Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Vevay, Switzerland County, 25 April 1840 — Page 1

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AJYD- 8WITZERL

'JVD CO VJYTY DEMOCRAT.

AT 83 PER ANNUM.

BY ISAAC STEVENS.

“TJIE SENTINEL ON THE WATCH-TOWER OP LIBERTY.”

VEVAY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25,1840.

VOLUME IV.

NUMBER 21.

• I FI I'llV CENTS per'hundred. Wo will now tjbrtiig them down- to 1821, eight years after the . (chartering of the U. States Dank, and when it was in| full operation. Tho same state of things appears to have existed then, that exist now, only a greater depression in the price coproduce and tabor . We make'a few extracts from Mr. Clay’s speech in tho House of Bcpleaenlalivesorthe United States,‘in March, lS2-l,on the Protection of American industry.—Speaking of tho distress of the times, ho says: “In casting our eyes around us, inent circumstances yvhich fix our attention, and challenge our deepest regrot, is tho general dis- ; irers which pervades the whole country. Ilia j indicated by the diminished export# of native produce; by the depressed and reduced state of our (foreign navigation; by our diminished commerce; Ay incentive wtthraskrd crops of grain, perishing Our barm and yards far want of a market; hy ithe alarming diminution of the circulating medium; by the numerous bankruptcies, not limited to the trading classes, but extending to a)) classes of society; by an universal complaint of the want of employment, and a consequent reduction of the wages of labor; by the raceitou# pursuit after public situations, ml for the sake of their A on or# and the performance of their dutiesibut as a means of private subsistence; by the reluctant resort to the perilous useof paper money, by the intervention of legislation in the delicate relation between debtor and creditor; and above all, by the low and depressed stale of the value of almost every descripliun of ibe whole mass of property of the nation, which hasten an average, runJt not lets than fifty per cent, within-a few years, ThisdistreSs pervades every part of the Union, every class of society; all feel it; though it may be felt, at different pliiccs, in different degrees,*. It is like tlie atmosphere which surrounds us—all must inhale it, and none catrescape it. In some places it has burst, upon our people, wiihautX'nugfe mitigating ’circumstance to /Temper its’; severity. In others, more fortunate, slight alleviations have been experienced in the expenditure of tho public revenue, and in other; favoring causes. : A few years ago, the planting interesfjjohsoled itself with its happy exemptions, but it has now reachcd lhis interest also 1 which experiences, tho’with, less severity, .the general suffering.—It.is most painful to me to attempt to sketchier to dwell on the gloom of this picture.** T ’ ; V ‘ / •; This is' cdrtaihly a globtny picture of the condition of the country during a period of profound peace, when the glorious HGGUIfATUR. was tn I till. o peral ion. “Sue«i«pe cl , op# of unlhrashed grain, perishing in our.barns,** says Air. Clay, 1‘for the want of a market.” And all these things tfghspiffd during tho period’ebl'reqaently referred to by the.' Federalists, as the “good times we had before -Jackson vetoed the United States Bank.” * But enough on this subject. r

fire hundred and thirty thousaudone Awndrrd and fifty nine d Man and forty.nine cents, ($8,530,159 49.) This contraction was made in advanpe of a Presidential election; as the present bank contraction has been made to create a panic at the present'dime. We would now ask every true friend of the Republic, whether he will cbnsent to have another mammoth bank of SEVENTY MILLIONS placed over him, will set all law at defiance', and arrogate to itself power, paramount government of the people, and which would tiltimaiely convert our republic into a monied asislocracy, more despotic and powerful iban a monarchy: —Chilicothe Adt..

t Erie canal for hydraulic purposes. It author!* zed . and directed tJicI’und Commissioners to borrow* money to be expended in the fulfilment of all contracts and, surveys contemplated by.it. It provided for the payment ofsiooc and timber,' and- other, materials used in life construction of internal improvements.. ,It provided for the construction of a rail road froth Madison via Indian-, apolis to Lafayette, upon condition that individuals would take one-third of the stack, and the Stale'two-thirds, but so ingeniously drawn that the Slate would ultimately have been bound for' the whole of it v Yet in the face of these facts Judge Bigger wholly avoided even a reference to this bill.. He greatly mistakes the intelligence of the people of Clark county, if he supposes-be can palm himself upon them for anything else but an original internal improvement man. He admitted ho was in'lavor of an internal improvement system’ in.’30 equal in extent to that which the'Ohio State had then embarked, and read a ' speech which-ho made at that lime. Mr. Bigger said that parties were equally responsible for .the authorship ofllie system. Gov. Noble, it is well known, recommended it. Upon the same principle upon.which they charge upon the. OomocraiicpirtytheVcsponsiljilityor.Mr. Va n Huron's acts,' we might charge the Whig* with' being the authere of the system of internal improvements!"! Hut it is to the management of this system, ilm. manner |n which the people’s money has been squandered, that the people have most to complain. It is'here that a reform is so greatly wamtd—so loudly demanded by the best interest of the Slate. Judge Biggef touched on some topics which' was intended by him as 1 a mameuvro tq divert attention from his own internal improvement dels. * He referred- to the Brnokville celebration, where all tlie great men of thesyttemvparty had been invited. Said he was not invited because he was not system, enough. That :was not the reason why the Judge was not there. It was,because bo was considered at ihtft time only Judge spoke much of what ho was. pleased to call nqllificr. and in that sense ho. applied, the term iiltra-anli-syatem racn. Ho did not fix the location of the nullifies, but it. was evident he liad reference to the people of this county, whofiavc ever fearlessly opposed the system. * For if he applies the term in any. other sense it is false and unjust. 1 " We have ■ no ' nullifters as yet in onr Stale, although'many are'' viblently opposed to the; internal improvement system, lie referred to the U. S. Bank, said it was dead, And ho did not wish (o stir tho dead carcass. \V Idle’ the small fry among the Whigs cry out for’a U. S. Bank, the big ones are mum on. that subject. Don’t like to.Uko the. respon*. sibility perhaps/ ilo said wo had as a people overtraded,.and that the banking operations' of . the country'had been too much strained, lie attributed the embarrassments of the community -. to ihese causes. ’ In this view of the question he. was certainly right. * Ho .spoke in terms ot censure of the Pennsylvania Bank of the-United States,, and its cotton jobbing business! He held up the Sab-Trcaqury as a raw fiead. and bloody bona, but he completely failed to make it’ a terror to the people. Judge Bigger, in the course of his speech, related the mush and' milk story, and the story of.the cornrd blacksmith, on liis return from an internal improvement jollification, (where the Judge had beep himself,) driving btspwp cow in his shop supposing it to be' his neighbor's and attempted to put a pair of shoes bn. Itpr. He told the old. story, we' have heard many years ago, to prove that Harrison was a' successful granny. This part' of, Judge' - Digger's speech was conclusive to some-of the Whigs that ho was well qualified for Governor of Indiana. The Judge as a speaker is not elo-; quent, but is perhaps about or near as high as mediocrityThe 'Ida of August will convince' the Judge that he would have done belter,, to have remained on the bench.

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The excitement produced by what had occurred, and bis return just in time to meet the enemy, inspired his command with an enthusiasm, rarely, if ever surpassed, and jvliicli alone renders man invincible. S. The fort was forthwith besieged, cannonaded, and bombarded from llio gun boats, and the batteries on land, for nearly four hours,, without cessation; during all which time, every officer and sold ier appeared to be annimatr-d by the cool and manly bearing of the commander. I well remember- expression at the first sound of the bugle given by the enemy as a sig[nal for chirking upon the works. We wcnMritting.togetlicrj'he sprang ttpen his feet, saying, ‘Duncan, every man to his post; for in twenty minutes they will,attempt to take us by storm. Recollect when you hear'my voice crying relief, come to me with all’the men that can to spared : from your part of the line.’ lie instantly passed i up the line, repeating to every officer; and had scarcely’gol the men in place, before the whole Brilislrarmy, divided into three columns, marched upon t|ie fort, and made a desperate assault, continuing it for near an hour, when they were repulsed, with a .toss in killed and wounded, estimated at that time, to be war double: the nttwiber in the furl, and is stated by English writers to he about 90,

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POLITICAL.

]. . From, the Albany Argus.

1 • Cencml Harrison.

Coup d’icll of the Campaign.

The federalists have been copying an appen* . tHi to the life of Perry, which they say was written by Judge Niles. Tills is not tn.e, and a higher authority thanTbe author of that appendix is General Duncan, the late Governor of Illinois—rand a leading whig at the West. In 1830, Col. Preston ofthe Senate, also a whig, and one of the Military Committee, called Inti Gen. Duncan, then of the House, for some information relative to the defence of Port Stephenson, the conduct of Major Croghan,aDd the transactions at Sandusky. The icply., ofGen.; Duncan, who was a subaltern in the army at that period, we'publish. It .is thc'testimony of an eye .witness and an actor—it is the testimony of one whig to another—it is official—and as testimony from the moutliofone oftheir.own men, the Courant,- and other federal papers are desired to publish it. After readies it.no.oho can have any doubt about General. Harrison's militaryqualifications, or be surprised that he resigned. This resignation is the wisest act of hts life, and it is surprising that his friends do'not use it..

. “Brag” is the game of the Federal partial ns. Undermung'the intelligence of the people, and. believing that Gen. Jackson’s election to the Presidency was owing, not to a right' appreciation of his qualities and qualifications for that eminent station, but to the popular huzzas in favor of “miliary. chieftians,” they labor industriously to invest their peticoat candidate with this attribute, and to convince the Amcircan people that he is a good enough hero to receive their suffrages, regardlcssof every other consideration. “Do you not think,” said a leading Federalist amidst the din and flourish of the federal legislative caucus- a few evenings sifice, “that we have got up a ‘hurra for llarriIson!” , And this is the, amount of the matter. >*Hurra for Harrison is all that can be done in

During the engagement, I saw Croghan often, and witnessed with delight his iuterpid and galla tit.conductj which, I firmly believe, never has been surpassed-at any time or on any occasion. In the heal of action ,■ I frequently , heard him exclaim, ’huzza, my bravo fellows, wa are hewing them to pieces; five minutes more, and we will 'blow; them to hell. By.H-—n, every officer andsoldicr has immortalized hiinself &c. and the/ frholc affair . evinced the' greatest solicitude for the safety of every one .but*himself.

the premises. The American people arc complimented 6y the imputation., that they regard qualification, services, high character and fitness, as nothing—and a“hurra for Harrison” as ettery thing. Hence the clap-traps, cpnoesi Hags, iAouop, dec. &c. -Hence also the conceited scheme of boasting, feignsd'cnttiusiasm," the prairies on fire,” and the 10,000' in Ohio, and 30,000 in Pennsylvania—the old thread bare artifice that has preceded tho Federal defeats for the three last Presidential campaigns. ' Uiii we prefer to put -ourselves on record, and to'show in our judgment the re-election of Mr. Van -Buien beyond a contingency. This result we are content to stand by in an; manner the gentleman braggers choose to name. In the following coup d’si) of the canvass, we. place several stales in the doubtful column, which we fully believe will cast their votes for Mr. Van Buren. *■'

letter of Gen. Duncan, Governor of Illinois. WisuixoTos Cmr, March 25,1636,, Bear Sir: —Your letter of the has, been received, and I most cheerfully comply wjth your request, in giving such an account of the ' transactions at Sandusky, as my memory, at this late period, and my time,.will enable me td do. : About-the gflth July, IS 13, General’Harrison, then at Lower Sandusky, hearing that the'British army had crossed Lake Frie to Fort Meigs, being about five thousand strong, immediately changed his head quarters to Seneca, seven or eight mites up to Hie Sandusky river, where be assembled his forces, then on the march frpm, the interior, leaving Major Groghan, with about 150 men to defend Fort Stephenson, wjlh an underBlinding at the' time, that the fortV then tri >a weak and wretched condition, was to.be abandoned/ahould the enemy advance with artillery, but if not, to be defended to the last extremity, Harrison, with his force; then-small, liad scarcely left u>, before Croghan comifipnced putting the fort {which was only a eiuckaditig.of small round togs, and a few log store houses,) in a proper state of defence, tn which he evinced the most admirable judgement and the mos t untiring peraevercncc. ■ *'

The sagacity displayed in arranging the cannon so aa to open a ina.sk embrasure, torake the enemy in thcdii(!]i, r at a point cvidenlljr'Bclcctfor the placing the logs of timber on pins near ihe lop of the picket, wutchk could be tilled off by-ouo-.inan, and. being from 20 to 30 feet long, swept every thing before them—Iris activity in piking bags of and against the pickets wherever the enemy attempted- to make a breach with camion, :by which means, each point of attack grew stronger from the moment it was assailed, arc worthy of; any general at any age, . t You are right/sir, in my judgement j In saying that the Government has not done justice to Cot.Croglian, forhisconductin that affair, which is without parallel in the military annals of. our country. r;

JCVan' Buren. ‘ ■ Harrisdn : Doubtful. Maine*: .v 10 Vermont 7 Massachusetts 14 N, Hampshire 7 R. Island 4 Connecticut 8 Pennsylvania 30 Delaware. 3 N. Jersey 8 Virginia ' ?' 23 Bouisiini 5 Indiana '9 N. Carolina 15 Kentucky 15 Michigan 3 11*. —Maryland 10 Georgia 11 34 —

As to myself, having acted a very subordinate part, 1'never did, nordonow.seLiipany claims for distinction. To know that I did my duty to my country, though ncthanlcncd into manhood, was then, and is now, enough for mo. But of him, I feel no hesitancy in saying.injustice has been done, to him, in being overlooked by the Government, and the erroneous statements of historians. 1

We bow make aholherextracl/romlbeeame speech, on the j)«Ve o/’/aibr, during the glorious limes of (he U. S. Bank:

Alabama 7 Mississippi Arkansas 3 Missouri -4 Illinois;;-". G . Tennessee 15 Ohio. ‘ fel v New York : 43 208

“The wages of able-bodied men vary from five to moifr dollars per uoxTti; and snclt has been the want of employment,;in some parts of the Union, that instances have not been (infrequent,; of men working merely for the means of present tubtiilmce.' If (he wagcsoflabor Here and in England are compared, Uiey will be found box to be ESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT.*’ . . , ;

.M'Affee, the historian of the late war, and Dawson, tho biographer ol‘ General Harrison, have Bind lonely kept out of view 1 that the object of the Invasion was the destruction of our ships under Com. Perry, at Presque Isle, and boats, and stores at Cleveland—these were looked upon with solicitude by the British—wore rccomioilered—and on one or two occasions, were attempted to be destroyed by landing the force on board tHeir tlcci.—They have also failed to account lor the movement of the whole British forces down the lake, in the direction of Cleveland and Erie, before their defeat at Sandusky, which was attacked to satisfy their Indian allies, who demanded the scalps and plunder of the place. They have kept out of view the fact that Gen. Hairison bad determined to retreat to thq interior, after burning all the supplies which^iej

* During the hst ten or twelve days that intervened between the time that Genv Harrison; left us, and the appearance of the enemy, a ditch was dug four feet deep, and six feet wide, entirely round the fort, outside of the stockading, the ground for 200 yard's the fort was cleared •of limber and brush, and many'oilier .preparations made for the enemy'; ■; ; About this time, Gen. Harrison received information „that the enemy hairaised 'tho'iiego.'of Fort Meigs, and had ajartedJn the direction -of Sandusky and camp Seneca. ;; On receiving this determined to retreat'(to m jiifi position,' and immediately sent,an express to Port Stepenson, which arrived about sunrise, ordering Major Croghan' to bunt the forty, «i lh all the' ntuuition* and jforej, and ritreat without delay to head quarters, giving also some precautionary instructions about the routes ire. On receiving this order, Croghan .instantly placed it in the hands of the officers, who. were all present, and requested them'to consider it, .and express a5 opinion of the propriety of obeying or disobeying it. The board was formed, jind on putting the question, beginning, as usual, with the youngest officer, it was ascertained that a majority of tit mere for disobeying Me order, Croghao returned to his ruum, and being informed of our decisions said, ‘I am glad of it; I had resolved to disobey at all hazards,' and immediately ■dispatched‘ r an express to Gen. Harrison, giving him that information. Immediately on the arrival of this express, Gen. Harrison dispatched Lt. Col. Ball, with his 'squadron of dragoons, with orders to arrett Croghan , bring him to head quarters, (which was done,) and sent another officer to take command.—By this time, in consequence of his not arriving agreeably to his cx- v peemions and orders, the General abandoned all Idea of a retreat although his munitions and stores were piled up ready to he tel on jive at toon .as Croghan should reach Seneca; and it is doubted not that if Croghan had arrived according to orders, General Harrison too uld have retreated instantly, leaving the whole frontier , ourjfcfi at Erie, and the stores at Cleavetand~the destruction of u/iicA utu the object of the in canon and jnovemenft down the lake—at the mercy of the enemy. ■After being detained one night, Croghan returned to Sandusky, and was reinstated'in his command: an occasion, which gave an indisenbabte joy (6 the officers and soldiers in the fort, and which only could'be cqoaled, in intensity of feeling, by Me chagrin and mortijxcationfell at'his arjttl,' Especially was the event pleasing to those officers wWhad sustained him in disobeying the order, resolved as tlfey werei when he was srjeeted, to share his be it!good or evil. r Soon after his return, the enemy, eo long.ci--pected, made its appearance, and demanded a suftinder. Croghan answered; by direct!ng 1 Eniign Shipp to assure Geo. Proctor (hat it would be blown to hell first.

Arc the day-laborers, who. are now so often appealed to by the Federal leaders,,and so strongly urged to desert their favorite Democratic principles, prepared to advocate the establishment of another National Batik, and vote for the-icandi-date of the Federal party, for the Presidency', who is pledged in favor ofonel Look atlheprice of fiiftor, at atimo which the Federal parly often refe to, as the nml prospennt, when the United Slat :s Bank was in full operation, and regutai-

; .We are aware that the. Federalists here and' elsewhere, claim .New York and'Ofcio, or at least insist that they must stand among the doubtful. It is the game in New York to claim Ohio; and in Ohio to claim New York. We do not believe they will .bo severe and animated beyond any former example; but we do not believe that either stale; wilt quit Mr. Van Buren, and the impregnable principles of his administration for Gen .-Harrison, and his absence of all principles and qualifications.' But if such should be the result—if both states are placed in the Harrison column—ii wjll be seen that Mr, YanBuren has yet a majority of the electoral void's. . >. We feel the utmost confidence'in the re-elec-tion mfMr. Van Bures.‘ But; let every Democratic friend ofsuch a result bear it.perpetually in mind that the contest' will demand his utmost exertion and vigilance, and that continually*' V

bo atfalra of the nation, to the entire satis*

facti in of iis friends and admirers! • Look at the prici of produce during the administration ofJ.Q. Ada ns, when we Jnad.Pcdcral rules, and’a National Bank! Is portion of the laboring class, that desire eucn "prwpenms timrsV 1 We hope not. If there is, we no doubt they will vote for Gen. Harrison, wlio : is the candidate of the Federal Bank party.—IFei/em: Tel,

had collected; that he ordered .Major Croghan to abandon and burn Fort Stephenson; that his refusal to obey, and failure to arrive at head quarters, prevented this retreat, and consequent destruction of our fleet, millions of public stores, and exposure of lire hundred miles of frontier to the combined enemy.

**Is Harrison n John Adams Federalist!” ; Asks a djslinguiahed friend in Lincoln county. VVe snswer liy quoting a part of Gen. Harrison's reply to the being such a Federalist, preferred against him.by JohnRandolph. Gen. Harrisons own admission ought to he reliable evidence.:-, Wd copy from the Nashville Banner of the8tbinstant.- ..,

Both have stated that General Harrison never doubted that'.MajorCroghan would be able to repulse art enemy of near two thousand, and which they say he understood to be five thousand, with only one hundred and thirty men, his effective force on (lie day of batt'c,bne six pounder, with ammunition for only seven slibls, and about forty rounds (or the small anna;—when the fact was notorious, that General Harrison was heard to say during the siege, when the firing could be heard in his camp, speaking of Croghan, “the blood be on bis own head; 1 wash my bands of

Prices of Prodsce in 1831.

y Is 'i. »• ; : ■.; • i' r . ’ ■■ /Vow the Jniumian .:: C;:,Jade* Bigger at Charlestown. ■ i On Friday last Judge Bigger, theWhig candidate for Governor, addressed about one hundred persons- at'the Court house In this, place. - But few of the country peoplp ware aware that this man of survey bill memory was to make a speech at the time he did, and that fact wilt account for so small ariaudienccon that occasion.- As it will be expected, wo will give our readers .a short synopsis with some strictures, of bis'rematks on that day. Andlt must necessarily be short and confined to the principle'topics oLhis speech. He commenced with the internal itnpiovement question. lie admitted having voted for the survey bill of *34-*35, which proposed;a, survey of all the then contemplated- rail Toad* canal and turnpike routes, in the Suite,. sod which was the first entering wedge to 'the gfbmm system of 5 35-’3fi. He denied his identity with the system of*.16, and made a false issue to the charge that he had supported *■ till providing for a scheme of internal improvements at the same session that the survey bill passed, by saying that a certain bill introduced into the Legislature he did not vote for. But of his support of Caleb B. Smith’s bill he said nothing. He votcdforthatbi.il in all its stages, one of the strongest internal Improvement measures of that day. It provided for a board of internal improvement with unlimited power over all the works of internal improvement. It provided for a location of a part of the Wabash and. Erie canal, and letting contracts thereon. It provided for the immediate commencement of thb White Water canal, and irrevocably pledged, tho Slate for its completion. It authorized a aurirey of lh6 great central canal, to ascertain its costand practicability, and If found practicable, the faith.of theSuie was irrevocably pledged for its commencement and completion. It authorized uri enlargement of ths Wabash and

The ruinous consequecc produced by'the United States Bank were not of short duration.— Wo find the effects were severely fell in tfie year 1821. Niles* Register 15tla September, 1821.

v vln'i ho 1 course of this d ebato" Mr. Harrison said' that lie:*''cobid not; refrain from making bis acknowledgments to the gentleman from Virginia,for the notice he had been pleased to tako of him. He has been pleased lg say, that in theadroinistrationofMr. Adamb, 1. was a Federalist, and he comes to ■ that conclusion from the coarse : punned. by .tne jri the . session of. 1799—1800.. At (hat session, the gentleman and; tiiyeelf met for th* firsi in iho station of Ueprcseiitative for Virginia, ’ and I the more humble one of delegate from- tho Northwestern Territory.—f. Having no vote,l did not think it proper , to take part in tlie’diacusaiort of; the great pohucal questions. .whiclf; divided the two parties. *-My business was io’procuro the passage of. the billvwhich I had Intfodnced .for th? benefit ortho; beople l; represented, Tbo gentleman had no means of knowing"my political .principles, unless he obtained them in private conversation;—As I was’ upon terms of inliinacy .wilh the gentleman, fr xx viru probable that Ac might have heard me exorett tentimiaU favorable to the then act mi“ST’ I CERTAINLY FELT so far, at least, as to the course pursued by it in v relation to the Government of France. Nor, said Mr. II. was 1 unsupported, in that opinion by those who had a right to control my; actions, if not my opinions. In no part of the country were those measures more decidedly approbated than by my. immediate constitucnts^-the’Le-gislature of the Northwestern Territory; as' the address of that body to.the President, during, that session 1 will .show. For .l/r. .‘Idam# (said Mr. H.) / entertained at that time and hate ever tince entertained , the greatest respect, I believe him to be an Aoneif man and a pure potnof, and hit conduct during that teuton proved him to be tueh. *■ Xathviile Unm. A scarce article— Federal truths.

**A gentleman in Virginia directs the Register to be stopped, because he uscdHo pay for it annually with one barrel of flour, but that three would not do it then. Another, a miller in Ohio on paying his advance to my agent, observed that he had sold four barrels of four, to obtain the note of five dollars which was remitted. 1 *

it;" not doubting for a moment, nor did any one wilb him, that the garrison would be cut off. With great respect, your ob r t servant,

The United States Gazette of May 33,182F, says, “Corn is said to have been sold at Ciocincinati at 10 cents per bushel;” and the same paper of the first of June, 1S3I, publishes a letter from a practical farmer in Harrison comity, Ohio, stating that wheat had fallen to 35 cents per bushel and in some instances to 121, The same paper, June 20, 1831, publishes a letter from Greenfield, Ohio, dated May 3d, 1521, elating that wheat was sold at 12i cents a bushel, and that whiskey was dull at 15 cents a gallon. The Pittsburgh Mercury gives the following prices in May l821;~Fiour, $1 per barrel; Whiskey, 15 cents per gallon; good merchantable pine boards, 20 cents a hundred feet. One bushel and a half of wheat would; buy a pound of coffee; a barrel of flour would buy a pound of tea; twelve and a half barrels of flour would buy one yard of superfine broadcloth.

Col. Pbestox, Military Com., Senate.

JOSEPH DUNCAN.

, What a “GENERAL!” Hero is documentary history fiom a living witness and actor—a political opponent df the administration—a “whig.” —'The x ‘mitilary qualification!** exceed the hard cider arguments. Who can fail of being convinced! Hen. Hull was not so fortunate as Harrison. He had no subordinate to “disobey orders,” and therefore surrendered and exposed the whole North Western frontier.

The United.States Bank, ami the price of La- ■ bor and Produce. .The Federatistalsay that we mint hate a National Hank to rrg’tffafc the currency, and prevent the ruinous fluctuations which continually take placethrouglmut the Union. It would, we think, be well ’enough - for iliose who cry out so lustily for a National Dank, to look back during the existence of the late Dank of the United States, and, what Was the slate of things during the moat palmy days of that institution.—We have heretofore referred the Reader to the times in 1819 aud *20, when the Farmer sold his corn at Scents pet bushel, his wheat at from 35 to 27i cents per busbel> and htsTOUK AT ONE DOLLAR AND

REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING.

'That: (bo above distress and prostration of ••tiwiicis *wu produced by tho United State* Bant which was at that time in full operation, is ev dent from the words of tho President of tho l!snk himself, whosajs; “The curtailments at a) pmnta ( within thrabove mentioned dates, being eight?.months, [ftfm the 30th of;July, 181B, to 1st of April, 18i0,] Were tix milliont

1 need hardly say* 1 , after what has been related, thatlbeir appearance, relieving us from our loflg eaiwpw.waa bailed with seeming joy by the: and mostj if not by all} of bis command.