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THE GAZETTE:
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
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MAJ. DOWNING’S CORRESPONDENCE.
To my old friend, Mr. Dwight, of the Aew \ork
Daily Advertiser.
Washington, Jan. 16, 1834.
You remember I telled you, a spell ago, that
after we got the message done, we was obliged
to take it all to bits, and nock out a good many
things about the ’counts, and run the caar\ce 01
tettin Congress skip era over; and I telled you
too, that I would to rights git the Gineral s specs,
and giv era a twist round to a plain sight, and
let him take a look at things jest as they be,
without a bit of “glory” about era. Well, among
them accounts we had got in the Message, was
the Post Office accounts. I did’nt like the look
on em a bit at the time, but as every body said
money was plagy scarce every where, the Gi
neral thought it was natural enuf to hnd ltpert
ty scarce in the Post Office too. Now, says I,
Gineral, my notion is, that wc best let Majoi
Barry tell his own story about it; for as he has
done so much in reforming things, and as we
have got now a pretty good majority in Con
gress, he may get out of the scrape. Cv ell the
Gineral thought that was about the best way;
and Major Barry made his report,* and telled a
* pretty considerable of a cute story about his
havin found an error in the Post Office accounts,
E* ;hat had been overlooked ever since Gineral
Washington’s time. I began to think for a spell,
that would stump Congress about as much as
though there had been a fire in the Post Office,
_i;l.a thnt nne in the Treasury last
spring. But, some how or other, some of the
plac,y Senators have been smellin round, and
coton a track that led em right up to the fact,
that the Post Office is head and ears all over in
debt; and that it has been borrow in money for
over two years now, and never said a word on't
to Congress. And l am peskily afeard, that see
in the Law says none of our folks shall borrow
money without consent of Congress, (and
which, upon the hull, is a pretty safe law, for
Congress couldn’t tell otherwise how the money
was goin,) I am, I say, peskily afeard we can t
get the Post Office folks out or this scrape, with
out reformin some on em out of office. But as
they are all our best triends, and have done
more for glory and reform than most folks, we
shall let some on em resign, and then apint em
to some office abroad, or get em into some
place where they can git a liven without work
in for it: for the Gineral won’t let any on em
suffer no way.
When the Gineral come to hear what the Se
nate was arter, says he, Major, will them ac
counts of the Post Office stand the racket, or
not? Why, says I, Gineral, its hard tellin; but
as nigh as I can calklate, says, I guess they
wont in the way Congress settles accounts:
things look plagy crooked, says I; and the worst
on’t is, them accounts have been so twisted,
first one way, and then agin another way, that
I am afeard now they wont stand twistin any
more. The ony ways, says I, is to straiten em,
and that’s all I can do about em. But, says I,
if they break to bits in straitenin on em, I can’t
help it. Well, says he, Major, I wish you’d try
it; for, says the Gineral, if we can’t keep Barry
up, there’s no telling what will become on us;
for it seems to me, ever since Mr. Van Buren
got the Post Office Department into the Cabinet,
we have been able to do more in “rewardm
our frends, and punishin our enemies,” than
in ail the rest of the departments put together.
Well, says I, Gineral, I’ll try it, says I, and so
the Gineral went to' bed, and I got my slate,
and l got all the Post Office accounts from the
time Judge McLean left the office, and Major
Barry came into it. It took me a good spell to
git em all strung out in regular oraer; ana jusi
as 1 was beginnin to sifer up, the Gineral he riz
up in bed, and says he, Major, 1 reckon l can
help you aiong. Well, says I, Gineral, I want
all the help you can give me. I’m thinkin, says
he, you best say that it’s all owin to Biddle; for
he is crampin all the people he can, and that he
makes money so scarce, folks can’t pay post
age; and that if we had not taken the deposits
away from him, things would be twice as bad
now. Well, says I, Gmeral, that is a good no
- tion, and I’ll see to rights how it ’ll work among
- figures. I thought I’d just tell you, says the Gi
neval, afore I forgot it, for the notion jest struck
me as I was goin to sleep: and so the Gineral
laid down, and I wentsiferin agin.
It was most daylight afore I got through, and
I finish’d off with the sums Major Barry says he
has been borrowin, and left a blank to put in the
' amount he says the post office has overdrawn
the banks where the postages are kept: for as
he don’t know’ yet w’hat that amount is, I can’t
tell myself; tho’ I suppose I could, upon a pinch,
make nigh upon as good a guess at it as he
could or any one else. But I thought I wouldn’t
guess at nothin. 1 never guess when I get hold
of my slate—l sifer on one side, and then chalk
dowm the sum on tother—so there can’t be no
mistake. When I come to figer up the hull
amount the post office has gone astarn since
Judge M’Lean left it, I begun to bile up like one
of old Capt. Bunker’s steam kittles; and I w as
glad the Gineral w’as snorin, for I don’t like to
let people see me w hen my steam is up; but if I
^ don’t do somethin, I suppose I should blow up
jist like a steam boat on the Massissippy—and
so I got my ax, and down stairs I went with a
light to the wood house, and split up more than
three cord and a half of hickory afore I got in a
good temper, and afore I thought it w as safe to
go to bed; and then I went to bed, and slept like
a top till breakfast time.
The next mornin, when the Gineral come in?
to the Cabinet room—well, says he, Major, did
you finish them plagy accounts? Yes, says I,
Gineral, 1 did, and split up wood enuf to last us
a month in the bargain. And I jest tell’d the
Gineral a leetle about it to prepare him. Now’,
says l, Gineral, let me have your specs, says 1,
arainit—and 1 took ’em to the window, and give
the screw's a twist, and tried ’em; and seein eve
ry thing look’d natural, I handed ’em to the Gi
neral, and then he and I took the slate and w’ent
over the fibers—both on us standin up by the
table side by side. First, says I, there is the
printin account and stationary of the post office,
when Mr. Adams was President; and here is the
account since we’ve ben in—here is the amount
of contracts for one spell, and there is the amount
for another—here is the number of offices and
Clarks for one spell, and there is the number for
another—and here is the cost of w*ages and sal
laryR of the post office wffien Mr. Adams was
President—and here is the cost since our time
v _ v * .
oiaoy deal of difference, Gineral, says I, aint
The Gineral he didn’t say nothin—lie kept
his eves on the slate, and his mouth nigh upon
wide open—ony once in a while he’d caSdate on
his fingers a' spell. And now says I, there is the
sum Judge M’Lean left in the post office when
he went out on’t—and there, says 1, is the sum
that is now wanting in the post office, to make
things square there, to say nothin of the sum
Major Barry says the post office has overdra wn
from the banks—arid as he don’t know what the
amount is, I don’t nother—and I don’t caie
about guessin at it—for it’s bad enuf without
guessin. The Gineral put his eye on the last
line of figers [it was hard upon a million ol dol
lars agin the office] and look’d, and blink d, and
began to close his mouth up Slowly, jest lor ail
the world like shuttin up a safety valve; and he
began to swell, and breathe plagy hard. 1 see
the steam was gittin up. The Gineral he look d
at me* and 1 look’d at him; and then we both
look’d at the slate agin. Bime-by the Gineral
he opened the valve, and let off the steam and
sich a whizzin you never heard in your born
days. He took my slate, and was jest a goin to
smash it into a thousand atoms, but 1 got it afore
it struck the floor. He then got his hickory and
thrash’d round a spell with that. But that did nt
do no good. So says he to rights—“ Major,
what is to be done about it?” Why says I, Gi
neral, I don’t see nothin else, says I, but to take
my ax, and do as I did last night-—there is a
good deal of hickory wants splittin in the wood
house yet. And with that I handed the Gineral
my ax and he slatted about the chamber with
it for a spell; and if any of our folks had come
in then, I guess they’d found more to fear than
when 1 frightened ’em so a few days ago.
1 never know’d the Gineral blewofl steam so
long as he d d this time; and I was peskily aieai d
the'boiler would burst arter all. And so I went
to work putting out the fire; and the only way
was to get the specs, and screw ’em back to
“ Glory,” agin; and as soon as I did that, we got
our pipes, and sot down and talked over the
matter. . , , ,
Now, says I, Gineral, though this is a bad bu
siness, it aint so bad as it first looks. In the
first place, says I, if Major Barry had borrowed
the money of Squire Biddle, Congress would,
have known it two years ago, and the Post Of
fice reports would’nt a been as slick as they have
been; and we’d a had more trouble to git so
mjinvnr mu* fnlks in last election. And then,
again, by borrowin the money of other Banks,
on interest, it made them Banks the keener to
get hold of the deposites; for if Congress
would’nt pass a law to pay the money borrow’d
by our folks, to make their accounts look square,
why the deposit banks could pay themselves;
4nd now, by gettin our money away from Squire
Biddle, who was hound by law to make a regu
lar report to Congress of every thing, and put
tin it on other Banks, our folks can square oil a
good many accounts and Congress won’t know
nothing o’nt; for it will take a pretty spry siferer
to figure out all the accounts with so many new
deposit banks;—for we’ve got ’em now pretty
well mix’d up with what the Treasury calls
“contingent drafts,” and “transfer checks,”
and “ Treasury warrants;” and Zekel Bigelow’
says he could, in three days, with the power the
Government has got now, warranted, and trans
fer, and contingent away, between so many
pockets, nigh upon the hull of the deposits, and
no body could never find nothin about it.
v And then, again, says I, here is another thing
—the people wanted “ Glory,” and they wanted
“ Reform,” and they have had both now’ over
five years: and if they expected it warnt a goin
to cost nothin, they was mistaken. And that
aint all—there was that plagy “surplus money”
business—every body said, a spell ago, if some
thin warnt done about it, the country w ould all
go to smash. Well, now, says I, we are geitin
out of that scrape us slick as a whistle.
The Gineral he began to brighten up—why,
says he, Major, we’ve been in a pashin then
about nothin. I remember now I tell'd the folks
in my message a spell ago, that the safest place
for the surplus money was in the pocket of the
people; and I believe that sayin alone brought
over more than one State to our side; and it our
people git the money, it’s all right, ain’t it, Ma
jor? Yes, says I; ony some folks, I suppose,
will setup a squeelin, jest like the pigs when
they come in a leetle too late for their corn;
and say, altho’ they don’t belong to our party,
they've got jest as good arigni to a snare as we
have. Well, says die Gineral, there they are
mistaken; for Governor Massy said (and that
made him Governor too) that the corn all be
lenged to the pigs that got into the pen afore the
gate was shut. But Major, says the Gineral, 1
am a little puzzled yet to know what account to
charge that Post Office debt to. If we can ony
git that right and save Barry, I shall sleep
sound to night.
Well, says I, Gineral, there is ony one account
that will stand that charge, arid a good many
more too, for as we go along, and Congress gits
to siftin things, I suppose they’ll find out some
thin more. In the first place, says I, that
fire in the Treasury last Spring did a good deal
towards settling off a good many land accounts,
and other accounts. If we don’t have no more
fires, or other accounts, and Congress presses
us, we’ll give them a lead through the new De
posit Banks, a spell, as I have just bin tellin; arid
if they follows us up through that track, for
some of these fellows have got good noses, then
we’ll fetch up on the ony account I know of,
and that account as I said afore, will stand a
good many charges yet. Well, what is that ac
count, Major, says the Gineral? and lie got up
and looked at me—last week, says I, Gineral,
was the 8th January. Now, says I, aint that
day worth a little more than the 4th July? The
Gineral gin a nod. Well then, says I, there is
“ Glory,” aint that worth something? The Gin
eral gin another nod—and there is “ Reform,”
aint that worth somethin? The Gineral noded
agin. Well now, says I, put all that together,
and if that dont make a sum of debt due you,
says I, that will balance a good many accounts,
Pm mistaken. “ New Orleans, Glory and Re
form” says I, debtor to the Gineral—That’s
enuf, says the Gineral, and that was the eend
of the Post Office accounts.
From your Friend,
J. DOWNING, Major,
Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade.
Fact stronger than Declamation.—The United
j States Bank and its branches, are habitually
| spoken of in certain quarters, as seeking to ap
i ply the screws in order to oppress the community.
| There have been many evidences before of the
! falsehood of this charge. We are about to add
a new one.
The Chemical Bank of this city, which keeps,
perhaps, more small accounts than almost any
other in the city, of persons engaged in retail
business, and of mechanics, lias, from some un
founded cause, been run upon for a day or two;
upon learning which the Branch Bank, this
morning, made them a loan of $ 100.000: thus
evincing at once their confidence in the Chem
ical Bank, and their desire to aid in relieving
the community.—N. Y. Amer.
LATE FftOM JAMAICA.
By the schooner Davenport, Capt. Norton,
at Savannah, from Kingston, a file oi Jamaica
papers to the 23d ult. inclusive, have been re
ceived. The Kingston Chronicle of the 23d of
December mentions that in some parts of the
Island a refractory spirit had manifested itself
on some plantations. Judging from the tone of
the papers, there must be considerable rancour
on both sides. We make such extracts as we
deem of sufficient interest.
Kingston, Dec. 23, 1833.—His M. S. Racer
arrived yesterday from Carthagena in three
days having on board the French Consul, M.
Barrot, and 100,000 dollars. The return of the
Consul does not argur well for an amicable ad
justment of the late difference, yet we are in
formed that the French squadron has sailed
back to Carthagena, a symptom that no actual
hostilities have commenced. The Hope sailed
in company with the Racer, having passenger
Senior Gautierez.
December 21.—By the United States schooner
Experiment, we are informed that a low built
piratical brig, painted black, has been ci uising
off the island of St. Thomas, and has plundered
several American vessels. She has the appear
ance of a deeply loaded vessel, with raking
masts, and displays Colombian colours.
December, 27.—During the present week de
tachments of Regulars will be stationed at se
veral posts throughout the Island. It is to be
hoped that by thus distributing his Majesty’s
Troops good order and tranquility will be pre
served; but if ever there was a necessity of em
bodying the Militia Regiments at this period of
the year, recent events must imperiously call
for it at the present moment.
Hayti and France—The Isonomist has re
ceived from a friend files ofHayRan papers.—
By “ Le Telegraphe de Port-au-Prince, le 17
November, and 30.” it would appear that a
misunderstanding has arisen between the au
thorities of Hayti and the French Diplomatists
there, somewhat arialagous to the recent differ
ences between the Republic ofNueva Grenada, !
and the French Consul.
From the Haytian version of the affair, it;
seems that several gentlemen of Port au Prince
„ •_i i_ <
were eiuci lamcu ai me uvuov mv- *ie»v/u
Consul; that a drunken soldier named Duga in
truded, and on an attempt to make him leave the
house, he struck one of the guests very severe
ly with a stick.
The French Consul, and Capt. M. de Bruix
of the Fr. brig “ Le Cuirassier,” complained to
the President, and lie referred them to the law
of assaults. M. de Bruix, who was bearer of des
patches from France, contended that the insult
was premeditated, and demanded public re
dress. The drunken soldier was tried, and sen
tenced to six days imprisonment, and to pay
costs. Le Cuirassier sailed on the 11th Nov.
last, for France, leaving the object of her mis
sion incomplete, in consequence of this misun
standing.
Extract of a letter from Carthagena, dated
Dec. 17, 1833.—“Admiral Mackau arrived here
invested with full powers from the French Go
vernment to claim or exact satisfaction from
that of New Granada, for the insults offered to
the French Consul. He has sent his ultimation
to Bogota, an answer is to be given in 30 days.
YVe hope the Government of New Granada, will
by acknowledging how culpable were several
of its agents, prevent such evils as are now in
evitable, if it continue to allo\v certain men of
low character to have any influence. This bu
siness cannot now be one of negociation; the
conditions imposed by M. de Mckau in the name
of his Government, must be complied with in ail
its points or go to war. If we consider the con
duct of the Executive in New Granada in its
true light, we might expect more vigor on the
part of the French Government, let the demands
of M. de Mackau be as severe as they may be.
By the last mails from Bogota, we are inform
ed that new revolutions have taken place in the
Equador. Guayaquil had declared itself in
dependent, by separating from the Govern
ment, and wishing to put itself under the pro
tection of Peru. While the President Flores
was marching with Troops to that place, a new
revolution broke out in Quito, the capital—Ge
neral Seanz, Colonel Hall, and several others
were killed in the attempt to take possession of
, the barracks.
In Bogota, great discontent existed, and it
was feared that new disturbances would take
Renunciation.—There' has perhaps been no
individual in New Jersey who has been more
uniform, and we might add more influential, in
the support of Gen. Jackson than Capt. R. F.
Stockton. He is a man of talents himself—the
prominent representative of one of the most in
tellectual families in the state—and has of course
exerted no small influence in favor of the Exec
utive. Educated in the school of warfare, al
though upon a different element, his early
sympathies were naturally attracted to a prefer
ence for a military commander. These preju
dices were not easily subdued—but the recent
usurpations of the Military Chieftain have been
too daring and outrageous for the approval of
this honest man. We are happy therefore to
perceive, from the New Jersey Democrat, that
this gentleman has come forward, with a frank
ness and independence that do him honor, and
renounced all connexion with an administra
tion so corrupt and destructive to the interests
and constitution of his country:—N. Y. Cum.
Trenton, N. J. Jan. 18.
A Conversion.—On the night of the 8th inst.
the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, ]
we understand that Capt. R. F. Stockton, of
Princeton, gave a public entertainment at Mr.
Van Cleve’s Hotel in this city to a very large
number of Jackson men, and among others sev
eral members of the legislature. After the
cloth was removed the Captain arose and ad
dressed the company in an animated and elo
quent speech in which he openly renounced
Gen. Jackson, declaring that he could no lon
ger conscientiously support the measures of his
administration. The removal of the deposites,
he considered as a dangerous usurpation of au
thority, uncalled for by the exigencies of the
times, a positive violation of law, and a most
flagrant infraction of the constitution.
The Degree of LL. D. conferred last summer
on President Jackson, by Harvard University,
has been made the subject of discussion in the
Board of Ov erseers of the University. The at
torney-General, Mr. Austin, complained that the
rules of the Board, as to the requisite notice to be
given to members, had been departed from on
the occasion; and, though President Q,uincy
showed clearly that he had done all that depen
ded upon him to give the required notice, and
though no censure was intended to be convey
ed, it was resolved, Mr. Alexander Everett se
conding the motion of the Attorney General, to
refer the matter to a Committee of Inquiry, who
are to report at a future meeting.—JV. V. Amer
In a case of seduction tried during the past
week between Burwell Betts, father of feaiah
Betts Plaintiff, and Oliver Coles, Defendant, in
the Superior Court of this city, the jury gave a
verdict ofTen Thousand Dollars against the de
fendant—a verdictthan whichjif thereport
the case published in this morning s dour er be
at all accurate—one more unjust, and unsus
tained by evidence, was never f (
The party injured was, it appears, 24 years oi
age, had been duly warned of her danger, yet
continued to admit the addresses of the alleged
seducer, and was content to live with him in a
state of concubinage for six years—and it was
only when this disgraceful connection ^as bro
ken off by the defendant, that the father of the
woman brought this suit. All this savors much
more of the spirit of speculation, than of the
spirit of injured innocence, or virtuous indigna
tion, or humble contrition.—Ar. Y. Amer.
From the Boston Centinel, January 10.
Franklin and his Legacy.—To-morrow will
be the 128th Anniversary of the birth of Benja -
min Franklin. The house made memorable by
that event, stood opposite the Old South Church,
in Milk-street. The Doctor died at Philadelphia,
April 17, 1790, aged 84. The $4,444 which he
left to the Young Married Artificers of the city
amounted, by the last (unpublished) report, to
$21,164 19. A gentleman who was one of our
Selectmen when this bequest was tendered, re
marked to us yesterday, that there was quite a
debate on its acceptance. It has long been ad
ministered, we may add, in violation of the con
dition of the will, which limits the bounty to mar
ried mechanics, of bet ween the ages of 21 and 25
—that class having proved, owing to the great
change in manners and customs since Franklin’s
time,^(an advocate, too, of early marriage)
much smaller than was anticipated even by the
town authorities.I
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70 pieces of Pine Timber, 4 by 9 inches, and 17
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900 lineal feet Pine Scantling, 4 inches square,
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14,400 feet, board measure, of White Pine
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72 Pine Piles, 30 feet long, 12 inches diameter
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S pieces, 30 feet long and 18 inches square,
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40 do 12 inches square, Pine, 29 feet long.
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70 Oak Piles, 38 to 40 feet long, 15 inches dia
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100 do 34 to 36 do do do do
46.550 feet, board measure, Oak Pile Plank, 34
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660 feet Pine Stringers, 10 inches square, in
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1440 lineal feet Oak, 8 by 5 inches, in pieces
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60 Timbers, Pine. 39 feet long. 13 inches square
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and to be delivered at Georgetown, D. C. at such
places as the Engineers may designate, and sub
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WM. TURNBULL,
Captain U. S. Topographical Engineers.
WILSON M. C. FAIRFAX,
jnn 24— d3t&2aw2w_Civil Engineer.
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Drawn at Richmond on Friday, 24th January
CAPITAL PRIZE $15,000.
Tickets $4 50; halves 2 25; quarters 1 12- 12
H3=* Lowest prize 5 dollars
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. CORSE,
Lottery $ Exchange Broker, Alexandria.
Drawn Numbers in the Grand Consolidated Lot
tery, Class No. 2 for 1834:
47 16 64 54 6 42 1 21 14 26
BUTTER.
£1 A Firkins Shenandoah Butter, for sale at a
tJ^b reduced price.
jan 21CLAGETT & PAGE.
DOCTOR WHEELWRIGHT
HAS removed to the House on St. Asaph
street, between King and Prince streets,
formerly occupied by T.#F. Mason, Esq. where
he can be found. nov 8—d4t&wtf
ALEXANDRIA:
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 25, 1834.
MR. PRESTON, of S. C.
Mr. Preston’s speech in the Senate against the
Removal of the Deposites, commenced on
Thursday, is highly applauded. The National
Intelligepcer says, “ that he has fully sustained
the reputation which he brought here, of being
one of the most eloquent orators of his country.”
In commenting on the usurpations of power
by the Executive, Mr. Preston remarked:
“ The courts and the laws are superseded, and
next will be the jury. And next would be the
habeas corpus act, that glorious palladium of
both English and American freedom, w hich had
recently been so signally exercised to the rescue
of a free citizen from another executive assump
tion of power.”
Here the spectators in the galleries began to
applaud, when the Vice President ordered the
galleries to be cleared. While the officers were
carrying the order into execution, a motion was
made by Mr. Poindexter, to suspend the order;
and, after a few words from Mr. Webster, indi
cating that the Senate would support the Chair
in the course he might pursue, the Vice Presi
dent rescinded the order.
Major Jack Downing, is, as usual, shrewd and
witty.__
Yesterday, as Mr. Benton says “ in the Ame
rican Senate,” wre received “ a perfect pyramid
of newspapers.” The mails disgorged plcnti
fully. _
Reference is made in another column to a sc
duction case tried in New York. We are asto
nished at the verdict, under the circumstances
The plaintiff, instead of recovering damages,
should have been sent out of court disgraced.
Tn tho hop rtlpcs hptruvpr nf fomnlo irirtno
would give no quarters; but never let American
juries encourage speculations rn vice!
Occasionally they manage things badly to the
North. TheL. L. D. business, which conferred
no real honor upon General Jackson, and cer
tainly none upon Harvard, has been revived by
the Trustees of the University, and an inquiry
into the case ordered. This is in wretched
taste, to say the least of it. Having committed
the blunder, those most concerned ought to let
the matter be forgotten. If they persevere, the
President ought to fling the Diploma into their
faces._
The New York Courier of last Wednesday
says:
“ One thing is certain—and even those pur
chased organs of power, the Standard and Jour
nal of Commerce, dare no longer gainsay it—
the pressure upon the money market is not only
greater than has been known in ten years past,
but it has been, and still is daily increasing in
severity.”
The New York American of Wednesday say
“ The memorial at the Exchange, praying
Congress to interpose for the relief of the pre
sent distress of the country, was signed yester
day by many hundreds (the Courier says 2700)
of our most respectable men of business in all
walks of life; and it will receive very many hun
dred more signatures, notwithstanding the effort
made by the Post and Standard to deter person*
from joining in it, by falsely representing it as a
party proceeding.”
We think, whatever pressure there is, corner
from the low price of flour.— Winchester Virg.
Clearly, clearly, a non sequiter. "We appeal
from the Virginian to the farmers of Frederick
to know if precisely the reverse of that proposi
tion is not true—that is, if the low price of flour
does not come from the pressure. It is as plain
as though it had been written with a sunbeam.
We must be excused for departing, in on*'
instance at least, from the course we have uni
formly pursued, in not copying what our co
temporaries are pleased to say of us and out
labors. We do so, in the present instance, to
show that party feelings do not in all cases, 3**
they never ought, meddle with men’s opinions
of each other, apart from politics. While we
are conscious of being indebted more to the ’
partiality of the Winchester Virginian than our
own merits for what it has said, its remark?
give us the cheering evidence, that those who A
think differently from us, on political matters, ■
do justice to our purposes and efforts. Under ■
these impressions, we copy the subjoined re r|
marks; unaffectedly disclaiming, on our part?
the propriety of at least some part of the com
pliment thus handsomely paid us:
[From the Winchester Virginian.]
The Alexandria Gazette.—There is no pa
per received at our office which we prize more
than the Alexandria Gazette. It is distinguish- f
ed for the industry of its proprietor in collating Jg
the latest news of the day, for sound sense, dis- Jg
creet remark, and occasionally pungent wit. m
its differences with its political opponents, itfl*
ver degrades itself by the ribaldry of persona*
abuse, and extends that indulgence to othm=
which every man ought to know he often rfj
quires to be extended to himself. Besides
this, it is the paper which wholly regulates tin
flour market throughout this whole district e
country, and is, therefore, particularly valua0*'
to farmers and millers. Barring its politic 1
sentiments (which we shall do our best to n
form and improve), we commend it to genet
circulation.
It is a very impudent thing in the Pennsy’ra
nian, whemspeaking of the Bank of the l niuj
States, to call this Gazette a Bank paper,
would be very well if people in general had a
little to do with Banks of all kinds as we ha'*, ■
and particularly with the Bank of the Unit*^
States—to which, at best, we are but coni aI1^
distant friends, having many objection* a*\‘
prejudices against it, which are only ,,1S ^
by seeing it the object of slander and per * ^
tion.