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The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-29
kgom The Haehmond Enquirer,
LETTER FROM BEyERhY TUCKER, ESQ


70 he Biao,s ef he Enquirer
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-29

FUEL Messrs. 7. J. and VIM. NJ Gait a truly enter
prisng firm, are now receiving extensive supplies Of
fuel Of all kinds and Of the best qualities They stow
Their coal under root and on floor which keeps the
article dry and free from dust aud dirt They deal
fairly and prompt in the execution of all orders in
their line Of business
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EBBITT HOUSE.

street. between 18th and I4th Streets
WASHINGTON, d. G..
THIS popular and fashionable hotel has been thor
oughy repaired and furnished with and
contains one hundred and has all the requisites
first class house.
The prorcs have provided coach which win be the
depot and steamboat landing arrival for the conveyance
passengers and baggage TO the hotel
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william Grandin,

WlIIIam GfAnuIH,
AND UNITED STATES COURT or CLAIMS COMMISSIONER,
No 70 PraaAin arsd, Ne0 Tork.
Commissioner Maine Hampshire Vermont Connecticut Rhode
Island, Pennsyv Ohio Indiana, Michigan Town, Wis
oonsn Kentucky Tennessee, louisiana Ala
bama Mississippi Georgia,
Florida, &c.
Kansas Nebraska Minnesota and tho United States Territories
Pensions. patents, speedily obtained
All kinds OF law business successfully prosecuted.
Special attention paid TO Court Of Claims business.
May 26--6m
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, OCTOBER H. 1857.

cpe Of them in debt more or Tess. 10 the merchants
but not TO such an extent but that their grain very
low figures, viii pay their debts. The crops, this
esson just about the they were last year
Wheat though 30 good has been represented by
many, is sti good crop, and Com Is very nearly an
average crop; so that there viii undoubtedly be mil
lions Of bushels for shipment. Prices have ruled 90
high during the last two years that the farmers do no
Ike TO sell at the prices that now offered, which
csuses a general embarrassment.
There s nothing 20 far as sm able to judge, In the
sctusl condition oftbis portion ofhe country TO warrant
ANYTHING like panic In money matters Business men
here, in general seem to repose confidence IN each
ether ard disposition to accommodate seems TO pre-
vail in business circles. Men who are known to be
good can obtain money, a. general thing. Business
men have generally drawn their balances close up in
order to pay their Eastern debts for goods stock &C.
But the actual condition of this country much better
than the state of the bsnks would seem to indicate.
For yery many who have drawn their balances at bank
have supplied farmers sufficient to meet their most
pr. ssipe wants Real estate holds its own here for 1t
true that in eastern portions of our State land has
only risen in price fast the ecuai progress ana
Improvement Of the country has warranted, ana no
faster There fore conclude that, IN financial point
i view this part of the West is in perfectly safe ana
prosperous condition. 80
Becsuse |. The produce of the current year VIII az
very low figures pay our debtsl uean those owed by
the bone and snew of the country, the farmers and
manufacturers. And,
ii. The wealth of the country real and nominal, has
only kept pace with its actual improvement and pro-
gress. q. Il w,
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

mutt be that nothing. Az evil equally great is the
door it Immediately opens for speculation, by which
the east desigpng and perhsp. most valuable part Of
the community are preyed upon by the more knowing
and crafty specustors. But contrary to my intention
and declaration am offering reasons in support Of
least pleasing to the advocates for paper money.
sball therefore only observe generally that 20 many
people have suffered by former emissions, that, like
burnt child who breads the fire, no person viii touch
who can possibly avoid it, the natural consequence
Of which will be- that the specie which remains une1.
ported will be instantly locked up.
CEO WASHINGTON.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

viot nee, aed prevent fraud at al hszsrts Thsy com-
so.s thst ali who voted Illegally might have the Cd
ditionsl crime Of perjury TO answer for Their prepare
tiers or snd unsn.mous determina,ios TO punish
violence generally were sucee sful In preventing e.
But Il IVES bitter terrible satire on popular sov-
"sr'grty. ard the right OF the people to Form thsr
"own institutions through the ballotbcx." to mest
peaceful citizens going toward the polls With res
,b.,r shorldsrs or revolvers suspended from their
belts, and TO witness the fesrfal apprehension sf
wives ard families for the safety Of their absent hus-
tsrds srd 'athers
The southern psrt Of the Territory sends in g'orous
returns South OF the Ksrsss River the sentiment q
the people Is almost unanimous for Freedom. IL -
easy 10 undeIstssd after seeing the tremendous Free
State msjorities-of which send you few samples
wby Gov. Wsker was anxious to disfranchiss the
Son'h Icok az the figures:
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
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THE KANSAS ELECTION.

The result of the recent election for members Of the
Territorial Legislature in Kansas is still in doubt; tha.
is there is still doubt as to which party will OBJ
tain majority of certificaied members; though there
appears to be very little to which is entitled thereto.
The Border Rufisn journals claim msority Of one in
the Council ar four in the House of Representatives;
and they will probably manipulate the returns to cor
respond and thus make up their mscacuaions as
the number of Mssourans necessary to overcome the
vote e the settlers. The only wonder is that they have
not the effrontery to claim the election of Ransom,
their candidate for Delegate to Congress. TIE Chi.
cogo TriJn, from ts correspondence ard exchanges,
A. f,Ilox
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

C,o,, IN CEsrRAL ILLson.-Extracf fom
Letter TO The TRIBUsr dated Henry, Peoria County.
Illinois, October ~:
Crops were good here Ia ihis N year; ~nsss yeions
sas cron corn good-say from thirty to fifty bushels
rsr acre. The opening OF Spring was very unfsvor-
able for corr; but the month Of September was very
favorable end up to this date there has been no os
10 nure corn or potatoes these last will average about
ore hundred bushels per acre, and Of q firstTsts
quality. Apples are about an average crop, accord
iig 10 the be- information caa get and are worth
nom SOC. TO 81 per bushel There is bur lits dora
at rsisipg any other kind Of fruit 10 this section.
Peaches do not succeed well the Prafies; they DO
net bear uors than in four or Eve yesrs. Pnms
fcsresly more II an experiment; pears not cf-
Oushly tested Ounces are scarcely knovr except ~
name. Grapes are raised 10 very limited e1teat,
but sucssed ,veiy vel 70 far I" thsy nave pes
properly tested. D..
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
JBy Telegraph
MEETING OF BOSTON MERCHANTS.

BosIoS, Friday, Oct. l6, 1857.
A meeting of Bank Directors and leading merchants
was held this forenoon at which the policy of an ex
tension of money facilities was discussed.
Mr. " illiam Appleton thought that the banks might
safely increase their loans to the amount Of last August
about $50 OOO,OOO At the present time they amonnt
to about $40, 100000.
Mr.. Nathan Appleton expressed similar views.
Messrs. Lamb and Hall, for the bank officers, ex-
pressed their earnest desire to act, so far as their
present position would justify for the relief Of the
business con nj unity.
The meeting then adjourned till tomorrow morning
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
tree-sss.s. rroS,svWy.
Totd.... .'::;;'''.'.''';''....'.S.S VIZ.


The feeling of the people toward Gov: Walker
yery bitter They hold him responsible for tho inta-
nous apportionment they believe the frauds ct Kick
apoo were perpetated with his full knowledge n0t
instjea,ed byshim; and they kaor that in his two
latest procamsons be has sect forth to the world tho
most wanton and shameless asehoods in regard to the
Free State party.
The Missouri River IL unusually low, even for this
season Of the year. We have been aground dozee
times within tie last tweutyfour hours, and some 81
the bars are 20 near 'be surface of the water that
impossible for any but light draft boats TO pass over
them.
The following telegraphc dispatch furnishes the
latest intelligence ftt m Kai sas
ST. LOUIS, Friday Oct. l6, 1857.
We have Kansas advices 10 the 18th inst. Both
psties claim The viotory in the late election. csv
Walker deerds the votirg Of the soldiers at Kicks-
poo. on the ground that Elk months enrolment msks
them citizens. We have official rttsrn OF the
election.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

TIA Missouri PKKsBrrEREs on SLAvLRY.-The
New School Presbyterian Synod of Missouri, consisting
of four Presbytees 80 ministers aud 81 churches at
its annual session in St Louis last week, was chiefly
occupied with the discussion of its relations TO the
General Assembly, in view of the action of that body
in Cleveland last Msy on the question Of Slavery The
committee which had the matter under consic Grafton
being unable to agree, two reports presented TO
the Synod. That of the msjOsy consisted of the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Rssored That this Synod does Withdraw from the Assembly
end will not send up its records
kesolred That with the Richmond Convention
but viii Iemsn independent Synod Until the providence
God shall seem 70 make clear our way OF duty.
Assembly.
The first rssoiution was adopted BY msjOrty of II
10 10, aid the second unanimously.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE CASHIER OF THE AGRICULTURAL
BANK OF HERKlMER.

HERKINER via UTICA, FRIDAY, Oct. I6, 1851.
The Grand Jury have dismissed as unfounded all
the complaints made against Harvey Dootie, Cashier
of the Agricultural Bark Of Herkuler. A meeting Of
The Directors and Stockholders of the Bank, repre-.
sentpg four fths of its capital had previously unani
mously certified that the charges were untounded, and
that thew had entire confidence in the Receiver and
that his appointment necessary and udicous, aud
that they reGue sted his continuance.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
DOAN KING & co. OF ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIE rHuhy, Uct TO, ISJ7.
The alleged failure Of Me'rs. DOan, King Co.,
and Colint, Kirby & Co. Of this city, published in
The Ne York Express of the 18th inst. on the author.
ity of private dispatches, is authortativey contra
dicted There hs, been foundation for the asser.
ton of The Express, and these firms regarded as
among the most responsible houses in the city.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF IOWA.

Correspondence of The N. 7. Tribune.
NATioSAL, Clayton Co Iowa, Oct. H. loo'
In times of disaster and revusion like the present an
exact knowledge of the condition. pscunary and ether
wise, Of every section Of the country may conduce "
the general quiet. You are aware that there are no
banks of issue our State but banks Of exchange ana
deposit have been established in all the more important
owns. These institutions, in addition to tnelr legu'
mate business, have in most instances been Jooo'ns
in real estate. Until within two years the usaAi
method has been to enter the land for actual settlers
with land warrants which cost the spectators perhaps
$lOO per leo acres, and to charge the settler io
to 5000. This, you will perceive, is paying
Within the past two years, however, these moneyea
stitutiohs have entered thousands OF acres VI 'aAu
at the regular Government price, much Oh "hicn Is
probably ia their hands yet; though Is 'a'' .n''
there is rot an acre Of good tlsble and east u Tue
center of our State that is not worth u % per acre
But considerable portion of these ianSs 80 eu.''e
have already been soId at from 8 to $40 per acre
spprehend that the direct land business oil Ihe oahks
in biz State is entirely safe. However na! go oe -.
that n have in some instances loaned then 10
te used in unsafe specuatons, such as ~. ,,n
ots and the like. 1t is my oPnion S nov" 30 1vsn,
banks in this State perfectly sousa a1t a. n.
ard such is the general belief, nahuen g. 'H'
ties they hold are safe. All, oor,.,
Tie principal drain Of money from ms country,
excent be irdebt,dpess of railroads, will be sy way OF
the country merchants, who owe ue "noiesaie {
deslers and who in their turn, as Petnafs IN oeoI
to the importers. The farmers here Ge 'seaty every
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
makes up the following returns

IL the above returns from johnson County are
correct, or anything like it, the Free-State party
have carried the Legislature. " Douglass and
johnson Counties ana all that part of the Ter
ritory of Kansas lying west OF the C)unties
of Wise Butler and Hunter form one District,
eleclirg eight members of the House and three
Counci'men. Johnson County which is mainly an
unsettled Indian Reservation, with a population ill.,
Guiding men, women and children, not equal to half
the number of votes which the Pro-Slsvery Democ
racy claim to have cast and the part of territory
ferred to as lying west of Wise, Butler and Hunter,
were tackled on Douglas to swamp, if possible the
almost unanimous FreeSate vote Of that county, and
it is more than probable that imaginary returns
of imaginary votes poled at imaginary precincts, in
the unorganized territory west of Wise, Butler aud
Hunter will be produced in sufficient quanttyto over
the splendid Free State vote Of Douglas County
The Chicogo Tribune closes its compilation OF the
above returns with the following remarks:
"The above returns all we have been able to
collect from which ii appears that B0rder-Rutiisn De-
mocrscy have carried the four counties on the nver
adjoining Missouri viz: Donipban, Atchson, Leaven'
worth and johnson. The majority in the latter, how
ever is overcome by the splendid Republican vote OK
Douglas, in which Lawrence is located The other
three gives the Rufisns 10 members OF the Council,
provided they have carried DOniphan, which is in
doubt. But in the Council, or Upper House, they are
only sure OF four members. DOniphan having been
attached to four Republican counties for the purpose
Nf wan ping them, got swamped herself.
The National Democracy claim 800 majority in Douglas
CounIy.
A correspondent of Tie Boston Journal on the
steamer Tropic route for S.. Louis, with dates ftom
Qundaro ana Leavenworth to the evening of the Sth,
writes as follows:
Late in rhe evening, just before left, Gen. Pome-
roy who lives within Two miles Of the county lnes)
brt ught news that both Donphan County and the
r.. cil of uhip forms a.
Free State by decided majority. This intelligence,
which seems to be arthentc, divides the Legislature
thus:
Free State. Pro.slsvery,
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
Reply.


Rather than correct New, Jerseys misapp,ehen.
sions .eriotm it seem. advisable to rest.te our po-
sitiops more clearly, fpossble, viz:
/. Credit should be given mainly by capitalists,
and not to much extent by men Of small means,
merely because they wish to sell their wares or
products. A poor man should insist on pay down
for whatever he has to dispose Of whenever that is
attanable If he can only flourish in trade by trust
ing hither and yon be should wind up and withdraw.
H. Credit should be extended only 10 those
whom the creditor kno,cs to be upright and solvent
so solvent as not to depend on late frosts or high
prices for w heat and Cotton to enable him to pay.
To credit average retailers of goods iu Minnesota
and Nebraska is to incur risks which none but a
very rich man has right to run, and which a
prudent, wise man will be very unlikely to brave.
III. 1t does not follow that, because consumer
ought to pay down for what be buys, merchant
should always do SO. A merchant may sometimes
witely buy more goods than he can pay down for,
provided he cells them infeIibly for ready pay.
Credit between excbangers is legitimate, 90 that
the producer is paid down and the consumer pays
down.
". No jobber in New.YOrk ran know the sOlv-
ercy, integrity and business capacity Of two or
three hundred or two or three thousand retailers
scattered all over the country so well as shipping
or importing houie here can know the standing Of
its neehbors and fellow-traders who have been do
ing business on the next corner in the next street
for the last twenty or thirty years.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
MONEY AFFAIRS IN BOSTON.

BosToS, Friday, Oct. l6, 1857.
The norey market remains quiet, and everybody
appears TO be awaiting the result Of the suspension
Stocks show little more activity. Toe specie bro
bsrs realizing small gans-gold being plenty at
one per cent premium.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE NEW.ORLEANS BANKS.
NEW ORLEANS, OcI

NEw ORLEANS Oct. l5-r. NJ.
The run continues on all the banks except the
Southern, and all demands are promptly met except
bv tho Citizens which pays specie for its notes bot
refuses it for deposit The other banks are expected
TO follow tho same course. The great excitement Of
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE NEW-LONDON RANKS

NV LONDON, Friday Oct. Is, 1857.
The Nev-LOndOn Banks have not yet suspended
specie payments. There 10 no excitement here.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, Oct TO- 1851
Stocks are dull. Pernsylvaria State Fives S2i;
Reading X. r., Ia; bid. Morris Canal, 49, Long
leland X. r., 8; Pennsylvania X. r., 30.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE BRIDGEPORT BANKS.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, Friday, Oct. l6, 1857.
The Connecticut Bridgeport, Farnes', ard Pc
quonnock banks Of this city have suspended specis
payments.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE BANKS OF OSWEGO.

OswIGo, Friday, Oct. l6 1857.
Luther Wnght's Bank does not open at all to-day.
All tie other banks pay specie as utua
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

WAsnlNGroN's OPINION OF PAPLR MoNEY.-The
following letter, written by Gen. Washington more
than seventy years ago. the paper bank currency
question, will be read just with more .han ordn
AIRY interest:
MOUNT VERNON, Feb. y, 1887.
DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 3Oth ult came duly to
hand. To give an opinion In cause of so much I'M
portance as that which has warmly agtated the two
branches of your legislature, and which, from the ap
neal that made likely to create great and perhaps
5anoerous divisions is rather delicate matter but
ss This diversity Of opinion is subject which has,
heleve occupied the minds of most men, and as my
sentiments thereon have been fully and decidedly
expressed long before the Assembly either OF MARY
land or this State was convened, l DO NOT scruple
to declare that il | had voice IN your Legisia-
ture It would have been given decdedly egahs.
paper emission, upon the general pnncipe OF
It's utility as a representative and the necess,y Vi
1t as medium. To assign reasons ior tnis oPiniou
would be as unnecessary tedious; the ground nas
been go often trod that place hardly remains uu.
touched IN word the necessity arising from wan,
contend that II by the substance not the shadow oil
q thing, thai we are 10 be benefited.
Tbe wisdom oi man, in my humble opinion, cannot,
at this time, devise plan by which the redt OF paper
money would he long supported consequently depreci
alton keeps pace with the quantity of emission aud
s,tc ca for which is exchanged rise in greater ratio
than the sinking value of the money. Wherein then,
Is the farmer the planter and artisan benefited The
debtor NAV be- because, as have observed be eiyes
the shadow in lieu OF the substance and In propo,-
tou to his gam the creditor body polite suffer
Whether il be legal tender or not it will, as has
been observed very truly, leave no aternatvs-it
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

the middle Of the day has now sub.ded, but the run
viii probably continue tomorrow. No failures are re-
ported TO day None Of the suspended banks hsvs re-
sumed, bu. their bills are taken at par in trade.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
THE NORFOLK BANKS,

NORFOLK, Va, Friday, Oct l6
The Banks of this city al Suspended specie payments
to-day.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
MERCANTILE CREDIT.

To the Editor ar The ~ y. T,ibvae
SIR: You say in your issue of to-day that if Grin
bell & Min;urn choose to give credit to Spofford n
Tilesten, it is Legitimate and proper procedure. Yet
you say that it ia improper for retailer to give or ask
credit. Why, would ask, with a large
capital any more entitled to credit than those with
small capital Is ii because they are safer to trust
For precisely that they should not have or ask
it. If the retailer gives credit, he need ask for
none if the jobber sells for cash. of course he can bay
for each. The producer the importer the shipper and
the factor of require credit. If the consumer
pays for his goods, nobody above him wants any
credit Ii is this muatiOn OF sound principles that
ruins them in their application. The whole theory and
system of commercial credit is wrong. There should
be no such thing as credit on merchandise in this
country. We do not need it. When the business OF
the country be done for cash and in sce or its
actual representatives then shall we be out OF danger
of reyulsons like the present, and not before. All
tariff laws will be needless. Every law whose object
is 10 control the OF trade is unwse and In the
long run disastrous. To put such system into opera
tion would of course be awkward and in individual
cases disastrous; but how much worse would the
transition be than the continually recurring revusons
and failures that now ruin merchants generally by
piecemeal but occasionally as at the present time, by
Wholesale reduction Of values One-half would
make no real reduction in the wealth of the country,
while it would make US importers of scarcely anything
but gold, and would give the country strength and
stabillty that nothing could disturb. . .
Oct l6, 1881 NEW-JERsEY.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CosyEsTIos--FIfrH
DIsrTIcr This Convention met at No. G4 Gland
stree, lest evening, ard, after four ballots, nomi-
mated James c. Pnckney, esq, for Senator from that
District. The other candidates Henry 5. Smith,
esq, ard Nessrs. Daniel Willis and Charles Psrley.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
To the Editor Of The N. y. Tyi6use.

TO fhe LdtfOT y IHf '' II T'EVHHes
SIR: In your article on " Mercantile Credit" in
The TRIBUNE of Oct l5 you say that credit should
be extended to the merchant who sells goods on time
out of the city, and in this mornings TRIBUNE in
stanciDg such houses Grinnell & Muturn and Spof
ford Teston as entitled to credit and proper pro-
cedure, from personal knowledge or known integrity.
Now we suggest, in the first place, that many, aud
perhaps great proportion of retailing merchants
out OF the city though rot nominaly Of large q
property the above named firms quite good
for their hoJiieS and of equal int gritty to city
chants and consequently entitled to credit under the
cIedit system; and further, that CONSISTENCY would
require that if no credit be given to the retailer none
rhould be given to the merchant, jobber. importer,
commission merchant, or bank. We suppose that the
integrty and responsibfy of country merchants are
more easily ascertsined than even in this moral and
legitimately conducted mercantile community.
TARIFF MERCHANT.
NetC. York. Oct. l6, 1857, Nc. 81 Liberty street.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

REPUBLIcAs SENATORIAL CoSvESrIoN--SiSru Dis
TRcr.-This Convention met at Stuyvesant Institute
last Dight, Mr.. +. j. Otarson, Chairman, and Mr. j.
w. FAIR, Secretary. On the fret ballot JosEpH b.
VARSuM, of the Fifteenth Ward received nine votes;
George W. Blunt, two votes; blank, one. Mr.. Var.
nun was then declared unanimously nomir ated, and
committee of one from each Ward appointed 10
spprse him of the fact. The Convention adjourned
to Monday evening,