Columbus Democrat

Congressional. We have nothing very late or interesting from Washington. On the 15th ult. quite an animated debate took place in the Senate on Mr Clay's resolution to repeal the Independent Treasury law. Mr Clay, on introducing the resolution, made a speech remarkable only for its low black-guardism and intemperate denunciation of the administration, whom he compared to a convicted criminal with a rope round his neck and the cart about to leave his body. The Hon. gentleman was replied to by Mr Wright of New York. Mr Calhoun &c. from whom he received a severe but well merited castigation. Mr Clay holds forth the idea that the election of Gen. Harrison is equivalent to a condemnation of the Independent Treasury system by the people; when every body knows that that was not made a test question in the election. In fact there was no test question upon principle. The supporters of Harrison dodged all commitments upon every point. In the language of one of their doggerel songs, they went for Harrison "without a why or a wherefore." The people were told that he would set all things to rights; but how he was to do it no one could say. Even now, Mr Clay, who beyond all doubt, will be the "thinking mind and controlling will" of the new administration, proposes no definite measure of reform. He goes for a repeal of the Sub-Treasury, but he offers no substitute. He would pull down, but he does not tell us what he would put up. A national bank is, no doubt, his grand panacea, but he does not dare to propose that measure, just now. It is said that he intends to have a called session of Congress, shortly after Harrison's installation, should the Independent Treasury law not be repealed at the present session. But this is mere rumor, and we can hardly believe it. Audacious and reckless as Count Brag is, we hardly think that even he would risk such a stake.

In the House of Representatives there had been some important moves made, but nothing done. Our papers come so irregularly, that it is impossible for us to give any thing like a sketch of the proceedings. However, we shall endeavor to lay before our readers every thing of general interest that transpires in either House. On our first page will be found some interesting and pungent remarks from Mr Benton, on the introduction of his motion to establish a permanent prospective pre-emption law, to which the reader's attention is called.