It may here be proper to premise that Georgia is the first State in the Union that has ever received a compensation for her territory transferred to the United States. That territory was acquired by the joint exertions and blood of the citizens of all the States. Under such circumstances it becomes necessary to inquire into the compensation stipulated to be given by the United States to the State of Georgia; a compensation not given for the land, but for expenses incurred by Georgia in relation to it. The Attorney General tells us that these expenses were incurred for the portion surrendered to the United States, as well as for the whole State. It behooves the gentleman from Georgia to show the precise expenses incurred. Were this once proved it would remove all doubt. The Commissioners who formed the articles of cession, it may be presumed, had before them the whole materials; and it must be inferred that the claims now made were fully considered by them, and were, so far as they are just, included in the settlement. Mr. S. concluded his remarks by saying he felt no uncommon tenacity or zeal against the claims; but that he would be very willing to allow them in case it should be satisfactorily shown that they were not already compensated. Mr. MERIWETHER and Mr. HOLLAND opposed the report, when a vote was passed against the claims--yeas 73, nays 28; when the House, on the motion of Mr. J. CLAY, postponed the further consideration of the subject till Monday next. MONDAY, February 13. _Public Roads._ On motion of Mr. JACKSON, the House took up the bill making provision for the application of the money heretofore appropriated to the laying out and making public roads leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic to the Ohio river. Mr. J. CLAY moved to postpone the bill to the 1st Monday of December. Lost--yeas 41, nays 40. Mr. R. GRISWOLD moved so to amend the first section, as to vest the President with a general power to appoint three Commissioners to designate a route, to be reported to Congress for their ultimate decision; which motion, after a short conversation, was agreed to by a considerable majority. Mr. LYON offered a motion for empowering the President to designate the routes. Lost, without a division. The committee rose and reported the bill with several amendments, in which the House concurred, and ordered the bill to a third reading on Wednesday. TUESDAY, February 14. _Importation of Slaves._ The following motion, offered by Mr. BARD, was taken into consideration in Committee of the Whole: “_Resolved_, That a tax of ten dollars be imposed on every slave imported into any part of the United States.” On motion of Mr. JACKSON, it was agreed to add after the words United States, “or their territories.”