Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-02-27

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the two officers alluded to. He also read testi
monals Of their valor, and details of their achve-
/ ments, from various public documents.
! After some brief explanations between Messrs
/ Stevenson and Ball, the resolutions were adopted
unanimously.
I Mr Collins said, that these resolutions having
! been adopted, he could not but deem il his duty
10 present another Of a similar nature; he there
fore moved the following:
| ResOiUed unanimously, by the General As
sembly of Virginia, That the Governor procure
a sword ornamented with devices, mathematical
Of the brilliant victory obtained on Lake Erie by
! the Naval Forces of the United States, under the
command of Commodore Perry, over those Of
| Great Britain, under the command Of Captain
| Barclay, and present the same TO Hugh Nelson
Page, in the name of the General Assembly, as
tribute of its high appreciation Of the valor dis
| played by him on that occasion.
This resolution was also agreed to, ttnani
zlously.
You will have seen in the newspapers a sketch
| Of the debate in the House Monday respecting
a bridge across the Potomac. This is an inte-
resting subject and but little understood. BY an
| act of Congress the President was authorized to
make contract, for building a bridge, according
| TO model or plan which had been prepared by
scientific engineer. Proposals for erecting this
bridge were advertised, and several bids made.
| The lowest acccpted but the bidder was
unable to give the required security. The next
| lowest bidder proposed different plan for the
bridge, and offered to erect it after his own mo-
del, for the sum of one million three hundrTd and
| fifty thousand dollars. The President determin-
ed to alter the plan, and to make the contract ac
| cordingly. He was demonstrated with. He re-
| plied-"I take the responsibility, con
! tractor was ordered TO proceed with the work
| Large expenditures were made. The govern
| ment engineers expressed their opinions, cau-
| tiousty, that ii would require millions of dollars
| to build and render it secure, on the proposed
model. AT length the Secretary ofthe Treasury
| sent for MIR. Baldwin, whose talents in that line
| are well known and who is employed by 60
| vernment in the erection of the dry docks He
/ was required to give his opinion in writing. He
| has done so at great length and in detail. He
| pronounces the whole scheme impracticable. =
He thinks, however, that if the work is stopped,
| and the project abandoned, the loss will not ex
coed ttro on three hundred thousand dollars.
His opinion has had no influence upon General
Jackson. Congress will not make an appropria-
ton of money to be thus squandered away. But
| that avails nothing. The President has posses
sion of the public funds, and will use them as he
| thinks proper. Thus, you see, all power seems
to be concentrated in the Executive The pro-
digality, however, Of the General Post Offce and
other Departments, with the building OF this
bridge, will empty the "pet banks" and the de
| fciency in the revenue will secure us against the
accumulation OF surplus.-Spy in Washington.
| A change Of When the Bank Of the
United States was the receptacle of the public
| revenue, it was both willing and able to accom-
modate the Government with the loan of a mil
lion or more of dollars, as the occasion might re-
quire. Now, the public treasure is employed in
keeping up the Banks of Opposite, and, some of
them at least, would sink but for this una, thor-
zed support. What, at this moment, sustains the
Bank of the Metropolis? MIR. fancy can tell
Nat Gag.
! IracOnSistencu-Th Bank Commissioners re-
commend an increase of the capital Of our exist
ing local Banks, rather than the incorporation OF
new ones. The reason is, that the former I'M
derstand the wants and resources of their custo-
mers and the community.
Now this is the very reason why the United
States Bank should be rechartered rather than a
new one. If the reasoning is good as to a local
Bank, it applies with ten fold effect in regard to
national Banl.-A5any Daily AdU.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Chronicle
gives the following on dts current at Washing
ton on the 18th instant. Rves TO take fancy IS
place in the treasury. fancy TO go TO Russia.
McLane and Cass to resign unless Amos Kendall
will resign.
Mrs. Barry and family have left Washington
for Baltimore, and thence to the west; Barry
will resign and follow them.
1t is stated in New York paper, upon the
authority of letter from Washington, that Mr..
McLane, the secretary of state, has sent in his
resignation to the president.
Important Rumotr.-H was rumoured in this
city (says Bicknell's Reporter of Tuesday last
on Saturday last that at a meeting of the direct
; ors of the Girard Bank, recently held, resolu-
tion was adopted, asking the government TO re-
lease them from the contract concerning the pub
lie deposites.
+ The time is comile-The signs of the times
are becoming of more and more portentous i'm
port. The last intelligence from Washington i.
of the most discouraging character-every hope
4 of compromise is demolished. The admins
I tration neither propose nor intend any remedy
for the suffering and distress Of the country. 1
), so, the die is cast-the whole industry Of tho
broken up, and distress carried into the bosom 0
4 every family connected it'll mercantile, manu-
=, featuring and mechanic pursuits.
a Will the nation submit 10 have the whole hnan
f cia ope rations of the government carried on by
s a secretary Of the treasury, who, dependent iron
hour to hour the president, get asserts has en-
n tire independence Of congress to control the Pub
r. lie moneys through the medium of the stat
! banks, which he may select and dismiss at plea
IS sure.-IfOy Press.
If The language of discomfort, in several parts o
N the country, is beginning TO assume degree c
e violence which, we trust means-as 1t general.
) does-much less than il expresses. Atthe meet
.e ing in the Capitol al Richmond, on Monday last
l. one of the speakers, Col. Peter F. Smith, san
that there were but two alternatives in the pre-
sent state ofthings-one ''was such as had IN a
| ages been resorted to by brave men when drive
TO extremity of suffering. 1t was simply TO stan
by their arms" The speech is said TO have bee
received with ga burst of applause from gallery
s. hall and lobby ."-BdH. Gag.