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_Jj.jJ.-jS3 Birgtuia Hegiaferure. EXTRACTS PROM TIIK JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OP OKLEUATKS. —i _ , . _ J'riday, Dec. 7. An engrossed bill 'to legr.Cze the official cts of A. Armisteadat sheriff'of the county of 'Cumberland,' wu read a third time and 'passed.—Sent to the Senate for their concur* rence. Mr. Currio subm itted the following resolu tion : ^ "Resolved, That the Committee of Finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of reducing the pay of the members of the General Assembly to what it was, (viz. three dollars per day,) previously to its being raised to what it now is : and that they report bv bill or otherwise.” On fVM»ti»n of Mr. Morriss of Gloucester, this resolution was amended, by inserting therein after the word 'pay' the words 'and mileage.* Mr. Slierrard then submitted a motion, that the said resolution be farther amended, by adding to it the words 'and all other officers of government whose salaries can bceonslitu Carnally reduced.’—And the question being put upon this amendment, it w»s carried in the affirmative, ayes 115, r.oes 48—(Mr. Boll ing of Buckingham calling for the ayes and 1 does.) me question was tlien put upon agreeing to the S lid resolution as amended, and carried in the aflii mative. aye* 143. noes 33—lMr Currie calling for the ayes and noes.) , On motion of Mr. Hooe of Prince William, leave was given to bring in a bill ‘to amend an act entitled ‘an act to reduce into one the se veral acts concerning Executions, and for the re lief of insolvent debtors/—Referred to a se lect committee. , • i Saturday, Dec £. The House proceeded, according to joint re solution, by joint ballot with the Senate, to the election of Governor for the next year ; Mr. Mallory, supported by Mr. Ularkbum, nominated Col. 1'. M. Randolph_Mr. Stratton nominated Col. Bunvell Bassett. Tne votes stood thus i—for Randolph 146, Bassett 39, scattering 4. Thomas M. Randolph, Esq. was re-elected. | On Mr. Rust’s motion leave was given to bring in a bill ‘to extend the act passed on the 23rd of February 1820, entitled ‘an act to au thorize the notes of the Bank of the Valley and its branches, and of the North Western Bank of Virginia, to be received in payment of the revenue of this commonwealth/ Monday, Dec. 10: An engrossed bill authorizing die sale of the j glebe lands in tne county of Frederick was read a third time and passed. Upon motion of Mr. Bov/yer i was Resolved., that the committee of couits ot justice be in structed to enquire into the e.rpf diency of pro viding by law, for the payment of Grand Jurors and Petty Jurors whtre they are detained more Ilian one d.y, in the service oi'ihe superior and county courts, and that they report by bill or otherwise. Tuesday, Doc. 11. j Several bills which had bi.cn ordered to be brnigh' u» were reported, which were read the lirst, and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. Blackburn irum the C f< r C. of J re ported two resolutions ; 1st. in favor of acce ding to the petition of th-_ representatives of Abrxlnm Brubaker, fur comm ./oners to be appointed to sell and to convey the lots in Woodstock, of which town the said Brubaker had once been proprietor .- and 2d. rejecting the petition of Judith Cocke for a divorce. The 1st resolution was agreed to by the House; the 2d was laid on the table on the motion of Mr. Morris of Hanover. tVednesday, Dec. 12, An engrossed bill, ‘to amend an act, entitled ‘an act to amend an act, entitled *an act ap point.ng trustees in the town of Morgantown, and for other purposes,’ was read a 3rd time and passed. The Speaker laid before the House the fol lowing communication from the Govrrnor . Council Chamber, Richmond, Dec. 12,1821. Sin—In obedience to the resolution of the House of Delegates of the f»lh instant, I communicate all the proceed ings had by the Executive, under the act of the last session of the General Assembly, entitled, “an act concerning the Potomac company;” and at the same time make known, that no other information is now in possession of the Elect!live relative to the object con* templafed by said act, and that the Board of Public Works could do no more than notify to their civil engineer the duties thereby imposed on him, whieh was done as speedily as possi ble. The passage of the act in q action was cninmui.’"i«ed without drJay to the governor oi vI’n*aod, ar.d resolu tions were adopted bj ihb G- neral As sembly of Maryland^ corresponding with the act in their provisions; which resolutions were received in time to he laid before the legislature, as (he pro ceedings of the 23d day of February will *licw. The intention of the executive of Marjlaod, to appoint commissioners at an early day, being communicated in ihe letter of the 29'h February, it was though' expedient to know from >vbat part of that state they might be taken, before the appointment was mode here. But a delay iiai#g occurred there, as is stated in the let'erfrom the governor of Maryland, of date May 9th, the ap pointment of Moses Hunter, and Wil liam Temple Thomson Mason, was made herein the manner prescribed by I be law, upon the 31*1 day of May.— Each commissioner was immediately no< f ifieri ot the fact of his appointment by the g ivernor, through the means of letters, furwaided to their different places of residence by the mail of the United States on (he same day. The answer Tom Mr. Mason was rrceived on the 18<h, and from Mr. Hunter on the 23il of June, each intimating the acceptance of the appointment, and communication thereof was made to Ihe executive of Maryland tinder dale of June 30'lt No report to the gnver* nor of this r'-mmon wealli of proceed* ings under this act, has ns jet been made. • An authentic copy of the resolutions of the General Assembly of Maryland, on this subject, and of the correspond* enee, a* far ai it is supposed would be desired, is herewith transmitted. 1 have the honor to be, your most obedient servant, Tit. M. RANDOLPH. The Hon the Speaker of the £ House of Delegates. J On Mr Sberrard's motion the said letter end ita accompanying documents were laid the upon table, and ordered to be inserted in the Journal. On motion of Mr. Page, the C. for C. of Jus tice were instructed to take into consideration the propriety of repealing the law limiting to three years the prosecution of perjury, subor nation wf perjury, and such forgeries and pub lications thereof as are not punishable with death in the penitentiary, in all cases where the defendant absconds, evades the process of the law, or removes out of the Commonwealth. A petition was received from Wm. Dabney and others, who constituted the Jury in the General Court, to try the cause between the Commonwealth and Preston ; praying die le gislature to grant them such a per diem allow ance, as a compensation for their services, as may seem just, reasonable and propeh. Thursday, Dec. 13. Mr Bowver from the C. of P. and G. pre sented a resolution .• rejecting a petition from the 9th Chancery District for a levy on the se veral counties of thesum of glUtf, for the pur pose of procuring a more commodious court room, which, was laid on the tabic. | Mr. Crump of Cumberland presented the following Report/ . ... •• i ne Lumimtieo of finance nave, aeooiding to order, bad under conside ration the 8ubj.net of reducing the pay and mileage of the members ef the General Assembly, and of all the olli cers of the government whose salaries can be constitutionally reduced, and beg leave to report the following re*o« lutions and bill, as the result ot their deliberations thereon. r *’Resolved, as the opinion of this com mittee, that it is expedient to reduce the pay and mileage of the members of the General Assembly to the rates al lowed previous to the late increase. %iResolved also, as the opinion of (his committee, that it is pot expedient to re- ; duce the pay of such other officers of J government whose salaries can be con- ! stitutionalU reduced.” Upon Mr. /,eais's motion, the 1st reioln* tion was laid on the table, ayes 83, nays 67. Mr. Epps then moved to lay the ‘Jd resolu tion on the table, upon the ground that both should be disposed of together—Carried. A memorial was presented from John Kemper, a freeholder and resident of the c iunty of Fauquier, representing that the e* lection of Eppx Hunton. one of the sitting members, was unconstitutional and void; be cause at the time of the election, the said Hunton was brigade major of the 5th Bri gade of Militia, and therefore not eligible a* a^ member of the General Assembly. Mr. i K. prays a writ of election to supply the va. cancy thereby occasioned. •Mr. Hunton «aid he rose merely to make a statement of facts. He acknowledged that at the time of his election he was Brigade Inspector of the 5th Brigade, and that .once | that time, he has acted as such and received j pay. He was advised that the question would be made, and after mature reflection and ex. amination bad comidered liimselt entitled to his seat. He had been cal>ed on by the peo ple of his county, to become their candidate, and had obeyed the call, and in November last, had resigned the appointment of Bri gade Major.— He said it was not becoming In him to discuss the consiitu ionality of the question; but hoped the house would take up and decide it immediately. If they should declare his seat vacated, his discharge would ] I ftl any rate, be an honorable one. Upon motion, the memorial was referred to the commiiteof the whole, and the Mouse accordingly resolved itself into a committee of the whole; Mr. Minor in the chair. The memorial of John Kemper being ta ken op, Mr. Harbour submitted a resolution, that admitting the truth of the facts set forth in the memorial, there was no ineligibility on the part of Major Hunton, and rejecting the memorial. Mr. Edmunds called for the p-ading of the constitutional provision on the subject. Mr. Barbuor's resolution was adopted, and the committee rose, and reported to the house. Mr Blackburn, supported by Mr./?. Mor ris, moved to lay the resolution on the table. They wished lime to examine the subject.— Carried. Friday, December It.— Upon motion, the house took up the resolution of the commit, tee of tli* whole on the memorial of Jno. Kemper. Mr. Minor offered an amendment to the resolution; deda.ing Major llunton ineligi ble, as being excluded under 'he i tth section of the constitution. \]r jv| Paj{] t|,at having entertained doubts of the subjec1, lie had bes towed upon it a mature investigation, the result of which was a conviction of the pro priety of the ame ndment winch he offered — He admitted that the question was a consti tutional one of some importance touching the rights of the honsc. lie read the 11-th section of the constitution of Virginia, and tested the character end duties of the office held by Msj, II. with the meaning and inten tion of that section. Testing it also by tha common law definition of an office, it came within the mean.ng of the constitution. He read the law defining the acts of a brigade inspector, dommented upon the tenor of the office, mode of compensation, fyc. from all of wihich Vie concluded that the sitting member was at the time of his election, ineligible_ I!' admitted that there had been some diver sity in tbe decisions of the Senate and of the House of Delrgatcs Mrisri. Doddridge and Campbell, were considered in the Senate, eligible although they were atlornie* for the Commonwealth. In the rase of Mr. Steven son of ffpottsylvanis, the Hou«e of Delegates pronounced » different decision. The amendment was carried, ayes 101, noe* 70. 'I he resolotion as amended, was then car rird in the affirmative, and on motion a writ of el'ction was awarded to supply the place of M«j Hunton, [Rnihmond Enquirer. William riNiit.Af, lute Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, has been elected a Senator in the Congress of too United Stales, for fix years from the 1th day of March last. In joint billot of the Legislstore, he received S3 vofe* cut of 123 — [ A'^r, ini. t'KOM THE KATIONEL INTEbLIUENCER. IN SENATE. Deckmbf.r 12. Air. Johnson, of Kentucky, agreeable to the notice which he gave yesterday, having obtained leave, introduced tbe tollowing re* solution; proposing an AMENDMENT OE THE CONSTITU. ' TION. 1 Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following amendment to the constitution of (he United States, be {imposed to the legislatures of the seve ral states,whieh, when ratified by the le gislatures of three-fourths of the states, shall be valid to all intents and purpo* ses, as part of the said constitution. ! “That, in all cooirnversies where the judicial power of the United States shall be so construed, as to extend to any case in taw or equity, arising un der this constitution, the laws of the United States, or treaties made or which shall be made under their au thority, and to which a state shall be a party; and in all controversies in which a state may desire to become a party, in consequence of having the oonstitu. tion or laws of such stale questioned, the Senate of the United States shall have appellate jurisdiction.*’ \\ iicii iic ycncraiy gave nonce oi ms in* » tcnlion to make this proposition, Mr J. ata | ted that it hud - originated from serioua con sequences which h*d lately taken place be tween several of the Stales and the judiciary of the United States. ..More especially a late decisian of that Court which had decla red unconstitutional a certain act of the Kentucky Legislature, called the Occupying Claimant Law, which would overturn the deliberate policy of tht.Stale for upwards of ten years pa»t, the objett of which was the settlement of connicin* land claims, which had been a serious evil to the prosperity of the State, and, if perciited in, - would pro duce the most disastrous consequences in giv ing rise to much litigation where questions had been settled for years, and put every thing respecting landed property into the greatest confusion, fie stated that no com mon consideration would ever induce him to propose an amendment to the constitution, but he considered the causes which had in duced him to ask have to propose Ins amend ment, of no ordiniry magnitude; he was not prepared to say that this was the best reme dy that could be proposed, but he would suy, that it was the duly of Congress to look , into the matter before the subject assumed a more serious character, and it was for that object that he determined to introduce the I amendment. On offering this resolution to-day, Mr. J. further said that on Yesterday, when he had 1 given notice to the Senate that he would ask leave to introduce the amendment to the constitution on a subject so vitally import ant to the harmony of the United States, he did not know, nor did ht* have the most dis tant intimation, that he should be anticipating the wishes of the Kentucky Legislature—the body which he had the honor in part to re present. But he was happy to discover that a resolution had been introduced into the Legislature of that State, declaring that the Senate of the United States, or some o ther tribunal should be created to take appel late jurisdiction in cases where a State is concerned in judicial controversies in the Courts of the United Slates. He expressed a most decided preference for the Senatorial body, where all the States were equally re presented;' and whsiever was thus decided, without the trouble or expense of another tribunal, would be lik-ly to quiet public ex crement where a Slate considered her rights violated by the judgment of the federal judi ciary* .Mr. Barbour, of Virginia, ro*e, as he said, to second (lie motion ot his honorable friend —no! from any apprehension that opposition would be made to the leave asked, because that would he a departure from the comity universally manifested to every member who tendered for consideration a subject of in terest, but merely to bear testimony to its importance, and to the necessity that exists of a thorough investigation of the subject — There are, said he, other decisions which have been made by the Supreme Court, be side the decision on the occupancy law, allu ded to by his friend, which have produced coniidcrable excitement, and to alUy which, if practicable, mil becomes the wisdom of the Smate. I am very far from expressing an opinion for or against the proposed a mendment In a case of such cons quence, opinions ought to be formed only after the most serious ddiheiation- That an evil ex ists in the collision* between the constituent members of our Union end the federal au thority, as to the sphere of the powers of (he latter, must be admitted, and is a just subject of deep regret. The investigation growing out of the proposed resolu'ion may eventuate in its rejection, as being more in convenient in its consequences than the con stitution as now construed; or, on the other hand, it may be adopted as an effectual rem edy to the existing evil—or, perhaps, by eli citing the whole wisdom of the Senate On this interesting subject, some other plan may be devised that will obviate the existing riif ficulties, give satisfaction to those now dis quieted, and restore that Confidence and good-will on which alone, to any beneficial result, our nstiiulions must rest. The resolution was twice read by general consent; and, on motion of Mr. Holmes, of Maine, it was made the order of the day for ihe second Monday in January The Senate then adjourned HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Sergeant, of Penn, from the commit tee on the Judiciary, reported a bill For the establishment of on uniform system of L>ank ruptcy throughout the United States, which was read by its title.— Among other remaiks, Mr. S. slated, that the subject of the bill w is a matter of deep interest to the people of the United States; that he had presented it thus early in order to give member* time to pre pare their mind* on it; and that it was the same in form, as that which came from the Senate at the last Session. Mr S then mo ved that it be referred to a committee of the Whole House,and made tha order of the day for the first Monday in January next; which was agreccd to. ' On (notion ar Mr. Williams, of N. C. . it was Resolved, That the committee on Military AfTiin be instructed to enquire into the ex* peoieocy of allowing to officers of the army of the United Stale* a salary or slated sun. of money per year, instead of pay and emolu ments, at now allowed by law. Mr. Whitman, of Maine, moved the the following resolutions : Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed to lay before tlii* House copie* of a* ny communications received at hit oliice ha ving relation to any misunderstanding which may have existed between Andrew Jackson, at governor or the Florida*, and Elijius Fromentin, as Judge «>f the Court therein. And, also, in relation to any delay, or o. mission on the part of the officers under hit Catholic Majesty to surrender to the officers and commissioners of the United Stales, duly authorised to receive the tame, any of the archives and documents which relate directly j to the property and sovereignty io and over the said Flnrldas. And, also, in relation to the means adopt ed by the officers and commissioners, on the part of the United States to obtain possession of such archive* and documents. Mr. JVel&on, of Md. submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That a special committee be ap pointed, with instructions to enquire into the expediency of appropriating the proceeds of the public lands to the creation of a perms* . nent fund for the purposes of education and . internal improvements throughout the United ' Stales. Washington, Dec. 10. The business before Congress cannot be expected to be as interesting for the Aril few weeks of the Session as at a later period of it. The committees are yet scarcely ap. pointed,- and no business it likely to come te riouily before either House until it has first passed the ordeal of the committees. The resolutions, directing committees to enquire into the expediency of enacting this or that, are agreed to as matters in course, unless they contain suggestions altogether inadmissible. It is a courtesy which the house yields to a* ny and every of its members, to allow an in vestigalion of any matter which in his opinion the public interest requires to be examined, unless it be so offensive that it cannot even be allowed to be a subject of enquiry or dis cussion. It is this custom which causes much of the lime of Congress to be occupied on questions which are ultimately decided in the negative. It is nevertheless a salutary prac tice, the abolition of which would be to nar row the range of tree enquiry, and substitute the pleasure of a majori’.y of the House for the rights , of the individual members. There are some persons who seem to think that Congress ooght to work by the hour— assem ble, like the laborers at the Capitol, when the bell sounds, and, tike them, disperse when it | rings again. In the opinion of such, no I doubt, the early part of the session is wasted, because it is not fertile of laws. Hut the truth is, that no part of the Session of Con gress is more usefully employed than that month or six weeks which is consumed by every new Congress in erquiries and consul tations necessary to enable its members to discharge the trust confided to them satisfac torily to themselves, or advantageously to their country In the present Congress there are upwards of ninety new members, of wbofn i at least seventy-five have never been in Con gress before. The very best informed am'ong these has to learn the routine of business in Congress, before he can become an efficient member,- and there are not a few of them whose habt's of thought and modes of action have been so identified with the practice un dor our stats governments, and so graduated to the scale and nature of the objects of their I legislation, as to require some time to adapt and familiarize themselves to tkeir new sta tion. Tor these and other reasons it appears to us not only allowable, but desirable, (list no business of importance should be pressed to a conclusion during the first week or two of the first session of each Corgress. If this he correct as a general po-itinn, it is particu larly so when &i plied to a Congress in which there is so great a proportion of new mem bers as in the present. Of the proceedings of Congress for the last weak, our readers have had a regular ac count. What will be the nature of the busi ness for this week, i§ wholly a matter of con | jecture. Few reports can be expected Irom the committee!. In the course of the week, the President may transmit to Congress o ther documents connected with the topics of his Message, or one or the other House may call for them. Reports may also be made by some of the Executive officers, &c.— These will extend the field of deliberation o» ver which the commiiteeb have to travel. - -*— [JVaf. Int. December 15. The Treasury Report, now before Os and our reader*, is a document which has been looked for wiib unusual interest, readily ac counted for by the Consideration that on its complexion depended the question, whether, in order to make both ends meet, it would j be necessary for Congress to curiai! greatly the national expenditure, or to resort to rii reel taxation. We are very glad to find, j from a perusal of this honest and perspicu ous exposition of the atate of the Treasury, that both alternatives may be avoided, with out resorting to loans Not that we are a verse to any icductron of the naticnul expen diture, which can he made without deroga ting from the efficiency of the several de partments of the government. On the con- ] trary, had the resources fallen short, we should have been disposed to strain a point j in this particular, in preference to laying di- I reel impositions, at a time when every body knows that there is not, in some of the States, money enoogh (of specie value) to allow the people conveniently to pay even their posta ges in it. We rejoice, therefore, to learn from the Report, that there is very little ap parent probability of a deficiency In the rev nue for the ordinary purposes of govern ment, up to the year 1825. IJy our calcula. tion, that it is about the time, when some thing like a healthful currency will bo resto re! in nearly every State in the Union. The Statu of Tennessee has, with a fore cast which iippetrs to us commendable, fixed a day in the year I&2-J-, beyond which specie payments by the lin ks in thaf state shall not be delayed. We msy reasonably enter tain the hope that other stales similarly sit uated will imitate her example. The day is a long one, it is true, but it is a day fixed, and we are assured the* tbe determination is not likely to be revoked. If, then, in the year 1825, direct tax*s should be found to be ncces>ary, there is at least a possibility of their being collected if laid.. As we undertook to guess, the other da) from the facts given in the President's Mes sage, whet would be the revenue lor the pres ent year, we are well pleased, to iind that we were so near the mailt as to have come within 150,000 dollars or it. The amount of the receipts into the Treasury Tor the three first quarters of the year, added to the esti mated receipts Tor the fourth quarter, is Slf,DI4175—being somewhat more than a million short bt the estimate made bv the Secretmiy of the Treasury at the commence mem of the last session ot Congress. The dis agreement of the estimate with the result is attributable to the uoexpected reduction of the amount of imports in the close of the last year and the first quarter of the present, and to the reduction in the receipts Irom the public lands and from the dividends on bank stock, &c. It is agreeable to learn, however, that the customs stcured to the United Slates ( uoi paid into the Treasury) in the 2d and 3d quarters of the present year have exceeded in amount the duties secured in the correspond* ing quarters of the present year by upwards of a million of dollars; so that the revenue is evidently improving Irons that source. Aa Ihe customs must, for half a century to come probably, be the main reliance for revenue’ the information on this subject communica ted by the report must be a most agreeable disappointment to those who liave been wailu.g, with great feeling, and we have no doubt with great sincerity, the impending bankruptcy ot the Treasury. b On the other hand, we do not think that the Ireasury i8> at this moment, at all too rich. The balance calculated to be in the Treasury on the first day of the next year is gl,777,d«t, subject to outstandi.>B *.j under appropriations made by law; but, aa the revenue will be daily accruing to’the Treasury, as we suppose, in sufficient a* mounts to meet claims as thpy come in, we euppose that, in effect, the unexpended ’ap* propriations will not form demands on the Treasury beyond its means to meet them however on the face of the law they may and ought to be. so computed. Yet, say that the balance in the Treasury is now, or will be on the 1st day of January next, as stated, 1.770, 000 dollars. The Secretary has not staled what proportion ol this sum is unavailable for the purpose of pay ing demands on the Treasury. Having, at this time last year, stated the facts on this point as they then stood, it is probable that it was nof tho't ne* cessary now to repeat them. Last year the amount of special deposites, which could not be available daring the year, was stated at §600,000. That amount, we will venture to say, is not since, diminished, but, on the contrary, it is known to he increased by the failure of the Bank of Missouri for 150,000 dollars; and it is probable, adding such mo. ney received at the Land Offices, as ha« since proved uncurrent, that the amount of unavailable funds is not much short of a million of dollars, exclusive of the amount which is always in transitu, between the places of collection and those of expendi* lure. I he available tunas in the 1 reasury, there*, fore, on the 1st of January next, if we are right, will be considerably under a million of dollars. This is running too near the wind. To pursue the figure, it would be better, as a general rule, to lose a little way than to run the risk of foundering by rath seamanship.— The amount in the Treasury, we should sup pose, ought never to be much less than two miiliohs of dollars, though a little interest should be lost by keeping up that amount. These observations, whether of any weight or not, do not apply to the Secretary of tha Treasury, who, we remember, in his report* to Congress at the last session, insisted on a loan of seven millions of dollars for the ser vice of this year, assigning the unavailable funds as a reason for its being mure than the estimated deficiency for the year—stating the lowest amount of ready money that ought, under any consideration, to remain in the Treasury, at one m'lUion of dollars. The committee of Finance, in llit House of Re* preienlat'ves, thought the estimate of >he Secretary of the Treasury for Uie customs of this year to be too low—it has proved to be too high by a million of dollars—and recom mended a loan of 4,500.000 dollars for the servire of the year. The sum of5,000,G00 finally ngrred cn, wet the result of a compro mise of opinions, end has proved to he not a cent loo much, for ihe Secretary has some time ago been obliged to avail himself of the whole amount authorised by law to he bur* rowed. On the whole, though the aipcct of thi* Report is very flattering and agreeable as to the future, we find in it a strong monition, to financiers, against sanguine calculation*, and in favor of an abundant,ruther than a scanty, provist on of means far defraying the public expences. On this head, one fact obtained from the report is conclusive; If nil the op. propriations made by law had been called for during thpyrar, the Treasury would have been deficient (deducting ile unavailable funds) by soinewhr.ro about a million and a half of dollars of the means of paying them, - Ibid. in the House nt Heicgntes ol > irgirua, on (he 6ih ins*, the following letolulion was a* dopled, on the rr.otion of IVlr. biierrard : Itesulved, That tlie Governor be re quested to cause to be. communicated to this House all the proceedings bad by the Executive cn«l tlie Heard of Public Work®, under the uet of tbe last sec tion of (lie Gcnernl Assembly, entitled “An net enneernirg tbc Potomac Com pany,” together with liny olhtr iofor* mation in possession of the Executive, relative to the object contemplated by said act. l We bail this as an acceptable om*n of ti c ! disposition of the Legislature of Virginia to i enter on the rerious ebnsideratii.n of the mb ject embraced by it. if tt ere were no high* I .-r and purer stimulant, we should suppose | the pride 'of the Ancient Dominion would I rouse her to lead the way in tlie completion ot i an undertaking, planted hv her favoiile run, j and in<imal* ly connected with history. Allci i Gen. Washington** retirement from mt>r« I tial pur:oils, no rtdject occupied so rnucli of ’ his attention as the pr« jtet for opening the 1 navigation of the Potomac, so n to connect • its wa'er* wi'b those of the Mississippi by a ' i-hort portage. Had he livid to tins >*ny ; we are sanguine in the belief that t/'it ubjrcl uould ha\e Ictn accoJii i istis n. Ilia | death did not lessen its importance, but it ba» 1 languished Iron* the want cf his example. & j personal aid and influence. We can ite ] that it is reviving; arid we predict th«t three gnat ilafrs will soon lie. found uni ing in Ithis greRt wo»k. il the government of ’he U* r.ion Co r.t t £?.* the Mart of them.— *