Mr. Wise was understood to explain that he did | far as the president was concerned, he thought he | penditures when the bill he had been urging, but in not think so; but that he had referred to it as the had acted right. He referred to some further cir- vain, bill number 548, would by reducing the per reason why the house had increased the pay of those cumstances of that case, showing, as he considered, diem of congressmen, reduce at one clip an expenofficers in 1835. We did not pay our senior captains that there was more of military vanity and tyranny diture of four millions of dollars. Members could more than one-third of the salaries of the correspond- in the navy than of practical good sense. If we halve the salaries of others almost by acclamation, ing officers of the British navy. wanted to have an efficient navy we must cut down while when it came to their dear selves, they would Mr. Johnson said the question for this house to de- these high salaries. He was for democracy and re- not give up a penny of their allowance. Mr. A. had cide was, how much we ought to pay officers engag-publicanism in the navy so far as justice required been urging his bill all the last session, but never ed in this service, and not how their salaries com- that there should not be an unnecessary tyranny in could get members even to touch it. He had ever been pared with those of English officers. He said there the navy, and that the pay between the sailors and refused even the yeas and nays on it. There was was no necessity for the increase under the law of commanders should be equalized in proportion to his colleague, (Mr. Care Johnson,) a great retrencher 1835; or, if there was any necessity then, that neces- their services and qualifications. He would like to a very great retrencher, indeed, till it came to his sity had gone by, and they should come back to some- have this amendment so modified as to exempt from own pocket, and then he caved in. (Loud laughter.) thing like what the pay was before. In 1835 every from the reduction the services already performed And then there was the gentleman from New York, thing was at most extraordinary prices, and our trea- by the naval officers and all those officers whose pay (Mr. Gordon,) he had made a fine retrenchment sury was full; but now, when we had no money in was not $1,000. With these modifications he was speech-a very fine one indeed; and after that, he the treasury, and had nothing for the captains to do, willing to vote for it, and, if he could not get them, never could go against Mr, A.'s bill; he could not do their salaries ought to be reduced. Was there any he knew not how he should go for it as it was. it. When the proposed reduction in the navy pay reason why we should have sixty-eight or sixty-nine Mr. Tillinghast was opposed to the amendment, was resisted, they all said that salaries had been fixsenior captains employed at a salary of $4,500, (an and thougat that if prices were low now, they willed at a time when we were perfectly smothered in amount which but few officers of the government re- in the natural course of events rise again and the paper money; but that, now prices had got down alceived,) one-half of whom were not employed. Now, gradual increase of the navy should form the cherish- most to a hard money standard, they ought in fairif we were to have that number of captains, it seem- ed system of the country. ness to be reduced. If that was true, then one of two ed to him that the pay of those off duty might be re- Mr. Mark T. Cooper thought that we are in danger things followed inevitably-either that the pay of duced much more even than was proposed by the of being forced to adopt a national bank, an ex- members of congress ought to be eut down, or else amendment of the gentleman from Georgia, (Mr. chequer of some sort, or direct taxation if we drive that when fixed they had been fixed much too low. Meriwether.) If the amendment would reduce it to on as we have been driving, or even the 200 million Mr. A. went for reducing the per diem one-fourth; what it was before 1835, it was right; if not, they scheme. He will oppose anything that will compel and he was very sure that with the remaining threeshould go on and make a further reduction. With the government to resort to a further use of its credit fourths he could buy as much now as he could eight out entering into the general subject of reduction, he instead of relying upon its actual hard dollar receipts. years ago with the whole sum. And none could deny would put it to the members of this house whether Now should he say that the true means to relieve this. Would any gentleman stand up in his place the senior captains were entitled to receive $4,500 ourselves was to abolish the army and the navy, he and contradict him? The gentleman from Georgia instead of about $2,500; whether the lieutenants supposed it would be thought radical beyond all ra- would not: and yet, though he thought the country were entitled to receive on command $1,800, on dicalism; and yet it was his firm conviction that the reduced to such a pass that it must have either an other duty $1,500, and waiting orders $1,200, instead country had no need either for a navy or an army.exchequer or a national bank, or abolish the army of a little less than $1,000 (their former pay;) and He believed that we needed no ships and but very and navy, would not vote to take two dollars a day whether the salaries of other officers should be in- few soldiers; and that with suitable retrenchment the off his own allowance. creased in this proportion? He would like to have government might be sustained on fourteen or fifteen it explained why a lieutenant in the navy should re-millions. But would the democrats all take this ceive a greater compensation than that of the members of this house. Where was the reason for this increase of pay now? He trusted this house would bring down this pay to what it was in 1835, and he trusted that the next congress would take up the subject of the army and the navy, and bring them down to a proper number as well as a proper pay These branches of the public service had been the great source of the enormous expenditures of govern ment. Mr. Fessenden was opposed to the amendment. Mr. Cooper said that the country might be reduced to such a state that he would be willing, instead of ground? Of one thing he was certain; on one pur- eight dollars a day, to reduce the pay to three dolhis consent nothing ever should be used by this gov-high allowance for the services of some members of pose he was fully resolved; and that was, that, with lars. Mr. Arnold said that three dollars a day was a very congress. (A laugh.) He had been amused at the excuses of gentlemen. ernment as money but gold and silver. Mr. Arnold said he was much gratified to find that the honorable gentleman from Georgia, after a long and sound sleep, had at last waked up, much in the style of Rip Van Winkle, and had at length become sensible of the real predicament of the democratic party. Mr. A. should have been still more gratified had the gentleman pointed out any specific for their relief. He did not like the mode in which this retrench. ment was proposed to be done, viz: by cutting down [Mr. Cooper. My specific is retrenchment.] an appropriation bill. Mr. F. thought if naval saThe gentleman said his panacea was retrenchment. laries were reduced, its plan and system required de- Well. Mr. A. was glad to find the gentleman's vision liberate investigation. Mr. F. does not believe either had been cleared. There had been a time when that civilians or military men can live cheaper now than gentleman had voted against bill 458. (Much merin 1835. Mr. F. thought the action of the president riment.) Yes, he had been one of the first men to in restoring Captain Levy, after he had been sen- oppose it; yet that immortal bill, went at least a head tenced by a court martial was calculated to pro-and shoulders over all other expedients for retrench- a clip? He called the bill his, but it was not his: it mote naval disorders. Mr. F. was opposed to introducing any democratic principles into the navy He believed commodore Preble was right when he said that democracy would do very well on shore but never on board a man-of-war. Mr. F. does not believe naval officers receive too much, and if the subject is to be considered at all, it ought to go to a committee and not be acted on in an appropriation bill without investigation or information. ment. Mr. A. was glad, and congratulated himself [Mr. Cooper. Not on that bill.] Ah! Mr. A. saw how it was; the gentleman was willing to cut down the allowance of a poor little midshipman that he sent to his mother, and to cut Mr. Gordon said it seemed to be conceded by all down, at a blow, every veteran officer who had nailthat in 1835, the naval salaries were very much in- ed our flag to the mast, before he would consent to creased. According to Mr. G's recollection the chief take two dollars a day for his own allowance? Mr. ground of complaint by naval officers then had been A. had had his fears that this was the most that might that their pay was not as high as that of army offi- be calculated on from the gentleman's zeal for recers and not that it was insufficient. Mr. G. was trenchment. As soon as the gentleman had got into opposed to taking the pay of foreign navies as a his speech it was plain he was driving in the wind, standard to regulate our own. If entertainments are but into what port, no man alive could guess. To to be given on foreign stations to foreign princes, use a western figure, the honorable gentleman had Mr. G. believes their expenses are made eventually swarmed-that was plain-but where he was going to come out of the national treasury. Mr. G. be- to settle, nobody could tell. The gentleman declarlieves the efficiency of the navy does not depend on ed himself to be going for retrenchment, and Mr. A. entertainments on foreign stations. The chairman had really hoped he might be: but, alas, how was he of the committee on naval affairs had said it took disappointed! The gentleman would not go for bill twenty years to educate a lieutenant, but that we 548-oh, no-but he would abolish the army and the could build a ship in three months. If it took so navy! When the people saw it come to that, they long to educate an American officer, then our coun- would say to the gentleman, go on, and now abolish trymen were duller than he (Mr. G.) supposed.. It congress, abolish the government, ane let every man seemed to him that this was rather a far-fetched ar- be his own government?" gument to sustain the navy at the present rate. In As the gentleman went on, Mr, A. had thought at reference to captain Levy's case alluded to by Mr first he was going for the exchequer; but no. Then Fessenden Mr. G. said he wished there was a little he thought he was for the project of the 200,000,000; more practical talent in the navy and a little less of but he was not. The gentleman was against a tariff, this aristocratic feeling. He began to think that the against direct taxes, and against reducing his own navy had better be abolished, and we commence pay. Really, it had been a most extraordinary speech: again on a practical system and practical principles, and not on a theoretical or aristocratical basis. He was no enemy to the navy; he felt proud of it as the right arm of our public defence, but he was not at Mr. A. said our revenue this year, it was admitted all pround of its operations in the Pacific or the At- would amount to only fifteen or twelve millions, lantic, or of what was done in the case of captain while our expenditures fell short of thirty millions, Levy, so far as the court martial was concerned; sol and yet gentlemen come picking at little isolated ex it steered a most curious course, and ended in Point- The speech of the gentlemen from Georgia, (Mr. Cooper) had been most opportune. The precious confessions it contained presented the most potent of arguments in favor of the bill. He was an unwilling witness, and that was the best of witnesses. The gentlemen confessed they were driven to the wall; and Mr. A, could tell them the two ends of the government never would meet without this very bill. Why waste time in attempting little retrenchments in an appropriation bill? Leaping in the dark?Doing a little good at the risk of much injury and injustice? Why not take bill 548? Yes, why not take that which would save four millions at was the bill of a select committee. They had examined it, revised it, considered it, and amended it; and it came before the house as theirs. Though it did not exactly suit Mr. A., yet it was in his opinion a good bill. He wanted to reduce to the tune of 25 per cent; the committee said only 20 per cent, Well, be it so; and he would now give notice to the house, that if the speaker would give him but half a chance to-morrow morning, and not let the gentleman from New York (Mr. Fillmore) have the floor every morning the moment the journal was read; but Mr. A. was wrong to say the speaker seemed to have set his very soul and heart against the bill[The Chair (occupied by Mr. Allen) called Mr. A. to order.] Mr. A. said he hoped the house would excuse him; he never could get a chance of making a speech or saying a word on bill 548, and he never could say a word about it, unless when some other bill was up. (A laugh.) He was compelled to hang his remarks on any bill he could catch; but the speech of the gentleman from Georgia was a God send; that fairly opened his way, and he had made his little speech without being out of order. He was under infinite obligations to the gentleman, and he would now give notice that to-morrow morning he meant to contend with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Fillmore) for the floor to move his bill, and he wanted all the real friends of retrenchment to be in their places and back him. He did not intend to be still. No; he should keep "moving"--he should keep on agitating-agitating; worrying himself and worrying the house, till he got his bill up. Let the house vote it down if they pleased; only let them not dodge the yeas and nays. Let them behave like men; if they were really for the bill, let them pass it; if not, let them say not.Those who had been home in the recess, and who had at the last session voted against taking up the bill, had lately told him wherever they went all their people, men, women, and children, went with one voice for bill No. 548-the great retrenchment bill "Arnold's bill, No. 548. (Laughter.) Now good democrats all held that they must obey instructions, and, of course, they would go for the bill. Mr. Holmes obtained the floor, but yielded for a motion that the committee rise; which motion pre vailed The committee rose and reported. Mr. Mallory asked leave to offer the following resolution; which was read for information: Resolved, That the secretary of the navy be directed to furnish to this house a statement of the articles purchased for the use of the navy, under the direction of the medical bureau, from 1st August to 31st December, 1842; which statement shall include a list of the articles, the cost of each, the place where and the person from whom purchased, and the station where sent. But of Mr. Holmes, and vindicated the course of the whigs Mr. Fillmore had never been aware that it was the and deprecated that of the opposite party, and point-duty of the committee of ways and means to corresed out the injuries that the country had sustained pond with the collectors at the different custom houses from their proceedings. to get their grounds for official action in framing Mr. Fillmore called attention to the fact that the money bills. The sole source of their information committee of ways and means had already reduced had always been properly and rightly too, the official the estimates of the secretary for the half year to communications of the treasury department. July, from $4,020,060 to $3,663,976 being a deduc- Mr. F. had no information from the department as tion of $356,084. The department's estimates for the to any contemplated deficit in the revenue. It would year amounted to $7,318,021 while the amount in-be certainly extremely unfortunate, if such deficienserted by the committee had been but 6,248,079. be-cy was about to occur, that the expectation of it had ing a difference of $1,069,942. Thus the total reduc- not in time been made known to the committee of tion made by the committee was $1,426,026. Mr. ways and means, so that that committee and the F. hoped the gentleman (Mr. Meriwether) would house might take action on the subject. Mr. F. said withdraw his amendment. Mr. F. was astonished these things in order to show that the committee had at the extraordinary proposition of Mr. Holmes to done their duty; and, having done their own duty, lay aside the whole of the regular appropriation they now left to the administration to say whether bills upon the table until the ways and means they had done theirs. could first be found for paying the sums they might Mr. Charles Brown next occupied the floor in a parcontain. It was extraordinary to come from that tizan speech of great diffuseness, and alluding so far gentleman's side of the house and was extraordi- to the subject under discussion as to evince his oppoTUESDAY, FEB. 7. The resolution limiting debate ary to come too at this late date of the session.sition to the proposed retrenchment and complainon the naval appropriation bill to to morrow at 2 Mr. F. said the secretary of the treasury had given ing of the neglect of the Philadelphia navy yard. o'clock, on motion of Mr. Fillmore was adopted. as his official calculation that there would be in the The question being taken on Mr. Meriwether's Bill No. 548, to reduce the per diem of congress-treasury on the 1st of July 1844, a balance of $1,635,- amendment, it was rejected by a vote of yeas 75, men was on motion of Mr. Arnold, made the special 871. order for Tuesday next. Mr. Wise objected, and the resolution was not received. The house then adjourned. Exploring expedition. Mr. Kennedy of Maryland renewed his unsuccessful motion of yesterday to have leave to introduce a joint resolution expressing the thanks of congress to the officers and men engaged in the late exploring expedition for their industry, zeal, and the manner in which they endured the hardships they encountered in that service, proposing promotions, and allowing three months additional pay to the officers and men. Mr. C. Johnson objected. But on motion of Mr. Wise, it was referred to the committee on naval affairs. Mr. Smith of Va. enquired of Mr. Fillmore had come Mr. Wise wished to know if Mr. Fillmore did not Mr. Fillmore replied that the committee of ways and means were bound to rely upon the information furnished to them from the treasury department.The secretary had communicated his estimates to the committee on Dec. 15th, and the committee had supFrench Spoliations. The motion of Mr. Jones to posed that if any circumstances had since arisen to reconsider the vote laying on the table Mr. Cushing's Induce him to suppose his estimates had been erroresolution to bring this question to a vote on Thurs-neous, he would of course inform the committee of day next, was taken up, and by a vote of 105 to 102 the motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Sword of Washington. Mr. Summers, of Virginia, arose and addressed the speaker. The detail of the proceedings being of much interest will appear on another page. After their conclusion, on motion of Mr. McKennan, of Pennsylvania, the house adjourned. it and make the requisite correction. But from that nays 82. Mr. Levy offered several ineffectual amendments increasing the outlay for the Pensacola navy yard. Rejected. Mr. McKeon's proposed proviso. forbidding any of the appropriations to be expended in carrying out the 8th article of the treaty of Washington, was rejected by a vote of 23 in favor of his amendment, noes not counted. Amendments offered by Mr. Stanly, striking out $993,169 for pay of officers and men, and inserting $715,805 (by a vote of 73 to 53,) and striking out $724,539 for provisions, and inserting $623,653 were agreed to. An amendment offered by Mr. Mallory, providing that the duties of the chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing shall be discharged by a captain of the navy, who shall have the same compensation as the chief of the bureau of dock yards, modified on the suggestion of Mr. Wise, so as to state that the bill re-organizing the navy department shall be so amended, was adopted. corps. Mr. Fillmore moved an amendment, bringing into But Mr. F.'s statement must not stop here. So one appropriation all the items for medicines, surfar from the committee having received any correc-gical instruments, &c. for the navy and the marine WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8. Washington and Franklin. tions volunteered by the department, Mr. F. after On motion of Mr. Briggs, the letter of S. T. Wash- waiting and after hearing frequent assertions, and deington to Mr. Summers, asking that the sword of Gen.nunciations, here and elsewhere, insisting that the Washington be presented to congress and also the estimates were based on grounds that never could be letter of Col. Washington confirming the identity of realized, had, on the 31st of January last, addressed the sword, were ordered to be entered on the jour- a letter to the secretary, calling upon him for infornal. Imation,which letter he would now read to the house, stating that the same time that until this moment no answer whatever had been received: · Mr. Taliaferro rose and said: Mr. Speaker, being well satisfied that the constituents of every member of this assembly are influenced by the same feeling which was so sensibly manifested by their represen tatives yesterday at all which occurred on the presentation to congress of the war-sword of gen. George Washington, in constant use by him during the war of the revolution, I ask leave to offer the resolution I send to the chair: Resolved, That 20,000 copies of the full journal of the proceedings of the house on the presentation of the sword of Washington be printed for distribution by the members of the house." The resolution was adopted unanimously. Jackson's fine. On motion of Mr. Pearce 5,000 copies of the report of the committee of judiciary of the present session, and of the report of the minority of the committee at the last session were ordered to be printed. Naval appropriation bill. The house resolved itself, into committee of the whole (Mr. Allen, of Maine, in the chair) and resumed the consideration of the naval bill. Mr. Fessenden moved to amend the amendment by adding a proviso, that hereafter no person should hold the place of chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery who had not seen five years' sea service. The amendment to the amendment was agreed to, and the amendment as amended was agreed to. An amendment appropriating $1,000 for printing House of Representatives, January 31, 1843. the code of rules and regulations prepared by the Sir: I desire to know, with as much despatch as secretary of the navy and the attorney general, in possible, the amount of treasury notes now outstand-case the said code shall be ratified by congress, was ing, distinguishing under what act issued and when moved by Mr. Fillmore and adopted. redeemable. Mr. Burnell offered an amendment entitling the 2d. The amount on which the treasury is authoriz-naval apprentices to the privilege of being commised to allow semi-annual interest, and the amount on sioned as junior officers when their talents and which it is not so authorized, and the opinion of the merits therefor receive the recommendation of their department whether it is expedient to extend the pro- superiors. Rejected. visions of the act authorizing the semi-annual pay. ment of interest to those treasury notes issued under subsequent acts. The committee then rose and reported the bill and amendments to the house. Mr. King wished to make a few remarks, but yield3d. The amount of the loan that has been negotiated to the impatience of some gentleman, and throwed, distinguishing between that negotiated before and ing the responsibility of a motion for the previous that since the 1st of January, 1843. question, upon Mr. Wise, moved the previous question. 4th. The amount of treasury notes and loan, respecti- 6th. The amount of expenditures for the calendar The amendments of the committee to the bill were then concurred in, en masse. And the bill having been ordered to a third reading, Mr. Meriwether moved that it be recommitted to the committee of the whole on the state of the union, with the following instructions: "That, until otherwise ordered by law, no part of the present or any future appropriations for the pay of the commission, warrant, and petty officers, inHon. W. Forward, secretary of the treasury. cluding engineer corps, shall be paid to the same, On the same day, after having waited for the re-except upon a reduction of the present pay at and commendations of the department in relation to the after 20 per cent." tariff, Mr. F. had also addressed to the secretary another letter, inquiring whether he had any recommendations to make to the committee on that subject, but neither to this letter had any reply whatever been as yet received. Mr. Wise demanded the previous question, which was seconded. [The motion to recommit with instructions was thus cut off, and the house was brought to a direct vote on the passage of the bill.] Mr. Holmes, of S. C. spoke against diminishing the naval salaries, but chiefly exhausted his hour in assailing the whig party and in defence of free trade, against the tariff and in dread of the consequences of a deficit of revenue. Mr. H. said that if necessary, England could pour her naval steamers into the northern lakes by the Welland and other canals which she had opened there, and he was unwilling to cut down the naval salaries. Mr. H. thought however that a committee ought to be appointed to discuss the subject of resuscitating the finances, and after picturing their present state, foreboded the most awful catastrophe to the country, unless some more radical Mr. Wise inquired whether the committee had retrenchment be adopted. He should move that the made any inquiries for themselves on this subject and present bill be laid aside whenever the time came whether they had an opinion formed from such inwhen it was proper for it; and that a committee quiries. Mr. W. conceived that the government was should be appointed at once, which no doubt would in the habit of taking a double security in relation to be composed of some of the most intelligent and sa- its expenditures, viz: that of the estimates and opi- On motion of Mr. Arnold, bill No. 548, (the printgacious men of the house. nions of the committee of ways and means of the ed copies whereof had heretofore been exhausted) Mr. White, of Indiana, replied to the party attack | house, as well as that of the secretary of the treasury. I was ordered to be printed, and the house adjourned. L And the main question (on the passage of the bill) being taken and decided in the affirmative, the bill was passed. Mr. Fillmore moved a reconsideration of the vote by which it had been passed, and demanded the previous question. The vote was not reconsidered. CHRONICLE. Methodists. The following statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church have been taken by a correspondent from the minutes of the several conferences just publish ed for 1842Annual conferences Travelling preachers 34 4,244 7,621 1,008,901 120,123 Revivals. It appears from statistics recently published, that about twenty thousand members were added to the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches in Virginia, during the year 1842. NEW HAMPSHIRE. General Anthony Colby, of New London, has been nominated by a Whig mass convention at Concord as the whig candidate for governor of AMERICAN SKILL. Louis Philippe has complimented our this state. The election will take place in March next. countryman, Norris, very highly on the superior perforNAVAL. The finding and opinion of the naval court of mance of his locomotives, which the French engineers adınit, excel any thing that Europe has produced. The Inquiry on the conduct of commander Mackenzie has Local preachers French monarch expressed his approbation, by present- been published. They unanimously acquit the com- Church members, (communicants) ing Mr. Norris with a splendid gold box with brilliants, mander of all blame and justify his proceedings. The Nett increase in 1832 of Church members, and a gold medal with his portrait. court martial is proceeding with their trials at N. York. (after deducting the dead, the withdrawn, The emperor Nicholas, of Russia, has in like manner Mediterranean squadron. The Army & Navy Chroniand expelled) complimented the American architects of the steam fricle states that the department has it in contemplation, to gate Kamshatska, built for him at N. York, and which, establish a naval place of rendezvous outside of the notwithstanding all the falsehoods of the British press, Straits for the Mediterranean squadron, and also remove and of British steam ship builders, who are rivals of the rendezvous at Mahon to Spezzia. our builders for the custom of Russia, in this departExamination of surgeons. A board of naval sur ment-notwithstanding all their machinations at St. Pe-geons has been ordered to convene at Philadelphia, on tersburg, in England, and in this country, the American steam frigate has fairly beat every European sieam frigate she has yet come across, and she had to compete with a number. The result is highly flattering to the American builders-and completely satisfactory to the Emperor, who was repeatedly on board during those experiments. He presented a magnificent diamond ring to the American captain. The king of Prussia, who was conveyed to and from St. Petersburg in the Kamshatsku, also presented the American captain with a diamond ring, and the order of the black eagle. BANKRUPT LAW. The New York Express of the 4th inst. states that a report prevails in that city that some of the foreign houses there, aided by two American firms, had raised a large sum wherewith to fee Messrs. Silas Wright, and Thomas H. Benton, to argue the case now pending in the United States supreme court, against the constitutionality of the bankrupt law. BOSTON EXCHANGE. The completion of this splendid edifice was celebrated by a public dinner given by the Boston Exchange company on the 1st inst. BRITISH IMMIGRATION TO CANADA. The immigration of the year 1842 was distributed as follows To Western Canada, 26,900; to the Ottaway country, 4,250; to Glengarry and Beauharnois, 1,946; to the Eastern townships, 2,755; to the North of Montreal, 1, 175; to the public works, servants, &c., 3,479; to the United States, 1,850. Total, 42,355. Of the above number 13,060 were forwarded at the expense of the government. During the season 884 were on the sick list, and 59 died at the sheds or shanties. Monday, the 13th inst. for the examination of assistant James C. Palmer, Augustus J. Bowie, John L. Fox, well. NATIONAL PRINTING OFFICE. The select committee of PACKET SHIPS. A new line is about to be established Ships. Great Western, Size. 800 tons, 1050 tons. 1150 tons, 1200 tons, Departure. Feb. 16. Mar. 16. April 16. May 16. PANAMA. The secretary of the navy is maturing a plan for the transmission of regular mails from Pensacola to Chagres once a month, by means of the gulph squadron. CALIFORNIA. In reply to an official enquiry from the house of representatives, President Tyler, through the PENNSYLVANIA. Sheriff Porter. A writ of quo war secretary of state to whom he referred the enquiry, as-ranto has been issued against Wm. A. Porter, sheriff of sures the house, that "no information is in possession of Philadelphia county, in order to test his constitutional the government of the U. States, of any negotiation of a right to hold his office. treaty, or of any overtures to treat, for the cession of California, by Mexico, to England." United States bankrupt law. The judiciary committee CINCINNATI PORK TRADE. The packing business has not yet entirely closed for the season; but is, in the main, at an end. More than two hundred thousand hogs, a num ber exceeding that of any toriner year-have been pack-to ed in Cincinnati and its vicinity this year. Three rea sous are stated in the Chronicle why more than the usual the states. number has been driven in this year. The first is that hogs are almost the only article that would command cush at this season. Another reason, and an important one, is the introduction of lard oil; and a third, which may be a more important one in future, is a demand for Europe. Not much pork has, however, yet been put up for England. Pork packers say that about seventy thousand hogs have been run into lard entirely, with the exception of the hams. The editor of the Chronicle, in speaking of the great improvement made in curing provisions, says-"The business has improved every year, until now the neatness, system, quickness, care and skill, with which all parts of both pork and beef, but especially the former, are put up in this market, is really admirable. No turkey was ever carved with more adroitness at a lady's table, than the gentlemen of the cleaver here cut into his proper proportions the slain-porker. No pudding was ever mixed by the fair hand of the lady herself with more neatness of handling and preparation than the sugar cured and extra hams. This is an important matter to those who eat them." [Balt. Amer. Gov. Porter has approved the bill passed by the legis lature of that state, authorising the cancellation of 100,000 dollars of relief notes per month.. PATENTS. From the annual report of the commissioner of the patent office, we learn that 517 patents have been issued during the past year, of which 13 were reissues and 15 for additional improvements. During the same period, 352 patents have expired. The receipts of the office amounted to $35,790, the expenditures to $23,154. The whole number of patents issued by the U. States previous to January, 1813, is 12,992. PORT-AU-PRINCE. Twelve squares containing six hundred houses was destroyed by fire, and a large amount of foreign as well as other goods; estimated loss 4 millions of dollars. REMOVALS. About 30 removals from office have been made within a few days past, in the New York custom house. A proposition to reduce the number of officers employed by that establishment, has been made in con gress. SANDWICH ISLAND AGENTS. Haalilio and Mr. Richards left the United States in the Caledonia steamer for Europe last week. They publish a card in the Boston papers, of the 2d instant, congratulating their "Christian friends," on the success they met with in the prosecution of their official business at Washington. SABBATHS. The following days of the week are set apart for public worship in different nations-Sunday or the Lord's Day, by Christians; Monday, by the Grecians; Tuesday, by the Persians; Wednesday, by the Assy rians; Thursday, by the Egyptians; Friday, by the Turks; Saturday, by the Jews. SPECIE. $541,281 were received at N. Orleans on the 24th ult. has been taken in New York at 1 per cent. premium. STOCKS. A small portion of the U. S. 6 per cent. loan The Manufacturers and Mechanics' bank of the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, announce that they will resume specie payments upon their deposites and circulation, excepting their relief notes which are redeemable in state stocks. SENATOR FROM N. YORK. Silas Wright, present se nator, having received the unanimous nomination of his party in the N. York legislature for re-election, has been accordingly re-elected. THE FRIENDS OF IRELAND and advocates of the repeal of Pitt's Union act held a large meeting at Washington, on Feb. 6. Prince Albert and his world's convention are met. Messrs. Hoban, Z.C. Lee, Robert Tyler, jr., the Thomas Mooney addressed the assembly and various hon. J. McKeon, and W. W. Irwin, Dr. Jones and resolutions were adopted. U. S. FINANCES. In consequence of various assertions in debate, in the house of representatives, tending to bring in question the adequacy of the resources of the treasury for the demands of the ensuing year, Mr. Fillmore, chairman of the committee on ways and means, addressed an official enquiry to the secretary of the ply of that officer was read in the house on Thursday treasury on the subject. [See preceding page. The rethe revenue, both as to its estimated receipts and expenlast, by Mr. F. On a review of the whole condition of ditures, that officer now estimates that there will be a balance in the treasury on the 1st January, 1844, of $390,627, over his original estimates for expenditures, and this without the imposition of ang additional duty. The secretary in making this estimate, made no refered in making in various departments of expenditures. ence to retrenchments which congress are now employThe navy bill alone, just passed by the house, reduces expenditures two and a half millions below the prior estimates for that department. The secretary declines to ask for authority to issue new treasury notes. The existing authority to re-issue existing ones he considers ample. WESTERN HEMP. The Louisville Journal publishes an estimate of the extent of the manufacture and culture of hemp in Kentucky and Missouri, from which it ap pears that the steam factories in and near Kentucky sil inake this year two millions of yards of bagging, and that there are in the state 300 hand looms, producing annually 15,000 yards each, and an aggregate of 4,500,000 yards -together, 6,500,000 yards of bagging, which will cover 1,100,000 bales of cotion; so that from 500,000 to 900,000 bales must be covered from Missouri, and from the surplus left over last year. This bagging will require 10,000,000 pounds of hemp. There will probably be 7,000,000 500,000 bales of cotton; so that from 700,0000 to 1,100,000 pounds of bale-rope made in Kentucky, which will bale bales must be baled from Missouri and the surplus left 450 000 last 220,000 year. RELIGIOUS STATISTICS OF THE U. STATES. The following statement of the religious population of the DAGUERRE'S MAGICAL PICTURES. We learn from the United States is said by the Rochester Democrat to be New Orleans papers that the beautiful magical pictures derived from various sources-several of which are auby Daguerre, of Paris, which have been seen and admir-thenticed by thousands in this country, were entirely destroyed Babtists by fire on the night of the 29th ult. Methodists DEATHS. In New York last week 134, of which 25 by Presbyterians consumption. EARTHQUAKES. A slight shock was noticed in the cities of Washington and Baltimore within a few minutes of 10 o'clock on the morning of the 8th inst. We have accounts of singular effects produced in part of the Mississippi river by the shocks experienced in that region last month-as well as in various small island lakes, by the sudden sinking of their bottoms to depths as yet unfathomed. 4,000,000 Dutch Reformed 3,000,000 Friends 2,175,000 Unitarians 180,000 Woodford county has 60 of the 300 looms in the state, Congrega'ists 1,400,000 Dunkers 30,000 Fayette about 80. Franklin about 30, Scott about 30, Roman Catholics 1,300,000 Mormonites 19 000 Jessamine about 30, Mason about 20, all other counties Episcopalians 1,000,000 Shakers 6.000 about 50. Universalists 600,000 Moravians 5,000 Lutherans 540.000 Swedenborgians 6.000 Another estimate makes the Babtist populaton amount to 5,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal Church is said to have about 1,000,000 of communicants in the U. States. Roman Catholics. The number of Roman Catholics in the United States has been lately by more recent auINDIANA. The senate of Indiana, by a vote of 27 to 22, has passed a resolution urging congress to issue go-thority estimated at 1,500,000, an increase of 20,000 since vernment stock for the relief of the states, based on the the beginning of the year 1842. Of churches and chapels there are 574, and 82 in process of construction, makpublic lands. ing a total of 656. Of official priests the number is 572; 19 of these have been made in the year 1842. 34 new churches have been erected in 1842, 14 of which are in the diocese of New York. LOUISIANA. The inauguration of Alexander Mouton, governor elect of Louisiana, took place at New Orleans on the 30th ult. The above estimate shows that about 17,000,000 lbs, of hemp will be required in Kentucky and by the steam factories near Louisville. 1,000, Woodford 2,000, Franklin 500, Scott 1,000, Fay Jefferson produced the past year over 500 tons, Shelby ette 3,000, Mason 2,500, Jessamine 1,500, Mercer and 28,000,000 pounds-11,000,000 more than will be requir Boyle, 500, all other counties 2,000; total 14,000 tons or ed by the factories now in operation, To this surplus Missouri will add a considerable amount. [Amer. WEATHER. The thermometer was at zero at Washington, a few days ago. At Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the thermometer stood 10 deg. above zero. FIFTH SERIES.No. 25.-VOL. XIII.] BALTIMORE, FEBRUARY 18, 1843. THE PAST-THE PRESENT--FOR THE FUTURE. [VOL. LXIII.-WHOLE NO. 1,638. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY, BY JEREMIAH HUGHES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. MEMENTOE OF WASHINGTON AND FRANKLIN. and means against. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. CHRONICLE. POSTSCRIPT Latest from Europe. By the packet ship North America, which got ashore on the night of the 14th near New York, London dates to the 8th ult. are received-she sailed on the 12th. well as British journalism exults in the success of had repulsed an attack from their army, pursued Woll to the Medina and thence returned to Bexar and disbanded, with the intention, as was understood of making preparations to co-operate with the forces that were acting under executive order. Captain Dawson and his brave companions, in endeavoring to effect a passage into Caldwell's camp, for the purpose of sustaining him during his battle, were all either slain or captured. Under executive instructions of 3d October, Brigadier General Somerville was directed to proceed to the south western frontier to concentrate, organize, and muster into service, such volunteers only as were willing to pursue and chastise the enemy. General S. was authorised to cross the Rio Grande should the strength and condition of his force warrant such a movement and also to make all necessary requisitions for ordnance, ammunition, &c. Major J. C. Hays received authority, in consequence of the confusion and disordered state of Bex The Levant mail brings intelligence to the middle from the majority and minority of the committee of ways of November. The news from Syria is alarming. The Sheik Seeble Harien has escaped from the hands of the Ottomans, where he was detained on political affairs, and gone among the Druses and Maronites. This Sheik is one of those who gave Ibrahim Pacha so much trouble. Omar Pacha is blockaded up in Der-el-kamar; he has with him 4,000 or 5,000 regular troops. The Druses and the Maronites took possession of several convoys, in which they found much provisions, munitions of war. and other things for Omar Pacha, the escorts were disarmed and made prisoners. The chiefs of the Druses sent a petition to the Se-ar county, to declare martial law throughout its raskier Pacha, in which they said they were and al- limits. Delays of communications and the condiways wished to be under the Ottoman government, tion of the streams have retarded the supplies of beef but that they would not be governed by any other for the army and the movements of the troops to this date (12th Nov.) governor than their Emir Bechir, or one of his sons. Despatches have reached the French government by extraordinary express from Vienna, dated the 21st, announcing that a special courier had arrived in that capital with the important advice from Constantinople that the porte had consented to the appointment of a Christian governor for the Maronite or Christian population of Syria, and a Druse governor for the Druses. Trade is improving-notwithstanding money is very abundant and to be had on easier terms. Wheat com mands a small advance-business in a wholesome state at Manchester,-demands for cloths brisk, and at better prices. Share market brisk, and prices improved. The French king sustained the formalities usual to New Years' day, adinirably. The addresses of the di plomatle corps and chambers of Peers and deputies, and his replies, are published. French triumphs at Algiers, (like our Florida triumphs) are duly announced. Abdel Kader commanded in an affair on the 25th Nov., in which the French had 7 killed and 57 wounded. The Syrian negouations are terminated. The Porte yielding, as usual, to "the great powers." RIGHT OF SEARCH. The London Morning Herald of the 6th Jan. gives the following in its leading columnsWe have reason to believe that the earl of Aberdeen has distinctly caused it to be made known in the proper quarter, that no concession can be given by the British to the French government with regard to the obligations imposed by the right-of-search treaties of 1831 and 1833. The noble earl has, we are told, peremptorily declined even to negotiate on the subject. We have, also, reason to suppose that Russia Austria, and Prussia have approved of the course taken by the British government on this occasion. Further, we understand that the French minister, who substantially holds by the international engagements imposed by those treaties, proposes to calm the opposition likely to be offered in both chambers to the right of search by gradually diminishing the number of cruiser licences hitherto granted by his government. THE BRITISH REVENUE for the year 1842 falls £922,630 below that of 1841-and for the last quarter it falls £940,062 below the corresponding quarter of 1841. The deficiency is principally in excise. FOREIGN ARTICLES. FRANCE. The secretary then recommends the establishment of a permanent military force on that frontier upon economical principles, say a force of four companies. The militia remains still without organization and such returns, as have been received, are but partial. The militia law of 18th January, 1841, is worse than nothing and ought to be repealed. Galveston by the aid of its inhabitants has been put in a more proper state of defence. AUSTRIA AND THE UNITED STATES. All the naval appropriations of last congress were apThere is every reason to believe that a Commercial treaty will shortly be concluded between the plied to fit out the navy to enforce the blockade against Austrian government and the United States of North Mexico, but were insufficient. Immediately therefore, America. The negotiations between Prince Metter- on the publication of the proclamation of president nich and the American ambassador, Mr. Jenifer, are Houston revoking the blockade, cap. E. W. Moore with so far advanced that no doubt can be entertained of his vessels was ordered to cruise upon the enemy's their speedy conclusion. Upon this the editor of the coast. At last advices from him, the squadron was Hamburg Neue Zeitung remarks, that as a treaty not yet ready for sea. The failure of Yucatan to between North America and Austria has been many comply with her engagement left the squadron withyears existing, the treaty here alluded to must be out means to be manned and provisioned. To obmerely a supplementary one. On the other hand the tain means from Yucatan, the San Antonio was on negotiations in Berlin for a similar treaty cannot pro- 19th August despatched a second time to the coast of ceed very speedily. Mr. Wheaton, who is unques- Yucatan. It is feared she was lost in the heavy gales tionably the most able of all the American diplonia- at the latter part of September. She had been comtists in Europe, has made great efforts to push the pletely fitted out at Mobile, with the San Bernard. business forward, but without much success. Inde-The latter was thrown ashore at Galveston during pendently of other impediments, the lingering and circumstantial nature of the proceedings of the Zollve-, rein tends to retard such negotiations. But the example of Austria cannot fail to have a favorable influence. [Neue Zeitung. TEXAS. We have Galveston dates as late as the 4th inst. They afford nothing of importance in addition to the [Report of the secretary of war.] the gales and her crew have been discharged. The steam ship Zavala is now a complete wreck. The secretary concludes his report by calling attention to the claims of the officers of the navy for services rendered. CANADA AND NEW BRUNSWICK. Governor General Bagot, has been for a long time ill. His life was despaired of at the last dates from Kingston. Riots between the Corkonians and Fardowns were renewed on the Lachine canal on the 4th inst., and was suppressed by the military. Twenty-seven prisoners were secured. The French government has just suppressed the transit duties on all foreign merchandize. They were not heavy, but they obstructed the trade, and were nearly absorbed by the cost of collection. The competition of Belgium and Austria rendered expedient the removal of every unavoidable impediment. Antwerp began to supercede Havre-and Trieste, Marseilles. Between the Mediterranean and the Rhine, France enjoys very little transit, owing to the want of easy and rapid communications, railroads and caThe parliament of New Brunswick assembled on nals, and to the expensiveness and delays of the present mode of carriage-by roulage. She feels every the 1st inst., and elected John W. Weldon, speaker. The governor in his speech, congratulates the prowhere her backwardness in internal improvement. According to the Moniteur her whole transit trade vince upon its prosperity, and upon the ratification of last year amounted in value to two hundred and three M. C. Hamilton (acting secretary of war and Ma- the treaty with the United States. He states that millions of franes by sea and land; the merchandise rine,) in his report to the president of Texas, dated the British government had directed a survey of the for transit from the United States equalled fifteen at Washington on 12th November, after saying that Bay of Fundy, and of a route to connect that bay millions, to the United States not less than fifty-two he entered on the duties of his office on the 3rd Sep- with the St. Lawrence. There are sundry demonstrations towards frightmillions, larger than the amount for any other coun- tember last, stated that the volunteer forces reportYou see that our republic has the chief inter- ed in the field on the 23d June, stationed at Lipan- ning brother Jonathan out of his tariff-amongst try. titlan, under col. Davis on the southwestern frontier others, the notion of smuggling by means of balloons, est in the suppression of the duties. INVENTIONS. A Brussels paper announces the in- were attacked on the 7th July by a superior force is the last contrivance. vention of a machine for making corks, by which a under general Canalis, who was repulsed and fled single operative can turn out two hundred thousand from the country. The volunteers then disbanded in the time that twelve hundred required, and with and dispersed and the frontier was left with no proa considerable saving. I enclose you in this commu-tecting force but the few spies under captain John The latter had not nication an abstract of the proceedings of the Aca- C. Hays at post San Antonio. demy of Sciences at a recent sitting, which includes the means to augment his force or keep them a description of the printing automaton-a machine equipped and the consequence was a second surprise really wonderful, which accomplishes with some of San Antonio. General Adrian Woll entered the manual aid twenty times more than six workmen can town on September 11 and carried off fifty-three ciNATIONAL INSTITUTE. We understand that do in the same period. It is called the Gerotype, tizens of the place prisoners. The news did not from the name of the framer Ger, (Gobert de.) reach Houston for five days, owing to the limited faci- Marshal Soult has transmitted from Paris to the InThe scientific reporters predict that it will be "for lities for transmitting information. A requisition was stitute several numbers of the Journal de l'Ecole Polythe intellectual world what steam is for the industri- then made on the western counties. They promptly technique. This information has been communicated at and the telegraph for the political." Another re- responded to the call. The volunteers having con- by Henry Ledyard, Esq. Charge d' Affaires of the port on it is expected from the academy. French as centrated, and after colonel M. Caldwell in advance United States at Paris, who was desired by Marshal Vol. XIU-StG. 25. NATIONAL AFFAIRS. CONSULS. The president of the United States has recognized Frederick B. Graf, Esq. as Consul of the Netherlands for the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia to reside at Baltimore. 386 Soult to cause the volumes to be presented in his name. [National Intelligencer. ricane of every description of parliamentary, and a al duties exceedingly unwise at the present moment, full exhibit of tumultuary war, which it had to en- because whatever revision experience may demoncounter, masts, rigging and sails were wrecked and strate to be necessary in the provisions of the tariff tend that the time elapsed has yet furnished us with CREEK INDIANS EMIGRATING. The stea-strewed around the scene in wild confusion, yet the act, when fairly tested, certainly no one can premer William Gaston touched at Port Leon on the 27 hull was saved and brought gallantly into port un to form a correct judgment of the ultimate reult. on her way to New Orleans with Pascofa's band der jury masts-with flags enough flying by which any data that ought to be relied upon whereby of Creeks, under charge of lieut. W. S. Henry, 3d to recognize her. Though all has not been gained, something has been ceipts under that act, when it comes to be recognisInfantry. The band numbers fifty-two persons ;22 warriors, 18 women, and 10 children. This is the gained towards "retrenching" the expenses and lim-ed as the settled policy of the country, and the buband that has for so long a period infested the settle-iting the duration of future sessions of congress,-siness and credit of the country revive from_its ments bordering the Apalachicola, and which, by the provided the senate will pass the bill-as we think present unnatural depression. To take the first energy and skilful management of lieut. col. Hitch- they ought and hope they will do--and provided fur-quarter's receipts under an entire new tariff,-as a cock, were induced to come in. They are on their ther, nevertheless, and notwithstanding, that Mr. Ty- criterion of future receipts, every one must admit, way to the west, and will embody themselves with ler neither vetoes it, nor puts it in his breeches pock-would be preposterous. To make a radical change those already at New Orleans under charge of lieut. et-which, by the way, we don't believe he would do in the law intended to be permanent, upon such Britton, 7th Infantry, and will proceed to Arkansas, in this case. These provisoes not obstructing, we say, hasty data,-we should suppose would strike every "Bill No. 548," though not exactly what was wished, man as being improper. in a short time. will effect quite a considerable reduction of expenOver one half of the charge heretofore made ses. for mileage, for instance, is cut off at once, and that is something worth while. The pay of members and officers of congress remains at eight dollars per day, but not unless they actually attend.-and only for the By the way, Harpers and Brothers, of New York five first months of each session. If continued behave issued the prospectus of a new work to be pub-yond that time, their per diem is reduced to six dol-ing fiscal year. Price lars, for the two succeeding months-and if it is prolished cheap, "the life of John C. Calhoun." $80 for 1000 copies, and so in proportion for a less longed beyond that, they get for the balance of the time but four dollars per day. John C. Calhoun, has been PRESIDENTIAL. nominated for the presidency at two large meetings in Mississippi, one of which expressed a preference for Levi Woodbury, and the other for James K. Polk, for the vice presidency. number. A printed sheet has made its appearance at Washington, preliminary it is stated, to one which the writer has in preparation in reply to the pamphlet published a short time since, which was attributed to Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, on the subject of a convention to nominate a candidate for the presidency, [inserted on page 358 of this vol.] In the sheet just published the writer asserts that the Rhett pamphlet was put forth to "disparage Mr. Van Buren and push forward the pretensions of the nullifier." He further says. "I assert, 1st. That the nullifier is determined to force the democratic party to throw aside all other men, and unite on himself. 2dly, If he fails in this, he is resolved to divide the party, and march his division over to the federalists. The first project will fail. I say the democratic party will never unite on the nullifier who turned against his first benefactor (general Jackson)--who espoused the cause of whiggery, and voted against the nomination of Martin Van Buren as minister to England. These sins he has never atoned for, and the democracy will never confirm the disgrace he put upon it." COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON. In reply to a communication addressed to him by a committee appointed at a meeting of the citizens of Bradford county, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of December last, nominating him as a candidate for the presidency, Col. Johnson, expresses his acceptance of the nomination in the following manner:-"Placing myself in the hands of my fellow citizens, I shall endeavor to confirm and to increase that confidence which they have so generously expressed in relation to my services in the councils of our nation and in the tented field." The pay and emolument of all the civil officers of the federal government which are not fixed by the constitution, except those in diplomatic service abroad,-commissioners of pensions, and such officers as do not receive over $1000 per annum, are also reduced by the bill;-twenty per cent. ior such as receive over $3000; and 12 per cent, for those receiving between 1000 and 3000. No officer is to receive more than $5000. Officers receiving a given per centum for services are reduced in like proportion, except such deputy postmasters as receive less than $1000. All fees and contingent expenses of the judiciary are reduced 20 per cent.-the pay of officers of the army which exceed $1000 per annum, and of all officers of the navy, and all allowances for supplies, forage, commutation, &c., with certain exceptions, are reduced 20 per cent. The bill also abolishes the offices of solicitor and recorder of the general land office. FINANCES. There is certainly a singular dis- We regret unfeignedly, that the president has a We Meantime there cannot be, and is not any where, the slightest apprehension now that the same resort which has been adequate to meet deficiencies of a much larger amount for a number of years past, would not be adequate to sustain the credit of the treasury, even in the contingency apprehended, of any deficiency actually occurring within the ensu One other reason;-certainly if there ever was a ed from additional exactions, that time is now upon time when the people of this country should be sparAt least let further wants be more than suspected-let them be probable, before resorting to additional duties. us. ARMY. GEN. WOOL, commander of the 5th military deA NEW MILITARY POST, has been ordered at the partment arrived at New York on the 9th inst. junction of Racoon creek, with Des Moines river. The 1st dragoons, capt. Allen, and the 1st infantry, are to garrison it. The Sac and Fox agency is vacated. The board organized last year, consisting of brigadier general W. K. Armstead, and col. S. H. Long, and surgeon general Lawson charged with the task to the secretary of war, and are discharged. of making a reconnoisance for a scite for a western armory, have performed that duty, made their report THE NAVY. COMMODORE ISAAC HULL, of the U. S. navy, died at Philadelphia on Monday morning last, in the 68th year of his age, after a long illness apparently resultTho third in grade, Commodores Barron and Stewing from general debility and the infirmities of age. American navy ranked higher in the estimation of art being his seniors in commission, no officer of the his countrymen, or had done more to elevate the character of the profession. A seaman by education, them more gallantly. no one understood the duties better or performed Com. Hull was a native of Connecticut, where he married and spent most of his time when off of duty, During the revolutionary war when but a boy, he went on board a prize taken by his father from the British who were then in possession of New York.Frior to entering the navy, he made two voyages to England, one to Rotterdam, one to Ireland, two to Cadiz, and ten to the West Indies. On the 9th of March, 1798, he received a commis sion as a lieutenant in the navy. During the war with France which ensued whilst serving as first lieutenant on board the Constitution, commodore Talbot, in May, 1800, with a small sloop he succeeded in cutting out a French letter of marque from Port Platte, (St. Domingo) at noon day, and without the loss of a man. During the war with Tripoli in 1804, he command. ron, and was detached to assist General Eaton, then ed the brig Argus, attached to Com. Preble's squadadvancing in conjunction with the ex-bashaw at the head of an army against the city of Tripoli. This service he performed with signal ability-supplied the army with provisions-reinforced them with a party of marines-and stormed and captured a fort which had impeded their progress. Now with all due deference to such high authority, we are amongst those who would exceedingly regret RETRENCHMENT. Retrenchment is the order resort at this time to such a measure-because we of the day, and the American people are very apt to believe that it is not, and hope it will not be required carry the popular impulse, whatever it be, into legis- by any exigence of the government-nay, we are On the 23d April, 1806, his commission as captain lative enactments, even though it goes sometimes sure it will not, provided the government will take sadly against the grain of the legislators. "Arnold the proper method of rendering the revenue under exAt the commencement of the war with Great Bri forever!"-would be a curious shout for Americans isting laws, ample for the wants of the government, is dated; one day after the date of Com. Stewart's. to raise, yet that name was once amongst the most economically administered, as it ought to be. popular, as he who wore it was certainly amongst the object to additional duties at this time, because we tain, in 1812, Commodore Hull was in command of most daring of our commanders;-but so deservedly firmly believe, if additional duties are now levied, the Constitution frigate-Old Ironsides"-then laying no matter to what amount, all hope of retrenchment in Annapolis harbor, from which we well remember was he afterwards designated as "the traitor"that the cognomen remained below par, until by the to that amount at least indeed to any amount what- the anxiety on his departure. He was then in the achievement of another who now wears it with dis-ever, will at once be abandoned. We well know prime of life, with all the manly energies of mind tinguished honor as having carried "Bill No. 548" that governments seldom refrain from expending as and body which are requisite for a good naval officer. through the house of representatives, the appella- much money as they can contrive to get out of the What could be done with the force under his com Commodore Broke with tion stands at least partially redeemed in public esti- people. Necessity alone is to be depended upon, mand, we were confident would be done-and well mation. We do not say he carried the bill, triumph- either as a limit for expenditures or as a lever where-done-but the odds were apparently greatly against antly, through the house,-for as passed, it was far with to accomplish retrenchment measures. Again-If retrenchment motives were out of the a British squadron, was just off the coast-perhaps at from being the bill originally proposed by Mr. Arold-or as amended by the committee. In the hur-question, we should still deem the resort to addition- the mouth of the Chesapeake, the chances of his success. |