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[NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE “ENQUIRER” AND SENATOR HAYWOOD.
With apparently no little astonishment the Rich-
mond Times adverts, on the 29lh ultimo, to the
continued attacks, by papers known to be most at
the Executive disposal and command, upon the late
North Carolina Senator. It says :
“We quoted yesterday the assault of the Union upon Mr.
Haywood, of North Carolina, for resigning his seat in the
Senate. We had thought that attack was surely malevolent
enough. Mr. Haywood was dubbed ‘ an apostate and a de-
serter the ‘ deepest odium ’ was invoked upon his head;
and all ‘ confidence in his stability ’ was declared to be ‘ gone.’
We had supposed it bad enough to make such accusations
as these against a prominent Senator whose honor had cer-
tainly never before been questioned by his own party.
“But it seems that the mortification of the party, at Mr.
Haywood’s defection, has induced its votaries to prefer a far
graver accusation than the mere failure of adherence to party
obligations. The Richmond Enquirer of yesterday, not con-
tent with seconding the Union’s imputations, charges Mr.
Haywood, in the following unequivocal language, with hav-
ing been bribed by the manufacturers :
“He is condemned forever, (says the Enquirer,) and the
country will naturally ascribe his conduct to the most corrupt
motives. On the streets yesterday it was asserted on all hands
that he had been bought up by the gold of the manufacturers
to betray his principles. Can any one doubt that his strange
and unjustifiable conduct has been induced by sinister influ-
ence ? What possible motive, save that of self-interest, can
be-conceived for his putting off his decision till the last mo-
ment ? He could have certainly formed an opinion upon the
great question many days ago, and the country could then
have known what result to look for. We are forced, then, to
the conclusion that his weak principles and political integrity
could not resist the pressure of the manufacturing interest.
He fell a victim to their insidious designs, and sacrificed his
principles and himself forever.”
The war of opprobrium upon the recusant Sena-
tor, it thus appears, is suspended here, only to be
shifted, with a still more shocking obloquy, to the
secondary columns at Richmond !
The organ itself was content to stigmatize Mr.
Haywood as “ an apostate” and “ a deserter”—a
criminal of the sorts that are burned, in religion,
and shot, in war. His motives, it did not explain :
them it left to the suggestive imagination of Loco-
focoism. But when the Richmond organ takes up
the matter, dropped here, all is at once explained :
nothing is left to inference ; the animus itself of the
drime takes body and shape ; and whereas the
Union only whispers the deed, the Enquirer pro-
ceeds to trumpet the motive. Nay, it proceeds to
prove it, with all Richmond for the witnesses—for
there, it appears, evidence decisive and universal
exists of what, though done here, nobody could
here attempt to prove. Doubtless-all these corrupt-
ing manufacturers live in Richmond, and are so dis-
creet, when they have bought a United States Sen
ator, as to hasten into the streets and blazon the
thing with drum and trumpet.
Are we not come to a deplorable pass, to he call
ed Republicans, when thus, at the mere bidding
of power, men lately honored and caressed by pow-
er itself are, without any crime but that of disobe-
dience, dragged to the block or the gibbet, to be, up-
on such proofs as these, and in the face of every
fact that manifests public honesty, seized on and
decapitated by the hand of every party exe<
tioner of the press ? At what strength must authori-
ty and at what morals party have arrived, when
those elevated in character and lately eminent in fa-
vor can be thus set upon, by signal ? It is like an
Eastern despotism, where the Sultan’s smile makes
a man all-powerful to-day, and his frown consigns
him to the bowstring to-morrow. Life, certainly,
is safe; but good-name-and nearly all that one values
more than life are gone, at the first sign of official
power to its ministers of shame and calumny.
Observe the openness of the fact. Could Sultan
or Bashaw proceed more summarily, or with a more
arbitrary contempt of every thing like justice or de-
cency ? Not only is a Senator of the United States
not responsible to the Executive, but responsible to
his peers alone. Nay, the Executive is rather re-
sponsible to him: for he may be called on to sit as
the President’s judge. Nor is this all: remark the
wanton partiality, the obvious corruption of this con-
duct towards him: has he temporized one-tenth as re-
gards the Tariff, as the President himself, or the Vice
President, or the Secretary of State did, in Pennsyl-
nia ? He has not temporized at all, that we can per-
ceive. Has he offended more than Mr. Calhoun
upon the Oregon question ? Has he been half as
contumacious as Mr. Hannegan, when he so
openly denounced Mr. Polk in imprecations that
stretched even beyond the grave ? Mr. Benton
did not hesitate to declare this Tariff an extremely
bad one: has Mr. Haywood said as much, except
by his mute resignation ? Messrs. Niles, Came-
ron, and Sturgeon have gone every length, and
voted and even spoken bitterly against the bill; is it,
then, a less offence to do all this than to lay down
office, rather than vote for what one disapproves ?
And, if Mr. Haywood is an apostate and a deserter,
what must they be ?
No man’s character, in the entire ranks of his
party, is fairer, and every part of his conduct, in
this particular matter, is a pledge not merely of his
integrity, but of such integrity as courageously en-
counters self-sacrifice. Are they of higher charac-
ter, or of a conduct more unquestionable, over
whose heads the bolt of Executive vengeance and
obloquy whistles to strike down his reputation ?
What, then, is there to justify, or what to explain, a
dealing so different with different men—none of
whom the Executive should dare to assail thus—
except the fact that Messrs. Hannegan and Allen,
and Benton and Calhoun, and Niles and Came-
ron and Sturgeon, still have votes in the Sen-
ate, while Mr. Haywood has conscientiously given
up his!
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
VETO MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.
Washington, August 3, 1846.
To the House of Representatives
I have considered the bili entitled “ An act making appro-
priations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers”
with the care which its importance demands, and now return
the same to the House of Representatives, in which it origina-
ted, with my objections to its becoming a law. The bill pro-
poses to appropriate one million three hundred and seventy-
eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to be applied to
more than forty distinct and separate objects of improvement.
On examining its provisions, and the variety of objects of ini
provement which it embraces, many of them of a local charac-
ter, it is difficult to conceive, if it shall be sanctioned and be-
come a law, what practical constitutional restraint can here-
after be imposed upon the most extended system of internal
improvements by the Federal Government in all parts of the
Union. The constitution has not, in my judgment, confer-
red upon the Federal Government the power to construct
works of internal improvement within the States, or to appro-
priate money from the Treasury for that purpose. That this
bill assumes for the Federal Government the right to exercise
this power, cannot, I think, be doubted. The approved
course of the Government, and the deliberately-expressed judg-
ment of the people, have denied the existence of such a power
under the constitution. Several of my predecessors have de-
nied its existence in the most solemn forms.
The general proposition that the Federal Government does
not possess this power is so well settled, and has for a con
siderable period been so generally acquiesced in, that it is not
deemed necessary to reiterate the arguments by which it is
sustained. Nor do I deem it necessary, after the full and
elaborate discussions which have taken place before the coun-
try on this subject, to do more than state the general conside-
rations which have satisfied me of the unconstitutionaiity and
inexpediency of the exercise of such a power.
It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of
limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are
expressly granted in the constitution, or are properly incident
to the expressly granted powers, and necessary to their execu-
tion. In determining whether a given power has been grant-
ed, a sound rule of construction has been laid down by Mr.
Madison. That rule is, that “ whenever a question arises
concerning a particular power, the first question is whether
the power be expressed in the constitution. If it be, the ques-
tion is decided. If it be not expressed, the next inquiry must
be, whether it is properly an incident to an expressed power,
and necessary to its execution. If it be, it may be exercised
by Congress ; if it be not, Congress cannot exercise it.” It
is not pretended that there is any express grant in the consti-
tution conferring on Congress the power in question. Is it
then an incidental power, necessary and proper for the execu-
tion of any of the granted powers ? All the granted powers,
it is confidently affirmed, may be effectually executed without
the aid of such an incident. “ A power to be incidental must
not be exercised for ends which make it a principal or sub-
stantive power, independent of the principal power to which
it is an incident. ” It is not enough that it may be regarded
by Congress as convenient, or that its exercise would advance
the public weal. It must be necessary and proper to the exe-
cution of the principal expressed power to which it is an inci-
dent, and without which such principal power cannot be car-
ried into effect. The whole frame of the federal constitution
proves that the government which it creates was intended to
be one of limited and specified powers. A construction of the
constitution so broad as that by which the power in question
is defended, tends imperceptibly to a consolidation of power
in a Government intended by its framers to be thus limited in
its authority. “ The obvious tendency and inevitable result
of a consolidation of the States into one sovereignty would be
to transform the republican system of the United States into a
monarchy.” To guard against the assumption of all powers
which encroach upon the reserved sovereignty of the States,
and which consequently tend to consolidation, is the duty of
all the true friends of our political system. That the power
in question is not properly an incident to any of the granted
powers, I am fully satisfied ; but, if there were doubts on this
subject, experience has demonstrated the wisdom of the rule
that all the functionaries of the Federal Government should
abstain from the exercise of all questionable or doubtful pow-
ers. If an enlargement of the powers of the Federal Govern-
ment should be deemed proper, it is safer and wiser to appeal
to the States and the people in the mode prescribed by the
constitution for the grant desired, than to assume its exercise
without an amendment of the constitution. If Congress
does not possess the general power to construct works of in-
ternal improvement within the States, or to appropriate money
from the Treasury for that purpose, what is there to exempt
some at least of the objects of appropriation included in this
bill from the operation of the general rule ? This bill assumes
the existence of the power, and in some of its provisions as-
serts the principle that Congress may exercise it as fully as
though the appropriations which it proposes were applicable
to the construction of roads and canals. If there be a distinc-
tion in principle, it is not perceived, and should be clearly de-
fined. Some of the objects of appropriation contained in this
bill are local in their character, and lie within the limits of a
single State ; and though, in the language of the bill, they are
called harbors, they are not connected with foreign commerce,
nor are they places of refuge or shelter for our navy or com-
mercial marine on the ocean or lake shores. To call the mouth
of a creek, or a shallow inlet on our coast, a harbor, cannot
confer the authority to expend the public money in its improve-
ment. Congress have exercised the power coeval with the
constitution of establishing lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and
piers on our ocean and lake shores, for the purpose of render-
ing navigation safe and easy, and of affording protection and
shelter for our navy and other shipping. These are safeguards
placed in existing channels of navigation. After the long ac-
quiescence of the Government through all preceding Adminis-
trations, I am not disposed to question or disturb the authori-
ty to make appropriations lor such purposes.
When we advance a step beyond this point, and, in addi-
tion- to the establishment and support, by appropriations from
the Treasury, of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, piers, and other
improvements within the bays, inlets, and harbors on our
ocean and lake coasts immediately connected with our foreign
commerce, and attempt to make improvements in the interior
at points unconnected with foreign commerce, and where
they are not needed for the protection and security of our navy
and commercial marine, the difficulty arises in drawing a line
beyond which appropriations may not be made by the Federal
Government.
One of my predecessors, who saw the evil consequences of
the system proposed to be revived by this bill, attempted to
define this line by declaring that “expenditures of this char-
acter” should be “ confined below the ports of entry or de-
livery established by law 1” Acting on this restriction, he
withheld his sanction from a bill which had passed Congress
“ to improve the navigation of the Wabash river.” He was
at the same time “sensible that this restriction was not as
satisfactory as could be desired, and that much embarrass-
ment may be caused to the Executive Department in its exe-
cution, by appropriations for remote and not well-understood
objects.” This restriction, it was soon found, was subject to
be evaded, and rendered comparatively useless in checking
the system of improvements which it was designed to arrest,
in consequence of the facility with which ports of entry and
delivery may be established by law upon the upper waters,
and in some instances, almost at the head springs of some of
the most unimportant of our rivers, and at points on our coast
possessing no commercial importance, and not used as places
of refuge and safety by our navy and other shipping. Many
ot the ports of entry and delivery now authorized by law, so
far as foreign commerce is concerned, exist only in the sta-
tute books. No entry of foreign goods is ever made, and no
duties are ever collected at them. No exports of American
products, bound for foreign countries, ever clear from them.
To assume that their existence in the statute-book as ports of
entry or delivery warrant expenditures on the waters leading
to them, which would be otherwise unauthorized, would be
to assert the proposition that the law-making power may en-
graft new provisions on the constitution. If the restriction be
a sound one, it can only apply to the bays, inlets, and rivers
connected with or leading to such ports as actually have for-
eign commerce ; ports at which foreign importations arrive in
bulk, paying the duties charged by law, and from which ex-
ports are made to foreign countries. It will be found by ap-
plying the restriction thus understood to the bill under con-
tant, in every part of the Union. To sanction the bill with
such provisions, would be to concede the principle that the
Federal Government, possesses the power to expend the pub-
lic money in a general system of internal improvements, lim-
ited in its extent only by the ever-varying discretion of suc-
cessive Congresses and successive Executives. It would be
to efface and remove the limitations and restrictions of power
which the constitution has wisely provided, to limit the autho-
rity and action of the Federal Government to a few well-
defined and specified objects. Besides these objections, the
practical evils which must flow from the exercise, on the part
of the Federal Government, of the powers asserted in this
bill, impress my mind with a grave sense of my duty to avert
them from the country, as far as my constitutional action may
enable me to do so.
It not only leads to a consolidation of power in the Federal
Government at the expense of the rightful authority of the
States, but its inevitable tendency is to embrace objects for the
expenditure of the public money which are local in their cha-
racter, benefiting but few at the expense of the common trea-
sury of the whole. It will engender sectional feelings and
prejudices calculated to disturb the harmony of the Union. It
will destroy the harmony which should prevail in our legisla-
tive councils.
It will produce combinations of local and sectional interests,
strong enough, when united, to carry propositions for appro-
priations of public money which could not of themselves aild
standing alone succeed, and cannot fail to lead to Wasteful and
extravagant expenditures.
It must produce a disreputable scramble for the public mo-
ney, by the conflict which is inseparable from such a system,
between local and individual interests and the general interest
of the whole. It is unjust to those States which have with
their own means constructed their own internal improvements,
to make from the common treasury appropriations for similar
improvements in other States.
In its operation it will be oppressive and unjust towards those
States whose Representatives and People either deny or doubt
the existence of the power, or think its exercise inexpedient,
and who, while they equally contribute to the Treasury, can-
not consistently with their opinions engage in the general com-
petition for a share of the public money. Thus a large por-
tion of the Union, in numbers and in geographical extent, con-
tributing its equal proportion of taxes to the support of the
Government, would, under the operation of such a system, be
compelled to see the national treasure—the common stock of
all—unequally disbursed and often improvidently wasted for
the advantage of small sections, instead of being applied to the
great national purposes in which all have a common interest,
and for which alone the power to collect the revenue was given
LORD BACON AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
Messrs. Editors : In the winter of 1844, in a speech in
reply to Mr. Evans, of Maine, Mr. McDuffie declared
Lord Bacon to be the original source from which the princi- I
pies of free trade were derived. We were greatly amazed at
the announcement that so pernicious a school of political eco- '
nomy sprung from such weighty authority, and but for the
character for learning which that gentleman bears, could not
I Among the curious cases of this sort which we find in our
i last files of foreign journals, the first of those which we select
gives one, by the verdict rendered, an odd notion of French
criminal justice. That ingenious people seem to think that there
is no harm in shooting another, if you can only get his consent;
and, to judge from the proofs held sufficient here, the consent
aforesaid can be made out by the slayer’s own declarations
only ! Really, if one wanted to hang a man, we do not see
that much more could he reasonably asked for. But, possi-
have yielded our credit. He did not say what portion of Ba- . bly> they thought he ought not tQ be hungj because he appa_
con’s works authorized him to make the statement, but con- rently wished it They reasoned. no doubt? that hanging was
tented himself with a general reference to the great author’s only of legal resort as a punishment; but that, since this man
opinions. This we greatly lament.
The following extracts are taken from Lord Bacon’s “ Ad-
vice to Sir George Villiers,” when he became Prime Minister
and favorite to King James, “ for his carriage in so eminent a
place,” vol. 2, page 375, of Montague’s edition ; and would
lead us to believe that the opinions of the great philosopher
ardently desired it, it would be none, or even a reward !
“ A painfully romantie affair came before the Court of As-
size of La Drome last week. In 1842 a young farmer of La-
Chapelle-en-Vescours, named Picard, solicited the hand of
Victoire Samuel, the daughter of another farmer. As they
had been long attached to each other, the offer of marriage
were the revesse of those attributed to him by the distinguish- j ^althter ttdfbr their daughteTthan'p?
card, rejected his suit. For two years the disappointed lover
endeavored to change the determination of these worldly-
ed Senator. Indeed, when we remember thb cautious method
of investigation with which that profoundest of mankind ex-
amined all questions—that he deduced rules from examples,
and did not trim and pare examples to fit rules—there would
have been room for wonder, if, -whilst experience was mute,
he should have adopted so speculative a creed.
Those passages only which bear more directly upon the
subject of home industry and the policy of calling it into ah-
tion are given ; for to lay before your readers Lord Bacon’s
complete views on this subject would make this communica-
tion unreasonably long. Such as desire to be further inform-
ed will 'consult the reference given above.
On the subject of trade he says, vol. 1, page 384 i
“ I come to the sixth part, which is trade $ and that is,
either at home or abroad. And I begin with that which is at
home, which enableth the subjects of the kingdom to live,
and layeth a foutidation to a foreign trade by traffic with
others, which enableth them to live plentifully and happily.
“ 1. For the home trade, I first commend unto your con-
sideration the encouragement of tillage, which will enable the
kingdom to furnish corn for the-natives, and to spare for expor-
tation : and I myself have known more than once when, in times
of dearth, in Queen Elizabeth’s days, it drained much coin of
the kingdom-to furnish us with corn from foreign parts.
“ 2. Good husbands wiil find the means, by good husband-
0flrTal i!,Tovclriehte rred prevail’ ry, to improve their lands by lime, chalk, marl, or seasand,
the number offfie StateSL eSSor^f the geoS^l
the number of the States and the extension of the geographical
limits of the settled portions of our country. With the in-
crease of our numbers and the extension of our settlements,
the local objects demanding appropriations of the public money
for their improvement will be proportionately increased. In
each case the expenditure of the public money would confer
benefits, direct or indirect, only on a section, while these sec-
tions would become daily less in comparison with the whole.
The wisdom of the framers of the constitution, in withhold-
ing power over such, objects from the Federal Government,
and leaving them to the local Governments of the States, be-
comes more and more manifest with every year’s experience
of the operations of our system.
In a country of limited extent, with but few such objects of
expenditure, (if the form ofgovernment permitted it,) a common
treasury might be used for their improvement with much less
inequality and injustice than in one of the vast extent which
ours now presents in population and territory. The treasure
of the world would hardly be equal to the improvement of
every bay, inlet, creek, and river in our ceuntry which might
he supposed to promote the agricultural, manufacturing, or
commercial interests of a neighborhood.
The Federal Constitution was wisely adapted in its provi-
sions to any expansion of our limits and population ; and
witn the advance of the confederacy of the States in the career
of national greatness, it becomes the more apparent that the
harmony of the Union, and the equal justice to which all its
parts are entitled, require that the Federal Government should
confine its action within the limits prescribed by the constitu-
tion to its power and authority. Some of the provisions of
this bill are not subject to the objections stated, and did they
stand alone I should not feel it to be my duty to withhold my
approval.
If no constitutional objections existed to the bill, there are
others of a serious nature which deserve some consideration.
It appropriates between one and two millions of dollars for ob-
jects which are of no pressing necessity ; and this is proposed
at a time when the country is engaged in a foreign war, and
when Congress at its present session has authorized a loan or
the issue of Treasury notes to defray the expenses of the war,
to be resorted to if the “ exigencies of the Government shall
require it.” It would seem to be the dictate of wisdom, un-
der such circumstances, to husband our means, and not to
waste them on comparatively unimportant objects, so that we
may reduce the loan or issue of Treasury notes which may
become necessary to the smallest practicable sum. It would
seem to be wise, too, to abstain from such expenditures with
a view to avoid the accumulation of a large public debt, the
existence of which would be opposed to the interests of our
people, as well as to the genius of our free institutions.
Should this bill become a law, the principle which it estab-
lishes will inevitably lead to large and annually increasing ap-
propriations and drains upon the Treasury; for it is not to be
doubted that numerous other localities not embraced in its
provisions, but quite as much entitled to the favor of the Go-
vernment as those which are embraced, will demand, through
their representatives in Congress, to be placed on an equal
footing with them. With such an increase of expenditure
must necessarily follow either an increased public debt, or in-
creased burdens upon the people by taxation, to supply the
Treasury with the means of meeting the accumulated demands
upon it.
With profound respect for the opinions of Congress, and
ever anxious, as far as I can consistently with my responsibili-
ty to our common constituents, to co-operate with them in the
discharge of our respective duties, it is with unfeigned regret
that I find myself constrained, for the reasons which I have
assigned, to withhold my approval from this bill.
JAMES K. POLK.
The following extract of a letter from a sea captain to his
wife in Boston shows the wonderful certainty and celerity
with which a person may travel from one point of the globe
almost to its antipodes:
Canton, April 1, 1846.
Dearest Rib : Having scraped together enough of this...
world’s goods to render us economically comfortable and inde- j sideration, that it contains appropriations for more than twenty
pendent during the rest of our lives, I shall resign the com- j °fljects of internal improvement, called in the bill harbors, at
mand of the clipper Swordfish, and will leave here on the 1st j P^ces which have never been declared by law either ports of
of May. I shall arrive in London on the 20th June ; spend j enfry °r delivery, and at which, as appears from the records
ten days there in arranging my business and viewing the prin- j ^Im Treasury, there has never been an arrival of foreign
cipal objects of interest, and will then proceed to Liverpool. I ’ merchandise, and from which there has never been a vessel
shall leave that port on the glorious fourth in the Cunard cleared for a foreign country. It will be found that many of
steamer, and will arrive at East Boston on the afternoon of ffefe T?or^s ar^new, and at places for the improvement of
the 17th. You will, therefore, have a carriage ready for me 1 which appropriations are now for the first time proposed. It!
on that day ; and, by the way, do not forget to have some I lound, also, that the bill contains appropriations for
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(Formerly the Marshall House,!
boiled salmon, green pease, and new potatoes on the table for I nvers uPon whlch there not only exists no foreign commerce, f-I AS ,been turmshed entirely new at an immense expense,
, , t r • , • , X . - I1)0rs> which it unproved can benefit only the particular neigh- tors fBavlev. Mackenv.if N Unite, vc tern
had the pleasure ot dining on fresh salmon, with suitable fix- borhood in which they are situated. It will be found, too, to
ins, precisely at five. A century ago the captain would have
been indicted for a wizard.—Boston Post.
tors (Bayley, Mackenzie &t Co.) have had great experience in
the business, and trust, by personal attention to the comfort of
in mind thereof, and encouraged in their industries.’
He then advises the Minister to encourage the cultivation
of gardens, and the planting of orchaids, (for cider and per-
ry, he says, are notable beverages in sea voyages,) the pre-
servation of forests for naval purposes, the recovery of drown-
ed lands, the encouragement of dairies, and, in fact, the de-
velopment of all the resources of the kingdom, that it might
not depend on supplies from abroad.
“ 11. The planting of hemp and flax would be an un-
known advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being
as apt for it as any foreign parts.
“ 12. But add thereunto that if it be converted into linen-
cloth or cordage, the commodity thereof will be multiplied.
“ 13. So it is of the wools and leathers of the kingdom,
if they be converted into manufactures.
“ 14. Our English dairies are much given to wearing cost-
ly laces ; and if they be brought from Italy, or Flanders, or
France, they are in great esteem; whereas if the like laces
were made by the English, so much thread as would make a
yard of lace, being put into that manufactuie, would be five
times, or perhaps ten or twenty times, the value.
“16. The minerals of the kingdom, of lead, iron, copper,
and tin, especially are of great value, and yet many able-
bodied subjects on work ; it were great pity they should not
be industriously followed.”
Lord Bacon expresses his views yet more distinctly in sec-
tion 7, p. 387, and we cannot refrain from inserting these
passages, as they contain the very pith and kernel of the pro-
tective system :
“5. If we must be vain and superfluous in laces and em-
broideries, which are more costly than either warm or comely,
let the curiosity be the manufacture of the natives : then it
should not be verified of us materium superabit opus.
“6. But, instead of crying up all things which are either
brought from beyond the sea or wrought here by the hands of
strangers, let us advance the native commodities of our own
kingdom, and employ our own countrymen before strangers ;
let us turn the wools of the land into clothes and stuff of our
own growth, and the hemp and flax growing here into linen
cloth and cordage ; it would set many thousand hands on
work, and thereby one shilling worth of the materials would
by industry be multiplied by five, ten, and many times twenty
times more in the value being wrought.”
Here, it appears, is our admirable system recommended ; a
system which has made Britain, with a territory defined by
narrow limits, the greatest empire on earth. “ It has not en-
* larged the bounds of the islands which make up the empire,
‘ the ocean being the unremovable wall that encloseth them;
‘ but it has enlarged and multiplied the revenue thereof by
‘ this honest and harmless way.”
Indeed, Lord Bacon may be considered the projector of that
system of encouragement extended to domestic industry for
which the Whig party are so gallantly struggling. He does not
speak" of encouragement by means of duties on imports, but he
points to objects best attained by their means. How, then, can
he be called the father of free-trade, when he councils nations,
like the cunning spider, to spin their habitations out of their
own bowels ? To wage successful war, nations must not
only bear themselves courageously in the field, but must pre-
pare the implements and materials of war in their own bo •
soms, and must likewise prepare the means of subsistence
whilst it lasts. They must, in fact, imitate the prudence of
the boar, which sharpened his tusks in times of peace.
Though Bacon does not appear to have entertained the
opinions attributed to him by the eloquent Mr. McDuffie,
yet, for the benefit of our Calhoun friends, we will mention,
en passant, that he greatly favors internal improvement, par-
ticularly of the rivers, and wc^id doubtless have been pleased
for Government to have turned them all into “inland'seas,”
had such an idea been suggested.
Such, Messrs. Editors, appear to have been the views of
the great philosopher, delivered as his advice to the Prime
Minister of the kingdom when he was solicited as to the wisest
plan of administration. All must reverence the wisdom of
the mind that, throwing off the scales of darkness, could look
two hundred and fifty years into the future, and instruct pos-
terity on the subjects that perplex them. Truly his intellect
was as bright, and threw its magnificent beams as far, as the
great sun. Yours, LEX.
minded people, but in vain ; and at length, urged by his own
family, he consented to marry another female, who had been
selected by his friends. This marriage took place in March,
1844. The wife of Picard died in childbed early in 1845,
and Picard, after a lapse of a few months, again renewed his
suit to the parents of Victoire, but with equally bad success,
although his conduct was without reproach. On the other
hand, the parents of Victoire resolved upon her marrying a
wealthier suiter, named Ritton ; and, in spite of the poor
girl’s entreaties, the wedding was fixed to take place on the
15th of February last. On the 14th, Picard, who had, it ap-
pears, contrived to have an interview with Victoire, left his
home for the village in which she lived with her parents,
and, on his arriving in front of the house, he saw her on her
knees praying near an open window. He raised his fowling-
piece, which he had biought with him, fired, and the girl
fell dead. Then, placing the other barrel at his own mouth,
he discharged it, with the intention of committing suicide.
The wound that he inflicted was severe, but not mortal, and
he was able to drag himself back to his own house, a distance
of half a league, leaving a trace of blood the whole way. On
reaching home, he resolved to complete the work of self-de-
struction, and, getting upon the roof of the house, threw
himself off; but this time also death refused to come to
his aid. He was taken up with a leg and an arm bioken.
As the person who fired the gun at Victoire had not been re-
cognised, it would not have been known at once that Picard
was her murderer; for he was unable to speak or write, and
could therefore make no confession ; hut, before he had set
out for hei residence, he had left for a friend an afiecting
letter, written in a way which shows his education to have
been above his position in life, in which he announced that,
by an arrangement between Victoire and himself, they had
agreed to die together, as there was now a certainty that
they would never be united in marriage. This letter led to
his arrest. After having been in prison several months under
medical care, he had sufficiently recovered to be removed for
trial, but his appearance at the bar excited a painful emotion.
He could scarcely stand, and his answers to the President
were hardly intelligible ; for a portion of his tongue was shot
away in his first attempt to commit suicide. The defence
made for him was, that the death of Victoire was the result
of an agreement come to between them, and Picard himself
declared that his only regret was at not having been able to go
with her to a better world, after the cruel treatment that he
had experienced in this. The defence was successful. The
jury, after a deliberation of only a few minutes, returned a
verdict of acquittal, and the Court ordered the immediate libe-
ration of the prisoner.”
Revolutionary Relics.—We saw one day this week all
the original papers found in Andre’s boot at the time of his cap-
ture ; the plan of the fortifications at West Point; the return
of the number of guns ; the report of Major Bauman, command-
ing the artillery, to Arnold, as to the situation of the troops in
case of alarm, and the number of soldiers necessary to garrison
the various batteries and redoubts, from Villefranche, the en-
gineer. Also, Arnold’s pass to Major Andre, which he ex-
hibited too late to the three scouts to stay their suspicion and
save himself. How much on a little presence of mind a man’s
fate sometimes depends ! Had Andre, when the thre<? mili-
tiamen arrested him, merely said, “ I am out on particular
service for General Arnold ; here is his pass,” they would have
let him proceed without search ; but when he asked them if
they “ belonged to the party below,” and they answered, to
deceive him, “ Yes,” he remarked eagerly “ So do I ! I’m
a British officer, out on particular duty, and anxious to reach
New York ;” they took _him into the woods, searched him,
and found the treacherous papers. The papers are all in an
excellent state of preservation, and belong to Mrs. Beeicman,
the widow of a giandson of the late Governor Clinton. This
lady is now having them substantially framed, as an heirloom
for her children.—A. Y. Messenger.
THRESH TURNIP SEED, &C.
jjj 300 lbs Yellow Ruta Baga
300 “ White Flat Turnip
400 “ “ Stubble “
300 “ Red Top “
200 “ Large Norfolk “
A superior lot of long Green Cucumbers
With a general assortment of Vegetable and Flower Seeds,
Plants, and Bouquets, furnished to order atprices more mode-
rate that can be bought elsewhere in the District.
J. & H. DOUGLAS,
Florists and Seedsmen, opposite State Department,
july 16—eo2wd&c (Union)
ENGINEERING NOTICE.
nnHE UNDERSIGNED, associated with JAS, P. KIRK-
JL WOOD, of Pensacola, Florida, and FREDERICK
HARBACH, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, (Engineers of abili-
ty and experience,) has opened an office at Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, for the receipt of communications, for personal
consultations, and for the transaction generally of Engineer-
ing business. The employment and organization of parties of
competent Engineers, the location, construction, and equip-
ment of Railroads, Canals, Aqueducts, Bridges, Tunnels,
iVlill-dams, and other works of public or private utility, will
be attended to in any part of the United States, under the joint
counsel and superintendence of the individualsthus associated ;
with whom other Engineers are respectfully requested to com-
municate, for the interchange of such information and plans of
construction as may be mutually advantageous, and serve to
render the science of Engineering more uniform in application,
and, consequently, more useful to the great and growing inte-
rests of the whole country.
By permission, reference is made to—
Hon. George Bliss, Springfield Massachusetts.
Hon. Abbot Lawrence, Boston, do
Hon. Josiah Quincy, jr., do do
Hon. Edmund Dwight, do do
Hon. Wm. Jackson, Newton, do
Col. Jos. G. Totten, U. S. Ch. Eng’r, Washington, D.C.
Capt. Wm. II. Swift, U. S. Top. Eng’r, do do
Marcus T. Reynolds, Esq., Albany, New York.
Thomas W. Oleott, Esq., do do
Stephen VV. Dana, Esq., Troy, do
Erastus Hopkins, Esq., Northampton, Massachusetts.
JOHN CHILDE,
Springfield, April 1, 1846* Civil Engineer,
ap 3—dlm8scpl6t
A loafer tumbled into the dry-dock the other day, and got a
terrible sousing. He said he couldn’t see what made the peo-
ple lie so. “ Dry-dock be-! I’m wetter than a week’s
east wind, squeezed out, cuss it l”—Noah.
contain appropriations the expenditure of which will only their guests, to give entire" satisfaction to all who may favor
have the effect of improving one place at the expense of the them with their patronage,
local natural advantages of another in its vicinity. Should
this bill become a law the same principle which authorizes the
appropriations which it proposes to make, would also autho-
rize similar appropriations for the improvement of all.the other
i bays, inlets, and creeks which may with equal propriety be
, called harbors, and of all the rivers, important or unimpor-
JAMES BAYLEY,
(Late of Jones’s Hotel,)
HENRY C. MACKENZIE,
(Formerly at Washington House,)
PETER L. FERGUSON.
Families and gentlemen from the South will find the above
hotel remarkably well suited to them. aug I—eolm
mJKACHER WANTED. -r-A gentleman, who is qualified
8 to teach the languages and the higher branches of an
English education, and can come well recommended, will hear
of a good situation by applying to the undersigned, “ near Mil-
lersville,” Anne Arundel county, Md. A middle-aged man
would be preferred. A salary of $300 and liberal perquisites
will be given. Rev. HENRY AISQUITH,
Dr. JOHN II. BROWN,
BENJ. E. GANTT,
april 1—Jawtf Trustees School District No. 48.
1AIRST-RATE FARM IN LOUDOUN COUNTY,
Jj VIRGINIA, FOR SALE—about 353 acres—Will
be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, on Monday,
24th August next, if fair, (if not, the first fair day thereafter,)
the property on which the subscriber resides, situated in the
limestone part of Loudoun countyq Virginia, being two-thirds
of the “ Greenway Farm,” late the residence of Charles J.
Catlett, deceased.
The original estate has recently been divided among his
heirs, and the portion now advertised to be sold (two-thirds)
contains about 353 acres in a compact form, part of which the
subscriber sells in his own right, and the balance under a power
of attorney. There is on it upwards of 93 acres of timber.
It is in a high state of cultivation, well watered, and is con-
sidered the most desirable farm of its size in this region
of country. The fields have not been subdivided, but that
can be easily done, and without a great many additional rails.
Il is conveniently located as respects the District markets,
being within two miles of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and
is remarkably healthy ; indeed, with the exception of one or
two situations on and immediately under the Catoctin moun-
tain, it has a greater reputation for health than any other in the
neighborhood. There is on it a good barn, ample stabling,
granaries, corn-house, carriage house, shed for cattle, meat-
house, and other necessary buildings There is afro an excel-
lent apple orchard, besides a number of peach and other fruit
trees. The house in which the subscriber lives is a very indif-
ferent one, but adjoining it are the walls of the old dwelling,
(burnt some time since,) which would be sufficiently strong by
taking a little off the top to support the requisite timbers for
converting it into a comfortable, substantial, and handsome
building. The cellars could not be better; being large, airy,
and the foundation of rock ; they would be worth the interest
of the money it would take to build up the house as a placefor
roots, apples, Src.
It is not considered necessary to say any thing further in re-
lation to this property, as it is presumed such persons as wish
to purchase it will call and satisfy themselves as to every par-
tirular concerning it.
Terms : one-third of the purchase money to be paid to th«
subscriber on the day of sale ; the balance in two equal annual
payments, with interest from date. If the deferred payments
are not met promptly, or either of them, together with the
interest as it falls due, the property will be resold in order to
secure them ; the expenses of such sale to be defrayed out of
its proceeds. Title to be withheld until the last payment has
been made. Possession to be given of the above farm imme-
diately after it is sold, so as to enable the purchaser to put in
a fall crop.
The subscriber deems it proper to say that there will be no
inciimbrance whatever on this property, as the right of dower
in it is relinquished. ERSKINE CATLETT,
Near Leesburg, Loudoun county, Virginia.
july 14—3tawdts
Lands in Hardy County, Virginia, for sale, at
Public Sale, under a Decree.
TJY virtue and in pursuance of a decree of the Circuit Supe-
JJ rior Court of Law and Chancery for the county of Hardy,
and State of Virginia,pronounced on the 21st day of September,
1844, in the case of Norman Bruce, complainant, against the
Potomac and Alleghany Coal and Iron Manufacturing Compa-
ny, defendants, I shall offer for sale,at public sale, to the high-
est bidder, before the door of the court-house in Moorefield,
Hardy county, and State aforesaid, as follows :
on the east side of Stony river,
on Elk run.
southwest side of Elk run.
near Welton Glade,
on Difficult creek,
do do
known as Slate Cabin Tract.
do do do
near Big Elk Lick, off F. & W. Dea-
kin’s lands.
known as the Buffalo Tract, whereon
Spencer Hendrickson now resides,
known as Benj. Ray Tract.
Out of these three tracts 200 acres is ex-
cepted, being sold to Wm. Shilling-
burg. Said three tracts are on Jonny
Cake creek, and near the turnpike
road.
103 acres excepted, sold to Alexander
Smith, by deed, 3d February, 1817
The said last six tracts were land
conveyed by F. & W. Deakins to
John Templeman, by said Temple-
man to Bruce, and by Bruce to the
defendants in this decree.
For a more particular description of these lands, persons de-
sirous of purchasing and making inquiries in relation thereto,
are referred to William Seymour, attorney for plaintiff, or to
Joseph McNemar, my deputy, Moorefield, who are authorized
to give any information in relation to said lands that may be
required. The greater portion of said lands are valuable tor
grazing purposes, some of which are improved and under fence.
The terms of sale will be as follows: One-third of the pur-
chase money in hand, one-third in nine months, and one-third
in eighteen months from the day of sale, taking bond with good
security and retaining the title as further security for the de-
ferred payments, and conveying the premises so sold to the
purchaser when the deferred payments shall be paid.
JOB WELTON,
une 9—epts Sheriff of Hardy County, Ya.
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GENERAL AGENCY AT WASHINGTON.
Opposite the 'Treasury Department, in the building formerly
occupied by Corcoran & Riggs.
JYFATTIIEW ST. CLAIR CLARKE and THOMAS
JJtjL QUANTR1LL have associated lor the purpose of at-
tending to claims and business of all kinds requiring an agency
at Washington, before Congress or the several Departments.
As it is unnecessary to emime-ate all, we select the following :
Pensions of all kinds ; Revolutionary claims against the States
or United States, including claims for lands ; commutation for
half-pay and bounties ; claims arising out of contracts with the
United States ; investigation of titles, and procuring patents
for lands; return ol duties erroneously exacted, or paid Under
protest, written or verbal ; Florida claims generally, and all
which may arise under the annexation ofTexas.
Communications must be post-paid.
Mr. Clarke, having resided in this city for many years, is
well known as a public officer and private citizen to all gentle-
men who have been in Congress or other public stations.
may 9—tf CLARKE & QUANTRILL.
MR.f AND MRS. ARCHER’S ACADEMY FOR
YOUNG LADIES.
No. 40, Lexington street, Baltimore, Maryland.
CjPHIS Institution has received perhaps the most excensive
j|_ patronage, for several years, of any Protestant institution
in the State of Maryland, from the Southern, Middle, and also
from the Eastern States. It now numbers over one hundred
on its catalogue.
It is delightfully located in the city of Baltimore, where all
the means which are desirable in conducting the education of
young ladies may be most advantageously procured.
Reference may be made to—
The Rev. Mr, Atkinson,* the Rev. Dr. Hamner,* the Rev.
Dr. Wyatt, of Baltimore.
The Hon. Stevenson Archer, Chief Justice of Maryland.
Rev. Dr. E. W. Gilbert,* President Newark College.
Mr. John H. Bernard* and D. H. W. Tabb,* of Virginia.
Mr. John Watt, house of Burke, Watt & Co., New Orleans.
Mr. David Hunt, Mississippi.
Those marked * are patrons of the school.
fMr. Archer is a graduate of the West Point Academy.
aug 1—2awdikc
riJHE UNDERSIGNED, having associated themselves in
the practice of Law, will attend to business in the east-
ern portion of Texas and in the Supreme Court of the State.
They will attend particularly to land cases and the adjustment
of claims against the Government. One of the firm may be
consulted at Washington during sessions of Congress ; the
other at Louisville, Kentucky, until the 1st of September next.
T. J. RUSK,
Nacogdoches, Texas.
A. S. THRUSTON,
julv 14—e&d Marshall, Texas.
4 NEW ENGLA MD TEACHER, a graduate of Dart-
mouth College, wishes a situation either in an academy
or in a private family. He would prefer teaching in a pri-
vate family.
Testimonials of moral character, and competency to teach,
&tc. will be promptly furnished, by addressing A. G., Wash-
ington, D. C. july '14—2aw5t
TITANTED.—A young Lady of competent education de-
Y f sires a situation in a private and small family as a teach-
er, and to whom a pleasant home is at present more desirable
than pecuniary compensation. Letters of inquiry and infor-
mation addressed to W. C. F., Post Office, Alexandria, D. C.,
will receive immediate atteution. july 25—2aw3w
TIT ANTED.—A Lady, a French teacher, desires to pro-
YY cure a situation in a Boarding School for young Ladies,
or in some respectable family, to teach the children the French
language. She can also give lessons in German. She would
not object to leave the city. Can address A. A., at the office,
aug 3—eolw
.i TEACHER WANT 141), as an assistant in a Fe-
p\ male Seminary in Mississippi. She must be competent
to give lessons in music, and one capable of teaching music and
French would be preferred. The situation is healthy and in
otberrespects desirable. Address Mrs. L. R., Washington,
june 16—eo2w
4 TEACHER WANTED.—The subscribers are de-
f\ sirous of employing a Teacher, immediately, to take
charge of a few scholars in a private family. He is required
to instruct from the A B C up to the highest departments, and
his qualifications in English, Latin, Greek, and the mathema-
tics, and literature generally, are expected to be very respec-
table. A single gentleman who has had some experience in
teaching- is desired, though a graduate who has never hereto-
fore taught will not be objected to. A liberal salary and board
will be paid to one coming recommended for character and
suitable qualifications.
The neighborhood is healthy and agreeable. The terms of
the engagement and the specific qualifications demanded will
be made known by correspondence. Letters addressed to
either or both of the subscribers, at “ Oak Grove, Westmore-
land county, Virginia,” will be promptly attended to.
G. W. LEWIS,
LAWRENCE WASHINGTON.
P. S. Applications requested to be made immediately.
june 5'—2awd&tc3w
JOSEPH II. SMOOT,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Mobile, Alabama,
ILL practice in the Courts of this circuit, composed 0 f
v T the counties of Mobile, Baldwin, Washington, Clarke,
and Monroe. He will give special and prompt attention to the
collection of claims.
REFERENCES.
James Oakley, Esq., Philip Hamilton, Esq., Christopher S.
Hubbard, and Edwin Bartlett, New York.
J. J. Speed, Esq., Messrs. Pendergast 8c Son, and Doctor
Ilintze, Baltimore.
Captain Joseph Smoot, United States Navy.
L. W. Williams, Esq., Norfolk, Ya.
Messrs. Samuel Phillips 8c Son and Hon. John Taliaferro,
Fredericksburg, Va.
Hon. E. S. Dargan. M. C., Daniel Ratcliff, Esq., and Dr. SJ
C. Smoot, Washington city.
Joseph Smoot, merchant, Georgetown, D. C.
Hon. C. Roselius, J. C. Whitney 8c Co., George Wingfield
8c Co., and Col. S. D. Pitts, New Orleans.
Hon. H. J. Thornton, Eutaw, Alabama; Judge Torrey,
Claiborne, Alabama; M. Waring 8c Co. ; and Wm. Magee,
mobile. aug 19—tf
A TEACHER WANTED.—I wish to employ an el-
f\_ derly lady to teach two scholars Music, French, and the
ordinary branches of an English education.
All letters must be post paid, and addressed to the subscri-
ber, living in Prince George’s county, Maryland, near Bla-
densburg post office.
juue 4—'lawd&lawctt MARSHAM WARIGN.
BRILLIANT SCHEMES.
ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY,
Class 32, for 1846.
To be drawn at Alexandria, D. C , on Saturday, Aug. 15, 1846.
CAPITALS.
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Tickets $10—Halves $5—Quarters $2 50.
Certificate of a package ot 22 whole tickets, $110
Do do 22 half do 55
Do do 22 quarter do 27 50
ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY,
Class 33, for 1846.
I’o be drawn at Alexandria, D. C., on Saturday, Aug. 22, 1846.
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75 number lottery—-12 drawn ballots.
Tickets$10—Halves $5—Quarters $2 50.
Certificate of a package of 25 whole tickets $130
Do do 25 half do 65
Do do 25 quarter do 32 50
ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY,
Class 34, for 1846.
To be drawn in Alexandria, D. C., on Saturday, Aug. 29.
SPLENDID PHIZES.
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Tickets $10—Halves $5—Quarters $2 50.
Certificate of a package of 26 whole tickets $120
Do do 26 halt do 60
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Orders for tickets and shares and certificates ot packages in
the above splendid Lotteries will receive the most prompt at-
tention, and an official account of each drawing sent imme-
diately after it is over to all who order from us. Address
J. G. GREGORY & CO. Managers,
july 18—dfcciftd Washington. D. O.
VANE HUNDRED DOLLAR* REWARD.—Ran
away from the subscriber on the 14th of November last,
negro man WASHINGTON, about twenty-one years ot
age, live feet five or six inches high, very black, and stout for
his height; has very white and regular teeth ; red and rough
lips ; together with scars on the back of his head, and the loss
of his toes on both feet, excepting a large one, 011 which foot
is not recollected; all occasioned by tire when an infant. Had
on when he absconded a new cassinet roundabout, vest, and
pants, new unbleached cotton shirt, with buttons on the breast,
new pair coarse shoes and stockings, and a new glazed cap.
The said negro was taken out of the Washington jail two
days previous to his running away, and made his escape whilst
bringing him home ; this is to put persons on their guard not
to put any confidence in his word in case they should appre-
hend him.
I will give the above reward for said negro, if taken out ot
the State”of Maryland, and fifty dollars if taken in the State
aforesaid or the District of Columbia, and'delivered to me at
mv resideuce, or secured in jail so 1 get him again.
3 HENRY D. HATTON,
Hatton’s Hills, near Piscataway, Maryland,
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National Intelligencer. (Washington [D.C.]), Vol. 47, No. 6806, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1846, newspaper, August 6, 1846; Washington, District of Columbia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1025074/m1/4/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .