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larged to accommodate so great a ntunber) wliere 

 their worthy brother has found so much ease. But ii 

 Dr. Dyott's bank had held out until now, he might 

 have been made easy without g;oins to the penitentiarj^ ; 

 for now there is ?!0 "/)rt(/-rfai/" for banks, except in 

 paper promises, which of course Dr. Dyott's, as all 

 other banks, could furnish in any desired quantity. 



Peter Robinson, has been convicteii and sentenced 

 to death, for the mysterious and remarkable murder 

 of Mr. Suydam, at New Brunswick, N. J. 



The recent elections at Lower Canada have been 

 attended with much turbulence and riot, and some 

 destruction of life. 



A larpe quantity of lead, the products of Wythe 

 county, Virginia, has been sent to Fichmoml. 



The congress of Texas has passed an act that no 

 sale of slaves shall be made under execution, unless 

 for defalcation to the Texian government. This is 

 otTering a high bounty for the emigration, from the 

 United States, of bankrupt and frauduf^nt debtors, 

 who hold or can acquire possession of slaves. 



A loan for the Texian Government has been obtain- 

 ed in France. 



The Homer, one of the largest steamers on the 

 Mississippi, sunk on the 16th. with a valuable cargo, 

 part of which was 500 tons of railroad iron. 



The president of the United States, has been dan- 

 gerously ill with inflammation of the lungs. The Wash- 

 inffton papers of the 2d. report that he is better. 



United States Bank stock has lately been sold as low 

 as 15.J. 



Saturday, Jpril 10, 1841. 

 ^ The brig Richmond, of Salem, has been searched 

 bv a British vessel of war. This is the tilth Salem 

 vessel that has been so treated. 



Alonzo F. Weed, ex-president of the swindling 

 Bank of Millington, has been arrested in New York 

 on the charge of having embezzled upwards of §'10,000 

 of the funds of that institution. 



The State Bank at Macon, and all the banks of 

 Columbus, Georgia, (except the Phenix,) and the Rail- 

 Road Banks and some others, have acknowledged their 

 suspension of specie-payments. 



Gen. William H. Harrison, President of the United 

 State, died on the morning of the 4th. inst. His dis- 

 ease was inflammation of the lungs, of which the com- 

 mencement had been very recent, and the progress 

 rapid to its fatal termination. For various con- 

 siderations, no other death, nor perhaps any other isolat 

 ed event, could have occurred which would have 

 caused so much regret and disappointment to a very 

 large proportion of the people of this country. 



The late Vice-President Tyler, now President of 

 the United States, (and possessing the full power of 

 his predecessor, and for the full term, save the one 

 month of the passed administration,) now assumes the 

 station under entirely novel, and also the most favora- 

 ble circumstances. Succeeding to the chief magistra- 

 cy by virtue of the constitutional provision for a va- 

 cancy caused by death, President Tyler owes his 

 exaltation not to election for this office, nor to the usu- 

 al means for securing a presidential election — but fo 

 chance — and the selection, and the fitness of the indi- 

 vidual to perform the duties of the office, are not 

 the worse on that account, but the reverse. Owing to 

 this before unprecedented circumstance, he has come 

 into power suddenly and unexpectedly, and free from 

 any pledge or promise to, or bargain with any person or 

 party. Being thus entirely unfettered and uncontrolled, 

 he is free to do what he deems right, and the best for 

 his country in all respects. His course may be a glo- 

 rious one, and must be, unless he should throw away 

 the most favorable opportunity that has ever been of- 

 fered to a president, since the accession of Jefferson. 

 President Tyler is now in the only possible condition 

 of incumbency in which a chief magistrate is bound 

 only by his duty to his country, hjs oath of office, and i 



his own previously avowed and well-known political 

 principles. John Tyler has always professed, and 

 gloried in professing, to be a slate-rights republican of 

 the "straitest sect." He has been one of those w ho 

 contended for the strict construction of the federal con- 

 stitution, and strictly limited powers of tlie federal go- 

 vernment. And to an auhercnce to the same course, 

 in his now exalted station, he is pi -d'^cd by every act 

 and profession of his whole political life. This gene- 

 ral proposition includes several minor, but important, 

 particulars, in regard to which the public mind has 

 been much agitated, and the hopes of some and the fears 

 of others strongly excited. Wliether_tliese hopcS and 

 fears were before well-fotinded or not, there is no 

 ground for them now. President Tyler cannot and 

 will not sustain any measure that is not fully authorized 

 hy the strict construction of federal poweis. 



The trial of McLeod has been continued to the next 

 term. 



The British Queen steamer, which had been ex- 

 pected for a week, arrived at New York on the 4th, 

 after a stormy passage of 24i days, bringing English 

 accounts to March 10th, of great interest. 



A war panic, and much excitement had been pro- 

 duced by the McLeod affair, and the warlike tone of 

 the report of the committee of foreign relations of 

 Congress — and a stock panic also, mnde worse by 

 the news of the bankruptcy of the United States 

 Bank. 



A British squadron of ten ships of the line had 

 been ordered to the coist of America, and three more 

 battalions of infantry to Halifax. 



Cotton had advanced at Liverpool a farthing per 

 pound, owing mainly to the fear of war with the 

 United States. 



News from China to December 18th — to which 

 time nothing more of any importance had been done 

 by the British arms or negotiators; and the Chinese 

 continued to delay the negotiation by shuffling and 

 excuses. 



Charles F. Mitchell, a noted member of Congress 

 from the State of New York last session, and, more re. 

 cf>ntly, a noted office hunter, has committed sundry 

 forireries of large amount, and moved off to Texas. 



On the 6th inst. the bank authorities of Richmond 

 "resolved" and formally notified the public of the re-sus- 

 pension of specie payments of all the banks in Virgi- 

 nia. Thus has ended, as we predicted, the pretended 

 resumption, which has been the most ridiculous and 

 contemptible and disreputable farce that has ever 

 been played by such grave and disinified performers. 

 The whole bank proceedings in Virginia, for the last 

 two months, would serve as an amusing and laughable 

 hoax, if the joke were not too serious in its effects on 

 the cheated and pillaged community. 



The Richmond Whig, when reporting and applaud- 

 ing this re-suspension, adds, " We hope now that the 

 hanks will consider suspension as indefinite — that is, 

 that they will not pretend to the power of foreknow- 

 ledire, and designate a period when they can resume, 

 wliich depends upon so many contingent circum- 

 stances — and that they will cease to grind the commu- 

 nity to prepare for an event [the resumption of pay- 

 ments] which may not and probably cannot occur, 

 wisely, for several years." We are confident that the 

 suspension will not only be for a time '■^indefinite," 

 but that it will last as long as any of these banks will 

 last, and even the swindling banking system of Vir- 

 ginia itself. 



President Tyler's opinion of the banking system of 

 this country, was expressed, years ago. as follows, in 

 the congress of the United States. What was then 

 prophecy, has now become history. "For one, I en- 

 ter my protest against the banking system as con- 

 ducted in this country ; a system not to hesuppoited 

 by any correct principle of political economy. A 

 gross delusion— the dream of a visionary— a system 



