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FRO* THE HATIOKII. UmELLUsEHCER.

THE APPROACHING SESSION OF

CONGRESS.

Within three-weeks from the present date, the new Coorgess will have assembled st the*Capitol. according to tgw Proclamation of the late lamen'sd President, issue da lew days after lie entered upon the. administration of the Government.

The near approach of the Session naturally sets us to tbinkiog.of the purposes for which it has been called together, jtad the measures which are likely to occupy its attention*

At peace wiih all the world, possessing in pro.uwon all the elements *f national and individual prosperity, this People bad yet been for Kveral year* suffering under circumstances »o adverse to both, thst the pam at length roused them to a P^wpuon oftbe rieceinty of emting their own power.to reheve themselves from it Ins case in which the disease toe STKi^a, so visibly the consequence of mal-ad-KS Of ,*5",Government, the rem^y was too obvioos to be misoed or mistaken- The power of the People wss applied accordingly {!ey dismissed fromauthority the chief agent who had by mismanagement

forfeited

all claim to further confidence, and in

stalled another in his place. Tins cbango of one President for another was not in itself tho Reform in (be administration of public affairs desired and expected by the People, but it was the HMW by which the Reform was fo be brought about. I: woe a removal of the original cause ol disease, the first care of every skilful physician. That great purpose has been accomplished by the People.. What is next to be done, the devising and enacting of those measures which are necessary to restore to uie deranged functions of the Government, and thereby to the industry snd enterprise of the country, their natural a l_ -ft.. .. l.!.L -S .1 Mtutla

v, within the second week of bis official term. his Proclamation, requiring the Senators snd Representatives to meet in the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on Monday the 31st day of May, "in order to receive such information respecting the state of the Union as may be given to them, and to devise and adopt such measures as the good or the Country may seem to them, in the exercise of th?ir wisdom and discretion, to require." The reason assigned for this convocation of Con press is, "that sundry important and weighty matters, principally growing out of the condition of the revenue and finances of the country, appear to call for the convocation of Congress at an earlier day than its next annual session."

Such are the terms of the Procla mation~ iasucdorj the 17th day of March by the late President. His lomented death has indeed devolved upon abo'.lier thfe duty of meeting the Congress thus convoked hut the motives ol this early summons of the Representatives of the People remain as expressed in the Proclamation.--And an undoubting confidence is entertained that! resident TVLW will exert all his just authority to carry out the Reform indicated by the popular vot^, and ratified by his own declarations in his lateAddreas to the People of the United States.

The extraordinary occasion, therefore, (in the language e&the Constitution,) upon which Congress has been called together, is the Condition in which, rfpon coming into office, the present Administration found the revenue and /nances of the country. There is the seat of the disorder. It is to these functions of the Government that the efforts at reform by Congress, at the eoming Session, are to be mainly directed.

The disorder in the rsvenuo and finances consists, in the first place, in a derangement of the currency commerce, and exchanges of the country, produced directly by the impolitic measures of the two last Administrations and, secondly, in a deficiency of revenue consea a

It is not necessary now to go into a review ol the im« politic measures of the late Administrations by which this mischief has been wrought-to relate the history of the demolition of the old National Bank, begun by the illegal removal of the public depositee of the effect of the artificial excitement of the public depositee confided to them to inflate unnaturally the ability of the Stats banks of thsir lavish discounts to speculators in public lands, public stocks, &c. of the flood of revenue ovei running the publio chest from sales of public lands thus stimulated of the consequent necessity of disposing of a surplus of revenuo by distribution of it among the Statea of the specie circular intended to chcck the anles of public lands, but having tha effect to explode the State banks which the Government itself had induced unwisely to enlarge their discounts of the thricerejected but finally forced-down panacea, the subTreasury. tho last in the train of disastrous expsriments, the fruit ol ignorance of civil affetrs and an "iron nerve" united in one President, and of overweening confidence and a fatuitous reliancc on predestination in his successor. Every reader is already fatmlliar with the history of those Administrations tbo last ol which, presumptuously disdaining to follow the examples of its great predecessors from W/snixeTow down to JACKSON, treated politics as a game, upor which it staked live whole prosperity of the country trusting to the last to its lucky star to save it from disgrace and ruin. .»

Instead of looking back, or disputing shout thsmerits of past administrations, it will be the business of CpmtRKsa to look at things as they arp, and act accord

The evils ur.dcr which ths country and the government now labor are .practical, anu require practical remedies. Though widelv extended, pervading every occupation of life, and efleeting every claw and order of people, the most sensible of these evils (that is, a vitiated currency) isbeliersd »o be within the power of the General Government Naxt to this, the «vil most immediately demanding the attention of Congress d«ftciency in the means of the Treaaury to cairy on the Government deficiency prospective as wdl as present. A third evil is the instability of the policy of the Government in regard to finances* ths depsndance

nav. and the Government ma* know what to expect to receive, and both People and Government be enabled to make ihoir calculations abidingly.

This specification includes nearly all the ohjsetaconnected with the revenue and finances which will claim th« attention of Congress at the Extra Session.

The last or these oMjwU, though probably not ihe ooe for which an Extra Session of Congrsss would have advisable. perhaps ths most important .of the whole. Uncertainty and instability in the financial policy of any Government are sources of helplMs smbarrassmsm to nierchsnts, masuf««wsrs, farmers, artisan*, and capitalists, and^ honesi to svsty interest of the People, as well as to ths Government

by all the means within the power of the National

^m^JIhe causes which disturb the public po»«v the fluctuation of ths xvony apnnr^ fram ths Publie Land*. We hate seen the annaal imssM nm ia one year ftom less than #vt millions to nearly fifteen millions of dollars, and in the next yw to almost twenty .five millions of doHaWi end we have seen the revenue frora Use same source, witten two years alter reaching this maximum amount, oome down again to three millions of dolls** IJpon **& •"TLS* nrieiouely swelling from a nil to a torrent, and dwtnSinaaaain from a tomiH to anU. wtochatonsseapa hardly to be found in its rocky Ud, and at toother floods ths plains with its abundance what reliance CM be placed To relinquish thisreWnne to those to whom the NatkM^Pctt£in tftte no less, ol sound poncT,-in rej6rw« »o thecffeM oT such relinquishment, than

Public Law), wlihk ni

fimt of the scrips ol msssmres, which to. we fondly hope.

the Public Lands we have always regarded as a w«»of justice and soind policy. It no new opinion

oora- The measure Ki also one whish, beyood the nttoS of patty discipline, w® ha*te%s« approved, on its own wmiivt merit, by almost every Stats mi 1*0 Union, li is nevenheliM, a great sathmcHon to as to know that this nwcswe, whi^i a maj«rityof the States and of the People have always deemed sanaE^MtM well as t«M, is MW reoMosaendad by the sddittoosl «mMtrat^n that it will vieM to the indebted 8mt«( whom lofbusinei general depussisn oftnanana has mvolvod in 'he oral einbatiassstttnt) tha mesne, in part at least of paying the wteres* «pon tfcejt deb« tsntil thev become owe

•The felbwing are As oaaomH reoMjed «sto the TrtMory for proceeds of Sales of r»hfec Lawb doUo. the years ststed-axtiawsd DM AMMSSI Klepom afihe state ol the Tliaawir, *a *&KW I 3JC7.lt] *:.*•

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tie lees to be dreaded snd deprecated tha tbobanfcruDtcvof the Union—and involving indeed the worst consequences which would attend oicha disaster. Happv is it not tof the country that relief can thus be afforded to the debtor States without a violation of any principle, and especially without incurring the odium attached to the idea of an assumption by tbeGcneral Government of the State debts. Fortunate is it not that, by an act of simple justice, by paying over to the States what already by rights belongs Co them, it is in the power of Congress do so much for the relief of the debtor States! More fortuoateltifl, that the debtor States can thus be sided by the General Government, not only without prejudice to the States, but to their advantage by placing at the disposal of those States (their proportionof the revenue from lands) funds which they will be sble to employ to the greatest advantage or purposes of intellectual and general improvement!

The disposition of the proceeds of the rate* of the Public Landa will place it in the power of Congress to impart to the financial policy of the Government tt*biliiy, that essential element of public prosperity.

That an augmentation of the anneal revenue is fibceaary to meet the ordinary expenses of the Government is known to every body. For several years past it has been eked out by supplements of Treasury notes, but'that expedient is a miserable financial tesort on any other than casual temporary occasions. The amount of Treaaury notes at any time outstanding if neither mors nor less than so much public debt, is the most troublesome form which it can assume and the amount of public debt contracted within a given time, in whatever from it exists, is but the measure of the doficicncy of the revenue. What xhe total anjouut of public debt now is, ia the various forms of outstanding Treasury notes, deferred payments to contractors and other public-creditor*, stocks due to Indian tribes, the fourth instalment due to the States under the act of 1835, &c. wefc ve not tlte meanaof accurately stating but we may, without fear of exaggeration set it down at forty millions ot dollars of debt, all contracted within the last four years. The deficiency of the revenue

therefore, for the last fotir vears, must have been on an average some ten millions of dollars a ye^r. Allow what you will for the fallinff-offof the imposts caused by the blighting influepcetifthe policy of Government, still the revenue which for four SUCCCESLVO years (alls so for short of the wants of the Government cannot be expected to improve, even Under brighter auspices, to an adequate amount without some enlargement of the sources of supply. Tljc ordinary expenses of the Government may indeed be reduced by a more economical Administration the'extraordinary expense of the Florida war—extraordinary in every sense— which has been such a drain upon the Treasury, may cease altogether all this may happen, and yet the aggregate of expenditures of the Government be increased instead of being diminished. For not a doubt is entertained, we presume, in the tpind of the preseul Administration, that large appropriations of money are necessary fpr extending ana strengthening the public defences by land and sea, and that no consideration of false economy ought to be suffered to stand in the way of tho accomplishment of this great purpose. Such, we know, was the opinion of the late lamented Presideut, and auch we believe to be the opinion of his successor. "I shall shrink from no proper responsibility attached to my station," said Gen. HAKRISOX, twodays before uis last illness, to a friend wiih whom he conversed. "I shall recommend to CONGRESS large appro-

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Government have painfully labored—inclu

ding our degraded currency, fluctuating exchanges, and paralysed commerce and industry—have been the necessary consequence of tha unwise policy of the two last Administrations, we are of opinion that tho true preventive of these evils is to be found in a restoration of the st*!e of things under whjch the country was prosperous and happy before he act ion c-f the Governments itself made them otherwise. In other words, we believ* in the expodiency, and indeed necessity, of a National Bank, to discharge the doubts functions of a fiscal agent for the People. This is the opinion of ths Editors of this paper, in repeating which BOW and hers they do notpretuid, not being authorised, to represent the views orthe^Executive.

That a eentrml JUcml agtnt, under whatever form or modification of its details, is aecesssry and proper if not indispensable, to the collection of the revedtfe and the regulation of the exchange*, (an essential element of commerce.) we believe to be the conviction of nearly every intelligent person who has bad occasion to examine the subject at all. What form that agent shall assume, what officc* it shall perform, by what name it shall be called, where it shall be located, how governed.&ev a*oetitttte a mas of considerations, out which possibly sonte central agent might be devts *j*i established, free from the objections of thoarw bo

have conscientious soruplesagainst establishing a Bank NMRtot, and from the objections against Ginks sre now organized, or *1 kwftwnow administered a'

"'k^OWUIS to the seniles which hav* heretofore pre vailed in some of theSodU*ernStat«amirtsia National Banking Institution, it shall bo fbond impracticable

scruplcs hting meamrc be tiw. The adoption of any ra* the public rsvenoesbe" some eircuhiting medium of the OmtedStstas which er of the.

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Jor the public defences. If thev shall not

'respond to iny recommendations, or shall refuse or 'neglect to provide the wave and means to carry tlieni 'into effect, with them will rest tho responsibility, I 'shall hoye done my duty." Believing that this sentiment of the late President reflects the true policy of the Government, and the paramount duty of Congress as well ds the Executive, we have no idea of any reduction of the aggregate amount of the expenditures of the Government. An augmentation of the revenue to some extent is therefore inevitable...Whether that augmentation is to bo secured by a resort to direct taxation and excises, or by a modification of the duties upon imports, cannot be long, if for a moment, a questioned among the Representatives of a People who arc free,and who are determined to remain so.

A revision of the duties upon imports, therefore with a view to revenue, is onetl the main objects whjph require the attention of Congress at the Extra Session.— In modifying those duties, let no pretence be given for an tmi tariff clamor by any attempt to forcaor unduly fnvor particular arts or products of our own country bv high duties or prohibitions. Not that in levying the revenue we would depart from tho policy, common to all nations, and not incompatible with the most enlarged nation of free trade, of a discrimination in favor of American industry. But let a just arrangement be made, in which theprinciple of discrimination in lavor of labor may be sufficiently adhered to,and yet a large portion of our imports left sufficiently free for all the purposes of a prosperouscommercc.

The thin! great object which requires the action of Congress at tne Extra Session is the condition of Me currency, and the questions connected with that m»t urgent and engrossing interest. The repeal of the SubTresSury act. that odious measure so unequivocally condemned by the voice of the People and the experience of the Government, would appear to be a thing of course, about which there can haidly be a diversity of Sentiment. Then comes the vexed nueslion, what financial agent shalPbc employed, in lieu of it, to receive, Irtep, and pay out toe publio money! Our own opinion on that subject has been too often expressed not to beJmown to our readers. Believing that all the difficulties and embarrassments under which Che People

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Honserln. favor of any who tfttertafn those measures, sad lot that

system, under \mg*d as to eMabl fTshie is all the parts ytboftol U» powtfleet) m\n restore aoreierablo to •Wmn We tbo cst^liaiifoand to bo ttonsof itanayte«« .tWIMtT.'1,1

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sources reveqae adequate to the wants of tte Government. 3. The repeal of the Sub-Treasury law.

I. The establishment ot a fiscal agent, central & other, lp aid the Government in collecting and disbursing tho revenue and equalising the currency. 5. A temporary loan,if necessary, to supply the immediate necessities of the Treasury. These measures would at onoe disperse the clouds tb«t have s6 long overhung and yet obscure the prospect before us. These measures, taken togetlier, would, we feel entirety confident, suffice not only to restore to the country its wonted vigor, but carry it forward with a firmer step than it has ever taken.

We have said nothing about the existing public debt, which it will be time enough to provide tor at the regular annual session of Congress, when its amount will' have been better ascertains than it can yet be. Nor have we taken into consideration the question of a uniform System of Bankruptcy, which seems tobe within the contemplation of some of our friends ss a measure to be agitated at the Extra Session nor any other question, of a genera! character. Because Congress has been called together with a special view to the revenue and the finances and it seems to be desirable, under every aspect of the case, that the deliberations of the two Houses.of Congress should be limited, as far as possible. to the objects for which they have been con' vened..

PRESENTATION OF THE TIPPECANOE FLAG-

To the President of the United Slates. 'I', NEW YORK, MAY!, 1S4!. In May last, on the Tippecanoc battle ground, in presence of some thirty thousand people, I wasentrusted by the surviving soldiers of that memorable field with the flag that was iti ths midst and thickest of the strife, Which I was commanded to take to this comrner cial metropolis, to be displayed here, beforoour fellowcitizens, as a living, sjxafting emblem of the valor of their old comtnanacr, and of the perils he had nnder-

fone. When- the political contest was over, (in which courage had bran questioned,) and the People had seated hint as President in tho White House at Washington,.! was also to bear it there, and, in the namo ofhis fellow-soldiers, request him to depositeit iniong the honored trophies of the Republic. I promised on that ground to cxccutc this commission, and with an etirnest conviction of coming success—that theroRTvTWO POONDER of the Empire State should herald its arrival thero but, in the midst of scenes so eventful as those of March, I put off the duty, in the hope of a more quiet day, when, now, alas! there is the quiet of (he grape! 1 see, therefore, no way so pfOper to obey the orders of the brave men of Tippecanoe as to lay this flag before you, the successor^ lor whom were the dying injunctions of their illustrious Chief, and upon .who™ his office, and. I trust, his spirit, has fallen, with the request that you will carry out tho wish ofJiis compatriots in arms by depositing it among the trophies of the Republic. I beg you, in thejr names, most tenderly to chcrisli it. Other flags of our countrymen have, no doubt, been as gallantly defended,and were asglorious on land or sea but, while tliey may have won but a single ship, or a single field, this has the high honor of winning wholo States, of conquering empires, indeed, an old Eagle like this, borne by tne pioneers of the wilderness, that has added lo the reign of the cross the reign of liberty and law, becomes a holy emblem, with its koc signo vinces upon it, crying out, as from tho spirit of the past to the future, and which, as the country becomes Older and greater, becomes to all posterity holier and dearer.

I have the honor to be y°uJ^jj^g0BRcJoKs"

THKPRESIDENT'S REPLY.

To Jam* Brook*, EtgL

"The flag which was in the midst and thickest of the strife." and was committed to your care on the Tippecanoe battlo ground by the surviving soldiers of that memorable field, and which they commanded you to bear to this metropolis as a speaking emblem of the valor of their old commander, and of the perils he had undergone, has been delivered ^over to my hands and will be placed by me among the honored trophies of the Republic. The account which was given me some years ago, by the gallant Ensign now no more, who upheld that banner amid the perils of the fight, had prepared me to expect to see it as it is, gashed by the tomahawk and rent by balls. The Ensign alone, ol all the officers, with but twenty men ol the gallant company over which, when the sun went down, that flag so proudly waved, survived to tell in the morning ofthc hazards of that terrible night. From that brave soldier, who afterwards held high place in the. hearts of of the people of Indiana, I learned properly to appreciate the fearless bearing and noble conduct of the patriotic citizen who has so recently exchanged this earthlyHaoernacleof clay for one that endureth forever. Death is the common heritage of all mankind but so to. live as that the darkness of the grave shall not obscure our names, and that they be placed in close assotion with the names of the great and good who have gone before and'who are to come after us, makes death itself a consummation .rai her to be wished than feared, and throws a iigtfl of glory over the grave. Such now, is the condition of "the old commander" into whose hands, when you received ibis flag, you so joyously anticipated its delivery. His deeds are now ''enrolled in the Capitol," and this banner shall be preserved as a manorial of a battle well fought, and of a victory most nobly won.

I pray you, *fr, fo acc*rt amrranecs of my great

T-* JOHN TYLER.

The boarir of the flag at the battle of Tippecanoe alluded to in the above rpply of tire President, some of our readers may not recollect, was Ensign Tirroit, a TwmeMDean by birth, who started from home with only his axe lot a patrimony, and who subsequently became Senator in the Congress of the United Statss. and one of the most distinguished men in Indiana. Of hint tho anecdote is narrated, we have seen in the public journals, where General Harrison is represented as riding np in the heat of the battle, inquiring of the rotmg Tip'on "Whereis your captain?" "Dead! wr." »Your lieotenantf" "Dead! sir." "Yoursecond lieutenant?* "Dead! sir.w "Yourensignt" "He stands before you where Tipton then stood, holding and defending this very flag, but so covered with dirt and besmeared with blood that Hen. Harrison scarcely knew him. "Hold on."said Harrison, "for a moment longer I will reinforce yiftr and be rtxlo off and led up there the company of Capt. Robb by which litne, soon after, of tne seventy-nve men under Capt. Spencer, there were only tea or twelve left not killed or wounded in this company wss this flag. —Nat. Int.

BRUM FIUB*TK Lawica.—'The swam frigate Misswttpoi was launched from tho Navy Yard at Philadelphia, on tbe 5th inst in fine style. An immense con* coarse of spectators was gathered together oo tbe oc-

L, occupying aU thoodjaeoit wharves, and steamboats, asd veaans, and every thing capable of float-

keel of the Mississippi was kid in August 1839, uwxwbksburao daily avereg* of about MO men a period of «wcaty-one vieet mors in length launched frtm the

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A Sucker springs forth al humanity's call, His heart and his cabin are open to all -1 The savage in battle recoils from his blow, & Eacn crack of his rifle is death to a foe.

Let Enslishmon boast of their fast anchored isle*^ Their folly provokes a brave rocker to smile One whoop and one crack of his rifle aloos. Would drive their poor Queen ioto fits on her throne.

When Canada seemed from its slumber to wake, We rubbed down our horses a journey to take Wo handl'iiour rifles and oil'd them with care, Ttw lioa of England to chase from his lair.

But ere wc got ready lo hunt him away, He burried his tusks in the heart of his prey Now growling he siis o'er his banquet of blood, *. But Suckers will soon give bim bullets for food.

To sever from Britain let Irishmen strike, 5 A rifle we'll plant by tha side of their pike With spirits of fire like theirs we'll unite, And match them in frolic as well as in fights

Great Britain has lately insulted our land The blood of our brothers still crimson's her hand Though low in the deep is the Caroline's bed,? Our rifles will yet ring the knell of her d_ead.

A SUCKER.

THE KWCKEREOCKKR FOR MAY possesses IT? usual variety. The following pom-is a striking one: WINDS.. 'The Wind blowetli where it listeth, snd ye hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whither it gocth, nor whence it commeth.'

Winds, that come rushing o^er the distant main, Whence do ye spring, and whither are ye bound? I ask in vain iAnd why, with ever-mournful sound. Sweep ye the restless \yaves, tho desert rocks?

I ask again:

My feeble voice your csaseltes murmur mocks.

*, Whether uponsomeicy mountain's head, Andes or Himmalah, Roused by the sun, ye first awoke.

Or on the desert erave Of Babylon or Ninevah Or on the dead Sea* wavo Dreams of the past erst broke "f

Your slumber first, (Its chain by Terror bunrt,)^,

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mi -a Ye say Mysteriously ye live t^Jff^Amid the infinite, whose depths untold

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WASHINGTON, MAY 4,1841.

The rolling Earth in their vast bosom hold! Secret your path—unmarked your place of birth. My soul! art thou not like to tneeo wild winds? Passing in fitful swiftness o'er the earth— I®? A wanderer that seeks and never finds!

My soul replies: »5i 'Lool^ at tho ordered skies, See how each planet,keep* its glorious path—, The swift-winged comets do not stray y' The winds hava their appointed way, And so thy spirit hath.1

A young kdy once hinted to a gentleman that her thimble was nearly worn out, and asked what reward sho should receive*for her industry. He made the answer on the following day, by sending her a new one, with the following lines

ssod you a UiimWe for fioguo-mnrUs, Which I hope will fit. whtn you try it:

It wHl last you long, if its half as strong, As the hint which you gave to buy i'..1

"You charge me fifty sequins,"-said a Venetian nobleman to a sculptor, "for a bnst that only cost you ten days labor:" "You forget,*4 replied the artist," that I have been thirty jfears learning to make that bust in ten days."

MIDSHIPMEN.—The Madisonian states, during the seven and a half months between July 17th. 1840, and March 3d. 1841, inclusive, the number of midshipmen appointed was SEVESTT-FIVK. Of these, twenty wera appointed between July, 1840. and JaifiHry following: fifty-five were appointed during January and February, and the first day of March 1841! and 18 of theso, wore appointed durrnt the three last daw of the late rsfc**

and

fourttn vf this number on the id of

March NEW DKFixmoH.—One of our exchange papers defines the word alderman to be "a moving sepulchre, in which sre deposited dead turkies, chickens, pi«s *nd turtle fat."

The editor of tbe Li verpool Mercury savs with much justice that before Father Maihew% with ni» three million four hundred thousand followers, every public man Sinks into the shade, aad when the results of ins bloodless victory are contemplated, he well merits the sp-

rnow.'

illation of the greatest bencfacicr his country ever BoeUn MercanttU Journal.

$ IFTLTLBARI^OR PIE-PLANT. This is anotlter of tbe earliest luxuries of tho Mason, and deserves mora general cultivation. It ia of the easiest possible culture. Plant tbe roots abost three feet arfart, in deep rich soil, wall manured. A warm bolder on the sooth side of a fonce.»» the best place.

Tbe Marly Red variety grows the quickest, and IU using reqmrcs U© least sugar* One dozen roots are suffiewct for a family.

IMPORTANT TO SUFFERERS FROM THE? TOOTU-ACHE. At a meeting of the London Medical Society, Dr. Bfakcstated "TTiat he was able looms tbe most desperate esaas of tooth-scbe lanloss the disease was connected with rheumatism) by the appfaotion of tbe following remedy to the decayed tooth. Alum reduced 10 an impalpable jmwder two drachms nitrons «irit of ether, seven drachms. Mix and apply them to tbe

Wig

tOOth.''

w.""

Goop Maiticorcrr.—The Newark A«!vertWr says that fifteen reara us a farm in wortern New York, of 400 acres, exhausted by bad brwbandry. waabovgbt by a Scotch farmer for ||WO.. Tliif form has been so iffi-1 proved by good htnbandrr tbat the owner wss last yew offered for

It «40j000.

4^S»f

Otptliof»W, M«os«ww»t of tosaKpar ca«p»'iimiessuKmawt) as AtiMi tfctltor,

Ft* rtTwwd the offer Upon tbe

ground tbat it bad actually netted him th* mi*rest of 9 6 & 0 0 0 1 A N*tm* The Wasbiostoo Coweapoadwl of tbe CbarkKS** C«mer My«—"Tb? Soe-nctary of the TrrasO^v hsf prepotoda plan far a aaiioaa! bmb, wb»ch be inimds to iartxtfare t^ongvess his report, att utmrnmemmm of d*« emnm sraaisn. lo its featon* it mll raeemWe the Ia»« bank, bat wiU beaartoundrd Kib tmth cbecfca. g«artb. at»d restrictions a» bas indicated nocM or MeMory- tSe aapiial «f thirty-£ve naifions. U* has uisoa(*,o|lMibefocolityof^MlBoHH

Imponmmt Tspol ger states tbat it was 00 retard*y deoded by tbe Judof the DisuietCom. for the Gity »«HMtj of f^lade^pbis. io the rue oft rofi ts- RaC tbat i» a

meat 01 a fc

Choi dihawn payohtc N iha bearer, aiid for h' 10 a third

the drawer 0 the fnjn fo* his socomwoda aurtt stow to a third jMedtf', the :. kar could

jt if

sw.\

rj know not fast ye fled,

And o'er these hills I hear your hurr ing tread.

.--iMUfae

A COMMISSION.—'The Washington correspondent of the New York Express, savs: "The communications in tho Express relating to the Custom House in New York, have attracted a good deal of attention in the Treasury Deportment, and the result has been, the appointment by Mr. Ewing, of a Committee, that leave this city to-day, or to-morrow, to look into the New York Custom House transactions. The Commission is composed of the following gentlemen:

George Poindoxter, lafo Senator in Congress. Mr. Kelley. of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Russell, late member of Congress from Nd# York.

They will look into what is alleged of the appraisements of goods, the general management of affairs in the Public Stores, tc.

iSMPTY MINDS.—Some men do wisely tocoiinterfeit a reservedness, to keep their chests always locked, not (ot fear any should steal treasure thence, but lest some should look in and see thst there is nothing within them—Fuller.

•.

NO 3$

DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. Tho temple held out yet for some time under the direotion of the Pharisees. The sight of the sanctuary and" the recollection of thepdwer of Jehovah, who with his right hand exterminated the innumerable forces of the Amalekites, and brought.up the watere of tbe deep against the mighty Pharaoh, rekindled the fiery ^al of the Israelites and when Titusagain,for the last time, offered them pardosf and forgiveness, and entreated them to save the splendid monumentsof the greatest of their fathers. thoJewajrejectftd with pride and contempt his merciful propositions in tbe ipirijt of reckless patriotism they Tesolved to withstand the whole Cbroe of the Roman empire under coyer of the sanctuary. Without any further delay the tribunes and tenturians received orders to marshal their men for the assault. About the ninth hour of that day, Cerealis,at the head of a division of five thousand mep, attacked the first wall of the temple. The conflict raged chiefly at tho gates, which the Romans were ultimately compelled to abandon. The Jews rushed out Upon the camp of Titus' with such fury that the legions were thrown into disorder, and retired. In the midst of the melee," and the interchange of itnpetuous.chargcs. which the Rabbin D. Gaux, compares to the raging of a stormy ocean• tbe immense gallery communicating between the fortress of Antoma and the temple, burst forth into flames. The tumult of tho battle, Which the d&|»iring Jews noblv sustainechon alt sides, blended terrifically with this nidcous conflagration. Successive onslaughts and repulses on eithersule distinguished the scene of action. The gates of cedar were driven in, nod their brass hinges were violently torn froni the walls. Titus entered the sanctuary—but while his simple and majestic construction, while he viewed the golden candlestick and the tables of propitiation a troop of priests and Lovite^, concealed behind the golden veil, rushed out upon his guards, drove them back to thegalleriM. Ere Titus could return to the conflict, the flames had filled, the temple. In the midst of tbe thickening clouds of smoke, and upon" the pavement, choked up with tlie bodies of the slain, a few priests still bravely defended themselves. During the days which followed this awful catastrophe the ungovernable legions spared neither age nor sex every nouse had become a citadel, which the soldiers were compelled to take by assault. Tho few Israelites who escaped tbe swords ol their enenii$, fell upon their own. The wholo city, and the country for miles round, were covered with blood, and the waters df the Jordan were tinged with a lurid hue. [Metropolitan-

erv

the manufacturer ana the mechanic, who asked nothing of Government hut to be let alone—thty, these Heartless parasites of tyranny, now say to these very beggared and ruined men, upon whose calamities thmr have coldly smiled, that they nrnst stand aside, thn tft will be forthem to take the Jjaces^ of tne

For ourselves, wc say wcttro grtinW by the itiiwortunes of no man—misery snd destitution excite our sympathy, whoever they afflict among our feliow-crea-tures. But bad government, ths premcditat ed wickedness of bad men power, has filled tho country with mourning and misery. Thousands have felt the eruel pinch of poverty, who never dreamed of JJJ°nt, before tho destructive reign of loco-focoism. Thousands of such worthy, honest, patriotic men, who would but a few years since have spurned the gift of ofnee, are now compelled by dire ncceesiiy, to ask the boon ol being permitted to enter the service of the country.— Those men have been the victims,bui never the vassals of power. Let it bo granted, then, that Mr. Van Bu-, ren's partisans now in officc are equally needy—who shall be preferred? The poor man who has upheld the guilty rule of our opponents, defended their pernicious measures, and'used tne patronage of their offices to retain in power the wrong doer? Or sbalrwe not rather prefer tnat poor man-made poor by the evil counalsof

Van Burenism—struck down by the blow which has prostrated.the whole country—tnat poor man who,although prostrated, had the honesty and the courage to resist the oppressor, and whose bold front and unbought vote has assisted to free the country from the misrti.e of our opponents? Certainly justice, as well as a discriminating humanity, would both prefer the poor and honest whig to the poor but guilty loco foe0. It may be a severe and unpleasant task to discharge the duty of preferring llw ono to the other but it i* a duty to be performed—the country requires if, and itwil. be performed jnstly.

MITCHELL, THE FOXOEB.—The Journal ««f Commerce publishes the following extract of a letter Jrom Officer Bowyer, of New York, who arrested him

the sfpotntmeot of How Quatmuts, of Norwicfc Lor Clack. Hat) I am

rty, to pay#01

Ftro

7. *.

"t FROM TBC NEW TORE TIMFS AfftV STAR. REMOVALS FROM OFFICE. One would suppose in these times, that our loco focO brethren of the !ype had their organs of benevolence greatly excited. Contrary to their formerly professed doctrinc, "that to the victors belong the Spoils," they insist that the vanquished should retain them. "Lamentations here and elsewhere" daily bewail the cruelty and inhumanity of divesting Mr. Van Baron's partisans of those places which they have so long monopolized. That sanguinary spirit which onco tolerated no want of conformity in opinion with the party, is- now tamed down. Tlifc Globe and its affiliated satellites, which once exulted in the cries of a suffering people, and responded-to their complaints, "there is no prewuro which an honest man ouaut to regret," are now wiedding tears over tho fate of those men who have been the instruments by which a wicked administration tormented and oppressed the People. They who have aided to inflict wretchedness ana poverty on thousands —to snatch bread from the mouths of the industrious and enterprising—they whose efforts have assisted to bring griel and misery to the firesides of the merchant,

MONTREAL, MAVS, 184 f.

I have at length succeeded in capturing his Honor, after a pretty long chase, (about twenty-six hundred miles,) and I think this timO I have woke op the right passenger. He had 'fen concealed st Point-au-1 remble, about ten miles ,.tmr here. On attempting to arrest bim, he leaped from the garret window snd ran to the river St. LawTenoa Finding himscU pumtso, he plunged in. One of wie officer* called to ntm to stop, or he woSd fire. He then threw into tbe current _a package containing, as be says, $270©».and told the officer to fire, as he wss ready to die-'

A canoe was then shoved on to him by a companion before he could be prevented, but he got a mce flogging for his trouble. -Mitchell got into the canoe and crossed to an island in the river, but was soon arrested there.

I have taken every possible measure to recover the money, but can't say how it will turn out- I sm now awaiting the Governor's order for his removal.

I Ihinit it wiH turn out that this Mitchell got Wards doubloons, as he exactly answers!be description which tiie bor

I wish you would let Mr. L. know that there wis a man hers who is supposed to. have beep

Captain Comeau,of the Police,

c9ncetr?f~'"

tbe forgery. I know where bo is uow, but to will soon sail for England. He cimc from New Orleans just about tho time of the forgery, and is fallal gold. He is rather asmall-oised man, bright eyes, heir grey, but dyed black. Hs has a lady and boy with bmi. 1 am informed at the house where I put up, tbat be changed some Cincinnati money. Hesureiy has been concern ecf in some roguery, for he would not come ber«» to go to England at this time of tbe year.

also

Subjoined is tbe somewhat celebrated and of"*" *3®°" ted letter of Martin Van Boren, complaining of tfte "sofTeriogs" of bis party on account of tbe

staiw

way wf the operations or adioraes oft he Readers

in tne

••Bocktail" party- In republishing this letter, tbe,A»ban* Journal sutea tbat these removals, thus wyt* Mr. Van Boren, were the firet ever made in the po« office department, on political gcoands. Wnn Wr.van Boren, therefore ongmatcd the F**** J^'^PreZ. mnk and imoisbtnents." Bat Mar tbe now cx-t r«w-wds^poo-iKoeo^ vu ^pRIU4|fc laso. "Oar sti&rings, owing to tk rascalttyoftbeCj^uty Postmasters, is intolerable and «wafo«d for retwj^— We findi: Sasloioly impowiWe to ior with oar papera. and •nltos we can atu»n Rir

the

tor wim vm w»... ""'7" 7ZJZu a* limithw tbo ihooe to whom my choreetor ami good name ts oterf two or three prompt removals, there isooU»'g" tbin» to permit oormao soonsrmxL to attempt tode« iujonous psnaeqoenccstl»t uay rewltfrom it. bemby miarepreMntotion and falsehoo.1. me therefote entreat tho Potmss!«r L-epcrai wit boot tfo* bdog toM of hi* villainy terma sufiiact ofjnouoe and render us a partial aq-v»cc,PT___, ciepUy pointod to Mootrato4)ie panoply of egotism, ar*: moval otflrT-T,offferkitwt, a»d the i' rocaoce.mod*lfiehwwin wbidibcitnagines himself LATTX Fax. Esq-! *5» MSISVW. T^C SO securely cased." ^sq'-'and*the removal of ~*MTH. at Liitle FalT*.

MT^L'

*od ibe removal

add oo wore. C« ib« sacloscd »pcr «f«f-

ditto to your dsacreiwo. and if any tbiog ^oowe^ ti It rely be quickly done, and yoo may w»lf r#*alt frnm it sy.rr** -Ho* yUM,r

Sis

fiml in lbo Tuscatodsa Monitor, a very inters

estjng table, prepared no doubt with much labor ami:"r indtistruby die editor, showing, the annual^ooet to the people

each State, of their several departments oil'

tSovernment, v«: Executive. Legislative and Judicial.: The editor observes—'"To exhibit at one view tbe en* tire sum expended for a.'i purposes, was more than wehad materials to do it varying with contingencies for which no uniform estimate could be made-, and depending solelr on the annual appropriations of the legislature." The table therefore shows only the actual cost, annually, of the three deportments of the Government.

We subjoin this table in another form, order to ebable our readers to contrast with more facility the COJM of each of tho three departments in New York,, with tbe cost in other States.

E**c.

Maine, yjjf

Jmd'ry Total. 11 Mi 37,500 10.959 36,142 7,335 34,125 51,385 131,365 1,?S0 11,650 ».tS4 95.580

5.TOO

20,000 90,183 1MK» 65^80 8,100 11.840 29,880 32,000 33,600 14,580 15,840 41,280 49,G80 43,520 91,500

New Hampshire, 5,000 Vermont, 1 800 Mawacbtreri is, i-* 43-14 800 Rhode Island^ 1800 Connecticut, 4,734 Nejf York, it 3,300 Now Jefser.ai^^*"* 3,050 Pennsylvania, ^§.$£11,600 Etelaware, a a 2,733 Marvland, 0,950 Virginia. '-115,853 North Carolina, 5,300 South Carolina, 9,100 Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio,

5.650 52,400 9.380 45.546 5,450 S3,300 45,550 103,083 34.330 33,000 85,620 33,335 133,725 33,875 85.975

S3 430 90,746 83,163 50,098

/M'^1S,000 7,000" ,45,000

^^lo^oa

Indiana, 2.900 nois, IlfSnois, Missouri, Arkansas,1 'i Mtdii^Anf

25,450 35,930 30,530 88.080 10 800 35,«00 18 480 13,500

-V %-s 9.500" "'i 5.750

4,900 7,850

14.850 L£§G50 5wr900

lt,TSy 10,130 7,100

-l *,800 4,300

33,830 34,900

198,470 747,353 646,185

ACTING VICE PRESIDRNT.

Some nf our contemporaries speak of Mr. Southard, the President pro tern, of the Senate, as acting Vice President. Wo think this incorrect. The Constitution makes no provision for an acting Vies President, in case-of the death or disability of the Vice President, or of that office being otherwise vacant. No provision is made for supplying in any way, a vacancy 111 the office of Vice President. That office, ex officio, presides in the Senato. In caitesol his abscnce, or of the office feeing vacant', the Senate choose from its own bodv a President pro tem. tic is not Vice President, nor does he act as .fitch, b\it lie presides in Senate, as President

tem.and signs bills and votes like another Senator. ia true, that in case of a vacancy in the officc of President and Vice President the President pro tfem. of the SAiiateexercises.the powers and duties ot President, ac's a* President, bub he does so as President pro tem. ol the Senate not as Vice President.--Cm. £?«a. stums of the Census of this State, by which it will be seen that the population of New Jersey is 374,463.— The first returns of the deputv marshals appear to have been remarkably accurals-Newark ScntintL Bergen Co Hudson, Essex. Passaic, Morris, Warren, Sussex, Somerset,* Middlesex*

14,379 9,483 44,631 16,734 '•*25,844 20,366 *21,770 17,455 21,893

a-%.'

Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Burlington, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem Cumberland, Capo May,

'84,780 ,21,

'*-•16,094' J4.374 5,324

'. •r ,*t r*

374,463

The Federal papers at a distanco are shouting vociferously over a supposed victory .in this Stato. "The citadel is s^fe!" tliey exclaim. The mothtr (if Ptt*i~ dents has rebuked Jthn TyUrn~-%lA majority on joint ballot, which secures a Democratic Governor for three vears!" ''Glory! Glory? Virginia is onrt!" and such like ecstatic phrases, paraded in co/nfoi*, meet ths eve at every turn. When thoy learn the truth, that tho "citadel" lias surrendered, we supposo thov will laugh on tho other side of their mouths. It will bs moct afflicting intsllig^rice: but grievous as it may be, can impart no pang to distant LocofocOism half so poignant as that which it has communicated at home. Here, within the limits of thecorporntian of Richmond, it the mom so from the high

has been an awful stroke hopes which the first returns inspired. The junto bud fixed their hoarts upon ths Gubernatorial office, nnd had already designated on# of their own numbers, as in duty bound, forthat high station. Iji imagination, he was already installed. With the reality ola Whig majority, however, that bright vision vanished to nothing But misfortunes never come singly, Besides a Whig Governor, there will be a Whig councillor, a pill Iras bitter than tho other, but it must be administered.

The attending physicians, tliopcoplc have prescribed it. 4 a a a S EXECUTIVE MESSAGES

The publisher, Mr. Jonathan Phillip*, of this city* lias laid upon our fable a copy of his invaluable compilation of tho Messages, Inaugural Addresses, etc., of the Pesidents of the United States from the formation of tho General Government down to the Inaugural Address of President Tyler, which bean date April 9fh, 1841. Prefixed to tlie work are the Articles of Confederation, Constitution of tbe United States and tho Amendments to tho Constitution. We hope this important and convenient addition to tlte library of the eitizen, the patriot, and the politician, will soon find its way tosvery ho us* in thecountry and we are sure that no one wboaidsin rewarding the enirtpriio of the publisher will ever regret their purchase. The work including index, forms a volume of 704 p»ges-2M of which ore occuprcd by the papers of President Jncxson, jCoium. (O.) Journal.

A POLI*flCAL SIGN.—A "democratic" mooting •has been.held in Philadelphia., at which resolutions have been adopted in favor of Commodore CHARLFS

STEWAKT, for the next Presidency. In refcrcnco lo this meeting and its proceedings, tbe Pennsylvanian (loco) cays: "We will publish them tomorrow. A dub, we learn, has been formed filled the ''Old Ironsides Club for tho City and CountjRbf Philadelphia," and among its numbers are many of our most substantial and true Democrats."

Mr. Van Buren may venturo upon a direct answer yea or nay, to the Missouri nomination for 1841. He cannot get the nomination of the party in Pennsylvania, who bas sorno favorite sons" ot ner own to bring: on the track and without her vote and influence of Pennsylvsnia, lie cannot, if he would,obtain ihe nomination. Bait. Pat.

Ths Raleigh (N.C.)8tar gives terf interesting, though brief, memoir of the gontlcman who has recently .received the nomination of the Whig Convention of Mississippi, as a candidate for Governor of that State—Judge David O. Shsttuck. Ho was a ftw year^ ago a travelling Methodist minister, and belonged to the Virginia and North Carolina Conference. He want to the latter Sa'efrom New England,a poor pedlarWhile engaged in peddling his wares, he applied himself Odiously to his books. After becoming a minister, he travelled as a circuit rider until the year 18M, when he removed to (he southwest. It waanot long before be was elevated to the bench, and became distinguished as an able jurist and he is now in a fair wav to reach tho highest Executive honor of his odopted State—adding snot her to the many brilliant example*: of tbe elevation, by tbe force of their own talents and their virtues, of men upon whom fortune seemed to frown at their birth.

IrrsawTtiro STATISTIC*.-*-Ths standing armtei of Europe bear a proportion to the population of their re•peenve population* of the Kingdoms and States as follows, abstracted from a late work on the sohiect England, 1 soldier to every 140 of its population. 1 do 1 do do do do do do do do

do do do dn do do do do do

Franc*. Austria, Russis, v*, 1 Bavaria. 1 Pruans, I Poland, 1 WirtomWtrg I Sweden. 1 Denmark. I The Roman,

suspected bim,and

Called on htm bat he suddenly started off ««Of «»e Captain lift. I received a letter this day from tie man who is watching bis movements for me- He ts an Englishman. 4'

UOs 180 90 69 68 60 99" 53* 37

do do do do do do do do do

do do

States,

300 300

Tuscany, 1 It maj (,'iilicd

alleged

cality of tbe deputy Pootmaawss^nd nrgii* up«WJW a as a be a dozen in the interior who were supposed to

ras

do do

'sm-

av be well to add tbat ths proportion of tl*r States army to its population I to H500.

In China, according to'the latest and most accurate accounts, the population exceed) 360 millions, and1 1 he army is rated at 700,000, makings ratio ot I soldier to cirry Slf puraona. •*.*£« PLAIN TALK.

E. M. Rybad. who was turned oat of office in M«a-4 wori.st the inMiaattoa of Senator Benton, beesiwe would ootdo tbo dirty work of tbe party, basaddresa-t. ed a card to tbe public in reply to an odltonal an Mae to the Missouri Argus^attriboied to that very digM-»* 6td gentleman, ia which, after passing ths liadiroot,, cum ceteris, he makes use of tbe following very mtelit-, —If tha Cot. flaat undemaod n* ho

gtbie langnMO:tbicb sktmodtod well sWAn tluu 1 tore^ioken of Mr- Bwittwf in rerr plain and very coarse torma, but I oweit tor

AOTBMTIC^—A qiiaet joker at Kantocket. wbo bod

.nd Ihe removal of o« apesml tvverotice fi»r »n eommamhmmis. onrestofo

i.ad tho appointment of a bam from the autre of a Mr. Mite bell Milcbsll ob» in rxtrouo haste, and can uuoedsufficient

inn«li BTBK

... of the hiet. and called npon tbo

ogendct. Ho»skcd the man what could induce bin to

'Why. Mr Mitchr4l.' answered h^.' ibo tra'liis. tbst its man dors not look out for uracil, nobody wUL* lookoot fu htm'