nino millions wero actually expended that
year.
But the high expenditures which haw
been stated In thai debate on these resolu.
turns, were those made during the laU ad.
ministration, in every year of which tbey
borrowed money upon Treasury notes.'
Should tho present administration continuo
no to borrow throughout the term, their op.
pnticnts here, tho friends of the late, will
have nothing to boast of in ,lhat respect,
much as we, who support the Government,
may regret it li regard to being obliged
to borrow money, the two administrations
o ro alike.
Having thus shown that there is no foun
elation 'n fact for the argument of the bono,
rable Senator, 1 suppose the argument itself
is disposed of, and that their admitted ex
travnganee is"without pretext or excuse.
The question now to settle is, whether
six millions a year, the amount estimated
in the resolutions, is enough to deduct for
the extravagance, on an average, of the en
tire four years of Mr. Van Buren.
The honorable Senator from New York
says it is not. If his friends here who
voted tho nnnroDriations. nnd those who
spent theni, agree with him inthis, let them
show how much more than six millions a
year should bo deducted from (heir expen.
ditures, as useless and wasteful. Let them
take up their expenditures under each head,
nnd confess that so much more was spent
than teas necessary on one branch, and so
much on another, until they get through;
and if they mako out that, in tho nggre.
gate, they spent eight millions a year waste.
fully, and if wc should consider the esli.
mate correct and tho confession a sincere
und an honest one, I will agree to make it
the basis of legislation, Bet down just two
millions more to the score of their cxtravff-
gar.ee!, and write twenty instead of twenty twa
'II' " . . . . .' .. 4. mrl f. . r nrt
IIIUIIUIIS Ug.llUol IIIV.II lU.QIy-liin , IVl Willi
nary.expcnsc3.
Let them state this openly and above
board. solhatthe-pcoTilo caff understand
'' that it is for tho purpose of economy, and
not done under a cloak to deprive them of
a (air protection for their labor, as there
seems to bo too muct) reason to tear is me
ohiect of the" estimates and excuses now
presented. , '
When I speak of estimates for tho fu
furc revenue, I do not nltlido to ar,y o fit-red
r by the Senator from New York. He offer,
cd none. It was peculiar that he did not.
An honorable Senator, 0 political friend of
his, was remarking to ma when ho was
ipcaklng, that it was vniafe for any Sena
tor to contend with the Senator from New
York where calculations and figures were
concerned. At tho very moment the Sena,
tor himself disclaimed all knowledge of
such calculations, and therefore declined
presenting any estimate whatever on the
subject of tho future revenue. But this
part of tho subject was taken up by the
honorable Senator from New Hampshire,
who declared at tho outset that ho had spent
nearly half his !ifo in what ho called the
drudgery of figures and calculations. Such
-iint?xpertcnce-enthles-his- production to
consideration.
Ha has submitted so many and so various
estimates for reducing the expenditures,
that I cannot recollect their details; but the
result of the wholo seems to be, that the
r Government enn be administered at an an
nual expense of from seventeen to twenty
millions of dollars; thus showing that, in,
bis opinion, from eight to ten millions a
year, certainly, were spent by thcIate nd. .
mini it ration more than was necessary f His
account of tho cause of this extravagance
is different from the one given by tho Sana,
tor from New York ; although he took care
to include the only ono. which that Senator
relied upon that ofjt surplus in the Trea.
.ur,ThQ,SenatorwrovNcwHamp3hirc
says that tho Executive department, at the
other end of tho avenue, was in Howise re
sponsible for theso appropriations ond ex.
penditurcs, andead from his own-reports
to Congress, to show how anarply he had
rebuked his friends hero for making them,
Congress alono was responsible, ho says,
""rind acteffagninha wISBes'Thd injdcSpijc
of this Executive rebuke. He certainly
exhibits tho Hon. Senator from New York
(then at the head of tho financial depart,
ment in this body) in a new attitude, and in
a very different position from that which he
was supposed to occupy, in the quarter of
the country from which I come. No one
'then, ever suspected the honorable Senator
from New" York of being ignorant of, or
indisposed to carry out, tho wishes or the
Executive or of his party. Wo looked
vpon whatAc said or did by authority,"
when it happened not to agree with what
vritten in the report of the Secretary. "And
it must havo been very different under that
administration, from what it has been since
'I havc-had ascat in this bodriJf the party
could not count upon its mends in Congress
to. carry out its views. I have seldom seen
the time when they could riot be counted to
n man upon the ayes and 'noes in such a
case. They had the majority in both Houses
of Congress during tho wholo of Mr Van
Burcn's term, although I grant it was not
nlways so in Gen. Jackson's timo. ;What.
ever may be said about tho administration
at the west end of tho avenue as distinct
from its friends at this, tn those days, the
country will forget that it was an unit party
Let that bo as it may, the honorable Sc.
nater from New Hampshire will have no
causo to complain if his opponents now
pay as much respect to his estimates for ex.
penditures, whilo he is a Senator, as his
friends did wlicri he was the head of the
department whose duty it was to make them ;
f specially if his opponents come nearer to
jthem now than his friends did then. Com.
pnre them, sir, and see how this stand
I Ie estimated the expenses or appropriations,
(and it makes but little difference which is
taken, for they did not differ but about one
million in tho whole four years,) in the
- gfregsteyat eighty millions eight hundred
r nd thirty. two thousand three hundred and
t ig'ity-one dollars And fifty cents, equal to
n average of twenty millions a year. His
friends in (VnpreM actually appropriated
cae hundredand twelve millions seven bun-
drcd and eighty -six thousand six hundred
and eleven dollars twenty .eight cent for
the aajne four years an average of t wen
ty.elght millions per year. From this; it
appears his friends varied in their acts from
his estimates, on the average, about eight
millions in each year ; and taking a medium
of the different views ho has presented for
the expenses in future, the estimates con
tained in the resolutions lie is opposing, do
not exceed his cstimato one-half as much,
as the appropriations of his friends exceed,
ed his own previous official estimates.
As to the proposition to raise two mil
lions, and apply it annually to the payment
of the existing debt, and an equal arrount
for contingencies, and for a permanent sum
of at least two millions, to be in the Trea.
sury at all times, I do not understand the
Senator as making any objections to mat.
The next subject is tho plan presented
by the honorable Senator from New Hamp
shire, of his modo of raising a sufficient re,,
venue to meet tho wants of an economical
administration of tho Government. He
presents an estimate starting with the
amount of dutiable imports presented by
the honorable Senator from Kentucky, and
goes on to make various additions, which
ho presumes must have been overlooked by
the mover of the resolutions ; and carries
up the amount from ninety-one millions to
one hundred and twenty-six millions of du
tiabte" goods, which, with eighteen millions
of freo articles, makes the aggregate value
of the whole imports one hundred and forty,
four millions. Upon this estimate of the
value of dutiable goods, at one hundred and
twenty-six millions, (ihirty-fivo millions
more than is estimated by the mover ot the
resolutions, for ha (Mr." Clay) computed
from tho table of exports ol last year, the
most of which were at higher prices than at
present,) the honorable Senator from New
Hampshire computes his duties at twenty
per cent., and can, of course, get revenue
enough, on paper, either with or without in-
eluding tea and coffee.
AiTtiis cstnfinTeSlitraw howasy-it-w to
run up a calculation of incomo, when there
is an object for it. I would not give a fig
for an estimate which is not founded upon
the recent experience of the country. Let
us look at that, and on the difference be.
twecn this new computation ond tho former
views of tho honorable Senator.
Twenty per cent. , 6ii his
present calculation ol a
valuo of one hundred
nnd twenty-six millions
gives $25,200,000 00
The overage amount of
customs from 18J7 to
1640, four years inclu
sive, was
15,720,441 07
We last summer laid ad
ditional duties on silks,
wines, &c. which it
was estimated would
yield a revenue, taking
former imports as a
guide, of about
6,000,000 00
Making in all 21, 720,444 07
From this must bo subi
tracted the reductions
from tho averago rates
of duty for the four
years above, as est i ma.
ted by the Senator him.
self, viz:
Fortius reduction at the
end or 1830 $2,000,000
At tho end of last year 2,500,000
Andfortheyearending '
anih Jntm, 184-2 2,500,000
Making, according to his '
own estimate, a reduc. .
tion of revenue for fu.
turo years of. -
7,000,000 00
And leaving tho same
amount, us estimated
by the present Secreta.
ry of Ihe-Treasury with
a duty of 20 per cent. 14,720,444
00
showing a difference in results, from tho
Senator's own estimates, according to the
objects with which they may be supposed
to be made, of over ten millions of dollars a
year, in tho rcvenuo, from customs nlono !
To show the Senate that the honorable
Senator is-liable to make mistakes under
such circumstances, 1 will state a few items
from his report upon Tho finances for tho
year 1936, mado in December, 1835.
He estimated the expen.
ditures of 1836, at 822,133,640 00
The actual receipts for
1836, were 29055,244 40
Difference
He estimated the receipts
of the year,, from nil
sources, (they were 33.
80,521,604
40
00,000 "theyear be
fore,) at
$19,750,000 00
Tho actual '' receipts for
1830 were
48,873,964 30
Mistake in the estimate of - t
receipts for ono year $29,123,904 30
He estimated the balance
that would be in the trea.
suryatthecloseof 1830
to be $14,500,000 00
The actual balance turn-
ed out to bo 4 .
43i5C8,523 86
3
Mistake
$31,468,523 80
Mr. Woodbury here interposed, and
said : " No Secretary or administration
could tell whnt their income would be; they
might be held responsible for the expendt.
tures, because they could control them. But
he could not, as Secretary, control even
that; Congress, as be had often said, led
him into tho mistake as to the expenditures,
if it was one."
Mr. Simmons resumed. It may be true
that Congress misled ninrarmilliomPand I
a half, but equally so that he misled himself
twenty-nine millions in the estimate of re-
ccipts !j As to the balance at the end of
the year, if Congress had ordered no more
expenditures than he estimated, the balance
woulJ have been fifty .two fnUlioM, instead
of fourteen millions and a half as he esti
mated- mistake of thirty -eight millions
instead of thirty -ona and a, half millions.
This was the report made just before the
law passed for depositing tho surplus money
with the States.
In looking over these reports to get at
facts, I hare noticed one error which a p.
pears to be of a graver character than these
mistakes ; for by thnr no money ia lost ;
they may not have been intended even to
mislead the Congress in its legislative du
ties. In the account of receipts for the
year 1837, exhibited in the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury," made in 1838,
(after all the accounts must have been re
ceived,) there is credited tho expenses for
the year 1837
Amounting to $31,816,409 91
And the amount received
charged at . 22,643,973 53
This sum appears to have "
been received as fol. -
lows, viz: i
From Customs " $11,169,290 39
Lands 6,776,236 52
Miscellaneous 1,7,05,457 47
Treasury notes 2,992,989 15
But by 'the .'Register 'a account, it appears
that the receipts from customs for that year
were over two millions and a half more than
is hero accounted for ! This difference, I
should suppose, if it were any other kind of
an account, must yet remain to be account
ed for,, or paid over.
"If any YncrchanLshould mako such an
error in rendering an account, and it was
afterwards detected, he would expect to pay
it ; nnd I hope it may ba so with this, or
'elao explained in somo moro satisfactory
manner, than by some other error os largo.
To return to tho estimates of lho honor.
ablo Senator for lho future revenue, and to
the objects of them which he contends prove
that there is no necessity for taxing ten and
coffee, or raising the luxes, by which 1 un
dcrstand him to mean, raising tho rates of
duty, Upon this point I wtli-say a Jew
words. One of the amendments proposed
by the honorable Senator from New York
is intended, no doubt, to crcato tho same
impression. It says that the distribution
bill created an instant necessity for increas
ed taxation or words of liko import.
Both intended to convev the idea, that these
resolutions proposHy a higher rate of duty-
than existed upon the dutiable articles un
der tho past administration. The truth is
otherwise. Tho most that can fairly be
said of the resolutions is, that they propose
not to have the rates reduced so low as it
was provided (by a law passed nine years
ago) they should be, upon an estimate that
iiitcen millions were sulhcicnt for the an.
nuol expenses of Government. " If the Sec.
rctury's estimates of the expenses had prov.
ed correct, we have already seen that that
sum may bo raised by a duty of 20 percent
provided tho imports continuo as for the
last tour years. But upon tho most pro.
duclive dutiablo articles, such as wool,
woolens, iron, coal, rcady.mado clothing,
oic.,. the rates of duty averaged moro than
forty per cent, during the whole term of Mr.
Van Buren 8 administration. Upon the ar
ticles referred to, paying the lowest rates,
the average duties, for the whole time, were
forty-ono per cent. Generally, these arti
cles paid a duty at or over fifty per cent, in
1833 in 1837 they paid forty.fourpcr cent
in 1833 and 18:)9 forty-ono per cent
and in 1840 thirty-eight per cent making
an average for the four years of lorty-onc
per cent. And yet, with this rate of duty,
that administration spent between twelve
ana.tiurtcen millions a -car moro than they
collected from duties, during the wliole pe. 1
riod. - Its friends now comYa'n of ani op
pose resolutions, because those resolutions
ucclnro that suflicient revenue cannot be
raiscdwith ftjuia, L duty reduced, to- less
than half of what was levied during their
term; and tho honorable Senator insists that
it can be. S
.IheJUjJsjiaaihexjXlod of testing this :
and that is, by seeing what was spent during
tho term of tho late administration, which
did not come either from customs or lands,
but was spent in addition to what was re
ccived from both those sources,
They spent the money on :
hand at tho begining of J
the first year which (in-
eluding what they stop.
ped from going to the
States at their extra ses.
sion) was- ... $18,336,000 00
Received from the sale of
bank stock,
And tho amount owing
when the lato adminis.
tration left, variously
stated fromfour to
' twclvo millions, say
'8,000,000 35
C, 000 ,000 00
$32,236,000-35
1,000,000 00
Deduct the amount
on hand, say
then
$31,236,000 00
This being averaged, makes nearly eignt
millions a year ; and if to this bo added the
amount spent, which wasreceived for land,
it will show that they spent near thirteen
millions a yenr, over nnd above tho receipts
from all sources, besides Treasury notes
left for their successors to pay. All this
was done whilo they levied taxes at over
forty per cent.
(CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.)
Ripe ao cripi a vuuoavt. CJiW.-Pa.what
did Mr. Folger mean, when he laid in bis temper,
ance addreu the other day, that " moderate drink
ers are ripening for drunkardu T"
Father. Do you not remcmlwr, my child, how a
cherry looka when it ia ripening ?
Child. O yea, and now I understand it. Squire
Russell is a moderate drinker, and he is turning
red on the end of hia nose and upon his cheek
bones. Old Joe.Loveflip is dead rinc ; for hia nose
and bis face are purpe...Exeter Next Letter.
Hard Time.
1 The hardest bv far I
ever experienced," said an old codger, was
the time when I cot lost in the woods :
when for four days I slept on a rock, and
cracked butternuts with my teeth for a li vine.
m 0
1 uem was nara times, 1 ten yon.
THE MESNGER.
r P. It. M'ANALLY ft J. ROBERTS, EDITORS. ;
Friday, JTIay O, 1819.
IEPCBLICA1 WMCTICIET.
For Governor,
JOHN M. MOREHEAD.
ELECTION FIRST THURSDAY IN AUGUST.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
v A communication giving an account of recent
Temperance movement in WaynewiJJe, hat been
received, but crowded out ibia week. It will ap.
pear next week.
The communication of J. M. E. ditto.
m
Fir. Simmon's Speech.
Wc commence this Week the publication
of Mr. Smimons' speech. xIts great length
compels us to publish it in different num
bers of our paper. We again recommend
it most seriously to the attention of all who
wish to be informed on the important sub.
jeets of which it treats. It should be care,
fully laid by, that its facts may subsequently
be referred to.
(57- A great complaint is made by some
of the democratic party in this part of the
State against Gov. Morehead for having
appointed somo of his relations to some
offices in the State. We have thought it
might ba well to remind them of the course
pursued in thU respect by some of the
heads of the Jackson and Van Buren ad
ministrations administrations which were
looked upon by those very men as perfect
models of all excellence and perfection.
The matter hero was stirred up by Mr
Henry in his speech at this place, by whom
this conduct in Gov. Morehead was held
up as too intolerable to bo borne. We
confess we look upon tho whole as small
game, and can soo no good reason why
Gen. Jackson, Mr. Van Buren, Governor
MoreheadrMiny one-eisemay-not as-well
appoint his relatives to office as any other
persons, provided they are competent to
discharge tho duties belonging to lho office.
As to the charge mado against Gov. More.
head that he-appointed a relative to an im.
port ant office who could not, or could
scarce write bis name, it needs proof be
yond the bare assertion of any one man,
particularly an interested democrat, to have
any weight with us; and descending to such
shows plainly the hopelessness of the cause
they would feign build up.
We merely allude to tho following facts
to show our good friends who arc so bitter
in their denunciations of Gov. Morehead,
that they who live in glass houses should
not throw stones":
These are only a few of many coses-
all of whom for aught we know were good
and faithful officers, and so we have reason
to believe are those appointed by Governor
Morehead. Should Mr. Henry be elected
Governor, we venture to predict that after
all his boisterous declamation on this sub.
jecty ho will follow " in tho footsteps of his
illustrious predecessors.'"
Gen. Jaekmn had several relations in office.
Mr. Van Buren, appointed his son Martin, jr.
private Secretary for signing land patents. Salary
$1500.'"" '
Sir. Woodhury't brother in law, J. O. Barnes,
waa Naval officer at Boston. Salary $3,000.
His uncle in law A. II. Quincr, was a clerk.
Salary $1,400.
E. F. Bunnell, Deputy Naval officer. Another
connexion.
Hia son Charles Woodbury, Secretary to the
Committee on public buildings. Salary $630 to
His father in law, special agent to Havana.
Mr. Poinsett promoted a brother in Jaw.
Mr. Forsyth appointed a son in law to office,
Mr. Kendall brought the following relations of
his into office :
Alexander Kyle, father in law.
known.
Salary not
Alexander Kyle jr., brother in law.
$1200. f
Salary
Samuel Kendall, Jr. nephew. Salary $1400.
George M. Kendall, brother. Salary $1000.
JohnJE. Kendall, travelling P. M. Salary $800.
REPORT OP THE I VESTIGA
TIXO COMMITTEE OF CO.
CRESS.
The facts brought to light by this Com.
mittcc, relative to the foolish, wicked, and
unprecedented extravagance of the Into Van
Buren administration, are of the most as.
tounding character, and serve to show, in
part, why the nation has become bankrupt.
We pubhslied week before last an article
from the Knoxville Post, setting forth a few
items in tho expenditures of the Florida
war. To these we subjoin a fow more items
of expense in tho same region, in order
that the farmers and mechanics of the
country may sec how tho public money has
been squandered by what they wero urged
to believe was a very careful, economical
administration. Here are a few thousands
paid for hauling as follows :
Amount paid Samuel H. Peck, for ten wagons.
engaged in transporting public stores 39 days,
at $10 per day, mnoe
Amount paid for transportation from Au
gusta to Columbus, at MM 50 ! per
hundred '.'.I
For six team transporting baggage from
Fort Jesaup to Fort Towson, 30 days.
eacn team to carry 1000 pounds, and
13jnilesper day, $30 per day, $3,600
Wagoners of North Carolina, would you
not like to get such a job as that theso hard
times T Only think twenty doixaks per
day for driving twelve miles an3 carryine
eighteen hundred pounds !! I f
But, perhaps the most wasteful extrava
gance was ia tho hire of steamboats. Boats
worth from tea to fifteen thousand dollars
wero hired at from three hundred to a thou
and dollars per day 1 ! ! " In regard to this
the Baltimore Patriot oft kite date, .through
ita Washington correspondent, holds the
following language
"In regard to some of the expenditures
of the Army, the committee say, and abun
dantly prove, (seo House Report 458) that
the existence of the Florida war has af
forded an ample occasion for draining the
public treasury. In every department of
ne service conncciea wim 11, usiruvogunwj
of jhe most unprecedented character has
been indulged. In the purchase orsupplics
in tho transportation . by land or water, ol
soldiers or stores, tho public money has
been wasted by those charged with its dis.
burscmcnt. Already has there been ex
pended many millions of dollars in prosccu
tion of a war ocainst a band of savages
which, from the outset, has not furnished
as many hundred warriors to oppose. The
committee have ascertained that, within two
years from the outbreak of hostilities in that
Territory, between . the 1st of January
1839, and 1st of January 1811, there has
been employed in the transportation ser
vice seven hundred and thirty-seven steam.
boats, brigs and schooners. Many of them
have been employeclat a per diem pay, until
the price of hire has, quadrupled the sum at
which, originally, they could have been pur.
chased. In referenco to the hire of the
steamboat John Crowcll, General Jesup, in
reply to the call of the committee, says that
she was hired at tho price of ' three hun
dred dollars a day, and her expenses and
Sho was not worth1 fiftccrrf ,tefljr" t0 1H another case, and
insurance.
thousand dollars, and one hundred dollars a
day would have been an extravagant hire
for her. ' t or the entire period she was in
service, tho Government has paid eighty
two thousand five hundred and fifty -five
dollars !' "
The following rates wcraallbwed for the
hire of steamboats at different periods, dur
ing tho
milted
Florida service. Let it be sub
to a candid public to cay whethor
the Whigs were justifiable in charging the
lato Administration with extravagance.
FOTeateiMtnoa4liat $3,50Oa n'tb$iH,Ma
Charleston 10 months, at 94,000 per
month : ! :
310,000
Watchman 17 days, at $450 per day ! !
7,650
I trip from Mobile to 1 am.
pa Bay, with one brig and four schoon.
era distance usually run in 4 days'.!!
22,000
Lion 1 trip from Fort Btooke to Mo.
bile riisually made in 4 days-or 9 IdUU
per day ! ! !
6,000
2,330
Ocmulgee-'-l trip from Savannah to St.
Augustine usually made in 5 days ! f.
Brilliant 1 trip from New Orleana to
Waterloo, Ala. usually made in four
days at $1500 per day ! !
- 6.000
Cherokee 1 trip from Jacksonville to
Uarey'a ferry usually made in 12
hours!!!! 1,215!!!!
The following is from The Independent,
a paper published at Washington City, end
exhibits a few of the items which went to
mako up the enormous sura expended on
some of tho Branch Mints. The whole
amount drawn from the Treasury on ac
count of the Branch Mint at New Orleans
was fve hundred and ffly four thousand
four hundred and seventy dollars and twenty
cents! li!!!
" Some of the items charged under the
head of Building ond Muchinery,' the
commiUcc say arc worthy of special notice,
not only on account of lhenmonnlef money
expended on them, but for the character of
the items themselves; as for instance, we
hnd the following charges :
U. S. Urancb Mint at New Orleans,
To Stiles A. Miller, Dr.
For 534 sq. yds. wood pavement.
$2,376 00
Do. To James M. Keid,
For building 4 bith houses.
and flagging yard and paving
side-walk,
Du. ToClevAtCIark.
8,099 00
1,700 00
3846 00
818 28
For 7 baths and 1 water closet,
Do ..-To, .
For paving yard with flaggs, ic,
Do. To Clay & Clark,
For finishing water closets.
$16,839 28
Thus, it appears that for ,iaving and Hug
ging the yard, side-walk, 6zc.f and for
BA1HS, Water-CIoscts. &c, there was'
paid tho sum of sixteen thousand eight
HUNDRED AND THJRTT-NTNE DOLLARS AND
TWENTY-EIGHT CENTS ! ! !
Upon an examination of the accounts of
tho Treasurer of this Branch Mint, the con-
elusion is lorccd upon the minds of the com
mittee that the officers of ibis establishment
from the Superintendent down to the lowest
Clerk, not only supposed their business was
to " coin money,'? but to 6pend it as fast as
coined,, and that they were sent there to
live in a palace and indulge in the most un.
bounded luxury.
The committee have appended to this re.
port (seo appendix B) copies of somo of the
vouchers accompanying the accounts of tho
Treasurer, os settled at the Treasury Do.
nartmcnt, which will give some idea of the
luxurious' tastes, and their disregard of that
homely virtue, economy, on the part of the
officers of the Mint. Indeed, tho commit.
teo can hardly suppose any further proof
ui uieir uDuounaca extravagance is wanting
tlian the fact they have already shown
namely: that some TEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS were expended by them in the
erection of those pliances of Eastern luxu.
ry, BA THS and their appurtenances.
The Committee are fully aware that these
gentlemen did but " follow in the footsteps
of illustrious predecessors that some of
the Emperors of Rome expended immense
sums in the erection of baths in the "eter.
nal city." But, if they do not ereatlv err
in their historic recollections, these luxuri
ous buildings were the growth of the Em.
pire, and not of the Republic of Rome ; nnd
were erected by the vtasterm nd nor bv the
servants of the people.
Among tne items of amounts which will
be found in the appendix, are the follow.
5 mahotranv arm chain Sin 95 j.Ii . ti or
30 mahogany arm chain S5 each, ' 150 00
Crsjciaa arm chairs Mil
Desks aad tables, v .
One pair porcelain spit boxes, U
SiDk.taads$10 each, ' la
One mahogany bureau, ' -fegj
Oae ream fooUcap paper, . Ua
Ona do . 4 ' U
One ivory pen holder,
Ponkoivek each, $3,50 to , . It
Trees and shrubs, ' t
One deak curtain, ' tiSj
Ice furnished the Mint, ' l4
Mahogany boards for a count. . -V . t 1
3 bronze paper weurhta. "
1 Eagle, i do5.-do -,; J , r 3
1 stuffed mohogany chair, ''"' V-" J)
1 large lamp for lobby, '.'..' Ut
Bookcase and desk, : 71)
A bust of Livinirston. i
Making, painting, gilding, fc . j .
Sbstrt Box. ' r- TU fc
: llie committee have only elected,
few items ou of tbo great rntiofi a!?
character to be found in th
Treasurer on file in the proper Detrwr
which Bhow the most criminal wsetefj '
of the public money by those wbZTeV?
was to guard and protect the intercasA
Government. They cannot forbear
nress their astnniahmnnf u.. .
should have hopn nllnw.l l- ..
Auditor nnd First Comptroller r
A nd truly it would seem a matter nf-
.u.nam.rcm iu uuy one, particularly jf
had not been accustomed tohearrfiu
inn J..n(.J 1 ... , .
uwpicvvuvuicu uuu unncara-orextnvim.
cies of the' late adnfinistratkm.. W
accounts were allowed. Why? Beoaa,
it would not do to offend influential ioirii,
uals, to whom the administration looked fe,
Tl T LI IT.
xiio i.ynciiuurg Virginian coopibiW
.uwrqiorcoi iQeeorarakb.
farthcto illustrate the truth of (he dam
of corruption and extravagance .biTS
mado against-thc Van Buren idounian,
tion : ,
" It an Dears thnHni I? n n n-
disbursingageoijovSi
no iwtK, rKunsas, tailed to makeU
quarterly returns to the accniinlirur JC
at Washington, for the second mmw
um jvur ipoo, uuu oia not 00 so until 4
first of January, 1839 ! and at it w
date his accounts for tho third quarter
1838, ending on the first ofSeptfulw
WTb not rendered.'"- Yet under these eir!
cumstancos, and with a balance in bis hudi
attfiftt-t sre .mi a
vatcuuiug ciuu.uvu Still in niS DOSXftioa
the sum of $400,085 was advanced tad;.
between the 3d of October and the 22J of
1 . 1. . . m. . . .
iCT:riiiLK;r oi inui jear : i ne total imojoi
uuiauruu 10 Vsupi. voilins ajifru wastssn
that he had become m defaulter to the Gown.
mH,' was $582,200!!! Tbe turn.
quenco was precisely such as might ban
been anticipated, lie was eootinotdit
olhco until the 7lh of June, 1839, aha,
upon a final adjustment of his accooBti. i
balance was found to exist against him f
9Zia,so is, tne whole ol which traxot,
it is believed, will be last by the Goto,
mcnt,
These are a few cases amon,many
the most reckless among the Locbfacopir
ty do not, as we have learned, pretest' fc
deny their truth, or even attempt to erphii
them awny. - The proper vouchers an r.
gularly on file in the several Departs!
where the business was transacted. Prod
gacy like that which lias been broujti it
light by tho committee referred to.iiwiu.
out a parallel in tho history of this, or Of
other civilized country. And this it tb
same party now making such Jespenl t
forts to reinstnto themselves in that power
from which they wore hurled so recentljlj
an injured people---i
It-is do matter of turprise that the 0
vernment has become bankrupt No wa
der that with afljpverflowing Treasury whe
Mr. Van Buren camo into office, inwr
snort years il was an cxpennexi, nDuawv
1 . . .. 1 - , . I - LM
debt to be left as a legacy to bis luccenot
But more of it hereaAer. . -
O" The Lincoln Republican wtB fit Fh
To certain Loafm in Jotushorty
Ten., Greeting i
Whereas, wo have received sume eon-
it
munications from you, containing sundry
accounts of negro catastrophes, negro
meetings and negro transactions in general,
with a request that the same be published ia
our paper : And, whereas, we sans un
since iv rpsnnrtfnl notice that W8 Would
D 1 - . l l
not sufTer ourselves to be gulled wiibsoca
contemptible - stuff, nor by such worthless
wretches f And. whereas, after such, notice
had; been July gi vch ,. y pu TheB attcmpteJ ts-
gull us by forging to .a certain letter i
names of five or six of the most rCTpccttbl
men of your town and its vicinity : TwV
therefore, is to give a further notice lb
we will publish to communication on stj
subject whatevet. that may be sent us bj
you, nnd that we will take no letter &
the post office at this place, which has bees
post-markcijnt Jonesborougb, or any of
neighboring offices, unless the postag
the same, shall have been paid, or e ac
quainted with tho hand-writing iohick
shall be directed.- ABd wo give noticef
ther that wo are not as ignorant of the9,
thorship of said letters as you might sup
pose; a cd if you wish to see your "M1
arrayed in the Messenger and copied
several papers with which you hare be
more successful, you have but to contin
your low, unmanly-course a whilo k?
a course that would be pursued by
being who had a soil! big enough to h
covered by a microscope ngnifynl
million of limes ! Finally, boys,!08
yoo like T. A, R, Nelson, '!S
before Judge Lucky a bill of iiiaVDe
forgery T It might spoil your fun.