Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-03-11

in the MARLBORO Planters Advocate OF
March q: - r.
'No MORE SMALL NOTES by the most
unaccountable action of one Legislature on
the subject of the Small Note Law, it is now
illegal to offer in payment a note of Mary
land Bank less than five dollars. We say
the action of the Legislature is most unac-
countable-for it is in contradiction to the
known wishes of the people Of the State, it
is contrary to the most obvious dictates of
political economy, and it will only check
great public convenience and forward the
progress of underhand payments. We be-
lieVe the people in this State-we speak
with certainty of those in this region-are
utterly opposed to the Law now in opera
ton. Petitions upon petitions have gone
up to the Assembly, pressing earnestly its
repeal, but no repeal has been effected.
''Tne passage of this abominable law, in
the first instance, was an evidence that
under panic, men Can rarely act rational
ly; in the immediate presence of what they
think to be danger, they will lay hand upon
anything whatever, in the hope that it may
prove remedy. That which has main
tanned the law in public estimation, at all,
is the Inconvenience caused by the explo-
sion Of shin-plaster manufactures though
the majority Of those unfortunate instances
is owing to The passage Of the law itself.
But whatever occasIoned its adoption,
whether it was fear of small notes or any
thing else, we think it was a most short
sighted policy to abolish the notes them
selves. Small individual notes-what are
they but ordinary promissionary notes?
What is their use, other than to promote
vastly the public convenience, particularly
in periods when coin is scarce article?
There are such periods, and political
economists, from Adam Smith dewnwards,
have universally agreed to it, when silver
will be scarce, or when gold will be scarce,
according to their relative value at home or
abroad. But it can never stay abroad for
ever; it must and will return according as
its value is inverted, when it is high at home
and In foreign countries cheap. But no legis
lation can ever affect this ebbing and flow
ing of specie, any more than it can affect
the ebbing and flowing of the tide. lfmoney
brings higher price In New York than in
Baltimore, to New York it will fow-nor
can an act of assembly prevent it. When
1t has passed out of our territory no such
act will ever bringit back, until, as is bound
to be the Case, it shall decrease in value at
New York and increase in Baltimore. So
that 1t is most absurd doctrine to prohibit
the currency of paper, in order to keep
among us quantity of specie"
Mrs. TYLER's LETTER to the Duchess of
Sutherland. the London Times speaks of as
''screechy," ''shrill," and .'long- winded 3"
Also, ''6erce," ''indiscriminate, and '.lu-
dicrously portentious. ~. y Express.
What will the Elk. President say to this.
"Me and my wife" will ego of, '-p5e haps.
SINGULAR TRopHlEs-Bishop Ives, sin
token of tilial dury," has presented to the
Pope the episcopal ring and seal of his
former Office. They are to be hung at the
shrine Of St. Peter
MODEL WIFE.-An exchange. in a very
eulogistic obituary of a lady says:-"She
was married twenty-four years, and in all
that time never once banged the door,
A HUSBAND WANTED.-By a yung laidey
of inkonsiderable pursenal detractions and
gud edikashun. She is under SO years of
| aige, and Of taul dellekate fgger. She has
very fine i, having Tossed the other by an
orful fit of the smaulpocks her ackom-
plisLments konsst Of whisling with great
power, sweetness, and plantin pertaters.
She has bin takin lessins in bocksin, and
she is wiliin to Civ ampil proofs to hooso-