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clung close to me, as ifbviwildcred and fearful; and when,"after a moment, I took her to lier motiier, she apran^^ to her arms, and clung to her with eager joy- 1 had watrhcd the whole scenc \vitli irxtcn^-.^ in- tcrcF-t, bein^ dcsirouy cf loariiing frcra it all I c.niiu! of the workings of lier miad, hut I now Ipft them to indulge, unobserved, tho.^e dclici ni.'- leclir.g^!, which those wlio have.known a niother’y love may conceive, but which cannot be cxprest:cl.” The subsequent parting between I^anra and hrr mother, showed alike the ati'ection, the intelligence, and the resolution of the child, and was thus nolcied at the time: “ Laura accompanied her motlicr to the door, dine- ing close to her all Ihe way, until they arrived at the threshhold, where she paused and felt around to as certain who was near her. Perceiving the matron of whom she was very fond, she grasned lu'r with one hand, holdinir on convulsively to her mother with the other, and thus she stood I’ur a moment,— then she dropped her mother's hand.—put her hand kerchief to her eyes, and turning rouTid, clung so!)- bing to the matron, v/hilc her mother departed with emotions deep as those of her child.” Politics of tiie Day. From the Nt'.v York Journal of Coinnicrcc. THE CURRENCY. If the people of this country would avoiJ the evils of the General Governmenf s tampermg with the currency, they must require the CrLneral Ggovern- meiit to let the curvoacy aloni' Oh! certainly, says everybody, only let them fix i* to suit my theo ry, and then by all means they siiould Id it alone VV"e arc down novv-, and if kt alone shall have no tali. The great agony of transition from a fic titious to a natural system is pait, and alfuiis arc going rapidly through the procc4?s of disease tvV w^ards health. On every hand we see the evils of legislation. The shore is strewed with the wr cks of Bunks built by legislation, but too I'ail to navi gate the ocean of bu.'^inoi?. 'I'iio uoik of umttil and concentrated wisd om from the days ot" Alexan der Hamilton to the present time has c)nie to no thing, and carried thousands of more substantial matters with it to nothmg. Of the innn* ns* sums which have been paid hi. as bank c.'pii il fiom the incorporation of the late United Stat.s Bank toth. present moment, we do not believe ti n cents on a dollar now remains in exi:tei;ce. It is a tavoriti resort with many who are obliged to give up theii partiality for the late United States Bank, but still adhere to the system; to say that the inbtitution worked well while it was a Nolional Bank. But no opinion can be w uler from the truth. If evei the exposition is made, it v/ill be found that more than half the capital was sv.nl: while the imfiounl charter existed. It will also be seen that the sub sequent mal-action of the Baiik, under the State charter, was chiefly but the floundering of a mon ster mortally wounded. AVe have goo.l reiison to believe, that one of the most resp.'ctable of the Di rectors, w’hile the question of obtaining a state charter was under discussion in tlie Board. ^tat*-d his belief that the good assets of the Bank did not cxceed lilteen millions of iloILirs, and that, to go on under a state charter witii such a mass of routnmss attached to what there m'i^ht be of soundiu ss. wo\ild be certain destruction to tlie whole. We beg oui readers to note these facts and to give them the im portance they deserve. It was ichde acting in the capacity of a NoAional Bonk that the institution. ras destroyed. In fact it is quite doubtful uh- ther at any time after the great loisi s sustained, in tlie lirst movements of the Bank, its stock was ever sound. It might show a large surplus on paper, for old debts good for nothing are represt nt; d by at many figures a.? they were in their yoiuh and vi- gor.* The opinion that the late Bank during its ex istence produced greater steadiness in the curr; ncy by i’s regulating pov.'er than wouM otherwise have \\isted, is quite erroneous. l*s cii ct in deranging the curroncy was very apparent at several periods. In its first start it so inrlateu the mon( y market tiiat a revulsion ensued which swc]»t ofl’ the nierchants of the day like flies, and c mv:* within a hair’s breadth of breakhig the bank. It was abl \ how- cvrr, by breakh.g evt iy thing else, to s.iveits^ l' We need not prove th;-.t -'.Ir. Bi iii'-'> .u-.idtu expansion from a discount lin-^ of foity-.'^-- rniilions to one of seventy-ilvo v .u enough to ruin half the traders of the day. I herci W’erc various other occasions \v1ku the (h-- ranging influence of the Bank was distinctly an I ruinously felt. In fact, the very nature ofthf' insti tution makes it certain to protluce disordt r. Tlie steady operation of supply and demand regulatt s »ha exchanges and currency of tlie country by well known and healthful principles. Disoidi rs under such influences are soon perceived and counter acted. But the very design of the l^ank was to se cure a state of older more perfect than that w hich nature’s law secured ; an eifoit v/hicii in the very nature of the case must counteract its( If, for the sys tem of natural laws produces the highest possible degree of regularity. A fictitious regulator can but cover over irregulaiities and prcvtnt the facts from being seen, so that one part of the {-omitry may bo indebted to another part and not know it, until the indebtedness becomes so great as to buiSt from the control of the regulator with an increase • ;f mischievous power proportioned to that v.’hich has been exerted to restrain it. We have the b* st possible system of regulation, in the lau'S of trade. They will work out a safe deliverance for us in th end, and place us beyond the reach of great disoi- ders. But if not content wdth tlie system whicli God has made, we insist on having another kin^j set over us, we shall deserve, and our children will not improbably feel, a most disastrous reproof for so great an error. [CIRCULAR.] Departme.n’t op Stath, March 29, IS 10. 'fo the Hon. 'i iioMAa Ewing, Secretary of the Treasury. Sin: The President is of opinion that it is a great abuse to' bring the patronage of the General Go- vernmeilit into conflict with the freedom of t-lecticns: and that this abuse oughf 'to be corrccted wherever it may have boon permitted to exist, and to be pre- vePted for the future\ He therefore directs that information be given, to all oflicers and agents in .your Department of the. public service that partisan interference in popular elections, whether of State officers or oflicers of this Government, and for whomsoever or against whom- soe.-ver it may bo exercised, or the payment of any contribution or assessment 6i salaries or oflicial , compensation for partj* or election purposes, will be regarded by them as causc of removal. It is not intended that 5UJy officer shall be re strained in the free and proper expression and main tenance of his opinions respecting public men or public measures, or in the exercise, to the fullest degree, of the constitutional right of suffrage. But . persons employed under the Government, and paid ibr their services out of the public Treasury, aio not expectcd to take an active or officious part in at tempts to influence the minds or votes of others; such conduct being deemed inconsistant with the t'pirit cf th'^ Constitution and tho d’lties of public agents acting under it; and the Presideiit is resol- vtid, so far as depends upon him, that while the e\x- ercise of the eiv ctive; franchise by the People shall be free frc>in undue influences of oflicial station aiid authority, oi)iuion shall al.>o be free among tlu; oiii- ce.s and ag nts of the Govoniment. The Presid:n" wishes it fu'th^-r to be announced and distinctly unloistood, tiiat Iroin all collecting and disbursing oificcrs promptitude in reiideiing ac counts, anl enti.-e punctuality in paying balances, will be rigorously exacted. In his opinion it is time to return, in this rcspe ct, to tlie early practice of the Ccovenime-nt, and to hold any degree of de- liiKjuency on the part of those entrusted with the* public money just cause of imnudiate removal.— He deenns the severe observance of this rule to be essential to the public service, as every dollar lost to the Treasury by unfaithfulness in oflice cremates a necessity for a new charge upon the People. 1 have the honor to be, sir, your c>lK'dif nt servant, DANIEI. WEP.S]'ER. [Similar letters have bet'n addressed to other heads of Departments ] Upon this Circular and its objects, the Georgia Constitutionalist remarks as follows; The infercnce^s to be drawn from tlie positions as sumed in the circular, and v.'hicli the writer evi- d' lilly wants the people of the linitul Slates to drav.% are; 1. 'I'hat the friends of the prec ding adininistra.- tion only, in the service of the general governuu nt, were guilty of partisan interference in late popular (lections. "I. And that, as tlie prcs(‘nt :idininistralion con demns now s.ich practices, its friends wrr‘ not guil ty of siaiilar oflruce-s in the late political contest. It is to us manifvSt that the circil.ir int. n Is such inferenc* s to b dr.iwn from it. And can the just ness of S!ich inf'Tcnc'- S be adinittt d })y those who have paid the slightest att; ntion to tli* evt nls and circumstances of the last pr( sidntial c^nt*-st /— W’ho began this cunttst. in tht' manner with which it was canied on to its te rininatiun ^ Who b( gau to j>er.imbulate the country fVo'n one t nd of it to the otii'r, and all th'* time d liv-ring sp'-clies treating, feasting untl ciiroasing ? ( \ itainly ri;»t iht- tlicn adinuiistration J> irty, which, in seli dt f nee, had to follow the exiinipl * t to t!i'”.n. An I u(r.v such electiOneering m-ans aie con iemtie i by tie V( ry men vrho r» s.);ted to them, and to v. liich tiuy are ind-})te.i for tin ir succ» ss in the contest. W« may be told that otilccis of th*; gi le-ral government took the field, nhile their o}>pon nts were private citizens. But are ineiiibers e^f l\)ngis.s private ci- tizf.ns? Are governors, ju lgf s an'.! otln r St.iti of- liceis ])i.’vatr citiz iis / C. itah ly M'/. 'I’lif eiicu- lar says, that ” persons enipl.ii/r ( u,flt'r the C rrrn- i!'e/it, and paid for the' ’ . . ittff of fhi' pr;!dic l'reaur;i. are not rxpect d t.> tak*' an a -’ive or of ficious pait in att inpts to influt nce tin* min Is or vote-s of olht rs.'’ Are not mnul)i is of Con'jfi* .ss compensatt d for their services out c'f the public ^I’reasury ? And what did wr bt hold ? Did \vc n^t behold Harrison nvmbois of (,,!ong.( tn st activi and ofiicious in attempts to influence tiie minis and votes not only of thur own constitu* nts, but of th* voters of other States? And have not several of those m nbei s been re ward.-d for their active' an ! otiicious ex.ati.ins, by high and piofitabl*' offices? If per-?'US emploved under tin' governin'nt. and pai.l f,)i tiieir s. rvices out of the public Treasury, were guilty of attempts to influence the minds or voles of others, it was done, no doul t. to maintain themsf Ives in office, and to draw from thi' public Treasury tlu ir pay foi their S(n vice‘S; and it in- m- bers of I'ongress, ^overnoiS, ju lges, and othei State officers, \vfMO guilty of the sjun*' off. nee. :t was vlone, no doubt, ta ous* th 'ir oj)pon 'nts froiri I'-^ ral office, obtain su h offices for thi mselvs or tneir friends, an 1 draw their jwy tortheir S'^rvices Aom the public Trrasury. Of these two cla.sses ot e!.-.,*- tioneerers, which is the most guilty ? We 1 ive i* to ’he reader to j’adge and determine. srs. Gay, Auchincloss, Mitchell, Taggart, and oth ers had been making influence, but they we?rc all thrust aside for Mr. Wetmore. For the oiHce of Surveyor there w'ere several applicants. Every body here supposed that Dr. Bowron w’as tob. tlf fortunate man, but the appointnu nts have all be. n n.ade in "Washington, and not in this citj^, and Mr. Taggart, greatly to his own surprise, found him self made Surveyor. For the Naval Office there \vere several appli cants. It was settled at th^iTice of the Courier and Eii(}uier ” that Mattn|||p.L. Davis should have the berth; but Webb’s eelicts are not particularly jiotential at Washington, and ■VIr. Thomas Lord was S( lected. Thus it will be seen, that a single change in the Colli ctorship from what hael be( n anticipati d. cre ated the utmost derangciiK nt and confusion among all the different grades of «‘xpectants. Every body, with ihe rare exception of those who hav(' alreaily been successful, is disap|iointed. Manyaie- dispos ed to attribut(i all those ariangements to the itiffu- ence of Mr. W*bs“.er. It is not to be doubted that Mr. Webster f k an int«'rest in the success of Mr. (jurtis, and exerted himsilf as fir as was ne-cessary to secure it. But office-set king is very much hke buying tickets in a loiieiy, alter all. I'here are sonu' four or five prizes, and fifty or sixty blanks. All those* who have secuietl a chance stand about in anxious expectation. The meinb« i S are all [lUt into a big box and shaken thoroughly. The ju i- son .selected for the purpose plungt s his hand in an-l pull.s out a Colit ctor. Tiien there is a fuiious shake of the numbers, and a Navy Agent is drawn forth, 'i'he process is repeate-.l until a Naval offi cer an-d Surve3'or are pulled out, anil then the lid of the box is hoisted, and the blank's tin own away. Dr. Bowrim expected to come up for th( Sui veyor. but stuck' hard at the bottom of tht; box. Charles Delavan wt nt on for any genxl office , a.n.l after arriving there, determine'd to take up with the N.ivy Agency, but he flri'W a blank in the iioUery. and is now looking out for somt thing else. He may conr home, without giving himself any fur- tin r tiouble or uneashi'ss. VV^‘ have selected an oi'ici fur Mr. D-davan. just suit; d to liis taste', ha bits and capacity. He mu.st have the Consulship ■it 'I’aniri* rs, no»v filled by a locofoco, nam I ('arr. We want to send hhn out to liie Empeior oi Mo- roco, Sian ling as In* does. si.K f'H t three in his stock- in.gs, as a strajiping sjiecim- n of the reve>lutionary stock; a sam[)ie of Amciican manufacture', and a proofthat human n.atun', physically considered, has net derenerated on this side of the AtlanlK!. From til.'* New York Htralil (V.'Iujf.) IM>UCTIOX OF TIIE NEW COI.LECTOR — SECi'kET rilS i’UHV OE THE APPOliXT- ME.\TS. '^!i' n^’w offic^'vs of the Customs, the Colhctor, ?>.ivai (^fiicer. an.l Siu'Veyor, were s\vu;n into office, and entered upon th ir dutiiS, y st^tday. There was a gieat crowd at the (.,‘ustom House duiing a con>iu'rable pait of t.he day, and a good de'al »f anxiety was manif sted by the expectants. *1Vlr. Curtis reached town on Sunday evi ning but before his arrival, after the appointment Wits known, extra ordinary efforts were made to secure inffu> nc(* ini various quarters for the places at tho dispos j of the! Collector.—-Mr. Grinnol was haunted at all fimts.j and in all jdaces, with the utmost p' rtinacity.— 'i’he hungry fellows, who are looking i'or the spoils, called at hi-^ lioTise. and cc.llcd at his counting room : they dogged him to church on Sunday, and way laid him in the street.s. (Others, too, who were sup posed to h;ive inffuenco with the new Collecto were beset in season and out of season. There have been a great many strange move me nts and curious manouuvres in reference to th several offices in this city, 'riiese have jirincipal- ly been secrU and steahhy, but we will lift tlie cui tain with a gentle li.m?!, and disclose a few of th( actors, aiul some of the intrigues that have beer cariieil on. Imni’rdiately after the State Elections in the sprini^ of 1810 had indic;itd the probability of Ciren. Hur rison's succf ss, Mr. W efmore, in conjunction witl the Courier and Enquirer, and the YouniJ- Men’; Whig Committee, came to an understanding, b-\ the terms of which, they were to })lay into eaci othei’s hands. Mr. Wetmore was to be Collector and the 1[ oung !Meifs Committee were to divid among themst'lvcs and their imnie^diate depend.mts the subordinate offices in the (Customs. Mr. Kiy nolds, the Sargeant's and their associates, were ai embraced in this arrangement. TliC'se people procui ed an immense number of naim'S to recommenda tions of Mr. AV'etmore, and up to a late period wer" sanguine of success. The latter part of winter Mr. Reynolds went o) i to Washington to promote the views of this clif/f/.( and took strong giound against the appointment c »f mendiers of Congress. His notions v/ere cchoe« 1 by others of the same set here. He even went s o far as to prepare an address to the people of thi s city' remonstrating against the selection of member; n wl;ich was intended for publication in the “ Courie r and Enquier.” But by this time Mr. Webb ha d become apprehensive that the influence of Mossrjj. Cunis and Grinnell might be exerte'd against cei *- tain schemes of his own. and he declined to publis h the aeldre^ss. Joh,i O. Sargeant also Aventto Wasl i- ingtcn to co-operate with Reynolds in b half of M r. Wetmore. But Mr. Grinn II, and otnei friends ( )i Mr. Curtis at AVashington, v.'ere too strong for tli e W etmoro influence here, even when the exertioi is of Reynolds and Sargeant were superaddcd to i t, and Mr. C. obtaineel the office. The effbct of this appointment w’^as very curiou s. Mr. W etmore, and the w^hole circle of friends wl";o had expected office under the latter w'ere disa^f)- pointed. Mr. Wetmore was then taken up, ar d almost before he was aware of the design, mae e Navy Age-lit, Por this vorv eligible t»Iaco, Wa.-hiii^jtoK Corre.-ipondi nc(5 of tho ChaiU'ston Courier. 'Wa.-iiington, Mar‘h 25. The new administration is liiirly at woil:. 'I’he sev. ral hf'ftds of depaitni'iit an strictly attentive to l)us.nr.-?s. ae I drive it through with a strong and st a ly hand. \'e)U would bo surprize'd, much as has bc( n said of the prt csurc for office and th(' clamor of ofilc se( ker.s, at the vast crowds of persons of all condi tions wlio ttirong iho anti’-chainbeis of the Stcida- ries. Th re yv)u wdl S ’', at all hours of busin- ss a numerous ass;einbla':re e>l all sorts ot people—dan- di s aii'.l lagged hxifer.s, ex-Senators and membeis of (.\;ngre-ss, E)c-Governors. E litoiS,b*ok. n nn ichruits. pot house and log-cabin politicians—all m* t on th same gre-at busine*ss of soliciting sniall offices—the gr«'at ones having been given out already. wlio coinni' nc- d by dem.uidiiiir five thou sand doll.ir p;'st oiTiCi's un-l coll-.'torships, are non fain to come down to a ene thousand d liar cl rk sliip or insp. ctorship. Fina'ly, tin y will br- gl id ti take a suit of clcitln s, in full c.jinp* nsation for their patiiotis.n. •'riuse crowds, a*: I say, b» tiegr' tht' S* cretari(S daily, not ('iilv by personal, bu* epi.^tolary ajinlica- tion. 'I'he wirltui applications are acconijxinied by recommeii'lations, cer;ifi'’aU‘-', »S:c.. v. ith numerous ^iijrur-:y—all sh.ewing the great quaiites and recitinsT j the great actions of tlu* ajiplicants. and their devotion to the whig cause, as proved in ^tump orations,— Tippf cano' n r.-''. \.c Mc.ny of th« .'•• docunxnts ar:' rec iv‘d by mail, and are som* limes .'■'o^'n fola»v. - etl by tho applicant in person, who come s full oi ex- p .natic.i. ( >ne ofthese, the other day. watted on the Pr*.-?id!nt, and . ;igei ly as’crd him if he had r ad pape.-?:. 'l”i I*ii sid' nt was constv.ained to >av that he- h;id never so- n tie m. 'I’hr' ajinbeant st.'.ti d that they had been forward- l to him l.'V mail. Th-. President replird—“• if tha.t is tli. ciS" re idpya will comototlu'in in iluecourso. I havethree nad- ers t iuploy^d. and you may be assurtd that yc'ur papers will bf'op. n il in tlu ir turn” I ln'ard one man complain that, thou gh he had v.'ritt/n ,.n 1 roar ed for lla rison th ouirh the late contes^t, and ex- ni'iided some thous.Mi m Irs c tns»' he From the Lincoln Rt'publican. MR. BARRLNGER’S CIRCULAR. This paper, addressed to the freemen of tlie Ele venth Congressional District ofNorth Carolina, w^as issued in tliis Town, on the 31st day of March past. Tho lir-t day of April (.1// /'00/5’ Day) w’ould, w’C think, have been a more appropriate elate to have affixed to it, tor, it was evid^'ntly intended to “ fool” the Republican people to vrhoni it was addressed, and make them bi'liev'e that old Federalism is genu ine Republicanism. Col. Barringer is extremely anxious to be considered a Republican; and if a mere dictum unaccompanied by any acts or opinions to sustain it, will entitle one to the name, no one, w’c pre sume, could dispute hiif right to it. If he. be a Renublican. why is it that the surviving Federalists of’bS are all for him? and on what grounds does he get the support oi all the or;ti-vvar r eilcralists of 1812 ? Th(!se are men who are not easily impo sed on, and w ho, w hatever sins they may have, are not often llmnd acting inconsisto'Uly with their prin ciples. StraiiLTC, t!ie*n. that thfnj should support Col. Barringer, if h^ be so good a llepublican. The first subj'^ct treated ot in the circular, is the finances aiul currency e>t tlie country; anti these (after some general remarks tlK're(jn, which are in the main imexc-eptionaldi'.) are described as bedng ‘‘in the most deplorable condition,—deranged and depreciated,” And the cause is laid to the too great number of the banks wdiich the State s have seen proper to create. Mr. Barringer’s remedy for the evdl, is a e-reat “Tsational l^ank, with a branch or branches in every SLite, as its commercial impor tance may require.” He tiiinks “ vve ought to go back to the paths from w hich we l.ave departed, and on wdiich we have travelled safely ami prosperously for forty years of the existeiu e of our Government.” “The period of fbrty year.s.” (continues Mr. Barring-^ or) ‘ when we bad' a .\a*i ) : d Bank were years of prosperity and h.appine.cs to the people.” &.C. W hat could Col. Barringer have been thinking about whe'u lie hazznrded tlu.-: issi'rtion ? Does he not know better? Why it i>- uotorienis, that in 1S13, two years atler the late Bank was chart«'r'd , the coun try was visited with ])ecuniary embaiTassmonts, V. Inch continued to be felt up to* 1827, a })criod of nearly ten years. Tii; finances and the currency then were truly ”in the mo.st de[)lorable condition, deranged and dcj>reciat('d:” prices low and arti cles dull, exchanges w’ore in the most wretched con dition, extensive iivilures took |>lace all over the coun try, the banks su.'-ponded for sev'ral years, anel the ‘‘Great Regulator” itselfcame- near tumbling to the ground. These are facts, undenied and undeniable, which belong to history. Yet, Col. Barringer would have us believe, that such things never occurred un der the Bank regime. (.’(tl, Barrinirer next gives the ouffines ofhis plan of a Bank, as follows: ‘•I am, therefore, fedlow citizens, in tlivorofa well regidated National Bank, to be chartered by Con- t^ret^s, with proper and clticent restrictions, to be sub ject to the lu'aviesT penalties for every violation of its charter, to be under the’supervision or the people’s re})resc'ntatives and the stock to be owned in proper proportions by the Govi.’rment and the (.’itizens of the U. States. I could not in the limits e>f this address go into all the details of the plan. They must necessa rily be left to the wi.nlom of Congrcr’-s, and it is not unreasonable to supp».-e tliat with the improved knowledge and experience we have on the .subject, such an institution could be -rected as v.'ould cer tainly enable the; Goverment to conduct the fiscal operations with salety ;ind ease, and furnish to the jjeople a sound and uniform currency, and at the same time, avoid the errors and embarrassments in to wliich we have heretofore been tempted, and re move the objections which were supposed to exist in the details of previous charters.” He is in t'avor of awell regulated” National Bank, ‘‘with proper and etlicit'nt restriction,” “to be subject to the heaviest penalties tor every violation of its charter.” vS:c.. How is it to be “regulated?” what ‘‘restrictions” can be put upon it? and hoAV can it be j.unished for violations ot'its charter? The idea is ptepro.'-terous; tlie wisdom of man has not, cannot, devise a way. Let a l>ank but go into operation, and wiiat carci; it for paper restrictions? h will violate its cl.arter at will; and, if you talk about punishing it tor its taithles.-.ues.s, it will laugh at you, bccauso it knows tliat its operiitions are so interwoven v.ith the aifairs and business of the country that yon cannot reach it without oppressing the people, \\'(' cannot auree v.dth Col. Barringer, that anv' good can come fr.m the establishment of such an institution: on the contrary, we, believe that it would be fatal to tlio prosperity and liberty o! the j v'cuntry. Mr. Ibirrinc.^r ar.^^u; s ;]iat a bank is a repuldican ie, dti'- ..e > eansv' tk.e lati' Bank was created by the K('‘>ubllcan r.;ir»y. Bv the .jaie token we could p;-ovt' tiia! i; is \ Fi'ileral measure, lor, the first i'iPi'lc ot’ihe United Stat. s orioiuatetl with Alcxan- d.'r Hemilto i. the prince of F • ' rah.-^ts. and, i! we are n.)t mis*.iken, was carried tUrouLTU by a Fede- rj^ ('oMrrress. in opposition to the votes ot th.e Ro- l^lic.ins. It is true, that the Bank of ISIG was created by the Renublif'an party, but this does not y.rov(' such :m institution is Re])ublic:'.n within itself. TIk'v were guiltv. in its (-stahhsbment. of a de])ar- ture t'lom ])rincii le wdiich tl.ey hav' long since re pented. And sli:»ll the sins of a ] arty be allowed as ♦‘vi'lvni I' e>l' ortliodoxy ? AVe. lor one. cainiot consent to it. The only tiur test of tliC Republican ism of a mi'asure. is its conrruity \\ itli the orij;inal and establislied doctrines of the >>artv—Is it compati- '7".;. ■ "1^' I MEeKLENSURG JEFFERSONIAN: esiiiSiJLOffisiSa sfo ©03 Twesilay Morning, April 13, 1841. Democratic Republican yomination for Con^rress: ejREEX W. CAI.DWE1A., OF MECKLENBURG. CANDIDATES FOR CLERKS. f:V -re reque sted by a number of citizens from all parts of the County to announce CHARLES T. ALEXANDER, Jr., a candidate at the next August election, for the ofiico of Clerk of Meckknl.-urg County Court. We have also been similarly requested to announce JEN- ?sIXGS B. KKRR, Ksq., a candidate at the same time for re-election to th ’ ofTice of Clerk of the Superior Court. We are authorized to annotinee B. OATS, Esq., as a can didate for re-election to the office of Clerk of Mecklenburg (‘ouniy Court, at the next election. Charlotte, March 20, 1811. APPOINTMENTS. We are requested by ^Fr. C.\ldwell, to state tliri? he will address such ofhis fellow-citizens as may as semble to hear him at the following places and times: At HolTinan’s Store, near Tuckasege Foard, oa Saturday the 17th instant. At Concord, Cabarrus County, oi Tuesday (S April Court, and at Mount Pleasant on Saturday ot' the same week. At Charlotte, on Tueselay of April Court, and at Labatt's X Road.=s. on Saturday of the same week. morning, on the objects of tho extra session, is looked upon as official—(|uite as much so, as if issued un der the signature dlhe Se'creta ry of State, by order of the President We now know% therefore, wdiat we before coiijecturcd, that the President w ill propose no n('W' measures to Congress—but simply lay be fore them some general information as to the state of the Union, and leave it to them to devise measures adapted to tho condition of the country. There wdll be no Executive recommendations—and no Execu tive party. The President disclaims both. The w'cather has become as warm as summer.— iNiany members still linger here, as ofiice expect ants. Tne caies of state sit lightly on the President, who seems to enjoy the novelty of his situation-.— The heads of department, iiow'ever, do not find them- sel ves on beds of roses. There is some speculation as to the successor to Mr Stevenson, at London. Some suppose that Mr. Rives w'lll be appointed. DentJi of tlic President. The melancholy duty devolves upon us of an nouncing tho death of the President of the United States, Gen. Harrison’. He died at Washingto:; City, at lialf past 1 o’clock on the morning of the -1th instant, of bilious pleurisy. His disease made it:s app' arance on Saturday the 27th iihimo, and froi;'. that time till his death, the public mind in and around the City in a painful state of suspenst, says the Intelligoncer. The follow-ing Card from the He'ads of Department gives the most siiccincl account of this melancholy event; CITY OF WASHINGTON April d. 1841. Analbwise Providt nee having suddenly rcmov> i from this life, WILLIAM HENRY*HARRI- SC)N, kite l*r sidout of tho United States, we have thought it^our duty, in the recess of Congress, and in the' absence of tho Vico President from tho of (jrovornment. to make this afrlicting bereavemonl known to the country, by this declaration, unelei our hands. He died at tho Pre sident’s House, in this city, thi;? fourth elay of April. Anno I>)mini, 1811 , at'thirty minutes before on.‘o’clock in the morning The P( ople of the United States, overwhelm;.:, like ours('lves, by an event so unexpected and sj me lanciiolly. will derive consolarion from knowing that his death was calm and resigned, as his life ha.> b» on palriolic, useful, and distinguished; and that tiie last utterance ofhis lips expressed a fervent dosin f)r tho perpetuity of the Constitution, and the pr> • ;?ervatie>n of its true principles. In death, as in life, the happiness ofhis country was uppermost in hi.^ thouL'‘hts. DANIEL WEBSTER, So.TCtarv of State. THO^L\S EWING, Secretary of Trcas>. JOHN BELL. Secretary of War. .1. .T. CRIT’FENDEN, Attorney-General. FRANCIS GRANGER, P. M. General. This is tho first instance in whicli a Prc.sidcnt of the United States has die-d in the actual hictim beucy of that hiirh office. Doubtless the cares. otlico. as was anticipated by many, were too he'avr for one at tho ad\anced age of CJen. Hari’.?oT' Whatever wo may have thought of his fitness bb^witli equal rights ? J>ose it ^uaro ! the Presidency, we have ever believed hhn to bo a honest man at heart, and have spoken of him a? such; and. now that he has gone to render his ac count to the great .Tudge of all men, ^yo would only ] ublie-'n prir.ciples of’OS and 'VO f Is it raitliorized i>y a strict and coniinon-seitse construction ol the Con stitution ? 'J'h»'s'' are the tpiestions by which the P.epublicaiusni ot’ :i measure is to be detorinined. Apply this test then to a Btmk of tho rnited Slates, and its anti-Republican character it; at e)uce seen. —That tho Britisli Minister at Washing ton has assured our government, th:it the conviction and execution of McLeod will be tblloweil bj* a de mand !br his passports. A threat in advance, it was conjectured, iniixht tend to tb(' protection, it" not to the innocence, ot“ that ]iersonage. That a copy ol’the corres])ondence to this elTect has been allowed to pa>s into the hainls of the Execu- , tive of this State. 'I'he suirire.s'tion could scarcely i his death, resignation, or inability to dis* lead to results at WashingtonIt might not he i tho duties of the said ollicc, tho same shah thrown away here. 1 devolve on the Vice President; and the Congress That tho mistake, omission or what you will, by | provide tor the case ot removal, dcatb. which tho Niagara circuit I t- tb.llen through, will ; resignation, or mabihty, both ot the President ani atford sufficient delay, if not onoortunities, tor nego- ! ^ h'o President, declaring wdiat oihcer shall then acr tiations between the'authoritie s, and that therefore oflicer shall a^t accoramgi> exclaim—“ Peace to his ashes !” The duties of Presideiit arc now devolved by tli.‘ Constitution on tho Vice President, Joh?i Tyler, till the 4th March, 1845. The following arc the pro visions of tho Constitution on the subject: Conslitution of the United States, Art. II, Scl*- 1, Clause G.— ‘•In case of the removal of the President from ot- North-Ca rolina Conference The place and time of meeting of next St.ssion of the North-Carolina Conference of the methodist Church, have been changed. The Conference wdll meet in this City, oil tlio ‘^/tb r.t Octobcr noxt ■o'h l^c^ristcr. the saiil falling through is noL a matter of regret in certain quarters. That tho interference of the Attorney Goreral of the U. S.—a questionaldc step at bf'st—is with a view to negotiations that may leave it less material to McLeod wdiether tho next circuit .■t^iall fall through, or not.—Albany Wo call the attention of the Harrison editors, and Harrisonians generally, to the following articlc from the Jersey City Gazette, a u'hig paper: Geargia C'on.'ititiitionali.^t. ^'U'hite House Fimiitarc.—The ‘jsalace’ is said to be destitute of even decent and comfortable furniture. Ogle’s speech to tho contrary notwithstanding. Not hciving the sin. of publishing that d.ociirnent to lay to our conscience,‘having no lot or part in tho matter, we can consistently acquiesce in wdiatever proposal is made, for providinsi the President’s house with re spectable fixtures. How stand our whig brethren in the premises, and how will Ihej^ escape the dilemma in wdiich their ready endorsement of Ogle's nonsense has placcd them?” until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. Story's Laics of the United States. CiiAP. [S.J An Act relativ^e to the election of a Pres ident of the United States. 9. That in case of a removal, death, rcsignatioii, or inabiHtV, both of the President and Vice Presiden* of the United States, the President of the Senate pro tempore, and, incase there shall be no Presielen’- of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of presentatives, for the time being, shall act as Presi dent of the United States, until the disability be n moved, or a President shall be elected. 10. That wdienever the offices of President anil Vice President shall both become vacant, the cretary of State shall forthwith cause a notificatiejn thereof to be made to the Executive of every Stato. and shall also causo the same to be published in, *'•' least, one of tlie newspapers printed in each specifying that electors of President of the bni' ted States shall bo appointed or chosen, in the se^ veral States, wdtliin thirty-four days prcu*eding I first Wednesday in December, then next ensuin?^ ^ j Provided, There shall be the space of two between the date of such notification and the A thing to he remembered.—Whilst the pleople ol | Wednesday in December; but if there shall no^ the United States aro groaning under (according I0 i tho space of two months between the date of notification and the first Wednesday in and if the term for which the President ana President last in ofiice w'erc elected shall on tlie third of March next ensuuig, tiien the ' tary of State shall specify in ’ ihir choii bf'aonointod or cho^^n w*tl.-n Federal showing) tho severest pressure ever fblt in this country. President Harrison is buying, witii their monav, sixty dollar lounges, for himse:lf and family to “lazy ” on! Is this tho relief which was promised to the peo- dIo'' IJv.rcln Remi.hlica'i. ■
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte, N.C.)
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