The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-07-13
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Congress again susp ended business
To-day, IN compliance with the usage
IsAylliclg the day to pnbiier eings.
Very little progress was madesh busis.
mess last, week
Them monster land ybil15is still before
the Commit ttee5on Public Lands, ofthe
Senate, and its fate is ulicei tain. That
bill provides for the distribution
among the States, old and new, of six
lity-three millions ofacres of public do
nain. The old States, however get
but d small shareonl y 150, coo acres
torEeach Senator or Representative.
The quantity ofpublic land thus to he
taken for the distribution, is more than
one half of the whole quantity that has
I3bee1, since the formation of the Coy
eminent, disposed of by sale and do
Enation. The whole number of acres
THAT have been disposed Of is one hun
fdred and one millions; the whole guam
tity remaining, including acquisitions
from Mexico, and lands to which the
Indian title has not been extinguisled,
is thirteen hundred millions Of acres. }:
The Select Committee Of the Senate,
on the Census printing, have made d
report against the adoption Of the plan
of publication proposed by the Census
Bureau. 1t recommends the suppress
sion OF the statistical returns, as useless
and erroneous, and also the omission
of the proposed geological and histori-
cal notices of each State as furnished
in the Maryland specimen. This Mill
ireduce the volume more than four
fiiths in size. The Census Bureau has
over q million. and q quarter of dollars
to obtain these returns, and many. be-
lieye them to be very valuable. If
they are valuable they ought not to be
suppressed because of few unavoida-
bic. deficiencies or Inaccuracies in the
collection of flcts. The report of tho
Superintendent, made some time ago,
embraced some important statistics,
aud the demand for the document has
been immense. More than quarter
of million Of copies f:ave been. n.print-
ed and distributed. 5
We are in the eighth month Of the
session and. yet not asingle Appropria-
ton Bill has passed, not oven the De
ticiency Bill.
Mr.. Toombs made his expected .po-
litical speech on the Deficiency Bill! on
Saturday, and has given a ffesh.im-
pulse to tie discussions of the nolnina-
tions for the Presidency. These dis
cussions will now proceed with great
anmation: It:is admitted by all that
MIR. Toombs' speech was q mastery
effort. The friends of General Scott
are al little disconcerted by it, while
the Democratic members derive from
its encouragement; and their Executive
Committee will circulate an immense
number oftheinsfor effect in the South,
and also upon a National and Com
promise Wings ofithe North.
IS Mr. Eoopbs lis decidedly opposed
Ito The elect ionEs OF Gen. Scott lionf uc-.
count of his position sthenoml of
INC of stiie two Save
! Law, He undertakesto showthat the
majority that gave the nomination to
General Scott do not intepd to abide
.lby the platform which they were
Forced to concede to the South. His
comments OIL General Scott'silettcr OF
acceptance were very severe. The
new plank that General Scott adds TO
] the platform was, he says, intended to
relieve him from some former coInpli-
cations with the Native Americana
/ te objects also4o the lcttcr, that it
does not, like Mr.. Picrce's, say that
the platform contormed with his own
views; and that it promises, in effect,
toleration and patronage to his free
soil Supporters. The history of his
life, which General Scott refers to, is
full, Mr.. Toombs says. Of political er-
rors. Every ofie of his antccedcnts,
MIR. t. declared, We're against him.
| Senator John Bell, of Tennessee,
has declined the offer Of the Navy DE.
partmcnt. The Hon. NJ. p. Gentry,
OF the same State, contradicts the
statement that it had been offered to
and declined by him.
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NAsHlNGIoN, July 4, lS52.--Dr.
George A. Gardiner, the head of the
alleged Gardiner claim, who was pre-.
| viously out on bail iii the sum of for
ty thousand dollars, under an indict:
ncnt for perjury. was again arrested
by order OF, tho government, and
brought before Judge Crawford be.
tween ten and eleven o'clock list night;
under new Indictment, which was
found by the grand jury yesterday
charging said Gardiner with forging the
| signatures of the Governor and of the
Secretary Of tho State of San Luis
Potosi, the pIetect Rio Verde, and his
| secretary, and the. seal of the State
The government demanded bail in the
sum of 100000. Judge Crawford
. required 100000, falling to obtain
which Gardiner was committed to Jail
where he still remains. Henry May
esq, of Baltimore, "a Democrat Du.
putty Attorney General of Maryland
has been associated with the. District
Attorney here to conduct the prosecu
ton by order Of President FILLMORE
i Prior to his urrrst f.or, >ynrn ont ~