Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-04-02


'istence OF the three sources, though derived i'm
"mediately from one or two Of them only. Ia.
'ken in its most enlarged sense, without com.
'merce industry would have no stimulus; without
manufactures, il would be without the means of
production; and without agriculture, neither OF
"the others can exist. When separated entirely
"dnd permanently, THEY MUST PERIsH." What
is the present condition Of oil these great ee
ments and agents Of national wealth we need not
state to our readers, most OF whom, as well as
ourselves, feel it too keenly 10 require any other
evidence on the subjec We have lately shown
10 our readers, however, by extracts from the pa.
pers Of the South and West, what is the cond.
ton oil those great divisions Of our county,
Eastward, from Boston, even, we have in the last
papers limitations Of heavy failures: the condi
ton Of Philadelphia has been faithfully described
in The letters oil our Correspondent and from Bal.
timoIe we received on Saturday the following let.
ter, describing the condition Of that enterprising
and spirited manufacturing and commercial city:
BALTIMORE, MARCH II, 1912.
"GENTLEMEN: saw yesterday under yonr New
Orleans head letter representing the state of af-
fairs in that city. 1 hope you will permit me to
follow it up by al!uson to the state Of things
here Prostitution, utter pros;raton, attends all
the operations OF business. Since the establish
ment OF the city nothing has occurred to equal the
state OF the community at this time. Stocks are
absolutely volueess. Our city per cent. stock is
drug at 3d. in fact it NAV be had at SO. Business
men know not whom TO trust they look wild with
CONSERVATION. The handicrafts are at a stand
Crowds are collected in our principal square to de-
wise measures of relief thousands in attendance
nightly, and serious apprehensions have been enter
tanned OF some popular outbreak; this will be aver
ted, however, at all hazards. We look to Congress
n,rl,, .l.- g 4.
do something to restore confidence and relieve the
People. The delay has been too great already
They must act or all will be anarchy and ruin"
Such is the purport of our public advces, and
such that OF private letters, from every quar-.
ter; less gloomy from some parts Of the country
than in others, but Of the same tinge, more or
less deep, everywhere. "PERIsH CREDIT! Per.
IsH COMMERCE.! were, as our readers must we'll
recollect, the watchwofds OF those whose unfor-
tunate experiments in finance and currency have
brought about the present state OF things. How
painfully are not all the interests of the country
now suffering under the curse Of this ncantaton
Though certainly very DESTROYS to see the
House OF Representatives make more rapid pro
gress in the considerations Of the great questions
of the Tariff and the Currency, (as nseparably
connected, thong twain, as the Siamese brothers)
we are not among those who doubt of its ultimate
efficient action upon them. The discussion Of
the last two or three weeks have shown the preva.
lence in the House Of an inquistve disposition,
such as is favorable 10 the reform Of public abu
SEES. The great mass OF these abuses, however,
ale not to be discovered in the catalogue of those
expenditures which pass annually and directly un.
der the revision Of Congress such as the contn.
gent expenditures Of their own bodies, which are
always under the control and regulation of each
House, but in the great aggregate Of expenditure
and emolument which, appropriated in Masses or
extracted from the revenue before it reaches the
Treasury, arms the Executive with patronage,
OF the extent of which few even Of the old Mem
bers of Congress are fully aware. We have seen
a Marshal Of the U. States receiving emoluments
to the amount of eighty thousand dollars year,
whilst proposition to augment the salary Of the
President OF the U. States to one-half Of that
amount Ohough not an unreasonable proposition)
would have been secuted in either House Of Con.
gress. We have seen Collector of the Reve.
nue.. holding his own authority at the absolute
WI and pleasure Of the Executive enjoying him.
self prl,i;S S; .ovenue and welding power over
five hundard subordinate agents dependent upon
his pleasure for employment or dismissal with or
without cause, whilst perhaps the House Of Rep
resentatves has been debating for days together,
whether it would or would not authorize an addl-
tiona clerk or messenger to public Office. With
out any authority from Congress we have seen the
number of agents employed by this Collector in
creased, from the time Of Mr.. ADAMs's Admins
tration up 10 the beginning Of the present, from
something more than hundred and fifty to hive
hundred-and the aggregate emoluments Of said
officers augmented from two hundred thousand to
five hundred thousand dollars a year-and yet
this not only without any augmentation OF reve.
nue. requiring such an increase, but on the contra
ry with diminished revenue. The Postmaster
even OF one OF our cities receives Tor has receved)
in emoluments annually more than four times the
amount OF the salary Of the Chief Justice Of the
U. States: and as to the corruption and waste oil
public money under the cover OF Indian treaties
and the like enormities, il the veil be ever rent
from them by Congress, the incongruty Of the
tolerated practices OF public agents with the
omy to which Congress would hold them all if it
knew how, will be made sufficiently apparent.
We mention these things cursory only to illus.
trae the general observation, how very much
more worthy OF inquiry and reform by Congress
are the expenditures by and upon public officers
which do not pass before members OF Congress in
any form OF legislative review, and therefore
wholly elude their attention, than some Of those
which have been occasionally the subjects OF pro.
onged debate.
Our readers will have seen with pleasure that
the House last week escaped from the unprofta.
BILE discussion concerning printing and the public
press, &C., BY referring to q select committee the
inquiry into the exPediency Of establishing Ma.
tonal Printing Office; measure which has
been often spoken Of and is well worthy OF con
sideraton.
Saturday was we'll snent in the third readiY