Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1837-07-04
PRENTICIANA
From the Louisville Journal.

ne all DuT6n lGdQerS nave been
professedly laboring for several years
to drive out of circulation all bank
notes of a smaller denomination than
twenty dollars. The probability now
is, that specie is to go almost entirely
out Of eli lation and its place be filled
with ''shii blasters" of 10 l-2 cents, 25
cents, so cents, and one dollar! Who
can deny the transcendant success of
the notable measures Of this notable
administration
"Mr. Benton in public life is an ora
tor and statesman, and in private a
man of feeling and beneyolence."
Missouri paper.
We have no doubt that he is ga m an
of feeling" We believe that he once
felt in a gcntleman's trunk.
The Government demands the pay
ment of all its dues in specie. The
Government owes hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to the mechanics en-
plOyed in the navy yards throughout
the country. Does it pay them in spe-
Gle? Not a dollar. What an honest
| Government!
The country has now three Specie
Circulars. The Postmaster General
has issued Circular, requiring all dues
to his department to be paid in gold
and silver, and the Secretary of the
Treasury has sent forth another, re-
quiring all custOm-house bonds to be
paid in the same currency. Ought not
a delegation to be sent to Washington
to inquire how many specie circulars
this happy nation to be blessed with!
| QUERY.-Does not the Editor ofthe
Richmond Enquirer begin to think he
was right when he predicted. 'that the
election of Andrew Jackson would
prove curse to the country!"
We find a piece of poetry in St.
Louis paper, cOmmencing-"Oh let me
steal" Does Mr.. Benton ever make
verses?
Van Burenism and Pet Bank money
are at so per cent. discount, and con-
sidered dear at that.
We hear hundreds of Van Buren,
meu in our streets complaining bitter
| ly ofthe total dearth of money.-Gen-
tlemen, are We not exceedingly unrea-
sonable! Is not glory an ample sub
T stitute for gold?
President Jackson, in one of his an
nual messages, made great complaint
of the heavy tax levied on industry be.
cause the currency furnished by the u
S. Bank was not sufficiently uniform
Oh how gloriously his measures have
relieved industry from the burthen-
some taxi
The Law of KiSSing.--On Tues
: day week the following curious case
was tried at the Middlesex adjourned
sessions. Thomas Saverland, the pros.
ecutor, stated that OH the day after
Christmas he was in a tap-rOOm where
! the defendant, Caroline Newton, and
. her sister, who had come from Birming
r ham; were present. The latter 10
kingly observed, that she had promised
to her sweetheart that no man should
kiss her while she was absent. 1t be,
ing holiday time, Saverland consid
cred this challenge, and caught hold
other and kissed her. The young wo
man took it as a joke, but her sister
the defendant, said she would like al
little ofthat kind of fun as she pleased
Saverland told her if she was angry
he would kiss her also; he then trlec
to do it, and they fell to the ground
On rising, the woman struck him; hi
again tried to kiss her, and in the scufflC
she bit ofhis nose; which she spit on
of her mouth. The defendant said h
had no business to kiss her;if she wan
ted kissing, she had a husband to kis
her, a better looking man than ever tn,
prosecutor was. The jury, withou
hesitation, acquitted her; and the chair
man said, if any man attempted tokis
woman against her will, she had
right to bite off his nose if she had
fancy for SO doing. English paper.
Bennett, Of the New York Heral,
says:-"The present evils which af1ic
the country are the joint production Q
all parties and all classes. They hav
] been produced by overbanking, over
trading, Uverspending, everything, over
dashing, overreachng, oyerdrivins
overwhelming, overborrowing. overes
ting, overdrinking, overpraying, over
singing, overthinkiDg, overplaying, /
yerriding, overtipplmg, Overlooking
and overacting Of every kind and d
scrlPton, except OUsyploughing, whic
alone is the foundation Of society, an
( the corner stone'of civilization.
When the deposites were remove
from the u. s. Bank, we said the
would be lost. They are lost CoI
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