THE F.XPENCES OF THE PACT It
PRESENT ADMINISTRATION
CONTRASTED.
The amount of expenditures in a gov
crnmentdepepds in part on it general
polic) , whether extravagant or economi
cal, and in part on trie exigencies ui ine
times.
L-jokingic all lliese, it is manifest
that the expenses under the adminis'ra
lion of the whigs liavc been much high
er, and less jusiifiable, than Ihona under
Mr. Vbi Buren. f Though our oppo
nents assailed hU administration with
many gross exaggerations on this topic,
nnd made numerous pledges of reform,
it hag turned out in this, as in many
other matters, that ail those pledge
have been for fulled, and a deceived
community con safely plaee no further
ronfi lence either in their statements 01
promisee.
A moment lo the proof of this. The
exigencies thai affect the expenses dur
ing Mr. Van Uuren's administration
weni numerous Among, the Florida
war was very burdensonie,lhe overflow
ing revenvc, anil the bank expansions
of 1835 and-lS3G, led to larger appro
priations than usual for the extinguish
ment of Indian titles, die clearing out of
livers and harbors, the erection of pub
lie Lmluing, furis, and light-houses,
smd for several other objects deeply in
leiesting lo many parts of 1 tie Union.
Under such stiong Impulses, the in
creased expenseo ior those objects were
generally voted for by both whigsandj
democrats, and could not be immediate
ly stopped, though their reduction be
t;an the very fust year of Mr. Van Bu
ten's term, and was again and again
urged on the consideration of Congress
by the proper organ of tho Treasury
Department. It will be seen by ihe
tabular statement, soon given, that the
netual expenditures were in this way
lesiened sevtral millions every yesi
during his term, till in lhe last one,
(1840,) thej equalled only about twenty
two millions and a third.
As conclusive evidence of this reduc
tion here is an exhibit, officially given
by the present secretary of the Treasury,
in his annual repoil of December t3,
1M3 pages 30 and 31. It is the whole
-expenditure for each year of Mr. Van
J)uren'i administration, excluding only
the debt and treasury notes, as is usual
an ascertaining Ihe actual expenses.
,1837 ?33,808-274
1538 ' '31,421,058
1539 24.999,189
1840 22,351,147
.JjLtBiLit winpropescd under Ihul ad
iwenly millions; and in 1842, and alter
ward. , to reduce (hem loonh seventeen
or eighteen million. (See the annual
Treasury rrparls in December, 1839
and 1840.)
ueducru as Uie expenses thus apnea
to have been, it is also a fjcl that their
amount would appear still lower.by ma
ny millions, if ihe objects which were
extraordinary and temporary were de
ducted.
By the following exlract fr6m an offi
cial table, it appears, lhat from Ihe com
mencement of General Jackson's first
term lo 1839, inclusive over half of thr
whole expenditure, yearly, was not on
mailers ol a permanent and ordinary
characler, tut on those arising from v
nous exigencies, such as before alluded
to, and which, in the opinion of a ma
jority of both parties in Congress, jusii
fieri ihe appropriations, and left the Ex
ecutive, however differing in opinion o
policy in some cases, no alternative, ex
cepi to execute the laws, which he had
sworn lo see carried into effect.
Extract fwn JJeport to Senate January 7, JS40,
No. 450.
-Aggregate amount jor permanent and or
dinury purposes,excluding payments on
account of objects either extraordinary
or temporary,
1829 7,503,204
1830 7,624,827
1831 7,679,412
1832 8,561,650
1833 8,827,095
1834 5,667,797
1835 9,157,490
1836 1 1,688. 9S7
1837 13,098,321
1828 13 837,594
1839 13,325,800
Bu' if no reduction is made for cxlra
ordinary and temporary objects, Ihe ex
penses under the democratic adminislra
lion have been ahaiiuiuliy exaggera
ted. The average expcns9s,indppendent ol
1he debt, were only about 811 000,000
yeaily duringGeneral Jackson's lerms,
and laking his and Mr. Van Buren'c
logelher, weie only about $21,000 000;
nnd linn, including everything tempo
rary and extraordinary. ("See Mr. Ew
Jng's repoil at the extra station, 1841,
to the House of Jleprtstntalives, No. 31
making ihe. average only $21,103,251 )
i nis is the naked irutn, as piovcd by
lhe lepoitsofwhigSrcrelarice, instead
of an rnrn.ll.i,rn f Tnriv million.
I
Hy, which wa so often reckltfy ch.r the
ed In the :anvua of 1840 But our
opponents held cut that, tinder them, a
reduction ot the expenses was to be
madr,not merely to twenty and eighteen
milltonr, hut to thirteen millions ot doll
ars yearly; and this from a quarter, o
mong many others, not likely to be
gslnsiid as not authoritative with tin
whig party. "The annual expenditure
(said Mr. Cliy) may, in o reasonable
time, be brought down from i!s present
imount of almost forty millions to neat
one third of lhat sum." (Mr. ClayV
ipeei'h at Hanover court-house, in 1840
eporled in the ivatioual Intelligencer ol
July 15, 1840.) Having shown alread)
thegroundlessricis of lhat charge about
forty millions, let us see a moment how
ihe 'deliberate expectations held out ac
companying it, have been disappointed.
Instead of keeping down the expenses
of 1841 below twenty millions, which
Mr. Van Karen's administration piopos-
ed instead of economising as the exi
gencies of the times and their own plcdg
es required, even Jo thirteen millions,
the whig), as soon as fully sealed in
power, convened an extra session ol
Congress and began forthwith lo vote
away for money. They gave outright
something like iwenly thousand dollars
lo Mrs. Harrison. They added object
,fter object, and scheme on scheme,wilh
out any extraordinary emergency, till,
helure their adjournment, ine aggregate
of new appropiialions equalled Irom five
lo six millions. It was ihujthat the ex
penses of thai year,instead of being kept
lown at nineteen or iwenly millions,
were swollen lo more than twenty six
millions; and have never since been re
duced by our opponents, nor proposed
to on reduced so low,within eight or ten
millions, as had been promised before
ihe election. Not (o rest any ol this on
issurtion, a tablets annexed, compiled
from the reports of their own officers
(Sec annual Treasury leporl December,
1S43, pp. 30, 31, appendix.) JiiXpensef
m di pendent of the public debt and trea
su ry notes.-
In 1841 S26,394,a43
In 1842 23,921,007
In 1343 03 22,560,224
In 1844 Yl 26.877,059
Thi3 is, on an average, 824.938,170 a
year, cy trie result win proojoiy exceed
that, unless the democratic pony sue
ceed in cutting down some ol the largi
estimated expenses for IS44. I his is
ilmpst twelve millions a year greater
than was promised before ihe election,
is ten lo eleven millions more yearh
ihan the aveiagc expenses tinder Gener
al Jackson and khtee lo four million.-
inoie annually than the average of Gen
mJ LALmvii i ml Mr. Van liurcn
.notner consideration eonnecictt wm
this subject, nnd I leave it for the pres
ent.
Uebides the reiterated charge of greai
expenditures in amount under Mr. Van
Bui en, which Ihe whigi engaged to re
iorm and reduce lo about thirteen mill
ions ycaily bin which instead of lowei
ing, they have actually increased, from
the twenty two and a half millions of hi.-
last year, to more than Iwenly six mill
ions in one, and higher Ihan lhat nro
posed in another year they complained
grievously that the expenses under Mr.
Van nuren were not met by the reven
ue of each year. It is Irue, thal.includ
ing appropriations added by Congress
and laige drawbacks of revenue not stop
pen, inougn requested, a deficiency oc
... .. i ri . c..- i , if ....
iuiicu ui buoui uve ano a nan minions
in the whole four years, and, in conse
nuci.vc ui wiai something nue ttiai sum
r .i... "i ...
lud been added lo tho temporary deb
hi the H of March. 1841. when Mi
Van outer) went out ol power. (Set
Mr. Foi ward's repoil to lhe Senate. N
41, January 10, lfa42.) But I his was
he whole of the false foily million debt,
created under him;uhi!e,ai to lhe S2G,
ta,yiy debt ivhtch, nccurding lo Up
ast annual report fiom Ihe Treasury,
now cxibis an oi il. nut mat live or
million.", has been created since, (iron
bout a quarnr of a million and a Ihird
issumed by Longrege on account ofthi
District ol Columbia. Indeed Mr.Clat
vein ur, in worut, as lo pledge him-
. . .. .
cn,inri caused his Inends in the Senali
o pledge themsrire.-. to prevent fuch .
uuit , uui bun rtcKiessiy piungeu iiiltl1'"1 iasi came to trie rars nl b nail crazy
TI, -..I
ii y iiiiiiti. mcst narmonioUhly ir
passing this ickoluiion: taken from tin
Journal in rebiuary, 1842.
"iUsolved, I hat u is lhe duly of the
L-j . auiiic ntrions migni W Ml o .
I Li I A r fv . . I. (I
e Ihe wholt amoun. of nominaUxpen L
Mines, inolucii.g IrraMirv nolcs nnd i -
feiri. ,IIU uu,y nvu yenrs oi ine
wnign adminiHra'i ui (1841-2) which
tie complete, liom (ho sameienori. ai.il
uiu ihij wnicn nrectued them; lsao.
!J0,ll7,176--1840, 2G,137,761 184 1,
32.092,72-1 1842, 38,398,000. Tlli
mukts Ihe two whieveaiE ihi- hi,lift
by Ihe sum of 1.D36 703
Ihe sum of l fi.ifi iri
h Estimated one quarter of the cal-
tirvear Three nL.r J'r,:-,.
8lO.D20.103s niiitnn-..n,.-.
rate. 1
rn .
r.,n t.- . ., . iimuinEoii ma iiuiwi iu u ui j- a ib, ?n ue
I V J'sl imalfil l.t. il, C..i.... f... . .....
fitral ve.r ' ,0'
yeir;
General Government (o provide on ad
equato levennc within the year to mee
the current expense ol the year,aml thr
any expedient, either by loin or by
treasury notes, to supply, in timu of
peace, a deficiency ol revenue, espoci
.illy during successive year., is unwise,
md must lead to pcrniciuus consequen
ce." Vet, in the face of jjiiho and hi?
friends have, every yepr' ainse they
came into power, violated both Ihe spir
it and letters ot Ihe resolve. I hey be
gan by giving away iho revenue from
the public lauds,aud next failou entirely
in providing what was hiIi quale from
other source!. They have, every yeai
fler, in a period of profound peace, re
sorted to the shifts of new loans or new
treasury notes. And, after thus swelling
the debt lo more than twenty-six mill
ions, they conlcmplatu an expenditure
this year and Ihe next, which, ui.lcss
prevented by retrenchment or new tax
ation on the people, will cjjsq a further
deficiency and debt, which theSccretaiy
of ihe weasuy estimates at $8,577,-
059 more. At the cud oi Ihe next year
if things go on Ibis way, their debt
may reach 35,000,OUU. ilow much the
will retrench in expenses, lo obviate
this,unlcss forced into il by persevering
firmness on Ihe part of (ho democtatic
members whose unfligging nxerlion
have accomplished all hitherto cifeced
can be interred trom the pisl.
In the aenatc where iUr. (Jlay'u ma-
jority has been decided during Ihe whole
period, numerous additions of appropri
ations and expenses havo originated;
rather than retrenchments, and, among
the foimer, that most unwarrantable
donation to whig piinlerj of near fifty
thousand dollars. 1 here, the reduc
tions attempted by democrats in the oil)
er house have also been thwarted in
many cases, and in others defeated.
And there, lust, but not least, in strong
proof lhat the whig parly, as a party,
meditate no real rclicuchment in expen
ses there, where Clay whigs outnum
ber all opposed lo them the great lead
er lumself got up a committee of re
trenchment, and hpd his colleague pla
ced at the head of il. Bui, incredible
a3 it might seem, nave, lo Ihe present
moment never has a single leporl ol
any kind come from lhat comm ttee,
never a single dollar of reltenehinent
been proposed; never a shilling tried lo
be saved lo Ihe public ticasuiy, nor a
jingle burden on Ihe people recomnicn
led lo be lightened.
From (his signal example lot nn intel
ligent yeomamy learn Ihe tiller woilh
lessncss of all wing piofessions as lo
economy and retrenchment in the public
session, Ihe Clay whigs have had a deci
ded majority in both Houses ol Uongress
over boln democrats and lyler men;
and have Ibus controlled ihe laws, au
thorizing expenses as well as receipts.
What piudcnl citizens can rally lo the
polls for Ihe election of spendthrifts like
these lor leader.1-? who keep the prom
ise of frugality and retrenchment to t lit
jar, Dot bieak it lo tho hones who
pro.tialed lhe public credit al one lime,
n me close ol IS41.arid lust half ol
1842, so as not to he able lo borrow :
lollar at pir, ond never nsloied il till
idopling ui niocraltc counse Is and lakinn
tack the proceeds of Ihe public lands
uiu wno occame lor months unable lo
meet Iheir debts, and if let alone, would
nave required a bankiupt law for lhe
Geneial Government itself, as ample as
mat inry passed to sponge out lhe pri
vaio iicuis oi many ol llieir political
menus and puhlio oiiici rs.
Ulurder Will Out V Imm .r,all,.
a sirani'o storv of n murder sahl n. U:,vp hno,.
p'ornmilted al or near Chippewa. A Captain
Hrundage.who somo years bo ran the lilile
loamboa! Victory between this norl and
Chippewa, and who has sinco resided at or
near lhat place, is iho party implicated
woman and child weic living wild him.
Some linio ago, but how loi.g we are not
iniormed, die woman, who had some six or
fighl hundred dollars in cash; and her chili'
disappeared but no suspicions were aroused
until one rnuriiinc when lie sexlon weni
into the grave yard and discovered a new
made grave. Ho wondered who dug it
5t lhe incident giving rise to some remarks
leuow, caneu old Moses," living in Hie
neighborhood, who related die following
liny, ue sam nn was lyinij in ine crave
yaru tue nigni oeiore, when Urundage bro'
in a woman and child and buried idem.-
The grave w hs immediately opened. Iho bo
dies of the woman and her'child were found
... n I.. r....u...:.i i .
mw n tlie jit at Niapaia awaiiing ' his
ui rr ,..i, nr..u n
ujuvernser
Indian Jf'ur.k e.uet
penuenre, Missouri. Irom Iho mountains.
states thnl at various times during tho pan
winlPr' ,,ie s''Jl'x Indians made inroads up
l',e P'ttiteo Indians- killing in iheir
encounters eighty of Iho Pawnees,
encounters eighty of Iho Pawnees, lakina
!wo ,of ,,.rn? P"50"?"' a,!d destroying ; one
si""
...... ru h.. ii is lunr.rr stated
311 , ,ndeP'n'nl , companies
Tadutg on lhe north fotk of Plalle, While
v"; "? - e aone ne.. mis
pieaiun,
ste
COMMUNICATIONS,
FOIt TUB COLOMBIA DEMOCnAT.
A Protective Tariff.
When any question of a public character
is raised in a nation ot a state, holding the
right of free discussion, il is the duly of ev
ery man to search for light on that question.
A high ptotcclive tariff has lately been
made a political question in some portions
of ll:c United Stales, ind especially in the
stale of Pennsylvania. In the stales of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Nou
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del
ware, .Maryland and Virginia, there are per
haps, nl the present lime between lift ecu
hundri and two thousand incorporated man
ufaclurtng companies, with nr. amount ol
hund cds or thousands of million capital in
vested, Pennsylvania alone has over three
bundled incorporated manufacturing com
panies, nnd Massachusetts lias nearly as
many mote. Nov it is urged by the ad
vocntcs of a high protective tariff, thai the
interests of the country would be greatly
enlarged by it. They urge that it would
raise competition, and in that event manu
facturers would sell cheaper than they now
lo' II nl this I hold lo be blind philosophy.
For the largo incorporate manufacturing
companies waulu swallow up (lie smnllct
ones end would entirely drive individual
compoliiion from the field, and would ena
ble large establishments to monpolise the
whole manufacturing interest. Besides a
a high tariff for protection is not in tho pow
er of Congress to grant. The constitution
of the United States says nothing that can
bo construed into a privilege or power of
granting to monopolies great favors. All
thai Congress has the right or the power to
do in this mailer, is lo lay and collect im
post duties for revenue to support the gen-
ural government. They mny encourage the
nanufHciure of bucIi arlieles as are indis
pensably necessary for the defence of the
munlry. Arms and ammunition, nnd such
is are used lo equip the army nnd navy.
But we will take only a single article of
laily use, that now has a tariff of lliirty per
cent., and one which 1 nomas J eliorson re
commended to have admitted free of duty.
I mean the article of salt. The salt works
in the stale of New Yoik produce nearly
ihrcc millions of bushels annually. This
the manufacturers can afford (o sell at their
establishments for twelve and a half cents
TaTrVnlfie' InTeTlir-Sl 'I'e'ffn sT Wh'lfafpi Soiled
perhaps a million of bushels, which cosi
the manufacturer less than ten cents a bush
el. Now if Mr, Jefferson in one thousand
eight hundred and two thought thai this
important article should ho admitted free of
duly in order that all classes of society
might share in the blessing, how docs it
happen lhat the incorporated bodies ofthi
it.
lay asit inr sucn a protection ; a prolectior
ol Irom Uurty to fifty per cent. The farmer
and laborer now have u pay one dollar
and ono dollar and twentv-five cents a bush
el for their salt, and many 'of the merchsnls
complain that they are making nothing by
retailing at thai price. How, I ask, can
that be, if salt can be had at Salina for
twelvo and a half cents a bushel T Can
it be brought from the hland of Great Bri
tain,. or any oilier foreign port for less mo
ncy : And when we consider that salt ts
one of tho most powerful manures that can
bo applied lo land, would it not be advanta
gcous in the country at Jarge, that sail al
least should be admitted free of impost duly
Suppose that sail could be obtained hero al
40 or 50 cents a bushels, and that 5 bush
ols lo the acre would add as muoh to the
prmlnrtive qualities of the soil as 50 bushel
of lime, it would bo apparent to every one,
lhat sail would then open a large conimcr
'al field, if Ions where there are now onh
bushels were carried on our canals and rail
roads. Would it not bring a revenue lo the
state, and if ovcry bushel of salt applied a
manure, increased lhe productive properties
of iho soil, would not the farmer have more
bushels of grain to sell lo the merchanl.and
tho merchant consequently have more to
end to foreign markets, which again would
bring an increase of revenue to the slate.
Out the manufacturers of salt at Salina, in
New. Yoik, upon lhe passage of the present
tariff held a meeting at which a resolution
was passed by which it was declared, thai
die thanks of tho sail manufacturers were
hie lo lhe friend of all monopolies, Hurry
Clay, for the active part he had taken in
support of lhe blll.and forthwith Ihey agreed
lo make iheir inestimable friend a present
of five hundred barrels of sail. Bui, I ask,
when was it ever known thi.t an incorpora
ted monopolizing company ever gave a pro
sent of t single bushel of salt lo the laborer
iho former or mechanic ? Whose inlciesi,
then,- is idvanced by this duty on sail In
n.ie- it advance die nnetal irilerent of the
'country ! I answer, no. Uul I will le
I "
you whose interest it does advance. h ad
vances ihe interest of the monopolist ami
speculator, ir.d makes the farmer; mechanic
and laborer pay one dollar for a bushel of
,i ..,ii et .
salt when he should only pay fifty cents.
Salt by the quantity, can now be hod in
I'lillaileip'ils or Ualiimnre, at prices mat between Trenie nnd Robertson sltceis.siooti
would allow a fair profit and be sold here u number of large, elegant and cosily brick
at sixty cents a bushel, nnd if lhe diltv was fcMdenccs, all of which aro dostrnyed.--,,
n iii ir i i t '. 1 1 heir blackened walls are somo of them
take off, it could bs afforded fo. forty or,.,,,, andinB. bu, a9 on ,hp olher f
at most, fur fifty cents a bushel; and if it i,,n burned district lhe houses were mostly
vvas thus sold, it very soon would become of wood, noihing now greets the eye of tho
ouiio an article of internal commerce- It
would be Used as a manure, and thousand
of bushels would bo consumed in thai way,
whore at present there is none, because the
high price at which it is sold will not admit
of its bring thus applied. Many districts
of tbis'slato might bo greatly benefitted by
lhe application of silt as s manure.
Tho question of a high tarifl'is one, there
fore, in which all classes are interested, and
which demands investigation. If it can bo
faiily proven by the constitution of tho U
nilod States, that Congress hnj no right to
granl exclusive privileges to corporafious
no right to levy taxes above the necessary
expenses of the government from whai
soureo do Ihey dorivo the power lo grant
privileged orders, and lake the haul earn
ings ftom ine poor' it give them to the rich?
Granl to Congress the power of laying high
protective duties, such as the mammoth
monopolising manufacturing corporations
ask for, and you may soon see the same
state of things existing here as exists under
the coin laws in Great Drilain; and instead
of the laborer getting belter paid fot his la
(bnr, you would see t'ic iron Heel ol power
placed upon his neck; because government
i .......
having granted an exclusive privilege lo
corporations, and they being amenable to
no J.iw, there would be n un.on of interest
and of action among manufacturers, lo paj
such and such wages &nn inoic.tn tho same
manner as there now exists a union among
merchants trading in the same town or dis
irlcl Any person at all acquainted with
such business have seen enough to know
dial one mcrrhant will not undersell the olli
er in the same lown. And why, because it
is their iuteicst to make as much as ihey can
In like manner il is the interest of manufac
lurcrs lo reduoo the price of labor, and got
goternmcnt to sustain them in selling at a
very high price al home, even more than
they can gel abroad" NUMA.
GREAT FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.
We lc am by the New Orleans Pieavone
of lhe lOih inst. that a most disastrous" fire
oceuried in lhe city iho day previous;whi;h
destroyed between two and three hundred
houses. J ho lire commenced In n eatpeti
ler shop belonging lo Mr. Goll. near lhe
norihwestern rorner of Franklin and Jark
bum biicuis, which, oeiore it con U Do poi
miner spiean to tno adjoining lenemenls
if.il. (ri..i..r.,i i:... i..71... ... , ...
I . . . .... o --
...... .. ..1,1.11 lujiiuiljr, JJ.VLTV uumniig war
of wood.and as dry as Under itself from ihp
long drought, so that nothing could cheek
lhe onward progress of the devouring elo
ment. The firemen asHombled immediately.
but n no water could be obtained othei
ihan ftom lhe gutters, their attempts at first
were rendered utteily unavailing. Thr
wind fortunately blew in lhe directiflti lo
wards the swamp; had it been olhciv.iso.
dm flames would have swenl towaids lhe
liver, in which case there would have been
no bounds to the destruction. As it was,
ihey were carried wiih lightr.in" raniditv
down Jackson street, communicating to the
houses on either side, and soon presenting
broad sheet of fire some hundred vards in
width. To attempt to arrest them was sonn
found enliiely nut of lhe power of mnn; mi
water could br procured, and the engines
wereinus rendered useless.
i o save their furniture was all lhat the
unfortunalu residents of this section could
hope to achiere,uud even in this there were
many of them disappointed. No sootier
HC they move their eileels to some house,
which Ihey hoped was out of reach of lhe
loiouriiii; element, than the flames were
upon them and they could mil v save them
olves by flight. In this way the fire rased
for three houis, during which time- it kep
imvn Jackson street, burning out to Uuua
on the right and (Jommon on tho left, and
crossing Tieme, Maiais, Villero and Rob
r!con, lo Claiborne streots, in all ten
quarea. Of all tho buildings which oceu-
pied this space yosteiday morning none are
now standing save the Maison do Santo, or
Ur. Sslone s Hospital, and a few Houses
long Common street. At one uino it was
feared lhat tho Charity Hospital would bo
lesiroyeu, and it was a sorrowful sight to
mc its inmates peering from tho windows
iho broad lalco ol destruction raging ho
fore them; hut fortunately the flames, althn'
ihev leaped, roared and cracked in ecrv
direction, did not cross Common street,
I he Maison de Sainte was saved, but not
until us inmates had been removed. At this
point, which is near the corner of Canal and
Claiborne streets, the firemen directed their
Wrongest energies, and fortunately were
luecessftil. Tho only water they could
ihiain from the first was drawn from the
pullers, the plugs at the different hydrant
ifling permitted lo run from the bicakine
out of the fire,
A litilo nasi 4 o'clock ihe fire bad subsi-
tied, spem itself for want or farlher rood lo
minalim- '11 allnttinl til riivf a hi! m llirt
9u(rererg; 0, ,ho im0lnt urpIUp0rty destroy
et. would be impossible. Hundreds of citi
izens have been left without slieller.and the
I""" '"s unfoHtinately fallen mostly upon
poor but industrious families, many of whom
lhe smjl ,m comfJMn Mngu
j wju1 ((0y reded. Along Canal strcot
ueuoiuer nave nn iminen-e ioresi oi r.imu-
neys, all elso being burnt smooth with tho
uround. We can liken lhe tinpeatanre of
this unfortunate section of our city to noth
ing save a now field, just brought into culti
vation, and on which lhe heavy trees have
been deadened and shorn iif then branches
and tops, hut still left standing, sad memen
toes of what ihey were in iheir freshness
mid pride.
The number of houses destroyed will not
fall'shoil of two hundred and eighty, and
many think that three hundred mil not
cover tho enlire number.
"rnuTii wiTilovr fkau
FOR PRESIDENT,
The Xomlucc oT I lie Democratic National
Convention.
FOIt GOVERNOR,
HENRY A. MUHLENBERG-
Canal Commissioner.
JOSHUA II ARTS HORN E.
PRESIDENTIAL
Wti.sos McOandluss,
Asa Dimock,
ELECTORS'
Senatorial
REPRnSENTATIVK.
1 Gcnrge F. Lehman
3 (Jliriitinu Koran
3 Win. It. Smith
4 John Hill (Phil.)
ft Samuel 1. Leech
C Samuel Camp,
7 J esse Sliarpo
8 N. W. Sample
9 VV'm. Hcinilcnrich
10 Conrad Shinier
11 Stephen Unluy
12 Jonah ltrcwtiter
1 H George SclinaMc
H Nathaniel II. Uldtcd
15 M. N. Irrino
10 James Woudtiurn
17 Hugh Montgomery
18 Isaac Ankcny
10 John M allien-
20 Wm. Patterson
"I Andrew Uurku
22 John M'Gill
23 Christian M)'crn
21 ?oLertUrr
(J"The next staled meeting of the
OKA AGEVILLE AND RHOERS
BURG HICKORY CLUH.will be held
at Orangeville, on Saturday, the 1st. day
ur u..w, t nnco'clock in the afternoon.
8C?A DEMOCRATIC MASS MEE I
iiIj will no held at Samne Hnrmnn'a
Halfway House, this afternoon, (Saturday)
at two o'clock. A boat will leave Hlooma
buig basin at ono o'clock, and will convey
all lo the place of meeting who may wish
to attend.
BLANKS ! I HLANKS 1 1
erp.lusiir.ps Blank EXECUTIONS mt
SUMMONS iust minted and for S!ilP ui
this Office
foe new Post Office bill has passed both
branches of Congress. A slight amend
menl was mado in tho house, whieh renders
its return lo tho Senate necessary. Tte
following is tho rate of postage agreed upon
roi every single teller lor a less distanco
than thirty miles, shall bo ihrco cents; over
thirty and less ihan ono hundred miles, five
cents; over one hundred and less than thrco
hundrod, ten cents; for double letters. double
the rato affixed to single letters; for tieble
lellers, lioble; and for quariiplo loiters, four
limes these ralos. Each parcel of ono sheet
not weighing moro than n quarter of an
ounce, shall bo deemed a single letter ; if
composed of two sheets or pieces, anil
not weighing more ihan half an ounce, a
double lottei; and for overy additional quar
tor ol an ounco the postage shall te pro rata
increased by iho amount of a single
letter for lhe same distance. All lellers
deposited in an offico nol for transmission
but for delivery only, shall bo charged two
cents each, and to iho postage of all letters
adveilised al Ihe periods usual in iho office
whero Ihey aro delivered shall bo added lhe
coal of advertising.
The election of Col. H. U. Wrieltl as
Presiden of tho Democratic National Con
venlton, is a severe rebuke unon lhe H.ir
risburg Argus clique, or Purler faction, for
tho malignity with which ihey have assail
ed him for a year past, and particularly for
their recent base attempt to induce the
Stale Central Commiitoe to strike his namo
from tlie list of delegates. As lo the oppo
sitiouof the small fry in this county, why,
it was lifio a haul biting an elephant.
Several persons have bson arrested and
committed or hold to bail, on a chargo of
being engaged, in the Ute Philadelphia riots.