Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-01-18

plies OF tnOrougn dFtCeLHg "S nu'e oeen
displayed in the House Tor long time.
Mr. Van Buren, is TO be feicilated on bav-
ing Messrs Boon and Cushman for his advo.
Gates n
Correspondence Of tie N. Y. Express.
WAsHINoToN Jan. a. 1889
Mr. Rives to-day completed the dissection
OF the Secretary Of the Treasury
Presidents catspaw and financial puppet," as
he calls the distinguished Head Of the
Treasury Department" to quote MIR Cush-
man, the p O. member from New Hamp-
shire. Never was a man more roughly or
more severely used up than the honorable
Secretary was by the member from Virgin
ia. | have never before known Mr. Rives
10 be so severe He dealt out to the Secre.
tary and his friends shower of Parthion
arrows,-all of which seemed to take effect
Mr. Rives accused Mr. Woodbury., in the
pIainest language, of acting the part of the
decever, and of practising n deception so
low that the least skilfuE and most worthless
necromancer would have been disguised
with it. Mr. Woodbury.. too, Mr. Rives calls
political juggler and man who has been
guilty Of iraud,-an officer, too, who has
connected himself with the Monster Bank"
and "Od Nick Bddle," after denouncng
both Bank and President in the most sludi-
ed terms of censure and abuse. The worth
less rags" of the "Rag-Baron Biddle," so
often denounced upon the floor of the Sen
ate and in the official paper, he says. have
not only been used by the Government Off
GERS, but their value and use commended
over all other currency, Mr. Rives proves
that the Government, in more instances than
one, has connected itself with the monster
and therefore concludes that lis professions
of Divorce are insincere and hypocriIical.-
There arc on deposit in the L. s. Bank ut
! Philadelphia, Three Hundred Thousand
Dollars Of the public money altogether, in.
dependent of the same connected with the
sale OF U. S. Bank Bonds. The much a
bused Bank. therefore, he considers as the
fiscal agent ofthe Government, and as such
should be recognised publicly, and not used
and denounced The Secretary of the
Treasury gets hard knocks on all sides In
both wings Of the Capitol he is condemned,
and | am quite sure that majority OF the
members oil Congress nj hear, believe him
guilty of crimes which should lead to his
impeachment MIR Rives to-day spoke Of
the Secretary 10 language almost as earnest
as Edmund Burke, in his (ur-famed speec h
asking for the Impeachment, Of Hastings -
There are many here who demand the inn
parchment OF Mr. Woodbury. upon the
ground OF a wanton violation of duty as an
officer Of the General Government Eter.
nal justice they say condemns him. and il
you slacken that they say, with Burke. that
you weaken the bonds OF society, giving TO
/ Ia, a,,I ,r.,ll e. A
wound that no balm can cure, and no time
can restore.
The foreign policy of the General Gov
eminent will soon receive large share oil
attention. The news from England, in re-
gard 10 The Northeastern boundary. | be.
Iieve, is official. Ii is we'll received here,
| believe, both by the higher officers of the
General Government and The delegation
from Maine. Thanks for this 10 the eff
Gent conduct pursued by the Wings oil
Maine.
la the Senate, on Wednesday. an unim.
portant but exciting debate sprung up upon
a motion TO print certain resolutions adopted
by the Legislature of Vermont, touching the
subject of Slavery and the Abolition OF Slave
ry Mr.. Prenliss OF Vermont presented
the resolutions. They embodied senti.
ments strongly hostile TO The system of Slave.
~, aud favorable to he Abolition Of Slavery
in The District Of Columbia.
Mr. Prcnliss, in presenting them, made
the customary motion TO print
Mr. Foster Of Tenn objected
Mr. Calhoun spoke 10 very excited
manner in regard TO the resolutions from
Vermont. He was not only opposed 10
printing, but considered the resolutions as
dangerous and destructive to the Union oil
the States The course OF the Aboliuonis,s
he considered destructive OF the best interests
I OF the States. and if persisted in would ioth.
with lead 10 the dissolution of the Union.
Mr. King OF Ala spoke in manner still
more excited, and said if the matter embod
led IN the resolutions was discussed and con
sldered, he and his friends would leave the
Hall, and the Union would be dissolved.
Mr. Lumpkin OF Geo. was surprised thai
The motion TO print should be persisted in
and moved that The motion to print be laic
on the table
Mr. Prenliss said that he asksd for print
ing as an act of courtesy to the State tina
he represented, and he was surprised tha
the motion should be objected to.
The Yeas and Nays were demanded AM
me motion 10 print was rejected-Yeas 81
Nays 8.
, The Senate proceeded to the order of tn,
day, after the consideration Of some miscel
laneous business.
; baltimore American
: ANOTHER EYpp FRI, hroLa ~, H.,