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y'nitrWgTwlfxg, tmmMtnmmssSs^ ••,«\(•: '^wmm 1 'W- •:^lk- e^tr nod riot. a s Mt>tWatancis^i:ai'te^.»bt«» liw bcenoinU- •tertbythecoinmlttpcf.?'* - ' £ •' , :.\. ttdt ihfdim tin wlint state« and territory they took.n'orwhethertheylncltfOeil.thondvv routeswliicijvwjmt into operation iu ieS3; nor do'they fmnlalv us with' any detail of thoroutes, with the lengthof each, as the depart- ineiit has done. We have boeii.furnished by the depart- mentwltli a. detail of ull the routes, and the length of each, which ccrtairtly ia tha most sntisfnctorf statement which ' cani>e*iveu; but the Messrs. Bt^dleys state, fliattnT.slatcs ahdonewrrltory^they have found an error^jhguyivajieife, dinj.ln.hfiVjS.fiJtBmlncd the«wlialfi«f tl\«1eV'cra1 routes iu flelsil instated on the route books, nod wittiottt pojntinjji -JOttt-wftere the error lice. --;•' .'\; Every route in those suitesj'b.nd that territory, wbJohV m»5 have heen snb«eq<iently established, 01 winch-la., not HjcluaeA.lij the adveulsemvnt which they examined, tuust- . MyoticW included Crom their calculation; and-thair ad- measurement from the map, must have been exceedingly Ijnptrfecti while the data on w hich t be report of the Posv- inciter General is founded, is clear and unexceptionable. J jhcy^nexf proceed to show thai the ^crease in the OsWr'tation of the mail huanot beoirsojgreat as report- «1 bv the Poeimoster General. They state that, bytlie las . report uf the lata Postmaster General, the annual trans- portation of the mull was shown to be 13,709,039 miles. On reference to the report of Uth JSnv. 1828, we find Mm to soy, that on the lint of July, IS23, the transportation of the mail was, In stages, 4,480,744 miles. . On horseback, 6,511,490 \ j Since that time, there has been added la stages, „f 1,949,850 \ 0H horstobart, \ 1,053,340 «* \V«'lnd, ky .the addition of these sums, that the and vot »: s «ttn(jf ^' i3 '—-•>-»•«;,*.'* among those \vlnchw*reexainihed:by the committee. It «bpeured that th^propoiial of .lames Jteesido to tr^nspom taatl wttn transported In)— 11338, i 13,010,039 miles. *utd not, a s they state, I3,70tf,039 This wfts tutai,by the Postmaster General as the basis on Which he-calculated the increase iirl829 '30 und '31. Tlio \document before referred to, (marked6,)gives a statement of the length of each route, with the manner and\ frequen- cy of transportation on each route. The sum total of these different routes, us they stood on the 1st of'July, 1832, is &3,632,!KSO miles,- the annual amount of transportation of the fnail at that lime. Tlio increase between that time and the first of July, 1S33, occasioned by putting the now - Routes into operation, and by many improvements on the old routes, is stulud to luive amounted to upwards of three millions, limiting the total annual amount of transporta- tion on tile first of July, 1833, equal In 26,864,485 miles.— To disprove the correctness of this statement, the Messrs- Bradleys report\ that they have examined the advertise- ments, and calculated from them the annual amount of transportation,and to tills added thenin'ountstatcd in the,re- lidit -of the extra allowances, made to the Senate orrflie |hird of March last, which they assume to be the total imiount of annual transpoitatieu. The incorrectness ofe their roetlitjd must be obvious to every person who will make but a slight examination of tlymubject. Besides tlio the mail on this 1$uie, wasuccepwdat isuoaolIar»i>years and that under h^c^tocthejMelv«*rffRet5Woft,%f. if pilars, a ymt, from the eoinineucqmfint of the services $18$*- 'W»^ ) , n «' a «.|Ja.«uaty'lvl832 l tilt\ IwaiBtfecerrirx-lf W 3 . when it was reduced to 1MH) dollars. On investigii' •Iton, it was'founa that liig -proposal Contained twb propo- sitions, the lirst to ciifry the mall daily, in four horse post coaches, ssaavenised, which was to leave Uultimme dal- jy.i JVJ Aj Mirhnd|arriveBt Chninbereburg, the same day by 9 P; M., 17 hours; leave Cimnibersburi; every tiny nt 2 A. M., fcnd arrive at Baltimore the same day by 8 P. M , 18 hou;s i and to perform the service for 1900 dollars per ami'-.un. The oilier proposition was, to leave Baltimore I'Ujly, after tile-arrival of the steamboat from Philadelphia, and arrive at Chanibersbiug tbesuuie day, in time to eon- nect with tho mails frotji Phllatlclphin to Pittsburg, for the annual compensation of 3,405 dollais. The steamboat at that time left Philad. in the afternoon, and arrived at Ball at an early hour the nest morfling; and the mall from Phil- adelphia for Pittsburg, passed through Oliambersbiirg about six o'clock in the altortioon. Tho last proposition required a considerable increase of expedition, arid would gain an entire day between Baltimore and Pittsburg, of .whii-h tills route is a part. The proposal of James Ree- side was the only one ottered for the route, anil was accept-\ cd on theflrst proposition at lOOOdollare. The acceptance was made in October, 1831, the contract ro take effect from the. first day of January following. On the 23d of Decem- ber, 1831, the Postmaster oppeors to have directed hlui to perforin the service stipulated In his proposition for 3,495 dollars j rind there is endorsed on the contract, in the hand writing of Thomas B. Addison, the clerk employed in pre- piu ing mid tiling contracts, \ alterationjpffde this 29fiidoy of Oecomber, 1831.*' Sonje of the nleniliws of the com- II.'.tie were induced to. suspect that this endorsement had been madeatnreecutdate; but on theexamination on oath of three clerks, $Ir. Addison, by whom the endorsement wfts made'; Mr. Dundns, who was the corresponding clerk of this ttkv-iHon j and Mr. Childs, who is the present cor- responding clerk of this division ; the fact was clearly es- tablished, that the endorsement is not of recent da'te, but was mado at the time qfjhe date which it bears. [7o bk cimcludtd.] ns? ©fiUKTA ©AZETTE. WEDNESDAY, 3mt*%f 1834, their roetlitjd must be obvious to every person who will make but a slight examination of tlymubject. Besides tin Inaccuracy of their distances, esjiecinlly such us lliey as- certain by measuring the mop, there arc and always have been, mail routes in operation, which are not in the adver- tisements. Some will be omitted iu the advertisements by •ccldejit.- But what will make a much greater diffeience Is, that the advertisements invite proposals for improve- ments, such as running more frecpiouUy, extending routes to greater leugths, and ot her services to increase the trans- portation of tho mail; ab-o, the greater portion of steam- boat routes arc not advertised. Tho improved bids ni--.' frequently uccepted, by metms'bf which, great alterations aro rimde*between the advoitii.eMjpiits and the contrnelp, which will not bo brought into view, either by examining the odvertiselncmyor-lhe report of extra allowances; be- cause they are not containf-d either iu the one or tho other. U tutcs ure sometimes odveitised to run but onco$s>wcek, end are contracted for to run three times a week. They BT« sometimes advertised to run three times a week, anil ftre contracted for to run daily. They are sometimes ad- vertised to run dally, and are contracted for to run twice -A day. Ho, we find the roulo from Now-York to Philadel- phia was advertised to run once a day-; bat the contract »»t made for it to run twice a day. The routo from Phil- »delphi« to Pittsburgh was ndvenisetl to run onco* tiny ; tint the contiact was made for it to run twice a day. Tlio route from Philadelphia to Pottsville was advertised to run once a day J but the coutruct was made for it to run twice t&'day. The route from Heading to llarrisburg was adver- tised to run once u day; but the contract was made fo« it to run twice a day- The contracts for these four routes , alone provide for the annual transportation of the mail 338,360 infles more than^what could bonnbrucrd in the estimate of the Messrs. Uradlejp. They are not >u the ad- vertisement, for they ure covered by improved bids ; und they ore not contained in tlio report of extra allowances,- because they uro provided, lor in the original contract.— Thus it appears, tliiit the report of the Messrs. lirailleys must be very erroneous; but the document furii.shed by the department, allowing the whole in detail, Is BO perfect, ly clear, that it presents no difficulty; and if there exists in the calculation, a single error, it furnishes the data by which it may be detected. In their report, I tie Messrs. Jlrndleys complain that they had not access to thenrchivos of the department. On this point, wo are not uvvare of any just causo for complaint. The Postmaster General did n-fu.-o to suffer the bonks and documents of his department to go out of the bunds of those by whom they ure ordinarily kept, except they wero hi charge of the committee, or (.01110 member of it; but ho always showed the greatest readiness to provide the com- mittee, or uny one ol its ineniberb so far as our knowledge extends, with any and every part of the archives of his ..- - oflicc, whenever culled for. lie oii'ered them a room in his '' offico, which thecoiuuitileu accepted; and whenever any member of tho romtnittee was present, ho always permit- ted the books and documents to be taken into that room, and there examined at pleasure, with or wiihmit the pres- ence of nny of the oflWrs of the department, bytheM-ss. Ilradleys, or by any other person whom the committee thought piopcr to einpluy. In tlie >vhofe course of the investigation, the inquiry Tvhelhcr any gift, or gmluity, or lavor, had been received byaby officer of tho department, from tiny contractor, (which might warrant tho conclusion, that it might have had any effect upon tne public conduct of tho officer,) was never lost sight of; and tho result in our minds was, ihnt nothing appeared which would justify a suspicion unfa- vorable to the department, or any of Us ofllcers. It yyaa,suj!si'si<ui t» mo com nrfnec, mat trie l-ostrnasKr General hadbeeii furuishrd with inuncy by contractors to whom extra allowances had been mudc. 'the committee •ubpotiued and brought before them all the contractors w,ho wefC supposed to have any knowledge of tho trans- actions referred to; and from all the testimony it appear- ed, that Colonel H M. Johnson l.nd ben bnimd as surety <Jr«nihirsev for Major Barry—that when payment was de mo'tidod, it WOB not convenient for ollhT of lliem to raiso the money—thatCoI. Johnson, without the agency or know- ledge of Slnjor Barry, procured the sum of fifteen hundred dollars on a temporary loan from n friend of his, who wos « contractor—that this friend, in making up the sum re- quired, was nided, to tho amount of live liundrnl tluiltirs, by -another' contractor —that Major Bnrry, sometime after- wards, paid the money to Col. Johnson, who repaid it to the person from whom ho hud received it., The contract- or swears that it was never 0 snbj.-ct of conversation be- tween^him and the Postmaster general; nor d.d he, in consideration of it, ever reteive any favor or indulgence whatever. As the whole of tins transaction appears to have been without the agency or knowledge of the Post- master general, it ran not furnish suspiciun of any tiling wrong on his part- The committee deemed it their duty to investigate every case, when it was known that a member of the deii.i anient •had had any dealings with a contractor, especially if tho least intimation was given ofn snspu ion of any thing im- proper. A letter was received by the committee from a citizen of Pennsylvania, charging npin fnarsay enlenre, that of an extra allowanco of 10,000 dollaison thectmtract of Reesiile & 8lnymaker, in which Mr. Tionlinson was al- io Interested, Messrs Reeslde, Slnymakr-r, and Tomlirisnn, received each 3000 dollars, and that the other 1000 had been reta.ned by Mr.' Brown, the Chief Clerk ol the de- partment. We, therefore, took testimony of nil the wit- nesses to whom wo had been referred in said letter; nnd the charge was not sustained by cvldonce, but was fully disproved. A loan of mom-y was mado by Messrs. Hoc- side & Slay maker to Mr. Brown, which had boon in port repaid, and part remains still unpaid; built appears on the clearest testimony, to bo n Ioun of money on interest, and does not furnish ground for suspicion of any thing improper. ItalsoappearedthatMr. Biown had, sometime before this loan, made a loan ou interest to Mr. Porter, u contractor, of several thousand dollars; and afterwards made an additional loan to Mr. Porter. If it should seem extraordinary, that he slionld b jrruw money on Interest, wiiilbho had money loaned out nt Interest the explanation is found in the circumstunco, that lie acted as the agent of the lata Doctor Jackson, and hud received hisimuioy to the amount of several thousand dollars, before his death; Ihnt'he has cootinncd to acl as the agent of IPs widow und orphan' children, and has been in the habit of receivlns their.mohey to the present time, which he keeps at inter\ est, as a distinct fund for their benefit; und that it was of this fund that be mode the loan to Mr. Porter; but that the mohejrwllich ho borrowed, was to purchase property for lljaoWJt .individual benefit. These are all transactions of a private character, having no relntlon to official conduct; butas.they were brought to view in the couise of the r.\. •minttkm of witnesses, wo have thought it proper to state thepijfor the purpose of shorflng that everyHhlng which might, by possibility, have a connexion witli official rent* tlons, has been carefully scrutinized. There is nothing substantiated in the transactions in relation toMr. Brown, which can justify u suspicion of impropriety. —^JFamce-Roeside is a contractor for carrying the mail on marly different routes, nnd toa very great extent. In most of trie enhtracts which bear Ms name, he is associated with others Who are very largely interested with turn, The com- mittee have inquired into all his existing contracts. On all the routes in which he is interested, the mail Is curried In stages or in steamboats; und their extent is 1932 miles in length, which is more than all tho post roads in the Uni- ted Stntes amounted to in 1791. On these routes the mail |g.transported annually 1,743,910 miles. For this service, the present compensation is 8119,810 per year, equal to gli cents and eight-tenths,ofacont per mile. On 90 miles of theso roads, the mail isjratispot led three times a dny ; on£26 miles, twice a day; on f8l miles, daily; nnd on 435 mXirt, three times a week. If, where it Is transported morethuri once a day, he should be allowed no compensa- tion for the service, beyond once a day, the compensation would aniouht to nine cents and seven tenths of u cent per mile. Wo have also compared tho compensation which Mr, Reeslde now receives with what ho received under his •oMtroels made In 1827* under the iale Postmaster General. It appears that ho then transported the mail 392,194 miles tier annum, at an annual compi.nsat ion of $43,732 C8 equal fa eleWn cents Jfhd two-tenths of a cent per mile. Undo- Prom tho Ontario Messenger. HON. JOHN JJICKSON—There has been' for the last two months an uninterrupted shower of -Bnnlf Speeches upon this and the adjoining counties, with an* endorsement of —\ Free, John Dickson, M. C.\ —upon their envelopes. Among the numerous documents thus franked by Mr. Dickson, are the \dis- tress\ speeches of Messrs. Clny and Webster, —the latter of whom stated that produce had \fallen 25 per cent,\ and \land thirty- three per cent,\ in this county, \since the re- moval of the depositea:\—which statement every Jurmer in the country knows to be ut- terly false; —and the high strung speeches of the rank nullifiers of the south. We have heard fiequeut and loud com- plaints of Mr. Dickson's abtise of franking privilege, from the different townsin this coun- ty; and we assure our readers that there are many instances which are not much less gla- ring violations of the Post Office Inw, than the one we copy below from the Wayne Sen- tinel. We do,not feel disposed to inflict cen- sure where it is not deserved; but such a flagrant abuse of the frnuking privilege, as is here stated, should not be passed over in si- lence: Abuse of the Franking Privihge. —Almost every mail to this section of otir slate comes overburdened with large packages of parttzan speeches, and among the rest the posthumous productions of the lion. John Quincy Ad- ams, printed no doubt at the expense of the Bank, and sent under the franks of opposition members, to the leading and most vociferous J5at?k tnai,agers in this quarter. A large number of package's weighing from 10 to a dozen pounds each, have come to several of the post offices in this quarter, under the frank of the Hon. John Dickson, each package containing some 15or20 small- er packets, without direction, each franked, and sent here for distribution. It is not to be wondered at, that the bal- ance of the Post Office Department funds has vanished, and the current expenses of transporting ponderous mails,literally freight- ed with various documents, printed at the expense of the Bank, under such abuses should exceed the current receipts! It would be almost a miracle if it should be other- wise. The House on Tuesday' passed the bill to continue the government deposites in the State? Banks, and to provide for their man- agement, and sent it to Senate for concur- rence. The vole was 112 to 89—majority for the bill 23. It appears clearly therefore that the Republican party havelostnostrength iu tho House since the commencement of the session. Should the Senate refuse con- currence, and no bill be passed; the depos- ites must remain'as they ate, under the sole charge of the Secretary, and the Senate will have assumed the responsibility of withhold- ing any provision by law for their manage- ment and custody. Will they venture on it? There has Le^n nothing that so much an- noyed and disappointed the panic makers in the Bank's Senate and elsewhere, as the readiness with which the stock of the new banks have been taken up. Such an irre- sistible proof of the abundance of money has been too much for them. They had flatter- ed themselves with the hope that enough of the panic was still extant to prevent these stocks being taken, and such a result would have beeu nuts to tbetn. But that four banks, with an aggregate capital of $2,200,000 should have subscriptions to the amount of nearly $8,000,000, was overpowering. Their mouths are shut, and their faces ijlauk, and people laugh at the false prophets. VKNJjojQi—The Senate of the fainted States luive wJtjed another to their long list of dark offences, committed against the known will of the people and the express instructions of fheir constituents. Learning nothing from experience, a degraded majority in that body, led on by a trio of rival caS'didates for the pre- sidential chair, one of whom was recently en- gaged in fomenting treason against his coun- try's existence ; and all of whom are bound, together only by the tie of common hatred to the chief and second magistrates of the Union; seem apparently desirous to find occasions for violating public sentiment and trampling upon the political rights of their victims*— Linked in, as their interests are, with those of a remorseless Monied Power, and .-thus under a degree of necessity to obey its behests, it is not surprising that men who have ex- hibited a fearless independence iu the dis- charge of duty—especially as that duty led them'*© oppose the pretensions of their mas- ter—should find no favor in their eyes.— Messrs. TANEY and STEVENSON are rejected but not sacrificed ; the People, whose inter- ests they iave so faithfully sought, are more potent than their enemies; and their future • elevation is as certain as the pretended cau- ses for theirrejection were futile and ground- less. That it hasjieen the settled purpose of the Bank to procure the rejection of Mr. Taney, is evident from the language held by the creatures of the Monopoly, from' the time of his appointment by the President, till his nomination was laid before Congress; but till the present Senate came into power, it was not supposed that a majority of a co- ordinate branch of the government would so far forget their solemn obligations to the country, as to Become little more than the echo of \a band of bank directors, who, hav- ing had power unfortunately placed in their hands, wield it foV their own pecuniary bene- fit, regardless of the. Bufferings and wants of their country. No charge wag brought against Mr. Taney, except that of removing the deposites from the Bank of the United States; an act sanc- tioned by the President of. the people's choice, by the immediate Representatives of the people, and by a vast majority of the people themselves. AgainstMr. Stevenson, no specific crime has been alleged. His gen- eral devotion to the interests of democracy, was no doubt the cause of his rejection; but we cannot believe his fellow-countrymen will see him sacrificed for. adhering to the sacred causo of jrrinciple. ^ The editor of the Globe has presented a memorial to tho Senate, on the subject of the i'eport made by'the majority of the Com- mittee on the Post Office, showiug that eve- ry allegation of (he committee in relation to his transactions with the P. O. Department, is \utterly devoid of truth\ lie closes with au offer to have his'accounts for printing re- audited, at a price 20 per cent, below that allowed by Congress to its printers; with the assurance, that the amount would then ex- ceed his charge.— Argus. SENECA ON THE MOVE!—A very large con- vention^bf republican delegates from the several to^vns in Seneca County, was held at B,eary's tavern, in Fayette, on the 21st ultimo. The house being unable to Bpn- tain the delegates and spectators, the con- vention adjourned to the field.' where spir- ited resolutions and an appropriate address were read and adopted. ISRAEL W. SQUIER, of Seneca Falls, and Gen. JOHN DE MOTT, of Lotli, were chosentnjKrga«'s to- ti»i Jtl«- kimer Convention. The following, adopted by the convention, is recommended to the especial attention of the distress committee of Ontario county* Resolved, That il is untrue that real es- tate has depreciated in this part of the state, as alleged by certain of the U. S. Bank At- torney Senators ; but that the contrary is the fact; that real estate is at present of higher value in Western New-York than ever, and that there is abundant evidence around us, which assures us that it is not in the power of the Bank of the United States, aud its paid manufacturers of panic, to arrest the rapid- growth of our rising country, or permanently injure the value of our lands.' expunged. tyeepnfweH account for the state of feelinggapnder ifchjeb. thejse (expressions were penned, wlienSvfe consider the baseness and ^irialignity pf-*the^ act-wbtch-proii^ted them; 'hnt a coraparilon of the injustice done to a mere rnan, with ithe sufferings inflicted upon the S,pn of <?od, must ever produce an undesiraljie effect; and every expression whictetends- to lessen our reverence for things sacred, should' be carefully avoided- The GoldfBill, fixing the relative value of gold to silver at l&toj,, has passed the House by the oserwhelmiug majority of 145 to 36. This is a most important measure, and we trust has riot beenrejected or left among the unfinished business of the session, by the Senate, recMe,ss as a majority in that bofly are of the b® interests of their constituents. The man who has an eagle in his pocket, knows its Worth, and stands in no fear of a depreciation in its value, or of its total loss by the blowing up of a rag-mill.; Give us gold, say we; and, let the friends of Nick Biddle stick to their shin-plasters. Amount of tolls received at the Collector's Office, Geneva, from 1st June to 1st July, 1834, $874189 Am,nt received for correspond- ing time, 1833, 7006 77 Increase, $1735 12 Amount of.tolls received from opening of navigation to Juiy 1, 1834, $22,744 38 Am'nt received for correspond- ing time, 1833, 16,663 25 Increase, * 6076 13 Number of clearances issued to lsl July, 1834, 685 Same time, 1833, 499 •Increase, 186 POLlf ICAL NOTICE. <r? portiU over573 miles iruBu, on 90 miles of which ; day fotslxaaye In each weelf. If in that enso there hail those contracts, the mail was transn: of poitrottd, on 90 miles of which it was carried twice a en ho compeniiallon allowed for the service beyond once ..-.•diy, the compensation would amount to thirteen cents. BMplie; '^ e P\\™ 811 these investigationp, to ascertain whether there is any ground for'susplcion that special fa- i-TO'lSid bCen extended to Mr. Reeslde under the present \^i^lfftratton.oftnat-deDorttiient: and it does notappear Ho Sfr>tt9n,oftnat-deporttiient; and it does notappear \i'jslightest grotind for Birch suspicion exists, \- r2af«u *rt«.ln-a nt^« * - \ .......... SMHiMiiil£l»erviCe at>a hiuch lower rate than under the ^rtB»C»|flmihfetMtion, and it does not appear that he has -iw^rSeo\Sw e^iribBjnsatioi), hut for services tendered, Sil^ttjtfnieht to the nS.'oe. ffilliiiflwi&ation waa instituted before the committee, to v^wJowtu^ther he, Mr. Jleeaid'b', hod not nObrded to the JStmitter Gebero! such pecuniary Kid, from which fin £JWejnce Blight, be drown that ha might thereby brenrne iXStSliieetof special favor with the department. Upon nn ::$rfitl*,*2)«rati«ter, General was fn.Philadelphia, nitd had ! ^$Wi&miar'ii>m time, attending to his sick son, wlio D rW,aSs5ilii» ..^ Ar 1, nlivalr.fti-n of that nlai ~ m m- fur \ Here is a description of the United States Bank, from the pen of its sometime since bitter opponent, but now warm advocate, Hez- ekiah Niles, of Haiti more. The fearful pro- phesy contained in it, has well nigh worked out its fulfilment, and it will assuredly be ful- filled to the letter, unless the people inter- fere.\ \ The Bank being soulless, cannot feel shame. The original purpose of its framera was to get money; the object of its present managers is to acquire power. The former were a desperate set of speculators—the lat- ter a conclave of tyrants. Gold was the god they first worshipped— the second gives up all to ambition.\ CESAR OR NOTHING, is the de- vice inscribed on the entrance of their Coun- cil Chamber. That eight' or ten irresponsi- ble and truly contemptible indivkTu.aJs^ un- known out of the streets that lead frdm their counting house to.the Bank, may rule, and will rule the government of the United Stales, is to be undoubted, unless the strong arm of the people is speedily interposed.\ ' re6m^lhat'Place,.aMn earlier period than had been ?»»& W-eiirible him to discharge the demands hl'mf.obf iri«3 from Mr. Iteesldo $1000, upon an ISgeataneeairtfe datbi- which WM.psid when it tell due. •S3SSWw» ttansaetio/i, we tire wholly unwilling to draw iM5of«ft>rab.e inferenisd, In it We can discern nothing j^'tt® performance of a kind ofllee, for which praise, MUier.tiiah cehsure, is due, ..»«,,»,, . 55*8 eotmnittee examined corefanjiliitoftll tftiscs where •U^jpWnW were made, or where aoySUjlMftton was intl. .riatedof favoritism hovingbecn extenaeaflJ/'liedepflrt- ment to any contractor, or of any lmnroper;cxerctao of the -SlSsUoh of the Postmaster OeneruMlurfoWng allowan- Sp5$^W 1 «*«*'Vecntnethe object of rfpld scrtHtay t, %. r •# Mr. Hubbard of the House of Representa- tives, we should have announced some days ago, is elected Senator from New-Hamp- shire, to supercede Mr. Bell, who has so long misrepresented the state. The high character of Mr. Hubbard, his democratic principles, and honorable feelings, will save the state from such humiliation hereafter, so far as he is concerned. WOOL—This article isqubted'in the Bos ton Courier as follows: full blood 50 to 55 cents; three-fourths blood 45 to 50; half blood 37 to 42; <$«ie-fourth and common 30 to 35. In some sales made at Monson last week, the manufacturers paid 124 cents per pound lees than thev gave last ye-*Y,-*-Hamp- •:m The Whig- Young- Men of the Town of Scnccn , ore re- quested to meet at the Franklin House ia Geneva, on Satur- day, Juno U-^th, at 3 o'clock P. M. to organise and make ar- rangements for tho eloction in November. It is hopcdjtliorc will he a general attendance of all who are unwilling to see the Constitution destroyed, the public currency broken up and depreciated—who feel tho injustice of having their pro- perty Mortgagtd to sccuro tlio payment of money lent to the city banks, and to provide for tho bankruptcy of party favnritos. Juno 18,1S34. The above appeared in the distress paper of this village, two successive weeks; hand bills were circulated, and the whole panic machine of the wig party put in motion to secure an attendance: and what was the re- sult? Why, from twenty to thirty young wiglets appeared, most of whom were \pres- sed\ into service from the village, after the the time appointed for meeting had passed. It seems, then, that but a corporal's guard are \unwilling to see the constitution de- stroyed,\ and their \property mortgaged!\ So much for the never-ending never-chang- ing ding-dong about \ pressure,\ \violations of the constitution,\ \ property falling 25 or 30 per cent,\ \depression of business,\ \Marcy's mortgage,\ &c. Such things don't go among farmers nor their boys. The correspondence which passed be- tween the President and Mr. Taney, on the resignation of the latter gentleman, and the letter from Mr. Livingston to Mr. Stevenson, which has be,en the foundation of many mis- representations by the Bank prints, came to hand at too late an hour for publication to- day. They shall appear in our next. ' The following are the ayes and noes on the nomination of Mr. Stevenson : Messrs. Benton, Black, Brown, Forsyth, Frelinghuysen, .Grundy, Hendricks, Hill, Kane, King, of Alabama, King of Georgia, Linn, Morris, Robinson, Shepley, Tall- madge, Tipton, Tyler, Waggaman, White, Wilkins, Wright.—22. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Kent, Knight, Leigh, Man- gum, Nandain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, Webster 23. We dislike to find fault with a friend; par- ticularly on a subject of general interest, on which that friend has usually shown a com- mendable and judicious zeal: but justice to ourselves and to the community at large, for- bids that we should witness in silence, an in- fringement of those great principles of mo- rality and religion, which lie at the founda- tion of all that constitutes the strength and glory of a nation. An article in the Globe of the 25th ult., on the subject of Mr* Ta- ney's rejection, contains allusions which we. are sure the editor, on reflection, would wish NEW-YOBK MIRROR.—The prospectus for a new volume of this periodical will be found in another column. We are glad to perceive that the exertions of its editors to render the Mirror a 6heap and-valuable-work to subscri- bers, have met with encouragement from the public, in the shape of \means\ to sustain the value of its matter and the beauty of its embellishments. The first number of the twelfth volume, which will be issued on the fifth inst., will contain a steel engraving of the six Presidents of the United States, said to be the most finished specimen of that brauch of the fine arts, ever produced in this country. tt/*A part of\ last week's edition of the Gazette contained an essential error. It was stated that the supervisors of Ontario had applied for a share of the state loan. It should have read, Onondaga. Congress have passed a bill granting, to the friends of the French sailors who were killed by the accident at Toulon, double the allowance given to the relatives of U. States sailors killed in battle. Gen. McDufHe, finding that his presence in South Carolina could not prevent the judg- es from declaring the Test Ootb. unconstitu- tional, has Suddenly recovered his health ana returned to Congress. Twenty-seven s'oldiers of the revolution were present at a recent celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, whose aggregate ages amounted to 2,100 years—being an average of 80. SOLOMON SOUTHWICK. is lecturing at Pal- myra, on the evidences of Christianity, and on the subject of self-education. INDEPENDENCE. The Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of the Fity-eighth Anniversary of American Independence, in this Village, announce the following ORDER OF THE DAY. . One gun at day break. A federal salute of thirteen guns at sun- rise; the bells of the several churches to ring during the firing. At 10 o'clock A. M. the Citizens, Socie- ties, Fire Departments, Military, &c. will as- semble at the Franklin House. On the firing of a signal at half past 10 o'clock, the bells of the churches will com- mence ringing, and the procession, under the direction of Col. John L. Dox, as Mar- shal of the day, and his assistants, will form, and move up Seneca to Main-street, down Main to Milton-st., up Milton to Pulteney-st., upPulteney to Hamilton-st., through Hamil- ton to Main-st., aud down Main-st. to the Dutch Ref. Church, in the following order. Marshal of the day. Martial Music^. * — Military Companies. Fire Departments with their Engines and Fire Apparatus. Journeymen Cordwainers' Society, Citizens and-Strangers. \J Faculty and Students of Geneva College. Soldiers of the Revolution. Military Officers in uniform. Corporation of the Village of Geneva. The Reverend Clergy* Orator and Reader. The President and V. Presidents of the day. Committee of arrangements. The order of exercises in the Church will be published hereafter. After the exercises~at the Church, the procession will again form, and proceed down Main and Castle-sts., and up Water-st. to the Franklin House, where the company will partake of a dinner prepared by Mr. James Mann, at which Gen. JOSEPH G. SWIFT will preside, assisted htf'Col. R. M. Bayly, Gen. D % Whiting, Qpl SFEvans and Kichard Hogarth, Esq., as Vice-Presidents. Arrangements have been made for a dis- play of ht-e works, on the Public Square, in the evening. Citizens of this and the adjoining towns are respectfully invited to attend and unite in the celebration. THE TRIUMVTRATE,—No. 6. J^ —= M,Y DEAR FRIEND : How very common it 4S,.,udw„ in this ** age of ^mprovenient'Warid successful experiment, to decry the ancients. It is painful to observe not barely indifference to their acquisitions, but even. Expressions of incredulity and ill-concealed contempt. The broad blaize of modern learniiig is well cal- culatediiLla dazzle our visions, and allow us but a glimmering view of the^great produc- tions of antiquity. Self-love steps in here to our aid, and, we are ypjlijig'to believe that what appears new, must be original; and that an eflfort of mind, in an age in which we feel ourselves identified, must \be more success- ful, and less deserving to be forgotten, than those productions which have been written in a quaint idiom, or have been produced in a remote .antiquity. We sometimes fancy, indeed, that human nature is better under- stood now, after the experience of some thousands of years, than it was in the time of Cimon, of Pericles, and Zenophon. But whoever examines attentively the. writings of antiquity, particularly the first age of refine- ment, will be constrained to acknowledge with humility, that in nearly every subject on which the ancients have written, the mod- erns have been surpassed. Some exceptions are to be made : those .^Branches of know- ledge which are depending upon the succes- sive improvements which one generation adds to another, more than upon individual gen- ius, are obviously to be excepted. The Gre- cians were, indeed, but infants in the natu- ral sciences, and somewhat crude in their no- tions of government. We haye profited largely by their erromn civil polity. Th§se are departments of science that could only have been brought to perfection by succes- sive experiments and repeated failures. Ma- ny other branches of knowledge, though im- perfect in the hands of the ancients, we should recollect, originated with them, and if they were\in their infancy nearly two thou- sand years ago, they are even now but in an advanced state of childhood, and their matu- rity will require the fostering care of genera- tions, sufficiently remote to look back upon us as we do now upon the ancients. In all works of imagination, of elegance and taste, We have been more than equalled. We do not repollect that modern lyric poetry offers any thing that will compare with the sublime heroics of Pindar; and can we trust to the best scholars, few modem writings can compare with the histrionic productions of iEschylus, of .Sophocles, and Euripides. Among these writers, who have-occupied the three distinct species of the tragic drama, are found productions that evince the highest order of inventive talent; and, perhaps, for vigor of conception, and the delineation of the sublime and terrible, have never been equalled. They abound in comprehensive observations of human nature, searching in- sight into the secret springs of motive and action, passion in contact with character, in- imitable touches of soft sentiment and sub- duing pathos, the sufferings of oppressed virtue, the exploits of heroism, the love of country, masterly sketches of character, the &«*xi*,™«s» •trp-jjasstow, xae tnnran ol remorse', and the solemnity of grief. The Ilaid of Homer, the great epic of antiquity, is so gen- erally acknowledged to be beyond compe- tition, that it may appear useless or affected to allude to it. Those who do not suppose this poem the result of one mind, but rather a reflectidn of the spirit of the age, and com- piled mostly from the wild rhapsodies of the wandering minstrels of Greece, do not re- flect upon the uniform spirit which pervades the whole poem, the singular felicity and in- dividuality \of style, the continuity of narra- tive, the consistency^ the design, and the gradual increase of that burning fervor of ex- pression, when the armies of Troy and Greece are preparing for the terrible conflict. Ho- mer was, ^Js still, deemed the first of po- ets. The'fidelity of his descriptions, the boundless prodigality of his inventions, the copiousness of thought, and full, jelfiquent expression; the perfect adaptation/of lan- guage to sentiment, and the soul-stirring en- ergy of his style, as he rises into sublimity, or melts in the tender, leaves nothing for querulous expectation to ask, and divests even criticism of the dignity of praise. It is, indeed, a matter of astonishment, that the Ilaid should partake so slightly of the imperfections of a remote age, and the in- firmities of authorship. It must be acknow- ledged that the improbability of this poem being the offspring of many minds, is greater than the belief that it is the production of individual talent. In many respects, the \ Paradise Lost,\ of Milton, is as sublime as, the Iliad, but not as a whole. I am free to^ say, however, that had Milton lived in the time of Homer, his genius was fully compe- tent to have written the Ilaid, It is, after all, surprising, that the laps fe of so many ages slvc .. AU has not furnisherjus with resources in noetrv -Jrww*& - i-i . J r ,. o which Homer had not used before us E^Wit 9 '- Were hberated from bonda S e ' re \ ery ayenue to the heart, that-softens-the-feS L. B. Mizner, J. VV. Stansburv, G. C. Dixon, G. H. Haskell, VV. E . Sill, J. N. Bogert, W. II. Townsend, W. Cortleyou, J. W. Gordon, J. Snow, G. Wight, A. I. Wynkoop, A. S. Baldwin, M. M- Williams, W. Milford, \ J. A. Coffin, J. W. Tillman, G. II. Metrell, I. Prescott, G. Nichols, S. Hopkins, A. Seymour, J. Greves, W. W. Greene, J. R. Johnson, J. R. Doolittle, C. Ayrault, W, V-1. Mercer. Committee of-'Arran gements. EMIGRATION—The total number of emK f™rts at Quebec to the I4th June* was 14437—to same period last year, 6,624— difference, 7,513. sibilities or animates to actib\ has been tra- ced and occupied, long before Spentlf or Tasso wrote! In dignified historical'com- positions, we have had few writers tfil* efual the nervous strength of Thucydidesj^ind in the unadorned and .pure narrative-oTZeno- phen, distinguished alike for accuracy and taste, is found the model of-thifespecies of writing. In all the arts, the'Grecians were infinitely before the moderns; and we^deem this a fact of the highest hrJportance, to en- able us to arrive at the solution of a ques- tion which has been raised by some writers, as to the extent of their refinement in litera- ture. It would be a curious inquiry, had all the^compositions of the ancients, in his- tory and poetry, been utterly lost, what esti- mate should we form of the state of liberal learning and taste among them, from the re- mains of their arts which have descended to us ? Carefully examined, only one conclu- sion could be the result of such an inquiry. In the first place, the elegant arts can never be the offspring of barbarism: the first and fresh feelings of a primitive people are often poured out in poetry; but finished composi- tions can only be found in a more permanent and polished state of society* The arts of sculpture and architecture have always been the evidence of the very advanced as well as ve- ry elevated character of the gocial state—at least, they cannot precede history, poetry and taste. Thus, if we argue from experi- ence and analogy, and there is \no reason that tfe shoW not; ihe Grecians, or at least-Gte-- ciaa eomr^uiiitus, were learned* elegant and refined. So unapproachable are the ancients deemed, in the beauty and proportion of their architecture, that the smallest fragment of a temple, a broken'colurhn, thejeaf of V capital, or the angle, of a pediment, have been carefully gathered on the shores of the iEgean, and preserved in the museums of Europe, as relics of the most sacred value. The profoundest study of \the principles of proportion and elegance, has served us to il- lustrate the perfections of the ancients. The dilapidated temples of Greece, \serve.as the germs from which spring the most beautiful palaces of- modern times. Indeed, it has been a matter of parliamentary effort in Scot- land, to erect, on the heights of their capi- tal, an exact copy, in marble, wfth all the statues and relievos, of the Parthenon ; and thus render Caltonhill to Edinburgh, what the Acropolis was to Athens ! It was anx- iously hoped, by all lovers Of the antique, that the project would be accomplished, and that Caledonia might have the honor of per- petuating, on her bleak hills, the sacred abode of Minerva. • The Elgin marbles, which are fragments of the frieze of the Parthenon, exhumed from a mass of ruins on the Acropolis, have been transported to England, and preserved in theTJritish Museum. England, then, was a remote island, on the savage shores of Gaul, out of the precincts of civilization, and nearly unknown to the ancients. These marbles are -covered with the most precious sculptures of the best age of Greece ; they are now studied by the greatest masters in the arts, as the highest authority ; arid thro' casts and prints, these forms of beauty and grace are distributed wherever elegance is appreciated and taste exists. To become deeply imbued with the antique spirit, Schle- gel warmly recommends a profound-study of the ancient statuary; to understand well the spirit of their poetry and literature, one should purify and sublime his soul before the Apollo and the Laocoon. The Grecians were an enthusiastic people, of a mercurial temperament, and lovers of popular liberty. Easily excited to actions of valor and he/oisra, they vvere too often engaged in the tumults of faction, or hurtl- ing for the rewards of conquest. \But it was the spirit of the Peloponesian governments to foster an emulation in the arts, and .at an early age, the Grecian youth were initiated into the principles of those arts'which per- petuated the memory of their conquests, their captains, their orators and poets, their sculptors and painters. The deeds of such, and the memory of those deeds, constituted the glory of Greece. There is an interesting circumstance rela- ted by Gillie, which offers a beautiful illus- tration of natural and poetic feeling': Warm- ed by the seductive eloquence of Alcibiades, the Athenians fitted out a fleet, at a grea expense, for the reduction of Syracuse.— The fleet prit- to a«t>-i—owo*yJfcifiart_S5K«JU«is_ _, With pride, and all' eyes beaming with hope. ' Their animosity even now consumed their enemies. The wealth of the Sicilians seem- ed within their grasp, and their capital al- ready demolished ! Whoever has read the history of Greece, has shed tears over the recital of this disastrous war. The Atheni- ans met with an unexpected repulse. After repeated attempts to storm the walls of the city, in which they were beaten off with ter- rible carnage and suffering, as the only hope left, they fled precipitately to regain their ships;,.they were intercepted in this tumul- tuous retreat, and immense numbers sacrifi- ced to the vengeance of their conquerors.— The remnant who escaped the mercy of the sword and spear, were dragged into perpet- ual slavery. They were immured in the mines of Sicily, chained together, and doom- ed to drag out a wretched life of gloom,' ceaseless toil and despair. The Carthagini- ans, though a kindred peeple, and originally from Greece themselves, seemed lost to all appeals of suffering; and heard, without emotion, the groans and solicitations of their own countrymen, speaking their own lan- gugae, for deliverance from captivity. The hapless Athenians, to soften the calamities of exile, recited and sung the ballads of Greece. The Carthaginians caught the sound—it was the poetry of their ancestors, and the poetry they had been taught to re- peat in youth; it was the poetry of .their mother country —the songs of Euripides! They rushed into the mines, and broke the chains of the captives ; they embraced and pressed them to their bosoms ; shed tears^fj tumultuous joy over them, and caressed* those, for whom, armament before^© chains were to^heavy, and no dishonor too oppres- sive.\^- All who could repeat thg songs of It can withhold all licenses;. 3llpatronagef rota those who now tax others with so iitHo *. ... \ we mer- cy ; and these means, with other causes al ready in pperStion, would soon'relieve J\: state from this heavy load. B The following is extracted fromChipman'. I report, page 47. It exhibits the countv •£ 1 Ontario—Population 40,167. • V ;*' JAiii.r-Whole number in one year 6S< intemperate, 7; doubtful,* 12; ihtempL..' ' 50. J. M. WHEELER, Sheriff, Canandaigua, July-12. POOR HOUSE.—Whole number received in one year, 126; not from intemperance 24 • doubtful,* 15j, intemperate, 87. ' — JOHN LAMPORT, ] Keem Hopewell, Sept. 13, 1833. EXPENSES. County tax, $14^ Deduct surrogate's office, gnn Ordinary tax, Poor, Crime, 3,085 92 5,104 89 $13,200 ' 8,190 81 $5,0091» HENRY CHAPIN, Clerk of Sup. Balance, Every subsequent investigation, without awjiitra, «, ception, in every case, has transferred the doubtful to tin intemperate class. \\ c^griSetl as fellow-countrymen, and at the public expense, sent home to their country and to their friends.\ What an homagje was this to poetry! I would rather have been the author of one of those songs, than the founder of an empire. LYSIS. FOR THE GAZETTE. Samuel Chipman, Esq..a gentleman of in- telligence and excellent character, has just concluded a journey of 4,500 miles; in the course of which he has ascertained, with great care and exactness, the numberof pau- pers and criminals, in the poor.houses and jails in every county in this state, whose ca- ses are connected with intemperance. He has also derived from the proper officers, the amount paid by each county for supporting the poor and for criminal justice. The re- sults are striking. - I t is established, beyond thepossibility of contradiction, that five-sixths of those committed on criminal charges are intemperate; that more than three-fourths of all the pauperism is to be traced to intemper- ance. Taking the counties together, more than three-fourths of their ordinary taxes are for the support of the poor and for the ad- ministration of criminal justice. AH except the venders and manufacturers are thus di- rectly injured in property, by intemperance. Is it just, to subject-the inhabitants of this state to perpetual tax for their benefit ? The remedy is in the hands of the community. To the Physicians of the State of New-York particularly, and in the United State) ge- nerally: GENTLEMEN : The weekly returns of the several Inspectors of our principal cities, ex- hibit the usual amount of mortality fromDi- arrhcea; or, as the same disease is variously known as Cholera Infantum, Summer Com- plaint, &c. Impressed with the belief that it is not less my duty than my interest ta make you acquainted with a remedy that6w never failed, and I most solemnly believ* never will fail* of. curing this disease, whju timely and properly administered. Premt sing, however, that I am not calling your at- tention to a quack medicine, bat to a com- pound of simples, as used in a most success- ful practice of one of the most learned* and skilful of the Faculty. So far from its be-^. ing a fortuitous discovery, it may be termed a concentration of the wisdom of a vast mul- titude of .medical men for ages, and if con- sidered as to its past and prospective useful- ness, may be justly styled one of tne- bright- est gems that adorns and elevates the medi- cal profession. From the imposition so of- ten and so continually practised upon the public, they are slow to believe that there \ is any balm in Gilead,\ and from.,the expense attending the introduction and dissemination of a valuable medicine, it iS'J&SI^Jjtk of years to make it known. TheljaajfefewWy where thick-set with hedges of prejudice and unbelief; to overcome this difficulty, and to be, through your means, instrumental in sa- ving valuable lives, is my motive in add reu- sing you. The medicine I refer ta, i»that in- troduced to the public the last season, af'Jhft \Life preserving Cordial.\ This has, in every case, whether recent or long standing, effected '\•nffimelniatc^cweT^OT^ numerous that are personally known^fkS subscriber, that he has' no hesitation in re- sorting to this method of inviting your im- mediate attention to it. He does not ask it as a favor to himself, but as a duty to your patients, whose lives must be precious in your estimation. P. BOURS, Proprietor. Geneva, N. Y. July 1st, 1834. The Medicine alluded to above, may b« had at the following places: E. P; Com- stock, in the city of New-York; Vanschbon- hoven & Rawls, Albany; John L. Thomp- son, Troy; Lobdell & Jlollister, Utica; Rv Bennett, Canandaigua; William Pitkin, Ro- chester; Williams &Co.Buffalo; Ebenezer Jenkins,Penn-Yan; JosephRemer, Dresden; E. B. Pulling, Hammondsport; Rogers & Thompson, Bath; Martin Gage, Bellona; Dr. Brown, Seneca Fays; In New-Je'rs'e'y, at New-Brunswick and other places, by ar- gents appointed by William T. Rogers, Esq.- Millston;- In Northampton, Massachusetts by A. Whitney, Esq.; E. Bingham; Detroit; George Strickland, Cleaveland, Ohib^ajKl, in this Villager of the Proprietor, af lii; house in Main-st.; Messrs. Bogerts & Wyn- koop, John Backenstose, John D.Locke, Wood & Seymour, G. H. Merrell, R. M. Bayly, I. Prescott, and J. Mann, of die Franklin House. Such Editors^pf Newspapers in the city of New-York, aud the other cities and village* where agents have been appointed, as above, who will give this letter one insertion, and will forward respectively a paper-^ontainjinjjppo. the Proprietor, at GenevEtf-N; -Yv, BfiaTi^br entitled each to three bottles of the L.T. Cordial, the selling price of whicbis50cent| per bottle. The Rev. Clergy, of every denomination, in the city of New-i-York, and in every other- place where agents have been appointed as- herein, specified, are respectfully invited to- call upon the agent, who will deliver to each of them \a bottle of the L. P. Cordial, with- the request, should occasion require its use, they may speak of it according to its me- rits, uninfluenced by any motive but that of doing good. * P. BOURS. HONORS TO LAPAYETEE.—The funeral- ceremonies in the city of New-York, in hon- or* of the late General Lafayette; wnicfc were to take place yesterday, were on ascale; suited to the occasion and the character of the metropolitan city of the Union. The- procession, including the military of the city under the command of Major-General Mor- ton, were to proceed from the City Hall' through several of the principal streets;** Castle Garden, where an euldgium was to be pronounced by the Hon. James TaHmadgej. and the funeral ceremonies performed. Bu*. siness was recommended to be suspended, the bells tolled during the progress of the; procession, and the colors of the shipping and on the public buildings to be at Half mast during the day. ^ Crops in Illinois. —A late paper frpm^Pe- oira says^-\ We are informed by the'^|^|erfl in our vicinity, that their crops have' : Q$$ff appearance of being productive. We \ffaVe had, during the last few days, a succession of warm showers—the fields of small grain never looked better.\ i-ov^ r>
