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principle onTbich t^PHKo of thesHRtes ' rests, and beyoud the jurisdiction of Con "^lgre*5* ao^ l^at ?a* ??A,J?o] petition, ine 5?:morial, resolution, propositi??, or paper touching or relating in any way* or to any extent whatever, to slavery ai aforesaid, or to the abolition thereof, shalf [be entertained oncmtsidered by this House . but,] on the pre sentation thereof, shall, without [6?nv?- read, N debated* printed or referred* be laid on the ta BU, *j*d no farther action whatever shall be kail (hereon.] M o pi ft >: d. ? orh. Resolved, therefore , That *^alLai tempts on the part of Congress to abol ish shivery in the District of Columbia or the Territories, or to [pro/t?fo/] the remo val of slaves from State to State, or to dis criminate between the institutions of one portion of the aud another, with the views aforesaid, are in violation of the Constitution, destructive of the fundamental principle on which the Union of these States rests, and beyond ihe jurisdiction of Con gress; and that {every] petition, memorial, resolution, proposition, or paper touching or relating iu any way, or to auy extent what ever, to slavery as aforesaid, or to the aboli tion thereof, shall on the presentation there of without [any farther action thereon , be laid on the ta^ie, without being debated , prin ted , or referred.] Now. i ask, is it possible for any man, af ter reading these resolutions, as originally a fopied aud subsequently modified , to enter tain a doubt as to the intent and meaning of the New England party in demanding these alterations ? Look at the words stricken out of the 5h resolution?' "S/uiUnot be entertain - 4td or considered by the House.71 What do these words mean? Do they not mean shall : Mt he recticedj Why were they "expun ged?** It is true those who only read the modified aod have not s?ee the original reso lutions may e&tec*4fo same doubt; but this remark eanao>apply to those who made, or to those wlH* assented to the alterations. * After dieir adoption by the House, and debate arose as to their true construction, an honorable geutlemau observed to Mr. Ather ton, "You have so drawn these resolutions that it is difficnlt to decide what they really mean." To which Mr. Atherton replied, Jv ?* That is just ichat ice intended. Whether * ^ fcy we is meant tee of the North, or tee of the North aod Sooth, I am not able to say : but I may be permitted to ask* is this dignified le gislaiion? Is it worthy the Representatives of the American People/ One remark more, and I leave the whole subject in the hands of those who may feel ;.V: disposed fo draw inferences and conclusions from the (acts. I have given a text. By the South it onght not to be passed over in si ~ ; ience. j ... ? % '.>:?? ? These resolutions, as originally adopted, - were immediately forwarded to South Caro lina tor circulation. They have, undoubted ly, been printed and circulated in that origi nal form. Has the attention of the People of South Carolina been called to' them in their emasculated state? THE SPY IN WASHINGTON. n?, - ' V. -? * 'T ' ? * . jr- > ? v. - - r. . From the Edgefield Advertiser. ' **t*rincipizg obsta : sero mcdicina parUtur, < Ckm mala per lo*ga* conxoLncrr. moras." ? Ovid. Stop it in the beginning ; after the disease has gained strength by delay, medicine can I do no good. Mr . Editor, ? That efforts are now being - made to amalgamate the South Carolina Sub- j Treasury* and the Democratic Van Buren ! party, is a fact, which must have arrested ' ;>the attention ofvven the most cursory ob- i * Server, of the political events of the day. j The Mercury has some time since, hois ted the Van Buren flag. The same paper "rii now the apologist, and the Washington ? Chronicle, the' open advocate of Geo. Jack -son's Administration. The South Carolini an is also wearing round, and bringing bat teries to bear npoo the nnfouhded "preju dices of the people" against the present "ex cellent Administration?" Whether it is that our . Politicians, from their vigilant watching* and- long fastings, now begin to look with hut keener appetites upon the loaves and fishes; or whether it is, (a s they onee told ns) that he of Kinderhook is bona fide s Magieian, I am unable to determine. It ? certain, however, that unless:, the Peo ple forbid the bands, they wilt, ere long, have Stash Carolina politically united to M. Van A sincere belief, that the Treasury ques tion is to be made a gap, through which Van Bv0tt3O, is to be let into our^State, a hope that when I have. given the alarm, yott, or pTrnH) one rfir who is capable of counselling us, will peirn out the path of honor aud of as weil as the calmest conviction, of the profound philosophy of the sentence, Wthich I have seleeted/or my motto, has de termined me, roost reluctantly, to obtrude my Opinions upon the public. Let us- examine for an instant, the- rea son s, which are assigned for this unnatural and unholy Uuion. We should support him, we are told, be cause, upon his election, depends the fate of \f?r favorite measure, the Constitutional Treasury. How is this Bill to be passed? By the vote of* our Senators and Represen tatives at Washington. How is the Presi dent elected? By the vote of our Electors at Columbia. How than does the fate of the Trejwury Bttt depend upon out vote for President? : ^ But he is a "Northern President with SoH&erm principles," No doubt of it! ? Did Hatfc&fc^Vau Buren not vote for the Ta riff?' Wa* hfc- not in favor ?i* the Bloody BRf and Qen lack+o rs Proclamation? Did he not introduce intu Hie New York Legis lature, ^solutions, instructing their Sena tors to oppose the admission of any Slave hoMia^ Territories into this Union? Excel lent Southern principles these! Sot this is a "Crisis" aud our only hope rot safety is in this "Northern President with Siuthirn principles." Can you recol lect, Mr- Editor, when ?ve had not a "crisis?" There was a great one, I remember, when t&esk iacks*u was nominated for the Presi iieac> We then set np hickory posts, walk- , ed with hickory sticks, eat our barbecues on %?ekoiy leaves, and elected "Old Hickory" ?*fte serue the Country.? Sow to show how ^extensively we appro o&l ef his node of ef fefctin^ the cure, we are called on to elect thia Mixer of his Medicines, who has pledg ed himself to ''follow in the footsteps of hii Illustrious Predecessor." Bat, say bis fritnsU, there is no danger of feis "keeping thi pied ge? he never intended to keep it? it was merely ?b electioneering trick? granted. What reliance can we put i t such a man? Can South Carolina , from whose soil chivalry and honor spontaneously ?spring, even for a moment, entertain the idea ?f supporting tki* man, whose only claim rests upoo his being able to prove, that he lias committed moral perjury? Bst he* h*s pledged (pledged!) himself to Wafena*? ?tli for Abolition, which mav pass {clOTing his terra of oSce. P-r-o-d-i-g i-o-H-j! When every Idiot knows that such a pledge would (as it had done) increase his populari ty, do you suppose that Van Buren had not sagacity enough to perceive it? ? Who dreams that such a Hill cau pass during his Administration? Had the majority been on the other side, you may rest assured, that, be would have had too tender a regard for his popularity , ever to have made such a pledge. ? It is the vilest jargon ? the most miserable mockery ? the grossest insult to our common sense, to point out this man, as a protector against Abolition, who would to morrow, if in Congress, vote against the admission of Texas in the Union erpressly on Qie ground of slarertj! j What'drugs. what charms, "What conju rations aud what mighty magic," will be used j by this arch seducer, to bring South Caroli j na into his arms, is more than I can divine. | Powerful will be the potation ; but I sincere ! ly hope that it will prove insufficient to effect i his pur|>ose. I cannot believe that she, who | but yesterday, with the bashfulness of youth | ful beauty, ' lushing nt his slightest hint of admiration ? who with virgin purity, saw | wroHg in even his most delicate attentions, j will, now, banish from her bosom, not only j all maiden modesty, but even womanly pride ! and, unsought , seek his foul embrace.' I EDGEFIELD. From the Were York Courier and Enquirer. I The defaulters. ? We copy from the Na tional Iuteligencer the commencement of the Speech made by Mr. Wise in the House of Representatives on the Resolution of Mr. Cambreleng 41 providing that so much of the communication of the President of the i United States of the 8th ofDecember 1838, as relates to the default of Samuel Swart wout, be referred to a select committee, and j that so much as relates to the adoption of further measures for increasing the public security against similar defalcations, be re ? ferred to the Committee of Ways and I Means. CONGRESS. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF REP RESENTATIVES. Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1838. Mr. Cambreleng having moved that the i Executive communication respecting the de falcation of Samuel Swartwout, the late Col lector of New York, except so much thereof as relates to a modification of the revenue laws, be referred to a select committee ? Mr. WISE moved that it be referred to a ' Committee of the Whole on the state of the j Union. This motion taking precedence of that for i a select committee. I Mr. WISEf rose and addressed the House in j | support of it. When Geo Jackson (said he,) | in bis last message to Congress, left behind i him a certificate of the honesty, probity, and good demeanor of all his Departments, I doubted the truth of it. I believed then that " corruption was the order of the day," i and I so charged. I believed then that the i officers of the Departments were not merely I picking aud stealing in a small way, that they were guilty of petty larceny, but that they were sweeping off the public treasure by millions, and were guilty of grand larce uy on a grand scale. It seems now that ' Swartwout, the Collector of the City of New j York, a point where two thirds of the entire revenue of the Union is collected, had been embezzling hundreds of thousands at the very hour^when that message was delivered to us, notwithstanding that certificate of hon esty under the word of Caesar, that was good against the world. I told the country then that honescLevi's Department was rotten to the core ; aod I asked for a committee to probe it. The committee was raised, but the President let this House, the grand in quest of the natioD, know that his officers were above its scrutiny, and the doors were shut in onr faces. But uow ? now that the horse is stolen ? the organ of the Ad ministration in this House proposes gravely to shut the doot? What good will it do now. If you had let the committee go on with its examination in 1835, you might have saved from half a million to a million and a quarter of dollars. I mean in this one case. But this case is but one out of a thousand ? ay, fifteen hundred cases of default. What can be tbe object of raising a select commit tee now, gravely to enquire into the truth of a fact svhich every body knows? The leg sub-Treasury has deparied.1 aud you will never be able unless you put a stop to steam navigation across the Atlantic, to hold any ol them long enough to investigate their ac counts. What is to be gained ? Do you want to see how the thing was done, and show how it may be done again? Do you want to institute a rogue's college to teach all the rest of the sub-Treasuries how to steal the public money ? It is for that you would raise a committee ? I would rather investigate the accounts of the present Collec tor, not that I have any ground of allegation specially against him in particular; but if we are to examine let us examine those who are not off. Swartwout is off, and Price af ter him, and God knows how many more are to follow. Let us pin them down, I say, while we have got them. I can conceive but one object in view in asking for this commit tee. It is not to ascertain the defalcation, the Secretary has ascertained- that. But there is another question ? who is to blame Has this happened with the connivance of ! the Secretary of the Treasury ? Is that the ! question for this committee? Sir, I have had some little experience in this buisiness of investigation ; and I ask that if you give us a committee, it shall uot be a stocked com mittee. Let it not be a stocked pack. ? But what time is there for such an investi gation ? It the object is a bona fide investi gation, it cannot be done this session. But I suppose the r.^al object is to whitewash Le vi. The committee is to cast all the odium on Swartwout, who is laughing at you in his sleeve, and laughing your inquiries to scorn. Why not investigate Price? Why not Gra tiot ? Why not make the investigation gen ral and sweeping ? If you do the task, I warn voir will be immense. Two months ? It is work for years. Yrour committee can uot get work till after Christmas, and then there will but about fifty working days re | main. Ia that a period in which to examine | the accounts of the Collector of the port of I New York for a period of seven or eight ; yeats ? j Why do you want a committee to prove that Levi is not to blame } It is vain. It is j idle. It would be useless to demonstrate that , he was. Was it not demonstrated in the 1 case of Reckless the Collector of Amboy ? Was he not convicted by that upright and honesL mau Mr Parker of New Jersey? ? Was it not proved that he had embezzled the public money ! and proved so clearly, and , brought home so closely, in spite of every I occasion that President Jucksou himself was convinced and ordered him to pay back the money? But what then? Reckless had been ono of the most active partisans of the; Administration, and he was retained in office*^ and inay be flourishing as collector to th'uf? day, for aught I know. [Mr. Randolph^ ctf, New Jersey, here intimated to Mr. Wise that Reckless had resigned last spring.] Mr. Parker felt delicate and sensitive in the case as his own character might have been com promitted ; and after fixing the fraud upon him, he demanded his removal ; yet he was not removed. And I shall never forget the remark of Mr. Parker made to me at the time. Said he, Mr. W. there is one thing that is very hard under this Government, and I know but one other thing that is harder ? 44 It is almost impossible for an " honest man to get into office, and it is a little more impos sible to get a honest man out." [A laugh.] In that case I brought home the President and Mr. Secretary Levi the scienter o( that de falcation. They knew it ; they admitted it ; they ordered their man to pay back the mo ney he had dishonestly taken, yet they kept him in office ! But now, that the leprosy has broken out in the open view of a]T men ; I now, when the corruption is too monstrous ! to be concealed any longer, now honest Le I vi asks you to give him a whitewashing com mittee ! Men who knew of Iraudf and pecu lation, and perjury, and wasting bf the pub lic monev, and set their faces against all in vesication, and gave a general certificate of the honesty of these very robbers, now, for sooth. ask a select committee, that they may be whitewashed ! I "will have neither part nor lot in the matter. I see a coming day? a dav, thank God, not now very far oflT, when that chair shall be filled with one who will give us a commitree who will investigate, uot obstruct investigation a commiltee who can go into yonder sink holes and arrest the robber while he is at his dirty work, and not after he has made his escape? which shall" lock the door before the horse is stolen. Gentlemen begin at last to see that investi gation cannot any longer be choked down; that the consequences are breaking forth with the force of a cataract, and that they might as well arrest Niagara. And now they coni? puling to us, and ask for a com mittee ! I suppose it is to be such as we had before ? si. rgood staunch Administration men, and three men disposed to investigate. Six meu ready to vote for any despotic prin ciple advanced bv the Executive, and three who stand up for the right of enquiry. Will the gentlemen give mean investigating^ com mittee to look into the Postmaster Gener al's land speculations ? to go into the In dian Department? Yes sir, a gentleman over the way, famous for the glory of the PreviousQuestion, [Mr. Bushman) nodshis head; he will give it me. And why? He knows it is in vain to propose these investi gations now. They are too massive. Will he give to the people such a committee nswUl do their duty? a commitree appoint ed by ballot? a committee with a ma jority in favor of investigation ??*A commit tee who shall h-ve nothing to do with the pail and brush? A committee who will use the scalpel and probe? Or is it to be a committee to whiten sepulchies ? Whj, I ask, was Price left out ? Why ate we told of Swartwout alone? I will read Mr. Attorney Price's letter to you; it seems to be official; and certainly it entitles him, when taken in connection with all the circumstances of his escape, to be dubbed the most gallant defaulter I ever heard of in i my life. [Here Mr. Wise read Mr. Price's letter to the President of December 6th.] I see that the Secretary has ordered some in quiry into the accounts of this chivalrous gentlemen, and that they have discovered already a deficit of ?40,000. So much for a beginning. He had taken care-to assign his property; and his furniture has lately been attached and sold. I have a list of a part of it; and really, sir, instead of being such as one might have looked for in the house of a democratic Locofoco and willing Administration Tammany Pepublican, it might rather suit the richest apartment in the palace of an Emperior. I understand, too, that on his way to the ship he stopped and purchased a quantity of venison, canvass-back ducks, and other luxuries for the voyage, and that he carried out ?100,000 in gold ; that he sold a bond given to the United States in the sum of $50,000 for 830,000 in order to get the gold for it. But no inquiries were pro posed into his matters. I am told he has been removed; yes, as he resigned. And I suppose the Globe will now show to the good people of this free and happy country that no sooner did Mr. Price arrogantly refuse to prosecute Swartwout, than this pure, pater nal, vigilant guardian Administration instant ly dismissed him ! and great merit will be claimed for so prompt an evidence of its de-^ cisian and firmness! Then there is the case of Gratiot. I have often seen Gen. Gratiot in this city, and have always respected his character : and even now I rather imagine that his default happened more through mistake than any deliberate purpose to defraud; but the truth is, that tUese gentlemen who have the public purse in their hands are all so in the habit of using the public money thafthey do it as a thing of course, and always with the hope of ulti mately being able to replace it. But this furnishes a curious commentary on the offi cial assurances that since the Sub-Treasury system has, /'notwithstanding any lamenta tions here or elsewhere," been in practical operation, the public money has no longer been applied to private purposes. Oh, no. It never has been applied to the purchase of cauvassbaok duoks nor venison, nor ever given to turn bonds into gold. Never. These good and immaculate sub-Treasurers, while taking the 41 People's money," little by little, as they needed it, have always felt sure that they should be able to refund it to the last dollar out of their speculations in the pub lic lands, or in mulberry trees. Indeed, I have seen somewhere lately the account ot a stump speech in which this was honestly avowed. The orator, with a melancholy face, said to the crowd J1- Gentlemen, 1 have been very unfortunate ! I did, to be sure, use j a little of the public money, and invested it in public lauds at Government price, but I honestly thought 1 should be able to return it all ; and so I should, gentlemen, so I I should, BUT, by the operation of those 1 odious banks, these overgrown and grasp^ ing corporations, and their dislioucst sus pension of specie payments, all my fair prospects of speculation have been com pletely cut up by the roots ! I am very unfortunate ! very ! and now, instead ol being esteemed a felon and a candidate for j the penitentiary, 1 respectfully present my self as a candidate fot your votes as a mem- j ber of Congress." And they voted for him with acclamatiou ! This is the moral effect of such a state of thiugs. We always claimed and held that the public money was a sacred trust, and that they who held it were the. peoples to them. Thin was oogSftcffffae iri low^-jwhen we wanted jiff investigation of a ccdents. We held tfcat an officer entrusted With the^ keep ing of public moneys must always be ready feto meet the demand for them. The United States Bank, ay, sir, that horrid mcnster, which collected and distributed more than three hundred miliums of your money without charge, and without the loss of one cent, was ready, always ready, to meet your demands, and meet them any where you pleased to say ; from Maine to Georgia ? from the Atlantic to the Oregon, 6he paid on demand. But what do we see now / One after another of the certified servants of the President ? all honest, all pure, all above suspicion, and cer tified to be so ? how do they explode, one after auother, till before the report of one de falcation has died upon the ear, we hear an other, and a greater go off.' How many more are t p. follow, who can tell ? The whole pos<le comitatus ofihe Administration seem not unlikely to go off in a body, and at such a moment, it is that the leg-sub-Treasuiy scheme is now, again, for the fourth time, to be forced upon the Representatives ofthe People! I feel it a public disgrace that the country should have fallen into this slough of defalcation; and there lies par* of the evil. I care, comparatively nothing for the money; but I feel for the public morals and for the national character. And now we are to raise a committee to whitewash Mr. Secretary Woodbury! Sir. justified a9 1 am by the crse of Reckless ? it is all of record; all on your files justified as I sm by that case, I will hold Mr. Woodbury res ponsible. Admit him to have been ignorant of this enormous, this long continued, this growing fraud on the Treasury, I will hold him responsible for his ignorance. The common law excuses no man for ignorance. Why should he be excused whose business it was to know? How could such a process of embezzlement be going on for eight years undetected, and that at a spot wheie there ought to have been the most lynx eyed vi gilance? Surely there must have been something to excite suspicion. Sir. these are lessons. They are practical illustrations, home felt arguments on the scheme of an independent Treasury. Yes, sir, independent enough? We know of at least two very independent sub-Treasuries indeed. If the Secretary was really ignorant of this defalcation as things now are, how could he have known it any better if this blessed sub-Treasury system had been legal ly adopted ? You might have declared such embezzlement a penitentiary offence, but how will you catch the tyrd that flies on the wings of steam, and mocks at your pursuit ? How can you catch the defaulter who has made a plan beforehand, and has all things in readiness, even his venison and his canvass backs, and has only to slip on board the Great Western or the Victoria, and bid you good night ? Sir, instead of this select committee, I will tell you what would be my plan to save the public money. 1 would employ a detach ment of troops, say the marine force, if you will, to keep guard round the President's house and Mr. Woodbury's office, (1 would spare his dwelling house,) and round your custom-houses and your land offices, and I would in this way try to keep any more leg Treasuries from running away till the Peo ple get a majority in the next (Congress. Sir, remember! We have been notified that one of Our public Departments is inflammable; two have been burnt down during this De mocratic Administration, another is inflam mable. Yes, sir, and it is the Treasury too. I insist there ought to be guards, to keep it from catching fire, and to keep the leg-Trea surers at home. - But I am wrong. This is no subject for sarcasm or burlesque; it is too serious a matter. It is true, I might refer especially to 1836, when the President addressed his let ier <o trie as chairman of the Investigating Committee. [Here Mr. Wise fell into one of his half whispering undertones, and could not be heard at all by the reporter. All that caught his ear were the words "too in sulting" ? "bribe ? "compensation for all ray sacrifices."] Sir, I feel no rejoicing at these public losses;? but I certainly can and do feel a sense of victory, of triumph. I "annot help it when I see all that I predicted happening, and all that I charged daily com ing to light. Mr. Woodbury has taken praise to show that Mr. Swartwout's defalcations did not commence with the period of Mr V;in Bu ren's election, but extended back through GeH. Jackson's administration, and even to the very commencement of his period of service as Collector. I remember *he time. Swartwout had been implicated by rumer in Burr's conspiracy, which Gen. Jackson took much credit to himself for exposing. But when it was reported that Swartwout, one of Burr's conspirators, was to receive the place of Collector of New- York, there was one general burst of indignation throughout the country; the disapprobation was not coufined to the Opposition ; it was as strong ly felt by the friends of the Administration. Even the Government's own print shudder ed at such an appointment. After the first emotions of indignation had thus been ex pressed, there was a pause; it was found to be a heavy and dangerous weight to cany over the bridge of public opinion, and the President felt his way like the elephant who sagaciously puts out his foot to try the strength of a bridge before he commits to it his mammoth bulk. After this pause, the rumor was again revived, first in some little obscure distant paper, that such an appoint ment was actually to take place. The feel ing was renewed, but not in such strength as when the idea was new and sudden ; and so it went on, till at length the public were tired, the subject grew stale, and when the appointment was actually made, the public mind reluctantly and gradually acquiesced. Notwithstanding so strong an objection against him. Gen. Jackson trusted the man; and now Mr. Woodbury tells us that he came iuto office a conspirator, and went out of it a defaulter. Whether Swartwout was sold, 1 doubt much. From the letter of Price, I am ruther led to th^ conviction that Price is a particeps criminis. [Here Mr. Wise yielded to a motion for adjournment. extract" From the Speech of Mr. Prentiss of Missis sipjn , of the House of Representatives. "Mr. Prentiss began with the Secretary of the Treasury, exposing, first, the facts con nected with thedefalcations of John Spencer, a great defaulter to the Government, and a receiver of Public Moneys in Indiana. He convicted Mr. Spencer ofgross frauds, show ing from reference to public documents, which were read, that the Secretary of the Treasu ry was cognizant of the fact of the defalca tion. He showed too that the defalcations were not exposed on account of the elections in the States where they were committed. Government were defaulters, and defaulters with the knowledge of the twaa ofjtie^Trea sury Department, if pot of the Executive, He then stated thatVtbe Secretery ofifSf Treasury had sbo)VD that , there ? wejre no defalcation, no longer since v thaif Fisbrti^ ary, 1837. In March, 1838, a public, ac count of the defalcations, was ; publish-" ed. He then proved the Secretary of the Treasury had knowledge of defalcations, which began in 1834. To sustain these broad positions, letters and circulars were read from Mr. Woodbury and his subordinate of ficers in different parts of the country. " He examined into the defalcation of Mr. Harris of Mississippi two years and a half in office, and kept there a defaulter, with the full knowledge of the Secretary of the Trea sury that he was a defaulter. He quoted a correspondence reading eighteen letters from Mr. Woodbury to Wm. D. Harris alone, for the purpose of showing that Mr. Weodbury did not speak the truth when he said in 1837 he knows nothing of defalcations. "All this correspondence took place dur ing a period of thirty months. Mr. Harris in the meantime had been petted and excused and ha. I received all possible favor from the head of the Treasury Department. He had secured what public money he could, and had then resigned his place. u And now said Mr. Prentiss, I should like to know why it was that this Wm. D. Harris was continued in office during the whole time he was known io be a public defaulter to the Government? Why did not the Pre sident remove him ? ? Why? Because he did not dare to do so. Mr. Harris was a man of great influence iu Mississippi. He was a zealous and powerful minister, and therefore he was not removed, although he was known to be a defaulter. " In view of the facts connected with Mr. Harris's defalcations, said Mr. Prentiss, I 'annot but mourn over the depravity of the times, and the deep disgrace in which the facts 1 have mentioned bring this country. I mourn especially over the depravity which has shown itself since Harris resigned <a de faulter to the Government to the amount of $60,000. What followed ? The appointment of another defaulter, ? a Mr. Boyd ? who be came as bad and more a defaulter than Mr. Harris. "Mr. Prentiss then spoke of Mr. Boyd, who was proclaimed a defaulter ? known to be so, and kept in office as a defaulter. He spoke too of a letter written by James Shea, begging the forgiveness of this Mr. Boyd. Shea expressed his conviction that Boyd would go and sin no more He felt sure that he was penitent, and would not be again a transgressor. Shea said, " Don't appoint another man, because Boyd is truly penitent, and if a third man is appointed, he will be very likely to do as Harris and Boyd, his-two predecessors, have donp before him5? become a defaulter also." Mr. Shea's advice had its effect, and for a long time Mr. Boyd was was kept in office. " The particulars of Boyd's defalcation and that of Rogers and of Linn, were explained at length, and many important facts connec ted with them. Of the 260 letters refer ring to this subject in the especial report, more than 200 of them complained of violations of duty on the part of public officer's.'' < New York, December, 31. LATER FROM EUROPE. No less than five packet ships arrived yes terday morning, having been reported low, the evening before... We received our London and Liverpool papers in great quan tities by these arrivals, a?*d files from both cities of the latest dates, by the Columbus, Capt. Cropper, who left Liverpool on the - 20th ultimo. The news, by this arrival is not of much political importance. The items of most interest will however, be found below. The Royal William British steam packet, was to leave for New York on the 15th of this month. The affairs of Spain are in the same un certain state, and growing more and more savage. The Liverpool Cotton market at the latest da'tes was active and brisk at full prices ? on the whole rather improved. Some letters quote an advance of J-8a per lb. Business in most of the manufacturing districts was brisk, and goods gradually ad vancing in price. Trade of Manchester. ? During the latter pari of last week there was an improved de mand for yarn, principally, we believe, for the East India markets ; and the increased prices demanded by the spinners, in conse quence of the late advance in cotton, were. more readily obtained than previously. Yes terday, however, the appearance of frost, which rendered the closing of the Elbe by no means an improbable event, had some ef fect in checking the demand for Germany, and the market was more quiet. The demand for manufactured goods continues to be good for this advanced season of the year. ? Manchester Guardian. Improved state of trade ? Great export of goods to America. ? The shipments of manu-* factured goods to the United States are, the seasons of the year considered very exten sive. The New packet ships get nearly full^ cargoes, the Sheridan, which sailed on Wed nesday, having had upwards of c?l600 freight on board. The packet ship Columbus, which sailed yesterday morning, had a full cargo of manufactured goods ; afcd the packet ships George Washington and the United States, will, it is expected, be quite full also. FURTHER NEWS BY THE GLADIA- i TOR. FROM THK HERALD. We have unquestionable authority for sta ting that the Admiralty have decided, with the consent of the Turkish government, up on sending to Constantinople immediately a certain number of enterprising naval officers to take the command of the vessels of the Turkish fleet. -The precise number of ships to be so commanded is not stated. ? London Standard. The Admiralty in England are puttiug sixty pound guns into all the ships capable of carrying them. Harris the pedestrian has walked 1750 miles in 1000 successive hours. There has been^nother dreadful explo sion in the north of England, by which fifty lives were lost. Several atrocious murders have been com mitted in and near London. Snow fell in England a foot deep on the 13th of October. A most unprecedented occurrence. The British government is taking a new step in the history of nations. The estab-. lishment of magnificent steam lines, round i the world, by the way of the Isthmus of Pana^ ma, aud the Mediterranean, will increase her power and give her a new lease of em pire. England, by the application of steam, is destined to be the greatest empite the r 1 world ever saw? an empire embracing every | se#aflg every ocean. Jr". ' The American Minister aud Mrs. Steven wirtre passing a few days with the Bishop of LSlMo^ ana'Mre. Bloonifield at Falham [ Palace. . . - _ The Royal William made her last trip homein 16 days. Yjy- - ' - ' ..... The Sirus steamship, which twice visited our shores, made the return trip from St. Petersburg h to London in nine days, weather . very boisterous the whole time. ' ^ Portsmouth, Nov. 5.? The Edinburgh, 74f- Capt Henderson, which recently left Spithead for the West Indies, took out im portant despatches to Vice Admiral Sir C. Paget, to proceed without delay to the coast of Mexico, with theCornwallis, 74, and Mala ba, 74, and all the disposable force he could muster, as a squadron of protection to British Merchants during the blockade by the French ^hips. A small force was lo^remain in the St. Lawrence, whither, if necessary,' the Seringapatam, 46, and Madagascar, 46, would procced. The Magicienne, 24, and Camelian, 10, are preparing for commission at this port. Our West India squadron * continues to be augmented, almost every ship proceeding to .. that, quarter, doubtless occasioned by the strong French force which has gone to the coast of Mexico.? The Pique frigate, Modes(e corvette, and Bover, 18, sailed thence last week. Steam Ships.? The attention of the Bri tish Government is turned in earnest to Steam ship navigation. Several &eam ships of war are about to be builU- The. St. George's. . Company has a fleet of 60 stealers, the ge neral steam navigation company as ih^ny more'." Besides various .other companies who have ten or.twelve each. ATTEMPT TO ROB THE UNJON ' BANK. ?>>-, A most daring attempt was last'mght made to rob the Union Bank of ihis eit^, ^Tije robber got admittance during the 'day; into . the C'ellor, in which he <ttfce&&..-fcimsQf * in n part of il used to deposit Co^jjjv tar rounding his body, with so larger mass of this substance aVrffectually .to elude the oW seivation of two of thfr^fficers of the Bank,^ who make a nightly examination of the eel** lar. An.officer of theBank was engaged "wri ting therein uu til II o'clock* Subsequently to this, the thief bored augur holes in the floor from his position in the ceHar, aQd^inado^A space in the flooring large enough to admit ^ his body. He then broke open ne^ly/alL? the desks and drawers, abstracted/* " 80 dollars in money, besides seven of clothing, but not, being aMe,4gi to the vaults, this was the' wliole^,. his booty. He then must have deli opeued one of the ^windows of tb< looking into the street, and made closing the shutters afteisbimy& his light extinguished onojoWfth FatrM. .Fro Qairt*;1 n^miog; noon oi^ ORLEAW The-steiii i "artijtrt V>1 ft the conrtesy: oCatrassengein Telegraph of the 29th nlt?w\ -v*- w^ll ^ ^bjll.lo^fes :ill in sessi< rrtf^coltei domain, excited coosidj the Housed io tr f ro mHarrisD ui gjfl, the use of proiaue laugt protection of the frontieJV.T difficulties appear to have s Appointments by the ' > ernoiv HEAD QUARTERS. ^ * Columbia, 19th Dec. I838."V GENERAL ORDER Arthur P..Hayne, James H. Irby, J. Edward Gn ham, William E. Mai ' Chesnut, R. J. Gage, Rice, having been'a ComThander-in-Cbief will be obeyed and resnectedidfesdiBfflv? v.- j -y .? .? v Dec. 21, 1838, - .?* SAW* ... BTTpermisaion of A. H. Fort, JE*i, Lexington District, wi)i be r_,J ket in the town of Columbia; on ^ ^ February neit, 4n^ro fellows, the property rah Seiiiels, late b?said District, deceased. 1 I hem are prime boat hands,. one a blacksmith, and the other a -gardener and stock mindjer-^-and on the day following will be soldat Oranb'y, at dence of the said deceased, sundry aittcWb&ffcpM hold furniture and kitchen requisites? -also the dwej- ; 1 ling and lot of said deceased. Conditions made known on the day of sale. /?" - JOHN T/SE1BELS, Xdrn'r. Jan 12 . ?v < * ; _J - .? > For Sale, A SANDHILL PLACETcontdnipgabeta*! hundred and ten acre*of land, v abundant buildings upon it, and an &c. upon the Camden raid, one mile and a 1 the boundary df Columbia, formetfy4tip - of Dr. Cooper. Ter . s will mat" ved purchaser. Apply ito. C* ' Jan 12 IfYtgwt#, Twiri rjiwo FOUR - one Two - Caiolina of the for sale by V "Z&H Jan 12 ALL persons indebtedMo^ VV liitecotton, decea*ed;?will diate payment and save cosisjVr will not be given, and those. Jo indebted in an ^manner, will hand ; properly attested to " v" V Jan 12 ? V ^ ^ y V AS I have h^artf thSl there i " ^ for Five Hundjed Dollar me to a man by the name^b. * the 1st of January, '183^?thi all or any person against tra^ any other note wriuenvpaj Lyle, as such a note pj ? fc me as a fraud. ?* JOHNI^l Dec. 29, 1838, ^ - -a' * MdOkt THE subscribacs those indebted to the la & Co. that they,8hsdl;pn place all notes and ac "^ -Lands ofanattorney ?/rhosp interested will andl^ve cost t' &%&&&* Jan 12 ' * su.'ft ' * r; ?%