el Atoniress-first Session. lili. El .iiVistiraoros, 'Dee. sth. - . Sugars.—The Senate was called to order at noon by Vice President - Breekinridge;and opened with prayer by the Rev. Pr. Gurley. On the roll being !called, 48 Senators an swered to their names. • Mr. Maxon of Virginia, stibmitted Creso lution'for the appointment of a Committee 10 inquire Into the facts of the Ilarpees Ferry -invasion, and whether. - other parties, not Present during the affair; are not unplicated ; also, what legislation' is necessary on • the *Object. Gwin gave.notics that be would call :up - the Pacific Railroad bill.• The usual resolution was pasigd informing the President and the House that the Senate had: organized. Adjourned. Hotrisa OF RIPRESENTATIVES.:=The inter est telt in the organization of the House, is if possible, on the increase. tong. before noon, the . hour of meeting, the - galleries were "densely filled: Numbers were unable to obtairiagtnittance. Notwith standing the inclemency of the weather, there was the wsnarattendaitte of ladies on thalloor of the House. . 'The customary, salutations among mem. hers and others - were exchanged, and a pleas kit excitement prevailed : ever y where. ' At nool4 Mr. Allen, the Clerk, called the House to order.: ' ' The din of voices immeJtately ceased, the apectators were excluded from the floor, and :the members took their seats. • ' The roll was then,. called. 231 members answered to their names. Ab :e n i es:. —Messrs. Stalworth atfd Clop. ton, of Alabama, Brown and • Adams of Kentucky, Hindman and - Rust, of Arkansas; and Hamilton, of TVXItB-7. On motion of Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, the le Hou agreed to the election of a speaker , i sita vote. ' . Houston, of Alabama, nominated Mr. Phelps, of Missouri. Mr. Corwin; of Ohio, nominated Mr. Sher. maniot Ohio. .. • M ,Adrian, of New Jersey, nominated Mr.via, of Indiana. Mt. Pa Haskin of New York, nominated Mr. Hiclivan ' Of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, nominated Mr. Grow; of-Pennsylvania. Mr.' Briggs dominated Mr. Buteler, of Virginia. Numerous voices,; impatiently, " Call the roll!" . __ The Clerk appointed Messrs. Houston, Coiwin, Adrian, and Briegs, tellers. • Mr. Florence, of Penns) 1% ania; in lieiening to the call of the roll, said-•=1 notice that acv eral members are absent. In order to ena ble them to participate in the .election, I move to-adjourn till tomorrow. John Cochrane, of New York—l hope the gentleman will Withdraw his motion. • Mr. Col - tb, of Alabama—Oh ! let as have one vote. [Laughter.] • The Housoook a vote on Mr. Florence" , motion, by acclamation, amid which, and much laughter, Mr. Florence withdrew hi, Motion., The House then proceeded to vote for Speaker.. , „ The First Ballot.—The first ballot result ed as follows: Sherman, 0.. 6G; Bocock, Vs., SR; Grow. Pa., 43Boteler, Va., 14 ; Davis, Ind., ; Phelps,lllo., ; Giliner, N. C., 3 ; Nelson. Tenn ~5; Corwin, 0. 1 Adrain, N. J. -,2 . ; Hill, Ga.; 1 ; Hickman, Pa., 1 • Penningqm. N. J., 1;_, Haskin, N. Y.; lcQiieen,.S. C. 1; H. F. Clark, N. Y., 1. No one hiiiing recieved a majority of votes, Mr. Grow said, "as I desire in no was to. retard the organization of the House, !- withdraw my name is a eandidate. I asQure those gentlemen who, in. kindness, have bast their votes for -riT,; that: I shall treasure. through life so diatitukuished,a mark of friend ship and regard." Mr. Burnett then Moved an adjournment, on which a vote by yeas and nays was or . dered. The motion was. negatived—yeas 100, nays 130. Mr. Clarke, of. Idisanuri, submitted a res. olution, declaring that no member who had approved and contributed to the circulation of Mr. Helper's bOolc, , was - fit to beconie Speaker of. the House: A - spicy debate ensued, interspersed with points of order, which was finally . cut short by an adjournment.; W Asanzwro-s t Dec. 6th , Sloe.—The Sedate met at noon. ._ lir. Meson's - resolution, offered yeaterday , came up.- Mr. iipmbull said it would receive his cordial support. Whenever a murder has been committed, let lux ascertain who are the guilty:,' and bold ,them. responsible. 'Be hoped the ityvestigation would be thorough and complete. -lid believed it would d,', good-by disabusinglthe public-mind, espe cially in the South, of the ides that-such a , movement receives n',y countenance-or sup port from any considerable number' of our _ citizens.- . , , _ . . ; • No - man who was not prepared to destroy the Constitution, subvert the Government, :and resolve society into its original elements. could justify it. No Matter what evils, ei ther- imaginary or - .real, may exist in the body p_tlitic, no one individual, or twenty -, 'ont of 'twenty millions, could be permitted in hiM own way, and to defiance of the laws _of the land, to undertake-to correct them.— No Government on earth could subsist if . .that were allowed. Anarchy- would be the consequence. s As foi the misguided man who led on the insurgints, be bad already expiated on the . ;pillows his errors, and gone - before the final tribunal. Let this investigation be impar-., 1181 and tlu N wough, and the effect in the coun . try would be most salutary; . The Arsenal ,at Liberty,-,10., wa s then : bro'lcen -Be and public property taken away. -He briefly recapitulated the facts of • that occurrence, as stated by Copt Leonard, in charge there. That, however was for the 1 .purpose fit forcing slavery into Kiinras, while at Ilatper'i Ferry the efrort, was to abolish alairy. • ...• a then f•frered an amendment td the yes + ola on, este / riding the inquiry to the former case. 1 - , Mr. Mason- replied, saying the Commit. tee could not examine both affairs at once, and therefore time and expense would be "lost by the - adoption of the amendment.— ' Be•.want-d to ascertain Whence the resources . • were obtained fir the Harper's Ferry inva. , aion•Lwbo Supplied money, munitions, and ~ counsel. ' - • ' •, . . , ._ - • Congress \ Could .not act on the'subject without official . cial information, and if f,'. should turn' ou t, that Congress :bad no' racer -to tat present such transactions, it is the duty, not of the Elouthern States alone, but of all the States, to - take proper tneasuies for protec tion. . ' He alluded to the remark of Mr. Truro- . bull respecting the shrieks froto Kansas riot being heard in 'Virginia. Had a similar investigation been instituted when a similar transaction occurred in 1855, it would have been better. Mr. Mason sale that he Would• not iWid ID the way of ;tha icquiry sorpattd, 15=1E ,_ but the'reryilOcumept read antaltied all , • ~ the facts officially set forth.. - i It iheSenator wanted to "prevent he re • currence of such , transaction' = he wou'd not: stand in the Way of applying . the pro ' r leg: Nation. .But now, when -four yeah had elapsed, and neither that Senator Do those _I who acted 'witlihim have' asked iitn nvesti• gation, it as b° little . strange he -should. be •to anxious to..4liiplb these transactions, say. , ing that no shrieks Would be heard froM,Vir. egirtia, happen whit `may, in'theirpulit cal re. -titiMis wilit others. lie did not know What a man's.ipolitidal - ediication could be to lead him to Ilse such expressions in reference - to the recent evehl. • • 1 Mr, Trumbhil answered:that nothing the Senator Might ;'ay could drive him tbl speak disrespectfuliY: • of. V:irgiuia, or any l other &atoll) the Uhion. ''; He spolce . of thei term' ' "shrieks," as tiled: in regard to the people of Kansas, but n4tivith a view of eastinridi.' rid.: , ,, cule on any pottion of the country. Mr. Jl.fasonliaid_his inipression vi aat that the term•canfrom the . political assOciatei orhlr. Trumbilll—at first it was shrilks for freedom. .11 ' ~ , • • •N . Mr. Male hollowed, denouncing ,the Su= preme Court ill, the United Statei for ;its de b' vision in the Died Scott ca%e, and d i efining his positien gehbrally ,, in regard to thel Slav ery question . : j i. , , 1 - _ 1 ~The debate syls continued at great length,. and was partiCypated in by Messrs. Renter, of Va., Davis„tif Miss., Green, of Mel, Crit tenden, of Ky.,i Wilson, of Mass., 'Clark, of N. IL, Brown'!izif Miss., Pugh, Ohio ; add-,Ma. son, of Ga. 'ii , r. Without tahlpg action-on the questibn be fore it, the SeMite adjourned.- I .. 1 . Iloesk OF ItA .,„.3 PRESENTATIVEB.—The House reassembled atioon; -- - ~ t • Itir: Clark's4selution, that no one who endorsed Ilel[ier's book; "The Impending Crisis of the SOUth," is fit to . be Spe+er of the Muse, cot ing up.'l ,• 1 . Mr. CrawfoN made tin.ineftectual Metiori lo submit a reililution fur the•adoptioU of the hour-rule, it big evident, he said, that litter Mr. Clark shaiiihavadoncluded his reknarks; a reply will be2expected from the other side. It would be . reiiemb,ered that-at the meeting of the thirty-Oa -th"Congre,ss one gentli.man occupied ,the Ifibr for two. days,- ben'ee his proposition. [i: I , . A .resolutic4was adopted, that the daily hour for the ni4ting of the [louse bei lit o' clock.. 1.--.; ' - Mr. Clark eitised - .:to• he read . a list cif those who recommended the circulation of Helper's book.• •Mr. Clark bkiftly reviewed - the propinem reeemmetidatiOh to Helper's book, strungl) condemning 11444 e who signed the ctrcutar, and insisting tttnT, if they were carried out, the Union Coulli not exist. Don't-put broth-, er against btotlicir i , father against sun !! Don't 'destroy thoc er i vatii.le sentiment !of the country. Mr. Gilmer ;ifl'ored a ,substitute for Mr.. Clark's resoltigUrt, looking to , the union uy national And 44ervatire men on the bads d the deelitratitaisi herdtuforta tootle by thn: 'Whigs.atid DtiliperatS against the turther ag-, dation of_the 41a;very question. - Mr. Curtis itited the previOus.question. Mr. Washbditie,•ot !nal 4, moved to ley, the whole suitjtiit on the table-7nega4ved ha,) atie vote. Mr. Giliner,g; N. C., offered a su'ostituta for Mr. Clark'iOtlotion, in substantereiterat-. log the declatratl i ons heretofore madd ;by tht Whig and Ddrit.4..ratie . parties, restricting a ll attempts- at chirenewal-tif the slaverY agita: titan, in whatev.tr!shapc or color it diay bt Made. . Mr. Shermati replied that he was opposed to any interferitrice by_the people of tho t . 'rere states with the • a t ., e f latton of master and . slaves in Slave States. [Applause.] Mr.-Curtis, fOr - tiro, diSavowed anything like an intent tin the part of the North to in rertere with th&. relation of master and slave in 'the-Sou th. , . I ,l' n-' every speech be Made his Disirict, heoaid it was 'the purpose and design 'of the Republican party inbt to . ; inter, fere with'Slavety - - where it exists. i . • Mr. Keitt conceded that there were mem. hers from, and4si t rsons in the North - Who arc kiyel to the Cont.titutiiin, bin this ,was nut the point' hefor ihe, Ilouse. - Ile thJ,n ...prti seeded to readie4tracis from speeches delis' , Bred - in Ohio 1)Y .tit'. Sewed in '4B, l and : in Rochester in 'so,i who. had maintained that Slavery must tie 'abolished. Sitch Was the; fruit urthe seed sown, by that .distitlizuishede , and,it had been on y wii , Republican lwith. t i• m the' let; two . * urs that some of the Re: publicanS here )aid liitind, out the dUctrine; were infamies. j lie would see the fabric of the Government tumble from turret afound ! ation-stone 6efi':,r4 he would take one tittle less Of the rights'. to which the south Waa.eni titled. [Applause.] We of the South are on the defensive. We mean to dettaid ow l ' selves. - Let eavh party-fight out the issue: ' . Mr. StevetiaThe discussion had' already convinced evert body th;it his point cif ordet was.currect and-prioper, namely, that.antit the House' was urgimized it was not cortipetem to entertain any question except the election of Speaker or lb adjourn. Ile.didn'tl blame gentlemen froth :tile. South fur .taking. the -course they did, alt ho' wedeethed it ntititriei ly to withhold .frdm the public' credit Ors the means which 'slineld le given them speedily, He did not tilaine them fur the langtiage uf, intimidation ufiren.ding.God's creatiub front, t urret .t.o . .fou tide ion. [Laughter..] ?it' wa right in them,fori we recreants of thel North . were not till;-credlby it. Ile gave thetncredi it for it; fur their'retharks- were to operate un, timid men.. Si .. - • • . I . i I i 10. Crawford prose excitedly, arid inter, rupiing . Mr..Stevens i said. , liiiinethingi about Union meetings in Cust4, - (sarden and, in they _ North. Ile Wikg loudly ciilled.tii ordr,while ' uthere applauded. His Terparks veernearlyi 'unintelligible, Owing to _the 1 disfening 1 coniiii [Sion which pret.',iiied. '. Members un all tide-{ rose to their :feet and crowned the era near ''Messrs. Steveiii and Crawford.. The great. es t excitement r prevailed, and at one time a collisionwas.f44.d. . '1 • • ' • 1 :. Mr. Crawtond. continuing his r4marke said : Don't 'sing 'psalms to 'the Unilen and Constitution till We get quitt. . He 101 S lupin, applauded, atitke4ttinued speaking *mild vall4, of order:. il . ; I ' - I Mr. Morris, Alin - called pon. the clerk to, maintain thilorlind dig ity Ofthe 'House.' ° The Clerk saidti hat be h -no power, ' end' i ii threw . himself ii . pitti the - gnertisity of the. m House to *e - to:order.. 1 Mr: Morris, (110—The time i for gneyosi ty has pa-,seti:' i i:Prdes must.be enforued. , After a TeW initiates the - "members i seated.( themselves. -, Seteralgentlemen 'prop:ma : l adjournment.'- ;' ,1 - 1 . '1 • • Mr. Stevens fepeated that he had el l ado's', point of order;lhat khe:oul Motions tin or-11 der were for ele'etion-and t b •adioum' t ' . He i .moiled the preqoint quet4itin..- . 1 ' Mr M Garnett This disluuSsion shall i rbt bel stopped, and - thert - is no . power in the House', to stop. it. I . 4plause.y, Adjoun3ed.l• • i ..,-- . . . • • , Wasnisclron; Dee.l7th. • . .StnATE.—Mr. 0!y, of A l hibama, give na• tiee, of his. intention to itttroduce . a %ill to repeal the fishing bfninties. Is • - • - Poikeil,',pflientoc43s' , gave notice of, his bitention'to,;.•l4trocluee a bill to,abOlieh! the franking prcteilege. Mr. Mason:Wyjolution was taken SIMMOUN fie‘red irmende, r • 5 ment. We are too apt to overlook= lawless' depretlited the attempt UT' render one political paity•reponsible for such out, rages; as., a ciao - germ's, pt oceeding . and one. not Citleulitted•ttquieC the, pecip.le.' ; it - 'w a it the duty dr:titti!Federal governnie7 tend protection to till partiiot thiMulon. Mr.:.lidallory, — of.Fa....,tuild that since the, . 'resolution . liiitPbeen ahem of till ittilMoral eff'. feet, he'was inclitTerent to its fate. The-cause of Virginia was . . the cause of the South ; they are proud of the. Bigh tone she has .taken in this matter,and expect•to stand by her. He 'was tot surprised that Senators 'denied a knowledge Of Brown's pinny ; but the spit pathy universally • expressed - the. North showed that the irrepressible„conflict had ,in; deed 'commented: He referred:to ; Helper's book in severe condemnation and'said the Only safetyfor the-country was to ba found in the Democraticparty.. Mr: Iverson, of ,Ga., said the Republican diselaimers of sympathy for Biown were nut worth the paper they were written upon.- 7 . Actions speak louder than. words. Ho be lieved that the Northern portion of the Dem ocratic party .was as roller!, as the Republi cans. There was no diPrence between Sew ator-Douglas and his supporters, on'this vi tat question, and the Blaek : Republicans them .selves. The SoUtb - stands on a volcano, 'and unless they take timely action, what will be. the . consequepee ? lie presumed -that Mr. Sherman would be 'elected Speaker, for, doubtless, traltors . emiugh would he found in ' 'the ranks of the anti•Leeompton Dentocrats. But if such' should . be the case, he would' counsel the Sauthern memberi of Congress to retire from these halls, and let the 'Union he'dissOlved. He alluded to Mr.. Helper's hook; as counselling the slaves to put the knives to their masters' throats. - Ma.. HALE had never -seem such language in'the i hook. . .• . MR. CLINC:UN' said that the language was fully as strong as that quoted, Ma. FESSENDEN remarked that no one ob• jected .to a:thorough, investigation of this question. There was no inducement. for Sen ator to express their opinions, if newspaper statements were •to be considered as higher Authority. le - is the trade of Democratic newspapers to misrepresent. It is . ins,ultitte to :charge Senators -with: complicity.. He would as sooti.ttlink of charging the Senator from Virginia with complicity with the Ari l . can 'slave trade. • Ma.l3nows .(.Miss.l alluded to the-privet meetings in New England for Brown,.. and :aid, if sympathy was not generally felt for - him, let Republicalts call meetings and' disa vow it. _ . --Ma. CHANDLER (MA.) would at Me .fu turetime discuss the "-irrepressible conflict," and show that for the hist 3000 y ears' there halfbeen no cessation of that conflict. Ih• ens in favor ofthe resolution, for reasons of hot own. This was the :.first execution for! treasonlo the United States, and he wanted'. it to golorth tis a tkarnitig 'to . all traitor:,! whether Garrisonian abolitionists or South, ern Governors; who declare that under cei.: •ain contingencies they will raise their . hands .gatnst the. Omstltut ion and the Union. Let . all traitors - hang. 4 Threuts .had :been mad.. tor thirty years. that in certain events th. • Union. would he dissolved. It stnal matter to dissolve the Union. It means bloody revolution, or it . means a halter.— Who taught old John Brown If either Po itical party, the •Denmeracy. alone. • The occurrence tit Harper's , Ferry was a-very Fe. markahle , one. Had twenty-two Virginia - Generals . undertaken. to seize the Armory at Springfield, Mass., the Women Money' would have bound. them in thirty minutes, and would not - Thave , asked for an lovestigatinp: Coinmittee, or expected any particular sym pathy. The Senator from Virginia .wanted tolnow where -the matey for the Harper's Ferry - .affair came Iroie.. The 60,000 fugi tive slaves in Canada, contributitig,2o .cents each', *unlit raise the arilount. . As -to, the statements of the Democratic papers,. it is tk villainous press, hired to do dirty work, and it does it faithfully.., .• Mr Doolittle (Wis.) challenged Senators, to prodoce one, Republican paperithroughow the Northwest that ever justified oy sympa thized with theact of ,John Brown at Ilar per's Ferryt. • They might, sympathiie with him an individual, as any' man under sen tence of death might receive sympathy' fat personal qualities. Where did aN this sin. lence antljdl9 - egard of the laws begin ? Wh.. enchained the tiger and opened up the civil war in this country Let .rthe inquiry be searching and thorough, and 'see who is res t ponsible. Ile g4Ve the. history of the Nan sas agitakionas the fiiundatiot‘of this. trouble, The design of the Republicans. MU i() pHt down la;itless violence, whether from Canada: into Vir'ginin, from the Southern States into Nicaragua, or,from Missouri int o Kansas.-- The RePubfican-party stand pledged to • sus , rain the Constitution and the rights of alrthe States, both in the North end•Soutli, and - will :land by then . ' even to : the bitter end, he the eonse4nences what they may.- They -do not believe that there exists such insanity in the South that they would attempt to break . up - he Government because a Republican Pies. • tile= might he elected. The Republican _Party stand pledged to maintain. the 'Union against all enemies, whether from Canada or the Southern Stater. They will arrest them for tre 'eSori; Indict them; and, -.unless a jury acquit on the ground of insanity, - bung them for treason, tut sure as there is a God' . it. (leaven. Ma. CnEsystrr (S. C.) hoped the amend- J merit wouldbe withdraim, read ex /meta from a speech of Senator Seward; in ' 1858; when he'spoke of fr'ee- labor invading Delaware,' Maryland, and Virginia. agnificant the, language! Though be doubt- less meant a moral and intellectual' iniasion, unlettered minds might underbtarid it - .differ. ently. Mr. Pugh (Ohio,' appealed to . Bir.- Trum bull, to withdraw his amendment. Mr. Trumbull could not consent to with draw it, aft,r 'What bid been. said. The as sumed -object of the .resolution was to learn the avowed sentiment of the North. Hp al so wanted to 16int the avowed : sentiment lbf the &nth, which was equally important.:;-- lie believed sincerely that the outbreak at 'flarpei's „Ferry arose from the teachings and .acts of the Democratic party in Kansas, Without concluding, be giVe way; and the Senate adjourned. • - • • . "Houss -or RERREAZIVTATTVES —Mr; KO: logg (1114 rose to It privileged question, 'and• read u dispatch in- the N. Y. Triune, re garding •his motion to; adjourn, on the - sth. Mr. Kellogg wished to show the falseposition in which Mr, Greeley stood to the Republi can party. . Greeley 4voied the re-election of. Senator Douglas, andin Dc).lglas's parlor at - Washington, plotted to self Illinois and *Missouri t 00... - Mr McClernand (III.) kepliesi; if such' a private conversation iouil:ilace, how did his colleague know it? j It was strange . that such a eharks should' he made 'after' it was known that ; ,qtr, Greeley- tried - = do defeat 'DOuglas'a A:election-I', Illinois .11d, always .Isen 'Democratic. .j- N, • •Air. Garnett (Va.) spoke'of the - sympathy. &Utile North for Biosvu.' If you - want \to preserve the Union, 'ton mast go home to the North, and put.down Abolitioniarn,, Mr. Lamarthlies.)•eirgued . - thist the Con, stitutiOn protected , ' *tatters,- and, - made-it-a part of_thst federal-government, as it, is an. laportent_element 44.',thp-GOoral pawn.. . . He believed theintention was to drive. the South distiniOn. He was not a disunion. ist per se ;' but we will not permit any per sistent-violation of the terms of the Constitu bat. will fightfor them. Mr.-Nelson (Tenn.) favored Mr. Gilnier's , Subitituta, proposing to ignore the agitation of the Slavery: question. Ilk agreed not with'the extremists either . *Of - Ilki l North or the South, and proceeded to show the prog ress of nullification in South; Carolina• and abolitionism in the North. =in conclusion he appealed - to the-patriotism of members, .to make sacrificewon the altar of their country. Mr. Pryor (Val- replied to Mr. Nelson. He' thought the latter was, after his remarks and' his 'declarations that ho was a•slavehold• er, likely to lose Abe respeet of sistreholders. He bad misrepresented public sentiment at the South, and thrown himself into the - arms of the Biaa.Republicans.- The . Representa: tives of .the South will never - consent that that creature tad champion of the Republi cans (meaning Sherman) .shall take posses 'sion of the Speaker's chair.. Mr. Pryor in quired.of Mr.-Nelson whether he, as a rep resentative of a Southern constituency, in .the event of the election of a Republican ;President, would vote to remain in the Un 'ion. M. Nelson, much as be deprecated such &a result, did not believe that the election of la Republican ["resident would, of itself be a icatt,e for dissolution, for they. ought to , wail and see whetherhe would do anything -.inju riotts to the rights of the- South. I , The Ilousi proceeded to.vote-f,ir Speaker, with the following result: Sherman, 107.; - *mock, 88; Gilmer, 22; scattering,, 1.4. Adjo9rped till 5 o'cicick. L." SEsits,. Dec . b.—Mr. Slidell gav notice of a billmaking •an appropriation to Neill. irate negothitions for the acquisition of ba Mr. Johnson al,to gave-notice of a nomest ad bill: Mr. Mason's Harper's Ferry resole i l scion was Then taken'up again. and speeChe- Imade, when the Senate adjourned to Mon. I - TousE. Dec. B.—The discussion on the illelper Book I was reatime'd and continued 'throughout the 'session. and the Douse id ''l.3ttrted without taking a vote on Speaker. . SE , N . Arg, Pee._9. ....Not.jki Session. _ . y. iiot - ss, Dec.9.- - -the. time of the jlouse % , ,.ai4 mostly occupied by a discussion b! Mi. minis politics - by. Messrs. Icyllo4. (Rep.) and 'Lwell atidln e;cpos;tion and defence ut Dem ,. es ~ , . • • - , ; glas Democracy - by the latter. At one time 'eluring thedebate there was a Kospect of ? - persutial rencounter betvieen these .two, WI anthers interposed. Another 'vote was takes. feir speaker,* farogs ; IShernian,'llo ; 1.10 iiidek, SS ; Gitnier i 20 ; Scattering, 13. Ir. l k itickman Moved an •adoption of the plu I ity rule, hilt ,the motion was declared out 01 Ii order. I,lonse adjourned. . . I= . . . Kansas Elaction. , ..The entire nepublican ticket has, been elected in Kansas, under •the new (.',onAitn. ;p131), by majorities . averaging over:3000. The t.,llowing are the officers ptected: Governor, ;;Charles Robinson ....Lieut. Governor, "Jos.. P. ; Seeretary..of State, John W. 'Robin wk.; Auditor. George S. Itiiiyer ; Treasurer iiliam 'Tholim ;- tlorneyi General, Beni. F nti , on ;.Supt. Instruction, .Wm. R. Grit '.fish ; :Chief Justice, Thomas Ewing, jr.; As ociate JustiveA,,S. A., libiaman; L. D. Ba ey ; Member of Congxes:l, Cot way. Gov . . Wise eoMplains of General ; SympathY, and is reported-to have , said hi: . .] ; would have preferred his execution . to that jtf 7t4in Brown.. The sentiment, or one sim ilar to.it; has been- re•eehoed: in Congresfi,— ifhe Southern men profess astonishment and `.indignatifirt that the execution ofJoini Brown ithould excite sympathy in the. North. Even t iter professional. Union-savers are excited. to 'rattle' their dry bones at the spectacle,. and .propose Girton meetings to enndemti : it. But, what is there remarkable in the exht- itionl :John Brown has been pronounned tt3r Guy. Wiie,•a man, " honeA, truthful, and ssucere." •Is it not an astonishing., fact that !;.,tieb a citizen should be condemned to 4eath. end executed by hanging Rally- wonder „that such a fate; for such a men, should ex site sympathy 2 Straightfin.ward, • simple. people, are at a t . loss to comprehend hnw it is that the. gallows should be the doorit ~f the "honest, truthful, and Sincere2.'-They :have a stubborn belief that an awful .engine i o t :death was intended for another add verb ''',llfr...lrent sort of persons. ln G0t...• Wise= twn \volunteered indorseinent o (John BriiWn's 'i'etiuraeter is to be finmkumple reason for all :;the sympathy shown toward that, brave but 'iiiisguided Joan: "Honest, truthful, find sin ,!ere '—Gov. Wise understands the, force o mitvlanguage. • And.wien he thus char icietizes a man, ought he to expect. ought iany with a heart in his bosom to expect to repress thu sympathy that is naturally ex "cited Lx the hanging of such a citizen ! 10 norneed to tell Gov. Wise or tinybod) - ;else, that the thing islutpossible. That sym Isithy i , as Widespread its htimanity itatlf. . ..Gov. 'Wise would hay.. to belie his own as hire to_ deny that he himself feels it. Irere, then, is tho rub,/ It lies in !because ;that exact! nrif-yntr,finatal necessitates, hanging of " hunnst,aircere, and truthful" itnan., All rigrea that . that cause is Slavery. „Hut. thence conies a. diversity - . of feelaig.— ;00,,.. Wir and _other supporters of Slavery, 14 this point,•divirgelrom the sympathies of 'many ethers.. That k all. The Governor '.lOd'his coadjutors believe in hanging `• honest : sincere, and truthful” men, for the benefit of Slavery. .But humanity. and civilization re ,vOlt at the spectacle: Y Y Tribeine. rir. The inquisition esiablistreclby Gov. ;Wise over the public highways ofthis State, Must, we _fear, tell 'disastrously upon the, Trade such of them ruf-have, competing 'fumes to contend with. We apprehend that 'such will he the case with the Baltimore and phio, judging from the npecimens of public temper.recorded elsewhere in our paper to. pay.• The Eastern and. Western people of the Free States will - dever stadd such a thing. They would be poor, pitiable creventi if they did. They wil! say, we doUbt not, that if Gov_Witie's subjects are abject enough to `submit to-.such a humiliating. gauntlet; if iticv are willing to have their steps dogged by p a id spies; and travel under the continual dread of our being dragged-out rieiheirseats Eye their berths—we are not.. That will be their temper,•we doubt -not, and while _we Cannot blame them, yet we cannot but de'p lcate such a state Of the public mind, be use it is detrimental to the interest of those who hid no agency in such tyrannienl.enapt inents.i Its effeets -not he so immediate I as they will be lasting : \ Northern people, iuleae called especially by businessalong the line of the road, will probably for months 4nd years cherish sinful prejudice as will ex- Bite theni against the. route when traveling 6t and west. We trust that such will not be the case, but we greatly fear that it will be so.- Wheeling Intelligineer. - 1- Irgr.4 man, who gave - his name as Tho. ,Leary, and said he was from Ireland and had heen in America twelve years, was recently ,tirmstecl In Illinois and held -as a fugitive itlavei Seeing,the determination of those itrl*), had arrested him to-run him off, some thn 4eitiserisapplied , for a. - habeas, corpus, rrbiob-ittne last amount* bad not been dacid• \ • Eigh t .of 1* -Speech. The following Pat vieiti from the Albany !Evening JettOnFWere. / elecited. .by the fact, ;reported iii Our ,cOlumhs a s t_thhiiine,that Dr: ,Bried irad..bee held.tolbaßlittarO Justice* !it ibe Peace io:WasbirgiOn,City,, , for freely' leipeessirg_ his.,.views: iir'Conversationi and whip provoked :to - it, .on,,the subject,.cf also. I ; ery: • - ,'. i , - "It was a common inncs l, aion that white' men, at least,.:were eniitleii. to free speech lender the - laws of . thesetuited-States. • But, fit seems, Such is not th e . case;-: ;While -dot: tens of arms for opini4tes - - : saik have been. made in Virginia 'during the.Aittat kw Weeks, iwe have abstained front any. protest. Vir cinia is , a . sovereign _ Site, - and*lty, if she . hodsee, imitate the es image andMespotiom / practiced at Naples. and Vienna,l But, the District of Columbia dOes . oot• Wing to Vir: l iiiitt. It is the"-comMen -proWt,t of the. whole Union, of free States as 0/1 sit slave fi 0 nites. All authority eitercised . Cengress is derived from the.CotiatitutionWho ate •I'ustices Donn and Gitiersoa who , thus . !s -ame to lord it over the libertiei Of frOemen? Why, creations of Congress, both of Ahem. ncr what is Congress, that it &to grant such Jespotic ;tearer I Why, a':ereation• of the 'tihstitution. And what says-the' iCotistitti tiortion its very first page? It Hays:-" Con gress shall make no lawi abridging . .the free. limn of:speech.”—LA,rtilesl, siection Ist] . . " We should like to know who set up Jus. ices Dunn end . GibersM• above the Qonsn hution, t hat:made them. 1 The individual opin ions or expressions,of ar.liceeil inay. - be id I trifling importance, butttlk point ;involved, tin this case is' of the gra in eit conseoence.' Ii ..ean hardly be oyerrated The question's'. of uempremise, of the ad4gsion ofi new States, lind of the regulation ' taf territorial affairs,. life all insignificant compared with the right 1)1 tree speech. It -is the, foundailori of rill our ±liberties. • Oncegag'diseusSion, and we cease ..to be a-republic, and Become a despotism. ilt matters not what, thelopinions are, wigise" 'utterance is forbidden, ' whether pro ; ,slavery jar anti-slavery, whether! concurred-in by the Ivjority or concurred t i by nobody: Right tor-wrong, wised!. foolis , every matt, what oyer his'politi, has the tight to expres bib pipions freely; trsal!. that belongs to the Federal Government. We claim the sante- - elk fir the slave trader as for the'free soil or, in this respea—for iitn .With whom we idler, as fur him with %hoin-we agree. ~ We should equally regard i. as-a deadly blow •ai he liberties of the 'country,' were. even I fcionabs, Stephens,. or oh) , other pro-slavery ainatic, denied -the libeity of discussion al Washington. We knew nothing of Dr. 'Breed's opinions, and it is. iittite probable we 'to not agree. in them on many cattle! ipuints. But that makes no di ff erence tip tos right to titter them., This tight . all citi tens of the Union, without distinction,. mast ithive, or they Will soon cease to have. any. „ ~'i, . r The .Colunibia Auth. Carolinian,. of the 1t21 . 11 inst., says: ” The premium oftred iby Col. A. M. Hunt, Pr a .specintem .01 <]- tra- Ifeve African; to be 'exhibited at. the State agricultural Fair, waS' taken yeaterAny" by or. Bland, of .I , ;dgefield, who brought ' two' n the grounds: Their arri@al created ,quite A sensation with the large crowd' assembled n the amphitheatre. rhe premium was ti eautiftil silver . goblet.' • . .._ i • Suppose some Old Brown should have ei iihtted at Our State Fir two slaves res' ued 'rum Virginia or SoUth Carolina. mas ers,' .hat would the South -, say l Yet twofid rapped Africans, brought from. Africa in pion tion of all ktw, are eihibited in the South, quitsta premium given l ,These things ar . al.' lowedsin a civilized an Christi - oi', land, and custaitietd - here, end no Democratic press is . eitrd , r4:isingite voice pgaiOst,lt, fur . fun . r of Hulangering the "'Union.." We don't' see t i imv a decent man can 'any longer belong to he IYOnoFratie part.t..--://athsburg • rek ;papa'. : ~ . , -• . , ! A P-- . •-• 1854. '.ht . sig _ ettot.nEcv-Vvist "LED.—In 1, to the bill to annul the Miss uri Compromise, by hiving Slavery:a ehane to enter the propos. d- Territories of •Ka - n and Nebraska, Hon. Galuslia A. Grow made the Cilowing re. inarkage and sweepin prildictiou: _ _ _ " , A.satrearnest and Democratic • patty, to y given my best ener_ .optical 'action, I cfesii 3111; for its passage ut tonal organization,: a #reck.iii.every l!orthe l lady in history." Hoc lite:any this. p been fulfilled, let. the p 1= runipet-taugued ! A nleas it abjures its 1"). . . . rgr Two stragglin printers, named Dal y and Dunn, 'were su peete ?id dangerous einiinents at Kingteet; , S. C., and rode out of town on a rail;on N'YjedrieZday morning.--: the . Kin tree Star say it -i4 - the intention t T xterminate all sue'h,.nind sills from. the so. 1 .iety which they disgr ce by their plebeian •ad Niwthern - presenc They were' ridden • bout the village, bone by twgroes, and (impelled to • mug -w ile .traveling in this Manner. They were hon turned loose.— 'hey *WA the noon tr in for.Chirlrstoil, but -he other passengers fu.'ing to _ride with ? pem they were put ou of the train at St. tet.ihen's station, and allied to Charleston, inhere they i Were sent persone. . ' ar.As some of the "Opposition" appear' .to-be somewhat, exerci: ed in regard to the. s;onvention.:to which If e Senatorial delegates co be eho,en by the St to Convention - which •ateet4 on.the 22d-of F bruary next,, „tire to be-seitt, we' will state . r`the information of " I the concernedmee meeting of n t that the u the . t p at m te m r itut-ense which' distuesl t ord . the call, and it was fully - understood by everyone, that they were to be sent 'to the - Convention which will he called' during this ilootitO by the Republican National il'Ammit ee. 'We think this_ statbment- is duealike to ;publicans and those 9 ny such ther:o,be, why izing such National , j•wn (Pa.) lierald. • I MExico: 7 -The who e country between* uadubijara and•Tepic.is a. perfect .waste ; the ranchosJ haciendas, and ,villages are an • t'rely deserted, and th: only sign of 'life you tteet with en the road .s an occasional , band - i • c i ' / f mounted i robbers, who descend from the npuittains to--atteCk some solitary traveler, oryisit the deserted villages, in hopes that the inbabitanis, in theii flight, may have left beiaind..some forgotten 'adtlle, rope, or . som brero. The doors of the hquies have been eaten down by the axe, or. 11 Alley proved f 100 tough*material for the . lazy "landlord" 'destroy them by suCti means in a few min- Les, they have been and by heaping before iherrrpiles of straw and driedieaves, so as to . :lye an. easy adinittatiist to .the robber,—.-- ashville Union and 4merican. . I nif Law is eXpente, as' , well as vexa. ta:ous and uncertain. 1 a recent case In Mit. Daukie, it came out that the income .of one wyer in that eity.forione year was 00,000 +-not so - -oertaii t • • fl'far cow floated own the Mississippi On api of ice, and caught such coil the she bee yielded nosh ! ipg but ioe animus ever vial*. ; - .1 ' - • The merican Board of Commission mil for Foltigrtkiludons, it their late session in Philadelphia, on . 'motion 'or Dr. Patton, voted.to discontinue the Cherokee 'and Choc. taw laissienst, for the reason that the Mission- Aries there lutie churches., cotrtposed in '•part Of Indians who hold slaves.. Lard MacAulay has two more vol. umes of his "Ilistofy of England" .nearly ready fir ihe,preit but it is believed that they will not be published thia season. The erlAt care ;which he bestows on the work be fore it finally leaves his- hands, necessitates some delay. • ; .. The Rey. Dr, Cox gives ,his ideas of the" 13roail Church" as_followel : The Broad Church !. Yes ! make God's Ohnich broad enough to 'take in Simon Magee, and Judas, .and Satan! - -Out upon it ! It is all pious slut tiloquy—=and not so pious either. . A lgood , joke 0%14 Hsrper's -Ferry is laid to the. door of:Thaddeus Stephens. He was talking of the" invasiim" v at a Wail'. ingto hetet, the other evening, with a South. ern friend.; Southern waxed hot, and deelar. ed,that John Brown, " d—dn tiim, deserved a dozen hangings. "Yes," said'{ Thaddeus, .in his sulemn; drawling style, " You are right ; he deserved hanging. Me only • brought IT 'mid , : if: be- had brought thirty '.he would have sealed the Slavery Question foie% er.' Tbe reported death pf. Kit Carson 1s contradicted. . JJ Mr. Haurrfun; latefor the Allentown . , PenioCrat,lha4 purcha t sed the luzerne Union .ind will take possesion with the new Volume.- 11l health coniptiled General Goodrich to re linquish hie edittAial labors.' • 4 ?- tin P s aster-General 1164, has recent ly decided lan interesting and novel q - tiestion. A- husband, who :'had bee'n separated from his wile, daniancied that his village Postmas. , ter should :deliver her letters to him, and he threateneci!a snit of la* if Mal demand was not complied with. The wife,lon the other , . hand, fortindethf delivery of her letters to the husband:,- -In Uwe circumstances, the'P. M. appealed to Mr. Hult for_ instruetions-. . Nit tinker 'pronounces the claim advanced by the husband too prepsterdus to be seri ou'alf.re44(l.• Indeed, he atiya it is abhor. rent as his to the . Christian. civil z 4 tiun of thii'age, and he direeta the Postmaster to deliver the letters to'the I Asa A. Pore, of rreston, in that town on theist inst, a the age of 81 years-and five months. He wan the Inst visor of the . Wyoming .massacre, hating heen . ,,carried away when a child, in his moth. tiems. His lather and all 'of his relt`itions Slut tnntnother were killed. .1 Several of the Virginia officers wl u corninimded at CbarlestoWn are in Washing ton, ok their return to Richmond,where they say the . marching and countermarching of the troops under order of Cul. SMith. while Old Brown stood with the halter round his neck, excited a feeling of horror and indignation among those troops. _ A r Republican ha 3 heeii chosen tricot ber of the National Committee of the' Cheri) kee Nation over a stanch Southern". man. Thus the Native Americans" are coming, , /' right. • ......, „ . .- .. Charles Stimner has,ieen ch'osetr• a foreign associate member of the French So ciety of Political Econoniy at; Paris. He _is the first American oh,Whom this honor has been conferred. .... The FirsVlSnitarian Society, and the Free Will Baptist Society of Manchester, 11. - H., have swapped•churehes,',the first paying 1t.3,500 "to boot.'" I . • .Cnotorious kidnapper! named Myers hasbeeit convicted in Cumberland 'county foi taking, two' blacks said to be ftlee, and carry ing'thern to Maryland. l. l - .... The Muscatine Journal slearns that ,the mother of Edwin and Barclay Voppie, who. resides,in Splingdale, Cedar county, la., -has received a letter from the latter, who is now in Canada, Stating that he and eleven of his companions have arrived' tsafely in Fier Britannic j Majesty's dotniiions. Four of them were wounded—one of them so severe ly, that hid comrades were obliged to carry bun most ( f the time for the first four days of their fliviht. _Barclay C.ippie is one of the number fot whose arrest Gov.l Wise offered a reward of stoo . •The. Charleston, (5..-C.l) News tidy°. cares the expenditure of - $lOO,OOO by the State in the purchase of' cannon, rifles, and . revi L lvers. The excuse-is that no one can know what. a twelvennoitth may bring forth." '.... An Indiana paper hash turned from Do - tights to Gen. Lane. The editor says he cannot close eyes to the reset -"That chance for the Charleslon 'y niination are on ihe.wano,_ and every day decreases the prob- , ability of his becoming the 'choice of the Democratic party." ' • . M'res, the man who was, charged. with kidnapping three colored men 'and car rying theta , off to Maryland tin! his own pm vate account, was tried a few:AA:is ,since at Carlisle, Pa., endlound will eo to the Penitentiary for not less than' five, nor more than ten years, atiti4iy_ a fine of not' less than $l,OOO. • • The Richmond Whig cordially-`,ap proves a suggestion "fur the., forniation of voluntary _'associattotis throughout Virginia and the South, bound , together'bi a_ common pledge among themselves, never !ta eat,drink, wear, buy, •or use any article ;whatsoever manufactured at or imported from tlie North." ' We learn from a priVate letter from Italy; that Mre.:Doar.e, wife oOthe late Bish op Diane, Of this State, died in' Florence on -Thursday evening. Nov. :10th;:l at the rail: dence of het aon, Mr, Edwitdl N. Perkins, aged- upwards of .70 year It appears that her mind-n . e . ver recovered the,shoek it re ceived during the•memoiable sick' at Peru gia,: in which she: and her party narrowly es caped a ertiel death. , She Ind been quits an' imbecile for months. previSus .to her death. Theluneral vies appointed to take place on IfOnday, the 14th ult., in the Chapel of the Protestant Rural Cernetery.—Newark Daily Advertesir.l - - ' • • Ai -Frenchman who lately visited Holland saYs-that there all- thelfish taken are killed, and 'rendered, in OonSequence,- much supertorin fineness.and flavor. The, et s say that allowing the fish slowly • "-to ex pire in toritter.t tiets upon theta' as a disease would. act; j softening the flesh and infecting them with the pi Inc, plea of dissolution. They . , are killed in Holland by making an incision under the tail, or by thrusting a sharp needle in the head; ' .. We learn the Richmond En. 'gyirer dust* Yankee School miitress was're• cently _discharged and , banished from the city, for eapressitig a favorable opinion of old John Brown. - • .j, • A bachelor frietd of cora, who' went fora week Ito Newport,' left a boarding house in which. there Was a nutrther, of old maids, on account lathe miserable :fair set before him at the table. ' . . . . A burglar entered a house in Brook. lyn one phtht, and went from room to room gathering t)ooty,'when-be entered one where a mother Was watching over , the dead body of her child. Bighing deepry, he dro - pped Pia plods, enitbe fleor c itud left the bee* .elouted friend of the 'bieh I ha-Rte cheerful lea from- my earliest the defeat of this 11 blot - it out as.a Nu= d, - leaving it but n State, it will Hit. opheiic warning has o.trate condition of them States• testify, d the ‘vOrst Is not yet, Slavery inesures. to jail as stispeizted •f the Opposition,, if are opposed to'recog nveation.a—Norris. gjtioctuateoug Rm. 1. Legislature 'of -nrgan.• ized on gonday oflist week: Gov. Wise's message reviews the . llarpePti - Ferry affair at - great lepgth, it speaks of fanaticism and one' -idea of.oe Abolitionists which has seemed to maddeniwholemassei of one entire section ; of the country, which enters into their_ relig, _- ion, edLCittion. politics,prayers,'Couris of J us- _ , Lice, andiLegislatures ;, which has trained up ttiree,gedierations in moral and social habits of hal e tai the masters of African _slaves . in the \L'ni, 'd States,-but turns not u pot - slave try elsewihere which would have sent a res. cue to assassins,' robbers, murderers, and trai tors whom it has sent to felons' graves, .Unless the numerical majority shall cease to • violate the confederate faith, and cease to de, stroy peace, . to destroy our lives and propertY, and to.deprive us of all the pro. — - - tection and redress under the perverted forms, , and distorted workings of the . Union, : we must mire up arms. The blade is too essen tial to bp compromised - any More. We can- not stand such insulti and outrages as those . , of iferpr's Ferry, without suffering worse than death as citizen's, and without suffering in dishaor the death:of a State.. It is not to be deni4tha ‘ tiore have many sound and sin. cerp fri4nds in the non.slive holding States, but the"; conservative elements, 'are pa-site, whilst the fanatical are•active,and the I. er are rust diminishing, whilst Itre latter is inereasg.g-in numbers and force. • .. ;Kentucky is 'first in the field with delegatits 4or the *Republican Natinnal_ Com. tiention.d, Cassius M. Clay and. George _ Blakely! were appointed• as delegates at a State COvetation held in Covington, on the Bth inst 4 . • . Mudge Terry bait been indicted' by the. Graild Jury 44' Sun Frunci%co,. - for sing Senior Broderick ; he %yeti placed • un. der $10; i 000• bondte.. • • • • Mormon tr3verti4 meat read+ ai 'lows "To be let—roOms for t. %VD * gentle,. . . men alto fou,waes, or rooms for onegentle man anNix wives.'t . •• . Virginia a newpanic has been cre ated by the alleged disoivery of infernal ma. chines; vhich, according to the Riehiiiond,Ba- Oiter, Isre_to he addres..ed wall the leading . , eitizensiof the State, with the immediate and diabolical design' of blowing them 7Wo suspicioud characters have been apprehePded in Petersburgh, VEL Tliey ere - named John Hasting and Henry- King. Thil. only su.sPicious circumstance yet orOven- ott • them isfthat a few Moments before they, were apprebehded, King told a negro to go and tell Haltings he wanted to see him !.- he recipts of the New York Trit. one for- Weekly and Semi-Weekly ,subscrip., tions mei:, during the month of Novein- Iser, itirp, were $11.164, against $7,679, in - the_ same month of 1858—being. an ilic,rease of nedli fifty per cent for the present season. This trtly be taken as a fair indication of the progreSi of the Anti-Slavery sentiment—as well mil& the steady prosperity of thatbrave ly'inthldendent and reliable journal. . The tegiSlature of Virginia hme unanimously:passed- resolutions approving the sentensi of Cook and the other prisoners,and refusinl,l all interference hi their, behalf. ' , .... Fernando Wood is eleCted May& of New l'qrk. Wood •reeeiVed • 30,309 votes; airenly er 26,813 ;. Opdy ke, (Rep.)-22,716: • .. Postmaster• General Holt, in reply to a letter from -the , Postmaster at Falls Church,iVa.,isking whether' he shall obey the lad{ -which kirbids die delivery from -any Posit Office ofany-book or periodical in.• culcating resistance to the right of .property in slaves',"-tells him to-obey the law by •all means, and that he, the- said, Virginia Post- "- master, crust determine for himself whether - thetimiis,newspapers, etc., are incendiary, atoll( he' believes they are such, must sup press them..^• 1 • .... We. see it stated that', the Bilehigan Central -Aailread has now been running thir teen yea's under itapresent I inanagetn'ent.-- In the tone not a single paiseriger car has been 144 ken up by amide - it on the track. The brakeman, John Gray, spoken °Cleat ,Week as, being dangerously injured,,tit the tiine:of the railroad accident at,Linesbo ro',diedi4 last Friday night...tVorthirn , Peati- , ay/ea:imp. - • The House of Representatives of the GeorgiaNislature has passed .-a bill. inflict ing the ienalty of death upon any white per son whit shall procure a slave to commit an , ffence +hich by law forfeits thp lite,or such . ... slave. - 1 - . - .. or da and Louisina have a less el- . . - . i • evation above the seathito any other States 0 t. he' Cniqn. - A consicirabte port ion •of toll- .' 'Nana iii les,' than a htindred feet above tide waterothd no part of the State has an eleya-r tion of itiore than five hundred feet above the. C 23 According to the London papers the annual demand . for penny postage' stamps in - Great - Britian is a little short nffive hundred million, In order to‘, supply' the demand, 'the daily Manufacture must avenge about I,6olXooo—no very easy taslt,and only leasi. ble ihruogh the aid - of - Steam . and • mat-bine ry. . - The - Charleston Convention will be .held on the qpd of next April.. , - 771 e Evening Prhtee 'currespohdent gives the following sketch of the scene of Tuesday in Congress. • "At last, - steady, but determined , Thaddeus Stephens pressed his petint,,olerder,that but two motions were or: mild be in order—the motion to proceed to Jett a Speaker, and the foothill to adjourn'. % lie said bat little, but even this little was most shamefully interrupted ,by Crawford of .Georgia, who approached -defiantly, swing lug his Fist in his face. A fight . was immi nent.; and probably, with almost any othef memberi,iii Stephens's place, would have ix , . - curred. j,Keitt, who was.. now on . the watch, now came up close by the lido of Crawford, and placed his right hand on a revolver be. heath hip coat, ready, .doubtless, for any emergency." Thiit' is a foretaste of what . may be expected. - • • Some one having written to • Mrs. , Swisshelm about Minnesota, she recounts some of the bad featurtia of the State /18101- lows ;First and foremost, the moccasin . poi. iticians; isecond, niisquitoes, which bleed' the settlers'three mouths hi the Year; thtrd„the water is lto hard, one must bt:eak it with es belorti it will wash clothes; fourth, the men hal,fit taken to chewing tobacco, - and.they . nearly all chew or smoke; fifth, apple' are ) t• scarce p sixth, weeds grow very fat; aerenth - sometimps the frost kills the squash vines be , foie the; aeetis are ripe ; Ind these aro all i'he txto-thittli of. except •theri is So coal—that the wall does not grow hi stove length,:buti• has to ft 4 chopped. - tipeaking of the arrest of Pr: Breed, in -Washington City, for otating in Conyerss fion with one Van Caino that in spite of, the threats intade, he WAS -11 . 0 t afraid to d'ilend 4ohn Brown, one of the most conservative ,rnembere of the Senate, who is now in Wash. Ington e sys that if there is fait here against free speeich; then a,Movement must be made at once ip Congress for Its repeal, 'or a rein°. val of thkgovernment from Washington. 'he Chirleston Mercury publiihes a 'commurfication, five columns- king, in eight parts, aOting forth the advantages (la Gulf Confederacy, with New. btleans or Mobile as the capital. % , „ ; 4 Appede polo p 1 walla is Vine*
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