THE TETO REPORTS. ,1
By a referrencc to tho Congressional nowa ,
if Wednesday, it will bo seen tiiat tho
he Corhmitte 6n t!io late Veto has sent in a
Jeporl through their, Chairman Mr. Adams,,
vhllo a counter Report has been made by
llr. Gilmer, Mr C. J. Ingcrsoll; in behalf
if tho Democratic party, dissoaled from
joth, and entered his protest. Tho Re
port of Mr. Adams, embodies tho views of
ho Whig party, as now organized under
Henry Clay. Tho Report of Mr. Gilmer,
lefends the course of Present Tyler. As
this is tho most interesting item of tho
week, wo shall givo a brief synopsis of
tho two reports
Tho report of Mr. Adams, after some
introductory remarks, sets forth that this
veto message ia tho last of a- series of ox
ecutivo measures, the effect of which has
been to defeat the wholo action of the legis
lative power of the Union. It next refers to
;he ac(o;sion-of Harrison to tho r residency.
At that timo the tevenuo of tho country
,vns found insufficient to meet thejoxpondi-
lures. Hence the first act Of that lamented
President, was to call an extra session of
Congress, to deviso a remedy for tho fi
nancial disoascs of tho country ,and to adopt
ems of supplying tho treasuty, by tho
assage of additional revenue laws
This deficiency tho report charges Jo
the administration of Mr. Van Burcn. On
the 31st of May, thrco months after tho
extra session had been called, 1110 members
of the .Legislature assembled. Gut the
reins of Executivo power were in other
hands. By the decrees of an inscrutablo
Providence, ho who called the extra session
was laid low in thogtavo. Tho President
who had called tho extra session of Con
press, was no longer President when that
Congress met. 'Another man has assumed
the namo, of totally different principal,
although professing tho same, i his fact
was soon made manifest by tho failuro of
ihe great measure of the extra session
the bill establishing a miional uanK, by
tho exercise of the veto power. This first
attempt' having been deferred, says the
eenso.of Ihe report, 'Uongress, out ot con'
eideralion of tho distress of the country,
introduced a new bill. Tho second bill was
presented to tho President in tho very terms
and shapo in which he said he would sign
it. and which he bad sanctioned. But
strange to say, this was also relumed with
a veto. Tho reasons assigned for this
eecond veto conflicted with the reasons
assigned for the first veto. Thus tho
eecond great measure of relief for a suffering
neonlp, was annulled by the weak and
lu placed in tho rresfdcnuai chair)' "
'The Report then charges that Ihe first
consequence of this Executive Legislation
was lo perpetuate tho system of the preced
.log Administration, by continuing the ex
penditures boyond tho receipts; an excess
which during tho preceding four years had
ainounted Jo eight millions per year. 'Yes,
,hy this double Executive veto tho present
party in power were compelled to continue
.this ruinous system, by which the expen
ditures in eighteen months only, exceeded
the receipts by fifteen millions of dollars.
This stale of things was now fjreed upon
Congress, by tho exerciso of tho voto
power alone. The great object of the extra
session was thus fiustrated by tho act of
one man!' But for the remaining of the
digest we are indebted to tho Baltimore
sun.
' 'The report next alludes to tho passage
at the extra cession of the revenue bill.con
laining prohibitory distribution olausc.which
states that when the duties on imports shall
exceed 20 per cent, then the distribution
of the land funds shall cease, and which
bill was signed by the President, It next
adverts to tho bill passed at tho present
session, which proposed to continuo in
force the operation of tho compromise act
for one month; also suspending the distri
bution of the land funds for a similar period
This bill was not only -vetoed by tins Presi
dent, but in opposition to the avowed be
lief of his own secretary, and tho opinions
of some of the best lawyers of the landjbut
relying solely on tho hesitating opinion of
the Attorney General, ho tho President had
been prescribing dufieson imports, which
power the law expressly declared was
reserved for tho legislature of Congress.
The report notv proceeds to reviow the
message itself. At some length it attempts
to show a great inconsistency between the
President in his recent Philadelphia letter,
and the Introductory portion of the message
Referring to the first objection to the sign
ing of the present tarifTbill.because 'it com
bines revenue with appropriation,' the
report alludes to the tignature of the revenue
and approbriation.'
Thepublic lands are next refererl to.and
it is maintained that they belong exclusively
lo tho States, having been heretofore held
in trust only by tho general government
for the payment of the National debt. So
that tho phrase 'giving away the public
land,' could not sfpply, because, by return
ing lo tho Slates the land fund, they would
bo merely receiving that which is their own
u tie report takes the ground (hat taxation
by duties on imports or otherwise, is the
only safe and legitimate mode of raising
revenue. Any depaiture from that system
being tho prelude to bankruptcy and ruin.
J he report next comes to tho second reason
of the President, wHch is tho 'exhausted
stale of Ihe treasury,' and that in this state
- of ilia finances whether it is tho time lo
give away the proceeds from tho public
lando. This giving away, says Ihe report,
h but yielding to the Slates their own prop
crty, and would be infinitely perferxble to
giving'tho money, incompliance wiin me
cries of a pinching economy, to sucklo
armies and dry-nurso the land. To -yield
these lands to the generil government,
would be tho onlv irretrievably giving
away thai which" is cruelly and perfidiously
attempted to ue wresieu irom tncir nanus.
'The report goes on to stalo that nine
teen of these States have, by their ardor in
tho causo of internal improvement, involved
themselves in debt. It was notorious that
ItlUiUOUlTUO III UUUtl At T ut iiuiuiiuux
the greater portion of this debt had beei
contracted in tho improvement of public
been
provement uf public
works and in increasing tho facilities of
travel and communication from placo to
place. 'It was no exaggerated estimate of
tho valuo of Iheso works to say, that tho
saving of time, labor and expense of tho
multitudes who are onjoying tho benefits
of thoso works, is more every year than
would bo necessary to defray tho total cost
of their construction. But these nineteen
States have contracted moro liabilities than
they ar at present ablo to boar. Where
should ihev look for relief? Where should
they expect to find that relief but in tho
svmnathies ol tho l'eucrai uovernmcnu
To what should they look but to iho pro
ceeds from thor own lands, to enable them
to pay their debts, and to retrieve them
from the present pressure, the measure
of relief desired, is solely tho distribution
among them of tho proceeds of their own
properly. Tho report regrets that tho short
time allowed has not permuted mo commit
tee to touch upon many others important
matters, but tho majority concur in tho
belief that tho distribution in the lands
fund among tho States would be infinitely
moro conducive to tho end of justice, and
the relief of tho country, than for it to
be swallowed up in tho insatiable gulf of a
system of expenditure like thai ol ihe last
administration, wnere n wouiu buuu uisup
near, leaving not a mark behind.
'Tho report says, it remains now only
for tho House to take the veto on tho final
passage of tho bill, and the Committee
leave it to the Houso- to determine what
other measure of relief Ihey may deem
necessary and practicable. Tho reporl
proceeds to say, that for the last 18 months
tho legislative power of the Union has been
in a stale of supended animation strangled
by the cords of Executive dictation. It
claimB that Congress Ins, in the face of
these multiplied insults and injuries, be
haved towards the Executive with the most
respectiful forbearance. It then staled that
the majority of the Committee believes that
a case has now occurreu in wnicn u is me
preler arficles oi'impe'acbJi
sflnl
President. But they are of opinion that
impeachment in the present stale of public
affairs, might provo abortive. Great
laugnier. lo the people, iherelore, alone
must the final appeal bo made. It was
cheering consideration to the majority of
the committee, that the termination ot their
own official existence, and that of tho pres
ent Congress, was near at hand, and that
tho Legislative power of the Union would
soon bo placed in other hands, on whom
would devolve the duly of providing a rev
enuo, &c. Ihe report proceeds to say
that implicit obedience to Executive will is
tho only condition on which the present
Uongress can act. Also that tho President
has assumed the exercise of the whole Leg
islativo power of the Union in levying
money irom the people without authority
ot law, 6to. iho report concludes by sub
milting a joint resolution recommending an
amendment oi me uonstuution so that in
those cases wfaen tho President returns a
bill with his veto, a majority instead of
two thirds' shall have tho power to pass
it.'
Tho Protest and Report of tho Hon. T
w. uumer susiatns the veto, and pursues
Ihe same lino of reasoning that was adopted
by rresiuent lyior in his recont Message
air. u. regards ine course pursued by
majority of the House, in raising a Select
Committee, as unprecedented and cxtraor
dinary, contrary to established usages, and
in violation of tho Constitution; He thinks
that when a Bill is returned .with objections
it should bo subjected to another veto. He
says:
'Encouraged by the present embarrassed
condition of the country and our public
aiiairs, deriving tresh political hopes from
Ihe goneral gloom and despondence which
their own proceedings Iiavo cast over the
Union, it u attempted lo extort from the
sufferings of the people, some sanction for
tho principles of government which thei
judgment has never failed to lepudialo. The
history of our government abounds in ox
amples of conflicts between tho several
departments. It has sometimes happened
mat an ine departments combined lo over
throw the constitution, but for the intclli
genco of the pooplo and the controlling
power oi ine suurage in restoring the sup
remacy of the constitution over tho tegisla
lative, the cxocuiivo and the judiciary must
have been fatal to our institutions. Whilst
it is the privilego and the duty of every
citizens to arraign either department of tho
government, or any public olucer, for in
fidelity o the constitution and laws, ii
neither wise, just or patriotic for one of
Iheso departments to impair the confidence
or the harmony which should subsist be
tween the separate branches of the public
service by fomenting prejudices and discord
I ney are all agent? of the people. Thei
duties are prescribed by a law which all
acknowledge as supreme-'
i ue veio power is sustained. A re
view is given of the doings of Ihe Extra
session ana ine present ot .vongross, mm
especially or (ho legislation with regard to
the Public Lands and the Tariff. The
President is said te be consistent and the
majority inconsistent, and Mr. G. says 'if
there is evidence of tho least corruption in
in the President's conduct ho should bo
impeached. He nddst
'Iho Pecsltlont has either assumed a
power which does nol belong to his office,
or he has abused a power which does be-
belong lo it. It has nut been denittl that
tho powor in qucttion exists under the
Constitution indeed it has been proposed
to abolish it by amendment. If it has
been abused, it was dono cither corruptly
and wantonly, or under an error of Lixecu-
tivo judgment. If thero is evidence of the
corruption in tho President's conduct, ho
should be impeached. Tho power of im
peachment has been confided to the House
of Representatives.) It is tho duty, therefore
of tho majority who accuse the Presi
dent, to arraign him under articles of
impeachment before tho Senate, if they
believe him lo be guilty of any impeach
able offence. If he has neither assumed
powct, ncr abused it, corruptly then tho
issue dwindles to a mere question of who is
right as to a measure of policy;
'If tho nndersigned were allowed by tho
circumstances which compel him to omit
many considerations very proper to tho
subject he would not despair, of showing
thai, independent ol all the extraneous pre
judiccrs and political feelings which the ad
vocates ol error on this occasion endeavor
to bring in their aid, the mere opinion of
l'ie lixecutivo in this caso is right, and the
mere opinion of Congress is wrong.'
lie asks.
'Can Congress excuse themselves for
refusing to provido for tho government, be
cause the President did not approve either
of tho forms in which at tho cxtri session
they attempted to charter a bank of tho
United Stalest Is tho issue which has been
so solemnly proclaimed on this occasion
to embrace the long agitated question of
currency besides that of revenue? Do iho
majority mean to declare that they will
permit no revenuo lo bo collected, or in
other words, that tho governmect shall
cease.unlcss two conditions aresubmittcd to;
first, the charter.of a bank in some form.nnd
second, the distribution of the land fundi
If this bo the object, then these questions
should havo beer, all connected with one
bill.
"It has been deemed prudent, however.lo
connect only two of them. The question
of distributing iho Iand fund and raising
revenue lor the support ot government.werc
t'illlLH iirsHsn-u -.11 a 1 1 1 1 1? I tin- J nuaTC I,
doubtful whether tho majority of Congress
considered theinsolves bound lo provido
revenue first for the States, or for the Unit
ed States. Since they insisted on uniting
Ihem in.a second bill after a former bill had
been vetoed on account of their union, and
since it is now declared that Congress is
disgraced if it recedes so far as to separate
tho questions, and that tho United Slates
government shall havo no revenue unless
the land fund is distributed to tho Slates,
there can no longer bo a doubt of the deter
mination in them to beslow tho ways and
means of the Fedoral treasury on the Slate
treasuries, or to starve tho government of
the United States. Tho majority seem not
only resolved on this, but they are resolved
to accomplish their object only in one par
ticular mode and that is by legislating on
the two subjects in the same bill.
"Where then is the issue? Is it not whelh
er tho power exercised by the President is
a lawful cower. Its existsnce is conceded
by the proposition to abolish it. It is not
whelher that power has been corruptly a
bused. If this is believed the majority are
guilty of culpable neglect of duty in not
impeaching. It is not whether the States
shall havo the land fund. It is not whelher
the United Stales shall have a revenue.
But it is whether this government shall have
revenue and the Stales shall havo ihe land
fund in a particular form ol legislation, which
Congress havo resolved at all hazards to
persevero iu a form of legislation resorted
to firet to coerce the votes of Congress, and
persisted in to coerco tho Executive by put
ling ihe treasury under duress."
"If," he says, towards the conclusion,
"there has been a disposition on tho part of
iho Executivo to resist the""action of Con
gress on certain subjects.there has certainly
beer, a corresponding disposiiion on the
part of Congress (o attack, and to repeat the
attacks on iho Executive. Congress have
appropriated tho money required lo carry
on this government. They havo authoris
ed tho debts which aro contracted. They
alono, under the Constitution, can furnish
moans of meeting their own appropriations.
It is not in the power of tho minority of
Congress lo legislate. All that the Execu
tive can do is to ronvene Congress, should
it adjouin without providing revenue to
carry on tho government. It is hoped how
ever, thai calmer consideration will inspire
some motive of public duly stronger than
any feelings of party re'scntmcnt. Tho
threats of violence havo been heard from
quarters whence better counsels should
have proceeded, will nol disturb tho repose
nor provoke tho dignity of a free aud en
lightened people."
Iowa Territory. Tho eloclion for
members of the territorial legislature has
resulted in tho choice of.O Democrats and
0 Whigs lo (he Council, and 14 Democrats
and 11 Whigs lo tho House as far as
heart, from.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Tho Packet shin Mediator arrived at
New York on Friday night.and tho steam
er Britannia at Boston on Friday morning,
from London tho former wilh advices lo
tho 22d July, and tho latter to tho 4th Au
gust. . .
Trade in Ureal uritain nau improvcu
considcrably,and iho favoiablo effects of Iho
now Tariff mado evident' Accounts from
the manufacturing districts all speak of an
improvement in business.
The Chinese had ottered terms; lo pay
S-10,000,000, and lo give up Hong Kong to
the British.
The Queen is in fine health.
There has been a largo meeting of mer
chants at Manchester, to remon strata with
tho government on (ho distress of tho coun
try. Nothing new in Parliament.
The news from Paris is interesting.
Tho Christinos at Madridaro still active
against the Regent. It is understood that
tho Cortes will be dissolved and a new one
elected about tho month of November.
The news from England in regard lo the
crops is more favorable than any thai has
been received for some months past.
Sir Allan McNab came over in the Bri
tannia.
Tho news from Franco indicates be
yond a doubt that the Duke do Nemours,
second son of the King, will bo created
Regenl.
fair itobeit peel and his associates seem
bent on carrying through the "Bankruptcy
Law."
Thero aro a number of charges before
Parliament, of bribery in the elections.
1 he muish are doing most horribly in
India. Every thing goes wrong.
Tho commercial treaty between Great
Britain and Portugal lias been finally arran
gcd.and upon terms highly advantageous to
erch.
Tho arrival in London of an accredited
agent from the United States Government
fur tho purpose of contracting a loan of
twelve millions of dollars, was not liked.
On the morning of the 28th nil. London
and tho neighborhood was visited by a most
violent thunder storm. 1 he steeple of St
Martin's Church was shattered.
The Paris papers are filled with descrip
lions oi ine iniicrni or ine utike oi uileans
or with discussions on the state of the par
lies in the Uhambcr.
In Iho English House of Commons, they
have had considerable talk about the inter
course carried on belwcen England &Tcxas
Tho-fnrmnr was.represented as being at the
mercy of the latter !
trance. The King opened the sn.icirm
on me zotn uit. with a pathetic speech
Ti, ..I.. r .1.- oi. ' i 1
no icmv ui mu uuamocrs waa evmnn
thetic with the affliction of iho King, in the
mgiieai uegrec.
Funeral. Procession of hit Iioval Ilirrh
nesa the Luke of Orleans. Saturday July
uvu, nao mu uay appointed lor tho remo
val of the remains of ihe Duko from Ncuillv
to wotre "amc; the wholo population o
Paris was in movement nt an ont-iu i,.,,,-
for the purpose of gaining favorable places
on the line of march. The crowd was ap
parently gretler than that which attended
the funeral of Napoleon's remains
Am -I f . ..
Attune o ciock tno dillerent regiments
composing ihe garrison of Paris and iho
legions of the national guards marched from
their respective places of assernbling.to lake
up Iho posls assigned to them. During the
whole length of tho procession a line of
troops and national guards was formed in
single line on each side.
At eloven o'ciock tJiero was a salute
iwenty-one guns from tho battery of artille
ry, the body was placed on Ihe car.and the
cortege commenced its march.
At the moment tho body entered the
church a saluto of twenty-one guns was
fired, and the great bell of Notro Dame was
rung.
Ihe urn which contained tho heart Df
lua royal highness was carried into the
choir of the cathedral by General Marbol
The vespers wore recited by the Bishop
and chaunted by the clergy of the metro
polls. 1 ho cathedral was entirely clothed
in black, and re-echoed with tho voices of
the choiristers, reciting tho verses of the
"Ucprolundis."
l ho luneral decorations of t ho churrli
were magnificent, and becoming tho obieci
mr which nicy were uc6igncu, A canopy
uuriy sevuii metres in nuigni, made of ve!
iiiiiiuicu wun elm uit, ucscenucd over
the cenotaph. Fivo hundred wax lights
1 1 I t-Y, . I O
uuruuu uruuuu, riuy uanners wero sus
pended liom tho roof, die.
jvcryunng passed on with the most
periect order and regularity, and without a
single accident.
ll had been reported the previous cvonin"
mat an emulo would bo attempted, but no
tho slightest disturbance prevailed.
Irom the AW.-i-China news lo the 12th
of April, and Singapore journals to ihe Gth
ol At ay, have been received.
iho Uiineso had already commenced
removing Ihe ruins and rubbish preparatory
to rebuilding the Boguo forts.
Some fighting had taken placo at Niftgpo
in which 1100 British routed 0000 Chinese
wilh tho loss of from 5 lo 700 slain.
Tho British had ihroo killed and 40 woun
ded. It was reported that an army of obscrvr
lion would be assembled at Allahabad in tho
ensuing cold season.
It was said that a largo army, 25,000
strong, waa advancing from Mushed to
Herat, that vory suspicious conferences
wero being belli nt'Hydrabadrre'iwdon KtfJ
Ameers and others. , , '
Captain Mackenzie had rclurnod lo Jel
lalabad on tho Oth of May from Lughman,
wilh terms for Iho releaso of tho prison
ers. , .....
Genoral Sale's viclory over Akbar ftharl
had struck terror into tho minds of tho peo
ple, it waa lluughl tho troop3 might movo
on to tho capital without rcsistartco, had not
tho lorco ueen uciicioiu m uvuij iuiaim
for so largo on army.
Instructions had been given on tho Ulli
of May from tho Adjutant Generals offica
. . .i . . r .t..
to withdraw tno troops serving west oi mu
Indus, within ihe British provinces.
General IVtws. The Hussian army un
der Gen. Grabbo has been defeated by the
Circassitts,wilh a loss to the former of 1500
men and 25 officers.
From 30 to 40 houses wero entirely con
sumed one night at Credition.
DEATH BY LIGHTNING A SCENE.
OF TERROR.
Tho Jonosborough, Tonncssocr Whig,'
says that on Saturday nigni, um insi.,uuum
ten o clock; whilst religious exercises wura
going on at a Camp Meeting Ground.sovciv
miles from Jonosnorougn, inc camp waa
struck by lightning, and Miss Mary laylor
daughter ol the law James r. laytor, oi
Carter county.and a young gcntlcman,John
C. Miller, a student of Washington College
whoso parents reside in Rutherford county,
N. C wore atiuck dead by lightning; so
perfectly dead, that no spark of the natural
or animal life remained. Several other
persons were stunned and injured. Tho
Whig says;
"David Gillespie, another Btudent.whoao
parents reside on tho Tennessee river.below
Kingston, was struck dead, apparently, and
it is behoved was only saved by tho appli
cation of cold water in great quantities.
While Miss Elizabeth Hoss, of this county,
was equally paralyzed, and yet, together
wilh Mr. Gillespie", is not regarded as out
of dar.ger. Besides these, there wore aomo
five gentlemen and four ladies in the same
camp Iho camp occupied by James II.
Jones of this placo most of whom wero
struck to the ground, and for a timo, at least
were wholly unconscious of what had oc
curred. In the camp occupied by thePreach
crs, adjoining Mr. Jones on tho north, wero
two clergymen, and three other gentlemen,
who were scveicly shocked, and some of
them even prostrated. In the camp occu
pied by Mr. Piper's family, on the south,
there were five gontlcmen and four ladies,
three of whom fell to the ground, whilo tho
rest wero sensibly affected. The reader
will bear it in mind that these are half-faced
camps, all three under ono roof, almost di
rectly in the rear of tho pulpit, and separa
ted, the ono from the other, by thin plank
partition somo 20,30 and 40 feel from the
pulpit.
In iho caso of Miss Taylor and Mr. Mil
ler, who exhibited no signs of life, but wero
killed dead, the electric fluid seems to havo
entered the camp near tho roof.and to havo
continued down an oak scantling, constitut
ing the door posl, slightly shivering tho
post till it reached hor head, where its traced
ccaso to bo visible. She was leaning against
this posi door Miller stood facing her,
with his left shoulder against tho other post
and Gillespie between them; himself and
Miller having their arms around each other's
waisls, Gillespie's arm touching Miss Tay
lor's shoulder. In this position Gillespie
and Miller fell backwards in iho camp; and
when an attempt was mado to separato
them, il was not without difficulty and even
a second trial. Miss lloss was sitting on
the end of a trunk near Miss Taylor, and
tumbled over between tho trunk and the
wall.
There wero supposed fo bo some fivo or
six hundred persons under tho ahelter.moat
of whom wero engaged in tho exercises,
then going on, while others, perhaps, had
taken shelter from tho rain. Nearly this
entire assembly felt sensibly iho shock,and
so very much so indeed, that no sooner had
tho reporl of ihe ihundcr stroke died away
in tho distance, than ono long, loud, contin
ued soroam, was heard in every direction.
Perhaps a scsno of more thri.ling interest,
mingled with such gloom and terror, waa
never witnessed in this section of the coun
try I
A CAPTAIN AND CREW MURDER
ED. Wo learn from the Baltimore Republican
that '.ho brig Harriet, Capt. Champion,
arrived at thai port from tho West Coast of
Africa, reports that on tho 20th of April the
schoonei Mary Carver, Farowell, of Ply
mouth, Mo. was captured by iho natives of
Barbaro, and the captain, mato and crew
murdered, in consequence of a dispute with
Iho natives and iho captain. "Wo have
been informed by the malo of tho Harriet,
that ono of tho soamen attempted to escapo
by going aloft, hut was brought down and
his brains knocked out with a handspike.
After the capturo of tho schooner, thoy
informed tho captain of their intention to
kill him; when ho imploicd them in vain to
spare his life. They tied a largo slono
around his neck, convoyed him somo dis
tance from tho shoro, and then threw him
into tho sea. The captain lias a wifo and
two children in somo part of Massachu
sells."
Jl Solemn Fact. Tho
Matlisonian
says; "Tho present Whig Congress
done much mischief." Yes-, nnd noth
has
but mischief,