course, by a conversation with him; and I had but little | down."-"and do you think," Carroll replied," that curiosity to know what the resuit of it was, nor has one writing will settle the question between us?" "To be word passed between Mr. Buchanan and myself about it sure," replied Chase, "what else can we resort to?" from that day to this, that I now remember. I was how- "The bayonet," was the answer. "Our arguments will ever told a few days after in very general terms, by Tho- only raise the feelings of the people to that pitch, when mas Claiborne, esq. formerly a member of congress from open war will be looked to as the arbiter of the dispute." this state, and then at Washington, that Mr. Buchanan Some years before the commencement of hostilities, had informed the general of some intrigueing that was go- Mr. Graves, member of parliament, and brother of the ing on, and that, so far as he could, he had put an end to admiral, wrote to Mr. Carroll on the subject of our diffiit. From which I took it for granted that the conversa-culties, ridiculed the idea of our resistance, and said that tion had taken place, and resulted as I anticipated. This six thousand English troops would march from one end is the only definite overture coming within my knowledge, of the continent to the other. "So they may," said Carconnected with the presidential election, while it was roll in his reply, "but they will be masters of the spot pending before the house of representatives; and these only on which they encamp. They will find naught but are the material facts in regard to the manner of its com- enemies before them. If we are beaten in the plains, we munication, to which I was privy. will retreat to our mountains, and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion; until, tired of combating, in vain, against a spirit which victory after victory cannot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retire, an immense loser, from the contest. No, sir, we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle; and though much blood may be spilt, we have no doubt of our ultimate success. These conversations, which I have now given, both with Mr. Markley and Mr. Buchanan-and the remarks which follow the latter, is a literal extract from a correct copy of a letter written by me to a friend on the 10th of August last, in answer to one received from him on this subject: since then, I have read Mr. Buchanan's letter of the 8th of the same month, in which I find that he is able satisfactorily to himself, to fix the date of his conversation with gen. Jackson on the 30th of December, 1824, from certain data. I have none that enables me to state the precise time: except for the dates referred to by Mr. B. which I presume are correct, 1 should have thought it might have been a week or two later-but could not from memory, have fixed upon the exact time with certainty. I will only add, that when Mr. Clay asked for an investigation of his conduct, upon the matters contained in Mr. Kremer's letter, at an early period of the debate, I made some general remarks in favor of it, and voted for the proposition, both generally and with special instructions throughout. I wished the affair then to have been taken up and traced to its origin, by a scrutiny more likely to be effectual, in disclosing the extent and character of the transaction, and the guilt or innocence of the persons implicated, than that which the present investigation affords. After all, it must be admitted that public opinion is the great arbiter here, and that is, or will be formed, upon the evidence of facts and circumstances before it. I have no reason to distrust it; not the inclination, much less the ability to direct it. When the tea was imported into Annapolis, great excitement prevailed, and Mr. Stewart, the owner, was threatened with personal violence-his friends called an Mr. Carroll to use his influence to protect him-Mr. Carroll said to them, "It will not do, gentleman, to export the tea to Europe or the W. Indies. Its exportation, contrary to the known regulations of the convention, is an offence for which the people will not be so easily satis fied; and whatever may be my personal esteem for Mr. Stewart, and my wish to prevent violence, it will not be in my power to protect him, unless he consents to pursue a more decisive course of conduct. My advice is, that he set fire to the vessel and burn her, together with the tea she contains, to the water's edge." Mr. Stewart then appeared and assented to the proposition and in a few hours the brigantine Peggy, with her sails set and her colors flying, was enveloped in flames, and the immense crowd then collected, perfectly satisfied. In 1775 he was chosen a member of the first committee of observation, that was established at Annapolis: and the same year he was elected a delegate in the provincial convention. In Feb. 1776, he was appointed a commissioner with Dr. I have said, that in the conversation with Mr. Markley, Franklin and judge Chase, to proceed to Canada and inI spoke of my own high regard for Mr. Clay, and I now duce the inhabitants of that country, to unite with us. say that I did so with entire sincerity. True, I was the His brother, the venerable Catholic archbishop, accompersonal and political friend of gen. Jackson, and had panied them on this important service.* He returned throughout the canvass, if not efficiently, at least heartily, from Canada in June, 1776, and on the 12th presented supported his election; yet it was known to many of my their report. He found the declaration of independence acquaintances, both in Tenuessee and at Washington, under discussion and the delegates of his state shackled that, (at least down to the period of that conversation), by mistructions (given the December previous, and against next to gen. Jackson I should have preferred Mr. Clay which he had then contended) "to disavow in the most for the presidency. The mortifying change which my solemn manner, all design in the colonies of indepenopinion of that gentleman soon after underwent, may be dence." On his return he hastened to Annapolis, to reo no other avail than to teach me how much I had mis-sume his seat and procure, if possible, a withdrawal of understood him. J. C. ISACKS. these instructions. He and judge Chase labored with so much success, that on the 28th of June the instructions were withdrawn and the delegates authorized to join in a declaration of independence. signers. No man was more willing to sign, and when he subscribed, a member standing by said, "there go a few millions."- -No one risqued more property, if so much, as Mr. Carroll, as he was probably the richest man in the United States. Mr. Carroll took his seat on the 18th of July, and was soon placed on the board of war. In the latter part of 1776 he was one of the com CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON, Was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 20th of Sept. 1737-ninety years ago this day. In 1745, then On the fourth of July, 1776, he was appointed a deleeight years old, he was taken to the college of English gate to congress, and on the second of August, when this Jesuits, at St. Omers, to be educated. Here he remain-instrument was first signed, he was one of the earliest ed for six years, and left it to pursue his studies at at col lege of French jesuits, at Rheims. After staying one year at Rheims, he was sent to the college of Louis Le Grand. After two years he went to Bourges to study the civil law, and after remaining there one year, returnel to college, at Paris, where he continued two years, when he went to London, and took apartments, and commenced the study of the law in the temple. He return-mittee to draft the constitution of Maryland. In Decemelto America in 1764. In June 1768, he was married to Mary Darnell. He soon took a part in defence of the plonies against the claims of the mother country, with is pen. In 1770 and '71 he wrote several articles under the signature of "The first citizen," against the right of the government to regulate fees by proclamation, which gained him the applause and thanks of his fellow citizens. In 1771 or 72 in conversation with judge Chase, the latter remarked, "Carroll, we have the better our opponents--we have completely written them ber, 1776, he was chosen to the senate under the constitution of that state.-In 1777 he was reappointed a delegate to congress. In 1781 and in 1786 he was re-elected to the senate of Maryland, and in 1783 a senator to the United States.-In 1797 he was again elected to the senate of Maryland, and in 1799 he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle the boundary line between *Mr. Carroll's cousin and not his brother accompanied him to Canada. 80 We subjoin the following letter of the president then, secretary of state, which has never been published in any newspaper, (we believe), shewing that the declaration of independence was signed not on the 4th of July, as nerally supposed, but on the 2d of August subsequent: Is it possible that the celebrated Miss F-s, a lady Virginia and Maryland. Mr. Carroll's grandfather emigrated from Ireland, and in 1825 his grand-daughter who has had every human and divine advantage, who has was married to the marquis of Wellesley, then viceroy read, (or, at least might have read,) in the originals, the of Ireland. And it is a singular circumstance, that one New and Old Testaments, though I am afraid she too hundred and forty years after the first emigration of her seldom looks even into a translation: I say is it possible ancestors to America this lady should become vice-queen that Miss F-s, with every human and divine advanof the country from which they fled, at the summit of a tage, who might and ought to have read these two good system, which a more immediate ancestor had risked eve-books, which, (an old Welsh nurse, whose uncle was reckry thing to destroy; or, in the energetic and poetical lan- oned the best preacher in Merionetshire, assured me,) guage of the bishop of England, that in the land from enjoin charity and denounce vengeance against slander which his father's father fled in fear, his daughter's daugh- and evil speaking; is it possible, I again repeat it, that Miss Fs, should, in the face of the day, carry her ter now reigns a queen. malignity so far, in the presence of three most respectable personages: (one of the oldest religion in the world, one of the newest; for he is a new-light man; and the other, ge-most probably, of no religion at all, as he is an English sailor;) but I demand it again and again, is it possible that Miss Fs should assert it, in presence of these respectable personages, "that I wore green breeches patched with leather?" to convict you, therefore, of the falsehood Department of state, of this diabolical slander; to put you to eternal silence, WASHINGTON, 24th June, 1824. SIR-In pursuance of a joint resolution of the two houses (if you are not past all grace,) and to cover you with of congress, a copy of which is hereto annexed, and by a much larger patch of infamy than you have wantonly direction of the president of the United Slates, I have endeavored to fix on my breeches, I have thought proper, the honor of transmitting to you two fac simile copies of by the advice of three very grave friends, (lawyers and the original declaration of independence, engrossed on members of congress, of course excellent judges in deparchment, conformably to a secret resolution of con-licate points of honor,) to send you the said breeches, gress of 19th July, 1776, to be signed by every member and, with the consciousness of truth on my side, to subof congress, and accordingly signed on the 2d day of mit them to the most severe inspection and scrutiny of August, of the same year. Of this document, unparal-you and all those who may have entered into this wicked leled in the annals of mankind, the original, deposited in cabal against my honor and reputation. this department, exhibits your name as one of the subscribers. The rolls herewith transmitted are copies as exact as the art of engraving can present, of the instrument itself, as well as of the signers to it. "TO CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton, I say, I dare you, and your whole junto, to your worst; turn them, examine them, inside and outside, and if you find them to be green breeches patched with leather, and not actually legitimate sherry vallies, such as his majesty "While performing the duty thus assigned me, permit of Poland wears, (who, let me tell you, is a man that has me to felicitate you, and the country which is reaping the made more fashions than all the knights of the Mischianza reward of your labors, as well that your hand was affix-put together, notwithstanding their beauties:) I repeat it, ed to this record of glory, as that, after the lapse of near (though I am almost out of breath with repetitions and half a century, you survive to receive this tribute of re-parentheses,) that if these are proved to be patched green man of the first bon ton might be proud of, I will submit in verence and gratitude, from your children, the present breeches, and not real legitimate sherry vallies, (which a fathers of the land. "With every sentiment of veneration, I have the ho-silence to all the scurrility which, no doubt, you and your nor of subscribing myself your fellow citizen, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. [Salem Register. GENERAL CHARLES LEE. abettors are prepared to pour out against me in the public papers on this important and interesting occasion. But madam! madam! reputation ("common sense,) very sensibly, though not very uncommonly observes), is a se rions thing. You have already injured me in the tender When general Lee lived at Philadelphia, after his trial est part, and demand satisfaction; and you cannot be ig many Irish officers, whose favorite topic it is, particularly in 1779, he was in the habit of riding frequently on horse orant of the laws of duelling, having conversed with so back. When he rode he wore sherry vallies which were in the company of ladies, I insist on the privilege of the not quite as common then, as they have subsequently be-injured party, which is, to name his hour and weapons; Miss. Fs, a Jewish lady, having observed the and as I intend it to be a very serious affair will not adgeneral with these accoutrements, remarked that "gene-mit of any seconds-In the mean time I am yours, &c. ral Lee wore green breeches patched with leather."— The remark, coming to the general's ears, occasioned the following admirable jeu d'esprit. [N. Y. M. Courier. come. CHARLES LEE. Miss Fs, Philadelphia. P.S. I have communicated the affair only to my confi-, who has mentioned it to no more Ithan seven members of congress, and nineteen women, six of whom are old maids; so that there is no danger of its taking wind upon my side, and I hope you will be equally guarded on your part. ITEMS. Slander. A lady in Indiana lately recovered $1,000 in a suit instituted against James M. Alexander for slan der, in charging her with a want of chastity. dential friend Philadelphia, Dec. 20th. 1779. MADAM: When an officer of the respectable rank bear is grossly traduced and calumniated, it is incumbent on him to clear up the affair to the world, with as little delay as possible. The spirit of defamation and calumny, (I am sorry to say,) is growing to a prodigious and intollerable height upon this continent. If you had accused me of a design to procrastinate the war, or of holding a treasonable correspondence with the enemy, I could have borne it; this I am used to; and this happened to the great The enterprizing merchants of Stonington have no Fabius Maximus. If you had accused me of getting drunk as often as I could get liquor, as two Alexanders the three vessels on sealing voyages to the newly discovere great have been charged with this vice, I should, perhaps, islands S. of Cape Horn, viz. brig Alabama packet, an have sat patient under the imputation; or even if you had the schs. Albatros and Superior-and 2 others are fit given the plainest hints, that I had stolen the soldiers' Penguin. shirts, this I could have put up with, as the great duke ofting for the same destination, viz. schs. Eliza Ann, an you had Marlborough would have been an example; or it contented yourself with asserting, that I was so abominable a sloven as never to part with my shirt, until my shirt parted with me, the anecdotes of my illustrious namesake of Sweden would have administered some comfort to me. But the calumny you have, in the fertility of your malicious wit, chosen to invent is of so new, so unprecedented, and so hellish a kind, as would make Job himself swear like a Virginia colonel. We copy the following from the Sussex (N. J.) Regis ter. "I undertake to maintain that animal heat originate from food, and is produced to active heat in the hear and not in the lungs, as physiologists have contended. Newton, Aug. 28, 1827. JOHN CLEVES SYMMES." PRINTED FOR THE EDITORS, AT THE FRANKLIN PRESS THIRD SERIES. No. 6-VOL. IX.] BALTIMORE, OCTOBER 6, 1927. [VOL. XXXIII. WHOLE No. 838 THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY H. NILES & SON AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. "POLITICS OF THE DAY." It has been an invariable rule in this paper that, while no obligation has been telt to enter upon new subjects of dispute between different persons or parties, unless, in the opinion of the editors, the public intelligence was to be promoted by it-we have always felt it a duty to give an opposing statement, if rightfully and reasonably offered, to any other published by us, and leave our readers free to judge between them. On this principle it is that we insert the letter of gen. Saunders, of North Carolina, rejecting a statement made by gov. Kent, in a letter from him published in this paper of the 8th ult. We have no part in the afirmation or denial of the fact stated, but regret the manner of the latter; believing that gen. S. might have better maintained his point had he observed a greater degree of moderation. present. Mr. Haile shall soon be furnished with other, and, as we think, better information on this subject. distinction, indeed! But if worthy of this severe and lofty "Mr. Niles,the great enemy of the south!" This is censure, he will be equally entitled to praise-if he shall prove that he has been the great friend, instead of "the great enemy of the south," and this he believes may be easily proved, if Mr. Haile and those who think with him, will only look at the following brief statement of facts. 117,454 bales of East India cotton were imported into In 1817, the average price of cotton was 26 cents, and Great Britain; and, the price of cotton advancing to $2 cents in 1818, the quantity of such cotton was increaed to 247,604 bales; but as in 1824, the price of cotton being ported in 1825, and the stock on hand at the end of that low, only 60,484 bales of the East India article was imyear was 31,540. were selling at 5 7-9d, to 73, Surat and Bengal would Late Liverpool price currents shew, that while uplands fetch no more than 43 to 4d. Average difference 2d. or 4 cents per lb. less for the East India than for uplands, or nearly 334 per cent. in favor of the former. While on this subject, we shall mention an act of our own that we wish to enter an objection against, though no one, as we know of, has complained of it, or possibly may. But we shall not allow it to stand as a precedent. In giving out the copy for the last number, we meant only to have published Mr. Buckner's address to his constituents on account of gen. Jackson's letter to Mr. Owens, which had been inserted-but his correspondence with gen. Allen was annexed, and inadvertently given out with the ad- British manufacturers of coarse cottons are from the East, Mr. Haile does not know that a very large part of the dress, and not afterwards thought of by the senior editor, India product; and that if cotton was settled at 18 cents who did not read that part of the proof of the sheet. To per lb. our own manufactures would use it, paying the be sure, there is nothing in that correspondence dishonor-duty of three cents per pound upon it, as being a cheaper able to either party, but rather complimentary to the commodity, though thus taxed. Mr. Haile does not character of both-and our sole object in referring to it is know that it is the British fabrics of E. India cotton to prevent it from being quoted as a precedent. There sent to Mexico and South America, which we are driving are occasions when such correspondence, perhaps, ought out of the markets of those countries with our own manuto be recorded in this work; but we wish to avoid it in all factures of our own cotton, and that it is morally certain that our success in cotton manufactures causes the use of "ERRORS EXCEPTED.' Some one has favored us would be used if these manufactures were not. When the 100,000 to 150,000 bales more of our own cotton than with a copy of "Mr. Haile's address, at a public meeting accounts of the import of East India cotton in 1818 was of the voters of Wilkinson county, in the town of Wood-made up at Liverpool, it caused an instant reduction in ville (Mississippi), convened for the purpose of adopting the price of our cotton equal to the whole present value suitable measures to counteract the efforts of the friends of it. of the contemplated woollens bill.” .cases. that such imported cotton goods as lately cost 20 cents Is this to be the "enemy of the south"-seeing also, per yard, are furnished of our own manufacture at 10 cents per yard? Speaking of the Harrisburg convention, Mr. Haile says "If their purposes were honest, they would resort to no preconcerted plan. Combinations would not be necessary to give strength to the cause. Mr. Haile does not know that a like meeting of merchants, "dele-behalf of the Harrisburg convention, now in the press But we shall send Mr. Haile a copy of the address on gates from the principal Atlantic states," was held at Phi- and soon to be published, and feel confident that he will Tadelphia, to oppose the tariff in 1820-and that a little revoke his denunciation, if he honors it with a reading. while ago, on the acknowledgment of one of the party, a "combinat ion" had been formed at Washington cityfor purposes that will hereafter appear, perhaps, on the vote on the "woollens bill." We hope that Mr. Haile will apply his rule to merchants and politicians, as well as to the united farmers and manufacturers, represented at Harrisburg-more of the first than of the last having attended the convention. Mr. Haile also says "I understand that Mr. Niles, the great enemy of the south, has been referred to, as stating the rate of duty to be paid, would be ninety-two per cent. ad valorem"-as established by the proposed woollens bill. Mr. Haile is right-"Mr. Niles" has been so "referred to"-but carelessly or said any such thing--and, on the contrary, denied the he never operation of the bill, as so stated by Mr. Cambreling, of New York, and he still believes that its practical effect would chiefly have been to assure the payment of the dutics which it was designed by the law of 1824 that woollen goods should pay. But let that pass-for the *We had written an ugly word here, but have dashed it; and the gentleman who made that reference will see one of the proceeds of his act, which ought, long since, to have been disavowed, in common justice even to an inveterate enemy, much more to a real friend. pora mutantur, et nos, &c. VOL. IX-Nɔ, 6, Joseph Hemphill are the opposing candidates for conELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING. John Sergeant and gress from the city of Philadelphia (proper)—the first friendly and the second opposed to the administration. The election takes place next Tuesday. There are 18 "Adams" and 11 Jackson" newspa- governor of Georgia in opposition to John Forsyth, esq. day last, and, in most cases, turned upon the presiden- For gen. Jackson. I with the view of holding a general convention of delegates at Richmond in January next to form an electoral ticket, to be composed of persons known to be opposed to the election of the general to the presidency of the United States. The chairman and col. Hugh Mercer were appointed delegates to the convention. This is the first meeting on this subject. Mr. Stricker 3071 McMahon 4055 Baltimore county-4. Mr. McCulloh 1454 Mr. Turner* 2442 Price* 2329 Showers* 1982 Mr. Kent Steuart* 997 Mr. Linthicum 1826 141 801 869 The election for a member of congress in Delaware took place on Tuesday last. Mr. Johns was the candi date supported by the friends of the administration, and opposed by Mr. Bayard. The "Jackson" majority in New Castle county was 369-that in favor of the administration 409 in Kent, and upwards of 400 in Sussex county-so that Mr. Johns is elected by a majority of between 450 and 500 votes. A large majority in the legislature, about as two to one, is friendly to the administration. [Five other candidates, whose political character is not stated, were supported, receiving 725, 621, 567, 524 and 328 votes respectively-so that the strength of neither party in this county is shewn in the preceding BRITISH EAST AND WEST INDIA TRADE. The exports statement, which also is the case in Montgomery, Tal-from Great Britain were bot, &c.] The importation from the West Indies has diminished 757, 787 & 709 votes--and one other Jackson candidate in nearly exactly the same proportion as the exportation to the East Indies has augmented. Besides, a considerable part of the British exportations to the West Indies is destined to other countries. The value of British merchandise re-exported from the British West India colonies in 1824 was £1,519,350-and in 1825, 1,914,452. Woollens are not exported to the West Indies; but to the East Indies; those exported last year amounted to £1,197,909. In 1814 the white and printed cottons exported to the West Indies amounted to 2,100,846; in 1826 to £734,418. WEST INDIA TRADE. The Philadelphia DemocraticPress, in remarking upon the reasoning of the Philadelphia Gazette about the loss of the West India trade, has this paragraph: A single fact overthrows his abstract reasoning, and puts his statement into "Pi:" We have, since the loss of the West India direct trade, exported more to the West Indies than we did in the corresponding months of the last year, when the trade was open. We speak from authority-the authority of the custom house books. [We never would suppose that the amount of the trade would be reduced because of the British prohibitions.] THE CASE OF MORGAN. In a late trial, in Ontario county, N. York, of five of the persons implicated in the conspiracy against William Morgan, in which their counsel admitted abduction, but denied his clients' participation in it, the judge delivered a charge to the jury, which is spoke of in the following terms, by the reporter of the Rochester Daily Advertiser. "The charge of judge Howell was among the most able efforts of the kind that we have ever heard. It called back Queen Ann's county-Messrs. J. Tilghman, R. Stee-recollections of the times when judge Van Ness used to unvens, J. C. Ruth and Ridgaway are elected the three first are favorable to the administration and the latter is a Jacksonian. Talbot county. There were 13 candidates voted for in this county, and the trial of strength cannot be regarded as shewn-Messrs. Lloyd, Martin, Banning and Millis are elected--two for the administration and two against. The four gentlemen elected had, together, only 2,281 votes-the nine not elected, 2,483 votes. bosom his luminous and capacious mind to a jury. The proof to establish both the conspiracy and its consummation was, he said, full and conclusive. That Morgan had been unlawfully kidnapped and carried off, was abundantly certain, and that he had been subsequently unlawfully put to death, there was but too much reason to believe. All exertions, praiseworthy in those who had made them, and honorable to the country, had thus far failed to develope this nefarious transaction. Exertion and investigation, The house of delegates consists of 80 members.however, ought not and would not cease until this abomiThough all the returns are not official, it appears that 50nable crime is exposed, and the perpetrators of it punish"friends of the administration" and 50 "Jackson men" ed. These defendants, continued the judge, it innocent have been elected. Alleghany being reported to have of the offence charged in the indictment, must not suffer for the foul, black deeds of others. Courts are establishreturned four friends of the administration. A meeting of the people of Spottsylvania county and theed to protect the innocent and punish the guilty; and town of Fredericksburg, in Virginia, opposed to the elec-it is better that 99 guilty men should escape than one tion of gen. Jackson, was held on the 29th ult. Francis innocent person should suffer. The judge, after briefly J. Brooke, esq. chairman and col. William F. Gray, se- strating the evidence, and explaining the law, gave his oretary, at which a preamble and resolutions were adopted opinion that the testimony, though abundant to prove abstractly, all that is alleged, did not charge those defendants with the crime. The time of the court, he remarked, bad, notwithstanding, been profitably spent in elicit +Mr. Hobbs, a friend of the administration, received 142 votes. ticle THE LATE GALÉ. The Boston Palladium contains a Half dollars. It is the imperative duty of every pervery affecting account of the loss of the brig Jew, capt. to expose every fraud and detect every imposition that son who feels interested in the prosperity of his country, Lovell, a regular trader between Boston and St. Croix. has a tendency to injure the interest of the nation. With She was met by a gale off the west end of the latter place, this end alone in view we would endeavor to call the and thrown upon her beam ends, and every soul in the cabin, including Mrs. Dorr and a child, Miss Dorr and public mind to the above currency which has obtained the cabin boy, perished; the captain was also washed a wide circulation, not by its intrinsic value, but by common overboard and lost. The vessel, after loss of spars and deck load, righted, and drifted down the coast for several days, when she was discovered, and the remaining passengers and hands were taken off by Spaniards, and carried into a port on the southwest side of Porto Rico, and most humanely treated. The Jew was insured for 6,000 dollars. consent. From a long residence on the Canada frontier, facts have fallen under my observation, which in all probability, are not within the knowledge of the greater part of the American community. It was with some suprise, but more curiosity, that this coin was observen to be most plenty in the pockets of his majesty's subjects, in 1814 at the close of the last war; and an idea rose in the THE WEST. The enterprising citizens of the west, was a bevy of counterfeiters in the vicinity of Brockville minds of many, from the known circumstance that there not satisfied with covering their lakes and rivers with some of the finest steam boats built in the United States, are U. C. that it might be the emission of these wholesale resolved that the star spangled banner shall be born found to contain only about 10 pr. ct. alloy; this being a brokers, which caused an examination of the metal; it was upon the bosom of the ocean by vessels built in western much smaller premium than these gentlemen are willing cities, which a few years since were the abiding places of the wolf and the bear; thus testifying to the world that to accept for transacting business in their line, the suspi the action and energy of a free people are not to be nied and conscientious institution; and the public, in those cion necessarially passed from them to some more momeasured, by time or space, and that difficulties deemed as insurmountable sink into insignificance, when opposed times of scarcity of money, were very willing to accept of to skill and ingenuity. The above interesting fact is de-any thing in the shape of cash as a "circulating medium." rived from the Cincinnati, (0.) Advertiser which states It is within the knowledge of many of our frontier cifithat "in addition to the steam boats at present upon the zens that the British troops were paid off in this coin to stocks in that city there are two schooners, one of 120 a very considerable amount in the years of 1814 and 15, tons burthen, destined for the coasting and West India have been made in the same currency. Gold, formerly, and that since that period many government payments trade!" The building of vessels, of moderate burthen as articles of export, will no doubt be a valuable ac- for the payment of government contracts. That from was almost the only money made use of in the Canada's quisition to the wealth of the inhabitants of that state the time mentioned there should be a change in the coin bordering on the Ohio river, the comparative cheapness made use of, in itself, is not a subject of much surprise, of materials, labor and subsistence placing them upon although the measure must be attended with consideravantage ground in a competition with their brethren on ble extra trouble and expense; but that British gold the sea coast. It is also stated in the above named paper: should in British payments, be succeeded by American that the steam boat Echo, built last year at Pittsburg, is silver of deteriorated value, is certainly rather extraordiabout being sent to Mexico for the purpose of running between Martimoras and Rigosse, on the Riod el Norte. nary; it may be all fair, and it may not; "something whisThe same paper, gives information from a gentle-there can be no harm in" knowing the truth. pers me, as the old rat said, "all is not right, at least man of great respectability, that four commercial houses in the counties of Muskingum, Knox and Licking, had in July last sent off to the eastern market about 1,600 hogsheads of tobacco, which constituted, however, but a part of that raised during the last season in those three counties. One thousand of them were sent across the mountains, the remainder by the lakes and Erie canal to New York and thence to Baltimore; and this too at a less expense than was incurred for that which was forwarded direct to that city by way of Wheeling. These are important facts. The quality of the Ohio tobacco is such as to command for it a price that repay's very handsomely the grower of the article. It has been stated, that should the present price be reduced 25 per cent. the raising of tobacco would still be a more profitable business in Ohio, than the growing of bread stuffs at the prices which they have sustained for the last seven years. The numerous printing establishments in the west, have for sometime past been supplied with type manufactured in that section of country, and the proprietors of the foundry at Cincinnati have received an order from South America, for twenty printing presses! This is a gratifying incident whether viewed as an evidence of the progress of the arts, or in its consequences upon a large body of the human race, toiling in the yoke of error, a deliverance from which alone can render them sensible of their obligations to mankind and their duty unto God. WASHINGTON'S WORKS. It is announced that the Washington papers are now ready for the press, and agents are procuring subscriptions. It is scarcely necessary to call the attention of the public to this interesting subject, being assured that every person who can afford the expense will readily embrace an opportunity of possessing themselves of documents which, if possi The trade between the Canadas and the states is now, as it ever has been, in favor of the latter, so that if this money has found its way from the states it must have been by some other means than commercial intercourse. Sensible that our intention is based upon principles of public weal, we deem no apology for this article necessary, although the imputation it contains is one of no ordinary magnitude. A BATCH OF COUNTERFEITERS. After the conviction of Newbold the counterfeiter, of whom we have made mention, he asserted that a trunk containing 100,000 dollars of counterfeit notes, and a number of counterfeit plates had been placed in his hands by a gang of counterfeiters in Philadelphia, with whom he was connected; that on their apprehension he fled, having concealed the trunk in such a manner that it could never be discovered without his agency, he having first helped himself to $8,000 of the notes, in attempting to pass which, he was subsequently convicted at Richmond. Previous to this disclosure, the police of Philadelphia had received intimation that an extensive fraud was about being practised upon the United States bank, by a gang of villians in that city, a part of whom after much diligence were arrested at noon day; they were found in a third story back room of a house in Locust ward, busily engaged in signing, trimming, sorting, &c. three men and two women, were found therein, and one man without hat or coat jumped, from an upper window floor and escaped, literally cutting his way through a glass window. So complete was the surprise that the whole were taken, except the man before mentioned the ink still wet on their pens, and 30,000 dollars of spurious United States notes on the table-and 2,000 of good money found on |