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And, u moJ tiled, the resolution ?u adopted. Mr CAVE JOHNSON ruse and expressed the hope that some sftectfic day would be designated tor the adjournment of Congress. [Cries of " No, no;" " Not quite resdy yet," &?-l Mr LEWIS WILLIAMS aaid, if there wss no other buaineaa befoie the Houae to dsy, be would move an adjournment. [Criea of" Wait for the Bank bill," Jkc-J So Mr. W. did not persist in hie motion. THE CASB OF MCLEOD. The SPEAKER announced the unfinished busi neee of the morning hour to be the following reJo'u' lion, heretofore offered by Mr. J. G. Floyd, of New York. Httolrtd, Thai the Pieeident of the United Siatea be requested to inform thi? Houae, if not incompati ble with the public inleres', whether an* officer of the Army or the Attorney Qeneral of the U. 8., haa aince the 4th of March laat, been directed to visit the State of New York for any purpose connected with the imprisonment or trial of Alexander McLeod ; and, if ao, to communicate to thia Houae copiea of the in alructiona to, and report of,auch officer; and whether, by any Executive meaaurea of correepondence, the British Government haa been given to understand that Mr. McLeod will be released or aurrendeted. The immediately pending motion being that of Mr. BoiRDMAN, to lay the rosolulion on the table? Mr. LINN moved a call of the House ; which waa ordered. The roll waa called; and 105 members buing ascer tained to be preaent, all further proceedinga on the call were dispensed with. And the question recurring on laying the reaolu tion on the table? Mr. BOARDMAN asked the yeas and nays; which were ordered. Mr. ADAMS naked hia friend from Connecticut, (Mr. Boardman,) to withdraw the motion. He (Mr. A.) had not expected to address the Houae on the resolution, liut as it appeared that the House had nothing elae to do just now, if he could have an opportunity, he would submit his views u|>on some of the topics which had been introduced into the discus sion. He therefore asked his friend from Connecti cut to withdraw his motion. Mr. BOARDMAN aaid he had yesterday made the motion to luy the resolution upon the table, because it had occupied the morning hour from the commence ment ol the session, and he was of opinion that the discussion had been continued as long as was profita ble for the House or the country. But since he found that the honorable gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr. Adan:s,).desired to address the Housb, he had changed tlinl opiuion, and he would with great plea sure withdraw the motion, under the expectation, however, that the honorable gentleman would, upon concluding Ins remarks, renew the motion to lay the resolution on the table. Mr. ADAMS was und<rstood to make a condition al promise to do so, if no gentleman desired to reply to remarks which he (Mr. A.) might make. The motion to lay the resolution on the table was at length withdrawn. And Mr. ADAMS addressed the House for an hour in a most earnest and eloquent s|ieech upon the gene ral merits of the resolution, and the objects at which it aimed ; in reply to the remaiks of some other gen tlemen who had preceded him ; and in a masterly vin dication of the course of Mr. Webster with teference to this point in our foteign negotiations. At the close of his remarks, Mr. A , with great re luctance, renewed the motion Jo lay the resolution on the table. And the question was taken, and decided in the affirmative, as follows: YEAS. ? Messrs. Adams, Allen, Landaff W. An drews, Sherlock J. Andrews, Arnold, Aycrigg, Baker, Barnard, Barton, Birdscye, Black, Bluir, Boardman, Borden, Briggs, Brockwuy, Bronson, Milton Brown, Jeremiah Blown, Burned, William Butler, Calhoun, William B. Campbell, Thomas J. Campbell, Ca rutheis, Casey, John C. Clark, Cowen, Cranston, Cravens, Cushing, Gairett Davis, William C. Daw son, Deberry, John Edwards, Everett, Fillmore, Gam ble, Gentry, Goggin, Patrick G. Goode, Graham, Green, Greig, Haberrhain, Hall, Halstead, William S. Hastings, Hemy, Howard, Hudson, Hunt, James, Irvin, W illiam W. Irwin, James, King, Lane, Linn, T. F. Marshall, Samson Mason, Mathiot, Mullocks, Maxwell, Maynard, Moore, Morris, Morrow, Os borne, Owsley, Pendleton, Pope,Powell. Proffit,Ram sey, Benjamin Randall, Alexander Randall, Ran dolph, Rjyrier, Renctier, Ridgway, Rut-ell, Salton stall, Sergeant, Shepp-rd, Sunonton, Slade, Smith, Stanly, Stokely, Stratton, Alexander H. 11. Stuart, John T. Stuart, Taliaferro, John B Thoinj?on, Richard W. Thompson, I'lllinghast, Toland, I'rip lett, Trumbull, Underwood, Wallace, Warren, Ed ward D. White, Thomas W. Williams, Lewis Wil liams, Joseph L.Williams, Winthrop, Yjike, Au gustus Younij?109. NAYS?Messrs. Arrington, Atherton, Banks, Beeson, Bidlack, Bowne, Boyd, Aaron V. Brown, Charles Brown, Burke, Chapman, Clinton, Coles, Cross, Daniel, Richard D. Datis, Dean, Doan, Doig, Eastman, John C Edwards, Ferris, John G. Floyd, Charles A. Floyd, Fornance, Gerry, Wm. O. Goode, Gordon, Harris, John Hastings, Flays,. Holmes, Houck, Houston, Hubard, lnger?oll, Jack, Ca?e Johnson, John W.Junes, Keim, Abraham McClei Isn, Robert McClellan, .McKay, McKeou, Man-hand, , Alfred Marshall, John Thompson .Mason, Mathews, Mcdill, Miller, Morgan, Newhard, Paimenter, Part ridge, Payne, Plumer, Reynolds, Riggs, Shaw, Sny der, Steenrod, Sweney, Tomlinson, Turney, Vs'n ! Btiren, Wnrd, Watterson, Wesihrook, James W Williams, Wise, Wood ?70. So the resolution was laid on the table. A message was received from the Senate by the bands of A. Dickkns, Esq., Secretary, informing the House that the President of the United Slates did, on the 1st of September instant, approve and sign the bill to provide for taking the sixth census, or enume ration of inhabitants ol the United Slates. &c Also, the bill entitled "An act in addil.on to an aci entitled an act to carry into effect a convention be- j tween the United Stales and ihe ."Mexican Republic. Also, the joint lesolution to provide for the distri- I bution of the printed returns of the sixth ceruus. Also, that the Senate had passed the following bills : ' An act to provide for the better collection, safe kei ping, and disbursement of the public revenue by means of a corporation lo be styled the Fiscal Cor po pulation of the United States. An act authorising the transmission of letter* and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison free of postage. An act to provide for placing Greenough s Slatue of Washington in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expense* therein mentioned. An act to provide for repairing the Potomac Biidge, with an amendment. Also, thai the Senate had agreed to ihe amandment of this House to the fourth amendment lo the bill No. 8, entitled "An act making appropriations for va rious fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing und suppressing Indian hostilities." Mr RANDOLPH, from the Committee on Enroll ed Bills reported that the Ci uiiniltee had examined the act ''to piovide for the better collection, safe-keeping and ilistiuisement of the public revenue by means of a corporation to lie styled ' I he Fiscal Corporation of the United Stales' " and had found the same correct. Whereupon the bill received the signature of >lhe Speaker. A message was received fiom the President of the United State*, by the hands of John Tvt.KHjr. Esq, his private Seoelary, notifying the House that the President had approved and signed the bill " to appro piinle the proceeds ol the sales of the public lands and to grant pie-emplion rights." On motion oi Mr. JOHN. C. CLARK, it was Reolctd, That no (jurchase of paper for the use of the House be made until the committee appointed on lhut subject report lo the House at the ricxisession Mr WISE (leave having been denied) moved that lite rules of the House be *u*|>eiided, lo enable him to offer ihe following resolution; fieaolttd, Thai the Secretary of Slate furnish to (his Houae a copy of any corres|Nindence between Andrew Stevenson, minister of Ihe United States ut Ihe Court of Great Britiun, and Isaac Hull command er ol the fleet of the United Stales in the Meditera nean, in relation to ihe ileparluie of said fleet from that sea in ihe piospecl of a war with Great Britian A nd also copies of any proceedings had in council of the officers ol said fleet in relation thereto, and also ' copies ol sny corresfsindence lielwecii the snid minis ter and ihe Department of Slate, and between any of ficer or olliceis ol said fit el and said Department in le lalion thereto, arid an\ and all other pajwrs in posses sion id the I'ejairtinent on ihe subject which il may noi lie incompatible wuli the public interest to commu nicate On which motion Mr W asked the veas and nays; which weieordeietl, ami being taken, wi-re ?Yeas 103 nays 5(1 no (two third* not voting in the affirmative) ihe rules were not suspended. FoBTiriCATIO.N BILL. Mr FILLMORE rose and snid ihst the report of ihe Committee of Conference (heretofore appointed) oil the hdl making appropriations lor vaiious lottifi.-a Uons, lor ordnance, and for prevent.ng and suppress \ lug Indian hostilities, had tieen delayed till this time, in mnittqtii nee of ad accnlcntal omiaition on the pari ihtf benate lo act Upon one ul iho a mend men la. Since (hat time the Senate hid concurred in the aiuendmert of this House to their amendment ; and the only remaining (juration now that prevented thr lull l>eiiig finally dis|>oscd of, waa the disagreeing vote of the two Houses in relation to the appropriation of 8^0,000 for surveys for military defenrea. The Committee of Conference had had a meeting, and he had been inatructed to make the following re port : The Committee of Conference appointed by thia Houae and the Senate on the diaagreement of the two iiouaee on the second amendment of the Senate to the " Bill mak ing appropriation! for tar iout fortifi cation*, for ordnance, and for preventing and tup pruning Indian hostilities,' have had a conference, and unanimously recommend that the Houae recede from ita disagreement to aaid amendment and concur with the Senate in the same. The report having been read? Mr. FILLMORE moved that the Houae concur therein. A communication from the Topographical Bureau on the subject of these surveys was lead. Mr. WARD inquired of the Speaker what would become of the bili if the House ahould now disagree to thia report ? The SPEAKER said the bill would be loat. After a few remarks from Mesara. FILLMORE DAWSON, BROWN, of Pennsylvania, WISE' andTILUNGHAST? Mr. LEWIS WILLIAMS moved the pievious queslion. And there waa a second. And the main question (being on concurring in the report ol the Committee of Conference) waa ordered to be now tuken. Mi. CAVE JOHNSON asked the yeaa and nays on the main question ; winch were ordered, and, be ing laken, resulted as follows: YEAS?Messrs. A.lama, Allen, Landaff W An drews, Sherlock J. Andrews, Arnold, Aycrigg, Baltei, Barnard, Barton, Bidlack, Birdaeye, Black, Blair Boardmsn, Borden, Briggs, Brockway, Bronson, C. Brown, J. Brown, Burnell, William Butler, Calhoun, C aruthers, tascy, John C. Clark, Cowrn, Crannton Cravens, Garret Davw, William C. Dawaon, John Edwards, Everett, Ferris, Fillmore, A Lawrence Foster, Gamble, Patrick G. Goodc, Greig, Habersham, Hall, Halsted, William S. Hastings, Fleriry, How ard, Hunt, Ingersoll, J. Irvin, W. W. Irwin, James, Isaac D. Jones, King, Lane, Linn, Mallory, Alfred Marshall, Samson Mason, Mathiot, Mattocks, Max well, Maynard, Moore, Morgan. Morris, Morrow, Osborne, Parmenter, Partridge, Pendleton, Powell, Ramsey, Benjamin Randall, Alexander Randall Randolph, Ridgway, Russell, Saltonstall, Sergeant' Simonton, Slade. Smitli, Sollers, Stanlv, Slokely' Stratton John T. Stuart, Summeis, John B. Thotnp son, 1 illinghast, Toland, Tomlinson, Tiiplett, Trum bull, Van? buren, Wallace, Ward, Warren, West brook, Edward D. White, Thomas W. Williams Lewi* Williams, Winthrop, Yorke, Augustus Young ?104. NAYS?Messrs. Arlington, Atherton, Banks Beeson, Bowne, Boyd, Aaron V Brown, Milton Brown, Burke, William B. Campbell, Thomas J. Campbell, Chapman, Clinton, Coles, Cross, Daniel Richard I). Davia, Dean, Deberry, Doan, Doi^, East man, John C. Edwards, Egbert, John G. Floyd C. A. Floyd, Geriy, Goggin, W. O. Goode, Gordon, Ureen, John Hastings, Hays, Hopkins, Hourk Hous ton, Hubard Cave Johnson, J. W. Jones, Keim l^ewis Abraham McClellan. Robert McClellan Mc Kay McKeon Marchand, John Thompson Mason, Maihcws Med.il, Newliard, Payne, Pop,., R-,Vn.r Reneher Reynobis, Rhett, Riggs, Shaw, Shepherd" Snyder, Sleeniod, Sweney, Taliaferro, Turner Un' derwood Watieison, James W. Williams, J. L. Wil liams, Wise, Wood?71, So the House concurred in the report of the Com mittee of Conference; and thus the bill, after manv throes and agonies, awaits only the signature of the "resident tu become a law. And, on n otion of Mr. YORKE, The House adjourned. IN SENATE, Monday, Sept. C, 1841. Mr. BENTON presented the proceedings and reso lutions ol a meeting of citizens of Surry coumv Vir ginia, condemning the measures of the extra session and approving the veto of the President on the Bank bil , which without debate were laid on the table and ordered to be primed. Mr. BERRIEN, from the Committee on the Judi d.ov ' fT"'A b"' fru,n ,hp House, making it the Ud tv'of ;,rMey Ge,,eral l" '"quire ?"?? 'he va erecfetT. ?" h "e m(?k1in,C 'pp'opriations for the expense of the outfits of diplomatic agents of Government and Z'':r,Tn r<" iVu 'o^1'purchase of water-rotted hemp for the use of the Navy, were taken up, and laid Mr BENTON offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Senate to transmit to the President of ie United States a co;.y of the recent report from the Secretary of the Tr, asury to the Sen.tV, in compl, ance with it. resolution, gning a siatementofthe pub 1 ?ttwyed, prepared for sale, ?,d not adver- | lined and br< light into market. ?iiulr S'V'/ opposed this motion,con sir i ' " Ui"*t rctn,rk?l,l* character, as the Pre sident ??, unacquainted w,th the r. ports made to the ' Senate; to endeavor to inform him, would be de dtaresf-ctful him. He briefly ! explsmed the fact why the lands had not been brought I w< re'auari! l\"""" Pr'P"'<l ?.ale?that they I n!l n "" which rendered it ! ' m"Vr<l lo '"y lh? motion on the table Mr' nlfv'a d r\'"rth"r carried. Mr BAURD introduced a joint rcsolution"pro I i 1 the settlement of the title lo the Pea Patch I land , which was twice read, and referred to the Ju diciary Committee. THL revenue BILI. Was again taken up, the question being on the amendment of Mr to, he amendment of Mr. which". ^r WALKE,i ""''drew his amendment, I which was to insert 'gunny bags" among the free ar lo mihT",i0i?..,hcn Wn\on the oriKinal ?mendment, i Mr l' UNTINGTOV ' i'/"" > tenrfi?? .? . , opposed the amendment as tend ng t? ? violation of the Compromise act. It would result also in the annihilation of the extensile womuld?ivpTkr" '""V* in 'hiB ?l?n?^ture, and would ve the foreign manufacturers a monopoly in Lrice ?7ih W,''U,M " ?J '? ,hB Frrat increasing on thr ?^The country.' " ~'I 'i. n KING was in favor of the Compromise art so far as it could be maintained, and he imagined that ihe rz:;:zzifrr,'f"? f.rW?B ronniHh nt with bin own m threat*. The articlo en ered equally into the eonaumntion of nil Ha an en ? le poor as Will ,,s the rich. lie should Vote fnrtlii* -.wished, ?,e eir, ct till the ! and'they' whether revenue sufficient for the exitenms ol (iov ernment could be raised hy taxation on other artirles which could better bear it He should vote for the amendment. 1 Mr. BAILS said the .July on salt affect,d two great portions of the community in a very different manner-t ie interior of the country, which derived their supplies Irom the domestic manufacture from saline, and those parts on the sea-board which'Were supplied With imported salt. The price of salt for the interior . ( the country, which was supplied w h do mestic s-i,|t( Ol which there was a tfrest abon.l.nl would not be affected by an imposition of du y is the price was regulaled by the 1,,'v of nature .nd could not be I e pea led or modified, but the price of.", o?t|e ea U.ard, which was supplied bv i.iux.rls n-. t ? manufactured from marine water, would, however gen" tester!;'' rs; - ???, since none would continue the investment of their capital so uncertain a business-,he fo^gn .u.Sv being quite irregular. Thus prrh.,., a third of ,ho .upp .es being cut off, . ^ deo.and wi.uid arise and the | r,c. s be increased, on the sea-boatd while the interior would not be affected. I Mr SEVIER wished to know bow much revenue was collected trou, salt; he had heard,, She ' drawbacks amounted to more than the duty if so n would ^ be-tcr .o leave it among the free art'tcL ' Mr CLAl .lid not recollect |K>sitn,dy lie believed fenftrVh' n"'1 ?'raw I lacks near ! i'i tax ^rra-lv . xceeded the .Ira* I. ?f k Messrs. WOODBURY and BENTON advocat ed ihe amendment Mr. CALIIOI N sgreed with the Senator from . nnecticut (Mr. Huntington) that this amendment ould inlringe on the Compromise Act, and he should vote againtt it. , Mr W ALKER said aalt ?vas used as much by the poor as the rich, ai.d a tax on il would operate un equally and unjustly. He should Vole for the ' amendment I b. 'M,r ,A.!rLE'V,.in ?r(,Pr t0 remove this amendment i r mo". rSC > objection, as violating the Com- ' Jtin^ ^T " *? ** 10 ,,ke efr,ct ",0 ;(0,h ! Mr SIMMONS would like u? know of ths S?na'.or if there w.. any fore. In the; C?n. Art. whe th. r it diil not extend beyond liie 30th June, 184*1 Mr CLAY said ? duly on this article ?u one ot the mot ju?t, equal, and proper duties There was no civilixed country in the world hat drew an, ?? t-nue from tsxalion, that did not tax salt. The be* article for duly waa that on which every body something ; he denied utterly that the poor man would nav a. much a* the rich, on Una article It waa a t?x which the Compromise Art covered and secured and the Senator ftom O&o (Mr. Allen) *" mtteh.S? taken if he supposed that beyond the 30th J une, 1H4Z, ihe Compromise did not continue to act-it continued forever, in behalf of thoee article, that were to be pio lecteil from foreign competition. If the duly^were taken off it would break down the domestic u.anufac toriea, and increa^ the price of salt. lie ?PI>o?d the amendment, and believed ihe rale of duty, aa it now .lood, was for the advantage of all cla.se., rich and ^"rMfM?, WALKER, WOODBURY, and BENTON advocated 'he amendment. Mr PRESTON .aid a duly on this article ought to be avoided if iiowible. Undei the financial difhcul t,e. of Government, it wa. nece-ary to impoM duties, ?. hiuh a. could be, consistently with ihe Compromise t. He con.idered ihi. act a. exeessively deformed bv striking out tea and coffee, the duly on which was necessary for the purpose of conciliating diflerent portion, of the Government, and equalizing the vari !>u. taxe. They could .elect no one article of tariff, which would amount .0 near to capitation a. ihi. arli rle it therefore .hould bo avoided ll possible. He .ho'uld vote lor tin. amendment, a. he believed duty might lie better levied on other article.. ^he question wu. then taken, and the amendment rejected, by the following vote : YEAS?Messrs. Allen, Benton Buchanan, Clay, of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton, King, Linn, McKo bert. Mouton, Nicholson, Pierce, Prentiss F rest on Smhh, of Conn., Tappan, Wrlker, While, Woodbu ry'r^r^S?Mew'rl Archer Barrow, Bate., Berrien, Calhoun, Choate, Clay, of Ky ,Clayt n-?^xon^; ana Graham, Hender.on, Huntington, Kerr, Man gum Merrick, Miller, Porter Simmon. Smith, of tndiina, Southard, Sturgeon, WooJbridge-33_ Mr. WALKER moved to in.eit among the free ,rtiljr 'W abated .he amendment. The manufacturer, of the article in this country some time, cnleied into a combination, and raised ll? i,rite of thia. When this wa. lhec.se, he wi.hed the foreign article to be admitted duly Ir.e. Mr CLAY said no such combination bad taken or could take place. The amendment went to violate fun her advocated by Me,, WOODBURY and KING. It was then rejected. ^ Mr'CLAY moved an amendment, which he said would' benefit the cotton interest : to add a proviso to the end of the secnud .ection, that no duty in virtue of it. provision, should be levied beyoud per cent. ad valorem. , , Thia wa. adopted without a division. ... , Mr CALHOUN moved to strike out in the 1st section, f>ih and Oth line, the words "which are now admitted free of duty,or." He .aid it waa to limit the op eration of this act to article, now paying a duty ot les, than twenty per cent,and to exclude articles now dutyfree. He maintained that under theCompro mise, no article now duty free could be taxed till the 30th June IHISJ. The 3d and blh .ectious lelated to the imposition of a duty to the limit* of twenty per cent on article, beating a less rate of duty, but article, were not to be taxed ui:der it. _ , Mr CLAY of Kentucky, dillered m toto with the gentleman. In the first place, the Compromise relate,! entirely to the protected urlicle.-ll did not relate to ! wine., silks, tic. Suppose under an economical admi nistration levenue sufficient could not be collected, then he would go for a duty beyond twenty per cent. The spirit uf the Compromise wai, that they anoulu not go beyond "JO per cent duty, if possible in the ex ercise ol an economical administration. Ihe Com i promise only applied to dutiable article, and not to !hose free of duly. If thi? amendment prevai.ed the l bill w.u d not produce more than a halt million dol lar. lie hoped the Senator would perceive this lite 1 ral inU rpretaiion of the act wa. beyond all Pr*cll?? purposis, and would reduce the revenue by this bill Horn ten million, dollars to halt a million. Mr CALHOUN was glad to hear the Senator from Kentucky adii.il thai ihe literal construction of the Compromise act tu| ported hi. (Mr. Calhoun.) ir round. He held thai ll was also the manifest spirit and object of the act, ami that piovisions for ihi. pur p se, were expressly contained in it. , , The whole of this bill wa. to throw the whole burden on s e.rl.in ,?t.r..t. We were in no COndl iion for t he consideration of the subject. T be Hrna tor from Kentucky ha I begun at the bottom instead of the top; and they were now called U|>on unprepa red to vote uisin this most complicated measure. Me was willing and desirous to transfer this bill over to the next session, and then unite in re-adjusting the Compromise act. The countiy was involved by mis management in a most disastrous state, and he hoped the Smatots would be led lo repeal the distribution I bill tH'fore It went into operation. Mr. BERRIEN said if the articles now duty-tret remained tl.us, it would inevitably tend to an I'jcre .se of duty on protected articles, which he w.shed o avoid. He contended that neither the letter or the spirit of the Comproini.e acl forbadethe levying a duty on articles now duty free. The blh sec ion ot that art, to which Ihe Senator from South Carolina had referred, it was true, provided, in ihe case of con in 1 uencv, tor the increase of articles paying a duty less Than *) per cent , and did not re.er to tree articles; this necessarily was the ca.e, a. It qualified the 3d .ection which provided that the dune, shou d remain as thev now are. This section, of course, did not re fer to articles duty-free, and the b.h section quahfy.ng it, also made no reference to such articles ? but all ihis admitted it was within the intention ot the act, and no! prohibited by the letter of it, when It was neces sary for revenue, to levy a duty on Iree articles. Mr. CALHOUN further advocated the amend m<Mr PRESTON briefly examined the state of trade with France, and othei countries, and was in favor, as a general principle, of duty on luxuries. He I eliew , although there ap| eared in the verbage o( the Com promise act, some plausibility for the amend,,*nl, yrt it was not intended in the adoption of that act, an 1 that it was expressly anticipated that the tree articles should be subjected to a duly, when required by tIn state ot the Treasury. The amendment wa. a violation ot the spirit of the Compromise, of it. general anil universal understanding. Mr CALllOUN said this provision or the t.om proinis-l act was inserted expressly for the purple of guarding against a future impo-ition ot articles then '"Mr'' BERRIEN further contended that there was neither letter or spirit of the Compromise acl which prohibited imposition of duty on free article.. The question was then taken, and the amend ment rejecteil \ ens 11, nays 30. Mr. CALllOUN moved to strike out in the 1st section, Ihe article, excepted from duly, and insert a provision excepting the list of articles contained in the &th section of the Compromise act. A Iter some remarks trom Mr CALHOUN, staling thai the intention of ihe amendment was to maintain inviolate the Compromise act, and further remarks from Me.-rs. EVANS and CLAY, Mr. Calhoun withdrew the amendment, with the intention of liero ntler renewing it Mr BUCHANAN renewed his motion to re|ieal the act of 1*33, releasing railroad iron from duty, and to subject it to a duty of twenty per cent , providing that nil iron "already imported shall not be aflected. To this Mr. Huntington had offered an amendment, which he now withdrew. Mr BERRIEN moved to amend it, so that it should not take effect until the 3d of March, 1*43; but in the mean time a duty of 20 |ier cent, shall be levied on >11 lailroad iron, except for rat roads the construction of winch has alieady been commenced by State, and corporation*. He thought this amendment ought immediately to take effect, but he was doubtful ot ll\e succeas of it, in it. original form; and from necessity, for the sake of accomplishing w>me good, at least, by the amend ment, he accepteil the ill dification. Alter brief remarks by Memrs. KING, CAL HOUN. and CUTHBERT, agreeing to the amend ment, as modified, ll was adopted. Mr PRES'l't >N moved an amend ment, to exempt from duly , paintings and statuaries, the production, of American arlisuabroail ; which wa. adopted. Mr. EV A NS moved to strike out "cloves" from the free articles , which w >. ad pled. Mr. WOODBl'RY moved to strike out the fifth section ot ihe bill ; which was carried. Mr W. moved an amendment lo levy a duly of twenty per cent, on low priced wools. Mv CLAY said this 'article waii made free by ihe law of IKI'i, and it woi>ll strike a mo?l mortal wound on the woolen manufacturer*. Mi. HUNTINGTON concurred in tins view. Mr TALLMADGE hoped the amendment would not pievail. Thia wool did not coine in conqieiition with American wool ; ihe amendment would prove destructive to the manufacturing interests, lie sent to llie Secretary's table a letter on this subject, which was read, and exhibited the-deadly influence a duty on this article would exercise on the manufacture!.. Mr. HUNTINGTON r?a,1 * of lhe **ro* '"filer further remarks by Me-rs BENTON and TAPPAN, in opposition lo ???nil? ^^?wuotBUHV0^ .. amVdmeat vidina that when wool of different qualltie. ? ??P?^ ta ihesame package, sod ...y part '? ?*?r,h ?u?7 ??" right cent* per pound, that |*rt "ball vy ? " y twenty per cent ?d valorem ; which was adopted. Mr KERR moved an amendment providing that circulating libraiiea which are not incorpoiaMnlshall h?ve the name priviU-ge of importing books fiee ol du^ t ,, incorporated associations for literary purposes have Which wa? rejected. Mr WOODBR1DGE moved aprovision to admit free of duty book, for State or legialative libraries ? Which wa* rejected. ,, Mr TALLMADGE moved to insert "8reaae ainona the free article*. He preaented a letter, which wa* read, allowing the great iropoiiance and eilenaive u?. ?f this article in the manufacture of ???P_ After aome conversion the amendment wan re je?On mi".". 'Jf Mr MANGUM, the Senate then, at a late hour, adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, Sept. 6, 1841. After the reading and correction of <hejournal Mr. IK VINE from the Committee on Enrolled bill*, re iHirled the bill for the placing of Greenough a statue of Washington, and the bill to give the frankingpri vilege to Mr* ilarriaon. I nese bill* were then aigned ''JojJJONE8 preaented resolution. >,a?sed by a meeting of Loco-Focos in Amelia county, Viminia, expressive of oppo.ition to the course of Congre?. this session, and declaring their ?pPr"??1"' the course of the President in vetoing the Bank bill, for which they tender lam their cordial co-operation and suppcrt. Laid on the table. Mr. TALIAFERRO offered u resolution to nllow mileage and pay to William Smith, who contest, the seat of Mr. Linn Bank*. Objected to, and not re ceived. [Mr. STANLY asked if there wai any thing " extra" about the resolution ] Mr. SUMMERS, from the committee on the re trenchment of the expense* of the House, reported a revolution authorizing that committee to repoit at the next session. ? Mr. WATTERSON moved an amendment provi ding that the Postmaster of the House should keep an account of the amount of stationery issued to each member. After a modification referring that subject also to the committee for their future report, the amendment and the resolution as amended were adopt ed. Bel'o e its adoption, Mr. SUMMERS made a statement of iimeof the items of lhe stationery purchased for the House aiuung the most extraordinary of which was a chargt for fifteen barrtlt of ink ! Mr. McKAY wished that Mr. Watterson s amend ment might be adopted as a distinct resolution, loat the Postmaster might commence the account of each member at the beginning of next session. Such a resolution was ado|4ed many years ago and continued a rule of the House for several sessions. CASE OF THE FLOHIDA DELEGATE. Mr. IIALSTED, chairman of the Committee on Elections, called up the report of that committee in tlie case of David Levy, Delegate from the Territory of Florida He asked Mr. Lkvy if it was his wish to be heard by counsel. Mr. LEVY then took the floor to argue his case, in person. He urged a "postponement to the next ses sion, to enable hnn to collect evidence of his citizen ship which it had been impossible for him to do al this session. He made a very able and eloquent plea, displaying the jieculiar hardship of his case in a very stiong light. He complained of informality in the taking of evidence against him, of want ol duo no tice ol the grounds on which his right was contested, and of the shortness of the lime allowed lor the col lection ol testimony in his favor. He deprecated also the allusion made by Mr. Stanly and others, on Sa turday, to the New Jersey case of last Congress, which he thought might be an attempt to array party feeling against him. . Mr. HALSTED, in presenting the case on behall of the majority of the committee, made explanations of the remarks made by himself and Mr. Stanly in reference to the late New Jersey case. No par y el f.ct was intended. The rule being that the last de rision on such a subject is the law, he (Mr H ) was anxious to remove the precedent established in the last similar case, (which he did not name,) by which the claimant* were ilenie?i a hearing before the rlouae, and for that reason, he introduced a resolution to al low Mr I .evy the privilege of being hesrd (hy coun sel or in person) hy those who were to judge ol his ease. Mr. Halsted then replied to the arguments by which Mr Levy had urged a postponement. Mr. McKEON spoke in favor of allowing more time to Mr. Levy for collecting evidence of his citi zenship. ... . i . Mr. STANLY disclaimed the motive imputed to him by Mr. Levy. He made a sportive remark on Saturday, with a view meielv 10 call the attention ol the world to the difference between the action design ed on this case anil that luken in the New Jersey case He never made any remark intended or calculated to excite anv parly feeling unfavorable to the gentleman ^ from Florida. . ' . Mi. LEVY declared he had not intended to make such an imputation. Mr. GAMBLE (being one sf the Committee on Elections) made a statement of leasons for not allow ing the |K>?tponement of a decision. Mr LEVY replied to ?ome of the objection, of Mr Gamble. Mr. WISE advocated the postponement. Mr: GAMBLE replied, very briefly ; and then, On motion of Mr. POPE, the House adjourned, al half past one o'clock. CrThcy have two new names for drinks in New Orleans?" Veto" and "Privileged Lemonade." THE BOARD OF HEALTH will meet at the City Hall, this day, Tuesday the 7th instant, at 5 o'clock, P M. A punctual attendance of the members is requested. Washington, Sept. 7, 1841. t piIE CO-PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing L between B. H. Sinnolt and Thomas H Bowen, trading under the name ofB. II. Sinnolt & Co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebt ed to them, and all to whom they are indebted are re iinested to set'le the same with '1 II. Bowen. H B. 11. 8INNOTT, August 30, 1841. T. H. BOWEN. NOTICE.?Having disposed of my stock and trade to Messrs. Owen, Evans & Co , I earnestly request all persons who are indebted tome to settle their accounts as early as possible, either by catli or notes, ss it is im portant to me to close my , affairs. My former custo mers will be called upon during this and the folluw ,nlcp'a-3t T. H. BOWEN. Dancing academy capiioi liiii?f. c. Labbe has the honor of informing the Lsdies and Gentlemen of Capitol Hill and its vicinities, that his second course of instruction in Dancing will com nienceon Monday the 6th of September, those persons desirous of Itccoming pupils will please make early ap p'icalion as the school will positively commence at the stated time. The course will consist of twenty-four lessons, days of tuition, Monday. Wednesdays, and Fridays, froui 3 until 5 o'clock, 1'. 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The speech of Mr. Tall X* madge on the Bankrupt Bill, price per hun The speech of Mr Huntington on the Fiscal Bank Bill, price fc-J |>er hundred. aug -2?> DEBATE ON* THE VETO MESSAOE MR RIVES' BECO^ SPEECH, IN REJOIN DER TO MK. CLAY. Mr.Ci.iY having concluded hU second speech the Veto Message, Mr RIVES ruse, and said he urn* I* permitted to express his surprise ?t the extraordinary sxhibition ol vehemence we had just witnessed from the honorsble Senator froui Kentu. ky. lie wu wholly at a lo** to conjecture what there wa? in any thing he had said, to provoke ?o towering an outbreak of wrath and elo quence. In the remark* he had made in reply to the honorable Senator, he had limited biuwelf air wily to a defence of a high public functionary, who bad felt himself called on by ihe most aoleuin of all obligation* to exert a greal con*ervative power placed in hi* hand* by the Constitution of hi* country, again* an imadversions and reproaches which he belie-ed in hi* conacicDM were altogether unmerited. It wa* an act ol justice, which 1 should have despised my sell (.aid Mr. R.) if 1 could have net dill in my seal, with the material* of justification ao abundantly exwlirig in my own knowledge, and have withheld from Ine humblest of my fellow-cilizens, when tliua u**ailed. The Senator from Kentucky may have lealouste* and suspicions in hi* mind a* to my cour*e here j but if he ha?, permit me to *ay lo hiui be doe* me greal injustice. I concur, with great cheerfulness, in the ?elf-approving sentiment* he ha* pronounced, wilh *o much emphaai*, in regard to hi* own high character for courage and patriotism. I am the last person, let him be assured, that would impugn, in any manner, his ju*l claim* upon ihe consideration and respect of hi* country. Hut while I admire, and render the homage due to his courage and patriotism, as well as hi* distinguished talents, he wdl excuse ine for saving I cannot aglet! to take my lesson* in |>olilical ethics from one who, invoking the name of Deity and (mint ing to heaven, boldly intimates that he would win his way, even to that holy place, by a violation ol tile Constitution he had sworn lo support, and who holds it up as the highest act of public virtue to trample under loot that sacred insliument, when it may be supposed to stand in the way of some pecu niaiy interest* of the country '. The Senator shakes" hi* head. But, air, is this not a fair and uiiexaggcrated statement of the case I I he bill which the Senator from Kentucky would have had the President to sign, hi* convictions to the con trary notwithstanding, is one which the President most deliberately believes is a violation of that Consti tution, which, when entering u|>on his office, he took a solemn oath to " preserve, protect, and defend. Yet the Senator from Kentucky, assuming (gratui tously, as I humbly think,) that a majority of the peo ple are tn favor of this measure, (which, as 1 showed when 1 addressed the Senate be lure, had not even been approved by a majority of their representatives,) insists tliat the President ought to have carried out this imaginary will of the majority, in despite ol his own deep-rooted convictions of the unconstitution ality of the act, and in disregard of the solemn sanc tion of his official oath ! If this be the political casu istry of the honorable Senator lroin Kentucy, I must say, with all my respect for the distinguished Senator, 1 cannot consent to take him for my guide and instruc tor in a question of conscience or of constituuonal obligation. 1 choose rather, humble as the comparison may seem to the honorable Senator, to look to the straight-forward example ol John Tyler, who, in heeding the "still, small voice of conscience' amid the importunate clamors of party dictation, and in manfully standing bv what he believes to be the Con stitution of his country, in the lace of threatened de nunciation, has exhibited a moral courage as high, and a heroism of principle as undaunted, and cer tainly as worthy of tl>e respect and applause of a moral and religious (aople, jealous of their liberties and loyal to the great charter which secure* them, a* that spe cies of latitudinaiian boldness which sacrifices princi ple to expediency, and which confounds conscience, in public alTurs, wilh pride, canity, egotism, andeven crime, and which we have just heard so vauntingly celebrated in the heroic Blrains of the Senator s eloquence as public virtue ! 1 will ventuie lo say farther, Mr. President, that a large inajoiitv of the American |>eople, whether they agree with Mi. Tyler or not in his construction of the Constitution, have loo habitual a respect lor con scientious opinions and principles of action not to ho nor the integnty and firmness with which, at every hazard to himself (.ersonally, he has sought, in faith ful discharge id the solemn obligations ol his oath ol office, lo maintain the ConstituU.n of the country in violate. The Senator ha* indulged his fancy in regard to a certain cabal which he ?ay* it is alleged by Rumor (an authority he seems prone to quote, of late) has been formed for the wicked purpose of breaking up the regular Cabinet, and dissolving the Whig (tarty. Though the Senator is pleased to acquit me of being a member of thi* supposed cabal, he said he should in fer, from the zeal and promptitude with which 1 have come forward to defend the motives and conduct of the President, that 1 was, at least, a member of his I'rir\j Council.' I thank God, Mr. President, that in his gracious goodness he has been pleased to give me a heart to tejiel injustice and to defend the inno cent, without being laid under any special engage ment, as a privy councillor or otherwise, to do justice to my fellow-man , and if there be any gentleman who cannot find in the consciousness of his own bo soin a satisfactory explanation of so naluial an im pulse, 1 lor one envy him neither his temperament nor Ills philosophy. If Mi. Tyler, instead of being a dis tinguished citizen of my own State, and filling, at this moment, a station of the most painful responsibi lity, which entitles him lo a candid interpretation of his official acts at the hands of all his countrymen, had been a total stranger, unknown to ine in the rela tions of private or political friendship, I should yel have felt myself irresistibly impelled, by the common sympathies of humanity, to undertake his defence, to liie best of my p poi ability, when I Iwve seen him this day so powerfully assailed, for an act, as I verily be lieve of conscientious devotion to the Constitution ol his country and ihe sacred obligations of his high trust. The honorable Senator complains that, in my reply to him, 1 unjustly represented him as censuring and arraigning the condu.ct of the Chief Magistrate, lie asks It he used such language as perfidy. 1 did not say thai he used the word perfidy, but that his allega tions resolved themselves substantially into thechaige ol" peifidy against the President. And is not this iruel 1 appeal to those whojheard him, and 1 would a(i[H<al to the honorable Senator himself, in his cooler moments, if two-thirds of Ins speech did not consist of imputation*, more or less direct, on the President for violation ol his faith, express or im; lied, to his (party and the country 1 Did he not begin his speech will! reading, and dwelling upon a passage in the In augural Addrea* of the President, which he contend ed amounted to an engagement to the nation to sign such a bill as had been presented to him 1 ll so, what is his veto message, now before us, but a viola tion of thai engagement, or in olhei words, a bnach of faith, an act of peilidy lo the nation. Again, did not the honorable Senator say if the course which the President has now taken could have been anticipated, either by the Harrisburg Convention or by the people al the (polls, he would not have received an individual vote in the former, or a single eleclotal vote from the latter. Doe* not this imply a disengenuou* suppres sion, something like a fraudulent concealment of hi* opinion* by the President, which, il Irue, would, under ihe circutns: ancea, have been grossly inconsis tent with the principle* of good faith I How liltle foundation there is for any such imputation, I (Liter myself I must have fully demonstrated to the satisfac tion of the Senate, in the rcmaiks 1 had the honor to make in reply lo the first speech of the Senator from Kentucky. The honorable Senator also insisted, with great earnestness, that the veto of this bill, under the cir cumsiances in which the President stood, was sotx cepiionable a proceeding thai, ral':er llian to have le soiled to il, tl wipuld have been better for him to have evaded the retponsibility of his high stat on by pel milting the ten days to elapse without any action on the measure, or otherwise to have resigned hit ojfict, and left the Government without an elective head! Could any thing Convey a stronger or more pointed condemnation of the President's conduct, than to hold up eithei or both of these extreme smi inadmissible alternatives as preft rable lo the course he actually adopted. Hut ihe Senaior s ieges that he ill,I not ssy the President ought to have resigned.? Did he not, however, srgue most zealously lo show that connstenry with ihe President's own conduct anil principles on a lormsr occasion, when he held a seat in the Sclia'e of the United Stales, requited that lie should have resigned on ihe present 1 What wnslhis but to urge the President's resignation by the strong est ap|pcal, personal to himself, and derived liom his own ex in plel Is il not mere special pleading, then, for ihe Senator now to sllege that he did not ssy the President should hsve resigned. When the v?bole lenor ol the Senator's s|ieech was characterized by inch (to1111* 'I ami significant reprehensions of the Pre udent'sconduct, could the Isvish and ostentatious pro fessions of person d regard and rrs|?-ct, lo which the Senator now ap|peals as evidence of the spint of his ipeech, be viewed in any other light than as a billet nockery 1 The honorable Senator still insists that the ques ion of a Hank was an issue solemnly decided in the Presidential election. I thought I had shown by iire rsgable proofs Ironi the record, when I first addressed that this iasua ?? UL* Ui*Je lkl? fTt>' u J?fr5r,ii."S cs& 1 "?itj?S ivoa'wTjr s vbiSSii1?ri u K com mon error uf ui Virginian#? to coimd?>r l,'e ?f"1' , m?nl prevailing in Virginia M the sentiment ot i? ' ^mT cZa: I ap*. of some p^!i? *?*??? ex isting anil in operation among the I eople of Virginia ' THe peculiar opiniont </ lfc? <f{ * (continued Mr Rive.) I had hoped would never be considered a leproach by any native win of Virginia , and the luunt, Coming troin the honorable Senator t'roui Kentucky, himself a native s?n of our ?nctenl commonwealth, i* the "unkindest cut of ail - Now *ir, with all possible reaped foi the honorable Senator, 1 will tell him, if he will allow me, what is nn error that he himself seems very prone to tall into ? ji u to think that his own personal opinion* must, of neceaaity, be the opinion* of the country | ami because the question ol " Hank or no Bank wa* the prominent, and a* he *ay?, vital inaue in hi? ow n mind, he conclude* that it ought to have been and wa* the prominent and vital issue in the mind* ol the people alao. , 1 beg leave to suy that my horizon, in the Fresidrn lial canvaaa, wa* not quite *o limited a* the Senator ?rem* to suppose? not confined exclusively to Virgi nia, " either above or below tide water," to adopt bis iHiliUcal geography of our Stale, i visited other and leading States, during the progress ol the canvass, and (ought lnlormalion from them all I would re mind the honorable Senator of what passed on this Boor a few week* since in his own hearing, a* to the course of the canvass in the most powerful and impor tant of all the Stales in the late election. W hen the honorable Senator from New York who sits behind me (Mr Wright,) appealed to my honorable Inend hi*'colleague, who *iU near me, and inquired of III in if uriy thing was said by hiinsell or He opponents o the late administration geneially, in the 1 residcnlia canvas*, in that Slate, about a Bank ot the United State*, my honorable friend r. plied " no ; we were so much occupied with the Sub-treasury, that we said nothing about a Bank of the United States 1 would apical lo my hoiioiable friend now on tin* point. Mr. T*LLM*Doe. 1 attended altogether to the Sub treasury. Mr Rives. That, so far as the financial que*tion ws* concerned, was every where, within the limits of my observation, the coi rse of political discussion by our friends, who thought the interest* ol the country demanded a change of administration. " Sub-treasury or no Sub-treasury" was the issue, and not " Hank or no Hank." So odious was tke Sub-treasury to the jealous spirit of American libeily, and so determined was the opposition of a Republican people to it, Uiat they resolved to put it down at all hazaids, willing lo leave to the future, and lo the wisdom and the delibe rations it would bring along with it, to decide which ol the various plans thai had been or might be suggested, should be substituted in the place of it. Mr. Tam.madoe. Although I did not discuss the matter myself, still the newspaper organs of the late administration displayed at their head " Independent Treasury and no National Bank. Mr. Rivks continued. 1 know full well that our adversaries were eager anil anxiou* to force the issui of a National Bank u|on us But we declined it. 1 had the honor myself of being in the Empire Slate, in the very crisis of that great |sditical contest, which had broken up the fountain* of that mighty deep, so long swayed by the leaden sceptre of party discipline. I met my honorable friend there in a noble assemblage of his countrymen, embracing ten thousand enlight ended and gallant freemen collected from every quarter of that great Slate to deliberate U[on the destinies o our common country ; and while all voices were raised in unanimous reprobation of the odious Sub-treasury system not a solitary word was uttered pleading the me rits ofa National Bank. It the history of the late canvass could be impartially and faithfully written from con temporaneous materials, such, 1 am convinced, would be found to have been its actual couise, in at least three-fourth sof the States of this Union. The Senator from Kentucky lias reminded me, ra ther ungraciously, I think, considering how long he took shelter with me under the panic roof, of the hum ble half way (the State banks,) for which he suppose* me still to retain a preference. For four long years did ihe honorable Senator himself inhabit thisAo(/"-teuy house, valiantly defending it, with all the vigor of his prowe** and eloquence, against,the fierce assaults of the forces of the late Administration ; and if 1 am not greatly mistaken, even as lute as his Cele brated Hanover speech, last summer, he recognized it to be a fair competitor of hi* own preferred cx[>edieni (a National Bank) for the public favor, declaring lhat the choice between them ?hould be left to the lutuie and deliberate judgment of tm people. [,\lr. Clay. No j you are Mistaken. 1 recognized it only as a pit alter.] . , , Mr. Rives A pit alter i* about a* much as is lett to us. Not having the speech of the honorable Se nator before me, I will not now contest the matter with him, though I may take occasion hereafter to re fresh the recollection of the Senator.* What, sir, was the bill of the Senator, which was sent to the President, but a pit allerf According lo the Sena tor's own statement, it was a veiy different thing from what he would have made it. In it* location, in its name and character, and esjecially in the so called compromise section, which the Senator tells us he in troduced in a spirit of the extremest concession, ho agreed to make it a very different thing from an old fashioned Bank of the United State*., the beau ideal of currency and finance in the eyes of the Senator. The Senator'* own bill, then, wa* but a pit ulltr, and there cannot be much choice, I pre*uine, between one pit alter and another. The Senator from Kentucky *av* he found me, several years ago, in this halfway htmtt, which after the thorough riddling the roof had received in the breaking up of ihe pet-bank system, he had supposed I would have abandoned. How could I find it in my heart, Mr. President, to abandon it, when 1 found the honoiable Senator from Kentucky (even nfler what he calls the riddling of Ibe roof) ao anxious to take refug? in it, from the ruins of his own condemned and repudiated system, and where he actually look refuge lor four long years, as 1 have already stated. When I first had the honor to meet the honorable Senator in this bodv, 1 found him, not occupying the humble hut comfortable half-way bouse, which ha* given him yhelter from the storm for the last four years, but a more lordly mansion, gaudy lo look ujion, but alto gether unsafe to inhabit?old, decayed, rat-eaten? which lias since tumbled to the ground with it* own rottenness, devoted to destruction alike by the indig nation of man and the wrath of heaven. ^ et the honorable Senator, unmindful of the pa*t and heedless of the warnings of the present, which are still ringing in his cars, will hear > f nothing but ihe instant le construction of this devoted edifice. In one thing, at least, the Senator does me great injustice, when, in the tcelh of my explicit declaration that 1 wn* lor regulating the custody of Ihe public moneys by lair before ouruilj. urnment, he says I am for going home, leaving the Treasury and the country in a lawless coniln ion ! I owe it lo myself, Mr. President, before I close, to say one ot two words in regard to this Gorgon of a Cabal which, the Senator lell* ui upon the authority of Dame Ha.nor, has been formed to break up the Cabinet, lo dissolve the Wing party, and to l.jrma new or third parly. Although the Senator was pleased lo acquit me ot be.ng a member ol this sup|s sed cabal, he yet seemed to have some lurking je?lou>ies ami suspicions in bis niinil on the subject. 1 will tell the honorable Senator, then, that I know of no such cabal; and I should really think that I was the last man lhat ought to be suipecfed of any Wish or design to form a new or third party. 1 have shown myself, at all times, restive under mere party influenc e anil control from any quarter. All party, in my humble judgment, tends, in Us Modern dege neracy, to tyranny, and is attended wilh serious hazard of sacrificing an honest sense of duty, and the great interests of the country, to an arb.trary lead, directed by other aim*. I desire, therefore, lo lake u|*<n my self no new patty bonds, while I am anxious to ful fil, to the fullest extent lhat a sense of duty lo Ihe country will |MTinit, every honorable engagement im plied in eiislin^ ones. In regard to the breaking up of the Cabinet, I bail hoped th.it I was as far aliove the suspicion of having any persons! interest in such an event as any man. I have never sought office, but have olten declined it ; anil will now give the honora *Mr Rives'version of Ine Hanover speech seem* to be abundantly sustainid by Ihe following extracts from it " Whel her these ends," s iiil Mr ('lay, "indispensa ble to the well-being both ol llie People and llir Gov ernment, are to be attained hv sound and *ale Otalt ban/ft, carefully selected anil properly ditlribuled, or by a new Hank of llie U Slates, with such limita tions, conditions and restrictions as have Ixen indi cated by exjienence, tho-u I it be left to Ihe. arbitrament of enliyhtenid public opinion." And again he say* "It is lo secure certain objects, without which society cannot pro?|>er ; snil if, contia ry In niy appiehensions, these objects can lie accom plished by <li*|eniqng with the agency of a Hank of ihe United Stales, and employing that of State banLt. ill ought to rejoice and heartily acijuieite, and none \rouil more than I thou Id."