State's Advocate

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Vol. II.       MILTON, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, (PA.) THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 18S8  '   No. 51,
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From the Pennsylvania Intelligencer THE LATE TREASURER.
As much misrepresentation has gone fourth in the .Tackson papers, relative to ihn removal of William Clark, we publish Ihefollowing correspondence,which vvill L*nable the pubiie to view  the matter in
its true light. Want of leisure prevents IS from enlarging on the subject at this noment.
HAnaiSBURG, Jan. ±3, i8JS8.
[To Wm. Clark, Esq. late State Treasurer.
Dear Sir, The undersigned appoiuted
)y the Democratic Convention convened
It this place on the 4th of .January inst
corresponding committee for this coun
ly, have seen, with regret, a series of in
terrogatories put to you in the Reporter
paper published in this borough, pre
sed by editorial   remarks,  which   are
Jparently intended and certainly ealcn-
Red. to place you before the  public  in
ie light cf a person guilty of the most
legrading dupiIcily.    Their   confidence
in your  integrity, veracity and firmness
Induced by an intimate acquaintance with
?our character, totally dissuades   them
[rom giving any credit to the statements
leie made concerning you, or to any in-
srence which mav be  drawn from tbe
iterrogatories referred to, prejudicial to
jour reputation.   But they seek to spread
the truth in relation to this matter before
|ho public,   and  therefore   respectfully
[•equest you, to furnish them wilb a copy
)f  the  (correspondence between several
;enllemen, members of the Legislature
ind yourself, a short time previous to the
late election of State Treasurer, concern-
jing your sentiments on the presidential
slectioo; and also sueh a reply from you
io those interrogatories and remarks, as
truth will warrant.
Yours respectfully VALENTINE HUMMEL, U REILY. WM. AYRES, D. KRAUS^, R. T. LEECH. J. M. WIESTLING.
Harrisburg. Jnnuary I9th, 1823.     \ \% Valentine Hummel, Esq. Br. L. Rei¬ ly, W m Ayres. Esq. D.  Krause, Esq R. T. Leech, Esq. ^ Dr. J. M. Wiest- ling.
Corresponding committee of Dauphin Co. Gentlemen—I  received your note last
evening, and will endeavour to comply
with your request, with  the strictest fi
delity and with a pure regard to trutl
and candor.    I am not conscious that I
have ever, either in public or private ca-
parity, lost sight in my actions of what
I considered the line of my duty, both as
a private citizen aod public officer.    My
habitual regard for it prompted my reply
to the note addressed to me on the dlb I January, by several members of the I e- j gislature; of both which  a copy vvill be
furnished lo you. My refusal to give a [pledge which might have an influence on I the election at the time that I was a can- jilidate for tbe office, had been determin¬ ed on months before the late election of
state treasurer; and in conversation vvith
gentlemen residing in this plaee on sev- I eral occasions, and  a considerable time , ^
previous to ihat election, I expressed mylvention of Democratic Republican dele- resolution not to give a pledge if I shoul i jgates" opposed to tbe election of Gener-
said further, that if I had resolved under the solemnity of an oath to support Gen- Jackson, I would not on this occasion give a pledge to vote for him in Novem¬ ber next.
"Did you. not say on the night of thej 4<th .Taniiarr, after tbe adjournment of Binns' convention, that you believed Randall's speech and resolution were in¬ tended to sacrifice you, and that you now were determined to come out openly for Jackson ?"
In relation to Mr. Randall's speech and the resolution referred to, I said that they vvere calculated to injure me, and had the appearance of being designed to sacrifice mc. I did riot say tbat I was determined to come out openly for Jack¬ son.
"Did you not say on that day to a friend ofyours in the legislature, that the name of John Binns at the bead of that couvention, was sufficient to destroy its proceedings—tbat you did not know bow any democrat could associate himself with a man so depraved in his moral and political character as Binns P"
I did not say so. I did not say that it was bad policy in tbe convention to place John Binns in the conspicuous situation in which he appeared and acted, that he being sa prominent an editor in the sup port ofthe administration, il might have a tendency to lessen the influence of the proceedings ofthe convention. I said nothing derogatory to Mr. Binns' moral r political character in the slightest de- iree.
" Did you not on the morning of Sat urday declare to your frieuds that you would come out immediately for Jackson upon the receipt of the letter from the committee—and was it not after your in¬ terview with Burnside ihat you began to waver and talk about' assurances' and ' pledges,' and tbat if you would come out for Jackson, and then fail in your elec¬ tion, tbat you could expect nothing from tbe administration men.f"'
I did not say to tbe committeee bring¬ ing the letter lo me, or to any of my friends, that I would come out for Jack¬ son at any time. I said to tbe committee I would give a satisfactory answer to the letter; meaning thereby that my reply wonld be such as would be understood— and as to Judge Burnside he neither of¬ fered nor gave to me any advice as to the course I should pursue, and he wili so declare if ealled upon. The last clause of this inquiry is already answered in my ieeiaration, that I did not say I would ;«me out for Jaekson. j
•' And lastly—was not the promise made to you on Saturday, that if you would not give the legislature an une¬ quivocal and satisfactory answer; that you should he made cashier of the Penn¬ sylvania Branch Bank, or obtain some other lucrative situation under the power ofthe general government.^"
There was no sueb promise made to me. If there had been, it would have had no influence whatever iii determining my course or my answer to the letter address¬ ed to me. Np one possessing the power to uthorise me to believe that I could recti ve such appointments as are refer¬ red to in this inquiry, ever made the pligbtest intimation ofit to me either di rectly or indirectly.
I am gentlemen.
With much respect.
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM CLARK.
To William Clark, Esq. Dear Sir:—From the proceedings of a conveation, calling themselves, ''a  Coo
vention convened at this place on the 4th inst. and state, that you are induced to address me " from the consequences which will inevitably follow the rule of proBcription adopted by tht gentlemen composing that convention,"
Before i reply to you aa to ray senti¬ ments on the presidential election, permit me respectively to promise that if tbe Convention alluded to , have established a rule of proscription of any sort what ever, 1 have had no participation in it in any shape or form-
From the import of your note, and the occasion on which it is addressed to me? I am constrained to conclude, that its pur¬ pose is to elicit my sentiments in relatjion to the ensuing election of president, in or¬ der to make them have a bearing oa the pending election of State Treasurer, for which office it is knovvn to you I am' a candidate. Yet to ypur first inquiry it is scarcely necessary to reply to gentle¬ men so well acquainted as you are with tho politics of Pennsylvania, that in 18- 24,1 was a supporter of General Jack¬ son's election ; on reference to the files ofj the newspapers of tbat day, it may be seen tbat I theii acted as a member of| the central comnailtee of Pennsylvania i^ his behalf. Since the election of 1824(, I have taken no part ia the presidential canvass, further IhanUo express my ap¬ probation of the generJil policy ofthe ad¬ ministration of tbe Uniied States gov¬ ernment, j
To your second enquiry, whether I will sustain the election of Gfeneral Jackson n November next, my ideai of a free and unbiassed  election, influences me to de- line giving the answer reqjuired. i
However high an opinioil may enter¬ tain of him, a pledge frojn me in myi present circumstances to jsupport him, would unquestionably be tiewed by the public as the condition on which my re¬ election was to be expeetetl, and in the praiseworthy sentiment of'the General himself, it would be unplitasaot to hold any office, especially one so responsible as that of State Treasurer, on condition of my compliance with any requisitions ex¬ cept those which the duties of tbe office tself impose.
Bplieve me, gentlemen, to be with the hi^'Tiest  consideration of  respect, your mo'st obedient and very humble servant. WM. CLARK. Janmry 7,1828.
To Messrs. Alexander Ogle, C. Garber John Brown, George JV. barker, Aaron Kerr, Benjamin S. Bonsaiho. B. Porter, and Solomon 6. Kv^pps, Esqrs. members of the senate and house of representatives of the commomoeatlh of Pennsylvania.
be called on so to do ; I reeolleet perfect¬ ly well to have expressed this resolution to David Krause, Esq. and Mr. Wm. H. Doll ofthis place.
The interrogatories to which you refer |me in your note I have seen ; and have [subjoined my answer to eaeh respective- ily. The interrogatories and answers I follow.
TO WILLIAM CLARK, Esq "Did you not express a wish to your personal friends in the legislature, that they would address a letter to you on the subject of your predilection on the pres¬ idential question?"
I never did to any person on an occa¬ sion, express a wish that such a letter as is spoken  of in the foregoing enquiry, should be addressed to me ; on the morn¬ ing of Saturday   the dth  January inst. Gen. Ogle called on me in the Ireasuay offiee, and presented to me the letter of] whieh I have given you a copy, from the members of the legislature, but whieh was then without signature;  and he re¬ marked that it was drawn np at the so¬ licitation of a number of gentlemen who induced by tbe rule of proscription laid ilnvvn in the convention of the 4th inst. and in Mr. Randal's speech to call upon nie in the manner he had thus called. fhis I understood was to apprise me ofj )^hat was intended to be addressed to me ^^ a letter from them,   1 replied in sub¬ stance, that the legislatue would adopt *ueh & course  as they deemed proper, tliat it was not for me to prescribe the "nvK Ihey should take towards, me.   I
ted within the last year, is 21,910 dollars They are forwarded, as heretofore, at ihe expense and risk of tbe Government, to all parts ofthe United States accessable by regular means af transportation, on receiving the value thereof here, or certificate of deposite, to the credit ofthe Treasurer of the Uniied States, for the requisite amount, in any of the Banks au¬ thorised to receivs deposiles of public money.
A general view ofthe operation ofthe Mint, from the first commencement, will not, it is believed, be found destitute of| interest, and is, therefore, respectfully presented.
The whole coinage executed since the establishment of the Mint, amounts to 830,465,444 14 1-^; consisting of 103, 081,178 pieces of coin, viz:
pieces Of Gold,     1.538,161 Silver, 47,389,086 Copper,54,1.53.931
making §8,255,667 50 21.095,399 90 513,876 74 1-2
al Andrew Jackson, as president of the United States held in this place last eve ning, and from the consequence which inevitably follow the role of proscription adopted by tbe gentlemen composing tbat convention: the undersigned your person alfrieruds—ATft induced to address you this note, and most respectfully to request of you, an unequivocal declaratiou in re gard to your sentiments on the next pres¬ idential election ;—and vvhether the un¬ dersigned may be authorised to say, that you have in 1824, supported General An¬ drew Jackson the democratic republican candidate of Pennsylvania, and will a- gain sustain him in the election of No¬ vember 1828. Your answer te this note is requested this day.
We remain. Sir, as we have always been your friends,
ALEXANDER OGLE, C. GARBER, JOHN BROWN, GEORGE N. BAKER, AARON KERR, BENJ. S. BONSALL, G. B. PORTER, SOL. G. KREPPS. Saturday morning, Jan. 5, 1828. Harrisburg.
Gentlemen,
I have received your favor of Saturday January Sth, 1828, in which yon request me to give an unequivocal declaration in regard to my sentiments on the next pres¬ idential election, &c. In the same note you refer to the proceedinge of the con
CONGRESS.
HOUSE   OF   REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, Jan, 21, 1828. On motion of Mr. Van Renscllaer, it was resolved, that the committee on post roads be instructed to enquire into the expediency of granting to Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, the only survi ving signer of the Declaration of Inde pendence, the privilege of franking du¬ ring his life.
The following message was received from the President.
To the Senate and House of Representa¬ tives ofthe United States: Washington, 21st Jan. 1828, A report from  the   Director of the Mint, together wilh a statement of the operation of that institution, during the year 1827, are herewith transmitted to Congress.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Mint ofthe United States,    > Philadelphia, Jan. 1, 1828. ^ Sir: I have the honour to submit a re¬ port on the general transactions ofthe Mint, during the past year.
The coinage effected vvithin that pe¬ riod, as appears from the Treasurer's statement, herewith transmitted, amountii to 83,024,342 32 consisting of 9,097, 845 pieces of coin, viz.
pieces. Of Gold, 27,713
Silver,   6,712,400" Copper, 2,357,732
103,081,178 030,465,444 141-2 Within the first fifteen years ofthe operation of tbis establishrnent, begin¬ ning with the year 1793, and ending vviUi 1607, the amount coined vvas 6,482.613 68 1-2 dollars; in the succeeding len years, ending with 1817, tbe amount coined was 7,715,979 85 dollars, and in the last ten years it bas been 16,266,850 61 dollars.
Tbe averageannnal eoinageofthe first period above distinguished, it will he found vvas 432,174 24 dollars, that of the second 771.597 98 dollars, and that ofthe last period 1,626,685 06 dollars. The coinage of the last year, exceeded by nearly a million of dollars, that of any year preceding, and is nearly two fold the average amount of the period to which it belongs.
I have the honour to be, with great respect, your obedient servant.
SAMUEL MOORE. The President of the United States.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
Mr. Kelley^s Report on Education. Read in Senate, Jan 18.
The committee on education, to whom was referred an item of unfinished busi¬ ness of last session, relative to providing a fund for a general system of education, and to whom also vvere referred various petitions on the same subject, REPORT: That the petitions on this subject are nu¬ merous, are from various parts of the state, aod are signed by a large number of very respectable citizens. The urgent requests of many of our constituents, and the intrinsic importance of tbe measure proposed, combine to press it upon tbe serious attention, of the legislature.— The diffusion of education among tbe great body of the people, is an object ve ry near tbe hearts ofthe benevolent andj humane. It is conceded to be the most! powerful means of furthering the cause of morality and religion ; and its import- jance to a country possessing a republican
appears, that there was educated in tho common schools, in that year, a nuinber of children, greater by 18,206, than the whole number of children in that state who were between tbe age of five and fifteen years.
. This result your commilfee think is admirable. All the rising generation of a great community are
rudiments of learning, houses
nslructed in the The doors ofthe are  open to all
common school
without distinction, und the children of tbe rich and the poor meet there iu tbe participation of a common benefit, upon terms ofthe most perfect equality. Sueh a system is above all praise, and deserves imitation every where.
Your committee are not informed of all tbe sources from- whieb the government of Nevv York have derived their common school fund, but they observe, that, in the nevv constitution of that state, all moneys thereafter lo be received for lands owned by the state, are appropriated to that fund.
This has led your eommittee to reflect! upon the propriety of raising a fund for the support of common schools, by setting apart for that purpose, all moneys here¬ after paid into the treasury for lands.— The amount due the state f>r lands, it ap¬ pears, has been variously estimated from one to two million of dollars. Suppose it to be one million and a half, it would amount to a larger sum than the New Fork fund, which, as we have seen before has produced 8tt«b wondecful-reaults. If the money, as it is paid into the treasury, shall be invested in some productive slock, and the intertst thereon invested in like manner, no great length -'f time vvill elapse, before the fund v i imouot to a laige sum. The pariiou *- mode of its distribution, among the seveirti coun¬ ties aud townships, can bev^belter se lied, when the fund shall have ioereised to such a sum, as to render the distrii^utioa of its interest expedient.
The question vvill naturally present it¬ self, whether the state of our finances will admit ofthe subtraction of that portion of our revenue derived from lands. Your committee have been informed, that as a means of meeting the ordinary expendi¬ tures of government^ the receipts for' lands are not much to be depended on. The amount it exceedingly fluctuating. The amount received during the last- year is pretty large—-for some ofthe pre¬ ceding years it was small. It would therefore seem, that this source of reve¬ nue could be taken for a school fund wilb less ineonvenienee than either ofthe otfa* ers.—The amount to be received during any year, from tbe interest of our bank stock, from auction duties, from taverir licenses &c. can be estimated with toler¬ able accuracy; while that to be received "(for land is wholly uncertain. Youreom- "mittee can see no reasonable doubt, but that, independent of the moneys due for land, the state has am;)ie mea.is of defraying tiie ordinary expenses of gov¬ ernment. And in respect to the canals now constructing, the mouevs for land
formofgovernra'ent, is universally admit-! ""^^;^"='""'=V"^V""' ^""^>'*        ..   . ^ ' ¦'   - -      'comes in too slow to assist much in tneir
making, 8131,665 00 2,879,200 00
23,577 15
9,097,845 3,024.342 32 Of the Gold bullion deposited at the Mint within the last year, the proportion received from Mexico, South America, and the West Indies, may be stated at 76,000 dollars; and that from North Carolina at 2i ,ooo dollars, and that from Africa at 15,000 dollars, leaving about 20,000 dollars dollars derived from sour¬ ces not ascertained. The whole amount received from North Carolina, to the present period, is nearly 110,000. This gold has been generally found to exceed in fineness the standard of our gold coin. The supply of Silver, under various forms of unwTooght bullions^ and in for eign coins, has been unusually abundant, especially during the three first quarters of the year. The heaviest deposiles have been received generally through the Bank of the United States. Of the a mount of silver coined within the last year, more than 2!,Oo6,000 consisted of] deposiles received from that institution. The amount of copper coins distribu
ted. To accomplish this greai object, therefore, if within our means, would seem upon many and high considerations, to be the solemn duly ofthe government ofthis state.
Your coramittee are well aware, that the system of internal improvement, in which the state is now emgarked, is so expensive, that any great disbursements from the treasury, for any other purpose, are not now to be expected. All that your committee can hope to see done at present, is to begin the accumulation of a fund whieh shall be solemnly pledged to this object. They hope that the an nual additions to be made to this fund, and the interest tbereou, will in time car¬ ry the blessings of common schools into the most remote part of the common¬ wealth.
Your committee are no friends to a ser¬ vile imitation of the institutions of our sister states ; but tbey see no reason why vve should not adopt such of their laws and usages as are found to work well in practice, and vvhieh vve, in the exercise of| ourjudgment, approve. It is no objec¬ tion to them, that they were not origin¬ ally commenced here, if they are right aud proper in themselves. By the report of tbe superintendant of common schools in the state of Nevv York, made to the le gislature in January,1827, it appears tbat tbat state has a school fund amounting to 1,353,477 dollars. The fund, during the year 1826, yielding the nett income of 85 267 dollars.
The amount of money was divided a- mong the several townships upon the principle that each tovvnship should con tribute to the support of the schools an amount equal to that received from the school funds. This appears, was done by all the townships. Wilh the money so raised, dommon schools vvere supported in tlie year 1826, in the 8,114 school dis¬ tricts, into which the state of New York is divided ; and the average time of in¬ struction in the schools, was eight months of that year. In these schools curing the year 1826, there vvas taught 431,601 chil¬ dren. The whole number of children in that stale, between the age of five and jfifteen, was that year, 411,230.   So it
construction; and the friends of the canal are of opinion, that tbe canals themselves" will be a souree of revenue, biefore any considerable part of the money due for landsr can be received into tbe treasury.
It may not be here amiss to observe, that the money due to the state for land, will probably be paid into the treasury more cheerfully and promptly, when the payers know that they are thereby layinp up a rich inheritance for their posterity: and opening the gate of knovvledge and science to all their descendants in all time to come.
The constitution of tbis state, which we have severally sworn to support, en-, joins upon us the duty of providing for the general education of tbe people ; tho^ voice of our fathers, therefore, from tho times that are past, urges us forward to this measure, and gives unealculable force to the other many and weighty considerations which induce its adoption.
Wednesday, January 23.
A bill granting to the Ohio and Balti¬ more rail road company permission to pass through the boundaries ofthis state, came up on a third reading.
Messrs. Garber, Knight, Brovvn, Pow¬ ell and Hawkins participated in the de¬ bate upon this bill. On one side it was- contended that this road might interfere with the general prosperity of the state, by drawing otf the trade from the south and south-western section ofthe state to Baltimore, and tbis consequence was the more to be avoided, as we were novv our¬ selves advancing in rapid improvements of inter-comrounieation. On the other hand, it was contended that it was but common justice to give these sections of the state an easy access to market, whe¬ ther that market were vvithia tbe bounds of the stote or not.
After some farther debate, the bill was agreed to, and ordered to be trans- cribedfor a third reading.
Judge James of the supreme court of
S. Carolina has been impeached for ha-
.bitual intemperance; it having been pro-
(ved that ha had been drank on the beaeli.