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Mr. WKBSTKH’S SPldKCll —Continu'd.
I hare detained (he Senate too lon#, sir, with
the#* observations upon the slate of (he coun
try, and its pecuniary system and coiidition.
And now, when dm banks have suspended
payment*, universally; when dto internal ex
change* are ail deranged, and die business of the
country moat seriously interrupted, the ques
tions are—
Whether the measure before ua ta suitable to
our condition! rind
Whelhet it ta n just and proper exercise and
fulfilment of the power* and duties of Con
gress'
What, then. air. will he die praet cnl o[icrnlion
and affect of thra moasnie, if it ahould become a
law 1
Like its predcceaaor of the last cession, the
101 l proposes nothing for the general currency
of die country; nodiing to restore exchanges;
nothing to bring about u speedy resumption of
specie payment* by the banks. Ira whole pro
foiled object is the collection and disbursement
of the public revenue. Some of its friends, in
deed, say, that when it shall gu into 'operation,
it will, incidentally, produce a favorable effect
on the currency, by restraining the issue of bunk
paper. But others press it n»if it# effect war to
be the final overthrow of all banks, and the in
troduclirm of an exclusive metallic currency for
all the uses of the country.
Are we to understand, then, that it i# intend- ;
od, by means, of winch this is the first, to rid the '
country of all banks, as being but no many nui ]
sauces, and to abolish all papet currency what
ever!
Or is it expected, on the contrary, that after
tins system shall be adopted sot the use ol (Jo
vernment, thoro will still be a paper currency i
lit the country for the use of the peopled
And if thoro shall still b« a paper currency,
xvill that currency consist of irredeemable t in- I
vernment paper, or of convertible bank notes. )
such as have circulated heretofore'-—These ques
tions must be answered, before we can jngJe
accurately of the operation of this hill.
Ai to an exclusive metallic currency, sir.thu
Administration on tb s point is regularly Janus
faced. Outdoors, and among Ihc people, it :
shows itself “all clinquant, all in gold." There,
oveiy thing is to he bard money—no paper rags i
—no delusive credits—no bank monopolies—no '
Trust in paper of any kind. IJtit in the Transit- ;
ry Department, and in the Houses ol Congress, |
xve see another aspect —a mixed appearance, I
partly gold ami partly paper; gold for (iove.in
merit, and paper for the people. The small I
voice which is heard here, allows lire absolute
necessity of paper of some sort; and to some ex
tent. Hut the shouts in the community demand
the destruction of all banks, and the final exlur- ;
-tarnation of all pajtT circulation. ,
To (he people, the lion roaia against paper I
money in all the loudness and terror of his natu- {
lal voice: but to members of Congress be is more !
•discreet; lost bo should frighten them out of their 1
xvtts, bo tunc restrains and modulates, and roars
"as gently as any sucking dove, or, us it were,
ai y nightingale ” The impracticability of an i
exclusive metallic currency, *,h“ absurdity jl at
tempting any such thing In a country like this, ,
are so manifest, that nobody here undertakes to j
support it by any reason or argument. All that j
is sard in Us favor, is general denunciation ol pa
per, general outcry against the banks, ami dec I a
matron against existing institutions, full of sJiiml
and fury, signifying nothing.
'l'll* moment any one considers it, he sees bow
ridiculous any such attempt would be. An ex
clusive metallic circulation for the second com
mercial country on earth, in the nineteenth con- I
tnry! Hrr, you might as well propose to abolish j
commerce altogether.
The currency of England is estimated at sixty
millions sterling; and it is Mr McCulloch's cal
culation, that if this currency were all gold, nl•
lowing only one quarter of one per cent, for wear
rrt metals, the annual expense, attending such a
currency, would be three millions and a quarter
a year, ol nearly five, per rent, upon the whole.
With us, this charge would be much greater.-
The loss of capital would bo more, owing to the
higher rates of interest; ami besides all this, is
the cost of transportation, which, in a country I
»n extensive ns ours, would be vast, and not en- j
sily calculated. We should also require, pro- |
porliotially, more specie (ban is requisite in Eng- j
land, Ixscause our system of exchange, by means I
of luffs of exchange, is at present, and would be, j
under sech a system ss is proposed, much less
j ter feet mid convenient than (bat of England.—
Besides, ike English metallic circulation is most- '
ly gold, gold being in England the standard me- '
tab With us, silver and gold both are made
standards, at a fixed relation; and if we should
succeed to keep this relation so liuo as to pre
serve both of the precious metals among ua,
( which indeed, is not very probable,) our circu.
latum would bu still marc expensive end curn.
bious, from the quantity of stiver which it would
contain. The silver in the world is estimated to
be fifty limes that of gold in amount, and conse
quently something more than throe limes in va
lue. If both should circulate, therefore, equally,
in proportion to value, (ho currency would be
three parts silver, and one gold.
Now, sir, the annual oxpense of such a circu
lation, upon the basis of Mr. McCulloch's estim
ate, would exceed the whole annual expenditure
made for out army sml navy. Consider, sir, the
amount of actual daily payments made in the
country. It is difficult to estimate it. ami quite
impossible ip ascertain it, with any accuracy.
But we can form some notion of it, bv the daily !
amount ot payment in the trunks in soma of the ,
cities. In limes of prosperous business and com- (
morco, lb* daily amount of payments in the banks
of New York alone has been equal to eight mi!
lions. Whether we call (Ins a tenth, a twentieth
or a fitnerV |,nrt cf all the payments and receipt*
made daily in xb« country, we see to what on ag
gregate result the »Me would rise. And how
is it possible that such amount 0 f receipt and
payment could be performed by actual p as s,„ g
of gold and silver from hand to hand »
Such notions, sir, hardly require serious r„f u . '
tation.
Mr. President, an entire metallic currency I
would necessarily create banks immediately.
Whete would (hs money bo kept, or how could ]
it ho rsmittsd ? Banks of deposits mast and |
would be instantly provided for it Would the
merchants ot the cities he seen, in their daily
walks of business, with servants behind them, ;
with bx»s ot gold and kegs of silver on their j
w heelbarrows t W hat lolly is groat enough to
imagine this ' If there were not now a bank ;
note, nor a bank in the country, and if there'
should be an exclusive specie currency 10-oiorrow
morning at nine o’clock, ihere would be fifty
banks before sun»cl From necessity, there '
would bo created at once place# of deposites, and
persons having money in such depositories would
draw checks for it, and pass those checks as mo- •
ncy. and from one band they would pass to ano
ther, or the depositary himself would issue cerli. |
ficates ot daposites, sml these would pass as eur
rency. And all this would do no more than just |
to carry ua back two or three hundred years, to I
the infancy of banks We should then have !
done nothing hot reject the experience of the j
most civilized nations, for some centuries, as well -
as all our own experience, and have returned to i
the rude conceptions of former times. These i
certificates ol deposite would soon be found to be
often issued without any solid capital or actual 1
deposite. Abuses arising from this sou roe would i
call for legislative interference, and lh« Legisla
ture would find it necessary to restrain the issue
ot paper intended for circulation, by enacting
that such issue should only be made on ihe
strength competent capital, ac.u illy provided
'/and assigned, placed mulct proper regulation,
f I and manured by persona irsponsible to the lawn.
t I And this would bring us ugniii exactly to tbo
•lair of things in which we now are; and that ia
to say, to the use of the paper ot the banks, esla.
I blisbed, rngulatcd and controlled by law. In the
mean lime, before this process could be carried
through, half the community would bo made
[ bankrupt by the ruin of their business, and by
; the violent and revolutionary changes of proper
ity which the process would create. The whole
1 class of debtors, all that live more by industry
than on capital, would be overwhelmed with
1 undistinguished destruction.
There will then, sir, be no such thing at) an
exclusive paper currency. The country will not
, be guilty of the folly ol attempting it.
j I should have fell that I had occ pied too much
' limit with such a senseless and preposterous sug
gestion, were it not the manifest object of parlt«
sans to press such notions upon the attention of
the people, in aid of the war against the banks.
We shall then, sir, have paper of some sort,
forming a part of onr currency. What will that
paper be 1 The honorable gentleman from
South Carolina, admitting that (taper is necessa
ry ns a port of the currency, or circulation, was
■ contended that the paper ought to be Govern,
merit paper—Government paper, not convertible
nor redeemable, only so far a» bv being receiva
! I'le for debts and dues to Government. My col-
I league lias endeavored to satisfy the. Semite,that
I the aim of the whole system, of whieb lie re
' (mills, this bill ns lull part, is to establish n circa
j Intion of Government paper and u Government
; bank. Other gentlemen have taken llio same
view n( it. Hut, as the bill itself does nut pro
fess any sui b purpose, I am willing to discuss
it in llie character in which n presents itself. I
take n lor what its friends say it is—a bill ma
king further provision for collecting the revc
j lines.
j We are, then sir, still to have paper as a gene
; rat medium of circulation; that paper is to be the
j paper of banks; hut Government is to be divorced
| tram these banks altogether. It is not to keep
j its funds in them, as heretofore. It is to have
I nothing to do with them, but is to rollout and
disburse the revenues by its own means, and its
own officers.
The receipt of the notes of specie (toying
I banks is to be partially allowed for some time,
I but it h to be gradually discontinued; and six
I years hence, vve are to arrive at the maturity and
| the perfection of the system. When that all
j spiciotw day comes, Government is to receive ami
to pay out gold and silver, and nothing but gold
j anil silver
Now, Mr I’lesident, let us anticipate this
I joyous epoch; If ', us suppose the six years to have
j expired, and let us imagine this bill, with its spe-
I lie payments and all, to be in full operation ul
the present hour. What will that operation be!
|ln tin) first place, disregarding all question of
public convenience, or the general interests of the
■ people, how will this system work as a more
I mode of collecting and paying oar revenue! J.et
i us see.
I Our receipts and expenditures may becslimn
: ted, each, at thirty millions a year. Those who
think this estimate either too high or too
‘ low, tuny make the necessary allowance. Here,
■ ihen, is the sum of tli!rl_ v million", t<> he collected
j and paid out every year; and it is Q.I ' ,c CVltnl*
, ed, actually told over, dollar after dollar, ana
i gold piece after gold piece; nnd how mouy times
I counted! Let ns inquire into that. The hm
| (Kilting merchant, whoso ship has arrived, and
| who has cash duties to pay, goes to the hank for
i his money and the tellers count it out: that is
■ once' lie carries it to the custom house, pays it,
' and the clerks count it over that is twice. Some
| days afterwards, the collector takes It out of his
hags and chests, carries it to the receiver goneral’s
I' office, and there it is counted again, and poured
into the hags and chests of that office; that is
the third time. Presently a warrant comes from
the Treasury, in fiver ot some disbursing officer
[ (lays it to the persons entitled to receive it, on
I contracts, or lor pensions, salaries, or other claims.
Thirty millions of hard money are thus to be
handled ami told over five limes in (ho course of
the yeat; and if there he transfers from place to
place, then, of onrse, it is to he counted so much
| oftrncr, Government officers, therefore, are to
I roml ovrrone humlird j and fifty millions ofdol
! lars a year; which, allowing three hundred work
; mg days m (ho year,gives live hundred thousand
' dollars a day. Put (his is not all. Onco a
quarter, the naval offioor is to count tlie collec
tor’s money, nnd the register in the land office
is to count the receiver’s money. And more
over, sir, every now nnd then the Secratary of
the Treasury is In authorize unexpected and im
promptu countings, in his discretion, and just
to satisfy his own mind!
Sir, what a money counting, tinkling, jing
ling generation we shall lie! All the money I
changers in Solomon’s temple will be as nothing
to us. Our Bound will go forth unto all lands.
Wo shall all ho like the king in the ditty of thu
uursiry.
"There sal the king, counting of ins money."
Von will observe, sir, that these receipts
and payments can not be made in parcels,
without the actual handling of each piece of
com. 7’ne marks on kegs of dollars, and
labels outlie bags ot gold, are not to be trus
ted. They are a (tart of credit—and ail crc«
dit, oil trust, nil confidence is to bo done away
with. When the surveyor, lor instance, at
the custom house, is to examine the money
on hand, in possession of tho collector, or re-
I reiver general, ho is, ot course, to count the
| money. No other examination con come to
i any tiling. Ile cannot fell, from external ap
pearance, nor from the weight, whether the
I collector has loaned out Ihe money, and filled
the bags and boxes up with sand and lend, or
not. Nor can counterfeit pieces be oilier
wise detected than by actual handling, lie
must open, he must examine, ho must count.
And so at the land offices, the minis, and else
where. It these oflisers shall have a taste
i for silver sounds, they are likely to be gratified,
j Mr. President, in all soberness, is not this
| whole operation preposterous.
It begins by proposing to keep the public
j moneys. Plus, Used, m the sense the word
!ia here used, is a perfect novelty; especially
m the United States. Why keep the public
! moneys, that is to say, why hoard them, why i
keep them out of use! The use of moony is I
i m the exchange. It is designed to circulate, I
] not to he hoarded. All that Government
: should have to do with it, is to receive it to.
I day, that it may pay it away to morrow. It
should not receive it before it needs it; and it
| should part with it as soon as it owes it. To
keep it—that is, to detain it, to hold it back i
from general use, to hoard it, is a conception
j belonging to barbarous times and barbarous
I Governments. How would it strike us, if
j wo should see other great commercial nations
outing upon such a system? If England,
I with a revenue of fifty millions sterlings year,
wore found to be collecting and disbursing
| every shilling of it in hard money, through
all the ramifications of her vast expenditure,
| should wo not think her mad? But tho sys
tem is worse here, because it withdraws just
jso much active capital from tho uses of a
! country that requires capital, ami is paying
| interest tor capital wherever it con obtain it.
i But now. sir, a low ini to examine the ope
ration'of this measure upon the general in*
) tercel of commerce, and upon the general cur*
; rency of the country. And in tins point of
, now. the first great question is, What amount
lot gold and silver will line operation subtract
i, i from tho circulation of the country, and from
>• the use ot the banks?
0 In regard to this important inquiry, wc are
J not without the means of forming sornejudg
• ment. An official report from the Treasury,
'■ made to the other House, shows that, for the
last ten years; there has been, at the end of
c ! each year, on an average, fifteen millions and
• four hundred thousand dollars in the Treasu
' | ry. And this sum is exclusive of nil that had
B been collected of the people, be; bad not yet
H reached the Treasury* and also of all that had
been drawn from the Treasury by disbursing
officers, but which had not yet been by them
, ' paid to individuals. Adding these sums to.
gether.sir.and the result is,'hat on an average
, lor the last ten years, there have been at least
twenty millions of dollars in the Treasury, I
, do not moan, of course, that this sum is the
f | whole of it, unappropriated. I mean that this
1 amount has in fact been in the Treasury, ei
-1 Ihcr not appropriated, or not called for under
t appropriations; so that if this sub treasury
• scheme bad been in operation in times past,
■ of the specie in the currency, twenty millions
i would have been constantly locked up in the
safes and vault*. Now, sir, ! do not believe
i that, for these ten years the whole amount of
silver and gold in tho country has exceeded
on the average, fitly or sixty mi lions. I
i do not believe it exceeds sixty millions at tho
present moment, and if we had now the whole
system in complete operation, it would lock
1 up, and keep locked up, one full third of all
' the specie in the country. Locked up 1 say—
hoarded—rendered as useless, to all purposes
1 of commerce and business, as if it were car
j ried back to itc native mines. Sir, is it not
' inconceivable that any man should fall upon
such a scheme of policy as this? Is it possi
[ ble that any one can fail to see the destructive
I effects of such a policy on the commerce and
I currency of the country?
, It is true, the system does not come into
, operation all at once. Bat it begins its de.
mauds for specie immediately—it calls upon
, individuals, for their hard dollars that they
may be put away n ml locked up in the Trea
sury at the very moment when the country is
, 1 suffering for want of more specie in the cir
vulation, and the banks arc suffering for means
to enable them to resume their payments.
And this, it is expected, will improve the cur
rency, and facilitate resumption!
It has therefore been asserted, that the gen
eral currency of the country needed to be
i strengthened, by the introduction of more spe
; cie into the circulation. This has been insis
■ led on for years, hot it be conceded. I have
; 1 admitted if, md indeed contended for the pro
position heretofore and endeavored to prove
r : it. Bufil must he plain to every body, that
| any addition of specie, in order to be useful,
must either go into the circulation, as a part
of that circu ation, or else it must go into tho
hanks, to enable them the better to sustain
and redeem their paper. But-this bill is cal
culated to promote neither of those ends, but
exactly the reverse. It withdraws specie from
the circulation and from the banks, and piles
it up in useless heaps in the Treasury. It
weakens the general circulation, by making
portion pf specie, which is part of if, so
rim cl i tho less jw«!f«na the banks, by re
ducing the amount of com "’.b'cli suppof!"
llicir circulation. The general evil imputca
to our currency, for sonic years past, is that
paper has formed too great a portion of it.
i The operation ot tins measure must be to in
crease that very evil. 1 have admitted the
' ewil, and have concurred in measures to rem
edy it. I have favored Hie withdrawing of
1 small hills from circulation, to the end that
1 specie might take their place. I discussed
tins policy, and supported it, as early as 1832.
1 My colleague, who shortly after that period,
was placed in the chair of the ch cf rnsgislra
[ cy of Massachusetts, pressed its considera
tion, at length, upon the attention of the Leg.
Mature of ihat dtate. I still think that it was
a right policy. Nome of the States had begun
|to adopt it. But the measures of the Admin'
jistration, and ospec ally this proposed meas
ure, throw this policy all aback. They undo
at once all that we have been labouring to do.
Such and so pertinacious has been the demand
of (j’overnincnl for specie ami such new de
mand does Hub bill promise to create, that the
Stales have found themselves compelled again
to issue email hills for the use ot the people.
It was a day of rejoicing, as wo have lately
seen, among the people ot New York, when
the Legislature ot' that Stale suspended the
[small bill restraining law, and furniahed the
| people with some medium for small payments,
bettor than the miserable trash which now an
noys the community.
The Gove nincnt, therefore, I insist, is evi
dently breaking down its own declared poll
j cy ; it is defeating openly and manifestly de
feating, its own professed objects.
And yet, theory, imagination, proaumplucm
gciicraliZHtio;;, the application of military
movements tn questions of commerce and fi
nance, and the abstractions ot metaphysics,
offer us, in such a state of tilings, their pana
cea. And what is it? What is it? What
is to cure or mitigate these evils, or what is to
ward oft’ future calamities ? Why, sir, Hie
most agreeable remedy imaginable; the kind
est, tendcresl, most soothing, and solacing
application in the whole world ! Nothing,
sir, nothing upon earth but. a smart, delightful
perpetual, and irreconcilable warfare, between
the Government of the United States and the
Stale banks ! All will be well, we are asaur
od, when the Government and the banks be
come antigoimtical! Vcs, sir, ‘ antigoniali
cal!" that is tho word. What a stroke of
policy, sr, is this ! It is as delicate a strata
; gem as poor old King Lear's; and a good deal
I like it. It proposes that we should tread light
ly along, in felt or on velvet, till we gel the
I hanks within our power, and then, “kill, kill,
kill!”
Sir, wo may talk as much aa we pleaao
about the resumption ol specie payments but
[ I till you that, with government thus warring
i upon the banks, if resumption should take
| place another suspension 1 fear would follow.
; it is not war, successful or unsuccessful, be
tween government and the banks—it is only
peace, trust, confidence, that can restore the
prosperity of the country. This system of
perpetual annoyance to the banks, this hoard
! mg up of money which the country demands
i for its own necessary uaea, this bringing n£
I the whole revenue to act, not in aid and tur
! thcrance, hut in direct hindrance and embar
■j raasmeut of commerce and business, i« utter
j ly irreconcilable with the public interest.
1 We shalksee no return of former times till it
jbe abandoned—altogether abandoned. The
j passage of this bill will create new alarm and
new distress.
, i I’eople begin already to fear their own gov
. * online lit. They have an actual dread” of
1 those who should be their protectors and guar
i (bans. There are hundreds of thousands of
; | honest and industrious men, sir, at this very
moment, who would feel relieved in their cir
. j cumstances, who would sec better prospect of
- an honest livelihood, and feel more sure of
. Hie menus ot food and clothing for their wives
f and children, if they should hear that this
t measure had received its death. Let us, [hen
i sir, away with it. Do wc not see the world
i) prosperous uround us? Do we not ice other
governments and other nations enlightened
e by experience, and rejecting arrogant innova*
* lions and theoretic dreams, accomplishing
the great ends of society T
e Why, sir, why ate we, why are ws alone,
t among tin) greit commercial slate** Why are
J we to be kept on the rack and tortuie df these et
. perjments 1 We have powers adequate, csrni
i piste powers. We need drily to exercise them ;
t we need only to perform out constitutional duty;
-1 and we shall spread cdnttnt, cheerfulness and joy
T over the whole land.
’ [To bt mnlinurd]
\ CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
I AllftillSTA.
j 'l'Ucidny .Morning, April 17>
The Bank Convention.
r The New York Express of the I2th insl.
, say*—
i The Convention met at 12 o’clock yesterday,
1 Under the organization of November last.
Samuel Hubbard, of Boston, Was chosen Pre
sident, and J. H. Lockwood, Secretary.
About 150 Delegates, were present fiom IS j
■States, —none from South Carolina, none from i
Georgia, none from Alabama, none from Louisi- I
ana, one from Mississippi,—some from Pennsyl- |
vania,—but none from Philadelphia,—none from i
! Kentucky,—nil New England was represented |
cicepl Now Hampshire,—none from Missouri—
and none from Tennessee, ss near as wo could
learn, but more are expected to day.
A proposition was made to relax the rule which
closed the doors of the Convention, ao as to ad
mit officers of Hanks as spectators, who were not
i delegates. No proposition has been made to
throw the doors open to the Public.
The New England Banka, it is reported, Wilt
not agree to resume, unless it is ascertained,
! what course New York intenda to take us to pay
i ing out its depositee in specie.
1 The Letter from the Philadelphia Banka was
* read, and some discussion had, when the subject
was laid on the table.
A member from Maryland submitted a rcs-du
; lion calling for all the correspondcnca between
■ the New York and Philadelphia Bunks. Mr.
* Gallatin opposed it, and was exceedingly warm.
The subject was laid on the table.
. A resolution was submitted by a member trom
t Connecticut, calling on the President of the Uni
■ led States to know whether tho Go'eminent
■ would sustain tho specie paying banks or not
i Cornelius W. Lawrence opposed the resolution.
. Mr. Gallatin was very severe on tho measures of
1 the Government. Ho contended that their acts,
| and particularly tho Treasury Circular and the
Sub-Treasury scheme wore calculated to break
, down the Banks, and he said that a large Na
i tional Bank or something of the kind, was requi
red to sustain the currency. The resolution was
’ | ~‘,th(llawn.
A letter ;V.»» read from Mr. Woodbury, Secre
tary of the Treasury, to an indiviJja!, dialing
that the bills of specie paying banks would L? re
ceived by the Government for debts.
The Convention adjourned to this day.
1 A letter from Toronto Upper Canada, mentions
1 that Lount and Matthews, two prominent leaders
■ in the late rebellion, when arraigned for their oflbn
1 ces, plead guilty, and were sentenced to the gallows
on the 12lh April.
A letter from Toronto, under date of the 3d in
stant states, that Southerland hnd been found guilty
by the Court Martial, and would be executed forth'
wiln
We see that the English steamer Sir Lionel
Smith, has at length arrived at New York, last
from St. Thomas. She brings $58,000 in specie.
The scarlet fever is quite prevalent in Lancst
ter, (Pa.) axong tho children.
The steamboat Gazelle, was reduced to a
wreck, by the breaking up of the ice, near St.
i Louis, on Saturday week. The steamboat Wyo
-1 ming is also believed to have keen lost by a simi
-1 la/ cause, at the same place.
Naval.
Tho U. S. ship Levant, (new vessel) Captain
Spaulding, has arrived at No, folk from New
York. The Columbia frigate, Capt. Reed, at
Norfolk, has dropped down to tho Navy Hospi
tal,
From (As National Intelligence, 12 imt.
Important Military Intelligence.
We learn that the President of the United
States, by and with tho advice of the Senate,
hag conferred the Brevet of Brigadier Gen
eral on the gallant Colonal Tay or, ol the
First Regiment oflnfantry, for his meritorious
1 conduct in the last action with the Florida
Indiana.
1 Since learning lire ibovo appointment, we
have been enabled to lay before our readers
the following important General Order:
General Orders No 7.
Head Quarters or the Army,
Adjutant General’s OrncE,
Washington April 10,1838.
I— General Jesup having reported
that the operations in Florida will have ter.
minated by the let of May, and that s portion
1 of the troops will be disposable, the following
arrangements will bo carried into effect as
1 soon thereafter as practicable.
ll The Ist and 6ih regiments oflnfantry,
I the six companies of the 2d Infantry, and four
companies of the 2d Dragoons, will constitute
the regular force to remain in Florida, with
' as many companies ol the volunteers or mili
’ tia of the Territory as the officer remaining
j in command may deem necessary. The three
companies of the 6th infantry, in Louisiana,
■ will forthwith join the Head Quarters of the
* regiment at Tamps Bay.
*- Hl—The four regiments of Artillery the
4th regiment oflnfantry, six companies of
" the 2d Dragoons, and Ihe detachment of Mar
ines, repair to the Cherokee country by
■ the most convenient and expeditious routes
j from the several points at which they may
: be found on the receipt of this order. The
1 troops, as far as practicable, will move by re
giments, and be accompanied by all the of
* liccrs belonging to each. Should any of the
1 companies ordered to the Cherokee county
* occupy stations in Florida from which they
‘ should not be immediately withdrawn, they
1 will continue in position until they can be
‘ ! relieved by the troops designated to remain
. in the Territory; after which they will follow
1 their regiments without delay it being impor
s taut to concentrate the companies of each
* regiment.
J I\ —I wo S.irgrons, and as many Assis
tants as the scivice may require, will be re
I tamed in Florida, to be selected from those j
I who have served the ehorteat period in the
Territory. All other officer* of the Medical
Staff will proceed with troop* ordered to the
Cherokee country.
V— Major General Jkbup will take all the
neceaeary measure* for the prompt execution
of this order, and will then turn over the com*
mand of the troop* in Florida to Brevet Brig
adier General Z. Tatlor, Colonel of the Is?
Infantry; and on being relieved, he will repair
tb the scat of Government* and resume the
duties of Quartermaster Gencrsl.
Vl The officer* at the heads of the sever*
Hi branches ofthe Staff will make the necessa
ry arrangements for moying supplying the
troops on their destination, and for the ser.
vices in which they are to be employed.
VII— Major General Scott is assigned to
the immediate command of the troops order
ed to the Cherokee country, and the direction
of affaire in that quarter,—The commanders
of regiment* and detachments will report to
his Head Quarters, at Athens, in Tennessee,
or wherever else they may be established at
the time.
By order of Alexander Macomb,
Mnjof Gencal Commanding in Chief:
U; JONES, Adj. Gen.
[rHOM OUll CORHESPONDXXT.]
WASHINGTON, April 13, 1838.
Mr. CAMBRELING reported Knottier bill re
l»tive to Treasury Notes to day. It outhouse*
the Secretary to issue new note* for tho»e which
have been returned to the Treasury and cancel
led.
Mr. Cambreling staled that almost all the reve
nue had been paid in the«o Treasury note* t and
that unless they were ro issued, the Treasury
would bo without moans. The bill wa< refcired
to the Committee on the Whole.
This day war appointed for the further consid
eration of the Bill establishing a Board of Com
missioners to examine and decide upon claims
against the United States) but on motion of Mv. I
Whittlesey, it was postponed, and made the *p e .
cial order for Friday next.
Tho same gentleman made a proposition to
devote this clay after the m.jrning hour to such
bills as would excite no debate for the purpose of
disposing of as r;,ahy as possible.
Mr. \\ ILLIAMS of N. C., objected to this
system of dumb legislation.
Mr. Cambrcling thought it any thing hut dumb
legislation, since a word would be sufficient to
kill a bill! A member had only to say “/ ob
jeel” and the measure would be passed by. (This
is a fair sample of the wit of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.)
The Bill to extend the charter of the Union
Danl* of Georgetown in this District to the year
1842, for the purpose of winding upits concerns
was then taken up and passed.
i’hc House proceeded to the consideration of
private bills : and was engaged in business of
that character until the hour of adjournment.
In answer to a question propounded by Mr.
Johnson of Maryland. Mr. Cambreling said the
amount of notes authorized to be re-issued by
the bill InJ rppor'ed this morning was to be equal
only to the amount of those returned and cancel
led : and that tho e’H v" l * not intended to super
cede the Bill authorizing the ijsii? of Ten Millions
of Dollars of Treasury Notes whicn ho reported
some time ago. It appears therefore lu?t more
and more money is demanded to meet the |
of tho Treasury.
In the Senate, .Mr. McKean presented several
memorials signed by upwards of eight thousand
citizens of Pennsylvania praying that the Treaty
of New Echota with the Chciokee Indians be
not enforced against them.
Mr BUCHANAN presented eleven memo*
rials of the same character signed by upwards of
eleven hundred citizens of the aame Slate. Al(
these memorials were laid on tho table.
Mr. Buchanan presented a series of resolutions
adopted by a public meeting in Penn., condemna
tory of Duelling, and urging the adoption of le
gislative enactments for eupprossing the practice.
Laid on the table; as a bill for that purpose has
already passed the Senate.
Mr. NiLES offered a resolution instructing
the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into
the expediency of defining and limiting tho ten
ure of bureau officers, and tho appointments made
by the beads ofthe Executive Departments, A
dopted.
Mr. NORVELL withdrew after some conver
sation, hw resolution for deducting from the per
diem allowance of Senators tho number of days
for which they may be absent without leave, un
less prevented from attending by their own busi
ness very few were found to support it.
The Bill for graduating and reducing the price
of the public lands was then taken up, on it*
third reading. Mr Calhoun opposed its passage.
He maintained that the alternative was either
•o adhere to the land ayatem of the country, with
out alteration; or to make s cession of all the pub
lic lands to the Slate*. He could not support
any measure to alter the system while the
lands are in possession of the United States.
Mr Buchanan also made a short but very
forcible speech against the measure; and pro
ved that it would ensure to the benefit of spec
ulator* and monopolists.
Why does not the Globe include Mr. Cal
hottn, and Mr. Bnchanan, and Mr. Roane of
Va., Mr. Williams of Maine, Mr. Wall of
New Jersey, in its denunciations against the
opposition to this measure ? When it is as
sailing Mr. Clay with every species of calum
ny because he has raised his voice against
this system of plunder I
The Bill was passed Ayes 27, Nays 10.
The Senate then proceeded to the conside
ration of the private Bills; and was engaged
in business of this character until the adjourn
ment. M.
Specie. —This glittering and useful article
is pouring into our city—the lap of Ameri.
can commerce—from oil quarters. During
the last two days, there were received from
Havana, one hundred and cighty-thrce noun
loons, and one hundred dollars in silver;
and from Mexico alone two hundred and ser
enty seven thousand six hundred and ninety
six noi.LARS, besides large amounts in hard ;
money have been received from the upper ; 1
country. It must be, therefore, that next fall, i
at least, limes will be softer, easier, and New
Orleans he thereafter the glistening scat of
rational enterprise and real wealth, when
r£peat "' e descri P tion - tuittern and
[h ‘ Pi'" our * AoIE em P“rium, which we had
Phrenology,
The bump of Punctuality. -For the benefit
of the Augusta Benevolent Society. Obeerve !
—on Tueaday the 27th init. at half paet aev cn
o'clock, in the evening, at the Maeonic Hall, Dr
Callyer invite* (he (.die* free of charge, end
gentlemen 8S cent*. Subject—The diatinelion
between mind and aoul, and are talent* nature)
or acquired’ Match 26.”
The ah »»*advertiacment. it i* to be preaamed,
drew forth aonre ol our citixena to the Meaooic'
Hall. At a meeting held on Friday night the 13th
the Treasurer of the Augusta Benevolent Secie.
»y. »4s asked what amount he had received a*
the nß't proceed* of the evening referred to, and
he replied not one cent.
_ NO PHRENOLOGIST.
marine intelligence.
' HAULKSTON. April 16, Arr nn Frill,. . •
Hiv. S n«‘T’ }■' hn *’ Juhn c Calhoun. Vi"
do ’ LrSV,ford do: »>'■■ w >loiington,
tlird T, 'hip Helen, Butman, I.irerpool, •«h r
m.vvr'o aS "' .t,am packet N Y Spin.
P.iKct Y N^Sr.wV,m^''C’ Sl *■*•"*
Owens tiZZJSr'™*'
Ucarcd on Saturday. ship Mcdora, Budd Urernool
,0 "'aihingtou’i Btrge, Williams
Ems'dr™' ,Ch " Jll *’ llm T " ck «' r N v .Chr Klixabctb
IVOTICE.-All person* indebted to the eat,.*
J-N of Oeerge G. Bass, late of Burke county, d„
r< T*‘ ,e<l •<* make payment, and lima,
having demands are requested to render them in « r
e °np7n RW.BASS.Adm',
L 'SFJP? * X .übscribe^flim
U.rka . lhe , land r hcr, ' ,m now lives, m
„ ; k0 co .'«|W. in the settlement of Bark Camp, roe
"Hmngsix hundred and five acres, on which there
iis a comfortable dwelling house, and olhev
necessary bouses, nnd a good store h, ms e plan
tation in good repair; possession can be had
in January next. i hose who wish to pur
chase would do well to call nnd »ee f„r tlirm
“olyc- JOHN LODGE.
_ Burko county, April 17, 1838. 4t
(VOfiCE -Brought loTam-obrJniTVn'tite
. 31st A/aroli lasi. Two Negro fellow-.-Jim
is about five (set high, dark complected, twenty one J
or two years of ago, and says he belongs to Joseph *
//nbhersl.ain; of /Jabbersbam County—the other
about the same heighlh, and complexion, near the
I ? ame - w, i" " a y»*ih name i» Juno, and that he b«-
| longs to Wm, Klimt, of th„ ia :„e Comiiv—Tho
| O "itori are hereby notified to come, p«v expenses
and lake them away \V9f. REYNOLDS
I Aprd 17 ‘
TVTOTICE.—The undersigned wii receivepri
pt'sals, lor Painting and White Washing the
inside of the City JAul. Tho wood work to be
painted with two good Coats of such colours as the
Commute, may select, nnd the Plastering to be
white Washed with one,—all to he done in the
heel manner. Proposals hi be received until Suture
day 10 o'clock A. M.
‘ u B. HI [WARREN,, )
W- Ei JACKSON, f Commitlee.
L.. V’. DUGAS. V
April IG. 2t
WILLIAM 11. CRANED has jtist received*
black and blue Mack Gro de Swiss, stipe;
black Gro do Paris, elegant satin striped' French
Mnslii j,lrish Linens, fine long lawn,cl agent French
worked collars, very fine plain nnd figured twiss
muslins, si'k and’ cotton umbrella*, llgnerod and
plain parasols, embroidered and marsoiljes skirts
small and large corded do. Swiss, book, jaconet nnd
nansook muslins, plaid stripe, sprig, nnd lace mus
lins, fine bombazine, small figured calicoes, and
french cambrics, fins embroidered; cotton hose
french and eng,ish do. thread, hob,net, ihrfht and
blond laces, elegant figured snltins and silks, fine
bird eye diaper, damask fable doihs, B=l and 0-4
I table diaper, (lim y handkerchiefs nnd searfe, ehally
riuw' on<, i brown linen#, tshirting, sheeting, b«d fick*4
drilling, ~'jW'las, ir, together with agn at variety
of other article* v»,o' r h will be sold low. at No 23;1|
Broad street, next uOof above tho Georgia Kail
Bond Building. npril 17
SALT. —Tho Cargo of the .Ship Eli Cohulney
is expected in all this week, nnd will be sold
by the boat load at the wharf if a fair price esn ba
obtained, apply to I). F. HALSEY^
• pril 17 31
B~ ELL’S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of Sar
sapnrilla. Juniper,'and other ingredients, high
ly recommended by scientific men; a positive and
speedy dure for all urethral discharges, gonnorrhms.
gleets, spasrrotlic,strictures, nnd irritation of the
kidneys, bladder, urethra, and prostrate glands.
The particular ingredienrs of which the above
solution is composed, are such as are highly appro
ved of by the Medical Faculty, which are so com
pounded by a peculiar chemical process, as to have
each i.igredient increase the power and efficacy of
tho other, and thereby render its operation in the
above mentioned disuse truly astonishing to all'
those who rases the Solution, and exceeding their;
most sanguine expectations. For sale by *
ANTONY <t HAINES.
Sole Agents for Augusta.
April 17
LEARY Ac Co’s. HAT WARDROOMS,
j No. 3 Broad street, nnd 4 As tor House’
«|| J Broadway, New York. The subscri-
Met bers, (or several year* past, have hsrf
J&VHS many and urgent solicitations to supply
orders at wholesale, and have been
obliged, almost uniformly, to declms.ra consequence
of the demand at retail being as much, a *nj m many
instances more, than they could meet.
In establishing a branch sales room at the Atfor
House.it became necessary to enlarge thsir Amah
mg establishment, and in doing so they have mod*
such arrangements as will enable them to supply *o
a limited exlentorders at wholesale.
Their sales must in a measure be limited in cod'
sequence of their determination to adhere strictly to>
the principle heretofore pursued, of keeping no slock
ahead, which regulation has been one means of
giving them the advantage over the large and ns
pcctnble houees, in being in advance with the fash
ions, having no old stock on hand to deter them
from anticipating the wishes of the fashionable pub
lie for a change when called for.
Each and every hat will bo finished expressly for
their rerail trade, and order* at wholesale will be
taken from them, without any selection, except of
sizes. By'this means the retail dealer will receive
the (pH benefit of our facilities and exertion* in
bringing forward tho latest and most approved'
fasnions.
Having attained their colobr ty not only by fur
nisliing a superior article at a reduced price but by
a strict adherence to a system peculiar to them
selves and novel in this country, they would avoid
any thing in making this arrangement that should
imerlere with that systen .
Selling but one quality of hats, and the greater
part of our customers being ronnnoisseur. of the
article, whose nice discrimination can defect the
'wT. 1 In lta qunhty, beamy, or general char
actor .or true taste, we propose anpplviin' that part
ol lbs wholesale dealers with an assorim ~t intended
lake orders* for h P " rl,CuUr 'Corners We .hall not
take orders for hats varying in qnnl'tv or stvls from
those retailed by u. at the time ?he order is revived
I or lhe information of those unacquainted C with
he mutant,on of their Cahlishmcrn moF.Zx
tftS! re,n,,rks from ' he 1 on *°"
“The progress which the American, have mads
in Sf'oral branches ol manufactures is real I v as
£"hJ United iZ } 'T " g0 I there "O' chatter
worn hv a Wh 1 00 " uld maxea hat fit to be
hatTof » !,!!! • dre *“T and consequently all
countrv ” P« rio r quality were imported from tins
I • * K rfi, it change has taken place. We
st f l ? a B l f >eßllnell gentlemen's hats manu
tac ured by Leary & Co. of New York, which are
equa . it not superior, both as respects shape and
2mm tv ’ 'V. u' VBI ?’ 11681 " md, ‘ ,n nnv I’ art of »hi«
I r OUnt P Although the mafenal# are chiefly gent
1 r / >Tn n aJ a nd. they are sold, retail, about one-third
cheaper than m London." march 38. *w "m
TO IIIRi;, a goriii t 'ook,*(or
"hich liberal biro will be paid Apply at
thißoffi' p* It april U