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FRIDAY, AI'KIL 25, lS'H. fjoVe hav received a pimphlct copy of the "Proceeding of Ihc Internal Improvement Con vention, held in the city of KaloiSh, Novem ber, 1633, with ihe Address of the Central Com mittee, to the citizens of North Carolina., It is from the press of Messrs. J. dales & Son, Ua lcHi, and occupies 40 closely printed octavo pa res. Wc find that there were no deletes in The Convention from the counties of Kdgccombc, Pitt and Nash nor arc there any County Com mittees appointed for them. Messr. S. J. Ha licr, Jos. J. UMIiams James H. Shide, Asa HiS Joliti Grilli ), 1). W. Haly, Samuel S. Shepherd, Joseph Halhud, Arthur S. Gotten ami Kxuai Lnvr, compose the County Committee for Martin. JJOn an examination before a Commilt o of Congress, a few years since, Mr. Hiddlc, Pi evi dent of the U. S. Hank, acknowledged ih.U the Bank had it in its power almost at any time to cruh the State Hanks we presume it now in tends giving Congress as well as President Jack son an unequivocal evidence of the fact. Within a few days four of the Hanks in the District of Columbia have been compelled to suspend spe cie payments, viz: the Hank of Washington, the Patriotic Hank, in the city of Washington, the Hank of Alexandria, and the Hank of George town. Humors were circulated in the Dis trict, that the Hank of Virginia had also failed, and a considerable amount of its notes were sold at a heavy sacrifice, before it was acertained that the rumors were unfounded. QThe annals of party violence, wc believe, furnish nothing like a parallel to the scenes ex hibited in the Charter elections, which commen ced in the city of New York, on the Sth inst. and continued three days. The excitement is represented as unprecedented the merchants and traders generally had a meeting and resolved lo close their doors at 12 o'clock during the days of the election, and business of every description appears to have been almost wholly suspended. The papers furnish accounts of numerous scenes of violence and excesses, which cannot but re flect deep and lasting disgrace on the "commer cial emporium." The number of voles polled amounted to 35,147 the Jackson candidate for TVlajor succeeded by a majority of 1S1 votes, but the opposition obtained a majority in the Common Council of the city. It seems that the power of the Hank has been exerted to some purpose in this instance last year the Jackson majority was from 5 to 0,000. Congress. In the Senate, during the past week, but little business was done, excepting the debate on the President's Protest against the re solutions of the Senato, relating to the removal of the public deposites. The House of Represen tatives were principally engaged with sundry resolutions relative to the public monies, and in discussing several items in the General Appro priation Bill. On Wednesday, both Houses at tended the funeral obsequies of the Hon. Lit tleton Purnell Dennis, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Maryland. The President's Protest. The National In telligencer furnishes the following abstract of ihe contents of the President's Protest, relating to the resolutions recently adopted by the Senate touching the deposites. It is much to be regret ted, that a better feeling and a better understand ing of their respective duties does not exist be tween those co-ordinate branches of the Execu tive Department of the Government. From the, National Intelligencer of Friday. A message was yesterday received in the Senate from the President of the li nked States, purporting to be a protest, on the part of that high functionary, a gainst the Resolutions expressive of the opinion of the Senate touching the con stitutionality and expediency of the Re moval of the Public Deposites, in the manner in which it was effected, from the Bank of the United Stales. The Message is of great length, the reading thereof by the Secretary of the Senate having occupied more than an hour. Having had no opportunity of ac cess to the flnriimnnt. we nre onlv I . ' 'J UU" uica to give our readers such an idea of ii .is an imperfect hearing of it will ena ble us. The Message begins by reciting the resolutions piW8Cl, by lhc centering ,t the duty uf the President to protect his privileges from encroach ment bv every means in his power, de clares the proceedings of the Senate to ho unprecedented and extraordinary and enters his solemn protest against them. Kxcept as otherwise specially provided in the Constitution, the Message de clares the rights of the Executive and of the Legislature to be co-equal. In this . r. -i , : f iliof tlii view, the I rosiueni is oj opinion mm. proceedings of the Senate, in the case re ferred to, are wholly unauthorized by the Constitution. No such power as the Senate has assumed is, he says, to be found in any part of the Constitution granted to either branch of the Legisla ture To prove this he enters into "a brief ana lysis" of the powers conferred upon the Senato by the Constitution. Any proposition acted upon by the Sen ate, to be within the sphere of its pow ers, he argues, must tend to legislative action, or, in its conclusion, must lake the form of some Executive or Legislative act. The Resolutions in question, he says, were not a legislative act; nor did they apply to any treaty or nomination before the Senate in its Executive capa city. Nor did they relate to any of the cases in which the Senate might lawfully act (in reference to its own organization, &,;.) without the consent of the other House. They have, therefore, in his opinion, no warrant in the Constitution. They amount to an impeachment, if the Senate had the power: but the House only has power to impeach, and the Senate only power to try impeachments when prefer red by that body. The resolutions, the President says, embrace charges of usur pation and violation of the Constiution, impeachable offences, and declare the President to be guilty of them: thus at tempting to exercise all the moral power of impeachment, without observing, in any part of the proceedings the provisions or requirements of the Constitution in re gard to impeachments. The Resolu tions, he further argues, prejudge a case in which the Senate might have been called upon to act judicially, had the House of Representatives preferred an impeachment against the President, Sec. The whole proceeding, the President declares, in very plain terms, to have been an assumption, by the Senate, of powers not conferred upon it by the Con stitution, and utterly incompatible with that instrument, and with the plainest dictates of equity and justice. The President then goes on to object to the vagueness of the Resolution cen suring the conduct of the Executive. Though comprehensive enough, he says it contains no certainty of time, place, or circumstance, which induced any one Senator to vote for it. Although the Resolution, as originally moved, speci fied certain particular acts alleged to be contrary to the Constitution and the Laws, vet at the close of the debate it was so modified as to particularize no thing, a proceeding which the General very pointedly condemns: for, he adds, if the resolution had been put to the vote in its original form, it is presumed it would have received the sanction of but few votes, since the acts specified in it were clearly not contrary to the Consti tution, Sec. The Message then enters into an c laborate exposition of the views which the President entertains of the extent of his own powers, reviewing the provisions of the Constitution respecting the power of appointing officers of Government, and the construction which they have receiv ed in practice. There is no such thing as officers under the control of Congress, it is argued, but those which spring from the power conferred upon each House by the Constitution to choose its own offi cers. All the other officers, except Jud ges and the officers of Courts, are ap pointed by the President, with or without the consent of the Senate, and subject to his will and pleasure, through the power of removal, he being responsible for their good conduct, and for the due execution of the laws. The Treasury Department, like others, is wholly Executive in its character, and likewise in its responsibil ity. The custody of the public money is one of the functions of that Department. For the discharge of that function it isj responsible, not to Congress, but to the President. The law establishing the Bank of the U. States did not, the Mes sage argues, change the relations of the President and the Secretary of the Treas ury to the public money: it did not re lease the former from the duty of direct ing where the public money should be kept, nor the latter from the Executive supervision in relation to the discharge of his duties: it merely superadd! a re quisition, that, whenever the President should think fit to remove it from the Hank of the United Slates, the reasons for so doing should be laid before Con gress. So "luring had been the abuses of The Bank, so determined it uppeared to be to interfere in elections, and to cor rupt the press, &c. the Message says that the President had felt it to be his duty to interpose, to check the Bank in its ca reer, lessen its powers to do mischief, Sec. and, in doing so, remove the disobedient Secretary who refused to act in the case. In such a case as this the Senate has no right, upon the gjncral argument of the Message, to interfere. If the Senate had a right to interfere in such a case, says the President it had a right to make its interference effectual. In such a case some future Senate might, in order to make such interference effective, omit to perform their own constitutional func tions; refuse to pass the necessary appro priation laws, or to confirm proper nom inations by the President thus shadow ing out the consequences which might result from an usurping disposition on the part of the Senate, Sec. Sec. The message then adverts to circum stances connected with the discussion and passage of the resolution censuring the President, who, it is argued, is the direct representative of the people, whilst the Senate only intermediately repre sents them. The instructions from the Legislatures of the States of Maine, New Jersey, and Ohio, expressing their at tachment to the President, and their hos tility to the Bank of the United States, and instructing their Senators to vote ac cordingly, arc all embodied at length in the message. From these States, the message says, four Senators out of the twenty six voted in favor of the censure of the President: had they voted as in structed, 22 only, out of 40, would have sanctioned the accusation against the President, Sec. The message then goes on to depict the awful consequences, which might fol low from a submission to such usurpa tions, by the Senate, of the rights of the Executive; such as aristocracy, anarchy, or dismemberment of the Government, Sec. The President also vindicates his pri vate reputation from implications which he conceives to be contained in the voles of censure, Sec. The whole message concludes, for the reasons briefly hinted at above, and oth er reasons which are not enumerated (in the course of which the length of term of service and irresponsibility of Senators are more than once alluded to,) with a solemn protest, which, with the message, the President requests may be entered at large upon the journal of the Senate. We learn from the Petersburg Intelligencer, that the following proceedings followed the in troduction of the Message: After the document had been read, Mr. Poindextcr moved that it be not re ceived. This motion gave rise to a de bate, which lasted until the hour of ad journment, in which Messrs. Benton, Poin dextcr, Southard andSprague took part. On Friday, the motion not to receive the protest was again taken up, and Mr. Leigh addressed the Senate for about two hours. In the course of his remarks, Mr. L. was interrupted by loud plaudits in the gallery; when the Vice President suspended the discussion, and ordered the galleries to be cleared. A motion made by Mr. Benton that the Sergeant at Arms oe directed to take into custody those persons who disturbed the Senate, gave rise to a long debate; liie motion was finally withdrawn in consequence of the galleries having been cleared. After Mr. L. concluded, Mr. Ewing of Ohio obtained the floor, but yielded it until Monday. Bank of the Stale of A'oith Canh. na. h is now ascertained that the quisite amount of stock for putting ihj, Bank into operation has been taken; fUif: the commissioners appointed to receivt subscriptions at this place, nre only w;i!(. ing for the official returns of the amo-j!,; subscribed at other places, previous to calling a general meeting of the sulr,. bers, for the purpose of organizing ;K institution. These returns are daily eX. pected. In the mean time, as the uhu(. amount allowed to be subscribed hv j... dividuals has not, probably, been the commissioners here have directed the books of subscription to be continued ri pen, at all the places designated in the act, until the first day of May ncxt..., New Bank. The Books of uhcrip. tion are to remain open until the first of May. VVo subjoin a statement of the u. mount of Stock taken, so far as ojjidal returns have been made to the Conuaig. sioners, Raleigh, New hern Tarboro Halifax Milton Favetteville Hillsboro' Wilmington Chorions Moranton Washington 513S.S00 72,500 60,200 1 1,200 10.600 0,700 1,000 0,500 13,000 30,000 100 SSSG.GOO Slate Subscription, at present 150,000 In addition to the above, it is under stood that more than 100,000 have been subscribed in Rockingham county alone. It is therefore reduced to certainty that the sum required for commencing the op erations of the Rank has been raised. Ral. Re. C7"At the session of the Pennsylvania Legislature which has just expired, on important net was passed to establish a. " General system of Education," by Com mon Schools. The act is very lung, and the provisions elaborately minute. Tta Legislature appears to have taken grea: pains to organise a system carefully. The fund which is the basis of the plan amounted on the 4th of April inst. to 8546,503 72. The means provided by law for increasing it, will soon carry this amount up to two millions, produc ing, at five per cent, an annual incorao of 100,000. The sum of seventy five thousand dollars is appropriated for the next year, to be continued annually until the income of the capital reaches to a hundred thousand dollars, when tlw whole amount of 8100,000 is to be dis tributed annually. In this distribution i: is provided that every district receiving its proportion according to fixed rates, shall, as a preliminary condition, raise as least twice as much by a county tax for the same purpose. Every county in the State is made a school division, and every ward, town ship and borough made a school district; every district is to contain" a compete number of common schools for the edu cation of every child within the limit thereof, who shall apply either in person, or by parent, guardian or friend." Eve ry school district is to elect six director? and one delegate from each board in tl)t? division, to form with the county com missioners a delegate board for the vot ing, levying, collecting and apportioning of school money. The Seretary of StaW of the Commonwealth is made the gen eral superintendent of the conitnos schools. The courts of quarter sessions are to appoint annually two inspectors. very minute directions are given to the manner of inspecting and organize the schools, &e. The whole act show an earnest desire to establish a perma nent and efficient plan. Bait Amer. ihatthere are, this season more than thirty stearn' boats plying on Lake Erie, beside a number of others connected with th ,m running on Detroit river and Lake M'r'1' igan. There are also about ons hun" dred and fifty schooners. Progress of the Arts. By nn article in the Montreal Advertiser, wc learn tltf1
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