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IV All l !ttorsandCommunicationsaddressed to the alitkiny mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to. ADVERTISEMENTS t. §4., t. pvfif;lo4 , :iol4,-stso4l THE Subscribers have this day entered into Partnership in the Shoe & Root. making business, and will be at all times prepared to accommodate the public with work mi.their line; made in the best and most fashionable manner, and on favorable terms. Their shop is in Chnmbersburg street, opposite Mr. Diiterline's Tavern. DANIEL BALDWIN, AVM. GUINN. Gettysburg, Aug. 15,1840. .lii .Ipprentice granted. Alad 1 i 16 or 17 years of ago, of good character, will be taken as an A ppren tice to said business. V) ''''' , Pt/ 0 • , ' '-' 1-4 g.... ....., 1..., —. t.... O , ct I .. 0 C. 07 -•-• , . ~ a, 0, (..... 6 . • • (I.) g :Li .1.1, m Q c... co ~ EL . 03 a> 0 o •-. g, a) I _, ), V) 'IV v-4 bi) 5. .s ,0 cu ;:a• 0. 0 s tS ca a , 3 „,:, ° 0 ,t) '•' S l4 ..'4 = co b : l3 a ~.. ..= ..A L 8 c . ' ES 8 ° 0 „ore . 0 •-• l7. .Lo, • - c 1 tn .4 cn 7 - 4 4, 04 1.., "Ci cL) CD • •-• 4 prA Cll 4 c j :a 0.) - a cil e c v cti ' l, r) C.) •-* - F l . • .4 . in :,... „ J , ~, ~. 4_,........ a> - -fa U ''' ° ° 2 o IC's 4 4 ;0 = - t 0 - 0 ..o 1 4- 0 •• . .-. CIP . "0 , ,L., _ ~......, 0, t ., ct) • •-• p.) 0 4 ii. , t.t.- • I 4 -' —. WIWTED. TWO or THREE journeymen Plaster. ors will meet with constant employment if immediate application be made to the sub scriber. Also, an APPRENTICE to the plastering business. JAMES BOWEN Gettysburg, Aug. 11, 1940. WORTH ATTENTION. It. Cr. M4V-reary, !IX S kist received a fresh supply of sea souable goods; embre,ciug a great va riety of rine Cloths and Cassinteres, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Very cheap Calicoes, Manchester Ging hams, Cotton Stripes, Checks, Irish Linen, Cainbrick and Jaconett Muslins, Swiss and Bank Muslins, French Bombazines, Super Mous-line do Laines, Thread Lace and Edgings Ribbons, Gloves, Stocking, (very cheap,) Heavy Domestic Muslins, Fine Bleached Shirting, 5 4 and 6-4 Sheetings l Very cheap Tickings, A merican Nankeens, Marseilles Quiltsingrain Carpetings,Hemp do., Umbrellas, Palm Hats, &c. —a LSO— A full Stock of Groceries. The Public are invited to call and exam• ins hia stock as they may save money by doint en. August 11, 1840. NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of DANIEL EYSTER, late of McSher rystown, Adams county, deceased, either by Bond, Note. or Book account, aro des,. ind to make payment on or before the 12th day of September next; and all those hay. ing• claims against said estate, aro request ed to present them, properly authenticated fur settlement—as longer Indulgence can not be given. ' WILLIAM ALBRIGHT, Exit.. August 11, 1840. 6-20 CLOTHS: CLoTlls!! CLOTHS!!! UST opened a fresh lot—comprising RP Fine wool dyed Black, Invisible and Bottle Green, Blue. Olive and Mulberry Browns, Light Drabs, Oxford and Cadet Mixed, (of different qualities.) For sale at low prices, by R. G. IVI'CREARY. Almost 4. 1c 4 49. t f—l 9 JOB PILINTING, CIF ALL Kit!tl.l3, Neatly nett exptxliticuely executed et the office of 4. Mfg STAR & BANNER." 5 < a MCP ill a IPaEtoo wtralarociarre eatofie ill 411110 orgi atade% ata-actemsamaolto. MUSICAL STONES.—The largest and most complete set of musical stones that was per hape ever collected in this or any other coun try mny now be seen in Iltitton's Museum. Keswick. The set consists of 56 stones, which vary in length from eight to thirty six inches and from which hve octaves can be taken with the greatest percision. The wooden elevation on which the stones are placed is twelve feet in length, and though they are as rugged and unshapely in appear• once as can well be imagined, they have oc cupied the owner thirteen years in collecting. and have been got chiefly from Skiddaw, at leisure times, by a man named Joseph Rich ardson, an industrious mason, residing nt Applethwaite, near Keswtrk, who is reaping the fruits of his industrious and laborious re search, as tourists no more think of leaving the capital of the lake district without seeing those truly astonishing musical stones, which the owner has very appropriately named the Rock Harmonica, than they do of leaving without seeing Flintoff's celebra ted model, or Croaths site's far famed mu seum. These stones, from their number and the compass they necessarily take up, aro worked by Richardson and two of his sons, and they at once astonish every visiter who listen to their enchanting and perfect music. In tact, any piece of music set to the piano forte can with the greatest delicacy and cor rectness be played upon what the collector has so happily denominated the Rock Har mociea.—London Times. EATlrro..—Every animal eats as much as it can procure, and as much as it can hold. A cow eats but to sleep, and deeps but to eat; and, not content with eating all day long, "twice it slays the slain," and eats its dinners o'er again. A whale swallows 10,. 000,000 of living shrimps at a draught: a nursling canary•bird eats its own hulk it, a day, and a caterpil!ar eats 500 times its own weight before it lies down to rise a butterfly. The mite and the maggot eat the very world in which they live; they nestle and build in the roast beet, and the hyena, for want of better, eats himself. Yet a maggot has not tl►e gout, and the whale is not subject to sciatica. And the Equimaux. though he eat• ten pounds of seal, and drinks a gallon of oil at a meal, and though his meal lasts as long ns his meat, is neither troubled with dyspepsia, toothache, or hysterics. A Hvrr TO THE GIRLS.—We have al• ways considered it an unerring sign of in nate vulgarity, when we have heard ladies take particular pains to impress us with an idea of their ignorance of all domestic mat ters, save sewing lace or weaving a net to encase their empty heads. Ladies, by some curious kind of 'locus pocus, have got it into their heads that the best way to catch a husband is to show him how profoundly ca• pable they are of doing nothing for his com fort. Frightening a piano into fits, or mur dering the king's French, may be a good bait, for certain kinds of fish but they must be of that very small kind usually found in VERY SHALLOW waters. The surest way to secure a good husband is to cultivate those accomplishments which make a good wife. Some twenty years ago a man named Sharp, (a gentleman, in courtesy, we must now call the unfortunate individual.) a na tive of this neighborhood, was transported beyond the seas for seven years. This good convict soon secured the respect and esteem of his superiors, and the blessing of Divine Providence on his subsequent indus try and efforts to better his circumstances crowned those efforts with complete suc cess'. The gentleman married well, acqui red property and has returned with his fam ily to Legbourno, (the bells of the church ringing merrily on the occasion,) has sought out a child (now a man) he had left in this country by a former wife, has deposited in the bank in thin town several thousand pounds—about £20,000 we hear, and is in treaty for one of the spacious halls in the neighborhood, as a suitable mansion where he may enjoy such rare prosperity. ..ame....4,,•,.•... "OLD WOMAN, SAID DOXey, the officer employed to take the census of Kings county (N. Y.) informs the Brooklyn News, that he has met at the residence of Mrs. Maria Stilwell, at Gravesend,a colored woman at the advanced age of one hunched and thirteen! She appears to be in perfect health; eats, drinks and sleeps well She performs all her duty as a domestic with as tonishing energy and activity. She says sl4 can milk the cows as readily as she could a hundred years ago. A SPEEDY AND PROFITABLE VOYAGE.— The ship Hector arrived at New Bedford, from We Pacific, on Snnday, with a oargo of ttoenty•seven hundred barrels of oi/2--hav tog been out only twenty-six months! The cargo to worth about EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS! NORTH CAROLINA.—GaIIant little Moore, a county which has always been in the. hands of the spoilers, is now "redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled." The vote in that county and in the county of Hay. wood, strongly illustrate the position, that "truth is mighty and will prevail." When Gen. Jackson was first a candidate, Moore was nearly unanimous in' his favor, and it can be said of Haywood, what is true of no other county in the United States, that she go yo an unanimous vote for Jackson in 1824. And now, both these counties have ..tecttd- Whig members, and given Whig .mejortttes for Governor.—Raleigh Reg. . G. vr.les.onnwiroll . • novrEN, mDiTor. & rnorratirovi. "The liberty to know l to utter, and to argue, freely,le affsne all ,ether libertieo l —m I LTON. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. THE PRESIDENCY AND THE PROS PECT.—THE CASE STATED. The recent elections having gone by, and the results being known, it may, perhaps, be well enough to take a glance at the actual c,indition of affairs, and at the plst, in order that we may be enabled to form Something like a reasonable view of the. prospect for the future. It is now at least certain, that the popular voice is against Mr. Van Buren by an immense majority—that the thirty thousand plurality which has just been ac . corded to the Hero of the Thames in Ken tucky and Indiana, would, if properly dkri buted, carry several of the Van Buren States, and thus at once settle the question in relation to the next Presidency. This the frienc's of the existing dynasty know and concede. But their hope is, that by the system of voting in States and for Electors, tie wish of a majority of the people may be ch footed. But even here, we think, they will fail. Let us examine this quest ion more narrowly. Vi a will here put down the votes which the unprejudiced of all sides con' ede that Gen. Harrison will certainly receive: Vermont, . 7 New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Rhode Wand, Connecticut, North Carolina, Louisiana, Michigan, The whole numtuirof electoral votes is 294—necessary to ti :e6 bele°, 148. It will thus be seen that,.giving.Gen. Harrison the above States as certain, he will still require 11 votes to elect him. For these 11, he has a chance in the following States: New York, 4'2 Pennsylvania, 30 23 Georgia, 11 Now, should he gel either of the four, he will be elected of course; and our conviction is strong, that be will carry New York by a majority of twenty thousand. But we have put that State among the doubtful, simply because the Luce rucus, knowing that, without New York, their chance is ut terly hopeless, have, since the western elec. !lung, set up some possible claim to that State. Its absurdity may he duly apprecia• led when we remember that Gov. Seward was elected by , • a triumphant majority a garnet Governor Marcy, one ofthe strongest Van Buren men in the Union. Also, that I the Whigs have since r lected a majority of both branches of tho Legislature, and that the cause of General Harrison wits never so prosnising in that section of the Union as at this moment. It is, therefore, utterly ab surd in the enemy to talk of carrying New York. But even if we give it them, as we have done for the sake of argument, it will be seen that they must also carry Peunsyl vania, Georgia and Virginia, in order to de feat General Harrison. In all these States, we consider our chance quite as good as theits, if not better. In 1836, the Van Bu ren majority in Pennsylvania was a little better than four thousand, and then our po_ litical friends Were divided. They are now thoroughly united. This union, in addition to the changes that have taken place, will surely prove adequate to a change of twen. ty five hundred votes—pore •than enough to give the State to General Harrison. In Virginia and Georgia, also, our chance is excellent. View the subject as we may, therefore, the prospect is not only highly encouraging, but it is glorious. The cer tain States for Van Buren are few and far between. We give a list of them, and put down several—lllinois and Mississippi, for examplewhich he will have a hard strug gle to get. Maine, Now Hampshire, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Swill Carolina, On a review of the whole case, therefore, it will be seen that Van Buren has 51 cer• tain—Harrison 137 certain; while the chan ces of the latter for a sufficient balance to elect him, viz: 11, are, in our view, us five to one. when compared with,tne chances of a sufficient balance, namely, 97, to keep in power the existing tottering dynasty. The Whigs of New York City; yester day, had a grand celebration of one of Gen eral Harrrition's early victories. The Times says of the gathering: Such enthusiasm we never before witnes sed; it was a perfect explosion of popular feeling. The audience—which we cannot be far wrong in estimating at fifteen thou sand—was of the right,sort; a large propor tion being the real working democracy of our city. Affection for General Harrison, and dis taste for General Ruin, are doing wonders for the good cause here. Chapman will have but little to "crow" over to the Empire City next November, or else we mistake the ',signs." A GIZAT HAUL.--The Middletown (Conn.) Sentinel says that on the 12th inst. at 50br00k,222,000 white fish were taken at one haul and told for 6222 PALACE FURNITURE. Speech of Mr. Ogle, OP PENNSYLVANIA ' ON THE %FOAL SPLENDOR OF THE PHEBIDENT'B PALACE. De'ivered in the House of Representatives, April 4, 1840. [corrnsuED..l With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I will now again conduct you to the first story of the pa'ace, where we shalt enter the great "Court Banqueting room," in which I can promise you a sight that will be "good for sore eyes." It is a genuine locofoco's dinner table—set out, arranged in order, and duly prepared to receive the Court guests., In the first place, however, I must inform you that this table is not pro vided with those old and unfashionable dish. es, "hog and hominy," "fried meat and gra vy ," ‘.schuttz; knep and sourcrout," with e mug of "hard cider." No, sir, no. All these substantial preparations are looked upon by gourmands, French cooks. and locnfoco Presidents as exceedingly vulgar, and fit only to set before "Bank Whigs," and men (as the Globe eloquently expres. sea it) "who adopt the maxims and princi ples ofcobblers and tinkers." But the true orthodox, democratic viands, with which a genuine locofocofurniahes his dinner table, consist in massive gold plate and French tamboura, compotiers on feet, stands for bon bons, with three stages, gilded French pla teaus, garnished with mirrors and garlands, and gaudy artificial flowers. During the apostolic days, the saints were commanded to "eat what was set before them, asking no questions"—but it any good Christian man should, by mistake, find his way to a table thus furnished, end should incline to obey the precept according to its letter, lie would certainly have hard fare of it. He might perhaps sustain famishing humanity by browsing on artificial flowers and wreaths or, p.'radventure, by' touching with the tongue the saccharine compliers , and bonbons, somewhat after the manner of the very commendable usage said to have pre veiled at an early day among the inhabi tants of Kinderhook, of suspending by a cord a large lump of sugar immediately over the centre of the table, so that it might swing round to -the guests alternately.— Albeit sir, there is food for the palate placed upon this locofoco's table, there is a feast of gold for the eye that would have satiated King Midas himself. And although the wood of several large forests was not cut down to 'dress the victuals for tine Tamer lane banquet yet it required the enormous sum of eleven thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty- two cents of the people's cash to buy the table "rani ture." You seem amazed, Mr. Chairman.— Do not believe that I speak not the 'Swords of truth and soberness." I have now in my hands, sir, the "official vouchers," 'which show the expenditure of every dollar o' that large sum, and that the whole amount there of, with the exception of $1,125,was expen ded since the days of the plain, frugal, econo mical, republican, retrenching reformation of Jackson and Van Buren commonced.— And I here, in my place, demund, in the name of my conatnuents, that the Commit tee on the Expenditures on the Publicßuil dings make a report to this.. House, and communicate copies, not only of the vouch ers on this subject, kit all the vouchers in relation to expenditures for the President's house, furniture and grounds; that they may be all spread before the People in an "official form." This everlasting leakage from the People's strong box must be stench ed. But I will exhibit to the committee the varioas bills which form the aggregate of $11,191 n for the table service of the de mocratic President. I will, in the first place bring to the notice of the committee the bill for the French eter• ling silver plate and gilt dessert set, bought from a Russian nobleman, de M. le Gener al Baron de Tuyll, resident Minister of his Majesty the Emperor of Aussie at Lisbon, for the sum of four thousand three hundred and eight dollars, and eighty-two cents. The silver plate consists of soup tureens, sauce boats, plateq, divorses grandeurs, bot tle stands. soup ladles, die. sic. sic. three hundred and thirty-eight pieces. The gilt dessert set is composed of table spoons, sweetmeat spoons, tea or coffee spoons, knives, lurks, sic. sic. one hundred and forty pieces. The following receipts are endorsed en the bill her the silver plate and gilt service: Aleceived, June 29, 1833, lour thousand three hundred and eight dollars eighty-two cents, being in full for the within service of plate.- GEO. W. SOUTH." "I certify that I have received into the President's House all the articles contained in the within service, and they are intended for the use of the President's House. J. BOULANGER. '.Washington, July 1, 1883." It may be proper to remark that pure gold is generally considered too ductile and soft to manufacture Into knifes, forks and other utensils, which require some degree of firmness or want of pliability. The gilt gold service, therefore, used in the pal aces of.kings and at the castles of wealthy noblemen in Europe, is composed of a alight substratum of silver, thickly plated or over laid with pure gold. And hence, I presume the gilt service of the President was manu factured after the same manner. No honest democrat, however, by taking up the vari i us articles of which it catenate, would be led to doubt a moment that they are made of gold, without any alloy. They may be pure gold, though I am inclined to believe otherwise, inastunch as they were procured from one of the great nobles of the Russian Empire. iVI r. Chairman, in my opinion, it is time the People of the United States sh3uld know that their money goes to buy for their plain hard•handed democratic President knives, forks, and spoons of gold, that he may dine in the style of the Monarchs of Europe.— [Mr. Waddy Thompson. No wonder.— This, you know, is a gold and silver Ad ministration.] The fact, however, is Im pudently denied not only by Mr. Van Liu ren's "organ," the Globe, but by all the Locofoco papers throughout the country. When a certain lawyer, in Columbus, Ohio, told a farmer in his neighborhood that the President had a dinner service of gold, the Locofoco paper published in that place, and called the "Ohio Statesman," made so fierce an attack upon him that the poor man was frightened and actually retracted the statement—though it was as true as preaching. The editor of that journal, at ter thus obtaining a triumph over truth, pro ceeds in one of his late papers to make the "nmende honorable." Please, sir, to notice the cool audacity of the fellows "A week or two since, we alluded in our paper to a Whig attorney of this city, that should have attempted to impose on an old farmer, by telling him that Mr. Van Buren oat off of gold plates, and used a gold knife and fork. We felt indignant that any one whom we held in high estimation, person• ally, should have descended to such a mode of electioneering, not that any one would believe it, but that any ohe should resort to such acts. We were, however, gratified by learning from the gentleman implicated that he was misunderstood, and of course we did him injustice, and it gives us plea. sure to be thus able publicly to say so.— We should have made this statement ear lier, but we were anxious to see all parties before we did so." Now, sir, I would advise this Whig law yer not to be quite so timid hereafter as to retract statements based upon substantial facts. And 1 would further counsel him to visit the farmer with whom he held the con. verßatiiin about the gold knives and forks of the President, and tell him the whole troth in relation to that matter; fort can as sure this honest Whig lawyer that tho gOld service story is a hundred foldworse than he had any conception of. Ido not know that the rich gold and silver service is shown on all occasions; probably it is only when the elite are invited. But let any gentleman go to the palace when our now well beloved cousin from South Carolina, whom the "offi• cid organ" formerly delighted to call John Catiline Calhoun, is at the banquet, and then the gold service in all its democratic lustre will be presented to his admiring eyes! Oh! sir, how delightful it must be to a real genuine Loco Foco to eat his pale de foie gran, dinde deaosse, and ',dude a /a volaile from a silver plate with a golden knife and fork. And how exquisite to sip with a golden spoon !►is Felipe an Rene from a silver tureen. It almost "makes my mouth water" to talk about it. 1 will, in the next" place, call the attention of the committee to the bill for the splendid French China for dinner service, and the elegant dessert set of. blue and gold, with eagle; all made to ordet in France, and im ported by Lewis Veron & Co., celebrated dealers in fancy china, &c., Philadelphia. The Set of French China for dinner sor• vice hasfour hundred and forty pieces, con- Misting of boats, octagon salad bowls, pickle shells, long fish dishes, &c. &c., and cost one thousand dollars. The Dessert Set, blue and, gold, with ea gle, composed of four hundred and twelve pieces, including six stands for Bonbons, with three wages; eight Tambours, with three stages; twelve Sweetmeat Compotiers, on leet; eight Compotiers, on feet; six large Fruit baskets, on feot; four Ice cream Va• ses and Covers, with inbide Bowls five do zen Greek. form Cups and Saucers, dm. dzc. cost one thousand five hundred dollars. Mr. Chairman, don't you think that one of your plain republican "Suckers" would feel "kinder queer like" to be placed at the President's table, before these democratic "Tambours with three stages," and "Corn potieis on feet'?" Why, sir, he would al most imagine that he had suddenly been translated to the sane a filth: en Malawi rude of Louis Philippe, King of the French. I have no doubt that some of my constituents would much rather face the grizzly bear, on the Appalachian mountains, than sit down before these "Tambours with three stages," and "Compoliers on feet," for five consecutive hours—the period usu• ally required by Kings and democratic Pres idente to masticate a state dinner. The next piece ofdemocratic "furniture" on the President's table to which 1 would invite your very particular attention is the "Sourtout," or bronze gilded Plateau, a large ornamented or pictured tray which stands on the centre of the table. The Pla teau, with the richly. gilded baskets, tripods, and Etruscan vases which accompany it, cost in Paris 6,000 francs, or 81,125; and is tho only piece of table "furniture" which has not been purchased since the demo erotic days of retrenchment and reform. Some four or five months aßer Mr. Van Buren took bosession of the palace, he paid seventy five dollars of the People's cash to Mr. Zechariah Nicholas for dressing up the Plateaus and it now looks quite new. It is composed of seven parts, measures thir teen feet six Inches in length and two feet in width, and is ornamented with mirrors: It is handsomely carved and gilded, with wreathe offruits and vines; also with figures 77).210!)2621 GRP(O,I 841410 representing Bacchus and the Bacchantes, and pedestals upon which_ there are sixteen figures holding crowns to receive the lights, and sixteen cups to change them at pleasure. Accompanying the Plateau era two Etrus can Vases, gilded and garnished with flow ers; also, throe baskets, richly gilded, each with three figures upon a round stand, em bellished with ivy and lyre formed leaves, for six lights each, ornamented with flow. era. It does appear to inc', sir e that the Pla teau, with its fine mirrors, in which the honest, hard handed loco foco democrats can look at themselves, utmost every mo ment, during the formal progress of a court banquet, would bo regarded oven by a bank whig as a pretty formidable article of din ner furniture. Having disposed of the pictured tray, Mr. Chairman, I will direct your attention for a few minutes to the magnificent set of Table Glass, contained in three several bills. The' first bill is for Champagne Glasses, Clarete, Goblets, Cordials, Water Bottles, &c. bought from Messrs. Lewis Vernon & Ca. for nine hundred and twenty•four dollars.— The second is for richest cut Tumblers, cut Centre BoWels and Stands, cut Floating Island Dishes, cut Pitchers, &c., purchased from. Bakewell & Co. for fourteen hundred and fifipone dollars and seventy •five 'cents. The third bill I will give you entire. "NEW YORE, June 8, 1837. Col. T. L.. Smith for sundry articles for President'• House. Bought of James P. Drummond, No. 47 Maiden Lane, between William and Nas sau streets, Importer of and dealer in China, Glass and Earthenware, wholesale and re. tail— 6 quart and 12 pint, all flute, De canters, cone stoppers, barrel shape, $2O 884 00 6 dozen Claret Wines, cut pillar stem, $7 42 00 6 do Green finger cups, 8 3 1 22 00 0 do Cup wine coolers, 89 64 00 2 do cut Champs, $9 18 00 18 pint Water Bottles, flint and flint 20 00 2 Casks 745 f Bottles returned Duplicate, Received paytnent, JAS. P. DRUMMOND." Mr. Chairman, these three bills for table glass make, together, the clover sum 0182, , 606 50—an amount, I should suppose, sufficiently large to purchase the most de moorntic set of table glass in America.— What, sir, will the honest loco locos say to Mr. Van Buren for spending the People's cash in foreign Fanny Mumble green finger cups,. in which to wash his pretty tapering, soft, white, lily fingers, alter dining on fri candeau de veau and omelette souffle? How will the friends of temperance—the real teetotallers—relish the foreign "cut wine coolers" and the "barrel shape flute decan. tors with cone stoppers?" I will now, sir, present you with a receipt for another ornament found on Mr. Van Buren's dinnner table, that tells much, very' much, sir, in regard to the true character of his democracy: "Received, Baltimore, 14th November, 1837, of T. L. Smith, Esq. one hundred dollars, in full for a set of artificial flowers for the President's table. "100 dollars. JOHN THOMAS." I am willing to concede that the expendi• ture of $lOO is, in itself, a very small matter. The question, however, is not how much cash was paid by Mr. Van Buren for the bunch of artificial flowers which decorates his table, but whether the People's money shall be expended for such aristocratic French finery?- and whether Mr. Van Buren who has been raised to the most exalted sta tion on the earth, and whose example upon society must necessarily have a most pow erful and extensive influence, shall, by the introduction of foreign gewgaws into the house of the American People, contribute to corrupt the plain, unostentatious, and repub lican manners of our people, by cteating vain desires for external show and for foolish displays of splendor, which are not conga• nial with our frugal habits? This influence of this example has already had a most in• jutious tendency within the District of Co lumbia, Where many men are now found vieing with each other to make a splendid appearance even above their rank and means of support. I will give you an in stance or two. Mr. F. P Blair, the.bum ble editor of Martin Van Buren's "offieial organ, came to this city some ten veers ago a plain, simple republican in his man ners and style of living, having been brought up and educated with all the do. mestic and economical maxims of the hardy and frugal Western country. For some years after his arrival, he was content to dwell in a comfortable house of fifteen feet front, furnished in a plain, substantial way; but, behold the charm of Executive mannersr How altered the man! He now aims at ri valling all the Foreign Ministers and Heads of the great Departments of the Govern ment in the splendor of his spacious man sion, in the profusion of his table, and in el,. cry iridulgPnee which an empty vanity can covet. He, too, gives brilliant entertain ments to the members of Congre.s and great officers of state, in ins tation of the sumptuous Court banquets nt the palace. On these occasions as I have been credi. , bly informed, for the purpose of producing a more dazzling effect on the vision of his loco loco brethren, ho actually hires rich chandeliers and other showy democratic or. naments at a charge of ten per cent. eta the 240 75 20 00 16220 7&
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