New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

Congress.

Thursday, Dec. 27,

SENATE. The resolution submitted by Mr. Silsbee, relative to the protection of American commerce in the Mediterranean was agreed to. The bill for the relief of Columbia College was reported without amendment. The bill providing for the expenses of Congress, was read a third time and passed. The Senate was engaged a short time in Executive business, and then adjourned to Monday.

HOUSE. A number of Petitions and Resolutions were presented; several private bills were passed; and other bills, received from the Senate, were read and referred.

A resolution was adopted, on motion of Mr. Woodcock, to inquire whether the rule on which the Secretary of War suspends the pensions of pensioners suffering imprisonment for crime, be sanctioned by law. The resolution was offered with the sanction of the Secretary.

On motion of Mr. Hamilton, it was resolved that the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so revising the duties on wines as to equalize the same in reference to the prime cost of the several kinds, qualities of wine, and their productiveness of revenue.

Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee on Commerce, made an unfavorable report on the petitions of James Miller, James Robertson, William H. Ellis and Joshua Prentiss, officers of the customs: which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. [The report states the fact of the inadequacy of the compensation of the petitioners, but that it is the opinion of the Committee that many similar cases exist, and that it would be improper to legislate on individual cases, and recommend that the petitions be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, to make report of the compensation annually received by each Collector, Deputy Collector, Naval Officer, and Surveyor of the Customs for the year 1824, 1825, and 1826.]

Mr. Everett, from the Committee on the library, reported a list of manuscripts and printed books, relating to America, in possession of Mr. Rich, Consul of the United States, at Valencia, in Spain—which was ordered to be laid on the table, and 1000 copies ordered to be printed.

Mr. Everett offered the following resolution, which lies one day on the table:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to this House (if the public interest permit) the recent correspondence between the United States and Brazil, and any other documents in the Department of State connected with the subject of discussion between the two governments.

Mr. Brent offered the following resolution which lies one day on the table:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to inform this House (if it be not incompatible with the public interest) whether any representation or arrangement to or with the Mexican Government has been made, so as to enable the citizens of the United States to recover debts and property belonging to them, from persons absconding from the United States, and taken refuge in the limits of that Government, and whether any steps have been taken to establish the boundary of the United States between the State of Louisiana and the province of Texas.

The House also adjourned to Monday.

Monday, Dec. 31.

SENATE. On motion of Mr. Chandler the Committee on Military Affairs were instructed to inquire into the expediency of making a military road from the mouth of the Mattawamkeag where it empties into the Penobscot river to Mars Hill, in the State of Maine.

Mr. Parris presented the memorial of sundry citizens of Washington county, Maine, in relation to the aggressions of the authorities and citizens of New Brunswick. The memorialists state that their British neighbors have been in the habit of insulting and abusing them for many years past, entirely disregarding the provisions of the treaty—that they have been in the practice of dragging American citizens before British tribunals for trivial offences—that they have furnished British officers with precepts to plunder the American citizens of their lumber, venison and sacrifice their other effects, until the settlers are discouraged, and the border lands not worth a rush. They also say, that "these border jars seem likely to open a vein of blood in this part of the country, if no protection is afforded. It has nearly come to this already. The weapons of death have been presented, with threats to kill, if their opponents did not submit." The forcible arrest and imprisonment of Baker is particularly mentioned.

Mr. Parris also submitted a resolution, calling on the President for information relative to the aggressions referred to in the above mentioned memorial.

A bill was reported for the relief of the New-England Mississippi Land Company, and ordered to a second reading.

A bill for the purchase of suitable sites, and the erection thereon, of custom and ware-houses, at Newport and at Mobile, and another for the repair of a building to be used as a custom-house at Newburyport, were also reported.

Several unimportant resolutions were submitted: and the Senate, after some time spent in the consideration of Executive business, adjourned to Thursday.

HOUSE. About fifty petitions, memorials, and remonstrances, were presented, some of which, from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, relate to the proposed alteration of the Tariff, and were referred to the Committee on Manufactures.

Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill, extending the term within which merchandise may be exported with the benefit of drawback. Two years is the term specified.

Protection to Manufactures.—Mr. Mallary, Chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, rose in his place, and said that, by direction of that Committee, he moved the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Committee on Manufactures be vested with power to send for persons and papers.

Mr. McDuffie made some inquiry as to the object of this motion, when Mr. Mallary observed, that, in submitting the resolution, he had discharged a duty which he owed to the Committee. He