C. F. READ Sc 11. H. FRAZIER, EDITORS. I : • MONTROSE, THURSDAY AUGUST 26 18'58. ,SITIIIIER WIND: Ur wvu2AF. CULLXN BRYANT it i; a sultry day. The sun has drunk - Th e dew that lay upon the morning grass; . There is no rustling in the lofty elm - • That canopies my dwelling, and its shade • " Fe;;ree (cols All is silent, save ,the faint m j interrupted murmur of the bee, , settling on the sick flowers; and then again .!: - .,tantly on the wing. The plantA around red the too potent fervors the tall maize Boll: up itsiong green leaves; the clofer droops Its tender foliage, and-declines its blooms. But far in the fierceautrabine tower the hills; With all their growth of woods, silent - pud stern, As if the scorching heist and dazzling light - Wert but an element they loved. Blight clouds, j- Motionless pillars of the heaven,— :• - 7 , Their base upon the mountiins—their white tops Shining in the far ether—fire the air '"• With a reflected radiance, and make•turn The gazer's. eye away. From me, - I lie - Languidly in the,shade; wher,l the thick turt, - Yet virgin from the kisses of the sun. Retains some freshness, and I woo the wind -- - f That still delays itscoming. Why so slow, Gentle' and voluble spirit of the air? • ' Oh,.come and breathe upon the Canting earth Ceoluess,and life. Is it that in 'his cave. 4 lie hears:me ? . Sect,On yonder'woody ridge, The pine is bending his proud top, and now, Among the nearox groves, chestnut or oak Are tossing thir greet' boughs about. lle comes! whCrethe'lgry meadow tuns in ware 3! The deep distressful, silence of the scene Ilreaks . .um with minglineof unnumbered4ounds Anil universal motion. lie is Come Shaking a shower ~o f blossoms from the shrnbs„" And hearing on their fragrance ; and he brings ldmicmf birds, and rustling of young trees. And sound. of swaying branches, and the voice Of kli,taiit waterfalls. All the green herbs Are stirring breath; a thous.ittrlflowers,; Br the roadside and the borders of the brook, N'od gaily to each other gintisy leaves\ • Are twinkling in the ann. as ifthe dew Were on them yet, and silver 'waters break t Ittto - sMall waves and - sparkle as lie COrtile3.. t '• Fronitl;e 'A/bony Evening Journal. THE OLD REPRESENTATIVES' HALL . . Tits removal. of the. House-Qf Represent-. illive.s from" their. old 'lran in the centre iy.:;i'dinz or !e Capitol, into %he. new Hail in tf,e,(o.x.-teti4ed southern wing, awakens ,inany reeoll , ctions of men andd events, which, in th:s m,w silent Chamber, hive • played lead. I z ig . rtris _in the drama of pill it i cal contests. The t..,d Cipitol' was destroyed by the Brit ish-forces in Aligust, Is 4. The incidents (f the wrir then raging in need• Mr. Madison tro.convene an extra session of (:ingress in Serernber of that year) they met in a plain brick building on Capitol. Hill. Though the country was passing , (through the:- most critical period of the War,' the'message of the President occupies only - about, a column of an ordinary newspaper.— The Speaker, Lang- But the other wing of the Ca,pitol, during dou i Cheve.S; of South Ce:rolina, announced 1 the closing events o(Arr. Adams's adminis tne'Aanding committees the second - day, of Ltration, and the opening scenes of Gen. Jack= the session, and Meinters, Went at businessi'son's, -di'Splayed a roll of names scarcely less in right good earnest. As things are done I eminent. 'Storrs, licPuffie, John Quince ne%-a-days,the message" would have filled a Adiims, Archer, Root, Cambreleng, Tolume, and a nionth ha - ve been eon- i ton, BurgeN, Buchanan, James. M. Wayne, sumed in getting into working order. * *** Pulk, Bell, Choate, Verplanek, .Stexention, A temporary Capitol was ereeted, in 'which ;'Corwin, Evans, Binney ! It needed but (this tlie.two Houses. sat until the assembling of array of learning and eloquence in the House, the Sixteenth-Congeoss, on the 4th of De. , contemporaneously with the still grander amber, 18.19, when the House of IZepresent- i display in the Senate, to entitle, _the'Se four oe ~tires met for, the first time in their theri.l five years to be called the golden era of Con- greatly-admired new Hall. - Ile who shall hereafter- write the history, of these .renowned legi latise Chambers,:the ancient apd the modern--Lwili not overlook the remarkable fact, that the'closiing hoUrs in the old Hall of 1819 *ere. -devoted to excit ing debates upon the Missouri Col.np_r4oise que-ti.m—that the. opening hoursOf' the new Hall of 1819: (now the old Hail,) as well as several succeeding months, resounded with the-din of debate on the same theme—thaj; after a lapse of more than a third Of a- can. : rv, the .last a•n,qress that occupied this' Hall shook the claintry with agitations re 4,eeting.the same Missouri Compromise— and that the first speech delivered in the IleW Hall of .1 . 857 was devoted to an examination .Of the principles ir.volved,iin the enactment of this celebrated treasure; and the :egiti mate consequences springing from its repeal. The truggie respecting the admission of- Ml4souri into. the Union btratt• in the old Hall, in Decentber, 1818, andl'cloicd +h more stately Chamber where CougresS . 1110:: met, -in. March, 18'20. •" Scarcely had the , drawn f ir seats,ln Deeeniber3Sl9, the: the fierce si.ctiottal battle, of last sessi"lis was renewed. Challenging to rena the.highe.4 , ,t, forensic powers of that rk:;.hrtgefi Gmarezet, tai?l. convulsing the min: has tlie reopening of , -otitt-tversy in our time, this essentially 1: .. - 1.+1:C1131/14 . conflict of opinion :finally into Mr. Clav's,supei.ficial,Coutprotni,:e, I 'it- nationstukexhiturzted into apparent' Though the fires Went down, the stilld e red, ;an 't - ed to nrealt oat th!;ty-four- years tiffervrara with a more' fitinic!‘fhari hefore. Twa u.SQCSlcelt riaz S. • 1 , , - A (1.114- 0ml:1,g:of Ole second scat...on of C,6 , ress. Mr. Clay having resigl:ed the Chair,) Juba "Ntir..,TaylOr, rf Newilrerk, was elec!ed Speaker_on theAwetty-Seeond. ballot p* , .ii;g. vot e s .14" fin. Mostly _•Oven to Dmvtidts, of SouthtZuliria. • It was a comlest, 'growillo.' - naturally_ out of f.gitations of the preeedingstioriti; and though it.bUt faintly resi4nbied, retzent afrtigle Which _resulted in ti y:c in the Chair, the close of-a •rivire Tr• ,, tiicted scene in . 141.4 great dram% that 3t l Speaker- Nathaniel P. Banks. . . • • IVe have neither tithe- nor materials. for ruf.re than biiel , ,ailutions• to some of the r„,glicy themek and gm-la: hen who hive uied in the old 41.a11, .dnring the- - e:ght.and-' th6..y years,of.';itij Occupancy. by r.,otgress. The. first inteet to : which we will refer is the earliest• :'4Z,ongressional proceedings of . uhich we have any .pmtetnporaneons,reCol, speea, and the succeed debate, in January, 1524,20 n .the Greek * * . . • • The Greek-slebate was an-era in 'Congress ional eloquence: •Clayi'Poinsett, John R-an: .'d!,lph. Dwight of ...Masa.; delivered splendid sp .(*dhes. -The keen philippic of fiery young Bartlett, of .New..flatopShire, against Clay; and the'lofty Keninekiatt'itoutemptuons and . caustic reply, are freshly ri.tnetntoated: Stan Houstondtist from :the iirtia woods' Teime,„ Ge , br . o ke a. lance in thie:foray.. A third of Lcentury has ghee, during which he has conquered it foreign 'llepublie.lias filled Presidential chair, and annexe , it - to our ;. and Yet, the . towering fops) of the old chieftain may be seen - , erect' >4ed eagle , ed, in' the ..Q.enatetChatober,, an active per - tlitipant in its daily' proceedin,gl. A few old relies of. ill«) . revolutionary :pe riurl yet live to remember the britiapt gmne! wh'attafayette titarly hair a. , - eelitury after ,•• • 11 . • • x he .had: bade adieu to Washhigton, on the eve ot , his return to France, was received in i the Representatives' Hall, amidsit the wildest plaudits- of itundreds of spectators, Mr. Speaker Clay, in the name of the- great Ile= public-which-Ida valor had helped .to found, welemiting: his return mom shores. A later I), -y da witnessed a similar spectacle, -when he IFwas gieeted 'within this Hall' by the Nation- I al Representation, Kossuth-, the eloquent Gov. error of-alungary. , I In this INflranspired that -event, whirl so- completelY dissolved existing political LeombinationS, and has influenced the destiny of men and parties even down to our day—•- 'the election of John Quincy Adams by the House•to the ,Presideney.- 'I he spiteful con- Itemporancous Clay and Kreamer correspond rence—glie,olt-reiterated charges of ." bargain I and corruption"—the long-standing feud be ! tween Clay and Jackson then erwendered— the remorseless obloquy that chafed the spir t it and clouded the future of -the great Com moner, (now known to have: been so undo.- . I served by him,) tire among the bitter remem brares of \ this period. • W e can barel• mention. the proposed Con- f greys of Panama the Tarikrevision tlf 1828 ,1; .. 1 ------the Indian controversy with Georgia, and i the ultimate removal of the Aborigines be ' yond the Mississippi; measures pregnant with greit principles, and Prolifi'e of race el oquence, furniShing occasions for genius to utter glowing words which posterity %valuta let die. Nor-ean we dwell upon that, other memorable Contest which shook the Hall of Representatives and the Senate Chamber to I their foundations, and filled every, corner of 1 the land with figitation. \V mean 016 nulli- tieatirm conflict of 1830 and 1831. It was about the time when the two last- -i mentioned events were pending, that the Senate began to take the lead of House inXie initiation and-discussion of impnrtant Measures, and to attract to itsean unprecc - Dented-hate of the pdblic attention. This teas due in part to the recent infusion into that.body of -several new Setiatc/rA, who were distingui,hed not only fur great learning, and ripe experience in affairs, -but for splendid oratorical powers, 'To say that when Cray, ,Webster, Calhoun, Wright, Clayton, Rives, Poindexter, Ewing, Talimadge, and Dallas,. entered the Senate, they found already there Benton, Woodbury, Tazewell; Ilavne, Berri en, Frei ingliuysen, Holmes, Forsyt - h,Spragne, and McLean, is simple, Proof that, the north wing.of the Capitol was to be the theatre where the great questions then convulsing the country were to play their principal parts: • . ~ . `, gres, _ ional oratory.. zz 1 The:nullification contest, and the closely -' Ml4;witig tariffeompromise, and the protract ed United• States Bank war, would each af ford Materials ibr a chapter in even a 'Meagre sketch of public events. But the intense in tereSt felt in these questions, together with '-the 'leadership of the Senatei in affairs, were soon to pass away—the heat which they en gendered being destined:to "pale its ineffeet- I nal fires"•before the glowing fervor of a life- I king controversy, concerning_ the Essential ' Rights. of Man, which,,commencing in 1834, has for three-atid.twenty years raged in _the old Hall, till its every seat and aisle, its •ev icry column, and arch, and tablature, is asso- Iciatsxl . with some historic event, some heroic strtiggle A iome brilliant.triumph in this Iloly i Crusade or with some. effort - of genius, elo quence, and couratT; in'behalf of the Ilight and the Tikie,. which will outlive - the lofty ;dome that looked down upon them. Would ; that 'we had time to linger around some of !the scenes in this greatest . drama in Atneri. i ca'Altistory. ' 'We can barely touch upon two ~ o - i r tree, in passing. The right of petition was early put in is sue by that persistent body of men, the rad kid- Abolitionists, hose convictions of duty no fire of persecution was hot enough to burn out-of them. It laa curious_ fact, that the fir:t modern memorial. respecting Slavery, I ever pre-ented to the House of Representa tives, was the proceedings of a meeting in Utica, N. Y., depiTeating the agitation of this , subject! It was offered by Judge 'Beards !lee, Am in Congresk,•in the opening days of t h e session of 18:14,:'5. John Dickson. of 1 OntariO county, N. Y., in January, 1835, [(just after the receptiOn of the Utica memo . .- . rial,) presented a petition 'for the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. Tie alrocated its prayer it, an able .speech. This was the first gentle zephy,r of that ap , _proaching storm which ultimately swelled in to a tempest that raged in the Thiuse with unabated - fury for many years._ The earliest [ defenders of the right „of petitioe, were Messrs. Diekson,of New York, Phillips and IJacksou of MassaehusettS, and Slade of Ver mont Resort was soon bad to the gag rule, which, as the flood of memorials - began. to increase in volume„ *as finally incorporated among the standing rules of the House.— These tyrannieal measures aroused the ire of John'Quiney Adams, who soon became the leading champion of the right of petition.— His great age, his eminent r seivices, his per sistent courage, lhis skill in debate, at once elevated the controversy to a commanding position before the country, During the sessions of 11830= 7 '7—'8 and '9, - 144 desk was loaded with heaps of Anti Slavery Memori als from all the-Tree States.,,_- Every petition day'witnessed a graphic scene, as the old man deliberately presented one memorial af ter another, taking most provoking pains to make s' trtief statement of the coroeiats of each, as he handed it . orr to the little page, to be intimately.consigned -by the Clerk to some dark cell in the subterranean vaults of the Capitol. *._ . - Om the 18th of January, 1837, the'ilouse adopted - the, usual rule to lay- Anti-Slavery petitions on the table ; this being denowinat. ed the "Dawes gag," to distinguish it from Ithe " Patton gag, - ', or the " Atherton gag." On Monday, the 6th of February, 1837, Mr.. ' Adams having,oecupied an hour or more in exhausting. his pile of Anti-Slavery memori als, paused, and looking s4f-lificantly at Mr, Speaker, Polk, - said,, " I had in my hand, a PE 4 ' 4* Pureo r t4 to be a foetitipa from ear. "IFREEDOTa amp ROON'T Anamalr OLZIWEEU amp maoKei,99 tain slaves. 111 should present it to the House, would it go on the labia under the' order of .the 18th January ?" The Speaker seemed bewildered, and had just time to stammer out something about the 'gravity of the question. when the entire Pro-Slavery side of The Chamber exploded with the most intense wrath. -' 3 ‘ Let -, him be expelled! " screamed a selre of voices. 'Expel the traitor !" shouted Dixon 1.1. Lewis, whose huge body, weighingsol3LpOunds avoirdupois, came waddling and wheezing down the aisle towards the 'Clerk's desk. The - whole corps of. oligarchs were on their feet, 'steaming swearing, gestieulating,Aike 'demons. 'Polk plied his gavel and called to order in. vain, while the spectators in the overhanging gall eriesseeught the, spirit of the scene, and were going wild with excitement. Quick as thbught, resolutions were prepared fur the ex pulsion u( . 111r. Adams, based on the assump tion that he had presented a petition from slaves for the. abolition of Slavery. Ere they were thirty before the Hous'e, they were-, offered in a modified form by ~Mr. Waddy Thompson, now demanding the severest cen sure rather , than expulsion. Thereupen'the debate •h - egan. viged violently three days. Thompson, Drunigoole, Wise, Under wooth lending off for the slaveocracy; while Ling coin, Cushing, Grattger,-and other, defended Adams. , During the height of the tempest, the ro tunda, the gallMws, the passages of the Cap itol, being filled with an excited throng, the colleagues and friends of Mr. Adams felt great anxiety-not only for his :ate e I louse, but for his personal safety. M time the resolutions were going throw. va rious modifications, all tending to so n th 4- eir Let ms and mitigate their conclu ens. Aji this time the old Roman sat unmoved in his place, the calmest man in the chamber, with the ince.ndiarv, petition safely locked up in his desk.. At kiigth it began to leak out that the paper ?was not exactly such a docu ment as the slaiveholders in their hot haste had imagined it to be. Whereupon, Dram =Hole, of Virginia, still further modifit d the resolutious by 'setting fifth that the member from Mdssachnsetts had "9;ren color to the idea that slave,: had a right to petition," &c., —a phrase on ychich Adams afterwardS roast ed him alive. Pinally, the Pro-Slave: y side •of the House began to suspect that they were pursuing the negro in the wrong diree• tion •' that if there. was a colored individual in the case at o ill, he was more likely to be found in the pitting : llJan in the- petition, and so they'-stopped-toJake breath. Then Mr. Adams‘rose t address the house. . With great deliber4ion, his voice paid un a shrill key that pierced the rembtest corner of the gallerie:lc, ana. with a frail bit -of paper rustling in his gedihand, ho called the Speak er's attention o' 66 question he had put to him three day n o, which still remained gun answered, viz : N • Jether a paper purporting l to be a petitio f slaves would, if he were to present it, lon h t to table under the order of, the . 18th of January i 'Looking around 'him with a mingled expression . of sareaqic cunning and-lofty scorn which Lord Chatham would have envied, he cried in a voice, nut of thunder, bet in a sharp, hissing- tone, such as lightning might be suppocd to employ if it spoke at alli " And am I to be expelled from this loqnacious, 'babbling House, for simply askingd a question ?" For the - first time the thought flashed on fi lend and Me, that Mr. Adttis had neither - presented the paper, nor- prt posed to present it'! Every body felt queer, while some grave men look ed like lank sheep suddenly denuded of their fleeces. ft bid now got wind that the paper was a 'forge ryi the work' of some stupid slave= Milder in Washington, and purported to be signed by SciPio, Sambo, and other , bogus negroes, asking-the House to expel Mr. Ad ams from the'r body ! And now " the Old Man Eloquent" took his t , ii - th 4 debate. how he demolished onv op ( entlacter another, scourging, f lay. ing, Ka iing, rilpaling, to his heart's content, —how rank pon rank of the Chivalry- went d.,wn in heap • befure his trenehhnt blade— how he spitte 1 poor Drolngoole,and roasted him before a :low tire of sarcasm, when he told him that giving color to an idea" was not a Northe n hut a Southern practice, one of the peculi.ii domestic institutions of Vir ginia with w hich he had no desire to, inter fere--how th House screamed with laugh ter, as Drom oole essayed a grim smile in acknowledge? ent of this delicate allusion to the bleaching chemistry employed .by the South to erneicateihe dark tints in their va riegated population==--how he wound up his triumphant piiitipic by warning his young adversaries "'never again to run on an er rand till they know whither they are going" , 7 --and how ti e House finally refused to lay the resolutiin s on the table, but ili.ought their authors to a direct vote, and finally_ trampled the down by a decided majority :, are no_t.all tl ese things written in the Chron icles of the (Id Ilall of the House of Rep resentatives In Januar . , 1842; another attempt was made to exp e l or disgrace .Mr. Adams fir his practical def nee ot. the right of petition.— Among the numerous memorials forwaided to him was due from Haverhill; Mulichu: setts, asking congress to take the inictatory steps for the .dissolution of the Ilnion. He presented tilt petition on the 24th of :Janus. ry, at the sane time remarking that- he was opposed'to granting its prayer. As in . the previous outprealt of 1837, the Pro. Slavery side of the 1 hamber, 'which had been threat ening a idiss lotion of the Union_ any day fur i the' ast doz n years, now threw itself into a foaming rag at the bare suggestion of taking it at its wor . Tom Marshall, the eloquent i but eccentri member from Kentucky, grave ly proposed to impeach Mr. Adams fOr trea son; Henry A. Wise, even yet famous fbr his absurd h resies, demanded hii enulsion is from the IL use, while milder members only called for vere - censure. Mr. Adams de- mended a ial. Of the thrilling incidents of that c.ontroersy, which exter:iied through twelve bitte day!, there is no time now to speak. On the-fifth or sixth day, (we are writing wh ly froth memory,). Mr. Adams entered-up) his defense. W 0 have - a dis. tinet recoil tion of the mighty themes shad owed forth. in his outline, and which he pro posed to di cuss at length; and of the impor tant documents for which he called under an order of tht House—his themes and.'his doe. uments ein.racing the whole circle of Slav ery. Havi,g laid out work enough, as he said, in res .use to a question from a South ern membe , to occupy twooithrie months, he began b an examination of the positions of his assail. ts, :erialim,. ills reply to Mar- shall was magnificent. In the course of it, while responding to Marshall's proposition to impeach him for treason, he turned suddenly upon him—Marshall plumed hinisellupon his high birth and superior intellect—and said : "The framers of the Constitution have not lilt it for the puny !bind of the member from Kentuck-y to define *fiat treason is. They have declared it solely' to consist in levying war against the United. States, and giving aid and comfort to their enemies. Let liini study the document In his reply to Wise, he was terribly- se vere. For once, he made the, haughty, bras sy Virginian* blanch and quail.. Wise teak an aetive'part in this attempt ,to degrade the old man. beremembered that, on the occasion of the Gilley. duet; the House appear ed to be determined to expel all the mem bers who had participated in that"murder.— Wise was !mu of the number. At recritical stage of the controversy,. Ittr. Adams made a speech against the constitutional, right of the 'House to expel,a member, without a for mal trial, and subsequently made a success ful motion to lay the subject yinthe table.— 'rhos Wise was saved. On the present oc casion, in the course of his-rtply to _Wise's bitter attack, be fixed his cyc . upon him, and, pointing his skinny finger steadily at him, said "At a period not far remote, when the member.now sitting in that'ehtir entered this Hull, pale and haggard, his hands all drip ping' with the red blood of ,a fellow member, and this llouse in itsfildignation was about to expel him from its presence, who interps• ed the shield of the constitution in defence of his privileges, end saved _him from dis grace? Add is this the return he renders Me for that service ?" When the old Man was uttering these ter rible wprds, \Vise, who was sitting erect at their commencement, taking notes, began to settle down !ower and lower, all eyes fixed upon-him, till, at their conclusion, his abash ed countenance was completely hidden be hind his desk. iitti convicted. culprit : stand ing in the dock, and writhing under 'the sen tence of a judge, ever exhibited a • more pit iable spectacle than did the coward Virgin ian. We must forbear -further details. Suffice ; it to say, that, at the end of the twelfth day, the slaveholders, beaten at all points, and driven fronithe field, while Mr. Adams was ' only on the threshold of the discussion, were glad to lay their own resolutions on the ta ble, and give up the•ccinest. Of Mr. Adam's rare . parliamentary • tact, the celebrated strife - over -" broad seal" of New Jersey, -affords an instance. At the opening of the session, the Clerk. fur • many days refused to put any motioa to the }Rise though scores of resolutions, were - offered, and he persisted in calling a roll of members which he had prepared—the Ifouse.beitirt unable in the, meantime. pis•eod to the election of a gpeak , er.and Standing in a " dead lock" of disorganiz ation. Finally, after long debates, Mr. Adams made a motion that Mr. .11hett (we forget at this moment whether it was Rhett or,Lewis Williams,) do take the Chair temporarily, and. preside till a Speak er be chosen. " kh , ha!" responded half a hundred voices ; " but who will put thtt question to vote I" "I LETEND TO ITT IT MYSELF !" instantly responded Mr. Adams. In the twinkling or an `eye, the ogstinate Clerk sank to the position of a mere scribe, order rose out of chaos, and Mr. Adams himself was placed temporarily in the, Chaim., Posterity will regard the - Congressional career of Mr. Adams as the most illustrious period of his great life. lie served, he sav ed the cause of Liberty. The same unerring tribunal will place his forensic displays in the front rank of the manifold exhibitions of a mind richly laden with the spoils of all sciences and all times, - That a 'lieu who had borne no part in deliberative bodies, and had spent the greater portion of his life in. foreign Courts, where he rarely heard the accents of his mother tongue, should, late in the evening' of his days, enter the most tu ! niultuous popular assembly in the world, and fur sixteen years, and .until he reached the octogenarian period, hold the position of the most acute parliamentarian and the most dreaded debater of his time, is withouta par allel in histbry. The circumstances of 'his death were an appropriate closing of his extraordinary ea reer. On a sunny morning in. February, 1848, the house was thrown into one, of its wildest, most turbulent Moods. Half:the members were on their feet, shoutirr to the Speaker. Our eyes fell upon Mr. Adams. ire 'was sittinfr, in his usual seat, apparently czdur and s tminoved by the tumult around him. Instantly he turned very pallid, his lips moved, his hand nervously grasped his desk. We thought he was trying to arise and address the Chair. A moment afterwards his bodo , began to incline over, upon the left arm of his seat, hislieltd dropping upon his breast. One cried out to a member near him, Look to Mr. Adams, -he !", The attention of 'the, assembly was arrested, the uproar Ceased, Members sprang towards the.dying statesman, the House adjourned, and the, venerable, F 114. 0- was. hornet; , : to; the Speaker's room. bike Nelson, his spirit 'Att.. ed? hislife went out, amid the roar of battle so familiar:so musical to his ear..• Not to compare him with vulgar heroes, he was stricken down like Chatham, itt• the plenti tude of his fame, in the theatre of his great. est achievulents ; and he died under the dome of the Capitol, vvhich,so often had edi t oed his eloquence; and witnessed his immor. tal deeds. • "Clarnm et venentbile nomen Gentibus, et =hum nostrie quod proderet urbi." The treason trial of Mr. Adam's reminds one of the censure of Jostiu - a R. Giddidgs, later in the same session fur venturing to of fer in the House some Moderate Anti• Slav ery resolutions. His resignation, his trium phant re-election, are freshly remembered.— Truly the present father of the House may say, "'Times change, and men change with • • ' them." The Old Hall, of which we write, is not solely consecrated' to the heroic and sub lime. The ludicrous and the facetious have laid their gifts there. Among the richest of these was'Tom Corwin's reply to a pompous brigadier general of militia from Michigan, Crary by name.. It was in the Harrison canvass of 1844. Crary had entered into a minute military criticism Of some of Harri son's battles in the war of 1812—'15, to prove Harrison's incapacity for command. Corwin responded.in his happiest vein.' Addressing himself to " the two hundred colonels, majors, and, captains, more or less, on this floor," Coritiu proceeded to describe a muster of I" ' Michigan inirtia, with Brigadier Crary in r command. The various evolutions- and con ' tortions of the line, so 'that the soldiers might enjoy "theutnbra b geous shadows of the shady trees," the omitioustgathCring in the heaFens aboutalooll, the wilting; shower, the scattAr ing of the troops, their] voracious charge near nigtftfiill, the thirsty Crary leading the hung ry column upon the adjacent whiskey shops, water-melon booths, aid gingerbread stands —the intermingled tillusions to Steuben's work on military tactihs. Vauban's on engin eering, to Alexander and the great Freder ick—were all,given in ilanguage and tones so exquisitely ludicrous, Opt fur an hour and a halt the Hinise screanid with laughter, while poor Crary escriped to g one of the adjoining comniittee rooms. The next day Mr. Adams brought down the tloi‘e by speaking of Gen.. Crary as " the late ~Inember front Michi gan." , Thesountry rememtiers, and the historian will record, the fainks financial battles which have been fought in the Old Hall.— The Sub-treasury,—the exciting seettesof the ex(ra session under t,4 Tyler dynaSty—the imperious bearing of !Clay—the vetoes of the incensed Virginians--the sturdy defence of the President, by "the Guard," so called in the House, 'which cOnsisted of Wise and Cushing, and half at do en lesser men, all of whom secured fat offices s for themselves and • Iran places for their 011mA-era—the- protect ive tarifrof 184i1—thelbankrupt act by which debtors paid off their Obligations in a paper currency most unsatisfactory to their credit ors—the free-trade tariff of 1846, and cognate questions afforded forlmany years an ample field for great displays of noliticosconomical eloquence. l Members of the thinse will recollect how often, during the ion' session of 1846, the dapper Secretary of tfe Treasury was seen in consultation with t e rugged old Chair man -tif the Committed of Ways and M eans , Mr. McKay ofNorthlCarnlina , whose stur dy, sense and skillful I , adership, carried flirt,' the tariff bill of that year. _ Despite these finaileial pleasures; these monetary crios, the dterrial conflict between Freedom and Slavery still- went on.• The annexation ot s Texrc:, the consequent war with Mexico, the acquisition of new Territories, and the contests of 1848 and 1850, in regard to the nature of the eMI and social institu tions whlgh should b 5 established in these Territoties, bring thisi rambling sketch-down to•theeve of that greatest of all events in this protracted struggle, die overthrow 'of the Missouri Compromise. We will pause 'here a moment to refresh our own recollec tion of the rich scene in the House, in the ', winter of 1848. when Wilmot gave Father. Ritchie, then editor of theTnion, a terrible flaying, for attempting to read him out of i the ICemocrtitic party, for moving as tin am- endment to a money bill, his Proviso of im- 1 mortal memory. As the ruddy, robuA rep l resentative of the free hills of old Bratford was making ,the Hall ring with the blows he was levelling at the sal i ltiw, lank Virginian', the latter was flitting around the lobby, dodg : ing behind this column, peering nervously i through that cranny in the screen, and look ! Mg for all the world like a lost spirit, strug- I cling to escape front purgiitory. . ~ 1 But enough, ay, too much, of this. At I some future time, should opportunity occur, we may sketch the incidents in that recent ' contest alluded to, still fresh in the recollec tion—yea, and still going on, though its din I will no longer disturb the solemn repose of j the old 111111, • uhich witnessed its opening scenes. Those. yet en parallel led Congress ! ional contests—that of 1820, which resulted lin adopting the Missouri Comprnmise, "nnd 1 thit of 1854 which ended in its repeal, both transpiring within this celebrated Chamber —would afflird rare subjects for th° pencil of the painter, the lyre of the poet, and•the pen of the historian. So, too, would many inei ' dents in that ever changing drama, which op ened with the defence of the Rights of the Union by John Quincy Adams in 1835, and which, twenty years thereafter, saw the clos ing scene of its firsetict in the crowning glo wry of elevating Nathaniel P. Banks ttx the Speaker's Chair,- • Thirty-eight years ago, the Representatives of eighteen States, led by Henry Clay. o( imperishable fame, took their seats in this historic Hall. During that period, what `changes has it seen at home and abroad ! Thirty-one States sitting around the National Council Board, while otheis, lying at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and standing - -be: yond the crests of the Sierra Nevada, demand admission : A Republican Empire founded on the Pacific, larger than that which West ington won; richer than any which Caesar ev er conquered' Every throne in Europe ' twice shaken to ' their foundations : Two revolutions in France :' • The death of Napo.. 'loon : the restoration of his line : the final extinction of the Bourbons: England 'des troying her rotten boroughs, rekirming her Parliamentary representation, repealing her test acts, emancipating her slaves„, abOlishing her coy laws : The genius of Fulton stem-. mingahe currents of all rivers,.and ploughing the bosom of the ocean as if it were prairies : ,The railway a common mode of conveyance in all eivilized States : The telegraph carry ing messages of love and literature, of finance and war, on lightning wingi over land and' 'sea, to 'the uttermost parts of the earth And the old Hall sees thcsame• eternal con flict.tetween Freedom and Slaeerg_still going on! - • = Mae. PAwriNorow.- 7 This weltknown lady haLconcluded to have a house built after her - ownplan. She is very pititieular about its construction, and insists that it shall have a pizarro all around, a condition ink rear, a turpentine walk, and an observation where Ike can be a stromter. A WRONG Cossontsca.-- - -We never do evil so, thoroughly and cordially as when we are led to by a false principla,of conscience. —Pascal. tar We often hear of a man, " being in advance of his age,".bus, who ever beatfd of a woman in the same predicament I' ' ar The ugliest of trades have tbeii, mo• ments of pleasure. Now, if I were a, grave. digger; or even a hangman, there are come . people I could work for with great enjoyment. —Dooglas Jerrold. r There is a.man in: Fife who has so high an'opinion of himself that he imagines he is a church steeple:, Being told so by the belles, coefirms him in the, opinion, • . H. 14. FRAZIER, Pg81.41.HF,11.--V01.t..4.:-NO - . 84ft. THE IVIDOIIV. =2 Corn waa .the night•wind, drifting6tst the snow Wide were the thiwns, and alielterte,ss amt naked, When If poor wanderer struggled - on - her journey, Weary and irarsore. Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflections; Cold *kw the nigh - t -wind, colder was,her bosom ; She had no home, the world was all before her; She had no shelter. " - • Fast ao• the heath a 'cliftilot rattled by her; " Pity inc !" feebly cried the lonely wanderer; • "'Pity inestrangers! lest with cold and hunger, Here I shduld periAt." • "(Mee I had friends—thdngb now by all foTtlon.; • Once I lool.porents--they ere now in heaved! • I had a home once—•l hod once a husband— ' • . strinierlt!" "I had ti home once—. 4 once had a husband, I not a widoW, poor and Ifrokemhierteil !" Loud blew thd wind unheard was her complaining, On drove the chariot. • Then on the snow she laid' down to rest her ; She heard horsernen ; "pity me," elm groaned out; Loud was the wind ; unheard ":tras her complaining! 'On went the horsemen. Worn out with anguish, toil and cold and hunger, Down sank the wanderer; sleep had seized her senses;. 'There did the tt aveler find her in the rimming ; God had released her. ' • Front the :St, logeph Vatleg Register, )itEAD OPEN' AND =9 Few who •have traveled much on the broad Mississippi at an early day, but have heard with dread the name of General, William Montgomery, and none but knew of the landing called " Montgomery's Point," which fur its location aed some peculiar ad. vantages-was hard to' be esftelled. Mont gomery himself, , waslk shrewd,l_luick witted,' low bred fellow; win in rolvish exploits was seldom if ever-equaled. He was the terror of the Sooth, to all who knew him, and as, a sportsman, gambler, &c., was as notorious as the celebrated Captain Kidd as a pirate. The General was said to liake-manfredeem- . Mg qualities in his gaining transations;WhiCh might. be classed as 4illows : ' First—lf he found a man naked he clothed hilt). If he was hungry he fed him. Second—it he was thirsty and poor; he gave him drink, and advised him to leave for some more salubrious clime. And last, though not least, if he was thirs ty. and rich, he made him drink. and then robbed hint His notorious life was the cause of 'all - gamblers yielding- to his , nefarious 'designs who chanced to fall in with him, and whatev er the General said must...of course be right, as none dared to gainsay him. It was about the time when his notoriety had' gained its height, that a French• gentle man, accompanied bylkhuge Yunitec, ed at:the " on their way to, the - head waters of the Arkansas river, mid as there was no other hotel in the place put up with the General. Applitation being made • to him . for .con veyance, he advised them to defer.their jour ney for afew day;, as he thought the pros-. pea of high water was in their • favor. • This' proposition was by no means a welcome one to Jonathan, who had heard of the • desperate character of their host, and said he would rather make a pack-horse of himself than re main. The Frenchman assured him like, wise that his business was verb urgent—that he must go, on foot even, if there was- no other conveyancC. The General was not pleased with the 'determined obStiruiey Of the two, but &mid not well hit. upon 'a plan to detain them .ay their own consent, so he fi nally agreed to take them throtigh on horse back, as-far as Fort Smith: . The horses were accordingly equipped, and the General with his negro, the Frenchman, and 'the Yankee, at length set otit, making quite a respectabre caravan fur the Arkansas wilderness. -. Ere they mounted, however, the _General began running his soft sawder on the Yankee about the many advanta g es he possessed ov er the multitudes of the Southern people; which were no other than being sufficient *in - strength to answer as his own pack-horse; 'and though he might, have bushels of wooden nutmegs and horn grip-flints, to.pack through thli-State, he could always accommo date himselt. ThO Yatilme felt Somewhat chagrined at the insinuation, for fear that the Frerichrrian might consider him a man of that ,charaeter: After their leaiing,sthe General still caused Jonathan no small uneasiness by MS constant attacks.on nativity, &c. The Frenchman soon discovecgdihe'unnoyance the Gen Oral was giving t*, Yankee, and insisted that he was too hartin accusing- his honest friend of having to do with anything oleo base,a char acter. At this the General laughed, and told him his accusations were by no means erro neous. The Yankee g'round his teeth, and remarked—. " It's word well for you that I ain't at hum, for if I was I'd gitre it to ye, darn quick Lew.,, " Don't' you see," said the General,' tUrn ineto the Frenchman with Aul t _ insinuating glance, "-Monsieur believes it too true to be a joke." , At thistite Frenchman assured the six feet down Easter that the-General only jested. "You are Much mistaken," said the . Gen eral, "as if you had 'burnt- your finger. '4 never accuse a man but what I am.-willingi to back my accusation. with _my _.money plaid will-bet you a hundred dollars ; thatto search' the Yankee's saddle-bags, you will find at least one or two hundred horn guiklints, and as many wooden nutmegs?' • • 4 1 will bette you five, hundred: dollars,", siathe Frenchman, o that my friend carry no wooden nutmegs nor born. gun-flints in his von little saddle-Cog." . •' "I take, all such , bets," replied the" Genet': al turning' to Cuffyi who was showing - hiS ivory, and placed the above named - slim In his hand. - This was immediatelyeovered by the Frenchman, -white. the lattice° dismount; ed and prepared tosettre the Matter by 'Un loading his jiaddle-bags. For some moments all ghthered around breathlesi - sifenee, when , the, Yankee to 'hie 'titter astanisintent drew forth the 'abeve .named articles. , • - • • ' Well, you see I have won," continued the General :while Cuffy reared And capered about with delight, showing .the whole breadth of his whites, his eyes IrTened to . an extraordinary magnitude,. and his nose flat tened tike's viper, "You don't catch de General die ar time gosh amighty wid dein ar Wm. ,gutil‘nte $: Whet have you to do with it, you 'tepid Ell Mark • nigger r..crietl' Jonattian', turning to him with a furiouslook.. -.-.! '" Why, you see, 1 is do Generars - aidae camp in holding the`stakes in dis ar specie! game;" at the same time '•he'handed them over to his master with a-chileklinglaugh. The losing, party saw the debeption of the trick, and appeared doubly anxious to tate their journey: • -• The-General was none the less' • merry.- for having won their money, and occasionally laughed over it, saying he had Merely made his expenses, whereas he ought to have made several thousand dollars. • ,The Frenchman sighed, and siiid'helhOught it " Von - Varie expensive , coun trie." The General however atitred.hien that he shopld have, a chance of winning ;back his money,' as soon as he should feel' disposed, by any game _ he :or his dOwn East friend should see proper to select. Monsieur said he only knew one, Whtch was the French game of Tringt.rt-um, or twenty-one. . T he General replied that was, one of -his . • .1 strongest games ; and that so soon tis they could make themselves comfortablysituated as to their lodgings; they wciuld have a friend ly touch of it. _ . - Arrived at a hotel where they intended to pass the night, the Frenehman . and his com panion, having determined not to -proceed any further with the General, made their in tentions known to him—stating as -a reason, that a friend . whom they - sought. was on- ' a tour to`the.soutti, and that on the first op portunity they should embark on d boat for Neches. . _ The General said he thought they n ould have a pleasant trip,and that heAvold dispatch liis sell ant home his horses 94 ac company them. This was.certainly anything but agreeable, but as there was no helt for -it, our., traveling frisudi thought propr to assent. • The water at this time being low, it • was proposed by the Gerierid that •a :small flat boat should be procured, which would be very advantageous, and he ,and the. French- Irian' could play at their 'favoriteisame of Ivzi•nty.on'e, while;the down' Easter and the, landlord, whom . the Geileral persuaded to go abing, should manage the boat. This ticeordingly'being acceded to ; the boat was' ,voon under, way. Scarcely had , they leitthe shore' - etc the General; eager (or the game, gave the Frenchman a hint to that effect, and they were soon'in full- blast—the Frenchtnan - taking the deal, the General-bet:" Ling high and . lnsing.' Night setting in, tkey concluded to lay to 'and disipense with the game until morning. • The next day, while lying at the shore, they resumed their play—the General ;till losing the niosk important bets: . •At last he proposed a new change of deal.: Monsieur assured him he could only play his game OM way, and that• Was to deal. Again they play. ed on lor , a time, when the-General appear. int* to get our of patience, insisted the game satld be elianged,:as he was' over onethat- Sand dollars the loser. Monsieur thought.it an unfair request, as he had frequently said he -knew no other game. The General still pressed his suit and said he was witting to leave it to their hpst, wheth er-it was not right he should' give chance to win back his money. The host, be ing a staunch friend of the General, of course decided in his favor. By this time all was ready for the morn ing departure, and Monsieur, thinking he might come out.second best, was anxious to leave; but the General declared the game must be played without any further delay. " Vell, den, Mon=sieur, "'; whined in the Frenchman, "ycaushill propiase your 'game . —what, is it?' " My game," said the Generall "es -,dead open and shut." "got you say Generale? Me no under stand you, sure. It is - von dead open and shut with one card, eh?" " Open and shut with everything else but card," said the Geneial with a coarse laugh. —" I will give an 'example." He placed himself in an attitude to explain his game, which was -demo by placing his hands behind him, and requiring the French man to say whether they were open or shut•: Monsieur, hardly knowing what to ,make of it, said "open." . " How much will you bet me ?" inquired . the General. ' "Suppose me bette you von leetle hund. red dollars." • "bone !" said the General, at the same time showing- to the astonished iFvenchman his closed hands.. " I am sorry to inform you you have lost P' -and It - smile . of Peculiar meiklng played around his mouth. "Ah ! sacra! ma shall no'tmderstand von Such game Gen6ale." - • ' " Must Understand it; by bpiter i" thun dered the General, once -more placing his . hands behind him. The Frenchman guessed again, and lost., ofl ofutrse. This was' repeated .several times, until -the Frenchman declared he could- no longer play. - , . " Pioduce a substitute, 'then," died the General, "by Thunder !. the game muse- be played " - . • . ' , - Monsieur then referred him to his worthy friend; the Yankee--who, being called upon ; proposed that he should be alternatelyebtitl ed to the privilege cksecretiorhis hands.— But the General sothigaveliitit to understand that the kaine - could be pipped 'Only one way, —at the same' timer telling 'the •landlord he might as well station hiinselt on "shore 'with his rifle, as he intended-there should be very little equtvocation' interning transations. The Yanitee; finding that the General' Was determined not to' give him 'a fiiir chance, 'proposed - that - the General, should bet two to his one. • The General laughed at the .proPo "sition. and readily , ' assented, provided the 'Yankee would agree to let him fix the amoent, which was also conceded: - . ' To a Northern traveler this scene would have been highly interesting. ' About thirty' ,yards from the-boat perehed Upon i a stump, .with re long rifle in hie* hind, was their host, ready to oblige - the slightest cookrnaild'of the General. At the stern of ,The boat stood Monsieur, with pale cheek,and,'fielings that can be better imagined thein; - deseiibed, - ai he thought on the termination of a game which wouldi in all prObsbillti,'end In- leaving him end his friend several:.thottisid- dollars mi : tins. A littls:Wadvanee, in ,front of him, stood :the Gaiteisttpti the tnOtee=—the form-. Cr cool and.. - Colleetid atiol,tha' letter exhibit.. jog muchOta uneasiness particularly perceptible to his bloOdt lulvering lips = Mil
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