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By MAlail
Astounpine Devecorments. ~Cußlovs UAsg oy
Consrigacy.—-A case of conspiracy which, iltrue,
exhibits a degree of villanous daring on one side
and the most imbecile wenkness on the other al
most anparallcled was brought before the notiee of
Justice Bleakley, at the Jefferson Market Court.
hoase on Thursday last, and attracted considerable
attention. On that day Mr. Ira Topping. a gentle
man residing at Tammany Hotel, appeared before
the magistrate and entered a complaint for conspi
racy against two persons, one of them a gentecl
looking female, named Mary Jane Livingston alias
Starr, and the other an elderly man named James
T. Boyd, one of the clerks of the Supreme Court
in this city, under the tollowing circumstances :
About the lalufrjmn of 1847, or the beginning of
1815, the accused female came to his residence,
then at 67 Jame st. and inguired for him She was
immediately shown into the parlor. where nn inter
view tovk place in which she professed 0 be fa
miliarly acquainted with every action of his life,
and knowing him to be the owner of considerable
property. demanded a portion of it, threatening at
the same time if ke refused, to go into Court and
prefer a charge against him that would ruin lis
reputation forever and destroy the peace of his
quict and happy family. It was in vain that the
complainant remonstrated and entreated his tor.
mentor nol to pursuesuch a course She continued
to visit his place and even in the presence of his
wife, threatened te have him sent to the State's
Prison unless her demands were acceded to, By
these means she acquired such an influcnce over
his mind that at various times he gave her large
sums of money which were coerced out of Lim by
fear of exposure. Mr. Bovd, who acted as legal
adviser of the woman Starr, was also charged
with conspiring with her in accomplishing the
ruin of Mr. Topping. by getting posscesion of his
property in order to show some ot the mcans re
sorted to by the accused for the accomplishment
of their ends. The complainantstates that on one
orcasion they induced him to go to a house 1
South Sccond street. Williamsburg, where the
woman procured a guantity of arsenic, which she
said she was guing to take. and then send a letter,
already written, to the Chief of Police, charging
hiw with poisoning her, so ns to have himindieted
for murder At last the untortepate man feit him
selt so dreadtully persecuted and driven alwiost 1o
despair that he conveyed his house and lot, No
07 June street, also a handsome establishment 10
Fourth street, valued altogether at #3O 000 through
one Appl by to the woman Livingeton alias Starr.
Atterthe conspirators had succeeded in getting
the complainant to sign over the property. they
called on his wite and represented to her that her
husband had sold the property tothem By these
false representations they obtained her signature,
and thus rendered the deed perfoct. Mr, Topping
wae thos tarned out of house and home, bLut the
suceasstul villiang, as 1f not satisfied with their ill
gotten goods, made hun also build a house in Sul
livan county for the residence of the parcnts of
Lavingston alies Starr.,
Justice Bleakley on henring the complaint, is
sucd his warrent tor the arrest of the accused,
who were shortly afterwerd taken into custody by
officers Davie and Wyman, of the Second District
Police Court. Boyd wus yesterday hell to bail in
the sum ot #5OOO which was procured, and the
temale prisoner was locked up an detault of the
eame amount. The premises 8o felonionsly ob
tained, were levied upon by Deputy Sherill Can
ningham, and Mr. Topping avd tamily had the
pleasure of being retnstated in their old home. A
further examination will take p'ace in atew days
when eome more particulars in relution to this
tangied web of mystery will be elicited. =V, Y.
Tribune.
Dr. Wagren, of Boston, lately communicated
the fullowing among other interesting particulars
in regurd to the Sinmese twins :
The connecting sub:tance is very strong. and
has no great sensibility ; it can be severcly han
died without causing pain. No pulsating vessel can
be feltin it. The shightest motion ef one is im
mediately (ollowed by the otherin the same direc:
tion, so thatthe same wish scems todndluence both:
this is quite voluntary, or a halit formed by
necessity. They always face in one dJirection,
standing nearly side by side, and cannot without
inconvenience face in opposite directions. Onc is
rather more intellectual than the other; the most
intellectual being rather irritable, the other being
cx,lfi'lnulv amiable, 5 :
some very Ticroaung coahee tmine might afford
therapeuties, and pathology. Thereis donbtlees a
connection by minute blood vesscls, abrorbents and
nervous filaments, which might wansmit the ae
tion of medicines and the causes of discase, As
far as known, sny indispositinn ¢t one extends
to the other; they are inclined to sleep and eat at
the same time and in the swne quantity, and por
form in the rame manner other similur acts. Itis
supposed that when they are asleep. touching one
awokens both, but when awake. an impulse given
to one docs not aflfect the other. The slightest
movement of one 1s 0 goon perceived by the other,
that a carcless observer might think they acted
simultancously No part scems to have a per
ception common to both, except the middle of the
connecting substance, and its neighborhood ; for
when an inpression is made at this part, itis fely
by both, while beyond this space 1t 1s felt only by
thie one of the side to which it is applied.
From the hmited vasoular and nervous con
nection that can be discovered, Dr. Warren sup
poses that the iuflucnce of medicine, transmittcd
from one to the other. would be inconsiderable ;
snd the same would apply to most diseases—ior in
stance, a shight fever would not probably extend
from on<e to the other; while discases communi
cable through the absorbents or eapillinrics, (us
small pox) would be readily transmitted. The
heatings of both hearts coincide exactly, as also
the pulses under ordinury circumstances if one
exerts himself without the other, his pulse alone
will be quickened. while the latier is unchanged.
They breathe also exactly together,
This harmony 10 coporeal functions would lead
us to ask if there be a similar harmony in thein
tellectual functions; if they are identically the
same persons. ‘l'here is no reason to suppose that
their intellectual operations are any more the sanie
than they would be in any two persons, confined
together, educated under similar habits and tastes
Then would come the question whether they
could beseparated with safety. Perhaps such an
operation would not be neceesarily fatal, but the
peritoneum may be continuous from one tothe
uther and the opening of this great serious cavity
might be attended with dangerous symptoms.
Shoeuld one die befure the other, it should be Im
mediotely performed, but no surgeon would be jus
tificd in attempting such an operation to free them
from a wmere inconvenience ; which inconvenicnee,
if wemay believe the reports of their domestic af
fairs and flourishing condition in worldly goods, is
afler all of no very great consequence.,
Ax ImporTaANT INvENTION.—The Express Las a
letter from the Island of St. Vincent, which an
nounces the ardival there, from Eogland, of a new-
Iy invented machine for extracting the juice from
the sugar caue, by which an immence increase will
be gained in the quantity of sugar extracted from
a given weight of the cane. Every one huudred
pounds of sugar cane containg, naturally, ninety
pounds of sugar juice. Bui the greatest amouut of
Juice which the plauiers have been able 10 extract,
has nevee been over Lfiy-five pounds; the balauce
thirty-five pounde being lost fur wantof proper
means to extract It. The new machine is described
us consisting of a square iron box, containing roll
era, which are put in motion by steam. A trial of
the auventon in the presence of the Governr, o
large assemblage of planiers and ecicotific men
was recently made at Kingstown, with \'cr(v gatis
factory resulte. Oue hundred pounds of cane,
which had been cut for 2 month, was put into the
wachine, and in the shortspace of thirty-six sec.
onds seveuty-eight and u Lalf pounds of the juice
wos produced. The machine was tested in the
most thorough meuner, producing at each trial, re
suls which astonished every bebolder. The imn-
Provement is nnexampled 1n magnitade import
ance and wiility, Auother advauiage shown was,
that while the new mode of preesure extracted so
completely lhe(éu.ue of the interior of the cane, jla
knobs and rind were left completely untouched
which i# an inportent sdvanlage, gs it is there the
green wak and oihier obiectionable wauer is con.
tuined, and itis there that Ihe oid roller tnachine e
fortunately pressed—a difliculty mmsonaountable in
the roller syetem, yeuoelieciuniiy obauied by this
new process. By the universal application of 1,1 a
invention, the sugarerops of the West Indies woul |
be made one-thicd larger than now. The annual
vaive of sugar brought w e United Stawca fro oy
the West Indics emounte 1o about 810,000,000, An
increko’n of one tlnr'tii in the amount of the erops
wnu rhape, wnd 1o lessen the price of sugar a
linle. '5:: 1': West India piuuwr‘:‘w.-uld r‘f)l.n
bly receive from this countiy slone &3 wo,&u per
sunum more thau they now do.~-N. Y, Sun.
Sanatooa —A correspondent for one of the pa
pere, who was curivus to know the smount of
provender consumed at the United States, where
there are seven hundred gueste, and three bundrd
children, scrvants, &c, ascertained the duily
slaughter to be as follows . 500 le. Mutton, Lanh
and Veal, 400 Jbe. Beef; 500 Chick: ne; 150
Tarkies and Ducks; 600 Ibs Butter; 2200 kggs |
1500 Breakiast Rolle, &e. &e.
Of the Champagne, Juleps, Cobblers, and other
drinkabjes, we mo no abcount =
Disaster 10 A Pic Nic Party rrom Lyww,
~Twinreen Lives Lost!—A most melancholy
accident occurred in Lynnficld yesterday atier
’noon.thc particulars’of which were furnished us
at o late hour last evening. The circumstances,
aswe lerrn them, are bricfly these. A large party
conneeted mostly with the First Christian Society,
(Rev.J. H. Currier,) of Lynn, proceeded yester:
day to Lynnticld on a pie-nic excarsion, selet
ing @ convenient spot on the borders of a beauti
tul pond, near the Lynnoficld House.
About 2 o'clock a party of twenty five went on
board a large tlat bottomed row boat for nn ex
cursion on the pond. When about 100 yards from
the shore, by some accident. not explained to us,
the boat upset, and thirtcen of the parly were
drowned !
The following are the names of those lost by this
heart rending catastrophe :
Robert Shurthfl und wile, recently marricd and
on a visit to friends in Lynn. They belonged to
Medway
Mrs. Mary Howard and daughter, Mary Jane.
Mrs. Howard was wife of Mr. J. B. Howaid, ot
Saugus. The mother and ehild were tuken from
the water, dead, and clasped in each other’s arms,
Miss Catharine L. Adame, aged 19 years, be
longing to this city.
Miss Mary A Johnson, of Lynn, a very inter
esting young lady.
Miss Eliza Young, of Marblehead, a young lady
on a visitto friends in Lynn
Mrs. Mchitable Alley, o) Lynn, aged 58,
The interesting children of Mr. John J. Garland,
aged 6 and 2 years,
Two daughters of Mr Ephraim Brown, of Lynn,
whose ages we did not learn
Miss Maria Cheever, of Lynn,
When our intormant left the scene of the disas
ter, nll the bodics had been recovered except two
—Miss Cheever and the daughter of Mr. A, John
son.—Loston Mail.
Deatu oy Lacursing.—l examined a dwelling
house between Farmingdale and Amuyville, L. 1,
which was strack by hightning at ten minutes paat
two A. M. of Monday, July 29th, The clock in the
house was stopped by highming fand its iron works
converied to magnets The building is of wood,
one and a half story high; in the attic is a cooking
stove standing on a sheet of zine. The lightning
entered the chinuney, and tollowed the swove pipe
to the stove, and that to the ziue,
There it divided and parted off in various direc
tioons knocking off the fastetnngs of the cerling un
derncath, On one side, on the tloor, was a bed, in
which two boys were slecping. The hghining
struck one of the boys, of silx years of age, killing
him ivstantly. A hole was made in his head by
the lightming, of the =ize of a musket ball. The
other boy was not at all atiected. On the opposite
side of the room Mr. Bedell, hia wife and an infant
child slept, aleo in a bed ou the floor. Mr. B. rose
when thegstorm eame up and lighted a cundle,
which the lightning extinguished when it entered
the house, AT ;
Mrs. B. was struck by the lightning, and render
cd tneensible for some tme, The lightning passed
over her budy, and dewn the whole ot one of her
lower limbs, drawing a bright red line the whole
distance it passed over (the skin, and near her ankle
ave several large blotches, which are very painful,
The babe has reveral large blotches upon i, which
are now very much inflamed. The child was stu
pid for two or three hours, and then commenced
crying, and continued its cries several hours, ‘The
lightning entered the lower room, and broke a look
ing glass to utoms,
1t made several round holes, about the size of
musket balls, in the walls and ghun'riug'. Had the
persons sleeping on the tloor been on a bed-stead,
they would have probable escaped, as the lightning
wonld not have rigen from the zine sheet on the
floor to digturk thon.— N, Y. Jour. Com,
Masor Suensian's Barreav.—The drill of this
battery on the Common yesterday afiernoon in
presence of some fitteen or twenty thousand per
sons, of which ladies constituted the maojority . is
the theme of praise from all lips to-day. In addi
tion to the notice we copy ftom the Courier on the
first page, we can state that any drgcvimmn of'the
benuty and rapadity of the evolulions must fall
short of the reality, T'he vcene must he witns ssed
to be appreciated. The dnil is a severe oue for
ofticers men and horses; and scrious accidents
must of course be frequent, for every movement s
exccuted ut lightning speed. Tt is said that the
gallant Ringgold lost twelve men, by tatal acei
dents, indrilling bis Flying Artillery wen to the
same manwuvres by Sherman’s men, that were
witnessed yesterday,
Several very narrow escapes were witnessed
. S Disites o o ve &¢ we
Y.'.."'.'.u',}'.-“.,»"; m“..‘:l"l?y' c'(!;:ni';\g in collision with a treg;
another was lamed in the (oot in unlimbering be
fore the carriage had stopped; and a horse was
»ounded 10 wheeling, so that blood flowed pro
fuscly; vet all these Little accidents did not in the
lenst check any one movement,
The horses were admirably trained to their work.
and appear to understand the word ot command
and the sound ot the bugle cqually as well as the
men A noble dog attached .o the battery, att act
ed universal attention He was at the head of the
battery in cvery quick movement, in front of the
guns during the firing. avd would station Limself
10 the posttion of an mid, by the side of the gallant
Major, when the eoluimn was at rest. He was
scen several times extinguisiung with his paws,
the fire of the wadding, as it came from the piece.
The whole exhibition gave great satistaction to
our military men. as well as to the public atlarge;
and was universally pronounced the finest military
display that we have had vpon the Common. We
lcarn that the company will steike their tents this
nfternoon, and march to the arsenal at Watertown.
From thence they will proceed on Monday, to
Fort Adams, whete they ure stationed.— Boston
T'ranscript.
TerminaTior oF THE F'Loripa WAR.—The U.S.
sicamer Monmouth, Capt. Freeborn, arrived here
on Saturday, snd we lcarn will be laid up for the
present, her services not being longer required. A
correspondent informe us that there are 22 compa
nies of U. S. troops still in Florida, some four or
five on the coast ncar Indian River. the remainder
in theinterior. Those on the coast are remarkably
healthy but those 10 the interior suffer from diar
rhaey; sowe of the troops with baggage wagons,
&c. have been ordered to Texas, with the inten
tion to chastise the Camanches, it is supposed.
Since the little affair at Peas Creck, the In
dians have cowmitted no nct of hostility. but have
remained quict and peacenble. The delegation of
Seminoles sent to Florida from Arkansas by the U.
S, Government with the intention to induce the
Flonida Indians to emigvate, have entirely failed in
their mission. Some old and superannuated and
some few degraded Indians alone have left for the
West. The remainder have steadily rejected all
overtures to emigrate, and probably will be allowed
to remain in Florida, restricted to the boundaries
the Government shall see fit to nark out for them.
Thus terminates the last Florida war.— Sarannah
(Ga.) News.
Axoruer Lamentapte Accivest vy Drowse
ina, with great loss of lite, occurred off Gloucester
on Friday last, by which five lives were lost, and
numerous rclatives and friends have been sorcly
afllicted. The particulars, says the Courier, fur
nished by a relative of one of the party, are :
Capt. Fuller, formerly of this city, and his son
George Fuller, a Mr. Gregg, and a boy of 16,
named Inglie, both of New York, and Francis
Edwin Deblois, an interesting young gentleman
of this city, a member of the High School, son of
Mrs. Amclia Deblois, and a relative of Deacon
Moses Grant, were on areturn from a fishing ex
cursion, when the bout was capsized by a squall,
and all on board are supposed to have perished
The hat and cap of young Deblois have been
tound on the shore, and it 18 supposed he threw
them ofi to save himself, as he was an excellent
swimmer. At the last account from the scene ot
disaster, only the body of Mr. Gregg had been
found, but the people of Gloucester were making
every possible exertion w recover the others
Boston 'rans.
Thne Arcoy Famiv.—~lt was not the Count de
Alecoy Captain General of Cuba, but the Countess
de Aleoy, his wife, with her children and suite,
whoarrived in the Spanish war steamer Pizars
ro. The Countess, who will return to Cuba in
four or five days at the turthest, left this city
yosterday afternoon for Boston, where she will re
main for o day or two. This visit is made, it ap
pears, with aview to improve the health of one of
lier children, who has been subject to illness
for some time. "T'he steamer, which is of Enghish
construction, in 209 feet long, with engines of 250
horse power. She is provided with four 32 and
two 68 pounders, and has o erew of 156 men, in
cluding officers.~N. Y. T'ribune,
Daxcern or Guoron Mosuvsent Faruixo
We regret to say that there is danger, in the minds
of many, that this noble old pile will fall. So
much fear was apprevended by Mr. Benham, the
gentleman who has for some time, resided in the
“Monument Hovse,” near by that a few days
since he removed bimself. bis family, and his fur
niture from the house. Soume workmen were em
ployed in endeavoring to repair it, but while they
were at work the stones began toerack, and they
abandon«d the work altogether, in fright. Several
of thestones, nbout 15 feet from the base, on the
southeast corner, have widely separated,— New
London News,
Idioey.—A enreful exploration of one hundred |
towns 1n Massachusetts bronght to light five hun- i
dred and seventy five cases of wlioey. Of these,
four handred and twenty were idiots from birth, |
and of this number they obtained nformation re=-
specting the parents of three hundred and fifty mine
In all but four of these exumined cases, it was
fonnd that one parent or the other. or both, had n |
some way departed from the laws of life and healih,
being either sreofulons, predisposed to bruin aflee
tions, mtemperate, grossiy sensnal, or unoaturally |
mteru unea, with blood relanions. |
Triangular Love Aflairs —A yonng lady of New
Orleans lately engaged hersell 1o a gentleman who
went to Calilfornia to raise enongh 1o setup honse
keeping., During los absence another gentleman,
Col. O, fell in love with her, hut was forbidden
the house by Ler parents. Nevertheless he got a
friecnd of his to convey messages between Lim and
the lady, and had every hope of succeeding in his
suit, when the young ludy eloped with the embus
sador leaving Col O, as well as the Culiforuia
gentleman to console themselves as hestthey can.
Curions. =lt s a faet that the United States have
had sez Vresidents in little more than noie years.
Counting from the Ist March, 1841, at which time
Van Bunesy was President, there have been Van
Borey, Harrisoy, Tyeer, Pork, Tavror and
Ficesork. The youngest of these Presidents ut
the time of his inanguration was Mr. Pork, who
was then 49 years and 4 months, and the next
youngest Mr. Fioemore, who ot present is 50
years and G months old.—=N. 0. Coin. Bulletin.
The monument in memory of the Jate Hon. Si
tAas Wriaur, at Weybridge, Vi, will be complet.
ed on the 27th inst., ats o'cleck P. M., by the
laying of the cap stone by Gen. Woor. when it is
expected that a eulogy will be pronounced by
the Hon B. I'. Butler. Ex President Van Baren
will witness the ceremonies, and many other dis=
tinguished friends of the deceesad, from different
seciions of the country, have expressed their inten
tion to be present on the occasion,
An Infant Buried Alive.~'l'he Liverpool Jour=
nal, of July 20th, states that in a purhea Vanxhall,
London, recently & woman who was searching in
a heap of refuse matter for picees ot old coal, &c.,
discovered to her astonishment, the foot of an in=
fant. Having called several witnesses, she pro
ceeded to disinter the body, when it was found
that life was not extinet. The child, apparently
not many days old. was carried to a Hospital, and
at last accounts was likely to live,
Potatoe Blight.<'T'he rust has made its appear
ance upon the Potatoe tops in the Western part
of Muine. Itis not known to what extent it pre
vails.
The Wyoming (N Y.) Mirror learns from a
farmer in Warsaw, that the potatoe bhight has be
gun to make its appearance in that neighborhood.
The tops of some are dying, and on digging, they
find that some of the potatoes have begun to rot.
Strike AMoNG WHEAT Buvers —We understand
that our millers and wheat buyers this noon flatly
refused any longer to pay nine <hillings per bushel
for wheut. The cause assigned is the downward
teadencey in prices, and no room to store any more
at present in theirmills. Eight shillings and eight
and sixpence nre are now the Lighest figures. It
remains to be geen, whether this movement will be
maintained.—2och Adv. \Dth.
Tuirst vorn Liguor.~There is an old man in
Pittsburg who is so passionutely devoted to the
bottle, that being re uced to poverty, he rushes
into vrivate houses. where hie thinks the families
will be likely to be provided with spirits for medi
cal purposes, and pretending that he has been at
tacked by the cholera, begs for some brandy. He
hus been ascertmined to have hoaxed, in this man
ner. six families 1n one day.
Forrest Divoree Cose.—MNr. Forrest made his
declaration or complaint on Monday of last week
before the eommon plaas tor the city and county
of Philadelphia. In this document he chargzes his
wife with adultery with seven persons whom he
names. Mr. Porrest swears that the said eomn=
plaint is wade i sineerity and truth for the cause
mentoned in the said hibeil.
Pure Iron Produccd Directly from the Ore.—We
perceive, by the report of the Newark Daily Ad
vertiser, that Mr. Alexander Dickerson of that
place, has invented certain improvements in the
formation of the puddling furnace, by which he is
enabled to manutacture iron ol superior quality,
directly from lhr ore. by the use of antissie v
prinminous coal or wood,
A Fruitful Mother.—="The census taker in the
Western puart of Scioto connty Ohio, informs the
editor of the Portsmowth Dispateh, that he visited
a family in which the wotlicr had recently given
bitth to her treentieth child. He saye it was a sight
worth beholding, to see the yonngsters ranning
about the honse, ranging from small to great, like
the pipes of un orga.
The Contoy prisoners were all discharged at Mo
bile by our government,on T'harsday of last weelk,
with the exception of three or four, who it is
thonght may be needed as witnesses i the trial of
the indictinents at New Orlcans against the origi
nators of the expedition. The proceedings will
probably, however, all {ull to the gronnd.— Loston
Post,
Mvr. Sullivan Butes of Bellington, Norlolk co.,
Mass., is largely engaged in the cultivation of
cianberries. He gets 150 to 400 Lnshels per
acre from upland, and the berries raised by culu
vation are two or three tunes as large as the wild
fruit. Nearly any kind of soil will answer.
At New Orleans the Coroner iskept busy hold
ing inqucsts on the hodies of persons killed by sun
stroke, or congestion ot the brain, caused by ex
posure to the sun’s ravs. He held five inquests
on the fthinstant, and seven on the sth, the deuths
all being caused as above,
At Fort Laramie, July 8, it was computed that
42,000 souls and 9720 wagons had puassed that
point this season on the way to Calitornia and Or
egon. T'he character of the emigrants was not so
good as those of last year,
Sheriffl Eveleth has issued his invitations t»
those designated to uttend ** the execution of John
W. Webster, on Friday the 30th instant, at 8
o'clock, A M., at the jail in Leverctt street, in
Bos on, Loston I'rans.
We understand, says the Bunker Hill Aurora,
that the establishment of a line of American steam
ehips between Boston and Liverpool. is among the
things talked about in these days of speculation
and enterprise,
A fish in Java called the jaculator catches flies
and insects by equirting from its month some wa
ter, and seldom misses its aim at the distance of
five or six feet, bringing down a fly at a single
drop.
A man committed sunicide on the Feather River,
California, when a coroner’s jury was empan
nelled, heard the evidence, and bronght in a ver
dict that the wan was “a d—d fool "
During the thunder shower, on Tuesday night,
the electrie fluid struck a pen of hogs near the
Brighton House, killing upwards of 150 head
Cin. Inquirer, Aug 15.
Steamship Pizarro, from Havana, arrived at
New York on Thursday, with the Conntess de Al
coy, wife of the captain general of Cuba, and fam.
ily on board.
Mrs. Blessingame, a resident of Petersburg, Vir.
ginia, gave birth to four boys on the Oth inst, All
oi' the children died in the course of three or four
duys,
There was an altempted insurrection of slaves
in Benton, Alabama, about the 4th. and the leaders
were taken, one negro being mortally wounded.
There is a little baby ont West, whose arm at
the elbow can be encircled by o lady’s ring. 1t is
three months old und weighs 1§ pounds.
An Oid Stnner.~John Vanhooser livesin Jeffer.
son county, Tenn, nged 122 years. Ile has al
ways voted the federsl nud Whig tickets,
Burns, who was imprisoned in Harrison eonnty
(Ky.) jail for the murder of his wils escaped from
prison on the day he was 10 be hanged.
Gen. Lopez denies, in New York papers, the
charges against him of being in favor of disunion,
and a southern conteracy.
For five monthe past the duties collected on
foreign goodsamounted to £14.500 000, same last
year, £11,000,000.
Fight large and splendid ocean steamships are
now being constructed at New York, aud all near.
ly completed.
The man who f.rofema to be neutral in polities
cither ligures at the head or dangles at the lail of
federalism.
From Tumpa, Florida, we have reports to July
20: Sam Jones and Billy Bowlegs sull declined to
emigrate,
The Culifornia mails hereaflter will leave New
York on the 11th instead of the 13th of the month.
A #ix legged hog is exhibiting at Columbia,
South Carolina,
Republican Levald.
PROVIDENCL,
Wednesday, Aungust 21, 1850,
RESPONSIBILI'TY OF THE HOUSE.
As there may be many wewbers in the House
of Representatives who were appointed under the
influence of sectional wotives, both in the North
and in the South, these members will now be con:
sidering their respousibility to that portion of their
constituents who expect them to be actuated by
sectional comsiderations. Such representatives
will be in danger of giving an undue weight 1o a
smaller ruther than to a larger number of those on
whose approbation they are dependent. If they
do not oppose concilintion and compromise, they
feel assured that they will lose the support of the
sectional party. And they may not reflect, that,
i the Compromise Bills should fail to pass the
House in consequence ol their dereliction of the
best interests of the Union. their responsibility to
a much greater portion of their counstituents will
be overwhelming. In sach au event, indeed, the
disunionists will searcely be üble, we should sup.
pose, to reélect a single membes of the present
House. T'he disuntonists of themselves can do
nothing. Itis only when their cobperation is
courted by unprineipled party managers, that their
power 1s appreciable. ‘l'his suggestion is made
at the present time, on account of the number,of
public servants who seem to regard place more
than the tranquillity of their country.
Let us not be misunderstood ; we are in favor
of the greatest respect for the willof constituents.
But their will at one time under one set of circum
stance, is not evidence of their will atanother time
und under another set of circumstances., As
circumstances change, the presumption is that
their will must be modified by the change ; and
in the abseuce of renewed evidence of their posi
tion, the representative should be left to his own
Judgment of what their will would be, if possessed
of his information and devotion to duty,
But the will of a mujority of a party electing a
representative, should always have more weight
with him, than the will of a minority of thiat pany
though he counld not be reélected without the sap
port of that minority. And here is the rub with
your trading politiciaus. On this account there
appears to be some iu the South, who are as un
willing to have the slavery question settled us
ohers are in the North—and both for the same rea~
son desire to profit by the continuance of the agi
tation. It was the agitation of this subject, for or
against the institution, which has thrown tle froth
ol the political cauldron iuto elevated pouitions;
and whenever the agitation shall cease, this froth
must go down. ‘Thereis, therefore, a powerful
combination of such interests, in bothi the North
and the South, against Compromise, und against
the peace of the people.
T'he Compromise Bill as a single 'measure nn
fortunately failed to pass the Senate. But the
Senate has since passed, in separate Bills, the
same provisions, or provisions almost to the same
effect, as those which were stricken from the gen
eral Compromise Bill. ‘l'he time spent upon the
general Bill in the Senate, however was not lost,
And those bills which havo been pussed in its
place have been made in sowme respects, more con
formable to the Constitution and popular rights,
than the Compromise Bill, after being too much
amended, had at length become. But one good
thing that has resulted trom the loss of the Com
promise Bill in the Senate is, thut the Senate ap
peared, alter that event, to be aroused te a better
sense of their respousibility, and to have puassed
thie several Bills to guard againt evils that might
otherwise follow from that loss.
These bills now come before the House, and
are about to receive the disposition which may
there await them. I they should fail to pass the
House, itis hoped that there will be as much zeal
to repair the dumage done to the Republic, as
there wus in the Senate. And that nothing will
be omitted in the way of perseveraince and zeal
for the public good, until the great object of the
labors of this session of Congress shall have been
finully gained. Itis feared however, that these
several bills are not so hkely to pass the House as
the general bill would have been. One clique
will be for aduitting California first, and another
willbe for posiponing that measure to be taken
up last. Many will see the necessity of seltling
the Texan boundary first, and some will maintain
that the territorial question should have priority to
every other. Tliese different views must be com
promised before they can commence with the bills.
But suppose there is no difliculty in agreeing
upon the most suitable course, what will be the
fate of these important measures in the House 71—
Will it be such as the patriotisn of thie people re
quires or such only as may suit the private ends of
artful and designing men who are said to be mus
tering their forces to defeat any adjustment of the
scctional disputes’ Shail the heart ©f the nation
be broken by men of snch arts aad designs?
These measures arising from the new territory
are properly oue, but they have been severed by
a combination of extremes that agree in nothing
but the subversion of concard. Should all these
measures be passed, they will again become one
by the very nature of the subjects. Tae most in
tense interest is now felt intheactionofthe House,
and a few days will decide the fate of this Re.
publie, it may be for ages to come. May theaction
ofonr Representatives and those from all the
States be equal to the occasion, and not disappoint
thie hope ol the people,
Tue Wi Panry.—~The New York Day
Book, a paper of some independence but said 1o
be inclined to Whiggism, has a few pungent re
marks npon the present condition of the party that
was the Whig purty, bat which, ““has by the action
of sellish office-scekers, been broken to fragments
and scattered 1o the four winds of heaven. In
New York, itis u Seward and Weed party 5 in
Massachusettsand Ohio, it is an Abolition pany;
in Connecticut and Vermont, it is a Free Seil
party; in New Hampshire and Michigan, it is no
party i in Pennsylvania, it is a Tarifl' party ; in
New Jersey, itis an anti-railroad party; in Vie
gimia itis a Taylor party 3 in Delaware, it is a
Clayton and anti-Clayton party” ; and it may be
added, in Rhode Idand, itis the Afzerine party,—
The Day Book cqnelndes with the declaration
that Whiggery i« useless and foolish—having sold
itsellto a New York cligne, and taken its pay “ in
the tiusel of asoldier sepaulettes.”
“Button, button, who has got the button 7" —This
play seems likely to come into vogue in Wash.
ington, with only a slight change of terms. For
in reference 10 varions special inquiries, they luve
frequently to cry : Galphin, Galphin. who has got
the Galphin 7 \Whether members vote money (o
print books to be divided among themselves, and
then se.l the hooks 1o pocket, the money is a ques
tion which has not been fully answered as yet.
Treasury to be cmph'od.vnml Army to be cornered.
~These last appointments some may think fear.
fully ominous. The charge of the money and ar<
my to such secreturies, MeKennan T. M. T.
the ‘Vieasury ! The brave defenders of the coun.
try to C. M. Courad=(cornered ')
NEW MEXICO AND UTAIL
T'he territorial governments by the bills which
have passed the Senate for these inchoate States,
are similar in all respects, excepting that the aet
for organizing a government in New Mexico is
suspended in its operation until after such time as
the bouudary between it and Texas shall have
been adjusted. There is, however the express
provision in the bill for New Mexico, that when
it shall be admitted as a State, it inay be received
either with or without slaveliolding, uccording
to its constitution in that respect. And the same
will be the ease with Utah as a matter of course,
as we suspect it is, that Congress have no power
to make a distinetion between territories in laws
made for them, any more than between States in
the laws made for them. ‘The great crisis will
come on in the House this week. We see no
good reason why the South or any portion of the
Sonth, should make a stand against these bills as
they threaten to do. They are drawn on the
principles of non intervention, the ground thatthe
South has heretofore maintained. Most of the
Southern legislatures have joined in the adoption
of non-intervention since 1t was first assumed by
Virginia, which wassoon aller the commencement
of the Wilmot movement in Congress. The
South cannot now honorably change ground-—the
Northern Democracy after sustaining the South
on the ground of non-intervention, will not change
their position. Aml we see no good reason why
the whole North, as weil as the South, should not
support the bills passed by the Senate, namely the
territorial bills, the boundary bill, and the bill for
the admission of Cullifornia. To be sure, the ad
mission of the twg Senators from California will
destroy the equilibrium, so called, if itdepends up
on the number of slaveholding States. But it
does not. It depends upon the support given by
the States, whether free States or slave States to
the equilibrinm of the Constitution. And if the
members from California are good Democrats, as
we understand they are, they will sustain the con
stitution as favorably for the South, as if Calitor
nin were aslave State. In this view ol the gues.
tion and considering that this administration has
recommended the adjustment of all the snbjects
which cause the present agitation and continue to
surpend the legislation of Congress, il the party
friends of the administration unite with the friends
of conciliation and compromise, these bills will all
be readily passed by the House, and the whole
country be restored to a state of tranquillity.
Bewnicaing tue Census.—lt appears that an
imfamous plan has been laid in New York, to
make the Marshals, who are all Whigs, agents of
the party in canvassing the voters, obtaining suh
scriptions for Whig papers, the name of the most
active partizan in each school District, &e. &e.,
not in a direct but in a secret manner. All this
and much more is found in a printed cireular
which is traced to asource very near to the U. S.
Marshal for the Northern District, but signed by
the Chairman of the Whig Corresponding Com
mittee. sit possible that the present administra
tion can approve of such proceedings? Weshall
not believe it unless these oflicials are permitted
to use their positions in this way to serve the pur
poses of their party. Can it be that a plan of this
kind has been formed for canvassing the several
States? It isesaid that there was a meeting of the
Marshals from the different States held in New
York for some purpose, and it was suspected that
there was some political seheme concocting for
the advancement ofthe Whig party. Can itbeso?
New Cosrevenacy.—ltis no new thing that
a Southern Confederary should be talked of in
the South, just as the dissolution of the Union is
preacied tu e Noueh, by a fuw wild and uneasy
men, who are according to their language upon
every occasion, the enemies of the present Union
of the States. That such a thing as a Southern
Confederacy has been attempted, and, notwith
standing the late action of the Senate encouvruges
the hope of a spaedy settlement of our sectionu!
difliculties, is sull cherished by the hot-headed
demagogues who figure so conspicnously in oppo
sitton to all measares of compromise, we see litle
reason to doubt. But the South was too much at
tached to the Union to allow such treasonable ob
jects to be pursued, and the conspiracy was bro
ken up ifany existed, by want of concert among
the individuals themselves who were expeeted 1o
favor the movement. A corrcet history of this
matter may yet be given, to the confusion of the
enemies of their country.
Cor. Bextos A Free Somer rurry Sus-
STANTIATED —\We have anthority forsaying thata
letter from the Hon. Linn Boyd (well known as a
firm, Democratie, talented Representative in Con.
gress, of the State of Kentneky,) has beenreeciv
ed by a gentleman of this county.
Mr. Boyd states that he has been for many
years a friend ol Col. Benton, that he was his
choice for the Presidency, at one time but that now
he repudiates him as a Free Soiler, and indeed
an abolitionist. ‘T'hat he is the leader of that par
ty in the present Congress, and is doing all he
can to distract the country and defeat the Demo
cratic party.
He (Mr. Boyd) further adds, that he eannot
longer associate with such a man, and denonnces
him as a traitor to the true Democracy.,
"T'he evidence is coming up fast, we shall have
more of it before long, and we predict some
startling denouncement before the dog days are
over.—St, Louis Times,
Tempora Murastur.—There was a time when
Mr. Van Buren made his annual visits to Sarato
ga, that his apartments were crowded with the
the faithful, who came in from Meccaand Medina,
to see the prophet, and receive orders for the en
suing campaign. Mr. Van Buren and son are
now at Saratoga, but ** what a chunge has cowme
over the spirit of his dreams 1" Only a few Free
Soilers vertare on tiptoe to whisper their cau
tious remarks in his ear. Fred. Douglas, his com
panon on the Butfalo platform, * walks in with
out knocking,” and he has no longer near him
that galaxy of able politicians who were fit to rule
an empire ; and what must be most afflicting to
the once *“ favored son of New York,” his visitors
inquire, “ if'o/d Mr. Van Baren is at home.”"—
Verily * the sceptre has departed from Judah.”—
Johu is in good spirits. e has a small snug par
ty nicely ticketed on his catalogne, which he in
tends 10 hereafier to knock down to the highest
bidder.”’
Evkcrions 1v Massacuvseres.—On Monday
the Congressional District voted for Representa
tives to Congress. It appears probable that Sam
vel A. Elliot, the Webster Whig candidate, is
elected in the place lately held by Senator Win
throp. It is probable that Mr. Upham, Whig, is
chosen in the place of the late Mr. King,~and
that there is no choice in the Fourth District,
Owmxisus iBv vk Housk.—The latest news
from Washington represents, that an understand
ing has been evtered into in relation 1o the terri
trinl and boundary bLills from the Senate, by
which they will be again united and form one bill.
Somesony was.—Prof. Silliman, in a speech
at the Alnmni Dinaer the other day at the Com
mencement in Yale College, said, in reference to
the century question, that he was never fool
enough to believe 99 made a hundred.
Nore.<The Legislature of North Carolina is
chosen for two years. A Senatorwillbe appointed
in the fall of 1852 to sncceed Mr. Mangum whose
term expires in the spring of 1853,
lowa <The Democratic Siate ticket are repori.
ed all vlected. But the Whig papers claim the
election of Wright, as a member of Congress, 1o
fill the vacaney in the first distriet,
Qurny.~ls the sound portion of the Whig par.
ty for or against the administration on the subject
of coneiliation and compromise ?
Firom the New York Herald.
LETTER FROM THE EXPLORING FX
PEDITION.
Interesting leiter from one of the officers of the
American Exploving Expedition in search of Sir
John Franklin :
U. S. Bric Apvavce, June 24, 1850, I
Whalefish Islund, Western Const of Green
Jand, Lat. 68 59 N, lon. 53 13 W, g
We arrived here, my dear Joe, this morning at
9 o'cloek, alter a passuge of thirty-two days, from
New York, which was rather a long one, owing
to the unlavorable winds we had.
On our arrival here, we found an English bark
at anchor; she is a store ship, having brought
stores and coal out for the squadron, which, by
e way, suiled from here yesterday, eonsisting of
two barks of about 300 tons each. carrying sixty
men, and two steamers of aboat 100 tous euch,
with from forty to fifty wen; they are all bound in
senrch of Sir John Franklin, "T'he bark sails in
about a week for England, which will give us all
a fine opportunity 1o write, the only one lam
afraid we shall have for some time to come. We
have been very fortunate in sending letters thus
far, for 1 boarded a vessel off’ Newfouudlund,
bound in to Bt. Johns, about the Ist of this month.
We all sent letters by her, mine, | presume, you
have received long before this. They went from
St Johns, by steamer, to Halifax, and from there
to the United States.
[ will try to relate events as they happened, after
leaving you, bound o New York, in the noble
steam tng Nabanteaw. We kept company with
the Rescue, by keeping under short sail, until the
20th ult,, when, finding it impossible for her te
keep up, we made sail and lost sight of her in a
few hours. The first iceberg we saw was ofl the
S F. coast of Newloundland ; being the first one
I ever saw, | thought it was an enormons lump of
ice, but I have come to the sage conclusion since,
that it was @ mere speck, for 1 have seen them
since from 150 to 200 feet high, and large in pro
portion ; just think what an enormons mass of ice
there wust be in one of these icebergs, for the es
timate, 1 believe. is about one ninth above water,
making some of them from 1,300 to 1,500 feet from
top to bottom. T'he bergs we saw off Newlound
lund, are from the breaking up of the ice last year,
taking them a year to get down that far; they are
mostly near shore : the largest ones get aground,
where they are hard and fast, and giadnally melt
away, which tukes old Sol some time to do. Our
days, after leaving New York, gradually grew
longer until the 16th of this month, (in 60 deg. 50
min. N. lat.), when we counld really say we had
constant day, so much so. thut we were able to
steer without lighting the binnacle lamp, a thing |
never saw before; but now we have sun shine
the whole twenty four hours. Rather odd that;
we have not got used to it yet, and hardly know
when tarning in time comes. You have no idea
how strange itappears to come on deck at midmght
(or rather what ought to be miduiglne and find it
broad day light, with the sun up. We still dis
criminate one twelve hours from the other, Ly
calling them night and day. and try and appropri
ate the part we call night for sleeping, or rather o
portion of it. ‘The boot, however, by October,
will be on the other leg, when we shall have all
night; then we shall have to make Juck Bunsby's
traverse, 1o make day out of a portionof it. Afier
leaving the coast of Newloundland, we fell in with
no ice until we were aboutto make the coast of
Greenland, when we found the icebergs in great
numbers, We made Greenland the 21st, and we
all came to the conclusion that it was called by
that name on acconnt of Its not having a green
spot on it, for itcertainly is the most dismal, rocky,
barren country, | ever saw or ever expect to see.
T'his morning we met so many and such large
bergs, that we had to keep strict watch to steer
clear of them ; however. we managedsnceessfully,
and came buvoming into the harbor of Whalefish
Island, with a fine breeze, and anchored at 9
o'clock. OF all the miserable holes in the world,
it takes the lead. 1 expected to tind something of
atown, and when we came in | asked where it
was, for [ counld see none. 1 wasshown two shan
ties und hall a dozen Esquimanx mod huts. Well,
there ! I set right down and luughed. In one of
the shanties the Governor lives; he is a Dune,
sent out here by government, as a kind of a mis
sionary, &ec.; he came on board ship thisafier
noon and seemed to enjoy our liquor and good
things with a relish.
The Esquimaux are the most ugly, greasy look
ing crs L ever saw ; men, women and children,
all dress alike in sealskins. Their dress is a short
jumper. with a hood to it for a cap, pants coming
down to the calves of their legs, with boots to
meet: all made of sealskin with the hair on; we
are all going to get a suit before we leave, |
bought e a pair ol sealskin stockings, which are
very nice and warm ; the only objection to them
15, that they are not properly cured. ‘l'o-morrow
the doctor and I are going to Luiely, a small town
on the Island ot Disdo, about tweuty five miles
from here, to see what information and traps we
can pick np. 27th, Larrived a few hours, since
from Luiely, after a passage of six honrs. Onour
arrival, I found the Rescue had arrived, and that
we set sail to-morrow morning. Therefore, as it
is late at night, and | have more than I can do be
fore we sail, writing &e.. I shall have to bring
this scrawl to a close. At Luiely we fonnd rather
more of a town than at these islands T'here are
about fourteen Danes living there, and one hun
dred Esquimaux. We were treated with the
greatest Kindness by the inspector at Luiely, who
Isa kind of governor-general ol uli these ‘islands,
and one of the finest fellows | ever saw. ‘T'he
principal thing we went after was sealskin cloth
ing for the oflicers and men. We succeeded in
getting about fiftv dollars worth, or about a dozen
snits. | have a fine coat made of young deerskin,
a pair of pants of sealskin, stockings of the same,
and large boots made of Esquimanx dog’s skin. |
think my chances of keeping warm are very good,
don’tyou? 'The inspector at Luiely, who has
been ont here four years, told us we would not
feel the cold as mnch at twenty degrees below ze
ro here ns we would at five or six degrees at hone,
owing to the great dryness of the climate. The
inspector, Mr. Olrick is going howe to Denmark
to remain this summer, and when we came away
he gave us every pair of pants he had of sealskin,
except the pair he had on, and wost all of his
coats, saying he conld get more when hie returned.
You will not find many men that will give you all
their pants except the pair they have on. IHe is
a trump.
[ wilr(ry and let you know what ronte we are
going to take after {;nving here. We expect to
go to a place called Uppemask, about two hun
dred miles from here; from there we go 0o Mel
ville Bay, thence across to Lancaster Sound, to
Cape Walker ; from Cape Walker we shall try
to get up to Melville Island, and as much fn;fiwr
ns we can. We expect to winter at Melville Isle ;
but that of conrse will depend very mnch on eir
cumstances. 1 shall have to come to a close, as it
is after 12 P, M, and I have much t 0 do. This
is the last opportunity we shall have of writing for
a long time, unless we have the good luck to full
in with a whaler bound either home or to Eng
land. Your ever affectionate brother,
Severe Rertorr.—The Charleston (8. C.)
News, has the following just rebuke of British im
pudence : :
~ “Punch informs us that a contemplation of
Powers’ Greek Slave hassuggested to that artist
a new work, to represent the American slave, a
negro fastened with a chain. which bears the
American eagle, and around the back of which
slave is wrapped the national flag, with appropri
ate stripes. T'he British public is but half way led
to the truth in that annonnecement. A celebrated
Euglish sculptor has consented to add a chef d'wu.
ere of his own 10 this latest exhibition of Mr. Pow
ers. Itis to represent the English Lion in the act
of devouring -an immense nomber of panpers,
whom as he cannotafford to feed, he mercifully
intends to put out of their misery by death. Near
him m seen the Irish harp . to indicate the happy
condition of his Hibernian snbjects; and as the
Fast India people are increasing inan inverse ra
tio with bread, they are shown as under the gentle
influence of opinm and grape shot. In order to
exhibit in greatest effect the humanity of the Gov.
ernment a basso relieco displays the etforts of Eng
land to destroy slavery in the American States, in
beaatiful contrast to sustain it in the Spanish do=
minions ; while to indicate the home policy, the
horn of the Unicorn is seen boring into the Erililh
Constitution.”
Fresen Revunricanism <[t is almost impos.
sible for an Awmerican to realize the cool impu
denice of the new electoral laws of France, by
which the representatives of the people in that
happy land have disfranchised so many of their
constituen &, Sovereigus can be made and un
made there with equal facility—provided this
enormons outrage on popnlar rights be submitted
to. T'he following results show how French fiee
men are swept away by the law :
In Paris the voters have been reduced from
224.000 t 0 74,000 ; in Nantes from 23.000 to J 000;
in Toulon, from 14.000 to 3360 ; in Rheims, from
11.900 to 4070 in Bayonne, from 4040 to 1701
in Mulhoute, from 5300 to 1500. "These it is #aid,
are by no means extreme eases, bt may be taken
as (air samples of the general operation of this dis
franchising law.
Frinay, August 16,
SENATE.~ The Sena'r is not in session o duy,
havivy ...!J..cnl.c d over unal .\lull‘hl] next,
Hovse ~=The Houvse went into Committes of the
Whole on the Stae of the Union, and ok up the
Civil and Diplamatie Appropimtion bill
A messuge waa received from the Serate ane
pouncing e passage of the New DMexico Boune
dary bill, ¢ s
M'r. Sweetser commenesd o speevch wbout the
boundary of Texas, avd Lad not spoken more than
Iwo or three manutes whea the hour 1o which Je
bate was limited, expired
Mr. Buyly who rcrurw.l the Civil and Diploma
tic Appropriation bill, was allowed by the rules to
make the ¢l sing speech.
b';ll'hc House proceeded 1o vote on the items of the
ill,
Mr. Johnson of Tenn. moved to amend the clanse
uppropriating four hundeed and sixteen thousand
three rxundre(l and thirty-eig bt dollars by adding a
proviso to reduce the salaries of all the oflicers of
the Governwment, civil and mihtary, a 8 well as the
pay of Members of Cougress, nuc-gl‘lh.
%’he amendment was rejected,
M. Sweeser oflered un amendment to the pro
viso which deelares no member of either branch of
Congress residing east of the Rocky Mountains
shall receive more than 81,000 muleage for each sos
sion, and no such member or delegaie residing
west of the Roeky Mountains shall receive more
than 2000, He moved to amend by reducing the
sum one half.
Several other gentlemen offered amendments o
the amendiments of the clause, but they fuirod,
The Comuiittee arose without wmauking wuy
amendments, aud the House adjourned,
Sarurpay, August 17,
Hovse.—The Speaker luid betoie the House a
letter from C. N. Conrad; tendering his resig nation
as member for the Second Disiriet of Louisiaua,
Mr. Netson moved ihat the House go inte
Commiuee on the Prvaie Calendar; disagieed,
451070,
The House went into Commitice on the Civil
and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, and resumed
the consideration of the clause making appropri
ations for the per diem and mileage of members,
Mr. Featherstone ofiered an amendment, that no
member ghall reeeive pay while absent from Ihe
House or cuy, unless trom sickness, or by leave of
the House. His object was 1o correct a great evil,
Members are absent for duys and weeks at a time,
and this should de established by legislation or
abolished. Gentlemen wie in the habit of going
here und there either for business or pleasure, If
their pay was deducted 1t would gecure a better at
tendance, and the House would not be so ofien
found withouta quorum, aud business would be
facilitated.
Several amendinents were offered and rejected.
The clause remains, therefore, as origiually re
ported, viz : mileage to be computed on the routes
vy which the mails are trausporied. No member
residing east of the Rocky Mountains shall receive
more than one thousand dollars mileage for each
session, and no member or delegate west of the
Rocky Mountaing more than two thousand dollars,
and constructive mileage shall not be allowed.
Mr. Johnson, of Aikansas, moved an amend
ment, providing the dollar addinonal for stationery,
The allowance by law had given out, and members
he Licard all around have been purchasing from
their own pockets, oy
~ Alter a few words by Mr. Bayly,and Mr, Thomp
son, of Miss., the amendwent was adopted, 76
w4l,
T'wice in voting the Committee found itgelf withe
out a quorum. 'T'he roll was called, the Comminee
rose and a quorom was reported, and the House
again went into Commitiee,
Mr. Scheuck offcred an amendment, name'y,
that for the purposge of caabliug the Clerk o fur
nish members of the preseat Congress, who huve
not yet received thew, such books which were fur
nishied to members of the twenty eighih, twenty
uinth, and thirdeth Congress, 827,000,—provided
that thus shall uwot be construed 1o authorize the re
printing of auy of the booke.
On motion of Mr. Howe, the amount was in
ciensed to $5O 000,
Without disposing of the subject the committec
rose und the House adjourned.
Moxspay, August 19,
Sexate —Mr. Soule reported a bill to establish
election distriets in Calitornia,
M¢ Jeflerson Davis reported a bill for two addi
tional regiments of cavalry.
M. Cass asked the reference of his resolution
as Lo civil powers, to the Committee on Military
Affuirs. Carried.
At 12 o'clock, the epecial order, the Fugitive
Slave bill was taken up.
Mr. Mason offered substitute for the biil, em
bodyiuyg the provisions and amendments heretofore
submitted.
M¢ Dayton offercd as an amendment Mr, Web
ster's all,
Mr. Cass gave notice that he should propose as
an amendment the bill of the commutiee of thirteen,
Mr. Dayton bricfly explained and advocated his
ameodmeont,
| Mr Mason replied and supported his own
- Mr. Dayton's amendment, alter discussion by
Mesers. Mason, Winthrop, Berrien, Butler, Walker,
Undecwood and Chase, wus rejected, 11 to 27,
Mt Chase offered an amendwent, which was
rcjected, without debate,
| Me. Wiathrop offered an amendment to give
fugitives the right of habeus corpus and trial be
fore Distnict Judges. Heexplained and advocated
it, ns also did Mr. Dayton. It was opposcd by
Messrs Mason and Berrien, and was lost, 11 1o 20,
| Mr. Pierce offered an amendment, which wus
ordered 1o be printed
' On motion of Mr, Underwood the subject was
postponed till to-morrow, and the sup; lementary
census bill taken up und the House amcndments
discussed and disagreed to.
. The Senate lhczrmlinurnnl
- House —The House retused to suspend the
rules, 104 to 81,
Mr. Harris, of Tenn , proposed a resolution fix-
Cing the Oth of September for adjournment,
In committee, the appropriation bill was taken
up, the discussion of the resolution relating to
American state papers pending,
- Mr. Thompson, of Penn, leported the Senate
supplementary census bill, which, after discussion
and amendment. passed
Mr. Brown, of ludinna, offered a resolution to
tuke up the Senate bills of New Mexico, Califor
nia and Utah, on the 23d inst, in the order named.
| The resolution being objeeted to, Mr. Brown
moved a suspension of the rules, and demanded
the yeas and nays
Considerable ¢xcitement and confusion followed
this motion, it being considered a test question,
Mr. Brown modified it 1o the 25th.
Mr. Wentworth asked it he would not modify it
#0 as to allow the order in whick the bills came
from the Senate,
This was rejected, 87 to 98.
Mr Ashroun proposed a resolution providing the
following as the order of consideration : Utah, Cale
ifornia, boundary of New Mexico,
Mr Ashmua modilied it subscquently #o as to
provide fortaking up the bills as soon as the civil
and d plomatic bill was disposed of, but withdrew
the modifiation at the suggestion of his ftriends.
[Much conversation and contusion ]
Mr Preston King appeuled to Mr. Ashman to
withdraw it and moved o procecd with the busi
ness on the Speaker’s table.
The yeas and nays were ordered on the motion
to suspend the rules and o receive resolutions.
The discussion on the civil and diplomatic bill
was resumed.
W. S. LOVELL.
Various amendments were proposed and mostly
rejected. Sume progress was made. Pendingthe
discussion the House adjourned.
In Tue Wrone Pocker.—The Coshocton Dem
ocrat tells a capital joke npon the Whig candi
date for Governor of Ohio. During a speech of
|I'l" at a certain place, on the Reserve, not long
since, he proceeded to descant upon the extrava
gunce of the age, the use of gold watches hue
clothes, and the like, declaring himself to be one
of the plain yeomanry, that he never induiged in
anything of that sort, an old silver “ bull's eye.”
that cost him but ten dollars, was all the wateh he
ever carried, and it was plenty good enoungh for
him ; and, to illustrate the fact, the Ju/ge put his
hand in his Pockel, and drew forth—not a silver
“bull’s eye” —but—a magnificent gold repeater !
The shouts of the crowd can be better imagined
than described, while the would be Governog
made a most precipitate rereat The faet 1= tha
silver watch was carried for eleetioneorme L
;"l;;;, nm;mm; ;-‘-(;i—'r';""“ of BPrec o hong,
when he went to draw it forth he put tis Land in
the wrong pocket!
Fing.—The alarm of fire about 12 o'clock on
Friday night arose from the burning of a barn be
longing to Joseph 8. Cook, on Hope street, near
and north of Power street. Accidents happened
to three of the firemen, and one of them was se.
verely injured ; but ull are now said to be doing
well.
Goney's Laoy's Book <The September num
ber presents a beautiful eugraving of a Family
Party, of the Rose, DBlackberrying, Wedding
Dresses, Prairie Bee or Western Party, Juvenile
Fashions for the month, with the usual variety of
mteresting subjects. For sale at O. Wiimarth's,
and by Rowe & Co.
THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION,