munes in the year 1837, 29,613 were provided with schools, being 3,774 more schools than in 1834, and 8,563 more than in 1829. Of the communal schools, 26,370 are devoted to Catholics, 563 to Protestants, 28 to Israelites, and 2,352 receive children of different forms of worship. The number of pupils, male and female, admitted into primary schools under the care of male instructers, in 1329, was 969,340; in 1832, it was 1,200,715; and in 1837, 1,949,830. That is the number of pupils to whom the benefits of instruction in these schools were afforded, was doubled in the space of eight years. This is exclusive of the number who receive instruction from female teachers. tion had learned to appreciate the worth of the Eng-in vain to the feelings of Englishmen, and, we trust, lish army; its value was known and appreciated all it will prove but the precursor to efforts still more over Europe. Now, however, they had no further strenuous in their favor, and that a momentum so resort to arins. Between France and England there favorably given to benevolence and patriotism will should now exist a perpetual alliance.-(The illus-not be suffered to subside. trious duke laid an emphasis upon the words "alli- Dreadful thunder storm-twenty-six lives lost. On ance perpetuelle," which brought down a thunder of Thursday afternoon the small village of Silkstone, applause.) After some few further observations, the near Barnsley, in Yorkshire, and its immediate noble duke, alluding, as we imagined, to the hospi-neighborhood, were visited by a thunder storm of tality with which he was at that moment treated in the most terrible character, and which was attended company with the duke of Wellington, said that he by a truly appalling loss of life and property. It hoped yet, one of these days, to take his revenge commenced between two and three o'clock, and (revanche) of the noble duke in France. The illus- continued for about two hours, its direction appar trious and gallant duke sat down, after drinking, ently being from north-west to south-east. The "The health of the British army, and more particu- lightning was exceedingly vivid, and the peals of lar of its great general, the duke of Wellington." thunder loud; the rain and hail descended in tor-Seine, at Ris Orangis, near Paris, at an expense of Mr. Agnado, who had built a fine bridge over the (Thunders of applause.) rents, and the consequence was that the surrounding country was completely inundated. The banks 700,000 francs, on which he was authorized to reof the small river which passes through the town the passage gratuitous, and surrendered the bridge ceive a toll until the year 1921, has generously made presently overflowed, and the resistless torrent in to the administration of bridges and highways. On its course tore up large trees by the roots, broke the branches of others, washed away walls, and blew the report of the minister of public works,a royal ordiup several roads and bridges. nance has been published, recognizing the name of Aguado bridge, which had been spontaneously awarded to it by the inhabitants who are benefitted by it. The duke of Wellington returned thanks for this, also, with much feeling; some necessary toasts followed, and the illustrious company separated before 12 o'clock. The numbers present at this entertainment may be judged of by the following bill of fare: 120 tureens of turtle, of five pints each; 17 dishes of fish, consisting of salmon, turbot, whitings, tench, and eels; 40 haunches of venison; 80 dishes of fowls, capons, and pullets; 40 cherry, goosberry, and current tarts; 30 strawberry tarts, 40 dishes of potatoes, 60 dishes of French beans, 30 French pies, 30 pigeon pies, 30 hains, 30 tongues, 2 barons of beef, 37 Chantilly baskets, 30 dishes of peas: 10 sirloins, ribs, and rumps of beef; 45 dishes of shellfish; 30 ribs, chines, and legs of lamb; 40 dishes of ducklings, 20 turkey poults, 80 jellies, 20 creams, 40 salads and cucumber, 20 dishes of cauliflowers. Desert-75 pine apples of 2 lbs. each, 100 dishes of hothouse grapes, 20 melons, 30 dishes of cherries, 100 dishes of strawberries, 40 dishes of currants and gooseberries, 120 creams and water ices, various; 40 dishes of dried fruit, 35 ornamented Savoy cakes, 30 dishes of preserves, biscuits and olives. Wines of every kind ad infinitum. John Van Buren, the son of the president, is feted in common with the duke de Nemours, prince Esterhazy, prince Schwartzenberg, the dukes of Dalmatia, Wellington, and others. At the grand entertainment to the ambassadors at Guildhall, by the corporation of London, John is set down among the very chosen few on the right hand of the lord inayor. Marshal Soult has been feted in great style. He wrote to a friend in Paris, that as the representative of France, he had "met with a reception equally sincere on the part of the government and of the people. The homage which has been paid to me has filled me with the deepest emotion. I have met with a number of general officers to whom I was once opposed in the field, and by them and every body else in England I have been greeted with a welcome, the honor of which I must attribute to my king and my country." With regard to the reception the marshal has met with in England, one portion of the press of Paris is in extacies, while the other portion attempts to account for it in a variety of ways, as amusing as they are inconsistent. Adjoining the colliery of Mr. Clarke is a small stream, which during eight months of the year is completely dried up. On the banks of the river being overflowed, the water commenced running in was half a farthing; the price gradually rose, till at At the coronation of Edward I, the price of a seat at the day hole, of what is termed the Husker-pit, the coronation of Elizabeth, it was sixpence; of and twenty-six boys and girls employed in that and James I, a shilling; Charles I, the same; of Charles the neighboring pits, from eight and nine to seven-II, James II, and William and Anne, half a crown; teen years of age, were unfortunately drowned as of George I, five shillings; of George II, balf a they were ascending the day hole. Inquests were held on the bodies on the following day, when verguinea; of George III, ten guineas; of George IV, dicts of accidental death were found in all the cases. twenty guineas. This storm appears to have been very general throughout the north of England, and to have done considerable injury. Accounts from the more west. ern districts state that its effects were also felt there, although in a less degree. Lamentable accident. On the 11th a company of licensed players, at the Hay, were about to commence performing to a very full house, when a gun loaded with powder was accidentally struck down, the charge exploded, and the wadding_entered the foot of Mr. Westley, the manager. The wound was very severe, and Mr. Westley was conveyed to his lodgings. He was attended by two surgeons, and appeared to be going on well till Friday, when a change for the worse appeared, notwithstanding the unceasing attentions of the medical gentlemen, he died on the following Sunday. We notice with regret the death of captain Morris, the well known song-writer, which took place on Wednesday morning, at Brookhamlodge, near Dorking, in Surrey. He was in his ninety-third year, and had for four years past lived in retirement; his illness, which was only of four days duration, was internal inflammation. THE COLONIES OF BRITAIN. From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for July. THE COLONIES. The recent revolt in Canada has had the good effect of directing public attention to our colonial system, and to the enormous expense it entails upon the people of Britain. Here, for example, is a table which professes to show the expenditures for the military alone: Abstract of the commissaries' accounts of the payments from the several military chests in the following colonies, from April 1, 1836, to March 31, 1837. P. P. No. 361, 1828. Total payments. £219,718 Canada Ionian Islands 132,104 Cape of Good Hope 313,410 97,410 46,209 10,171 94,184 328,318 167,607 17,112 51,893 £2,727,923 5,705 £2,733,627 Sierra Leone New South Wales The Siecle notices the following story, as circulating in the various drawing rooms at Paris: One of the principal conditions imposed by marshal Soult, on accepting the embassy to London, was, that he should demand the remains of Napoleon. The duke of Wellington has hastened to back the application of his old opponent, and it is affirmed The Poles. A fete called "the Polish fete," was that the governor of St. Helena has been ordered to given near London on the 13th ult., at which it is let the coffin of Napoleon be removed, and all due said there were not less than 10,000 persons present. honours be paid to his glorious memory. The It was got up for the immediate relief of the dis-prince de Joinville is, for the first time, to assume tressed Poles in and about London, and it was ex- the command of a frigate, and to repair to St. Hepected that it would result favorably. lena, in order to convey back to France the remains The Polish fete. The expectations of those by of the emperor. The young prince is to be accomwhom this fete was got up have not been disappoint-panied in his pious voyage, by a soldier from every ed. The gardens at Beulah Spa-large as they are regiment in the French army. Napoleon's remains -were yesterday literally crowded with company, are to be deposited under the Place Vendome Co- But it is easy to show that the expenditure is there not being less than 10,000 persons present. lumn, when a religious ceremony is to take place, much greater than shown in this return; for the folThe arrangements for the musical performances were and to afford Louis Phillippe an opportunity of re-lowing was the distribution of our army on the 1st of the first order. Orchestras were erected on each ceiving, in a worthy manner, those who received his of January last: side of the lawn, in one of which Strauss' band per- son in Germany. It is said that the duke of Wel- Great Britain formed, while in the other was placed all the vocal lington will be invited to the ceremony, as well as Ireland and instrumental strength of the Italian opera. one of the king of Prussia's sons. India Estimated amount of payments at Total payments Other colonies 22.878 19,766 18,894 34,450 95,988 Marshal Soult was among those present. His ex- The emperor of Russia arrived at Warsaw, on his cellency was dressed in a plain suit of black clothes, return to Russia, at midnight of June 29, and found and for a long time passed unnoticed, because un- the city splendidly illuminated. The director of known, by the company; no sooner, however, was public instruction in the kingdom of Poland has is- Deducting the army in India, which is paid by he recognized, than all persons were eager to gain a sued an ordinance containing the following, among the East India Company, nearly one-half of our sight of him, and to express their satisfaction at his other provisions. That in the primary schools of army is stationed in our colonies. If we consider presence. The marshal was accompanied by a nu- all the parishes, there shall be a professor of the the great expense their conveyance to and fro merous suite of attendants, and for soine time pro- Russian language-that the children of the parishes and the great mortality, we may be sure that menaded the grounds, arm in arm, with the dutchess of every rank shall frequent the primary schools, the 52,000 men in the United Kingdom are mainof Somerset. He retired shortly after four o'clock, to and shall learn the Russian language that every be present at the civic banquet, and on leaving the child who shall refuse to learn the language, shall gardens was loudly cheered by the assembled thou- be chastised, and his relatives shall be fined for the sands both within and without the gates. first offence 50 roubles, for the second 100, for the Since these gardens have been cleared and plant-third 300; and for the fourth they shall be adjudged ed, there has never been so gay, so fashionable, and and punished as having disobeyed the orders of the so numerous an attendance of visiters as on yester- authority. No person shall hold any civil or mili-er proportion of the ships being employed in deday, and it is ardently to be hoped that the result of the fete will prove beneficial to those for whose immediate relief it has been got up. It has shown that a proper appeal in a righteous cause is never made tary employment who does not speak the Russian According to a report of the minister of public tained at less expense than the 34,000 in the colonies. Now, the total cost of the army, including the ordnance, is eight millions; so that, instead of less than three, the military protection of the colonies must cost four millions. During the war, our navy cost annually about twenty millions, the greatfending the colonies, and, since the peace in 1815, the expenditure has varied from nine to about four and a half millions. We may therefore add tw millions more for this head, and at least anothe million for the maintenance of the civil establish- EMANCIPATION IN THE WEST INDIES. A PROCLAMATION. By his excellency sir Lionel Smith, knight com- The first of August next is the happy day when you will become free-under the saine laws as other freemen whether white, black or colored. I, your governor, give you joy on this great blessing. Remember that in freedom you will have to depend on your own exertions for your livelihood, and to maintain and to bring up your families. You will work for such wages as you can agree upon with your employers. It is their interest to treat you fairly. It is your interest to be civil, respectful and industrious. Where you can agree and continue happy with your old masters, I strongly recommend you to remain on those properties on which you have been born, and where your parents are buried. But you must not mistake, in supposing that your present houses, gardens or provision grounds, are your own property. They belong to the proprietors of the estates, and you will have to pay rent for them in money or labor, according as you and your employers may agree together. Idle people who will not take employment, but go wandering about the country, will be taken up as vagrants, and punished in the same manner as they are in England. The ministers of religion have been kind friends to you-listen to them-they will keep you out of trouble and difficulties. Recollect what is expected of you by the people of England, who have paid such a large price for your liberty. slavery was abolished in the colonial possessions of the defendants were ready to meet the case, but It would give me pleasure to comply with the invitation; but my health is not very firm; my voice has been affected by the intense heat of the season, and a multiplicity of applications from societies, political and literary, to attend and address their meetings, have imposed upon me the necessity of pleading the privilege of my years, and declining them all. The case was continued until a late hour in the day, when the court refused the motion on all the grounds taken by the defendants. Mr. Kane then stated, that the rule to plead would expire on the next day, (the 31st inst.) and successively asked the court to enlarge the rule, till the second Monday in December and the first Monday in September next, both of which motions were also refused in the order in which they were made. We are informed that the defendants have since filed their plea, and that the cause will be set down for trial at the next November nisi prius for the city and county of Philadelphia. [Thus it appears that one material point in the case is decided, viz:-that the case comes within the purview of the civil law, and it is ordered for a hear I rejoice that the defence of the cause of human a LAW CASE. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. At the suggestion of vs. The reverend ASHBEL In the supreme court of March term, 1838. Writ of quo warranto, issued the 2d of June, 1838, The above case involves the legality of the pro- The supreme court held their annual session on the last Monday (30th) in July, and Mr. justice Kennedy presided. GENERAL HARRISON. General Harrison recently made a tour through everywhere greeted with extraordinary marks of a part of the states of Ohio and Indiana, and was distinction. A dinner was given to him at Massilon, where the following toast, the seventh of the regular series, was received with great enthusiasm: William Henry Harrison,-Inheriting from his times, well has he illustrated them in a life of unbirth the virtues and principles of revolutionary common devotedness and fidelity in the public ser. vice. His name is enshrined in millions of hearts, and when the waves of party shall cease to beat upon it, posterity will do ample justice to that character whose history will occupy one of the brightest pages in American annals. Upon the reading of the toast, George Kirkum, esq., vice president of the day, tendered to gen. Harrison, in behalf of the citizens of Portage, "a cordial welcome to the county, and the simple hospitalities which a brief period of preparation had enabled them to offer." "We honor you," said Mr. Kirkum, "not only for your personal services in the maintenance of our rights and institutions in the civil council, and in the battle field, but also as one of the distinguished men on whom we look as standard bearers of our political faith in the momentous conflict now waging between the political parties of the United States. And although among us there are various predilections and partialities for the several individuals proposed for the presidency, by different portions of the whig party, we all recognize in you a candidate for that office, for whom we shall most Kane, (with whom were Chauncey and Bradford) cheerfully cast our votes in case you shall be the moved the court for a rule to show cause why the nominee of the national convention of whigs, and writ in this case should not be set aside as having more so, because we perceive in the submission of been obtained improvidently, inasmuch 1st, As it is your claims to the arbitrament of that convention, made returnable in vacation; 2d, As the suggestion (when so many ardent and influential friends were filed is insufficient-and for an order, that the rules resolved to make no terms with your competitors,) They not only expect that you will behave your-entered by the relators be in the meantime suspended. another evidence, that under whatever circumstanselves as the queen's good subjects, by obeying the Mr. Kane proceeded to examine the different acts ces, or in whatever station you might be placed, laws, as I am happy to say you always have done of assembly, and the authorities on his first ground, you would be actuated by a desire to promote the as apprentices; but that the prosperity of the is- and argued that the suggestion did not state that the welfare of your country, and not by a lust of perland will be increased by your willing labor, great-relators were elected in the place of the defendants.sonal aggrandizement, or an obstinate will that ly beyond what it ever was in slavery. Be honest Mr. Meredith, on the part of the relators, replied would set at defiance the acts of our representatives towards all men-be kind to your wives and chil-to Mr. Kane, stowing that the writ in this case had in congress, and the sober councils of the wise dren-spare your wives from heavy field work, as been granted by chief justice Gibson, while sitting at men who might be asociated with you in the vanuch as you can-make them attend to their du- Harrisburg, with the approbation of the whole court, rious pepartments of the government. ties at home, in bringing up your children, and in that a writ of quo warranto had issued in the same taking care of your stock-above all, make your forin in the case of the fourth Presbyterian church, children attend divine service and school. that the law, and practice under it, sanctioned this mode of proceeding; that even if it had been irregular, it was waived by the appearance of the defendants, and could not now avail them. If you follow up this advice, you will, under God's blessing, be happy and prosperous. Given under my hand and seal at arms, at St. Jago de la Vega, this 9th day of July, in the first year of her majesty's reign Annoque Domini, 1838. By his excellency's command, LIONEL SMITH. C. H. DARLING, secretary. The Massachusetts anti-slavery society held a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the 1st inst. at the Marlborough chapel, in commemoration of the final emancipation of the slaves in the British West India islands. The following honest and manly letter from John Quincy Adams, was read to the meeting. On the 2d ground, Mr. Meredith replied, that the suggestion was in the usual form; that the title of the relators was only stated to show their interest in the subject matter, and that, though the fact were otherwise, it might be assumed for the purposes of this argument, that the relators were not elected in the place of the defendants. Randall (on the same side) commenced by stating, that they had no right to inquire into the motives of those who made this motion, but its practical effect was delay-if successful, it would only postpone the issuing of the writ until next December. He had indulged the hope that both parties would unite in a prompt and speedy termination of this unhappy conQuincy, 28th July, 1838. troversy-all such expectation he now abandoned Edmund Quincy, esq., Boston: Mr. Randall was then proceeding to cite authorities, Dear Sir: I have received your kind invitation when he was stopped by the court, who directed the in behalf of the committee of arrangements of the other side to proceed. Massachusetts anti-slavery society, to Mr. Bradford then addressed the court on all the celebration of the anniversary of the day Attend which grounds, and to the suggestion of delay replied, that pon their "Entertaining and honoring you, then, as the hero and statesman of by-gone days, and as the Cincinnatus who may, by our suffrages, be again called from the plough to hold the reins of state, we invite you to enter, without fear of being regarded as either egotistical or opiniative, into free discourse to these veterans of the revolution, these co-workers with you in later wars and councils, these admiring ladies, and these ardent youth who have come up to see and hear you on the interesting events in your own life, so closely interwoven with the history of the west; and on the great political questions and public acts, which distract our country at the present day." The following extracts are from general Harrison's reply, according to the sketch of it contained in the Ohio Star. "In relation to the allusion which had been made to the situation in which he stood before the people of the United States, he must be permitted to say, that he was not personally responsible for having been placed in that position. There was not a inan in the nation who could with truth say, that any suggestion which had the least tendency towards the expression of a wish to become a candidate for the presidency ever came from his lips or his pen. tem-where they had purely a metallic currency. MR. DUNCAN'S SPEECH. From the Madisonian of the 4th inst. nals, he will find that he is mistaken both as to the date and the scope of the resolutions which I offered. The resolution to which I have no doubt Mr. Duncan relers, was not offered in the beginning of the late session, but was offered on the 12th day of October last, four days before the close of the extra session. The call was not for all the corres pondence of the treasury with the bunks," but for the names of all receivers, collectors, or depositors of the public money, who were in delauit to the government; the amount of such default, the length of time due, the security given, if any, and how much had been, or would likely be lost, together with all correspondence upon the subject, from the 1st day of January, 1834, to that time; a call conconfined in its scope entirely to existing defaulters, and in the correspondence to a period of four years only. The following is a true copy of the resolu tion: Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury communicate to this house, as early in the next session as practicable, the names of all receivers, collecters, or depositors of the public money, WHO ARE IN DEFAULT to the government, the amount of such default, the length of time due, the security given, if any, or how much has been, or will likely be lost, together with a copy of all correspondence upon the subject, from the 1st day of January, 1834, to this time." This resolution was read in the hearing of the house before it was offered; and it was then ouered and taken up by the unanimous consent of the house, and adopted without a single dissentient, as well as I recollect. This call, which was made on And yet he certainly had friends to whom such a suggestion might have been safely made. Could it be supposed that he was ignorant of the fact that at least in four states of the union from the decisive manifestations of attachment to him, frequently made by large bodies of their citizens, he might have entered upon the canvasses under auspices by no means unpromising? Could it be supposed, too, that he did not know that "the thousand and one" calumnies which had been for twenty-five years so industriously circulated against him could be easily refuted? The very fact that he had never before visited this interesting portion of a state of which he had for so many years been a citizen, that (excepting the remnant of those gallant bands whom he had the honor to command in the second war of independence,) he was here in the midst of strangers, afforded sufficient evidence that he never sought the means of placing himself in the situation of competitor to the distinguished men who have from time to time been brought forward as candidates for the highest office in the gift of the people! His ambition had been limited to the faithful discharge of the duties of the more humble offices which the confidence of his fellow citizens or of their government had conferred upon him. Indeed, at the priod of his first nomination by a portion of the people of that magnanimous state which upon every occasion has manifested the purity of her patriotism by the disinterestedness of "But another mode is adopted by the federal party her course, he had supposed that his political ca having the majority in either house, to swell the reer was forever ended. It was the voice of the expenses against the wishes of the administration, people which induced him to change the peaceful, and then charge the extravagance to it For exaud to him most delightful occupation of the hus- ample, at the present session, the house printed bandinen for the troubles and mortifications inci- more than one hundred thousand dollars in docudent to the situation in which they placed him. Itments, many of them not worth the paper (now the 12th day of October, was not answered until was the same voice which had again elevated him made waste paper,) on which they are printed. Of the 17th day of January following, and then only to an equality in claims for the most exalted office this sort is a volume of one hundred and thirty-in part. The report of the 17th of January, connot only in this nation but in the world, with the eight pages, consisting entirely of the cancelled tained a list of the deposite banks, and the names two most distinguished citizens of our country. draits of the treasury which my colleague [Mr. of the collectors and receivers in default, together And however willing he might be as an individual Bond] called for, and had printed. He could have with the amounts due, the character of the security to acknowledge their superior attainments in the had no motive in calling for this but to make a fat given with explanatory notes; in fact the whole science of government, he could not and would job of rule and figure work for Gales and Seaton. resolution was answered, except the copies of the not bring himself to a level below that upon which It is just as valuable a work as so many cancelled correspondence called for. Appended to this reso many honest, intelligent and patriotic citizens checks drawn on a bank. In the beginning of the port was a letter of the secretary of the treasury, had placed him. The exalted opinion, which he session, Mr. Garland of Virginia, a conservative, accompanied with one from the solicitor of the had of the two statesmen to whom he had alluded called for the correspondence of the treasury with treasury, to him in these words: was well known. One of them, Mr. Clay, he had the banks. The house was informed that there ever supported with the most ardent zeal whenever were not clerks in the department sufficient to prean opportunity offered. His claims to rank amongst pare it during the term of the members. It would the most able statesmen none could deny, and he have made a lat job of at least $50,000, on which took a great pleasure in stating, that after having the gentleman's friend, Mr. Allen, would have had enjoyed (as he believed) his unlimited confidence a per centage, and Gales and Seaton their profits. for years, in power, and out of power, he had never Another call was made by him for all the documents formed an idea that Greece or Rome, ever posin regard to the defaulters to the treasury; and this sessed a purer patriot. His distinguished rival in would have been to copy and print the papers of forensic attaininents was every way his equal, and the office of the solicitor of the treasury out and he should possess the sympathy of every honest out. This would, besides the expense of copying, man, for the unjust prejudices which are entertain cost at least $50,000 more for printing. It was ed against him. Daniel Webster was never other found there were not clerks enough to make the wise than a patriot. All his thoughts, all his copies, and Mr. Garland moved a resolution to au wishes, all his aspirations have been for the honor thorize new appointments for this purpose, but it and glory of his country. How unjust, then, to failed. This shows what the conservatives and attach to him sentiments he never entertained-whigs would have done, by way of bringing grist to conduct which his soul would have abhorred! He had not time to go into particulars, but he appealed to the known generosity of western bosoms to lay aside their unfounded prejudices against a man to whose enlarged and disinterested course they have been so much indebted. He had not given to these men, the high character which he had ascribed to them for the purpose of deriving advantage from the partiality of his fellow citizens, who had placed him by their side. By no means. If he should be obliged to state his own pretensions, he could only claim the merit of being, "if not an equal," "an older" statesinan, al ways the ardent supporter of the rights of the people, in the councils of the nation, and in the field their faithful and devoted soldier. Office of the solicitor of the treasury, January 15, 1838. SIR: I have the honor to return herewith the statement of the first comptroller of the treasury of the amounts due from certain collectors of the cus toms which was referred by you to this office on the 6th December, 1837; and also the statement of the same officer of the amounts due from certain receivers of public moneys, which was referred by you to this office on the 28th December, 1837. I transmit herewith an abstract of the information which is furnished by the records and correspondence of this office relative to each of the cases in these statements. It is impossible in this office to give any thing like an accurate suminary of "the amount that has been or is likely to be lost;” nor can any opinion be here formed on the subject, except mere conjecture, further than it is to be derived from the notes and abstracts now annexed to each particular case. It will, however, be seen from these that, in all probability, some of the largest balances will be entirely paid, and that many others will be greatly reduced. Gales and Seaton's press, to afford vast profits to He went at length into the subject of the curren- alone, with the defaulters, thereby superseding the correspondence called for by the resolution of the 12th of October, and greatly lessening its volume, which was adopted without any objection that I heard. Shortly after this resolution was adopted, the report came in, and when my resolution to au thorise the employment of such aid as might be deemed necessary by the secretary of the treasury came up, instead of its failing, as charged by Mr. Duncan, it was laid on the table on my own motion, for the simple reason that the resolution bad been answered as far as was necessary. To prove that the delay in communicating the correspondence called for in my resolution of the 12th October, was not caused by the volume of that correspondence, I will state the fact that after the resolution, as subsequently restricted, was responded to, a bill was reported by the judiciary committee, to authorise the employment of an additional permanent clerk, in the office of the solicitor of the treasury, at the earnest solicitation of that officer, on account of the great increase of the business of that office. tally interested; and whether it affects mostly the banks, or individual agents, let it come forth-let the truth be known to its utmost extent, that the country may act in reference to this great question from the unobscured and unhidden light of experience. I do not repent of the call which I made, and should not, if it had cost $200,000, so important do I deem the information which it produced. As to the insinuation, that I was actuated by paltry and unworthy motive of benefiting Gales & Seaton, and Thomas Allen, I have no reply to make-none whatever. Nor have I any to make to the insinuation of "The Globe," that I was acting in concert with Mr. Bond, or he with me, in offering my resolution. I had never interchanged one word with Mr. Bond as to the resolution which I offered; nor as to any which he offered. The imputation is entirely gratuitous and unfounded. I believe I might safely challenge a comparison of my votes with that of the most fastidious economist in the house, either as it relates to public printing, or any other branch of the public service, in appropriating the public money. And as to the books spoken of by Mr. Duncan, if I am not egregiously mistaken, my name is recorded against all appropriations for the purchase of books for the members. As to the corrupt bargain of which Mr. Duncan speaks between the friends of Gales & Seaton and the friends of Allen, I have only to say that I saw none, heard of noue, and was privy to none. I was not at the caucus of which he speaks, and had nothing to do with it. I had determined, before I left home, (whether properly or not I will not discuss) not to vote for Gales & Seaton, or Blair & Rives. And if Allen had not been run, I should have cast a blank vote. During the progress of the ballot, several gentlemen asked me if Allen failed, Whether I would not vote for Gales & Seaton; I told them no. Others asked me if Allen failed whether I would not go for Blair & Rives; I told them no, I would not. I did not know Allen when the ballots were going on. I voted for him upon the recommendation of others. I defy the production of a single man, to whom I made any proposition, or who made one to me. The foregoing statement of facts, and for their truth, I refer to the journals of the house of representatives, do not justify the charge that I made the undefined, and unlimited calls for the correspondence of the treasury with the banks, and all the documents in relation to defaulters, as charged by Mr. Duncan, and repeated by the Giobe; but that the call was specific and limited, seeking the naines of defaulters, the amounts of defalcation, the security held by the government, and the correspondence for the four preceding years in relation to these defaults only. Was there any thing in this call unimportant or unnecessary? A day or two before it was made, the agitating, the important and all-absorbing sub treasury bill, had been laid upon the table in the house of representatives. It was well known that it was again to be taken up at the succeeding session, to be discussed and decided on. The question was a vital one, and I feel confident in the assertion that nothing could more successfully elucidate it, than by laying before congress and the country, what had been the experience of the country in the safe keeping of its revenues by banks and individual agents. The call which I made embraced the results of both systems, and could not do otherwise than aid every member in coming to a just conclusion upon the subject. With this view, and this only, I offered that resolution. I did not know what would be the volume of the correspondence, or what would be the cost of printing; about this I knew nothing. I only looked to the value of the document in aiding the deliberations of congress, and enlightening the people upon a subject involving their dearest and most important interests. But what is the cost of the two documents that came? The first is a small document of 58 pages, and I understand cost, for the usual number, $172 69; subsequently, however, 5,000 extra copies were ordered, costing $493 42. The second is a larger document, of 400 pages, and cost, as I understand, $1,074 33. This is very, very far short of the $100,000, at which the cost has been computed. If the first call would have cost $100,000, then it was reduced to the actual cost on my own motion If I offered any other resolutions than those which I have stated, they were either adopted, rejected, or remain undisposed of. If adopted, they are either answered, or remain unanswered. If answered, I have stated the cost. If unanswered, the cost will be ascertained when the reports come in; but there are none unanswered. If I offered any calls which were rejected, will my accusers point them out? If any, which remain undisposed of, what are they, and when were they offered? I have not the most distant idea that any report within the legitimate range of the resolution which I offered would have cost for the printing $5,000, much more $100,000. I have no practical knowledge upon the subject, but such is my opinion. For I do not believe that there is as much correspondence behind, as that which was reported, and which cost only $1,074 33. "Another natural consequence of this bargaining But suppose it had cost all that is charged, what of has been discovered before the committee appointthat? Does not every man perceive the value of ed at the heel of the session, has not yet had time the document in reference to the great question to make full investigation, and report; but I feel at depending before the country, and should it have liberty to use the information which I have derived been withheld for fear of spending fifty or even a from a witness, sworn before it. A first rate prachundred thousand dollars? Every patriot will answer no-let us have the light!! Now, gentlemen, there is not one word of truth in the above paragraph. The honorable gentleman has been imposed upon by some ignoramus, probably, to use no harsher epithet. I assure, gentlemen, there was no "fraud" practised in printing the document referred to. The size of the page was not "diminished." No "types were used different from those authorized by law." I quote the law itself to prove the fart. I have never violated it since I have had the management of the public printing, some sixteen years or so. EXTRACT FROM THE LAW. "Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States in congress assembled, That the printing of congress, unless when otherwise specially ordered, shall be done in the following forur and manner, viz: "Bill, as heretofore, with English type, on foolscap paper. "Rule, or table work, in royal octavo size, where it can be brought into that size by ANY type not smaller than brevier; and, where it cannot in such form as to fold conveniently into the volume. "All other printing with a small pica type, on royal paper, in pages of the same size as those of the last edition of the laws of the United States." There is nothing said here about ems. The congress pages, however, are of the same size as the laws referred to-they are 55 lines long, and 31 in width, and contain as many small pica ems as a page of the laws. I was employed upon the laws, both in composition and proof reading, during their publication in 1814, by Mr. Weightman, then printer to congress. So, I may be presumed to know something about them. As to the same document, printed at the Globe office, making fifty-six pages less than that printed by Mr. Allen, it can be easily and readily accounted for by practical printers, without resorting to an allegation of fraud. The small pica type, on which the house document is printed, drives out about a page in every twenty; while that used on the senate document takes in an equal amount. Both founts of type are "small pica," conformable to law, for the current printing. Some of the tables in the house document are put in small pica, while in the senate document they are put in brevier; reducing, of course, a considerable quantity of press work. I do not think that any tabular statements should be put in brevier when they can be brought into small pica, as, in short numbers, it increases the expense. I have no other object in making this communication than to correct the errors into which Mr. Duncan has fallen, as to the character and scope of the resolutions which I had off red. When a copy of the Journal of the house shall have reached me, I shali, if I find it necessary, place my conduct upon this occasion beyond the reach of censure. I ain not unapprized of the hostility which I have pro- less by an extraordinary accident, who would arIndeed, there are no two printers, probably, unvoked on the part of some of the friends of the ad-rive at the same result in printing a mass of MS., ministration, and the press in its support for the cause which my own sense of duty and obedience interspersed with tabular statements, equal to one thousand pages. to the wishes of a large majority of my constituents Very respectfully, I am, gentlemen, has compelled me to take upon the all-absorbing Your obedient servant, question of the day. While I have done nothing GEO. M. GROUARD. to provoke hostility, I have no disposition to deprecate it, but will abide all the consequences which may result froin it. I shall continue to do my duty according to the dictates of my own conscience, in despite of denunciation or abuse; and shall only feel myself recreant to my trust, when I can be brought to disregard my own conscientious opinions and act upon the principle that party considerations constitutes the first and most important objects of representative duty. I have not so learned my duty, nor shall I so perform it. Your obedient servant, J. GARLAND. From the National Intelligencer of the 14th ult. Messrs. GALES & SEATON: In the "Globe" newspaper of the 13th instant is a speech of the honorable Mr. Duncan, of Ohio, from which I have extracted the following paragraph in relation to the public printing of which I am superintendent or manager, for the proprietors, viz: After discoursing about some supposed bargaining in obtaining the printing, Mr. D. speaks as follows: From the National Intelligencer of the 15th ult. Messrs. GALES & SEATON: A writer in the "Globe" of this morning attempts to explain away or invalidate what I said in yesterday's Intelligencer in relation to the public printing. I have no disposition for a newspaper war of words about en quads. Truth is not likely to be elicited by such a discussion. When the committee shall pursue their investigation again, disinterested testimony will be had before it, when the application of the law and the practices and usages of the profession can be given in evidence by competent and skilful printers, and all cavil and equivocation be put to rest. With regard to the printing of extra numbers of documents, which the house has not ordered, (as the writer in the "Globe" charges,) it demands no other reply than that I am merely an executive offi cer (standing in my employer's place,) to carry into effect such orders as I may receive. I do not ransack the journals to see what has been done or what has been left undone. Nor have I any access to the vouchers in the fire-proof building of the treasury department to enable me to throw any light upon the charge. It is no part of my business. Nothing, however, is printed by me for the public without instructions from the house of representatives. For myself, I can have no motive for misrepretical printer, called on by that committee to mea sentation, much less for frand in the matter-having sure the work, and calculate the price which it was every thing to risk and nothing to gain. I have enIf this correspondence, in relation to defaulters, is lawful to charge for it, and compare it with that deavored always to discharge my duty to the extent so very voluminous, it speaks in a voice of thun- which Gales & Seaton, in the naine of Allen, as of my ability, with perfect good faith and justice der to the American people, whether it embraces printer to this house, had received for it, found that both to the United States and to my employer. If banks or individual agents; and every man who the first document printed for this house at this ses. I shall be found to have committed any error of loves his country, and values the purity of her in- sion, by Gales & Seaton, was fraudulently printed; judgment in the execution of the printing, of which stitutions, should unite in a general demand to bring and that, by diminishing the page and using types I am not conscious, the correction or the remedy it forth, and expose it to the public gaze, naked and different from those authorized by law, they had made can be readily applied. of these defalcations, the people are most extent an illicit profit amounting to between thirteen and】 eply and vi- fourteen hundred dollars." unadorned. For in ascertaining the Respectfully, &c. GÉO. M. GROUARD, Expeditious trip. From the Petersburg, (Va.) | Health of New Orleans. The following is a copy Intelligencer of the 7th inst. A gentleman of this of a letter from the mayor of New Orleans to the town has just made the trip from this place to Phila-mayor of New York: delphia and back in three days and a half; having spent six hours in Richmond, eight in Philadelphia, and on his return, twelve in Baltimore, and nine and a half in Washington city. He has favored us with the following memorandum of the trip: "I left Petersburg in the cars for Richmond on Wednesday night, at 8 o'clock, reached Richmond at 1-2 past 9; went to bed at 10, and left in the cars for Fredericksburg, Thursday morning at 4; arrived in Philadelphia, via Frenchtown and Newcastle, Friday morning at about 4—at 6 dressed and went up to the hotel in the city, where, after dressing and breakfasting, I transacted my business and left at 2 P. M. for Baltimore. Reached Baltimore at 1-2 past 9, same evening; lodged at the new Exchange hotel, (which for attention, neatness and comfort, may be classed with the Tremont-house of Boston, and Mansion-house of Philadelphia and French's hotel of Norfolk,) left that city at 9 Saturday morn ing; arrived at Washington at 1-2 past 11; remain ed until 9 that night, when I left in the Potomac boat for Fredericksburg, and reached Petersburg at 1-2 past 11 Sunday morning, without much fatigue or loss of sleep." New Orleans, 29th July, 1838. Dear sir: Your letter, requesting information in relation to the existence of the yellow fever in this city, has duly come to hand. In answer thereto, I have the satisfaction to state that there has been among us, so far, no appearance of that malady this season. The condition and prospect of this city are such, at present, as to induce the belief that we shall continue to be exempt from it for the future. It is also the opinion of several of our physicians whom I consulted on the subject. Any information you may stand in need of from this place will at all times be cheerfully communicated. It is not true that John Jacob Astor of New York, has made a donation of $350,000 for a public library. He only intimated an intention of leaving something! | Fire at Hudson, N. Y. A fire kindled by the cinders from the steamboat congress, while lying at the dock at Hudson, broke out in one of the old warehouses on Wednesday afternoon the 8th inst., about 3 o'clock, which proved to be more destructive in its ravages than was ever experienced in that city. The flames were blown by a fresh north west wind over the hill into the city, and raged with such fury as to render the efforts of the firemeu unavailing. The fire swept through in a southeasterly direction to the south bay, where every house was consumed. It then extended up the hill towards the old Presbyterian church, doing great damage. Two extensive lumber yards, one be. longing to Mr. Reed, and the other to Mr. Hudson, were entirely consumed. The large fire-proof stores and warehouses, near the docks, are not injured; nor did we learn that the whale company had suffered materially. Apprehending the destruction of their warehouses, the oil was rolled out on the dock, but was safe. The engines, with about sixty firemen, went promptly from Catskill to the aid of their fellow-citizens of Hudson. The flames were distinctly seen many miles up and down the river. We were at Kingston at 7 P. M., where the illumination was alarmingly sublime. In all, sixty buildings were consumed, and the loss is estimated at two hundred thousand dollars. Nature's nobleman. During the fire in New York, on Wednesday, last week, a female was discovered making her way through the flames into a house. The firemen detained her with much difficulty, and to their interrogations she only exclaimed, My child! my ehild! A noble hearted fireman rushed A western monster. The famed sea serpent of the to where she pointed, and was soon seen issuing Atlantic has not, as heretofore, been rusticating off from the burning building with the infant in his Saratoga springs. The Saratoga Sentinel gives Nahant this season. The lovers of marvel have not arms. The scene was truly affecting, and the gen- a table of the arrivals and departures by rail-road therefore been set agape, as usual, by the wonder-erous fellow who risked his own life to save that of and stage for the week ending the 5th inst. The ful stories respecting that father of snakes. the child, deserves the warmest thanks of every one. arrivals were 1,343 by railroad and 284 by stageBut we have tidings of a western serpent, which Another! William E. Payne, of Boston, who re- total 1,627. The departures by railroad 1,254, by will supply, measurably, the place of his mammoth cently died in Paris, at the early age of 34, perform-stage 3,40-total, 1674. The Sentinel adds: prototype. It is termed "The Monster of Deviled an act of noble honesty, which deserves to be "Of the arrivals by private conveyance, we have Lake." A correspondent of the Logansport, (Ia.) spoken of wherever his name is mentioned. His no accurate knowledge; but they are estimated by Telegraph says it was discovered by some men of father died insolvent, leaving four children, and a well informed persons at not less than 300-so that the name of Robinson, in a small lake, about two full discharge was given by each of his creditors, the total number could not have been less than 1900. miles in length, and one half mile in breadth, and upon receiving such proportionate dividend as the The departures, it will be perceived, correspond of unknown depth, in the vicinity of Rochester, in executor was able to pay. very nearly with the arrivals; bad it been other. that state. The serpent is said to be sixly feet in wise, the public establishments, with all their facili. length. One person, Mr. Lindsay, who saw the ties, could not have furnished the requisite accomanimal, describes the head as being three feet across modations. The whole number of strangers now the frontal bone, and having something of the conin the village is estimated at more than 3,000, and tour of a beef's head, but the neck tapering and this number will probably not be materially dimin having the character of the serpent, color dingy, ished during the warm weather; for the departure of with large bright yellow spots. The Indians who one throng only makes room for the entrance of live in the vicinity of the lake never venture upon it for the purpose of fishing or bathing. They have heritance, to be transmitted from generation to gen-has been here a fortnight, is considered an old inThe memory of such an act as this, is a rich in- another, and an almost entire change of population is effected during a week. A visitant, indeed, who long known it by the name of "Lake Man-i-too," eration. or devil lake, on account of the serpent, or Man-i[Salem Gazette. too, [devil,] as they call it, that lives in it. [Buffalo Commercial. Our fishermen on the Nova Scotia and Newfound land shore are getting into trouble. The Halifax Recorder gives an account of a New Bedford vessel that maltreated one of the inhabitants of Cameau, whose master was taken prisoner and punished. At the Magdalen Islands, a boat's crew of one of her majesty's ships went on board another Ameri can fishing vessel, and threw all the fish she had taken overboard. Upon the death of his unmarried aunts, Mr. Wm. E. Payne inherited from them a large estate, and immediately sent to all his father's creditors, not as a donation, but as a final dividend out of his father's effects, the full balance of all the debts due from him at his decease. The whole sum thus distributed, it is believed, exceeded $20,000. By the death of com. Rodgers, commodore Bar-habitant, and entitled to all the rights and immuniron becomes the head of the navy, with a salary inties of citizenship." creased from $2,500 to $3,500 a year. Commodore Stewart, now in command of the navy yard at Philadelphia, is second upon the list of officers, having been forty years in the service. the secretary of the navy to be governor of the Unit- Serious and extraordinary accident. A gentleman of Cobourg, (U. C.) Mr. Shaw Armour, formerly Three Indian bodies in a remarkable state of pre- the Rice Lake steamboat Newcastle, his escape of Montreal, met with a dreadful accident on board servation, as unaltered in their terrific features ex- from which is little short of a miracle. The parpressing agonies of death, as if buried yesterday, ticulars related to us are as follows: Mr. A. who were recently disinterred from a ditch in a turf mea- is a man of a very large frame, was crossing the dow at Sudburry, Mass. There was a light cover- boat near the action of the fly wheel, when by some ing of something like ashes over them, and when mischance, losing his balance, he fell with his arm the air was admitted they crumbled, as usually hap-through the wheel, and in an instant was dashed pens. canal." that Dr. Abbott has been principal or preceptor of Tribute of respect to Dr. Abbott. It is well known Phillips Academy, in Exeter, for a great length of time we believe, quite half a century. He is still, that several of the alumni of the college propose to we understand, in pretty good health, and we learn present him with a picture of himself, and also with The meeting, it is understood, will take place at some other article, as a memorial of their respect. Exeter, on the 23d instant, at which Daniel WebNew England, there is a large number who in early ster will preside. Among the eminent scholars of life were under the care of Dr. Abbott. No doubt this occasion will call together an assembly, among which will be not a few distinguished men. [Boston Atlas. A bounty has been offered for the production of corn; for the first thirty bushels raised, seven cents per bushel-for the quantity between thirty and sixty bushels, three cents-for the bushels of grain exceeding sixty, two cents each. of wheat-ten cents the bushel for twenty bushelsA similar bounty is bestowed for the cultivation bushels, six cents each-and for each bushel over for the quantity between twenty and two hundred two hundred, three cents. Encouragement of agriculture. The legislature by its power headlong through an apperture ten and of Maine by a law of the last session have exemptShip canal from Lake Erie to the sea. The Cleve a half inches wide! As to be expected, he is dreaded from attachment, the plough, cart, and harrow of land Herald of the 4th inst. contains a letter, dat- fully crushed, but we are happy to learn from Dr. the farmer, and the necessary tools used by hand in ed "Toronto, 21st July," and addressed to Messrs. Goldstone, who since attended him, that no bones agriculture. Bronson and Crocker, which says that capt. M'Anly, are broken, and that at present he does not apprethe head of the engineer department, informed the hend the consequence will be fatal. He was car writer of the letter, that "lord Durham is determin-ried shortly after the accident to the Inn at Clavered to make a ship canal to Lake Erie from the sea, ton, where he now remains. [Cobourg Star. and that the navigation of the Welland canal will not be impelled by the construction of the new Frederick, Md., was, on Thursday, the 9th inst., Thunder storms and loss of life. The vicinity of Fire in the pines. From the Trenton Gazette. A copious rains. A barn was struck and destroyed visited by a severe thunder storm and opportune great conflagration is now sweeping through the by lightning. On Saturday, P. M. a violent thunNew Jersey pines; and the extreme dryness of the der storm and tornado passed over Baltimore. The timber fearfully augments it. It broke out, as we new warehouse of Messrs. Donnell and Lurman on East India snakes. The secret so much wondered learn from the Burlington Herald, in that county, Donnell's wharf, and which had reached to the third at, by which the East Indian jugglers safely handle on the Martha Furnace tract. While on Long story and was one hundred feet by forty, was com- venemous snakes, is said in the Oriental Herald, Beach, last week, the editor saw the destroying ele-pletely prostrated, and two German emigrants, a quoting the authority of lieutenant Hutton, to be ment, at the distance of many miles, casting a light young man and young woman, out of several who this. They are drugged with opium, which renas though a city were in flames. Owners of timber had taken shelter in the building, were killed. Aders them quiet and harmless. The effects of the lands are busily employed firing against the con- colored man had his leg broken, a brick layer was suming enemy. It is the greatest calamity of the much bruised. A black boy near Fort McHenry kind ever known there. From the neighborhood of was chrushed to death between some lumber. SeTuckerton to Burr's mill, the country has been over-veral roofs were blown off and vessels dragged from run. The loss is at least $100,000. We learn from their moorings. another source, that one single proprietor has lost the storm reached, a ware house was struck, and In Philadelphia, to which place $20,000. The fire sweeps on, in its devastating three horses killed in a stable near the naval asyprogress, in a broad column, twelve miles wide. It lum. A young man was killed at Bristol on the sports with man, too, even as with the dry twigs, Delaware, and a farm house at Morrisville destroyand consumes whole families, in its course. ed. drug will not wear off for a fortnight or three weeks. This fact lieut. Hutton ascertained by personal experience; a drugged snake which he had purchased having, at the lapse of three weeks, flown at him unexpectedly and nearly strangled him. business in Lynn is rapidly reviving. Large numLynn, Mass. We learn with great pleasure that bers of purchasers for the staple of that industrious town, we are told have already made their appear. [Salem Gazette. ance. |