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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
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are inserted at the usual rates.
CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings, Friday, June 27.
Mr. Ewing resumed his remarks, in illustra
tion of the resolutions reported by the Commit
tee on the Post Office, and continued for about
half an hour, when
Mr. Grundy replied to the observations of the
Senator from Ohio, occupying the Senate until
near six o’clock.
Mr. Wright then made some observations on
the state of the business before the Senate, and
the number of bills to be acted on, moved to
lay the subject on the tabie, and a^ked for the
Yeas and .Nays on that motion, which were or
dered.
Mr. Clay and Mr. Clayton requested that the
motion should be withdrawn, but Mr. Wright
declined, a.id the question was then taken and
decided" as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Kenton, Brown, Forsyth,Grun
dy, Ilendiicks, Hill, Kane, King of Alabama,
King of Georgia, Morris, Robkison, Shepley,
Swift, Tullmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins,
Wright—18.
Nays^—Messrs. Bibb, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton,
F.wing, Frelinghuyseu, Kent, Knight, Naudain,
Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins,
Smith, Southard, Sprague, Tomlinson, Tyler,
Waggaman—20.
So the motion was negatived.
. Mr. Clayton then made some remarks, which
occupied nearly an hour.
Mr. Ewing added a few explanations in re
ference to the participation of Mr. Temple (a !
clerk in the Department) in a contract, and al- j
so as to the increased mail facilities, which, he j
contended, if justifiable and judicious, would
increase, nof diminish, the revenue.
After some further debate, in which Ms Clay,
Mr. Grundy, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Ewing,
took part, the question was taken on a motion
of Mr. Ewing, to strike out the last resolution
as reported, and to insert the following:
[The amendment directed the Committee to
inquire in the recess, and report the nurrtber of
Editors of newspapers, who have mail con
tracts; the amount of extra allowance paid
them; the number who have mail routes w ith
newspaper privileges; and the names and num
ber of travelling agents, and the sums paid
them]
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Ewing asked fir a division of the ques
tion upon the resolutions: which was agreed to.
After some remarks from Messrs. Grundy,
Clayton, Ewing, Webster, Clay, Robinson, and
Benton—
Mr. Webster said he would propose to take
the question on the first resolution which relat
ed to the borrowing of money by the Depart
ment, and, after that, as the minds of all the
gentlemen were not made upi>n questions em
braced in the other resolutions, he would move
to lay the remainder of the resolutions on the
table.
The question was taken on agreeing to tne
first resolution reported by the Committee in
the words following:
“ ftexotred, That it is proved and admitted
that large sums of money have been borrowed
at different Banks, by Iho Postmaster General,
in order to make up the deficiency in the means
of carrying on the business of the Post Office
Department, without authority given by any
law of Conuress; ami that, as Congres alone
possesses the power to borrow money on the
credit of th“ United States, all such contracts
for loans by the Postmaster General are illegal
and void.”
And decided as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Benton, Bibb, Black, Brown,
Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing,
Forsyth, Frelinghuysen, Grundy, Hendricks,
Hill. Kane, King of Ala.. King of Geo., Knight,
Linn, Munguni, Moore, Nuudain, Poindexter,
Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, Robinson,
Sheplev Sms bee, Smith, Southard, Sprague,
Swift, Tomiinson, Tyler, Wuggauian, Webster,
White, Wright—41.
Nays—None. ’
So the resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Webster congratulated the Senate on
the unanimity with which the vote had been
given to this proposition. He now, according to
notice, moved«to lay the remaining resolutions
on the table; which motion was agreed to.
On the resolution to place the statue of Jeffer
son on the ground at the eist front of the Capi
tol.
Mr. Clay moved that it be laid on the table.
Mr. Calhoun wished that it might take that
course. The Government ought not to have re
ceived that statue.
Mr. Tyler opposed the laying the resolution
on the table: and asked, was not the statue wor- '
thy of a place in the Capitol? [Mr. Clay, No;]
was it not worthy ot acceptance? [Mr. Clay, J
No] After some laudatory remarks on the
„ character of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. T. said that it
was not proposed to be placed in the Capitol, but
in the yard.
Mr. Clay had no objection against having a
suitable statue of Jefferson, to be obtained in a
suitable manner; but this statue had no resem
blance to him; and was presented by a private
citizen, to gratify his own vanity.
Mr. Calhoun said, that the statue was not
worthy of a place in the Capitol. If the hono
rable Senator from Virginia wished to honor
that great man, (Jefferson) he would have no
objection to order one to be executed by a com
petent artist, and pay for it.
Mr. Porter moved that the resolution be laid
on the table, which motion prevailed.
Saturday, Jcne 2S.
The Gold Coin Bills from the House were
passed; also the bill giving the assent of Con
gress to the compact entered into between the
States of New Jersey and New York, respect
ing the dividing lines between the two States;
and a number of private bills.
At the evening session the Vice President
did not appear, and the Senate proceeded to
ballot for a President pro tern On the third
bal! *t the vote stood:
Whole number of votes 42. Necessary to a
choice 22.
Mr Poindexter 22 Mr. Tyler 7
Mr. King, of Ala. 10 Mr. Bibb 1 (
.Mr. F 'finghuysen 1 Mr.Waggaman 1
So Mr Poindexter was declared duly elected I
President .»ro tem. and was conducted to the ;
Chacr. by Mr. Cbambers. From his seat in the
3hair Mr. Poindexter then rose ami addressed
;he Senate to the following effect:
Senators: Penetrated with the most profound
sense of gratitude for the kind manifestation of
your confidence in calling me to preside oyer
he deliberations of this honorable body, I rise
to express to vou my thanks, and -the unfeign
sd diffidence 'with which I enter upon ihe dis
charge of the arduous and delicate duties as
signed to me. Unskilled in the technical rules
of parliamentary proceedings, 1 feel sensible of
my own defects, and that, on all occasions of
doubt and difficulty, I must rely on the indul
gence of the Senate, and the fnendlyaid or
those Senators who have more experience in
such matters than myself. Permit me, gentle
men,to assure you, that for the remaining hours
of the present session, and so long as I may
occupy the Chair, it shall be my constant en
deavors to meet your just expectations, and to
preserve the order and decorum of debate, so
necessary to the harmony and dignity of every
deliberative assembly, and to the despatch of
the important business which may be brought
to the consideration of the Senate.
The bill to grant a township of land to the
Polish Exiles, came from the House, with an
amendment, subjecting the Poles to the pay
ment of the minimun price on the lands select
ed, (SI 25 per acre.)
L _ ^• • i . n i U C* /i ico rrenn f
r. vLAT uiuvru Uiui u.v .-r
the amendment.. The motion was supported
by Mr. Webster.
On taking the question, the amendment was
disagreed to.
The bill from the House of Representatives,
making an appropriation to enahle the Secre
tary of State to purchase the MS., papers and ,
books of General George Washington, was j
considered, and read a third time, and passed.;
On motion of Mr. Clay, the motion to lay the ,
Light House Rill on the table, was reconsider
ed, Ayes 17, Noes 15, and the bill was then re
committed to the Committee on Commerce.
The bill from the House making an appropria
tion for the Potomac Bridge, <k repealing all for
mer acts on the subject, was taken up, and. on
motion of Mr. Leigh, tiie whole of the bill, after
the hrst section, was stricken out, and the bill i
was then amended on motion of Mr. Bibb, and j
the amendment was then ordered to be engros- !
sed, and the bill to be read a third time.
On motion of Mr. Swift, the Senate proceed
ed to the consideration of the bill from the
House of Representatives to provide for the or
ganization of the Department oflndian Affair's;
which was read a third time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Webster, at 11 o’clock, the
Senate proceeded to the consideration of F.xec
utive business; and, after some time spent there
in, adjourned.
House of Reprksentatiees, Friday, June 27.
Mr. E. Everett, from the Committee on the
Library, reported a resolution directing that the
Statue of Mr. Jefferson, presented to Congress
by Lieut. Levy, of the Navy, be placed in the
square at the Eastern front of the Capitol.
Vlr. Archer 6uid he had some objections to
the resolution. He conceived that if Congress
desired to have a statue of this distinguished
man, that it would he more consistent with pro
priety to procure one for themselves, than to be
indebted for it to any person whatever. He had
another objection, which was, that as Congress
had resolved to erect a statue in honor of the
great and good Father of his country, the im
mortal Washington, and which was in progress
ofexecution, none other of any other man should
be set up, until that duty was performed, which
they had resolved should be done.
lie had learned that this Statue of Jefferson
was not of that finished order which, if a Statue
was to' be put up at all in the grounds of the
Capitol, it ought to he. For these reasons, then,
he hoped that the resolution would not be pass
ed; and said he would move to lay it on the ta
ble, only that his doing so might prevent some
honorable member from replying to his remarks.
Mr. Lane trusted that the House would not re
ject the resolution merely because the Statue
had been presented by a Lieutenant instead of a
Commander.
Mr. Mercer concurred in the opinion of his
colleague that it was not a good likeness, and
he was opposed to the resolution.
Mr. F.. Everett would merely remark, that,
as hejiad reported the resolution by the instruc
tions of the Commfttce, lie would now leave the
decision upon it to the House.
Mr. Clay, of Alabama, remarked, that the
adoption of the resolution would not prevent
them hereafter, either erecting another Statue,
or changing the site that was now contemplat
ed.
i ne resoimion was iiu<tny uiunru iu uc en
grossed, and was passed—Ayes 09, Noes 55.
Mr. Jarvis sumitted the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Clerk of this House be di
rected to pay to John Vanderlyn, out of the con
tingent fund of the House, fifteen hundred dol
lars, as additional compensation for the full i
lengtli portrait of Washington, executed by him
to be placed in the Hall of Representatives, in
pursuance of a resolution of this House, of Fe
bruary 17, 1832.
The Fortification Rill was read a third time
and passed.
The Lighthouse Bill was read a third time,
and the question being on its passage,
Mr. Polk opposed the bill, as going much too
far, and incurring a heavy charge on the Trea
sury. He made a statement, showing, that ap
propriations to the amount of twenty-two and a
halt millions had already passed the House. He
demanded the yeas and nays.
Mr. Sitherland replied, observing that Mr.
P. had made again his last evening’s speech, and
if the bill were postponed the House would have
it again. The gentleman, he believed, never
yet had voted for a lighthouse.
Mr. Ellsworth asked Mr. Polk to point out
to which of the lighthouses he objected, and
not to scare the House with ghosts of expendi
ture.
Mr. ISb UClllillMlCU (IJC picviuus 'jiU DUuii,
which was seconded, ayes 109.
The question was then put on the passage of
the bill, and decided by yeas and nays, as fol
lows: Yeas 105, Nays 61.
The bill making appropriations for the Acade
my West Point was passed Ayes at 119, Nays 55.
The bill from the Senate, for the benefit of the
city of Washington, being next taken up, Mr.
Hawes made a vehement speech in opposition
to the bilf, to w hich as warm a reply was return
ed by Mr. Chinn, Chairman of the Committee
on the District;
When the previous question was moved and
seconded, the yeas and nays ordered, and the
Dill passed. .Yeas 98, Nays 79.
The bill to pretent the Corporations ofWash
ngton, Georgetown, and Alexandria from is
iuing bankbillsofa less denomination than §10,
:oming up—
Mr. Vinton moved an amendment, to prohib
t the sale of lottery tickets in the District,
vhich he had copied from the code oflaws pre
pared tor the District with the utmost care, by
in able Committee
Mr. Wise moved to lay tn« Dili on me iau*<=,
but offered to withdraw the motion if Mr. V.
would withdraw his amendment. He aftewards
withdrew his motion and moved the previous
question, which was carried, and the bill was
then ordered to Us third reading.
The bill for the benefit of the city of Alexan
dria (appropriating $100,000 in aid of the Al
t exandria Canal and aqueduct) coming up next
in order.
Mr. Mason moved to lay it on the table.
Mr. Chinn demanded the Yeas and Nays.
Mr. Hawes wished the House to know that
the bill gave to Alexandria “ $100,000.”
Mr. Ph. Thomas wished the House also to
know, that Virginia had given to the United
! States $300,000, when Alexandria came under
the General Government.
The question being put on Mr. Mason’s mo
: tion, it was decided as follows—Yeas 79, Nays
! 84.
So the House refused to lay the Bill on the
table.
i tie question oeing on us engrossment—
Mr. Miller opposed the bill. If it were to
relieve Alexandria from embarrassment, he
should not oppose it. But he would never con
sent to give this money for such a canal.
Mr. Mehcer was confident that, if he could
converse with the gentleman for half an hour,
he could convince him that lie w;\s in error.—
More than 100,000 dollars had already been ex-.
pended on this work. It had been in progress
for two years, and all that was done must be
lost, if the present appropriation should be re
fused. He explained the situation of Alexan
dria in relation to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal; Commended the good faith and punctu
ality with which she had paid up her subscrip
tion to that work; and dwelt upon the impor
tance of the Aqueduct, especially as furnishing
a secure mode of transmitting the Southern
Mail, even though the bridge might might be •
carried away.
Mr. Stewart moved the Previous Question, 1
which was seconded, and the bill ordered to its
third reading—Yeas 83, Nays 81.
The bill to complete the improvement of
Pennsylvania Avenue, was next considered,
when
Mr. Parker moved to strike out the item for
cleansing the Avenue from dust. But his mo
tion failed, and the bill was ordered to its en
grossment.
A number of bills were then successively laid
upon the table.
The House then took up the bill to authorize
the construction of a bridge across the Potomac,
and to repeal all previous acts on the subject.
A motion was made by some member to lay
the bill upon the table, but on Mr. Mercer’s de
manding the yens and nays, it was withdrawn.
Mr. Fillmore moved an amendment, propos
ing that the Secretary of War should settle the
accounts of Mr. Dibble, the contracter, who had
commenced preparations for constructing the
bridge on an expensive plan, now abandoned.—
Mr. F. warmly sustained the amendment, in
sisting that if it should be refused that indivi
dual must bo ruined.
Mr. Mercer objected on the ground that no
legal contract had been made with Mr. Dibble,
lie had given no security, and if he had pro
ceeded on an unauthorized promise, and had
consequently suffered loss, he must resort, as
other individuals in like cases did, ton memori
al to the House, which would be referred to the
Committee on Claims.
Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Blair, Mr. Lane, Mr.
Wardwell, Mr. McKennan, and Mr. Clay, all
sustained the amendment with zeal, as being
demanded by every consideration of justice
and equity, and declaring that if it should be
negatived, they must vote against the bill.
Explanations took place between Messrs Blair,
Viston, Stewart, and W. Cost Johson, as to
what transpired in Committee as to this allow
ance of Mr. Dibble.
Mr. Mercer declared it to be his opinion that
the individual had not a shadow of right to com
pensation. He had acted on his own risk, without
authority, and had never consummated the
contract lie proposed, by given any security for
it« fulfilment.
The question being put the amendment it was
carried without a count, and the bill was then
ordered to be engrossed for its third reading.
Saturday, June zv>.
Mr. R. M. Johnson asked the consent of the
House to permit him to offer a resolution em
bracing a vote of thanks, for his services, to the
late Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Several members objected.
Mr. Crockett said: I go against the resolution
altogether, and 1 am ready to state why I do so.
I am no( inclined to adopt a vote of thanks to
any man, without knowing what for, or being
satisfied they are deserved.
Mr. R. M. Johnson having moved that the
House suspend the rule, to enable him to pre
sent the resolution—
Mr. Bcrc.es called for the yt*as and nays on
the motion to suspend; which were ordered, and
taken as follows: Yeas 87, nays 51, (not two
thirds.)
The 1 ill to equalize the discriminating duties
in American vessels in Havana and Porto Rico,
having been read a third time, and the question
being on the passage of the bill,
Mr. McKim renewed his opposition to its pas
sage.
Mr. Pinckney spoke in its favor.
Mr. McKim moved to lay it on tlie table; but
the motion was negatived, and the bill ordered
to its third reading.
Mr. Clay pndi>avored to get the rejection of
the bill providing for the passage of railroads
and canals through the public lands of the Uni
ted States, reconsidered, that it might be pass
ed, with an amendment; but the House refused
to reconsider.
The bill authorizing the Secretary of the Na
vy to have experiments made on the steam en
gine, was read a third time, and passed.
The bill to remit the duties on locomotive en
gines. was read a third time, and, after a short
opposition by Mr. Parker, was passed.
The bill concerning tonnage duty on Spanish
vessels, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Smith, of Maine, obtained leave to intro
duce a joint resolution, extending the time of
sending new bills from one House to the other,
so as to include the above bills which had been
passed by the House. The resolution was
agreed to.
The House then took a recess till 4 o’clock.
Evening Session.
The sitting continued to a very late hour, and
we are enabled to report only the main business
transacted.
The Baltimore Rail-Road bill (from the Sen
ate) was laid on the table by a vote ofl(»7to 50.
The Road bills in Michigan and Arkansas
were passed.
The bill for the Polish Exiles was also passed.
The bill from the Senate to reorganize the Ma
ine Corps was passed.
The bill allowing the land-claimants under
3artrop and Maison Rouge, to have their claims I
leard in the Supreme Court, was after a hard 1
ight, rejected, yeas 64, nays 90.
1 IIU OUiUtiC, lULU uuvuig lUMVi.... —v r-r ;
»d the light-house bill, sent for it back to receive
the further action of that body.
The fortification bill was slightly amended by
the Senate, and the House concurred.
The rest of the night was occupied chiefly
with private bills from the Senate.
In the course of the evening, a Resolution
was introduced by Mr. Speight, of North Caro
lina, for presenting the thanks of the House to
the Hon. Andrew Stevenson, late Speaker of the
House of Representatives for the faithful, indus
trious, dignified and impartial manner in which
he discharged the duties of the Chair; & the Re
solution was agreed to, by \eas and Nays, 9<
votes to 49. , , , ■
The House adjourned to meet a 9 o’clock on
Monday morning. , '
LIST OK LETTERS
REMAINING in the Post Office, Alexandria,
D. C., July 1, 1834.
£Cjr* Persons applying for letters in the fol
lowing list, will please say they are advertised,
or they may not get them.
A
Wallis Adam
Win 13 Alexander—2
Miss Ann Boots—2
Wm W Bell
Wm J Botclar
H Bumbra
Harrison W Bowers
Wm D Brown
James Bond
C
Geo Carson—2
Capt Jessee Cole
William Crook
Geo Cudlipp
D
Jefferson Duval
Cornelius R Duffie
John Darnell—2
John A Dixon
George Deal
John P Dnlany
Mrs Mary Deneul
“ Mary A Drury
James Thos English
John P Emerson
Wm S Aubino
Jas Atkinson
B
Miss Mary Burchell .
Rev Reuben T Boyd
Lucy H Berryman
Joseph Bailey—2
Mrs Mary W Bickerton
William Bird
Mrs Louisa M Collins
Nath’l Clark
J C Cremer
H Carlin
Mrs Hessev Drees
Miss Jane M Davis
Mrs Dan’l F Dulany
Turner Dixon
Miss Mary Ann Denty
Mrs Sarah W Dudley
Miss Emily E Dixon
John Diggs
E
Caroliu° F Emerson
James Every
F
Chs Fletcher—2 Jos G Ferrell
John W Farrall Fred Foote
Janies Fadley Miss Fagan
Juliana Fitzgerald—2
• G
G II Glessing
H
Miss Nancy Hoskins John B Hubbard
“ Catharine J Hodges Win Howard
Joseph Hampson Wesley Hamilton
Miss Mary Ilogkinson William Huntington
Coulson Hieskill
James Han is
E Jones
Joshua Johnson
Rich’d H King—2
Elizabeth Kidwell
John D Harrison
Rlioda Javins
K
William Knight
L
Nathaniel O Lock
Thomas Lattimore
Nathaniel Lucas
Moreau Lemoine
M
Miss Mary McEachern Miss Louisa Mead
Wm D Minton—3 Mrs Eliza McClean
Col Wm Minor John Mills
Charles Miller Mari Marriott
Mrs Sarah Minor William Mullen
Miss Lucy Ann Mullen Theodore Meade
Mrs MobalaMcKenny James Mitchell
John Mugury
Mordecai Mullen
••
William O’Neal
Thomas J Peyton
Ellis Price
James V Pratt
Littleton Powell
Mrs Elizabeth H Marll
O
James W Osburn—2
P
Daniel Payne
Miss Jane Patterson
Mrs Sarah Pelton
R
lohn Rumnev (dcc’d) Miss Laura A Rhodes
S
lesse Skidmore Chas P Shaw
lasM Stewart (grocer) John Shakes
Cary Selden Charles Scott—2
Price Skinner Rev R Smith
\rchibald Simpson Wm C Spillmen
Miss Harriett Smith—2 Miss F E Settle
Sirs E Sherren
drs Nancy Watson
V J J Wright
A Worden
Uexander West
Vmey Williams
Vm Walker
iVm Worthern
W
Henry B Whittington
Henry Williams
Richard Windsor
William Ward
Mrs Elizabeth Windsor
“ Sarah E Wright
Mary Waugh
DANIEL BRYAN, P. M.
Alexandria, July l. 1834.—-3t_
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Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 125
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Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
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ALEXANDRIA:
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY I, 1834.
\PPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
By and icith the adcice and consent oj the Senate.
John Forsyth, Secretary of State, in the
place of Louis McLane, resigned.
Levi Woodbcry, Secretary of the Treasury,
in the place of Roger B. Taney, rejected.
William S. IIolabird to be Attorney for the
District of Connecticut.
1HOMAS TURNER alia r LEFT oMITH, lO UC Jli':
tices of the Peace for the County of Washing
ton, in the District of Columbia.
Charles Scott to be a Justice of the Peace
(or the County of Alexandria, in said District.
W,e learn that, on Saturday evening, Marlon
Dickehson, of New Jersey, (lately ap|>ointeil
Minister to Russia,) was nominated by the Pres
ident to the Senate for the olfice of Secretary
of the Navy. The nomination has been con
firmed.
The nomination of William Hunter, of Rhode
Island, to be Charge d’Affaires at Itio Janiero,
was confirmed the same evening; ns also wan
that of Humphrey H. Leavitt (now a Repre
sentative in Congress) to be District Judge ot
the United States for the District of Ohio.
Benjamin Pollard, of Virginia, has been ap
pointed, with consent of the Senate, Charge d’
Affaires of the United States at Buenos Ayres.
» “
The stockholders of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, in General Meeting, on
Friday last, unanimously elected George C.
Washington, Esq., ol Maryland, tube President
of the Company, and Richard H. Henderson,
Phineas Janney, Walter Smith, John I. Ahf.ht,
Willam Gunton, and George Bender, to be
Directors.
Henry Haw, whose name appears among the
committee for the Jackson celebration of the 4th
of July in Washington, “is not one of the com
mittee, nor does he mean to be.”
Mr. Mills’ descent in his balloon, near Phila
delphia, was a perilous one: lie had to leap from
the car and permit the balloon to escape.
The Globe contains a most villainously abus
ive article concerning Mr. Poindexter:—for
winch the editor of that paper deserves to lose
his ears.
Por a triumph of truth over party, see the
proceedings of the Senate. A unammuu nt»
condemning the Post Odice Department.
The funeral solemnities in honor of La Fay
ette were most impressive In New York i ie
pageant w is complete in all its parts.
Major Barry, the Post Master General, ha
published u phamplet Address to in. People o'
the United tetutes, in vindication of hi:- officii
conduct.
The Post office Committee o' tht* Senate,
are to assemble in Washington on tb loth of
September next.
The public will be amused at the manner in
which a vote of thanks to Mr. Stevenson, was
pushed though the House, by yeas and nays, on
Saturday last.
The Telegraph winds up its labors at the end
of the session of Congress, with a Jeremiad,
doleful in the extreme. It is the part of tb
patriot “ never to despair of republic.” We
belive, with the Telegraph, that tne “ people have
been duped, fleeced, flattered and b< tiayed’*
but we believe too, that their eyes liuve been
opened, and that they will be “duped fleeced
flattered and betrayed” no longer.
Cholera.—Among the deaths at Louisville, of
cholera, are those of John F Anderson, ol the
firm of Thomas Andersoi & Co.; Margaret
Gray, a native of Philadelphia, and wife ofMr
Jackson Gray,ofthe NewOrleans theatrical com
pany. It has been made certain, that thosr
persons who were supposed to have been p<».
soned by partaking of food prepared for a w
ding party, were cases of cholera.
Short Sermons.—In these days of impatience,
says the New HavenDaily Ucruid,complaints; •
often made if a minister exceeds forty minutes i.
his sermon; and an hour is considered quite an
intolerable length for the best of such discour
while a prayer sets a whole congregation in tb*
fidgets if it keeps them standing above a qiiar
ter of an hour. Our ancestors, two hundred
years ago, had very different notions; a* an f
ample of which, take the folh wing account !/,
Caillie, a writer in the time of Charles the <
ond describing h prayer meeting held by an -■
sembly of divines in 16-13.
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* we spent irom nine topre graceousiy. •>
ter Dr. Twisse had begun with a brief prayn
Mr. Marshall prayed large tiro hours, ruo?t <’
vinely, confessing the sins of the assembly, in ;t
wonderful prudent and pathetic way. After.
Mr. Arrowsmith preached an hour, then a pvili’
thereafter, Mr. Vines prayed near tiro hour*. .W'i
Mr. Palmer pteached an hum, and Mr. S<-;un 'a
prayed near two hours, then a jur.lm; after, Mr
Henderson brought them to a sw«*< f conferenr*
of the heat confessed in the assrmUv, and oth
er seen faults to be remedied, and the convem
ency to preach against all sects, especially una
baptists and antinomians. Dr. Twisse c!p-'
with a short prayer and blessing.”
The Philadelphia Commercial Herald say
“ We understand that the Grand Jury of ba t
more have found bills of indictment against ft*
individuals concerned in the insurance comps
ny which lately failed in that city, for a consp
racy to defraud the community.”
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