Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-10-23

phia. The Inquirer says, tive hear one
universal voice of censure uttered not on
ly against the President, but against Mr..
Van Buren,, who, it is believed, is the
chief prompter of this measure"
The New York s.Evening STAR" Mr..
Noah's new paper, says
s:I'he objection made to the power
which one man holds over the United
States bank, in the presidents expose, ap-
plies with full force to the Manhattan bank
selected in this city to receive the dePos-
ties That bank is avowedly under the
control of one person, and we are credi-
bly, informed that the greatest part of the
bank is owned in England; and by the
PECULIAR nature Of the investment, the
whole bank, in certain number Of years,
must become the sole property Of this for
eign family. We must 90 from extreme
to another"
BULLS AND BEARS. This is a phrase in
use npon Exchange, and is applied to
buyers and sellers of stock. There is
more meaning in the terms than would at
first be supposed. A bull is one who is
to receive stock on a certain day at ssip-
ulated price. He wishes to toss ii up, So
that on the day he is to receive it, it may
be worth more than he is to give for it.
a bear is one who has agreed to deliver
stock at certain price, and at certain
day: it is his interest to depress the value
of the stock, so that he m ay deliver it at
less cost to himself than the price he is to
receive for it. He wishes to trample ii
doaun, for the difference will be i'll his ia
vor. a. tt-.,
We learn from the Ohio State Journal
of the 28th ult, that the hon. John w.
Campbell, judge of the United States
court, for the district of Ohio, died at
Delaware, in that state, on the 9th
His complaint was bilious fever.-B.
The Delaware breakwater appears al !
ready to be a snug harbor, for those men
whose home is on the deep. During the
late easterly winds upwards of twenty top
sail vessels found a safe anchorage under
it; and the pilots speak of the breakwa-
ter in the highest terms, as harbor and
place of safety during gale or adverse
.s.>.-.....-
A DISQUALIFICATION! The Raleigh
Register states that Mr.. Castor, of North
Carolina, at the urgent request of his
friends has consented to be nominated to
the legislature as a candidate for the sta
ton of Judge of the supreme court of
North Carolina, to fill the vacancy occa.
sioned by the death Of chief justice Hen
derson. ..-.
MIR. Castor is f,vorably known to the
nation at large. He is gentleman Of
fnc talents, superior legal attachments,
and estimable character. Hcis, howev
er, member of the Catholic church
and the constitution of North Carolina
contains provision that no person 0uho de-
mics The truth of The Protestant religion shall
be capable Of holding any office under the
state.-Nues.
MICHIGAN. The Detroit Journal esti-
mates the increase of the population Of
Michigan from emigration, within the
is in other respects rapidly improving;
the quantity of produce, particularly
wheat, raised this season, greatly exceeds
the yield of any former year. Internal
Improvement keeps pace with the pro-
gress of population, and territories that
were covered with dense forests during
the last war, are now divided up into cul-
Livated farms.-Niles.
LIBERIA. We have good accounts from
This colony, and learn that many more EN-.
grants are offered than ca be accomoda-
led with passages-eighty free people
wish to embark from Savannah, alone.
who are reported as being very steady
men and women.
A free school for the benefit of recap.
tured Africans, under care of Rev. Mr..
Eden, is under operation at Monrovia.-
A manual labor school was about to be es-
ahlished at M!lsburg. ..
King Tom Bassa was buried on the / 5 !
If July. His brother Co Bal has been
elected king in place Of the deceased
Niles Register. st.-l
From the Winchester Republican.
Mysterious Document.-One of our wor-
by neighbors looked sadly puzzled yester-
lay, as he stood poring over most myster-
Jus bit of chIrography, found as he said, in
he street. Was it the yet unexpIored chap
er of the Koran, or an epstle from Junius,