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 P S. have just heard that Mr. McDonald, the Chief Clerk in the State Department, ls dangefOusly ill. and that he has resigned his

 WAsHINorON, Dee. {, le9o. Rhmor is rife here in relation Co certain changes having been made in the eOmplex- ion of the President's meGsage, afler lI was ready for presentment. The paragraph in relation to Texas is said to have undergone an entire change from the original, wherein the acknowledgment of the independence of that Province and its annexation to the Uni- ted States were warmly recommended. From the Presidents well known views in relation to this subject it is at least probable that such may have been the fact. RuInor ascribes the alteration to the instrumentality of the Attor- ney General, whose feelings are adverse to slavery, though he has never given the slight est intimation of a disposition to cOuntenance the mad schemes of the Abolitionists. .a

 The Presidents health is still precarious, rery Precarious! He is kept from company by the advice of his physician, though ceT- tain of the elect have ready Gceess Co Ainl-thus are affairs managed in this metropolis. N has been intimated that he is anxious to re. sign, and this is more than plausible, when his wretched health is taken into considera- tion, and the varying views and wishes of some of his close personal friends with others who are about to come into power and place. One darling measure of the Presidents is the specie circular, which he says IS peculiar2v has Oap,s," and which shall never be rescinded with his consent, and hence they urge upon him the necessity of remaining at the head of the government, to carry out his own views in that particular.--N. Y. Courier. syt ,....

 WAsHINGTON, Dec. 2, 1696.

 slR-Ihs Van Buren party in Congress t1ansacting the public business. There is, evidently, system in refusing to perform their duty to the people. You will observe in the proceedings of the House of Representatives, that on the first day of the session MT. Whit tlesey made an attempt to have the Standing Committees appointed forthwith. This was er0ded by 9 motion of MT. Mann to ad journ.

 The next day (Tuesday) Mir. Whittlesey renewed the effort. It was again epGded by motion of MT. Parks to adjourn.

 This day, Wednesday, the death of cer- tain members, who died during the recess, was announced: whereupon the house imn1c- diately adjourned. Now these deaths might us well have been announced on the first day of the session as to-day, but the excuse for an adjournment would then have been lost. The session is short one, and when 1t is B. bout coming to close, the gentlemen from New Hampshire, well known by the familiar cognomen of {" The Previous Question" will be called upon to do his duty and thus, by means of a gag-law, cut off debate on impor- .tant topics, under the frivolous pretext, that the public business requires prompt action. The attention of the people should be called to this seandalous waste of time, and they should be made to know and understand, that 

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 And now for the reason, if there is any. I have made the inquiry of intelligent mem bers, and they seem to concur in opinion that it arises out of the difficulty in making the arrangements for the Committees. In fair ness, it would be supposed, that being the same Congress, they would all be re-appoin- ted, unless a vacancy had been created by death or resignation. This is the. wish, it is said, of what is now called the Jackson pay ty proper; but a new sect has arisen: they are designated the 6 Van Burcn COnserfG- tires." The fate of the Committees we shall know in few days. In the meantime it iS understood, that Mr. Joel B. Sutherland is ul- der the hammer, in the Kitchen Cabinet for their " Conservative" power will be extended to. Congress. Sutherland is Chairman of the Committee AOn Commerce. l should think that he would be re-appoined; but if he is rejected, he will only have met his deserts. and will not receive the sympathy of any man in the nation. His race is run with the party. ,5H tE# 3"' @ s.'

 You will perceive that the President has touched the Texian question very cautiously; might say, coldly. It is confidently asser- ted, that he was brought to this point with much difficulty. He had prepared, or cans- ed to be prepared, paragraph of a very diff ferent character, but through the persuasion of Mir. Forsyth and Mir. Butler, consented to adopt that which is now in the message. -t

 There evidently is change in the feelings of Congress since the last session, on this sub iect. Texas has lost ground, not only in the North, but in the South. It is extremely doubtful whether they can obtain a recogni- tion of their independence, by the present Congress. As the affair now stands, the chances are against it. @} t |oa aa.

 The President continues very feeble. He is not in condition to sec his friends or transact business. If the hsemorrhage re-. turns. in but slight degree, thercw proba- bly be an immediate end to his life. His best friends are greatly alarmed, and believe with sufficient causc.--D I iel 9yie h THURSDAY EVENING, Dec. g.. The session of to-day, in both Houses will tell you that the play days are not yet over m Washington. The House began it's session with signs of business, in the passage of. Q re- solution introduced by the indefatigable Mir. WHITTLEsEY, of Ohio, proposing tic imTne~ diate appointment of the Standing COrnNit- tees of the House. The announcement of the death of Mir. Kinnard of Indiana, closed the