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CONGRESS. " WASHINGTON, August , Tho
Senate was not in session Ia day
HOUSE OF REpREsENrATINE

CONGRESS. WAsHIxcrox, August 2-Tae
Senate was not in session Ia day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
III" H"ns" passed eleven of its own aud six "f
the SenHtr's private bills
The House then went info committee on the
| ioriitca'i"n appropriation bill
After the bill had been amended, on melton of
Mr.. stanton 1t WAS reported 10 the House with IA
recommendation To strike out the enaeting clause
with II view to its defeat. This agreed to-
yeas 60. nays 9.
The point was raj sod that the first business
now was 10 vote on the amendments, bat the
Speaker decided that the only thing reported
To the House was the Recommendation TO strike
out the enacting clause, the amendments wer"
thus cut off; and the vote mast be- on the passage
of the arieinpl bill.
Mr.. Motie>on moved that the bill he laid On the
table; hut the motion did not prevail-yeas &c.
navs 90.
The bill was then passed. 1t appropriates
Si5S3.3o0, including Sl5a,O00 far Fort Carroll,
Maryland
The House ,hcn went into committee on tho
bill making appropriations for the Legislative.
ecutive and judicial expenses of the government
for the year ending June 80 1857.
Mr.. Herhertof California. made q personal ex
PLANTATION in answer to the various charges lately
brought against him from all quarters of the I'm
on--iiom the Pacific as we'll a. the Atlantic coast
u
Integrity So far rs he concerned ndvidu
ally, he felt pertec, indifference in regard to
such charges; but his duty Ia the House required
him to meet them and brand them lalsehoods
Not one of them could he substaniiatod, he cared
not who asserted to tho contrary.
After some discussion several causes of
the bill at four o'clock the committee took re-
Cess. and after re-assembing a number of noliti.
Cal speeches were made Adjourned
ESCAPE OF AMERICANS FROM MExiCo,-Jos.
b, Smith, of Virginia Charles Brown, of Ohio
aud eleven other of the American passen-
gers by the Archibald Oracle. from San Francis
CO. who were seized at La Pcz, in Alta Califor.
MIA, by the Mexican authorities. and detained So
long in prison and in irons. arrived at New Or
leans last week in state of great des'itution.--
The Picayune says:
The whole number OF persons thus seized was
originally eighty seven. This was about the
middle of November of last year. They were
kept in confinement in room about forty feet
square until the eth of December when they
ere taken out aud ironed two and two, and put
on board Of vessels to be sent to San Bias
This horrible voyage, by reason of thescalms,
cupled twenty four hours. On the arrival Mt
San Bias the irons were Immediately ordered to
be taken off. The prisoners were then marched
first to Topic, and then further distance of 300
miles to Guada!a iara, which place they reached
on the 9th of February. Leaving that on the
18th of March, they marched on foot to
Guanajuato. where they arrived March the 10Th,
and on the 29th of April reached Escapasalco, n
small town in the vicinity of the city of Mexico.
This long journey was made on foot, distance
of thirteen or fourteen hundred miles.
AT Escapasalco they were not put into close
confinement, but were allowed to go at large all
day, with an allowance of fifty cents day for
their support. The allowance on the journey
was only twenty-five cents day. They re-
manned here several months unable to get trial.
A number escaped with little obstruction, and
went back to California; others escaped and
have heretofore arrived in the United States
They were tired of waiting for the trial, and the
compensation which was due them for their i'm
prisonment and detention. The present COM
pany, consisting of thirteen, started July 9th,
and found no interruption in walking down to
Vera Cruz, or in getting on the Texas. Several
met friends in the city of Mexico who paid their
passage.