New Haven Daily Herald

Correspondence of the N. Y. Eve. Star.
WASHINGTON, July 22, 1841.

Several petitions in favor of a General Bank—among which was one very numerous from the State of Indiana, were presented to the Senate this morning.

Tendered by Mr. Clay, of Alabama, calling upon the Treasury Department for a statement of the imports as are liable to...

Mr. Benton's resolution of the investigation of the officers on the public...

's resolution re- Navy Department—establishing a Na- , were also...

rial of Gen. s 26. metion, , for the aukrupt and Mr. Bill refer- passed at afor. n to voluntary and The bill was then Mr. Berrien proposed aking concealment, for the oding arrest, an act of bank- upicy.

Some discussion took place relative to a portion of the second section, designed to pro- :and applying exclusively, I believe, to the tect the rights of married women and minors, State of Louisiana. Mr. Barrow contended that the bill did not give the desired protection, and said he should hereafter offer an amend- ment calculated to obviate this objection.— security afforded to this class of persons was Mr. Walker, on the other hand, thought the ample. The blank left in the concluding sec- aion for the date at which the bill should commence to take effect, was filled with the words "1st day of November next," which was agreed to. Mr. Nicholson gave notice that he should move, to-morrow, that corporations be subjected to the provisions of this bill.

The Senate then went into executive session, and, on the doors being re-opened, adjourned.

A long, warm, and, in one instance, acrimonious discussion, took place in the House this morning on the resolution reported by the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, appointing a committee to sit during the recess of Congress for the purpose of collecting information on which to ground a revision of the Tariff at the next session.

Mr. Gilmore said he should not oppose the resolution; but he thought it inexpedient and unnecessary, and after stating his reasons therefor, moved to postpone its consideration until Monday week.

Mr. C. Brown expressed himself opposed F. * a favor of dis. criminating duties, and averse to agitating the present Revenue Bill at this session.

Mr. W.C. Johnson thought the Revenue Bill should be acted upon at this session. It might be corrected hereafter, through the information collected by the proposed committee during the recess. He was in favor of free trade if a reciprocal and equal system of free trade could be established.

Mr. Wise denounced the committee and its objects, and was forcibly and logically answered by Mr. Cushing, who went into the details of the subject. Subsequently a hot altercation ensued between Mr. Wise and Mr. Nesbit, of Georgia, in which both gentlemen intimated their willingness to "fight out" the quarrel elsewhere. In the midst of this disgraceful exhibition, the House adjourned in a state of great excitement.