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THE VETO ON THE FRENCH CLA1J BILL. 4 We lay before our (he aent into the Senate on Saturday night, retoi the bill providing for the payment of the Kren The Senate took the menaoge to-di (he vote elanding 27 for the 15 ogam (he bill woe rejected, not of the Sen rating for itOn original peonage through the Senate, toK itood (Several of the votl upon the bill then, whooe are not among and to-day:) Thone who voted in the affirmative are, Arcbvr, Aahley, llagby Harrow, Herri Clayton, John Clay Ion, Corwin, CnUemJ iMtu, llajton Uioene llouatun Huntington, j.ilniaon of Maryland, John.on of I. nit.una Miller, Ml heail, Pearea. Hurler, L'pUam, Waba Wealcott, and Woodbrldge Tboae who voted in the negative are, Allen, Atchiaon, Atherton, Benton. Br? I I ahlmera, Colquitt.

Dickinaon, la-gan. Haywood, Jeuneaa, Lewie MoOufflr, Mang l-rnnyDarker, Huak, Aemple, Hpaigkt, Turuey, i lulee We have no time to enter upon the queation to-day. We reeerve it for I other opportunity. The bill itaelf reats upon I rery and poval principle, that a gove ment, after having exhausted the of nation or of war, to obtain redress for commert injuries done to its citizens, and having failed to i tain it, is then bound to pay for these injuries self. But we have no time to go into this quest now.

The antiquity of these claims, and the refusal the government in all past time, and when so at to pay them, form a grave ground of doubt and ficully about them, as the President stales. Tt are of fifty years' standing; and, if valid, woi certainly have been acknowledged and paid bef this time. At the close of Mr. Jefferson's admit (ration the treasury contained a surplus far the amount of these claims: their merits were it lietter known than now: yet the statesmen of tl day entertained no idea of paying them. Sii that time the treasury haa seen a surplus of forty millions of dollars; yet no Congress woi apply even a fraction of that great sum to this Such refusals to pay these claims, under such means so abundant, and a knot edge so complete of thair merits or Hand for conclusive proof that, in the judgment our predecessors, so much better acquainted the subject than we can be, there was the most si ous ground for doubting the propriety of payi them.

The time and mode of the present assumption pay them form strong objections to doing so. 1 are engaged in a foreign war, which is already i haustiiig our from taxation, and comj ling ua to resort to loans and treasury notes. A know not the length or cost of this war; and to vert five millions of dollars from the service of I country, under these circumstances, to meet i claims of fifty years'standing, rejected by all adm titrations when the treasury was overflowing, a who knew them well, is to do an act which cam easily receive (he sanction of the public judgmen The mode of paying them is also a powerful i jcction, as the President truly suggests. The I mortgages the public lands to the relief of lb claimants. That is a purpose for which they wi never ceded to this government.

A mortgage them for the debts of the pledge their proceeds to those who enabled us to achit our in itself a noble appli tion of a national domain: but to give a lien up these lands to private individuals is certainly to part from the object of their cession to the Uni States, and to do an act which may be of evil cor qnence to the public interest in these lands, anil evil example in the case of other old cisimi doubtful merit. Such a pledge begets a large intei in the lands, which may injuriously interfere wholesome legislation in relation to their dispoi It may become an example for all other rejec claims. When it is seen that claims can be qn tered on the lands, which Congress will not pay of the treasury, it may become an inducement all rejected claims to try that course, and thus br areat incumbrance on the national domain and ttispoaal, besides introducing the fallacious idea tha old doubtful claim can be paid in land when it not be paid in money. The National Intelligencer has already raise clamor against this veto of the President. Ii pleased to characterize it as an act of intimates that it has been done in violation of "constitutional authority." If the lntelliger means that the President has no constitutional thority to veto for grounds (strong grounds) of pediency, than it is directly at issue with Gem Washington himself, who, on the 28th Februa 1797, sent in the veto to the House Representatives.

Gtntltmrn of the Hostst of Rtpresrnlalires: "Having maturely considered the bill to alter i amend an act entitled 'An act to ascertain and the military establishment of the United Stat which was presented to me on the twenty seci day of this month, I now return it to the House Representatives in which it originated, with objections. "First If the bill passes into a law, the two cc panies oflight dragoons will be, from that legally outof they will ci tinue in service; and for their services, dur this interval, hamely, from the time of lefal to time of actual discharge, it will not be lawful pay them, unless some future provision be made law. Though they may be discharged at the pit ure of Congress, in justice they ought to recr their pay, not only to the time of passing the li but at least to the time of their actual discharge. "Secondly. it will be inconvenient and injurii to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as si as notice of the law can be conveyed to them, i of the companies having been lately destined necessary and important service.

"Thirdly. The companies of light dragoops sist of one hundred and twenty-six non-comn sioned officers and privates, who are bound to se as dismounted dragoons when ordered so to They have received, in bounties, about two tho and dollars; one of them is completely equipp and above half of the non-commissioned officers i privates have yet to serve more than one-third the time of their enlistment; and besides, there in the course of the year, be a considerable defir.i ry in the complement of infantry intended to continued. Under these circumstances, to i charge the dragoons does not seem to comport economy. "Fourthly. It is generally agreed that some ca ry, either militia or regular, will be nccensary; a according to the best information I have been to obtain, it is my opinion that the latter will be nxpensive and more useful than the former, in erring peace between the frontier settlers and Indians; and, therefore, a part of the military esl lishment should consist of cavalry.

WASHINGTON. On taking the question, "That the House, reconsideration, do agree to pass the bill," veto of General Washington not withstand ir the bill was lost by a vote of 55 to thirds of the House not agreeing to pass same. We have no time to look up any precedents at present, to show that the exercise of veto on a strong case of expediency, is not any of usurpation or of "tyranny." But other precedi will unquestionably be found. The following is President Polk's veto. To the of tho United Stalei: I return to the Senate, in which it originated, bid entitled "An act to provide for the ascertairvm and satisfaction of claims of American citixens spoliations committed by the French prior to 31st day of July, 1801," which was presented to th with my objections to its becom In attempting to give the bill the careful exami I it requires, difficulties presented themselves the outset from the remoteness of the period to wl the claims belong, the complicated nature of VI transaction! in which they originated, and the pro 1 u.tclrd negotiations to which they led bstweai France end the United Stales.

The short time in ea- terveiling between the passage of the bill by Con ng i t'10 appro rching cloee of their sssaimi, a well the preaaure of other official dutiea, have no IC permitted me to extend iny examination of the aub jecl into ita minute deiaila. But in the conaideratioi lst which 1 have been able to give to it, I find objection! alt. of a grave character to ita proviaione. For the Benefaction of the claima provided for the bill, it la proposed to appropriate five milliom the of dollara. I can perceive no legal or equitabli ing ground upon which thia large appropriation cat reel.

A portion of tho claima has been niori than half a century before the government, ii ita executive or legialative departinenta, and al ot them had their origin in events which oc wn curred prior to the year 1800. Since 180K they havi Ian' been front lime to lima before Congreaa. No greats neceaaity or propriety exutta for providing for lliew claima at thia lime than haa exiaieil (or ueur ha I a century; during all which period thia queslionabli rneaaure haa never until now received the favorahh conaideration of Congreaa. it la scarcely probable leu- regarded na obligatory upon thi am, government, or constituting an equitable demand upoi tnd the treasury, that thuaa who were oontaniporaneuui with the events which gave rise to it, should no of long since have done justice to the claimants. Tin tri.

treasury haa often been in a condition to enable thi government to do so without inconvenience, if claima had been considered juat. Mr. Jetl'eraon rn- who was fully cognizant of the early dissensions be go. tween the government of the United States ant France, out of which the claima arose, in hie an nuat message in 1808 adverted to the Urge surplui then in the the treasury, and its "probable accumu it- Uuon," and inquired whether it anould lie "unpro ion duclive in the public vaulte," and yet these claima though then before Congreea, were not recognizee orpapi. Since that, the public debt of the revolu lion and of the war of 18111 has been extinguished de, and ut several pei lode since, the treasury has beet or in possession of large aurpluaaea over tlie demand.

upon it. In 11436 the surplus amounted hi man) millions of and for want of proper objects uld which apply it, it was directed by Congress to tx deposited with the States. During this extended course of time, embracing periods eminently favorable for satisfying all jus demands upon the government, the claims embracer isn in this bill met with no favor in Congreaa, beyont reports of committees, in one or the other branch These circumstances alone are calculated to raim lc? strong doubts in respect to these claims; especial!) ear as all the information necessary to a correct judg Laid ment concerning them, hae been long before the public. These doubts are strengthened in my ininc by the examination 1 have been enahied to give the transactions in which they originated, wl- The bill assumes that the United Stales have be uat come liable in these ancient transactions to make rep aralion to the claimants for injuries commuted bj France. Nothing was obtained for the claimants by negotiation; and the bill assumes that the govern iri- ment has become responsible to them for the aggres jn, sions of France.

The limited time allotted me, be fore your adjournment, precludes the possibility reiterating the facta and arguments by which i to in preceding Congresses, these claims yt been successfully resisted. The present is a peri od peculiarly unfavorable for the satisfaction claims of so large an amount, and, to aay the least tel- them, of so deubtful a character. There is no sur Ve plus in the treasury. A public debt of several mil jI liona of dollars has been created within the last feu years. We are engaged in a foreign war, uneertali in i's duration, and involving heavy expenditures old to prosecute which Congreaa lias, at its present sea jn.

sion, authorized a further loan. So that in effeci the government, should this bill become a law, bor rows money and increases the public debt to pay not these claims. It ia true, that by the provisions ol it. the bill, payment is directed to be made in land script instead of money, but the effect upon the treasury will be the same. The public lands conati1 lute one of the sources of public revenue, and il ese these claims be paid in land script, it will, from the erf date of its issue, to a great extent, cut off from the 0f treasury the annual income from the sales of the public lands; because payments for the lands sole by the government may be expected to be ive in script until it ia all redeemed.

If them ca. claims be just they ought to be paid it money, and not in anything made less val uable. The bill provides that they shall be paid ir land acript, whereby they are in effect to be a mortgagi ted upon the public lands in the new mortgage too, held in grwt part, if not wholly, by non resi dents of the States in which the lands lie, who ma; secure these lands to the amount of several million: i of acres, and then demand for them exorbitan est pricea from the citizens of the States who may de 'ith 10 purchase them for settlement, or they ma; keep them out of the market, and thus retard si. nrosnaritv arid irrowth of Ihe Stales in which the' ted are situated. Why this unusual mode of satiety lar- on the treasury haa been resorted to Uoea not appear.

It is not consistent with a ioum ou uublic policy. If it be done in this case, it may for done in all others. It would form a proeedenl fo ing the satisfaction of all other stale and questionabl claims in the same manner, and would be resorted to by all claimants, who, after auccessiv tan trials, shall fail to have tneir claims recognised an will paid in money by Congress. This bill proposes to appropriate five millions dollars, to be paid in land script, and provides "the 8 no claim or memorial shall be received by the com missioners" authorized by the act, "unless accom It named by a release or discharge of the United State aH from all other and further compensation than th claimant may be entitled to receive under the pre ICfr visions of this act." These claims are estimate au to amount to a much larger sum than five mil ex lions of dollars; and yet the claimant is required sral to all other compensatior and to accept his share of a fund which is know y- to beinadequate. ol If these claims be well founded, it would beunjuf to the claimants to repudiate any portion of them and the payment of the remaining sum could notb hereafter resisted.

This bill proposes to pay thes jnd claims, not in the currency known to the constttu fix tion, and not to their full amount. Passed, as this bill has been, near the close of th jnd session, and when many measures of importanc ol necessarily claim the attention of Congress, an my possibly without that full and deliberate considers tion which the fitrge sum it appropriates, and th existing condition of the treasury and of the coun nt, try demand, I deem it to be my duty to wilhhol an- my approval, that it msy hereafter undergo the ing vision of Congress. I have come to this conclusio the with regret. In interposing my objections to its be to coming a law, 1 am truly sensible that it should by an extreme esse which would make it the duty the Executive to withhold his approval of any hi ive passed by Congress upon the ground of its inex iw, pediency alone. Such a case I consider this to be.

JAMES K. POLK, ous Washington, August 8th, 1846. 9ne The nnval pension bill tens yesterday passed both houses. on- The Cherokee treaty was ratified by the Senate lis- with one small amendment, which will not, prob ably, prevent its finnlly going into effect. The bil us making an appropriation for its execution was los as it was entering the House of Representatives ind by the Speaker's hammer deacending at 12 o'clock ftjj' The appropriation of for carrying out th en' Pottawatomie treaty was embraced in the same bill be 111 dis- A SENTIMENT OK LORD JOIIN RUSSELL.

pregent prime minister of England addresse his constituents, on the 8th upon his ro-clection nd, told them plainly, in allusion to the corn-laws 'hie "that the legislature is incapable of directing the in dustry of the people." "It is not, he said, as some choose to represent il a new-fangled system, and a strange and fancifu theory; it is nothing more than saying, humbly an modestly, 'there are questions of legislation wliic we are competent to decide: but as to directing th on industry of the country, of diverting the markets the country, and of telling the people how they sha employ their labor, when they shall buy, and Si) what time they shall sell, that is a subject upo wo- which the legislature can do nothing; an the upon which the wisest House of Lords, or the mm virtuous House of Commons, that ever existed l0rc cannot legislate as well as the butcher, the farmei 'be anj artisan, in their own markets, and in thei ase own snts If this groat principle is suitable to so old a mor arcliy as England, it is still more adapted to th genius of a free, a young, an enterprising, and ir ventive people, owning such vast quantities of vt cant territory, and abounding with such a variet of climates, soils, and interests, lent for the Commander Wetmore, of the navy, cousin me Prosper M. Wetmore, the present navy agent ling this city, died yesterday morning. Command) Wetmore was ftfty years of age; and for two sun ins- mere, when the North Carolina 74 receiving shi i ip was anchored off the Battery, was her executive lich deer. He was a man much reepecteu by his brothi the officers and Y. 7Wj, 113.

9 Since our late erucle ou Mr. Yancey, of Alabama, our attention has been called to to the voters of Congressional district, from which he haa juat returned into private life. We regret to eee the he haa thrown out upon the democracy i of the west and the north. It is impossible that we can preserve the union of our party, by which I alone we succeeded in 1844, arid have lately carried out the great reforms which our demanded, ifthe democrats do not culuvate a more forbearing and conciliatory spirit towards each other. There itiay be shades and diversities of opinion among us; but in spite of these differences, we united and triumphed in so it must be again.

What, though, even the majority of the democracy of Pennsylvania may differ with the south upon the tariff; Yet, upon that question, we may approach nearer together if we cultivate the proper feeling for each other. Upon other great party questions Pennsylvania is truly democratic. Some of our western brethren may be mote latitudinarian than others are about internal the tariff, and on all other great queauona of principle, they are ae orthodox aa the republicans of Alabama themselves. What sounder democrats are there in the Union than the democratic repreaentauvee of Maine and New Hampshire Scan the representative corps of New York, and we find these sterling republicans as sound, and as enlightened as the repreaentauvee of any portion in the Union. It is, in a word, by practising the came conciliation, "harmony, concession, ami union," which concentrated all our exertions in 1844, that we are to preserve our power, and exercise it wiaely, in 1846.

There is one other poaiuoii of Mr. Yancey 'a letter, to which we beg leave respectfully to advert. "If principle is dearer than mere party association, we will never again meet in a common democratic convention, a large body of men, who have vigorously opposed ue on principle." Does Mr. Yancey mean to condemn, perhaps denounce, another "democratic convention" fbr the selection of democratic candidates for the two high est offices in the republic? We shoultl differ with Mr. Yancey with great regret, but we do hesitate to repeat what we hare so often said in this pa- i per and elee where.

We hare to chooae between a 1 previous nomination by the delegates of the demo- cratic party, and a subsequent election by the peo- pie themselves, awl an election by Congress, where the States are all brought to the same standard, where the executive and legislative powers become united, and where the choice depends ao much upon the management and intrigue of the scene. We have had two examples of such an election, and J. neither of these is calculated to make converts to the mode. In the original prospectus to our paper, we remarked that it was in this way (of selection by a convention) that James K. Polk has been called ftrom his retirement; and such is the example which the people will hereafter imitate, if the prea- ent administration ahall be crowned with the bene- 1 flla which every good man wishes, and which every honest patriot will attempt to accomplish.

In any event, we will seek to make this moral lesson effec- live." And now who can see the course of this ad- I pledges which it has maintained? the principlea which it has carried glorious aession of Congress which terminated only not ask himself, "In what belter way can we select our candidates so long as the constitution remains what it is?" When such fruits come from i a convention of the delegates of the whole republican party, as assembled in Baltimore in 1844, are 1 we to throw that mode of selection aside, and resort to the bitter experiment of an election by Con- I gress? The whig press of New Orleans is very bitter in its attacks upon the War office, in consequence of the return of the volunteers of Louisiana and Alabama from Gen. Taylor's camp. We regret that the crowded slate of our columns does nut permit us to publish this evening a long and satisfactory expose of the case but the whole article, accompanied by the necessary documents, will run to four or five columns We nli.ill lulhliah if night. The Secretary has no right to change the lawn of the land. These volunteers were called out under the former act of Congress specifying three months as the term of service.

By what authority it had he the right to extend the service to six months? The act of May last specifies twelve months as the term during the war. He ofTered to continue them i- upon those terms. We trust the poople of Louisiana and Alabama will do the Secretary the justice to suspend their opinions until they see the docuorients which explain his course. Major Howard and Lieutenant May have re0 turned to St. Louis from an excursion to give warni.

ing the Americans in New Mexico of the exist" ence of hostilities. lt "The only regular troops in New Mexico are a body of men Hlationed at Santa Fe. They have c' six pieces of artillery. The report that Urrea was marching in that direction, at the head of a large body of troops, seems to have been premature. "Captain Moore and party were met at the Upper Arkansas crossing; Captains Summers and Cook on the Arkansas near Bent's Port, General Keard uey at Pawnee Fork, and Major Swords guarding provisions at Little Arkansas.

Gencial Kearney expected to rendezvous his forces at Fort William about the 1st of August." TO THE EDITOR OE THE UNION. In your paper of Wednesday evening, I observed the following passage in the report of a speech delivered in the Senate nn the 4lh by the honorable Mr. Benton: it "And here I would sny, these translations are about such as would be expected from the translator of Spanish for the Daily so far as Mexican newspapers and despatches are concerned, would be amusing, If it were not for the melancholy reflection that they lead to national exasperation and war." I have nothing to do with the translations to which Mr. Benton specifically refers, and which he quotes; but having furnished, I believe, the greater part of the translations for the "Daily Union" from 1 Mexican nowapapers, I am somewhat allocked at 1 this sudden accusation from so elevated a quarter, 1 of having made not only ridiculous blunders in 1 translations, but such blunders as have the melan. choly result of leading to "national exasperation and war." Feeling deeply anxious to relieve myself from the imputation of having been in any manner the cause, or one nf the causes, of the pending war with Mexico, I addressed a respectful letter to Mr.

Benton, in which I said: "As I am sure that you would not de- I liborately commit an act of injustice, I am induced to request you to designate particularly some trnns- latino, or portion of a translation for the i- which has struck you as being badly if your memory will serve, the worst speci men wnicn you may nave encounicreu Thia request Mr. Benton declined to comply with 'J for want of time, I must, therefore, ask your permission to prefer the same request to him publicly, through the col- utnns of your paper. It would be a "melancholy 'i reflection" that a man in Mr. Benton's elevated po" sition should prefer a charge of this kind, involving 1 the reputation, and for aught he knows, the means 1 Of livelihood of an humble individual, without being prepared to furnish a particle of testimony in j' support of it. If he cannot substantiate the charge, he is hound in honor to retract it as publicly as he made it.

lr Q. S. Washington, Aug. 7, 1846. We think it a simple act of justice to our courteous translator, who has been obliging enough to serve us, freely and without say that he was recommended to us, by the head of one of the departments, as a man of decided talent, and intimately acquainted with the Spanish language.

We 0 must add that he is not attached to the State ment. i- A NY PERSON wanting a Coachman or a Body Servant in this city, or to travel in t- any part of the country, may hear of one by ing at the Union Office. He is well recommended. Aug. My this Evening's Moullivru Mull I'lita ths N.

Picayune, lit iiut. THE LATEST FROM THE ARMY ARRIVAL Of rnt NKW tuRK The steamship New York, Capl. Phillips, arrived in the course of (he forenoon yesterday from Brazos Santiago end Cjalveatun, having left the former place on the 99lh, and the latter on thy 30th ultimo. Among the passengers ou the New York were Col. Morgan, Captain Holllou, and Lieuten snt Alvord, of the United Stales army, Col.

Marks, Til Adjl. Hunter, Lieutenant Harris, of the Andrew Hool Jackson regiment, Louisiana volunteers, Col. Da- pere km, Major McCall, Captains Fuwles and Clark, 15 Lieut. Mace, of Dakln's regiment, and Colonel Sh Walion, Lieut. Col.

Forno, Major Breedlove, and Th Dr Wilson, of the Washington. can ti Tha New York, on the 31st when 90 miles hut from IS. W. Pass, passed the ship Shaiitiuga from reiatl Brazos Santiago to this port with valunteers. of a We learn that Mr.

Lumaden and hia parly rsach- iru Ed Point Isabel on Friday, the 94th and the f'actu next day proceeded to Matamorae. It was thought at a hat tbey would join one of the companies of mount- quest sd rangers. Fri The American Flag, of the 94th ult, has the lol- what lowing paragraphs: Th A gentleman arrived in town yesterday from Moo- are direct, and in remarkable short nine, pace- fx nig through Candala, Tlaacala, Wills Allaraa, Sabt- las, Mier, Cainargo, and Reyuoaa, and sialas that Conn Everything was perfectly quiet on the route, and chain that the people are expecting the approach of our The irmy He learned on the rued that there had been no furihflr irnvftl of intfiui al Munlerav At had been received stating hat Paredea had arrived at Sen Luia Potou et the teed of 9,000 men, but having received despatchee, expreaa, countermarched bis command, and pro ceded to retrace hie steps to the city of Mexico. rhe reason of sudden about face is only to be iltributed tosoiue pronunciammle at the capilol. wbicl A new company been formed (or the protac- ilan of lite country bordering on the Nueces They main cave here lo-roorruw, or next day, for Corpus Cbriati.

A large portion of the men comprising this have ximpany were attached to Cant. Bell's corps of thi 'Corpus Chrisli Hangers," lately disbanded, and are to their old cruising ground to hold in have thee It the Camanche Indians and marauding Mexi- ana. The following officers have been chosen by mot? he company: M. Cray, captain; Dewitl Lyone, ward lat lieutenant; John Coatloman, 2d lieutenant; W. to lea Bayer, orderly Sergeant.

A good company and veil officered. have An officer who arrived here yesterday, from the wmfv rpper encampment, eiatee that he saw tha body of gutsh i murdered man about ihrea mi lea from here on (he bono oad. He could not get hia horae nesr enough to ixamine the corpse cloeely, but from what he could htee, he was of opinion the deceased had been a non- i 4' loinmiaaioned officer. We have more than once mine tautioned people against "knocking about" unarm- d. Volunteers and aojournere are daily aeen far inen rum town, and the camp, unarmed, and it is matter euaei if wonder that more are not killed.

diapu It waa reported in town yesterday, that tome cuma 1,000 twelve monlha' volunteers reached the Point 101 in Wednesday. ularlj LATER FROM TEXAS. in yu By the arrival of the schooner Native, we have Ho eceived Qalveston papers to (ha 95th ult. We lesrn from the Civilian and the News, that Jr. Nilea P.

Smith, who arrived at Qalveston from he 8abine on Wednesday, the 23d reported Mi hat the beach aome forty miles east of Qalveston vaa strewn with the fragments of an upper cabin brief iteamer which had probably been wrecked or foun- lered at sea somewhere in the vicinity of the mouth have if the Sabine. Most of the pieces which were ilrewn along the beach were parts of her upper cab- to doors, shutters, together with tables, chairs, a(n ind other articles of furniture. rX)nd happ The following paragraphs are from the New Or- isfacl eans Courier of the instant: I coli Governor Henderson waa lying dangerously ill coun it Matamoras at the latest dales; very little hope, tance any, waa entertained of hia recovery. asais We are indebted to a gentleman direct from Ca- peaei nargo for tha fallowing infsrmation: natio He informs us that the rancheroa are all back, or inter getting back, to their as fast as possible, and "li going to work on their ranchos again, naving aban- was doned the idea of conquering the United Sutea, and lions ubjecting it to their own will. few If snch is the case Canales and Carrabajal must rious have hut few troops under their command; report to th ays they have none, as their forces were made up deali entirely of rancheroa.

Rumor says that there are not, at this time, in Monterey, more than one thou- aripl and or fifteen hundied men, but that they ut forli- faith fying it as fast ed sa It is understood that it ia the intention of the com- wav? mending general to remove together taine with the 3d and 4th regiments, to Camargo by first with opportunity. dietii We understand that the command of MaLimoras, (viz: after the departure of the will be commuted gove to the charge of Major Clark; his command mil- attril itary governor will be sustained by four companies "I of artillery, with a sufficiency of volunteers to temp maintain his position. of tr THE SMITHSONIAN BILL. One of the bills rescued and passed on the last ifyjn day, and almost in the last hour of the session tion, closed, was the bill "to establish the Smithsonian juste Institution." This was a most commendable act; ernm and all who agree with us in thinking that the na- noth tional faith and honor were pledged to the execution ture of the trust confided to the United States by the that munificent bequest of Mr. Smithson, will be grati- rema fied to learn that this long-delayed measure has at 1783 last received the sanction of Congress.

peop The managers, or regents, as they are called, a c0, created by the bill to carry it into effect, consist of fifteen ex officio, three senators, ap- pointed by the President of the Senate, three mem- and i bers of the House of Representatives, appointed by inter the Speaker of the House, and six citizens at large, any (two of them to lie residents of Washington and SRR members of the National Institute,) to be appointed may by joint resolution of the two houses. greet These appointments having been made, according a to the several modes presoribed, are as fbllows, desti (with the exception of the three senators:) and The Board of Regents. els, i The Vice President of the United States. aR The Chief Justice of the United States. The Mayor of the city of Washington.

could not learn what senators were appoint- ed by the Prerident of that Ti Representative Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, befot Representative William J. Hough, of New 20th, York. ties Representative Henry W. Hilliard, of Ala- auga bama. conti Clio ate, of Massachusetts.

is no Uidron Haivley, of Now York. be re Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania. foreij William C. Piif.ston, of South Carolina. to un Alexander Dallas Uaciie, of Washington.

year: JoiF.ru Q. Totten, do. that i The regents nre required by the. law to meet in I the city Washington on the first Monday in Sep- 1 tember next, to enter on the duties of their appoint- Intelligencer. P' So MARRIED, On Sunday, the 9th instant, by the Rev.

Mr. rnnl: Morgan, Mr. LEVI A. HALL to Miss SARAH ELLEN PADGETT, all of this city. Un luesaay, tne 4tn instant, in norinampion July, Virginia, by the Rev.

Mr. Ufpord, Lieut, T. L. RINGGOLD, United States army, to Mian 3USAN BROWN, only daughter of the late Hon- 'vg A. P.

Upshur. All thin their WK aell during the present order the 3 to clone up aa many eut piecea aapoaaible? office give the ladies, and our customers generally, the tione greatest bargains they have seen, in the following We have 5,000 yarda needle-wrought laces and edgings, from 4 to 371 cents per for is others sell for double the money. English, French, tities ind German threail laces and edgings, from cents a(jva upwards; 8,000 yards quillings and inserings, from 3 cents up to 10; 400 pieces machine bobbin edgings, "Pi a new and good article for washing; 4(H) piecea real ar)no linen thread bobbin lace, all new patterns, and very cheap; 10,000 yarda bonnet and cap ribands, from 1 no cent upwards; broken boxes of kid and silk gloves Meat at less than cost. cban We have the Inrgeat and cheapest assortment of French embroideries (in every style) to be found this side of New York. These embroideries are of have the latest styles and of the moat approved patterns.

an(j We tiave also a new lot of the beat sewing silk at 1 i cent a skein. Also pina, at 3, 4, and 5 cents a pa- whjc per, worth double the hundreds of other we intend to close out this week; amo, and shall, if low prices will do it. At the old stand, (New York cheap (see store,) between 10th and 1 )th streets, Pennsylvania avenue. "lbl BRAGDON A TWOMBLY. August CARPETING?) will be sold low.

D. CLAGETT CO. TfrT July 31. in a Kroiu the Kljirvu Augyit IP, Arrival of tins Great Western HUE LA VP LATAH KHOM Kl UUfl. le Great Weatern wan announced aa "off the at a quarter to 6 thie morning, and her pa- were delivered at 7 a.

making the paaaage moi and haa a large liat of passengers? in all 138. pro ic cotton market, and the markeia tor Amen- iroduce generally, are without much change, an unaeuled alale, on account of the doubt in pra ou to the new auger duiiea, which are not aure jlr, uajorily in the Houae ofCommona. iu haa declined, and doaed dull, in the manuring districts, all waa rather dull, and buaineaa aland, watuug the movement upon the augar ''le inn the continent, there la nothing of inlereat ever. overland mail had arrived, but the advicee Mr ot of much importance. wel la OaauoM labora of Mr.

Mo have elieitad from the Liverpool Chamber of merce a very high teaUiuoinal of the value mer- have of hia aervioae in aeiiling thia qacetion. Liverpool Chamber of Commerce took the adige of the inlmater'a viait to Liverpool to pre- ur ha following addreaa ou Monday, the 2Uth hit excellency t.ruu minuter pUni 1 rtUuiry from the UnlUU of to Great Ue Uuin. ln8 The American Chamber of Commerce of 'pool deaire to express to you the high aenae li they enterunn of the value and importance of eye ixertiona which you have recently made for laming friendly relations between Great Britain he United fttatra. The of Liverpool 1 read with (real pleasure, and heartily concur opinion which Lord Aberdeen, in place in anient, expressed of the services which you rendered to your own country and to oura. Al- the conaciousneu of having labored to pro- the welfare of mankind, la in itaelf a great re- it cannot fad to afford you additional pleasure rn that thoae who have anxiouely watched the eae of the negnustiona, now happily terminated duly appreciated the patience, ability, and tr by which your conduct haa been dielin- led.

Whilat you have carefully maintained the of the United Stales, you hive largely conted to aave both nationa from the of war jj high eat renown belongs to such and their ralue will not be meaaured by the eucceeaful tar- eye lion of the Oregon question alone. 'he example which haa been act by the atatea- ni) of two great nationa thua nettling by die- on and in a apirit of moderation and juatice, tea of long atanding, and, from paculiar rir- lances, of the graveat political importance, la rstimable value to the world. Entertaining for character the moat aincere reapect, and partic- for thia portion of it which we have obiwrved 9 ur inlercouree with our own government, we roil to accept the expreaaion of our high ea- and our beat wiahea for your continued and happineaa. 90th July, 1846 r. Mr Lane replied aa ilthough 1 muat ask you to be content with a acknowledgment of the address you have kind- to me, and of the flattering estimate you been pleased to place upon the it was power to render during the recent negotiations nich you refer, I beg you to be assured that I lot the less grateful (or your approbation of my uct.

To no one can the result which has so ily crowned these negotiations give greaier sat- A Lion than it has done to roe. 1 never doubted that not render a more patriotic service to my own try, or one more acceptable or of greater impor- T7 i to the world at large, than by contributing any lance in my power towards the preservation of 1 al 9, upon honorable terms, between two kindred na, whose prosperity I believe to be intimately woven with each other. it be not a reproach, I have always thought it to be lamented that the peace of two such na- with so many motives to encourage and so disturb it, should have been so often and ae- ily threatened by causes which, when subjected management of calm reason and honorable ng, would immediately disappear. Ipon the present occasion, while I must bear testimony to the amicable policy and good of my own government, it affords me unfeign- cr0, Ilialartinn In mnfeAa ihaat In ainoara ttn. iring desire of peace, if to honorably main- and to the manly, straightforward temper which the negotiations were conducted by the iguiahed minister to whom you have referred, Lord Aberdeen,) on thcpart of her Majesty's rnment, is the result to be in no small degree aha juted.

late agree with you, gentlemen, in thinking that the 'we or manifested by both nations in the settlement go? le question, ought to be an example to the 1 at large, and may I not add, that it affords a 4 guaranty of the cordial amity by which our 1 intercourse will be distinguished? It is gratg to reflect that the terms upon which the ques- 2 at one time apparently so critical, has been ad- 1 have been generally satisfactory to the gov- 10 tents and the people of both countries, leaving ing behind to disturb the harmony of our fu- relations. It is also worthy of congratulation, by the convention recently concluded, the only lining question growing out of the treaty of has been finally settled, and that hereafter our le, though of separate nations, acknowledging Ti mmon origin and history, speaking the same lage, alike boasting constitutional liberty, regu- sha by law, and intimately associated in commerce son die arts, may start forward in a new career of the national intercourse, without apprehension from ancient cause of prejudice or ill will. No one, han ure you, more fervently hopes that the future Tit remain free from any fresh cause of disa- 1 nent. njn large iron built ship, called the Sarah Sands, ned to run between Liverpool and New York, will sail in Sands, Turner line of pack- ind to be propelled by eteam, as an auxiliary, ell as by sail, was to be launched at Liverpool -wle 8th instant. She has been bu It for Captain 3.

Thompson, long the commander of the hen ie new sugar John Russel laid stre the House of Commons, on Tuesday, the hog the ministerial proposition relative to the du 5 be hereafter imposed on the importation of r. The duly on colonial sugar of 14s. is to nue as heretofore. The duty of 23s. which charged on foreign free-labor sugar, is now to dured to ills and that is to apply equally to all sugars, without distinction ofgrowlhj and it is cael dergo a gradual reduction every year, for five 9, and then be imported at the aame duty as growth.

Not only ia this equalize- proposed, hut the rate of duty on which all forsugars are to he admitted is at once reduced to -g with a provision for the gradual extinction of I otection on the frth of July, 1851. o(oar duties the House of Commons, Caj light, the chancellor of the exchequer moved holi the house go into committee on the bill for qua nuing the present sugar duties, which was ord when Lord George Bentinck moved to alter xtenaton of the bill from September, 1846, to 1847, upon which the committee divided? Lord G. Bentinck's amendment 38 ngt it 121 ai -----ic Iaat remnant of the league? offices in Fleet street, closed on Oth instant, with the announcement that rheir is, furniture, would be subject to the aucer's hammer on the 38th. man reported failure of the potato in Ireland, haa again produced a great demand Ilia cheap and nutritious grain. Large qoan- 6 were sold in Liverpool yesterday at a alight sun nee in price.

It is still, however, the cheapest $5U le of food that can be purchased. and in Cobdrn are happy to bea unce that the national tribute to this gifted and ted gentleman, progresses most satisfactorily; amounts to nearly The house of irs. Brown, Shipley A. American mer- Pli ta, at Liverpool, we find, heads the list by a eription of 45,000. ulwats in Knoland British Parliament granted a MR for amalgamating the London Birmingham, the Birmingham and Liverpool, ihe Liverpool into one concern, will henceforth he called the "Great Northern way." The receipts of this concern already "ar lint to about $295,000 weekly.

ant ate or the the sailing of the Brnia the weather has been variable. There Mr i been numerous showers of rain, and although itmoephere haa been cool, ws believe it haa not unfavorable to the ripening of the crops, which to lis neighborhood well and promise to be ger abundant. We are sorry to say the potato dis- has made its appearance to an alarming extent the stater kingdom Mention is made in tin male, front nearly every tilslrtct of Ireland, lite fiouto rot hae apfieured in (his year's crop, am ny of them picas the most gloomy apprchenns of lite result. The county of Cork would spir to he peculiarly visited with this scourge. A respondent of the Cork Keporter says: "Tin sto crop is entirely destroyed in Crookhsven I around for miles.

The people are in an abeo I state of bewilderment. The blast has been rly univereal; and such is the effect, that ka and stems thus blasted break ofl' quite rotten and the young potatoes, where found, ar? tly black. All the change has taken place withhe last fortnight; until then everything seemed raising There are, we regret to say, coiu ints or the appearance of the disease in England the continent; but we trust that an all-wise vidence may avert the further spread of such disaster. Ireland. 'he new government have now nearly completed ir appointments in this country.

The law ntfi as enumerated in our paper of the lUlli, have sred upon their duties. The death of Mr. Goold, tier in chancery, has resulted the promotion ol Hatchell, (A. C. This learned gentleman is I spoken of by sll parlies.

'he schism alluded to in our laat eull appears to vail amoug the members of the repeal aasocia i. The young Ireland parly, who are more ensiaalic as to the attaining of repeal, are at logheads with the views propounded by the liberaand the great majority of the association. I'rauce. of the chief topics which now engage the niton of the press is the result of the elections. The ODUOaition ai-rin rnnftrfant nf lority in the capital, and the aame proapect exin all the large citiea; at Rouen, at Bordeaux, Toulouae, at Marseilles, at Lillie, and perhapa nt at Lyona, where the preaident of the Cham, Sauzel, haa regained chance of being retad.

But the ministry will have the advantage ill the amaller towns, where knowledge ia lined, political opinion active, and the eleci nuinaroua. The government are buay in iting a fresh promotion of functionariea from the prior to the commencement of new The lateat from 1 ua to the concluaion that the opposition haa no nee of improving ita position The Revuae dee though a atauch aupporter of and not without aotne appearance eaaon, that the danger the miniatry runs is thai laving too strong a party in the new legislature that the consequence will be that (he eabirelying on ita enormous strength, will venture measures which will render it unpopular in country and disgust the This, howr, is a of dnnger, which ia not very nung to a minister, and it is one which, we have doubt, M. Ouizot'a moderation and good sense I enable him to avoul. BY WM. MARSHALL, Auctioneer.

RE, Howls, Tobacco, Cigars, Thursday morning, 13th insuuit, at 'dock, I shall sell in front of my atore a geaeral ortment of furniture, dahogany solas, sideboards, bureaus darble top centre and pier tables 'ane and wood seat chatra, rocking ligh and low post bedsteads 'eather beds, matreaaea, and bedding Cherry dining and breakfast tables Vaahatands and wardrobes 'locks, looking glasses, and carpets Ihovel and tonga, hardware, Ac. Cnives and forks, plated Ac. klao, plain and cut glass ware 'htna, crockery, Ac. WM. MARSHALL, Lug.

Auctioneer. SY WM. MARSHALL, Auctioneer. URN ITU RE, Tobacco, Cigars, Hoota, Saturday, 15(h instant, at 3 o'clock, tall sell in front of my store? 5 boxes pound lump (honey dew) tobacco 4 do email plug 2000 Imported regalia cigars 4 cases men's aewed and pegged boots, llso, a general assortment of furniture, viz: 'ane and wood seat chairs, bedsleads, matreaaea I dahogany aofaa, sideboards and bureaus clocks, carpels, and wardrobea Vaahstanda, toilet sets, atair carpets, Ac. Vith a variety of plain and cut glaaa-ware, ckery, Ac.

WM. MARSHALL, tug. Auctioneer. By A. GREEN, Auctioneer.

1IGARS. Cavendish Tobacco, at Thnradnv the I3ih imunt I II sell, at 4 o'clock p. at the tobacconist store ly closed, a few doors west of Jackson Hall, been 3d and 4J streets, Pennsylvania avenue, a lot of cigars and chewing tobacco, viz: ,000 fine Havana pressed cigars ,000 canones do ,000 fine Venus regalia do 500 cazadores do 1,500 do do ,500 fine imperial regalia do ,000 other cigars, not necessary to enumerate. I good lot of cavendish and other tobacco. Llao, an Indian image and stand.

Terms cash. A. GREEN, Lugust Auctioneer. By A. Green, Auctioneer.

ALU ABLE brick house and lot at Friday, the 14th instant, I II sell on the premises, at o'clock, p. handle and convenient three-story brick house, with lot, situated at the corner of 6th street west and street north. Persons wishing to purchase a idsome residence, will do well to attend the sale, le indisputable. cash; balance in three, six, and twelve months, for notes bearing interest. A.

GREEN, lugust Auctioneer. By A. Green, Auctioneer. TEW FURNITURE at I Thursday, the 13th instant, I shall sell, at 11 ock, a. at the room over Messrs.

Brown A att's dry goods store, on 7th street, between I et and New York avenue, a good lot of new maany furniture, such as iahogany spring-seat sofas, bureaus, Do workstands, brass-work clocks, lining and breakfast tables; Vushstands and washsinke; lane-seat chairs, arm and riurae rockers. ther articles not necessary to enumerate. Terms It. A. GREEN, lugust Auctioneer.

By II. ROMANS, Auctioneer. roUSKHOLD Furniture at On Friday next, 14th at ths residence Mr. John Underwood, New Jersey Avenue, litol Hill, will be sold at auction all his houaed and kitchen furniture, which is of the best ility, has Dcen well Kept, and is now in excellent er. There will he found, among other things Mahogany sideboard, sofa, and tables Set of dining-iables, book-case, lint-rack Mantel-glass, bronze, mantel, and ether lamps Eight-day clocks, brass and irons, fenders, shovels and tongs 2 Russia iron radiator stoves, cylinder stove and drum Venitian inside window-blinds, chairs '2 high-post carved mahogany bedsteads Low-post and trundle bedsteads, easy chair Mahogany bureau and chest of drawers Mahogany wnshstaud, poplar and pine clothes presses Cooking-stove, safe, patent washing machine 2 pickling casks, kitchen furniture generally, lale to commence at 10 o'clock.

Terms: All us of and under ty25, cash; over and under I a credit of 60 days; over a credit of two four months, for notes satisfactorily endorsed, ring interest. B. HOMAN8, Lug Auctioneer. easnre Excursion to Piney Point, Old Point, Norfolk, and Cape Henry. The steamer OSCEOLA will leave Washington for the above placee on urday next, the 15th at 9 o'clock, a.

I Alexandria at half-past 9, and arrive at Pmey int about 5 p. and at Old Point and Norfolk ly next morning. She will leave Norfolk again 7 o'clock a. for Old Point and Cape Henry, I return about 7 o'clock, p. leturning, the Oaceola will leave Norfolk on tnday at 5 p.

ami arrive at Waahington about m. next day. 'aaaage and fare to Piney Point and return, Old Point and Norfolk and return, for a itleman and lady, Vtueie. will be in attendance. JAMES MITCHELL, Captain.

TO THK FKOPLK The session of Congress, winch jua( terminated, wilt be long and remembered by all true republicans for the Iriumpliant success of many of their cheriahed prmciplea and meaaurea. While we heartily rejoice at the triumph of the prmciplea which it baa been our constant effort to advocate and defend, and from which no proeperily, no adversity, can awerve ut, we cannot be unmindful of the attitude in which we are placed by a recent vote of both houaea of Congress: allude to the contemplated withdrawal of their patronage from the newapaper preaa. To thia deciaimi we cheerfully bow, aeneible aa we are of the patriotic which have led to it. But we trust that this decision of Congreaa increases rather than dimmiahes our claim lo the support of a higher of the Ittople; and lo them we confidently appeal to aid ua, by their patronage, in sustaining at the seat of government a journal that la indelibly devoted lo their interests and the true interests of the country. It is known to every one, that the chief source of sustaining a newspaper is not the magnitude of its uuacription list, so much as the advertising patronage which may bestowed upon il.

In large commercial cities, indeed, the latter is usually the concomitant of the former, as it becomes the obvious interest of mercantile men to advertise in (hose papers which are the most extensively circulated. Washington, however, is differently situated. Deprived of the advertising patronage incident to a mercantile community, and burdened with peculiar and enormous expenses which are not elsewhere incurred, nothing but a very long liat'of subscribing patrone can austain a paper in uasfulness if, indeed, even in exietence. The proprietors of the "Union" have hitherto apared no pains, and no exriense, to make their paper worthy of the metropolis, and worthy of the support of that great parly under whose banner they are enlisted. In publishing the most full and ample debates of the two houses of Congreas, it is believed, ever before attempted on Ibis continent in a daily newspaper, they have secured the services of the best reporters 1 which the country afforded, but st the enormous cost or $15,000 per year.

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Clubs will be furnished with 5 copies of the Daily for $40 00 5 do SJemi-Weekly 30 00 10 do do 35 00 5 do Weekly 8 00 10 do do 15 00 30 do Congressional Register 10 00 The name of no person will be entered upon our books unless the payment of the subscription be made in advance. NEW TURNIP pounds new tut nip seed, comprising all the beat varieties, warranted fresh and genuine. To-day received for sale, in large or small quantities. Also, poisoned paper for killing flics, 13 cents a heet. Roach and bedbug bane, 37 cents per bottle.

J. F. CALLAN, corner of fi and 7th streets. August wna a in I received 25 (2,500 yards) super ingrain carpeting, of new designs and colors, which will be sold low. August 11 -3tif T).

CLAQETT A CO. FOR RKNT, and possession Immediately given, a comfortable brick dwelling-house, on between 3d and streets, recently occupied by Pishey Thompson, esq. Said house being near ihe churches, courts, centre market, renders it a deaiderable residence. Also, a brick dwelling-houae on Capitol Hill, near the residence of John H. Houston, ami recently in the occupancy of Mr.

Stuart, in the coast survey service. This house has connected with it a brick stable and carriage-housa, large yard, a well of good water therein, dry cellar, Ac. Terms for both houses reasonable. For the latter apply to Mr. Houston; or for either to JAMES LARNED, 13th street wast, for the owner.

August.