Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-16
81 Last Evenings Northern Mail.


~ Last Evenings Northern Mail.
Tie Northern Mail reached US between and :
O'Clock We have the following Proceedings of Con
gress, Of Monday last, (trom the Globe:)
.Nonday, January -, ici0
~ SENATE.
In the Senate to-duy, after the transaction OF the
morning business,
Mr.. WHITE Of Tennessee, presented certain reso.
uons of the Legislature of Tennessee, ins,7ucting
her Senators to support the of the Admins
raon, &c, and after reading letter, giving his yea.
sons tor non-complvng herewith announced his rcsie.
nation rs member Of the Senate
Inc bill Tor the occupation and settlement Of Florida
was taken up, and Mr. BENTON addressed the Senate
ut length in reply TO Messrs. CRlTTENDEN ana
PRESTON, and in favor Of the bill.
The bill then rccolla!!:;ed 10 the Committee on
Military Affairs,
And the Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
-Hr. PlChENS asked the kind Indulgence of the
House, while he called ITS attention to matter some.
what personal to himself. He alluded to an article
which appeared III of the city papers on Saturday
last II mad been his habit, for several years past when
any thing scurrilous with regard him appeared in any
C. the vile and sanderous papers of the day. to pass It
BY with the deep contempt which its infamy merted.
But his apology for noticing the publication lie alluded
TO, from the fact that others besides himself
were implicated. paragraph, Mr.. P. said, had ap-
peared IN the Aadson;an OF Saturday last, in the TO-
lowing wo!ds
Here follows the article from the Madisonan 1t
charges, on tie authority OF gentleman long known
N the City, (quryJ that "a bargain had been consum.
mated, as is SAID, between Blair and Rivcs the condi
dates CO ,:: Van HurAnites, and General DAFT Green
the candidate CT the Calhoun %ulliers in respect to
the printing of tie House Of Representatives. The
substance of the matter communicated to us is this
that General Duff Green has said in this city, in the
presence Of witness, that if Gales and Seaton would
give him per cent the bills for the printing of the
House he could secure them the conract-tha he had
been offered $4,000, gross to be paid in cash b.
another firm, (neanng Blair " Rivesl and that unless
Gales and Seaton, whom he preferred, closed with him
speedily, his friends having the balance Of power IN the
House of Representatives, he should give it to Blair
and RiVcS, words TO that effect.
"NlcssrS. Gales and Seaton, says informant,
would not hear TO the proposal and he ners from the
previous asScvcraton Of Gen Green, and from the fact
as he says, Of certain note Of large having
been unexpectedly pad az the bank, and certain bail
released that the bargain with Blair and Rives was
Immediately closed, ana the money or a larger part
thereof, paid over in cash.
Mr. P. said he would not detain the House by read.
ing the balance of this paragraph, for upon the mat,
tiers there suggested he did pretend to be inform
ed. He did not know what General Green had said to
any member Of this House, but the charge to which he
called the public attention was that Gen Green the
candidate of the Calhoun Nullitcrs. ! appeal SAID Mr.
p, those gentlemen with whom act; and they are b.t
!ew-and, IN their nane--lt it be intended bV this
artful slandcrcr TO assert that he has received
counsel or assistance, directly indirectly, from
from them-I say it is al infamous falsehoot ] do
not TO say that have any knowledge of what
Gen Green dd did not say 10 any person whatever,
when | repudiate the idea that lie ever was, in the
slightest degree, our candidate. On the first day that
came mere, received note stating that lie would be
q candidate, and could be elected-bat Mr.. Speaker,
you know how treated that note. never gave him
The slightest countenancc. have risen merely reply
to the vile charge which have called the attention of
the House, and throw back upon the author with the
and contempt II deserves. have nothing TO
say on this subject The moment the Harrisburg Con.
venton maze ITS nomination, my mind made up for
whom should vote. ! think, said Mr. p that this
circumstance furnishes an additional reason why we
should settle these low contentious growing out OF the
election of Printer, by going into that election once,
and then passing the resolutions Of the gentleman from
Kentucky Mr. ANpFR,oxj in relation 10 the final set
Element OF III" matter, and separating the public print
ing from the political press hereafter Mr. p retained
mis- thanks to the House fol their kind indulgence and
took his seat.
[The further proceedings for this day COM
PEELED to defer, for the want of room, Until tomorrow
The resolution of Mr. Campbell of South Carolina, re
ferring all the papers and testimony il relation to the
New Jersey disputed election to the Committee Of
Elections, 'cGs adopted By urge majority. The re-
mainder of the day occupied in the presentation Of
petitions. Petitions for the abolition OF slavery in the
District of Columbia having been presented by Mr.
Lincoln, considerable debate elected, and lie sub
jeet finally disposed Of by laying tie motion for H.;
reception Of the petitions on the tbie.l