"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

"SAM: " OR, TIIE -HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
to stop where they began, leaving the whole question of
imnipressments and neutral rights, the sole ostensible occasion
of the war, without a word said on the subject, to be settled
at some convenient opportunity: a common termination of
wars, even for the most powerful and belligerent nations, and
of which Great Bfitain herself has given more than one
instance.
The war thus happily ended, Dallas's bank scheme, which
had been again revived and carried through the Senate, was
indefinitely postponed in the House by a majority of one vote.
Instead of the scheme of finance which he had proposed, a
loan of $18,400,000 was authorized, being the amount of
treasury notes outstanding; and, as immediate means to go
on with, new treasury notes to the amount of twentv-five
millions. A part of these notes, to be issued in sums under
a hundred dollars, payable to the bearer, and without interest, were intended to serve as a currency. Those over a
hundred dollars were to bear an interest of five and two-fifths
per cent.,-a cent and a half a day for every hundred dollars.
Both kinds were to be receivable for all public dues, and fundable at the pleasure of the holder —those bearing interest,
in six per cent. stock, and those without interest in seven per
cent. stock.
Haste was made to repeal, in favor of all reciprocating
nations, the act imposing discriminating duties on foreign
vessels, and all remnants and remainders, if any there were,
of the old non-intercourse and non-importation acts; also an
act passed only a few days before, containing many strong
provisions, some of them of very questionable constitutionality, for the extinguishment of trade and intercourse with
Great-Britain. The commissioners at Ghent, before terminating their mission, signed a commercial convention for
four years, copied substantially from Jay's treaty, but with
an additional proviso for absolute reciprocity in the direct
trade, by the abolition, on both sides, of all discriminations.
Appropriations were made for rebuilding the public edifices
lately burned by the. British; not, however, without a good
deal of opposition. Rhea proposed to encircle the ruins of
the Capitol with an iron balustrade, to let the ivy grow over
them, and to place on their front, in letters of brass, this
inscription: "Americans! This is the effect of British
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