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THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Term commence* March 4, 1861, and terminates |
March 4, 1853.
The First Session opens on Monday, December 1,1861.
SBNATB.
The Senate consists of two Senators from each
State. Since the admission of California, there
are thirty-one States, represented by Bixty-two
Senators. The Senators who held over from
the 4th of last March were forty-one, via:
eighteen Whigs and twenty-three Demoorats.
Of the twenty-one new Senators, three are yet!
to be elected from the following States:
California?Legislature Democratic.
Connecticut?Legislature to be chosen in |
April, 1852.
Tennessee?Legislature Whig.
SENATORS HOLDING OVER AND ELECT.
Whig* in italic; Democrat* in roinan?those marked F. S.
are Free-aoiler* or Abolitionist*; U., those elected as
Union men; S. R., those elected aa Southern or State
Rights men.
Ttrm ' Term,
ALABAMA. Expires. micbioa*. Expire*.
Jeremiah Clemen* ? 1863 Alpheus Feloh - - - 1863 |
Wm. R. King (8. R.) ? 1866 Lewis Cass - - - - 1867
utiMU MISSOURI.
Wm. K. Sebastian - 1853 David R. Atchison ? 1866 !
Solon Borland - - ? 1865 Henry S. Qej/er ? ? 1867
OONNBOtlOUT. NKW HAMP8H1RB.
Truman 8tn.Uk - ? 1866 John P. Hale (F.S.) ? 1863
. - 1857 Moae* Norris, jr. - - 1866 |
CALiroutu. New
Wm. M. Gwin - - - 1865 Win. B. Seward (F.8.) 1865 j
___ ? ... 1857 Hamilton fith - - - 1867
bblawakb. "*w jrrsrt.
Presley Spruance - - 1866 Jacob IK Miller - - 1863 |
James A. Bayard - ? 1867 Robert F. Stockton ? 1867
FLORIDA. NORTH CAROLINA.
Jackson Morton - - 1866 Willie P. Manoum ? 18631
Stephen R. Mallory ? 1867 George E. Badger - - 1865 |
OROROI A. OHIO.
John M. Berrien - - 1853 Salmon P. Chase( F.S.) 18561
Wm. C. Dawson - ? 1865 Benjamin P. trade - 1857
INDIANA. PENNSYLVANIA.
Jame* Whitoomb - ? 1855 James Iboper - ? - 1853 ]
Jesse D. Bright - ? 1857 Richard Brodhead, jr. 1857
ILLINOIS. EII0DI ISLAND.
Stephen A. Douglas - 1853 John H. Clarke - * 1863 |
James Shields ? - ? 1855 Charles T. Jame* ? ? 1867
IOWA. SOUTH CAROLINA.
George W. Jones - - 1853 R. B. Khett(S.R-) - - 1858]
Augustas C. Dodge - 1866 A. P. Butler (SJt.) * 1866 |
EBNTUCKY. TKNNMSBt.
Joseph R. Underwood 1853 John Bell - - ? ? 1853 ]
Henry Clay ... 1865 ... 1867
LOUISIANA. TKXAi.
Sol. U. Downs (U.) ? 1853 Sam Houston - ? ? 1853 |
Pierre Soule(S. K.) - 1856 Thomas J. Husk ? ? 1857
MAINR. VBRMONT.
Jas" W. Bradbury - 1853 William, Vpham - ? 1853 |
Hannibal Hamlin - 1857 Solomon Voole - - - 1857
MASSACHUSETTS. VHWINIA.
John Davis - - - - 1853 R.M.T.Ilunter(S.R.)' 1863
Chas. Sumner (F.S.) ? 1867 Jas. M. Mason (S.K.) - 1857 |
MARYLAND. WISCONSIN.
James A. l\arce - - 1866 T*aac P. Walker - - 1866;
Thomas G. I'rati - - 1857 Henry Dodge - ? - 1867
MISSISSIPPI.
Henry S. Footc (U.) - 1853 Jefforson Davis (S.R.) 1857 1
Metin. Foote and DnvU, of Misainippl, have resigned.
Of the members clect, and those holding over,
thirty-four are Democrats, twenty-one are j
Whigs, and four Free-soilers. Of the Free
soilers, Hale and Seward were elccted by a j
union of Whigs and Free-soilers; Sumner and |
Chase were elected by Democrats and Free
soilers combined. Dodge, (Democrat,) of Wis
consin ; Fish, (Whig,) of New York; Foote,
(Whig,) of Vermont; and Wade, (Whig,) of|
Ohio, are also put down by some as Free-soilers.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House consists of two hundred and |
thirty-three members and four Territorial dele
gates. These delegates, however, have no rote.
Annexed are the names of the
MEMRKRS ELECT.
ALABAMA.
1 John Bragg. (??*?) * 2???* * "?nK,ton
2 James Abercrombxe # W. K. W. Cobb
3 Samp. W. Uarrl*, (8. R.) 7 Alex. White
4 William R. Smith
, ARKANSAS.
1 Robt. W. Johnson, (S. R.)
CONNECTICUT.
1 Charles Chapman 3 C. F. Cleveland
2 C. M. Ingeraoll * O. 8. Seymour
CALIFORNIA.
1 KdwRTd P. Marshall 2 MeCorkle
dblawarb.
1 George R. Riddle
FLORIDA.
1 Edward C. Cabell
OBOBOIA.
1 J W. Jackson, (S. R.) 6 E. W. Chastaln, (V.)
2 Jama* Johnson, (U.) 6 Junlu* Illllyer, (U.)
3 David J. Bailey, ?S. R.) 7 (??)
4 Chsrlee Murphy, (D.) 8 Kobart Tbombs, (U.)
INDIANA.
1 James Lock hart ? W1UU A. Gorman
2 Crroi L. Dunham 7 John U. !>???
3 John L. Robinson 8 Daniel Mim?
4 Samuel W. Parker 9 Graham N. Fitch
Thomas L. Hendricks 10 Samuel Brenton
ILLINOIS.
William n. Blssell 6 Wm. A. Richardson
Willis Allan S Thomas Campbell
8 Orlando B. Fleklln 7 Richard Fates
4 Richard S. Moloney
IOWA.
1 Lincoln L. Clark 2 Bernhardt Hcnn
KBNTUCKT.
1 I Inn Bovd ? Addison White
a bSL EOr'M 1 Humphrey Marnf^R
8 lYest'V Kwina 8 John C. Brecklnridgo
J muarn T. Xd 8J-C. Mason
6 James Stone 10 ji- c- Stanton
loctstana?
1 Lonia Bt Martin, (8. *?) \ AIM. G. Mn, (8- B.)
2 J. Aristide Landry * K' MorBe K '
MAINS.
1 Moses McDonald 6 Bphrulm K. Smart
2 John Apple ton ? Israel mthburn,jr.
5 Robert Ooode.now 7 Thomas J. D. Fuller
4 Charles Andrews
MASSACHUsrrrs.
1 William Applrinn 8 (ieorgt T. Davis
2 Robt. Rantenl, Jr., (F.S.) 7 John Z. Goodrich
3 James H. Duncan 8 Horace Mann, (F. 8.)
R. Thompson 0 Orin fbwler
Charles AUen, (f. 8.) 10 Zeno Scudder
MARYLAND.
Richard J. Bowie 4 Thomas Y. Welsh
] Wm. T. Hamilton 6 Alexander Kvans
8 Edward Hammond 0 Joseph S. ftuunau
MMHIOAN.
1 Kbeneser t. Pem.it nan 3 James I. Omger
2 0. B. Stuart
MISSOURI.
1 John P. Darby , 4 Wlllard P. Hall
2 Gilchrist Porter 6 John 8. Phelps
8 John G: Miller
mtmmm.
1 D. B. Nabors, (V.) ? Wm. MeWIUU, (8. B.)
t J?ha A. WOto*, (V ) * *" ?? **** $?)
1 Amo* Tuck, (F. 8.)
2 Charles II. fwilin
MINNESOTA.
? II. II. 8ibley, (del.)
n?W HAMMH1KB.
8 Jurtd nrkint
4 Harry Hibbard
Haw XOftK.
18 Pronton King (F. 8.)
10 Willard Ives
20 Timothy Jenkins
XI William W. Suow
23 Henry Bennett
23 Leander Babcock
24 Daniel T. Jones
25 Thomaa Y. How, jr.
28 H. H. WWridge
21 William A. Dackett
28 Ab. M. Schermerhom
29 Jedediah Hntford
80 Reuben Kobie
SI Frederick & Martin
32 S. O. Haven
33 Aug. P. HatcaU
34 Lorcnxo Burrow t
1 John Q. Floyd
2 Obadiah Bourne
8 Emanuel B. llart
4 J. B. Hobart Haws
6 (forge Brings
6 Jamej Brooks
7 Abraham P. Stevena
8 Gilbert Dean
0 William Murray
10 Marius Schoonmaker
11 Jo*ia& Sutherland, Jr.
12 David L. Seymour
13 John L. Schoolcraft
14 John H. Boyd
It Joseph Russell
10 John Well*
17 Alexander H. Buel
raw num.
1 Nathan D. Stratton 4 George H. Brown
2 Charles Skelton 6 Rodman M. Price
* Isaac Wlldriok
NORTH CAROLINA,
1 T.L. Clingman, (8. R.)
2 Joseph P. CUdwttt
8 Alfred Bockery
4 James T. Morehead
6 A. W. Venable, (8. K.)
Ntrvf KXX1C0.
?R. W. Weightman, (del.)
i ? OHIO.
0 John R. J. Daniel
7 W. 8. Ashe
8 Edward Stanly
0 David Outlaw
1 David T. Disney
2 L. D. Campbell, (F. S )
3 Hiram, Bell
4 Benjamin Stanton
b Alfred P. Kgerton
8 Frederick Green
7 Ndson Barrere
8 John L. Taylor
0 Edison B. Olds
10 Charles Sweetscr
11 George II. Busby
12 John Welsh
13 James M. Gaylord
14 Alexander Harper
16 William F. Hunter
16 John Johnson
17 Joseph. Cable
18 David K. Cartter
10 Fben Newton, (P. B.)
20 J. R. Giddings, (F. 8.)
21 N. S. Townsund
OREGON.
* Joseph Lane, (dol.)
P?NNB*LVANIA.
1 Thomas B. Florence 13 James Gamble
2 Joseph H. ('handler
3 Henry B. Moor*
4 John Robbins, jr.
6 John McNair
6 Thomas Ross
7 John A. Morrison
8 Thaddeut ?SInvent
0 J. Glancy Jones
10 Miles M. Dlmmick
11 Henry M. FulUr
12 Galusha A. Grow (F. S.)
RHODX ISLAND.
1 George E. King 2 Benjamin H. Thurston
80CTH CAROLINA.
1 Daniel Wallace, (8. R.) 6 Armistead Burt, (8. R.)
2 James L. Orr, (8. R.) 8 William Aiken, (8. R.)
3 J. A. Woodward, (8. R.) 7 Wm. F. Coloook, (8. R.)
4 James McQueen, (8. It.)
ximntna.
14 T. M. Biliighiiui
16 William H. Kurts
18 J. X. McLanahan
17 Andrew Parker
18 John L. Dawson
10 Joseph II. A'uAiu
20 John Allison
21 Thomas M. Howe
22 John W. Hoive (F. 8.)
23 John H. Walker
24 Alfred Gillmore
7 Meredith P. Gentry
8 William CiUlom
U In ham G. Harris
10 Fred. P. Stanton
11 Christopher II. William t
1 Andrew Johnson
2 Albert G. Wutki>u
3 Wm. M. Churchwell
4 John H. Savage
6 George W. Jones
? Wm. II. Polk
T1X AS.
1 Richardson Scurry, (U.) 2 Volney B. Howard, (U.)
UTAH.
?John M. Bemhlsel, (D.)
VIRGINIA.
1 John 8. Millson, (8. R.) 0 James F. Strother
2 R. Kidder Meade, (8. R.) 10 Charles J. Faulkner
3 Thos. U. Averett, (8. R.) 11 John Letcher, (U.)
4 Thos. 8. Bocock, (S. R.)
12 H. Edmondson, (U.)
13 F. B. McMullen, (U.)
14 J. M. H. Bcale, (U.)
16 Geo. W. Thompson, (U.)
6 Paulus Powell, (8. 11.)
ft John 8. Caskie, (8. R.)
7 Thomas II. Bayly, (U.)
8 A. 11. Holladay, (8. R.)
TXMfORT.
1 Ahiram L. Miner 3 George B. Meacham
2 William Hebard 4 Th. Bartlett, jr., (F. S.)
WISCONSIN.
1 Charles Durkee, (F. 8.) 3 James D. Doty, (F. 8.)
2 Benj. C. Kastman
?Delegates from the Territories.
RECAPITULATION BY FIGURES.
Alabama ?
Arkansas ?
Connecticut
Delaware ?
Florida
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa ?
Kentucky ?
Louisiana ?
Maine
Massachusetts ?
Maryland ?
California ?
Georgia
Michigan ? ?
Missouri
Mississippi -
New Hampshire
New York ?
New Jersey
North Carolina *
Ohio -
Pennsylvania ?
Rhode Island ?
South Carolina ?
Tennessee ?
Texas
Vermont ?
Virginia
Wisconsin -
Total thus far
-1860-'61.
Whig. Bern.
2 6
? 1
1 J
? 1
8
0
2
6
3
6
1
2
2
C
1
2
4
2
17
4
3
11
16
1
7
7
? 2
3 1
2 13
? 8
00 143
-1848. .
Whig. Bern.
1
2
1
6
1
2
0
4
2
2
3
2
17
1
ft
10
0
1
2
32
4
ft
10
16
2
116 118
63
3
60
117
143 S
22 |
13
Democratic majority thus far ?
Democratic majority in 1840 -
Democratic gain -..???
A majority of the House Is ....
Democrats elected ......
Southern rights men (21 Democrats and 1 Whig)
F n-e-(toilers ...? ...
TIIK PRESIDENTIAL ASPECT OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.
With regard to the vote by States, which only
occurs in case the Presidential election is re
ferred to the House of Representatives, the fol
lowing is the result thus far:
Democratic States?20. Whiff Sales?7.
Arkansas, (Secession.) Florida,
* Missouri,
Massachusetts,
Michigan,
Maryland,
North Carolina,
Vermont.
DMAedr-4.
Kentucky,
New Hampshire,
New York,
Rhode Island.
Alabama, (Union.)
California, do
Connecticut, do
Delaware, do
Georgia, do
Illinois, do
Indiana, do
Iowa, do
Ixiuistana, do
Maine, do
Mississippi, do
New Jersey, do
Ohio, do
Pennsylvania do
South Carolina, (Secession.)
Texas, (Union.)
Tennessee, do
Virginia, do
Wisconsin, do
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country. J
| J he 01 dels of tho British and French govern
| ments to their naval forces in the West Indies
with regard to the protection of Cuba, are said
to have been well considered aud properly
treated by our Government. 1
The American people felt indignantly the
great public shame and scandal of the treat
ment of the Spanish Consul at New Orleans :
and Congress is expected to adopt prompt mea
sures for his indemnification.
IT I*10 revision of the public statutes of the
United (states, by a commission appointed for
that purpose, is recommended.
Ihe citizens of this District may well ac
knowledge tho attention of the President to
their comfort and convenience, both through
what they see commenced about them already
and his recommendation for their prospective
benefit.
The President renews his recommendation of
the establishment of a commission for the adju
dication^ of private claims against the Govern
ment. J. his measure, under his previous re
commendation, failed in the House by only a
few votes.
The President distinctly reaffirms the recom
mendations of his last annual message respect
ing the-I ugitive Slave Law and the Compromise
Measures.
We quote tho following from the Union:
Among the special recommendations of the
President, we enumerate, in the order in which
they occur, the following, as likely to attract
particularly the attention of the public:
Further legislation providiug for the protec
tion and punishment of Consuls: the establish
ment of trade between the United States and
Canada on the principles of reciprocity: the
consideration by Congress of a suitable recep
tion for Governor Kossuth gn his arrival: the
modification of the present tariff by the adop
tion of specific instead of ad valorem duties
whenever practicable, with further discrimina
tions for the purpose of protection?such modifi
cation to be made in view of the principles as- i
sumed in the message that a low rate does not J
benefit the farming population of the coun
try by increasing the foreign market for ag
ricultural products: legislation to extend the
public land system of the Uuited States over
the public lands of California and Oregon,
and, in this connexion, an increased compensa
tion to the three commissioners to settle land
titles in California : to leave the mineral lands
i in California in their present condition, instead
of surveying and selling them in small parcels
in tho manner emphatically recommended by
the President in his annual message of last year:
the establishment of a Bureau of Agrioulture:
legislation to guard against" frauds upon the
government under existing laws in regard to
pensions aud bounty lands: prompt appropria
tions to completo the classifications and publish
the results of the census: the prompt passage
of the apportionment bill under the census as
?oon as the returns from California shall be re
ceived: an extended system of river and harbor
improvements on the lakes, tho Atlantic sea
board, and in tho rivers of the West: an in
crease of the stauding army for the protec
tion of our own frontier and the Mexican
frontier from Indian hostilities: a reorgani
zation of the naval establishment, fixing the
number of officers, creating a retired list, and
regulating promotions by merit and capacity
rather than seniority in the service: revision
of the whole subject of punishment in the navy,
in the view that the abolition of flogging has
not worked well: the separation of naval ap
propriations from those for ocean steam mail
service: adherence to the present rates of post
age on letters, and a revision of those rates on
printed matter: a commission to revise the
statutes of the United States, and report them,
in a revised form, to Congress: liberal legisla
tion for the District of Columbia: the estab
lishment of a commission to settle private
claims against the United States: and, finally,
the faithful maintenance and execution of the
compromise measures, as a final adjustment of
the slavery question.
But these recommendations of the message
are, most of them, of less importance as an
exhibition of the spirit and policy of the ad
ministration than the view which is taken of
the foreign relations of the country. In regard
to the Cuban transaction^ we notice that tho
President has not thought fit to say a single
word in respect to tho treaty alleged to have 1
been concluded between Kngland, France, and
Spain, guarantying the possession of that island
to the Spanish crown on conditions, among the
most prominent of which is said to be the
gradual or immediate abolition of slavery there.
We notice, also, that the President, in referring
to the British and French orders issued to ttair
cruisers to prevent by forco any persons f*m
landing on the coasts of Cuba with hostile in
tent, objects to them only in so far as they may
assume the right to search American merchant
vessels, and adds that both of these govern
ments have given assurances more or less ex
plicit that such is not the purpose of those
orders. In this state of the case, we do not
perceive how to escape the conclusion that
the Administration does not object to have
foreign ships of war assist our Government
in the execution of our own neutrality laws
upon such of our citizens as may become
ameuable to their penalties. It will be per
ceived, also, that the message appears to justify
the terms of the Cuban proclamation?without,
however, attempting to explain why an alto
gether different language and spirit were adopted
iu the proclamation for Mexico. It will also be
noted that the message makes no objection to
the sufficiency of the trial allowed to the fifty
American prisoners whom Concha shot, and
rnakoa hd allusion to the treaty with Spain as
having stoourcd to them a more deliberate and
regular legal investigation of their case. The
whole of this brauch of the message will doubt
less be fully and searohingly discussed.
In regard to the financial aud commercial
condition of the country, we understand the
message to say in substance: first, that it is in
all ruspects unusually prosperous and tfourish
,n8> with a full treasury, and especially with a
vastly augmented export trade; secondly, that
all this prosperity is quite accidental and tem
porary; and that therefore, and thirdly, the
whole system should be changed or?got rid of
without delay!
The Poitmutn General's Report.
The Republic makes a synopsis of this docu
ment, from which we extract the following:
Further Reduction of Postage.?The Postmas
ter General disapproves of the disposition man
ifested in Borne quarters to urge a further re
duction in our inland ratos of letter postage,
before the results of the last reduction are
properly ascertained. He points out the dis
similarity in the circumstances of this country
and Great Britain, and maiutains that the re
sults of the system now in operation in Britain
admonish us not to attempt a further reduction
until justified by our revenues. Looking at our
eutire circumstances, the sparse population of
immense sections, and the extent and expense
of tlie area traversed by our mail routes, he
concludes that we have, beyond all question,
tho cheapest postage in the world.
Private Mails.?Attention is called to the ex
tent to which the revenues of the department
are prejudiced by the operations of express
companies; and the revision of the laws appli
cable to the subject is proposed, with the view
of making it highly peual for persons or com
panies to carry letters on certain specified routes
outside of the mails. Other penal enactments
are sought to protect the property and opera
tions of the department.
Abuse of the Franking Privilege.?The increas
ing abuses of the franking privilege are noticed
as another matter requiring legislative action.
Severe penalties are suggested to prevent the
franking as public documents things which are
not such, the distribution of franked envelopes
to persons not entitled to the franking privilege,
and various similar practices.
Mr. Thrasher's Last Address to his
Countrymen.
[Received from Havana by th? Prometheus.]
In a Dcngeon of thb Punta Cabtlk, \
Havana, November 21, 1851. J
To the Government of the United States of America,
and to my Fellow-countrymen:
An American citizen, deprived of liberty and
denied justice, respectfully begs leave to lay
before you the following facts and appeal. Upon
leaving the steamer Georgia, on the lGth of
October last, I was suddenly, and without pre
vious accusation, arrested," and taken to the
office of the police. On searching my person
and that of a gentleman who accompanied me,
no papers or letters of any kind were found
upon either of us. We were then taken to the
hotol where I buanled, accompanied by the
Chief of Police, who demanded to be shown my
room. On ascertaining that I had no room
there, we were taken to my residence, and all
my papers seized. The gentleman who accom
panied me was then put at liberty. Myself and
all my books and papers were taken to the resi
dence of one of the police commissaries where
four days were occupied by two government
interpreters in reading my letters.
On the 21st October, I was thrown into a
dungeon of the city prison, and all communica
tion of my friends strictly prohibited. On the
26th, I was removed to my present dungeon,
and the Fiscal of the Military Tribune made
his appearance, and began a judicial examina
tion. On the 26th this was continued, and then
I saw no one until the 4th instant, when the
questioning was proceeded with; and on the
Oth 1 was ngain questioned, and finally informed
that 1 was accused of treason. At the same
time, I was required to select one from a list of
officers that was presented to me, who should
conduct my defence. Not knowing any of them,
I chose one at random, supposing he would
consult with me and with my legal advisers, as
is usual in such eases, in regard to my defence.
On the 7th instant I was for the first time al
lowed to see my friends, and to consult with
them as to the best course to pursue. I con
ferred with our consul, and he passed several
communications in my behalf to the government
here, all of which have been utterly disregarded,
and not replied to.
On the 11th I was informed that I was to be
brought up the next day for sentence. 1 imme
diately wrote to my nominal defender to come
at once to consult with me, and to bring with
him the proceedings which were in writing. He
replied, verbally, that he would come in the
afternoon. He did not come, and I entered at
once a protest against the proceedings, alleging
that I had not been heard, and that neither my
self nor my legal advisers had been consulted
for a proper defenco. I sent this to tho Presi
dent of the Military Commission that night who
refused to receive it, saying that it could ouly
be admitted by the Captain-General. The Amer
ican Consul, Mr. Owen, as soon as informed of
this, proceeded to the palace, and protested
against sentence being pronounced, as it had
not been heard in defence. In the morning my
nominal defender came to my prison to inform
me that he had been allowed by the court only
twenty-four hours to prepare my defonce ; that
he had been occupied till that moment examin
ing tho proceedings, which were voluminous,
and that within an hour he must return them
to the Fiscal.
On the 12th, I was taken before a court-mar
tial, composed of a brigadier general and six
officers of the army. The testimony and pro
ceedings were read before I was brought into
court, which is contrary to law and to custom;
and when brought in, 1 was asked what I had
to say to the charges against me? 1 replied
that 1 had not been furnished with a copy of
the charges?that 1 had been denied access to
the proceedings and testimony?that my nomi
nal defender had neither consulted with me nor 1
with my counsel?and that I now asked that
my protest and petition for stay of proceedings
should be admitted. I was told by the presi
dent of the court that it should be considered.
1 was remauded to my dungeon, and heard no
thing more of th* proceedings until to-day,
when 1 have been formal]y notified that I have
been sentenced to eight years' labor, in ohains,
at Ceuta, in Africa, with payment of costs.
It is unnecessary for me to enlarge upon the
impropriety of bringing me before a court
martial la a time of profound peace; on the
injustice of sentencing me without a hearing ;
on the utter contempt of international law,
civil rights and treaty stipulations in my trials
or upon the wilful disregard, in the manner of
proceeding, of the constitution and rules of the
very court which has assumed a jurisdiction
over ine without right, has tried me without a
crime, and sentenced me without defence, lho
government that has the power and the will to
commit these acts is beyond the reach of rea
I son, and my only resource is to appeal to the
t physical power of our own Government for that
protection which its moral power has not been
able to extend over me, and to ask from my
fellow countrymen such countenance as will
encourage the Executive in the manifestation
of firmness, and carry some appreciation of na
tional rights and national duties to the hearts
of the unscrupulous rulers of Cuba. I solemnly
affirm that I have never had any connexion with
the parties who invaded this Island, and that
the only grounds for hatred to me, on the part
of the government and Spanish portion of the
population here, are: that I am an American;
that I refused to abjure my nationality one
year since, when required by thiB government <
to do so, or to abandon the business I was then
engaged in; that I Buccored, so far as I wm
able, those of my unfortunate countrymen who
were captives here; and that, in the court,
had the independent spirit (they call it auda
city) to rely upon my innocence and my rights
as an Amerioan citizen.
Having been denied justice, I now ask at the
hands of the American government, and the
American people, that liberty of which I am bo
iniquitouuly deprived. All the horrors of the
Spanish galleys are before me, and my only
hopes are in the sympathies of my countrymen,
and the prompt action of our national govern
ment. _ J- 8- Tmim
[Corrmpondence of the American Telegraph-]
Portsmouth, (Va.,) Dec. 1, 1851.
G entlemen: The surveying schooner William
A. Graham, Passed Midshipman N. Harrison
commanding, came up to the navy yard on
Saturday from a cruise in the bay and Chingo
teague inlet. The present officers are relieved,
and Passed Midshipman T. S. Phelps, a young
officer of much promise, and well capacitated
for this arduous and important duty, will take
the command.
Many changes have taken place recently in
the personellt of the navy on this station, and
(the following are to take effect in a few days:
Lieutenant Charles H. Poor, inspector of pro
visions, &c., at the Gosport yard, ordered to
the United States frigate St. Lawrence as First;
Purser Samuol Forest ordered to receiving-ship ?
Pennsylvania, vice William Speiden, detached;
Pursor Ed. Fitzgerald ordered to the Gosport
navy yard, vice John De Bree, detached and
waiting orders.
The Kev. George D. Armstrong was, on Bab
bath morning, installed aB pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, in the city of Norfolk.
Rev Mr. Vansant and Rev. Mr. Hodge were
present, and officiated on this interesting occa
The Rev. Thomas Hayes, appointed to the
pastoral charge of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in this town, by the late Vir
ginia Conference, preached for the first time
yesterday morning. The congregation is much
pleased with their new minister.
William Wallace Davis, who was committed
on last Tuesday, by Justice Baugh, to answer
at the examining court for attempting to tako
the life of James Potter, was on Saturday bailed
by the court in the sum of two thousand dollars
to answer at the ensuing session of the Supe
rior Court of this county?L. C. P. Cooper for
the defence, and James Murdaugh, State's at
torney, for the prosecution.
Samuel T. Hartt, late naval constructor at
the Gosport yard, arrived here a few days since
on a short visit to his family. It is the inten
tion of his friends here to tender h?m a supper
on the eve of his final departure for hie now
station. Mr. Hartt is deservedly popular here,
and this compliment is but an expression of the
general feeling to do him honor among those
with whom he has been associated.
Hhelton F. l.eake, the candidate of the De
mocracy of Virginia for lieutenant-governor,
arrived in town this evening, and is to address
his party in Oxford Hall on to-morrow night,
and on the succeeding day he will visit the
" Great Bridge" in the county, at which a bar
bccue is to be provided, and there also address
the people. Political excitement runs high
down here. The feeling among the parties in
'40 hardly begins to equal that abroad among
the sovereigns at this time ; but it will be short
lived. One more week and then peace and
quietness will again rule?reason will have re
sumed her throne in the minds of men, and
bustle and turmoil will cease to reign among
ub?at least for a while. Yours, &c.
Nadel.
Who Passes Bad Mosey T?It is said that
during the whole period of the World's Exhi
bition the bad money received amounted to ?90
in silver, and a half sovereign in gold. Tha
half crowns were the most usual bad coin: and
it is a noticeable fact that nearly all the bad
money was taken on the half crown and five
shilling days.
The government-of Saxony has seized all the
journals which contain reports of Kossuth's re
ception in England. In St Petersburg the
C*ar allows the newspapers to publish any
amount the publishers may please of the pro- %
ocedings from the English journals.
H^y- The ship Benjamin Howard, of 700
tons, is loading at Boston with a cargo of ice
for California.
' The toyshop windows are beginning to " show
out Christmas," causing the little ones to net
tle their patience for the coming of the holt
days. Some of them are already beginning to
tease their mothers for long stockings.
Counterfeit $10 gold pieces ore very nume
rous in Cincinnati.
Good preachers give fruits rather than flow
er?.
Prentice's Louisville Journal celebrated its
twenty-first anniversary on the 24th ult.