Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-02-26

tion to produce the requisite supply, American cot
ton will be met with a prohibitory duty. Five
years, it is confidently predicted will bring about
this 10 them) desirable end. India will drive the
Cotton and Rice planter from the English market,
as she did the producer of Indigo.
The cost Of production in India is nothing, as
compared with even that Of slave labor. Manila
Sugar is now selling in Boston, after paying duty,
at 81 cents per pound.
The Exchequer of the United States.
The chief officers 10 be the Secretary Of the
Treasury and the Treasurer Of the United States,
for the time being, and one Commissioner, to be
appointed ty the President Of the United States,
with the consent cf the Senate. The Commission
er is TO be allowed a salary Of $4,000 per annum.
The Secretary Of the Treasury is placed ovei the
whole. The officers are not TO be,rcmovcd save for
incomPctcncy, physical inability, or violation OF
their duties There is also to he Clerk, Reg lister,
and Superintendent, appointed in the same way,
with-salaries. Principal agencies are 10 he
uhlished at Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Charleston, and New Orleans, aud other boa,ds
where the same may I've deemed expedient.
All public monies arc to be paid into this En-
chcquer
1t is to attend to the business Of paying pensions
Private deposits in gold and silver, to the amount
Ct 50 900 Ooo may be made, for Which certificates
will be issued.
The mint and its branches are authorized TO give
certificates for bullion.
Foreign and domestic Bills of exchange may be
bough, for the use of the Government, under the
direction Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Exchequer is, in substance, $4,000, 900
institution and not mnch different from the plan
recommended ty the Secretary of the Treasury.
The report of the minority committee then
read for the information of the House by the Clerk
of the House. 1t was prepared Ivy Mr.. DAVIS, OF
Ky, and advocated National Bank after present.
ing in detail objections to the proposed Board OF
Exchequer.
The following copy of a new petition 10 the le-
gisidture was handed us this morning. II is couch
ed in delicate but sincere language aud is not
mere badinagc. Men are sine ~ in this matter,
ard the dcer, indignant tone which pcrvadcs sncc.
y will not make itself heard as well as felt at Hlr-
rishurgh. We understand that copy Of this pc
tition is suspended in Huichenson's Hotel in
Chestnut street. I, is nine feet long and already
contains eLren thousand signatures t-fkiiad.
Guzcite.
ITO the Honorable the Senate AMI House of
Representatives Of the State of PEI nsyl,snia.
The undersigned citizens, vorers and tax pay
in the Slate Of P,nnsy ylvania, believing that the
continuance of the present session Of the State le
gslu,ure will not only be great expense to the
commonwealth, without any edequate return to
their constituency, but may he fraugh, with much
injury 10 themselves and their felow>citizens gen.
erally-Thcy therefore most earnestly and respect
fully pray, that your honorable bodies will mmedi.
a,ely, and without any further delay, adjourn
Judging from the past, they are constrained IN 'st
humhly to state tina, ia their opinion no salutary
good flow from any further legislation and tiia,
any continued action on your par, will rather tend
10 make things worse than remedy any Of the ma
ny evils which now so severely aud most injuri-
ousy oppress them. They feel a deiicacy in as.
signing other reasons for this most earnest and
I humble prayer-they however trust that senti.
we'll known to your honorable bodies; to presume
otherwise would be to disparagc that wslom and
scumen which SO peculiarly belongs to the enlight,
ened Legislators OF this great commonwealth, and
which your petitioners 50 fully accord them"
We were yesterday shown the certificate of mar
rage between James G. Boyd, the former Cashier
of the Towanda Bank, who committed suicide Oh
| Thursday morning, aud Miss W iliiams, with whom
he was living a, the time the ho!rid sc, was com
mitted. by it, it would appear ,ha, on the esth o
February, isil, Boyd, under the name of Henry
Seymour, ,narred Miss Emily Williams, the cere
mony being performed at Trenton, N. j.) by tt,
Rev. John Gilchrst, d. d. s. Gd=.
The Globe inorns the pubic that the threat o
Mr. Dawson of La. to Mr.. Arnold that "f he di,
not behave better he would cut his throat from ca
10 ear" was merely to preserve order and decorum
and grew out of regard for the dignity Of lh
House ;! !"-Alerandria GaSciie.
Ertracf from a LORcOn Paper
"Wc're not ourselves,
When nature, being oppressed commands the min
TO suffer with The body"
This is a Iruism conceived by the master min
of Shakespeare which neither sophIsiTy nnI srgumeI
can refu,e. 10 ull those who are suffering fror
bilious attacks, indigestion aud hlluency, We woul
with great sincerity recommend, as . never io;lin