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W.l not be found who would let some jininii.g his seat. Mr. Cokjior, of ICorth

r:.rr,linn facetiously asked mm, u the

People of Kentucky, drank whiskey and

'eroff? Mr. Hardin repneu, mat whiskey

i ano ron i i" i Amu, .... i

de-tinies ol tine country. nn how jtucKy, ana ne

of the public monrv stirk to their hands. will n.v.v, Mr. Chirm-m, endeavor to mint out how the Fnsl Ollice department

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well ft hn answered the purposes of mejman uy ;stvn. - ., Ad-n.r.i.trat.on. when it was made an in-lple of North Carol.na drank tar and tar dependent department, and the presiding water? as that was their staple comrno(.flicr a cabinet minister. There arejdity

about fifteen thousand postmaster?; and their deputies, mail contractors, stagedrivers, poet-rider?, and all the persons, n! every description, connected with them, unci over whom they have an immediate nod direct influence, will amount to fifteen thousand more, hrge and, in general, well-disciplined army, wielding a tremendous power. These thirty thousand bid scattered all over the United Stales The mail is in their hands: they can and

do fumih every lacnny iu puty,

MA J. DOWMNG'S COUIlEsrON DKN'CE.

SENATE CHAMBER. Washington, May Ifi, 1634

To my old friend Mr. D&ight of the A'eie

York. Daily Advertiser. You may look out for me nigh upon ns soon as you get this letter, for 1 gues9 you must begin to think I belong to the Post Office Committee, or some other commit-

'iping

'em. But, my good old friend, I haint ben idle since that time, but I have ben nockin

about here every day pretty much arter the old fashion all day ; and then al night

gin to think he s puttin up with me instead of my puttinvp with him. When the Gineral come to hear where 1 was and what I wa9 busy at, he has ben in a pesky worry ment, and almost every day I would git some kind of a coaxin hint, from some of his friends here in Congress, that he would like to have me back agin with him. And Mr. Clay has telled me over and over that I need'nt make no

I

o ir fnnrvrDsa that lnnt likp fr. make no

who are in power; and, on the other nana, e eeeing that you haint heard nothio

can, and uu m "-"j -- from me ever since 1 write to you aooui every obstruction in the way ot their op-the Ginerai8 2d irotePt. and telled you ponent. They canvass politics in every afp Qty abojt Q,d S7f afJ(, the place, and, wherever they are, praise "iejresl OI, Vm down Kasl there, at 0 Miss party in power, and laud Gen. Jackson l!CfaT)e3 Tavern, when thev tried anexpe .1 . 1 rlM... rtrrt a r rood T orwil . .

ine suits-, i nrjr ' " ' ' J'. in'tnfntm wining out the chalk marks asrin

puticul ally and especially some oi uie mail-contractors, to hunt down any man opposed to General Jackson's Administration. They will worry any game. They will encounter any labor, and incur any expense, and more especially that class of mail-contractors who receive these extras. 382,993 77 thus distributed, add much to their activity and zeal. It is line grain for vour hungry rats; it is rich soup from the Kitchen Cabinet for your Jowlers with their collars round their necks. In this description, I would not be understood as including all of the mail-contractors, who receive extra allowance, for I know some of them to be honorable men, but take them collectively, the description will not be inapplicable. I will call the attention, Mr. Chairman, of the Committee, to the finances of that Department ; and and here ! have, in common with a number of other gentlemen in this House, to regret that neither the Chairman of the Committee on the ex

penditures of this Department, (which would necessarily include its receipts,) nor the Chairman of the Committee on the P-ist Office and Post Roads, has favored the House with a report upon the state of its funds and disbursements; and we nre left to grope our way in the dark as well a? we can. We have some glimmering faint lights that may assist to guide us in this pari of the investigation. When Mr. McLean, the immediate predecessor of Mr. Barry, was at the head

of that Department, instead of its being ai

burthen to the Treasury, it was a small source of revenue; and when he left it, there was about 190.000 of a surplus on hand. Now, we know that the Department has not only used up that surplus, but has borrowed 350,000, and overdrawn on banks 50,000 more; and how much moxe it owes no man can tell. My information is, one million eighty-nine thousand doltars!

The Chairman of the Committee oni

once, and that was that Biddle had refused

to let the Committee, sent by Congress to examine into the Bank, have the books

and papers of the Bank, to take over to their lodging out of the Bank and to examine them there. And that he wouldn't

let the Committee have his private letters, that he had written and received, nor his

wife's, nor his children's private letteis.

Nor would he tell the Committee how

much it cost him every day to go to mar

ket, nor whether he roasted his potatoes

or boiled 'em.

And when the Committee ask'd him if

he wore h wiijor his own natural hair, he

tell'd 'em it warn'l none of their business:

that if they wanted to examine the Bank,

and all the rooDey, and books, mid papers

in't there it was lor em, and a good room in the Bank for 'em to do all the work in they wanted; and that tome other officer of the Bank would all the while be present to explain every thing, and keep an eye on every thing, and he wouldn't let a single book or paper go out of the Bank so loDg as he was President on't; that once when Congress sent a Committee there afore, Reuben Whitney swore pint blank to some things that took place on a certain day, 'twixt him and the Squire at the Bank; he was sure on't, for he mark'd it right down on paper; and if it hadn't ben for u little piece of paper that the Squire found by accident, he never could

. .11 .i a - ? 'l .i? 1 1 , . nr.t iiflf

no mortnl can leu me cnuereoce : nnu i une lociutni m me m; uwi

whilst Mr. Jefferson could say, we "are haps meet your eye thioujh the medium

all Federalists and we are all Demociats," of the public papers. Mr. uurgess, o

Rhode Island, inquired ot JiUjuurnmeni

I'll say in my next message "we are all

drnnk and we aieall sober.'1

1 begun this letter, by tellin you I'd be in New York nigh upon as soon as this would, and I haint tell'd you yet why 1 am goin there Well, you see the Senate

has ben waitin for a long spell to git a report from Mr. Taney, of the exact condi tion of the pet Banks, where the Gineral keep9 the money now and as "The Go

vernment" don't choose to tell much about it, I have offered to go and look into the

tvoik myself I ask'd some of the Senators if they wanted to give me any direc lions about it, and how I was to act, but

they say 1 know as much about it as any

. ii -it i. .. i , ji - c

la.King over . n mane -' "V v liave fhown that on that very day was who has treated me so kind ever since Was,,i ton and nol in the B;nU and have ben at his house that some lolks be-! .,, . . I .,

cuf aa it a i iij uuojiuic i vs c v uu iut

bones on't, but as soon as I thought

would be better off with the Gineral, J could pack up and go back agin, and he would'nt think a bit hard on't. But I am detarmined to let the Gineral

St u.hl . auu S.n pu au u , , knevv lieher ,he Suuire wore the ks about him as he has. and I would i . . . ... 1

7 iliic mtn inrnr!il Ii a i r

ll J .1 ..U.l ",0 "l"'"" Jlill,

hii uay man summi

pers ot the Uanli in order, he won t let nobody handle 'em without keepin some one at hand to have an eye out, and put 'em all strait agin, and so forth. The Gineral got hoppin mad at hearin this, and especially when they tell'd him it was impossible to find any mistake or error in the Bank unless the Committee had the siftin and mixin all the papers, and unless they had all the Squire's private letters, and those of bis wife and children: and also knew what it cost the Squire to go to market every daj', and ivhether he roasted hi potatoes or not ; and more espe

cially, nothio could be done unless they

a wig or

sooner hoe potatoes all day

agin to mix up with such a set of chaps as he has all the while about The Government; and the last time the Gineral sent me a message, and asked me the reason why 1 would'nt quit the Senate and Mr. Clay and go back to the White House, 1

set down and wrote to him every word of

Uhat are story about old Deacon hitile-

sy's two sons and the flock o.t sheep. 1 ou remember when the old Deacon died, about a year afore the Embargo, he lei I two sous, Ezra and lchabod, and telled

'em in his will they might have all

property atwixt em. Lzra was a pretty

! sly cute critter, and lchabod warnt quite

so much so, but was good natured, and jsome folks thought he never would cut his eye teeth, tho' I always thought in the

long run he had a pretty considerable

share of mother wit, but took his own way

Well says the Gineral, I'm glad of this, and it's jist what I expected ; now says he, I'll order the Committee back to Washington, and all on you must turn to and lend the committee a hand in writin a report to Congress that tvill blow Biddle and

the Bank all to splinters; it will keep

folks from lookin into other matters, wont

it Barry? eays the Gineral. The Major

give the Gineral a look as knowin as old Sile did, at old Miss Crane's Tavern. Noiv say9 the Gineral, let us take up Ma-

hisjor Downing's letter agin, and jist then

another one ot the Cabinet he spoke up

and says he, Gineral, you hain't hearn yet

about the Frenchmen relusin to pay U Rives1 Treaty? hadn't we best take ui

that business? and so he tell'd the Gineral

all the news) jist receiv'd from France, about that matter. The Gineral some

in showin on't. Well, when they came toihow didn't seem to think much about that

divide off the sheep, (for the Deacon had

he said he always had a kinder notion

that Rive9 had quit France a leetle too

to do better, and to get its money matters:

straight again

anticipates

one of the biesrest flocks of sheep in all

upear-jabout it, and that there was a plagy deal

ine rosi umce auu iunu u, a, -.,them parts,) Ezra thought he'd try and git soon, and that he had boasted too much

inai me uiui tct,, i f, the best of the bargin, and he got

sanguine.

Iv nrn mnrmn and twit nil ihp line bpa 1 1 h v 1 nt rliffVrHnre nluixt niakin h hnrirain Hiid

, am n y .and clean sheen in one nen. and all the' clinchin on't. however, sava the Gineral.

such a result. I am not ei j9Cahhy an(j 6niie noses and tag locks in! if we don't git the money, we have got Such result will never takej anQther pen aild (hen he put Gd Billy'the Tieaty, and that's more than Mr. it cease to he a political en , , , n, , nm Afiama o-nt of the Frenchman, and we

Know wi not hannen1 ? . . . 7.. ,J ' . 'I . r? - .. . , . ' .

" I nnd rhi liii iAi'o1 him n rnnaf n a mnr h aa Iiova Karl nnr full sharp Ct cr Inni nnf nn'f

on 'em; hut, seein that the tomer nouse had jist sent a C'ommittee to examin Squire Biddle's Bank 1 best follow the same track they took and give the pet banks a siftin arter the same lashion; and so I am off for New York in a day or two, as soon us 1 can git my boots footed and some shirts mended. I want you to tell Zekel Bigelow I calculate on him to act as my Secretary and he can be gittin things in or der, for a rale genewine and close examination I think it will be best to begin in New York, for I shall have the aid of Zekel and if I give them Banks a siftin and I rind ev'ry thing there free from all tarty businessand corruption, and no won sters among 'em , my notion is, there wont be no occasion to look no further as I want to be as nigh Wall stret, as possible, tell Zekel to try and git a room for me in Howard's "Exchange Hotel, Broad street, and one big enuf for spreadin books and papers about. You needn't say much about my plans, as I should like to hop in upon the pet Banks as 1 did upon Squire Biddlt-'a bank last summer, without lelliu 'em know ol

my comin.

Y our old Irien-i, J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville Millitia, 2d brigade.

Boon by what scale he graduated the length of a session of Congress, or whether he had any scale? Mr. Burges said he remembered one gentleman who, in

former years, had been famous for ino

lions of adjournment, and who adopted us a scale for the duration of Congress the following ingenious expedient. At th commencement of a session, on corning into the city of Washington, he made it a

rule to lay in two barrels of whiskey. When one was exhausted it was half session over when the second was out, he invariably moved uu adjournment of Congress, lie did not mean this to apply to the honorable member from Indiana. Mr. Boon very injudiciously inasmuch as he had been inforn ed the cap was not intended for him put it on his head; I cannot think it fitted, inasmuch as Mr. B. i, 1 believe, a member of the Congressional Temperance Soriety, and has, it is said, a particular objection to a game at loo. Mr. B., in rebutting the charge which had not been made by the member from Rhode Island, denied that he was addicted to ardent spirits. He did not know what might be the habits of the gentleman from Rhode Island; but this he did know, that the gentleman's personal vulgarity was such that he would as soon touch "an oldtuad" Tnis was certainly any thing but personal or ungentlemanly Mr. Burges, in reply said, he. had not intended. the remark as personally appli. cable to the gentleman from Indiana; he knew nothing of his habits; and if lie did, he should not proclaim them on this floor. But this he would say, he did not believe the gentleman would look so long at the bung hole, as to let the liquor run out of the spigot.

We copy the following from the New York Evening Star, without comment.

Washington D. C. JIay 15.

place until

Cine, and that

during the administration ofGeneral Jack

son.

f glory

he did any thing in this world, for he had (any way, I reckon. J wish though, says taken care of him ever since he was ajthe Gineral, instead of Mr. Livingston, I

lamb. So Ezra thought that Ichahod, had sent Mapr Downing right out there

seeio that Old Bil- in the two Ponies, along with Captain

ly was among ?em. Well, arter breakfast, Jumper," and says he, talkin about Major

went out, and says Ezra, here, savs Downing, let's take up that letter of his'n

he, lchabod the sheep are all divided off,! agin, and the Gineral begun to hunt for it

The bore?, expectations and anticipa

tions ot the Department, o better times.) wonId take that sharc

and better days, are as vain auu as mu- ... I t . .. . . - ..x . i. timOQ I I ! 1 1 - f l"I -

Borv, as i nave Btcii luaiij iiluv-j n.uoi.n tthev

ten: in some untoriunaie man, who nau uu skill at managing his affairs and conduct-

, ' , . i . I , dull sccui ii a y uu mm i uuii i nam tu ian aun'iig a im'i p.vi uu mt, lauic) ed them badly, was greatly in debt, a.id, advanl on take yourand not findin lt, he got 'em all huotin for rum seemed to stare hirn and his family ; choice nj. 9 ,chabod he got 0 fAeiit as he did for his spectacles a spell ago, in the face: he would he cheered and com-; . , , . , , nnj . . . j , ;;st ittin into the same trouble

forted bv the hones tint next year he J : . . , . . , J ,n- ,i:,r....i... i.

' . ... i ,i .agin lie looueu ai anoiner, would do better; and, ,t he was in the;d,d Dil!y see ,lim he beg;

prime oi me, mai ine ciou is aim sioims

j a and as soon as' and was tellin what difficulty he met with

began to ba-ha ha-jin keepin thiog9 in order ever since I left

! r-;,li nut ..rim. I.im 09 U nlii'ivj iKP.I in' him. ivhpn another mem be roflbp Cabinet

of adversity, which had been lowenngl otlo,.cr llD BOO . a,,n ,, i:riinJ COfl;n fhp Cineral wouldn't ivp .., m tnr.

over his head and occasionally bursting . q f! h(j looklglt (hat 6heep btorj, asVd him whal he upon him, would pass over, and give ; h.ml lhe q( ui,ed his eyCSJ tll0light 0fthat new plan ofmakin Whis-

U..f unuia ,v u.c.u.a.. ou.. , , .. ... lem,er fe Qne q lhe mogt lmp0r,anl

was in the vaie or years, it wouiu

him a mild, rich, and mellow sun to end

his days with. But these visionary hopes do nothing but delude; they give ease to lhe anguish of the mind, but that is all: they are scarcely ever realized; they

generally pass off as the baseless fabric of!

a dream

I will tell the honorable Chairman of

the Committee on the Post Office and Post

Roads how to enable the Department to reinstate itself and increase its lunds. Let him report the state of its accounts to this House, to obtain its aid and co-opera tion: also a bill to re-organize the De-

4.' partment, and render it practically accountable for its receipts and disbursementscorrect the abuses which exit, pome of which 1 have endeavored to point

out; and, in lhe corrections of its abuses, to stop it from being a political engine, one prevent these extra allowances (which in the five years that Mr. Barry has been at the head of this Department, is equal, one with another, in amount, to $l,9H,fJG3 35.) and when all this is done, this extraordinary regeneration effected, then, find not till then, may the Department ex

pect to be in a better situation as to its money matters. I shall, Mr. Chairman, vote in favor o striking out the item for extra clerk hire, which I have read.

I have only in conclusion to apologize

to the Committee for detaining them

long pl I have; but, in justice to the subject, I could not have said less, and discharged hit I considered to be my duly. As Mr. Hardin was in the act of te

ter,) and says he my old friend Billy it s plagy hard tor me to part with you, 1 tell )ou; I like you nigh upon as well as ever 1 did, but you are surrounded by sich a

raft of snuftle nose, scabby set of tag tails,!

that I cant have uothin more to do with you. And with that lchabod telled Ezra he'd take tother flock, and so Ezra got the

j worst on't arter all his pains. He got Old

Billy to be sure, but then he got an everlast ui set of scabby scamps along .with him. And all the neighbors about, say to this day, that upon the hull, tho' Ezra is a pretty sharp fellow, they some how think

lchabod got the best of that bargain. I have hearn tell, but 1 won't say sartin its true (for 1 won't say nothin is true now-a-days unless I see it,) that when the

Gineral got my letter, containing this story, he read it over two or three times, and couldn't somehow git the notion on't. He said he was sartin there was somethin in't important to the "Government;" for he never knew the Major to take the trouble to write about a story without there bein something in't of that nature, and so he started round and ordered Amos.

and Levi, and Reuben, and Barry, and Blair, and pritty nigh the rest of the Cabinet to get together and to lend him a hand in understands this matter. As soon as they got into the Cabinet room and found out what the Gineral was arter, and uli of 'em had read my letter over, they began to whisper round among them selves, and to rights one on 'em tell'd the Gineral there was one subject almost as important a the Major's sheep story, and that the Gineral better take that up at

thinars that ever was for seein now that

Masoury and Anti-Masonry was prittv

much all one, and goin to vote the entire

Whig ticket, all over the country and all the foreigners too; and if somethin warn't done to git up another party they were all gone and seeio that the Temperance Society was notv the biggest and strongest in the country, it was all-important to git that on the Gineral's side. But that's im

possible . savs the Gineral. for some of

our strongest leaders would jist as soon

go bare loot, as to give up Whiskey.'

What, says the Gineral, would become of , and he was jist goin to give a good list of whiskey folks, when the other one wentou tellin how it could be done, that a new invention, was discover ed to make whiskey, that any man could drink, and git drunk too, without showin on't no more than if he drank water all the while; and the hull trick on't was, in alterin the worm, and instead of having that crooked, to make it straight, for the crook of the worm was the hull cause of folks realio rouod when they drank whis

key. So now by this discovery any man could be a good temperance man and drink as much whiskey us he pleased; and no one would be the wiser on't. The Gineral was so taken with this notion, he stopp'd lookin any further for my letter; he teli'd the Cabinet right off to go to woik and git up a proclamation in favor of temperance; and to have all the crooked worms altered to strait ones. Why, says he, there is no tellin to what a pitch

of glory my government will go yet; when

It has long been supposed by many, that there is an under-plot going on in the great national drama, the result of which is to be, that Andrew Jackson shall be left "alone iu his glory" that the responsibility which he has expressed his willing' nes to assume, shall be left to him, in the fullest sense of the term. His advisers will quit him, and his friends deseit him; having cajoled him on the 'sticking place,' with a protest against his perseverance, and a denouncement of his plans as "none

of their'." The motion of Mr. Boon, of; Indiana, for the final adjournment of Congress who ought to be christened Ad

journment Boon, for I can see no other

earthly purpose which he answers than to move adjournments daily, as well as of the session his motion, I say, seems to support the idea of the design upon the President. Why do they wish to adjourn? Has any thing in which the nation i interested, been settled? No. It is complained that time has been lost in debate on the question as to the removal of the deposited. Would you have had u silent vote ou such a question? Noue but a dumb man would permit an impudent fcl. low to take out his purse, and scatter its contents to the four winds of heaven, without a murmur. But one thing was left as the alternative to act, instead of talking It was wisely determined to use the in-ord before the blow. And now, forsooth, you are told by the bold wash-bucklers of the

administration, that you have wasted ex-4

ceedingly much of the public time in de murring to their demands for the delivery of the public purse. Yes, sir, if Con gress had complied, as it ought to have done, in the first instance, with the Executive demand, "stand and deliver,1' "much time would been saved." Softly:

my simile is not applicable. The parse had been taken; the waste of time has been in an cx post facto discussion with the persou as to its restoration. "Pr'ythee forbear, The trash you mention 1 have well disposed of: I mean lo see that it is wcdl applied." Mr. Boon's resolution for adjournment, which came up at an early period of the

day, gave rise to a very long discussion; the only inference to be drawn from the arguments used, is this: that the party wish to adjourn, and leave the Hero of New Orleans to stand by himself in (he

breach ot misery and

which a vacation under present circumstances must inevitably create. They care not how he may save or sustain himself. It will be "glory" enough lor them to be making Jackson election speeches at home. Let the old man battle the watch with the country as he best can. Nay, it is not impossible that some Flying Dutch man, sustained by some "heaven-born agent," may, in the midst of the troubled scene, descend of a euddeo upon the stage, and put all to rights, by acceding to lhe wishes of the people, which had been opposed hitherty by the obstinacy (once de nominated firmness) of a certain "old Roman." h this impossible? No. Is it probable? Yes. Every day gives symptoms that the priests at the nllar have their eye on a future idol that they are

turning round to worship the "rising sun."

I will not trouble you with any detail of the proceedings on the motion lor the final adjournment of the session, inasmuch as you will see them in the papers of the day. You will perceive that Mr. Ad journment Boon has been kind enough to shift his ground from the 3 1st of May to the 16th of June; and I have little doubt

he will be ready and nrenared on that

CnOCKF.TIAXA. The Colonel is going ahead in the land of steady habits. The Aitist, Harding, has made his breath on canvass. On entering the portrait gallery, he knew Mr. Webster at first glance, and cocked his eye familiarly at Leigh and Calhoun. On looking at the picture of the signer of the Protest and Veto, the Colonel, says he, "I don't entertain no very exalted opinion of that there man." lie is not backword in expressing his sentiments. On visiting the Navy Yard, the Colonel was in raptures at the fine appearance of Old Ironsides; but could by no manner of means be induced to look at the cap of hep cut-water. A young Whig, who accompanied him, asked him if lie could not

n-n'n off the figure head. "Send the fri

gate to Old Kentuck," said the Colonel, "there I am up to a thing or two." At Lowell, he was placed in a hollow square of three thousand gals, where he made a speech in favor of the American System which he concluded by a neat compliment lo them. "Ladies," said he, 'I was never so fair ly surrounded in my life.' At Gallagher's hotel, he sat down to a supper by special invitation, in company with fifty arentleraen. The Colonel visited Boylston Hell to witness Mostie'a illustratiora of American orators; at the concluion of which, there was a general cry of 'imitate Crocket!' This wan done to the life, and

the Colonel lounu himsell in me same predicaments ns did Rip Van Winkle, when he saw young Rip after his return from Sleepy Hollow. A". Y. Com. The Illiterate Jackson. The constitution of the United Slates prescribes an oath, that the president shall protect und defend the same constitution. Yet he has destroyed it. That constitution requires him to rxo cute the laws "faithfully," yet he has retained in office, against the declared censure of the nation, William T. Barry, who has violated all the laws.

In short, he has committed five impeachable offences; but having corrupted lhe party leaders in congress, that mercenary body dare not impeach the perjured man. President Veto and President Turity shall be a proverb for ages. V. O.Argu$.

The veteran Niles, in his last Regisler, speaking of Mr. Lincoln's speech on lha concern? of the Post Office, says "It was, until recently, the greatest evil which heset the American public, that the Postmaster General wa made a member of "the Cabinet," and that party political preferenres were introduced into the cou-

embai rassuient j cems of this department of the govern

ment. It ought to have remained ns freefrom them nslbe judicial establishment It is to the lasting credit of Mr. Mc'Lean, the predecessor of Mr. Barry, that he decidedly rejected them." Dtmocrtic InttUigencer.

aoy man may drink what he pleases, aodlda). t0 uke uaother moiUhs marcU

The Rich made Richer. We see it sfa ted that the horses of President Jackson took the purse, at the Jockey Club races, last week, in Washington. We should have thought the "Jockey ing days of the Old Roman were over But having the inclination, he had of course no difficulty in planking the cash, for the entrance money. For it is a fact worth noliemg.that the Experiment, which carries distress and ruin to so many, increases the means of the President, and of every oflica holder under him . Great haul of fish Some fishermen at Carpenter's point, took at a single haul, upwards of eight hundred Rock Fish of the largest size we ever saw. Some' of them weighed upwards of 100 lbs. They were selling this morning in market, at from 50 cent to gl fur the largest, 8ay one cent a pound lor such fish a this. tialiimori Gazette.