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THE GAZETTE:
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
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MAJOR DOWNING’S LETTER.
. To my old friend Mr. Dwight, of the New York
Daily Moertiser.
Senate Chamber, Washington, >
April 5th, 1834. $
I suppose you’ll be all pretty considerable
struck up when you come to see where I now
be, and so I’ll jest tell you in as short order as
possible, how it conffe about.
Ever since I wrote you that last letter about
the Rakoon Story the Gineral telled me, and
the Old Hen story I telled him, the folks about
the Gineral haint giv me no time to eat or sleep,
and I have had nigh upon the hull Government
to beat off; but so long as I had the Gineral on
' my side, I didn’t care nothin about it. But to
ther day the Gineral he began to shake in the
wind a leetle, and this was about the cause on’t.
He and me was sittin talkin over matters alone,
and firein red hot shot at the opposition folks,
and especially at Squire Biddle, when I telled
the Gineral, says I Gineral, it’s well enuf for us
to talk so among folks who come to see us; for
it is the natur of people to give one credit for
honesty at least, though he is wrong, if he ony
seems warm and determined, jest as you was
when you cut down that old man’s Bee^tree;
but says I my slate don’t tell me that the present
trouble all about the country iso win to the Bank
crampin folks. And with that l leached down
mw cl ato ll H A ^ showed the Gineral. Now SJVS
I, here we see that the Bank actually has been
lendin out more money since we took the de
posits away from it, than it had lent afore that
time. The Gineral he looked over the figers,
and sure enuf there it was: why says he, Major,
how is this? what on earth then, says he, are
* people grumblin at? All our folks tell me, says
the Ginera', that Biddle is crampin the people
all over creation, and here now you show, as
clear as daylight, that the Bank haint screwed
at all. And with that the Gineral he began to
count on his fingers, and though he can some
times figer out a pretty considerable tuff sum
that way, this puzzled him amazinly. So to
rights, says he, Major, what then is the cause
of all this trouble? Well, says I, Gineral, I sup
pose we shall know pritty soon. There is a
cog out somewhere, says 1; and as the Senate
is overhawlin the mill, perhaps they’ll find it,
and let us know. And the words warn’t more
than out of my mouth, when in come Kindle
and Blair lookin as though they had jest ben
snaked through a gimblet hole, and they telled
the • iineral that the Senate had jest past Clay’s
resolutions. It won’t do no good to tell what
followed, but the Gineral was hoppin mad, and
it w as more than an hour afore he got threw
slattin things about. And as it was about the
time when folks wTould be comin to visit the Gi
neral, I jest stept out to tell em they must call
agin, for the Gineral was hard at work in “ Ca
binet Kounsel.”
When I got back I found the Gineral with
pritty nigh all the steam blowed off, and them
other two critters writing somethin to come out
in the Globe next day. 1 telled the Gineral right
off—now, says I, Gineral, we better keep an
eye on what we say in print, for we have trou
ble enuf with what we say here to folks; but
says I, if we go to abusin the Senate and put it
in print too, the people may take a stand agin
us and puzzle us herearter most plagily. And
with that the Gineral got his steam up in a mi
nit; and he teld me if that was my notion I bet
ter pack up and quit, for the time had come now
for evry man to take his own side, and if I
thought the Senate had more wisdom than he
had I must clear out. Well says I Gineral,
hadn’t w'e hest call the hull Cabinet together on
this business. Cabinet! says the Gineral, what
more do I want? and with that he turned and
pinted to Kindle and Blair, and giv me a look
as black as thunder. Well says 1 that’s enuf;
and as I had kept my bundle ready for a move
for some days past, all I had to do was to stick
my slate in it, and poke my axe handle threw the
upper knot, and I slung the hull consarn over
my shoulder and wfas back agin in the Cabinet
afore you could say Jack Robinson.
Now'says I Gineral, I and you are going to
quit—but afore 1 go 1 should like to teTl you a
story_andthe best on’t is, it aint a long one,
says I. And l toll’d the Gineral that snake story
vou’ve beam me tell afore. How I was once
walkin in a field down there to Dowmngvilie.
and hearin a clatter, and seeing no one, but to
rights findin that it all come from a big black
snake more than half a rod long, the tail quar
ilin with the head about takin the lead: and say
in the head had led longenuf, and the tail ought
to try its turn a spell—and so the head give up
and let the tail have his way—and I follow’d on
to see how things would work that way—and so
after goin agin the scales a spe'l, and makin
things grit considerable, the tail tried to go
threw a tftone fence, and fcittin jam’d, riggl d
and twisted and screw’d and could’nt go on; and
the head of the snake wanted to know vvh.it was
the matter, and why it did’nt go threw, and that
he had gone threw the same fence twenty times
—the taii got a little rathy, and a little asham’d
and did’l like to tell.
When l got so tar in my story, the Gineral
who had been all the while sittin and lookin
right at me fire, turn’d round and gin me a p!a
gy inqumii look, and 1 stopp’d short off—well,
says he, what was the eend on’t? why, says I,
Gineral 1 hamt got time now to tell you, but
says 1, the next tnue w e meet I’ll finish the sto
ry, and with that i made the Gineral a rale cabi
* net bow, and 1 walked strait out of the white
house feehn pritty much, 1 suppose, like a good
many folks afore me who have had their say
there and then cleared out. 1 was a leetle
stump’d to know which way to steer—I had
some bread and cneese in my pack, but 1
wanted a place to go to for the night—and
there was so many Committee folks in ^\rash
in^ton every tavern was chuck full but jist
then 1 see the flag go up at the capitol and
thinks I I’ll go there and try my luck, and up I
went—but owin to my being stop d so often on
the way, by folks all svantin to know what had
happen’d, by the time 1 reach’d the capuol, all
Congress knew it, and all parties was in a takm
about it. 1 went first to the House of Repiesen
tatives, and I let em know there that ali 1 want
ed was jist to be allowed tostop there over night;
and then came sich knockin of noses. Mr. Ad
ams spoke for more than half an hour, in favor
of having a cot put up for me right off—Mr.
Cambreling from York City said it w’as alto
Sether a great party question, and must be hau
led carefully* and he wanted time to consider
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on’t. I ask’d Mr. Lawrence another New York
member if he couldn’t give me a lift—first he
thought he would, and he pick’d his teeth
on one side, and said he’d list see his friends
about it—when he got back, I found he was
pickin teeth on tother side, and said he was
afraid it might not do, seein he was now a can
didate for Mayor up there in New York and he
must go.with his party.
And so after nigh about all the speakers got
a chance, and some on ’em was jist beginnin to
speak a second time, Mr. Beardsley said “ if
Congress, and Credit and Banks, and Canals
all perish’d he’d vote agin it; and to cut the
matter short, he mov’d the previous question—
and Mr. Vafiderpool from Kinderhook (who I
thought w as the one, who wrote that Dutch Let
ter to me) he said it w'as all a “ hum-bug,” and
he seconded the motion. When they come to
count over the names, there was a tie, and the
speaker had to ontie the hull on’t; and so he got
up and made a considerable of a speech about
it, and wound upbv sayinthe Cheer had never
been call’d on to deside on a more important
pint, and that though the Cheer could give 9000
reasons right off, for the vote he was about to
give, yet he w?ould give but one, and that was,
that the Major could not have a bed there—lie
knew the Bank and Biddle had a hand in sendin
the Major there, and that wasenuf for him; and
so the Cheer decided that the Major must tote
his bundle out. Well, thinks I, that was a pret
ty ti‘rht vote, any how, and I went over to the
Senate Chamber. There they were all at it too:
as soon as I walk’d in Mr. Van Buren call’d
Mr. King of Alabama, to take his place, and 1
could ony git a glimps on him now and then,
dodgin about and no critter could tell whether
he was tickl’d or not. Mr. Grundy wanted to
have the hull matter refer’d to his Committee on
the Post-Office. Mr. Clayton said he would’nt
agree to that, for that Committee would never
report in creation, and when they did, perhaps
they’d find the Major’s name scratched out, and
some .one else w ritten in the place on’t.
Mr. Calhoun said he was glad the Major had
come there, the “Conservative principle” says
he, is now getting to be better understood—
States shou’d stick to it with reference to the Ge
neral Government—Counties to States—Town
ships to Counties—Families to Townships—and
Individuals to Families—so that ohilosonhically,
and metaphysically, and, above all, politically
speaking, the Major had as good a right to the
use of the Senate chamber, as the General Go
vernment, and here says he is the butt end of
my notions of nullification, and I hope the Ma
jor and every man will now fully understand me
—at one end of the avenue, says he, stands the
white house, and at the other end the Senate
chamber. “Consolidation” there—“Conserva
tive” here—and he wound up by saying that for
his part he was ready to contribute his chair
and desk for the Major to spread his bed on.—
Mr. Benton was just goin to begin, and I was
about swinging my pack on my shoulder, for
when he gits hold he hangs on like a tooth-ache,
and wou’d a talk’d all night—and so they call’d
question like all natur, and he took his seat.—
Mr. Webster he got up next, and was just agoin
to tackle on and take a pull upon Mr. Calhoun’s
Conservative notions—but he hadn’t gone far
when he took out his watch and sein it was get
tin late, he said he woukl not take up the con
stitutional part of the question—for if he did, and
seein that he must sift the hull principle of con
solidation and conservative notions, the Major
might lose his night’s lodgins, and so he moved
that the application, along with the Major, his
ax and bundle, be laid on the table for that
night, and if the table warn’t big enuf he’d push
his’n along side on’t; then come a leetle kind of
a tussel, and pritty nigh the hull on ’em had
something to say. When Mr. Clay, got a chance
—he is a master hand you know, in qniettin
matters when they git in a snarl—he said there
was no doubt a large majority of the Senate
was in favor of givin the Major a place to lay
his head, but the great difficulty was to decide
whether it would be an act grownin out o<‘ the
conservative principle, or the principle of con
solidation, so ably stated by the gentleman from
South Carolina; and as regarded the constitu
tionality of the measure, he was desirous to hear
the gentleman from Massachusetts at an early
hour the next day, and he had no doubt that
gentleman would ably expound it—and that he
for one was sure he should not differ with him—
but, says he, the Major wants a bed, and it’s
now almost bed time, and 1 therefore, says he,
offer tiie following resolution:
wnereas consonuauun miuwii iu ai
one end of Pennsylvany, avenue and the ‘‘con
servative principles” sometimes call’d and un
justly call’d nullification at the other en- ;
Therefore, Resolved, That until the Consti
tution shall be distinctly and clearly expound
ed. it is safest for the Major to take up his night’s
lodging just half way between these two ex
tremes.
The Resolution was then put and carried, 28
to 19. A Committee was then appointed to mea
sure the Avenue, and reported that Gadsby’s
Hotel was jist half way, but that was full.
The Senate then adjourned, and Mr. Clay
come round and tell’d me that as his Resolu
tion had got me in this difficulty, he couldn’t do
less than put up a bed for me in his own lodgins,
ri^ht in a line with Gadsby’s; and I might sleep
there in welcome, till Jheconstitutional pintswas
all settled, and so here 1 be now, sleep at Mr.
Clay’s house, and knock about through the day
as well as l can, and most of the time in the Se
nate Chamber, where 1 find upon the hull, I’ve
got a good thumpin majority, and afore Con
gress goes to home, 1 calculate the vole in tother
house will change too; a good many there I find
shakin in their shoes already, and as soon as
they see your elections and the Virginny elec
tions go as 1 hope they will, I calculate on gittin
a two third vote on ev’ry pint agin the folks
who have got the Gineral in keepin now. -
Yours, &c. J. DOWNING, Major.
Downingville Militia. 2<1 Brigade.
A gay Irishman, a short time since, arrived
at the Hotel de Suede, in the Rue de Richelieu.
Paris, and having a quantity of dirty linen, sent
for a washerwoman, and told her to pick it up
from the floor. Shortly afterwards the washer
woman returned, and to the traveller’s great
surprise put into his hand a number of bank
notes, which had been negligently left among
the linen. The Irishman was very grateful, and
strongly urged the young woman to accept a
reward for her honesty; but she resolutely re
f «sed to do so, and seemed quite humiliated at
the offer. Some days afterwards a marriage was
celebrated at the church of St. Thomas d’Aquin,
which attracted a vast number of persons. It
was easy to perceive, from the dress and man
ner of the bridegroom, that he was a foreigner,
and from the timid and embarrassed deport
ment of the bride, that she did not belong to the
same class as her intended, and that it was de
cidedly a marriage of inclination. The above
anecdote got into circulation among the crowd
—in a word, the bride was none other than the
young washerwoman, whom the Irishman had
thought worthy of sharing his fortune and des
tiny.— London paper.
The notice of the stoppage oi payment
by the Bank of Washington, another of the in
evitable consequences of “ the experiment”
which is carrying disaster and devastation over
the whole face of the country, was as unexpect
ed to us as it will be to our readers. In the per
fect integrity of the administration of that Insti
tution entire confidence is reposed; and the
step which it has taken is doubtless the result of
irresistible necessity.—Nat. lnt.
The Bank of Washington announces to
the public its inability to continue, for the pre
sent specie payments. In adopting this neces
sitous and unpleasant course, the Directors con
fidently assert,.that the affairs of the Institution
are safe, and capable to meet all its engage
ments. Under the general distrust which pre
vails, the Bank is reluctantly compelled to de
clare its inability longer to discharge its en
gagements, for the present, in gold and silver.
It will proceed to collect its means as fast as the
times will authorize, and fairly and fully pay all
its creditors; and in this, entire confidence may
be reposed.
By the unanimous order of the Board:
R. C. WEIGHT MAN, Cashier.
April 11. 1834.
Caution to Mothers and Nurses.—We learn
that the child of a lady residing in Gosport,
(about 18 months old,) was seized with a vio
lent fit of crying on Tuesday morning last, and
continued in the greatest agony for several
hours, giving great pain to its mother, who in
vain endeavored to ascertain the source of its
misery. It was finally discovered that the little
sufferer frequently placed its hand on its left
side, near the region of the heart. A physician
was sent tor, and upon examination, ascertain
ed that a large darning needle which had been
left in its mother’s work, inadvertently thrown
into the cradle, had perforated the side of the
j child, and penetrated within an inch of its heart.
I The needle being extracted, the suffering abat
ed, and the child is doing well .’-Norfolk Bea.
Cape Breton.—Appalling accounts are con
tained in the Nova Scotian of the 18th ult., of the
famine and distress prevailing in some parts of
Cape Breton. It is said that in one settlement
about 40 families, consisting of 170 persons of
whom 13 are children, are for the most part re
duced to one meal per day, and this consisting
wholly of potatoes of miserable quality; and that
the effect of such bad description of food, and of
solely existing on it, has been severe and trouble
some diarrhsea. It is stated that after partaking
of their scanty and wretched meal, the parents
have to contrive to put their children to sleep,
in hopes thereby to diminish or postpone their
craving for more food—which they have not to
give them—and to render their infants’ cries
from hunger less frequent.
Such is the phrenzy of party at this moment,
that it is almost impossible to get at the truth
concerning the elections in the interior. Take,for
example, Monroe Co. (Y. N.) in which Roches
ter is situated. The Rochester Democrat makes
out a clear Anti-Jackson gain since last Novem
ber, of 1318. The Rochester Daily Advertiser,
on the contrary, makes a clear Anti-Jackson loss
since 1832, of 988. Difference in the two state
j ments, 2206!! One, however, compares with the
! election last fall, and the other with that of 1832.
i We have before us the Albany Argus and the
Albany Evening Journal of Tuesday—the form
er a Jackson organ, and the latter a strenuous
Anti-Jackson paper. Both are filled with ‘glo
rious victories” obtained by their respective par
ties.
A Novel Idea.—The N. Y. Commercial says,
j Messrs. Clark, Coit & Cargill, of that city have
; lately manufactured a large silver tureen of the
j best Sheffield plate, in the exact form of a Green
i Turtle, even to the minutest lines and outlines.
| It would be a glorious present for a Mayor or
even an Alderman.
Bank of Maryland.—The Staunton, Va. Spec
tator says—“ ft is calculated that there were
from six to eight thousand dollars of the Bank
of Maryland paper, in this county, at the time of
its failure. In Pendleton and Rockingham we
learn there were also large quantities. From
I representations we have had, the losses must be
v**rv heavy in the 1 rnamed county.”
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DR A l VS THIS DA Y
Virginia State Lottery,
For the benefit of the Petersburg Benevolent Me
chanic Association,
Class No. 7 for 1834.
Will be drawn atCatts’ Tavern, West End, on
Saturday, April 12
HIGHEST PRIZE $12,000!
Tickets $4 00; halves 2 00; quarters 1 00
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. CORSE.
Lottery <$• Exchange Broker, Alexandria.
DR A WS THIS DA Y
Virginia State Lottery,
For the benefit of the Petersburg Benevolent As'n,
Class No. 7 for 1834,
To be drawn at Alexandria, Va. on Saturday,
April 12
HIGHEST PRIZE 10,000 DOLLARS.
Tickets $4 00; halves 2 00; quarters 1 00
On sale in great variety by
•IAS* RIORDAN.
Uncurrent Notes and Foreign Gold pur
chased^_
DRAWS THIS DAY
Virginia State Lottery,
For the benefit of the Petersburg Benevolent As’??,
Class No. 7 for 1834,
To be drawn at Catts’ Tavern, West End, on
Saturday, April 12
•HIGHEST PRIZE $12,000.
Tickets $4 00; halves 2 00; quarters 1 00
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. W. VIOLETT,
Lottery and Exchange Broker,
Near the corner of King and Fayette Streets,
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
From the wagon of the subscri
^fe^SV^ber, at tjie pjgh wharf, on Monday
n*?bt, a BAY HORSE, in good con
dition; left hind foot white, and his
left fore foot with a split in the hoof inside, with
a switchy tail. Also, a GREY MARE, sprin- j
kled much with black hair; has two saddle
marks on her shoulders.
I will give ten dollars reward for the recovery j
of the Horse and Mare, and all reasonable
charges. DANIEL MIDDELKAUFF,
apr 9—eo3t*Of Hagerstown, Md.
~ STORE TO RENT.
MTlie lease of Mr. Aaron D. Harmon of the
STORE occupied by Mr. Wilbar will expire
the 26th April next, from which day it mey be i
rented, with immediate possession,
feb 15 SAM’L. B. LARMOUR & CO 1
ALEXANDRIA:
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1834v
. VERY LATE FROM EUROPE.
We have advices from London and Liverpool
by the packet ship Europe, Captain Maxwell,
at New York, to the loth of March, inclusive.
Captain M. sailed on Sunday, the 16th. The
Europe had only fifteen days run from Liver
pool to our coast.
ENGLAND.
Leave was given on the 12th of March to Sir
A. Agnew, for the introduction of three bills—
one “ to promote the observance of the Lord’s
day”_another “ to explain and amend certain
acts relative to the observance of the Sabbath
day in Scotland”—and a third “to enable local
authorities to change Saturday and Monday
fairs and markets to other days.”
On the 13th of March. Mr. Ripton moved for
leave to bring in a bill “ for relieving the Arch
bishops and Bishops of the Established Church
from their legislative and judicial duties in the
House of Peers.” After discussion, the motion
wa3 negatived—124 to 58.
The North American Postage Bill (for the ex
emption of United States newspapers from in
terior postage) passed through Committee on
the 14th ultimo, was reported, and ordered for
a third reading.
Mr. Buckingham gave notice, that on the 26th
of May, he would move for leave to bring in a
bill for the prevention of duelling; and also for
the appointment of a select committee to in
quire respecting the vice of drunkenness.
Lord Althorp stated that he intended to pro
pose that the House should adjourn for the re
cess from Wednesday, the 26th of March, to
Monday, the 14th of April.
Liverpool, March 15.—The splendid new
American ship Kensington, which was stranded
on the Welsh coast, during the late gales, while
on her first voyage from New York to Liver
I pool, has been raised by Messrs. Seldon and
i Leadley, and towed into Carnarvon Bay. She
will shortly be brought round to Liverpool.
London, Saturday, March 15—Consols, which
left off at 81 5-8 34 this day scn’night, opened
on Monday at 91 1-2, since which time they
v ___T_ ! _1_- it_- r\ i *1 O C O 1a irnr
Have ihh uctrii man j-o uui
than 91, closing last night at 91 3-8 1-2.
Money has not been here so plentiful: and the
! Bank of England has been making the West
| minister Bank feel its power and influence, in
making large offers of money on loan, in sums
of not less, than £2.000 on India Stock, and
Exchequer Bills, at 3 per cent. 5 per cent in
terest is now required for money in the city; and
very lately it might have been obtained at 3 per
cent, with ease.
FRANCE.
The disturbances at Lyons have been tempo
rarily suppressed, but nothing appears to have
been done by the government to secure perma
nent tranquility and content. Wages are al
the same low rate as ever, bread as difficult to
purchase. So long as this exists, order cannot
reign in Lyons. M. Cabet has stated, in a few
| burning works, the injustice and cruelty of the
' government in this matter. He says, after de
tailing the revolt of the workmen:—“And
; wherefore? Because they are worn out with
! labor and suffering, and their masters wanted
to reduce their wages, already insufficient to
maintain them and their families, because they
ask for bread. ‘We cannot exist,’they cried.
‘Well, then, die of hunger,’.responded the voice
of unpitying power. ‘ We would rather die by
our swords,’ they cried again. ‘ Then die by
our swords you shall,’was the answer they re
ceived!”
PORTUGAL.
A report was current in Paris that Don Pedro
had been discomfited in a rencounter; but its
authenticity was doubted.”
SPAIN.
Intelligence had reached Paris from Madrid
by express to the 7th of March. At that time
the city was said to be tranquil, although appre
hensions were entertained of a serious convul
sion. A popular commotion had occurred at
Madrid on the 2d ult.
The northern provinces continue in a state of
insubordination, and liable to all the miseries of
civil war.
The report oi tne conclusion oi me treaty
with the United States is confirmed.
HOLLAND.
Polari, alias Carrera, was found guilty on the
10th of March, of the robbery of the jewels of
the Princess of Orange, and condemned to
stand on a scaffold at the Hague for half an hour,
to be confined for twelve years in a house of
correction, and to the payment of the costs,
with orders for an extract of the sentence to be
posted up at the Hague and at Brussels, and
that the articles, as many of them as are in the
hands of justice, shall be restored to the owner.
The culprit has confessed his guilt, and relat
ed all the circumstances that preceded, accom
panied and followed the robbery of the dia
monds. He persisted in the declaration that
he had no communication with any person in
New York.
TURKEY.
A report prevailed at Constantinople on the
11th of February, that England had perempto
rily required the Sultan to renounce the en
gagements into which he had entered with Rus
sia. This requisition is said to have visibly em
barrassed the Porte, and its correctness is con
fidentially spoken of.
Vienna, Feb. 28.—An English courier from
Constantinople has hurried through this city on
his way to London. His arrival created a sen
sation on our Exchange, much importance hav
ing been attached to his despatches. Experienc
ed speculators say however, that nothing is to
be feared from the East, and that it would be
wrong to be alarmed at the steps taken by Eng
land and France against the Russian treaty.
Allegmeine Zeitung, March 7.
DISTRICT AFFAIRS.
In the Senate on Thursday, Mr. Clayton,
1 from the Committee to which had been referred
the memorial of Tench Ringgold, late Marshal
of the District of Columbia, reported a bill for
his relief; which was read, and ordered to a se
cond reading.
In the House of Representatives, on motion of
Mr. Mercer, it was
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judici
ary be instructed to inquire into the expediency
of prohibiting, by law, the sale of lottery tickets
in the District of Columbia.
On motion of Mr. R. M. Johnson.
Resolved, That the Committee on the District
of Columbia be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of abolishing imprisonment for
debt within this District, and particularly as res
pects small sums under fifty dollars, and as it
respects females.
| Mr. Speaker, laid before the House a »
! rial of Robert Glenn, of Alexandria
! District of Columbia; also a memorial of Th ^
i as W. Lyles, a constable of Alexandria. in*°t?'
: District of Columbia, preferring charges of , ?
practice in office against Newton Keene a
tice of the Peace for the county of Alexana^
in said District. u ! >
! Mr. Stoddert, presented a memorial of t
Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria in n
District of Columbia, praying that the cha- I
of said Company may be renewed.
EXECUTIVE POWER.
Mr. Warren R. Davis, of S. C., offered. m
House of Representatives on Thursday la5t ! *
following resolutions—
Resolved, That the powers of the Exer.
department of the Federal Government j *'e
increased beyond the authority of the Consftiu
| Resolved, That the powersofthe Exectit v
department of the Federal Government ) ,
increased, are increasing, and ought to’ iJT
minished.
| Resolved, That the patronage of the p]v
! dent of the United States, has increased i/v
creasing,-and ought to be diminished. * 1
We should be. glad to see a direct vote un
, these resolutions. We should then have in tj
j true colors, the advocates of Power.
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REDUCTION OF SALARIES.
Mr. Vance’s proposition for a general reduo
tion of salaries was defeated, in the House o
Representatives on Thursday, by “theparty’
They objected to its being atfached to an
j propriation bill, and under that plea excused
! themselves for voting against Retrenchment
: and Reform. Mr. Watmough well answered
i that “ an appropriation bill was the most pro
| per opportunity for the people to make a
stand in favor of the liberties which they had
left.” The friends of Reform will, however
continue their efforts for a change in thepowei
and patronage of the Government. The
i on Mr. Vance’s proposition were taken in Com
mittee of the Whole, when the Ayes and .\oe
could not be taken. Mr. Crockett very propel
ly rebuked those gentlemen who once went foi
Retrenchment, but now go for Extravagance
He said:
| A hue and cry was set up every where again
! the extravagance of the Government. He had
gone with the rest; for he really believed they
should get rid of some very bad people that
were destroying the country. He had voted to
relieve the country. But he had not expected
that they were going to behave like a parcel of
little children on the bank of a branch; fishing
I for minnows with a pin hook. Ho had expect
ed Retrenchment wholesale. He had never
| thought in a few years to see the expenses dou
; bled. But he had lived now in the civilized part
• of the country long enough to find that when
he was only a backwoodsman he knew little
about matters. In short, what he had seen in
this civilized part of the country had pretty
much satisfied him that the whole of it was like
the cry of the fellow who undertook to shave a
hog—“ great cry and little wool!”
King George.—Mr. Hooe, we learn, was re
elected on Thursday last to the House of Dele
gates. Mr. H., we believe, is against the admi
nistration. We should expect nothing else from
King George.— Winchester Virg.
Mr. Hooe will thus see how his old fiiend»
and allies
“Whistle him down the wind”!
Well! Well! We, too, could expect nothing
else from King George but patriotism and re
sistance to tyranny—and we have not been dis
appointed.
The Richmond Enquirer condescends to ac
knowledge “that it is certain, from the Debate
which took place in the Senate on the 29th uit.,
that there is immense power and patronage af
tached to the Post Office Department; and that
sufficient guards are not thrown around it. to
secure its responsibility.” Very well. We are
thankful for smith favors. We hope the En
quirer will not back out hereafter.
Messrs. Prime, Ward, King & Co. and Messrs.
Goodhue & Co., highly respectable merchant'
in New York, receive the especial abuse of the
Globe! for daring to say that Gen. Jackson ha
done wrong. The merchants generally, ac
cording to the Globe, are a refractory set! <<
Jackson will put them down!
We have published all of Mr. McDuffie
speech that has been reported. It shall be con
tinued and concluded as soon as the remain
is received.
It will be seen by to-day’s Gazette that the
“ Experiment” is working most admirfibh
this District.
The election goes on in New York "kb U1‘
common excitement. In one of the \\aids, on
Tuesday, disgraceful riots occurred. ^oin
persons were dangerously wounded—one i*
likely not to recover, A man was stabbe * ai.
another had his arm broken, &c. &c.
The Union party of South Carolina v1^ ‘
a Committee to Washington, to demand »°
the President and Congress, ** a hepunca
form of government” for that State. b'
tional Gazette thinks this would be, indee , -
seasonable demand in favor of the ^b>nt 1
Mr. Hiesler, of Pa., who was absent from h*|
House of Representatives when the final \o *
was taken on the resolutions of the Com
of Ways and Means, was induced to c
Washington on the strength of assurances gj ^
him that the question would not he pie
two or three weeks. He says: —
“ I consulted a number of gentlemen of ^
House, and, amongst those, several pi
friends of the Administration, as to tn I -
bility of the vote being taken the^uccceg” t
week after my leaving here on the all-a .
subject then under the full tide of disc■ «-a n
The general opinion was, as far as I c0