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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.__
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SING, SWEET HARP.
T From Irish Melodies, by 7'homas Moore, Esq.
*■ —Just published.]
Sing, sweet harp, oh! sing to me
Some song of ancient days,
Whose sounds in this sad memory
Long-buried dreams shall raise;—
Some lay-that tells of vanquished fame
Whose light once round us shone;
Of noble pride now turned to shame,
And hopes for ever gone,—
Sing, sad harp, thus sing to me,
Alike our doom is cast,
Both lost to all but memory,
We live but in the past.
How mournfully the midnight air
Among thy chords doth sigh.
As if it sought some echo there
Of voices long gone by:—
Of chieftains now forgot, who beam’d
The foremost then in fame;
Of bards, who once immortal deem’d,
Now sleep without a name.
In vain, sad harp, the midnight air
Among thy chords doth sigh;
In vain it seeks some echo there
Of voices long gone by.
Could’st thou but call those spirits round
Who once in bower and hall,
Sat listening to thy magic sound.
Now mute and mouldering all;
But no;—they would but wake to weep
Their children’s slavery;
Then leave them in their dreamless sleep;
The dead, at least, are free!
O hush! sad harp, that dreary tone,
That knell of freedom’s day,
Or listening to its death-like moan,
Let me, too, die away.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
The following correspondence, relative to the
bank dividends, between Mr. Biddle and the
Secretary of the Treasury, has been forwarded
to th6 President of the United States, and by
him furnished to the Editor of the “ Nashville
Republican” fur publication.
Philadelphia, July Sth, lSo-t.
g,R_I have had the honor of receiving your
letter of the 3d inst. requesting that the dividend
on the stock .*r the bank owned by the United
States should be placed to the credit of the
Treasury of the United States at the office of
this bank in Washington, which was this morn
ing submitted to the board of directors. At the
same time was presented a copy of your letter
to the cashier of that office, datcu the *-0 tlist,
containing the final refusal of the Trea ury to
allow the claim of the bank for damages in the
protested bill upon the French government.
Alter due consideration of the contents of
these communications, l am instructed by the
board of directors to inform you, that, from
the dividend payable the 17th of this month,
there will be deducted the amount due to the
bank for damages, costs, and interest upon the
bill of exchange drawn by the Secretary of the
Treasury on the French Government; and that
the remainder shall be placed to the credit of
the Treasurer, in the office at Washington, in
conformity to your request.
I am further instructed to say, that this com sc
is adopted by the board of directors, not mere
ly from a conviction of the obvious justice and
propriety of it, but because it furnishes the best,
if not the only, mode of obtaining a judicial de
cision of the case by the proper tribunals. To
procure that decision, the board will give eve
ry facility in their power; and if there is any
other mode of submitting the rights of the res
pective parties to the judicial tribunals, more
acceptable to you, any suggestion by you for
that purpose will not fail to receive the prompt
and respectful consideration of the board ol di
rectors. In the mean time, I have the honor to
bv, very respectfully, > UU^’B1DDLE Pres,,.
Hon. Levi Woodbury,
Secretary of the Treasury, W ashington.
Bank or the United States, /
July 8, 1831. $
Sir* l had this day the honor of informing you
♦hat the board or directors would deduct from
the dividend payable to the United States, on
the 17th of this month, the amount due to the
bank on account of damages on the bill of ex
change on the French Government.
1 am instructed to apprise you, at the same
time that in thus enforcing their rights in this
particular case, they desire not to be understood
as waiving any other claim upon the Govern
ment; and they more especially wish it under
stood that they do not waive their claim for
full compensation and indemnity for the viola
tion of the charter of the bank, by the removal
from it* custody of the public funds, for the use
of which the bank had paid a valuable consid
eration. That claim is reserved in full force, to
be asserted at such time, and in such manner,
as may hereafter be deemed expedient. 1 have
the honor to be, very ^'^LTpres’t
Hon. Levi Woodbury,
Secretary of the Treasury, Washington.
Treasury Department, )
July 14th, 1834. S
Sir—Your two communications under date
of the 8th instant have been received. The
course pursued by the bank over which you
preside in determining to withhold a portion of
the dividends due on the stock of the U. States,
has excited much surprise in this department,
and at the present time, is more to be regretted,
as Congress is not in session to provide for the
deficiency thus caused in the estimated revenue
from bank stock the present year.
The claim for damages on the bill of ex
change drawn upon France, to answer which it
is stated that payment of part of the dividend
is now refused, was disallowed by this depart
ment before the two last dividends were passed
to the credit of the Treasury, and some months ,
before the recent session of Congress commenc
ed Consequently it was presumed that the
claim if not abandoned, would be presented
and pursued before that body in the manner
usual with claims against the United States
when the latter has not instituted any action at
law against the claimant.
Besides these considerations it could not have
been anticipated as probable that all the divi
dends accruing would not be paid with promp
titude and fidelity when it was known, that the
case of a failure in a stockholder to discharge
his subscription to the capital of the hank was
the only case where the charter makes an ex-1
press provision, that he “shall lose the benefit
of the dividends, and,” in this instance, that the
United States, though a large stockholder, was
not pretended to have been guilty of any breach
of the provision. Notwithstanding this, it would
seem from vour communications that the United
States, tho’*intimately connected with the bank,
by having conferred the great privileges in its
charter, by still using it daily as a fiscal agent
for certain purposes, and by being entitled to a
supervision of its concerns through Congress,
has suddenly, without previous notice, and only
by an implied or constructive power, not in the
opinion of this department warranted or neces
sary, been deprived of the use of most ol its di
vidends, and for the purpose of satisfying a con
troverted cla'im, tho law and equity of which
were many months since denied by the.execu
tive, and have never been sanctioned by either
of the other branches of government established
by the Constitution.
* In this condition of the subject, since the bank
did not deem it proper to present to Congress,
the customary tribunal for settling such dispu
ted demands against the United States; or dur
ing the late session, to apprise either that body
or this office of the extraodinary course intend
ed to be pursued in thus siezing upon a large por
tion of the public dividends, while already in
possession of more than a million of dollars be
longing to the government, but hitherto uncalled
for by its creditors or the treasury; this depart
ment does not consider that it has yet enjoyed
a suitable opportunity, in relation to so unexpec
ted a measure, to know the views or procure a
desirable action of Congress; and, therefore,
does not feel justified in making, at this time,
any arrangement with the bank, or any 1 sug
gestion’ in respect to legal prosecutions; nor in
recognizing anv mode “ the justice or propri
ety” of the proceedings the bank has been pleas
ed to adopt.
But it will endeavor on the whole subject to
present an early report to Congress at its next
session, and to the President of the United States.
In the mean time, if the bank desires, before a
report is prepared, that the facts and reasons in
detail, on which its decisions, and especially
its claim for damages on the bill of exchange,
are founded, should be examined by this de
partment, the statement of them, whenever for
warded, will receive respectful consideration.
I have the honour to be yours.
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary or the Treasuiy.
N. Biddi.e, Esq.
President U. S. Bank. Philadelphia.
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A DRUNKARD.
We do not know when we have had our feel
ings more shocked than by the sudden appari
tion into our chamber, the other day, of a poor,
miserable wretch, in tatters, in a state of deplo
rable indigence and inebriety. His face was
bloated, of a purple red, and swollen out of all
natural proportions, like some poor felon that
had just been cut down from the gallows. His
eyes were glaring like balls of fire, and protrud
ing from their sockets, while his dishevelled hair,
knotted and filthy, hung in scattered ringlets
from his temples, or floated in confused disorder
“ like a meteor streaming to the wind.” His
garments were ragged and torn, and his nether
vestment, here and there, rent asunder by its
own rottenness, or the unnatural distensions
which his unwieldy, dropsical limbs had attain
ed under constant repletion. As he staggered
to a seat, he muttered forth some inarticulate
sentences, by which we recognized, with pain
and horror, under this hideous shape, more
frightful than Milton’s Death begotten by Sin,
one whom we had once known and seen in bet
ter days, and who, presuming upon the friend
ly intercourse which had then subsisted between
us, had thus unceremoniously obtruded himself
into the room. Many years had elapsed since
we had met him, but we could not repress a bit
ter tear at the remembrance of what the poor
fellow had once been, in his prosperous days—
when he was the pride and solace of his parents,
an honor to the honored profession to which he
belonged, and to the truly respectable and ex
tensive circle among whom he moved. Alas'
what changes have passed over him! What
dark clouds have obscured the bright horizon
and sunny skies that once smiled upon him! A
poor mother’s heart broken, and borne in grief
to her grave! Discarded by sisters, and broth
ers and friends, and relatives, a forlorn, unhap
py’wanderer over the earth, without shelter,
food, or even the tear of pity to weep over him,
who, by his own suicidal and desperate aban
donment to the most beastly of human vices,
had brought down this abject misery upon him
self, and made him a loathsome object of scorn
to his fellow-creatures. Had lie, in eariy life,
followed in the path of virtue, he might have
formed some eligible alliance, and passed quiet
ly down the stream of time, in the enjoyment of
the inappreciable blessings of domestic happi
ness and conjugal love. It was otherwise; and
no fair hand, nor eye of tearful affection, were
here to administer balm to a heart too seared,
and callous, and debased, to respond to the
sympathies of pride or of feeling. Yet was there
still a slight glimmering of that fire that once
animated his bosom, and which even cruel and
abject misery had not entirely extinguished.
He imploringly begged some small charity that
would appease his hunger, he said, but which
was doubtless to be bestowed on the same vile
passion which had destroyed him. Still he re
volted at the idea of becoming the tenant of a
poor house, however comfortable his residence
might be made. He shuddered more, perhaps,
at The prospect of being subjected to the surveil
lance of the discipline which would deprive him
of the means of gratifying his morbid appetite
for spirituous drink, and which now was the fa
tal poison that he constantly hankered after,
and that predominated over and obliterated
every honorable emotion or aspiring thought
that once burned within this ruined tenement of
a great and noble mind.—New York Star.
The Summit of Bliss—A marriage was cele
brated, a few weeks since, in a romantic spot
on the top of the'Blue Bulge, under the broad
arch of Heaven. The parties haying obtained
license in a county in which they did not reside,
deemed it necessary to be within the jurisdiction
of the clerk issuing the process; and, at the ap
pointd hour, here came the groom and his train
from one point, and the bride with her fair pos
se from another. After the nuptial tie was
drawn, the parties separated, in the manner and
direction in which they came—but only tempo
rarily, we presume. The scene was one of sin
gular interest; and we have no doubt the fond
pair, in their journey through the dark vales of
life, will never forget what was to them, at the
moment, emphatically the Summit of Bliss.
Charlestown Free Press.
VIEWS OF TRE SPANISH MINISTRY.
In a discussion which took place in the Span
ish Chamber of Peers, Aug- 2nd, on p.,
of the Address in reply to the Speech ol the
Queen, some interesting developements were
made of the views of the Ministry, which we
translate for the information of our readers.
They were elicited by a course of remarks from
the Duke de Rivas, who said there was not a
word in the Reply, directed to the accomplish
ment of the great work for which the Coites
were assembled, although the last paragraph
but one of the Speech prepared the way for the
Chambers to go forward and complete it. 1 he (
subsequent observations of the Duke may e
inferred from the reply of the I rime Minister,
Martinez de la Rosa, who after admitting it*
principle of the responsibility of Ministers, an
that consequently they were answerable Tor the
Speech of the Crown, proceeded as follows: j
An illustrious Peer commenced by lamenting
the want of a Declaration of Rights, reminding
us that such a Declaration had been made in a
neighboring nation.—a Declaration, however,
so vague and indefinite in its language, as o
be nearly useless in practice,—a Declara.ion
which was in reality only a remnant pf the phi
losophic pedantry of the age of Louis A \ lit
an unseasonable imitation of "hat had been
done in a distant country, as if what hud been
effected in an infant State, was applicable to
ancient monarchies, not to say old monarc hies,
whose customs, institutions and habits, ha\e
been formed for ages. .
The penal code which the Ministry proposes
to submit to the Cortes at the present session,
will secure many of the desired guaranties
which, if separated from their connexion and
dependence, would appear misplaced. Even
before presenting these codes, the Ministry ha\ e
thought proper to lay down two principles.—
First,—that as the long chain of responsibility
begins with the Ministers, and extends to all the
responsible agents of the Government, the
rights of the subjects can never be trampled on,
without their being able to demand reparation
and redress. Second,—that the most efficient
step towards securing the independence of the
judicial power and all the guaranties which Je
suit from it, is the separation of the administra
tive authority from the civil: and to this point
the greater attention should he directed, inas
much as one of the principal causes of the evils
suffered by this nation, has sprung from the op
posite system,—the lamentable source of so
much confusion and disorder. .'
Allusion has been made to the C ivic Militia;
that Militia which was formed by the present
Ministry, without entertaining the vain pre
sumption that perfection had been reached in a
matter so inherently difficult: inherently diffi
cult, 1 repeat; for it may be said that with this
establishment is attempted the solution of the
grand problem of the present a go,—the union of
order icith liberty.
It lias also been intimated that a law is neces
sary in favor of the press. If this subject should
come under discussion, the Ministry will not re
fuse to take a part in it. They will say to what
point they think the freedom of the press can
be extended, and beyond what point it cannot
be extended without inconvenience and dan
ger. Not because Ministers fear a free discus
sion or censure of their acts: they have them
selves opened the door of political controver
sies, and allow judicious censure, and even bit
ter criticism upon their acts.
It has also been intimated that allusion ought
to have been made to the American question.
This matter the Government did not lose sight
of. They will say more: it was a subject of de
liberation in the council of Ministers, whether
it was expedient, or not, to touch this point in
the Speech from the Throne: but on balancing
the arguments for and against, it was consider
ed most for the public good to observe a pru
dent silence. The reserve required by this
most important subject, did not permit them to
express their opinion in an authentic, formal
manner.
As it respects the reconciliation of the par
ties, and the union of all Spaniards in one fa
mily, so to speak,—no one desires it more than
the Ministers, both as a matter of duty, and on
account of the advantages and glory of the
achievement.' But it is not in the power of man,
gentlemen, to off ice in one day the melancholy
vestiges of so many ages of calamity, or to re
pair the misfortunes caused to a nation by so
many reactions and political convulsion®. As
for the rest, the Ministers have only to follow in
the path marked out by the august Queen Re
gent; by that Queen from whose lips have pro
ceeded only the consoling words of reconcilia
tion and oblivion. Let men allude to past evils;
let them condemn an age which has left behind
it grievous recollections; the Ministers may well
listen; for they rank themselves not among the
accomplices, but the victims. But not on that
account have they desisted, or will they desist,
from the noble end which they have proposed to
themselves; although they know all the difficul
ties of the great undertaking,—the vestiges of
the past, the obstacles of the present, and the j
contingencies of the future.—AT. V. Jour. Com.
Heavy Calamity.—We arc distressed to hear
of the serious calamity which has befallen our
worthy fellow-citizen Joseph McMurran. Esq.
On Friday last, about mid-day, his fine large
barn, near Shepherdstown, containing as we
understand, about 1500 bushels of wheat, and a
quantity of rye, oats, &c. was totally' con
sumed by fire. The cause of the calamity can
not be ascertained, though it is conjectured that
it was occasioned by the wadding of a gun fir
ed near the barn. This practice of firing guns
near barn-yards, in dry weather, is highly re
prehensible, and should he made an offence
against the laws. Mr. McMurran’s loss, wc learn
will not be short of §2000.
Charlestown, Va. Free Press.
Stock Cattle.—Numerous droves of stock and
fat cattle are daily passing our streets. The
price of Beef being good in the Eastern cities,
we may expect such sights for some time to
come.—Ibid.
Pigeons.—Wild pigeons are now very numer
ous in this neighborhood, and fall in phalanxes,
daily, before the ready shot and unering aim
of our marksmen. Food elsewhere is doubtless
scarce, and the instinct of the pigeons leads
them to the “land of plenty.” Even the Bears
of the forest seem to know something of the
character of Jefferson lands.—Ibid.
NEW FALL SILKS.
WILLIAM H. MOUNT & CO. have just
received 20 pieces Plain and Figured Co
lored Silks, of a very rich and handsome style;
which will be sold very low'.sept 18
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED away on the 6th inst. a large dark
red and white COW, with a bell and the
subscriber’s name on the collar. Said cow came
from Loudoun about two months since. I will
pay the above reward on the delivery’ of the cow
to me, in Alexandria.
sept J7 STEPHEN SHINN.
A Ilthrew Beauty.—We copy the following from
one ofMr.Willis’ letters to the New York Mirror.
“Therich Turkish coffee was brought in by
an old woman, who left her slippers below as
she stepped upon the mat, and our host followed
with chibouques and a renewed welcome. A
bright pair of eyes had been peeping for some
time from one of the chambers, and w ith Hajji’s
permission 1 called out a graceful creature of
fourteen, with a shape like a Grecian Cupidon,
and a timid sweetness of expression that might
have descended to her from the gentle Ruth of
scripture. There are lovely beings all over the
world. It were a desert else. 13ut I did not
think to find such a diamond in a Hebrew’s bo
som. I had forgotten to mention her hair which
was very remarkable. 1 thought at first it was •
dyed with henna. It covered her back and 1
shoulders in the greatest profusion, braided near i
the head, and floated below in glossy and silken |
curls of a richness you would deem nature had
you seen it in a painting. The color was of the
deep burnt brown of a berry, almost black in
the shade, buLcatching the light at every mo- j
tion like threads of gold. In my life I have seen
nothing so beautiful. It was the “ hair lustrous
and smiling” of quaint old Burton. There was
something in it that you could scarce avoid as
sociating With the character of the wearer—as
if it stole its softness from some inborn gentle- j
ness in her heart. I shall never thread my fin
gers through such locks again!”
Arrest.—A young gentleman of this city, a
partner in one of our most respectable Dry
Goods houses, was arrested yesterday, having
been indicted for being concerned in the late
burning of the Convent at Charlestown. Con
siderable excitement was felt on the subject last
evening, as he has a large circle of friends who
do believe him perfectly innocent of any parti
cipation in that nefarious transaction. We
hear that he went, voluntarily, before the Bos
ton Committee of Investigation, some weeks
ago, on hearing that some suspicions had been
excited against him, and satisfied that body
that he was innocent. Since that time he has
been to New York on business, and returned on
ly a few days ago. The evidence which has
led to his indictment we have not heard, but it
was not furnished by the Committee.
Boston Cour.
12i CENTS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, On Wednes
day morning, 10th September, DAVID
KIRBY, an indented apprentice to the Loaf
Bread Baking. He is between 15 and 16 years of
age, dark brown hair and eyes. He had on
when he left me coarse linen pantaloons, and
dark summer roundabout. He took a basket of
Loaf Bread to the amount of SI 50. 1 forewarn
all persons from harboring the said boy, as I am
determined to prosecute all such offenders to
the extent of the law.
sept 22—3tJOHN CHURCHMAN.
No. 47 53 74, w hole ticket, prize of $200,
Va. Dismal Swamp, Class IS, sold at lUOR
DAN’S office on Saturday.
DBA II S' TINS DA Y
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 19 for 1834,
To be drawn at Wilmington, Monday, Sept 22
HIGHEST PRIZE $6,000.
Tickets $2 00; halves 1 00; quarters 0 50
Maryland State Lottery, Class No. 19 for 1831,
To be drawn in Baltimore on Tuesday, Sept 23
HIGHEST PRIZE $12,000.
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
On sale in great variety by
JAS. KIOIIDAV.
Uncurrent Notes and Foreign Gold pur
chased.
Drawing Va. Dismal Swamp Lottery, No. IS:
15 21 47 51 60 6 61 20 53 34 28 74
UkaWs Tins DA >
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery
Class No. 19 for 1831,
Will be drawn in Wilmington,(Del.)on Monday,
September 22
HIGHEST PRIZE $6,000'
Tickets $2; halves 1 00; quarters 0 50
Maryland State Lottery, Class 19 for 1834,
To he drawn in Baltimore on Tuesday, Sept 23
CAPITAL PRIZE 12,000 DOLLARS!!
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. W. VIO LETT,
Lottery and Exchange Broker,
Near the corner of Kims and Fayette Streets,
Alexandria, D. C.
Drawing Va. Dismal Swamp Lottery, No. IS:
15 21 47 54 60 6 bl 20 53 34 28 74
DRA »'*’ THIS DA Y
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 19 for 1834. .
To be drawn at Wilmington, Monday, Sept 22
HIGHEST PRIZE $6,000.
Tickets $2 00; halves 1 00; quarters 0 50
Maryland State Lottery, Class 19 for 183-4,
To be drawn in Baltimore on Tuesday, Sept 23
CAPITAL PRIZE $12,000.
Tickets 85 00; halves 2 50; quarters 2 25
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. CORSE*
Lottery Exchange llroker. Alexandria.
Drawing Va. Dismal Swamp Lottery, No. 18: j
15 21 47 54 60 6 61 20_ 53 34 28 *4
DRA WS THIS DA)
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 19 Jor lS3t,
To be drawn at Wilmington, Del. on Monday,
September 22
HIGHEST PRIZE $6,000!
Tickets S2 00; halves 1 00; quurtersOyO
Maryland State Lottery, Class 19 for 1834,
To be drawn at Baltimore on Tuesday, Sept 23
HIGHEST PRIZE 12,000 DOLLARS.
£Cr* The 1st drawn number will be entitled to
810; 2d to $S; 3d to 87, &c. &c.
Tickets 85 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
For sale, as usual, in great variety, by
JOS. nr. CLARKE,
(Sign of the Flag of Scarlet and Gold,) King st.
Alexandria, D. C.
Drawing Va. Dismal Swamp Lottery, Class 18:
15 21 47 54 60 6 01 20 53 34 28 74
THOMAS T. FAUNTLEROY, |
ATTORNEY AT LAW, „ ,
WILL practice in the Courts of the District .
of Columbia, and in the Superior and In
ferior Courts of the neighboring Counties in Vir- <
ginia. He will be in Alexandria by the 20th <
instant, and may always be found in the office .
formerly occupied by T. W. Hewitt, Esq. after
the first day of October next,
sept 18—dlw&wtf _(
IOB PRINTING neatly executed at this office f
ALEXANDRIA^
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 22, 1834.
Mai*e.—The Portland Argus of Monday giVej
returns from 296 towns, as follows: Spragu^
32,457; Dunlap, 36,380; Scattering, 748. About
30 towns remain to be heard from.
The Senate will comprise 10 Whigs and 15
Jackson-men. Whig gain, 7.
In the House, of 141 members heard from
the Portland Argus (Jackson) claims Si, leay.
ing 60 for the Whigs. The Portland Advertiser
(Whig) out of 148 representatives heard from
claims 70 as Whigs, and puts down 76 as Jaclc
son-men, and 2 doubtful.
The accounts from Hancock and Washing
ton Congressional district, render it probable
that Jarvis, the Jackson candidate, is elected by
a very small majority!
The President.—The following is from the
Nashville Banner of the 10th inst.:
“The President of ths United States, as we
are informed left the Hermitage on yesterday
for Washington City, via Knoxville and VjrJ.
nia. We further learn that he was in the en
joyment of an excellent state of health.”
Trouble in Taunton.— The Taunton (Mas*.)
Centinel of Saturday contains the following
address to the citizens of that place, calling a
public meeting signed by twelve individuals:
To the public.—Whereas a most shameful
outrage was during last night committed upon
the property of some of our most respectable
and valuable citizens, and viewing this afrocl-'
ty as an indication of the same spirit that has
recently been developed in several of our citiei,
in the wanton destruction of property, and a
contempt of the laws of the land-, thereby tend
ing to introduce a state of anarchy and to pros
trate individual rights, and endanger persona!
safety—placing the community at the the mercy
of a mob; the undersigned most respectfully in
vite and recommend their fellow’citizens to as
semble at the Town House, to-morrow (Satur
day) afternoon at 4 o’clock to devise such mea
sures as may bethought expedient to arrest the
progress of this daring spirit, which threatens
the peace and safety of our tow n, and to bring
the perpetrators under the influence of the mu
jesty of the laics.
Ballooning at Frederick —There was some
thing very like a failure at Frederick, again, on
Friday last—being the day on which Dr. 3.
Johnson proposed to gratify the expectant pub
lic of that place with a near view of a Balloon
Ascension—as some amends for their former
disappointment. But when the hour came, it
appears that the Dr. had a competitor for the
honors and perils of the voyage, in the person
of Mr. Woodall, the owner of the Balloon. Af
ten some difficulty and much argument, (as we
learn from the Examiner,) the case was submit
ted to the judgment of the assembled multitude,
who decided in favor of Mr. Woodall.
“ At six o’clock, the inflation having beei
completed, that gentleman took his station in
the car and the moorings of the balloon be^f
cut, it rose majestically some ten or fifteenjeet
and then it fell. Mr. Woodall’s place w^ii
immediately supplied by Mr. Simpson, with
whom the Balloon rose perhaps an hundred feet
in the air and sailed off in a northwesterly di
rection, about a quarter of a mile, when, it
alighted in a corn field, w hence it was brought to
town and towed about the streets by meansof«
cord attached to the car. We learn that, when
Mr. Simpson alighted, he was almost in puru
nnturalibu*, having been obliged to airot
himself of nearly all his clothing to preventhii
weight from bringing the balloon to the ground
in the midst of the crowd. So ends ballooning
in Frederick.”
The Senate Committee on the Post Office«•
•cmblcd in Washington on the 19ih, for the pur
pose of proceeding, according to the order of
the Senate, in the further prosecution of the
examination into the abuses in the management
of the Post Office. Present, Mr. Grundy, (Chair
man,) Mr. Ewing, Mr. Knight, and Mr. South
ard. The remaining member of the Commit
tee (Mr. Robinson) is not known to have ar
rived. _
“To aid the Postmaster General to discharge
this debt, and at the same time to keep up »H
the existing mail accommodations, the minority
of the committee proposed to the Senale, i>
their report, to authorize a loan from the Trea
sury of 450,000 dollars, out of moneys hereto
fore paid into it by the Post Office Department,
to be repaid in three instalments, the last on the
3d March, 1837. This proposition of Mr. bn/n
dy found no favor, however, w-ith the majority
ot the Senate. The leading members of th*
opposition declared, in debate, their strong re
pugnance to act upon the suggestion.
be observed, that at this time they were assum
ing the loans made by the cities of Washington,
Georgetown, and Alexandria, for the construc
tion of their canal, not by a mere loan, butty
an actual payment out of the Treasury of y*
large sums of interest due to the brokers in Hol
land.”— Globe.
As far as the Corporation of Alexandria u
concerned, this is not so. The Government
has assumed no loan made by this town.—
Although, by the bye, we have just as much
right to a favor ol this kind as our metropolitan
neighbors: and we can scarcely believe’that
Congress will be guilty of the rank injustice0
acting continually on the plan of keeping u» m
this District, deprived of our natural mother,
and refusing us the aid that she extends to the
Metropolis.
The Globe of Saturday concluded the publi
cation of Mr. Benton’s speech against the B*o*
delivered in February 1831! It is believed to
have been read by a great many people! F'T*
solid columns of Benton’s tirades one day, >n
eight the next, are relished exceedingly- ^e
hope the Globe will now give us one of Mr
Benton’s speeches made in 1830! At the con
clusion we trust will be re-printed, revised an
corrected by the Author, the “ East Room k*
ter.”_
It is expected that the Bank mania will br* ^
>ut afresh, and rage fiercely with “ tkf.t,r”'
ror the next two weeks.