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?i! mm m :? M ? xcotf tin Wrtrf Piuatics. ? The follow ing adeoartt of a bloody encounter w.kjk these freebodtefs of the sea is contained in>a letter ht6ty received by Capt. JerikinS^o^ Trtti'O, from his gallant . son i? fler Majesty's ship Wolfe, Au?. l&oBay of Beagai. You will be surprtser when I tell yot* I am no* doing duty as first lieutenant, not having one lieu % tenant left. W|fcrfe fed some desperate fighting lately with the pirates off Tritngana. close to the Gulf of Siam* China Sea. ? Whilst it anchor there in a calm, last May, ?e ohserted six large boats, whbh came from th? island of 5Volo, near Borneo, attack a targe China juak of 700 tons. It being a perfect calm, the ship could not move, and feeing desirous of active service, I prevailed ~T i nil i to altow me to proceed in ettf boat*. and rescue the junk if possible. * Ob my way we fell in with the Hon. Com Steamer Diana, who took us in tow ; the sea breeae then setting in> we st earned - sailed as fast as we could after them. The Diana is a small ; essel, armed with a. long cross twelve, and manied with 30 Ma fays. I had about 36 as S.je fellows as ever Wentoo a cutttog-out expedition. On ap * ting within gun shot, the pirates left ak* and farmed a close line on the rd lack* we passing them without fir ? ^ the larobard to leeward. When some dt$aace off the; made a signal, and all clos ed Jor a boat a quarter of an hour when th?y (it tfeetr in^arTK^9 aWajv and bore right down for as; as we thought* with the inten sion of covering the junk* but I soon saw that we were fheif object, they commenced firing from their headmost boat. We then gave them grape and eannister right and left. The slaughter was immense, as we could see themtferow their dead bodies overboard, and baihag the blood out of their boots by buckets julL Their own list, taken in court, on oath ay the prisoners, is at follows: ? Killed, 54, Wounded, 32 and 27 prisoners jo . the boat I feapttired, whefein II were killed. The conrt has awarded us the following head money For 54 killed 20/ each ; 27 prison ers, all of whom are condemned to be hung, - 201 each; and 5 1 a piece for the 32 wounded, making altogether 2, 33 01. The ship shares Use same as those engaged, and my shares as a mate will be about 55L We bad a most splended dinner given us hy the inhabitants T of Singapore. Capt. Stanley was voted a sword of the value of 100 guineas, to be pre sented to him on bis arrival in England, I have ft most splendid creese/which belonged ^ to the chief of the priates, who was cut in two by a round shot ; the handle is made of ivory and gold. We engaged the pirates from two o'elock until dark when we lost them in a squall. We met the admiral on our tetsra to Singapore and received our or der to proceed to England. ? Falmouth Pack -au ? liftaooecTio.N or Rick isto Carolina. ?Rice is a grain of India, and-was introdu ced into Carolina by a mere accident. In 1736, the master ot a vessel from Madagascar landed about half a bushel of an excellent kind; from which smaH beginning sptung an im mense source of wealth to the southern pro vinces of America* Within little more than half a century from that time, 120,000 barrels of rice were in one year expo rted from South Carolina ; 18,060 from- Georgia ; . and all from the remnant of a sea-store left in the bottom of a ?ack. ? King's Journey to the sho rts of the A rctic Ocear Carolina Silver. ? We understand that an act has been passed by the Legisla ture, lnwpdhrtinjgnp Silver Mining Com pany in Davidson County, of which that emiaeut Miner, Rosweti A King, Esq is tfce priacipal corporator. Mr. King carried to Raleigh with him an Ingot, of pure silver, Worth about $50, which was one of several, the product of the atum^ It is belioved that lifep. King is entitled to the credit of making the first bar of Lead and the first bar of Cop ttained tn North Carolina^ and the first of Silver ever obtained in the United ? We wish him aft manner of success is his u ndertakiags.? FayettcviUe Observer, * <k - In the.Kentucky Legislature on the 15th ?? tbepcomidetation of a divorce t* sa> the following 'resolution was adopted : " Itetolced, THat the petition of Miranda Motley be committed t? the Committee for Courts of Justice, with instructions to report fe hi!U making habitual drunkenness a suf ficient ground for a divorce in a Court of Cfcaneery ; and tfiat they .also enquire into i the expediency ?f authorising the Chancel lor toi- exercise the same control over the persons and estates habitual drunkards , that he is authorized" to exercise over the taeftotosaod estates of lunatics." ; ? . account for the rise in the price ?Heather..? Lynn. Retard. We can. The leg-Treasurers are using up shoe-leather so fast asto keep the market in * state of almostcomplete exhaustion. ? Lou , Journal. * ^ V.-JjgHfc ? ; Goo?.? The New York Whig puts forth the subjoined squib It is a good one. Airroiu? We understand that the United ?ta{es Marshal has received instructions to iratch the Royal William from h?r" ~5fTTV5f tQntil her departure, to. prevent any more of r the snb-trea^nrers tFom practising dotation %n oiSce- Wo watches the Marshal ! " v From the Peoria Roister. - IOWA LAND SALES, Thsse folio wel the sales at Q ui ncy , com Tnettciug on Moa<Cty> the 19th November. The attendance was very numerous, the pub tic house* being all fulir and large numbers of settlers beiag eaeataped itt tents back of the town. 'The sales continued eleven days, and ? the amount of money received was upwards dollars, being nearly 25,ftOQ dollars a Twenty four townships were offered, about two-fifths of which Were sold, f Some entries lia^l previously heett made by pre-emj)tion, ' i \Vohasty not a tenth: so that of the land of : tered, about one half have been purchased, tnd the other half is uow ready for entry at V <<he land otftce, at congress price. In some township much more tvassold than in others. In one borderiag Ujjon that in which Burling ton is situated, every acre whs purchased ; Und the same may be said, with the exception ?f aquaatity not exceeding one section, of a township about thirty miles west of Burliug t ton* occupied 6y a colony of Quakers from Indiana. To |>ftrchase all this they were * compeiW to borrow net more rhaa 300 dollars. Of the township Salein is the chief 1 'wa. Thesmafi number of pre-emption entries, <of~which ire have spoken, was owing to the settlers, 'foregeing the^ privilege secured to ihem by the preemption law, and prefer ring to risk purchase at the sale. They thus saved the cost and trouble of obtaining pre emption papers, and the fees demanded by the iegister and receiver. The same course was pursued by many at the Quincy land sales; and it is always perfectly safe, where the claimant's right is not disputed by his neighbors. No fe;irneed ever be entertained of a non-resident bidding upon a settler. No case has occurred at any of the sales the past fall, and no "speculator," so called, would be fool -hardly enough to risk it. No money was received in payment for land except gold and silver, treasury notes of the State Bank of Illinois, State Bank ^of Missouri, and Bank of Mineral Point. ? Those who had other fund only were oblig ed to submit to aheavy shave. We are assured that ou the first day of the sale, Indiana paper sold at a discount of 25 per cent ; on the second day, 15 per cent, and thai the closing rates were 5 to 6. Capitalists were in attendance in sufficient numbers to meet all the wants of these: tiers; yet not so much money was lent by them as at Quincy, though double the quantity of laud was sold. This fact speaks well for the enterprise and thrift of the population of this new territoty, . Betweeu 50 and 60 thou sand dollars only wns lent, the terms being 50 per cent for five years. The following, tafceu from the New York ?Aaiieri^an. exhibits a statement of the amount of lands uncultivated*ud remaining to be dis posed of by the Government of the United States : From h report recently presented to Con gress in relation to the public lands, it ap pears that the quantity of public lands with in the territory of: the U. States, to which the Indian title has not been extinguished, is estimated at 766 millions of acres, of which 943 millions lie east, and 218 millions of acres ' lie west of the Rocky Mountains. The fol lowing is5a statement of the quantity of gov ernment lands not disposed of, and which will be subject to the operation of any sys tem of graduation or distribuiion that may be adopted, viz. ? Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, < Lousiaua, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, ~ The Lexington Observer <?* Reporter in noticiug CoL Memmisger's arrival in that city says:? "CoL M. is the gentleman, whom we mentioned last week as having been appointed by the Directors of the Char leston Rail Road Company, to proceed to Frankfort, for the purpose of laying before the Kentucky Legislature, the views of the Company, upon the Bauking privileges for the Road, which they are asking at the hands of the State. We suppose that Col. Mem 3H.NGE& will be heard before the Legislature during the present week, as yesterday was the day sex apart tor the bill to be taken up iu the House of Representatives. A highly interesting discussiou may be anticipated. We still incline to the opiniou, from all we can learn, that the Keutucky Legislature will do justice to thjfr Company, in granting their reasonable;" and, in our opiuion, to Ken tucky, most beneficial request." ? ? ? ? """ In another column we publish a short but pregnant history of the Atherton Resolu tions, as related by that foithful and far-see ing chronicler, the " Spy in Washington." i Let honest southern citizens read this unre | futed and undeuied exposition, and judge how faithless are the Southern Representa tives who joined the Abolitionists of the North in a voluntary admission (by their ac tion on the Resolutions) that CONGRESS HAS THE RIGHT TO LEGISLATE ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY IN THE STATES. ? The Resolutions .were left ambiguous, for party purposes as well as for deception, and when one of the South ern members complained of this, Atherton, the tool who morved them* declared that, 44 that was just what we [they] intended." This ambiguity has been remoyed, and the Resolutions and their supporters stand in all their nakedness before a betrayed constitu ency. ? We have carefully filed for publica tion the whole proceedings on this treason ous party movement, and before the close of the session we will lay them before our readers, accompanied with the Abolition movements of some of their uoithern sup^ goiters, which took place before, and have taken place since, this bold attempt to de ceive the So u tik,-~TiSewbcrn Spectator, " AN "ACT * - 5 - : ^ * V Jr Entitled an act to extend to bate emigrants, or those who ma^ tmigrate zailhin V sped . jied time; a d&iatidrt if Land^S^k^- ? - Sect. 1st. Be it enacted by tl^Seniate and House of Representatives of the^Republic of Texas in Con^rt&s aissembled, That eye - -ry |wnwa who ta this Republic, since the first of ?R?tdbf?r, A. D. one thou sand eight hundred and forty, who is a free" white person and the head of a family, and who actually^fe^ei^ithin the Government with his or her family, shall be entitled to a conditional grant of six hundred and forty acres of laud, by^paying the fees of office and surveyins- The conditions of the said grant shall be, that both grantee and his or her fcfmily shall remain aud reside percnanently within this Republic, and do aud perform any and all duties required of other citizens for the term of three years ; after which , time he or his legal representatives shall re ceive from the government an uncoridition- ? al deed for said grant of laud; provided that no sale of said claim to land by the ^individ ual entitled to the same of this Government shall be valid in law and binding upon the person selling the same until an uncondition al deed shall be obtained by the grantee fur said land ; ami in no case whatever shall a grant of that description be made unless it be satisfact irily proved that all the conditions and provisions of the law have been complied with: And all single free white male per sons, of the age of seventeen and upwards, who have emigrated to this Republic by the first day of Jarruary 1840, shall be entitled to three hundred and twenty acres of land. , Sec. 2nd. Be it . further enacted, That all permanent resident citizens of Texas who have or may arrive to the age required of emigrants by the above section of this act, ; shall be entitled to the same quantity of land as emigrant upon the same conditions that emigrants are. Sea. 3rd. Be it further enacted, That all Acres. 2,110,405 5,120,273 20,609,825 33,158,987 . 20,123.405 11,795,441 17,766,880 21,162,183^" 34,644,031 ? 3&6*i,031 '28,260.748 . .. 311,938,942 J;' 229,711,065 officers and soldiers who engaged in the ser vice of Texas, previous to the first of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, whose families are now here or who may ar rive here by the first day forty, shall be en titled to the same quantity of January, one thousand eight hundred and of land thatthey would have been if there families had emi grated to the country with them. JOHN M. HANSFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. H. EVER ITT. Mr. Secretary Woodbury. ?Mr. Prentiss in his speech on the abuses in the Treasury Department, is reported by a correspondent of the Portland Advertiser, to have referred to the fact, that the Secretary swore before the investigating Committee, in February, 1837, that he knew of no defalcations. Mr. Prentiss then read a corre?/ondence proving that Mr. Woodbury did know of defalcations which took place a9 long since 39 1834. This correspondence between Wm. D. Harris, (a receiver of public money in Mississippi, and a defaulter to tne amount of 60 or $70,000) aud the Secretary of the Treasury occured during two years and a half, and ended, it is believed, in 183(1. The letters read, written by Mr. Woodbury in re gard to Harris's case, were eighteen in num ber. The sum.i.ing up of Mr. P. was most amusiug, and was done in a manner some thing like the following : ... Letter first, from Mr. Woodbury to Mr. Harris: "Mr. Harris, do let me hear from you." 2d. 44 Mr. Harris, T am pained to hear from you," 3d. 44 Mr. Harris What is the matter? 4th. 44 Mr. Hair i? you must send your monthly return to the Treasury Depart ment." 5th. 44 Mr. Harris, your returns are not satisfactory." 6th. 44 Mr. Harris, your returns ought to have been received. They are minus the receipts in your department, thousands oi dollars. 8th. 44 Mr. Harris, your returns should have been received long ere this. A settle ment is necessary. Your returns are incom plete, and show a deficiency of tens of thous ands of dollars.* . 9th. 44 Mr. Harris, we must have a settle ment." fV^iOth. "Mr. Harris, do send your returns.? Sfefcy can t y?u- now ? y?u do D01' * sha11 %fe grieved." 11th. 44 Mr. Harris, you have done wrong." 12th. 44 Mr. Harris, *dou*t do so any more; that's a good man."> 13th. " Mr. Harris, your returns are still behind. Do write." 14th. 44 Mr. Harris, why have you not written." - loth. 44 Mr.' H.irris, I am very sorry to hear that your returns are not received. You are a very naughty man very indeed; and I shat be grieved and pained if necessity compels me to write you again about the balances due the department.". ? 16 h. " Mr. Harris, you are in debt to the , department, and .must pay what you owe, or be removed." * ? 17th. V Mr. Harris, you have not yet set tled your accounts." _ ' 18th. " Mr. Harris, I have received your letter of resignation ." 44 All this correspondence,? the eighteen letters from the Secretary of the Treasury to Harris, consumed two years and six months of the latter part of the administra tion of Gen. Jackson. The Secretary of the Treasury swears in February 1837, that he knows of no defalcations .'?Early in 1838 the Secretary publishes two hundred and sixty letters , embodied in a report , ? more than two hundred of wich complain of violations of duty on the part of the officers of the Gen eral Government? Let the friends of Mr. Woodbury reconcile these facts if they can." MR. KENDALL AND THE POST OFFICE. The last letter from the 44 Spy in Wash ington" contains some curious and astound ing facts in regard to the administration of the Post Office under Mr Kendall. .The department is certainly a subject for strict in vestigation, and the mystery with which Mr. Kkmdall has enveloped the accounts of the office, is well calculated to create suspicion. We copy the letter of the Spy iu full:? " Correspondence of the Courier & Enquirer. WASHINGTON, Jan 11, 1839. The sudden aud unremitted elevation of Amos Kendall, immediately after General Jackson came into power, was among the most extraordinary incidents of that eveulful period. ? Mr. Kendall, as a public man, was only known to be a flippant, scurrilous and unprincipled paragraphist. He possessed, however, no qualities of head or heart, calcu lated to recommend him to the. favor of a pure and patriotic political party ; while he abounded iu those characteristics .which would render him an efficient and useful 3 gent in the hands of a mercenary, heartless audcorrupt league. He was, deservedly, u n ponulai with the great and the good; but his principles heing iu unison with th?se who were a t>o&t to control .the destinies of . a mistaken, but' virtuous and magnanimous people, he became the idol of a profligate banditti... .V . V.. ^ . ...... His immediate predecessor in office (Mr. Barry) had so mismanaged *he Post Office Department, that auy successor, whatever might be his character, would, with an exci ted community be deemed preferable. Both committees 'of Congress, that were appointed to enquire into the situation of the depart ment in their reports left the impression, that besides, the wrongs perpetrated up on - its financial affairs, the department was largely . . in debt beyond its accruing receipts ; but neither of the committees took time to ascertain, with any degree of certain ty, the amount of the indebtedness. ; | ^It was the policy of Mr. Kendall to place j the. amount ofthe alleged deficiency ofthede ' partment at ihe largest possible sum. To him it was a matter of moment. In this particu I larhe managed adroitly; and boldly assumed the position, in his report, that it amounted to six hundred thousand dollars. He contin ues the operations of the department, and pays off the alleged deficiency, (say ?600,000) without the least apparent difficulty ; for he says : - - ? - 44 In 1335 the department wa9 laboring un der the 44 debt of 600,000 dollars. In 1837, it has a surplus 44 of eight hundred thousand dollars u" Iu the same report he shows from whence he derived that surplus, and says : "The increase of the whole year was 20-1-2 percent, over the revenue of the preceding year, producing $228,834 60 more thau was estimated." - It is, therefore apparent, that the regular and constantly increasing postages of a sin gle year, over and above the current expen ditures, exceeded by 200,000 dollars more than the deficiency he alleges to have been due by debts created ly his pre Jecessor. Has Mr. Kendall ever produced any document, ^-support hifr allegation as to deficiency ? Did he lessen the mail accommodations to effect a payment or reduction of this debt 1 The deficiency, to the extent which he has represented it, is believed to be false. But here let me lake leave to remark, that what ever may have been that deficiency, General Jackson is more to blame than Mr. Barry. If the Post Master General authorised or permitted extra allowances, for extra services in Pennsylvania or elsewhere, with an under standing implied or otherwise that certain presses should be established or aided from this fund, ? if such cases existed (and a fu ture investiga ion may decide the question) | Gen. Jackson not only received the benefit, politically, but both of his eyes were not closed to the operations of Mr. Barry. The latter acted only 41 by authority." And now what is Mr. Kendall's present position ? Is he not daily reducing mail fa cilities, in various sections of the country, to bring his enormous expenditures down to his rece;pts from postages ? He has clerks, I am informed in his department perfectly competent to shew from the books of the de depnrtment then in use (but now laid on the shell) what was its actual condition at the time he assumed his duties. What has pro duced Mr. Kendall's present embarrassment. Can it not be traced to the most wasteful and v profligate, if not corrupt expenditures, on what he calls Express mails , in cases where he gives 24,000 dollars a year for supplying a single post office with a mail? or where he gives $8000 a year for carrying a mail of per haps twelve pounds weight , a distance of sixty miles, and iu the same carriage and by the same carrier, who conveys the great mail or mails ? There are, no doul t other and much more weighty causes of embarrassment which it wiM be morally impossible for him tor explain from the present condition of his accounts. Mr. Kendall (like a true ShylocJc) boasts of the amount of funds he has exacted from contractors, and whose only crime (from aaght appears) was, that they did not perform impossibilities. In this way, he says, he has 9aved some $49,000 or more. But he omits to state that these very exactions have forced the department to iucrease the mail expen ditures in one Section of the country to an amount exceeding a million of dollars , du ring the continuance of the contracts. I have no space or time, however to take even a cursory view of the many other prominent errors, to use a mild phrase of the department, so clearly deducible from its reports. I pro ceed no'.v to notice briefly, a matter of more deep and abiding iuterest to the commu nity. When Mr. Kendall entered upon his pre sent official duties, it is said,- that the most |>erfect system of book, keeping was in suc cessful operation, and had been for many years. His predecessor proposed to change it; but on a more careful examination he found it. so perfect that he let it remian un altered. Not so Mr. Kendall. He cast a side the Journal and Ledger , and substituted a scheme entirely new ; and which sets at naught all description, as a matter having any connection with book keeping. Mr. Kendall's regular sub-treasurers ex ceed 12,500 in number, whose accounts are to be settler! four times a year. He has more than 2000 contractors, and others, whose ac counts are also to be settled four times a year, so that the number of accounts, ex ceeding 58,000, are to be settled each year, without a Journal or Ledger , and involving in the year's receipts and expenditures an a rnount exceeding four millions of dollars. Now, let me ask, why was this change ? Why this mystification ? Is it not an es sential feature in the sub-treasury project? Who can unravel this mystery? 8 Not a comrailttee appointed by Speaker Polk; nor a committee appointed even by ballot by the present House of Representatives. Let this department, then, be the subject ofenqury for a Whig CongreSs. I posses many facts and some details, which you may have in due SCctSOD ? THE SPY IN WASHINGTON. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. ? Washington, Jan 11. ' The graduation bill was again under discus sion in the Senate to-day. Hitherto, the brunt of the debate has been borne by Mr. Clav, of Kentucky, as the champion of the old ?States ; but. to day, Mr. Preston came to his support in a most able and effective style.? r Mr. Preston opposed the entire principhe and policy of the measure, as unjust and in jurious to the old States, and especially to the States of Virginia and the Caroliaas, and as a violation of the acts of cession and ?of-the Constitution. In answer to the ar gument that all nations had favored the pol icy of colonization, he maintained that the' Federal Govermneut had no right to colonize the people of South-Carolina upon the lauds belonging, in part, to South Carolina nor to reduce or; force her people to emigrate to the new States ? for it amounted to force, ivhen the policy of the Government was to withhold frdm the State her proper portion pf the public domain ? to create a drain up on her resources, and thus make it necessary/ for her people to emigrate. He said that he would prefer that the new States would jtafce the lands by some bold and open meas Wey than take them insidiously and piece ;meal, by such a measure as this. i Mr. Rives also spoke very warmly and ^ijeeidedly in opposition to the whole scheme a direct violation of the land system which had been established for forty years, and under which the new States had prospered to an extent that ought to satisfy them, and which was unexampled in the history of the world. He complained of the principle of discrimination between classes of citizens, as to the price of the^lands, which was now, for the first time, attempted to be introduced. He called upon the Sen ate to postpone the subject until the voice i of Virginia had been heard upon it. She was about to express her judgment as to the disposition of the public lands, and, if her opinion was entitled to any weight, as the original owner and douor of a large portion of this domain, tne new Slates ought to await it. He moved a postponement of the bill till next session. In the House of Representaives, a bill was leportedfrotn the Committee on the Terri tories, to define and establish the Eastern boundary limits of the Territory of Iowa. The House then resumed the consideration ofthe resolutions under discussion yesterdays providing for the printing of 20,000 extra copies of certain public documents, having reference to defalcations. The debate was prevented from obtaining any greater growth than it has already acquired, by the demand for the previous question, which was called for by Mr. Mitchell, of New York, and the documents were ordered to be printed. The House passed on the special orders of the day (being several bills reported from the Naval Committee) and weoT into Cohi mittee thereon.The djLscussionotf the bill for the improvement of the Navy ISwBHm Brooklyn, and for constructing a Dry Dock/ therein, was resumed and continued fof^Wp^ lal hours with muchanimatioo./ >Mh?^ii8f of Maine, first held thefloor, and commebced in reply to some remarks which" fel?fromT Mr. W. Thompson yesterday, in regard to the illiberal spirit which Congress had exhib ited towards the South in the appropriation" of t public monies. Mr. Evans, denied ? this nequality in expenditures ? or thai the grca mass of money which was collected was all drawn to any particular quarter. He contended that the only question which Congress had to consider, in making appro priations for public works, was whether it was important to public convenience, interest or security, 'that such works should be con structed. Mr. Thompson, tried hard to se cure the floor, but did not succeed in ob taining it. Mr. Legare followed Mr. Evans, in a masterly speech, a portion of which was directed to the advantage possessed by Charleston as a seat for a naval Jepot and dry dock. . After this, the amendment of Mr. Thompson, for an appropriation of $JOO.OOO for the navy yard at Pensacola, were reject ed, and also the amendment of Mr. Paynter," of Penn. for a like sum for a dry dock- at* Philadelphia. The bill was then' laid aside, and after passing over several other bills with out amendment, the Committee rose and re ported, and the House adjourned. ' WASHINGTON, Jan. ,1 The Senate was not in -session to-day. The graduation bill engrosses the atteutioaof that body, and, in fact, it is the most import tant subject before Congress at the present time. The motion pending is that of Mr* Rives, to postpone the bill indefinitely. There is a disposition to accede to this motion, with a view to remit the subject to the next Con-; gress, which will be able to act more advised ly in the matter. The subject of the dispo sition of the public land^now occupies the attention of the State Legislature, and of a Committee of the House of Representatives composed of tweuty-six members, one from each State; and it is reasonable enough to defer any partial action till we hear their de liberate opinion on a subject deeply affecting the interests of all the States. . There i$ no possibility of the passage of the Senate bill through the House of Representatives io any form, at this sessions Mr< Preston's speech against the Graduation bill is highly spoken of here as a very able argument., Its ability and eloquence are admitted freely by the most intelligent Senators on the othersi/le of the questiou. ? The House of Representatives iat aiteaHy .hour proceeded to the c<^tfe/&tion-t>f pri vate business; previous tdjSvhich^f few/re .ports from Committees were received, ta-; mongst which were one from the .Committee on Public Buildings, providing for tHe erec tion of a fire-proof building for the GeueraJ Post-Office. It is probable this bill.?-will bej acted upon very shortly. Mr. Curtis, of New-York, moved asuV. pension of the rules, to enable him to submit a motion for the printing of an ejstra number of certain additional Reports from the TreajR ury Department in relation to the case of-ftfjC? Swartwout. It is asserted that, according, to these documents, Mr. Swartwout "retard ed the office of Collector iyr three ^ye^B without having given the proper bonds. Tbm House refused to .suspend the rule by yeas, against 77 navs, the TrtM^requirkig ^ affirmation vote of two thirds Beyond this all was private' business. Concluding )>ortion of Mr. W IS E'S speech on the robberies vf the Treasury. Sir, if party spirit, like a*fiend, did not be friend and sustain this Secretary ? pardon and whitewash his hideous deformities and delin quencies ? blight all moral sensibility. - here in this Hall and at the White-house, he. would be removed from office insfantly, or be impeached. Go where you will? -trace him any where, and you will find him dull; stupid, incompetent, neglectful, faithless, and corrupt. I mince no terms ? fear no respond sibilities. If he had the sensibilities of.. a man, be would demand a trial. Give me an honest jury, and I will, upon these papers, convict him ! ' " * Sir, the report of the First Comptroller confirms the report of the First Auditor. [Here Mr. Wise read from the report of: J. N. Barker some extracts, also necessarily deferred.] \ . r ; v. Now, sirv be it remembered that this Ad ministration and the preceding are both alike distinguished for the doctrine that the Exe cutive was a unit ? 44 that it zoos the Presi dent's duty to take care that the laics be faith fully executed Why has not this duty, so strenuously insisted on with the view of maintaining Executive prerogative, been, performed in discharge of Executive obliga tion and responsibility ? I am now done with the review' of these easels. Aud after what I have laid before* you, let me ask ? 44 What use would there be in/ humbling ourselves to became spies andcen tfors to report defalcations and crimes to Jhis / Executive , with aviewto a prompt removal from office? Why pass laws to] enactthdt 44 the application of public nitiney by an officer of Government to Private vscs shall. be a fel ony ?" Will reports or statute avail ?? any* thing? Vain and idle f they w^xild the m?re cloak and conceal and- protect these plunder-.; ers! r?he President, if he will, may say, as the Duke of Vienna, disguised as a friar in his own capital that he might overlook the actions of his people - 44 My business ia "this State Made me adooker on, here, in Vienna : Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it overrun the stew. Jjatos for atl faults, Bui faults so countenanced, that the slrorng sta tutes Stand, like forfeit* in a barber's shop, As much in mock as mark". Pass any pains and penalties, adopt any system of laws you please ? United States Bank, pet bank system, sub-Treasury ? and let me ask if either could be expected to work well in the hands of such men who 44 countenance " such "faults?'.' Sir, we are told by that philosoper in government, Wm. Penn, that the best system will be as the worst if badly administered by bad men; and that the worst system will be as the best, if righteously administered by good men. Yes, | sir, a change of men is what is wanted? -a general turn-out of all faithless trustees and senvants. . : y ' I must bring my remarks to a close? I am aching from my head to my hips I But, sir, did I tell the truth or a falsehood in 18361 Have the Executive Departments been con-: ducted with ability and integrity ? Le? every7 honest man answer. Add th$ defalcations' of Swartwout, Price, Gratiot, RecklessvBoyd, Harris, Linn---the whole lis^.vand how much was stolen in 1836?. BuV^rr it is all to be throws upon the^poot banks ! Howmuch in default have the banks been'?? The Secretary's annual report says : iks still indebted tils previous to r.^r. which are believed inallya by collateral securi ng, L?*.] The whole amount now computing- interest, equals 1, r dollars; and a great part of this must be regarded aiatotal loss. *t Secondly. A nother list of indebted banks is annexed, moat of which gave collateral security, [iy -3. The remaining does from them to the Treasurer, on defaults accruing between 1834 and October, 1837, though at first very large, have been reduced to about 2,400,000; and most, if not all, of these debts, with some others, owing to public disbursing officers for money on deposite, &|is confi dently expected will in the end be paid. " The first instalment doe from those which have since executed other bonds aod given new security, under the act of October, 1837, has been prompt? met, and portions of the second have already been advanced by some of them. Suits are pending against only two, on account of their liabilities" According to this, nothing has been. JosC since 1834 by banks. How much by sub- C Treasurers ?? The same report says: *"? Thirdly. , The eve nttfal losses Sustained from receivers, and collectors, x while, as a part of the bank deposite system^ they were' collect ing -/the puiic fuods, to be afterward*- ? pfaced for safe -keeping in banks, were, at the-* ? last session, estimated ,atji sum ranging from #900,000 10 SI, 2tf0, 000. r - ^?Collateral security had genera fly Beetfv ; taken of these officers ; but in former times, it was not always io so large amounts, and s with so great care as of late, a nd conseQflfrMfc ly most of the foregoing losses many years ago., v 44 A list of all those ofikers^wnd, on the 12th of October, 1837, the time designated^ ~ in the resolution of the House of Represen tatives, stood on .the, books of the TTefcsufJ as having neglected to settle their accounts - in season, may be seen,* with the amotfht . charged to each, in the printed report jbade on the 15th of January last. (Doc. No.^H,] But several of these were not then actually indebted to the United ? ing neglected to adjust their accwq^ at the J Treasury, they came within the~-->expij?^ words of the resolution, ah(f were included.". \ ? ?- *3 ? JHere, sir* you ma^r judge of the justice of thtoofficwyrepoiM^ I losses by receivers and collector $900,000 to $1,20Q,000 0$; that the defalcations pf Sr~ ceed the largest be blamed the pgblic moneys or nut;* ^nd?talutv beware mmfstration^says,a&4o ther uentli Me^pepp ^etlie^ffeiet wtfts&T"" moral^louh1ic.?redi^ . Thel above -1 Wliatwi3 tho^e olffi wo * F conomtyjjSl r&ideht ?ndljM tliQjpuWic money to be stele le stimulated and encou ' <^nt antf^^Feople <0 tfi gance ; after raiSiitgexpendftdttsllFtoj^ lions, and creating a n 0 (ehr DU bfiJPdelBC ^ now/ from^ necessity, T^identf ' * to 9 ur patience: and seU^^oi^. _ ... economy! cconomy /?that is the^^SVdl TheTact is, they must starve aod be dis?^ graced unless the/ reduce expenditures?^ They turn, now, froraelectioneeritfg with the t public money, after ifis4 all ^pent, and elec tioneer iu^ turn, with. thei|jgfetur ord, eca\or my ! ? eccniomy ! And upofe" what is ecouomx to fall? What objects are r made the victims^f defalcations and final bankruptcy? Sir, we are toid by Mr. Secretary tha of the most bebeficient appropriations be arrested. The Slates were led to'fcj that they would receive the (ourdfinstah of your d isth b u tsop ^ ac bye, for which Ifl^^Yoted, hgt.would now - execute to the letter. ;Why ? Because you, by your own voluntary legislation, Je^n^fiL^ to expect, the 'facilities which the iict^ffora-> ^ ed, for the' promotion of their systems of in ternal Improvement apd education, and they ? have been led to legis|ateon the faith of your action here^- N6w? yftr are^ojd, thejr : hopes must be disappointed.: their systems ofmoral* and physical i m [iroyjfl^ ^ested^D^ln^^ ordinary ^ppropriatroiilf here to must be stopped, and?, why 1 office-holders have squandered ac withthe 'pu b1ic^tr^surSi^j<?^i^gj^ . , Audi sir, the system Of tiglU~kavN&i?\ destroyed, ior conformity with/1 ? out or blinded, tasup and profligacy aad -ft Sir'du ' ^ bi?o'literair^"stre llie . raging deep. " home, ^1^0,000 dolJai goods, was'floatingi beacKS^ gWUB, .BOO llvuiug Northampton 'countj, ^jrgini^ wreck of a single brig* ^Koryea endeavoring to*have light-ho the very spot ^e^e^this^vli&ei _ the bar. k large Sr go pf c^Up^^andSjjy^ al other wrecks came ^shore, lb remind 1 daily of the irpp/^ef^W^ ^ ^ coast to protecf ifife and property. the ocean is neede^oiHrfmost ivery promon tory, as much, as the "north star in the vault of tne ^ky but they are all to be (Jtmmed, ?\ and never to gi^s% light to the ??i beaten . mariner, because^Swartwout and Price and Gratjot, el id mofteteenuf, have carried off the " meanse of This is not all. The widows and orpf of your ReVolutiooaqr heroeeand pati are to be deprived ~of their bread earnet patriotic-toiU All pewtoatare to be stQ| for the sake of jrarijsites aod poWii^pkir ers. The people are 'to be. denied, al1 blessings aud boons of their GoTer forwhat? Top^mperyour,w yourlegliihs/wh' ^ and displa^ lonpfoi% your jpnt s^rghei Xloro This is but an 1 niS IS OU\. ?u v?"*uc. uiwjij ui your ontrafes upon the morals, the law, and