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Allentown, Fa.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1819.
I 27 - We continue our thanks to 'the Hon.
Simon Cameron : of the United States Senate,
for valuable public documents—and also to the
Messrs. Jacob D. Boos, of the State Senate, and
Joseplp Lauback, of the House of Representatives,
for valuable Legislative documents.
. Congresional Noccedings.—:Wo Would refer
our readers to the last days proceediugs of Con.
gross, which will be found in another column.
They-are very interesting, giving an account
.of the fights before the adjournment.
4 :Appolntment by the Postmaster General.
Mrs. Maria I. Hornbeck, widow of the late
Hon. John W. Hornbeck, to be Postmistress in
Allentown, Lehigh county, Pa.,-in the place of
Edmund R. Newhard, Esq., resigned. •
tar 'The news of the above appointment has
caused no little fluttering among the aspirants
for the office, under the new Administration,
and for aught we know, not without reason.—
If the sympathetic feelings—if such it was, that
induced our worthy Ea-Postmaster to resign—
had been determined upon, shortly after the
pecuniary circtimstances of the lamented Horn
beck, had been. made known, the nppoiniment
would have met with a unanimous approval.
No new aspirants wonld have ventured into
the field, dud all wenld have passed of harmo
niously. Mrs. Hornbeck is a lady respected by
ad, haT i a number of children to P pport , and is
in every. respect worthy of the appointment,
and we have no doubt will give general satis
faction.
pen. Taylor's Cabinet.
TlTAlatest information from 11' ashington, is
to the effect, that the Cabinet will be as follows:
M. Clayton, of Del. Secretary of State.
• John Davis, of Mass. Secretary of the Treas.
Wm. M. Meredith, of Perin. home Depart.
Geo. W. Crawford, of Georgia, See. of War.
W. B. Preston, of Virginia, See.'of the Navy
Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, Postmaster General
Revert4l y Johnson, of Maryland, Attorney Gen.
ra-The Cabinet is composed of men emi
mently qualified to fill their respective stations
with honor to themselves and their country.
Inaugural Address of the President.
• In another column will be found the Inairgu
ral Address of President Taylor. It is short and
to the point, clear and decided ; and will 'be read
by every American with exultation and plea
sure. It is worthy the American republic—
worthy the noble - republican, who is now its
chief. No inaugural has ever appoared, that
compares with General Taylor's in point of
brevity.
New .Lioense Law
This Law, which has passed - the House, al
lows every person who chooses to take out a
license for retailing liquor, by paying a certain
sum of money proportioned to the amount of
his sales. The object of the law is to raise re
venue, and a large amount is expected from
the measare, if it should go info effect. The
friends orthe.temperance movement anticipate
an alarming increase' of drunkenness from the
law, but it is difficult to foresee the effect of
such a general license. One thing iscertain
-it will either reduce the profits of - ruin selling,
by dividing them among a greater number of
persons, or it will reduce the amount of actual
rum consumed,' by inducing the retailers to
give a liberal mixture of water with the fiery
beverage. In either case, we do not know but
the community will be benefitted. If the-ten
dency of the law will, however, be to increase
the amount of intemperance, there is no sum
that could reach the State Treasury tharwould
compensate for the miiehtel done by it.
The Pennsylvania Canal
We have received from Thomas L. Wilson,
cretary of the board of Canal Commis
':
notice, that, if the weather• will per
:main line of the Pennsylvania Canal
opened for navigation on Saturday next,
the 10th instant. This indicates a very early
commencement of the spring businessat least
six. weeks in advance of the New York canals,
which are very rarely open earlier than the
Ist of May.
The Snuff Box of General Jackson.
By the will of the late General Andrew Jack
eon, the gold snuff-box, presented to him by
the corporation of the city of New York, and
the slim vase, presented to him by the
of Charleston, South Carolina, were left to be
given after a war to the Patriot of the re
spective city or State, who, in the estimation
of his countrymen, rendered the most essential
service on the fieltNf battle. The trust was
confided to his son Andrew Jackson jr., who
has called upon the ladies and countrymen al
luded to in the will to point out to whom the
articles are to be given.
Clayton's Resignation
the letter of the Hon. John M. Clayton, re
signing the office of Senator from Delaware;
is a model of brevity. It is as follows
11, the Honorable, the Senate and House of Re-
resentatives, 4514
Ido hereby resign the of f ice of Senator of
the United States. JOHN M. CLAYTON.
- February 23, 1849.
'lr this is to, be considered any indication of
the length of t h e State papers of the neis , ad
ministration,, the whole country will hail it
with joy.
112iPlust amour paper was going to press, we
Teamed that the bill Io divide Allentown into
pre wards hid passed the State Senate.
'rho New Era
A new administration--says the Philadelphia
Sun—is dawning upon the country, and the
setting sun of one President but yields to the
light of another, whose advent in Washington
is already announced. But it is not now merely
a change of officers that lends interest to the
approching 4th of March. - For good or for evil,
the country has entered upon a now era, and
the results to flow from it must be momentous.
Of him, who has descended from the high
position to which he was lifted by a major
ty of his countrymen, we do not desire to'pase
judgement. The pen of history will pass that
judgment upon the acts he has sanctioned,
All things point to the election of General
Taylor as a special Providence. The war with
Mexico, which drew forth the man of the time,
and gave the opportunity for the exercise of
noble qualities of mind and heart for the exhi
bition of a courage that never faltered, and a
Will well tempered, but bold and irrepressible
—a judgment cool and well balanced, and a
sagacity fur seeing and keen. It brought Gem
Taylor in his true light before the country, and
fixed him, by a feeling so general and spon
taneous, that no adverse influenc43 could quell
[ or cool it, as the proper choice of the nation as
[ its chief Executive officer.
Since Monday last General Taylor has been
invested in power, and with his assumption of
the reins of government there will come a new
phase in national affairs. .What will be hie
course?—
The.qualities which• have secured General
Taylor his high position, must serve for the
present as the index to his administration—but
the openness and frankness of his character is'
such that we.may read distinctly there, that no
act of his will be in contravention of the will
of the people; that he-will call about him the
best men of the vuntry, and that, sustained by
their counsel and experience, his aim will be
to call back the course of legislation to its true
channel—to make it the actual representation
of the wishes and wants of the people, and to
place our nation, in regard to its external af
fairs, upon a broader and more honorable basis
than that upon which it now rests—to put to
rest forever., we trust, the miserable reward oil
partizanship, and recall, if possible, something
of the spirit and simplicity which adorned the
administration of Washington, and in allying
himself more closely by his acts as President, '
to the Father of our country, to sheq, new honor
upon the people he has been called to govern.
All things ,smile auspiciously on the new
administration and its first step. The nomina
tion of the lion. J. M. Clayton as Secretary of
State, is a presage that all who stand near the
President will be tried, faithful and eminently
capable. It belongs to the people, now, to aid
the spirit in which General Taylor himself com
mences his rule, by the exhibition of a forbear-
ing and kindly spirit; by the wise choice of
representatives, and by imparting to me num-,
dent the knowledge that he has their confidence
at all times. .11 we would have a republican
President, the will to do so must originate with
the people. There has been enough, and more
than enough of party and partizanship—and we
rejoice that a change has come. It is, we have
all reason to believe, a most beneficial change;
and in the new era it brings we look to see
further and higher developments of republic
anism worthy of our Union and our advance
ment in civilization.
•
Journeymen and Apprentices
• Journeymen and apprentices spend a deal of
precious time foolishly: They have many, lei
sure hours which they might devotelo practical
improvement or mental acquirements. They ,
work hard to be sure; but is there not as much
recreation to be found in conning the columns
of a good newspaper or the pages of a book, and
looking practically into the mysteries and curi
osities of arts, sciences, .and every branch of
useful mechanics, as in lounging about the
streets, rolling ten-pins, and spending time and
money, health and character, in play-houses,
1 taverns, low grogeries, cock-pits and race-cour
ses? There is everything substantial Pa i d v o l o .
able to be gained in mental pursuits,, such as are
I open to every young journeyman or apprentice I
I in our-country; but in the pursuits and habits
i of an opposite character, everything is to be
lost, and nothing. I;ained. The former cannot
I fail to make them respectable men and valua
ble mechanics; the latter course is just as sure
i to .busy their reputation, blast their hopes, and
1 destroy, sooner or later their usefulness in their
I respective vocations. The history el the indus
trious classes is crowded on every page with
innuinerable and most melancholy instances,
, which prove the truth of our remarks. It is a
I solemn fact and we are pained with the obser
vation of new arid startling confirmation. It is
sickening indeed to see a young active, intelli
gent, healthy mechanic, cheosin at the onset
. of his career, paths which lead only todisreputa
ble connections, detestable habits, dissipation,
disgrace and poverty. It is, however, of so
common occurrence as to pass almost without
commentw rebuke.
Accident and Narrow Escape
On Tuesday last, says the Reading Gazette,
as Dr. J. Seiberling, of Hamburg, in company
'with a lady, named Koehler, was on his way
to Upper Bern township, in a light vehicle, an
accident occurred, which had well nigh proved
fatal. Upon crossing the canal bridge at Ham
burg, the horse took fright, and sprang over a
steep declivity, more than 20 feet deep, into
the canal below. The hOrse was instantly kil
led, and the vehicle broken to pieces. The
lady was precipitated with her head against
the rudder of a canal boat, and seriously, though
not fatally injured. Doctor Seiberling provi
dentially escaped without the slightest hurt.
Frozen to Death.—A man by the name of Wood,
a limner. by trade, was found in a road in CI&
narvon township, Berks county, about ten days
ago, frozen to death. He had worked some time
at his trade in the neighbeitood.
The North Branch Canal.
A plain, matter-of-fact statement, gathered
from the report of the Auditor General, of money
paid into and received out of the State Treasury
by the counties named, in the year 1898 :
Tax paid. School Tax drawn.
Susquehanna, $7,300 $3.600
Bradford, 8,900 2,500
Wyoming, 3,500 1,500
Luzern e, • 21,400 9,060 -
Wayne, 6,000 2,500
Tioga, , 4,500 2,000
$51,600 $16.100
23,147 1,890
Lehigh,
North Branch Extension:
Six counties ; as above, have paid tax
on real and personal estate, 651,600
They have received from school fund, '16,100
These are the only counties which can be ben
efitted by the Canal, and Luzerne but partially.
. Lehigh has paid, - 623,147
And received from school fund ; - 1,890
These - receipts and disbursements - are within
the year ending Dec. Ist, 1848. The fractions
under $lOO are omitted.
Sowing Clover Seed.
If you have not already sown your clover
seed, you should lose no time in doing so, af
ter the ground is relieved from the frost, and
take our word for it, that you will advance
your chances of success by rolling it in. In
deed, we would both Narrow and roll after
seeding, with the confident belief that we
should benefit The wheat crop, by encouraging
its tillering. In advocating the sowing of clo
ver seed we are prompted to recommend its
culture because we conscientiously believe
that, without clover and lime, no permanent
improvement of the soil can be effected, on
any lands which may have been exhausted of
its calcarentis element, or, perchance, may not
originally have had it. This opinion, thus in
cidentally advanced, forces us to the confes
sion, that it is useless to sow clover seed on
fields where the soils are destitute oflime : un
less ashes or lime accompany such seeding.
The Chambersburg Outrage
There are most painful suspicions afloat in
relation to . the outrage at, Chambersburg, on
the night of the 26th of February. There was
a difficulty between the former Treasurer of
the county, ind the Commissioners in the set
tlement of his account, and within a few weeks
several communications hare been published,
charging a defalcation. The books had been
so kept, that the matter could, with the utmost
difficulty, be investigated, yet
,an investigation
was progressing. The office of the Treasurer
was on the night of the 26th of February bro
ken open, and the docket running from 1847
to.the present time, so completely mutilated,
that it is utterly impossible to make anything
out of it. The object was not to obtain money,
and suspicion was so strong under the circum
stances against the former Treasurer, that he
was arresteu an,t t.. 1.1 6.11 t.. c i vvo %Wilma
to answer.
Iron Coffins.
A correspondent of the Philatielphia No .
American, writing from Delaware, suggests—
and he deems the suggestion of perhaps some
commercial interest .to the State of Pennsylva
nia, and worthy, from economic anti other
reasons, the consideration of philantropiste—
the feasibility of casting iron coffins and mak
ing them a substitute for costly shells of wood.
"It is believed," he says, that such articles can
be made light, (and with occasional ribs) of
sufficient strength for any purpose required,
and at a cosi considerably lower than is usually
charged for the wooden article now used,—
Different sizes could be advantageously packed
in nests for transportation—and if ,lightly cov
ered with gum-elastic, or anmelbing
similar—
corroston might probably be prevented, and
perpetuity measuratly secured thereby.
The Latest Gold Discovery
Since the amonisliing disclosures of richness
of the California Gold region, traces of the
"root" have been found in nutriermis very un
likely places in various parts of the United
States. The latest discovery we have heard
of, says the Lancaster Examiner, is in the
Welsh Mountain, two miles east of New Hol
land. Persons disposed to try their hatids at
digging can have a chance at the Welsh Moen . -
tain "placer," as the owner offers it for sale.
A Princely Establishment
The elegant mansion of Wm. R. Renssalear,
In the county of Renssalear, about one mile from
Albany, is advertised for sale. The house is one
of the most extensive ever erected in America.
Its whole cost was $150,000. The walls and
ceilings are painted in pieces by Bragaldi, and
the whole house is warmed by Perkins' hot wa
ter pipes, There are two miles of wrought iron
pipes.laid down in the house for the purpose.—
Attached to this house are extensive pleasure
grounds, containing a variety of trees and shrub
bety, and five - miles of winding carriage road.
The whole estate contains 500 acres; 300 of
which are inclosed by a substantial board fence,
thoroughly painted. The house stands on the
bank of the Hudson, 200 feet above the river,
and commands a view of unsurpassed beauty
and extent. To a millionaire, who , wishes for a
place•rgady made to his hand,•this house of Be
verwyck.presents attractions not often found in
America. The grounds can be kept up for
12,500 per annum. It is a greOt pity that such a
superior' seat should remain ti tenanted; espe
cially when it is considered that4 4s, ?rlce asked
is only sso,ooo.—Rochesfer Dem • , r
Taylor vs. Smith.—The Presi.ent elect is a
joker. At a tavern in Maryland. while he was
waiting for the Baltimore, train, among others
who introduced themselves was one of the übi
quitous Smith family. On hearing the name,
Gen. Taylor remarked with a merry twinkling of
the eye--u That's no name at all.r "Why, Gen
eral," replied Mr. Smith, "you should have no
objection to the name, Mrs. Titylor was a Smith."
'YeB," addetlhe promptly,"but I made her change
her name, and I advise you to do the-same.
General Manufticsturing Law.
The follciwing abstract embodies the main
provisions of the bill for the encourageMent of
Domestic Industry, which has been introduced
into the House of Representatives of Pennsyl
vania;
It is enacted, by Section 1, that aoy time here
after, any three or more persons desiring to form
a company for any kind of manufacturing busi
ness, may make, sign and acknowledge the requi
site instrument before a Commissioner of Deeds
—including therein all the particulars of the pro
posed formation of such corpotation, officers, lo
cation, ect, This instrument to be presented to
the Court of Common Pleas of the county in
which said corporation is intended to be situated
—after approval to be duly recorded—and the
company then to be capable of purchasing, hold
ing or conveying lands, tenements, wares and
merchandize, as they shall see fit.
The capital Stock is not to exceed $500,000
to be divided into suitable shares, which are to
be numbered in progressive order. Every com
pany is qualified to reduce its stock, or to in
crease both it and the number of shares, provid
ed the highest sum be not exceeded. •
Provision is also made for the necessary offi
cers of such Corporation; the Directors to be
not less than three nor more than seven in num
ber, and to be chosen annually.
•The copy of any Chatter of Incorporation re
corded in pursuance of this act, and certified by
the Recorder of the county or his Deputy to be . a
true copy, is to be received in all courts as a le
gal evidence of incorporation. The stockhold
ers shall be liable jointly and severally for all
debts due the operatives and laborers, incurred
While they are stockholders—piovided an action
shall be brought against such Company with
in six months after the debts shall become due.
The levying of executions, upon the property
of the Company, and amendments to the Articles
of the instrument creating the Corporation—are
also provided tor; and duly certified statement
of affairs is to be kept and filed.
No such Company shall exercise any banking
privileges; each one formed shall pay into the
State Treasury $3OO for the use of the Common
wealth—and embezzlement is to be punished, by
a fine:of the amount so embezzled, and imprison.
ment in solitary confinement at labor for any
term not less than six months nor more than two
years.
The. final Section of the bill provides that no
Corporation created by virtue of this act shall
continue fur more than 25 yeais from the time of
its creation—the Legislature meanwhile reserv
ing the right to amend or repeal the law or any
Charter which may be created under it.
Legiilative Proceedings.
SENATE.—The Senate resumed the consider
ation of the joint resolution relative to the amend
ment of the Constitution. [Provides for the elec
tion of Judges by the people.]
Messrs. King, Overfield and Drum opposed the
resolutions, and Messrs. Johnson and Small ad
vocated them.
The resolution., t. 7
the fcillowing vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Doas, Brawley, Brooke, Crabb,
Cunningham, Forsyth, Hugus, Johnson, Law
rence, Levis, Mason, Matthias, M'Caslin, Rich,
Richards, Sadler, Sankeseavery, Small, Smyser,
Sterrett and Stine-22.
Nays—Messrs. Best, Drum, Frick, Ives, King,
Konigmacher, Overfield, Potteiger, Streeter, and
Darsie, Speaker-10.
Mr. Boas, presented a petition to prohibit the
Lehigh Navigation Company, from issuing notes.
Mr. Sankey, presented a petition from Mercer
county, for a general banking law similar to the
New York law.
The bill relative to relief issues, [provides for
a re-issue of the same] was taken up.
Mr. Forsyth, moved to amend the Ist section,
which, provides for a re-issue of relief notes, by
inserting a section authorising the State Treasu
rer to borrow $ 600,000, to be applied to the re
demption of the relief issues, which loan shall
be free from taxation and reimbursable within 4
years in 4 equal instalments to be paid annual
ly; bearing au interest not exceeding 6 per cent.
payable semi-annually, and pledging the faith of
the State for the redemption of said loan.
The amendment was supported by Messrs. Hu
gus, Forsythe and Small, and opposed by Messrs.
King and Darsie (speaker) and disagreed to—
years 19, nays 16.
The bill passed finally as follows :
Yras—Me'sirs. Best, Boas, Cunningham, Ko
nigmacher, Frick, Johnson, King, Lawrence, Le
vis, Matthias, Overfield, Richards, Sadler, San
key, Smyser, Stine and Darsie, Speaker-17.
Nays Messrs. Brawley, Crabb, Drum, For
syth, Hugus, Ives, Mason, Weaslin, Potteiger,
Small; and Sterrett-11. '
HOUSE.—The following bills were ordered to
a third reading and passed:
An Act to prevent the disturbance of meetings
held for the purpose of religious worship, passed
April 2nd, 1822.
An act to incorporate Sagertown, in the coun
ty of Crawford, into a Borough, to be called and
knoWn by the name of Sagertown. •
The Daughter.—There is nothing more desir
able in a daughter than intelligence joined to a
gentle spirit. The mind is fashioned and fur
nished in the main, at school. But the character
is derived chiefly from home. How inestimable
is the confidence of that mother in producing
kind feelings in the bosoms of her children, who
never permits herself to speak to them with a
loud voice, and in harsh, unkind tones.
Kentucky Legieldture,--The Senate of .Ken
tucky on the lath instant, passed a ecsolution
which had .previously been agreed to by the
House, to adjourn on the 28th. The hill to modi
fy the law of 1883, prohibiting the importation
of slaves, passed the Senate on the same day by
a vote of gl to 17. The bill does not differ ma
terially from that which pitied the House, and
no doubt it will be concurred in by that body.
It is somewhat singular, that, just at thetime
Kentucky is engaged in repealing the law pro
hibiting the importation of slaves, States further
south—anblissisbippi and Alabana—are discus
sing the propriety of enacting precbely such a
prohibitory,lawe
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, March 4, 1849.
SENATE.—An amendment appropriating ten
thousand dollars to the purchase of the papers of
George Washington, and a like sum for the papers
of the late James Munroe, was discuSsed and
carried, yeas 22, nays 14.
The General Appropriation bill was then taken
up and all the amendments to which no special
objection was made were considered collectively.
The amendment for paying the instalment
under the Mexican treaty, was stricken-out, hav
ing been provided for in a separate bill.
The amendment providing for a temporary gov
ernment in California came up for consideration.
Mr. Dix proceeded to make an elaborate speech
on the general subject of providing governments
for the new territories.
Mr. Dix continued speaking till within fifteen
minutes of the time fixed for taking .a recess,
when on motion of Mr. Dickinson, the Senate
went into Executive session.
On the Senate re-assembling, the debate was
continued,
Mr. Niles closed his remarks at 11 o'clock.
Mr. Mason addressed the Senate in defence of
Southern rights and Southern institutions. ,
Mr. Phelps followed in favor of the immediate
passage of the bill. He deprecated the time
wasted in debate.
The question was taken and carried—yeas 25,
nays is. The bill was then passed, and the Sen
ate adjourned.
Mr. Douglas, presented the credentials of Gen.
Shields, elected Senator of Illinois.
Mr. Walker, in justice to Mr. Shields, the Sen
ate, and the community, moved to refer the cre
dentials presented to the Judiciary Committee to
enquire into his eligibility.
Mr. Mangier(' said this was premature, as the
action of this Congress would not bind the next.
Mr. Walker thereupon withdrew his motion.
The joint resolution authorising the compila
tion and translation of such laws as were in force
in New Mexico and California at the time of their
acquisition by the United States, was passed.
On motion of Mr: John Davis, the Senate took
up the House bill, directing the Secretary of the
Home Department, (if such office should be ere•
atecl,) and the Postmaster General, jointly, to
frame and submit to the next Congress a law for
taking the seventh census.
An amendment prevailed, striking out the Sec
retary of the Home Department, and substituting
the Attorney General.
The bill was discussed by Messrs. Calioun,
Wescott and John Davis, and subsequently pas
sed as amended.
On motion of Mr. Underwood. the Senate took
up the bill creating the Home Department. The
bill was discussed by Messrs. Jefferson Davis
and Webster, in support, and by Messrs. Allen;
Hunter, Niles and Mason, in opposition.
Pending a question on an amendment, Mr. Ma
son moved to lay the bill and amendment on the
table,'and the vote being ordered, the motion was
negatived by a vote of 31 to 22.
Evening Session. Ori re-assembling, the de.
°ate on the Home Department bill was continu
ed. Messrs. Webster, Berrien, Foote, Downs and
Jefferson Davis, spoke in favor, and Messrs. Ma
son and Dickinson opposed it. I
•
Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, while arguing in
favol of the bill, claimed it as a Democratic
movement, and charged the Demoera4 Senators
with opposing this necessary measure, besause
' they were not themselves to be benefitted'hy it.
Mr. Allen denied that it was a Democratic
measure. The amendments to the same were
all voted down.
The bill was reported to the Senate, ordered to
a third reading and passed.
The general appropriation bill was now re
ceived from the House, with amendments.
Mr. Mason moved to strike out the section con
tinuing the existing laws in California until July
next. Ruled out of order.
Various propositions Were submitted, some to
concur, and others to adhere.
Mr. Cameron raised a point of order during
the discussion, when Mr. Foote walked up to him.
Warm words were sassed between them, when
Mr. Foote shook his fist in the face of Mr. Cam
eron, and the latter struck him. The partiei
were here seperated by other Senators.
Mr. Douglds made an earnest appeal to the
Senate in favor of granting to California a gov
ernment, depicting in strong colors the evil con
sequences of permitting the question to lay over
until the assembling of next session.
The debate was further continued, and at ten
minutes past five a vote was taken on the mo
tion to recede from the Senate amendment and
decided in the aflirmativeyeas 38, nays 7.
On motion of Mr. Dix,. the Senate took up the
bill to extend the revenue laws over California,
which led to a very animated debate, after which
it passed a final reading.
At 7 o'clock oil Sunday morning, after a whole
nights session, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.—The House went into Committee of
the Whole, Mr. Vinton in the chair, and took up
the California bill.
Mr. Sawyer ofiered an amendment striking out
the Wilmot proviso in the twelfth section of the
bill. He contended that it should be left to, the
people of California and New Mexico to decide
whether or not slavery should exist there.
V us er amendments were offered and
discussed by Messrs. McClernaud, Murphy, Ash
man, Meade, Uirdsall, Greeley and others.
Mr. Preston's substitute for the bill we reject
edoMr. Gayle only voting affirmatively: - •
No essential amendment was agreed to; -when
the committee rose and reported the bill, i'ihich
was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. Meade moved to lay the bill upon the table,
and the question being taken, it was negatived by
a vote of yeas 86, nays 127.
The bill was then rut upon its final passage,
when it carried in the affirmative,the vote stand
ing yeas 126, nays 86. • •
The House went into Committee of the Whole,
Mr. Cranston in the chair, and took up - the terri
torial bill for Neal Mexico.
Mr. Vinton offered an iinendment giving the
settlement of the boundary to the Supreme Conti,
and advocated its passage. •
Mr.Glreeley opposed.it on the ground that the
minority of the Court *ere elaveholders. He
advocated the passage of the bill without the
amendment.
Mr. Toombs opposed the bill vehemently, and
replied to .the remarks of Messrs. Vinton and
Greely with severity.
Mi. Schenck followed in an earnest speech.—
He denied that TexaS hid any claim upon Ncw
Mexico, and denounced the entire organization
of the new territories. He also opposed Mr. Vin
ton's amendment.
Mr. Rockwell, of Connecticut, moved an amen&•
ment, limiting the proviskinal government of the
new territories to coniinue six monihs, after the
rising' of the next Congress, unless sooner re
pealed, and no longer. Yeas 90, Nays 82.
Mr. Hunt offered an additional proviso that
the law of Mexico, abolishing slavery in the said
territories remain in full force until repealed by
the act of Congress. Adopted, yeas 95, nays 87,.
and the bill as amended was sent to lhe Benre.
Last Day.--After some time speni in the pass
ing of unimportant bills the House took up the
engrossed- bill to establish a Branch Min Uai New
York, which was passed.
During the discussion of the Civil and Diplo-•
matic bill, Mr: Giddings passed over to the Dem
ocratic side of the House, when Mr. Meade jam
med his fist in Mr. Gidding's face, and collared'
him. The combatants were, however,
ately separated.
The House then reeelltd from all other amend
ments, and the bill was sent to the Senate.
While killing time by useleSsmiptions, a fight
occurred between Johnson, of Arkansas, and
Ficklin, of Illinois, at half 2 o'clock, in which
Mr. Johnson, inflicted severe blows upon Mr.
Ficklin, causing the blood to flow freely. They
were seperated and Mr. Ficklin, was led out of
the Hall.
After this the House adjourned sine die
Gleanings from Exchanges
E=d lion. Garret D. Wall has been appointed
a Judge of the Court of Appeals by the Legisla
ture of the State of New Jersey.
(tom Thomas F. Marshall, is proposed as a can
didate for the Kentucky Constitutional Conven:
tion.
CeA lawyer in England who had made love
to a wealthy farmer's daughter and been reject-.
ed, recenly, sent in a large bill "for '275 attend
ances and giving advice on family matters."
1.:7 "A poor man who had been ill, on being
asked by a gentleman if he had taken a remedy,
replied. ••No, I haint taken any remedy, but I've
taken lots of physic !"
Car People should not stop courting when they
get married, but, on the contrary, should learn
to court the more. This laying aside the Jade
endearments that nursed love into being the very
moment you have sworn to live on it forever, is
almost perjury.
Eirlt belongs to our nature to •err—but it is
the part of the fool to persevere in error.
C.-. The duration of cold has been greater this
winter than has been known in the recollection
of a scientific man eighty years of age, who has
kept a record of the weather from his youth up.
Ce'Philip Cox, a colored man, riled on the
Island, at Washington, on Sunday, aged 110
years.
Briltih Census. What the United States be
gan tok , do sixty years ago. Great Britain has just
thouArof doing, namely, numbering 'the people. 4- -
A census- of thexhole Biiishetapire is to be
taken in Wt. Giders hay*bp ' t eh•scot to all the
colonies to make preperalteqs fdp4s labor, that
it mny be executed on a systematic il uniform
plan .throughout the British diwitimons in every
part of the globe. _'Phis is the first time that a
complete census of the British empire has been
determined upon by the Government, although .
no country has produced so many writers upon
the subject of population as Great Britain. On•
the other hand, the United States have produced.
1 fewer writers on the theory of population than.
IGreat Britain, France or GermanAyet our court.
try has furnished more statistieiC s facts upon
this subject than all Europe combined.
New Counterfeit.—Arreal.—A counierfeit issue
of 4'6 notes, purporting to be of the Susquehanna
county Bank, at Montrose, Pa., was put in cir.
culation in Philadelphia on the 28th ult. A man
Who had passed one of the bills'at a store, t e
ner of Eighth and .Poplar streets, was
and committed to prison by Alderman
The prisoner refused to give any name. He
proved to be a desperate fellow.. While consta
ble Larison, who had him in custody, was taking .
him to the magistrate's office, he drew a knife on
that officer. He was, however, disarmed, before
he was able to inflict any injury upon thb con ,
stable.
I?easarkable Case of Recovery frani
We learn that a man who has for the last forty
years, been confined, as a raving maniac, in the
poorhouse of Newton, Massachusetts, has bden
suddenly restored to his reason; lie has . been
regarded as incurable ; and for a grept part of the
time during his confinement he hasiNn so vio
lent as to reniler it necessary tolthairr him. No;
he - is clothed and in his right Mind appearin
like one awakened from a long sleep, and remem:
tiering distinctly events which occurred previous
:to the loss of his * reason, but nothing that has
transpired, during the long years of his confine
inent.—Busion Traveller. -
Standing Anniett.—E uropean Armies are sonic
what of a wonder to an American mind. Aus
tria has an army of 500,000 men, which is to be
incrcaied to 700,000 in March. Russialas 7004.
000 in her army. The Republican army of Fraucp
is equally large and useless. It is to be reduced,
as is also that of England, but both reductions
are merely for effect.
Indian War.—The Indian Reservation in gen-.
essee county, N. Y'., has been for some time
claimed by a company , called the Ogden tend
Company, under an alleged, sale.' The Indicted
having resisted'their encreachmeilts,applicalicrif
was made to the Secretary of War, for triMpi to
enforce the claim; but this being vellised, Amy
applied tv'the Sheriff of the county, who hating
dotibts or hii attifioilti, - declitted
aistance.. The.claiorants .. are'.now endeavoring
to raise a forte on, their own atlieritt The
White people" of the'viaitiity an said to fit•
vor of the Indians.? - • ' ••• : t
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