leave to introduce a joint resolution, proposing an | Lane, Del. Burwell, Shaw, Tracy, Ross, Jones, of amendment to the constitution, in relation to the Tenn. appointment of electors of president and vice president of the United States, and members of the house of representetives, [which was introduced by Mr. D. and passed the senate at the last session; and was introduced yesterday in the house of representatives by Mr. Smith, of North Carolina.]

On Post Office.-Messrs. Livermore, Culpepper,
Russ, Tompkins, Kinsley, Johnson, Gray.
On Public Expenditures.-Messrs. Simkins, Sio-
cumb, Rogers, Cobb, Adams, Ford, Montgomery,
On Revisal and Unfinished Business.-Messrs.
Morton, Butler, N. H. Ball.

November 22. Mr. Noble presented petitions from On Claims.-Messrs. Williams, N.C. Rich, McCoy, sundry citizens of the western states, purchasers of Samuel Moore, Hackley, Edwards, Con. Metcalf. public lands, praying that a law may be passed enab- On District of Columbia.-Messrs. Kent, Mercer, ling them to apply the payments already made to Neale, Swearingen, Smith, N. J. Meigs, McCulsuch portions of their entries as those payments lough. will cover, at two dollars an acre, agreeably to the On Private Land Claims.-Messrs. Campbell, ButJaw under which the entries were made, relinquish-ler, Lou. Robert Moore, Eddy, Pitcher, Jackson, ing the residue to the United States; and also allowing those persons who have purchased but one tract, the privilege of retaining it entire, with a reasonable extension of credit without interest, or otherwise relinquishing a part of it.

Mr. Thomas presented two petitions of the legislature of Missouri, praying of congress some legis. lative provisions for the relief of indigent actual settlers on the public land, particularly widows and orphans, by way of pre-emption rights, &c.

These petitions were severally read and referred to committees.

The resolutions heretofore submitted by Mr. Walker, of Alabama, and Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, respectively, relative to purchasers of public lands, were severally considered and agreed to. The senate adjourned.

HOUSE OE REPRESENTATIVES.

Friday, Nov. 17. The following members attend ed yesterday, viz. Messrs. Burton, Folger, Ried,

and Crawford.

After the presentation of petitionsMr. Gross, of N. Y. offered for consideration the following resolve:

Resolved, That the committee of ways and means be instructed to prepare and report to this house, as soon as may be, a list of all the expenditures, under their proper heads, authorised by the existing laws of the United States, with an opinion respect. ing the reduction, which, consistently with the public interest, may be made in each of them respectively.

At the suggestion of Mr. Gross it was laid upon the table.

Mr. Foot offered the following proposision, which lies on the table one day of course:

Resolved, That the following addition he made to the standing rules and orders of the house, viz: A committee of three members shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to examine all bills, anendments, resolutions, or motions, before they go out of possession of the house, and to make report that they are correctly engrossed, which report shall be entered on the journal.

And the house adjourned to Monday.

The following is a list of the standing and other committees, appointed by Mr. Speaker Taylor, pursuant to the orders of the house:

On Elections. Messrs. Trimble, Tarr, Tucker, S. C. Sloan, Clark, Hooks, Moore, Va.

On Public Lands.-Messrs. Anderson, Hendricks, Cooke, Bal. Smith, Stevens, Monell, Brush.

Crowell.

On Accounts.-Messrs. Smith, N. C. Bateman, Upham.

On Commerce.-Messrs. Newton, Tomlinson, Mallary, Nelson, Mass. Hill, Wendover, Abbott.

On the Judiciary.-Messrs. Sergeant, Beecher,
Robertson, Brevard, Lincoln, Tucker, Va. Plumer.
On Manufactures.-Messrs. Baldwin, Allen, N.Y.
Little, McLean, Ken. Parker, Mass. Kinsey, Fisher.
On Enrolled Bills.-Messrs. Darlington, Foot.
On Foreign Affairs.-Messrs. Lowndes, Randolph,
Moseley, Nelson, of Va. Dickinson, Reid, Archer,
of Md.

On Military Affairs.-Messrs. A. Smyth, Van
Rensselaer, Cocke, Cushman, Burton, R. Moore,

Russ.

On Naval Affairs.-Messrs. Barbour, Fuller, Warfield, Case, Hall, of N. Carolina, Dennison, Crawford.

On the Slave Trade.-Messrs. Hemphill, Mercer, Strong, N. Y. Edwards, Penn. Rogers, McCreary, Folger.

On Indian Affairs.-Messrs. Southard, Bayly, Wallace, Walker, Williams, of Va. Baker, Gross, of Penn.

On the Militia.-Messrs. Cannon, Gross, of N. Y. Strong, of Vt. Patterson, Sawyer, Overstreet, Hostetter.

On Roads and Canals.-Messrs. Storrs, Crafts, Marchand, Edwards, of N. C. Street, Montgomery, Hendricks.

On the Public Buildings-Messrs. Wood, Kendall, Alexander, Hall, Murray, Crafts, Buffum.

On Revolutionary Pensions.-Messrs. Bloomfield, Edwards, of N. C. Dewitt, Hibshman, Hazard, Fay, Alexander.

On the Constitution of Missouri-Messrs.Lowndes, Sergeant, Smith, of Md.

Monday, Nov. 20. The following members, in addition to those already noticed, attended this day: Messrs. Parker, Floyd, Bryan, and Allen.

Mr. Solomon Sibley, elected a delegate from Michigan, vice Mr. Woodbridge, resigned, appeared, was qualified and took his seat.

Mr. Eddy, of Rhode Island, offered for consideration the following resolution:

Resolved, That the act entitled, “An act allowing compensation to the members of the senate, members of the house of representatives of the United States, and to the delegates of the territories, and repealing all other laws on the subject," passed the first session of the fifteenth congress, ought to be so altered and amended that the compensation to the members and delegates aforesaid, shall hereatter be six dollars for each day's attendance, and six dollars for every twenty miles' travel, instead of the compensation now allowed by said act, and that it be referred to a committee to prepare and report On Ways and Means.—Messrs. Smith, Md. Me-a bill for altering and amending said act accordingly.

On Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.-Messrs. Rhea, Maclay, Brown, Allen, Mass. Linn, Street, Jones, Va.

On Agriculture.-Messrs. Forrest, Claggett, Meech, Richmond, Ringgold, Garnett, Earle.

'The house, 61 to 58, refused to consider the pre- | be altered until a subsequent census shall have been ceding resolution at this time. taken, and an apportionment of representatives under it shall have been made."

Mr. Storrs submitted several resolutions as to the rules of the house, which were laid over, of course, one day.

Mr. Linn, of New-Jersey, submitted for consideration the following resolution:

The resolution was twice read, and referred to a committee of the whole on the state of the union. The consideration of a report of a committee, made at the last session, having been called for, the Resolved, That the committee of ways and means several orders of the day (being the unfinished bube directed to enquire into the expediency of re-siness of last session, which, according to the rule, ducing the compensation allowed to members of congress to six dollars per day, and a proportional reduction for travelling to and from the seat of government; and also of reducing the pay of all the officers of government that has been increased since the year 1809, to what it was at or before that ..period.

After some remarks from Messrs. Linn, Cobb, and Smith, of Md. the resolution was ordered to lie on the table, Mr. L. assenting.

revives this day) were, on motion of Mr. Storrs, postponed until to-morrow, to give an opportunity for the consideration of the motion of Mr. S. to amend the rules of the house.

And the house adjourned.

Tuesday, Nov. 21. Mr. Anderson, form the committee on public lands, made an unfavorable report on the memorial of the legislative council of Arkansas, praying that a surveyor general be authorised and appointed for that territory; .which

Mr. Cocke, of Tennessee, submitted for consi-report was read and concurred in. deration the following resolution:

The bill from the senate to alter the terms for holding the district courts of Alabama, was twice

Resolved, That the committee on the military establishment be instructed to enquire into the ex-read and referred. pediency of reducing the military peace establishment of the United States.

And the resolution was agreed to, without debate or division.

Mr. Mallary submitted the following resolution for consideration:

Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested to lay before this house information Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, submitted for con- respecting the progress made by the commissionsideration a joint resolution. In doing so, he ex-ers under the treaty of Ghent, in establishing the pressed his earnest hope that, as a similar resolution had passed the senate at the last session, but not been acted upon in this house for want of time, it would have an early consideration at this session, and receive that approbation from the house which he thought it merited. The following is a copy of the resolve moved by Mr. Smith:

boundary line between the United States and the Canadas; whether any part of the boundary line is settled; whether the commissioners of the United States and Great Britain have met during the present year; and how much money has been drawn from the treasury, for the purpose aforesaid; and how much each commissioner, agent, or any person Resolved by the senate and house of representatives on their account, has drawn; the names of each perof the United States of America, in congress assem-son employed by the said commissioners and agents, bled, two thirds of both houses concurring, That in their respective sections; the purposes for which the following amendment to the constitution of the each person was employed, the length of time emUnited States be proposed to the legislatures of the ployed, and the compensation each person has reseveral states, which, when ratified by the legisla-ceived for his service. A statement of all the items tures of three fourths of the states, shall be valid, to of account rendered by said commissioners and all intents and purposes, as part of the said consti-agents, and the particular purposes for which the moneys drawn by them have been expended; the "That, for the purpose of choosing representa-amount of compensation each commissioner and tives in the congress of the United States, each agent has received since his appointment; and state shall, by its legislature, be divided into a num-whether any money has been allowed to, or retainber of districts, equal to the number of represen-ed by, said commissioners and agents, except the tatives to which such state may be entitled; the sum of $4444 44 cents per annum.

tution:

districts shall be formed of contiguous territory, The resolution was agreed to nem. con, and a and contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number committee was appointed to present it to the preof persons entitled by the constitution to be represident. sented, or of persons qualified to vote for members

On motion of Mr. Abbot, it was

providing that just compensation shall be made for the same: Also, of prescribing the manner in which soldiers may be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner in time of war.

of the most numerous branch of the state legisla- Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary ture. In each district the persons qualified to vote be instructed to enquire into the expediency of shall choose one representative. That, for the pur-passing a law defining under what circumstances, pose of choosing electors of president and vice pre-and by what means, private property may be taken sident of the United States, the persons qualified for public use, under the emergency of war, and to vote for representatives in each district, shall choose one elector. The two additional electors, to which each state is entitled, shall be appointed in such manner as the legislature thereof may direet. The electors, when convened at the time and place prescribed by law, for the purpose of voting for president and vice president of the United States shall have power, in case any of them shall fail to attend, to choose an elector or electors in place of him or them so failing to attend. The division of states into districts, as hereby provided for, shall take place immediately after this amend. ment shall be adopted, and immediately after every future census and apportionment of representatives under the same; aud such districts shall not

On motion of Mr. Smith, of Md. it was Resolved, That the committee of commerce be instructed to enquire into the expediency of admitting British vessels arriving from the cape of Good Hope, and the Maurities, into the ports of the United States, on the same terms and conditions as if they had sailed from a port in Great Britain, so long as those ports are open to the vessels of the Unit ed States, on the same terms and conditions as to their own vessels.

And the house adjourned.

Wednesday, Nov. 22. After the presentation and reference of petitions, most of a private nature, but some of them relating to the proposed alterations in the tariff, &c.

tending the time within which they shall be completed.

6. Resolved, That the act making an appropriation of one million of dollars per annum for the Mr. Sergeant, from the judiciary committee, re-increase of the navy, be so amended as to extend the ported, without amendment, the bill to alter the time within which such increase shall be made, and terms of the district court of Alabaina, which was to reduce the annual appropriation to the sum of twice read, and subsequently read a third time, five hundred thousand dollars. passed, and returned to the senate.

7. Resolved, That it is expedient to recal from ployed, and to place the same in ordinary.

On motion of Mr. Fuller, of Massachusetts, with-active service one half of the naval force now emout debate, it was

8th Resolution refers the subjects of the preceding resolves to the proper standing and select commitees, to bring in bills pursuant thereto.

The house having agreed to consider these reso

Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested to inform this house what naval force has been stationed for the protection of the commerce of our citizens in the West India Islands and parts adjacent, during the present year, and whe-lutionsther any depredations by pirates or others, upon Mr. Cobb said he had no wish to discuss his resothe property of citizens of the United States, en-lutions at this time--he merely wished to place gaged in such commerce, have been reported to them in such a situation that they might be called up at any time, and moved their reference to a committee of the whole, which was agreed to and the house adjourned.

our government.

And a committee was ordered to be appointed to present the same to the president.

Mr. Linn moved to proceed to the consideration of his motion directing the committee of ways and means to enquire into the expediency of reducing the compensation of members of congress, and the officers of government generally, to the rates at which they stood in 1809; but the house refused to consider the same.

Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, remarked that several propositions had been already made, looking to a reduction of the expenditures of the government, none of which exactly corresponded with his views; to exhibit which he offered for consideration the following resolution:

Thursday, Nov. 23. Mr. Lowndes, from the select committee, to whom was referred the constitution formed for their government by the people of the state of Missouri, delivered in the following report:

The committee to whom has been referred the constitution of the state of Missouri, respectfully report:

That they have not supposed themselves bound to inquire whether the provisions of the constitution referred to them, be wise or liberal. The grave and difficult question, as to the restraints which should be imposed upon the power of MisResolved, That the committee on public expen- souri to form a constitution for itself, was decided ditures be instructed to prepare and report a sys.by the act of the last session, and the committee tem of retrenchment in the expenditures of the vari- have had only to examine whether the provisions ous departments of the government, (not inconsis-of that act have been complied with. In the opitent with the public interest,) which will restore that rigid economy and simplicity becoming our republican institutions, and which the present stag. nation of commerce, and the embarrassments attending every branch of domestic industry, impe. riously demand.

And the question being put that the house do now proceed to consider the said resolve, it was decided in the negative.

Mr. Gabb, of Georgia, presented to the chair the following series of propositions:

1. Resolved, That it is expedient that the annual expenses of the government should be reduced; that, for the accomplishment of this object, it is further

nion of the committee, they have been. The propositions, too, which were offered in the same act to the free acceptance or rejection of the people of Missouri, have all been accepted by them. But there remains a question too important to be over

looked.

We know that cases must often arise in which there may be a doubt whether the laws or constitution of a state do not transcend the line (sometimes the obscure line) which separates the powers of the different governments of our complex system. It appears to the committee, that, in general, it must be unwise in congress to anticipate ju dicial decision by the exposition of an equivocal phrase, and that it would be yet more objectiona2. Resolved, That all such offices as are not im-ble, by deciding on the powers of a state just mediately necessary for the transaction of public business, and the abolition of which would not be detrimental to the public interests, shall be abolished.

3. Resolved, That the salaries of all civil officers whose compensation has been increased since the year 1809, shall be reduced to what they were at that period.

emerged from territorial dependence, that it should give the weight of its authority to an opinion which might condemn the laws and constitutions of old, as well as sovereign states. The committee are not unaware that a part of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution of Missouri, by which the legislature of the state has been di rected to pass laws "to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, the state," has been construed to apply to such of that class as are citizens of the United States, and that their exclusion has been deemed repugnant to the federal constitution. The words which are objected to are to be found in the laws of at least one of the middle states, (Delaware), and a careful examination of the clause might, perhaps, counte5. Resolved, That it is expedient that the appro-nance the opinion that it applies to the large class priations for the erection of fortifications shall be of free negroes and mulattoes who cannot be conso made as to require a less sum annually, by ex-sidered as the citizens of any state. But, of all the

4. Resolved, That it is expedient to reduce the army to the number of six thousand non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, preserving such parts of the corps of engineers, without regard to that number, as may be required by the public interest; and including such reduction of the general staff as may be required by the state of the army when reduced as herein proposed.

articles in our constitution, there is probably not one | sand eight hundred and twenty, by a convention more difficult to construe well than that which gives called for that purpose, form for themselves a conto the citizens of each state the privileges and im-stitution and state government, which constitution munites of the several states; there is not one, an and state government, so formed, is republican, attention to whose spirit is more necessary to the and in conformity to the provisions of the said act: convenient and beneficial connexion of the states; Be it therefore resolved by the senate and house of nor one of which too large a construction would representatives of the United States of America, in more completely break down their defensive pow. congress assembled, That the state of Missouri shall er, and lead more directly to their consolidation. be, and is hereby declared to be one of the United This much, indeed, seems to be settled by the States of America, and is admitted into the union established constitutions of states in every section on an equal footing with the original states, in all of our union: that a state has a right to discriminate respects whatever. between the white and the black man, both in respect to political and civil privileges, though both be citizens of another state; to give to the one, for instance, the right of voting and of serving on juries, which it refuses to the other. How far this discrimination may be carried, is obviously a matter of nice and difficult enquiry. The committee do not propose to engage in it. They believe it best, whenever a case occurs which must necessarily in vole the decision of it, that it should be remitted to judicial cognizance.

The resolution was then read a second time. [In moving its reference to a committee of the whole, on the state of the union, which was agreed to, Mr. Lowndes very frankly stated the report was to be considered as the act of the majority of the committee.]

The rest of the business transacted this day, in either house, was unimportant; but the heads of it shall be duly preserved as usual.

CHRONICLE.

in Chester district, S. C. capt. Samuel Shelton, in the 61st year of his age--who took up arms as soon as he was able to bear them in the revolution, and witnessed the dousing of the enemy's flag at York: a gentleman bighly spoken of for the good qualities of his mind and heart.

In this view (which narrows their enquirics and duties) the committee are confirmed, by a conside- Died, in Chesterfield, Virginia, Thomas Burfoot, ration of the embarrassments and disasters which a sen. a very respectable gentleman, who entered different course of proceeding might sometimes the army of the revolution as a private and left it produce. When a people are authorised to form with what was then called the rank of a captaina state, and do so, the trammels of their territorial lieutenant. He served from the beginning to the condition fall off. They have performed the act ending of the war; and in his old age appears to have which makes them sovereign and independent. If enjoyed the blessings of liberty and independence. they pass an unconstitutional law, and we leave it, He filled many important offices with the highest reas we should that of another state, to the decision putation, though he had learnt a mechanical trade! of a judicial tribunal, the illegal act is divested of How queer is it that a mechanic may become one its force by the operation of a system with which of the most respectable and respected persons in we are familiar. The control of the general go-his neighborhood!!! vernment is exercised in each particular case, in support of individual right, and the state retains the condition which it has just acquired, and would not easily renounce. But a decision by congress against the constitutionality of a law, passed by a state of which it had authorised the establishment, could not operate directly by vacating the law; nor is it "Inclined to fat." A pig, 7 months and 3 days believed that it could reduce the state to the de-old, of what is called the Chinese breed, raised by pendence of a territory. In these circumstances, Mr. R. Moran, near this city, was sold in the Baltito refuse admission into the union to such a state, more market on Wednesday last, whose dead weight is to refuse to extend over it that judicial authority was two hundred and thirty-five pounds. The ani. which might vacate the obnoxious law, and to ex-mal had been well fed, but in common with the rest pose all the interests of the government within the of a herd. territory of that state, to a legislature and a judisiary, the only checks on which, have been abandoned. On the other hand, if congress shall determine neither to expound clauses which are obscare, nor to decide constitutional questions which must be difficult and perplexing, equally interesting to old states, whom our construction could not, as to the new, whom it ought not to coerce, the rights and duties of Missouri will be left to the determination of the same temperate and impartial tribunal which has decided the conflicting claims, and received the confidence, of the other states.

The committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution:

This report having been read by the clerk, the resolution therein referred to was read, as follows:

Winter. The Hudson was frozen over at Albany on the night of the 24th inst. and sleighing was good in the neighborhood, The river has since opened.

Capital trials. A Boston paper says-We record it as a singular circumstance, that only one capital trial trial has occurred in the county of Plymouth, for upwards of a century, and that for the crime of arson, a few days since.

[The county of Plymouth, by the census of 1810, contained 35,169 inhabitants, and has probably increased considerably since that time.]

Nantucket, whose entire population is only 7266 (see page 176)-has seventy-two ships engaged in the whale fishery, 28 of them between 3 and 400 tons; besides a number of brigs and smaller ves.

Whereas, in pursuance of an act of congress passels in the same employment!

sed on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight New-York. On the 15th instant the senate, unahundred and twenty, entitled "an act to authorise nimously, passed the following resolution, to which the people of Missouri territory to form a constitu- the governor gave the subjoined answer on the tion and state government, and for the admission of next day:

such state into the union on an equal footing with State of New-York-In senate, Nov. 15th, 1820. the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain Resolved, That his excellency the governor be territories," the people of the said territory did, on requested to lay before the senate all the informathe nineteenth day of July, in the year one thou-¦tion that he may possess in relation to that part or

his speech which alludes to the general govern. On the 13th inst. Mr. J. C. Spencer called up the ment, or its officers, "as an organized and discip-consideration of his resolutions respecting the adlined corps in our elections." mission of Missouri. Mr. Romaine proposed the

Ordered, That the clerk deliver a copy of said following as a substitute, as generally meeting the resolution to his excellency the governor. views of the members: By order, JOHN F. BACON, Clerk. To the Senate. Gentlemen-Fully appreciating the patriotic soligitude of the senate to prevent all unwarrantable intrusions in the political affairs of the state, I have received their application for information on this subject with great pleasure, and I shall, in due time, make them a communication, which, I trust, will be satisfactory in its nature, and salutary in its tendency. DE WITT CLINTON.

"Whereas the legislature of this state, at the last session, instructed their senators and requested their representatives in congress, to oppose the admission as a state, into the union, of any territory not com prised within the original boundaries of the United States, without making the prohibition of slavery therein an indispensable condition of admission: And whereas this legislature is impressed with the correctness of the sentiments so communicated to our senators and representatives: Therefore,—

Resolved, (if the honorable the senate concur herein,) That this legislature does approve of the principles contained in the resolutions of the last ses sion: And, further, if the provisions contained in any proposed constitution of a new state deny, to any citizens of the existing states the privileges and immunities of citizens of such new states, that such proposed constitution should not be accepted or confirmed; the same, in the opinion of this legisla ture, being void by the constitution of the United States.

Albany, Nov. 16th, 1820. On the 20th inst. Mr. Livingston, of the senate, introduced the following preamble and resolutions: "Whereas, his excellency the governor, in his reply to the call of the senate for information relative to the general government, or its officers, as an organized and disciplined corps, interfering in our elections, has not furnished the senate with any evidence in support of such charges-And whereas it is highly improper that the chief magistrate of the state should criminate the administration of the general government, without ample testimony in Mr. Spencer agreed to accept the amendment, his possession, by reason whereof the good people with adding thereto the words in the original reso of this state may have their confidence in the gene-lution, "and that our senators be instructed, and ral government greatly impaired: Therefore, our representatives in congress requested, to use their utmost exertions to prevent the acceptance of any such constitution."

Resolved, That the senate repose the strictest confidence in the patriotism and integrity of the general government, and will not change such opi- Mr. Romaine did not accede to this, but it was nion, or yield to any insinuations against such ad-carried by a large vote, and the resolution passed ninistration, but upon full and satisfactory testi-117 to 4. It also passed the senate unanimously.

mony.

Resolved, That this resolution be published, and a copy sent to his excellency the governor. Laid on the table."

In an evening sesssion of the same day, the preceding resolutions were called, and, after much opposition, (the rule being dispensed with which required that the consideration of a resolution should not be taken up until it had laid on the table one day,) finally passed, 19 to 10.

The next morning, the following message to the senate was received from the governor

Mr. Spencer's argument in favor of the subject matter of the resolutions offered by him, was an able one-but we do not wish to insert any more speeches on the "distracting question."

The bill adjusting Mr. Tompkins' accounts has passed into a law.

North Carolina. A young man, named Mason Scott, was hung at Raleigh on the 10th inst. for the murder of a slave. Great efforts were made to save him, but the governor was inflexible, from & persuasion of duty.

Kentucky. Judging from what we see in the pubGentlemen--I have this moment received a reso-lic papers, there is a great excitement in this state, Tution of your honorable body, which, as well as the one to which it refers, I shall fully notice at the next meeting of the legislature: And I shall, therefore, at this late hour, pass it over with the expression of my sincere regret, that any branch of the legislature should, in so unprecedented a manner, lose sight of the respect due to itself, and the courtesy due to a co-ordinate department of the government. DE WITT CLINTON.

Albany, Nov. 21, 1820. Which message the senate refused to receive, and ordered that the clerk should return it to the

governor.

on the project of establishing a specie-less bank, as having a capital of four millions. It is regarded by some as the sovereign remedy for the diseases of the times, and by others considered as a mammonth to consume what the "independent banks" left undestroyed. Visionary speculators may say what they please--but the fact exists, it is proved by the price of the United States' stocks, and the low rate of interest on safe investments, that there is good money enough already. Let our statesmen bend their minds to provide ways and means to give it circulation, instead of tempting people to borrow, who will be eaten up with the interest payable.

Missouri. The temporary seat of government fixed at Cole Sans Dessein, a village on the Missouri river, opposite the mouth of the Osage. It will probably become the fixed capital of the state, the constitution providing that it shall be located within forty miles of this village. The per diem of the members of the legislature is settled at $4 per day. Gov. McNair rejected the bill, believing the allowance was too high-but it passed both houses with the requisite majorities and became a law.

On this day (the 21st) at 12 o'clock, the legislatare adjourned until the second Tuesday in Janua-is ry. The bill which had passed both houses for calling a convention of the people of the state, was returned to the house in which it originated, by the council of revision, with their objections to it: so the proposition has failed for the present. The chief ground of opposition was, that the proposal had not been acted upon by the people in the first instance, to determine whether a convention should be called or not.

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