although the forms of our federative sys- i
tern may discharge it from a legal liabili.
ty for their engagements.
Admitting the potency, and the extent
of the evil, you will ask what is the reme- i
dy ? This, my good sir, is precisely the ;
question I am about to ask you, and I ask
you in the form of a specific inquiry, whe.
' Ui;~ ninn thrnnrrh tho ITninn
mer piii'iiv _
may not leceive such an organization by
the action of Congress, popular meetings
and the press, as lo induce the defaulting
States to hold Conventions this winter,
comprehending those who have negotiated
foreign loans, who nevertheless have met
punctually their dividends, that by united
action they may induce the legislatures of
the several indebted States to impose, and
the people to hear such taxes as shall provide
the means of paying the interest, and
establishing a sinking fund for the gradu
al extinguishment of the principal of their
public debt? I cannot believe that these
appeals to State prido, and National honor
would he unavailing. You see that I
lay out of account the assumption of the
State debts by the federal Government,
because I ofton fear, if this expectation
were held out, the defaulting States would
do nothing of themselves, and the exigency
has not yet sisen when such an enormous
responsibility ought to be assumed
by the National Government, so unjust to
those States who arc faithfully paying
their debts, and to others who have perhaps
been far wiser to forbear contracting
any, although I can conceive a state of
things in which such assumption as a mensure
of finance and national policy might
he eminently expedient.
I am gratified to inform you amidst this
convulsion in the credit of several of the
States, our own South Carolina, " wears
her hearer up." She is never in a r rear
one cloy, and very ofton, as at this moment,
(in reference to the loan I contracted for
her) has her interest six months in advance
in her banker's hands. This is not
surprising. You know it has been one of
f i' ?J U/-..,c,,Krvl<l In^.-nrK nI hnmp
our laminar aim inmov..v.?
to submit cheerfully to the imposition of
direct taxes, to support the secur ty and
honor of our country, and hence by a habit
which wo derived from the buried
"warlike, and the wisuv who have made
n* what we are, we pay our State taxes
with almost as much alacrity as we give
J O
money to our wives and children. If the
defaulting States would only practice on
this doctrine, the smallest imposition
would produce an amount abundantly sufficient
to resuscitate their credit.
Occupying the position you do, I sincerely
hope, my dear sir. that your influence
throughout the Union will be brought
. ^
to bear on this grenr national question.
Wo all k now that our countrymen are essentially
honest, because they arc essentially
sagacious, as well as, in the main,
right-principled, and require merely a
proper direction to be given to their exertions
to make even an heroic effort to rerecover
and sustain the character of tho
country.
But, auxiliary to these efforts, something
more ) emu ins to be d?>nc by your
self. It is to lend vigorously the powers
c.f your own genius, and the impulses of
vour own patriotism, in your own appro,
priate sphere, the Senate of the United
States, to create and establish a sound
circulating medium throughout llie Union,
convertible into specie, but in sufficient
abundance to elevate the standard of value
from the dreadful depression to which it
has fallen, and in fact to be adequate to
perform the exchanges of trade and value
in our country. Whether this be a bank
of the United States or an issue of a redcemable
currency by the Federal Treasury,
is not of so much comparative important,
as that we should have an abunriant
and uniform circulation from some
source or other, which, making a lowance
for the variations in the balance of trade,
nhali bo of equal value in New Orleans
and Boston.
This circulation, in the recesses of that
financial wisdom which is past finding
out, was destroyed by our friend Gen.
Jackson, when he slew the Bank of the
United States, with tho arm of Samson,
and almost "with the self same weapon
? ...u^^ rprnlIprt all the twaddle
ino, w nun ? . v?. .
of the old gentleman on the subject. He,
as Burke, said, was certainly a "consummate
architect of Ruin," in his time aad
tide, and had the hnppy faculty of impersonating
a corporation "in his mind's eye"
for the purpose of hating it as cordially
as he once did yon and Mr. Poindexter.
When, therefore, Mr. Riddle entered into
a contest with this hero of two wars, he
forgot the wisdom of the Spanish proverb,
"That he who sits down to dine with the
. devil should rat with a long spoon." What
has been the result of this feast, in broken
mrnt and empty plates, you well know.
!t has left our country palsied indeed?
hungry in flesh and poor in spirit. I doubt,
since the creation of the world, whether
such an example can be exhibited as we
have presented for the last sixteen years
of follv and misgovernmcnt. No Southern
planter would permit his plantation
for one hoar to bo governed with such n
?ni
lack of all sense and providence, j ne
Ca fires and Hottentots, in reference to their
condition, I doubt not, have been governed
with a policy far more vigilant and enlightened.
A country of immense re.
sources, in a period of profound peace, on
the verge of bankruptcy ! Any man who
u ill read Hume's essays on 44Public Credit"
and on 44 Money," can be at no loss
to trace our present condition to its true
cause. We have been suffering ever
since Gen. Jackson destroyed the bank of
the United States (with the exception of
a short period of distempered inff immation
created by his own measures) under a
steadily diminishing circulation, which
/he eminent philosopher to whom I have
referred has declared to be one of the
worst calamities that can hrf.il a civilized
country?far more disastrous than the
? ktiflrhr fif unfavorable harvests
cuuuiiuvw ve?? - -
i and seasons." This result has been first
in the constant action of the Federal Gov.
crnment, or their supposed meditated action
on the Banks of the States, which
created a universal panic h tt has compelled
the Banks to withdraw their circulation
; and next the General Government
permitting to remain in criminal abeyance
! t!ie:r sovereign function to supply a cur
rency equal to the wants of the country,
and " to regulate its value."
i The consequence is, that the Slates
I have nothing in the shape of credit or rnoj
ney at home to pay with abroad. Every
j species of property has fallen from fifty to
! one hundred per cent., and the standard
I of value so seriously disturbed that a man
, in 1839 might have had property to three
; times the value of his debts, yet he is now
j ipso facto ruined by the silent transit of j
our country from a redundant circulation
j to what some are pleased most felicitous.
! ly to call a hard money currency?when
j the fact is that we can procure neither
j that which is hard, or soft.
By this alteration in the standard of
j value, a revolution is in portentous pro- ,
J gross in our country, as wide-spread and
! desolating, ns far as property is concerned,
j a9 that which distinguished and illustrated
the masterpieces of human policy of the
Robespierres, Dantons, and Marat? of another
ill-fated country, which in its time
was governed by its demagogues too, who
made paper money so thick that it snowed
assign its in the streets of Paris, and then
turned round and burnt in their trenzy '
i,anAvwiirk. Look. mv dear I
) nit;11 u" ii 11it v. j ........ , v
sir, at ihe thousands, and tens of thous- ,
andsof families that have been ruined?
that have had unutterable woe carried
into the very bosoms of their houses, by
| the nostrums of our political quacks, who,
i in their senseless war on the very banks
they created, gave no time 4> by the pre- j
paratorv revolution of the intervening j
discords" for the country to pass from a j
period of expansion to one of severe and |
arid restriction. To those who have been '
ruined in these unhappy times, whose estates
have passed under the tender gripe
of the sheriff*, the moral justice of General i
Jackson's memorahle apothegm will be j
but a dry crust, that "those who borrow
money ought to break"?a doctrine out j
of which their creditors arc likely to derive
as little comfort as themselves, although
it must be admitted that the General
tried all he could to secure th s blessing
to the country. But, my good sir,
tho day of reckoning must come. The
account will he adjusted now, or by posterity
hereafter. One of its first sums will be to
reckon up what the victory of New Orleans
has cost us. These are generally
expensive pageants any how. Bonaparte
probably never achieved one for La Belle
; France, except to the tune of twenty mil;
lions of francs?to say nothing of the lots
I of 44 cracked crowns and bloody noses" he
loll on inc ik ui oi uiiiut'< dui ma (itiui >^0
j in cost were no more to he compared to
1 the victory of New Orleans, than a penny
whistle is to Baron .Munchausen's celcbra!
ted clarion under an April thaw. I calculate
that ha victory of the 8th of January
cost us five hundred millions of dol;
lars, beside the small expence of entailing
| upon the country, 44 a set of drivellers
i whose folly has taken away all dignity
j from distress, and made even calamity
I ridiculous."' You will say hold. You and
j I are greatly responsible for this hero's
! getting into powet. Yes, it is true ; willj
ingly would I expiate this sin, sir, with
: my blood, if it could recall the fatal past.
| But this is impossible. Let us look with
courage and resolution to the future. I care
j not what your abstract theories on bank!
ing are, whether they ngree with or differ
! from my own. 1 believe you havj, as you
I had at the cjosn of the late war the resources
of mind and spirit to lift 'he country
out cf its present deep decadence.?
; Yes, mv dtar sir, I believe your ambition
| and your genius are on a level with a 11
/ that is great and glorious in human ac.
t on and enterprise. Tho field is before
! you?take the lead in some great public
j measure, whether ii bo n Bank of the Uni.
i ted States, or an Exchequer agent, it s
/ immaterial, so ihat it shall restore confi|
dt-nce, invigointo industry, g vc (o us an
abundant, sound, circulating medium, and
< drag up from the deep the drowning cred
it of it.c S'ates Lv this, and if the first
I iKr. rnnnlrv ilnPS not a Wait \'0j.
iiwiivyi kii iiiv v.i . j w. ^
its last b'css ng will rest upon your fame.
I remain, my Dear Sir,
with sincere esteem,
! Very respectfully and faithfully yours,
J. HAMILTONP.
S.?I shall be out in the next Hali ;
fax steamer, and hope to confer with you
I on the subject of this letter on my arrival
; in Carolina.
TilK SCHOOL MASTER WANTED.
I Mexico is in a wret< hed state, and is a
j wretched State of itself. An officer of
the United States ship Macedonian, who
! has travelled extensively in Mexico, says
' that of 12,000,000 pcoplo there ore not
; 2.000 ladies who can write their own
names!?And those that can write at all,
are so shamefully ignorant that thoy are
hardly worth mentioning. A deplorable
picture, but it may be true.
TICKLED EGGS.
(From a Hampshire correspondent.)?
: An industrious farmer's wife, residing at
i Shipdcn, near Andovcr, among a variety
1 of other pickles which she annually intro.
duces into her store, preserves pickled
eggs. The process she uses in curing
? W chn hac n
j them IS very simpiw. n imu ..
large stock of eggs on hand sho boils some
six or seven dozen till they become hard.
She then divests them of the shell, and
puts then) into large jars, pouring upon
them scalding vinegar, saturated ginger, j
garlic, whole pepper and alspice. This is
an admirable ai l to cold meat, and is, in
the winter months, regarded as a perfect
farm-house luxury.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the 2 J Session of the 21th Congress.
[BY AUTHORITY]
[Pl'BLIC?No. 17.]
AN ACT changing the times of holding the circuit
and district courts of the United States for
the districts of East and West Tennessee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in
r. ~hlrr1 That the circuit and district
1~>U7lgTCH8 luecniuivo)
courts of the United States for the district of ?ast
Tennessee shall hereafter be held at Knoxville, in
said district, on the first Mondays in November
and May, in each and every jear, instead of the
times heretofore fixed by law; and that the circuit
and district courts for the district of West Tennessee
shall hereafter be held at Jackson, in said
district, on the second Monday in October and
April, in each and every year, instead of the times
heretofore fixed by law?the spring terms of said
circuit oourt at Knoxville and Jackson, as herein
provided, to be held by the d strict judge; and
should any difficult question of law arise in any
cause, suid judge may, at his discretion, adjourn
said cause to the succeeding term of said court.?
And all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments,
or other proceedings, civil or criminal, issued,
commenced, or pending in either of said
courts, shall be returnable to, be entered and have
day in court, and be heard and tried according to
the times of holding said courts, as herein provi- I
dcd.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That sucfi j
rule days, for the return of process and the filing
of pleadings, may from time to time be fixed, and j
other orders made by said courts, respectively, not
inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the
United States, as may be necessary or proper for
the convenience of parties and the advancement
of business in said courts ; and that the first section
of "An act to amend an act approved the
eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and tliir
- * * * - J 1 ??:4i_ j
ty-ninc, entitled * An aci 10 amcna an aoi emmtu j
an act to require the judge of the district of East
and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in
said State,' approved June the eighteenth, eigh.
teen hundred and thirty eight, and for other purposes,"
approved July tho fourth, eighteen hundrcd
and forty, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
JOHN WHITE,
Speaker of the House of Repr esentatives.
WILLIE P. MANGUM,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, May 18, 1812.
JOHN TYLER.
[Public?No. 18.]
AN ACT to amend the act of the tenth of March,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled " An i
[ act to change the time of holding the circuit .
and district courts in the district of Ohio.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re.
prescntativcs of the United States of America in '
Congress assembled, That the term of the circuit
and district courts of the United States, in the
district of Ohio, now required by law to be held
on the first Monday of July, annually, at Columbus,
shall hereafter be held at the City of Cincinnati;
and all process and recognizances, and other
proceedings taken or issued, or made returnable
at Columbus, at the said July term next, shall be
returnable at the said term at Cincinnati; and the
said district court shall have power, whenever, in
the opinion of the Judge thereof, it may bo necessary
for the convenient administration of justice,
to hold an adjourned term of said district court at
the city of Cleveland, in said district, at such time
as he may think proper; and the said district
court may make all necessary rules for holding
such adiourned term of said court, and for the
? J
proper return of proce63.
Approved, June 1, 1842.
[Fcelic?No. 19.]
AN ACT regulating commercial intercourse with
the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French
Guiana and to remit certain duties.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the provisions of the
act entitled " An act regulating the commercial
intercourse with the islands of Martinique and
Gaudaloupe," approved on the ninth of May,
eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, admitting
French vessels coming from and laden with ar- '
tides, the growth and manufacture of cither of the
said islands, are hereby extended to the vessels of
the same nation coming from the port of Cayenne,
in the colony of French Guiana, 6o as to entitle
Baid vessels coming directly from said port of
Cayenne, and laden with articles the growth or
manufacture of said colony which arc permitted to
be exported therefrom in American vessels, to admission
into the ports of the United States on payment
of no higher duties of tonnage, or on their
cargoes, as aforesaid, than arc imposed on AmeriJ
can vessels, and on like cargoes therein imported :
j Provided, That if tho President of the United !
States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory in- !
formation that the privileges allowed to American '
vessels and their cargoes in the said colony of j
French Guiana, by the arrctcs of its Governor
bearing date the fifth of December, eighteen hun- '
dred and thirty-one, and the twenty-eighth of Dc- j
I cembcr, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and by :
the tariffs and rrgu'ations in force in the colony, ,
have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby au- 1
thorized, by proclamation, to suspend the opera- j
tions of this act, and withhold all privileges al- !
lowed under it.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to
refund, out of any money in tho Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, such amount of duty, inconsistent
with the provisos of the first section of
this act, which, since the arrctes and the tariffs
and regulations referred to in the provisions to the
first section of this act, have been in operation in
said colony, as n;ay have been levied in the ports
of the United States upon any French vessels
coming directly from the port of Cayenne, laden
with such articles, the growth or manufacture of
stid colony, which were allowed to be exported
therefrom in American vessels.
Approved, June 1, 1642.
[Public?No. 20.J
AN ACT to authorize the collector of the district
of Fairfield to reside in cither of the towns of
Fairfield or Bridgeport.
Be it enacted by the Senate find Jfou$e of Representatives
of the United Stoics of America in
Congress assembled, That so much of the act en. J
titled 44 An act to regulate the duties on imports |
and tonnage," approved March second, seventeen !
hundred and nincty-ninc, as requires the collector J
for the district of Fairfield, in the State of Con i
nccticut, to reside in (he town of Fairfie)df be,'
and the same is hereby, repealed; and the said col-'
lector shall reside in said town of Fairfield, or in
the town of Bridgeport, within said district.
Approved, June 4, 1842.
[Resolution?Public, No. 3.]
JOINT RESOLUTION to continue two clerks
in the business of reservations and grants under '
Indian treaties.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of!
Representatives of the United States of America j
in Congress assembled, That the authority given ;
to the Secretary of War, by the joi. t resolution,
approved second May, one thousand eight hundred
and forty, to continue the employment of two
clerks in the busir.e s of reservations and grants |
under Indian treaties, be extended, after the ex- j
piration of the period for which that authority was
granted, for the term of two years.
Approved, May 18, 1843.
[Resolution?Public, No. 4.]
A RESOLUTION to authorize the extension of
the contract for c irrying the mail on the route
between Mobile and New Orleans.
Resolved by the Senate qnd House of Re. ,
prescntatitcs of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Postmaster Gene- j
ral be, and he hereby is, authorized to extend the ,
existing contract for carrying the mail upon the ;
steamboat rputc between Mobile and New Orleans !
for three years from the time at which said con- I
tract would expire by its own limitation, it in ms
opinion, the public interest and convenience will
be promoted by such extension of said contract.
Approved, June 1, 1812.
extraordinary trot ting match.
We cut the following from an English
paper. Jt nppears to us that the rider, I
in this case, was a very appropriate one ;
and if all the spectators at trotting
matches were of the same species, the
world would be better off:
41 On Tuesday afternoon, a gray pony, j
twelve hands and a half high, *hc property
of .Mr. Burke, a gentleman well known
on the turf, was hacked for ?oO to trot 14
. . I
miles within the hour, with a monkey for ;
its rider, in an enclosure attached to the
Rosemary Branch, Peckham. The monkey,
according to the conditions of the
match, was booted, spurred, and otherwise
attired after the fashion of the jockieg at
Epsom or Newmarket, and rode the pony .
in the usual stylo, with saddle and bridle. |
The monkey s licted was Signor Jocko,
belonging to Mr. Batty, the equestrian
manager, who had already earned considerable
reputation by bis performances in
the circle at the Surry, and other metro,
politan and provincial theatres. At the
appointed time the 4 Signor' made his appearance,
attended by one of the rough,
riders belonging to Mr. Batty's establishj
inent. He was dressed a la Chifncy, or
Scott, his jacket and buckskins being built
, by a first rate westend Schneider, and his .
J top boots would have done honor even to !
the renowned Hoby. The colors he spor- !
; ted were red and white, and in his right
}>;?vv he carried a handsome riding.whip,
j ?nd also wore a pair of small spurs buckJ
led r? tind his boots. The pony lie was
mounted on is a very fast trotter, but notwithstanding
his performances, time was
in this instance backed at odds. . After
the arrangement of the usual preliminaries
the start took place; Mr. Burke, and a j
gentleman the friend of the party who (
jiad taken the bet, cantering on each side
of the pony, with one or two others gallop- ;
' ing in the rear. Ho performed the dis- j
j tance in 56 minutes and53 seconds of the j
; given time ; consequently having three
; minutes and seven seconds to spare, and I
I was not at all distressed. The signer rode
j in first rate style, came in w ith the whip
^in his mouth, and appeared quite con|
scions of his own merits as an equcstri.
: an."
*
J TENNESSEE.
j The Legislature of Tennessee has been
called together at an extra session for the
...
j purposo of districting the State, and doing
such other business as may be deemed of
pressing importance. The Messago of
( Gov. Jones was communicated to the two
Houses on the 4th inst.
After alluding to the necessity of a new J
subdivision of the State into Congression- ;
j al districts to meet the requirements of!
the new Apportionment law, the Governor ,
proceeds to urge upon the Legislature the J
duty of electing two Senators of the Uni- I
ted States. Tennessee has had no Sen- j
ator in Congress since the extra session of ;
I
1841, and even then a vacancy remained j
unfilled. The obstinacy and the utter l
' " ?i m.,? ;
disregard or consuiuuuiitu uui; un ?..? ,
part of the Locofoeo majority in the State
Senate, who refused and persisted in rc- I
fusing to meet the House, in which the
Whigs havo a majoril)?thus defeating }
an election by joint ballot?have brought
this difficulty upon the State no little discredit
to her name. Gov. Jones says :
" Under a firm conviction of the nnpor.
tance of this subject, both nsit affects the
honor and interest of the State, it is ear- j
nestly recommended that you elect two !
Senators to the Congress of tho United
States. If you should be of opinion that j
no sufficient mode of election has been j
prescribed, or that the manner heretofore j
pursued in all similar elections since the j
formation of the State Government is ei- j
ther insufficient or incorrect, I would suggest
that you proceed at an early day to i
mnko such provision as you may deein
satisfactory. I make this suggestion, not
because I entertain any doubts as to the
i
justice, constitutionality, or entire sum- j
ciency of the mode hitherto adopted in
the election of Senators, but in justice to I
those who may honestly difler upon this
subject."
The XV big Senators proposed some time I
I
ago to the Senators of the other party at
that both sidcsshould resign, and thus sub- s<
mit the whole matter to the people. This n
wus declined.?Bait. Awer. a
~ w
The Hon. Tom. Marshall, the reprc. p
scntative in Congress from Mr. Clav's oi
district, recently delivered a stump rr
speech to his constituents at \ ersailles, of ir
which the Commonwealth, a Whig pa- h
per says ; " We understand that in the P
main the sentiments he expressed were '
Whig sentiments, hut that on the subject b
of the veto power, he delivered himself in
a manner very offensive to the Whigs t(
who heard him with great sorrow, while
the Democrats, as might be expected, ^
were perfectly delighted. i
consul at havana.
It gives us pleasure to he able to an.
nounee that, if a g ntleman of high worth
and character, Mr. Calhoun, has been
removed from this important station, for
no reason that wo can hear of exccnt that
in the contest of 1840 he had done great
service to the Whig cause, at least the
place is to be filled by one to whom no exepption
can be taken?a fact beginning
now not to be very frequent. Gen. Robert
Campbell, formerly Member of
Congress from South Carolina, ami subsequently
n citizen of Georgia or Alabama,
succeeds Mr. Caliioun. Few gentlemen
possess or deserve n larger body of
personal friends. Wo understand that
Mr. Campbell has not obtained the nppointment
at the expense of his respectable
predecessor, and that ho applied only
after Mr. Calhoun's removal was ascertained
to he settled.?Nat. Intell.
,
mr. clay in the wbst. i
From the Dayton Journal of the 3rd (
instant we copy the following account of
Mr. Clay's progiess after leaving that |
city: I
Mr. Clay reached Eaton on Friday j !
afternoon. He was met by a number of! j
people, and welcomed in a very handsome j i
nddress by Felix Marsii, Esq., to which j j
he responded in an exceedingly iinppy j i
I- - r _t . .:
manner in a spceen 01 numu uimj unn-.
utes. The people were afterwards ad- j
dressed by Mr. Crittenden, Governor
Metcalfe, and Charles Anderson, of
this place.
At 10 o'clock on Saturday morning the
company reached the Jjtalo line, Ilpre
some five or six thousand people were ready
to receive Mr. Clay. At this point
he took leave of Ohio in terms the most
feeling and eloquent. Arriving at Rich
tnond sfiorlly afterwards, twenty thousand
Hoosicrs were found waiting to wel- >!
come him to Indiana, lie addressed this j ^
crowd in a speech two hours and a half j
in length, nearly half of which was devo
ted to abolition. It appears that a petition
to him to emancipate his slaves had j
been gotten up previous to his arrival,
and was presented to him upon the stand.
In his frank, open, and undisguised manner.
he gave his opinion of the petition j
that had been mado to him, and of slavery
and abolition in general. Wc have no
: room to refer to the matter of his address,
j but have only to sny that it was most con ;
vineing to all who heard him, and well re- '
! ceived by every one.
i ' _ '
Mr, Calhoun, it is said, has stated his '
: determination not to submit (q the decision
of a National Convention ; but to be ^
a candidate for the Presidency, " nornination
or no nomination."
North American (
Tois accords with what was intimated ^
by the current reports in this city at the
close of the iast session of Congress.
Nat. hit ell. j
From the Providence Chn n cle.
KIDNAPPING.
We learn that Mr. Batchelor, who was ,
arrested In Puwcgtuck a few days since (
for counterfeiting, was taken from the
above place without any legal process,
and carried into the stnte of Connecticut.
This case placed Gov. Cleaveland in a
peculiar dilemma, having acknowledged j
Dorr as the legal Governor, he could not
apply to Gov. King, whom he considers ,
an usurper. ,
By this net every person concerned has (
rendered himself liable by the statutes of! ,
this state to an imprisonment of not over ,
ten years or less than five. A requisition (
will unloubtcdly be made on CleaveUpd
for these violators of our state.
From the same.
A requisition arrived this morning, from (
Gov. Davis of Massachusetts, for the de
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livery, to the proper authorities, of Wil.
liam Blodgct, and others, for an alleged
offence against the peace and dignity of
that state. It will undoubtedly be complied
with.
The offence of Col. BJodgot and his 1
party, we believe, was the arrest of some (
person, a fugitive from Rhodo Island, *
within the borders of Massachusetts, during
the height of the alarm in the former 1
state.
j
unnsATONIC RAILROAD. {*
It is announced that the Housatonic
Railroad, beginning at Bridgeport on the
Sound, will, in the first week of N?vem- ,
her, be connected with the great Massa- t
chusetts railroad, making a direct railroad t
communication from Bridgeport to Albi j
ny. The construction of the work has c
been carried on with great activity during i
the present season. o
"The power of the President has increased,
is increasing, and ought to be c
diminished." Many striking facts might ^
be cited in illustration of this lamentable 0
truth. Judge McLcnn tells a pleasant f
story of what occurred when he was Postmaster
General during the Administration n
of President Monroe. Tbe President ?
? n ln"nr ro><nmmnnrtiri(T a mil- |
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j?!c of individuals for aj?j>ointmcnl8 U) very
rong terms. Mr. McLean soon made
>me inquiries as ti the persons recom*
icnded, nnd then quietly passed them by
nd appointed others, without thinking it
orth his while to say any thing to the
resident upon the subject, eitherverbally
r by letter. Somo time afterwards he
let Mr. Monroe, when the latter* walklg
up to him with a smile, nnd shaking
im cordially by the hand, remarked,
leasantly : ? Well, sir, so I perceive that
have not enough influence with you to
e able to procure the appointment of a
ouple of subordinates in your Depart*
nont. 44 \\ hy, sir," said Mr. McLean,
' I should have been pleased to oblige
ou, but I inquired about the persons you
ccommended, and found that I could
nako better appointments." 44 Well,
veil,"said Mr. Monroe,441 have no doubt
rou are rightand the matter was never
nentioned between them afterwards.
The same stale of things that existed
luring Mr. Monroe's Administration con.
inued to exist during that of Mr. Adams.
Mr. A., a month or two ago, made thisde*
jlaration upon ihe floor of Congress : 441
lever interested myself, during my Ad.
ninistration, in any manner whatever,
,vilh the appointments to be made by the
leads of Departments, except in a single
nstance. 1 wrote a letter to the Secre.
etary of the Navy, recommending q .
,'oung gentleman for the appointment of
uidshipman ; but I had not influence
jnough with the Secretary to procurq
he appointment, It was given to anoth*
ir."?Louisville Journal.
MORAL OBLIGATIONS OF BANKRUPTS.
We heard jt stated, not long since, that
\ bankrupt \yent into the shop of a credi.
tor, to whom he ought to have been under
irr/ nt nhlt(rnltnna fur nQilsl^nnn ran A a raA
and, with a swaggering air, said ho had
paid all his debts?did'nt owe a cent?foe t|
had taken the benefit of the bankrupt law,
If this remark was not made seriously it
indipatps n hioso morality, in reference tl
the obligation to pay debts contracted in
?ood faith, which i| is to be feared, is bat
loo common.
FROM ENGLAND.
New York, Oct. J8tb, 1849,
Arrival of the Independence.
Great fire at Liverpool?Destruction of American
produce to the amount of three millions of doL
lars.
The packet ship Independence, Capt. Nye, has
just arrived from Liverpool, whence she sailed oq
Sunday, the 2">th of September. The most im.
portant item flf intelligence is the account of a
destructive fire at Liverpool, by which several
lives were lost, and property to an immense amount
destroyed.
The djstqrbcd districts were more quiet at the
ast advices. Some two or three persons who had
Oceq wounded at Manchester, Stalcy Brook, 6lc.
iad died of tljcir wounds.
The weather still continued favorable, and rapid
irogrcss had b en made in securing the crops m
Jje backward districts.
The total quantity of cotton consumed is cstr.
mated at pr.sent at 50,000 bales, bqt jt is imp.
posed that the number will be increased when the
exact quantity is ascertained.
It is also estimated that about 1^,000 barrels of
turpentine have been consumed by the fire, belidcs
a large quantity of produce of \*arious other
descriptions.
The distressing calamity we arc now recording
*?.> h.-rn far more tratrieal in its results
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than the only event in the history of the town w ith
which it can oc compared. The loss of life, from
the peculiar circumitances attending it, can never
be satisfactorily ascertained, but wc should not be
surprised if, including the unfortunate persons at
present in the Northern Hospital, and thoso
buried beneath the ruins, all traces of whom will
be forever swept away, before the removal of the
burning materials?the number exceeded thirty.
It appears that a watchman named Barnard
Coylc, who was employed to guard the premises
af Mr. Peniston, bone grinder and drysaltcr, du.
ring the night, found that the fire had broken out
in the engine-house precisely at 3 o'clock, the fire
having been kept in all night to keep up the steam.
A fire-proof warehouse near the bottom of Formby
street stood the effect of the ffames surprisingly.
Men were employed in hoisting buckets of water
into it to cool the walls, w htch, however, were by
no means bo hot as might be expected- The wall
of the adjoining warehouse burned down against
the gable end of the firc-pioof building, formed a
sort of protection from ignition by the immense pile
of red hot cotton blaziijg against it.
Liverpool, Sept. 24.
The market has continued heavy during the
week, with no disposition on the part of the trade
to increase their purchases, notwithstanding it ia
now understood that the operatives have very generally
resumed work.
later.
Neic York, Oct. 19(4.
The Steamer Britannia, Capt Hewitt, arrived
it Boston yesterday morning a little before 7
o'clock, bringing London papers to the 3d of Octo.
oer and Liverpool to the 4th, both inclusive.
There are long stories in the London papersout
forth, however, w i'hout much appearance of
>elief in them?about the existence oj some soenri
issociation having fo; its object the. murder of the
3uccn and Prince Albert.
Liverpool Cotton iTTarketo*
Sept. 3).?In the early part of the week there
vas a good demand from the trade, and, in conse
juence of the decrease in the stock occasioned by
he recent fire, holders demanded an advance cf
)d per lb.; this improvement was in many instance
realized ; but since Monday the inquiry has ^
>cen very limited, and the advantage previously
gained not supported,
Lf.kds.?The markets at our cloth-halls still
ontinuc dull for cloths of all descriptions, the
rincipal dcrra id being for heavy ( ceds, fancy
loakings, shawls and beaver clotlif. Price* are
tationary, and the stocks in the hands of the m?.
;crs are unusually low. There have been a great
.umber pf drape from the country in the mark< t
uring the week, and in consequence there has
cen a little improvement in busincr? jn the war^.
oust*. ~ Leeds Merrnry.
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