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deposited with the Slates, trust funds, Mud indemnities, ami the amount due Irom Imnks which failed in 1837.) was, us Minted in the re|><? t of the Secretary of the Treasury submitted (o Congress on the 3d day of June la?t $937,345 03 The receipts into the Trens. urv during the first three quarters of the present * year amount to $23,467,092 52 Via: F.otn customs $10*47 557 44 From lands 1,104,063 06 The remainder from various sources treasury notes included 11.515 472 02 The receipts for the 4th quarter, it hi estimated, will amount, to "* .$0,943,095 25 Making the*fofaI estimated receipts for the year $30 410.167 77 i ,j And, with the ^balance" ih the Treasury ou the 1st of January last, an ??g. ->* gregate of- vv . '31 397 512 80 The expenditure* "for the three first quarter* #ft ho present y?Af'h? ve anion n-. ted to " 824,731,340 97 The expenditure* .for the |th quarter ,*rq estjrna- ... . v ted, on data fumistfed > by the respective departments, at 7,290,7*22 73 Viz: Civil, miscellaneous, and foreign inter, course ' . $1531.203 44 Military service 3.139.733 54 Naval service 4 1,900 500 80 Interest on loan 70,000 00 Principal and interest on Treasury notes ' 505.183 95 Making 32.025 070 70 And leaving a tleficit to ho provided for on th; first January, 184*2 8627.557 00 It being essential that this deficit, ari. uihg from the failure in .effecting more than a portion of the loan authorized hv Congress at its last session, should he pro. vided for by means that might he at once available, it is recommended that an im. mediate issue of Treasury notes he author* , to meet I he emergency. II. (.// 'hr. Estimates of the. Public Rcoc nue an I Expr'niilures for iftr i/r.ar 1 183. Tne receipts for the year 184*2 are estimated us follows : From customs $19,200,000 00 (Arising from duties ac. cruing in 1841, and payable in 184:2 $3,400,005 From duties accruing and payable in 1842 $15 600 00.) Treasury n?des - * 50,000 00 Miscellaneous sources 15(1.000 00 19.200.000 oi) From which deduct the estininfeii deficiency ?>n the first <>l'January 1842 6*27.550 Of) Leaving this amount appli. cahle to 'ho service of the year 1842 18 57*2,440 10 The expenditures for the year 1842, inchulin^ $7 000.000 for the re. dcit.plion of Treasury note#, are estimated at 32 701 010 78 Living to be provided for this amount 14.*218.570 68 To meet the deficiency in the year l>542t amounting to $14/218.570 08.it is respectfully recommended to .Congress I*) authorize? 1. An extension of the term within which the residue, not yet taken, of the loan already authorized shall he redeemutile, amounting lo, say $6 500.000. 2. The re-issue of the Treasury notes heretofore authorized by law, amo inting to $5,000 000. 3. The balance still required, of $2.71 *.570 68. together with an additional sum of $2,000,000, (a surplus flietnod necessary in the Treasury to meet emergencies of the public service.) to he supplied Irorn imposts upon such foreign arficles imported as may he selected, with jln<? rvtrurA fn n rurid ro-it r ir f inn in amount tu llut actual w.mls of the Government, and a proj>er economy in it-"* adrninistration. ' "* HI. Readjustment of the TariffUnder this h?*ad the Secretary of the Treasury, adverts to the change to be effected hi the collection of imposts af'er next June, according to the act of 1S33, which requires cash payments, instead of credits as have hitherto been allowed; and he advises the continuance of this provision of that act. He next adverts f * to the provision of the same act which requires the impost* to be collected ad valoremu or according to the value of the 1 C5 goods at the ports where they are en tered. The Secretary prefer* specific to ad valorem duties, and dwells upon the difficulty of adjusting ad valorem duties according to home valuation, on account of the ever racy trig prices of the same article in the rna'ket. and its different J values often, at different ports. Flo advises, some change in- I he law to obviate these difficulties. Ditirimi tuition in favor of Miwi fcctmx. On this head the Secretary wcite* as follows: But. in the second pla^e. if f'on^rcsv should be of opinion either that homo valuation is practicable, or that some equivalent and proper substitute may be mmmmmmmmmmmammtctsmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmm ' foundfor it, the undersigned will not di*. ? guise his opinion that it cannot be regard- ? ! ed its wise, by any portion ot the country, ? as a permanent system of policy, to aug- ? [ ment the amount of revenue, when fur- I ther exigencies may require such aug. i mentation, bv raising duties on all ? i articles, including those of absolute < i necessity, t<? the lull extent of twenty per i 'cent., and preserving- that limit, at fhej? j same time, as a.* fixed harrier against j j higher duties on any article whatever, I | eve i those of more luxury. Such a plan I of revenue, if to be regarded as a 8"ltled t system, appears to the undersigned to be ; I unnatural and inconvenient, and such as 1 is not likeiv to promote the best interests i of the country. | " The probable effect of the future opera- j < tion of the act of ly*33 upon the manufne. | tures and mechanical trades of the conn, i I try, particularly if no home vnlnatinn he :i ; established, and no equivalent for such ' < home valuation found, gives rise to an I inquiry too important to be overlooked, j I? is fully acknowledged that all duties i should bo laid with primary reference to revenue, and it is admitted, without UcsU tntion or reserve, that no more moneyshould he raised, under any pretence whatever, than such amount H8 is necessary for an economical administration of | the 'Government. But within these lini lis nun h*1 incie.oniai 10 inn r>tiKini> ?? -such revenue a_> muv he absolutely nccessiry, it is believed that discrimination may ho maTj, and duties imposed in such manner as that, while no part of th? i country will suffer loss ?n inconvenience ' a most beneficial degree of protection wil' ! he extended to the Unor and industry o | large masses of the people, wiiile the wind country will ho rendered more prosperou in peace, and infinitely stronger and bet ter prepared if foreign war should comi upon ns. The principle 01 discriminaltoi I has obtained from the period or the foun . dation of the f*overnment. In man* ! cases it may be found to he indispensabl< j to the in'eresls of the revenue itself; am if, in fixing a system of duties, it consists with the best interests and true policy of I the country so to apportion them among j the various species of imports as to favor j I our own manufactures at the same time i that the revenue itself is benefitted, and j no injustice done to any, it would seem 1 I proper and wise to reject arbitrary limits I an 1 the idea of a forced and unnatural uniformity. 1 The undersigned feels no difficulty in l admitting that a duty of twenty per cent, lad valorem, assessed upon the value of" j imported articles in our own ports, would 1 in many instances be a rate sufficientfy j J high for the benefit of the revenue, and al- j !-o afford reasonable encouragement to 1 ] home producers of the same articles. As 1 j fo those, therefore, the object of the art J of 1833 will be accomplished, if its pro- 1 | visions for home valuation he carried out j by Congress.' But he still supposes that | there are several descriptions cf imported ! manufactures and produce, which would i well bear a higher duty than twenty per < rent, upon the home value, and fhusyield 1 j a greater revenue to the Government, J ! while, in regard to some of thein, it will ' i he found that, without such increased du-' I | iv, tile labor of large classes, engaged in 1 1 producing similar articles, will he greatly j < depressed, if not entirely supplanted. ! I It is unquestionably true. and well j I worthy of remark, that the act of 1833 ; w is avowedly conservative in its objects ! I and character; and while it was designed j ' i to rentove what was esteemed a grievance ' | * % . * ' hv one part of the country, it was n:tjt i intended that the interests of any other ' : should be sacrificed by it. On the con- i J j irarv. a reasonable security was intended 1 I for all. Its true spirit, therefore, will bo I | but carried out by acting, under any new j1 ...... . r ... ?..^ I iiiiK rufnrt^nnn to ! I j MUiC <l| t imilll.-JHillvi#, niki! |< ; tho same gn at objects. and doing justice . j alike to all. The great principle of that j i art was moderation and conciliation, and ; j this should never he lost sight of. But ; j the measures proper and necessary to i carry out that principle may be changed, I J if the altered circumstances or the conn- ' 1 try call for siich change, without any j ( departure from the principle itself. | Nothing is more established bv our ex-1 . I i perience, and the jxpertence of other. ! nations, than that the augmentation of i j duties does not augment, in nn equal de- j I gree, the mst of the article to the con- ! Isomer. In many cases it appears not to ; increase ttint x*ost at nil. Very often j I the price lo the consumer is kept down, j1 r.ot withstanding an increase of duties, j ' I p.iitly hv the greater supply of the hom? j4 p eduction, and partly by the reduction of j' the price in the foreign marked. It is i1 believed, indeed, thai there have been!' cases in which the jo*nt operation of the 1 'two causes has occasioned price* to fall 1 , iower than they were before the increase ' 1 of duties whs laid. This re.-ult in the operation of trade ( jnnfl business might readily be traced to ' , its causes; but a full exposition of those ' j causes, a,nd the modes of their operation. 4 J would too jnucb swell this report. Sill* ' J rice it to say that, when an additional 1 j duty is laid on an article in a country in ( which that uilicit '* extensively con- 1 , suined. the burden always falls in part, ' and sometimes, as experience has shown. | * altogether, upon the foreign producer, j The foreign producer must sell; and if. ' i i:i the place of sale, he finds an article 1 produced on the spot which AOiues into J aoMintagcous competition with own 4 * Ln fcUlII I ' oy reason 01 paying no must sell, and* lor tlie sake of fining able; I (o ?lo ir. lie must he content to bear the *i burden of the duties himself. Tin# duty ' home hv I he foreign producer in such I eases is Jikej (he charge for transports- 1 lion?it is something which is necessary *' to i#rmg him into the market of compeliii'on. Analogous instances occur in thuneslic trade. The wheat-grower of Indiana, who incurs heavy expenses in ^ conveying his dour to an Atlantic port, ixpecta no higher price for it when it irrive* there then is peio for flour of th? (erne quality to producers in file iminodiHe neighborhood. The coat of transpor* N alion. therefore, doe* not operate en th much to raise ih? price at the place of' ^ inle as lo dimmish it at the ptacebf piro.' lection. Now, the greet lew which reg. " * ulntcs prices, by dftinend and supply. h? dernly observed in cases of foreign inrjortation. as in this instance of domestic j trade. The undersigned cannot forbear)10 to add, that vastly the greater proportion ) IV if the agricultural population of the tJni. 1 ted Slates is obliged to relv mainly upon ci the homo market for a sale of its products. t* although a large part of thusc products b [wheat, for instance) is such a* often ? enters extensively into the consumption n of the world. The quantity of flour and g Indian corn exported from this country I ^ h altogether inconsiderable, in comparis- j p hi with the quantity consumed in the f large cities nnii manufacturing towns, w'ich Pave either entirely grown up .or added largely to their population under (ho influence of laws of Congress, |>as*ed since the end of the last war, upon do p mestic labor and ind,.stry. The immense interchange of products, nil being the re. 0 suit of labor, which now taken place he- 0 twecn the producers of subsistence and the population above mentioned, showily the advantage which ofie class 'is tfniltihel ^ ?thor, and the essential iniportanco to both of preserving their existing relations. 0 If the consumption of flour ami grain -in jr lie manufacturing districts, aspecially-.p he-North and East, decline, to thtit ex. 3 cnt there is an absolute loss to the wheat ,| id corn-grower, since the quantity con. n irned hv theni will find a market no. jf vliere else. To sav nothing, in thi#con. ^ texion. of the incalculable importance of \ home market to the producer of the rreat article of cotton, and limiting his J( remark"! to the grain-growers, alone, the I indersigncd cannot hut persuade himself! j| hat nil will sec and acknowledge the ^ .Treat value to that class of producers of ^ flio Northern and Eastern market?the ? inly considerable market, indeed, which s permanently open to them upon1 the jj face of the earth. gj So long as the policy of other countries r< ^hall continue to exclude the product* of our agriculture from their ports, and thus n deny to us the advantage of a fair reci. ' procity in trade, it would appear to he equally the dictate of policy and of justice to our People to secure to them, as J j far as nmy be reasonably and proj?rrlv lone, n market of consumption for their t( produce in their own country. ' Inrrratc. of the Recmitc. a, The undersigned is of opinion that the ^ condition of the Treasury and of the; #> country demands an augmentation of the j revenue. It cannot hut he the true poli. j( L'V of the Government to extinguish the amount of debt now existing as. soon as I ft practienhle, and to avoid increasing it. j ^ The cruation of deht, by loans and other ^ resorts, for revenue to supply deficiencies of regular income, cannot hut he reganied. f|| in a time of peace, as injudicious and oh. ^ |ectionahle. The generj.1 fcredit of the M [iovernment, always good, has been great. s( y raised, both at home and abroad, by jr [he fact that it has fully paid off and di*. (^ harged the deht created by the Revnlu- c lion and hv a subsequent war with Eng. and, and wars with the Indian tribes.? ol Flie preservation of this high credit is of ^ [he utmost importance. It must he the j | necessary reliance of the Government. Lo f, in the vicissitudes of human affairs,;^ sudden war should come upon us, requi- JT, ring large and immediate expenditures. u( Exact punctuality in the payment of ill- | tuliilu th?. rL?l,t iihfill nmfmiie. and ?nnnv in' ........ ? > Ol its payment so soon as (he time of pav* , ment arrives, as well ns the known ability arid honor anil of the Government, are the means of inspiring that general confi- (*' donee which shall at all times enable it to 111 jsc its cr? dil to the greatest advantage. I>< The estimated expenditures of the Gov. srnmont for the coming year will exceed tl its proimhle inenqne hy 814.218.570 68. w Should Congress authorize a reissue of is rreasury notes to the amount of 85.000.* n( 1)00. and the balance of (he loan he di.s* 0| josi-.d of, there will remain a deficit ofj 2*2,718.570, for wh?ch provision must he ' made hy law. Rut it is not suppposed \ lhat Congress will deem it advisable to j ^ - - I n\ restrict (lie income of the Uovernmeni to ihe precise amount of its expenditure*. There outfit to he ;t surplus of at least ^ two millions, to meet unforeseen einer?enoies in ihe public,service ; and, should m ;ven the proceeds of the sales of the pub. 10 lands he withdrawn from the Stales, a w eferewe to the receipts fr un that sourer fti n the last and present years will show ac hat a deficiency in the revenue, to meet ^ he wants of the Government, must still ;,| innin, - p, The state of the nntionnl aflhirs, the lisposition of the Governnionl. in which,! ^ I is believed, the People fully participate, i ^ r. mit tlw. ominfrv info ,n rrsnectable stair ; . ( >f defence, and especially to support and Urengthen ttie military marine, all appear Sl o surest the propriety of such increase ' ?f duties on articles carefuily selected as. vhile the amount shall not hear hard on ndividmtls, by limiting their customary w njovrnents, nor oppress nor derange the pi (en era I business ot the country, shall yet th aipply the Treasury, not extravagantly I sn ?r excessively, but yet reasonably and list I v for ail the great purposes of national ty lefence. Economy, that great public rirtin*, which is so essentially proper to be rractised by republican Governments, | kvouid be but half exercised if, while on ^ be one hand it avoids nil unnecessary exMefiditiircs it does not on the other make a easonable and judicious provision for uich expenditures its are unavoidable. All which is respectfully submitted. J)r W. FORWARD, sh Secretary of ifu: Treasury. t<; Hon. J. White, c;i SyecUt House of Rcyrcsenta.'ijcs* _ ^ f * ^ ' . ' SHIPWRECK. 81,1 Geo '/ton. I)c\ 29. in* TliencUr. Swann. W. P. Leah f?M?- j C. of folk bound to Knighton, Jamaica, on j Z. ic JiOfh iiwt. when scudding across Ihe J. ilphstream, in b^nv v weather suddenly Ot >rung a leak, and in seven uiindte* filled-, H( > the deck, and obliged the crew to lake Al > the. rigging for the preservation of E?l ieir lives, where they remained five days W rJ. nights in the. greatest suffering, ex- Arised to the severity of the elements.? 1 ini 'hey succeeded in fishing from-the fore. 1 <?< istlo a single ham of bacon, which sua J J. lined them till they were fallen in with j J. v the schooner Greenleaf, Gapt. Slee|>er j F. -who safely landed the Captain and ! Jol rew in this port on Monday last. The I. wann, was loaded with shingles, staves ml heading, and was owned"by Brown, as otter, & Co. of New York. No insu. . int. Observer. FROM TIIR CHARLESTON MKRtU'RT. = In the Legislature of South Carolinu. The following resolution to reduce the I ^ nhlic debt was offered by Mr. Menwnin. - - ~~.l .I'to. miiffh >tiw<*ii%iii<in wms Hna'Iv i ^ IT* #1VI?J nilCI IIMM'II w..?. .. rdered to he laid on the table by a vote j isfi I 46 to 42? | im Resolved, That it is expedient that lis Legislature should diminish as far a* nasihie, the public debt of the. State; )at no occassinn exists for a further1***"!* *fa folate i!>loch, under the act for rebuild*; **ti >2 the City of Charleston anr) that the j uai resident & Directors of the Bank of the 1 "b tate are hereby required to deliver up to j le Comptroller General to lie cancelled, J II certificates otV.ock or other obligations ; i their fioHKetjisinn. issued under the said tct, which remain unsold. I (1" __ , I Co The following Protest was then prosen* ** id in behalf of the minority* : bo The undersigned R-presentafives of tai lie people of South Carolina do hereby in ! chalf of themselves and of the people rhom they represent, solemnly protest a- Oi ainst the order of the House of Repre* ! vo tentative*, laving uj>on the table a resolu* <JC i?>n to reduce the public debt, and con* idering ihe said ordar as equivalent to a :jection of the Resolution, they beg leave j a.a sspectfully to enter their solemn protest j ^ gainst such rejection for the following a*, long other reasons. J Sf>< 1. Because a public debt is a great j "r uhlic evil, and ought to-l?o incurred only 'fl i cases of great urgent necessity. . wn 2. Because the public, debt incurred J i re-huild the City of Charleston was i rcated te repair one of ihe greatest cal j an initics which the State had ever suffered: j <fc tcven und. r so pressing a necessity was (jf illy permitted upon the express giiaran ^ >e of the City of Charleston against all " >s* to the State. I ,N 3. B 'cause the President and Diree* J th? irs of the Bank of the Slate, having j |,a cen appointed the Agents of the S'ate to \ rl S , I f,fl dl the public bonds Which might he re* ' uired to raise money to re-huild the Cit\ f Charleston, have already sold 626 'V 36, Dol. more than is fquirod for th< j,,* iflercr.-i bv the fin; ; <Xc now propose to ^ i!l 332 795 Dol. more ; thereby inereas tg the public debt one million of dollar* i,i L-vond what wan required to rebuild the |>rt iity of Charleston. 4. Because the public debt of abou nc million of dollars which has been ap 1 11 t lied to re build the City of Charleston. ^ liargos the State onlv with an interest m * itl'l f 5 j?er cent, as is secured 1st bv the in iiidual bonds of the borrowers : 2nd by n ( mrtgage of earh Town lot with the j , raises >>4ii 11 thereon, covered by a policy T Insurance; and 3diy by the guarantee f the City of Charleston; wlicre.ts the ;|js shl which the lesolution proposes to re- j ^ uce, charges the State with an interest . i he fsix per cent, and is to he loaned out to (dividual*, subject to all the hazards of -vc< inking operations. roI 5. Because the borrowing of money on jec u: public credit to lend out to individuals nn hether bv means of a bank or otherwise, ^jr a policy dangerous to the best interests jjr f the, Slate and contrary In the principles r Republican Government. I 0. Because the property of cvrv cifi- ru* n of the coutitrv becomes pledgee! to an< itV the public. debt, and when money an: lised by means of such deht is loaned j rf,p it to individuals, every citi/en of the iate is virtually made the endorser o ^ he notesot'the favored few to whom the . inney is loaned.. . n% 7. Because the Bank of the Slate. l?ra hen first est ihlished* was fused upon the nds which the State had acquired as ?hc :tual capital, the loss, upon which, coll Tough hanking operations, could onl\ I ^ feet such capital without injury to the ihlic treasury: hut the new policy, now j Ul noosed. of raising money for the Rank j s,,c I V/ increasing the public debt, involves i ie Sinte treasury in all the casunlities ; id danger of banking operations, and in diversion of that great principle avowed -S'?M / the .Stale, of keeping the public trca.! 1 try independent of hanks. Tlf 8. Because the great facility with *"n hich money can bo raised upon the i ,,,c ihlie credit, has a tendency to seduce | in public servants from their duly, and! i confer upon those who lend out the i oney, a secret and dangerous control add rer the councils of.thc State. j .??i 8. Because the experience of the Bank ! u 'the State has proved that its profits! ive been diminished as its capital hnsj. ien increased: that for the last four years,' "j.n u?n without reserving any fund to ne-et \ ^ tore losses, its average rate of profits, is lieen only 51-2 per cent.; that 'he|^? ' ? (tin I fhp Sl;ifp , OpOSIllOM, im:n;n'itj ...... .... | j,jr iouM borrow in ?nev at 6 per cent, to > (fa nd cut ct 51.4 subject also to the usual (the iMualitie?* of bunking) cunnoi Tail to re. j iprt i f It in loss, which nm.it eventually be ide good hy taxing the people. i G. Nemminger, Paul Quattlehum, l P. Herndon, H. H Thompson, H. Adams, Thomas A Po|>e, is Mills* J. Sheppard, hiry Gaitdin, Wade S. Colli ran,? lard, H. B-lin, C. B. Griffin, I ward Frost, Atkinson, in. T EMerbe, Willinin Atken, G. M igralli, L. F. Rhame, mes W. Walker, Jas. ('hesniit, Jr., o. Anderson, C. W. Dudley. D. Wilson, J. Washington Rice, A. A'ston, D-in'l. F. Jenkins, J W. Davw, S. \1. Enrle, tin Schniorle. J. Edwin Ware, Wmgard, Rolwt S. Allison, Henry Smith. CIIERAW GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, Jaxuahv S, H42. j The following is an extract from in- j actions to postmasters issued from the [ st Office Department during its admin. 1 ration hy Mr. Kendall, and reneated Aur thp ndtiiinufrntiiiii of the Present .st Master General: "A Postmaster mnv enclose money in ; letter to the publisher of n newspaper, ! ? pav the subscription of a third person, nd frank the letter, if written or signed , V himself." f . I 44 J. T." Next week. j 'Hie President's 44 B ?ard of K\che. [ er," seems not to suit either parly in j ingress. \l bother it can l?e so modified j to recive the support of a majority ol ! tii houses and the President is uocorn. In the of Representatives of no, resolutions have been adopted by a , le of 04 to 0 in invor of paying the j hts of the State. j ruprniatton in Arkansas.?The iteof Arkansas, for some purpose-not ited in any account which we have m gave its Imnds into the hands of the teal estate Rank," chartered by itself. 1 ic hank tnnsfered the bonds, in soine , iv. or pledged tln-m, to the "North : oerican Trust and Banking Company," I d tins Company sold theni to Hoili rd, ! Co. beyond the Atlantic.. The state, at least the Governor of the state, now jects to paying the bonds, because, as alleged, its agent, the hank, disposed of ...? i mi,miliar It; the Knnk refuses tr> ... ............ ., y them because, as it alleges, the com j nv to which it entrusted them sold , jm improperly, and the holder* arc like. 1 to he defrauded out of the whole, loiint. Toe following is an ex trueI >ni the reply of Governor YklloI" Ar | nsas to a letter on the subject, from tin j . sent holders of the bonds; i "Rut it would he absurd to suppose, ant! | u mistake the character of our people, ! vou Halter yourself that they will lame j submit i(? bo taxed to pay bondsh\ j*o'.K ited to stockjobbers to enable the hank carry on her speculations, without lh? J fhority of la w, and in express violation . hor charter." I There is some such f?.!k as that Illinois j o is about to repudiate her bonds, or j uc part of fhi in. So we go. What 1 s result may he in less than h dozen ! urs, no one can now foretell. Will Ru. lean Governments submit to their >ub- . Is being thus swindled out of their 1 uiey by the sovereign states of this lion? It is not to he ex pee ted. If ilain applies to the Federal Govern- j nt, it refers thern to the states concern, j 1 f thov are anolicd to they, hid Hefi " I > re, and perhaps return soinn instilling <wer. Suppoj?o. then, Britain make* risals hy seizing tiie cot ion of Miosis. ', pi tin l in* high s(?ns. or I lie flour of' liana or lllinios. in Canada, or even ad?a one of these s rates, will the Fed. I Government make itself a party to ;, fraud of the slates bv interfering on 1 ir behalf? If it should, a war, of: irse. is the result. Will the other pow- j of Furope who are e<]uall) interested h Britain look on as idle spectators in ' h a war? 1 * ?- ? * * t t/. liA mn/l/i t/? 1 \n nnie mime in- "Mgin i?? lf*- unnir, Constitution. providing that any Slate ; i ich shall refuse to pay her just debts, { 11 ipso facto he expelled from the j ion, and tnen lie required to pay her 1 it a of any deht which may at the j' ie be due froin the Federal Govern- I * nt. ' TilK LK.WKN WORKING. | rho following resolutions have been ipted savs the New York Kvoning Post, spirited Public meetings'' in ''various ^ inlies" of Indiana. 'Resolved, That it is the deliberate opht. ; of tins meeting, that the Legislature o.ir Stale should, at its mwt session, ;puMAT'S ALL STATE BONDS which the Slate has not received bona i consideration, and that the Legixla- j e should solemnly revive to pay nei- ' r principal, nor interest, nor any part reof, o f any such bonds. Resolved, further. That it is the ex- 1 .33 de.?irc of ihia mooting; that the next Legislature suspend (I ?e further pny* merit of the S at?? Bonds both principal nnd interest. until the SUtlt u better able to pay; and thai the Leg uiaturt lay no 0 tax upon the people br,/ond u dial is nncestary io defray the netl exyens,is of the State Government 11 r.sit!red. That lite Internal Improve, rnentsof thin State be >ol I to the higheat bidder, at auction or puhl ic ?mtory, the proeeeds to go. as far ax the f will, tunwiit paving the public debt. Resolved, That payment ought to he . refuted of (lie suspended debt, and Ex* Governor Noble called hon h*. Kesoivrd That no mm r State hood# be hypothrcat'd. alias ya rned, (or liftih' more than half tbuir value, to raise money to carry on useless work*! and run our : State furl Iter into debt. . ~ ; Resolved, That the salar ics of ?H public officers in the statu ought to he irnm*dt, atoly reduced to an econmiucal standard. ' Resolved. That a relief or stay la* far tiro years. ou?h' to he pawd immediately upon the assembling of t he Legislature, an I that all debts, ju l aments, executions, issuetl. or to ht issued, be stayed until the ?r*t nt' J/inutiru. 1844. ...... v - -Rp.to!rr<l. That if tile Legislature does not grant rulief at a virv larly day of I ho session, that we will a 4-erithle at this piano on Chris mas day. determined that mir public officers, through force of pUMje. ,, t opinion, shall resign ijieir different trust,* reposed in th'-m by its." Upon the above the \ew York Express remarks as follow*: The repudiation" prin-ipleof G.o# IMcNutt, of >li.vi>sip ?i, just put forth, we are pained to see, runs like wild.firo among certain presses io the interior of the State* we have named. It is presetted as popular, that American Farmers shall not sweat mid toil to pay debts to the n*. hobs of England; and it is a degrading ^ thought, that the idea captivates hundred* upon hundreds of otherwise honest mind*. The Farmers, indeed, arc told, Lilt the** on holts have swindled thoni out of their bonds; that the plan 10cheat and defraud them has been deliberate, and the 4nly remedy, therefore, is repuditHion! The argument* that respectable prestos of the opposition, *mdi as th>* Evening IV, and Phila elph a Pe?n*ylraiii*i?, hav. put forth, to defend Cov. M-?S It . , in 1 * pudiatioo of a p.art f lie KotnH of Mi-sissippi, many of the peases of tho interior confound as a dof n<v of list whole system of swindling. Tlx- ivtvtoruliftt o'' that defence, admitting we tiny ho. estly differ about the principle, r?f. rupis ill* whole puNSir mind of (be oppife sifion? 'Hie effect of it is to make swindling a party cju -stion, and to rally what is called the dcinocrncv*' upon the prineiple, or rather to confound nomocracy and general State swindling.' # Let us he urid*-fstood, however, while 1 - -- ir ne sow nil me niariu on mi* poiru. k demagogue* mounting and successfully* < riding flii* HoWiv obtain a temporary tm ,: umph, amid the s; (tiering* of the People, tl,.in the fHicm* breath that we sound the alarm, hi; p;o? luiin nii abiding ami tin. <! >iihtir?i^ co h'lenre in the ultimate n-cli. tilde and in?* ghim-ss ol* the People of this ciuin'rv. We helievr that in the etui . every cent. prin< ipul ami interest of every Sla c I'o :d hill he paid. Honesty at* way?' triumphs in the end with a R puMi. can People. Honor will prompt theSlates when better ah!e to have (to iMit' or claim Jell standing against th-m. After all fi>o. the whole debt of'2tM> (Nl(t OfHl dot. lars is hut a InHe for us as compared wilU the ihdits and taxes of other nations. The . Stales now the worst off have in them the * eds of growth ant! progress sure gun ran. tees of interest now loft unpaid." The general ticket law of Alabam*, for the election of member* of Congre* , has been repealed by the Legislature. 'His* question had been submitti d to the people, at the |tolls, and they decided by a largo majorit. in favor of the repeal. Hero wtffc li'grinia e instruction* from tho people, mi J in a cnne whom th- y had not previously bound themselves hy constitu* lional restrictions. t So common tins it become to park cut* Ion fraudulently in Louisiana* Mississippi, Find AlabaniH, that the Consul of the U* S. at Havre, France, has addressed a let* tor on the subject to the (Jovornors of* these states, nt the request of tiie Cham-her of Commerce of that rilv. Dr. Willi am Whitk, of .Mecklenburg N. C. was drowned on the 23d December about 27 miles below Charlotte, ilk grossing a creek, which had but a litlli* n il I If before been crossed by hi* load* d aagoiw. ti is supposed that hi* horse (tumbled and threw him in the stream. In the same county, a man named j1 ' . Jamks Kay. froze to death, on the night if the 2'2d. by exposure in a state of intuxication. *" 1 1 *???? > t.r .J Rhupk Island.? row atate m*mm H be iu progress to a .specie* of RcvuWiof). It iar still governed hy the rliartei granted ' \ ^ bj' t'hnrlesthv Second, in place- of a constitution. Frequent attempts have been - . Marie to procure tht calling *4* a popular . convention hv the Legislature to adopt a. constitution; but the Legislature never r'gave its conswnt. An irregular move. " ment was finally made on the auhject among tie people, and delegate* were f.?m IIIA I'liunliM K-i.it OppOIIIICU ! ? ...mw-W? ?* ??w assembled in convention some time Htu ring 'hepa^t year, a Hit Irnnn.-d n cnnatMuliun for the atate. Thk? constitution, ac# %