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r; M* I. I. C II 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