in his secluded rambles, was found faithfully
uarding the door, the cat was mewing quiet-
fy in his bed, flutes, violins, guitars and mu-
sic books were distributed carelessly about
the room, but not a note or scrap of paper
was discovered to give information of his
history or his name-
It has since been‘ ascertained that he cal-
led himselfFrancis Abbott, of England, and
that he sprung from a very respectable Qua-
k_er family, residing in the neighborhood of
Plymouth , The reason of his extraordinary
separation from society and his friends have
never transpired. Whether he had become
disgusted with the ways of civilized man,
whether he was touched in the intellect, or
had suffered a grievoiis disappointment in
love, which is the interpretation given to
to his conduct by_all the young gentlemen
and ladies who visitithis place—-will remain
no doubt, forever unknown. It certainly gives
a romantic turn to the incident to believe
in the latter supposition, and Iain therefore,
naturally disposed to adopt it. '
CONGRESSIONAL.
Correspondence of the Tribune.
Morvnav, August 30.
The Distribution bill has at length passed
both Houses of Congress, and needs only
the signature of the President to become a
law! It was taken’ up to day in the House
for the purpose of concurring in the amend-
ments of the Senate, all which were agreed
to, except three apportioning the distribu-
tion among the States according to their Fed-
eral respectiitive representation in the two
houses of Congress.’ These were rejected.
The amendment suspending the distribution
whenever the rate of duty on imports shall
exceed 20 per cent. was agreed to, by a vote
of Yeas 108 to Nays 94.
Mr Everett asked leave to ofler a resolu-
tion that Congress ought not to adjourn till
some measure is adopted for the safe keep-
ing of the public revenue; and Mr Ather-
ton asked to offer a resolution for adjourn-
ment on Monday, 6th Sept., both of which
were objected to.
The Fortification bill was taken up. and
the House refused by Yeas 87—Nays 94. to
agree to the amendment of the Senate. ap-
propriating $30,000 for South VVestern Sur-
veys. VVithout taking the question on the
other‘, appropriating $75,000 for the site of
an Armory, the House adj.
IlIr Tappan moved to take up the resolu-
tion for the adjournment ofCongress, so that
some time might be fixed on which they
could calculate. The motion failed; Yeas
2l—Nays An adjournment could not be
expected, as Mr Clay to day declared he
would agree on no day till the Revenue a-.
the Bank bills were decided on, if they re-
mained here till Christmas.
Mr Berrien from the Select Committee
on that subject, reported the‘ Fiscal Corpo-
ration Bill,’ from the House, without amend-
ments, and asked that it be madethe special
order for Wednesday.
The Revenue Bill was then taken up, &.
Mr. Buchanan offered an ameridmant to re-
peal the act of [832 exempting railroad iron
from duty, and to subject it to the 20 per cent
duty, except that alreadyimported. To this
Mr Huntington offered an amendment to ex-
empt also from duty the railroad iron which
shall be imported prior to December 1. I841.
The amendments were debated about four
hours.
The aineitdment of ]lIr Huntington was
adopted, and subsequently reconsidered. No
further question was taken.
The Distribution bill was then taken up,
on motion of Mr Smith of Ia.. which
was advocated by Messrs Smith, Clay and
Dixon, and opposed by Messrs Benton, Ful-
ton, Calhoun, Clay of Ala.. and Tappan,
the amendments which were disagreed to by
the House, were ‘receded from by a vote of
25 Yeas-—to 18 Nays.
TUESDAY, Aug. 31.
In the House of Representatives to day,
Mr Fillmore, in reply to an inquiry of Mr
VVood, stated that the Committee of ways
and means had determined to make no fir-
ther appropriations at the present session for
the completion ofthe Custom House at N.Y.
The resolution on the McLeod case was
taken up, and the resolution was laid over.
The Fortification bill was again taken up
the question being on the amendment of the
Senate, appropriating $75,000 for a site for
a VVestern, North VVcstern, or South Western
Armory. Various Members spoke, desig-
nated alniost as many different sites, each
one insisting that his selection was the prop-
er one. The House refused to concur in
the amendment, and, on motion of Mr Sum-
mers of Va., adopted, by a vote of 120 yeas
to 42 nays, an amendment appropriating for
this purpose 85,000, the selection to be made
I by the President, and approved by Congress.
Mr Morgan moved a re-consideration of
the vote refusing to concur in the Senate’s
amendment, appropriating $30,000 for South
VVestern surveys. The motion failed. A
Committee of conference was then appointed
and the House adjourned.
The House have almost entirely transact-
ed their business, and are prepared for an
adjournment whenever the Senate shall have
transacted their business- Mr Buchanan to
day expressed his belief, as well as hope,
that this would take place by Monday next,
but it seems quite improbable.
In the Senate, Mr Merric from the com-
mittee on the District of Columbia, reported
the franking privilege during the recessess
of Congress, ex-members forthe nine months
after the expiration of their service, and new
members prior to their service.
The amendment was rejected, no question
was taken on the bill, and the Senate adj.
WEDNESDAY. Sept, 1.
In Senate, to day the bill to satisfy the
outstanding reservation to the Choctaw In-
dians, was taken up, and after some conver-
sation, a motion to re commit having failed,
the -bill was passed.
The Revenue Bill then coming up as
the unfinished business. Mr Berrien moved
to lay it on the table to take up the Fiscal
Corporation Bill.
Mr Rives hoped they would go on with
the Revenue bill, and finish it before they
took up this bill. He had not examined the
bank bill, as he had not expected it would
be taken up. .
Mr. Clay hoped the bill would be taken
up, as it was the general understanding yes-
terday. (Mr \Voodbury said it was.) Mr
(H C.) said he had made up his mind to vote
for the bill; although it did not all he could
wish, yet it would do much good.
Mr Archer on account of his colleagues
being unprepared would let the matter pass
over. He was prepared for it himself, and
should vote forthe bill.
Mr Rives spoke further against the bill, as
said he was decided as to his vote, in the pre-
sent shape of the bill; he could not and
would not vote for the. bill,’ but should be
very happy to have it so shaped thathe could.
Messrs Calhoun and VVoodbury wished
the bill taken up, and disposed of, as they
knew full well till thatwas done no adjourn-
ment, for which members were most anxious
could be had.
The Revenue Bill was then laid on the
table by a vote of Yeas 34 Nays 14, and
the ‘Fiscal Corporation’ bill was taken up &.
read.
Mr Berrien then as Chairman of the Com.
mittee, who reported it, spoke upwards of 2
hours and a halfin defence of the bill. He
maintained its constitutionality and that the
scruples on this point which had existed
with reference to the other bill were avoided
in this. He referred to the President’s Mes
sage at the commencement of the Session, to
the Report ofthe Secretary of the Treasury,
and to the Veto Message, and held that this
bill exactly conformed to the views of the
Executive Department, expressing at the
same time his decided belief that it would
meet with favor there.
The bill was then open to amendments,
and none being offered, it was reported to the
Senate.
Mr Benton offered amendments, to pro-
hibit States from becoming subscribers to
the Stock, to prevent Corpomlirzos from the
same, to provide that corporators of Corpo-
ration subscribers should be citizens of the
United States, that the Stock should only be
transferred to citizens of the United States,
and that Corporations should pay $50, in-
stead of $10 per share, at the time of their
subscription; all which were rejected, with
but very little debate. .
JlIr Rives should not vote for the. bill un-
less amended.—-It conferred on theipgencies
the unlimited power ofdiscounting bills of
exchange in tlie- United. States, and inde-
pendently o_f their consent. ‘He held that
agencies might be atlrnitted into the States
without their express ‘assent, on the principle
ofthe comity of nations, but to be subject to
be removed at the will of the States,and to
be entirely prohibited from discounts of ex-
changes as well as promissory notes.
Messrs'VValker and Allen offered amend-
ments, the former to proviJe that the bills
should be at shorttime, and on goods actual-
ly shipped; and the latter, to makethe stock-
holders responsible in their private capacity
to the amount of their respective stock, in
case the corporation failed to redeem its ob-
ligations in specie. These were rejec_ted-
the first by 21 to 27-—the second by 2 to 28.
The Senate then adjourned without taking
the question, to give IlIr Archer an oppor-
tunity to present his views, which is under-
stood will be very‘ brief. The question is
expected to be taken to inorrow, without
much debate, the Locos having given that
up from their anxiety to adjourn, which is
now calculated at VVednesday_ next.
The House agreed to the Senate’s amend-‘
ment to the Post Office Appropriation bill,-
and adjourned at 12 o’clock. They are out
of business. ’
THURSDAY, Sept. 2.
In Senate to day the ‘ Fiscal Corporation’
Bill was again taken up, and Mr Archer
,spoke‘about two hours in A able argument in
favor of the bill. He contended that there
were but two modes to be employed by Gov-
ernment in the collection and disbursement
of the revenue—one was, by the employment
of individuals, or the Sub Treasury system ;
and the other by means of corporations ;
which mode included the State deposit sys-
tem, and a general Fiscal Agent for the Gov-
ernment.
Mr Buchanan replied to the remarks of
Mr Archer, entirely opposing this measure,
as more odious in every aspect than an old
fashioned United States Bank ; he consider-
ed " Kite-flying Fiscality” the most appro.
priate name for it-—far more so than the Sen-
ator’s from Missouri (Mr Bcnton’s) appella-
tion of' Meal Tubs,’ ‘Botts,’ &c., bank. He
referred to the Harrisburg Convention, de-
nied that the question of‘ bank or no bank,’
or any other principle was settled there, and
the House bill, making an appropriation for said that assemblage was composed ofa mix-
the funeral expenses of Gen. Harrison; which
was taken up, and passed without debate.
The bill making an appropriation for the
relief ofthe Post Office Department, was re-
ported by Mr Ilenderson, taken up and, oc-
cupied the Senate during the day.
An amendment of the Comiriittee apply-
ing $15,000 of the appropriation for the em-
ploy of 13 extra clerks for one year. and for
stationary, to assist the Auditor in bringing
up the arrezirages of accounts, was adopted.
Much debate was elicited, and the Locos,
with the exception of Messrs Buchanan and
Walker, opposed the bill, as being an inno-
vation on long established usage, contrarv
- to the design ‘ofthe Constitution, and contend-
ing thattliis Department stood aloneatshould
receive no aid from the Treasury.
Mr Benton oflerrd an amendment. as he
professed, for the means of increasing the
revenue, to deprive members of Congress, of
ed multitude from every nation, and tribe, Gt.
kindred, and tongue, politically. '
Jlfr Clay replied eloquently and with
great effect to the Senator's remarks, Of all
the divers characters composing the Harris-
burg Convention, he would sav there were
none in favor of low wages. What sort of a
party, he asked, must there bave_ been to be
so signally defeated by a union that had no
principles at ail——as the Senator had descri-
bed the \Vhig party ? I-Ie rescued Mr Ty-
ler from the imputations thrown on him, in
case he signed the bill, and believed from
the principles expressly laid down in his
Veto Message, as well as from those uni-
formly maintained by him, that this measure
would conform to his views and receive his
sarzclion. Rumor had said I-hat a party of
the Opposition visited the President’s House
the night after the Veto ;--he knew nothing
as to the fact, but he would suppose a case,
‘which he most graphically and jocosely‘
described. Thgre, he would i‘magine,aming
those gathered for the purpose of the glsat
congratulation, the Senator from South
olina, [Mr Calhoun,] looking as if he yas
deducting the nicest abstraction that had efrer
lSSl]t‘d from his metaphysical brain, thire,
he presumed was the Senator from Alabzma
lMr Kingd readyto settle, in the most posi-
tive manner, any question of order that might
arise. He supposed that many others wee
present whom he went on to characterise,‘to
the no smallamusernent of the dense crowd
in the galleries, as well as the Senators and
Representatives on the floor, among vrlbrn
he supposed the Senator from Pennsylvania,
[Mr Buchanan] as their distinguished lender,
addressing the President in something like
the following manner :
“ May it please your excellency 2 My olit-
ical friends stmyself have come this afternoon
to deposite at your Excellency’s feet tlie ev-
idences of our loyalty and devotion. ;We
have come, more particularly, to express to
yourexcellency the congratulations to which
we think you are entitled, for having relieved
the country from the danger of a violation
of its constitution, by the establishmentnofa
bank of the United States; and we owe to
your Excellency our special acknowledg-
ment for the Veto with which you hav fa-
vored the country to day; and for sp, in]
reasons—\ve struggled with your Excellen-
cy’s friends, in both Houses ofCongses5, for
days and weeks together; we exhaustel all
our powers of logic and argument to defeat
it, but in spite ofthat, the friends of youiEx-
cellency, in both Houses, proved too strong
for us, and carried the measure agai "t nr
united exertions; and we come now to_ha‘nl.-
your Excellency that you have dong that
against your friends, which we coull not
accomplish with all our exertions."
He imagined that after availing hem-
of the President’s hospitalities, and by no
no means overlooking the Champaigne,(hey
retired with the utmost good feeling. '
Messrs Calhoun, King, and Buchynan
severally replied to the remarks of Zllr blay
and denied that they were at the Presidl.nt’s
House that evening; ]lIr Calhoun calleion
Mr Archer, who was there, to state he
were present. l
Mr Archer said he having been c led
on, would state that he was there, and tere
was a room full of Loco Focos.
Mr Berrien wished as Chairman, who
reported the bill, to reply to some of th re-
‘ marks that had been offered, and moved an
adjournment. The Senate adj.
In the House of Representatives a resin-
tion reported by Mr Kennedy of Mary ’nd,
to nppoint a Select Committee ofl2 men ers
to sitduring the recess and examine an re-
port on the Tariff, was laid on the tab by
Yeas 87’——Nays 52. ,
A report was made from the Com: ttee
of Elrctions on the election case ofMr vy,
now sitting delegate from Florida, tha he
is nota citizen of the United States. The
report was ordered printed. Adjonrnedf
FRIDAY, Sept.~.3,
.. In Senate, the- joint resolution fromthe
House relating to the printing of the 1- .-
partments was read twice and referred ti‘-’l i_e
Committee on the Library.
The bill from the House to repeal Sect. 6
of the act passed July i838, for the support
ofihe Military Academy and to prohibit any
investment ofthe'U. S. funds in the State
Stocks was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Finance.
On motion of Jfr Buchanan, the bill from
the House allowing the franking privilege
to be extended to Mrs. Harrison, was read
in Committee ofthe Whole and passed.
The joint resolution from the House, ma-
king it the duty of the Attorney General, to
examine into the titles of lands for public
buildings, &-c was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Finance.
The Fiscal Corporation Bill then came
up; being briefly debated by Messrs Sim-
inons and Berrien, Mr Walker offered an
amendment inserting a new section, claiming
for Congress the power to ‘modify or re-
peal,’ which was rejected: Yeas 20——Nays
28. The question was then upon its third
reading, which was ordered by the follow-
ingvote 2 3 .
. ’Yi:A’s-—'-Messrs Archer. Barrow, Bates. Ber-
rien.-Choate,,Cla_y of Ky.. Clayton, Dixon.
Evans, Graham, Henderson, Huntington. Kerr.
_Mangum.' Merrick, Miller, Morehead, Phelps,
I_Porter,‘Rrenliss,Presl0n. Simmons. Smith ofla.
Sourhaurd,-Talliiiadge, White, Woodbridge 27.
NAYs—Messrs Allen. Benton, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Clay of Alabama. Cuthberi, Fulton,
King. Linn. McRoherIs, Mouton, Nicholson,
Pierce,Rives, Sevier, Smith nfCt., Sturgeon.
Tappan, Walker,Woodbur_y, \lVriglit, Young 22
The bill was then read a third time and
finally passed.
The Fortification bill was then taken up
and Mr Preston moved that the Senate. con-
cur with the amendment of the House. which
was to strike out $75,000 for the Western
Armory, and-insert $5,000 After debate
by Mr Benton against, and Mr Preston in
favor ofthe amendment, it was adopted, yt-as
27, nays 19.
The Senate then proceeded to the consid-
eration of Executive business and then adj.
The House on motion of Mr Briggs, took
up the joint resolution giving the franking
privilege to Mrs Harrison during life- Mr
Andrews offered an amendment which was
adopted, striking out the words ‘ weighing
two ounces and under.’ At the instance of
Mr Cushing, the resolution was changed to-
an Act, read in that form a third time and
finally passed.
The resolution offered by Mr J. G. Floyd
requesting the President to inform the House
whether any officer of the Army or the At.
troney General has since March 4th, been
directed to visit New York for any purpose
connected with the trial of McLeod,&.c., then
came up. After some debate by Messrs
Floyd, Everett and Boardman the House
adjourned.
SATURDAY. September 4.
The Distribution and Pre-emption bill
has received the signature of the President,
and has become a law.
In the House the resolution relative I0
McLeod was discussed in a manner that ex-
cited much interest by Mr Adams during
his hour.
The motion of Mr Boardman to lay the
bill on the table was then renewed, and car-
ricd 109 yeas to 70 nays.
Thus the resolution which was served as
a cause of debate in the abscence of other bu-
siness was laid on the table.
The House adjourned at an early hour;
they now have no business before them.
In the Senate, the Ordnance Bill from the
House, was taken up, discussed at some
length, and laid over to ilfonday.
The Revenue bill was again taken up,
the question being on the amendment offer-
ed some few days since by rllr Woodbury,
to exempt from duty "tea and coffee.”
Mr Clay, as Chairman of the Committee
who reported the bill gave a general dposi-
tion of the wants of the Treasury, and the
consequent imperative necessity for the pas-
sage of the bill as a means for providing
revenue. He entered into the subject in de-
tail, and showed from statistical tables that
the total defict for the present year in the
actual income ofthe government amounted to
the enormous sum of sixteen rriillions dollars.
This excluded the issue of Treasury notes
and receipts under the loan authorised this
session; the Treasury notes to the amount of
six millions being taken from the sixteen,
still leave ten millions deficit. This would
absorb all the loan except two millions which
would be more than consumed by the appro-
priatious‘of the present session, so that the
year i842 would be commenced without a
single dollar in the treasury, and millions in
debt. Four millions of Treasury notes were
to be redeemed in the first half of 1842, as
well as a third of the loan authorised this
session, beingfour millions. made eight mill-
sons falling on the year 1842, besides the
current expenses. The Revenue, taking
the same as from customs of the year 1841,
was twelve and a quarter millions—deduct-
ing the eight millions, it left fourand a quar-
ter millions, as the total amount of actual
revenue applicable to the expenditures of
Government in 1842.
He opposed the amendment pending, and
preferred a duty on tea and coffee to a viola-
tion of the Compromise act, which must
otherwise unavoidably take place.
Messrs Vt/oodbury, Calhoun, and Benton
advocated the amendment, which was finally
adopted—yeas 29 nays l0.
Mr Allen moved to exempt silt from duty.
After some remarks on this, and without
taking the question, the Senate adjourned.
THE VETO.
The Veto of the President on the Bank
Bill, was both unexpected and unacceptable
to his frienls. Still he had an unquestiona-
ble constitutional right to return the bill if
in his deliberate and honest convictions its
provisions conflicted either with the constitu-
tion which we all acknowledge to be the
paramount law, or with the great and perma-
nent interrsts of the people.
Let us not forget the nature of our form
ofgovernmentx The legislative department
is divided into three branches——the House of
Representatives, the Senate and the Presi-
dent, and the concurrence of each is neces-
sary to the enactment ofa law. The Presi-
dentacts in two capacities, viz. as a branch
of the legislative depa rtriicnt. and as the
chief executive officer; ofthe nation.
In his capacity no a branch of tho lugicla.
rive department, he is bound both by his oath
of office and the highest obligations to his
country, to consider maturely every measure
which passcs the two Houses of Congress.
and assent is a solem declaration to the world
that such measure is in his deliberate judg-
ment consistent with the constitution, and
calculated to promote the public interest
Without such convictions he cannot honestly
sign a bill. He can no more release him-
self from the responsibility of makingthede-
cision than he can cast off any other clearly
defined duty. In all matters of legislation,
each co-ordinate department is independent of
the other, and to assume that either two
should positively control the third would be
to destroy entirely the balance ofthe govern-
ment.
The duties ofthe President as the head of
the executive department, is far different.
Here he is no longer the judge oftho expe-
diency or the constitutionality of laws, but
simply of their import. He is to execute
them according to their letter and spirit, and
when expounded by the courts, the decision
is binding on him, however it may conflict
with his private opinion. The constitution
has not made him the judge in this case; it
has commanded him to execute the judge-
ments and decisions of others. It has invest-
ed him with no discretion, and he cannot
lawfully assume any.
VVhen therefore, Gen. Jackson said that
he would ‘ execrite the laws as he understood
them and not as they were understood by
others,’ he trampled on the power oftheju-
diciary, and transferred the discretionary
power ofthe President from the Legislative
to the Executive Department, and destroyed
the entire balance ofthe system.
When a President pronounces a laiv ofthe
land unconstitutional, he usurps the duties
assigned to the Supreme Court; and when
he fails to execute such a law, because it
conflicts with his own opinion, he violates
his oath of office, and tramples the constitu-
tion to the dust.
When. on the contrary, it is his misfor-
tune to differ from the two Houses of Con-
gress, either in regard to the expediency or
the constitutionality of a law, it is due to the
Chief Magistrate ofa free people, to the man
of their own choice,to him in whom they
have confided, and whom they have so much
honored as to place at the head of the Gov-
ernment, to give to his reasons a full an"
fair examination, and to all his motives a
charitable interpretation.—Ha.7't. Co-want.
The celebrated Francis M. Part ridge, the
associate pretended N~.in with Maria Monk,
after having grilled the public in a variety
of ways, is now travelling in the country,
marrying every man she can get running
him in debt, and eloping with the proceeds.
She swindled a gentleman in Rochester. N’
Y. lately to an enormous extent. The way
she walked into his affluence and affections
and dccamped, was a‘caution to allsoft heart-
ed bipeds of the masculine gender. She is
very handsome. She's a queer bird, that
Partridge.—N. Y. Jllercurg/.
Zlfarria-ge.—-In marriage prefer the per-
son before wealth, virtue before beauty, and
the mind before the body, and you have a
wife, a friend, and a companion.
I The following ar_ticle istaken from the Wash-
ington Correspondence ofilie New York Ameri-
can, dated Monday, the 30th ult. The medi-
um throng which it comes. and its endorsement
by other discreet and candid Journals, induces
us to give it a place."
The position of the President here is full
ofernbarrassment. Surrounded by self con-
stituted advisers, who, whether hewill or not
insist upon keeping his conscience; and
courted ostentiously by the Opp0sition—_he
yet seems to be, and I believe truly is, in
harmony with his’ Cabinet, on all measures
of pub ic policy, save a Bank projected by
the Whig._,prii'ty.
As to these self constituted advisers, they
are mostly from Virginia, unknown out of
Virginia, and having themselves no world
and no knowledge out the aforesaid common-
wealth. lt need not surprise any one that
the counsels of such persons are narrow, prej-
udiced, bigoted and ignorant. The Prrsi-
dent possibly cannot shake oflitliese officious
advisers, if he would; and possibly—as In
some of them at le-ast—-would not if he
could.
Towards the Loco Focos, his course is
more direct. Ido not kno_w whether‘ you
have heard that on the evening of the V710,
a very large riuinber ol the opposition merri-
bers ofboth Houses formally visited the Pres-
ident in a body, in token of their approbzition
of that measure. Their reception however,
though courteous, was cold freezing cold;
and to some compliments cautiously haZnl‘rl('(l
about his Roman firmness, s—.c., he is said to
have turned adeaf ear,and given very brief
audience.
Some Whig Senators came in unexpect-
edly upon these visitanls, and to them
President Tyler is reported to have ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction with such a visit,
under such circumstances, from his oppo-
nents—an(l to gave such assui‘ai=r'e that,
however differing on one measure from his,
friends, he was thoroughly in heart and pur-
pose a Whig.
The Cabinet are united in their views. and
the intercourse between them and the Pros-
ident is believed to be sincerely confiding.
Fiscal A_,.',7'97l6_7/.-— We learn that the biisi-
ness ofthe United States has been transferred
fromthe.’lIerchants Bank to the Bank of
Coiiinierce. Before placing the money in
the Mt-rcliaiits Bank. the Secretary of the
Treasury addressed :1 Circular to that insti-
tution, saying that he had selected that as
the government agent in this city, and stat-
ing the condition upon which he was desi-
rous of employing the Banks for this pur-
pose. These were, generally, that the Banks
should perform such service in receiving
disbursing, and transmitting the public mo—,
ney, as might be required, and also allow
their condition to be investigatcd when the
Secretary mig ht deem it proper, and besides
this, that whenever the amount of money in
deposite with any Bank should exceed one
half the Capital Stock of said Bank, then dc
at any other time if required, such Banks
should give security for such money. The
;\'lercliants Bank ‘replied to the Circular,
assentiuzr to .-ill the conditions stipulated, ex
cept that l‘°‘q:)ll‘lng’ security, which was de
clined. The Sr-oi‘: iary in return announces
to the Batik his (lL‘l.t‘l‘ll)ll'lElli0fl to place the
money in itskeu-ping, but estimated ll1.‘1[ll]l'~
might be a temporary arrangement, if some
other institution should he found rearly to
comply with all the conditions of the Circu.
lar. It is understood thatthe Bank of Com-
merce has thus complied; and has besides
taken a million of the twelve million loan
at an interest of five and a halfper cent.
Jour. of Com.
The editor of the Hartford Patriot and
Eagle comes out and calls on old friends to
rally under his flag. He says ‘let us be
once more united! Now is the time for us
to obliterate party lines. to slip out from par-
ty collars, to sustain President Tyler, and
such a Treasury Agent as he will approve
arid 01.1) HICKORY would have approvr-d
too.” Mr. I‘-lolhrook seems to be open and
bold in denouncinga National Bank, and
has not omitted, as far as he is concerned to
cast obloquy upon the distinguislied Ken-
tucky Senator, Henry Clay. The last Pa-
triot and Eagle is irnportnnnte in druiniiiing
up athird party. It should be borne in
mind, that the present editor was formerly
proprietor of the Norwich Aurora, and a
supporter 0fJa1ckson.
Jlfidcllelow-71 Constitution.
The Editor of the Eagle, from what we
learn, finds it much easier to drum subscri-
bers off from his subscription list than ‘drum
ming up a third party.’ Ifthe Eagle lias’nt
got the pip now, we reckon it will have it
ere long.-—Palla.clium.
Szlspenrlerl Free Ban/rs —The Comptrol-
ler has issued his notice ofthe time and rate
of redemption of the notes of the following
Free Banks 2 Binghainpton. Sept. 1. notes
secured on public stocks, 78:. on stocks and
real estate 74.; Phenix Bank of Buffalo,
730.; Bank of America at Buffalo. 78 and
76,; Erie County Bank, 72 and 60.; Cat-
taraugus County Bank 85 and 77c. ; Bank
ofCoriimerce at Buffalo, 76. The dividends
upon the Mechanics Bank of Buffalo, and
upon the Bank of Lodi, are postponed until
the character of certain mortgages are ascer-
tained. The notes of the following banks
will be redeemed as soon as the Chancellor
decides, in a case now pending in that court,
the right of priority claimed by the holders
of protested notes of so id banks, to wit: Un-
ion Bank of Buffalo——Bank of Western New
York, Bank of United States at Buffalo,
Merchants’ Exchange Bank of Bifffiilo.
N. Y. Talller.
The language recently used in the House.
concerning President Tyler, by Mr. Arnold
of Tennessee, and Mr. Botts, should not be
passed over by the press without marks of
disapprobation. Thelanguage was grossly
disrespectful and grossly unjust. It comes
from \Vhigs, but we do notdesire to find an
excuse for it or defend it on that account.
Lowell Courier.
A boy named Alexander Dennard, aged
10 years, who resided in Barbour county,
Al5.., hung hiinselfdead, a few days since,
in an attempt to imitate a performer he had
seen suspending himself in the circus.
w— _
It is probably in the recollection of most '
of our local readers that last winter and
god in the Post Oflice in this village; and
that certain monies were abstracted from
letters, believed to be by him. He left the
town, and went to parts to most ofhis towns-
mcn unknown. Agents "of the post office
department, however, were upon the alert;
and last week he was brought from the in-
terior of Ohio to Hartford and committed to
jail. The Marshal of the State forthwith
came to Litchfield in pursuitof witnesses who‘
on Sunday and Monday started for Hartford,
and from thence to Canterbury, to be exam-
ined before Judge Judson on Tuesday last.
We learn that Ray confesses to the taking of
$240 from one letter and $2 from another.
Eli is feared that there other persons
than Ray who have been committing depra-
dations upon the Post Office some-where be-
tween Litchfield and N. Haven—as sundry
packages ofbank notes and other valuable
papers deposited in the Post Office here for
Ni-iv York, since the departure of Ray in
the spring, have never reached their destina-
tion. VVe trust the agents of the department
are upon the lOOlC Out. There is or has been
mischief going oii.—Litclijie..’zl Engu-irer.
Relzrm of M7‘. Gu-2°/cg/.——Rev. R. R. Gui‘.
ley :1 rrived here on Saturday last. in the ship
Gladiator, from London; having been absent
from this country several months. His im-
mediate object in visiting England was to
communicate \\ iili some ofthe friends of Af-
rica in that country, and endeavor to diffuse
among the British people a more correct
knowledge of the plains, purposrs. and suc-
cess, of the American Colonization Society.
Vfe understand he will lay a report of his
mission, in due time, before the public.
Jour. of Com.
Fi'eeirian’s Journal offers this gentle hint to
John, Bull:—" When America was but a
sapling, she put you to one hundred and sev-
enty n.illions ofexpense, in your unsuccess-
ful attrmpt to cut her down. Her boughs
have shot forth since. the-n—the trunk has
grown in width and firmness—-she is now a,
national bark full fifty years of age, gnarled
and tough and unbroken--t’will takea pret-
ty sum of money to cut down this sturdy
stem. Pray think of it in time.
The Ex-HON. MR. Mi'rciicLL.-—From
the l_'(.’pGi1‘.i d and strenuous efforts which have
l)t-_‘(‘fI made to bail this gentleman within the
last few days. on the eve of the next term of
the Court of Session, it would appear that
he or his friends have some serious fears of
his spending a part of his future life in a.
mansion not quite so niagnificentas the Cap-
itol, although a good deal stronger and more
difliicult to {get out of. But where, if he
goes, he will at least have one comfort, that
ofnot being annoyed with hearing very long
speeches.
insisted on such an amount of bail, and that
of an iiudoiibtcd kind, that the ex-member
was obliged to march back to prison.
Jou/r of Com.
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SELECTED SUMMARY.
About Rig“/i.l.—'l'lie New York Commer-
«rial Advertiser calls tl..e Mzirlisonian ‘ a sort
of ' Arl t/Lou in /icall/L my bro!/rcr’ VVhi_g pa-
per, which has of late lost no opportunity of
stabbing its friends under the fifth rib.’ It
is {I mellanclioly truth that the Madisonian
has been exceedingly erratic of late. '
‘ My dear, come in and go to bed jist,’ said
his wife to ajolly son of Erin, who" had
just returned from the fair in a .decidedly
‘how come you so,’ state ‘You must be
dreadful tire.-d,'sure, with your lon_g walk of
six miles.’ ‘Arrah! get away with your
nonsense,’ says Put, ‘it wasn’t the length of
the way at all, that fatigued me, but the
bread!/L of it.’
An Exquisil B-ru’.l.—A Mr. Pollard, one
of the Baltimore Reformed Drunkards, re-
c.eritl_v in a speech before a temperance as-
seinblage, made the following unique bull :
‘ Fathers,’ exclaimed he, with the most ar-
dent eiitliusiasni, ‘ you have children ; or if
you /1.61/BC not, your‘ daughters may have.’
The National Intelligcnccr says that it is
not the Whigs but opposition in the Senate
who are opposed to tlicnornination of Edward
Everett. They are united, Abolitionists and
all, upon this, and hope, by detuclllflg three
or four southern Whigs from the mum body
to procure the rejection of this distinguished
statesman.
l\/lr. Nathaniel Ferguson, aged about 60,
of Danbury, was killed on Saturday, the
28th ult., by taking, through rizistake, a mix-
ture of corrosive subliniate and camphor,
which had been prepared for the purpose of
killing bed-bugs. Mr. Ralph Rider, of the
same place, was killed on Thursday, the
26th ult., by falling froui a barn; aged about
50.
Almost the entire cost of Anthracite Coal
in Pensylvania, is mining and transporting.
The Philadelphia Ledger states the Schuyl-
kill Company will sell it in the ground un-
mined, for five cents a ton—-millions of tons
if 7'cqu.z'red.
Boston Transcript asks and answers the
question : VVhat Boxes govern the world ?
—-The cartradge box, the ballot-box, thejury
box, and the band-box. »
It is thought that Huckleberries will be
more plentiful nextseason. In an exchange
paper we notice the marriage of Mr. E.
Hue/rle to Miss Jane Berry.
‘ What’s that horse out of,’ said a fellow,
with a view to quiz a farmer's boy, who
was riding an old horse, which showed less
blood than bone.
‘Out of?’
‘ Yes. what’s be out of——-do you know ?’
‘ Yes I do.’
‘ VVell, what?’
‘ Out of oats.’
Maint I see you hum from meetin Peggy ?
‘ No, you shant do no sich thing, I’am enga-
ged.’ ‘VVal, I swan, I guess as how you've
mist it this time, for l’ve got my pocket full
of gingerbread.’ ‘You may take my arm
.Ionn_ythin.’
spring a young man named Ray was enga- ,1; -~
A gentle Ilirzt.-.———The editor ofthe Dublin ‘
The ex member was yesterday again '
brought to be bailed before the recorder who .
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Norwalk Chronicler