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COLUMBUS SENTINEL AND HERALD. VOL. X.] PUBLISHED EVEHV SATURDAY MORNING BY JOSEPH STURGIS. ON BROAD STREET, OVER ALLEN AND YOUNG’S, M’INTOSH ROW. 1 ERMB— Subscription, three dollars per an num payable in advance, or foua dollars, (in all case > exacted) where payment is not made before the expiration of the year. No subscription received for less than twelve months, without pay ment inadvance, and no paper discontinued, except at the option ot the Editors, until all arrearages arc paid. ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously inserted at one dollar per one hundred words, or iess, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for every subse quent. continuance. Those sent without a specifica tion of tho number of insertions, will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. 2d. Yearly advertisements. — For over 24, and not exceeding 36 lines, fifty dollars per annum ; for ovr 12, and not exceeding 24 lines, thirty-jive dollars per annum ; for less than 12 lines, twenty dollars per annum. 3d. All rule and figure work double the above pi ices. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates, and with strict attention to the requisitions ol the law. All Sales regulated by law, must be made before the Court House door, between the hours of 10 in the morning and 4 in the evening—those of Land in the county where it is situate; those of Personal Property, where the letters testamentary, of admin istration or of guardianship were obtained—and are required to be previously advertised in some public Gazette, as follows: Sheriffs’ Sales under regular executions for thir ty days, under mortgage fi fas sixty days, before the day of sale. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Executors, Ad ministrators or Guardians, for sixty days before the day of sale. Sales of Personal Property (except Negroes) forty DAYS. Cit ations by Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary, upon application for letters of administration, must be published for thirty days. Citations upon application for dismission, by Executors, Administrators or Guardians, monthly for six MONTHS. Orders of Courts of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy ol the bond or agreement) to make titles to land, must be published three months. Notices by Executors, Administrators or Guardians, of application to the Cotut of Ordinary for leave to sell the Land or Negroes of an Estate, four months. Notices bv Executors or Administrators, to the Debt ors and Creditors and an Estate, for six weeks. Sheriffs, Clerks of Court, &c., will be allowed the usual deduction. {t3 = ’ Letters on business, must be post paid, to en'itle them to attention. A HI. HUGHES, Attorney at Law, Cuthbert Georgia. .lan. 25, 1840. 51 ts M ANSION HOUSE. JAC O B B ARltO W, Respectfully informs the public that he lias opened a HOUSE in the business part of 15mad Street for the accommodation of Travellers, and has built new stables on his o.vn lot by the solici tation of his customers. March 21. 5 ts LAW, THE subscribers having connected themselves! the practice of LAW, will attend all the County Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and the adjoining counties of Alabama. Olfice in Mclntosh K nv, immediately over Allen & Young’s Store. ALFRED IVERSON, ■Tune 14. Pbf J. M. GUF.RRY. COLUMBUS HOTEL, IS4O. mile subscriber respectfully informs Ins friends and JSL the public generally, that he still continues to occupy the above establishment, where he promises refreshment and comfort to the traveller and border. His own personal attention will he given to his busi ness, in which he hopes to give general satisfaction, and share a liberal patronage amongst his brother chips. JESSE B. REEVES, r tolumbus, Ga., Jan. 21, IS4O. 51 ts CARBONATED OR SODA WATER. fffVlE subscribers are now prepared tofurni h their H_ custom rs auJ the public wnh or So la Water. Y i ir apparatus is constructed in such a manner, and of such materials as to prevent the possibility of anv mstalic or delertotts impregnations. TAYLOR & WALKER, Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad st. Columbus. April 21. 10tf TAVERN Edit SALE. SF it >t previously disposed cf, will be sold on Tues d:iy, the 15th day of September next, by the sub scriber, at public auction, that well known 1 avert) and furniture, known as the TAI.BOTTON HOI EL. This house is well established an I in good repair, with all necessary outhouses convenient. Persons desiring to purchase such property are requested to c II and examine the premise*; turns “ ill he made liberal, and indisputable titles given. B. WHITHUUST. Talbotton. Ga., August 11, 1840. 96 tds. VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALK C CONTAINING Two Hundred Two and a Ha! J Acres of Land,mixed with oak and pine. There are eighty acres cleared. Also, a comfortable dwel ling, with all necessary out offices, a good gin house and packing screw, a peach and apple orchard. The entire under good fence. It is situated within 4 miles of Columbus, joining the plantation firmerly owned by Thotras C. Evans, Esq. Persons wishing to pur chase cannot find a more desirable location than the oue offered for sale bv the subscribers. JOHN CODE, Dec. 6. 44tf JOHN QUIN THOMPSON’S UTERINE TRUSS. .9/1 effectual and radical cure for polapsus uteri. THE subscribers have taken the agency for the above valuable instrument, and have now on hand and will constantly keep a variety of patterns, which they will sell at Manufacturers’ prices. These Trusses are superior U> any instrument of the kind ever invented, and are now extensively employed by som of the most eminent practitioners in the United States. We annex thecertificateofthe late Professor Eherle, who used them with great success in his own practice. 4 Cincinnatti, Ohio, May 11th, 1839. • I have carefully examined the Uterine Truss in vented bv Dr. Thompson of this State, and I can con fidently declare, that it is unqutstion bly the most perfect and useful instrument of the kind that has evei been offered to the public. It differs essentially in construction from the Utero Abaeminal Supporter constructed by Dr. Hull, and is in all respects a far mperior instrument.’ The subscribers have also receiv ed the agency for Dr. Chase’s Improved Surgical Truss, which is uni versally admitted to he the most certain and lasting cure ever discovered for Hernia or Rupture. TAYLOR & WAKF.R, Druggists, Sign of the Golden Mortar, Brond-st. Columbus. June 20, 1839. 26tf avark house and COMMISSION BUSINESS. THE undersigned would inform his friends and the public generally, that he will continue the above business a” his Old Stand in Front street, oppo site the new brick building of James 11. Shorter, Esq. and that his personal attention will be exclusively devo ted to the same. Bv strict attention thereto,he hopes to h ive a continuance of the libera! patronage hereto fore bestowed upon him. He will as usual attend to the sale of Cotton, from wagons or in store; and Irofn a general acquaintance with the purchasers and true situation of the market he believes he can generally , rt . than save the commission in the sale ot cotton. ul> rc WM.P. YONGE. Columbus, Sept. 19, 1339. S'oy He has in store for sale, Liverpool and Btown isalt in sacks, Chewing Tobacco and Segars, Champatgne Wine, in baskets and boxes, Bagging and Bie Rope LOOK AT THIS. KUNA WAY from the subscribers, about the first March last, a negro man by name Presley, about fortv years of age, somewhat grey hair, very thin or perhaps no hair on the top of the head quite black eves small and deeply sunk in the head, wide between the teeth,'broad shoulders, and stoops, he is rather intelligent, though unprepossessing in appear makes great profession of religion, and prays in pubhcTver)^opportunity. He was in the neighborhood L Greenville. Meriwether county, some sis een days after leaving this place; where he left on the 29th of,, .akin- his wife with him, who belongs to Freeman McClendon, living near Greenville; she is bv the name of Julia, twenty years of age, common size, a JJSht copp r color, and very likely. It is believed that they were taken off by a white man, and probably travelling west in a gig, as such nformaiion reached M A mdtabie and re ward will be given for the anprehen ■ n os said ne-roes and that who cairiedthem away, JOHN C. MANGHAM. ApwU6,lMo. DISSOLUTION*. THE copartnership heretofore existing under the firm of Wilson & Cravey is dissolved this day by mutual consent of both. SANFORD T. WILSON. „.... _ , , OWEN W. CRAVEY. Gallon, July 14, 1840 23 ts T COMMISSION^BUSINESS. rih subscribers have iht3 day formed a connec tion, under the firm of ROWLAND &. BAR & 1 UW.for the purpose of transacting a GENEK t^° 3 P lISBIOX BL 'SINESS in SAVAN- ArL. 1 articular attention will be paid to receiving and forwarding Produce and Merchandise. They are not interested in any of the Transportation Lines, and assure their friends, that, in all cases, such con veyances shall be selected as to promote their inter est* WILLIAM P. ROWLAND, ELIAS B. BARSTOW. Savannah. 26th June. 1840.-£m6t-22 PHOENIX HOTEL, Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia. THE subscriber having taken the above house, situated on the North East corner of the court house square, formerly occupied by Mr. Beacham, takes pleasure in informing his friends and the public generally, that this new and commodious establish ment is now completed, and in every way fitted up for the accommodation of boarders and travellers : the subscriber will give his personal attention ,o the super vision of the house, and no pains or expense will be spared to render all comfortable who may favor him with a call. N. B. His stables are excellent and will at all times be bountifiilly supplied with provender, and attendeJ by a steady industrious and trusty ostler, who will at all times he in his place and subject to the commands of ‘he visitor. GIDEON H. CUOXTON. Jan 25—5i-tf JAMES M. MITCHELL, ATTORNEY at law. THE firm of Bull & Mitchell, having been dis solved by mutual agreement, owing to the re moval of Major J. L. Bull to Columbus, Georgia. The undersigned will continue to practice law in all the counties of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and in Bar bour county, Alabama. Office at Lumpkin, Stewart county. REFERENCES: Columbus—Maj. J L. Bull, Col. H. Holt, Col quitt. Echols & Jeter, Foster & Howard. Lumpkin—Messrs. McCuller & Perry. Florence—S. W. Bennett & Cos. August 1. 1840. 24 4t FACTORACE COMMISSION BUSINESS, CHARLESTON,SOUTH CAROLINA. rUltlE subscribers continue their business at their -N. old stand, on Bayee & Cos. whirs, Charleston, and are prepared to make liberal advances on Cotton consigned to their care. COLLINS & CLEVELAND. Septembers, 1840. 29 2m WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS. THE undersigned having associa- I •>.'* <s► ll|) ,et * themselves under the firm of Hall, H use & Cos. for the purpose of trans acting a general Commission and Warehouse business; would inform their friends and the public, that they are now prepar ed to attend to any business entrusted to their charge. Their Warehouse being constructed of Brick and detached from all other buildings, may be* considered in all respects as entire Fire-proof. Planters’ will therefore find it for their interest to store with them on account ol the great saving in the premium of Insur ance, and the additional safety to those who do not insure. They are prepared to advance liberally upon cotton and other merchandize stored with them, and their rates es storage and commissions, and all other char ges will be as low as those charged by other houses in the same lint- of business. J. A. DEBLOIB, 11. T. HALL, F. N. RUSE. THEY HAVE NOW IN STORE FOR SALE. 600 bags prime Havana Coffee, 300 pieces best Kentucky Bagging, 150 coils best Kentucky Rope, 2 j bales domestic Gouds received direct from the manufacturers. August 29, 1840. 28tf TIIE SCOUNDREL. MANAWAY from the subscriber on the 2d inst., a youth by the name of EDWARD JOHN SON, bound to me as an apprentice to the Cabinet business. He is about 1 7 years of age, 5 feet 3| high, or thereabouts, spare made, dark complexion, dark hair and hazle eyes, with a very bad countenance. This is to forwarn all persons from employing or har boring sa;d boy, as I am determined to put in force the law against all such offenders. I will give a reward of six cents fur any information so I get said boy. JOHN N. WEBB. Thomaston, Upson county, August 2, IS4O. 25 4t. DISSOLUTION. THE copartnership heretofore existing under firm ofDrs. CHIFLEY & SCHLEY, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The books and accounts are in the hands of Dr. Schley, who is authorized to settle them. Persons indebted to the firm are respect fully requested to call as early as possible and settle. W. S. CHIPLEY, WM. K. SCHLEY. July 23, IS 10. 24 ts LAW NOTICE. THE undersigned will attend toihe PRACTICE OF LAW. in the name of JONES & BEN NING, in most of the counties of this Circuit, and a few of the adjoining counties of Alabama. Their Office will be found near the Oglethorpe House. SEABORN JONES, HENRY L. BENNING. Sept If, 1339. 33 ts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WHEREAS, a bill has passed both branches of the General Assembly, changing the times of holding the sessions of the Legislature, from annual to biennial; but whereas, it is proper on all occasions to ascertain the will of the people, whenever it can be done without intei sering with the ordinary course of legislation: Therefore Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That on the first Monday in October, IS4O. the voters of this State be requested to endorse on their tickets, the words ‘ Annual” or “Biennial,” as they may favor the meeting of the Legislature every year, or once in two years; and that the resolution he pub lished in the newspapers in this Statefor three months before the first Monday in October aforesaid. ’ JOSEPH DAY. Sr eaker of the House of Representatives. Attest —Joseph Stvhgis, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in. 21st December, 1839. ROBERT M. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Attest —David J. Bailey, Secretary. Approved December 24th, 1839. CHARLES J. M-DONALD, Governor. July 11 21 FOK SALE THE tract of land, known as the Broken Arrow Bend, on the Chattahoochee river, seven miles below Columbus, on the Alabama side of tiie river, containing fourteen hundred and forty-two acres, nine hundred of which are equal, if not superior, to any land on the river; with five hundred acres of cleared land under good fence and in a high state of cultivation; the balance of the tract is thin oak and hickory, and pine lands, with good water and healthy situations for residence, on which part is a good house for an over seer and negro houses for fif.y negroes. Persons wish ing to purchase a river plantation would do well to ex amine it while the crop is growing. JOHN CROWELL, Sen. Fort Mitchell. August 12,1840 26—ts RANAWA7. FROM the subscriber, living in the Halloca settle ment. Muscogee county, Ga. on the 26thult.a mulatto fellow, named DICK, a out twenty-eight years old, about five teet 6 or 7 inches high, rather round shouldered, well built, weighing about one hundred and fortv pounds, has a scar frem the cut of a knife under one of his shoulders, light complected, with hair almost straight, shrewd, and quick spoken, but when address ed, has a down look and is apt to smile. He is well known in Columbus, having been partly raised in that city by the late Dr. Sullivan, from whose estate the undersigned bought him. Reason exists for supposing that he has gone off with a white man. Twenty dol lars together with reasonable expenses will be given for the restoration of the negro, or for his being lodged : n jail so that the undersigned get him. and. if stolen, two hundred dollars will be given for proof toconviction of the thief. CHARLES KING. August 15, 1840. 26tf The Montgomery Advertiser is requested to insert the obove three times, and forward the account to Charles King, Aalioca post Office, Mus:ogee county, ‘ Geo. gia. 4 WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL. 1 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1840. GEORGIA STATE LOTTERY. CLASS No. 35. To be drawn on Saturday, Septembers,lß4o. Capitals, $40,000, gj 5 000) $5,000. $3,000, $2,500, 2,297, and 50 of SI,OOO. 59 of S3OO, &c. Tickets $lO. shares in proportion. CLASS No. 36. To be drawn on Saturday, September 12. Capitals $20,000. SIO,OOO, $5,000, $3,000. $2 000, and 100 of SI,OOO, 16 of SSOO, &c. Tickets $lO, shares in proportion. CLASS No. 37. To be drawn on Saturday, September 19. Capitals $30,00t, SK) 000, $5 000, $3 000. $2,000, and 100 of $l,OlO, 50 of SSOO, &c. tickets $lO, shares in proportion. CLASS No. 38. To be drawn on Saturday, September 26. Capitals $40,000, $12,000, SB,OOO, $5,000, $3,000. $2 500, $2,000, and 20 of SI,OOO, 50 of SSOO, 50 of S4OO, Sic. Tickets $lO, shares in proportion. For sale either by the package or single Ticket by J. H. ANDREWS, Agent, Columbus , Georgia. Where all Orders for Tickets should he sent. August 29. 28 TO THE TICKET HOLDERS OF THE N. O. MAMMOTH LOTTERY. THE following letter from Sylvester & Cos. will put the public in possession of the facts in rela tion to my connexion with this Lottery. 136 Broadway New York, August 21, 1840. J. 11. Andrews, Esq. Columbus, Ga. Dear Sir—ln reply to your questions we do not hes itate to acknowledge ourselves liable (if any body is) to return the money paid by such persons to you, as our agent, who purchased tickets in the New Orleans Mammoth Lottery. All the money you received, (less a tnflng commission) was immediately forward ed to us and disposed of according to the directions (by contract) of our principal, Louis Schmidt, of New Orleans, who was the sole acting manager of the said Lottery. Yours very respectfully, SYLVESTER & CO. By this it will be seen the money received has been remitted promptly, according to my instruction (for which we had given bond and security) to Messis. Sylvester & Cos., of New York, and by them to Mr. Louis Schmidt, the acting manager, together with the trustees appointed -for that purpose. According to the best information I can get on the subject, there is now a large amount of money deposited in bank in New Orleans, to the credit of this Lottery, and a distribu tion of said funds will be made to the creditors as soon as it can be done, according to the laws of that State, which will probably be some time during the coming’ winter. The holders of Tickets purchased in this place can send them to me for col.ection, and a receipt will be returned for the same. J. H. ANDREWS, Agent for Sylvester & Cos. Columbus, August 28,1840. 28 WESTERN BANK OF GEORGIA. THIS institution will resume business on the FIRST OF OCTOBER NEXT, and until a general resumption of specie payments, will continue lo pay her liabilities in such funds as are passing at par, either in the Western part ol Georgia, North Alabama, or East Tenuessee. When a general re sumption takes place in this State, the Western Bank will be lound behind no other Bank in redeeming her notes wnh specie. This Bank, like many others, had done a liberal business in accomodation notes, or whai the Banks call slow paper, and which was found too “slow” to be made available when the great pressure cama—a pressure that compelled the soundest and best manag ed banks to strike their colors. It is not surprising, then, that an institution, whose managers deserved more credit for plain honesty than Jinuncial skill, should have slopped at such a ciisis; while other banks, with large embarrassments and larger credit, should have continued to be moving “things of life.” Wnh a capital as little impaired as any Bank that has lost any thing, the Western Bank has now in suit and in judgment, seventy-five or eighty thousand dollars of good claims, which during the present year she has b en pressing to an issue, with a view to dis charge fully her obligations to the public. With these means, and her cash in hand, she cannot fail to pay by the Ist of October, her whole circulation (now lit tle over thirty-five thousand dollars) with all her other indebtedness, winch is merely nominal. T hus circumstanced, the Western Bank of Geor gia will in resuming her station anioug tiie Georgia Banks, seek no more credit thun she deserves, and can fairly maintain in a legitimate couase of business. Knowing her condition to be sound, I pledge whatever reputation I may have, that no business will be dene, during my connection with the bank, that may endan ger the rights of those who confide in the goodness of her bills. An Agency of the Bank will be fixed at Columbus, Ga., which is designed as a convenience to the Banks and people of the interior having settlements to make with her. All notes payable at the Agency, will be redeemed with specie, on demand now and forever. Letters to the Cashier will be addressed to Columbus, Georgia. R. A. GREENE, Cashier. Rome, 22d August, 1840. 29—3 t The Georgian, at Rome, Constitutionalist, Augus ta. Journal and Standard, Mtlledgeville, Messenger and Tebgraph, Macon, Jeffersonian, West Point, anti all the Columbus papers will insert three times and forward accounts for payment. BOARDING* MRS. LUCAS having taken that large and com modious two-story house on Front street, direct ly opposite Mr. Win. P. Yonge’s residence, would be willing to accommodate a few respectable Boarders. None but those of strictly moral habits need apply.— Terms to suit the times. June 11,1840. 17 ts NOTICE. THE partnership existing in Muscogee, was dis solved the Ist of March, 1838. lam responsi ble for no contracts entered into since that date. March 14, 1840. 4 ts JOHN L. HARP. DISSOLUTION. THE copartnership heretofore existing under the name and stile of S. D. Heard & Cos., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. These having claims against said coucern.will present them to C. G. Murdock or William Ansiey for payment, and those indebtod are respectfully requested to call and settle their respective amounts due with them, who are authorised to use the name of said concern in the settling of its business. S. D. HEARD, C. G. MURDOCK, WM. ANSLEY. Talbotton, August 1,1840. 25 6t GERMAN, INDIAN AND THOMSONIAN OR, PRIMITIVE, PRACTICAL. BOTANICO MEDICAL SCHOOL, Located seven miles Bast of Afar ion, near Hamburg IN uniting these several MedicalSysteins or modes ol practice, Dr. B. R. THOMAS, the Principal of the School, begs leave to state, for the information of the affiicted and public generally, that he has been many years engaged in the practice of Medicine, and has devoted much of his time, labor and practice, with many of the most intelligent and successful German and Indian Doctors, both in the United States and Canada, to the treatment of acute and chronic dis eases of every name, stage and type, and of the most malignant character; and has, by practicing with them, acquired a thorough knowledge of all their valuable secret Recipes and manner of treatment, which is far superior to any thing known or taught in the Medical Schools, and which has been successful, by the bles sings of the Almighty, in restoring to health, hundreds and thousands of persons that had been treated for a number of years by many of the most learned and s -lentific Physicians of the day, and pronounced to be entirely beyond the reach of remedy, and given over odie. ‘ Ye"tbythesimple,efficaciousVegetableMedi tcines, not poisons, they were sijatched from thejawsof the grim monster, death, and-'restored to health, the greatest of all earthly blessings; for what is riches and elegant dwellings, without health to enjoy them. Health is the poor man’s wealth, and the rich man’s bliss. To a man laboring under disease, the world is little better than a dreary solitude, a cheerless waste enlivened by no variety, a joyless scene cheered by ii) social sweets ; for the soul in a diseased body, like a martyr in his dungeon, may retain its value, but it has loTt its usefulness. Will he added to this institution, as soon as the ne c tssat v arrangements can be made, an infirmary—the cold, hot, tepid, shower, sulphur and the German, Rus sian and l’homsonian Medicated Vapor Baths ; and everything that can possibly be of any advantage in icstoring the sick to health, or relieving suffering hu manity, will be promptly and constantly attended to; and where the student will learn by practical experi ence, (i he best kind of logic,) the true principles of the hea ing art. Price of tuition will be S2OO, payable in adva -ce. All persons affiicted with lingering and chron ic disea-is, (of any name, state, stage or type, for we have ba tled disease in a thousand forms,) who cannot convent -ntly apoly in person, will send the symptoms •>f their liseases in writing to Dr. B. R. Thomas, llamhu. •, Ala., where Medicines will be prepared in the best manner to snit each case. Although they may hav ; be?n of many years standing, and treated >y a doz n different Doctor-, it is no good reason whv they can ot be cured by the subscriber. Persons liv ing at a distance must expect to pay for their Medi cines wh a thev get them, as no Medicines will be sent from .ho office on a credit. icy* .etters addressed to the subscriber will not be taken om the office, unless post-eaid, Nov. !339 45tf B, R. THOMAS. IN UNITED STATES* SENATE. EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT. The Chair submitted a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th April. On motiun of Mr, BENTON, the letter of the Secretary, and the ta bles, were ordered to be printed. Mr. B. then rose to make another motion, and that was, to print an extra number of these papers. He proposed to give his reasons for the motion, and for that purpose, asked that the papers should be sent to him, (which was done;) and Mr. B. went on to say that his object was to spread before the country, in an au thentic form, the full view of all the Government expenses for a series of years past, going back as far as Mr. Monroe’s administration; and thereby enabling every citizen, in every part of the country, to see the actual, the comparative, and the classified expenditures of the Gov ernment for the whole peiiod.— This proceeding had become neces sary, Mr. B. said, from the system atic efforts mode for some years past, to impress the country with the belief that the expenditures had increased threefold in the last twelve years, that they had risen from THIRTEEN to THIRTY-NINE millions of dollars; and that this e norinous increase was the effect of the extravagance, of the corruption, and of the incompetency of the Ad ministrations which had succeeded that of Mr. Adams and Mr. Mon roe. These two latter Administra tions were held up as the models of economy; those of Mr. Van Burcn and General Jackson were stigma tized as monsters of extravagance; and tables of figures were so arrang ed as to give color to the characters attributed to each. These system atic efforts—this reiterated asser tion, made on this floor; of thirteen millions increased to thirty-nine— and the effect which such statements must have upon the minds of those who cannot see the purposes for which the money was expended, ap peared to him (Mr. B.) to require some more formal and authentic refutation than any one individual could give—something more impos ing than the speech of a solitary member could afford. Familiar with the action of the Government for twenty years past —coming into the Senate in the time of Mr. Mon roe—remaining in it ever since-a friend to economy in public and in private life—and closely scrutinizing the expenditures of the Government during the whole time—he (Mr. B.) felt himself to be very able at any time to have risen in his place, and to have exposed the delusion of this thirteen and thirty-nine bugbear; and, if he did not do so it was because, in the first place, he was disinclined to bandy contradictious on the floor of the Senate; and, in the second place, because he relied upon the in telligence of the conntry to set all right whenever they obtained a view of the facts. This view he had made himself the instrument of pro curing, and the Secretary of the Treasury had now presented it. It was ready for the contemplation of the American people; and he could wish every citizen to have the pic ture in his own hands, that he might contemplate it at his own fireside, and at iiis lull leisure. He could wish every citizen to possess a copy of this report, now received from the Secretary of the Treasury, un der the call of the Senate, and print ed by its order; he could wish every citizen to possess one of these au thentic copies, hearing the imprima tur of the American Senate; hut that was impossible; and, limiting his action to what was possible, he would propose to print such number of extra copies as would enable some to reach every quarter of the Union. He knew that the report could easily go through the newspapers, (for it was very short,) and he hoped that it Would appear in every paper that was a friend to truth and to fail dealing—that wished to give cor rect information to its readers. He hoped it would appear in all such papers; but that was not sufficient. The newspaper publications were not sufficiently free from cavil to answer his purpose; no publication could be sufficient but the one made by the order of the Senate; and, therefore, he wished the document itself to go forth, with the Senatorial imprimatur upon it, in sufficient numbers to reach every quarter of the Union. He wished a large num ber to be printed; but would not suggest any particular number until he had first given to the Senate some view of the papers themselves, and thus show them to be worthy of the most ample multiplication, and of the most extensive diffusion. Mr. B. then opened the tables, and explained their characters and contents. The first one (marked A) consisted of three columns, and ex hibited the aggregate, and classified expenditures of the Government from the year 1824 to 1839, inclu sive; the second one (marked B) contained the detailed statement of the payments annually made on ac count of all temporary or extraor dinary objects, including the public debt, for the same period. The se cond table was explanatory of the third column of the first one; and the two, taken together, would en able every citizen to see the actual expenditures, and the comparative expenditures, of the Government for the whole peroid which he had mentioned. Mr. B. then examined the actual and the comparative expenses of two of the years, taken from the two contrasted periods referred to, and invoked theattention oftheSen ate to the results which the com parison would exhibit. Fie took the first and the last of the years mentioned in the tables—the years 1824 and 1839—and began with the first item in the first column. This showed the aggregate expen ditures for every object for the year 1284, to have been $31,898,538 47 —very near thirty-two millions of dollars, said Mr. 8., and if stated alone, and without explanation, ve ry capable of astonishing the public, of imposing upon the ignorant, and of raising a cry against the dread ful extravagance, the corruption, and the wickedness of Mr. Monroe’s administration. Taken by itself, (and indisputably true it is in itself,) and this aggregate of near thirty two millions is very sufficent to ef fect all this surprise and indignation in the public mind; but, passing on to the second column to see what were the expenditures, independent of the public debt, and this large ag gregate will be found to be reduced more than one half; it sinks to $15,- 330,144 81. This is a heavy de duction; hut it is not all. Passing onto the third column, and it is seen that the actual expenses of the Gov ernment for permanent and ordina ry objects, independent of the tem porary and extraordinary ones, for this same year, were only $7,107,- 892 05; being less than the one fourth part of the aggregate of near thirty-two millions. This looks quite reasonable, and goes far to wards relieving Mr. Monroe’s ad ministration from the imputation to which a view of the aggregate ex penditure for the year would have subjected it. But, to make it en tirely satisfactory, and to enable eveiy citizen to understand the im portant point of the Government expenditures—a point on which the the citizens of a free and representa tive Government should he always well informed—to attain this full satisfaction, let us pass on to the second table (marked B.) and fix our eyes on its first column, under theyear 1824. We shall there find every temporary and extraordinary object, and the amount paid on ac count of it, the deduction of which reduced an aggregate of near thirty two millions to a fraction over seven millions. We shall there find the explanation of the difference be tween the first and third columns. The first item is the sum of $16,568, 393 76, paid on account of the princi pal and interest of the public debt. The second is the sum of $4,891,- 368 56, paid to merchants for in demnities under the treaty with Spain of 1819, by which we acquir ed Florida. The third is $5,510 27 paid to States for claims on account of war debts. The fourth is $47,- 714 53 for the three per centum to the new States on the lands sold within their limits. Tho fifth is $17,000 on account of the two per centum to the Cumberland road.— The fifth is $4,383 10 for the sur vey of the coast. The sixth is $423,342 46 for collecting materi als for the gradual increase of the navy, and the improvement of the navy yards. The seventh is $ 180,- 309 67 for durable public buildings. The eighth is $429,962 04 for bridg es and fortifications. The ninth is $56,955 99 for roads, canals, and breakwaters, and improvements in rivers and harbors, except the Cum berland road, which was stated by itself. The tenth is $71,154 43 for providing arms for the militia of the United States, and for arming the fortifications. The eleventh is sl,- 267,600 41, for all pensions, except those of invalids. The twelfth is $429,987 90 for purchasing land from Indians, end paying for In dian depredations. The thirteenth, and last item, is the sum of $296,- 960 21 for miscellaneous objects, and for property lost, or injuries committed, during hostilities with any power. The total of all Uiese items, except the public debt, is SB,- 222,252 66. This total, added to the sum paid on account of the pub lic debt, makes close upon twenty five millions of dollars; and this, de ducted from the aggregate of near thirty-two millions leaves a fraction over seren millions for the real ex penses of the Government—the or dinary and permanent expenses— during the last year of Mr. Monroe’s administration. This is certainly a satisfactory result. It exempts the administration of that period from the imputation of extravagance which the unexplained exhibition of the aggregate expenditures might have drawn upon it in the minds of uninformed persons. It clears that administration from all blame. It must be satisfactory to every can did mind. And now let us apply the test of the same examination to some year of the present ndminis tration, now so incontinently charg ed with ruinous extravagance. Let us see how the same rule will work when applied to the present period; and, for that purpose, let us take the last year in the table, that of 1839. Let others take any year that they please, or as many as they please: I take one, because I only propose to give an example; and I take the last one in the table because it is the last. Let us proceed with this examination, and see what the re sults, actual and comparative, will be. Commencing with the aggregate payments from the Treasury for all objects; Mr. B. said it Would be seen at the foot of the first column in the first table, that they amount ed to $37,129,396 80; passing to the second column, and it would he seen that this sum was reduced to $25,- 982,797 75; and passingtothe third, and it would he seen that this latter sum was itself reduced to $13,525,- 800 18; and referring to the second table, under the year 1839, and it would he seen how this aggregate of thirty-seven millions was reduced to thirteen and a half. It was a great reduction, a reduction of nearly two thirds from the aggregate amount paid out; and left for the proper ex penses of the Government—its or dinary and permanent expenses— an inconceivably small sum for a great nation of seventeen millions of souls, covering an immense ex tent of territory, and acting a part among thegreat powers of the world. To trace this reduction—to show the reasons of the difference between the first and third columns, Mr. B. would follow’ the same process which he had pursued in explaining the expenditures of the year 1824, and ask for nothing in one case which had not been granted in the other. 1. The first item to be deducted from the thirty-seven million aggre gate, was the sum of 11,146,599 05, paid on account of the public debt. He repeated, on account of the pub lic debt; for it was paid in redemp tion of reasury notes; and these treasury notes were so much debt incurred to supply the place of the revenue deposited with the States, in 1836, or shut up in banks during the suspension of 1837, or due from merchants to whom indulgence had been granted. To supply the place of these unattainable funds, the Gov ernment W'ent in debt by issuing treasury notes; hut faithful to the sentiment which abhorred a nation al debt, it paid off the debt almost as fast as it contracted it. Above eleven millions of this debt, was paid in 1839, amounting lo almost the one third part of the aggregate ex penditure of that year, and thus, nearly the one third part of the sum which is charged upon the adminis tration as extravagance and cor ruption, was a mere payment of debt?—a mere payment of treasury notes which we had issued to supply the place of our misplaced revenue. This item being deducted from the 37 millions, reduces it to 26. 2. Tho second item to he deduct ed is stated in the table under the description of trust funds; and con sists in moneys received in trust for the Chickasaw Indians, and other Indians, on the sale of their lands, for which the United States act as their agent and treasurer. It a mounts to near a quarter of a mill ion, to wit, $240,694 for the year 1839, but for the three preceding years averaged a million arid a quar ter, and contributed largely to swell the expenditures, as they were term ed; of 1836, 1537,1838. This item had no existence in the year 1824, so that it becomes anew charge, apparently, upon the Treasury; hut in reality no charge at all, as it was only delivering over to Indians the money which had been received for them. Yet this item amounting to nearly four millions in the last four years, is set down to the reckless extravagance of a mad and ruinous administration. 3. The hi and itenlto bed ducted, is the sum of §717,552 27 for indemnities; that is to say, lor moneys tvcovered from foreign nations, under General Jackson’s Administra tion, for merchanis who had been plundered under previous administrations, whose money, when received, had gone into our treasury, and waß afterwards paid out to the rightful owners as heir respective rights were ascer tained. The payment for 1839 was near three quarters of a million; but for the three years previous they amounted in the who'e to about five and a half millions; and, according to the accusation of the opposition gentlemetr. constituted so much of this horrid extrava gance of thote years! and here let us mark the difference betwixt the present times and those of 1824. When, in (hat year, the sum of near five millions was paid out of the trea sury for indemnities to merchants under the ihe Florida (reaiv, no one ever thought of making the people believe that it was a part ol the expenses of the Government. No one ever thought of injuring the administration about it. These conceptions have been re served for the present day. Now, for the first time in the history of our country, or perhaps ol any country, the recovery of in demnities from foreigners, and their payment to our own citizens becomes a dreadf.il ex travagance—a ruinous waste of money—for which a mad and profl gate administration mu 4 he thrust from power! The fourth item is a small sum of $4,875 50 for claims on States on account of expendi tures for the general benefit duiin±r the late war. It was a payment of debt, and not an expense of Government, and though small in 1539, it had been considerable in ih* three pre ceding years, amounting in that time to about $230,000, and of course swelling by that much the aggregate expenditures of tho<c years, and helping to make up the mon strous extravagance of which the country has heard so much. 5. The next item grows out of the three per centum fund to the new States on the amount of the lands sold within their li mits. It is due to the States by compact, as a consideration, and a most inadequate one it is, for not taxing the federal lands. For the year 1839, this item amounted to $63,670; and being a debt due to the State-., is no part of the Government expenses. For the three previous years, when the land sales were at the largest, and when some of the States had neglected for some years to draw their money, the payments on this account amounted to neurone and a half millions of dollars; and of course, swelled to that amount the extravagance of 183 G, ‘37 and : 38 ! In the year 1824, this item was only $17,714. 6. The sixth item to be deducted was nearly allied to the former. It was, $98,5301 for the two per centum on the sales of the public lands to make roads to the new Stales, and applicable to the Cumberland road. In the year 1824 it was only $17,000; but in the great sales of 1835, ’6, and ’7, it amounted to near $1,200,000. Here again was a debt converted into wasteful extravagance I 7. Donations of money to. or payments on account of, the District of Columbia, vvarf the seventh item of dedufc ion which Mr. B. mentioned. It amounted to $126,374 for the year 1839. It was anew item in the list of Government payments, having no existence in 1824, nor until the year 1832. After that time it had been annual, and as high as $313,000 in one year, to wit, 1833, and for the years 1836, ’7 and 5 8, amounted to near $440,000. It was a gratuity which had no other object than to relieve it from burthens i.nprovidently contracted; yetnt-ived the usual character of corrupt extravagance. 8. The survey of the coast was the eighth item which Mr. explained It was a tempora ry and extraordinary object which had grown’ up from a trifle to a large amount wi’hin a lew years past and amounted to s9l 995 for the year 1839. Previous to General Jackson’s administration it rarely exceeded two thou sand dollars per annum, for the years 1836 7 and 8, it amounted to $220,000. 9. Duties refunded to merchants was an other of the new and large items which had lately grown up among our treasury payments. From 1824 to 1832, it was unknown; yet in 1839, it was $179,304; in the year *1833, ii was $701,000; and for 1836,-7, and 8, it amounted to above SBOO,OOO, This was a favor or an act of justice to merchants, granted by acts of Congress, or byjudcial de cisions, or by reversal of previous construc tions of the laws. It is no part of the Gov ernment expenditures, though being refunded from thr treasury, it goes into the enumera tion, to swell the general aggregate—to swell the cry of extravagance —and to prove tl e hostility of the administration to merchants! 10. A tenth item to be deducted was the sum of $714,857 for collecting materials for the increase of the navy. This was an ex penditure for the future defence of the coun try, and averaged abotn SBOO,OOO per an num since the commencement of General Jackson’s administration, though only $423,- 000 in 1824. It is clearly no [tart of the ex penses of the Government, but an outlay of money for the benefit of after years, and of posterity. 11. Permanent public buildings isanother of the large items of recent expenditures.— Formerly these buildings were of perishable materials, and sunk under the decay of time, or the ravages of fire; for some years past durable materials had been selected, and fire proof edifices had been constructed. The expenditure for this purpose, in 1839, was $1,248,044, and near the same for the three preceding years. This again was an ex penditure for the benefit of posterity, and not chargeable as an expense upon the actual administrations. 12. The sum of $935,570 for bridges and fortifications, was the 12th item which Mr. B. pointed out for deduction, beii g both of them expenditures for the benefit of posterity; the expenditure extraordinary and temporary, but the benefit general and permanent. 13. The sutn of $1,491,000 for the im provement of rivers, harbors and roads, ex clusive of the Cumberland road, was another expenditure of the same character. In 1824, it was but $56,955; but took a start then which would have known no bounds had it not been for the MavsviMe veto. 14. Providing lor the militia of the States, and cannon for the Forts, is another expendi ture for future times and for posterity. It amounted to $474, 906 for 1839, and avera ged about hall a million a year (breach of the three preceding years. In 1824 it was but $171,155. 15. Pensions, except those to invalids, was the next item noted by Mr. B. lor deduction., They were gratuities from the treasury, ard not an expense of Government. They amounted in 1839, to $3,033 764, being near three limes what they were in 1823. They had been an enormous dr; in upon the trea sury for the last seven years, amounting in 1833, to $4, 495,000, and subsequently aver aging about half that sum. 16. Purchase of lands from Indians was another large item th he d* dut t*d, and which had vastly increased of late. In 1824 mis head of expenditure only amounted to $429,- 987; in 1839 it was $1,708 123: in 1836 was as high as three millions; in 1837,2.484,000; and in 1838, it was $4 603,518. These wete heavy expenditures, incurred for the great object of relieving all the States from the in cu nbrance of an Indian population; but tho’ heavy, it is not money gone from the treasury never to return to it. It all returns, and with profit, in the sale of lands acquired; v p t the vast sums paid on this head, is cited against us as ruinous extravagance, for which the Goths shou'd be driven from the Capitol! 17. Removal ol the India ns and their wars was another item nearly connected with the last, and subject to the same remarks. It had grown up o'late, and was directed to the good of the States. In 1824 it was noth ing; in 1839 it was $1,775 914. In the three ! preceding years it was re-pecfive*v, in round [NO. 30