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From the Spirit of the Times.
RHYMES FOR Till-: TIMES.
'- jj'ily Barlow a new rajr-currency Song.
Air Billy Burlaw.
i Ob! Cta( pe'f?00t' people, what changes we know!
Tolberd.iV I was blushing my rajjs for to show,
t rjr and rag'inuftuis are now all the go,
nd a real Rig-Baron is Hilly Harlow.
Oh! dV."r. raggedy Oil!
And a real Kag-Baron is Hilly B lrlow.
The banks have gone crazy, the people gone mad.
And they swear that no silver or gold can he had;
Sot.imake hrg-jirs rich, & the rich beggars. Oh!
We'll have rags and rag money, and Billy Barlow.
Oh! dear, nggely Oh!
We'll have rags and rag money, and Billy Barlow.
Oh! yes, Fin a hank man all up to the hub.
For all my old rajs I can take to ihe tub;
And the way the rag currency 'II have for to go,
is nobody's business but Hilly Harlowi
Oh! dear, raggedy Oh!
Is nobody's business" but Hilly BarloWi
W'liile petticoats last (and there arnt a few,)
My rags shall he red-back'd and red-bellied too;
Can the banks issue better, Fd like for to know,
So hurra! for the "shinnies' of Hilly Harlowi
Oh! dear, raggedy Oh!
So huna! for the "shinnies" of Billy Barlow.
Good people, who'd rich, then, and rascally grow,
Come follow the footsteps of Hiddle & Co.
Just "shinny your own side' a million or so,
And become a Rag-Baron like Billy Barlow.
Oh! dear, raggedy Oh!
And become a Rag-Baron like Billy Barlowi
It's only small rogues now that justice oVrhauIs;
Yhile great ones live saucy in grand marble halls;
But should to arrest us they come for to go.
There is room left in Texas for Billy Barlow.
Oh! dear, raggedy Oh!
There is room left in Texas for Billy Bailow.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 16th ult. Mr
Woodbury wished to make a few remarks
Impropriety of prin.ing -he .report, oi j
the Secretary of the Treasury. He said it
was filled with gross errors and mit.state
ments, and if he were permitted to make
bis remarks, he could show that on these
very errors and misstatements, the call ol
this extra Session had been based.
Mr. Clay having given his consent, Mr.
Woodbury proceeded and pointed out
some most extraordinary discrepancies,
which we find thus alluded to in some
editorial remarks of the Globe:
Mr. Woodbury, in his exposition to-day,
showed from Mr. Ewing's own report,
that the assumption that there was a debt
lhat must be provided for, and a deficit in ,
te means of the Treasury to be made up,
which req-iired the meeting of Congress in
May, was wholly without foundation, fie
took the icport to prove that both on the
4th of March and 3 1st of May, it was ad
mitted that' the Treasury had a surplus on
hand and he showed that but for the ex
tra session and the new expenditures called
for, tliesime full condition of the Treasu
ry would have been found in September as
"1 May. And Mr
Woodbury further
snowed from the report, that not with
Ending the clamour raised through the
jewsp:ir,fTS about a forty million debt lefi
behind it by the late administration that
't the report, is obliged to pare down this
0ty million debt to about six millions for
the whole year I S41 ; and if a deduction
he mde for the cost of the extra session,
aid the aildilin.. .1 cvnomlilnrp. asknd bv
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me
present Administration, the pretended
orty million incumbrance will shrink to
less than three! This Mr. Woodbury
Provedclearly from the dataof Mr. Ewing's
J,ePrt, and made it apparent to the whole
etate, that the various assumed charges
nd Probable defects heaped up in the re
Prtto make a conjectural deficit in the
nances, ig as egregious a humbug as the
'ounuin debt of forty millions which the
reP'rt itself dissipates.
Un of e finest points of Mr. Wood
r.v s exposition, was that in which he
0;vedthe absolute contradiction between
e report furnished by the Secretary to
J0ne3sand thai furnished by him to the
resident. Mr. Woodbury compared
nern together, where setting forth the
paid
state of tfie Treasury, under the same
heads, and proved lucontestabiy that they
disigreed in all; and in some, to more th in
the amount of millions. One remarkable
feature of difference is this: Mr.. Ewing.
in his own reoort to Congress, stales that
the debt, at the end of lrvl . vvi!J be "bout
six millions; in his statement, coming
through the President's Message, he makes
it upwards of eleven millions.
IJi.it we will not anticipate e clean
shrift which Mr. Woodbury Ins made,
of the botched up account given bv his
successor, of tlv.; finances. We will lay
tills speech, which founds itself at every
step on the unquestionable data of Mr.
living's own office, in a few days before
the public. There is not a democrat in
the Union who will not read it with the
highest gratification. He will find in it a
perfect triumph. The federalists will
read it wiih the same feelings that they did
the accounts of our victories during the last
war.
In the House of Representatives on the
15th ult. Mr. Iliyner, of North Carolina,
spoke with great w irmth on the course of
the Northern members in relation to the
'21st rule. J
Mr. Brown, of Pennsylvania, protested
gainst the unparalleled system of tyranny!
vhieh had been exhibited towards tne
minority the last week, or two. He was
called to order. He said when the Speak
er called him lo order, he would sit down.
Mr. 1J. wished to oflvr a proposition that
no petition be received unless it cam from
the portion of the country where the al
leged grievance existed Considerable tie
bate was indulged in respecting the pre
vious question.
Jut before the question was taken on
the main resolution, Mr. Vie called Mr
Stanly to order. lie said he did not care
if he did. Some one cried put him out."
Mr. Stanly said, ''try it boys."
From Ihe Raleigh Stand ird.
The Repeal. Ala. State Convention,
recently held in New Hampshire, the fol
lowing resolution wsa introduced and una
nimously adopted:- ..
llesolcr.d, That, the Democratic party of
New Hampshire will support no candidate
for a seat in The Congress of the United
States, who wil.l not when requested there
to pledge himself o goyor the absolute
and unconditional repeal of the charter
of a National Ranic which may be created
by the dominant pari v.
Had the Federal pariV presented a fair
issue to the people there might be some
ground of complaint on their part, relative
to this proposition. But as'ihey basely con
cealed their own intention while misrepre
senting the motives and actions of their
opponents, let them ab'de the issue. Let
this matter be placed before the people in its
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true , a, u , , , y, -
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ied yoke, "so mote it . be. "But if they
shall conceive that they are not bound by
contracts made though trickery, fraud and
laiscin,.;:!, let them so sp?ak, and elect
men to the next Congress -who will repeat
the Charter. This is our opinion. We
shall be glad to gee our Democratic breth
ren sustain it through weal or woe, regard
less of the hypocritical cant of federalism
about contracts "between the general gov
ernment and ihe Slates, and the States and
the people." Every contract madethrough
false pretences is legally and morally void.
The people know whether they contracted
for a National Bank or not, at the last
eleciion. The Federalists have shown
their contempt of the obligations of gov
ernment when the transaction was fair and,
well understood in 1 he case of Blair and
Hives. Let us profit by their example so
far as to abrogate a measure, brought about
by the most consummate deception
and political cheatery. But not only
should we rebuke the charlatanry that has
misled me peop.em ...c
.i 1-.r.l. Imnn Iaiit nunc.
lion tne- nmiiuitiucai -mvuit-"--" .
the infallibility of charters. If there be a
difference in contracts, the importance of
one over another should be clearly defined
If individuals may be wronged and c! etcd
through violated bargains, whenever it suits
ihe pleasure t f party malice it should be
come a question of deep interest to the peo
ple, whether a body of Uepiesentative.s in
cited by the same spirit, , can bind their
successors for a quirter of a century, and
for that period deprive the people of their
rights and privileges of republican freemen,
ina contract operating against the pub
iic industry and hostile to public liberty,
if there is to be a distinction between agree
ments made with the "servile route," and
those with wealthy corporators, let the
people say so, and we shall settle down,
by the sovereign will, under the domina
tion of as unprincipled and heartless an ol
igarchy, as ever, "fattened on the public
weal." We trust our friends will, as here
tofore, openly and candidly avow their
oujeCis and stale to the people that, it is
the design of the Democratic Republicans
to repeal the charter of the United States
Bank, should one he established, so soon
inev onam me rnnsoi government; and n
a majority oi me people uo not desire ihi;ant mature deliberation, was admitted to
consequence, let them keep us in a minor
ity an honest a glorous minority a mi
norily contending for the principles of the
revolution ana lor tne perpetuation of lib
erty ana equality.
Rela Badger and Pipe Laying
will be recollected that this celebrated
"pipe-layer" was rewarded for his election
eering services, by the appointment of Na
val Agent at Philadelphia. The Albany
Argus thus speaks of this worthy:
"It was proved before a committee of
the Pennsylvania Legislature in IS39, that
bribes were offered and paid to change the
result of the polls. A witness testifies that
Bela Badger, the federal return judge
the Northern Liberties, paid him sixty dol
lars as a reward to reduce the Democratic
majority in that ward, and promised two
hundred dollars if he would reduce W fifty
votes. Badger also furnished him with
federal voles, with instructions to palm
them after dark upon his democratic friends
who could not read."
We have been asked frequently the moan
ing of the phrase "pipe-layer." During
the recent canvass the "whigs" obtained
votes from abroad to swell their strength
in certain places. Each voter wanted w .s
designated as a "foot of pipe." Mr. Badg
er, therefore, instead of saying to his New
York correspondent, "1 send you thirty
s -oundrels, ready to perjure themselves and
vote the whig ticket in your city" would
write: ! send you thirty feet of pipe, the
receipt of which you will please acknowl
edge." This was Ihe com.mon term and
well understood by Badgerand other scamps
engaged in the nefarious business. The pipe
for which thoe fellows pretended to traffic
we believe to be the tubes laid beneath the
ground to convey water to different parts of
our .ormcrn cities. 10.
gpThc suit of the Pennsylvania Bank
of the United Slates against Nicholas Bid
die is said to be for 700,000.
Uncertain t y.( f life. The Journal of
Commerce records-the following affecting
iljistiation of the uncertainty of life: A
Mr. . William Burtch. aged 22 years 11
months and 15 days, was married at Wood
stock on the 19ih inst., to Sarah, daughter
of John Hatch, Esq., aged 22 years 11
months and 14 days. On the 31st ult.
Mr. Burtch died of the scarlet fever, and
on the 4th inst. Sarah, his youthful wid
ow, in the hope of a glorious resurrcc
lion.
Jl strange place to die. The Vicksburg
Whig, of the 29th ultimo, sys that a
man was found on the day previous on the
roof ofa three story brick store, having
apparently be?n dead for some weeks, as
his bod)' was horribly mutilated by the
!;!?ds that had been flying about him. Who
he was, whence he came, or how lie get
there, no one could tell. He was unknown
by all about there; but had chosen the
strange, grand death-bed, where in mid air,
far above the dull earth, alone in the midst
of that populous city, with the blue skies
for a canopy and the stars for watchers, his
spirit had passed to its long home.
Rebellion in Jirkunsas. One of the
grossest and most atrocious violations of
the law, and defiance lo the constituted
authorities lhat we have ever heard of, re
cently occurred in Phillips county, Ark.
The regular May term of the Circuit Court
beinff about to be held in that county, much
properly being advertised to be sold, and
many executions lo oe levieo, a pennon
signed by 200 names was addressed to
Judge Baker, praying him not lo hold the
Court. J hat luncnonary in me iiuuurauie
discharge of his duty, proceeded to Hel
ena and was on his way to the Court,
when the Hall of Justice was forcibly taken
possession of by 20 armed men who bar
ricaded the door, refused admission to any
person and threatened the sheriff with
death, in case he .attempted, resistance.
The sheriff made a requisition upon the
Colonel of the county for fifty men to ena
ble him to suppress the rebellion. After
this he resigned and the Coroner imme
diately followed his example, so that there
being no officer to enforce the law and the
power to appoint a sheriff tern, devolv
ing on one who himself was among the
insurgents, the holding of the Court was
wholly prevented, and Judge Baker re
turned to Columbia.
The rebels had possession of the Court
House at the last advices, and no attempt
had been made to dislodge them. This is
absolute High Treason to the State of Ark
ansas, and should be punished in the most
signal and severe manner. A7. O. Bee.
rThe Tallahassee Star states that
WillTs Alston who killed Gen. Leigh Reid,
in April last, and who has been closely
confined in Jail since that period, was
brought up under a writ ol Habeas Cor-
as';?.?, before Justices Ilillyard, Brown andj
i-ee. and after a patient hearing of the C.ise,
wan. uonu lor ns nppearance
Court was fixed at Si 0,000.
at
Florida. Mnj. Chi his has cnp'ur?d at
Fort Pierce, Wil l Cat and 15 of his war
riors, and 3 negroes who have all been
shipped to New Orleans. , Col. Worth is
endeavoring to intercept Hallock Tnste
nngger, who fled from Fort King on the
Colonel's arrival there.
Jl Wonderful IVonder. The Rich
mond Star says: "A gentleman, for
whose word we will vouch, has just re
turned ft om Charlottesville, and informs
os of the extraordinary fuct that there is
living near that nlacera negro woman, aed
one hundred and thirteen years, who is
now having a growth of her third set of
teeth. Sue alreadv has threp white, sound
ind handsome new fiont teeth, a most ex
traordinary circumstance, but of its truth
there is no doubt."
fTThc Louisville Gazette notices the
death of a young man in that City, in con
sequence of going intT the creek to bailie
when he was in a high state perspiration.
He had been hard at work, and being un
comfortably warm, resorted to the creek
to coo! himself. The result wa, he did
not live an hour after leaving the water.
Horrible Murder. A young lady re
ceived an invitation one day last week.
purporting to tome from a young man to
whom she was engaged to be married, to
visit a family of her acquaintance at Green
River, Massachusetts. Mrs. Lane, a wid
ow lady of lhat phice, invited her to her
houseand ottered her a glass of beer, which
upon tasting she refused to drink. By the
tirgent persuasions of Miss Lane, th
daughter, she was however induced to
swallow the beer, which was found to con
tain a large quantity of corrosive subli
mate. There is but little hone that she
will survive. The effect was so sudden
that in a very few moments her tongue
was so swollen as to protiude from her
mouth. It is said that Mrs. Lane was de
sirous that the. gentleman to whom the
lady was engaged should marry her own
daughter, and that she resorted to this mur
derous scheme to accomplish her purpose.
Both motherand tlaugh'er have been com
mitted to jail. New York Log Cabin.
Extraordinary Suicide. A carpenlcr
at Boston, named Daniel Savage, procured
some arsenic, told his wife he was going to
take it. She went to a woman who lived
in the house and told Jier what her hus
"band was going lo do They both came
and witnessed his mixing and taking it.
He died in a few hours in great agony.
The coroner asked ihe woman why she
did not prevent him. She replied lhat she j
Conspiracy. At a recent court in Ca-
nanoaigua, i ., uouy v,nuenuen, wwe
of O. P.. Crittenden, deceased, who had nofrom a letter in the Brooklyn Star, dated
children by her husband while living, and
two of her friends have been convicted ofa
conspiracy in attempting to produce an ille
gal heir lo. her husband's estate.
Death from Passion.-The Philadel
phia U. S. Gazette states that a woman in
the vicinity of that city recently came to
her death from the effects of excessive pas
sion. It appears that she had become an
gered at some of her children, and finally
worked herself up so that she fell into hys
lerical commotions, in one of which sdie
expired before medical aid could reach
he. Verdict a cordingly.
(JThe Norfolk Beacon, of the 17th
inst. contains a correspondence between
Lowis Tappan, of N. V, and Lloyd N.
Williams, a lawyer of Norfolk. .Mt. Tap
pan made a proposition to Mr. W. to be
come an agent fur the discovery of insol
vent Merchants and Traders, doing busi
ness in the City; the Agent's work to be an
inquiry into the standing of every business
man, his ability to meet his engagements,
&c. Mr. Williams, in reply, considers
the proposition an infamous one. The
following is pait of his reply to Mr. Tap
pan. 'Indeed, sir, I doubt if even from a
mongst our Slave., for whom, if report
speaks true, certain persons of the City ol
New York have a strong attachment, one
could be found with a heart so b'aek as to
act as a spy upon his master's friends and
neighbors, even if solicited to do so by
Mr. Lewis Tappan himself. It was ho
ped, lhat after the prompt reproof which a
similar proposition met with at the hands
of a distinguished member of the Rich
mond City Bar, a few years since, that our
State would escape ever after such corrupt
overtures, and 1 have reason to believe that
this is the first time since the instance a
bove alluded lo,that any one has ventured
to insult us by such communication,"
lie merit for a Lightning Shock. As
tnis is the season when all are more or less
liable to.experirnce a shock from nature's
b.ittery, the Buffalo Commercial Adverti
ser suggests that anv person s ruck down
by lightning, no matter if apparently dead,
ought to be laid immed'ati ly extended on
the damp ground ; and if it does not rain
upon him, water should be thrown on free
ly, tvhich'in most cases will conduct off
the electric fluid widiout serious injury.
Many a one has lost his life when a
knowledge of i!usc f-cts on the part of
friends or bystanders, would have preser
ved it.
(JpTho Engineer, Misnnrd, whom we
stated a few weeks ago had been convicted
before the II. S. Circuit Court, at Raleigh,
on the charge (if mutinous conduct on board
the Steamer Wilmington, in the Cape Fear
river, and sentenced to six months impris
onment, was almost immediately paidoned
by President Tyler. We learn that this
extraordinary action on the part of the
Ptesident, took place on a memorial sent
up by the citizens of Raleigh. He and
the- bestowed their sympathies on an un
worthy object. As scon as Misnard got
e'ear of the Raleigh Jail he came here and
madft threats of violence against several in
dividuals. A Peace warrant was issued
against him. thesei vir.g of which heforcibly
resisted. He was taken and committed
to Jail, and last week tried before the
Court of Quarter Scs-ions and sentenced
to three months imprisonment.
Vihn in "Ion Chron icle.
Massacre of the Christian Insurgents
of Bulgaria by the. Turks. A Writer in
the Aligemine Zeitung writes from Bel
grade 2d of May: "The combat between
the Albanian troops of the P;icha of Nissa
and the Christian inhabitants entrenched
by Alexinczzc, which took place the day
before yesterday, was blood'1 in the ex
treme. The Christians fought bravely,
but their soldiers were too widely scatter-,
ed to resist the close columns of the Al
banians. The insurgents although fight
ing for their women, their children, and
their aged for their hearths and movea
ble property against the ravaging Mos
lem, were obliged at length to giveaway.
The conduct of the Albanians after their
victory vvas horrible. They murdered
the ehildien and old people, who were in
capable of resistance, in cold blood, impa
led every prisoner who was taken with
arms in his hands; laid the villages which
they stormed in ashes, violated women and
girls, and threw them into the flaming
ruins of their habitations. Several thous
ands, now wander roofless and without
victuals, and scarcely with the hope of
joining the Christian inhabitants of other
distil as.
flmerican Prisoners in Mexico
Some nine or ten months ago, says the
ew i ork Commercial, we published an'
account tif the arrest of 50 or GO Ameri
cans and Englishmen in California, and
their removal to 1 epic. The following
;nfl)rm:1, ;nn ronrernimr them is PvtmMprl
Santa Barbarai, Upper California, Nov. 26.
"The principal author of these outrages
was one Jose Castro, the prefect, or head
police magistrate of California. This Cas
tro is an old revolutionizer himself, and
has for sometime, as it i?, supposed, been
ambitions of becoming military command
ant of California, ignorantly supposing that
his zeal against foieigners would recom
mend him to the favorable notice of the
Mexican Government The 47 prisoners
were put in charge of this Castro, but on
his arrival at San Bias, ins ead of finding
himself a great man, ps he anticipated, he
found himself in jail through the English
and American Consuls at that place. Af
ter being in jail twenty-two days, he was
ordered to Mexico to gie an account of
himself to the General Government. One
ef the prisoners, from the State of Missis
sippi, Nathan Dayly, has been released by
death, the other 4G arc yet prisoners at
Tepic, a city inland from San Bla, whero
they are provided for by the Consuls, and
awaiting their trial. Their acquittal is cer
tain, and heavy damages will unfpiestiona
bly be obtained from the Mexican Govern
ment, if the Governments of the U. S. and
England have any regard for the rights of
their citizens residing in foreign countries.
In consequence of these difficulties, Cap
tain Forrest has ordered Mr. Estabroak lo
remain here for the present as consular a
gent for the U. S. 1 expect one of our
.hips of war will return here during the
winter or spring ensuing, when he will
probably rejoin ihe fquadron."
Come Back It i9 stated in the Wes
tern (Ten.) Review that several of the
gentlemen of th United Slotes, employed
by the British government to instruct the
natives of India in the cultivation ol cotton,
have returned home. They complain of
the climate and its diseases, and have no
faith in the enterprise of cotton growing in
1 that region. Baltimore Hun.