Vincennes Gazette, Volume 4, Number 7, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 July 1834 — Page 2

VINCENNSS. SATI KDAY, JULY' ll, 18:U. t!.-J- L - - - 1 ' m:.frxi or vimjknxks. Many false and ridiculous reports are in circulation in the counfry, respecting tho health of the inhabitants of this place rumor with her thousand tongues has been busy in spreading it abroad that the Cholera, that scourge of nation, prevails to an alarming extei t, and that the citizens are removing from the town. We take pleasure in stating unhesitatingly, that no

from legislation on the great interests of the nation, through prospect") of executive patronage, would be more liberally confided in by their constituents while their vigilance would'be less interrupted by party feelings and party excite

ments. Calculations imni intrigue or management would fail, nor would their deliberation! or their investigation1" of subject consume so much time." "lut if this chungc in the constitution should not bo obtained and important appointments still continue to devolve on the repi esentatives in Congress, it requires no depth of thought to be convinced that CORRUPTION WILL P.KCOME THK ORDER OF THE DAY; and that under the garb of conscientious sacrifices to establish precedents for the public good evils of a serious importance to tho freedom and prosperity of the republic may arise. It is through this channel that the people may expect to txe attacked in their constitutional

sovereignty, nnd where TYRANNY may well

case of Cholera or other unusual uisc.ise exists ;-be applt.hended to spring up in some favorable

on the contrary, a more general state 01 lienitn emergency. Against such inroads, every guard prevails than is usual at this season of the year "Sllt to he interposed, and none better occurs

iijnn ma i ei closing me Mispeoieu imnuc im nojsome necessary constitutional restriction.'' "It i .is due to muself to practice vpon the maxims re-

prev;

and from the unusual heighth of the river, no

danger can be apprehended from that source

that Cholera has existed here and proved fatal, during the past week, we shall not deny but

commended to others.' Now what, we would ask, takes tho ease of Mr. Stevenson from the rule which General

wo will give a brief statement of facts connect- Jackson presented as right. We remember at ed with "the several cases. sometime hearing a . Jacks!. i man say that while the Constitution uid not dishilow the appointOn Thursday, the lOlb instant, the Honorable nt f)f Congressmen, General Jackson was

Ciiarle9 Slade, a Representative in Congress, 1 perfectly correct in naming them to otlice. j

irnnt unnia 1l0 n-n.. hrtmn Ii-aiii nCtlUltTK II i Ill Ik. JllUJv ..-v. i vim. niui. i v. v"'- -

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and that hla intention wa to have prnpo ed running daily not for 40, but for 1,400. Major Barry adds, that the Department corrected the mistake agreeably

to Ihe explanation, and allowed the con tractor sl,400. Admit9 this to have been the fact and a more audacious thing was never perpetrated. When, by the disco

very of the pretended mistake, it was

found that Mr. Keeside was willing to abide by his actual proposal of 40, or to carry the mail for less than $ 1,400, why was not the contract, instead of being

continued to him. given to the old con

tractor who had proposed running daily for GOO? Or, if not given to them, why

,was it not given to some one of the numerous other bidders who had proposed to run for still less than 600? Who will deny that the conduct of Major Barry and Mr.Reeside involved an outrage on the rights of individuals and a reckless vio lation of law? Look at the state of the case. A large number of highly respectable gentlemen were first precluded from all competition by the singulatly low bid of a pet contractor; and, when this bid

was aiterwards found or allecled to be a

of dollar, to connect the navigation of

he hai nw made a journey to W.b-

thia verv Wabash river with Lake Mich

igan, which appropriation will be rendered in a great measure useless for the want

of the small sum of 20,000 necessary to

remove an obstruction from the channel of

the iiver. Besides, the Wabash was made a national highway by the act of the cession from Viiginia, and when the canal

connecting it with the Lake shall oe completed, a vast commerce will be carried on not only by Indiana and Illinois, but by remoter parts of the country; indeed already is the river navigable 500 miles by 9team. boats. Yet in the face of all these precedents and all these cogent considerations, the President hesitates about the small expenditure which Congress grant

ed to make their own previous grant avail-j

able, and to perfect so magnificent a chain of communication for our Western fellow-citizens.

ineton, wi?ely concluding thai as the mo

ney is offered to him he may as well ac cent it. This is a fair specimen of Post

Louisville Journal.

cent

Office management.

blunder, the contract was continued to gress

From the Louisville Journal. THE WABASH VETO. The Louisville Advertiser of Tuesday contains Ihe following extract of a letter,

purporting to be from a Member of Con

i ui it muse oi! reinemnereu iu.u im? .iu . ., , , ,14nn . rtr ,mt ...,.i0,,..i ,.o..t;f.,ti.,nni. !... the blunderer at 41400 a eor instead o.

was taken suddenly ill, on the other side of jjW an dni roa . ail(1 as llu.re ia IJO COIlstitu-being transferred to those who had enti-! White river. He had been complaining of tional requisition for the appointment of Con-: tleil themselves to it by bidding less than diarrhoea for some days previous; as the stage Igressmen, it follows, of course, that if General !).)f ,j)at pum 'piJg vva9 blundering to , . , , t IJackson does appoint them, he does without , 1 ..,c,i crossed While river, Ins disease .ncreased to nei.essit accJ( in to hu l!octrilie rnake Jsome purpose. One such transaction such an extent, he was left at the house of Capt. corrVption the order'of the day ; but still more, j would be enough to Sink the Postmaster James Stein, about eleven mile3 from town, IGeneral J acksoti has expressly cut himself oil', General to the very centre of theeaith and notwithstanding medical aid was furnished j from any excuse injhe waiter by the following ;even thong, ne iat a thousand times as in an hour after, he died the next morning o(cmjlr7nftn nrartlce M0 the fflj,B1Bf1 character as he has

rctoMnud!d toltlitn." In the above extract, the Postmaster General Jackson is incontegtibiy right; it wasjGeneral, as a reason for allowing a large !i!ue to himself, and the Senate practised towards jcomnensalion to Mr. Reeside upon the

him only what he recommended to others; they ; Inj,erstoivri nn(l M'Cnnnellsbui gll route,

m 1 - uy iis own coinpuiuiiou, given nun nia ., . . r. , Lt,ue-' ' ' 0 alledges that after the proposal was ac-

jcepted the distance w as increased Jive miles AV. Rceside and the 4t. dollar contract. -They 'each vcy. A knowledge of the fact to :io have read the report of the Post Ollice .' v Iitch Ibis statement alludes cannot but

Committee to the Senate, will recol'ec t one :g(R , , (, he .lif. The eflitor of the

Cholera. Capt. James Stein, wa? attacked on his way to town, on the morning of the 12th. He had become highly excited and greatly alarmed at the illness and death of Mr. Slade, which took place at his house, and perhaps did not act very prudently in the measures he used 10 prevent the disease. On his arrival in town, he procured the aid of Physicians, who attended him faithfully, but their exertions were useless, lie died about C o'clock, the same day, of Cholera. The next victim, was Doctor Mills, a Dentist, who was travelling through this place he visited Slade, prescribed for him, and remained with

1 uai tiling unit itni, 111 wnicn 11 appears nun f,. , . in k i:.. Mr. Recede gut a mail contract on b.d at 4U hambersburgh Repository, who lives on dollars a year; and thus, alter putting down , the spot, and who is a moderate supporter all competition by the Iowness of the terms of- jof the administration, states that M r. Beefered, he was allowed actually to receive, on U(e run9 tne PXtra five miles for the tur-

this contract, upwards of 3U00 dollars a year.-1 f . . nf Green Cms-

r " ' " "

a.nouiit of cash recched.bv merelv statins that it'e, and that he does SO, not for the ao

titiu until he died; ho had been aillicted with (his clerk had made a mistake in drawing up his commodation of the publice, but for his diarrhea for some weeks. On his return to town, He had tn'enJ.d to demand a larger sum !0wn, ns he is thereby enabled to get an he ate a very hearty dinner of crude vegetable;, Ui:m 40 ?'llAr' R"'1 ""f iadditional number of passengers. The J J o jcr turn irom the accijmmodatin-' Major harry. ir, ... ., , ST T ' -, , Mid 011 the morning of the nth, was severely I A late llagerstown paper has the following par-1LGjfor a(,d3 ,hat Mr- Beeflde Stage re-

tttacked he refused to take medicine, and died on the satae day, about 12 o'clock, A. M i-f Cholera. This is u brief and plain statement of fact?.

n-ra, ii on the subject of this fnmoui contr..ct: jcei ves no mail at Green Castle, and l Ah Frjixi the lla&rduwn Mail(p iackson Va- ES NONE WHICH IS OPENED AT "(V , . . 1,1 SANV PLACE ON THE WHOLE EXAt the time when all the contracts were ta-. c ,1 , .. ken, and were read out to the proposers, a gen-1 i UA Ji?L i,L' S "ernSf.,hat l,h r !iinan f,.,r',,p,i 03t Oflice Department, according to the

will oe seen that neither of the victim, wrre!,11(1 Uiruwu i-proj oh for this very route, was : statement of its Head, pays to a Coutrac citizens of Vinconnes neither has anyone be-! present, noxiously waiting with many others the 1 1 ( j p an iaimen'P extra compensation be-

longing to-the place exhibited the least symp-l"- " contractor tor this route was 1(, , . , f , ig Ur 1,1 announced with tho 11111 contracted tor, he was 1 , . , . . , torns of Cholera. Lnuccessary alarm has been , Cl)mpIe;nIv as(onijljed) and immedialoly walked j fur J"s own personal interest withexcitedia the vicinity, and we hope it will ceasejup to Mr.Reeside who burst out laughing. Tojout rendering any more additional service when we repeat what we have advanced before, ! the quetlion how he could afford to carry this Jin respect to the conveyance of the mail

healthy than'u-" ",r,!0 ""s8 u n' i ir; ivt'e51' ' "I'P"'?; Chan if be were to run the five miles in J nim on the shoulder, replied, "my object is to .. , , . tit, carry passengers on the Pennslvanm road.-1 Ufl cen,,e of the African desert. Who By this connecting route, I can take them !Ca wonder nt M r. Reesidt's loaning (hou

irom fetockton ami atolies' line without any tear ,aiius Of dollars 10 ftlaior Barry without f ,1,.,;- I.t ' n J J

ecunty l

that Vincennes was never more it h at the present time.

FKIfiATK CONSTITCTIOX.

Some of our readers are iicrhaps aware that of delay on their part. Ball Vat.

Capt. Elliot of the .Navy, lately caused a full length statue of General Jackson to be placed for a figure head to this ship as she was

a fivorite of the Dostonians, this "raised their

From, the Louisville Journal, cf July 12. Till FORTY-DOLLAR COXTKAC'T.

We have perused, a second lime, the

POST-OFFICE PURITY. The Richmond Compiler publishes a let

ter written by some travelling turnspit of

tin miihlp t n f I lip I'netmrntp r Genera L Ve U i : -1 1... : .1 .

dander, and ome reckle., fellow, no w.th-,hat hfi vo,uminoll6IieH of hiH ie.mcnl flf xhe'uGovelamenl to establish a ,U.nJ5 the ln?nte was protected by a Marine Laks brhi(a otlr ,aing them before the JaCIi!j0Il newspaper at Wheel! ng;b y which

etmrd, in a dark and stormy night severed the J r,ufjC. He has an evident foreboding ol,jt apJjeara Lead of the image from its body. The Boston j his fate. He feels that the millstone is!;nentwas

Washington City,

June 30th, 1834.

Dear Sir: The bill appropriating

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iwfiuy itiousanu uonaia iui uie loiiuuv. ,

ment ot tnc navigation 01 tne wanasn river, has tassed Congress. Messrs. Casey and Slade, of Illinois, were very ac five and indefatigable in their exertions in favor of the bill, and the State fiom which they come ought to be proud of them, not only for their talents, but on account of their indefatigable industry a representatives. Yours, kc. This epistle was evidently written by a first-rate Jackson-man. lie felt a deep interest in the fame of the member of the House of Representatives from Illinois, and he deemed it "glory enough" for

thoee gentlemen to have procuied the passage of the Rill for the improvement of the Wabash. Like every other man in and out of Congress, he knew that the contemplated improvement was calculated to advance in an eminent degree the interests of the whole West, especially of In diana and Illinois ; and he was anxious that the honor of the measure should fall upon the shoulders of his own partisans. In this, he and his comrades were too precipitate. Utile did they foresee that the President, their master and disposer, in stead of signing the Rill, would 6raother

it in his pocket; but such proved to be the fact. lie withheld it till after the close of the session, upon the plea cf constitu tional scruples; and it is now so dead that no earthly power can restore it to life.

Of course the party have no other way

Experimental Currency. We have before us a copper coin, about the size of ;i cent bearing on one side the figure of Gen. Jackson, with the words running round, near the circumference, uMy Subslitut for the U. S. Bank." in the ceutre

Experiment. MY Currency. MY Glory. On the reverse the figure of a whole swine on the full run, labeled "My third heat." Above "MY Victory," beneath, 'Down with the BANK." Near the circumference, in a circular line, "Perish Credit, Perish Commerce 1834 " From Sylvester's Reporter, X. Y. June 26. r110.11 rxitorc. There is a rumor of an approaching' compromise between O'Connell and the British Ministry, by virtue of which the ly the system is to be abolifhed in lieland.

the renenl of the Union eiven up, and

O'Connell to be created Master of the

A letter from O'Connell himself.

published in the Dublin Pilot, seeaid to strengthen this rumor. From Spain the accounts are contradictory and unimportant: while from Portugal, they are very favorable to the cause of the young Queen. It is said that the Northern Powers have taken in high dugeon the entrance of the Spanish troops into Portugal, and the Prussian Minister has been recalled from Mad riil. The infant eon of Leopold, King of Belgium, died on the 16th May. By ofticiul returns from the Arsenal at

Lyons, the following is the quantity ot ammunition consumed during the six days

of fighting: 2,204 cannon shot; 3G0,00t

musket cattndges; and about 1,200 pound of powder for mines and petards. A committee of the English Ilou?e of Commons, recommends that 5,000 be voted to Capt. Ross for his services and troubles in the Arctic regions. Five thousand dollars reward is offered for Jacques Gandonin, who stole from the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company $41,920 in different bilU of that city, lie is a Frenchman. We learn that he has been arrested, and all but $1,500 recovered.

Cuinltrlaml Bank of Allegheny, ,1J. This institution has long been classed

among our lit of broken banks a9

'un-

than to turn suddenly round and gloril) j known." It gives us pleasure, however,

their Chief for the destruction of the Rill,

and this they will do with all their nccua tomed noise and clamor. They will denounce it as proposing a wasteful and out rageous expenditure of the public funds, and bless the conduct of General Jackson as checking profligate legislation and saving the Treasury from bankruptcy. These same partisan, four years ago, greeted the passage of the Maysville Road bill as marking a new and bright

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about bis necif, and mat to sum is dh in :lng post-Office broth to those who could evitable destiny. We ask attention to lns : be made willing to throw up their greasy explanation of Mr . Reeside's famous for- !r,ioht-caps and bickun a hurrah for Ihe

Trnn script sayp,

The I)f capitation or the Figurf;!.': w mrcarta In cillil l"if V nr' l.rtilnfca Rill- o-f i f ?

i. ' ' " ( ; explanation ol M r . lieesnies iamous lor- riht-cai)8 and hickun md.ir i h;ircter within our knowledge. Ihe. '. .. . . -. , mVl -rtl'B uu uiituu

,.,s,rni,, f thP n5 iw.thin. i r,1n!ui.t,y,,(,l,''r contract lor carrying ine man ; ,kliero of New-Orleans " This new edi-

Jn with it. The Con.-titntion lies bttute , and j between Uagerslov, u and M'ConneHs-jtor look with him, it seems, a commission iiprntcted by the Cuhimbns mid Independence, ! burgh : j for the office of Postmaster of that town 74 r'Sr!-!":ri lTv ufom'touben ! Tll? Jorit-v f the Committee com- am, the appointment of Public printer for rt miary ?.,Hrd. Uy uhom, l.ow or nhen the , f corref ,j0ll 0fan evident error;the Western District of Virgin a In or ileed was done, will probab.y tor many years f . . j Ie ""lem J-MSiriCi 01 Virginia, in or remain a secret. We incline to the opinion tlmt ! 1,1 a proposal of James Lecside, which ier f0 enable him to enjoy the plea?ant

toe icoo'l sau

selected biat ni

tet occasion 1

jeer, will tee

lecture to we

from the excitement

not yon be ext.ao.tej. jthe transportation of the mail, at n com-t6at;f fJ(jt Tlls j3 the Administration that hcM.:." (SIX anehimroij:"5'-1 1: feel so solicitous a regard for the curve a new head piece for the trunk of thc'010 he commenced the service stateu u.,llinty of the press," and so holy a hor-

1

pJilt

that the new culinary imple-

1o be ued, as usual in dispens-jera in the prospeiity and gloiy of ihe

West; and subsequently they hailed the veto upon that bill as working out the sal vation of the country. The Wabash bill will of course experience a similar fate with these precious paliiots.

(o elate, on the authority of the cashier,

"that it has been in operation since January last that owing to the unsettled condition of the times it has proceeded in its business with extreme caution; and that, consequently, it may be classed among the safest and soundest institution in the country." Its notes aie quoted ht two per cent, in Philadelphia. We have not time to notice other mailers connected with the interests of this bank, which are of a highly ftvorable nature. Sylvester's Reporter. Fmtn Sylvester's Reporter, JV. I, of June 26. It! CKM COUNTERFEITS. Farmers'' and Mechanics'1 Bank, at Madi son, Indiana.

The following h Ihe law regulating the! ,et,Pr Very coarsely executed,

value of foreign coins

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

4f iimi nn nri'iiinn ii'A' i ,:t iio was nrrnn pi . ior rarrvin-T iiip man e- rr. r r,. : 4i

.. ..v. ,,... .... , -j---r u 1 1 c ui 1 wm m;i 1 r 1 1 v nt i rsHi v 111 11 ...... r . i i - it.... r n

ght, d-irii.S the Horm, nn the fi;- tween Ilanerstown and McConnellsbureh, a mnat ma Antn ' j ,ae unuea es oj ner

, Rnd having accomplished his oh- 3; milps 0 Tho r,ronos, acrfcnte.i : J . ' , 6 '"tea in Uor.gress assembled, 1 hat Horn and - 1' 1 iC miles. I ne plOpOS.ll, US aCC tpieil,in nill nf ronsnre rnuld I10 vvbiiiiPifd ..... c- .. . .

p ins own council, leaving con- c 1 .1 r arter tne pasare ot this act, tie 10 lowing 1 1 - 5 . iv n 5 fn nr, 1, .11 r itt p tiof rn: clips nn I hut ... u 1 1 : 1 : r r- c

ary .Ueit witn euewniK; miiU, .: - " 7 d"" "mi n ,,,M" eve,J av'f? uus""'ss s 1 ver coin hall be of the leil value, and

to-i hv. we ii.smm it iviit sine, three tunes a week eacn way. ior iA rnwiibtho I'nc) f)il,i-n int nppfprtlr ... 0 ... -

J ml VII. Ill

xquirer.

THE VETO AGAIN'.

was received, and accepted , carried upon! It is with the profoundest regret that we

maire, but Mri Beecher, much to bij crejit, j 1 A 't w a mistake in the cleik wnouifror for those who tamper with it. loiitively declined bavin? nny thinp; more toihe had employed to copy bis t i d ; that it! ,y y Ennui

do witii "the retire Head." He r.ad done! was his intention to have proposed to run enough for .(Slory''Hlready, and was satisfied j (,rtj, f , 100 a ear The bid, as it Willi ita "suthciencv." J i' ' ' J . .

its face the appearance of a mi-take, or have heard of the Presidents refusal to

It will be perceived by reference toan-!at least of something that needed expla-j approve the Rill appropriating $20,000 other column, that Andrew Jackson has!n;iti'm- rThe lopontion to perform thejfor the improvement of the navigation of .. service for ten times that sum would haveithe Wabash river. Our regret springs

.u.uuM.cuu.ujnuu,, considered too low to warrant the: from the deep interest, which, as an

Congress, making an appropriation of. expectation that the service would be welt j American citizen, we feel it Ihe prosperi-

20.000 for the Wabash river. The hos- performed, unless it came from a person

tile attitude exhibited by the President of1 T!,5t favorably known to the Department. . , . r I he explanation was given tv bun the the tinted States against the interests ofjerror C0I.recte,an(1 while he peitbrmed

the people of the Wabash will not soon! the service daily, with an inciease of dis

be forgotten. The bill is virtually vetoed.

From the United States Gazette. As the nreuments which we yesterday used,

to show cause why the fcenate ouht to have re

tance, five miles each way, he was allow-

ty of Indiana and Illinois. As a mere pol

itician, we might rejoice at the occurence for we know that it must inevitably fall with a crushing weight upon the popularity of the administration in those great and rising States. The course of the Execu-

ed fourteen hundred dollars; and since tive seems to ha ve been conceived in fa-

purporting to be engraved by Murray,

.Draper, t airman &, Co. They can be detected by observing that the letter a in Murray is omitted. Farmers'' Bar.k of Firginia, Branch at Lynchburg . 10', pay (0 V. Radford letter D. Dated 12th August, 1319. Well executed. Bank of Virginia, at Richmond. S's, payable to L. Rurford, Jr. Letter C. Franklin Bank of Columbus, Ohio. 10's, alleied from Ts letter A. November G, 1C32. Branch vf the U. S. Barik in J'ew Orleans. 10's, letter I, dated August 7, 1828. A cup or t Bank, R. I. 1 letter C, dated Augu-t 2, 1C28. Mechanics'' Bank, at Baltimore. 5?, altered to 50's vignett of C's, view of rail road and train of cars, with headg of Washington and Franklin. State Bank, J'e-cj Brunswick, J. The notes of this institution of the denomina

tion of g5 and upwards are taken ia this

pass current as money

States, by tale, for the payment of all debts and demands, ut the rate of one hundred cents the dollar, that is to say, the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chi! i, and Central America, of not less weight than four hundred and fifteen grains each, and those re-stamped in Rrazil of the like weight, ol not less fineness than ten ounces fifteen pennyweights of pure silver, in the tro pound of twelve ounces of standard silver and the five franc pieces of France, when of not less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces roy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than three hundred and eigh ty four grains each, at the rate of ninetythree cents each. Sfc; 9 A ml be it further enacted. That

it shail be the duty of the Secretary of!ul Y;) at I,ar; under that sum, half

the" TiPasnrv to cause assavs of the afore i'c

the service is reduced to three times a week, seven hundred dollars a year. The real circumstances of this transac-

jucted (as it did reject,) the nomination ofi t0ri ought to be so extensively circulated

tuity and madness. The tremendous absurdities which it involves aie forcibly illustrated bv the remarks of the National

Intelligencer:

Mr. Stevenson, may not be so satisfactory to the' to i,ecome familiar to every man in The President approved, we believe, 3; i&the nation. They are sufficient of them- all the b.lh passed by the Houses at the

proof, something tbat will lie considered more

orthodox with the administration party, than! any thing which we can be supposed to adduce from our own store. Therefore take the following: EXTRACTS. From General Jackson's Address to the Legislature cf Tenjicsste. 'I would impose a provision rendering any member of Cmrcss inelligille to office, under the General Government, during the time for which he is elected, and for Uco years thereafter, except in cases of judicial oflice, and these I would except, for the reason the vacancies in this department are not freq'ient occurrences, tnd because no barrier should be interposed in selecting to the bench men of the first talent and integrity.'' l,The effect of such a constitutionnl provision is obvious. IJ v it Conirress. in a

considerable degree, would be free from that toixnection. xciJi t'le executive department which at present jives strong ground for apprehension atiJ jealousy on the part of the pc-ople. Members icittud of being liable to be mthdranu

selves to damu the Postmaster Oeoeral, recent session of Congress, with the ex

unless he, like ht. Department, is past damning. The pretence of a mistake in Mr. Reeside1s bid is wore than ridiculous: it is contemptible. Messrs. Lindsay and Shaffer, the old contractors, as appears from a publication of theirs in the

Chambersburgh Repository, proposed in their bid to carry Ihe mail three times a week for $300 or tlaily at $000. Several other proposals were made by different gentlemen, some of them higher, and some lower. Mr. Reeside's bid for iuuning daily was 40, and he of course got the contract. All the papers containing proposals were opened together and his was fodnd to be the lowest. Major Dairy says in the above extract that Mr. R., be fore commencing the. service, stated thai hia bid of 40 was a mistake of his Cleik,

ception of the bill making an appropria lion of $20,000 to remove certain ob

structions from the channel of the river

II abash. This bill the president holds under advisement, stating in a message to the House, that he has 6trong doubts whether he can approve the bill consistently with his opinions of the powera ot the Government.

If we had not lost the faculty of being

surprised at any Executive notion, we con

less that we should feel not a little at the

scruples expressed in regard to this bill;

for the President has not only signed bills appropriating money for the improvement

ot the Hudson iiver, and the Cumberland

river, in Tennessee; but the United Stales have heretofore appropriated 700,000 acres of laodi, worth peibapa two millions

said silver coins, made current by this

act, to be had at the Mint of the United Slates at least once in every year and to

make report of the result thereof to Con

gress.

Jlpprovcd, June 25ih, 1G34. "Fair Business Transaction.1 We have heard of oue fact, connected with Major Dairy's extra allowances, that will amuse

Ihe public. About two years and a half ago, a highly respectable citizen of Ohio contracted with Ihe Post Office Depart' ment to carry the mail between two important points in that State. Having made the contract, he fulfilled it like an honest man, rendeiing neither more nor less service than the terms of his agreement required. He subjected hiin&elf to no fines, and asked no extra compensation. This gentleman, upon the appearance of the last number of the Blue Rook, found to his unutterable surprize, that he was credited with an extra allowance to the amount of g3,0Q0 annually. He never received the first farthing of this bum, but

Sylvester's Reporter, JV. Y. June 2G.

Money Recovered. The package of money containing about 4,000, belonging toG. A. Cook, of Pittsburgh, which was stolen from the Steubenville slge soma weeks since, has been mostly recovered. The thief, who had secreted himself in Pittsburgh, has also been captured, and ia now in prison awaiting the sure procegg of the law. Sylvester's Reporter, .V. Y.

Avalanche! X very curious migration took place in this vicinity on Wednesday night last. About a quarter ot an acre of laud on the eastern bank on the Uennebunk river, near the house of Mr. benjamin Durrill, in Kennebunk port, slid into the river, carrying away half of the Keuncbunk bridge, (a draw bridge) and nearly filling up the channel for h rod or more. Where, on Wednesday, a ship of the largest size might have laid afloat, the river may now be lorded without difficulty. T he lmid moved in a solid mass, and the opple trees upon it look as nourishing, and seem to be as Giu.ly imbed, ded in the soil in their new situation, us they did on the spot where they were reared. The side was accompanied with a noise resembling the rumbling of uo earthquake. 0 Kcnnebunk Journal.