Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 25, Number 40, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 October 1834 — Page 1

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VOL. XZV. VIItfCEZflTTES, OA.) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 183-2. IjO. CO. BY ELIIIU STOUT Main Street Price TWO DOLLARS per year, payable in advance; TWO DOLLARS FIFTY CENTS if not paid until the expiration of the year.

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From the Vermont Argus. SIR. RUSH'S LETTER. Wc have great pleasure in laying before our renders a letter from that sterling republican and distinguished statesman, Richard Rush, addressed to Gen. Waller, of Middlcbury, on the subject of the Rank of thcU. Steles withholding the dividends due on the government stock. Every republican, who reads the letter, will agree with us that it is a convincing and powerful argument a stirring and noble appeal to the lofty spirit of American freemen a bold and fearless exposition of the rights of his country, evincing n patriotic regard for her dignity and honor. He strikes a blow at the Mammoth that she will feel. He unmasks l.er artifices strips away her subterfuges, exposes her enormous pretensions, and, in the strong language of a freeman and patriot, holdsthc monster up in all her deformity to the reprobation of the American Peoplo. We invite honest and reflecting men to pause and examine the conduct of Richnrd Rush, lie iristhe friend of the Bank. He was not a supporter of Andrew Jackson. Ho lives in the scat of the Rank's power. After a life of honor spent in the public service, he was calmly looking at the progress of his country. Rut the extraordinary attitude of the Rank aroused him. Ho came to the defence of the constitution, the laws and the houor of his country. His conduct is worthy of all admiration and will procure him undying fame, lie has surrounded himself with the democracy of a country never unmindful of merit, nor ungrateful to the champions of her rights.

Sydenham, near Philadelphia September 5, rii-in With vour obliging letter of the 23d of August, I received the Middlcbury Argus containing the proceedings of the "democratic district convention for the second congressional district of Vermont, held at Sudbury on the 19th of that month, and notice with the proper sensibility, among those proceedings, the reso lution to which you have called my ai tcntion respecting mv humble exertions in thrt cause of the countrv against the bank. The approbation of our fellow cit irns ;? the best reward for discharging our duty, aud 1 beg to assure you that 1 have a deep and grateful senso of the estimation which this convention in Vermont has been pleased to put upon what I have believed to be mine. In the course of your lettor you ask my views on tho recent act of the hank in withholding part of tho dividends duo on stock which the U. S. own in that institution, stating your own opinions to be, that it is of an alarming and dangerous tendency. I agree with you, but am at some loss how to treat the subject, and cannot do so fully, in the absence of official documents relating to it, that have not as yet transpired. 1 confess that I was slow at first to believe the fact, but must now, in common with the country at large, take it to bo true. In Macbeth, we are with nothing more struck than the change of character hich the hero undergoes as the play advances, his guilty ambition constantly increasing as Lady Macbeth stimulates it. So we had seen the bank go on, step by nn following un one pretension bv ano1 ' r i . - . ther, one usurpation by another. Last spring, seeming to forget all its original subordination under the law, seeming to forget totally its true relationship to the government, viz: that of an official servant, and its natural and full responsibility in that capacity to the supervising authority, we saw it engaged in negotiation here in Philadelphia, as if a coequal power in the State; wc saw it, day after day, treating as for terms, through its ministers; and at last deliberately refuse to let the Representatives of the nation have access to its archives its ledgers, journals, blotters, scratchcrs and ticklers; dignified memorials of coeoual sovereignty for a proud aud powerful republic to be confronted with! Still, although we had witnessed assumptions the most unexpected, with infractions a match for them of all primary principles applicable between sovereign and citizen, I must say, that 1 tor one, was nut prepared to witness the seizure ef the public dhidends. I should have thought that, too broad and palpable a stretch ot power; too undisguised an assault upon the public authority and rights. There are extremes upon which the boldest will not venture, and I should have thought that one of them. Admitting f r argument sake that the liank had a just title to all the money it claimed under the transaction growing nut of the Trench Rill, the claim w as, at all events, denied. This bill, one for about nice hundred thousand dollars, was drawn bv our government on that ol France tor monies which the latter owed beyond all dispute under a treaty which j t.'ieir King had sanctioned. iot I'Cing paid by the French government through dcfaultcf timely arrangements on its part, the bill was taken up by the agents of the 1 auk. in Paris; on winch operation the bank charges hfteen per cent, in the light cf damages, although, as far as the public kno , there lias been no proof of actual damage to any tiling like that amount. This, in a word, is the case. I will not go into its further particulars, or the least discusion en its original merits. Such a utterly aide from the mam point to be now dealt with. It would be an aiTronl to the nation, whether as regards it? undoubted rights ot highest dig nity, to investigate details a3 tbf e c

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stands at present. The hank has cut it

self oft from this benefit, if benefit it be. The case meets us under another and more startling aspect. Tho claim being resisted by the United States, shows that at least there were two sides t j the question. It was a caso to which there were two parties. And who were they ? Not the bank and a bankrupt, not the bank and a private and respectable merchant even, as might have happened in the ordinary course of business; but the bank and the nation. It might reasonably have been thought, that in an issue between such parties the party claiming would have waited the proper decision of the proper tribunals. The party respondent" was notlikclvto run away, and its ultimate ability toChiswer, without bail, to a just award, ought scarcely to have been questioned by an artificial entity that sprang from a breath of its nostril. Admitting farther, that the bank had obtained a judicial decision in its favor, or a decision bv the accounting olliccrs of the Treasury under the confirmation of the Executive head of the government, every body knows, and no portion of the public better than the bank, that the money could not have been paid out of the Treasury, but under a law expressly passed by Congress for that purpose. There is indeed a small annual fund for miscellaneous and unsatisfied claims; but not applicable in any wise to a case liko the present. Yet, in defiance of these incontestible principles and the restraining considerations that should have resulted from them, in defiance of all decorum, as well as law, docs the bank decide upon its own claim by seizing for its actual, or sequestering for its contingent payment, the public money happening to bo within its reach. It is impossible that I can view such conduct as other than unwarrantable in the last degree. It is not difficult to characterize it. Its true principles lies upon the surface. It is that of violence. It is throwing society back upon its ojiginal elements. It gives the image of the state of things when private will took the place of a public code. It amounts to a dissolution, so far, of government. If such an act can be sustained, the tribunals of the country may as well be closed. It is revolutionary. To take the law into one's own hands, is at all times a fundament! infringement of the social system; but this, in its ordinary sense, means only as between individual and individual. More objectionable is tho conduct of the bank. It presents the double danger of striking at the political and social systems both together. It trenches upon the highest obligations due from tho citizens to the state. It aims direct, and it may be fatal, blows at the public service; to uphold which in every department is necessary to the stability of the body politic, and is therefore the highest political duty of every member of the community. We must not look at the act under confined limits, but with the enlargement imparted and demanded by its true nature. It is full of novelty as well as alarm; of fundamental error as well as contumaciousness and insult. Let us&be, by a brief analysis, if these terms be Tbi strong; for I desire to reason on the act not declaim, and least ot all to apply unwarrantable or unseemly epithets. If its principles can be defended at all, there is no extent to which it may not be carried. Individuals or public officers of every description having claims against the government, on setting up claims, no matter what the ground or pretext, might in like manner seizo upon the ;uL !ic property in satisfaction of them, wherever they could find it. And where will this land us? The machine of government in all its operations, the resources of the nation, its engagements and faith, its interests at home, its exigencies abroad, its safety and glory, might, one and all, be i atlected by the principle. 1 fie entire pub lic revenue at present, is derivable from the customs, sales of public domain, and these very dividends upon bank stock There is none from other sources; or if there be now and then a driblet, itisa too small to be mentioned. If the divutemTs may bo seized, so may other parts of the revenue, and to any amount. This consequence is apparent; nor is it merely ideal. It is known shaf collector of the customs and receivers of the monies paid in at the land offices, often have, or at least make, claims upon the government on vanous grounds anu alienations, ineior mer class of officers, a class nun.rous and important, have often , it niuf l be owncd,had heavy and just claims, arising from losses incurred through an active anoV meritorious ili; Ciiarce of duty in times of embargo, w ar, or other prohibitory and penal regulations bearing upn commer cial intercourse. These claims have, in frequent instances, been paid by Congress ; yet who ever heard of a collector ef Boston, of X w York, or of Philadelphia, seizing upon duty bends or other funds in trust it would carry with it, by the trustee applying to his own use what he manifestly receives only for the use of government; but it would otherwise overset.the whole fabric of public administration. This is so clear that I haidly like to spend time upon it. It seems like g:oin to w ork on truisms, but the bank has so torn a

their custody, tor payment m advance, or j luiion uone a ueeu, tne tendency ot which ; quainted with the nature and extent oi tae ; ariven irom tneir native land by its er.ex- they will

even to hold in pledge until adecisiont is to uproot the securities of all property I ill-treatment of the people ol Ireland, 1 orable oppressors. Ah: Uod is just, in j wine, their The principle is not to be tolerated fr an It has decided a claim in its own favor bv have availed myself of every opportunity ; spite of our ungrateful impatience. No j years; and

instant. I say nothing of the breach of , t !".-' summary m:c of laving hold of the to endeavour to show, that I held their per-' man living ever did so much to humble j sold at prices

multitmij of first principles from their nt tho same time against the nation, to born in the United Mates of America two reason or remonstrance, as long as the sphere, that the tatk must sometimes be i which it owes allegiance and eminent re-; years after the landing ofhis parents. i power lasts. If thy were capable of lisperformed of putting them back again. ' spect, as tho guarantees of social order: You will read, with uncommon interest, . tening, I woulJ bid the oppressors of the

Tho marvel is, that this should ha c been tK rase with auic-'i'.ution that harps up -

on executive usurpations; that charges the j President with breaking the law! yes, and i

nuus U3ui)uun ii,u.i3 owicij fluai j has done in regard to the bank. Congress it will be remembered make their annual appropriations for the public service at all points, under anticipated revenue from the three sources I have named. The bank dividends arc estimated, 1 let it be said, at four hundred and fifty

inousana uonars. laws are tnence pass- ea lunctionaries ot the land had, under cd and appropriations made, absorbing j every required form and solemn adjudicates sum, not specifically, but as part of tion, given the warrant for touching it. the general masj. In tho mean time, the In tho bold and complicated violations bank lays its hands upon such portion of j which all this implies, a precedent of init, as, without judge or jury, it undertakes i subordination has been set by those claimto say belongs to the bank, as damages by ing influence and sway in the world, its own assessment? Of course this redu- which, unless the great body of the pcoccs tho national funds counted upon for the j pie be roused to a proper estimate of its year, by the precise amount seized. It is j enormity, will, in its ultimate effects, be

as if it had never come into the treasury. What then becomes of the public service which this money would have covered? Is it not obvious that it may suffer? If in-j ui muais, or public omcers, or oilier corporations in the country, having or pre tending to have, claims against the goveminent, are to follow the high handed j and daring example of the bank ; if they too should, in turn, seize upon the other j branches of the revenue as the bank upon ! the branch in question, and all would have j the same right, is it not inevitable that the public service icill suffer? How far, no foresight can predict. The pay of the army might be delayed or stinted, the supplies of a fleet on a remote and critical station kept back, or tho civil service brought to a stand at points the most indispensable. This is no exaggeration, but a natural inference from the rule of violence practised upon by the bank. It would be its practical, its unavoidable result. It calls then, for indignant and vehement reproof. It should be frowned down atonce and forever, as big with mischief: as the forerunner of public confusion and dismay. One of our naval commanders was once indemnified by Con gress for capturing a vessel at sea, which turned out not to be justifiable, although capture was made bona jtdef under instructions. As well, iust as well, might that gallant and veteran officer have se j qucstered the cannon of his frigate in pre- j vious satisfaction or security tor his claim, ; as the bank have seized upon the public dividends. The nation has never before received such an outrage upon its rights, such an affront upon its dignity, from the hands of my of its own citizens. Mr. Taney, in : his late excellent address to the friends i and associates ot his early lite at rrcuerciicktown, compared the conduct of the bank to that of a foreign enemy. The comparison was a striking one, and much did he say, in a strain easier to rail at than confute, to make it good. Pursuing its inreau u is curious to remarK, mat tne uritish press in 1812 used to speak of the war with us chieilv wared on their side against "that jacobin and tool of Buona parte James Madison. In the bank by its manifesto, wages war against "An-! ivages war against "AnHere, certainly, the par- i drew Jackson." allel runs close Extending it, I go on to say, that if a hostile squadron had suddenly in time of! peace levied a contribution of a hun !: jd and fifty eight thousand dollars upon one ! ot our towns, it would not have been, es scutially, a more violent and ruthless act than that ot the bank, which I hvc been considering. It is a remark of fiurke's ! alike profound Rnd true, that "our ideas of justice appear to be fairly conquered and overpowered by guilt wheu it is grown gi gantic. It is only so that I can account for this act not having drxwn down from every party and individual of the nation the most unqualified reprob.it:, :i. It is , - - ot a nature not only to sounu knell of this bank, but to ring t:j death ! : ugh the ; land as a warning against ntu n- innn

bank whatever in all time to come. It j made war upon the executive department "ritisli or t..e savages: a monster, perfectwas probably a foresight of such abuses J of its government, its liberties arc alrea-1 insatiable; hypocritical as the crocodile,

following all others, which have lately burst upun us, that led Jelierson and 3ladison, with other names illustrious among us. to obioct ori nnallv to a bank imon any terms; and it seems that every prudent a a a America; must come to that, as the only " urce of safety for the future, whatever j may have been his former opinions. Its

a .a a a j" I tii he law where it may impair the faith or j alsy the movements of the great body 1 corporate ot the btate. is in eliect. treason ! I against the state. The present bank, has ! j fallen into this high transgression, a trans-: gression which although it has not iucur-j red the leiral iiuilt of those who showed . blue lights in the cast to an invading fo ! is as fatal in its principle to the safety of the state to its very existence. What shall I say of the case under an-j other aspect? In what language develop the dangers bound up with it ? It is of the Bank 1 am still speaking, the pretended guardian of property; yet has this insti - 'ling claimed. It has violate-! the first rule of justice implanted m man's nature, that which should forever preclude him from being a judge in his own ca.'se; since as he never can be an impartial one, it is not likely that he will be a righteous one. I: has aggravated the impropriety of a decision in its own favor, by deciding but the decree of whose tribunals it has ' rudely forestalled, ;hc interposition of

appading evils overcome all sense ot us'gcrs. In the mamiiest and presumptuous benefits. Disobedience or usurpation of i violation of its rights, all its just authori-

whose legislative authority it has inde- j cently contemned. AH this it has noto- j

muusiy nunc, ii 1 1 us Mir.eu upon mono, : not lt Andrew Jackson's" although hostile passion to waru turn may have been the impelling motive to the deed, but belonging to the nation in its sovereign dignity and ownership; and which never ought to have been touched, not a farthing of it, for this or any other claim, until the establish-; more fatal to social order, than any thing perpetrated within the last few months by any of the mobs of our towns, or all of; them put together. The principle of these, However mistaken the means, aimed only at checking what were believed to be the i

evils of a misguided fanaticism; but thejvenge the manifold wrongs of illtreatcd

Rank by its conduct, would loosen the bands of society in its whole elemental structure. It would shiver to pieces what alone can cement it. It scoffs at the law in deliberate resolves, tramples upon it as a boast ; makes war and 2 rasps temporary , victory bv sournin- it as nart of a svs- i tern, and would thus, as far as the most I

premeditated and deadly doctrine no less!",." ".," P: mem man ;

' - . ih-n , o.l u:..u ..i..: i , ery case, force for its decrees, tutc in CV I repeat h-foree. When the King of Prussia marched upon Dresden, he surrounded the exchange with his soldiers, Confining tho merchants to straw beds I and naked apartments, he obliged them, ! with his bayonets in view, to draw bills r... iw.:.f..,.:.. IUI icllu .-5111113 wu UH.I1 lUICIII toil WUlldents, and in that manner replenished his military chest. This was force accordiny to the fashion of armies, but it was not

m f l ru cn If"! CH ?TO r rr rtt va.mi la n- f r 1 1 1 of the United States to satisfy, or to sc euro, its supposed claim for damages undcr the r rerich bill of exchange. What 1 have said I rcirard as first truths belonging to the case on which you have asked my opinions. They lie at the basis of the social state, shield man from the rapino ot his follow man, and communities from the assaults of violence. Party I fe seling may be blind to them for a while, r technical ingenuity strive to pervert or technical ingenuity strive to pervert them; but in the end they will be as triumphant as they arc in their nature immutable, and the institution that has souught to undermine them, receive full condemnation; a verdict, iu my opinion,; earneu iy us many illegalities and u.-ur

whit more as far as all prostration of law ! thosc ,,a w,ch he h:l8 bee" l,1accJ- There and of our constitution are concerned, j m hav5 b(TC" mc" w!w have hown than when the Rank, taking advantage of. f0'!, fortitude, perseverance, and rcso;t nr, or o5.l nn .f.o ....u;,, rovon..o , lution, equal to thoscshown by him. This

pations before we are astounded by this;"1"0 i ann navinS aeiivercu his new one. It is one not only wholly without j fuU!,try of thosr .foe' we arf ,cd .hlm

! justification, tmt destitute of all excuse, or color of excuse. SophUtry itself cannot palliate it. It is a sheer, unmitigated out-, rage. It should rouse the sensibilities of the patriotic and awaken the reilections of the torpid; so as, in good time, to leave the Rank without a single advocate or apologist amonjj the dispassionate and well judging citizens from one extremity of the "Union to the other. What the President and Congress will do under so stupendous ablow at the public right and dignity by this corporation, remains to be seen when t J r fit 1 1 ri r illO lit. IIUI'V 2 must be done snail i i arrive: but something ... . . o The nation will call for it. Public justice in its most imperious attn - butes will demand it. The transgression

1 1 is too unparalleled, and far too dangerous ant. tnci scalping knives; but, in his ca- , ; in its principle, to pass without the utmost 1 chy of chief guardian of the civil and

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rigor of interposition, that the laws may;Pomical rights, and ot the property and

warrant. If thi s irreai nation will pas-1 sively submit to the seizure of it; public rpvp-inn ru- n Imnlfinrr rf.mnnnr t hit hi; dy gone; it will henceforth be ready to submit to any thing which any internal ! or foreign foe may put upon it. Rank inI fluence will have become so .iseendantas i ! . . 1 to have destroyed the perception of wrong,: i to remedy it. The naand all disposition tion will be bound hand and foot, prostrate and degraded at the feet of money chan- . . a tv, and, with that, its glory, will have been struck down. KrT.inroc.itmT the friendly crntimfnt and spirit of vour letter, I beg you to believe mc, with creat respect, Your faithful and ob't. scrv't. RICHARD RUSH. C. C. Waller, Esq. Cohbf.tt is about publishing the Eife of Gen. Jackson, of which the following is the Dedication and Preface: j DEDICATION to the wokking people of irelaxd. 1 My Friends: Ever since I became acsecutors in abhorrence. 1 now dedicate to you a history of ihe life of th bravest, and greatest man now living in this world, or that has ever lived in this world as far as mv knowledge extends. It has given ! , me pleasure, which I cannot describe, to! ! find tb.at this famous man sprang from poor , emigrant Irish parents; and that ho was the clear roof of his having been urged ; on to perforin tho wonderful acts of his

life, by his recollection of the ill-treatment; of his parents in their native land. For

mure man iwo nunurea years, the I abort-. ;ous Irish people were scourged, because, ; and onlv because, the v would not aposta tize from tho religion of their fathers; and even unto this day, every effort is made to keep them down, and to represent them as an inferior raco of men . It is therefore, in the name of truth and of justice, that I send this book forth amongst the people of! this whole kingdom, to prove to them, that j this ill-treated Ireland, this trampled upon Ireland, has produced the greatest soldier and the greatest statesman, whose name j has ever yet appeared in the records of j valor and of wisdom. According to all the law s of all nations, a man,3 though i uurninaioreiiincountrv.il born ol oarems natives ot another country, is a native of the countrv to which the parents neiong. mus mis lamous man is an Irishman; and I beseech vou to look at his 'deeds, and to applaud that just Providence ' which has made him an instrument, though er so indirect, of assisting to ain a manner Ireland. I am, vour fuithful friend, and most obedient scrvent. ' WM. COBBETr. TREFACE. T A a It .1 t i TY' 7 " u 1C .WIin Pu.bIlc "rsand who have any I Porn."a le press ut their command, no llflO 12 T"l1 tr fih tV-t V.f lirt-i t)mn 14,1,1 u an un: niL-aus uiai j J;IC.V J1. " thcif ,JOW5r' justice to V 'uuucl wose. who, dury 1 1C,r . own ,,mc "pecially, have sne ered eminent semccs ,:, the ca.e of Pf!,.C 1,oe.rt-v' J amongst a I the men W,l h.ave. -tnghed themselves m this wf-" m present age, I know of no one i'"J w cii.wienirc any minir hkc an O D equality with him, whose life and actions are me suojecioi me loiiowin" paes. t. - 1 i . i r- it There may have been men placed situations as difficult and dangerous in as I ml 7 llO hilt nt tr On.l n. rkAa-I seventy years of observing, of hearing and of reading, I declare most explicitly I have never seen, never heard of, and never read of, any man equal to the President in these prime and admirable qualities. These pages trace him from the spade and the plough to tho musket carried against invaders, aiming at the destruction of the i:t,.: i- i . r .t i ' , ucri' . , , , ;- , . " , mU" . 1 I !e-v ' tak? h,.m ba( t0 hlf boolts; thcn tae mm 10 mc bar; men place him on the bench ; then send him to the Senate ; afterwards lead us to see him on his farm. whence, when another invasion of his country took place, they show him quitting his beloved fields, again rushinir to meet i ?. "n.w wrm- tnence no is at,w,ou ui,u" ",m, inc c",ei "in,3lldL Ul a ?r1 anu Pulenl anJ a I luumf.v' Y unan-- ' 1 Thus honoured; thus confided in: thus placed in a more honorable situation than j an' olner man upon the face of the earth j w.c sco m.m acting a part worthy of hi: his ! "? station. The angry, tho bitter, the ! implacable, the heretofore deemed allj powerful British government, ho had re I Pusc; ne had humbled. The savage I trbes the cannibal foes of his country, ! i t. i i ...! t .-. . " 1 he ha(J scourged with rojs ot scorpions; l ir he naa not tamcd them into humanity, ! he maJo foar h?athe their lntchcts 1 "a 4 41,3 t mull, jic iiiiu iu ucai li-ro r.t A....r.-,. 1 t 1 ... w,t'4 a monster more formidable and more uf?uuiuu iu liiu PCU )IC. liliH Cllner LnG ! delusive as the syren; and deadly as the iaLUL"iaht ; ninnnswr m paper j money he has now to encounter. This is l his last great labor; if this monster fall beneath him, no pen, no tongue, no vehicle ri praise can ever render justice to his nainc. bme poet ha c,esi spectacle that tl Some poet has said, that the granie human minu can conceive, is -a great man struggling with the storms of fate. It h a greater still to see 3 great man struggling with the r.v st : cruel and destructive monster that ever the Almighty in his ju.t displeasure, pernutted to be the scourge of oiieading na - Hons. It is with no small delight that I sec, in the following pages, proof undeniable the superiority of nature over art, of gen J ! ,us ovcr rank and over riches; it is with : pride, and with just pri I trust, that I be - : hold all that is great in ihe character of j man springing out of ;he l.umblehome:tiad j but it i with still greater, and with inex - pressi;..o delight, that I soe it s-p.-in; from poor IRIi?H EMIGRANT PARENTS, England as A.-vdrew Jackson; and these pages will show us how his zeal was sharpened, how his anger was pointed, by the lessons taught him by his ill-treated parents, and by the cruelty and insolence which he had to endure from the same source. An oganco and injustice, when associated with power, never listen to . poor people of Ireland to rcii these pages : ! and to remember that th? country which

produced Axpsew Jack50S-, still retains the faculty of giring life toother such

men WM COBBETT. Bolt Court, London, 27th March, 1S31. From the Working Marts Advocate. MR. COBBETT. 1 "A lie is a lie. tho told by all the world." . DODDRIDGE. ir: Tho Bank papers seem perfectly crazy at Mr. Cobbctfa "Life of Andrew JafIcson-r" They accuse him of being paid by the government: a few moment's consideration will show both the (oily and baseness of the charge. At page 185, in paragraph ID!, that extraordinary writer states, "In England it was said and geno,4v ut'cunuiu wu uwuui vi iucni bcr last until very recently (March 1834.) that he would be induced or compelled to yield. Knowing the monster with which he had to contend, I myself had fears ur ri the subject, but I had not then read j tnat account of his life, w hich I now har i rcad an abridgment and remoulding of which I now submit to mv countrvmen.n The book was first published in Boston, then abridged and remoulded, and then reprinted in England. Tho "abridgment and remoulding is done from a "Memoir of Andrew Jackson, late Major General j and Commander in Chief of the Southern division of the armv of the United State compiled by a citizen of Massachus piled bv a citizen of Massachusetts,.ton . printcJ by Charles Ewer, 141 WnKSnfTtrtn .front K'KI So that the story of its being written at Washington, and Mr. Cobbett being paid for publishing it in England, must fall to the ground. Who can believe this government would pay one cont for publishing it in England? Its first publication hero was beforo the great Hero was President. . 13 IU U1U II ,)aij fur lls As to the printers, Messrs. Harpers, being republication is also out of tho question. Thosc gentlemen have taken it up as a business transaction, and I havo no doubt; from the rapid sale it now has, they will be amply remunerated for their very judicious speculation, I am, Yours. Sec. W. GOODMAN. New York, 10th Sept. 183 1. Or Democratic papers arc requested to insort this in their columns. Extract of a letter from Pic ton, dated 11th September, 1S34. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. More than three hundred lives lost. Wfe have just received accounts of tho loss of tho ship Syhcllo, of Liverpool, from Cromarty, for Quebec, with three hundred and sixteen emigrants, all of whom perished. Sir of the crew sared themselves in the boat, four of whom arrived here this morning. Can nothing bo done to erect a light houso on that fatal Island ? Surely means should be taken, if possible, to prevent such fatal shipwrecks." Halifax paper. We maj- say without fear of contradiction, says the Journal of Commerce, that more than a thousand of the emigrants who have left Great Rritain and Ireland the present year for Quebec, have porished by shipwrock on the passage. This is the thirtieth part of the whole number of emigrants. Of a still greater number who have left the same countries, for New York, nojone has perished by shipwreck. These are facts worthy of being taken into consideration by emigrant and their friends. By the E;igle. from Liverpool, wc havo received a London paper, dated Sunday, August, 2 1 probably one day subsequent to its publication, in its summary of Spanish news, this paper says; "The Minister of Foreign Affairs has made to the Cortes his communications on tho subject of tho foreign relations of the country. Thev consist of the treaty with tho United States of America, fixing tho compensation to that power for the spoliations committed on its commerce, under the Berlin and Milan decrees, at fire millions rcale.1 X. Y. Mcr. Adz. Old Xcvspapcrs. Many people tako Newspapers, but few preserve them, yet thf moiI i ntrpat in" rf.ar!inT imtirin,f,1a : , a fi,e of olJ nev..3paDers. It brillfT, un thage,with all its bustle and every day ; affai n(i mark3 an1 , more lhaa the mMt abored description of ! the hUt0rian. Who can take a paper dated j half a century ago, without the thou -ht ;.un, aWlC, n,mrt tWo - . ? .? j mai aimosi every namo ihere printed is j now cut upon a tomb stone, at the head of ; an epitaph. The Doctor (quack or rem

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and their cure?, has followed the sablo ! train of his patients; tho merchant who could insure his ships could pet no mirh 1 security on his life; and the actor who ! could mi.e others laugh or weep, can now jonly furnish a skull for his successor in ; Hamlet. I It is easy to preserve newspaperg, anl repay the trouble, for like that of value increases with their old files have sometimes Lcea too startling to mention. The ship Poland, just arrived at New York, has on board J$12,J0, 121,500 firo franc pieces, 2000 franc3, and S bbls. specie. The Montreal has alto 20 boxes of gold. The following is an advertisement from the Nashville Banner: To all natious. languages and people, greeting. Know e that I,Nimrod Neuphe, of tho city of ; Nashville, and State of Tcur esseo, havo dicovorcd the perpetual motion."