The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-06-19


BY and oith the udpics and consent Of the Senate.
ABsALon FOWLER to be Attorney of the U. States
foi the District of Arkansas.
Mr.. EVANS reply to Mr.. Woodbury., in the Senate
on Thursday, of which we give but a meagre report
was acknowledged by Mr. Wright to possess stability
and power" Mr. Woodbury. and his friends struggle
hard, but vainly through calls for information and
long speeches, to escape from the awful responsible
ity of their late gross mismanagement of the fnan-
ces. Mr. Ewing exposed to the sunlight the scene
OF rottenness and ruin they had left behind; Mr..
Woodburys attack upon it, with Mr.. Evans reply,
only confirmed the colors of the picture. The res
possibility and the disgrace of having contracted
national debt in time of profound peace, will stick
to Mr. Woodbury. and his fellow councillors, like
the poisoned shirt of Nessus. There is no escape
from It, There it is, and there IL will stand and ac-
cumulate, unless Congress at this session provides
Tor its liquidation. Mr.. Wright may pretend, with
all the embarrassmens of the Treasury staring him
IN the face that there was necessity for the extra
session; we will leave that question to the people,
who decreed change in the men and measures of
the Government and who desired the benefits of the
The Board Of Visiters at West Point A North
ern paper in speaking of the progress Of the exam
nation going at West Point, remarks that "the
Board, as usual composed of distinguished citizens
from every part of the U. s." This compliment is
certainly due 10 the members of the present Board of
Visitors at West Point, but to say that all the men,
bers of that body for the few past years dis
ii for
anything other than partizan services rendered by
themselves friends, is to say that which is notori-
ously incorrect.
Though there are usually, and have ever BEEN SO
far as we informed, many distinguished and mer
torious men among the visiters yet there were last
year, and in years Immediately previous, individuals
among them utterly incapable of experimenting the
examination of even a village primary school-men to
whom mathematical science, the modern languages,
and We had almost said their own mother tongue
were hidden mystery-a sealed book. But they
had sufficient merit in the eyes of certain members of
Congress- to obtain their recommendation for the APP
pointment. Butw suppose this was all right as they
were considered the ornamental as they certainly
were the silent members of the Board of Wseacres
Several persons, Irshmen and negroes have been
arrested in the vicinity of New Orleans on suspicion
of being concerned in the supposed piracy and murder
on board the ship Charles. Some think that the old
pirate Laftte, who has been living at Paraguay, has
returned again to his congenial pusuits.
The New Orleans Courier says: if no act of vlainy
too atrocious for the marked progress of vice
we may well feel surprise that pirates waited so long,
and having thus waited at last commenced within
sight of the shore. The sicky dead has be-
gun along the shores of the Mexican Gulf and few
prizes of much value may be looked for now Again,
there is the u S. squadron and more than one cruizer
of France and Eng land in the Gulf through which
pirate would have to run the gauntlet the moment his
first depredatons should be bruited abroad. So that
admitting captains and filters out pirates to be pos
sessed ofthe least discernment, hardly imagine
they would choose the Gulf Mexico for the scene OF
their operations during summer. Still, folly and
knavery-crime and short-sightedness by nc
means companions, we will not presume to say
that the case of the Charles may not offer instance
ofpracy. " .s.....n.