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~f>edTi*Qm the whole, an J the large end se? j. two feet yi Uie eurdi, whicl^atjhat^lace w&sd 2K- rather moist. Aner standing' more* than] I twenty yehrst or until the basSwqod fences, . whir which it was concerned had rotted i cfown, it was removed to another position,where it has since served for two pair of w<irs and one gate, *. At the time p? rein? val |, ^ npeared quite sound, and present appear-* ::X ^iu.ceS indicate a duration'of another twenty .years ut least. From oilr experiments we 'S-Jm are Convinced, that large posts are far. more durable than small, ones, and that thos? **4b * *w^'c^ occupy the whole diameter of the * tree, are better than sawed or quartered t -1?^. trees SCequal size. ^ , * j K "1C ^droad Journal, in an article pn j the advantages of lime as a preservation of1 tirrfber, the following instance of its effect j ' onthedurubilityof W hitePine.(ixinusabies>) \ js given. Tjie planks were a parcel of i 00 r.l.i???rm r?n tlif> around. I piut; I'iaiiM uavu uou|Muiiuitn vu ^ -, fcL " on which to make live moruir. This plat* form was laid by the informant'sgraadfctfhy j jpwf' "" br, In a cornor of.the'yard, and used ev>$ry : year more or less for the purpose of a tftqff tar bed. Ills father* continued .it* in thfr SSkflBL same use; himself, the grander, gOtfonugc^ Jflr il.for a time as long as he had" occasion, jl after which it lay some yenr$ unused; and I omgrowa with grusahd weeds. # At length wanting the ground for another purpose, he had tow up, and removed, *exaflf pec.ing id find the planks entirely. rO!tori,v ?* tou: to. his stiprise found them soondf and, v . to use his'own forcible expression, ''a* hard"! ' dS - as bull's horo." Tins ftas after they had f \ lain exposed to #1 the atmosphere,\nnd in ?jr - contact' will* the surface of the earth about JRjff* * in.the year 1800, a Mr. Atkinson, in the W " employ of the Hudson's^Bhy Fur Company, . discovered an-old Factory bHind, in Jarries' j _ Bayr-a Branch of the IliKisop's Ra>>, a cc. fBK*, tfar post, about mfoot square^ and foe feet ' .-bight uti which iWe following inscription K - ,*^ hi} bqfen cut, and gli. -the letters of w^ich. - wiro visible: ''In the yaar IT92 .wintered Bte' throe ship? at tins island, wiift One hundred if. , -and twenty, seven men, under the go vera* ment oT^aptnih Ganes, Knight. Then wo m - erected tfi kmonhfncn. in remetiijcranee of?! ~ - 'A:' . .* .fci . .VV.1" ftyv Till* furnishssflhc greatest duration of t>'* libber satjq the earth, atid constancy exy-< posed to'fne atmospheric influences, we? 9*. - have any where noticed, and w?? believe' R . ? there are Jfcw kitids of timber which would f y endure so long. This no ice does not state* y. the kind of cedar employed, but frQm "its-. R- - v tVQQtiqpcy ftn -those islands there can be no r doubt of its being the red cedar,; VikI which* 9* us seated abdve, id almost ioipcrishaile.Next to the lands above stated, rank in dumbiihy th^varioud?urtds divine & spracei. ? the tvhiie oak,'chfitmut, rod dm* black wat- j I nuu'and red beooh/afliuniishiRg timber of j A.- I ivilk likrttho ! t^ ^ ? ovu <ro> ?uw. ~...r K SgmyS (4r Glazed Ca lico.-3v p aslng a ^ 25 - ~cnk^ of whhe.so'apa few tripes over a piece j fe .. of ^lazelcrJico; -oi>any.Qthier stiffened n^- < &>*' t, 4^a)t the aeedlo^pili penetrate with equal j P" . a fact worth f I * knowing, thg; rfestrliction of needles in the I . " \ .ordinary way ocfcasiouingfcotfi,*ioss of Ump ' | - and expense? TanunlQ fapcr. I FVointha,New York Sun. . f . ^REtMARKABLB CASK OF SOMNAMBULISM. P The Boston Medical and Surgical JournT al contains a highly interesting history of a ] I reroarkable esse, of Somnambulism, vftuchV ft ,took*pface ro* Gloucester, Mass.,, in.;tl>e I- years 1834^5, furnislied by Dr. Benjamin 1 jfia&keh-of South 3oston. The-^tifecf, 3 V Wrjjjam* Blatphford, jr.atill resides in Glou- ' 5 'v cestcr, in die full possession of-his merita! 6 ' ." faeuitiOs. He was at the time -but 17 years 9 age; ar\d shortly previoas to the atiiclfi f * was employed oil board of a vessel plying' - between Gloucester and York.' We sub-* |V join tbe jbjlowing.extracts, as they are giv: '* ert by Dr. H?omitting many pf i*ts profes. . - . sionai oomrneftts. . ? - * ^ he complained ?^severe jtaip-m the head, 1 "and ietiredlo rest a iitde earlier than usual. I " The next evening he ^pmplained of a shnif 1 ' l1r pain, but more severe. This took pincfe,,, Ik*" half an'hour earher. tiian on- tiie prccedmg KV evening, and was. attended ivTlTi cbhTasidnjf - * of ideas, and various .marks of mental disEL . turbance. On the third evening, still-earl^ S ier? began .what seemed to be a regular F paroxysm of ictermTttent ^ever, passing s ue- t eossivelv through* the cc}d, (teiwtt aod tfoj ! sweating stages. The disease continued, in this form 'aboyt three -week^s.: His physic*, ian, Dc. R. judging from present* appear-. Juices, and from" the possibility of his expo- ' ^ sure to inalaria- while at New York, inferred Sf/"that- it "hiust be nothing more or less than * intermittent fever',-and, ih'cousequence, the . usiwl treatment of thai disease was adopted, but^H^ indifferent success. Thp^roxysm .continued, anticipating theirjwtriodical times umil theyjjcgatuo come at one o'clock in the afternoon, when the disease suddenly',; changed ifs type. The patient was attack-, cd, atMCtertain poinds in the day, with aser ies of fits, which, varied rhuch in number and in duration, as Weil as in character. Some ? of them resembled epilepsy, others $istacy ; or trance^ucing-wflieh he would be from half V t?n hour to an hour without sense or motion. K' v" - one set of muscle alone would -?1 -t" ? |?f?": seemto oa attectea. - _-r Hfc . Sometimes he would display great agility . . and command o^er the systemof voluntary ^ muscle, performing the feats of a rope* dancer-with-singular-dexterity aud address, ".placing hinlselfin a-variety of* gr&teque -attitudes, leaping on the necks of persons at |L a distance, op Sic mantelpiece, nnd walking "fc- * length, and-Jbalahcing .himself with one * loot on the pra c hai r. When.- these -paroxysms were frequent and %yere, he would appear somewhat irrk - . .* * table; -^is; memory was effected by them. Often wh^Kjj^pd or medicine was offered, h . , and urged upon him,- Ire would 'object taking it-#ith warmth, and in a few hoars affirm fhat nothing of tip> kind had* been :* presented4 to fym. jfcygww TT * w '*w" ? ' 'a'.' '" ' J ! =*== On the subsidence of,the-above par-/ oxysnw, particukciy those of the convulsive, kirfd, it-was ascertained that he" possessed/ great acutcness of several of 'the syises. *Tius becam# apparent in. regard to - the sense t>ffetich ao(j hearing, from the fact thai slight mrpression pn the skfn were pain4ul, and faint sounds unpleasantly loud. But it was the organ of vision that this effect most strikingly manifested, and gave 'lise to numerous conjecture's and hypotheses ip the imagination of the learned and unlearned to. accost for" it; th'eforrrfer sgoculating until {hey entered the mysticisms of. animaf nkgnetisnf the latter stopping short at the gate of her homespun sister, wire1i/ craft. It was.not until"the middle.of* F^b.v .bntju-y that the discovery was made of the great sensibility "of ths eye-to . light,* though in all probability it cxistecf a tnpnth before. ? ? % i . . ii mirv tT_i.a. i .? (it happened accidentally.. z no ugiw Ttuvmg | been removed- frqiq the rionVjuM as he was I coming out of one, of <hese-pa^o|ysms, his | Tnotjier, who remained Jnmyto c*dst?in? 'the floor,/xunb m contact vvitHia*'chauv On his inquiring ttfiy^hexKUf so, she; replied",' u bcctyjso it is so dark'I canpot sec-" He seemed surprised^ and in Vcjoihingbbsgry^d, thahhe could read the letting <5i} the back of the Bible, which was. no* {yjng on ^taI b]e on the opposite side of the room.* His ' father then came iir wim a light. lie com-. plained that it dazzled his, eyes. A Ijaiid- kerchief,folded'a nuoJfer "of times, wa?i then applied 'ovqY his.eyes, aitda copy. ! Watts? p^cdrqs and hymtfi "Was presented to. jiimt'out of whicfh he^rcad several 4a^s. his itlmcsa ; it was-witnessed by mys$f* as , WCdYj? Itoa; number yho weie icredofoofc at first', bdfc who were sootvoejyipceti, when ^possible.* Other phcuoVn^.fcccured "hibiliiig th<?acutencss of visToif to a remaA : rbld degree.-' JThe house in which* he livedo overlooked a Mrge4>a}v*UjeenIrancfe into the harbor. Frequently during ;the day,;as. soon as he had come to HiraScIf after a fit, he; woulcUook out of the window &> di^tiogoishvceseistonling into the h'arWjrjaud what they AM /IAAC AnAfikln/T r^.?r'IOil UII ireu uu UQV/A) ucov/ijvik^ inui^^aiuvu* lars, when the holl was scafcefy ^scornfble in Ihe dislanoe to thg bystander^ On one occasion, I was present to witness hipi in one%f these paroxy.isms oT ttfe respiratory system,wvhfcb 'hasjbeen peculiarly violent and distressing:?It whs between- twilight and dark, and there Was-no light in the room r(lhe patient's state at such times not alfowKttf-one,)when two pSr^n&j&the itf,whom I did not recogoize'fromtfij:pt ce where I paroxysm,:tw? <$cfe!y he" seemed to look through the hand as well 1 as the hundkengiMjfs; He wastfjen repeated to name the' individuals in,that room, to the number'oftefl or twelve. His father ooin ting*to each successively,; VFheyoungman did so; calling hy name entered white"he was insensible, ad well as the*o?fi. ei"3? Atftnother time, he reatl-fine print 'through ter> thicknesses of diaper, held byji fady wiio was-unwiHing to believe the "evi/ (jence of her senses. liettCte at .this time, f as he expressed to Mr." Gdtt,: appeared "to him as largd^S's the rittis of^oite?$ fingers, ftwj men^^wa^ified irffif^nts, ^ Sleep, talking manifested ^itself as soon TiS .tha fOjata'Jft?inoned affection of. the sense of Vreion. jH^s subject was generalty, flfid always aX fmt connected with tfie seas* : He Imagined himself -to be t[?e capttnin and own *rfn pa t or in whole, of tr mcrcfyr/t* vessel, -tffych he would "take ^arge of whijfr lying* at the, wharf, unladen, and-would comaience with purchasing * a cargo, or engngihg.a freghU * Then follow* ed the process t>f loading, during which* Jje would describe fhe "articles 09thdy were TiaSuled down to the landing place, and. giving minute directions in relation to the order in which||rey were be taken 'on. board> : and in what,part of the ship^ftey were tq be j placed, life then got the ship ready forse^ cleared at the custom house;^removed frorwthe(wharf, 'and .anchored her cflF>irv the*stream. Next-came the arduous -of hunting up the'erevy among the grogshops ami hoarding houses,getting them on board , 1. ?*?. _ . ilf il L. v. L ' .ana &ecp*ug mem uierc,4.uw? nv gave ur. derslo htaghrapcholr'&ad set sail. He gave bis orders-widr -pfecision and-, coolness,, weighed theanchor^and .setting'o'ne\ sail after another, in the bes' and most' espediuous nianper,'trimmiiigd)is sails with reference to the direction of the wipd-anil his owo course, making .frequent observation^ on the weather, polnte, le6ge$, "and shoal?, he was rwWe.tafall in frith gditig ont^ofthe t^arbor,. evincing iUdegree of'-nauticjil skill, agdan acquaintaefce with maritime., affairs, altcgeth'ef foreign/rom him when awake. His voyage exhibited the usudl iogidedts of a seafaring life. "His pilot ,wan rggjjlarly 4 discharge at the mouth of the hatbor, and as regularly came on bbajtf at the return of the ship. . He caused the anchor Id be j tinbent arid seeureifand a gable to be stowed L away,.shaped his coursej took his departure, and kept a reckoning ot the shtpls rtfn,% throwing the log periodically, apd taking the altitude of thcsiin to ascertainttbe latitude. When the weather wis Calm, "-he would frequently amuse himself with reoounting the adventures of his former voyages *ln these ' narrations he adhered strictly to. truth; generaliy an account of the voyage immediately preceding the one in 'which he was then engaged^ every circuit!stance' of-which he woula remember with accuracy, a^d detail "with fidelity, though an interval had passed j of fweniy-feur hours, and in thameaiiiime,1 when awake and sensible, on being questioned, he was (pund! to 'know nothing'of .if. To give an instance. Having cast away aship.'<j|a-awdl island near Cape, ?nn, the night following he gave the partidulars just afr thdy happened, describing the manner in which the ship 'struck the rocks, who was pn deck with himrthe numthat espaped, howtfiey succeeded in reach* . ing the shore, and how they managed, by .. turning over th?long^hpat, io shelter them-pelves.from the weather. ' * * When a storm was approaching, he made /?very dis^psition that a ski!W commander ; " .." . ? t * - v i T" could do to meet it, furling* the small satis ( cor one by one, and reefing the large ones as the (he gale increased, sending, down tfie top- bill mast spars,^and exhibiting, in his .remarks qgs on the violence and probable duraticm-ofthe Ins gale, the-alternationsrof ho^e'and fear, na- fqll tural to one Vho felt that property and life tie? were atstai& * \ .dm Throughout the whole, whether a|sea o? bat on shore? mYair weather or-foul. 90 mistake ait in.'point of fact, no erfortn judgment, no iff- me consistency in conduct coifld be detected by. the these who watched his conduot "ajEurrovvly, los And"who were ..capable, frqm experience lar *hd education, to see them if they occurred. AlTwere struck "wdth the extent and accor- ur acy of his knowledge, no l. only in^relaibn tpj Co tjjjgianagcment of a ship, but in geography, "o navigaiion, and the manners and customs of ;ita different nations*-of \yhickhe knew coniparc ori atrvoly ncflhing .when awake. No less.**19 SurartsiQg* was^his acujeness Of memory :*e.' ana judgment,'-and-"fertility in .expedients. M? tut a We are told'by the Nqw Ydrk Transcript pa ;lhat\a lady.residing-in the upjxir'pari ofth^ 9?i 'Jity, who was in the h^bjt'nf gossippirig abbut the sheets, and drinking ton with her 18 acqyai^Utnce^ two or three times a. week, Ba h^yrojfHn infant of the age of six weeks,-j , . ., Whicnsheundertook fb nirsd herself, was pa in the-practice of giving hpr'chifd a dose of alt paragoric whenever sh^Ioft homo, in ord$r ap tokCep it cpiiet, - The dose wAs repcatedrspj"wa toft3n*thaf at length.it became nece: vvy to wT givetit A tea spoon full to have the desired bo ^effecl. Being out of paragoric on Monday,, in the Tally called at a drug, store to -get her'at '-phial replenished, when the druggist wife. sp< recommended her to use morphine, being' Wore potent than flie othor drug, and would* lur; prodtlce sleep soapier. * The advice was fob be jowed, and a weak afclutieto of morphinor ha token home. The lady-'in the aftcrijooo^ m? wq^obljged to attend a funerahofa fricnd^f hers,, and administered tqf jhe'infuitf -.a tea th< spoon full of the-powerful opiate, to keep it tfa qutef (hiring jier^bsence, whicfihad^the ffo effect of putting it into asleep from which ica it will never "awaken. Ti?e coroner &as 9tr sent for?rfln examination of the body mn<te ne and upon- investigating the jcause -of the of child's death, K was found. to proceed en-' tor tireiy from ' the .effect*, of the deleterious drugs that had been from time to time aid- atminiatered to'it. The druggist said-he had tte caotionetd the mother from*?Tving it too fre^ (jueotly but^she replied that'sb^fakl to. go outeahd she could nol take the phita with her. < Saturday &urkr. % .. ' ?? v his Df. Franklin's *tTi/i>*-FrankIin' In a pu sfcefch ofjiis lile and habits, yelatogfthe fol, po Towing anecdote brfiis frugat and afiec^bn. E> nt?? miTn A uriiA i4jw ?iiv.. "iiv >uuiii suai t-ei_y mane UJfai prettier apology for purchasing he)r first Bt piece .of hwituryw.-- ^ { !?iA? 1 * C. We have an English Proverb ;hat says, sht . " iFTe that wo^Id thrive,'-..Bt Must ask his wife . poi it was lucky, for me that I, had one as much Art disposed todndufhy* and frugaHfy us my self, but She assisted me cheerfully in niy% business, pie folding and stitching pamphlets; tending Pr< shop, purchasing old Knnearags forthe pa- up< per makerv&o. \Ve kept no idle seiwapt; fin. our. table was plain and simple; our- furna- pu ture ?f the^chea'pesf. For instance, my breakfast was, for a tang rime, bread and' *atfc milk, (no tea,) andlate it-out bfa two-penoy tidi eartliecti porrengor, with ? pewter spoony lav bar mirk Mb* lintniy Yjlj Jntgr'fa tni j ieh ; j de< and make a .progress msptTf of prince I eht being called one. morning to hrejrkfast, ; rer found it in a china bowl, withn sppop of sH- wh ver.?They bad been bought fo r rhe without su| my knowledge, hy myVtfe, amT had cost huj her the enormous sum pf throe anftwenty, 1t#i shillings, foB wtiich'shchad no other excuse hoi or apology to make, but {hfet sbe thought (M her- husband deserved rf silver spoon and to^ china bowl,as weifj^any ofhis neighbors, phi This was the first appearance-of jjlate or d? ehifta in our house, which #erwar<fe pi thlb mii bourse of^pars, as ouf wealth 'increased augmented gradually-*tb several huo'drctj bol pounds in value. < < ripi _?x?1? ? - the - , From iho Pittsbnrg Tixnos * ' tpc vxite at a stand;4heife<Ja1 dpefations' jasfc afthe (government labor with extrme incon. coi veniench." v . laft So exclaimed Mr. ??fretary* Dallas in *rrf 1914, when the destruction of thejirst Na- mp tional Baok^aod the substitution of State Sfe institutions, had sod^apgwf the. currency ' Ie pnjj embarrassedthe tfscal operaiionsoftho Ins Government, as to render the establishment Eh* of the U, St indispensable to naiional and Iti mdividuar nrosneritv^ With still frroater POS fnce is th$language of -Mr.-Dalla* applicable n1,! t .the pre$ertf disastrous ponditionjof oup affairs, When the whole $oun'ry has Been trii prostrated by the signal failoro of-adreadful experiment. * i ?3 >;;We design to* prteent-to our readejs, a: cdfi^ensed view of the system of B6 liking,,?D( as has been incorporated with the policy of the United States, believing that^ an inentia statement oj .we pramiucntHtctswiirf i"v be not only interesting but useful in guiding'j Aw fljem To cmrect conclusions* uporv this ab-'i 1 sorbingjjBfcct. / his Before the adoption of our Const itutjon, toj the JBank of North Amojjica (1781) - was' Ba chartered bythe'contmentaT Congress, .with" fau d capital of 400,000 ^JWa>s. - lis ope- of i ra'iohs being very limited* it afforded, bur rejl little relief from the pressure and, difficulties occasioned by the revolutionary war. *ln Til 1687, our present Constitution became tile cor fundamental law; and. in 1702, with Wash- Ve ingtonatthe head of the administration/ Iph and by the advice- of other patriots - of,the jn 1 revolution, and sages of the Convention tim who framed 'the Constitution, was a National ted Bank with a capital of Ten millions, incorporated for "20years. During its existence, ;det its beneficial effects were every where vis. he ible in facilitating the operations of govern- the menf, in promoting- commercial enterprise T and domestic industry, and 'hi establishing mis the charttcterand credit of* oar people.? ma The local banks .also solvent. Ptior tp its nar exgifation' in 1808, they -applied-Tor a re- -ffiri charter; atH^Mr. Gallatin, then" Secretary.i tim of the Treltsnrv under, Mf. Jefferson. 're- the m /*. " ,v> ' " 'timdfc t'tlf ' -xii.:..'' 4 T nnjfrtded to Congress the .propriety .of moved, meafeyrejn the strongest terms. THq .cutive^ was lost in. the Senate in l811by the 5xceT$ ;ling#vote of the V.. President, and- the menCc ;titu:non expired on the 4th day of March t?oo$, v owing. . These-was tbfn an enterval of modftyi lrly six years without a National bank; to-do s ring* Which, there- fans an increase of curd in ik issues fo the amount of 65 nfiflioas, consort almost general suspension of.specie pay- the cka ints* So wretched |nd depreciute<Uwas quickly : currency, that thegeneraf government .sbr, aw I on this score over fivetnitliens 'of dol- fous m; s. ' r grace ii Jn 1814, Mi\ Dallas* Secy' of iheTreas*- cease f undei\M{. Madisbu, then pressed upbtj Chief J ogress thie necessity of a Nadonal Bank, r Thu pcrating upon credit, combined with cap- *Bank'sj 1, as 'the only efficient-remedy fork he d is- mcmbe iered .condition of thd currency!" In' Hc.a fl 51, a hill for this purpose passed both hou- Which ( ! Af.PjMviroi-o nfirt 'u/iio A/blmoii tw M J 'f ^ J.. . O * ^ MJ E-v -^1A ?-fl yiisQn,.notiofi the^ground of its 6ncoe$p. ^flhred iOr^ty, but the ianxftedidhcy of sotnu-, ^dolfars rtcculdf pmvisjo'n;"for irr December oftftd foi^ot t me year, ho rtconiradnded the. establish- ac'cfcpfc ?nf of "a National -Banand" in April, > The 16, Xhe act creatine's* third. NattdnaT sab?#i ink >v?vs approvedfty 'ltfi\'Mudi*>n'.. "circida: The bill to charter of.'Dl was the. co sse(J wherwbere Wus a majority ofFeder- jiniyers sts in both houses of Congress, and wjis the ala proved by Washington. **That gfl8l6 18JH>a ife'a .democrat measure, and was passed 145 mi ien there wa^s.a njajori:y of republicans, in lol off th houses, and was approved by \kd'u#)nv 'sb'muk Feb.,1817, it went ^nto operation; and .which' that tirrie, every r solvent Bunk resumed when scie payments. *' . . / * from d tn August 182f9, tho-Soc'y ofrthe T*eaS^ for s'pe y under President Jpckson said it kid .Control eh ail the government could desjrO. ftjtffeM d coliecteifanS disburse<KTor (I]e govern-*! been ri int f ?0$060.000? without * expense, and over-tr thout the loss of a cent, , Itlli^n became laijMty ; object the administ/atiorr lo'copnect to.it-imoneyed power with (lie patronage of the [tend C vernment?"which might Establish npolit2 powtgtl and; poMcal succession too *? ongfor(S? ballot-box. The B^rik.had ?K Ver mingled its concerns with the politics T W? the country: its Stockholders and Dircc- T? \5p 8 werfe". composed of both parties/ ^ In June, 1829, the Sefc'y ofthe Treasbry, 0 , the instance of Isaac nil I, demanded of ?, ^ t president $f die Bank the removal of * ; President of New; Hampshire Branch f??10' id .had unfo'rtuneately made -Itim^lf oh- 8*1"?f * xious to tfceeofra! power, and the Sub- f'!1^ iUtioil o fu friend of the administration in* ? v ?-! t? f m *T*. SWvi Min.ar ijSteaa. "Tftis audacrous uno(T>i? sMiie i.p~ " blic opinion, by objainiug^ the" moneyed vvers with yie immenso patrooage^of the3 ;ecutiver,>as instantly rebuketkby tire i f , (fiblic Biddle, .who. muctf as hcfavcd the ink, loved his conntry more, f; . Until this period, therd was no symptom iwn of the President's displeasure. - The' njt had been enjirdy ^disengK^ed' from ' fon-vand w?$e almost universally popular; **jQI t by a: firm, adherence iq correct priori. s,the Bank incurred the 'wrath of ipe ,as 3sid^.nt.. He was frotp that hour resolved an her destruction. . By steahbyiteps he p% rpached'the accompl 13]jrngjjjpf- his J rtwse. * T-'-.irj""V* to his menage o f Dec., 1829,'t tie first l;'^9 A ack-wis caCrtjpusI/made'bytij? 4iiggc$* W a ofdoubTs as to the expediencyxf 5bE 'tpf*?1K creating ^ Bank, nuttf an unftnihded4 *"ef? ilarafion, that jt hadj%ited in the great. wa* * 1 of establishing a uniform and'sound cur. D ,oc tcy. . He .then submitted -/o Congresu, fetbfta TreasuryJf&jk might not beglkutetf# without iotiitjating. the Benton 0 0 Jftug "notion of ^ hand .currency., This n of .the .mea^ge was referred.-in the ^g&,c use to the committee of Ways <?c Means, .'Duffie, chairman,) nrxfiii the Sfenatft-f' the Finance Committee, (Gen. Smith] lirman.,), Bo;h ol these genitejneo were ^ nocrats, ardent supporters of the ad- f0> aii?ratid&. So were ft ia$e majority.in fe55- TJwir report-sastairied h houses, show that neither the terrors 8*t0^ p blandishments of power could,se<fuce m from (ho pcrforniftDfl6 of their duty to. * not cornwrv Thdjr.repudialidipthe most tided ternjs the absurd and dangerous, t00 < teqaes oft he Executive, pronounced j,be foiLc* istiintiohaliiv of the Bank-to be a4 oostu- L T, ;?? PPPP^i wnnsiu the- i'oa3as50 ^ eetof.*?s? B select committee; coin- Ju|v afe Sasreferred to*?* . dJ ifthe *) - ?7??. -? L?ar? nt produced by the- investigation, impHalapquittal of theBank by the pas. g<M?1e^o f0t)f an act renting the charter'.by a .** jbrity of 22*in the. house, and 5 in the i^Llfi^rthQ.Penns\-[rar6a delegation," with .... ) exception, voting for it. The;;Fce?, $*'_? it was tlOt to be'shaken from his purpose th ^ , thWoice^of the.'Pedple, but, jwith theiA- -> ,U(1 bo^S, 'J take the resfoiM ve/ I the bill. ^ ^ " Our str W^th such cbccks-of public opinicrnopofl a)*ur;ng arbitrary course,- the* Executive seemed tu&mQ. become the restive and vindictive. " The Le^ee nk^jilij-etainod the -deposites, and Iftd m'ke , ir years lo-run. \\ nh a vidw, therefore, stf unsetlipg corTfidpnce, and of forcing the Diijow^ loyal Of the .deposites, the President aug- J_ yB ited a doubt ofthe solvency of theBank. 0f e subject tvai referred to a committee' nposed of a majority of his friends. (Mr. ' Plus rpiank, chairman,) who reported a reso- Englan on, 'that the government depositesmight, of Plum fod opinion of the" house/b's safely con. la Engl ted in the U. S.-Bank,' which was adop. e/ sour by a vote of .JOS to,46. . Hero again wa* kn' ir the President foiled; &nd then did" he spme o ermine to accomplish* unfaufully what Plumiw liad again and again sought to do under in the / color of law. To com he veteran P^democrat,Ingham wasdis- in publi ssed withourceremony from office, and a Gebgra a supposed to-be more supple (Mr. Du- lure of* le) VasHnataljed.' The decree went % Pre ill?( Amos Kendal^b^ig irr ftie^niearu C^emis / , /; ' , j ,, , .= Tq,the astDrrishmebtoQihe JEx^however, Mr. DuaoO informed his :Dc"y, that by the charter the gqver/iv lODtractec^ upon certain^considera-^ r*Tth the Bank, to^epositeethe public i therein,until it was no logger safe, so. JXe beleived they were still scthelr vaulrs,-and therefore could aot' 5n tioifciy violate the power with which' rtar hqd mvested^him. *Mr. Duaae ' followed his Pennsylvania predCces> J was succeeded by' a less *scrupu\i>, (Mr. Taney,) who did the disil act, apd -was elevated, at the of the illustrious, jiaj$h&ll,. ta the hjsticeship.> C *- ts was introduced the system bf Pet . *a??LaAk a1| ' Ktt wiliun W.VW JUC^IHCU uj , rs of Congress andon intelligent pub. ^:Bankwas /Inat^prostc^, and?be goye/nmeat 115 for cv^ry - 100 of stock .they hold: Ther Prestdenf he insol vency of the institution, and jd;hbe terms. ! " " over throw of the"Nat ion a 1 l?d itioh of State. Banks, and tliefSpecie rrconsi kute the Experiment; ?y which* untry has. been hurled into, almost! sal bankruptcy. It has occasioned rmifag increase of Banks; wtuch in rvwinn*D/l 4n OOfl iniih n pnnital nf UiUUIttVU -IV ^%Y>vui WI llions, and in''37, to 677, withta ctapu 124 millions. This unlimited credit Ued the enterprise. of the people* the"B ?nl^s ceuld'no longer sustain,shocked by the ^transfer' of specie loir vaults, from East to the VjfesC cftlatiQa in Public* ladds. ' Had lhe< power of the U..S.; TBaakover. ^ag.ant isspes .tor'S tntee^ amu^e^rie nt '^ ?^'1S room, -wfiere r exp^cfttcf io spe a Thermit*^Dwde^le mg'of the. Eighth and many of -lloiji^he tghrth ' all Loco-focos, -and they- do not trfi hflirffTrTv' rt * pn/^t?lWf ?r>faK*r . it. "They denouW fhe Restrain V, the I s dry luw, tlie.Susp^nsiofi j^ivv. o i ix) .1 roes says lour pacKcti sailed towfay carried of 8 o. 90ftllara iDipecit. . " V* , gar^ta, Mr^^o^llare^^d; .ia q^itrties, tyit ^ the hJjWin le here and ihere, ao3 a sccrereigfl. fc^a jqJT is^ Wjf^ix boar.ifjojCpno.shjp if is gnW rnc.of in* passengers died-of Jfftnstft These N anp ^nrible,. ss most feipedy^ tbera/. Many. of rgranJ5s are decen^e&m "fiorppe [,. Ji does"s&tffc -efltifs vast population upon us.-^ ecfeare fail-of foreign beggars.7t|ifc hot weather thjpxr appearance ih -niag rcmiods.oDC ofJI&pje$, op the at New Orleans, where. so many teds of cotton bags.^ One of our. fCatfierine'^trm) is a' long- M^'tho j beiiig the ^toping^anes, the bed tlr$ Rdowalk?thfshoefs,- the awnings hops. , ; iBAGb.?It' W; s lately s ated in .the d papers, thafVhe celeb rated Mine ibago, or Black Lcadj'at Borrowdalo and, was exhausted,jtnd that no Qjhv Ce of obtaining tljis useful fnineral DWfl. . It has since been stated, i?. t f the papers .of this country, that! i^o can bp obtained, in ^any quantity' ncinrty of Baldgh North Cbroftna. shing'thq. following extract^frdm a pWoSf llefbrt rn^de to-the Legisla^ North Carolina^several* years ago, >f<^ of^ i j 'iiii i ji m .. "This gre,1{ deposite pfdBlack L^ad^*. ' - sayg the^)rofesspr,\?lte$.a 11 w^vvartf Rttjjegfu The whdle fciritmtiOD constts *? ^ -f a great-minfiber<?fparallel ^diyaryingml*width fr^mJ^we^. fecfl*-?v ^ oytl/s'p^ les3 tluLi eve^, Jriiiori, bjjti dailnot J^fbear ^/ \ s&y. fbaft;; wish ihey-vepe different -'frothy v * what they really ar?-" ft is spid th?tt tfey r ' refcl- to some difficulties .as to .rank, origin- ' .. aling in the appoihlment Off a jiapor officer to the^Navy Board.?Natiqpai Gazette. ' *. , JL be rcmod fed at once-by sweeping all banks* -.. out of existence Who ever beard ?fa ' v deprciatiop -of" geld'and sflvefPW'Afr TV - *vV &*??. . /. " 'And' ivc suppose that the cviUifiifrCyqrasj/ ' upon' the toes may be-remedied -at .Jfefil 1iQ?dbrc6rnsr u|KTri-the'l^ of a tifriberiee." ' ged geDtlernan?' ?iUeJcm^na^^ *. * A A DVEBTCSisa^.The $cw. v>: sdysu "A wealthy me<chaniX ivlio has git^ep morei?yveriisiftg to thcpren *y k , Vi'