GIMAT CHANOES.-A gentleman by the name of Dew is a great speaker in the Legislature of Tennessee. We copy a portion of one of his speeches: Sir, I would have gentlemen of the dont inant party to understand that Demorratsl are not to be deterred from the defence of John Tyler, if they think him worthy of support.. He was not our candidate, but' theirs. But, sir, he is a native of the Old Dominion, the land of Tom Jefferson. of Madison, of the immortal ‘Vashington —the land of Presidents, and the birth• place of the fathers of Democrats. Mr. Speaker, when I speak of the father of his Country I do it wit feeling emotions of my soul. Alas ! is there any gentleman present who does not-chill up at the men tion of his name as if he were shivering a mong the eternal . snows of South Ameri ca But, sir, I cannot dwell here. I re, peat that John Tyler descended from a pure stock—yes sir, - from the noble band of Pilgrim Fathers who landed before my day, or your (lay, on the Plymouth Rock, in Old Virginia. And there, Mr. Speaker, to this day that old rock rears its proud front, as one of the glorious mountains of the Old Dominion." NVe learn from the reporter that at this stage of the remarks of Mr Dew, the au. thence interrupted him with loud outcries whether of applause or condemnation is not stated, although the words "Go it Dew," were parti,:ularly audible. After Mr Dew had concluded his speech, another gentleman rose and ob served that he would like to hear a little more from that gentleman who had jus taken his scat relative to the geographi cal position of ''Old Plymouth Rock." Mr Dew — replied, "That the rock is where you nor I have never been, and this is sufficient; and if it is not, sir, I le peat it is in the Old Dominion, common called the state of Virginia. [Shout rug.] From the Madisonian. CIRCULAR LETTER TO THE SPE CIAL .\OENTS OF THE POST OF FICE DEPARTMENT. POST-OFFICE OF.PARTMENT, November 4th, 1841. SIR:—To the duties assigned you by any former instructions, as Special and! Confidential Agent of that Department, 1 desire to add that of strictly observing the manner in which the Post offices are kept in the setion and along the lines of route you may be called to inspect and travel. The Postmaster General expects that , every Post Office, whatever may be its importance, shall be attended to or su• pervised by the Deputy Postmaster. The practice, which, I regret to learn, has ob taineil in many portions of the United States at one man holding the commis sion of Postmaster, whilst another dischar ges its duties, must be stopped; and when such cases fall within your knowledge, I desire that they be made the subject of special report. Great carelessness in opening and keep ing the mail in insecure places, and per mitting persons, other than the Postmas ter, or his sworn assistants, to have ac• cess to the same when opening, or after it l is opened, has been charged, in general terms, upon many of the Postmasters in the small towns and villages. This evil must be corrected, and when you have ev idence of the tact, it is expected you will make it known to the department, that the only efficient remedy may be applied. I will not continue in office those who will not themselves give their time and at tension to the discharge of its duties, or who violate or suffer violations of the rules of the Department in opening and distributing the mail. It is also desirablethat you observe the deportment of all earners and drivers of mails, and report any misconduct arising from wilful negligence or carelessness and inattention to their employers arid to the Department. Many complaints have been made a gainst the agents or travelling postmasters on rail road routes, you are expected to observe the conduct of such as may fall within the range of your supervision. Information has been communicated to this Department that drivers and carriers. of the mail, on the more distant and un important routes, are in the habit of car rying letters in violation of law, thereby lessening the income of the Department. As this may be done in ignorance of the law, you will inform and instruct the con tractors to charge the carriers and dri vers not to violate the law in this particu lar. The act of 1825, section 20, directs that all carriers shall deliver such letters,. whether sealed or unsealed, to the first Post office at which they arrive after re ceiving them, and the Postmaster is direc ted to rate and charge postage. If you become satisfied that any Post Office is no' of public utility, and nut re quired for the public accommodation, you will report that fact and the reasons for the opinion. Upon the active exertion and vigilant! supervision of the Special Agents of this Department, mainly depend the reg,ulari• ty, security and efficiency of mail trans pirtation, and I cannot too strongly im press upon you the importance and high, responsibility of your stations. It is to you the Postmaster General must look for accurate information upon all subjects pertaining to the out-door operations of the Department. Give me your efficient, aid, and I do not despair of making the: past Office Department eminently useful and popular. • Very respectfully, ob't servant, C. A. VICKLIFFE. As "ignorance of the law excuseth 'llan." the following extracts from the Post Office laws, may he found useful, and serve to show the duties of officers and the people. INSTRUCTIONS Of the Postmaster General of the U. -States, to I'ostmasters-1841. Letter postage is to be charged on all handbills, printed or written; prices cur rent, sealed or unsealed; prospectuses, pro' posals for new publications, circulars, lot tery bills and advertisements, blank forms deeds, law processes, policies of insu rance, and manuscript copy for publica tion. You will also charge letter postage on all packets that are closely enveloped and sealed, so that what they contain can not be known. The wrappers of all newspapers, pam phlets, and magazines, received by mail for delivery, should be taken off. Frauds are very often attempted, by concealing letters or memoranda in these articles, .% wrapper forms no part of the paper or pamphlet; neither is postage paid on it, is as touch the duty of Postmasters to take the wrappers from transient papers and examine them in reference to frauds on the revenue as to ascertain whether let ters are single or double, or whether the postage be correctly charged. Nothing can be more unjust than to censure a Post master for vigilance in this branch of his duty. It is a violation of law to enclose or con ceal a letter, or other thing, or any memo raudutn in writing, in any newspaper pam plilet, or magazine, or in any package thereof, or to make any writing or memo• random thereon, and deliver the same in to any Post Office, or to any person for that purpose, in order that it may be car ried by post, free of postage: and many attempts are made to evade the payment of legal postage, by communicating intel ligence by means of dots or marks, desig• Elating, particular words and letters con tained in newspapers and pamphlets. In all such cases the newspaper, pamphlet, or magazine, should be charged with let ter postage; and if the person to whom the paper or pamphlet is addressed, refuses to pay letter postage thereon, you will iin inediately enclose the paper or pamphlet to th i Postmaster from whose office it came, and request him to prosecute the person who - placed it in his office, for the penalty of five dollars prescribed by law. See section 30, act of 1825. You are not authorized, any case, to give credit for postage, or to receive any thing but specie or its equivalent; and all payments to the Department must be made in specie or its equivalent, No al -I lowance can be made to Postmasters for the depreciation of money received for postage, nor for losses by fire, robbery, or theft. At the beginning of every Post Office quarter you will require the subscribers and others who may receive newspapers regularly through your office, to pay the quarter's postage thereon in advance; and without such payment you will not deliv er them any papers, even though they ten der you the postage on them singly. A Postmaster may enclose money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper to pay the subscription of a third person, and frank the letter, it written or signed by himself, but if the letter be signed by another person the Postmaster cannot frank it. But this is a service not requi red of him, and he may perform it as a matter of courtesy or decline it at his op tion. Such letters should contain only, 1 and relate solely to the transmission of money from individual subsrihers to pub lishers of newspapers, and not the col lections of agents and others; and they should not cover correspondence on any other subject whatever. PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY A. GAINST TIME OFFICERS AND OTREUS OF THE. U. S. BANK. To the Hon. Court of General Sessions: The Grand Jury of the County of Phil. adelphia respectfully submit to the Court on their solemn oaths or affirmations, the, following statement of their proceedings: On the 12th clay of November, 1841, a' paper containing charges of a criminal , nature against certain individuals, and which is hereto annexed, marked B. was presented to the Grand Inquest now in quiring for the county of Philadelphia, by a respectable citizen, who pledges himself to make good his charges, and be the pros ecutor. An accusation, coming in such a', shape, the Grand Jury telt it to be an im-, perative duty to investigate, and accord ingly subpoenas were issued for all the persons named as witnesses by the per sons making the accusation, and for such others who, in the course of the examina tion, were found to be cognizant of any material facts having relation to the charges. A tell and searching inquiry has been instituted, and the deliberate opinion of the Grand Jury is, that certain Officers of the United States Bank, have been guil ty of a gross violation of the laws; col• loguing together to defraud those Stock holders who had trusted their all to he preserved by them. And that their is good ground to warrant a prosecution of l such persons for serious offences, which the Grand Jury do now present to the Court, and ask that the Attorney Gener al be directed to send up for the action of the Grand Jury, bills of indictment a• gainst— First—Nicholas Biddle, Samuel Jaudon John Andrews and others, (to the jury unknown,) for entering into a conspiracy to defraud the Stockholders of the United States Bank, of the sum or sums of $4OOO, 000, in the year 1836; and endeavoring to conceal the same, by a fraudulent and illegal entry in 1840. To sustain the above—Endorsed—A u . stin Montgomery, Capt. Henry Mallery, Henry Korn; as accusers Moses Kemp• ton, Edward Coles, James S. Newbold, Joshua Lippincott, Jonathan Patterson, Thos. Taylor and William Drayton, as witnesses. The Grand Jury, on their solemn oaths' or affirmations, do farther ask that a bill of indictment be sent to them against— second— Nicholas Biddle, Joseph Cowperth waite, Thomas Dunlap, and others, (to the Jury unknown,) for entering into a' conspiracy to defraud, &c. &c. the stock holders of the Bank of the United States during the years 1836, 1838, 1839, 1840,. by which the stockholders have been de frauded out of a sum or sums of money ex ceeding $3000,006. To sustain this bill—endorse the same! accusers as in the first ease•—as witnesses, Moses Kempton, Edward Coles, James S. Newbold, Joshua Lippincott, Jona than Patterson, Thomas Taylor, William Drayton, Joseph Cabot, Rodney Fisher, Richard Price, and George handy. The Grand Jury, on their solemn oaths or affirmations, do farther ask for a bill of indictment against Alexander Lardner, Thomas Dunlap, Richard Price, Law rence Lewis, and George Handay, and others, to the Jury unknown, for feloni ously, &c. conspiring to cheat and defraud the stockholders of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, of the sum or sums of about 5130,000 in the year 1840. To sustain the charge, the same accusers as'are the others. And as witnesses Mus es Kempton, Edward Coles, James S. Newbold, Joshua Lippincott, Jonathan Pattersrn, and Thomas Taylor. The Grand Jury would also inform the Court that they (the Jury) have before, them another subject of much importance, and which involves a misdemeanor of the' greatest character, as c 0... ;tinted by a magistrate of Southwark, whose duty it k to protect the citizens and their prop erty, instead of conniving with burglars and thieves; and taking the money that they had stolen, and then allowing them to escape justice, and to prey again upon the community. With respect, &c. T. B• TOWN, Foreman. Grand Jury Roots, Phil. Dec. 10, 1841. (LETTER B.) I charge Nicholas Biddle, Joseph Cow perthwaite, Thomas Dunlap, Samuel Jaus clog, and John Andrews, with fraud and theft, in taking and using for their own iiene . P.t. and accommodating their friends, the mobey belonging to the Stockholders of the United States Bank, which they were paid to guard and not to abuse; my proof is, the report of the investigating committee, made to the stockholders in April, 1841. As to the idea of the above being a breach of trust only, 'tie not so ; 'tis too idle and insulting to be pretended or en tertained fur one moment; away with it then, and lorever I These men were ser vants, and paid for their services ; so are your family domestics to whom you give in charge your plate, and other valuables. But if they appropriate it, or them, to themselves, they are unhesitatingly charg ed with, and proceeded against as for theft, and why not Nicholas Biddle and the rest ? AUSTIN MONTGOMERY, - - Assignees/ Sale. Fri HE undersigned Assignees of Wil -1 -m- liam Pollock, will offer for sale by public vendue, at Winchester Furnace, Cromwell township, Huntingdon county, on Tuesday, the 4th (lay of January next, the PERSONAL PROPERTY of the said William Pollock, consisting of 15 head of horses, 10 sets of horse gears, S wagons with their coal beds, and 1 road bed, 1 new cart and harness, 2 sets of ,stove patterns, 1 lot of flasks, and 1 set FURNACE TOOLS, 1 set of blacksmith tools, a small lot of hard and queens ware, several tons of blooms, and a quantity of pig iron, farm ing utensils, one sleigh and harness, cows and hogs, household and kitchen furni• Lure, and a variety of other artick s. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock. A reasonable credit will be given. Terms of sale will be made known on day of sale by DAVID BURKET, batgnees WM. B. LEAS, of ABRM. LONG, W. Po!lick Dec. 22, 1841. To Our Creditors. Take notice, that I have applied to the Judges ot the court of common Pleas 'of Huntingdon county for the benefit of the laws of this commonwealth made for the relief of Insolvent debtors; and the said court has appointed the 2nd Monday (1 Uh day) ot January next, for the hear ing of me and my creditors, at the court house in the borough of Huntingdon, when and where you may attend if you see proper. .MMES PRY. ABRM. R. CRAINE, GEO. BRUMBAUfH, ISAAC DEFORD, JOHN MYERS, HENRY FAG.I . N, GEO.7GE AIURRITS, A. J. CAMMELD. DAVID M ,111912TRIE. !THE JOURNAL. One country,one conetitutionone destiny Huntingdon, Dee. 22, 1841 The Message. As we promised, we shall take some farther notice of the message. It may M , thought a little country editor has no right I to an opinion different from th , t leading !Journals of our Atlantic cities ; yet we still entertain our own notions of right and wrong, nor are they to be entirely regula ted by those of any men whom circum stances has made the conductor of a paper a few inches larger in its dimensions than the "Journal." Many, in fact the greater portion, of the public journals speak in commendatory terms of the message of Captain Tyler,— that is, the kt hig journals. Some of them even go so far as to commend it en masse, without any exception. ms for our part, we do not condemn it as a whole, but we do say unhesitatingly, that since our re collection, we have never seen a national document which seemed to be so near no. thing. This may be considered a very sweeping expression for a country editor to make against Captain Tyler, President of the United States. We can only say, accident has done many things in the way of changing a man's situation in life,--but 'accident does not endow him with either !integrity, intellect, or moral firmness. One thing we do know, that had Martin .Van Buren given publicity to a document of the saint character as this message, there is nut a Whig paper in the Union but what would have pronounced it a weak and miserable apology. The every day business of the message is common place and well enough, but there is no where boldness and decision of, purpose manifested. On the subject of the aggressions of the British upon our yes - sets, it does not come up to our notions. There is a kind of "iguess" and "may be", expression about it that we do not admire. There is nut even a single suggesstion as to what is deemed to be the proper course. • "This Government will not cease to urge li upon that of Great Britain fall and ample remuneration for all losses," and then he "mill nut indulge a doubt but that the sense of Great Britain will constrain her to' make a retribution for any wrong or la,ses., Now, in the name of common sense, i s that the language that should be used by the President of the American people,' when speaking of the gross abuse and in sult the starry banner of our country has received at the hands of Great Britain?— Insult has been offered upon insult, until the British cruizers have become as bold as they were previous to the last war; and the people learn with satisfaction, that by • and with the advice and consent of John Tyler, Captain, "This Gov-rnment will • not cease to mg, " &c, That cettainly is very sate-f:tctory information to the American people. His views upon the subject of the Ta riff meet our approbation. There should undoubtedly be a discrimination exerci. sed in the selection of articles which should bear the heaviest duty. The lux uries which are consumed almost solely by the wealthy, should undoubtedly bear a much heavier burden than those articles of consumption which are alike necessary • to those of all classes. If the wealthy r ' will indulge in their useless and extrava gant follies, let them pay for it—they are able. Then comes his scheme of currency tinkering; and the people are made ac quainted with another "experiment," sug gested by one who has fora time at least beer. supposed to be an opponent of the system of experiments, which the curren cy doctors have been trying for the last few years. We may be mistaken, (and we might say, should be glad if we were,) but we really think had this same plan now suggested, come from Martin Van Buren, previous to the last election, that there is not ono of our writers or speakers, not even excepting the Captain himself, but what would have denounced it in reg ular terms. To us it seems now to have some of the features of the Sub Treasury, and some of its most objectionable ones. But as the details of the plan are not giv en, it is somewhat difficult to tell precise. ly what is intended or desired. We hope therefore that Congress will immediately call upon the Secretary of the Treasury for the details of the plan, for it is fair to presume that that may be considered ill, Administration plan, as concluded upon by the Cabinet Council. ills views on the subject of the State debts are at any rate creditable, and such us should meet the approbation of every I lover of his country. This notion that a State can, under any circumstances, "re- Pydiate" a debt, is one that should be scoffed at by every citizen. Let one State do so, and it must affect in a very considerable degree the credit of every State in the Union, both at home and abroad. Those unacquainted with the character of our institutions, would pre- Rome such a course by one State as decla ratory of the conduct of all others ; and even our own citizens would see in it the establishment of a precedent, at which faction would point to accomplish the same result in any or every other State. Then follows his suggestions as to the officeholders, which deserve the cell su re of every man, woman and child. Ile openly avows himself the advocate of offi cers for life; and has the boldness and effrontery to request the passage of a law taking from the President the right of re moval. This is a direct insult to the American people, perhaps not intended, but not less an insult. To talk to a Gov ernment of Republicans to establish by law an aristocracy of officeholders, is a little too much. Every individual knows that, when too long in power, the officer becomes the ruler, not the servant of the people ; and the independent and impu , dent official "cuts such fantastic tricks as makes the angels weep." Mr. Ty ler has had boldness enough to suggest such a measure, after, however, lie has had sufficient time to slide into place the needy aspic ants of his own kith and kin. For one we repudiate the doctrine ; and John Tyler now holds his place in virtue of the opposition of the people to the of• flee holders of Van Buren, whom he now keeps snag in the very places from which the people desired them to be ousted.-- We do hope that the present Congress will, as a body, express their censure of this unpopular and disreputable feature of the message. There is another thing in the message which we had nearly forgotten to notice. It is his "great reliance on the wisdom and patriotism of Congress," on the sub ject of his currency experiment. Now the bare idea, that he, John Tyler, places any reliance 'pun the wisdom It that! Congress, on a subject, which he has al ready told them. he understood much bet ter than they do ; ay., twl , e told; seems to us worse than preposterous; or, in oth er words, it looks like sheer hypocritical cant, signifying nothing ; and assuming very much the appearance of an insult at that. There is the same tone about it as Mark Anthony's--" For Brutus was an honorable man, so were they all hon orable men;" and we can see nothing else: and we shall be mistaken if Mr Tyler does not exclaim when he was done with his message, like him, "Now let it work Mischief, thou art a fool. Take then what course thou wilt." The U. S. Rank Case. In tomlays paper will be foundehe pre sentment of the Grand Jury of Philadel phia County. in the case of certain dis. tinguished individuals connected-, oh the U. S. Bank. The Philadelphia priers say that the subject produced much excitement. Trn• mediately upon the reading in the court a motion was made for Bench Warrants to be issued for the persons named.— Whereupon the counsel for Biddle. moved to quash the presentment, and the argu. l ment it is thought will occupy some days of the court. Counsel appeared in behalf of each individual except Mr Coperthwaite for whom a Bench warrant was issued. Gnat may be be terinitrition of all this, cannot be loi etold. The community believe that there has been either fraud or theft committed by those entrusted with the guardianship of that institution; and we think it is the duty of those suspected, if innocent, to court a lair and public in vestigation into their conduct. How it is possible that twenty-eight millions of dollars could all be sunk in a few years in the ordinary practice of tlisiness is not eoeily conceived, and it is undoubtedly the ditty of the suffering stockholders to s eek some means to ascertain in what manner they have been crushed under the feet of the "Alonster.” Let the investigation take place ; and no matter "where the bolt may strike, or how," still let it fall, if it can be proven that any have been guilty. r',,TMF FLOE LAWS. -Our readers will' find in our paper of this s eek, some ex tracts from the Laws, which regulates the transactinns in the Post Office, .V e would call the attention of all to them, as they may prove of importance to evet'f person ; and at the same time may save a Post Master from censure, when it is known, that he is simply complying with the Law. Our Mails. We have on one occasion before spoke of the subject of our aix day mail. We said then that we considered it an out rage on the community. But the greatest injuries are only Occasionally felt. When a little rain or snow storm happens to im pede the progress of the mail a few hours, and they do not happen to arrive at the regular place of leaving the mail on Sat urday night. The contractors without ceremony leave the mail wherever they see fit, and the result is, that we sometimes get but five mails a week. If this six day system is persisted in, we may expect ere long to see the mail bags left at whatever Place the stage happens to be on Saturday night, at l 2 o'clock. The mail which should have been at Lewistown on Sun day morning, was left in this town, simply because the stage happened to arrive here twelve hours otter the time. Consequent. ly, the people of Lewistown loose one mail in a week. Under such a state of affairs there is no certainty as to the arri val of a mail, and a man's note may b e protested on Monday in Lewistown when the money to save his character is lying quietly in our Post office. Let us not be understood as censuring the Post Master of this place—He has no control over it— If the contractors call for the mail they 'would get it. 0::7-W e find the following notice in the U. S, Gazette. We are well acquainted with the milividnal named; and have un derstood that he is, at the present time, employed some where in the neighbor hood of Bellefonte, Centre county, Pa. At any rate, we can satisfy the minds of his friends as to the fact, that he was not the person found mut dered in Bed ford county last September. One of our citizens saw, and spoke to him, about the middle of October, in Boalsburg in the above county ; and our information leads us to think that he is still engaged in that county. fJ'c publish the notice in hopes that it may meet Mr. Hinkle's eye. Infortnation To wanted of PHILIP 111117CLE, son rot' he late Philip Hinkle of Berks coun ty, a carpenter, between 23 and Q 4 years t,ltl, about 5 feet 8., inches in height, of a candy complexion, somewhat freckled in toe lace, dark sandy hair, and having three mar ks on the right cheek from the small pox, which might be mistaken for sears. He has not been heard of since June last, when he was working at a bridge about 14 miles from Hollidays, burg,. It is thought by his friends that he was the yolng man whose murdered body was found on Rayshill, Bedford county Pennsylvania, in September last, a dis cription of which in the Ledger corres ponded with the above. Any intelli gence in relation to this mysterious circum stance will be most gratefully received, and if alive, and this should meet his eye, Ire is earnestly entreated to write with ,tot elf lay to his afflicted mother and fam ily. SARAH HINKLE. No. 35 Ridge Road, above Callowhill street Philadelphia. N. B. Newspapers are requested to pub I ish the above; by so doing will confer a favor to a distressed family. Huntingdon Academy. We learn that an examination of the pupils of this Institution took place on the 3d instant. Our absence from home. we regret to say, precluded us from at tending. A short notice of which was sent to us by a spectator, for publication in our last paper. A more than ordinary press of matter however, excluded it, and we now proffer our Apology. A very numerous audience was in at tendance, a part of which was composed of the interesting pupils of the "Female Seminary" of this place. We are ex— ceedingly gratified to learn that the ex— amination, not only reflected much credit on Mr. Massey, the Teacher, but gave ev... itlence of his ability and anxiety to instill i into the minds of those under his instruc tion, the value of both education and: tim e. The performance gave great plea sure to the parents and guardians; proving that the zeal and assiduity of the Teach er had taken a proper hold upon the minds of the scholars who showed too that they took a deep interest in the various exercises. For the information of the Public, we, state that all the branches preparatory to a collegiate course, are taught in the in stitution ou very moderate Term
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