Whole No. 839.
Tarboronzh, (Edgecombe County, N. C.J batuvduy Jipril 9, 843
Vol. XVlll No. 14.
The TetrboroHgh JEVcss,
BY G ROUGE HOWARD,
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FOR THE TARBORO PRES9.
ON A BUNCH OF FLOWERS.
Why fade, ye sweet pinks and roses,
When the sweet eve is fast falling,
And the stars drink the tender sigh
Of winds to the fairest calling
Cnlling with pleasing notfs.
Most ifke a ring-dove's chiding;
Or a flute from some distant spot,
Over the lap of a still town gliding
Why sleep ye, pinks and roses ah, why
What time I most shall miss you
Awake, like a bride, and see the loving sky,
From your cheerless sleep would kiss youi
Soft thing, the dew, the breezes,
All soft things are about you;
Awake, fair flowers, for scarcely these
Fill your yearning sense about you.
Wake ye not yet!! Alas!
Your silver time is fleeing;
Fond idol cease, those flowers bear alas,
The doom of thy changeless being.
Yea, ever when the hours
As now seem trfe divinest,
Thou callest I know on some sleeping flowers,
And finding no answer pinestaway.
Tarboro', March 31st, 1812. JOAB.
FOR THE TARBORO PRESS.
TO MARY.
Sweet Mary! can you ever tell
Me, I must from thee depart
No, no you know I love you well,
And you would never break my heart.
Let others say to thee, dear one,
That I can never love thee true;
I care not still this breast will own
No name but thine, and beat for youi
Mary! by yon heaven above,
By all that's dearest to this breast
I swear, I wish no other's love,
But thine talone to make me blest.
Heaven hear my warmest prayer,
Give sweet Mary's heart to me;
And by thy sacred throne 1 swear,
None shall be as blest as she.
EDWARD.
FOR TIIE TARBORO' PRKSS.
TO THE DARK-EYED BEAUTY.
No. 2.
Adieu! adieu! thy sylph-like form
Fades from my aching sight;
Farewell awhile to love and thee,
My cherub fair, good night!
Adieu! adieu! thy sparkling eye
With tears is seen to fill,
While breaking those dear tender ties
Which sooth all grief or ill.
Adieu! adieu! I too must go
Awhile from friends and home,
Where'er 1 go, whate'er 1 see,
I swear ' shall not roami
Adieu! adieu! what should I do,
If hope did not revive
A spark which says, "hope on, hope on,"
And bids me thus to live.
Adieu! adieu! a long adieu!
A Northern clime you seek;
In sunnv South I must abide,
Yet heart to heart will speak
April 4th, 18-12.
S. S.
CONGRESS.
In the House of Representative, on the
23d ult. on the suggestion of Mr. Wise, and
by general consent, the Speaker laid be
fore the House the following Message from
the President of the United States:
Washington, March 23, 1S42.
To the House of Representatives of the
Untied States:
A resolution adopted hy the House of
Representatives on the 16ih instant, in the
following words, viz: "Resolved. That
the President of the United States and the
Heads of the several Departments be re
quested to communicate to the House of
Representatives the names of such of the
members (if any)-of the 26th and 27lh Con
gress who have been applicants for office,
and for what offices, distinguishing between
those who have applied in person, and
those whose applications were made by
friends, whether in person or by writing,"
has been transmitted to me for my consid
eration. If it were consistent with the rights and
duties of the Executive Department, it
would a ffonl me great pleasure to furnish
in this, as in all cases in which proper in
formation is dcmind"d, a ready compliance
with the wish. s of the House of Repre
sentatives, liui since, in my view, genor
al considerations of policy and propriety
as well as a proper defence of the rights
aim sai. gu uMs oi the Hxecuhvo Depart
ment, rtq lire ofme, as the Chief Magis
trate, to refuse compliance with the terms
of this resolution, it is incumbent on me to
urge, for the consideration of the House of
Representatives, my reasons for declining
to give the desired information.
All appointments to office made by a
President become from the date of their
nomination to the Senate, official acts;
which arc matter of record, and are at the
proper time made known to the House of
Representatives and to the country. But
applications for office, or letters respecting
appointments, or conversations held with
individuals on su.di subjects, are not official
proceedings, and cannot by anv means be
made to partake of the character of official
proceedings, unless, after tiie nomination
of such person so writing or conversing,
the President shall think proper to lay such
correspondence or such conversations be
fore the Senate. Applications for office
are in their very nature confidential: and
if the reasons assigned for such applica
tions, or the names of the applicants, were
communicated, not only would such im
plied confidence be wantonly violated, but,
in addition, it is quite obvious that a mas
of vague, incoherent, and personal matter
would be made public at a vast consump
tion of time, money, and trouble, without
accomplishing, or tending in any manner
to accomplish, as it appears to me, any use
ful object connected with a sound and con
stitutional administration of the Govern
ment in any of its branches.
But there is a consideration of a still
more effective and lofty character, which
is with me entirely decisive of the correct
ness of the view that I have taken of tiiis
question. W hue 1 snail ever evince the
greatest readiness to communicale to the
House of Representatives all proper infor
mation which the House shall deem neces
sary to a due discharge of its constitutional
obligations and functions, yet it becomes
me, in defence of the Constitution and laws
of the United States, to protect the Execu
tive Department from all encroachment on
its powers, rights and duties. In my judg
ment, a compliance with the resolution
which has been transmitted to me would
be a surrender of duties and powers which
the Constitution has conferred exclusively
on the Executive; and, therefore, such
compliance cannot be made by me, nor by
the heads of Departments by my direction.
The appointing power, so far as it is be
stowed on the President by the Constitu
tion, is conferred without reserve or quali
fication. The reason for the appointment,
and the responsibility of the appointment,
rest with him alone. I cannot perceive
any where in the Constitution of the Uni
ted States any right conferred on the House
of Representatives to hear the reasons which
applicant rr.av urc for an appointment
to office under the Executive Department,
or any duty resting upon the House of Re
presentatives by which it may become re
sponsible for any such appointment.
Any assumption or misapprehension on
the part of the House of Representatives of
its duties and powers in respect to appoint
ments, by which it encroaches on the
rights and duties of the Executive Depart
ment, is, to the extent to which it reaches,
dangerous, impolitic, and unconstitutional.
For these reasons, so perfectly convin
cing to my mind, I beg leave respectfully
to repeat, in conclusion, that I cannot com
ply with the request contained in the above
resolution. JOHN TYLER.
The message having been read
Mr. FILLMORE rose and said that as
the gentlemen who offered the resolution
was not now present, he (Mr. F. ) would
move that the message be laid on the table
and printed; which motion was agreed to.
From the Madisonian.
MR. STANLY.
It is with some regret, that we are com
pelled to take the trouble to notice this lit
tle gentleman; but if a fly becomes trouble
some, we must brush it away. We ob
serve that Mr. S. has again (on Thursday)
made a furious onset on the President, de
nouncing him with the usual humorous and
original and gentlemanly epithets of trai
tor. &c. to the great Whig party. What
pei feet inanity or unleavened stupidity all
this augurs. Have not all such calumni
ous charges fallen, still-born, from the lips
of the retiring Cabinet, and does Mr. S.
suppose that his small peevish voice cm
produce a conviction in the country of the
President's dishonesty, which all the com
bined efforts of the "Illustrious Retired,'
of the "Manifesto Club' of politicians, and
the fulminations of the "ai last resigned
I Representative of the Union'" have so sig
nally failed to accomplish? If such char
ges are made of personal malice towards a
man whom all admit to be amiable and
highsouled, they are, we conceive, in ex
ceedingly bad taste, and the President, in
our opinion, pays about as much attention
fothem, as he would do to the tuneless
croakings of a tiny summer frog querulous
for rain.
Are such charges calculated to advance
to a sound and prosperous condition the
prostrate energies and interests of the
country? Do they fortify our coasb
against foreign invasions? Do they increase
our naval force, in order that the Govern
ment may furnish some defence to our great
mercantile interests on the seas? Do they
furnish a currency, or fill the vaults of an
"empty Treasury? If they accomplish none
oi these things, for what purpose are they
made? Has Mr. Stanly, or any other man,
a right, when all the best interests, almosi
the very faith of the country lies bleeding,
to be consuming the precious time of the
legislative session, and the money of the
People, in committing assaults upon the
credit and ability of the Executive branch
of the Government through the President?
Neither is there any good policy even on
the part of the enemies of the Administra
tion, in such attacks. When the Presi
dent first came into office, he was compar
atively, unknown to the People of the
Confederacy. Those senseless clamors
might then avail, to a certain extent but
now the whole People, with almost a com
mon consent, (certain paltry cliques alone
excepted,) acknowledge his sterling abili
ties, his Roman integrity, and his bold res
olution to do right. Mr. S. in attemp
ting to vilify the President's political char
acter, (and we can see no distinction be
tween a man's private and political charac
ter, though it is now-a-days fashionable to
make a distinction) might as well attempt,
for all hope of success in such a design, to
cause an earthquake, by piping forth his
senseless tirades against the Administration
in the House of Representatives.
Mr. S. is not altogether without talent.
Let him be content to move in the sphere
in which God has placed him a frog can
not swell himself into an ox, nor a fox into
a lion, though they each do pretty well in
their way. By making a tilt against the
President, Mr. S. only discovers his weak
ness; he shows that instead of a barbed and
fiery-eyed steed, he is mounted on a kick
ing and vicious donkey, and that in the
place of a lance, "to do good battle withal"
he switches about in his ungloved hand a
pointless willow wand.
Why should the legislative branch of the
Federal Government wage such continu
ous and hot war on the Executive, and en
deavor to shift (as far as effigy Whiggery
is concerned) their misdeeds on the Presi
dent. The People are quite well satisfied.
we should presume, from the hundreds of
newspapers which daily come to hand from
all parts of the country, that there is a dis
position on the part of the Executive to
serve the country. Let Mr. S and others
of the same paternity look to their own
conduct a little more narrowly, and they
will possibly find out where the cloven
fool is.
Mr. Stanly intends (though he cufs him
self off from the Administration) to at
tempt to swallow the Exchequer plan of fi
nance. This is a matter resting entirely
with himself. The President has no favor
to ask of him. He must consult his own
duties and responsibilities. The President
neither desires his enmity, nor courts his
friendship. He must do precisely what he
pleases. The President, in this matter, as
in all others of a similar nature, puts him
self on the grand venire of his country.
From the same.
STANLY IS OFF.
On Thursday, Mr. Stanly ventured
over his depth in debate. He endeav
ored to make a set speech instead of confi
ning himself as usual to monosyllables.
The consequence was as might have been
expected he was completely swamped.
Y hile floundering about and catching at
straws, he came in contact with Mr.
Mallory, altogther a different substance.
We give the pass between them :
Mr. Stanly here desired to be informed by
the gentleman from the Norfolk District,
(Mr. Mallory,) whether he had said,
that the President had authorised him to
pronounce that the charges made against
the President by Mr. Ewingat the extra
session were false?
Mr. Mallory said, that he did not
recognise any right in the gentleman
from North Carolina, (Mr. Stanly,) to
catechise him on this floor for occurrences
elsewhere. He would always be found
ready to respond when that question was
propounded to him in a proper way, and
by the proper person.
Mr. Stanly had not time, at least it was
not convenient for him to propound the
question in the proper way. He sank,
perhaps to rise on that subject. We trust
the country will be able to discover the
relevancy of his speech at such an impor
tant crisis as the present. We confe
tti it it is beyond our ken. He may reliev
himself by venting his spite in his pec.ili
arly clissicil style but he will haid.v re
lieve the country. We predict that his
contituents will keep him at home next
time.
State of the Treasury A communi
cation was a few day. since maie to the
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, by the Secretary of the Treasury,
in relation to the recent protest in New
York of Treasury not-s. The communica
tion was laid before Congress atul ordered
to be printed. The Secretar y states that
"Mr. St-lden, the Treasurer of the Uni
ted States, lately visaed New York, with
authority from the Department to enter
into negotiation with one or more of th
banks of that city, with a view to an ar
rangement by which specie funds might be
provided for the payment of Treasury
notes falling due in this and the nex
month. He has returned without being a
ble to effect the object of his visit. Sine -the
5th of the month, the means of the Go
vernment have been found inadequate to
the discharge of the notes presented for
payment al. the depository of the Govern
ment at New York. A slight depreciation
having occurred, and these notes, of what
ever dates, being receivable in payment ol
public dues, were offered in inordinate
quantities at the custom house, to pay du
ties accruing on imports, and constituted a
very large portion of the public revenue
accruing at N. York. The consequence
has been, a failure in the means of the Go
vernment to meet the notes which are at
maturity, and presented from day to day,
for payment."
Accompanying this communication are
two letters from Mr. Curtis, the Collector
at New York, to the Secretary of the Trea
sury, in one of which, under date of the
8th instant, he says:
I trust Congress will lose no time to pass
the law to place the loan immediately at
your disposal. If the loan bill restrict the
sale to par, you will fail of relief. On the
other hand, if there be power to sell to the
highest bidder, and at private sale, at par,
you will be enabled to raise the necessary
funds at par. Restricted to par, although
irredeemable for fifteen years, the law will
be a dead letter and of no avail. I speak
the opinions of disinterested and experien
ced men.
The Treasury notes will naturally de
preciate more and more, until some deci
sive step be taken by Congress. The
Bankof Commerce is in advance upwards of
one hundred thousand dollars, for notes re
deemed by that institution, and the Bank
of America about the like amount.
The Banks have declined the pressing
requests of the Comptroller of this State to
loan the State two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, required to be expended in o
pening the canals. Seven per cent, inter
est was offered, and the first tolls pledged
to repay the loan. The determination of
the Banks of New York is never again to
jeopard their power to pay specie; and
hence their refusal to assist the Federal
and State Governments.
The Army and Navy. The military
establishments of the United Mates for the
next year, including the pa)- of the army,
the military academy, the fortifications, ar
senals, arms, harbors, surveys, light houses,
pensions, Indian Department, and extraor
dinary objects, is estimated to cost the
country, 1 1,717,791. The Naval estab
lishment, including the general service of
the Navy and Marine Corps, i?S, 70.5.579.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Important from the IVest. Rumors
are in circulation in the West that the tribes
of Indians removed from the United Statrs
prior to the western line, are about to form
a grand Confederacy, or one tribe, for hos
tile purposes. It is also stated that an in
terview was had with the British minister
at Washington, by the notorious John
Ross, chief of the Cherokers, while on a
visit to that place a short time since.
The intelligence from Mexico. Mr.
Falconer, a British subject, is released in
stanter, on the demand of the British Min
ister. The demands of our Minister are
treated with scorn, and the government of
the United States insulied by Santa Ana,
when he says that young Coombs was relea
sed on account of the estimation in which
he held his connexions, not because the
government of the United States asked it.
The fact is clearly and undeniably proved,
that Mr. Kendall had a passport from the
Mexican consul in New Orleans, as an
American citizen this was no protection,
but the document was but nt in his presence.
We can only ask with a N. Orleans cotem
,)orary, Has the United States become
iO utterly contemptible as to permit itself to
be trodden under foot by Mexican officials?
We shall see unless there are men at the
head of our government who will faithfully
maintain ihe rightsofthe humblest citizen,
we are very much mistaken in our estimate
'-! the American character. '-Halt. Sun.
'7 fatal blow to lh" traders in Tar.
A friend informs us that the use of lar in
the Eastern Stales for wagons and coaches
is now, or will soon be entirely superseded
by the introduction of a composition of
hoik's laril ami whfi.it flour To prepare
the mixture, the laid must be melted over
a gentle lire and the fl..ur stirred in, until
the lard bee ms of the consirtency of
paste. Tusctituosu Flag.
Mississippi Hands. The Vicksburg
V hi;i ot the ult. contains the proceeding-
of the, Misisippi Legislature, from
which it appears that the House of Repre
semativeon the Friday night preceding,
solemnly p pmiiated the Union Bank bonds,
a pot tion of the Slate debt.
(fJR n's in New York are falling with
the depr ci ition of prices of all other pro
perly. During ihe last year, the Sun says,
one thousand new buildings ha ve been erec
ted, and the want of employment, in the
amepriod, has driven from 5,000 to 10,000
people from the city.
(JDuring the last week a pretty heavy
failure look place in Washington City, viz:
that of Fowler & Co., brokers. A large
amount of their shinpla-ters were in circula
tion; and almost every body loes something
by t heir fail. Such was the confidence repo
sed in them, thai many persons deposited
monev vviih them in pr. ference to the
Banks, and all the earnings of some poor
people are thus lost.
Something Singular. The Westmin
ster Democrat states that a lad) in that
county, deceased, a short time before her
death, threw up from her stomach, a lobster
about two inches in length, apparently
such as is usually found in fresh water. It
is supposed that she swallowed it in drink
ing while it was yet small, and that it oc
casioned her death. When it was ejected
from her stomach it was dead, having
probably been destroyed by the medicine
.-he had taken. Bait. Sun.
Alarming Decision. An English pa
per says that a decision has just been given
in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland,
which will carry alarm into many a family.
All marriages in Ireland, celebrated by
Presbyterian ministers, where both parties
are not Presbyterians, are declared invalid.
The Presbyterians in Ulster amount to up
wards of 600 000, and, we understand,
nothing was more common than the cele
bration of marriages between Presbyte
rians and the members of other communi
ties, by Presbyterian ministers.
Pickled Turkeys. A new article made
its appearance in our market, yesterday
pickled Turkeys from North Carolina, at
Si to $1 25 a pair. It was found that they
drove too slowly to keep up with the wag
ons, andthev were therefore killed, salted,
and pickled like pork.
Charleston Courier.
Jefferson College La.) Burned.
This splendid and costly building, erected
! by the munificence of the State of Louisiana,
! for the collegiate education of its population,
j was destroyed on the afternoon of March
6th by fire. The building was discovered
to be on fire about two o'clock, P. M., and
the flames raged with such fury that in less
than two hours nothing remained but a heap
of ruins. Few articles of value were saved
from the conflagration. No lives were lost.
The Col leg contained a fine Library
with 7,000 volumes, which have cost
58,710; a chemical laboratory worth 551,
600; mathematical instruments, and a large
quantity of other furniture. The total cost
of thebuiUlieg and furniture, according to
the lat report ol the trustees, is J5152.39S
13. The building was insured for 62,000.
From Mexico. By the barque Ana
huac,we have Vera Cruz papers of the 29th
ult. and city of Mexico to the 28th. The
Anahuac brings 550,000 in specie.
' Letters of the 2Sth, from the city of
Mexico, say that President Santa Anna
had found mean to pay the soldiers, and it
is thought by the writers that every thing
will go on well so long as he has the man
agement of affairs.
The Mexican Government have repudi
ated a loan of 1,200,000 made to the na
lion of the 201 h of September last, during
ihe administration of President Bustamen
te, by AltxandroJ. Atocha, on the ground
that its terms were prejudicial to the inte
rests of the National Treasury,. and an in
sult to public morals!
Journal of Commerce.
Jin arrest. Hosea J. Leavis, late cash
ier of the Schuylkill Brnk, has been arrest
ed near New Orleans by officer Jas. Young,
& taken on to Philadelphia.