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voting for it, and MT. Clay against it. And this is the vote, on the motion of Col Sevier which so ma terially changed the value of the donation of the 50o,000 acres of land to the new States; change 'otach did not cone e donation 10 lands scich had beea in market and Dtich nobody ,coald bug ot dol tar and quafter an ocre but chich authorised tke selection oftte donation onl any of he public laads This IS the change to which the Governor referred in his Batesville speech, and which has subjected him to the islanders of " Loudon, and the Editor of the North Arkansas. Let any one look at the jour nals of the Senate, of 184l, page 172 and he must have pity and contempt for such reckless and infa- nous sandere1s as '' Louaon'' and the Editor have proved themselves to be.
 At page 176, MT. Sevier moved further amend ment, which is as follows viz:
 .' SEC. 10. find De it fiaiher enacted, That the public lands which shall not have been sold or other wise disposed of by the United States after having been Tn market fer the term of twenty years except the necessary sites for iorts arsenas custom houses or other public purposes, shall be and is hereby granted to the states respectively within which said lands are situated
 This motion was voted down, Fulton and Sevier voting for it, and Mr. Clay against it. Other amend ments were offered, and failed; which can be found at pages I95, 2o8, 2o7, 2i3 214, 2l5; which we have not time now to notice, but to which we maF- refer hereafter
 The bill passed. Itwas palatable to but few MT. Clay did not like it. because it contained pre-emp- ton clause, but yet he voted for the bill The friends of -empons and donations voted against the bili although always voting for both those measures be- cause it contained provision for the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands sure calculated to injure aH the neV States, by ma ing them tributary to the old; by keeping up the price of public land preventing reduction; and preventing the settlement of the country-a measure designed to build up and sustain the high tarif po- Hey of the country. But more of this, hereafter OUT object, at present. being but to give history of the bill, and not it's bearings upon the interest of the country; and to defend Coy. Fulton, against the islanders of the Editor of the North Arkansas, and his correspondent.
 The Editor of the North Arkansas is out with certificate, to prove that his report of Col seviers speech is not entirely incorrect and shameuy n- accurate; and yet that Editor admits that his report of the speech is 'scoadea8ed;n that with one excep- ton, t expresses he substaace o he remarks; and thatit 'oms be portions ertich the Colonel read from the printed documents" This is the Editors stae- ment respecting his report of the speech It is con- densed-it expresses the substaace-it omits al Me doeenta or, in other words 1t onats all the proofs he read to establish his innocence. And this is the Colonel's complaint. Who ever heard of reporter, protesting to report speech coadensag t according to his own fancy? Who ever heard of reporter, pretending to report gentlemans speech, assuming the responsibility of giging aebat he might consider e substance oft? Who ever heard of reporter, pre- tending to report speech emitting aH tte documents cad published testimony referred to, and relied upon, by the speaker? No one, we will venture to say, but that editor and his expurgators.
 The Editor has corrected one false statement ;-I will he correct another? which is that paragraph which states that Col Seyier had right to slander hesLegislatue The Colonel, we are assured, made no such statement.
 The Van Buren Intelligeneer says, the river is up and navigable at that place.
 Mr. David vann is not dead as reported, but has recovered beyond all danger.
 
 A family. by the name of Wore were murdered on the night of the 18th, in the Cherokee country, and their house burnt over the dead bodies The perpe- tfaors of the horrid deed supposed to be of the name of Starr. A traveller who stopped that night at the house, by the name of Stevens was also sup possd to have been murdered