The Weekly Standard from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 2

BRANDON BANK. A Haul. On Jast Dr. Giyin. the marshal ofthe State, mde a large haul from the bank-pirates.

He Seized on the-property' ofthe Brindon Bank in various directions, dragging it from the vaults of brother thieving shops, the trunks of bank presidents, nnc we believe their breeches pockets. The thieving 'system, thank God, is every diy corning to lower ebb beore long with the blessing of God, and common 'principles of justice, we will have dozens of bank officers in the penitentiary. It seems that Mr. Yerger, oneol our clearheaded lawyers, understood that thrt Brandon Bank had ordered Mr. Wolfe Smith.

President- of the Bank rF T.oYlnotnn in draw one hundred and fifty odd thousand dollars at the north, being the bilance of its cotton funds, authorized the marshal to seize on the same to satisfy an execution of one of his clients aeatnst tne oantc. ur. uwm, a tr loL-intr a bond of proceeded to Jackson, and broke open the vaults of the Pla ters Bank, and look therefrom, thirty-eight tho find dnllars in snecial debosile to the credit of tYM saw) W. Smith. Returninsr to Vick s- k.irr Dr Oiwln nroceeded to the Verandah, a ter apprizing Dr.

Smi'h of his mission, brok open his trunks, and took therefrom sixthousam in hfink notes, the property of the san Brandon Bank'. The marshal took possession i ill I of several thousand, aouars auue siuru ui ua rnncp Ourr the nronertv of the same concern he also sent 'a deputy to- Manchester, where there is slsb more of the same funds deposited, and another to New Orleans, where there are twenty-five thousand dollars, belonging to tne same bank, in the name of Dr. Smith. When Dr. Gwin shall have secured all this, he will be in possession of seventy-five thousand finll.ro th nrnnertvcf the Brandon Bank, levied on to pay a debt to the Dennistouns.

of i New Orleans, independent ci.ims sum, u. Smith says he has paid over to Mr. W. H. Shel-ton, of Brandon, formerly President of the foul ahnn at that nlace.

erhtvJtbousand dol- lars. Mr. Yerger will, of course, take steps to drag the money out ol tne nanus 01 voi, oumon for the benefit of his client. is the way the cotton funds of the Brandon Bank have been used instead of being appropriated to pay the honest debt of the ins.itution. Dr.

Smith, Dr. Puckett, and Col Shelton, were all engaged in the Brandon Bank, and they.estabiished the Lexington Bank for their private advantage. It now appears from the acknowledgments of Dr. S. that this money was put in his hands by the Brandon Bank, in consideration of-his return-in" two dollars in Brandon money for one in specie which he had received.

The Brandon money can now be purchased for sfxteen cents per dollar, and of course the balance eighty-four cents per dollar on one hundred and fifty thousind is clear profit to himself, Shelton and Puckett; this is a part of the beautirs of the credit A portion of the funds was seized in Mayor Mielkie's office. This is a simple outline of the facts connected this novel transaction. It is to be hoped that the marshal will soon be able to break up all the vile swindling "institutions of our coun try." which have been robbing the public, inundating the State with supurious currency, and destroying the public and private morals by their abandoned course of swindling and plunder. This is only the beginning' of the end. The officers of the Brandon Bank; and every, other tbhsvish shop in the state, will be' dragged before the courts of justice.

The property must be seized to satisfy the creditors of the banks, and when "the strong arm of the lav, and the rigid examination of counsel shall cross question them as to the mode and means by which the property of the bank became transferred to the directors, then justice will resume her throne and the "institutions of our country" and their guardians will find their proper level. We understand that Dr. Smith p'aced post -notes of the Bank of Lexington in the hands of Shelton, last summer, as security for the faithful performance of his trust; and that Mr. Shelton has sold them in New Orleans for 50 cents in the dollar. The Bank of Lexington has of course exploded.

Orleans G. Western. FROM THE GLOBE. THE SCHUYLKILL FRAUD. It isjuite edifying to see the Whig news pipers handing the frauds and defalcations of banks and bank officers with white kid gloves, while a miserable postmaster, who is minus a few dollars, is taken up with red hot pincers.

In the eye of a Whig editor, the one is only the exercise of a chartered privilege, the other a crime of the greatest atrocity. We do not mean to say that the public agent who misuses the public funds for his private purposes, is not a sheer rogue, who ought to be severely punished; wej only assert that the bank officer who defrauds the public of hundreds of thousands, is quite as great a scoundrel as the other. There is no difference in their guilt; theTe should be none in the punishment. Both are equally just objects of the public indignation both should be denounced as offenders against the law of the land, and the obligations of integrity. The transactions lately made public in the management of the Schuylkill Bank, and the system of double-faced frauds one on the Bank of Kentucky, the other on the stockholders and the people furnish a case in point.

Marked, branded, as is this stupendous swindling, with every circumstance of violated faith towards a sister institution, towards iu own stockholders, and towards people, it is spoken of, written of, as one of these every day events, as the failure of a small trader the robbery of a henroost, or the picking of a pocket, is recorded, to satisfy the vulgar appetite for this kind of food. Nor is the language and conduct of the presi dent, cashier, and directors, more extraordinary than that of a larsre portion ot tne vv nig papers One might suppose, from the cool impudence with which thev sneak of this stupendous fraud. that thev either never had, or had lost, the perception of what constitutes guilt and infomy. The cashier dfrauds the Bank of Kentucky, and the public, to keep np the credit of the Bank of i Schuylkill! He rocs eier to pay i-aui, ana nnDears to think that this is a most admirable financial expedient i me priucm auu uu tutors as coolly deny all knowledge or participation in this excellent system of financiering, and expect to be believed, although the presumption of guilt amounts to a moral certainty. They do notdeny that the money arising from the fraudulent sale oKentuky Bank stock, centred in the bank over which they preside but they know nothing of it forsooth, as they were ignorant iiow it came there.

Now admitting this to be true, they were equally false to the trust reposed in them by the stockholders, who chose them to take care of their interest, and can only plead in excuse of one breach of trust, the commission of another. The people give their confidence to a bank, from their reliance on the characters of those who administer its affairs and who are bound by every obligation of honor and integrity to see that the affairs of? the --institution jure proper! administered. It will ioi. dotaay. that they were icnorant of vhat they ought to have, known, lor this is only an acKnowieagmenv mat thev have been faithless to their trust, and false.

to these who reposed confidence in theif honesty and vigilance. Yet this excuse passes current; the affair dies away, the people are defrauded, the culprit escapes his merrited. punishment, enjoys the fruits of Lis violation of every sacred obligation, joins the Abolitionists, Anti masons, or some other philanthropic society, is 'liberal of the money acquired by defrauding the poor, imitates the man who stole a pig and quieted his conscience by giving away the tail in' charity, and pusses away the rest of bis life olium cum-dignilate. There is no law to punish themand as to public scorn and contempt, who cares-fur that now-a-days when he can ride in his barouche, fare sumptuously every day, and look jlo'wn on the people he has cheated The npit remarkable feature of this affair of the Schuvlkill Bank, however, is the fellow- feeling of the bankrupt hanks of Philadelphia for this meritorious institution. They have agreed, it appears, "to" sustain, it with their credit or to give it credit in some way or other to a certain amount.

We can-only ascribe this unparalleled 'liberality to a principle of gr.rtitude towards the Schuylkill Bank for having exhibited an example of turpitude which throws their own'derelictions of duty quite in the shade, or rather makes theni appear bright by comparison. We'-ntei: tff; those who hold fast to the old maxim, "Be just before you are generous." They had better pay their own debts beore they undertake to assist others and, above all, when they bestow-their charity, let it be on a more meritorious object. We sicken with 'sorrow ind disgust at these perpetual exhibitions of the 'frabd and insolence of the rather paper atistocrary. The people are, at the. same time, beggared and corrupted by these examples of defiance to all law, and utter disregard o.

all those settled principles of moral obligation, without which man is a wolf to man, and there is no bond of mutual confidence and- good will. -The influence of these examples descends through every gradation of society those who are wronged without redress by legal means, retaliate their injuries by inflicting wrong on others, lose oil respect for those laws under which they find neither protection nor punishment. Alas I for liberty and free institutions, if such are their final con- seq-iences T.ROM THS WAVXe COtfVTlf (iaT) jeffsxsoxiax. TO THE PEOPLE TO THE PEOPLE TO THE PEOPLE HARRISON FEDERAL WHIGQERY WHAT IT HAS DONE IN THIS STATE. In 1830, the Harrison Federal "Whig party triumphed in this State.

Jn that year this party used the mammoth improvement bill. Since that time the Harrison Federal Whig party has been in power and managed the system. They have prostrated the Srate destroyed her credit her bonds at fifty cents on, the dollar the taxes beyond endurance. It was in- IS 3 G. that the Federal Whig party.in this State set sail, under the Harrison flag.

It was at the same time they fixed on this State the jrfammoth system bill." The same Harrison party have r-ontinued to sail under tne nag ol the old Tippecanoe for tne last four and have been managing our in ternal improvements, and ruined the State. Har-risonism, profligate State expenditures, and State bankruptcy, and high taxes, seem to be coincident and identical. The appropriate name for our opponents now is, therefore, the Harrison-" in-Federal-Whig party. The people should be clearly made to see, that in voting for Harrison, they, vote for State profligacy. Astonishing developments have already been made, and is said worse are to follow.

The fact is established beyond all doubt, that the present embarrassed condition of the State, and the hard ness of the times, alone result from the reckless and profligate conduct of the various officers of our State Government and the banks. These officers have sold our State bonds on credit to the wild cat banks of Michigan, to the Cohens of Baltimore, and to the Morris- Canal an'l Bank ing Company of Ne-v York, and other broken down companiesand corporations, without exam ining into their circumstances, to see whether they were solvent or bankruDt. We rerret that our esteemed personal friend Caleb B. Smith, esq of Connersville, the Whig candidate to succeed Randen for Congress two years hence, is intimately connected with those unfurtenate transi tions, having been one of the Fund Jommission-i ers. Well, bv such a course tfn Rtt Kb- ly to lose, taking the bad sales for internal improvement and banking: purposes together, some two or three millions and it is said authority, that the Federal Whig officers of the state nave Kept back a part ol the amount of bonds they have sold, and not received the pay for, and are likely to lose.

And here we wish to ask our readers, why it is that the Federal WhijrS are continually rfam. oringabout the Sub-Treasurv. and the" loss of the Swartwout money to the general government wueu Lu.s jc-ry ouue nis lost more by depositing the moneys in bank, within three years, than ihe General Government has lost by the Sub-Treasury from the origin of the Government till now. One thine more we will' add in this connection. After our Federal Whig State officers, had sold our tends toEasterir and Michigan bankers and had begun to fail in' receiving from them the pay for them, they then, in order to keep up the works, and blind the people till after the last August election; made Secret nrranorftmaiii.

the banks in this State, which leagued in with th Whole hoVnien. hv nrhich tho euui reiusQio cuseount to our citizens and business me loaned all their money to the State, which enabled Noble and Co. to- pay a part of the wages of the hinds, and flatter them along for the rerryiinder till after the election I Jhy imdiately discharged these cheated laboring men. when they were owinr them many hundred thousand dollars. Well, this swindling rascality, which ought to consign the Federal Whig leaderstoan eternity of execration being over, and the.

banks being unable to get back the money they lent these internal improvement swindle, now have nothing to loan scarcely, to business men and pork buy-eis, but on the contrary have collected too-ether and put into the vaults of the banks, nearly all the money there was before in circulation among the people, and now what is the consequence I he farmer can get nothing lor his pork he cannot pay the mechanic. no man can get money to pay his debts, the community arebuin each other, selling property under the hammer, creaking up and ruining our best citizens: and this all from the profligacy of your State internal improvement Whig officers, and. the banks. FROM THE GLOBE. Af ORE" SHOCKING THAN ANY THING I THATCH AS YET ifi VJbiii MKT THETPyp-.

LIC EYE FMadtooutan. yfj- The Matisokian brought to on Sat-urda'y night, against Blair and Rivks, o.i-erei," which it declared 1o be more' shocking than any thin that haslet met the public tyt This secret is Vouched on the authority of "a gentleman long known in ihe city, and whose character is -believed to be a iufficient guaranty of Us truth." With this solemn preparation it was brought oat as a specific charge against us so late op Saturday, that it was supposed it could not be met with before the Globe of Monday night That heGen. DuffGrcen) had been offered 8 10,000, a gross sum, to be piid in cash by another firm meaning Blair and Rives,) and ihat unless Gales 'and Seaton, vthom he preferred, closed with him speedily, his friends having -ihe balance of power the House of he would give Jit to Blair and Rives. or words to that effect. Messrs Gales and Seaton would not hear to the proposal? Aft.

We leave this to the reply of Gen. Duff who expressly states that. GALESand Seaton, through an" intimate friend of ijbeirs," Jtatle alt the advances to lhbckingbar- jain. These gentlemen may- settle this matter among themselves without remark, from" us. The public will know how to estimate the nice fasti diousness imputed by the Madisonian to the.

Ed itors of the National Intelligencer, who would not hear to the proposal and how to appreciate the affected horror of the Editor d'f the Madiso nian at the shocking secret it lays at our door. when it is observed that the basis of the proposed bargain with Green, was that consummated be tween Gai.es and Seaton with It is now'admitted by the negotiator, of Gales and Seaton, that they bought from Allen the confidential trust of public printer of the House of Representatives? for. three tilousand dol lars a session 1 The country, too, wil! learn how to estimate the public virtue of the 'Federalists and Conservatives, by whose votes this transaction was consummated, when it understands that only a few honest men among them have felt it a duty to mark with reprobation the low instruments "who abused their confidence and secured their support by falsehood. The main bodyiof the Federal party, we have, reason to believe, are ready to repeat the corrupt practice by which Gales and Seaton were made" Printers to the House against the sense of ihe American constituency. We owe it to the public and ourselves to state the facts on which this belief is Landed.

It is true that General Duff Green was offered ten thousand dollars if by the use of. his name, a few of the State Rights party could be induced to join the Federal party and secure his election as public Printer, provided he would surrender the employnnt so obtained to Gales and Seaton. This proposition was made to I Gen. Green directly, by Mr. Mitchell, a mcraber fronl Nw York, in a letter.

This Jet ter was sent by Gen. Green, to a member of the House from NorthJ.Carolina, with a view that it might he shown to some one of the State Rights party of South Carolina. It was shown by him, as it ought to have been, first. to the Speaker, and, with his advice, to another gentleman of distinction. All considered it a gross overture of bribery.

The member who made this proposition, although he used in his" letter the term "we" in making it, and gave assurance that if adroitly managed," the whole Federal vote could be concentrated on Gen. Green for the purpose named, yet disclaimed speaking for his party. If we misstate, in the slightest particular, the purport of the Letter, Mr. Mitchell can put all right by producing it. The public have, in this simple the history of the $10,000 proposition to- purchase the public printing, which has been so falsely imputed to us by the confederate of Messrs.

Gales and Seaton, in the corrupt transaction of the extra session of 1837. In this development, the motive which operated with the opposition to obstruct the election of Printer, when the other officers of the House were elected will be seen. It affords too, a fine sample of their political tactics. While corruptly bargaining for the public printing, as a means of supporting their press, they were making daily profersions, of their great anxiety to remedy abuses. In regard to it.

While falstjy accusing the publishers of the Globe as making mercenary propositions to securevotes-for the office, they were, in fact, doing it themselves. In the same way they charge the Adninistration with corrupting the press and the public suffrage, while fraud, forcet and corruption, would seem become ah essential pan ofhej-jown system of political -os FRO THE BALTIMORE To the. unequivocal denial of the Globe, I would not add a singlr word; did not the Madisonian represent me as proposing to "bestow my influence over my personal iriends in Congress, for a pecuniary consideration. Before the meeting of Congress, a friend of Gales and Seaton waited upon me, as he said, at the instance. of an intimat friend of theirs in Washington, lo know whether I would enter into an arrangement with them, whereby the printing of the House could be obtained for our mutual benefit and at his instance, I went to Washington for the purpose of arranging, the matter with Gales -and Seaton.

I called on mat meir irieno, wno toio me tnat tie had seen Mr. Seaton, and was authorized to offer me the same consideration that they had given to the editor of the Madisonian, which he alleged to be three thousand dollars for each session. I told him in reply that I could not agree to submit any proposition to the consideration of my friends, but an arrangement recognizing me as one of the printers of the House; that they had disapproved of the arrangement with Mr. Allen, and that I would not ask them to gie the printing under like circumstances. We, however agreed on the basis of an agreement to fce sab-muted by him to Gales "and Seaton, ana" by me to ray friends, by wfifch was to be interested witn mem in pany tioh; The only objection suggested was my tirnate.

of I saw several mem bers Consress. and they satisfied metbat, un der the -peculiar situation of parties, no arrange ment by which I snouia in any wwe panic ijihic in tke printing. quid be made without subjecting them to the imputation of using the power acci- i I rtz dentta IV DlaceOTtn tneir nanus io uesiuiv jmcc on their personal friend that this imputation would impair their" moval power, and weaken rtheir influence, -which should be brought in aid pf the great questions now Jbefore the country. Before I had an onnortunity'of seeing Gales and Seaton's friend, 'and of communicating these views to received a note declining on their part the nrransement. This was before the decision of ihe House on the New aues tjbn.

After that was decided against them, an attempt was made to renew the negotiation with me through the same other channels when I refused to entertain the proposition, ahdrtnk Iv the reasons for doincr so. I have said this much, because my silence might be. eon strned into an admission that, for the purpose of driving a barffain with Gales had asserted a power of bestowing the. printing of Cpngress on either of tne when the truth is. that the proposition came mm their friends, was sanctioned bv Mr Seaton," who au thnnzed one of his friends to propose terms, which were refused'; and th'arranmwt'pfo hosed bv me wa declined: ojhV because the time it was declined that-, they would be elected without the aid of my friends.

pr else that they wpuld makf more fjv6rable terms. When they, found that they youTd not be elected without the aid of my friends, nn au tpmnt was made to renetv the herojia(ioti. Vhen r- i -i they were fold thst my friends would not become a party to any arrangement whatsoever. DUFF GREEN THE STANDARD. Wednesday, January 33, 1840.

THE PEOPLE against THE BANK. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN STATE RIGHTS NOMINATIONS. FOR PRESIDENT, MARTIN VAN BUREN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JAMES K. POLK.

Subject to the decision of the Salt ixn ore Conenlion. FOR GOVERNOR, ROMULUS M. SAUNDERS. "Truth crushed to wll tiae tgtia i "The eternal yers oTGotTmr her But Error, wounded, writhe in fkeia' "And die amidat her worshippers." -e CITY ELECTION. Monday January 20, 1840.

For Intendant. Joseph Gales, Scattering, 174 10 Western Ward. William F. Clark, 37 William 36 AVilliam White, 30 Uuffin Tucker, 29 The two Commissioners elected in this Ward are in favor of the New Market. Middle Ward.

James Litehford, -52 William Thompson, 51 Alex. J. Lawrence, 50 Fabius J. Hay wood, ,25 David W. Stone, 22 Richard Smith, 22 The three Commissioners elected in this Ward are favorable to the New Market.

Eastern Ward. John Hutchins, 49 Jordan Womble, 45 John J. Christophers, 35 Eldridge Smith, 33 In this Ward, the Commissioners elect are both favorable to the Old Market. FOR CONSTABLES. James H.

Murray was re-elected for Dis tricts without oppositon. For No. 2, the vote stood B. B. Buffaloe 30 W.

Hodge 9. CORRECTION. We made a mistake in an editorial article published Jan. 1, headed "Mr. Morehead and his Let ter," by mentioning a proposition as from Stedman from Chatham." It should read "Mr Stedman from Gat eg "03" The Editors of th Greensboro' Patriot ask os if we know what sort-; of an abolitionist the man in the moon is." is not a candidate for office, and we do not Wish to bring toe opinions 01 private inaiviauais unnecessarily before the public.

We expect he. and Mr. More head have, however, about an equal chance of being elected Governor of North Carolina. One thing we da know of the man in the moon he shines with borrowed light, as Southern. Whiggery does from the Northern Lights of Abolitionism.

"WHIG" ECONOMY. The whfgs" are continually raising a false clamor about the expenditures of the government, and the disregard of manifested by their opponents. A Diary was kept by Dr. Duncan of Ohio, of the first eleven days of the present session, by which it appears-lbat there were two hundred speeches delivered by the Federal Whiggery in Congress, and but ninety-Jour by the Democratic Republicans. The latter have been repeatedly charged with wasting the public time and public money" but the people will see from these facts, that Federalism is at its old-tricks, of endeavoring to fasten their own delinquencies upon" their opponents.

Their impudence is astonishing. fcCf-Richard Hamblett is appointed Postmaster at Gaston, Northampton countyN. O. 3 I TV' S- OHIO A Democratic Republican Convention was held in Ohio on ihe 8th inst. We extract the some remarks' by the Columbus Statesman j- "The Cify.

is a dense crowd every wherejam- med full the Hotel are a living mass oftnen, packed in edge'tvays, through which those of much rotundity, had they to pass, would starve ere they could penetrate. Really we have no, idea of the numbers present." "The Hon Thomas L. Ha mej is elected President of the Convention, and Governor Shannon is renominated by acclama tion The procession of military and music and Delegates this afternoon was immense the spirit and confidence of our friends unbounded. The Theatre could not begin to hold the yjcrowd, the whol procession marched to the public square, where the organization and nomination took place. The whole world seems to be here, and Democra cy in joyous humor.

Hurra for Van Bob en and SHANNON AGAtNSTTHE FIELD ''THE SADDLE ON THE RIGHT HJ3RSE." In another column of our paper will be found an article from The Globe," which exposes the fal sity of a charge made against that paper by "The some singular incidents connected with the transaction. The editors of 1 ne jviadisonian" thought it a shocking" anair OBLtbe parfof Ther 'Gflobe hxit what will be saidhy thV B'hen The National Intelligencer" is fouhd'guilt of bargain and It was an evidence of great sharp-sight ed ne'sabh the part Galesand Seatpn to keep an eye upon the.New Jersey members; butjhe; Wisest miss it sometimes" and so did they. But the most singular feature in the matter is ihe character given by the "Madisonian" to an act'of its own party more sJiocking than -any thing that has yet met the public eye The priests of Federal hocus pocus mast get to work and set the matter right in the old way we suppose they will stick to it that the offending party was not the Intelligencer. STEAMBOAT BURNT. The steamboat Lexington, on her way from New Yorfc for Stoniogton, Con.

was destroyed by fire, on the 13th inst. One hundred and fifty lives were lostthree only escaping of all on board, two of them bytcJinging to fragment of the boat and the 'captain, by a bale of Cot ton. Among the number lost "were 5 or 6 women and 2 or 3 children. The fire being midway of ihe boat, cut off all communication from one end to the other. The passengers crowded together in yie bow and stern, moaning and bewailing their fate, till compelled 10 cast themselves into the Watery deep to escape the flames.

The fireoccurred off Eaton's Island, and an attempt to ran her on shore proved abortive, from the burning of the tiller ropes. It wans first discovered at past sev en P. M. and the boat drifted with the tide, and sunk at 3 o'clock theext morning Off Bridgeport harbor. FIRE IN WILMINGTON.

We eopy the following account of a distressing fire in Wilmington, in this State, from Abe Fayet-teville North Carolinian of tb.e 18th. We sympa thize with the many worthy citizens who have thus suddenly been deprived of property and em- ployment "A fire broke out in Wilmmeton vesterdav at two o'clock. A. M. near the Court Hous.

which was consumed. We learn bv a passenger in the stage last night, that the two most imDortant squares for business, and much valuable property were consumed, with the exception of the Cape Fear Bank and two or three other which were preserved by" the great efforts made, in consequence of great rewards offered by the owners. The two squares burnt, were those North East and North West of the Court House, the latter extending to tne river and neing that on which was the Custom House and Cane Fear The former, that on which Restoa's Hotel and Dawson's Store were situated. We have no room for further particulars, as we stop the press to give this hasty and calamaitoas notice. "WHIG" UNANIMITY.

The Federal presses are "prating about the unanimity of the "whigs" (as they have still the impudence to call themselves) in the nomination of Gen; Harrison. "We have a few samples of this unanimity before us. Mr. Bennett, who publishes a paper called the New York Herald, says that Van Buren carried that State against Harrison by 28,000 majority, and asks what is io prevent him from doing so now. He declares the nomination of Harrison, after," such an expenditure of talent and wisdom, and influence and patriotism, by the Convention," a miserable farce.

Hear what he further sfcys There has been in the "whig" party for ten vears past, a railing against all Military Chieftains by the lump. They would not they could not- should not touch such articles. No, not thev. ia noi ioucn sucn articles, ixo, not they. what of it The very first chance they they not only select a 'military chieftain Urt nnnf iL jjoc, electone of the weakest, oldest, and super- ni.

wnai ot it have. annuated of all the lot. All those military chief. uuc ot me weaitesi, oiaesr, ano suner tains, now before the nation, possess talents energy, vigor of body and. mind, are passed over, and the very on? whose right, foot is in the grave, and the other hard behind, is the cream of their choice.

Oh 1 most lame and impotent conclusion of whjg wisdom." j. The whole historjB pf-this intrigue, from be ginning to enaf. wicn me manner which the real and original friends of Gen. Scott and Mr. Clay have been outgeneraled, outwitted, outvoted and most cruelly cheated, we shall give at feno-th in a few-days Mr.

Clay is-finished, but Gen. Scott, though cheated by the politicians, the nonni th.m: selves will yet rise: up in their maiestv. and do him justice. Meantime he will withdraw from the con test go out to grass for one year and Be ready to enter the field at the close of the general elections of 1840, for the Presidential contest of 1844. He will be the successor of Mr.

Van Rnn nA no mistake. We rejoice, therefore, that the result of the convention is nothiner wore nr expected any thingof such a body of blockheads nor have we been disappointed." This is pretty "strong language on which to es tablish unanimity" among the" WhiV-erv The Raymond Times, a "whiff" paner nrinted in Mississippi, has the following This nomination will not take-in With Henry Clay as our candid r. m.vu had some hopes of Mississippi; tut with Harrison we can have none. It would therTnrfc ho wttr of words to say any thing more on the subject at Admirable evidence of "unanimity We have seen extracts from several other papers, condemning this nomination; but out. of them the greatest, nnanimity" is conceded by Federal hocus-pocus.

JT- The editors of-the Greensboro' Patr lot quite facetious- about our professing not to kno an vcu. nnmsou is an mooiuionisi or not We do not; complain of the tone and manner their paragraph far from it but we guess tU will become a little more grave when the facts It the case shall be made known. We still say X( do not know whether Gen. Harrison is an abol tionist or not. Although we have seen it conj dently so stated, we wait for proof in this as have in every other matters.

53 Henry D. Gilpin of Pennsylvania', is 1- pointed Attorney General of the United States i the place of Felix Gbcndt, elected a Senator o' the United States from Tennessee. 1 FROM WASHINGTON. In Senate, Jan. 6, the 'Chair submitted a too.

sage from the President of the United States coo, municating additional information in relation to the disputed. boundary line between the State. ofMjji souri and Territory of. Iowa which on i by Mr. Linn, with all the other papers on, the subject was referred to the Committee on the Also, a message from the President of the United Stares, showing the operations, of the Toppgraphj.

cal Bureau, during the year 1S39; which waj laid on the table, ajnd ordered printed. Also 1 1 messagerom the President of the United States! in compliance with a resolution of the Senate -of the 30th ult. for information in relation tj the recent suspension of the banks which was fti ferred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. yall submitted a Resolution directing that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to in.

quire into the expedienpy of abolishing imprisonment in all cases under and by virtue of mesne process issuing out of the Vourts of the United States. The bill for the armed occupation and settlement 1 of that part of Florida now overrun by hostile bands i ui luarauaing inaians, was laxen up on its third reading, and Messrs. Crittenden, Pieree and Preston, addressed the Senate at length on the subject. Mr. Strange intimating his intention to speak on the bill, on motion, the Senate adjourned.

On the 7th the resolution submitted some days'' since by Mr. Linn, as follows Resolved That the Secrretary of the Senate be irected re spectfully to request annually of the Governors of the different States and Territories of the Uni ted States to furnish, for the use of the Congress ional Library, all reports and documents in their of their respective States and Territories agreed to. Y-i" On'motionby Mr. Grundy, the resolution submitted some days by Mr. Benton, relative to the assumption of State debts, was taken up and after an ineffectual attempt to lay on the table, it was referred to a select committee, consisting of Messrs.

Grundy, Lumpkin, Smith of Indiana, Young, Hub- r. bard, Allen, and Merrick, The bill for the armed occupation and settlemfor i of that part pf Florida now. overrun by houe bands of Indiaas, being the special order of the-day was' taken up, and Messrs. Benton, Tappan, and Preston addressed the. Senate on the provisions of; the bill, when it was informally passed over.

T.he bill making appropriations for the removal the raft in Red river, 'was, on motion of Mr. taken up, and after some remarks by himi was dered to. engrossed for a third reading. Tht Senate then went into Execttve business after which it adjourned. On the 8th the Chair submitted a commu nication from the Secretary of War, transmit-1 ting aj statement showing the contingent expear sesof the establishment during the 'year 1839 -X whlrh was laid on the table, and ordered to be nrin- ted.

Also, a communication from the Secretary of War, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 27th Dec. in relation to permitting certain officer of the army to retire upon half pay; which was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. communication frp.m the Postmaster General, showing the contingent expenses of that Department for year 1S39; which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post The bill making, appropriations for the remoral of the raft in Red River was read a third time and passed. bill for the'armed occupation and settlement of that part of Florida overrun by hostile bands of. Indians was taken up and Mr.

Clay of Alabama- addressed the Senate at some length in reply to the remarks of Mr. Preston, and in favor of the bill; the bill was then ordered to be engrossed for a third readinsr. I On the 9th, several reports were presented of a private character and several unimportant resolu- tions of inquiry. A joint resolution was adopted in relation to a coast survev unon theLakes. It.

authorizes certain surveys to be made and annronriare ft 50 IWi to mf th omncp. i 1 tr mr. iinn moveo a reierence ci the document: the Select Committee appointed to discuss the iwr. i ject. Mr.

Linn also moved the printing of sub- i i one hundred extra1 documents, including all that bare been sent to Congress on the subject. Mr. King of Alabama, moved that the papers all be referred to the on the Judiciary, which motion was carried. Mr. Benton presented a let ter -from Governor iBoggv of Missouri, in relation the subject, -the same direction.

A second Message was received front the President fthe United States- in relation' to those- Banks, in the United; States which hare suspended, and those which continue to pay specie. The message was 1 in. answer to a resolution, of inquiry, and, was ac- companies by. a report from the. Secretary of the Treasury giving much information upon th subject.

very highly complimented the prpmptness of Mr. Woodbury, and moved the re- ference of the report ter the Committee on Finance. The Senate then proceeded to the discussion of the bill for the armed occupation of Florida. On the 10th, the Chair laid before the Senate a report of the Secretary, of State, exhibiting the number, names, and compensations ofthe clerks io i that Department during the year 1840; which wa read, and ordered to be printed. Also, a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made in compliance with a resolution ofthe Senate exhibiting the prices "of oertain State' stocks in tbe London and home markets, which was ordered to be printed' and that fifteen hundred additional copies be printed.

The Vice President presented a memorial frora. the Legislative Council of praying a settlement of the contested boundary line between said Territory and tht State of Missouri. After soffl 1.