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fore,was that done——-and was answered in the
aflirmative. ‘ Go now and putthe friar in the
red room bed.’ _ _
After a. goo: deal ofgpumbling frpm tl:etfj]'i-
. r, this was one. ‘(:0 now an’ L1 9
friar in the yellow room bed.’ _ Thispwas ac-
complished also, but it was evident the good
man was getting angry and Mary wondered
at all this; but how amazed must she have
been, when hei' mistress commanded her
to put the friar into Miss Ellcn’s bed '7-
Up she went with a heavy heart———‘ Oh, sir,
how can 1 look you in the face. ? 'My mis-
tress ordered me to put you in Miss Ellen’s
bed.’ ‘Get out, you blackguard; oh, God
forgive vour mistress; go down and tell her
I’ll not one step. \Vh:it! go into Miss
Ellen’s bed; not I, indeed; what would I be
doing in it——oh ! the wicked sinner! go
along down and tell your mistress I’ll not go
I say, again.’
getthe friar into Miss Ellen’s bed. .
‘ VVhy, that’s very odd, Mary,’ said the
mistress. ‘ No, Ma’am but I think ’twould
be very odd if he did go ?’ cried Mary, mak-
ing buttons with her apron. ‘ If who did
go, Miry,’ cried the mistress in amazement.
‘,The friar, Ma’am to be sure.’ answered Ma-
ry, not knowing whether to laugh or cry but
the good landlady saw by this answer, that
Mary had made some terrible mistake, and she
hurried up stairs accordingly; and, ere she
reached the landing, she met the friar, who
attacked her forthwith, and said she wanted
to ruin his character, and several other
things. Poor Mistress Mulcahy tried to ex
plain——all would not do; but when she'
formed him that the warming pan wast
ed the friar,’ then, indeed, the cat was r
the bag.’ The pious man at once gues
the reason for calling it the friar, and,
out any more ado, he hurried past thei
hostess down stairs, and was never aftc
known to trouble the sign of the
Bells.’
ilfr. Clay and the Public Land
Globe says Mr. Clay voted agains
duction ofthe price of public l.inJs i
to $125 in 1829.’ 'l‘his is untri.
reduction took place in Jilly. 18:30
did not vote at all.
VVhatever difference of opinion tl
be as to the policy of Mr. Clay’s 1:
lation to the public lands, it cannot
that he acts in strict accordance will‘
and spirit ofthe treaty stipulations
by which those lands were ceded t
ted States. This cannot be said of
vote for reducingthe price to mei‘
and who cannot in doing so ha
gard to the interests or wishes 0
States. Nor can these latter perso
the suspicion of designing, by the
to bribe the new States into the SI
their peculiar party. The public 1.
held in trust by the federal governr.
the benefit ofthe United People ofthe
Union. This was the express intention ant.
language ofthe instruments by which they
were relinquished and conveyed by Virginia,
New York, Massachusetts, &:c., to the federal
Union. Mr. Taliaferro’s resolutions embody
this language. They cannot, therefore, be
given away, nor ceded, as the graduation bill
virtually contemplates, without the consent
ofa majority of the States. Ifthe new States
. ‘me solely benefited by them, it is in
ofthe deed of cession, and unjust to
t’ -:2‘-" States.—1lIuclisonia.n.
Put out your Light !—We learn from the
Cleveland Herald, that a movement has been
made in the Ohio House of Representatives,
to discontinue the State office of Superinten-
dent of Common Schools. The Herald ex-
presses a hope however, that better councils
will prevail, and that Loco-Focoism in Ohio
will not seek to perpetuate its reign by dim-
ming the sun of universal education, just ri-
sing to bless and renovate that State;
The Baltimore Chronicle says, ‘It has
heretofore been usual for the Senate to pay
no attention to Mr. Niles’ remarks, but de-
parting froin their custom on the} last occa-
sion when he attempted to repl y to i‘rIr. Riircs’
they became so moved by it, that it was im-
possible for them to keep their seats-—and
they therefore left the chamber.’
The correspondent of the N. Y. Express
has the following, among other notices 01
New Year’s Day in \Vashington :
.llIrs. lllaxlison, who, if I mistake not, has
nearly reached three score years and ten,
bade her friends welcome today in a little lo-
vee at her house. She is a model of a wo-
man—young in old age--cl1eerful——animated
and happy in conversation—loving all and
beloved by all who know her. Every ‘ hap-
py new year’ offered I am sure came from
the heart of her guests. James fllrulison ow-
ed something of his greatness to his wife."
Pensions.——Last Monday was the day nam-
ed by the government, for the payment of
pensions underthe new act of Congress, in
favor of widows who were married after the
soldiers left the army, and previous to 1704,
Pension certificates from the lVar Depart-
ment \VeI'8‘21CCOl'tl,|l'.'0:ly presented on the day,
at the pension office in Boston; when lo, and
behold, the applicants were told that the Go-
vernment had nojfunds there for that purpose;
and as soon as Congress made an zippi'opria-
tion in that behalf, and funds were received,
due notice would be given‘ in the papers!
Cold comfort this, for our good grandinoth.
Mary went down, and told her -
mistress that all she could do she coiild’nt
are issued, and the bagpipes are tuning up, to
cheer on the lagging and lazy ones. Let the
VVhigs be on the look-out, and keep a good
Watch Of their luoveinents. They will
doubtless muster all their strength, and we
must hold ourselves in readiness to be ‘down
upon them’ in the Spring. ‘We shall scatter
them, even as the north wind does the ashes
after the burning over of ‘stubble land.’-—
'Hu7'tford Courier.
From North Ca1'olin(t.—VVe learn that the
resolutions, which passed the House of Com-
mons of that State, condemning the plan of
giving away the U. S. Lands under cover of
reducing the Government price fortliem, had
also passed the Senate of that State by a tri-
uinphant majority.
From. Dclctwure.—-\Ve hear thatowing to
the composition of the two branches of the
Legislature, it is altogether possible that no
election of Senator 01' the United States will
be made at the present session of the Legis-
lature of that State.
INTERFERENCE or FEDERAL OFFICERS IN
EL}‘.C’I‘IONS.
llzfr. Ci'illcnrlcu’s Bill.—We perceive that
sundry neivspupers, supported by officehold-
ers, and professing to be ‘democratic,’ are
outin full cry against this popular movement
to preserve the freedom and purity of elec-
tions. It is natural that they should uphold
every species ofcorruption and abuse, means
and appliance, by which alone the party in
.J
-tor of
l3'0.\,... -- .., uiowueat the peo-
ple in§Parinenter’s District into the support
of that abolition ‘Deinocrat;’ the collector
and other federal officers at N. Y. marched
the persons in their employ, like a corps of
Bow street Guards, to the ballot boxes, braw-
ling, bullying and iiitiinidating the electors;
similar conduct distinguished many ofliccrs
ofthe Gr-iieral Government in l\I9iY‘IP. and
during the recent elections in Phil-adclpliia,
we heard ofthe collector ofthat portjand his
officers, of the Postmaster and his clerks,
the United States District Attorney, and the
United Stated Marshall, openly interfering
with the choice ofthe people, and endeavor-
ing to overawe ; or seduce their independent
jndgeincnts. \Ve say let us be Democratic
Republicans in practice, as well as in theo-
ry; let us carry out and establish the repub-
lican rule of action insisted upon by’Thomas
Jefferson ; let the decree be passed, and here-
after let q_/ficiul p2'ei'og(ttlt‘c be reduced and
strictly prohibited from invading the clcctirc
7'lglLt, which should be free, independent and
incorrupt.——1'lIudisonian, '
Good.—The N. Y. VVhig puts forth the
subjoincd squib. It is a good one.
A'zt'ful.—-—)Ve understand that the U. S.
Marshall has received instructions to.’ watch
the Royal Vlilliam from her arrival until
her dc-p:ii'ture, to prevent any more of the
sub-treasurers from practicing‘ floatation in
office. VVho watches the marshal?
Par/cntous ..’17l.(tg7'a7)t.—.»\ friend has :dis-
covered one which (recent developments con-
sidered) is not inferior in point ofapplication
to any we have ever met with. Here it is:
'-:’A Sub-Trcasuxrcn A SURE Busren.
[National Intel.
Fire at Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio.—
The I-luron Commercial Advertiser of the
15th ult. comes out on a reduced sheet, the
establishment having been destroyed, with
many other buildings, on the morning ofthe
l'2th ult. by fire. The entire damage is es-
timated at about 10,000 dollars.
Git-c Him ct Chancc.—The editor of a
western paper informs his readers that he has
the worst kind of a fever and ague, and asks
them to let him off from publishing his paper
for one week, to give him (L chance to s/in-/re.
3’~__‘,i;:_.'Illt‘7'7L them 0ut.—By our Congressional
3 report it will be seen, that on? Saturdaylast,
:by a majority of six, the Senate postponed
; indefinitely the report of the committee in fa-
ers, whose sweethearts braved the storms of‘ for of 3”°‘Vl“3' “9“'5-Paper r9P°”‘5"S 3 Place
war of the revolution.
sinking into their graves; and while rascals
in high life are running ‘off with millions ofj
They are pm , in the gallery of the Senate chamber. One
!of the l?1‘ll’l.C-lplll opposers of this report, was
’Mr. ‘Sinnitur’ Niles, the Dr. Franlslin of
the public money; govemmem has no funds’ Connecticut. Poor man ! he did reallylook
to help a poor, aged widow get a cord of wood
or a bushel ofmeal, though turdyjustice has
not until the eleventh hour given them even
a promise of a .trifling pittance to smooth
their passage to the tom b.
' Shame, that these promises should not
be prognptly redeemed. It is but an act of
sheer justice -to these relicts of our brave fa.
tllers, that they be handsomely and promptly
paid, but some of the rats about the treasury
at Washington, are trying to filch these tri-
“tr ".i.“f:.‘;‘2.S?.2i".ZY..f:.‘Z.'l2i‘l‘.“‘*
. - v 0 this, would rob
is grandfather.-—-.-L3/nn Fmemztn.
TVa,li:ing Up..—The Loco-Focos have coin-
nienced drumming up and marshalling for the
Spring campaign, Their recruiting orders
ltipon these} reporters and letter-writers as
,about the greatest nuisance that could possi-
I ly get between a great man and his constit-
uents. Q‘: There are too many of these report-
ers, he said, and they abuse us, and particu-
larly they abuse me——the rascals! Indeed the
Doctor is to be pitied, and we do not know,
!after all. as he is. so much to blame for vot-
ing out the reporters. The fact is, their per-
ceptive faculties are so dull that they don’t
apprec-iate his talents, and we believe we
should be for turning the rogues out, if we
were in his place}
After all, such a vote as this must be VlC\ '-
ed as an act of narrow-minded petty mean-
ness. It is all perfectly .natu,r-.11 that men or
little minds, with iitusturrl-sccrl souls, should
snarl and gr,unib.le at the reporte,r,s-—-but we
"
never hear such things from men of real. ta-
lents, and genuine abilities. Such men are
never afraid of being abused by newspaper
repoi'ters.-—IIa,i'tfo7'd Courier‘.
Triumph of the Jl’[ob at Oswcgo, N. Y.—
The following extract from a letter dated Os-
wego, January 2d, speaks for itself:
The Collector received information of the
secretion of two brass pieces, (21 6 and a 4
pounder) in the cedar mill, adjoining the
bridge, in East Oswego: upon which he re-
quested Capt. Gwynn, who is stationed here
with a company ofthe 8th regiment, to place
a guard over the guns until the next morn-
ing. He did so, putting, Ibelieve, two sen-
tries upon the post. About 9 o’clock yester-
day morning, the Collector and one ofthe offi-
cers went with a sergeant’s guard and com-
menced taking out the guns, when they were
assailed by a few persons who had by this
time collected upon the occasion. After hear-
ing their insults for some time (the mob con-
stantly increasing) the collector sent for the
officer commanding, who came down with his
whole company. The mob at this time
amounted to some 2 or 300. After the sol-
diers had remained there about 45 minutes,
they returned to their barracks, leaving the
mob to triumph. The ‘ patriots’ then had
their own sport. They obtaiiicda supply of
powder, mounted the guns, and_ ' firing
until dark. Last night, to crown the whole,
the mob burned the collector and deputy mar-
shal, '1‘urner, in efligy. Comma-rcial Ad-i-,
Interminablc VVur.—The prospect of a
‘rmination of the Indian war, becomes eve-
lay more gloomy. In fact, theie is no
iability of such an event 0.-'.‘-5.‘-iir1'ing in
her twelve month, The information re-
'd from the army is indicative ofanother
-rate struggle by the hostiles to retain
ssion of the country, with a resolution
o yield when completely overpowered.
eported, that at a recent meeting of the
of the Vllithlacoochie, the war‘ party
he most numerous, and were. determin-
ircnewalof hostilities. Cheomathia,
ncipal chief of the Tallahasses, was
sequence unable to bring in the re-
r of his people. He states that Tiger
as among themost hostile, and had re-
with the waariors and their families
west of the {Suwannees.—Florid-tan.
spoils of V-ictorp-—VVe learn from
ool that Mr. Swartwout has given a
banquet to his friends in that city,
h and American,‘ the price of which
.’.L'c7Z pounds sterling pm‘ mun, equal to
than tliirty-one dollars per ticket. VVe
, after this, that our amiable friends of
Evening Post and Argus will cease howl-
at the ten dollar dinner at the Astor
ouse. The VVhigs are no touch at all,,_to
ne Agrarians, in the matter ofgormandising.
Not enjoying the spoils, our friends could on-
ly pay ten (lollms for the greatest banquet
ever got up at the Astor I-louse. But Gen-
eral Jackson’s pet Collector stops not at thir-
tg/.--Com. Adv.
‘Here goes for your wig.’——Uncle Sam
is in asad plight. He is beset with thieves,
and has not the power to drive oflithc swarm,
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their work of destruction and returned to this
side of the line. These proceedings must
produce a war unless the general govern-
ment does its duty.—W/'i.zg.
inoiavvatté e./-tzisirvis.
“uoN"r GIVE UP THE siiir.”
WEDNESDAY.’ JAN Uamtiis. 1839.
VVHIG STATE CONVENTION.
The Whigs o_fConnecticut willh-old aState
Coiwcntion at lllidrllcloiwn, on VVednesda._1/,
the 13th (lap of I“cb'i‘ua7'_7/ next, for the pur-
pose of ’/l.0m1:7l(l~ll77 g (L Governor, Lieutenant
G0’L'e7”It07‘, T7'casu7'c7', Scc'rctu7';7,-', and Comp-
troller, and for Mansucting any other busi-
ness that nzay come before them. The Con-
vention will be composed of delegates from
the several towns, equal to double the number‘
of their representatives in the General As-
sembly/. The Town Committees in the d7;fl’e7'-
ent towns are requested to call meetings of
the WV/tigs on the 1st Illonday of Feb7'u-M3/,
being the 4th clan/, (or at some othe'r conven-
ient t'lme,) to elect delegates to said Concen-
tion; and it is particularly requested that
every town bcfully represented.
JEREMY HOADLEY, zsmte Cemml
DAVID F. ROBINSON, Commmec
MELVIN COPELAND, S _ _ '
Hm'tfo7'd, Dec. 20th, 1838.
Political lVIeeti~ngs.—The time is now at
hand when it will be necessary for the ‘Whigs
of this County again to brush up their ar-
mor and make preparation for the conflict
which awaits them on the first Monday of
April next. Previous to that time, however,
the usual preliminary arrangements must be
made. There is a State Convention to be
holden at Middlctown on the 13th February,
sion of particular subjects, however illusory
and fruitless in themselves, do, notwithstand-
ing, impeach the first principles of Demo-
cratic Liberty; and that -Congress cannot.
constitutionally, preclude its members from
debate and motion as to a specific excepted
class of subjects, provided the same are with-
in the purview of the constitution, and of the
people of any one of the United States.
These resolutions conclude with declaring
"That all that part of a certain resolution of
the House ofRepreseniaiives adopted on the 12th
day of Dec. last, which provides that ‘every pe-
tition, memorial, resolution. proposition, or pa-
per’ ofa prescribed class ‘shall, on the present-
ation ihereof. without any further action thereon,
be laid on Ilie table, without being debated,
printed. or referred,’ is a violation of Ilie rights
‘ of the States, whose oflicial communications to
Congress of said classes it excludes from due and
proper consideration-.-a violation of the right of
petition inherent in the People of the U. States,
which it cancels and abridges, and a violation of
the privilege ofspeccb and of debate rightfully
appertaining to the members of this House,
which it forecloses and abolishes; and, therefore,
that so much of said resolution be,and the same
is hereby. declared to be unconstitutional and
merely void and of null effect."
We are rejoiced that there is, at last
found, one New-England man. who is
not obnoxious to the charge of being an ab-
olitionist, who has moral courage and patri-
otism enough to come out and meet this fearful
encroachment upon the constitutional rights
of the people, upon the threshold. In this
era of corruption, and truckling servility to
Executive dictation, it is no time for the peo-
ple to surrender the few rights which are
yet left them. ;
Decidly opposed as we are to the radical
and disorganizing movements of abolition-
ists, we would be among the last to give upa
right guaranteed to the people by the constitu-
tion, however efficient might be its occasional
operation in favor of our opponents. Con-
stitutional rights once parted with, it may ne-
ver be in our power to regain; and we are
not in the number of those who would sur-
render a fundamental principle, for the sake
of securing a temporary advantage over the
most imminent danger. Our motto is, ‘Eat
justititt, ruut ccclum.’
There are members of Congress, we know,
who entertain views similar to our own upon
this subject——they are northern men too—
and we will go farther, and say men who
for the nomination of State Officers—-and we
hope every town in this county will be well
represented on that occasion; and it is high
time that arrangements were being made for
that purpose.
There is a District Convention to be held
too, for the nomination of a Senator——-and a
Sheriff and Member of Congress. Public
notice of the time and place of holding these
.._-- ‘I.
\Vhcn Swartivout steamed it Europewards,
all was consternation; and when M» -_-;
nev Price citiiie fnrw--='~1- ~
him in the stead of the i
infirm old gentleman moat .1 _ -.-z .>‘:..;
lost: \Vhat’s the matter, - ' “‘ - S _
low.—~‘ Oh sir, a villain just stole my gold-
laced hat from my head, and ran away with
it.’—‘ VVhy don’t you run after him '9" asked
the rogue.-—.—-‘Bless your heart, sir, I cant
run at all-—.—I can hardly walk.’——-‘ The deuce
you can’t’ said the rogue, ‘and he stole your
liat’.l’—‘ Yes, he did, sir.’—‘ And you can’t
run ?’—-‘ Not I.’—‘ Nor catch liimti-'-—No.’
—-‘ Then heregoes for your wig ‘.3’ and ac-
cordingly pulling offthat thatch forthe head,
the fellow went off like a shot, and the old
gentleman was left as bald as a coote. Just
such is the condition of Uncle Sam. Unless
he shakes offthe band of robbers who have
fastened on him, he will scaicely escape with
his scalp !-—.Ohio State Journal.
trio ici-
FOREIGN.
Interesting from Meo:ico.—— l'Va.r Dcclarerl .'
The New Orleans Bee of Jan. 1st,says——
The brig Kenhawa, which arrived last eve-
ning from Lnguna, which she lef: on the
16th Dec., brings interesting intelligence de
rived from the British bark Peru, from Sacri-
ficois, then at Laguna. From this source
we learn that the town of Vera Cruz has
been taken by the French, after bombard-
ment. The Mexican General Ari.‘-zta was
taken prisoner by the French, and General
Santa Ana was so grievously wounded as to
render necessary the amputation of a leg.
The Mexican government, not willing to
recognize the treaty entered into between Ad-
miral Baudin and Gen. Rincon, and having
declared war upon the French government,
Gen. Santa Anta placed himself at the head
of 5,000 men, and entered Vera Cruz in
spite of the treaty. Admiral Baudin having
learned that Santa Ana was advancing to-
wards the city, sent a number of boats filled
with troops, with orders to spike the cannon
ofthe batteries at Vera Cruz. While they
were engaged in this labor, the Mgxicans
came upon them and slaughtered at c=insider-
able number of officers and soldiers, The
French were compelled to retreat towards
the squadron, which opened a heavy fire up-
on the town, dislodged the Mexicans and
took possession of Vera Cruz.
Canada-.-.—Sevcral weeks since we stated
that a ine_et_ing had been held in this city at
which certain -' patriot, leaders from Vermont
appeared, and asked assistance for an expedi-
tion from that state into Canada VVe called
the attention of the public to this matter, and
represented the necessity of preventive meas-
ures. Itnow appears that the outrage we
then dreaded has been perpetrated. By our
last accounts from the North, we are inform-
ed that a body ofmen crossed the line a few
nights since, and not only burned the house,
and barns of several loyalists, b_ut actually
compelled women. and children -to travel na-
ked through the snow at midnight, three .quar-,
ters ofa mile to the next dwelling. They re--
frained from burning one housefiat theimpor-'
tunity ofan old lady, who represented to them
that she was watching by the side of a sick
daughter, who could not be removed. The
; .vill probably be given in our next
’ ~ ‘ ‘.‘.'-lb have euggoetnrl it at pfuio tizno,
;'»;.:.-t cu: ft ends throughout the County may
fhi-_;;-.~ng the matter over, and be prepar-
ed to act seasonably, understandingly, and
efficiently, when the period arrives. The
sooner meetings in the different towns are
held, and delegates appointed, the better,——-
VVe believe that Fairfield County will poll a
larger VVhig vote this year than any other
county in the State. VVe can do it, if we
will. At any rate, if we this year take hold
of the work in time, and follow it up with
that industry; and perseverance which the
good cause demands—we can ’w(Lll_t2 over the
course next year; in spite of any opposition
that will dare show itself.
TIJE RIGHT OF PETITION.
We notice with pleasure, among the Con-
gressional proceedings of the 7th inst. the
introduction of a set of Resolutions by ,Mr.
Cus/ting of Massachusetts, into the House of
Representatives, rescinding the resolutions of
BIT. Athcrton, adopted on the 12th December,
which provides that ‘every petition, memo-
rial, resolution, proposition or paper’ of a
certain proscribed class, ‘shall, on the pre-
sentation thereof, without any further action
thereon, be laid on the table, without being
debated, printed or referred.’
The resolutions of ]lI7'. Cus/ting assert
that the several states composing the Nation-
al Confederacy are not associated on the prin-
ciple of unlimited submission to the Federal
Government, or to eit_her branch of the Na-
tional Legislature; that among the rights
reserved to each State is that of freely and
fully expressing its opinions on all matters of
public concernment of the State or the peo-
ple thereof, and of commuiiicating‘ the said
opinions to Congress; and that it is the con-
stitutional duty of Congress respectfully to
receive, entertain and consider, and maturely
and deliberately to decide upon, all such
communications addressed to it by either of
the States, or any of the citizens thereof; and
that the summary rejection of such commu-
nications is insulting to the honor, and inju-
rious to the rights of the sovereign States of
the Union. That the freedom of conscience,
of speech, and of the press, and of the peo-
ple peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances are
imprescriptible and essential rights—rights
inherent in the people as a people, and under
the constitutions of the several States by and
to the said people guaranteed and consecrat-
ed. forever; and that they cannot be cancelled,
abridged, restrained, or modified, constitution-
ally, by any act of Congress. That all at-
.-.’t ‘ .~.»‘-_,‘
ling for Atherton’s resolutions.
County Convention to select candidates for,
l
. profess to represent Connecticut upon the floor
lof the House of Representatives, who did vi-
folence to their own private feelings in vot-
' But the res-
cue of the administration party from the per-
ils in which it was involved, demanded the
sacrifice of what conscience dictated to be
uty—-of what their own intelligence and
‘consciousness of the wishes of their consti-
tuents required of them, and, like good tho-
rough-going Loco-Focos, their love for Casm‘
,swallowed up their love for Rome. The wel-
fare of ‘the paxrty/’ was a more important
and weighty consideration with them, than
the welfare of the country, and the preser-
vation of the rights of their oonstitucntsl
But the time is near at hand, wlicn the
freemen of this State will pronounce their
verdict upon the conduct of those who now
pretend to represent them in the National
House of Representatives. And we await
that verdict with the most entire confidence
in the triumph of constitutional Liberty over
Executive subserviency. ’
,Fi7'c.——The store of Harvey Smith, at
Stanwich, was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 1st inst. Mr. Smith was obliged to
make his escape from a second story window.
The Truth from John PVI. Niles .'.’!—_Sin-
eater Niles, in his recent attempt to defend
the Secretary of the Treasury upon the floor
of the Senate, says, ‘ Itmust be apparent that
during the past year, the finances cannot
have been conducted on any:uniforin and set-
tled principle. The Secretary has been coni-
pelled to act on déflereitt rules, according to
the circumstances under which the public
revenues have been placed, In some cases
the public funds have been kept by them:
s.elves, in others not,’
i,‘The circumstances under which the pub-
lic revenues have been plttcezl,’ during the
past year, are equally apparent. The cases
in which ‘the public funds have been kept by’
sub-treasurers ‘themselves,’ are neither few
nor far between. And the Secretary will
have to govern himself hereafter, by very
‘different rules’ from those upon which he
has hitherto acted, or there will be no public
funds to look after. The ‘ special deposite
system,’ as practiced by Mr. Woodbury, and
illustrated by his understrappers, is nothing
more or less, than the conversion of public
into prliiate funds, and local into loco-motive
depositories ; a mere difference in terms, that
is all! As it now is, the duties of the Sec.-
retary of the Treasury would appear to be
merely retrospective. For the Government
is literally ‘without money and without Price.’
Another Loco-Foco Lie nailed to the Coun-
ter.—-It is now ascertained that _Mr_. Field,
our late Loco-Foco Comptroller, wrote the
communication to Gov. Vance of Ohio, on
which he based the assertion in his message,
that “In Connecticut, the state tax alone is
ten cents on every hundred dollars valuation
of real estate.” The Hartford Times made
a great out-cry about this mistatement, and
compassionate .,cu,t-th_roal,s have gone over
tempts to srriotlier and _suppre_ss the discus-
charged it upon “the ignorance” of Gov-
Ellsworth, and all the kennel presses which
echo the yelpings of the Times joined in full
chorus. The Hartford Courier of the 10th
inst. says:
“ By a letter which the editor of the Cour-
ant has received from Ohio, it appears that
Gov. Vance’s letter was written to Gov. Ed-
warzls in l837——that it was handed to Mr. .
Field, then Comptroller,who replied to it, and
that is all the information Governor Yance
has received on the subject from Connecticut.”
_____:__
CONGRESS.
lVashington., January 4.
In the Senate, to day, we have had a very
rich treat. Mr. Rives’s resolution, making
certain inquiries of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, in relation to the new brotherhood,
which he, (Rives) had assumed to prove,
had lately sprung up, between ]lIr. Biddle’: 4‘
Bank,and its old denouncer, the present ad-
ministration, came up for consideration.
This, you will remember, is the second of
these resolutions, the first offered some days
ago, having been replied to very evasively
by M)’. lVoodbit7'_i;. and Mr. Niles having, in
the absence of Jlfr. Rives, raised a note of
triumph over what he called the refutation
of Mr. R's charges, by that reply. This reso-
lution carries the inquiry further, and touch-
es upon some inexplicable things in the Re- -~-
port already before the Senate and country,
from the pen ofthe Secretary. _
In the House this morning. llfr. Mzty,-g
(Conservative) of Illinois, moved to take up
the Resolution of Investigation into the .
Swa.-rtwout defaloation. '
Ilfr. Legoxre was of the opinion that the
day, being private bill day, should, in justice ,-
to private claimants, be devoted to that class-
of business. ’
Mr. lllay would confine the discussion he
proposed to the morning hour. He moved
to suspend the rules (requiring two-thirds)
for that purpose, and asked the yeas and
nays, which were ordered. The motion l
failed, the vote thereon being 101 to 88,-
wanting 25 of the requisite proportion of those
present.
The Committees were then called for
Reports, and several were presented,
The House spent the day in private
bills. That which occupied the most ofthis
time, and which excited deep and universal
interest, was the bill so long before Congress
for the relief ofthe relict of General Brown,
late major general in chief of the United
States. The question being on the passage
ofthe bill, Jllr, Sll£’}")'0(l lYillia;I:5 Opposed
it, on the principlcthat the wound received"",
in war by the ('i('tl_t'.1‘$ll, was not (as, in order
to pass this bill,was to be made oui,) the cause '
of his death.
Mr. Foster and llir. 'a_7/lor of N. Y.,
supported the bill, adducing pl('n{1l‘_Vt!\'l(l('I)t.‘B
(as contained in the report of the committee,
whence came thebill,) that, though the death
occurred fourteen years after the reception of‘
the wound, still that wound was the true
and sole cause of his death, when it did.
take place.
JlIr. Adams made a splendid speech in‘
support ofthis bill, and his eulogy upon the
General, was one ofthe most eloquent efforts
ofthat distiguislied member.
Mr. Petrilccn dcman ' '- 7’ "W4
Question, which was scco- . . - 5
and the yeas and nays bci .-‘ 1.
question “ Shall the bill pa - ~
Jlfr. Duncan moved to iaythe bill on the
table, and asked the yous and pays, which
were refused. Tliis motion was rtjected by
a large vote.
Mr. Dznzcrtn then moved that the House,
adjourn. Another trcincndous roar in the
negative,
The supporters of llfr. Duriczzn in this
kind of vexatious 111_C)Vt'.m(‘I)t, were the Petri-
/tens, C-ushgizaps, A1/icrtovis, eli(l07I171egc7Lu5,
3ut they were admirably rebuked by the
overivhclming opinion of the great mass of
the body. ‘
The bill was passed by the vote following;
Yeas 100; Nays 72.
Several attempts were made to reconsider
this vote, but the House refused, by a most
overwhelming vote.
And the House adjourned-— Co/2. Cuu rant, 1
lyiisliiitglon, Junzutrgj 5.
In Senate, to-day, a memorial was present-
ed requesting that proper seats might be ap-
propriated for the correspondents and report- _,
ers ofpapers published out ofthis city. (All
other persons excepting the reporters ofthe
city papers being excluded from the floor of
the Senate by a rule of last session.)
The chief opposition to this memorial pro-
ceeded from the source from which it might
most naturally have been expected, viz., that
illustrious Senator John M. Niles, of Con-
necticut, ' 7
This honorable gentleman arose in a state ‘
of great excitement, andlifted his voice be-
yond it_s ordinary pitch in condemnation and
utter reprobation of the hirel-ings, (by which
courteous name he designated all reporters
and correspondents.) who, he said, had made , .
him notorious throughout the country. _.
It is, unfortunately for the public, impossi-C
ble for any one not intimately acquainted
with the peculiar and Attic dialect in which
Mr. Niles is in the habit of clothing his
ideas, to follow him in the soaring flights of
fancy and brilliant corruscations :~ - . ' '
which that Hon. Senator ever has -4 :-» i
ever will be, remarkable. Suffice
that he opposed the admission of ti-
ers on two separate grounds: First, and
strongest. that these gentlemen had thought-
fit-*o attack him, the Hon. Senator; Seconr'
that these attacks gave him a disagree
notoriety.
That the reader may not be utterl'
loss for the manner and style of Mr. .
speech, we take the liberty of referrii
to the"observations of one Dogberry,
mous play of Shakspeare’s 2
“ Dost thou not suspect my placv
thou not suspect my years? 0 tha’
here to write me down—an ass;
ters, remember that I am an ass;
be not written down, yet forgetv
an ass. No, thou villain, thou .'
ty, as shall be proved upon the
ness. I am a wise fellow;
more, an officer ; and which i
holder; and which is more, 1
of flesh as any in Messina.
knows the law. g0 *0; and --
that hath had losses; and on»
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