Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 2, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1841 — Page 3

of Columbia. This they did because they believed that the utility of the Bank did not so much depend , upon the place of its location as upon the capital, faculties, and powers which should bo given to it. l!ut to isolate it in this District, without giving it any other branching power than such as might derive from the consent of particular States, would be to create an enormous District bank, devoid of ell'octive national character. Such a bank would be a bank on- , ly of the District of Columbia, and its offices of discount and deposite would be nothing more than banks of the States which might allow them to . be planted

- within their respective limns, for all national purposes Congress might as well recharter one of the existing District banks, enlarge its capital, and give it

authority to establish offices of discount and deposite in any State that would permit it to be done. The committee believe that the capital of a bank so constituted would never be taken, and that, if taken, the institution would be wholly unable to accomplish the great and salutary purposes for which it is desi red and should be designed. But the question of establishing a bank thus to be restricted and circumscribed involves higher and grayer considerations than those of mere expediency. The General Government has or has not the power to establish a National Bank. If it has the power, it derives from it the existing grants in the Constitution of the United States. The committee believe it has the power, and ought to exPrcise it. But after a contest during the last ten or twelve years in respect to the constitutional power of Congress, which has been marked by so much animation and bitterness, a forbearance to exercise the power would be a virtual surrender of the power. If a bank were to be created, whose operations within the limits of the States were dependent not upon the will of Congress, but upon the will of each State, separately announced, the creation of such a bank would add another to the list of disastrous experiments, and would be tantamount to a relinquishment of the national power, and it could never be resumed. The power of the Federal Government is only to be found in the grants of the Constitution. If they are inadequate to the fulfilment of the great purposes of its establishment, they can only be increased in the mode of amendment which the instrument itself has prescribed. They cannot be augmented by the grants or consent of any State or States short of the number of two-thirds, whose concurrence is necessary to give validity to an amendment. A derivation of power to the General Government from the consent of particular States would'be unsound in principle, andthecommitiee apprehend dangerous in practice, Admit such consent to be a legitimate source of power, the Government would not operate equally in all the States, and the Constitution, losing its uniform character, would exhibit an irregular and incongruous action. Entertaining these deliberate views, the committee are decidedly of opinion that no bill for the establishment of a bank in the District of Columbia will be effectual which does not contain a clear recognition of the constitut ional power of Congress to establish bran, ches wherever, in the United States, the public wants, in its judgment, require them. They canjiut consent that a bank, emanating from the will of the nation, and imperatively demanded by necessities of the Government and of the nation, shall be wholly dependent for its useful operation upon the will of each and every State, distinctly expressed. Accordingly, in the draught of a bill now reported, the right is asserted to excercise the branching power of the bank independent of the assent of the States. The committee dare not allow -themselves' to believe that the bill is free .from all '-defects, but ..-they do hope

that these, in a spirit of liberality, will be corrected by the superior wisdom of the Senate and of the House, and that the present session will be signalized by the .establishment of a national institution, which has become a desideratum to the general prosperity. The advantages which will flow from such an instit tution, in buth our domestic and foreign relations, are manifest and incontestible. . . It will give the People a sound currency of uniform value throughout the Union, which is just as necessary to the successful operation of ail branches of business as pure air or water is to the preservation of human life or health. It will revive and extend commercial intercourse, which, for the want of a coinmmoii medium, has been almost suspended between different parts of the Ui -n. It will reduce 'domestic, exchange from the enormous premiums and discounts now frequently paid to the moderate standard growing out of the mere cost and insurance on the risk of transporting specie from one to another part of the Union. It will, consequently, save hundreds of thousands of dollars now annually lost in transactions of exchange-It will essentially benefit the manufacturing interest by enabling it to realize sales and the proceeds of sales. It will powerfully contribute to the resumption of specie payments by the banks, whose existing delinquency is lliegreatest source of all prevailing pecuniary and financial embarrassments. It will greatly tend to prevent and correct the excesses and abuses of the local banks.

It will furnish a medium common to all parts of the Union for the payment of debts and dues to the Government; thus rendering duties and taxes uniform in fact as well as in name. It is indispensable to the convenient and successful financial operations of the Government in all the departments of collection, safe-keeping, and disbursements of the public revenue. Such are some of the domestic benefits which the committee fully believe will be secured by a National Bank. Those which appertain to our foreign relations are also worthy of serious consideration. If it be true that money is power, its concentration under the direction of one will, sole or collective, "roust augment the power. A nation, without such a concentration of power, maintaining extensive commercial intercourse with another nation possessing it, must conduct that intercourse on a condition of inequality and disadvantage. National Banks, in other countries, beget the necessity, therefore, of a National BaDk in this country, in like manner as National Governments in foreign nations must be met by National Government in ours. Accordingly, we have seen the influence exerted by Ihe Bank of England upon American interests, when those interests were exposed to the action of that Bank, and were left without the protection of a Bank of the United States. The committee do not wish to be understood as intending to express any approbation of the commercial operations in which the Pennsylvania Bank, assuming the name of the Bank of the United States, engaged, when that state of things arose. But they do mean to say that the interests and dignity of the United States demand that they should not be exposed, beyond the necessary and legitimate influence of monetary and commercial operations, to the action of a foreign bankimrinstitution. They believe that, without a competent Bank of the United States, foreign National Banks may and probably will exercise an undue and possibly pernicious influence upon rmr interests. -

In this view of the case, the question is, whether it is better that we should be left liable to ho materially affected by a foreign institution, in which we have no interest, over which we can exert no control, which is administered solely in reference to foreign interests, or we shall have an American Bank, the creature of our will, subject to American authority, and

animated by American interests, feelings, and sympathies . . ' The committee could not entertain a doubt in such an alternative. And, in reference to the foreign aspect of the Bank, the committee thought it expedient to allow it-to deal in foreign bills of exchange, -which are the barometer of the state of our foreign trade. In conclusion, the committee think it proper to say

that they have given due consideration to the various memorials referred' to them, and to the instructions moved by a Senator from Mississippi. They subjoin that wherever, in this report, the committee is mentioned, a majority of the committee is to be understood. All which is respectfully submitted. BEAUTIES OF MODERN LEGISLATION. -We copy the following from a report in the National Intelligencer of certain proceedings on Wednesday, in the lower house of Congress, to show up, in real life, what, is almost hourly enaating among the political gladiators of the day, in that degraded political bear garden. Mr. Winthrop said that, if he had been called upon to vote fifteen minutes ago, when this question was first moved, he should certainly have voted against it. He had raised a point of order in relation to it at the outset. And he begged leave to say, with all due respect for the Chair, that he had not withdrawn his appeal from the decision of the Chair, because he acquiesced in its correctness. It was rather because he was unwilling to involve the House in another of those controversies on points of order which so much resembled certain controversies described by Milton; where

-''Chaos Bits umpire,

And by decision more embroils the fray ; Next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all" But he had other objections, besides those of order, to the previous question at the present time. The honorable member from North Carolina, who addressed the House for two or three hours this morning, (Mr. Rayner,) had appealed repeatedly to the members from Massachusetts to say how far they endorsed the doctrines of their colleague, (Mr. Adams.) Mr. W. desired to have replied (as to his certain knowledge did some others of his colleagues) that while he certainly dissented in some respects from the doctrines of his venerable colleagues, he dissented still more from the doctrines of the gentleman from North Carolina.' - But, (said Mr. W.) when I reflect on the deep disgrace to this nation, and the even deeper disappointment to the People, which will result from any further exhibition in this House of such scenes of disorganization and confusion as have been displayed here for a fortnight past, I am unwilling to give any vote which will defer fur another hour, much less for another day, a decision upon the question before us. I shall waive, therefore, all objections to the motion, and go with my friends in its support. The question on the demand for the previous question being then taken, there was a second. The main question was ordered to be taken. Mr. Wise asked a division of the question on the proposition of Mr. Rayner, to end with the words, "until otherwise ordered."

The Speaker said that, under the Parliamentary law, a majority of the House would be required to order a division., Mr. Chapman asked the yeas and nays on making the said division; which were ordered, and, being taken, were yeas S9, nays 125. So the House refused to order the division. After some conversationMr. Rhett asked the yeas and nays on the main question, which were ordered. And the main question (being on the amendment or substitute of Mr. Rayner) was then taken. Before the vote was announced Mr. Proffit arose and said that there were four gentlemen from the slaveholding States who had manifested great anxiety on this subject, and who Would not vote. He should, therefore, be put to the trouble of publishing their names Cries of "order, order." Note by the Reporter. This list of names was not furnished to the Reporter in time for publication in this day's paper. The Speaker announced the vote to be'as follows: Yeas 9G, nays 105. So the amendment of Mr. Rayner was rejected. And the question recurring on the original resolution of Mr. Wise, as amended by the proposition of Mr. Adams '. Mr Rayner moved to amend the same by striking out all after the word "Resolved," and inserting the following: , "That the Rules and Orders of the last House of Representatives be adopted as the Rules and Orders of this House, until otherwise ordered; and that r.

committee of nine members be appointed by the Spea

ker, under the said rules, to revise, amend and report

on the same. Mr. Wise demanded the previous question. Mr. Stanly said there had been trifling enough al

ready. He moved to lay the resolution on the ta

ble.

Mr. Fillmore inquired of the Chair, what would be

the effect of the motion to lav on the table, should it

prevail? Would it take the whole subject with it? The Speaker said it would. Mr. Fillmore. Then we shall be without rules. Mr. Stanly. Well, where are we how?

Mr. Weller asked the yeas and nays on the motion

to lay the resolution on the table.

Various questions of order were raised, in relation to which Messrs. Underwood, Winthrop, Fendleton, Triplett, Wise, and Rayner were severally on the

floor.

Mr. Stanley withdrew his motion ty lay the resolu

tion on the table.

And the question recurring on the demand for the

previous question, there was a second. And the main question was ordered to be taken. Mr. Gentry called for a division of the question, first on striking out, then on inserting, &c. But Mr. G. withdrew the motion. Mr. Stanley renewed it. Mr. Turney asked the yeas and nays on making the division which wa9 refused. And the question being taken, the House refused to order the dirision. And the question recurring on the main question (being on striking out all after the word, "Resolved," and inserting the proposition of Mr. Rayner) Mr. Rhett asked the yeas and nays; which were ordered, and being taken, were yeas 104 nays 107: So the amendment of Mr. Rayner was rejected. And the question again recurring on the original resolution of Mr. Wise as amended by the proposition of Mr. Adams, in the words following: Resolved, That a committee of nine members be ap

pointed to revise, amend, and report rules for the government of this House, and that until such committee make report, and the same be finally acted upon, the rules and orders of (ho last House of Representatives, except the 21st, shall be considered as the rules and orders of this House. Mr. Butts moved the previous question there on.

And there was a second. Mr. Wise asked the yeas and nays on ordering the main question, which were ordered, and being taken, were yeas 111, nays 0!). So the House decided that the main question should

be now taken. Mr. Wise asked the yeas and nays on the main question, which were ordered. And the main question (being on the adoption of the original resolution) was then taken. Before the vote was announced, a number of gentlemen rose and desired that their names might be called. Mr. Stanly wished to inquire of the Chair whether these gentlemen were changing their votes. If so, he should like to know it. Mr. Wise. Order. I call the gcntlemcu to order. " ' ' Mr. Stanley. I don't care if you do. A voice. Put him out. Mr. Stanly. Try it, boys. Loud cries of order order. The Speaker called the House to order. Mr. Slanly. I shall submit my inquiry to the Chair, let who will call out order. Is it in order, Mr. Speaker, to ask if these gentlemen have changed their votes? Great noise in the Hall. Messrs. Wise and Gilmer called Mr. Stanly to order. : The Speaker said the Gentleman from North Carolina, (Mr. Stanly) had a right to put an inquiry to the Chair, if it was proper for information. Mr. Stanly. I inquire, then, whether these gentlemen changed their votes? Mr. Wise. I ask the Speaker if that inquiry is in order! The Speaker said it was not Mr. Wise, Then I call the gentleman to order. Mr. Stanly. I have asked the question, and I have triumphed so far, at least. Mr. Wise. Order. Mr. Stanly. Order back again: The Speaker called both gentlemen to order, and then announced the vote Yeas 106, nays 110. So the original resolution was rejected, and the House stood adjourned to where it did Monday noon of May 31! A beautiful specimen of modern legislation!

WHITE LEAD.

KEGS, Avery & Ogden's white lead, warranted tine.

For Pale by TOMLINSON BROTHERS,

ju ne 2.3 Sign of the Golden Moriar.

100

LINSEED OIL, PAINTS, AC. ALWAYS on liniid a large assortment Linseed Oil, Faints, Painter's liruslies, Varnish Brushes, c. june 25 ' TOM1.1NSON IIROTHKRS.

BRUSHES! BRUSHES!! SWEEPING, Diluting, ticrubhinB, Whitewash, Hearth, Shoo, Horse Cloth, Hair, Crumb, Painters anil every, other kind of Unishes; for sale by TOMLINSON BROTHERS, june 25 Sign of the Golden Mortar

Messrs. Editors Please to announce the name of

Wm. J. BROWN as a candidate to represent Marion county in the House of representatives for the ensuing Legislature. MANY VOTERS. LEWIS C. LEWIS is a candidate for re-election to the office of Reci rder of Marion county. We are authorized to announce the name of Wm. TOWNSEND as a candidate for the office of Recorder of Marion county. Messrs. Douglass & Noel Please announce CHARLES STEPHENS, a candidate for the office of Treasurer & Collector of Marion county, at the election in August. I'd Q3 We are authorized to announce B. K. SMITH, as a candidate for County Auditor. (7 We are authorized to announce THOMAS M. WEAVER as a candidate for County Auditor.

Mpskhs EtiTTonsPlease announce the name of

D. R. BROWN, of Washington township, as a can didate for County Auditor at the August election.

BANK NOTE LIST. CORRECTED WEEKLY FOR THE JOURNAL, BY K. S. ALVORD & Co., Who are prepared to buy, generally, the notes of the Banks bo low at the rates affixed:

INDIANA. ILLINOIS.

State Bank and Branches par State Bank &. liranches

Woodburn & Co'a notes Exchange Bank at Indianapolis OHIO. Miami Exporting Co, '.-' Bank of Cincinnati do Stcubcnville do West Union Granville . Cleveland Lebanon and Miami German B'k of Wooster St. Clair and Circleville Cin. & Whitewater Can. O. Arnold & Co. Checks Farmers Bank Canton Manhattan, Gallipolis, Other banks 5'sand up

wards Small notes

KENTUCKY. All Banks LOUISIANA. All New Orleans Banks

2 dis 2 dis 20 dis

2 die Shnwnectown

Cairo 2 MICHIGAN

Farmers' & Mechanics' 40 dis 3disllank of Michigan 40dis

2 dis M'Comb county, payable

5 dis at Columbus, O. 20 dis

5 dis St. Clair, payable at Cir

3dis cleville.O. 10 dis

2 dis MISSOURI

10 dis State Bank par

10 dis, TENNESSEE. 10 dis All Banks 8al0d:s 6f dis; N. CAROLINA. 10 (lis All solvent Banks 6 a 8 dis

lOdis' EASTERN BANKS. New England & N. Y. 3 a 5 pre Pennsylvania 2 pre Philadelphia 2 a 3 pre par Maryland and Virginia 2 pre 2a3 dis Wheeling post notes 2dis

COFEKU, SUGAR, TEA, AC. KM) Bags Rio Coffee, a Boxes Sperm Candles. 20 Hhds. Sugar, 5 Bbls Louf Sugar, 20 Boxes Gun. I'.Tea. Just received and for sale by , Madison, june 25. C. WOODBURN.

351

T

ALLUM SALT. BARRELS Alluni Salt received and for sale hy Madison iunc 25. C. WOODBURN.

BOXES Superior Tobacco, 10 do Common ,' do. Madison june 25

- ... nViTERS.

v ENTY THOUSAND pickled Oysters. For sale low. Madison june 25 C, WOODBURN

For sale by C. WOODBURN.

: . ' CEMENT v BARRELS Cement. Just received

inn

sale by Madison, june 25

pr. 'Mail' and for

C. WOODBURN.

MACKEREL. r f Bhls. No's. 2 3, for sale by Madison june 25 - -

C. WOODBURN.

par .'' 2ilis

Silver

Foreign Gold Am. Gold

3 prein 4 prem 4 prem

NOTICE TO BVILDERS. PROPOSALS will be received by the undersigned, on Thursday, the 8th of July next, for furnishing all 'materials and

erecting a church edifice, for the first Presbyterian Congregation in Indianapolts. Plans, Specifications and terms of payment will be made known and explained, at any time after the first of July by the undersigned at bis residence. june25-lw JOHN ELDER, Superintendent. INDIANAPOLIS FEMALE INSTITUTE. THE Senior and Junior departments of the Female Institute will recommence on Wednesday, 7th July. During the re mainderof the summer session, the exercises in the Senior De

partment will be attended to only in the morning, the lessons prepared at home. The terms of tuition will be reduced, the highest branches not over 5. june 25-3w

125 CORDS OF WOOD. SEALED proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of State, on Saturday the 10th day of July next, for the delivery of one hundred and twenty -five cords of good sugar-tree, beach, ash or kickory wood, well split and cut into lengths of two feet, delivered nt the wood yard on the west side of the State House, by the first day of October next. Bond and security will be required for the faithful performance of the contracts Win. SHEETS, Sec'y of State. GEO. H. DUNN, Treasurer. june25 184t-3w M. MORRIS, Auditor. MORRISON'S VERMIFUGE. 6DOZ. Morrisons Vermifuge, a safe and efficient remedy for worms, with directions in German and English. Just received and for sale by june25 TOMLINSON BROTHERS.

MORRISON'S INFANT CARMINATIVE.

,OR the relief of Children afflicted with wind, colic, gripes,

fluxes, ahd other similar disorders of the stomach ana

bowels, warranted genuite; for sale ny june 25 TOMLISON BROTHES, Sign of the Golden Mortar.

Prlham'a Clarified Essence of Bourbon nd Candy. COMPOUNDED from Liverwort, Hoarnound, Slippery elm, Comfrey, and thirty other choice vegetable cough ingredi

ents, warranted genuine; r or sale at me sign ui me wjiucu uuitar, opposite the Washington Hall.

june 25 tumlijuuji sKuintus. WORM SYRUP & INFANT PRESERVATIVE. IO DOZ. Cave Sl Scharter's Worm Syrup and Infant Preservative, an invaluable and pleasant remedy for children. For sale by TOMLINSON BROTHERS, june 25 Sign of the Golden Mortar.

NAVY BEEP AND PORK FOR 1842. Navy Commissioners' Office, June 10, 1841.

EALED PROPOSALS, endorsed "Utters lor Rpfif . nr "Offflra for Pork." as the case may be,

will be received at this office until 3 o'clock, P. M. of

the 20th July next, for furnishing and delivering, tree of ull cost and charge to the United States 3,000 barrels of Navy Beef, and 3,600 ban els of Navy Pork; each barrel to contain two hundred pounds) nett weight, of Beef or Pork. To be delivered as follows, viz : 1,200 bis of Beef at the Navy Yard, ChaHestown Mass, 800 do do do Brooklyn N. Y. 1.000 do do do Gosport, Virginia. 1600 do Pork do .; Charlestown Mass. 1,000 do do do Brooklyn, N. Y. 1,000 do do do Gosport, Virginia. All the said Beef and Pork to be delivered between the 5th day of April and the 15th day of June, 1842; unless earlier deliverises should be authorized by the Navy Commissioners. The Beef must be packed from Well fattened cattle, weighing not less than rive hundred pounds nett weight each. The legs and leg rands of the hindquarters, and the shins and shoulder clods, and at least eight pounds from tho neck end of each fore-quarter, or the parts marked Nos. 1, 2, and 3 on the drawing or delineation of the fore and hind quarters of an Ox, which will be attached to and form a part of the contract, must be wholly excluded from each barrel, and the remainder of the carcass must be cut in pieces of not less than eight pounds each. The pork must be packed from corn-fed, well fattened hogs, weighing not less than two hundred pounds each, excluding the heads, joles, necks, shoulders, hams, legs, feet and lard, and all refuse pieces; and must be cut in pieces weighing notlcss than six pounds each. Both the Beef and Pork must be slaughtered between the first of November next and the periods of delivery, and must be salted with at least one bushel of coarso Turk's Island, Isle of May, or St. Ubes salt, and with five ounces of pure pulverized saltpetre, to each barrel, exclusive ot a pickle to be made from fresh water, as strong as salt can make it. , The barrels to be made of the best seasoned whito oak or white ash staves and heading. If of the former, to be not less than three fourths ot an inch thick; it of the latter, to be not less than one inch thick, and to be hooped at least three fourths over with tho best white oak or hickory hoops, except the crose hoop, which must be of iron, at least one inch wide, and not less than the denomination No. 17. All at tho expenso or the respective contractors. Each barrel must be branded on its head, "Navy Beef," or Navy Pork, as the case may be, with the contractors name, and the year when packed. The Beef and Pork will be inspected by the inspecting officers at the respective Navy Yards aforesaid, and by some "sworn Inspectors ot salt provisions," who will be selected by the respective Commanding

Officers; but their charges tor such inspection must uu paid by the respective contractors, who must likewiso

have the barrels in good snipping oraer, iu me onusfaction of the commandants of tho respective Navy Yards aforesaid, after the inspections, and ot thcirown expense. Bidders must specify their prices separately and distinctly, in separate offers for the Beef and for the Pork, and for each of the places of delivery, covering all expenses and oil charges. Letters from persons binding themselves to becomo sureties, if the offers are accepted, and other letters from some Navy Agent, Commandant at a Navy Yard, or oiher person well known to the department, must accompany the offers of each person, and state the belief of the writer that the person offering to contract is practically acquainted by experience, with the best mode of curing and packing Beef and Pork, and has the ability to perform his contract in a satisfactory manner, and that his sureties have also the ability, in case of failure on tho part of the contractor, to pay the the amount of their bonds. The Board of Navy Commissioners reserve to themselves the right to reject all offers from persons who have heretofore failed to fulfil their contracts, or who do not forward satisfactory lotters, showing their ability, and the ability o( their securities, to complete the

contracts. .

Bonds in one-third the amount of the respective contracts will be reauired: and ten per centum, in addi

tion, will be withheld from the amount of each pay

ment to be made, as collateral security for the due and faithful performance of their respective contracts; which will, on no account, be paid until the ... .. ,i i

contracts are comD ied witn in an respects, ana

is to be forfeited to the use and benefit of the United States, in the event of failures to complete the deliveries within the prescribed periods. And in caso of failure on the part of the contractors to deliver the aferesaid beef and pork within the time specified, the Navy Commissioners to have the right to direct purchases to be made to supply the deficiencies, and any excess of cost to be charged to and paid by the contractors. Payment will be made by the United States (excepting the ten per centum to be withheld until the completion of the contracts as before stated) within thirty days after the said beef and pork shall have been inspected and received, and bills for the same shall be presented to the Navy Agents respectively, duly approved by the Commandants of the respective Navy Yards according to the terms of the contract. The parts of the beef to be excluded from the barrel will be particuliarly designated in tho engravings to be attached to the contracts; persons interested can obtain them on application at this office. je25 3taw To be published three times a week in the National Intelligencer, and Madisonian, D. C. ; Vermont, Vermont Watchman and State Journal and People'a Prees; Massachusetts, Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston Atlas; New York, New York Express, New York Commercial Advertiser; Pennsylvania, North American and Daily Advertiser, (Philadelphia;) Maryland, Baltimore Patriot, Baltimore American; Virginia, Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald and Norfolk Beacon ; Kentucky, Louisville Journal, the Observer, the Intelligencer, (al Lexington,) Commonwealth, (at Frankfort,) Eagle (at Maysville;) Ohio, State Journal, Cincinnilti Gazette, Cleveland Herald; Indiana, Indiana Journal, Richmond Palladium, Wabash Courier; Missouri, Missouri Republican.