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V, August 2h, 1833.
Vol. IX Xo 52.
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Major Downing official report of the
United States Hank.
Published "By authority."
Rip Raps, August 4, 1833.
Dear Sir: I have just got here after ex
aminin the bank; and it was the toughest
job I ever had in my life. The Gineral
was so bent on my doing it, that I had to
"go abend" or Pd sneaked out the first
dry. I was nigh upon a weak about it,
figerin and syferin all the while. Mr.
Middle see quick enuf it was no fool's
journey 1 come on; and I made some of
his folks scratch their heads, I tell ycu.
1 iiiu um no notice of my coining, and I
jumped right in the thickest on em there
one day when they were tumblin in and
shellen out i he mutiny like com. "Now,"
says 1, "my boys, I advise all on ye to
brush up your multiplication tables, for I
am down upon you with aligntion, and
the rule of three, and vulgar fractions;
and if I find a penny out of place, the Gi
neral shall know it. I'm no k-reei) horn,
nor member of Congress, nor Judge
Clayton, nor Mr. Cambreleng neither,"
suys 1. As soon as Mr. Biddle read the
letter the Gineral sent by me, says he,
"Major, I'm glad the Gineral has sent
some one at last that knows something,
and can give a strait account;" and with
that he cnll'd the bank folks, and tell'd
em to bring their books together. 'Now,'
says he, "Major, which cend shall we be
gin at first!" 'It makes no odds which,'
suys I; 'all I care about is to see if both
eends meet; and if they dont, Mr. Bid
die," says I, 'its all over with you and the
bank you'll all go, hook and line"
and then we off coats and went at it.
1 found some of them are fellers there
pingy sparp at syferin. They'd do a
sum by a kinder short Dilworth quick
as a flash. I always use n slate it
comes kinder natural to me; & I chalk'd
her off there the first day and figur'd out
nigh upon one hundred pretty consider
able tuf sums. There was more than
three cart loads of books about us, and
every one on em bigger than the Dea
con's family bible. And such an eternal
batch of figerin I never see, and there
wasn't a blot or scratch in the whole on
em.
I put n good many questions to Mr.
Biddle, for the Gineral gin me a long
string on ein; and I thought some would
stagger him; but he answered them all
just as glib as our boys in Downingvile
do the catakisc, from the chief 'eend of
man' clean through the petitions; and he
did it all in a mighty civil way too, there
was ony one he kinder tried to git round,
and that was how he come to have so
few of the Giueral's folks among the Di
rectors until very lately! 'Why,' says he,
Major, and Major' says he (and then he
got up and took a pinch of snuff and of
fered me one) says he 'Major, the bank
knows no party; and in the first go ofF,
you know, the Gineral s friends were all
above matters of so little importance as
banks and bunking. If we had but a
branch in Downingvillc,' says lie, 'the Gi
Mural would not have had occasion to ask
such a question,' and with lli.it lie made
mt; a bow; and I went home nnd took
dinner with him. It is plagy curious to
hear htm talk about millions and tliou
n glib too at it as lie is:
cant tell. 'd four-ce-liiipponios 1
"i-'hfuoo! llf ccn f,serin y tho
I d , , i r,Ull,m ou''" -f-t as I
e I, USe;l co,'''fin' "o nil
i I ' Ut 80 lo"S as ,lle Bank was at work
twos pretty m,.ch like counting a flock
fhecp.nnfi, day when they were just
, t .to a new stuhble-for it was all the
Wi t crossing and mixing, and the only
way vns to lock up all the banks, and as
last ai you count em, black their noses.
INOV SaVs T nnn lw tr. . " n: i ii
j ..v, ti iU immure oiuoie.
liVl!lWMm,eilhe. Ginern't0k out .however, came home, sometime in the
.o "unui, uuu Slum' u more inn fivi n Ut
i. J - i v. lli.llla
tT?ii . - - j " 'J'mii, uniuit;,
-J11 lake a look at your money bars,
for the; tell the Gineral you han't ot
slufi ciaf in the Bank to make him a pair
ot specifies, none of your rags' says 1,
'but thecal grit;' and with that he called
- or o oaps in Quaker coats, and thev
opened ularge place about as hi" as the
'east roon;' and such a sight I never see
boxes,i)ags, and kags, all full, and I
should sa; nigh upon a hundred cord.
Says 1, iire Biddle what on earth is
all this! fi- am stump'd' 'O' says he,
'Major thk's our Safety Fund,' 'how
you talk!' iiys I. !
'Now,' siys I, 'is that all genwine!'
'Every dolll- 0f it,' says he, 'will you
count it Majrr says he. 'Not to day,'
says I; 'but the Gineral wants me to
be particular.ni just hussle some on cm;'
and at it I wen, hammer und file. It ra
ly did me goc, for I did not think there
was so much al chink in all creation.
So when I got ired, I set down on a pile,
and took out ny wallet, and begun to
count over sorre of the 'Safety Fund'
notes 1 got shavid with on the grand tow
er. 'Here,' saysl, 'Squire Biddle, I have
a small trifle I shiuld like to barter with
you, it's nil 'Safety Fund,' says I; 'and
Mr. Van Buren's Lead is on most all on
em.' But as soon as he put his eye on
em, he shook his tyad. 1 see he had his
eye teeth cut. 'Well ?ays I, 'it's no mat
ter;' but it lifted mv dander considera
ble. 'Now,' says I, 'Mr. -Biddle, I've got one
more question to put to you, and then I'm
thro'. You say vour blls are better than
the hard dollars; this puzzles me, and
the Gineral too. Now how is this!'
'Well' says he, 'Major, 111 tell you; sup
pose you have a bushel of potatoes in
.
Lowningville, and you Wanted to send
them to Washington, how much would
it cost to get them there!' 'Well,' says I,
r
about two shillings Jawlul for I sent a
barrel thereto the Gineral last fall, and
that cost me a dollar freight.' 'VVell.'
says he, 'suppose I've got potatoes in
Washington jist as good as yours, and I
take your potatoes to Downingville, and
give you an order to receive a bushel of
potatoes in Washington, would'nt vou
save two shillings lawful by thai! We
sometimes charge,' says he, 'a trifle for
drafts, when the places ore distant but
never as much as it would to carry the
dollars; and with that we looked into the
accounts again, and there it was.
I, 'Squire Biddle, I see it now as clear as
a whistle.
When I got back to Washington, I
found the Gineral off to the 'Rip-Raps,'
and so 1 arter him. One feller then
telPd me I couldn't goto the 'Rip Raps;
that the Gineral was there to keep off
business; but as soon as I told him who I
was, he ordered a boat, & I paddled off.
The Gineral and I have talked over all
the Bank business, he says it is not best
to publish my report, as ho wants it for
the message; and it would only set them
Stockfish nibblin again in Wall street.
I made him stare when I tell'd him about
the dollars I saw there; and once nnd a
while he would rinkle his face up like a
ball of rovlins; and when I tell'd him
Biddle wouldn't give me any of his
'Safety Fund' for any of Mr, Van Buren's
rods into the brakers.
We are now pretty busy, fitting and
jointing the heaths and rafters of the
message; and if Mr. Van Buren don't git
back before we begin to shingle it, I
guess his Safety Fund will stand but a
poor chance.
The Gineral don't care much about
having his head for a sign board, but says
he, "Major," when they put mv head on
one eend of a bank bill, and Mr. Van Bu
ren's on toiher eend, and "promise to
pay Andrew Jackson," and then blow up,
it's too badt wont allow itit shant be.
The Gineral says, if he allow Amos Ken
die to make his report about the State
banks, it is but fair to let me publish
mine about Squire Biddle's bank. So 1
am getting mine ready.
We have a fine cool time here, nnd
ain't bothered with office seekers; we can
see em in droves all along shore, waitin
for a chance. One feller swam off last
night to get appointed to some office
the Gineral thinks of making him Minis
ter to the King of the Sandwich Islands,
on account of their being all good swim
mers there. Yours, elarnally,
J. Dowmkg, Major Downingville
Militia, 2d Brigade
Ksingwur i nenomenon. a corres
pondent of the Bulletin gives the follow
ing account of an uncommon occurrence
which took place in Genesee county, N.
Y. on the 10th of June:
Between two and three o'clock in the
morning, there was heard by several of
me inhabitants ot the towns of Java and
Sheldon, Genesee county, a remarkable
roaring, resembling that of a "rushing
mighty wind," accompanied with a trem
ng motion of the earth, for a consider
able extent. It was so considerable, that
some removed the glass and earthenware
from their shelves to prevent its breaking.
In the morning there was discovered on
the farm of Mr. J. Sykes, in the north
part of the town of Java, a remarkable
breach in the earth extending from Sen
eca creek, west across a small flat of a
few rods in extent, up the side of a hill,
the slope of which was about 40 or 45
rods in length, h was 20 rods wide at
the end next the creek, 13 at the middle,
and 1G at the upper end, where the earth
was sunk from 25 to 30 feet, while it was
raised about 20 feet above the bottom of
the creek at its lower end, making the
highest point at the creek nearly as high
as the lowest depression at the other ex
tremity. The bed of the creek was rais
ed about 20 feet and carried about 3 rods
beyond its former situation. The ground
was thrown into ridges from 2 to 10 feet
high. A considerable portion of the sur
face has entirely disappeared presenting
in its stead several . strata of different
kinds of earth. Trees, stumps and logs
were carried 12 or 15 rods. A small
grove of timber, some of which was 20
inches through was carried the above
distance, some standing, some broken
down, and some torn up by the roots. In
some instances, logs and other ponderous
substances, that were in contact, were
separated G or S rods, and others before
at a distance, were thrown together.
There are many conjectures concerning
it, but no one can satisfactorily account
for it.
entered his bouse, and proceeded
to his room, where his suspicions were
confirmed by finding the deceased there,
arid the marriage bed prostituted to tho
vilest passions. He immediately seized
a club and beat out the brains of the se
ducer of his wife, and destroyer of his
happiness, as he lay in the bed. This
done, with the same club he beat his n
bandoned wife so severely, that she died
in a few hours after.
Burns immediately gave himself up,
and was committed to prison, in Fh rn
mington, N. J. where he now awaits his
trial. When the decease of his wife was
mentioned to him, he expressed the high
est satisfaction, staling it was exactly
what he desired. Phil. Gaz.
CT'We understand that Mr. Jonathan
Hare was drowned on the evening of the
8th inst. in crossing the river, from New
berry's election ground, on his way
home. Fay. Jour.
.ftTA correspondent of the Springfield
Pioneer states that Mr. MtrAdams, of
Clermont county, Ohio, is the father of
twenty-seven children. lie has had four
wives, all of whom were young women at
their marriage. May, 1833, Mr. M'A. is
married to his fifth wife.
A hard casc.--A worthy physician in
Boston, was last week arrested together
with a lady with whom he had boarded,
and they were committed to jail in tho
same room together. In the morning,
they were placed together at the bar of
the Municipal Court, and there together
awaited their turn of being heard and
tried. Thev were informed that they
a'
were charged with having lived together
contrary to law and gospel. The Doc
tor produced a certificate of marriage
and the clergyman who had signed it tes
tified that he had married them together.
t is dangerous travelling without certifi
cates, especially if, as in the Doctor's
case, it subjects one to the risk of being"
ocked up all night with a lady.. U.S. Gaz
Baptists in the United States. Fromx
Allen's Annual Register, wo learn that
the whole number of Baptist Associa
tions in this country, a few months since,,
was 811; churches 5513; ordained minis
ters 3153; communicants 402,558; bap
tisms, during 1832, about 50,000 The.
increase of churches since 1831 has bf ;en.
438, of ministers 219, communicants-48,224.
From other sources it appears tb at the.
Baptists have in different Slates, eighr
principal Colleges, of which the 'oldest is
Brown University; (17G4.) and the larg
est, Hamilton Seminary, in SJ. York,
which has 130 students. VYli.ole num
ber of students between 401 and 500;
and, including the Baptist academies:
over 1,000.
Infidelity Murder. A laborer on the
Jersey Canal, Bull s Island, in the Dela
ware opposite Lumberville, named Burns
for a long lime past suspected his wift
of infidelity. Unwilling to act hastily in
the malter, but being strongly convinced
that his suspicions were well founded, he
resolved to take measures to ascertain
certainly the whole truth. To do this,
says the Doylestown Democrat, from
which paper we gain these particulars,
he gave out that he was going from home
and did not expect to return soon. He,
C7The Journal of Commerce states
that James A. Hamilton, U. S. District
Attorney for N. York, has, already made
8100,000 out of the office, which he has
not held mure than hvt years.
Politeness of the Press in the fVest
A Kentucky paper thus speaks to and of
a cotemporary nnd neighbour:
'Is he waiting for an excuse to call us
to the field! We can furnish him with
none whatever, further than to pro
nounce him, as we do most sincerely,
and with an especial regard to the mean
ing of our words, a drunkard, n liar, a
puppy, & most redemptionless scoundrel.
QTAt the Jury term of the court of
common pleas of Preble county, O. a
man named John Taylor, nearly 70
years old, was tried and found guilty of
assaulting n girl 12 years old with intent
to commit a rape, and sentenced to thu
Penitentiary for 3 years