The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-30

M he shall commence his reviews. ba, ferred to the documents and testimony ~ I deem of importance in our controyers have pointed out and commented unoa testimony upon which his report is finn ed; and have endeavored to show wb,' amounts to, and how far it falls short of VI blishing the positions contended for in report l will now beg leave to add more paper, and then have done. ItN letter of Anthony II. Davies, the Presii at that time, of the institution. It is inn to letter from the committee, and NJ ought to have been placed with the other timonies in the case-succeeding, at leas deposition of Mir. Hanger, at page 95 stead of coming i'll there, we find it at E 127. In like manner, we find the able NY of the minority of the committee misplaE ' ou will find it in the appendix, at page E when it should have succeeded the maoE report, as page 91. We should then had the two reports together.
 now request you to publish the leIte k Mr. Davies, man who was the autho the Bank charter-the author of the res ton of the Central Board, of January. l8Nb the author of the instructions of February, June-and the President of the Bank, who eeiyed the money from the CommissioDs3 and for whose management of all these ! change operations-in whose hands. toI great extent, the Commissioners were the strumeTts-ife received, if tile CommissloI CTS themselves did not, the unanimous thaDl of the Board. This man was at the begil ming, and at the winding up, of the conesr He knows, better than any other man, sh, services the Commissioners performed, ul the effect that their operations had upon N interests of the institution. He is a genta man whose veracity, honor, and mtelligen! no achig in the State, whatever demod might do, will question. will thank yov publish here, appended to this commun| ton, the letter of that gentleman. You = find it at page l27.
 |. LiHle Rock, Nop. cl7th, l84l GENTLEMEN-In reply to your note yesterday, requesting me to inform you the settlement made by Col. A. II. seVier, agent for the Real Estate Bank, in the sale $500,000, State bonds, purchased by ,. Hon. Levi Woodbury, for an investment the '' Smithsonian Legacy,'' was satisfact , to the Central Board of Directors, it gives pleasure to say, that the settlement Of the } counts of Messrs. Williamson and Sevier not only satisfactory to that Board, but t entire agency in the negotiation and sal ) the bonds disposed of by them-the dis sition and arrangement of the funds con into their hands, from such sale--ther | and unweariod attention to all tine mat connected with their mission-the pro and faithful manner with which they charged every duty connected with 1t, } such as not only to give entire satisfact but to entitle them to the thanks and obl tions of the Board.
 Though your request refers only to SeYier, 1t is but justice to both gentlen , that this public avowal should be made Very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
 A. H. DAVE
 Hon. 4. Rusr, Sc.
 One more request, and that is, as you published the majority report, hope, at y earliest leisure, you will publish the repor Rust and Mayors. All want, is alt the fa before the country. , Very respectfully,
 your ob't sev't, A. II. SEVIEE l
 The following is the statement of the T sury Department, referred to by Col Sev in the first part of his communication
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, | 6h February, l3f3. | SIR-I have the honor to transmit to : the transcript requested by your letter q Sd inst.
 < W. FORWARD, secg Tfeesu r , Hon. A. II. SEVER, Senate.
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, /, Registers 0Gce, February 6ih, 1S4s l hereby certify the annexed staten e warrants, and drafts, to be true copies ol originals, on file in this office. 3 T. L. SMITH, Regisl 5 Be it remembered, that Thomas l.. Sn I Esq, who certified the annexed transcriF . now, and was, at the time of doing SO, e gister of the Treasury of the United Sh !? and that full faith and credit are due to = official attestations.
 = In testimony whereof, I, Walter Forw I Secretary of the Treasury of the Ur l ~~~o States, have hereunto subscribed 9 name, and caused to be affixed A' seal of this Department, at the = -~-~ ty of Washington, this 9th day of { bruary, in the year of our Lord lS43. ? w. FORWARD, 3 Secretary file 7feasm Z No. 75,3O6.
 TVasaington Ciiy, Sept. 4th, lss , The Secretary of the Treasury United States,
 To William w. Corcoran, U
 To 50O,000 dollars, six per cent. bonds the State of Arkansas, at ninety mine nine-tenths per cent, S499,5OC purchased by the Secretary of the Treas in trust, for the uses specified in the last and testament of James Smithson, of Lond agreeably to the sixth section of an ac ,, Congress, entitled ssAn act for the suppol the Military Academy of the United Sta t~,, l. I T