Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-03-19

I The late Congress-Ws have The sa-
tisfaction says the National lntelilgen.
cerI Of giving to our readers this mern'
ing, complete list Of all the acts which
passed Congress during The session
which has just closed.
Never has Session passed under our
observation 10 which so little business
has been dene, good, bad, or indifferent;
which peculiarly Of this Session is OBJ
yiously attributable to a party eIganiza-
ton existing ia beth branches stronger
than either the personal convictions OF
members, or the imperative demands OF
public duty. This is a subject which
we shall have occasion to touch upon
hereafter, and which We purposely a
void until the hurly burly is over, and
we can coolly discuss it.
Few Sessions Of Congress have ever
passed hewever, to whose actual do.
ings so little exception could ba taken.
Congress certainly have left undene
many things which they ought to have
done; but what they have dene is much
OF il Cwhat little there is ofit) good.
The appropriatiorbills for the sup.
port Of the various branches of the Go
vernment have all passed; and liberal
appropriations have been made for
Notifications and Tor the Public Build
lngs
Ths other public acts OF % ost import
ance, are those which have relation TO
objects of internal improve ment, to-
wards which seven hundred thousand
dollars have been appropriated, at this
Session, by various acts; such as the act
for the continuation efths Cumberland
Road. the act for extending i, hey ond
GAINESVILLE, and the &C, fsr providing for
The repair OF the road, for which latter
object hundred thousand dollars have
been appropriated, tthe provisions for
erecting gates upon it having been re
jected in the Seuate) The Louisville
and Portland Canal, the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal, and the Dismal
Swamp anal and the Military Road in
Maine, have also received, in several
dtts. 'tc 0to =
After the bill conc erning Public Build
ingf. the only interesting measure of The
Session, concerning the D,strietin which
we live. is the ball for organizing the
government of the Penitentiary. which
will place il in situation TO be occupi-
ed if Congress shall a, the next Session,
provide system Of Pen.tputiary pun
isbment within the district.
A vast number of. bills fell through.
IN both Houses, by not being acted up
on; amongst which, the NEST imp ortant
were all the bills proposing re,reDeh-
ment; which seem to have been report.
ed by way Of jest; oil the bills for grad
mating the price of public lands, sc
SC; the bill for placing all the surviving
NJ ita Of the Revolution on the Peasion
List; and the blll for repeating the ton
mage duty. The nis LOST. which were
mos. Interesting TO this District, we're
The bill authorizing subscription 10
the stock ofthe Washington and Freder
lex Turnpike Company, which was de
feated by the attempts 20 change the
route, land the bill reported in pursuanc Q
of the ms mortal Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, the passage OF
which had Opponents also amongst our
selves.
OF the ether measures which failed
through the purposed or ihdolent ne elect
Of duty on the part of the maiorities Of
both Houses, are many Of deep intere ST
te the country, which will be ascertain
ed, by those interested, upon refer
ence to the bills which actually passed.
Neither the Tariff, nor any question
touching the recently disputed powers
of the General Government, was touch
ed, unless as involved in the Cumber.
land Road Bill The discussion Of The Sc
questions was politically deferred to
a more convenient season.
On the a7th utt. the Yeas and Navs
were taken eteoen times in the House oil
Representatives OF the United States