Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 27, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 17 May 1834 — Page 2

UKiHcrio.v or salauiks. On the 10th tilt., the general appropriation hill being under consideration in the House, Mr. Vance of Ohio, ofiered an amendment to the same, the object of which was to reduce the salaries of all the oilier rs of the general government, from Vice President downwards, including members of Congress, Indian Agents, Jtc. The motion was supported by Messrs. Vance and Burgos, and opposed by Mr. Polk and others, when the question was first taken on that part of the amendment which proposes to reduce the salary of the Vice President to 1000 per annum, and decided in the negative yeas 60, nays 8G. The question was next taken on the clause which proposes to reduce the salaries of the Secretaries of Stale, of the Treasury, of War, and of the Navy, to -1000 each per annum, and also rejected yeas 54, nays 00. The propositions to reduce the salaries of the other officers, as far down as the Commissioner of Indian affairs, were then also successively negatived by an average majority of about twenty voles. On the 17lh, the consideration of the same subject was resumed, when the propositions to reduce the salaries of different offices, as far down as those employed in the Customs, were negatived. The clause which proposes to reduce the daily compensation of members of Congress to six dollars each, had not been reached at our latest dates. THE rilESIDEXl's PROTEST. On the 19th ult. the President of the U. Stales communicated to the Senate u message protesting against the resolutions of the Senate, passed on the 2Gth of Mirch last, in relation to the Public Deposits. Mr. Poindextcr moved that the message be not received. The motion gave rise to an animated debate, which occupied the whole of that day and the next, and was supported by the mover and Messrs. Sprague, Frelinghuyscn, Southard, and Leigh, and opposed by Messrs. Benton and King of Alabama, when the Senate adjourned without taking the question. On the 21st, the President sent to the Senate a second message in explanation of the Protest message, which Mr. Poindextcr moved should not be received. Considerable discussion took place on this motion, in the course of w Inch Mr. Clay offered a substitute for Mr. Poindex-tei-,s resolutions. The. debate on the above motions was progressing at our latest dates. I'OWERS OF THE EXECUTIVE. On the 10th ult., Mr. Davis of South Carolina, submitted to the House sundry resolutions, declaring in substance that the powers and patronage of the Incentive Department of the general government have increased beyond the authority of the Constitution and ought to be diminished; which were laid on the table for consideration. FORCE ACT. On the 9th ult., the Senate, on motion of Mr. Calhoun, proceeded to the consideration of the bill heretofore intro dik ed by thai gentleman, for the repeal of 1 1 to act of the last session further to provide for the collection of the duties on imports, otherwise called the Force Act. Mr. Calhoun spoke for about an hour and a half in explanation of the hill, and in favor of the repeal of the

law above mentioned; after which, on motion of Mr. Clay, the bill was referred to the committee on the Judiciary. A petition from sundry citizens of Belinont county, Ohio, praying for the repeal of the same act, was laid before the Jlouse on the 7th, by Mr. Bell. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. Kwing laid before the Senate on the 7th ult. a memorial from sundry citizens of Muskingum county, Ohio, praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, which was referred to the committee on said District. A similar memorial was presented to the House on the sume day, by Mr. I Sloane, and received a like reference. OFFICERS OF THF, LATE WAR. The resolution of the last General Assembly of the Slate of Ohio, praying that grants of land may be made to the surviving officers of the late war with Great Britain, was laid before the Senate on the 7th ult. by Mr. Morris, and referred to the Committee on Military Allaire. THE LATE WARS. On the 12lh nil., the bill to provide for the payment of claims for property Jost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, duiing the late war with G real Britain, and the Indian wars subsequent thereto, was considered in committee ,vjf the whole lionise, and, after considerable debate, in the course of which the bill underwent sundry amendments, it was reported back, and laid on ilie table. On the 17lh,thc bill was taken op and ordered to be .engrossed for a liiild leading.

WESTERN ARMORY. On the 10th ult., Mr. Mitchell of Ohio, submitted to the House a resolution, w hich was agreed to, instructing the committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of establishing a National Armory on the waters of the Muskingum river. AD.mrilNMK.XT OF CONGRESS. On the 2Gth ult., Mr. Boone asked the consent of the House to consider the resolution offered by him on a previous day, for the adjournment of Congress on the 31st of May, w hich was refused yeas 57, nays 9 1. U. S. BANK DIRECTORS. Wo give to-day a few extracts from the. message of the President of the U. States, re-nominating to the Senate the Bank Directors which had been previously rejected by that body. The Message was communicated to the Senate on the 11th of March, and was referred to the Committee on Finance; that Committee reported unfavorable to the re-nomination, and the Directors were again rejected by a vote of 30 to 11. THE MESSAGE. "Washington, March 11th, 103-1. "7o the Senate'. "I lenominate Henry D. Gilpin, Peter Wager, and John T. Sullivan, of Philadelphia, and Hugh McElderly of Baltimore, to be Directors of the Bank of the United States, for the year 103 1. "I disclaim all pretention, of right, on the part of the President, officially to inquire into, or call in question, the reasons of the Senate for rejecting any nomination whatsoever. As the President is not responsible to them for the reasons which induce him to make a nomination, so they are not responsible to him for the reasons which induce them to reject it. In theso respects, each is independent of the other, and both responsible to their respective constituents. Nevertheless, theatlitudein which certain vital interests of the country are

placed by the rejection ol the gentlemen now re-nominated, require of me frankly to communicate my v iews of the consequences which must necessarily follow this act of the Senate, if it be not reconsidered. "The characters and standing of these gentlemen arc well known to the community, and eminently qualified them for the offices to which 1 propose to appoint them. Their confirmation by the Senate, at its last session, to the same offices, is proof that such was the opinion of them entertained by the Senate at that time; and unless something has occurred since to change it, this act may now be referred to as evidence that their talents and pursuits justified their selection. "The refusal, however, to confirm their nominations to the same offices shows that there is something in the conduct of these gentlemen, during the last year, w hich, in the opinion of the Senate, disqualifies them and as no charge has been made against them as men or citizens, nothing which impeaches the fair private character they possessed hen the Senate gave them their sanction at its last session: and as it moreover appears from the journal of the Senate, recently transmitted for my inspection, that it w as deemed unnecessary to inquire into their qualifications or character; it is to be inferred that the change in the opinion of the Senate has arisen from the official conduct of these gentlemen. The only circumstances in their official conduct, which have been deemed of sufficient importance to attract public attention are the two reports made by them to the Executive Department of the Government; the one bearing date the 22d day of April, and the other -he 1 9th day of August last; both of which reports were communicated to the Senate by the Secretary of the Treasury, with his reasons for removing the Deposites." "The reports were made in obedience to my official directions; and 1 herewith transmit copies of my letters calling for information of the proceedings of live Bank. Were they bound to disregard the call? Was it their dutv to remain silent, while abuses of tlvj most injurious and dangerous character were daily practised? Were they bound to conceal from the constituted authorities a course of measures destructive! to the best interests of the. country, and intended gradually and secretly to subvert the foundation of our Government, and to transfer its powers from the hands of the people to a great moneyed corporation? Was it their duty to sit in silence at the Board, and witness all these abuses, without an attempt to correct them; or, incase of failure there, not to appeal to higher authority? The eighth fundamental rule authorizes any one of the Directors, whether elected or appointed, who may have been absent when an excess of debt was created, or who may have dissented from the act, to

exonorate himself from personal respetisibility by giving notice of the fact to the President of the United States; thus recognising the propriety of communicating to that officer the proceedings of the board in such cases. But, independently of any argument to be derived from the principle recognised in the rule referred to, I cannot doubt for a moment that it is the right and the duty of every Director of the Board to attempt to correct nil illegal proceedings, and in case of failure, to disclose them; and that every one of them, whether elected by Stockholders or appointed by the Government, who had knowledge of the facts and concealed them, w ould be justly amenable to the severest censure." "Aware, as I now am, of the dangerous machinations of the Bank, it is more than e ver my duty to be vigilant in guarding the rights of the people from the impending danger. And I should feel that I ought to forfeit the confidence with which my countrymen have honored me, if I did not require regular and full reports of every thing in the proceedings of the Bank, calculated to effect injuriously the public interest, from the public Directors. And, if the Directors should fail to give the information called for, it would be my imperious duty to exercise the power conferred on me by the law, of removing them from office, and of appointing others who would discharge their duties with more fidelity to the public. I can never suffer any one to hold office under me who would connive at corruption, or who should fail to give the alarm, w hen he saw the enemies of Liberty, endeavoring to sap the foundations of our free institutions, and to subject the free. People of the United

btates to the dominion of a great moneyed corporation." "If the views of the Senate be such as I have supposed, the difficulty of sending to the Senate any other names than those of the late directors, will be at once apparent. I cannot consent to place before the Senate the name of any one who is not prepared, with firmness and honesty, to discharge the duties of a public Director, in the manner they were fulfilled by those whom the Senate have refused to confirm. If, for performing a duty lawfully required of them by the Executive, they are to be punished by the subsequent rejection of the Senate, it would not only be useless, but cruel, to place men of character and honor in that situation, if even such men could be found to accept it. If they failed to give the required information, or to take proper measures to obtain it, they would be removed by the Executive. If they gave the information, and took proper measures to obtain it, they would, upon the next nomination, be rejected by the Senate. It would be unjust, in me, to place any other citizens in the predicament in w hich this unlooked for decision of the Senate has placed the estimable and honorable men who were Directors during the last year. 'If I am in error in relation to the principles upon which these gentlemen have been rejected, the necessary consequence will be that the Bank will hereafter be without Government Directors, and the people of the United Slates must be deprived of their chief means of protection against its abuses: for whether conflicting opinions may exist as to the right of the Directors, appointed in January, 1833, to hold over until new appointments shall be made, it is very obvious that, whilst their rejection by the Senate remains in force, they cannot, with propriety, attempt to exercise such a power. In the present slate of things, therefore, the corporation will be enabled effectually to accomplish the object it has been so long endeavoring to obtain. Its exchange committees, and its delegated powers to its President, may hereafter be dispensed with, without incurring the danger of exposing its proceedings to the public view. The sentinels which the law had placed at its board can now no longer appear there, "Justice to myself and to the faithful officers by whom the Public has been so well and so honorably served, without compensation or reward, during the last y ear, has required of me this full and frank exposition of my motives for nominating them again, after their rejection by the Senate. I repeat, that I do not question the right of the Senate to confirm or reject at their pleasure: and if there had been any reason to suppose that the rejection in this case had not been produced by the causes to which I have attributed it, or if my views of their duties, and the present importance of their rigid performance, were oilier than they are, I should have cheerfully acquiesced, and attempted to find others who would accept the unenviable trust. But I cannot consent to appoint directors of the Bank to be subservient instruments,

or silent spectators, of its abuses and corruptions; nor can 1 nsk honorable, men to undertake the thankless duty, with the certain prospect of being rebuked by the Senate for its faithful performance in pursuance of the lawful directions of the Executive. "I repeat that I do not claim a right to inquire into, or officially to censure, the acts of the Senate. But the situation in which the important interests of the American people, vested in the Bank of the United States, and affected by its arrangements, must necessarily be left by the rejection of the gentlemen now re-nominated, has made it my duty to give this explanation to the Senate, and to submit the matter to their re-consideration. If it shall be determined by the Senate that all channels of information, in relation to the corrupt proceedings of this dangerous corporation, shall be cut off, and the Government and country left exposed to its unrestrained machinations against the purity of the press, and public liberty, I shall, after having made this effort to avert so great an evil, rest, for the justification of my official course, with respectful confidence, on the judgment of the American people. "In conclusion, it is proper 1 should inform the Senate, that there is now no Government Director appointed for the present year: Mr. Bayard, who was nominated and confirmed by the Senate having refused to accept that appointment. ANDREW JACKSON."

Congress. Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, from the Committee on the Judiciary, in the the House of Representatives, has reported a Bill further to extend the Judicial System of the United States. This bill proposes that the Supreme Court of the United Slates shall hereafter consist of a Chief Justice and eight associate Justices, five of whom shall constitute a quorum; to effect which, it is proposed that two additional Associate Justices shall be now appointed. It is further proposed that the districts of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, shall hereafter constitue the seventh judicial circuit; and the district of Tennesse, Missouri, and Illi nois the eighth circuit; and the Districts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama the ninth Circuit, the Judges of which to reside therein. The importance of the subject of this bill induces us to take special notice of its introduction; though we doubt its being acted upon at the p ressent Session, desirable as we believe some extention of the judicial system to be, in reference to the growing and spreading population of the West. Nat. Intel. EUROPE AND AMERICA. It may reasonably be questioned whe ther, since our existence as a republic, we have not rather retrogaded in virtue, and whether the purity of our republican principles as they were handed down to us from the fathers of the revolution, sanctified by their blood, has not been contaminated by frequent interchange of communication with, and visits to, those countries whose governments are so differently organized from our own. There is one advantage we have obtained a vast addition to the numerical strength of our population by foreign emigration, the element most needed in a new country; but from the caste of persons who compose this influx, but little accesion of intellectual power. We return again to the point, whether the deep-rooted attachment our ancestors were imbued with towards the great principles of liberty, have not become somewhat weakened or weaned in us, their posterity? whether the keen sensibility and perception they manifested towards monarchial aggression and hereditary priv ileges, have not in us become, to a certain degree, blunted ? We shall be told that since the articles of our Confederation were ratified, the march of free principles has been made to the frame of our government and they have not been unfrequent has been, is no doubt the fact, vastly in honor of the liberties of the people, and the extension of our franchises. But does not this very proneness to change, this restlessness and discontent with things as they are, indicate a feeling of indifference and sceptical irreverence towards those species of government? Whether this has grown out of the prevalence and fashion of disseminating such doctrines as those of agrarianism, utilitarianism, atheism, &c. under the delusive pretext of free inquiry, we know not; but it is certain that, like Caesar, when the crown had been thrice offered to him upon the Lupercal, we look now with far less horror and squeamishness upon thrones, and emperors, and kings, and nobilities, and all their gorgeous trumpery, than we were wont to do. We discuss and calculate the monarchial systems of government, and the infalibility gr effica

cy of democratic dogmas, with the same coolness and apathy that we would discourse upon some dry question of philosophy. As to any imaginary influence which our examples may have on the institutions of European governments, whatever we may think of the tendency of such indisputable truths as free principles to bring in all that may come in contact with them to the same equilibrium, to make other doctrines gradually assimilate and bend to their dominion, such has not been the fact in this instance. Europe is catcribus paribus, more profoundly sunk into the depths of ignorance and darkness, than she was before our existence as a nation. Whatever feeling or love for liberty was lately roused there, was produced by the conquering legions of Naipoleon. If, then, barbarian idols have been dashed to pieces, it was by the eloquent thunders of his cannon if the chains of the Inquisition have been broken, and the Spaniard made to breathe again the pure mountain-air of liberty, it was under the eagle-crested helmet of the imperial standard. Force alone could do then what can only now be consummated by a universally extended system of primary education. On that the hopes of liberty in Europe must lest by that only can we rely upon its perpetuity here. JY. Y. Star. LIBERIA. " The ship Jupiter, which sailed from Norfolk, for Liberia in November last, with 54 Emigrants, the Rev. Mr. Pinney, the temporary Agent of the Colony, and several Missionaries, arrived safely at Monrovia, after a good passage, on the last day of December. Mrs. Wright, wife of one of the Missionaries, has since died of the fever, and also an aged female emigrant passed through the fever in safety. The Jupiter returned to New Yorkya few days since, after a voyage of 36 days-. Dcspatchec were received by this arrival from the new Agent of the Colony, of a very satisfactory nature, and' which, show that he has entered on the business of his Agency in good earnest.. Indeed his communications to the Board of Managers have given very highjgalisfaction ; they contain excellent! sound, piactical views of the affairs of the Colony, and of the means of improving its condition. Amongst other things, he

lias earnestly directed his attention to what the Colonization Society have always greatly desired increased encouragement of agricultural pursuits. We have been concerned to hear that the brig Argus, left Norfolk for Liberia a few weeks after the Jupiter, with 59 emigrants, put into Carlisle Buy, in the island of Barbadoes, on the 21st of February, in want of fuel and water. The Captain had discovered, when in longitude 30, that a great part of his water had been lost by leakage; and being then far to leeward of any port where he could water, was compelled, at great disadvantage, to bear away for Yarbadoes. All hands had been on short allowance for 1 4 days previous to her arrival, and five of the passengers has died of small-pox viz: J. Gumbal, S. B. Bounty, P. Bounty, Mary Brown, and D. Scaton. Every thing required was supplied by the American Consul; and an abundant quantity of vegetables, fruit, &c. were added! by the kind inhabitants of Bridgetown. The Board of Managers of the Colonization Society, on hearing of this kindly assistance, at their late meeting, resolved that their thanks be respectfully presented to John Haly, Esq. the American Consul at Barbadoes, for his attention, and, through him, to the kind inhabitants of Bridgetown, who generously contributed to the relief of the distressed emigrant passengers in the brig Argus. Origin of Banking. The Doge of Venice was once obliged to resort to a forced loan fiom the most opulent citizens, the contributors to which were made creditors of four per cent. These creditors, in process of time, became incorporated into a company for the management of their joint concerns, and thus formed the basis upon which the bank of Venice, the most ancient establishment of the kind, was founded of a funding system, and the first example of a permanent national debt. Singular Marriage. The Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer mentions a marriage, which took place on Friday week at the Pequonnoc meeting-house neither party being over ten years of age! It was understood that the parents of both parties had given their consent. Highest Tavern in Europe. A tavern, has been built on the summit of Mount. Faulhorn, in Switzerland; it stands on an elevation of 8,140 feet above the level of the sea. As a matter of course its guests one and all, gel high, and are, charged high for their refreshments