The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-01-28

debt continues to be the prominent subject
Of discussion. No question has vet been
taken on the main principle, or any Of the
Incidental propositions !; and of course no
decisive opinion can be formed of the fate
of the measure IN that body. Nor can any
satisfactory indications of the issue be ga
thered from the course of the discussion,
as both sides ofthe question are maintained
with great ability though the advocates
of the bill have, so far, outnumbered its
opponents. The interest of the subject.
and the talents engaged in the debate, have
attracted TO the Senate crowded auditores
for several days.
In the House of Representatives, the
day was SO far consumed yesterday on the
bull concerning the United States Courts
IN Louisiana, that the consideration of the
details OF the bill for further regulating the
collection OF The duties on imports was not
resumed. That bill, however, seems to
have seriously engaged the attention of the
House and, II we ma y Judge from pre-
sent indications, there is no doubt il will
pass the House, without material amend
nent, in the form in which il was reported
by the committee of Ways and Means
THIS, we believe, will be agreeable infor-
nation to the respectable mercantile COM
lnunlty, at the same time that, if matnred
into a law, the bill will prove advantageous
TO the revenue, by fencing the laws for its
collection with surer guards. Nat. Int.
WASHINGTON, January 21.-A bill was
yesterday reported in the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes for organizing the Naval Peace
Establishment by which it is %preposcd
that the Establishment shall consist of one
Rear Admiral, five Com4nodores, twenty
five Captains, thirty Masters Comnandant,
one hundred and ninety Lieutenants, TWEEN
ty Sailing Masters, four hundred Midship-
men, thlrty-fiye Surgeons, ~forty-fve Sur
geons' Mates, forty Pursers, six Chaplains,
twenty Boatswains, twenty Gunners, ff-
teen Carpenters, fifteen Sailmakers, and of
all other Officers, Petty Officers, Seamcn,
&c. a number not exceeding three thousand
five hundred. The bill contains many o.
ther provisions of great Importance to the
interests OF the Navy. We have given on-
~ The ground work of the system. ID.
The bill yesterday reported in the House
OF Representatives to regulate the Post Of
ice Establishment, resembles, a good deal,
the bill of the last session, which passed the
House OF Representatives and was rejected
IN the Senate. The most important part
of the bill is that which proposes to cause
the commissions of all Postmasttrs to cx-
pre- within this year, and to make all fu-
tire appointments to be for a term of four
years, when the same persons MAY be re-
appointed, provided they are not in arrears
to the government. 1t proposes also to
take away the right of franking from all the
Executive Officers except the Heads of
Departments. [D.
MCGEE
Beyond The .MfssiSSippt.-The following
extract Of a letter to the Editors, from a
correspondent in the West, affords interes-
ting information, and additional proofs of
the Vastness of the resources of our coun-
try. MAT. Int.
"The country beyond the Mississippi |
found TO be rich and valuable beyond any
thing had ever before heard Of it. After
leaving Arkansaw, | travelled from the
Usage Villages to Council Bluffs, and
thence to the st. Peters distance of near
100 miles, without seeing as MUCK poor
land as you would find on the road be
tween the City of Washington and Balti-
more and, for the greater part of the a
bove route, that is TO say, from the Usage
Village to Council Bluffs and from thence
TO the river Desmoines, a distance of near
300 miles, | did not see 500 acres of poor
land, or such as would not, with tolerable
cultivation, bring 40 bushels ofIndian corn
10 the acre and | am decidedly of the o.
plnlon that eight-tenths of the last men,
TONED 300 miles is equal in richness to the
hrst rate land in this State and Ohio and
IS capable of producing from 60 to so
bushels OF Indian corn to the acre. |
nave 'entured some years past 10 say, to
Sc me OF my eastern friends, not, however,
without some dldidence, that there was
more rich land upon the Mississippi and
lis dependent waters, than in all the Allan
TIC States. But | can now speak more
confidently and say, that the land on the
waters of the Mississippi lying lcest of this
=" great father OF rivers" is capable of sus-
tanning IA population equal to that which all
the Atlantic States can ever sustain. And,
although my trade is acar, | feel that | can
not 90 too much homage to the foresight
oil our yenerated Jefferson, and those who
went along with him in making the pur-
chase OF this great and most Interesting
country, rather than at that time to follow
the Ubiquitous example of plunging the ma
ton into "A war To take by force that which
we could obtain by fair and reasonable pur-
chase--although the time was fast APP
preaching when the principle of self pre-
servatlon would have justified and required
our taking it by force"
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Letter from Mr.. Jeferson 10 Lieutenoat Co.
rernor Barry Of ktntucky.
MoNrIcELLo, July 9, 1899.
SIR-Your favor of the 18th June is re-
tclyed, and am very thankful for the
Kindness of It's expressions respecting my