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1828 by 12,682 13, notwithstanding 'the clamor which has been raised about the extraordinary number of outfits paid the last year. The result would still be more Unfavorable to the economy of Mr. Chilton's now favorite administration, and if he had made the comparison between the first year of Mr. Adams' administration and the nst of Gen. Jackson'6: Foreign intercourse in 182& $297 790 1 1 Do do in 182? 19 442 13 Greater in 1825 than in 1829 by $99 347 93 If my mecnory does not deceive mt,

the late Administration paia to ns ters, Secretaries, and Charges for re turning "a nort est inventus against the plomatic intercourse with a single pow er, Ureat Britain, in thi rapid succession of Minuter, Charges, salaries, outti's rU the U. Slates about the sum of 100,000 in four years. As the diplomatic expenditures, including the incidental expenses of foreign intercourse,&c. depend more than any other public expenditures upon Ex. ccutive discretion, and as the commencement of a new Administration is necessarily calculated to increase the amount expended in the immediate previous yearrI have selected (he two first years of Mr. Monroe, the two first years of Mr. Adams, and the two first of G iii. Jackson, and compared them with each other, in order to test the economy each. Mr. Monroe, in 1817 and 181S $75 0U5G Mr. Adams in 1825 and 1826 517.858 27 Gen. Jackson, in 1829 aud 1839 412 942 IS Thus it will be seen the cxp'i'Kliiiir: -(if the whole sum appropriated for 1830 should be expended, which in all probability, will not be the case) of the first two years of General Jackson's Administration, on account of our foreign intercourse, will be 292,092 43 less than the amount expended in the two first years of Mr. Monroe's administration. It is 194,916 14 less than the amount expended la 'he two first years of Mr. Adams' administration. With these facts spread upon the records of the country, so that "he who runs ma) read," before time is given for the legislation necessary to reform many of the abuses, which have existed so long, that, by the force of precedent the administration is almost compelled to regard them as a part of the law of the land, the honorable Mr. Chilton, under the inlluence of some extraordinary cause of momentary excitement, pro claims to the public that Ais"mind was perfectly satisfied that, instead of retrenching the expenditures of the government they were increased," by the present administration. In the other departments of the public service, and especially in !he naval service, I am pleased to find in its administration not only a professed disposition, but the effects of an efficient reform, already manifested in the reduction of the aggregate amount of the expenditures, and in the detailed expenditures depending mainly upon Executive allowances. Less expense, more efficiency, greater economy and stricter accountability, are manifested throughout its whole operations. Much yet remains to be done, by legislation, to effect all that is required. In the administration of this department of the public service has existed, and still crisis a greater latitude for the exercise of Executive discretion than in any other, except that of the State Department. And what is the result when ihe aggregate expenditures of the last twelve months of Mr. Adams' administration are compared with the first twelve months of General Jackson's over this Department? From 1st March, :828, to 1st March, 1829, the expendi tures of the naval establishment were From 1st Mrch, 1829, to 1st g4 082,439 47 March, 1830, they were g2 076,328 35 Thus it is 3Pen that the expenditures id the naval establishment are less ia 1829 than 'S28. by - - Sl.OOS 11 1 12 Still. the gentleman say) his "mind was perfectly satisfied that instead of retrenching the expenditures of the Government, they were increased," by the present administration. Mr. Chilton's statement was, that the expenditures of the first year of General Jackson's administration were greater by 679,282, than the expenditures of 1828, the last of Mr. Adams' administration. Mine was, that the aggregate amount of expenditures, including' the amount of public debt tmid in both vears. was less by 313,396 31. The statement of the Kegister of the Treasury above will settle the point at Usue. 1 farther said that if the aggregate of expenditure many given year was any evidence uf the economy or fidelity of an administration, then the expenditures of the months of January and i'Hbruary, 1829, made by Mr. Ad am?, ought not to be charged to the expenditures of the present administration. To make the comparison a fair and just one, the expenditures of the first twelve months of General Jackson's admida-

(ration should be compared with the last twelve months of Mr. Adams's I then stated the fact, that the expenditures from the first day of March, 1 828, to the 1st of M ireb 1 329, amounted to - - $20,513,780 13 And those from 1st March to 1st March, 1830, to 24 520.5SO 04 Making those of Mr. Adams' Ust 12 months greater tbao tbosn of General Jackson's first 12 month!, by 1 .093,208 09 And here follows the proof ot the facts etated: Statement of Expenditures of the U"ited S ales, fiomtne 1st of March, 1828, to the 28lh February, 1829, and from the 1st March, 1829, to the 28(h February, 1830. From M'ch 1,'28 From M' h 1,'29 to Feb. 28, 189. to Feb. i9, lb'SO

Civil, Miscel laneous and Foreign Intercourse 3,S53,614 0G 2,80,359 63 Military Establishment 6,414,106 8C 6,200,296 83 Naval establishment 4,082,439 47 3,076,328 35 Public Debt 12,163,627 74 12,383,595 23 26,513,788 1 3 .24,520.580 04 Expenditures of the United States from the 1st of January to the 3d of March, 1829, inclusive Civil, Miscellaneous, and Foreign Intercourse 715,266 62 Military - - 1,124,281 51 Naval - - - 659,150 20 Public Debt - - - 205 54 Treasury Department, 2,498,903 87 Register's office, April 3, 1 830. T. L. SMITH, Register. But it is insisted that the amount paid under the Ghent Treaty, by both ad ministrations, should be deducted' from the amount expended in each year. 3l that be done, the result will still prove the honorabK gentleman's statement incorrect, by at least 507,317 41, as will be manifest from the following table: Total Expen. of 1 828. 1 829. 25,459,479 62 25,071.017 59 Dhduct public debt 12,163,538 07 12,383,800 77 13,296,041 45 12,987,216 82 Deduct am't pd. under 1st art. T'y of Ghent 790,709 40 8,280-25 12,505.972 05 12,676,936 50 This exhibit an aggregate ol diffeience of only 171,964 45, instead of 279,282, according to Mr. Chilton's calculation. Apply the same principle to expenditures of the last twelve months of Mr. Adams' administration, and the first twelve months of General Jackson's and the result will be more unfavorable to the gentleman. From 1st Mar. 'A3 From 1st Mar. '9 to 1st Mur. 181.9 to 1st Mar. 1830. exclusiveof paym'ts of public debt; and for claims un del 1st ar. T'y of Gn'i 13,560,090 79 12,128,794 59 The t xpeuduures of 1829, under General Jackson's administration, after the-e u . tiuctins, are still less by 1 431,386 30; yet Mr. Chilton's calcula tiuu, by charging the present Administration with the expenditures iu January and February, 1829, made them 1,093,577 more; and in this the hon orable gentleman only made a small mistake of 2,524,963 30. The effect of which mistake lias been to satisfy his mind perfectly, "that instead of retrenching the expenditures of Government, they have beeii increased," by this administration. It is however further insisted, that a difference in the expeuses of a long and short session of Congress should be deducted. If that were done, it would still leave the gentleman far removed from the fact. Why not by the same rule, or for the same reason, deduct from the expenditures of 1 829, the exce&s expended over 1828, for surveys roads and canal, and the improvement of harbors, &c? contracts, foi the construction of which, and obligations in many instances were made and incurred by the late administration; to meet which, much ol the money charged in the xpenditure3 of 1829, was drawn from the public Treasury. Expended for these purposes in 1828 - 591,679 64 Expended in 1829 - 1,307,964 88 Ecesa 716,285 24 Why not deduct, upon the same principle, the difference between th?

expenditures of fortificalicn?,amounting to 1 66,039 80? The true principle is this: the present Administration came into power on the 4th of March, 1829; the appropriations for the service ol the year had been granted by Congress upon estimates made by the late Administration, jver which appropriations the present Executive had very limited discretion. This Administration was directed and required to execute the laws of Congress, and apply the public money; and (.hey are responsible, not for the amount which they are compelled to draw from the Treasury, but for the faithful application of it to the purposes for winch it was appropriated, nd a reguUi, prompt, and honest accountability by the public agents who are employed by thsm. An administration is responsible and must be made so for the measures they recommend and the policy they adopt. This administration, for instance, la assailed because of a policy which they have pursued, of removing from ofiice those iu whom they cannot repose confidence, and others because ol their peculations upon the public Treasury. J have now before me a list of twelve officers who have been lemoved by the Treasury Department , whose detah a-ti-ne and peculations amount to 272,800 21. A part of which was taken ir.im the widowed and the fatherless, the sick and disabled. Mast of these plunderers of the Trea

sury find their advocates in the ranks of the opposition to the present administration, and the sound of proscription and the political sympathies for these honest and rt5 zcorthy put riots , who wish io serve their country for the sake of plundering its Treasury, have aghated the political nerves of Mr. Chilton, aud called forth an expression of his disapprobation of the course pursued by the present Executive, upon the subject of appointments to, and removals from, dike. 1 am not an advocate for the indiscriminate removals from office by this or any other administration but I will say to them, go on in the honest discharge of your duty, and whenever you discov er a public officer who abuses his trust for personal or political purpose?, who neglects his duties and cheats his Government, hurl him from office, and the American people will approve the act. While the public look to this administration for the retrenchment of useless expenses, and the abolition of unnecessary officers, they do not desire to curtail the just and icccssary, nay, liberal expenditures for the support of Government, for the defence of the country, the support of the army and navy, the extension of commerce at home and abroad, for the preserv ation of friendship and peace with other nations, by keeping up and sustaining the necessary diplomatic relations with them. They do expect, however, that the money appropriated for this purposes shall be faithfully and honestly applied by the Executive, and in that just expectation, as yet, they have not been disappointed. Jt is not so much by the aggregate expenditures for the service of anyone year, as by the manner of its applications, that the economy of an administration is to be tested. The aggregate amount of expenditure in any given year must depend upon the appropriations by Congress, and the exigencies of the country. It is when the executive surpasses the limits of its power, and usurps the authority of tae approaching department of Government, tha we may look for abuses, and expect extravagance in an administration. If Congress for instance, shall appropriate money to pay and feed the sailors who fight our battles and navigate our ships, and it shall be taken not only without law, but against law, to buy of a political. favourite a piece ol land, not needed for public purposes, at an extravagant price this is an abuse. If money appropriated far the Indian service is taken to pay a stale demand for services said to have been rendered tw enty years ago, for the department of State --this is an abuse. If money be paid to a man as Charge d'Ailairs, who was never appointed as such, in the shape of an outjitt'or coming home it is an abuse. If money be taken from the public treasury , and paid to a political paitisan, as bearer of despatches to South Amen ca, and he does not go, but seeks his pleasure and takes recreation in Europe at public expensethis 1 would call an abuse. If an officer of the Government draws money from the treasury under pretence that it is drawn for the public service, but in fact for his own use, this is worse than abuse. If an acounting officer of the Treasury pass an adjust and illegal claim against the Government, and under pretence of a loan, pockets one thou sa d dollars, this should be denominated an abuse. If a navy agent be allowed by an accounting officer of the Treasury, under sanction of the head ofa department, in

he shape of exfra commissions, &c. Sec ten thousand dollars per annum for ten years, when the law declares that his compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum, all will admit this to be an abuse. I could swi ll this list if it were necessary, and then say to Mr. Chilton, th;-e are some of the abuses which have txisted heretofore, and that I believe that they do not exist now; they have been corrected, and the agents engaged in them4 reformed' out of ofiice. These and like abuses I have condemned; these and like expenditures 1 have endeavored to retrench. I am anxious to plant around the Treasury the safeguard necessary to its protection, to infuse not only into the administration but into Congress, a spirit of just economy in the application and appropriations of public money. I think I have discovered in many if not all of the Ex-cutive Departme nts, valuable reformations in the administration of them. The sy stem of prompt accountability of public agents has been greatly improved; much remait s yet tohedoue;it requires time and legislation to perfect it, and when the present administration shall fail to administer this Government, upon soui.d principles, and shall lose sight of those landmarks prescribed in the constitu tion,orshall In-tray the high trust confided to them, no one will with more freedom denounce them as unworthy the confidence of the country, than myself. Respectfully yours, C. A. WICKLIFFE.

COMMUMCd TIOJVS. FOR THE PALLADIUM. THE SIMPLE TRUTH. There are many among us who suppose, or at least pretend to suppose,that many ifnotall of the wonderful accounts given of children in Tracts and Sunday-school Books,are fictitious altogether, and published only for lucrative purposes; for why, say they, do all of these wonderful things happen afar off? Why none among us? The inquiry I own is jus". But perhaps we are not not sufficiently careful to notice those particular things that transpire among us. The following may serve fof an illustration, About ten days ago the eldest son of Mr. James P. Miitike:u of Manchester, about two and a half years of age, wag at play round his c. stern, and it is supposed that he put a stick through a crevice inti the curb and then dumb up to look in after it,and unfortunately fell over. From the top of the curb to the bottom ol the cistern is about fourteen feet; the diameter about tour, and walied with stone, with about live feet of water in it. When he fell Mrs. Milliken was in the house and knew it not, until she head him cry : she hastened to his relief, with all the solicitude that a fond mother could feel for her first born, when, lo! to her extreme anguish, she beheld him struggling in the water. He was lying on his side across the cistern, near the surlate of the water, with his head just above, so as to vent his cries aloud; his hands were ahold of the wall, by which he kept himself above water; but as there was no ladder on which she could descend, she ran to the opposite side ol the house, in the direction w here Mr. M. was at work,some 150 or 200 rodsoff, and with emmotions that almost forbade her utterance, called a few times; then swiftly returned, with eager and trembling steps, to behold again the almost desperate condition of her pratling boy ; when, to her inexpressible y et doubtful joy , she found that he had raised his head entirely above water and seemed to have secured his feet under him. Mr. M. not recognizing the sound of voice, and being out of sight behind a hill, continued to ply the axe as usual. Again she ran anil called as before, and to no better pur pose, and agin returned if possible with more anxiety than before, lest her child should have lost his trembling hold; but in answer to her no doubt fervent prayers, she found that he had not only retained his hold, but had madeshif to climb by the wall until his waist was entirely above water. Again site ran to call Mr. M. then back; and this she did for a number of times, and found at cvety return that her fond boy was rising higher and higher, and with every seemingly possi ble precaution moving slowly hut safely on. At last Mr. M. moved by the evident voice of solicitude, ran up insight of the house, and seeing his wife in evident distress,now here now there,he ran in all possible speed & upon his arrival, to his utter surprise, ha beheld his rescued boy all dripping and wct,adhering to the wall with a bold grasp. By this time he had ascended clear to the top, he had only to get into the curb, take him by the hand and rescue him from further danger. Presenting him safe and sound to his anxious and agonized mother, tach expressed a delight in mutually caressing the dripping boy, w?th emmotions which naught but the tongue of experience and can describe. Overcome with a sense of the Divine goodness in this,to them, groat salvation, they vented their gratitude freely to

j the pr ise of Him who had dealt thus bountiful with them. It is worthy of remark, that the child j received no injury, except a small conj fusion on his hip. Who will pretend to j doubt the interference of a misterious providence in this case? And who, , that has arrived to years of youth, manhood, or old age, but will feel hound in : justice to acknowledge, with the

j i'salmcst, "Surely good and mercy has and shall follow me all the days of my life." Those who are acquainted with the circumstance, above narrated, will even look upon it as heii g very neatly allied to a miracle. And I very much doubt if 1000 children of his age, should be thrown into the same cistern, whether one of them all would survive without human aid. It is also worthy of remark that he had presence of mild throughout the whole transaction, for he shortly said ! drinked in papa's cistern," directly he called for his play things, and told exactly where they were. Taking all of these things together, it will no doubt be dillicult for those who were not neighbors or ey ewitnesses to believe it; indeed if I hrd no personal knowledge of it, I should be more in lined to disbelieve it, than any narrative that I have ever seen published to the world in all my life. Aud by the by his name is JVeslry; ami who knows but that he may be raised up for some noble purpose? May he ever be in possession of the talent and spirit of that useful and holy reformer, and prove an equal blessing to the world. This narrative would no doubt have been received with different feelings, if it had been written in London or some foreign region; and in that case, one would hardly he considered skeptical to doubt it. But I pledge my honor that this narrative is substantially correct. It took place in no distant clime, but among us, in Manchester tow nship, Dearborn county, and state of Indiana. ALFRED J. COTTON. Manchester, May 1(5, 1830. Mr. D. V. Cullcy If you can give me a little information respecting the collection of the county revenue, and the duty of the treasurer in receiving the same, you will confer a favor, not only on me but, on the people; as 1 am certain they do not exactly understand that of the treasurer, or they would not submit to the speculation that the collector and treasurer are making off them by evading the plain letter ol the law. Look at the law and judge ye: AN AST, amending the Act, "establishing a County Treasurer" Approved, January St, 1824. ArrROVED FEBRUARY 3, 1325. "fie 2 enacted $'c That each and every collector of county taxes shall pay into the county treasury , such funds as he shall receive in payment of said taxes at the time prescribed by law; the collector shall make out, and deliver to the county treasurer, a list aivii.fr j the uumher and amount of county oruers, and also the amount of specie banknotes that are at par, or treasury paper which he may or shall have received in payment of aid taxes, the truth of which list shall be attested hy the affidavit of the collector, to be taken before any officer authorized by law to administer an oath." Now I venture to assert, Sc I speak advisedly, that three fourths of the people ol Dearborn county pay their county taxes in specie; but where, let me ask you, was there known to be one dollar ia specie paid by the collector or treasurer, when county orders could be bought at half or three fourths their value? Also, I would like to know when the last oath was administered to the col lector, on presentment of the list of money s received, as prescribed by law ? Fellow citizens of Dearborn county, if y ou have a w ish or deeire that the county shall ever be out ol debt, rise in you might and put out those speculator on our treasury , and I venture to aesert that in a few years the county paper will beat par, and the county will not be imposed upon as it has been for a few years past. This is a serious subject, and I hope that some able pen will take it in hand, and awaken the people to its importance. One nho pays his taxes in sped?. Anliishman who served on board a man of war in the capacity ofa waiter, wag selected by one of the officers to haul on a line, of considerable length, that was towing over the taflrail. After bowsing in forty or fifty fathoms, w hich put his patience severely to the proof, as well as every muscle of his arm?, he muttered to himself, Uy my soul it is as long as to-day and to-mcrow I It's a good week's woik far any five in the ship! Bad luck to the arm or leg, it will lave me at last ! What ! more of it yet!Och, murder; the sa's mighty deep to he sure ! When, after continuing in a similar strain, and coif? ceiving there was little probabilily of the completion of his labor,he stopp d suddenly short, and addressing the officer of the watch, exclaimed, "Had manners to me, sir ifl don't think somebody's cut of he ether end of it."