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4Kkm. 0^8 i<fat 11 & v a p j) + MON OF THE PRINTER'S DEVII.. - :»<■ :M ' Devil had taken his stanil, i unntrnanre thooghtful nnd solemn, mntltr distributing. flexv from his baud ; [•her, from his uasnl column. But time xxould fail tnc, gentlemen, should 111 answer—“Much every way.” It would setlh attempt to poiut out ail the defects <>f our s\ 'tern the disputed constructions of our statutes. W hat. Permit mo briefly to answer a few of the onjec- tion* to the proposed amendment, mid to state a few of ts advantages. i The most popular objections are delay and m’d eclips’d in the lamp's pale light, j espouse. They are both founded in error. In • And wildly look’d out from their cells; vhd a sepulchral voice from the vaults of night I'In.*, burst from his box of i’s! ‘Ah! strangely giv’u tip i« the world to abuse. In this reign of corruption nmt evil; We first began /ifo in a virtuous use; But, wc end it, at last, wifn the devif. In the b/ue liquid hike we are here doom’d to lie, Into which wo with Lucifer fell, And bv chance into h/iss, if one happen to fly. There arc two of us thrust into he//. From heaven," said then’s, "let no blessings descend On that dnv: nor light from the sun: When the long cherished Union wo brought to au cud, And nullification beguu. "All Actions once proudly Acknowledg'd us first; But the day of our greatness is past; We are now stink to nothing forever accurst. And in even da notation the last. "Al is!" said the A "that I turn’d into w/tijg* So,sndd*n and strangely times alter; Rut sooner than catch me again in a w-ig, You’ll see me caught first in a Anller.’’ The o’s seem’d to labour with an opposition; But no sooner was it brought to the light. Than it evaporated like an nnpnrition And vanish'd away out of sight! Tl. streaming /dond. faintly spoke from his />ox, When !o! in* a Arcnth he was gone; And the Devil quak’d and rent his locks At tbestrangephencmaenor^^^^^^^^^ Extract from the chance of John G. Polhi/l- Judge of the Ocmulgee circuit, to the Grand Ju ry, at the laic stamen of the Baldicin Superior Court. "The Court disapproves of the practice, (as a general tulc) of Grand Juries wandering be yond the limits of their oflHnl duty, in senrrlt of subjects of presentment. When we enter these sacred walls, we should, gentlemen, to the most of our moral powers, divest ourselves of all those prepossessions and prejudices, those predilec’ions for creeds and opinions, which may tend lo ex- ciie the passions, warp the feelings, and becloud the judgment. Justice, clothed in her unsullied . ermine', nud holding her golden scales with un varying equipoise, is represented as blind. And though she should not he deaf, yet her ears, ns well as i*er eyes, should be closed to every thing tint may tend to disturb that mirufiied equanim ity. whieh alone can enable her to dispense equal blessings to all her petitioners. It is to bring our minds Into a similar condition, that the solemn obligations of an oath are imposed upon you, gentlemen, and upon the Court. Still there are nt-mr subjects, unconnected with the political struggle*! and agitating topirs of the day—sub jects of general interest to the community in its diversified social relations, which may, without impropriety, and often v»ry beneficially, claim vour intention and your action. And though the expression of youi opinions may not carry with i' any legal or binding obligation, it may still be of salutary consequence, iu directing the minds of vonr legislators to the enactment of laws im portant to the great interests of the State. As one of this character, and ono too most in timately connected with the objects for which no nee assembled, permit me to direct vonr at- t-ntion to a subject of paramount importance to •be people-of Georgia—I mean, the reform of n»nr judicial system. By your judicial system. T ’ • t.n mean, gentlemen, your judiciary act of v excellent and so wise in all its features. ■ :h ■ great desideratum in our otherwise - -ritntion—a Court for the correction 1 r «' tv thing else, the constitution. i’ii’ions of Georgia, arc highly de- • in the organization of her highest . her Superior Courts, there is • nt in narchy. True, it is elective,’ but r-oiiiirrhy. F.very thing depends upon •"t i*. a ml discretion of one man. Wheth- >f enlightened or ignorant—whether he o’. ht, or corrupt—-just, or unjust—whether . r ":n. attentive and reflecting—ot* impa- sb. nr ’ precipitate—your liberties, your - lion. •• our lives, your property- in a word. \ ■ ■ K tire at his tnerev, without .the p •.'‘in appeal from tho most flagrant v Tori'". ■! iatvs—or of redress from th most •S Imc "• ) acts of oppression and injustice.— AJu po'iticmen. the construction of that sacred In-trl*.trial wh>ch is the immediate guarantee of .11 m i:r 1*.• -Tie?—your constitution—and by con- .’Tir. a. id vonr <*on*'itutional rights, are iu th•• bands of n single man. He is to determine, iat too. iu the last resort, not only the ten- m- ’ i iv.'iich you hold your estates—ho alone r*.:> t ot o”!y break up the great "fountains of •Tv .1 deep,” on which arc based your rights of to , life nml reputation—hut he alone is to » mo. in the last resort, the rights of the e- ' t - mrliise—the obligations you owe to the g-'v- ->meiit—the protection which the govem- <r nt ws io vou, as Georgians and as Americans. *• i- true gentlemen, that these vast powers ;i ' t ” •’•lewhore. They must rest too upon • w • i i imperfections of human integrity c. intellect. But are they not top tre- • in the hands of one inhu ? "Tit the midst .-• . t ni'ors there is snfptv”—and would it not » i —would it not he more satisfactory— • •• •• not be mere favnrahle to. the attain- o’ truth—that there should be a concurrence .i 1 fhree .if more enlightened and upright minds, t establish and settle these high and important is of the people? And is not this argument rc imperative, from the consideration, that, in *i rost every instance, the decisions of your Jttd are delivered in tho hurry of a week’s session, tn jhe most important cases, involving the most >oitj * nd momentous questions, often without tb .• t ■-■.ib'lity of access to books, and generally witihis: time for reflection end research ? But these are not ike only evils to which we ar*. -objected, for ihe want of n correcting trilm- -. i . _ iVe hive tcu judicial circuits: and there v to two of xhetn, in which tho laws are tint •ore or fewer ca‘es, differently construed, and ■ r u^ly adiniuistered- Tho lawyer of one cir- ; not tell you Ivhr.t is the law in another 1 * .«■ lie.may. after patient and learned re- • vnu his opinion of what the law is, " .re. however good may lead to expense r.*u> note, that i* recovered in this r rot be suffered to go tc the jury in d. which may secure to your wife •i competency and a comfortable firc- ■ . itir, may be treat.-1 :is a mere another. Inn word, gentlemen. . v nut of conformity among tho vn- ■•! your Judges. The opinions of - >• not binding upon another: nor '*lion" of u predecessor binding up- t -so • 1.. t nfirreveiy new election .- :.,.i!i ... i* changed, counsel fn 1 • • u .y fed bound for the pro- i fi. ir.t’Iient, to argue every liti- ::on anew reg *rd to delay our present system is full of it. Witness the various qticsiions reserved at almost every term, for consideration and decision at some future period. \\ ituess the questions, set tled by preceding Judges, constantly renewed and argued at length, before their successors. This must occur, or the Judge subject himself to cen sure, or fall perhaps into error, for the want of proper investigation and reflection on important principles. And when afterwards, lie may dis cover bis error, the corrective can only be applied to new cases that may arise unou the same ques tion. And though lie may regret it more deeply limn any other, but the unfortunate sufferer under bis error, lie may behold that sufferer reduced to poverty, incarcerated in your penitentiary, or robbed of bis reputation, without the power of re dressing the wrong, which one mistaken principle may havo brought upon him. Tins delay often occuis too. at the request of parties themselves, through their counsel—when counsel express a confident belief that they can remove the present imnrcssions of the bench. Io such cases, the courts feci that it is better to graut the indulgence than to commit an error that cau never be reme died. Ours is in fact, gentlemen, a system of de lays—and delays too. which rarely result in much good: tor the attorney, in his various and impor tant investigations of curtent business, forgets tho past—furnishes no brief to the Judge, and the Judge, not charged with the particular investiga tion. forgets the points of litigation—and the case is called up again, finding both the bar and the court as little prepared to meet the question as when it first catuc up. I am happy to perceive, however, from the various questions so willingly referred hy parties litigant to the contention of Judges, proves that the tuittds of the people are prepared for ail the delay that may he incident to a Court of Errors. And here, gentlemen, permit ine to ask you. if it would not he better for the people of Georgia, to have a Couit regularly organized for this purpose, than to submit to the mockery of an appellate tribunal, such as the convention of Judges? And though tmsolf a member of that body, and asso ciated with minds of the first order of legal ac quirement in the State, let me require, if you have observed the loose manuer iu which their decisions are declared? Without any solemnity of argument, or patieuco of research, the most momentous questions are settled, ai.d the most important rights adjudicated. Would it not be better, to have a court constitutionally organized, whose duty it should be to settle the vase, after learn-'d argument and patient investigation ?— V hose office should carry with it responsibility, and whose decisions, authority ? On the subject of expense, a most egregious er ror generally prevails. It is supposed by a very large portion of the community, that in a Court for the correction of errors, there arc jurors, wit nesses, and all the apparatus of a Superior Court. These appendages cannot he separatcil ill our minds from the idea of a court, because they have become so common iu Georgia to the observation of the people. But these things have nothing to do with such a Court. The error is a most unfortunate one. Cases are carried up to a Court for the cor rection of errors, only by writ of Error, or exceptions. These carry up the question of law oulv, like our Ccrtiornrios—the facts and the disputed points ate all agreed upon, nud argued by counsel in the court above, as you see motions argued in this court, before the jury hour arrives in the morning. It being a court merely for the settlement of law questions, there ueed be none, or very triflingcosts such as any party would be williug to pay to have his rights ascertained— much less than our people now pay for their In estimable right of appeal. Another objection is, that such a. court is new und untried. But it has been tried iu almost ev ery State of the Uuion, but our own—and the people of those States would be as unwilling to -I.,.. .... .1.Cnnooma rfnltPfc O C Wfllll/] tllA 11(10* are our own statutes tho subjects of construction? Yes, gentlemen, the verv simplest of them. Iu England, the constructions of one single statute have given rise to one entire volttniu, and with out condensation, would fill several mote—I re fer to the statute of frauds, thought to be so carc- fullv and so exactly penned, ns to avoid ihe possib'lityof misconstruction or evasion. I might refer yon to others, and to some of our own, particularly those regulating the estates of orph ans, legatees and distributees, which!are the sub jects of the mo9t discordant constructions. But to proceed.—the other courts would he bound by tbe derisions of the Court of Errors. It would fix tho standard of the common law. as innova ted on hy our change of social and political reja- tions. and make more uniform the whole admin-, istrntion of justice. It would destroy delay hy settling important questions—diminish lawsuits by determining rights of property and other rights under similar circumstances. AVhat would he law and practice in Habersham and Rabun, would he law and practice in Baldwin, Chatham and Thomas. It would impart the knowledge of theiir rights to tho people—improvo the lear ning of the Bar—elevate tho character of the Bench—anil reflect hack its light upon our intel ligent legislators It would place Geoigia in a more dignified and enviable position among Iter sister States. In a word, gentlemen, it would boa "consummation most devoutly to be wished." CONGRESS. give up their Supreme Courts, as would the peo pie of Georgia to abolish their right of appeals— one of the brightest features of our Judiciary sys tem. In this matter wc seem to lie actuated by that well known principle of human actiou, sug gested in our Declaration of Independence: that mankind had rather bear with evils so loug as they are tolerable than to attempt any important change of their institutions. This repugnance to reform, however salutary, had well nigh lost us the glories and glorious cousequences of our revolution. On this subject, gentlemen, Georgia should have some pride; some laudable ambi tion. From the days almost of Oglethorp to the present time, she has presented an array of learn ing and talents, that would do honor to auy of her sister States. In the General Government, she has furnished her Secretary of the Treasury, and her Attorney General; and at the moment that I address you, ono of her sons is at tbe head of the Department of Mate. and another an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U- nion. She has produced statesmen, orators, lawyers and Judges, who would have done hon or to any age or untion. But while your bar is loaded with learned reports of almost every state from Mniuc to Louisiana—w hile our own child, the young Alabama, yields instruction in the im portant science of the laws to her mother, Gcor gia. what citizen of Georgia derives the proud satisfaction of hearing, and what lawyer in other states, reads the reports of Georgia, to cnligli'en the minds of their Judiciary ? This, our shame, should bo putawny from us. • But it is asked, have we not law books c- nough from beyond the waters, nud from the other States? Do^otllie English hooks and the State reports supply us with all the neeessaty treasures of legal lore? They do not. After our glorious disruption from tho British Empire, wc set up a new government for ourselves. Not only our internal political relations and our con stitutional rights became different, but the tenures of property were changed, not only in personal, hut in real estates; and our most valuable species of personal property is not known in Great Brit ain. nud many of our own states. In addition iothis, wc have our own statutes and institutions, of structures peculiar to themselves, that can on ly he construed nt home. Hence the necessity of settling these tenures and rights by a system of adjudications suited to on.* peculiar political and social relations, so widely different from those of our mother country, and so essentially variant, in many features, from those of onr sis ter States. It is on this account that our law yers and judges look so eagerly to the reports of the other States for thcnblo exposition of Amer ican principles, which Georgia herself docs not fnrni'h, and which are all important in many cases, not to he found, because they do not ex ist iu English books. Further, gentlemen, the derisions oven of tho English judges, and partic ulnrly of tho judges of tlto several. States, arc not considered of very high authority, unless they emenato from a full bench of supreme judges. And the people of Georgia, the lawyers of Geor gia. and the judges of Georgia are continually referring for light and knowledge to a source of judicial .exposition, which our people have thus far repudiated, as umftscessnry and dangerous— nn inconsistency which cauAot be explained. Gentlemen, i shall not attempt to exhaust this fruitful subject, hut will briefly answer tbe ques tion—'wbtrtss the great benefit of such a court ? 1 From the Charleston Courier. A plan of reference has oceti agreed upon in t e- spcct to the stock in the Morris Canal, viz. each party concerned is to name fifteen gentlemen, out of w hich they are to choose two each, who are to choose a fifth, before whom the parties are to appear and he examined under onth, and all con cerned are to abide the award. The merchants of Salem have dispatched a memorial to congress to pass au act of non-iuter- coursewith France until the treaty of 1834 bp complied with, and not to resort to reprisals or war. Cnpt. Welsh, of the ship Jeannette, while en tering the screw dock at N. York. 11th inst. fell down the hatch, aud was so much injured that he died iu au hour afterwards. A letter from Marseilles, dated Dec. 25, says “We have advices from Mahon to the 20th inst.— The Cholera has disappeared, and the U. States vessels had been admitted to pratique. Our Board of Health have declared several cases here aud so state on the hills of health.’’ The weather was more severe at Quebec, on the 3d and 4th ins:s. than at any preceding peri od liuring the winter—the mercury sinking from 20 to 28 degrees below the cypher. The schr Creole. Capt. Page, arrived at New York. Ilth inst., from Tampico, which place she left ou the 24 r h of January. The only intelli gence furtijshed is. that a report was rife, ol a conflict between Gen. Santa Anna, and Gen. Bustitmeutc. The party of tho former was be lieved to be ou the decline. Mr. Homer of Boston, who had been for seve ral days under trial in that citv. on a charge of poisoning a large number of stage horses, took pcisou ou lhe t 1 Ith inst. and died in the course of the day. Mr. Homer was a wealthy loan, alui has hitherto sustained a good character- Hostilities at Washington.—The correspoud- cm of Mr. Hudson’s new Reading anti News Rftom. New York, writes from Washington, on Thursday, that Mr. Jarvis and Mr. .Smith, both Jackson representatives from Maine, are in a snarl. Mr. Jarvis challenged Mr. Smith, Mr. Lytlleof Ohio hearing the challenge; .Mr. Smith returned au abusive reply to Mr. Jarvis, refusing to consider him as a gentleman ! therefore, ac cording to Washington chivalry. Mr. Eyttle chal lenged the man who did uot think his principal a gentleman. Mr. Smith again demurred, on the grouud that he had no quarrel with M*’. Eyttle, aud so the matter rests ; meanwhile Mr. Jarvis is prepariug the usual posting, history of the quarrel, &c. Au exebauge of hostile notes between two ci ther members of Congress is also 3pokeu ol. No names are given. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN CHARLESTON. A fire broke out in Charleston on Sunday mortiiug the 15th,-which destroyed about sixty buildings, likewise St. Philips, or as commonly called the old Church, being the oldest *u the city, having been built in the year 1723. It ori ginated iu a wooden buildiug, at the North cor ner of State aud Lingard-streets. and the wind blowing freshly from the North East., swept the flames with desolating fury over the majs of wooden buildings to the South-West. The area covered hy the fire is embraced by Market street on the North, State street on the East, Church street on the West, aud a line about mid-way between Queen and Ancen sfee*s on the South. The only houses reinainiug within this space are a range of brick buildings at the nngle formed bv Market and Church streets, seven on the for mer, and two on the latter street, and three woo den houses on the corner, and to tho South of the corner of Liugard aud Church streets, which were saved by the intervention of brick kitchens, with dead walls between them and thej fire.— The violence of the wind rendered it a work of groat difficulty to arrest the progress ofthe flames, and to prevent their extending across Church street. The amount of insurance on the property de stroyed, is estimated at from ten to fifteen thou sand dollars. The Church was not insured. The remains of tho steeple, and the front of the por tico fell into and (docked up the street, to the West, about nine o’clock on Monday, and some apprehensions were entertained that ono or moro persons were buried utider it.-^Augusta Const. In cpnseqticoce of the warlike character of the debate in the House of Representatives on ihe7th inst. wc tmdesiand that tho importers of French goods in New York have instructed their agents in this rity, to hold their goods at an advance.— Phil. U.S. Gaz. SENATE. Tnur.SDAV, Feb. 12, J835 The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the joint resolution reported hy the Library Com mittee, authorising tho purchase of 500 copies of Carey & Lea’s History of Cougress. Mr. Hill asked the committee to give some reason why this hill should pass. • Mr. King, of Georgia, expressed a wish that the bill might he permitted to lie ou tho table, until the information called for from the Secre tary of the Senate, relative to the amount of printing authorised by Congress, could be had. ft was csscutial. to enable us to act unilerstand- ingly ou this subject, that the information called for should ho obtained : it was indispensable.— With regard to tho value of this work, Mr. K. said it might be a good aud useful work, and it might be. like many others we had purchased, totally useless and worthless. Mr. Poindexter enlarged upon the merits of the work ; he said it could not progress without the patronage of tho Government. 11 was of great utility to every statesman, because it con tained the whole history and proceedings of Con gress and the Government in a condensed form, and guttlemcD could not afford to pu.cbase it for their private libraries. Mr. Benton said, that about seven years ago. the Senate purchased one of those works called a Political Register, and he took occasion to look into it to examine closely, and fouud it to be a complete exemplification of the sugseestio fnlti and supprrssio veri. Many things were omitted which members said, and many things were put into their mouths which they never did say. Fo far as he himself was concerned. Mr. B. said it contained a general libel on him. He looked over the Register of the last session, ami he believed that iu the matter that there appear ed under his rnme. there was not one paragraph which was not more or less a downright falsifi cation of what he said, and there was hardly a sentiment iu it, nr a fact stated in it, which he actually said. There were two papers in this city, the Telegraph and National Intelligencer, both of which, three or four years ago. were very obliging to him. They both uniformly published his speeches, and whenever he desired altera tions to be made in them, they did it very obli gingly ; and whenever he wanted to improve them, (aud be did not hesitate to say that he did improve them.) they cheerfully consented to it. But within the last three years, both papers had entirely changed their conduct towards him.— And one of them, the National Intelligencer, re fused. out and out. to publish one of his speeches against the Bank of the United States.. Yes,* sir, Mr. B. said, theyrefused to publish his main speech, on the ground that it was too long, and when he afterwards offered to abridge it. they totally refused to publish it, while they published every thing that was said on the other side.— The Telegraph did the same thing, and the gen tlemen on the other side not only saw the notes, but the proofs too. With respect to the propo sition now before the Senate, to buy these books, be perceived tho name of one of the employers of the Bauk of the United States, and he had re ceived information from Philadelphia that these persons were busily engaged last winter in keep ing and fomenting the panic which was in a course of preparation and performance. He was oppo sed to this proposition, because, among other reasons, this history of the Congress of the Uui- I ted States hy Carey So Lea, was a History of are in ,t pr on j, rcss by the Bank^of the United States.— This was all he had to say on the subject at this time. But with regard to this husiuess of print ing in the Senate, it exceeded all the other abu ses of the government, includingthc Post Ofilc 0 ’ put together. In 1819 the expense for printiug amounted to $15.000.—while last year, ho be lieved, it amounted to $150,000 ! And propo sitions for single jobs passed here, almost without opposition, incurring "an expendilurc equal to the whole sum paid in 7819. He took this op portunity now to give notice that as often as pro positions were introduced here for extra jobs, be would he brought to his feet, and on the subject of this great and crying abuse, he would show them to the country in nil their enormity. And also, show, that while we were seeking to re move the mote from the eye of others, wc would not oerceive the beam iirotirnwn. Mr. King, of Georgia, said that where propo sitions had been made to purchase works., in this way, ho always purchased them with his own money. But the value and usefulness of them would vanish like a sprite, if a proposition should he introduced to make the expenditure for them out of onr own pockrts. He did not know the value of this work, as he before remarked.. Bu' he did know that it would be very expensive.— Honorable gentlemen agreed that such works were necessary to us in the discharge of onr le gislative duties. If they were so. he would he willing to vote money enough to purchase & suffi cient number for our purposo. He would go as Itiglt as 5fl copies to be placed in the library — And surely this was a liberal number. If the resolution was thus modified, ho would support it. He was not in favor of purchasing them for the members to be taken home and used for their individual purposes. Wo had already engaged in a work for which we were to pay $420,000 at least, ami which, had it not been for the com mendable zeal and care of the Committee last year,"'would have cost the Government, at least, threo millions." Mr. Hill said he had made some calculation of tho cost of books nnd maps and printing ordered Tliis will add $145 75 for each member of the volumes of Documentary History of the R fv , Senate. lion. The restriction to $400,000 forseven h # Still, further, $50,000 annually for Gales & dred and fifty copies virtually amounts to ^ Seaton’s State Papers, and $50,000 expenditure thing, if we do not put a stop to furt>i*hj n;r ^ on Clarke & Force’s Documentary History, bers of Congress with alh the books that ha would average to tho 291 Senators, Representa- been furnished their predecessors. Ifthnt p tives, and Delegates, for the year. $340 each; tire continues, there can be no limit either a 7 and would make in the whole,’ $2985 75 io each numbers or amount of expense. Gale's & s„' ai * member of the Senate, as the expense for books , and Clarke & Force may just as we'I print-;,, and printing for a single year. or .3000, as /50 copies: and both nre qnijn Of tbe items I have called over, one or two safe iu estimating the amount- they will fiaak are deserving comment. Oue of the Depart- take from the Treasury, in the one rostan?i in cuts hail procured as a matter of favor to that a half, and in the other at a whole millirg’i part of Rhode Island nud Providence plantations, dollars, as at two hundred and four hundrri and at a great expense, the survey, engraving,’: thousand dollars each. . and furnishing, a map ofNarraganset Bay, astif-; Mr. President, the gifi anddistributinn ofhod ficient quantity to answer all ordinary purposes, to members of Congress, even of such boofa ,! This was not enough. Senators living iu distant appertain to our duties ns legislators, areofijJJ States, who had as little to do with Nurragauset advantage to the public interests, i bavrb^J Bay as they had with Wiuiiipisseogee lake and 0 f members of Congress offering their books"f bay, or auy other distant water, must be furnish-, sale in this city, aud disposing of ibetn in ^ ed with additional copies of an unwieldy map; tenth or ono twentieth theircost. InmtoldtbB, aud eight hundred dollars more are expended in j are hooks now on sale at one or more ^ printing aud furnishing an extra number of these the-city, furnished hy members of Congresjf',! for tho forty-eight Senators. j that purpose. If the fnends’of this modeofrij*. The thirteen copies or sets, eight volumes each, tribution doubt the fact, ihev have it in of Gales & Seaton’s State Papers, also call for power to disprove it by appointing a commits comment. ^ was surprised at the last session, ; to investigate the matter. But. sir. in thein^'. when I was informed that the whole seven bun- j the hooks nre carried to the homes of the rcsw c . dred and fifty copies of Gales & Seaton’s Stato time members, and never returned herr. [j JT Papers, furnished for Congress, had already been jug occasion recently to look into the vo!bh h disposed of, and that a purchase must be made , of State Papers on the subject of Forei-h R c ; 5 . of additional numbers to supply new members.— : lions, and containing the several treaties The eight volumes purchased cost only about the gotiations with France, it was more than ■ Whig candidates for tho Presidency aro sprin ging up in fungus like profusion. As tho party dislike military chieftains, they havo only two generals on the lisj. Gen. w, H. Harrison, Gen. Winfield Scott, John McLean, Daniel Webster. B. W. Leigh, Willie P. M aft gum, John Tjler, John C..Calhoun— Win many others, any of whom, according to the Telegraph and the prints which claim alli- anci with it. w ould support the unknown priitci- dies of the universal whig party. Crocket de clines. and Poindexter will remain quiet until ho ascertains whether he is to he superseded by R. J. Walker or not.—Pennsylvanian. Thero is more trouble in having nothing to dn, than having much to do. To whom you betray your recrct. you give youi liberty. at a single session of Congress, leaving out seve ral items of former uurchases, which have been supplied to present members. I am told the printiug alntte ordered to he exe cuted by the priater of the Senate at the last ses sion of Congress, amounts by computation to tho enormous sum of $120,000. This is more than ten times the amount of the priuting ordinarily directed by this body in other times, (when the Senate was not at war with the Executive, and when the printer was friendly to the administration and the voice of tiie people.) I» amounts to an average of $2500 to each ofthe 48 members of tiio Senate. Besides this, there were ordered nnd paid for. according to the statement of the Clerk, printed and laid upon our tables at the oommencemcnt of the session, the following articles : For newspapers, ... $832 IS Geo. Wattcrston’s Statistical Tables, 20 00 Jonathan Elliot, for Dictionaries. Wm. Cranclt, Index to District Report, Thomson and Homans, Pensylvania Register. .T. Elliot, Debates on the Constitution, Do Diplomatic Code, Gales Si Seaton, Register'of Debates. Paid for selecting and arranging papers forjland documents and State pajicrs. D A. Hall’s History of tbe Bank of the United States. To Ames & Sen, paper for Map pf Narraganset Bay. $.‘>7G 20 William Stone, for printing do 320 00 E, Gilman, joining do - 100 00 790 J. Kennedy." District Laws. 38 02 500 00 13 25 175 00 . 99 .00 1940 00 1250 00 sum ofuiuety dollars for each set, and when the twenty volumes come to bo completed, if the publishers shall not see fit to raise the price, which will depend on .circumstances, tbe added expense for each new member, for this one ar ticle, will bo two hundred aud twenty-five dol lars. This work of Gales & Seaton, it should be re collected, originated in this manner : 'I hey at first published iu their newspaper proposals for printing a Compilation of Congressional Docu ments. After several ineffectual attempts, at last ;i resolution passes, per fas et nefas, both houses of Congress authoriziug a subscription of seven hundred aud fifty copies, embracing a period of time down to 1815. This subscription of Con gress obtained, it is believed not a single addi tional subscriber was sought for or procured. Aftei wards an additional resolution is passed, extending the time, and limiting the extension to eight additional volumes.. The price paid ju each instance is fixed to the price paid to the printers of Congress for the ordinary printing of the. two House*. This price is from twenty-five to fifty. per cent higher than the same work would cost in Philadelphia, in New York, in Boston, andiu several other places. Aud the money thrown away in price over-paid on this work of Gales & Seaton, and that of Clark & Force, will amount to between two and three hundred thousand dol lars ! 1 will state the items of three contracts on which from two to three hundred thousand dol lars are absolutely thrown away, made by reso lutions which have, in some way—those interes ted cau tell how—been carried through Con gress, when perhaps one member to feu did not iiuderstand either their tendency or extent. They are as follows: Gales & Seaton’s American State Pa pers, 20 volumes, 750 copies, probable cost $10,000 each volume, $200,000 Clarke and Force’s Documentary His tory, .’30 to 40 volumes, calculated to be confined to the cost of . $400,000 Duff Green for printing Land Laws, in dependent of other printing ordered exclusively hy the Senate, lOvols., $60,000 $660,000 Two. if not three, ofthe last named volumes, I am informed, will be a reprint of the very vo lumes to ho executed hy Gales & Seaton. The art of workiug through Congress, resolu tions nr acts, favorable to those whom they are intended to benefit, could not be better exempli fied than in those directing the publication of hooks hy the pet printers and publisher® for both Houses of Cougress. Gales &. Seaton, it is un derstood. printed for Cnngre*s 750 copied, and received of Congress entire pay for preparation and composition aud distribution of the types, using the same types anti composition topriut for themselves 750 other copies. The resolution re quires that the members of the 21st and 22d Oon- trress shall be supplied with the hooks ; the con- sequenee is. before this work is halt way through the press, the seven hundred and fifty copies are all taken up ; the $200,000 appropriation is all rttu through ; and at each successive session of Congress, ti supply new members, the Secre tary of the Senate or Clerk ofthe House is obli ged to go to the publishers and pay them just what price they ask for additional numbers.— Thirteen sets of these additional numbers were bought for the. Seuate last sessiou. and I am told from 125 to 150 additional sets of the very same work were required for tho House of Represen tatives. The resolutions require that the members of the 21st and 22d Congress shall be supplied ; with just as much propriety might the resolution provide that members of the first Congress, or members of 40" years ago. should be supplied . . win Gales and Seaton’s State Papers, as that I form the Senate, that the volumes |.rn, members ofthe twenty-first Congress, who were be purchased embrace no part of the here four years ago. should bo supplied. And I sesstous of Congress. There might he* • , would not he at all surprised hereafter, to find members of each and ev6ry Congress, or the "heirs and legal representatives” of members of Congress, coming in here and claiming for each. and a before I was able to procure the use ofthe tt» volumes on those subjerts. If hooks are pro^. red at all for tiie use of members, they mifht to be retained in the library, to be used by the cessors, ns well as by the present members «f Congress. In such an event, a small niimta would answer all onr purposes ; ami we <bmU not have occasion to expend the millions which hat e been, and are to he lavished on pet p r ^ ters, whose best recommendation to the favorof Congress seems to have been their violence a partisans and editors of newspapers onpnsed a the grent body of freemen of the United State*, and to that administration which that liodv jf freemen have elected. Sir, the money thrown away in extra patrr- nage to printers nnd publishers within this <ft. trict xvho are opposed to the administration- the money paid them over and above what wi*M have been the ac’ual cost ol printing in eth places—would he sufficient to relieve the Post Office Department.from all its crabarras-meai, and to enable it to pay allies contractors promp. ly. And such is the flourishing condition of this Department even under all tiie endiarrassnimi xvbich have been thrown upon it. that it won'd be aide to repay any loau that might ho made it a very few years. If I were to point to any a- stance of squandering irrmey in this govermmt that most deserved reprehension, f would «u the public attention to these acts of the two Ilct- ses of Congress which have thrown or will thn« away more than a million of money on printm and publishers within this district, clistlnpiidri for no other merit than that of having viru’rm'y opposed the repeated chftice and voice of tlep pie of the Uuited States. I hope this resolution will lie arrested hy a de cided majority of the Senate, and that nooibe resolution of a similar tenor will he permiltfilu pass. There xvas auother resolution laid on tbetxble the other day, for furnishing Gales & Seawb Debates to the new members. On inquiry of tiie Secretary of the Senate.! find the quantity of Register of Debates already published is twelve volumes, nnd that the imtsfl these twelve volumes is fifty six dollats. Tier are, I believe, four new members ofthe Scsul to he supplied, and the whole amount of cost e-1 der this resolution will be two hundred and twet-l ty-four dollars. [ The argument Inretofore urged iu favor of si* milar resolutions has been, that the old tMH;l bers, having themselves been supplied, woriiB discover, themselves to be both selfish andimp-Jj ticrous now to vote against supplying the rrv| members. As applied to myself. 1 nckunnW? uo validity or propriety in that argument, have invariably voted, whenever 1 had op; Utility, against aoy aud every proposition for-.' plying myself with books ; aud the accepts of these books has in no instance bcegwilM a voluntary act. Now. Mr. President, whether the propositi* Ite to furnish a member with hooks costinf < dollar or one hundred thousand dollars, If tend against it here, and at all other timw-ri far as it shall be prudent to contend. I against tbe practice of voting books for individual u>c—books which.are rogrnlarlyeatw I away at the end of each sessiou of Congress.** a which are never, or rarely ever used licit. * any public purpose whatever. I need not advert. Mr. President, to the''® parative worthlessness of the volumes xvh.r. resolution proposes to procure. They srt ® so much old lumber—much less valu*hk volumes of old newspapers that roake*®tr I tensions at all to a fair and impartial ctOV I events. The Senator from Missouri L ton) has showed the great injustice xu---; been done to the proceedings and speech'"’*’. Senate in these volumes. I scarcely Dffl ; ipOS* 1 pretence of their usefulness, iftheyem proceedings and debates. But tltey do not i xvithin about three years of the late pa* of Cougress. To purchase them uoir, commodate only the printers, whoarff own price. They arc hardly worth the price paid for them, and would sf-“ " jj copies of these State Papers, or the value of suc h Stato Papers, “xvitb interest” for ti e whole time ofdelav. It will he seen that the resolution despatches non scarcely above that price, at once the seven hundred and fifty copies ; and ' If it lie proper, in any place, anti on . the new Congresses of two terms more, will near- casion. to resist the purchase. forUtet-n iy or quite consume the additional 750 copies, j of members of Congress, of books, oro . for which Gales & Seaton get pay. as if printed | tides which may be convenient to them. ; j , at theirown expense, while the greatest naif of I and appropriating therefor the the expense of printiug has been paid by Con- bhc treasury, it is proper, in this p|*» ] this occasion, to contend against it It xvas admitted on all hands, at the last ses sion, that Congress had been taken in by toe bar gain which had been made xv it It (lark & force for ihe Documentary History, audit was thought, to be a momentous affair to procure the assent of those gentlemen to such terms as xvould limit ihe whole expense of this printing to four hun dred thousand dollars ! 13tt' the gist of tlto mat ter did not then appear. The act of Congress which authorises the contract xvilh Clark A: Force directs the distribution of these volumes to the members of the twenty first nnd twenty-se cond Congress, in the same manner as the State j papers are distributed; and this too when not even the first volume ofthe Documentary Histo ry has yet-been printed. So that Claikc & Force's first seven hundred and fifty ropiis have all been disposed of to old members aud others, i before the existence of tlto twenty-third or pre 150 00 ! sent Congress ; and if this-Congress or its sttcces- Tbt- at the next s!"--i p " 1 be the same reason gross, and at all succeeding --ession*./ 0 these books, as there, is now: les= invidious for old members tiu' u 10 than noxv. I xvould consider it an net of ma new members xvould step fortran themselves xvillitj^ to exercise a fit 5 * denial in this respect. u concluded, t, e . . arrived, on motion as laid on ' -V B d*f : Bek When Mr. Mill ha special orders, having Calhoun, t\je resolution w The. lr.to.Cold Spell.—A letter 0°® *0 man residing in Habersham county. ® ,|> vdic, (says the Constitutionalist.1 "j" 1 • . tho (ith inst. the snow was 5 i"j'_ ,H ^for that the thermometer stood the da , <ieg. beloxv zero ; on Sunday tin . sunrise. 15 beloxv zero, ai d xv lien 1 ', r sun at noun arose to 5 above z^i®^ ens were found frozen on their ret Uncommon Cargo.—The hark Marblehead, which sailed on the 31st tilt, from New York, for i Havana, had on board among other goods, bet- f xveen 700 and 800 bales of cottofl. > I sors obtain any, it must be by purchase of th'j ! extra copies; and Clarke and Force, long before I their work shall be completed, will have made . j sale, at their own price, of double that number I . Augusta M 01 fUF | which the act of Congress had provided for.— .Since our review of Thursday i Tbe members of Congress xvlio xvere not here been a good demand for* qtton- ’’ . G. Templeman, 4 copies Laws, 120 00 j when the act passed, who are no longer mem- doing is very limited, owing ,0 . ’ | jjjr -Gales A- Seaton, for 13 copies, 8 vols. j bers. an I who have no stronger claim to tie m tity offering. The receipts contxnt State Papers, $11 25 each, - 1,172 00 ( than any and every man, woman and child, continue our last quotations, from snoivv xvhite to sooty,” in the country, are 15J : fair to very good tojj a tI( j. 3 rarid’ % • ■■■ I IFtMIl kliutvj Dimi to nuuiVi III INC ctiuiili \« cti v if . iriir id ■* , $8,0912 25, to he supplied with their Vxventy, thirty, or forty; choice 16j a cents—iu good l *