Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 52, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 May 1837 — Page 1
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Friai 'u' Hi!! i nmre I 'A r-.-nift-j. TII3 TIMES. BY Co. ' l.CV L'oO. Oh! titnes is worry 'ur.l iu.I.-i al, They cant K' not no '.ltd. r; My pockets I cant hintrii.iiil, And empty his my lur.!. r. The Banks vont discount, no they vont, Its wery bad behavior They've nil turuM into t'tul'er simps AnJ n't a cove by .co o'tg. An.', flour is r.'s an,! is lv t, Tlicv say th.-v can't he ' ' Oh! vot a il.-e.i.Hul pio-are 'lis, I hope it void he 'i-t'r. All trades is struck for 'ir pay, An.I pmiis struck to nation; My baker's stru.-k. an.I vants the Just. And I'm struck villi ve..itiou. Yet I v ill try to brave it bout, 'Cause I ain't not no llineher; The times is to be sure, Thev can't be not no pittrhrr. The ntcre'o.iat v i!ks h.d'out the streets, As if 'is il eider's ri-ei; lie vants to nnke 'is buom f. tend tfccuiit;, of 'i-'n. But friend is shy .ti 1 rather rare, Summut hke i iter i 1 ;. I've ttie.i the :a:ui' on !iu- ..r -it All ! kwrr- ' vot I i- 'i !; t -; An.', if o:i Iocs in 'i- b o n 'oo.-e, He's g t 'o piy 'is loves And 1:1 Mien's t tree p r cent, a Jay, Tnat's vot the broker uxi s. M."i fails fir rmlli-ui vot en:t pay But one cent the J !! n : AnJ speculators vet's c t rich. Are pinched and si rew',1 all holler. Mv hies! I'm biowM; since faces loiii Is sich a baJ pi ecu: -, r: I'll make myself content-. J .piite The times cant be no no; .' J'rotn the New Vork l'.prc-s ot Mav '.. Great r.Torchaati' rIctitij, .it tuo lIasooic IIaU. Iievv Vjik. Report rf the C.tni.-uitlte nijh'Litt. I a! tin 11l' .'( '( S of '.!' ). ,',':(.' ( ' l.'iC MmJtiic JLill, un t.'u- -ZTtlh Ii-' 1oT. At half past T o'clock hist evening, the time appointed for the meeting, the .Masonic Hall w as so crowded tho'. -l ouling room could hardly be procure.!. TI..: iceiitig was evidently composed, n it onl. ,.i 'merchants, but of mechanics and operatives of the hone and sinew of the eoimiiy. I; was uncommonly decorous, and all attempt at excitement was deprecated and disavowed. We h ive only time and space at present to state, that the m e. tug was addressed by Isaac r. hone and I'rvan, L'.sqrs., in support of the resolutions, which wete adopted with great muiniiltltv e ?hah comm cut upon the proceedings hereafter. The second rmd la-t ;;il itid d, and a second reading called lor. Af.er which the meeting quietly adpo.ir.i-"d. On motion of Sncpherd Knapp, I'hilip; Hone, F.sqr. wtis tipp.'iuted l're-i.lciit. and the folio witig goii'leme.; wcie apponitcd Vice Presidents: Nathan'l. Weed, Benj . Lodore, Shepherd Knapp, Chas. Halsey, Thos. Tileston, M. D. Benjamin. Geo. S. Robbins, Jno. W. Leavitt. Stephen Crocker and Thomas Denny were appointed Secretaries. Isaac S. Hone, Esq. then read the Report of the Committee appointed to proceed to a.-h-ington atid remonstrate wiiti the President on the subject of the present disu'csses of the country. This Committee having been convened upon the day after its appointment, w e ascertained that a large, majority of our number could not leave the city, without serious inconvenience and loss, and we therefore appointed a sub-comtnit'.ee ol lilteen to repair to Washington, and presi nt to the Executive, the remonstrance ol the Merchants of -New York. In the interval between t'ae nomination of the Commiuie. and the day fixed for its departure, several of its members found that the iucretisinir diiuculties by which they were surrounded, m ule their presence at home itidispensible; and accordingly only niti" were able to enter upon the duty with which we were originally charged. Thes" gentlemen reached tin: Capital ot) the evening of the '21st iti-t. and o:i the following morning their Chairman addressed the following note to the President: To Martin Van I'cri , President of the l.'iotod States. Sir I have the honor to inform yon that a Comnuf.ee has been appointed by a meeting of the Merchants of X,;w York, for the purpose of addressing the I'.xr rutive upon the present disiixtsed condition of that city. In behalf of that Committee. I respectfully request an audience nt as early an hour as your convenience will permit. With profound respect, vour most ob't servant. ISAAC S. HONK, Chr'm. GadsBy's 1Ioti:l, May .'i. 1) o'clock. The replv to this note was as follow?: Washington-, May 3, 18:17. Su I have received your letter, informing me that a Committee had been appointed by a meeting of the merchants of York, for the purpose of adJress-
ing me u ; i o 1 1 the present disii e-si'il oondilion of that city, ami requesting an audience at ati early an hour as my com en-
lence will a i ! n l i t . cnaiinois in wlnen it coiiKl be proliiahlv 1 will receive the eoniiiiittee at two o'- employed. We assert that the J'.xp'-n-cloek, to-day, and will at that, or at any menl litis had a fair, a liberal trial, and that
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oilier lime more agreeable to them, he di.-appoiinment and mischief are visible arising from the imperfect state of the reppleased to receive any communication in till its results that the promise of a ' resentation in one branch of that body. winch they may desire to present to inc. regulated currency and equalized cxehait- Several of the Slates have not yet chosen To avoid the misapprehensions to which oes has been broken, the currency totally ! their Kenreseutalives. and are not to do
oral communications are liable, and also
io .no m uie eno.s w tiica witii liie best entirely discontinued. We therelore mtike cut ol mat consideration, l do not see at intentions, are so apt to occur, on both our earnest appeal to the Kvecutive and present, sullicient reasons to justify me in sides, in suing accounts of such inter-, ask whether it is not time to interpose the ' requiring nn earlier meeting, than that apviews, I think it most pro tier that the rep- paternal authority of the (Government, ninl 'pointed by the ( 'oils ti tut inn.
lesemauon oi i tie cominiliee be made in writing. In that form I shall be happy to receive it, and when so received, it1 iall be respectfully considered, and illswered in the s one manner. 1 a:n. sir, very respectfully 1 our ooeilient servan M. VAX lll Kl'.N, To Isaac S. IIom-, l'sip, Char'm. &e. t t!ie appointed tiuie, thev presented themselves, were coitnemi.-ly received by the President, with whom they found ihe, Seeretaries ot the State and 1 reasurv lepartmotits, and read the following address: To M Rii Van Hi i;i;, I'rvxi Irm of i!a' I 'ti.'c. I S u'r: Sin e have the honor of informing yon that a very numerous meeting of the merchants of New York was held on the liotti ot April, lor the purpose ot considering the present ilistressed condition of the city, an l delitieratitig u-ioti the means ot . 1 . . C I . . . . t . ii ' i ituei. nuas eai.ea ny more than three hutidi-ed liftns, and was attended by a large proportion ol tliosc merchants who
are connected with the internal trade of;d,a:e convocation id" Congress to di liber- j the country, and who have an especial ! ate upon the unpreoedetiu d anil altirmin'"'
atul direct interest in the state of Done, ll.vohanors. He A Commiiti e W7s nnpoimed to trntur ' u w asiiington, and remonstrate with the i n:i il
.ecuue ag.unsi i:;e conunuance ol llieitlie distress wiiieii exists, atid we are eon-
S;n io Circular, and to urge its immediate t repeal; also to ti-k that instructions miy' ne given to prevent t be rommenom.r o suns 1 1 1 -oil i i. iiii I'liNii'iiiiii .1 collection districts, upon unpaid .1 an i ar binds, until afier the first day of next: and to urge upon the exec utive the propriety of calling a:i extra session of (Vm gross at as early a day as pojsi'dr. In obedience, sir, to these, instructions, we present ours,.; ces before you, and ask vour deep and solemn attention lotho unhappy condition of that city which has nn hi oi occii itie. promoter and ic im ex ,i. ot our nation it pi-osp.p-i'y, tun! w hose fall will include the ruin of toons amis in everv region of our territory. We do not tell a petfpvos tale of wo; we have no selfish or parti an view to mis! on, w he a we assure vou th it tio i.t. city which we ret. resent. It prostrate m despair. it s l'f, .lit HigMtcd. Us itioustry parilv a , and without a nope ectiiuing throng of the 1 dure, unless the go country can he induced to .1 tae i. irixiie 3-. vert'iiieuit (d'otn relinquish the measure. to which we attri.uite our distress. We tully appreciate the i pert which is due to our hief Mogi-t: ite. and ; o, that f elin.o; but I'ommuipty which trembles upon the brink j i it a!f o! ti ot rum, which deems itsci! an nidge of ail irtesttons connectei idequate w ith the i trade and currency ofthe c mntrv. ami be-re-tbe 'lis Mi lieves licit the po.i.'y adotded liy (hi tb cent a.imitiistratio.i. and sustained by present, is fotuulod in error, tind tiirea tin; destruction of every department, ol dustrv . Our merc'iints, mantifacturers nn 1 me chanics, have "repraP'dlv p:-ed e'ed th. fatal issue of thtit policy." ''What wa prophecy, has now become history;" ttm the reality fir exceeds our most lootnv ' - i apprehensions. Puder a deeo imjir sion ol the pro t ty ol eop.hmng moderate limits deel ara-; lions within
we ahtriiilicy ot the late and pn
that the value of otir real estate las, within! the last six months, depreci del more than for y millions: th it within the la.-t t '.v o mould mere have been more than two hiiiidred and tifty failures of houses eip-.a-i d i in exiensi v e mess; th it witlun Itie same period a decline of twenty ini'lioiis id dollars has occurred in our local stocks, including those Rii! Road and Canal In corporation oilier Slate win do; b in lend chit liy upon N ew otk for their sale: that the immense ;im aunt ot merchandise in our ware-houses has vvidlitl the same period fallen in value tit least thirty per cent, that within ti fewweeks pot less than twenty thousand individuals depending n pon their daily labor lor their daily bread, have been discharged by their employers because the means of retaining them were exhausted and that a complete blight lias fallen upon a community heretofore so active, enterprising ami prosperous the. error of our rulers litis produced ti wider desolation than the pestilence which depopulated our streets, or the conflagration which laid them in ashes. We believe that it is unjust to attribute those evils to any excessive development of mercantile enterprise, and that thev re-' ally How from that unw ise system which at the substitution of a inrtalie for a paper currency t ic system wine Tave the hist IOck lo the fabric of onr rooonerciai prosperity I. v re, or. v,,.r th,. ,,, ,! posiu-s from the Pniled States Paok. which weakened every part of the edifice by tiie destruction of that useful and t (Ficicut institution, and now threatens to crumble it
into a mass of ruins under the operations of the Specie direnlar which w Undrew the gold anil silver of the country iVom ihe
i i . . ... ... disordered, and intern il exeiiauo toes al urn' abandon the policy is JCL the 1 eople. Amid all the distress of our cond we nave been jrrnlilieti by i a view ol the geueious and lorouaring irit which has almost invariably marked the conduct of the cie.litor towards the debtor. A gen eral disposition litis heen m unli sted to
itidulge the ilebtor witli amide time for'an-wcr was unknown during the adminis-
the arrangement of his business and col lection ol his debts, and we would respect' fully suggest the example for the imitation ' ol the government. The embarrassment and distress of the mechanics would be materially relieved by the suspending of suits upon unpaid bonds, t.util a future d iy, when the wisdom of Congress mav grant some measure of reh f. reeling as we do that we h ive reached ti crisis which requires the exerci-e of till the wisdom and energy of the country, to the wound winch have been niili.'tled upon its I ommeree and praurtivi ' iluMry, we would respectfully and earn-1 rstly urge upon the I.xeeutive the imme- . embarrassments in which we tire i u vol v i d. jThe members coming il i r- -1 1 v from their constituents will have the opportunity ot knowing and tippri citition r knowing and tiopri eiationg the extent o ... i . , . . , ... i. i v ie.eed that their collet ted opinions vv fully sustain those which we have ex pa sod oi, t'n o- tostoe.nnv m, nl their testimony indicate tin mount of sud'ei-ingof which we cut, believe thtit you, Sir, hav e hen lob ue h L'il a ware. We pfrsutde ourselves that t'tft representations which we have given of the actual co. i. Ilium ol our alf.iirs, will induce v oil to dou 'it t.ie c x petlti iii-v ol the policy wtiteti litis hern recently pursued, and we trust t,) your intelligence for such a change of inoasures tis will revive the hopes and slim .date the ei;ergu.s of the merchants ul' Mew York. IS C S. HONK, JWII'.S U. II RYAN", I'.IlM.l V.MIM I.ODI'.R. A I . I : . P.. Mo I, PIN, J. a. rMiiiiiWotii). thomas i ii.i'.s ion, mi:k;s d. i!i:n.iamin, Cldsil y I, KVYIS. SlMIKtN DR M'ilR, Jr. jr, ,'i;;go), J,',' 1 s:7. Ain-r tin: tidilres.s pad Pern it to the President in brief and emphatic terms assured the com m i lire ot his sympathy With the distresses of his 1 1- i I , i y, -. 1 1 j z ii - ,-f Mh Y. u'iv. tmd o 1 ol his desire to o rverv tuhlress tiling in hts power lor their rebel. ; ent w it the views o l that he would hts o.iP'ia ms wer the d s.u 111 t! manner in icated in his note. The following reply was commuuictitei to the Cominiliee the same tifiernoon. Wasminoi-on, May I, IrfST. ( w filth ul1 il 1 bestow eil op vour commtinictition the attentive consideration which is due to the opinions, wi- hes ami interest;; ol the respectable portion of mv s Meilow-citi.ens in whose behalf thev art. 1 In the correctness of the jndgur'tit w hicli, in ihe exercise o an undoubted rig nt vou no v e in stieii general t; rut tril uouueed upon particular ponns in th" poisent tidniiuistratiotl, to concur. M y ovou cannot expect me I into. is on tuo-e point were an pc id -linef v pie befor'e O reasiin to atmoti . icid to t!ie Ameri liny election, am 1 h.iv e seen n cii mge them. Put however much 1 mav (tiller w ith yon upon them, as wad us in re-poet t) the causes ol Itie existing evil, i i . c , i t I
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f ihe warm i'lten st voti may 1 sh-ill ever feel, in whatever concerns the uiercautde community, of mv deep syiupat.hy with those who are now sneering from the pressure ofthe limes, and ul' my readiness to adopt any measures for their relief, consistent willi my convictions of duty. .The propriety of giving to ti i c Collectors of the Customs, instructions of the character desired, necessarily involves inquiries into the extent of the power ofthe Pxee'itive over the subject, the present condition of the Treasury, and its probable receipts and expenditures for the remainder ofthe year. These examinations have been directed, and tire in progress; ami the result will be communicated hv lb liie Secretary ofthe. Treasury to the Collector at New York, who will be instructed to give it publicity. A few (lavs will lie rcuuired to arrive at a safe conclusion u pon some parts of liie invest gal ion, butj ther" shall he no unnecessary delay. The other subjects to which you have Co d mv attention, are. first, an itnmedtnte rcnenloflbe order renUirilVT specie in
payment on sales of public lauds, issued . belongs to the sobh'-r and the com iicror. bv my prtdecessor. for Ihe purpose of en-! f,ct Sculpurc. and Panning ae... poetry forcing a strict execution of ihe Act of unite to record his tHuev nients, .i:i(J pf-r-Congiess, wiiich forbids the ad.ow.inee of , pe.fitf.e tin ni on the glowing canvas, m credit on fuch sales; and sc-ondlv, on an the endearing marble and immortal verse.
extra s-c-.-iuti if Congress. 1 l.avc nit 1 been able to satisfy myself thai 1 ought, ! under existing eireiinisiaiiees, lo interfere
wi'h the order referred to on must he aware of the obstacles to an immediate com oration of ( hmo-iess. i -so lor some months to come. Jndepem!I am. gentlemen, very respectfully, our obedient servant, .M. VAN i;!;Ki:. The following resolution:; were submit- . ted to the meetitio: lit solccl. That a strict construction of the act ol ls'JO, the only act which eoul . nav e iieen relerretl to i:i tbe 1 resident s tra'iou of Mr. .Monroe and Mr. Adams, and to (Gen. Jackson (hiring the first seven veto s of his administration; that the ne-ee.-sity ior surd eon-tructtou is not gued in the Specie Circular as one of the reas'.iis for issuing it, and we consider the di-tinetion made by the I'resiilent between the notes of solvent l):u:ks and specie, t'esig-nating the former as r rt'u'it to be ( r- . nmeou and at varitmce with the true inI the country. tere.-ts .'(.v i'T , Thtit we dwell willi sliti.-fac-tioti upon the tact mentioned by the ihesr iti-;ii'!n et e ent. t;, at several oi the States have no! lo.sen Krpresrutaiives, tnid wo trtis mat a protecting Providence w ill direct the people of those K'-presentatives wi States to the choice of nop.ave wisdom to per ceive, and virtue to pursue the best interest ofthe country. Ji'i-xnrr , That we vi Id our lieartv assent to ihe preaudile ol'ihu act incorporating ihe first Hank ofthe Piiited States, which declares such tin liisiitution to be "coiiditein e to t!ie successful conducting ol the national linanees, and productive of considerable advantages tj trade' and imlustiy in general."' ( vore,'. That the interests of the; cap italists, merchant chat, tos and ini! pendent upon rue! iiianuiociurers, metrious classes, tire deollter, and any me.ts-i.ri-s o liie government which prostrate the a.dve business men of ihe community, vv ill also deprive hones i industry of its r'-ward, and wo call upon all our frllowciiizcus to uiiiu- with ii in rrmoving from po wer thor w is dcstfir. ing t try. ",Vsc. . T persist in ti s-, stem thai pi'osperiiy of our countat tie' chief etot-es ofthe s are the ucb : t of M r. existing disin-ss Cl.iv's Lain! lid til tin? l emovtd ol the Publ i )i poshes, the refusal to re-ciitirter the I! ink ol suing ol the he ("titled States, am 1 t! the i " Specie ( hr he Pate! I oil was passe 1 by the Jepi'i sea taiives, and vetoed tv lilt1 President ihe t ;u Ilu lie hv recnaiteritig the II was passed 1 eople s lvepresenia'.iv i s. vetoed he President. T! I ' si uhittves ihauar.'d hv a so. emu resoiuii that the public dcpoMics wcie sale 1:1 t . 1 1 I id't'd States Ii ink, w ithin a few weeks thereafter, the Presidr n: removed the pub lic depos!es. The People's Representatives passed a bill rescinding the Specie Circular: liie Presuh tit destroyed it bv omitting to return it within the limited penod and in answer to our tuhlress. P resilient Van Purci; dec!,, res that the Specie Circular was i ss 1 1 , .. j,v (,:s predecessor, omitting ad notice i the Secretary ofthe Treasury, who is y men. dde directly to Congress, and charged by the act creating his department with the superintendence of lint 1'in.ances. and who signed the order W e the i efore L'isolvfJ. Thtit all these rircuinnncet mil Pie '.e. an lnliision ol monarciiicai prmci into our system, w lie h demands tne i prompt and regular action of every patriot. The Rostort Atlas remarks with just hitteniess. that (ien. Jackson may now I e r.'oardia! as doubly the hero of Mew OrW e copy from thtit paper this vvithering paragraph, the close ol a long and cioqueut articie: And now indeed in the consummation of his wise policy for the iiiiprnviiirnl rj til Curmitti more emphatically than for his protection against the tiggiession of a foreign enemy Andrew Jackson stands proudly fonh to the people as the hero of Mew Orleans! He prostrate commerce her bankrupt mercli;iuts--her desolate wharves her streets silent as if they had been swept by a pestilence her credit ruined her labor unemployed the loss the distress, the despondency , the despair pervading universal, unexampled, that have made this great city the sepulchre of what she was ail this speaks truinpettongued of the renewed gratitude which she owes to her deliverer tmd points with a pious benediction and an exniting joy to (Jen. Jackson as a second time the If IT Hero of Mew Orleans'. Si"""!.'-! history then award him the meed to which entitiei Pet patriotism ye Id dm the ; garland rind diadem which will adorn with Pet fame with praise which out ence.uitii a ing tils nrov. . ' , i i : her thousand voice isa v v on es . i
and u hen he is gathered to liie tomb ol alt ; .Mexican iorl and the armed schooner Urathe tyrants and his hones rest beneath vo then opened a lire upon the Natchez
the soil he has desolated let the monument which the devoted love of thousands whom he has beggared shall rear above his ashes hear a single inscription an inscription thtit shall speak in eloquent ad monition to all future generations and carry down his claims to posterity as Conqueror and Statesman a Deliverer and Destroyer re tco the hero of Xnv OrlcansOi A few Questions for the Honest Portion of the Van Eurcn Party. Do you not think from the bottom of your heart, that it would have been as well, if not better, if general Jackson had left alone tinkering with the currency.' Do you not think that the currency was just as good, if not a little better, when Ccncral Jackson and Mr. Taney commenced the "experiment" as it is now. Do you not begin to feel pretty certain that when they took the cuneni v tinker ing they were meddling with that of wl'icli they knew little or nothing: Do you tind yourself -any richer or happier or more contented on account of the experiment.' JfT' i'his question is not put to the laud speculators, to the borrowers tiom tin; pet banks, or to those who have been rewarded by oliices lor partisan services. Do you think that public morals have been improved that social hainiony has been promoted that a spirit of m.iulv independence has been increased, and that the spirit of servility ami sy choptmey, and submission lootiieiul dictation has decreased' Do you think that the democracy, the dear people the workingmen are better oil now, after eight years labor of (Jeueral Jackson and ihe party; than thev were before.' And lastly, do yon not think th at the !'ar juiijih have been nicely humbugged for the hem lit of the oilice-holders, oftice seekers, and land speejjlatos and government stock-jobbti Culumbi'.s LiiWc rea l in Pint ire.h, of nn honest rare of walking-horses, that once nourished in Syria: a people called the Clymucido', w!:o--c occupation it was, when they saw a great man in a couch, to watch his getting out. and put them-elv es on all-fours al the Jiinr, iiib.iin th. ii i.e.. die r.-i o .-t..p The nation si t ins to have emigrated in a body. ie.gtiui for 1 1 1 1 i r metropolis. Cuh.iin'j'ui S. C. 7fiCOj'l . .a m An E; " I1 the hanks in Cincinnati have s'oppcil specie payment. It may also be j set n, from the extracts we publish, that 'ite banks i f Mew ork, Philadelphia and n.diimoie, have done the same thing. The intelligence is most iiil'.uk Imlx-. All the particulars will he found in our col-i u m ns. I.vii. Jtinrnn!. The failure of ihe Dry Dock Hank, the New Yolk p' t. w i'di .-Jfitl.OdU of the pub-; lie icvenue in its clutches, is ascribed by the Van Poiieii presses to the monstrous 'o v ei trading" of the institution. If the Dry Dock Hank indulged herself in wild "overtrading," w liy did not the administration withdraw the public money from her vaults and place it would be safe It' she was overtrading, did not Mr. Van Ptiren and his Secretary ofthe Treasury, know the fact? Were not the pet banks always in the ha1 it of rendering tothc (Jovernment. at short intervals, lull atid' certified accounts of their condition and of t.'d their business transactions! lb. . .,ifci. Is there a solitary individual in the community, who. in the midst of the present distress, would dare to outrage common si use and public feeling so l.ir as to stand up and proclaim that he rejoiced in (Jen Jackson's overthrow ol th am! his w ihl experiments l i . . lioni., .ii the cuituicy .'';. . ... - m . Judge Cl;ivt"ii of Delaware, formerly of tiie P. S. en e, made an example of a ii t ' Court at Smvrna. I Ic sentenced the culprit to stand four hours in the pillory, then to receive upon the bare brick sixty la-hes, put four years in solitary confinement, sold for seven years service to the bight st bidder, and pay aline of fifteen hundred dollars. lb. ' ii mooter ( Infill" l ie late siiimg oi nis ol Lnnort'ni! from U-t- (' a t f M xi.-o. We learn from the Mew Orleans Hulletin of the .Vdi, that, on the PJth of March, the P. S. Sloop of war Mat.-itez, oil' the 1'rassos St. Jago, sent a message to the j Mexican authorities on shore, demanding! a release of the A meriean Schooner ( .' ii.,i:pion, air! threatening, in the event of aj noncompliance w itli the demands, to seize the Mexican armed hng, formerly the tariiicr, then lying off the 'oar- The commandant of 'the Pott refused to give up the the Champion and ordered the Natchez to leave the ('oast immediately. The Natchez, however, remained till the 18th. and lie u despatched a note to the Mexican armed brig, ordering her to haul down ior colors. This she nt first l eftised to d o, but the Natchez fired a gun over her, whereupon iio ironudiHely struck. The
i .. .i . i . i . i i t ty an 18 pound shot striking the (.Umax. The Natchez remained off the bar until the PJih, when, having made another ineffectual demand for the Champion, sha ordered the captured brig to Pensacola with a prize crew on board. Lou. Jour. Shocking- Calamity. We are pained to learn from the Wooster, (Wayne county, Ohio.) Journal, that a most distressing tire and loss of live? occurred in that county on the night of the UOth tilt. The house belonging to Mr. Jacob Hatehel was consumed by fire, and shocking to relate, four of his children tha eldest a daughter about 10 vears of ae. pifiytud i i the jlanic'. The fire is supposed to have originated from a fiaciurj 1:1 the chimney. Cin. JUiig. -9 ( Virginia Elections. The returns received yesterday from lrginia, change the conplexion of thing somewhat. According to the Enquirer, Stewart; (V. P.) has superceded Claihurne, (W.) in the Hcdford district, Heirno (. 15.) has been elected in the Greenbriar di.-tnet, instead of Donallv, (W.) The delegition in Congress will be dilided as follows two districts to hear from: Praticis P. Iuves, Ilenrv A. "Wise, Geo. C. Dromiroole, Francis MaHory, H tiller (. oles, John XV. Jones. James W. Houldin, James garland, John Robertson, P. M. T. Hunter, John Taliaferro, Charles F. Mercer. John M. Putton, James M. Mason, William S. Morgan, Robert Craig, Andrew Peirne, Arcibicald Siewart, Isaac S. Pt'.nny hpckei ." Those nurJed with a hers. iire new meinCia. M'h'ig. -- From the A". Jfirror. ti:s SATIRIST. C'Dittnti ( a Mijdfrn JVurspaper; the LuUjuitdf it Jiintiicr if 'Fruth: 1'eler Aaimeoii .S.ii ggii.v, Editor uad proprietor; Xuc Yurie. Friday, Jlpril 1. MUTOU1AI.. Our readers are aware that a discussion has been goimr on for the oast vtcrk bttweu our pap.er and the .Morning Oracle, on the subject of the weather in January. Wa w ih, wiih our usii.J impartiality, present a briel'siiininaiy of the arguments on both sides. On Monday last the Oracle came out with lilts oxiraordinary assertion: "The weather is generally cold in January!" Whether this egregious f.dsehoc-d originated in the preposterous ignoranco of the booby vv ho wmcondtirts the Ornclo or in h:s notorious contempt for veracity, we leave it to our readers to determine. lie that as it may, we immediately set the Oracle right in our paper of Tuesday, by statirg the fact that ihe weather is alldiiui co'd in January. The Oracle, with its usual intemperate violence, responded that ihe weather is always cold in January 11 To which we, of course, replied that liie wcatiit r is never cold in January. W ill our read rs believe it! Yesterday, stubbornly resisting nil conviction, and .lunging deeper and deeper in t! it? mire of ignorance and duplicity, the Oracle had the assurance to allege tliiat. he weather is as cold as a cucumber in January!! We have omitted the personalities and vituperations with which the Oracle has Loaded us in the course of this controversy. e consider till personalities beneath a gentleman; ami w rapped up in dignified siieucc. we ot ny snub; r,t the abuse of this imbecile idiot, ibis sneaking bulfoon, this thrice sodden dunce, this demon in human shop' we mean in a shape intern led to he human; this red-haired, bleareyed, hump-bucked, bandy-legged, hottlcitosed. bmg ere.-.-'d donkey. This chanting cherub, this Sing Sing singing bird, this bank hireling, this kitchen cabinet scullion, this shirtless rullian, this drinking, lying, swearing, gambling, thieving, libidinous, murdering sun of a gun, this walking corruption, this thriee-covvskin-ni.d and th) times-kicked paltroon, thii bought and sold Judas Iseariot; this, in short this editor of the Oracle. Onco for all, to put an end to the controversy, we assure the Oracle, point blank, to his utter confusion, that the weather in January is as hot as Vesuvius. ... FS2I 11 AO. This rarity has actually been in our fish inarket, for the last ten or twelve days; not brought to us over the mountains, but it in the Ohio river. Lntil last sen cauf. son, shad were strangers to our rivers; and however unaccountable their appearance here now , the fact is susceptible of proof, (o such as will take the trouble ts rise siiliieieidly early to visit the markets. Our eastern fish epicures, who have had much experience in the matters we are writing about promince our bnckfie shad to be equal in flavor to those of more extensive celebrity, in the Atlantic markets. Cin. Whig. -..fC In the Common Council of MT. York par tics will stand. 23 wl.i;s to 1 1 V. B. mf a .
and the Climax, which was continued for 'sometime, but no injury was done except
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