Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-04-05
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SATURDAY, .NO1'lsiNs., .Ys1s,iL e.

Election Law, changing the time of holding the
elections for the present year from the court days in
August to the court dogs i'll June. 1t is much be
regretted that this law has been acted upon late
as to render it necessary to change the usual period
of holding the elections. Every years experience
atimonishes of the ineXpediency of putting off the
important business Of the session to the ashut the
next year invariably finds the repeated In
this case, however, the many contested elections
made it impossible for the Committee of Privileges
and Elections to take up the Election Lal0s until an
advanced stage of the session.
~ Yesterday the House of Delegates was engaged
until nearly o'clock the Bill concerning the
Court of Appeals. Lewisburg, i'll Greenbrler, was
designated BY the House, the place holding the
summer session, by vote of about to i-Staun-
toE and the Warm Springs, heng previously rejected
The bill then passed-96 to IL. The House
has now despatched nearly all the business on its
table, and awaits the progress of the Senate.
u In May $50, Gen. Jackson vetoed the Mays.
vile road, and the Frederick and Washington (Md)
road, the ground principally that they were local
and not national improvements. On the last day of
the last session of Congress I'D March, he signed
bills subscribing the stock of various Improvement
designs, to the amount of 81 ,24o 600! What how
ever is most remarkableis that of all these schemes
not one comparable to The Maysyile or Rock
vile Tnrnpikes, national worl-aU were local
improvements, in which the great American public
could not have the smalles, direct interest! What
is more remarkable sti--he thus virtually reracts
the grounds taken in his veto, after, according his
rdoaters, the american people had sanctioned tie
principles Of the ueto message!
Hos tha Nav otb.,
bills, March 3D. is3l--ttle more than nine months
about the period of CESSATION for his constitutional
opinions generally This is the Idol whom the friends
of State Rights commanded to worship, on pain
of seclusion from the Republican party,
u Stephen Simpson, Former Editor of the Col
nrbian Observer--the same to whom Krcmer's let
ter containing the first allegation of the bargain, was
addressed) having been nominated to the Senate as
a commissioner under the late treaty with Denmark
was rejected BY that body-Stephen having been an
editor and partizan. The Pennsylvania Inquirer
states the vote thus;
The entire opposition present 22
Pazewell, Tyler, and Pondexter 8
For Simpson-The entire Jackson vote present ID
And adds, "Tazewc Tyler and Poindexter, have
deserted to the enemy, along with Duff Green and
John C. Calhoun! There let them stay. We can
we'll spare men, who cannot spare their country, in
their reckless course OF blind ambition, to crafty
which. thay care not how they wound, lacerate and
afflict her."
Indeed! SO the opposition have majority in the
Senate. The Inquirer is true blue Jackson Van
Buren--the most approved and newest patent. What
does Mrs. Grundy-we the Richmond En-
qurer-say2 Will no severity of denunciation ex-
tort from it word of vindication for Tazewell
and Tyler-they 1ohose course that paper approves
although perchance, somewhat piqued at the manner
Shall it stin deyove on US of the "Coalition," to
yfndcate Virginia. her Senator's and her consistency.
BHE VICE PRESIDENT.
This gentleman now sustuins deadly FIRE from all
the Van Buren,, and shy authority presses, with the
exception of the one in this city, which observes
guarded neutrality, not seeing its way with entire
clearness. As specimens, take the following from the