Prom the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 2i.
LETTER to a gentleman in Washlnglon.
20th September, 1841.
Ds\r Sia: Recent ei'ents have directed my
loou^hts Iowa Js the.stale of tiic Currency. 1 have
iiothini: n» \v to coiujriunicate on the subject- but 1
deem it to be the duty of every good citizen to throu'
Jn his njito to still the troubled u'aters. You are
xveil awnie of n.y opinions on the Indepnident 'i'rea-
stfrj sj-stem, but ns it has bocn repudiated by the
constituted authorities, some other sohome nn4St be
e^ IS! d to colkct. keep and disburse ihe public re-
■\enue ot the country, which may tend t(.» improve
the currency and fiscilitate the cxchan^rM:?. 'I'he es
tablishment of a National Bank, in any form, seems
to have received its quietus from the last Veto of the
i lesi'.ent ol the United States' and it is more than
questionable whether it will meet with the approba-
t^ion ofa m.ijority of the people, when the issue shall
bo fairly pr' sentod to them. A resort once more to
the :,o. ,icv of (he State Banks cannot, 1 think for
Its want ot uniformitv, lon^ 1:
the (}ov*Mnment or the P
b-'^n to discuss the merits or demerit*?
ral systems. They have all been e.x'amincd^^nJ re-
exammed. until the public appetite is satiated, and
ne must cater ior some variety. \Vi,at I may pro
pose has no novelty in it. Statesmen ami political
economists have served it up in their own wav. an i
yet It has lu vi r had a fiir tiial.
1 heg’reat '■ :tJcralui)t is, to possess a circulutin'r
rnedin;,j, other than g-^dd and silver, which mav
iKive an uniform value throiighout
t*-nd-d country. It
ticable under the forms of the Constitution. They
may dictate how the money shall be raised, where
it shall be kept, and under what appropriations it
shall be disbursed. The appointment of the ofRcers
to administer the law belongs in this •ase, as in
every other, to the President by and with the advice
and consent oi the Senate; but it is competent to
Congress to impose whatever penalties they may
deem proper on the officers, thus appointed, for mis
conduct in office. By making the .Mints at Phila
delphia and New Orleans, and a fetv selected Banks
at othty places the depositories oi'the public money,
very little patronage will remain to the Executive
on tliat score.
Some may also object, on accoimt of the danger
01 excessive issues from the facility of multiplying
Ireasury notes; but, it will be recollected, that
these notes are simply drafts or funds, already pro-
\ ided by taxes and loans: that they can never ex
ceed the amounts appropriated by Congress; and
^ vi.wjrw lui consist of low, as well as higfi denom-
:nd flivor either with ' foim both a convenient medium
»!e. It is not my dc-* circulation and remittance lor every quarter of
^merits of thes” sevc- i country. A continued succession, and re-issue
•oiighoui our wicitly ex-
cl«,';ir th:it we can have none
such, unacf our Federative system of C^overnment,
un.tss II carries wiih it ‘^the odor of nationality;”
an 1 the only di^p • is, whether it shall emanuie
-lom a paitnr ship concern bctuTen the Govern-
nietjt and an incorporated association of individuals,
or directly Iroiit the (Jovcrnm.-nt through its nublic
unctionarirs who arc cijosen l.y, and are ar.icnabie
o t e p( oplc tor tiieir acts. AVitiiout any reference
to the const;{uiJonal ])ower of Congress to grant , . , . . . -
charters for any purpose, it cjn hardly be consider- extend tneir is.sues beyond tlie boimds ot
4iA : I I . - _-V i_ .1 ' j • {I r« f li in t M I ..-V 1!. — !* I I ■ - i
of them, will furnish a uniform currency over the
wiiole country, and be preferred, in most cases, to
gold and silver. A monthly j)ublication of the
amotmt of sucli circulation, with the amoimt provid
ed for the redemption of them, will secure entire
confidence in their value ; and the circulation of
them may be extended, if judged expedient by Con
gress, by issuing them in exchange for thc‘ legal
coin of the coiuitry. Air. Ricardo, (no mean au
thority on such subjects) has observed, ‘*tlrat if
theie uere perfei^t security, that the power of issu
ing j)aper \vould not be abused, the public would
h:i\ea dixec? interest, that the issuers shoiild bs the
Stat^'/’
Iheih’j.gcr, however. :s. !h:itthis power would
!)e moK' liivoly to be abused, il in the hand.-: of the
CJove^ nmeut. than il in the hands ot a banking com-
Ijany. A company v. ould, it is said, be more under
the control of law, and although it nn'ght be their
“ Mr. Ewing^s—he as much as kicked us out of
doors.”
“ Why, my dear sir, there must be some mistake
here. 1 have been with Mr. Ewing for the last
two hours, and but this moment entered the house
with. him. He is now standing in the vestibule.”
; Confusion, at this annoncement, w’as depicted on
en-ery countenance. The deputies organized them
selves into a joint committee of inquiry, and their
horror and astonishment may be imao-ined, but not
described, upon the discovery that all their eloquence
had been wasted upon a—lunatic I
In the absence of Mr. Ewing, a crazy man had
taken possession of his apartment, to whom the
committee delivered their laudations. It is no im
peachment of the sagacity of these gentlemen to say,
in theii defence, that the mistake they fell into was
a very natural one. The absence of Mr. Ewing,
we apprehend, will create no vacuum of good sense,
either in the Astor House or the Treasury buildin^s
at Washington.
Gieat was the laugiiter of the Democrats thereat.
Not e\en the news from iVlaine excited broader
grins. 'I’he procec-dings were began de novo, the
committee \\aitev.1 upon *\Ir. Ewing, and the speech
es, &c., we presume, will appear in due course of
time.
lis-'n tioiK they would be limited and chocked ny
tne power which hidividuals would have of calling'-
for bullion or specie. It is argu*‘d, that the same
, government, ei- j , ? , if (.{overnment
ther per sc or througli the instrumentality of a cor- • ^ ®f issuing money—that they would
I ‘-P^ to consider prt:scnt cc'.nvenience
i tli'ui future security
,1
ed compalib.',' With the diirmty of CJovermn! nt to
enter into s^hdi ,t partnership in a money-makin'r or
speculating Joi>. '1 lu'rt is nothin in reason ol n)
liie ConstI'.iuion th:;t uarrants ll.>u G
poration, to lenl out the mon-^y of the iVo.do for
any purpose. No money can legitimatclv be drawn
jrom the Treasury but unier regular apjiropi iations
by law for spociiie objects; vet, in direct eontraven-
tion of this- principle, sev ir »nillions of pui.lic mo-
nt \ lo.ined o';t to in hvi;hta!s and com])anii'.-^
for specul in'ug and cominerci:il jnirposes b'-th'' L>-
rectors of tie l ,t- of tlie United Statis. over
wii.vu iho G;n e;n uenl had little or no contro]' —
lo the hrrcf op. ration of the Government^ in col
lecting, keepaig and disbursing the revLuue of the
country by its ov.’ij olii’!. rs. 1 can liiscern no
sonabli
rat ion
medium as \^■il^ currency, and
bute much ;n a.-1 ( f j i 1 ills towards euu ilizing
the do:.i s i- excii-i:Ir'tijc i.-v. n .--l.cor
i Ml a sound ci;rr :.;’y, as it alwa:':; should be. i*
would speai there would be no great dirfi-ulty'in
])aying it out for iigitimale objects and to adniilt:d
p
uni.. JC3. I can uiscern no lea
s' objection ; and I am convinced, that the opc-
may reasonably furnish such a circulaiin'’-
an.l cvntri-
claiaiants in any quaiter of the country. For th
convtnicnce of the community and to facilitate com
mercial exciiangcs, ‘-the Treasurer mieht," .ays
Mr. Jtfierson. ‘-give his notes or bills for payment
at any particular place, where there is a public de-
posite, m any sum, whicli ought to have as much
credit as tne best pviviite
ratht'r
■and might, therelbre. on al-
tged gioun'.'s of ex]ted:ency, be too much inclined
to ien;o\e the check, by wdnch the amount of their
issu'S wa> controlled. l.^ider an arlitrury 'rovei,i-
inent. this objection woi:I.i have great force ;'^bui. in
a fiec country, with an enliglitened Legislature, the
power of issuing paper. tfUf/rr r/'tp/UHe rhrrks
oj co,u'crtcbiUti! at the icU.1 of the hvfj, r. mi-rht be
safely lodged in the hands ol comrni.'ssioners, ap
pointed for the special purpo.se, and they might be
maue totally independent of the control of Ministers,
i he sinking fund is- managed by commissioners.
I csponsihle onl// >o parlia iniiii—ani] the investment
of tiu^ money entrusted to their ehar^^'e, proce'‘d'5
u ith the iitmost regularity. What reason can there
to douut tliat the i.^iues of paper might be ren-u-
lated witii equal fideliiv, if placed und-r similar
managenient
With this long extract. 1 will (dose this letter,
_ w.iK-.i meroly give.^ the skeleton that nny be filled
up oy r.n abler hand.
■:]J
mucn
ciii or Bank iijtc '' P
these iiea.sury bills were of low denominations
wh\ should they not circulate freely in every pa»*
of the Union ? '-In the war of 1755. ■ Mr. JcHer-
son adds, “this State, irginia,) issued
ption.
, , - , Ju paper mo
ney, bottomed on a specific tax lor its redemnt
and to insure its re -eipt, bearing an interest of five per
cent. Vr.thin a very short time, not a bill of this
omission was to be found in circulation.—They
were locked up in the chests of (“xecutors, ^uard-
ians, widows, farmers, &c. AVe then issual bills
botto^-i: ri on n redeeming ta.x, but ,io iul.r-
est. i i-.'se were readily received, and never depre
ciated a single farthing.=’ Why then should i^ot
the not-s or bills of the Treasurer, of all denomina
tions, bottomed on the actual receipts of the revenue
not now pass as currently in every part of thecoun-
try,^as ’‘the best private bills, or Bank notes” of the
highest character ? Ail that would be required to
maintiiin them in circulation, would be, to make
them rt'deemable at the great points of commercial
operations—such as New York, the great ‘
ing, and New Orleans, the great exporting
the Union, and at such other ’ *
depots as Congress might desi
the Bank of England, alihougii redeemable at Lon
don only, has universal circulation throui^diout the
whole Empne, so ^‘.^;u^d a I’reasury note or bill
redeemable at New York, have uniVer.^al cir-ul-i-
tion throughout the United State.s. and bo more va
luable m the most distant State s, than spccieor local
Bank notes, redeemable in specie. J‘ kno'-n
that the notes of the country l^mks in New Eii-
land are increased in value, and have a more exten
sive cuculation from being redeemable at the Suf
folk Bank in lioston, and, pcriiaps. it vcould be
good policy in the country Banks of other States
to make their notes payable at the most commercial
]K>ints of thoir respective States, Whenever the
Government has to p;iy money on the Frontiers or
in an\ of the distant States or ^I'erritories. notes or
bills made payable at the larger depositories would
rroiii the ?Ni V.- Vork New I'.n
WAKLXG UP THE WRONG PASSENGER.
The -\stor House was. yesterday morning, the
iOiJei*t^s jt has been our
m witli lur liiany a day. JMr
ex-Secretnry Ewing, upon hi. arri\‘ai in this dty’
look lodgings at the abovt; hot. l, and the faithfiil
anxious to avail tlicmselves of the occasion to otTer
h.iii their condolence upon Ins recent ejection, a;
well as to express their aimrobation of hi*
sccnc of one of tlie richest n/oiJ-
good fortune to fall
import-
point of
11 qO coiiimeiciai consideration v.’ith
gnate. As a note of
:press their approbation of his conduct
anJ t.ieir cnndemnation of aptain yler, appjint-
committees to cail upon him. ]>romj,: to do
thrmsclves the honor thus conferred upon them
deputations from the Young and Old Men’s Com
mittees waited upon Mr. Ewing at an early hour
L pon rapping at the ex-Secretarv’s door. the‘y were
commandul to enter. At the table was seated a
was a
■ I • , . - beheld
in him the person they sru.-ht, and to whom Gen.
Milker, chairman of one of the cominittee.«;. pre^enr-
ted his card. The gentleman bow^d politely, \and
mtimated by a graceful gesVire, his at;ention • upon
^ proceeded to disburden hnrself
Ol ills load ot rh( tone. He took occasi(,n toexn>-e^«
to tne distinguished gentle nan before him. the high
whicii his tiilent.s and services
were enteuained by the party, and concluded by ex
pressing the pleasure he felt, in b'.dng made the or-
gcntleman, \vhcc grave and dignified aspect"
.Mitficient assurance to his visitors that they b
DEMOCRACY AND THE CURRENCY
The defeat of the Regulators at the late session
of Congress, makes it the imperious duty of the
Democracy to commence immediately a vif>-orous
system of reformation in the paper system. Banks
must be brought into subordination to law: they
must be maile to obey the laws of the land; and
tliose laws require them to pay their debts.
1 he suspension of the Southern and W'estern
banks have now continueil near four years, with a
little intermission, from i\lay. 1837. to the ])re.sent
time. Judging from all present appearances, it is
the design of the Clay W'higs, and of all the insol
vent and political parts of the banks to cuntinue the
suspension, for the purpose of making the people
believe that there can be no resumption without a
National Bank,
i he Bank of the United States, whose example
the rest made a pretext for suspending, is now dead,
and no one can longer look to her to take the lead
in resuming No one need now to ({uote her ex
ample.
1 he new crops are made ; the season has been
bountiful ; specie is abundant in the country, and
foreign exchanges are in our favor. The bank that
cannot resume nou.'^ is insolvent, and ought to be
exposed and wound up. Every solvent bank can
now resume. hat, then, prevents resumption?
e answer, two things; the Whig party
who are for increasing and perpetuating the evils of
depreciated pa])er m order to have an argument for
a National iiank ; and, secondlthe insovlent pari
oi the hanks, who have their own infirmities fo
hide. 'J’hese constitute the opposition to resump
tion : and are they to prevail / Will the Democra
cy suller such unholy partie^s to pervail over law,
moral?, and gove-rnment?
The late .session of Congess has exhibited the
designs of Federal Whigery ill the most glarin£: '
ccdors, as ilitally bent on th*e deterioration of the
currency. They did every thing to degrade and
deprrxiate it. I’heir votes on the District Bank
charters arc the true exemplifications of their prin-
cijdes 'ri),.y voted to recharter banks in a state
of susjiension—to authorize them to do their busi
ness on the j>aj>or of .‘:uspended banks—others as
well as their o\\ n: also to use small notes, down to
the smallest, and to use notes of any intermediate
deiiominations b twern lives and tens, and betwc'cn
tci.s and twenties. Ln Ier this authority the banks,
if the^y please, may deal exclusively in depreciated
paper, tbiv.-n to a cent ; for they may make their
int«‘rmedi:ue notes wlint they please. I'his is Fed-
eial Whigery—ietermined. and wickedl
mint'd on th«‘ debasement of tiie
mote their own unholy schemes. To the Deiiioc-
.ac\ it i.'elongs to *•them. 7’he Democracy
must, iherefbre, £jo to work 'Jln.y mu.«t work
e\eiy where—in the press, in public meetings, in
constant converoations, in the elections, in the'^l.eir-
islatures ; every wliere. in fact. Where ihey are
the m.ajorily. tliey should .\e r : where the minoritv.
they sliould spiJAK. ' ^ '
By art I,! if where they are the majority, and
kOW HAV^E WHIG PROMISES BEFORE THE
ELECTION BEEN FULFILLED ?
In the money article of New York Herald, Sep
tember 15, we find a comparative table of the pri
ces of State Stocks in New York in August, 18-40,
and August, 1841, by which the decline of each
one is exhibited at a glance. This table is accom-
panietl by the following sensible and pertinent ob
servations.
“ At this time last year the stock market here
and abroad was much influenced by the then ap
proaching Presidential election. High hopes were
entertained here, and held out in London, that with
the success of the W'hig paty such measures would
be adopted as would immediately restore the credits
of their securities. This illusion was shared in an
extraordinary degree by all those connected wu'th
speculative property, state, corporate, or real. Let
ters from abroad were written, promising higher
prices as soon as General tlarrison should be ele
vated to the Presidential chair. Contracts w'ere
paraded in the ])apers here for produce, at prices
depending upon the event of that election. What
has been the result ? The year has rolled round,
that election w'as successful for the Whig party;
but how has it answered expectation ? Real estate
is now as dead as cv'er, company stocks have sunk
to the lowest ebb. and explosion after exjilosion takes
j)lace every day. in State stocks the efiect is evi
dent in the above Uible. Prices have fallen very
heavily from those current last year, and since the
closing of the extra session, the most indebted States
have fallen still more heavily. Illinois and Indiana
have receded G a 7 per cent., and the prospect is of
a still fartiier fall. The inunediate cause is the be
lief that the land bill will be inoperative. ^I'he ^en-
eral causes ot this defeat of the anticipations of those
who looked for a restoration of mercantile credit,
through political means, exists in the false positiori
of ihe party now in power The reason of the
low prices of securitie.s, was undoubtedly that we
were in debt and had borrowed too much. ‘I’he
lute Administration in this crisis sought to adopt the
policy of economy, industry and prompt payments.
The new Administration attempt to adopt “that of
extravagance, sj)eculation and new loans. It re
quires no argument to show that as soon this real
jM)sition came to be rightly understood, the last men
tioned coin\se must inevitably damn what little credit
remains. We look upon this as the general cause
of the continued depression in securities. Many
local causes exist for the greater depression of one
descriptieni than of another. Of these the danircr
of repudiation is the most important.”
jUlliliiiHl
MECKLENBURG JEFFERSONIAN:
©2UiiIEEi©B'S'Ii
a
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, isii.
We understand a report is in circulation, iiTthe
eastern section of this County, that we should have
lately written and published a scurrilous and abu-
sive article concerning the Rev. Patrick. G. Boir-
man, and his trial upon some charge or other at the
late term of Montgomery Superior Court. This re
port is utterly unfounded. We have never meii-
tioncd the name of Mr. Howman in our paper, or
even alluded to his trial, as those who read our pa.
per can bear wdtness.
W’e suppose the report originated from an articW
in the Salisbury Watcfnnan, giving an account oi
Mr. B.’s trial, which article was copied into the
Charlotte Journal, and not the Jeffersonian.
Frost, the first of the season, was visible in this
village, and neighborhood, on yesterday morning,
it was not sufficiently severe, w'e presume, to do
much damage to the yet growing Cotton and other
veofetation.
J he Philadelphia \J. S. Gazette nominates
Henry Clay us the *■ people’s candidate'' for the
next Presidency. The "people's candidate,” Air.
( razette? A\ hy. sir, Henry Clay and his princi
ples have been again and again repudiated by the
American ])eople He was a candidate for the Pre
sidency in I >o‘2, and how many electoral votes did
he get ? Fortif-nine, out of two hundred and sixty-
one! He was afterwards a candidate for nomina
tion fu-that high office and rejected by his own
party ! The peojjle's candidate, indee-d ! A stran-
gr would be aj)t to suppose that the laniruao'e of
llic V Tiizcttc Wtis iiiLcridccl as ironiCtj].
I^ynchhvrg Ttepuhlican.
\yicicoaiy Uetcr-
currency to uro-
be the most acceptable mode of remiuance to the
public claimants in those quarters, and would save
the cost and risk of transporting specie, where it
Avas not wanted. A circulating medium thus bot
tom! d cn the credit of the Government—receivable
■il ali d . s to the Government and convertible into
sp.cic r.t the most conveni-nt points, would certain-
iy iurm assoimd a currency as any country could
bo;,St of; an i it is probable, that an amoum noarly
equal to the annual revenue of the country mio-ht
be constantly kept in circulation to flicili“tate ^nd
cher.nen the domestic exchanges. The doctrine of
Mi. McDuffie, in his celebrated Report on the Bank
of th.- U. S., that ‘-the object of furnishing a Na
tional (Currency could not be accomplished with an
approach to uniformity without the aid of Branches
m vaiious j.aits of the country,” is not now' admit
ted. Branch( s arc important in giving accommo
dations m the way of local discounts: but for the
convenience of supplying specie for distant remit
tances, they are of inconsiderable value
On the first view of the scheme here propose-1. |
an objection will arise that it will render this a pa
per rather than a hard money Government bm n
little consideration will convince the
gan of communicating to him their umiualilied an-
prohauon of il« course hr tho.,;s-:t pro],.-no ,,„rsue
in resigning the office of Secretary of the Tre-i-
sury.
-iftei him followed the chairman of the other
committee, who proceeded in a similar -'tra'i) 'I’he
gc-ntieman at length arose, and, with an air of ea^-v
self^Iiossess^n, yet with an eccentricity of manner
sometimes found the associate of greatness, proceed
ed {0 eulogise himself in a strain that left noihino-
complimentary m the addresses; occrsionaliy. bul
vagudv, alludmgto recent important politiculniove-
ments. He staled ‘- that he had t;iken the only
course a hiirh minded, honorable
.N7>(V/,.7/'g where they are not, the Democracy may
I coerce re.Mnnjition as soon as the State Legislature^
meet 1 his. for most of them, will be the same
day on which Congre.«5s meets. If the banks re
sume in December or .lanuary, the Fe.tleral Whigs
in Congress will lose their main artrument for\
National Bunk. 'J'his, then, they will en'deavor to
piey ^.t, and a contest wnll take place all over the
Li^n between the parties on this point; the I3e-
niocracy aimimr at resumption, because it is ri^ht
in Itself, and will kill the main Federal argumemt
foi a Regulator ; the I'Vderalists striving against
resumption, lo save their main argument, and all
tue insolvent and political banks joining the latter.
Let the contest come on. Let Democracy force it
on, and dare the issue.— Washt,ns:^to)L Globe.
1 .luiu man, roald taki;
under the pecuhar c.rci„u«:,nocs in u hic!, fbr.une
iiad p.aced .iim, and. with matter which seemexl a
compound of abstractions • au-:
ism,’" which, to the committce.s.
*' transcondcntal-
I hoTi^ii pnst all donht iuconiprclK-ii.sii)lp.
'vas, iioUvahitan(!iiir. ■ ' ' ‘
wnicn iie was /ustl// entitled for
Jiigli and honorable course he had pursued. ’ 'J'!
'n them to withdra\
1 fiat 11 efo—clear !
Staiul not upon the order of vour roinr
IJiU go at once
The committee then retired.
frnn?‘nll''?i(listinguishable
fiom all others, by the discordant materials which
compose its body corporate They never can an-ree
many one o].mion; and, upon this occasion, tliey
" r' were lost in
t*i } iningled ieelmg of astonishment and admiration
of his speech, and charmed with the urbanity of his
u^portment; w^ile others dissented in tofo, and swore
speech was rather too rambling and self-
glorifymg, while his treatment of them w“as d d
iuut; eonsiuerauou win convince liie stron-est nn..n. ' I r t^iey
iient. that such is not the design, nor wuU such bp mari'of the ft ^ ^ ‘ 'vasastates-
■ • " • ’ '^1^‘^uchbe mar of ii,e fn-st quality, and a superfine W'hio- died
m the wool. Tills difficulty had barely been ad-
^ ,!ust as; .s;-ijs;bii,
concluded his oration by ‘-thanking the gentlemen
who had made the speeches, for rendering to him
the honor to which he was yustly entitled for the
hen,
aw'—
uu ACTio.Ns.— What are thei/.*
1 he ()lno Statesman alluding to this subject, perti
nently remarks as to the nature (.*f these abstractions
thus : It was ‘ Virginia abstractions ’ that aided
to raise th(i standard of rebellion against the stamp
i''t and tea tn.r of ’7(3.
‘‘ It was * V^irginia absti-actions' that indited that
glorious and immortal Declarauon of Independence
that made freemen of us all. '
•• It w^is * \ irginia abstractions' that saved our
Constitution from having engrafte'd upon it an Ex-
ecutive^and Senate for life, and the power to incorpo
rate a Bunk', a very necessary appendage to a crowui.
“It was irginia abstractions’ that redeemc'd
country from the • reign of terror’ of the Elder
Adam.sand llEPEALEDthe Alien and Sedition
Laws!
*• It w’as ‘ V irginia abstractions ’ that braved the
war of lcl'2,w'hile Daniel Webster and his junto
of Hartford Conventionists in Congress wTre voting
against supplies for our armies. °
“And it has been ‘A’'irginia abstractions’ that
COMPLETE LIST OF ACTS
Passed at the First Session of the Ticentij-seventh
Congress.
An act mak ing appropriations for the present ses
sion of Congress.
An act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum
of twelve millions of dollars.
An act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of
tfie fate President of the United States.
An act making appropriation for the pay, sub
sistence, oec., of a home squadron.
An act making further provison for the mainte
nance of pauper lunatics in the District of Colum-
An act to revive and continue in force for ten
years an act entitled •• An act to incorporate the
Alechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,”
An act to repeal the act entitled - An act to pro-
\Kle for the collection, safe-keepino-^ transfer and
disbursement of the ]>.ub!ic revenuV,” and to pro
Mde lor the punishment of embezzlers of public
money, and for other purposes.
An act to provide ior the payment of Navy per-
sions. ■ - ^
An act to establish a uniform system of bankrupt
cy throughout the l uiited States. ‘
An act further to extend the time for locating-Yii*.
guiia military lan-l warrants, and returnino- sirrvevs
thereon to the (Jeneral Land Office. °
An act to authorize' the recovery of fines and for
feitures incurred under the charter, laws, and ordi
nances of Georgetowui. before justice of the peace.
An ac’t to revive and extend the charteis of cer
tain banks in the District of Columbia.
An act in addition to an act entitled An act to
carry into effect a convention between the United
States and the Mexican Republic.”
An act to amend an act entitled An act to pro-
viue for taking the sixth census or enumeration of
d i"“" approved
Alaieh third, one thou.-^and eight hundred and thirty-
nine, and tne acts amending the same.
-An act making an appropriation for the funeral
epensi^ of AS ilham Henry Harrison, deceased, late
I resident of the United States.
An act to appropriate the proceeds of the .sales of
the public lands, and to grant pre emption rights.
An act making ajipropriations fbr variouslbrtifi-
cations, for ordnance, and fbr preventing and sup
pressing [lidian hostilities.
An act to provide for placing Cireenouglfs statue
of W ashington m the Rotunda of the Capitol, and
for expenses therein mentioned.
the effect. The beneficial result will be, that an in
ferior circulation of Bank paper will be substituted
by the better one, bottomed not only on the faith of
the Government, bui; on the hard money actually in
the public Fisc for redemption.
Another objection will be made, that it wu’ll in-
crenst Executive patronage. As no scheme for col-
Jectin;;^, keepaig and disbursingr the revenue can be
rarri^“d into operation but by the power of Congress,
it will be for Congress so to regulate their measures’
as to retai:) all the oor.trcl in this c;^?e that is orac-
jwsted, and the committee were about adjouinino-
tr'rlT?gendeman stepped up and en-
; r 'vith one of its members
^-lood morning, Mr.
coin4sini'°,?^“‘'®l°''’ . 'VchavejiiMhccn
V ccoi"r‘x" "‘'I"™','”
said uporTth^subivc 7
Mr, Ewing's conducl
What did vo?i say?"
lime and in every age
‘’ And had it not been for the professions of A^'ir-
ginia abstractions,’ and the cry that Harrison and
1 yler \vere both sons of A''irginia sires, of the land of
Washington and Jefferson, the Democracy of the
country, the true representatives and depositories of
free principles, w^ould yet be in pou’cr.”
Singular Appointments.—The PiTsident nomi
nated three Locos to office at the close of the late
^^ssion of Congress, viz; I\lr. Barker, to be First
Comptroller of the Treasury, from wdiich he had
been removed by C»en. Harrison, who put Mr For
ward iri his place ; AA^alker Anderson, District At-
torney in Florida; and Hardy Holmes, Recei'/er of
I ublic xMoneys in Louisiana, from which he had
been removed \yy Mr. Tyler himself The Senate
confirmed the nominations, except that of Mr. Fjar-
ker. which was not acted on.
Fa t/e fieri lie Obsen-er
An act amlionzinn: ,l,e transmission of letters and
pacvfisto and Irom Airs. HarrisonlVee ofposta-re
An act to make appropriations lor the l>ost°C)f-
ffce Department.
An act of appropriation for the purchase of na-
\al ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other
purposes.
An act making appropriations for outfits and sa
lat of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes.
An act lo provide for repairing- the Potomac
bridge.
It is now certain that Judge McLean has declinej
accer.ting the appointment of Secretary of AA^ar ten
dered him by the President. At our latest dates
irom A\ ashington, nothing was intimated as to who
the I lesident would next ofier the appointment to.
More Cabinet Manijestoes.—Since our last
a letter fiom John. Hell late Secretary of AA’ar, has
made its appearance, written, he says, at the request
of Mr. Ewing, to support the charges of treachery
and dupjicity preferred by the latter against Presi
dent Tyler. A letter, written by Mr. Webster,
to the two Massachusetts Senators while the last
Bank Bill was before the Senate, has also been pub
lished. In this letter, Mr. Webster beseeched the
Massachusetts Senatois to use their influence to have
the bill laid on the table; said the President was anxi-
ous to conform to the view’s of his friends in Congress,
but could not sanction any measure coiifficting°with
his constitutional views.
This letter of Air. W. upsets the wliole plot of
•Messrs. Ewing, Badger, and Bell to ruin the Pre
sident. it proves that tlieso abusive epistles of Ihe
retiring Secretaries are but portions of a schemo
concocted by Clay and his friends to “ head CaptaU
Tvler," or, in other words, to disgrace the Presi
dent in the eyes of the nation.
-\nd the truth of Messrs. Ewing, Badger anJ
Bell’s charges against the President is still fur-
tlier impcached by the fact of .Mr. Webster':!
remaining in office, and the assertion in his card,
that he has seen no sufficient cause for resi^j'ii-
ing his seat in the Cabinet." For, certainly, i°f a
(lilicreiice of opinion with the President on the
liank question was sufficient to drive the Secre
tary of n ar and of the Navy from office, the Secre-
lary of State, the most intimate of tiie President's
advisers, could noi honorably remain. But Mr.
Befl ,n his -‘statement,” e.vpluins the mystery of
the whole transaction, and shows >vho has acted \yith
am ‘-treachery,” the President or tho
members of his late Cabinet. He says there were
■'pre-existing causes," independent of the two ve
toes, rendering their duty to resign imperative. Let
tne reader mark the bearing of this admission:-
^ ere wo see a set of Cabinet officers, whom the
- resident had grossly insulted, or given some
otiier just cause for resigning their places, possessing
the meanness and hypocrisy to put on the garb ol-
fnmih, and go with him into Cabinet council on a
groat consmulional measure! With their hearts
hik'd with venomous h.atred towards the President
could It be e.>(pected that they ,vould give him disin-
teresled advice—that they would advi:
w'ise than fo his own destruction?
parte statements of sucli witnesses, to facts transpi
ring under such circumstances, to be taken without
strong corroborating facts to support them?- Du
their own statements fuinish such fact.^?
places his resignation sohh, upon the
g-ounds of his difficulties with the President on the
Bank question ; Bril says there w'
use him other-
And are the e.r-
'crc
causes.
pre-existing
An act relating to duties and drawbacks.
^ section of the
thP M I 1^ \ provide for the support of
enr 1 i States^^for the
18?8 ^ purposes,” passed July 7,
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
A resolution redatmg to the light-boats now sta
tioned at Sandy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef.
A resolution for the distribution of seven hun
dred copies of the Disgest of Patents.
A resolution to provide for the distribution of the
printed returns of the sixth census.
A resolution in relation to the purchase of do
mestic water-rotted hemp for the use of the United
Jstates Navy.
.Toint resolution making it the duty of the Attor
ney Genera to e.^amino into the titles of Ihe lands
or sites for the ptirpose of erecting therein armo
ries, and other public works and buildino-s and f.v
oth^r
})urpos
, "'Ithout the vetoes, to justify his resignation;
and U ebster says he has seen “no sufficient cause”
of any sort for resigning Who is to be believed ?
President Tyler should take to himself much
comfort, from the fact, that the abusive and contra
dictory epistles of his late Secretaries meet with a
palpable rebufl’from men of all parties, except those
wiio iiave sworn fealty to Henry Clay’ The New
York Commercial Advertiser, (a AVhig paper)
says of the flying SecretariesBy resignino-
without sufficient cause, as the country will decide
after the smoke of the battle shall have cleared away!
they have given the President the advantage. Li-
stead o/',HEADiXG him, they enabled him to ffct
AHEAD - '
of thein.^^
The Democratic Victory in Maine is more
overwdielming to Federalism than ^ve stated it to
be last week. The majority for Fairfield for
Governor is over eleven thousand, and the Leo-isla-
ture—last year Federal—will be almost entirely of
Democrats: The Senate, by 27 to 4! and the
House by a majority of upwards of 50 I Such a
victory should carry a thrill of joy through the
heait of every Democrat in the Union.
Who can write Editorials and shake with
he ague at the same time ! We ca’nt-that’s certain,
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