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0051* Hi f IN SENATE, Saturday, February 2!. Til? report nuj resolution iVo.i) the -eii'Ct ROiiruitiue pit French spoliations prior to tin* • (.mi- one thousand eight hundred, was taken tin, and posquned to Tuesday, and made the order of the day for that day. Tin) colonial (i ^ _ trade bdl was resumed, the motion of Mr- j Greeks within the limits of Georgia, and th attempt to survey those which were excluded, been exercised by Georgia, and to the principle of the decision of the supremo Court, espe cially in reference to the grants of North Car- oliua, and slio refers particularly to the Icgislu- of that .State, of South Carolina, of Vir- iiii, and New Vork. In further proof ot her right to survey lands , () |' | in tho occupancy of an Indian tribe, hut with- ' found 11» her chartered* limits, she appeals to^ the de- tion b'inia, Siu'Ji of Maryland to strike out the whole bill atier the enacting clause, and to substitute o- th. r prov'siuns, stdi pending. Tho discuss.on v. is cnntiuuud with great animation, hv Mi’C'rs. Sml Si of AM. Berrien, Van Ilmen, Woo.lhurv, .ioanstonof Lsiu.sisin.i, and others. Mr; Smith’s motion was then carried—ayes 21), nays IT jif.i'i t iy, February 2t’>. The committee on the militia reported tho bill for the adoption of a system of artillery, cavalry, mid infantry exorcise. Tho hill for estahitslumuit of certain post offices and post roiiis was, as ttmeridcd, ordered to a third reading. Tilt) hill linking appropriations for the support of the ‘government during the year 1*27, was, us amended, ordered to a third re ui- ing. ,,,, . • . , i _ i ir • the consideration of executive business. The bill mik ii.r appropriations for the mlli- tarv service of the United States during tho year ii27, was taken up and amended. 'file motion of Air. Chandler to strike out tiie provision for the pavilion; of the Georgia militia claim for services rendered during tho ye irs 171)2, 171/3, and 11)74, after much debate, Waj rejected. Tuesday, February 27. The hill for the preservation and ropiir of the Cumberland road was read twice and re ferred. The lull to amend iho act regaining the l’or.i O ;iicp i>, ip irlmeut tv is, as amended, ordered to a third re,'ding. The lull making appropriations tor the support of the govern-■ xuem, lirr the year 1827, was read a third time and passed. Air. Dickerson made an ttns'ic- cessiul attempt to take up tho woollens lull.— The bd! making t)]>pn>j>ri:itioua for the military sc vice of the United State ;, was, after much (Lscusstou, ordered to a diird reiding. The ii.li for the adjustment of claims of ner-oas en titled to indemnification under the first article of die treaty of Ghent, was, as amended, order ed to a dmal reading. I Vjdncsday, February 27. Tiie colonial trade bill wu3 taken up, and further discussed. Several amendments ware offered mid rejected. Tiie amendment offered by Mr. Smith of Maryland, as modified, on ■motion of Mr. Woodbury, was carried—ayes 32, noes 10. The several appropriation lulls received from the other house were passed.— Many private bills, were also passed.—Tim Woollens bill came up, in course, a< a spe cial order, and nn motion of M-. II lyno to l tv it on tho table, there was a tiu—ivcs 20, noes 20—when tho chair g ive tho casting vote in the atliruiafivo. Tho bill to increase the pay and rations of the lieutenants, passed mid shipmen, and surgeons of die United States’ ji ivy, was, ufjer some discussion, laid on the table. The sen ite agreed to jurist upon their amendment to tiie military appropriation hill, striking out the restrict.on of the allowance on double rations to officers in die actual command of posts and garrisons, which amendment had been disagreed to by ilu; other house. Thursday, March 1. UNITED STATES AND GEORGIA. The Committee to whom was referred the several messages of tho Prosirlvtl of the United Suites, of tne&th andStli Febiomry and a report and certain re solutions of the Legislature of Georgia, ask leave to •i.ukc the following REPORT: The Committee have entered on the exam ination of the subject referred to them with n deop sense of die magnitude of tho question * which it involves, with a strong desire to pre serve tho respective rights of tins U. States, and of Georgia, so fir as those nny lie affected by the ac.ioii of the Legislative Department and with a still more un.xious solicitude to arrive, if pi acticible at a result which, without violating the obligations, or committing the rights, of the Confederacy, or those of one of its membcts , might preserve, undisturbed, the peace and harmony of tho Union They have believed that a view of this sub ject, so far is it is necessary to tho purposes of thin inquiry, may bo presented to the Senate by a brief statement of facts, with reference, First, To tho grounds on which the Execu tive Government of die United States h is in which it defined, and tho abrogation of the trea ty of the Indian Springs. It was resisted by Georgia as a violation of her right', mid her rc- preseiitatives in Congress recorded tlieir pro test again*) the measure. It neverthe less received the Coustiiu'iou.d sanctions, and so far as depended on the United •Fa' 1 been carried into effect hv the pnyir I stipulated price. 1 n dm * result, it was m mu , —^ ^ Court in fa c; , se of FleUh ! not to include all the lands occupied In I I ^ ^ jn , v |, ;cll it Wllg decided that the (mliitii title to lands within tho limits ofGeor- , , „( [ gin wis not inconsistent with the title in fee of was rosiveii, and the survey ms ' ,.j ;j„, S.ute, to the lands so occupied by the ln- (.■viorgta, have Imeti s opptv > ' .j ffi.ui*; that the State of Georgia had power to cerium duels of the tribe, wltolmo appealed I ^ j)||jso ,. in( , s |)ui . iug sltch occupancy , and to tins (.overnme-.t for pro ec 11 . . |„, r g ran tee miuht maintain an ejectment Tne president of the l fitted Sft.es cm-I t , |C(U ^ notw|thst;i ,, <)hl „ , hnl title; -and she im|iiircs if the right of. surety bo not ittsepara- prosecutton the officers of Georgia engaged in tho survey. of 1302, she contends, bound l hose prosec,it ons and tiio measures w.tnrit ^ comMer atu»„ of tho ces- m .v be adopted lo carry- them into ( ffe t, nn ^ |jy Goor;rm . to exfmuuisl, the In- i'»n n nn Ttio umn uiio to tho ronniuing hn<U wtthm t»*;« V •Votii'Mnirii,' 1302, to re-mlate trade and inter- 1 «*, ami in their occupancy. It created nn oh course With Ihn Indian tribes, and to preserve ! Ujrsition, but did not confer n right on the Umt- ' ed State:-.. It was simply, she urges, astipula tion that llie expense of the extinguishment should he paid hv the United Stales, and left them consequently iosettle tho amount. When, through their agents, the contract of the Indian Springs was negotiate I, and the Government to have recourse, in tlm first instance, onlv to j uud ratified ill" bargain, tiie right of Georgia the 1 liter; Ini; he wl«l« the tWhr-*:<m ‘ho the bee one, .as site contends, irrevocably vested, act of t!ie Legislature of Georgia, under tlm The authority of tho United States was hen at construe inn given to it bv the «lovemrer of‘bat •» end- This Government was functus officio St Oe, and lilt* surveys made or uttenyVod to be j |S to Ute stibjec.; the power \v *s executed. It m ide teller it, lievoul rtie boundary iino sectr- ] ho agents ol 'iiis.Govorntueti: had commit'ed a ed bv tlm Jret'v of Washington, ore hi direct fraud, the Uti'ted States was botmd to intlenmi- peace on the frontiers. Expressing Ids con viction tint it was wall ti tlm competency' of the Executive to It ive resorted .at once to mili tary fore, or to c ; vil process, for the arrest of the officers of Georgia, the President proceeds lo state the reasons wii’ch have influenced hint violu'ioii of the supremo law of ill's hmd; and, if perseve-ed in, and theliws of the Union re al in ima|te*'e.|,it : s declared t!nt“/i s'tyt-r, ddrd » , di"idt!i:i, cren higher fh •>*< that nf I'utrahau- tharShf, tail! raw id the tJeemthu of the Vail ed States fn mf-trer the l nrs, a« ! f.iltii the ti't- ties of the Xatinn by all the three for that pur pose committed to h>$ . r /rge.” Tt is added, “that thenrin of military force will ho resorted lo, only in the event of the failure of all other expedients provided by the t"Ws,of which, (it is said,) a pledge has been given hv dm -forbear ance to employ it at ill's rinro.” Finally the president submits 1 “to tho vv'sdom of Congress to determine wbe'licrnnv further act oflegisla- tion may he necessary or expedient to meet the emergency which those transactions inav iroditce.” Snch tire the circumstances under wii’ch this snhjert is presence 1 bv the President to the coil-'deration of tilt* Sena'c. On tho other hand, Georgia claims the right to exorcise jurisdiction within tiie whole extent of her chartered limits, except onlv over that part of her original territory, which, hv the compact of 1302, she ceded to the United Status. She claims the right to survey such lands witli.n her.limits, as may ho vvithurthe teui- .porarv occupancy of an Indian tr'die, or to In hibit tlieir survey; and tho right, also, to extin guish die Indian title nt her own cost, if she shall think fit to do so. She questions the con-titut onal validity of the net of 1302, if cen. .sfruml to extend to the exercise of this nower by a State, in relation to those lauds of which ho has the ultimate foe; but if its val’ditv be established, her rights, even under 'the provis ions of that aet, she affirms will still rcma ! n. Such are the claims, which she urges, inde peiulemly of treaty stipulations between the U- tiited States and the Crook Indian . Under the treaty of the lediui Springs and by virtue of the contract of 1302, r.he contends dial she has acquired an absolute relinquish ment of the Creek title of occupancy to nil the lands within hei Uni t*; th '-^ltc* Ins vested rights under that treaty of which she cannot he di vested by tiny tici of the Govern ment of the U- iri, ted States, or of any part, or- the whole of tho Creek tribe. She founds her claim to exorciso jurisdiction within the whole of her chartered limits, on tlm declaration of Itidupendenco, tho parties to winch became ipso facto, severally sovereign and independent States owing no allegiance to each other, nor to any common head. On tiie result of tlm struggle which that de cimation produced, and which eventuated in the recognition of tho Statos, as severally so- f*' terfered, and proposes further to interfere with) vcrcign and independent; and on the fact that the proceedings of Georgia; and Secondly, To tho claims of that State, and the principles on which she relies to support them. 1. Under an act of the Legislature of Geor gia, passed in June, 1823, and the suppleinnu- ta*y, and tuiieudatory acts of the same Legisla ture of Dccetnbcr 1823 and 1826, surveys Were directed of that portion of the territory of Georgiu, the Indian title to which had been extinguished by the treaty of the Indian Springs; of February, 1825. By the terms of that compact, these lauds were not to be surrender ed by the Indians, until September, 1826; hoi the Government of Georgia was desirous of effecting its susveys, be lot e the arrival of the pci km of surrender under such arrangements with the Indians themselves, as would remle: tho act acceptable to ilieni. The measure.- which were adopted io effect this arraugemen', the {act that otic of the chiefs who had assent- ci\ to it, was put to death, uud the siubsc qttcn, division of tjie tribe into hostile parties, both of whom sought tho protection of the United States, ate within tho recollection of the Senate. At this, period, the Executive Government of the Union, interposed, and having made such inquiry, as it deemed proper, forbid the further prosecution of the surveys by Georgia. The Executive of that State, protesting against the Tte' sure, nevertheless submitted to the inhibi- jon; nod ftlis stnfo of things continued until the Mt session of Congres« v whcn a new treaty wr« negotiated at this place, with certain Chiefs and Warriors acting under the authority of a council of (he tribe. This compact stipulated iho surrender of certain lands, within limits SB* this right, inseparably incident to sovereign ty, has never been yielded to the Uuitcd Suites, Tiio exceptions to tho priuciplc that her ju risdiction is co-cxtqnsive with her limits, she contend.*, exist only in thoso cases, where, in conformity to tho Constitution, the United Stales, have by her consent, acquired exclusive jurisdiction over particular places; that in o.lier cases provided for by the constitution, tho jurisdiction of the Uuitcd States, within tlm himls of u particular State, is concurrent wall bat not exclusive of, the jurisdiction of the particular State, unloss the Constitution, In ,terms, or from llie necessity of the tiling, i,in,hits the action of the State over the sub- jet.. As an evidence of her right, thus to exorciso i'i jurisdiction co-extensivc with her limits, she appeals to the whole history of her lrgisla iou, in proof of its continued, uninterrupted, ami hitherto unquestioned exercise; to her laws and resolutions of 1783, 1785, 1787, 1814, 1818, and 1819,011 tho subject of surveys of laud, in tiio occupancy,pf Indian tribes, nud to oilier acts of 1785 ami 1788, relative to tho couuty of Boui bon, established by her authori ty on the banks of tho Mississippi, and to the subsequent recognition by the Uuitcd States, in .he contract of 1802, of tho rights acquired under the former act. She appeals to tho history of tiio legislation of her sister Slates, having Indians residing within tlieir limits on lands, the ultimate fee of which is in the particular Slate, all of wliom, she alleges, have exercised tho rune jurisdic. )*c whom they h ;i iiiju-ed. If the ln- dlaris wore dissatisfied it was die duty of 'hi« Government io appease them ! y the u-eof its own mams. It could no: interfere with the fights of Georgia. Tho United bat es it is said, had conferred no righ on Georgia. They had merely removed nn iiitanriir inco from a jire-ex'siing right; ashy iho onnpac. of l'-02, diey we to hound to do. They could no* re- pi ice ill at incumbrance by a new compact with lie Indians. Tho Goveromerit of the United States, it is asserted, did no - pretend to do so; on tiie contrary, those who maintained 'he va lidity of the treaty rr Washington professed to believe, the opinion was distantly avowed on lie floor of the Seno.o that so far as Georgia Was concerned, that treaty was co-extensive whh lit* one negotiated at tiie Indian Springs. rii.i 1 , if on di.s expectation the United States worn deceived they must look to the Indians for the correction of tiie error; that they have, in this event paid money for a consideration which they have not received, blit that the rights of Georgia remain untouched. Once vested, mid no one, she affirms, will deny ihat they were so, while the treaty of the Indian Spr.ngs w is in force, they cannot bo divested vviilmtit iicr consent. She denies tho application of die Indian in- ercourKC act to the subject, affirming that it is directed against the an ur.horizcd intrusion of private individuals, and no to acts done und er : lie authority of a State. She assorts that tiffs ts obvious, from its terms, and from the fact that the passport of the Governor of a State, e- jttilly with that of tho President, dispenses With some of its penalties. That it is directed against intrusive settlements, or acts done with a view to settlement; not to surveys made under the authority oflavv. Against such sur veys .and settlements, she affirms that tho In dians art? protected by the constitution and laws of Georgia. Such tho committee are induced to believe is the claim which Georgia will present to the proper tribunal. The committee having considered it their duty to apply, through their chairman, to the proper department of the Government to as certain whether any particular act of legislation whs contemplated, or desired by the Executive Government, have been referred, generally, .o die*message of the President; nnd,in nn- fwer to a specific inquiry, whether tiny appro- pnatioti of money l/ v Congress, vv s necessary to obtain the relinquishment by the Indians, or tiny claim to the lands ;n controversy, have been informed that the expense of treating for that object might be defrayed tin: of tho con tingent fuud, and the purchase money, if n troa- ty should be made, provided for by ml appro priation at the next session of Congress; and they have been furnished by the head of that department, with n copy of his instructions to the A»ent of the United States, residing in the Creek Nation, directing him to use his exer tions to obtain such relinquishment; which is herewith submitted. The committee are in possession of no evi dence to show that the State of Georgia has at any time, manifested n determination to resist the civil authority of the United States. On the contrary, it appears that she has heretofore, submitted to the order of the President to de sist from the survey, and tho resolutions of her legislature, at its recent session, also referred to this committee, contain a direct and earnest appeal to Congress to settle this unhappy con troversy. •, On the various and important questions which that controversy presents, tho comniittco have net deemed it necessary, or proper, to express in opinion. The president has referred them to the decision of tho judicial department, and there is nothing before tho coramittco to autho rize the belief that* Georgia will not peaceably acquiesce in that reference. They do not, therefore, think it necessary to recommend any act of legislation, by congress, in anticipation of a conflict between tho authorities of the U- nion and of Georgia; and, unless ns an act of in dispensable and melancholy necessity, they would deem such legislation improper. Tiie belief that we have arrived ut a crisis, when one of the members of this confederacy, placing herself in an attitude of hostility to the residue, has rendered it nccccssary to resort to to coerce her to submission, would lie appalling to every friend of tho union apd happiness ol these states; end, though infinitely less in de gree, it would he matter of unaffected rcgiet, to have forced upon us the convirtion. tii.it nn unwarranted anticipation of such a crisis, has ltd to the unnecessary suggestion of eveu a conditional determination to have recourse to so atllictivc a measure. It is believed to he among thoso axioms, which, in a government like ours, no man may he permitted to dispute, that the only security for the permanent union of these states, is to be found in the principle of common affection, resting on the basis of common interest. 1 he sanctions of die constitution would be impotent to retain, in concerted and harmonious action, twenty-four sovereignties, hostile in tlieir feel ings towards each other, and acting under the impulse of a real, or imagined diversity of in terest. The resort to l’orco would he alike vain and nugatory. Its frequent use would subject it, with demonstrative certainty, to ul timate failure, while its temporary success would be valueless for all the purposes of soci al happiness. In such contests, however une qual, and however transient, the seeds of disu nion would lie thickly sown, and those who may be lies;inod to witness them, will speedily thereafter he called to lament the destruction of the fairest prospects of civil liberty, which Heaven, in its mercy, has vouchsafed to man, The commitico have before said, that they see no reason te fear that Georgia will not ac quiesce in the decision of this question by the judicial department. It has been seen that site has heretofore yielded to the mere order of tlic president, and die resolutions referred to tho committee evince that she still looks xv'.tli unabated confidence to iho congress of tho U- n ted Stales. They can, therefore, discover no giound for tho assumption that she medi tates resistance to tlic civil authority of the U- ti on. Tiie indications which have been given of in intention to employ a portion of her mili tia, if necessary, for the protection of her sur veyors against Indian violence, were limited to that object. Tnat they were intended to <»ppo*e tiie constitutional authority of the gov- vet nmem is unsupported by any facts which have been disclosed to the committee, and ap pear to them unworthy of belief: Their confi dence in this conviction lias been to them a source of unminglcd satisfaction. For, although they would readily apply, if necessary, the whole energies of the government to tho sup- por-, of its legitimate authority, they would, at tiie same time, regard the most remote prepa ration for a resort to military force, for the purpose of compelling a sister state to submis sion, ns among tlic greatest of public calami ties. The committeo will not enlarge upon the frightful consequences of civil wars. They are known to be calamitous to single government!:, and fatal to confederacies. Reason tell us tills, nnd history, with her warning voice, con firms it. A contagious fury rages in such con tests. No matter how small tho beginning, or how insignificant the cause, the dissmition spreads, until ihe whole confederacy is involv ed. The “ Third Sacred War," which ended in the ruin of all Greece, began in a trifle, in tho attempt of the Amphyctions to punish the smallest member of tho confederacy for violat ing some ground which had been consecrated ;o the gw! Apollo. The committee will not multiply examples of the same fatal character, of which history is 'full. They will say, that tho "ultima ratio regium," which cannot be resorted to between two foreign powers, until ail the arguments of reason have been tried nnd exhausted, ought not to be hastily used in n community of states bound together by a con federated government. The last argument of kings, should not be the first among associated republics. The tribunal of public opinion should be resorted to. In a free government it is almost as omnipo ent over communities as over individuals. None can despise it. Cou pled with n judicial decision, tho empire of pub lic opinion will bo as binding as tho decision of arms. In this case, the laws have been alrea dy appealed to, and the committeo most earn estly recommend a reliance upon their cffica cy, and upon that instinctive sagacity of pub lie opinion, which rarely fails to discover and to sustain the just side of every great question It has hitherto been tlic happiness nnd boast of the American people, that, since tfie adoption of the pre sent constitution, their annals exhibit but a single in stance in which, to maintain the authority of their government, the blood of the citizen lias been shed by arms of the soldiery. It should be the prayer of eve ry American that this may be the last. The appre hensions then felt for the continuance of our conic tie racy are fresh in the recollection of the committee. Nor can they forget the exultation which was mani- tested by the enemies of republican governments, and their confident predictions of the speedy downfall of ours. The virtue and intelligence of the people, co operating with the inherent excellence of our political institutions, averted the danger, and preserved the U- nion. Three entire administrations have since inter vened, without resorting either to the actual or threat ened exercise of force, to sustain tlic authority of law During a portion of this period, our country was in- voiced in a most sanguinary war with one of the most powertul nations oi Europe. In its progress, when untooked for calamity filled the timorous with appre hension, und roused the patriot to redoubled exertion u spirit of insubordination was manifested in an im portunt portion oi tho Union. A crisis occurred more interesting than any other in the history of our coo* fedcracy, und there appeared reason to apprehend that the horrors of a civil, might be superadded to the calamities of a foreign war. If evidence were wunting to show the proiound and intimate knowledge of the nature nnd tendency of our political system, possessed by the statesman who then presided over Ihe republic, it was ut that time strikingly exhibited; and it any thing could udd to the deist of gratitude which the country owes to this illustrious patriot, it is his conduct on tbut occasion. Had threats of milita ry coercion been used, tiie probability of its applica tion would have been increased, and, under the ex citement which prevailed, the commencement of hos tilities between the federal acd state authorities might rd stability. The honest apprehensions of those wj,, I tion, which is now claimed, and has always the military power of tho general government hud before doubted their capacity to sustain the sure of danger and Ihe conflict of war, were disnelw and all the hopes which were founded on the »„(].• pated dissolution of onr confederacy svcre'clestrovej! Such were tiie legitimate fruits of tiie wisdom' 27 deration, and firmness, which were then di*[,! ov ,, and, while they retrace the history of that ppriod 4 committee are" encouraged to hope that similar',*? Horn end moderation will lend to similar result* They would be unwilling to give tlieir sanction!! different measures, 011 any occasion of apprehend,! collision between the federal government and oncj its members, but more especially in a ease so r.,,2 tinlly different, in principle nnd character, from ,|J with which it lias been compared, as the present is a A milted to be. It is far from tlieir desire to internr. with those duties which linve been confided to n,,' executive, and which, they doubt not, will t„.. ^ ciiargcd with ability nnd zcttl; hut it becomes tho. duty to express the opinion that there appears to i, no ground to apprehend the necessity of appealin-ti military force, lor the purpose of enforcing the within the state of Georgia, and that they cannot con. cur in the propriety of menacing its application, or B ' adopting any measure in anticipation of an issue whirl they do not apprehend, and which every good citizen should endeavor to avert. The committee have not deemed it necessary to jj. vert to various other subjects embraced in the repou and resolutions referred to them. Some of them in Volvo questions which cannot, properly, originate i, this branch of the national legislature; and they not perceive the necessity or propriety of entering in. to an examination ol tlic remainder, while the princi- pal question which belongs to this controversy j, j 1( course of judicial inquiry. The committee rely, with confidence, on the justice, nnd tiie patriotism of the authorities of the United States, and of Georgio, in expressing tlieir comi e . tions, that no sucii unhappy consequences as are cp. prehended can result from the present controversy. They rely on the instructions and efforts of the \Ve Deportment, and on the declarations made to tbs Senate, during the discussion of the treaty at Wash, ington, by one of its members, who had been active, ly engaged in negotiating tiint treaty, (of the repeat edly expressed willingness of the Creek Chiefs tore, linquisii any little remnant of land within the limit) of Georgia, which, on running the lines of that Irtstv, might be found to lie excluded,) for tlic nssimmcg that this whole controversy may be speedily adjusted, by obtaining the desired relinquishment. They, tliereiore, recommend the adoption of tho foliow ing resolution: Itcsolred, That the President of the United State* he, respectfully, requested to continue his exertions to obtniii from tlic Creek Indians a relinquishment ot i- ny claim to lands within tlte limits of Georgia. A number of private bills from tho homo were passed. Tiu bills making appropriations for the na val service, for the Indian department, and for the preservation and repair of the Cumber land road, were passed. The bill for laying out and opening roads in tho territory of Michigan, and the bill makinj appropriations for the public buildings, were iscussed nud laid on the tabic. The vice president gave notico that he should according to usage, leave the chair tomorrow at 12 o’clock. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, February 24. Air. Houston concluded his remarks in sup port of the resolution of Mr. Saunders, tiio rule having been suspended which confines the 'iscussion on morions and resolutions to a sis- It- hour. Mr. Wright rose in reply, when the speaker put nn end to the discussion. Tiie bills which had passed through committee on iho preceding day wore then read a third timo tud passed. The house then went into com mittee of the whole on the bill for the preserva tion nnd repair of tho Cumberland road. At this bill was repot ted, it contained a provision regulating the tolls, and appropriating forty- live* thousand dollars for tho repair and preser vation of the road. Mr. Barney moved a sub stitute for this bill, which merely appropriated fifty thousand dollars for the repair of tho road, and left the disputed question its to tho power of congress to erect toll-gates, and colloct tolls in the States, until next session. This was a* dop’.cd in committee, but in tho house tho ap propriation was reduced to. thirty thousand dollars. The substitute was supported by ;«H the friends of the bill, and by some who were opposed to the erection of toll-gates; and there is no doubt that this compromise, by prevent ing a long discussion of the constitutional pow er, ensured the passage of the bill through the houso. The houso came to a resolution to take a daily recess from four to six o’clock du ring the remainder of the session. Monday, February 26. Some discussion look place on tho passage of the Cumberland road bill, which was finally passed; (tho ayes and noes being taken) by a vote of 112 to 63. Air. Tomlinson, chaimiat of the committee on commerce, opeued the dis cussion on the bill to reguluto the tradewidt the British colonies, in a very succinct and a* ble view of the commercial policy of Great Britain, its influence on tho United States, and ami tho course which a regard to our interests calls upon us to adopt. At the evening session, several privato.bilb passed through committee, among which w 35 the bill to provide for tho settlement of claims under tlte Florida treaty, which was Ordered te be engrossed and read u third timo tomorrow. Tuesday, February 27* Tho discussion on the resolution offered by Mr. Saunders, was superseded by a discuss'* 111 on the resolution offered on the preceding day by Mr. Dwight, relative to tho accounts of lb* Adams, while a minister to Europe. Tho dis cussion on this subject had not terminated, when the expiration of tho hour caused 0 SDi * pension of the debate. The commltfce on public lands made a report on tho 'chargosyfc l'crred against Mr. Graham, the commis5i 0t ' f of the General Land Office, by John WSboJj which entirely acquitted Mr, Graliam of charges. Tho house then resolved itself m'® a committee of tho whole ou the state of union, when the colonial bill was again diS^ cd. Mr. Mallary having moved to amend y bill iu tho fifth lino of the first section, by * serting tho words “by sen,’’ Mr. Pearce Mr. Cambrolcttg opposed tho amendment, Mr. Strong advocated it. Tho bill was brou? 1 ' is near as might be to a decision: tbo diff 10 - 1 ' ion to debato it appeared to havo coasedt Imve terminated our existence as a free aoU united «" -FI*"™ At I people. No menace was employed. No threat ot ftlr * Strong advocated it. Tho bill was orou^ military coercion fulminated. The movements of those to whom disaffection was attributed, were ob served with care, and silent preparations were made to enable the government to act with effect, should the application of force become unavoidable. The threatened collision between the federal end state au thorities was fortunately avoided. The conduct of the parties was submitted to the judgment of the A- mcricun people. The sentence they pronounced w as just, ami it will remain irrevocable. Public opinion performed its office, and our republican institutions a- rose from the shock with renewed lustre and increas- question wmfbn tlm ove of being taken on * dcring it to a third reading—when, after effort had been made to keep the bouse tog^f er, an adjournment became almost uuavoio* 6 • uud was reluctantly agreed to. . ), ( 1 Indications arc decidedly in favor 0* passage of tho bill; if o vote bo allowed n°' | be takeu upon it, without further debate*.