From the St. Ijmit Evening Gazette, July 10. . The Confession of tha Negroes. Messrs. Chambers cfc-Knapp, of thin city, have uMfthcd, as moat of our reader are aware, a pirn hint of seventy or eighty page, containing the j mfcssinnt of the negroes, Madison, Warrick, Spa vard and Brown, who were executed yesterday, fur he m order of Dnker and Weaver In April last ( to .'her wilh lithographic likenesaca, Inkcn while hey were in jail. According to the statement of vladison ho waa boin in Virginia, the slave of Ana lrockmsn,snd waa eolJ when 12 or 16 years of age i a negro trader by the name of Blakely and ta . n to New Orleans. He aoon obtained the full confidence of his master, -rt urned with him to Maryland, and waa encouraged v him to tell "false talca" to slaves, whom ho with "I to purchase, and to aid him in coaxing ofT, or in "tooling and secreting others. The slavca were a'ld that his master waa from fieo state, and that thfy would be taken to Canada, out of the reach of their masters. To the women and girls, he held out the prospect of marrying rich white men, and living in style and splendor. Blakely, in connection with t.'m partners, having collected from 80 to 100 slaves, rtirted by laud to New Orleans. On their return to Washington, a plan waa firmed by which Madison's master was to soil him ii often aa ho could, after which he waa to run a "ay and go back to him. He was ssld in this way m Mr. Clay, at Washington, for 1300, and aoon af tT joined his master in Baltimore. He waa after wards sold for $1000, in Virginia, and again return- J as before. Near Orange Court House, he states '-;at his master robbed the vault of a merchant of large amount of money and bills, amounting to ; 1 1)0,000, and set fire to the building, which was entirely destroyed. On their return to New Or leans, Madison was aold to Mr. Blancbard, and the 1 urchaso money, $900, waa given by bis former ina.ter to htm ae a reward of fidelity. After thia he waa engaged, aa ho stales with a in in n timed James Buel, a clerk of Mr. Blanchard'a in obtaining goods on forged orders. Soon after, MnTfon concealed himself in the atore of Mr. Williams, which be robbed of $300. Afterwards, 'lie storo of Mr. J. H. Fields, of Bienville street, was robbed of $3,000 ; and, in company with a man by tiie name of Learned, 2,700 waa obtained from !; bank on a check altered from $200. About ihia time, a partner, named David Rook, was taken ir.tu the concern, and the firm turned their atten t:nn to stealing negroes, running them to Mobile rind selling them at auction. Such are a very few of the cases of Negro stealing, robbery, and other acta of villainy, in which Modi on waa engaged previous to his coming to St. Lou ir. Here he was engaged, with others in robbing tho d'oree of Mr. J. R. Scott, Mr. Goodcll, Messrs. Htauin & Hollandor, Sinclair, Taylor & Co., end E. & A. Tracey ; and here hia infamous career has I'L-cn brought to a close on the scaffold. The Slave Trade. The vengeance of Heaven on individuals ia wise ly, in most instances, put beyond human discovery. But, for nations, there is no judgment to come ; no great af er teckoning makes all straight, and vindicates the ways of God to man. They roust de punished here ; and it might be neither difficult nor unproductive of the beat knowledge the Chris nun's faith in tho ever-waking and resistless control uf Providence, to trace the punishment of this enormous crime even in Europe ; It was, perhaps, (he slave trade, that lost America to England, and i he crime was thus punished at its bright, and with in vitw of the spot where it was committed. The three great slave traders, whom it has been found impossible to persuade or restrain, are France, Spain and Portugal. And in what circumttancce are the colonies now placed for whose peculiar sup port this dreadful traffic was carried on t France has totally lost St. Domingo, the finest colony in the world, and her colonial trade ia a cipher. Spain has lost all. Portugal baa lost all. Spanish Ameri ca and the Brazils are severed from their old mastera forever. And what have been the especial calami tit s of the sovereigns of those countries t They have been all thieo expatriated, and the only three. Other sovereigns have suffered temporarily evil un del tha chancea of war ; but France, Spain, and Portugal, have exhibite d the peculiar shame of three dynasties at once in exile: the Portuguese flying across the sea to escape from an enemy in its capi tol, and Lido ita head in a barbarian laud ; the Span ish dethroned, and sent to displ.iy its spectacle of mendicant and decrepit royalty through Europe and the French doul'ly undone. The fust effort of Louia XVIII., on his restora tion, was to roesiablibh the slave trade. Before twelve months were pan, he waa flying for hia life to the protection of strangers 1 On the second res toration the trade waa again renewed. All repre sentations of its horrors, aggravated aa they now are by the lawlca rapacity of the foreign traders, were received with mock acquiescence and real acorn. And where are the Bourbons now 1 And what ia the peace or the prosperity of the countries which have thus dipped their guilty gains in human miseries 1 The three are still centrts of revolutionary terror : Portugal, still coveud with the wrecks of a civil war, with a trembling throne, a jacobin constitution, and a bioken people ; Spain, tornliy faction, and watching every gathering on her bills, aa the signs of a tempest that msy sweep the land, from the Pyrenees to the ocean; and France, in the first hra.inga of a mighty change, which man can no more define than he can act limits to the heaving of an earthquake, or the swell of a deluge. Other gtealbljecle and causts may have their share in (hose things ; but the (acts are before mankind &Misuam tk Mails. It ia stated that there ia a postmaster in Arkansas who doce not possess tha "accomplishment" of being able to read, and whan the mail cornes, ha is under the necessity ol measuring it, and sends about three pecks to Little Rock, tao perks to BaUaville, and dwindles down to galpn wLurn he conies to the tut counties. Cretctnt. The Inte Iter, Mr. (bookman. Tha Washington Intelligencer containe an elo quent notice of the lato Mr. Cookman, one of the p.iBtcngeia of the Pr.sidcnt, from which we make extracts, Tha dead are every whrte ! The mountain side, the ea. the woods profound All the wide earth the fori He and the fair Is one vast burial-ground ! It was a beutiful Sabbath, toward the close of February Ia4, when, with many others, I repaired to the Hall of Representatives to listen to tho Fare well Sermon of the eloquent Cookman. All who wore present will recollect his last impressive words "Perhaps," ho aaid, "it is the last time, my be loved hearers, that I shall ever address you, or that wa shall ever meet again upon earth. I go to my native land to receive the blessings of an aged father, and to drop a tear upon the grave of a sainted me- titer." There was something prophetic, solemn, and deeply affecting in the tones and manner of tho preacher. Small in stature and slendei in boJy, he stood like the imago of St. Paul before Felix. All who had known him, or who had often listened with rapt attention to the eloquence which gushed from his lips, touched as with a living coal from the altar, where moved no tears, and seemed to feel as if they were Inking in reality a last farewell of one who had given new ardor to their piety, and thrown an additional interest into the acrviccs of the Sanctuary. The whole scene waa in no ordinary degree grand, Imj osing, and affecting. The magnificent Hall, a fit temple fur the worship of the living God ; the crowd that had assembled to hear the last ser mon of the Minister whose eloquence (hey so much admired, with their eyes fixed upon the countc nance glowing with feeling, and listening with the profoundest attention to tho lessons of piety he in culcatcd ; the noblo head of ex-President Adams just below hitn ; the altitude of the preacher, and tho solemn and prophetic farewell ho uttered, all conspired to excite feelings of tho deepest solemnity and of the most intense interest. Yet who of all that crowd of admiring auditors be lieved for a moment that in a few short weeks he who then stood before them, in the impressive dig niiy of an apostle, and with the appearance of one inspired of Heaven, would be buried in one of the lark, unfuthoniad caves" of tho ocean, there to re pose tiil the lust trumpet shall call him before the throne of the great Being whose cause he loved. and to whose service be had long devoted all tho energies of a superior intellect 1 Mr. Cookman waa one of the most eloquent pul pit orators iu this country. Many were, perhaps, bis eupeiiors in polish and elegance of style, ex lent of acquirements, ond depth of research, but none surpassed him in the power which belongs to The orator of rousing the feelings and passions of the bearer, in the felicity and appropriateness of il' lustration, the splendor of his rhetorical figures, and the occasional bursts of impassioned eloquence. His ordinary tonea were low, but distinct; it was only when the feeling or sentiment required it, that he became vehement and loud, and rolled on in a voice of thunder. Aa a preacher he was very popular wherever he was stationed ; and, like Chal ners and Irvin, always drew after him large con gregations, and those whom be did not convert he never failed to charm, delight, and edify. He was beloved end admired by all who knew him, both in the pulpit and the aocial circle. Hia manner was blnnd, unasriuming and attractive, and bis piety free from that austerity and asceticism which character ize some who make divinity their profession. Such was the lamented Cookman as a minister of God and a pulpit orator. He sleeps the long sleep of death in quietude and peace, amid the deep dark waves of the bottomless ocean no longer to mourn over the vicea or to weep for the miseries of man kind. No man could have been better prepared to tako the sudden and awful plunge into eternity that he did ; to him it was but a transition from a world of tin and woe to one of eternal purity and happiness. Another Great Bank Robbery. An express arrived in town thia morning, from Jacksonville, Illinois, bringing a handbill, announ cing the roblry of the branch of the State Bank of Illinois, of about 90,000 dollars. We copy it. Five Thvutaud Volan llcu-ard The Branch of the Stale Bank of Illinois at Jacksonville, was rob bed last night (Suuday, the lllb iust) The doors were entered by falre keys. The following is the probable amount taken by the robbers, to wit: 78, 000 dollars of paper, about 47,000 dollars of the a- hove waa in Parent Bunk paper, the balunce mostly in notes of the Branches, and Bunk of lilinoii. About 8,000 dollars in gold, and 3 or 4000 dollars insider. The above rewaid will be paid for the recovery of the money and the detection of the rob ber. J. P. WILKINSON, President. Jacksonville, July 12, 194 1. Wa leain iu addition to what is stated, that the Books, papers and evidences of debt, were cut up, mutilated and destroyed by the robbers for there must have been scrotal pcisons engaged in it: and that part of tho Banking house waa occupied aa a residence, by the Teller. 47. Loutt.Vtw Eta. Tin Wai-kxr. The man who walked all day, ftoin the corner of Ann street to the Park for a dol lar, won hia wages. The condition waa that he should walk at trie rate of at least five miles an hour ; and the first hour, by actual measurement, it was found that he had six miles and almost three quarters. Up to 12 o'clock (five hours) he had finished twenty-seven miles. He commenced again at one, and finished the day's work at aix, having walked fifty-one ami a half miles in exactly ten hours. Tax Gbsatsst Voiaor Yst. The ship Cle matis, Benjamin, master, arrived from a waling voy age on Sunduy last, with 2700 barrels of oil. This, considering the distance peiformed, is decidedly the g.eatest voysge we have ever made known. The Clematis has been round the woild, and taken thia enormous quantity of oil iu eleven tuonths. AVw London Gazette. A Dlfllcnlty with tha Pops. The Washington correspondent of the New Yorker, speaks of tho probability of our govern menl having a difficulty to aettlo with the Pope of Rome, arising out of the Imprisonment of an Arne rican Bishop, named Reore. This ia the first inti mation we have hward of such a circumstance, but if correct wa shall probably hear more of it. The writer aaye: - "Ilia Holiiies, In iba exercise of his Apostolic functions, called the Bishop of Detroit to appear before him in the year 1938 or 30. The latter in olve.liciiro to tho mandate repaired to Rome, when he waa urged to resign hia Apostolic function of pas tor of the dioceso of Detroit. Ha refused and waa thrust into prison, and remains cut off from all communication with his country and fiiend. This will be officially communicated to the department of state by a Catholic priest, who says our worthy fellow citizen ia suffering ibis prolonged incarcera tion, owing to certain calumnies of bis colleagues in the United Slates, who have been accessory to his imprisonment, and lmve known the fact ever sinco its consummation, but have carefully kept it a secret from the laiety in this country, and especial ly from the flock of tha sufferer. A citizen of the United Stales called to Rome to be judged by his Holiness for acts alleged to have been committed in tho United States, is an anomaly, at least in the history of our country." We find in the Madisnnian the following letter in relation to tho arrest and imprisonment of Bi shop Reese. The following is handed lo us for publication, as a copy of a letter communicated to tho Secrelary of the State. Wa have no knowledge of the char acter of the author of the letter, but aro informed by him that he had seen the Bishop of Detroit in Rome, and vouched for the truth and soberness of his address to the Government. We are not fully aware of the extent of the power of the Pope over those who acknowledge their allegiance to him, but we had supposed his supremacy was only spiritual, and did not profess to extend lo lemKral matters, or to the lives and liberties of American citizens. We know not to what conditions Bi hop Reeso may have subscribed as the price of his liberty, but as an American citizen, claiming the protection of his Government, he Is entitled to it, unless he has been guilty of soma crimo against the laws where he is imprisoned. To the Hon. Daniel If ebstcr, Secretary of Stale. Sir I hasten to make known to the Govern ment of the United States of America, a fact of a aerioua character, and highly intciesting lo the na tional dignity of the country. The Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Reese, an American citizen, ia confined in a dungeon of Rome, without communication with any living per son, and consequently without the knowledge of the American Minister resident there ; a target for the blackest calumnies, and a victim of the mosl at rocious persecution from his colleagues here in re ligious matters, was summoned lo Rome toward the end of 1333, if I am not mistaken; and in 1839, when I made hia acquaintance, he was confined in a convent under an ecclesiastical prosecution. On the process being completed he waa ordered to resign. Thia ha refused to do, and then he was thrown into a dungeon, perhaps of the Inquisition, where three other Bishops are lying. There he is overwhelmed with suffering', and tortured to oblige him to resign, and all possible measures were taken to prevent him from invoking the protection of the diplomatic agents of hia own country. A similar case had happened to the Bishop of Philadelphia, Mr. Cornwell. But this prelate, whilst in the same position of Mr. Reese, waa fortunate enough to ni.ke his escape from Rome ; and arrested in Paris, under Charles X., by ordt r of the Pope, was sot at lilicrty through the intsrvention of the American Minister. Thinking that the Government of the United Stalca are lo look upon their cilizena under no re ligious asjiect, but merely as free citizens of this Union, I could scarcly believe but that, in conse quence of this enclosure, ready and efficacious steps will be luki'ulo cause the Papal Government to be called to account for such a scandalous abuse of its spiritual power. I have the honor to be, Your most obedient servant, Bkrkardi-s Castilli Washington, D. C, July 13, 1841. It is a curious fuel and worthy of observation that the mind may be blighted, yet the body, aa if careless of the loss, still keeps up animul life. Many instances are on record of this class of cases, but none inoro striking than that of George the III. He enjoyed no lurid interval from the year 1811 till tha day of his death, which occurred in the year 1320 yet his bodily health waa good during all that lime, except for about a mouth or two before his demise. He lived till he waa eighty-two yeaia ofaqe, and if the injury to bis mind might have shortened his existence, a fair opportunity was pre sented in his case, as his defect of intellect occurred when he was tevetity year old. Besides, he bad been a long lime totally blind and almost deaf. Ytt be lived nine years after his mental malady had assailed him, without vision and scarcely any hear ing. American Sentinel. Chock an to Dkath. A man named Freder ick Helmbold, living in South street, near Eighth, went into the Bank Coffee House, in Libraiy stiert, yesterday noon, and seeing a round of beef laid out upon the table aa a cold cut, helped himself lo a piece, which he put into his mouth, and almost im mediately after It It the house. Iu ten minutes afier he was a corpse, the piece of meat not being pro perly masticated, having atoped in his throat, in such a m inner that no relief could be sffordeJ him, and in a few minutes causing hia death by choking. U, S. Gaz. Poor E m to h a mts.- A t the sheds erected neat Montreal fur the use of poor emigrants, over 8397 hav been received there this eeason. Over 1400 have arrived within a fortnight, and large quanti ties of oat-total have been distributed among them. Tha Slate Ionn. In order to meet the interest upon the Stale debt, due on the first of August next, Governor Porter, about a month since, notified all the Banks who are obliged, by their charters, to furnish money to tho State when needed, that ha should require of them the sum of $350,000, and a few days since arrived in this city to personally negotiato the requisition thus made. Several meetings of the representatives of the Banks were held, tho reault of which, we are happy to stale, is, that the whole amount of money called for haa been subscribed in this city and coun ty. Although some demur is msdebyonoor two of the small Banks, towards the payment of their quota, yet the difficulty thus presented is very slight, and will be easily set aside. We are glad to learn that there is an evident good feeling among all parlies throughout tho State to wards the Stato tax, to anticipate the receipt of which thia loan ia made, end that it haa thua far been cheerfully paid. Thia is gratifying news, as it was broadly asserted by many here that the payment of llio tax would be tcsisted. We understand that it ia tho general belief that only those Banks which have signified their ac ceptance of the provisions of the Relief Bill, are lia ble to be called upon by the State, to furnish funds when needed. Thia ia a mistake. That act was special, and passed under an emcigency, which wo hope is not likely to occur again ; but the right of the Executive to call upon all the banks with one or two exceptions, to contribute a certain pel ccn tage of their capitals to the wants of the State, is derived from the terms of their renewed charters. There is no doubt of the interest on the Slate debt being paiJ, and this must gladden every Penn syivanian, who feels for the honor of his State. We always maintained that Pennsylvania would never be disgraced or degraded, among her sisters : and we find that our confidence was not misplaced, that although difficulties beset her on every side, her native integrity has borne her safely onward, beyond the reach of danger. U. S. Gazette. A Goon Example. We heard Mr. Clay deba ting a day or two since, apon tho Loan Bill, re mark that for twen'y years, nei her he nor his wife had owed any ot.n a dollar. Both of them, many years gone by, had come to the conclusion, that the best piinciple of economy w.a this, "never logo to bed in debt. To indulge your wants when you are able to do so, and to repress them when you are not able to indulge diem." The example is not only an excellent one for itself, but comes from a high source. To repress a want, is one of the wi sest, sufest, and most necessary principles of politi cal economy. It prevents not only the dangerous practice of living beyond the means, but encourages the safe precedent of living within them. If all who could, would live within their means, the world would be much happier and much better than it is. Henry Clay and his noble housewife give us an ex ample worthy of all imitation. K Y. Erprest. Whit will rot a Momra no to ssra ntn Child 1 We learn that on Friday list, as a child of Mrs. McGee, of Westminster, aged 5 years, was at pluy about Ike well, it climtied upon the curb, and waa precipitated head foremost into the well, which was aboat twenty feet deep. Mrs. McGce missing the child, and hearing cries from the w ell, although in very poor health, and having a child only 6 weeks old, descended and rescued the un fortunate auffcicr, who was clinging to the side of tha wall and crying for help. Such daring and bold achievements, although of rare occurrence, show what a mother will do to save her suffering child. Uellowe Fulls, (7.) Gaz. The Mabia Cobs ill casx. The Sunday Mor ning News of New Vot k, announces that it is a hout to publish a narrative of the confessions of Iv vi Cass, a seaman on board Ihe U.S. ship Fairfield, in which he acknowledges the participation of him self and others in the "murder of Sarah Maria Cornell," for which the Rev. E. K. Avery was in dicted and tried. VAtra of Matrimoxt. Some writers on Po litical Economy aaya that a man doea not reach his pos'tion of usefulness in society until lie is married. Those young men about town who are so regardless of this great truth, should reform this very day. Not wait till to-moirow. Dr. Franklin had no exalted opinion of the value of single gentlemen. The old Philosopher used lo liken them to a half pair of icit&ort. Wiki ii High P lacks A Gentlemin passed from New York to Albany in a steamboat, a few days since, with Gen. Scott and the Hon. Mr. from England. The latter gentleman, not know ing that Gen. Scott waa a tee-totoller, observed that he "thought the Americans were going to a great extreme in their temperance movements ; for," sjiJ he, "it has got even into President Tyler's house, and at dinner there, a few days since with Mr. Clay, Webster and others, I observed that not one of them drank any wine, and the only use made of the do canter was by the President, who apparently out of mere politeness to me, as a stranger, sent it to me with a request that I would take wine with bim, ami he barely put il to his Up." Heading Gaz. Stbekt PaiAcmao. The people of Baltimore are resorting lo the primitive mode of preaching tha gospel. Fourteen different places were announced in the Baltimore papers of Saturday where there would be pleaching in the street on the Sabbath. "Wbisext, too men." Hearing groans and other demonstrations of distress in an occupied building the other evening, curiosity led us to go in. An Indian waa lying at full length on the ground, face downwards, kicking in fine stylo, white another had his knees on tht Uick of his prostrate compa nion, and waa busy ty ing his hands behind htm. He did not seem lo relisb. this proceeding at all, and expressed his dissatisfaction by sundry grunta and "ugh in that gmiei.l tone peculiar to his race. Aa we approached thorn, tha victor raised hia flash Ing eyes, and waved hia hand with great dignity foi us to begone but wishing lowliness the nature of his occupation, and to ace fair play if need should be, we kept on, and inquired what waa the matter 1 "Whinksy, too much," was the laconic reply. He was evidently securing his companion to prevent mist-hief during hia "fire-water" madness. Per haps tha next day ho icquircd the same friendly of fice for himself. Peoria licgittcr. THE AMERICAN. Saturday, July 31, 1841, Democratic Candidate for Governor, Gen. DAVID It. PORTED. We are under obligations to ihe Hon. Jas, Buchanan and John C. Calhoun of the Senate, and the Hon. John Snyder and C. Brown of the House of Representatives, for public documents, &c. Cj Wc refer our readers to an interesting debate on the Fiscal U. S. Bunk. The weather has been exceedingly hot. On Friday the 23d inst. the thermometer stood at 03 in the shade. It lasted however but a few days. 0 The water was let into tho North Branch Canal on the 20th inst., the navigation having been suspended but eight days. This wss deemed the most advisable mode to clear out the grasa and make the necessary repairs. Tho delay in naviga tion, all things considered, amounts to nothing, es pecially duiing the dull season, since the boats will be enabled to travel more expeditiously, whilo the state has probably gained considerable in the item of expenses. Some of our Whig cotemporaries were, however, determined lo find fault, which, as the election is drawing near, and political capital is much wanted, is not at all surprising. They must needs grumble at somcthin g. They are determined to make music of some sort, and if a fiddle cant bo had a corn atalk must answer. The water was let into the Lehigh Cwnal on Monday last. The whole line is, we presume, in navigable order by this time. j The Harrii-burg Chronicle says that the town council are about to issue small bills, of the denomi nation of 25 and !)0 cents. We trust the editor of the Chronicle has been misinformed. Tho people should not tolerate them anywhere. J. Wallace Brooke has been appointed soli citor to the Bank of the United Statea at a salary of $2,000 per annum. Mr. Brooke is a nephew of Gov. Porter. The former solicitor Mr. Cadwalla dcr, received a salary of $7,000 per annum. fXjThe Bankrupt Bill passed the Senate on Sa turday last, by a a vote of 2G to 24. Some of the Whig papers are endeavoring to implicate Gov. Porter with the U. S. Bank, because his nephew, Mr. Brook, has been appointed solici tor to the bank, with a salary of 2,000 per annum. It must be recollected that Mr. Brook is the son-in-law of Wm. Rawle, Esq., who, with Mr. Joshua W. Lippincott and a few others are supposed to control the affairs of the present Bank. He is indebted, without doubt, to the influence of Mr. Rawle, his father-in-law, for his appointment. tXy-BniAcn is thi Tina Water Casal. The United Statea Gazette of the 2Sth inst. saya, "We regret to learn that a breach has happened in this important work below Columbia, which will probably require two weeks to repair. Since contradicted. There ia no break. The Lead 31 inc. Several hands have been engaged during the last three months in working anJ exploring the lead mine near this place, which was discovered about a year since. They have already taken out about 25 tons of the ore, which will, on an average, yield about sixty per cent, of pure metal. Tho vein now working is about two feet in thickness. There are several other veins which have not yet been opened. Professor Rodgers, in his last repoit, professes lo give an analysis of some ore discoveied opposite Selinsgrove, which yielded about 10 per cent, lead and 40 per cent. zinc. If the professor intended this as an analysis of the ore above alluded to, which we suppose is the ease, then we have only to say that the blunder of his analysis is only equalled by the blunder of the description of the locality. The late geological survey, we consider as one of the humbugs of the day. Our only regret is, that it waa not placed in the hands of a number of scien tific and competent persons. The whole woik must soon or late, be done over. Home Squadron. We are pleased to see Congress moving in re lation to the establishment of steam ships, similar to those now under construction for the British and French governments. Ttese vessels are designed for the transportation of passenger; and Convey ing the mails in lime of per.ee, bo', are subject to the orders of the govcrnmef;, during war. A new line is about lo be es'.gulished by the British go vernment, con,',gting of fourteen steam ships of &00 horse pewer each, which are to ply between Eng land and this country, touching at various porta in South America and the West India Islands. For carrying the Koysl Mail they are to receive 1,388, 830 dollars per annum. Thus, in time of war, England, It ia said, could bring into service a fleet of upwards of one hundred steam ships. This sys tem of increasing and strengthening the navy is thus accomplished with but little additional expense, inasmuch aa Ihe postage on letters and papers will almost defray Ihe expenses incurred in keeping up and maintaining the line. We trust thia plan will be adopted by our govern ment. Tho United States has been the pioneer in steam navigation, and should not lag behind. Be sides the advantages are obviously so much auperi or in point of efficiency as well aa economy, that congress, we think, cannot hesitate about entering into the measure proposed without delay. Mr. King has reported a bill in the house to ihis effect. Congressional. The following bills have been ac'ed upon and) passed in the House of Representatives : 1st. The Appropriation Bill for defraying the expenses of the extra session. 2d. The Bill for the relief ef Mrs Harriso end the family of the late lamented President. 3d. A Bill for the relief of the lunatics of the District of Columbia. 4th. The Bill for the distribution of the proceeds of the Public Lands, and for granting pre-emption rights to actual settlers. 6th. A bill for paying the Navy Pensioners. 6th. The Appropriation Bill for Naval Ordnance. 7th. The Loan Bill. 8th. The Appropriation Bill for Fortifications and repleading Indian Hostilities. Otlt. The Appropriation Bill for the Home Sqad ron. Besides these bills passed and sent to the Se nate for concurrence, tho appropriate committrea of the House to whom the various subjects had been referred, have reported : The Fiscal Bank Bill, similar to that now before the Senate ; The Sub-Treasury Repeal Bill, as already passed the Senate abo, including the repeal of the De posits Act of 183C ; The Bankrupt Bill; and The Bill to revive and extend the Charters of the Banks of the Firtrict of Columbia. Extract uf a Utter to the Editor, dated Washisotos, July 27lh, 1841. The bank Bill has passed in the Senate to a third reading, by a vote of 25 to 21. Clay's compiomi.-o amendment brought in Merrick and Preston. Tho final vote will be 27 to 24. Two were absent, who will vote for the Bank. Rives remained tiue to the last, and defended himself nobly. Tyler will veto the bill. fXj The compromise amendment alluded to, is, if the legislature of ihe states do not dissent the first year after the charter, their assent shall be presu med, to the establishment of branches. Front the Baltimore American. Twenty-Seventh Congress. Wasiiixotox, July 26, 1841. IXIT1CU STATES SENATE, FISCAL BANK. There being no other morning buisness, the Bill to incorporate a Fiscal Bank of the United States was called up. The amendments considered in committee were next considered for concurrence in the Senate. Amendments were proposed to the amendments adopted in committee, by Mr. CLAY of Ky. They were unimportant and generally con curred in. The amendments prohibiting "the offi cers and directors of the Coporation, or any office of discount and deposite thereof, from loaning mon ey or contracting any debt in the Bunk in any man ner whatever," was discussed with some earnestness by Mr. CLAY of Ky. and Mr. WALKER of MUs. The amendment also proposed that no note or bill of which auch officer or director or any member of Congress is maker, drawer, endorser, acceptor, or otherwise a party, shall be discounted. Mr. CLAY considered the prohibition an unjust one, and an unnecessary one. It was neither the practice of safe banking nor necessary to safe banking. Mr. WALKER argued otherwise, and contended that past experience proved its necessity especially in the practice of the Pennsylvania U. S. Bank. Mr. HUNTINGTON aaid the amendment was a pro hibition lo members of Congress and to all officers of the Bank, except with the latter to the amount of $10,000. Waa this prohibition juslt Why should this class of citizens be proscribed ! Why should not a member of Congress be allowed to buy a Bdl of Exchange of the U. States Bank to send to his family if he thought proper ! Why might he not endorse a note, or ask for a discount 1 Were not members of Congress as honorable and possess ed of as much probity as their fellow citizens. Mr. CLAY of Ala. advocated the amendment as it stood in the Bill, and was for prohibiting mem bers of Congress from being borrowers and Direc tora also It was inviting corru) lion of the most damning character to resict such an amendment. Had the U.S. Bank been thus controlled and oth er Institutions of the sort, the government v. ouTJ have been now greatly benefited, Mr, Clay waa surprised that the memlera of Coiigress should be prohibited from discounts. Mr, LINN, Mo. advocated the same amendment, and thought the majority would gladly acreplof ev ery amendment which had been proposed by thai minority. He recited the Bank of Fiance as ait example worthy of imitation : The Bank of France loaned its money to small tradcta, which ware mucts safer borrowers Curt those who borrowed millionsv 'i he proposition to f. nee up the Directory to giva publicity to the action of Ihe Bonk was also otie of the safest principles of action here. Tha vote was then taken upon the first branch of Ihe amendment, relating to the limit upon the Di rectors of the Bank. The yeas and naya weie cal led and the resell was, ayes 23, noes 25. The next ameoJmeui related to members of Con gress. Mr. CLAY of Ky. opposed it. If this Bank char, ter were like other Bank charters there would be some reason for the amendment, but it was not. Mr. Clay illustrated the injustice of thia amendment. At his residence be sent forth a piece of psner ai J endoreer, or drawer, or acceptor. Xfcis waa taken
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