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, 1 1 1 1 y 1 1 : I 11 ! 1 h v 11 11 1 i v t 1 1 1 1 ji 1 11 1-1 ii 1 rN;t n v 1,1 1.,,' 1 1 ,. 1 71 w ' . F.C.IlILi;E,lW and Proprietor. ; j j '' "BE JUST &JJ FE.Hl .Voir.'' , ; J. ; nU ' ' i . I -.' ' - i i i . . ' I i ' " ,1,11 t 1 1 VOL. IV. NO 42. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1839! WHOLE NO. 198, .1-1 i PUBLISHED KER Y FIIIDA Y MORNING. I : TERMS. a . , THHCX DOILARS FEB. IK! ADTAXCI. J : ADVEKTISEMESTS ' Not exceeding a Square, inserted at ONE" DOL LAR the first, and TWENTY-FIVE CENTS 'for each subsequent insertion. 2 Legal Advertisements will -be charged 25 per cent higher.- . VX No Subscribers taken. for less than one year, and all who permit their subscription to run over a year, without giving notice, are considered bound for the second year, and so' on for all succeeding years.'!. !' ( ' y No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. i dj Le,tterato, the Editor on business must be rOST-PAIB. . i 0 OFFOJ No.rth West of the Town Hall, one'dpor from corner of Second & Market streets. TRANSPORTATION OFFICE, t . : . : J December I8ihr 1838. y "RVTOarticle will be received fir transportation JLI aflh'e Depot at Wilmington, until hfieiht I 'J - as been paid. Nor vi-ilt any ai iicle whicli.-hns F tteerf brought on ihe railroad be delivered; until 0ie freight has bc!:n paid. ' L .ti II. SAUNDKRSr . 153 tt Agent Transportation. CHEAP i - cash stoke : 'pHE Subscriber h;is just rt-lurne.d from "- the North and is opening'-in tbe siore lately occupWHl S. VV. Lank, a luvnds'fnie assortment, of gpntlemehsland fodifS' BOOTS & SHOES, and a splendidasoitmciU of mens, boys' and cfuldrriis' 1 ; HATS and CAPS, "of ike latest fasliion, " which have been made to or Jer ty the best manufa-tories in Ni w York, which will be sold low, for cash only, by ..- S. M. WES r Oct.'H, 1839. P 19 ISt NOTICE. riTVIEl Subscriber inten lin" to be absent from JUL the Stale during the ensuing five months, has appointed Mr. -William 'A. Williams' as his agent during his absence. . All nersons indebted' tn the subscriber iri his own ri"ht, or as the Administrator of the latc S.. VV. Lane, are advised to make prompt settle merits with his aforesaid agent, wa he is instr.-ct-ed to oiake speedy celleions without respect to persons. Those indebted by book debts will find their accounts in Oie hands of James T. Morris's. i i LEVI IJU.RLBUTT. , Oct. 1 1, 1830. 1 10 7t. Sale of Valuable Property j . AT AUCTION. THE Subscriber will sell at Auc tion, during the week of Superior Court,: the following valuable prop rty, viz: Two Brick Stores on ihe south side ol Markeistreet, viz. the. Store occupied by R-jh-well fifi Rankin, and the Siore recently occupied by S. Harvcrson and W. W are. - 'Tli one story Dwelling: House occu' pied by Mr G 'otin. " Six .ititnprov'l Lots in the vicinity oi the Diy Pond, ff Terms made known on the day" of .jalei. ; - -" . - rhe idve Houses will be rented out" on the 1st October. I ; , The I subscriber also offers for sale FIVE Share of the W.'& R. R li .Si.'ck. ! Apply t r ' -WILLIAM N. PEHEN. Wilmington, S. pt 13 180. 101 if j WAYMEsnoiur THE pr o p r j tt o r 6 1 thi s e?la b 1 is h - t m nl rV.lnrrc h is t h.a n u to r 1 hi . .liberal pat ronage extended - to w a i ds , him, since his farnprieurship and as- "sures ihe publiq of a continuation of Ins most un reuntMn exrtilius.-and attentions, to ivnd -i nU comti tab'e and satisfi d, tvhojslidUVall .n him HVithin tli fasti twrl w tnonibs" rons deiiWe imnrnv rnonts have been tnadctirr the toUlLIKNGS, FURNITURE and PAR del 'partnunt, nnd with an entire set efiew S TA fBLES. The House, Bar and Stables ill b fnnti shcil Icspcctively; with the best the louutry ""HfTnrds."' " '" ' " ' ' . been STAGES am vine & denartinK fro"1 lh' place "both siop at my tlouse where seals are secured, sand no exertions win oe sparcu . gio5cwrrai satisfaction to passengers. r;'-,: 5 , The AVitminffton ,& Raleigh R. Road K.;inr hnt one mile from here, a vehicle for the accommodation-of passengers- thence, wdl al "waTS feelcept irf readiness Xvuh a careful drtT, Xt iU lWivaibe aflhe Pepot every Moo- day Wednesday ur.d Friday, to bung in those passenger. who Uh to tajce eiRaletght jSewbenvSTAUa wn en ieyo TueicUy. Thursday "and Sat urday: McCHURCHILLV ? " Waynlsboro1 Sepf 27, 1839.': " 193 if. Valuable Servanf, For, Sale. -- WOMAN, about forty years of age, of ext t ceUrnVchactetvT vasnerunu.v.., ana nas Deen accuui --- OetU, 1839. ! 195-tf. . i H GREAT BARGAINS - ; . . ; .in . . VIM OOL Dyed Blue and Black Broad Clolk. sone very firve. -Bro. and SMixt' Broad Olotb, Pilot ("loth, all prices and colours, 1 Super Nj. 1, Braver Cloth, of colors Drab Blue and Invisibl e Green Extra hea - vy and cha for ovfrcoats. ; Casstmere ard Sattinets, Super Merino Vest ings, Valencie and Silk do Supr mUk Silk Velvet Vesting, a Satin, plain and figured do. , Black Italian Cravats, Figured - do. Satin and Bombizine Stockf, ' BuckskinjGroves, : ' Doe and Woollen do. Black Kid Gloves, Bosnmi and Collars. . Woollrit Bocks and Storkings, Saxony Vool Wrappers and Drawer?, some xety extia heavy, flat chejap and fine, ' Fashionable Fur and Cleth Caps, ' Super Plilsh Caps, all colors, Fine Calf Boots and Pumps, Bowio Kijives anil Pocket do, ' ' . ' Pistols, some very flu. Jewellery, j Purses Shaving Soap. Razors. toolscapl and Letter Paiwr. afeis. Sand Boxes. P ns. Cluills. ; Canes. 6cc. &c. &c CHARLES SHELTON. 1810. . 196-tf : & - Oct. 18rh Brown & Deitosset, FFEI:! for s;iU- at thir Store. North s'de of Market stn et, near the whrf, 20 Hhds Suj;af. Porto Rico and St. Croix, Barrels do St Croix., choice tor families, 5 Cases Gld-Shny Wine, 20 ar.j Casks Malaga Wine,? 11 doj do Ma J ir.i aud Tneriffe do. 5 Brls Imitation Brandy, 50 Mats Cnssia, i " Ao Lasers I f a. variety, 10 Bas PeppiTj ; 5 do: Ginger, 105 Kesrs Nails, assorted, 3d to 30d, lt'0 Biijs Miov, assorted, 2f.O lbs Lead; 20 Boxes Candles, Sperm and Patent, 65 B iijs Coffee, Java, L;iguira, and Rio, f pes (jrio and Hrandy, 52 BoX'-s Soap prime, I 5 Hampers Wine Bottles, 15 Boxes Crackers, u do otare.h 5 Baircls Gin, 10 Kegs superior Goshen Butter,, 20 Boxes Glass Putty. I 3t!6 Bars Iron, assorted, Swede, English arid American, Cast Iron Ploughs, and Extra Shares, ' 100 Rt'iims Wr'appinur Paper, 25 dci -Letter Paper, UK) Gross Corks, .prime, 15 Baskets very sup'r Cljampaigne -Wine, Besides numerous other Articles, in the way-of FA vllLV SUPPLIES, Flour, Buckwheat, &c. &c. expected hourly per Caroline E. Piatt. ALSO M ACKEREL, No. i, in varioas packages, best qualiti and no X in Barrels All ofwhieh they are prepared to sell low. Oct II, 18M , I'5-5t. N. C RUM, dc. BARRELS N E RUM. 10 Id). GIN, 15 cusks sweet Malaga WINE, 5 aV.-Casks Spanish BRANDY, 100 Bids. IRISH POTATOES, 50 Bales HAY,: s 25 Casks NAILS. 50 Doz.-os Boston PALE ALE. For sale by i . ' BARRY & BRYANT. Oet.Il, 1830. 1!)5 4t. TIN MANUFACTORY. IHE Subscriber has recomffit need his f INNING BUSINESS at tiisj old stand between t(ie Court' House and Town Hall, "where he ii prepared to ! make to order every thing in h'4 line! Also Guttering for Houses or Coi)per Business I Repairing oi all! kind done at the shortest notiee. LIKEWISE. I shall k mont of ep on hand generally a full assort- Tin Ware, Japanned Ware and Br it an' nia Ware, Brass Kettles, Lanterns, Brass Bells, Seal s, Iron Weights, fy.. Sf-c ' 6fc STOVES and PIPE, made to order at any time CHARLES SHELTON. Oct. ii!h, 1839 ' ' : j I0fi-tf lvO U S ALE, SrHATj commodious dwelling house and 2 IJ stoie on tin- corner of Dock & front street itny nceutK'.t-d' by Mr. Charles Frost is offered f' .r sabv at a to- price The dwelling over the tore '.is coiiv'enienlly an eoivfortably' rranid for a boarding Imuse, having in alt, eleven rooms, " I '- c ;. ' ' 1 . --:' ' 1 11 j JAMES F, McREE. 3 1( thenb-ve property is'noj dispos d .t at private sale lv the 1st of Nov. it-will on that d.iy bj sold at public Auction. ct 4 . 191 tf. f (iil'te, Sugar tAOlaxfscs. BAGS Rio COFFEE. .,-20 1 1 h-ls. M us.ovado SUGAR, . Tlhds: MOLASSES, v i V- 20 Bbls. Louf double refined SUGAR, 4 m. powdered lo, . Far sale v ..'-) 4 BARRY & BRYANT, ct lllh. 1829 I ! (195 4t. NOTICE. 'IHElo low ing lands on the Warcamaw River; bavins been lately sold for taxes, and -purchased and regularly surveyed, noeordinf to law, by the.suuscnber, all persons are hereby for warned Tront 'cutting'-timler or committing other deprnkdiohs on s.id lands, under such penalty as the law; will tnflicL i f . " 1 he - Land above alladcd to is 20 : surreys. patents I by Patrick Henry, numbered as folio: 37 J 0"7A 349 373 r 371- v 352 368 373 348- 303 .353 307 343 347 344 345 366 TV There will be an agent who will. keep bright lookout; k -- ? t.j -''.fj -3 Scptembtr 13, 1839. t - I POETRY. For the Wilmington Advertiser. I In a solitary nook ! ; Of the church yard ground, j Where trajing eyes might hardly look, i Stood forth a little mound A little mound, and fit to be i The cradle grave of infancy- Laid there in quietness to keep, A dreamless and eternal sleep. : ! Meet emblem did it seem to be, j. Of innocence and purity i And did the dew alone descend 1 .'' Upon the baby's grave 1 li One flower alone in silence bend Above the baby's grave 1 Ah no! I saw, when the moon was high ;A sorrowfnl damsel passing by '.Slowly and sadly passing along . Like the tone and the tune of a sorrowful song, j Sung by a sad and desolate maid, j 'Reft of her hearts love, lost or dead ; The hollow earth scarce echoed her tread, As fearing to wake the sheeted dead. The deadthat below, were slumbering pent, Each in his stone girt tenement . And when her step, bad reached the mound, 'Neath which her baby slept, How mournfully she looked around, How bitterly she wept ! There to the breezes did she tell The burden of her tale, And soft and fast the big tear fell, Adown her cheek so pale. . Methought I heard of plighted love, . Of faithless man's caprice The earnest prayer sent up above, That prayed her soul's release ; .And then in accents motherly, She breathed her baby's name, And looking round with wistful eye, She vanished as she came. From the Philadelphia Gazelle. THE VOICE OF AUTUMN. You can hear this voice now. in so- einn monotony, as it speaks in husky viuspers. among the trees at evening", nd in cadence with the big drops of the October rains, that are falling with the leaves together, like tearj of the departing SeasonJ shed amid, sighs and murmurs, is its slow-lingering footsteps "steal from the world away. VV hat a tune for re flection! Eowj at such an hour does Remembrance put on its plumage, and t(ird its winged sandals, for voyage and communion with the Past h 1 he. past: it has our better years, our earliest friends, yielded with mingled grief and hope tp its dIiUd'Mninioti ! The rain is falling on their graves but the chill autumnal rain Calls not from out the silent earth the cherished one again ! ; ! Andlyet there is something in the va riegated pomp and.garniiure of the time, till lovely in its ltlelessness, which seems io bind up the bruised heart, and sanctify the desolated spirit something of seriel brightness, breaking in upon the fluctuations of this changeful sphere, which makes the glory of the dying year appear like the heritage of a serener land than ours : .'!."t For still, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the leaves are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of th$ rill, '.' ', Then the South -wind searches for the flowers, 1 " j whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of One who in her youthful beauty died, A peerless blossom that grew up, and faded by my side ! In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the tern- j ... pest cast the leaf, ' And we wept that one so lovely should have a day so brief ; Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friends of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. : A Puzzling Question for Locofoeots. The Lynchburg Virginian asks the fol lowing pertinent question : Mr. Cambreleng told us last winter, and the remark ha been over and . often repeated, that the Sub-Treasury is now in full operation, and yet a suspension of spc:e payments has occurred i Where is its power, then, to prevent a lecurrence ol this evil ? - What virtue, what efficacy, can there be in this nostrum o( . the expe rimenting quacks who, having diseased the system by thyir preset iptions, are now resorting to a desperate VxpedienC which will kill, instead of curing the paiient, al ready prostrated by Jthe dt bililating . ef- lecuoi prevtoasezpenmeots i Warn WalkingsOn the last 4th Ju ly, lheol!o wing toast was given at a wes tern celebration j, - ; . f The wretch who would rrfbse to de lend the flibertiear6f his country Shod with Tightning, niay he be condemned tu wander oref a desert of gunpowder Y ;- OLD HUMBUG A CHAPTER FROM THE NEW ROMANCE, HYPERION. What most inleres'ed our travellers in the ancient city of Frankfort, was neither the opera nor the Ariadne of Dannecker, but the house in which Goethe vr is born, anil the scenes he fr quented in his childhood and remembered in his old age. : Such for example are the walks around the city, out side the moal; the bridge over the Maine, with the-golden cock on the cross, which the. poet behejd and marvelled at when a boythe'cloiiter of the Barefooted Friars, through which he stole with mysterious awe to sit by the oilcloth covered table of old Recior Albreeht ; and the garden in which his grandfather walked up and down among j fruit trees and roset-bushes. in long inornlrig, gown, black velvet cap, fcud the antique leather gloves, which he annually received as Mayor on Pi-. pers-Doo nsday representing a kind of middle personage between Alcinous anil Laertes. Thus, O Genius! are thy foot prints hallowed; arid the star shines for ever over the place of thy nativity 1 M Your English critics' r.iay rail as they list, said the Baron, while he and Flem ming were returning from a stroll in the leafy gardens, outside; the mo'it; 'but, af ter all, Goethe, was a magnificent bid fel low. Only think of his life ; his youth of passion, alternately aspirins and despond ing, stormy, impetuous, headlong: his romantic manhood, in which' passion as sumes the form of strength ; assiduous, careful. toiling, withoift haste, withput rest; and his sublime old age, the age of serene and classic repose wliere he stands like Atlas, as Ciaudian has paint ed him in the Battle of the Giants, hold ing the world aloft upon his head, the ocean-streams hard frozen in his hoary Iocks.'r ! " A good illustration of what the world calls his indifferemism." "And do you know I rather like this i rid iflfe rent ism ? Did: you ever have the misfortune to live in a community, where a difficulty in the parish seemed to an nounce the end of the; world ? or to know one of the benefactors of the human race, in the very 'storm and pressure period' of his indiscreet enthusiasm 1 If you have, 1 think you will see something beautiful in the cairn and digoiried altiiude which the old philosopher assumes." . " It is a pity that hb admirers had not a little ol this philosophic coolness. It amuses me to read the various epithets, which they apply to him ; The Dear, dear Man! ! The , Life enjoying Man! The All-sided One! The Representative of Poetry upon earth! The Many sided Master Mind of Germany! His enemies rush into the other exirerne, and hurl at him the fierce names of Old Humbug! and Old Heathen ! which hit like pistol bullets." ' I confess; he was no saint." ' No; hisj philosophy is the old ethic philosophy. . You will find it all in a con venient and concentrated, portable lorm in Horace's beautiful OJe to Thaliarchus. What I most; object to in the old gentle: man is his sensuality." ' "O nonsense. Nothing can be purer than the Iphigenia ; it is as cold and pas sionless as a marble statue." . "Very true; but you cannot say the same of some of the Roman iJegies and of that monstrous book of Elective Affin Hies " Ah, rhy friend, Goethe, is an artist; and looks upon nil things as objects ol ait merely. Why shoufd be not be al lowed to copy 'in words what painters and sculptors cpy in colours and in marble?" . M . . " The artist sho.vs his character in the choice of nis object Goethe never sculp tured an Appollo, nor painted a Madonna He gives us only sinful Magdaltns'and rampant Fauns. He does not so much idealize as realize." ; " He only copies nature, j "So did the artists who made the bronze lamps of Pompeii. 'VVould you hang one of those in your hall? j To say that a man isan artistand copies nature is not 'enough. There are two great schools of art; the imitaiive and the imaginative.. The 'lat ter is the Ywosl noble, and most enduring; and Goethe belonged rather to the form er Have you read Menzel's attack upon him r -. - -!--:r-i, ! : it is truly ferocious. 'The Suabian hews into him lustily, h i hope ypu do not side with him" ; '-. ; '.;.. By no means. He goes too tar. He blames the poet for not being a politician. He might it well blame him for! not: be ing a "missionary to -ih Sandwich Is lands."' - ' : : h Ad what do you think of: Eclcer- think he is f tbadV; a kod Jqf Gej; man Boswell. Goethe knew he jjras draWi iner hi portrait, and attitodinized accord ingly. He wrorks very? hard uo make a Saint r eteriot of an old Jo pile r, as the Calholira M at Rome ' ..n:l V - - TVell; call hinv Old Hurabog. o Old Heathen, or what you please; I nintiin; 4hat; whhf alt. hUi error and.shbrt-com iogs, be was Ji gloriu specimen , of a man H rVrtainlv was-, Did it erer occur to yoo thai be.;-was in some' poinis like Ben Jranklin ?a. kindof hymed Ben Prankli"? The nractical tendency of his taind hfr tzme y his. lore of sci ence was the same; his benignant, philo-1 sopbic spirit was the same ; and a vast number of his little poetic maxims and sooth-sayings seem nothing - more than the worldly wisdom of Poor Richard, ver Sified" "What most offends " me is, that now every German jackass must hare a kick at the dead lion. " And every one who passes through Weimar must ; throw a book upon his grave, as travellers did of old a stone upon the grave of Manfredi, at Bene ven to. But, of all that has' been said or sung, what most pleases me is Heine's Apolo getic, if I may so call it ; in which he yas. that the minoT poets who flourish under the imperial reign, of Goethe resem ble a young forest, where the trees first show their own magnitude after the oak of a hundred years, whose branches had towered above and overshadowed them, has fallen. There was not wanting an opposition, that strove against Goethe, tilts majestic tree. Men of the most warring opinions united themselves for the contest. The'adherents of the old faith, the or thodox, were vexed, that, in the trunk of the vast tree, no niche with its holy im age was to be found ; nay,-that even the naked Dryads of paganism werepermit led'to play their witchery there; and gladly, with consecrated axe, would they have imitated the holy Boniface, and le velled the enchanted oak to the ground. The followers of the new faith, the apos tles of liberalism; were vexed on the other hand, that the tree could not serve as the Tree of Liberty, or, at any rate, as a bar ricade In fact the tree w is too high; no one could plant the red cap upon its sum mit, or dance the Carmagnole beneath its brtiehes. The multitude, however, vene rated this tree for the very reason, that it reared itself u ith such independent gran deur, and so graciously tilled tho world' with its odor, while its branches, stream ing, magnificently toward heaven, made it appear, as if the stars were only the gol den fruit of its wondrous limbs.' Don't you think that beautiful ?" u Yes, very 'beau. i ml.. And I am glad to see, that vou can find something to admire in mv favourite author, notwith standing his- frailties; or, to use ah old German saving, that vou can drive the hens out of the garden without trampling down the beds. " Heri is the old gentleman himself 1" exclaimed Flemnung. " Where ?" cried the Baron, as if for the moment he expected to see the living figure of the poet walking before them. " Here at the window.- that full-length cast.. Ilxcellent, is it not I He is dress ed, as usual, in his long yellow nankeen surtout, with a white cravat crossed in front. What a magnificent head 1 and what a posture ! He stands like a tower of strength. And, by Heavens! he was nearly eighty years old, when that was made." : " How do you know?" "You can see by the date on the pe destal." , - " You are right. And yet how erect he stands, with his square shoulders brac ed back, and his hand&-behind him He looks as if he. were standing before the fire. I feel tempted to put a live coal in to his hand, it lies so invitingly half open. Gleim's description of him, soon after he went to Weimar, is very different from this Do you recollect it?" ' No, 1 do not!" " It is a story, which good old father Gleim used lo tell with great delight. He was one evening reading the Gottingen Musen-Almanach in a select society at Weimar, when a young man came in,, dressed in a short, green shooting-jacket, booted and spurred; and having a pair of brilliant, black, Italian eyes. He in turn offered to read; but finding probably the poetry of the Musen-Almanach of that year rather too insipid (or hjrn, he soon began to improvie the wildest and most fantastic poems imaginable, and in all pos- sible forms ana measuresalt tne wntie preieuding lo read from the book. That is eiiuer uueiuc ur imc vc,"i .buiu.wi old father Gleim to Wicland, who sat near him: To which the 'Great I of ma anstadi' replied ; 'it is-both, for he has the Devil in him to-mgnt; ana at sucn times he is like a wffhton colt, thattflin.gs out before and behindhand you. jwillido well not to et near bimll"! C;tr-, tVery good I" - - ; And ;nove that noble fignri? n but mould, Only a few immhsA ago, those majestic ryes looked for the14t I'Of ? liyhtof a pleasant spring morning. .Calm, like a god, the old inan sat; and "with a smile seemed to bid farewelf to thef light of day, on which be had; gazed for more than eighty JyearsV Books were near him, and the pen wuich bad just dropped as i: were, from his djing fiogeraOpen the shutters; and let io more lighU were the last tTordsnhat came from, those lips. Slowly stretching forth bis hand, he seem ed to write iu theair; and; is it sank down ain was motionless, the spirit of .the old man departea. t:-'?- ; , And yet the world goes on." ,lt is strange iow" soon, when a great maridiea, bis place i filled; and so .completely, that he seem no longer waited ' -.BotJ Set lis step: in here.? , wish to briy that ca?; and send it henia Wis UVzzV ' -.V.J a DEFERRED AR1'ICLES, From the B alii ol ore Patriot, TH SOB TREASURY XfiASURC A1T9: )' SUSPRKSIOff. . .: '.? Every body knows that the nrern ment is exceedingly anxious to establish the ieg-treatury system, and to Bxlt.by du f form of law, upon the country. The ad vantage administration, of thus haTingfall custody and control of the whole revenue of the eountry, must be apparent to every one. Who can wonder at the anxiety of an" Executive, not over, scrupulous s to the means used for increasing executive pow er, to accomplish the grand "experiment" of the sub-Treasury system By the eai tablishmenf oft his scheme, the twenty bf thirty millions of public money, collected annually, will be distributed for aafjn keepf ing among the twenty, or thirty thousand f officers and agents, who owe their official ? being to the nod of th'is same Executive. Here is indeed, a strengthening ot ithor hand of executive power 1 Establish the' sub-Treasury scheme, and what shall withstand that power? . T : Wuhthe immense increase of powerand " infiuencethusto bederlvedio itself, we may well expect the present -national adnainit tration to exert itself to the utmost, to cat ry the sub Treasury measure, and to leay nothing untried, for The accomplishment of that object. Mr. Benton, who is soi great a fiivorite with the " culinary powd ers'' at Washington, that he has even some hope of succeeding to the " American' Throne," (to use bis own phrase,) ontho expiration ot Mr. van .uuren s. lerra, is a great advocaie . of the Ieg-treaaary r scheme, and greatly anxious ibt the; immediate establishment, of - this: sys tem, so that it may be in romplete ope-i ration by the time his presidential -term shall commencel Tfius, both the in cumbent and the expectant of the; " American Throne" are earnest and j in terested in the prosecution of their efforts to carry this " favourite measure" of the). present adininistrauon. , ', - Now, if we recall to mind the expires i sion used by Mr. Benton, less than twelves months since, it may help us to arrive at conclusions as lo the lights in which the existing monetary difficulties are viewed, by theGoverninent. Speaking of the Sub-. Treasury scheme, Mr Benton said; Ano! ther suspension by the banks may be n cesary to carry through this great mo sure. ',".' . .... '-;!... Such was the language of the favorite pillar of the Administration, in. regard to the means of. securing the adoption of , it " favorite measure." Jf.then, the Ad. ministration deemed that "another aus. pension by the banks" might be Mneces . sary to carry through'' their favorite Sub I'reasury scheme, is it in the nature ot things that the Government used any ef fort to prevent this suspension 7 If such, suspension was deemed '.necessary!') tp the carrying out of their "great measure" what part would the Administration be likely to play in bringing about a state of things which should result in temporary " suspension"? Let those; who are more deeply read than we profess to be, iu the governing motives of hacknied politicians, answer this question. ; . . ) . . Meantime, jt is well to remembei' that actions speak louder than, words And it may help the conclusions of sagacious men, to bear in mind that, at Philadelphia, where the pressure and difficulty were known to be greatest, (owing to the extras ordinary efforts there made, on behalf of other places, in 1837.) the hard money of the Goverqment was allowed to be with drawn till the amount remaining in that, city, as stated in one of the papers, was reduced to one hundred and fifty dollars ! while at New York, where the pressure was much less,, the hard noney of the Government, brought in aid of i he bank and busint ss there, amounted to eighteen hundred thousand dollars 1 These are understood tobethe facts.. ; 1'Their bearing( upoTfi the question of suspension or no sus-" pension, id not difficult to appreciate. j SUB TREASURY TSf ID. v . We "are crediblv informed that a gen tleman, having in he coorstv of bosinesj received a Treasury draft on the Custom-; house in this city for three hundred and. seventy-five dollars, presented it for payV ment ; and as the ! Collector receives no thing hut' specie for dues at that establish ment, asked the same , in retorn fo?, the demand against it ; but it was perernptor j ly refused, and a . check on one of ibe banks w offereda non'spccie . pajrJn bank f which, of course was also tefus ed. 4A beautiful commentary this 6q the. hard money pesters of the present consu eaiAdmjnutration f Pkit CkC Electro-Maohetis3 Clinton tlocs velr. Eq annouocts in the Evcninj PccS that he has intented a new Electro-t!2 netie Machine, ;wbicb overedmes estirely . v the difficolties encoonterird in the oncr . V r tion ol Davenport's, sft tbat mxs tt3.cl;c tro-magnettc ower may Be WfTcrrcd tz yond any assignable linhsflsQ-JczT not of Ccmmertet hSi YcrL-Thritrf .Monsieo t Le ' Comptel v& .ritn rs ea ty. 5 h.r III ii .ill II . f v.. . this country in the BruisVQ,deentrou!:Kt 4 " : with him on entire French trcz-e v whole.ivtll sh'orUf Breaf tt critf cft-st :f y- t, i' . - 3,'' t - -'ii- " .?1' K '-. i'
The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser
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