Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 3, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1841 — Page 2

SEMI -WEEKLY" joukival. INDIANAPOLIS;

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1841.

The attention of those who have wheat to sell is directed to the advertisement of C. Wootlburn, Madison, la. A gentleman just from the river, .11 , -i '. : r nn -

toici us yesieruay mix it was seuing ior u tents per bushel cash when he left.

In to-day's Journal will be found some interesting articles, in relation to the recent important events at Washington City.

ELECTION OF SENATOR. We refer to this matter again for the purpose

of correcting the Sentinel in one of its statements. It is not a fact, as that sheet would induce its readers to believe, that at the election in question the people of Marion county decided against a National Bank A glance at the table below will satisfy any unprcjuced mind of that. We are as confident as ever that there is a majority of at least 300 of the voters ol this county in favor of a United States Bank; and when the time arrives to decide that question, that opinion will be fully confirmed. It will be seen, by a comparison of the vote on

the 18th with the vote for Governor in 1840, that over 600 Whigs failed to vote, while the Opposition, as usual came out in their full strength. JIannamait. IV. Bipfrer, W. West, Op. Howard, V.B.

Centre, 633 580 588 375 Decatur, 64 102 10 25 Franklin, 49 94 99 132 Lawrence, 8 35 133 171 Perry, . . . 63 158 60 95 Pike, 53 137 118 "137 Warren, 40 92 106 102 Washington, 95 249 101 133 Wayne, 47 216 ; 69 130 1052 1663 1284 1360

John Sergeant, a member from Philadelphia, lias resigned his seat in Congress.

Gov. Cannon, of Tennessee, died a few days since at his residence in Nashville.

The new Cabinet. All of Mr. Tyler's Cabinet, except Messrs. M'Lean and Wickliffe, have signified their intention to accept the stations that have been tendered them. Judge M'Lean has declined his appointment. This his friends from the first thought he would do. Nothing has been heard from Mr. Wickliffe as yet; he will, however, doubtless accept. No one seems to know or care who will be called to fill the place refused by Judge M'Lean. Vulgar abuse To tell a notorious truth. For example, that the editor of the "Dunghill Oracle" was fowl-y drunk on the afternoon of the 18th instant. : . A Sub-Treasurer Robbed. The Chicago American of the 14th inst. says: "We regret to announce that Mr. Prescott, Receiver of the Land Office in this city, has been robbed of something over eleven thousand dollars. Of this sum $10,838 was in gold, and the rest in Treasury notes, silver and a bill of fifty dollars on the Bank of North Adams, Mass, Mr. Prescott has offered a reward of $1000 for the money, and $500 for the detection of the thief. The robbery took place it is supposed on the night of Saturday or Sunday last, and must have been effected by means of false keys. We deeply deplore the loss whieh Mr. Prescott has sustained, and sincerelv hoDe that the money will be restored to

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From the New York Commercial Advertiser. THE SECRETARY OF.STATE. "Audi alteram partem." , The attention of t lie American people is earnestly invited to the following letter. It comes from a distinguished source We need not say it is written by an able hand. That fact is evident from the force of it. It is a calm statement of facts, defining the position which Mr. Webster has occupied in the Executive councils during the recent trying cenes at the capital, jind illustrating the propriety of his present position. "We" trust that it will reccivothaf rave consideration from the public to which the importance of the subject, and the character of the facts and circumstances it discloses are entitled. Appeals to reason, rather than the inflammatory essays of men who evidently write under the influence of passion, caused hy personal disappointment, are those to which the people should g(ve heed in a crisis like this. Washington', Sept. 14.

Your friendship for Mr. Webster, and your solicitude for his fame, induce me, who share with you

both these sentiments, to communicate some particulars of his course during the eventful session just'terminated, which evince his patriotism, judgment and

devotion at once to the true interests of his party and of the country. I shall tell you nothing which you do not know already; but it may not be unseasonable nor useless, at. such a moment as this, to have in one view, and from on ' eye witness, important familiar facts. I confess a desire to have it kept constantly in the public mind, that his counsels and his wishes would have preserved unimpaired the integrity of the Whig party; would have prevented a dissolution of the cabinet, have maintained our official relations to the President, and have carried us through this

administration and to the organization of anoth

er, 'undistracted, unalienated, and full of reasonable

hop". :.-;' At the commencement of the session, as before, Mr. Webster desired to see the country provided with a useful bank. This, of course, was to be expected from his whole public life and opinions. Ascertaining the existence of constitutional difficulties in the mind of the President, he assisted to have the bill which the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to send to (he Senate as a -projet,- made as perfect, as possible, consistent with those difficulties; he endeavored to persuade his political and personal friends -to pass that bill, imperfect though he though it, and thought it was.Jhe discountenanced the introduction of another and different one, which there were the best reasons to fear the President would not approve; he favored the at

tempt of Mr. Rives to restore, by an amendment, the substance of the Treasury projet; and when that had been defeated, and the bill containing the compromise provision was sent to the Executive, he sought to secure his official approval. In all this he manifested that fidelity to the party, delicacy to the President, consideration of unfortunate and unanticipated

circumstances, and constant pursuit of a practical public good, which the country expected, indeed from him, but could scarcely expect from any other man. When the purpose of introducing another bill, after the veto of the first, was adopted in Congress, Mr. Webster no doubt sought to have it so framed as to avoid the objections of the President; and probably had no doubt it would receive his signature, until the appearance of Mr. Bott's letter. From that moment, as you collect from Mr. Ewing's letter, the President manifested great and not unnatural uneasiness and anxiety, and a very strong wish that the whole matter might be laid over until the next session. Rlri Webster thought this reasonableand expedient, under the circumstances, os did Mr. Ewing. if I understand his letter; and he communicated his opinion and his desire to his friends in Congress. The bill was passed and sent to the President, and then, as Mr. Ewing tells the public, and as I believe the truth to be, Mr. Webster submitted a written and oral argument to the President to persuade him to give it his sanction. You see, therefore, that if, in this matter there had been on both sides, or on either side, faults Or errors, Mr. Webster did all that he could do all that man

could do, in the succession of events, to prevent them

such an impression on the North and East of the uncertainty of our foreign relations, as greatly to diminish the chances of obtaining the residue of the authorized loan at favorable rates. For the country, then, if not for himself, let him remain. "In all exertions of duty something must be hazarded."

LETTER FROM HON. G. E. BADGER.

Down to the moment' when he adopted and declared his determination not to retire from office, there was no one within or without the Whig party who did not appreciate his sound judgment, his perfect fidelity and his admirable counsels. I have not a doubt that the sober second thought of the country will do justice to this determination. His colleagues have retired from the same conviction that influenced that portion of the Whigs in Congress who have presented an address to the public; to wit that there exists no longer any hope of a satisfactory arrangement of the question of the bank, under Mr. Tyler's administration. Mr. Webster thinks the case not thus hopeless. He is for another trial; and in another sense than they would exort us No, cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. He thinks there is yet a reasonable chance that the

him. Our very vigilant officers are upon the President and his new Cabinet, all Whigs, selected

alert, and if it depend upon their exertions the thief will unquestionably be taken."

The Sentinel is violent and abusive. Lory don Whig. We think if the editor of the Whig had taken a second thought, he would hardly have penned that sentence. Can he not distinguish between truth and energy, and abuse and violence? la. Slate Sen-

by a Whig, may present such a scheme as shall re

ceive the vote of a Whig Congress. You perceive, from his recent letter, that he deems a bank, as he

always has done, in some useful form, to be wholly

indispensable; and tor so great a good he does not think the country ought, to be required to wait four

years longer. In this hope, and with these opinions,

he remains in the Cabinet. He remains at the post

winch the pood President assigned to him. and at

! which Mr. Tyler desires him to remain. He sees, I

j have reason to believe, no cause 'to doubt that the I President is influenced by a constant regard to the

tinel

Yes, we can "distinguish between truth and ener-; bjic illcrest nnd ,0 the duties of his proat office.

gy, ana anuse anu violence, uuu uierure sam , altfJ0Ur,, ,t ,s true that schemes of a bank have struck

his mind differently at different times, as being with

in, or not within, the constitutional principle he had

nnd abuse and violenee." and therefore said

lhf Sfintinel is violent and abusive;" and had we

"taken a second thought," we might have added falsehsod to the Sentinel's violence and abuse. Corydon Whig.

Another Great Foegert. The New York papers mention the commission of a second great forgery, ef

fected in the same wav and bv the same rojrue who

adopted and avowed. In the considerations sugges

ted in the concluding language or the last veto mes sage, there may perhaps be found for this an expla nation and an excuse.

You have, then, in a word. Mr. Webster's whole

course on this subjeet. He thought, as did the entire

recently cheated Messrs Brown, Brothers & Co. of! Cabinet, that the projet of a bill first sent by Mr. hwNew York. The Herald says that the house of Messrs. jing to the Senate, on its call, ought to have been Gliburn SlJoo. of London, have been swindled out of; passed bv Congress into a law. He wished the Tre$25,000. i fsident to sign the somewhat different one which, inA letter of credit was recived from New Orleans, ! stead of that, Congress first sent to him. When the advising them of a shipment of coiton to Fletcher & second bill was introduced, he thought it was in such Alexander, of London, and authorising the house in j a shape that it would receive the Executive approbaNew York to negotiate for 25,000, This amount ! tion; but after the explosion created bv Mr. Bott's lotwas transmitted in twenty-five one thousand dollar ! ter, he strongly advised, as did Mr. Ewing too, that bills of the Bank of America, to the person in George- j the whole subjeet should be laid over for three months, town or Alexandria. ! to afford time for mature thought, and for collecting

The amount obtained of the Browns was 02,000, ' the true sense ot tiic country

and it was sent to the "financier according to his re- j joest in funds of the Districfof Columbia. On receiving the cash, the fellow had the cool sarcasm to return a letter of thanks for their "promptitude and accuracy" in following his instructions. Bolt. American.

Population or Virginia. ine loiai numner or whites in Virginia is 741,013; free colored persons 49,954; and slaves 418,979 total 1.239,46. The The number of white persons over 20 years of age who cannot read is 53,402. The number of abstractionists is not reported. Lexington Intel

Under these circumstances, you will concur with me that Mr. Webster ought to stay where he is. His personal honor permits and his public duties require it. The means of doing good of preserving peace of quieting the public mind agitated by apprehension of war of assisting the administration by his wisdom, his experience, his unrivaled ability and his hold on the confidence of the country these all are in his hands, and - they impose responsibility which he could not evade if he would, and I believe would not if he could. I verily believe that his retirement from the Cabinet at euch a moaentas this would produce

To the Editors of the National Intelligencer: Messrs. Gai.es & Seaton: I deem it proper to offor if public ejtpIaiYalion'"6f s'onie "of the" reasons' 'which led to my resignation, on the U th inst., of the office of Secretary of tho Navy, and, for that purpose, ask a small space in the National Intelligencer. At the Cabinet meeting held on the 18th of August last, (the Attorney General and the Postmaster Gen

eral being absent,) the subject of an Exchange Bank, or institution, was brought forward by the President

himself, and was fully considered. Into the particulars of what passed I do not propose now to enter. It will be sufficient to say that it was then distinctly

stated and understood that such an institution met the approbation of the President, and was deemed by him free of constitutional objections; that he desired (if Congress should deem it necessary to act upon the subject during the session) that such an institution should be adopted by that body, and that the members of his Cabinet should aid in brioging about that result; and Messrs.-. Webster and Ewing were especially requested by tha President to have a communication upon the subject with certain members of Con

gress. Ine institution then spoken ot was to be located in the District of Columbia; to be authorized to establish agencies in the States and Territories with a power to deal in bills of exchange between the tinned States and foreign countries, and in bills of exchange drawn in one State or Territory, and payable in another State or Territory; and the exercise of this

nower was not to depend on any assent, expressed or implied, of the States within which such agencies might be established.

In consequence of what passed at this meeting, I saw such friends in Congress as I deemed it proper to

approach, and urged upon them the passage of a bill to establish such an institution, assuring them that I did not doubt it would receive the approbation of the President. The bill was passed, as the Public know, and was met by the Veto. Now, if the President, after the meeting of the lth August, had changed his mind as to the constitutional power of Congress, and had come to doubt or deny what he had admitted in that meeting, (which is the most favorable interpretation that

Can be put upon his conduct,) it was, in my opinion, a plain duty on his part to have made known to the gentleman jjconcemed this change of sentiment to have offered them an apology for the unpleasant situation in which they were placed by his agency or, at least, to have softened, by a full explanation of his motives, his intended Veto. of a measure in promoting the success of which they, at his request, had rendered their assistance. But, this the President did not do, Never, from the moment of my leaving his house on the 18th, did he open his lips to me on the subject. It was only from the newspapers, from rumor, from heresay, I learned that he had denied the constitu

tionality of the proposed institution, and had made the most solemn asseverations that he would never approve a measure which 1 knew was suggested by himself, and which had been, at his own instance, introduced into Congress. It was still in the President's power, by a proper statement in the message containing his objections to the bill, to have supplied these omissions, and in some degree at least to have repaired his former neglect; but when that paper came to be read, it was found that so fur from saying frankly that he once favored and had been willing to sanction the bill, but had been led (if such was the fact,) by subsequent reflection to adopt different views upon the subject, he treated the measure as one evidently inconsistent with his previously expressed opinions, and which it ought not to have been supposed for a moment he could approve. Whether this conduct of the President is susceptible of just defence or reasonable excuse it is not necessary now to inquire. I have not heard, nor can I imagine any ground for either. Whether an explana

tion of it has been offered to any one of the gentlemen concerned I know not, b'lt none was at any time offered me: and while I forbear to make the remarks.

obvious and painful as they are, which the transaction

suggests, I declare the conviction that this conduct of

the President, standing without known defence, excuse, or explanation, constituted (if no other reasons had existed) ample ground for a withdrawal from his Cabinet without delay. It is scarcely necessary to say that I have not supposed, and do not now suppose, that a difference merely between the President and his Cabinet, either as to the constitutionality or the expediency of a bonk, necessarily interposes any obstacles to a full and cordial co-operation between them in the general conduct of his Administration; and therefore deeply as I regretted the veto of the first bill, I did not feel myself at liberty to retire on that account from my situation. But the facts attending the initiation and disapproval of the last bill made a case totally different from that one it is believed without a parallel in the history of our Cabinets; presenting, to say nothing more, a measure embraced and then repudiated efforts prompted and then disowned service rendered and then treated with scorn or neglect. Such a case required, in my judgment, upon considerations, private and public, that the official relations subsisting between the President and myself should be'immediately dissolved. GEO. E. BADGER. Washington, Sept. 18, 1841.

general policy of the Whigs, under the present posture of affairs, relative to the Bank bill, I am willing to place you in full possession of my opinion on that subject. It is not necessary to go further back, into the history of the past, than the introduction of the present measure into the House of Representatives. ,;.That introduction took place,, within two or threes days, after the President's disapproval of the former

Din; and i nave not the slightest doubt that, it was honestly and fairly intended as a measure likely to mAt I, n. D.-nM - I T I . 1 ,

that one in fifty of the Whigs had any sinister design whatever, if there was an individual who had suchdesign. But I know that the President had been greatly.' troubled, in regard to the former bill, being desirous,on one hand, to meet the wishes of his ' friends, if' he could, and on the other, to do justice to his own. opinions. Having returned this first bill with objections, a new' one was presented in the House, and appeared to be' making rapid progress. ;

I know the President regretted this, and wished tlie whole subject might have been postponed. At the same time, I believe he was disposed to consider calmly and conscientiously, whatever other measure might be presented to him. But in the mean time Mr. Botts's very extraordinary letter maxle its appearance. Mr. Botts is a Whig of eminence and influence in our ranks. I need not recall to your mind the contents of the letter. It. is enough to sav, that it nurnorted that the WhiVs dp-

signed to circumvent their own President, to "head him" as the expression was, and to place him in a condition of embarrassment. From that moment, I felt that it was the duty of the' Whigs to forbear from pressing the Bank bill further,, at the present time. I thought it was but just in them to give decisive' proof that they entertained no such purpose, asseemed to be imputed to them. And since there was reason to believe, that the President would be Had of

time, for information and reflection, before being called on to form an opinion or another plan for a Bank a plan somewhat new to the country I thought his known wishes ought to be complied with. I think so still. I think this is a course, just to the President, and ; wise on behaif of the .Whi" party. A decisive rebuke ought, in my judgment, to be given to the intimation, from whatever quarter, of" a disposition among the Whigs to embarrass the President. This is the main ground of my opinion; and such a rebuke, I think, would b found in the general resolution of the party to postpone further proceedings on the subject to the next session, now only a little more than three months off. The session has been fruitful of important acts. The wants of the Treasury have been supplied; provisions have been mude for Fortifications, and for the Navy; the repeal of the Sub-treasury;' has passed;.: the Bankrupt bill, that great measure of justice and benevolence, has been carried through; and the' Land bill seems about to receive the sanction of Con

gress. In all these measures, forming a mass of legislation, more important, I will -venture. to. say ( than all the proceedings of Congress for many years past, thoPresident has cordially concurred. I agree, that the currency question is, nevertheless, the great question before the country; but considering' what has already been accomplished, in regard to other things; considering the difference of opinion which exists upon this remaining one; and, considering,, especially, that it is the duty of the Whigs effectually to repel and put down any supposition, that they are endeavoring to put the President in a condition, in which he must act under restraint or embarrassment, I am fully and entirely persuaded, that the Bank subject should be postponed to the next session. I am, gentlemen, Your friend and ob't serv't, DANIEL WEBSTER. To Messrs. Bates and Ciioate, Senators from Massachusetts.

From the Madisonian. CORRESPONDENCE.

1841.

Washington, Sept

Hon. Daniel Webster, Dear Sir It is stated in Mr. Ewing's letter to the President, that the President wished the members of his Cabinet to obtain a postponement to the next session, of the last Bank bill, and thatan effort was made by some of them, Mr. Ewing himself being one, to gratify his wishes. I heard at the time, that you addressed a letter on that subject to the two Senators of Massachusetts, and caused it to be communicated to the Committee of the Seriate, before which the bill was then pending. I have never seen the letter, but

from what I heard of its contents, I think its publication would be useful. Have you any objection to furnishing a copy for that purpose? I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, THOS. ALLEN. Washington, Sept. 22, 1841. Dear Sir I have received your note, and send you a copy of the letter, to which you refer. Yours, respectful! v, Daniel weester. Thos. Allen, Esq.. Editor of the Madisonian.

The Thames Tunnel is nearly completed. On the15th u!t. Sir J. Brunei the engineer, passed through it from one end to the other under the bed of the river. JUSTICE'S ELECTION. We are authorized to announce JOHN J. M'FAR--LAND, as a candidate for Justice of the Peace to fill the place of Caleb Scuddcr. We are authorized to announce JOHN HARE, as a Candidate for Justice of the Peace, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the time of Caleb Scudder, Esq. We are authorized to announce BENJAMIN M'CLURE, as a Candidate for Justice of the Peace.

110 BAGS R' COFfEE- 25 cuddies G. P. Tea, A A" 20 half caddies G. I. Tea, Received and for sale by

Madison, sept 29

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HMDS. N. O. SUGAR, 25 Barrels Molasses,

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5 bbls. Loaf Sugar, Received and for sale bv C. WOOIHiURV.

BliLS. TAR, received and for sale by

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C. WOODBURN.

850

BI1I.S. SALT, received and for sale by Madison, sept 29 C. WOODBURN.

WHEAT! WHEAT! I WILL pay the highest market price in CASH for pood merchantable Wheat, delivered at my ware house, near the foot of West street, Madison, sept 29 C. WOOD11UKN.

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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Y virtue of a decree to me directed from the clerk's office

of the Marion circuit court t will expose to public sale on

the .twentieth of October, 1841, in front of the court house in the town of Indianapolis, between the hours prescribed by la w on said day. the rents and profits for seven years of the property, to wit: Lot No. 8. in square 73, in the town of Indianapolis, Marion rounty; and on failure to realize the full amount

demanded by said decree with damages and costs, I will at the same time and place proceed to expose the fee simple of said lot. To be sold as the property of John Crowder and William Sheets, at the suit of James W. Vandes, John F. Hill, and Daniel Yandes. sept 29 3w J. B. FURGASOT, Sheriff.

SHERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue of an execution to me directed from the clerk' office of the Marion circuit court I will expose to public sale on the twentieth of October, 18-11, in front of the court housein the town of Indianapolis, between the hours prescribed by law on said day, the rents and profits for seven years of the south half of lot No. 9, in square No. 64, in the town of Indianapolis; and on failure to realize the full amount demanded by said execution with damages and costs I will at the same time and placeproceed to expose the fee simple of said lot to lie sold as the property of John Givan, at the suit of Daniel Yandes, James Yandes and John F. Hill, sept 29 J. B. FURGASOV, Sheriff.

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