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rendered his accona s, as fully stated aud ex
plained by the evidence both in New York and
Washington, as contained in the journal, and
to which we beg leave more particularly to re
fer. But little opportunity was afforded to go in
to the consideration of the conduct of land re
ceivers and other officers included in the re
solutions of the House. The only evidence
on this object was the communication of the
Secretary of the Treasury, already published
and some additional letters from said officers
addressed to the department, no vdrt of which
having been placed on the journal as evidence,
in the usual form, the undersigned are unable
to come to any definite conclusion upon this
portion of the subject of investigation.
During the whole investigation, and after
a careful examination of the evidence since
its termination, the undersigned can see no
just cause to cast censure upon the bead of
the Treasury Department for any want of
diligence or attention in the performance-of
the duties of his high and responsible station.
This untoward aud unfortunate affair, by
which the country has sustained so much
loss, could not have been prevented or con
trolled by any efforts of his. The evidence
is strong and convincing, that the auditing
and settling these accounts, and detecting de-
or constitute any ok the duties imposed on I
mm. Ihey belong to separate aud distinct
bureaus, over which he has no coutrol. and so
' determined by the legal advisers of the Gov
ernment. When the defalcations were made known,
there is abundant testimony furnished by the
documents that he made every effort, aud used
every instrument that the power of the de
partment over which he presides enabled him
to use for the recovery of the money; adopted
and enforced such regulations for the sate
keeping of the public money as his limited
power and the want of the legislative action
has enabled him to exercise. The duties of
his station are not only various but laborious.
They require talent, patience, and industry;
these he has devoted to the public service in
the administration of the high functions de
volved upon him as Secretary of the Treasury.
It may be said with confidence and tiuth, his
fidelity to his trust is unquestioned aud un
questionable; his purify known and acknowl
edged. As a public man, experience must
have taught him, in high and violent party
times, if he were as pure as ice, as chaste as
snow, he would not escape calumny.
That the country has sustained great pecu
niary loss no man can doubt; th it the national
character has suffered deep humiliation and
disgrace, no ma i can hesitate to admit. But
losses like these are incident to all govern
ment; no one i.s free from them; the annals of
our own afford minrous instances of pecu
lation coin.nilted at every period of its short
existence, u.ider all and every administration,
and all and every fiscal system; which has
been adopted and carried into practice; no
matter who has been the fiscal agent, the Go
vernment has sustained loss. It must K .;
uutil man becomes honest. But from our
very misfortunes we may derive beuerits; these
incidents like storms purity the stagnant at
mosphere; they may check for a moment, but
cannot stop the onward march of the State to
her high destinies. The lessons of expjri
ence will be forgotten, and remedies must and
will be applied to guard aud protect the public
purse.
These remedies are, in the opinion of the
undersigned
1. Persons to be appointed under an act of
Congress, whose duty it shall be, periodica'!',
or at any time, under the direction of the Trea
sury Department, to personally inspect the
books and papers of all officers intrusted with
the public mouey.
2. To have all officers of the customs, who
in the remotest degree may be connected with
the fiscal concerns, or intrusted with the pub
lic money, derive their appointment, not from
the collector, but from the nomination of the
President and confirmation by the Senate, or
directly from the head of the Treasury Depart
ment. 3. That all collectors, receivers, and dis
burses of the public money be required to
make their returns to the Treasury Depart
ment under oath.
4. Making the embezzlement, by any offi
cer, of the public money, a high penal offeuce.
5. Making it a penal offence in any offi
cer, conniving at, knowing, or being privy to
any embezzlement of the public money, aud
not giving immediate notice to the Treasury
Department.
No calm aud dispassionate man can read
the evidence taken by the committee, in the
piogress of this investigation, but will come to
the conclusion that the cashier and assistant
cashier, and the deputies of the custom house,
indebted to Swartwout for their offices, and
subject to be removed by him, was one of the
great causes of the peculation and of its con
cealment. That the labor of the committee in this in
vestigation will produce some good, is proba
ble; that it would have produced greater, and
given more satisfaction to the public mind,
had it been conducted on more enlarged prin
ciples, we have no doubt. Be that as it may,
we have endeavored to discharge our duty to
the House and to the country.
There is one occurrence, however, that took
place in the investigation at Washington of a
remarkable character, aud deserves notice.
Mr. Woodbury, the Secretary of the Treasury,
was called aud sworn as a witness. The first
question propounded to him was in these
words:
"Question 1. Have you seen, or heard
read, or described, or been informed of, any
portion of the evidence taken before this com
mittee?" "Answer. I have not seen, read, or heard
read, any of it, nor has it been described to
me, nor have I been informed in respect to it,
except what gentlemen in conversation may
have suggested was probably the character of
some of the evideuce; but whether correctly or
not I have no means of judging."
If it be right that a man on his trial should
'. be informed of the charges made against him,
why ask the question? We know uot what
was tha object in propounding it. Every man
will draw his own conclusions.
We d?3in d it at the time a most extraor
dinary qusstioa to be submitted to Mr. Wood-
Luiy in hjs then peiuLar po ition. W e believe
it unprecedented iu the annals of criminal ju
risprudence. We take this opportunity frankly to avow to
the House and the people, had there been any
evidence taken in New York tending to im
plicate the honor and reputation of Mr. Wood
bury, or any other Ameiican citizen, and it
had not been made kuown to him by the com
mittee, we should, under the most solemn con
viction of duty of what is due to private hon
or aud public virtue, and that sense of justice,
to violate which would be to betray the best in
terests of the people have communicated the
fact. No humau power could have induct ti
us to remain silent.
There is a zeal in politics as strong, though
not so holy as in religion, that excites the pas
sious and leads us into error. It reverses the
precept, aud makes us do unto others what it
will not permit them to do unto us. Fair and
honorable conflict of parties invigorates the
body politic and benefits the State; but, when
party spirit assumes the character of persecu
tion, it is a demon that perverts the under
standing and corrupts the heart.
The respect we have to the House, and our
devotion to the people and the principles of
liberty, have imposed on us the duty of eiviiig
this simple narrative, not only of our acts, but
lf mnniipr nn4 C-pt ?.) p hir-h their Kavc? hpfii
executed, lu politics, it has been said, names
mean things. It may be said, with equal truth,
in all political movements, forms mean sub-
stauce. lhe people have a right to know not
only what is done, but how it is done. The
greatest guarantee of freedom is publicity.
All which is respectfully submitted.
GEO. V. OWENS.
HENRY A. FOSTER.
DAVID. D. WAGENER.
NEW ORLEANS, March 13.
The Tables Turned. Under the ma
rine head it will be seen that the packet ship
Orleans has brought to this city from New
York $lUU,U(j(j in specie, consigned to Mr.
A. Lanfear aud the cashier of the Citizen's
Bank. Trade has now taken its proper
course. Enchanx;e is so much in favor of
this city that the New York merchants find it
profitable to ship specie hither instead of
drawing bills, as formerly, when bills ou New
Orleans were at a discount in New York.
Without being intimately acquainted with the
mysteries of banking, it seems to us that our
monied institutions, by prudent and proper
management, could easily retain exchange in
its preseiit wholesome slate. It is difficult,
indeed, to discover iu what manner the course
of exchange could be rendered unfavorable to J
this city by the trade with New York. The
exports hence to that place greatly exceed I
the amount of imports from New York to this i
place, and unless it be through a kiud of le- j
gerd.rnain, similar to that whic h was formerly .
practised by the United States Bank, we can- J
uot imagine how we cau ever be indebted to '
the north, to such a degree as to reduce ex
change on New Orleans to 3, 4, even 15 per
ccr; discount in New York, as it was twelve
months ago. Even the notes of vho J.U.oJ
States Bank of Pennsylvania are not (or were
uot a short time sim-e) received in deposit at
any of the banks of this city, save and except
its own branch, the Merchants Bank; aud it
was doubtful two weeks ago whether even
that affiliated instruction would take the cur
rency of the great bank. W hat a change has
been wrought by the lapse of a few mouths!
At first it was said that our banks could not
resume the payment of specie till exchanges
with the north were equalized. It was replied
that exchanges would not and could not be
equalized so long as the currency of the north
was sound aud ours was not. It was men
said that our banks could never redeem their j
liabilities until they procured a circulating I
medium from Mr. Biddle. A committee of ,
bank presidents wrote him a letter, humbly j
supplicating him to furnish them with a few :
millions to begiu with; and he replied that he
would graciously supply them with the means
of paying their debts so soon as his notes i
could be signed. The first day of January j
came, the day fixed by the banks for paying J
their notes iu specie and not only did they
resume without embarrassment or difficulty I
but it was found that several of them had been i
paying out specie for their notes for several '
weeks previously. When the inquiry was
made after Biddle's circulating medium, it
was not to be found the return was non est
inventus.
It is non est inventus still not only so,
but the instructions which were most clamo
rous for Biddle's assistance are precisely those
which are most positive in refusing to receive
his paper on any terms, and to reward their
loyalty he is getting hold of all their specie to
ship to Mississippi to pay his advances on
cotton and to meet his instalments due and
becoming due to the Union Bank of that
state. This is the age of humbug. Louisia-nian.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE RICHMOND CONVENTION.
"Hangout your banners on lhe outward walls."
The convention has gone off admirably.
Everything in fine taste, in fine spirit, with
fine effect! It was one of the most numerous
meetings which we ever saw gathered togeth
er; upon so short a notice. Had time enough
beou allowed to rally our ranks, it would pro
bably kave been composed of from four to five
hundred delegates. But the invitations did
not go forth until the 1 st February. It scarce
ly reached any of tiu counties in time to pro
duce any movement on the court days of Feb
ruary aud in most of the counties, there was
not time to operate in due season, even at the
March courts, and send the delegates to so j
distant a theatre. There was scarcely time to i
hold one meeting, beyond the Alleghany. 1 he
great West had not a single extra delegate to
embody her Republican principles. But we
had enough from the Valley, and from the
midlands, and from the South side, and from
the East, to give utterance to the cheering and
animated voice of a determined people. We
have never heard more stirring accounts from
the great yeomanry of the land never so
much of the excitement which pievails nev
er more glor 0113 auguries of the victory which
awaits the Republican cause. In the words
of the powerful address which they adopted ou
, Tusd.iy night, by acclamation, "the voice of
the country is coming to us on every gale.
The concurring testimony of the delegates of
this convention, who are fresh from the bosom
of the people," assures us beyoud the possi- j
bility of mistake, that the people are really up; 1
that they are coming to the rescue; that they ,
mean to do their own work, at the coming !
election; that all dissensiou is rapidly disap- J
pcaring, and that the utmost activity has suc
ceeded to the unfortunate apathy which para
lyzed us at the last election. Every sign
from the country is indeed most exhilirating.
But the transactions of the convention are
calculated to animate us to still greater exer
tion. A more inspiring spectacle we have
never wituessed. Composed of many of the
most respectable and enlightened Republicans
of Virginia of men of talents and influence
and honored by many of the venerable grey
heads of the Republican party filled, too,
with a spirit of cherfulness on account of their
present prospects, and of decision for their
future operations this convention blended in
happy unison the immediated delegates from
the people and the members of the General
Assembly. The whole of their movements
were harmonious. Their proceedings were
not only conducted with great order, but with
the profoundest wisdom. Some of the Whigs
have quizzed us about the catastrophe. They
shrewdly susjiected, and slily insinuated, that
it would wiHeu th hrrach. which it was u
tended to heal that it would introduce dis
cord, instead of harmony and, in fact, that
the whole drama might fail, and the conven
tion break up in a sort of row. How griev
ously were they disappointed! Instead of
bickerings and dissensions, there was a kind
and generous feeling pervading that large as
sembly. Sometimes a fine stroke of eJo
queuce drew forth the warmest applause
sometimes a happy hit of humor incited them
to a good natured laugh but there was not
an angry expression or a wry look, during the
whole of this interesting session. They met
as a band of brothers, and they have parted
with feelings of the greatest enthusiasm.
There was not much debate;, but it was all
conducted in the best temper. Mr. T. Rives
of Prince George was the only conservative
of the stfflitest sect present. He stated his
opinions freely and boldly; but he was listen
ed to with respect aud attention, and we trust
that he has left us with feelings more iu uui
son with those of his brethren. He stated his
objections to the address in the most deco
rous and respectful terms; and he was answer
ed by Mr. C. Yancey, of Buckingham, in a
manner so noble and touching, as to draw
forth repeated thunders of applause. He
(Maj. Y.) declared himself to be iu opposi
tion to the Sub-Treasury system, as at present
advised but in every other respect a most
decided friend of the present Administration.
He avowed, iu the most emphatic manner,
that there was uot a man in America whom
he should prefer to Martin Van Buren. These
declarations came from one who has rilled a
great space iu the annals of Virginia; who;
came into public life iu 1796; aud has been
nearly all that time in the public councils, in
one or the other branch of her Legislature.
Ho oo o.Ul , l'ithr rf tH Hnc Ma ,
has been at all times a decided Republican,
and as he frankly, but justly declared, if there (
be any man who" has been so long aud so de-
ckJedly a Republit an upon the record he
knew no such num. Coming from such a
source, these liberal and decided declarations
produced the finest impression aud we hope
to extend it by giving a short sketch of his
Tuesday night's speech. Mr. Rives was also
replied to by a young orator, Jackson O'Ban
nou of Rappahannock county, and with a spi
rit which was worthy of both his names. He
was soon after followed, Upon a different
question, by another young speaker, 31 r.
Carter of Loudoun, who claimed the indul
gence of an Assembly of Democrats, the first
he ever was in, and indeed the very siht of
a Democrat iu his county was almost a curi
osity. He had scarcely attained, he said, the
age of manhood; but he addressed the assem
bly in a manner sometimes humorous, and
sometimes withering to the cause of the
Whigs, which, without giving offeuce, fre
quently extorted the smiles aud applauses of
the spectators.
But the orators are hushed, aud the conven
tion is dissolved: leaving the most agreeable
impressious upon the minds of every member,
and the most cheering conviction of the bene
fits which it is destined to produce. W7e
have never seen a body of men break up in
finer spirit, or with higher anticipations.
We publish their prodecdings in this mor
niug's paper. We shall lay their long and
excellent address before the people in our next
paper. It covers near twenty-eight pages of
manuscript; but when it goes forth it will thrill
through the body politic like the blast of a
trumpet. Its sentiments are conciliatory; its
discussions upon the origin, principles, and
prospects of the Republican party are able and
impressive. It will siuk deep into the hearts
of the people.
We can scarcely mistake, but we mus:
suceed. If the Republicans do their duty,
with only half the hearty good will that ws
mean to throw into the cause, the campaign
must end in victory. But still Virginia ex
pects every man to do his duty
SABBATH IN PARIS.
From the Paris Correspondent of the .Vtio York
Ev ning Star.
Shnrn as vnu arp mv Hoar friend. T nuoo-
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tion if you could dispense with an almanac 1
nere. now would you know, witnoui such a
help, which day was Sunday in Paris? In
every day of the week the Churches are open
ed and empty. So that could not aid you.
The shops are also opened, and the business,
aud traffic, and pleasures of life proceed as
usual. Lumbering carts pass through the
streets omnibusses and cabs ply as usual.
Bills are in the shop-windows, and placards on
the walU inviting you to a tragedy of Racine's
at the Theatre Francais, a vaudeville at the
Gymnase, or a ballet at die Opera. You will
fiud it difficult, at first, to see any difference
in Paris between Sunday aud any other day.
Stroll, about uoon, through the Palais Royal,
the Rue Vivienne, the Italian Boulevards, "the
Rue de Paix, and the Rue Tivoli, and you
may notice one shop in forty shut entirely, and
one in twenty half closed. At four o'clock
half of them are shut, aud three-fourths at six.
There are fewer laden carts in the streets.
The throng of carriages is diminished also, in
the afternoon.. Some of the working classes
rest on the buuday, sleeping away .the moru
iug in bed, and taking their wives to a ihea-H
tre in the eveuing, or taking themselves to a
cheap cafe where they sip sou saucre. and play
dominoes. The famous Cafe deMille Colon nes
(now dwindled to a mere Estaminet or work
ing house) had the honor of a visit from me
last Suuday afternoon. I paid two sous for
a cup of excellent coffee. Three parties were
playing billiards, and about thirty little parties
of from 2 to 6 people at dominoes. No female
goes to a cafe or restaurant by herself. Noth
ing is more common than for her to go with
a male companion. Of course fashionable
don't do this, but all from the second class of
trades people and shopkeepers do. At the table
next me were a man, his wife and daughter.
Very happy they seemed. The greater portion
of the working classes work until dinner time
ou Sunday, lounge for a couple of hours, and
then go outside lhe barriers, as wine is cheap
there, a heavy tax being exacted on all edibles
and drinkables coming into Paris. Many of
them remaiu all the night, and do honor to
Saint Monday, by dancing and drinking. It
is fair to add that drunkenness is not common
in Paris sav among foreigners.
From the HarrTtonburg (Va.) Register.
SPRING ELECTIONS.
The cornms eb-cfions bids fair to be the most an
imated ever witsirssed in the Okl Dominion. The
Whios will use every effort in their power ! hcul
lhe dissensions which have lately occurred in that
party, and by a union with the Conservative, nt
tempt to carry the Slate But all will not do. The
breach id ton wide ever to be healed. We are ac
quainted with several intelligent Whigs, who are
perfectly disgusted with the course pursued by
their party at Richmond, the present winter. And
although their regard for Ions cherished principles,
will not permit them to go witH the Democratic par
ty, they will stand aloof, and take no part in the
matter. On the olh'T hand, we have every thing
to hope for. Never were the prospi cts of success
to the Republican cause, so flittering. Never did
wc witness such perfect harmony and unanimity as
now prevails among the Republicans. The da'k
cloud which loweied upon last spring-, has cleared
away. The people throughout the State, are amus
ed; and arc biicklins on their political armour to do
battle in the just cause. They will march to the
polls with an 'ndivid cl front, and, in the language
of the Enquirer, "sweep the Whigs like a tornado."
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The North Carolinian.
F AYE T T V1LLE:
Saturday. March 3, 4 839.
IZF The liditor is noo ssaiily absent th!s week
REPORT OK THE MINORITY.
We conclude this report to-day. We eive.
for the present, the remarks of the tilobe,
upon this report. The editor says:
" The manner in which this secret tribunal
conducted its iniquitous proceedings is strong
ly exhibited iu the very able aud rapid glance
at its transactions, iu the report of the minori
ty, which was overruled in every attempt to
introduce a course of open, full and fair iuves- '
tigation.
"To that report, which will raise Messrs. j
Owens, Foster and Wauner, to an euvia- j
ble eminence in the eyes of their countrymen, ;
when future occasions, in more dangerous
times, shall show the value of the principles
they have vindicated, we must for the preseut
refer the reader. i
officer of the Government; otherwise the purse
aud the sword will be united.
To carry out the above salutary system, it
is ordained in solemn conclave, by the new
school agrarian whig party, as follows:
I. Resotred, That a United States Bank is
not necessary, (for receiving the public mo
ney immediately from the hauds of those who
pay it,) nor wilt it be necessary until another
panic can be go up.
IT. Resolred, That the focal bank system
called by some the "halfway house system"
be, and the same is hereby repudiated and
disallowed, as inadequate to auswer tne views
and meet the liberal demands of the aforesaid
new school agrarian whig party in the United
States of America.
Done at the respective secret conclaves or
caucuses of the said party throughout the Uni- j
on, and the adoption of the same humbly re- !
quested by their delegates at the Harrisburg ;
convention.
THE COMING ELECTIONS',
Democratic Republicans of the old North
State notice still further the tone of the Re
publicans iu the motherland of American po-'
lilies. The American Constellatiou, publish
ed iu Petersburg, says:
Appearances indicate that the approaching
Spring campaign will be one of extraordinary
warmth and bitterness. For one we deprecate
it uot. '1 tie dooinrracy of the State are pre
paring to meet their old o(pnents the Federal
ists, hand to hand. The strurgrle for mastery
will be severe, but victory is or desert, aud
victory we will have if honorable tertion cau
command it. We have au unscrupulous party
to contend against a party coutendiijy now
as they did in '9S and '99, aud as they live
done from that until this, for poicer aud tor
power alone. Their object their ambition is
to seize the reins, that the few, through the aid
aud assistance of their incorporated allies,
may saddle aud bridle the many and ride them
booted and spurred through the world. Against
the insidious wiles of such a party, every de
mocrat ought to be on his guard. None make
more plausible professions lhau our opponents
none meau less to fulfil them. Stratagems
of the most wiley character are resorted to, iu
order to commit the honest democratic voter
against his party, and to iuveigle him into the
suppoit of meu whose political principles me
rit his detestation rather than his support.
The modern whigs wear many faces, and we
pray our democratic friends not to be misled
by them. With United States Bank men,
they aie for a Uuited States Bauk with State
Bank men, they are in favor of the State
Banks with special deposite men they are iu
favor of that dead humbug and with .the de
mocrat, they are almost Vau Buren meu!
The chamelion has not more hues to his skin
and changes them not with more facility, than
do our opponents change their views, when
it suits their purpose. It is poicer, as we be
fore remaiked, and not their country's good,
which they seek. Every thiug betokens that
to obtaiu it, they will make the most vigorous
as well as most unscrupulous efforts at the
coming electiou. The democracy must meet
tnem witn corrrespouaing energy uui not
with the same weapons. Ihat "truth is migh
ty and will prevail" is an old adage and wor
thy of all acceptation. How much soeverde-iiKH-ratic
principles may be reviled and mis
represented by our opponents, they are true
and must triumph. Glory aud honor to him,
who iu the coming contest, holds ou to them
faithful and fearless to the end!
..iH u waicn chain of that valui
the editors of the Herald aud Observer uouS
go into spasms, and swear he was no demo,
crat. 1 hey made a great ado, you know, about
. bis presuming to keep a carriage to ride to
; chinch in.
We have received three numbers of a new
paper, entitled the H'ilmington Weekly
Chronicle. It is well printed, aud although
unfortunate in the choice of sides iu politics,
we give the Editor a friendly greeting as one
of the craft, and hope his labors may do his
country service.
We understand that the Hon. David L. Swain
was, on the 20l.h it. slant, elected President of the
Fayetteville and Yadkin Rail Road Company.
Levelling Reduced to a System by the JVetc
School IVhigs.
Item 1st. Level the Treasury to emptiness,
like the pockets of the most ultra agrarian, by
means of Mr. Clay's distribution land bill, so
that the agrarian whig office seekers may
blame the administration for becoming bank
rupt, charge their late "Vice President Swart
wout, with stealing all the monev, turn out
the ins aud turn in the outs.
Item 2d. Pass Mr. Bell's law to abolish the
post office department, as a dangerous mo
nopoly, so that everv man mav havp. th liber
ty of sending his own letters and papers by '
nrlmta jniiimna t,A v C nn.-.r.. 4 1. l T t
self.
Item 3d. Abolish all the offices of the Gen
eral Government by passing the law introducd
last session by the whigs, to prevent freemen
from speaking their minds about elections, if
they shall be honest and capable enough to
hold office.
Item 4ih, and, though last not least Do
not permit any man, honest or dishonest, rich
or poor, either upon good and sufficient bond
and security, or in any manner howsoever, to
touch, handle or receive, even for one single
instant, one cent of the public money, for any
conceivable purpose, provided such man bean
THE HALF WAY HOUSE.
S e call upon every whig editor iu North
Carolina to come out, and iu distiuct terms,
let the public kuow what plan their party pro
poses and intends to unite upon, for the regu
lation of the receipts and disbursements of
the Treasury Department of the General Gov
ernment. Come forward,-gentlemen, and shew your
heads. Do not tight shy upon this matter.
Do not It'll us what it is you do net want
tell us what your wise heads propose.
The Carolina Watchman is not for a Unit
ed Stales Ba k. The whole party is opposed
to the Iudependent Treasury project. Are
you co.iservntircs "en mase?" Iltive your
minds changed upon the local bauk deposite
system? If so, avow it. Let the people know
it. Tell them that the declaration which rilled
all your columns, only a t-hoit twtlve mouth
ago, "that the country must be ruined iu its
finances, without the aid of the great regula
tor, a United States Bauk," is uot true. Tell
them that the times have changed; aud shew
them whether (upon this subject) your party
have not changed with them.
Has Mr. Clay's Half-way House become
the ultima Thule of your journey? Are you
to be, for good and all, the guests of the Vir
ginia landlord, Mr. Rives, iu that famous "half
way house?" If, however, you design to be as
heretofore, mere objectors to any project pro
posed by the administration, without having
any thing yourselves to propose iu lieu of it,
for the good of the couutry, please say so.
It is a long settled principle iu politics, that
no political scheme should be opposed, when
the objector has nothing better to propose as a
substitute for it. Your party is act iug in vio
lation of this plain common sense principle
every dav. Take care that you do uot justi
fy us in the charge that you have become mere
grumblers, "venders of burdens for others,
which, you yourselves, will not touch with one
of your fingers." We pray you, give to the
"aity nothing" of your financial scheming, a
nama let the thi.ig have a "local habita
tion," even if that habitation, be lhe conser
vative bazaar, "the half way house."
The Thames Tuuuel, upon which such vast
sums have been expeuded, is nearly finished.
Its present length is eight hundred feet, and
one hundred feet of masonry is now required
to complete it.
The citizens of London, it seems are con
structing a vaulted passage or tunnel, under
the bed f the river I hames, and by the above
extract, it appears this magnificent work is
nearly completed. The expense of this work
would probably extend our Yadkin road across
the Blue Ridge, and down the great Kenawa
to the Ohio river. But Fayetteville is not
London.
The Sultan has presented Queen Victoria
with a necklace worth 60,000 dollars. If our
! Missing Liverpool papers to the 11th Feb
ruary, brought by the Pocahontas at Philadel
phia, have just arrived. A Loudon date of
ltth Febt uary says:
Mouey continues abundant both in the city
and ou the Stock Exchange. A reduction iu
funds has takeu place iu consequence of the
agitation of the subject of the corn laws
Fears are entertained of acts leading to strong
demonstrations on the part of the people in
the manufacturing districts, by which the pub
lic tranquility might be endangered.
Liverpool, Feb. 9. Cotton market
The m uket has been very steady, and a fair
amount of business going ou throughout this
week, which closes without alterations from
last week's quotations of American cotton.
The Maine Question. The 1 llh rt-gimcnt of Brit
ish reguiars from du' bec hasr it is asserted, now
positively arrived at Frederick tor-.
The whole number of British regulars under
marching ord' w lor th - frontier, is 3oOi..
The transport barque Numa h id i rrived at St
John's with a detachment of lhe 69lh regiment. A
conpny of lli 23d left lialifix tor Annapolis on
ihe ti' h, fur which more 'h in 3 I slei.hs were vol.
Mutered. '1' lie 37 Hi and 67ln rcjiiwnU wmi.
pectud at Halifax fiom t e t est Indies.
The Hon. ttouel vViiliams recently arrived in
Portland, .vlaitie, from Washington. He was met
at lh oil Slatu Him.c by a lare number of citi
zens, who were ea jjer V, ,.arn the situation ol the
boundary dispute in Wanhinjton. from a man who
bad taken so honorable a :.r in the proceedings of
Congress in relation to it. Aj, informal meetiuo
was organized lhe Iayor pr i.lin. Some in
teresting statements were made by ir. Williainn
and a resolu'ion was proposed approving of the
President's Message, and the action of Congress
thereon, which, after some remarks by the ho-iera-ble
John Anderson, General Appleton and other
was unanimously adopted.
I-
Santa Jlnna. A letter received in this city from
Mexico, under date of ih;; 22d KVbr tary, sajs:
'Santa Anna has tit length arrived trout Vera Cruz.
His march was slow, in order to gain time. A
commission of oiinist- r is appointed, which in cun
junction with Mr. Packenham, will .o down next
week t0 treat with Admiral Baudin. .Veto OWeou
Commtrcitd B-MUin.
BIRDS OF A KKATHER.
Price has written a letter to Wise, in which he
abuses the United States Government and the
Seer tary of the Treasury. He has chosen a tit
medium" through which to libel the Government
whose confidence hehiis betrayed, and uhose'Irea
sury he ha? robbed. He will, no dou'it, receive a
tood deal of sympathy f oin some of the Federal
ists. Bay State Democrat.
The Virginia "Hero of the hundred
well-fought fields" again.
Extract of a let: er from one of the most dis
tinguished anti-Sub-Treasury men in Vir
ginia, to a member of the Legislature.
"I am not one of those who would condemn
an Administration, because the head of it re
commended one measure (and that of expe
diency; which I might not think entirely ot
KJom, uhilo tho i no in 1 approved itstnea.
sure; aud especially to receive the fraternal
embrace of a party, with whom I have ever
politically differed upon almost every funda
mental principle. You kuow how highly I
once thought of Mr. Rives as a statesman and
sound politician. I really looked on him as
one of Virginia's most noble and gifted sons,
and hence the great reluctance I felt iu giving
him up; but the temper he has of late mani
fested towards the Administration, to say no
thing of some most obnoxious principles he
has recently advocated, and lhe banners under
which he has been righting, induces me to be
lieve theift is someth.ng rotten in Denmark."
To the Editor, from South side, .March 7.
"The present unfortunate divisions in the
Democratic ranks call for peculiar forbearance
and creat wisdom iu the deportment of those
who lead in its management. I have no hesi
tation in declaring to you, that I have uo con
fidence in the Whig party. I would not trust
their professions, and will never aid in bring
ing them into power. They, iu the late effort
to elect Mr. Uives, have demonstrated tleit
reckless disregard of the principles which they
pretended to make all in all one year ago I
deeply deplore for mat y reasons, that the
Conservatives have thought it their duty to
adhere to Mr. R ives. W ith some of them I
am most intimately acquainted, and kuow
their devotion to Democratic principles; but
they must bear their owu responsibility. With
yon I am still opposed K the Sub-Treasury;
but 1 cannot support ie who is the enemy of
the administration Mr. Clay can never go
vern the United States by my vote. I m hap
py to say to you, that the re-action is strong
and will be efneieut. The North Carolina
Whigs have destroyed themselves by the effirt
to instruct their Senators by denying the right
of instruction, and the next election will put
all things right there. Be uuited, be firm ana
decided, a. id the Conservatives, who are too th
having will be sH with us.
"I venture to prophesy that if William C
Rives is nominated for Vice President on the
Clay ticket, he will accept. (Mark it!)
Those who used Judge S hit e will plough with
Mr. Rives." Richmond Enquirer.
Below is a small foretaste of what await
the new light whigs iu the coming elections :
Fmm Te ( IFi' iwffiov) Globe,
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The New Hampshire Patriot groups the
Whio- machinery brought to bear iu the late
struggle in that State, with a vigorous hand:
just 'such a hand as crushtd it all the hand of
Democracy.
Victory! Victory! Thrice Glorious Victor
Never iu the annals of political warfare
there a more GLORIOUS TRIUMPH a
chieved, a more BRILLIANT VICTOR
won, than that gaiued by the sterling unyiew"
ing Democracy of New Hampshire on
day last, over the combined forces of Federal
ism and Abolitionism; and never was defr'
more overwhelming and annihilating than b
which has just demolished the last battalw'
of Federalism and its ally in this State. N
means were left untried by the Opposition;
their organization was the most perfect; they
were supplied with funds from Boston and !
York; they flooded the State with electioneer
ing publications; their candidates visited eve
ry part of the State, haranguing the peorlft
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