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Y J OHN A. B ACKHQ IJ B L IIS- ma ------- . - - ,. . svable in advance. "" ' v "'.'"' V ' 1 by the year, $15. 00 for two squares c : i i nun snea wets&iv ai 00 v ohuuiu. - lif t J 1. 1 n I ? irA- m n nttm' . .nd five dollars tor eactt aauuionai square, uy tbe numb jr, 75 cts. for the first insertion', 37 for each continuance No subscription received for less than six months, and nOPaPera . . -a j.-.-.j, cent at the discretion of the Editor, u. ,V - J. -07 pi all letters addressed to the Editor, the postaga must he paid. ' ; -.-v . '" ;.?; THE TORTOISK-SUUIjL, isriAi- Frora the MS. Journal of a Late Truveller, I have jusVleft .Spa.f ' The seasiott 'is n0l quite over, but it is decaying .fld. uN 1 . t . ft.4 iiiitnmna beauty uf the nnthin.? is so far from captivating to . . ioi thfitledavoflifein.a VateriHg- 1 nrdered mV Dnicusivu wuuUiw.y. '. i TarMivpllJ and nerhans lime oaue six uii'un3 . .; . oi-iiie 1 i i .-,n.. in thf s hows and sDort- in., of the last, as it was in the days of Homer, ad among the sunburnt rocks ot the MeUitcr. raneaii. However, something may be said for the complainants. It is just two years since the Confess of Aix-la-Chapelle : this poured Vvast intlux ofidlera and speculators of all nations into the town ; and, as all things are wreai or little by comparison, and showy - and useless u Congresses aie.they cannot be ex uccteJ to recur every day, the holel keepers measure a full season by the - year of the (joniW and think that the world is depop tlhld since that prodigious period. , , , ; Bail must tell youan anecdote winch I hpard of that time", at the coterie of a leader o( fash ion here, which was vouched for by a whole drele of the fust authority, if ribands and or ders go for any thing in this world. ; ; A Count Cosare MorteUarl, who annoua ced himself as one of the Sicilian Mortellari, made his'-cntrec. ;hcfe'a fenr -ycarsagHc. Poke of himself as making the toar of uropet en philosophc, and though evidently enfeebled in health, made himself acceptable by his skill in music, and reneral pliability of manners. nndOUUlCUl V uuuo " . : r Like every body here, he played at the public tables from time'" to time, but vith a declared roInRtanee for.tlie trufsuit, which he said, disa- orccd as much with his habits as . his , health, lie seemed a good deal of the hypochondriac ; a:ul anion" his more intunafe circles, compraiii- cil of the restless dissipations- oi continental Ufe, ahd the raptures of philosophy, reiiremen and so forth. . But exampUs is coniagt jus ; ahd j as the seasoa; advanceck even the shrinking I-! laliaii was forced int the crowd, lie attend ed the Re.do iite a;f"Other -public5 places, and i.icnsibly moved in a rounu ai-Arcnouivesanuj rriacesses ; hut, unlike the - general tribe of . . . . t ' . watering-place Uounts,:wno axe pre-tnnnem for whiskers, equipage,;, laced livcries,; and boasting of their own exploits in love and war the .Count's manners were remarlvably, simple: his equipage; was plain; his otie Valet plainTas his equipage; his whiskers rectuced-to the peace . LOUiUiiOiilUii t4iim ilia luuguc, oiivun y a J ventures. : With a'pair of feeble eyes,' wbioh seemed to be but-little aide ; by a pair of tor-toise-shell spectacles, he appeared; more like a wandering son of spleen or 3cieiice, than; a man of ton. Yet he Was a kind of. star : his appearance and habits were a relief, after the glare of the usual candidates for admiration, ' and the quietude of his play, arid-the simplici ty with which he suffered himself to be Jaugh eJ at, and occasionally, -Id be plundered by the lairnst nf ilin f:iir ioprfl nni(!irpil thp. rnnst. Ac- ( Ii I t I. nr rtt. t K t 1 . cllonl Afl nil llIC naite things in the world. However, practice improves the dullest,and Fortune, frown as 6he will, cannot frown lor ever ! Count Cesare began to win a little.and Ut"Ull . IU 111 IllUlVt lllV ITUUUbi tt r r i i was, now, wun ins wani oi an aexieruy, anu his purblind eyes, he could win atT all. At. length, one night, when the bank happened to be peculiarly strong, the Count, by two or three miracles of luck, suddenly br oke it; ami swept the board of its last coin, to the infinite chagrin" of a circle of petty sovereigns, and quite as much, he. vgwed, to his own wonjer. Was clrlnnnd a tifl ihd f!iinit iciil. nil K!. At.v ishmcnt, carried off to the i-ambuht of about 5,- On the Continent, those who live by their vits, go, like, our English judges, a rircuiu rThey may not deal quite so much in law, nor are perhaps quite so lond ol exhibiting ther person in its Courts, but they fully equal them in inflicting pains and" penalties. The Count Alortel'lari was unseen at Spa for a while after his relieving the bank of its opulence ; a;ic) u n known until he was heard of sojourning at the successive round of watering places, and laugh ed at just as much as he had been at bpa, yet, when the laugh was at its height, by some un accountable freak of fortune breaking every bank in succession. . 1 .. : ; ; : Princes and- Duchesses do : not lose their money even at German watering places;with out wishing that, they had kept it in their purses, nor find themselves-regularly beaten, without indulging in suspicions of the skill which could beat them,' Rumors began to v thicken, that the simple Count was not al together the child of nature he seemedMhe lumoureven blackeniag into belief, when the Co.unt- suddenly appeared at Spa in person. A his justified him . at once. . His look vrns nore simple than fiver, No scepticism could stand against the almost infantine helplessnesa -of his delicate and t3alo t)hvsio?nomv. his eyes were even more purblind, . if possible, than before. - " -" LJ - LiCiiy--- .,,. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 183 7. ': rav town of Spa, and set out ,or.qi-r S s It is curiouenougli that the old; absurd iWof praisins the past at the expense of the Sni. where evei v sea- rhanA.r .1-- 7 -.-.- o many-a less-.iaiKiui- uarvy lonjr lOEewnfit 111s (iresx inn. nnn nnnnrirnna a i . i... ..n.: . 1 . , . i- - v,"VJ.or8e "ough it had preserved a v6unr German.'an Aide-de-camn of the qiacss,.,JaiS vat was gone, and his lit-1 pcror. Alexander, saw something g S E. tie, yet remarkable pretty cabriolet was gone along with; him.. He jcame to the. Redoute as usual, but seemed la have lost the Inclination and the faculties for play together. '. Night af ter night he glanced at the tables, like one who had half forgotten what they were; :; and after lingering an hour or two round the room, sipping coffee, listening to the orchestra and laughed at by every bpdy1 quietly retired to his bed. -Nothing could be clearer, than that the reports of his success ! during his absence, had been; mere fabrications. It was even so far evident th at the Co un t i was a ruined man, that it became a . topic jyhether he jwas worthy laughing a Vany 'loDger, and whether it would not be judicious to (orget lum to his face - In the mean time, - Spa began to be filled. The celebrated Congress of Aix-la Chapelle was at hand, and the distance from Aix-la Cha pelle was too slight to leave a doubt' on the mind of the Hotel keepers of Spa that . own w as th e time to make their fortunes. : The Congress met, the Sovereigns; shewed their faces, the Ministers their portfolios, ' the Aides d e-camp their ' feathers, the. . attaches their ribbons; and the grand business of their meeting being thus accomplished, finding time hanging terribly' on their hand at the terribly dull city of Charlemagne, the whole Diplomacy, Sover- eigns, aua oecretaries, maue a geueral movement to Spa.; ; .. After the first sraze at "this display of im- perial and kingly pomp, life returned to its A day or two was ordinary channels again. enough to settle the . geueral opinion of the la dies, that Alexander was well looking for a Russ aud an Emperor, but had too much of bclavoman in his visage, lhat Constantine, not withstandihg his diamond epaulettes, was a regular lalmuc. That Ijhe king of Prussia, with his grim form and iron colored features, would h ive made a capita) hussar. That the Emperor Francis, with his small fair face. seemed thoroughly henpecked.'and asto the rest, the crowtl3 of Attaches and Aides-deCamp were very convenient for waltzing with, and playing with at roulette while their purses lasted. But the Redoute was in its glory. Its spacious hall ueversaw before so ranch of the grandeur of this world; and the' card-table was the cen tre of a 'circle of 3Iaje3ties, ; Tha poor. Count . tottered though this per pelual, glitter naturally more unnoticed than ever. At length the sovereigns announced that they were fo take their, departure, and a: gTaid ball was jprnposed, to celebrate the last night of their august presence. 1 It was given; - Spa had never seen any thing half go embroidered before.. Rouge et noir was the imperial game. The difficulty was, how- to make way to its table, through circle on circle of epaulettes and diamonds But, though fainting Princesses and pan ting 4.rchduli.es wore 'unablo.. to--tkclan'o ; a step by some unaccountable accident, little Mortellari had wormed his way, until he stood under, the very elbow of the Autocrat of all the Ilussias. .'The bank on that night was worth throwing against indeed. It was tar gidf ivitlf gold. ' Every.C(iif;;iw,f Europe, from the diicat to the doubloon, was shining in heaps before the irazb, : The- plav went on, as usual, with. various. chancesJ- .-Nesselrodelost enough to wish that he had contented himself with strip ping Poland. Ii?ven shrugged up his shoul ders. -as he looked at the long Cossack purse en.f .ied of the long savings of Jiis British em bassy. MtJtternich staked a year's income of Johannisberg, and saw its instant accession to the heap with a sigh, as if he had seen the loss of an Austrian province. In the meantime, the little. Count staked dftwn his ducats, bowed his feeble, eyes close to the table, and played. The banker gave -a scream. It had won. Ah irrepressible exclamation of astonishment and chagrin btirst from the- whole circle. It spread through the building,.and jail was. wonder and confusion. Both were, if possible increased when on the circle's opening the Cocnts lost vaTel was seen advancing with" a huge chamois bag, into which he scraped the'whole contents of the table Thebag was - borne away, and deposited, before two thousand pairs of eyes, in the lost cabriolet! 1 ; O t . " - ? The high .;r Orders, oft course,, acquiesced in their ill-luck. .But there are hangers on in the vicinity of the Continental tables, who are not so easlv satisfied with the caprices of '.fortune, and who have cut lhe throat of many a winner, before he xeached his escritoire. A rush was made against the deceptive ; Count bv. those : Chevaliers d Industrie. .But they gametritnte"Dy thetrxplolu:Mo'rtelIart "was on his guard. He started up into sudden sta- ture; and while with pne hand he . struck back Ills lurci'iuab aoaai taut . t i.u a ju n s iuiuunj , Which sent him reeling through the crowd; with the other he- drew a double-barrelled pis tol from his pocket, which he presented to the ganff. In the'effort to strike the ruffian, -however, the Count had dropped his spectacles, and bv the look which he gave his prostrate- ad- versary, and the alertness wun wnicu ue wourm his way through the multitude, it was evident that he had recovered his sight as quickly as his strength and stature. His escape, it must be allowed,, "was . the mors easly effected, through the. rashness ot ms assailants, who liaa made their attempt almost; at the i threshhold of the Redoute, . The fracas had instantly br'oug lit out a concourse of the visitants,and the assailants were, in consequence, preven ted from following: up their violence and were given over to the police. The uount,.witn a bo w of thanks whipped his little" but remarkably active Norman pony, and the cabriolet went off at full speed,. - - -t s" . . .The night was serene, and the freshness of the open air held some of the loungers talking' of the event, on the promenade outside the build- ing. The vexation of the players-, the ill luck oi tne nonesi worm m general, ann hi-j.cai""" dinary good fortune of the extraordinary little Count, that Ihave.-kept But fEm-r littering by . .... 1. ..V . m 1 frht L1BEUTY....THE i . r ; ; . : ' " ' ' . f. .1 he moonlight in the grass, and sprang forward l0 seize the Drize. , The irmnn ;i..... j he had found the star of some Prince, or at least . - - . u4 ovinia, ucne, ana were prepared to congratulate him on his discovery. But.the young Germant .returned mc oroocn -or hratot .nm: unt - i in g.eat disdain of ; what he had foun, which was simply a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles. Ha was a good deal laughed at; but, at length, some more sagacious observer pronounced, that they were "prodigiously like the Count's spectacles." O pinions were mm n i Vi a place, the circumstance, the spectacles all I confirmed the idea. Spectacles had nmrio.,. ly been seen on the hose of the Count Mn,ti lari, and the nose had as notoriously been seen wuiiuu iiiciu, ana on tne very spot too were they found. Proof was no more necessary to those rapid reasoners, and the vnrinir fiorman pledging himself by Thor and VVVoden that the secret of Mortellari's luck was in his spec tacles,put them on.and returned laughingly into the rooms, to try his last ducat. But he was too late, the bank was bankrupt, blav w nror for the night, a few broken; gamesters alone remained, lingering over th: scene of thir ruiri.and all the relics of thc!hob of bustle and brilliancy, were some of the fards which had been played with scattered ove the table and the floor. The German took up fne of them, and gazed on it Willi- a look a surprise. He bronght tt nearer to the decaUnir liffht hf the chandelier"; His 1 look, exhiriked still mnrm surprise. At length he calledn some ofthe bystanders, and askpdr wheher they e6uld perceive anything on the carl which he held in his hand." Nothing," wal the answer af ter turning-it in all directioA, . "Try these spectacles,'' said the Aidc-de-amp. A single glance was enough on the ack of the card among ;tthe prolussion of jflo rishes common on continental packs, was a jgure of 2 Was there any mark' On ; t! others?" To the I naked eye nothing. Bu) to the glass, every-card- had a peculiar; tgure. .The se cret was now out. VThe spectas wore power ful magnifiers, the cards we're larked, and the Count, by the help "of his ma nifiers, saw on the back what was on the froi. of everyone of the pack. "But was it of tis pack alone!" The croupier; was called. He prduced another. It had its figures too; a dozen,aI) lad their share. The room was by this lime envded, and the discovery produced violent" exdtement. Those who had lost, of course, expwled that their losses should be repaid, and they were the clamorous maioritv, ten to oii next proposal was the Count's ) tfgingy should te Mohsignor be instantly searched,:"and Mortellari brought Xo justice. lu tit was three n the morning, and the police heutenant'iY in -ins .hrst sleep, iheorr 'was at iasoo- taincd. Bu t it was foa trdt h a I the Co u o t had not returned to his Hotel tint night. A bribe. and another hour of entreaties; obtained an order to have him arrested" a the barrier, or whereverhe should be discctered' "within the district. But by daylight, it las found that a cabriolet, with a . Norman porr, and two men wrapped in furshad passed tt f barrier half an hour before twelve, the. nigl before. The chase was then hopeless. T e Count was as impalpable as so much lightet gunpowder. ; A more detailed in vesligatidi naturally look place next day f which prove that, hot mere ly every card which had beeiiused on the pre vious night was marked, but lhat every card which had been used for twe emonths before was similarly marked, and tl t every "pack in possessionlpf the bank had itshgures. Further still, it was shown by the baik, in its own de fence, lhat thepacks in the vious hotels were figured; ahd fiwally, that the arstem had extend ed to e ve ry hotel in the chid wa teri ng places. The little Count's luck waj thus easily com prehended. Wherever he fvent, his magni fiers had read the cards forhim. '. Of course he plun derjpd w herever he chose, though he cautiously iserved his grid achievements for v something worth ach jving. But how was the extent of the schem to be explained! Two years before, a -card iianufactory had been set up near. Strasbuer, remarkable for the beauty, and still more fof the cheapness of its card3. Amounting to Jifie more than two thirds "of the usual price.lhey had " rapidly thrown the ' common cards ?ut of theinarket, and been purchased by all Jie hotel keepers and . masters of gamins: houses, without ex- r.pntion. The Count was pne of the chief partners in this cheap -care company. The company was . formed, . ciPres3,y to give him and his associates theco nana ot the card rdayins world,and their year circuit had most handsomely repaid - them tb outlay of their capital. The Watenrig-plac were Heecect in very exemplary style. Yet.as no one much regrets the losses ol these, wro are all sharpers alike. Or ready to be so whenthey have an op portunity, there was at least a much! laughing as lamentation among honest hen in Germany. The young .Aide-de-camp gef a step from the Emperor for his part in the s6air, andII; Sig nor Cesare Mortellari, tholgh, if caugh't, he would have been sent to improve bis morals by twenty years hard iabor tn thj ditches of Span dan or Ehrenbreitsteinigbtcridit forhis knowl edge of the true use ol'spectjcles; and may be at this time when genius ' fines' its level every where, is a member of the Chanberof Deputies, V Pa .ha of Tnrke v. or a V riiihff character of lhat land of every thing rising the Peninsula. . A JLadv Sat7or. Mrs. Iioldridgei of the nark et shin United Stales, arrived on Tuesday in that vessel it being her Airfieth voyage a- cross the Atlantic! .We thmitsne is ,iairiy en titled to a cbmmand;having in every instance f saiied aif tha mate of Capt. H, -" - ; ; T !, -Definition OF jBABiES.-ipisy :iaciivo rous animalculae, much desiderated by those who never had any, C -,y. J - - - - New Monthly Mag . DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY. Democracy may be defined, the government which rests it support, on public opinion. It recognises the great truth, that the munificent Author of being has conferred the gifts of mind upon every member of the humau race, with out, distinction of outward circumstances. Whatever of other possession may be engros-. sed,mind asserts its own independence. Lands, estates, the produce of mines, the. fertilitv of the seas, they may be all usurped by privileged classes. The crasolnsr oower of avarice ursti. ming the form of ambitious power, may acquire realm after realm, subdue, continents, compass earth in its schemes ofagffrandizement.and siffh after other worlds : but mind eludes the now- e r o f a pproprialion ; it exis ts on 1 v on its indi viduality : it is a possession which cannot be torn a way ;. it laughs at chains ; it bursts from imprisonment, it defies monopoly. A goyern m 1 en t o f equa t righ ts m us t th erefore res t u pan mind ; it (is the reflection of public opinion ; it acknowledges that the sum of moral intelli gence of the community should " rule the State. ' In this sense.deroocracy is the party of pro gress and the pariy of reform. It aims con stari tly at improvement, not dismayed by" the natural and necessary imperfections of all hu man efforts, and not giving way to despair be cause every anticipation does hot open into fruit. -:;.';'; ;;; :: ;V -r; .--;"'; :- r- ' Or democracy is the government which as serts, that the public happiness is the! true ob ject of legislation. It is therefore the system which aims, at elevating - the masses to the knowledge and the care of their own interests. The history of the more numerous classes has hitherto been but the relation of events', which founding-at once a great inequality of fortune, of enjo-ment and of individual hap piness,have gradually placed the larger part of every nation under guardianship and in a state of dependence." Refinement and civilization were reserved for the more. favored inhabitants of the cities the contempt for the common man become so fixed, that it infused itself in to language. The . pursuits of agriculture were held in contempt. Was extravagance of superstition to. be censured, it was ; called paganism, which originally means only life in the coui.tr ; coarseness -of feeling was bran ded as rustic ; the boor, now a term of re proach, meant originally but a cultivator of the soil, a heathen was at first but the dweller .on the earth "; a villain was no more than the res ident of a village. . It is one of the happiest re suiis'of our free InsJiltiUo'iis, thatt hath rever sed these false and ignoble distinctions f and refusing to gratify, the pride of caste, has ac knowledged the common mind to be the true material for a couimonwealth. Every thing has heretofore been done' for a happy few. It is hot possible to endow an aristocracy witk greater benefits than they have already enjoy ed, there is no room; to hope that individual miuds will be more powerful or more fully de veloped than the minds of the greatest sages of past time. ) ; - : j'.K' The world can advance only by diffusing in telligence and the elements of happiness a mong the people, by cultivatiug and improving their moral and intellectual powers. To ac complish this end by means of the" people themselves, is the highest purpose of democ- racy. II lt.De tne uuty 01 ;tne- intuviauai .10 strive after the perlection ol uoa, now much more ought a nation to be image.of Deity,,' Our institutions have; acknowledged the common to be the Parianmarble, fit to be wjrought into likeness to a God. - Or democracy is the party that ' cherishes justice and peace. " Our institutions are es sentially pacific." "Claiming nothing but what is rieht, submitting to nothing that is wrouT," our country commands rtspect, and offers the right hand of amity .; to every nation of the glooe. . Or democracy is a government, by its very nature opposed to monopoly. For in this form, tint less than in any other, can; the; character of its principles be expressed. Other govern ments acknowledge the sovereignly, of an in dividual, or of privileged classes democra cy has destroyed the monopoly of po wer, and rri vtn eniial franchises. --; ," , f " -: A reliffious aristocracy, connecting state and church; assumed a control over conscience.and claimed a monopoly ef .thought. Democracy has'ffiveh to conscience absolute liberty, and has asserted tne universal ngui iu luieueciuni freedom. Jealous governments "fear the diffu sion of truth; arid control its channels by taxes nr Wa censorship, democracy has repealed the monopoly of thought and emancipated the nress. A privileged class usurped the exclu sive benefits of learning, democracy respecting the universal giftof the mind has asserted --the universal right to intellectual culture. Capitalists have so oppressed the laboring ciass, in Europe they have been induced, which but another form of saying that they have heen forced, to work by night-as wen as.oy day," and children to toil lilf their joints . were Swollen, their spirits wasted and life embitter- ZA-in 5t dawn. Democracy asserts tne uni versal riffht to leisure, thatis, to time not ap rnnriated to material purposes, but reserved fnr the cnltuie of the moral affections and that nf the mind' It does not tolerate tne. exciu- c?e eniovment of leisure by a privile ged class, ..t rlefendirur the riffhts of labor, would suffer noneto sacrifice the purpose 01 morai cxis tencer in increasing toil for that which , is not De8p6tic"'govennlerilS"haTc;sllackletVindlls try by specbl grantsi and the subtle spirit of ;a aticmntiniT to corriiot our lnstitu- .. : ui- fv-m nf Avnritiem llpffi loo. .lomncracv is eauallv strenuous in asserting the freedom of industr.y.--Bancrqif's Ad dress; . At $ 3 Per Annum, in advance : From the Washing-ton Globe, t ' -;;':;, the agitators; y';;;vV---r ; It apppears that, the opposition are not sa, lisfied with having compassed the great object n which - they urged as a remedy ; for. the panic' and pressure , - The general suspension is on-jr ly "the beginning ol the end" at which they aim. The correspondent of the National In- f telligencer opens his panic letter of yesterday with this "commencement,- which, evidently gives him inexpressible delight. The editor of the Express, in his proper person, declares that it ought to have happened sooner, and, ' in his character of a -correspondent, informs Messrs. Gales and j Seaton of the mode in which the assumed right of the banks to vio late their promise to pay, while they were a- ble to pay,, was enforced by a'military array of .1 1 -, , '. ... me peopie, wno surciy were at least enutieu to demand payment of promissory notes held by them, as long as there- was money in the vaults . a 4 1 , ;..The" correspondent saysf , . ; i The bankers met last night, and deliberate 4 ed to a late hour, when all but three resolved' to, suspend specie payment. . This morning' the other three did the same thing. - The Conv: mon Council being in session at midnight, the banks making a representation to them of what was to be announced in the morning-pa pers, they, in concert with the Mayor, ordered out two regiments of the military, who were on parade this morning as soon as the morning; papers were in general circulation. . The city is, "therefore, quiet," J . , .; ' j This is a painful exhibiliori. Military force,; we are persuaded, could never be necessary.toi protect respectable, popular &c influential men, such as preside oyer the New York banks, in any rightful and proper exercise of their du ties. If the banks had continued to pay as, long as they had the means of paying, there would have been, no fear of the peopje. If there had been any sufficient public motive! why the banks should have retained the specie, rather than that the holders of their notes should have it, and diffuse it through society, the bankers would not have indulged the4 Slightest apprehension. . ; Even under circumstances that inspired the"; actors with dread,- we are happy to perceive there was no ground for the mistrust of the people, or a parade of military force to pro tect the banking institutions. The acquies cence of the people, we1 sincerely hope, will prove this. The two regiments would notuinft moment have held in check the great body of men who hold demands on the banks, if they had not felt the restraint of their own moral sense arid duty to the laws. The show of re giaacnts, therefore, in Xnticipatlou of violence on the part of, a quiet people, is rather a proof lhat those who called for them, were not satis" fied of the rectitude of their own purpose, than: that evil purposes existed in the bosoms of the population with which they were sur rounded: We rejoice that their orderly and peaceable deportment, under circumstances which it was presumed would excite them tor violence, has vindicated them from the disr- potable suspicions which the resort to ihe means that European aristocracies employ to give impunity to wrong andoppressioh, was calculated to fix upon them; for it was ' inten-! ded to prevenUj The conduct 6f the sufferers on this occasion (those who are creditors of" the banks) is worthy ot all praise. Their pai tience prseerves the character of our country.-. It will appeal most forcibly to the representa tive bodies that wield their power of legislation to provide effectual guards against those mis- chiefs of the present system, o'f which they aref the victims." n j " y -V: '"r --;:! ' But what shall we say of .hse city presses that are hut content with the disasters of the bank suspensions, which are solely occasioned bv the panic making-they kept up continually-! destroying that confidence on which 4he banks aiWays rest, and which, if it had been as anx- iously maintained as it was as industriously -undermined for political objects by the city presses, wonld have uudoubledly supported them through' the crisis. "The organs of the merchants and the bank, and the panic-making party, although they, enjoy the full benefit of the suspension 01 payments although no debt is now paid that is not voluntarily paid- labor to keep up the terror.by mysterious mis givings, and hints of a state of things yet to come still more gloomy. : The Intelligencer serves up to the public uo less than three most distressing, and still more distress-forebrod- ing letters, and adds: 4,our " private informa tion, andcurrent rumor are 01 a more gloomy character than 4he public, accounts, and ihafr. we how fear the: worst has not come!!" -, ' ... 1 ? . 1 - - ... -7" . vvnat worse can nappen, m ine money way, than the general "stoppage, ; we cannot divine. It puts an end to credit, the greatest mercan tile calamity that could happen; but it doe? not destroy oyr goods and chattels,;1ands and tehements--the sun continues to shine, and bountiful Providence promises Co bless the 'sea- 80n and the industrious and enterprising raee of Americans sun survive w luipruve uu cu iov these blessings. What worse" is to come, then, out ol tne Dann stoppage ana raercniiun) failures than has happened, we know not bur we. suppose that our neighbor of the Intelli gencer casts a glance across tne water 10 msown country, l ne iionuon prints, as win oe seen bv our extracts, tell us tnat England looks to the packets tor goto anu snver 10 save ner mer cantile ascendancy; and the. apprehension that enough' has not been sent out to serve the pur- - ipose, ptooaoiy eiiurw irpm tne eoitor 01 tne Intelligencer, the expression of his "fear that' the worst ha3 to come." The Delaware Gazette staies thaf the What Crop in that viciuity, which;'a short lime since i uresente.d iiw thiniT but a favorable appecar - ance, has within the last two weeks, impTOvec? astonishingly, and gives promise ota ; gootf
Newbern Sentinel (New Bern, N.C.)
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May 31, 1837, edition 1
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