Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

Two years of Mr. Adams,	$286,500
For 1830,	$214,500
For 1831,	$210,000

The Reform.—One of the greatest objects of the Reformers who combined to put down the late pure and patriotic Administration, was avowed to be a reduction of the expenses of Diplomatic Intercourse. How far they have succeeded in this interesting and laudable purpose is seen very clearly in a few simple facts stated by Mr. Clayton, in a debate in the Senate on Wednesday last. We quote them as follows, without comment.

The expenses of Diplomatic Intercourse,
For 1828, $149,000
For 1829, 137,500
Two years of Gen. Jackson $424,500
Excess in 1830 and 1831, $138,000
The appropriation now proposed for the same expenditures, in the year 1832, is $236,150, wanting but fifty thousand dollars of the whole sum appropriated for similar purposes in both the years 1828 and 1829.

It is well remarked by the Indiana Free Press, that on the accession to power of the present ruling party in the Government, a system of proscription was deliberately commenced; that hundreds of honest and patriotic citizens were turned out because they did not vote for the successful candidate for the Presidency, and their places supplied by persons in many instances every way their inferiors. Foreign ministers were recalled without any pretence of just cause, and others sent out at an enormous expense to the country; and all these things were pronounced RIGHT "by the party." The only complaint from the most clamorous partisans, was that the REFORM did not go far enough. And now, says this straightforward Western Editor, when Mr. Van Buren, one of the elect, is rejected by the Senate of the United States, and that upon good grounds, too, (which can be said of few of the removals from office,) a general roar' is heard of 'treason,' 'corruption,' 'hellish plot,' &c. &c. from one end of the republic to the other! Are the people blind, (he adds) or do they not wish to see? —Nat Int.