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million fiee hundred ihousaud dollars, and ahall
late borrowed ibe amoent »° aubatribed, then In*
President and directors of the Bnaid of 1 ulilic
Work*, for ihe use of ill* Siale, shall bo reg .rded as
a subaci ibrr fi11 one m illien of 'loll a re, pat able af i ei
ihe 1st day el January. 184(1. at eueh limes, and in
such sums, noi esceeilmg #500.000 in any |i*riod ol
80 Jay*, a* ihe President and Director* ef the Com
pay may, from nine io litre, designate: PreeidW,
Thai, from and after ihe first day of January. 1840.
there shill be gisen on be halt ol the Commoiiwrallh
in all meetings of said company, one to!* for ereiy
len additional shares in the aiutk of said company,
io 8c subscribed at aforesaid, by ihe Honnl ol I’ubJn
Works.
Mr. R. proceeded Io mgr llir adoption of ins | re
position, but before concluding, ilie hour lur a ici •'»
suited. _
DOnilKTH |\TEI.M«i: %<’«'.
From the Bofton Gazette of Wednesday.
FROM TIIK FAST.
The Mail ©I la*i evening brought nothing ot
moment Horn the frontier. The rrpoit ol the Brit
ish taking possession of Mars Hill, h* we expected,
proves to be false. We copy the following item*
lion* th* Portland Advertiser >—
Ha.xgou, March 9.
Several gentlemen hart just come in fioin lloul
fnn. iimoi g them K. I Hamlin, late Laud Agent,
lie reprrjsents the state of things in ihe provinces as
most deplorable. The settlers upon the River arr
fleeing to F rede rick t on and oilier places for safety,
abandoning their liotm s ami every thing else.
These people have made ii their pimcip.tl business
for vears to cut timber on our territory, and this
inletioption proves ruinous to them, a* to ;i lai.i
portion ol the people of Wundst ck, Frediickiuii
and Si. John Fry.
Sir John Harvey s un i uhtnilv making most «\
tensive preparations tor a conies*. I !*• i* com rntraii’ g
0 large (orcc at (Land Kails* w hu ll will undoubtedly
heroine the head quarters of ilieir military opna
lions ami wheie it is understood they arc electing
M10U4 fottificahon*.
Arc.rsi March 10.
A rumor reached hneio-day. that a British farce
had commenced bolding a fortification at Mars Hill
—that mo ion.palm s had armed thru . ami that six
mote were on their w. v That S 1 John H.uvryi
send it .* t/onps op the >1. .hdn I haw* 10 «! * > w t • t .
but 2 do n 1 believe or r void of ft is rrj oil that lu
is ttxiioning a force at M.i»e Hid. 'i I • * * best *
quai tel with the rountiy lulurm me there 1 aa be
no puss blc object in his doing if.
Cieu. Scirti siri suite are 10 hare here on 'J oes
day for liouiloru No im ssage is expected Imiiii
tiie Ciuvcinor bc!uie Tuesday . Our deleg. lion m
Congress are to hive a Hireling lieic to uioirnw.
[The « filers Ini the loaich cd ihe (Nimbr 1 laud and
Oxlord illusions had been countermanded, and ibry
would not probably leave befote Tuesday.]
Fru*h Ilit Ueston Frahscript, II'cJiicsday evening
Sir John Laid well arnved at Augusta, 011 Sunday,
with despatches from Sir John ILuvey to (jovniioi
Fairfield.
A letter fioai St. John, of the fob inst., received
by a mcrvhaiit o tins city, tins morning, says that
the President's Mi tsage to Congnss had bvrn rr
reived there, and occasioned a nunc j*e,»ceable as
pert of aflms. *
'Tic Bangui Mediatin' »V Farmer sav*. on t! r an*
thorny of a genthrmn who h 11 ihe camp on tin*
Alousn -k on the .*».|i msi. that two ncies 1 I g uunl
had been 1 It a red ami a substantial foil er leered— lint
Ktl’/.herbeiTs house had hern pulletl dow n, ms it was
in tin’ wav, and that «»• ihe (til llie lionps ilesin-ycd
fog r **i five lamj*, ar,>] to .»K JJ9 tori' nI hay, 1 (Ml bosh
rIs id oats, ‘Jo li.ii 1 e|s id po 1 h, and the t uiei s In, all
01 whic.li wite taken into our c imp. Tin y look a
bout ?0,00v.) boaids, wbieh were v riv com * on lit III
constiucting tLei 1 camps.
FORT HLUMMIR IN Pi >SSLS.>ION OF Till.
b u 1 nsu.
There was a report y<sieidav that I'lallsburgli
had been captured by a body ol Bruisli Indian*. No
one believed it (or a moment, yet iheiu was some
foundation lor such a report, as will be ic ru by tin
fallowing paiagtnph. which we fimi in the ,Mutiny
JJaily Advertiser ol yesterday.
From tin J ritfsIfUig II'/,is, Krtra
Pi rn -in 1 h. N \ Match full, 1KI9.
By aJilii'i receiv'd in town last evening, and also
from a tiliEcu direct In in the east side of the lake,
we Ic imi that the Bi imii atiilmi it lev in ('an ad a have
taken formal p ssesom ol 1I10 snip ol land in dispute
on this Ironticr, including the side ol ihe old lull al
Rouse’s Point, by electing a (lag ami stationing ai Hi
ed p illules uiiltin the |uri*dicitaii ol this state, as
heretofore acknowicdgtd : and what is still worse,
embodied 400 Indians on this line.
The old lort allude I t«> was built by the l’. States
during lliu last w.»i at a g.eat expense.— It was or vet
of any use It :>w < v. r. to to is « otu.i 1 v, as it was soon
after discovc.c<l that the engineer hoi placed the
lull some ii.t.'l a mile within the Ihe temtoiy ot
(ire.ti Britain. It w as immcdi i lely abamlunetl, and
Irnm that tune has been known as •* Fort Hluuder.”
\\ e ji os- d it a tew iiiuuths agmV observed the walls
were near ly in nuus. A V. Con- Adv.
L AT HR AND IN TKKKST1NG.
m k >\s .1 a u of a or i: n \on fa i u fj /; i. / >.
At length the ex| cued message of Governor K ur
field has m ule its appearance in Augusta.—The cor
respondent of (lie Atlas, whom we be I it ve io be a
member of I lie Maine House ol Assembly, gives an
abstract ni i:s foments as follows :
The message comment.i s by informing the Legis
lature that he lias laid before them the late procee
dings at Washington on the subject nt the bonmla
ry difficulties at d asu for instructions hum them what
Course lit* shall now pui>ue. He le .ves the whole
subject id tlun hands, ami expies-u a Ii.h willingness
to carry out any measures they may see fit to adopt
—but not to seem to avoid responsibility, the Go
vernor gives Ins views on ti e ubject. He otnmem es
by giving n Liief account of ihe late proeevdmgs in
this State, and the object iu sending a force t«» the
ilist utccl territory, which he states to be solely to
protect (hem against the tlireatened attack of Sir
John Harvey. Jf out foices aie now withdiiwn, it
is the opinion of the Governor, that the ticapassers
will return and take off the timber already cut. Ilu
did not think ihe proposition ol Sir John Haivev, to
erect a boom across the river, would save the timber.
The Guv< ruor then goes into nu argument ol con
siderable b ngtli, to straw that the light to jurisdic
tion is hi Maine, and that no arrangement has been
made by the Gove rninenl to relinquish it. He
quotes tioni various documents, that there never was
such an agreement to lehnquisli the jnnsdistion of
the disputed teriiimy to the linnsli as has been al
leged—but on the cootiary contends l! at the right
is m Maine. As the lovernor undeistamis the ar
range mem, Maine was to exercise jurisdiction ovei all
that part of the territory that lies South of the river
St. Johns and under that understanding iiad exer
cised jurisdiction on various occasious winch he
mentions.
Under a full sense of the responsibility of the
situation lie occupies, the Governor gives it as li.s
opinion, that the Slate ought not to withdraw her
troops from ihe territory they now occupy, unless
the threat ol Sii John H.uvey shall he withdrawn,
and he shall consent dial a sufficient force shall be
kept on the iciriimy to take cate of the umber now
cut, and prevent farther depredations.
He objects to the amnigement recommended at
AVasliingtot), that it would be making a retro.a«le
movement on the part of M aine—and that it requites
Maine to withdraw her hoops, but dues not requite
the Drills)) troops to be withdrawn. That the a
gieeiin ut is equivocal, inasmuch as it dot s not de
fine whether the posse of the sheriff is to be coii
sidei rd an armed force or not.
A note to the message informs the House that
the Governor has received a communication from
hir John Harvey, accepting the terms of agreement
recommended st Washington, and that he will be
h ippy to entvr into mgoti.iiions to curry the agree
ment into effect. Aliei the reading of the message,
Mr. \V hidden if Calais (Loco) intioduced a re
soive, the puiport ot winch was that our boundary
difficulties had assumed no new aspect, and that no
change in the course heretofore adopted bv Maine
was expedient.
On motion of Mr. Allen of Bangor, the message of
ti e Governor aud accompanying documents were
referrod to the committee on the North Eastern
Boundary, with orders lo them lo procure the pm.,
mg of 6000 copies lot lU« use of the legislature.
From the Globe of Saturday Evening.
NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY,
We have been permitted to publish the following
note Irom Major Cieneral Sir John Harvey lo <J«v
Fautield, in which the readiness of the formn in
give effect m the informal agreement enteied into
t>ri*«en Mr. Fo* anil Mr. Forsyth is distinctly a
v.»wrd, and in a commendable spirit :
•• <iovi;it\Mri!ST Ifotsr. )
•* Frederick ton, N. D Match 7, S
•• Major (ien. Sir John Harvey presents hi* com
plimrnts to (iev. Fairfield, aud with reference to a
rommunication which he has just received from
In i Majcgiv'a Minister at WaMnngon, transmitting
i 's cm iirandum' under the joint signatures of Mr.
Forsyth, Secretary ol Slate, and Mr. I'*»x, conta n
mg terms of accommodation, recommended by the
Secretary of State and liei Majesty * M mister I h*n
ipoWmtuuy, to tiov Fairfield and himsell respective
|y, beg*to say. that he will be happy to enter into
such amicable communication wnli (n»v. I* aiifn-hl
upon the subject as may conduce to the attainment
of the very d* rumble and important object thereby
proposed to be rffected.
• * Sir John ll.uvey ha* answered Mr. Fox’s com
miniicaiitm liv Mpir.'ing hn > niirr rradm-H. tu *i*<
rlt.'Ci lo the pr<iponed agiernicut su l.ir a* nuy bu Ue
pendent upon him.
•• Ihs Kxcellenry,Uov. Fairfield, Art."
No decision upon llie subject ol this note hy the
auilioitlK s of the Sfnte ol Maine had been made
when the last advitra from the (Joveininrnt h it Au
gusta. We entertaiu the most confident hope, how
ever, that the amicable dispositions of Sir John Mar
vr\ will lie cordially iet iprocated by them, and that
w hatrvrr diflic uliies may arise in the nriaiig* iiient of
thr detail* li»r the rxemse of a necessary pohi e
o\r*r tlie disputed territory, they will bo niadc to
yield lo a nitilual spun of forbearance, and a desire
to maritaiti thepvacclul lelahous ul the two roun*
t» ir«
/' hi4 the Ifurlington ( I t ) (lunette.
//<,/,nr*.—We tindcrisfand that Ili** President lias
•In Iiih’iI in Hug upon tht* application I t the miiicii
<)i r of |)r. •Iolmr* [the muiderer el Mon*. 'Past In ]
ai I n li■mil the subject to liov. .lnuson. Wr tin
ih-rsiaml the position taken at Washington to hr,
that, inasmuch a* neither the constitution nor the
11 as ol t ongrrss piovnle lor the c ase at all, it must
n l mi the ground id im ic romitv between the lint
i>h I'mvim r and the adjoining Staten, and then loir
i i- di i hum should bn left to lire Slate authorities.
I. dir i hem* cm mu* t.mce*. (iov. Jenison lias mined
lim variant lor the further detention of tlie at rimed,
and appointed the IHtli March lor a beating in the
picruises. at (his place.
The late warlike movement* in Maine, have bene
filled Home folks. I’nmstoiic and Saltpetre have ri
sen considerably in pure, and a publisher ol Pliiladel
phi.i, who had ill the Press a work on Military tar
lies, Idr which he expected dull sale, is now hi treaty
with the Adjutant (ienerul of Maine, for the whole e
dmon. [Fred. Arena.
Till * W Air I » \ r H."—'I'lie I louse of 14rprrsrn
iilivcs nl Penns) Ivania have passed a Kesolut inn ten
drniig in the (ieneial (love rumetit the entire lesotn
t es ol Pennsylvania to sustain tho cmintry in any
contest hi w |ii«* h we may lie involved with tired
P.ritam. And the first division of Pennsylvania Ml
liti,i. under command ol lien. Patterson, have vol
unierie I their service* to the Pienirlcrit, under
I lie net recently passed by (,’ortgresa I «> raise 60,000
men.
The disputed territory in Maine is prolific not only
in nveis, mountains ami lakes, but those said (entire*
nl t at ora are happy iu their euphonous appellative*.
— For example :
Hirrr$— l 'pi|uedohpskonp, (J uodndchquoik.
Mount am*—t lot nguesqUegn monk.
/tnke*— W allaligasquegamook, Nl achagost unga
inook, Ahpocjrenegahamook.
Awful urn* from (iUiv/aloupe~— upwards of four
thuuxuiu//'frst ns f illed /*_»/ the Fai'lhf/uake.— From
our dies ol Havana papers received yesterd.iy, (says
the New Orleans llullctin uf Friday.) we learn that
the earthquake recently experienced in Martinique
ami other windward islands w ith sin h fearful cunse
quences, has had still mure disastrous effects in
(iii.idaloupe. There the victims extracted from the
rums nt buildings are staled to have exceeded lour
thousand ! Plus truly appalling intelligence is re
< l ived through the t'aptairi of the American line
Madrid, Irom Itaibadoes, which arrived at Trmid.nl
de (*tili fe about the bill ultimo. We await tlm dr
tails nl tins visitation with impatience.
[('hiulesion Courier.
Kxtrict of a Inter f»om (ialvcxfon, 'Texas, ton gen
tleman m tins city, iliiteii Kcb. 22d, IH39.
" As respects yotli letter lor liiloriilHti.il* as in llie
coiton maiket. we would answer, that there will be
ginned in tins part of 'Tex is, tins year, Irom ti to
7000 bales, and it is sold at the plantations ftnm 10
to 12 cents. New Orleans money. Messrs. Melvin
nev and Williams have bought the largest poitmn
that was h>r sals, and arc shipping it direct to Liv
cipool. Heretofore they have shipped via Haiti
mine. They aie daily expecting two vessels tiom
Knglaod and will load them, together with one of
their own. ]( the season is good this year, there
will he 20.000 bales shipped from this port. Out
poil isijuue lively, ftom 2(0 to 30 vessels here gene
rally at a time—we have three steam packets run
ning to New Oileans twice a month each, and one
from Mobile will be in trade in the course of two
weeks, and tlie steam ship ( haileston is daily ex
petted, l ive steam boats ply between heie and
Houston tii-weekly, and the cmigr.itioii is constantly
on the increase ; the arrivals cannot tall short ol 160
per week, by water—planters generally come by
land Land is lisiug tapidly, and towns advancing,
asilby magic. Piuvisioos ary scarce and command
high prices. [A. V. Uaz.
I'lam the A’ Orleans Pullctin, Marrh ?.
TKXAS AND MKXICO.
A rumour has rea died our city of the import, that
a negotiation is going on between the President of
Texas and Cien. Luca, with a view of forming a co
alition between the Mexican f ederalists and flit'
lYxians. 'The plan is they sav, to march 2000
Tcxians into Mexico, who will join A irea’s anny
and by tlieie united sircngtli proceed to oveiturn
the pii sent ailmmistiation. and upon its ruins estab
lish a government and institutions of a liberal icptib
hc.m character. Success we say to the entejpii/.e.
The only hope of Mexico, is in being amalg unuted
and identified witli Anglo Americans.
Tkxas Monky.—'The money of the new Repub
lic is improving daily. It has been sold as low as
folly cents on the dollar, but yesterday we under
stand sales were made *»t forty-eight and fittv.
Time is no trason why holders should be compel
led to pay such an extravagant discount, aud we feel
confident that it will not last long.
[A’. Orleans Picayune
Monf.t-—From the Tuscaloosa InieIhgrticrr of
the ‘JVimi nit., we learn that** the State Hank has re
solved to discout t accommodation paper forthwith
to theamount ol'' it>100,000, certainly, and probably to
thiee or four times (hat amount. In order to prevent
a run upon its vaults, (which aie abundantly supph
• «*d with specie,) it will issue post notes at 90 days.
We hope the bank will relieve the community bv
putting out as much money as it can issue with
i safety.” W e also team that lbs Hank It now draw
i mg ou New \ otk at two per cent. prem.
[Huntsville Alabama Adv.
A LARGE CARGO.—The Britannia, bound to
i Liverpool, went to tea yesterday morning. Site lias
I m* hoaidthe hulk ol nine thousand barrels, viz: —
‘ b’6t'0 bands flour, G8 hogsheads quercitron hark, 7
I hogsheads tobacco, and 10,000 hogshead staves,
i 1 he B. is a ship ol 7G9 tons, stows well and sails
f.ist, ae her recent passage from Liverpool, ami o
1 (her evidences on her log bonks show.—She draws
nearly twenty feet water, within a tool or two as
much as the Line Ship I’eusylvania did. when she
went down light. V. 5. Gazette
OUT A TURK IN NORFOLK.
Corrrsj* ndenct of the Richmond Compiler.
HERALD OFFICE,
NoitroLK, 14ih March, IH39—6, A.
A destructive fire occurred this morning, in the
block of three story bric k warehouses, on Newton's
wharf. It broke oat in the suction store of Messrs.
Nash \ Co , and destroyed (he three centre stores
occupied by those gentlemen, Messrs. R. S. Hutch
ings Ac Co., and Holler Ac Camp, leafing those ol
Messrs. Cary Ac Drummond's at the Southern, and
C Ac U. Reid's at the Northern extremity of the
row, standing. The store of Messrs. R. S Hutch
ings Ac t o. was filled with West India and domestic
groceries, scarcely any pan ol which was saved ; and
vrrv litile in comparison with their loss was saved by
Messrs. Roller aV ( amp, in whose store was a very
large amount ol piopeiry. It would be difficult to
•It »cnbe the excitement which prevailed during the
fire. The wind blew strong from the south, carry
mg the cinders hi vast showers over the shingle
roofs in the upper part of the town. The saving of
the stoic ol t he Mess is. Reids prevented a most awful
calamity, lor tOhc fire had not been arrested there.
Heaven only knows where it would have stopped.—
Our old market house must inevitably have lit a
torch which would have spread the conflagration ,
far and wide. Rut thanks to our intiepid firemen,
under a merciful Providence, that calamity was a
verted,
\V> are also indebted to our friends of the Reacon
and their news room, for letters relative to the fire.—
We have not lime to give them. They add to the
above that a m n named Olassner or (Jlissner, a mat- |
trass maker, and another man were arrested yester- i
day morning on suspicion of having set fire to the
sioie. The loss was heavy and the insurance light
Internal Improvement*.—The following are the i
terns of the apprnpi iution bill for public improve
ments. repotted m the Pennsylvania House ol
Representative*.
To avoid Inclined Plane $39,000
(’omniencing reservoir*. Ate. 100,000
Substituting Tiails ami laying North Track 407,000
Engines and Ropes 144,000
R e pairs, 1,125,763
d« that may be required this season, lot).000
Outstanding Claims 300.000
Damages, Commissioners’ pay, Ate. 80,000
North Branch 970,000
Siiinemahoniiig Extension 270.000
Erie extension 950,000
Alleghany Feeder 200.000
Wisconiscon Canal 240.000 1
Survey West Branch 12.000
Prnns\Ivama and Ohio Canal Co. 600,000
Cliamhersbtirg and Pittsburg Survey 12.000
Construction ol tin* above road 300,000
Monongahela Naigatmn Co, 50.000
Bald Eagle and Spring Creed 91,()0()
Union (’anal 1,000.000
Bristol Steam Tow Boat Boat Co. 12,000
$6,488,703
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
William Marvin, of Florida, to be Judge for the
| Southern District of Florida, in the place of James
\\ ebb, resigned.
William Milbtirn, of Missouri to be Surveyor (Jen
eral ol Public Hands in Illinois and Missouii, in the
place of Daniel Dunklin, resigned.
'Hie Sion/of a Hast: MurJer.—Joseph Hnngel,
convicted ol i ho minder ol Daniel Rapp, was duly
rx'cwied til Biitf.doon Monday last. Not withstand
ing ilie atrocious and aggravated nature ol the crime,
a stiong elforl was made in procure a commutation
■ •I sentence hum the Covemor; paitly on the ground
ol the peculiar( oiibtiiutmn ol tin; prisoner's mind
remlurmg the punishment ol death an improper one,
ami paitly because such a comse would "hereafter
deter othei.s similarly situated from exposing their
own ami other's guilt.” The (inventor's answer to
(he application is published a' length in the Albany
\dveiiixer. It i* an admirable paper ol the kind —
e very way worthy us distiugundn-il author. We an
nex us concluding passages, in which a brief history
ni the c.iso is given.—V/iildcl. lnq»
An intimacy had existed several months between
the prisoner and Mrs. Rapp. The deceased disap
pioveil ol this intimacy, and, as us calamitous result
h ives no doubt, with junt cause. But being a man
evidently ol peaceable disposition, lie contented
lumsell, lor aiigbt ili.it appears, with expression*
ol Ins dis.saiisfai lion. On Monday, the l()ih of Ju
ly, 1837, Kipp was brought from his barn into Ins
house, severely wounded in the head, aid insensi
ble. It was said by Ins w ile, and believed by Ins fa
mily iV Ins (fiends, tb.it this injury had been rec iv
eel Iroin the kick ofa horse. \Ithoogli the wounds
woe supposed mortal, he gradually recovered, and
on Friday mm mug walked about Ins room and was
believed altogether out ol danger. In tins stale of
ren.v d» scence lie suddenly died and was buried.—
Suspicion went abroad, and alter the lapse ol about
a hh k I lie body ''as dlMiti'eited and underwent a
postmortem examination- l( ilieu appeared that
death had been produced, not by (lie wound ol the
head, but by Mtiungulalion. I lie prisoner and his
paramour, Kapp’s wile, weiraiieslrd and the pii
sonri •ubse«|Uenilv ennleased his guilt and accused
Ins accomplice. 11 is accotiui ol ihe transaction is
substantially this. That he ami Mrs. Kapp had stv
cial conversations about killing Kapp, which re
sulted in au agin incut on Ins part several nights pie
vtolislo the. first assault, to execute that purpose —^
In pursuance ol tins agi cement, he went on one oc
casion to Kapp’s house, but returned without making
an attempt. On the Sunday night previous to the
first assault, he renewed Ins promise, and prepar
ed himsell with a weapon, t hi Monday morning he
waylaid Kapp as lie was entering the stable, tolled
him to tin? ground, ami alter indicting several blows,
I«11 him, supposing lum to be dead.
During Kapp’s convalescence, the pnsoncr was
j daily in convcisutiou with Mrs. Kapp, about " fin
ishing*'Ins borrid wotk. On'Tuesday night he slept
under K ipp’s roof; she visited Ins bed several times,
; urging linn to the murder, alleging that “it he was
ever to do any thing, he must do it then, for her Inis
, baud was getting well and would soon be so strong
that they could do noth ng with linn.’’ After a night
thus spe it, the luis.mei ami Mis. Kapp went into
Kapp’s room. Mrs. Kapp, after attempting to irri
tate her husband, pnslndtb1 prisoner upon Inm.—
The pnsoner “ took Kapp by ti e throat and held
him until lie was dead,’’ the wife at the Name
time assisting by pressing upon the body of her hus
band.
Such is the prisoner’s history of the transaction.—
A minder more (mil mils origin and motives,or mote
atrot ions in ns circumstances, lias seldom been com
mitted in tins 01 any oilur couutiy.
A SHOCKING MUKDKK—The details of a
murder (hat has few parallels m the annals of crime,
are thus given iu the Morgan, Alabama, Obser
ver :
Wc aie informed from private sources, that on
last Saturday, a poor man who was moving westward
with Ins wile and tinee little children, and driv
ing a small diove ol sheep and peihaps a cow or
two, which was diiveu by his family, on arriving in
riorenee. and while passing through, met a citi
zen ol that place, who rode in I119 dock and caused
him some trouble to keep it together, when the mover
informed the individual that he must not do so again
1 or he would throw a tuck at him, upon which Nome
woidsensued, ami the individual again disturbed the
Hock, when the movci, as near as we can learn threw at
him ; upon this t he troublesome man got ol) his horse,
went into a grocery, got a gun and came out and de
liberately shot the poor sir. tiger m the presence of
his wife and little children. ’The wounded man
then n ade an effort to get into some house, w l/ftn
his murderous assailant overtook and stabbed him
to the heart with a bowie knife, ling revolting scene,
we are informed, occuried in the presence of many
citizens, who, repoit says, never even lifted their
voices in defence of the murdered man. The blood
ol a stringer rest upon them ; and the cries of a wid
j ow and tluee poor little orphans, among stiangers,
( who sulh red a father's blood to be spilt lor so trivial
a catw, must certainly pierce their very hearts, and
send the vengeance of remorse to the guilty soul of
j such a diabolical murder.
Pensioners.— The Pension Kill, passed at the
late session of Congress, appropriates §326,260 for
the payment ol revolutionary pensioners; $300,68*
for invalid pensioners; $400,084 lor pensions to wi
llows ami orphans, under the act of 4th July, 1836;
§1,372,000 lor five y ears pension to widows.under the
Act of 7th July, 1*38 ; aud$l0,000 for half pay pen
sioners. Total, $2,498,910.
<a
Tt tht hJitvra Bj the Xalumal JnUlitgtuce.
Hoi a* ok KtrimimTivn. (
February 28. 1839. >
(Jentlemeo On the 26th mat.. after the Select
Committee on the late Defalcationa ha i concluded
ita latum, and ordered ita report! to be made. I re
ceived the enchned letter from Wa. M. 1’ait'K.. 1
ant aaeured that the letter ta genuine, therefore eentl
it to you for publication. I have oo other way
of complying with hta requeat to “ put hie plea"
upou “the record."
J{ eapectfully.
lic.'tar A. Wisk..
Paris, Feb. 2, 1839.
.Sir:—By a letter tbit day received fioin Wash* |
ington, I learn that on the 27th day ©1 December |
I ,si you stuff <1 on lhe floor of Congress that your j
had been informed :
1st. That I had sold a bond given lo the U. S.
in the sum ol $50,000 lur $30,000, iu order to get ,
gold for it.
2d. That I had taken with me lo Liverpool $100,
000 in gold.
And .‘hi. That the Secretary of the Treasury had
made inquiry into iny accounts, and found a deli- i
ci< oi mo.tioo.
The first and second items of your informant ap
pear to have been stated as matters ol fact.
So help me Mod, sir, some villain has abused you
with the most malignant misrepresentations. I nev
er sold a bond given to (lie U. S. in the sum of $50,
000, or any oilier sum for $30,000, or any other a
mount, in order get to gold lor n ; or for any other
purpose. In either form or substance, (lie asser
tion is infamously untrue, “sine elitjuo uliu vesti
mento.**
F.qually untrue is it that I carried with me to Liv
erpool 8100.000 in gold. 1 never, at any one in
stant ol my life, had m iny possession a tithe part ol
such amount of gold. 1 purchased in Wall street,
the day preceding my depattire, one hundred mid
lilty pounds sterling in gold ; and that was all the
gold I purchased, exchanged, procured, or had in
my possession at the time of my departure.
As to the third item,to wii,that the .Secretary of the
Treasury, had made inquiry into my accounts and
found a deficit ol $40,000. I tan only say that
he must have done so, then, with his proverbal
accuracy, lie is not — he could not have been at
ihat 'ime, in possession ot my credits. Then, how
date a sworn accounting officer of the Movern
inot make the debit side only of an account
the evidence by which he would prove me to be a
defaulter ?
I li.tve not, of course, my ncc mints here (or ex
iirniii.ilioii, Inil I would lie both legally and equita
bly entitled to allowances which would probably be
denied to me at the Treasury.
(H unch description I will present to you, from
memory one or two, out of very frequently occur
mg cases, in the course ol what was called the
panic.
Mr. Woodbury, during that year, directed me to
prosecute to collet non the bonds of N. Y. banks
and N. Y. merchantsto the amount of several mil
lions of dollars. By ihe general bankruptcy it
would produce, I entreated him not to enforce his
orders. At the request of tlie Boaid of New Yoik,
1 repaired to Washington, to slay the mischief. 1
succeeded in my object, and was instructed to ne
gotiate with the parties. I allude especially to the
Dry Dock Bank of New York, and the Bank of
Brooklyn, w hose bonds amounted to more than a
million ol dollars. As attorney of the IJ. States, I
had repealed interviews with those institutions; the
indulgence they asked was granted and they honora
bly discharged their indebtedness to the Government.
I was not a salary officer, and there could have bem,
hi such proceedings, no costs of suit. The Secreta
ry holds ad like seivices to be gratuitous, and I per
sume he means to insist uponnjuiv of the country
dissenting from his construction of allowance at the
Treasury.
I had not, sir, at the time ol bis statement of my
accounts, been three weeks absent from my Country,
ami yet, within that time, Mr. Woodbury, without
iii.it decent notice which the law of every State gives
to the most unquestionable absent debtor, upon an
ex parte inquiry ad|udgfs me to by a defaulter.
, *Sir. it is untrue. A just allowance of my claims
iipon the Department will entitle me to a balance
I over and above all amounts received by me from
debtors of the Government.
Although the several millions of dues transmitted
to me for collection in the course of the Iasi five
years, should make my compensation appear to be
immense, still,-the law which has allowed such rates
of compensation to others, must, until alte red or re
pealed. secure it to me.
It is mighty easy to charge high crimes, especial
ly from high places—but, before Mr. Woodbury
pronounced me, “ upon inquiry into my acc ounts,”
for five years, to be a defaulter, he should have recol
lected Ins letter addressed to me within the last six
months, approving in almost fulsome terms of appro
bation, my official conduct during the term of my
appointment. I Ie w ill, I hope, favor you with a \ er
us.il of the draught.
If, “ upon inquiry,” he then understainlingly ap
' proved my whole course in office, he Inis been ciuelly
nrecepitnte in Ins late conclusion; or, if he paid me
the compliment without an « xnniinntiou ol my alfaiis,
it is valueless, and lie is welcome to it again. 11
lie can so abstract himself from the general confu
sion of his official concerns as to allow me the cred
its to which I am justly entitled, I will stand at least
wholly absolved from the indebtedness he has
charged.
My motives for the resignation of my office and
coming hither, will, iu due season, he deemed un
questionably correc t.
I am not here upon departure from any official rc
porisibility. I am here, upon matters o( great pri
vate moment to myself and family, and l will, upon
issue the Treasury may tender, absolve myself, in the
judgment of every just man, from any wrong doue
I to it.
I claim, sir, from your sense of justice, that,
while debating upon the postulates above referred
to, you will, at least, penuit me to put my pica
on record.
1 am, sir,
Your most ob’t serv’t.
William M. Price.
II.'ri A. Wise, Esq.
Amo York Money Market—The Express of Tues
ilnv says—
The week tins opened wnh an increased gloom
1’lie urns from .Nova Scolia and ihe frontier is con
sidered more unfavorable. Slocks u mil lie seen
have declined—some of them very much. The |)tv
Dock llank. which stood a( 105 on Saturday, fell m
par. The Hank of Commerce, wlueli was so much
sought alter, now stands a shade heller thru par.
i I'he depression in slocks is caused more from ihe
apprehension than the knowledge that American
Securities will decline in the London market.
The condition of our money market, for some
lime, must depend much, very much, on the turn
things lake in London. If ihe war news should not
lie much thought of in England, and if there should
he no serious decline in American securities, money
mailers will recover here. If, however, they should
fall offihcre, stocks may decline further here- The
fall of slocks in the first thirty has been very severe,
yet none of the operators have been so seriously
affected as not lo make good their contracts
(len. 11. 11. (Irani—The newspapers throughnut
the country will have it that tins gentleman was
murdered sump time since and tubbed of 875.000 C
iiion bank bills. He it known then, that (inn. Gram
, is in good health and spirits, ami on I lie 23d Feb. re
viewed the uniform cuiiipauies of this city,
Baltimore March 13.
Most Painful Casualty.—A little boy, about
three years of age, son ol Mr. Samuel Kenvin, cor
j oer of Fleet street and Mulberry alley, was tun over
by the Philadelphia train of cars near Caroline
street, and almost rut in two; death was, of course,
..onscquence. It is lo be regretted that accidents
of tilts kind occur, yet they never can be prevented
1 so long as parents suffer children of such tender
years to play unguarded on the track of the railroad—
Sun.
Morus Mllticaulis—There is now passing
through the Dismal Swamp Canal two schooners la
den with tbia new and valuable article, worlli forty
thousand dollars, the property of one genileman m
Edeulon. and wised by himself.
Gov. Port mi vs. tiie Baivks-— ihe Govetno i
Pennsylvania transmitted an angry message to the
Legislature of that State on Thursday last, an
nouncing that the loan of one million, two nun re
thousand dollars, authorized by a recent act oL e
Legislature, had not been taken, and that not a sin
gle proposal for it had been received. 1 he Govern
or dec laics in the most positive terms that this is all
owing to a combination amongst the Hanks of the
State to destroy the credit ol Pennsylvania. and em
barrass her fiscal operations. He calls upon the
Legislature to sell out all the stock the State owns;
in Hanks, and to di*olve at once, all connection, ol
every description, with the faithless institutions
which have conspired against its character and
credit. The Governor, however, omits to in
form the Legislature that, by the provisions of th«
la* incorporating the Brink of the United Sales that
institution is bound to lend the State the bum re
nuiredat four percent, interest, and that, had he ap
plied to that Hank, he could have obtained ir, at
that low rate, without delay. The other banks ol
the State, aware of this provision, and all, probably,
using their capitals to better advantage than loaning
money in large sums at five percent, did not consi
der it worth while to come forward, and this omis
sion the Loco Foco Governor calls a conspiracy.
It is amusing to note the various forms winch this
disease of Loco Focoism takes on. In the case ol
Governor Porter it is a clear Danko
Tire Legislature of Maryland has passed a bill to
guarantee the city of Baltimore’s loan ol ihree mil
lions of dollars to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Koad Company.
The Goshen (Orange county) Republican pub
lishes the prices of seveial farms recently sold in
the inteiior of that county, ranging from $60 to $100
an acre. [iV. Y. American.
Connecticut.—The election in this State comes on
oti Monday the first of April. The Whig candi
dates arc—for Governor, William W. Ellsworth;
for Congress, Joseph Trumbull of Hartford County ;
W illiam f j . Storrs, of New Haven and Middlesex;
Thomas W. Williams, of New London ; Trunien
| Smith, of Litchfield; and John 11. Brockway, of
Holland and Windham.
One Thousand School Houses have been built
ami are now building in <>liiu, under the new Com
mon School law of the State, as we learn by the ic
n nt it'|iurl ol the Superintendent—Samuel Lewis.
It is tin alter slated that the several county law courts
are exercising a praisworlhy caul inn in appointing
School Examiners, whose business it is tu license
teachers. The cause of education appears to be en
gar mg as much of the public attention in Ohio, as
any other branch of state policy.
< >t it Minister at Vienna.—A letter from Mi.
Muhlenburg. says,—
•• I have had my solemn audience with the Empe
ror, as they call it here—it was conducted with a
good deal of pomp and ceremony.—I have also been
presented to the Empress, the Empress’s mother,
and the brothers and uncles of the Emperor. Eaih
have their separate courts, women as well as men,
each their grand master of ceremonies, ami each
I must he waited on separately in full tlress. They
all received me with great kindness and attention, and
I have every reason in lie pleased with my reception,
l’rinee Metlernieh, the Prime Minister, is very po
lite, and so ate the members of the corps diploma
tique : all are gteatlv pleased and surptisetl at my
Herman. Tim truth is, I speak it us well as the best
I nl them ; (he Vienna dialect is worse than any vou
I hear in America."
Extraoroinart Suicide.—In the absence ol
the Coroner, an inquest was held yesterday af
ternoon. by Win. Doty, Esq., on the body nl Mr.
Thomas J. Carmichael, of the firm of Carmichael
>V Jewett, card manufacturers on Walnut street_
The decasetl it appears was last seen on the previ
ous morning. The door of the office being found
locked on the inside, when it was known that Ins
| partner was confined s ckness, induced suspicions
* Hat all was not tight. J lie door was inconsequence
j foreetl, when the unfo:lunate Mr. C. was discover
ed m an erect position, h ailing on his desk, yei quite
dead, and I>mii appearances, had been so from the
! previous day. A tumbler containing a mixture nl
‘ laudanum and arsenic was found before him.
A balance sheet ol affairs, apparently drawn up
| with much cate, showing a balance of $2,189 in Ins
I lavor, uith ins will, w as also luuo'l behoe him, w ith
a note stating that a copy of the same had been sent
in a Solicitor m I'l.imingham, Mass. No document
was found nor reason guessed at which might show
any inducement to tin* dreadful act.
A legal y ol ijtjd, was especially marked in the will
I r a young holy to whom the deceased had been
pay mg his .nhhesses.
The jury returned a verdict, " that the deceas
ed came to Ins death by taking poisun, arsenic ami
landau,no, which it appealed he haJ administered
to himself.
' Ii\.M) Suk. \t Milwaukee—The sum of fifty
i thousand dollars was taken on the first day, and not
an acre was sold except to actual settlers.
[l)ttrail Daily Advcrtistr.
A Vandulian correspondent of the Chicago Deni
crat expresses the opinion that an appropriation of
$4.0 )0,000 will be made by the legislature of Illinois
the present session for l lie prosecution of the Illinois
i canal.
The Urea* Lukes.—Mr. Higgins, Topographer of
the Slate of Illinois, in a report to the Legislature,
i gives [lie following table, and the reinaiks annexed
i —winch will be found interesting :
Table of the height ol Lake Supeiior, with the in
teimediate lakes above, and their distances from
tide water.
Koine. Miles. Feet.
1 Si. Lawrence river to tide water, 450
i Level Lake Ontario 200 650 232
Level Lake Krie, 175 825 333 565
I Level Lake Huron, 310 1165 13 578
Level Lake Michigan, 578
Level Lake Superior, 240 1405 18 506
West end Lake Superior, 491 189
From the above data we infer the following curi
ous lad ; that if a b irrier eighteen feet high, existed
across ihe loot ol Lake Huron, near Fort (Iratiot,
lak's Union and Michigan would rise to a level with
Lake Supeiior ; or if a similar harrier was plared
thirty-one feel across ihe foot of Lake Krie, at Buf
falo, the singular result would follow, that fuur of
the great lakes would become one uniform level,
and merged in one immense inland sea.
A MERRY POSTMASTER.
From the Kaluga (*V. C.j Register.
Sulphur Springs. Buncombe County, N. O..
February 15, 1839.
I see ». late Standard wishes its friends to furnish
the editor with the political character of the several
postmasters in their niegliborhoods. I learn from
the words of the Standard that it requests its friends
to give the information, and from the word neigh
borhood, I suppose, it means all little country post
offices all the way to Buncombe, as well as towns or
| c'l,cs. AVe, the little country postmasters, do not
co into office on any party ground, as Jackson-Yran
Huron men or Whigs.* We are selected by the
neighborhood, at the proper place, for the office,
and as the pay is nothing, and we give our ulten
iion merely tor the accommodation of our neigh
bors, it will belike the bear's tail no bio things, if
| upon a full return there should be as many or more
! Whigs than Vanites.
Yours, respectfully,
K. DEAVER.
Buncombe postmaster.
I . S. One thing I forgot to tell you, that is how
we collect postage in Buncombe. \Vc do not get
haul money here. Tile best postage change for let
ters I have ever found is chickens.
II the letter is 6 cents we take a halfgrown chicken.
do 10 do a grown one.
do 124 do a full blood rooster.
^ do 18| do two full grown pullets.
j* do 25 do two grown laying hens.
But we always pay the contractors’ in such as
suits them, without any defalcation.
TW& VIUE'SiimAH, “
MNtilHl’R(i,.nSRl'H‘il, IS3*. "
THE MAINE CONTROVERSY. "
We have heretofore abstained from laying t word
in referenie to ilie belligerent aspect of affairs on our
Norlbeaalcrn boundary—riot because we hast felt
no interest in tire scenes iheieenacting, but because
we had hoped that the “ notes of preparation" which
daily reached us were but evanescent ebulilions of
feeling, which would subside afier a few days cool
reflection, at least until the Uuicrnnienli of Great
Britain and theUuited Slates had decided the great
question of l’eaee or War. But in this we have
been disappointed; and it is now pretty certain, that
if our amicable relations with Great Britain be not
seriously disturbed and endangered, it will not be tbs
fault of the Governors of Maine and New Bruns
wick.
The truth t«, the question, which, ftoni in utllf(.
tleil stale, has led to this disastrous and threaten,
state of tilings, ought long ago to have been settle,, .
and it is not the least of the just causes of complaint
against the present and preceding adtninistrationt.tbaf
it has remained until th s time unadjusted. Their
boasted diplomatic ingenuity aud skill, and their os
tentatiously paraded maxim, that “they never ask
for any thing wrong, and will nol submit to anything
that is not right," are shown, by the present attitudt
of our relations with Great Brittain, to be a scorching
sarcasm instead of a deserved compliment, and with
al, an unmeaning bravado. For if it was right to in
sist upon our claim to the "disputed tertitoty," our
pretensions ought long since to have been relinquish'
ed, as, on the other hand, ifour claim be legitimate,,
as it seems to us to be indisputably so, accordingto*
the provisions of the treaty ol 1783, it ought to have
Imen pressed in a successful issue years ago. What
has Sir. .Stevctisou been doing, during his lo»g resi
dence in London, that our rights have been permit
ltd to remain in abeyance, until the clash of arms
upon the fioutter has roused the administration from
its lethargy and front the gtoss neglect of its solemn
obligations? If the "disputed territory" belongs to.
Maine, as by the only fair and just construction of
which the ircaiy of 1783 is susceptible, it unques
tionably dots, w liy has Sir. S'levenson neglected to
assert our rights, ill that unequivocal aud emphatic
manner which could alone be expected to eusuro
heir recognition and acknowledgment ? Did he find
it more agreeable to flirt with the Duchess of De
| von.shite and to feast with the Duke ofLeeds, likes
; good Democrat as he is. than to ascertain the true
houndai ies of his country,anil to exact from LnrJ
Palmerston the formal admission of those bounda
ries, as solemnly tecognizad by treaty ? These ate
questions wliith it behooves the people to ask,—tits
people, who, if war et. sue, are lo pay tire piper, andi
all the expenses of the bloody game,—and they
should demand a satisfactory reply. But that reply
I cannot be given, without exposing the gross neglect
of duty, (to call ii by no harsher name,) which lltw
' xisltng emergency so plainly implies.
Admit ting, as we do, the justice of the claim which
Maine sets up tn the territory in dispute, we must
1 nevertheless be permitted to question the propriety
of the coutse w Inch the authorities and people of than
State have thought it expedient and proper to pursuer
on the occasion. This is peculiarly a question, the
adjustment ol which, under the constitution, belongs
to the general government. No Stale Iras a light,
under any pretext, blmilof absolute self-defence, to
assume the Ligli responsibtliiy of involving the coun.
I y in a war tv it It another pow er It is stepping be
som! the limit of its "reserved rights am! powers," and
deserves rebuke, even while we determine to sustain
her in the struggle which she may thus unnecessa
rily and piematui elv force upon her sister States. If,
indeed, an overt act ot hostility had been committed
by the British Governor of New Brunswick,—or if
he had threatened to commit such overt act of hos
tility.—then there might be some justification in alP
this vast parade of troops and instruments of war, of
which we hear by “ every day's report” from th#
North. But when nulhing of thissorl has been done
or threatened, and when the Governor of Mains is
offici.i/ly apprized of the measures adopted by the
l’relteent to bring this controversy to a head, at
once, either by peaceably securing possession of the
soil, or else til.ing n by the strong arm, it strikes us
as a useless and somewhat contemptible display of
belligerency in th it high functionary to pot on his
cocked hat, arid, “ with an eye like Mars," muster
his valiant legions by the thousand upon the borders
of the controverted land.
( And yet we fear that there is mure of calculation
i than of valor in all this parade of bail and b.ivonet.
Simula the dispute be amicably sett If <1 by negotia
1 non, as, from the pa, ific spirit of the age, as well as
| liom the immeasurable fully of testing t lie justice of
; t lie quarrel by an appeal to arms, we shall see ilia
nature of tins calculation next winter, when Uncle
Sam will he called upon to pay the lung bill of ex
penses incurred by Maine in this gallant display of
her legions. The larger the number of her men,
thus called into service, the larger will be her de
mands upon the treasury ; and hence the eagerness,
uf her “ Major Generals” and their subordinates to
reach the tented field, where good pay and rations
are furnished'—and no danger of a fight ! Mark the
prediction! Tins *‘wai” will blow over before De
cember next ; and then comes the drain upon tbs
treasury, to nuthoiize which all these warlike pr«
pataitonsate made. For one, we hope that no claims
upon the national treasury, growing out of this affair*,
will be lor a moment tolerated. If Maine is so ea
ger for the fray as to push her troops into thrf field*
not only without the application, but against the
wishes of the genernl government, she should be.
made to pay them out of Iter own exchequer. It will
be a lesson to Iter and ollteis, in future, not to provoke
a war by unauthorized preparations for it, as the con
trary principle of action will serve to stimulate others
to a like display of valor where no peril is to be en
countered, and w here the laurels to be leaped are dol
lars and cents.
Spirit nf the Times.—The last number of this
well conducted paper, printed in New Vork,tlcvo'etl
to tlie Turf, Field-sports, Lileiature and the Stage,
comes to ns with new attractions, on an enlarged
sheet, in an entire new dress, and accompanied with
two beautiful engravings on steel, which of them
selves are well wtrlh a year's subscription. The
fust is a fancy portrait of Augusta, the celebrated
danseusc, in the character of La Sylpide. The se
cond, the portrait of lilack Maria, the celebrated ra
ter that beat so easily Col. Johnson's Britain. The
Spirit of the Tillies is decidedly the most interesting
mid best conducted p iper of the kind in America,
and well worthy the stippdit o| gentletneu of the
turf.