Mr. Clowney then moved the previous question on the resolutions, which was seconded, ayes 105, noes not counted: and on the question whether the main question should be put, the yeas and nays were ordered, and the vote was as follows: Yeas 107, nays 86. The question was then put on agreeing to the resolutions moved by Mr. Fairfield, as modified by him, and decided as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Alexander, H. Allen, J. W. Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Atherton, Beatty, Beirne, Bicknell, Biddle, Birdsall, Bond, Boon, Borden, Bouldin, Briggs, Brodhead, Bronson, Bruyn, Bynum, Wm. B. Calhoun, Cambreleng, J. Campbell, Casey, Chaney, Clark, Cleveland, Clowney, Coles, Corwin, Craig, Crary, Cushman, Davee, Davies, Deberry, DeGraff, Duncan, Edwards, Evans, Everett, Farrington, Fairfield, R. Fletcher, I. Fletcher, Fillmore, Fry, Gallup, James Garland, Glascock, Goode, Grantland, Grant, Gray, Grennell, Griffin, Haley, Hall, Hammond, Harrison, Harper, Hastings, Hawkins, Haynes, Henry, Hulsey, Hopkins, Howard, Hubley, Ingham, J. Jackson, Joseph Johnson, N. Jones, J. W. Jones, Kemble, Kilgore, Klingensmith, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Loomis, Lyon, Marvin, Martin, Maxwell, McKay, R. McClellan, A. McClellan, McKim, McKennan, Mercer, Miller, Montgomery, Moore, THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The senate, after some unimportant business, re- Mr. Davis concluded his remarks on this sub- The senate adjourned, after an executive session. After several petitions had been presented, on Resolved, That the secretary of war be directed to Mr. Thompson offered the following amendment, which prevailed: "And that no reporter or stenographer be admitted, under the rules of the house, unless such reporter or stenographer shall state, in writing, for what paper or papers he is employed to report," &c. And as thus amended, the resolutions were agreed to. Mr. Patton thought the existing rules of the house in regard to this matter were abundantly sufficient, if properly enforced. The second resolution passed, and the speaker stated that he would with great pleasure carry the order of the house into execution. Mr. Howard, on leave, reported a bill from the committee on foreign affairs for the preservation of the neutral relations of the United States, which was read a first and second time. A discussion arose as to the time to which the consideration of this bill should be postponed. Mr. Howard moved to make it the special order of the day for to-morrow, during the morning hour. Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, moved to postpose it until to-morrow at 1 o'clock, and then to make it the special order until 2 o'clock on each succeeding day. Mr. Bronson was in favor of the earliest hour. Mr. Cambreleng hoped the motion of the chairman of the committee on foreign affairs would be printed. Morgan, M. Morris, S. W. Morris, Calvary Mor- of Columbia, made a report upon so much of the prevail, and that, in the mean time, the bill would Mr. Bouldin, from the committee for the District report no bill to the house in relation to the District, ris, Naylor, Noble, Noyes, Ogle, Owens, Palmer, Resolved, That a delegate ought to be immediately allowed the District, elected by the people of the District, and admitted on the floor of the house of representatives. provisions of the bill recently before the house upon The motion of Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, pre vailed. Mr. Thomas, on leave introduced the bill from the senate, providing against the abatement of suits against the United States Bank on the 4th of March, 1838. The bill being read twice, and the question being upon ordering to a third reading Mr. Thomas moved the previous question. NAYS-Messrs. Ayerigg, Bell, J. Calhoon, W B. Campbell, W. B. Carter, Chambers, Chapman, Cheatham, Connor, Cranston, Curtis, Dawson, Dromgoole, Dunn, Ewing, R. Garland, J. Graham, William Graham, Harlan, Hawes, Hoffman, R. M. T. Hunter, Henry Johnson, W. C. Johnson, Mr. Bouldin moved to lay the report and resolu-ments, and all debate on the bill itself. He did hope that the house would be permitted to consi Legare, Mallory, James M. Mason, Maury, May, tions on the table, and that they be printed. Milligan, Mitchell, Patton, Pearce, Pope, Ridg This motion gave rise to a brief discussion be-der the constitutional question involved in this billway, Robertson, Sawyer, Shields, Snyder, South- tween Messrs. Adams, Bouldin, Jenifer, and Grengate, Stanley, Stone, Taliaferro, Thompson, Under-nell. Finally, a motion to recoinmit, made by Mr. wood, A. S. White, J. White, Sherrod Williams, Jenifer, prevailed. J. L. Williams-50. So it was Resolved, That a committee consisting of seven members be appointed to investigate the causes which led to the death of the honorable Jonathan Cilley, late a member of this house, and the circumstances connected therewith; and further to inquire whether, in the case alluded to, there has not been a breach of the privileges of this house, and to report thereon to this house. Resolved, That said committee have power to send for persons and papers, and have leave to sit during the sessions of the house. The speaker laid before the house several communications from the executive department, among which was a translation of the Gorostiza pamphlet, called for on Mr. Adam's motion, and a list of banks and public officers having public money in their hands. Mr. Morris, of Pennsylvania, by leave, moved the following resolution of instructions to the select committee just ordered, which was adopted: Resolved, That the select committee this day or dered be instructed to inquire into the means more effectually to suppress the practice of duelling, and report a bill for this purpose as early as is practi cable. Mr. Evans, by leave, introduced a resolution for informing the governor of Maine of the decease of Mr. Cilley which was agreed to. : Mr. Jennifer asked leave to introduce the following resolution, farther instructing the committee just ordered: Mr. Rencher, by leave, introduced the following resolutions: execute strictly the thirteenth and fourteenth rules Resolved, That no person shall be allowed the him. [The following are the rules referred to: 13. No person, except members of the senate, their secretary, heads of departments, treasurer, comptrollers, register, auditors, postmaster general, president's secretary, chaplains to congress, judges of the United States, foreign ministers and their secretaries, officers who, by name have received, or shall hereafter receive, the thanks of congress for their gallantry and good conduct displayed in the service of their country, the commissioners of the navy board, governor, for the time being, of any state or territory of the union, who may attend at the seat of the general government during the session of congress, and who may choose to avail himself of such privilege, such gentlemen as have been heads of departments, or members of either branch of the legislature, and, at the discretion of the speaker persons, who belong to such legislatures of foreign governments as are in amity with the United States, shall be admitted within the hall of the house of representatives." 14. Stenographers, wishing to take down the debates, may be admitted by the speaker, who shall assign such places to them on the floor or elsewith the convenience of the house."] The motion for the previous question, having been seconded, prevailed, and the bill was ordered to a third reading, as follows: An act to prevent the abatement of suits and actions now pending, to which the late Bank of the United States may be a party, Be it enacted, &c. That no suit, action, judgment, or decree, now pending and unsatisfied, in which the late Bank of the United States is a party, plaintiff, or defendant, shall abate or be discon tinued or dismissed by reason of the expiration of the two years after the expiration of the charter, limited by the 21st section of the act of incorporation of the said bank, for the use of the corporate name, style and capacity of said bank, for the purpose of suits for the final settlement and liquidation of the affairs and accounts of the corporation; but all such suits, actions, judgments, and decrees shall be allowed to proceed to final judgment, execution, satisfaction, and settlement, as if the said two years had not expired. The bill was then read a third a third time, passed, and returned to the senate. On motion of Mr. Cumbreleng, the further consideration of the message of the president of the United States in relation to the northeastern boundary affairs was postponed till this day week. The consideration of the bill making appropriation for the payment of pensions was resumed, on motion of Mr. Cambreleng, who addressing the house in reply to his colleague, (Mr. Curtis,) whose remarks had concluded the debate upon this bill when last under consideration. Mr. Curtis followed at some length, and was succeeded by Messrs. Atherton, Sibley. Bell, McKin, taking any question, at half past 4 o'clock. be instructed to inquire into the expediency of pro"Resolved, That the committee ordered this day where, to effect their object, as shall not interfere and Phillips, when the house adjourned without viding that if any member of this house, in debate. should so far forget the character due to himself and the house as to use language which shall be considered so personal to any other member as to call for the censure of a majority of the body, the speaker first calling him to order, such offending member shall immediately be called on by the speaker to make an apology to the house and to the member so affended, and, upon refusal to make a sufficient apology, such offending meinber shall be expelled his seat in the house." Before leave was granted as requested, Mr. Elmore would ask if the duty proposed to be Clock work. Mr. Rodgers, No. 410 Broadway, assigned to the speaker was not already assigned by the existing orders of the house? The speaker New York, has invented an ingenious clock work would say, in reply, that he should feel much re- apparatus, to strike the city ball bell on an alarm of lieved if the house would take some new order fire. It is very simple and durable, and any one проп this subject. A practice had existed, under can set it so as to strike for any district, and conthe incumbency of his predecessor, which he had tinue an hour striking. It is also valuable for the felt the inconvenience of, in the too extended con- preservation of the bells, as the hammer strikes on struction of the rules of the honse in this respect. one spot, and equally so for all church bells, for Mr. Rencher said that snch had been his intention instead of tugging at the rope the sexton has only in introducing the resolutions. Mr. Hopkins asked for a division of the question. And the question being taken on the first resolution, was decided affirmatively. The question recurring on the second, to set the clock at work, and the bell will ring or toll the necessary time without labour. It is alto gether a simple improvement, which should be adopted for the city hall and churches. [Ev. Star. NILES NATIONAL REGISTER. FIFTH SERIES. No. 2.-VOL. IV.] WASHINGTON CITY, MARCH 10, 1838. THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE. [VOL. LIV. WHOLE NO. 1,380. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY, BY WILLIAM OGDEN NILES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. The present number contains Mr. Grundy's and as a rejoicing that lord Gosford no longer in-capital, and that the Emperor Nicholas had been letter to the legislature of Tennessee, and Mr. Tall-sulted Britons as the representative of their sover-exposed to great personal danger. eign, was as general as the most sanguine good madge's speech in reply to Mr. Hubbard. subject could have possibly desired. BRAZIL. Dionizio de Azevedo Pecanah has been officially recognised by the president of the United States as consul general of Brazil for the United States of America. PENNSYLVANIA. A convention of the friends of the general administration met at Harrisburg on Monday last and nominated general David R. Porter, of Huntingdon county, as their candidate for governor. The anti-masonic convention assembled at the same place on the same day, and nominated Joseph Ritner as their candidate for the same office. CONNECTICUT. The democratic state convention has nominated Seth P. Beers, of Litchfield county, for governor, and John Stewart, of Middlesex county, for lieutenant governor of the state of Connecticut. FROM THE CANADA FRONTIER. The following from the Albany Argus of the 5th inst. confirms the account published in a subsequent page of the disbanding of the invading forces: THE BAMBERS. We learn from the New York APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT, Jesse Hoyt, collector of the customs, New York, George Holt, collector of the customs, Cherry John McDonnell, collector of the customs,Detroit, Joseph S. Lake, register of the land office, Wooster, Ohio, from March 25th, 1838. James C. Sloo, register of the land office, ShawWilliam A. Richmond, receiver, Ionia, Michigan, neetown, Illinois, from March 25th, 1838. vice Allen Hutchins, removed, from 6th March, 1838. Danforth N. Barney, collector of the customs, Sacketts Harbor, from March 3, 1838, in place of Thomas Loomis, whose commission has expired. John Clark, register of the land office, Ionia, MiFOREIGN NEWSs. London papers to the 15th and Liverpool to the 16th of January have been receiv-chigan, vice Joseph W. Brown removed, from 6th ed at New York. They are filled with specula- March, 1838. tions upon the late movements in Canada, which have also been warmly discussed in parliament. The London Courier of the 15th of January says: "As soon as parliament meets to-morrow the ministers will lay before it the additional documents "Official despatches from gen. Wool and col. which they possess concerning the revolt in CanaWorth, from the former of the 2d inst., and the da, and will be prepared to state their views on this latter of the 1st, show that both on the northern important subject. We may expect a warm debate and western frontiers, the disturbing forces have if the tories and radicals are not so excessively disbeen dispersed, and that tranquillity has been re-appointed at the speedy termination of the revolt as to be unable to make a show of fight." stored in every direction. The newspapers contain various accounts of arGeneral Wool writes that the entire force under Drs. Nelson and Cote, about 600 strong, surren-rangements for increasing the British forces, and dered to him at 2 o'clock, P. M. on the 1st inst. for taking out troops to America. The bounty for near the Canada line, about one mile north of the the ordnance service has been raised to five guivillage of Alburgh springs, Vermont, with all their neas, and the standard of height reduced from five cannon, small arins and ammunition. Previous to feet five inches for the royal artillery instead of five this, general Wool had taken one piece of artillery feet eight. This corps wants 490 men to complete and nine loads of ammunition prepared for artillery it. The Royal Sovereign transport, commanded by and muskets. Drs. Nelson and Cote were in the lieut. Werter, was to take out immediately two custody of general Wool, by whom they would be companies of royal engineers to Canada. The surrendered to the civil authorities. The British Apollo, at Portsmouth, a large 46 gun frigate, is to troops were within six or eight miles of the invad- be prepared for a troop ship and to sail for Canada ing camp at the time of the surrender. The whole frontier, from St. Albans to Watertown, is entirely tranquillized-probably not to be again disturbed. Gen. Wool left St. Albans for Plattsburgh and Champlain yesterday morning. about the end of March. The Hercules 74 will a portion of the 93d Highlanders, and the Pique A large number of officers have arrived at New Col. Worth writes that he is just informed by express from major general Brady, at the mouth of York and proceeded to Canada. The collector of the Detroit river, dated the 26th inst., that on the that port directed all the baggage of the British ofmorning of the 24th, the individuals under the com- ficers, who arrived in the packet ship Cambridge, mand of McLeod, made good their foothold on an to be passed without examination. The officers uninhabited island on the British side, and appear and the British consul called on the collector to ed to threaten an attack upon Malden. When the express their gratification at so unexpected a citroops at Malden moved towards the island, the in-vility, which relieved them from being subjected vaders fled without making any resistance. On to an ordeal which, though trivial in its nature, is reaching the American shore, they were disarmed justly deemed the most vexatious of annoyances by the forces under general Brady and the civil au- that the stranger can possibly encounter. Sir George Arthur, the new governor of Upper thorities, and dispersed. McLeod, at the last date, was pursued by the marshals, and it was believed Canada, with his suite and several inilitary gentlewould be arrested. The re-action against these men, took passage in the New York packet Samproceedings is general, and it is not a little ac-son, on Friday the 5th of January, for America. celerated by the want of courage exhibited on this and other occasions." The Rochester Democrat contradicts, as a libel, the statement of the N. Y. Gazette, Courier and Enquirer, and Commercial Advertiser, that lady Head, whilst on her recent route to New York, was insulted in Rochester. It has the authority of gen. Whiting, a royalist, from Canada, that he had a few days since heard gov. Head read a letter from his lady, dated at Utica or Albany, in which she states that, so far from being insulted, she had not met with a single mark of disrespect, but, on the contrary, had been uniformly treated with the utmost kindness and attention. Samuel Milroy, receiver, Crawfordsville, Indiana, John Coates, receiver, Chilicothe, Ohio, from 25th vice James T. Pollock, removed, from 6th March, 1838. John Taylor, receiver, Springfield, Illinois, from March, 1838. Charles Humphrys, receiver, Marietta, Ohio, from 25th March, 1838. Solomon Clark, receivers of public moneys at the 28th March, 1838, when the commission of David C. Skinner will expire. Benjamin R. Gantt, receiver of public moneys, Pontotoc, Mi. from 5th March, 1838. Henry Smith, receiver of public moneys, VandaOpelousas, Louisiana, from January 24, 1838. R. G. Greene, surveyor, Portland Me. from Feb. lia, Illinois, from January 31, 1838. 15, 1838. George W. Riter, surveyor, Philadelphia, from March 23, 1838. Marcus C. Ryan, surveyor, Windsor, N. C. from Jan. 31, 1838. John G. Mawney, surveyor and inspector of the revenue, East Greenwich, R. I. from 29th January, 1838. Edward Palfray, surveyor for the district of Salem and Beverley, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Salem, Massachusetts from 29th January, 1838. John Horn, naval officer, Philadelphia, from Henry Simpson, appraiser, Philadelphia, from Thomas H. Hopkins, register of land office, Mi. from Feb. 23, 1838. David V. Culley, register of land office, Indiana A meeting of the friends of reform had been held The winter palace of the Emperor Nicholas was The chamber of deputies, on the 15th, agreed on an answer to the king's speech, which is but the repetition of the speech itself. David Robb, register of land office, Zanesville, Ohio, from March 31, 1838. Olmstead Hough, register of the land office at Detroit, Mich. from 5th March, 1838. Peter W. Gautier, jr. to be marshal for the western district of Florida, in the place of J. W. Exum, deceased. Charles D. Hammond of Georgia, to be marshal James N. Barker, to be first comptroller of the of the United States for the district of Georgia, in the place of Peter Solomon, resigned. treasury, from the first of March next, in the place of George Wolf, resigned. "In Lord Gosford, late governor general of the CanPOST OFFICE REGULATIONS.-Extract from the adas, has arrived at Boston with his suite. He came by way of Maine. He was to embark for England, on board the Pique frigate. His every instance in which papers that come to your departure has given great joy to the friends instructions to postmasters, p. 50, sec. 118. of the queen in Montreal. The "Herald" states, A Berlin letter of January 7th, states that three office are not taken out by the person to whom they that that city presented a magnificent spectacle on Tuesday evening, (Feb. 27th.) The illumination couriers from St. Petersburg had arrived within a are sent, you will give immediate notice to the pubin honor of the installation of sir John Colborne as few days of each other. It was reported that seri-lisher, adding the reason, if known, why the papers administrator of the government of this province, ous disturbances had broke out in the Russian are not taken out." VOL. LIV.-SIG. 2. THE LATE DUEL AT WASHINGTON. From the New York American. lates to the impression under which col. W. rested on the evening of Friday, 23d, and up to 10 o'clock A. M. of Saturday, that no meeting could take place on that day between Mr. Graves and Mr. Cilley. Col. W. had evinced the most resolute purpose to prevent, at any rate, and at any hazard, the substitution of Mr. Graves for himself, in the combat, and nothing but the unusual haste with which this matter seems to have been passed to an issue, could, it is believed, have defeated the success of his interposition, and that of other friends, as well as of the law, to prevent the duel. stood, requested general Mercer to go to the civil The prominent position of the Courier and Enauthorities, make a formal complaint in his (col. quirer, and the wide dissemination of the infamous W's.) name, and cause officers to be despatched in slander that I had been bribed by the Bank of the every direction to discover and apprehend the parties. United States-a slander which had its origin in I send the following statement for publication, in We learnt at the capitol, that the parties had only the malevolence of Churchill C. Cambreleng-has justice to col. J. W. Webb. It is accurate, as I been absent about twenty minutes, and that the unfortunately consigned Mr. Cilly to the tomb, know, in its essential particulars, in that which re-meeting was to take place at the old magazine. We and attached to ine the imputation of seeking notoinstantly followed in pursuit; but on arriving at the riety, by aiming to establish the reputation of a place designated, understood that the parties had duellist. Those who know me, are well aware not been there. We were then induced to believe that neither vindictiveness nor malice constitute that the shore of the Potomac, near the arsenal at any portion of my character; and that where I have Greenleaf's point, was the place of meeting, and sought redress, I have been actuated by a deep we followed in pursuit. But here again, we were sense of what was due to myself and family, and foiled; and I have since understood that the place not by the desire of shedding human blood. Nearly of meeting was changed to avoid interruption by six years have now elapsed since Mr. Cambrecol. W. It now being after three o'clock, P. M. leng's false charge was first made against me. It we returned to Gadsby's hotel, and there awaited is known to be false by every man of ordinary inthe result. telligence in the country, and yet it is annually It is unnecessary to add what would have been repeated on the floor of congress! Now I appeal the course of col. Webb, if Mr. Graves, instead of to any man of proper feeling, who is himself the Mr. Cilley, had been injured. Suffice it to say, father of a family, whether he could calmly submit that his determination was sanctioned by us; and to the reflection that this foul calumny must dehowever much we deplored it, we could not doubt scend to his children as perhaps the only legacy of but the extraordinary position in which he would one whom, while living, they loved and honored? then have been placed, would have warranted the I think not; and without any disrespect to the feelcourse determined upon. ings of the public, I may be permitted to say, that I have long since determined to put an end to this slander at all hazards. It is not deemed necessary to give the signatures to this paper, as it might not be agreeable to the parties to see their names in print, on such an occasion. Any gentleman, however, desiring it may see the original statement at this office. GADSBY'S HOTEL, Washington, Feb. 25, 1838. Early in the morning of yesterday, col. Webb, of New York, called at my lodgings while I was yet in bed, and stated that on the evening preceding, Mr. Cilley, of Maine, had accepted a challenge from Mr. Graves of Kentucky, and that they were to fight at eighty paces with rifles. Col. Webb said that the proposed meeting grew out of a correspondence between Mr. Graves and Mr. Cilley, founded upon a letter from col. Webb to Mr. Cilley, asking for an explanation of certain language used on the floor of the house of representatives, and of which letter Mr. Graves was the bearer. He said that it was utterly impossible that any meeting could be permitted to take place between Messrs. Graves and Cilley until Mr. Cilley had first met him; that he was determined to force such meeting upon Mr. Cilley, be the consequences what they might, and that in pursuance of that determination, he had secured the services of the even ing previous, shortly after the acceptance of Mr. (Signed) The foregoing statement of Major is cor- In pursuance of this unaltered and unalterable determination, I have endeavored to hold members of congress responsible for the repetition of what they well knew to be a slander; and when I have been met by the plea that an editor of a paper is not a gentleman, I have had the additional mortification of knowing that a portion of the press, wantThe editors of the New York Journal of Coming in duty to itself, unfeelingly endeavors to premerce state that the names affixed to the above were judice the public mind, both as to the object I have Daniel Jackson, of New York, and Maj. W. H. in view and the character of the plea by which Morrell. that object is sought to be avoided. The "Spy in Washington" has published the following as the letter from col. Webb to Mr. Cilley; which the latter declined receiving when presented by Mr. Graves, and we give it a place as a portion of the history of the duel. GADSBY'S, HOTEL, } Washington, Feb. 21st, 1838. I deem it my duty to apprise you, sir, that I am Very respectfully, your ob't serv't. Every man is of right, the sole judge of what is due to his own honor; and while no one can entertain greater respect for public opinion than I do, I must be permitted to say, I can never be so far controlled by it as to suffer any respectable person to circulate the slander alluded to, without chastisement of some sort. Of course I can never again ask a friend to be the bearer of a message to any member of congress. The cowardly plea which members of that body have adopted to screen themselves from punishment, will thus far prove effectual; but they must not imagine that they are therefore beyond my reach. Time may demonstrate that such a conclusion would be erroneous; and if there are those connected with the press who are prepared to censure my conduct because they are willing to submit to the decision that their profession is not consistent with the character or the feelings of a gentleman, I can only enter my protest against their acquiescence in such deep disgrace being considered binding upon me. One word in relation to the recent duel, and I have done. Mr. Cilley, in his last interview with Mr. Graves, said all, and even more than was required of him; and this, under the impulse of his own feelings, he was ready to commit to writing. But he unfortunately fell into the hands of Benton and Duncan-men as void of character as they are of political honesty-and these ruffians believing that the life of Mr. Graves was at stake, in consequence of Mr. Cilley's wonderful accuracy in rifle shooting, persuaded him to withhold his assent to what Mr. Graves had already reduced to writing, and thereby indirectly implicate his veracity. To Mr. Cilley's weakness in listening to such dishonorable advice, and the anxiety of Messrs. BenAs it is my determination never to allude edito-ton and Duncan for the life of Mr. Graves, is the melancholy fate of Mr. Cilley solely to be attributed. His blood is on their heads; and sooner or later the public will properly appreciate their instrumentality in this melancholy tragedy. Of my efforts to prevent it, I need not speak-the facts are fairly before the public, and in the consciousness that I have only done what my duty to myself and my family rendered imperative, I rely upon my conduct being duly appreciated by all whose good opinion it is my desire to retain. Philadelphia, Feb. 28, 1838. I considered col. Webb bound in honor to take the course he suggested, and promptly declared my willingness to accompany him. At 10 o'clock I was informed by col. Webb, that although he had been assured on the evening previous, that Mr. Graves and Mr. Cilley would not meet for some days, he had reason to believe that he had been intentionally deceived, and that the meeting would The annexed communication from col. Webb, take place on that day at 12 o'clock. At his re-written at Philadelphia, was published in the Couquest, I immediately took measures to ascertain rier and Enquirer: whether Mr. Cilley was at his lodgings, and finding that he was not, col. Webb, Mr. and myself, all well armed, took a carriage and repaired to Bla- rially, to the recent melancholy affair at Washing. densburg, where it was said the meeting was to ton, except under circumstances which cannot now take place. Before arriving at the ground, col. be foreseen, there may be a propriety in briefly reWebb designated the following as the order of pro-ferring to it at this time. ceeding to which we assented, believing it to be Some of my contemporaries have alluded to the only course left him, and demanded by every consideration of duty towards his chivalric friend, Mr. Graves. "On reaching the parties," said col. W., "I'll approach Mr. Cilley and tell him that this is my quarrel, and he must fight me, and that if he aims his rifle at my friend, I'll shoot him on the spot.' We know that upon this, Messrs. Graves and Wise will interfere, and that we will be ordered off the ground, but I shall tell them that we have come prepared to lose our lives or prevent the meeting, that it cannot proceed without first disposing of us. From our knowledge of the parties, it is probable that some of them will then raise his weapon at me, when I shall instantly shoot Cilley, and we must proceed to defend ourselves in the best way we can." my apparent desire to get into difficulties of this na- The true secret of my repeated difficulties is to be found in the fact, that I will not subscribe to the abominable doctrine, that in becoming an editor, I ceased to be a gentleman! This insult to the press of our country, had its origin in the cowardly feelings of certain senators from Mississippi; and in consequence of their example, every political deOn arriving at the usual duelling ground, we dis-magogue, who succeeds in obtaining a seat in covered that the parties were not there, and after congress, lays it down as an axiom that editors are waiting half an hour, returned to the capitol, when not gentlemen, and may be assailed without entitling col. Webb had a conversation with, and we under-them to any claim for redress. J. WATSON WEBB. From the "Globe” of Wednesday night. We have been furnished with the following for publication: Washington City, Murch 6, 1838. Sir: I enclose you three printed paragraphs, cut from newspapers, having relation to the inquiry with which the committee of which you are chairman has been charged by the house of representa tives. The first is taken from a letter written from Philadelphia; the second from a letter written from this city; and the third is taken from the editorial head of the New York Courier and Enquirer; and all of them attributing the death of Mr. Cilley to my counsels and contrivances. The positiveness with which the writers of these paragraphs detail the circumstances which enable them to charge me with the death of Mr. Cilley, may present them as proper witnesses to be examined in relation to that event; and, if so, I have to request that I may be allowed to be present at their examination. carried off the stolen property came from Westport and Lewis. On the night previous to the above outrage, the state arsenal at Batavia was again broken open, and robbed of one hundred muskets and 1,000 lbs. From the Albany Argus. upon every respectable person who shall dare to speak of his having been bribed to support the late United States Bank. It is probable this threat may silence some; but I trust there are yet more who will despise it as utterly as the wretch who proclaims it ought to be despised by every honorable of powder. man. For my own part, while the proof that this In the mean time, justice to the dead, who can atrocious braggart's services were bought and paid Despatches are from gen. Wool to the 25th, inno longer speak for himself, and a due regard to the for by the United States Bank exists on the endur-clusive, dated at head-quarters, Champlain. The object of these coincident movements from three ing records of the national legislature, I, for one, early indications of quiet had given place to a revicities, induce me to say that, so far as my name is shall never hesitate to speak freely my sentiments val of the Canadian war spirit; and recently perconcerned, there is not one particle of truth in the of the contemptible apostate. I am willing to ac- sons had been actively engaged in collecting and statements of these paragraphs. So far from coun- knowledge that he is, technically and etymologi: concentrating between Champlain and Plattsburg selling with Mr. Cilley, and preventing him from cally, a gentleman-that is, that this father and supplies of cannon, carriages, ball, small arms and admitting the true report of his conversations with grandfather were respectable men, and that some ammunition, with the avowed intention of invading Mr. Graves, it happens to be the fact that I never few gentlemen lend him their countenance in soci- Canada, the first favorable opportunity, at three saw Mr. Cilley, to know him, but once in his life, ety-but as for himself, I hold him to be one of the points, viz: at Swanton, Vermont, Plattsburg; and and that at the commencement of the session, when basest and most craven braggarts that ever disgrac- at some point between Ogdensburg and Watertown. he did me the honor to call upon me in company ed the human form. If every man and woman in The main attack, it was believed, was intended to with Mr. Pierce, of the senate; and that no com- this community should speak their true opinion of proceed from the Champlain frontier. These cirinunication of any kind, written or verbal, direct or him, it would be found that but few voices would cumstances had induced gen. Wool to call for indirect, personal or political, has ever taken place dissent from that which I have here expressed. I three companies of infantry militia, and some thirty between us. Instead of contriving and creating this say this, not because I have any desire to obtrude or forty mounted men. This corps had been judí duel, it so happened that my first knowledge of it myself personally before the community, but be- ciously distributed at the proper passes, with guards was received in my chair in the senate, on Friday, cause, in the face of such a defiance as that thrown near the patriots' depots, with instruction to detain from Mr. Haight, the sergeant-at-arms, who men-out in the Courier of this morning, I deem it the them the moment their removal should be attempttioned it to me as a town talk; my next knowledge duty of those who have heretofore spoken plainly ed: and the greatest vigilance was exercised to preof it was from Mr. Pierce, of the senate, and at my of this creature's character, to show that they are vent and arrest these movements, and with expectplace in the senate; so that I was in arrear of the not to be intimidated by his bluster from continued success. A material change had taken place in town talk on the subject. With respect to this ing freely to express their sentiments. the public mind; so much so, that it was thought wonderful rifle firing, of which I am represented to general W. would be able to obtain a volunteer have been the superintendent, and to have expressforce sufficient to answer all present purposes. ed such high admiration, it happens to be the fact that I have not seen a rifle fired in twenty years. With respect to Mr. Graves, whose death I am charged with so anxiously contriving, it so happens that I do not know the person of that gentleman; that not a word of any kind has ever passed between us; that I do not know that he has ever spent a thought upon me, and am certain that his existence was unthought of by me at the time I am charged with planning his death. With respect to Dr. Duncan, with whom I ain charged with being in consultation nearly all the week, I have no recollection of having seen him until after mid-day on Saturday, when he and others stopped at Mr. Jones's door, which is next door to mine, on their way out, and when my counsels can be stated by others more appropriately than by myself. even Reserving any further details for a inore suitable occasion, I have to request you to lay this letter, with its enclosure, before the committee of which you are chairman, for such action upon it as they may think proper to have. Respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, THOMAS H. BENTON. To the Hon. Mr. TOUCEY, chairman, &c. [For the paragraph quoted here by Mr. Benton, see that portion of Mr. Webb's letter above, commencing, "One word," &c.] New York, March 2, 1838. WM. LEGGETT. FRONTIER INTELLIGENCE. Extract from a letter dated The movement from the neighborhood of Ogdensburg, we know, has proved an entire failure; the poor creatures who composed the expedition having returned, half frozen, without setting foot on the main shore of Canada. The most valiaut of them, however, did cross the line, and took possession of Hickory island-a feat which we suppose might have been accomplished by one man, as easily as by three companies. By the last accounts, general Skinner, who had been deputed by general Wool for the service, with orders to call out a battalion from general Hazleton's brigade, had reached Watertown, and would proceed forthwith to French creek, and endeavor to secure the arms, etc. belonging to the state. PROCLAMATION. By William L. Marcy, governor of the state of ST. LAWRENCE CO. N. Y. Feb. 26, 1838. The forces began to arrive at French creek on Tuesday afternoon and evening, and large quantities of arms and ammunition were received there. Van Rensselaer was there; and they did not imbody men on the American soil, (acting, in this respect, under the advice of counsel) but transported their arms and ammunition to Hickory island-a small British island lying between Grindstone and Long islands-and the men began to repair hither. They bad about 4,000 stand of arms, 20 barrels car tridges, 500 long pikes, (a very efficient article, manufactured for the occasion) and plenty of provisions. On the island, the only shelter was a small log house and a barn. On Wednesday, the men gathered on the island to the number of 3,000. The day was cold, and the men suffered from exposure. to me that the arsenals belonging to this state, Mackenzie, it seems, was dissatisfied that Van situated at Batavia, in the county of Genesee at Rensselaer was to command, and neither he nor Watertown, in the county of Jefferson; and at Gibson attended at all. This threw a damper on Elizabethtown, in the county of Essex, have been the whole proceeding: the Jefferson men would not recently broken open and a part of the property of take arms. Van Rensselaer, it is said, offered to the state deposited in them has been stolen theremarch into Canada in the ranks, with his knapsack from, I do hereby offer a reward of $250, in addiand musket, under any command, with 100 men; tion to a like sum offered by the keeper of the state but on calling for volunteers, the first time there arsenal at Batavia, to any person who will furnish appeared 83, from St. Lawrence and Salt Point, information that shall lead to the detection and and all told: second, 71 appeared; and the third time conviction of the offenders. I do further offer the only 35 would volunteer. They then concluded to sum of $500 to any person who shall give informadisperse, and by great exertions of the leaders, tion that shall lead to the detention and conviction enough were kept together to remove the arms, &c. of the persons who broke open the arsenal at "Immediately after the conversation, Mr. Graves to French creek; and then they fled, "every man Elizabethtown and stole property of the state there. addressed a letter to Mr. Cilley, recapitulating the to his tent," or rather to his own home. from; which said rewards is to be paid on the consubstance of the conversation, and requesting him agitation will be kept up on this frontier. Macken- fer the sum of $250, in addition to a like sum offerThus ends the affair, and I presume no further viction of the offenders. And I do furthermore ofto reduce it to writing. Herespon a consultation took place between Mr. Cilley, Mr. Duncan of the zie has showed himself equally selfish, heartless,ed by the keeper of the arsenal at Watertown, house, Mr. Benton of the senate, and several others, vulsion of feeling here, that I verily believe, if he lead to the discovery and conviction of the persons unprincipled, and cowardly; and so great is the re- to any one who will give such information as shall the result of which was a reply late in the evening, should venture here again, he would be handed who broke open the arsenal at that place and stole wherein Mr. Cilley refused to recognise so much of Mr. Graves's report of their conversation as rela- over to the tender mercies of the Canadians, with the property of the people of this state therefrom; ted to col. Webb, and said that he neither admitted out ceremony or pity. the said sum to be paid on conviction of the offendnor denied his claims to be considered a gentleman. ers. And whereas, also, several pieces of ordnance This was virtually questioning Mr. Graves' verabelonging to the people of this state have been stocity, and he insisted upon an admission in writing sion thereof on behalf of this state, I do hereby len and carried away from those who had possesof what had occurred in their personal interview. offer the sum of $100 as a reward to any person But under the advisement of Mr. Benton and others, who will give information which shall lead to the it was refused, and we all know the melancholy apprehension and conviction of the persons guilty of forcibly and feloniously taking and carrying ty of this state, from any gun-house, or from the away any piece of ordnance or cannon, the proper. persons having possession thereof; and I do hereby call upon all magistrates, sheriffs, and civil officers, to be vigilant and active in their efforts to bring to aforesaid offences. justice the persons who have committed any of the Extract from a letter, dated Washington, Feb. 26, 1823, published in the New York Courier and Enquirer. termination of the affair." From the New York Journal of Commerce. arsenal at Elizabethtown, Essex county, N. Y. The news of the plunder of the United States published in our morning edition, is confirmed. The robbery took place on the night of the 25th ult. A letter from Mr. Hand, the keeper, to the state authorities at Albany, says one thousand mus. Extract from the New York Courier and Enquirer. rifles, twenty pairs of pistols, a large quantity of kets with fixed bayonets were stolen, twenty-six "He [Mr. Cilley] is said to have practised on knapsacks, and perhaps a quantity of cartridge Thursday and Friday last under the superinten- boxes. Entrance was effected at the back door, by dence of Mr. Benton, when that personage declared, either on hearing or seeing the result of his means of an iron bar. The stolen arms, says the practice, that at eighty yards he could kill any man in several sleighs, and were tracked north. MesAlbany Argus, "are supposed to have been taken in the world. He is said to have hit eleven times-sengers had been sent in every direction, but Mr. eight times within the circumference of a dollar-H. believes that the property is secreted within a and the whole eleven times within the space which few miles, unless it has been transported into Vercould be covered by a man's hand." From the New York Evening Post of the 2nd inst. Mr. James Watson Webb caps the climax of his most ruffian-like conduct by announcing, under his own signature, in his paper of this morning, that he is determined to inflict chastisement of some sort mont. The guns were mostly old, but recently [L. s.] York, the first day of March, one thou- The "Globe" of Tuesday night contains the following: A report has been received from colonel Worth, at Buffalo, stating that the arms, ammunition, and From the Buffalo Com. Advertiser, March 1. Early this morning we received by express, the following intelligence, which, as it comes officially, may be depended upon as correct. artillery, stolen from the state arsenal at Batavia, infraction of the constitution; nor am I required, is no evidence that your instructions are in accord. have been recovered. They were found in the by a compliance with your instructions, to inflict ance with the will of the people of Tennessee, possession of about seventy men, who were en- a direct and vital injury upon my country. You, with whom rests the paramount right or power to camped several miles higher up the lake, and by your instructions, have taken upon yourselves instruct; and, in the next place, because you inabout three miles from either shore. The men the responsibility of the vote I am required to give, struct me to vote against a bill, of the contents of were ordered to disperse and return to our shore, and I am relieved from it. The people will look which you were wholly ignorant, never having where many arrests were made by the district to you as the principal, and to me merely as the seen it. attorney; of whom five, including Burnham and agent, in performing an act expressly required by But, sirs, the abuse of a right does not prove that Holmes, first and second in command, were con- those in whom I recognise the power to instruct. it does not exist, and it is better to adhere to sound ducted to Buffalo, and are now undergoing exami- I therefore shall obey, in good faith, your in-principles, although sometimes errors may be comnation with the most abundant testimony, having structions as expressed in your resolution, and shall mitted in the application of those principles by men been caught in the fact. In the course of the pre-vote against the bill, in all its stages, precisely in who have the management of public affairs, than liminary examination, it was clearly established the same way I should do were I opposed to it my- to abandon any of those fundamental doctrines on that the final movement was to be made on the self, and not follow the example of those senators which the people must rely to carry out, in practice, night of the 27th, before which some six or eight of the opposition who have felt at liberty to disobey the representative principle itself. hundred men were waiting in the immediate neigh- the instructions of their state legislatures. I therefore waive all exceptions to your proceedborhood to join. If my political principles would allow me to do ings, and shall vote upon this measure, when it so, perhaps a case cannot be imagined where comes before me, according to your instructions. stronger circumstances could exist in justification In doing this, I act upon a great principle, which I of a course different from the one I have adopted. deem essential in a free representative government, You were elected as members of the legislature in and hope you will not suppose, for a moment, that August last. Before that time, nothing had been I am influenced, in the slightest degree, by a desire said publicly among the people of the state in re- to conciliate your favor, beyond the simple disgard to the collection, safe-keeping, and disburse- charge of my duty. ment of the public revenue. Consequently, your election furnishes no indication of public opinion on this subject, because the question was not then I considered, and was not before the people. The president's message, at the special session in September, first disclosed the views of the administration upon this subject. This document could not have been seen by many of your constituents before you left home for the seat of government, where you convened on the first Monday in October. Therefore, most of you could not have had an opportunity of ascertaining the sentiments of your constituents before you met in October. I am also constrained to believe that such was the fact, as to your means of knowing the views of your constituents on this measure, from the obvious consideration that had you really known that their opinions were against it, your respect for those opinions must have led you to immediate and prompt action on the subject. How, otherwise, can you justify your conduct in delaying to act till the 18th day of January, 1838. Gen. Scott arrived at Monroe, Michigan, on the 25th ult. On the 24th, a party of patriots took possession of a sinall island in the Detroit river, on the Canada side, and the next day were dislodged by the British batteries, and escaped to the American shore. There were about 150 in number, and were immediately disarmed by brig. gen. Brady, and suffered to disperse. A deputy marshal is in pursuit of the leader, the patriot adjutant gen. McLeod. No other expedition has attempted to cross the frontier in that region. This is the fourth Navy island expedition. The Kingston Chronicle gives further particulars of the threatened invasion of Canada. A despatch was received at that place, stating that the patriots were concentrating their forces with an intention of making an attack upon Kingston or Gananoque, on the night of the 22d of February. The militia, under major Fitzgerald, were fully prepared to receive them, and mustered to the number of 1600 bayonets. The patriots are stated to have been about 200 strong. An account of what transpired on our own frontier at the same time is given by the Ogdensburg Republican. Mackenzie had been visiting that vicinity some weeks since, and had addressed our citizens at that place and at Canton. On his return to Plattsburg, a convention was held somewhere in St. Lawrence county or in Jefferson, and a plan of operations concerted. The passing and repassing of many strangers induced the belief that a general rising was about to take place on the frontier, and an attack made upon Kingston on the 22d. Three thousand men, with arms, ammunition, and provisions, poured into French creek like a torrent. Fearing a visit from the United States' authorities, they removed to Hickory island, on the Canada side, 24 miles from Kingston. The next step was to call for volunteers from among this chivalric host, when eightysix! responded to the appeal. This was a damper. The lookers-on bore the same portion to the actors as in other farces, and activity became the order of the day. The play was ended, and the audience retired. HON. FELIX GRUNDY'S LETTER, Neither have I heard of any memorials or remonstrances, indicating the public sentiment, that have been sent to you, requiring you to interpose between me and my vote on this subject. You met on the first Monday in October last, and have continued in session ever since. I cannot, therefore, but think it improbable, if not impossible, that the people have impelled you to this measure; because, but few of you, since the commencement of your session, have visited your constituents, and I have not understood that any of you before your election or since, have been instructed by them. I have noticed in the newspapers one political meeting having been held in Nashville, to instruct the Davidson members on other subjects; but this measure, on which you instruct ine, was not named. Further. If it were for the public interest for you to act in this matter, why did you not act more promptly upon the president's message, which ap peared in September last; and the bill introduced by the finance committee at the special session? For three months and a half after you met, and knew what measures were recommended by the executive branch of the government, you remain ed silent, permitting your senators to exercise their own judgments; and not till a few days past did I hear that you were earnestly engaged, in one branch of the legislature, in passing your instruc WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 6, 1838. To the members of the general assembly of the state of Tennessee who voted for the following resolutions. tion: Having thus explicitly stated the course I shall pursue, I should consider myself altogether inexcusable, were I to omit bringing to your notice some important considerations connected with this subject. You instruct me to vote against a particular measure. You are obeyed. What am I next to do? You, at least some of you, as I know, have been vehement in your complaints against those who administer the government and their friends, for not doing something to relieve the embarrassments of the times. A distinct recommendation is made by the president, and the subject is brought before congress for its decisive action. You say that the measure recommended by the president will not do; and tell me to vote against it. This instructs me negatively as to what I am not to do, but gives me no light whatever as to what I am to do, affirmatively. If you had only vouchsafed to have told what would answer the purpose and meet the exigency, you would have relieved the public as well as myself from great anxiety, and from the negative position in which you have placed me, of being obliged to prevent, (so far as my vote may go,) any thing being done to relieve the country. You say the patient is very sick, and will die, unless immediate relief be afforded. The president of the United States, who is admitted by all parties to possess talents of the highest order, as well as great experience, has given his opinion as to the appropriate remedy. You condemn it; declare it will kill the patient if applied; and yet you leave the patient in his suffering condition, and will not disclose the panacea that, in your opinion, would effect a cure. Now this, it seems to me, is precisely the condition in which you have placed your selves. I am aware that the leaders of the opposition, in other parts of the country, say that a bank of the United States would afford a remedy for existing evils; but this I am constrained to believe is not your opinion, from the following evidence. A proposition to instruct the Tennessee senators in congress to vote for a bank of the United States, was brought forward at an early period in your session. You failed to act upon it, and no such instructions were adopted. From this fact, but one inference can be drawn, which is, that you did not desire the establishment of such an institution. Therefore, if I were inclined to vote for a United States bank, as the remedy, (which I am not,) you have It cannot be supposed that you were waiting to thrown an obstacle in the way by your conduct, know what measures would be proposed, for you which implies that you would disapprove of such had the last message of the president early in De- a course; and more especially, as, according to my cember, in which he adhered to his former recom-recollection, there stands on the journals of former mendation. sessions of the general assembly or Tennessee, legislative condemnations of a national bank in almost every form; and these you have not rescinded or revoked. It is true, I have heard it suggested that the opinions and situation of my colleague in the senate prevented your acting as you otherwise would have done on the subject of a national bank, against which he stands committed. "Resolved, therefore, by the general assembly of the state of Tennessee, That our senators be in structed, and our representatives in congress be requested, to vote against any law which may pro pose to enforce the sub-treasury system of finance, As to the bill which might be brought forward recommended by the president of the United States by the finance committee in reference to the meain his message to congress of the 4th day of Sep-sure recommended in the message, you did not see tember, 1837." it before you adopted your resolutions, at least in Gentlemen: I received, last evening, the forego-one branch of the general assembly. ing instructions from the legislature of the state I, in part, have the honor to represent in the senate of the United States, and hasten to inform you of the course I shall feel it my duty to pursue. I have always been an advocate for the right of instruction, and holding that right as belonging to the immediate constituency of the representative; I also hold that it is the duty of the representative to obey; that is the state legislature possesses the right to instruct the senators from their state in congress, as to any particular measure, and the people possess the right to instruct their immediate representatives. You have instructed me to vote against a particular measure. To vote against it will involve no The bill reported by the finance committee, known as the sub-treasury bill, and which you could not have considered when you instructed me, differs in several important particulars from the bill of the special session, and, with proper modifications, I feel confident that some of you, as well as myself would pronounce it a measure of great public utility. Yet without knowing any of the provisions of the bill, or how it might be amended or changed in the senate, you have instructed me to vote against it. You thus see, that if I were disposed to depart from, or evade, the principles I have long professed, you have furnished as fair an opportunity as I could desire; because, in the first place, there I will give no credence to an intimation so disreputable to the majority of the legislature of my own state. It cannot be that members of the general assembly of Tennessee would forego what they deemed a great public benefit, to favor any individual whatever. They would indeed be to change the good old maxim of "measures not men,” into men, not measures, which I am sure, none of you will venture to avow, before those who have honored you with their confidence. I think, therefore, I may fairly conclude that you are not only opposed to the particular measures you instruct me to vote against, but also opposed to a |