Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-02-29
From the National lntelligencer.

expected report of the Secretary OF The
Treasury, in pursuance Of resolve OF the
House of Representatives, passed at the
! close Of the last session. is received. IL
occupies 70 pages, besides the tabular
statements accompying il. We have only
had time to discover the nature OF Mr..
Secretary Crawford's views Oh the Cur
rency Question, from the following conciu-
4 d ing paragraph Of the Report -
!" 1t is then believed that The evils which
are felt in those sections Of the Union
where the distress is most general, will not
be extensively relieved by the establish.
ment of national currency. The SUI
ferings which have been produced by the
efforts that have been made 10 resume and
to continue specie payments, have been
, great. They are not terminated, and must
continue until the value of property, and
the price of labour shall assume that re-
latiou to the precious metals which our
wealth and Industry, compared with, those
| of other states, shall enable us 10 retain
Until this shall be effected, an abortive
attempt, by the substitution of paper
currency, TO arrest the evils we are suffer
ing, will produce the most distressing con-
, sequences. The sufferings that are pas
sed will, in such an event, recur with adj
ditional violence, and the nation will again
find itself in the situation which il held at
the moment when specie payments were
resumed
General Kosciusko. The late report of
the g American Society for coloniziDg the
Free People of Color" states fact highly
!. honorable to this eminent but unfortunate
patriot and hero, and which we presume is
not generally known to the people of this
country 1t is, that Gen. Koscinsko be
queathed fund, eaceeding iwenty thou
sand dollars. in the hands Of Mr. Jeffer-
son, (Iate President Of the United States. J
TO be laid out in the purchase of young
female slaves, who are to be educated and
emancipated. II is added, III the Re-
port, that g Gen. John III. Cooke, of Vir,
ginia, has, at the request of Mr.. Jefferson;
undertaken the administration Of this trust,
in The hope, 10 which Mr.. ]. concurs, that
sAhe> difficulties opposed TO the wishes Of
Y the testator, under the existing laws oil
Virginia, may be obviated, in accordance
with the terms Of bis will, by incorpo-
rating the bequest with the funds Of the
American society, under the sanction and
control Of Court Of Equity. True fan.
From the South Sea-Letters from O.
wyhee, 1.-THE chief of the Sandwich islands,
coufirm the death Of the celebrated King
OF the Society islands, Tammaahmah, and
that the event had occasioned SO mucf, dis
union among his successors and officers.
: as to threaten revolution and civil war.
The old King left upwards of so 900 dol
lars 10 specie 10 bis Golfers the division
OF which was also bone of contention
Que OF the letters adds, We have had
reports, that capt. Downes, in the Macedo.
MAN, would visit this island. Would to
heaven he would, and take possession as
\ an arbiter OF the differences which SO IN.
happily reign here" 1t ought TO be =
colony Of the U. States. Rost. Cent.
Effective force. "A writer in the CITY
OF Washington Gazette, very pertinently
observes -" In the event of war, to which
the United StaSes, as well as other conn
tries. will, from time to time, be liable. >
slave holding state, cannot. i, il clear
afford equal military aid with state COM
posed Of white freemen, although each NAV
nave the same number of representatives.
IN congress. This is az important consid-
GRAFTON. The burden Iof The conflict will
iall upon the whites. Half the free NOM.
iation OF the slave states will have 10 stav
at home 70 watch the negroes. Had Ma.
ryland, from the boundaries OF this District
70 the Patuxent, been peopled by white
men, 10 the exclusion Of negro slaves
would the British army have peoetrated
70 washington? We presume moi. Prince
Georges county contains two blacks 10
one white and these blacks, when the 81.
envy arrived, considered the time of tbs
invasion as a holiday. -
treasury Of Virginia. The commit.
'ee, appointed by the legislature of Wiz.
g,u'a % examine the accounts Of the Iatp
treasurer o. that state, made detailed
report 90 Friday last The result If the
whole - that the entire deficit as far i
Is now ascertained amounts 10 one hundrsd
ana '''entys~o thousand, three hnndrsd