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..A. H. G. D. Palmer*
Woman and Marriage.
Ipj^have speculated a great deal upon ma
tfimony. 1 have seen young aud beauti
ful women, the pride o» the gay circles,
taarried—as the world says—well!—
Some have moved into costly houses, and
their friends have all coine and looked «l
their splt-mfid arrangements for hippine»»,
and they have gone away and cominm '!il
thein to sunny hope, cheerfully and with
out fear. It is natural to be .sanguine* f.M
the young, and at Mich lime# I am carried
away by similar leelings. 1 have to get
unobserved into a corner, and watch the
bride in her white attire-. and with her
Smiling face and her soft eyes moving be
foreme in their pride of life,weave a wakin:
dream of her future happiness, and per
suade myself that it will he true. I think
how they will sit upon the luxurious sofa
as the twilight falls and build gay hopes,
and murmur in low tones the now unfor
bidden tenderness, and how tliriilingly
the allowedhisses and the beautiful en
dearments of wedded life, will make even
their parting yous. and how gladly they
Will come back from the croud and the
empty uiirth of the gay, to each other's
quiet company. 1 piciure to myself that
young creature, who blushes even now at
his hesitating caresses, listening eagerly
for his fo-jtstepes as the night steals on,
and wishing that he would come: and when
he enters at last, and with an affection as
undying as his pulse, folds her to his bo
soi I can feel the very tide that goes
flowing through his heart, and gaze with
him on her graceful form as she moves,
about him for the kind ofnees of affection, I
s^c thing all his unquiet cares, and mak
ing hiir. forgei even himself, in her-yonng
and uiishaduwing beauty.
I go forward f' years, end see her
luxuriant hair put soberly away fioin her
brow, and her girlish graoeg ripened into
dignity and bright loveliness chastened in
to affection. Her hu»ban-l Sooks on her
with a prou-J eye, an 1 sliowjlter tin* same
fervent love and the delecH»s attentions
which first won her, and fai^ children are
groAn up about them, and t|iey go on lull
of honor and untroubled yei^s, and are re
mciniiered when thev die! 1 sty I love
to dreain thu- when I go to tJivethe you?
bride y. It is the nuttir l»teiideiiey and
feeimg touched hy loveliness, tfi.it feais
nothing fur itself and if I iver yield to
darker feelings, it is because u.e light of!
the picture i ch -tjirtd. I *m not fond ol
Upon Siicli »fctf»ge i ^ini I will!
not minutely now. I alludi* to it only be- I
bause I tru-,t that my simpli- page wiil he
read by some of the \ouugjaud beautiful
beings who move daily acrmy path, and
I would whisp'-r io them, a4tlfey glide by,
joyously and confidently, tf|s secret of an
undoude 1 future.
The picture I have draw|i above is not
peculiar. It »s colored lik| the fancies of
the hride, and many, oh', i ny an hour
will she sit, with the ric
loose in her lingers, «MI
dreams as these, bhe be i
and she goes on for a whih
The evening is not too lui
jewels lying
dream such
es them too—
undeceived.—
while they
talk of plans of happiness and the quiet
meal is still pleasant \vit:i lelightful nov
elty of tnutu-jl reliance aj il attention.—
There comes soon, howe:v«|r, a lime whi n
personal topics become hare and weari
some, and slight attentions will not alone
keep up the social excitemerit. There
are intervals of silence, and detee'e-d
symptom of weariness, and the husband
first, tn his nrmihood, breaks in upon the
hours they were to spend together. I
cannot i'ollovv it circumstantially. There
cainc ong hours of unhappy restlessness,
and terrible misgivings »f each o.her's
worth and aifrction, till by and by they
cin conceal their uneasiness no longer,
and go out separately to seek relief, and
lean upon a hollow wot Id for support
which one who was their lover and friend
could not give them
Heed this, ye who are winning by your
innocent be.-uty, the affections of high
minded and thinking being-! Remember
that he wdl give up the brother of his
heart with whom he has had ever a fel
lowship of mind—the society of his co
temporary runners in the raoe of fame,
who have held with him a stern compan
ionship—and frequently in his passionate
love, he v^ill break away from the arena
of his burjnihg ambition, to come and lis
ten to th^ voice of the charmer. It will
bewilder jhirn at first, bul it will not long
and then think you that an idle blandish
ment wil) claim the mind thi-t has been
used for ^ears to an equal communion?
Think you he will give up, for a weak
dalliance, the animating themes of men,
ana the search into the mysteries of know
ledge* Oh! no, lady! believu me—no!
Trust not your influence to such light fet
ters! C-iedit not the old-fashioned ab
surdity that woman's is a secondary lot—
ministering to the necessities of her lord
and master! It is a higher destiny I would
award you. If your immortality is as com
plete aud your gift of mind as capable as
ours, I would charge you to .vater the un
dying bud, and give it a healthy culture,
and open its beauty to the sun, and then
you may hope, that when your life is
bound witii another, you will go on equal
ly, and with a fellowship that shall per
vade every
earthly interest!—Washing­
ton Irving
A Patriarch, Gone.—Mr. ANDREW
SNYDER died at Intercourse, in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, on the first instant,
in ihe hundred aud thirteenth year of his
age. He was a soldier of the Revolution,
and
a
highly respectable citizen and was
perhaps the oldest man i^ Pennsylvania.
Foreign Extracts—by the Arcadia.
SYMPTOMS or WAH—Within the las!
few days a survey has been going on, un
der the direction of
a
naval officer high in
rank, of the large mercantile steamers in
he service of her Majesty, with a view to
the ascertaining of their capabilities for car
rying guns of ilie largest cai.bre. An ar
rangement has also been entered into, it
virtue ol which these steamers are to be
place.! at the command of Government in
the event of their being required as vessels
of war. These line vessels were examin
ed us to their strength for carrying gun
and captbilities as war steamers, in the
event oi their services being required, by
competent persons from Woolwi. Do. k
yard before they left the East India Docks
at Bh.ckwell for the convey .nee of iln
mails, and copies of the reports were lodg
ed at the Admiralty relative to them up
wards of two years ago. Indeed the Ad
miralty have been for some time in pos
session of sufficient information to be al le
to ar.n them, and the General Steam Nav
igation Company's and other large vessels,
tin the shortest notice.
EGYPT.— The Viceroy's Prime Minis
ters, Arlirn Bey, issued a notice on the
2'2i\ inst that his Highness, ever study
ing the welfare of Egjpt, had decided on
prohibiting for the present the exportation
of all grain and pul*e, in consequence of
the short crops.
LIVLBPOOL Dec. 4.—Thethreatened fa
mine continues to occupy men's minds.—
Nothing, during (he last fortnight, has al
tered the previous aspect of affairs as re
spects the extent of the deficiency. The
potato disease continues to progress in
s me quarters, and to be arrested in others.
The accounts from Ireland vary, but the
most fiivi r«ble regard a fourth of the peo
ple's food as being destroyed. In Eng
land, the disease /«lso pr gresses in the
S"Uth and we more especially. In the
belitf that some hing nil! yet be done by
minivers, the food markets are in a state
of transition. hat the '•something" may
be is a mystery, and the uncertain'} whit i
hiings over the fuluie. affords abundant
scope for speculation, not unmixed with
«ngry recrimination. Two or three cabi- i
net meetings have been held during the
part foitnight. the last of which took pi.ice
on Tuesday. Matters may be said at the
present moment to be in statu quo, but the
popular anxiety as regards die apprehend
el scarcity is now patticipu'ed in by the!
gre.it traders and capitalists -men, too, '1
who are above being influenced in a mat
ter so vi*airy important, by idle fears, still
less by party or personal predilections,—
Trade is already staggering under the blow
which the impending search)or what
is the same thing, the fear of it,— lo.s pro
duced. In the manufacturing districts
there has been a sad f.diing off in the de
mind for goods, mid die gloomy prospects
which the approaching win er presents, is
shared hy persons whose interests and
temperament would induce them to look
at matters in the most favorable point of
view.
With tlife country n this frame of mind
rra«sed by the fears of scarcity, and
listening daily to the most eloquent
and emphatic objurgation of the Corn
Laws, to the operations of which the evil
is more or le»s attributed—has appeared a
e e a e s s e y o o n u s s e o
i s o n s i u e n s e i y o o n o n i n
which he emphatically coimiemns the slid
mg scale, and declares himself anuncondi
lional repealer. The sens.uiwi which tins i
letter has excited, is proportioned to the!
station of the writer, to tile important in
terests at stake, and to tiie new comhina
tioii of parties which it involves. Many
regard it as the do 'in of the existing min
istry— il is certainly the doom of the corn
laws. As a stroke of liey, this move
metit of the Whig leader is admirable, and
at it would appear, has been followed,
without conccrt, by Lord Morpeth, w ho
has not only declared for total repeal, but
has joined the league.
he Free Trade party, by this aristo
cratic accession, are now in a position to
assume the reins of p.nver, and to form a
Government at any momet t. Tne noble
men we have named nre the foremost men,!
the cho.ce spirits, the hope oflhc Whig
party, an in thus giving t|ieir adhesion to
the League, they teceive as well as com
municate strength and power.
We have btibre stated, and the repeti
tion at the present time is almost superflu
ous, that as regards England, people here
care little in what way the Oregon dis
pute may be patched up the value of the
territory is hardly rated beyond a pin's
fte, and right glad would the thinking, in
telligent portion of the country be, if the
49i.li parallel of latitude would hit the
views ind-the tastes of the American Gov
ernment and people The annoyance, the
irritation, arises out of what is conceived
lo be the 'bullying spirit' with which the
United States' claim is
advanced, which na
turally wouncis our national pride, and
creates a frame of mind little calculated to
produce amity or end in forbearance
The refusal of the President to refer the
dispute to arbitration looks like a '"fore
gone conclusion," and is pointed to as a
proof that the worst may still be appre
bended from obstinate councils.
It has tr.inspired dnrn the list day or
two,that Mr. Polk has repeated lothe I'-ng
lish Cabinet the offer which ihey have re
jeotedtwo or three times during the last
quarter of a century, namely, to divide the
territory hy the 49th parallel of north lati
tude, and that they still adhere to makinp
the Columbia the boundary, each nation be
ing free of its waters. It is our curse
have a monopoly of some kind or other a!
ways to fight for or lo defend—some
"vested interest" about which the people
*VT J«t% "i .rr,-i-™-«. 'TniP^npip
in the aggregate know and care as much
as a j'ow does for astronomy. The nation
ifnosjes had been counted, would have ac
cepted this offer by an overwhelming ma
jority, but then the interests of the people,
and jhe interests of a powerful incorpora
ted company diverge, and the Government,
like harsh stepmother, pets the favorite,
and plunders the family.
It lis painful to talk of warlike prepara
tions'in the same breath that we refer to a
misunderstanding with a fri. ndly coun
try, as it savors sctnewliat oflhe milesian
mode of settling a controversy niih up
lifted shilleiah. But the fuss and pother
—the activity and incessant energy which
prevail in the English dock-yards, the
surveying ofthe coast and the steam navy,
-all indicate a "black cloud" somewhere
it tnay be in the west or in the south, but
the "powers that be" seem to he firmly
impressed with a belief that events are tran
sparent enough to make this activity and
outlay unnecessary, t'aptain Austin vis
ittd Liverpoo last week by orders of the
Admiralty, to gauge the capacity ofthe
first class of steamers as regards the nr
rying of heavy mtial. The Bri i-li and
North American, the West-Indian, and
other vessels have unde gone similai in
spections,
The Church and State Gazette announ
ces more seceders to the Roman Catholic
faiih
The railway panic has not subsided.—
On the contrary, it is in full force. In
vestments ol this description are prostrate
—the collapse continues.
Ilarlioi s. :ii:d Uivcr Im
l»«v nu'iifs.
In Uie annual report of the Secretary
of N ar, we find the following ss .ges
in relation to the improvenu nt of i-ur
lake harbors, and of tome oi the western
rivers:
The number of lake harbor improve
ments authorized by law is twenty-six.
Good harbors have been made where none
before existed, and the expenses of n
stiuctioii have not, on the whole, exceed
erf the estimate prospectively presented.
These results give assurunc- tli.it the plans
were ju liciously conceived, aud ihe work
ec 'iioiiin all) an i skillfully executed.
The public usefulness of tliese improve
ments wid be better appreciated, when it!
is considered that by means of them n most!
dangerous navigation has been rendered
comparatively safe. large shipping in
terest has been created upon the lakes,
and facilities afford*- to coinrn.'rce now
estim.iiad at one hundred miioons of dol
lars annually, and increasing with surpri
sing rapidity.—in which six States are
ducal}, ati.i all sections of the country
incidentally, interested.
Nor i- ,t s^arceU le-# important -u a
commercial or military point of view, thai
the helping hand of improvement should
be extended to the n tural avenues lor
conveying the al-unuaut productions of
the west to the Gult of Mexico «nd the
Atlantic c.wst—the Ohio and Missi-sippi
on the one side, and the Hudson river on
tiie other side. The progress of the work
on the two former rivers, having for its
main object the removal of olistructions,
has been in a measure suspended duriug
the pa-t season—means not h..ving toten
provided at the last stssion of Congress
fir (hat purpose.
oking to ihe vast intrrest subserved
by thi» improvement, and, to itff unques
tionable pun:ic clmraiter, scarcely a d. ubt
is enteitained that it will be resumed.-r—
Esfimates for its further prose, u ion «r«t
ihere ore submitted in the accompanying'!
report of the chief of the topographical
engineers. In the same rep ri will be
found an elaborate aud interesting expo
sition oflhc present condition of the Hud
son river of its importance in recard to
commerce and to military movements, as
one of the main avenues of communica
tion from the western Ftates to the sea
board, and the channel through which a
considerable portion of the trade between
these .States ami the Atlantic must neces
sarily pass of the ditiicnlties which now
embarrass its navigation in the vicinity of
Albanj ofthe success of firmer expen
ditures, and the plan* and probable cost
of further improvements, called fir by so
many important public considerations.
That part of the report which brings
into view the Missouri, the Arkansas
the Red river, and the harbor ol St. Loti
i«, exposed to injury by a tendency lo a
change in the current ofthe Mississippi,
deserves serious consideration. Recent
events, and the opening scenes in the
south west, have given increased import
ance to the navigation of the Arkansas
and Red rivers. They open a diroc
communication with an extensive frontier
which requires to be guarded by mili
tary posts. The improvement on this
account, as well as from considerate ns oi
a more general character i« tmbraoed a
mong the public works presented by the
topographical bureau for the patron. ge of
Congress.
All the estimates of that bereau are
confined to objects upon which the opin
ions of Congress have been expressed,
and on some of them in repeated instan
ces.
Under the directions of this herein, an
••xploraliori w rs made, in 1842, of the
country between the State ol Missouri
uid the Rocky untains The very sat
isf'nclory manner in which it was perfor
med, and the amount of valuable and in
teresting information thus obtained, indu
ced the government to extend it reseaicii
es to regions still more remote.
The population of Georgia is 774.325,
viz: Free whitepersons,4Sd,!TI9 Macks,
316,156.
HI IS A FREEMAN WHOM TBI THOTh it A I E 8 flit.
VOLUME 4. IOWA CITY, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21, lS46. NUMBER 50.
Resolution of Inqniiy.
When the n essage ofthe President was
first communicated to Congress, even those
most disposed to find fault, Were so en
tirely at a loss, that they reproached him
with not pressing upon Congress the im
mediate necessity of armirsr the country,
and rousing all our energies to meet the
expected ccnscquences of this message.
They represented that all expression of a
hope that we might settle cftr differences
amicably was klc, and unworthy of coti
fi ience and respect. But now that a tiis
tiii!uished Senator, fully coinciding with
the President in all his vie« s. calls upon
the respective committees f(* lake up the
very course thai the whig journals re
proached the President for neglecting, we
are told that the movement is injudicious
and indiscreet, and likely to do serious
misi hie! in the pending crisis.
The
CM
&
^institution.
.V s ,mg J&xicm Itixiahnenh
recent lecture, says: origi'i of the
Chinese government is »eyon i i.ur re .eh.
I w:«s known as -.n eJ.i coveri ment by
the Ej-j pti ns and tiie- Ktunuiis. There is
a lon of Jew* now in 'In- intfrior of
China, keeping all the *t tutes of Jl.-se4*,
who uetit ih re iiRini*i«ie!y nfter the sec
ond spersion. Ihe Chinese ihemselve*
bare tinny hbsurd fraiitioni o'" lh.«-ir an
liquity, earryiog liack tt eir oriifin far be-
haf we can *ay is, iliey tsre the oldest
eople on thf e.irth to oc.r kn«n\ le.l^e. We
inust c'.nclu 'c from the fact that tt is gov-
tnp I .hllioca If a n n nv/. nw.,lilA 1
the Chinese was an execrable
and unworthy of notice
AMEnic\N \V MEN.—M. de To'que-. ...
•11 i ,•
I O W A E I S A U E
COUNCIL.
MOMDAY MO HING, Jan. 12,1846.
On motion of Mr. Summers, Resolved.
That the committee of Military Affair*,
be instructed to report a bill, to provide
for the election of ail military officers in
this Territory, in accordance with an act
of Congress, approved Jan. 15, 1844.
Mr. Abbe introduced C. file, a bill tt
legalize ihe survey of certain towns, in
Linn county—read a first time.
Mr. Hastings introduced C. file, a bill tr.
amend an act entitled an act for the or?nn
ization of townships—read a first and sec
ond time and reported to .the committee
on Judiciary.
Mr. Stephenson introduced C. file, a
bill concerning security—read a fiist an.
second time and referred to the same com
in ttee.
It.is not to our purpose to attribute any
particular importance to such objections.
e regret thai this continued disposition!
is manifested in certain quarter-, to find fersun county, to the Desmoines rirer
fault and disturb the tjeneral harmony C. file, a bill to least the Penitentiary
which should prevail upon a question C. file, a joint resolution for the pay
where the national honor is likely to be medt of J. H. Fisher
so deeply involved. That the inquiries C. file, a bill (or tke relief of Thomas J.
called for by Gen. Cass's resolutions are| Pearce collector of taxes in Jackson coun
proper, no one doubts. Even without ty, for the year 1843.
these resolution* they would certainly be C. file, a bill to amend an set entitled
made, and their formal introduction to the an act concerning water crafts found adrift,
Senate is only important SJ far as il affords losl goods, and est ray animals,
a proper orcasio for a dignified and man Were stver4}y read a third time and
ly expres»ion of opinion by the distiu- passed.
guished n of both parties. We rejoice. C. file, a bill declaring a road herein
that the speech ol Mr Manmun gives named a territorial road—read a first and
earnest, that party pr' jtidi' e and opinion second time and ordered to be read a third
will no' so f":r re* rul, as to sn»ke for a time to-n.' rro.v.
M' in- nt, ihe M'v^i.t^jr: nur Government H. file, u bill to legalize the asscss
h.is g. iiic.l on }. the adtn rable manage- ment Iowa county —was re*d a first
inent oi our foteiyn ..flairs by the present »nd second time.
administration. We fee! assured that we H. R. file, a joint resolution asking an
cannot err in the opinion we have already appropriation for tiiiilding a bridge across
expressed, that on this great question, Skunk river, and
there will be entire un nimity throughout H. file, a bill to define a perch of
the con. try. Il is not necis^ary to excite maso:i woik in this territory, and
an aeit He the s*rs. On. the contrary,' H. It. file, a bill to locate a territorial
it r« quires all the ino'ier. ti. n and dignity road from Ottuinvva in A'aj ello county,
of Mi. Polk, to esdiwtht! flu
she-1 spirit of lo Bloomfield ill Davis county—were sev
patri ti-ni and devotion to our nati nal erallj ttad a first and second time.
hon r, which so tr ugly inaiii eM« its. If Mr. Hempstead introduced C. file, a
from the St. Lawreuce to l!te Del N rte. bill -'or the relief of the sheriff of Dubuque!0^
C. file, a bill fo locate and establish a
Territorial road from Bush's Mill in Jef-
ounty read a first and ateund time.
of t'-e misUry resp-ctin- the mUshe in- Wright ami Patterson.
stalmeot?. We. hmvever. are un..b!e to The following bills v^ere read the first
discover mi)tiling in it to jus'ify tlu-dtsig-
olt(
i
9e
nation which has b^en applied to it. f%e fL R. fil,.,
concluding p»M»g«
f'
4-
,-()»dtime":
a
at
yo,d tt.e date of Ad,.n'* creation. AH ,n.hs and millers
1
cle of domestic life, .ad iheir situation is,
in some resprcts. one «f extreme depen
dence, I have nowhere seen women oc«u
p)in^ ii loftier prisiti 11 and if I were ajk/
ed, n.r.v I am drawing to a close of t1fl'&
work, in whi-h I have rooken d'so mmy
things done by the Americans, to what
(he singular pro*p-rity and growing
strength of that pe. pie ought to be attri
buted. I should reply—fo the superiority
of their women."
An arrangement has been made between
the Postmaster of New Orleans and the
owners o! the s'.e.tm hip$ (julveston and
New York, fircarrying the mail between
Nevv Orle. ns and Te\a«. This nrrmige
ment is only te npor^ry. Imtwill coirttnue
effect until Mi»t next.
2J=»An exchange paper says there are
many hog« in this world with invisible
snouts. Their bristles grow inwardly,
and their souls wallow in the mire until
they become filled for the deviFs pork
baorel, into which theygo after a bard
scald. ....
ter and the gent. •**, »ie responsible Ailcn, and to legalize the relocsUion of A that the Messrs. Palmers, of the Iowa
un ac
an
eharicters. The Tartars, however, have jjje
ini.de a sort of ph iclic idphahet of about'
a
a bill
radical and 800 i. rim live letters yet fron, B^she's mills, in Jcticrson co., to
s
ti ey consider tli-t the finest poetry which
...r- i.nrs.
c.irmot be read. Philosophers are so-me-j
times seen conv
uttcrable letters
0jj^.H.Fisher
11
ffie„t 0
ties of Jasper and Polk
-if
third time and passed. if
C. file, a bill to lcgslizethe uirvej ol
certain towns in Linn
C. file, a bill for the relief of the Sher
iff of Dubuque co.
H. It. file, a bill to locate a Territorial
road from Autumwa in Wapello county
to Bloomfield in Davis county.
H. file, a joint resolution asking ar
appropriation for a bridge over Skunk
river at Lowell in Henry county.
II. R. file, a bill to locate a Terri
tori
al road therein named:
H. R. file, a bill to lay out and estab
lish a Territorial road from Iowa City to
Fort Desmoines:
H. R. file, a bill to legi!!^? the assess
ment for Iowa county:
H. 11. file, a bill declaring a road there
in named, to be a Territorial road:
II. R. file, a bill to dec!
are a certain
road therein named a Territorial road*
H. R. file, a bill for the relief of Sam
uel C. Read and
C. file, a bill to amend the act defining
crimes and punishments, were severally
read the third time and passed.
Adjourned until to-morrow morning.
HOUSE OF REPRESDNTATIVES.
TUESDAY MORXIXC, Jan. 13,1840.
Petitions were presented by Messrs.
Munger and Clifton.
The following bills were severally read
the 1st and 2d time:
II. R. file, a bill to change the name of
the town of Keokuk, and
H. R. file, a bill for the relief of S. C.
Trcwbrii'ge.
The following bills were read tbe 3d
time .nd passed
11 II. file, a bill to vacate a part of (he
town ol Fianklin, in Lee co.
county
Adjourned. II. R. file, a bill to declare a certain
["road therein named a Territoiial road
S.-ine of i.ur .n'einpora! ie« are u'ving HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.! file, a bill supplementary to an '22d ult., the prairie about nine miles north
publicity to a Ieiter wnsten by Santa An
»». which they describe as an unveiling
MH.M.AY MOUSING, Jan. 12, ibl(j. -act to establish new counties and
Peti inns weie presented by Messrs.
hill supplementary to an
!!ows: act to est .bli-h new counties and define
In short,' in my -pinion, the insfal- boundaries
ments to which you ref«r were paid in f|. R. lile, a bill to repeal an act enti- 'he thir time and passed also
ready cush but, if if be imt so, the Min4-
H. R. file, a bill amendatory of an act
to incorporate the Iowa City University
ence to pro.nre an appropriation to build
two
1
C. file, a bill to incorporate the city of
Dubuque.
Adjourned.
the f"rm» for hnvii'g cisobeyeJ iny pos- pjrt of a Territorial ro.idj .-jCapital Reporter, be employed to print in endeavoring !o save her, perished with
tfive orders, and the lat er for not having jj, R. file, bill to amend an act enti- -3u0 copies ol the laws of ihe present There were no negrues on thtf
fulfi led the irdeW tihi 'KWttluents.
N. Y. News* H. R. file, a bill to amend an act enti-' Adjourned. I
'tied an act concerning blacks and mulat
i!»A.~Fletcher Webster, -Esq ir. a
R. file, a bid to declare a certain
r. ad therein n. mtda Territoiial road and
ernmeni i* purely patriar. h«l, and their the district court for Van Buren county i C. file, a bill fir the organization of. The British Garrison in China.—De*
lantu.tL'e ptire.y hier glvphic, that their transviibe the records of said court* [townships plorabl-: MtrVtlity among the. Qneen't
govern.i eet was formed in the very dawn Adjourned. C. tile, a bill to amend an act entitled' Troops.—In I84H, Her Majesty's ISth
of man s creation. They have a list of !pn act regulating practice in the District'regiment had 500 men stationed at Amoy,
kiogs, to alUppearanres corrcct, number-1 TWO O'CLOCK, P. M. [Conrfs where' they lost 73 men and 2 officers,
ing h.ick 29i)3 \ears before Christ. Theirj following bills were read the first £. a till relative to District Pros- At II( rg Korg nearly one third of the
language contains pome 5000 arbitrary
lo locate a Territorial
road
it s next to impossible to learn even these. jyeSiM!)„jes iver, in Van Buren co H. R. file, relativ* to every three years, and that to have 700
.vlany ol ihnr lef.ers have no sound and
Philosophers are sc-me-j A bill to provide for the election of del-'indexing and distributing the (laws and Ivong was soon filled, and another was
.'ersing by making the tin-1 to ibrm a cen»titut.ioii: Journals required from the Surveyor General, who
s in the iir with wands. 0. file, a bill to amend nil act entitled C. lile, abilto locate* certain road found it difficult to point out a proper
A celebrated Tartar once observed that
ftn nJ rcgllUi!i,lg writs
C. file, a memon.d to Congress ein the
viile, speaking of American women, s ivs:i .. .b ..T
'•As for in self. I do not hesi'at. to avow boundary of Iowa
th,t, although the women of the United! 1
l'e following bills were read the third
Strttes are coi.fined within the narrow cir-
a
!V j!'.1'~sea''
H-,R-
,lle il
C. filtf, joint resolution for the pay
ment of Tliuiuqj J. Pcarce.
Adjourned.
COUNCIL.
THESDAV MORNING, Jan. 13, 1846.
H. R. file, a Resolution oil mail routes
was read a third time and passed.
C. file, a joint resolution for the pay
ment of C. A. Robbing for. seals —read a
first and second time.
Mr. Ross introduced C. file, a bill to
levy a special Ux in the county of Wash
ington.
Mr. Coop introduced C. file, a bill to
locate a certain road therein named—said
bills were each read a first and sccond
tiu.e and ordered to a third reading on
to-morrow.
11. R. file, a bill to levy an additional
tax for territorial purposes was read a
third time and pissed.
C. file, a bill lo change the name of
Skunk river, was introduced by Mr.
LefHer, and read a first, second and
-t ttj vacate ihe lown plat of Porti H. R. ii!e, a jjint resolution providing impending destruction. The old lady was
COUNCIL
j. h. Tislier I life, a mil to provide for printing,
of therein named
O O
attachii.ei.t,
C. file, a billcoacerning liens of judg
I ments and
*1 TV i« 1
"I1 /''organize the coun­
II. It. lile, a bill to locate a territorial
road from Wapello in Louisa county, to
Augusta in Desmoines county
C. file, joint resolution to pay C. A.
Robbing
H. R. file, a bill to declare a ccrtain
road therin named a territorial road.
H. R. file, joint resolution providing for
a full set of seals for the counties of Kish
kcko:-h and Appanoose
II. R. fil?, a bill supplementary to an
act to incorporate the Iowa City Univer
sity
II. R. file, joint resolution providing
for the printing of the laws
Said bills and joint resolutions were
severally read a third time and passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14, 184(i.
Mr. Morgan, from the select committee
to which was referred the communication
of His Excellency, James Clarke, report
ed
H. R. file, a bill authorizing the Gov
ernor of Iowa to employ counsel in cases
growing out of the disputad boundary be
tween ibis Territory and the Stiteof Mis
souri which was r«ad the 1st and 2d time,
and ordered-to a 3d reading on to-mor
row.
The following bills
SOt,n
regulate grocery license session. ipremises.—Missouri Republican.
act to establish new counties and define above sno!her, renderir.g it almost impos-
ll. file, a join: resolution on the sub- their boundaries. sible for the hardy canocmen cf Pi. "Levy
ject ol mail roiUes and I C. file, a bill to establish the seat of to cross."
C. fr.e, a bill to authorize the clerk of^Justice of Kishkekosh county
secona time ecutors i British garrison died io IS43. The Bri-
bill to lease the Penitentiary II. It. file, a bill to amend an act enti- tisli cetnman er, Gen. D'Augilar has de-
'led an act lo establish a 6ystera of com- clared that to retain I long Kong it wiil
the nwm schools {require ihe loss of the whole regiment
file, a j. int resolution for the pay- a mail route {effective men, it is necessary to roai«j-
I C. lile, a bill to provide for printing,! tain 1400. The grave yard at Hong
1
were
the 1st and 2d time
eeveral'y read
wMkroRrmio
=£s
Editors
and
!Propriet«i»
H. R. file, a bill to locate a Territorial
road therein named
H. R. fil a joint resolution for a tnntl
route
H. R. file, a joint resolution for an ap
propriation to improve the Territorial
•ojd between Toolesboro and the Missis
ippi river and
C. file, a bill amendatory of an act de
fining crimes and punishments.
The following bills were read the third
time and passed:
C. file, a bi!i to legalize the survey of
certain tow n in Linn co.j
C. file, a bill for the relief of the Sh*/
riff of Dubuque co.
C. file, a bill fo loeafe Territorial road
Vom I 'ushe's mills, j-i co. to^ th»
Desmoines river, in Van lJtiren co.
C. file, a bill to vacate a part of the
town of Rockingham arid
H. R. file, a bill providing for the relo
cation of the county seat of Jones co.
Adjourned.
TWO O'CLOCK, P. M.
C. file, a bill providing for the election
of delegates to a convention to form a
constituticn for the future State of Iowa,
was read the third time and passed also
C. file, a bill to amend an act entitled
an act to district the Territory into elec
toral districts, and to ap]»rtioj$ tl^?lfyre**
sentation ofthe same.
Adjourned.
Important Arnst. Yesterday Captain:
Youenes, of the First Municipality Police,
arrested on board the ship Sultan, just ar
rived from New York, Albert J. Tirrel,
alias Denni--, alias Hart, who is charged
with having murdered his mistress, Maria
Bickford, in Boston a short time ago, and
ir .afterwards setting fire to their room in
order thu,
,|U
crhne m5 }lt
H. It. iile, a joint resolution requesting (jUt details of which were given at
our delegate in Congress to use his inllu- j(he ,ime. XirreJl
zet s
u bridge across Crooked Creek Itlemen uho knew him from infancy, was
C. fne, a ji.int resolution providing for 'committed to prison to wait the requisi
a full Let of seals for ihe counties of K.sh- ^j^
justices of the peace in
„ot ,,e
digcov_
who ha8 been
feu0„ni_.
jnce. i,js arrival here by several gen-
o{ ihe
keko.'hanc Appanoose W e learn that while coining up the river,
file, a bill to provide inr the election Xirrell, finding himself detected made sev-
eraj
the town of Keokuk (Delta.
Governor of Massachusetts.—
attempts to jump overboard.—N. O,
Terrible Accident.—On Saturday, the
of Monticello, in Clarke county, Missou-
rjt was set
TWO O'CLO K, P. M. of the flimcs. Mrs. Kyle, an old lady, the
II. 11. lile, a bill aiicndatory of an act mother- .n-law of the Hen. Amos Kendall,
concerning blacks and mulaltoes. was read accompanied by her son, endeavored to
•ve the fence surrounding the farm from
on lire and the wind being high
the fiamos spread with great rapidity.
[The family of Mr. Kyle, resides on this
prairie. On perceiving the rapid approach
enveloped in the flames, and the son,
Fiflent fid of Snoic at Qudcc- The
Quebec Gazette of the 5th, says, that for
W ED«S«BAY MORMKC, Jan. 14,1846. the previous eight days the weather has
Messrs. C«.»op, Hastings and Btierly been ire severe in that city than it was
H. K. file, a biil to uinetid ati act enti- presented petitions wl.ii.li were referred hi the frightful climate of Moscow, in
tied ao «CL relative lo the probate of wills, to appropriate committees. 1842. The thermometer was down to 10"
executors, administrator*, guardians,-&c. Mr. C«op, introduced a bill to lay out below zero, and the snow lies in heaps
The fallowing bills were read the third establish a territorial road from Fair- more than 15 feet deep, and was then fall
time and passed .liuld to Keokuk in Lee county. ing so lliick that it was impossible to see
II. R. lile, a bill fo declare a certain'
a
bill to locate the seat of justice at a distance of a few feet.
road therein u,imel a Teriitoridl roadj of Buchanan county. St. Lawrence is not only covered with
H. file, a btil to amend an act regu- H. R. file, a bill supplementary fo an floating ice, but it is heaped one piecc
u
The broad
tain MUU. ine grave yaru ai nong
spot.— London Times.
Latlies'' F'ts/r ions in JVew York.—The
N. Y. correspondent ol the Philadelphia
American writes:
One seldom has
ttnae to embellish hi#
observations .! daily life witli so delicate
a thing as ladies' fashions but really ths
rivalry cl'the white and red, the green,
the yellow, the blue,the scarlet, the brown,
the azure, ihe cherry colored, vie with
each other in outraging and tmnip'iug up
on gcod taste, and then fhiunting through
Broadway. Bonn ts have receded from
the ultra'coal-scuttle shape, and are now
approximating to the sugar-dipper school
of outline. But the amotit of ornament
with which they are overwhelmed,
is positively barbarous. Let mc giv«
your lady readers on idea of a Broadway
bonnet at this present wtiiin^. A bon
net of purple velvet, trimmed inside v. ith
orange aud lilac flowers, or meads of rib
bon, or both inter r.ixed —broad satin riV
bon on ihe outside, heavy winter flowers,
and a tremendous drooping feather sur
mounting nil, and streaming in the wind
hke a pennant of a Commodore's ship
such is the f.ihionable "turn cut" in
Broadway. Dresses, scar.'s, Sic. all "to
match." Washington Irwing's idea that
women have one fashion they never
change—the fashion of looking as much a»
possible like a butterly is here futhp1
verified.