118. To increase the salaries of the judges of the Circuit court | The following summary comprises the additional for the district of Columbia. (Senate. April 20, 1818.

119. For the relief of the widow and children of Jacob Graeff, deceased. (House. April 20, 1818.)

120. For the relief of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster. (House. April 20, 1818.)

121. For the relief of James Mackay, of the Missouri territory. (House. April 20, 1818.)

122. To alter and amend an act approved the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled, "an act to establish a separate territorial government for the eastern part of the Mississippi territory." [Senate. April 20, 1818.]

123. For the relief of John Hall, late a major of marines. [Senate. April 20, 1818.]

124. For the relief of Peggy Bailey. [House. April 20, 1818.] 125. For the relief of Madame Poidevin. [House. April 20,

1818.]

information furnished by the table just alluded

New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 127. To authorise the secretary of the treasury to repay or remit Connecticut, certain alien duties therein described. [Senate. April 20, 1818.1 New-York,

126. Supplementary to the several acts making appropriations for the year 1818. [House. April 20. 1818.]

The time allowed for the alteration contemplated by the act of the 4th instant is, we fear, too short. It does not allow three months to persons interest. ed to prepare themselves for the change; and it will take one month at least before the provisions of the act will be known at New-Orleans.

of some of them, in the York Gazette. The following may amuse and interest our readers

Corporal Michael Elly.This old stooping, winter beaten and woeworn veteran once had an erect, ruddy front. In the battle of Germantown, he observed a cannon ball app oaching his squad, bouncIn the case of the first alteration nearly sixteen ing on the ground from hillock to hillock, threatenmonths were allowed, so that American vesselsing the legs of his command with sudden destrucemployed in distant parts of the world had an tion-with admirable presence of mind, he wheelopportunity of providing themselves with a proper ed on his right and left outwards to let the ball flag. pass, and wheeled into his place again as regularly as he would moun guar! Right," corporal Ely, said his officer, always make way for gentlemen on such swift business; I suppose his orders require despatch."

Constitution of the United States.

FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

It appears from the communication transmitted

words:

Joseph Wren. This old man's body and spirit seem to be equally light. He travels his 30 miles

by the governor of South Carolina to the president, a day with ease. His appear.nce reminds you of and by him laid before the house of representatives, the Egyptian mummies so celebrated for their fresh that an amendment to the constitution, passed by and lifelike appearance after the lapse of centuries. two-thirds of both houses of congress, and it was During the deluge (not Noah's food nor yet Deusupposed concurred in by the requisite majority of cation's, as you might have supposed from his onthe states, was not in fact concurred in, but was cent dave, but the deluge which buried a thi d rejected by the state of South Carolina, who had part of our town in ruis, on the ever memorable been supposed to have ratified it, and that, without 9th Aug. 1817) old J. Wren, like the lively bird of her vote, the proposition did not receive the sanchis own name, perched himself in a snug corner of tion of two-thirds of the states. The amendmenthe garret of a wo story frame house and went to referred to has been printed with the late editions, sleep. The house rose on the bosom of the deep, as a part of the constitution, and is in the following plunged all but the garret into the waves and was dished from surge to surge till it lodged against a "Resolved, by the senate and house of represen-tree. Five persons were drowned! "side by side tatives of the United States of America, in congress they lay," in a room of the second story of the assembled, two thirds of both houses concurring, house. Joseph slept on. At length when the God that the following section be submitted to the le-of nature held out the olive breh of hope to the gislatures of the several states, which when ratifi-terror struck tenants of the roofs of the ottering ed by the legislatures of three fourths of the states, houses and the flood subsided so that the "dry shall be valid and binding as a part of the constitu- land appeared"-when the mighty ocean that had tion of the United States-"If any citizen of the been, as it were, created in a moment and precipi United States shall accept, claim, or receive, or tated upon us gathered itself into the mild and unretain any title of nobility or honor, or shall with- assuming Codorus again, Joseph's abode of death, out the consent of congress, accept and retain any where youth and health and female exceilence and present, pension, office, or emolument, of any kind manly virtue, had been buried in the waves, was whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or fo- visited and still he slept. When he was awakened reign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen he rubbed his eyes, not certain they were his own of the United States, and shall be incapable of hold-nor whether he were J. Wren any more; for he ing any office of trust or profit under them or ei-knew not where he was, unless it might be in some ther of them."

It ought to be generally known, as it is now as certained, that this amendment was not ratified by three-fourths of the states, and therefore is not part of the constitution.

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place on the other side of the grave. Thus indeed has Joseph Wren had "hair breadth escapes" in the "forest wild and city full," and is spared to be made glad by something very u like the "ingratitude of republics"-What a spectacle is sergeant Thomas' venerable, honorable and ancient squad! Their history is all eventful. Poor, old, lame, blind, deaf and forgetfui! They never looked to Legislative dispute. There has been a pretty see this day. They have been bandied about from warm dispute between the two branches of the le pillar to post, often without a home or stated place gislature of New York, as to the right of originat-of residence.-Almost every one has lost his dising money bills. It has been adjusted by a concur charge and most of them, in the language of Wilrent resolution, which originated in the house, liam Murphy's petition, have no evidence but their "the votes, proceedings and resolutions of both own words, their age, their poverty and their scars, houses respectively upon the subject," were ex-of having faithfully served their country and of be punged from the journals; and both branches re-ing in mind of its support. This old man, William inain in full enjoyment of their respective rights, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.-445 old officers and soldiers appeared before Judge Davis, at Boston, previous to the 14th inst. to put in their claims under the late law passed for the benefit of such several were more than 80 years of age, one 88, one 34, who died just after his application.

At York, in Penn. ten persons, and ten only, ap plied to one person to prepare the necessary papers. to receive the benefit of the law-the oldest was 81 years, the youngest 58, average of the whole 68 years. There is a sketch of the life and character

Murpby, had the ball which broke his leg at "Stoney Point," together with his discharge and twen. ty seven pieces of bone taken from his leg, carefully tied up and carried with him as the tokens of his country's gratitude (fore tried for a pension and got none;) but "by an unlucky hit,” (of which soldiers have many) he "miss'd them" and has “never seen them more.'

Contested election.-A committee of the senate of New York reported, that at tue last election Jediahi Prendergast received 14,985 votes-Jedediah Pren. dergast 91 votes and Jed. Prendergast 10 votes

-and that 43 of the 91 votes for Je ledigh were re ceived and counted as for said Jediah-and that Isaac Wilson had 15,009 votes: and, as it appeared evident to the committee that all the votes for Prendergast were intended for Jediah P. they introduced a resolution in his favor, as having the ma jority. But the senate confirmed the claims of Mr. Wilson to a seat in their body.

Treaty with the Creeks. On the 22d of January, last, a treaty was made and concluded with the Creeks, by D. B. Mitchell, esq. on the part of the U. S. and has been ratified by the senate, by which two tracts of land are ceded by the nation, in consideration of the sum of 120,000 dollars to be paid by the U. S. to the said tribe or nation; 20,000 in hand, and 100,000 in ten annual payments. We are also to furnish them with two blacksmiths and two strikers for three years.

esteem of all that know her) under an impression
that it was her duty to exert her powers for the
support of her family, her husband having been
exceedingly unfortunate.

Constitutional amendment.-The legislature of New York has adopted the propositions of New Jersey to alter the constitution of the U. States to define the manner in which representatives in congress and electors of president and vice president shall be chosen-that is, that each state shall be divided into districts to elect one representative or one elector each, &c.

Jesse D. Elliot, late a master commandant in the navy of the U. S. has been promoted to the rank of post captain. He has well earned this distinction, by his gallantry and good conduct in many interesting occasions.

A Mr. Geider has recently died at Piscataway, N. J. aged 116 years and 6 months. And in Cumberland county, Mrs. Scantling, aged 93.

Also, at Cornwall, Con. Obookiah, a native of Owyhee.

Also, in Washington county, Geo. Gen. Jared Irwin; a great enemy of the tories in the revolutionary war, and a severe combatant of them in the southern states-a soldier of the revolution, who frequently filled the gubernatorial chair of Georgia, and other high and important offices. He was aged 68.

Died, lately, in Oneida county, N. Y. Col. Stephen Married, at China Grove, S. C. by the rev. Mr Moulton, aged 84 years-a gallant soldier of the Fiddle, Mr. a Campbell, to his former wife, Mrs. Crevolution and one of the few that escaped murder The Vandals-We have noticed the decease of by starvation on board the never-to-be-forgotten gen LEE. He was buried from a house that had be. Jersey prison ship. longed to gen. Green. Com. Henley, of the navy, assisted by the officers on the station, conducted his funeral-the marines formed the guard, and the band belonging to our land forces at Amelia, assisted. The seamen, cleanly dressed, attended. Speak ing of them, a spectator says "their respectful deportment, rough but independent looks, interest ed my feelings, and leaning against a fine live-oak, I was immediately absorded in contemplation. 1 pointed to the procession; they were marching over the field where once a fine orange orchard flourished. An invader of our country had destroyed it. Admira! Cockburn had been there, "the last of his name;" and a far greater scourge to mankind than the locusts of Africa. Involuntarily I turned to embrace the venerable but sturdy monarch that supported me, for it promised such things should never be again! A volley of musketry over the grave of general LEE, aroused me; and with folded arms 1 retraced my steps, while the howling of the minute guns from the John Adams, echoed thro' the woods."

Capt. Hart.-The remains of the gallant capt. Hart were solemnly interred at Detroit, as arranged at a meeting of the citizens, an account of which His fate was more happy we gave in our last. than that of some of his companions, also wounded -they where burnt alive by the allies at the river

Raisin.

Mrs. French-Always pleased to notice su perior excellence of any thing of domestic growth or product, we are delighted to be informed of the complete success that has attended Mrs. French, in her late concerts at New York-that great city, in which, more than in any other city in America, "all the world meets together."

She has given two concerts there-the first was attended by about 600, and the second by upwards of 1200 persons-the house was overflowing!

Also, in Georgia, Mr. John Dismukes-who fought in "Braddock's war," and in the revolution.

Also, on the 19th ult. near Shawnoetown, Illinois, gen. Posey, late governor of Indiana. He was a major in the revolutionary army, and commanded a detachment in advance, at the taking of Stony Point by gen. Wayne.

Steam-boats are multiplying on the western waters-one is running between St. Louis and New Orleans.

Newfoundland. The brig Messenger, fitted out and ladened with provisions by the liberality of Boston, for the relief of the sufferers at Newfoundland by the late fires at St. John's, has returned. Her arrival at St. John's was hailed by all the people, with gratitude. The address of thanks from the governor, and various associations, are of the most affecting character. The supply was very fortuitous-for the people's wants were great. Every possible attention was paid to the master and crew of the vessel, and from 1 to 200 men where employed 10 days in cutting the ice to permit her departure-she arrived one day before the river closed.

LAW CASES-A man was lately tried in Pennsylvanis for the crime of eaves-dropping, found guilty and fined $20, and compelled to give security for his good behaviour.

Baltimore inspections.-There were inspected at The sweetness of her melody and the powers of her voice, are known to every body in Bimore, Baltimore for the quarter ending on the 31st ult.by her frequent performances in private parties 124.995 bbls. wheat flour, 2,945 half bbl. do. 5,922 and at oratorios given for charitable purposes-forbls. rye flour; 1336 bbls. and 332 hhds. corn meal; she long resided here, and is still considered as 1,286 bbls. pork; 1135 do. beef, &c. and 10,683 belonging to us. These are her first attempts to barrels and 761 hds. of domestic liquors, &c. The citizens of Detroit, for very powerful res sing for gain,or as a profession; and in the most difficult songs, she is unanimously pronounced as hav-sons, have petitioned the president and congress to ing equalled any one that ever appeared in that take measures for offering for sale the public lands We sincerely wish her the Michigan territory. A proclamation of character in any country continued success- she entered upon this business he president has issued for the sale of the lands with unfeigned reluctance, (for she is a modest, surveyed in the district of Detroit, in Sept. and retiring and truly amiable woman, possessing the Nov. next.

Rhode Island election. Mr. Knight, rep. has been are twenty in number, and so disposed as to form re-elected governor of this state. one great star in the centre of a blue field. The Connecticut election. Mr. Wolcott has been re-stripes are thirteen. The law on this subject goes elected govervor, without systematic opposition into operation on the 4th day of July next. -the secretary and state treasurer are republicans; the council or senate, is almost unanimously so, and the house of representatives consists of 132 republicans and 69 federalists!

Savannah, April 11.-Col. Marshal, commanding the 1st regiment, in this city, received orders last evening, from the major general of the 1st division, requiring him to hold his regiment in readiness, subjected to march at a moment's warning-each man to be provided with 60 rounds of ball car tridges. The order has been complied with thro' the colonel.

We understand that a similar order has been made on the whole state-the object of which we are not at this time prepared to say.

[To the above is annexed an extract of a letter from Amelia Island, which gives a report from St. Augustine, saying that 600 European veterans were expected there to defend the place.

As all the branches of government now harmonize, Connecticut will probably have a constitution. Seminole war. Letters received, dated the 27th ult. state it was expected that in nine days thereafter general Jackson would go against the hos tile Indians, to hunt them in their holds. He left fort Scott on the 11th March, to meet provisions from New Orleans, and on the 14th met with an abundant supply-with which he proceeded to the Mickasukee towns. His then collected force was 500 regulars, 1000 militia and several Indian com. mands, amounting to about 1800, in all. McIntosh's Late newspapers have been received from brigade of 776 Indians had not then joined, but France and England-they do not contain any news, were expected the next day. A fort had been except accounts of a most dreadful storm that erected in Florida, on the site of the Anglo-negro raged, especially on the British coasts, from the 5th fort, destroyed on the Appalachicola, by the gun- to the 7th ult. Several houses were unroofed in boats from New Orleans, and col. Clinch, soine London "and there was not a street which was not time after the conclusion of the war. It is within strewed with wrecks of chimneys, tiles, slates and 60 miles of St. Marks, in the heart of the Spanish lead." The accounts from Plymouth, &c. are terterritory. Considerable alarm still prevails in some rible-signals of vessels in distress were flying at of the frontier counties of Georgia-some houses almost every port, but relief could not be givenare said to have been burnt by the Indians in Wayne "Within the memory of man" says one account, county, but we do not hear of any lives being lost. "nothing like it was ever seen.' It seems quite understood that gen. Jackson will The electioneering campaign for members of parnot leave Florida until the war is completely finish-liament proceeds with unprecedented violenceed. A company of regulars, hale and efficient men, opposing parties fight as regularly as they meet. left Baltimore on Thursday the 24th inst. to join The amnesty bill has passed the house of com. him. Pushmatahaw, a firm adherent to the United mons-238 to 63. States and a principal chief of the Choctaws, had marched a party to act under him.

Stocks, March 13-3 per cent. consols 77 7-8. The British papers teem with notices of the UniDupont's mills. Certain benevolent persons of ted States-every movement we make seems carePhiladelphia raised $600 for the relief of the suf- fully watched, and minutely scanned; and a degree ferers by the explosion of Dupont's powder mills, of importance is attached to our proceedings that on the Brandywine. In a grateful acknowledge- we hardly expected. Our old friend, the "Courier," ment of this liberality, the fact is stated that the is much offended at the occupation of Amelia island Messrs. Duponts have fixed an annuity of one hun--other papers express a fear of our future power, dred dollars on each of the widows of those who and some openly rejoice at the strides we are makwere killed on that melancholy occasion. ing to the fullness of strength. The Times calls us Britain's "powerful descendant and RIVAL."

Bank of the U. S-An extensive lot has been purchased on Chesnut street, Philadelphia, for the| erection of a building for the bank of the United States. It cost $1000 a foot front, being already covered with fine buildings.

Meteorological.

From the returns of the registers of the land offices, and others, I have deduced the following, which may be interesting:

Military appointments. The following appointments have been made by the president, with the consent of the senate, under the act just passed, MEAN TEMPERATURES, BY FARENHEIT, FOR DECEMfor reducing the staff of the army: Brigadier general William Cumming, quarter-mas

ter general.

Colonel George Gibson, commissary-general.
Joseph Lovell, surgeon general.

Tobias Watkins and J. C. Bronaugh, assistant surgeons general.

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THE PAST-THR PRNSEAT-FOR THE FUTURE.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY R. NILES, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR OF THE REGISTER.

For the simple purpose of disposing of somethe habeas corpus-and they feared for their proarticles in type that we were loath distribute and perty, so admirably secured to them, by the laws could not otherwise insert, under a pressure of and the taxes:--but above all they feared for their matter, we have published a supplement of eight religion, so admirably sustained by the laws against pages to the present number. A multitude of things dissenters, the tithes of the clergy, the immacu

late piety of my lord chancellor Eldon, and the wait room and leisure.

"The paper system-No. Il” will repay an at- pure morality of the famous bishop of Derry. It tentive perusal. The portraits are admirably drawn is true they had but little left of either liberty, pro—the style is as chaste and fascinating, as the sub-perty or religion-but still it was incumbent upon

them to take the more care of the little left to ject is interesting.

preserve. And this I take to be the true reason

why the good people of England make such a noise The paper system-No. Il.

about these matters. Their piety, patriotism, and

love of liberty, however, such as they were, inSir-In the prosecution of this my honest un- duced them to believe whatever they were told dertaking, I shall endeavor, by the blessing of was necessary to keep Bonaparte and the guillotin common sense, to keep clear of that theoretical out of England; and thus it happened that they jargon, by the aid of which the people of England saw the bank of England stop payment, without and the United States, have been cheated into a suspecting that it was insolvent, and the governbelief in absurdities, which nothing but the most ment bribed by a loan to support the bank in its vioperplexing sophistries could have screened from lation of public faith, without dreaming that it was derision and abhorrence. Those who cannot elicit only two bankrupts clubbing their wits to cheat new truths, may sometimes render old established honest John Bull. One cannot help admiring the ones doubtful; and thus it has often happened, English poople, and their disinterested sacrifices, that the precious lessions of long experience, as for the preservation of their religion, their proper well as the dictates of sound discretion, have yield. ty, their excellent government, and above all their ed to systems of false reasoning, too obscure to national debt. enlighten, but so intricate as to baffle all attempts Such, sir, is the origin of the pernicious, and to demonstrate their absurdity. When a people rninous doctrine, that banks may be solvent withare become thus hoodwinked, nothing is left, but a out being able to pay their debts, and governments resort to plain matters of fact, and an appeal to rich so long as any body is found fool enough to their sufferings as the criterion of truth. My ob. lend them money. In the natural course of ject is plain English. I mean to demonstrate the events this delectable theory found its way evils of the present PAPER SYSTEM OF BANKING, by across the water; and we who fancy every thing pointing out, in plain English, its pernicious effects imported superior to our domestic productions, on the various classes of the community, leaving forthwith adopted it, without considering for one it to such as wist the continuance of the delusion, moment whether the policy of a desperate bankto reason on the subject, and quote authorities, if rupt, was befitting a plain, honest, independent they will.

country farmer. England was excusable-she was It may however be worth while to trace the pre. too deeply involved io be extricated by the ordi. sent fashionable paper theories to their true source nary means of economy and retrenchment, and noin England. It was once the fashion there for thing was left her but to push the paper system as statesmen to reason first and act afterwards. In far as it would go. But the United States were this case, however, they reversed the usual mode- prosperous and happy; their resources, public and they acted wrong first, and then resorted to reason- private, were amply sufficient to answer every pub. ing to bolster up their errors. Thus, when it was lic and private exigency, had they been put in re. discovered that England was in debt, beyond her quisition; yet the paper system was adopted by the natural resources—and that it was necessary to an-government, and this adoption cleared the way for ticipate the revenues of the nation a century at the OREAT PAPER SYSTEM in all its various ramifi. Jeast to meet the exigencies of the present time cations. Here, where the power exists, or has -tbat in fact artificial means, and legerdemain been assumed by the state legislatures, of autho. must be resorted to, in order to prevent national rising loans, and issuing stocks, and chartering bankruptcy-then it was that patriotism was sti. banks, it was to be expected that all would be mulated by pensions, and talent tempted by re- anxious to avail themselves of such a mine of wards to exert themselves. Then all the sophis- wealth. They have done so, until at length, the tries of reasoning were put in requisition, to prove crisis has arrived with a dreadful appalling celeri. that a debt, beyond the power of the nation to pay, ty, when money is nothing but razs, and neither was a national blessing-that spending every year cash or character is necessary to constitute a bank. double one's income, was the certain mode of grow. I now proceed to trace the consequences of this ing rich;—and that devasing the currency, and de state of things, as they are evident at present, and preciating its value by emitting ten times as much as they must appear in a few years-perhaps soonpuper as there was silver and gold to redeem iter; for delusions that take a long time to mature, with, was opening a mine of wealth, inexhaustible, are often dissipated in a moment. and everlasting. The good people of England be. The people, and particularly the middle and haved as in duty bound-for they had the fear of lower classes of people of the Unitel States, feel NAPOLEON before their eyes.—They feared tor their that there, somewhere or other, exists a cause, liberties, so admirably secured by suspensions of which saps the foundations of their prosperity-

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