Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-11-06

NILES'S REGISTER.
In the course of long article on tue eypena
ditutcs ofthe naval establishment, Mr.. Mrs.,
IN his Register of the Goth instant, advcr,s
with no little warmth to tile number of officers
retained ON the navy list on full pay without
being appointed to any trust or employment.
We can have no objection to MIR. Niles's inyes.
legations into the subject of national economy,
and if he can point out abuses in the expendi-
ture of the public money in any department
of the government, he should receive the
thanks of those whose duty Il may be to an
ply the remedy. Yet il is rather extraordina
ry that Mr.. Niles with all his means of inform
alton and his general correctness in stating
facts, should have recorded so erroneous, and
as respects Com. Barron, we should saw, so in
FURIOUS astatement,as he has done in i,staucing
the case OF that officer for while it assumes
to be candid and unprecedented representa-
ton of public abuse, il carries with it the
semblance of an inyidious personal reference
In noticing that statement ii is due TO Com
BARRON To say, that Mr.. Niles has e" pres,inJ-
ed" a fact which existed only in his own lima.
gnation. The true state of the case rs il res
spects that officer, we undertake to say, is this
In March 1919, 1--WE quote from memory as 20
time,l the Secretary Of the Navy issued an or
der to pay all the officers the full amount Of
their pay and subsistence: from that period
lif Mr.. Niles will calculate arithrnetcally. ana
not by " presumption" he will find that Corn.
Is. must have received somewhere about $1,000
per annun,, instead of $4,000. We will put Mr.
Niles IN. mind of another triaiug error in his
calculation, which is, that Com. i,arrons pav
Recommended in 1915 (February) instead Of
1872 and that up To March 1919 he received
only 5000 peranGum, instead of So, 500 max
ing In all about $1,000 during period of ~
years--a wonderful deal short Of Mr.. Ms
:,
III OF any contracts, nor has any of nj, family
nor has he ever shewn disposition to receive
more of the public money than was justlS due
him. If money had been his object, he would
never have entered the navy at the time h.
did. he gavesup the command of frs
ship IN IA lucrative trade and entered the ma
val service as lieutenant and when living i,
exile refused employments which would have
greatly advanced his fortune, because they
were not strictly in conformity with the tenn
per and feelings of his countrymen.
It's by no means our wish Ia invite n con-
troversy on this sutiect--on The coatrar,-. so
far as we are concerned, we allure such {, CON
seqnence-nor can it be necessary 1t only
rests with Mr.. Niles to correct the Statement.
and TO do that justice TO the case which the
high reputation Of his journal for truth and IN
PW'tdhfy, demands; and moreover to give
credit to the waste Of public money" for
the handsome sum OF sl5,30O, which be has
overchaGged on account Of naval expendi-
lures. fVorfoB EernrA
| Commodore Porter has received by the
Macedonian frigatc, few bushels Of Chile
| Hheot, and we have the pleasure of informing
our Agricultural readers in the neighhorhood
that, ON applying at The Commodort's farm.
on Meridian Hill, Washington, they viii b<,
supplied with enough TO get them IN seed.
III may not be amiss TO remark, that If has
been found successful mode OF acclimating a
foreign wheat to SOW it mixed with native
grain. mt. Int.
| United States government Stocks have OK.
perepced a considerable depression the last
week,ln anticipation oflage shipments of flour
to England ;where fears are entertained of such
scarcity ofbread studs. as to cause the ports
to be opened 10 the importation of foreign -four.
&c. whirh win no doubt tend to deprecat,.
bills on London
| Few sales have been made in local bank
stocks the past week
The Bank of the United States has Aucto-
ated between III and lie, considerable sales
have been made in N. York, atl1I3
Bali. Fed. GG-.
We are glad to iind that there was no truth
in the account from Matanzas, published yes
terday, relative to the horrible piacies upon
the brig John Smith, and schr Milo, both OF
Rhode Island. The brig arrived at Havana
about the LIST inst. and the Milo at Bristol OF
the 18th inst. Neither Of the vessels were
molested by pirates, except that the latter was
ovcrhauled OH her outward passage.
" 4. Com. md.
BANKING.
of the New York newspapers, that a company
is formed, who intend 30 apply to the legisla-
ture OF that state, at it, next session, for an.
act ofincOrpOration for bank, by the name
and style of the &" Washington hank" WITH
a capital Of s 100000, to he located IN The