Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-05-10

luis eslduNsHu'eNs tCSether Win general outline
OF its plan may form the subject of another com
municatiop.E would remark however that as
preparatory school for the University, and as a
means OF exiting the standard Of academcal ed
ucation, throughout the state its effects would be
Invaluable and continue to besfelt, when those
who have contributed to it's formation shall live
only in the tsmembraice of their deeds. $3.50
E, uomy.-We do not profess to belong 70
that c' s of politicians, who feel or pretend to
eel desire to be economical at the expense of the
pubic good-on the contrary; we desire to see Ii
perality governed by prudence and expenditures
controlled by necessity. Nevertheless, when
yanton extravagance and waste of public money
are sanctioned by the adniinistra alton the sooner
the people change their public servants, the bet.
ter it will be for the Golfers Of the nation We
havesbefore us the report of the Committee IN the
expenditures of the department of state; in which
there are some items which would make rcpub.
lican cabinet blush, Uiz -
Maurice Furst for gold medal 0f John Quin-
cy adams, 500.
Now, the sum of 500, it is true, is not Of
much consequence, but it IS the principal it invo.
YES. For what public use, or benefit is this gold
medal OF MIR. Adams, intended who is to wear
h7 is 1T Mr. Clay? we think he has weight
enough of the original around his neck. Where
is the appropriation, by congress, for this gold
medalf If you give away 500 of the public mo-
ney, for gold medal of the President there is
nothing to prevent the payment Of a pension to
hIm, and allowance to his eldest son. To the
next
DO. M. NJ Cruckshank Tor blue velvet port
folio embroidered with chenille with gold tas
sels) 500.
Mohstrouss 500 for a port folio when neat
morocco IN PLAIN republican style, may be had
Tor S'o, which would answer the pGrpose-be-
sides; where is the appropriation or who is it Cor Z
| Probably it is the identical golden bort folio in
| which Prince John carries the messages to both
houses Of congress
| Cash paid Richard Rush, for sundry books and
| newspapers, procured by him ia London,
S799 95.
Nearly 500 dollars for foreign newspapers with.
out reterencese.the for-ne,vspa,,Srs ut home.
which print by authority" For whose use
were these newspapers imported, and where is the
appropriation?
DO. to Robert Ellis for Lices and Portraits Of
eminent EngHshmen! $40.
has not President Adams given sufficient proof
OF ms attachment to eminent Engshmen without
making the treemen of this country pay the ex-
pense! Is this proper expenditure of public
money!
Do w. A. Davis I6 reams ENGLISH laid lto
post paper gilt at 9 dollars per ream, SI44.
wen done American System. Mr.. Clay. who
calls himself the father or he should rather saw the
step father of this system expendinp la dollars
OF the peoples money for English writing paper.
we know the reason, however; for though Amer
lcan hot pressed letter paper is equally as good as
English, yet it has no little stamp of croa,n ON
the corner of the quire
DO. G. Gather for dozen Silcer Pens, So so,
'Stioer pens-Uanifas Udnitatum-or as some IN
natufed LatinIsts would say, Ebony and Topaz.
Mr.. Adams wears thimble when he writes. and
PROBABLY requires some equally hard substance in
inc composition OF his pens--but why dozen sill.
yer pens IT plain continental goose quills would
not answer. one silver pen might do
DO. u. f. lronside. for piotina pen. sc
Just now whole dozen silver pens cost but
- oO; but as silver was cheap and plenty in
washington, (Which is not the case i'm w ll-streeN
something more costly must be sought for. or the
peoples money would continue to rust in the
Golfers ~
Do. Davis and Force, for printing so copies
So directions for ministers dress, IA SO so.
Shades Of Benz. Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
Roger Sherman, Patrick Henry and other veneer
able patriots, who founded our Republic-wbai
would you say, could you be familiar with such ex-
penditures, IN the 50th year ofAmercan Indepen-
dence1 BonaParte, amidst the spiendour Of his
court took pleasure in singing out CbancelIor
| Livingston, and always conversed with him tbouob
ne wore snnfi-colored coat; but, to make people
pay Tor directions for such trash or indeed to
NEEDLE with Minister'S coat and brooches, is
contemplate, and beneath the character OF free
and enlightened people.
DO. w: Slade, for bearing dispatches to New
York, 800.
This is an impudent charge, to say the least of
It, 1t is true. that political partizans have had
few newspapers tied up and sent to foreign Courts,
as dispatches, and they have received 1000
IoVo, ana i9oO dollars, for expenses, but to send
despatch messenger to New-York WIN a da;lv
mail runs from Washington, is a shameful expense
We can inform them, however, that the person
who received one hundred dollars for carrving
dispatches to N. York, actually carried them 10
vermont, to which place, he was sent ON an cleo.
tioneerlng mission.
we must lay by the black book for the present,
WIN tno simple remark, that extravaganza and
lrDPndent waste ofpublic money are sanctionpd
at Washington, while the remtaht of o,- .o.f,