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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Richmond Prices Current.—" Grain— Wheat 120 to 

 125 cents per bushel, and 130 could we think be had 

 for good crops. Corn ^ettinfr scarce— we quote 62 to 

 65 cents per bushel. Oafs— in vessels 40 cents, and 

 42 cents from depot." — Compiler of 13th. 



The Washington papers of yesterday contain no- 

 thing as to the President's disposition of the bill for 

 establishing a national bank; and it may be presumed 

 now, with a great degree of confidence, that he will 

 send it back to congress with his veto. Tlial result is 

 indeed almost certain. The bill to repeal the independ- 

 ent treasury law has passed both bouses, and likewise 

 abides the decision of the President. 



jfnoiher Bank Robbery.— Wm. M. K. Ball, cashier 

 of the bank of the State Bank of Arkansas, at Fay- 

 etteville, recently absconded leaving the bank minus 

 some $64,000.— ^Mg-. Chron. 



Friday, August 20, 1841. 



Another horrible steamboat disaster has occurred on 

 Lake Erie. The Erie, from Buffalo to Chicago, took 

 fire and was burnt. Nearly 200 persons were burnt 

 or drowned, and only 27 saved, by the timely arrival 

 of the steamboat Clinton, which was in sight of the 

 fire, and hastened to the relief of the survivors. Most 

 of the passengers were immigrants newly arrived from 

 Germany. Their property, and specie, 'with the other 

 cargo of the Erie, supposed to amount altogether to 

 3,000, was a total loss. 



Mr. Justice Wiley, of New York, the celebrated 

 compounder of bank robberies, has been arrested on 

 the suit of the Fredericktown Bank, and bailed for 

 ^30,000. 



There have been some indications, in the stealing of 

 a piece of artillery near the Canada line. Sic. of some 

 new outbreak of " Canadian patriots." This may ex- 

 plain the movement of troops stated below — 



" Four companies belonging to the 4th Regiment U. 

 S. Artillery, Colonel Crane commanding, came by 

 the Buffalo to day. Company B, Capt. Washington, 

 and company F, Capt. Smead, rpmain at this post. 

 D and K companies go on to Sacketts Harbor. The 

 Buffalo came directly through in twenty hours from 

 Detriot, and will be followed by the Illinois with the re- 

 mainder of the troops, horses, he."— Buffalo Mv. \2th. 



A financier suitably rewarded at last. — " A. C. Far- 

 mington, late president of the Gallipolis Bank, alias 

 swindling concern, has been convicted, and sentenced 

 ■to the penitentiary for fifteen years."— Phila. Ledger. 



Mr. Lyell, the distinguished English geologist, has 

 arrived at Boston. 



Another president of the United States Bank (Col. 

 Drayton) has resigned. James Robertson, formerly 

 cashier of the United States Branch Bank in Rich- 

 mond, has been temporarily appointed to the place. 



The murder of Mary Rogers, a beautiful and re- 

 spectable girl, has attracted the earnest attention, and 

 horrified the feelings of the city of New York for 

 several weeks. The circumstances so tar as known 

 were too shocking to be stated. It is enough here to 

 say. that after having been over|)Ovvere(l and brutally 

 violated by 6 or 8 villain.^, she was murdered, and 

 thrown into the Hudson. So far the perpetrators have 

 escaped detection, if not even suspicion. 



The Veto to the Bank Bill. 



August \Sth. The Veto of the President has been 

 put upon the bill to establish a national tinnk, and the 

 message was sent yesterday to the Senate. It is a strong 

 and full state-rights' declaration, that leaves no ground 

 on which to erect another bank bill of any kind. In this 



most important matter. John Tyler has nobly maintained 

 the giound on which our anticipations (published on 

 his first accession) placed him, and on wliich only he 

 can stand. 



Previous to standing this veto on the bank bill, the 

 president had signed the act repealing the independent 

 f rensury law. We are not yet sure what system of 

 treasury |)olicy now actually exists. If the requisitions 

 of the earliest revenue law (of 17SJ),) are again 

 brought into force, the general policy is still essen- 

 tially that of the independent treasury plan, and will 

 even be more strict in excluding bank paper fiom the 

 treasury. If the later law (of 1816) is the one now 

 brought into force, that also will be a " sub-treasury 

 system" for Virginia, and ail other states whose banks 

 refuse to pay specie ; as by that law, the notes of 

 specie paying banks only will be receivable as money. 



We are on the eve of most important political 

 changes, if not of party revolution, the developement 

 of whicti will be commenced at Washington in a few 

 days. Most important events mtist soon occur, though 

 no one yet may foresee what will be the great result. 



The petition for the resumption of specie payments 

 by the Virginia banks, commenced in this town but 

 14 days ago, has already more than 200 signatures of 

 voters or residents. We have no doubt that our 

 former prediction of the signing by " more than 

 half the voters of Petersburg" will be fulfilled, and 

 with a considerable majority. This movement has al- 

 ready had some good effect in drawing forth the before 

 concealed opinions of many of the supporters of con- 

 tinued suspension, or the still longer continuation of the 

 present currency of irredeemable paper, from year to 

 year. Before, all such persons were as silent as the 

 grave, in regard to tlie necessity of another exten- 

 sion of indulgence to the banks. Now, opposition to 

 the petitioners and their object is raised on the ground 

 that tlie banks ought not to be required to pay next 

 January. The reasons for still another year of sus- 

 pension are quite ))!ausible ; and, moreover, they will 

 serve as well for all future time as for the next year, 

 and as they have served for the last four years. We 

 should be much pleased if there could be a counter 

 petition starfpd in this town, asking for the continued 

 suspension for another year, or of purport just the re- 

 verse of the other petition. We would warrant that 

 for every signer it could obtain in Petersburg, the re- 

 sumption petition would have at least five. 



{By this morning'' s mails, {Aug. 20th.) 

 From the National Intelligencer of the 19th, we ga- 

 ther the following items : The bankrupt bill has pass- 

 ed both houses, and also the bill for rechartering the 

 District banks. In the night after the veto message, 

 an assemblage of riotous persons entered the enclosure 

 of the President's house, and disturbed his family by 

 insulting noises and language. A public meeting of 

 the citizen* of Washington is called by the Mayor, fo 

 express their disapprobation of this outrage. [All such 

 use of this species of bank argument, however discre- 

 ditable to our country, wdl render good service to the 

 chief ma'i-istrate. and the cause, designed to be thus 

 opposed. — Ep. F. R.] 



The " money article" of the New York Herald of 

 the 18th says :— 



" Intelligence from Savannah states that the banks a 

 of that city have arranged to check on the North at m 

 one per cent, premium — the same as the Charleston '^ 

 rate — alter the first day of September. It is thus seen 

 that the exchanges between the several commercial 

 points of the country are gradually becoming equal- J 

 ized and regulated without the aid of a National Bank. I 

 On New Orleans exchange is declining, in consequence ' 

 of the near ajiproach to resumption by its banks. 

 Nothing but the healthy action of trade is wanted to 

 equalize exchange throughout the country, and if 

 well enough is let alone we shall soon be sound and 

 strong." 



