Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* ... counts of alt postmasters will more ef-1 fectuallv guard the Department from los-; scs by defaulting postmasters. The reduction of postage upon letters is a subject which has engaged the public attention for years, and is one of great interest to the whole community. It is contended by many, whose opin. j ions are entitled to respectful considcra- , fion, that the reduction of postage would give an increase of revenue. Without I undertaking to discuss this question at ; . present, I am not prepared, from the pre- 1 ?cnt financial condition of the Depart- j inent, to recommend u reduction of the ( rates of postage, as now figed by law, hut j invite a modification of thegi so far as to make them conform more generally to the j smaller coin of the (Juitcd States, and ; solicit a revision of the law* regulating j the postage on new-papers. I do not de- J sire that the rates of postage on newapn- j per* proper phould be i?creawd. though ! much might lie saved to the department if* the principle of pre postage was applied , to newspapers, provided such regulation j was deemed acceptably to public opinion. , I must, however, earnestly invite your ^attention and hoj?e you will call that of*,:lN?ngress. to the necessity of the enact. | tflHlf of some law by wnich a ju*t dis- , crimination mav be made in the unposi- ' lion of postage on jiewspujiurs proper and " those mammoth periodicals which assume J shn:>e and nauie of newspapers, but , which are. in fact, the republication of ; Imoks, reviews, and novels, sent through j the po*t office, not always to subscribers, i l?ul in large masses to agents, to vend in j tie- markets of the more distant cities, < towns, and villages, whicn greatly illk i reuse the size and weight of tile mails ^ sod the expense of transportation, without a corresponding remuneration to the ? department. The great number of tiiese ; Urge publications which have been sent bv the mail from Baltimore to Wheeling i has mainly coiilribuled to the frequent I it regularities of the Western mails for; the last twelve mouths. I re-pectfuliv inquire whether it is just that the United N.atea mail shall he compelled to trans, i - J p ?rt one o these papers, weighing nearly j a pound, for a rent and a half, from Bos. | * tun or Now York to Louisville. Ky? to a ' ' Ucfcrir, to sell lor thebmofit of the publinher, while the letter of friendship or of lend ?e*s h taxed with twentv-five cents p?v lielween the same points. ( ?'h? report next relers to private expresee* for the transmission of letters and i papers and recommends tiieir prohibition. | breaose they diminish the revenue of the j office, and lite constitution delegates to Con^r^s the exclusive power of carrying mnijs. The extent of transportation during the year is stated as follows: The Tailed Stales mail was transported on ' railroads ami sleamho.ils 3.940.450 utiles, j Yrt.* cost of $585 843 ; on horse and in , sulltevs l\i.0S5,HiVi miles, at a cost of! $781.8(17 ; in stages ail I coaches 18 9fi I.. til3 miles, at the cost of $1 791.(135; ' making ?. total aggregate of annual trailsportaiion of 34 99'i..5*2-5 miles, at the rate of c(M of $3.159.375. J I The net of Js38 declares that "each j railroad within the limits of tnc United Stales which now is or uiav here after lie completed shall he a post road | nod jn that law, and the art of lSdl), i provisions limiting f ii?* amount heyond | which the ]'o>*l master (ieneraj is prohih I ^ ilcd Iroin paying for the transportation j (?/ the mail on runways will lie found. (treat cmliurrassmeiits to the D-parttneiit na\f? arisen in the making oi conti?tcla tor the traiis|Kirialiou of lite mail j t\iti? many of the railroad companies, under the laws now in force. These em- j linrrassiuciits arise niaiim from two emu . i*?; liie one, tiiat the price which tlie i J)r|>artmeiii is cuahit d to pay, whether \ in reference to its means or the maximum hied l?\ lac legislation of Congress, tins hern deemed inadequate hv many of the principal companies. The other arises i human unwillingness on toe part of sonic | <d the companies to run l>v a schedule I t rcscrilu'd hv the Detainment; prefer. 1 I ? ? I ring to run at sucti times as will best sail . the travel upon the road ; regarding, as it is natural lor them to do, tin: carrying i ot the mail as seeondarv to the transpor- j tahoii of pa?eiig? is. The: latter evil has Ih'cii particularly t*-iI in lue great Southfill until, on its transit from YVasuington city to New York. Tne mail going south from New York is necessarily j thrown upon the Philadelphia and Halt'- j more railroad in the night, lietwecn Phil- j ndelphia and Baltimore ; mid the Southf rn mail lor New York is co:nj)elled to \ lie over twelve hours 111 Baltimore, unless { the Philadelphia company can lie induced to run that trip also in lite nigtit. Tins they have declined doing unless (in; I)r* ' parluieiil would pay them a coiiipcnsa- ! tmii greater tiian is authorized by the ! laws of Omjir? *S>. tjnder a that some arrangement could lie made?1<? last during tiiesession i -ifl '??' gross, it no longer?I addressed to the Presidents of the Railroad Cotnpu- ! nics concerned in the transportation of the mail between the eitv of Washing o I ton and New York, a letter, a copy of which, ami the report of the first Assistant Postmaster (ieneral unoii tins subiect. are ! ? ? i > ' i herewith anm xcd. An anxious Jisire to effect some per- j luuiieiil arrangement with the railroad ? companies lor tin: transportation of the mail, upon a imsis which shall h< hotii Just auil uniform, considering i,u; nainre of the service jx rlormed l?v each, induced ! me to invite a meeting ??i the Presidents f ol the different companies, :ii theciiv of Wash.ngton, nn the 1st of January next,1 nod f am gratified at the prompt manner i ? in which all who have hecn heard lruni ' ^ - I L1, JiaiJWOlMMWWHW have consented to attend, and a hope is cherished that some arrangement, satisfactory to all parties and beneficial to the public, may vet he effected. The improved mode of intercommunication by railroad and steam, operating under chartered rights granted by the Slates, and over which it is not pretended that the General Government, much less the Post Office Department, can exercise any control, imposes upon Congress, in my opinion, new duties and obligations, which can only be cancelled by the adoption of some measure whereby the Post OtBce Department may, upon adequate >..! d/miirp l?v comnnet the right to transport the mail in the cars of railroad compan'es, and at the same time give totlie Department the power to'control the departure und arrival of tiie same. Tiie re is now paid to the different railroad companies annually, over, #400,. 000 for the service, without pawer in the Department to regit to le the travel, arrival, and depnfture of the mail: and constant and frequent difficulties, both in entering into and the execution of contracts, are presented. It has ocrurod to me that the present was a most favorable period for the a. doption "r some measure hy Congress, whereby to secure to the United States the* right to transport the mail upon these roads hi all time to coine, free of any an. nual charge upon the Post office Departmeiit, hy the advancement of a sum in gross, which may he agreed upon, to each rO' lliA^ioii,n;t!ini(>?t nr <11 ell nf them 3S may be willing to contract. Many of the railroad companies and some of them constituting most important links in the great chum of intercom tn-uuication between Boston and Charleston, owing to the great derangement of the monetary concerns of the world, and the depression of all State nnd company stocks, find themselves laboring under * u eirihrrassmcnts and difficulties, which the aid of the General Government, applied in the way proposed, would effectually remove, aad at the same time secure to the United States the advantage and the ample equivalent of transporting the mail upon the roads. The credit of the United States to an amount not greater than the sum necessary to produce, at five percent, interest, the amount paid bv the Post Office Department to these companies annually, would, I have do doubt, lie sufficient to accomplish this desirable end. The prompt and favorable action of Congress upon this subject at the present time would effectually secure the government against the danger of being called upon for occasional and larg< appropriations, to meet the balances due by the Departments , Do I ask the United States to do more for the Post office Department than jus lure would see in to demand, especially when it is remembered that the whole ev pense of the othci il eorrespnndenr.c of the government and (ho public. and privartcorrespondence of those entitled by law (o (ho iVarik:n?? privilege, is sustained and paid hy a lax iij?>n (ho correspondence ol (ho orrtirniniiv ? If hv this arrangement C the Department is relieved from the heavy annual charge: as now rated, (and it has neither thej power to lessen it no to prevents i's increase.) it may l>e Imped that tie object so much d'MiMrtdeh hy considerations of otibiic justice (that of r> dining the tax upon the friendly hiu! business correspondence ol individual-) will ho att -uned, and. at the sain" mm, the usefulness ol the public mihi! great h enlarged and extended to those portions of tin* Uirou, hitherto denied the necessary mail laci'llies If the Government was required to pay on* taoe ujkiii ortiaal correspondence. and if tlm franking privilege was abolished or reduced to proper limits, liie revenue of the Department would be increased to an aum ill sulficieni ot iiM'll to pay the interes: upon the debt to he incurred l>y the proposed arrangement, anil liquidate the principal in loss than tlerty years. I respectfully submit, to the President the propriaty of c>Miitiiuuicat|ng to Congress ilm views vviiir.fi i entertain and nave been expressed upon tins subject. JSome euibarrijssunMits to the free transit of tlm United Suites mail coaches over that j> irt of the Cumberland I'm ui which lies withm 1 h?? limits 'if tho State of Vinr:nia have been experienced Hnriiiir the present year, ino-dent to a right assumed hv tin* authorities nt that S ale to iinjio>e a tax U|>oii the coach trausport.ieg the mail. In the act of Congress proposing a cession of all right which ilie United States claimed over said road, upon certain conditions, to the States through which it passed, it was expressly provided that no toll upon the Btaor coaches, <2vc. conveying the United States mail should be imposed. With this, a mono other reservations and exceptions, the S ates of d/aiyland, lVuiisylvaiiia, and Ohio, acc.ep. ted the cession, and assumed the control over so much of tin road as is wiitiiu their respective territories. ' Jit appeals that, by a subsequent act of the Virgin. Legislature, so much of the act, hv winch *he accepted the road, exempting the siam-. roach, itc. coiiveviiii? the United States -p J p_ ? mail from th?* payment of toil?-, was rep. aied, a ia.\ was authorized to he, and was. imposed upon tin* same. Without detaining yon with a turtles narrative upon this subject, f submit ihe letters and correspondence of the Depart. iM'Mit in relation thereto, and the documents accompanying the same. Though the auiount charged and exacted at thcsiugie gale in Vir. giuia i inconsiderable, yet, it she have the r ghi to impose the toll, the other States have an onus*l right, and will, most unquestionably, assert it: and iluis an additional annual burden of near >?9,1 Hitl will ho added to the transpor. laiiou ot the United Sta.es mail over tint: road, which is already the most, expensive mail coach service in tne united States. It l< proper that 1 should inform you that the prosecution instituted against the agent of Virginia, before I was called to the discharge otthe duties of this Donnrtinent, for obstructing the passage nf the Dieted States mail on said mad, l?y closing the toll {rate against the imc passage of t he coach convoy. mg Ine mail. h.e>, my ion, Wo?.n suspended lor 1 i*o pr< sent. umiei a nope that u]M>n a lull rejm simotion of tni6 subject, tiy the j>r?>i'cr au !;ui;'y, to tin. State ut Virjjmi.i. v j ?l] cause of difficulty might be removed, with- te ; out the necessity of a penal prosecution. ej I submit for your information, the report of . 11 he chief clerk of the Post office Department, w | in reference to the expenditure of the appro- | t| i p.riation made at the extra session ofCongrestf, I to pay the debts due to contractors and others, Cf | for services rende red pnof to the 31 st of Varch of 1841. | There are other matters of detail, connected with the service of this Department, which by th law are required to he reported to Congress; I and it is therefore deemed inexpedient to bring : them particularly to your notice in this wui| munication. I hare the honor to be, with respectful coo- O sideration. your obedient servant, C. A. WICKLJFFtf, te CHt EH AW GAZETTE. e8 I ? ii WPhVii!Qhl V lltfPwntD '20 lfi ll. I ;ili v v LI 1'* 1 & A f JUT HVUM i*t*u ?r<r| ... =rrr? ? .... _ ...J SO We return our thanks to the Hon. John jfj! Campbell f it a copy of the Presidents Message a ( and accompanying documents. ni< \ _ ab j Much room is occupied in our columns this a(1 week with public documents. Although wo sti ; cannot insert all of even the most important I* , documents issuing from the different departjmentsofboih the Federal and State govern ai iner.ts, there are some which if is desirable S> the: every reader of any newspaper should . see . Of this character are the docuun uls to J I which we now give place. The able report }$i I of Col. AIImoii on life Virginia and New York j controversy will he read with interest by all I who have not hithertos^en it. Its temperate ^ i tone and its courtesy towards a sister slate, | are worth) of commendation, at a time when f< it is so much the fashion among southern in statesmen and politicians to indulge them- tli selves iu Muting abuse and puerile gasconade j wlieneyer the relation of the southern and i norlliern sates on the subject of slavery is the f ( topic of docnssion. The violence ofsoutitern politicians has done more to prejudice the * 1 interests of the slavoholding states, at the J( ! north than all that abolitionists have d?ne or I can do. The world have an impresih n that men who exhibit in their controversies a fret, ful irritability are not those who most feel their Hl own strength or who are most in earnest for P1 action whether offensive or defensive. 0 - " yy We have.no later accounts from Wash, j inglon than to the *20ili. owing tocontin- * , tied failures of the mail. The plan of rA j Fiscal Agency for which the President ?i i invited Congress to cull upon the Serrn. j| | fary of the Treasury liad not been rcpor sj ! tod. It was understood iu the city that (J ! the subject was still under consideration ! bv the Cabinet. It is not improbable i that the delay is caused by the sugges- | H I !ion of modifications in the plan or its j ' ! derails by members of Congress after p I their arrival in Washington a lt In Congress they nro doing nothing of j ^ I interest. In the House a debate bad j I been irotnif on for some days, and was j * 1 r . . . ' ; ,i likely to last several days longer, on mt i <|.njstion of refering thai pariof ihc Pres- j? ident's Message relating lo the Tariff.? J ? Tue friends of a protecting l.iriil' wished M( in refer it to the Committee .on Maniifitc- ^ ;utes, and those opposed lo I lie protection of Manufactures, lo the Coiinnillee of Ways and Means. None wished to violate the "compromise." But some wish. ~ en', within its limits, to discriminate in faj vor of the manufacturing interest of the eouritrv. This was opposed hv others who insisted that ' engross should look |( oilv to the amount of revenue to he raised, % y and not in the effect ot imposts upon any interest of the country. ? 1 n I A correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot! t I fi ' suggests 10 Congress the passngof a law pro j .* viduig that if any of the prates refuse to j c receive their share of the proceeds of iIn; pub- I lie lands, such share or shares be added to 1 the general fund for distribution among the * other slates. We hope Congress will not be ' hi haste to pass such law; or at least, that " it will not be made to operate retrospectively- '' | For we learn from different sources entitled j j j tocredit :hat while the Legislature of South j j Carolina was passing a bill and resolutions to (J j prohibit the State from receiving its sn.ire of | the money, there was, at the same time, an j ;t | understanding among the members that if the ! 0 i -- I | .U_:_ j _ [? i|lt*r Maifn Mimiiu rtui'ivc nnnr iifi^i iiYc i (, j shares, South Carolina would, in that ea*e, ! e I take hers also, and risque the subsidising influ- [ ! ence of the "bribe." We trust Congress j p vvi'l pass no ex post facto law ou '.lie subject. tl The grand jury of (he county of" PliilaI dolphia have presented Nicholas Iiidrllo, j 0 Samuel Jnudon and others, for entering ' ?? into a conspiracy to defraud the stock- | h holders of the U. S. Bank, of the several 11 sums of $400,000 $300,000 and $130,- jf< 000.- It is an easy matter in times of; in great excitement against any set of men j ,, ^ j o to get up a prnscn'mrnl against them.? , j, Sustaining the charges on trial is a j > ' <iiir?'rcnt thing, and may or may not J u , lie done in the present instance. There . V j | j lean he ?o doubt that the II, S. Bank, i I ^ ! after ?l became a Slate Bank, was most i , i wretchedly managed. Wiielher the j M j management was fraudulent, or only u' j f, wise, will, perhaps, be now tested. I r Mr. J. N. MeEf.wnfi, the publisher of _ the 'dv piiiilienn Whip Democrat" lias issued proposals for publishing an Agri. j j j cultural periodical at Mc.E'weesvillr, in j ^ j York District. It is to he puhlisticd i j | monthly at one dollar per annum. ! |( The faction in the Tennessee Senate. l' though c?oistillitinir only a minority of' . . * | p ' that body, pi .listed in their refusal to at- ' ^ V > / nd the convention of the two houses to! oc ect CJ. S. Senators, for five dnys, during, hich time a majority of the Senate mot i ',u ?e Touse dnilv. On the fifth dnv, the |P? invention adjourned. tine die, bv a vote < |j( ' 4H to 3. So the election of Senators j postponed for two years, the sessions of j ie legislature bring biennial. ar re State Stocks.?The New York cor. 0f kspondent of the Philadelphia Xalional wile writes as follows: hi Tie rales at the Board were to a large ex- y\i nt to day, and in Sta?e securities thr f-td* g ie almost a panic. The Western S*a'es. mt peritffly Indiana and Illinois, feel the effect the greatest degree, and our own Stale ... .1 /..dliKV I.Anda . P9 SU ,U Millie lllUldllH Bid UWg uuhud i v.. hi ,it 20 a decliuc of 0 per ct. since yester- . to jr. The dollar boud Closed at 241-4 of ;|de- j ? nc tf per ecut. Illinois sixes at 24 5-8; dec iiue of 2 per cent. All nope of the pay- j Hit of the January interest appear* to he he amluue^, aud tha impression that a laiye j,;, lovnt of bonds hypothecated with-a Wall , ree '. house will be thrown on the market aparc to,have tended, with the tightness of ?? money market, to briny tiling to this itui loxiuti. No ilooht the doctrine of re.pudi ! ion, which fruls so mnny adtocrrfes in the \ *ti truth anil Hew, has assisted to depress these' hi udn. "State fives dodtnod 1-4. per rent.;! ehtucky nixes sold at 70, a iarjji* faliinij off j li io lixes, 1800, 80 offered, 831-2 a?Red ^ ;?lu ties IddO, 80 offered, 90 ask ed. . , di< The general, we believe universal, sup. f0) >rt given by the Democratic press, i ari otilh and West, to the repudiation of her I ;bt by Mississippi cannot but greatly ^ iflurnce sharp-sighted stock-jobbers, in q le estimate winch they put upon slate af ocks generally. Any slate inigiit find etexts lor the repudiation of its debts j i plausible as those under which Missis.! y pp< and her advocates now attempt to a, ist fy her course. Indiana. c 'I lie Governor of Iudiana,.in his mesige lo the Legislature puis down the> ubicdebtof the stale at $1!),088.146'. ^ ?f this amount the sum of 8*2.684,000 ^ as borrowed lo constitute the capital of j ? state Bank, and to put the bank into op- j j. ration; the sum of 81,300,000 is in Tren-: J jry notes issued by the state, bearing r li iter est; and the remainder consists ol'lti ' t tale bonds sold lor the purpose r.f getting i loney to carry on works of Internnl lm-1 rovement. ' The interest payable annu" J lly is 848*2,442. The expehscs of pay. n )g this interest where it is due and i< ay able, in exchange* commissions &o. ^ re estimated at 8132.560, or about twn/ tevrn and a half per cent ; which ^ lise* the whole amount payable hy the fate oh account of the intercut of her I obt, Iq $011,003. To meet this interst nccount the only means of the state 1 which mav be relied on wilh ceriaintv" .. * ' rys the Governor, arc: .> st The interest on the procerds of sales of the Wa- ' lash and Erie canal $24,000 :l. Interest from the surplus f revenue 32,000: 11 50,000 C ei.ag little more than one eleventh of the c diolo. An annual interest demand n. j 1 ainst the state of $015,000, wilh an i ncoine of only $50,000 to meet it, and ! c he principal altogether unprovided for! 11 ['he Treasury notes of the state are re. I 1.1.. f,.. i ii vuu nn/4 iniuil if nnt ull iho I d JivniMi; |tn uiA^t I?I?U ! iiwi uu uiv. ( axes for the present year and for some!' in e to come will be paid in that medium; i o hat no aid for some years is expected ' ' rom that source in paying the interest I f the public debt ; while none of the | ^ uhlic works arc so far advanced as to] ield a cent of revenue, except the VVa- i r ia: h and Krie canal mentioned above. ! |, Such," says the Governor *?is actually | ur condition ; and candor and justice to n urselves and our creditors require us to c know ledge that we have neither under ? ui control nor in prospect, for some time ^ a come, the means to discharge the inter- j st on the whole of our public debt." j r The Governor, however, does not nro-1 ' ' ' Of.e "the suicidal measure of repudiating j lie public debt." He is of opinion that lit abundant natural resources of the j j late, as they shall be developed by the i j morprise ol'lier oili'/cii> will ultimately i liable her "to pay her debts and redeem | \ et'sunken credit." And tothedevolope-1 J fient of these resources be directs the at-1 notion of the Legislature. He might J e lake out a more nlnusible pretext for1 e| udiatinp the debts or at least a part 1'' f them, than Gov. McNutt, of Mississip. j i ins been able to t.nake out. For the tate, according to his account, "has in nf.ny instances, been made the victim of n r<concerted imposition and fraud" Ly j Token banksand swindling stock-jobbers, V kli tin; mnncv lor v% hutii tli?* Mississippi 0 wis were sole. was, in good luilo, paid, i heronsseveral millions of tin* amount' u w hich the Indiana bonds weie sold j villain still unpaid, and it is likely will j y 1 ways thus remain. Gov. IIiuuku, how. I (. vor, does not make this a pretext for;,, fusing In pay the bonds; whereas one! || f the pretexts of Gov. MeNrrr for refit-' t< [tig to pay the Mississippi bonds was that j c le money did the state no good alter she I w joeived it. She squandered it, and i d lerefure she Will not pay those from' " lie borrowed it. Why do not the news, I w a ter editors who uphold Mississippi in ! i r course, now urge their brother f)cin- *' rats, in Indiana to follow the example l Mississippi nml shake off the heavy, I irtlien that is bowing them down to the 1 ound ? Their principle* will, we sup- 1 se, drive them to do so, should the que*. 1 >n be raised in the State by their party According to the Oxford (.V. C.) Exniner, 52 cases of small pox have occur, d, in the infected region on the borders that state and Virginia. The House of Representatives of Virginia , it week parsed a hill to exempt Chaklk* i \ Wo mack from a tine imposed tor jdaylng irblcs. A Frenchman, resident in this country, , rried a large amount of money in doubloons i Philadelphia, a week or two since. for th" rpnse of investing it in some kind of priw ictive stock or property in that dty. Whilst. i was out making inquiries on the suby-ct, ' room in the hotel was entered, bis trunk nkcti open and the money stolen. Two youths were lately drowned near larlotte. N. C. by attempting to cross a j earn on horse back, which was unusually gh at the time. The namp of Gen. James H Hammond is mentioned in the public papers, ds the canlate of t!?e predominent party in the niatc r Governor. I: is not probable he will have ty opposition. The sloop .Wary, of Newport, was wreckfd Rt Wednesday, in attempting to cross the harleston bar in a fog. The s!oop and part! the cargo lost; the crew saved. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier ates that Gen. Gaines was arrested in ' Washington lust week for making his appear, ace there, without orders. The following Trustees of the South lamlina College were elected at the Tate ?*sion of the Legislature. James Gregg, Wade Hampton, D. E. j [uger, Wm. McWiilie, George McDuffie, j I. W, Barnwell, Edinund Bellinger, jr., !. G. Meniniingcr, T. G. Wethers, J. H. [.imiiioiid, J. N. Wliitner; T. N. Daw. j iiia, M. Lahorde, W. F. DoSmssure, nine* Gillespie, R. F. W. AI Lion, VV. j I. Seal rook, Taos. Smith, J. L. Maning, and J. H. A da ins CONGRESS. Senate. T)cr. 14ih. The President of the Sente announced the following as the Standng Committees of the 2d Session of the 17 th Congress : On Foreign Relations?Mr. Rives, hainnan,'Preston, Buchanan, Tnllntodge, Jhonte. On Finance.?Mr. Evans, chairman, Jcrricn. Woodbury. Mangurn, Bavard. On Commerce.?rvi r. Huntington. r?rt:itrnau, Woodhridge. King, Harrow. Wright. On Manufactures.?Mr. Simmons, hairiniin, Archer, Miller, Buchanan, lorohoad. On Agriculture.?Mr. Linn, chairman, latps, Barrow. Sturgeon, Simmons. On Military Affairs, Mr. Preston* hairman, Merrick, Benton, Archer, 'ierce. On the Militia. Mr. Phelps, chairman, Milton, Smith, la. Williams, Mcltohrls. On Naral Affairs. Mr. Mangum; hairman, Archer, Williams, Chontc, iayard. l)n Public hand*. Mr. Smith, of In<J , hairman, Tallmadge, Walker, Huntingon Prentiss. On Private Land.Claim*. Mr. HenIcrson, chairman, Linn, Tappnn. Fulton, )i\on. On Indian Affairs. Mr. Morehead, hnirmnn, White, Sevier, Phelps, Benon. Of Claims. Mr. Graham, chairman, Vright, Woodbury, Woodbrige, Phelps. On Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Dixon, hnirman, Clayton, Smith, of Conn. Aldm, Cuthbert. On the Judiciary. Mr. Berrien, chair, nan, Clayton. Prentiss, Walker, Kerr. On the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr derrick, chairman, Simmons McRobert* rlouton. Miller. On Roads and Canals. Mr. Porter, hnirman, White, Yoting, King, Culhicrt. On Pensions. Mr. Bates, chair man, Nerco, Allen, Graham, Sevi< r. On the. District of Columbia. Mr. laynrd, chairman, Clayton, King, Kerr, lives On Patents and the Patent Office. Mr. Ventias, chairman, Porter, Henderson, llouton. Sturgeon. On the Public Buildings. Mr. Kerr, hairrnnn, Fulton, Rvans. On Engrossed Bills. Mr. McRoberts, hairrnnn, Miller, Sturgeon. On Enrolled Bills. Mr. Porter and lr. Williams'. On Library. Messrs. Preston, Tap pan nd (/hoafe. On the Con'indent Exjiewes of (he Sen te. Mr. While, chairman, Tappan, iVann. Domes'ic sewing Silk.?We have Keen resented with twelve skeins of sewing lilk, manufactured in this District b\ Irs. Wni. H Adams, with deserves great redi.t for her laudable efforts in the lanufactiire of this article. This is not Tu first time that we have had occasion i call 'he attention of our readers to the nterprise and industry of this lady, and m shall take pleasure, at any time, in evnting a portion <vf the columns ol ur paper to this important and praise. rorthy branch of female industry. In ie specinian before us, there are tun dif3scnt shades or colours and consult tin'' & - the disadvantage laboured under by not having a suitable wheel for spinning, this* article, (it having been spun on a common wheel.) we hesitate not in pronouncinga good article of American manufacture. We arc informed that Mrs. A. hs? made a number of pound*, (turmg the past summer, and hns obtained twelve dollars per pound for it. EriqrfikM Ado. The Swamp JLmtuu.?-The sale off rerlaimed Swanip Lands, advertised te tofce place in Hyde county on the last day of November, was very thiulv attended, and none of it was sold, because the bids were below the minimum price fixed on the same by the Board, low as it was conceived to he. The value of the timbered Land can hardly he estimated. It itworth from $80 to $1000 per acre for Shingles and Rails alone: and will command. after the timber is cu? off $50 aw aure lor cultivation. ArlpjMt. this i* th? ordtnnry pric* nt' the adjnrtnt Vfnttiimus- r kcet Land, which il in pt> rospect, mi*, perior to that owned hv the Stat*. Literary Board, therefore, however abjiL ?nw they. might ho to convert tires o Land* into a fund which would servo to drain S>va>ii|M in otaer section* of the State* could not think'of sacnthnii^ thorn?os. * it J ** K pecialiv, an a postponement of tile aale could, in no wise, atlect their value . ' . . -W CliERAW PRICE CURRENT. Dre mh'T Id 1841. Aiitici.m. rut i ? c. | ^ B.xf in market, Ik U 1 6 B icon from wagona, lb 8 ft lit by retail, lb It) a II. Butler . lb L>* *H Beeswax lb 22 a Sl5' Bagging yard 25 a SB Bale Rope lb In a 1 r?mw . ih i2i * ib CoTT'iN, Ih 7 ft 8 Corn, bnsh 50 ft Flour, Country, '?rl 5* ft b Fcathera fin wag. none lb II) i 4* Fodder. lOOIba 75 a ' 1W(flass, window Bxld, 5'?(? 3 25 a 2 37*. ., ithia, 5M 3 50 a 3 74 r II idea, green lb 5 a dry . , lb tO a Iron ' lOOibf 5 50 t> 5b Indigo lb . la 2 b Lime cask 4 a 4 5t? Lard scarce lb 11 a 12 Leather, sole lb 22 a 28 , Lead, bar tb 10 a *, Logwood lb IU a ' 15 __ vr r\ i in m U ! .timijissus ! ?. \j. gnj iv a , # x f"l 35 * 37 j Nails, cm, assorted lb 7| A N : , wrung^t lb 16 < '*# ) Haiti bush 3?? -a 37 I n;i. fiirfiT* <(WM 75 ' i ? ? i ti ? _ j~.. i -?pbms^ ARltlV/SU. ? I I On Ihf 25iH .S'tciMiiff 0>i;o!ii Chriiiiun,' ! witli BoaI Chariott'c & .\?Ti?li/.a iif'trtW" j with M(l*c to Blue & Moon*, DS HarHrc* | W & T Bailey, di Co. Ruianuel dc Solo, i mooft, C Vaiiderford, James, Wrighl W < P Leak. E F Lilly D alloy/ Tarrli. dt ! Pitman, dt Co. I H Ro*a? r H IVf W II j Totnlinson ol this j)lac?, M 0 Callow, M | B I) Townsend. W MnnerlyH Ko*?er dt | Move, VV C Bruce, dt Co. >1 yersdt IIick?, j of the interior. OCT" Ne are authorised to announce W, A Mai.loy.s a cattdhhtte for'the | ollice of Tax Collector in C'hexit Id' District. December 92, 1841. ? All Chesterfield District. In tjif. Common Plras. BF.XJ a Vi IX McINTOS H. w ho in now irr custody ol'llic Slu-riff of ilie hist rid afore*;iul, by vir no ??f a writ nl r pi .* :iH sat isfaeien. duni. at the suit of Smith M >wry Jr.. luring; p-t itemed C o Hon^rb'e tho assoc ?it? Judge* : ot'the -aid state, thai h" in y be a m.itt-d to the f | !x:n tit oftM-nd ofth- G-neral Assembly made i tortlio relnst'of Inaolveiit (I btom. and lie having i tvod with his petition .4 .-cnuuuio 01 ni* caUtr,. i r.-al and \ <o mmiuI. It is ortltrml, Hut tin: *.uri ( Smith Mowry, Jr and all others 'o whom the ; aid |?elit inner in hi anywise indebted, do per,l oanliy. <>r by their attoroioe, l?o and apptar ; holorutlic Hnuorah'e the associate Ju'ge* of the ' state afor. s.iid, at tho Court of Common PloJut 'to t>o lioldco at Chester!-Id f'omt House, on j the Wednesday alter the third Monday in l March n?xL then and then to show cause if ! any tln-y can, why the c?uic and _ tlecis of the i pcti'iuncr should not be assigned, and ho Ixj ; d scharged. pursuant to the timvisioa* of snid' ! Act? ot the General Assembly nude and pmvt_ > (led tor t..e relet ot ih^>ivciil minor*. T. BRYAN, C.*C. l\ Chesterfield C II. I 1).t .22. 1841. { 7 3 w PUBLIC KALE. Wednesday; the Ijtji day .of January j " T next, there will Iw h-?1?1 at pui'liv A??CU?/> i in the store lately occupied by J-?iih* 1,1. Col*. all the assigned stock in trade ol t^u faitf ! Cole, consisting of Dry Gix> Js, Groceries. Hardwire. Crock pry, Iron, tints, snots, ope., A l'?r^t* part of whic'? was purchased tlw lant summer in Nrw Vork. Also James H. C-de's interest in th? Pole1 Itoat J\MKS R. fcJuviN, being on* thirdpart ?f | said lloat. T. piw?All sums of and unci r Twenty Five Dollars. Oakh. All sum* over Tv%?nijr I Five Dollo;*.-,note* with approved sec.iirtti p iyable at (he Merchants' Dank niue'y davs after dale. A. Bl.UB. J. A. 1NG1J8. Assignees of J. M. Cole, December C7,1^41. 7 Jfe Sot ice. " nfflflF Creditor* of Junes II (Vn, ?rboi?o JL cl n t oioed Twrmtv Five Po'lar# are requested :o present a statement i?f them fotlwf Assignee* as soon as p<i?sible Ami fho?** whose claim* are over that amount, aie notified tnat lin y must become panes to 'he Deeu of Assignment by signing waling the same before tin* l(Hii da) ui February Wxt in order to enli'ie tjieiasolves fo a dr. idrmi of the residunoj alter the preferred debt* are satisfied. A. BLUR. J. A. IflULIS. Assignees of Cole. December 27. 1S4I. 7 6t A snoEifim " TO IflRfC hk) i'hiuiii^ y 'tu* *01 terns applf at ML* U.UC-. 4* t?