Daily National Intelligencer

WASHINGTON.

FRIDAY. JANUARY 19.

The Army Bill.—A full report of the proceedings which took place in the House of Representatives yesterday, on the Army bill, will be found under the Congressional head. The determined rejection of almost all the material amendments which were offered, both in the committee of the whole and in the House, may be taken, we presume, as decisive of the sense of the House in favor of the bill as it stands; and there is little room for doubt that it will pass that branch of the Legislature without any essential modification.

Its fate in the Senate is by no means so certain.

An allusion was made by an honorable Member of the House of Representatives, in the Debate on Wednesday, to the recent publication, in this paper, of the letter of Mr. Monroe, when Secretary of War, to a committee of the Senate, and some curiosity was expressed to know how it happened that that letter was published just at this moment. We will be frank enough to say, that, could it have been supposed that that letter was put forth by us with a view to bring the personal influence of the Executive to bear on the proceedings of Congress, the circumstance would have justified a harsh instead of a sportive allusion. Such an intention was far from us. By the proceedings in Congress, on the subject of a Military Peace Establishment, the interesting letter in question was very naturally brought to the recollection of a friend, who pointed it out to us. Finding that this document, which, interesting now, must have been still more so when it was penned, had never met the public eye, we were glad of an opportunity to put it on record: particularly as its general principles, having regard to the circumstances under which it was written, are such as, we are persuaded, will receive almost universal assent.

We, who feel an interest in what concerns every part of the Union, should consider it a favor, if some person in Boston, or elsewhere, will give us such a concise account of the amendments proposed to the Constitution of the State by the Convention, as shall enable us to appreciate the value of the changes made in that instrument, by understanding the nature of them. The doings of the Convention have been reported from day to day with a promptitude and a diffusiveness shewing great industry, and, we dare say, equal ability. But it has been in the power of few, we believe, to keep up with the daily reports, so as to connect and understand the final results.