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Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-06-03
TIE MARCH OF SUSPENSION.

MAh1ti VI SCSHENStONe
The three banks ut Montreal, the City
Bank, Montreal Bank, and Banque du Peu-
pie, agreed to suspend specie payments on
Tuesday last. large meeting Of merchants
was held on Tuesday, called by The commit
tee Of the Board of Trade; the Hon. George
Moflat was called to the chair, and address
sed the assembly, stating the purpose for
which it was convened, and his firm convic-
ticn that the Montreal banks ought to follow
the example Of those in New York and other
parts Of the United States, not, however, as
a remedy for existing evils, but rs preven-
tive to evils that must unavoidably arts. from
a continuance Of specie payments. He sta
ted also his conviction that the Intelligence
from the United States would be followed.
in England, by an act of Parliament, author
ling and enjoining the same measure there.
1t was ail-important, he SAID that the Mon
treal banks should not be drained Of their
specie, rs in such an event they would be
compelled seriously to diminish, if not alto
gether discontinue, their discounts to the
merchants. Letters were read from the
cashiers of the several banks, declaring their
perfect ability to meet every demand, but
protesting their willingness to adopt such
measures might be deemed essential for
the public good.
Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-06-03

Notwithstanding the s.srd times,n somebo.A IN
Ipswich advertises for q wife, and thus descShe.
her:-'She must be . smart, likely, active, aeaeeI,
good-disPosed white GALL, from sixteen 70 6stv.
end be wouldn't refuse . likely Young w1Dpxr with
one sCx and ooe nAn5xnn
Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-06-03

0EThe magnanimous conduct of the Van
Buren, Collector at New York, in the pres
ent crisis is worthy Of all praise, and not far
behind that exhibited in the best DAYS of the
revolution. When the cruel order came from
Washington prohibiting him from receiving
any thing in payment for Bonds but gold and
sitter. which could not I've obtained after the
banks had suspended specie payments, he
immediately repaired to the seat ofGovern-
ment and represented TO the President and
Secretary and Treasurer the impossibIty Of
enforcing the order. He was informed that
1t could not be varied under the existing laws.
The Collector then suggested that he
would. with the knowledge ofthe President
and Secretary, continue to receive paw
nents at the custom house as heretofore in
current bank notes and throw himself upon
Congress for justification. This proposition
not being acccded to, he returned to New
DIRK and at a meeting Of the merchants. a.
we learn from the Courier, he concluded his
account OF his mission in the following words:
--"AnJ now gentlemen. under a deep con-
eviction that the order Of the Treasury De-
apartment cannot be complied with. on nv
'own responsibility, here give notice. that Il
'wili receive the bills Of all the CITY Banks
in good repute. in payment for duties due
"the government
After the Collector had retired the thanks
IF the meeting in behalf of the merchants of
he city was promptly voted him.-Ne,c Ha-
,ea Palladium
Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-06-03

According to tie Courier de Lyons, there
are % 500 weavers within the walls Of the
town supported BY charity, and 10000 with.
out. The funds employed to receive them
are now exhausted.
Il vas voted At the fomatioo Of the govern.
msst Of oee Of the yankee states, that al mot,oo
- IN ~ usish oeA y shs e., shan y hnh'
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

Fraud IN packing Cottom.-An instance
of gross fraud in packing two bales oil
Cotton, was detected last week at the Fac
tory in this place. The cotton in the cen.
tre of the bales was packed wet. and is
now hard mass, completely rotten, be-
sides which a aquantity ofseed was thrown
in to add to the weight. The man is
known, and we are requested to say, that
unless he come forward speedily and pay
the damage, with satisfactory explanations,
he will be exposed. This is the second
instance Of detection at the Factory, and
the system there pursued will necessarily
lead to the detection ofevery such attempt,
where the cotton falls into the hands of
the proprietor. In this case, for the sake
of making perhaps ten dollars, this man
has destroyed his character, and what he
will probably feel as greater calamity,
has also destroyed his cotton to the amoun,
of s so, which he will have to refund.
.-.... Fayetteville Observer
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

of law and order, are now called upon
as preseryers of the constitution, to be
upon their guard, lest large body of
men organized in secret, reign upon the
liberty of the people and convert an cleo
tive magistracy into permanent Despo-
tsm. 1t is but a short time since the
confidence of the people in their present
Executive was manifested at the ballot
boxes; and if we do not mistake, he is
yet in the possession of that confidence
The tricks of disappointed ambition have
been detected and exposed, and the spirit
that spoke the present Government into
existence, is stitl ready and able to sus-
tain it.
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03
FOURTH OF JULY.

We have not come to the knowledge Of
the arrangements for celebrating the "glori
GUS 4th," but are fearful that there will be
some disappointment. 1t was intended to
illuminate the capitol square; but the COM
missioner of public buildings, objects, it is
said, fearing depredations on the public
works. He is perfectly commendable in
this resolution, as damage has already been
done-and it will scarcely be credited, that
some persons have been in the habit of
breaking the knops of the cornice, while the
stones were laying in the capitol square,
We have had no well grounded suggestion,
as to the persons who have been guilty of
this execrable vandalism. Some indeed
attribute it to "the boys"-but the boys"
are frequently blamed when older folks are
guilty. We should be sorry if any parent
of this city, were unblest with son who
gave such demonstrations of incipient villa
ny.
Several associations of the city intend,
we believe to notice the day. The Tempe
rance Society will meet in the Presbyterian
Church, at past five o'clock in the even
ing. We have heard that the Colonization
Society will hold meeting. There are
two societies of lads and young men who
will celebrate the day, in their own appro-
pirate style-one will be public and the O.
ther private. These Societies are formed
for the purpose of improving that ''magnum
del bonum," the great gift Of God, the I'M
MORTAL MIND. While they continue to che
rish moral and orderly department. we
trust they will find favor with the public
Few incidents are more pleasing to the pa
triot, the philanthropist or the; christian,
than to perceive the rising generation emul~
GUS to attain wisdom and virtue, and laying
the foundation of usefulness, that shall rem
der them good citizens and respectable men,
bers of society. Let them cultivate mod
est and unassuming department, as chief
passport to the affections of the elder citizens;
and enforce moral discipline, as due to
their own happiness, to society and to God'
If they are guided by these essential land
marks, they will hold their early association
in long and joyful remembrance and will
as they advance in years, be always ready
to pay respect to virtue and talents and
having a just estimate of their own attain
ments, will fail to be the dupes of impertl.
nent pretenders and literary empires.
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

of all Others generally proves the most
disastrous to these panic-exciting and pa
nicstricken gentry, and relieves them ofa
load of hopes and apprehensions. They
may parade the misfortunes of the country
in capitals, and point them off with ex-
CARNATIONS, as glowing and exaberantly
as suits their tastes; but the returns of
the harvest and the election come in to-
gether, and both are usually seasons of
rejoicing with the great body of the peo-
pie. So may they continue to be in spite
of the TERRIERS.
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

Shocking Accident.-On Tuesday night
last, young man named Edwin. Cooper,
an inmate Of the house of Mrs S. Newton,
of Woodbridge, on entering the tenement,
and passing from one room to another, stept
between the joists where the floor had been
taken up for the purpose of repair, and in
his fall was caught in the side by a
large beef hook in the ceiling below, where
he remained suspended until relief was OBJ
tanned. The iron pierced his lungs, ma
king an incision in his body ten inches in
length, in which agonizing position he was
alone and in the dark. He still survives,
and we are informed there are some hopes
of his recovery.-Nea0 Haven Herald.
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03
LAW FOR THE RELIEF OF BANKS

We do not know on what ground the Leg
islatures of Virginia and other States, have
passed laws to relieve the Banks from the1
obligations to the public. In discussing the
abolition of imprisonment for debt, we have
seen it contended, that no Legislature had
power to impair existing contracts and in
all cases of interpretations, some have pre-
tended to look upon any breach or innovation
OF the contract, as little short of treason-m
fact, it is said that Convention Of the Peo-
pie cannot abrogate a Bank Charter unless
for breach of its conditions; and the very
persons who contend for this principle, al
low that Legislature can alter the prov-
sions of the same, when that alteration works
in favor of the Banks.
If an "er post facto' law be in violation
of the Constitution and the plainest primer
Piles of justice under what class shall we
place law, which applies after the fact, to
the dissolution of a contract, without the con-
sent of the injured party-the holders of the
bills? If it be cruel and unjust to punish a
criminal, by the passage of law "after the
fact" what shall we saw of law of the same
character, that Furnishes the innocent by
fine or otherwise. To remit the penalties
the banks have incurred, by failure to re,
deem their notes, is tantamount to inllc'lps
fine upon all who hold them, to the amour
of their depreciation. A man who holu,
bills to the amount of S 1000, is fined $ loO
by such law, if specie be 10 per cent PIE
MUM; or whatever the cost of converting pa
per into specie may be, to that amount Is ns
a loser against his will. To us it appears
most extraordinary measure, and as tenolnS
to build up moneyed corporations at the {.
pense Of the rights of the people-as gram
ing unconstitutional privileges on the ON
hand, and as imposing, excessive, illegal "''
unjust exactions on the other.
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03
FROM THE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN.

THE OPPOSITION ON A NEW TRACK.
Every person who has devoted any
portion of his time, to the perusal of the
public prints, is aware of the course pur-
sued by the opposition, since the embar-
rassment of the commercial community
commenced.
The specie circular at first was the
cause.-the sole cause, and its repeal was
to be obtained, though blood might be the
price Such was the cry; and it was
echoed from one end of the Union to the
other. The laws were to be disregarded,
and the officers appointed to carry them
into execution were to be resisted, if ne
cessary at the point of the bayonet. He
who boasted most-who threatened most,
was the best patriot; and the man who
could utter the most imprecations against
the Government was the most devoted
lover of his country. Such were the
themes of an opposition, whose princi-
pal object seems to have been, TO destroy
all the confidence which the people. had
in the Government.
But it happened that these soldiers of
tape and buckram relinquished their glo-
rious design, the laws are in operation
and its officers are permitted to do their
duty without molestation.
Happily for the country the people
were too firm to be driven astray by such
threats as these; and too intelligent to
be led into error by the devices of their
enemies.
Another cry is now raised, and we are
told with Seriousness, which the unwary
might believe arose from an actual state
of alarm, that there is reason to suspect
the Government is engaged in secretly
organizing troops, by whose aid a reign
of tyranny is to be established
Connected with much more of like
characters the following appears to be go
ing the round.
"Has the chief Magistrate, or any
member Of the executive department., re-
commended, counselled or advised, by
word or letter, the secret organization of
large body Of men, to march to this
city on any given emergency Is there
not now actually such an organization ?"
These questions are said to be put for GER
tain reasons, and those men who were a
little time ago, boasting that they were
ready to take up arms for the subverslou
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

er little less than royal, conduct his sue
cessor 10 the presidential chair, from which
he himself was about to retire with will
ljng anticipation to private life, after the
example of his predecessors, Washington
and Jefferson.
"It is thus that at every successive pe-
riod of four years the unfavorable predlc-
tions which have been made at the cradle
Of American independence have failed.
These presidential elections, s,,s7which the
friends of monarchy in Europe have as
serted would be attended by the effusion
of blood, are effected with as much quiet
as the appointment of the most obscure
municipal counsellor of any village IN
France. Those who predicted that they
would present scenes of anarchy and am,
bition, similar 10 the tumultuous diet OF
elections in Poland, seem to have forgotten
that the nobility alone elected the kings OF
that Empire; whilst in the United States
the whole people, the sovereign people,
exercise that high and supreme power.
Aristocracy is turbulent in its nature, and
is divided into factions, the necessary fate
of country possessing titled families.
Democracy, on the contrary, is calm and
tranquil, because all interests are merged
in one, that of the nation. This is the
great lesson which the United States are
called to give to the word.
"Mr. Van Buren, as he himself has re-
marked, is the frs: president W no was
born subsequently, to the war of independ-
ence. The generation of the fathers OF
the Union has thus passed away. Pos
teritv has commenced for them and il
has touched their labors, merely to give
to them a progressive perfection. The
debts contracted during their wars with
England are paid off, and the only EN-
barrassment in finance now existing IN the
United States, is the most useful employ
ment of the surplus revenue of the govern
ment. The population has increased
within the third part of a century, from
four to fifteen millions. There are eigh
hundred leagues of railroads already made
and one thousand three hundred leagues
of canals. The exports of the United
States, which in 1920 amounted to two
hundred and seventy five millions of francs
exceeded in 1885 the sum of five hundred
and thirty millions. Finally, primary in
struction is guaranteed to the whole popu
lation of the confederacy.
"These are the principal traits of in
creasing prosperity, in the midst of which
Mr.. Van Buren, has been elected to fl
the first place in the government of th'
United States. His address presents
brilliant perspective, whilst at the SAM
time it gives the assurance that the coun
try will be preserved in the career which
it has chosen. The inaugural address o
Mr. Van Buren must inspire full conf
dence in the convictions of the friends O
democracy"
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03
BANKS IN GEORGIA

BY an exhibit Of the aggregate liab;v,.
and means of the Banking Institutions i',es in ne:
State on the 3rd Of April, 1887, we leans ,nas
that the amount Of their liabilities is. ''h
$ l4,273402 y
Total of assests, 2s,lO2.O73 -
Notes in circulation, S,531, ,e23 oo
Specie in their vaults 8, ,42O, $3.50 90
The whole statement causes it to anno,-
that they have balance in their favor =" os
upwards Of fourteen millions of dollars VI
Montgomery Advertiser
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03
FROM THE LEXINGTON (KENrUcKY) GAZETTE


THE PATRIOTIC DANIEL WEBSTER.
During the last war, it became absolute
ly necessary, that the United States should
levy internal duties and direct taxes, and
borrow money, for the support of Govern
ment, and To- carry on the war. The Con-
gressional Journals shew the following
facts:
On the 1st July, 1913, Mr.. Webster,
then Representative from Massachusetts,
voted against bill for the assessment and
collection of direct taxes and internal du-
ties
On the 9th, he voted against the bill lay
ing duties on refined sugars
On the same day, be voted against the
bill laying duties on sales at auction.
On the 10Th, against the bill laying du-
ties on carriages.
On the 9TH January, 1914, one Of the
darkest periods of the war, and after our
gallant little navy had covered itself with
glory, he voted against an appropriation
for defraying the expenses of the navy.
On the 10th, he voted against propo-
sition more effectually to detect and pun
ish traitors and spies.
On the 18th, he voted against a bill ma
king provision to fill the ranks of the ar
my. ..
On the 22nd he voted in minority of
seven, against bill authorizing the enlist
ment of troops for five years or during the
war.
On the 25th he voted against bill for
enforcing the non-importation laws.
On the 9Th February, against the bill to
raise five regiments of rihemen.
On the 25th March, he voted against
the bill to call forth the militia, to execute
the laws of the Union, and repel invasion
On the lst. December, only few DAYS
before the sitting of the Hartford Conven-
,ion, he voted against bill to provide ad-
ditional revenue for defraying the expen-
ses of the Government and maintaining
the public credit -
On the 10th he voted to postpone, indie
fnitely, bill authorizing the President of
the United Stales to call upon the several
States for their respective quotas of militia
to defend the frontiers against invasion.
On the l4th he voted against the same
bill. He also voted against bill to pro-
'ANS ooutAOhol lOI Vi
government, and maintain the public cre-
dit and also against an appropriation for
rebuilding the capitol and public Offices
which had been destroyed by the enemy.
We Go not believe that even the Obser.
ver will have the lemerity to deny the
truth of the foregoing statements. Yet
this is the man for whom the patriotic,
chivalrous Kentuckians are expected to
lend their aid, in elevating to the first Of
flee In the nation!
This IS the man who has been receiv-
ed and courled by Mayors and Corpora
tons-teasted and caressed by Kentucky
Whigs!
We are indeed magnanimous people
Baron smythe spent two whole davs
and nights in considering an answer to
the conundrum-"why is an egg undone.
like an egg overdone" e"-he would suffer
no one to tell him. and at last hit upon the
solutlon-becaue both are Aa1dlv done
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

Small debts should be paid promptly
In these pressing times, it would be we'll
for men OF business to receive the advice
Say not to thy neighbor, the printer,
go and come again, and tomorrow l will
give when thou hast it by thee"
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

A good Socisty.-The ladies of Port
land, (Maine.l are about organizing aso.
ciety to furnish work to the poor of All
classes, for which suitable remunera,;on
is to be paid. Let a similar movement ba
made in all our cities, by all means-ls,
the remuneration be no "halEprice" MAJ, u'
ter.
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

The Pennsylvania State Convention is
composed of 81 Farmers Lawyers
9 Merchants 3 Physicians-4 Mechan
ics-2 Manufacturers--4 Surveyors
Editor-l Iron Master and l Gentleman
The North-Carolina standard., 1837-07-03

Baron Smythe spent two whole davs
and ',E nights in considering an answer to
the conundrum-"why is an egg undone.
like an egg overdone'' e''-he would. suffer
no one to tell him, and at last hit upon the
solutlon-becaue both are hardly done
Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-29

where by the river side he had dined and stopped 10
drink from the stream Instantly the road was retrac-
ed, and the end of the fifth day. half starved and
dead with travel the bag and its contents were found
upon the brink Of public patti within few yards
Of the turnpike road After this is not surprising
that in few years find him in prosperous business
as bookseller in Dublin. 1t was during the period
when the mania for lottery speculation was at its
height Like others in his line he dealt in tickets. and,
upon the particular occasion TO which this audes, he
had disposed Of all his shares save haftckes, which
he in the act of enclosing back unsod TO London
VIXEN young woman entered his shop and inquired
for sixteenth. He told her how the stood, that
he had but two halves remaining which he was about
sending oil at that moment Atier interchanging some
badinoqe, Come said the biblopoe, "you shall buy
Of the halves and will keep the other, and should
the ticket turn up to be prize will marry and join
ourselves and tickets ether So was and the
ticket was twenty thousand pound prize, and they
married the fruit Of the union being the three
Senator'S already spoken OF.
Here is sample of the class, who, as Mr.. H. used
to say, If they stick their umbrellas into the
ground over night would find them oak trees in the
morning"
An interesting anecdoe Of Lord Kenyons sensibiliy
related in the British House of Commons, by Mr
Norris in the debates of 1871 OF the occurrence that
gentleman had been eyewitness On the home CIR
cult he said some years since young tried
for having stolen TO the amount OF forty shllngs IN
dwelling house. II was her first offence. and atten
ded with many circumstances OF extenuation. The pro-
appeared, he stated, from sense OF duty
The witnesses very reluctantly gave their evidences and
the jury still reluctantly their verdict of guilty.
The Judge passed sentence Of death She instantly tell
liieess at the bar! Lord Kenyon whose sensihility
impaired by the sad duties of his Office, cried
out in great agitation, from the bench-"l don't mean to
hang you Will nobody tell her don't to hang
this passing sentence, the prisoner but on
the law.--Law Magazine
Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-29

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