The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-24
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PILOT
WASHINGTON. MONDAY, Pa june.

WASHINGTON, Monday, I'D June
This morning, we had petition from New
York, purporting to be from merchants and 9TH
ers, asking that the bankrupt law may not go IN
to operation until year after its passage, and
that it require major portion of the credi-
tors for a release. The names of these ShytoekS
are to be published; and we shall then see who,
at time like this, will come forward with such
proposition, amid all the distress that surrounds
the country.
A bill was reported, extending the time of the
banks of Natchez to pay the public dues for that
year.
We are indebted to Mr.. Merrick for an amend
ment to the Light House bill, which is invalua-
BILE to Maryland, as a Light House on Seven.feet
Knoll bar, in the Chesapeake bay; and this,
taken in conjunction with his strongest effort to
defend the interest of the ship builders, shows
MIR. Merrick to be vigilent and careful of our
interests In offering the amendment to this bill,
Mr. Merrick spoke of the growing commerce OF
our monumental city, the amount OF revenue 1t
paid, the public spirit of its citizens sc; and then
he pressed ON the senate the necessity that exist
ed for the erection of the light in question, as
was shown by the memorials signed by the most
respectable of the citizens of Baltimore, and on
the Day shore.
The bankrupt bill was taken up, and one or
two amendments offered, when this packet was
sent.
| The Loco focos had meeting at Bladensburg
l. oh ba of
the party, Doctor Duncan, in company with the
Vice President, made speeches Duncan made
the most shameful attacks on the character OF
Gen Harrison, and johnson sat quietly listening,
without a word of rebuke. To what depths of
infamy has party spirit sunk us in this country,
when we find the second officer of this govern
ment trailing around the country in political
meetings, and then to sit quietly and hear his old
brother solder and associate in arms, hbelled and
brutaly assailed, all the while listening and APP
parently lending his sanction to all that was said
This morning, about three o'clock, we were
alarmed with the cry of fire, which proved to be
two frame buildings belonging to that unhappy
class of females which deserve rather pity and
commisseration for their unhappy and degraded
state, than to be made the objects of brutal at
tack and violence. The fire was occasioned by
the work of some infamous incendiary, who pro-
badly thought he might be doing no harm. Such
was the rapidity of the flames, that some of the
male inmates had to fly in state of partial nu-
dity
We have seen an account of mass of doeu-
ments, sent from the department of State, in an
sser to call of the Senate, in relation to the
abuse of eur flag in the slave trade. why have
not these documents been made public? Why
has the printing been withheld? We ask also,
how it is that paper is suffered to be distracted
from the files of the Senate, without the consent
of that bodys We say that paper has been SO
distracted by the writer "a copy of which has
been SEEM in relation vessel built in this city
and sold at Havana; which paper was before the
Committee on Commerce. We maintain that
the r,bliO have right to this particular letter,
together with all the precious correspondence,
said to be so honorable to 1rist. If it be so, let
it appear. We want the light, and we want the
paper Why have we not the cores
pondence in relation to the right of search, rgor
ously claimed by the British There must be some
reason Cor Withholding these matters, which the |
public desire to know.