The Litchfield County Post

In our last paper we gave the letter of the Vice President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. We this day publish the names of the committee appointed to investigate the subject to which the letter refers. The charge of a participation in the Mix contract, by Maj. Vandeventer, is not new, neither is it now the first time that an allegation has appeared in the papers, that Mr. Calhoun was acquainted with that circumstance. The fact of participation is admitted in a letter of Maj. Vandeventer, published in the Washington Gazette, the predecessor of the Telegraph, on the 22d of April, 1822; and the fact that his participation was with the knowledge of Mr. Calhoun, and that the contract with Mix was entered into without the usual notice being given by public advertisements, was stated in the report of the committee of the House of Representatives upon that subject, made at the close of the session, and published about that time. We shall take occasion to republish the letter and report, with some observations on the subject, in our next.- We cannot, however, refrain from expressing our regret, that the subject should have been presented to Congress at a time when so much and such important business is about to come before that body.

For the present we will only observe that we think there is something in Mr. Calhoun's communication to the House of Representatives very objectionable; as it is capable of being so construed (however intended) as to assign a cause and origin to this occurrence which are entirely different from its true cause and origin.

Nat. Jour.