Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-14

\ Tor TWO weeks, which ulu not Presau'
Walter Jones, Esq. moved the following reso-
luton, which was agreed to.
Resolred, That the Committee appointed on
the 2Sth April last. to consider and report upon
the Preamble and Resolution Of the General As
sembIy of Maryland relative to the joint c0nstruc-
ton of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal aud the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, be directed to en-
auire into and report plan for accommodating
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road with passage
along side the Canal, which plan, it is understood,
that the Representative of Maryland in this meet
ing, and the Secretary of the Treasury, toge-
Their with several Stockholders and Others most Ia
vorably disposed to the views & wishes o the Rail
Road Company, on this subject, have intimated
desire to nave enJuired into and considered by this
meeting, as if it were an alternative proposition, in
case the specific proposition, from the Rail Road
Company, now before this meeting, should be
deemed inadmissible. to wit: to allow the Rail
Road passage alongside the Canal, next the ri.
YER. from the Point Of Rocks to Harper's Ferry,
as soon as the Section of the Canal shall be COM
pleted, or to go on with the Rail Road on that
line, from time to time successfully, as success
si,e portions Of the Canal may be completed.
On motion BY Joseph Pearson, Esq General
Walter Jones was added to the Committee.
l.. The Fraud case'' Gas it is termed) in which
Ioaston Ct al are implicated, notwithstanding
the report of the majority Of the Committee,
wears very suspicious appearance. The EVIL
dence in the case is dissected in the Telegraph,
and, to our minds, the conclusions arrived at IN
that print are correct. We have not room to
devote to this matter, or we think we could
r., tb,t he haya toka are
sustained by the facts.
Since writing this paragraph, we have seen
a compendium Of the whole business, given by
the Washington correspondent of the New York
American, which is as follows
The reports in the Houston fraud have come
out. The majority acqult the President, the Sc
cretary at War, and Mr.. Houston, of any I'M
putatOu of fraud. Nj. Stanbery aud Mr.. Bates
of Mass report directly the reverse. Perhaps,
therefore, the truth will be best ascertained from
the report presented on the same subject by Mr..
J. l.. Kerr, who takes more impartial ground,
and building principally on the evidence of MIR.
Van Fossen Of New York, the agent, as avOwed
BY himself, Of Mr. Houston, with the full know-
ledge both Of the President and Secretary at
War, gives it as his opinion that there was an
Improper preference contemplated to DE gwen to
Mr.. Van Fossen as such agent: the evidence oil
that person going conclusivey to show. 6 that IN
conversation which he had with the Secretary
at War, to whom he mentioned that ne was part
ner and agent for Houston, he submitted to him,
the Secretary, whether it might not be advisable
to reduce The bid put in by him; that thereupon
the Secretary sad in substance, THAT the Go
vernnent did not wish to gire a contract By ,chch
the parties might iose SC. and he recommend
ed, from pure and disintcrested motives! Gre.
dat Jud9u,, non cgo), and as doubtless, sup
posing himself bound by his official oath so to
do, to 20 to the Commissary General, and hrst
ascertain what was the correct prices at which
such contracts bad been usually made, before
Van Fossen should put in any reduced proposaG!
| This is the evidence drawn from the camp OF
the enemy, and such as it ia. II Is conclusive IN
other respects, as to the Presidents full know
ledge Of the whole transaction, and indeed 1t 10
shown that the President acted with more discre-
ton Throughout than the Secretary at War. for
he did not, in lawyers phrase commit himself SO
far as to leave himself open I'm Mr.. kerr's OPT
nion) to the direct charge Of having fraudulent,
guilty knowledge. although there could be no
doubt of his having used an improper interler-
ence to saw the least Of it, give the preference
to Houston; and thus. through him, that the Sc
cretary il il had been so arranged, might partake
in the benefits OF the contract The report on
the Chickasaw reservation. has been equally con-
elusive as to a pec,lating propensity, in favor OF
Mr.. w b Lewis, the head and tail OF the pre-
sent kitchen Cabinet. In this case. however,
the parties were successful; they hare their ten
thousand acres Of uaittable land, SAT- Spring, &C.
secured. and to which as it goes for their be-
neiit, there will not be, presume, any OF the
constitutional scrupies of the day for retaining
Mr.. .4dams.-A New England man, and So
iourner in the city of Washington, writes thus TO
his friend in New York, under date of the SOth
past
"Ihave never seen Mr.. Adams look so well
these ten years. He was much iudisposed about
the third year of his Presidency. which his
friends thought was, in a great measure, owing
| to his habit of cold bathing. He now looks
Younger and iveler than when President and
vet his Iabors never could have been more in
tense and hardly more incessant than during the
presen, important session. Every body, ladies
and al, say he looks younger and sprightl'er
than when he stood at the head OF the nation;
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