Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, May 03, 1837, Page 206, Image 2
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iin;! nis Siii! is w chcrv. Like m >st hi- ' tr
diuns In* ,s ?.) id ??t"a ; >ke. tin-' opinion dial f
savages are aiw?\s grave b -nig erroneous.
Jf.ssh.ike ofih.- bund, like every tiling fYonik "
ban, in ii< s a I ist.ng iin;>ress:<?n ; and it ,
There Ik- n v a v;;v in ins tinkers, lie has a i:
vic.ous wav of holding them. Oseola i* L
generally ambition*. and, l ie; otiier i-idians (
'feven j -t i?* t::!ioui/ b dug their bloody v
code. I lis conduct, like that of more civil-1 i:
?2ed mm, is itndi: up nf miv i motives : t
having just enough of the salt of patriots::i v
to pr. serve tiie character from the taint of
our co. rupting s?dtisimess.
Front the Xifitji if In'c/iit-cnccr. ,
jvNirs in tit;-. i n:t;:o states. \
Observing in i o last number of tlie New \
York Albion. that the Scotch newspapers; 1
r vlving he inquiry n spertmgthe iucn-1N
tity of Jjicus,*' and are pointing to this . country
as the probable depository ol some '
evidence tha be:\ s upon it, I employ a mo- ^
et i. ----- , , " I
Tiiiscircums.auoe had induced Sir David
tj inline vv!i t 'Kid been the ostensible subs
stance vV tnovemDnsot'Lachlan McLuan
during tiiatperioJ unbraced by the letters
of Junius, and the r< suit upon his mind was
nlniost equxl 10 conviction that McLean!
Vi.s the auihor of those letters. That he
was a powerful writer, and that he wrote in .
the styled* Junius, ho hud sufficient proofs'
in h s own possesion. T.icn there were the '
remarkable lacts, that ho had been under
Secretary of State to Lord Shelburne, had,
been seat on a lucrative mission to India,
at the very period Junius announces Ids own !
retirement, and had perished on a second .
voyage to India, in the Swallow Pakket, to.
gether with probably some written evidences,
that had he died a natural death, might .
have ere this cleared up the suspicion; lor, ]
after all, it is but a suspicion, ami was so ,.
regarded by others at the time, especially j j
Sir Walter Sco t, Lord Minto and Mr. Jet- i.
*
frev, to whom the gentleman, that Sir I)a
? I (
ha l shown Macpuerson's correspondence ,
to, had mentioned the affair; and they, aficr ,
seeing ilte letters ofLachlan McLean, con-',
enred in opinion that Sir David was on a^J
wrmgsCen:. This opinion, too, was ex-!,
pressed 11 such a decided manner as to i ~
awaken a though: in the gentleman's mind j
that they were among the iniatcd few who
knew who was ihe author of the Ict.crs o\ ;
Junius !.
It was agreed, however, on ail hands, | j
that, on tiie return of this person to Ameri-' j
ca. he shouid mak" some inquiries in Pliiia- ,
deiptiiaabout Lncldan McLean, and the!,
newspaper at acks upon Governor i lnmii-1 v
win. T.'iis was intiuctuously done. As-' ,
sisted by others, ail the accessible files of :
the newspapcr^pubiishcd during the govern-' c
meut of [frtinilron were examined/ and notii-! c
infr vi*;?c found. S. uric information, however, f
respecting Lachlan McLean, was collected, ' i
the late Bishop White, then a boy at School, p
remembered him. He was an Irishman,
and a Surgeon in the Army, and keptasmali,
apothecary's s:u>;> near Second street and j rj
Market. Some officer in Ou* way's regi-! c
-men: had given oifeuco to o.ie of the citi- n
zens. and Governor Hamilton espoused the
cause of the citizen. This drew forth the c
keen pen of McLean, who defended the of- p.
tieer, and was very severe on the Govern- ^
or. It/was an afihir that created much ex- jt
citcrnent in Philadelphia. I: is barely pes- p
sibie that come iifiht may bo thrown on the u
subject, if the descendants of Governor
Hamilton would examine the papers they
have preserved, and which once were very ^
t mnpivtiN.
V\??.
After the affair with Hamilton,lie return-', n
ed to England, became the intimate liicnd
ot' Burke and odicr literary men of the day. j,
About this time, (1771.) he wrote a defence u
ofthe Ministry, which is no: extant, unless . 5
some copy Ins been preserved in the Eni- v
led States. it was oji the subject of the! tj
Falkland Isles. I.j 1772, Lord Xorth gave]
ban the collectors!,ip ot the port ot" Phila-' f,
tielphia, when he came out again. Here. n
turned to England in 1773. It deserves a
a tention, that during the interval Junius !j
did not write. i a
F.
Fran, the Sr<mc. i v
Sharing i:i common with the literary ] I;
worl i the curiosity which is entertained in \
relation to the authorship of the celebrated c
letters of "Junius." the writer of this arti- j ii
pie having read with some interest the com-; it
muuiration of your correspondent "F," on : n
hat subicct: and believing it is !:"? s
nuiifs leisure in explain more fully not only '
the nuTuv of tlx* e. iJence, but the degree
o; importance which may be attached to i;. I
In 1*^27, Dr. Brs'.vstsh, now Sir JUvii>. [
showed to a gentleman, no .v ::i t as country 1
sonic ot 110 livrurv cor;*e> Madeline which t
is t vher-in-law, do celebrated Ossi.vx *
Macpherso ,, .1^ ho is called. ha 1 hud with
various distinguishedin iiviJ ;u!s. Amoni'st
the r?*st were letters signed La :.t..\.\ McLean*.
Th so were generally written with
much vigor < fc\!;. Tiio no'nphors ri.:d ?
(inures in whi :h *v abounde i were always ,
forcible, and often unite remarkable for ;
thoir bcauTv. S r Dan pointed out save. ,
ra! ;nssage> whi ;h had struck iiiui. both in .
tlieir structure ano language, as being al. ;
mon idouliii J with others tounu in the lot- <
tors of Junius; an.! whrr gave greater- inter- j
< st to ;!i:s simil iritr was, that the [ anriwri- ,
ting horf.; an <. o nilr singular rc semblance to
tho lac similes of the M>>. of Junius as
oubl.shed in \\ codCdl's edition.
f laving communicated the impreston these
letters had made upon hi:n to one of iiis
friends he poured to iiini a passage inlialvs
Life ofWos . which greatly excited liis inclination
to investigate the aiiuir. From this
nnn/i'iiMi! thi- ( invpniiii' 1 I.ViriL
j J" I ~ I ' l4| V* lU v -y ? ? ? v . ?
to.\, of Pennsylvania, calling upon West,
the pahrer, one morning in London. West
allowed him the attack upon ?!:c King, which
Ii.tJ thai morning appeared in Woodnii.V
newspaper. On reading i\ Hamilton exclaimed
he knew the author; that certain'
passages and epigrammatic expressions in j
it he had seen !> lor.', an ! that the author!
was that scoundrel Luchlun Mcl/vm. who
once resided in Philadelphia, and who had ,
at that time ma !e a violent attack upon
him, whoa Governor of the State of Penn.;
111 :i 'WVU*.
> C!i .tribute so::;-; infonna ion i:) n??i oj
it- t'iioi'iS w Inch arc making to uavou the
groti: unknown/' asks the use oi* your coimns
to the following s ateni'-nf :
II uing o on to refer to the orignal
-i::s in one of the interior ('ours o;
A'linsvlv.mi?, Hiring thejk nod o: Governor
la onion's amain s ralton, oi' which the
vrir r had char;". his attention was forctbiv
irawn to the peculiar character of the wr;.
hag. andesp naily as being a manuscript
vlnca seenx-i i am iliar. Al.cr several day's
fiorts t:> cali to mind when; and when ho
tad sc. u iu it occurred to hint thai it ivsorujleii
toe < >!!ties given in W oo it ills ed;ionoi'tae
ieivrs of Junius. The boo!;
v as produc'd. and a close an 1 in./.n o eo.n>arison
instituted, as well by the \r tier as
>v seveivi outers etalifted by ha* To 'ndg .
vhich resulted in a conviction that,so far as
inch evidence is en.itled io weight in estahis'iiugthe
attthnnothing can tie more coa inti've.
! i ifs'n.-nenil character. (ami tliere
*"w # \
trc many ^pcctmens j and in ail the marks
ui*i char. eristics which distinguished t!ie
he similes, the rcemblnncc is wonderfully
terfecr. \\ ho The writer was, could not he
> see rained; Iv.it it is presumed lo .have been
tonic one connected with the family of Mr.
diimv. who is believed to have been the
Vnoraev <!moral at thetime.
M.
7 *'* ?; , '< .\il ioH&l lil!? V/igewr.
Oar r .a let s may remember that we cond
lore:! t ie paper purporting to be the I'areiv--;;
Address <>r the iata Prcsi lent of lite
I nit< d States as hardly beimj a legitimate
s '.'jj "jt or cu? bin rather entitled, .as
lie closing scene of the G or i's political
ife, lo forbearance. &c. Tuts opinion we
have not changed, so far as the General's
responsibility for the Address is concerned.
Considered, however, r.s the production oti
other min is, which he has only signed, i
presents iiseif in a <Ji lie rent point of view.
In this light the matter is placed in an article
in the lust number of the Xew York l iveningSaar.
under the signature of II. M. 15.
(II. M. IlaACunxTiiDGE, a gentleman with
whose character and talents our readers arc
well acquainted.) After unmercifully ridiculing
t::e thought of the late President's
imitating or likening himself to Washington,
in this matter of the Farewell Address,
Mr. 15. lets ms into the following piece of
secret his ory. for a continuation of which
noon? probably is possessed of more ample
materials than lie :
Tia; Far-we!] Addrcrs is in all probability
the production of some such father of
Iiis country as Amos Kendall, with just a
sufficient spice? of Jacksonism to give j;
rraisan bfan ee. I Inmw something of these
farewell addresses, having written two of
them for him. The first of those was on
:iic occasion of his taking leave of his coinmaud
in the army. The only pari of it
which was his, was an uncouth mcmoran:lum,
containing some illiberal and ungenlemanly
reflections on a bro-her officer,
who stood high in the esteem of his country,
Gen. l>ii(uvx.) but who in a recent military
ardcr. had been so unfortunate as to speak
with disapprobation of the practice of whip.
>ing in the army: and this was all he con.
ributcd to the address. The paternal adrice
to the young officers, and the line mil.
tary and patriotic feeling which breathed
hroug.h the rest of it, were altogether dra.
nntic. The other State paper was on lis
caving Florida, whore he had displayed his
excessive energy for some months as militlry
and civil governor. 'You know,' said
ic, "what will suit.' Accordingly, I wrote
m address, without a single suggestion from
u'm, and which was signed without a single
lite ration. The add res alluded to was of.en
]uot? d to prove the iiiness of (General Jack>en
for civil Governmcn', to show his cxiltc-ti
love of liberty, and theabsence of dangercus
ambition in his nature. It was highly
.'uJogized as his production. I own I had
>ome design, by contrast, in portraying out
>vhat a government ought to be, to express
ny opinion of what he was."
"The incapaci y of General Jackson has
)ccomeso proverbial, that it would be mere
ifiectation of delicacy to be silent. Mr.
Juan it has declared'that be has no distinct
e'eas on any subject;' and .Mr. Berrien
;cry signilicantly says, 'that which I sign I
vriie;' meaning that Jackson signs that
vhich lie does not write. At the commence,
ncnt of his Administration a pleasant an cdoto
was related to me by one of tiic
:!erks in the Department of State. Gen
iral Jackson, having received a compiimen.
ary letter lVoin Bi'stamj:\ti:, President of
doxico, sent it to the oliice with the tollowiig
laconic endorsenn nt: "Mr. Van I3u:e:c
will reply to the letter of General Pusurmnto
icith the frankness of a soldier
'ije Secretary laughed heartily at this coneit,
as ire "was neithar a soldier, nor relarknble
for lrankness. '
So much for secret History. Tiic conlusion
ot the u'tt.cie of Judge I'rackcnridge,
o:n which we u?PY the above, is as forci]e
and full of political truth, that we copy
, although it is a commentary on a leading
aturcofthe Farewell Ao'Jress, from winch
e have ourselves purposely retrained.
I have not sufficient respect for the new
ajowoil uuuicss 10 IAMIIIIIIV; u urnum-^. -?
aper coming from what ought to be cotlidered
au authentic source, claiming lhe
ierit of paving the national debt for Gonc:tl
Jackson, because he vetoed a fnv trilling
nprovement laws, saving at the spiggotI
;h';ie the bungholo was left open, tould only
e addressed to the grossest ignorance. The .
-Titer must have laughed in his sleeve at
ie absurdity of such an idea, lie was cubing
merely for t ho ignorance of a man
)r whom no fhttery was too gross, an ig.
orar.ee whoso inseparable companions,,
ccording to honest John IJuuvan. in his ;
'ilgrim's Progress, 'are darkness, obstinacy
nd conceit.'
"There is a doctrine arssertcd, however,!
rhich liasIxjcii so oiion repeated by the'
r.c Administration, tiiat it is evidently a faoriie
with Jackson, and at the same time
f the most dangerous character. Indeed.!
' it be received by the People as orthodox,
will produce an entire change in the no-|
jroofoar Government. For our rrorc- j
ff'i'i-r .v/.'.y V/,'/. f $.'Off. ' '
' ''An?." drh-iocrcr;. on ' ill t-T- ct Ci'it'tCS (I
Pii.UTIU.H. MONADU.. It Is, T rrt the K\
eubvo is lii!1 rcpivs er.tative of the whole
Pen pit'. and Congress the ropro n'.rliwi of
the hiatus < r d.str.e s; ; il l, ; > the necessary
eonsequcnce. a voo of tilt* People h thvor
of the idxecutivo .s a i\);is!ruclii'c approval
l)V thesupreme powerot'siic nation.a. honp;h
no vur'.icv,'::r rj;icsih>;i any have beei sub
aii tcJ to tbrm to be decided at the ballot!
bo v. Ii'lhis b true, then the whole frame !
of ntir fsovorum at is eiiaa^'a] at once,
ihit < conclude i: is not true. It is n- tlAuui! i
' itt r;!iv of our. Consbtu ions, and is. at most,
founded upon i false cons:ruc:ion of a false
' fict. A simple democracy can only' exist
where t!;e numbers are so small as to bo
c ; a!?ieof b convened in pcrson,to hear
and del ber.;t . When this is not ti e case,
they (h leza e their powers to roprcsetratives
| expressly chosen for tlie purpose. The
duty of the executive is merely o rxocuej
the will of tlie IVoj-1 thus exnressed, and
pet f>rm certain duties assigned, being ras|
ponsiblc !o ifio Representatives of t!;e People,
subject to impeachment by them, anil '
! r movai from ofllco. Kvcn if it were prac!
ticablo to submit a particular question to
' the direct vote of the People at the ballot
' box, it would be deviating from the theory
of representative government; but surely,
where no suehqu stio.i is submi'ted, it is a
groundless inference that i has been voted
upon. A President or Representative may
b ; eloc oil, notwithstanding particular acts
are universally disapproved, and tiiis either
on account of undue populari'y, or because
th" People have been pleased to weigh the
good nc ions of the candidate against Ins
1 bad on< s."
f i
From the Salisbury W atchman
Champfain. near Jamestown, Guilford )
County, X. C. Aprils, 1837. $
Hamilton C. Jones Ksq.
ATv denr Sir:?As the little son of Mrs.
, Hutchison of Salisbury, now goes on from
I the ( l/ M-nsborottgh School, and by whom I
can wiite, I will send you a short statement
I % *
, t of the effects of a furious storm that occur.
: red at Jamestown, about 10 o'clock last
! night.
j The rain was considerable and almost in
a twinkling, Jamestown was visited with a
gale or blast of but v rv short duration, but
J of mosf unexampled fury and violence?
! the wind seemed maialv blowing from
i sou h west to north cast, and first took otF
David Lindsay's Cotton Gin roof, and cari
ried a pert thereof some three or four hundred
yards; next was a small part < f t c
roof of Docrer George D. Mendei.h lii's
stable; thcii Doet. Shubal G. Collin's a w. 1
I ling house roof and both chimneys were
swept off < van wi h th up; or floor, and i.is j
1 smoke-house and kitchen, both prostrated :
. entirely, and the roof of his stable taken off, !
and lis iiousc roof carried off also some j
! two or three hundred yards; next was the !
1 *1 .... .1 I, > rr f T Pl.nl' !% \\ fVOC H'lW'nA '
Ul . ui uitii) nin^n imw Minn u
! some three or four feet from the chimney j
! and tilted olf the underpinning completely;
. then came my brother Richard Mcndcn-!
| hall's large brick building, adjoining to and I
j part of his main dwelling house, this was!
torn down and the walls and roof driven j
. headlong into the street down to the upper i
i floor, and his little son Junius asleep or in i
; bed in the lower apartment and remained ;
! unhurt; the next in course was thrown broad
; cast into the street and ail his family and a
j servant therein, and th youngest child in ;
! the darkness and fury of the storm, was j
i found in the ruins in the middle of the street :
j with the cradle bottom upwards over it, and
Aiifin,]f cnfii nnrt linintlirPf 1 annfllPr 1<"H? hi 111- .
. wiu.vn 7 -
! ding near tins was blown to about four or I
, five feet high, and all the fanv.lv in bed, and !
7 ? 7
, the logs crossed tho beds and braced over !
! them just enough (and no more) to save life,
but in several of the houses it required the '
helj ng .and of others to get the inhabiiants
from a nong the ruins: and marvellous a!.
t f
most to tell, and strange, but no more j
i strange than true, not a life was lost, nor a ,
, ingle person even injured, w hich truly seem- j
ed to display the helping band of Heaven,
and surely was a most signal interposition of
i Divine IVvoidonce.
i X'o injury was done t y either building or
plantations any where in the neighborhood,
nor was the great violence of the storm per.
! ccived any where else to any considerable
extent. 1 reside in one quarter of a mile of,
the place of destruction and I only perceived
i a strong press of wind, which caused a par;
tition to make some unusual creaking, and I
! arose, having just returned from Davidson
I Superior Court and retired carlv to rest?I ;
j opened and 1< f open the door tor some
! considerable time and perceived no verv !
violent storm, though some lightning and
i rliiinder but n< t terrific.
J (
I The buildings in J m -stown arc under-!
! going repair rapidly, and will soon be com- !
foriablo again. Your friend.
GEO. C. MENDEXHALL.
Tiic following extract from Mrs Menden- j
hall, to her sister at school here, gives a few j
1 particulars not stated above.
I '*1 inclose an unsealed letter from George '
, to Hamilton Jones?and in it read of
! the awful destruction and preservation of1
1 James'own. I is supposed to have been a i
'kind of whirlwind* but unlike the wind the j
prcruhc; Ehsih speaks of. Gof! tens' i:i this }
1 sform. X a life or limb was injured?j
Burke's bouse was levelled to the earth.? j
Mrs. Uurlic was holding the window and '
felt the boas'- going?she let go the window 1
shutter and leaped through on the outside,
and thus her i.fe was saved?all her children
within?the yotnigest in the cradle, and tiie
whole house a mass of ruins. ?hc commenced
with help of the ncigebors, to search '
for her tin weaned child?it coul 1 not be 1
found; afcr some length of time .she heard
i a faint smothered cry, and rushing toward
! it found in the middle of the street her babe
with the cradle turned bottom upward over
it which had completely saved it from the
(ailing mass of bribers, brick and stone.?
1 f called next morning to sec this 'i".iM Moses,
and 1 felt as Moses did before the burning
! Bush?I felt asifl (night to slip off my shoe,
for 1 was standing on 1! >ly ground. < <od
v."f? v-v .rn
I/rother Richards Parlor full over Junius'!
hod?ho was frightened almost U> death, i
but not a hair oi his head perished. \
JViiHilhc B'lutiiioir, Chronic!''. t
There is one evidence of the the agency j
of the government in producing the existing j
pressure upon the mercantile community, '
which, we think, cannot h*-mistaken. It is
the fact that it is so palpable, that even the c
cautious spirit of newspaper neutrality has ? c
been forced from its citadel of security and '
impunity, to denounce and deplore it. The
following passage from tiie New York
O I ~
Journal of Commerce, may be cited in j j
proof. There are some of the opinions ot <
the Journal for which we have considera- ; [
' hie respect, although its general course is , (
, not much io our laste. Upon a subject . r
like that now under discussion, it has am
pie means of information, and, when it ven- : (
: tares lo speak out. we may be certain that j <
there is but a trifling difference in public |,
: sentiment. Neutral papers are the true i
echoes of undivided public opinion,
i From the Journal of Commerce. j 1
It is not our practice to be continually i
finding fan!: with the government?at least;r
we do not make a business of it?but when ! *
' we see such a wanton trifling with the in- ' *
, tcrcsts cf commerce, and through it with ji!
! .he pecuniary interests of the whole coun- j
; try ; when we see an attempt to counteract !
the immutable laws of trade by arbitrary j t
; enactments : and when under this 'yranni-' \
. _ l i i ?ii I
cai system we see our mgn mmueu, gener- ^
; oils friends, s. ripped of the earnings of ma-. ]
i ny yea re, anil subjected to menral anxieties) l
and charges more grievous to be borne I [
: than the loss of property ; when we see all j
this, and witness the portents of the firure, j
i we cannot and will not hold our peace. It j
: becomes every man who has the heart of a 1
i man within him,?:o be crushed under j (
i the wheels of the Juggernaut of party,?to {t
j arise in his strength, and by all constitu- j
I t;onal means, resist the growing tyranny. ' ,
- - , From
the New Express' April 19. 1
"Better Currency."?Money 4 per j*
cent, a month, anil scarce at that. Safety {(
Fund country bank notes selling with diffi- , J
culty in tho streets. j'
Domestic Exchanges broken up; transfer j1
i of money almost impossible.
Banks in the country as thick as grass- 1
^ ' ?
; hoppers; Government propping them up to ;
I save its depositcs.
Capitalists made princes; businuss men
| made beggars.
| An augmentation of the number of banks
' from 320 to 677, being an increase of three c
| hundred, and fi'ty.seven besides. 157 branch- 1
lC"' _ j{
An ex'ension oi t!ie amount ot bank loans |'
and discounts from 8200,451,214, to 890,- j'
892,661, being an increase of upwards of;?
three hundred and ninety millions of dollars jc
?a sum only twelve millions less than the j'
; ggregato of the increased capital, ctrcula I I
tion, riid deposites.
Twenty-six (Stum) mills, and two (Ter-.
ritorial) gris" mills, grinding out new banks |
every year, at the rate of 815,000,000 in j
Mississippi, 85,000,000, in "Virginia, and- j
$5,000,000 in Missouri. J ^
The most extensive bank issues?based J
on the withdrawal of the salutary check of; ^
" [ i1
the United States Bank?deluging Louisi- ^
ana and Mississippi with the very rags I
which the Adininisira ion promissed .o drive !
from the country. In Mississippi the Peo
*" ? - 1 r
pic appealing lor tne passage 01 inc KELiht | laws,
afier the old fashion of Kentucky.? j
In Hinds county, Mississippi, more than a j
thousand suits have been brought, and the ,
citizens have petitioned the Governor to : *
convene the legislature for the purpose of,
passing a relief law!
___ _ j
From tiie Xatiojial Intclligrcncrr. j c
editors' correspondence. ! a
New York, April 21. j ?
The disastrous times continue! Now j "
that the Government actually mocks at pub- j n
lie calamity, and boldly proclaims that in j P
July and October the dis'ruction ofihe sur- j ~
plus will be so managed that the pressure j J1
must be repeated, "with still greater inten ' D
sihj^ tiie dispair of the community ischan- ? ?
ging into wrath, and a temper is abroad I (
which the New York Journals shadow only, n
not em bod v.
h
New York, April 22. ; j
Saturday half past 3 o'clock.?The day \
is over, and the week is gone. What a j
week it has been! How many ruined?
What bright prospects blighted! What a a
week of anxiety, alarm and pain! I have n
seen men pale with watchfulness and want ?
of sleep, harrased even :o illness by the tor- J
airing struggles to save their credit: and j
t I c
\ct overwhelmed at las', even when their.
*7 |
assetsare enough to gratify all the ambition i
for money that any man ought to have.? r
Credit with a merchant is a jewel so prized, j,
tliaf, when he loses that, he feels as if he were ,
losing all he had. 1 Icuce the efforts men .
make, and their care and anxiety to run j
smoothly along.
i
New York, April 22. v
News from England arrived by the j d
George Washington, a: half past 12 o'clock I ti
this morning, when the ncwspiper boats!
came up. and Wall s.reet was in a buzz,
every body inquiring what is the news.
The Bank of England has come to the j l<
rescue of three American houses, and was , h
still considering upon o hers. This is good i 0
news; England has not yet heard from the I ti
United States, and ice cannot come to con- , tl
elusions till the packets o f the 8th, 16th and I p
24th ins', arrive. Wait, wait, wait! i rl
Cotton lias fallen in England a halfpenny, ? tl
and on til" *d4 !i rallied onc-eigth of a penny, e
Tin's is more bad than good. o
The Hank of the Tailed States is au;ho. a
rized to draw immediately upon the Bank n
of England for 2,000.000 sterling. This h
is the bank whose "credit" Mr. Husir has ; f;
been crying down ! tl
The George Washington brings back n
protested bills to the amount of nearly S150,- v
000. This was not expected. c
The English journals are looking to ns 'J
for relief, and with the greatest anxiety do z
the merchants fix their eyes upon New # ii
York fa* r-'ini'tav' Wi'i ?h"V cqj>?0 ? ' 1
The Paris money market is in a vcrv
>ad state. The run upon the Ererieu Su- V
inti-s Banks continues. J ei
There had been great failures in Liver- ; :h
)Oo'. Manchester, and Birmingham. One m
inn Li Birmingham for 22,000 pounds ster- ' ar
ing. Tiic English call i.hi.s a great failure., th
Hiey have not heard from New Orleans. | lit
General Evans' Hritish armanent has had ; se
in engagement in Spain, in which it suffer, j tin
:d severely. j cr
All things are quiet in England in a poli-'
ical way. j E:
News from England will continue to at-j
ract the greatest attention. Specie must
fi i '1 hrl I i*fioc!ii?Tr Air/Miioro OM/1 1
iiitM ivn i t 4 i v. uoui v V/ii vvitaio uiiu i? ?? vy
uiik!red Administrations cannot prevent it. . * p
Jan they dam the Mississippi, and make it; * s
un over the Ilocky mountains ? ' 1t,
A meeting of the merchants is called to j 4 [j
liscuss the present state of tilings. The i t y
:all will be extended to the mechanics, it is ! < j,
)robab!e. j ? j.
In haste, as usual, and on the gailop. j? c
~ ~ j ; # 1 < j|
Vrom the Xcw York Evening Star April 2-1 [ t
In Liverpool, affairs generally wore a I i r
nore glooniv aspect. Cotton had still far- ; 4 ^
her declined, but hopes were entertained ! 4 ?
ha! the arrangement with the bank would < ln
ttford relief.
i 11
Extract of a Icllcr from Liverpool. \ < j,
u We uad an exceedingly miserable cot. ji it
on market the b -ginning of the [-resent i41<
veek ; and, though Mere has been some re- i4 p
ival, prices are barely as high as on the { 4 ji
17th inst. The week sales arc 17,050 j 4 (1
)a!es, and there have been speculahons to i' c
he extent of 3,000 bales. 41<
IX NEW YORK. j t ,\
From the Courier and Enquirer. April 24. j 4 S
The state of things.?In the early stages 4 n
if pestilence, tno b lis of mortality record 'r
he numb.-r of deaths; but when it has 4 it
cached i.s height, the mind sickens at the
uealonme of victims, and they are no Ion
O ' ?
jer recorded. We are very much in this I to
*
state at present, in regard to commercial! an
;redit. Suspensions of payment daily con-! cit
inue. Houses of long standing?all the J na
abors of years are vanished ; and young-1 'io
.'r men, entering life with the most brilliant: ed
irospecis, sec them blasted. We have not j an
lie heart, and we see no use, to enter into j th;
fetalis. I eri
sin
baltimore. j ff(
From the Baltimore Gazette April 25.
Our city, as ,o money matters, exper - p
inces ihat kind of calm which precedes the _
ipproach of an expected storm, of wiiich
he indications are too evident to be mista- \ ~
ten ; and each ot o r citizens seems to be ;
iot only prudently preparing to protect him- ;
;elf, but kindly and in the spirit of the social 1 th(
tompaot to assis' in shielding his neighbors j fTQ
irom the peitings of the approaching tern- j ^
jest. ~ ! a?
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IN FHE INTERIOR OF NEW YORK.
!
From the Fredonia Censor.
Operations susjtended on the New York Jtea
nxd Eric Railroad.?Orders were receiv- j 0C(
id lien; the latter part of last week, from i the
lead-quarters at New York, for tiie sus- St;
iciisioii of all operations upon this great Ge
vork for the present. Accordingly, all the ; pC(
1-Id hands, or those engaged in assisting L.^
he principal engineers, were mustered, paid i ^
iff, a.id discharged. No reasons are made ;
<i n
>ublic for tiiis step, bu; it is generally at-, .
ributed t the severe pressure of the mo-1 fIV
icy market. I"14
! me
AT NEW ORLEANS. I S01
7orrespondmce of the Courier and Enquirer, to i
New Orleans, April 16, 1837. i hot
It can no longer be concealed that the j p0<
ommercia! community at New Orleans is j jiai
kogether m a complete state of bankruptcy . ^
r suspension. Ten or twelve first rate j
ouses, and lorty or fifty more establish, j
ienfs of the second order, have stopped I 0l
t* ? r .\ ft_ i
layment since tnc miiure 01 me Hermanns >
?the liabilities of ali of ihem amounting to jj e
lillions and millions. One-fourth of our
ank directors have become insolvent or [
uspended pay men?there being now but f
jur or five large commission establish-1 y0]
lents left, as the pillars of the once pros- ^11
erous commerce of this city. Merchants j GE
ave no confidence in each other, and banks i OF
istrust their rivals. j I
New Orleans, April 21. i wh
As a practical illustration of their present' in i
ppreciation in the quarter of die union, we i 0f s
lay state, notwithstanding all the backing rep
fthe government, the people arc absolute- be
; foolish enough to prefer the bills of the
Monster" at a premium ot two or tliree per i >
ent> to those of the deposite banks at par. | tha
About as certain and speedy a method of j 0C(
Hording ralief to the country as any other ' ceI
liat Mr Van Huron can now adopt, would j ^
e to transfer all the public funds back to i
is I". S. Hank and direct his partizans, {
iroughout the countrv to wheel about and
* I i
itriguc for the re-establishmcnt of its agen- ies
in all the states of the Union. This
,'ould at least save the countrv from a grea- bri
eal of suffering that is yet to come.?Bulle- ! cip
' ! i
From the Alexandria Gazette. ; ?* Intelligent
men of all parties begin to ac- 1 ,n?
uowlfcdge that the root of the evil which ! 'as
as sprung up, Upas like, and is now shad- j the
wing and poisoning the whole land, lies in : cd
? *.t- u.. ;
le original tampering wim uiu currency u> , em
le Governmen:?the illegal seizure of t!ie par
ublic money, and the unlawful removal of! jnt,
-id deposites. Following that, we have;
ic springing up of mushroom banks, the '
normus issue of paper money, speculation, j -Ye
vertrading, unnatural elevation of prices, i mil
nd, finally, the Treasury Circular. It is i for
ot one, or any of these things alone, that 1
as produced the present situation of af-1 ,
:iirs. but the union and the combination of! Yo
lem all. The Circular did not make the j taj,
lisehief. but it aggravated its effects, nor: trc
,'ould its repeal now al er materially the |
ommcrcial difficulties of the country.? ^
.'he removal of the deposites was stigmati- ^
ed, at the iin'ifl it occurred, is a most dar- jia)
tg, high-handed, and unjust measure.? C0J
['he ef the ftcna'o. and the cmr. err
minatory resolutions of the Legislature o
irginia, vviii be approved of and sanctioni
by history and impartial posterity. Ail
at was predicted from that measure, and
ore, ii possible, has come to pass, giving
1 awful warning to all lucre politicians of
o madness and lolly ofjneddling with the
lances of a nation, and :o the People themIves
of the impropriety of submitting to
c exercise of despotic and unlawful powstract
from Mn. Adams's ''Suppressed
Speech," April, 18:14.
" Sir, the pressure of the removal of the
leposites is nearly past; it has ruined its
housands, and alllicted its millions; but the
imoon lias blown over, and they who prosrated
themselves on their faces before the
dast. survive unhurt, and may rise, ane
et find their way out ofthe desert. Thd
ressure from the removal of the deposites
5 passing away. The prosperity of a
reat nation cannot suffer long from so
rifling and incident as that. But the
rrong is don ?, and its consequences wilt
ernainfestering and inflaming the body of
he community until that wron^ shall be reaired.
Your President has usurped leislative
power; he has laid his hands
pon your treasure, and he is now convert )g
it to his own purposes. He has seized
and now wields it as a weapon of power
d himself, an instrument of plunder to his
artisans. Yet his experiment has but
jst commenced; its object is not merelv to
les.roy, but to break the Bank. His
lioosen State banks are to be/lis deposiDries
and engines to restore a metallic curency.
With what intui ive sagacity are
ie means adapted to the end! Sir, his
Itate banks would land the nation, they
re already hurling it into universal batiks
lint/')l Wis iinnrf mncf hp etnvnd
i H t IIIUWW WW U.U? VJJ X/* VIIV
nation is undone!"
The Carolina Gazette says, "We regret
learn, that some difficulties have occured,
d others are ltkely to occur, between our
izens who have set led in the Cherokee
lion, ana the U. S. troons who are staned
there; we are not sufficiently informas
to the cause of the disturbance, to givo
y account of it; we understand, however,
it application has been made to the Govnor.
and he is expected to request the U.
Government to withdraw their troops
im the limits of North Carolina."
HER AW GAZETTE
Wt:;>3KSDAY, .HAY 2, 1837'
Apprentices.
Wonted at this office, as apprentices ro
5 printing business, two active boys of
od character, from 14 to 16 years of
e. They shall be well taught and well
icn care of.
ff the present state of the country does not
ich the people wisdom, nothing can. No
mrrence ever caused us so much to distrust
t com petency of the people of the United
ites for self-government as the election of
neral Jackson to the Presidency. If the
)ple, or the leaders of the people, the poiitins,
cannot be brought to understand that
i administration of this government requires
tan of extensive attainments, comprehene
views, good sense and long experience?
short, a statesman?at its head, the governnt
must inevitably pass into a despotism of
r D.? wnmtvl* nrn nnf main
IlC IOnil. UV Ulid iumaiA \y g uv uvd iuv???
call in question Gen. Jackson's patriotism or
testy of purpose. But honesty of pur
;e is not, of itself, sufficient. A man may
ire a purpose to construct a steam engine;
: if this is his main qualification, wo to the
sengers who trust themselves at sea in a
it propelled by his engine.
The Washington Globe the official organ of
j Administration, uses the following Janlge:
'The nine millions transferable on the first
April, has made a severe pressure in New
rk and other cities WHICH PRESSURE
JST BE REPEATED WITH STILL
LEATER INTENSITY ON THE FIRST
1 JULY AND OCTOBER."
low stubborn the infatuation of the men
o hold the reins of government to persist
such monstrous policy for the mere geicgaw
substituting gold for Bank paper, as the
resentative of property, supposing it could
effected. !
iVe see it stated, we know not how correctly
it the appointments to office in the army, to
;upy the numerous vacancies caused by Text
resignations, arc made, not from cadets
the military academy, but from partizans of
i administration. If this be really the case*
i President and his friends must have two
ects; the first to extend the patronage and
lucnce of the government; the second to
ng the army under the control of party disline.
Fatal Accident.?Whilst a lad, the son
Mr. William Smith of this town, was cross
a fence with a gun in his hand, on Friday
t, the gun, by some accident went off and
: entire load entered his breast, which causdeath
in a few hours. Such accidents ocring
as frequently as they do should warn
cuts and others against putting fire arms
3 the ha nds boys. ,
Tiic printer last week made us say that the
w York elections had gone against the adlistration.
It was, in fact, only the election
city officers. I
\ largo and respectable meeting of the New
rk Merchants was held on the 26th April to
;e into consideration the commercial disss
of that city, which was characterized by <
rfoct order and deep gravity of deportment. I
c following were the resolutions adopted. "
\csohed, That the wide spread disaster which
i overtaken the commercial interests of tho
mtrv, and which threatens to produce gen. H
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