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Congress. In the House of Repre
sentative, on the 23d ult. Mr. Wilde's
resolution on the specie circulation of
the couulry, which proposes an enqui
ry into the expediency of "imposing
a duty on bank bills of low denomi
nation, or a tax upon the Banks issu
ing them, or providing that the bills
of such Hanks shall not be received
ir. payment or deposited on account
of the United States1' was taken up
and debated, but the question was not
decided. In the debate
Mr. Spcight said, he looked
upon the proposition of the
gentleman from Georgia as one
fraught wilh tire most baneful
consequences to the country.
He had not attended perhaps as
he ought, to the resolution, but
if he understood it, it went to
restrict the States in the exer
cise of a right which lie conceiv
ed this government hid no
right to question a right which
ihcy had exercised peaceably
from the foundation of the Go
vernment. He did not intend
to say that ihe States had the
legitimate right to issue paper
which should be a lawful tender
in the payment of debts, but he
would say, they had the rinht to
locate Banks, and so far as it
concerned creditor and debtor,
ihcir notes were a good circu
lating medium. That part of
the resolution which relates to
the exchange of coin for bullion, !
and making ; gold and silver on-1
ly a tender in payment of debts,
he had no objection to. But
as a friend to State rights, and
U3 one who would always lift
his hand and voice against any
encroachment of this Govern
ment on their reserved rights,
he felt bound to protest against
the adoption of that part of the
resolution which proposes to
put a stamp on Bank notes and
of taxing the notes or the Banks
issuing the same. Mr. S. said,
lie greatly feared that instead of
curtailing the powers which this
Government has assumed, they
were to be greatly enlarged.
Are we to be told at this late
day that the States have no
right to issue paper money, or if
they do, Congress has the pow
er to virtually restrict it by im
posing stamp duties? He a
greed with the gentleman from
Georgia, that the General Gov
ernment has the right to pre
scribe what shall be a lawful
currency, and also in what its
debts shall be paid. But he
contended Congress had no
right to interfere with the cor
porations of the States. Once,
said Mr. S. concede this power
to be in Congress, and the su
premacy of the Bank of the U
nited States as settled, you put
it it the power of Congress to
ax the local Banks of the States
they will no doubt put them
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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.J Tuesday, Jpvil
down, and then this mammoth
uaim is to be stuck in every
town and hamlet in the several
States. He therefore moved to
strike from the resolution that
part which proposes an enquiry
into the expediency of stamp
ing the notes and taxing them
by Congress.
Georgia and the Supreme Court.
the National Intelligencer, in an
article on the subject of the recent de
cision oi the Supreme Court on the
Missionary case, states the following
as the course which it is presumed
the matter will take.
The mandate of the Supreme
Court is directed to the Supe
rior Court for the county of
Gwinnet, in the State of Geor
gia; and it requires of that
Court that it do release the Mis
sionaries, who are confined at
hard labor in the Penitentiary,
under the act of the State of
Georgia which is decreed to be
repugnant to the Constitution,
treaties and laws of the United
States. If the Court obey the
mandate, it is well, and no more
is to be said or clone. If the
Court does not obey the man
date, application will, we sup
pose, be made to the Supreme
Court, at its next term in this
city, (that is, in January next,)
to execute its own judgment,
under the laws of the United
States, which provide that in
cases where the State Courts
do not execute the judgments
of the Supreme Court, that
Court may issue its own pro
cess to carry into effect -Us own
judgments.
It is possible, indeed, that
application might be made to
one of the Judges of the United
States, out of Court, for a ha
beas corpus, to bring the case
immediately before him. Bui
the general idea seems to be
that nothing will be done to
wards enforcing the judgment
until the next meeting of the
Court in this city.
If, finally, process issuing
from the Supreme Court, and
wmi'.Q must ue granted as a
matter of course, shall be re
sisted, it will be the duty of the
I i i i
Marshal of the United States for
that District to summon a posse
comitatus, and of the President
of the United States, if necessa
ry, to place the army and mili
tia of the United States at the
service of the civil authority.
Treaty with the Creeks.
A treaty has been concluded
with the Crocks, in which this
tribe cede all their lands with
in the Stale of Alabama, for
lands beyond tho Mississippi,
and upon similar terms with
those stipulated in the Choctaw
treaty. All the tribes have
now agreed to emigrate from
the bosom of the States, with
the exception of about 4,000
Cherokees. These deluded
people are to be made the vic
tims of political managers, who
will sacrifice the best interests
and happiness of this tribe, in
efforts to embarrass the mea
sures of the administration.
Wash. Globe.
(T?-The intelligence received
via England, which we publish
ed in our last, staling that Don
Miffuel, of Portugal, had settled
the affair about the capture of
American vessels, in a manner
satisfactory to our Government,
! we learn, confirmed by des
patches received at Washing
ton. Norfolk Her.
The following is an extract
of a letter from Lisbon, dated
Feb. l:-"The American ships
captured by the Portuguese na
val forces before Terceira are
about to be restored. The
Portuguese commander who
ordered the capture is to be
suspended for a year, and an
indemnity of nearly 000,000. is
to be paid by the Portuguese
treasury to the American mer
chants who may have suffered
losses by the detention of the
vessels."
From Liberia. The ship
James Perkins, Capt. Crowell,
which sailed hence on the 3th
December, for Liberia, with a
bout 300 emigrants, chiefly from
Southampton, having safely
landed them at their destina
tion (with the exception of the
wife of James Cotton, an elder
ly and weakly woman, and two
infant children, who died ou the
passage) returned to this port
on Monday last, having been
absent only 108 days.
As we-believed at the lime,
the report received at New
York, via Havre, of a mutiny a
mong the emigrants on board
the James Perkins, proves to
have been a sheer fabrication.
Capt. Crowell stales their con
duct during the voyage to have
been entirely becoming and or
derly. Capt. C. represents the colo
ny to be in a thriving condition,
and the people healthy and
contented. The growing im
portance of the colony as a mart
of commerce, is pleasingly at
tested by the list of vessels tra
ding there, as furnished by Cap
tain Crowell, which will be seen
under our marine head.
Norfolk Her.
Disturbance at College. -The
Freshman Class has been dis
missed from Harvard College
for insubordination. The facts
are thus given by the Boston
Transcript: Sometime last
week, the door of a room in
Massachusetts Hall was vio
lently forced open by one of the
class. The deed was witness
ed by another, who refused,
when called by the government,
to disclose the name of his of
fending classmate. Persisting
in-his refusal to give any infor
mation, he was summoned, by
legal process, to appear before
the Grand Jury at Concord.
His classmates, deeming it un
just on the part of the govern
ment to use the strong arm ol
the law to compel him to inform
against one of their body, ex
pressed their disapprobation by
"scraping," coughing, &c. dur
ing the daily exercises in the
chapel. On Sunday they were
perfectly quiet, but on Monday
morning renewed their expres
sions of displeasure, which we're
carried so far that the govern
ment ordered the class to leave
the University, until such time
as they might be recalled.
Raleigh Star.
CjThe Augusta (Geo.) Cou
rier says: We learn by a letter
last night from Athens, that our
University is in a state of rebel
lious uproar, which had not sub-
fcided when the stage left.
10, 1833.
Florida. By the schr... Ag
nes, says the Savannah Geor
gian, we have received the St.
Augustine Herald of the 1st
inst. From it we learn that
Col. James Gadsden, has been
commissioned by the President
to visit the Seminole Indians,
for the purpose of effecting their
removal from Florida, and that
he would be among them early
this month. It has been very
properly determined that no
persons will bo permitted to re
main in the nation during the
council, who may derive any
pecuniary advantage from their
remaining in Florida. In the
event of Gov. Duval's resigna
tion, or the rejection of his no
mination, Col. Gadsden, it is
expected, will be his successor.
The Legislative Council of
Florida, during the late session,
passed a bill removing the seat
of Government from Tallahas
see to St. Augustine, but the
acting Governor of the Territo
ry having refused his assent to
the bill, it was again "taken up
by the Council, and lost by
one vote.
lluntsvillc, (Alab.) March 3.
Tandy W. Lewis, of this coun
ty, was on Wednesday last, shot
through the heart, by T. J.
Quosenbcrry, of Tennessee.
The circumstances which gave
rie to this homicide, are yet
unknown. The deceased sur
vived only a few minute's after
its perpetration. Quesenberry
was arrested the same day by
the Sheriff, and is now in con
finement. (T?Judge Thatcher, of Bos
ton, has directed the Grand Ju
ry there to inquire whether any
persons have offended by the
printing of booksj pamphlets
and newspapers, with the inten
tion to send them to the slave- j
holding States, and stir up the;
slaves to insurrection. This!
last is a new offence, never be
fore presented for the consid
eration of a New England jury.
But it is to be hoped that if any
persons be found to have so of
fended, they will be severely
punished. Newbern Spec.
QT'-The Editor of the Herald,
published at Kinderhook, New
York, has discontinued his pa
per. Having realized a fortune
in book accounts, he intends to
devote the remainder of his life
to their collection. If he lives
to accomplish this, he will pro
bably not be buried till towards
the close of the twentieth cen
tury. Camden Jour.
flThe Legislature of Loui
siana adopted resolutions on
the Gth ult. by a large majority,
instructing their Senators and
requesting their Representatives
in Congress, to vote for the re
chartering of the U. S. Bank.
Mysterious Circumstance.
The Charleston Courier says:
We are informed that very ear-
Lly on Saturday morning last, the
body of a man, very genteely
dressed, was found in the-river
near Gibbs' wharf. In a short
time after it was taken up a
carriage was brought to the
wharf, the body put into it and
taken away, without the few
persons knowing the parties
concerned in the removal, or
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whither they went. On the bo
dy was found a handsome gold
watch, and a wallet containing
uy wards of two hundred dollars
in money. The deceased ap
peared to be a young or middle
aged man, with black hair and
whiskers, and had his feet lied
together, when found.
Runaway caught. We learn
from the Macon Advertiser that
Thomas Glew, who absconded
from London with 3,600. the
property of a banking house in
which he was clerk, who offer
ed 500. for his arrest, has been
apprehended in Columbus, Geo.
and 3,300. found upon him.
Glew was recently in Charles
ton, from whence it was suppo
sed he had gone to the West
Indies.
Tf-TheNew York Journal of
Commerce says: An action was
commenced in the Superior
Court on Wednesday, in which
Michael Hall was plaintiff and
William L. Prall, late of Tren
ton, New Jersey, for crim.con.
with the plaintiff's wife during
his occasional absence at sea.
The jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff, of $1,000.
ft? A very extraordinary and
perplexing case has recently
come before the Court of Gen
eral Sessions, in New York.
The Rev. Dr. Philips, a clergy
man of that city, has been char
ged by a woman Margaret Ag
ncw, who had recently lived in
his family in the capacity of a
servant maid, with having at
tempted the commission of a
rape upon her person. In con
sequence of this accusation, tho
woman and several of her fami
ly connexions who had warmly
espoused her cause, have been
charged by the accused with
having entered into a conspira
cy against him with a view of
extorting money. This charge
derives plausibility from the
fact, that the defendants re
peatedly offered to settle tho
affair, on condition that the
plaintiff would pay a stipulated
sum, leaving the inference, that
their object was to obtain mo
ney, rather than to redress an
injury inflicted upon virtuous
sensibility. The cause of the
plaintiff is weakened on the
other hand by the fact, that he
actually consented to com
pound, by the payment of mo
ney, although the offer was not
accepted, because the amount
proposed was inferior to that
demanded. The jury to whom
the case was committed, being
unable to agree, were dischar
ged by the Court and the case
was deferred for a new trial.
CMiss Fanny Widger, of
Preston, Chenango county, N.Y.
died on the 13ih ult. in conse
quence of taking arsenic the
Saturday previous, while labor
ing under mental derangement.
The poison had been procured
for the purpose of destroying
rats, and, as was supposed, se
curely put away: she, however,
succeded in finding it, and after
taking out the quantity she in
tended to use, filled the phial
with pulverized chalk. Before
her death she expressed sorrow
for the act, and freely told in
what manner 6he got possession
of tho article