Bloomington Post, Volume 2, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 February 1837 — Page 2

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VICE rUKSIDENT. On the 8th inst. the Senate of the Congress of th? United States, proteeded to the election of Vice President. And reader who do jou think they elected? We tell it with ablush! It was RICHARD 51. JOHNSON, the man who lived with, and had children by a BLACK NEGRO WENCH ! Yes this hero of a tvooly' headed tribe is to hold the second otlice within the gift of the people for four years from the 4th of March next, he having received 33 votes nnd Mr. Granger, 1C. We the high minded and enlightened Americans arc to remain, for four long years the object of scorn by all thn enlightened nations of the earth merely to gratify party feelings. Oh! shame where is thy blush. CrSenators Hendricks and Tipton both voted for the icool grorccr. Well done good nnd faithful servants, lh; people of Indiana will reward you with a vengeance. We have nothing of importance form Congress this week. The latest accounts from there state that the Treasury order will be recinded or modified. We cannot picture in our own minds, how the Vice President fleet, nnd his dtnsy family will look in Washington. Cinanyofour Van Biren friends inform ui? How can the Van I! iron men rocon eilo themselves to have the wool grow r preside over them as Vire President l"r th-i term of four years? Perhaps ih v give t!i"msehe on l ti n li!;o the I'-i-low we once heard of who was poiiur t he muihd to a giil who.h id a mulatto heir. O.i In ing akc J by a friend, h v ho couM relish that, olscrvcd vcrv pood I'auirodU, thit ho !iJ nut like it verv veil, an I concluded by sating tint 111,1 ny oilier girls bad met with worse iniifor: tune and bo could look over that. JVrhaps they think many other governments have met with worsenhslhrtuncs thin bavin an amalgamating Vice Prr-ii lent an J lh;y can Ixifc over tins sni ill stignvi. The Hon. Dr. Jon W. D.ivn, Itepresentavo in Conre, from this State, write to a friend, that he has declined being a cati!iJ.it; fr r; cleeti n. High? Doctor, we hive members cnh tlicre of "hu nble abilities' with nt you. The I) ctrr say 111 tli! s ame letter that Hint 1 Anna is nt Wa-ihiiytvii. hut tint he had n it seen him, nor would he turn on hi heel to sec such a h :artle. wretch. Why n )t DK-tot? Gen.i.il Jackson had him taken to Waihingt n, for the s.iti-i. faction of hi Irion U and vjii shouUl, hv all means take a peep at the "larnel critter." CT"We are authorized to say that a meeting of the lMmruc county .lri riilltirn) .Sw" will l:ilr nlar. at the

Mr. C'iavs t?rKrr o the Last Trkasvry Ordlr. We have received and read this excellent document with uncommon pleasure and interest. It is like all his productions, fraught with sound and forcible arguments, eloquence, Sic. Nothing would give us more pleasure than to lay it before our readers; but owing to its great length, we reluctantly exclude it from our columns; we however make below, some extracts from it, which will show to every unbiased mind that the powers that be arc bent to distract and ruin the currency of our country, merely to gratify the ambitious feelings and whims ot an old childish hum and a few blood hounds who lurk around him merely to satiate their brutal apeties at the expense of the people. "What is the present actual condition of the banking capital of the country? We told you that the moment you destroyed a Bank of the U nited States there would immediately spring up innumerable local banks; that banking capital would thus be greatly extended , and lint the change might lead to the dcs!i"..!ion of all confidence in the circulating papei medium. And are not tii. ?e predictions in a rapid progress of fulfilment ., We are informed by the Secretary o! the Treasury that the amount of bank capital has increased, since the veto on the bank charter, from 200 millions

; to 30C millions an increase of fifty i per cent., and that thecirculation has j increased in the same ratio, viz. from j GO millions to I 20 .'millions, t 1 concur with the Senator from Viriid in thi position that 110 st ite ! of tilings Is more calamitous than thai J which accomp tides n decline in the j circulating medium of a country; ;irij i the degree ofdistre is in propor'i 01 ! to the rapidity of Midi decrease ; while, J on the other hand, the prosperity of a country is never at least apparently areattr than whil 1 the amount of il currency is on th-i increase. I ll does any una suppose that this can couth. tie ? fan any rf ll ;li 1; man ' P'Tj'iad.: bim-elf th it twenty s.x dis ttoct and in ! pei.dei.t Stall's, 1 1 kineach one to its u. ; si-p 11 ite intert st, w ill x"rc i" nrh (oi !)i- u nice .1 not t all bank I b 11. k, and inrrca-r the paper" t lieu! ition within its bmil, till ill:: country will be involved in th" da; u'er of soni: f;re it r ilamilt ? I greatly fear it- hen or how it r-U ill ' come, no on can ox irtly foresee; but we can all inighn; tint, if then should occur a great failure, or a lirtat reduclion'.in the price of the j Southern staple, or ( hat is now ac ; tuilly threatened) a general return of ! American fto ks which have, been j scut to Enrpu on n frr:gn demand, 1 from any cause, of a large amount ol ' the sp-cie in the United Slates, the ; necessity consequence would be such a run upon the banks as may cause J a general suspension of specie paym ints, if not the bankruptcy of many J ot tli banks. What is their present , condition? They are without concert, j ro operation, or niiluil confidence. I The moment there i- .1 great and -ud 1 den dnm m l to meet .1 corresponding 1 dem in I abroad, there must ensue a ! general panic throughout the country. Etch bank being necessarily uii ! able to measure the 'exact extent of i the demtnd, wi'.l, of course, rail on its I own debtor-, an 1 the same thing, for a j "irnil ir reason, taking place in all the i other banks, there will probably be a ; general stopagc of payments and uni ' . ' - sal bankruptcy. Was not all this eseen? Was it not foretold ? Were ' atlcmen not warned, again and ain, not to destroy the only means which W3 could with safely rely?" 'If speice should become very tree, the collectors of the Govern . :nt might from necessity be forced ' receive a portion of the revenue in 1 tcsfof good banks; but if you re ' ive this revenue in specie only, you .1 mediately and unavoidably elevate -' e relative value of specie above othv" parts of the currency, because, . tile bard money would perform all ' e offices of other media of circulan, it would then discharge one oth- - r office, which they could not. The suit must be to create a demand for ecie, and thereby to render it a arketable commodity. A man ould not then, as now, be as ready ! receive a debt in good notes as in, ?'ecie. He will always want the .ecie, because it would command a p "emium. Does not the Senator perdve that gold and silver must then :ase to be a circulating medium, and i converted into merchandise? It ould be sold at an advance, and ould be hoarded for that end. Yet .' am far from being certain, if the ob- , ct in view be to retain a certain a- - ount of hard money in the country, at the remedy which suggests the :clusive use of specie has not a cerinty of success which cannot be proiced by relying on the patriotism or e voluntary action of a thousand inks and twenty-six independent ate sovereignties. My word for it, fifteen or twenty years after the l!tem of the Senator from Virginia

shall have gone into effect, although

the same indentical banks may nol continue to issue notes of a small de nomination, yet the aggregate amount j of such notes in actual circulation , will not he less than it was at the commencement of the experiment.." 'While the language of the report shows very clearly that there is great apprehension felt as to the safety and solidity of these institutions, yet it is so constructed as prudently to avoid the excitement ol unnecessary alarm. But supposing it to be true that, in a Government constituted as is Great Britain, it were possible to dispense with a national bank, and to rely on local joint stock companies and on private banks; let me ask the honorable Senator if the condition of England and America is not totally different? You there see a power asserted for Parliament to legislate with plenary ' authority, both for the future and for . existing institutions. Have we any j.ich power ' Theirs is a consolidate 'J government; ours is a confederacy . They have power by their legis , i ition to guard against malpractices ; i: all the banking institutions in the l:::gdorii Bui here there is no such authority, mere, there is not nn institution which does not perpetually act under the control of a general law, extending throughout the empire. But here we have one thou sand banks, scattered over our immense territory and in . twenty-six States, on which the General GoverriI ment can exercise no itl';ctive control 1 whatever. So that even were it true !lhat the Briiish Government could ' dispense with the Bank of England, it won! 1 be fir from i roving that we could imitate her, when wc consider that the local banks in this couutrv ..re subject to tw nty ix separate and in dependent Governments, over which we have no pow er to act." "1 speak now of the j iestion of : power. Suppose the Set letary had r- vt I h.s m'e suppose he had ; aid that the citizens of the Stales in I w hi h the I in I I it s should have a t to poiih.se tv ,lv wnli specie, w hue th w w hu c ime I. . m 1 dist ince I ni;;'!u tinki! tiit.r payment ia notes. 1 I' I"-' has siholute power ovei the sub- , ji ct, he inig st as well have made the : one discriiiiin iti.m as the other. And ; iie may net only discriminate between ' d. tie re lit clas.es l individuals, but i between dill rent places. 1 have i been, indeed, informed that at one of j the land oflices specie under the order j was not n (paired. Where is ibis diaj pensing power ' Where did the SeI cret ry g t it Not from the words of the order, for that applies equally to all.'' "And this brings me now to inquire, what has been the tdlVct of this order in its acta it operation on the community The order professes to proceed on the principle that the public lands are sold for a valuable consideration, if piynunt be male in b ink notes, an J thai specie alone can constitute a just rqu vahnl for their value. And I admit that if the Secre tary had gone on to provide that the specie thus received should be the properly of tho Gov erinii int, there would at least have been consistency m the course be adopted. Hut the moment the order appeared, there was an instant pressure for specie, especially in the West and the Southwest. The banks were called upon, and specie in all quarters was put in requisition, for the purpose of paying for the public lands. The pressure upon the banks in Kentucky was great. Gentlemen talk to us about the inconsiderable amount that has been received, which is slated at Sl,COO,000, exclusive of 300,000 more, which was placed on depo-ile at Washington, and the certificates of which were received as cash; 6ay, in round numbers, two millions of dol lars. It is very true that this amount was not great, but the argument drawn from it is not a fair one. We must recollect that when the operation commenced no one knew what was to be its extent. No individual bank could possibly tell, and each was left in total uncertainty as to what would be required of them. The banks could not foresee that no more than two millions of dollars would inus oe drawn 11 0111 ititai. ll they had known this beforehand, thpv might have made their arrangements to meet it. liut on all the banks of West and of the Southwest, daily demands were made for specie. There was, at once, not only a cessation of discounts, and the purchase of bills of exchange, but the banks made heavy calls upon their debtors. This state of thing9 operated with peculiar severity on the West. It happened just nbout the time when our People begin to carry their live stock to market, The ordinary course of the trade is lhis; They draw bills upon themselves, or on their friends, at the markets to which they are destined, which are discounted by the bank, and with

the proceeds rif which they purchase j

ments. No business with us is more beneficial to all parties. The purchaser of etock diffuses mony through the community, and on reaching the market he makes his sales, nnd is thus enabled to pay the bills which he had drawn. All this was immediately interrupted, in consequence of this Treasury order, for how could the banks venture to discount, with such an order hanging over their heads? If they purchased bills, the operation was equivalent to a disbursement of so much specie; for if they paid in erpr TL' W ! tor from Virginia has told us about j the eirect ef the course pursued by j certain collectors in Ireland in refus- j ing to receive in payment the notes of, lush banks. What was that conse-1 WLZrLZl Nor : could that gentleman have pronoun ; cedamore severe condemnation of ! the order than by the example which 1 he quoted from the kingdom of Ire. ! these notes, they immediately returnand Tkn K-.r.I.-c s I li'iUO Bui. I .. .. , ,- -.. 1 ; were run upon. iiiuiviuu.ua vi hj ju;. sessed snecie were unwilling to part i

from it, and served it for investment postpone the bill defining what in the public lands. And there was J currency shall be received in paya general accumulation, for the pur. ment for dues of lhe United S.

pose ol paying, t into me lano cilices. Well, sir, it was carried to the land nltirnc nhnn l f it r 1 IfvPr tv ifiiP . i i,. . ,.r ;,i iv.. it .hp n.,riv f tL i;.-.V(. r".,m,.,'ii 1 No, sir. Did'you get it? No, sir. li was carried to the deposite hank, ami there it was credited as so much money to the Government. The w holtransaction, therefore, amounted l, this: you forced all the purthaseis ol the public land to become colh.-ctirs of specie for the deposite bank. The money was not 1 ollecU d fr the (it v. ermnei.t. You cannot call fur it. It is tee propei ty of those hank, to loused as liiev plea. . mi have in fused to credit banks for they issued ; y 011 h ive oc this vast inconvf nienci ; ; instead of petting the i you have been at so much the i : I note. k 1 all It- al'y . which He In 1 I In collect, you get nothing but h .1 k credits.'' Fur the W. Mr. E-lihr: Some time since I observed in your paper a notice of the leception of the second ium'er of Sen x, ac companied with a declaration, that it should be forthcoming, the next wo. k. In vain have I v mined each succeed ing number, for this pnmi d e 1 ' 1 .. j . 1 1 1 1. .1 . r.i"eii uiu 1 inoK anion" me ce a obituary notices, accidents, i,r- vioumisfortunr. s &c. Knonin that a. life is uncertain moie putieulaili with the aged , whose constitution Ins j been wrecked by time, whu.e hcht; j pulr-c, yet strong judgf ment, Hceurat. ; and just taste, "gies strong pr, -mnli n" of beii g on the verge of the i;i, ve. j I say knowing Ihests thing-, and tin ' cflect which S'lJdctl -l;an-cs ol i weather have upon age, I wa not on , t i rely pursu aded, hut that Senex j might have ceased to exist, hut in the j remembrance of his friends, at d the columns of the Post; and thai his pi pers and 1 llects had fallen into the j hands of some just biographer. What- ! ever may be the cause of this delay ol I the scond number of Senex; be it either by his own free will or some unavoidable accident, it is alike hment able to all the true lovers of the titbit me and beautiful. It is indeed to he regretted, that one, who has such high endowments for usefulness, and such a delicate sense of propiiely. snouid not have employed more of hi time in pointing out and coireclini: the errors of the nge. I had hoped that through the mer - cies of Uod, Stncx would have been pjj.neu iu complete ins series ol essays; A I 1.1- r and that the pleasures which 1 anti cipated in the perusal of his future numbers, from youi sheets, would be realized. Dutalas! I fear my hopes arc tot to be gratified. I am fully pursuaded that had fecnex proceeded in his eu mat nad c,iCx proceeded in h.s undertaking, he would have poured a iinmi nfi,i, i . , , 1 ,.. Hood of 1 1 glit nnd knowledge upon this important and interesting subject ; and very probably have proven to the sat isfaction of the woild , that the practice of ladies exhibiting in public, is not only improper, immoral, and irriligious; but that it is the offspring of u borbarous age. Junior. Beautiful Comparison. A black thunder cloud passed before the great light of the world. The sun was darkened for a time but hardly bad had the gloomy enemy of her lustre passed from her ere Bhe lighted up its edge with a circle of living glory. That man deserves to be called a light of the would who does good even to his enemies, as soon as the hour of oppression has taken its departure.

CONGRESS. the William .Wirt arrived at PerInthe senate on the 28th, Mr.jnambuco.in charge of ail English Tipton introduced a joint resolu-! ur'g tion from the legislature of Indi- The William Wirt was bound ana, instructing their senators Rio Janeiro. Within a few day's and representatives to oppose the s;,il of thai place, the crew struck purchase of the private stock of off from duty, and after a severe the Portland and LouisvilleCanal contest with the officers, in which by the United States. Mr. Cal- the Captain was mortally wotindhoun offered the following resole- ct! Sl possession of the vestion: sel. The mate was murdered Resolved, Tluxt the president I and ,l,rmv overboard, and a be requested to communicate to Spanish sailor, who refused to the senate a conv of the corres- jin lN murders, was slabed and

Ponder with ihc government of . 1 hi. expiring agonGreat Britain, in relation to the ies- Aone of the mutineers knew outrage committed on our flag, j enough of navigation to manage Hm tie rigj,ts 0f our citizens, by l',e vessel, and they rolled about lj)e allt10,;ilie3 of BurmU(Ja and ! several days, when they fell in Providence seizin the!w lhe English brig, which X?uZ& t .. 1- f a .up V - cuinium and Enterprize, engaged j sueU and belore the mutineers in the coasting trade , but which j would yield the possession of the vvere forced by shipwreck and i schooner, it was found necessary t r WP.. t ,i1P ,,nrte ! to shoot one of them down from

1 of those islands. Alter an ineffectual effort to of takinrr thn Innil bill, th senate resumed the con- ' sideration of the former. uhich . w i s the order ofihedav. and the. : bill bcin on its third reading and t)e miestiotl bciil"' on its passage Mr. Walker, chairman of the land committee , w ho had report - mI it. took thf tlonr in renlv Intlip remaiks made bv Mr. Henton

yesterday, goiiu; at latge into the j Ammida!) p;iid me a visit from arguments of that senator, and J the cuTnt ry. lie lives at Rock retorting, with ikj little warmth. : IIollo-.v, and we frequently reeipto u bat he considered tmti'rited rocnte civilities of this kind, reflections, on the committee, ' hen I viit Aminidab, he is declaring at the same time, that very particular in showing tne fornll he had said he held him- the products, pigs , poultry, &:c-, self personally responsible, both l hi, w ell cultivated farm and

in and out of the house Mr. Webster introduced an ' a menduieut,ileel uing the Virginia laud scrip receivable in payment iif all dues to the gnvern1 ment, winch lies on the table. ! The further consideration of j the bill was, at the suggestion of ; Mr. Hives, postponed to Mc nd.iv. Mr. Lenton oflercd a rfsC'lutioii of thanks &c to iMartin 'an Ihircn, which w as passed. The house of representative-, has determined to meet nlilcrcti intsead of twelve o'cloc after the ilOlh ultimo. The h'.use. has ! virtually refused to lake up, i during the present session, the subject id the amendment of the .constitution, in relation l the ; election of president find vice president, as recommended bv jthe president in his tinnual mcs- ( sage. Ltxington Obtcrvn: The reader of this paper will; find , 011 referring to the account j of yesterday's proceedings in j Congress, that the rcrrmony ofthe election of President of the United States, to succeed the incumbent, has been completed by opening and counting the votes of the Electors; and than Jlartin Van liurcn has been officially proclaimed as chosen President j of the United Stales for four J vears from and after the thiid day ,,r M ,PI, ,,.., Ul Mllil.-ll UI.AI. No person voted for having re ceived u majority of the electoral votes for Vice President of the ! United States, the fact wasre - j ported to the Senate ; an election ! beintr imme.diatpl v hrdd hv iluit , )0(jy between the two highest on ! )0(Jy bef ween the two highest on j i- , ; 1 111 7 " . Ihc list, Jiivtuxrd ill. Johnson was I , , , ,r r 1 r i j ;i,,,' cosqii V ice President of t he United States for the ensuine term of four years. JYat. Int. Feb. 9.

Mutiny and murder. From i 1 ake care girls.-" Well, Frank, our attentive correspondent of ; ,s'nt srl,e a perfect creature?" the Boston Courier, we received, "Why, I think she would be if a ship by the express mail onjsicSaturday, giving the particulars! - "If what. Frank4?" of a mutiny and murder on board J "If she did'nt cat onions " of the schooner William Wirt! Capt. Smith, of Boston. The in- Angling. "Any ting pite you telligence was brought to Bostcn dare?" inquired one Dutchr"-

by the ship Braganza, which sail - ed from Ferriambuco on the 29th of November. On the 27th Nov.

i the fore yard. One of the mates

! f t,ie briS tt as Put on board f her. The capt. was alive when the brig took the schooner, and had arrived at Pernnmbuco, but was expected every moment to die. The mutineers were in charge of 1 American Cunsulta Pernam- ; b,ICO- The namn of the mate of : me scnooner was joiitl tt Ura, Ol : ii'Stin.-ai tmorc L nron. Jan. 14 1 , TUB PvIVrOUT DIRECT. I Some time my friend when he comes to see me, I ta- ! deavovr to make his time pnss 35 'agreeably as possible, by shwi inz him about mircity and divers ; cither attentions At his last visit, he u autfd to purchase some agricultural books far his j boys ;so one. day I accompanied ! him to lhe. book-store of my 'very larticu'ar friend, Mr. Am inidab had on a full suit of home made drab, country manufactured brog.ms, find the identical broa.l-bi'nn that had sheltered 1 his head ai;d shotild.crs from the v:n and sioim for lull five years: He could not find exactly the In ks that he wanted, and probably was a little troublesome. At least so thcught the salesman; a pert young wag, in bturch and buckram. ' o'u are from the country, are you not, sir' said he, a little im pudently. 'Yes.' 'Well here's an Essay on the Hearing of Calves.'. -That, said Aminidab, as he turned to leave the store, 'thee had better j?rcstut to thy mother? A couple of chaps hit upon the following expedient to raise the needful one was to feign himself dead, to he put into a bag by the other, and sold to a physician in the neighborhood as a subject for dissection. The bag was procured, the fellow tied j "P m 'l U,1 at 'night meridiarj,' ! carried to the Doctor. Thebar!Rain was soon finished the ! nioncy pocketed, and the seller 1 ns upon the sill of the door, tak'WS bis leave, when the subject in the bag began to kick. 'Stop, stop,' cried the Doctor, 'the man I is't dead ?" 'No matter,' renli C3 III... " j et: he in the door way, 'you . can win mm when you want him. j of another, engaged in angliD "INo, Hans." j "Well, nottln pite me, too,"