Martinsburg Gazette from Martinsburg, West Virginia • 2

THE GAZETTE. wa. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1S13. TO OUU PATRONS. Il is a long while since we have treated nur debtors to a regular dun, hut our necessities compel ms to renew that gentle remedy tor mtr disordered finances, with the assurance that if il shall not prove efficient, a more vigorous measure of relief will speedily bo resorted to.

On tbe first day of March neat, we shall have been publishing the Gazette ten years, and there ere scores upon our subscription list, the colot of whose money we have never seen during all that time. During the past our current receipts have fallen far below our expenses, and the natural consequences are, that we are in debt for pst-er, type, ink, labor and the support of the establishment, These debts must be paid, and those indebted to the Office mvit pay them We should not be put to the expense of employing to collect our dues, hut we are force 1 to it by the tardiness of our patrons. We have accordingly placed nur accounts in the hands of Messrs. Tkomat Brown and William Hayden, who are authorized to collect and settle, and we trust those indebted will make them immediate payment- To our distant whom wc cannot conveniently reach through our we have only to say that if their sense of right and justice justiftas them in withholding from u. the fruit of our toil, we hope they may have luck with the paltry pittance thus kept from us until we can devise some mode of drawing it from them.

It may console them to that they and their wives and children have read the Gazette for years, and are out of the reach of being compelled to pay, but it is a consolation that honest men should spurn To those at a distance and at home, who have justly remembered their obligations to us, we return nur sincere thsnks, and hope their example may have influence on all those who are delinquent ONE WORD MORE. The foregoing nppenl under nur Editorial head for two months. It attracted the attention of a few, and hut a very few o( those indebted to the office, ns tse must infer from the meagre payments that have been made. We cannot but feel indignant at the negject with wl ich stars treated by those who are inclined to tegerd a bill as a thing to be paid in chips or whetstones, nr not at all, as may he convenient. Our necessities compel us to speak plainly.

Ms: WANT Of It MONXV, AND WX MUST AND Wtt.t HAW IT. THE WHIGS AND THEIIl SUI'INKNESS. Our reflection, over the lele reverse, hich have befallen the Whig party, in the election, of the lest autumn, and the of defeats, unaccountable they weie to a patty whose was thought to he completely established, both by themselves and their opponents, have constrained us, in our capacity as a sentinel upon the watchtower of public liberty, to throw out a few remarks as a warning of the danger of this supineness of our friends under their defeats, and of the criminal inattention to their concern, as a party, for hich they are provotbial. While the Locos are continually pointing to their recent triumphs with vast amount of satisfaction at the "sober second the Whig, seem to sit quiet, as il their own time to rejoice had not yet come, and yet when it does come, they still preserve their equanimitv, as if it were really wrong in them to get boistetous. As apposite to our present purpose, we extract below a paragraph or two from the National Intelligencer of some weeks ago I he snide was entitled Tidings in good and was called forth by the triumphant election or Crawford over MoDougald us a Representative in Congress from Georgia.

The Locos have been exulting highly over tln-ir temporary successes in several States, at the last elect "ms. and every where proclaimed that the people were recovering from the effect, of the enthusiasm with which the great lefottnatioa of 184(1 prorlu.I. Their orator, and presses shouted 1 the top of their might, that the Whigs had failed to redeem the promises which were made to tho people In fore the election, and the recent triumphs ol the Locos were proof sufficient that the worthy to be trusted with the control ol the affairs ol this nation. But the people of Georgia, amused from the lethargy in which they have ingloriously lepnsed since the contest of '40, and goaded into action by the highhanded attempt of their Loeofoco Legtslatuie to drive Mr. Berrien from the aiiaen in their strength, and shaken the dew-drop, from their arms, and by an overwhelming vote, returned a due Whig to C'ongtess, the tune of the Locos has become a little changed, and they begin to fear the Lion mny again put forth Ilia strength, asd teach them a lesson similar to the one they received in 1810.

These remarks have suggested themselves tonur rnind by tfie supineness of the Whigs of our own county at the hist delegate election. There is no county in any State in the Union, where there is a surer and truer and more staunch Whig majoiity than in Betkeley. The party comprises tire veiy bone and muscle of the county, and are engaged fur the most pact, tn the varied occupations which give stability and wealth to her, and yet reposing under the idea that our ftiends would come forth in numbers sufficient to prevent a Loeofoco candidate from a second lime showing by how much lie ran he defeated, they took so litila interest in the lection, that a very few moie vote, of the opposite party would have returned an opposition delegate from this county to the legislature. VvV would caution our fellow Whigs against this unpardonable neglect of their party None should say to himself, that his vote will not our majority large enough to the county to secure the election of our friends at all times. The Whig, have the proud consciousness of leeling and knowing, that their principles arc identified with the best interests and onward pro- I gress their whole country to the high position winch a just and equitable administration of a'faiis, nnd a strict observance of the public faith, ithei State or National, when once plighted, mcontestibly entitle her, anil which, under the auspices of the Whigs, sho will most assuredly attain.

Knowing this, the Whig, of Berkeley should show themselves worthy of the name they bear, and of the patiiotic men with whom they are associated, nnd when the call to action is founded, come foilh in their might, nnd piove theirdevotton to their cause. YY'e content ourselves for tbe present, with vibat we have tail), with the hope alto, that at the proper time, the spirit of 1840 will again animate our friends, and nerve their arms for the content which they are vhortlv to be engaged. The power undoubtedly tn their hunds, and all they want to be convinced that they ought to act, and a triumphant victory awaits them at the The blew ate the extracts, to which we Jt ave p'fened aboveGOOD TIDINGS IN GOOD SEASON. None of our rea4iers who have an opportunity ol pet using of various politics can fail to have remarked tlie of the exultation of tho wlf'gratuliuos of the several of party whose com moo object is opposinon to the VV upon the occamon of the transient sureesees which this Ooppoutioo has been allowed by the gain at the Fall Elections in soma of the Stauss. The fumes of this success seem ready to intoxicated our opponents.

Like H)4n who have inhaled exhilacauug gass. they dream awoke, and act as though they had world for a football. So sure are thev of able to elect a President at the next election float thoirown party that the only difficulty among them the determining to whomamonf themselves that disuuguisharj station shall he awarded. Nay, we I are no! aure that even those minor honors, which are in the gift whatever party obtains the cendency at Presidential election, are not parcelled out, in idea at least, among those whit expect to beneBt by them. For ourselves, philosophizing upon the 1 and uproarious joy of our adversaries on side, and the composed ami noiseless tenor of rourse of the great Whig party on the other, I have come to conclusions as to the strength of each party very different from boatrlolly claimed on the one band, and seeming half acquiesced in on the other.

To our mind, 11 seems that the first of these parties may well likened to the winter brook, swelled by the casua to more than its usual volume, spouting am I roaring among the rocky fragments shalloj had. until hoarse voice is heard above all othec sounds; whilst the latter party more resembles thr stream of the valley, whose and, had almost said, whose the indication of depth and power sufficient to drf; every attempt to bar its onward course to ocean. We have never for a moment doubted that when the time for the trial of strength shall come the Whig party, now quiet and unassuming, wil come forth in its power, and be found stiong oough yet, as it found in the year eigbteei hundred and forty, to bear down all Nor do we at this moment doubt that the power i in the Whig parly, if they choose to make use it, notwithstanding all that has passed, and al that is said and prelanded, to elect from its owi ranks a majority of the Members of the nex House of Representatives. WHIG STATE CONVENTION. The Whig State Convention is to assemble a Richmond on Wednesday next.

Berkeley aji pointed her delegates on Monday last in meeting. How many of those appointed, willg to Richmond we cannot say, but we should pleased to hear that a number of the delegate could get away. The Richmond Whig of speaking of the Convention, times are hard, we hope to see a numerou representation of the party fiotn nil sections of th State, It is most manifest that the Locos can no or will not, if they can. do anything for fl cour to aggravate the distresses which the produced and, therefore, it it the more incumber ipon the Whigs to gird up their loins and rail once more, with renewed vigor, for the rescue am preservat ion of our free institutions. THE API OKI 10NMENT BILL.

The House of on Friday passer ihe apportionment hill, by a vote of 7fl io34. 1 published a list of tho when the bill wai hiAt brought before the House of Delegates, hui many of thorn have been changed, and the bill has yet to he acted on by tho Senate, wo shall de for publishing them again, till the subject is disposed of by the Legislature. The following will, in ail probability, be the ailangement of the tenth district. Frederick 13,321 Hampshire 11,734 Morgan 4,200 Berkeley 10,204 Jeffersou 12,419 Clarke 5,023 Warren 5,054 Pago 5,887 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. The bill for tho arrangement of Congressional Districts, finally acted on by the House of on Fiiday last, and passed by a vote of7G 34, Our democratic in Berkeley at heir meeting on lust Monday, seem to consider the as setiled in one of their resolutions, that re as Doge and have been added to this Congressional Districtli is true that a decreed this arrangement, and the House Delegates have confirmed it, but it mains to it-en whether the Senate wiil concur in the ur.just scheme I by the bill.

Mr. iaUsher, of Jefferson, had proposed to lake Harly into this district, instead of Page. atiingement would have left the districts about in number, but the democracy were not at all particular about equality of numbers or compact ness of territory They went for piling on a weight that should crush the of ley und Jefferson, and they have done it thoroughly. The Loco foco majority in the Senate will, in all proha agree to the scheme dictated by the caucus MIt. CLAY AT MOBILE.

The reception of Mr. Clay at Mobile on the id was must cordial and enthusiastic, and must have been gratifying to him in the highest degree. It was no party that received him, as their chief, but the entire population of ihe all and conditions, with one spontaneous accord lushed forth to do honor and give welcome 0 one of the hrigli ast living ornaments of his Mr. Clay whs met by a fleet of when within five or six miles from Mobile ind escorted to the landing, where the a ixioiis Multitude were wailing to greet him The Mobile tlmt about eleven the with attendant convoy of boats, came ip. A gun from the Creole was the signal to the "irate Artillery to commence a the leautiful field of this gallant and spirited company, gave forth the voices of welcome, in thunder tones, that made the firm earth tremble, sud the fnr off bills reverberate their notes.

The appearance of the bouts, as they sped along past ihe city, was imposing in the highest degree Their decks were crowded with and their the and the idol flag of every true American, were floating proudly in the breeze. After passing the city, the boats wheeled, and the Creole, with our guest on 1 came back to the place appointed for the landing. As touched the wharf, a loud cheer given from ihe assembled thousands, to Harry of the West. He was by the Chairman ol rlie Committee of Arrangements, and conducted the stand, which had been erected for the purwhere Gov. Gayle, in an eloquent and appropriate address, welcomed him to Mobile and Alabama.

To this salutation Mr. Clay responded in bis usual happy and impressive language. The Chilicoi he Gazette states that Mr. Edwin Bryant, the special agent of the Post Office Department for the South Western States, has beer removed from his place, for the reason that he was eccentric enough to entertain a high opinion of Mr. Clay.

And yet, John Tyler, in his address tc the people, upon hit taking the reins, said that hr should not interfere with the freedom of opinion among who held stations under government However, this case is hut one in a thousand. The resolutions submitted several dayi ngo, by the committee appointed by the Maryland House of Delegates, directing the State Attorney to proceed in action against the and Bank of Hagerstown, huve been passed and sent to the Senate. HEALTH OF NFW YUtUv The Inspector of the City of N. Y. reports thr number of deaths in that city at 9.136, of whieh number 1,000 were by consumption.

The popuIntion of New York is about 320,000. The number of deaths by consumption is not considered large for tire population, both Philadelphia and Boston being less exempt than New York, according to the number of their inhabitants respectively. The Journal of Commerce states that the many foieignerscongregated in New York in masses of twenty to thtity, in cellars and allies, and living on poor and stinted food, contribute to swell thelatge number carried off by consumption. WM. COST PLAN.

At the Whig meeting oo Monday last, the subject of the creation of the two hundred Government Stock, to be distributed among the Slates, in anticipation and based upon the reeeipta of of the Public Lands, to which they are enti tied, and to relieve them in a present emergency, was presented briefly and ably by David H. Couorad, as a measure not of a party character, but as demanding the consideration if the whole country. Although this scheme has received the sanction of some of the ablest and has been advocated by portions of both the leading parties, of the country, yet its novelty and the importance of acting advisedly upon a measure, as yet but imperfectly understood, mud upon which the public judgment it not yet matured, prevented any determination, by meeting upon it. WESTERN TRAVEL. By an arrangement between the Railroad Company and the Western Stage lines, from Cumberland, are conveyed between Baltimore and Wheeling and Pittsburg for The fare from Baltimore to Cumberland is $7 12J.

TEMPERANCE. The Berkeley Temperance Association, we are glad to bear, is progressing with much success in its philanthropic cause. The meetings are periodically held, arid generally well attended, and the discussions and of sentiment among the members are productive of a great deal of interesting information upon the object for which the association was formed. At the last meeting the officers were elected for the ensuing year, whose names will be fmnd below. The number of members has now reached abo 270 in all.

males and females. The ftiends of the cause will celebrate the birthday of the Father of his Country, on Wednesday next, by a suitable oration, Ac. the programme of which will be found in another column. It will nevertheless be seen, that a delegation wilt he deputed to the distiict convention which is to meet at Winchester on that day. 1 At an annual meeting of the Total Abstinence Society, held in the Methodist Episcopal Church on Friday evening.

February 3d, the following pe so were elected officers for the ensuing year, viz: Hiram Bowen, President, John S. Harrison, 1st Vire President, Wm. Dorsey 2d. J. Snydlfr, i 3d.

Martin Roush. 4th, John Likens, ponding Fecreiary, and John A. Boyer, Recording do. On motion, the Chair appointed the following persons as delegates to Convention to he held in Winchester on the 22d viz: Rev. Peyton Harrison.

Rev Mayberty Goheen, Brown, Barton Campbell, Norwmn Miller, Baity Tabh, J. O. Snyder, Daniel Marker, William Doisey, John Likens, Mirtin Roush, C. W. Doll, VV.

H. Reed, and John A. Boyer. JOHN A. BOYER, Feb.

16. 1843. WHIG MEETING. Pursuant to the public notice, a meeting of the of Reikelny county was held at the Court house, nn Monday last, for the purpose of appointing to the Slate Convention, to be held at Richmond on Wednesday the 22d li st. The meeting wns organized by ihe selection of Capt.

TILLOISON FRY AIT as Chairman, aril of James S. Brown andGsoKOE Robinson, Secretaries. The object of the meeting was then explained in a few remarks by Edmund Pendleton, Esq. upon whose motion the following woie adopted: Resolved, that notwithstanding the reverses that during the last eighteen months have befallen the Whig party, notoriously the result of the I faithfulness of the Executive to his party and his country, there is reason in the opinion ofthit meeting, an abiding confidence in their success, in the election of 1814 1st, Because they possess strength of numbers sufficient to accomplish that end. 2d, Because an efficient system of organization I will bring that power into active operation at the I hbilol-hfx; urnl 3d.

Because, to effect such organization, the public mind may and will be awukened, and the public energies aroused, by the same legitimate means, that sui ted the multitude of the people in Resoloed, That approving of such preliminary action shall the party for the great in 1844, this meeting the c.ill of a nvention to be held in Richmond on the 22d of this month. Resolved hat Edmond Pendleton, John Jnni; ison, Edmund P. Hunter, Robert V. Snodgrass and Jacob Wever be a committee to consider what number of delegates shall be appointed, and to rej commend suitable to represent the county in said Convention. hereupon the committee nominated the following persons to compose the accordingly appointed.

William T. Snodgrass, James M. Newkiik, Robert Bryarly, Chat. J. Faulkner, Jacob Fryatt, Jacob Myers, l).

H. Contad. Edmund Pendleton, James E. Stewart, Philip P. Cooke, Thomas Patton, Edward Colston, Philip Pendleton, Robert V.

Snodgrass, Hiram Bowen, Surr.uel D. Bryarly, W'm. A Summerville, Jas. L. Campbell, John Jamison.

George W.Tabh, John R. Cooke, Edmund P. Hunter, Peter Cookus, and F. M. Burkhart.

On motion Resolved, that the meeting now adjourn. TILLOTSON FRYATT. Chairman. Jo. S.

Geo. Robin son THE DEMAGOGUISM. Demagoguism is at the bottom of all wretchedness of the country. The demagogue, that courtier of Democracies, hns ruinrd us. Demagogues in agogues of the demn1 is not a portion of the surface, or of the heart, of the community on which they have not left the slime of their trail.

All office, all legislation, every remote nook of social life is poisoned by them. Hut, just now, wo sorter so severely from demagoguism in legislation that we have little attention to give to it elswhere. The evils that have grown out of bad legislation, are in the nature of pangs, and too sharp to leave us presently sensible to the broader and dpeper wretchedness of the general disoider. The representatives of the people in their legislative assemblies seem to become demagogues by a sort of infernal necessity. There is a tendency that way as strong as compulsion.

The representative may begin his career, to all uppoarance, quite an honest man. Hut he becomes in a little while, a shrewd politician. lie learns a great many things, and amongst he has a game to play. He reflects upon the best mode of playing it. Self is a nearer object of his devotion than country, and to be too scrupulous in Ilia patriotism is to be too self sacrificing.

The people may be won by cajoling by really useful services. The fashion of his day and generation must be followed he must wear the loose habits of other politicians. The whiteness of virtue attracts defamation, because it is uncommon and unpopular, and he is safer, and reckoned more useful, in a dingy garment. Those worthies of ancient limes, who stood up for country, never did much for themselves after all; the Roman was generally the laat rl with them, fie is safe if he folMows the people; he may lead them if he be careful, to select only foolish and wickj ed courses; there might tie some risk of 1 their refusing to follow, if he went honestily before them. He has learned the lesson of Epictetus, that it is not always good to be over-virtuous.

He is at last a demagogue. Become a demagogue, his game is at first, and until he hasbeccmeth'-irlavorite, to obey the reflect in his representative capacity, their whims and their tyranny; but, ns soon as, by flattering them as infallible, and by blindly obeying them, he has made himself strong enough, he may begin to instigate them to follies and wicked humoursof bis own origl ination. At first he follows like a dog at the heels of his masters, fawning when ever he cun catch their notice afterwords, emboldened by little putting, he goes forward to rouse the vermin for them. I lo tjio end, this origination of follies and worse things, which the demagogue dertook, to win the popular favor, comes a necessary part of Ins duties. must keep the people well supplied with (hom, or they desert or turn end destroy him.

Half their slave is in the condition of the necrornan: cer who kept the mens, over whom he hud attained an uncertain suit of power, I from rending him only so long ns he guve i them work to do. I remember the tasks i which an old wizard is sunl to have given to these demons; lie put them to blight- mg harvests and the fruitage of orchards and to making ropes of sand. There is not i a very great difference between this ern- i ployment of the devils of tho wizard and that to which the demagogue instigates, the people. Where they are not wanton or d. structive, they are busy at ropes of sand.

What chance have wh of good legislation in such a condition of things? It would be strange if we saw nny thing but what we do see. In legislative assemblies, where men of intelligence, selected to take counsel and act for the people, are no better than osiers bending to tbe popular will, or false lights leading the people in zig.zog courses, into dangt rous morasses, it would be foolish to look for wise or wholesome measures. How can we expect grave councils, a just and lib' rurl conduct of government, a wise ami stable legislation, where the slighi st caprice of the in their own light minds or suggested by some crafty politician is eagerly watched for and obeved as something sacred and inviolable? With every weakness and vice of Im- man nature fostered, and aggravated, nod put into active exercise amongst them by Demagoguism, no wonder the people are now slianded, prostrate, ruined. They have destroyed their currency, destroyed their credit, overwhelmed thermo with pecuniary ruin at home, and won for the ms Ives aim ad, not gold, opinions, hut nipt and testation. '1 his was all a natural consequence ermu h.

I) agoguisrn fanned the not unnatural envy with which trie mass-s regard the passes- sion of wealth bv the few, into a raging hatred. Individuals, thank God, could not well bo reached hy direct means, but the wealthy and useful corporations of the country were victims and so the i people their currency. It is a disposition of human nature to be restless under burthens, and to be anxious to he rid of them in the easiest and readiest manner Demagoguism fostered this dis position into an actual repudiation of debts. Currency aud credit, went, and the good opinion of good men, forfeited by dishonesty, went also. What is to be the end of these things Forinrily there was sorm thing like popular virtue when is it to be seen actively at work again Wo used to see some such thing as popular intelhg' hen are the delusive mists to break away from it? Old men remember a tune when the enlightenment and tho virtues of private citizt ns wero looked up to and revered in spite of certain accidents of position and the wise and good men dispersed about in communities, were tbp honored teachers, and the examples, of all within the sphere of their usefulness, and I gave a tone of intelligence, and of virtue, lo all about thorn when are these good men to reoccupy their seats which the demagogues have usurped from them? In an oriental description of the place of final torture, King Solomon is portrayed ns lying upon a bed of awful un and listening to the roar of a cataract; the imagination of his late, is, that he will not he transferred from the place of his torttirps to a condition of happiness, until the caraiact, which no lost spirit ever saw a- bate a drop of its volume, to flow.

The hope of its cessation and of his esca pe i to happiness is scarcely a hope at is despair only little relieved. With' scarcely a greater amount of hope than the fable gives to the heart of tho Jewish King, can wo look to a cessation of that flood of popular Ily and wrong which is now tuibut and raging around ns. And I it is our on vitable lot our fall' to lie on the bed of our sufferings, until such a cessation. learn that the Farmers of Virginia have taken a new impulse the present season, in planting ns much ground as they can possibly lend, and muking manure and putting it on tho same, and are consulting ith each other as to the best mode of improving tiieir lands, increasing their crops, Ate. Industry and Economy are the Our neighbors have adopted relief measi ures that will certainly be efficient and Standard.

We trust and believe, that the information of the Standard is correct. Our 1 Farmers, by the active prosecution of so 'prudent and wise a determination, will soon place old irginia ns she was before the money war Cum. Paragraphs have appeared in some journals intimating that one member of the Court of Inquiry tho case of the dissented from the judgment of the two others in exonerating Commander McKenzie. VVe are enabled to rectify this error by saying that the exoneration pronounced by the Court ol Inquiry was unanimous and Y. Com.

Adver. From the Natioml Intelligencer. MR. BARTON, OF TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. House of Representatives, Feb.

6, 1843. To my Constituents of the Fifteenth Congressional District of Virginia. Tim time hss arrived when the ptibhc mind usually turned to the 01 the Spring elections, and, to prevent any embarrassment among my political friends. I esteem it mv duty to declare thoi in no contingency whatever, will I he a candidate for public life again. Tins purpose I had formed and distinctly expiessed more than a year ago, to some of my friends, by l.lter and otherwise.

A long continuance in public life his proved injurious to my private interests, and further neglect iti these times of difficulty and trial, would do violence to my inclinations and to my sense of duty in the social and domestic relations of life. I rclite with a grateful sense of the con. fidence of un intelligent constituency manifested on various occasions, and with disposition to forget every unpleasant collision which political life is too npt lo rtainly with no unkind leelicg towards smgle individual remaining upon my heart. The experience and observation which my position afforded, have confirmed me in maintaining that set of opinions entertained by the party to which I have been, and am, ardently attached. They are essential, if proper action heprtdicated upon thtm, to the hi st interests of the country.

They must ultimately be adopted by discerning public, who will sagaciously look to the causes of their present sufferings and apply some hob-gome corrective. 1 refer more particularly to tlie currency question, and to its correlative aid, a just protection of every branch of home industry. On three occasions have, with twenty or lorly others, separated from a majority of our Whig friends. 1st. In voting against the abrogation of the constitutional veto.

Against resolutions of inquiry with a view to the impeachment of the President. Lastly, and recently, against the resolution of the Committee of Ways nnd Means declaring that the plan of an Exchequer presented to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury ought nut lo be adopted. The limits I prescribe lo this letter will not warrant my enlarging upon the reasons of those votes, nor is it necessary, as I have the pleasure to know that these votes, especially the two first, are approved generally by my constituents, while, il the last brings me in conflict of opinion with many oT my own friends, they would not and could not urge a vindication of my motives. power was conferred upon the Executive by the fathers of the Cniistitu- lion ns a conservative check to hasty, or perhaps improper party legislation, and as the means of adjusting ami maintaining the balance of powers between the different departiru ills of the Government. It ought not lightly to ha abrogated.

To people of the South specially, for nscois which the intelligent mind will at once embrace, the veto innv in some future time prove the barrier to save our peculiar institutions, and consequently to preserve the' Union. Nor wns disposed to impugn the wisdom of Washington and Madison and other sages of the Republic, ho deemed the power essential in the organic la of the count ry. The exercise of the veto power has been occasionally abused, and will continue to be abused and so has liberty been, and every other blessing we enjoy. I voti (I against the resolution ot inquiry contemplating the impeachment of Mr. Tyler, mply, becaus" whole movement would have ri itsell into nothing hut words, words, ol practical good, hut poaitivo evil resulting.

The action of the Mouse upon important measures, would have been re. larded and vitiated for I w. II know that Congress is never unfit a coird lion for real business, us a tempestuous pnrlv debate. Let me not be understood as calling in question patriotic motive or the prudence of those who held contrary opinion to mine. Ily the last and recent vote I gave against the negative proposition unfavorable to an Exchequer plnn, I did not mean to commit myself to the identical project I submitted bv the Treasury while 1 frankly confess 1 prefer it, as a I whole, to either of the Cush- or Mr.

It is true tin plan is objectionable on the score of the Executive nower inc dent to it, and no great fmanciul agent cm well bn project- ed exempt from Government It would, however, enlarge and replete the currency, now stinted and collapsed, It would regulate exchanges, sustain sol-i vent bonking institutions, and prostiate the unsound and tottering It would have; the effect of making hard times easier. Nor was I deterred ill voting for this i Exchequt plan ht cause it is not the si, ns I admit it not to he. 1 believe an old. fashioned, well conducted National Hank the only puuucea which can completely euro the disorders which ufllict us. Hut, unfortunately, the alternative is not presented between a National Hank and the Exehc quer, hut between the latter and a sub plan signally condemned by tlm American people in in my opinion, impotent to do good, potential to do evil.

Note the fact, that the report of the Committee of Ways and Means referred to, was accompauied with a report of a minority of that committee (Messrs. Atherton and Hiekens) strongly recommending the sub-Treusurv. This, in fact, is the true issue. 1 am persuaded the more you survey the whole looking to the utter impossibility of having United States Hunk for years to come, and to all surrounding will becomo satisfied 1 was right. So great is the pressure upon the people fearful the signs of the times, I was, ond am, disposed to do any thing which the Constitution and honor justify, towards relieving the country of its overwhelming burdens.

You need not, then, be surprised if I vote for some such plan ot relief, with modifications, as our esteemed neighbor, the Mon. Wm. C. Johnson, has brought to the considetation ol the public, and which is rapidly gaining favor in all parts of the country. A decisive expression of opinion from rny own district adverse to 1 any such scheme would, ot course, command my respect and vote.

I have not been a talking membei since I took my seat in Congress, I wai very willing to leave to abler debated this department of duty bul, in attentioi 1 to local or personal interr sts which an; of vou wire eoaci rat'd, lean, in truth say I have been earnest and zealous. Please accept this hnsty explanation and believe 1 sav, though I expect remain a private citizen the residue of life, you will ever find me an active co laborer in any cause d- gned advanc tne honor and prosperity of our commoi country. RICHaRD n.UtIO.\. From the Richmond Whig. THE LEGISLATURE.

Saturday completes the tenth week ol the session of the Gen ial Assembly. All the great undisposed of. It would puzzle the member who asked by his constituents, have you been doing in these seventy days, which have cost the State near $70,000 to pay you VV'e say it would puzzle the sharp- st Itdlow am mg them, to give a satisfactory answer. Hoiking, would be his wisest answer, and so throw himself upon Virginia magnanimity indulgence and forgiveness. But, in renlity, it lias been far worse than nothing woiiSK, because the taxes must bo because the already staggering middle and poor classes must be still further burthened to iy for this Legislative idleness and extravagance.

There is eternally issuing from the lips ol Locofocoism a filthy stream of exagg-ruled and dcotogogical profession and zeal for the poor man's interests, (low are these emissions redeem'd. when Locofocoism obtains the power of redemption Let the history of the winter of Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, answer the question. Prolonged sessions, ceaseless talk, increased expense, factious caucussing, abortive relief and new taxes. This is ihe coin which Locofocoism redeems its promises to the at the Legislative counter. Than the utter abortion in which the triumph of Locofocoism has resulted in tin three States, more especially hen the result is compared with the high sounding and vaunting promises ol the canvass, the world noexnm plo.

The whole good they have uchiev. ed. has been, by adopting and completing ll'Aig measures. If asked, as we are daily asked, when will the Legislature We should answer that wo had not the mpnns ol giving even a guess. If in seventy days they have done nothing, how long will it take them to do what is to be done? Thus we slate the sum, and if the principles of Arithinctic do uot admit of its solution, nei.

ther can we solve it. The Apportionment Bill is yet unsettled the State officers nre vet ull to nff.irs of the James River Company are yet in a new tax. and the Sinking Fund have not y-t been impeachment of Judge Scott is yet before the measures of Re lie! are to be Committee have vet much business before House yet meets at 12 and nd juntos about has been done of nny morn- is vet to do. The Senate have hid little or nothing tc tie whole They have no of accelerating the march ol the House anil the under sh ut, in most disagreeable of all predicaments, wnli nothing to Severe censure is thrown upon the Speaker for this state ol things. Wo nre not advised with how much in how little justice but thus much is ep parent, that this ought to have been the short, st session for twenty years, and is likely to prove the longest und most tx pensive.

A National New York Commercial Advertiser thinks that something is necessary to establish confidence in the country, and Suggests tnat the system tested bv experience is the only one that ill do ties. It notes the abundance of money which yet affords no Capitalists are investing their money in secure stocks, but the Commercial thinks this no evidence of improvement in business. Discounts are now obtained at 5 per cent per annum, nnd a further decline is anticipated, as heavy shipments of spe. cie nre still exported from Hurope. But from all this no improvement in business generally is anticipated, because ol a wont of confidence.

As for the remedy of a National Bank, its success is not so probable as And though wo do not despond ns much as the Commercial appear to do in the absence of this remedy, yet we hope for no early retorn of without Comp. Mouton was installed into tho Gubernatorial Chair ol Louisiana on the 30th ult. In Louisiana it is the custom to give to tho ceremony of tho installation ol a Governor, great deal of pomp and circumstance. At an early hour on the 30th, the privileged seats of the llall of the House of Representatives and tho galleries were crowded with spectators, largo portion of whom were ladies. The Judges of the Supreme Court wore in attendance; also, the Military Stuff of the and Washington whose brigid uniforms quite dazzled their Judgeships.

A little before 12 the member! of the Senate entered the Hull ill a body and shortly afterwards Governor Roman and Governor Mouton, accompanied by Committee of Arrangements, made theii appearance. As Governor Mouton presented himself, ho was greeted by warn applause from tho assembly. The Speak seat was vacated for Governor Roman, who occupied it until the oath of office was taken by Ins Compiler. The following statistics of the Metho dist Episcopal Churn have been taken Li a correspondent from minutes of the sev eral Conlerunces just published for 1842 Annual Conferences Traveling Preachers Preachers 7,62 Church members (communicants) 1,008,90 Net increase in 1842 of Church Members, (after deducting tho dead, the withdrawn, and tho expelled,) 120,12 Copy of a Utter from Samuel T. ington, accompanying the Stcord aM Cane, presented to Congress.

1 Mouth, Kanawha County. Va. 1 January 9, 1843. 1 My Dear With this, you will fe. ceive the war sword of my grand oncle, General George Washington, and the igold headed cane bequeathed to him bv Doctor Benjamin Franklin.

These interesting 1 wish to be presented, through you. my dear sir, to the Congress of the United States, on behall of the nation. 1 Congr. ss can dispose of them in such a manner na shall seem most appropriate and best calculated to keep in memory the character nnd services of those two illustrious founders of our Republic. I am, with esteem, vouis, SA ML EL r.WASHrVftlQtf To lion.

George W. Summers, House oi Representatives. Copy of a Utter from Col. Geokgb C. Washington.

Georgetown, January 1843. Dear Sir: 1 have before me your letter of the 30th questing mo to give you ony information in my possession ii. relation to the sword placed jour hands by Mr. Samuel T. Washington, (alleged to have been the service i sword of General Washington during i the Revolutionary War.) and which he I hna instructed you, in his name, to present to the Congress of the United General Washington, in his will, made i disposition of his swords in the following words eoch ot iny nephews, WilI ham Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Hush roil Washington, and Samuel Wash.

ington, I give one of the swords, or cou. leau.x, of which 1 inpy die possessed and they are to choose in the order they aro named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction to unsheath them for the purpose ol shedding blood, except it he for self-defence, or in defence of their country and its rights and prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishment Two of these swords are in my possession, being devised to me, the one by my lather, Wm. Augustine Washington, and I the other hy my uncle, the late Judge Btishrod Washington. The descendants of George Lewis and George Steptoe Washington have two other of these swords, ami that in your charge is without doubt the one which was selected by Colonel Samuel Washington.

My father was entitled to the first I choice under the will, but was prevented hy indisposition fn in attending at Mount Vernon when the distribution took place, and Judge Washington selected for him the most finished nnd costly sword, with which associations were connected highly complimentary to General Wushingten I hut I often heard my father say that he I would have preferred the sword selected hy Col. Samuel Washington, from the fart that it was the sword used by the General during the Revolution war. I n'jditlerciit line heard similar statement ns to this fart made by Col. Sainuuli Washington, Judge Washington nnd Mu. jor Lawrence Lewis, nnd am not uwure that it has been questioned hv any member of the family.

The sword was represented to me os being a small couteau, with a plain green ivory handle. 1 entertain no doubt whatever as to the identity of the sword, nnd hope that the Information I have given may prove satis. factory. 1 tun, very, respectfully, your I obedient Servant, C. WASHINGTON.

Hon. George W. Summers, House of Representatives. From the. Gazette.

DECISION OK THE COURT OK INQUIRY ON COM. tSK The papers of yesterday bring us the decision of the Court of Inquiry in the case of Commander McKenzie. The court tnuioeiaies ti.o facts, and then I gives tin; following That mutiny had been organized on hoard the United States brig Burners, to murder the officers and take possession of the brig. Thut Midshipman Philip Spencer, Male Samuel Cromwell, and seaman Elihsa Small, were concerned in, and guilty of such mutiny. That had not execution taken place, an attempt would have taken placo to release the prisoners, murder the officers and toko command of the brig.

That such attempt, hod it been made in the night, or during a squall, would, in the judgment of the Court, from the number und character of the crew, tlie small size of the brig, and the daily decreasing physical strength of the officers, occasioned hy almost constant watching and broken slumbers, have been successful. 1 That Commander McKenzie, under thiso circumstances, was not bound to risk the safety of the vessel, and jeopard the lives of the young officers, and the loyalty of his crew, in order to secure to the guilty the forms of trial, and that the immediate execution of the prisoners was demanded by duty and justified by ssity. The Court nro further of opinion, that throughout all these painful occurrences, so well calculated to disturb the and try the energy of the briivest and most experienced officer, the conduct of Commander McKenzie and his officers, was prudent, calm and firm, and that ho i they honorably performed their duly to the service nnd their country. Charles Stewart, President of the Court. Ogden Huffman, Judge Adeoeate.

I Exchequer Rill has been brought up in the Senate, by Mr. Tallmadge. He gave his views at leugth, tracing succinctly but lucidly the i of the currency and financial of the Government, from the origin ot the Goverument to the present lime viewing their character and results traying forcibly the present distressed condition of tho country the measures I which had failed the crying necessity for speedy relief, and closing with a leelL ing and earnest appeal to the Senate to i attempt something fur the alleviation of the public distress. The bill will be fur. ther discussed.

The Aporopriation bill is tho subject of discussion tha of 51 Representatives. i.