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Nineteenth Congress of the U. S. SECOM) SESSION. enclosed communication, addressed tojbers of the House, present, that SENATE. Tuesday, Dec. 26. Mr. Noble asked and obtained leave to intro duce a bill to continue the Cum berland road;, the bill was read twice and referred to the Commit tee on Roads and Canals. Mr. Harrison called up the bill making further compensation to officers commanding companies in the army of the U. S.; which was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. This bill passed the next day it allows them an addi tional ration a day,and S 10 a month when performing extra duty in the staff. Wednesday, Dec. 27 Mr. John son, introduced a resolution pro posing a change in the Judiciary system, so as to make the execu tion laws in the several States, the rule for the U. S. District and Circuit Courts, within those States agreed to the next day. Thursday, Dec. 28. The bill that body. Very respectfully, yours &c. J. C. CALHOUN. To the Honorable the Members of the II. ofR. An imnnrious sense of dutv. and - i j ' a sacred regard to the honor of the station which I occupy, com pel me to approach your body in its high character of grand inquest of the nation. Charges have been made against me of the most serious nature, and which, if true, ought to degrade me from the high station in which I have been placed by the choice of my fellow citizens, and to con sign my name to perpetual infa my. In claiming the investigation of the House, I am sensible, that, un der our free and happy institutions the conduct of public servants is a fair subject of the closest scruti ny and the freest remarks, and that a firm and faithful discharge of duty affords, ordinarily, ample protection against political attacks but when such attacks assume the character of impeachable offences, to establish a uniform system of c , V "Piamc ounces, Rnnkmntrv tlirnnirlmnf thn IT a"i COlllC, 111 some degree, ofh- Bankruptcy throughout the U. S. was taken up, and the various a mendments proposed by the Com mittee considered. cial, by beinjx placed among the public records, an officer, thus as sailed, however has:) the instru ment used, if conscious ofinno- . ..u.'uii j.iti, Wl IIM : i It rwy j n . i uie nan oi inu mmicuiaic itepre 1 ucsaait. JJec.c2(). Ampssn! m was recived lrom the rresideut of ic i. ir i tt , V thus 1 hud myself most unexpect- : . .rb '''- .cdly placed. mgs oi the Compress at Panama ! r i i i . - 3 . 11 "'i On Wednesday morning last, i au upa.au, y u icpu i ami SUU- was f(jr thc first tjmc intimntcd tQ t:itTZT frm th Dci,art' I that charges of a very serious w i ' ir i i nature against me, wore lo( sed in Mr. War, ofiercl a resolution one oCthe Executive Departments: reaped! the .mpnson.nent of ,,,.; tlo rumora' from 8WV suspected negroes .n the D,stnct;ern, imrtcr8'to tlie 8nmo eflfect " Tf" i" 7 ' reached me; but the first certain ir "r?"'1 ; information of their character, was 7 ' , " lu"u"s: received yesterday morning, thro' tlm mntrnct nut oi which the pre sent application grew, was bro't to thc notice of the House on his call. When this Rip Rap con tract, as it is called, was laid be fore tho House, I examined it (said Mr. C.) with the greatest scrutiny, and with the closest applicati on; and I take this occasion to de clare, that I did not discover the most trivial circumstance croinffto show that the then Secretary pfl War was in thc remotest degree improperly concerned in it. This contract was examined by me, not once only, but four different times, and it is just that I should make this early disclosure, that I enter- tain not the remotest suspicion of impropriety against that officer, in the transaction. I shall most rea dily vote for the investigation, said Mr. C. but not with the view of satisfying my mind on the subject. The question then being put on Mr. Floyd's motion, it was agreed to, with scarcely a dissenting voice. A Committee of seven Members was ordered; and iinpowcred to send for persons and papers. The following gentlemen com pose the committee Messrs. Floyd, Wright, Williams, Camp bell, Clarke, Ingersoll,&Spague. I " ' " ' I I HI I II J irorcign. i ' imu jiiiii, uiy law which aumorizes uwni-vi vi m. c?ui the imprisonment of anv freeman of m. did and infamous crime of narti j 1 lor, anil his sale, as an unclaimed slave, cipating in the profits of a con dor gaol fees and other charges: and, if trnn.t fnrmnrl with tl.rt r,w.... ;r llWCXPdien:y0f rc-!-t- through the Deparnnent of Wefraay, Dec 27.-The bi 'jil TS, T.ui 3 .:;:r 7:7.7' : ' " M luu,tliat the accusation has been oiii- f JiJj:i:L..t..r. bUII1!cially presented as the basis of an act of the uiu wiuow 01 me late otepnen JJc- catur, and the Crew of the Ketch Intrepid who succeeded in destroy ing the Philadelphia in thc harbor of Tripoli, was, after some discus sion, recommitted to the Commit tee on Naval affairs, with instruc tions to apportion the distribu tion. Thursday, Dec. 28. ..Mr. Weems offered a resolution instructing the Committee of Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of granting small, suitable appropri ations of money, guns, or ammu nition, to such other Academies as are, or may be hereafter (in the o pinion of the President of the U. States) be organized and carried into useful operation by individu als or companies; which was re jected. Friday, Dec. 29. The Speak er laid before the house thc follow ing communication from John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the U. States, viz: The Speaker of the H. of R. Sir: You will please to lay before ';f-e House over which you preside, the War Depart- mcnt, and consequently to be pla ced among its records, as a last ing stigma on my character. Conscious of my entire inno cence in this and every other pub lic act, and that l have ever been incapable, in the performance ofl duty, or being influenced by any other motive than a sacred regard to the public interest, and resolv ed, as far as human effort can ex tend, to leave an untarnished re putation to posterity, I -challenge the freest investigation of the 1L, as the only means effectually to repel this premeditated attack to prostrate me, by destroying forev er my character. J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States. Washington, Dec. 29th 1826. The letter having been read, Mr. Floyd rose and made some remarks on its contents, and con cluded by moving that the commu nication be referred to a select committee. Mr. Cocke said, it would be re collected by a number of the mem'- Europe. Thc mails for some time have brought no later intel ligence from Europe. Our dates from Liverpool and Havre are tomitted to the Chamber of Demi uiu juui movemoer ai wmcn pe- ties, alter remaining a month and nod there appeared to be muchia half in the hands of the Presi- were deficient. That thc nCw gular Congress, convoked f0r f 1st October, could not then m ' " and would not be able to as; ble at all, for want of reV"1" presentation and harmony. rpb the Senate of the Republic1 not in existence, practically having the constitutional nurn01 and of course the Executive V ' i cil and aid. That public oph,,!' called imperatively for reincl measures, but these were bev0 I the legal faculties of the Exccu. tiye alone. In consequence of all these evils, he convokes, hy Decree, an Extraordinary NmioJ al Congress, to be fully cmpo ed by the people for the restora" tion of Constitutional order, ailj to meet in the city of CojutepeqUo as soon as a proper number of presentatives should be freely e. lected, at the rate of two for eve ry thirty thousand inhabitants. The Correo de la Federation America mentions that the depu ties to the Congress of Panama, or Tacubaya, were doing nothing and that their business or diriK. sions were deemed suspended for a considerable tune, Sr. MicLc lena, one of the Mexican deputies, had tendered Jus resignation to the Executive, but it was not ac cepted. The Correo accuses the latter, in consequence, of wastinj the public monev. According to the same paper, the treaties, con yentions, &c. made at the Con gress of Panama had been trans epu- in the political as well as com mercial ,state of Europe to create solicitude. We need not howev er look for short passages at this season. South America. The National Gazette gives extracts from Mexi- can papers to the 25th Nov. The most important intelligence which they contain, is the occurrences of serious disorders in Guatemala or the Kepublic of Central America. ran . . Uie Aguda ot tho 13th ult. fur nishes a long decree and a very earnest address on the subicct. daled 10th Oct. by the President ot the Kepublic. He recites in the preamble to the decree That the fetate of Honduras was entire ly disorganized, being without le gislative assembly, representative council, or court of justice. That in the State of Nicaragua, the ex ecutive department was at .extreme variance with the legislature: and the citizens, inflamed- by an old spirit of discord, arming against each other. That tl government ot the State of Gua temala had conspired against tho general government of the Re public: seized the federal revenue: evicd forces and organized civil war in aid of a criminal stranger, auacKing rue jtroops of the Re public, and committing various other flagrant acts of uaurnntinn and revolt. That tlm ' . , - "VI Ul Congress, at the close of their session, the present year, was in complete as to representation, and Liououul ot the validity of its pro ceedings; that on ibh account the delegations of the Stales of Sal vador and Costarica h.-id xvitl, drawn; and that other d' nations dent and his Cabinet. The Con gress of Tucubaya may earnlhc name of introuvable. Defeat of the Brazilians. letter from the coast of Brazil has just reached us, (says the Balti more Gazette,) which contains in formation unpleasant to the causa of the Emperor. It is daled San tos, Sept. 26, and to this effect: "There has been a serious con flict between the Buenos Ayrean troops and the Brazilian," near Montevideo, in which the latter were defeated with the loss, it is here currently reported, of 1700 prisoners, the number of killed and wounded not mentioned; hut, as the contest is supposed to have oecn a sanguinary one, thc loss must have been excessive." Peru. A vouno- gentleman ot Montreal, now in Lima, writes as follows, under date of August 0. -Ibis country is a mixture of all kinds, and more desnotic than that of Russia. Though every repub lic has its President, as Peru, Chi li and Colombia, yet J3oIivar is at the head of all; they call him there Liberator, and if he says such a man must die, nothing can save him. It is true the Colombians assisted them in gaining their in dependence, but as the enemy has gone out of the" country, the Per uvians think the Colombians have no longer any right to meddle with. or to govern them: in fact every One Wants tn ruin nnrl no OI1C 13 capable; they are all Spaniard still. They have no rule to carry "! Ikltcilll " A 1 1 iKnir till! on business, neither have they sense or stability; and I have no uouut out that another war will in tervene, before the country is com pletely settled "
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