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a : t : . : omy danni Goy #. Thursday, Doe. 23, In the House, the debrto was continued on referring that part of the Message relating to the Tariff. In the Senate, Mi Foppan offored a res- olution calling ow the Secretary of tho Trou: sury for natmtement of the amount now due From the United States, ind also the amount duo on the 4th of Murch fasty-which was ugroed to umuntiniously'. Both Houses adjaqurned to Monday. Monday, Dec. 27. to the Senato-Mr, Wright presented some petitions From New-York, praying the suspension of the operation of the Bankrupt law for two yours, from the first of July last, which was roforred, L Mr. Benton introduced a bill to postpone the operation of the Bankrupt law filk Fuly vestyand to axiead its provisions | to insol« vent Banks, and accompanied the same with n long nnd intevosting speech on the subject. {lo vehemently objected to the bill, as it ' passed, and on the following grounds, vizr- * ~ That it was not « Hantrupt system accord- ing to the constitution. | 'Thatit was an in- satlvem faw. _ 'That it was a law relating | to proporty, and entively within the jurisdiction of the states, and without the furisdiction of the government. 'That it brings cuusos prop- orly trinble io the Stato tribunals, Lbofore the Federal Fudiciary. SYomo followad, in which ft was contended | by \Mr Mondorsan, that Banks wore included in this net--that individuals engaged in banking wore, severally, subject * to tho laws that it would purge the country of spurious banks; that tho petitions for the [ pnatponement of the act came from fusoivent banks. The bill was twico read and , rofuerred to tho committco on the fadicinry. - Several bills wore introduced on leave, among them one by Mr. Young, granting to tho state of Hlinois an additional quantity of of tand to aid in the complotion of the [Hinois and Michigans canal; and another to amend tha pro-omption act of Inst session, so as to secure to thosottlors upon tho public Innds, otherwise qualified,the rights of pre-emption under the provisions of said act, whether the samo sbull have been surveyed previous to such setilemont or not. \The sonmate then adjaurned. ( In the Flouse.-dfr. Ward asked leave to offer a motion to lay the question on . the fa- hilo one hour, fw ovaer to allow the receipt of petitions. Wiso hoped the goatleman from New York would so modify hig motion as to lay the question on the table until to-mgrrow, wod allow the other sections of tho President's Massage to bo referred, obsorving that the othar committoos | ware | idle, and that al« though thore was a vast amount of business to be done by the Navat Committee, which they could not get until the mossngo was re- ferred. « Mr.Fillmora was of opinion that the ques« | tion should bo (nken at once and the whole massuge bo referred to-day, as the discusion which had takan place, and which would no doult follow, was the discussion of a mare | nbatractior. Mt. Bro Intionto to fg fac uti. disco Pal, ahi k , thit it was now in if? Jinnds of the houst, fthd it' must dispose “Mi l‘t 'Mt. McKeon anf if the house would con- sett to receivo petitions, he had no doubt (Mg gould Le dispased of in five minutes. Mr. Adams gave notice to the bouse and this gontloman from New Yorlsy, that if pe- titians wore reccived, they could not be got tid of in five minutes, * 'The Speakor decided that the order of the day must bo takon gg, and | that was tho quostion on the re p of the tariff portion uf the message. \Fhe dobate was continued by Mr. Whoeel- &t in favor of the roforence to the ways and Wall, withdraw your reso- thg Comtaittse on Manu- Bas tea [F , + a! w:§wil.1”b° no abstraction to Greek, of, perhaps, before he met the com- | Buriosthey afterwards passed into the custo- | securities an his recognizance, who had en- moans, and by Mosers. C. H. Wilhtaros of | Toon,, and Hudson of Mass., on the other sido, whom without faking any question, the hause adjousned. - Tuosday, Dec, 28. In the Sonate, Mr. Clay gave notico that his intended to introduce resolutions amond- atory of the constitutlon-having in viaw the | ~ restriction of the Voto power, to give con- gross tho appointment of Seerctrnry of the 'Freasury, and to muke - mombors of con- gress incligible to office from the Executive. Mr. Bontonts bill, for the postponing the operation of the Banlérupt act, with a view to was agnindiscussed, under a motion to refor it to the judiciary committee, and that motion was finally noegatived, ayes 10, noes 20, So the bill takes its place on tha culond ir, subjsct to ho disposed of at any time. Adj. In tho house, the discussion of the refor- «neo of tha tariff! portion of the message was contined by Mos«ra, Hudson, Payne of Ata., Hurke of N,. L, and Gastman; the latter not having concluded when tho House ad- Journed. Wadnesday, Dec. 29. In the Henate, the debato commonced on tho Exchequer Bank. It was opposed by Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Calhoon. Mt.Rives did not liko all its details; but condomned the hasto of the democrutie senators, in con- demning the schomo before it wag reported by the committeo. - Ho declared bimself® op- posed to that provision which allows the is- sueg to equal three times tho amount of «pe- cle on hand. Heo would havo no more paper out than could bo redeamed in syecio, dollas for dollar. It tho House, little was done except to contiouo the debate on the tariff question. neirenimnnt Pown Hast JSusti¢es-&A friemt recently from the north, gives us the following report | of a very interesting trial ina justice's court In the state of Male: Haq: M.--Welt ma'am, if you are a_ wit- noss in this ore salt and batter case, hold up your hand and PI administer the oath. You &a. Airs. T,.--Ohl my! how solemn. Tisq. ask you tan'rn, if you seen Mr. Jones kick Mr. Gow ont of doors? Mra. TF.--f[ gan't ozactly say I did, but I cnn aay I saw My. Jones take his foot away | throo times, und the next I gaw of Mr. Gow, ha was sprawling on his hands and knees; that's all f know about it, Teg. M.--Xhat's enough, ma'am, the case is plain, and I shall fine Mi, Jones tho costs | of the court, and three days' work in my #Az | # The Papers of Aaron Durr.-Mr. Bo L. Claiborne, formerly a member of Congress from Mississippi, and now one of the editors of the Natchez Free Irader, has been pub- lishing some reminiscances of the treasons of Auron Burr. - We find in them the follow- ing information and promise: * When the interview took place between Burr and tho Mississippi commissioners, near the mouth of the Bayou Pierro, he had these documents in his possession, snd his veranrkublo words, in reference to General Wilkinson, have been atready cited. - \Zf I am sacrificed, my portfolio will prove him to be a villain \ - Had that port-falio embraced only the evidence of his own design, it would have been then, or previously, destroyed; but it contained matter deeply involving parties, who then, and since, stood high in the country, and he no doubt determingd to presorve it as a guarantee for thoir silence. 'These papers, we have reason to believe, were deposited before ho went to Coles' missionors, under seal, with the late Judge dy of the late Benjamin Osmun, one of his tive faith in his integrity-at whose house ho was last seen iu the territory, and who supplied tim with the facilities of escape.-- Why these papars were never reclaimed, or il they were, why they were never de- livered, we have no means of determiniug. How th@-oume into our possesion, it is very oasy to explains | Col. Qstuun was the rear- ost nvighbor of the Into Gengral Claiborne, and ap to the death of the latter, they re- mained most intimate friends, although dif- fering widely ino their estimate of Burr- Huviog no family, Colonel Osmun was long in the hubit of keeping his most valuable papers at the domicil of his friend, and he continued this practice up to the period of his own demise. _ When this happened, his oxacutar, the late Judge Taylor (whose mind, however, was much impaired before he en- tered upon his trust) removed, as was sup- posed, all the papers of the deceased. Many Tharsday evening, Jan. 6th, in the Ex- | omy. years afterwards, however, we found among a voluminous mass of documents, collected by various public men, npfiepusitcd at the domicil of our late father, several packa- gas of lstters, belonging to Colonel Osmun, and with them, the papers of Aaron Burr. Io bad ao living representative: Colonel Os- mun had died without any known heirs; his executor and two or three executors and ad- winistrators in succession, had all been swept off, and wa consider ourselves (fairly entitled to the custody and the use of so rare and valuable a deposit. _ Itis scarcely necessary to say, they will explain much that has hitherto been conjectural, and will establish beyond the shadow of a doubt that if formar Vice-President of the United States was engaged in an unlawful scheme of ambition, he had for lis coudjutors some of tho most distinguished men. in the nation.\ STATE OF FRANKLAND. « 'The following resolutions have been intro- duced into the Logislature of Tennessee: Resolved, By the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that there be a joint select committee appointed, to consist of two members on the part of the senate,and three on the part of the House of Representa- tives, to be chosen from the Eastern portion of the State, whose duty it shall be to take stitutionality pf ceding one of the grand di- visions of the State (commonly called East | Tennesseq) to the Genoral Government for the purpose of being formed into a sovereign and indepondent State, to be called the State of Frankland, and said committee shall rge port by bill or othewise. ¥ Resolved that his Excellency Governor James C. Jones, be and he is hereby request- ad to open and hold a correspondence - with the Governors of the States of Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, for the pur- pose of ascertaining their opinions in rela- tion to ceding a portion of the territory of their respective States to the General Gov- ernment, to be included in the State of Feankland when formed, and for the fur- ther purpose of requesting them to lay the subject before their respective Legislatures at the next ensuing session. © The supervision and regulation of cur- rency belong to government; the business of commerce and the borrowing and lending of money to individuals.\ So reasons, or rather asserts the nuthor of the report on the Exchequer schetie. It assorts a truth we grant, but unfortunately it implies also a falsehood. If we understund by currency,\ gold and silver, the propo- sition is truc, because in accordance with express constitutional provision, but, when made to include prper,it is mere sssumption, the constitution recognizing no such super- vision, nor would it have availed any thing if it bad, for tho duty would hive transcended the power of performance. No government has yet proved itself capable of regulating x paper currency issued by corporations and individuals, neither has the interference of the government, in the matter, ever redound- ded to its own honer, nor io the stability of the subject of its attempted regulation. An incidental influence might have been exerted througy the Sab 'Preagury plan, but all di- rect efforts through a paper-emitting corpo- ration, will provo as fallacious as would an | effort to guide a balloon in a course counter to the cucrenat of the wind. \V hen government hagimpressed it sancion on the obligations created by the issue of paper money-when it has affirmed the bindrog obligation which suck issues involve, its power and its duty ceasey as much as they do in reference to ordinary notes of hand. It has said what shull be regarded a legal liquidation of the obligations thus incutred, but it gannot as- | sure the solvency, so to speak, nf the paper money Issued. 'This matter must, and qught | to be left to the community, whose personal interest is altogether more competent to man- age theso matters than the government. We go farthor than this. Government interfe- rences positively injurious in as much as it a those interested. 'The regulation of a paper currency, then, is as much the province of tndividuals as is thar of commerce or any other business. paragraph that heads this article is absurd, | manufactures. garden. <a into consideratiormthe expediency and con-, tends to abate the vigilance and caution of The assumption then, in the from it flaw all the heresies of the whig creed, both as regards paper money, and They assign the regulation of both to government, whereas the laws of trade deprive it of the powor to regulate ci- yetrsactrat & Lockport, January E# 1842. LECTURE. Dr. Wilson will deliver a lecture on change Buildings, Lower Town, on Astron- The Ladies and Gentlemen of Lockport are invited to attend. THE GLENTWORTH FRAUDS. James D. Glentworth has published in the N. Y. Evening Post, an address to the people of the United States, in relation to the election frauds alledged to have been committed in the city of New York, in 1898 and '0. - Ie declares that lis former statements were true, and promises to publish an expose of the whole affair, which he pretty clearly intimates will not tell much to the credit of the leaders of the whig party in that city. i We are indebted to the Hon. Alfred Babcock, Representative in Congress from this district, for several valuable congressional documents. The Legislature of this State met ot Albany yesterday, The Governor's Message was prob- ably sent in some Lime during the day. We shall give it to our subscribers as soon as practicable after it 1s received here. The Exchequer Bank mgets with littlsa @¥or from either party. If the committee report it, it will probably be with many alteratrons. - Eiven then, its fate in Congress will be doubtful. The following extracts are from leading whig papers: - We remarked upon this scheme of Fiscal agency and Banking, as it was unfolded in the President's message, that it appears to be liable to grave objections. Those otjec- tions are by no means obviated by this full and distinct development of the: plan. On the contrary it is now apparent that they are not objections of detail, which would be re- moved by some amendment of the scheme, but that they are fundamental and go to its principle. We csnnot imagine that the scheme, or one bearing any analogy to it, will receive the sanction of a whig congress. -Boston D. Adv. 5 We repeat, now that its details argxfi'efore us, whit, on the appearance of the message, we said of the sketch-that it is a most pow- erful instrument-the most powerful ever yet proposed to be put into the hands of any governmout. It places at the disposition of men appointed by the Executive and Ais Se- cretary of the Treasury an important control over the business of exchanges. and the cir- culation of the whole country. It adds great- ly to the patronage of the federal govern- meat, and incaleulably to its power over the the industry of the people. It is, in short, the most perfect union yet devised-so it strikes us--of the purse and sword; and the passage of the report accompanying the bill -impressed as that report in every line is with the mind of Mr. Webster-which seeks to establish that it is a separation and not a junction of the purse and the sword, seems to us most fallacious and inconclusive. In conclusion for to-day, the plan is efficient, practical-in honest hands, highly advantageous fo the country-but utterly in- consistent with the wise distrust of power that is the very life of,. republicanism, -and with the proclaimed and fundamental princi- ples of the whig party.-N. Y. American. Several democratic papers in Pennsylvania are out in favor of Mr. Buchanan, of that state, for the next Presidency. a CASE OF THE CREOLE. G <i> The particulars in relation to the mutiny on board this vessel, which is now making co rable noise in the newspapers, are briefly as fol- lows: No Some time in the month of October last, the Creole swuled from Hampton Roads for New Or- leans, having on board 185 slaves. The slaves mutinied aon the 9th of November, killed one of the passengers; and wounded the captain and mate, and others. They then forced the mate to conluct the vessel to Nassau, in the island of New Providence. Nincteen of the mutineers were ofrested there by the British au- thorities; and the remainder of the slaves were all liberated but five. The officers atid crew, on arriving at New Orleans, published their protest against the. proceedings 'of the British magis- trates in releasing the slaves. 'The affair has excited some angry feeling at Washington, but it 1s not apprehended that any thing serious will grow out of it. Temperance Society. the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. described as having been \wine.\ procured in various ways. kept. It may be expressed from imported rais ins, moistened with water. Or it may he procu juice to be borled, and importing it in that state We think the subject 1s worthy the attention o christian churches,and the friends of temperance « hard times.\ the hard times have been the daily theme of con in ninoty-nine cases out of a hundred, the time they. -Rock. Republican. Tre Exqums®, is the title of a new periodi- cal published at Albany, by E, C. Delavan, for many years an indofatigable officer of the State The principal object of the Enquirer is the discussion of the question- what kind of wine is most proper to be used at Mr. Del- avan insists that the pure, unfermented juice of the grape should be used in all cases where it is possible to obtain it,-because the use of intoxi- cating liquors in the celebration 'of that ordinance affords a pretext to many for using them to excess on other occasions; because many who have left the use of intoxicating liquors for a wife, have relapsed after participating in that ordinance;- bacause the unfermented juice of the grape an- swers more nearly to the \ fruit of the vine,'\'- used at the institution of the ordinance, which no where in any part of the sacred writings, is This may be\ It may be obtained in sufficient quantities from domestic grapes,- which might be extensively cultivated in many parts of the country, and the juice preserved from fermentation by boiling, as cider is frequently red in foreign countries, by ordering the fresh Hard Times.-Ever since we can remember, we have heard the same story, day after day, of For at least thirty years past,- versation, among all classes, rich and 'poor; and we much doubt whether the oldest man living can remember a time when people would rcknow- ledge ® these are easy times.\ The truth is, that chooses to have them. - Fire; sickness, or other [ inevitable misfortune, will sometimes interfere, and frustrate the most judicious management;but how few of those who are embarrassed and cramped in their money maiters, can ascribe it to any of those causes. . The man who buys ev- ery thing he wishes, without considering wheth- er he can afford it or not, or whether he may not want the money for something else, will always have hard times. The man who does not calculate the amouni of his income, and so limit his expen- ditures as to keep within it, will always have bard times. - The merchant who with a capital of two thousand dollars, gets ten thousand dollars worth of goods on credit, will always have hard times. The man who gives up a trade that he has learn- ed, and which he understands, to embark in some other business that he don't understand, because he thinks it a little more genteel,-will al- ways have hard times. - The man who when he gets a little money buys a new article of clothing or furniture, in preference to paying a debt, will always haye bard times. - The man who lets his debts accumulate without seeing any certain method of extinguishing them, will by and by have hard times. - The poor man who takes a dram, smokes a cigar, or chews a paper of Peggy Miller, every day, will Iulways have hard times. The man who gets a new coat or pair of boots when the old one is good enough, will always bave hard times. - The man who hires his wood sawed, when he has time enough to saw it him- self; will always have hard times. | *The man who borrows money to pay a debt, will always have hard times. _ The farmer or mechanic who lies in bed till breakfast is ready, will always have hard times. 'The man that buys a farm on cred» it, expecting to pay forit out of his crops, will always have hard times.. - The man who looks upon a debt as paid, when he has given his note for it, will always have hard times. | The man who leave his business, at which he is get- ing a comfortable living, for an office which he is to hold on the tenure of the ascendency of his party, will always have hard times. | Final- ly, the man that don't take a newspaper and pay in advance, will always haye hard times. THE EXCHEQUER BANK. From the Evening Post. Yesterday, we showed that the continental money which Mr. Tyler's cabinet propose redeem by borrowing the specie if they can, was no more likely to sustain its credit than the bills of credit issued by the government of Michigan. and like all other paper monay issued by go- vernments in debt, it will consist of promises without any means of performance, except the making of new promises. The fate of such promises in the money market is sooner or later always the same; they must depreciate, Our former continen- tal money,first issued in 1777, declined grad- vally in value for four years, and already in 1781, it had reached such a point of depres- sion that a hundred dollars were sold for one of silver. It is very likely, however, that at first the notes of the Exchequer bank will have considerable currency. 'There will be two modes of issuing them, namely, paying them out to the creditors of the government, and discounting bills of exchange. ments made by the government are immense, and The. new banlc will-thus haye fargreater facilities than any other colild have of-crow- ding its notes into circulation. The.discounting bills of exchange between distant willafford an excellent oppor- Aqunity {for to obtain money, \] which will doubtless be improved with eager- ness.\ The speculator in New York will have a correspondent in New Orleans, with. whom he is in a friendly understanding, and kites will be set up,to be kept flying backwards and- forwards once in thirty - days. - These those who are skilled in the money market, to be the most hazardous kind of paper, and mere accomodation paper. in that case, be injected with a surprising nels of circulation. them. tions, and the exportation of specie. cy of depreciated continental money. always occurfed in such casses. riable course of American banking. 108. AN EMPTY TREASURY. Monday: . \ The Treasury, I underst f empty at the end of the year. You. are ware that the Congress Pay. Bill passed few days ago. them needed it. the appropriation.\ B are hard or casy to any individual; just as he seized and burnt, and not sold as formerly. to issue, and when pressed for payment, to: Like the'noies of that state, | The pay- doinestic bills of exchange are known to to present the greatest difficulty in making a distinction between real business paper and _ SBuppose, then, the bills of the new bank do not go into instant discredit; suppose that, for a time, they perform the office which Mr. Tyler's cabinet expest from them,they will, and unprecedented rapidity into the chan- The solvent banks of this state will find themselves compelled to. contract their circulation to make room for 'The effect of these large issues of pa- per will Le the usual one, a rapid increase of prices, a check to the exportation of our own commodities, an increase of importa- The exportation of specie will lead to demands upon the banks; the government bask will have no supply of specie on hand; the local banks must be resorted to; and if the reac- tion be at all commensuaate with the sudden- ness of the expansion, as it generally is, we cannot see what is to prevent the state banks and the government from breaking together. We may then deal as severely with the state banks as we please, but the government bank wil! be beyond the reach of the state legisla- tures, and we must be content with a curren- Should these things happen, nothing new will have occurred, nothing which has not The con- sequences we have pointed out are the inva- The paper money of governments is never paid. History relates numerous instances of its issue,and scarcely a single one of its redemp- The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Jour. of Commerce, writes as follows, on and is empty. Mr. Woodbury. 1 ara told, says it is the first time since the organization of the govern- ment, thatthe Treasury has been entirely a- This morsing the members were anxious to get their money. Some of But it was not to be got.-- {There was not one cent in the Treasury or at the command of the government to meet Mexican Restrictions. -By order of the Mexican government, raw cotton, tobscco, and cotton twist, are forbidden to be import- ed into that country. Colton goods are to be THB NEW LEGISLATURE. The now Legislature of this state is to convene at Albany on Tuesday next. It is largely democratic, particularly in the larger branch. - Itis conceded on all hands, that the duties and responsibilities of the majority are by no means trifling. The democratic party have come into power, finding the state greatly embarrassed with debt--debts incur- ted inconsiderately by their predecessors,- without providing any means for their pay- went, or devising any feasible plans to extri- cute our financial affairs from the difficulties and embarras@fhients into which they have so recklessly plunged them. It will require cool heads, wise counsels, and efficient, energetic action, to carry our state affairs safely thro' the delicate if not fearful crisis which is at hand. | We believe the new legislature pos- sess the requisite skill and wisdom to meet the emergency, if they come to the work, as we doubt not they will, with the right spi- rit and determination. | Their constituents do not expect nor wise them to abandon our important works of Internal improvement- they only wish that they may be prosecuted just as fast as the state can procure the means for carrying them on without crippling and embarrassing her resources, and plunging her into -and no faster. One of the first as\ well as most delicate and responsible duties that will devolve upon the legislature, will be the appointment of the requisite officers to aid them in carrying out their plans. _ On the. right and judicious performance co this die, will their final success mainly depend. \IP is useless to pass wise and salutary Jaws, unless wise, prudent, and efficient functionaries be chosen to carry those laws into operation, In selecting can- didates, they will no donbt choose men who will go for their country in preference to their party. Their main inquiry should be, when a candidate comes before them for an impor- tant trust,-** Ia he . honest? is he capable? is be faithful to the he belong to this or that clique or faction- or\ will he subserve this selfish local project, or that narrow sectional interest, and will he turn traitor to his principles and bolt his par- ty, if not appointed? < 'These latter consid- erations can scarcely be supposed to find fa- vor with a body as intelligent: and patriotic as the representatives .of the democracy of the Empire State are allowed to be. No threais of defection, or of a determi- nation to distract the harmony of the demo- cratic party unless particular individuals are promoted to:office, will be likely to swerve the democratic members from the discharge of their honest duty. - They will no doubt adopt all reasonable methods of concihation; they ought to do so: but the man whose af- fection for democracy is so frail that he is ready to abandon his party unless he can have all the offices he asks for, is not fit to be trusted with any station of importance, and the sooner he abandons his party the bet- ter. But we trust we have no such merce- nares in the democratic ranks. Where so few offices are to be filled, and there are so many applicants for plase, the great major- ity of them must necessarily be disappointed --and that individual who will abate his zeal, or flinch in the discharge of his duty, or re- fuse to stand up-to the rack, fodder or no fodder,-because he cannot obtain an office that his party deems him unfit for, or less qualified than others to fill, is not worthy of the name of democtat-he does not. belong to the democratic party. Give us \GOOD MEN AND TRUE\ whether they are found in the east, or the west, in the north or the south-whether they are stigmatized by their opponents as \Regency\ or \Anti-Regeney.\ While we should not wish to see the whole of the old demodvatic \Regency as they were called, reinstated in office, neither do we believe the democratic party, would be promoted by excluding them all from a participation in our State councils. ling patriotic men among them-men who have done as much for their party and. for the State, as any othe: individual in either: and they ought not to be proscribed, merely for a hue and cry, originally raised against them by their political opponents, and which may have created some degree of prejudice towards them, in the minds of a few of their political friends, who bave been deceived in relation to them. Keep out the drones and the mercenaries (if any there be,) andthen, if it should be though best to mingle a few af | the \old hands\ with the new ones, in our State councils, the people will have no cause to complain.- Rochester Rep. TREASURY NOTES. tAgain, I am aware that a use may be made of Treasury notes, which is quite op- posed to the spirit of the constitution; that is, to issue them without interest, or with a mere nominal interest,and to attempt to force them into circulation as money. Any such attempt ought to be strenuously resisted; be- ing neither more nor less than an attempt to establish a system of government paper money.\ , The above language was used by Daniel Webster, in a debate in the U. S. Senate, March 20th, 1840, upon the 'FPreasury note Bill.\ 'it -was then the opinion of Danie} Webster, that although congress might au- thorize the issue of Fréasury notes for the purpose of borrowing money to pay the debts of Government, or to meet its immediate wants in other respecis, yet it could not au- thorize their issue for the purpose of 'cireu- lating them as money.' \Any such at- tempt, he said ought io be strenuously resist- ed; being neither more or less than an at- \A] to establish a system of paper money.\\ These views were, undoubted{y correct; at any rate they were fully concurred in by the 'democratic senators at the time, who did not {attempt to Justify the issue of such notes by the general government, upon any other ground than as means to borrow money for the immediate wants of government;they ad- mitted the argumentof Mr. Webster to be correct. Mr. Hubbard, who answered the argument of Mr. Webster, said, I stated in my opening remarks, and I now repeat, that this bill can be sustained 0 ples than as a loan. ‘ - Thus did both parties agree, in 1840,/that for the general government to issugfreasu- ry notes, to be used as a be «\quite opposed to the spirit of the constitu- tion.\\ | But now that it has pléased the Ex- ecutive, under whom Mr. Webster holds of- fice.to submit a plan for an Exchequer Bank, a that the interests of the State or the good'of There were some ster- n no other princi-4 he takes a different viéw of the powers of (ministration to issue $15,000,006 of this kind of government paper money,\\ he can see nothing in the proposition which ought to be strenuously resisted.\ Of a truth, cireumstances not only alter cases, but constitullonal principles also.- Troy Analyzers From the Boston Tr anscript. ABSURDITIES. There are many courses which people pur- sue that, with little reflection, will appear abe . ~ surd to covery man of common understand- ing. 'The individual himself who is looking for absurdities is generally the one in whonr they are first found. A man wants to see the person against whom he has the greatest reason to guard himself. - Let him take a glance at the look- ing-glass and he will see a very fair likeness of the individuat he is. searching for. - Itis absurd to despair when the clouds lower. We should look upward for com- fort. _- When the heaven over our head is dark, the earth under our feet is sure to be darker. It is absurd to lend money to the mar whose friendship you are desirous to pre- serve. It is absurd for an infidel to tell you to abandon your bible. 'Tell him you will do so when he will bring you a better boolk | |_ It is absurd to exhibit violent passfons in' your family, foaming and fretting at every little annoyance that may.cross youfia‘igdf 3 the same time expect them T8. be placid} \.\ It is absurd, if you have hal['adozern chil- dren, all of different dispositions and capa- cities, to give them all the same education, with the expectation that they will all shine in the same sphere. Evos ~ It is absurd pot to go to bed when you are slcepy, because it is not a certain hour. It is absurd to see a man professing chris- tianity bristling up with anger.Awenty times a dayslike a hcfdgglwg. ane \it“; h 1t is absurd to suppose that a Leghorn hat, loaded with flowers will cure the head ache,. It is absurd to suppose that a gold watch will cure the consumption. It is absurd for peoyle to say they have no . time to read.. Every body can find time to inforoy his mind, by the perusal of some book, People who make such assertions are gener- ally those who pay no particular attention to their families, 'We want toseea man atten- tive to his children. ~People who have no time to read are generally those who have a plenty of time to hunt, to fish, to fiddle, to play cards, to be carousing any where but at their own houses,to do nothing, but have \no time to read.\ Such men generally have uneducated children and unhappy firesides. They have no energy, no spirit of improve- ment, no love of knowledge. They live \unknowing and unknown,\ and die unre- gretted and unwept. it is absurd to suppose that an editor will stand the humbug of writing puffs and noti- ces of this and that man and this and that society,. when, just as sure as it is done, so surelydo we see their advertisements in other papers, paid for, in which not a word is said, but the money is pocketed. SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE NEW.YORK AND VIRGINIA CONTROVERSY. The House of Representatives of South Carolina have passed, by a vote of 89 to 15, the report and resolutions known as the An- ti-Abolition bill. 'This bill is designed to prevent citizens of New York from carrying slaves or-persons held-to service from .that state, and to prevent the escape of persons charged with the commission of crime. The following are the resolutions: % regret and abhorrence the constructive mean- ing of the constitutional provision respecting @\[ugitives from justice,\ and \fugitives from service,\ asserted by the Executive and Leg- islative authorities in the state of New York in the year 1841. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Leg- islature, the forced and dangerous construc- tion put upon the 4th article of the constitu- tion of the United States, and the arrogant pretensions to control its operatton by the State of New York, as indicated by the posi- tion of her Executive in the progress of the late controversy with Virginia, and the pro- ceedings of herLegislature pending the same, should be repudiated and discountenanced by every state in the Union, as destructive of the faith pledged in the confederation, and ultimately subversive of that State sove- reignty, upon which they profess to be four- ded. Resolved, That the Governor be request» ed to communicate to the authorities of Vir- ginia, the high sense entertained by this Le- gislature, of their moderation and respectful forbearance in conducting the recent unhap- py controversy with the state of New York -of the justness of the position assumed by Virginia, on the assurance of the hearty co- operation of South Carolina, in all her pro- per measures to vindicate her right as a state, and protect the property of her-citi- zens. Resolved, That copies of the Report and Resolutions adapted by this legislature, to- gether with a certified copy of the bill, when passed, be furnished by the Governor of this state, to the Governor of Virginia, and the Governors of the several states of this Union, and to our Senators and Repre- senatives in Congress, to be laid before that body. j The Saw Fish. -We hear that on exam» ° ining the bottom of the steamer Enterprise, the horn of a saw fish was found to have penetrated the copper (28 oz.) and the bot- tom planks, just above the bilge keel, in a lateral direction, and ther to have broken square off, remaining in che bottom, and act- ing as stop-gap against the admission of wa- ter. The copper appears to have been com- pletely shattered by the force of the thrust,and and there is dittle doubt that a leak would haye bees established, had not the horn come in éoniact with a stout piece of timber in- side the planking.and then broken off at about 3 1-2 or 4 inches from the point. The piece of horn,and a part of the timber in which it re- mains, bave been taken out of. the vessel's bottom, and sent to the Governor General, who, we dare say, will send it to the Asiatic Society, to be placed on the same shelf with a similar curiosity thathas. long astonished the wondering visitors of that interesting in- stitution. - Calculta Englishman. The Whigs of Indiana are coming out for the Hon. John McLean, for the next Presi- deneo.\ <A new paper is about to be estab- lished at Terre Haute, to advocate his claims - to that station. Congress; now that it is the policy of the ad- Resolved, That the legislature view with + ine
