°levers arid doubtful struggle through which we pained, when the Executive Department of the Govkirornent, by its veto, endeavored to arrest this prodigal scheme of injustice, and to bring back the legislation ofCongress to the boundaries prescribed by the consti tution. The good sense and practical judg ment dale people, when the subject was brought before them, sustained the course of the Executive; and this plan of unconsti tutional expenditure for the purposes of cor rupt influence, is I trust, finally overthrown. The result of this decision has been felt in the rapid extinguishment of the public debt, and the large accumulation of a sur plus in the treasury, notwithstanding the tariff was reduced, and is now very far below the amount originally contemplated by its advocates. But, rely upon it, the design to collect an extravagant revenue, and to bur den you with taxes beyond the economical wants of the Government, is not yet aban doned. The various interests which have combined together to impose a heavy tariff, and to produce an overflowing treasury, are too strong, and have too much at stake to I surrender the contest. The corporations and' wealthy individuals who are engaged in !urge manufacturing establishments, de. sirea high thine increase their gains.— Designing politiciuns will support it, to con ciliate their favor, and to obtain- the means of profuse expemlioare, for the purpose of purchasing influence in other quarters; and since the people have decided that the Fed• eral Government cannot be permitted to employ its income in internal improvements, efforts twill be made to seduce and mislead the citizens oldie several States by holding out to them the deceitful prospects of hem• lila to be derived from a surplus revenue collected by the General Government, and annually divided among the States. And if; encouraged by these fallacious hopes, the States should disreg ard the principles of' economy which ough t to characterize every republican Government, and should indulge in lavish expenditures exceeding their re sources, they will; before long, find them. selves oppressed with debts which they are unable to pay, and the temptation will be• come irresistible to support a high tariff; in Order to obtain a surplus for distribution no not allow yourselves, my fellow citizens, to be misled on this subject. The Fed eral Government cannot collect a surplus for such purposes, without violating the prin ciples of the constitution, and assuming powers which have not been granted. It is, moreover, a system of injustice, and if, per aisted in, will inevitably lead to corruption, and must end in ruin, The surplus revenue will ha drawn from the pockets of the peo ple, from the farmer, the mechanic, and the laboring classes ofsociety; but who will re come it when distributed among the States, where it is to be disposed of by leading State politicians who have friends to favor, and political partisans to gratify? It will cer tainly not be returned to those who paid it, and who have most need of it, and are hon estly entitled to it. There is but one safe rule, and that is, to confine the General Go vernment rigidly within the sphere of its appropriate duties. It has no powerto raise a revenue, or impose taxes, except for the purposes enumerated in the constitution; and if its income is found to exceed these wants, it should be forthwith reduced and the bur dens of the people so far lightened. In reviewing the conflicts which have taken place between different interests in the United States, and the policy pursued since the adoption of our present form of govern ment, we find nothing that has produced such deep•seated evil as the course of legis lation in relation to the currency. The con stitution of the United States unquestiona- ' bly intended to secure to the people a circu lating medium of gold and silver. But the establishment of a national bank by Con gress, with the privilege of issuing paper money receivable in the payment of the public dues, and the unfortunate course of legislation in the several States upon the same subject, drove from general eircula iion the constitutional currency, and substi tuted one of paper in its place. It was not easy for men -engaged in the ordinary pursuits of business, whose atten tion had not been particularly drawn to the subject, to foresee all the consequences of a currency exclusively of paper;and ought not, on that account, to be surprised at the facili ty with which laws were obtained to carry into erect the paper system. Honest, and even enlightened men, are sometimes misled by the specious and plausible statements of the designing. 'But experierce has now proved the mischiefs and dangers of a paper currency, and it rests with you:to determine whether the proper remedy shall be applied. The paper system being founded on public confidence, and having of itself no intrinsic value, it is liable to great and sudden fluctu ations; thereby rendering property insecure, and the wages of labor unsteady and uncer tain. The corporations which create the paper money cannot be relied upon to keep the circulating medium uniform in amount. In times of prosperity, when confidence is high, they are tempted by the prospect of gain, or by the influence of those who hope to profit by it, to extend their issues of paper beyond the bounds of discretion and beyond the reasonable demands of business. And when these issues have been pushed on,from day to day, until public confideace is at length shaken, then a reaction takes place, and they immediately withdraw the credits they havegiven; suddenly curtail their is sues; and produce an unexpected and ru inous contraction of theciroulating medium, which is felt by the whole community.— The banks, by this means, save themselves, and the mischievous consequences of their imprudence or cupidity are visited upon the public. Nor does the evil stop here. These ebbs and flows in the cu rencv, end these indiscreet extensions of credit, naturally en gender a spirit ofspeculat ion injurious to the habits and character of the people. We have already seen its effects in the wild spirit of speculation in the public lands, and vari oss kinds of stock, which, wiihm the last year or tato, seized upon such a multitude of our citizens, and threatened to pervade all Sham of society and to withdraw their at litetiss from the sober pursuits of honest in dishy. It is not by encouraging this spirit that We shall best preserve public virtue and promote' the true interests of our country.— But if your currency continues as exclusive ly paper as it now is, it will foster this eager desire to amass wealth without labor; it will' multiply the number of dependents on bank accommodations and bank favors; temptation to obtain money at any sacrifice will become stronger and stronger, and inevitably lead to corruption, which will find its way into your public councils, and destroy, - at no distant day, the purity of our Government. Some of the evils which arise from this system of paper press with peculiar hardship upon the class of society least able to bear it. A pinion of this currency frequently becomes depreciated or worthless, and all of it is easi ly conterfeited, in such a manner as to re quire peculiar skill and much experience, to I distinguish the counterfeit from the genuine note. These frauds are most generally per petrated in the smaller notes, which are used in the daily transactions of ordinary business; and the losses occasioned by them are commonly thrown upon the labouring classes of sociecty, whose situation and pun suits put it out of their power to guard them selves from the impositions, and whose daily wages are necessary for their subsistence. It is the duty of every Government so to regulate its currency as to protect this nu merous class as far as practicable from the impositions of avarice and fraud. It is more especially the duty of the United States, where the Government is emphatically the Government of the people, and where this respectable portion of our citizens are so proudly distinguished from the laboring classes of all other nations, by their indepen dent spirit, their love of liberty, their intel ligence, and their high tone of moral char acter. Theis industry, in peace, is the source ofour wealth; and their bravery, in war, has covered us with glory; and the Government ofthe Uni'.ed States will but ill discharge its duties if it leaves them a prey to such dishonest impositions. Yet it is evident that their interests cannot be riff:ie. tnatly protected, unless silver and gold are restored to circulation. These views alone, of the paper currency, are sufficient to call forimmediate reform, hut there is another consideration which would still more strongly press it upon your attention. Recent events have proved that the paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institu tions; and that those who desire to engross all power in the hands of the few, and to govern by corruption or force, are aware of its power,and prepared to employ it. Your banks now furnish your only circulating me dium, and money is plenty or scarce, ac cording to the quantity of notes issued by them. While they have capitals not great ly disproporitoned to each other; they are competitors in business, and no one of them can exercise dominion over the rest; and although, in the present state of the curren cy, these banks may and do operate inju riously upon the habits of bubiness, the pe- cun►ary concerns, and the moral tone of society; yet, front their number and dispers ed situation, they cannot combine fur the purposes of political influence; and whatever may be the disp9sitions of some of them, their power of mischief n►ust necessarily be confined to a narrow space, and. felt only in their immediate neighborhood. But when the charter of the Bank or the United States was obtained from Congress, it perfected the schemes of the paper system and gave to its advocates the positions they have struggled to obtain, from the com- meneemem of the Federal Government down to the present hour. capital, and peculiar privileges bestowed upon it, enabled it to exercise despotic sway over the other banks in every part of the country. From its super:or strength, it could seriously injure, if not destroy, the business of any one of them which might in cur its resentment; and it openly claimed for itself the power of regulating the cur rency throughout the United States. In other words, it asserted (and it undoubtedly possessed) the power to make money plenty or scarce, at its pleasure, at any time, and in any quarter of the Union, by controlling the issues of other banks, and permitting an expansion, or compelling a general contrac tion, of the circulating medium, according to its own will. The o:ber banking insti tutions were sensible of its strength, and they soon generally became its obedient instru ments, ready, at all times, to execute its mandates; and with the banks necessarily went, also, that numerous class of persons in our commercial cities, who depend alto. gether on bank credits for their solvency and means of business; and who are, therefore, obliged, for their own safety, to propitiate the favorof the money power by distinguish ed zeal and devotion in its service. The result of the ill-advised legislation which established this great monopoly was, to con• centrate the whole moneyed power of the Union, with its boundless means of corrup tion, and its numerous dependents, under the direction and command of one acknow- !edged head; thus organizing this particular interest as one body and securing to it unity and concert of action throughout the Uni ted States, and enabling it to bring forward, upon any occasion, its entire and undivided strength to support or defeat any measure of the Government. In the hands of this formidable power, thus perfectly organized, was also placed unlimited dominion over the amount of the circulating medium, giving it the power to regulate the value of property and the fruits of labor in every quarter of the Union; and to bestow prosperity, or bring ruin, upon any city or section of the country, as might best comport with its own interest or policy. We are not left to conjecture how the moneyed power, thus organized, and with such a weapon in its hands, would be likely to use it. The distress' and alarm which pervaded and •agitated the whole country when the Bank of the United States waged war upon the people,in order to compel them to submit toils demands, cannot,yet be for gotten. The ruthless and unsparing tem per with which whole cities and communi ties were oppressed, individuals impover ished and' ruined, and a scene of cheerful prosperity suddenly changed into one of gloom and despondency, ought to be laden b:y impressed on the memory of the people of the United States- If such was its power in a time of peace, what would it not have beep in a season of war, with an enemy at youi doors? No nation but"the freemen of the United States could have come out vic• torious from such a contest; yet, if you had not conquered, the Government would have passed from the hands of the many to the hands of the few; and this organized money power, from its secret conclave, would have dictated the choice of your highest officers. and compelled you to make peace or war, as best suited their own wishes. The forms of your government might, for a time, have remained; but its living spirit would have departed from it. The distress and sufferings inflicted on the people by the bank, are sumo of the fruits of that system of policy which is continually striving to enlarge the authority of the Fed eral Government beyond the limits fixed by the constitution. The powers enume rated in that instrument do not confer on Congress the right to establish such a cor poration as the Bank of the United States; and the evil consequences which followed may warn us of thedanzer ofdeparting from the true rule of construction, and of permit- ting temporary circumstances, or the hope of better promoting the public welfare, to influence in any degree, our decisions man the extent of the authority of the Genera Government. Let us abide by the consti tulion as it is written, or amend it in Ott constitutional mode, if it is found to be de feel ive. The severe les-ons of experience will, doubt not, be sufficient to prevent Congress from °gain chartering such n monopoly,even lithe constitution did not present nn insupe. rahle objection to it. But you must remem• her, my fellow citizens,that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty; and that y ou mus t p a y the price if you wish to secure the ble:4sint7. It behoves you, therefore, to he watchful in your States, as well as in the Federal Government. The power which the moneyed interest can exercise, when concentrated tinder a single head, and with oar present system of currency, was stitfici• ently demonstrated in the struggle made by the Bank of the United States. Potholed in the General Government, the same class of intriguers tu.d politicians will now iesort to the States, and endeavor to obtain there the seine organization which they failed to perpetuate in the Union; and with specious and deceitful plans of public advantages. and State interests and State pride, they will en• deavor to establish, in the different States, one moneyed institution, with overgrown capital, and exclusive privileges sufficient to enable it to control the operations of the other banks. Such an institution will be pregnant with the same evils produced by the Bank of the United States, although its sphere of act ion is more confined; and in the State in which it is chartered, the money power will be able to embody its whole strength, and to move together with undi vided force, to accomplish any object it may wish to attain. You have already had chart dant evidence of its power . to inflict injury upon the ogrlculturol,mechanical and labor. ing classes of society; and over these whose engagements in trade or speculation render them dependent on bunk facilities, the do minion of the State monopoly will be abso lute, and their obedience unlimited. With such a bank and a paper currency, the mo ney power would, in a few years, govern the State and control its measures; and if a suf f icient number of States can be induced to create such establishments, the time will soon come when it will again take the field against the United States, and succeed in The immense perfecting and perpetuating its organization by a charter from Congress. It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking., that it enables one class of society—and that by no means a numerous one—by its control over the etirrency,to act injuriously upon the interests of all the others, and to exercise more than its just torpor tint' of influence in political affairs. The agricultural. the mechanical, and the laboring classes have little or no share In the direction of the great moneyed corpo rations; and from their habits and the nature of their pursuits, they are incapable of forming extensive com binations to act together with united force. Such con cert of action may sometimes be produced in a single city,or in a small district of country,by means of per sonal communication with each other; but they have no regular or active correspondence with those who are eneaged in similar pursuits in distant places; they have but little patronage to give to the press, and ex ercise but a small share of influence over it; they have no crowds of dependants shoot them, who hope to grow rich without labor,by their countenance and fa vor, and who are,therefore,always reaire to execute their wishes. The olanter,the farmer,the mechanic. and the laborer, all know that their success depends upon their industry and economy, and they must not expect to become suddenly rich by the fruits of their toil. Yet these classes of society form the great body of the people of the U. States; they are the bone and sinew of the country; men who love liberty and de sire nothing bet equal rights and equal laws,and who, moreover,hold the great mass of our national wealth, although it is distributed in moderate amounts among the millions of freemen who possess it. But, with o verwhelming numbers and wealth on their aide, they are in constant danger of losing their fair influence in the Government. and with difficulty maintain their just rights against the incessant efforts daily made to encroach upon them. The mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a pa per currency,which they are able to control; from the multitude of corporations, with exclusive privileges, which they have succeeded in obtaining in the differ ent States, and which are employed altogether for their benefit; and unless you become more watchful in your States, and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges,you will,in the enil,find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. The paper money system,and its natural associates monopply and exclusive. privileges, have already struck their roots deep in the soil; and it will require all your efforts to check its further growth and to era dicate the evil. The men who profit by the abuses and desire to perpetuate them, will continue to be siege the halls of legislation in the General Govern ment as well as in the States, and will seek,by every artifice, tp mislead and deceive the public servants. It is to yourselves that you must look for safety, and the means of guarding and perpetuating your free in stitutions. In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country, and to you every one pla ced in authority is ultimately responsible. It is always in your power to see that the wishes of the people are carried into faithful execution, and their will, when once made known,must sooner or later be obey ed. And while the people remain, as I trust they ev er will, uncorrupted and incorruptible, and continue watchful and jearous of their rights, the Government is safe, and the cause of freedom will continue to tri umph over its enemies. But it will require steady and persevering exer tions on your part to rid yourselves of the iniquities and mischiefs of the paper system, and to check the spirit of monopoly and other abuses which have sprung up with it, and of which it is the main support. So many interests are united to resist all reform on this subject, that you must sot hope the conflict will be a short one,nor success easy. My humble efforts have not been spared, during my administration of the Go venunent,to restore the constitutional currency of gold and silver; and something, I trust, has been dope to wards the accomplishment of this most desirable ob. jeot. But enough yet remains to require all your en ergy and perseverance. The power, however, is in your hand•,and the remedy must and will be applied, if you determine upon it. While I am thus endeavoring to press upon your at tention the prineiples which I deerilisityttal imeiurtance in the domestic concerns of the country; Vought not to pass over,without notice, the importiot consfilra tions which should govern your policy towards , for eign powers. It is,unquestionablY,our true interest to cultivate the most friendly understanding with every nation,and to avoid,by every honorable means,the ca lamities of wartAind we shall' best attain this object by frankness and sincerity in our foreign intercourse, by. the prompt and faithful execution of treaties, and by justice and impartiality in our conduct to all. Bat no nation, however desirous of peace, can hope toes- cape occasional collisions with other powers; and the soulidest dictates of policy require that we should place ourselves in a condition to assert our rights,if a resort to force should ever become necessary. Our lo cal situation,our long line of seaciiast,indented by nu merous bays,with deep rivers opening into the interi or, as well as onr extended and still increasing com merce, point to the navy as our national means of de fence. It will,in the end be found to be the cheapest and most effectual; and now is the tune,in a season of peace,and with an overilewilig revenue, that we can, year after year,add to its strength,without increasing the burdens of the people. For your navy will not on ly protect your rich and flourishinl commerce in di.- ' Cant seas, but will enable you to reach and annoy the eueiny,and will give to defence its greatest efficiency by meeting danger at a distance from borne. It is im possible, by any line of fortifications, to guard every point from attack against a hostile force advancing from the ocean and selecting its object: but they are indis pensable to protect citizens from bombardment; dock yards and naval arsenals from destruction; to give shelter so merchant vessels is time of war,and to sin gle ships or weaker squadrons when pressed by su perior force. Fortifications of this description cannot be too soon completed and armed.and placed in a con dition orate most perfect preparation. The abundant means we now possess cannot be applied in any mail ner more useful to the country; nod when this is done and our naval force sufficiently strengthened. and our militia armed, we need not fear that any nation will wantonly Insult us,or needlessly provoke hostilies We shall more certain]; preserve peace, when it is well understood that we are prepared (or war. In presenting to you,my fellow •citizens, these part ing counsels, I have brought before yon the leading principles upon which I endeavored to administer the Government in the high office with which you twice honored me. Knowing that the path of freedom is continually beset by enemies, who often assume the guise of friends, 1 have devoted the last hours of on • public life to warn you of the dangers The progress of the United States ' under our free and happy iosti , totions,has surpassed the most sanguine hopes of the founders of the republic. Our growth has been rnpid beyond all former example, in numbers, in wealth, in knowledge,and all the useful arts which contribute to the comforts and convenience of man; and frcma the curliest ages of history to the present day,there nev er have been thirteen millions of people associated to gether in one political bode, who enjoyed so 'noel) freedom and happiness as the people of these lit '..11 States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world. as well as the high and gallant heuring of your 60101. It is from within, a mong yourselves, from cupidity, from corruption,from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst of power, that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs,whatcver disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard your selves You have the highest of human trusts com milted to your c ire. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May HE, who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make von worthy of the faVors he has bestowed,and enable you with pure hearts and pure hands, and sleepless vii lance,to guard and defend,to the end of time,the great charge he has committed to your keeping. My own race is nearly run; advanced age and fail- ing health warts me that before long I must pass be yond the reach of human eventg,and cease to feel the vicissitudes of human affairs. I thank Goo that my life has been spent in a land of Liberty, and that he has given me a heart to love my country wi•h the af fection of a son. Aud, filled with gratitude for your constant and unwavering kindness, I bid you a last and affectionate farewell. .Indrew Jackson. WASHINGTON CITY, March 4, 1837. Inaugural Address of Martha Van Buren. Delivered March 4, 1837, on being inducted into the Office of President of the United States. FELLOW Crry.Erts: The practice of all Hmy predecessors imposes on me an obliga tion 1 cheerfully fulfil, to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it, and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so respon sible and vast. In imitating their example, I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors, it is our happiness to believe, are not found on the executive cal endar of any country. Among them, we recognise the earliest and firmest pillars of of the republic; those by whom our national independence was first declared; him who, above all others, contributed to, establish it on the field of battle; and those whose ex panded in•ellect and patriotism constructed, improved, and perfected the estimable insti tutions under which we live. If such men, in the position I now occu py, felt themselves overwhelmed by a sense of gratitude for this, the highest of all marks of their country's confidence, and by a con sciousness of their inability adequately to dischar.re the duties of an office so difficult and exalted, how much more must these considerations affect one, who can rely on no such claims for favor or forbearance.— Unlike ell who have preceded me, the revo lution, that gave us existence as one people, was achieved at the period of my birth; and, whilst I contemplate with grateful reverence that memorable event, I feel that I belong to a later age, and that 1 may not expect my countrymen to weigh my actions with the same kind and partial hand. So sensibly, fellow-citizens, do these circumstances press themselves upon me, that 1 should not dare to enter upon my path of duty, did I not look for the generous aid of those who will be associated with me in the various and co ordinate ranches of the Government; did I not repose, with unwavering reliance, on the patriotism, the intelligence, and the kindness, of a people who never yet deserted a public servant honestly laboring in their cause, and, above all, did I not permit my self humbly to hope for the sustaining sup port of an ever•watchful and beneficent Providence. To the confidence and consolation derived from these sources, it would be ungrateful not to add those which spring from our present fortunate condition. Though not altogether exempt from embarrassments that disturb our tranquility ut home and threaten it abroad, yet, in all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people,we stand without a parallel in the world. A- broad, we enjoy the respect,and,witl► scarce ly an exceptat►on, the friendship of every nation; at home, while our Government quietly, but efficiently, performs the sole legitimate end of political institutions, in do. ing the greatest good to the greatest num ber, we present an aggregate of human prosperity surely not elsewhere to be found. How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen. in his own sphere, of action, whether limited or extend ed, to exert himself in perpetuating a con dition of things so singularly happy. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us ; if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Position and climate and the bounteous resources that nature has scatter ed with so liberal a hand—even the diffu 'sed intelligence and elevated character of our people wilt avail us nothitSg, if we fail sacredly to uphold those politiCal_mstitations that were wisely and deliberately formed, with reference to every circumstance that could preserve, or might endanger, the blessings we enjoy. The thoughtful framers of our constitution legislated for our country as they Pitied it. Looking upon it with the eyes of statesmen and of patriots, they saw all the sources of rapid and wonderful prosperity, but they saw also that various habits, opinions, and u►sti• tutions, peculiar to' the various portions of so vast a region, were deeply fixed. Dis tinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union essential to, the welfare and happiness of all. Between many of them there was, at least to some extent, a real diversity of interests, liable to be exaggerated through sinister designs; they differed insize, in population, in wealth, and in actual and prospective resources and power; they varied in the character of their industry and staple productions, and in sonic existed domestic institutions, which, unwise ly disturbed, might endanger the harmony of the whole. Most carefully were all these circurnstan• ens weighed, and the foundations of the new Government laid upon principles of recipro cal concession and equitable compromise. The jealousies which the smaller States might entertain of the power of the rest were allayed by a rule of representation, confessedly unequal at the time, and design• ed forever to remain so. A natural fear that the broad scope of general legislation aught bear upon and unwisely control par- ticular interests, was counteracted by limits strictly drawn around the action of the tede ral ainhority;and to the people and the States was 101 l unimpaired their sovereign power over the innumerable subjects embraced in the internal government of a just republic, excepting such only as necessarily appertain to the concerns of the whole cotifederlicy, or its intercourse, as a united community, with the other nations of the world. This provident forecast has been verified by time; half a century teeming with ordi nary events, and elsewhere producing as tonishing results, has passed along, but on our institutions it has left no injurious murk. Prom a small community we have risen to a people powerful in numbers and in strength, but with our increase has gone, hand in hand, the progress of just principles; Ole privileges, civil and religious, of the humble individual are still sacredly protected at home, and while the valor and fortitude of our people have removed far from us the slightest apprehension of foreign power, they have not yet induced us, in a single instance to forget what is right—Our commerce has been extended to the remotest nations; the value, and even nature, of our productions has been greatly changed; a wide differ ence has arisen in the relative wealth and resources of every portion of our country, yet the spirit of mutual vigor and of faithfill adherence to existing compacts has con tinued to prevail iii our councils, and never long been absent from our conduct. We have learned by experience. a fruitful les son: that an implicit and undeViating adher ence to the principles on which we set out can carry us prosperously onward through all the conflicts of circumstances, and the vicissitudes inseparable from the lapse of years. The success that has thus attended our great experiment, is, in itself, a sufficient cause for gratitude, on account. of the hap piness it has actually conferred, and the ex ample it has unanswerably given. But to me, my fellow-citizens, looking forwaid to the fur-distant future, with ardent prayers and confiding hopes, the retrospect presents a ground for still deeper delight. It im• presses on my mind a firm belief that the perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves; that, if we maintain the principles on which they were established, they are destined to confer their benefits on count less generations yet to come; and that A merica will present to every friend of man kind the cheering proot, that a popular Government, wisely formed, is wanting in no element of endurance or strength. Fifty years ago, its rapid failure was bold. ly predicted. Latent and uncontrollable causes of dlssolution were supposed to exist, even by the wise and good; dud not only did unfriendly or speculative theorists antici pate for us tho fate of past republics, but the fears of many an honest patriot overbalanced his sanguine hopes. Look back on these forebodings, not honestly, but reluctantly made, and see how, in every instance, they have completely failed. An imperfect experience,during the strug• gles of the revolution, was supposed to war rant a belief that the people would not bear the taxation requisite to discharge an ina• menso public debt already incurred, and to defray the necessary expenses of the -Go vernment. The cost of two wars has been paid, not only without murmur, but with unequalled alacrity. No one is now left to doubt that every burden will be cheerfully borne that may be necessary to sustain our civil institutions or guard our honor or our welfare. Indeed, all experience has shown that dr, willingness of the people to contri bute to those ends in cases of emergency, has uniformly outrun the confidence of their representatives. In the early stages of the new Govern ment, when all felt the imposing influence, as they recognised the unequalled services of the first President, a was a common senti ment, that the great weight of his charac ter could alone bind the discordant ma terials of our Government together, and save us from the violence of contending factions. Since his death, nearly forty years are gene. Party exasperation has been often carri ed to its highest point; the virtue and the fortitude of the people have sometimes been greatly tried; yet our system, purified and enhanced in value by all it has encounter. ed, still preserves its spirit of free and fear le.4s discussion, blended with unimpaired fraternal fooling. The capacity of the people for self-govern ment,and their willinnessfrom u high sense of duty, and without ;how exhibitions of coercive power so generally employed in other countries, to submit to all needful re straints abd exactions of the muncipal law, have also been favorably exemplified in the history of the American States. Occasion ally, it is true, the ardour of public senti ment, outrunning the regular progress of the judicial tribunals or seeking to reach cases not denounced as criminal by the ex. ire ing law, has displayed itself in a manner calculated to give pain to the friends of free government, and to encourage the hopes of those who wish for its overthrow. These occurrences, however, have been far, less frequent in our country than in any other of equal population on the globe; and with the difliision of intelligence,it may well be hoped that they ivill constantly diminish in fre quency and violence. The generous patriotism and sound (rim mon sense of the great mass of our fellow citizens will assuredly. in time, produce this result; for, as every assumption of illegal power not only wounds the majesty of the law, but furnishes a pretest for abridging the liberties of the people,the latter have the most direct and permanent interest in pre servirer the great landmarks of social order, and maintaining, on all occasions, the inviol ability of those constitutional and legal pro visions which they themselves have made. 1n a supposed unfitness of our institutions for those hostile emergencies, which no country can always avoid, their friends found a fruitful source of apprehension, their enemies of hope. While they foresaw less promptness of action than in governments differently formed, they overlooked the far more important consideration, that with us war could never be the result of indisidial or irresponsible will, but must be a measure of redress for injuries sustained, voluntarily resorted to by those who were to belir the t • •essary sacrifice, who would consequently leel an individual interest in the contest and whose energy would be commensurate with the difficulties to he encountered. Actual events have proved their error; the last wir, far from impairing, gave new confidence to the government; and amid re cent apprehensions of a similar conflict, we saw that the energies of our country would not be wanting in ample season to vindicate its rights. We may not possess, as we should not desire to possess, the extended and ever ready military organization of other nations; we may occatrionally suffer in the outset for the want of it, but among ourselves, all doubt apon this great point has ceased, while a salutary experience will prevent a contrary opinion from inviting ag gression from abroad. Certain danger was foretold from the ex tension of our territory, the multiphCation of States, and the increase of population.— Our system was supposed to be adapted only to boundaries comparatively narrow. These have been widened beyond conjecture, the members of our confederacy are already doubled; and the number* of oar people are in. credibly augmented. The alleged =UMW of dan ger have lung since surpassed anticipation, but none of the consequences have followed. The power and influence of the republic have risen to a height obvious to all mankind; respect for Oa authority was not more apparent at its ancient; than it is at its present hmitic new and Ina:bawd. bin sources of general prosperity have been open• ed; the effect of distance has been averted by the inventive genius of oar people, developed and fist. ored by the spiritofour institutions; and the en. larged variety and amount ofintereste.productions one pursuits, have strengthened the chain of mu tual dopenaonce. wnd formed a ciras of mutual benefits., too apparent ever to be overlooked. In juialv balancing the power. of the Federal and State authorities. difficulties nearly insur mountable arose at the outset. and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable. Amid these. it was scarcely believed possible that a scheme of government, so complex in construction, could remain uninjured. From time to time embarrass ments have certainly occurred; but how just is the confidence of rehire safety imparted by the knowledge that each in succession has been hap. pity removed. Overlooking partial and tempera ry evils as inseparable from the practical opera. sum of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied. While the Federal Government has successfully porfo•med its appropriate functions in relation to foreign affairs, and concerns evi dently national, that of every State has remarka bly improved in protecting and developing local interests and individual welfare; and if the Yibra. Lions of authority have occasionally tended too much towards one or the other, it is unquestiona bly certain that the ultimate operation of the entire system has been to strengthen all the existing in. stitutiona, and to elevate our whole country in prosperity and renown. The last, perhaps the greatest. of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in onr political condition. was the institution of domestic slavery. Oar forefathers were deeply impressed with the delicacy of this subject, and they treated it with a forbearance so evidently wise, that in spite of every sinister foreboding, it never, until the present period. disturbed the tran quillity of our common country. Such a result is sufficient evidence of the justice and the patri otism of their course; it is evidence not to be min taken, that an adherence to-it can prevent all em barrassinent from this, as well as from every other, anticipated cause of diffle3lty or danger. Have not secant events made at obvious to the slightest reflection. that the least deviation from this spirit of forbearance is iujorums to every interest, that of humanity included? Amidst the violence of excited passions, this generous and fraternal feel ing has been sometimes disregarded; and stand. in g os I now do before my countrymen in this high place of honor and of trust. 1 cannot refrain from anxious!) , invoking my fellow-citizens never to be deaf to its dictVes. Perceiving. before my elec tion, the deep interest this subject was beginning to excite, I believed it a solemn duty fully to make known my sentiments in regard to it; and now, when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away, I trust that they will be candidly weighed and understood. At least they will be my atar.dard of conduct in the path before me. I then declared that. iftLe desire of my countrymeo who were favorable to nay election was gratified. •"l must go into the Pre4idential chair the ir.aex,t ble and uncompromising opponent of every ot. tempt on the part ofCorigress to abolish slavery the District of Columbia,agaLusit the %it is bes of the slave holding Slater, and rim with a dietep;pinal Lion equally decided to iesist the alishtest inter. ference with it in the 4tates where it exists." I submitted alsehare_y kUow citizens. with fur:WWII and frartkuetui, the masons whiith led me to 04 dotermigation. The result authorizes sae to have that they hare beep approved, and are con fided in by a majority of the petmle °fit* trn494 Staten, including those whom Ibex most agecte-r• It new only fountains to add, dial no bill oordlict , ing with these views can ewer receive my prinati. tutionel sanction: These opinions bays WW I ad, °P. Rut in the firm belief that they are in accordance with the spirit that actuatrul tbe venerated fathers of the republic. and that succeeding experience has proved them to be hernapea palliate. expe dient, honorable and just. : If the etiolation of this subject was tntended to occurred to show that it hay signally faileili and reach the stability of oar inatituttarn, enough has that in this, as in every other instance, the sp prehensiens pf the timid and the hopes of the %kicked for the distruction of our Government. are again destined to be disappointed. Here and there, indeed, scenes of dangerous excitement hive occurred; terrifying instances of local vio lence have been witnessed; and a reckless disre gard of the oonsequences of their conduct has ex posed individuals to popular indignation; but net. ther masses of the people, nor sections of the country, have bean swerved from their devotion to the bond of union, and the principles it has made sacred. It will be ever thus. Such attempts at dangerous agitation may periodically return, bot with each the object will be bettor understood. That predominating affection for our political system which prevails throughout our territorial liinits;thatkilin and enlightened judgment which ultimately vorns our people as one vast body; will.. ways bo at hand to resist and control every eflort, reign or domestic, which aims or would lead, to verthrow our institutions. What tein be more gratifying than such a re trospect us this! We look back on obstacles a voided, and dangerous overcome; on expectations more then realized, and prosperity secured. To tho hopes of the hostile, the tears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious, actual experience has given the conclusive reply. We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding,and our constitution surmount every adverse circum stance, dreaded at the outset as beyond control. Present excitement pill, at all times, magnify present dangers; but true philosophy must teach us that none more threatening than the past can remain to be overcome; and we ought, for we have just reason, to entertain en abiding confi. donee in the stability of our institutions, and an entire conviction that, if administered in the true I form, character, and spirit in which they wore I established, they aro abundantly adequate to pre serve to us and our children the rich blessings already derived from them to make our beloved land fur a thousand generations, that chosen spot where happiness springs from a perfect equality of kiolitical rights. • I'or mysolt, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls mo,is a strict adherence to the jotter and spirit of the constitution, as it was designed by those who framed it. Looking back to it as U sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regard• ing as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with; I shall endeavor to preserve, ?rotocl, and defend it, by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action. To matters of domestic concernment which it' has intrusted to the Federal Govern. moot, and to such us relate to our intercourse with foreign nations, I shall zealously devote my self; beyond those limits I shall never pass. To enter, on this occasion, into a further or snore minute exposition of my views on the vari ous questions of domestic policy, would be as ob• trusive as it is probably unexpected. Before the suffrages of my countrymen were conferred upon • me, I submitted to thorn, with grout precision, my opinions on all the most prominent of those sub. jects. These opinions I shall endeavor to carry out with my utmost ability. Our course of foreign policy has been so uniform and intelligible as to constitute a rule of executive conduct which leaves little to my discretion, unless, indeed, I were willing to run counter to the lights of experience, and the known opinions of my constitu ents. We sedulously cultivate the friendship of all nations, as the condition most compatible with our welfare,and the principles of our Government. We decline alliances,as adverse to our peace. We desire commercial relations on equal terms, being ever will ing to give a fair equivalent for adiantages received. `fie endeavor to conduct our intercourse with open ness and sincerity; promptly avowing our objects,and seeking to establish that mutual frankness which is as beneficial in the dealings of nations as of men -- We have no disposition, and we disclaim all right, to meddle in disputes whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries; regarding them, in their actual state, as social communities,and preserv ing a strict neutrality in all their controversies. Well knowing the tried valor of our people, and our ex haustless resources, we neither anticipate nor fear any designed aggression; and, in the consciousness of our own just conduct, we feel a security that we shall never be called upon to exert our determination, never to permit an inVasioa of our rights, .without punishment or redress. In approaching, then, in the presence of my assem• bled countrymen, to make the solemn promise that yet remains, and topledge myself that I will faith fully execute the office I am anoutto fill, I bring with sue a settled purpose to maintain the institutions of my country,which, I trust, will atono for thu errors I commit. In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I cannot expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. Hut, united as I have been in his counsels, a daily witness of his exclusive and unsur. passed devotion to his country's welfare, agreeing with him in sentiments which his countrymen have warmly supported. and permitted to partake largely of his confidence, I may hope that somewhat of the same cheering approbation will be found to attend upon my path. For him, I but expresa,with my own, the wishes of all—that he may yet lon. , live to enjoy the brilliant evening of his well spent ' life; and, for myself, conscious of but one desire, faithfully to servo my country, I throw myself, without fear, on its just ness and its kindness. Beyond that, I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being, whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of his providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways bo ways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace. - 4D e 'Wow. FOR THE OETTVROUROH STAN AND BANNER. TO LYDIA JANE. On, touch the Lyre again. And breathe another strain! Ev'ry note will welcome be, So the Lyre ikstruck by thee. • But prithee,.Lvoia, let me say, Oh do not slug "He Died " , to-day! For eery line so mournful reads, And cv'ry Hero in it bleed.) For ev'ry line I could but sigh, To think that all so soon must die! So touch the Lyre again! Oh, breathe another strain ! Ev'ry note will welcome be, So the Lyre is touch'd by thee. Oh, be it lively, joyful, gay!— Be happy, Lydia, while you may! Oh, strike the Lyre! Sweet be the air, When Lyre is struck by band so fair! And when we read your Lines again-- ' Oh be it soon! come, tell me when?— But when we read them o'er and o'er, I know we'll wish you'd written more. Then touch the Lyre again!— Oh, breathe another strain!— , Eery note will welcome be, So the Lyre is struck by thee! GETTYSBURGII,PA. HARRY PERCY HYMEN IA L. REGISTER: MARRIED. On the 6th inst. by George Taylor, Esq. Mr, JACOB BLOCHER, formerly of Ohio, to Miss BA.n•ii HUMNIfT, of Menalien Township, Adams county. On the 21st ult, by tho Rev. Mr. Grier, Mr. Axxxsrforas G. M . GArrouy, of Adams county, to MAanJlasr JANE Hotrun, of Franklin county. OBITUARY RECORD. ED. Oj .ho 21th ult. Mr. PIIILIP VOCILESONO, Of Oxford, in the 59th year of his age. o n the 2.54 of February last. ANNAR hosier Bowls !luau, interesting daughter of Dr. Charles and Rehee,e* 1 1 1 14 MO, of Hampton, aged 23 months. On tip Bth !get, Mr. Jonm iltoo4, of Liberty t"11 14 41 7 , peaty 7 0 Ye-Ors of Age. T I E/YriPERAPiCIEs WHERE will boa meeting of the "Hemp. ./R. ton Temperance Society" held at the Public School house in Hampton, on Mon- day Fornang the 20th of March inst. when the Rev. J. C. WATsoli will address the meeting, All persons qre respectfully an vited tp attend, JOHN NEELY, Setfry, - March 13, 1837. STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER, GETTYSMMGH, PA. Monday, ✓March 13, 1 537. (* - The Wagon price of Flour in Balti- more-810 25. A PUBLIC MEETING will be held 3 sic:7: in the Court-house This Even ing, at half past 6 . o'clock, when the question of the Abu/Non r f Slarery will be pnbliely die ensxcd. ccr The people generally are invited to attend. [March 13, 1837. 0:) -- lie Can Mug ( 0. , We learn that a meeting, aecretlq got up, id to be held during the week, to send representa tives from Adams county to a Convention called by persons representing themselves as “Frinds of the Integrity of the Union!" We would advise honest Anti-Masons to take no part in the meet ing. c-j•lt is a new Hellenic of the Lodge to de stroy Anti-Masonry! I, TO CORRESPONDENTS cryWo have before us several favors from Cor respondents, which will receive attention in our next. co-That highly interesting Journal, Tills NEW Yonx int, has not been received at this office for the past week or two, although we have observed it in the hands of its subscribers. mynas the Star been ""cut?" Will the Publishers of Tut: Wonr.n, the prospectus of which Ims been in our columns for sevend weeks, redeem their promise by sending us their paper? 0:1 -The proceedings of the County Temperance Convention will be published in our next. ( CrTo the exclusion of better matter, probably, we have crowded into our columns the ..Farewell" of Gen. JACKSON, and the "Inaugural" of Presi dent VAN HU It RN Of their merits—which ato few—and their demerits—which are many—we have not room to speak. To our readers we would say, "Read and Judge ye." oi-THA DDEUS STEVENS, Egg. has been invited to deliver an address before the Students of Pennsylvania College, on the 4th of July next. Pennsylvania College. Q - -From a Catalogue of the Oflicen and Stu dents of this Institution, we learn that it contains Seniors, 4; Juniors, 8; Sophomores, 14; Fresh men, 16; Irregulars. 12; Preparatory, 50:—Total number, 104. The Faculty of the College are— Rev. C. P. KRAUTII, President, and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Science, Rhetoric and Hebrew. Rev. H. L. ILtuoilmn, A. M. Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. Rev. M. JACOBS, A. M. Professor of Mathe matics, Chemistry and Mechanical Philosophy. Rev. Wm. M. Re:rNo cos, A. M. Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, and Principal of the Preparatory Department. Mu. P. K. limist.Er, A. B. Teacher in the Pre paratory Department. Mn. HE.UMAN HAUPT, (GradUMC of West Point,) Instructor in Civil Enginevring anti Ar chitecture. The Students have access to n well selected library containing about 1,000 volumes. There is also a "respectable and increasing Cabinet of Minerals in possession of the College, affording facilities to such as wish to direct their attention to that subject. It is designed to connect with it, collections in National History and Antiquities. "Boarding, lodging, washing and fuel, in private families, may be had for, from $9O to $llO per annum; for those who board in commons these expenses will amount to about $75 per annum.— A number of the .tudents board themselves for considerably less. "The College expenses amount to $26 per an. num, including tuition,fuel,and use of the library. "There are two vacations in the year, commenc ing on the third Thursday of April and September, and each of six weeks continuance. The vaca tions in the Preparatory Department commence at the same time with those in the College proper, but continue only for four weeks. ..The annual Commencement takes place at the close of the Summer session. "The Legislaturvi has made it the day of the In stitution to give gratuitous institution to a limited number of young men, in such branchei of En glish study as may qualify them for teaching in our primary Schools. The institution is at all times ready to receive fifteen such, and to give them the necessary instructions. "The Preparatory Department is under the su pervision of the Faculty of the College." We also learn that the "new College Edifice will ho completed and ready for occupancy before the close of the next Session." It is a handsome building, four stories high, and 160 feet long, and, besides a spacious Hsll, contains 75 apartments. Water-Proof foots. ccy , We call the attention of the Public to the advertisement of Mr. ALEIFAIT. The certificates in his possession, proving the utility and advan tages of the improvement,are all signed by very res pectable individuals of Philadelphia, Washington City and elsewhere. PRODS HARRISBURGH. Correspondence of the Gottyaborgh Star. HARRISBURGH, March 9th, 1837. As the present House of Representatives is, lit erally speaking, opposed to all Chartered Monopo lies, and particularly to all monied institutions, ono would naturally ho led to suppose that noth ing in the shape of a Bank would receive the least mark of favor at the hands of the pledged anti-monopoly and purely democratic people lov ing patriots, who compose the majority, during the present session. ,But profession is one thing, and practice another; and notwithstanding the feelings of horror with which the pledged anti-bank men regarded all these institutions anteriour to the October and November elections, we now find from their acts and deeds that they are daily be coming more and more enamoured of them; and more and more likely to be corrupted by the glit tering splendour of the gold of foreign corporations. I do not wish to be understood, of course, as inti mating, in the most remote degree, that the Ma sonic Van Buren men are at all likely to suffer themselves to be bought at any price; they are not only so immaculate as to be able to resist all temptations, but so pure as to be above suspicion itself! Vet, notwithstanding their loud denuncia- • tions, and the unmeasured terms in Which they condemned both the "Big" and little "Monsters" of the State, I must confess that I tave been not a little ptizzlctl to discover the motives which ac tinted those, very pure democratic members in voting for the incorporation of the Williamsport Bank, in the county of Lycoming; and subsequent ly for tho Bank of Montrose, in Busquehannah county; and the Allegheny county Bank to be located in the Borough of Alteghenytown, both of which passed through committee of tho whole during the last week, and which I have no ques tion will be passed through second and third read ings in the course of a day or two. I have always admired consistency, but have as uniformly detes ted that canting hypocricy which is assumed only for the mere purpOse of deluding the people. It is true, men's minds will undergo many and fre quent changes. It is right that they should; but then their acts should correspond with their profes sions, and they should cease to condemn that which they themselves are ready to perform.— However, I find my difficulties resolved in the fol lowing lines of honest John Dryden, when ho says that:— "Man is but man, inconstant still, and various, There's no to-morrow in him like to-day; Perhaps the atoms whirling in his brain, Make him think honestly this present hour; The next, a swarm of base, ungrateful thoughts May mount aloit."— Eto is it, most likely, with the majority of the House; and I am therefore induced to regard their failings with kindly feelings, whilst at the same time I regret that their constituents have not sent those who aro more disposed to carry out their Anti-Bank humbug notions, than the present pledged representations composing the majority on the floor of the House. But enough of this at present; let us now turn and see whirl our Legis lature has done during the last week: On Monday morning, the famous Improvement Bill pissed through committee of the whole with ' out any very material alteration being made, as did also the General Appropriation Bill. The op ' ponents to both of these acts, are evidently wait ing for the second reading of them, before their artillery will be brought into play, to effect their prostration. On this same day, the Fugitive Bill was lost in Senate by a vote of 10 in favour of its passage and 21 against it. Mr. Cu N I NOWAK, the Speaker, spoke in its favour at some length before the question was put in Committee; but all would tot do. :The institution of Slavery, like its kin dred one of Masonry, has too many devotees and warm admirers in the present Legislature of Penn sylvania to be effectually resisted or destroyed. Petitions are begining to get somewhat scarcer as the Session draws to its close, and consequently that order encroached but little on the business of Tuesday morning. Among other matters dispos ed of on that day, was a joint resolution making the town of Waynesboro, in Franklin county, a point in locating the Rail-road from Gettysburgh to the Maryland improvements. Notwithstand ing it was opposed by Messrs. PeirkEn, Fonn, Our , ' Eli and one or two others, it passed both a second and third reading, although they adduced the report of the Engineer to prove that the in creased distance would be over five miles, at an additional expense of one hundred thousand dol- lars or more! On Wednesday, the Freeport and Newcastle Rail-road, as well as the Pittsburgh, Kittaning and \Verret' Rail-road Bills passed a third read ing. Great debate was elicited on their final pas sage, which continued nearly the whole of the day. Mr. WATrs, of Allegheny, opposed the for. mer, and Messrs. SrACKMAN and Horizirts the latter, but without effect, inasmuch as the majori ty are Rail-road mad, and are ready and willing to incorporate anything and everything in the shape; of a Rail-road Bill! To-day, but little was done in either branch of the legislature. In the House, Mr. GORGAS, of Cumberland County, from the committee on agri culture, reported "a Bill to encourage the cultiva tion of the white Italian Mulbury tree and to pro mote the culture of Silk." This, I think, is very proper and ought to pass, because it can be made an important article in the productions of the State; and if properly fostered and conducted, will prove of the most incalculable value to the country in the amount of money which will he retained in the country, in consequence of our home production of that for which we are now altogether dependent on foreign countries. I had almost neglected to state, that on Monday afternoon last, a few minutes before the House adjourned, Mr. Co PLAN, of Fayette, made a motion "that when the House adjourned, it would ad. jouni to meet again at seven o'clock in the even ing, to hear the Clerk read President JACKSON'S Farewell Address to the people of the United States." As was to be supposed, every whole hog man from the shoat-ocracy to the full grown hog ocracy, responded to the resolution; and the con sequence was that it carried by a large majority! Accordingly, a' the appointed hour, the faithful and right loyal men of the party, came tumbling in; and the poor sickly Speaker having obtained order, the Clerk commenced the reading of the Hero's parting words of advice to his fawning syc ophants and obedient surfs, for I will not say that it a parting legacy to tho American people, which they should either value or esteem. It was truly ludicrous to see the servile jacobinos drinking in, with greedy ears, the language of that clocu. went, which is, at best, but a pitiful and contemp tible imitation of the last testament of 0 1 , great Father of his country to the people over whom he watched with the anxious solitude of a Father's care. Fifteen thousand copies of this miserable attempt to impair the institutions of Pennsylvania, and to weaken the public confidence in Penn, sylvania projects, were ordered to be printed by the members of Pennsylvania House of Represen tatives, for distribution among their constitutions! But the political sun of "the greatest and best" has at last sunk beneath the horizon; ho has gone to spend the remnant of his days among the retired shades of the Hermitage; and there, for the present, I shall leave him with the reflection, that he has done more to shake the permanence of the Union' than any other individual since the adoption of the Federal Constettsion Gc7.Mr. VAN Bunas's Cabinet consists of the following gentlemen:—. JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. Lsvz Woonauny, Secretary of the Treasury, .J. R. PormswrT, Secretary of War. M. Drezwasox, Secretary of the Navy. B. F. BUTLER, Attorney General. Amos Kw:para., Post Master General. ccyThe following appointments have been ton. finned by the U. S. Senate:-. GEO. M. DALLAS, Minister to Russia. War. W. Ca w, Secretary of Legation to Russia. HENIII WHEATON, Minister to Prussia. Po wirATTArr Ews, Minister to Mexico. W. H. HAT woon, of North Carolina, Charge d'Affaires to Belgilim. Axczz L♦ BUANCIIE, of Puisiana, to be Charge d'Affaires to the Republic of Texas. ,[l.The Carpet Manufactury of Mr. CoreasoT, of Frederick, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 1.4 inst. Loss, between $4,000 and $5,000. KT From Washington.' WASHINGTON, March 6. The twenty-fourth Congress terminated its existence at two o'clock on Saturday morning: and we believe we are justified in saying that no Congress that has assembled 'since the formation of the Government ever left behind such a wreck of business, public and private. We cannot now enumerate all the bills of greater or less importance, which, after hay. tug engaged the attention of Congss for days and weeks, and being mai r d and prepared fur final action, yet failed, and perished in the general ruin. We will only notice a few of those to which the public attention has been more particularly directed. The Land bill from the Senate—not the great beneficent mea sure of Mr. Clay—but the scheme intro duced by Mr. Walker, creating a pure, dis. tinet, and undisguibed monopoly of the pub lic lands—was consigned to that tomb of the Cupulets, the table of the Clerk, never to be resuscitated. The bill for increasing the Military Es tablishment of the United States, and the bill for erecting new Fortifications—both pet projects of Mr. Benton for preventing a surplus by making extravagant and profli gate expenditures—were lost; the former having been laid aside after a slight exami nation, and the latter never even looked at by the House. Nothing has been done for the reduction of the revenue. Mr. Wright's and Mr Cambreleng's hills for altering the Tariff lawn have both been left untouched by the House, though the former passed the Sen ate. The talk about the tariff turns out to have been exactly what the Whigs always declared it, mere tignortsraertoN. The 'Preasury Circular remains in force, The Currency I;ill,which passed both Houses by majorities of more than two-thirds, re pealed, in effect, this pernicious measure. But General Jackson chose to put his will against the clearly and fully expressed wish• es of both branches of Congress. He de feated the bill, not by an exercise of the ve• to pwoer, which, indeed, would not have been successful, but by depositing it secure ly his pocket. This act of the Executive invites reflection:.but we are compelled at present to be brief. Lastly. We have to Inform our readers that the measure for distributing the surplus remaining in the Treasury on the Ist Jan- nary next, was allowed to fail, and carried with it the bill to which it was appended, making the usual annual appropriations for fortifications which have been begun, and are in progress! It will be remembered that the partisan majority in the Senate, led on by Mr. Silas Wright, insisted on striking out from this bill the distribution clause. The House insisted on retaining it. A con ference between the two branches ensued, which terminated without coming to any agreement. The House then, on motioli of Mr. Bell, determined to adhere. The re• sponsihility was now thrown upon the Sen ate. It was left with the majority there to say whether they would agree to distribute back to the people the money actually on hand over and above the wants of the Go vernment: or whether, for the sake of with holding this money from the people, and re taining ►t in the hands ofa league of political machinery, would render certain the loss of the Fortification bill. They chose the lat. ter. They adhered. This was the last step. The whole bill, with the distribOtion. clause, was lost. The closing scenes wore as usual, full of confusion and excitement, produced by the eagerness of different members, to bring up particular measures for final action.—Sun. WASHINGTON, March 8. General JACKSON left this city yesterday for the Hermitage. His health has visibly mended since relieved from the cares of his late station;and we have now great hope that his recovery will be perfect, and that he will enjoy many years of health and happi ness in the midst of the agricultural occupa• tient, of which he is so fond. The mild and genial climate of Tennessee, on every visit, has acted as a restorative to his constitution, worn down at Washington by the fatigues able sedentary and excessively laborious occupation. The General exhibited an alacrity and gayety of spirit, on taking his departure, which ho has not evinced before, since his sickness. Relieved from cares of State,with all his preparations made for his return homeward, ho could not but feel buoyant and happy in finding himself stout enough to un dertake his journey, with the prospect of enjoying some years, with his beloved little family around .him,, at the Hermitage.— During some part of the winter, he did not expect ever to revisit Tennessee but as a corpse. He now felt that Providence had willed it otherwise, and, so cheerful was his spirit, that it could not catch the melancho ly contagion of his friends around, who were oppressed with the thought of parting with him. He told one merry story diet another, rallied his friends, and, on propos ing a match to a bachelor of his Cabinet; whose eyes were filled with tears, told him that it was his habit to take, care of his friends.—Globe. Important from Florida. THE WAR NOT ENDED YET!—From Charleston, under date of March 1, we have late advices from FLORIDA. The informa tion from General JESUP, who was at Dade's Battle Groubd,is far from cheering. General JESUP has' sent to Gary's Ferry for four hundeed horses to renew the campaign, the Chiefs having not come in according to a greement, and, the steamer Forester had been despatched to Savannah on Sunday last. Hostilities were to have commenced again on the 25th inst. Two negroes who were taken by the Indians in May last, had made their escape. They state that there is a great deal of dissension in the nation. The Chiefs are willing to give up, but the young warriors are averse to it. They have plea. ty of ammunition, and four hundred fight ing men in Philip's tribe. They place no confidence in the professions of General Julie, which deters them from coaling in. y— Tho Rev. Mr. BAUUHER will preach in the English Lutheran Church on Sunday morn ing next, at half past 10 o'clock—and Rev. Mr. KELLER in the evening, at half past O. There will be preaching, also, on Sunday morning and evening no.-:t, in the Presbyterian Church. :.:... • NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. - A= SEALED PROPOSA , ..' " 2I,B for the erec. i t lion of a new Prettb'idritt s ti Church in the Borough of Getty lt, will be received by either of the un day of Apra next-1e Plan with specili• cations, &c. may be*eit at the office of MOSES M ' CLEAN. IC:is contemplated to make use of the materials of the present Church so far as they can be employed to' advantage. The proposals must therefore specify with or without the materials of the old Building. JAMES C. WATSON, THOMAS C. MILLER, JOHN F. M'FARLA NE, JAMES M'ALLLSTER, JOHN HOUCK, JOSEPH BAYLEY, . MOSES M'CLEAN, Building Committee. March 13, 1837. td -59 AUCTION. 111111 E subscriber will expose to sale by -IL way of public auction, on MOND 1Y NEXT, at 10 o'clock. A. at. (which will be continued from day - to day) a great variety of GOODS, principally Hurd Ware. M. C. MARKSON Gettysburg!), March 13, 1837. • TEMPERANCE. rvH E "Rock Creek Temperance Sucie• i v " will meet at the Rock Creek Chaple on Easter Monday, (27th inst ).at 1 o'clock P. M; Punctual attendance is requested, as addresses aro expected to be delivered on the occasion. JOHN WILSON, Sec'ry. March 13, 1H37. TEMPERANCE. W HERE will be a meeting of the "Young Men's Temperance Society," in the Court-house, on Saturday the 25th day of March inst. at 2 o'clock P. M. Punctual attendance is rcquested. G. S. ORM, Seery. March 13, 1837. PATENT WATER-PROOF BOOTS T HE subscriber respectfully informs the public that he bar purchased of the Patentee, (Mr. P. G. NAGLE, of Philadel phia,) all his right, title and interest in the County of Adams, for making, constructing, using and rending to others to be used, his patented method of making BOOTS AND SHOES COMPLETELY UMPERVI. OUS TO WATER. An article of this kind has long and anxi ously been looked for by the public. The certificates are in the subscriber's pos session, prove the great efficacy of this desirable desideratum. To prove the utili ty of this article, and its great advantages to the public, the Patentee has obtained from the American Institute two Diplomas or Premiums. 'rho improvement renders the Leather soft and pliable and is a sure preventive against its breaking. Public patronage is earnestly solicited.— All orders thankfully received and punctu ally attended to, by the subscriber, residing in Hampton, Adams county, Pa. SOLOMON ALBERT. Hampton, March 13, 1837. tf-50 PIOBLIC W ILL be offered at Public Sale, on the promises, on Monday the 27th day of March inst. A TRACT OF LAND, situate in Hamiltonban township, Adams county, Pa. about 2 miles west of Myers's Mills, containing 104 deres, on which are, a goood DWELLING IN 'ROUSE, NO a young Orchard,a quantity of Meadow, dm. About 20 Acres aro cleared, and the residue covered with fine Timber, a large propor tion of which is Locust and young Chestnut. The property will be sold together or in lots to suit purchasers. Persons wishing to view the property will call on the Subscriber residing near the JACOB BENSHOOF. March 13, 1837. NOTICE. L. ErrERs of Administration having -m-ibeen granted by the Register of Adams County to the subscriber, residing in Lib. erty Township, in said county, on the Es tate of JOHN ADAIR, deceased, late of Liberty Township, Adams County, all per sons having unpaid claims against said Es. tate are requested to present them, and all. persons indebted to make payment, to the subscriber without delay. JAMES CUNNINGHAM, Adni'r. March 13, 1837. 61-50 CLARK'S OLD EST.ABLISHED LUCKY OFFICE, N. W. Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets, (Under the Museum.) Where have been bold Prizes! Prizes I Prizes!!! in Dollars Millions of Millions! BALTIMORE CITY, MD. N OTICE.—Any person or persons thro' out the Union who may desire to try their luck, either in the Maryland State Lotteries, or in authorized Lotteries of oth er States,some one of which are drawn daily, 'Pickets from ONE to TEN DOLLARS, shares in proportion, are respectfully re quested to forward their orders by mail (Post Paid) or otherwise enclosing CASH or PRIZE TICKETS, which will be thankfully received and executed by return mail, with the same prompt attention as if on personal applica tion,and the result given when requested im• mediately eller the drawings. Please address, JOHN CLA RK, N. W.Cnrne,r ofßaltimore and Calvert Streets, under the Museum. March 28, 1836. PUBLIC BALES -AND NOTICES. TRUSTEES' SALE. WILL POSITIVELY be sold at pub. v v lie sale, on Wednegelay the 151 h day (flllarch next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on the premises, the following real Estateof ROB. ERT hIcIL W A IN, Esq.---consisting o f A Situate in Huntington township, Motu County, Pa. adjoining Jacob Fiches, Her man Wierman and others—containing 403 'Jeri's, more or less, PATENTED LAND. THE OTHER IMPROVEMENTS ARZ TWO GOOD .• DWELLING t - .Hff H ITS ES , Two BA RNS and Two*TszcArrr HOUSES and other necessary buildings. The farm is a first-rate grazing farm and. is situated within 2i mi:v of lintestone,With an abundance of Woodland. The property wtll be sold together, or in Two Farina of about 1.10 Acres each, and the balance in Lots to suit purchaSerti— a Plot of the whole will be exhibited on the day of sale, or can be seen sooner by calling on the Tenant. . .''• .11 Lot of GrotinA . Situate in Hamilton township,adjoining An drew M'llwain and others, cementing 3 ft Acres, having erected thereon a • 'MAL 1A,41.010 ALSO, The undivided fifth part of 800 Acres, with appurtenances, Situate in tla inilten, township, adjoining ". George [lmes and others. . OF - Ter - ms made knewa on the day of sale. JAS. A. THOMPSON; ruatees., THOS. J. COOPER, Fithrilary 20, P 437- THE Subscriber offers for RENT HIS rAam o - Situate in Liberty township, Adams County, Pa. about two miles North of Emmittsburgh, Coy , the term of one year, or more, from the first of April next. The Farm consists of about 150 Aeres, ; There will be for Spring and Fall .i;..44,11 1 . Crops, from Thirty to Forty Acres.— * /2 T horo is on said farm 18 acres of mow able meadow, a good Apple ORCHARD, and a number of Peach and other fruit Trees; with good wells of water convenient to the House and Barn. Any person wishing to Rent v.lll please call with the subscriber, who resides on the premises. March 6, 1837 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, rilliAT the quotas of the respective School Districts in the proportion of Adams county in the State appropriation of 8200,000 for Common School purposes, for the school year of 18313, agreeably to the statement of the Superintendent of pommon Schools, trantimitted to the Commissioners of Adams County, pursuant t 9 the sth par agraph of the 10th section of the School Law of the 10th of June last, aro as kilt:nits —to wit : 1. 2. 3. 4. Berwick, Accept'g. 320 207,16 Conewago, Not R. 200 129,48 Cumberland, Accept'g. 259 . 167,68 Fl 11111klin, " • 372 240,84 Germany, 44 381 246,66 Gettysburgh, • " 403 260,91 Hamilton, Not It. 269 174,15 II amiltonban, Accept'g. 3:10 233,07 Huntington, 44 :AI 220,76 Latimore, Non Ac'g. 231 149,55 Liberty, Accept'g. 224 145,02 Meaallen, 66 482 312,05 Mounfjoy, " 224 145,02 Mountpleasant, Non Ac. 352 227,89 Reading, Not R. 242 156,67 Straban, Accept'g. 322 - 208,46 Tyrone, 66 185 119,77 [Creolumn I, shows the name of the, District: 2, whether accepting, non-uccepting,or not reprez sented iu the joint meeting ot:Conitnissioners and Delegates in May last: 3, number of taxable. itt 1835: 4, proportion of appropriation which will be dud after the first Monday of Juno next.] JOHN MUSSELMAN, g) GEORGE WILL, B' - JOHN WOLFOR.D, 0 -- Attest—WILLIAM KING, Clerk: March 6, 1837. 3t-40 LETTERS of Administration, having been granted by the Register of Adama County, to the subscriber, residing in Me nallen Township, in. said county, on .the Estate of JANE SAMPLE, deceased, late of Straban Township, Adams County, all persons having unpaid claims against said Estate are requested to present them, and all persons indebted to make payment, to the subscriber without delay. JAMES MAJOR, Adm'r. February 27, 1837. 6t-48 Cause for Trial At the Special Court to be held on the 20th. of March inst. David Withorow ve Samuel B. Eploy, eldest son and one of the heira at law of Peter Epley, de. ceased. ' List of Jurors For the Special Court, March 20,1837. Berwick township—Joseph Kepner, Geo. Diehl. Sfroban—William Cashman, jr. John Herman. John Brinkerhoff;jr. Bell. Hanithenban—Eua Blythe, Joseph B. Reid, John hi'Cullough, Andrew Marshall. Hamihon—Ahrahatn Picking, Ph.lip Eich. Menollen—Henry G. Kesel., Jacob B. Meals, Samuel Cook. Cumber/and--Samuel Cobean, of W. Henry Heagao, George Treed le. Franklin—JacobCover. G'etistsbutgii—Peter Weikert, Goo. Geyer, Gen. Chritzman. Latin:pre--Isaacs Tudor, Gideon Grief", .Tott Day. Tyrone—James PiitentorlE Corwierago—Jaeob Little, of P. William Al bright. Huntington--Thornao Bowing, Imo E. WJir. man. Reading—George Brown. Liberty—John Harper, John lOW__ _ay. Grnnany*Hartry Shrive,, Goo. Ellohakilillear Lehr. ly-S2 FOR RENT. JAMES CLARK. 30-49 11jO I?10E.
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