T So the house decided to refer it to a select com- | address the committee when Mr. W. Thompson mittee. asked him to yield the floor for a moment, to allow The question recurring on the instructions, re-him to offer a substitute for the bill. Mr. Camsulted as follows: yeas 195, uay 1. breleng assenting, So the proposed instructions were agreed to. Mr. Grant asked leave to offer a resolution setting apart to-morrow for the consideration of the house bills making appropriations for improvements, surveys, &c. of certain harbors. Objections being made, Mr. Grant asked for a suspension of the rules to enable him to offer the resolution, and on this motion he asked for the yeas and nays. Not ordered. The motion to suspend the rules was lost. Petitions were now presented, and occupied the attention of the house until the hour of recess. EVENING SESSION. Mr. Thompson offered the following: Wednesday, June 20. Mr. Adams resumed the floor, and continued the course of his remarks in support of his amendment to the resolution of the committee on foreign affairs, in relation to the annexation of Texas to the United States. Strike out all after the words "Be il enacted," [He had not concluded when the hour elapsed &c. and insert: "That all dues to the government for morning business. A full report will be given shall hereafter be collected in gold and silver coin, hereafter.] treasury notes of the United States, and the notes The order of the day being announced, the house, of sound specie-paying banks, under such regula-on motion, took up the pre-emption bill, as returntions and restrictions as may be prescribed by acted from the senate with some amendments, which of congress, or by the secretary of the treasury: were concurred in by the house. [The bill now Provided, That no bank notes shall be received as only wants the signature of the president to beaforesaid, except such as the bank of deposite shall come a law.] agree to receive and credit as cash 2. Be it further enacted, That the secretary of The house met at half past three o'clock, accor-treasury be, and he is hereby, required to select, as ding to the order, and went into committee of the special depositories of the public funds, and at such whole for the consideration of the bill to establish places as may be necessary, sound specie-paying certain post routes and discontinue others. banks, prefering, in all cases where such exist, banks owned in whole or in part by the states in which the same are situated. The sections of the bill were read in order, according to the states in which the routes were located, and various amendinents were proposed, of merely local interest, occupying nearly the whole session Mr. Hopkins moved an amendment, appropriating two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to carry into effect the provisions of the bill. Mr. H. alluded to the condition of the post office department, and said that owing to the extension of facilities to the country, and the extraordinary embarrassinents of the times, it would be impossible to establish new routes from the present resources of the office; and it might even be necessary to discontinue some of those already established, if aid were not granted from the treasury. He should be opposed to the passage of the bill unless means were afforded to carry it into effect. 3. Be it further enacted. That the secretary be, and he is hereby, directed to contract with the banks selected as depositories aforesaid, for the safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, on such terms and for such compen sation as he may deem right and proper; stipulating in all cases, under such guaranties as he may think necessary, that the public funds deposited with said banks shall be in no case used in their business, nor ortherwise used but in payment of drafts from the treasury. EVENING SESSION. Mr. J. Garland said that before the gentleman from New York proceeded, he would make a motion which should directly test the question on the bill. He meant to meet it front to front, without resorting to any amendment. He moved to strike Mr. Wise objected to the appropriation, and al-out the enacting clause of the bill. Mr. Cambreluded to the reports of the postinaster general, with leng then went into an expose in explanation and an allegation that they were inconsistent and con- support of the bill. He was followed by Mr. Picktradictory. The first report, he said, stated the de-ens on the same side of the question. At the hour partment was in debt near half a million of dollars. of recess Mr. P. gave way for a motion to rise, aud The second report stated, that, as if by a magic the committee rose. wand, order had been brought out of confusion, and solvency from bankruptcy. The report at the called session, or at the commencement of this one, stated that the postmaster general could sustain his department upon his own resources, and that he needed no aid from the treasury. If all this was true, how could it be that this appropriation was necessary. He was inclined to believe that the postinaster general was hoarding his resources, to be used for electioneering purposes, and he would not trust this sum of money to him to be used for electioneering purposes; for the application of it to the creation of new post routes was permissory, and not obligatory. Mr. Pickens concluded his speech upon the subtreasury bill. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, took the floor, and stated that it was his desire to address the committee on this question, and he moved that the committe rise. His motion prevailed, and the commitrose. On motion of Mr. White, of Kentucky, the house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Davee in the chair,) upon the post route bill. The debate was briefly and incidentally continued till a quarter past eight o'clock, when, without coming to any decision, the committee rose and report-ditional appropriations. Mr. Reed was willing ed progress; and The house adjourned. a Tuesday, June 19. In addition to the recovery of Mr. Cranston, whose presence in the house, after protracted illness, has been heretofore noticed, we are happy to have it in our power to announce that also of Messrs. Coffin and Curtis, both of whom have resumed their seats. The following gentlemen were announced as composing the select committee on the memorial of Francis P. Blair, viz: Messrs. McKay, Hopkins, Thomas, Hotfinan, and Hainer. The Chair laid before the house an executive communication. The senate's amendments to several house bills were read and appropriately referred. Mr. Adams resumed the floor in support of his amendment on the subject of the admission of Texas. He continued to speak until the expiration of the morning hour, when, without having finished his remarks, he yielded the floor. Mr. Cumbreleng moved that the house go into committee of the whole on the state of the union. The motion prevailed, and the house accordingly went into committee of the whole, (Mr. Connor, of North Carolina, in the chair.) Mr. Hopkins' amendment was pending, the object of which was to appropriate $225,000 in order to establish the proposed new routes. Mr. Underwood went into an argument in order to show that these routes might be established without any adthat every useful and expedient facility should be afforded, not too burdensome upon the treasury. There were some things upon which he wished some information, especially the express mail, which he did not believe to be generally useful, and as involving an expense which might be well dispensed with. On motion of Mr. Cambreleng, the house went into committee of the whole, and resumed the consideration of the sub-treasury bill. Mr. Bronson gave notice of his intention to offer, at the proper time, the following amendment: "Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act the operation of the following parts of acts or provisions of law, now in force, shall be, and the same is hereby, suspended for the space of two years, to wit: So much of the act of June 23, 1836, entitled “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money," as provides that the notes or bills of any bank which has, since the fourth of July, 1836, issued any note or bill of a less denomination than five dollars, shall not be received in payment of any debt due to the United States. And so much of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year 1836," passed 14th April, 1836, as provides that no bank note of a less denomination than twenty dollars shall be offered in payment in any case whatsoever in which money is to be paid by the United States or the post office department." The pending question was the motion of Mr. Garland, of Virginia, to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, being entitled to the floor, went, at length, into a general argument against the bill, and in reply to the remarks of Messrs. Cambreleng and Pickens on the other side. At two o'clock the house took a recess. EVENING SESSION. The sub-treasury bill again under considerationMr. Dromgoole addressed the committee at length in a constitutional argument against the employ ment of state banks as depositories of the public money, and in favor of the bill as the only remaining resort, unless a national bank, which he held to be still more heterodox. Mr. Prentiss, of Mississippi, next obtained the floor, and commenced a speech of great interest and animation, in which he traced the history of the experiments on the currency, and commented with severity on the course of some gentlemen who had changed their political preferences, and were now the advocates of this bill and of the administration generally. He continued to speak until about half-past six o'clock, when he gave way for a motion that the committee rise. It rose accordingly. Mr. Bronson laid on the table, and had leave for the printing of an amendment to the bill, which he proposed hereafter to move. The Speaker laid before the house a message from the president of the United States, transmitting papers on the subject of the outrages on our Mr. Montgomery said that it had occurred to the committtee to abolish the express mail, although it had not been brought directly before the committee. It had only existed on commercial routes, and had been useful in transporting commercial in-frontier. telligence; but that mail had been suspended wherever the establishmnet of rail-road and steamboat navigation had taken place. It had cost more than it had come to, and he (Mr. M.) was of opinion that it might well be altogether abolished. Mr. Pope was not particular about the passage of the amendment, though he had no objection to it; but he hoped that the bill, at all events, would be passed. Mr. Yell supported the bill. He demonstrated the necessity of the new routes proposed to be established. Mr. Martin, of Alabama, was in favor of the amendment of Mr. Hopkins. He believed that without it the bill would be entirely inoperative. Mr. Cambreleng moved that the committee do The debate was further continned by Messrs. now take up the sub-treasury bill. Mr. Sergeant Hall, Goode, Mercer, Briggs, Montgomery, Yell, moved to take up the harbor bill. Mr. Cambreleng Calhoun, Hoffman, Johnson, of Louisiana, Fletcher, would say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and of Vermont, Phillips, and Williams, of North Cato the committee, that it must be obvious to all that rolina. this was the only debateable bill now remaining; Mr. Yell's motion (offered during this debate) to after this should have been debated and disposed of, amend the amendment of Mr. Hopkins to strike out the house could go on and finish the public busi-and insert a clause to repeal the act of 1836. estab. ness remaining. He was sure all were anxious to lishing the express mail, and to appropriate the go home; and it was best, on all accounts, to have proceeds to the new routes, slightly modified, prethe question on it decided in one way or other. vailed. The committee by tellers, voted to take up the sub-treasury bill: Ayes 132. The bill was read through. Mr. Cambreleng rose, and was about to The amendment of Mr. Hopkins prevailed; the committee rose and reported the bill, and the house adjourned. The message was referred to the committee on military affairs. And then the house adjourned. Thursday, June 21. Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Hamer were, on their own request, excused from serving on the select committee on the memorial of Francis P. Blair. Ordered, That the Chair appoint other members in their stead. Mr. Paynter, by leave, presented certain memorials and resolutions of different meetings in Philadelphia, for and against the sub-treasury bill. Mr. Tillinghast obtained an order that the resolutions of the legislature of Rhode Island, which, when presented by him, had through accident not been printed on the journal of the house, should now be inserted with an entry stating the former omission. Mr. Cushing modified his resolution calling for a report from the committee on foreign relations so as to include the resolutions of the states of Rhode Island and of Vermont among those to be reported upon. Mr. Adams then resumed the floor in support of his amendment, declaratory, of the doctrine that the government has no power under the consitution to admit into the union the people of any foreign state. He continued to speak till the expiration of the moning hour. A little farther time was then, by This indefatigable officer is preventing much [Buffalo Com. Adv. June 16th. Extract of a letter dated July, and he should therefore vote for the earlier Mr. H. said that such vociferations did not terrify The house then, on motion of Mr. Cambreleng, went into conmmittee of the whole on the state of the yeas and nays. the union, (Mr. Connor, of North Carolina, in the chair,) and resumed the consideration of the sub-dered: and the question is on striking out "the 24" The Chair. The yeas and nays have been or treasury bill. and inserting "the 3d Monday in July." That question was decided in the negative: yeas 90, nays 121. Mr. Duncan got leave to have certain amendments to the bill proposed by him laid on the table and printed. Mr. Prentiss, of Mississippi, then resumed the floor, and continued his address to the committee in opposition to the bill, and particularly in reply to Mr. Pickens' appeal to the interest of the south in behalf of the bill. He spoke until the expiration of the morning sitting, when the house, at 2 o'clock, took its daily recess. EVENING SESSION. After Mr. Prentiss had concluded his remarks, Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, took the floor, and spoke till six o'clock in favor of the bill, without concluding. And then the committee, on motion, rose, and the house, on motion, adjourned. Friday June 22. The journal being read, Mr. Alin: resumed and continued his remarks (to be reported hereafter in full) upon the subject of the annexation of Texas to the union, until the laspe of the morning hour, without concluding. The chair having announced the private orders of the day, Mr. McKennan noved to take up for consideration the joint resolution of Mr. Boon, proposing to fix the day of adjournment. Mr. Sherrod Williams moved to postpone the week. went again into committee of the whole, and re- Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, resumed the floor, and CHRONICLE. From the Canada frontier. The Albany Evening Journal states on the authority of Mr. J. W. Turner, a deputy marshal at Oswego who arrived at Albany on Monday, express from Lewistown, that the patriots of Upper Canada have again made a rally on their own soil-having formed a camp in "Long Swamp," (an extensive marsh lying between Grand island and Chippewa creek) where they are now fortilying themselves. The nucleus of this force was formed by refugees who crossed thirty at a time, so as to evade British vigilance, but volunteers are said to be flocking in to them from all quarters. The number entrenched when they were discovered is supposed to be from 200 to 400. Objection being inile, Mr. McKennan moved a suspension of the rules, to enable him to offer this motion, and on this he demanded the yeas and nays, which were ordered. The motion to suspend pre-over from the United States in parties of twenty or Vaild, yeas 13), nays 55. The following joint resolution, offered by Mr. Boon on a former day, was then taken up: Resolved, (the senate concurring therein,) that the soaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate, close the present session of congress by an adjourn.nent of the two houses over which they pr side respectively, on the first Monday of July next." The alarm was instantly given, and an express sent off to Toronto for a regular force to extricate them. This news says the Journal, is very vague— we believe it comes by way of Toronto-but we think it may be substantially relied upon. This evening's western mail will either refute or confirm Mr. McKeanan moved to amend by striking ont the 1st Monday" and inserting "2d Monday" of July. Mr. Boon modified the proposition accord-it. ingly. Mr. Nylor moved to amend by restoring the original reading, and asked the yeas and nays. Not ordered. The notion was rejected. Mr. Girland, of Lou., moved to strike out the "2d," and insert the "3d" Monday in July; and on this he asked the yeas and nays which were ordered. Mr. G. referred the house to the calendar of business before the house, and instanced several important bills yet to be acted on, whence he argued that the adjournment ought not to take place before the 16th. Cornwall, U. C., 4th June. to be chartered-one on lake Erie and one on lake Major general Macomb, to whom has been as. signed the command of our troops on the northern frontier, left Washington on the 12th instant and is now at his post. The "Globe" has the following remarks on the appointment of general Macomb. "That nothing inay be wanting within its power to prevent collision on the frontier, the war depart. ment has ordered the first officer of the ariny to take charge of the force which is drawn together to suppress the marauding parties on the Canada frontier, inade up of the disaffected Canadians, joined by a few outlaws from our side of the line. Whatever can be effected by the limited means which the va rious demands on our small army leave at the disposal of the commanding general, will doutbless be done to crush the border banditti, whose sole object is that of plunder and revenge. It is possible, too, that the inciters of this gang may hope to produce by the predatory warfare, a general hostile feeling on the frontier, which may lead to difficulties which the respective governments may not be one, we are confident, is better adapted than gen. able to compose. To prevent such mischief, no Macomb." From the Rochester Democrat, June 15. ing paragraph in the Toronto Patriot of Tuesday afternoon. We have reason to believe that it is true, Rumor of another outrage. We find the follow. although it is possible that it is not. We give it as we find it: Another report-Extract from a letter from P. C. H. Brother, esq. to a gentleman in this city, dated Queenston, 14th June, 1838: "Another division of the pirates is at work on To day the report is, that the patriots are kick-dise belonging to Mr. Chrysler, of Niagara, has Lake Erie, where a schooner, laden with merchaning up another muss with us. crossed last night below Lewiston, and are now in outrage, arrived in the city last night, but nothing It is said that they been captured. A despatch, announcing this new the forest between this and St. Catharine." inore than the bare fact has transpired." Correspondence of the Argus. Watertown, June 13, 1838. Dear sir: We have nothing of importance in reMr. Bouldin said he was anxious that the public communicated to me, that this morning while the lation to the affairs of the frontier, save the fact just business should be done. That it might be done steamer Oneida was passing Wells' island, Johnson, was true. That it might have been done was with four men, appeared in his long boat, constructequally true. But if the gentleman from Louisiana ed in such a manner as to equal the speed of the (Mr. Garland) thought that length of time would best steamboat. He and his men gave three cheers. secure that object, Mr. B. would ask him to look It was attempted to be returned on board the steam back upon the last six or seven months, and see what had been done in all that time. He said, if they were diposed to do the business now, he had no doubt that every thing material could be done by the 9th of July. If they did not wish to do it, they never would do it in any length of time. If they meant to do it, let them act promptly; if not, let them go home. steamers were out last night, having troops on Webb, the British officer commanding opposite Outrage. We are mortified to say that Major Black Rock, while on a visit to our city yesterday of worthless fellows, who constituted themselves afternoon, was insulted and maltreated by a parcel at-general sessions, now sitting, have called a special champions of the national honor! The comt of grand jury, on motion of the district attorney. for the prompt investigation of the outrage. [Buffalo Advertiser. boat, but was suppressed. Johnson then raised from island. This occurred near the spot where the Johnson then made off in his boat towards the "Peel" was burnt. Three of the individuals who made the unmanly thirty days' imprisonment, and a fine of fifty dolbeen tried and sentenced as follows: O'Brien to attack on Major Webb, of the British army, have lars; Kellogg and Emmons to a fine each of seventy-five dollars. [Globe. Mr. Whittlesey enumerated some important matters to be acted upon before adjournment, and said and the speed of his boat surpassing every thing on Johnson's retreat being upon Canadian islands, that the house had now found itself in precisely the the lake or river, when seen, all efforts as yet to predicament he had predicted it would be in the take bin have failed. He states that he will not be early part of this session. He was of opinion that taken alive; and that his fastness, if not impregnaall this proved the importance and necessity of act-ble, will defy any force that can for some time at than two hundred witnesses, residing along the ing earlier upon the important business of the se3. least be brought against it. The Albany Evening Journal states that more sion. Under the present state of affairs, he could not vote for an earlier day of adjournment than the ling to go upon Canadian ground, and attempt the bills of indictment have been found. Among the Our militia, it cannot be expected, would be wil-ance on the United States district court. Twelve frontier from Plattsburg to Buffalo, are in attend16th of July. Mr. Boon thought that all the impor- arrest of these desperate men; but we are hourly persons indicted are Dr. Nelson, Mr. Bryant, of tant business of this session, yet to be done, might in the expectation of the arrival of some regular Portland, Maine, and a young man by the name of well be transacted prior to the 9th of July, if mein- troops. Colonel Cunnings has arrived here, and Palmer, of Clinton courty. McKenzie, against bers would but talk less and act more. Mr. Haynes is waiting the arrival of the troops; and signifies whom an indictment was found before, was in court said he would show the estimate in which he held his readiness to aid the civil officers in their efforts the value of time by moving the previous question. to arrest these men at all hazards. On the question of seconding, tellers were ordered, on Saturday. and the house refused to second the motion of Mr. Haynes: Ayes 72, noes 95. So there was no se cond. Another seizure. Capt. Homans, in command at Lewiston, has made another valuable seizure of patriot arms. Mr. Naylor agreed that it was certainly very im- found secreted at Dickerson's tavern, six miles from Ninety stand, with bayonets, were portant that the bills enumerated by several mein-Lewiston, on the Lockport road. They were prinbers should be acted upon, and he thought that this cipally English Tower muskets and United States might as well be done by the 9th as by the 16th of manufacture. vernment steamer Dee was expected there from It is stated in the Montreal papers that the goQuebec with 200 seamen detached from the seve We may observe en passant that the above steamer ral ships lying there for service on the Upper Lakes. Dee, and another government steamer, the Media, have made the passage across the Atlantic this spring from England. FIFTH SERIES. No. 18.-VOL. IV.] WASHINGTON CITY, JUNE 30, 1838. [VOL. LIV. WHOLE NO. 1,396. THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY, BY WILLIAM OGDEN NILES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, at $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. The On the 23d inst. a meeting was held at Charleston, S. C., "to adopt some proper course of action in relation to the melancholy accident to the steam boat Pulaski;" his honor, the mayor in the chair. They adopted a memorial to the house of representatives, earnestly requesting, "that no time may be lost in providing, by all the means in (their) power, against the recurrence of similar disasters." memorial concludes by praying congress, "that a system of rigid inspection to be instituted, under proper officers to be appointed for that purpose, so directed as to secure both in the construction of the hull and machinery of steamboats adequate strength, and to provide not merely for the prudent management of such boats, but for the safety of the passengers in the event of accidents, are measures which, if adopted, and carried into full effect, will greatly tend to the security of the public. Your petitioners trust that your honorable body will not adjourn without making these and such other provisions on this subject, as your wisdom may suggest, and may be best calculated to effect the object in view-an object in which the whole American people have a deep and abiding interest." They also passed a resolution of thanks to capt. Davis, of the Henry Camerdon, who rescued several of the passengers. THE SUB-TREASURY BILL reported to the house of representatives by the committee of ways and means, was rejected on Monday last by a vote of 111 yeas to 125 nays. On the following day Mr. Foster moved a reconsideration of the vote, but the house refused-Ayes 21, nays 205. A detailed account of the proceedings will be found under the proper head. MORE SEMINOLES. About 700 Seminole Indians, from Florida, arrived at the Fourche bar, about seven miles below town, in the steamboat South Alabama, from New Orleans, last week, and remained there until Monday, the water being too low for the boat to come up. The Indians were then taken on board the Liverpool and Itasca, each with two keel-boats in tow, and proceeded up the river. The officers in charge of the party are lieutenants Reynolds and Terry, U. S. army, and a small detachment of U. S. troops. These Indians are a part of the band of the noted chief Micanopy, who accompanies them, as does Cloud and Nocosaola, two other noted chiefs. Near one third of the party are negroes, who appear to have been reared among them. [Little Rock, (Ark.) Gazette. THE CHEROKEES. Gen. Scott and suite were at Athens, Tenn. on the 9th instant and left on the following day for Fort Butler, North Carolina. The Journal states that about 7,000 of the Cherokees have been collected, 1,000 of whom have set out for their new homes in the west. The general is of opinion that the whole nation can be removed in a short time, unless his operations should be arrested by new arrangements. Gov. Bagby, of Alabama, has written a letter to secretary of war, refusing the assent of the state to VOL. LIV. SIG. 18. the proposition for allowing the Cherokees further time for removing to the west. The governor of Alabama (we learn from the Nashville Union,) has issued orders for calling into service fifteen hundred of the militia of that state, five hundred of whom are to be mounted men. The troops are to be mounted, organized, and then discharged, subject to be called into service at a moment's warning. The reason assigned by the governor for this measure is the apprehension of difficulties with the Cherokees. From present appearances there will be no necessity for the services of these, as the Indians are peaceably making their way to the west, under the judicious arrangements of general Scott, without the slightest indications of hostility. FROM THE CANADA FRONTIER. Major general Macomb, and brigadier general Brady, arrived at Sackett's Harbor on the 16th instant. A Sackett's Harbor paper mentions the arrival of two hundred regular troops under the command of captain Gwynne, of the 1st regiment of infantry, and capt. McCall of the 4th. They are to be followed by others. The object of these movements, it is said, is "to suppress and capture the banditti headed by William Johnson-protect_the_commerce of the lake and river St Lawrence, and to restore confidence and safety to all the peaceable and quiet inhabitants residing near the dividing line between the two governments.' The steamboat Telegraph has been chartered by general Macomb for the service of the United States, and it is now being armed and manned for the defence of the frontier, to preserve the laws of neutrality, and to the aid the civil authorities in the discharge of their duties. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser "says it was generally understood there that the fight at the "Short Hills," noticed in the next page, had its origin in a tavern broil. The lancers were insolent and overbearing, high words were followed by blows, and a general melee ensued, in which several were severely injured and a few killed. There is no evidence that any violence was premeditated by either party, and so far as we can learn, it was purely a casual rencounter. It may, however, be but the prelude to fresh troubles. There is no affinity between the resident population of the province and the British soldiers. The latter are looked upon as foreign mercenaries, and we may expect to hear of frequent collisions between them and the people." The trial of the persons implicated in the burning of the Sir Robert Peel steamer, was to commence at Watertown, Jefferson county, yesterday under judge Cushman. Anderson is the first named on the list. The attorney general of the state had arrived to assist the district attorney. The number of British troops on the Niagara frontier is computed at 500. There is a body of U. S. troops at Buffalo. Gen. Brady left there for Detroit on Thursday the 12th instant. Monday in January should be fixed on as the time of resumption of said banks: Provided, That the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, through its agency in this city, will furnish a general currency, until the establishment of a national bank, or until such other reinedial measure be adopted or sustained by the government in relation to the currency as will insure the country and the banks against the deplorable consequences of a second sus pension of specie payments by the government and the banks." New York, June 26. The business in sterling exchange yesterday, for the Great Western, was at a small decline on the rates current on Saturday, the sales having been made at 8 1-2 a 9 per cent. prem. chiefly at 8 3-4 a 9. Some of the banks refused to draw under 9 1-2 per cent. prem., but we have not heard of any transactions at that rate. On France, 5f. 22 was obtained. The amount of ex. change on all places going forward by the Great Western has been more limited than was anticipated. The Dry Dock Bank. We are happy to say that this institution is again in operation. The injunction has been removed by the chancellor, and the stock is above par. All claims against the bank have been liquidated, and in all respects its usefulness is resumed, under very favorable circumstances. [N. Y. Jour. of Com. Mississippi Union Bank. This institution, with a capital of fifteen millions, five hundred thousand dollars, gives heavy salaries to its officers. The Natchez Courier says, that it gives to H. G. Runnels, President, -Gildart, Bank Attorney, Samuel Gwin, Cashier, -Greenleaf. Ass't. do. -Wyatt, Teller, -Price, Clerk. Total, $10,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 3,000 2,000 $39,000 "The sales of the stock exchange indicate an advance of not above one or two per cent. on an average, as compared with prices before the rejec tion of the sub-treasury bill was known here. The explanation is, that this result has been confidently anticipated, and so the chief advance took place before the vote was taken. Private banking. We understand that the $50,000,000 bank which has been projected here under the general banking law, is soon to go into operation, and that J, W. Olcott, esq. of Albany, has been chosen president and accepted the appointment. NORTH EASTERN FRONTIER. The Portland Ad-nesday, says— vertiser states that gen. Wool of the U. S. army, had proceeded to Augusta (Maine) to confer with governor Kent and his council, now in session, on the subject of establishing one or more military posts near the northern frontier. This distinguished officer has been sent by the war department of the United States at the earnest application of gov. Kent, for the purpose of making a reconnoisance and settling suitable positions for the establishinent of posts to protect the territory of Maine from foreign aggression. The Advertiser says, "the importance of these improvements will be appreciated by the people of this state, who look to the final adjustment of our boundary line and the border difficulties with NEW HAMPSHIRE. The whig convention, which increasing anxiety. We trust that the zeal and ear-assembled at Concord on the 20th inst., nominated nestness with which the matter is pursued by our gen. James Wilson as a candidate for governor, and executive will lead to a speedy conclusion of this the following gentlemen as candidates for congress: protracted controversy." Rockingham district, JOHN PORTER, of Derry. Stafford Hillsborough do Cheshire do Grafton& Coos do BANKS, CURRENCY, &c. The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the presidents of the banks at New Orleans, held on the 16th NAVY DEPARTMENT, JUNE 23, 1833. The of North America, I have only, sir, to repeat the board of captains in the navy, convened in Balti-assurance of my distinguished consideration. more, on the 23th ultimo, for the examination of midshipmen, adjourned on the 22d instant. The following is the list of the midshipmen who passed in the order of rank assigned them by the board, after a careful consideration of their several qualifications, and all other circumstances which it became the duty of the board to weigh: 1 Geo. W. Chapman, 24 Win. Ronckendorff, 9 Thos. W. Cumming, 32 Lafayette Maynard, 10 Willian May, 33 Roger N. Siembel, NAVAL GENERAL ORDER. The armament of the exploring expedition being adapted merely for its necessary defence while engaged in the examination and survey of the islands of the Southern ocean, against any attempts to disturb its operations by the savage and warlike inhabitants of those islands; and that the objects which it is destined to promote being altogether scientific and useful, intended for the benefit, equally, of the United States and of all the commercial nations of the world, it is considered to be entirely divested of all military character, that, even in the event of the country being involved in a war before the return of the squadron, its path upon the ocean will be peaceful and its pursuits respected by all belligerents. (Signed) METTERNICH. Diplomatic agent of the United States. To Mr. Nathaniel Niles, [Globe. MOVEMENT OF TROOPS. A detachment of between 60 and 70 U. S. troops, under command of lieutenant W. G. Freeman, 4th artillery, destined for the northern frontier, left Fort Monroe on Saturday last, in the packet-schooner Thaddeus, for New York, 19. Cadet Wm. A. Nichols, to be bvt. second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 21 Cadet Leslie Chase, to be brevet second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Third regiment of artillery. Second lieutenant Thomas W. Sherman, to be 1st lieutenant, 14th March, 1838, vice Church resigned. 7. Cadet John T. Metcalf, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 8. Cadet Thomas Casey, to be second lieuten. ant, 1st July, 1838. 10. Cadet Buckner Board, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 13. Cadet James M. Ketchum, to be second lieu All remaining disposable recruits in New York A company of 60 recruits, under command of Lieuts. Carpender and Lynch have returned in the steam ship Great Western, arrived at New York, and the former reached this city or Monday evening. 16. Cadet William H. Shover, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 18. Cadet Milton A. Haynes, to be brevet second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 24. Rowley S. Jennings, to be brevet second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Fourth regiment of artillery. 12. Cadet Thomas S. Ringgold, to be second lieutenaut, 1st July, 1838. ant, 1st July, 1838. 17. Cadet William F. Barry, to be brevet second First regiment of infantry. We understand that col. Sylvanus Thayer will re-lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Capt. Charles W. Skinner has been appointed to [OFFICIAL-GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 18.] First regiment of dragoons. 44. Cadet C. F. Ruff, to be second lieutenant, 1st Second regiment of dragoons. Second lieutenant George H. Pegram, (adjutant,) to be 1st lieutenant, 1st July, 1337, vice Beach, resigned. 23. Cadet Robert S. Granger, to be second lieu. tenant, 1st July, 1838. 30. Cadet John H. Mathews, to be second lieu. tenant, 1st July, 1838. 35. Cadet Alexander W. Reynolds, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 41. Cadet Ferninand S. Mumford, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Second regiment of infantry. First lieutenant Joseph R. Smith, to be captain, 26th April, 1838, vice Cobbs, promoted. Second lieutenant John M. Clendenin, to be first lieutenant, 26th April, 1838, vice Smith, promoted. 40. Cadet Justus McKinstry, to be second lientenant, 1st July, 1838. Fourth regiment of infantry. Second lieutenant Henry L. Scott, to be first lieu First lieutenant Erasmus D. Bullock, to be cap-tenant, 1st March, 1838, vice Howe, resigned. tain, 29th January, 1838, vice Graham, resigned." 34. Cadet Constant Freeman, to be second lieu. Second lieutenant N. W. Hunter, to be first lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. tenant, 31st December, 1337. vice Forsyth, resigned. Second lieutenant Robert B. Lawton, to be first lieutenant, 29th January, 1838, vice Bullock, promoted. The president has, therefore, thought proper, in assigning officers to the command of this squadron, to depart from the usual custom of selecting them from the senior ranks of the navy, and according to their respective grades in the service, and has ap pointed lieutenant Charles Wilkes first officer to command the exploring squadron, and lieutenant Win. L. Hudson to command the ship Peacock, and the second officer of said squadron; and to take command thereof in the event of the death of the first officer, or his disability fron accident or sick-tenant, 1st July, 1838. ness to conduct the operations of the expedition, MAHLON DICKERSON. Navy department, June 22, 1838. OFFICIAL. The following paper has been officially communicated to the department of state. Vienna, May 30, 1838. SIR: In my official note of the 8th of April last, I reserved to myself the power of communicating to you, at a proper time, the result of the steps which I had hastened to take in the proper depart ments of the interior, for the purpose of modifying essentially, if not of abolishing entirely, the ineasures with regard to health, and the precautions hitherto employed in the ports of his imperial and royal catholic majesty, with regard to vessels coming from the United States of North America. My efforts have not been fruitless; and I have this day the pleasure to announce to you, sir, that the said departments have just made, the following dispositions: Second lieutenant Nathan Darling, to be first lieu- 26. Cadet William J. Hardee, to be second lieu- 27. Cadet Hamilton W. Merrill, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 29. Cadet Owen L. Ransom, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 31. Cadet Henry H. Sibley, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 39. Cadet Robert M. Cochran, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Fifth regiment of infantry. Brevet major W. V. Cobbs, captain of the second regiment of infantry, to be major, 26th April, 1838, vice Green, promoted. 42. Cadet Carter L. Stevenson, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Sixth regiment of infantry, First lieutenant William Hoffman, to be captain, 1st February, 1838, vice Nute, resigned. Second lieutenant W. H. T. Walker, to be first lieutenant, 1st February, 1838, vice Hoffman, pro 33. Cadet Ripley A. Arnold, to be second lieu-moted. tenant, 1st July, 1838. 5. Cadet Jeremiah M. Scarritt, to be second lieu 43. Cadet Richard H. Graham, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. tenant 1st July, 1838. 20. Cadet John C. Fletcher, to be second lieute First regiment of artillery. 22. Ca let Langdon C. Easton, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 32. Cadet Edward Johnson, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 37. Cadet Charles J. Hughes, to be second lieu38. Cadet William Hulbert, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 1. Cadet William H. Wright, to be second lieutenant, 1st Julv, 1838. tenant. 1st July, 1838. 2. Cadet P. G. T. Beauregard, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Vessels coming from the United States of Ame. ica provided with clean bills of health, shall be immediately admitted to free entry, (pratique libre.) On the other hand, those which do not bring a clean bill of health shall be subjected to a quarantine of ten or five days respectively, abording as the mer-lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. chandise with which they are laden may be found to belong to the class of objects susceptible of being tainted by the contagious miasma or not. Cadet James H. Tapier, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 9. Cadet Isaac S. K. Reeves, to be second lieu. tenant, 1st July, 1838. As to vessels arriving in summer with clean bills of health, they shall be freed from all precautionary quarantine. 1 23. Cadet Irvin McDowell, to be brevet second Seventh regiment of infantry. James S. Sanderson, late sergeant major, to be second lieutenant, 1st March, 1838. Promotions by brevet. Colonel Zachariah Taylor, of the first regiment of infantry, to be brigadier general by brevet, to rank from 25th December, 1837, for distinguished First lieutenant W. C. DeHart, to be captain, 3d services in the battle of the Kissimmee, in Florida, April, 1838, vice Mountfort, resigned. Second regiment of artillery. Second lieutenant Roland A. Luther, to be first lieutenant, 3d April, 1838, vice DeHart, promoted. I should add that the orders necessary for carry-lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. ing these measures into execution, have already 6. Cadet Alexander H. Dearborn, to be second been despatched to the imperial government of lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. Trieste. In the hope that I have thus satisfied, so far as depended upon myself, the desire expressed by you on the part of the government of the United States 11. Cadet William P. Blair, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. 15. Cadet Lucius Pitkin, to be second lieutenant, 1st July, 1838. with the Seminole Indians. Lieutenaut colonel William S. Foster, of the 4th regiment of infantry, to be colonel by brevet, to rank from 25th December, 1837, for distinguished services in Florida, and particularly in the battle of the Kissimmee. III-CASUALTIES, (23.) Brevet major John Mountfort, second artillery, 2d April, 1833. Levi M. Nute, sixth infantry, 31st January, 1838. William Gilpin, second dragoons, 30th April, 1838. 1838. 14 Z. M. P. Maury, second dragoons, 28th Februa- 1835. 1833. armed men. A body of United States troops are ment, near the Delaware, on the boat, the object of which is to ascend the rivers against the current. The inventor was Mr. Fitch, who had found a company to support the expense. One of the most zealous associates is Mr. Thornton, of whom I have THE MURDER AT BALTIMORE-SUPPOSED PAR- Spoken. This invention was disputed between RICIDE. It has been stated that a most diabolical Mr. Fitch, and Mr. Rumsey, of Virginia. Howmurder was committed on Thursday night, near ever, it be, the machine which I saw, appears well Fairmount, on the person of Benjamin Stewart, of executed, and well adapted to the design. The Cambridge, Dorchester county, and that the deceas- steam engine gives motion to three large oars of ed, besides being shot and stabbed, was so savagely considerable force, which were to give sixly strokes hacked by repeated blows inflicted with a large per minute. hatchet, that his face was destroyed. It has been also stated that two men and a women were arrested early on Friday morning, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder. "I doubt not but, physically speaking, this ma chine may produce part of the effects which are expected from it; but I doubt its utility in commerce; for, notwithstanding the assurances of the underWe have now to add the revolting information takers, it must require many men to manage it, and John R. Parker, second dragoons, 31st March, that, in consequence of suspicious circumstances much expense in repairing the damages occasioned 1838. the grounds of which we have not heard-police by the violence and multiplicity of the friction. Fisher A. Lewis, first artillery, 15th February, officers Dimmitt and Lambert were despatched to Yet I will allow, that if the movements can be 1838. the wharf on Saturday afternoon to await the arri- simplified, and the expense lessened, the invention William T. Martin, fourth artillery, 15th June,¦val of the steamboat Maryland from Cambridge may be useful in a country where labor is dear, and where the borders of rivers are not accessible, like those in France, by borses to draw the boats. This idea was consoling to Dr. Thornton, whom I saw assailed by railleries on account of the steam boat. These railleries appear to be very ill-placed. The obstacles to be conquered by genius are every where so considered, the encouragement so feeble, and the necessity of supplying the want of handlabor, in America so evident, that I cannot without indignation, see the Americans discouraging, by their sarcasms, the generous efforts of one of their fellow-citizens." Peter C. Gaillard, first infantry, 30th April, 1838. Transfer, (1.) Lieutenant colonel John Fowle, sixth infantry, 25th April, 1833. First heutenant Asbury Ury, first dragoons, at Matanzas, 13th April, 1838. Second lieutenant James McClure, first infantry, at Fort Brooke, Florida, 5th April, 1838. Second lieutenant Charles H. E. Spoor, fourth infantry, Lockport, N. Y., 26th January, 1838. Second lieutenant John Connor, 5th infantry, New Orleans, 24th February, 1838. Assistant surgeon Willison Hughey, 25th April, 1833. Assistant surgeon Wade Sullivan, at camp Walker, 15th May, 1838. Dropped. and that, on her arrival, they arrested William Stew- It appears that Benjanin Stewart, the father, "Since writing this letter, I have seen Mr. Rumsey in England. He is a man of great ingenuity; and, by the explanation which he has given me, it appears that his discovery, though founded on a similar principle with that of Mr. Fitch, is very different from it and far more simple in its execution. Mr. Rumsey proposed then (Feb. 1789) to build a vessel which should go to America by the help only of the steam engine, and without sails. It was to make the passage in fifteen days. I perceive with pain that he has not yet executed his project, which, when executed, will introduce into commerce as great a change as the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope." AUTHOR. William Stewart,* the son, was arrested as stated above, on the return of the steamboat on Saturday afternoon from Cambridge, and was carried before Lieutenant Charles B. Chalmers, first artillery, police magistrate W. A. Schaeffer, esq. On ex14th February, 1838. amining his person, spots were found on his panta. III-The officers promoted and appointed willloons, to which spirits of turpentine had been ap- DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The report according to their promotions and appoint-plied. A vial half full of the same was found in Courier and Enquirer says, that the departure of ments, and join their proper stations, regiments, or his pocket, and he alleged that, having spotted his this vessel on Monday seemed to excite public companies, without delay; those on detached ser- pantaloons on the steamboat, he had obtained the curiosity almost as much as on her first departure. vice, or acting under special orders and instruc- turpentine to cleanse them. Several bullets were As the hour approached which was fixed upon tions, will report by letter to their respective colo- also found in his pocket, and in his pocket-book for her to leave the wharf, the Battery, Caswas a paper containing an ounce and a half of tle Garden, the docks, the rigging of vessels in arsenic. In the lining of his hat was found the will of his father, dated only on the 14th inst., bequeathing to his son a tract of fifty-eight acres of land. n is. IV-The graduates of the military academy appointed second lieutenants, and assigned to the four regiments of artillery, and the two second lieutenants assigned to the 2d and 5th infantry, will repair to the northern frontier, and report for duty to the several com nanding officers, according to the orders transmitted from the adjutant general, and communicated through the cominandant at West Point. A pair of pistols was produced by the uncle, which Williain, the son, had left in his room, one of which was loaded to the muzzle, and the other as if discharged, with pan open and hammer down. Mr. Drake, hardware dealer, testified that Wil liam Stewart was the man who purchased of him, on the afternoon of Thursday, the hatchet which had been found near the murdered body. The second lieutenants assigned to the dragoons and the 1st, 4th, and 6th regiments of infantry, will join their respective regiments, and report for duty on the 30th of September, agreeably to regu-hatchet of Drake, at the time specified, but that he William Stewart admitted that he had bought a lations. All the graduates promoted will immediately re-had pledged it with Mr. Whiteley, in Pratt street. port by letter to their respective colonels, who will Drake testified that the hatchet sold on Thursday assign them to companies. Those on leave of ab was the only one sold by him for some days, and sence will report their address, monthly, to the ad- that he alone sells that kind. jutant general's office. By order: R. JONES adj't gen'l. Nole. The numbers prefixed to the names of the second and brevet second lieutenants denote their relative rank. FROM THE NORTHERN FRONTIER. We have been favored with the following extract from a letter, dated Niagara frontier, Chippewa, U. C., June 21. I arrived here to-day, and find this place in a great excitement owing to a battle which took place last night at "Short Hills," about twelve miles hence, between a mounted troop of 100 Britishi lancers and about 2,000 patriots. The examination was closed by sending William We hear that the woman under arrest has made STEAM NAVIGATION. In an old book of "New Sept. 1, 1683, [Philadelphia.] the harbor were crowded with people. Shortly She takes out no less than ninety one passengers, and has, we are informed, about one hundred tons of merchandize on freight. BUENOS AYRES. We have received papers from Buenos Ayres to the 14th April, eight days later than our last dates. The blockade of the port by the French squadron still continued, but the officer in command prolonged the period fixed for the departure thence of foreign vessels to the 15th June, and an official notice of this extension of time had been published by the United States and British consuls. The correspondence between the government and French authorities on the subject of the exist ing differences, is published, and evinces on the part of the former, a strong determination to adhere to the ground it has taken. "I breakfasted with Samuel Ameland, [Emlen] one of the richest and most benificent of the society [N. Y. Cour. & Eng. of friends. He is a pupil of Anthony Benezet; he It resulted in the loss of four lancers, and the speaks of him with enthusiasm, and treads in his SPECIE-MEXICO. United States frigate Concapture of nearly all the rest. The patriots are steps. He takes an active part in every useful in-stellation, commodore Dallas, from Tampico, sailed fast gaining ground, and will not recede until they stitution, and rejoices in the occasion of doing on the 9th instant, touched s. w. bar on the 19th, succeed or are exterminated. This place is garrí-good; he loves the French nation, and speaks their and put on board the Lion $151,546 in specie, for soned with 500 infantry, the 24th regiment, and language. He treats me with the greatest friend- merchants in this city, under the charge of lieutenthe lancers, besides volunteers. Every person is ship; offers me his house, his horses, and his car-ant Radford, and proceeded to Pensacola. We have thoroughly searched before he can leave the place. Friage. On leaving him, I went to see an experi- learned verbally, and from letters, that the French The steamboat which lands the passengers from fleet was about to concentrate at Vera Cruz, with the intention of bombarding the city, and attacking the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, as the Mexicans would not come to any terms; it was also rumoured at Buffalo is searched. They fear very much an *A true hill was found against William Stewart, eruption in this place, and for that reason every on Tuesday last, by the grand jury now in session hotel is under guard, and every passage secured by in Baltimore. |