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them ur\eyed. ins in nofnftietical result ? Show me that the President hit? asked for any specific net ohngialnlion, and I w ill concur in the reference of this subject, cither to a spe cial committee of this House, or to n Com- . mil tec of the Whole House on the state of e.l to prevent this survey th« Union. I eotihl lint he biwtully done until Sir, I think that'there arc peculiar reu-1 bet ■mis, why this subject should lor the prn- aeut lie on the tahle. It is now not only before a Court of Justice, hot likewise be fore a cn ordinate. branch of this Legisla ture, before a co-ordinate lironoli of the Executive, before a body which specially represents the Sovereignty >•( the Mates, and him with tin? President an exclusive jurisdiction over treaties. Let us see , »!">• enursn Itiey -Star «k. . mkle l.."V— first, hv proclamation from the President, I tlm Douse and to the p«;bbv, Ift Hlttf sh«l>t. Gi orgm innile a disposition of the lands of u labored argument support oi Un acquired, or rather made preparation ,o conetuved opm.o s ,|il, wl ) of them. She was about to have I his is consider -il nmncess.ni> to Liv e The President interpos- j to the originator ot a proposition In.r p <7. v nllecino that it In national and party question*, what is \, R1 rl :|1||| I.I „..,L it... tl.pnrv nl the practice and the theory of the t' v ” branches of the Legislature ? To the »X- of the veterans here 1 1 p,u'ul to and the riccor- meaos, the President interposed the mili-j periene Z, s ,„,„ jEssSESSKSi committees to check the aHimiilstralion - ail her 1 e- till oii-l e.l j " >l, o •*"’ avowed determination, acted np- * "'VI to F tiit c, u u willing to haven war with j on,to frame commiue tin* (.'eueriil Governmont, desistcil until " armv of the United States, to preveti ’ she eoiiil. had a right to do on the laud lying " 1 her limits, and the Indian title to "Inch mend, before we light lip a discussion in this House, in a Gotmnitti-e of the \\ le.de on the state of iheUniou, u liicb, vvi'lmut a definite object, would be engaged in the buttery of irritating abstractions, and he feared strong prejudices would lie at vvni xvi<h strong sectional feelings, which would neither have u propitious effect on | the cottntry at large, on the pending judi cial proceedings, or on the parties liti gant in the controversy. Whilst he was opposed to n reference ot lliis subject, at present, to a t_ oiieoittee ot the Whole on the state of the I nimi, he tv as equally opposed Jo its special rete- rence to tlie Committee on the Judiciary. For, he knew top what we had to rejer, except the fact, that the. President has di rented suit to he commenced against the Georgia Surveyors. Any opinions ex pressed by this Committee, in relation to this controversy, would he extra judicial. Unprecedented, and improper. I he only possible effect likely to grow out ot such a reference, will be an nr^iminiifativo rxpo- sitiou of this Committee, which may be set eventually in opposition to the opinion of another House. Now, from the com position of the Judiciary .Committee, he had no doubt, a very aide report might be made, which Olay be sneeesslolly placed in urrav to an equally able report ot the other House, mol, alter all, botn on pure abstractions, on which we tin*v never be called upon to net. When the exigency really urises, be wa* prepared to meet it. lie bad his o wn opinions ami ldsovvi. icel- ijigs on the subject, lint, beucvin,; that waste, on luere'v du ets, on wliich no legi'i 11 ..1 a.-ked : 111 which a useless strife hi t u cii tvvo brunches of'this Legisl" ore may end in a petty triumph ; ami being fully of o-| pinion, that the game that has been thrown into this House, is not worth the candle, 1 will move you, that the message and uc- (11 p muting documents lie. on the table. M1. Unite requested .Mr. Hamilton to withdraw his motion, hut Mr. H. declined to do so. , The question vvns then taken on laying the communictilieu upon the table uml de- hu dispute cided 111 the negative. Veils 72, Nojs81. Mr. Eorstfth suid, the proposition be I on: tile House, uml the only one by strict rule debatable, tv«s that made by Inmsell, to refer the messages of the Piesidont to the Committee of the Whole House on the ‘ state of the Union. If this proposition should lie rejected, then the question would firise on the motion to refer them to the Judiciary Committee. The two questions hu l, however, been mingled in the discus sion, nod, as this hid been countenanced, lt» inc-:i|inn^ lie should be ililtIlllTC-ll ill tt tone — _ . Tliis, in the judgment of the Senate, it the information received is not strangely er roneous, covered substantially the w bole claim of the Slate. It was udvueuted on that ground. It happened, however, lull short of the whole claim ; two or three hundred thousand acres of miserable land were not included within the line desig nated in the last contract. The State as serts her l ight to it under the treaty (pro perly contract) of the Indian Springs.— How was this right to he asserted? By suing Indians ? By suing the lb States ? It must he apparent that the State could do nothing hut what she has done : exer cise her rights—order a survey ol the soil. The President, doing vvhal he thinks right, orders un arrest of the Surveyors, as ame nable to the penal enactments ot the lave of 1802; applies to the civil power, as was proper nod unobjectionable: but, vvliut else? lie tells the House, and in this, Mr. F. thought be was not to be sus tained, that lie bad exercised his discre tion in choosing the civil in preference of the military power, to settle the question, lie had no discretion, even ii* his own judgment ol' the law. The use of military force is not authorized where the civil power gan he 1 xercised. These are alj the facts. A full invest! gallon would, Mr. F. presumed, he made hereafter, and ho was not now disposed unnecessarily to exhaust himself. The 1 luii-u had been told, however, that Geor gia hud sent a troop of horse to occupy tin) country : hail taken possession: we have no time to waste, on mere v do- and that the remarks which had been bumble subjects, on whirl eg.-: item!'i.ade would have been very appropriate to check Uie op position:' Will it he fair, just, or defensi ble, to send this subject to a committee tints constituted ? It is enough for us to resist the current of prejudice which falsehood and artifice have directed a gainst us—enough for us to sustain our citizens, denounced by the Chief Magis- (u I Irate pending Judicial inquiry. It would lie too much tohuve fulminated against us a labored urgtmem from a committee ol the House, stuttered through the coun try under the imp" log name of a Con gressional report, to furnish weapons to the hands of the ollieers vv ho are prose- tliut instrument, which they bell n be sacred i ami to implore the Government to interpose its authority to protect them ill their rights under that Treaty. If Georgia is permitted to violate that Treaty with impunity, why may not Ala bama ? And they ask, Whore are they to look for protection but to the Government of the It. States ? 1 have the honor to bo, your obodient servant, JOHN CROWELL, Jh'cut for Indian Affairs. The Hot 1. J VMKS Babhocii, Stc'iy of liar, Washington City. if this event hud not occurred. The gen tleman was not accurate. Georgia has not tukeu actual possession ; none of her 1 citizens are authorized to reside on it. It is true actual possession is intended, uml surveys are making preparatory thereto. No troop of horse lias baen sent to occupy the territory—one was sent, or intended to be sent, to protect the surveyors acting under the law of the State. Mr. F. pre sumed the propriety of this act would not If the surveyors were tres passers, the Indians were bound not to take redress into llreir >.wn bands, but to appeal to the General Government. This appeal has been made, and lias heen met The necessary steps have been taken to bring the question of right before the Ju dicial tribunals. Under ihese circumstan ces, vvliat Legislation can be necessary ?— unless indeed the House chooses to exert its power, cut up the roots of the coulro versy,und prevent the necessity ot'Judici al decision, ty directing the Indians to receive what may lie deejjjgjl question must remain in the hands of the Stall Suppose vie differ with the President in his construction of the act of 1802 ; to repeal it would be ridiculous, merely be cause he puis an incorrect construction appcarcti to Inm very extraordinary, that, after this whole subject of the controver sy with Georgia, with all the facts con nected with it, the principle* involved in it, and questions arising out of it, had been for some time before the House, und bud. on his motion, been referred to tlui j upon it—to amend it, for the same reason Committee of the Whole House on tlie.l would be childish, if we agree with him, Mate of the Union, in compliance with the | shall wo repeal the uct because il lias be- xvishes of Georgia, without remark or ob jection, that so niuoli anxiety should he felt to give to tlie Executive messages re specting it, the usualdirection, that is, to come applicable ? Mr. F. ci-uHI imagine but one event in which legislation could be expected resort to military force. Should this be send them to a Select or to a Standing intended, it is necessary to give the ways Committee. The messages raise no ques tion, refer to tio new fact, involve no new principle, look to no Legislative action, w Inch was not ns obviously necessary be fore they were sent to us as now. It is reasonable unit just lliut thu messages should be sent to the Committee already charged with the subject to which they HIdled. It was in vain to talk of the necessity of 0 evidence to a suiatl committee, and the and means, to vote tlie supplies. Indeed, something more would be necessary addition to tlie regular force. There is more than one State whose vital interests arc ufleeted by this controversy. No one can he so weak as to expect, so foolish a* to believe, so base as to hope this result. Georgia entertains no thought-of resisting tlu> L'otisiiliitiminl,, f 1 ...; the Constitutional "action of the civil tri- nunuls. When she dues must he had, not eating our fellow citizens, and stimulating the Zeal of the expounders of our laws.— Speech may be met by speech j they are of no authority, and, if quoted ns argil incut, one mav he fairly set in opposition to another. We do not want an argu ment published liy the authority of the House, to forestall public opinion. We may sift, ami examine, and criticise, and 'ridicule u report; Inn tlie effort to destroy its effect comes hulling in its rear, and sel dom is able to overtake, time enuugli to prevent popular delusion. The honorable gentleman from Massa chusetts has thought proper to allude, again, to the menacing lone wh'n.li he al leges to have heen used in the discussion of this niessago the other day. lam sor ry that lie should have thought it necessa ry, in defence of himself, again to attempt to criminate Olliers. 1 deny that there was any intention, on my part, to menuee eith er this House or the Administration.— The gentleman will pardon mo for saying that Ins remarks, the olhor day, were cal culated to excite against us a prejudice which ought tint have plnco in this House — to rouse up all those jealous and angry feelings which are ever produced by idle menaces. Great God! Is there any one, who can suppose that any member of this House, or that the State of Georgia, de sires to menace the Union ? There is no portion of the Union in which a distur bance of the peace of the Union would he more deeply regretted than in that State. The gentleman from Massachusetts, professing to have formed no judgment, remarked, that the menace came from the other side, referring to what fell from mo. Sir, I speak for Georgia; is lie a- gniust Georgia? Or does he mean that lie Mantis here for the Administration, and that 1 am its opponent ? If I am wrong in having formed an opinion, the gentleman i.s far gone towards a similar error. 1 regret it, because 1 know the weight of Ids character in this Hull, the vigor of his mind, and the extent of his resources, and the great and command ing inilueuce which be of late too of ten exercises here. I beg ltin’ve (<j re mark to tliis House.. *•>"•• ‘here was "iv ""on 1 nan the honor to sug gest the other day, that can be consi dered menacing, or which was calculat ed to wound the feelings of any body. A menace may be thrown out, I beg leave further to remark, in a very mild tone and manner. Nothing which I said, on the occasion re - lcrred to, could he more properly constru ed into n menace than what the honora ble gentleman himself said, and winch I do not now understand him as intending to retract. 'The gentleman said, if any State extended her jurisdiction over Indi an lands, she did so at her own peril. Peril of what? Of expulsion from the Union ? Of a declaration of war? Or of being overjiovvered by the combined for ces of her sister States ? Or of that mild resort to the judicial tribunal, the result of which is always sale? It was strange language which the gentleman used, how" interpreted. if, Depautment or War,_ January 2'Jth, lcd7. To Col. John Crowell, Agent fur the Creek Indians ; Pm—I have received your letter ot the 15th inst., convey ing the information that the Georgia Surveyors were surveying lands West of the line ot the late 'J reaiy, and of the measures which have heen taken by the Little Prince, and others, to prevent them ; also, the message of the Chiefs imploring the Government to in terpose its authority, to protect them in their right:, under the Treaty ot \Y ashing- ton. The President directs me to convey to the Little Prince, and the head men and vvuriiors of tint Creek Nation, his nasur: nnces that lid feels the binding obligation of the Treaty of Washington no less tor- cihly than they ; mid thut it is his intenti on to execute faithfully every clause und condition thereof. To this assurance he directs me to add, further, that he will take immediate steps to see 11 re to them all the rights, as these are guarantied in said Treaty. But the President expects it of the (’.reek Nation, that it will not frustrate his purposes by taking any steps ol a bus tile character themselves ; uml he enjoin it on you so to counsel them in regard to this matter, as to induce them to rely up on tlio protection of tlie U. estates, and leave the subject in contiovery wholly to the Government. They have very pro perly made known their grievances, as be comes good People, and further it will he expected of them they will not go, but wait for such measures as the wisdom ol tlie Government may devise to secure to them their rights, as these are guarantied in the Treaty of Washington. 1 am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JAMl'-rf B.VRBOl’U. thnt State, •nn'd alsrf,an the AjjcJrtt oT 1I10 Creek Indians, to endeavor, it possible, to prevent a resort to violent measures, cull er by the authorities of Georgia or the In dians. Confiding alike in your zeal, capacity, and discretion, I have determined to se lect you for this service. On the receipt of your instftetions, you will proceed, with the least, possible de lay, to Milledgeville, and deliver the letter addressed 10 Governor Troup, with your own bauds, as also to the Attorney and Marshal. Should Gov. Troup give you an answer, either verbal or written, you will coinmuiiietitt! it by mail ; as also the re ceipt from the District Attorney and Mar shal, of tin: instructions with which you will lie charged for them. Having ac complished this part of the duty assigned you,ymi will proceed to the Creek Agen cy, mid deliver the letter addressed to Co lonel Crowell. Any information which you obtain in reference to the object ol your mission, you will promptly commu nicate by mail; particularly any acts ol violence which tuny have occurred, or which may lie threatened. Carefully ab stain from any remarks which may dis close your object, und lie still more care- till not to indulge in anv commentary on tlie alfair, which may subject you to per sonal ditliculty. I have the honor to be, your ohedient servant, JAMES HARBOUR. Limit. J. R. Vinton, IT. S. Army. and unequal measure was never attcmnt>> ed in a free country. H is nothing uiore nor les-: limn a combination of some 0 f. the New England and Ohio Manufactur ers nml some few individuals who have made large investments in sheep walks to tax the Suuthrons, and pocket n few hundred thoUsuinl dollars of their money. [Enquirer. THE RECORDER. ,Werof going, without j.relm.iuary in . latmg Indian trade, not to hired soldiers quVrv, into Committee of the Whole. All I ' «» «'»* act lor suppressing insurrection, the facts had long been in po^-sinn of nu .* t e *«?f u ‘■wa-.o Hie n.il.tm, — * who unite to tlio character of soldier that of citizen—commanded by ollieers who will not command blood to be shed, in sport, us in the ordinary exercise of their trade. Mr. F. said there w as one view of the matter which rendered a reference to a •thqUoiine. The only change which had or.’tuicd istliat now 111 question—it lias been presented by both the parties. It cam** fust from Ger:.;ia, and now from jh>; President of the l ..red Wtmea Geor- jri . had long sought mi investigation, and it had been promist d to her. The Presi de m now asks no 1. ore than an hive ui- j Committee of the Whole extremely im- paimri. Why this div.n.ci on in the treat- 1 uortant. In thnt Committee everymem- imht of the State, and of the Executive of. her has an equal tight, and an equal the'United States? and, disguise the mat-' chunco, to make any (imposition he pleus- ler'ns genlh meu might, tins was a ques- j «s, and discuss it at large—none less than tion between the Adminnitituion and one ..a majority of tlio House cun there give a «1'the Stales. That Si.ito hud exerted 'particular direction to a subject— all meet her fights, wal or supposed. The Presi- on fair term*. It it is even supposed le- ilnnt hdd denied the existence of those | gislution should lie necessary, there was lights, and interposed to prevent the exer- j no difficulty in legislating in the Commit- eistTuf them. ' Georgia asked, in language j tee. tcuiflernto and conciliatory, for a candid, j In ppinll Committees, 1511*011' prepared fuir v a'id dispassionate examination of the 1 by individuals. Individuals who think subject by Congress, rflie sought not to | legislation proper, can oiler a bill to tlie evade judicial inquiry. Who was there [Committee of the Whole, base enough to imagine she bad any such j There was another view which It was iutcritiou ? That she wus unwilling to. his duty to present. On this subject, jjiibimt tothe decision ol tlie eoiistuutioiinl 1 without unending to irritate any one, and authority ? Who during enough to as-1 most sincerely desirous not to w ound the tert that she was desirous to resist the au- feelings of uuy member, or collection of thorny of the Executive, 'when that au-] members, it was necessary lie should thority.was constitutionally exerted ? I speak with perfect frankness. As a Ke- Tiie recent communications from the presentative of Georgia, deeply iuiere.'ted ever interpreted. If, seeking for the __ inclining of the terms which h° die does resist. •* wanrt j apjily 10 the subject •—*-*”*• ' ,B wore in to the law ot 1802, regu- *c-niig«iiitig, it would seem to lie the opini on of the gentleman thut military power might be used by the Chief Magistrate for the purpose of competing a .State—hot the individuals of a State—hut a Slate, through her sovereignty, to perform her duties to this Union. I cannot, suppose, however, that the gentleman meant to take this broad ground ; I rather suppose lie ineunt to refer to a resort to tbejudicial tribunal to control the movements uf tlie State Governments. There is no peril in all tliis : it is done every duy ; and may be dune to the end of time, or until the mili tary authority is called in to enforce the decrees of the Court. I was going on, sir, to make some re marks to show thu utter impropriety, nc cording to the rules, of a reference of this Subject to a standing committee. But it is not necessary. The objection Which' I have to the reference of it to the Judiciary Committee, applies equally to every other committee of tlie House. to be concluded next imL] * Executive tothe House could not receive u ditl'ereut dera tion than tlint given to the ajiplWtion of thefttaw, without creating si belief that, in the judgment of tlio House, the subject had assumed a new and more imposing character, because it Had now cuiue frmn a different source. In resist ing the motion to give the same direction ■Vo, «t| the communications on ihe same subject, gentlemen bod said, a prolirnujut inquiry must he instituted, nml all tlie fan.- of tl.e case reported to the House. Now, tlie facts were already hut too well know n. A contract had been made in 1821 or 18 :5. for the extinguishment of the Creek Iiiili- ftu ejairn to all the, laud occupied by the tribe within the limits of Georgia. In' consequence of the resirtnnve of part of the tribe tothe. falfiiment of thnt contract, jl i;<*Vv one whs made iti Washington, in 182t>. Before tin* second, null immediate- in her honor; hound to her by all the ties of gratitude for past kindness—lie would unwillingly sit ou any committee to make a preliminary investigation of this subject. He felt too much as a jiurty concerned.— While making this perhaps unnecessary avowal, Mr. F. said, he should be excused for saying ho was very Htixious not to put the interests & character of tlie State into the hands of those who might be consi dered her adversaries. It is one of the sovereign Slates, it part of this great C011- feijerac.y whose rights are to be examin ed. How are Committees constituted ? A majority appoints the person , who ve- li'rts the Committees, wiib a view to tlio action of the House, on great questions of public ami par ly concernment. Wliut is Papers accompanying the President's Mes sage ufthe 5lh instant. Cheek Agencv, 15th Jan. 1827. Fir. —A few days since, the Little I’riuce complained to me that the Georgia rfur- veyors were surveying lands West of the line of the late Treaty ; and, ut his request, i wrote to them in hi* name, requiring them to dosiM from survey ing any lands not ceded by the Treaty of Washington— but the Surveyors, not regarding this de- lUHtii! as emanating from competent au thority, persisted in their surveys to the line run by the Georgia Commissioner* as the line between Georgia and Alabama. Yesterday a number of Chiefs, with the l’rince at their head, requested me to write again, to the Surveyors, in their names, requiring of them to stop survey ing the lands West ol’itie lino of the Trea ty of Washington, which 1 d"ul v in the most friendly terms. A deputation "of Chefs has accompanied the bearer of the letter, with the avowed intention of stop- jiing fhe Surveyors. Tlio Chiefs have requested rftc to np- ^ after the formal .promulgation of the J preset:; it in the most iho cour'esy in ordinary atlairs ? To prize you that the authorities of Georg give to the proposer a sufficient number of. had extended their surveys West of the i b lends to hi* proposition to enable him to | line of the Treaty of Washington, there J Department oe War. January UP, 1827. Sir.—Complaints have heen made to the President, by the Creeks, through the U. S. Agent, against the intrusions of the Surveyors of Georgia on their lauds, gua rantied to them by tiie Treaty concluded with them at Washington, on the 2-lth Ju- nuary, lt32b. With these complaints they have united an appeal to the President, calling for his interposition to protect them in their rights, by causing this Trea ty to be inviolably maintained. The pre tensions under which these surveys are attempted are in direct violation ot tlie Treaty, and, if persevered in, must lead to a disturbance of the public, tranquility.— The Treaty of Washington, like all other treaties which have received the Consti rational sanction, is among the supreme laws of the land. Charged, by the Consti tution, with the execution of the laws, tho rresiaerit will feel lilmeelr compelled to employ, if necessary, all the means under his control to maintain the faith of the na tion, by carrying the Treaty into effect. I have the honor to he, vour ohedient servant, JAMES. BARBOUR. Ilis Ex. G. M. Tan nr, Governor of Georgia, Milledgeville, Geo. Department or War, January 2!)(A, 1827. Fin: By directions of the President of tlio United States, i enclose you the copy of u letter addressed to R. W. Habersham, Esq. Attorney for the District of Georgia. I am instructed to charge you to lose 110 time, on the receipt of the process, which will lie delivered you by the Attorney, in promptly executing it, ami taking the srejis dirocted by law in such ca.-es. Should the Attorney he absent,you will yourself apply for the proper process. I am, Sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, JAMES BARBOUR. John H. Mosel, Esq., Jlarshal, Savannah, Georgia. Department op War, January tiOth, 1827. Sir : Official information lias been giv en the President, that certain persons un der the pretence of surveying, have enter ed the lands of the Creek Indians, directly in violation of the late Treaty concluded with them at Washington, in January last, anil directly in violation oi'tlie law ofCon- gress regulating intercourse with tlie In dian tribes. • TSfc Chiefs and warriors of this tribe have appealed to tlie President for pro tection, by whom I tint now instructed to direct you, without a moment’s delay, to proceed to obtain the proper process with which to. arrest them, which process you will cause to be delivered to the Marshal of tho District, that they muy lie made a- mcnablc to In v. Tlie orders of the Pre sident, as well us the importance of the object, relieve mo from the necessity of suggesting unv additional motive for the prompt and energetic discharge of your duty. 1 have the honor to be, your obedient servant, • JAMES BARBOUR. R. W. Habersham, Esq. Dint. Attorney, U. S. Savannah. Department of War, N January 30tli, 1827. Fir : Official information has been communicated to the President, that sur veyors acting under, it is presumed, the authority of the Government of Georgia, have entered the lands of the Creek Inijj- ans, directly in violation of an existing Treaty, and having been warned against proceeding, by the Agent of the United States, hate nevertheless persevered in their unjustifiable course. Information, though unofficial, lias also been received that the Indians have interposed and pro vented them from completing their sur veys. Tho Chiefs and Wturiors of the Greek Tribe have also appealed to the President to protect them in their rights. In this posture of affairs, it has been de termined to despatch a Special Agent, for the (impose of bearing despatches to the Governor of Georgia, anil to the District DOMESTIC. Wasuinoton, Feb. 13. Conouess The Senate was engaged nearly the whole of yesterday’s sitting, on Executive business. As the injunction ol secrecy was removed from their proceed ings, the subjects of their confidential de liberations will he found under the proper head. Our readers will there find that the nomination of Mr. Poinsett, as Mi nister Plenipotentiary to the Assembly of American. Ministers, at Tacubaya Mexico, has been confirmed; und, also, the nomination of John Boyle, ss Judge of the District ol' Kentucky. — .Vat. Jut. In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Couu pre seated sundry proceedings of the Execti tiveand Legislature of the State of Geor gia, on the subject of Treaties lately con eluded by the United States with the Creek Indians. Mr. Sanford, from the com mittee on Foreign Relations, made a rc port on the memorials of sundry mer chants and traders who have lost proper ty by French depredutions, accompanied by a resolution for the discharge of the committee from the further consideration of the memorials. A bill was reported from the committee on the District of Co lumbia, appropriating 8)37,000 for McAdu- mizing Pennsylvania Avenue from the C11 pilot to Georgetown.—.Val. Jour. Flukuary 17. The Committee of the House ol Hcpi usema- tiv es upon tlie Message of the President coucti 11 ing the uflidrs of Georgia amt the United States, having leave to sit doling the sittings of the House, is daily and steadily engaged in the con sideration of that. suLject. ity the account of Proceedings in the HotUeof Representatives yesterday, it will be seen that there is a large majority of that body in favor of the continuation of the great Western National Road from the Ohio to the Mississippi The Georgia Militia Claims has heen brought up be fore tl.e House, according to the unanimous re commendation of tlie Military Committee, by a motion to amend the appropriation blit—which was the pending question at tlie time of adjourn ment yesterday, aud will be resumed today. Aat. Int. MILLKUGF.VILLK, FEBRUARY !>6, 1027. The instruction from the Secretary of! War to the Creek Indian Agent, Crowell directing him to bargain witli the Chiefs ofthe tribe for the stripofluml in dispute will, we hope, be the menus of terminating \ speedily every matter of dispute between the State and General Government in re- gurd to the Treaty of Indian Spring and that concluded at Washington. Ilovr much it is to he regretted, that tlie Presi-r dent, utter having determined on acours* *0 prudent and safe, should, in less than a • week, send to both Houses of Congress, a message of such style and character us to deserve the reprehension of every consi derate man ! Whatever course this bust* ness may take, the persons engaged inti;# surveys have nothing to apprehend. Their acquittal by ft jury of timir countrymen will lie the certain issue, should they Lo brought to trial. VIRGINIA I.EGIFLATURE. Tuesday, February 13. Mr. Giles, front the Select Committee appointed to enquire into certain point-* of fundamental law, ami certain differing claims of jurisdiction between the Go vernment ofthisStatnand the Government of the U. Slates presented u report which, on Mr. Wilson's motion was laid upon the tahle—and on Gen. Taylor’s motion, was ordered to lie printed. We regret our want of roots this morn ing to lay the whole of this Paper before our readers. It is necessarily laid over till baturdny—after n long argumentative Preamble, it concludes with the following resolutions:—Jonq. *! Hoonl-vid Tlll.r jtvla Oan«—I .Anaclll- i/tr, in behalf of the People and Govern ment of this State, does, hereby, ino.-,t so-' lomnly protest against the claim or exer cise of any power whatever, on the part of the general Government, to' make in - teriijil improvements vv itliin the limits nml jurisdiction of the several Stutes, and par ticularly within the limns of the State of Virginia j -and also, against the claim or exercise of any power whatever, asserting or involving a jurisdiction over any part of the territory within the limits 0^ tliis State, except over tlie objects and hi thu mode specified in the Constitutional' tlie United States. ' • * “ Ihsolved, In like manner, that this General Assembly does, hereby, most so lemnly protest against any claim or exer cise of power, whatever, on the part of the Genera! Government, which serves to draw money from the inhabitants of this •State, into the Treasury of tlje United States, and to disburse it for object, whatever, except for carrying ifiicfefl'ect the grants of power to the General Go vornment, contained in tlio Constitution of t he United Stutes. “ Hesolvcd, In like manner, tha this General Assembly does most solemnly protest against tlie claim or exercise of any power, whatever, on the purl of tlm General Government, to protect domestic manufactures; the protection of manu factures not being amongst the grants of power to thnt Government, specified in the Constitution of the United States,— and also, uguinst the operations oftlte act of Congress, passed May 22d, 1821, en titled, “ an act toanjeiid the several acts imposing duties on imports,” generally called the Tarill'law, which vmy the dis tributions of tlio proneeds of the labor of thu community, iti such n manner, as to transfer property from one portion of the United .States to another, anil to take pri vate property from the owner for the be nefit of another person, not Tendering public ge/vico,—ns unconstitutional, un wise, unjust, unequal and oppressive.” JZvtract of a letter from, Wasiiinoton, JFcb. J2. “ You will see by the papers, that the Woollen Bill passed the 1). of R. on Sa turday night, under the rigor of the Pre vious Quest ion. 1 hardly know how to express my indignation at this bold at tempt to ficcce tlie Southern country un orrxcsAL. Department or War, llith January, 1827- Stn^-In reply to yours ofthe 28th ult. f I am instructed to say, that, in the opinion ofthe President, the force which you huve called into service to protect the citizens of Georgia from tlie outrages ofthe Indi ans, ivn.i justified by the cmcumstunces on which you acted ; and, consequently, that the expence attending the measure is n proper debt ugaiust the U. States ; to meet which, an appropriation will be ask ed for from Congress. I avail myself of the occasion to reply tol a paragraph in your letter ofthe lltli ultj in which you say, that “ the President <q the U. Sta.es lias thought proper to dej dare, that it was the intention of the pmi ties to that instrument (tho new treaty) t( cede to Georgia all the lands claimed hy her within the Creek limits.” You cun readily appreciate my surprise, if I am to understand you as drawing this inference from my letter of the 27ih of November, when I had endeavored to express myself a* distinctly as possible, directly there verse. I beg leave to refer-you again to that letter, in which I explicitly declared to you, that “the Creek*, when pressed* to make a cession to that effect, perempto rily refused and I tbon went on merely ’’ to state the presumed reason for so refus ing—the uncertainty of the directum of the line, lienee specific limits wer greed on in the Treaty, beyond which ilia U. Slates, or Georgia, cannot go without • violation ofthe faith ofthe nation, cmlcmii ly plighted ; und if there be any timbigni ty in the language which I employe which I cannot perceive, it surely must huve been removed when I say, that so soon as certainty 19 given to the direction of tlie dividing line between Georgia ami A- lnlmma, the Executive of the U. States will endeavor to obtain, by fresh uegolinr tion, vvliat it so much desires, an entire surrender ofthe Crock lands within the li mils of Georgia. I trust you will, hy re ference to my letter, a small part of which only! have givuuymqpcrceivehowgrent- ly you have been mistaken (it*I have un (lorstood you correctly) in supposing that the President had declared that all the Creek lands within the limits of Georgia were intended to be coded by the new Treaty. I nave tlie honor to he, your obedient servant, JAMES BAUBOUlt. I o His Ex. G. M. Tkoup, Governor of Georgia, Milledgeville, Gfa, form to! by violating tho express (jiipulatiotvi. ol'i Aitonjqy ouii Marsha) ofthe V Fta'.m- tv , l! ’ r Uie ^nis- of low A more Executive Department, Geo. ) Milledgeville, 26th Jun. 1827. J Sir—I received this afternoon vour let ter ol'the 16th inst., announcing that “in the opinion of the President, the force which you have called into service to quo- tcct the citizens of Georgia from the cut- rages of the ImJiujfH was justified by^ie' ttijrcimwtnuces on which you, acted’, and aonsuqiiently thnt the expense attending the measure is^ pan per debt nguinst the U. States, to meet'yvhieh, an appropriation will lie asked for %Voin Congress”-W which be pleased tu'prcscr.t my thank*to the President. The muster and pay rojls, with voucli* ers. <.Vc. u iltlu>l'orwnrded*in a few days- You will discover hy the enclosed copvni my letter of instructions to the command' ing officer of the Troops, that the utmost | precaui ions heen taken toipaked 1 * expedition as Rule burdensome to the L. States a* possjjjlo; qj|d it will turn out, tW, | considering the corps was composed mounted men exclusively, who were »nii' ad and equipped to not cither as infantry or cavalry, and w.cra to bo subsisted in<V country but sparsely populated, j pc^ist's have not encoded the uim-'fy | vA%ich might reusoutibly have* been erf* mated—At the moment the frontier " aS ,| tranqitilized the corps wus on its return T march, and was dis'.ufcsetl even bel’otct-?’| receipt of your letter ofthe lGtli ills!. I cannot suffieiemly express my r.e? rC * I that i should, on any occasion, bowrvtf innocently, have misunderstood or ini' rr presented you—on the one to wind)) 011 have referred in your last cojimuoiicHii" l| i I was particularly cautious to avoid H- 1 ’ gives me much more pleasure I assure to refer it to tm unfortunate obtusenc* “ intellect, tliriu to any obscurity in l ! 10 ^ u ’ gunge you employed. I did think nO self justifiable by that language, K> rlnjc that’it wag the intention of the *id,ent to acquire by flic instrument c*"-’ I tlie new Treaty, nil tlie land* ivitliui 11 ' Creek limits claimed by Georgia; 1,111 1 was the more gratify ing to me to coni* | this conclusion, because au opp ,| rl |l |; presented of placing the President h';'^ the people of Georgia in h favoralno In- J 'lotion to a subject of detq> com!' imjit'oj'er 1 nimt tq them, oy whiui they ;