The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1836-05-20

will hold out to the last. But specie uiH not do
his Deposite Bank Drafts on the Eastern cities
are wOrth one and a half per cent more than gold
and Sitrer, and they require drafts in exchange
and the Banks that will not pay this premium for
the privilege Of letting IT'S notes be current for The
repenns, must submit to the discredit and the
Public must submit 10 the iRconueRieRce Of having
them refused.
lind too, TO my utter establishment, If the re.
port Of the Secretary be correct assof course il
must be, that the pretext set forth in the Circular
OF the Clinton Bank, for this unusual ard oppres.
sive exaction, IS unsustained By fact The Circu.
lar represents that nearly all the money Of The U.
nited States received in that Bank a, necessarily
TO be transmitted 10 The Eastern cities The Sec
rotary says In his report that no more than Sl5,-
0OO OF that received the whole State Of OHIO has
been so transmitted since the LIST day OF June last;
and If ! recollect his figures right, he makes it
! l-253d part-or one dollar transmitted out Of 253
dollars received. | can say no morse upon this
branch OF the subject than this; that justice re.
quIres that II should be distinctly noticed by me
that the incorrect statement contained il that Cir.
cular, which implicitly credited, led me- nhen
hrSt addressed TIE Senate, 10 suggest ccnsura
on the Secretary Of the Treasury Tor Withdrawing
from tie State ol Ohio funds which find. in hIs
report, he has not IL fact Withdrawn. But il now
remains for him 10 determine whether he will per.
NIT his fiscal agents, on representations such as
this, 10 establish brokerage upon the funds Of The
United States and while they must themselves
IN fact infiict upon this community all the mis-
chiel which would arise from an actual transmits.
sion and abstraction OF the public funds.
One other lhing | wish 10 notice. 1t is, that
the Secretary Of the Treasury says in this report.
that ezckange still continues easy that il has new
er been more favorable This is the idea have
not his words do not propose to contradict this.
merely call the attention Of the business Pubhc
to the statement, that they may see what the Sec
rotary of the Treasury says to Congress about the
exchanges. Every business man in every portion
of the United States knows whether this is or 10
not the fact
The motion Of Mr. Ewing was agreed to,
The General Appropriation Bill was considered,
read third time and passed.
HOUSE-Mr. Cambreeng, from the Com Of
Ways and Means, reported Bill making an ap.
preparation OF one million Of dollars for the decncs
Of the Western Frontier.
The bill having been read twice, Mr. C. present.
ed several communications FROM the Secretary Of
War andth General. showing that
the present posture of affairs on the Western from.
tier rendered the appropriation necessary some Of
which were read.
The bill. vas committed 10 the Committee of tha
Whole on the state Of the Union, and, with the ac-
cornpanylng documents, ordered to be printed.
Mr., Conner, from the Committee on the Post
Office and Post Roads, reported the Joint Resolu-
ton from the Senate, anthorising the Postmaster
General TO change the time of making contracts
for the transportation Of the mail which, having
passed through the various stages by general con-
sent, was read third time, and passed
The Bill for the relief of the Corporate Cities Of
the District was taken up by the House; and af-
ter discussion, was read third time, ana passed
Yeas l02, Nays IS.