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i InlollifTiril man. In evrv lover of our constitu tional libertyare we under tho dominion of tho law? or has the effectual government ortho country, nl least, iif nil that regards tho great est interest of tho currency, been in a dingle hand? ... Gentlemen, I have done with tho narrative of events and measures. I havedono with tho history of these succcssivo steps in tho pro cress of executive power, toward n complete control over the revenue and the currency. The result is all now before us. Theso pre tended reforms, these extraordinary exercises of power from an extraordinary zeal for the good of tho people, what have they brought us to? In 1829, the currency was declared to bo nei ther wound nor uniform; a proposition, in my judgment altogether at variance with the fact, Vcause 1 do not believe there ever was a coun try, of equal extent, in which paper formed any port of the circulation, that possessed a cur tnnp.v ko sound, so uniform, so convenient, and so perfect in all respects, as the currency of this country, at the moment of the delivery of that message, in istj. But how is It now? Where has tho im provement brought it? What has reform done? What has the great cry for hard money accomplished? Is the currency uniform uow? Is money in New-Orleans now as good, or nearly so, as money in New-York? A ro ex changes at par, or only at tho same low rales as in 1829, and other years? Every one here knows that all the benefits of this experiment are but injury and opprcsaipn; all this reform but acgravatrd diitrws. And as to th soundness df the currency, how does that stand ? Are the causes or alarm less now than in 1820? Is there less bank paper in circulation? Is there less fear of a general ca tastrophe? Is property more secure, or indus try more certain of its reward ? We all know, gentlemen, that during all this pretended war faro against all banks, banks have vastly in creased. Millions upon millions of bank pa per have been added to the circulation. Every where, and no whrro so much as where tho present administration, and its measures have been urost zealously supported, banks have multiplied under state authority, since the de cree was made that the Dank of the United Slates should be suffered to expire. Look at Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, Virginia, and other States. Do wo not see that banking capital and bank paper are enormously increas ing? The opposition to banks, therefore, so much prolessed, whether it be real, or whether, it be but pretended, lias not restrained cither their number or their issues-of paper. Both have vastly increased. And now a word or two, gentlemen, upon this hard money scheme, and the fancies, and delusions lo which it has given birth. Gentle men this is a subject of delicacy, and one which it is difficult to treat with sufficient caution, in a popular and occasional address like this. I profess to be a bullionist, in the -usual and ac cepted sense of that word. I am for a solid specie basis for our circulation, so far as it may be practicable and convenient. I am for giving no value to paper, merely as paper. I abhor paper; that is to Ray, irredeemable paper, pa per that may not he converted into gold and sil- ver ui wie will ui wit: uuiuei. uui tviiuu i uuiu to all this, I believe that an exclusive gold and silver circulation is an utter impossibility in the present state of this country, and of the world. We shall none of us ever see it; and it is cre dulity and lolly, in my opinion, to act under any such hope or expectation. The States will make banks, and these will issue paper: and the loncerthe eovcrnment of the United States neglects its duty in regard to measures for reg ulating the currency, tne greater will be the txmuunt ol rranK paper, ovrrprcnrlinK the conn try. Of this I entertain not a particle of doubt 'While I thus hold to the absolute and indis nensable necessity ofeold and silver, as the fouiv dation of our circulation, I yet think nothing more absurd and preposterous, than unnatural and strained effnrtsto import specie. There is but so much specie in the world, and its amount cannot be ercally or suddenly increased. In deed, theie are reasons for supposing that its amount has recently diminished, by the quanti ty used in manufactures, and by thedimimshcd products of the mines. The existing amount of specie, however, must support tho paper cir culations, and the systems of currency, not of the United states only, but ot other nations at so. One ofits ureal uses is to pass from court' try to country, and for the purpose of settling! ticcimuiiui uniuiibca in uuihiiiciuiui iruiisacuuus. It always finds it3 way, naturally and easily, to places where it is needed for these uses. Hut to take extraordinary pains to bring it where the course of trade does not bring it, where i he state ol debt and credit does not require it to b and then to endeavor, by other regulations, treasury orders, accumulations at the mint, and other connivances, there to retain it. is a course of policy, bordering, as it appears to me, on po litical insanity. It is boasted that wo have eovcnty-five or eighty miliums of specie in the country. But what more s?nseless,what more absurd than this boast, if there is a balance against us abroad, of which payment isdesired, sooner than remit tances of our own products are likely to make that payment? What more miserable than to boast of havina that which is notouis, which belongs to others, and which the convenience of .1 ... 1 - . outers, ami our own convenience, uisu, require that they should possess? 11 uoston were in debt to New York, would it be wise in Boston. instead of paying its debt, to contrive all possi- II. 1 -V -IT. . !.- r .1.- KT Die menus VI ouiuiiiiug bcciu irum mu ixevv York banks, and hoarding it at home? And yet this, as I think, would be precisely as sen sible as tho course which the government of the United States nt present pursues. We have, without all doubt, a great amount of specie in tho cuuntrv, but it does not answer its accustomed end, it does not perform its prop er duty, it neither goes nnroau to settle balan ces Buninst us. and thereby quiet those who Jinve demands upon us; nor is it so disposed of at nomc, as to ijusuuu me ciiuuiuuuii, id me extent which tho circumstances of the times re quire. A -great part of it is in the western hanks, in the land ollices, on tho roads through tho wilderness, on the passages over the lakes, Trom tho land ollices to tho deposit banks, and from tho deposit banks back to the land ofliees. Another portion is in the hands of buyers anil sellers of specie; of men in the Wesi, who sell land office monoy to the new settlers for a high premium. Another portion, again, is kept in private hands, to be used when circumstances shall tempt to the purchase of lands. And, gen tlemen, I am inclined to think, so loud has been the cry about hard money, and so sweeping the denunciation of all paper, that privato holding, or hoarding, prevails to some extent, in diffet ent parts ol the country. These eighty millions of specie, therefore, really do us little good. Wo aro weaker in our circulation; I have no doubt, our credit is feebler, money is scarcer with us, at this moment, than if twenty mil Jbusof this specie were shipped to Europe, mid general confidence thereby restored. Gentlemen. I will not say that some degree fpressure might not have come upon us, if the treasury order had not been issued. I will not Wj that there has not been ovur.trndlnn-. inul over-production, and a too great expansion of iijiik circulation, i ms muy mi bo so, and the l.nt mentioned evil it wa easy to foreieo was lik My to happen, when tho United Stntea dis continued their own bank. But what I do say is, that, acting upon the state of things as it ttctually existed, und is now actually exist ing, tho treasury order tins been and now is, productive of great distress. ll ucts upon a state of things which gives extraordinary force to its stroke, and extraordinary point to its stingy. It arrests specie, when the free use ond circulation of specie nro most impor tant; it cripples the banks at a moment when the banks, more than ever, need all their means. It makes tho merchant unable to remit, when rcrpittance is necessary for his own credit, and for tho general adjustment of commercial balances. lam not now discussing the general question, whether prices must not como down, and ad just themselves nnew, to tho amount of bul lion existing in Europe and Americn. I am dealing only with the measures of our own government, on tho subject of tho cur rency, and I insist that these measures have been most unfortunate, and most ruinous on tho ordinary means of our circulation, at home, auron our ubility of remittance n broad. Gentlemen, 1 hold this disturbance of the measure of value, anil the means of payment, and exchange, this derangement, and, if 1 may so say, this violation of the currency, to be one of the most unpardonable of polit ical faults. lie who tampers with the cur rency, robs lubor of ils bread. lie panders, indeed, to greedy capital, which is keen sighted, and may shift for itself; but ho beg gars labor, which is honest, unsuspecting, and too busy with the present lo calculate on the future. The prosperity of tho working classes, lives, moves, and has its being in es tablished credit, and a steady medium of pay ment. All sudden chnngedcslroys it. Hon est industry never comes in for any part of tho spoils in that scramble, which takes place, when the currency of a country is dis ordered. Did wild schemesnnd projects ev er benefit the industrious? Did irredeema ble bank paper ever enrich the laborious? Did violent fluctuations ever do good to him, who depends on his daily labor for his daily bread? Certainly, never. All these things may gratify greediness for sudden gain, or the rashness of daring speculation; lint they can bring nothing but injury and distress to (ho homes of patient industry and honest labor. Who nro they that profit by tho presrnt state of things?" They are not the tnanv, but the few. They are speculators, brokers, dealers in money', and lenders of money, at cxhorbitant interest. Small capitalists are crushed, and their means, being dispersed as usual, in various parts of the country, nnd this miserable policy having destroyed ex changes, they have no longer either money or credit. The exeontive control over tho currency, this power of discriminating, by treasury or der, between one man's debt und another man's debt, is a thing not lo be endured in a freo country; and it should be the constant, persisting demand of all true Whigs "res cind the illegal treasury order, rcsloro tho rule of tho law, place all branches of tho rev enue upon the same grounds, as to the means of payment, make men's rights equal, and Icaio tho government of the counliv where the Constitution leaves it, in tho hands of the representatives of the people in Con gress." This point should never be surren dered or compromised. Whatever is estab lished, let it be equal, let it bo legal. Let the men know to-day, what money may be re quired of them to-morrow. ,et tho rule be open nnd public, on the pages of tho statute book, not a secret in the executivo breast. Gentlemen, in the session which has now just closed, I have dono my utmost to effect a direct nnd immediate repeal of the treasu ry order. 1 have voted for a bill, anticipating the payment of tho French and Neapolitan in demnifications, by an advance from tho Treasury. 1 have voted with great satisfaction for tho restoration of dudes on goods destroyed in the great conflagration in this oily. I have voted for a deposito with the States of the surplus which may bo in the Treasu ry at tho ond of the year. All theso meas tins have failed, nnd it is for you, and for our fellow citizens throughout tho country, lo decide whether tho public interest would, or would not have been promoted by their success. Whigs of New York! Patriotic citizens of this great metropolis! Lovers of consti tutional liberty, bound by interest and affec tion to the institutions of your country, Americans in heart nnd in principle! You are ready, I am sure, to fulfil all the duties imposed upon you by your situation, and de manded o you by your country. You have a central position; your city is the point from which intelligence emanates, and spreads in all directions, over tho whole land. Having fulfilled then, on your part nnd on mine.thotigh feebly and imperfectly on mine, the ollices of kindness and mutual. regard, re t... .u: : .. ' '"iu ujr una uiwuaiuil, sunn we 001 use It lo 11 higher and nobler purpose? Shall we not by this friendly meeting, refresh ourpat riotism, rekindle our lovo of constitutional liberty, nnd strengthen our resolution of pub lic duty ? Shall wo not in all honesty and sincerity, with pure nnd disinterested lovo of Country, as Americans, looking back to tho renown of our ancestors, and looking for ward to the interests of our posterity, here, to-night, pledge our mutual fuith.to hold on, to the- last, lo our professed principles, to tho doctrines of true liberty, and to tho Constitu tion of tho Country, let who will prove true, and who will prove recreant? Whigs of New York I I meet you in advance, and give you my pledge, for my own performance of theso duties, without qualification nnd without reserve. Whether in public life or in private life, in tho Capitol or nt homo, I mean never to desert them. I mean never to forget that 1 have a country, to which I urn oouna by a thousand ties: and tho stone which is to lie on tho ground that shall cover me, shall not bear tho name of a son un grateful to his native land. James Scofield, employed in Sims & Beading's-foundry, at Vicksburgh, took a deck pass age in the steamboat Gen Brown for Cincin nati; on tho way ho jumped overboard in tho night, during a fit ol mental aberration from drink, and has not been heard of since. Ho left a trunk, box, end dog on board. VERMONT riMETVIX. Frldny Morning, May 12, 1837. Mn. Webster's Speech. We gtvo up a largo portion of our paper this week, to tho publication of a considerable part'of the great speech of Mr Webster, nt New York. The character of the orator, the importance of tho subjects discussed, and abovo all tho masterly and convincing manner in which they aro han dled, commend tho production to our readers, and render it in our opinion of great cqnsc quenco that it should bo extensively circulated. SVe regret that our limits prevent our giving It entire. Wo ask every man under whose eye it may fall, not only to read it, but attentively to study and reflect upon It. Let none mis conceive of it as an effort at political effect, and turn away from its perusal; it is interesting even if simply considered, as the production of a great mind, on subjects of deep and vital im portance to every American citizen. Wc ask etierw man to read it, whatever may bo his po- itical opinions, who professes any degree of patriotism, or to feel any interest in tho preser vation of our institutions in tho purity in wjiich they were left by our fathers. In tho sincerity of our heart wo say to those of our fellow citiens who conscientious 'creditor can at pleasure siczc upon all tho prop here to the administration party because they crty of a debtor, and leavo other more humane believe its measures are wise, wo believe you nm accommodating ones, to take what they are cherishing and promoting a system which can get after his claim, with costs and sacrifi tciids directly lo the final subversion of our ( CM) j9 satisfied. Wc trust the enlightened cit hltherto well balanced form of government, i jzcns 0f n tie New England States will dc- and wc ask you candidly to read and rcllect . upon the clear and plain exposition which JUr Webster has given of the course of events for a few years past; and did wc not know the in- vincible power of prejudice and prepossession, J we should say you could not resist coming to tho same conclusion with ourselves. We ask especially that those persons who but lately J had so high an opinion of the wisdom and pat- riotisin of the great statesman of New Eng-' land, and who onco agreed with him in his cx- panded views of national policy, but who are now unfortunately found enrolled in the ranks . of a party who profess and maintain opinions .Cmoirnti.. i... -.-. . .l .u . iin.iiiv.M.iMM ii.,i.iav, tu tiaiv tutu, lu ini;ii ,, .., . , , ., , . me mmjeci anew, anu say wiiciner nicy win iiium uiiitiiicnuiiui jiii-ii-iimc ui i mi uuit-u l.TT . . tj. ' to uarrison, consent to sacrincc lor mere party ucain was apparent. purposes all that is dear and valuable in our . T,'!s melancholy death has added to the ex institutions. The motto of the Whic party is ! S'T1. "f.th? an ,n connon "'. "prineiplet not men." - - Wc honestly believe with Mr. Webster. that our country is in imminent danger from, the encroachments of Executive power. Can I any man read his remarks on this subject andi The Mexican Government has protested in say that our fears aro ill grounded. We do ! !!'c mpu solemn inanncr,"against the recogni ., k.ii,.,. ,i,, n .. t -i . t j . j t'on of tho Independence of thc so cal cdRepu not believe that Gen. Jackson intended to i bIIc of Texa.s, made bv the United States, system of measures that i . ... at should throw it into thc hands of his successors; but that such is the tendency of these measures and such will be the result sooner or later, if they are not checked, we have no doubt; and as Air Van uuren is p.eogea to continue tn.s poi.cy and is Habd DRt.-.KSo.-Late on Saturday eve even now exercising a fearful degree of power,, ning, some persons were called into a dwelling which has unconstitutionally come Into hui'cf lotempcrancc and poverty, in Tipple avenue, hands, and which no President before Gen. j t0 Pnc'fy n man ""d nis wife, who were u proa Jackson would have dared for n mnmnnt 1 r!0US ..T,,cy Were JlMr: "" with liquor. . ..., i . . ii in assume, why should we not feci alarm? Des- potjc power in this country will never be grasp - 'cd in a moment, or our liberties wrested from us "nt nnn Tell sivnnn"- hut ivm-i-r tt-;ii i. gradually concentrated in tho hands of tho ex-1 ... .1... , , CCUtlV'e. as all nast historv tenr.hea. hv n niu . ,-----. annK-u up your taw ana none, bo you nave. cession of popular leaders sustained by a sub- Boston .Mere. Journal. servient majority, and a well drilled army of office holders, each successive President adding T-.,., .. n w . ... I-,, i .. r .l rr. .. I DiBTitEssmo. Emily C. Wood, a httlo a little to tho perogat.ves of tho office, until at' Rir jo years of age, daughter of Hiram and length some designing man of the right genius Melinda Wood, was burnt to death at her fath and stamp, finding his power sufficient, will fix jc,r,i house, near Washington College, in this nnit rkpt tin, dinliw nf iirarwiii.m n.uin n nn city, on Friday nicht last. Towards evening- proud and free people, wi1..t.,i,l,.l!..r. v,. u-i wuwij at mn moment? Is not the time near at hand, if it has not already come, that period looked for- Ward to with so much anxiety and alarm, by the sages of the constitution, when the sword ,i ,h .1 i.i i f""m ... ...w I' i ur giiuuiu UWWIUU umicu in uiU hands of the Executivo? The President nt this moment exercises a more uncontrolled sway over the revenues of tho nation, iho great sinew ol strength, than the King of England, But we do not ask any man to pin his faiih on ' our sleeve, no, nor on that of so great a man as , J110"",18) l,y any person who will pay him Daniel Webster. Let him read tho plain un-1 r?,tTC i-r th CXp!it-- time ho varnished A,-, of executive usurpations, as IV,! sketched by m W. and compare the power . or tomb, in which he had been voluntarily in wielded by the President from the commence-' tcrreJ n month. He is obout 30 years of age, ment of Geii. Jackson's career lo the present ?"d travels about the country himself to be bur rime.with the cautious and restricted move- 'Jor a week or n month, or less time, in nro ,,' r i iraiiiuiumovc-- portion as he is paid. He is sewn up in a W ments of his predecessors in office, and then of cloth, and the cell is lined with masonry, anil judge for himself. Wo would not strive to ex- floored with cloth, that the wild ants and other cite needless nlarra, but it becomes freemen to j"secl11 winy not easily lie able to molest him. watch with a jealous cyo everv sten whirl. 1U l,,a.cc "1 w'"c, ',e ws buried at Jaisulmcr tends in any decree to unittle the foundaUons ; X J2 . ..u. Buumcui, mm wiui so much care and wisdom by the fathers of our country. Mr Biddle's visit to Washington. Much has been said in tlm i it has been suggested that this visit miuht nossi- hlvhnvn fr tbu'""iisviiiiiitiiiiiosst bly have for its object somo consultation with tho JiiXecutive in regard to tho distress of tho commercial community. Tho New York Amer - ie lean states that Mr Biddlo being on other busi ness at Washington, took occasion to call on " tho President of the U. S. to pay his respects iu nun, mm coijcuuiiv iu itivo nun an opporiU-i lity. if ho chose to avail himself of it, to confer with the head of tho largest banking institution in tho United States. Bui during the inter view Mr Van Burcn remained profoundly si lent upon the great and absorbing lopics of tho day, and Mr Biddlo not thinking it his business to introduce tho subject, nothing was said upon it. Living on Small Means. A corjespondent of the Salem Gazette gives tho following as tho subject of Dr. Alcotl'a last work: "For Breakfast, eat two cents worth of dried apple, without drink. For dinner, drink a quart of water to swell the apple. .Take tea with a friend." A single rose bush was lately sold in Phila delphia for ftocfue dollars and a half. Tub ValleY Uoad. Wo aro happy to learn that the Commissioners under tho act of tho last session of tho Legislature of this State, ap propriating money' for tho survey ofa Railroad routo from tho south line of this State to Cana da, through tho rallies of the Connecticut and l'assumpsic rivers, have secured the services of Jllcx. 0. Twining, Esq., as superintendent. Mr T. is the chief engineer of tho Hartford and New Haven Ilailroad, and made tho surveys for it. It must be extremely gratifying lo the friends of this enterprise, so important to this Stale, to know that the survey is to bo in tho hands of so able and scientific an Engineer, and one so well and so favorably known. It is ex pected that he will enter upon his duties about tho middle of this month, and complcto his plans and estimates in season to be presented to tho Legislature at tho next session. Wc hope the citizens of the various towns on the routo will manifest their interest in the enterprise, by ren dering all the assistanco in their power, arid by gifing the Engineer the benefit of their local knowledge. Tho Legislature of Connecticut convened at Hartford last week. Tho Governor recom mends in his message an alteration of tho "grab In... ,1 nltno tli.. nf,iMii.,.v Inw lit tvtlii-h flflf ninnd sucli an alteration gckicrally. Electio.is. The Whig Ticket has prevail ed at the late Albiny city Election, in all the wnr,s but one; majority 813, which is a Whig gain of GC7. The Van Burcn Ticket prevailed nt tho election last year. In Virginia thero has been a Whig gain of two members of Congress, jn two districts, and a los3 of two in other dis- tricU. Death of Mr. Fleming. Mr. John Fleming, late President of the Mechanics' Bank, was fo,,na dead in his bed this morning, about 7o'- clock. A Coroner's Jury was summoned, and A .- . .1 . r after an examination into the circumstances of thc case brought in a verdict of "Death from mental excitement." xo otner cause oi n is , .1. . . iiuiMicr iircniiti in HmnKH. ruimira ill iiinrt; inii- ures, and forebodings in recrard to the future. hai cast a gloom over tho city such as wo have rarely witnessed. iv. l . Jour. (Jom. iui - uiuiuii; mm it tuiiiiui iii any manner nriiuer now or at any time hereafter diminish or inval idalo thc least of the rights of the Mexican Re public over the territory of Texas, or of those which it unquestionably possesses, to take all necessary measures in its power to recover it i so with tcmcr. He had just knocked two panncls out or thc door of their room, and . threatened to bate her. She berated him thus: i "Och vo varmint, ye leave me to get bread as ' I can for the childer, and brinir nothing home J0 '1,ucrn carcass ye drink'd up your jBie nxe last Wednesday, and to day ye have ,.. ... . . J J. ?s s,,,e wo? P,uUlnS tt,s,ick f wod upon the I fire, her clothes caught, and were almost in- Manny in a Ila7e. fcihe ran out towards thc , river, west of the college, hut before she could ! reach it,herclothcswcrealmcstcntireIy burntoff. , She however ran into the river, extinguished li'iT' nmyl,rcw, heIfbclr unon "t?. b?.nk inhere she was found by her mother. She lin- gercd in most excruciating ngony until 12 o ciock, wncn she expired. northern Courier, Buried Jllive. A correspondent of the East India Mag.Vilie. relates a uinmilnr arrnnnt n(n nm" wo suffers himself to be buried for weeks three lect long, two and a half feet wide, and the samo depth, or perhaps a yard deep, in which he was placed in a sitting posture, setv- wards towards the stomach, and his hands &kn iu u i iii iii, iiiiuuu, nun ins k-ci urneu in- ,,?'nt-td 'Tanl ltnvnr,ls 1,10 .r:1,est- At the ex" p,rnt,on of a month, thowol ng up of the door Us broken and tho buried man dug out of the grave. Ho was taken out in a perfectly sense- ess state, his eVCS closed. A finnitia rrntnml j j i." iii and powerless, his stomach shrunk very much, ?Z fi,A t n T- 2C5,,Ulat ..l.l L . iron' instrument io poif a . little water down his Ulioat. He Gradually recovered iho uso of lik sens?s, and u&o of his limbs. At first ho was laughed at for an impostcr; a Cornet of a Brit ish Jlegimcnt proved his powers of abstinence by enclosing him without food in a wooden chest for thirteen days, when ho was taken out alive. Sile op a Wife. -We occasionally observe in European papors accounts of this barbarous custom. A late English paper states, that on Saturday t he selling or a wife took place in tho butter market, Bradford. The alleged ground of the separation was the incontinenco of tho wife, whoso affections were stated to havobeen alienated by an old delver. who had occasion ally got his dinners at their house. The hus band was an auctioneer, and the wifo appeared with a new halter round her neck. Tho first and only bona fide bid, was a sovereign from the delver, which was immediately accepted, ami the money being paid, tho couple walked off amidst the execrations of the crowd. Tiitr Market. Western Flour is offer oi ft&fiO. with some sales. Thero is too nlinnirn in Cotton. Munv Stocks continue fo declineundas, yrt.qffairs tend .down wards, as they must, until' tho bottom is found. There is a bottom somewhere, nnd at this rnto wo shall soon know where it is. Then.' has been crent excitement in Wall street to-day, particularly on account of the uffhirsofthe Mechanics' Bank. The Presi dent und Cashier of that institution had been quite indiscreet In their loans to a great house of brokers which failed some days ngo. Theso transactions were without the partic ular knowledge of thc Directors, nnd when thincs come to be knoVn, it was thought ex- pcdtenlthnttne twoinunugiiig oihcltb onuuiu resign. Their resignation was announced thismorniiiL'in the naners. together with the names of highly respectable gentlemen, to succeed thern. A crowd having oecn arounu the Bank all tho mornini?. and the Loco Fo- cos mndoa run upon it for specie; but their rags being chiefly of the kind which the Bank was under no obligation to redeem, they were only able to make out demands to tho amount of six hundred dollars in two hours, when finding- that the Bank wns not broke, they withdrew to colled up more re cruits. Several persons brought in and de posited specie during tho run. 1 ho crowd out of doors were composed chiefly of look ers on. Probably a good many of them might have joined tho attack, if only they had had bank bills for ammunition. At nboul one o'clock, Mr Davis.ono of the Bank Commissioners, who had been examining into the nffairs of the institution, issued a cer tificate that it was "safe and sound, and that the public need have no apprehension re specting it. Allerwards, as there seemed lo be un end of the fun, the crowd gradually withdrew. Ar. Y. Jour. Com. Tnurs. Eve. Wall Street. One o'clock. This has been n dark day in the street. Slocks have again gone down a natutal consequence of the panic created by the run on the Mechan ics' Bank, and the heavy failures of yester day. The news by the Express mail yesterday, brought no tidings that would justify the be lief that things nre any better in thc South ern cities. iv. Y. Com. Adv. Loco Foco MeetiSo. The LocoFocos held n meeting yesterday in tho Park, but it was rather a shy affair, as not more than a thousand persons attended it. Alexander Ming, Job Haskell, and a few others of the party, made sundry speeches in favor of tho specie Circular, and passed resolutions of a similnrimport.nnd themceting then adjourn ed. iv. X. Jour. Com. New Orleans, Aprii 25, 1837. Tuesday, 10 o'clock, A. M. Another largo failure, the lion of tho Cotton Monopolists Burke, Wntt & Co. Mr Burke, you may know, is President of the Union liank here. Humor says he has failed for 20 millions. It can hardly be so much, though thc amount is tremendous. Manysmallcr houses will failiuconsequcncc, both here and in Natchez. Produce of all kinds is falling rapidly. tor cash in large parcels, Hour may be had for 85 50, lard for 6 cents, mess pork 815, sugar 5 cents, coffee 9 n 9 1-2 cents, and so of all other articles. i no &t. jouis steamboats will all lay up on their return, so little business have they lo do. Many of them have been seized for debt, as well as those bclongingto Nashville nod Louisville. Mobile Mer. Adv. Where Kill it end? Day after day our Oldest, nnd strongest, and best conducted funis aro giving way before the fearful pressure of the times, &nd when the calami ty will be overpast, is nioro than we or the wisest can tell. The number of the heavy suspensions that have taken place since the duy on which the Josephs failed, is now two hundred and sixty, to say nothing of count less smaller ones, which, in the crush of mill ions, are not taken into the account. Wc have foreborno almost cniirely to mention the names of those who have been compell ed to yield before the tempest, and shall de viate from our rule at present only in a sin gle instance, although there wcro several houses suspending yesterday, for which wo should gladly express a few words of sym pathy, could we do so without wounding their delicacy. Among all tho suspensions in Pcnrl-st., we presume none has created livelier regret than that of tho film of Ar thur Tap i) n n & Co. It is one of the oldest nnd soundest, and best conducted establish ments in the city. His name has become widely known through tho country, in con nexion with other subjects than those of mer chandise; and there havo been collisions of opinion between him and ourselves, which have created un unplesant alienation of feel ings pot mutual however, so far as we aro concerned. But such things we allow not to interpose in thc dischargo of moral and social duties; and we therefore avail our selves of the present occasion, to express our very deep regret that tho now but loo common misfortune has overtaken that house, ns well ns others of high character which wo might name. If Mr Tnppan is peculiar in somo of his views, nod excentric in some of his opinions, there is nevertheless, no man who can ques tion his high moral worth, und integrity. No merchant desorvedly stands higher in his vocation, and thero is probably no one in Now .York, who has done mo're to ele vate the mercantile character than he. If, on. certain delicato questions, ho is in the wrong, his errors uro thoso of the head and not of the heart for he has not a personal friend in existence, who more fully believes in tho purity nnd integrity of his motives than ourselves. Ho has been a munificent giver to tho great objects of christian phi lanthropy, engaging tho attention of tho world for twenty years past; and when such men aro wrecked in their business, tho fhl) Is a common calamity. There were two very heavy suspensions on Monday seven or eight yesterday some d which were very heavy, of high character, and most unexpected. iV. Y, Com. Adv. From the N.w York Journal of Qm I must h..tn toSSSTTh??1 the administration has, in any J l0?1"151 or is likely to relax ilspolL j,. S business classes. The Globe C1' mended, with redoubled nsntritv i,.'?6' ciations of the merchants, and !,. :'?" tion of f the no icy of retaining ibeT,T .The Intimation of tLS, Order, favor of tho revocation of the Ord out lo havo been made onlv fn, &-": the pending election of members 0f T" gr.css in Virginia; nnd, as you wjli T" reference to its last number, after theT ; election had passed, it intimntea the ?Df ntive language of tho Globe, in re ' 5? the business community. " The news of the New York Merclm etlng nnd the delegation of ocomrlS demand or propose certain tncastiru 6 , lief, was received here with great ciuIm mu . jmujiusu bi-unin tncasiirtioi ii. vua rceneu nerc with great UIteio. pleasuie by our rulers. They ,h have now got you on the hip V? ion of a committee of fifty is con. and they j,M...w. . w....mCU , nay is consider ed and held up, us an overt act of Teuul against the government. Wimp., .t. tiiilnlmn nl n nmmtl,.fi C nr. marks of the official paper of thu ing. ihWhal8TlheQ,o.e,nnS?0g; "if the object of kr Biddle , tjovpsx in thc large cities, lo march d(L,t President wnnts an answer lo that qnet, ' He demands it through his official organ. Answer it, people of New York. yu tight have ye to organize mcelings,iofrstM remonstrances, and to send deputations totij government, ns if ye were freemen, sr.d HB a free country? The President will w. haps, unless his preliminary question caofo satisfactorily answered, depute the muriiitj of the District of Columbia to receive "Bri dle's troops," the fifty delegates of the X i . mercuams. In our paper of last week ne copied n article giving an account of a case of abJac tion at Cincinnati, of an unmarried kmti under twenty years of age her confinement among strangers violation and return, if ter three .yvtt-ks, lo her friends in a state of mental alienation. The unfortunate girl u said to have sustained n highly ejenip!aty character, and. is a communicant ol the I'm byterian Church. The following particu lars of her abduction, confinement and -enpe, were derived from her before sael came deranged in mind: Boston Commercial Gk. On her return' home from singing-school, which she was in the habit of aitendioj twice a week; she was accosted by a maa ii Fifth street, who inquired if her name not Miss . She answered y. Hj stated that her brother lay at the point ef death, and that he had been sent eipressljto convey her to his bed side she thought lessly accompanied him. He conducted her to n house in an obscure street, ml showed her into a dark room, and locktdi5 door. The room was kcpl dark during Est confinement, vhich was upwards of tit weeks, during which time she naj ihrcaiej cdand treated. with considerable violence l the monster Vho had her in custody. She could not recognise the countenance of tie man, who visited her. But there nil a woman who was in the habit of going mu her room, whom she thinks she would Inoir if she were to see her again, as she op one occasion carried a candle with her into tho room. On the night of her escapetbe door hod been (eft unlocked, whether bv ac cident or design she was unable iosay H" narrative is corroborated by the Icstimonyof the lady with whom she resided, who rep resents that a man called to her boose oa thc evening of her abduction and enquired for Miss A , nnd who mated that l brother was dangerously ill. Upon being told that she wns at singing-school, be an swered that he would go for her. At the last accounts from Cincinnati lb excitement nguinst the perpetrators of ton brutal outrage continued ; and two of to had been committed to prison for trial- A gloomy picture of the conditionoftbing in Mississippi wns presented yesteraayiij"" Truo American. But wc fear it is no l3 true than gloomy. All accounts which w receive from that quarter represent affairs1 being in n sad and distressing condition. The sudden nnd remarkable fall of cottcn, has deprived the State of nearly two-thirds fJ expected income, and having anticiiaW moro than the full return, it is impossible ' the planters to meet more than a third orw' of their engagements. The sheritJis aow tho only personago who prospers, and W daily duty Is to knock down, at ltamrw sacrifices.'tho property of thoso who considered tho wealthiest and most prosper ous of citizens. Property loo, has all off ciated, and lands and lots which six moot" ngo wero eagerly sought for nt high raw aro now dull at u reduction of two nnduw hundred per cent I (Qu.?) Sincerely do sympathise with themisfortunesof ourneij1' b'ors. Ar. O. Bulletin. Horrid Events. learn, from anas- thentic source, (says tho Philadelphia ui- . ., . . . .nr in- zeiie.i inni n laborer (whose name f ' . . 1 ... htrltl? lormant heard, but cannot remenwii iw ujuuli; street near mo ociiuji homo on Sunday in a state of inton"i and began to assault his wife, ihemoiK'" four nromisinrr rliildrrn. whom il Wfs D design to deprive of boih their parent!-" Seizing a flut-iron. he rushed upon the " thor and inflicted desperate wounds upon n person, with fatal intent. Leaving mr" less in her blood, he snrnngfroina win; nnd rushing to the Schjiylkill, plunged lung iiuu us waters, unu wa -. - , , The wife hus been conveyed to the HoP"j where sho lingers, mortally wounded witn no prospect oi recovery. , nnt received the chief particulars here jj tailed, from a porson who saw the in'""1,!, husband spring from the window, an" commission of his dreadful deed, H lr. t. A..'. ...:r j r l,nnirnmllB on a uymu will, (lliu lour uiiiirjv ' X to deplore liis delusion, and perish or S0B irom tne crimes. at.!.u ..!,. ., m.! which iiu ii isii suiiur, ue5criuios "j tr had visited, said, 'the tops of the houses m copper, bottomed wiih iheet lead.1