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committee should desire it, an examina tion will be nude, and a statement of the cases furnished to them. In relation to the case of Colonel Johnson, referred to by the Third Auditor, I cnslose a copy of a letter from General Armstrong to him, of the 26th February, 181.1. He wa 5 com missioned, it is believed, by the Governor of the state. The same gentleman, Mr. Morrow, of Ohio, and General Harrison, were appointed Commissioners hf the President, on the 21th '-"ay, 131-1, while the two former were members of Con gress, to treat with the northwestern In dians ; but the commission was withdrawn by the President. I enclose an extract from the commission, with a copy of the letter withdrawing it. There may be other similar cases, but these are all that can now be ascertained. The records of the Department, in the instances in which members have been employed, have been kept in the same manner as in others. The only instance which is embraced by the annual state ment required to be laid before Congress, of the contracts made with this Depart ment, in which a member of Congress was concerned, is that of Elias Earlc, for the manufacture of arms, which was con tained in the statement transmitted to Congress in January, 18 1G. It is believ ed to be the only instance of a contract made with a member of Congress, which, according to the provision of the act, ought to be contained in the statement which it directs to be laid annually before Congress. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, J. C. CALHOUN. Hon. Daniel 1 Cook, House of Representatives TJ. States. As soon as wc can find room, we shall publish the Report, of which the above is an accompany ing document. co.GRi:ss, IN SENATE, APRIL 12. Mr. Stokes submitted the following res olution : Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of giving the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of Ncrth-Car-olina, entitled ".n act to incorporate a compa ny, entitled the lioanoke Inlet Company," and for other purposes. Mr. Stokes laid on the table, also, two resolutions, directing the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Ashevillc,in N C. by Waynes- ville, Lovesville, on Scott's Creek, the i Public Square, on Tennessee river, Ra- j bun Court House, in Georgia. Habersham Court House ; and into the expediency of discontinuingthepost route from vayncs illc, in N. C. to Houstonville, in S. C. APRIL 15. The three resolutions submitted by Mr. Stokes, on Friday last, were taken up and adopted. The Senate, according to the order of the day. proceeded to the consideration of the bill t introduced by Mr. flirkrrson, some weeks ago,) prescribing the mode of commencing, prosecuting, and deci ding controversies between states. The first section of the bill provides, that, in all cares where any matter of controver sy now exists, or hereafter may exist, be tween states, in relation to jurisdiction, territory, or boundaries, or any other mat ter which may be the proper subject of judicial decision, it shall be lawful for the Ltate deeming itself aggrieved, to institute against the state of which it complains a suit, or suits, in the supreme court of the United States, by bill in the nature of a bill in equity, stating all the facts, and ex hibiting and referring to all papers and documents deemed necessarv to substan tiate the complaint. The remaining 14 sections embrace the details for effecting the object of the first section Mr. Southard delivered an argument of considerable length in support of this bill ; nd Mr. Van Burcn opposed it. The bill was then laid over and made the order of the dav for to-morrow. The bill from the House of Represen tatives to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make an exchange of certain 6 and 7 per cent, stocks for stock to bear nn interest cf 5 percent, was taken up in committee cf the whole. Mr. Holmes, of Maine, supported the bill. Mr. Maron was opposed to the bill. He conceived it to be neither more nor less than a new way to make a loan ; for if there was a prospect of being able to pay the debt, this bill would not hae been in troduced. It was the precise way in -which England had gone on in her public debt that nation which we abused most and copied most. He was opposed to the whole paper system, public and private the only effect of which was to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. He had heard of war in disguise, but this was the first lime, he believed, they had ever hud loan in disguise, and he was decidedly ''jposed to it. vftcr some conversation bctw j-r, cf N. York, and Mr. Ho the bill was postponed een Mr. dmcs, of the bill was postponed until to- VSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mr AI'RIL 12. tee apr; ;lv V" . . Y 1 d to inquire whether any part of, the public expenditure could be re trenched made a report thereon, in part, and at great length upon the various sub jects connected with the expenditures and revenue of the government, concluding with the following resolutions : Resolved, That the policy of resorting- to loans, for the support of government in times of peaee, is unwise atul inexpedient. Resolved, That this government owes it to the people to take cHicient measures for the re demption of the public debt. Resolved, That the resources of this nation arc such as to render unnecessary a resort to a system of internal, direct, and indirect taxation. Resolved, That this government ought to a dopt such a system of retrenchment as will dis pense with useless expenditures, and bring the pay and salaries of the officers of government i to what they were during the administration ot former Presidents. Resolved, That the tariff ought to be new modified with a view to revenue. FOfifJIG.X. FROM ENGLAND, c. new-tork, ai'Ril 8 By the British packet Manchester, the Editors of the Commercial Advertiser have received from their attentive correspondent, Lon don papers to the 1 3th of February. On the 11th of February the royal as sent was given to the Irish Insurrection Rill, and to the Habeas Corpus Suspen sion Act. The insurrection bill, says a London paper, gives to magistrates a right to enter into the most retired and delicate part of any dwelling house, and, if re fused admittance, to force the chambers even of females. Uy this act, any man found out of his house between sun set and sun rise any person found drinking in a public house in the same period, whe ther a traveller or not any owner or oc cupier of a house, absent from home in the same period any person in whose possession either arms or ammunition arc found all these arc liable to transporta tion for seven years : and this, too, with out the interference of a Grand Jury by bill without the Petty Jury by their ver dict, and without allowing the aggrieved partv anv satisfactory appeal. Bell's Weekly Messenger of the 11th Feb. states that " government have at length agreed with tfic country gentle men to borrow of the Rank four millions, and to distribute it among the agricultur ists at a low rate of interest, and upon easy security." The accounts received from Ireland during the preceding week, are stated to i I be seriously alarming, and to almost jcitc an apprehension that even the in- creasincr terrors of the law will be insuffi cient for the accomplishment of an object so universally md fervently desired. Russia and Turkeh. It is now said, on the authority of a letter from Nuremberg, dated the 27th January, that 4k on the 10th of December, the Reis Efiendi commu nicated to the English and Austrian Am bassadors the answer of the Ottoman Porte to the Russian Ultimatum, in which his sublime Highness gave a general con sent to the Russian propositions, but he required them to be modified in several particulars." From English papers to the 3d March, receiv ed at the office of the New-York Commercial Advertiser, by the packet ship Columbia. Several petitions have been presented in the House of Commons from the rad icals in different parts of the kingdom in favor of Hunt, confined in Uchestcr gaol. The French Minister of War has pub lished a letter honorably exculpating the 72d regiment of artillery from any parti cipation in the conspiracy of Nantes. The Minister considers, that all fears of internal commotions in France have whol ly subsided. Some doubts are entertained whether the laws restricting the press in France would be adopted by the Chamber of Peers, as they have passed the Chamber of Deputies. The continental papers arc devoid of much interest. An article dated Frank fort, Feb. 17, says, that Prince Cantacu zenc was on his way to Saint Petersburg, charged with a mission on the part of 'the provisional government of Greece estab lished at Argos, to implore the support-of the emperor Alexander for the indepen dence ot the Greeks, and to submit to the Russian government the decision agreed to by the Congress of Argos on the sub ject of the introduction of a monarchical constitution, the bases of which are only to be established with the consent of the great European powers. Letters from Vienna announce that great events may be j Iaration of independence by the authori expected in March ; and that nvar between ties of Yucatan, dated at Merida, 15th Russia and the Porte appears inevitable ; ! September, 1 821. Those authorities were but a thousand letters have said so before, j assembled, in consequence of a letter The Spanish Cortes have recently c!e-: from the military governor of Tobasbo, creed that all Spanish vessels employed ' in which he communicated the declara in the slave trade are to be forfeited, and tion of independence, proclaimed in that the o-vners fitters cut-, masters, and olfi- province, and two other letters of the cers, condemned to ten vears' hart! labor Council of Canipeche and of the King's on the public works. All foreigners en- ; Lieutenant of that place, in which they tcring Spanish pons with slaves en board ' adisc of the like proceeding, shall bc liable to the same penalties: and i The proceedings at Guatemala, of the all slaves found on board shall he set free, j 15th September, are also given at length. We trust these regulations will bc se-; in w hich a similar but provisional, decla tiouslv carried into r fleet, ration was made, and a Congress called Mr. Wilmot, the British under Secre- to confirm it, as also to regulate the fu taty of State, has denied, in the House of tine government, which was to meet at Commons, a statement which uppearrd in Guatemala on the 1st March ult. the London Globe, that instructions had i The Isthmus. On the 29th Novem been sent to the West Indian Islands, i ber, a general meeting of the civil, military, that the ports should be opened to the di rect trade of the United States, upon the principles of reciprocity proposed by the American government. SITUATION OF IREIiJ'J). The state of unhappy Ireland contin ues to grow more and more deplorable. We cannot possibly give extracts this evening, and must content ourselves by stating briefly, that murders, robberies, and burningsj become more frequent ev ery week ; and the commission of these crimes continues to be attended by the most aggravated circumstances. In the mean time, the strong arm of the govern ment has thus far been exerted in vain to repress the blood-chilling outrages. The Special Commissions at Cork had just closed their session, and, on the last day, sentence of death was fiasstd on thir ty five of the Uhiteboys Many were sentenced to be transported. Some of the worst of the offenders were ordered for an early execution ; and it was distinctly stated, that the pardoning power would not be extended to one of them, unless a change was effected in the disposition and conduct of the people, so that tran quility should be restored. Three of the thirty-five, were recommended to mercy by the jury. NEW-YORK, APRIL 8. Imfiortant from Spain. By the brig Active, Capt. Noble, the editors of the Commercial Advertiser have received files of the Gibraltar Chronicle to the 28th of February. It appears that the Spanish Cortes, contrary to the recommendation of the King, adopted, on the 12th of Feb ruary, the opinion of their committee rel ative to sending Commissioners to South America ; and, the day following, they further approved of the following three additional propositions, viz : That the Cortes should annul the Cordova Conven tion between Gen. O'Donojou and the Mexican leader Itutbidc, as also any oth er treaty, act, or stipulation, relative to the j acknowledgment of the independence of j Mexico by the same general; that the erovcrnment be urered to declare to other governments, that Spain has not given up her right to her provinces beyond the seas ; and that, therefore, she ivill cona-drr as a -violation of the existing treaties, the fiartial or absolute acknowledgment cf their independence before the differences bctvjrtn tfrm and the mother country shall have bfen adjusted; and lastly, that govern mpnl bc ikcwisc urired to endeavor, bv cx-jrvcrv possible means, to preserve, and seedilvMo reinforce, such points in those peeuiiy to reinioice, sucn p countries, as still maintain their relations with the mother country, and refuse to make a common cause with the malcon tents. On the 14th, the King closed the session, and is said to have expressed him self s itisficd with the legislative measures adopted by the Assembly, as he conceived them to h-ve so greatly promoted the work of the political regeneration ' of Spain, that a few more efforts of the s .me nature must bring it to the very acme of pet fection. I he Gibraltar papers continue to detail the riotous proceedings of the brigands in the interior of Spain ; but the govern ment does not seem to be under any ap prehension as to the consequences. Intelligence had been received at Gib raltar, that the furious veteran, Ali Pacha, seemed nearly at his last gasp. He is said to have only 400 men left, and that they are afilicted with the scurvy. The Turks continue to hold possession of Patras, making frequent sorties on the Greeks, from whom they carry off con siderable booty. In the mean time, the war continued to be one of extermination, and the most horrible excesses are said to be practised, by both of the contending parties. BALTIMORE, APRIL 9. To the politeness of our correspondent at La Guayra, we are indebted for Carac cas papers to the 1 8th March inclusive. From them we gather the following : On the 1 1th ult. Colonel Vasqucz died at Caraccas, of a dropsy and extreme de bility, occasioned by a copious bleeding of the temporal artery. A letter from the Vice President of Colombia, dated 13th December, at Bo gota, states that the President Bolivar " had marched for Popayan, to open the campaign against the unfortunate pro vince of Quito. He carried with him an army formidable for its numbers and con dition." We have a copy of the unanimous dec- and ecclesiastical Corporations, was held, . o , w..o at the hivitation of the Council, at Pana- The season for commencing the agu 1 , ,n?1 .vdarcd it independent of the cultural operations of t ie year is near at ilia snnnidi crnvprnmeiit, and that the ternto- j ry of the Isthmus belongs to the republi can state of Colombia, to the Congress of which it will, in due time, send its depu ty. The troops of the garrison are al lowed to stay, or to return to Spain, first taking an oath to remain quiet, commit no extortions, and not to take up arms against the independent states of Ameri ca during the present war. Don Josef Fadrega, late Colonel in the Spanish ar mies, is chosen political chief. This offi cer communicates, by letter, a copy of the proceedings to President Bolivar. federal Rep. FROM ST. SALVADOR. We are informed by a gentleman who arrived in the brig Bordeaux, from St. Salvador, that it was perfectly tranquil at that place ; there had been for two months a great political excitement, and the Eu ropeans and natives were arrayed against each other, but that the election on the 12th of February resulted in a complete triumph of the natives, and every Euro pean was dismissed from office and na tives elected. Twelve representatives to the Cortez at Lisbon were chosen, all na tives. A Cortez had also been chosen and organized in the Province, and they had refused to acknowledge the Regency at Rio Janeiro, and would have no inter course with them. They acknowledged the Parent Government and would send the twelve representatives chosen to rep resent them. A" Y. Daily Adv. DOMESTIC WASHINGTON, ATKIL 1G. There was a report in circulation yes terdav, we know not on -what foundation. that the question between the United) States and Great Britain, which was re- V . .it of Russia, rejecting slaves deported our- i J rrpfi id i hp :ii Mir 111 n in i 1 1 1- i. i ;t iiji r , . . . .: c it - r r .1 n-i tilled bv his own hands ; the happy hus- ln favor ol this erovrrnment. 1 he sub-1 . . a i r i t t. i i . c , . ! riband of a rheerlul wife, whose tfc hands ject is ot great importance to several ot . . . , ,. . , - , U o . ' . . i i hold the distatt, and in whose tongue is the Southern states ; and we hope we may- soon be able to confirm so agreeable a re port. Intcll'gcncer. We regret to learn, that letters from our squadron in the Mediterranean bring news of the death of JWidshifman Tho?nas TForthington, son of Dr. C. Worthington, of Georgetown, a young gentleman of engaging qualities and great promise He fell in a duel at port Mahon. ib. We understand that the machine con structing at the Navv-Yard, for the pur pose of hauling up ships of war, for pres ervation or repair, will bc completed hy the first of May and that the frigate Po tomac, lately launched, will be hauled up on the 2d or 3d. The precise- dav and j age life, and became strongly attached to hour will be hereafter stated. This ma- ; them. He travelled, during his residence chine, wc are informed, would have been with the Indians, over most of the im completed much sooner, had not the prev- j mense regions west of the Mississippi, alence of unusually high tides, for the ! extending his excursions as far south as last fortnight, retarded the operations of! the province of Texas, and westward to the workmen. " j the mouth of the Columbia river, and the Expectation is on tiptoe for the result shores of the Pacific. Mr. H. states that of this experiment, in which we arc tolas srion as he ascertained that he was not behold the novel and stupendous sight of by birth a son of the forest, he meditated a ship, of the largest c lass of frigates, ta- a return to the land of his nativity, if it ken from her natural element, suspended could be found; but he determined first in the air, and afterwards deposited on ' to collect all the knowledge of a counUy blocks, in a situation similar to that in hitherto but little known jV. L. Adv. which a ship is placed when building. It is supposed the whole of this opera- The legislature of Virginia, have ra tion may be completed within three hours jected the petition of a Mr. Lcftwich, who in which space ot time this mass of timber, weighing sixteen hundred tons, will have been moved COO feet. ib. Iu a very useful little Pamphlet issued from the Post Office for the city of New York, entitled The Post Office Directo ry," we find the number of mails made up at that office each day in the week, the aggregate for each week being 1031 This seems a large number ; but it falls considerably short of the number made up at the Post Office in this city, which, upon inquiry, we find to be 1532. ib. SRLW BAB COMPACT. BALTIMORE, APRIL 10.. Theodore James, who was convicted at the last setting on two indictments for larceny, was brought up on Saturday and received the sentence of four years con finement in the Penitentiary on each in dictment. The fate of this young man is the effect of those infatuations of which numbers of youths are not sufficiently cautious. One of the indictments charged him with stealing a plaid cloak the other a pocket book containing five or six dol lars. To the latter he pleaded guilty, and in a mild manner and neat and correct style, that proved him to have received a genteel and liberal education, he acknowl edged that he unfortunately associated with idle persons, zvith "hom he frequent ed the gaming table, where he lost the means wherewith he intended to dis charge his little debts that, to enable him, by another effort at the fatal board, to regain these means, he stole the book and its contents wherewith he was charged, and now that he resigned himself to his fate and the will of the court. Rale, American. hand. The mantle ol Winter is removed from the vallies ; the icy fetters which have bound the rivers and the soil yield to the powerful rays of a more vertical sun ; the soft salutations of the sweet South are breaking the slumbers of the vegetable world, and the trees already give signs of returning life and vigor. Spring, the season of love, of animation and joy, advances with a quick and cheer ful step, and unfeeling Winter retires to the mountains at her approach, as if re solved upon their lofty peaks to withstand the order of nature, and rule the unchang ing monarch of the year, enthroned on a pillar of ice, amid clouds, and vapors, and storms. But the immutable decree of the Almighty cannot be counteracted' " seed time and harvest shall not fail" the unrelenting monster must yield to Spring, under whose mild sway the earth will soon put on her beautiful vestments, and appear in all the gaiety and loveliness of youth. Then will the husbandman go forth to deposit the seed in the ground ; and with what anxiety will he watch the appearance of the green and lender stalk ? How grateful for the rain, and the dew, and the kind influences of the sun ; and how joyous when the ample harvest crowns his care, his labor and his hopes, and fills " his basket and his store." " And can his life be a happy one," asks the epi cure of the crowded city, just risen from a noon-day bed, after feasting half the night upon the luxuries of both hemis pheres " can he be happy who rises with the dawning light, and goes forth to his field to labor all the day, exposed to the scorching ravs of the summer's sun ; who eats his bread in the sweat of his face, and retires weary and worn to his pillow at night, to sleep away the hours of dark ness, and rise to the same round of labor on the morrow ?" Yes competency, i virtue and happiness are the associates of . - -. . r- - , industry. i lie tarmcr is tne sovereign j f . ,jule lerrjt the ,or( of the acrcs the law ot kindness the smiling father of oberient children, the contented pro prietor of the flocks in his pasture, of the waving corn in his field, and the " new mown hay," which scatters sweet perfume through all the air. TFESTERJm InrA.VS. There is now living in the city of New York, a gentleman by the name of Hun ter, who is about publishing an important work respecting our Western Indians. The. biography of this man is singular. He found himself, when a boy, and as far back as his memory reaches, amoncr the Western Indians ; but how he came there? or where from,' he was perfectly ignorant. He was educated in all the modes of sav- j states in it, that he lately intermarried with Miss Hulda Hackworth, the sister o his former wife, (not knowing at that time that such a marriage was inhibited by the laws of the state,) and praying that the said marriage may be declared legal and valid, and that a presentment which had been made against him, by a Grand Jury, in consequence thereof, may be dismiss ed. Such marriages as those mentioned above, are common in Massachusetts, and are considered valid and legal. And so they arc in North-Carolina. PATRIOTIC EXAMPLE. One hundred and three young Gentle men, of Cross creek township, Washing ton county, Pa. have adopted several pat riotic Resolutions, relative to Domestic Manufactures, to which they have signed their Names. These vouncr Gentlemen are the Sons of respectable and substan tial Farmers ; and the object they have in view may be seen by the extracts which follow : 6 Wc will abstain from the use of im ported goods of every description, as far as possible, and give a decided preference to articles the growth and manufacture oi our own Country. ' We will, in paying our addresses to the young Ladies, give the most marked preference to such as clothe themselves in Homespun, and make use of articles the growth of our own Country.' A bill is brought forward in the legis lature of New-York, which ordains " that a conviction and sentence of any person to the state prison for life shall be deem ed a dissolution of the marriage con tract" and that even pardon shall not restore him or her to the matrimonial rights.