Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 38, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 February 1837 — Page 2

yATi'KP.VY, Ft:n. 18, Singing School will commence this veiling again, in a second session. All Mho intend going, would do w til to begin xith the School. Schovt Zjvic. The Crawfordsville Ketord gives s letter to the editors from Sen Btor Baird of Montgomery county, datee on the day the Legislature adjourned, in which he says 'Amongst the most important acts, ol e general nature, that passed at the present session, may be regarded trie revision tu the school laws. The most material al teration in the svstem is, that each district shall hereafter be cntrtled to r.n equal amounl of school funds in proportion to the number of children said district may contain, without regard to the length of time thev may hold schools: Provided, that to entitle my district to draw its portion of the school fund, it must keep school three months in each year." Public Lands. By the reported profeedings of the Senate of Illinois, published in the Vandal'ta Tree Press, we see that Mr. Servant, a Senator, offered for adoption the following resolutions, which we would desire to see adopted. 1. Jicsok-eJ by the General Assembly of t he State of Illinois, That the "mosi just and federal disposition" which can be made of the proceeds of the sales ol the public bntls is, to divide the same among the several States, according to their representation in Congress. 2. L'tsolved, That in making the distribution aforesaid, the new States ought to be first allowed a fair equivalent for maimer roads, bridges, and improving the navigation of rivers, the value of the land; ities for the sale and ; thereby en! enhancing . and affording faeileulement thereof. 3. Jtesolced, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the preamble and foregoing resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. . i3 -., The ret County. A casual letter from a distant correspondent, remarking upon the number of names already announced for important offices in the gift of the people, very significantly calls the county of Franklin "the pet county" of our state. He savs that Franklin county "has already furnished two Governors iifsticccssion. (Hay and Noble) and that I.ieut. Wallace, now' ctf Fountain county, (in full chase after the Gubernatorial chair,) but reeentJv removed from Franklin county: at the ,yio time Dr. Havmond. a citizen of Franklin, 13 announced for the Lieutenancy. We abominate sectional feeling as -much as we do official partiality, and with our correspondent, we think "the time has row arrived to make the channel of the Wabash speak emphatically." jj"Yc learn that the state tax for the present year will be ten cents upon the hundred dollars for defraying the expenses tf the state government, and rive cents on each hundred dollars foi defraying the interest on the loans for internal improvements. It cannot be obtrusive here to ask how many of the farmers er merchants north of the forks of White river will ever consent to pay tolls ou a canal south of that point around by Uvansville, to construct which this increased taxation is only the entering wedge! We may be in error; but the farmers and merchants of the White river and Wabash valleys, should duly reflect before it be too late. e ait .3 Little Odd. Some days before the adjournment of the late session of our General Assembly, we see it recorded in the Journal of proceedings, that Mr. Hoobler having obtained leave, offered the following resolution; "Kesc'vcd, That every member of this House, that has gone home, or may go Vipfore the legislature shall adjourn tir die, shall be reoiested to pay back to the Treasurer ol State feo much ot the money hirh Hp lias drawn for time which he docs not serve as a legislator of this State, -for the year 1837, and that this House wiil not trrant leave ot absence to any more for if we are the law-makers, we ought not to be the law breakers; for the consti tution savs that no one shall receive any thing for nothing, and members of the le gislature shall receive two dollars per day for the time they serve, ana not lor tin time they do not serve; which was com mitted to a committee of the whole House.' What after disposition or action was had upon the matter, we have not learnt. To the Voters of Knox County. It has been proposed and very cxten (lively concurred in by many f our fel i.itirens who wish to see our country r,ronerlv represented in the next legisla turc, that at the next April election, there hp chosen in each township two delegate hv the Qualified voters in said township to meet at Yincennes on the first Monday i.- cr.lrt nml recommend two suitin HHll ''" ('-" able persons ,o represent the county in the loffistature ot the ctaie. it is ocncv -A this course will secure an able repre mentation, and one more in conformity with the popular wnl. 1 1 MANY VOTERS. Vlncennes, Feb. 14, 1837. Shocking Accident. rkr, tr, 2d inst. a keg of powder, which

Mr. WilUani 3oncs, of Spencer" county, la., formerly of Yincennes, was set on

lire by a sou of Mr. Jones. It appears that the father had taken much pains to teach his son to handle re arms; and the son had become st enamored with burn ing gun nowdor that he concluded to try the experiment of selling lire to some pow der w Inch lie poured Iroin a keg. '1 he shocking ami heart-rending result was, three children were killed one a neighbor's child, the oilier two, children of Mr. Jones, the lad who set fire to the powder, about seven or eight years of age, being of them. The house, with its contents, including about a thousand dollars in money, was burned down. The little boywas thrown out of the door by the explo sion, and died ahout two days idler the iccidcnt, shockingly mangled; but pos sessed ot reason so as to give an account of the manner in w hich lie set the powder on lire. He went to the kerr and noured oine powder on the floor, left the kc- on iis side with the stopper out, and set lire to the powder on the floor, which communicated to that in the keg. Fvansvillc Journal. Public Revenue. The following is the bill which haj its third realms' in the U. States Senate on Friday desig. nanus and limiting the funds receivcablii for the revenue of the 1'nitod States: i.Y it inarted. iy That the secretary of the trea sury he, and hereby is, required to adopt such measures ashe'may deem necessary to effect a collection of the public revenue of the United States, wheth er arising lioni duties, taxes, debts, or sal..s f lands. ia the. manner and on the principles herein proiided: that is that no such duties, lave--, debts, or sums of money payable f r lands, shall be di eted or received otherwise than in the legal cur rency ol the l nitcd States, or in notes of banks which, are payable and paid on demtind in the sai.l legal currency of tne United States, under the following restrictions and conditions in regard ucti notes, to-wit: iroin and after the iiassaee of ibis .-t. the notes of no bank which dm!l m irculate bills or notes of a less denomination than and from and after the thirtieth day of December! one thousand eight hundred and fortv one, the like proliibition shall be extended to the notes of all hanks issuing bills ir notes cf a lest denunciation thnR twenty dollars. S.c. 2. And be it further enacted. That no notes shall be received by the collectors or receivers of the public money w hich the banks in which thev are to be deposited .-hall not. under the smiervishui and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, ajreo to pass to the credit of the United States as such: Pr-iridtif. That if any deposite bank shall refuse to receive and pass to the credit of the United States. as cah, any notes reeeiveable under the provisions of this act, w hich said bank, in the ordinary course of business, receives on general deposite, ihe secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorised to withdraw the public deposite fiom said bank. Thcdsy after the passage of the expunging Kesolution in the senate, .Mr. I'miebwihui, i member of theHouse of Representatives from Kentucky, a-ked leave to introduce sundry resolutions in relation to the precedent thus sought to be established: hut leave was refused, yeas 77, nav s 1 18. The resolutions are as follows: lii.-nlred. In theli 'mse of Rtprcsrnttdirc. That the 3d clause of the 5th section of the 1st artc-le of the constitution in the following words, to wit: Jach House shall keep a journal of its proceed ings, anil, from time to time, publish the same, cxptmg such parts as may, in their judgement, reinire secrecy; ami the yeas ami nays ot the mem bers of either House on any question shall, at the lesire of one lifth of those present le entered on the journal, confers no power whatever ou cither House of Congress, at a subsequent session, to alter, deface, expunge, or destroy either journal, or change any pari thereof, when the same has been regularly and laithftillv ko;t -during the previoiisession, and duly published. Ksv!red, further, that the journals ,f both nouses ot eongress.kept aim published as atoresaii! ftcr the adjournment tune die, become national ar--luves, and that all attempts and acts of either House separately, or of both by joint resolution, to change, alter, deface, expunge, or destroy, either journal, or any part thereof, are violations of thi Constitution. lrxdccd. That the preservation of the nation al archives from mutilation, disfiguration, and destruction, is a fit subject of legislation. Where fore, Resr.red, That the Committee on the Judiciary be directed to report a bill proviuine for the deposite of the original journals of each House alter their adjournment nine die, in the of fice of the Secretary of State: and for the punish ment of every and all persons, their aiders and abet tors, who s'hnll alter, chanae, deface, expunae. or leslrov, any part of either journal alter such adournnient. FROM WASHINGTON. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 18:17. The truculent attack upon Mr. Hell which appeared in the Globe of this morn ing, has been emphatically condemned by all honorable men, in as well as out of "the party." Ulair is perfectly conscious ihnt no gentleman could defile himself so far as to come into personal collision with him. He is a creature to be trampled on like a reptile, or exterminated like a wolt As to lus aouse ot .Mr. uell lor bringing in a measure which strikes at the foundation of the sytem of corruption on which the party depend for the mainlamance of their ascendency, that was to be ex pended; and he merely followed his bru tal instinct in riving to his accusation the most vulgar phrazeology possible. Hut what would be thought of his dastard ly and ruflian attempt to revive the mis understanding between Mr. Jauvis and Mr. Hell, and further fan passions which nau Kindled into name, out wiiicti were suppressed and settled in a manner satis laetory to every honorable man in the House. There is not a man of truth that was present durinn the unpleasant scene o 1 nday last, who will not admit that ihe account I gave to the readers of the Patriot was correct, and that the state ment given by Mr. Hlair, who was also present, is absolutely false in several im portant particulars. Mr. Hell to-day re,-tmed his remarks in support of that important measure the Hill to secure the freedom of elections. At the outset he took occason to refer to the article in the Globe, of which

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in the ascription wf motives to him, and in its statement of tnaterial facts, and infamous calumny. He then proceeded with his exposition nf the reasons that induced him to present this bill; and spoke with that simplicity, directness, and manly energy for which

he is distinguished. lie dwelt in a strain of effective eloquence on the present de graded condition of the senate. Consti luted as it had been on the basis of lonir terms and a selected constituency to be a check upon popular rashness and turbulance, it. has departed altogether from the design and intent of the fratners of our government. That body is even more compliant more under the inlluence of ihe executive than the House of Representatives. It is under the guidance too of every popular breeze, puffed up by men however unprincipled and corrupt', nulled up even by such political bellows as the Government Official paper its veto on appointments or the ratification of treaties entirely taken awav, and its members de nounced and presented for contumacy by all the hounds of the party, wherever they venture upon eomg counter to the com mands of the Executive. In short, so far as the Senate is connected, a revolution has been wrought in the practical operation ol the Government. Mr. Hell also referred to the immense increase within the last eight years in the permanent annual appropriations of the government, an increase of ten millions of dollars, nearly a hundred per cent; and this too independent of the discharge of the public debt of appropriations for per sons and for Indian cessions. He spoke of the deplorable condition of our Navy - and Army the unregulated and ihsgraeeul operations of the latter the enormous expenses of the Indian Wars, and their inglorious results. lie glanced at the condition of the press, corrupted, polluted by public patronage, changed from being the channels of wholesome and valuable infor mation, of being the mere vehicles of personal invective and party malignity. He spoke of the means by whieJi the present Dominant Tarty had been unabled to propogaie itself, and he boldly declared that the election of IN I r. Van Hi ken was i'.scll ami alone a proof that the Sun of Liberty had in this country sullered a temporary eclipse. He depicted in strong colors the extraordinary increase of the patronage of the General Government. This he considered the parent of the principal disorders which so much alllicted the body politic; and he said it was vain and idle to pursue the authors of particular mischiefs if this great monster should be left unmolested All these he handled with great power and success adducing instances to substantiate his general charges and declare v ith that confidence which belongs to truth, that ho could, if permitted to bring witnesses, establish by proof all the chargco lie liod niiiilc yjC t uj'Woii and iruuU in the government. Mr. Hell's peroration was a noble passage of eloquence and produced a deep impression on the House. He called upon them earnestly to take this measure into consideration and act upon it or at least to do something to arrest the progress of that corruption which was spreading over the whoie land. I he whole speech was listened to with deep attention. Several effort! were made to interrupt him and go to the Appropriation hills but they tailr i 1 1.1 1 ed. i lie House nau uie lusiice to accoru to him the privilege of being heard. There was one man, however, who. though he did not again interrupt Mr. Hei.i was so much annoyed at the unpresion he produced, that he could not conceal his miserable chagrin that man was the last person in ihe House who ought to have made any remark upon Hell it was Mr. Jarvis, of Maine. He came down to Mr. Adams and, alluding to ;lr. Hell's speech, observed, "What stuff.1 What a waste of time!" Hut Mr. Adams turned quickly upon him, and administered a rebuke which put him to silence, "It is not a waste of time, sir, said Mr. Adams, 'Yoc.sir, could not be more profitably em ployed than in listening to Mr. Hell he is making a masterly speech. Mr. Jarvis said nothing but retreated quickly to his scat. Mr Graves, of Kentucky, obtained the floor after Mr. Hell finished. But the House went on motion of Mr. Cam hbeleng, into committee of the whole on the Indian Appropriation Bill. There was a very full house in the Senate in expectation of hearing Mr. Calhoun on the bill which created such a blow-up between the Hives and Benton factions. Hut the measure was postponed: and the belabored Land Bill of Mr. Walker was taken v.p. And oh! what a pummeling it received from Mr. King, of Georgia! He declared that the measure would ine vitably increase the extent of frauds and speculations, instead of making any diminution; and would benefit only those who held the enormous monopolies in the Western lands. He said with an cm phesis that startled the advocates of the bill, that its object was to get back Irom the States the money thev received un derlhe Deposit Act of the last session and the authors of the measure knew it and also knew there is no necessity for the meassrc but to accomplish that object Mr. King spoke with the utmost contem tuousnrss of that miserable cry which has been raised in the c u itry by such papers as lle Globe and Kichmond Inquir er, about "RAISING A SERVLIS FOR TltE rtRPotsE of distribution." He called it mere stuff. "No one," he said, "ever thought of distribution as a system the object of the bill of last session was to provide for an emergency existing and passing. The surplus was in the Treasury, and we regard a distribution back to

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He treated with great contempt the argument that distribution would be ruinous to the public morals; and told the Senators who had advanced it that they would he more profitably engaged in taking care of their own morals. This must have been wormwood to Benton, and some others! He laughed to scorn the ridiculous and extravegant fortification schemes of the Missouri Humbug, and concluded this subject by telling the conspiralorcs, who are plotting to take the people's money out of rhcir pockets, that if they expect the States to refund what they have re

ceived on acconnt of any demand created HY LEGISLATION FOR THAT rCRPOSE, they will find themselves mistaken. Francis I". Blair was brought before ihe lutnev Committee to-dav. 1 am told his cadaverous looks produced a sen sation ol liorror in every beholder. Baltimore it is said cannot boast of his equal, not even in him of the repuhican. J he world, however, cannot pro duce such a pair of worthies. "Arcades A mho id est beauties both! 1). -.. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 1837. Mr. Secretary Toitsvnii has followed ihe lead of his Chief. The President having been prevailed upon to slam the doors of the Executive Departments in the faces of the Committee, Mr. Forsyth has an nounced his intention to keep his division of ihe Augean Stable shut up. In answer to the call upon him he has transmitted to Mr. isi: a letier saving that some of the information, required, has been already communicated to the committees on Fxpungers, and that other information sought for shall not be given without the permis sion and direction of the president! This is what the Globe has the impudence to call giving every lacility to .Mr. W ise in making an action and fair investigation! Let no injustice he done to Gen. Jack son however. 1 believe he was in lavorol the inquiry , and 1 will tell you a circum stance that corroborates this opinion. Mr.1 anderpoel s course in moving the pre vious question on .Mr. ise s resolution astonished many of his friends and opponents, as he was at first among the most zealous in opposing the inquiry. He look that step, it is now understood, be cause he knew the 1 resident wished the resolution to pass, in its original shape, as introduced bv .Mr. ise. J lie party. however, have found that the disclosures made in the Whitney Committee already have gone far beyond what was anticipated by even the opponents of the Admin istration, and aa I sard in my last letter, they have become alarmed and brought in the irresistible power of the President to save them from overwhelming dis grace and lniamv. To-day Judge White appeared before the Committee on Executive Administration, and entered a solemn protest against their proceeding, in calling him away from his Senatorial duties by a sithperna. This he did lest by silence he might be thought to sanction their course, but he waved his privilege and consented to be sworn. If there is one among ihe majority of that committee who did not feel p'.hamed when he saw this aged and venerable man hrouught before them at the command of ihe executive he can blush at nothing! Judge White was fir years the bosom friend of the President. Many things no doubt transpired in the course of that long and close intimacy which men of hon or would hold sacred from alt the world besides. But this partian majority will not allow the upright statesman to keep what he knows m Ins own bosom; they tear the veil aside and in one moment the lurie-d and confidential secrets of years arc exposed to the gaze of all mankind. ell Ie it so.' Mr. Pickens and Mr. Peyton also ap peared before the Committee were sworn -and received a question which they have been requested to answer. These gentlemen are asked whether thev know of their own knowledge, any act of auv of the heads of the executive Departments, which is either corrupt or a violation of their official duties. The purpose is to challenge the proof for every allegation made on the floor of Congress. And since the president has been induced to isssuc his proclamation commanding Senators and Representatives to be brought up to swear to their speeches, I understand Kendall and Blair have it in contemplation to conipell the letter writers to attend, and sustain their charges against the ability and integrity of the A ministration. So look out for a suptr-na by and bye! Not a great deal was done in the Whitney Committee to-day. Some of the clerks in the Treasury Department were examined; and I learn that their bearing and deportment, as their replies, were such as to leave a strong impression on the minds of all the members of the committee of their gantlcmanly character, frankness and candour. Their answers have been always free, pertinent and satisfactory, and in some cases where they might hive been, they have, afteran examination of their paper, returned to the committee and re-stated them more distinctly and particularly. They all agree that Reuben M. Whitney was not recognized by Mr. Taney when lie was at the head of the Treasury Department. Whitney's Card (that appeared in today's Globe) will no doubt be copied ex tensively by the papers in the interest of the party. 1 thcrelore give it a nonce, which otherwise it would not deserve. It is in almost every particular unqualified false, and has been so pronounced, I understand, by Van Buren members of the committee. ' The public will bear in mind that the committee adopted unanimously a resolution of censure upon him for having given a din-npec'fii an.-er to the

question propounded. That tacTis-jiT cisive as to his conduct. The President continues -to be better

n health but sonic stories I have heard ot Ins bearing and behaviour within ihe last few days, show lie is kept in a perpetual state of excitement by the mis creants who have access to hiin. Blair is just now attempting to gratify him with the most villainous abuse of Mr. Bell and other distinguished men in opposition. D. From the United States Telegraph. Freedom of Elections We publish to day the bill introduced by Mr. Bell in the House of Representa tives to secure the lrcedom of elections We rcgaid it as among the most important questions which can engage the present congress. It ismortilying m the extreme that such a bill should be deemed necessary in this country. Hitherto public officers, for mere self-respect, have felt themselves bound to observe a strict neu trality in political contests. The noble precept, and example set by Mr. Jefferson have had their influence, and operated as salutary, on subsequent administrations, liut since Gen. Jackson came into power, every thing heretofore deemed wise and prudent has been disregarded. Until now our Presidents have cautiously abstained from expressing their opinions in regard to the merits of those who were candidates for the popular suffrage. Such a coursj was considered as ab:?outcly a duly, prescribed both by their own selfrespeci, and a respect lor the people. Hut now all this is put aside. The offi cers of the Government, from the President down to ihe humblest Postmaster. talk, write, rant and rave through the land. (Jo to the printer's desk, and they are there. Co to the secret conclave, and ihey are there. Go to tiie public meetings, and they are there. Go to the grog-shops and tippimg-liouses, and tliey are tfiere. Go to the busting, and there you find them, the foremost of the ranters and slangwhangers. And if you would in quire how these things came to pass, go to the president's palace, and he will tell you "J do these things. It is a shame a scandal to the country. It is a common knowledge that Sparta had no law, in her purer times, winch prescribed the punishment of fractrieide. i he crime was thought to be too hemou.s for perpetration. Heretofore we may have claimed a similar distinction. It has never been thought necessary to pass laws for the purpose of enforceing on the President and his officers, the deportment of gentlemen. But the times arc changed and the men nave changed too. e are reduced to the necessity of either submitting to the dictation ot our own servants, or providing for the punishment of their crimes. We had not the pleasure of hearing the speech of Mr. Hell in support of this bill, but we hope it will be given to the press, in order that the people may understand the causes which haveled to its passage, the evils it is intended to remedy, and the obligations they are under to those who are thus careful of their interests and their honor. ,i bill to secure the Fne.dom of Elections. hereas complaints arc made that olhcers of the United States, or persons holding offices and employments tinder authority of the same, other than the heads of the chief Executive Departments, or such officers as stand in the relation of constitu tional advisers of the President, have been removed from office, or dismissed from their employment, upon political grounds, or for opinion's sake; and whereas such a prr etice is manifestly a violation of the freedom of elections, an attack upon the public liberty, and a high misdemeanor; and Whereas complaints are also made that officers of the United States, or persons holding offices or employments under the authority of the same, arc in the habit of intermeddling in elections, both Stite and Federal, otherwise than by giving their votes; and whereas such a practice is a violation of the freedom of ejections, and a gross abuse, which ought to be discountenanced by the appointing power and prohibited by law; and Whereas complaints are also made that pending the late election of President and Vice President of the United States, officers and employments were distributed and conferred, in many instances, under circumstances affording a strong presumption of corruption or that they were conferred as the inducements to, or the reward of, influence employed, or to be employed, in said election; and whereas such a practice, in the administration of the patronage of the Government, will speedily destroy the purity and freedom of the elective franchise, and undermine the free system of government now happily established in these United States: Therefore, to prevent the recurrence of any practices which may give rise to similar complaints in future. ! Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ef ,'lmerica in Congress assembled. That from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, no officer, agent or contractor, or any other person holding any office or employment of trust or profit, under the constitution and laws of ihe United States, shall, by the contribution of money, or other valuable thing, or by the use of the franking privilege, or the abuse of any other official privilege, or function, or by threats and menaces, or in any other manner, intermeddle with the election of any memberor members of either House of congress, or of the President or Vice President of the United State, or of the Governor or other officer of any State, or of nv member or membr.ri of

the Legislature of any Slate; andYerT such officer or other person offending therein, shall be held to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction in snj court of the United States having juri. diction thereof, ehall pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars; and any officer other than tl,e President, Vice President, and judges of any of the courts of the United States, so convicted, ihall bo thereupon, removed from office, and shall be ever after incapable of holding any office or place of trust under the authority of the United States; provided that nothing herein contained shall he so construed as to interfere with the right of suffrage as secured by the constitution; and provided further, that nothing herein contained

snau so operate as to prevent the Pres 51dent, or the head ot any Det.artment u. I is vested bv law with the nnu-r.r r pointing inferior officers irom removing from office, at any time, any incumbent! who the President or the head of a de'. partmcnt. as the case may be, shall be satisfied has intermeddled in any election State or Federal. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. Thai from and after the llh day of March, 1837, no oincer who, by the constitution unA laws of the United Slates, is authorized to appoint, or nominate and annoint. anv officer or aent of the Government, shall. ny iinnselt. or by any other person or per sons in Jus behalf. nve or n:n,vir i gnen, or promise to give or procure to be given, any office, place, or employment. to any person or persons whatsoever, with intent to corrupt or bribe him or them, or upon agreement that such person or per sons to whom, or for u-lin-e nsn nr whose behalf, such gift or promise shall be made, shall exert his or their influence in any election, or by himself or themselves, or by any other person or persons. at his or their solicitation, endeavor to secure the election of any person or persona to represent any state," or any district in any state, in Congress, or of any person to oe i resident or ice President of the U. Slates, or of any person to be Governor or other officer of any State or of any person or persons to be a member or members of the Legislature of any State; and every such officer offending therein shall be held guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upr-n conviction in any court of the United Slates having jurisdiction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars; and any officer other than the President, or the judges of any of the courts of the United States, so convicted shall be thereupon removed from office anil shall be incapable ever after of holding any office or place of trust under the authority of the United States and every person who shall receive or accept by himself or by any thcr person or persons in trust for, or in behalf of such person, any offer, place, orcmployment with the intent aforesaid, shall be held to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon eonviction in any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding one thousand d'ollajs, be removed or dismissed from such office, place, or employment, and shall be incapable ever after of holding any office or place of trust under authority of the United States. &rv. 3. And he it further matted, That th si-vcral lini's imposed by this act shall, wlu-n roliertccl. be paiil into the Treasury as other money belonging to the United .States. Sound Advice. The fullouinj; iiirai;rajh taken frcm the Salera Mercury, contains some excellent advice and worthy of ail acceptation, in reference, to the new year: A Word to the UV tit!, i. It is the practice of many and should be of all to balance their accounts at the end of the v ear, and see how thev stand in the world, whether they have advanced or receded during the past year, and whether their expense have been strictly within their income or othcrwinr; and also to pay iilVall their small bills. Tradesmen and mechanics expect their bills to be settled up at that time, and it is proper they shoUd be, to enable them to pay nil their own di pts. A small amount of money will pay a very large amount of bills, by uoing from hand to hand. ISow as the stream must commence somewhere, we would sugcest to those who are not obliged to wait till others pay them before they can pay their own little debts, to call in and pay off all their small bills iilk.iik the first of January, so that with the money they thus put in circulation, others can meet their small bills by the first of the year. Wealthy men know not the inconvenience they put others to, and the real embarrassment they create by allowing tradesmen and others to call several times for a small bill. To the first the amount is trilling: but to the latter it is often of importance besides thii the time lost in calling for the bill ia a matter of some moment, lieing frequently equal t the amount of the bill?. If then, those w ho are real ly able to bay their bills w henever presented would adopt the rule never of allow ing them to be called foi a second time, they would do themselves much credit, and the community a great service. .e Strength of the Human Frame. A the late anniversary of ihe opening of the Surrey Zoological Gardens some amazing feats of strength were exhibited by two Frenchmen. One of them successfully resisted the united efforts of two horses to drag him from a platform on which he was lying; and the other, while suspended by his feet from a crossbeam, raised into the air a horse of no ordinary 6ize. Extravagance in dress leads to licentiousness. The Superintendent of the House of Refuge, in Hoston, has said that he believed ihe love of dress was the most, efficient cause of the degradation and mis-., ery of the young females of the city. Jjynk out frr Cminferfeits. Five dollar bills of the City Bank of Xcw Orleans, altered to fifty dollars, have been detected at the Hank. They aj of recent circulation. "6-9 6m A Parisan robber was siezed for stealing snuff in a tobacconist shop by way off excusing himself he exclaimed . tlvat ho never heard of that law which ftubada man to tnk tuntjT.