Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.)
January 27, 1834
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If THE GAZETTE: By EDGAR SNOWDEN. Ter M3: f Baily paper $8 .per annum. B lountry paper .8 per annum. The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE r the coun m try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, a-id m f Saturday. I pm advertisements appear in both papers, an B are inserted at the usual rates. __ I j PUBLIC MEETING IN FAUaUIER. f Agreeably to public notice given only four §j days previous, a large number ot the citizens of ^Fauquier County, (Va.) assembled in Salem 8 l on Thursday, the 15th January, 1834, to take into* consideration the removal of the public Deposites. The meeting wes organized by calling Major Thos. Turner to the chair, and appointing Mr. i James William Foster Secretary. J On motion of J. B. Beverley, Esq., a Com mittee was appointed to draft resolutions ex pressive of thr progressive Therefore, Resolved, That the recent the President of the United States, exerting a control over the Federal Revenue, by causing the same to be removed, on his own responsibi lity, from the U. S. Bank, where it had been de posited under authority of an act of Congress, is, in the opinion of this General Assembly, an unauthorized assuinpfion, and dangerous exer cise of Executive power. Resolved, That while this General Assembly will ever sustain the President of the U. S. in the exercise of such powers as the Constitution has clearly confided to him, it nevertheless contem plates with anxiety and dismay the diposition evinced of late to extend those powers beyond the proper limitations of that instrument; a dis position clearly evinced in the recent subjuga j tion of the Treasury Department of the Federal Government to Executive control, Jn the exer cise of an important discretion, for which it was made solely responsible to Congress. Deploring as this General Assembly does, that interference as illegal and unconstitutional, and firmly persuaded that no nation can long main tain its freedom, which surrenders to, or permits to be grasped by the same hand, a power over the purse and the sword, Resolved, That our Senators be instructed and oury Representatives be requested to adopt prompt and efficient measures to vindicate the Constitution and to redress the evils occasioned by the late unauthorized assumption of power by the President, over the public moneys of the United Fsfiifpc Resolved, That the General Assembly of Vir ginia cannot sanction the power which has been claimed by Congress to establish a United States Bank, the power not being given to Congress by the Constitution of the United States, as has been frequently and solemnly decided by the General Assembly of Virginia. Resolved, That the General Assembly does not intend, by the declaration of its opinion in regard to the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, to qualify, or in any manner to impair the force of its disapprobation of the removal of the Deposites. Resolved, That the Governor of the Common wealth be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to each of the Senators and Repre sentatives of Virginia, in the Congress of the States. J In the Senate on Friday, Mr. Webster pre sented the proceedings of a public meeting hold in the town of New Bedford, in the State of Mas sachusetts. Mr. W’ebster said, that New Bedford had been 3ne of the most prosperous and fast-growing :owns in Massachusetts. Its citizens were en gaged in a most useful, hardy, and adventurous ;ommerce, in which they had met with much success; and, three months.ago, their condition vas flourishing and happy; but a sudden and nost extensive reverse has happened to it.— [thirty or forty failures are said to have happen 'd, and great pressure and distress prevail. I eel it my duty, said Mr. W., to present these hings to the consideration of the Senate. If there can be either any faith in men’s state nents, or if facts be any proof, the pressure, so ar from diminishing, is increasing. I am in ormed by undoubted authority, that in one of >ur cities, supposed to possess its full proportion )f capital, money, for the best security, is not to >e had for less than from twelve to eighteen per ;ent. per annum, nor in large sums even for hat interest; and this very w’eek, in another ci y, one of the largest and most flourishing in he Union, undoubted security could be had for noney at three per cent, per month. While we are talking about the danger of the noneyed aristocracy of the Bank, a state of,, hings is suffered to exist which is a perfect car-1 lival to the real moneyed aristocracy, if there >e any such thing in the country. Capitalists, I lolding up their money for such enormous rates of I nterest, and being able to command such rates hows what sacrifices are made by industrious nen, of small capital, to protect themselves rom absolute ruin. In many places, numerous workmen have been throwm out of employ, not I >nly in the manufacturing establishments, but in i t he mines of some of the middle States. Indeed 11 f the information of the morning is correct, one 1 f these States had suffered a great disappoint- j c ment in failing to receive the ‘“^^bUgiS loans, according to contract, means to take other measures for supplying the mean.. of carrying on its puhhc works t call I take this occasion, Mr msiuern,d again on gentlemen who imy be^ thPPAdmin. know something of the purpose. Have istration, to know 'what their plan they any leave it to the Secretar/ and to the State Banks, to meet thiimpioreStheesohef Consideration of gentle nfenToPthe matter; and I shall feel it my duty to repeat the inquiry for such reasonable time, as that, in the absence of any answer it may be fairly inferred that the Administration has no measures to propose. Note of matters shewn by the case of R. B. Ran dolph, Timberlake, the duly appointed purser of the frigate Constitution, at the time of his death, 1st April, 1828, was with his ship at Port Mahon.— Until the Constitution, about to end her cruise, arrived in the United States, Mr. Randolph, the first Lieutenant, was ordered by his command er to act as temporary purser An act of Congress of loth May, 13«8, maxes it the duty of the officer of the Treasuiy, when a disbursing officer is found delinquent, to cause to be stated and certified, the account of the de linquent officer to the agent of the Treasuiy, who is authQrisedand required to issue a war rant of distress against the estate and person ot the delinquent officer, and the estates of his su In the fall of the said year, 1828, after the Con stitution returned to the United btates, the pro per officers of the Treasury stated purser 1 lm berlake’s account, on which-, a balance was found against him (a continuing and existing delinquency) of something more than $7,000.— Lieut. Randolph’s account for the time lie acted as purser, was also stated by the same officers of the Treasury, and by them and him settled and finally closed on the books of the Treasury, lea ving no balance due from nim 10 me uimtu States or from the United States to him. in this plbditstood these accounts on the books or re cords of the Treasury, shewing Timberlake de linquent as stated, and Randolph in no wise delinquent, as late as the close of the year 1S3^. The balances against Timberlake, as ascer tained default, delinquency and debt of record, was clearly within the letter, spirit and meaning ..of the act of Congress; and not only justified, if any thing could, but so far as the force of the act was regarded, required the emanation forth with of the prescribed warrant of distress. It could not go, indeed, against Timberlake, he being dead; but it could against Majoi Eaton, one of Timberlake’s sureties, the husband of his 'Vet’ tftud still in full life, scrupulously coristo&tpt, correct, zealous and sury to whom the duty appeflki££s.. lifying the act of Congress, this being tfoifl/Ar tent to them, though not to a sovereign State, and setting at nought the lawful evidence ex isting in the Treasury department, and forced upon their notice, or “palsied by the will of their constituent,” benumbed in all their active faculties by-, allow five years to pass over their heads without an attempt to perform their express duty; and for all this time forbear to issue, as required by the law, a warrant of dis tress against Eaton, the surety of an ascertain ed, recorded defaulter. Why or wherefore? To compensate for this seeming neglect, or to show, if possible, more strongly their utter con tempt of all right and law and justice, regulari ty and order, these officers proceed in a case where no established default existed. Randolph was certainly no defaulter in any sense, within the letter or meaning of the act of Congress.— No claim existed against him on the books of the Treasury. On his account, as stated by the pro per officers of the department, according to law, no balance remained due. Yet they issue a war rant of distress against Randolph, and immure him in jail. They do more: In the Spring of 1833, and to furnish some colourable pretext tor their proceeding, they fabricate exparte, and in the absence of Randolph, an exparte mutilated and partial account of some of his transactions in 1828, leaving a balance against Randolph, K if f o r~\ iinf 1 T 4m U m m J OA T» U yj J W\>V/VUIU 1 lorj J IVJ UC UULIUly lilUUC j out, of about $25,000. Was this the result of personal malignity, and to aggravate the injuri ous elfect of Randolph’s persecution? or did it proceed from kindness for Eaton, and to screen him, the surety of Tiinberlake, and who during Timberlake’s absence, was to all intents and purposes his Attorney in fact and representative and the recipient of all bis remittances from the Mediterranean, when he,Eaton,should be brought to account for Timberlake’s delinquency? How did the thought arise? Was this fabri cated account, or something apparent on its face, present to the mind of the Chief Justice, when in delivering his late opinion, he observed, that “the stating of a false account was an atro city of which Congress could not suspect an offi cer of the Treasury to be guilty.” Fourth Auditor Amos Kendall, who, as em phatically identified with the government, glo ries in rising superior to the laws, and Mr. So licitor Maxcey, of the Treasury, appear to be the principal actors in the late outrageous persecu tion of the ill used Randolph, who for the twen ty odd years that he has served his country in the navy, has ever demeaned himself as became a gentleman and a brave and gallant officer.* His persecutors have laboured for such fame as they merit. May they be as long and exten sively famous as this note and your fugitive sheet can render them. Vindex. ♦Judging by themselves, they could make no allowance for a high minded officer, honoura ble himself, and therefore unsuspicious, unac quainted with a purser’s business, its details and accounts, and so in the power of clerk’s and su bordinates. Had they done so, if any wrong was done, any mistake committed, they might 1 trace it to its true source, and find that Mr. i Randolph, did not participate in it. SUPREME COURT UNITED STATES. _____ c Friday Jan. 24, 1834. No. 37. R. Withers, appellant, vs. John With- ers. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the Uni- t ted States for Alexandria County, D. C.—Mr r Justice Thompson delivered the opinion of this Court, reversing the decree of the said Circuit r Court in this cause, and remanding the same, s with directions to allow the defendant his ex senses in New York, at the rate of $10 89 per week. Nos. 27, 28, and 29.—The Chesapeake and 3hio Canal Company’, plaintiff in error, vs.— rhe Union Bank of Georgetown, et. al.~Mr. Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of his Court, dismissing these three suits of error o the Circuit Court of the United States for Washington county, D. C. for the want ofjuris liction. LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND. Annapolis, Jan. 21,1834. Mr. Sellman offered a resolution reUffion to some remarks which appeared in the Mary land Republican this morning, in relation to me efforts there are being made to elevate CoK R M. Johnson to the Vice Presidency Mr. S. terwards asked.leave to withdraw his resolution, but the House ordered it to he on the table. The following are the remarks spoken of a bove which -egcopy from the Maryland Re publican of Tuesday: Electioneering For the next Presidency and Vice It is now understood at Washington, that the hero of the Thames, the reputed slayer of Te cumseh, has been bought off from his design to be a Candidate for the Presidency, by a prom ise that he (the Hon. Richard M. Johnson,) shall be made Vice President, under the intended ad ministration successor, Martin Van Buren.. We invite the people of Maryland to look at the first act in this political drama, and note the finger of some of the highest officers of the Government at Washington, attempting to rule the people of Maryland by th6 “patronage oj the House of Delegates/” Col. Johnson, it seems, has sent to be exhibi ted to the people of Annapolis, the very V[sto\ he shot Tecumseh with,” and the very suit o. clothes Tecumseh wore in the battle. And the Hon. Secretary of War, Gov. Cass, has sent for the same purpose, out of the archives of his office, “the identical colours which floated over the band of heroes.” _ A print of the battle, placing Col. Johnson in high relief, is going the rounds of all the print shops in town, for like effect by authority at Washington. Richard M. Johnson is therefore the Candi date for the Vice-Presidency by authority” and the good men and true of the democratic party must be very cautious how they reject the fact, either that he killed Tecumseh or wrote himself, his Sunday mail report. Here follows the advertisement: riiTTn a nr>n tt1 ATatinniil Pnt X AAA'jAA A IV Lil. L o«, V. 1-iotic Drama, written by Dr. Emmons, of Wash ington city entitled TECUMSEH; Or, the Bat tle of Thames. The manager has the pleasure of announcing to the public of Annapolis, that the above Drama which has been successfully performed to crowded houses in Washington and Baltimore, has just been received, and will be presented for the first time on Monday Even ing, Jan. 20, 1834. Tecumseh, (who will wear the indenlical dress worn by him the day he was slain,) Mr. F. Brown. Col. R. M. Johnson, (who will use the same pistols with which the Hero slew his savage foe,) Mr. Anderson. Ed ward, Mrs. F. Brown—In the course of the evening will be produced, the British Standard, captured by Col. R. M. Johnson on the field, which by the courtesy of Gov. Cass, the Secre tary of War, has been politely loaned to give effect to this interesing occasion. For other characters and entertainments, see the bills of 4* Performance to commence at half past V X i °Vo n;t 50 cents—Gallery 25. Chil dren imder 12 year? _ halfpl.jce. Jan. 14, 1834. |EJ=* The handbills which were distributed for the occasion, and which were directed and placed one on the desk of each member of the House of Delegates the morning of the play, were headed in the following word:—“ Under the patronage of the House of Delegates.” AnNAPOLJQ Jan- 99 At 12 o’clock, the unfinished business of yes terday came up, that is, the resolution of Mr. Sell man, in relation to the play bill, headed “under the patronage of the House of Dele gates”—and the‘remarks of the Editor of the Maryland Republican thereon. The majority not having been successful in vacating the contract for printing, seem resolv ed to “spit their spite,” on Mr. Hughes in some other way, and therefore have seized upon those remarks as matter of censure, at least; when Mr. S’s. resolutions came up, Mr. Carter, of i Montgomery submitted an ol der to refer them and the whole matter to a select committe, who should be empowered to send for persons and papers. Mr. F. Smith, then offered a resolution going to censure the Editor, for the ‘libellous’ mutfm* rmifainml in hie romurL'e Vila discussion ensued, in which Mr. Carter, Mr. Handy, Mr. Long, Mr. Smith and Mr. Scott participated—Mr. Smith withdrew his resolu tion, and then Mr. Carter’s order passed. Annapolis, Jan. 23. Mr. Carter, from the committee appointed yesterday tor the purpose of investigating the matter in relation to the play-bill,reported the re sult of the investigation,—Mr. Fassit,and Mr. Sef ford, of the majority in the House, respectively offered resolutions going tp censure the Editor of the Maryland Republican for the remarks which appeared in his paper in relation to said play-bill. A motion was then made, which af ter some discussion, prevailed, making the whole matter the order of the day for Wednesday next. Correspondence of the Nat. Intelligencer. Harrisburg, January 21. I send you, herewith, a copy of a Message this day transmitted by the Governor to both Branches of the Legislature ofthis State, (Penn sylvania,) which I think you will agree with me, is the strongest evidence that has yet ap peared of the disastrous consequence of the war waged, by the Executive of the United States igaint the Bank of the United States. Yours, &c. COPY OF THE MESSAGE REFERRED TO. To the Senate and House of Repiesenlatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen: The Messrs. S. M. Allen, the lolders of the loan authorized by the act of 6th Feb. last, having failed to deposite to the credit of the Commonwealth, according to a equisition made upon them, the last monthly nstalment of said loan, I deem it my duty i o communicate the fact to the General Assembly, and to request that a temporary oan, of a sum not less than $300,000, may be luthorized to be made forthwith, to satisfy the :reditors of the Commonwealth, and to en able the State to meet its engagements with Contractors, and others emplyed in the prose- 1 ion of the public works; the said sum to be re- •aid out of the residue of the original loan t ibovementi'oned, as soon as the same can be ealized under a new contract, of which propo- A als will be forthwith issued. S GEORGE WOLF. Harrisburg, January 21, 1834. CUT PLAIN GLASSWARE. v rUST received, six packages Glassware, tl Cut and plain Tumblers p Do do Table and Hall Lamps c Britannia Castors, four and five bottles, a neat and cheap article Also, 30 boxos English Pipes I mo 2$ R. H. MILLER. b ALEXANDRIA: MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 27, 1831. The last week closed with the most dismaj and gloomy accounts from Boston, New York Philadelphia, Baltimore, and indeed all the At lantic cities. Merchants, Traders, Mechanics Farmers—all, all are suffering. Ruin, from all accounts, is staring thousands in the face.— Congress ought to do something. We believe the country to be in a most fearful state. Neither House of Congress was in session on Saturday. _ We inyite attention to Mr. Webster's remarks in the Senate on presenting the New Bedford memo rial._ Who would not be a nullificr?—[Telcgrajjh. IVe wouldn’t. In the Senate on Friday, Mr. Wilkins said he had a petition to present, from a gentleman well known in the country, which presented that gentleman in a fight somewhat new. The gentleman was one who was very notorious and had been continually going about doing much good all oyer the land. It seems that the gentleman, some years ago, diverted his atten tion from immortal to mortal concerns, and had invented a medicine for the body, as well as the soul, for which he had taken out a patent. That patent was about to expire, and the petitioner asked that a law might be passed for its conti nuation, in consideration of the insufficient pro fits he had derived from it. His profits had not been sufficient, in the language of the gentle man himself, to make one hand wash the other. The petition, Mr. W. said, was signed Loren zo Dow.” On'motion of Mr. Wilkins, the petition was then referred to the Committee on the Judicial} A Plattsburg (New York) paper contains the toasts of an 8th of January celebration, from which the New York Evening Post, another Jackson paper, extracts the following: DudleySelden, the recreant Representative in Congress.—‘ And Judas went out and hung himself.* By J. K. Averill, Esq.: Dudley Selden.— The political damnation of this man, as predicted by the editors of the New York Evening Post has at last taken place.” There is much of the spirit of the pait> in those two toasts. We suppose Mr. Seidei. became a Judas by betraying his master, the Presfdent. Col. Thomas Sheppard has been appointed agent for the Citizens5 Union Line of Steam Boats, in the place of Hugh McElderry E^q., resigned. Col. Sheppard will no doubt make an efficient and obliging officer, and we do not think that the directors could have made a more judicious selection. Very Short Passage.—The packet ship Napo* i©o«., On,,! Smith, «;nil»?d from the port of New York for Liverpool on the 8th November, and arrived there on the 2.5th, after a run of only sixteen days from dock to dock. Explosion of a. Powder Mill.—Loss of Six Lives.—Two of the buildings connected with the powder mills belonging to Loomis, Hazard Co. in Manchester, Connecticut, were blown up on' the 20th inst. (the cracking works and dry bouse.) Six men were killed, viz:—John Rockwell, and Daniel Avery, of East Windsor; Mr. Giles and Mr. Bivins, of Hartford; Harry Fox, of Bolton; Mr. Allen, of New York. Los^ of property small: cause of the explosion un known. We hear that the person who passed the forg ed check upon the Bank of Virginia at Freder icksburg, noticed by us Ir*t Friday, lias beer arrested in Baltimore. An advertisement in to-day’s paper gives ti particulars of a daring robbery committed in Stafford County, last week. The Globe calls the Bank of the United State? the enemy” of Mr. Taney, and says that Mr Taney “has forborne to crush his enemy" This is beautiful language. The Globe is certainly the pink of decency and the daffadowndilla of politeness.” It lug? Mr. Jno. S. Barbour into one of its Bank art: cles, and declares that, in his moral and poli tical principles, he is certainly a most fit repre sentative of the soulless and corrupt corpora tion.” The Giobe is a disgrace to the Admi nistration. A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the people of Charleston, (S. C.) has been field, at which the Intendant of the City pre* sided, when strong resolutions condemning the 'emoval of the Deposites were passed. A public meeting,—the call for which is sign ?d by three hundred names,—is to take place n Philadelphia, to take into consideration the nost advisable means for remedying the evil? and mischiefs arising from fancy Fairs.” At the head of the list is the name of Mathew Carey, Esq. __ It will be seen that Fauquier is in motion. The lames of the gentlemen taking part in the Pr(?' :eedings at Salem, show the respectability he meeting. We understand that a meeting vill be held at Warrenton to day, and that Judge Jcott is expected to take a decided stand in op* losition to executive abuse of power. A lot of obscene works, seized* at Boston, fere condemned to be burnt, which duty le Gazette) was performed by the Sheriff. n resence of the jury, in an accomplished, a urate, and precisely correct manner. Paginini, it is said, has left England, with up rards of one hundred thousand dollars, £al y his extraprdpiary performances.
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