Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-01-02

70 Door 5 not to be able s pay Of the
iptcrcif and dividend Of the public debt,
ia building ihips on Lake Onario, merely
to lie there and rot Trenton Ffd.
Public Dis-credit The Secretary Of the
Treasury has made statement OF the eau
ses Of the suspension OF specie paymen
TO the public creditors. lie says that 1.-THE
Treasury possesses no funds in SPECIE IN
Boston, Or any part ofNew England which
can be drawn 10 thai place THAT al the
Efforts which have been made 70 oDlsl'
funds in thai shape have been unsnccesjni ;
and tha, d, means for paying the dividends
on the pubic debt exist, except IN Treasury
Notes.
Think u this --Tne war hawks after con-
Tossing that The War has cost upwards o. an
hundred millions, and $4,000 lives, are now
wiling to make Peace with England on the
basis Of he restoration ct az things 20 me
state they svere in before Me Uur.--I blink
oil this, sc, who have 10 pay the money or
who have lost relatives Is the War
Vrry consoiing esumate.-A Connecticut
Dcisgae III Congress, estimates the proper
ton OF the Internal taxes osthat stale, inclu
DIM. the land tax for 1911, al about
EIGHi HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS; which are TO be paid imme-
dialyly, For Massachusetts Tie pfopot ton
will De about tWEN Y -FOUR HUN
DRIED dJUsAND DOLLARS. The
tor5es Will lnutmur at ti.ls but the demo
cs0fic whi5s, good easy $ JUS love such
things as taxes, militia drafts. conscrsptIon,
and war or else they are hypocrils, as weli
as fools, in supporting the msn who are
thus robbing them OF iheir hard earnings.
We are authorised to assert, saws the
Boston Gazetie, that the statement IL tisx
Pa.riot, Of "Wednesday, in relation 10 the
conduct of the executive OF this State with
reference to the projected expedition against
the B,ifisA at Cssius,i is materially incorrect.
Gov. Slrong has not been requested to Cali
out the militia 10 dspossts the British oil
Nasiinc lie Was entirely neglected i'll the
call Tor this purpose. The acquisition Was
made di ectly and Immediately to Gen
Aug. And NOW II Is found lie militia are
not wiling 10 expose themselves 10 tteez-
Ing, aud 10 desperate expedition, Gas II
would be TO attack Cassine with 5000, or
evsn Il 600 miiisia, unIs IS aided BY a large
naval force inc inlentlon is 10 t'row he
blame Oil Gov Ssrong and the tedefails,s Of
lhi. S. ate. Neither has Coy. strong ANY
light or power 10 advance money 10 the
general government. We are too rehabfc-
an In tits " tory state, 10 permit our Gov
rrnos, 10 expend money, unless voted ny
the representatives OF the people, aud tor a
specified object. ] he Suggestions, there
lore, in the fairlot, must have originated in
gross ignorance Or base maliSnlty.
Fran tie WTefern PyeG.
Henry Brown, native OF New Jeriey,
now retiding few miles below Beaver
town, Pennsylvania, on the N w Eide Of
he river, was born in January, 1886
consequently is now IN his I28th year
he is black man with long Rraight hair,
and wears it tied he was in General
braddcck's defeat, in 1875, and then was
90 years old he has been fave 10
years ; and had been free man S8 years
IS now in toerable good health, can walk
pretty well, has good appetire at times
bur 10 getting weak he was never mar
ried ; lays he wiihrs to die, but fears he
never ihaiL His mother was an African,
BIS father an Indian, hence the color and
The ttraight hair.
Francis Adonis, the loyal negro who
went barcheaded from the decapi,ation
of his matter Louis the 10th 10 the ref
Ioragion OF Louis the 18th 10 the throne,
and then replaced his hat in lis proper
petition, has again dlicarded that altlcIe
of dreis and goes with his locks, grey
with twcnty odd years bleaching, expol
I'd TO the pltilefs pelting of the winters
wind. Louis has determined on reviy-
ing the trade in human heih, the purch
ale and ilayery of Francis coun,rymen--
and Francis, inldefpalr, fill walks uncov.