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8® Air m \ M © Tuesday, Dec. \2, 1826. BY MYRON BARTI.ET. Volume 1 sVo. 7. /r?» The Telegraph is published weekly at Macon, Ga.—Office on Cherry Street, near the Public Square. TERMS.—Three Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars at the end of the pear. Distant subscribers must in all eases pay in advance. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. itioll Eitract from the Journal of the Board of Public Works. The Committee to whom was assigned the du ty of examining 'ho into charges contained in the Report of the Chief Engineer, against Mr. E. H. Burritt, assistant engineer, submit the fol lowing report to the Board: The charges which this committee have been called upon to investigate are, disobedi ence of orders in departing from his instruc tions, and an ignorance of the principles of Canal surveying, as evinced in the manner in which the surveys were conducted. The superintending committee having autho rized a deviation from his instructions,. Mr. Burritt would have been exonerated from the charge of disobedience of orders, were it not fully proved by an examination of his Field Book, that the deviation had actually taken place before lie had obtained the permission of the committee. As the deviation was, howev er, made at the suggestion of Mr. Burritt, and under the assurance to the committee that all the important objects of the survey would be accomplished by it; and, moreover, as Mr. Farritt not only concealed from the superin tending committee his previous departure from his ins ructions, but asserted then, and lias con tinued since to assert, that notie had been made previously to obtaining permission so to do, Mr. Burritt becomes fully responsible for all its consequences, and for the soundness of the principles upon which it was founded. The argument upon which Mr. Burritt prin cipally relies for a vindication of his decision in deviating from the instructions of the Chief Engineer is, that the objects contemplated by this Board, as expressed in its resolutions, could by pursuing the mode suggested by him be equally well accomplished, With a very ma terial saving of time and labor. The objects sought by the board, as distinct ly expressed in its resolutions, were, a general ex imination of the country, and a preliminary survey of a route for a Canal or Rail Road. Mr. Burritt admits that his object was a preli- m nary survey of a Canal. The question therefore arises, has he accomplished what was contemplated by the Board, and proposed to himself. The object of a survey of a route far a Carial is, to ascertain tho distances, cours er;, levels and such other data as will afford the materials for an accurate estimate of tiie cost of its construction. The selection of the gen eral rou e for a Canal is p. perly the object of die general examination and not of the sur voy. After a careful examination of Mr. Burvitt’s F.eld Book, and of his plans of the country o- ver which he passed, it appears that he nei ther followed the courses nor levels which the contemplated Canal must pursue; but that a- vading himself of the facilities of tho ground, lie has deviated from the true line of tho Ca nal, and has ascended and descended, pursuing an undulating lino instead of a level. If from such a survey, un attempt be made to construct plans, sections and esiim ites, the data must be furnished from the judgment and tho memory, and not from accurate admeasurements. And the conclusions derived from them would be worthless, as the object of it Canal survey is a know ledge of exact facts, and not of conjec tures. When it is considered that these deviations from ihe true line of the Canal were made in a country covered with woods, which absolutely prohibited a view of their exact extent, or of the character of the. ground over which the p mal must pass, it is obvious that even con jecture upon the subject must be any thing but accurate. Besides the Field Book and plans above nwtit'oued, Mr. Burritt has been requested to in;msh all oiher facts in his possession, which muy enable him to make out sections and es timates of his survey. He has moreovor been required to prepare a section, however small, to shew the possibility* that it can be done upon correct data. He lias failed to do so. * . The committee, therefore, are of tho opin- wn « that the charges of tho Chief Engineer are well founded, and recommend, in conse quence of the facts above mentioned, that Mr. ~* ‘‘ k Burritt be dismissed from the service of «t;s Board as assistant engineer. In the remarks made in this report, this com- dice have no allusion to that portion of the ■ vo y which was executed agreeably to the instructions of the Chief Engineer. P 0 Committee of the Board of Public Works appointed to investigate the A tie;’a- twnsofthe Chief Engineer, against E. II. Burnt!, one of the Assistant Engineers. |Gr.NTi.EjtE.v; i. official report of tho chief Engineer to pc board of public works an the 24tluust. dc- pn>nds refutation; of which I ask but a candid n ‘i impartial hearing. Tho parts of the re- T u!w1 to are in words as follows, k- * ,5° situation in which I left him, and the instruc. L, vi.i ‘!. ,m| shcd him with, I felt cunfidont it was lilt* lii, him to err, if he had the slightest preten* r‘ „ l ? " knowledge of canal surveying. .•i".'j or ® leaving the canal survey,I very fully explain- L a to Mr. Burritt my views on the subject and 1 , ‘ written instructions for his farther guidance. lieve *h* l* 1 ? conver *ation I had with him’I was led to be* lideMi i j, c ,urve y had been canriedon for a very con- distance agreeably to the instructions given the vHiu “i 1 . h® had taken some running levels from Ln furik’ Bwer to the point where he stopped, bat i toer conversation with the commissioner? 1 had the mortification to leam that no attention whatever had been paid to those'instructions.’’ * * ' * "Some .days after.my return to Milledgeyille, I ob tained an uncalculated copy of Mr. Burritt’s field- book. after going over the whole of the calculations and laying down a section of them 1 found it to lie one of the must miserable attempt* at canal.surveying which has ever been made in this or any other coun try.” Tho charges appear to bo of grave import; implying 1st, Disobedience of Orders; 2<1, Incompetence ; both of which are denied. But from tho cen sure which these allegations wore intended to create against me I shall, with due deference to the tribunal before which I am defamed, and with suitablo courtesy towards my accuser, ad venture to try how I may acquit myself. My reply to the first charge is,— That a change in die mode of conducting the survey as directed by the Chief Engineer was made at the command and responsibility of tho Superintending Committee detailed upon that route, us they themselves have already declared •in their report to the Board. Mv field-book will shew a strict adherence to the letter of In structions of tho chef engineer, until a great er than he, directed the deviation complained of. Tho gentlemen composing that committee have already declared th n this deviation was the result of cool deliberation, and a scrupulous regard to the most beneficial results^ It was certain that the time allotted for this survey was materially inadequate to iiave traced w'di pre cise accuracy the l ; ne of canal upon the ground, and to have bent the direction of the levels to every local circumstance agreeably to the in structions of Mr. Fulton, who necessarily knew but little of the distance, and next 'o no thing of the difficulties which must be encoun tered on the route to retard the progress of a detailed survey, which was then neither author ized or expected by the Board. [See Resolu tion commencing at the middle of the 9th patre, of the Journal of the Board at their spring ses sion.] 11 appeared to be the sense of the Board that a Preliminary survey should bo made—such a survey as was understood to impose the fol lowing duties.—To examine the Hvdrography and topographical features of the country in proximity with the line of rcconnoisancc—<o investigate, approx'imtively, the most eligible route—to measure its water courses and ascer tain their sufficiency; and further, to make ac curate admeasurements of the Levels and Dis tance—such, as would enable to pi ononnee up on the practicability of the projected work, and afford tho general data for est'an iting die ex pense, more or loss exact, ns time should alio v the possibility of more minute examinations. Pursuing this mode, there was a uoss b lity of fulfilling the expectations of die Board by a seasonable report of an en’lio examination of the whole route. Adhering to the detailed mode of conducting tho survey as directed hv Mr. Fulton, bereft of all aid from h's personal co-opernl ! on, would have found us th-s day ; n tho field,unable to report either upon the cos' or tho practicability of the undertaking, ns required both bv tho Board and bv the Legislature. Influenced by these enns'dorations, a modi fication of his Instructions was suggested, and tho Superintending Committee assumed to themselves the responsibility of o-dering a de parture there from, so fir ns to comport with the views above mentioned and to bring the. ex aminations more within the sense of a prelimin ary survey ns already defined—I now hog per mission to inform the hoard that such a survey has been executed with correctness and fide lity. The second charge is very general in its na ture, presenting no tangible points for discus- ion.—Before entering however upon this part of my defence, I would offer one general re mark. I have great reason to compin’n that the enunciation of this charge has been predicated upon a few detached and imperfect materials, hastily copied from the original during mv 91- noss, and submitted, nt the urgency of the En gineer, to answer a present purpose. Those materials were imperfect, bemuse unaccompa nied with scarcely a single field note, comment or illustration and my protracted illness is all I can urge wjiy these necessary acrompany- ments have not been since furnished, had all these beon fairly exhibited in connexion with my plans and maps, no reply would have been made to this charge; for as much as it was scarcely less unf lir to predicate such nn allega tion upon tho naked fragment in possession of tho Chief Engineer, then to pronounce noon the value of un edifice from a liandfitl of bricks that had been dotached from tho hnild>np< It may be suggested as a query bv some of the gentlemen whom I address, whether a de viation from a dead level cojtrsq in nnv part of the survey do not prove nn error of judgment in the engineer.—The arguments for such de viation as I was ordered to make, have been el ready set forth; to which I beg leave onlv to add, that any other course is sometimes impossi ble, and often inexpedient. With a few exceptions, specifically noted in the field-book the route of our survey was uni- formally along tho bank of the Yellow river, al ways so near or remote, as to maintain a com manding view of every chain of earth over which a dead-level course would have conduct ed us: tho levels and Distance were carefully taken, the nature of the sods were examined, while the undulations of tho surface wero not passed unnoticed- most important results wliicl^the time allowed: and I think 1 may safely appeal io the sense of the Engineers of our country of most approved experience for the correctness of ill's opinion. The Chief Engineer forsooili, is unable to mako out a report of the estimates, ft,c. from the imperfect materials in his possess-on, ye' I would assure the Board that this inability docs not extend to myself. The aggregate of my ma terials, if not amide, arc acurate, and velum'll- ous as the time allowed me to collect; and are such , as present to my understanding tho general data for making the desired esti mates: And here I rest my defence; begging leave however, before I close mv remarks, to offer due apology to Mr. Fniton for the uw -/- minted condition in which he complaints of having received a transcript fragment of my field-book. I can indeed asstlfb myself that he will have the urbanity to recollect several alloy’.iting e : r- cumstances—that, among other hindrances, he will not have altogether forgot on that from the first niglit we encamped 'ogether in Georgia, to the period of his leaving the service of the Board most of. the leisure time that rema'nod to me from the labors of the field, even io mid night horns, I was tasked at his special instance, to instruct him in the use of the Sextant in ta king the usual observations for the Latitude and Longitude—in explaining to his apprehen sion the nature and application of the Trigo nometrical Tables commonly used in these and almost all other in' hem -' cal calculations— and particularly, 'n familiariziig Ids memory with tho mode of applv : ng them n the resolu tion of such observations as he would nresen*- lv be called on to make, 'n the presence of the commissioners of the line, from an Executive Order, requir n,g Ids co-operation with them for some purpose of this kind. Appearing more cautious, as the t'me drew near, of trusting ihe tenure of h ! s*in:!crv*nd‘ng or memory with these matters, I nvs* further do Mr. F. the justice to coufi-ss tha. he. did more, over condescon 1, in dm mas* courteous nvm- ner, to desire of me to make out end firn -.h Idm with a written codp of Precepts and Formula? of the simplest k nd in my knowledge, that would serve him ; n pocfann’iic the duties of Ins mission from Fort ill -chell to Nrkajucl .— To this request I am not chargeable with diso bedience; having fnrnishod Irm as farforth as it was then convon-en , n order to qualify Idm the better for a creditable •’i'C.h'.v go of his du- t’esastlic “Chief Civ’l F.ng’nee".” Recollecting the*e hindrari-ps, h’s goodness wdl excuse me for net po.c’ng up mv field-book then, whde die innoase of labor wit ch Ids ab sence occasioned together with mv late dines* have, in a measure, prevented its “calculation” till now. All which is respectfully submitted F.. 11. BURRITT. Milledgeville, 3lsf. O f. Ik2f>. ltiat tin-y have had under consideration the don submit toil to them, directing nn inquiry i expediency of again applying to the General t •eent, to renew the negociation with tm Chero State—which was read the first time. Tuesday, November 28. CHEROKEE LANDS. Mr. Walker, from the committee on the St.ee of the Rentibhc, reported, That tiiey leave nad under r.onsidcration the resotu- nto the Govern* ... negociation with tNB Cherokee In dians with n view to extinguish the title to their lands ii[ their possession within the limits of Georgia. And also ot inquiring into the propriety of requesting the General Government to propose a {reaty allowing tho Indians reservations, not exceeding one sixth of the territory acquired, subject to be afterwards purchased tor tho use of Georgia—Upon the best reflection which the committee have been able to bestow upon this subject, they entertain an opinion which is without division among them that the extinguishment of the Indian title to all lands within the limits of Georgia, is a matter not oniy of iutcrest but of urgent expedi ency. This question has been so repeatedly present ed to the Geuerai Government, and the wishes of the state pressed upon its attention muter such a diversity of aspects, as to render at this time, a detailed exhibit of its views entirely unnecessary. It would seem that little else was required tojbe said, than what would relieve the General Government of whatever solici tude might be felt from having a subject so often and so importunately brought to its considerations. The respect which the state owes itself, and which it cer tainly entertains for the General Government, would in courtesy require the declaration, that whatever else may be thought to belong to tliis application, nothing is further from its intention than u spirit of captious- ness, or a restless impatience under repented disap pointments. The state has alwnvs believed itsclaiins perfectly just, and acting under the honest confidence which unquestionable right never fails to inspire, it acknowledges that every occasion has been sought, o- penly but Ijankly, to avow, that no demand could be belter fortified with motives for its speedy satisfaction, than that which wc have so long and so abortively urged, anil therefore the frequency of our attempts to tiring this matter to a final adjustment. If now by adding another essay to those which have gone before and which have proved so untoward in their issue, uny thing of clamor or resentful discontent should be supposed to exist in this appeal, wc are ready to give the assurance that nothing can be more foreign t.om its temper; and in a fair interpretation of Us design, nothing could be more widely misunderstood. We believe jdiat circumstances of recent origin in the Cherokee nation, which from prudential consider ations need nut now be mentioned, render at this time another effort to obtain the country more uuspicious than any which have heretofore been made, or which can hereafter he made, with any well grounded hope of success, if the present occasion is permitted to pass away unimproved. But when to these indications, so highly luvoriiig the view of a prosperous negociation, there is added as wc conceived the influence and ef fect which extensive reserves ure calculated to have among Indians of n certain character, little doubt is entertained of a result highly satisfactory to the rea- - .liable wishes of Georgia. To the General Gov. > rnment, possessed as it is of a full knowledge of the state ami condition of the Indintt nation, the powernnd avarice of certain characters who control its affairs, and the causes which have hitherto thwarted the mea sures designed to fulfil her engagements with Georgia, it cannot lie necessary to suggest the efficient agency which this course must have, in any future operation of the government, seeking to realise the just expecta tions of the state, expectations which, though tho sub ject of repeated complaint, find some justification in an unusually protruded postponement. Under this view of the subject, your committee re commend the following resolutions: Resulted, That the President of the United States .---.t-tfr’l'vs?-. Ja "A-rvf GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. The importunt points ascertained by this stir- cy are—.the true length of the canal approxi mating to exactness, the just amount of lockage, tiie number of feeders,culverts, &c. and the gen eral data for estimating the cost of each mile of .the canal This mode of operation seemed to bo clearly authorized by tho circumstances that have been enumerated as promising the be requested to take such steps as ore usual, and as be may deem expedient and proper, for the purpose of IN SENATE. Thursda-i, Narvnber 23. INTERNAL IMPRO V r K.UENT. Mr. Allen from the Jo.nt co-urn >te%on Ag riculture and Internal Improvenien-, to whom was referred the report of the board of Public Works, reported, That it contains much useful and valuable matter up on the subject of Internal Improvement, and the man ner in which a system can lie most us-unlly and judi ciously adopted correspondent to the resources, coin- ineVce’and population of Georgia.—-The disrepute into which that body has in some, measure fillen, is attribu table to theobjects dictated io them by the last Gene ral Assembly, and which thev were constrained to pursue contrary to their better judg'-ments. It ran lie deemed no disrepect orinjusticc to any Legislative bo dy to beltovetliat six or eight intelligent and enlighten ed men are better qualified to frame and execute n system of internal improvement, titling larger number of persons drawn together for various, multiplied and conflicting objects of public utility; and it can be safely foretold, that if Georgia ever does execute a system of internal improvement subservient to her great interests, it must lie under the direction of such a body as the Board of public Works. It is not thought that the Board should hold a control over the resources of the Slate, or he enabled to adopt any one measure inde pendent of the intention of the Legislature. Let it he competent for the former to suggest, the latter will u- dopt or reject, as its judgements' may dictate—and up on the adoption of a system by the Legislature, that its execution devolve upon the Board of Public Works. By the present law, the metnbcisof the Board are al lowed tiie samo pay with members of the Legislature —'They have expended, including a salary of a Chief and two assistant Engineers, the purchase, of instru ment j, &c; $10,144 74 1-2 cents.—The annual expen diture for future years will, as is shewn ip their report, full considerably"below that amount. Tho Board of Public Works suggest the expediency, at least for tho present, of engaging in the execution of so extended and so costly a scheme of internal im provement as that pointed out in a law passed the 24th Dec. 1825. Your committee coinciding in that opin ion, accompany this report with a bill for the repeal of that law. It isrecoinmendcdby the same body, that the attention of the Legislature should first he directed to the improvement of “the rivers.” In this opinion your committee fullv concur, and with this report, lay before the House of Representatives a bill appropria ting eighteen thousand dollars to he placed under the control of the Board of Public IVorks for improving the navigation of the Savannah, Altamaha, Oconee. Oe- mulgoe and Chattahoochie riven. When these objects ore executed, it will be in time for a future Legislature to determine upon the propriety of such other schemes of internal improvement as tiie resources, population and commerce of the State may regime. Your committee cannot conclude -without express ing its approbation of the Board of Public Works, and the able report of Mr. Fulton, the Chief Engineer— and your committee beg leave to. report a bill to repeal an act passed the 24th December, 1825, entitled an act, to lay out a Central Cant! or Railway through the and preparatory to the holding of a Treaty with the Cherokee Indians, the object of which shall bo to extinguish the title to ail or any part of the lands now in their poese-eion within the limits of Georgia. Rtsolrcd, That If such Treaty be held, the Presi dent be respectfully requested to instruct the Coin- .missioners, to grant if necessary to facilitate a sncccs- ful Completion of the same, reserves of land in favor of certain Indians of the. nation, not to exceed one sixth of the Territory acquired, and to be subject to future purchase, the’gcneral government, for the ex clusive benefit of Georgia. Resolved, That his excellency the Governor be re quested to forward a copy of the foregoing report and resolutions to the President of the United States, and one to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, with a request that they use their best exertions to ob tain the. object therein expressed. Winch was read mid unanimously agreed to. Thursday, November 30. Mr. Walker, from the joint committee on the Stale of the Republic, to whom was refer red so much of the message of his excellency the governor, as relates to the dividing line be tween this State and Alaln-nu, having careful ly examined the accompanying documents, re ported, That in conformity with the resolution of the General Assembly, ihe Governor, on the 25;h of June last, appointed Richard Blount, Joel Crawford, and Evcrard Hamilton, esqs. com missioners, to run the dividing line between this State and Alabama, agreeably to the stipu lations of the first article of agreement and ces sion, entered into between the United States and Georgia, on tho l6.h of Juno, 1802, and that Messrs. Blount, Crawford, and Hamilton, accompanied by a skilful mathematician, the engineer of tho State, a surveyor, and a compe tent number of 11borers, and every way prepar ed to execute the purpose of their appointment, attended at the time and place previously a- greed on by tho governors of the respective Staves, and were met by one only of the com missioners on the part of Alabama. As the at tending commissioner from Alabama declined, whde his colleague was absent to enter into a discussion as to the place from which the line should commence, (die only point of difficulty) it was agreed to run a random line from a bend in the Chattahoochie near Fort Mitchell to Nickajuck, when it was expected that every thing preliminary to tho actual demarcation of the line would ho adjusted. This random line was run, and at Nickajack, the absent commissioner of Alabama having arrived, mi exchange of powers by the respective parties took place, and a discussion was entcrod into on the subject of tho exact point of departure from tho Chattahoochie. It had been ascer tained by actual survey in running tho random line, that tho first groat bend in tho river next above tho mouth of the Uchee, from which a right line would run to Nickajaqk, without touching flic river, was tho Big Shoal or Mil ler’s Bend, and this tho commissioners on the part of Georgia contended, was the bond at which the line should begin. Tho commission ers of Alabama, considering tho Uclieo as an unimportant circumstance in ascertaining the point of departure, insisted on the Great Bend, whore the direction of the river is changed from southwest to south, as the place of begin ning, and rested tlteir arguments on the facts, . that the Cussetah and Coweta towns are abovo the Uchee, and that above Miller’s Bond and below the Great Bend named by them, there is a stream emptying into the Chattahoochie oil the western side, called tho We-hut-kee, said best to answer the description of Uchee mentioned in the articles of cession. This dis cussion having continued for some time, and it being pretty well ascertained, that neither party would recodo from rite position assumed, tho commissioners of Georgia go,/.- notice to those of Alabama* that they should terminate a conference which was likely to prove so fruit- . less, and proceed to run the lino to the Big Shoal or Miller’s Bend, which they according ly did, uuoccompanicd by tho commissioners of Alabama. It is deeply to be regretted that there should exist such ambiguity in the arti cles of cession, as to leave any doubt on the subject of boundary; a subject in which the least uncertainly is always embarrassing; but your committee beliovo this ambiguity, which evidently arose from the imperfect knowledge had by tho commissioners who negotiated the cession of 1802, of the topography of the coun try through which the line was to run, and of the relative situation of Nickajack and tho o- ilior extreme of the line, is m . so great, but that the meaning of the parties to that instru ment may he arrived at with sufficient certain ly. Previous to the cession of 1802, the west ern limit of Georgia was the Mississippi river, but the people ot Georgia contemplating a sale to the United States of a part of their west ern territory, and desirous of fixing permanent ly the bounds which should limit tho power of the legislature to sell and dispose of their terri tory, and of establishing permanently tho boundaries of the State, carefully expressed in the Constitution of 1798, what those limits and boundaries should be. By a reference to the 23 d section of the first article of the Constitu tion, it is seen (hat the whole of tho Clnttn- hoochie is reserved to Georgia. This, which • is the supreme law of tha State, must have been known to the commissioners who negotiat ed tho cession of 1802, and it is fair to presume reference was had to it, for we find that though ihey departed lrom the authority and power given by tho acts of 1799 and 1800, on that subject, yet they adhere to the provisions of the Constitution, and cautiously preserve to Georgia tiie v hole of :he Chattahoochie river. The commissioners in their negotiations hav ing pursued a medium course between wli iU was prescribed by the acts of 1799 and 1800, mid regarded the Constitution under which those aqts were passed, may be presumed apart from all other evidence to iiave intended the line to leave the Clritiahoochic at tho first jjoint above the mouth of tho Uchee crook, from which it would run to Nickajack without touching the river, as .ho line must lie a right lino; and from the survey made, it appears that Miller’s or the Big Shoal Bend is that point. That a bend still lower down tho river and in the neighborhood of Fort Mitchell was supposed to be that point, and the bend de- ■ signed by thrf commissioners appears from the concurrent testimony and assent for more than twenty years of ail those best acquainted with the country through which the line was to run, and with tho negotiation between the United States and Georgia. That the Great Bond where the river changes its general direction or the general western bend, or the most west ern bend, as it is frequently called, was not designed, is apparent from ibis—that this bond was well known and named as one of the points of limit in the act of 1799, which act was cer tainly not conformed to by tho commissioners, aud .lie bend named in thfi articles of session is designated as if to distinguish it from that bend—“The great bend thereof (referring to the Chattahoochie) and next above tho place where a cortain creek or river called Uchee, being tho first considerable stream on ihe west ern side abovo the Cussota and Coweta towAs, entors into tho Chattahoochie river.” Now 1 it is hard to conceive why if this groat or gr- at- est bond, a place well known, had been intend ed, tho Uclioe creek and tho Coweta and Cus setah towns, sixty miles distant, should havo been referred to mote clearly to designate it. From tho whole view of the subject, -your com mittee aro of the opinion that tho lmo run is tho truo line; and they entertain too .high a in spect for the good sense, justice and magnani mity of tho citizens of Alabama to believe for one moment, that it difference of opinion will he entertained by tho two States after tho whole grounds of dispute shall havo been ma turely and deliberately considered by them.— Your committee therefore recommend the u- doption of the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the State of Georgia m gen era/ assembly met, That the. lino run and marked from Nickajack to Miller’s bend on the Chattahoocliio is the true line contemplat ed by the article! of cession of 1802, between tho United States and Georgia, and that it bo recognized us such by the State of Go -.vi i— which was read and agreed to. Friday., December l. On motion of Mr. Danitd, tho S. into re- cuti-iidei edi^o much of tho journal of yesterday os relates to the passage of a bill to create tiie office, proscribe tho duties, and fix the compen sation of public printer. BILLS PASSED. To amend the judiciary .act of l~99, 'o far as relates to mortgages on real wrtate. To repeal an ccf further defining the duty of collector of taxes, passed 'Jdi December, 1824.'