Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-06-07

changed every Is miles.
Charleston Cour.
The Boston Courier says-Notwithstandiug
the frequent annunciation in the New York pa.
psrs, that the Banks discount more freely, and
tina, s.money is easier," We do not perceive that
complaints in this city less frequent or utter
ed in tones less Indicative Of trouble and yexa-
ton.
The Boston Evening Gazette says "Ihe pres
sure in our Money, market for three or four days
past, we are informed, has been greater than II
was at aay timo during the celebrated panic. IL
has been difficult to raise money on the pest pa
per, at two per cent amonth, and on post notes
at one and half per cent
The New York Journal of Commerce an
nounces the arrival in that city of S3O0,000 OF
the indemnity money in gold and adds: $l.SOO
600 have since been received by the ship lier
iy. on account Of the same indemnity.
Tampering wit6 the currency, and cor
ruption in tie Land Oficc.-When we
stated some days ago, on respectable au-
tbority, the general fact Of good bank pa
per being received at discount at some
OF the Western Land Offices. and then re-
sold by the Land Officers at a premium,
we were contradicted in the usual courte-
Gus style of the Go, erument paper, and
de6ed to produce any specific fact to Jus
,ify the statement. Though our general
Information was undoubtedly true. We could
not travel out to Ohio to obtain speciilca-
,ions, and therefore had them not to give:
We have, however, just received one, and
we hastento place it before the eyes OF
the Executive, and of our readers, as iOl-.
lows:
FROM "THE wHiG," AT MANSFIELD (oHIo)
MAY II.
We extract the following from letter
received by us few days since from a
gentleman Of high responsibility:
S Being in the immediate vicinity of,he
Land Office, have an opportunity Of
seeing many queer things transacted, and
will give you one among the many daily
and almost hourly taking place. A man
came in, wishing to enter five halt sections
Of land, and offered in payment 81 ,S75 OF
New York Safety Fund Bank, and he
was informed by the agent that, BY the
orders from the Department at Washing
ton, they were prohibited receiving any
money of less denomination than s., or
money of any bank other than depositc
banks. Here the man was in predica-
ment. for, if he went to get his money ex-
changed for such as was receivable under
these orders, some one might enter the
very land he had selected to settle him
self and sons upon. Wha. could he do :!
The agent very obligingly helped him out
of his trouble by exchanging his own pr'-
cate money with him, for FIVE per cent.
premium, in which operation ne pock-
eted the triaing sum ofSSS IS, and the
man has to pay, in reality, Sl,95o 70
for five half sections, being SS3 Is more
than the law of the land requires. But
mark the sequel The same day a mer-
chan, wanting funds that would 60 at the
East, paid this land agent 9 per cent. pre-
MUM for this same money, being SPY II
pocketed by the agent, making Sl22 "
clear share our of too individuals, on the
same money, in one day. How long people
will submit to this fraudulent system OF kna-
yasg them out of their industrious earnings,
time must determine. If they will keep
in power such men as will stoop 10 any
fraud, however glaring and obvious, to ag-
grandize co-partisans they ought to suffer
the consequences. The above is but a
specimen, and such specimens are but the
commencement of a system of operations
admirably calculated to make the rich
richer, and the poor poorer;' and the whole
to be done under the pretence OF benefit
ting the poor and laboring classes OF the
community"
We are authorized to state that the de-
parture of several detachments Of the Ma
rine Corps for the South is in consequence
Of voluntary offer of the commandant Of
that corps to the President of the United
States, TO lead his corps to the scene ofac
4;on IN Alabama. 1t is one of the valua-