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LETTER FROM MR. CHILTON.
Washington Citv, 22d April, 1830.
J1lessrs. Gales <$■ Seaton—I proceed to redeem the
pledge I gave through the columns of your paper, of
the 16th uist • unappalled by the battalion of figures
which Mr. Wick liffe has paraded before me, or the
mercenary squadron, who are yelping at my heels.—
9 feel the confidence of having truth on my side, and
we have high authority for saying, “it is mighty and
will prevail.”
In all that I have heretofore said, relative to the
public expenditures, 1 have relied on the ollicial doc
uments, submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury
to Congress; tho appropriation acts found in the sta
tute books; aud last, though not least, on the figures
of the Chairman oft he Retrenchment Committee him
self Taking these different lights to guide me, 1
have found that the expenditures of tho Lr4 year, the
year which above all others, the nation looked to tor
retrenchment and reform, have exceeded, by very
large sums, the expenditures of the preceding year;
taking out from each the payments on account of the
public debt, and those made by the British for deport
ed slaves under the Ghent treuty, so as to present
the naked nett amount unobscurcd by what docs not
belong to it. The excess, to be sure, was much grea
ter according to the first official report of the Secre
tary, thau it will now appear to be by his amended of
ficial, or by the former figures of the Chairman ol
the Committee of Retrenchment; but still taken in ei
ther way, or all ways, in which any fair comparison
can be drawn, there is a large, and ro me, an unex
pected ckcxxs. This I now reiterate, rfvr a careful
review of ull that has been written; and am ready to
prove it. at all times auJ on all proper occasions
When this controversy first began, there was a per
tentous fluttering about the Departments, lest the So
crctaiy of the Treasury had admitted too much in his
official report on the state of the finances; and sundry
movements took place, first in one House of Congress
and then in the other, to enable the Secretary to take
hack Ins estimate for the 4th quarter of the year. He
has accordingly managed to make the required cor
rection through the Committee on lleucnchmcnt,
though uncalled fur by the House of Representatives;
aod I shall now in what I have to say. discard his/Srsf
Teport for the 4th quarter and rely solely on the amen
ded one. 1 have only to request, after I shall show,
by this second and amended statement of the Titian
ces, from the Honorable Secretary, that 1029 is still
ahead of 1828 in expense, that he will not take this
back also, to make further amendments before we got
through. But I am blamed for hitherto relying on
the 4th quarter’s estimate of the first official; and Mr
Wick liffe is very learned and technical about, the terms
“estimate” and "expenditure.” I knew well enough
that tho estimate would not always square exactly
with the expenditure, but I could not permit mysoll
to doubt but that it was near enough to the truth,
lbr substantial accuracy, and for fair calculation. It
was sent to Congress as the basis of its legislation,
nnd surely, tf fit for Congress to act upon, itT was not
to be discarded by me, when it was the only official
information submitted. But now it turns out, that
the Department is willing to swallow the blunder, ij
it was one, of more than a million tf dollars, if they
can help the cause of nty antagonists, and put me
down.
The Secretary estimated, as he says, for that quar
ter, the expenses at $7,245,481 05, whereas they
turn out after all, to be only $6,23G,9I4 43. Differ
ence, or as I call it, official blundering, $1,006,556 62.
If Mr. Rush had made such a mistake as this, I hard
ly tliink my colleague would have intruded hitnsell
between me and my constituents, to defend him, as he
has dune on this occasion.
But I am reminded that Mr Rush, in 1G23, estima
ted his 4th quarter at $7,392,603 72. lie did so. 3ut
was there any Buch difference of u million in that quar
ter as I am now considering? No! The expense?
of that quarter were $7,214,571, as near as could he
expected to the estimate. Do not then quote Mr
Rush as a precedent for this system of blundering by
millions. But let this official slip go for what it is
worth. I come at once to the actual expenditures of
the two years, as now admitted by the Secretary him
self, and endorsed by the Chaiiman of the Retrench
ing Committee. Here they arc:
Total expenditures for 1G28, $25,459,179 52
Deduct public debt, $12,163,438 07 > ,
Treaty of Ghent 7S0.O69 40 $ 1~|9;*>.50/ -a.
Nett expenses of 1828, $12,595,972 05
Total expenses for 1C29, $25,071,017 59
Deduct debt, §12,333,000 77
Ghent treaty, C,2G0 22 $ 1 ->U-J
Nett expenses of 1C2D, $12,678,930 go
Making an excess of the year 1829, over the expen
ditures of the year 1828, of $171,964*45, and this too
without taking into consideration the fact that the
year 1828 is charged with six months legislation, and
the year 1829 with but three. To make the compar
ison perfectly fair, three months legislation should be
deducted from 1828, so as to make it allow but three
months session to each—Now the pay of both houses
of Congress for 90 days, without considering the prin
ting & other contingencies, would amount to 190,080,
Which if taken out, will leatfe the real excess of 1829
over 1828, 362-044 dollars.
Such is the result of a comparison between the first
year of the present, and the last of the late adminis
tration
But let us go back to the Ju'sl year of Air. Adams,
as perhaps still more fair. Thai is let us compare
the first with the first of both administrations; each
of course having the benefit of a short session, and see
how we shall come out in such a contrast. In 1C25,
the first year of Mr. Adams, the whole expenses
Were $-23,585,804 72
Deduct public debt, 12,095,344 78
Nett expenses of 1825, 11,490,459 94
It ha* been already shewn, that in 1829, according
U> Mr. Wickliffe’s own admissions, and ihe latest re”
port from the Department of the Treasury, that the
expenditures were $12,G76,93G 60; making an ex
cess in the first year of the present Administration of
$1,186,476 66, over the first year of the last. I will
also state, that in the ’.otter year, thesnrn of two hun
dred thousand dollars paid to General Lafayette is
charged, &. pat down as expended in 1825. Should that
be reckoned as not standing on the footing of ordina
ry expenditures, and no one will pretend that it does,
t,he difference in the two years will lie one million
three hundred and eighty six thousand four hundred
and seventy six dollars anti sixty six cents. It is use
less to struggle against these figures. Voit cannot
Bhike them off
Mr. WicklifFc has said much about abuses and pec
ulations; but this docs not help the difficulty. Why
spend more money now, than the last administration
did, with all the abuses which have been attributed
to them? It matters nothing to the American people,
whether they are plundered with or without the forms
of law- If the present Administration is as econom- ;
ical, and the last was as wasteful as Mr. Wickbfib
asserts, then wo are brought to this strange result—
that wasteful sonants spend less money than the
clonomical! ! ! If there were abuses under the last
administration, it is neither my business nor my incli
nation to defend them; nor shall 1 be so carried away
•with names, as not to condemn in others, what I did
condemn in them.—My complaint is against the man-!
ner of administering the Government, and that men '
have failed to fulfil the promises which they fttade
livery administration has boen taken in by dejuul
tera and peculators, and no reasonable man can ex- j
poet this administration to escape. There were con-!
spicuoua instances, even under the administration of
Mr. Jefferson, who, I believe, administered this gov
ernment on the purest principles, and \vith a stricter
eye to real economy than nny other rnan since the!
days of Washington. And if Mr. Wickhffe has now \
a list of defaulters in his pocket, and will keep it for
tfttee years to come, I venture to predict, te will bo j
abJb to add rnnch to the length of-it at the end of.
f§<*| t*fhs. 0erbkpa tfc* of
who supped liie list iu lus hands may assist to swell
it. He should remember, that we often see a great
dust raised about one sinner, which is used to cover
the new crimes of a dozen worse ones, who mix iu
the tliraug. And even at the execution of a convic
ted felon, many a man has had his pocket picked by
Fnme eolemn-laccd bye-stundcr, wim, at the same
time, expatiated feelingly on the enormous oflbnco of
the dying man
I will now noticc'an artful but ingenious contri
vance which has been, ns I perceive, gotten up by
some of the subalterns of the departments, and which
; I should think nothing but desperation could have dri
■ veil them to, in the hope of obscuring the facts which
| are in dispute between Mr. Wickliflb ami myself.
■ Finding that upon any fair statement of the accounts
‘ for the financial year, (that is, reckoning, ns the dc
| partinent always do, from the 1st of Jan. to tko 1st of
! Jan.) the balance is largely against 1829. A paper
I is put forth; purporting to give two years expenses,
from March to March in each year. By this arrangc
inen', the twelve months ending the 1st of March last,
| which are culled Gen Jackson’s twelve montlis, ap
: parcntly made a great saving over the twelve prcce
d ng months, which are called Mr. Adams’s. A ta
ble thus made, tvs I presume by the Cabinet journey
’ men, is adopted by Mr. VVickMle, as he says “to
1 make the comparison a fair and just one.” Yes, a
: ‘-fair and just one.” Mark these words.—What I
•; have first to say of these ‘"fair and just” comparisons,
is, that (he sum of $790,000, paid by the British for
deported slaves under the Treaty of Ghent, is again
put in to swell the twelve months charged to Mr.
Adams; and to make it still “fair and just,” six' mouths
legislation, as I hare before stated, is heaped upon
the top of that, while but three months go to the term
of Gcu. Jackson.
These “fair and jest” inequalities, however, are
trifles lighter than air. Compared to the real of the
artifice, which I will now unveil. What are called
the expenditures for the twelve months ending 1st ol
March, 1830, in truth, contain but a “fair and just”
statement, for any correct contrast of button months:
because the bulk of expenses which would have
been paid during the months of Jauuary and Fcbru
ary, 1830, if the departments had been in funds,
were postponed until after the 1st of March. The
principal ironied operations of the departments, f,Jr
expenses accraing in these months, were necessarily
postponed. Is this the sort of retrenchment we have
been contending for? As Mr. Wicklifib appears to
have convenient access to the departments, lie can
toll if any warrants were issued during that period
which were temporarily taken up by the U. States
Bank, and which the Bank did not present to the
Treasury for payment till alter the months of January
and February, the two last of the twelve culled G^u
Jackson’s had expired. The suspending operation
is now t urned to grand account: no sooner is it finish
ed than out comes a certificate from a Treasury olfi
ccr, to show how little appears by the books \o have
been paid in the twelve months ending the 1st ol
March, 1839.
Reader, man* thi^! Tho ccuct making apprupri
aiions for the support of Government for the year
1830,” was not in existence in January and February.
It did not become a lav/ till the 18th dav of March!
And the acts “making appropriations for'the military
service of too year IObO, uud “making appropria
tiona for the Ncval service for the vear 1830,'
were neither of them npproved till the llth day
of March. Mr Wicklifle may well select these
two months ns best calculated to answer the
purposes lie had in view; for nothing was or coulu bo
■ drawn from the Treasury under these acts in Janu
ary and February, before their passage, to pay the
monthly accruing expenses. Of this l do not com
plain. Hut I do complain, that, when this suspend
ing operation was well known to the Treasury offi
cers, any of them should so have arranged a state
ment lo be used as a ‘ fair and just” comparison with
j a >’car in which a partial appropriation was made for
• tiiese months- I will do M r. Wicklifle the juslice U
I say, that I do not think lie was accessary to this tie
j vice. I believe he himself has been led into error;
tor the official print in this citv, seme time before Mr
\V. made his flourish, threw out a paragraph on this
subject by way of a feeler, and, as it wus not answer
ed, it was supposed the trick would take. But he
ought to have looked into it deeper, before ho lent to
it the sanction of his re?pectable name.
Now, just the reverse of what I have alluded tan*
taking place in the twelve months called Gen. Jack
son’s, was tho fact in the twelve months under ATr
Adams, with which they have been compared bv Air.
Wick Idle. The appropriations for January and Fe
j brunry, 1829, were not delayed till March, as in lf;i0
but were made before the year commenced, one
quarter having been appropriated in advance. The
“fair and just” comparison, therefore, by which near
ly two millions of dollars appear on paper, to have
been saved, is u comparison of a scries of months,
in which payments were made for expenses incurred
as they went along, with another series, during a
part of which (one sixth of the time,) large payments
were suspended, or not made at all. * 3
j I will next examine the Naval expenditures, as tri
j ven in the “fair and just.” They are represented^
j Gren. Jackson’s year to have been but £3,076,32.*;;
j and henco is a saving claimed of a million of dollars.
This fallacy will appear in several ways. If the
Navy cost one million less lost year than the year be
fore. then tho Secretary ought now to have an unex
j pended million on hand. Hut, if he hadihaton hand,
whqr did lie apply to Congress early in this session,
to furnish a new supply from the Treasury, to enable
j him to fit out the frigate Hrandj’winci’ A fain, if he
carried the service through his first year,‘Yqr’about
j three millions of dollars, be would require no more
than that for his second year; especially with n mil
lion of savings to begin uith. Hut let us hoar him
speak lor iiimscli; for it is probable he knows 60ine
, thing more about it than Mr. Wicklifle. I have bc
! fore me his estimate, at page “75 of the documents
! accompanying his report to Congress, in which ho
says, explicitly—that there will he required for the
| support of the navy, during tho year 1830, three
j million, five hundred nnd filly-six thousand, five bun
I dred and forty seven dollars, and thirty-four cents,
in addition to the unexpended balances that way
remain on hand on the Id January, 1830.” How
strange, then, that Mr. \V. should talk of the Navy
costing but $3,016,328 a year undor tho present Ad
ministration when the Secretary himself tells us that
it requires to support the Navy'^3,550.547 81, in ad
i dilion to what lie has on hand!
i will ncrc observe, that the naval service aim lit to
:f;ost n great deni less now, than in 1023, because in
that j'ear there was expended $201,307 70 for com
p’cjing the ten sloops of war that had been authorised
under Mr. Monroe's administration, and ulso, >ii9,
592 97 for the suppression of the slave tradeffor
which $30,000 was appropriated in May, 1020
I might take up the other items of tho “fair and just”
comparison, so called, but these that J have noticed
will serve as satnpics of the rest; end I have, 1 trust,
hiiewn enough to sntisfy anyone, that no rciianco con
be placed upon it. it is artificial and delusive through
out, and not entirely creditable to those who «ot
it up.
According to this principle of saving, a man who
spends two thousand dollars a year, and pays as he
goes, is extravagant, compared to one who pays one
thousand, and runs in debt, or postpones his credit
ors for two thousand more; inasmach as the payments
of the former appear on his books’to have exceeded
the payments of the latter. But the ease wo arc
now considering is unequal nml unjust in another
way; for when we go back to the 1st of March, 1020,
the starting point of the tnblc ndnptcd by Mr Wick
lido, we find the appropriations for the first quarter
of that year had not passed, and did not till some
lime after. Of course, large sums which accrued in
January and February, 1823, were naturally thrown
upon tho series of months selected in the “fair and
just" comparison as Mr. Adams’s. The dchnrion
works at. both ends. First, by crowding in upon
M r. Adarns’sexpenses what belonged to the prece
ding months, and which were waiting for the npi.ro
pfufiori *o pars- trcnt.rj. hy rr,T:.c?'r?" tt'* ef'1
the t vvoivc called Lien. Jac kson £ uioutiif, by tbo fus-'
pending process to which I have before alluded. The
fallacy of such a mode of calculation will appear, fui
thcr, by examining a few of it• items; for instance,
! the ‘fuir aiul just’ gives the expenses of the Militury 1
! establishment during Mr. Adams’ hist twelve months,!
| at 6,414,1 OG 66. Jlut I huve tn-dny hand a state-*
: meut, prepured by Mr Ingliam, and reported by the I
I Cha*rtnanof the retrenchment committed, giving all j
! the expenditures from 1739 to December 31. 1329; j
I and thore is not a year'cluring the whole «f the last i
! Administration, in which these expenses, including i
j pensions, Indians, improvements. *S c. eame up to *
I that amount. They are in that document stated to i
j be for
Mr. Adams* lour rears 193-5 <£3,G92.3G0
f 13-26 G,2 10,231
1327 5.675,739
1723 5,720,200
ficn. Jackson’s year 1329. $6,272,600.
Mr. VVicklifle toys, truly, ‘-It is wlten tlie Executive surpass
es tlie limits of its powers, and usurps the authority of the ap
propriating power of the government, that \vc may look far ;
“abuses, and expect extravagance Irt an administration.” 1 1
I wish-he would tell me by what authoritv fmtv thousand dollars !
j were taken from the Treasury m the last year to pay for Minis- !
ler»’ outfits, which the appropriating department had only not
abthorized, hut refused ro authorize,
j I stated in a former communication, that the present execu
j tive had appropriated (at the request of this administration)
! $134,000 for foreign missions; that is, for the pay anil outfits of
i Ministers, Charges, and Secrcianes, and for contingent expen
ses of tlie missions $80,0,10 more, making in the whole .$214,000
far these purposes, being $65,000 more than was appropriated
tor the same objects in 1828. Here Mr. Wicklifle meets me by
saying that in 1322 there was expended for‘Intercourse with
foreign nations’ in that year tire sum of $211,121 26- The
reader would lie apt to suppose by ‘intercourse with foreign na
tions’ lie meant the pay and outfits of the diplomatic corps — i
Rut this $211,124 2G is made up of a variety of didcreul arti- j
rles, of which here is die fist.
Diplomatic department, $117,684 71
Expenses of missions to Coogrcss of Panama, 1,930 50 •
Contingent expenses of foreign Intercourse, ’ 18,791 07 1
• Relief and protection of American seamen, 14,685 GO
Treaties with Mediterranean powers, 34.730 00
Treaty of Ghent, sixth and seventh articles, 2,70!) 34
Do. do. first article, U.G91 02
Prize causes, 8,000 00 j
Payment of claims uudcrnintlr article of tlie treaty
«f Spain, SCO 06 ;
. . . $211,121 2Gi
Is tins a fair wav ol meeting any- chargee Reckoning in th.it !
: manner, there has been appropriated fur the ‘foreign Inter-i
; course,’ this year, $268,000, instead of $31 1,000, viz:
l For salaries and outfits of Ministers, Charges, t-ecre
! taries, ns before observed, $184,000 1
! Contingent expenses Inr same, ' 30^000
j Salaries of Agents for Claims at London and Paris, 4*090
| Intercourse with Karliary Powers, So|o00 1
j Relief and protection of seamen it) foreign countries, lo[000
.*2C3,ooe j
tie algo say;, an “ xtiuiiuiiiration is responsible, and might
be made so for ilia measure* they recommend and the policy i
they adopt.” 1 *av the same. Anri what has been rccom- I
mended?
1st. A new Executive Department;
2d- f:'ving more pay to the Attorney General, for which a
“ill has been introduced, besides givmg’liiin more clerks, and a
paper carrier (messenger);
3d. Increasing the pay of some of the foreign Ministers, who
now get 25 dollars per day for their services; °
‘Ith. Rear Admirals and Vice Admirals for the Navy, with
large salaries; ami gentlemen, if we go on this way, we shall
next want Field Marshals for the Army. 1 am opposed to all
this foreign style, and all this splendour. I would i at her have
I nrte lough fighting Commodore than a dozen of your Admirals
i of rdihons and strings.
! 5th. Ten mere Clerks, and an additional Assistant Rostmas
I ter General, for the Rost office Department, for which a bill is
before Congress;
6th. Additional Clerks in tiie other Departments.
It such is the retiapchme*i that others have contended for, I
hayo only to say, that is not what I expected.
So far as relates to the antKdrsfiip of my publications, I have
only to say, that its denial is perfectly characteristic of those
who have sought to mislead the people on other subjects: and
now wish to “retrench” the humble credit which 1 might "uin
by my pen °
The charge, that my change of opinion has resulted from
“disappointed ambition,” is entirely gratuitous. I never, di
rect/y or indirectly, asked an appointment from any oue of the
'*1 owers that be,” either for •<> y*c[f ora relative. Sure I am,
j r never shall. They are welcome to all the honors of their sta
j I*11* * a-*> no longer yo be considered, even in part, respon
l s,blc for their error?. No man in America, with so humble an
estate, has suffered for 'hem more; nor has any one, in many
j instances, been mare unkindly requited
I I now wash my hands of the subject, and 1 hope, finally, as
I have i.r.„ r„n.l of controversy I have seen a nopula
non of twelve miu ion, or more, thrown into confusion, for no
| other pnrpose-than to advance U.e views and wishes of a few
1 individuals. I was one who aided in kindling the llanie. Can
] it bethought strange, then, that I should feel some mortification
at seeing every just expectation end in disappointment, and
every effort in abortion/
I dismiss Mr. V. icxtirn., as Ac and / must stand or fall be
fore “our own masters.”
Respect folly yourV, TIIO CHILTON.
April 21, 1330
f>; S-—I request those editors who have published Mr. Wkk
i.s.! ~ s communication, to be “fair and just” enough to give the
foregoing an insertion. ' (j_
To the Editors ok tiie Whig.
POWERS OF TOBACCO.
Gentlemen:—Asa highly erroneous notion nrcvails
with many moralists that tobacco used in the forms
of chewing, snuffing r»r.d smoking, tends to invite or
increase a propensity to drinking alchoholic liquors,
I cannot resist the inclination I fee], to remove such
an impression, or to deny the justice cf the conclusion.
• So far from tobacco producing a tendency cf that
j sort, I am satisfied it often acts as a comparatively
; innocent substitute for intoxicating drinks, and not un
[ frequently ip tlie means of rendering the abstinence
of the inebriate, not only more supportable in the first
instance, but ultimately tends to wean him entirely
ifotn t hat ot ci w he 1 in ing and infuriating habit by exer
ting a mild stimulating and trnnquilizing influence up
on Jus feelings—Thai Tobacco acts as a fine mental
stiinulous or. many persons, is notorious and self-evi
dent—hence it is, that studious or.d literary men
frequently resort to it, and use it sometimes profuse
ly, when they want to stimulate their intellectual fa
cullies to more powerful and brilliant exertions. It
was the mental stimulus of flic great infidel British
writer Ilobbes, who wrote in u cloud of tobacco
smoke, and in a style altogether nervous, brilliant and j
classical. Much lias been written against the use of'
| this most fascinating and highly active weed, blit it !
; never can dimmish the power of its charms and in- j
| fiuenco over society, whether polished or rude. Hud I
i all that has been written against it been confined to i
'V uuus>'* u woutu nave ucsorved general commcnda
; Don. Our greatest blessings in the form of luxuries
! might be converted into curses. Therefore I contend,
that it is only im excessive use of tobacco, 1 hat con
stitutes it nn instrument of mischief. or a source of
permanent evil.—I am now in a hurry, nnd ns I in
lend to send yon two or three communications or c=»
pays on this subject. I will close by transcribing a I
lew remarks on the virtues oftobacco. from a northern !
paper, which 1 think very appropriate, and which 1 I
much admire—“Tobacco is constituted nnd compo- j
ped of the richest, strongest, and most delicious, and I
; also the most delightful ingredients. The nlcbohol j
! or pph'i\ the oil and opium, the sugar of saccharine ■
water, the n.uciiaginons wax nnd gums, the acids nuti t
nitre, with several others of the other volatile salts,'!
we. nil so harm onion -ly combined, constitute this the I
richest nnd most delicious compound ever engendered j
: and generated in any plant.”—No wonder tficn that!
j all classes of every country nnd clime, from the rnv- i
, age to Urn civilized park of mankind, should take de- !
! !n *,s usc< I* forms the traveller’s companion ;
and the philosopher’s aid. It is the old bachelor’s'
j anfidolc, tae epicure’s Inst resort, nnd sailor's and I
I H0*d|Cr 8 third daily ration. It keeps open the conti
| n£* 8 e.Vf;9-'iuid besides medical and many other good I
ettects, it cheers the watchman in the silence of the !
jr.ignt. \\ onrlcrfnl weed of American origin ! ! !
I am, with great respect,
Your obedient servant.
Jr, . , rr T. P HEREFORD.
IJaynunlet T irginia, April 22d, 1330,
Phe wits nt \v ashington arc making themselves i
TV^rj'r ni * 40 ??Pe[,8e °f o«r particular friends, hauc |
liil vy Arnos Ivendnll. A Caricature is afloat there, re
presenting Isaac ns just commencing his tramp, with
tus bundle on his back; and Amos, collect*'* his duds,
exciairn*. “frton a moment and I’ll go With you.” j
A*r., r^' ir
,L.' The correspondent of the Alexandria Ga
zette, explains the delay in the Senate, in acting on
Kendall’s and other nominations. We know not
how tlse Senate can bo jogged, unless Lieut. Webb
will again take them in hand. Ills “exposures’’ may
answer.
From Uie Alexandria Phenix.
EDITOR'S CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, April 23, IC30.
Sir:—The attention of your readers has been di
rected, no doubt, tor some time past, to the progress
af chairs in this quarter. The political hori/.ou%t ill
continues in the same uncertain state- The Scuntc
linve suspended lire consideration of Kendall's nom
ination, on account of the absence of Mr. Livingston,
and the indisposition of one of the Maryland Sena
tors. There is said to he a majority of live votes
irgainst ratifying. The character of this man is more
obnoxious tliau that of any other officer in the service
of the Government. The miserable effort to iinpli
cate Randolph in the frauds which aro reported to
have been committed on the Treasury by the learned
Secretary at JPur, has consigned him to universal
contempt. But this transaction, however nefarious,
could not have found him a lower rank than had al
ready been merited by ins conduct elsewhere. A re
port has been in circulation that the President had de
termined to re nominate Hill to the Senate. The
ground of this determination of the “greatest and
best,” is alleged to be the declaration of Hill, that
he made no endeavour to remove the obstacles in the
way of Ins nomination, and that lie can put the Sen
ate in possession of papers which will obviate all the
grounds of complaint on which they acied. it was
thought that the infamy with which he has been bran
ded, by the vote of the Senate, would have satisfied
him; but what lolly is it to look Ibr modesty in the
ranks of the present dynasty! They acknowledge
no restraint, and appear to be destitute of the small
est particle ofsensibility. The indignation and frowns
of high minded honorable men, are viewed without
any other feeling than that of the most reckless in
difference. It was hoped, rather than expected, that
the President of the United Slates would not Iwve
suffered himself to be provoked into this excess of
passion; and we hope still that this report is without
foundation. The Senate acted with dclibcialion.
Mr. Hill was apprised of the ground on which he
stood. lie exerted himself to the very extent of his
power to avert the calamity, which, however he may
declare to the contrary, he knew to be inevitable. If
he had the means of saving Ins reputation, they were
in requisition. Why did he not use them? The Sen
ate was ready to receive any explanation in extenu
ation of the charges—nay, anxious—-on account of
the effect which their refusal to ratify would be cal
culated to produce upon the mind of General Jack
son. If this report he true, the Senate will doubt
less stand firm. It is impossible that they can con
scientiously undo what they have enacted; and the re
turn of the nomination, considered as it must and
will bo, a direct censure upon their vote, will only
tend to strengthen them in their former determina
tion. ITow humiliaiing must it not be to the Presi
dent, to he thus controlled, in these minor acts of Ex
ecutive power, to which no one would have doubted
but that his own prudence and judgment were ade
quate. But it is through this exercise of authority,
that we frequently discover the character of individ
uals. A great mind would soar above the considera
tion of personal services, in regulating the concerns
of Government. What assistance might have come
from this quarter or that, would not weigh a single
grain in the impartial scale of merit and competency.
The President of the United States is not called to
the Executive Chair to distribute “rewards and pun
ishments;” lie is not sent there as the instrument of
private aggrandizement, at the expense of public
utility; he is the great agent of tho people, entrusted
with powers to be exercised in their behalf and ap «
Sited to their wants. Gen. Jackson is now checked
y the disapprobation in which his conduct is held,
by those who act for the honor, respectability, and
welfare of their country. May it prove a useful les
son in future!
Thus distinguished, Ilill and Kendall, who have
ariscu to the stations which they now hold by the
most unblushing impudence, must go out as drones
upon society. With the unfortunate there are few
who do not sympathise—but for them there is no
sympathy. Conscience, with her whip of scorpions,
nilist lash them for their transgressions.—Into her
hands we consign them.
Respectfully, «5cc.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
Lancaster.—For Delegates, W. II. Dandridgc 107,
J. A. Carter* "3, Morris Emanuel 55. For the Con
stitution 63, against it 70.
Norfolk Borough.—Miles King, the dismissed
Navy Agent, elected by 133 votes, against JI. B.
Grigsby, the late Delegate, who received 56 votes.
For the Constitution 175, against it 33.
Amelia.—For Delegates, Richard Booker ISO, W.
B. Giles* 182. For Sena'e, Wm. Old 144, David
Branch 77. "Wo believe that Mr. Old’s present ma
jority is about 1GG. Cumberland county only to be
heard from. For the Constitution 201, against it 3.
Williamsburg.—For Delegate, Wm. M. Moody
32. no opposition. For Senate, B. B. Brown 20. J.
B Harvic 7. For the Constitution 25, against it 14.
Patrick.—Majority against it 5.
Shenandoah, [corrected.] — For the Constitution
095, against it 64
Alleghany—For Delegates, Win. II. Terrell 00,
11. P- Taylor* 72—Allen Persinger 63, Moses II.
Mann 35. [Messrs. Terrill and Taylor fur the Con
stitution—Messrs. Persinger and Monti against it.]
For the Constitution 73; against it 67.
Henry.—For Delegates, Jabez Gravely, Wm. Dy
er. Majority for the amended constitution, though
we have not received a statement of the polls.
Culpeper,[corrected.]—For Delegates, J. S. Ilans
borough 470, Edmund Broaddus* 446—George Fick
lin 331. For the Constitution 911, against it 27.
Mr. Polk of North Carolina, has b£cn unanimously
appointed by t lie Vestry of the Monumental Church,
an Assistant Minister to the Right Rev. Richard C.
Moore.
CGMMl'MCATCT).
At lid!iron, Culpeper county,4 V’a , Mrs. Sar.vii
i»ow>N, consort of I>r. F. l>. Ifou rn, of pulmonary C"nsin»j>
t:on, in tlir :12d year of her age. She bore her long and painful
illness without a murmur ami almost without a groan.
Never did woman siiew more Christian fortitude and resigna
•ion. Her fortitude and resignation in her affliction, were only
equalled by that universal benevolence which actuated through
out a most interesting and exemplary life. If ever there was
one. who possessed pure and disinterested benevolence, pure as
the absence of self could make it, Mrs. Itoweu surely did. As
a wife, the was kind, and affectionate almost to a fault, c.ver
aiding her husband in all hi* exertions directed to hi* temporal
welfare, nnd concerning the “life which is to cotnc,” giving him
monitory lessons in mild suasivc and affectionate language.—
Haul, heart-rending to him tire loss of such a wife. Truly may
be s«v, “I shall never look upon her like a^ain.” Bui he
‘sorrowed! not as one who hath no hope.”
“Met restless spirit’s gone ,
lleyond this scene of care;
Mid’ worlds of ether pure it flic*,
And breathes its influence there.”
A® n parent, she was tender and instructive, teaching her
children their various duties, and endeavouring to bring them
up “in the nurture and admonition of lire. Lord.” Jly the cliil
dren of a mother possessing such nmiableness of disposition,
such elevated sentiments of benevolence, of love t» (Sod and
love (o man, and endowed with a mind so well calculated to
instill them in her dear little offspring, the loss will be felt to
their latest breath, perhaps in eternity. In the range of the
writer’s female acquaintance, Iso can honesdy say, that in all
the relations wnich she bore to others in this life, and as a
w atm devout ( hristain, lie has never seen her parallel. A
more affectionate wife, a more tender and intructivc mother, a
more dutiful child, a more sincere friend, a kinder or more
charitable neighbor, or more feeling mistress never “brealhed
the breath of life ’ Kndowed with exiraordmaiy vigour of
intellect, with unbounded benevolence, with fortitude astonish
trig, and possessing all the fervour and zeal which distinguished
primitive Christians; bar! she been placed in a proper sphere
she would have shown with a brightness ttndarkened by the
splendour of no female that ever adorned the earth, or now
“adores and burns” before the throne of Cod. *
!Ia"' p’e*»5u» e- 1 ■■''•d 'n- w*»r- '1**“' of thi3
lanterned womans hie. When approaclwug the gloomy valley
and shadow of death her willing soul “feated no evil”_Christ
was the rock on which she had built her trust, and she desired
“to depatt and lie with him.” Death was to' her the ».ih of
Heaven.
A short time before her death she most feelingly exhorted
her husband not to cease in his efforts to bring uj» their littln
children ami their servants in the fear of the Lord. ln a few
hours she was to be in Paradise. Death had conte. Undainnrd
bv doubt, nndaraCned by despair, nt that black hour whirl,
sheds general horror, and when “conscience echoes her cter
nal peal.” , vicr
“Jmvcci peace and heavenly hope and bumble joy
Divinely beamed on herexalteii soul.”
And calling upon the name of her Saviour, in a tono and
language never to be forgotten, her spirit took i‘s flight “to tlm
bosom of her I- ather and her God ” 0 "
She left a wretched husband and six small children to feel
this keen dispensation of nn all-wise Providence.
From the K. Y. Journal of Commerce, April "3
Fifty shares of the U- S. Bank Stock were sold
yesterday at §127 50 cents per share. The flue
tuations in this stook within the last four and a half
months have been very remarkable_Ou the 8th and
9ih December, the days next precedin'* the rccoint
of lh«; President's Message, the price ranged from
$125 50 cents to §120 50cents. On lltir, the day
after the Message was received, the sales were at § 12©
and the price afterwards descended, with various
fluctuations, to §116, nt which rate several Bales
were made about the middle of February. From that
time to the present tko stock has been gradually
improving, in proportion ns the prospect of Congress’
refusing t<> renew the charter has diminished. The
report of Mr. MoDuffie, from the committee on
Ways and Moans in the House, has finally restored
it to the full value which it held before the Mes
sage of the President was issued. It would seem
from the sales reported to-day that the money-dea
lers, who are usually very good judges in such
matters, consider the permanence of tlm Bank as rather
more secure than before the discussion commenced.
If we take the price of stock before the Mes
sage was issued at $126, and the lowest subsequent
depression at $UO; it follows that the difference in
value on the iVhole 350,000 shares, was «3,500,000.
Such appeared, at the time, to have been the
actual loss. But as the matter has turned, the only
effect lies been, to take certain sums from A, B &, C
and give them to D, E and F—Fluctuations invol
ving so large an amount of property, and to such
an extent, from artificial causes merely, are always
to be regretted; and though we do not doubt the
honest intentions of the President, wo think, and
we guess he thinks, he liad better have let tills
subject alone.
LATEST FROM RIO JANIERO.
The Schr. Virginia, Capt. Uugg,arrived at Bal
timore on Saturday, having left Rio on the 9th March.
Mr. Tudor, our Charge-de-affairs at the Court of
Brazil, had been ill for a considerable thne, and on
the 9th his wife was despaired of. Mr. T. was
highly esteemed, and considered one of our most
useful public agents abroad.
1 lie first of the bonds for American prize cases
had been paid, but those give to French claimants
were under dishonor.
FROM COLOMBIA—By the schr. Emelinc, at
Savannah, Bogota papers to the 1st March, have
i bccn received. They give further accounts of the gen
erally unsettled state of the country, without mach
| intelligence of a positive interest The address of
I Borrero, the President of the Congress at Bogota, to
the Colombians, abounds with promises and plaudits,
and confirms the statement given a short time 6ince’
in this Gazette, which includes among the national
laws, the toleration of the Roman Catholic, a* the
only Religion of the Government. The address is so
much like the drum-beating things of the kind, com
! monly made use of, and so little interest attaches a
mong us to the proceedings of this weathercock peo
ple, that we shall not trouble our readers with its pe
rusal. We make a few extracts from the items giv
en in the Georgian.
“Chili is in a state of complete revolution, and the
i party most authoritative, is now that of Gen. O’Hig- '
gins.
“Buenos Ayres, becomes every day worse. Sintto
| the death of Dorrego, most horrible massacres con
| tinually occur A most unprincipled man has joined
himself with the Barbarians of the Pampas, and
spreads desolation around him. Ho entered Mendo
sa, and slaughtered as many as 6,000 men. Others
| are stationed at Buenos Ayres. All communication
by land with Bolivia and Chili, is obstructed, in con
1 sequence of these factions.”
Santiago, Dec. 2.—Gen. Prieto, is in Rancahua,
with a battalion of 300 men, without other fofee to
assist him. Gandarillas has arrived at Santiago, <&-.
it is teported he has joined with Bulnes.
In Santiago, a company of cavalry has been uni
| formed, who evince mucli enthusiasm They have
entrenched at the entrance of the place. The pre
! serving army i^wn the plain at the gates. V.
J). Servando Jordan, arrived the day before yes
terday, ut Casablanca, with a party of militia from
Melipilla. lie yesterday, pillaged the post office, and
examined the correspondence with the government.
Letters that did not refer to the object of his search,
were detained all day in the office.
CLARK’S SPRING.
THE public arc respectfully informed that the
Spring is now open for the reception of visit
ors, and the Baths will be in readiness on Sunday the
25th inst. The Proprietors solicit a continuance of
the patronage that has been so liberally bestowed
since their commencement. The Bar will always
be furnished with the best of Liquors, Snacks, &c.—
Barbacucs and Companies furnished at low rotes,
and in the best manner, a» short notice.
They have thought proper to reduce «/ie price of
Bathing, as follows:—Single Bath, vvartn or cold, 25
cents. Persons paying five dollars in advance, will
receive twenty-five tickets,
np 27—3t tft
TOBACCO. r ~
PLANTERS are respectfully informed, that all
Tobacco consigned to us for the future, shall be
received into the Ware House free of drnvngc from
the Basin or tiic Dock. Freight, &.c. paid when re
quested, bv W. Sf T. BURTON,
nj>r 10-2aw 1 GtC Inspectors Scabrook?.
LAND FOR SALE.
PURSUANT to a Decree of the County Court
of Henrico, made on tho 1 Ith day of March.
1830, in a suit between Rebecca Pearce and Sam’l
Hobson, plaintiffs, and Bernard Bedford and others,
defts., we the commissioners appointed for that pur
pose, shall proceed, on Saturday fhc 17th day of the
present, month, April, to make sale of the Tracts of
Land which, by the said decree, ore directed to ho
sold; llic same bcir.g r-ituatc in Henrico county, and
bemg lands of which Francis Pearce died possessed.
One of the said tracts of land contains two hundred
and Iff.1, acres, or thereabout?, nmf is bounded by tho
land of Thomas C. Koosec, Clinrle? Cbildrey and
others, about nine milc3 below the city of Rich
mond. Another of the said tracts contains about
thirty acres of land, and lie? on the road leading from
Richmond to Charles City Court-house, and is about
eight miles from tho former piace. The other tract
contains about twelve acres, nnd is adjoining tho
largest and fir$t. mentioned tract.—Tho sale will lie
made upon a credit of nine months, the purchaser?
giving bond with sufficient security for the payment
of the purchase money, nml the commissioners re
taining the title to the land? until the same shall ho
directed to be conveyed.—The sole <• the whole
lands will be made on the largest tract above mcn
tiotiod, and will take place between the hours of It,
A. M., and 2 P. M., of the day above mentioned, by
GEORGE KEESEF/, 1
JOSEPH BAILEY. > Commissioners.
JESSE P, KEESEE, S
IT The above rale is postponed, until Saturday,
the 1st day of May next, on wnicb day it wi’l rkf*
place at the place advertised, and between »? rani j