The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-04-27
~THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

win It's ieats 10 Finance and War, has also
been Distinguishing itself in Architecture.
building OF great size containing 156
rooms, has been lately erecting for the use
oil The Treasury Department; when 10 no
sooner are the walls all up, than it is dis.
covered that they must be taken down again.
committee Of Congress assisted by two
able architects, have reported in substance,
l. That the building is placed where it
ought not to be.
:. / hat II is not suited TO the purpose for
winch It was intended.
3. That IT is exceedingly ugly.
A. That if completed on the present plan,
II viii inevitably tumble down.
i They therefore recommend that il be ia.
ken 10 pieces and built at another place on
a better plan. The workmanship, &c. al
ready expended, will be loss of about eigh
" thousand dollars, and il will cost thirty
thousand more 10 unbuld total loss.
$4,000.
No one Can fail to he struck at the meta.
phorlcal resemblance between tins edl6ce
and the Administration itself.
l. The Administration is where il ought
not be.
2. II is unf, for its design.
3. 1t is exceedingly ugly.
4. ii IT does not soon tumble down of it.
self, twill be pulled down.--Col. Telescope.
VTThe committee on the District Of Co
lumbia IN the Ii. of K. has reported against
rc.cedlng that District. The report was
laid on The table.
We learn from the Rutherford Gazette,
that tho call Of the Governor for volunteers
IN Rutherford county, has been promptly
met, aud that the two Companies called for
have been more than filed up and the 9th.
er Western Counties we learn have also fur
nIshed their quota with equal promp,ness.
When our citizens show such promptness
aud readiness 10 do their duty, Is It not az.
gravaiing IN the extreme, 10 think of the
manner IN which the General Government
has hitherto forced IN soldiers from other
States, INTO the territory of North Carolina,
aud thereby laying US open to taun,s and
Jeers for not being able to defend ourselves
when all we wanted was an OPPORTUNITY
Liacoin Transcript.
CheroieeS.-There seems to be but lii |
lie doubt now bot that the whites viii have |
TO encounter serious difficulties, when they |
attempt TO enforce the late Treaty with the
Cherokee tribe OF Indians: a great deal Of
excitement already prevails among The sci.
tiers on the frontiers, from the reluctauce
which the Indians have evlnced to leave the
country. correspondent writer from
NayncsyIle, says: From all can learn, |
| do not believe that the Indians have the !
most distant idea Of removing | am IN /
formed that they are making more Improve. /
ments and greater preparations for "a crop, /
than they have ever done heretofore, though +
one cause OF that may be, OWING TO the fact I
that the commissioners have been recently I
Sauing their improvements y hlch may have /
stimulated them to industry, with the cxpec- /
tallon Of beng paid for their labor white |
men who have been among them, tell me-
that iho Indians say, tina, they never will |
leave the country; that they will die tirst
bat at the same time dIsclalm all intention 7
of fighting. don, think that they will EN-.
body themselves and make general battle /; |
they have no means of carving on a war;
They are almost en,irely destitute of am. (.
munllon and the means Of obtaining Il. Ii /
seems 10 be the general impression, that
when they find that they are to be removed |
BY force, they will retreat 10 the large |
mountains where they can eftctualy con-
cea themselves during the summer season.
When they find that all their efforts 10 es.
cape from the white man are Intellectual,
that the Treaty must inevitably be enforced
and thev removed, then, and not TILL then,
it is believed that they will fight ; they will
then become desperate, and sell their lives
as dear as possible 1t is thought that they
have not resolved on any thing definitely as
vet, nor will they until John Ross returns
from Washington, who exercises absolute !
control over them. -Ruthertordtoa Ga-.
Arrivals from EGG land to the 10Th March,
state that the arrivals of Cotton had been |
SO great at Liverpool, that there was a to.
tai suspension in the market, the rate of the
depression not having been fully ascertain
ed. To use familiar expression here,
81" the bottom of the Cotton market had ial. !
len out."- Fayetteville Observer.
Hon. John Ruggles.-The select COM
m,tlee who had under examination, for
long time, the subject of charges against
the Senator from Maine, have at length
made their rennLi las Will be seen by re.