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EDITED BY DUFF GREEN. pit ID AYj MAY 1, 1840. FOB PRESIDENT. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. FOB VICE-PRESIDENT. JOHN TYLER. BANKS AND BANKING.—In our last we prov ed by reference to the official record, that the impres sions made by the Globe and the pensioned press, re lative to the banks of the United States, was false in this: Ist. That so far from its being a foreign bank, own ed abroad, a large majority of the stock is held in the United States. 21. That so far fr< m its being the property of the Jfobility of Great Britain, of the 8333 si ar holders, 42 only are ef the nobility. 3d. That so far from its being a monopoly under the control of a few, there are but eight hundred and ninety-four pi r sons holding five hundred shares and upwards, whilst there are SSB who own but 100 shares and under. 994 " " " 50 732 " " " 20 G6l " " " 10 864 " " 5 4th. That instead of belonging to swindlers and speculators, 29,876 shares belong to Females. 4 256 " " " Ess- and guardians. 16,248 " " " Trustees. 1,75S " " " Benevolent Institutions. These facts are here restated, because as the war upon the credit of the country was chiefly direc ted at the bank of the U. States, a greater mass of prejudice has been created against that, than any oth_ er Institution, and as the injury has been inflicted through that bank, the best means of counteraction is to expose the false clamor,in relation to it. Having said this much, that it may be understood that we have selected the bank of the United States, to illustrate the tendency of the war on the credit and banking Institutions of the country, not as the partisan, but because the war was waged through that bank; and hence, we are compelled to refer to, and give it prominence in the discussion. We have before us the report of Mr. Woodbury of the 7th June 1833, tn which he classes the banks into five divisions. In the Eastern are included Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, I R. Island and Connecticut. In the middle. New York, Pennsylvania, Dela. ware, New Jersey, Maryland, and the District of Co lumbia. In the southern. Virginia, North and South Car olina, Georgia and Florida. In the South western. Alabama, Louisiana, Ar kansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the western. Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indi ana, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. From this report, we extract the following table. 1- 2; ~r. ce g a 3 e t ? E§g- 5T 3 § ,r' Ir. z- in ci tc WCIC'IXX x -* X ic J X X w Vf cxgo • g So Z 3 r p u J*'' rt *w x x X -sj x>— 3 V jU CD x —'V.V— £ K, p. x jnjc* ] (- m V I OD •>'' -J ~ oc CD •! o mwi ' ~ <D c.tor.MH'c 5 O X tw *4 D tv I r >• 3 m tC (4 i. © c. jr. x 3 X JX i 5D & © S © £ j£ © CD £ I © u to 5". W -4 r. © Idt- XjO is jpj© M I „ - S i££bSß ' Ci PCCx w & •4 C WjiM-'li. X © © © a wjuKctsil I wVoibcf, SI - CIO VJ \ £ WajUUiHi) I Zi | Z V^4V^"w"'— "o il I * I 0 CO-tt X© 1 ' >. t>o C 4-- o 'J' w I \ y \ 6 2 1 &sssSl _ 3 "ci x 3 CO C.J 3 ** ° X ~CD ' * ' •4 1 I w wl CO - 1 -JI J This table shows that wliile the specie was ilimin. 1 jihcd but {>2,721,000, the circulation was diminished in one year {>33,000,000, and the loans and discounts ! were reduced $39,484,000; but the most striking fact Is that while the loans and discounts in the Eastern, Middle and Southern States were reduced $48,091,- •B3 they were increased in the Western and South western States $9,803,713 !! Another striking fact presented by this table is, fcat while the circulation was reduced $33,000,000, ad the loans and discounts to $39,484,000, the specie was reduced but $2,731,000 ! ! These tables and .hese facts demonstrate that, for some cause, the pres sure was more severe in the Middle, Eastern and Southern States, than in the Western and South. Western States ! And when we refer to the j urpose and operation of the specie circular, we will find that its eft'cct was to relieve the pressure in those States* in which the pub'.ie lands were situated, and in which ihc partisans of the administration had entered most largely into speculation. Mr. Kendall, Mr. Butler, Mr. Forsyth, and their associates, had formed com binations to speculate in the public lands they had organized companies—they had made treaties they had forced land into the market for facilitating spec ulations—they had used the banks and the surplus revenue to accomplish their purpose. The Distribu tion Act produced a crisis, and the speculators in the public 1 mds, with a view to protect their specula tions, induced the President to issue his specie circu. lar. The effect was the ruin of the Eastern, the Middle, anu the Southern States. That ruin has, in its progress, reached the West and South-West, but the purpose of the circular and its effect in sustaining temporarily, the speculations in public land, are now so apparent, that no one can be at a loss for the mo tives in which it originated. Wc call upon the laboring man to think over these facts; to remember that we are t: judge of the tree by its fruits. Those who issued the specie eircular must have known the effect it would produce on the business of the different sections. Every intelligent banker foresaw that, by forcing specie from the east to the west, it would depress prices in the cast and sustain prices in the west; thus enabling the wary speculator, who had borrowed largely from the banks to sell western land to pay his bank debts. Do not these facts prove that the present calamti ous condition of the country has been bronght upon us by speculators, who have used the banks to buy the public lands, and have then used the power of the federal government to force specie west, so as to keep up the price of land, until they could sell the land they had purchased. WHO ARE THE SPECULATORS.—We yes terday gave extracts from an official document re ported to the Senate, relative to the speculations in Indian RestroatUms, and accompanied them with the deelaia'.ion that These reservations were introduced into the treaties, for the purpose of enabling the com" panics formed to speculate in Indian lands. We to day submit a table taken from Mr. Woodbury's offi cial report, in June, 1838, on the Banks, sh nvingthe effect which the specie circular had on the banks and banking—spreading ruin in the Eastern, Middle and Southern States, by compelling the banks to curtail their discounts $48,091,653, while it enabled the banks in the South Western and Western States, in which these speculators had purchased lands, to in crease their discounts $9,802,713. Wc continue our extracts relating to these frauds that the honest laboring man, who is made the vie" tim of these speculations, may see the source from whence his suffering conies, and that he may form some idea of the frauds perpetrated under the trea" ties made anjl sanctioned by the party in power. We would ask him then, to look at the manner in which General Harrison has discharged his duty—to contrast his treaties with those made by the agents of this administration; and appropriately wc find in the St. Louis New Era, the following remarks : "And lastly (says that paper,) we advert to the re markable fact, that during the time Harrison was governor of Indiana, he effected not less than thirteen treaties with different Indian tribes, by which the United States acquired the possession of sixty mil lions of acres of land. These treaties were all made by 1 m as sole commissioner, and tin: best evidence of their having been effected with skill and talent, is, that the provisions of every one of them received the sanction of the President and Senate of the United States." Now compare this with the following extracts from a report to Congress, made by the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the Senate: EXTRACTS. Kli'is Miller to Le-ris Cats, Secretory of War.—(page 134.) HENRY COUNTY, (Ala.) "I further state to your Excellency, this company of speculate*!!, seek throughout the waole country forme best and most valuable sections or. fractions ofland; and having aclaa of Indians subservient to their view , locate one on each and immediately purchase it. Their plan o' purcba-iag so much is by an artiliee, of which, perhaps, they are entitled to the invention. They pay the Indian down in hard money, (generally about tiv. hundred dollars) and one of them takes him off a" few paces from the company, and gets the money back from him in exchange for flattering promises, which be prizes much higher." R. J. Meier to the Secretory of War. —(page 146.) MCNAIRS, June 11, 1634. "The impositions are not practised in the nuking and con- Biimation of the contracts, hut a.tor the purchase money has been paid. As soon us this is done, the Indian is enticed into a room (and. it is said, for the most part, by the purchaser himself,) where he is pli ;d with whiskey, till he is gotten into a humor to be wheedl d out of iii-s money, hy loan or other wise- Next morning he is found dead in the streets, rifled of his money, except in mo t instances a few dollars; and the re port H at once put in circulation that he has been robbed of, or has lost it. R. J. Meirstothe Secretary of War. —(page 135.) COLUMBUS, (Ga.) Attest J, 1 834. "The respectable portion of the whole population in the late Creek termors', as well as the whole community here, openly denounce the whole of ttiose who have speculated in Creek lands as having made all their purchases with compa ratively insignificant means, filched, by one d vice or another, successfully from the first venders to pay the last." I exam ined Gen. Samlford'.s office, and conversed with him rnttcb on the subject of frauds practised on the Indians, the perpetra tion of which, in the most unblushing manner, h • charges unhesitatingly on almost all concerned in the specula!) an." R. J. Meiittj the Secretary of War. —(page 181.) MAIDSVILLE, (Ala.) Sept. 23, 1834. "No sooner had the treaty been made public, than thoe who intended to speculate in reservations, posted tneir parties and agents in the Greek country with small stores o ' Iruli in goods and whiskey,where by a system of credit,they soon ac quired demands against the Indians to be used as engines to awe them to sell their lands. Home of them in |>erson, and more hy their emis-aries, be gan to traverse the country in all direction", with their negro interpreters. Thus holding the clue of evidence in their own hands—hired at the rate of two dollars a day, and a premiu n of ten to one hundred dollars on each contract, —to hunt llie reserves down like malifactors or wild beasts, and to follow them incipantly whithersoever they might retreat, to avoid iuqKirtumty and precaution, and never cease harm Jl ng them till from mere disgu t not a few have committed suicide, aiid many more have sold for very inadequate prices. Thus have tlie Indians been induced, by promises, that they should en joy their house, and fields, and by threats of law suits and imprisonment, to yield a reluctant consent to part with their property: this obtained, and armed with the affidavit of the value of the land made weeks beforehand by the meanest people the country affords, no time is to be lost, lest the In dian be stolen hy some more unprincipled knave or negro in-* terprefer, tempted by a large bounty, the purchaser sets off, travelling day and night, and by the most unfrequented routes, to the certifying agent, before whom the formality is gone through with of signing a deed and paying over the pur chase money in his presence. The moment the Indian is out of the office, his account is presented, crammed with calico, beads, and multitudinous pints of whiskey; and Just as much of the consideration money is taken hack as suits the conve nience of the heartless villain to demand." (pace ->22 )—'"Coosi Yoholo, of Tuekabatehee, says that another man of the same name has sold and had his land cer t lied to in favor of Alexander Burns, who, it is said, is purchasing for BilUngster. The other t oosi Yoholo is present aad ncaowledges die charge, luul in excuse says, that he was persuaded by Hums to do it." % An Indian woman was invited to a house to eat peaches. "When there, they asked her what her name was: they made her take hold of tie eml of a pen and make her mark un a paper; gave her three handkerchiefs worth one doll tr each, one dollar and a half in Hour; no person's present but Col lins and the interpreter. She did not wish to sell her land, etc. VIRGINIA ELECTION. The importance of the Virginia election is such, that we have endeavored from the best da ta in our reach to compile a table showing the relative strength of parlies at the polls. There are one hundred and eleven counties and Bo roughs. Our tables includes fifty-three—in these the whig gain is 5,233 votes. The administra tion majority in 1833 was, in these counties. 1615. The whig majority now is 3618; The en: ire ad ministration majority in the state in 1836 was (we quote from memory) 1712. We want bin two more members to give us lite majority on joint ballot; and llie counties yet to hear from i elected seven whigs last year. 1838. 1839. 1840. ' B 2? i? 3"V S I # I f- i # I "f'l Albemarle, 676 594 '.£3 l 423 483 677 Amelia. 189 83 196 299 252 229 Amherst, 275 246 158 229 311 357 Allegany, 155 39 127 44 148 84 Batb. 396 114 009 009 192 189 Brooke, 413 181 359 188 392 315 Buckingham, 498 296 492 489 503 504 Berkley, 290 280 322 374 372 474 Bedford, 482 512 315 623 288 59.) Bottetourt, 799 181 551 262 80 maj. Caroline, 317 219 099 009 464 466 Campbell, 477 478 415 530 237 519 Cumberland, 216 241 090 090 000 33* Cuarlotte, 332 245 325 356 337 343 Culpepi r, 242 251 312 . 372 295 401 Clarke, 138 102 150 119 8 09' Diuwiddie, 161 168 238 320 358 325 Elizabeth city &e. 38 79 70 164 102 243 Fauquier, 363 429 380 437 090 *46 Fairfax, 176 220 272 252 9 099 Fluvanna, 390 50 009 000 258 249 Frederic, 518 281 609 550 658 593 Floyd, 293 23 090 000 50 maj. Greenbrier, 212 371 231 421 173 466 Hanover, 386 268 451 373 090 3U* Hampshire, 407 396 495 485 537 600 Henrico, 246 287 444 472 329 503 James City, 4 109 no opposition to the Whigs. Jefferson, 269 400 350 397 355 519 King &. Uueens 275 199 000 000 314 302 King George, 152 148 168 108 139 169 Louisa, 488 116 308 308 398 383 Lunenburg, 202 132 253 210 290 210 Matthews, 131 64 126 68 192 175 Marshall, 297 229 314 308 395 426 Mee'.l jliburg, 420 206 470 180 420 293 Monroe, 358 223 515 354 432 418 Morgan, 100 45 169 139 142 19a Nansemond, 76 185 280 294 294 386 Nelson, 249 118 203 346 000 139 Norfolk borough, 98 2.14 298 4:10 233 436 Norfolk county, 163 320 473 514 439 629 Nottoway, 174 70 000 34 207 209 Northampton, 6 284 no opposition to the Whigs. Ohio, 239 536 259 451 156 446 ylvania, 539 611 858 612 354 67*8 Prince Edward, 279 539 32 030 283 298 Princess Ann, 56 197 282 317 281 377 Powhatan, 177 161 230 206 208 214 Kockbriilge, 379 4,(8 247 415 479 564 Rnnpaliannoe, 19) 171 298 293 000 24 ltichuiond, 138 455 158 343 51 418 Snill-vl Viinia, 282 207 346 333 359 377 Stafford, 178 148 264 2)4 271 252 Southampton, 192 185 389 326 369 355 14506 12891 0300 0000 13896 17514 The limes in Nev York:—, The Express of Monday afternoon presents the following picture of the business concerns of N. York at the present time: It is a singular fact that Exchanges on all parts of the world are in favor of New York. On England, France, and other parti". Europe, bills are full one percent, in our favor. In the We t Indies, and in all parts of South America, Exchange on this place Is above sp :ci •, and at a premium. In all parts of this country, particularly at the South and West, the rate is greatly in our lavor. According to received notions, ail the world i- in debt to New York. If this is really so, we ought to be the mo t nourishing and prosperous city on the globe, and rich beyond all precedent. Yet, in the face of all these ad vantages, waat are toe facts. New York is more prostrate than it ever has been, even during Die periods of embargoes, non-intercourse and war, which prevailed from 1806 to 1816. Real P.-tit :i) below any point it has ever touched. Fine stores rent ibr lass Kites Ulan ever. For example, tiiose fine stun - on Broadway, above the Bowling Green, running through to New street, four and six stores high, and which rented for ix thou and dollars par annum, now rent for six and seven hundred dollars, in many parts of Pearl street, the f dling oil' is nearly in the same proportion. The dry good interest, as a body, wis never mora pro trite, many of the oldest firms, tiiat have stood the test of a quitter of a century and more, have within the put year, been compelled to sus pend. Most of tin: sup ..•filled houses of 1837, which got time to liquidate their debts, have been unable to meet their first notes. There is less building in tile city than there has been for years. Mechanics w lies ware never lower, and not one halfofthem are in employ. Good joiners are glad to get employment at fifty cents and found. Every branch of hu ioess and trade, save and except one, and that is the shipping, io in a most ruinous state. Tin: mer 1-antil • community, a- a whole, have not inade their expans es for two years p i t, and until within a very lew months, the shipping interest has been as bad as any other. Some of our finest pickets run all l i t year, and not only did not m ike miy tiling, hut brought the owners largely in debt. The bank er and capitalist are no better off there are cornpajativ, !y few tiiat can empl iy money, and fewer still who can give se curity. The couscqence is, tiiat tiiere is a larger amount of idle capital than ev r has been known. Large sums have been loaned at five per cent, p;r annum. All this is a faith ful picture, not by any means over colored. The facts here set forth, are not hearsay, but are within our own knowledge. It is a serious question to answer, how is all this, with the world in debt to II I. With all the elements of health and strength in the countjy—witli finer and more abundant crops on hand than ever known, yet we are a prostrate communi ty, confidence impaired, a large portion of the population, if not idle, not profitably employed. The truth is, the break ing up of the United Elates Bank, and the destruction of the currency, lays at the foundation of all this evil and di -tress. The removal of the d iposits was the fir-t step that led to this train of evils. Confluence is broken down, all tile financed arranger] nits haw :en banks, capitalists and bankers,through out tiiis wide pr tad country is broken up, and cannot again be formed under the present financial system. To the Editor of the Express. Sin: —I b-ive read your interesting remarks on the subject of the exchanges and business rela tions of New York; and, although they present a glo imy picture of the great emporium, which but a few yeats since was the pride and boast of our country, I I 'etr th it your people have not as yet experien -ed the glimax of depression des tined tone indicted upon them by the pernicious tendency of th" me isufes of the administration. 'he appirent bilanceof trade in favor of New York, as indicated by the rales of foreign ex eh nge, m ty b • readily accounted for, by the fact hu your institutions and merchants are indebted to Europe at least twenty millions of dollars, which I hey are unable to pay, and of which a large proportion wiH be eventually lost to the creditors. The tr de of New York has also been gre tly decreased by the continuation of cash payments, whilst the Slates south and west, with which her merchants have hitherto dealt so extensively, wisely suspended their payments. New York appears to be retiring from trade, and if your banks and merch nls continue the winding up system, the condition of the city can- not be improved. On the contrary, a large por tion of means must be consumed for necessary expenses. Bills drawn upon shipments of produce are abundant in your market, but the demand for them is quite limited. The merchants, who are in debt to Europe, have not the means to pur chase, and those who have funds can buy goods on better terms in Pearl street, than in London. The state of things, of which you complain has been produced by the destructive policy of the administration, and no rational hope of relict can be entertained, until the executive head of the nation shall be changed, and the credit sys tem reinstated, which has existed since the lor mation of the constitution. if your operations in trade are to le < ned to your means in cash, the commerce u. New York will be circumscribed to the limits of your State, and foreign vessels will carry the few ar ticles of your products that may be wanted abroad. Mr. Van Buren and his cabinet ministers have ever waged an unrelenting war upon our com meree, banks, internal improvements, a.id eredii system, since the commencement of his ad . ia istration, and the ruinous effects of their me. - sores }yve not as yet be< n fully developed. A vear hdnce, the people, lo their sorrow, will be better informed. Col. Benton's gold and silver projects in theory were supposed to be truly tidict.l.jus, yerttis u i detiiiible, that the system is now in foil practice under the sanction of the Treasury L)<put neni, the evidences of which are visible in to state ment you make of the fall in rents fr< ms 6 >)0 to SOOO in Broadway; and if it shoul I co. tin tie much longer, a few of yottr capitalists will be able to buy all the pioperly upin that splent'il street, upon their own terms. Bit, be assured hat the day of retribu ion is drawing ne .r, and that, in the sequel, this same gold and t-i'ver hobby of the Colonel is dfst neil to knock tie government party into a cocked hat. A LODKEII ON. BATHING. —Wc invi c atten'ijn to the adv< rt'se ment in another column, of the proprietor of the Col lonuile Baths. Th's establishment is now one of the most beautiful, convanient, and extensive, in this country, and all its arran en :nts at e in the finest style. During the past year it has undergone a tho rough renewal, and to the lovers of that most delight" ful luxury, presents inducements which cannot fail to elicit an extensive patronage. The season has now arrived when all classes of society w l find a p'eis ant and invigorating relaxatii n from the heat of the weather and the fatig ics of the day, in the enjoyment of the warm or tepid 1a h. In a city like Baltimore, at least one establishment of this kind should he ex tensively supported; for independent of the personal gratification arising from a due attention to cleanli ness, it is a well established factthi tn ithiug contrib utes more to general health than a frequent use of the Bath. LIKENESS OF GEN. HARRISON.—We find on our table several excellent lithographed likenesses of General Harrison. One of them, accompanied by sketches of the battles of Tippecanoe and of the Thames, with a short memorandum of the important and striking events of his life. One in full military dreis, by Hotly. Lithograph ed by Daval. One bv H. Buhard, with nine illustrations of tl.e important military events of his life. One of General Harrison and his military staff, on" horseback, at the battle of the Thames. One by James Queen. And a large sheet representing the battle of Tippe canoe. The publishers have agents in lhe city. "Harrison and Tippecanoe Songs, Glees, and Par odies,'' is the title of a small collection, published in Philadelphia. IVc acknowledge the receipt from Wm. N. Har rison, NIJ. 12, Gay street, of May numbers of THE CASKET, and Philadelphia Monthly Magazine. From the same agent we have received the May number of Godey's LADY'S BOOK. The embellish ments arc, the Fashions; a print, "Warming the Mit ten," from an original picture in the possession of th publisher. We have also to acknowledge the receipt of the January, February, March and April numbers of the Southern literary Messenger, containing the usual variety furnished by that interesting publication. About one hundred delegates to the Young Men's National Convention, from Wheeling, arrived in the city yesterday. They bore two beautiful B.7nners; on ne of which we read "Tippecanoe Club of Wheeling," &c. We bid i hem welcome. HARRISON CONVENTION.—Dr. F. M. Rob ertson, R. V. Harris, Robert Clarke, and Alfred Ba ker, Esquires, have been appointed Delegates to the Convention, from Jiugusta, Geo. Delegates to tjie Harrison Convention, from Charleston, S. C. were appointed at a numerous meecting held in that city on Thursday last. At a meeting of the Whig Young Men of the 10th Congressional District of Massachusetts, held in Taunton on the 22d ult., delegates were appointed to the Baltimore Convention. WANTED. —Several competent persons to act as agjnts for this paper. None need apply unless tliey are well recommended. WANTED.—FIFTY BOYS to sell the Tippeca noe Text Book and Pilot. Apply at this office, No. 11, Water street. THEATRE, IIOLLIDAY BTREET.-We are much gratified in anu.uncing that the enlerpri.ing manager of old Holliday ha. effected a re-engagem.nt with Mr. and Mia Vandanhoff. We .incerely hope that the community at laige will sustain thi. gentlemanly manegrr in hit untiring eaertioia to reudei thi. establishment an Interesting and inriling place of resort. Mr. Vandanhoff austains the character of Matter Walter and Miss Vandanhoff that of Julia in the play ofHunch bnck. Those who hare not as yet, had an opportunity of wit nesting the performance ol Mr. Vandanhoff and hit accomplish ed daughley in this piece are adrittd to avail themselves of this opportunity, as it may not be presented for tome time agtin. Mr. J. Wattack Jr. well known to the theslre going community at the nephew of James Wallaek, who it one of the Irst trage dians that now gracos Ike stage, will npponr it Sir Thoroa* Clifford. The Editor of the Pilot had the misfortune to lone many of his books and documents by the the late fire in Washington, and is particularly desirous so obtaia files of the Globe, sinee January 1833; and files of the Telegraph and Reformer, from the same dates Should there be any one who has them, and is unwilL ing to sell, lie would be greatly obliged for the tea por..ry use of them. The Campbells are coming! The hand writ ing of the following communication shows it to be from a real hard-fide I working man. It speaks the language of sober earnest, and will be read by the working men to whom it is ad dressed. COMMUNICATED. Mb, ENRTOR : —LI is with great pleasure that I announce to you the fact that the working men of this city, and we may say throughout the whole country, are leaving the office holders* party, and are now going for rheir country and iheii country's good, under their brave and pat riotic le tdeis, Harrison and Tyler. Who can gainsay their pair iotism or their democracy?— We believe that the great body of the working peojle of this country are democrats, in the original sense of the word; so much so, that they will not support a man who has been nominated by the office holders of this country; and who is bound to carry out their measures, whether it be for the good of the people or not. In fact, Mar tin Van Buren, the present self-styled democrat, has said, and said it boldly, that ihe people expect too much from their government. As much as to say, we do not legislate for the people—it is for the offi e holders. I call upon my fellow working men to come forwaid and enlist ill -ir names with those whom I believe are the inly true Democrats, namely the Whigs.- It is well known that Gen. Harri son has always been a Democrat; then why should we remain with a party who have the name of Democrats, while they do not act up to any of the principles of the same? They pro fess to believe in rotation in office, but how do they act up to it? By appointing and-maintain ing, if possible, men in office for life. They professed themselves in favor of one term for the President. How have their actions corresponded with their words? They profess to be in favor of b inks. They also profess to.be opposed to banks! They profess to be in favor of p ;per money!— They are also opposed to paper money. I ask, in the language of candor, is there any de pendence to be placed in such a party? What that they can do, have they not done, to injure the working men of this country? We appeal to them, because they have been the greatest sufferers in this war against the people. And as one of that diss, I mean t> do all that I can, to wards restoring confidence, and bring ; bout our wonted prosperity. A WOUKING MAN. COMMERCIAL RECORD. Corresponding of the PUot. NEW YORK, April 'lP, 1840. Since the introduction of steam picket ships between this city ami England,the mind is continually kept 011 the qui in respect to European news. One vessel is scarcely in, and moored, before the enquiry is made, when shall we have another arrival. The Great Western, which was to sail from Li\e-pool on the 15th instant, is now hourly expected, and she wdl In n : news at least two weeks later than we art at pres -nt, in p9S '.ssiou of. There is an interesting account of He business done hv this steamer during the year 1839, which we rather from a report made at the annual meeting of the company to whit h she belongs, at Bristol, n the 26th of March. By this report, it appears, that during that year she had conveyed 1036 pamengeis. 96,518 'etters, 19,671 news papers, besides parc Is and 121 i tors of merchandise. The actual licit profits of ih company for the same period, waa nearly $50,000. The average of her passages were seventeen days and two hours to New York; and thirteen days ami six hours to Bristol. The line ships have averaged during the same peiio 1, twenty three days. R may not be uninteresting to your southern readers to be informed that a petition has been presented to the Legisla t ire sittii g at Albany, to extend tJ.e right of suffrage to peo ple of color. We shall see what will be the result of this innovation, and bow far the abolitionists intend to carry their disorganizing doctrines. The N. York Gazette has given up the ghost,and retired "to the tomb of all the Capiilets" not exactly; as the Ga zette, it is surely deed, but will rise again, and join its rib to th° sts tely and corpulent body of the Journal of Commerce. Sic transit glo.i 1 muudi. The federalists are looking blue at every accession of news from the elect ons in Virginia. The accounts thus far are highly cheering, and I congratulate you and every friend of toe good cause of Harrison and reform, upon the prospects of success in the Old Dominion. lii the financial world,capitalists arc beginning togive more serious attention to nvestmcnts in internal improvement slocks,anil this description of security is becoming daily mora and more in demand. The greater portion of real investments arc made in desirable Rail Road Stocks, suclt as are most likely to yield fair dividends. Sales at the Stock Exchange, New York, A[ r'.l 29. 100 Shares 11. S. Rank, 10 days. 74J 50 do do 30 " 74 J 120 . do Rank of Commerce, 97 j 120 do N.Am. Trust, 44 55 do do 441 100 do do 43f 25 do Am. Exc. Rank, 84f DIED. On .Sunday, PETER FORNEY, Esq., in the 75th year of his age. On Sunday morning, 26th inst. after a protracted illness, in the 26th year of her age, MARY ANN, wife of Augustus P. Webb, and daughter af Jacob Smith, Esq. of this city. jjCjfAt a meeting held on Monday evening last of the Committee of Arrangements for the young men's National Convention, the following reso lution was passed unanimously: Resolved, That ihe several publishers of news papers in this city, friendly to the election of Harrison and Tyler, be requested not to issue an afternoon paper on the 4th, and no morning paper on the sih of May. COMMITTEE OhMiFCEI'HUN] The committee have taken a parlour at the Eulaw House, corner of Eutaw and Baltimore streets, where they will attend on Friday, the first, Saturday, the secondhand Monday, the fourth of May, for the purpose of welcoming i heir political brethren who may come to tie city on mission of patriotism and public spirit, and of otherwise carrying out the instructions under which they act." A. W. BRADFORD, Chairman. Joshua Jones. Secretarv. At a meeting of the Committee of Itecepiion on the 29ih inst., the following resolution was adopted, and ordered to be published: Resolved, That the "Whigs of the th'ty who propose to entertain members of the young men's Convention, be requested to meet the Committee of Reception at the Eutaw House, at snch times as may be convenient, during the three days pre ceding the Convention, for the purpose of uniting with iheCommittee in providing accommodations for the members of the Convention. P The convention from Baltimore, Hatford and Carroll Counties for the nomination of elector of President and Vice President, will meet on Tuesday, sth May, 10 o'clock A. M.. at Nortfc Bend, instead of Monday.