working in the darkness ol a vault.
1 i,e B*® ut cwnplaint of the anti-masons is the
invisible power w hich they presume may be
exerted by the society of masons, upon the
political destinies of the country, and the fate
f IW '’ k . a ‘ e “xhv'duals. And it i not marvel
lous that (.lay, Adams, Rush, and all the as
pi rants haM ng their hopes upon, and devoting
their efiorts to the cause of the Bank, should
at the same tune seek to rally, in the support
ol their common object, a class of citizen
whose bond ol union is opposition to any em
bodied influence which may be yielded invisi
hlyand universally under a general organi-
Dai the inquisition itself ever unite a more
impenetrably secret, a nversal, a mom
potent systematic and uncontrollable mtlu.
once,than tins great corporation, the bank
| does through a body of Directors, bound to
secrecy lroni its \ enetianchamber in Phi'adel
plua. I his conclave has the whole revenue
i f thc f? ver " , | 10nt i 3,1(1 currency ol’the country
to Wield. Jt has branches in all the Stated
agents in almost every town—it ea „ rawc „
depress the prices of lands or commodities, in
an\ section ol the Inion in a moment -m.l
although it can have no motive to seek the
l.vcs ot individuals who may he sub e'ettd o
its power, yet the Bank Directors have the
fortunes of men in their hands. They cm
raise one man and depress another.' And
when an individual becomes obnoxious, al
though they may not, as in the case of Mor
gan, make an abduction of the man himself
llv 4"SS
ismiltcd to , un tbom ou ;', o
upon the world. It is not only in the power
of thc secret Senate of the liank ~ . >.
fllfn 9 an i d iritiiVidl,als fcel thc blight of its'im
witTth’elns.t7 ry I>al,ry *Z cnt > connected,
with the Institution,can harraas with nettv
S" ,y There ena, ‘ tS 0r dd,tOrs wlthin bi’ dis-!
cannot n °sP cc, ‘s;°finfluence that it
cat not exert over the souls of men, throiml.
instruments whose operations can never £
raced up to the controlling power. A , h
* c ™:X' u i k r i,M “"" pir,iS I
machinery ofthw Bank, and who arc convert-j
ing every species of private association, no
matter on what principle of cohesion thev are
held together, into an alliance of combina
tion to put down the President of the people. 1
these men appeal to the Anti-masons, and seek
covertly to employ them as a society— -as a
party to a league of associations to destroy a
man who has risen on an honest, devoted pat
riotism,- and services rendered through a long
life, not to corporations, nor particular asso
ciations, nor favorite sects or professions, nor
to this or that section of the Union——but to his
country at large, and the liberal and all-em
bracing principles which are the foundations
of its institutions.
4m ail
From the Southern Agriculturalist.
ON THE CULTURE OF COTTON.
BV TIIOS. PARKER
“Calhoun Settlement, Abbeville District,
30th March, 1831.
Dear Sir, —In compliance of your request
to “communicate iny mode of cultivating tny
cotton crop,” I now proceed to do so; not
from an expectation that I can communi
cate any thing new, but from the belief, that
if planters will, through vour journal, give to
their brethren the bencfiit of their experi
ence, the Agriculture of the South would be
greatly improved. I have certainly been in
structed by it, and am willing to contribute
my mite in return, however diffident I may
feel in doing so.
The mode I pursue, in cultivating this
crop, is that which, with but some trilling'va
riations, is the course adopted throughout
my neighbourhood. Having already inform
ed you of the manner in which I prepare the
ground for and plant my crop, I will proceed
to its cultivation. My corn and potatoes be
ing always first planted are the first worked,
and then my cotton. In doing this the first
time, I ring round the cotton with the plough
(either the Gofer or a small moul-board
plough, if the latter, turning the bar to the
cotton) as .near as I can w ithout throwing
dirt to it, and plough the middles faithfully
with a shovel or moul-board plough; so ap
portioning the hoes to the ploughs, that the
latter shall be in advance of the former one
day and no more. The liccs follow the
ploughs—my directions to the workers being
“chop through the drills, leaving the cotton
in hills the width of the hoe apart—leave
from three to foiw stalks in each hill, and haul
up a little dirt to the plants.” 1 have no fear
of the cotton dying to any extent after this
working: some may; but the advantage gain
ed in causing the cotton when thus tliined
out to grow oft vigorously, 1 consider more
than equivalent for the little loss sustained
by the dying of a few stalks- There is no
better way of putting a stop to the dying ol
the young cotton than to work it well. Mv!
cotton being worked over in this manner, li
return to my corn and potatoes; after work-j
ing which, 1 come back and give my cotton aj
second working. In doing this I plough the
middles thoroughly, running very near to the
cotton. At this stage it requires some judg
ment to determine whether the dirt should be
thrown hv the ploughs to the cotton or not
li the grass is too large to be effectually kill
ed by smothering it with dirt and the dirt is
thrown to it, the hoe hands, must push the!
dut away with their hoes befoie they can get
at the grass tocut it up, which puts it out of
their power to work over as much ground or
do it as well as they otherwise could. The
hoes follow the [doughs, (the latter are otic
day ahead) my directions to the workers be
ing “leave not a green thing in the field bull
the cotton—in no place let me -see more than
one stalk, and haul up a plenty of dirt to the
cotton.” Some of my neighbours leave two
stalks in a bill; where there is a larger gap
than usual between two mills; bull think
this wrong, inasmuch as 1 believe that one
stalk in such a situation will yield as much as
the two, probably the staple of the cotton will
be better, and certainly it can be easier [tick
ed out as the bolls will be larger. Haring
worked over my cotton in this manner the se
cond time, I return to my corn and jtolatocs
and work them the third time. This done, 1
give my cotton its third working. The cot
ton being now sufficiently strong tq bear*
good moulding, I throw as much earth as 1
can to it with the ploughs, and also plough
well the alleys. The hoes follow, un-over-!
ing any plants that the ploughs may have cov
ered—cutting out the bundles of grass, and
hauling up earth wherever required. At this
working one of my neighbours, a successful
planter, sends his hoes before his ploughs.'-
; 1 prefer, however, the other way. My pota
toes are again attended to if they require it,
and my Corn generally, though not always the
entire crop, worked over the fourth time;
this depends on many Mv
cotton always receives a fourth working. At
this time if the cotton has not branched Out
too much to permit it, I again ;plougiT it, but
do not plough very near it nor vet-y'dedp.
I D*' hoes chop out any bupches of 'mass
which mav have been left at the lasi work
ing With this work ing; my cotton is gener
ally laid by ; but if the season has here to
lore been dry and the cotton not well branch
ed, and lrcqucnt rains should now occur,
much young grass will sprout lip, and a fifth
ploughing, done eery shallow arid not near to
the cotton, w ill be requisite; not so much to
increase the production, as by destroying this
young grass to facilitate the [licking out of
the cotton and picking it dean; for this grass
if not destroyed, w ill attain a considerable
growth. I task my hoe hands ; in doing
which, to do justice to yourself and the worlf
ers, requires that judgement which can be
formed only from experience and careful ob
servation. At the first working they gener
ally do me three-fourths of an acre if cotton
was not planted the last year in the same
tiehl; but if it was, they can generally hoe
an acre* On the second being, they gener
uli\ do three-fourth of an acre, sometimes
only half an acre* I plant six acres of cot
',on Bin hand, which is about the usual
quantity planted in my neighbourhood. Ido
not make as large cotton crops as some of
my neighbours; I am content with three to!
three and a halt hales of coffon fo the hand l
with my provisions and pork ; but some few
make four bales, and last year, two of mv
neighbours made five to the hand. In such
eases I have vanity enough, however, to at
tribute this to better lands. I have no over
seer, nor indeed is there one in the neigh
bourhood; we pi rsonally attend to our plant
ing interest, believing that as good a manure
as.uny, if not the bust, we can apply to our
fields, is the print of the master’s footstep. —
One of my neighbours w ho is a judicious and j
successful planter uses alternately the plough!
or an iron toothed harrow in working his cot-1
ton. His laud is a high, loose, rich mulatto t
soil, and much troubled with grass; but as
mine is of a closer texture, liable to bake
j and become hard, I have not even thought it
advisable to try ins plan. Where the harrow
can be used for this purpose with success,
fully half of the ploughman’s labour is saved.
When I first commenced planting as a pro
fession, I worked every part of mv. cotton
crop in rotation, in the order in which it was
planted; but experience had proved to me,
that however systematic this plan may be, it
is bad in practice. I now work such parts of
my fields first, as require it most, without car
ing which was planted first or worked last.—
Experience has also taught me to “keep a
bright lookout ahead” for rainy weather, and
if I discover the least appearance of it, I ex
amine with care such parts of my fields as lie
low, and if I think it necessary, work them
ovtr immediately; for although the grass
may then be young and easily destroyed;
yet if such parts of a field are caught the least
out of order, by a warm, leaking spell of wet
weather (as it is sometimes called) the grass
will hare made fearful progress bv the time
the ground is dry enough to he worked ; and
it will not only take twice the labour to put it
m order that it should be, but in doing so, the
workers will destroy much of the young cot
ton after it has been thinned out, and this ne
cessarily lessens the crop. A planter should
always know the exact situation of cvcry
part of crop, or he will sometimes be taken
by surprise ; and the only way to obtain this
knowledge is, frequently to go over and ex
amine bis fields. If it is true that “the mas
ter’s eye makes the horse fat,” ’tis equally
true that the print of the master’s footseps ma
nures the field.
Yours, respectfully.
THOMAS PARKER.
BUDDING.
In the Agricultural Journal of the Pays
Bas, it is recommended to reverse the usual
mode of raising the bark for inserting the
buds, and to make the cross cut at the bot
tom of the slit instead of the top, as is done
in Britain; the hud is said rarely to fail of suc
cess because it receives abundanceof the de
scending sap, which it cannot receive when
it is under the cut.
| “Just m the twig is bent, the tree 's inclined.’-' j
From the Federal Union. j
; _ EDUCATION.
In a conversation with an intelligent gen-’
tleinan a few days since, tlie question Was
asked, w liethcr there ought not to be more j
than three learned professions? AVe replied
that the office of Teachers ought to be ele
vated to the dignity of a learned profession.
This opinion was given at the moment, with- 1
j out much previous reflection. A more ma- !
tore consideration of the subject has abtiiid-i
antl v confirmed this off-hand suggestion.
1 here are many able divines whose read
ing extends but little beyond the lids of the
sacred volume—many eminent physicians
\\ hose skill mid celebrity have been advan
j ced by the medical library alone—many ef
ficient and profound lawyers whose informa
tion is bounded by those branches immedi
ately connected with their own profession.—!
| Bat where is the boundary that ought to limit j
the extent and variety of the Teacher’s at-1
tainments ? Ilow miserable and glaring must J
appear his deficiencies, if his miiufis not
stored with the deep and varied resources
necessary to the successful practice of this
Jiirst ot Professions ? It should embrace the
elements at least of every branch of knowl
edge and education. It is the office of the
1 cacher to lay the foundation of ever}’oth
er profession. It is his office to impart tlie first
lessons of religion, morality, patriotism, law,
medicine, science generally, polite learning,
; tne fine arts, industry, economy and virtue.
I Id a few words, there is no situation in life
public or private—no employment, male or
I female,to which the office of a qualified t ach
er is not more or less important. There is no
department of business to which a thorough
and intimate acquaintance with the philoso
phy of the human character arc so essential j
as to that ot the Teacher. No intelligent i
man will deny the truth of these positions i
no respectable teacher will question them.—
Yet wc would respectfully ask, where is there
.a class of men and women so ill prepared for
their profession as the great majority of those
who preside over the minds, characters and
manners of our children? How few among!
them seem to have felt the dignity and impor
tance of their employment, and the high re- j
spbnsibilities of their station !
M e are rejoiced therefore to sec that such |
men as Brown, Cummin and others arc on-!
listing the public attention on the important
subject of a Contention of Teachers. AVe
shall resume the subject. For the present,
we will close by suggesting to those benefac
tors of mankind a question for their consider-!
ation— whether an Institution should not he
organized in our State or country for the pur- 1
pose of preparing men and women for the !
profession of Teaching —a college' if you
please ?■—in the same way that wc have medi
cal, law, and divinity Colleges.
Our columns are always open for light on
the subject of Education.
A irtuous education, and habits of industry, !
make a better inheritance for children than at
great estate. AVe arc very solicitous to ac
quire property, hut too often care but little;
vvliat sort of heirs we leave it to.
• |
In men there is a lump upon the windpipe!
formed by the thyroid cartilage, which is not t
to be seen in women. An Arabian fable
says, that is part of the original apple that had
stuck in the man’s throat by the way; but 1
that the woman swallowed her part of it 1
down.
Fiscal.
From the Richmond. Compiler.
CAPITAL .OVERFLOWING!
We sec in the northern papers continual
proofs of the abundance of capital in the nor
thern cities.—Sobutimcs an iminmense fac
tory established,, such as the one at Lowed
with a capital of more than a million of dol
lars—sometimes a Rail Road; and then a Ca
nal, established by a munificent contribution.
The X. York Evening Post [by last evening’s
mail] gives us the following additional facts:
' “The Commissioners of the Ilurluim Rail
Road Company have not yet got through re
gistering the names of applicants for that
stock. 'Pile subscriptions are generally for
twenty shares , and the number of subscribers
will exceed 3000, making the total amount
of subscription about 3,000,000 of dollars, for
a capital of 350,000 dollars.
“ Merchants' Exchange Bank.— The sub
scription books for the capital stock of this
bank closed yesterday at 3 o’clock, and up
wards of 4,800,000, probably 5,000,000 dol
lars have been subscribed ! The whole amount
of capital required was only 730,000 dollars!
New York State Marine Insurance. —The
remaining capital of this institution was paid
in yesterday. The company have taken an
office in Wall street, and will immediately
commence business.”
Here we have two Institutions only (one of
a Rail Road, and the other of a Bank) the
subscriptions to which amount to eight mill
ions of dollars ! while their conjoint capital
is only $1,100,000 —that is, eight times the
amount of the sum required. It is the same
case, with many other Companies. b’carcely
is any promising enterprise displayed—and
the books of-subscription opened, with any
plausible recommendation to the public sup
port, but capitalists come forward to venture
their money. Money indeed, seems to a
hound in the northern towns, it is not mere
ly the capital which has accumulated in those
places—but it is sent from other countries lor
sale and profitable investment. Tlie annual
payments towards the public debt of the U
-States throw a large amount into market—
which is looking out tor advantageous em
ployment. All that they have to do, is to
convince the Capitalists that the stock is like
ly to rise; that it is safely invested, and will
bring in a handsome dividend—and they can
be in ho want ot hinds to carry on their great,
public enterprizes.
It this be the ease in the North, why should
it not be so in Virginia ? Why should we
not expect the Stock of the New River Rail
Road to e partly subscribed by the Northern
Capitalists, it such an Expose can be made of
the value of the enterprise as may be calcula
ted to ensure a satisfactory dividend ? This
i.; tlie time, o:i almost every consideration,
tor undertaking works of Internal imdrovc*
meat.
THE PRECIOUS METAL!
NN c saw yesterday evening a lump of Gold
in the possession of Mr. Voiliain Mitchell,
jeweller in this city, which Mr. M. had
chased for S3 l o, It weighs nearly two
pounds, and is esteemed so pure, that he has
allowed a discount of only four per cent, from
the actual weight. It was found in a gold
mine in Mecklenburg county, North Caroli
na, embedded in rock, which the miner was
breaking in pi iccs> The title of the land is
disputed, and the operations of mining there,
are for the present suspended. This piece of
the precious metal which belongs to Mr.
M itchell, is a specimen of what may he here
after extracted troiu tlie mine under more fa
vorable auspices.
\V C observe also, in a late Yorkvillc, R. C.
Pioneer, an account of a gold mine which has
been lately discovered in Union District, in
that neighborhood—the ore is so rich as to
give from 6 to 8 dollars a day to each hsnd.
UNITED STATE'S BANK.
The government is entitled to one-fifth oj
the profit* of this institution, as it ow ns one
filth of the stock, and those entrusted by the
people, with the management of their inter
ests should at least make an effort to arrest
the illegal expenditure of their funds by the
agents of the Bank and its branches. The
charter certainly does not authorize the. pub
lishing, by tue Bank, of newspaper philippic?
and unfounded calumnies of the President of
tlie United States and of extravagant [Kinc
gvrics on the Bank.
Those presses that have fattened on Bank
paper, have in the most scandalous manner
traduced the President of the U. States, be
cause in a few instances he bestowed incon
siderable offices on some of the conductors of
the press, and charged him with a venal in
tent to corrupt the fountain of information. If
there he danger Of the press being influenced
by unworthy stimulants the means of the
Bank arc most potent. Its secret agents can
distribute iri scxret the needful.
I rom what wc have seen and hoard vo
have no doubt hundreds of thousands of M’-
Duflie s report in favor of the Bank, an equal
number of Mr. Gallatin’s remarks on rcchar
termg (he Bank, as also the abusive review
ot Mr. Benton’s speech against the Bank, as
a!so of the appeal to the members of tlie State
Legislature, &c. have been printed in extra
papers, and circulated far and wide at the ex
pense of the Bank. The managers of that
institution appear to he sensible cf the inflii
cncc of the press in giving a tone to public
opinion, and they have, it would appear, made
ahold essay to anticipate the friends of the
1 resident. In most eases the most popular
publications have been secured—tim Bunk
ha? money; and money, it is not nr C < ssnry to
remarx, is a most potent agent— if money can
he I nought to bear on C’ongnss, directly or
iin.irectly, wc may calcirlale it will not be
spared to ensure a renewal of the charter. If
| ..o Bank can do shorn of th:ff,i„f!„e„ce which
r consider
Ptioli.-h. rs wc are apprised are liberal in
thi n msburscinont, 1m: it is too remarkable
, "} d Sln ,7" l3rl)( ' credited that in those towns
f tC im (without a solitary exception ■ o
fat as our exchange list furnishes the opportu.
i t to tcst.he fact) they would at their' own
for each eft! 0 ol > ,ra P'^Hcatinns
or each of the papers in favor c f ,] lO j ,
’ri-T,? h3 ‘ their unlaw*
*' ‘ • 0,, M prompt them tpjctnl thoumnd-•
them to persons who never had übsr'l
their paper. The thing is very
Las ween we saw many supplements to
I liiladclphia National Gazette, in this
directed to persons who were not, nor ever t*
been patrons of that paper. .This liberal
position of extra papers we find to be
fro-n every town wherwlije Bank has. ali
tation, but seldom elsewhere. T*v
sion with us is that the printing
tlie hank, must have amounted in the W
years, to more than the salary of the Pr ' i"
of .the Lnitcd Ssatcs for tJjtysamc time.
'■ Virginia Gq utu
Public Improvement^
From the Richmond Compiler. ~~
Another Inducement! —The Canal toll
lected at Albany for the month of \t.,
357,380 .30 and at West Trov, U ggni!
28 —being together $23,072 00 morc :,
they were for the same month during %i’
year. Since the opening of the canal f or ?
present spring, being forty five days or k
aggregate tolls at Albany and Trov fiav.h
$133,138 05—and the total increase Z-'
the corresponding period of this year j-s.'l
330 58. In fact, the toils of the canafn!
continue to increase : first, as tlie C g m .‘
opens or improves—and, secondly, as „!
turnpikes, rail roads, Arc. &c. commune,
witn the canal through its whole length
would be so with the improvement ofour
water courses.
■' a *SS2£SSJ*-
The directors of the Camden and Anil*
, . Koa Company, give a flattering vi™,'
their undertaking. They sav in their <\
report published recently, that the whole!-'
from Amboy to the Delaware river, tlicv boa
to complete during this season, and that Z
have made such arrangements for the Unioi
and Citizen’s lines, that immediately on t ! ,
road being ready for use, the steambo,
those lines are to be transferred to the Ra
Road Company, and so the whole travel an
business is to be brought at once into mot,o
oij the rail road. The portion of then dft
trom Bordentown to Camden, opposite P(,;| a
delphia, is to be completed at a subsection
period. 1
“Mirth, that wrinkled care deridrs, '
“And Laughter, holding both his sides.”
A late Tennessee paper advertises the 11*
David Crocket, so very famous in the polit
world, as a stray ! Mr. C. is well knownt,
‘he sporting world, as the o.ily man in tt.
United States, who can “leap the Ohio,wad
the Mississippi, and carry one steamboat aa
two flathoafs upon bis back, jump upon
streak ol lightning, ride it doWh a honey 1;
oust, grease his heels, skate down a raiabot
dance off' his toe-nails, grin a panther s
death, and whip his weight in wild-cats.
Mr. Crockett clearly belongs to the Sid
Patch genus ; —we would call the atfetit:;
of tlie Baltimore Sporting Magazine, to t.
interesting biped, as singularly illustrate.
the Natural History of Tennessee. We was!
present him as a fit subjebt for discussiont
the Lyceum recently established in tlie to
of Nashville ; it being more adapted ?, y
dignity of such an institution, than the o
so curiously introduced, and quaintly disen
sed by Dr. Trees', at the conclusion ot L
late lecture, published iu the Nashville Ba
uer.—Aatchcz Gazette.
—*
Brevity —A Tradesmen said at a rne tij
in Dublin, that “the first shot fired in Iri
land would he a receipt in lull for the Nation
ol Debt.” The sentiment was loudly cheered
- *♦£
To a counsellor who said to an Irish wit
ness ‘you have prevaricated so grossly
no one in future wWlJbeliere a word you
—Pat readily rejoined, ‘Counsellor, you:
an hone.si man!'
The last touch. —The bucks have this m
‘‘beat every thing” that was ever done L 4;
in the way of fashion. 'l’hc tippec aiticl
*‘f<:r trowsers ’ this week, just from Lotion
is stout twilled and checked flannel, precs!
the article of which the men in Ncw-Engli®
make winter frocks, and the women wa:
aprons: if the Yankees don’t believe it!
them come and see fur themselves.
INTERIOR OF AFRICA.
By the arrival at Baltimore, of the BrigVir.
ginia, from Rio, news is brought of the st!
return of Richard Lander , (the companions
f apt. Clappcrton,) and his hrotiier John La
der, trom thu interior of Africa. It will 1
seen, that the Journal of Mungo Park l
been recovered, and the Landers have solo
the problem of the course and the mouth
the Niger, as they sailed down that llivcr,
the Bight of Benin, where it discharges it:
by various branches, into the ocean.
By far the most interesting news, brotiy
by this arrival, is the account furnished of if
African expedition of Lander, the discoter
the ISiigcr , and the recovery of the long sous
manuscripts of Mungo Parle. The Kngii
ship Carnavon, which arrived at llioJaiitin
early in April, from Fernanda l’o, an islan
in the month of the river Camcrones in th
Gull ofGuincn, brought as passengers, Kiel
) aru Lander, the well known known compM
ion of (’lapporton, and his Brother John Lt
der. These young men have been ab-ei
seventeen months, in the employ of the Eri?
fish Government, in prosecuting the sea
after the course of the Niger. Ilavingscnri
cd tl'.c point, (mentioned in Clapporttf
book) where Bark was murdered, they S“ f
cccdcd in recovering his books, letters, n >:
uscrijits, and double barrelled gun, v.ticl
was bispropertv.
Being obliged to abandon their de> r o
procccditi,* .o Timlnicfbo, from which
were scarcely fifteen dnvs’ journc . fer w:."
of presents to bestow, without which tk • 11
neit'if r found protection nor assistance f* i::
the authorities of the country, they in con?
'l’auice re-embarked :,t the'place v lie
go I’ark lost his life, and following rhe err
rent of the river, which runs at the net. -
four miles an hour, they ascertained that
Niger before it divided itself into vert*
branches,is ten miles wide. They then r>
solved to proceed by one of the most consk
erablo of the branches which flowed rapid).
toUicwr.fi. As thrv ydrd th' c*L
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