Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-09-22


thunder storms, aud the feet being sup.
ported on the round Of the chair.
We consider it more than probable that
Mrs. Fort was sitting in this posture at the
time her servant was killed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IL.
1t has been supposed, that the determi-
nation OF the Bank Of the United States to
refuse to receive its own notes and those
Of its branches in payment or on deposit
except at the bank or branches from
which they issued would have the effect 10
reduce below par the paper of all the
branches except in the places at which
issued. Perhaps, however, more recent
measure of the Bank (of the branch at
w Washington, at least) may have the bene-
fetal effect of counteracting that tenden-
cy. 1t is understood that the bank has
established tariff Of premiums for which
it will give drafts on distant banks, which,
for this city, is reported to be as follows:
For drafts on Baltimore. J per cent.
Do. on Philadelphia, /
Do. on New York, II
Do. on Boston, 2
Highes, for drafts on any place, q
1t is presumed, that the effect of
this arrangement, which is supposed to
be as general as that lately announced,
will be, TO give to the notes of banks ofthe
above cities circulating here, and, vice
versa, to ours circulating there, a higher
value than they would otherwise have,
and thus in degree to equilibriate the
value OF bank paper, along the maritime
border at least. The premium is suppos.
ed to be equivalent TO the cusrof rranspcr.
tation of specie from place to place, which
operation, and thai Of importing specie
is said to have cost the Bank of the Unit
ed States, since its establishment, no less
sum than three hundred thousand dol.
lars.
September Is.
Important to applicants for Pensions.
We are authorised to state, 70 + the
information of those interested, that the
number of applicants for pensions under
the act of the last session, has been 50
great, that it has not been possible, with
every eXertion, to act upon them so last
as they came in. In addition to which,
some delay has taken place in order to-
supply from the records of the several
states the documents III relation 10 revo.
lutionary services, which were destroyed
when the War Office was burnt in 1901;
which cause of delay is now almost
wholly removed. The application for
pensions are taken up in the order OF time
in which they were received, and every
effort will be made to render the delay as
short as possible. When claims to pen
sions are admitted, the certificates will be
transmitted TO the persons by whom the
claimants papers were sent to the war
Department. When rejected, they will
be returned in the same manner, with the
reasons stated for rejection. Mere letters
of general inquiry as to the state Of par
ticuIar applications, We are informed
cannot be answered, as it would consume
much Of the time that ought to be en-
gagged III The lnvestlgation OF clallns'
We stated, the other day, that the
Congress, at their last session, had granted
TO Major-General Arthur St. Clair pen
sion of six hundred dollars per annum, and
we might have added, without its being
asked either by him OF his friends, Re-
specting the amount of the pension, We
wrote from recollection, without refer
ence to the law. We now find that the
pension SO granted was at the rate Of sixty,
dollars per month, or seven hundred and
twenty dollars per annum, aud took dale
from the 4th of March, 1917, SO as %
give to the aged veteran present sum Oh
seven or eight hundred dollars, for the re-
lief of his immediate necessities.