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r'4OllE public will please observe that no Bratidtelh
a Pills are gentine. unless the boa has three labels
upon tt, ( the fop, the side and the. bottom,) each
containing a fac-simile signature of my hand writing.
IMANDLIMTH. M. D. These labels are en
graved on meet...beautifully designed, and done at an
expense uf over $2,060. Therefore it ,will be seen
that the only thing necessary--to-trrimarethemedicine
In its purity, lifio -erve these labels.
Remember th top, the side, and the bottOin.- , --The.
fulliiwing-res save persons are duly-authorized; and
holdy
Crrttfic es of Agency for the Sale of Brandreth's
VeEetable lintoersal 'Pills,
IN SCIIUYLKILL COUNTY
Wm. I'Vlort;mer,Jr. Pottsville.
itontzinger ht. Levan, Schoylkill li.ven,
F.:;. 4 liammer.Orwigsburg.
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Observe that each Agent has an Engraved Certife
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BRAN imturirs Manufactory at Sing Sing, and up 7
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Philadelphia, office No. n
'oRANDRETII, M. D
8, North Eighth SL '
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` February 19.
GOLDEN SWAN HOTEL,
• ( REVIVED, )
No. 69 N. Third al., above Arch, Philadelphia
1 1 -y BOARD ONE DOLLAR PER DAY.
gr 4 I-lAR LES WEISS has leased this old-estab
lished hotel, which has been completely put
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L'.. in order for the accornmodatiort of
...„ I„, travelling and permanent boarders.
1 " . I It proximity to business, renders it
Ili 1.,..• - r
--.-_—_-_ desirable to strangers and residents
nt the city.s Every portion attic house has
lun
dergone a complete clea 'sing. The culinary
ilcpartment is of the first o der—with good cooks
and servants selected to in re attention toguests
—II as accommodations for 70 persons.
T hose who may favor the house with their
custom, may be assured of finding the best of
I've the best of attention, and, as is stated above,
verb reasonable , Thtirges.
Single day, $ I 25.
`Li. Room fur horses and vehicles. Also horses
to hire. . ,
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Philadelphia, December 11, 1841 50—if
PoTTsvILLE INSTITUTE.
91I1IIE Winter session of this institution corn.
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twiive weeks exclusive of the vacation. It is
evilest!) , requested that all having wards or chil.
(Imo to enter, will do so at the commencement
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Fills dcpenci.upo9 a prompt and judicious 'Class&
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FRESH SPRING GOODS
WE have just received and are prepared to
v • sell at reduced prises
A general assortment of Staple and FanCy Goods,
consisting of.'
Prints, La;itms. Muslins. Cheeks, Linens,
Fancy Hand`fs., Lace Veils, Hosiery,
Gloves, Silk and Summer Hdts., Nankins,
Gents.Sunimer Wear,
Bleached and Unbleached Muslins,
Cords, Drills, Beaverteens,. Tickings.
Laces, poreet tP,.M.inere Wear, &c., &c.
ThoSe wishing. to purchase are invited to call
tt E. Q. & A. HENDERSON' 4 .
, Slay 28. —22
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, HOUSM&I LOTS
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sa g . FOR SALE, t
loss ••11111 e
II I Also,, a large number of mo ,
Buildings and out Lots, of
valuate sizes, on the Navigation tract, lying princi•
Pally in the:Borougb of Pottsville. A pply to
SAMUEL LEVVI,
July 16,29-if Real estate agent, Centre St.
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JAMES H. CAMPBELL;
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
'POTTSVILLE, PA. •
11AS removed his °Meet° the west side of Centre
street, a few. - doors above Mahaotongs .t.
May 21,
ALMS & ItYNIN—For the use of the
German Reformed „Church. Jusi received
Ltd for sale ,y t - B. HANNAN.'
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TEACH POO' T o PIERCE THE BourELB OF T HE EARTH. mito= i NG Oirr, FROM THE CAVERNS', OP uouNTAINg,,,mETALS WHICH WILL GIVE STRENGTH TO OUR HANDS AN SUBJECT ALL NATURE TO OUR Lr ' SE AND PLEASURE —DR- JOHNSON
VOL XVIII;
Wire Lyrics, No. 19.
Thou bast asked Mb to forget,
Can I ever cast Itaide
Those bright dreams which. since we met
Ever were my joy and pride?
Hopes which shed a ray o f light
Mid the spirit's darkest night;
Memories which linger yet,
Thou hast bid me all forget.
E'en the very nir is stirred
With the memory of the past ;
Every gay and careless word
Haunts me to the very last;
Bitter thoughts too wen I know,
Ever round this heart shall flow ;
Sinee the day when first we met,
Thou hast asked me to lorget.
Wo have parted and forever,
Every hope is idle, vain ;
We have spoken words we never,
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Never may recall again;
Though ounce fond vows are broken,
Though those bitter words were spoken,
Memories arc around me yet,
Which I never can forget.
Occupations—Honor in Life.
There is not a more foolish notion afloat in the
world than the one that it is occupation that gives
the cbaractei to man. One . occupation, as the
means of getting a living," as the phrase goes,
is precisely as high and creditable as another, pro
vided that it he honorable, and in accordance with
the laws of God and man. The man who holds
the plough, hammers the iron, or driies his peg to
supply his family with the necessaries of life, is
not a whit below the one who measures tape be
hind ttte counter, my stifles law at the bar, or pre
sides over the councils of the nation. There is
1
a vulgar initl perniciols fdeling abroad in the,com
(nullity- on this bulled. Fathers must educate
their suns for one of what is called the learned
prof/regions." Daughters must marry a lawyer,
a doctor, a clergyman, or a merchant: Horror!
the'good lady would as soon- think of marrying
- her daughter to a Winnebago, as to a homely,
industrious, and honest mechanic. Why, -the
family would be disLPnored ! No, no ! The
business of a carpenter, a blacksmith, or a farmer,
is not so respectable as that of shaving notes,
draping solidity from the desk, peddling rotten
wood pills, pr selling snuff or,tobacco. And yet
the duties of alltLe learned professions, as well as
those of merihanfs, ore perforned fur the same rea
son that a shoemaker waxes his thread and the
fartrier plants his potatoes, viz. to obtain a living.
Still a set of miserable, upstart fools, who are al.
mist universally low tired people themselves—
people who have begun hie in a ditch, endeaVor
to establish in society artificial distinctions which
they hope will elevate them above the common
mass from which they were taken, and to give
them an importance which innate honesty could
not command. Labor is Libor--honest labor is
honest labor. Honesty end honorable labor is
the came; whether performed by the king or the
beggar, and it istjust as honorable in the one as in
the other. It is true that all men by habit
and taste are not permitted to pursue the same
vocations, and there are natural divisions, not dis
tinctions, as the word is commonly used, created
by harmony and - taste. This is as. it should be,
and firs us for the discharge of all 4 . . be peculiar du
ties that - devolve upon us as members of society.
But to say because -a man performs any given
duty, h iwever humble, though necessary, degrades
or renders him less meritorious than his neighbor
who performs another duty, yet not more faithful
-Iy, is to soy we still adhere - to the Monarchical
principles of the old world.
$3 01
3 00
33 00
1 00
Let the 14ther educate his-eon to some honora
ble and if be has predilections for any
particulor i business, as often. is the case, let him
follow it, if it be possible: it is the man that coo.
bles the business, not the business that °nobles
the man ; and, not spend a thought upon the die
tincnons in occupations, honorable and honest,
that fools have attempted to build up. Let child.
ran be taught to be honorable, honest, and upright,
to set a proper value upon the riches of the world,
whtdh is at hest but a bubble, blown into existence
to-day to burst to-morrow ; find to understand that
the only true and ieal•dtstinctions in society are
those of virtue, end vice, end the only true and
enduring riches are un intellect duly cultivated,
affections schooled, and a heart that knows no
Jaynes Car LDllool).—There is a time between
childhood and manhood, when the character may
be said to go through a process resembling fermen
tation, and the effects of spoiling, and of simply
erroneous treatment of various kinds, are in a
great measure thrown off. Dat take away from
a child all the joyousness proper to his young
years, and let him only _linoir his parents, or oth
ers that have been around thorn, as tyrants, and
the evil is irreparable. His life has wanted an
element. He has known that morning sunshine
of the breast which is the brightest of ell moral
sunshine. Treated himself without gentleness,
affection, and mercy, he has not the call of a rec
ollection of his on n experience to treat others
with gentleness, affection or mercy. Ho is rathe\r
disposed to revenge his own sufferings upon other‘,
people, as the genii confined in the barrel and
thrown into the sea, vowed to destroy whoever 'let
him out. This sourness goes dowb like an es.
tate with a family, at the sins of the fathers up
on the children even into the third and fourth
generation.—Charnkfs Jour.
EFFECTS OF TEMPER•NCE i IRELAND.-At
Limerick, with a population of 80,000 inhabitants,
all i the breweries ti - cA been closed, except one
troill one, which is more than sufficient to sup
ply the wants of the City and surrounding dis
tricts. There were formerly in this place several
extensive breweries, one of which we hid the
pleasure of visiting. It was the largest I had ev
er seen, And was let for a rental•of £lOOO per an
num. It has. now been stopped more than •two
years, and it is fast going into ruins, the machine
ry corroding with rust, and the roof gradually fal
ling in. While at. Limerick we also went over
the remains of a large distillery, which I believe
was one-of the most extensive in Ireland. The
concern formerly paid £lOO,OOO per annum .in
excise duty, and the weekly production was over
300 puncheons of whiskey, which is equivalent
to a return of more than £lOOO. pet day. It has
now for a considerable time been at a stand, and
we hope may never agoin l be called into activity.
A young lady being at confession one day, of
ter she had answered a great many questions, wait
asked by the confessor" her Mame. ..Wby, fath
er," replied the lady, .1 my name is not a sin, is
it 1" Single ladies' mimes might be sins, jok
ing from the-virtuous anxiety they always evince
to get rid of them. •
This editor of the Boston Post asp, he don't
know why ladies wear rabic bosome d apices it is
io cheat the'children—poor things.
AND 'POTTS
tt * JAMIN BANNAN, POTTSVILLE, SCHUYKILL COUNTY, PA.
Gen. Banallton , a Letter to John C. cahonn,
ON THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF .
THE UNITED STATES.
We give to-day the following important public
letter on the financial condition of the U. Stated
—and 'the position of existing State-credit in Eu
rope. It is written to the Hon. John C.Calhoun,
by General James Hamilton, of S. C.,who is
in London, and has resided mostly in Europe for
the last five years, as diplomatic and financial a
gent of Texas and others—and who is well ac
quainted both with the condition of his own coun
try and of Europe.
This letter is one of a series of great movemenks
that will increase in number and volume, as tlti,
doctrines and consequences of repudiation in
crease. Repudiation, both public and private—
either that tried by Mississippi and other States,
or that agitated by Messrs. Boorman& Johnston,
of New. York, and their advocates, cannot stand a
moral conflict with the commercial communities
of the world. This question of State debts and
repudiation will soon absorb all others—and com
mand the attention of. both hemispheres. It is
'the beginning of a new crisis. On this point,
the letter of General Hamilton is a singular and
remarkable production, and will attract universal
attention.—N. Y. Herald.
LONDON, Sept- 9th, 1842.
To THE HON. JOHN C. C LHOCN :
Iffy Dear Sir—lf I have addressed this letter
to you, it4s not alone from the:justification which
I find jfi b the recollections of an old and cherish
ed'friendship, but from the fact, that I desire to
attract the public- attention to its object, through
the instrumentality of a `name far more influential
than my own. Be not surprised, if you see it
first in the newspapers. I wish not Only 'to
think aloud,' but speak aloud.
My purpose of writing you, is to put you in
possession of a knowledge of the condition of the
American credit in Europe, with a suggestion of
the-Indispensable necessity of our (doing some
thing at home' to meet the truly alarming crisis,
which this state of things present.
I am far from defending the profuse confidence
with which the European capitalists lent their
money during• a period of six years from 1834 to
1640, to our countrymen, even on the faith of a
variety of schemes, exceedingly visionary and
unsoundi—They did this, however, out of the
excess of a virtue, which may have been punish
ed _to the extent of an amiable than crimi
nal weakness ; fur they generally made these
loans at a less rate of interest than they could be
effected, if at all; at home, and apparently for oh-,
jects of great public utility: But the loans tothe
States stand on a different footing. At least, in
reference Ito - the public sanctions, with which they
are invested. They were made according to your
reading and mine, of the Constitution, to sover
eigns under the obligations of a high public faith ;
many of them were contracted on terms greatly
advantageous under the agency of houses of tl*
first respectability, whose liberality and confidene
knew• no bounds.
ThiS confidence was given to our young noun
try, because our resources (in no degree exagger
ated) were considered immense, and because it
was thought, as we are of - the Saxon family, we
were essentially a debt paying people. Indeed,
from an observation, which a larger residence for
the last five years in Europe than irrAtrierica,
enables me to make, it is quite obvious, if wehad
paid the interest on:our foreign debt - , that the
rate of that interest :would have fallen gradually
to the level of that paid by some of the oldest and
best established States in Europe, and that for ob
jects of well founded public utility, and even of
private enterprise, our industry at home might
have been almost indefinitely invigorated out of
the large surplus capital of the country. You
will say, I am sure, that this facility of borrowing.
has been a great curse to our own Thia ! l ad
mit, is true to a certain extent; but it was con
verted into a curse by the action of our govern
ment on the currency of the United States. Un
der judicious regulations and prudential guards, a
state of things more propitious to the develope
ment of the resources of a young country like ours,
borrowing of an old one like this, its capital to in
vigorate its labor at a low rate of interest, cannot
well be conceived. If the profits of labor trans
cended the rate of interest, it was to create capital
at home. From what other sources have sprung
those miracles of enterprize and wealth, that are
to be found - in our country in the midst of a pop
ulation of eighteen millions, but this conjoint ac
tion of our labor onithe capital of others. The
Pilgrims found no Bank of England planted on
the rock of Plymouth, or the II uegupnots of South
Carolina, the gems of Samarcand on its thirsty
plains. -
But if you consider this faculty of borrowing
abroad, my Etter Sir, as an evil, you may certain
ly console yourself with the conviction that it no
longer exists, although I am 'equally convinced
that you will regret the cause which has produced
this want of all confidence in the good faith of the
people of the Unite& States and the consequen
ces which have followed in fixing so severe a stig-
Ina on the character of our country.
It is absurd for us to talk in America that we
do not want the capital of Europe at the very
moment when the' General Government of the
States has sent an Agent abroad to borrow for
its daily bread. We do want their money and
they want the result of our labor. And greatly
then is it to be deplored that this beneficial inter
change has been suspended under circumstances
so disastrous to both countries. 2 •
Let me now give you a brief statement of the
present condition of American credit in Europe,
and without presuming to suggest a remedy, to
enquire of you whether the force of public opin
ion, (if Congress hat not constitutional cdinpe
tency to do any thing,) acting through the legis
lature of the defaulting states-cannot be made
sufficiently potent to convince them of the truth
and force of the old adage, that, after all, in the
long run, 4 . honesty is the best policy."
The first branch of my subject I can dinnas
in a very few words. As our Old friend Randolph
used to say, American credit is killed stone
dead." John Jacob Astor might obtain'an un-
covered credit fur a reasonable amount, (where he
was known) and Mi. Bates,' of the house of Wir
ings, by wearing out a pair of shoes in walking ,
from the Mansion House to the Minories, might
sell fifteen hundred pounds worth of Massachus
etts stocky,with large' concessions to the buyers.
The fact is not thelesa to be concealed that we
begin to be regarded as a nation of sharpers and
swißdlers, with whOm, if the day: of judgment
should happen to be Monday, our pay day will
not be until tho Tuesday following: This revul
sion of confidence does' not arise so much *from
E GENERAL ADVERTISER.
SATURDAY . MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1842
a discredit, which attaches to our resources ;'or,
in other words, our ability to pay, as our seem
ing indisposition to pay. The former is still con
sidered in the most cases as undoubted, whilst a
sickening distrust has fallen upon the latter.
Hence it is, that whilst the rate of interest has
fallen this day to two and a half per cent. in the
London market, it is not probable that if the Com
missioner of the United States six per cent. loan,
were to offer a price which would secure an in
terest of ten per cent. ten pounds of the stock
,could be sold, without, froth considerations of-pol
ley, under the advice of Lord Ashburton, on his
return to England, the Borings should be indu
ced to take the loan.
When we contrast this discredit of our own
country, teeming 'with such gigantic resources,
with the . palmy credit of other States that have
little else but good faith and high taxation to of
fer, it is impossible to refer it to any other cause
but a deep moral distrust in us—the most ignci
minions curse that-can fall oe a people who as
pire to be civilized and free. Of the truth of this
fact, I cannot give -you a better proof than that
whilst no one will look to, and capitalists him
with aversion from the United States loan, the
comparative insignificant town of Hamburg, with
its population of 200,000 inhabitants to enable
them to rise out of its ashes, has borrowed at
per cent., precisely double the amount of our pro
posed loitt , i ; cine farthing of which the U. S. Com
missioner will probably not be able to negotiate.
Denmark and Belgium, neither of which would
be scarcely a breakfast for the hungry stomach of
Brother Jonathan on a frosty morning, can bor
row at four per cent. what they want, and Eng
land and Holland, with the principal of a public
debt, the payment of which is likely to be con
temporaneous with the discovery of perpetual mo
tion, can borrow just what they want, at and un
der 3 per cent., because they pay their interest,
and tax themselves to pay their interest.
As a Statesman and Patriot , I am sure, my
dear sir, you will say that 'this state of things
will not be permitted to last. No country can
continue in the worst species of insolvency, a
bankruptcy in its repute, without losing that self
respect which is the salient aping of all that gives
vigor and renown to national character. It may
be said that as a nation we ate in no degree res
ponsible for this decadence), in the credit of the
States. This may be true to a certain extent.
Our national and political ag;regation, however,
if I may so speak, is made up of this family of
States; and you may depend upon it that other
nations and posterity will hall the government of
the Union morally responsible for the character
of its members, although thei forms of our federa
tive system may discharge it from a legal liabili
ty for their ang,agernenta.
Admitting the potency, and the extent of the'
evil, you will ask what is the remedy This, my
good sir, is precisely the qUestion I am about to
ask you, and I ask you in the form of a specific
inquiry, whether public opinion, through the Uni
on, nolty not receive such an organization by
the action of 'Congress, popular meetings and the
press, as to induce the defaulting States to hold
Conventions this winter, comprehending those
who have negotiated foreign loans, who never
theless have met punctual their dividends, that by
united action they may induce the legislatures of
the several indebted States to impose, and, the
people to bear Such taxes ae shall provide the
means of paying the interest, and estaolishing a
'sinking
„ fund for the gradual extinguishment of
the principal of their public debt 1 I cannot be-'
lieve that these appeals to StMe pride and Nation
al honor would be unavailing. You see that I
lay out of account the assumption of the State
debts by the Federal GovernMent, because I often
fear, if this expectation were held out, the default
ing States would do nothing of themselves, and
the exigency has nut yet arisen when such an on
erous responsibility ought fo be assumed by the
National Government, so unjust to those States
who are faithfully paying their debts, and to oth
ers who have perhaps been fir wiser to forbear
contracting any, Although I Can 'conceive a state
of things in which such an assumption as a meas
ure of finance and national policy might be emi-.
nently expedient.
I am gratified to inform you amidst this con
vulsion in the credit of several of the States, our
own South Carolina, wears her beaver up.' She
is never in arrear one day, and very often, as at.
this moment, ( in reference - V6 the loan I contract
ed for her,) has her interest six months in ad
vance in her banker's hand. This is not surpris
ing. You-know it has been toe of our familiar
and household lessons at hone to submit cheer ;
fully to the imposition of direct tales to support
the security and honor of our,country, and hence
by a habit which we derived from the buried 'war
like, and the wise' who. Intact made us what we
are, we pay our State taxes with almost es much
elarcity is we give money to our wives and chil
dren. If the defaulting States would only prac
tice on this doctrine the smallest impesitioiavould
produce an amount abundantly sufficient to resus
citate their credit.
Occupying tbe position you' do, I sincerely
hope my dear sir, that your influence throughout
the Union will be brought to tear on this great
national question. We all knew that our coun-
trymen are essentially hore•t,'because they; are
essentially sagacious, as'well as to the main, right
principled; and require merely a proper direction
to be given to their exertions to make even an he
roic effort to recover and sustain the character of
the country.
But, auxiliary to these efforts, something more
remains to be done by yourself. It is.to lend vig
orously the powers of your own genius, and the
impulses of your own patriotism, in your appro
priate sphere, the Senate of the United States, to
create and establish a sound circulating medium
throughout the Union, convertible into specie, but
in sufficient- abundance to elevate the standard of
value from the dreadful depression to which it has
fallen', and in fact to be adequate to perform the
exchanges of trade and value in our country.—
Whether this be a bank of the United ltates or an
issue of redeemable currency by the Federal Trea
sury, is raot of so much comparative imfortance,
as that we should have en abundant and uniform
circulation from some source or other, whicP, ma
king illawanceloi the variations in the balance
of hada, shall be of equal .salmi in New Orleans
and Boston.
wisdom which is past finding oat,
Tbir ciiculdtion, in the recesaes of dist financial
was destroyed
by' our friend' Gerieral /Aeon, when he slew thi
Bank of tke United States withthe arm of Sam
son, and ilmoit , with the Sell sane weapon, too,
wiien 'we *recollett'alf the twaddle of the old gen
tleman on lie Subject : He, as Burke said, wai
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time and tide, and had the happy faculty of per
emoting a corporation in his mind's eye,' for
the purpose. of bating it as cordially as he once
did you and. Mr. Poindextei. When, therefore,
Mr. Biddle entered into a contest with this hero
of two wars, he forgot the .wiadom of the Spanish
proverb, .Thet he who sets down to diiie with the
devil sbould•eat with a long 'spoon' What has
been the result of this feast, in broken meat and
empty plates you well know. !t has left our
country palsied indeed—hungry in flesh and poor
in spirit. I doubt, since the creation of tote world,
whether such an example can be exhibited as we
have presented for the last, sixteen years of folly
and misgovernment. No Southern planter would
permit his plintation for ode hour to be governed
with such a lack of all sense and providence.—
' The Caffras and Hottentots, in reference to their
condition, I doubt not, have been governed ,ta
policy far morevigilant and enlightened. A co ' -
try of immense resources, in a period of pro ound
peace, on the verge of bankruptcy. Any man
who will read Hume 'a essays on • Public Credit'
and no • Money,' can be at no loss to trace our
present condition to its true cause. We have
been suffering ever since General Jackson destroy
ed the Bank of the United States (with the excep
tion of a short period of distempered inflation cre
ated by his own - measures) under a stiadily di
minishing circulatton, which the eminent philoso
pher to whom I have referred, has declared to be
one of the worst calamities that can bef.ll a civil
ized country—far More disastrous • than the con
tinued blight of unfavorable harvests and seasons.'
This result has been first in the constant action
on the Banks of the States, which created a uni.
versal panic, that has compelled the banks to with
draw their circulation, and next the General Gov
ernment permitting to remain in criminal abeYance
their sovereign function to supply a currency
equal to that of the wants of the country • to reg
ts!ate its value.'
Thrtconsequence is, that the States have noth
ing in the shape- of credit, or money at home to
pay with abroad. Every species of property has
fallen from fifty to one hundred per cent, and the
standard of value so seriously disturbed that a man
in 1839 might have had property to three times
the value of his debts, yet he is now ipso facto
ruined by the silent transit of our country from a
redundant circulation to what some are pleased
most felicitously to call a bard money carrency—
when the fact Is that we can pro,luce neither that
which is hard, or soft. .
By this alteration in the standard of value, a
revo!utton is in portentous progress in our coun
try, as wide spread anti desolating, as far as prop
erty is concerned, as that which distinguished and
illustrated' the masterpieces of human policy of the
Robespiere, Dentous and Marais of anbther ill la
te&country, which it its time was tuverned by
its demagogues too, who made paper" money so
thick that it snowed ■ssignanta in the streets of
Paris, then turned round and burnt in phrenzy
their own handy work. Look, my dear sir, et the
thousands; and tens of thousands of families that
have been ruined—that have had unutterable woe
carried into the very bosoms of their houses, by
the nostrums of our political quacks, who, in their
senseless war on the very banks they created,
gave no time by the preparatory !evolution of
the intervening discords " for the country to pass
from a period of expansion to one of severe and a
nd restrictions.
To those who have been ruined in these unhap
py times; whole estates have passed under the
tender glipe of the Sheriff; the moral justice of
General Jackson's , memorable apophthegm will
be but a dry crust, 'that those who lb - errors Money
ought to break,' a doctrine out of which their
creditors are likely to derive as little comfort as
themselves, although it must be admitted that the
General tried all he could to secure this blessing
to the country. But, my good sir, the day of
reckoning must come. The account will be ad
justed now or by posterity hereafter. One of its
first sums will be to settle what the Victory of
Nei: Orleans has cost us. These are generally
expensive pageants any how—Bonap a rte probably
never achieved one for La Belle France, except
to the tune of twenty millions of Francs, to say
nothing of the lots of cracked crowns and bloody
noses' he left on the field of battle. But his vic-
tories, in cost, were no morn to be.compared to
the victory of New Orleans than a penny whistle
is to Baroii Manchausen's celebrated clarion under
an Apill, thaw. I calculate that the victory of the
Bth of January, Cost five hundred millions of dol
lars, besides the small expense of entailing upon
the country,' a set of drivellers whose folly has ta
ken away all•dignity from distress, and made even
calamity ridiculous.' You will say hold. You
and I are greatly responsible for this hero's getting
into power. • Yes, it is true, willingly would I
expiate this sin, sir, with my blood, if it could le
call the fatal past. But this is impossible. Let
us look with courage and resolution to the future.
I care not what your abstract theories on babking
are, whether they agree with or differ from my
own. I believe you have, as you hod at the close
of the late war, the resources of mind and spirit
to lift the country out of its peseta deep decad
ence. Yes, my dear sir, I believe your ambition
and your genius are on a level with all that is
great and glorious in huntian action and enterprize.
The field is before you—take the lead in some
great public measure, whether it be a bank of the
United States, or an Exchequer egent,it is imma
terial, so that it shall restore confidence, invigor
ate industry, to give to us en abundant, sound,
circulating medium, and drag up (rpm the deep
the drowning credit of the -States.' Do this, and
if the first honor of the country does not await
you, its last blessings will rest Aim your fame.
I remain, my dear sir, with sincere
esteem, very respectfully and
" faithfully yours,
HAMILTON.
P. 8. I shall be out in the next Halifax stea
mer and hope to osufer with you on the subject of
this letter on my arrival in Carolina.
HARD CURRENCT.—". We met," says the Con.
cordia Intelligencer, 4 a few days since, a worthy
countryman who had disposed of the first of his
crop for the hard dollars, Well; said he to the
purchaser, thia is a hard currency, and I don't
like to risk taking it home; give me something to
hold it, and I'll lay it oat with yon and your
neighbors.' He was furnished avitli a fire buck
et, with' which he trudged the streets for train ere
his purchases were completed. In laying out his
last pile, • Well,' said he, I'm glad it's gone, it
too darn'd heavy.t-7,
INDIANA.--The, Wabash Courier thinks, it ve
ry probable,thet ",ti. Whig will be elected to the,
United StatesBenste
,fromAndions at the, next
anion of the Legislature.
Rise hs your Native Strength.
BY J. H. lIIITLEI2
Rise in your native strength,
Mechanics of the land
And dash the Iron rule
From rude oppression's hand
By all th^ might of mind,
Assume the place of men—
Heed not the scoff of those
.Who scorn the artinu. •
Ye sinews of a state,
Your nation's pride and Soast,
Whose glory crowns her hills,
And guards her native coast,
You are her wealth in peace,
Her vital breath ye are,
And when the bolts of death ore hurrd
Ye are the shields in war!
By the eternal sword, •
To stern browed .I , ,stice given;
By Freedom's holy self,
The night of wrong is riven!
Strong monuments arise.
In record of your praise;
Transmitting down your names
To men of other days.
Proclaim/to all the world
Your usefulness and worth;
Speak out with trumpet longue,
Ye mighty men of earth!
Waa not the soil ye tread
Von by your fathers' bloody
Then on - oppression's self.
801 l back oppression's flood?
Tl►o Pres*
The newspaper pleas, in a free country. is an
engine of vast power, and the permanency ut our re--
publican institutions, is intimately connected with
the character of the newspapers which circulate
freely through the land. Patriotism, as well as a
regard to the interests of the morals of the com
munity, should induce every man to aid in stamp
ing the seal of infamy on every journs I Whose
tone is corrupt and licentious, and which, incul
cates falsehood, anti opinions which strike at the
root of all social happiness. If every honest wan
would du his duty m this respect, we should have
little to fear from the licentiousness of the press.
A newspaper should be conducted on princi
ples, which will cause tt to t Icasie, not to debase,
the human mind—to open the paths to knowl
edge and virtue, not to ignorance and vice. The
conductor of a newspaper has a great leapuusibility
resting upon him. If sheet is widely circula
ted, it may be in his power to do much good or e
stl—to minister to the nobler faculties of the mind,
or to influence the baser passions, and corrupt the
heart. There is provably Ito more despicable be
ing in creation, than the editor, who takes advan
tage of the power reposed in him. as one of the
conductors of the press, to encourage and cherish
error, and ?Jo scatter abroad the seeds of vice:—
Such a man should he Lrand.d with infamy in e
very virtuous community.
We would not understand to undervalue the
advantages of a free press. tinder proper regu
lations, it is the dispenser of civiliz aion, wisdom
and virtue. But. when it avowed/y or intew
tionally propogates immoral or proldigale principles,
it becomes a scourge instead of a blessing. A
free press is important as a gtinrdian to reitgion,
and the disseminator of sentiments of piety--but
if !ruin its polluted fount, it should send forth tor
rents of infidelity, profanity and blasphemy, it
tends to poison and corrupt lte nation, and most
justly expose it to the vengeance of an injured
Detty. A free press may stimulate- to noble
deeds, and afford the best encouragement to vir
tue and merit ; but should it blast virtue and cal
umniate worth--embitter domestic happiness, and
destroy public reputation, it should deservedly be
prononced one of the greatest curses of our race.
A free press ought tFr propagate truth, dissipate
error, support government, and uphold the Laws
but when its province is to circulate falsehoods,
promote delusion, arraign the wisest measures of
the government, flatter the passions of men, end
encourage opposition to the laws and magistrates,
no government, however strung, can long stand,
unless its virulence be restrained, and its excesses
punished.
In this country, the press is, untrammelled, ex
cept by rvazic OPINION—and while a well con
ducted press, devoted to the preservation of mor
als and good order, should be encouragedsas the
ablest supporter of a free government, a tendency
on the part of the press to corruption and immor
ality, should be rebuked in the moat unequivocal
manner ; as a retrograde movement:in the mart h
of civilization, subversive of all good, and leading
to confusion and anarchy.
Tua RIGUX clip the following
from the United States Gazette, Philadelphia. It
affords a striking contrast between the practices
during the purer days of the republic and those of
the present times.
During the administration of Mr. Monroe,"
(says the Gazette,) General Steel, the Collector
of ibis Port, received horn the President a request
that he would appoint a certain person named, an
Inspector of the Customs. Gen. Steel replied that
he would be very glad to oblige the President, hut
that there was no vacancy, and he had it not in
his power. He was inquired of whether he could
not make a vacancy? His reply was such a one
as an independent, upright, honest, man would
make—he could not, and would not. And more
over, if there were a vacancy, he would not after
what had taken place, appoint the person named.
Did the President retrieve him for his firm and in
dignant reply? By no means; modern degeneracy
bad not reached him. This government bad not
then become a monarchy, nor ihe President of the
United States an arbitrary, irresponsible officer, to
order any number of heads to be chopped off
whenever he pleased, either for his own amuse•
ment, or to gratify the malice of a minion."
A*EIIICAN Piss.—Among the novel products
of American shill and industry exhibited at the
Fair are Anierican Pins. made by the Howe Man
ufacturing Company. Birmingham, Conn., and
sold by Burnham & Baldwin, 189 Pearl street.—
They are of all the usual sizes, but differ from the
imported pin mainly in this, that they are solid
headed--that is, the pan and head are one and in-
divisible. -The pins are twice the
,stiffness of the
English, end the point of exceeding fineness, ow
ing to improvements in the method of manufactu
ring. They are of admirable quality and finish,
and are afforded cheaper than pins have ever been
before—[ three hundred for "ye mill The es
tablishment now turns out over one million pine
per day, and is'prepared to supply promptly the
whole Union. '0:- . 1.The duty on this article was
raised from 20 to 30 per cent, by the new tariff,
and - made specific, and the Company liavexincel
red4ced the price of PM. in the mirk!! five cents
Pei pails. So much for Protectioir ;to Home to
ilustry.—Y. Y. Dibune. '
POPULATION OF TOT 1.7317L/D STAT23.—The
following table of the population ) I,Vbite, Free
Colonxl,.and Slave) of the States and Territories;
has been compiled from the Sixth.,Cenaui of the
Milted States, for 1840, 'The Conn:oral:or: is lot
the year 1839: .
White. Free Cofd.
Maine. 500,448 1,345
New IlamPs"hire 284.085 - 483'
Massachusetts 728.930 8,73 1 $
Rhode Island 105592 3,238
Connecticut 301,877 ' 8,10 r'
Vermont 291,218 , 730
New York 2,378,921 49,992
New Jersey, 361.602 21,704
Pennsylvania 1,676,012 47,854
Delaware 58.561 16,910 41.60 i
Maryland 318,194 62,0e8. 159.737
Virginia 740,858 50.052 ' 448,087
North Carolina 484,870 ' 23,732 ' 1145,817
South Carolina 259,115 8.346 _ 327,038
Georgia 367,795 2,753 320,844
Alabama 336,165 2,099 253 552
Mississippi 179,061 1.366 • 195,221
Louisiana 158,457 25,502 159.452
Tennessee, 640,527 5,524 183,969
Kentucky 590,253 7,317 182,358
Ohio 1,502.124 17.343
Indiana 678,698 7,168
Illmoia 472 229 3 618
Missouri 323,988 1,575 58,240 .
Arkansas - 77,074 465 20,085
Michigan 211,550 •
Florida 27,943 Bl7
Wisconsin 30,749 196
42,924 17'
Diem' of Columbia 30,467 9,36 t 4.804
Tuts' Population ache United gists* 17,063,-
633,
NO. 41
I=l
The report of the Caminito° on Swine et the
late Agricultural Fair app ease to hose been the
occasion of much mirth. It is 'from the pen of
Mr. Lincoln, of Mass. We give the concluding
passages:
The chairmen ventures, without the sanction of
the committee, to take the turther responsibility of
repeating pentituente Nbtch hove been eattutiuued
`,l high authority.
Pigs are happy people. We mey talk diapa•
ringly about !being like a pig. To Use like a pig
IS to bee like a gentleman. Althoogh it' is not
permitted 41 the order of nature that, a pig shoubil
laugh, or even smile, he onjays the next best Wes
sing of humanity ; the ilispositiou to grow fat.—
How easily be cots through the world! Ho has
no (Laney stocks to buy—no banks notes to pay--
no indignation meeting. to attend—no leg.csbirr
assemblies to bold. lie has no occasion to take
the benefit of the Bald:rept Act, ur to have his ea
tate confiscated to defray the expenses of the set
tlement.- Free from all troubles that disturb the
busy world, he is unconcerned among the chant
ges. oeearthly affairs, as Has the citizen who woe
waked in the earliest light of morning, by being
told day was &reeking, well, sail he, as he turn
ed •again to his repose, • let day break, ho owes
me
Wheb we look at the comparative zondition of
the human rece and of the swinish multitude, ere
may come to the conclusion that if a man wll
not be a man he had better be a pig.
1431 the Cottrojttee,
WILLIAM LINCOLN, Chairman
EXPORT. OF NI /NUFACTi:IIF.I) Goons 4. TOX
UNITED STATE.S.—The whole quantity of manu
factured goods sent from this port to the United
States, by all the shipping houses together, in a
given period this year, does not equ I the quantity
j :,
sent by a single first rate chipping b use in a sim
ilar period, but one of prosperity. ~ n this ewe of
things, what ere called transient ships, get no
freight, while even the packet ships get little or
none. The large and splendid packet ship Reset+
us, which sailed on Thursd.sylor New York, bad
considerably. under £I 00 of freight; the smallest
own, indeed, with one exception, store the liner.
were established in the year 1818. Up to this
time, the passage money received from emigrants
enabled the .dips to pay the expenses of the voy.
ages,. but, the season for emigrating tiding nearly
over, even that source of revenue is fast failing.
The uncertsinty which has so long prevailed 'on
the subject of the tariff may have had the effect
of diminishing shipments to the United States;
but the removal of that, uncertainty, by the actual
passage of a tariff unfavorable to English =l'll
factures as compared with the last, will not, it it
fearedorierease shipments thither. On the con
trary, while the increase-of the duticcon English
goo.'s mist discourage their export, the necessity
of paying the duties in cash o o n import, will, it , it
believed by the best infortned men hones, deter par
ties from consigning goods xo L the American' tofu
ket. Goods, will, however, if they ore vianletl;
find their way, directly or indireitly, into thrt . U.
niter] Ste les.—Liverpool Emporium.
THE 6TATELIS •8 •3 D TIIN BLACKSMITH.-
A correspondent of the New Orleans
tin, writing hum flue Lick Syringe, ( Ky.)
I was in conversation with Mr. Clay one even
when a hardy, holiest looking man approached
and ocd,
this Henry Clay, (addressing lionsellto that
great man) the orator, the statesman . and the pa-
MIS
, -My name in certainly Henry Clay," Ras the
reap nine. though as to the attrinutes you attach
to it, my friends and enemies differ widely."
Will you shake hands with a blacksmith?" ex
tending his toil burdened hand. forge iron,
you laws, nevertheless mine is an humat-band."
-Sar, there are other points of stnulanty between
us," observed Mr. Clay, wing his new ammo.
tauce a hearty shake of the hand, "we both base
to strikel while the iron is hot.'
"Yes," said Elliott, for that was the name that
he introduced 'himself by; t , but my blows only
make the anvil tteit.ble, while yours shake em
pires."
~' CASE or Cot W a:—James Watson Webb,
indicted for leaving the State with intent to re
ccilfea challenge, aßpeared in the Court of Sea.
skins yesterday. moon a special plea of Guilty,
and addressed the Court moat ably in explanation
anti jualificiiiiiin of th.e conduct for which he 'stood
arraigned. lie very forcibly urged in his behalf
the fact that no attempt had ever before been made
to convict or punish any one under this provisir•n
of law, though the offences against it had been
many and flagrant: aneilot leas' forcibly did he
amigo that depraved public sentiment whictrcory
demos a man who refuses to fight ( rather than
be kicked of the tilde walk '•) yet calls fur the
punisbuient of o felon of whosoever obeys its re
quisitions by. fighting! Col. W. avows that he
entered 'upon the stage of active life as a military
man, adopted the elide of honor of military life,
and has ever adhered to it. He suggests that - hie
conduct in the affair , with Marshall was not saw
guinary, that he warbforced into the fight, enterei
upon it with a fixed determination not to take his
opponeat's life—a determination :proved by OW,
ter wrilten by hint the night before the:duel, .lci
Mr. Hoskin, his associate in the Courier; and En's.'}
quirer. $
The District Attorney give notice. the( be
should !novo for judgment against , C l. J. W.
Webb, on Tuesdayl of next week .:; The Court
then adjourned to itfondoy.—N. Y. liiburic..' `
Lova 'TAIIIII.*-111 courtship, a lover should
school his heiirt to pay the lady its
. dilty ad valip ►
rem, and for this pnrpose he Omuta judge tier's*
'she appears in the domestic , circle. That
ebme salciatton,", and all men who winat
. s hould look to it. ,
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