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iAilatitt 4 'is.concdrneti, been.distinguielied by
kt.'.4'.ZllF/Witti.:of . the most elaborate and able reports
4: ineither branch of the National
Corispictrus ainone . them will
Repoli yesterday made by Mr.
from tiSelect Conimittee appoin
•
Upon his motion, to inquire into the ex
•‘;f4,,',:eixtent and operation of the constantly in
•,•ilettiasing patronage of the Executive of the
States. In presenting the Report,
ottmourt said that it had the unaiii
::.l4,-,-,1111(1119 assent of the committee on every point
of:it . ljut one,• and on that one a single mew.
'q..ira-Wrifthe r committee only dissented.
Repart was read at the Clerk's table,
~r' s' cliieliy by : Mr. PRESTON and Mr.SetyrirAito.
' l :T:,The'-i.eriding of it occupied more than Iwo
!,;` , :linur - s - i great - length leaves it doubtful
',Mien we - in ly be able to publish at large,
i`Z4' , ,,‘":and.at the same time makes it en impossi
ii:..tde•task to give, in the hrief space of time
allotted to wafter hearing it read, any thing
:like a satisfactory condensed view of it.—
!We shalfendeaveronly, therefore, to trace
tta gorier ii outline, premiSing that it is a Re
,••t*::- port in and not ile - finit;ve. •
- .The Report sets out, very prOperly, with
c ; ? - -i- - an efflirt to asecetaiti the present exicut of
the•Ekeclit ive pat renege. For tbiS purpose,
•-i'fL:;--••• the reteres tit the year 1434, not being
P the
fete they take year 18'33 as the year
•
otl
the necessary data; which data
are, first, the revenue of the General Gov
fiernment from all sources; secondly, the
penditgres of the Government, exclusive of
payment - or the public debt; and thirdly, the
number of persons ivba, as offieers, agents,
contractors, or in other forms, are in the Fe•
cOipt of' the public money. The revenue of
833,•the Report states to have been over
thirty-five millions of dollars; the
tures, exchisive of public debt, to have been
nearly twenty-three millions of dollars; and
• the number of persons who are recipients of
. the public money to have been sixty thou
•sand two hundred and odd, of whom belong
its nearly as we catch the numbers) to the
' 'lList 12,144;
•
.'Civil
dian Departments 9,643; to the Navy (in
.eluding Marine Corps) 6.499; and to the
'Post Office 31,017; all of whom derive their
places directly or indirectly from the Execu
. live; and, with the exception of the Judicial
officers, - .are subject to removal from office
at Ihe will and pleasure. of the President.--
te these be added thirty-nine thousand
five hundred and forty-nine 'penitioners, an
aggregate appears of one bundred thousand
and seventy.nine persons •in the employ of
the Government, or in the 'receipt of money
f'i•om the public treasury.. • If to these be
added the countless hest of those who are
to . displace the present recipients
and beneficiaries, some idea may be formed
of the extent of the influence in the country
Of the patronage resulting from such barged
disbursements of money, in which so many
individuills are interested.
The Report then proceeds to show the)
• great increase of the public expendilAr
Alia eight years, from 1625 to 1833, inclu
sive,.carryine. with it 'a cru'responding in
4.i:vaie or El r, vompowation
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;i:'.. e. rapid increase, by ledian treaty ofreserve
'• ' atins of •larvia,to Indians to be disposed of
j; • '_-by them' only with the consent of the . Ex
, ecutive, than which it is difficult So imagine
‘,.
a device better calculated to enlarge the
-„•,' Executive patronage. The practice of re
...,'. „moving from once persons who are well
qualified for and have faithfully performed
their duties, in order to introduce others in
2 • - their stead who are of the party in power—a .
- practice-of recent date—is also the subject
of grave censure in this view of the Report.
..- Cases, it is true, may be found in the)early
stages of this Government in which reinov
' alsfrom o ffi ce have been made, but they are
::: so few In number as to constitute instances
rather than a practice: and it is only within
e :i.,t
~..,. e few years, that an opportunity, has beau
;:x ; afroded et testing the practice as a system
. by its effects.
Formerly, the patronage of the Executive
c :: ''.. was confined, in point of fact, to the power
Of nominatinir persons to fill occasional va.
, .. camas in the public offices. Under the
• contrary practice, the offices of the Govern
'-' meet, instead of public trusts, whose faith
-. lid execution is mainly to be held in view,
come to be considered as the spoils of victo
ry after a political contest—the rewards for
faithful service in the ranks of party, the re.
cipients of which become the corrupt and
~- supple instruments of power, &c.—and, by
the hope of like reward, is created a host of
hungry, greedy, and subservient partizans,
ready for anv service, however corrupt, &c. 1
Thie:practice, therefore. the Report goes on
,:. to say, is a system to encourage vice and
discourage virtue, and must end, if not re.
fornao, by overturning the Government and
rattling , a despotism on its ruins.. Faithful
. performance of duty being no longer a re
commendation to continuance, the public of
. &ere consequently feel their dependence on
-.the mere . pleasure of the Executive, and re
:: , tiert Wall those acts of compliance and sub
'-..servietsicy which they, learn to consider as
- ,...,-.i . ,riticetertiendetions to his favor, &c.
~.•,,..,-.,. The Report tl'en adverts to the circuit].
'.,:irteetiiv,cit the increased piiwer which the
. !," - y:'• : , Xteculive hes acquired by the control which
'4'.i:,,,,f
We events have given to him over the pub
' - f, dirt funds. Without mooting here the (pies.
~ tet -,of the , legality or illegality of the action
,:t.a -et ,4t,the Executive hi removing the public ma.
-inl;T Viirriiip - cleposite in the Bank of the United
tsit4 the C,enunittee say that there can
5 1, 14ileht epee the mind ofifiy man that the
%;:: , ,, ; ;:i 4 , ;,..ettl.pf the puhlie deposite.s has inereas.
.; 1 1 , :- Orr or the Executive s by placing
1100 fttetie under hie sole
- end uelimi.
t.
1: t .:, llid* . ill they must continua to be until
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AI. REPORT.
.111 others, tie
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otherwise provided by some action on the
part of Congress—if indeed any act of Con
gress can be passed of greater effect in this
respect than that which, at the time the
public
. moneys were reenwed,di reeled where
they should be kept. The Report goes on
to state some facts showing the extent of
patronage exercised through this assumed
power of cont rolling the dcposites of the pub
lic money, &c. &c.
Flaying thtis shown, by a variety of facts
and arguments, of which the above meat',
ford but n very faint idea, the enormous ex
tent oftho Executive pewer,the Report takes
some philosophical views of the subject.--
Patronage, in a Government, says the Re
port, is at best.but a neeemar.o evil; the ten
dency of which, oven when comparatively
restricted in its extent, is to debase and con ,
relit the morals of the community. In all
well•regulated tree gevernments, therefore,
eo more of it will be retained than is Demi
%try to their healthful existence. The idea
that a large EXeCutive patronage is neces
sary to give eflieiency to the government is
romlinted as a fidlacy, demonstrated to be
such by d comparison of the present with
the past extent of that petromige in this Go
vernment. For this comparison the Com
,.
nuttee select the year 18'25 and 1833, the
former year being one in which the extent
of the Executive patronage already began
to be thought too great, and the latter be
cause it is the latest of which they can ob
tain correct returns. From this comperisom
it appears that the income of the Govern
meet, including the Post Office, was, in
1825, 828,147,000; in 1833, 830,687,000
(rejecting fractions.) That the expenditure
of the Government, (exclusive of the public
debt) was in 1825, 812,719,000; in 1833,
825,685,000: and that the number of persons
receiving emolument or compensation from
the Government, was, in 1825, fifty.five
theusand seven hundred and seventy-seven;
and in 1883, one hundred thousand and se
venty•nine persons.
Nleasuring the extent of the public patron
age by these elements, combined with that
of the gross expenditure, without adverting
to the other circumstances whiCh have been
shown still farther to enlarge it, the result is
as sixty-five to eight•nine, chewing as in
crease of patronage between those years of
thirty-six per cent; The progressive in
crease having been much greater within the
Inst four years than within the four years
preceding.
Anticipating the answer to thus statement,
that the increase of patronage &c. has not
heen greater than t he increase in the growth
and population athe country, the Report
goes on to show. by the operation oldie se
veral causes already enumerated, that the
patronage or the Government has more than
doubled within a space of time wherein the
growth and population of the country have
not riVobably increased more than 24 per
cent. But, whilst showing this, the Report
(hems that there is any substantial reason
why the patronage of the Government should
increase in proportion to , its increase or,
population. This idea, the report goes on
to shew, is an assumption dangerous as well
as erroneous. The danger of a patronage,
thus increasing with the growth of a coon.
try, arises from the great advantage, of an
organized. over and unorganized mass; the
great advantage which, in a populous coun
try, power thus acquires over liberty. The
Report dilates on the power which such n
swelling patronage, all wielded by a single
individual, gives him to corrupt the virtue of
the people and seize on their liberties, &c.
Under a continued progressive increase of'
patronage, keeping pace with the increase
Of our populat ion,Jiborty itself must certain
ly be lost Nothing but reform can save it.
The action of The Government must, then,
be moderaterh This, the Report maintains,
is the principle on which our political exis
tence depends.
The Report sap) that the Committee are
aware that it may be urged against their
statement, that since 1883 there has been
great decrease - in the public revenue by the
operation of the !met tariff law. But the
revenue is yet as great, now that the public
debt is extinguished, as it was when the pub.
lie debt amounted to a hundred millions of
dollars. The difference between that time
and the present is, that the surplus revenue
then went to pay the public creditors; where
as it now goes into the pockets of those who
livo upon the Treasury.
The Report next proceeds to examine in
to the effect of this enormous extension of Execu.
Live patronage. The Committee say, it has tended
to sap the foundations of the Constinition,to throw
a cloud of uncertainty over the future; to substi
tute a degrading subserviency to power for the at.
tachment to liberty and our free institutions, for
which the American People have been heretofore
distinguished. There never. was a period in our
fustory,in short,in which the progpects wore more
gloomy for liberty, and devotion to party and to
power stionger. With this increase of patronage,
the whole structure of the Government is under•
going a change. Admitting the necessity of a
strong Executive, the Report enters into an argu-
ment to show - that an Executive has become too
strong,when it begins to regard itself as the' para.'
mount power in the Government. Nor in our anse
could the aid of the several States be successfully
invoked to resist the approach of depotic power in
this form. So far from opposing it, they will be
more likely to atd and strengthen the Executive,
and, acting in conjunction with it, constitute a
joint force difficult to be resisted by any other au
thority.
For these evile,presentand prospective, thone.
port says, there can be hut one effectual remedy,
and that is, a prompt and groat reduction of Exe-
cutive patronage,into the Most expedient mode o
effecting which the Committee next proceed to in
quire. They begin by laying down ao a general
principle that. it is the duty of a Government to
leave the money,as far as practicabl6,in the pock.
eta of the peeple,from which they say it cannot be
removed by Government, except for its essential
Wants without a violation of the highest trust of
the
wants,
and manifest - injustice to the
people.
The Report then enters upon an elaborate and
comprehensive view of the finances of the coun.
try,to show to whet extent the rovenneof the coun.
.try may be expected.toexcried the amount neces
tesaary to the support ofGovornment. In mirrr;
ing thii inquiry, the Com - mittoo go on to show
that,during the existence of the, compromise laW,
so sailed, regulating duties on imports, and after
all the reductions winch maybe made by. reducing
OA duties on - articles which do not interfere with
protsetion,there will still be an unavoidable menu-
al surplus in the Treasury o abOut nine millions
ofdollars. They do not propose to reduce the in
come by redueipg the prico of the public lands,be
cause to reduce the price would not only tempt
great speculations therein, and affect the value of
all other landed property in the Union, but would
have the effect to increase instead of diminishing
the income from their sale; As, therefore, It is
deemed it posetble, during the existence of. the
compromise act,and without disturbing that act,to
prevent the annual receipt into the Treasury o(t h o
surplus of nine millions, even after reducibg the
expenditures of *the Government within proper li
mits, the Committee go into an inquiry as to the
roost expediebt mode ofapplying this sum. They
protest against its remaining and accumulating
in the flanks where it is deposited; and
. they do not
recommend its application to the purposes of in
Cereal improvement, the difficulties in the way of '
which have been increased by the Into Executive
vetees,refusing to sanction appropriations for that
object.
'Die Committee, therefore, come to the conclu
i Rion clot the only,and the best ohjewionnble,mode
of disposing of the surplus revenue, is to make nn
annual distribution thereof among the several
States and 7'erritories, including the. District of
Columbia, to continue until the year 184'2, which
will terminate the existence of the present coin.
promise act, and leave emigres., at liberty to re
duce the income to the actual wants of the Gov.
eminent. The committee propose to effect their
object by an amendment of the Constitution, giv
ing power to Congress to make such distribution,
which a majoity of the Committee deem not now
within the competency of Congress. For that
purpose they report a joint resolution,and purpose
to divide the annual ample° revenue bite such
number of shares as there are Senators ri nd s Re
presentativess, to be divided among the States in
proportion to their representution,with two shales
to each Territory and the District of Columbia.
The Committee propose,alitu,the enactment ofa
law, fbr which they report a hill, to regulate the
Deposites of the public money; end the ensictinunt
*forte of the bills rOported by a select Committee in
1826,t0 regulate the patronage of the Government.
CkrAller the reading of the Report was
finished, the Joint Resolution proposing the
distribution of the suphis revenue, was rend
the first time—the Bills wore 'read twice,
made the order of the day for Thursday last,
and 10,000 copies of Mr. Calhoun's Report
ordered to he printed, together with the u
sual number of a Report made. by Mr. Ben
ton,on the same subject,in 152(1.-
C~3~J~`iC~}Fi~~:3~3i3Jlil./~. ~o
DEB..I'rE
IN THE HOUSE OP' ItEMIESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY, Feb. 7, l8:15.
A Message having been received from
the President of the United States, transmit
ting certain papers concern* our Relations
with Franco—
[The message (says the Washington Correspondent
of the Baltimore Patriot) conveyed intelligence from
our Minister at Paris, concerning the unperformed
treaty now awaiting the action of the Frenth Cham
bers. There are two several dates to the despatches
—at the first of which Mr. Livingston was entertain
ing sanguine hopes and expectations that the action of
the Chambers would be favorable. But at the last
date,all his anticipations were changed, and,from the
tone'of feeling existing among the members, and the
people generally, so far as he could estimate, he Was
by no means confident of a favorable result.]
Mr. J. Q. A DAMS rose and said: I move,
sir, that the Message, and the extracts from
the deSpatches accompanying it, be printed,
and referred to the Committee on Foreign
_Relations, with instructions to report forth
with on that part of the Message of the Pre
sident of the United Status, which relates to.
this subject.
Mr. CAMBRELENG said, that., after
hearing the correspondence read, he hoped
the gentleman from Massachusetts would
withdraw that part of his motion which re
quired the Committee on Foreign Relations
to report forthwith. He trusted, ho said,
that whatever measure might be finally a
dopted on this subject by the House, would
receive the unanimouse vote of the House.
Mr. J. Q. ADAMS said, in introduCing
the motion to instruct the Committee on
Foreign Relations to report on the subject
of the messagi3 forthwith, he was governed
by 016 persuasion that it was inconsistent
with the interest and honor of the nation to
leave the subject longer unacted upon. He
should not object to any arnendinent which
the committee might propose, with a view
to allow them time for the consideration of
the subject. But he did think that it was
important, as we were now within 'a
few
weeks of the close of the session, that the
Subject should,be brought before the House
without further delay. It appeared doubt
ful, from the correspondence which had
been read,, whether the Government of
France would fulfil the stipulations of the
Convention. Mr. Livingston, in hiS letter
of the 6th of December, uses very sanguine
terms in relation to the success of the up.
propriation bill; but in a subsequent letter of
the 22d of Deceinber,he stated that the new
Ministry would not even propose to the
Chambers to act on the appropriation as a
min.stetial measure. The Ministers them
selve,,therefore,were not unanimous on the
principles of the appropriation, and Mr. Li
vingston said thut he was now far from be
ing sanguine in the success of his endeavors
to accomplish the object of his mission. O
ther reports, Mr. Adams said, stated that
there was no prospect of obtaining the ap
propriation. Under these circumstances,he
thOught it time for the House to take up the
subject, as it was proposed by the President
in his message at the commencement of the
session. Now, that it was so probable that
the French Chambers would do nothing, it
had become the imperious duty of the House
to act on the subject. He was desirous that
the Committee on Foreign Relations should
make a. report. He did not propose to
prescribe what they should report; he only
asked them to report. A member of the
Committee had recently asked leave of the
House to caor a resolution instructing the
CoMmittee to repoit certain specific propo
sitions open the subject,which the llouse,by
a very small majority, had refused to enter-
tam. Mr. A. had voted that the member
should have leave to (4113 r-that resolution;
not that he had made up his mind in favor
of the instructions which the gentleman
from Virginia had proposed should be given
to the Committee,but that the ;subject should
be brought before the House for deliberation.
Let the House be put in possession of the
subject, and let them say to. the nation and
tho - world,whether they will sustain the Pre•
silent in the spirit of the firoposttion he hag
made for maintaining - the rights, interests,
and honor ofthe century..., If the declaration
enttitre, the aleetianie .Internal Improvement, and---Genernt
of the House went to Fiance after the ap
propriation bad been made, why it would do
no harm. It would only show that the House
felt bound to sustain the honor of the nation.
Bui,if the appropriation should not be made,
the measure was still more proper and ne-
cessary.
The President, at the commencement of
the session, bad declared to the House, and
to the world, what he thought the interest,
the sights,and the honor of the nation would
require on a contingency,which was no lon
ger to be considered as such. Mr. Adams
believed it incumbent on the House to chew
to the nation,and to the world,thnt they,km,
were not insensible to the interest,the rights
and honor of the nation. Of the particular
measure proposed by the Presidenr,he would
say, 118 lie believed the public opinion would
he,as was s rid of the first great act of the
lifi! of LAF7AVETTE,WheII he came to join the
standard of our country, that those who cote
sured it as imprudent must yet applaud its
spirit. It had gone to all mankind, exhibit
tug the President in the attitude of the sus
tainer of the rights, the interests, and the
honor of the nation,and he hoped the (louse
would not sidnr itself to appear in a con
trasted character with that of the President
of the United States, by shrinking from the
responsibility specially incumbent upon them
as the representatives of the People. At
least let them have the subject in a shape to
act and deliberate upon, so that they might
declare what they would do, and what their
feelings are in a case n/dying , the interests,
the rights, and the honor of the country.
Mr. CLAYTON, ofGeorgia, said: Feel
ing it my duty to vote against the gentle
man's-motion, and having, .at the early part
of the session, introduced a resolution em
bracing, in part the same object, it might
seem to be required, to save me from the re
preach of inconsistency, to offer some justi
fication fir my present course. The Presi
dent's Message evidently presented two pro-
positions, either to take no action upon the
subject, or to authorise reprisals, which I
then and now consider as a war measure.—
To avoid war, and acting under a solemn
conviction that it was wholly unnecessary
and might be averted by prudent measures,
I believe that a timely evidence, afforded the
French billion, that Congress did not agree
with the Executive branch of Government,
would restore the temper of the nation to
that condition which existed prior to the
message: would remove from the delibera
tions oft he French Legislature,t hat passion,
feeling, and warmth, so unfavorable to just
and correct results, which that document
was certainly calculated to inspire. This
purpose of mine has been fully accomplished
by the other branch of Congress. The
unanimous vote of the Senate, will effect, if
any thing can do it, the object I had in view;
and sure I am, if it does not, the progress of
Congress in that direction, may as well come
to a pause, and then it will be proper for us
to consider the other proposition of the Pre
sident. Until, then,the effect of the Senate's
measure shall be known, I am unwilling to
move any farther. And lam fully satisfied
with this measure, because it is tire expres
sion of the unanimous opinion of that wise
body, in which all parties have concurred;
which we are informed, meets the views of
the President himself, and will obviously ut
ter a more decisive language than any thing
from this House, if unfortunately it should
be dividedi as we have every reason to fear,
in its views of the same subject. The influ
ence of the measure would be greatly wets
lcened, and perhaps destroyed altogether, if,
in the difference of action between the two
floUses, we should happen to present a disk
traded consideration - of the question.
Now, sir, that alternative having been ta-
ken, I am for waiting the result of its full
operation. There is no good reason to alien
don it as yet. The Committee oft his House,
to whom the subject was referred, seemed
to have acquiesced in the force of these cm
cuinstances, and having nothing upon which
to found a different opinion, have remained
quiet, doubtless awaiting the progress of
events to see whether we shall be driven to
the 'necessity of adopting the other course
recommended by the President. From the
remarks of the gentleman from Massachu
setts (Mr. ADAMS) having stated that ; the
papers just read convinced him we had no
further hope ofa compliance, on the part of
France, with our wishes, and that it was
time to support the President in the manly
spirit of his message, and to save ourselves
from the reproach of meanly shrinking from
the support of the national honor, I infer
that he believes the crisis has arrived, and.
connecting his remarks with his motion,such
reference cannot be strained, when the Com
mittee ought to report "forthunth" the mea
sure submitted by the President, which will
.be in elf et a hostile preparation. 1 appeal
to the House to say, whether, if, down to
this time, such a procedure would have
been unwise and injudicious, there is any
thing ►n the communication just made by
the President,that should authorize a change
of policy? Is the evidence on your table of
that clear and satisfactory character as to
require that we should resort to the war
measures recommended by the President?
In it there is nothing certain; all is conjec
ture; and, although I believe the prospect
is extremely gloomy for an adjustment of
the difficulty according to what we consider
due to our rights; yet\it is the better part of
wisdom, to wait for the final action of the
Fretich Government, under the new aspect
of the case, as presented by the President's
message. For these reasons, I shall vote
ngaiusl the niohon'of the gentleman, though
reluctantly, on account of the high source
from which it has proceeded, resting under
the conviction, that if there was any good
reason for waiting thus Icing for - a report,
there is nothing w hich has changed that oh.
ligation, on the contrary, .there is every
thing to justify a continuance of our forbear
ance.
Mr. McKINLEY said, That he warmly
approved the spirit in which the motion of
the gentleman from Magsschusetts had been
made and'supnorted. [Owing to the noise
and excitement in the House, apart of what
Mr. McK. said was not heard. Indeed the
debate was heardthroughout with difficulty.]
I Mr. McK. went on to observe, that there
1
might be a degree of forbearance which a
mounted to submission, and which would
counteract the very object, to secure which
i .
lit was recommended. No part of the U
-1 nion Would be more exposed to injury, in
case of war, than that from which he came;
but when the question should he, whether
to run the risk of this, or to submit to in
dignity, no man in that House ought, for a
moment to hesitate. It might be objected,
that, to go to war would subject the country
to a great expense. No doubt it would; but
did gentlemen propose to estimate the value
of national honor by dollars and cents? If
not, then the mere question of money was
not to I:w limited at. If gentlemen still in
sister! that we must forbear and forbear, and
still forbear, because France lied mice hem;
our ally, he asked them to look at the other
side of the question. If the ancient friend
ship subsisting between the two nations
ought to induce great forbearance on our
side, ought it to call forth no such feeling
on the part of France also? Ought they, any
more than we, to forget, that we had ttiuglit
side by side in the same field and the saute
cause? Besides, who lind the right and who
the wrong in the question between us? Was
it wrong to expect and to insist upon the hon.
est payment of an acknowledged debt? Or
was it right, after examining and acknowl
edging a debt to be justly due, hea to turn
about and refuse to pay it? Mr: McK. was
opposed to protracting the forbearance of
this t;overnment any further, we have for
borne and waited quiet long enough. If,
however,the gentleman from Massachusetts
thought it was proper to wait for eight or
ten days longer, it might be a means of se
curing greater unanimity. It was possible
that, by that time, it might ho found that
the Chamber of Deputies hod acted on the
subject, and in that case, the course for us
to adopt would be plainer. Mr. McK. said
he would not agree with the gentleman from
Virginia (Mr. Anermn) in one of the pro-
positions he had advanced, viz: that the
course recommended by the Executive was
war. tie could not so understand it. True,
it might result in war, but, if it should, the
fault would not be with us, but with France
herself.
Mr. R. M. JOUNSON. of Kentucky,
said he had looked into this difficulty be
tween France and the United States with
intense interest, and, ho would add, with
great anxiety and anguish of mind. That
feelling had riot, in the least, been softened
or mitigated, by the message and documents
now presented to us. He said he had read
the correspondence between our Minister
and Government, and the King's Ministers
hero and in Europe, and the subject seemed
to be perfectly understood by the Govern
ment of France. It was clear that the King
and his ministers had in vain exerted their
influence upon the popular branch of the
French Government, to carry the treaty in-
to effect, by making the appropriation which
tt stipultxtod to pay our citizens, five millions
of dollars, for burning their ships and car
goes on the high seas, and for plundering
and confiscating their property, without the
authority of the laws of nations. He said
he found the difficulty to exist in the Cham
ber of Deputies. Ho had supposed that the
Chamber must have been under some
strange delusion as to the principles and
facts in the negotiation; for they could not
seek to violate an obligation so sacred, so
imperative upon nations to perform, particu
larly the gallant and intelligent people of
France towards the United States, their an-.
cient friend and ally. But what was his
surprise, his astonishment, on reading the
debates of the Deputies, to discover on their
part a perfect knowledge of the whole trans
action—of all the facts in the case;. and yet
these Deputies, these representatives of the
people of France, refused to pay the money
.due to our citizens, accruing from the inva
sion of our rights, the plunder of our com
merce, under the unholy sanction of their
illegal decrees!
Mr. 3. said, he would gladly avoid this
question, if he could do so with due regard
to the rights and character of his country.—
We might attempt to avoid this question;
our feelings may prompt us to do so, because
its tendency is to involVe such important,
such vital consequence; but we should re
member that the price of liberty was blood!
It was impossible to maintain our freedom,
our character, our independence, and at the
same time submit to violation of faith, so
pointed, so gross, and so flagrant, if persist
ed in. It was the people of France or rath
er the Chamber of Deputies, representing
that people, who had, with their eyes open,
refused to do us justice; and not the King
and his Ministers.
Mr. J. said, it was doubtfill whether those
who held back and refused to take strong
measures, in cases of insult and injury, did
not do more to. plunge nations into war, than
those who acted promptly to resent and re•
dress violations of faith, by acting upon the
principle of the President,to demand nothing
but what is just, and to submit to nothing
evidently wrong. Mr. J. expressed. his ut.
ter astonishment at the conduct of France.
Here, he said, seomed not only to be wrong
and injustice, but wilful and premeditated
wrong—and the question was, could we
tamely submit to it? For one, he could, he
would not. He would susta'n the President
n his course—He was not for precipitatton
—he was willing to wait.for the final action
of the Chamber of Deputies; but he now be
lieved forbearance had ceased to be a virtue.
It would amount to nothing, unless it was
known and believed that this nation could
not and would not submit to such inju&ice.
And when•it was thus believed, that war-was
inevitable, then, as our cause was so obvious
ly just—as the United States were so palpa
bly in the right—it was possible, perhaps
probable, that France might :retrace' her
steps, for the sake of her own honor, and
- execute the treaty, by paying the indemnity
stipulated for the wrongs she had inflicted
on our commerce. At all events; this was
our only hope. We had made a full experi
ment of forbearance. It had failed. We
trifir.t resort to another alternative.
1 But Mr. J. said, as he believed the pee
ple of the Unites States were only divided
as to the time for resenting alid redressing
this violation of national faith on the part rd -
France, he, for one, would still yield to that
nation a further time, so that no voice could
be raised against the course which our coun
tiy should ultimately be compelled to pur
sue. The temper of the House manifested
great unanimity in relation to the rnairi point
—the justice . of our complaint, and the utter
impossibility of submitting to it. Mr. J.
said, he hoped, therefore, it would he dis
tinctly understood, that he feared not the
consequences of expressing himself strongly
I on this suleei; and whenever the occasion
should arrive he should vote air strong mea•
•tires, corresponding will' his expressions.
%Val., said Mr. J. is a great calamity—there
is none gri a ter, except that of tamely sub
mitting to insult and injury. And here was
an instance of wrong so flagrant, and it VP)
lotion of national liiith so palpable, that it
had few, if any, parallels in the annals of na
lions; and in this sentin►ent he believed he
should have the concurrent testimony of the
civilized world. France knew as well as
ourselves that we could not submit to tt with
out degradation and disgrace.
With regard to the immediate question
before the House, he thought the message
and accompanying documents should be re
ferred to the Coinmitteeon Foreign Affairs,
without instructions.
In conclusion, Mr. J. said ho should do
injustice to his own feelings if he took his
seat without admitting that his heart palpi
taped with joy on hearing the patriotic senti
ments of the honorable member from Mae
sachuseus, (Mr. Adams.) Those sentiments
were truly American; and he honored them
for the source from which they came.
(KT - Although the debate was fiirther con
tinued by Messrs. Clayton, APKinlv, John-
mi, (Ky.) Stewart, Hamer, Evans, Patton,
E. Everett,. (who delivered decidedly the
hest speech on the subject,) Gilmer, J. Q.
Adams, Cambroleng and Archer, we must
here stop, by stating that the IVlessage and
Documents were finally referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations, without
any specific instructions.
I'll E EXPULSION.
THE CASE OF MR. FEIVN-71.1E
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
We have heretofbre neglected to notice
the case of Mr. Fenn, the editor of the. Penn- !
sylvania Telegraph—nn Anti-Masonic print
published at Harrisburg—who was recent
ly, by a vote of the House of Representa- •
lives excluded from a seat within the bar of •
the nouse. The cdse is not one of a party
character, and a few remarks in relation to
it, will not be deemed amiss'at our hands.
It seems that the editor of the 'Pelegraph-,—.:
wrote and published an article in his paper,
reflecting upon the private relations of one
of the members—charged him with intem
perance and ill-treatment of his wife. The
charges involve the grossest moral delin
quency on the part of the individual against
whom they are preferred; for however des
picable and degrading we consider the vice
of intemperance,when to it is added the 'bru
tality alluded to, we are forcibly reminded
of the truth of the words of the poet:
"The man,
Who lays his hand upon a woman,
Sate in the way.of kindness; is a wretch,
Whom 'twere base flattery to call a coward."
But despicable and degraded as we cert..
sider such a• being, the columns 'of a public
journal should be devoted to other matters
than the detail of scenes so disgusting, and
we should be the last to commend the con- •
duct of any 'editor, , for dragging before his
readers' the private relations or domestic
conduct ofany man, especially' if any portion'
of the people feel sufficient confidence in his
talents and integrity to elect him as their
representative in the State Legislature. So
considering the matter, we deprecate the
conduct and language of the Telegraph
in the instance alluded to, but bog leave td H
remark at the same time,that the people of
this country cannot watch with too scruti
nizing an eye,any course of conduct calcula
ted to restrain or weaken the Liberty of the
Press. We consider it one of the great bul
warks of freedom, and so long na the press
of a country is free and independent,the lib
erties of that country cannot ho perilously
endangered,but the moment the g overnment
venture to attempt to control and fetter the
press, and thus to regulate public opinion
and stifle the spirit of. liberty, alas fur free
dom and free institutions.
In the case of Mr. Fenn, we think the
course of conduct that was pursued in rela
tion to him, by far too tyrannical and high
handed. A resolution of censure might have
been adopted with propriety; hut to deprive
t he .man of his scat at the reporters desk,nnd
thus exclude him from listening to and re
porting the debates, was,as it appears to us,
going too far; exercising a power that
should not be resorted to •only in cases of
extreme necessity. We are not 'personally
acquainted with Mr. Fenn, nor do we care
a straw which party is triumphant or other.
wise at our elections, provided the general
weal does not suffer, but as the offence of
Mr.:Fenn was directed against the peponal
character of the - man, and not against the
body of which he is a member, it we's Ira. -
selling out of t,he record, for that body to
notice the 'matter, especially as the law
courts were open to the insulted party, and
through them lie might htl'e sought and ob.
tained redress. ' \) •
We feel the more sensitive with . regard
to the liberty of the press, since the last
French Revolution,and the treacherous con
duct of Louis Philip. Although elevated to
the throne in n great measure by the press,
and as the incarnation of the principles of
the revolutii n he bus basely deserted those
principles and appears to exult in their pros- .
tration.—Bicknell's Rciorter.
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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17.
33.ALTX1VIOI1E MAREET.
[Corrected weekly from tho Baltimore Patriot.]
Flour $4 56 to 4 621Cloverseed $4 75 to 500
Wheat 1 00 to 1 021 Flaxseed 1 37 to 0.00
Corn 60 to 001 ViThishey 24 to 25
Oats 30 to 331 Plaster, per ton,
Q• - We attended the Anniversary Cele
bration of the Pltilinnatletran Society of
Pennsylvania Caleae, at the Presbyterian
Church, on Friday evening last. The ex
ercises were conducted in the following or
der:-Ist, 11iisie, by the Citizens' Band; 2d,
Prayer, by Rev. Dr. Schmucker; 3d, Hymn,
by the Choir; 4th, Oration, by Mr. Samuel
Sprecher; of Washington county, Md.; sth,
Music, by the Citizens' Band; Oth, Oration,
by Mr. Charles Schaeffer, of Philadelphia;
7th, Music, by the Citizens' Band; Sth, Ora
tion, by Mr. Solomon Oswald, of Washing.
ton county, Md.; 9th, Hymn, by the Choir;
lath, Prayer, by, Rev. Mr. Marsden; 11th,
Hymn, by !lei Choir; 12th, Benediction, by
Rev. Mr. l rauth, President of Pennsylvania
College; 13th, Music, by the Citizens' Band.
The Church was crowded to overflowing.
The Orations were very good; the Band
performed very well; the Choir admirably.
(JzrWe call the attention of our readers
to the synopsis of the very able Report of
CAtuoux on the extent and abuse of
Executive Patronage.
• 1 0 .- -We give in another column, as much
of the discussion which took place in the
House of Representatives, on the 7th inst.,
on the subject of our relations with France,
as our limits will allow.
0::) — Sonio of the Whig Journals, and their
Washington - Correspondents, represent Mr.
AnAns, because he move:l that the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations be instructed to re
port forthwith on the subject of our relations
with France, as having taken a decided
stand in favor of the President's recon u non•
dations respecting France. Now, however
firmly we believe Mr. Adams will, when
necessary, advocate,-support and sustain the
President in his views on that subject, and
backed as he assuredly will be by every A
merican who honors his . &)untrY,'Yet if-does
not follow that he, in making the motion he
did, committed himself in favor of the re
commendation, right or wrong. Not at all.
Mr. Adams, in explanation, plainly and one.
quivocally stated, that he had not said he
was ready to support the "proposition of the
President,.or any action of the House, or of
the Committee, the effect of which would
he to produce war." He wished the House
to deliberate—and in doing so, "it did not
follow that the House must either declare
war or make repriSals."
This,' l rwe consider is plain language. It
cannot he understood or construed as being
in favor of a war with France. That it will
be necessary, before the close of Congress,
for that body to sustain and carry out the
recommendations of the President,we firmly
believe. Because, however disposed the
French Chambers may have been to adopt
measures for the immediate payment of our
just demands before, they will certainly
change their minds after the arrival in Pa
ris of the President's warlike Message.—
When it does become necessary to sustain
"the interests, the rights, and the honer of
the country," Mr. Adams will be found in
the same attitude he has always sustained—
that of an unflinching advocate of the rights
and luinor of his country. But,as yet, there
is no necessity of going headlong into the
matter. Mr. Adams does not desire it—he
did not, in making the motion he did, ask
any thing like it., Therefore, we say, he
should not have been misrepresented, as he
'certainly has been, by Journals from whom
we had expected better. -
KrOne of the Masonic papers of Boston
makes the following objections to Mr. A
'Etsias' election to the U. S. Senate:—"Flow
ever strongly he may
. be armed in honesty,
he will never be guided or controlled. . Elio
extraordinary ability and, acquirements as a
Statesman no one can for it moment doubt;
but he would go into the Senate with the
most unyielding determination to act Au.
himself rather than the party,"--:rpenning
to obey inflexibly and constantly the dictates
of his own Judgment and conscience.
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D. H. N.
First Q. 5 G 53 N.
Full M. 13 H 51 v.
Lust Q. 19 630 E.
Now M. 27 6 19 M.
0:::rWe last week stated that the Balti
more Athenaeum had been destroyed by fire.
With regret we announce to-day the destruc
tion of the Baltimore City and County
Court House by the same clement, on Fri
day last—every thing above the first story,
of a combustible nature, being destroyed.--
Its original cost was upwards of $200,000!
• The resignation of 0. B. Brown, as Chief
Bashaw in the Post Office, retniuda.a cor
respondent of the Alexandria Gazette, of the
case of an honest Hibcrnian,who was forced
to volunteer:
A NEW. DEFINITION.-A young lady be
ing lately on an examination ns to her profi
ciency in the science of grammar, was ask
ed why the noun bachelor is singular,replied
with great apparent candor, "Became it Is
very singular they don't get married."
Oz We should have stated, in our last,
I that the House- of Representatives of the
Massachusetts Legislature had elected Mr..
Davis to the U. S. Senate. The Senate and
House elect at different times. - A few days
after the House had made choice of Mr: Da
vis, the Senate met and elected Mr. Adams
on. the first ballot. The House again went
into an election for U. S. Senator, which re
sulted again in the choice of Mr. Davis. The
Senate met a second time and again made
choice of Adams by an increased majority.
So, as yet, no choice has been made.
(*"'About 90 Delegates to the Antt-Ma
sonic Stato Convention have been chosen—
all instructed to support the nomination
the Washington County Farmer. At the
meetings which elected delegates, many
sterling resolutions were adopted,expressing
the sentiments and feelings of every patriot
and friend of Liberty, the Constitution and
the Laws; and evincing, not only a unity of
sentiment, hut a firtn determination to wrest
the reins of Government from the hands of
incompetent, unfaithful and extravagant
servants.
(b — The Bill for the re-organization of thi
Post Office Department unanimously passed
the -U. S. Senate, on the Bth instant—every
member present, (44) Demon, Hill, and all
the other fiiends of Maj. Barry, voting for
its passage What a cutting rebuke! Who
will he hardy enough now to laud the Major,
or apologize for Parson Obadiah ?
IT3FRO.II lIA ItRISBURG.
0::7"On the 9th, Mr. Srizvmvs presented
petitions against a repeal of the School Law;
for an investigation into the evils of Mason
ry; for aid to Dickenson College; for the
extension of the Philadelphia and Columbia
Rail Road to Gettysburg; for the extension
of the Borough limits of Gettysburg, on the
East and West side; for alterations in the
law in relation to the mode of laving Road
Tax; five for changing the place of holding
elections in Menallen township, and three
against such change.
On the same day, petitions were present.
ed by Mr. WSltEnny for the extension of
the Philadelphia_ and Columbia Rail Road
to Gettysburg; and from Lydia Mears for
a divorce.
KT The Harrisburg Intelligencer of
Thursday last, states that Mr. RIINSIIA, a
member of the House of Representatives
from Cumberland county, in walking from
his boarding house to the Capitol, on the
evening previous,was taken suddenly ill and
died in a few minutes after he was taken in
to the Hall of the House of Representatives.
He had been unwell for some time,until the
past week or so; and • had partaken of a
hearty supper a few minutes before his
sudden death.,
Kr-Our friends of the Harrisburg- Chron
icle,while they assure us that Messrs. LEFT,
PENROSE and PETRIKEN will not be de
nounced by the hot tle.holders'of the Lodge,
for their support of the Resolution against
Fxtra•Judicial Oaths, also state that the
"resolution is not looked upon here as a
thing calculated to help Anti-Masonry, but
the contrary." We shall not dispute their
estimate of the effect of the resolution upon
Masonry or Anti• Masonry. If it passes, the
Anti-Masonic party will certainly, and with
the utmost plausibility, too, claim the honor
of having deprived the Lodge of one of its
strongest legs; and, as three-legged stools
are very uncertain, we advise our friends of
the Chronicle to be moving off as speedy as
possible, ere the walls "tumble in" and bury
them in the ruins, and the Great Democra
tic party of Democratic Pennsylvania do.
prived of the labors and usefulness of our
late Federal, but note firm, unwavering, un
flinching and consistent DEMOCRATIC friends
of that efficient Organ of pure old Democra
cy, 'yclept the "Harrisburg Chronicle!" 0,
cruel! what a loss 41 More severely felt than
the loss of all the Leets, P.enroses and Pet
rikens in the State!!! As to denouncing
the gentlemen referred to, if it is not done,
it will not be for the want of the disposition
to de it—but purely because THEY DARR
NOT I Such conduct would scatter their now
shattered partvlo the four winds, and leave
the honest old Farmer of Washington coun
ty a clear course to walk over.
Oz F-No Baltimore Visiter for the last two
veelts I
re, Literature, Science, .1 ft
it7DGE WITITE.—From a biographical
sketch of this gentleman recently published
in a Tennessee paper, it appears that ho is a
native of North Carolina. He was born in
1773, and removed thence, w!ii!e yet a hoy,
to Tennessee. Ile studied law, first at Phil
adelphia, and afterwards at Lancaster, Pa.,
with the late Air. Hopkins. Returning to
Tennessee, he Was admitted to practice in
1796. Some years afterwards, he was 'elec
ted a Judge of the Superior Court, in which
he is said to have presided with general sa
tisfaction.
CONNECTICtIT.-A Jackson State Con.
vention was held at Middletown,on the 27th
ult., at which the following ticket was noini
nated:—.For Governor, Henry W. Edwards;
Lieutenant Governor, Ebenezer Stoddard;
Treasurer, Jeremiah Brown; Secretary,
Royal R. Haman.
The Senate of Pennsylvania, Ity a vote of
22 to 5, have passed a series of resolutions.
which were some time since offered in that
hody by Mr. Petrikin, as some allege, in
pursuance of "instructions" from Washing- .
ton. These resolutions instruct the Senators
in Congress from Pennsylvania to vote for
the repeal or reversal of the resolutions con
demnatory of the proceedings of the Presi
dent in relation to the revenue. 2d. That
the U. S. Senate in adopting said.resolutions
"assumed upon themselves authority and
power not conferred by the Constitution and
Laws, but in derogation of botb." 3d. To
oppose the recharter of the present bank of
the United States. 4th. To oppose the
charter of any Bank of the U. States, "in li
any shape or form." sth. The resolution
declares that the people of that State contin
ue to sustain the, measures of President
Jackson in relation to the U.S. Bank. And
6th. That the people of the State expect a
hearty co . -operation, generally, on the part
of their Senators, in the_ measures of the
"Government," for the well being and hap
piness of the Union.—Belt. Pat.
RICHHOND COMPILER.—The last recei v.
ed Richmond Compiler, announces another
change of proprietorship and position, on
the part of that Journal. It was originally
and for many years, a neutral paper, in re
ference to party politics; but on Mr. Robin
son's assumption of proprietorship and edi.
tonal conduce, it was made to take an earn
est and gallant stand in the Whig cause.—
That gentleman has now disposed of his en
tire interest in tho establishment to Messrs.
JOHN S. GALLAHER and JAS. C. WALKER,
by whom the Compiler will hereafter be
conducted. It is, we observe, to revert to
its neutral character, and bo principally de
voted to local affairs. The senior partner
of the new firm, is now a member of the
Virginia House of Delegates, and has been
long and favorably known to the , public as
editor of the Virginia Free Prese.—lbid.
We learn that there are more than one
thousand hands now at work upon thkait.llr
mond and Fredericksburg Rail Road, who
are progressing with great spirit in their
labors, notwithstanding the inclemency of
the wenther.—Richmond compiler.
LOCOnOTIVE IMPRISONMENT.-A western
paper states, that a hill has passed the lower
[louse of the Indiana Legislature, the object
of which is to provide for the construction
of a travelling penitentiary, being a cage in
which the convicts are to be transported
from county to county, to perform labor, as
.necessity may require. This,we suppose, is
a branch ofwhat is called the "March oflin
provement," and we should think the-con
victs would like it, of all things. It destroys
utterly the monotomy and ennui of confine
ment in a fixed locality. We wish our cor.
poration had Bridewell upon wheels, and
were in the very act of marching it out of
the Park.—Y. Y. Cour. 4. Enq.
INDIAN TROT:MRS.—We understand that
information has reached the War Depart.
ment, stating that several rencounters have
taken place between some of the citizens of
Georgia and parties of the Creek Indians
who have crossed from Alabama into that
State, and committed many depredations.
Persons have been killed and wounded on
both sides, and the inhabitants seem much
alarmed at the conduct and threats of the
Indians, and have called upon the Governor
of Georgia for a military force to protect
them—and the Governor has requested the
interposition of the President to relieve the
citizens of Georgia from this state of things.
—Globe.
ASSAULT ON TUE REV. Mr. CIIEEVER.
About noon, on Saturday, the Rev. Mr.
Cheever, of Salem, was assaulted in Essex
street, in that town, with a cowhide, by a
Mr. Elam, a foreman in the distillery of
Deacon Stone. , The cause of the attack,
we understand, was 'in consequence of strong
personal reflections on the family of Deacon
Stone, in a newspaper, (the Landmark) of
which Mr. Cheever was the reputed author.
The family of Deacon Stone is considered
one of the most respectable in the town.—
The reverend gentleman was severely han
dled, and the excitement in Salem is very
great.—Boston Bulletin.
AMALOAMATION.-A report having been
circulated that Horatio Merchant, Esq., of
Albany, a justice of the peace, had married
an Irish girl to a negro, an excited populace,
as we learn from the Albany Daily Adver
tiser, seized him and blackened his face in
token of their displeasure. Mr. M., dim
claim's all knowledge that the female was a
white person.
A steam frigate of 40 guns and 420 horse
power has arrived at Alexandria from Eng.
land, for tho service of the Viceroy. Thus
are foreign nations, even barbarians, turning
the discovery of Fulton to account, and sur
passing even the enterprise of his own con
try men in this mode ofapplying steam power.
the &Mechanic iiirt
POTTSVILLE, Pa. Feb. 7.
.017 Ft M.tactt is Or under
stand that a lot has been purchased in this
borough for the erection or a largo steam
machine shop, for the manufacture ot . stertm
engines, rail road cars, &c. We also learn
that two enterprising young men intend e
reeting,.early in the spring, a steam grist
mill in this borough.—Mider's Jour.
Petitions are in circulation in this neigh
borhood, pravin . !r the legislature toeuthorise
the Schuylkill B ank to remove their Branch
from Port Carbon to Pottsville.—lbid.
CHRSAPEAKE AND Onto CANAL.—The
Committee of Roads, &c., in the House of
Delegates, have reported a bill giving the
guaranty of the Commonwealth to the pay
ment of the interest upon a loan office hun
dred thousand dollars, to be borrowed by
- the President and Directors of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal Company.
The tolls, water rents, and other income
Oldie Company, are to be pledged for paying
the interest on said loan;„ and the Company
are to give satisfactory assurance to the
Board of Public Works, that the money so
borrowed, or so much thereof as may be ne
cessary therefOr, shall be applied to contin
uing said Canal to a point at or near the
mouth of the great Cacapon river.
The indications are decidedly in favor of
the passage of this bill.—Richmond Comp.
The U. S. Senate have rejected the nomi
nation of JoNAritAN FITCH to be Marshal
of the U. S., for the District of Maryland--
Ayes 19, noes 20.
ASSAS 3 INATION.-lIIOSO who affect •to
believe that Gen. Jackson's life was recent
ly preserved by miraculous interposition,
may perhaps discover, in the instance of
Richard Coffin, a parallel ease which we
copy from the Newburg Gazette:
A few days since. Mr, RicitAno COFFIN,
cooper, in, the ,emploY , \ of the Newburg
Whaling Company, discharged a workman
by the name of Henry Hind, an English.
man, having previously given him a note
for a sum of money payable on the first day
of April next. On Tuesday last Hunt en
tered the door of Mr. C's shop with a load
ed gun, and demanded immediate payment
of the note, and without waiting for a reply,
levelled the gun at Mr. C. with the avowed
intention of shooting him. Fortunately it
snapped without igniting the priming. Mr.
C. immediately retreated and succeeded in '
eluding the villain, who pursued him for
some distance. Ho was soon after arrested,
taken before Justice Gazlay and committed;
having as we understand declared to the
magistrate that it had been and still was his
determination to take tee life of Mr. C. He
will probably be tried ~ t the court in this
v:llage next week. lie gun was subse
quently fired,. without dfficulty, and found
to be well loaded with V - ..;, balls.
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A - respectable old A
wi cl, rt
has for some
tune considered herself the'
wner of a val
uable house and lot in N. I:% r k; of,,,which
she thinks she has been unjus'.y deprived.
To the occupants and owner of he building
she has been a source of great .unoyance,
frequently calling there and inciting upon
the family leaving the premiseAirectly,
roughly pushing about the lady of to house,
and quarrels with all the family; running
down to the police to prefer charge; and,
when not exactly suited according 'o her
wishes, letting forth a strain ofabuse aTainst
magistrates, laws and aft.---.N. Y. Sta:.
Perhaps the Government Official wil be
able to inform us, whether this unhappy in
dividual, too, has not been hearing Debrtes
in the Smite!
INDUCEMENT TO MATRIMONY.--A Texts
letter writer stating, that the tide of emigre
tion to that country from the U. States it
very great. Nor can this be a matter of
surprise when it is added that the Mexican
government assigns to each settler, if mar
ried, a leagueisquare, 4446 acres of land as a
bounty. If the emigrant be a single man
when he arrives, he gets only 1110 acres
—but if he gets married afterwards, he re.
ceives the very pretty dowry, not from the
bride, but from the government, of 3336
acres more!
NNW SPOIIT.—The following is the copy
of a handbill pasted up on the corners in
New York:
To TUE LOVIR9 OF SPORT.—On account
of some heavy betting, 100 Live Rats will
be let go in a room at Tompkins' Hall, No.
60 Third at. on, Thursday next, Feb. sth.
Thr3pup, 9 months old, called General Jack.
son, is to kill the 100 Rats in 60 minutes.
The sport will take place between 2 and 3
o'clock on that day. Admittance 25 cents
each.
A LAtranArox AnvEyrune.—Not long
since, a reverend clergyman in New Hamp
shire, (not Vermont, as a Concord paper
has it) being apprehensive that the accumu
lated weight of snow upon the roof of his
barn might do some damage resolved to
shovel it off. He therefiwe ascended it, but
having first; for fear the snow might all slide
offal once; himself with it, fastened to him.
self one end of a rope, and giving the other
to his wife, he went to work; but fearing
stiff for his safety, My d.nr," said he, "tie
the rope round' your waist.' No• sooner
had she done this, than off went the snow,
poor minister and all,, and up wont his wife.
Thus on one side of the barn the astounded
and confounded clergyman . hung, and on
the other side hung his wife, high and dry in
majesty sublime, dingling and dangling at
the end of the rope. At that moment, how
ever, a gentleman luckily passing by, deliv-
ered them from their ,perilous situation. •
That apt Remarker, Dr. Franklin, ob:
serves:—"The eyes of other people are the
eyes that ruin us. It all but myself were
blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine
horses, nor fine fingniture."
Internal Improvement, an
General Miscellany. =
MARRIED.
On the sth inst., by the Rev. Mr. McLean, Mr. Sherifr4 Sales
IV:T. LOUDON to Mill MARIA McK ussofr—both of -: • , *
Liberty township. •
On the same any, by the Rev. Mr. Watson, Mr. I E r, N pursuance of' sundry Writsof t
aint Swniqmsr, of Liberty township, to Miss Curtis-
TINA CALDWELL, of Frederick county, Md. IL tioni Exponas, issued out of the Court or ,
On the same day, by the Rev. Mr. Eckcr, Mr. Common Pleas of Adams county, and to flIe"
Mis Jom s ELIZAq C. HOUCIFITZL
Dom., M,
daughter oof Mounlt p lVlr. s Jacob Die h h p l, leaant tOwtiSi, to
of directed, will be expoied to public irate; 'Ott
Mountjoy township. Saturday the 7th day of Mareh next, a . t I
o'clock P. m. at the Court-house, in Gettyv
burg, the following Real Estate; viz:
A TWO-STORY
BRICK TILOVIAM I
. ,
and Lol of Ground, situate in the Borough
•IG et tysbu rg, Adams county; alio on which'
are erected a Frame Stable and other Build:
ONE OTHER LOT'OF GROUNP;_
on which are erected a two-story Frame
[louse and Brick Stable,with a Brick Black- .
smith Shop and Coal-shed.—Also,
O_VE OTHER LOT OF GROUND, -
on which is erected tuFramv Shed. Seized
and taken in execution as the property .of.
George Richter.
DIED.
On the sth inst. in Littlestown, Mr. ♦xrttovv
TOPPER, formerly of the Two Taverns.
At the poor-house, on the 6th inst. Mr. ELIZA to-
DAOOII, widow of Mr. Joseph Übangi], dee'd, form
erly of Latimoro township, aged about 40 years.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
Ocip The Rev. Mr. WaTeotr will preach ia the
Presbyterian Church next Sunday morning at 11
o'clock, and in the evening at early candle-light.
The Rev. Mr. ELIAS will preach in the German
language, in thd Catholic Chapel, on Sunday next at
10 o'clock A. ILL,
Tho Rev. Mr. Richardson will preach in tho Me
thodist Church in this place, on Sunday morning next
at 11 o'clock,and in the evening at early candle-light.
The Rev. Mr. Ruthrauir will preach in the Ger
man Church, on Sunday morning next, at 10 o'clock,
in the German language.
-There will also be preaching in the same church
at half past 2 o'clock, in the English language.
ADVERTISEMENT,§.
AN APPRENTICE
TO THE PRINTING BUSINESS,
Wanted immediately at the Star Mice.
February 17, 1835. tf-46
GETTYSBURG IMPARTIAL
BENEFICIAL SOCIETY.
A STATED meeting of the •'l,npartial
Beneficial Sacitty" will be held at the
house of Mr. Henry Ferry, on . Saturday
evening next, at half.past 6 o'clock. A
punctual attendance of its members is re.
quested.
R. W. MIDDLETON, Sec'ry.
February 17, 1835 tm-4G
..7rolice is hekeby Given,
rot) all the Heirs and Legal Representa
tives of - JOSEPH FALLER; late of
Adams county, Pa. dec'd, who died intes
tate, that by •virtue of an Order issued out
of the Orphan's Court of Adams county,
dated the 26th day of January, 1835,—an
INQUEST will be held on the premises in
Mountpleasant township, in said county, on
Frulay the 20th day of February inst. at
1 o'clock P. NI. to make partition and valua
tion of the Real Estate of said dec'd, when
and where the said Heirs may attend if they
think proper.
James Bell, Jr. SHERIFF.
Sheriff's Office, Getty.-
burn, Feb. 17,1835. S ti-46
0 A:RUYAN SEEDS.
Raised by the United Society in Enfield, CI
Blood Beet, Salmon ,Radish,
Early turnip do. Scarlet • do.
Orange do. Savoy Cabbage,
Sugar do. Early York do.
White Onion, Drum-head de.
Yellow. do. . Early do.
Red do. Early dutch do.
Orange Carrot, Red do.
Early Horn do. Flat Turnip,
Red do. Loug do.
Long white Parsnip, Sage,
Guernsey do. Cayenne. Pepper, ,
Long Cucumber, Squash do.
Long green do. Parsley,
Early do. Early Tune Peas,
Early cluster do. Do. Washington do.
Watermellon, White marrowfat do
Dutch summer Squash Green dwarf do. do.
Crook neck do. do. Strawberry dwarf do
Do. winter do. Early red-Dyed do.
White Head Lettuce, Bean,
Early curled do. do. Early Sugar Corn,
Cabbage.head do. 'Solid Celery.
Speckled do. Summer Savory,
Double Peppergrasa,
Just received a large supply of the above
Seeds, and for sale at the Drug store of
Dr. J. GILBERT, Gettysburg.
February 17, 1835. tl-46
PO aa
i,v.LL be exposed to public sale, on
%%
the premises, on Wednesday the
25th day of March neat,
.ItebtPZl aimbraloa)
The First,
.situate in Mountpleasant town
ship, Adams county, Pa. adjoining lands if
.1. Smith, A. Carrigan, C. Smith and oth
ers, containing 9 Acres, more' or less r -,-on
which aro a 14 story Log Dwelling, log
Stable. The Second,in same township, ad
joining lands of A. Smith, G. Bercaw and
others,contitining 2 Acres and 114 Perches,
without any improvements.
.The Third,in
Same township , adjoining lands of A. Smith;
G. Here* and others, containing. :3 Acres
and 48 Perches, also without improvements.
All to be sold as the Estate of WILLIAM
TOLAND, late of Mountpleasant toivnship,
Adams county, - deceaSed.
Sale to commence at 1 o'clock r. it., when
the terms will be made known, and attend•
ance given, by
- JOHN O'NIELL, Adm'r.
February 17, 1885. ts*-16
/VAL rERATUS—A large quantity re
coived and for sale at the Drug store of
DR. .f. GILBERT, Gettysburg.
December 9, 19/34. tf-36
Mr.:SA.O"AV.
FOR SALE Al' TILES OFFICE
-ALSO
A TRACT OF LAND,
Situate in Liberty township, Adonis court=.
ty,
ty, containing 55 Acres, more or less, ada
joining lands of James Moore, C. Donald=
son and others, en which are erected a one,
and a half story Log Dwelling House, Log
Barn, a small Orchard s with a spring of wa
.
ter near the house. .Seized and ta ken in
execution as the estate of Wm. Topper
-ALSO
A TRACT OF LAND,
Sitonte in Germany township,Adams COUTI•
ty, containing 16 Mires, more or less,
.4:ie
which are erected a two-story Log Ho use
and Log Stable, a well of water near , the
door, adjoining lands of Philip Bishop, Hem
ry Biddle and others. Seized and taken irk
execution as the estate of Henry Keefer.
-A.T.SO
A TRACT OF LAND,
Situate in Alountpleasant township, Adam 4
county, containing 100 Acres, more or less ;
on which are erected a one-story House,.
part frame and part log, double Log Barn ;
a spring or water near the house, with el
small Orchard, adjoining (ands of Christian
Cash man, Bank of Gettysburg and others.--;
Also,
A TRACT OF LAND,...
Situate in Straban township, Adams county,.
adjoining lands of Christian Cashman, the
heirs of George Bercaw and others,contain
ing 128 Acres, more or less, on which are
erected a one nada half story Frame flotw,
large Frame Bnrn ' spring of water near tho
door, with a small Orchard —Also,
A TRACT OF LAND.
Situate in illountjoY township, Adams coin).-
ty, containing 180 Acre.., more or less,
joining lands of Joseph Blocher, Davie
Reinecker, tho hem of Willielmas Hough.;
telin and others, with a one and a half story
Log Ilouse, and Frame ['Ouse attached
thereto, with a well of water near thei l dcioi,• -
,an Orchard, and Frame Barn tbereian'pric
ted. Seized and taken tn execution ati.the'
property of George Bercaw.. .
--ALS(>••-.-•
On Friday Me 6th day of March next f
on the premises,
A TRACT OF LAND,
Situate in Tyrone township, Adams county,:
adjoining lands of Peter Ferree, the heirs of
John Gilliland, Fidler and others, contain--
iv 235 Acres, more or less, on which are
erected a two•story Brick House and Brick-
Back Building, Bank Barn, part- log mid
part stone, a_spring of water near the door,
also a one and a half storytenant-house,
shop, and log stable, and an-orchard; with a
large quantity of Meadow, Seized and ta
ken in execution as the estate of Andrew
Walker.
JAMES BELL, Jr. Sheriff. -
Sheriff's Office, Gettys
burg, Feb. 17,1835. c t,-46
Estate of Peter iieavenoury dee'd.
A LL persons indebted to the &tittle of
Ill' PETER BEAVENOUR, late of Me.
nallen township, Adams county, Pa deceai,
ed, are requested to come forward and make
settlement, on or before the 14th:of March ,
next, on which day the Executois will meet
at• the house of the deceased. And : thotit
having claims agaitn.t. said Estate, are re
quested to present the samt., on said ,jay,
properly authenticated for . settlernctit:
The first named Executor
.resilles
Mountpleasant township, Adams county, and
the last named in Paiadize township s Vt . frir,
count-v. -
PHILIP FLESHMAN, ,
MICHAEL BEAVENOIJR, 5 rB *
February 3, 1635.
Estate of Joseph Hemler,sr. deck!
L~LL persons indabted to the Estate of
..- 151 - JOSEPH HEMLER, Sen. late of
Mountpleasant township, Adams county, Pa.
deceased, are hereby notified to come fore
ward and make settlement without delay.
And those having claims against the Estate
of said deceased, are requested to present
the same, properly authenticated, to the
subscribers without delay. for settlement.
The Administrators both reside in Meant.•
pleasant township. , - •
- HENRY HEMLER I -
Ada:" a'
CHRISTIAN HEMLER, •
January 27, 1835.
iv A RNISH—A large supply .1 Wick nit
• Varnish,for saddlers' and shoemakers'
use, just received and for sale at the Dreg
store of DR. J. GILBERT.
Gettysburg, Dee. 9,183!. tf-41
DRUGS & MEDICINES.
A FRESH sap* of gendtne DRUGS
Ilk and MEDICINES just received , end'
for sale at the Drug store - •
• .DR. J. GILBERT,. Gtettysbu rix. r
December 9, ast. - 4r-4311
- ,
giveu at ull tirade .tor clean' lineri 141 .
cotton RAGS, if tilittiest paidse;„ ,
3 .