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WAsuISGToN. February 90.

The navy appropriation bill was under
consideration IN the House. as originally
reported, there was n clause appropr'atlDg
four hundred Thousand dollars for launch
inc and cquiping. the line of battle ship.
PENNSYLVANIA. TO launch this ship during
his administration has been 'averlle OBJ.
ice, with General Jackson. When It was
Dreiended that there was reason to appre
bend difficulties between France and the
United States, tho hero threatened to send
this ship after poor Jotany Petite. Those
difficulties beng at an end, the matter was
Concre.s, 10 rest during one session of
and a prov'sout 1t is nav oGGmy = renewed.
navy bill. In Committee of the whole
House yesterday, this provision was re.
jecied.
This morning the question came up on
the house agreeing with the Committee in
their amendments. Dr.. Sutherland has
been literally kicked out of the Jackson Van
Buren, party, and at the last election cast
himself INTO the arms of certain "simpie"
wings IN his district, in the hopes Of again
obtaining seat in Congress. To day he
figured as the champion of the "hero of
many wars" A more ridiculous, empty.
mountebank speech was never delivered on
the floor Of the House. Sutherland has
good voice, some command of words, and
would be good DICTATOR, if his manner was
not SO puerle and offensive. | think he
must be well calculated to roar in the
suburbs of the city Of Phllade phla. where
his inflated language, and ante tricks, NAV
pass for argument and oratory. But for
the House of Representatives. it is undlg-
nlfed and repulsive. His rant of this day
exceeded in folly any thing have ever
heard from even Dr.. Sutherland.
After stating, reporting, echoing, and
e-ccholng, the wonder, astonishment and
alarm which thus ship would produce
throughout the civilized world # equipped
and sent to sea, he threatened the chair.
man Of the Naval COMMITTEE, that # pro
vision was not made for her equipment lie
would defeat The whole naval Appropriation
A more miserable, time.servlng effort to
p1ddie bnck into the ranks of The party, |
never beheId, bnt The party will not receive
him except as a hanger on, He is under
stood by them. They have yet remain.
ing a large surplus Of just such honorable
gent Icmcn, and all that he can now do is,
to catch hold of the skirts Of Mr. Mullen
berg's garments and hold on. or rely upon
he support of such vascIlatns and degra
ded wings as are willing to use any timber
for a ladder to climb INTO power. In the
Wing party as IN every other party there
are such men, and defeat ought ever 10 be
their portion. |! we cannot triumph vii h.
out sacrificing our principles or sustaining
trimming aud mercenary POLITICIANS, let us
unhlv remain IN tha mIuOriIv. Oar ,nAu
ences has been FILTERED away, for the last
six or seven years, by not only receiving,
but by permitting our party, in some meas
IRE. to be governed by Disconnected, am-
bilious and mortified adherenls of General
Jackson. 1t is time that we should fall
bnck rpon our own strength, be that much
or lllle, and support those great men, and
those only, whose principles are in unison
with our own. Away with an unbaIlow.
ed compromise.
To day the Presidents house was opened
to the admlrlng aud The faithful, that they
might como, eat. and be filled from the
great cheese. Soon after one o'clock the
Representatives hall became thin, many
OF the honorabIes having taken French
leave TO visit the palace. When Mr..
Sutherland finished his speech, Mr. Jarvis
Of Maine, Chairman of the Nava' commit,
tee, commenced reply, 1t was evident
that there was not quorum present.
Mr. WiHams, of Kentucky said he rose
to point OF order. lie did not believe
that there was a quorum in the house, and
objected to the gentleman from Maine pro.
ceedng with his remarks, until that fact