Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 7, Number 19, 13 May 1837 — Page 2

service us teat, Gentlemen, wbea I look that eventful who those were. , who Dheld IkM claUa. for Esecutive power, wiib ao much seal aad eevotioo, aa ' well aa with sawn great ad splendid abilities, and when I look round, aow, aad iaoaira whit baa become of theee gentieatea. where they liave found tlioinselves, at last, under Ike power which they thus helped to establish, what has become, now, of all their respect, trust, coaadeaee, aad at tack meat, bow many of them. indeed, have not escaped from being bmkea and crashed, under the weight of the wheels of that engine wbieb they themselves aet in motion, 1 feel that aa edifying lesson may be read, by those, who. in tha iresnneas ana luuiesa of neri - are teady to confer the moat dangerous p era ia the hope thai they, aad tbetr friends may bask ia its sunshine, while enemies oniy bmm withered bv its frown. I will not go into the mention of names. I will ense ao enumeration ofDenmis: but I ask you to tura your mind back, and recollect who too distinguished men were, who supported, ia the Senate Ueneral Jackson administration lor tne two nrsi years; aad 1 will ask you what you suppose they think, aow. of that power, and that discretion which they ao freely confided to Executive hand What do they think of the whole career of that adaaiaistraUia. the commencement of which, and in eleed the existence of which,, owed ao much to their own exertions? In addition to the establishment of this power of j nolimited aad causeless removal, another doctrine baa been put forth, more vague, it is true, frit alto gether unconstitutional, and tending to nae dan serous results. In some loose, indefinite, and un known sense, the President haa been called the Reuoeoenlatite of the whale Ameriemm People He has called himself so, repeatedly; and been ao denominated by bis friends a thousand times, Acts, for which no specific authority haa been found, either ia the constitution or the laws, have been i unified on the around that tbo President is the Representative of the whole American People Certainly this is not Constitutional language. - Certainly, the Constitution no where calls the Presides! the Universal Representative of the People. The Constitutional Representatives of the People are in the I louse of Representatives, exercising p-Mver of legislation. Hie President is aa executive officer, appointed ia a particular manner, and clothed with prescribed and limited powers. It may be thought to be of no great consequence, that Iba President should call himself or that others houli call hies the sole Representative of all the People, although he baa ao such appellation, or Character in the Constitution. But in these matten, words are things. If be is the People's Representative, and as such may exeieise power, with out any other grant, what ia the limit of that power? And what may not an unlimited Representative of the People dot When tha Constitution expressly creates Rep resentatives, as members of Cony res, it regulates, defines, and limits their authority. But if tha Executive Chief Magistrate, merely because be ia the Executive Chief Magistrate, may assume to himself another character, aad call himself the Represeatative of the whole People, what is to limit, or restrain this Representative power in hia bandaf It is worthy of notice, that the writers of the Federalist, in discussing the powers which the Constitution conferred on the President, made it matter of commendation, that it withdraws this subject altogether from its grasp. "Ho can pre scribe no rules,1 say they, "concerning the comsa erce or emrremep of the country-" And ao we hive been all taught it think, under all former administrations. Bnt we have now seen, that the President, and the President alone, does prescribe the rule concerning the currency. He makes it, and h alters t. He makes one rule for one branch of the revenue, and another rule for another. He makes one rule for the citizen of one State, and another for tbo citizen of another State. This, it is certain, is one part of the Treasury order of July last. But at last Congress interfered, and undertook to regulate the Depositee of the public moneys. It passed the law of July, 1836, placing the sub ject under legal control, restraining the power of i the Executive, subjecting the limns to iiauiiiiics and duties on the one bind, and securing them against Executive favoritism on the other. But this law contained another important provision; which, waa that all the money in the Treasury, beyond j what was necessary for the current expenditures of the Government, should be deposited with the 8tates. This measure passed both Houses by very unusual majorities, yet it hardly escaped a veto. It obtained only a cold assent, a slow, reluctant and hesitating approval ; and an early moment was seiz'ed to array against it a long list of objections. But tbo law pissed. The money in the Treasury, beyond the sum of five millions was to go to the States; it has so gone, and the Treasury for the present is relieve J from the burden of a surplus. But now observe other coincidences. In the Annual Message of December 1835. the President quoted the fact of the rapidly increasing sale of the Public Lands a proof of high national prosperity, lie alluded to that subject, certainly with much satisfaction, and apparently in something of the tone of exultation. There was nothing said about monopoly, not a word about speculation, not a worJ about over issues of piper, to pay for the lands. All was prosperous, all was full of evidence of a wise administration of Government, all was joy aad triumph. - But the idea of a deposite or distribution of the aurplus money with the people suddenly damped this effervescing happiness. The color of the tose was gone, and every thing now looked gloomy and black. Now no more felicitation or congratulation, on account of tbo rapid safes of the public lands; no mora of this most decisive proof of national prosperity and happiness. The Executive muse take up a melancholy strain. She sings of atonopo!ies. of speculation, of worthies paper, of lose both of land and money, or tne multiplication of Banks, and the danger of paper issues: and the end of the canto, the catastrophe, is that lands hall no longer be sold but for gold and silver alone. - The object of all this is clear enough. It was to diminish the income from the public lands. But ao desire for such a diminution had been manifested so long as the money was likely to be opposed to remain in tne I reasury. out a grow ing conviction that tome other disposition must be made of the surplus, awakened attention to the mean of preventing that surplus. Toward the end of tha last session, Gentlemen,

partake ia; and I base

a propositioa was brought forward ia coagress so

such aa alteration of the law, a should admit paymeat for public lands to be sande ia nothing bat sold and silver. The mover voted for be pmposition;bot I do net recollect that aay other member concurred ia tne vote. t ne proposition was reierted nt eace: bat. as ia other eases, that which Gwgress tefaeed to do, ike Executive power did. Tee day after Congrasa adjourned, baving bad this matter before it, aad having refused to act uooa it. by making any alteration to I be exist ing law, a Treasury order was issued, comma ndinir that verv thing to be done, which Congress bad been requested to do, and bad refused to do. Just is ia the case of the removal of the Depositee, the Executive power acted, in this case also, against the known, well understood, and recently express ed will of the Representatives of the people. There never has been a moment when the Legislative will would have sanctioned the object of that order. Probably never a moment in which any twenty individual members of Congress would have concurred in it. The act was done, without the assent of Congress, and against the well known opinion of Congress. That act, altered the law of the land, or purport to alter it, against the well known will of the law making power. In 1830, the currency was declared to be neithtr eound nor uniform; a projiosition, in my judgement altogether at variance with the fact, because I do not believe there ever waa a country, of equal ex tent, in which paper formed any part of the circulation, that possessed a currency so sound, so uni form, so convenient, and so perfect in all respects. as the currency of this Country, at the moment of! the delivery of that message, in ItsvJ. But bow is it now? Where lias the improve ment brouirht it? What has reform done? What haa the great cry for hard money accomplished? Is the currency uniform now? Js money in ftew Orleans now as good, or nearly so, as money in New York 7 Are exchanges at par, or only at the same low rates, as in 18311. and other years? livery one here knows that all the benefits of this experiment are but injury and oppression : all this reform but aggravated distress. And as to the soundness ot the currency, now does that stand f Are the causes of alarm leas now than in 1839? Is there less bank paper in j circulation' Is there less fear or a general catas trophe ? Is property more secure, or industry more certain of iu reward f We all know. Gentlemen, that during all this pretended warfare against all Binks. Banks have vastly increased. Million up on millions of Bank paper have been added to the circulation. Every where, and no where so much as where the present administration, and its meas ures, have been most zealously supported, xtank have multiplied undci State authority, aince the decree waa m tde that the Bink of the United States should be suffered to expire. Look at Mississippi. Missouri, Louisiana, Virginia, and other States. Do we not see that Banking capital and Bank pa per, are enormously increasing? The opposition to Sinks, therefore, so much professed, whether it be real, or whether it be but pretended, baa not re strained either their number or their issues or paper. Both have vastly increased. And now a word or two. Gentlemen, upon this hard money scheme, and the fancies, and the delusions, to which it baa given birth. Gentlemen, this is a subject of delicacy, and one which it is difficult to treat with sufficient caution, in a popular and occasional address like this. I profess to be a biMionUtt in the usual and accepted sense of that word. 1 am for a solid specie basis for our circuation, and for specie as a part of the circulation, so far as it may be practicable and convenient. I am for giving no value to paper, merely as paper. I ab hor paper; that is to say irredeemable paper, paper that may not be converted into gold or aiiver, at the will of the holder. But while I bold to all this. believe also, that an exclusive gold and aiiver cir-1 culation, ia an utter impossibility in the present state of this country, and of the world. We shall none of us ever see it; and it is credulity and folly in my opinion, to act uoder any such hope or ex pectation. The states will make lianas, and these will issue paper; and the longer the Government of the United States neglects its duty, in regard to measures fur regulating the currency, the greater will be the amount of Bank piper, overspreading the country. Of this 1 entertain not a particle of doubt. While I thus hold to the absolute and indispensable necessity of gold and silver, as the foundation of our circulation, I yet think nothing more absurd ana preposterous, .nan unn.ur-. ... fLmt en mHnl .ikiwua ThAM aam IS I if atA nailaH mswsm.1 .i . I : r ' . . w ""V" -r Jt ' T c,e ,n the world, and its amountcannot be greatly orsuddenly increased. Indeed, there are reason. ior supposing inai ."" - j isbed, by the quantity used in manufactures, and by the diminished products ot the mines. 1 be existing amount of speeie, however, must support the ' paper circulations, and the systems of currency, not of the United States only, but of other nations also. One of its great uses, is to pass from country to country, for the purpose of settling occasional balances in commercial transactions. It always finds its sway, nature lly and easily, to places, where it is needed for these uses. But to take extraordinary pains to bring it, whem the course of trade does not bring it, where the state of debt and credit does not require it to be, and then to endeavor, by other regulations, Treasury orders, accumulations at the Mint, and other contrivances, there to retain it. is a course of policy, bordering. - . , as it appears to me, on political insanity. It is, boasted that we have seventy-five or eighty millions of specie now in the country. But what is more ; senseless, what more absurd than this boast, if there Ka iff li.rn . is a balance against us abroad, of which payment is desired, sooner than remittances of our own products are likely to make that payment ? What ia more miserable than to boast of having that, which is not ours, which belongs to others, and which the convenience of others, and our own convenience, also, requires that they should pos sess? If Boston v ere in debt to Aew tnrk. would it be wise in Boston, instead of paying its debt, to contrive all possible means or obtaining specie from the New York Bank', and hoarding it at home? And yet this, as I think, would be precise ly aa sensible aa the course, which the Government of the United States at present, pursues. We have, without all doubt, a great amount of specie in the country, but it does not answer its accustomed end, it doea not perform its proper duty. It neither goes abroad to settle balances against us, and thereby quiet those who have demands apon us ; nor is it so disposed of at home, as to sustain the circulation, to the extent which the circumstances of the times require. A great part of it ia in the Western Banks, in the Land Offices, on the reads

through the wilderness, on the passages over the Lakes, from the Land Offices to the Deposite Raaka A Ima tl IVnnaiti Rink a beck to the

Land Offices Another portion is in the bands ofj buyers and setters of specie: of men ia the west II Land Office monev to the new settlers for a high premium. Another portion, again, i kept ia private hands to be used when circumstances shall tempt to the purchase of lands. And, Gen - tlemen. I am inclined to think, ao loud has been the cry about bard money, and so sweeping the denunciation of all paper, that private holding, or hoardinr. prevails to some extent, in different oarts of the Country. These eighty millions of specie, therefore really do us little good. We are weaker in our circulation, I have am doubt, out credit is feebler, money i scarcer with us, at this moment, than if twenty million of this specie were shipped to Europe, and general confidence thereby restored. Gentlemen, I will not say that some degree of pressure might not na7ecome upon us, if the Treasury order had not been issued. I will not say, that there has not been over-trading, and over-produc tion, and a too great expansion of Bank circulation. This may all be so, and the last mentioned evil, it was easy to foresee, was likely to happen, when the United States discontinued their own Bank. But what I do say is, that acting upon ihe state of things as it actually existed, and is now ac tually existing, the Treasury order has been, and now is. productive of great distress. It acts upon a state of things, which gives extraordinary force to its stroke, and extraordinary point to its sting. It arrests specie, when the free use and circulation of specie are most important; it cr:pplesthc Banks, at a moment when the Banks, more than ever, need all their means. It makes the merchant una able to remit, when remittance is necessary fir his own credit, and for the general adjustment of com mercial balances. I am not now discussing the general quesi ion, whether prices must not come down, and adjust themselves, unew, to the amount of bullion, existing in Europe and America. I am dealing only with the measures of our own Government, on the subject of the currency, and I insist that these measures have been most unfortunate, and most ruinous on the ordinary means of our circulation, at home, and on our ability of remittance abroad. " Gentlemen, I would not willingly be a prophet of ill. I most devoutly wish to see a better state of things; and I believe the repeal of the Treasu ry order would tend, very much, to bring about that better state of things. And I am of opinion. Gentlemen, that the order will be repealed. I think it must be repealed. I think the East, West, North and South will demand its real. But, Gentlemen, I feel it my duty to say, that if I should be disappointed in this expectation, I see no immediate relief to the distresses of the community. I greatly fear, even, that the worst is not yet. I look fr severer distresses; for 'extreme difficulties in exchange; for for greater inconveniences in remittance, and for a sudden fall in prices. Our condition is oue, which is not to be tampered with, and the repeal of the Treasury Order, being something which Government can do, and which will do good, the public voice is right in demanding that repeal, ft is true, if repealed now, the relief will come late. Nevertheless its repeal or abrogation in m thing to be insisted on, and pursued, till it shall be accomplished. This Executive control over the curren cy, thia power of discriminating, by Treasury oi der, between one man's debt, is a thine not to be endur ed in a free country; and it should be the constant, persisting demand of all true Whigs, "rescind the illegal Treasury order, restore the rule of the law. place all branches of the Revenue on the same grounds, s to the means of payment, make men's rights equal, and leave the Government of the Country, where the Constitution leases it, in the hands of the Representative of the People in Con gress." i his point should never be surrendered, or compromised. Whatever is established, let it be equal, and let it be legal. Let men know, to-day, what mcnoy may be required of them to-morrow. It the rule be open and puMic, on the pages of the Statute Book, not a secret, in the Executive breast. AN UNPLEASANT DILEMMA. We are under the necessity of correcting the an nouncemeut in our last, that Joseph G. Marshall, Eq. had been appointed Judge of the Circuit court for this district, in the place of Judge Egglestoo appointed Supreme Judge. The facts are understood h G NuU lemJered tho apptintment AT 0r supreme judge to Judge Egg eston on his signi(f j lhl. willingness toacce it. He accordingly hbCOT toLawrence- . . . . . . . . hl9 way to hold the Dearborn court. That there might be no unnecessary vacancy of the office of circuit judge, he appointed J.G.Marshall to thatoffie, and sent his commission to Lawreucebutgh at the same time with Judge Eggleston's, understanding that the latter would resign either before or immediately after the session of the Dearborn Court. Judge Eccleston did not attend at Wilmington on Mon day the first day of the term, and it was presumed from that cirsumstance that he had resigned and could not hold the court. Judge Marshall had his commission in his pocket, and having reason to be - li.ra lliaff Jiifla. knnlpfin hail r.aiirn.H &tuf I-1 ing strongly urged by the members of the ISar, As-j 9IKMIC JUUCI UUKI VIIH.CI9 VI IITO IWWI) UU' - Z.Jt .i.r r.i . seiiieu io ie uuaiiaea ana ibkc uis seat ou me . nri,in, th- fit nx mwrning jude Egicston arrived at Wd- - , . . . wnch. not havin a resigned as was expected, and announcing bis intention not to resign, and not to accept the su preme judgeship. Oi course he is yet the circuit Jifcige, ir- uarsnaii s commission ueing voia until his resignation. Thus the matter stands, no new appointment of supreme Judge having as yet been made. Republican Banner. THE GUILLOTINE. This dreadful machine which terminated the existence of so many untbrtuuate victims during the French revolution, derives its name from Guilliot, a physician, who invented it. He recommended its general use, believing,as did Petit, Cabanis, and several other phvaiologift, that it was a mode of death which caused no suffering. Tbe motive of Guilliot was humane and praiseworthy. But it seems that he and other?, who denied the existence of suffering after decapitation, were mistaken, and that, in fact, pate is experienced both in the body and tbe head long after they have been severed. The latter position is undeniably established from the actual experiments made by Dr. Sac, a French physician.

Fro BtcKMKLL'- KcrosTsa.

SFKCflE IX THE ' KXTBACT OF A IXTTU TO THE EDITOR DATED 5 MMWu, ApCM I, lJ4. , R. T. Bickxbxl, Esq, j Sin I observed in your paper of the 1 1th : inst. a statement taken from the New York Commercial Advertiser, that "in the latter part of March last, one of the branches the State of Indiana, with a capital of 200y uuu, naa in ner vaults $ivumoo in specie, mostly government deposites," &c. As this statement, if uncontradicted, will lead to the conclusion that the Indiana Banks are un necessarily noarding up u large amount specie to the prejudice of commerce, permit me to state, from a full knowledge of the fact, that although the branches of our Slate Bank are well fortified with available money to meet their engagements, yet at no time has cither of them had specie in their vaults over one-third the amount named, nor do they conceive it good policy to retain more than is necessary to put them on a solid basis. Much of the specie received through the I .and Offices by the deposite branches, has been transferred out of the State to meet Treasury warrants payable at LouisviIIe,and to the 1 reasurer of the state of Illinois.

The legislature of the latter State, in accen-!1" free,tbc ,ih,f the dense mist h.d ting the porportion of the surplus revenue tMf , . VJt 'J1.? l"00 W which

which that State is entitled, did so on condition that the sum be paid in specie. On the 25th of March last, the Indiana Banks, with an aggregate capital of 1,705,000, had an aggregate of specie of ,1,1 53,4UJJ Ii. Very respectfully, J. F. D. LANIER, President. James Knowles, of Point Judith in the last war, lived in an exposed situation, near the ocean, and never went to bed without having his gun well charged by his side. One night there was a violent thunder gust, which shook the house to its foundation. Husband, husband, screamed the wife, get up, tne uriiisn nave iantei or the day ot judgment has come, and 1 don't know which' By gosh, said Knowles, springing up and seizing his musket, I am ready for either. (Boston Advocate.) A word in season." The Editor of the Baltimore Patriot thus heads an article in in which he says, Mit would be well for Merchants and others, coming from the West, to purchase goods or otherwise to dispose of fun is, to bring with them "specie," instead of drafts on New York, or the paper of distant Banks, which, however solvent, connot be converted into "current money" without, in many instances, a heavy discount. In times of pressure, this is always the case, because in suvh periods, time is "a great object, and an important element in fixing the rates of exchange upon foreign Bank notes supposing these to be undeniably good in all cases. It takes time to convert the notes of a Bank in the interior into Bankable money en the seabord; and that time must at present be paid fot. at a high price." fO. State Journal. ?In seven months from this time," said the Globe several years ago, "bank rags will be abolished and the whole country will be overspread with gold. Every farmer and ev ery merchant in the VV est will have a long silk purse of open network, through the interstices of which the yellow gold will shine and glitter." Yes indeed," echoed Col. Johnson in his speeches through Congressional District, the Globe tells the truth. The rags are a-going and the hard money is acoming!" Here the old fellow would shake his hand within a few inches of his ritrht ear as if shaking a purse of eagles and dollars, and then exclaim Ah ! gentleman. I can

hear it chick alrearly ! " As an amusingiajnst him. Here then, commentary we now re-publish the follow-.management" as sworn to by Mrs. Baldwin ing paragraph from the last number of the I ne placed the fire in this gentleman's room Globe. Citizens of the United States,' mstead of the one opposite, where the forged wereye not beautifully humbugged? Lou.jpapers Were kept. Journal. The fire and z relating to it, were quite

-uanic capital lias increased Virerjola UM"" M"VW, a" , " " ' ''" 7 y has been enlarged from sixty to about one

hundred and Jtfty millions, and the bank nad reason to believe the building was burnt loans have increased from two hundred to fivev -;n. H said he had the information

hundred millions. This brief statement, whole numbers, comprises enough to suggest j the vast extent and portentious mischiefs of excessive bank issues, and over-trading, as : their unfailing result." A ludicrous mistake occurred at a funeral some (j .it l , - . . ... .. .. Ul agu lllUDUrg, wuicii. oui ar 1 1 uiaDa ing me wnuusu i ibcwvuiud, p'ouuceu cuoiiaeraoie laurhter.Oa the same da, and almost .t th. um. taugnter. Us tbe same moment, two coffins ' yard, precisely resemt moment, two coffins were borne into the church! I .rd. J precisely resembling each other One coo-, lim t h. r.m.in. nf a w.m I. k . t I l tained tbe remains of ayouor and beautiful rirl.i the other the wreck of n yeteran soldier, wbo "had j were piaced npon the same bier, and there was no' distinguishing one from the other. The soldiert

was to have been buried with all tbe boaora of war,! lhiladelphia,BlaneyJiad hissuspicwnarouseu but it happened to be the coffin of the girt which from a slearch he made, and wrote the Gov. the assistants removed, and her corps was consign- , .. . . u:. eigUe received llttl ed to its rectme; place amid military salrs and mar-i to lhal clt?1 uul ni P ' 'ntt hm matter tial music. TbeeiVuar moudoch, oa the other.' more attention than Hays and we maiwr hand, was followed to tbe grave by the sighs andlwas again lost sight of. In l8 aJ ' moans of a crowd of younr Deo Die. and hi coffin ! rivpl from the Deputy Marshall OI

adorned with virgin owers Tbe young woman' bad been much regretted amooett the cortere regretted amooett the cortezc a stripling wbo shewed by the rreataess nisgnei uiai nis ueari wasanectea, wbenupon the! edge of tbe tomb, this young man broke through all ! restraint, and insisted upon opening the coffin to! a m -. . - a - of her wbom lintcnent mav - - - v. I loved; but his surprise and disappoint imagined when bis ee fell upon the gri.ly beard oi me war worn veteran When is Dick Johnson's head expunged? When his wife has her arms around his neck. Arthur Tappan has failed in business.

PATRONAGE THE ARMT. The Baltimore Chronicle of the 21 hajLaa "The recent announcement of pracawas ia t iL army apprise aa that the usage of the t, -..T a filling vaeanciea with the cadets of West Poll has been abandon! mwtA tk.t i .a

m.nlA tat Iks mrmmm -. . I . I I ments in the array are services. The motive o ms we reward of Bart re for abrogating the fern! s it lives inrieaatvJ ... lorn is veryowvioua it gives I Released of isse to tae Executive of th i r -- w'.and will have the effect, iu time.of briegla-Mk1 mr nAfar nnHate lha ir - a- " mv Droner under the earn nrt H r: . - - i . --irHas tag ar suoal allesiei.ee to the head wf the Goyniaaeai and connect it in the same manner with tk. . I - ilna' feeda rtM niakea all our public oGt olt"re J . . J "re roewi. ika trwaw wmi, wiiwiui wwh, un purauce WWaahltkm navy, and when it and the army ahall be tUkdei clusively with the partisans of the President, tti the chances d" promotion and even retention in tfca set vice depend on the degree of party uborpa. formed by the fficers, the days of the ReMibke will indeed be numbered." Vast Flocks or Small Bibbs ox rum Wot Coast or bcotlaso. Durins tk r. wcbiw, -"-U vvuiTCO DC I Ween IM HU in-i. he 7th aad lOik of February last, the Lighthouse at tha Hall r r-.ll... .... Bimai jb uaiiuway, waa surrouaoed with small birds, m such amazing numbers, that the ligkt-keepsrswvre employed for many hours in beatiar them oft had been to us killed. What ia l . l during the ame period, similar birds appeard in flocks of still greater numbers at the lighthouse oa the island of Piadda, situate about sixty miles north of the Mull of Galloway. At Piadda there are two distinct lights, on upper and loner stations. Both were beset by innumerable birds, which were, as at the Mull light, switched off by the light keepers. No fewer than 1129 birds were picked up, which hi d thus been killed daring the fog. The birds were chiefly larks, with some thrushes, blackbirds, starlings, fieldfares, and red ings. The prevailing winds ou the coast had, for about eight days, bees from the south: and the gales weie occasion I j o violent, that stones from Ihe beach were drives against the light house windows. miRKIXC OK TUG THKASURY I On Sunday the 31st of March, 1833. the building was discovered to be on fire, between the hours of two and three oVoek in Owing to the most extraor dinary exertions of Mr. Francis Die kins, the papers in his room were saved, among which were the torged pension papers, and some of Dr. Temple's amoug the number. Immedi ately after the fire, an investigation was held, at which Judge Crunch presided, and after a very full and carelul examination of all tha persons connected with the department end of persons in the neighborhood, it was rery generally conceded, that the fire was the re sult of accident. 1 here were some few. however, that entertained strong suspicion of one of the clerks who disbursed large soma of public money, and the circumstances were by no means unfavorable to such an impres sion; but as the committee that investigated the matter, seemed disposed to think it ace . dental, no more was thought of the afiur here; though had not these felons been arrest ed,K:a ve no doubt that some people would have gone down to their graves under the full im pression that tne building was nred by tne clerk in question. Happily, however, for him, this trial has removed even the shadow of suspicion. 1 will mention the circumstance this gentleman was ordered on Sun day morning the 30th March, to immediately settle his accounts: his reply was, that the book was in his private dwelling, but that he would be ready by the Monday following. The messenger of the office was dispatched for the book and directed to make a fire en Sunday in order that the accounts should be a a a t . prepared. On Sunday morning at oayugni, the buildinz was a heap of ruins, and the fire proved beyond all question to have origina ted in this gentleman's room .oo strong wv these incidents that several newspapers forgotten, when Mr. Livingston received

, w awui r,letter from that excellent ana vigilant oroccr paper circulation !nf vour r.itv. OZd Haus." dated the same

VMr of th burning, informing him that he in!same t;me. from one that had never deceived him : any information he had communicated, an(j ( jr COuld identify the money, he WOuld arrest the susnected persons. Thus, from this admirable police agent, was the I . . . first intimation received of its having been me act OI a Vile inccuuiaiy, .1 -l - : i: Mr. Livingston, , . ,. It WAS SCCI convinced in Ins own mma tnai it was - , . - . dental, from the circumstance of the teys having been found in the doors, and the doors fast locked on the ioside, treated the idea U . . . . t W . i .rr..n I !., tl.nt no money l P " rVI ""7nd us the mat.cri. iu UJ A.w...7S ter slept. r siei'W . . , Some time after this, the high cons tame oi Oh i Jnrlosina affidavit Ot a man naiucn i- i. a .fntlrxr in the same individuals. .T j tnh cam of " " r ' . . t. ,v t ,..;c in ear - -a- ,tAevimBr:i iisasnv lit i i . i Li jimv w - - bw . , . . r onlnrits. nest, and directed the arrest of -MFUT the one of whom, (Harry) alter having ow b1 chased by Blaney and Kelly, both,upri srua bei.r r r.r tvc at last aonrehended Pj the latter in Orleans, on his way 10 brought to this city in irons, tried, and convicted, last term. VJOT,;t.waf The evidence against Richard White was such as no intelligent mind could resist-

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