Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-02-27
The Globe, the official Jour

PUBLIC DEBT.-The Globe, the official Jour-
nal OF the present administration, copies with
out comment or contradiction, a paragraph
from a New \ ork paper, III which the float
ing claims against the government are set
down at $57, 100000. In srch case, we
may we'll hold that silence gives CONSENT
And it is thus virtually admitted by the Globe
that, whereas the nation was free from debt
and its Treasury foil on the 18th March, 1887,
when the present Administration came into
power, there is now, before its zone term, eX-
pres an actual, existing debt of more than
twenty-seven millions of dollars! If no pro-
vision has been made by this eXtravagant and
reckless administration to meet the public debt,
and thus do justice to the creditor and main
tain the honor of the country, it only makes
the matter worse.
But really, with such tacit admission of
its deep Indebtedness by the official journal OF
the Government, the defamation in the Annu-
al Message, on the Nervousness or impolicy--
on the crime or the fauh-of national debt
is particularly edifying! Twenty-seven mil
lions and half, besides squandering away the
cash on hand,' at the commencement of its
term seems to Us as doing pretty large bu-
debt by the locofoco administration, now in
power-BaH. Pat.
MA1NE-The Message of Gov KENT insists
on the rights of Maine. in reference to the
Boundary Question, to the full extent OF their
! former assertion. He says.
'The time cannot be far distant, when the
question must assume a more definite shape,
either peaceable or warlike; and much as we
may deprecate the awful evils and miseries
of war, we ought to be prepared to meet the
| e = Il, Ia of
our opponents, with the firmness of men who
feel that they have the right, and who will not
WELD to threats or force the inheritance of our
fathers and the rightful territory of our State.
! The unanimity which has characterized our
State on this question, in the midst of all our
political exctements, is a sure guarantee that
| the people are ready to sustain their rulers IN
all judicious, temperate, yet firm and decided
measures, and that it is regarded by them as
too sacred and too solemn subject to be made
the instrument OF any more party schemes or
mQ 2yf tfn tsS:blect of the recent military oc-
i cupa1ion of Madawaska by order OF tue GOV
ernor General of Canada, Governor hent
says
81 cannot but view this proceeding, as my
, predecessor does, in his reply TO Sir John Har
vev, as "a direct and palpable infringement o.
the subsisting arrangement and as taxing
, military possession of that portion OF the con
, tested Territory. And if the suggestion o
TT. Gov. Harvey, who seems not to have peer
consulted in relation TO this new act OF JurlS
t diction, and evidently regards 1t with regret
not as an infringement of subslstlng arrange
ments, is disregarded, and the British troop
are permanently located at Madawaska, | sha
feel # nv duty to reiterate the request aread
made to the General Government, and to urg
upon the Government the Justice and eXped
encv of taking military possession on the pa
of the United States of the territory IN oil
mite The General Government owes 1t
Maine to move forward in this matter, Wi
nominees an energy, with sincere, and eve
anxious desire TO preserve peace, but with
equally firm determination to MAINTAIN SUBS!
tine engapementS on our part, and to lnSl
mon full performance from the other pa
ty."
The following very singular narrative
COW from the St. Louis Republican, OF /;
Wednesday.
ga singular incident occurred during the n
days on the opposite side OF the river. L
, ladies who resided in Illinois, came to the G
to make purchases. A well dressed man
49, lowed them into several stores, at one
which, one of them got ten dollar bill CHI
ged, receiving the change in small bills.
. the evening, on their return home whe1
short distance from the Ferry, IN the pral
the same man they had seen in the city, r
o. up TO them and demanded their money, !
one who had the money drew it out, and
tempting to hand it to him the wind eau
the bills and carried them off to the ground
The man dismounted to pick them up, an'
d. soon as he was down, the ladies put win!
their horses and made off as fast as posi-
!, On their way they heared the clatter OF
u SEES hoofs following them, but were too m
terrified to stop or look back: when I
r of reached their own gate, behold the roDt
lpli horse was WIN .nein' l ~ saddla' hsos
Mr. elegant Sdddle, anu par VI o"oo,0