. ... .. 51' at • ailb....titt) . tt ::.c licatt , . ..4.:: ctil,:ito EDrroft AND PROPRIETDR L. XVIII.-11 . Eti TILE MATTER intended application of JACOIIi SUPPLENENT TO THE STAB BANNER. President's Message Continued. ed were faithless. But a few years ago. To say that the people or their governs. and either turn them out of their homes, or with millions of public money in their ment are incompetent, or not to be trusted extort from them, according to their ability I•recommend to Congress the abolition keeping, the government was brought al- with the custody of their. own money, in to pay, double or quadruple the amount of the minimum principle, or assumed. most to bankruptcy and the public credit their own treasury,provided by themselves, paid for them to the government. It is to arbitrary, and false values, and of specific serinnaly impaired, because of their inabili- but must rely oa the presidents, cashiers, the enterprise and perseierance of the har duties, and the substitution in their place ty or indisposition to pay, on demand. to and stockholders of banking corporations, dy pioneers of the West, who penetrate of ad valorem duties, as time fairestand most the public creditors„in the only currency not appointed by Mein; nor responsible to the wilderness with their families, suffer equitable indirect tax which can be imprimis recognized by the constitution. them, would be to concede that they are the drd angers, the privations, and haships ed. By the ad valorem Their. failure .occurred in a period of incompetent for self government. principle, all ar ti.: . , attending the settlement of a new country, cies are taxed according to their cost or peace, peace, and great inconvenience and, loss In recommending the establishment of a and prepare the way for the body of emi value, and those which are of inferior quali- ,were buffered by the public Isom it. Had constitutional treasury, in which the pub- grants who, in the . course of a few years, ty, or of small cost, bear only the just pro- the country been involved in a foreign war lie money shall be kept, 1 desire that ade • usually follow them, that we are, in a great portion of the tax with those which are of that inconvenience and loss would have quate provision be made by law for its degree, indebted for the rapid extension superior quality or greater cost. The ar- been much greater. and might have result- safety, and that all executive discretion or and aggrandizement of our country. tidies consumed by all are taxed at the ed in extreme public calamity. The pub. control over it shall he removed, except Experience has proved that no portion same rate, ofour population are more patriotic than ha money should not be mingled with pri. Such as may be necessary in directing its A system of ad valorem revenue duties, vat , f un d s o f e m s, or i n di v id ua l s , or b e diabinsement in pursuance of appropria. the hardy and brave men of the frontier, with proper discriminations and properor more ready to obey the call of their used for private purposes . When it is il l s .- tions made by law. guards against frauds in collecting them, it . country, and to defend her rights and her cod in banks for safe keeping, it is in el% U n der Our p resent land system, limiting is not doubted, will afford.ample inCidental . feet loaned - to - them without interest, and is the minimum price at which time public honor, whenever and by whatever enemy advantages to the manufacturers, and enable loaned by upon interest to the bor- lands can be entered to one dollar and twee- assailed. They should be protected from them to derive as great profits as can- be. the grasping speculator, and secured at the lowers:from them. . my five cents, per acre, large qoantities of derived from any other regular business.. , Thel pal' - t I ' t b se moneyts conver et in 0 an - k lands of inferior swaths' remain uneold , be- minimum price of the public lands, in the It' is believed that such a system. -strictly p r i ce ,— humble ]tomes which they have improved log capital, and - is used and loaned out for cause the y not command that sv Won the revenue standard, will place theby their labor. With this end in view, all the private profit of bank stockholders; and From the records of the General Land Of• manufacturing interest on a stable footing,vexations or unnecessary restrictions im- When ca ll e d for, (as was the case in 1837.) lice isappears that, of the public lands re and inure to their permanent advantaginposed upon them by the existing pre-emp it may . be in the pockets of the borrowers mainmg unsold in the several States and while it will, as nearly as may be practice-lien laws, should he repealed or modified. from the banks, instead of being- in the Territories in which they are situated.thir ble, extend to , all the greatest. interests o f . It is the true policy of the government to I I•ninehundredandtiou• public treasury contemp etet b y the constr. ty millions onefive a the country time incidental protection which -fford facilities to its citizens to become the rotten. The trainers of the - constitution sand five hundred and seventv-eeven acres, a 4.ati, be affurded by our revenue laws. Suchowners of small portions of our vast pub could never have intended that the money have been in.the market. subject to entry a system, when once firmly established fo rty - n i ne m d • lie domain at low and moderate rates. _ ' paid into the treasury Should be thus con. more than twenty years; would be permanent, and not be subject toThe present system of managing the , verted to pr i vate use, and placed beyond lions six hundred and thirty eight Omits-. the constant cnmplain s, agitations , an d to i e control of the -government. and six hundred and forty four acres for mineral lands of the U. S. is believed to changes which must ever occur, when du-be radically defective. More than a mil- Banks which hold t im e public money are more than fifteen years; seventy•three mil- ties are not laid for revenue, but for thelion of acres of public lands, supposes[ to often tempted, by a desire of genet° extend lions seventy-four thousand and six bun merely' of a favored interest.contain lead and other minerals, have been their loans, increase their circulation, and deed acres f ur more than ten years; and one .In the deliberations of Congress on thisreserved from sale, and numerous nerous leases thus stimulate, if not produce a spirit of hundred and six millions one hundred and subject, it is hoped that a spirit of mutnalupon them have been granted to individuals speculation and extravagance, which sees- severity-eix thousand nine) hundred and . concession and compromise between con-upon a stipulated refit. The system of er or later must result in ruin to t h o u san d s. sixty one acre s for more than five years. ' hiding , interest may prevail, and that the If the public money be not permitted to be Much the largest port i on of these l an d s granting leases has proved to he not only result of their labors may be crowned withunprofitable to the governinent, but thus used; but be kept in the treasury and will continua to be unsaleable at the unsatis themini- happiest censequences.factory to the citizens who have gone paid out - to the public creditors in gold and mum price at which they are permitted to up- Bs . the constitution of the United Statesd. must, if confined, lay the silver, the temptation affordetiby its depo- be sold , so long actarge territories of lands on the lands, an it is ,provided, that `no money shall be h port i ons foundation of much future difficulty be site with banks to an ' undue expansion of fr om which the more valuable drawn from the treasury but in consequencetween time -government and the lessees.— their business would be checked, while the have not been selected are annually brought of appropriations made by law.'A public With th e According to the of fi cial records, the a - amount of the constitutional currency left into market by the governmen t. treasury was undoubtedly contemplated and , mount oh' rents received by the govern in circulation would be en l arge d , by its em • view to the sale and settlement of these in inientled to be created, in which t iler public mem for the years 1841, 1842, 1843, and 'ployment in the public collections and die- ferior lands, I recommend that the price;be money shoul be kept from the iod of 1814 was $0,354 74,, while the expenses bursenients,and time bunks Med.:wives would graduated and reduced below the present collection until needed for public uses.— of the system during the same periedOn in consequence be found in a safer and minimum rate, confining time sales at the In the collection and disbursement of t h e chiding salaries of superintendents, agents, sounder condition. . reduced prices to settlers and cultivators public money, no agencies have ever beenclerks, and incidental expenses, were $213,- A t p resent, State banks are employed as in limited quantities. ' employed by law, except such as were a il -111 11; the,hicome being less than one depositories, but without adequate regula- li graduated and reduced in price for a one pointed by the government directly respon- Lion ' • • limited an d f fourth of thei expenses: To this pecuni of law. whereby the public money can term to one dollar per acre, a - Bible to it, and under ifs control. ary loss may be added the bikini sustained ire secured against the casualties and excels- ter the expiration of that period for a . sec- ,_ • , The safe keeping of the pub(ic money . of de y the public in consequence the ses; revulsions, suspensions, and defalca. ond and third term to lower rates, a large " should be confided to a public treasury, structiop of timber, anti ,the careless and lions, to which , from overissues, °veined • portion of these lands wo u ld be purchased, created by law, and under like responsi- • ' •wasteful manner of working the mines.— mg, an inordinate desire fsr gain, .or other and . many worthy citizens, woo are una- , n bility and control. It is not to be imagined le systein has given rise to much litiga causes they are eonstant:y exposed. 'l'lle ble to higher rates, could purchase that the freewill of the constitution could Secretary ' of the Tieasury has in i pa y ' all cases , tomes for themselves and their f am ilies. have intended that a . treasury should be when I citizens, producing irritation and excite created' bltakencollateral was practice e, as a place of deposit and safe-keep- By adopting tbe policy of graduation & meet in the , mineral region, and involving tag of the public money which was irres- b Y, t s •,' sec for time amount which they hold, reduction of price . , these inferior lande will .tb,e government in heavy additional expen-- y t nl lee of stocks of the U. S 1' pcnsible to the goverment. T ime first' - .0. le,' the States la es.or be sold for their real valee,while time States .ditureas It-is believed that shriller losses swirl of toe States as were in good cred it.— inwhich they lie will harried from the in. Congress under the _constitution, by the act .s. • 4 . • • 'convenience, -and ' embarrassments -ant will continue to occur some of the depos i ts banks have given this . of the second September 1780, `to' estab. , ' • • f • and have de - ' dent the ihrueffee, - to which while the 'present system of leasing these oescription o security, others ue-" I the Treasury Departnont, provided -. ' they are subjected; ih Consequence of the _lands remains unchanged. These lands , chimed to do so. for the appointment ola treasuret,and matte' . United States Cetitinuiiig to, own'- large are now under the superintendence and it his duty 'to receive and keep time, moneys Entertaining the opinion that "the Seim- quentings of rublic 'lin& within their her- care of the War Department, with the or of the United Steles,' and 'at. all times to ration of the moneys of the giiverareent deli; not liable to sitation'for the support dinary duties of which they have no pro i . submit to time Secretary -of the Treasury from banking institutions is ndispensable of their hicargoverneientss .. -:. per or' natural connexion. I recommend and the Comptroller, or either of them, the for the ,safety of the funds 'of the geeern. I & i;ecoirmiend the continuance of the po- the repeal of the present system, and that inspee'ion o/ the moneys' mu his. hands.' meet and the rights of die people," I re. [icy' Of granting pre-emptions, in . iti Moat these lands be placed under the Superin- That banks, national or state. could not 9.l"inoftlitl to Congress that proYision he liberal extent, to all those Who haVe settled tendence and management of the General have been intended to he used as a substi. Made by law for such separation, . and that or May,hereafter settle, on the public lands. Land Office, as other public lands, and be . lute for the treasury spoken of in the con- a constitutional treasu ry ry be creaied for the whether surveyed orunsurveyed, to which ' brought into market, and sold upon such stitution,' as keepers oldie public -money, safe keeping of the public money. The' the Indian title may liaVe been extinguished terms as Congress in their wisdom may . is manifest from the fact, that at that time 001)80'1'61mila! treasury recommended is de- at the time of settlement. It has been" , prescribe, reserving to the government an there was no national bank, and bet three rigned'aa &secure depositoty for the publi c found by experience, that in consequence equitable percentage of the gross amount or (our State banks of limited capital erns- money, withottomy power to make loans of combinations of purchasers and other of mineral product, and that the pre-emp ted in the country. Their employment as or discounts; or to issue any paper whatev 7 causes, a very small quantity of the public tion principle be extended to resident mi depositors watt et first resorted to, to a er as a currency or circulation. I cannot lands, when soli) at public auction, epm- tiers and settlers upon them, at the mini limited extent, but with im avowed inten- doubt that such a treasury as was tiontem• mends a higher price than thesaninimum mum price which may be established by lion of continuing -them ,permanently, i n plated by time constitution, should be hide. rate established by law. The settlers on Congress.- - ' place of the treasury of time coustituthin.— pendent of all tanking corporations. the public lands arc, however, but rarely I refer you to the accompanying report Wlit n they were afterwards from-time to The money of the people should be kept able to secure their homes amid improve- of the Secretary of War, for inibrmation time employee, it was from motives of in the treasury of the people created by melts at the public sales at that rate; be- respecting the present situation of the ar supposed convenience. , law, and be in the custody of agents of the cause these combinations, by means of the my, and its operations during the past Our expetieeee has shown that, when peOple chosen by themselves, according to capital they commami, and their superior year; -the state of our'defences ; the con banking corporations heve been the keep- - the forms of the cosslitu lion; agents who ability to purchase, render it impossible for dition of the public Works; and our rela ers of the public moneys,' end beep there• are directly responsible to the government, the settler to compete with them in the lions with the various ludian tribes within by made, in effect, the treasury, the goy.' who, arc under adequate bo - nds anti cants, market. our limits or upon our borders. linvite eminent can have no guarantee that it can and who are subject to severe punishments By putting down all competition, these your attention to the suggestions contained command the use of its own money for for any einbezzlement, private use, or mis- combinations of capitalists and speculators in that report, in relation to, these promi pulabc purposes. The late Bank of the application of the public funds and ler tiny are usually enabled to purchase the lands, vent objects of national interest. United titates proved to be faithless. The failtire"inother,, respects to pertornt their including the improvements of the settlers, When orders were given during the past :state banks which were afterwards employ- duties. , - ' - at the minimum price CY the government, summer for concentrating a military force . . . . iren to all persons inuebtell to c to call and settle the same with-1 mid those having claims against to are requested to present the operly anthenticated, Aor ettle- AOOl3, DELLONE, A/sier. 5, 1317.. :tit ERTES And Queenswace to he, good and chrap at the Store of Ltive is like a diamond with a flaw in it 1ti"111. :it is precious, but imperfect. [ Fram the National Era. BARCLAY OF CRY. .lP ARA' tit. h d fi r m hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow. Thus, with somewhat of the Seer, 3lust the moral pioneer From the Future borrow ; Clothe the waste with dreams of grain, And, on mid night's sky of rain, ' Paint ale golden morrow ! f. ci, %VIIITTIL'R GETTYSBURG, PA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1847. NICK'D THAT CHAP The following excellent story is told of Mr 6 - ty inetty, , sae tilted the poor lit tle girl in her arms, and they flew so high \ KNOWLEDGE is POWER.—While a worthy in splendor and joy. and there was no individual was "laying down the law" the cold, no hunger, no anxiety—they were other day to a knot of his acquaintances,' with God. he caught the eye of a carter hard by, who ! But the little girl sat in the corner hy q had been vainly endeavoring to raise, a the house, in the cold morning hOur, with sack of potatoes to his cart, ,and who ap- ; red cheeks, and with a Emile around her pealed to the man of !knowledge—"Conte; mouth—dead—frozen to death, the last eve awa' Mr.—, knowledge is power, you wing of the)old year. ken ; gic tui a lift on wi' this poke o' to-' New Year's morning rose over ; the lit ties: tlr corpse as ii sal by the matches ot which I==lii "FEARLESS AND FREE." t We do not know who the Mr. Anderson is from 1 a bundle was burnt. She had been trying whose heart came the little story copied below; ito warm herself, said they ! But 00 000 ill things she had seen— , nd gla dness she had en- , • grandmother into New b •.\ ws.—Congress in one 01 coddled the post office laws. te«• titles and regulations, u one of our exchange pa- iv liege is restored as nt into operation, and riated to pay the post :s of Congress. Tito the recess as well as to ss. Mail carriers and ;orized to carry news nail for circulation or It restrictions upon the )apers out of the mail ackages sent by steam lot carrying the 'hail, charged under regola ,;al• by the Postmaster- nted matter Ordered by regarded as public doe t may be franked: not allowed any corn telivery of these (locu m received from boxes the postmaster to the d beyond this must be support of the office.— Washington post-edi tions to this law. s authorized to estab cos in any city where e the inhabitants may nd that without any in t rates of postage. He to sell stamps to the and• which are by d to those , wishing to as they were to deposite two letters ,c or packago directed The penalty is $lO, •iter: There is, how . - the law shall not apply foreign countries. sent from the office of no charged with three ohe prepaid. So also •eulars. ire extended to Oregon Ith return mails. Do m three months after, tiers of the army are to and newspapers free r of the Society of Ft sends, • to explore some of the parts of Ireland, thus de aanifestations of woe.: hardly recognise the hrough it; every living disappeared; no dogs, I do not think I have laugh since I left home. is not exaggeration to playing of children in people have a sickly, the remark that they to know their neigh ;red looks." London Times utters teaks about the future It says that the pre through the failure of .fie misery of the future I by a coming year of tes yet another short m if disease should not ys that sufficient seed or will not be planted . cultivators are discnnr of tillrge has become lat the attempts of the .ive distress by public rawing the population o roads, and will induce tof agriculture. This, millions feed on one )duee appalling results, son be favorable for the Third Infantry, in one of lg . letters to the Spirit of triking description of Gen. a hill our column was .p of horse pass. Do id a plain looking gen ion a brown horse, !lav a Mexican sombrero, n olive colored loose ants, wool socks, and ler the frock appears word ; he has the eye ,very lineament of his 7essive of honesty and mind. Reader, do you n looking gentleman is ? general ZACIIMOV ;TAv military family and a ns as an escort, is on lie never has around . tnp and circumstances of glorious war," but when the battle ra ges, when victory hangs upon a thread, he is found nobly discharging his duty of coin mander-in-chief." Bayle, explaining the difference between testimony and argument, uses this simile : —"Testimony is like the ,shot of a long tow, which owes its efficacy to the force of the shooter ; Argument is like the shot of a cross-brace, equally Imeible whether dischar,rcd by a dwarf or a, giant," TERMS-TWO DOLLARS PER AhliPl4.l FWIIOLE N 0.885. news The bill relative to elections In Adams county, providing that all persons to be voted for shall be on one ticket, passed the Legislature. The same bill allows the vo• tors of each election distriot to decide by vote on the removal oLthe plaCe of holding elections. York county is included in. the bill. An act past the Legislature last week to prevent millers from packing flour in old barrels. The water was lot into the Pennsylva• niti Canal on . Wednesday week, and boats had commenced running. The receipt of $2BO 55 from citizens of Gettysburg and its vicinity, for the relief of the poor of Ireland, has boon acknowl. edged in the Philadelphia papers, by IV►n. 1). Duane. The rumor of a battle at Monterey, be tween Taylor and Santa Anna proves to have been unfounded. Two counterfeiters were arrested in Lan caster last week, with a large amount of counterfeit money in their possession. Wisconsin was admitted„as a State by the last Congress.' The next Congress will exhibit a representation . of 30 States. The State of Florida has repudiated late motto, "Let us alone," and substiuted in lieu thereof, “In God is our trust." Sipee 1817 there have been seventeen revau,tions m Portugal. That beats Hay. ti. There are many white nations' not half so capable of civil government as that black republic. Some quadrupeds," solemnly remarked alecturer, "have trunks as well as chests" —"which, happens to be the case with some bipeds," added a wag, Gen. Irvin, we learn; has contributed 50 barrels of flour, of his own raising, for the relief of the sufferers of Ireland. Donor. olence'has always been a prominent trait itt the General's character, The British mail steamer Tweed Was lost on the 12th ult. between Havana and Vera Cruz, and 60 persons were drowned. The amount collocted in New York for the relief of Ireland is . $75,000. The snow was three feet deep on a lev el in Western New York, on the 2d inst. The Catholic Churches . of New York,- have contributed $13,750 34 in aid of the poor of Ireland. Noble! The whole amount already raised in this country for Ireland and Scotland ex ceeds $250,000. Indian corn is worth two dollars and sixteen cents a bushel in England, and but little more than nine cents in Illinois. • Gen. Thom Thumb was a passenger in the Cambria, on its last arrival in this country. His recepts, whilst in Europe, exceeded $175,000. It is thOught that Massachusetts alone will raise $200,000 for Ireland. The Ada - title and Mississippi Rail,road bill has passed the House o f Represents lives of Illinois, and will, most probably, pass .the Senate. J. R. Ackland, a respectable citizen of Norfolk, threw himself from the third she ry of a hotel, and effected his purpose of suicide. Hon. John ,A . Rockwell, of Norwich, is a candidate for re-election to Congress.- ' lion. John Bell is spoken of as the whig candidate for Governor of Tennessee. A bill passed the legislature of Michigan locating the State capital at Lansing. Col. Jonathan P. Miller, whose mission to Greece during the struggle of that ill-fa tcd country for freedom will be remember ed by all, died at Montpelier, Vermont; on the 17t1i,ult. A fisherman in : the Bangor market had a codfish which weighed 98 pounds, and measured 4 feet 8 inches in length. . A would-be prude remarked one day in the presence of Mdlle. Dejazet, "I am very particular about my reputation.". "You are always particular about trifles," replied Dejazet. Cheap Postage has become handsomely profitable in Great Britian. Two cents is the price of postage for any single letter all over that country, andyet the annual • come to the British Government, from the pennyl)ost system, exceeds $4,000,000. BURNT TO IJEATH.—A. little boy, three. years of age, son of Mr. Traver, living in Albany, was burnt to death on Sunday af. ternoan by. his clothes taking fire while hia mother was absent front the room. A Vermont paper returns thankS to temernber, of Congress for a copy of the President's message "in one volume." THE NEW PLANET.-•1t is Mated that the pia• net recently dit•coveied by Challis and Galls ' in consequence of the calculations of Adams and Le Ferrier, is to be called Nepimius. . . Preparations are being made to carry another poctiou of the Choctaw Indians to the far West. The surplus product. of-corn in the State of Jersey is said to he worth $1,500,000. Gun Cotton has been used in 'Vermont for blasting rocks. There are some thousands: of Norwe gians in the State of Wisconsin. In a recent engagement' between the. English and the • New Zealanders, .three officers, taken in the melee, were roasted alive and ifterwavds devoured. ••. • The late anniversary of Burn'e .bfirthy day was celebrated by laying the ((Me di" lion stone of mirage public hall close,eittse, cotta.re in which iteisit4s born. f.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers