Wabash Express, Volume 1, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1842 — Page 2

THO.DOWLIXO,

TJEUUE-HAUTE, IA.

WEDNE8D.VY MORNING, FEB. 10, 1842.

IISSOL«UTIOI¥ OP THE UNIO* We noticed the movement of J*o. Q. ADAMS, two weeks ago, for the prospective dis solution of the Union of these States, by the introduction of a petition from sundry citizens of Haverhill, Massachusetts. In our last, wc failed to notice it furtlier, and only write ihbi paragraph to direct public attention to the action of Congress on that most traitorous .proposition. Though Mr. ADAMS disclaims .. any favor of the petition, and declares his solemn conviction that the prayers of the petitioners should not be granted, he nevertheless continues to urge its consideration, on the ground of the right of petition, &e. This is a fine theory, no doubt, but if the American heart is not dead to all the sentiments of patriotism and love of country, Congress will -never entertain such a proposition as the one under consideration. If a few miserable fanatics, goaded on by their passions, can throw such fire-brands into an American Congress, and ask the Representatives of the People to "consider" TREASON, there is no disguising the fact that one of the pillars of UNION, LIBER­

TY and LAW is already shaken on its base.— Once accustom the People to hear words of ^treason—to talk of the valueo' the Union— to calcnlalc its chances of continued glory, and you have achieved a work of political fratricide never dreamed of by the wildest foe of our institutions. The artful pretext for the introduction of this petition is that the People have a right to lay their grievances before

Congress, and to petition for their redress!— "While the moral sense of seventeen millions of reasoning creatures repudiates the infamous opinions of "Benjamin Emerson, and forty-five others," what moral obligation is imposed on Congress to listen to a handful of madmen, goaded on by a fanaticism as cruel as ever took possession of the human mind Why should Congress, at the mere request of such men, "consider" the propriety of changing, fudamentally, the institutions of the country, and severing the ties of National Union, by the maintenance, of which, alone, the personal liberty of the citizen is secured? We biow not how others feel on this subject —wcknow not the workings of the public pulse on this matter—but we do feel that it is in unison with the lofty impulses of patriotism—a patriotism which, in the end, will prove "more strong than traitor's arms."— llovv unlike his own former renown is the conduct of the Ex-President! The time was when he, as the depository of Senatorial power, turned deaf car to the whispers of treason, nnd laid before the Executivo of his country, in th*j honest integrity of a patriot soul, the views, aims, and designs of the federal party of New England. Though looked upon as a part nnd parcel of that knot of political conspirators, Mr. JNO. Q. ADAMS unbosomed himself to President JEFFERSON, and denounced the men who then sought a dissolution of the Union. Why this change of political action? Why this "billing and cooing" with traitors? Why these insidious attempts to uproot the institutions of the land? Has disappointed ambition so overcome the tottering intellect of age, that he has sworn that his country shall not survive him? Shall public liberty date but from his cradle to his grave, i^anil must the same epitaph be inscribed on his 4*nil th« Nation's tomb? Let an AMERICAN

CONGRESS answer these questions. How unlike the noble sentiments of DANL. WEBSTER is the conduct of JNO. Q. ADAMS Both citizens of old and patriotic Massachusetts, what a contrast do they exhibit! We have a hundred times read the matchless re,ply of WEBSTKR to the specch of IIAYNE, in 1830, and having listened to it during the progress Of its delivery, we early imbibed its spirit, i/e scorned to calculate the value of the Union, or let traitors calculate it for him. 'With the devoted spirit of patriotism, he retouked the heresies of his times, nnd threw hU "whole soul into the conflict against Southern disunion. Would that his noble language was preached in every cabin, and that the

People could be roused by his warning voice! It is pleasant, indeed, to read and to reflect, •while the aged Ex-President is tottering to the grave, with the foul accents of disunion on his lips, that the other great son of Massachusetts—yet vigorous in age and intellect —survives to exhibit the incalculable value of the American Union. At the conclusion .of his masterly cflbrt, in reply to Mr. IIATNK, jMr. WKBSTKR said:

I profes*. sir. in my enrcer, hitherto, to have k«pt steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the fchrtl© country, ami tho jw**orv*Uon of our federal Union. It is to that union we own our safety at homo, and our consideration and dignity ahttmd. It ia to that union that wo are chiefly indebted for whatever makes Us most proud of our country. That union we reached onlv by the discipline of our" virtuw in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of duwiloml finance, prostrate commerce, and rained credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests innwdiatcly awoke, a* Irotu the dead, and sprang forth with newness of iilk Every year of it* duralion has teemed with fresh proof* of its utility and its Ucmiiuts and sithougiv our territoiy has stretched out wider and witter, ami our population spread farther and farther, they have not outran its protection or it* benefits. It has been to us all a copious tlwnuin of national, aoeial, and personal happinsss. I hava not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond tfie union, trt we what might lie hidden in ?th« dark weens behind. I have not eootly weigh--xl the chances of jw wemng liberty when the hond« that unit* u* tofAhcr shall he broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to bang over the precipiee of disunion, to whether, with my short sight, I etui JaUtatn the depth of the nbvss Mow nor eouM regard Mm at a safe counsellor in the nflkitx of this n*Tem»oefl?, who*e thoughts should be irodnly Iwni on cftn*3derine. not hour the union •houkl be hist preferred. bniW totenble might

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ljeforc us, lor us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veiL God grant that, in my day, at least, that curiam may not rise! God crant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on thp broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingenng glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a angle star obscured—bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory, as

What is all thU worth? Nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards—but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the l*nd, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart —Lilierty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"

If there be one American citizen who does not respond to these sentiments, and honor the man who uttered them, then wc pro nounce liim an "unlineal and bastard son, forgetful alike of his duly to himself, his country, and her welfare. No man should "calcu late the value of this Union," and, those who do so, are in too miserable a minority to gain the endorsement or countenance of a mem ber of an American Congress. Treason but seldom raises its front boldly, but insinuates itself under the pleasing guise of a "right," the abuse of which may be as fatal to Liberty as the exercise of brute force against positive law. Public opinion declares that no man has aright to do that which the spirit of ou* institutions would look upon as treason, and we very much mistake the temper of the People if condign punishment be not speedily visited on the aiders anu abettors of this new scheme of disunion.

We subjoin the petition presented by Mr. ADAMS, from Emerson and his confederates: To the Congress of the United States:

The undersigned, citizens of Haverhill, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pray that you will immediately adopt measures peaceably to dissolve the Union of these States—

First. Because no union can be agreeable or permanent which does not present prospects of reciprocal benefits.

Second, Because a proportion of the resources of one section of the Union is annually drained to sus tain the views and course of another section without any adequate return.

Third, Because (judging from the history of post nations) that Union, if persisted in the present course of things, will certainly overwhelm tho whole nation in utter destruction.

This petition is signed by Benjamin Emerson nnd forty-five others. THOS. F. MARSHALL, Esq., of Kentucky, Mr. GILMER, having consented to withdraw his own) offered the following preamble and resolutions: "Whereas, the Federal Constitution is a permanent form of Government, and of perpetual obligation, until altered or modified in the mode pointed out by that instrument, and the members of this House, deriving their political character and powers from the same, arc sworn to support it, and the dissolution of the Union necessarily implies the destruction of that instrument, the overthrow of the American Republic, and the extinction of our national existence: A proposition, therefore, to the Representatives of the people, to dissolve the organic law framed by their constituents, and to support which they arc commanded by those constituents to be sworn, before they can enter upon the execution of the political powers created by it, and intrusted to then), isahigh breach of privilege, a contempt offered to this House, a direct proposition to the Legislature and each member of it, to commit perjury and involves, necessarily, in its execution and its consequences, the destruction of our country and the crimc of Iiigh treason. "liesolved, therefore, That John Q. Adams, a member from Massachusetts, in presenting for the consideration of the House of Rcprcsentativesof tho United States, a petition praying the dissolution of the Union, has offered the deepest indignity to the House, of which he is a member—insult to the People of the United States, of which that House is tho Legislative organ—and will, if this outrage be permitted to pass unrebuked and unpunished, have disgraced his country, through their Representatives, in tho eyes of tho whole world. "Resolved, further, That the aforesaid John Q. Adams, for this insult, the first of the kind evor offered to tho Government, and for the wound which ho has permitted to bo aimed, through his instrumentality, at tho Constitution and existence of his country—the peace, the security and liberty ofthese States, might well be held to merit expulsion from the national councils and the House deem it an act of grace and mercy when they only inflict upon him their severest censure for conduct so utterly unworthy of his past relations to the States and his presont position. This they hereby do for the maintenance of their own purity and dignity for tho rest, they turn him over to his own conscience, and the indignation of all true American citizens."

At this present moment of writing (Monday evening) our Washington dates are to the •1th inst. and then no settlement of the motion submitted by Mr. MARSHALL was had. The House had then wasted ten days in debate and in efforts to dispose of the matter. Mr, ADAMS had also submitted four resolutions, not one of which had the least relevancy to the original subject, and the House was silly enough to adopt two of them! This, of course will embolden the old gentleman, and we may expect some new project—some "light house in the skies," or other vagary—in a few days. Our American Congress is earning for itself a lasting notoriety. Oh, let the People be patient! It is a virtue with them, for wc live midst Nation of suffering Jobs!

RGLIG10.V.

The following beautiful thought is from the pen of the good and benevolent MACKKJCKIK, and may not be deemed inappropriate at this time. The man who seeks, for worldly purposes, to turn any creature from the path of religion, is loading his own soul with a double portion of sin, and adds greatly to the shame which finally awaits him. A know ledge of tho ways of piety, tho work! must admit, is calculated to lighten the cares and perplexities of life, and, this being admmitted, let us never seek to divert a fellow being from the pursuit of what is good, merely because our own wayward opinions are opposed to the prwc/iVe of the Christian faith "He who would undermine those foundations upon which our future hope is reared, seeks to beat down that column which supports the focWcness of humanity. Let him but think a nmment, and hi* heart will arrest the cruelty of hi# purpose Wouki he pluck its little treasure from the bomn ofpovrrty Would he wrest from age its crutch!— from the rye of affliction the only solace of its woe? The way we. tread is ragged, nt best we tread it, however, lighter, by the proapocts of that country to which we trust it will lead. Tell us not it will «*1 in the gulf of eternal dissolution, or break off in eotae wild, which fenej urn 611 up as die pleasea, but reason is unable to ddineste quench not the beam which, amidst the night of the evil workl, has cheered the despondency of ill requited worth, and illumined the darkness of su&ering virtue."

(£/"The Indiana Sentinel is mistaken in Myiag that Mr. CLAT voted against the repeal of the Bankrupt Law, in ddSatwft of nnstroctiaBs'' hy the Legislature of Kentucky. No audi instrocttons were giwMu The error is no doubt tminteattotui.

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Curious Correspondence.

The English people have a very strange notion of the nature and powers of our General Govern ment. 1 he correspondence which follow proves this. Though John Bull has the reputation of great good sense, and an extraordinary acquaintance with the forms of all human institutions, he makes some odd mistakes, now and then. "Mr. HAWHEB,

Claricncieux. King of Arms" looks upon Mr. TILER as a kind of paymaster for the whole Union, and doubts not that he can make Mississippi "shell out" with the same facility that a county Sheriff would seize upon the goods and chatties of a debtor. The letter of Mr. WEBSTER will undeceive him, and, we fear, give him a poor opinion of our democratic institutions:

^Meel, sir, most confidently that

PRODUCTS OF INDIANA. We publish, in a subsequent column, a valuable TABIE, giving statistics of tho products of Indiana, according to the eensUsof 1840-41. This we are enabled to do by the kindness of a friend who procured it from tho official returns at Indianapolis.— At this time, the information communicated will be of great moment, as it exhibits, at a single glance, the capacity of Indiana, as a PRonrciJfo State, and will enable persons at a distance to form an opinion of our means to meet existing liabilities. It will also be valuable to those who design embarking in COMPAST operations on our public works, as affording a certain index to die probable amount of business done along the contemplated lines.

GEO. D. PRENTICE, ESQ. Wc regret to find the following paragraph in the Louisville Journal. The affliction of its veteran senior editor, in the temporary loss spoken of, will bo it sourco of sorrow to his political and personal friends throughout tho Union. The reader will bo glad to see, however, that ho will have his joke at "neighbor Shadracb's" expense, his affliction to the contrary notwithstanding. We really believe, should Death coll on GEORGE tomorrow, that he vfouldjoke him out ofhis claim till HENIIT CLA is made President: "Our readers must bear with us a little while. is well known to our friends that tho senior editor of this paper lost the use of his right hand, in wri ting, sumo nine years ago- Subsequently to this calamity, he betook himself to the use of his left hand, with which he continued to writo till about three weeks ago, when that too failed him—worn out in tho cause of his party and his country. He is now under the care of the best medical talent of the city, from which he ardently hopes for a speedy euro of his most singular malady, Wo deem it pecuniary providential that we retained the use of our left hand till our old neighbor Shadrach left the city. He was a strong man, and wc had about as much as we could well do to manage him with one hand. Shadrach is gone, however, and we do not know but we can get along well enough without hands for a short time."

(J^-JAWKS H. CHAVKKS, Esq., of the Fourth Congressional District of Indiana, is severely hand led by the papers of his District for his efforts to repeal the Bankrupt Law. The Brookville American Hml Lawrenceburgh Beacon havo thrown off their gloves, and openly charge him with misrepresenting his constituents.

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HERALD'S COLLEGE, ST. PACT.'#, LOSOON, OCTOBER 1,1841.

SIR: I trust you will pardon thelibert? I take in addressing this letter to you, the subject of which I shall state in as few words as possible.

I always considered the American People almost as my own countrymen, beine descended from the same stock, and that I could most safely trust to the honor and integrity of the different States, Cputtiug joint stock banks out of the question, thev being a matter of private speculation as in Enaland, and often fallacious.) 1, therefore, purchased eight bonds of the Mississippi Slate for one thousand dollars each, and induced a friend to purchase four more. We considered our money as safe as in the Bank of England, and that the Slate of Mississippi had every opportunity of laying out its funds to the greatest advantage in the rast extent of its back settlements. To my great surprise, I was informed by Messrs. Wilson & Co., in London, from whom I usually received my dividends, that they had not any remittances from America for the dividend payable here in June last. I held a few Louisiana bonds,a relation of mine has New xork bonds, and a friend Alabama bonds all these have been punctually

you

will exert yourself

in healing this breach of national faith, and that we shall soon, by your interference, receive what is justly due to

*i am, sir, with great respect, your most J. HAWKEK.

Clariencieux, King of Arms.

To His Excellency J. TTLEB, President of the United States of America. DEPARTMENT or STATK,

NOVEMBER 10, 1S41.

SIR: I am directed by the Presiddnt toacknowledgethe receipt by him of your letter of October 15, relating to your interest in the slocks of the States of Mississippi and Louisiana, stating that dividends have pot been paid on xxOt of the State of Mississippi, and requesting his interference.

This is a matlcr"crvcr which tho Pro«ilenrhas.no con. trol and. though he would much regret any pecuniary loss by you. If such shall occur in consequence of any investments by you in this country.it is not at all within his constitutional power to afford any relief, or to interpose in any manner. The Slates are sovereign and independent altogether of the General Government, as well as of each other, in all pecuniary negotiations and liabilities. By them is retained all control over their own fiscal affairs, and to them respectively should all communications on the subject be addressed.

The President desires to thank you for the expression of your good feeling towards this country, and trusts that nothing will ever occur to diminish it.

I am, sir, Jcc. FLETCHER WEBSTER, Acting Secretary of State

J. HAWKER,Esq. See. Herald's College, London,

Canal Meeting—Evansville. We desire to dircct the attention of all interested to the Proceedings of a Canal meeting held at E' vansvillc, on the 2d day of this instant, published in a subsequent column. It will be seen that Convention of Delegates is proposed, to assemble at Washington, in Daviess county, on the 11thday of March, and that the counties of Warrick, Gibson, Pike, Daviess, Green, Owen, Clay, and Vigo are requested to send delegates. The object is certainly worthy of an effort, and should be thought of by our citizens.

eloquent, feeling, and humane remarks

of Mr. CLAY, in opposition to the repeal of the Bankrupt Law, will be found on our first page

Berkshire Hoars.

We would direct public attention to the adver tisement of Mr. Ross, in another column. The stock of that gentleman is large, and as purely bred as any in the State. A viait to his farm would make any considerate man declare that he would never again feed a long-snouted swine. For a quick return of capital invested, the Berkshire ia immeasurably ahead of all others. ~v

ILLWoisMOSEf.

The paper of the State Bank of Illinois Was still quoted at

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at St Louis on the 8th inst,

while it is yet 30 discount in Cincinnati and Louisville. The best advice wc can give our country friends is not to take it at all, till something more i* known of iU solvency.

URBAISA B4\K.

This concern is shaking, and its notes should not begreocived, for the present. Indeed, it hard to say what Ohio paper is safe. We continue to correct our Bank Note Table from the Cincinnati Daily Message.

CCiT We have had no account of the CASS MEETISTO held at Indianapolis during the lan winter. Why? Did the Vanocrais refuse to endorse the General Are they resolved to have op the ^TWrf dtfeaUd owe more Will they again fom\ltc rejected of the People on the country? den. CASS is too mild a man to support the Jacobitiical doctrines of locofocoism, and he is laid aside. Well, it is their own business, ami the Whigs hare only to remain united, ami route "Van Bincaisin again.

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THE SiTtOJl! IVrKIAIGESCEB

Monday that all the Banks of the City and. County of Philadelphia (except the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Northern Liberties, the Moyameii«i ng, and the Kensington) assembled by delegates on Saturday evening, and, after having been properly orjpnized, agreed upon an arrangement to the following effect, subject to the decision of the respective Boards at special meetings to beheld on Monday morning: 1. The Banks to issgcthear own notesoxcluavoly, of the denomination of $20 and upwards. 2. The banks to make daily exchanges with each other. 3. Balances to be settled weekly, or oftener, at the option of the creditor ixnk to be paid in specie, or, up, to the 1st of March, in commercial Mils not havingjnore than forty-five days to run after the 1st of March, not exceeding thirty days trt run to be approved by the Creditor bank, ana guarantied by the debtor bank., 4. A safety fond is also to be created, thus: The banks of largest capital arc to deposite $100,000 each, and those of a smaller capittu $50,000 each, in thehands of trusttitS each bank to choose one trustee, and the whole to form a Board. The above sums to be in specie, Treasury notes, or equally satisfactory security. On the default of any bank, the trustees to have power to convert the security to such an extent as to pay the defalcation, and the defaulting bank to be- thereafter excluded from the arrangement. 5. To resume specie payments on the 1st of August

It was supposed-that the arrangement embraced in the above outline, and which was unanimously adopted by the Banks represented, would, if ratified and carried into execution, allay the excitement originating in recent occurrences, and in some measure restore confidence in the stability of the Banks which have thus united together for the pur-

pose of sustaining each other,

LATER FROM PHILADELPHIA All the City and County Banks now transacting business, at special meetings of their Boards, agreed to the union and safety-fund arrangement noticed above.

The subjoined notice appears in the Phila delphia Inquirer of Tuesday: •,N "PHTLADKTMTA

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"Monday, January 31—10 o'clock, T*. M. •'The following announcement was made by authority of the meeting of the delegates at the Philadelphia Bank: "We learn that the arrangements between the •city and country banks, as-to the-issue of notes, are nearly, completed and that, in the mean time, the paper of all the institutions will be received

on deposite, or in payment of debts, by each of the banks." "It is understood that the Bank of Pcnnsylva nia and the Girard Bank are of course not included in tho above arrangement. "The Banks of the Northern Liberties, Moyamensing, and Kensington, were fully represented yesterday morning, and came into the arrangement "The meeting was adjourned until this morning, when the appointment of trustees will also be completed. Tho banks have all put up amplo securities for the faithful performance of the contract, and entire satisfaction and unanimity seem to prevail among them. "Their proceedings and arrangements have all been made with perfect understanding for tho resumption of specie payments in August next."

THE BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA CLOSED. FROM THE PHRLADKLPHIANRATTLHER To the surprise of most of our citizens, the doors of the JJajik of Pennsylvania were not thrown open yesterday. The feeling pro duced by this circumstance is one of the deepest regret, as this Institution has long been re garded with much favor by the community, and, although suspicions and rumors had been in circulation for some days, many believed it impossible that she coula have been reduced to such an extremity. It will be seen, by the statements that we give below, that the act of closing the bank was induced by a movement made by Gov. POHTEE, and with the object, aais to be presumed, of making some arrangements with tegard to the pay ment of the interest on the State debt, which is due this day. What will be done by the Executive under the circumstances it is impossible for us to tell but he will doubtless exert himself to the utmost to renair the shock inflicted upon the credit of tne Commonwealth. A number of persons assembled round the doors of the bank yesterday, but there were no manifestations of violence.— Indeed, the praiseworthy forbearance of our people, with bank after bank exploding, cannot be too warmly commended.

MERCHANTS' HOTEL, JAKUARY 31,1842. Monday Morning, 7 o'clock. President and Directors qfthe Bank qf Pennsylvania:

GEXTLEMEN: I directed the Attorney General, on Saturday evening, to adopt proper legal measures to secure the public moneys deposited in the Bank of Pennsylvania, as well as the interests of nil who are in any way creditors or debtors of that institution. That officer will apply to the Supreme Court at the earliest possible moment this morning for an injunction, and the appointment of a receiver to take charge of all, as the assets of the bank.— You are now apprized of that fact, and directed not to open your doors this morning, nor pay out any of your money, or transfer any of yonr assets for any purpose whatever. When the same are placed in the custody of the law, the rights of all parties will be fully guarantied. Respectfully,

DAVID R. PORTER.

Resolved, That, in pursuance of the direction of the Governor, the bank is hereby closed. JOSEPH TROTTER, President.

Monday Morning, 9 o'clock, Jan. 31,1842. AN INJUNCTION.— The Supreme Court has granted an injunction to prevent the officers of the Bank of Pennsylvania from paying out, transferring, or assigning the assets of that institution. The rale, which is returnable on Monday next, is to show cause why receivers should not be appointed to take charge of the affairs of the bank. The attorney of Uie bank. Mr. Chester, was present, but without instructions. The rule was granted on the affidavit of Mr. Mann, the Stale Treasurer.

PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 2.—We made inquiries at the Bank of Pennsylvania, and ascer- 0hJ tained that the interest on the State debt, due jt

yesterday, was not paid. In reply to an inteiTOgatory, we were informed that no definite information could be given ou the subject at present, except that negotiations were in progress to pay the interest as soon as possible. Our informant expressed the opinion that it would certainly "be paid, possibly in a few day?, but probably not for some weeks.— Doubtless the moment the excitement wholly subsides, something of a definite and con elusive character will oe determined upon.

The meeting ofDelegates from all the Banks doing business have completed their arrangements in the manner already announced, and they arc now preparing their new notes, which will be issued on Monday next.

All was quiet yesterday there was no run worth speaking of on any of our Banks. The public pulse is much more subdued, and we now begin to look forward to abetter condition of affairs.

We hear thai the Branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania at HarrUimrgh has been closed.—Inquirer,*

CGT Since the above was put in type, we learn that a bill has passed the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, compelling all the Banks of that State to resume immediately. It passed by a vote of 74 to 14. It will doubtless pass the Senate.

car Mr. BursET has declined the acceptance of the vacant judgeship in Pennsylvania. to which he was lately appointed by the President and Senate.

PREDICTION VEKIFISD-

Lottxio Dnw. sometime before his death, predicted that in 1842 England would hare no King— the United Stair* no President—sn extremely joiid winter, and very hard times.

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I A E I A A S S I A A I E We learn by the Philadelphia papers of Showing the Population and some of the leading ,^^s^n°nS a

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29,005 4,247 10,421 15,135 14,318 30,797 35,295 II,870 7,944 4,434 19,104 31,800 21,579 5,378 38,463 II,046 7,584 19,701 35,607 36,231 6,864 22,280 #24,971 43,126 14,780 18,578 7,220 35,818 1,589 48,551 27,341 6,388 46,458 4,603 39,618 17,942 14,289 357 2,762 31,880 9,194 44,031 23,271 11,675 23,085 21,730 9,468 18,050 15,851 21,621 3,466 6,071 3,067 25,413

8,904 1,651

Marion, 16,118 Martin, 3,775 Miami, 2,857 Monroe, 9,996 Montgomery, 14,405 Morgan, 10,677 Noble, 2,702 Orange, 9,580 Owen, 8,254 13,559 Parke,

8,254

13,559

Perry, 4,513 Pike, 4,710 Porter, 2,172 Posey, 9,641 9,561 Pulaski,

9,641 9,561

Putnam, 16,869 Randolph, 10,681 Ripley, 10,317 Rush, 16,575 Scott, s' 4,262 Shelby, 11,997 Spencer, 5,961 St Joseph, 6,415 Starke, 148 Steuben, 2,578 Sullivan, 8,312 9,864 Switzerland,

8,312 9,864

Tippecanoe, 13,726 7,814 Union,

13,726 7,814

Vanderburgh, 6,209 Vermillion, 8,249 Vigo, 12,076 Wabash, 2,736 Warrick, 6,320 Warren, 5,642 Washington, 15,273 Wells, 1,821 White, 1,849 Whitley, 1,040 Wayne, 22,983

Total, 1 683,314

1,580,051

0ummorg of News,

His Holiness the Pope has sent a Bull to the Archbishop of Caraccos and Venezuela, authorising marriages between Catholics and Protestants for ten years "Thus,» says El Siglo, "the orthodox can ^nany the heterodox without any scruple of conscience." This important Bull was granted by His Holiness at the request of tho Prelate of Caraccas.

The committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate have unanimously reported a bill in behalf of the sufferers by French spoliations prior to 1800.

Col. Alexanders. Cumminps, of the 4th Regiment of the U. S. infantry, died suddenly in New York on Monday week. He had just returned from'a Court Martial at St. Louis.

An eminent London sculptor has sent over an order for a block of Middlebury (Vt.) marble, for Reuben's group of the "Descent from the Cross," as being

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Adams, 2,267 Allen, 5,931 BlaEkford, 1,226 Bartholomew, 10,036 Boone, ^2, 7,894 Brown, s" 2,363 Carroll, 'i 7,780 Cass, 5,490 Clark, 14,595 Clay, SKr 5,568 Clinton, 7,490 Crawford, 5,282 Daviess, 6,679 Dearborn, 19,638 Decatur, 18,178 DeKalb, 1,967 Delaware, 8,488 Dubois, 3,634 Elkhart, 6,704 Fayette, I Floyd,

4,319 8,524 2,902 15,252 «0,J09 6,927 17,443 9,266 26,619

3,948

4,577

23,693 8,022 14,713 11,350 28,290 3,038 11,465 11,552 9,801 31,343 10,426 30,551 17,771 5,244 27,236 18,846 24,131 28,930 19,326 28,006 34,123 29,497

9,838

Fayette, I Floyd, 9,454 Fountain, 11,173 Franklin, 13,444 Fulton, fa 2,013 Gibson, 8,970 Grant, 4,846 Greene, 8,321 Hamilton, 9,832 Harrison, 12,459 Hancock, 7,567 Hendricks, 11,264 Henry, 15,103 Huntington. 1,601 Jackson 8.960 Jaspei 1,277 Jay, 3,877 Jefferson. 16 644 Jennings. 8,743 Johnson 9,530 Knox, 10,250 Kosciusko, 4,042 Lagrange, 3,665 Lake, 1,468 Laporte, 8,184 Lawrence, 11,790 Madison, 8,904 1,651 Marshall,

superior to most of

the Italian marble. JOHN FOX, a man only 22 years of age, was executed at Fonda, on the 6th ultimo, for the murder of a man whilo drunk. He did not even remember the deed after the insanity of rum had led him.

The Rochester Democrat states that a younp man named Prayer had his head torn

off

a day ortwoago by coming

in contact with a turning grindstone in Barton's edgetool factory.' The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Rochester, New York, has failed. It was one of tho batch of free banks. Her circulation is about 848^)00. Her securities are worth about §34,000.

JAMS RBILET, Esq. has been appointed minister from the Texian Republic to the United Slates. Mr. R° is said to bo a graduate of the Law School of the Kentucky Transylvania University.

A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Iowa for calling a convention to form a State constitution. A bill was also pending for the appraisement of property prior to its sale under execution, and prohibiting sales at less than two-thirds of the appraised value.

There's a man in Congress with a voice so sil very, that every word he utters pssses quite current for twenty-five cents. He talks about paying off the repudiated debt of Mississippi.

We know a man whose conscience is so tender and sen sitive that he does not make any use of it whatever. Messrs. Gallop and 7Vol, edit and publish a paper in Ohio. The name of the foreman of the office is Walker. unui

of a paper to look at, but itua good

go. The frequent practice of scratching one's bead with a gridiron is apt to give the hair a greasy flavor, unpleasant to many.

There is a remarkable simularily between the heath en mythology, and some of the odd conceptions of the Indian race. Minerva is said to have sprung full armed from the brain of Jove. Pushmataha, an eminent Indian chief when asked who was his father, replied: "Pashm* taha has no father—thunder nnd lighting struck a hollow popular tree, and out jumped Pushmataha."

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a Cum, the best shares are ploo^ishares and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream and the more these banks are broken «Jie better dividends they pay.

A white man named Dunersnt, and a free negro, have been anrsted st Richmond, Virginia, for kidnapping a coople of female staves.

Mr. Jaoeph Closet, a cabinet maker at Philadelphia, was bathing himself with turpentine, which took fire, and, he was so badly burned that be expired on the 19th alt.

Ansoa Chasvin, a highly respected Creole of New Orleans, Mew his brains oat with a gna on the 6th inst. He was a great fool for doing soch a thinr. Had be lei it alone, be m^ht hare meta more natnral death.

Some woold-be poet in the Doyleslown' Democrat, who signs himself IL, attached to a marriage notice apiece of rhyme, commencing:

And now dear youths, since yoo'w essayed, The matrimonial road to uead, May troth and virtue be arrayed,

To guide and guard each heart and brad.** Whereupon some friend in the Inteliigcncer adds: "And now, dear since you're esasyed,

The "road," Parni—ui-ward to travel, Keoe would have known, had yon not bray'd, Bow great an Ass was "scratching gravel." The total Canal Bereave in lbs State of New York for 18(1 is (2,19^9(0, total expenditure for the same tim* CI 333^309, leaving a nett reienue from the canals of W6r

OAL'XS or DI8TILLKD uncon

BUSHELS OF KTK.

BUSHELS OF COBS.

147 946 21

34,819 3,259 57,149 35,017 3.228 69,172 23,990 100,105 23,874 54,281 22,201 35,286 152,029 7,511 9,058 58,902 11,822 44,504 71,419 30,116 111,118 30,220 9,122 62,611 22,732 27,958 40,662 66,203 23,531 61,370 88,209 6,427 48,915 5,078 9,696 84,683 56,691 46,118 51,676 30,600 58,142 15,838 221,461 75.610 46,991 5,540 78,649 9,884 8,127 57,636 88,659 49,217 18,319 140,864 47,082 107,188 13,452 28,947 30,712 55,103 1,399 97,400 63,639 22,173 99,412 15,229 61.611 18,338 102,620 545 22,149 44,468 78,589 137,243 80,890 13,837 51,185 17,654 Z- 9,740 20,500 22,198 52,508 4,745 17,981 5,688 124,750

355 60

1,821 84 969 2,626 972 4,965 152 2,775 253 928

in S-S 0 £82

35,988 84,275 22,753 461,630 247,752 66,558 298,331 116,755 336,570 202,250 415,560 94,396 202.423 603,692 643,015 31,730 388,888 122,173 98,862 711,835 76,091 711,128 370,361 64,606 490,962 217,543 368,113 410,569 164,819 286,995 540,000 724,243 46,702 386,498 47,070 69,842 250,007 170,116 497,028 668,282 146,161 98,954 27,676 270,742 651,705 375,715 37,570 974,966 87*032 179,143 407,968 914,185 475,763 66,716 529,947 387,050 942,850 170.290 239,037 60,444 607.799 13,075 804,792 401.291 115,883 605,607 52,253 779,101 63,542 197,439 1,700 31,906 638,543 246,475 990,160 512,340 173,404 608,297 717,486 76,644 330.800 414,446 164*401 48,381 124,782 27,135 864,477

36.770 1,579 53,277 40,017 9,295 76,636 87,304 153,586 23,597 83,905 41,302 40,892 149,388 112,195 6,958 82,548 17,339 45.877 123,815 56,541 80,76$ 97.535 9,424 73,617 15.536 66,435 67,143 73.878 49,392 113,654 108,736 9,435 72,222 9,505 5,873 183,364 81,238 81,747 124,216 58,445 '72,107 29,176 166,994 196,453 YL 60,867 16,198 148,790 19,164 12,487 95,421 97,621 78,757 20,551 149,796 45,265 137,140 29,736 31,934 53,312 66,157 1,825 '99,210 118,846 68,413 83,607 31,254 85,725 r' 17,739 133,647 174 26,940 86,680 28,031 156,353 136,027 14,642 83,027 104,683 9,656 32,500 •89,955 50,047 3,911 36,528 3,074 283,537

I,219

2,127 1,256 36 2,214 1,860 1,281 268 1.751 517

sr-ife*- 168 698 3,198 181 3,683 146 8,753 7,989 lt0 7,976 1,659 190 557 437 673 2,572

2,130 1,050 662 240 2,544 12 185 2,155 1,971 2,462 601 523 640 10 76 1.901 1,558

182

,»600 160 55 17,600 659

8,900 364 40 457 21,500 614 6,500 740 83 1,000 389 40,501 609 132 10,100 151 15 3,630 348 530 165,000 145 20,800 489 778 173,200 804 7,000 63

1,023

200 322 2,901 750 5,800 1,176 10,000 409 230 5,000 811 5,000 880 117 2,875 1,432

470 126

8,500

15,960 8,200 300 19,750

549 608 383 163 7 268

31,500 36,580 3,000

1,043 338

37,726 1,020

2,269 132 716 2,248 3,895 1,078 575 1,991 1,990 4,025

153 626 250 11

13,200 7,560 10,400

1,042

182

8,000

1,372 768 1,320 569 635 15

13,200 69,500 1,920 6,360

97,000

41

6,957 120

1,029 333 209 1,664 460 868 744 381 5 50 548 21 1,446 201 199 269 666 224 732 469 1,331 230 13 85 37

18,434

16,330

203

760 760 14 215

4,154,256

5,875,449 127586

Striking examples of these inconsistencies were made by members of the retiring party, by Mr. Pickcns, in his warliko report, by Mr. Stevenson, by the Globe, and a host of members of Congress in relation to the Caroline affair, to M'Leod'scase, to the Northeastern Boundary, to tho searching of our vessels, and now, during the present session on the Creole case. All these instances afford occasion for grave consideration and serious displeasure, as trenching upon the sovereignty, tho honor, the rights and the interests of the nation.

By these, self-constituted lovers of their country the conduct of England has leen justly denounced an insultingly Hectoring, •svhilc that of our own Government has been ingloriously forleating and dilatory. And why, let us ask, has this been so

Wc repeat the question—Why has our Government failed to resent, with a proper spirit, the wrongs and indignitcs of imperious Britain! Wc will tell you, Messrs. Patriots, why our Government han been compelled to adopt this humiliating policy. It is because you have refused lo give your counlry the means surely to repulse a foe, and to chastise every aggression upon our rights and interests.— You, by your influence and your votes, deny to your country the means of defence and protection. You withhold from thenation the only cllectual weapon, and raise a great outcry because, all unarmed and unimprovided as you have left, and as you keep her, she does not perforin those acts which only the best armed and best provided can accomplish. Your conduct is as though you had Samson shorn ofhis hair, and then demanded of him to perform a Samson's feat.

That our Navy must be our sure and main reliance is the common conviction of the nation. That its increase should keep pace with our increasing population and wealth, is nowhere denied. That it should grow up a more perfect system than is at present organised, is conceded. That the Navy in its present amount and conditions, is alike incapable of properly protecting our interests, scattered as they arc over the whole world, and of vindicating our honor and our rights against aggression from anyquartcr, is a conviction painfully impressed upon every mind and heart.

Why, then, will gentlemen in Congress continue to complain of great and admitted evils, which an increase of the Navy can alone remove, and yet obstinately refuse that necessary increase. Shall our Navy never be increased? If at some future period a large augmentation is needed, would it not be better done gradually, through a series of yean, than to waft until an emergency rendered it instantly imperative, by the sudden outlay of enormous sums, just at a moment when Government most needed funds, and when the increase would have to be made under circumstancs tho most adverse to judicious and complete arrangements. Do wc not daily experience mortification from the insufficiency of the Navy adequately to repel the encroachments which this very weakness invites 1

Let gentlemen who talk so loudly of the necessity of vindicating, at all hazards, the interests and the honor of the nation, make some little preparation to enable their country to meet success*" all the hazards of an encounter to protect her f"*0 hundred millions floating upon every Occv* to strike back and strike home, the

IRREGULARITIES OF THE MATT «f This is the season when failures may b« Vr. TT the publication of the following letter Iron, Office, dictated, as wo are Informed, by the a a el he be by 4 the agents and means at the command onhomo^LrJ?! are in acUve exercise to prevent them.

faithful

10,000

320

2,614 335 7,588 3,052

6,500

192,300 373,000 70,000 64,000 41,650

4,000 2.800

1,447 1,830 25 636 160 2,938

231,931

28008,051

FROM THE

1,786,961

XJJflTSn

STATES OAZKTTE.

INCREASE OF THE'NAVY. The conflicts of party strife abound with instances, of the most humiliating inconsistencies, involving, as not unfrequently they do, the sincerity and patriotism of tho parties in the darkest clouds of suspicion. To throw distrust upon an administration, a garb of tho loftiest patriotism is assumed, and indignation hurled against a truckling and a dastard policy tho nation is called upon to condemn and turn out those in power, and to place in their stead others who will vindicate the national honor, and protcct hor rights and interests.

foe

whi^

to make this rich booty her ptey, topoll*« our sou, and to devastate and harrass our prrywty and our people with ceaseless incursions. «s not expected that Congress can, und*r

wr7rc

financial

embarrassments of th- Treasuty, appropnate very largely to immedi** Increase 6ut it may project on Uie immedia"* and prospectively uicrcamg system, adeqo*e to our present wants, and the growing rasgnitodc of our interests.

The voice of the nation has been consistent in its demand for an increased Navy.

The Richmond Enquirer announces the dc&tb of Benjamin Harrison, of Berkley, in Charles city co. Ya-, nephew of the late President Harrison.

TCTnone

more Interested in the regularity of the molls than newspaper proprietors and this letter gives them assurance that their representations will be respected and encouraged, when made in a spirit of fairness, whUe it invites them to be particular as to time** and places, so as to malco their complaints available for the purposes of invesUn. "t tion and improvement. In that view, we willingly rivofe?.a id to at on to is of in tional hU. f-"' ,!#•« POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, •I'£IS INSPECTION OFFIOK, JANUARY 25,1812.

SIR I am instructed by the Postmaster

1

a to to a he S a A a copy, such as you will find enclosed, at a leti ter "from a gentleman in whose candor and in-* tellicence uie most implicit confidence tinay,:, be placed and which is, moreover, top welbi sustained by evidence in other forms. The' statement it contains in reference to the mail service covers, as you will see, a very wide extent of country, and indicates a decree of delinquency on important routes highly discreditable to the contractors implicated. It describes a state of things the more offensive and intolerable, as it shows that, out of many honorable and vigilant contractors, there are some, who,, after naving been selected from numerous rivals for employment, "do not hesitate to take advantage of every opportunity to postpone, for considerations sheeny mercenary and selfish, their solemn stipulations with tLc Department.

The Postmaster General is well aware that this season of the year brines with it always numerous causes of unavoidable impediment to the regular progress of the mails out there is no reason why they should fall in the rear of the public travel in the manner so specifically set forth in this letter, by which it appears that a gentleman leaving New York with the mailTor St. Louis arrived three days in advance of it, after six days' delay at various points on the rood. Wliile all the statements of the writer, disinterested and well meant as they obviouslv are, will command your earnest attention, am directed to point it more particularly to the allegation that, in the neighborhood of Chicago, mails arc frequently made to give place to passengers and that, on some routes in the South, news-

paper mails aro always left several days behind the letter mail. As these specifications involve violations of contract, which must be as deliberate as they are mischievous

111

them­

selves, and derogatory to the service, you will be particularly careful to inquire and moke report of every instance of such unjustifiable conduct on the part of moil carriers. There is too much reason to fear that many such instances occur on distant routes, disseminating displeasure and disgust through the country, which yet never come in any tangible form, through reports of poslmasters.or otherwise, lo the knowledge of the Department. That such delinquent contractors, or their faithless agents, should be individually detected and exposed is the more necessary, since, from the uncertainty as to the particular points where mails are thus delayed, and newspa-

)ers thrown off, many public spirited and contractors are liable to be confounded with a few indolent nnd faithless ones employed on the same line of service where these abuses occur.

Affecting injuriously, as this practice of leaving the newspaper mail must do, the interests of the conductors of the public press, you will often gain through that channel information npt otherwise to be had and proprietors of papers may thus efficiently co-op-crate with the regular agents of the Department, by frankly cxposingas well the difficulties as the malfeasance of contractors. In this view of the case their representations are to be respected and encouraged. It will, however, be well for you io suggest, when opportunities offer, that such representations of the press will always be more useful when made after some inquiry into facts, and accompanied with particulars of places, dates, and names of contractors and drivers! for then the investigations which I am instructed to sav will not fail to ensue, may be conducted with precision, and every hope of some practical result while a mere general complaint that the mails are irregular, for instance, "East of Columbus, Gcoigia," or "West of Ohio," Ihouch it serve to give expression to a sense of individual grievance, affords no clew to discover the precise source of the evil it denounces. Confidence is felt that an appeal to the obligation of contractors to make, especially at this season, frequent personal inspection of their routes, would not fail of its effect. I have in special charge, sir, to im-

S•eneral

rcss you with the wish of tne Postmaster lo prevent, rather than rely on fines to cure the evils of irregular and unfaithful transportation. It is but too manifest that, in the eagerness of competition, contracts are often entered into which no vigilance or energy can hope to fulfil with punctuality.

In such cases the imposition of fines, a necessary but disgracious alternative, affords but poor retribution lo the public and hence the Postmaster General would hare it well understood, that, above all things, he values punctuality in the delivery of every portion of the mail and that while no one is forced or persuaded to enter into engagements to perform a particular service, when such engagements are formed and announced, as those on which the public must depend for the conveyance of its correspondence, he will exert tne utmost power ofhis office to have them executed with exactness, I should fail in what I know to be his particular desire, were I not, in this letter, to enjoin further upon you, and in every way upon the postmasters throughout the country, that all instances of any portion of a mail being left anywhere on the way, after having been once taken from an office, be specially and immediately reported to the Inspection Office, to be thence submitted to the Postmaster General for such exemplary action as he may deem proper and effectual to restrain abuses of trust so unworthy of those who practice or permit them. No agent of the Department, much less any special agent, should rank any duly'higher than that ofdiligence to discover, and fearless vigilence in presenting, all such cases.

If, under an^ emergency, mails so accumulate at any point as to render inadequate the conveyance provided for their transportation beyond it, the contractor must avow his ina-

bility to take the whole, and the surplus must be left with the postmaster, whose duty it will be to report all the fads and when a driver, against the orders ofhis employers, takes upon himself to leave any portion of it on the way, the least that can be expected is his instantaneous dismissal, with a report ofhis name, to be registered in tbc Department, to the end that he be forever after excluded from employment in its serv ice.

game of the Locofoco Editors in this 8tate aro laboring to convince the People that the Whit Party are justly chargable with the dishonesty any nuch there was,in the course of MILToar STAPI! as Fund Commissioner, by which a considerable amount of State Bonds were put in circulation without the State receiving any thing available for them. Now, there could be nothing more unjust than this. If STAFF has been guilty of malfeasance, it is his rxvt.T, but it ia the misfortune of the State—or of the Whig party. »'f yon please, provided it is to be regarded in a party ughL Had the late Jockmm party have been held responsible, as a party, for the dishonesty and defalcations of particular individuals, a fearful amount of responsibility and guilt would have rested on ita shoulders. To say nothing of the Swartwouts, the Prices, tho Boyda, and the thousand other

a&J J*

1

Very respectfully, your oh^nt^rvant,

To Dr. HOWARD

KF^NY,

Special Agent eft* Post OfJluDepart^nt.

DRKAT

luminaries,

would it not have been both unfair and unjust to have charged the whole party with dishonesty, merely because Doctor CAXBT "took the responsibility of becoming a defaulter^ Tjiink of it, gentiemcn.—Tippecanoe Journal.T'