The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-09-19

Jackson undertook to glDe as a tsbette,.
currency" and transferred money mat
tiers from the counting -house to the
grog-shop or the politicians stump; ;
when man might travel from Maine
to Louisiana without being Maped-
and when the consumers of merchan-
disc were not taxed from three to fif-
teen per cent. in addition to the ordi-
nary profits of the merchant, to pay
for the difference in exchange-when
we heard no balderdash about gold
and silver, and yet every man could
have his money converted into that
shape. without loss, if he chose to do
SO. The truth is, we were we'll, very
well; but because some folks wanted
to make little political capital, and
had no other means whatever to do
it, they persuaded US that we ought
to be bettey-we listened to them, and
followed their advice: they made their
political capital; but where are we?
"Mr. Broker, what is the discount
upon this money?''
"Three per cent. SIR"
"And this?"
"Ten per cent?
"And this?"
awe don't buy it. We can do
nothing with it.-It may be good at
home, but we cannot make ex-
changes
That's where we are. And how
much of even such trash is the farmer
going to get next year for a bushel of
wheat?
HUNTING THE PREsIDENT.-G Cover
nor Call ofFlorida, lately sent com
mitee to confer with the President
concerning the defence Of Florida.
The committee have been racing over
a large portion of the State of New
York to catch His Majesty long
enough to have talk with him. but
up to the last accounts they could not
get up with him. This is a pretty spec
tacle indeed. The people of one por-
ton Of our territory bleeding under
the seal ping knife and the tomahawk,
and their representatives running all
over the country trying to hunt out
the President, who is absent from his
post and his duties, on an electioneer-
ing tour. A correspondent Of the
New York Times, writing from Sara
toga Springs on the Goth. says:
"After Mr.. Van Buren, had left
this morning, a delegation from Flori-
da arrived here, to confer with the
President in relation to the Florida
war.
Mr.. Van Buren, was informed, yes
terday, that such a deputation were
on their way to see him, and would
reach here in the cars at O'Clock this
day.
The President, however, had made
his arrangements for his electioneer-
ing tour at the north, and could not
wait. He had appointed tomorrow
to visit his Democratic fellow-citizens
at Whitehall; a matter with him of
much more Importance than the Flori-
da war with the Indians.
The delegation leave here in the
morning of tomorrow, Wednesday,
in pursuit Of this electioneering Presi-
dent. How long will the people sub
nit to this Presidential electioneering,
to the neglect Of such important Off
cial duties.'''
A DEN OF HORSE THIEVES BROKEN UP.
The Paris, ILL.,, Sentinel gives the.
following details of the discovery and
arrest Of thieves in that state.
An old man having lost his horses,
discovered them some time after, tied
to a tree. He waited until a person
came to feed them, raised his rifle and
shot him down. Upon approaching,
the old man discovered the thief to be
his own. son. He gave his father
5000 dollars, which he said he had
made BY horse-stealing, and stated
that there were fourteen men in the
vicinity engaged in the same business.
Twelve Of them, upon his information,
have. been unprecedented, and are now
in the Atlas jail, Pike county. Sixty.
stolen horses have been recovered.
A REMARKABLE FAcr. The Rev.
Mr.. Scoble stated, in his remarks at
the Chapel, on Wednesday evening,
that he had visited all the prisons Of
the West India Islands, during his
tour, and Of all the prisoners, that he
saw in them, there was not a single