Alexandria Daily Advertiser

A word of consolation for Mr. Jefferson.

We were informed half an hour ago that there is a mistake in the statement we gave yesterday of the amount of Mr. Livingston's default; that it is not so much as a hundred thousand dollars, or at least that the amount of what has yet been discovered is not so great, but only somewhat about seventy thousand dollars, "more or less."—How this is we know not; but this we do know, that a judgment by confession for one hundred thousand dollars stands upon record against Mr. Livingston in the clerk's office of the district court. Lest we should have been misinformed in this point, we examined for ourselves and have seen the docket of the judgment itself. Whether indeed this is the amount due from Mr. Livingston to the United States, or whether it is only to cover whatever sum he may, upon a settlement of his accounts, be found to be indebted, or whether it is the penal sum of a bond, the half of which consequently the actual debt, we cannot pretend to say. The present district attorney may, however, if he thinks proper, set us right in these particulars. Nor can we think it would be any improper condescension in him to do this without delay, as the public at large are deeply interested in knowing the truth. He will add to the favor too, if at the same time, he will inform us what security he obtained from Mr. Livingston before he suffered him to depart

(N. Y. Even. Post.)