Daily National Intelligencer

On motion of Mr. Lewis, the committee on the post office were instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Halifax court house, in Virginia, to Lynchburg.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, of Ohio, the committee on the judiciary was instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the compensation paid to jurors and witnesses summoned to attend the several courts of the United States.

REVOLUTIONARY SURVIVORS.

The House having resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill concerning the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war—

The debate continued on the main subject, and on the proposed amendment of Mr. Harrison. In this debate Messrs. Bloomfield, S. Smith, Harrison, Colston, Baldwin, Claggett, Hopkinson, Rhea, Ross, Ingham, and Forsyth bore part.

The amendment proposed by Mr. Harrison was ultimately rejected; as also was a previous question on the rising of the committee, in order to postpone the subject.

The committee then went on further to amend the bill, on suggestion of various members. In the proposition and discussion of these amendments, Messrs. Peter, Bloomfield, Livermore, Parris, Rhea, Bennett, Beecher, Harrison, Terry, Forsyth, Smith of N. C. Taylor of N. Y. Tallmadge, Whitman, Claggett, Palmer, and Storrs took part.

Among the successful motions was one by Mr. Parris, to include the "officers and mariners who served in the navy of either of the states, or of the United States," thus placing the revolutionary officers of the navy on the same footing as those of the army.

The committee of the whole rose, about 4 o'clock, and reported the bill as amended.

The House took up the amendments reported by the committee; when various propositions were successively made and discussed to disagree to or to amend many of them.

The House having, at length, gone through the amendments,

The bill was ordered to be engrossed, as amended, nem. con. and read a third time to morrow.

Mr. Spencer offered a joint resolution, that the two houses should adjourn on Wednesday, the 24th inst. to meet again on Monday, the 29th inst.

The resolution was twice read, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading —was subsequently read a third time and passed, by ayes and noes, 84 to 63, and sent to the Senate for concurrence; and then

The House adjourned.