The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-19
WASHINGTON, Nav is.

-.r.l hASHlNGION5 WAY 10
The 25th week of the session commenced to-
dav, and with the order of business rather where
it should have been in January last, than where
it is. The inglorious beginning of the session,
however, has been felt in form or another
through every days legislation since the session
commenced. The extraordinary means used to
obtain the majority, the hitherto unequalledpow-
err assumed by any legislative body, the circum-
stances attending the success of the dominant
party in obtaining an accidental majority every
administration man being in his seat, and three
whig members absent from the city, orindisposed
in the city;Y all these events have not only re-
tarded the business of the body, but greatly cor
rupted the halls Of legislation. After such an
outrage as the disfranchisement of state, as the
utter disregard of her constitutional rights, any
thing can be done with IMMUNITY The end of
the New Jersey business, therefore, has not yet
come, nor win you hear the end of it until you
see the termination of this extraordinary Con-
gress.
In regard to the examination now going on be-
fore the committee of elections, as a matter of
news, may say that the wing members have
proved between two and three hundred Illegal
votes, including the returns from South Amboy
and N4illville, both of which were illegal; still
they are sure Of their places If the committee on
elections are disposed to be governed by the law
and testimony--the decision will be in favor Of
four of the Eve members must be, if there be any
fair decision, most undoubtedly. The evidence is
all here, and the facts not to be controverted.-.
One would have supposed that after all this tes-
timony, the committee would have done prompt
justice to the injured party. But am sure that
the signs of tardy justice are few and far be
tween. am not less sorry for tho sake of the
business of the House, to learn that the sitting
members are unwilling to carry the contest be-
fore the people for their decision. This was pro-
posed during the session of 1888 and '39, but
studiously declined then, as the proposition has
been ever since.
wrote you this morning, for the purpose of
making your Southern readers particularly ac-
quainted with a very extraordinary circular
which has Just made its appearance here, and
signed by Messrs. King and c. c. Clay, Alaba-
ma Senators, and by Messrs Hubbard, Chapman
and Lewis, administration members of the House
from the State of Alabama. win send you
copy of this circular in day or two. You will
find it begging the people of Alabama for contri-
buttons to support the reelection OF Martin Van
Buren,, also, soliciting names to whom may be
sent party speeches and party documents.
An address, signed by the members of the
Senate and of the House, accompanies the Circu-
lar. have read it with some care, and am firm
in the conviction that the honorable member who
drew it up, and the equally honorable members
who signed it, have strung together and endors-
ed more falsehoods than ever made their appear
ance in pamphlet of six pages. Assertions are
made in regard to Abolition matters which hon
orable Administration-men upon the floor OF the
House have acknowledged to be false, and which
other supporters Of the party have corrected
Still they are repeated here, as if they had never
been corrected, and said and endorsed as if the
author and signers believed them. Not one of
the sieners Twill venture to affirm, will dare re-
peat the misrepresentation upon the floor OF
either House of Congress, which they send out
in their address. Yours, sc. tg+
We are indebted to the politeness Of a gentle
man for the following extract from private let
ter, dated: set r.
SEYMoURs' HOTEL, Havre de Grace, Md.
Saturday, May 10th, Q a. M.
/ DEAR SIR b ssars aae sasf ~ ~ :.
I am here on tour Of observation, and find
that one hundred and twenty-five Canal Boat
with $3.50 tons of produce have arrived since thu
canal opened up to this moment, and one hun
dred and seven haveIcleared. asAss q e.
b Several of the boats arrived have Cotton from
Tennessee. A number Of the Baltimore fant
Philadelphia sloops are in the canal basin receiv
u ing eargoes, and several canal boats arc along