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OCT" OFFICE North West of the Town, Hall, . ene door from corner of Second Sn. Market streets. TR'ANSPi RT ATION OFFICE, December 18th, 1838. S MS article will be rw-id for transfortation at the DetxHat Wiliuiniton, until the freight ea ben paid. Nor will nny article which his keen brought the rathroad be , deli veredv. until the freight has beii paid. I L. L. H. SAUNDERS, 151 tf AcentTrancporUtioa.' NOTICE. ; . f 1 11 E cop. rtnr ? U t p , h e retofo re ei i i u between he subscribers. u4r the firm of HALLE f T & Btt , was diMioiTedby mutual conk 'Mt. en thr 3l4t i cj.y of -OcioIht laet The concerns of the eo;artwrhip will be settled, J and ! he business connnu-d by Lfc (Jj AIiI BROWN. BEVJW1IN HALLETT, LENKI R VVN. New York, Decrntte r it h, 1838. 1 LEONARD BR WN, Ut (ITelleti Bro a,) has a'mfJ wih him ASA VOTT&H., (of Kinc'i'i. R. 1) awl will irane act m" -cantile luii.' in thrf ciy of New Yrk, under the firm of B WOW N Sc PUTTER, 93, Wall street. LEONARD BROWN, ASA POTTER I 1st January, 1839. 156 tf Liverpool Salf CiAte of EnrtUeiivirHre, &c. Expected Per Brig Gyanm in sbomt 15 days Livpml. ' 6000 Bl'8h,s s ,l! B.Ik andsomr . CO Crai-ea.assi rled Lyriool Ware, SO Hampers of Porter nd Wine Boitlea, Ston BM.iles, 1 2 ui 3 (ftl!on each, 30 Ca?ks of London bottled Porter in quarts ' and Pints. : , A few Chpe, f jpxWl quality " A few Bales of hu.y Dundee Bftinj, Which" will be si d A-un f'oriible lenns. O N HAM f. 260 B?s Primt r.e, 1 7'' Hh.U Port.. R .i SuK.ir, ' 500 BKsfieh Bmrh Raisins in Qirters halvi s ami wli V, A" few ca' of frrneh. Ehlinh nJ Dotnealic GOODS. . All which will b- sold good Urt-atns. a Lazarus , Wilmington, Octr2flih 1839 198 3i TO "ST. . Uaa.uiTo Lot'. Miny i fair end lovely girl can bear witness to the truth of the following lines from the last Knickerbocker : There is a grief which all have known, Whoever mourned a frindship town ; And few but once h ive sh'd the tear, Bewailing loss of token dear The urn of sorrow marks the spot. Which speaks the Widow's lonely lot, While Pity oft is seen to shed Her tribute at the orphan's bed. , - Hope hath her shadows, joy its sfloora ; Yet suffer each a gentle doom. , - Compared with her whose lot must prove. : The pan? of unrequited love ! When after all that woman's art ' Gould do to curb that rrbel heart ; ; With every, ptea of maiden pride At length exhausted or defied.; She feels its idle to restrain r The throb which tells -sh loves iw tit.. Rival to the D'izurrrolype.L- 'ip maun, nn artist of Beflii, h is invented a raachinefbr obtaining correct copies of oil colored pictures, which is said to be not less ingenious thari the Daguerreo type. The particulars o the invention are not given. He pro liiced with his machine, in one of ihe roo ns of the Ry al Musenrn. and in prese ice of the direc tors, 11 Ocopies of Rembrandt's portrait, painted by himself a picture, the cop? ing of whici in the usual way. presents the utmost diffiiullie, according to the opinion of air pointers. L-ipmann'a copies are said to be perfect, and to give the most delicate shade? of colour. The Boston papers are waning war with the ladies of hat city, or rather .with their biff bonnets. The Bostonians say. andaavvith some show of reastn on their aide, that the bonnet overshadows W ii res all other objects. That their display at public places especially, ''....SMlsnt to. a total disfranchi?ement eitiren who sits behind them. 7I r i k i j ; , k,r nn see over tnem at tne X liai uuuwuy Ihcatre, at church, or at concert. Frovi the National Oazett CONCLVSION OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBT. The pleasant and prosperous cne r of Nicholas Ni.kljby fs'here' brought to a t-03e. We reserve for otii r.-ext huiTibr We reserve for our r.ext number , , , ! a Tiew of the entire story, and of us claims to ake' rank amon our lasting work? of 'j English firtion; but we rannot nicauwhije refufte nurset.HH ihM or.hfi.im, nf irnrJi .. J.i rn . B . ur wuicii -re sua:, ihh u,n nafe spat-, nd than which wehjLve nevet quoted any thing finer from the writings of Mr. Dickens. It is the consummation of a se ries of miseries and failures that, through the latter chapters, fall heavily 9on the head of the usurer, Ralph Nickleby He has at lenfth discovered that Snnke, tor tured te death by his relentless persecu tiua.is hiaowfi son.. Byond this he will endure Bom re. He makes one last ap poiniment, nd kerps it. " Creeping from the hftuse, and slink log off like a itluf; gropiitf; with his hands, when first he got into the pireet, as 1! 1.1 he were a bltLC man, and looking onen . nvar tiia tKnulHur ivkila k. kni.,l:.i...... a? iiiuun tie ir:r miiowru in imagina-: tion or reality by sme oue anxious to queeti&n or detaivi him, Ralph Nickl by left the city behind him, and took the road to his own hafoe. ' " The nif ht was dark, and a cold nind blew, driving the clouds furiously and fat befere it. There vvs one black. g loomjrmaas, that reiied to follow hiiu; not hurrving in the wild ;ehse with the others, fcnt lini'ering sullenly behind, and rliding darkly and stealthily oh. H" of fen looked bnck at this, and more than once suipped to let it pass over, bntsoMie hw, when he went for k a rd auain, it Mas still hiid him, coining iwonr nfully and lowly up like shadowy funeral train. " He'had to pas poor, mean burial ground a dieinal place, raiaed a few fret above the level of Yhe street, and partesl from it by a low parapet-wall and an iron railing a rank, unwholesome, lot ten spot, where the very graxs and weeda seem-d, in their frows? growths to tell that thy had sprung from paupers' ba rf ie. -and at ruck their roots in the graves f men sadden in aieauiinc cnurts and drunken hungry dens And heia, in truth, they lay parled frowa ih- living by a little earth and a baird or two iny thii k nd close -corrupting in body as lt-f had been I in mind a denne, and sqnallid crOwd: Here the? lay che-k by jowl wit h life j j no deejH r down than lh fet of the throne that passed thre evry day, and piled high as their throats. Mere ihey lay, a gristiy ftntily, all those dear departed brothers and sisters ff the ruddy clergiwVn, whq did his task - so speedily when tbv were hidden in the grotind I " As he; passed here, Ralph called to mind that he had been one of a jfry long before on the body of a man who had cut his throat; and that he was buried in thi place. He could not tell hov he came to recollect ' it now, when he had often passed and never thoueut about him, or how it was that he flt an interest in the cireumMance ; ! bui be did both, and stop ping, and clapin the iron railings w it f i his hands, looked eageiiy. in, wondering which inis;ht b his grave. " While he; was thus ergJiged, there came towards him. with nrtise of shout? ;tnd sinffin?. sone f I low's loll of .drink. followed' by others, who were remotisl.at ;ng with them, and urging thenn to c hme in quiet.; They were in high good buior, and one of them, a little, -weazen', humpbacked man, betjan to dance. He w is a grotesque, fartastic fieure, and the few by sunders laugh, d Ralph himself was mnveoio mirth, and echoed the laugh of one who tood near, and who looked round, in his f e. When they had pass ed on and he was left alone again, he re sumed his sptfCU'otioHS with a new kinrl of interest, for he-recollected that the last p rson who hijid seenthe suicide alive had I ft him very merry. a-d be remembHred how itrano;e he and theniher jurors had thoght thai at the time. " He could not fix upon th spot among such a heap of graves, but he onjectured up a strong and vivid ides of the ruan himslfandhow he looked, and wat hd led him to do tt; all of which he ' recUJect ed with ease. 1 By dint of dwelling ujon this theme, he carried the impression wifr him when he went away, as he remem bered when a child to have had frequent fy before him the figure of some gobljn Ke had once seen, chalked upon a door. But, a he drew nearer and nearer home, heforgol it again.-and began to think how very dull and solitary the house would b inside. . ' ".This feeling became so strong at last, that, when he reacb'ed bi own door, he could 'hardly make up his mind to turn the key and open it; when he had done that and gone into the passage, he felt as though to shut h again would be to shut out the world - But he let it go, and it closed, with a. loud noise. There was no light. Flow very dreary, cold, and still it was! .,'-.' ' ' ' i " Shivering; from head to foot, he made his way up stairs intath room where be had been last disturbed. He had made a k:nd of corapart with himself that he would not think of what had happened until he home. He was at home ; now, and suffered himself, fur the first limM - - .. . i f ... . . ..... L,,s own cruiu his on child I He never dpuht-d the tale; he felt it was true; knew u as well now as if he had been Pr,v to it all aKmg. His own child ! A '", dtad 'Oo ! DyiS b-Slde: Nc!ioUs: ,ov,nC hiur and )'n)Umr upon hi n as J Bometn.ng like an ngeil Tbi whs the worst 1 hey had all turn- d from him and de-1 serted hnn in his. very first need even money could not. buy them now; every thing must come out. and every body musi know all. Here was the younsr lord'idead, his companion abroad and beyond his reach, ten thousand pounds' gone at one blow, hlV plot with G ide overset at the vry moment of triumph, bis after schemes discovered, himself in danger, the object of hia-persecution and Nicholas's love, his own wretched boy J every things crum bled and fallen up ,n him, and he beaten down beneath the rums, and grovelling in th dust "If be had known his child to be alive ; if no deceit hud been ever practis ed, and he had grown up beneath his eye, he might have ben a careless, indiff rent, rough, harsh fither like enough he Teh that but the thought would come thai he might have been otherwise, atd that nis son might have, been a comfort lo him, and they two happy together. He b-gan to think now, that his supposed d- ath and his wife's flight had had some share in m iking him the morose, hard mat he was fie seemed TO remember a time when he was not quite so rough and oMnruie ; and almost thought. thl he had first ha led Nirholas because he was young and ?ilant,j and perhaps like the stripliitsT who had brought disKpnor and loss of fortune on his head. " But one lensler thought, or one of nal url regret in that whirlwind of poiun and remorse, was a drop of calm wa'er in a stormy maddened nea Hisjhair-d of Nicholas had b-en fed upon hid I on de feat, nourished mi. his interfere n-e with his schemes, fattened upon his UId d-fi ance and success. Ther were reMnn for its increase ; it had grown & strength ened gradual lyi-r Now it attained a h igth ivhich was sheer wild lunacy. 'I'hai hi of all others should have been th hwd to rescne his miserable child; thai, he should hav- b- n his protector ami faith ful friend; that hn should have showit him that lose and tenderness which from the wretched mom. nt of his birtti h had n v-r known ; that h yhould liave t.iusht him to hate bi own parent and ekecrate his vry name;, that be a onld now know a!id fet-1 alt this. -and triumph in h- rcol lection, was :a!l and ma im ss to the usu rer's heart The, dead bov's love for Nicholas, and the attachment of Ni.hoLs to him. was unsupportable agony. Thi' pictured his death bed, with Nicholas r his side tendirii; andupportintf him, and he breathing out his thanks and espirmg in his arm, when he would have had them mortal enemies and hating each oth er to tbe lat, drove him frantic. He gnashed his teeth and smote the air, and looking wiialy round with eyes which gleamed through the darkness, cried aloud :''. - "'lam trampled' down and ruined- The u fetch loid me tiut. Th- nisrht has cuoe. Is there no way to rob them of fiirtbt-r triumph, mid spurn their mercy and compassion? Is there no devil to help me " Swiftly ther1 glided again into his brain the figure he had raised that night It seemed to lie before him TlWhead was covered now S it was when he fiistsaw it The rigid, upturned marhle feet, too, he remembered well Then came before him the pale and trembling relatives who had told their tale upon the inquest the shrieks of women the i 1 nt dread of men the consternation and disquiet the victory achieved by :hat hep of clay when one motion of its hand had let out the life and made this stir among them. ' He spoke no more, but after a pause softly-groped his way out fthe room, and up the echoing abiirs up to the top to the frontgt r ret r where he closed the door behind him and remained. -;.' " It was a mere lumber-room now, but it yet contained an old dismantled bed stead: the one on which his son hadslept for no other had ever been there, sal down as He far avoided ii hastily, and 'rom it as he could. "The weakened glare of the lights in the street below, shining through the winlow, which had no blind orcuitainto intercept it, was enough to show the cha racter t the r om, though not sufficient fully to Nveal the' various articlesf ot luin her, old corded trunks, and broken furni tore, which were scattered about It had a shelving room, high in one i-art, and at another desceiding almost to the floor : li wastowards'.he highest partthat Ralph directed his eytt, and upon it .he kept them fixed steadily for some minutes, when he rose, ant dragging thither an old chest upon whih he had been seated, mounted upon it, anl felt along the wall above his head . with: both hands. v At jenffth" they touched a large iroa hook firmly driren mto one cf. tne .beams.: At that moment he was interrupted by a load knocking at the door below. Af ter a little hesitation, he opened the winr dow and damajrided who it was. I want Mr. Nickleby.' replied a oice. J., ..' I What wih him?' ThaVs not Mr Nickleby's voice, wurlv.' was the rejoinder.; j It was not like it ; but it wai Ralph who spoke, and so fie said! - The voiee mde -answer tbatthe twin brothers wished to know whether th whom he had seen that wight wm to b e man qeiatneo. ana mat, awnougn u was now midnight, they had sent in their anxiety to do i ight "'Yes cried Rilph, 'detain hiui till to morrow ; then let them bring him here him and my nephew .tnd come them, selves, and be sure that I will be ready to receive them." " j " Ai whai hour V asked the voice. "'Aiany hour,' replied Ralph fierce ly. In the afternoon, tell them At any hour at any minute all limes will be alike to me ' " He listened ta the man's retreating footsteps until the sound had passed, arid then gazing up into the - sky saw, or thought he saw, the same black cloud that seemed la follow him home, and which now appeared to hover directly over the house . " I know its meanine; now.' he muuer ed, 'and the reatleM nights, lha dreams, and why I have qni!ed of late, all point ed to this. Oh! if men by selling their wn sooia could ride ramrMUt for a term, for how short a term would 1 barter mine to-nighi 1' " The sound of a deep bell came along the wind, one. 1 j "'Lie on 1' cried the; usurer, with v our iron todgne: ring merrily for births that mike expectauts writhe, and marria ges that are inade in hell, and :oll rueful ly for the dead whose shoe are worn al ready. Call men. to p-afers whs are goodly because nut found aut, and ring chimes for the earning in sf every year th;t brings this cursed world nearer la its end No bell or bo'-k tor iie ; throw trie on dung hill, aud let Ht rot tbere to in te tlh- air 1' I ' With a wild look around, in-which frenzy, hatred, ami despair were horribly mingled, he shook his clenched hand at ihf skv above him, which was still dark and thriitening, and rloaed the window. " The rain and hail haltered against the glass, the chimney quaked and rocked; ihe craay casement rattled with the wind as though an impatient hand inside were strivintf'o burst it open. But no h&rid was there, and it opened no more. a " How's this ?" cried one, the get man sy they can't make any body hear, md have been trviug these two hours?' " And yet he came home lafct nighl,' said another, fr ft Soke to somebody out ihat window up stairs r f "They ere a little knat o men1, and, ihe window being mentioned, they went out in the road to look up al it. This occasioned their observing that the house was still close shut, as the housekeeper had ssid he had left it on the previous night and led to a great wany suggestions, which terminated in two or three of the boldest getting round the bick, and so ent rinphy a wiadow, while the others re mained outside in impilieut expectation. They looked inirrall the rooms be low. openiuK ihe shutters as they went to admit the fading fight, and. s'll! find ing nnhody.ind every thing quiet aitdiin" its place, doubted whether they should go further One atan,, however, remark ing that they haci not been into the gtt fret, and that it was there he had been last seen, they agreed to look too, and went up softly, for the mystery and silence made them timid. ; : : 'After they had stood for an instant on the landing eyeing each other, he who had proposed their carrying the search so f.ir turned the handle of the door, and, pushing it open, looked through tne chink, and fell bick directly. lis very odd. he whispered, he.s hiding behind the door I Look I ' " They pressed forward to see, but one among them, thrusting the others aside win a loud exclamation, drew a clasp knife from bis pocket, and rushing into the room cut down the body. He had torn a rope frpm one of the old trunks, aud hung himself on an iron nook :nimrdiateiy below the trap-door in the ceiling, in the very place which the eyes ot his son, a lonely little crea ture, had so often been directed in child ish terror foui teen years before." I j The work is dedicated to Mr MacrearJy as a slight token ot admiration and re gard." and in a pleasant preface public at tention is claimed to two tateraenta con nected .with ihe contents of the story. These aie, to the pictures of Mr Squeers and his school, which seem to have prd voked in various parts in Yo-kshire all manner of ludicrous denunciations of the author, but which, we are here assured, are. "taint and feeble pictures of an exist ing reality, purposely subdued and kept down lest they sho ild be deemed impossi ble;" and to the likenesses of the Cheery Die tjrotners, winch are drawn, j we are told, from life. " It is remarkable" ob- laerTca Mr. Dickens, that what we call the world, which is so very credulous in what professes to be true, is most incredu lous in what professes to be imaginary; and that while in every day life it will al low in one man no blemishes, and in ano ther no virtues, it will seldom admit a very strongly marked character, either good or bad. in a fictitious narrative, to be within the limits pf probability. For this reason, they have been very slightly and imper fectly sketched." Report of the English Comnisfioner on Steam Vessel Accidrnte. We hav been favored by a friend with copies of the London Times of September 17ib and 18th, containing the Report of the Com missioner on 8teanr' Vessel Accidents, made by direction of Parliament. The investigations of the commissionersappear to have been very thorough ; and the Re port exhibits an admirable degree of min uteness in the inquiries that were made concerning every disaster occurring to steam vessels, of which information could be obtained.' The whale indicates rot only the great importance which is attach ed to steam navigation in England, but also a watchful care for the preservation of human life, which is too often sacrific ed on hoard vessels of this kind. The particulars of twenty-three explo sion are given, occurring during ihe pa nod from 1817 to 1839 Of these, nine teen happened whilst ihe vessels wr stopping, or in the inatant of setting the engines in motion ; three only happened whilst steaming. It will be thus, seen that explosions in the British waters have been for the most part under circumstan ces similar to those which have attendee! the like accidents in this country. The inquiries into each particular ac cident are made ,with singular minute ness, so that no circumstance, which might have contributed to bring it about, should escape detection. The form and struc ture of the boilers received especial atten tion. Seven explosions, of the twenty three, occurreo-in, cylindric-.boilers;' fif teen in rectangular boilers in one case the form was not ascertained The result of the examination made by the Commissioners into the causes of ac cidents gives the following summary : Or WHKCI9 FOf NDIRINO, OK IMMINENT PEaiLe of the SAMS, the causes have been Defectiveness of hull; intoxication of cap tain and mate Ditto of hull, boilers, and engine Ditto of bailer, cables, and anchors Ditto of boilers, cables, and sails Ditto of boijers and crankness . Ditto of boilers, engine or vessel Ditto of boiler or engine, and sails Ditto of hull, cables, engine; and boiler OJ EXPLOSIONS. Igaorance, carelessness, recklessness, and drunkenness of engine-men. Bad construction or insufficiency of safety-valves. In attention to, ar want af, proper ap paratus to denote the level of water and pressure of si earn in the boilers. Malformation. of boilers to sustain pres sure. , OF riBKS. Carelessness and want of cleanliness. Bad construction of coal receptacles. Stowing coals on the boilers and against the undefended sides of the vessel. Placing boilers too near the decks and sides of the vessel. Defective state of the boilers. Want of fire-extinguishing apparatus OF COLLISIONS. Want of an universal code of night sig nals. ''-'; Want of a defiaed and compulsory " rule of the road." Racing. Carelessness, or neglect of look-out. After a careful . investigation of the whole subject the Commissioners present an outline of proposed Legislative regular lions with a view to remedy such evils as have been ascertained to exist, and to pre vent the probable occurrence of others not foreseen. Increase of MethodismFrom the re ports made by the several preachers, in charge, at the late annual Conference, whieh met at Lawrenceburg, Ihdiaha. it appears that the nett increase of members of the Methodist Church, Within the bounds of Indiana Conference, during the past year, is about 8.700. It is also stat ed, in he Lawrenceburg Beacon that there had not been a death among the preachers belonging to that Conference, within tbe past year. March o f Industry among the Indians The steamer Pizarro. Cleveland, master, says the St. Lonis Republican ofjbe 5th. left oar port on the 3d for the mouth of the Kansas river, with the following cargo for that point, viz: 20 spinning wheels, 20 looms anb their appendages. 300 axes and 100 ploughs, fast though not the lesst item; $ 10.000 in specie. This outfit is for Iowa and other Indians. Death, Death was painted, among the Romans, as a pale female, ofinterest ing mien; and why among Christians, a hideous spectre? Give as a Roman death i From the N. Y. Asrta " My humble eflorts to restore ihe can. stitutional currency." " I leave my people prosperous anJ happy." ; ' it is how nearly ten years sinee that illustriaus and sagacious man. Andrew Jackson, commenced hia intelligent and well directed efforts to rtform and im prove our currency. The success and prosperity of bis measures are before the country, and as his successor is pledged to follow in his footsteps, I rrUy.be excused for recalling to the minds of the publio some of the prominent acts through which he has endeavored and succeeded. '.An re storing us to the situation of the eouoiry at the lime of the-adopiion of the Consti tution, viz : one could not travel fifty mile without going beyond ihe credit of bit money. . In September, 1833. the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Duane) and thedepojM its were removed together, he from "hie place and the deposits from theirs, ana ihe latter put into State Banka j . they pledged themselves te supply the placV of the Bank and keep the currency in a wholesome condition. We all know the outcry raised throughout the couutry and that Congress ueaided either appravin or condemning it, leaving all the -roomed power of ih country in the hands of the President, who pledged hirasell to supply us with "a aetler currensy o A very extensive bankruptcy took placeT throughout ths mercantile community great doubts were expresaed ol the solven cy of our State institutions, and a rapid change look place against lhtf Admin is? tralion in the public mind, to. divert which; through foreign iuiuence, a bill wsa brought into Congress to reduce the value of gold in the eaie, which was passed ; immense amounts were coined, evern re tatner of the Administration was furnish- l ed with them, and the people were told ; that they were to have noihiug but "yel low boyii," and taught to shout, "huixa for Jackson, down with the Banks!" In this warrare many Bank Presidents, Cashiers.and Directors, were engaged--not forseeing that the storm they were rata' ing would ultimately overwhelmthern. - To fill up the void about to he occasion., ad by the withdrawal of so much capital, applications were made to the State Le-. gisiatures for Bank Charters; and in thio Siaie, every patriot, who wanted an office for services rendered in th-Democratic party, was paid, in the profits arising from Bank Charters. The Bank of the United Statei, whose charter expired in .1836,. applied in ihe winter of '35 '36 ta the Loco-Foco Le gislature of Pennsylvania, and succeeded, in getting a charter from tbe Slate. The Girard Bank was, 1 believe, created about the same time the United States Bank ceased its functions as an United States institution, and became that of a State. In August, '36, General Jackson issu ed his specie Circular' against receiving any thing but specie for public lands, and the Government official commenced ita lectures on overtrading, doing all it could, while credit was extended, to destroy it. In February, '37, the Loco-Focos of the City of New York, headed by an of ficer of the Customs, met in the Park with the banners 'down with the rags," giro us cold and silver." Ac. and after an ad dress from this officer, proceeded, and broke open several flour stores. . In May, 37, the Banks of this City suspended specie payments, which wai followed by all the Banks of the caudry. , In July, Gen Jackson wrote his letter de nouncing them as "fraudulentinstitutions," forgetting how much character some of hisriends in them had lost on his account. Prior to this, Mr. Van Buren had re fused to call Congress together, dony ing that there was any necessity of so doing ; but the moment that the .salaries of the office-holders were a fleeted, he aaw the necessity of calling it together, and laid before it his famous bill for the protection of the office-holders' salaries, or the ae peration of the Government from the peo ple. In May, '33. the Banks in this aity re commenced spocie payment, which waa followed, after a short time, througnoot the country, and there seeated a prospect of some little prosperity to the country. In the early part of this year, Mr. Ben ton, who had suffered by Bank notee, commenced his warcry of specie, gold, Ac Mr. Van Buren. the moment he put his foot on the shores of hia Dative State began the old.song of -irresponsible insti tutions." The New Era. and all that kidney, recommended that they ahould bo run upon, & a general distrust waa caused. This month the Banks of Pennsylva nia have stopped, and no deubt the south-1 ern and south western Banks will follow: here and at New England weahall atand firm. I now sum np the results: In March, '37. General Jackson left the Presidential chair with the above declaratione; eineo. then the Government has broke once and the Banks twice, and the better currency which we were promised, seems more re mote hsn evar. write this in a spirit of eeriooaneet, t trusting that the above plain recital of facts may call back my country men l.who have wandered after the evil spirit of Lo. OFocoitm to the proper path. ( - V A -4.
The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser
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Nov. 15, 1839, edition 1
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