Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-06
THE ENQUIRER.
LlTCHFIELD, JULY 6, Is3z.
1.-THE FIRST RATTIEn

Jackson and his succes sor in the administration was held in the third congressional district of Pennsylva- mia on Thursday last, to fill the vacancy occasoned by the death of MT. Harper. This district includes the Northern Liberties, Kensington, Spring Garden, &c' and the tory candidate dngersoD was of the most prominent and talented and popular radicals in the state. And we are happy in being able to an- nounce that after hard struggle he is defeated and tha: Charles Nayor, the whig candidate is chosen by the handsome majority of nearly 300. This district has for many years been represented by Jackson man. Huzza for the experiment! !''
 The impression seems to prevail that the new Bank Commissioners are to receive only tDo dollars day for their services when engaged on their official duty This is not so-they are to get three dollars. An act passed the House allowing only $2; it was taken to the Senate, where $3 was substituted It was then returned to the House the last hal day of the ses sion-the Speaker (ho is an everlasting great lover of democr0cy) cast his eyes upon it, saw the change that had been made-remarked that the Senate had made slight alteration and immediately put the question, will the House concur with the Senate ?? when 1t was carried, sub silentio-very few members we learn, understanding, or being present to under stand the nature of the amendment. Is not this state ment correct, friend of the Hartford Courier2
 A couple of weeks since we made remark or two touching the pay of the Bank Committee appointed by the Legislature of ls36 and accompanied the remarks with statement that we understood they had charged about $5 6 day" for their services and expenses- To this statement, founded of course upon what we had heard, some people about here, and we don't know but the Commissioner himself pretend to ques- ton its correctness. The Commissioner and his asso ciates, instead of resorng hard names and words without meaning, have very simple way of getting out of the difficulty which is this Let them publish
 in the Times hand over to us and we will do it for them, the original bill which they presented to the legislature, and also copy of the bill as receipted by them, and if it does not including their expenses, amount to about $5 per day." then will confess ourselves mistaken. But simple contradiction by any of their tools. without proof will not pass for any thing.
 But will it be believed that the Commissioner, the Comptroller and the Treasurer estimate their service at less rate than committee of the Legislature, consisting of Messrs Pryor. Seely, and Stearns, who were appointed to examine only one bank? This lat ter committee brought in bill, and each charged $5 day and his expenses. And let see what it a. mounted to ? MT. Prior Ca pure democrat) charged
 for B days, $22S dollars and e2 cents per day- Mr. Seey (whg) for Al days, 255 O5 or dollars and 9 cents per day-Mr Stearns Ca little purer democraD for g days, Sl64 s6 or SEVEN DOLLARS and 16 cents per day. Each charged $5 day. but the expenses ofthe latter much more than the others that they sweed his bill to the above amount. True, the legislature made deduction from this bill but even nE,~n Aln Iol, G day" And so we have no doubt will the bill of the
 three State Officers be found whenever they shall ven-
 ure to exhibit it to the word-that they were allow ed S3 day and their expenses, amounting in all to nearly S5. while in fact part of the time they were living at their own tables and drawing large sal- ary for other duties Let the schOle truth come out and we not apprehensive that our statement will be contradicted.
 The Treasurer of the State, in the last Hartford pa- pers give notice that the third instalment of the Town Opposite Fund is now ready for distribution. The amount is the same as the first nstalment.
 If the School Commissioner, or the Comptroller, or Treasurer will come out under his own hand, or by his authority, in any reputable paper, and deny that he did not ask or receive "about five dollars day. for his services and expenses Bank Committee, and exhibit the proof will give him credit for not lov
 ing pef better than strong professions of democracy.
 John e. Adams in the Field Again !-The Ex-Pres-
 dent recently presented by his constituents with gold headed cane made from the wood of the old figate Constitution in remembrance of his services as their Representative in Congress. MT. A. made
 long reply, for which we have not room, but give the c.l. .n,. at present pervade the counry:-
 We present at the present moment a still more as- tonlshng and Portentous spectacle to the Word.- midst of National Bankruptcy. From Treasury overfiowing with fifty millions of dollars, our Govern ment pays in paper trash the wages of the Clerks in the public offices The Nation is nsolvent-the whole people is nsolvent You inquire if this is owing to the conduct of the late Administration. !beeve it is at tbutabe to various causes, among which the grant of State Corporations, by order of the late President of the United States, without authority of Law, the most pernicious. Having said so when the decd was done, can have no hesitation in repeating it now, that its fatal consequences are seen floating from the wreck of the public credit. The use of the Public monies while in the Treasury in the interval between the receipt of them as revenue, and the payment of them public expenditures. to fulfil the engagements of the Nation, had been granted by Law, to the Bank of the United States for equivalent. It never had been of much profit to that Bank because the depos time. They never were suffered to accumulate for the moment a surplus appeared, 1t was applied to- wards the discharge of the National debt. It was precisely at the moment when the whole debt was paid of, and when the revenue was doubled by the sudden and increase ot the proceeds of the Public Lands that the use of the monies in the Treas ury, was taken from the Bank of the United States chartered by and under the control of Congress. and drbbed out in parcels to suit fayourte to
 multitude of State Banks, without responsible cap tals and wholly beyond the control of Congress or of the Executive Government of the United States. Of ihe means of information possessed by the Govern