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f)F mi'. Hon. WADHd TIIOiII’.SUN, m ii <
On the Mill providing for tin- it ruin;' of trn
millions of T> cnsury A'otr* ; drlivrnd in
the House of /trpreienlnlivrs, United Stalls
May, ISJS.
Mr. Chairman. Although, sir, I regard (he
present as an occasion when, il ever in the hislo
ry ot tliin country, it would l>o justifiable i<> re
sort to the groat conservative prtucij>ic of Hugh !i
liberty, to withhold supplies until then tv.!.-! a
change of measures and a redress of grievances,
1 inn. nevertheless, willing to vole the nenmaiy
supplies to the ( lovcrnment. 1 must, however, ho
allows d to choose the mode ol rai-ing the lurch.
I cannot vote for a measure like that propose I,
which is, in my deliberate Judgment, a violation
of tho Constitution, and ol evil and dangerous
tendency. Hmvaoevi r and hy whomsoever ad
ministered, 1 cannot forget that il is slid the (io,
vernrnolit of my country, and entitled to all just
aids hum mo o! money, and of every thing else.
JJul I will not allow any exigency, however
great—any pressure, however severe —m induce
me, in this slightest particular, to violate tire Co i
•dilution. The section from which I come, is
the weaker interest in the confederacy; the Con
stitution is therefore to us literally the. "ark ol
our covenant,” and should he as sacredly kept,
llverv consideration of merest is snperadded, to
tho highest sanction under which men can net,
solo watch over and protect it. As a matter of
conscience and of sworn doty I cannot, ns one
of prudence and ol policy I would not, il 1 could,
in the slightest particular, violate that sacred in
ulininent,
lie looks hnl narro ivly at this measure who
regards it simply as a question of raising money
for a present emergency. No, sir, il is a part, a
moat important part —the very foundation ol a
new fiscal, financial, and commercial system,
which it is inlcmkd to erect upon the rains of all
the salutary usages to which we have keen accus
tomed, of tho Constitution itself, and of tho pro.
pcrly, prosperity, and happiness of the people.
A purpose, now no longer doubtful, to suppress
hank notes as u cuneney, and to substitute in rheii
place this Government currency. We have been
told from a high quarter, one entitled to all con
nideralion, that a “mortal conflict was now wa
ging between honk paper and metallic cuneney,
and that one or tho other must perish;” that the
business of discount and issuing currency arc in
compatible, and explicitly that hanks ought not
to issue their paper us currency. Those annun
ciations ate distinct enough; ami I (rust that it
will not again he denied that the purpose, (no
douhl, most honestly and patriotically entertained,)
is gradually to suppress hank notes us a enrren.
ey; yet we arc told at the same time thtit it is not
contemplated to bring the country to a currency
exclusively metallic. The currency then is to he
in no part hank paper, and not entirely metallic.
What then! Nothing has been proposed Iml
this Government currency. lam no imliscrimi ■
nalo advocate of the banking system, I know the
(anils and vices o| that system, and would re
|oice to see thorn ref..rm«d, yet 1 piefer il with all
these limits to the terrible suffering and agony of
passing through the transition from that system
to u metallic currency. 1 also piefer bonk cur
rency to this Government cuneney which you
• now propose to issue:
I. Because I think tho'issue of such a paper
clear I y unconstitutional.
». it is not so good a currency us convertible
hank paper.
d. Its tendency to excess, the great fault of the
banking system, is greater,
4. It is more expensive,
ft. Its political tendencies are more dangerous.
(!. Its efforts will be unequal and sectional, nt“! ■
specially injurious to the section liom which 1 |
come.
1 submit, sir, that these Treasury notes are bills
ol credit, and that this Government has no right
to issue bills of credit. What is a bill of credit?
In its largest sense it moans almost any evidence
ol debt. Hut, in the sense in which it is used in"
the t'onstilulion, it me ms such issues of paper
upon ilieeiedit of dm public, faith as were then I
in existence, and by which'tho country had been i
so severely scourged, now generally denominated j
continental money. That and nothing else was 1
intended by the general designation, lulls of ere- j
dll. Wc find tho term frequently used at that :
period in acts of ordinary legislation, and why i
should we attach a different moaning to il when
found in the Constitution? One act directs that i
“bills of ctedit be received for postage; other acta j i
forbid the receiving ot “bills of credit' fur public I i
dues. What bills of credit? The only lulls ol j j
eiedit then in existence in (he country worotlio.su | (
paper issues of tho Federal and State Govern. | |
menu. That was what was meant by bills ol
credit, and nothing else. The Constitution was (
framed about the same limu as the.-u acts of ordi' (
nary legislation, and hy the same men; and there
can he no pretence for saying that one thing w as
meant in the.ss acts of Congicss hy tho term bills
of credit, and another and a dilferotil thing by
the tamo words when used in the Constitution.
It was such a currency that had caused to nuteli 1
ruin in the country, and such a currency which it
was intended to prohibit. Is then the paper now |
proposed to be issued the same as the continental '
money, I answer yes, in every particular, impor
tant and unimportant. It is a paper issued on
the public credit, and intended to circulate as mo- \
ncy. 1 cun see no single point of difl'etoneo lot |
in the paper on which the two are printed. The 1
frugal habits of our fathers made them use ordi- 1
nary paper; wo use silk paper. It is said that ,
theso bills diew interest, and that the continental
money did not. This, us is usual with these ar.. ‘
dent theorists, is a mistake in point of fact. Much
of the currency issued hy the Stales, and deno
minated “bills of credit,’’did bear interest—that
of New Voik lor example. Hut suppose it had
nut; aro gentlemen, who profess themselves on
all occasions the exclusive friends of a strict con
struction, prepared to palter with their conscien
ces, to evade to cheat, the t'onstilulion, by such
a couU'tnpliblo fraud us making these notes draw
one mill interest on an hundred dollars. The
enlightened b amors of the Constitution (say lltev)
foresaw the evils of a Government paper, and
forbade us to issue such, and made us swear that
we would not do that or any other act in violation
of the Constitution; but, by this paltry trick, we
will evade it, and thus ill elleel do the very thing
which we ueie sworn not to do. Winnie ! shame I ;
It lias been suggested that such a paper may
be c ored in another total so as to avoid the con
stitutional diUicully; certificates iceeivuhlo in
payment ol public dues, and not punm-es to pay.
This, like the other, is an unworthy evasion of
the highest obligations which can he imposed
upon men, and equally baseless. A large por- |
lion of the hills of credit of the revolutwu weie I
these receivable certificates. Hut in a ease, long (
since the revolution, the case oft 'iaig vs. Missouri,
it bus been decided, and the decision sustained by
unanswerable argument that such certificates,
receivable for public dues, are lulls ol credit, and
therefore unconstitutional.
The stale of Missouri had issued certificates
receivable io payment of public dues and without :
any promise whatever to pay. They were deci
ded to be bills of credit ami unconstitutional.—
Chief Jii.n :c Marshall defines a bill of credit to be
“a paper issued by tbe sovereign authority, and
intended to circulate as money.” Can anv ob
jection be made io the definition, or any oilier be
given?—are those nsl issued by the sovereign
authority, and are they not intended to circulate
as money . l.el any man answer the question,
and put his vole n,.on the answer. Judge Thomp
son says, there being no mean* of enlorctng pay
ment, their credit depends solely upon the faith
and voluntary will of the s up, iml tt ie therefore
bills ol ere lit. is there an . moans ,f e,ii,, r ,
Itl.i |aymciit ifTii-ury noli-i Inr !.-.»u -y
.MIV III I 11-llil lull lll<) politic fllllll • JllllgH
j Marshall sir.v, llmi tin- (jrt-at quc.-liun i-, an; I hoy
11 iliirmlol In : iri";’a*in money, un i that lid- i
n lo boa i .rluii iil by tlie Ikce of tlie not and the
■ in cu of I lie (laji r. Arc t ; nobs intended In
circulate an niniu y ! Who -.vill have t!ic hardi
bond lo deny il ! They are intend ! to nrr n
I late an money, an issue of Govt rnrm nt ] njier
>. intended an money, and actually lined an money,
! | and in no ulber \v ay. < )n<- i‘ my ( olk-aguc-i lolls
a us dial tbia is a loan and in con.-ulutiomil under
:, (lie |iower to boirow money. !-■ it sir, really,ami
f bonn/ule a loan ? a loan at one mill [a i aeiit. jei
a annum,
. i 11 it by nmdi lii, k.s on il e UonsiiUJlim.lliat be
, | and 1 bavc been accustomed to eonstrue il ! Wo
i j - ir, vvlio have in times |ian!, slaked our all, of life,
s 1 bonur, and character, in resisting it similar and
-1 lens flagrant violation of the Constitution —“o
, | violation byperversion” —which we were taught
t | and we believed was 1 lie most dangerous ol alt
i violation*. No one denied the (lower lo lay du
r lie <on imjio-1 . ; but wo did deny the right to per
L . vert a (lower intended only lo raise revenue to a
pouer lo protect manufacture*. Which perver
i eion is the grossest—that or the perversion ol the
power lo borrow money into one to issue a cur"
I ] umey ? If tins is honestly intended as a loan,
and not as an issue of currency, why arc not the
, < ertilieales „f stock made Irate lei ruble, at the
Treasury us heretofore, before the commissioner
I of loans, and not an is now proposed by the simple
act of delivery ?
Is it in the common transactions ol life regard
. ed as a loan, when one man gives to another his
note in payment of an account? fs the act ol
, money making, borrowing il ? The Govern
ment has a right to borrow, but that right is
! restricted by (he condition that it shall nut burrow
by issuing lulls ol credit—lulls intended lo circu.
tale us money.
Could a stale, without a violation of (be Con
slilulion,issue such a paper ? No one will say
so who admits the correctness of the ease referred
10. If not, why not ? No answer can bo given.
But because lin y are lulls of credit. For il they
are not, the state, may issue them. If these notes
ate not bills of cicdit, 1 demand to know what
are? (live me a definition which will not in
clude there. Bruw a t urn of a lull of credit
which the stales may not issue. That clause of
llm Constitution must have meant something.—
What manner of thing was meant by lulls of
credit, itThese are not lulls of credit ? 1 do not
think that the argument can be answered. If
then they are bills of cicdit, lias Congress power
lo issue them ? It is enough fur mo and the
sellout of politicians to which 1 belong, Unit the
power is not to he found in the Constitution. I
urn accustomed to louk there lor the giant, nut fur
llte prohibition of (lowers. But litis ease is
inlitnlely stronger. The power was inserted
in the Constitution and was stricken out by the
convention, and under circumstances expressly
refusing ilto specific power itself. On the Cth of
August tlie committee bad boon charged with llte
duly ol preparing a Constitution submitted their
draft lo the Convention. In that draft was the
following clause, taken verbatim from a like clause
in the articles of confederation '• “ Congress shall
have (tower lo borrow money urnl emit bills on I
llte credit of the United Blalcs.” On the IGlb i
of August n motion is made lo strike out the
words “ and cmil bills of credit,” and carried nine
stales to two. I repeat that it is enough fur mo
that the power is not enumerated in llte Consli
tulion, nor necessary (not convenient) lo any
power that is granted.
Hut bow infinitely is litis ground strength
ened when the power is not only not found
in tin; Constii [lH adopted, but was actu
nlly proposed and inserted, and afterwards
stricken out on motion and debate. By an
opposite! rule of construction I demand to
j know what power it is, that is not expressly
prohibited that may not be arrogated! Tito
coiislitutloimliiy of a bank has been well ques
• tinned.un grounds infinitely less strong, as I
will prikcced to show. A proposition to give
Congress power to grant charters ol incorpo
rnlion generally, was referred to a committee, <
and never afterwards acted on. The power
to grant tt charter of a bank was never propo-
Now it may witli much plausibility bo said
that tbo convention refused to give the general C
and dangerous power lo grant charters as an
independent power, at the same tiniu bcliev
in g, I lint they had given the power to charter
n bank as an implied power, and ns an mix- 11
iltury to granted powers. But in the case of
bills of credit the very power is specially pro- s j
posed and rejected. The pow er to grant char
ters of incorporation was not acted on by the
convention, and the power is now domed with 1
groat reason for the ti on-action of the conven- \
lion. But in the cose of bills of credit the
question was distinctly acted on, tbo power
was inserted and was stricken out on motion.
How infinitely stronger is the one case tlian u
tlie other. Why was the cower in cither
case refused? There is no evidence in llte
case of a bank, that it was refused with an :n- ‘
tent lo dotty the power. But in the case of 1
Treasury notes there is. JLulltor Martin, a
distinguished member of the convention, im- (
mediately after its adjournment, when all tlie ,
facts were fresh in Ins memory, lolls tlie Lcg
] islaluic of Maryland that the words emit bills
of credit where stricken out with the view of
j denying ilto power, and not because it was
I given, if it. became necessary as an auxiliary
1 power. He says in Ins letter to the Legisla
ture of Maryland : “By our or ginal articles
ufconlcupralion, llte Congress have power to
borrow money t»;;d emit bills on the credit of
the United States; agreeably to which was
the report on this syctem as intuit’ of the com
mittee of detail. When wo came to this part !
of the report, a motion was made to strike
out the words ‘Vo emit hills- of credit-, ” against
the motion wo urged, that it would bo impro
per lo deprive the Congress of that power;
that it would be a novelty, unprecedented to
establish a government winch should not i
have such authority. That it was impossible '
to look forward into futurity, so far us to do '
j cido t hat events might not happen that should
render lire exercise of such a power absolute- j ,
■ ly necessary, and that wo doubled, whether, it
I n wtirshoukl take place, it would bo possible
i lor Ibis country to defend itself, without hav- 1
j ing recourse to paper credit, in which case
there would boa necessity of becoming a prey
|to our enemies, or violating the Constitution ,
of our Government; ami (hot considering the
1 administration of the Government would bo 1
principally in the bands of tbo wealthy, there 1
could be little reason to tear and abuse of the 1
power by an unnecessary or injurious exercise i
of it. i
But, sir, a majority ol the convention, being
wise beyond every event, and being willing to
j risk any politic?! evil rather than admit the 1
idea of a paper emission, in any possible case i
refused lo trust tins authority to a Govern
ment, to which they wore lavishing the most ,
unlimited powers of taxation, and lo the mer
cy ol which they were willing blindly to trusty
the liberty and properly of the citizens of cv- :
ery State in the Union; and they erased that i
clause from the system.”
Now, sir, here is the cotemporaijeous lesti
mony of an illustrious member of the conven
tion, that il was intended in “no possible
emergency” that the Government should have j
j power to make a paper emission. This stale- i
i men’, was unconlradicted at the lime, and s i
i authoritative an if the debate, m lull were
published, and il should he tumid that it was
put l<y nil the speakers on the subject outlie
ground that it would ho dangerous to grant
inch a power, and by no single one on ihe
1 ground that the power might be exerted as an
implied power. It’such rules of construction
are adopted, to what point will it not carry usl
I 'i'he sum of the argument is—a power not
11 granted, but specifically proposed and rejected
jib to be assumed, although demonstrably not
l | necessary; and 1 would here remark, that the
; only instances in which it has heretofore been
‘exercised, was in a period of war when mo
, , ncy could not ho hnrro ved, and when it was
. the only resoursn left; not only then conveni
ent, but absolutely necessary to the very exis*
I tencc of the (iovorpinent.
(To ho Continued,)
LiMmmm m jmmi rMnwnwi u»i n«
I!Y lIXPRKSS MAIL.
From (jui Correspondent.
Wasiiiscio.v, Juno 0, 1837.
After my letter yesterday was clo-cd, ihe debate
on the hill making appropriations for suppressing
Indian hostilities, was continued till a late hour.
Some remarks of Mr Diddle on tiio ofircial’con
duct ofMr I’oin soil in relation to the Indian poli
cy of the Government, roused
Mr Leoaiie ofS C, who made an eloquent
defence of the character of the Secretary of War.
Mr Duw.vi.mi, of Florida, then look the floor,
and spoke with remarkable animation and car.
nestness in reply to Mr Biddle.
A colloquy look place between tire gentlemen
of rather a sharp character, which finally ended
in exceedingly warm words passing between
them.
MrDowNnvo, who had horn indulging in a
playful hut extremely cutting vein of satire, inti,
mated that Mr 15iridic had been nursing bio ma
lice for weeks past—had rolled iris bitterness
under ills tongue like a sweet morsel—and at
last seized an occasion to spurt it all out. Ho
saiil many other tilings in the same slrain, which
irrhalcd Mr Biddle, and lie rejoined with great
warmth. After commenting on several points
in Downing’s speech, he noticed the imputation
against him of malice, and pronounced it to be
“ false!”
The Speaker and several members called to
order.
Mr Do war no was very much excited, and
made an attempt to apjrrokcli Mr Biddle, as he
demanded whether he meant to charge hi n , w iih
falsehood!
Several members around interposed.
Mr Brmit.K replied very firmly, dial lie inten
ded to repel the unwarrantable remarks which
hud been made upon him, and lie repealed that
the imputation of malice against him was false !
Ho appealed to lire House whether he hud ever
manifested malice in his intercourse witlr the
members.
Mr Downing said that lie had no intention of
wounding the feelings of the gentleman. And
after a short remonstrance from the Chair against
indulging in personal allusions, Mr Biddle went
on with his speech.
The previous question was then called, and
the bill was passed by a large majority and sent
to the Senate.
'Flic House adjourned at eight o’clock.
'Flic affair between Messrs Downing and Bid
dle will not proceed any further ; their friends
having exerted themselves to remove all misun
derstanding.
In the House to day. after (he journal was
read, the following bills were reported from lire
Committee on Public Lands, and referred to the
Committee of the whole, viz :
An act granting to the Territory of Wisconsin
r tract of land to aid in tiro construction of a Ca
lal from Rock river to Lake Michigan.
An act for dividing the Territory of Wiscon
sin, and establishing the Territory ofloway.
After the disposal of some private business, the
House resolved itself into Committee of the
Whole, and look up the following bills relating to,
TUB TEUUITOnIKS.
A bill to establish aland office in the Territory
of Wisconsin.
A bill for running Ihe Southern boundary lino
of the Territory of Wisconsin, dividing it from
Missouri,
Senate bill for dividing tire Territory of Wis
consin, and establishing tire territorial govern
ment of loway.
These were severally read a third time and
passed.
In tiio Senate, to-day, Mr. Tallmaiiub pre
sented a memorial from certain citizens of the
stale of New York, pray ing for the establishment
of a National Bank ; also a memorial in reference
to a National Foundry.
Mr. Davis, of Mass, presented several memo
rials remonstrating against tire execution of the j
Cherokee Treaty of New Echola. Laid on the
table.
THE FULTON CLAIM.
Mr. HuniiAiU), from the Commiltoon Claims,
reported the House bill fur the relief of the heirs
of Robert Fulton. Two members were altogether
opposed to the claim. Two wore in favor of it-
One thought the amount appropriated was
much 100 large. Mr. H. himself was entirely
against the bill, and gave notice that he would
move for its definite postponement.
Mr. White, from the Committee on Indian
‘Minis, to whom was referred the President’s
message in reference to the removal of the Cher
okcos, made a report on the subject, urging a
speedy removal, and recommending the grant of
an additional sum to enable tire Executive to
elfec llhal object.—Laid on the table, and ordered
to bo printed.
Mr. Mourns, of Ohio, offered a resolution for
the adjournment of Congress, on the first Monday
in duly, until the first Monday in November
Mr. Davis offered a resolution, calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury to report the amount
of expense incurred in collecting lire revenue
! from imposts and customs. Adopted.
The bill making appropriations for suppressing
! Indian hostilities, was received from tiro House,
i read twice, and referred to the Committee on Fi-
I nance.
Tiro Senate spent tire remainder of the day in
! tiro consideration of bills of a private and local
1 character. M.
CHIIONIOLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA,
i .
.Saturday Morning;, June 9.
| We find in the Boston Allas of May 10th, an
t Editorial article, on the subject of lire President’s
J Message to Congress, covering the letter of the
t Secretary at War to John floss and others, which
: demands a brief notice. The article is headed'
J
the “ prospects of the Cherokees brightening
j. and alter praising Van Ifurcn for his recent move
. merit in favor of the Cherokees, and expressing
• the opinion that all the Stales interested, would
willingly submit but Georgia, the writer proceeds
as follows.
“With respect to Georgia, we have no hopes
ot her. Having damned herself to everlasting
disgrace by her infamous conduct towards the
Cherokees, she would no douht be glad if she
could, to fix upon the whole nation dishonor
( deep as her own. Wc are sorry to bo obliged to
say, what we are compelled to believe, that the
5 canting, hypocritical Lumpkin, and the semi sav
. age Cuthbert spoke the sense of a majority of
. their constituents. Not content with stripping
the Cherokees of their property, a certain portion
of the Georgians thirst for their blood. The PeO'
pie’s Press of Augusta confesses that it is “with
t the greatest difficulty that the Governor can keep
the whites from fighting the Indians any how,”
and that many of iho reports put in circulation
’ about Indian aggressions, are the manufacture of
' pure malice and falsehood, put forth to inflame
the public mind against the Cherokees.
, ‘-.Scott will certainly have a much more honora
j bln, and we doubt not a much more agreeable oc
cupation in restraining the ferocity of those fron
-1 tier Georgians, than in driving off the Cherokees
it the point of the bayonet. Nor do we appre
, bond that ho will find the task very difficult. The
Indian killers of whom Lumpkin and Cuthbert
are the worthy representatives, are as notorious
' for their cowardice as they are for their cruelly,
i The bluster of these Senators about what Georgia
t will do, is only ridiculous. Georgia never would
have dared to lift her finger against the Chcro
kces, had she not had the countenance and sup
-1 port of General Jackson. If left merely to her
t own resources, she would find their expulsion a
! rather difficult undertaking.”
We shal not degrade the people of Georgia by
i attempting to answer by argument, these infa
raous charges of barbarity and cowardice, nor de
grade ourselves by retorting to such blackguardism-
If the people who patronize the Allas, ate pleased
with such stuff, we are content that they shall
entertain what opinion of us they see fit. Their
good opinion is not worth the trouble of court
ing. The conduct of Georgia towards the Chero
kces is before the world,and those who do not like
it can make the most of it. She detests alike
the double faced, and calculating course of Van
liurcn and the piping fanaticism of such distance
valiant blusterers as the writer in the Atlas. That
cases of individual oppression may have occurred
in the intercourse of the whites with the Indians,
is no doubt true, hut no honorable man would
charge them upon a whole people. There was a
time once, when the good people of Massachu.
setts passed a law offering rewards for Indian
scalps. This was done by the ancestors of those
who now rail so valiantly against Georgia,
and when the Editor of the Atlas desires to
shed a few tears over the fate of the “poor Indian, ’>
we commend lho”sympathelic gentleman to visit
the graves of those who wore hunted down by
his forefathers to procure the rewards offered by
law.
Fire.
A fire broke out in New York on the 3d inst.,
at 101 Greenwich street. The whole of the
building was destroyed, as was also 158, and 156.
Some insurance was effected.
Specie.
The brig Nina from Belize, arrived at New
York on tho 4th inst. bringing SB,COO. And
t he Bark Ann Eliza from Vera Cruz §20,640.
A. B. Roman, Es q., the \V lug- candidate for
Governor of Louisiana, in a letter to the Whig
Committee has announced himself in favor- o 1
a Bank, the 1> ,nk, and of good Banks genet-.,
ally. He has also expressed himself as in fa
vor of Henry Clay.
“The Southern Advocate” is the title of a new
paper, published at Sandersvillc, Washington Co.
ibis State ; edited by Algernon S. Temtilo.
“The National Banner,” is the title of a
new paper published at Houston Texas.
By tho official report of tho Secretary of the
Treasury, under dale of the first of June, wo
leant that the whole amount of Treasury Notes
authorised by the act of 12lh October, 1837, has
been issued by the Treasurer, viz; $10,000,000
Os that amount there has been re.-
turned to tho Treasury for du
ties and lands, and in payment
of debts duo tho United Slates,
about f<,000,000
Leaving $4,000,000
The Treasury Notes issued up to this day mi
lder the provisions of tho act of the 21st May,
! 1838, amount to $800,307 20.
From t he Northern Frontier.
The Collector at Oswego, in enclosing to the
j Governor of New York an account of the affair
|as described by one of the passengers of the Sir
! Robert Pcol, says—
“ Many of the passengers were driven on shore
| almost in a slate of nudity. Several ladies of
j the best families in the province, ware driven to
j the land in their night drosses, with naked feet,
and exposed on shore on a cold and wet night for
several hours. The reports arc various as to the
conduct of the plunderers in relation to a conside
rable sum of money on board, and the luggage of
the passengers; some charging that there was
plunder, l'lhers denying that the boarders exhibit
| ted any feeling but that of revenge, and a deter
j mination to perform an act of destruction.”
j The passenger referred to, says—
“We were somewhat roughly used. One of
the men, who seemed to have some aulhorily
| over the rest, made use of (he following expres
sion, “Gentlemen, remember the Caroline.”
j When the vessel was completely on fire tho said
j rullians took to their boats three in number, and
i rowed towards tho American shore, and we saw
or heard nothing more of them,”
i AuausT or the Pirates.— Wc learn from a
j gentleman direct from Oswego, says the Albany
, { Evening Journal, that ten of the Pirates who
burnt the steamboat Sir Kobcit Peel, have been
j arrested. One of tho number is an American,
j The others from Canada. It was reported that
some of tho property of which the boat was plun
i end was found in possession of the men.
New-York Itn.cc:>, Second spring Medina.
UNION COURSE, LONG ISLAND.
Friday, Juno I—Jockey Club Purse $lOOO,
free fur ullages; weights as before; four mile,
heats.
Col. Wm. I!. Ji hnsnn’s (N. Rives’) ch. h.
1 Boston, by Timolcon, out of Robin
i Brown’s darn, by Ball’s Florizol, 5 yrs.
s Cornelius, 11
j Wm. McCargo’s (Mr. Sy mines) b. h.
Charles Carter, by Lance, out of Funny
1 Hill, by Clay’s Sir William, 5 yrs. 2 dr’
’ Time, 740 !! —tho best heat ever run in Amcri
ca, save Henry’s 7 37.
5 The Philadelphia Herald & Sentinel of the
1 4th inst. says : —The general appearance of
s the market is less-flattering than it was at the
latter end of last week ; U. S. Bank at 123. —
s The effect of the new Treasury Circular has
' been to suspend all immediate action as to re
c
0 sumption, and every channel of trade is more
r or less affected by a slate of uncertainty.
0 Exchange on New York and Treasury Notes
B arc again in demand ; Pennsylvania Fives very
' dull.
t From the Charleston Mercury, June 8.
1 Further attempts to Fire the City.
Between the hours of 10 and 11 o’clock yes
-1 terday forenoon, the stable attached to Mr. Rob-
J cr *- Will s dwelling, in Meeting street, opposite
tho Circular Church, was discovered to bo on
1 fire. Smoke was first soon issuing from the loft,
I where the fire must have been thrown among
' the hay. The prompt assistance of the firemen
soon put it out. Three negroes who were on
the premises at the time, were apprehended for
examination—we have not leared tho result.
Another.—The firemen had scarcely put up
i their engines, whoa another alarm was raised,
and hundreds were scon rushing along tho streets
from one scone of conflagration to another. Tho
fuo was found to proceed from the dwelling of
i Mr. John Massot, Watch-Maker, Queen street,
who had just sat down to dinner, when the peo
i pie rushed in and gave the alarm. On an inspoc
-1 lion of the garret or loft whore die smoke appear
■ cd, a quantity of combustible materials were dis
covered half burned, and evidently placed there
• but a short time previous. In lids, as in other
i cases the blacks were arrested, and placed in cus
tody for examination.
From the Charleston Mercury, June 8.
From Liverpool direct.
By the ship Lancashire, 30 days from Liver
■ pool for Savannah, which was spoken oil’ the Bar
I yesterday liy the Pilot Boat Georgians, wo have
I received tho London Times of May sth, being
four days later than by tho latest arrival at New
York.—Wc extract the following items.
Bank oe England.— Quarterly Average of
. the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank
, of England, from tho 6ih of February, 1838, to
the Ist of May, 1838, both inclusive, published
! pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 William IV., cap,
i 98:—
Liabilities, Assets.
Circulation JLi 19,08-4,000 Securities 32,765,000
j Deposiles 11,000 000 Bullion 10,002,000
£30,090,000 £32,770,000
Cowing street, May 4, 1838.
LONDON, May 4.
Money Market. —A slight improvement oc,
curred in Consols, which left off at 03§- sellers for
money and buyers for tho account. There was,
. however, little doing.
London, May 5,
Our Paris letter of Thursday evening contains
’ the following passage :
’ “Letters from St. Jean do Luz, dated, 20th ult
i .Vtu enclose..!, They refer to accounts -from San
. lander, dated SOtb, which staled that on tho 251 h
Trial to attacked and defeated Count Negri between
Boles and Reynoso, and ‘.ook from him 1 (100
prisoners. A batlallion of tho “Guides” had
moreover deserted from Negri and passed over
to Iriarle with whose troops they were incorpo
rated. Negri’s force was thus reduced to 1,500
men.”
Our correspondent mentions that this intelli
gence was communicated to him from a respect
able quarter, but desires to be understood as not
guaranteeing its authenticily.
The following telegraphic despatch, ‘Bayonne,
dated the 3d hist. (Thursday), and received in
Paris the same day, conveys an ’announcement
which would appear to refer to the incidents
mentioned iu the extract from our Paris corres
pondent’s letter given above. The lermes of the
’ despatch in question are these:—
“Accounts from St. Sebastian stale, that Gen
eral Esparlcro had gained a signal victory over
Count Negri in the neighborhood of Burgos.
Tho Carlists ate slated to have suffered consi
derably. The whole of their artillery and a
great number of officers had fallen into the hands
of the Constitutionalists.”
Statistical. —The population of Missis
■ sippi hy tho census of 1830, was T 0,443
whites, and 65,659 slaves, and by tiio census
taken in pursuance of an act of the Legislature,
approved Jan. 29,1837, it was 144,351 whites,
and 161,393 slaves—shewing an increase
in seven years of nearly 74,000 whites, and
100,000 slaves; the cotton crop was returned
at 317,783 boles, and tho acres under cul
tivation at 1.048,530. The number oi acres
in the slate is nearly thirty millions.
Sundry Abolitionists of Boston, a few days
since, petitioned the Mayor and Alderman of
( that city for permission to hold a meeting in
| Faneuil Hall, on the subject of the immediate
I I abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the
District of Columbia. The petition was deni
ed. They then asked the reasons of the re
, [ fusal; but the Board of Alderman either did
not see fit lo stale them, or they were not
satisfactory to the petitioners.
, The abolition spirit is still making a strug
! gle to keep moving, notwithstanding all the
11 bufletings that it has received. A number of
r persons have been acting very foolishly at
Boston, because, forsooth, bis honor the May
. or was not such an ass as to let Faneuel Mall,
C for abolition purposes. He certainly acted
, wisely and well—for in nil human probability,
under the present excitement, if he had let
it, tiic chances are that he would have had no
, opportunity of letting- it again.
In Connecticut an abolition lecturer, turn
s ed Stanton, it appears, bad got the Town Hall
j for his exercises. But it would not go down
even in Connecticut, the strong hold of the
, abolitionists. A regular row commenced ;
stones, rotten eggs, and oilier missiles were
thrown, and considerable damage was done
to the building. Will die abolitionists never
learn wisdom !— A'ew York .Iffr.
f
Prentice says, if the devil be elected a Senator
’ from Virginia according to the expressed wish of
1 one of the present Senators, Ids mileage will be
1 only forty cents, as bis head quarters arc at the
i White House, only one mile ifom tiro capital:
and that if he will take out his pay in Editors,
he can have lien of the Louisville Advertiser. Wc
1 thought friend Prentice had too just a feeling to
• suggest paying even “Old Nick” in a paper so
, greatly below par.—W. O. True .Jmerican,
i A colored boy from the South was brought bc
, fore the Judge at Boston, on a Habcus Corpus,
and when the Judge told him that by the laws of
the Commonwealth he was free to go where lie
■ pleased, the boy innocently answered “then I
will go back to my Missus,”
.\i,w York Annual Methodist Con.
I’KiiENi'i;. — 1 liis body adjourned Wednesday,
having been in session since the IGth of May.’
During ibeir stss on, the General Conference
tried and leprirnanded several preachers who
had disregarded the advice of Iho Conference
al the session oflast year “wholly so abstain
from abolition movements and associations."
All ended in harmony, tbe members in plica
ted having given assurances that tl ey would
in future respect the wishes of the Confer ,nce
in this matter. —N. V. Sun.
From the Philadelphia V. S. Gazette.
Meeting of hunk Delegates.
At a meeting of the delegates of the associ
ated banks of the city and county of Philadel
phia, held at the Exchange, on Friday evening
June Ist. 1838, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted, and a committee ap
pointed in pursuance thereof.
\\ hereas the recent action of Congress in
rescinding the Specie Circular, and abolish
ing, for the present and future, all distinctions
in the mode of payment in the different bran
ches of die public revenue, has removed the
chief obstacle to a restoration of the currency;
anti whereas die banks of the city and county
of Philadelphia are desirous of proving to the
community, by immediate action, their sincere
wish to co-operate with die government in
replacing the monetary system of the country
in a sound and healthy condition, therefore.
Resolved, That a committee of five members
of the delegates of the associated banks of the
city and county of Philadelphia, be appointed
to consider and report to this board on Wed.
nesday next, suitable measures to he adopted
to accomplish an early and general resumption
of specie payments.
Resolved, That the said Committee be au
thorized to correspond with the Hanks of die
neighboring Slates upon the subject referred
to it, and in the interior.
On this subject the Philadelphia Commer
cial List of Saturday says -“To night the
Hank Committee will hold a meeting, and part
of (he Haltimore delegation are now in this ci
ty, and will probably attenu it. We under
stand that there is now nothing to prevent pur
Hanks from resuming specie pay mentsjat once
as intimated in our remarks last week, but the
desire of acting in concert with the Hanks in
Hoston, Baltimore, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and other sections of the country
so as to render any movement general and ef
fectual, and not partial. With this object iii
view it is probable that some general undpr.
standing will take place, and that some early
day, say 4th of July, will he fixed as the peri
od for a general resumption of specie pay
ments.”
General Wool. — A letter published in,
the Boston Herald, which wo learn was writ
ten by one of the editors who was present at
tho recent investigation of the charges against
Drs. Nelson and Cote, the Canadian refugees
hy a Grand Jury in the Circuit Court of the
United States, contains the following infamous
attack on the reputation of General Wool,
of our Army, and tbe District Attorney.
“Dr. Nelson lias since expressed himself
perfectly willing to have abided the result of
a trial, and states that he was prepared to
prove, that previous to every movement, tho
District Attorney bad been consulted, and that
Gen. Wool, of the U. S. Army, had offered,
if twenty five thousand dollars salary should
he secured to him, to resign his command in
the service of the United States, and take the
command of tho patriot army.”
Is not that too bad! Not content witli
committing, from our shores acts of hostility
of a people with whom vve are at thesq
Canadian patriots arc no sooner saved from
tho punishment they richly merit by the mis
taken sympathy of our citizens, than they
traduce and slander our gallant officers, men,
in whose character the country have a deep
interest. It is of a piece with the infamous
’’nsinuation made by Van Rensselaer against
General Scott. — N. V. Covr.
Clairhornc & Davis have run well, if they are
not elected.— A'y & 0. Journal.
Clairbome has run well—he has run to Texas;
and there is little probability that ho well over
come back again.— Prentice.
MABINeInT£UI6MCI!.
SAVANNAH, June o.—Old, skips James Perkins,
Berry, Liverpool, Empire, Raker, do. sehr Haltimore,
VVoglam, N Y.
Arr. steamboats Camdut, Mills, Gareys T'erry, Clicro
kee, Norris, Augusta.
CHARUiSTON, June 7.—Arr yesterday, brigs Cath
arine, Hose,lMatun'/as; Helen, Sloan, Halnmorc.
Cld, ship Condor. Finney: i.iverp ob Hr brig Trough
ton, Jordan, do; brig Elm, Rogers, Matan'/.as; schrs
Amazon, Uandatl, N Y; Mary, Nickerson; Apalachicola
Went to sea yesterday, ship Chicora, Halsey, Liver
pool, Hr barque Acadian, A uld, Goeenock; steam pack
et Neptune, Pennoyer, N Y.
Ciini pJlcet i tigsT
There will be a Camp Meeting in Richmond,
near Augusta, beginning on the night of the Cth
July, and conclude the morning of the 11th.
Jefferson, at Mt Moriah—begin 20th July;
conclude on the morning 2Glh.
Lincoln, Wheat’s Camp Ground—begin the
night of the 20th, conclude on the morning of the
30th.
IFctrren, near Wancnton—begin Ist August
at night, conclude the morning of the 6th.
Washington Connly, Limestone—begin the
10th at night, conclude the morning of the 15lh.
Wilkes, Independence—begin the night of tho
17th conclude tho morning 22nd.
Columbia, While Oak—begin the night of tho
22nd, conclude the morning ofthe27tb.
Hancock, near Sparta,—begin on the night of
31st conclude the morning of the sth September,
WE B, McKEIU
No. 309 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.,
A GENT lor tlie New York Albion, Emigrant
T » and Old Countryman, will receive subscrip
tions and payments. ly June 9
Just received.
FLOUR, BACON, & SOAP.
f? UHLS Flour for family use.
25,C00 lbs fine Bacon Hams,
7,300 “ “ sides and shoulders,
20 boxes No 1 Yellow Neap.
For sale by JOHN M COOPER & SON.
ALSO,
2,000 Bushels Salt. June 9
J Georgia, .Joß'erson Comity:
VR7TIEREAS William I, Kennedy, Ahminia-
V tralor of John Kight, late of tins county, do •
ceased, applies lor letters dismissory from said ad
ministration,
Those are therefore to cite rmnui'in and admonish, -
all and singular, tho kind.; ; and creditors of Iho
said deceased, to bo and ajq ; o at my office within
tho time prescribed i>v law, to shew cause, if any
they have, why said letters shall not bo grunted.
Given under my hand at office, in Louisville, this
slh Juno, 1838.
June 9 EBENEZER BOTHWELL, Clerk.
ATOTICJG.—The HoU. ihe Superior Court of
lx! Richmond eounty, is adjourned to the lllh
June hist., all Jurors, Witnesses, &e., who were
required to attend on tho Ist week ot said Term,
are ordered to attend on the 2d week; those re
quired for the 2d week, to attend on the 3d week;
and there for tho 3d week are required to attend on
tho 4th week. All persons interested will lake
due notice. By order of Judge Sciily.
j me G 4t JAM E N Me LAWS, Clerk.
NEW 1M PORTATION.
CtLARK, RACKET'!’, A Co. have received, hy
1 late arrivals, a now supply of London Lever
and Duplex Watches, some of which are of a Kind
very seldom met with in tfiis country. Also, an
additional supply of the new style Independent Se
conds Watches, witli two hour circles, two se
conds,double stop and full jewelled, which can lie
sold as low as tho old stylo ol Independents and
warranted to he pcrlect lime keepers-
A large slock of Gobi Thimbles, Spectacles and
i’encii Cases always on hand. 2w June 2