ment west of the Mississippi. The interpreters the frontier, and hardly within reach of a white set- were told it was their duty to bring the delinquent are as necessary in the emigration as at the agen-tlement. But how has it happened that so much they denounced to justice. My colleague and his cies; their compensation is higher, to cover the ex-"patronage" rests with the executive? Not by any accomplice advisers shrunk from meeting the man peuses of travelling. The employment of physi- act primarily, of his own. It is congress that directs they had charged, before a committee of our own cians is required by humanity, and the experience a treaty to be made, ratifies it, and makes appro- body. Mr. Blair then appealed to this house, by with the earlier emigrants would not justify the go- priations to carry it into effect. If the executive, petition, to refer the matter to a committee, and vernment in refusing to employ them, merely to in consequence, possess power, it has been know have a full scrutiny of all his accounts with the avoid the expense. Four of the physicians enu- ingly and deliberately given by congress. public. The special committee was ordered by this merated by Mr. Bond are provided for in treaties; It has been shown that the expenses of superin-house, and then commenced the effort of the 10two in that with the Winnebagoes, of September, tendents, agents, and interpreters, is twenty-five sition to defeat, by indirection, the inquiry, which 1832, and two in that with the Ottowas and Chip- thousand dollars less now than in 1828. And more they knew would disgrace the persons they had put pewas, of March 28, 1836: in both the pay is fixed. than that. In doc. 474, house of representatives, forward to stigmatize the administration and the Conductors of exploring parties are also employed first session, twenty-third congress, page 46, may official paper by their accusations. Only six weeks under treaty stipulations. be found an "organization of the Indian depart of the session remained, and the opposition knew Mr. Bond says: "We find thirty-three commis-ment," proposed by the committee on Indian af- how difficult it would be, when all the business of sioners and special agents." fairs, the expense of which is a fraction more than the session was huddled into this narrow space, to Remark. Of the thirty-three, twelve were em- the present. This report was prepared by Mr. take up a postponed question, especially in regard ployed under resolutions or laws of congress, di- Everett, of Vermont, who deservedly acquired to a petition which could only come up, by the rule, recting negotiations, or the examination of claims; much credit by it, and the country was congratula- on the Monday of every alternate week. An hour, six to execute treaty articles, and one conducted ted on the reform and retrenchment introduced by therefore, after the inquiry had been ordered by a an exploring party, for which the appropriation the laws then passed, and which were based upon special committee, a conservative ¡Mr. Hopkins, was made at the suggestion of the committee on it. of Virginia] moved a reconsideration. Ilis Lung Indian affairs in the senate. Of the remaining The sum of the matter is this. There having up the decision two weeks, and was, I am afraid, fourteen, ten were employed by the express re- been sixty-four treaties made with Indians since intended for that purpose. When the subject was quirement of laws or treaties, two to execute treaty 1828, the states have been slowly and gradually again taken up, every artifice was resorted to for articles, one to conciliate the wild tribes of the relieved of their Indian population. The tribes the purpose of defeating inquiry. It was first proprairies, and bring deputations of them to Wash-have been settled beyond the Mississippi and Mis-posed to refer it to a standing com mittee, con posed ington; and the last is the district attorney in Flori- souri, so that intercourse with them is necessarily of one of the accusers [Mr. Crockett] and oilers, da, charged with temporary duty, having in view more expensive than ever. New features have making a majority of opposition members who I ad the removal of the Apalachicolas. Of the thirty- been introduced into treaties. The Indians have shown themselves afraid of the investigation. If three, there is but one not authorized and required not been talked with merely to get their lands, been the case had been referred to the accusers as judges, by resolution, law, or treaty, and that one has been offered for it only trifling and temporary aid, and would not the whole inquiry have been smothered, employed to preserve the peace of the western left in the neighborhood they were found in. They or report as foul and erroneous as the original frontier. Since the 30th of September, 1837, the have had assigned to them a fertile and healthy charges returned by those making them? The acdate of the report from which Mr. B. quotes, 19 of country, and have been liberally supplied with cusers [Bond, Crockett, and Carter,] exerted themthe 33 have been discontinued. The pay of com- ploughs, hoes, and axes, for the men, and looms for selves in this attempt, but it was voted down by the missioners was, as far back as 1801, eight dollars the women; with mechanics to teach and work for house. An effort to lay the subject on the table, per day, from the time they left home, until they them, and farmers to break up land and plant it and so get rid of it, was tried by the same party in returned, and all necessary expenses were reim for them, and teach them to do likewise. They vain. At last, after the committee was appointed, bursed, (see instructions from general Dearborn to have ceded to the United States 18,250,000 acres, and had the instructions of the house to inquire into Messrs. Davie, Wilkinson and Hawkins, American for which the government has stipulated to give the whole subject of the public printing when it State Papers, Indian Affairs, vol. 1, page 650.) them in land, money, &c. $72,560,056; and it is came forward and asked the ordinary power of expected that all this should have been done at no sending for persons and papers to obtain evidence increase of expenditure over that in 1828. of the facts it was required to report, the opposition My colleague has recourse to the official state-opposed this, and moved to discharge the cou.mittee ments of the amount received by the Globe office, altogether from the duty assigned." during the last and present administration, as proof This failed, and the committee met and organizof the extravagance of the repablicans, and grounded for the examination. It opened its sittings alof suspicion against the honesty of the editor. He most every morning at 8 o'clock, but not one of the gives the sum total of the amount paid for printing accusing members came forward to make good their for congress and the departments, in the Globe of-charges. At last the committee addressed a nute fice, hunting through the terms of two presidents, to Mr. Crockett, inviting him to support by eviat $220,000. I take it for granted, having no op-dence, the allegations made by him in the Louse portunity for the examination of the multitude of and his private letters. Mr. Crockett replied, if the items of which it is made up, that this sum may have investigation was to be confined to the prayer of the been disbursed through the Globe office for printing petition, to a scrutiny embracing only the accounts and paper, and other materials necessary to this of the Globe office with the public departments and species of work, so absolutely indispensable in the congress, he would have nothing to do with it; but if proper discharge of the business of congress and the the committee would go out of the instructions of departments. My colleague will allow that print- the house, and inquire into the private accounts of ing must be done for the government. It is looked the editor of the Globe, he would examine wit. upon as the glory of our free government, that all its nesses! How the committee treated this evasion, acts are exhibited in print, and full information af I am not informed; probably with silent contempt. forded to an enlightened community of every thing But I am authorized by Mr. Blair to say that he is done by its public agents. This is the medium willing to submit his private accounts and his prithrough which the functionaries and representatives vate life to the closest scrutiny. The bold assailof a people overspreading a continent, are held to ants in this house skulking thus from the summons, an accountability, stricter than that which the peo-the committee had no alternative but to seek out tesple of the ancient republics could command in a timony on the allegations made before the repredistrict of country, not greater than one of our sentative body, by interrogating those who, from large counties. The only question brought up by the nature of the charges, must know their truth or my colleagues's display of the public printing done falsehood. by the Globe establishment are, has it been done well? Has it been done cheaply? Has it been done honestly? By bringing together the labors of a great establishment from its foundation to the present moment, my colleague [Mr. B.] would insinuate an accusation of exorbitant charges against the govern ment on the part of Messrs. Blair and Rives. My colleague showed his caution in thus accusing by "It being required that the names of all the per-innendo. He was perfectly aware of the unimpeach-out of the public treasury, and I believe it could be Mr. Bond presents an array of fifty-three blacksmiths, twenty farmers, eighteen teachers, five millers, one surveyor, and five miscellaneous agents. It is enough to say with regard to these, that with the exception of one in the last class, who is a messenger in the office of the acting superintendent at Detroit, perforining duty also as a clerk, at $30 per month, (not a very extravagant allow ance,) they are all employed in the fulfilment of treaty stipulations, and that when the treaty does not fix their compensation, it is regulated by the 9th section of the act of June 30th, 1834, organizing the department of Indian affairs. Every one conversant with Indian relations, knows that, in every negotiation, the Indians wish provision made for smiths, farmers, and teachers, &c. and the government has always assented, because such measures will conduce to their civilization. The amount set apart for these purposes, forms a part of the consideration paid for the lands ceded by the Indians. If these persons were not employed, so much more money must have been paid to the Indians. But in this case, too, Mr. Bond leaves it to be inferred, that such persons were not in the service in 1828. But from a very hasty examination of the reports from two of the superintendencies, St. Louis and Michigan, it appears that there then were thirty blacksmiths, twenty-two laborers, nine farmers, two teachers, three physicians, and four special agents. And it is probable that most of the treaties under which they were employed, are still in force, and of course these appointments make a part of those enumerated by Mr. Bond. But, says Mr. B., even this is not all. The commissioner of Indian affairs says the list in the Blue Book is not accurate or complete. He leaves room to add or alter. And why did he not quote the reason assigned by the commissioner? sons employed on the 30th September should be able honesty of the proprietors of the Globe office, given, it is impossible to procure the returns in and did not dare to make a single specification season for printing the Register. Besides this, against them. But a meinber from Tennessee, many of the agents neglect to make returns, and [Mr. Crockett,] in pursuing the game of the oppoin other cases it is impracticable, from a variety of sition in a private letter, charged that three or four causes, to obtain the requisite information. It is hundred thousand dollars of the public money had believed to be complete and accurate, so far as this been paid to the Globe office for printing the office has the means of making it so." Knowing speeches of Messrs. Benton and Calhoun in defence well the provisions in the treaties, the commissioner of the administration. His colleague, [Mr. Carcould not help seeing at once that the returns did ter,] perceiving that this exceeded by some hunnot embrace all the persons in the service. Taking dreds of thousands all the public money that passed only the treaties made since 1828, (sixty-four in through the Globe office in payment for work done number,) he knew that they provided for forty and materials purchased for all the departments and principal smiths, while the list shows only twenty-congress, came to the rescue of his friend [Mr. eight; the residue of the fifty-three named by Mr. Crockett] by declaring that a tariff had been laid on B. being assistants; and so with the other classes the pay of the clerks to make up the sum paid for of persons. Mr. Crockett's charge, made by him in writing, verified by his signature, and secretly circulated, was couched in these words: "Hundreds of thousands of Mr. Benton's and Mr. Calhoun's speeches, as I am informed, have been printed gratuitously, and circulated by the party' throughout the land. "My opinion is, honestly, that they are paid for proven to the satisfaction of every unprejudiced mind; at any rate I should like to know how dear Blair, 'the printer of the Globe, can afiord to print so many thousand speeches' for nothing, and find himself? No man can believe it who is not as blind with party prejudice as a snake in dog-days. The cost at the ordinary rate cannot, I think, be less than from 3 to $400,000." As explained by his colleague [Mr. Carter.] in the presence of the house and of Mr. Crockett; and afterwards published by Mr. Carter in the National Intelligencer, it stood thus: Sir, my colleague did not intend to say that the money was taken directly from the treasury, and applied to these purposes, but he intended to say, and does say, that the public money is indirectly publication. The moment that these charges ap-appropriated, and applied to this specific use. Sir, Here, indeed," exclaims Mr. B. "is a display of peared, the editor of the Globe, through his paper, are there no grounds for this opinion? If the salapatronage." Truly it is a great thing to have the challenged an investigation by a committee of con- ried officers of the goverment are paid extravaappointment of a smith or a fariner for Indians ongress. The members of congress who made them gantly, and those salaries made sufficiently high to give the officer a reasonable compensation for his Services, after contributing several hundred dollars for party purposes-to pay for these partisan speeches and extra Globes, if you please, which is said to be coerced from them by this party regula tion and discipline-I would ask, in the name of common sense, if this is not virtually defraying these expenses out of the public treasury, to all intents and purposes? Sir, it is virtually the same thing, just as much so as if the editor of the Globe was directed by the government to cause to be printed ten thousand copies of that paper every week, and circulated to non-subscribers, and to draw his money directly from the treasury. The effect is the same; the government pays the money in either case, and, in either point of view, improperly. Sir, were not the salaries of these officers increased ten or twenty per cent. just before the last presidential election, upon the recommendation and vote of the party that reigned and ruled in this house so triumphantly -increased just as much as is said to be the tax laid and collected off those officers for party operations?" This imputation on the government and the editor of the Globe thrown out in secret letters at first, and afterwards promulgated on the floor of this house, for the purpose of giving it the stamp of a congressional impeachment; and which, as I have shown, they atteinpted to keep pending and unrefuted by an inquiry, until after the elections, was put down by a cloud of witnesses. The committee addressed a note to all the departments, in pursuing the inquiry as to the facts put in issue by Messrs. Crockett and Carter. It was responded to by all the departments; every one proving that no change in the ordinary price of printing had been made favorable to the Globe of fice; but on the contrary, the department of state, treasury and post office, point to particular instances of considerable reductions. The clerks of all the departments have, in a body, given written testimony, signed by their names, establishing, in the most explicit manner, the utter want of foundation in truth for the assertion of the members from Tennessee, [Messrs. Crockett and Carter,] that a tariff had been imposed on them to pay for publications at the Globe office. I select the shortest replies as a sample of the whole: Navy department, July 7, 1838. Sir: I herewith transmit the answers of myself and clerks, and that of the clerks of the navy commissioners' office, to the queries propounded in your letter of the 3d instant. I have the honor to be, sir, Hon. Jas. J. McKay, Your obedient servant, J. K. PAULDING. A declaration like the above was sworn to and There are 444 clerks in all the departments. Of It appears from the official and verified state- To enable the public to judge of the excess of profits, which my colleague, [Mr. Bond,] by his aggregate of $220,000, would make the impression had been made by the Globe office, I have Chairman select committee, house of representatives. | obtained from Mr. Rives, who has the entire management of the establishment, the following statement: District of Columbia, ss. Personally appeared before me, Robert Getty, one of the justices of the peace for said District, James K. Paulding, secretary of the navy of the United States, and being duly sworn, saith: 1. That he does not know of any instance in which the editors of the "Globe" have been allowed for printing for the navy department a compensation greater than that usually paid to other printers for printing, similar to that required to be done by those editors. 2. That he does not know any instance since he has been at the head of the navy department, in which printing, not properly chargeable to the United States, according to law or the usages of his predecessor, has been ordered and paid for out of the public fund, either to the editors of the Globe or any other printers; and that he does not know of any of the officers of the navy department being tariffed or required to raise funds to pay for public documents or speeches to be published at the office of the Globe or elsewhere. "The prices which congress pays for its printing were fixed by three disinterested practical printers in 1819, residing in different sections of the union. Two weeks after the Globe office commenced printing for congress, (the 11th December, 1835,) the wages of journeymen printers were raised by the typographical society of this city, 10 per cent. on former prices. That rate has continued ever since; but the price paid by congress has remained unaltered." The Globe office and materials cost $40.000; the wear and tear of materials is about $5,000 a year; the interest on $10,000 is $2,400; the hands in the Globe office have been paid in six years $140,000; the paper used in printing for the departments and congress, cost $68,000." work and materials furnished to the amount of Gales and Seaton received during the six years be- Together, For the extra session, in the name of $432,348 18 363,293 94 $795,642 12 - $120,000 00 In addition to this, is an appropria- 43,000 CO 15,000 00 178,000 00 59,000 00 The following results are shown by the ccm. parison: 1st. The editors of the Intelligencer will have received for the printing for one branch during the 25th congress, and for old books distributed among the members, seventeen thousand dollars more than the whole amount which my colleague [Mr. Bond] has drawn together for work done by the Globe establishment for all the departments, and for congress, during six years. 2d. It shows that the two leading opposition presses in this city have received about one million dollars, commencing with the period which my colleague [Mr. Bond] has fixed upon as beginning the condemned career of the Globe establishment. And yet my colleague sees nothing extraordinary in the enormous expenditure on the National Intelligencer, but is shocked at the pampered condition of the Globe. But if the difference of amounts received by the two establishments is amazing, the mode in which the Intelligencer's receipts have been so swollen is not less astonishing. It will be seen, therefore, from the foregoing statement, that the actual expenditure of the Globe office, in connection with the public work, is $268,000; a sum greatly exceeding the amount received from the treasury. Yet a reasonable profit has been 3. That no change as to the mode or prices in the made upon the public work, because an establish- Neither branch of congress has ever been soliciexecution of the printing done for the navy department adequate to its performance in the intervals ted by the proprietors of the Globe to print books ment has been introduced since he has been at its of public employment, and in association with it, for distribution among the members; nor have any head, differing from that customary under his pre-is enabled, by publishing newspapers, speeches for such publications been voted to be done by the decessors; and further saith not. Globe office. Only two works, I understand, have passed through its press-the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States from 1783 to 1789, and the Commercial Regulations. The former was printed for less than it had been done for previously; and the latter, which had not been printed before, was printed and bound at less than congressional prices. J. K. PAULDING. Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of June, 1838. ROB'T GETTY, J. P. members of Congress, jobs for private individuals, Navy department, June 7, 1838. The undersigned, clerks in the navy department, respectfully state, in answer to an inquiry contained in a letter of the 3d instant, addressed to the secreThe enormous sums which have swelled the tary of the navy by the hon. James J. McKay, bloated receipts of the Intelligencer, are made up chairman of the select committee of the house of at the extravagance of the administrations which of books to fill the private libraries of members of representatives, to which was rei. ered so much of (with the command of the departments and majori- congress, being the republication of old state pathe memorial of F. P. Blair as invites a su... tiny ties in congress) have, in a course of six years, al- pers and registers of debates, containing the speechinto all his accounts for printing for congress and low... d the only press in this city advocating the re-es of the members themselves. This system of the public offices, that they have not "been tariffed publican policy ✦ derive a reasonable profit on seducing members of congress, by their private in 20 Mr. Chairman, I think I have said, perhaps more than once, that there are existing abuses; and for reasons which I have given, abuses will exist. But if "those who administer this government were as pure as the angels that minister in heaven," there would be lean, lank, hungry, unprincipled hyenas to howl around this capitol, with appetites prepared, not only to devour the reputation of those who live to administer the government, but the grave itself would be insufficient to secure the dead from their blighting and withering howl. terests and personal vanity, to vote the wagon loads, printing, they were not elected its printers. Allenftitute in politics-notoriously the stipendiary of the of volumes annually distributed from the Intelli- was elected to perform this confidential trust, al- Bank of the United States-and the ready instrument gencer office, began before I came here. The old though he bad only about 21 or 22 votes, in a house of every faction, which, in alliance with that insti members having obtained their share, the new of 242 members. Does it not look as though after tution, would contribute to the overthrow of our recomers do not refuse what has been previously three days' balloting a corrupt bargain was made, publicau institutions. He is an alien, too, in all his printed for them: and the old members, as matter of under which it was arranged that Allen was to be feelings. He was found the willing organ of Goroscourse, vote it, because, if they did not, it would be come nominally the printer to the house, but Gales tiza in vindicating the cruel and perfidious conduct an acknowledgment that they had taken money and Seaton were to do the work and receive the of Mexico towards our citizens, and its insults to our from the treasury to make perquisites in books for pay? After the caucus was held which consumma- government. He took the part of France when she themselves to which they were not entitled; and 30 ted the infamous agreement, (if such was the case,) shamefully withheld the indemnity she was pledged this abuse is handed down from congress to con- by which it was stipulated that Gales and Seaton's by treaty to pay, and endeavored to throw the blame gress by the rump of the old members, who are friends would go over to Allen and unite with the on our government, and raise a party for France, in obliged to give to the new members the douceur of conservatives in his election, suspicions were ex case we were driven to war in defence of our rights. books which they had previously shared among cited by the announcement of this determination; He has encouraged the resistance of the Indians to themselves. I voted for this resolution. I regret and several of the honest conservatives, whose votes the policy of the government, and stimulated the that I done so. I did not understand, at the time, its were necessary to the success of Allen, interro- feeling which led to the butchery of so many gallant full bearing, and the amount it involved; and I now gated him as to the supposed intention of transfer. men, the exhaustion of the public treasury, and the say, that the portion of the books which falls to me, ring the printing to Gales and Seaton. He denied ruin of the Indians, whose cause he pretended to esis the property of the government, and at its ser- positively that there existed such an engagement, pouse. It is on this dishonest fraudulent Englishvice, whenever it may be found advantageous to and pledged himself to execute the printing in his inan, that more than a million of the public money surrender them. The senate have again and again own office, declaring that he was making provision has been lavished from first to last. And yet my voted down this appropriation; but the majority in for that purpose. That he made the pledge, and colleague, (Mr. Bend,) and the party with which the house then tack it on some indispensable ap- forfeited it, it is established by the statement of a he is associated, think himn poorly compensated. propriation bill, and compel the senate to vote it, member on this floor, (Mr. Snyder, of Illinois.) and the president to sign it, or else lose the means Their votes were, in effect, sold to Gales and Seaof supporting some regular establishment of the ton, although they protested in advance, against government, and be compelled to throw the busi- being made accessary to such a shameful and cor. ness of the country into confusion, or leave it un-rupt transaction. done. The forty odd thousand dollars appropriated Mr. Chairman, a high public trust, personal in its to the Intelligencer's book contribution, was re- character, has been farmed out in violation of all jected by the senate at the present session, as here- principle and decency, to individuals to whom it is tofore; but it was afterwards coupled by the house known a majority of this body, as well as their conwith the bill to provide for the support of the mili- stituents, were unwilling to confide it; and Allen, tary academy of the United States for the year in violation of another republican principle, holds 1838, and for other purposes," and so forced upon a sinecure. Will any one hereafter say, that this My colleague has finished his speech with a case the senate and president. It is in this way, when house is to be trusted to elect the chief magistrate from the Old Testament Scriptures, illustrative, as the federalists have a majority in either branch of of this country, when it is found, that in electing a he supposes, of the corrupting influence of power Congress, that they compel a democratic adminis- printer, pecuniary considerations, the bases of bar-upon the democratic party, the total want of analogy tration to submit to the appropriation of unneces- gaining between parties, have controlled the result. between which, in some of its strongest points, may sary millions, with which, by log-rolling, they Another natural consequence of this bargaining, be easily perceived; for while Hazael came to the load the bills indispensable to the support of go- has been discovered before the committee appointed throne by the muider of his master, that is, through vernment. Their corrupt appropriations to sub- to investigate the subject. This committee being blood and crime, the present and past administra serve private, local, and personal interests, are al-appointed at the heel of the session, has not yet had tions came into power, not by crime and blood, but ways tacked to a bill which must be passed, or the time to make full investigation, and report; but I by the suffrages of a free and independent people; government be stopped. feel at liberty to use the information which I have and by the same operation which brought these adBut another mode is adopted by the federal party derived from a witness, sworn before it. A first ministrations into power, was a corrupt and usurped having the majority in either house, to swell the rate practical printer, called on by that committee administration politically throttled, and its corrupt expenses against the wishes of the administration, to measure the work and calculate the price which workers of iniquity thrown into the mud. Bat, sir, and then charge the extravagance to it. For ex- it was lawful to charge for it, and compare it with to the Scriptural case. I shall close my remarks by a ample, at the present session, the house printed that which Gales and Seaton, in the name of Allen, reference to a case from the same high authority. Sir, more than one hundred thousand dollars in docu- as printer to this house, had received for it, found the course of the party at present out of power-but ments, many of them not worth the paper (now that the first document printed for this house at this earnestly desiring, and sparing no pains, laber, or exmade waste paper,) on which they are printed. Of session, by Gales and Seaton, was fraudulently pense, to get into power-reminds me, and may rethis sort is a volume of one hundred and thirty-printed; and that by diminishing the page, and using mind the country forcibly, of the case of the unfor eight pages, consisting entirely of the cancelled types different from those authorized by law, they tunate Absalom. I refer not to his contriving the drafts of the treasury which my colleague [Mr. had made an illicit profit, amounting to between death of Amnen, nor his forming a conspiracy with Bond] called for, and had printed. He could have thirteen and fourteen hundred dollars. He examin- Ahitophel against the administration of the govern had no motive in calling for this but to make a fat ed another document, and found a like fraud com- ment, but to his ambition, and the means he used job of rule and figure work for Gales and Seaton. mitted; and an unlawful profit of between 3 and with the people to carry his designs. It is just as valuable a work as so many cancelled $400 obtained by it. This was but a beginning. Being suffered to return from his banishment into checks drawn on a bank. In the beginning of the The committee had not time to prosecute the in- the neighborhood of the throne, he plied his political session, Mr. Garland of Virginia, a conservative, quiry further at this session; and asked leave to con- wiles with the unsuspecting people, alleging that called for the correspondence of the treasury with tinue it at the next, which was granted. I have a justice was not done them, promising if he was put the banks. The house was informed that there statement of these facts, in writing, from the wit-into office, that things should be made better. Thus were not clerks in the department sufficient to pre-ness, as sworn to by him before the committee. speaking, and forming a party against the governpare it during the term of the members. It would He is a first-rate printer, well acquainted with con-ment, we are told that Absalom rose up early, and have made a fat job of at least $50,000, on which gressional work, and of unimpeachable character. stood beside the way of the gate, and if any man the gentleman's friend, Mr. Allen, would have had I have little doubt from this commencement that it had a controversy, and came to the king for judg a per centage, and Gales and Seaton their profits. will be found in the end, that Gales and Seaton ment, then Absalom said “The matters are good and Another call was made by him for all the documents have made as much out of their frauds, as will pay right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear in regard to the defaulters to the treasury; and this Allen the per centage he required as compensation thee. O! that I were made judge in the land, that would have been to copy and print the papers of for the deception practised upon those conservatives every man which hath a suit or cause, might come the office of the solicitor of the treasury out and whom he betrayed; and to make good to those who unto me, and I would do him justice." And it was out. This would, besides the expense of copying, acted with him his promise, to convert the consi- so that when any man came nigh to him to do him cost at least $50,000 more for printing. It was deration he received into the means of supporting obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him and found there were not clerks enough to make the the press established in this city for their common kissed him. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men copies, and Mr. Garland moved a resolution to au benefit. All the legitimate profits upon the public. f Israel. He sent spies throughout the land (politithorize new appointments for this purpose, but it work will thus, probably, be cleared to the Intelli-cal missionaries) to all the tribes of Israel and unfailed. This shows what the conservatives and gencer; and the aliment of the Madisonian will be whigs would have done, by way of bringing grist to derived from the frauds committed by his whig ac Gales and Seaton's press, to afford vast profits to complices on the treasury. How characteristic them, and increase the per centage of Allen. What this of the two printing concerns, and the two parthey have done appears from the gross sum of a ties which entered into the vile coalition that gave hundred and twenty thousand dollars for the extra birth to the bastard Madisonian? Is it not notoriand present session of the house printing, with an ously fed on offal of the foul peculations of the Inarrear of fifteen thousand dollars yet to be received telligencer? And this is an earnest of what the fefor it, with forty-three thousand dollars for books; deral party will do for the little Spartan band of and at least fifty-nine thousand dollars to be realiz- conservatives, who shall have joined their standard. ed, at the same rate, for the approaching session, showing an aggregate of TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for one branch of congress for one congressional term; whereas Messrs. Blair and Rives have received, during the six years my colleague, [Mr. Bond,] has scanned their printing, only one hundred and six thousand dollars for congress printing and materials, and one hundred and fourteen thousand from all the departments, for the same time. But the most scandalous part of this history of the printing of the house is yet to be told. Although Gales and Seaton receive all this money for in the event of success. They will, no doubt, give der pretence of piety towards God, he left Jerusalem for Hebron, where he was to set up his authority. But ere his mad ambition obtained its consummation, the beast which he rode forsook its rider, and Absalom fell by the hand of trusty Joab, who inade his grave in a pit. Absalom went out to war upon a mule-a mongrel beast, half borse, half ass. What kind of a mongrel hobby is the present opposition mounted on? Bank, anti-bank-tar ff, anti tariff-masonic, and anti-masonic, &c. &c. They have no opinion in common, except it is hostility to the people's best interests, and a contempt for their understanding, or, in other words, a decided hatred to the simple institutions of democracy. But when the people shall rise in their strength, this modern mule shall forsake its riders, and leave them to the fate of Absalom. Will not the American people ask, for whose interests the honor of the great representative body of this country has been compromised, and its hall made a market place, in which the votes of members, and a high public trust, have become a subject of With all the ambition and chicanery of Absalom, inercenary barter between the leaders of two parties, backed by the cunning of his councellor, Ahithophel, assuming to be actuated by lofty political principles? the federal party never can again succeed in getting When understood, their principles are like the man into power. They have been driven into political for whom they have sacrificed the noble character of banishment, from which they never will be permit the country. He is an Englishınan, a perfect pros- ted to return. CHRONICLE. ceeded in making his escape on the night of the Nival. The U S. brig Porpoise, lieutenant 20th, by cutting his way trough a plank partition como tore Ringgold left the Navy Yard at New four inches thick, and then making a hole in the Yors, on Sunday evening, and put to sea, for Nor-brick wall of sufficient size to let him out. folk, were she joins the exploring squadron. The following is a list of officers: Lieut. commanding-Cadwalader Ringgold. 3r1 lieutenant and acting master-G. F. Em mons. Acting surgeon-Charles F. B. Gillou. The Journal of Commerce says:-The Porpoise left us amid hearty cheers from the government vessels at this station, and carries with her the best wishes of thousands. We cannot refrain from con gratulating the officers upon the change of feeling tion." The Army and Navy Chronicle mentions as a rumor, that the ship of the line Ohio is to be fitted out for the Mediterrenean station, under the coinmand of coininodore Hull. Od Ironsides. The Norfolk Herald of Friday has the following notice of the gallant old ship Consitution, which arrived in Hampton Rhodes on Tuesday the 30th ult. Health of the cities. In New York last week there were 202 deat! s-nore than half of which were persons under two years of age. There were two deaths by hydrophobia. There were 190 deaths in Philadelphia last week, 114 of which were children under two years of age. Most infamous and inhuman conduct. It will be recollected that capi. Davis, of the schooner Henry Camerdon, of Pintad. Iphia, rescued a number of the passengers from the ill-fated Pulaski, and carCauerdon arrived this morning from that port and ried them into Wilmington, N. C. The Henry has turnished us with an account of the following infamous and inexcusable conduct on the part of the captain of a schooner, the name of whom we regret is not recollected. The information was com uticated to captain D. by his pilot, and can be In Baltimore last week there were 78 deaths-implicitly relied upon, 48 being children under two years of age. The schooner Merchant, of Elizabeth city N. C. bound to Wilmington, N. C. with a cargo of corn, there were 42 interments, of which 25 were chil-heard their desperate cries for aid, saw them strug In Cincinnati during the week ending on the 1st, passed the passengers on the wreck of the Pulaski, dren. The Cincinnati Gazette of the 4th remarks: gling with the waves, when even hope had almost Notwithstanding the continuance of warm weather forsaken them, and notwithstanding he was disour city still continues healthy for the season. tinctly hailed by them he refused to offer them any There is considerable sickness among children, assistance, and proceeded on his course. but at this season of the year this is the case alThe most every where reason which he afterwards assigned for this wanton and murderous neglect of duty was that he feared another vessel bound to the same port as himself, would get in before him. In Washington, forty-one deaths have been reported to the board of health, for the month ending July 31. Of these, there were of the age of two years and under, 25; between 2 and 10, 6, between 10 and 30, 4; between 30 and 50, 4; between 50 and 80, 2. Diseases. Summer complaint, 15; scarlet fever, 3; accident, 1; not reported, 3; inflammation of brain, 3; dysentery, 3; intemperance, 2; drinking cold water, 2; consumption, 3; water on the brain, 1; rheumatism, 1; mumps, 1; abscess, 1; killed, 1; still-born, 1. The Constitution frigate came up on Wednesday afternoon, and anchored off the naval hospital. The The Ohio River, is unusually low for the season, stea boat Old Dominion was engaged to assist the there being as we are informed by pilots, less than stout old warrior into our port-but with a "thank's three feet water in the channel, between Wheeling for nothing." Old Ironsides did not wait to be as-and Pittsburgh. A number of the lightest boats, are sisted, but spread her wings and came up alone, be- plying regularly from this to Pittsburgh, carrying fore the streamboat had got cleverly under weigh. but a small quantity of freight, although filled with Narly the whole crew of the Constitution have passengers. In consequence of the low stage of the run out their tern of service, and about two hun-river, freight has advanced to one dollar per hundred dred of their demanded their discharge the moment from Pittsburgh, and cabin passage to Cincinnati, the ship came to anchor, which was granted, and eighteen deliars. they were as promptly sent on shore. We learn A number of boats of the second class, continue that their behaviour on the occasion did not com- to run from this city to St. Louis, without much port with the character of "Yankee tars," though terruption, and with a slight advance on passage and it must be confessed they had right on their side. freight. [Cin. Rep. of Aug. 2. The commodore has not yet left the ship-probably because the condition of the crew requires his presence. We trust that the Wilmington, N. C. papers will ascertain the name of this inhuman monster, and publish it in connection with his infamy. [Philadelphia Exchange Books. It is said that the Great Western made over $40, 000 on her two last trips. This may be exaggerated, but her last trip was certainly a very lucrative one. Already several of her berths are engaged. Passengers come here from the West India islands, and from Nova Scotia even as well as the Canadas. [ Nut Int. gation. Benefit to the United States of Atlantic steam noviTioga Navigation company, went out in the Great Mr. James R. Wilson, president of the Western, arrived in London in fourteen days, succeeded in negotiating a loan for the company over which he presides, on very favorable terms; contracted for iron for constructing their rail road; saw the lions of the British metropolis and returned in the Great Western; being absent exactly six weeks. their agent, and the country on the advantage We congratulate the company on the success of which will be derived from the increased introduction of British capital which steam navigation will bring among us. [Philad. U. S. Gazette. Charles L. Bonaparte, (prince of Musignano) who distinguished tinself in our country by his oruiWhile the ship was being moored, a man fell thological researches, particularly by his continuafrom the main topgallant yard and was instantly tion of Wilson's work, has lately published a geo-rible in its consequences, when it does happen to killed His name was Batler-a foreigner by birth. graphical and comparative list of the birds of EuThis is the first visit we have had from this gal-rope and America. lant ship since the late war. She now riles proudly at her moorings abreast of the town, the tout enThe New Brunswick Fredonian states that the semble presenting a most imposing spectacle as connecting link between the Trenton and Philadelviewed from the town. The ships now at the an-phia rail road and the New Jersey rail road, which chorage, are five in number, moored in the follow-now terminates at New Brunswick, will be complet ing order-the Constitution, Peacock, Macedonian, ed before the close of the present year, making an Vincennes, and Relief. uninterrupted line of rail road from Washington to New York. Colton. The editor of the New York Herald, writing from Liverpool under date of 20th July, savs During the last few months, since the cotton has been arriving in great quantities from the United States, there has been a great struggle here between the buyers and sellers about the prices. The large holders here have been straining every nerve to hold the cotton in order to keep up the pricesthe spinners and manufacturers have been pursu ing the opposite policy of taking as little as possible. I think the contest will be governed by the crops in this country and the ability of the bank in the United States-that is to say, it will terminate in a compromise, leaving the prices and demand nearly as they are at present. For two years to come, the cotton market will not vary much. It will take that time to start in a fresh career under the new impulses now in action. But for the United States Bank, and the other banks of our country that came into the mar ket including also their policy of a suspension of specie payments, the value of our present cotton crop would have been $10,000,000 less than it will fetch. The agents of the United States Bank here, Humphries & Biddle, have an immense stock on hand, and are daily receiving more. Only consider that at this moment there are 120 American ships in this port-in London, only half a dozen. The policy of delaying the resumption of specie pay. ments in the south, whatever be the morals of it, has undoubtedly realized $10.000,000 to the United States that would have been thrown away here. Escape of Uncles. The New Orleans Picayune of the 21st ultimo, says, that Uncles, who was in jail in that city, charged with stealing the jewels from the bank of the Metropolis, Washington, suc 19,309 Total. 2,035 7,636 635 4,696 16,629 31,256 43,588 Total 24,279 Hayti. The schooner Orient, at New York in Limestone. A gentleman of Genesee, New York, Rail road safety. In providing against bursting of boilers in steamboats, we are bound to guard against danger on rail roads from an accident terreach passengers. We allude to parts of the rail road iron which being insecurely bolted on the stone or wooden foundation, start or roll when the engine passes over. It has been known that a piece of iron thus loosened has shot up through the cars with the velocity of a cannot ball, passing through the top, and fortunately not touching a passenger. Recently in Pennsylvania a piece of iron went through the skirts of a gentleman's coat, and cut the veil off a ladies' bonuet, and passed through without injury. Great attention and constant examination should be made of the rails, to see on the whole line that they are properly secured. [N. Y. Star. Caution. A fly entered the ear of a harvest hand at work in a field in Miami county, and although the insect was soon extracted, the ear continued painful for several days. The person called upon a physician, who on an examination found the fly had left some of her progeny in his ear, which were grown to medium size, from 1-4 to 1 2 inch. The physician succeeded in dislodging 35, which proved to be all that were in the ear. [Columbus (Ohio) Register. The best application is at once to fill the ear with laudanum or brandy, and let it remain in for a short time. It kills the insect nearly as soon as oil, but what is better, allays the spasmodic excitement of the tympanum or drum of the ear, which seems to the patient like the fluttering of the insect, and is worse than the insect's motion itself. Silk. The Messrs. Cheneys of New Jersey, obtained a hundred bushels of fine cocoons from their fected about a fortnight since, and for which they first crop of silk worms, whose labors were perhave already received the state bounty. Great progress is making in this species of culture in every part of the state, as well as in Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Conneeticut, Rhode Island, and several other states. [Trenton Emporium. On Friday evening the 3d instant, the convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of Maryland, elected to the office of bishop of that diocess, the right reverend Jackson Kemper, at present missionary bishop in the valley of the Mississippi. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY, BY WILLIAM OGDEN NILES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. NEAPOLITAN INDEMNITY. From the Washington Globe, we learn that the 5th instalment of the Neapolitan indemnity has been paid to the agent of the United States in Paris, and is now in the course of transmission to this country in gold. Notice of the amount and places of payment will be given by the treasury department, as soon as the nelt proceeds are computed. the humane injunctions of the commanding general were disregarded. The captors sometimes drove the people with whooping and hallowing, like cattle through rivers, allowing them no time even to take off their shoes and stockings. Many, when arrested, were not so much as permitted to gather up their clothes. The scenes of distress exhibited at Ross's Landing defy all description. On the arrival there of the Indians, the horses brought by MEXICO. The following extract from a speech some of them were demanded by the commissioners of the president of Mexico, on the closing of the of Indian property, to be given up for the purpose last session of the National congress, confirms of being sold. The owners refusing to give them the statement in page 387, that all points in dis-up,-men, women, children and horses were driven pute between this country and Mexico are about to promiscuously into one large pen, and the horses be settled by the mediation of a friendly power. taken out by force, and cried off to the highest bidMr. Martinez, the Mexican minister, who has been der, and sold for almost nothing. for sometime in New Orleans, is now in this city. Translated for the Globe, from a speech addressed by the presilent of Mexico to the National congress en closing its session on the 30th June last. "You also know that the government of the United States has accepted the offer of arbitration, by a friendly power, made to it on the part of that of Mexico, for the purpose of restoring the good understanding and harmony which have been unfortunately interrupted. While I lamented the unsatisfactory state of our relations, I never doubted that the cabinet of the United States would, in the end, be ready to come to a settlement in a manner reasonable and conformable with the civilization and with the philanthropic sentiments prevailing both in Mexico and the United States. Far, there fore, from repeating the complaints mutually made, the two governments will employ themselves only in obtaining such a definitive and satisfactory arrangement as may cause the differences which have endangered the peace between us and our neighbors, to be forgotten. The law of neutrality lately passed by the congress of the American confederacy, and the assurances given to our minister, should cause us to be content with regard to the sincerity and frankness of their intentions." CONSPIRACY AT HAVANA. The New Orleans Bulletin of the 10th instant says: A letter received by a commercial house in this city, from a correspondent at Havana, confirms the statement published in the Bulletin of yesterday. The writer says that a Carlist conspiracy had been detected among some of the regiments stationed at Havana, and many arrests and executions had taken place. From this it would appear that we were mistaken as to the cause of the revolt as originating in dissatisfaction with the removal of general Tacon. The object of the conspirators was to wrest the government of Cuba from the queen, and place it in the hands of Don Carlos. "Then came the shipping off to the west. The agent endeavored to induce the people to go into the boats voluntarily; but none would agree to go The agent then struck a line through the camp;the soldiers rushed in and drove the devoted victims into the boats, regardless of the cries and agonies of the poor helpless sufferers. In this cruel work, the most painful separations of families occurred. Children were sent off and parents left, and so of other relations. But I am obliged to break off, or I shall lose the present conveyance. Next mail I will continue." EXPLORING SQUADRON. The Norfolk Herald of Wednesday, states that the exploring squadron is for ready sea, and will depart with the first fair wind; to-day, if it should offer. The officers are all on board, and in fine spirits, elate with anticipations of the peaceful triumphs, not less worthy of the wreath of fame than those of "grim visaged war," which await the successful results of scientific research, achieved with greater peril and hardship; and admitting the truth of the old adage, that a bad beginning will have a good ending," they have a glorious prospect of success to their expedition. The squadron now rides gallantly abreast of Fort Monroe, in the following order: sloop of war Vincennes, lieut. Wilkes, commanding the squadron; ship Relief, lieut. Long; sloop of war Peacock, lieut. Hudson; brig Porpoise, lieut. Ringgold; schr. Flying Fish, passed midshipman Knox; and schr. Sea Gull, passed midshipman Reid. The schrs. are pilot boat built, and of the rise of 100 tons. The sloops of war are nearly on the peace establishment, shewing only eight guns each. THE FRENCH SHIP ALEXANDRE. We learn officially that the minister of Marine, at Paris, has received by Telegraph at Bordeaux full confirmation of the suspicions entertained towards Marsaud, the soi-disant captain of the ship Alexandre, for the crime of barratry, for which this ship was deTHE CHEROKEES. It is stated in the Alexan-tained and the captain imprisoned at Newport. dria Gazette, that, at the request of the war department, gen. Scott has postponed his visit to the north until the emigration of the Cherokees in September has been completed. In another page we have published an article stating that the conduct of the Chero! ecs had been most exemplary, and that they were comparatively free from sickness; but it appears from the follow ing extract of a letter, which we find in the New York Journal of Cominerce, that the praiseworthy and humane injunctions of gen. Scott, have been disregarded in the preparations for removal. "The following is the latest intelligence, from the Cherokee nation. It is dated from "Prisoner's Camp, Cherokee Nation, July 24, 1838;" and has been handed to us by the gentleman to whom it was addressed. "The public are either altogether uninformed, or misinformed, with regard to the current state of Cherokee affairs. The conduct of the French authorities in the United States in this affair has been fully approved of, and the minister has given his entire assent to the measures taken by the consular agent at Newport to arrest Marsaud, and as an evidence of this approbation has confirmed Mr. Fauvel Genraud in the rank of Vice consul, previously conferred upon him by the consul general, Mr. La Forrest, at New York. [N. Y. Star. [We have on file a detailed account of the proceedings at Newport in this case, and will publish it as soon as we can make room for it. ED. REG.] SHAM FIGHT. York: We learn from the following communication, that there is to be no sham fight between the French vessels of war in the harbor, as was published in the papers.-N. Y. Star. Translation of a letter from admiral De la Bretonniere, to the consul general of France at New "Major general Scott's address of the 10th of New York, August 13, 1838. May was received by the Cherokees with a dead Monsieur Le Consul General: A rumor has been silence. As the ominous 23d of May approached, in circulation for some days, that a sham fight all appeared anxious to have their work forward would take place on board the Didon frigate on the and their crops in good order,-so that in the event 16th. I am sorry that publicity has been given to of any interruption taking place, they might sus- a project, which, from the inconveniences that tain as little loss as possible. might result from it, I have thought it advisable to renounce. "On the 24th May the work of capture commenced, and continued, with unfeeling rigor, until the entre rightful and legitimate population of the country were divested of house and home, and redi ced to a state of abject poverty. In most cases, VOL. IV. SIG. 25. the fear of disturbing or interrupting them, that I have been induced to abandon the intention I had. I pray you, sir, to give all possible publicity to this determination. Respectfully, &c., (Signed) DE LA BRETONNIERE. RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS. The banks represented in the convention held in Philadelphia, on the 23d ult., resumed specie payments on Montated by a number of others. In no instance, we day last, the 13th, and their example has been imibelieve, has there been what is called "a run" for specie, and the resumption appears to have occasioned very little excitement. The demands here, as elsewhere, were chiefly for silver change, of which there is now no scarcity. There is now every prospect that business will speedily resume for it is certain that every solvent bank in the counits old channels, so far as the currency is concerned; try will pay specie on demand, on or before the 1st day of January next. The following notices in connection with this subject are interesting: Resumption in Savannah. From the following official proceedings, it will be seen that the Savannah banks have resolved to resume specie pay. ments on the first of October next. It is believed that all the banks in Georgia will resume on that day. The Georgian says: "We are informed that the banks of Savannah would resume instantly, but that it is deemed an act of courtesy, and sheer justice, to give timely notice to the banks in the interior, of their contemplated movements." Savannah, 6th August, 1838. At a meeting of the delegates from the different banks in this city to take into consideration the propriety of an early resumption of specie payments, the following measures were proposed, and unanimously adopted: The banks of Savannah will resume specie payments on the first day of October next, and invite the banks of the interior to do so likewise. The banks of Savannah will receive the bills of all the country or interior banks in good credit on deposite, or in payment of debts, but not re-issue them, provided such banks, (except those of Augusta,) agree to redeem their balances in this city, every fortnight, with city or northern funds at par, or specie; and that such agreement shall be consummated by such banks with the banks of the city, on or before the first day of September next. Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be furnished to the several banks in this state. W. B. Bulloch, president Bank of the state of Georgia. W. W. Gordon, president Central Railroad and Banking company. John C. Nicoll, pres't pro. tem. Planter's Bank. P. Houston, president pro. tem. Marine and Fire Insurance Bank. B. E. Hand, president pro. tem. Branch Bank Darien. The western banks. The Lexington, Kentucky, Intelligencer of the 7th instant says: "We understand that the Northern bank of Kentucky has held a correspondence with the banks of Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, on the subject of resuming specie payments. All have been heard from except the banks of Indiana, and all concur in the propriety of resuming on the 13th instant. We further learn that the Northern bank is now prepared to pay all demands against it in specie." The Louisville Journal of the 8th instant says: "We are authorized to announce, that the banks in this state (Kentucky) will resume specie payments on next Monday, the 13th instant. The banks of Ohio will resume on the same day. Those of Indiana and Illinois will, it is understood, resume on the same day, or in four or five days after. There is no reason to suppose that resumption will produce any pressure in this region. On the other hand there is reason to believe that the measure will bring relief." Resumption in Ohio, The Cincinnati Whig of The place where the Didon is moored is at the the 8th inst. says-All of our city banks commencpoint of intersection where all the lines of commu-ed paying specie for all their notes, yesterday. nication are constantly taking place between the We do not learn that any unusual demand was city and various points of the harbor, and it is in I made for it, or that the resumption created any |