Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1839-06-01

to The Vice Presidency, they clamor about the
expenditures of the government yet in Congress
they support every extravagant appropriation, and
waste the time of the session, and squander the
peoples money in useless debate. OF all the
parties that have ever arisen in this country, by
whatever name known, the modern wing party
have the least consistency, the least principle, the
least patriotism. Their sole object is po,rsr, and
they scrupe not as TO the means by which they
may attain it.
The Editor of the Aberdeen Wing must have
a very contemplate opinion of the people OF
Monroe" if he thinks he can gull them into the
belief that the public expenditures have increased
under Mr. Van Buren's administration to forty mil
lions per annum. We wonder If Mr. Reuben
Davis makes such assertions in his haraugues.
II he does, there is not a shool boy in the State,
over twelve years old, who could not answer and
reiute him. The out-cry raised by the wings
about public deiaulters is the merest slang, the
Uot piu(ul subterfuse that ever desperate, un-
pkncped party was driven to. Every body
knows lha, there nave been dciaulters ever since
the formation Of the government, and under eve
nv administration. An examination OF the OH.
cial documents will show, that of the whole num-
Der of discussing officers in default, more than
two thousand were before 1929, when Gen. Jack,
son came into Office, and only about forty be-
Eween that and 1897. A fair calculation makes
the aggregate losses of the Government by de-
Indications, since 1889, over $l8,000,000. The
amount lost under Gen. Jackson's administration
was only $9C0,oC0, while the average loss Of
each eight years under previous administrations
was three millions! But to put the charges about
delaulters ut rest, and "to cut up by the roots
thousands Of the rank weeds Of wing ingenuity
We shall publish in our next, very able and
clear article from the Richmond Enquirer upOr
the subject Of =" he Declarations" 1t perfect
" conclusive and unanswerablc.
Impartial testimony in taror Of an fndepend
eni Treasury, Judge Brookenbrough, the Pre-
sident Of the Bank of Virginia, is decided Sub
Treasury man. He was member Of the Dem
ocratic Convention which lately assembled a
Richmond, and if We are not mistaken, acted a
President Of it, The Charleston Mercury state
that "a majority of the Presidents of our Bank
, sound Presidents Of the soundest Banks in IT,
, Union, among them the amented Judge Col
cock, have been all along in favor Of the Sub
Treasury scheme Of separating bank and state
They knew that il was the best policy for homes
banks-and that the other was the scheme
speeulaiors, for whom New York clergyman
prayed, lately in the same category with loaiers.
In addition to this high testimony, We can stat
that the Presidents Of the Tombigby bank, and III
Planters Bank and many, il not majority of III
Directors ofthc Commercial Bank Of this pac
are all decided Sub. Treasury men.
The communication Of Lowndes," shall az
pear next week.
The Report of the Mayor for the years ls9
\ and 37, on the Finances Of the town Of Colur
bus, will be found in our columns to-day.
$ The Alexandria Gazette states that Llel
o Edwin w. Moore, late Of the U, S. Navy, h
. accepted the situation offered him by the Texr
government, as commander in chief Of tho TIE
ian Navy.
" Mr.. +. Petrich, talented sculptor of Was
81 lngton. is about to execute for that city stat
= Pof General Washington in white marble, at CO
Of $4,000. He has completed the model Of
Of statue, which is said In be very fine.
s, The door keeper Of the English House
N Commons lately died at the age Of rs years.
=, He left fortune of ll75,000, wholly acquil
:" since his appointment to that office.
Banking. affairs oSthe Oakland, Mi
i, igan) bank were lately examined by comm
IN sioners, and its vaults were found to contain,
=. specie, thirfy-ssrsn dollars and ihiriyour cer
2 Joe Smith and the other Mormon prison
ID made their escape from the officers while on Il
at removal from the jail Of one county in MissC
TO another