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THE OLD TJ. S. SENATE CHAMBER. On Tuesday last the Senate took possession of its new Chamber, in the North Wing of the Capi tol Extension. Before leaving the old one, Mr. Crittenden spoke as follows: Mr. CRITTENDEN. I move vou, Mr. Pres ident and Senators, that we proceed-at once to the consideration of this report, and that it be adopt ed. That is the purpose for which I rise. Be fore, however, submitting that motion to the vote of the Senate, I hope that I may be indulged in a few words of parting from this Chamber, i This a to be the last day of our session here; and this place, which has known us so long, is tp know us Dtmore forever as a Senate. The parting seems to me, sir, to be somewhat of a solemn one, and full of eventful recollections. I wish, however, only to say a few words. , Many associations, pleasant and proud, bind us and our hearts to this place. We cannot but feel their influence, especially I, Mr. President, whose lot it has been to serve in this body more years than any other member now present. That we should all be attached to it, that my longer asso ciation should attach me to it, is most natural. Mr. President, we cannot quit this Chamber with out some feeling of sacred sadness. This Cham ber has been the scene of great events. Here questions of American constitutions and laws have been debated; questions of peace and war have been debated and decided; questions of empire have occupied the attention of this assemblage in times past; this was the grand theatre upon which these things have been enacted. They give a sort of consecrated character to this Hall. Sir, great men have been the actors here. The illustrious dead, that have distinguished this body in times past, naturally rise to our view on such an occasion. 1 speak only of what I have seen, and but partially of that, when I say that here, within these walls, I have seen men whose fame is not surpassed, and whose power and ability and patriotism are not surpassed, by anything'of Gre cian or of Roman name. I have seen Clay and Webster, and Calhoun and Benton, and Leigh and Wright, and Clayton, (hist though not least,) mingling together in this bodv at one time, and uniting their counsels for the benefit of their coun try. They seem to our imagination and shsibili ties, on such an occasion as this, to have left their impress on these very walls; and this majestic dome seems almost yet to echo with the voice of their eloquence. This Hall seems to be a local habitation for their names. This Hall is full of the pure odor of their justly-earned fame. There are others besides those I have named, of whom I will not speak, because they have not yet closed their career not yet ended their 'services to the country; and they will receive their reward here after. There area host of 'others that I might mention that deserve to be mentioned but it would take too long. Their names are in no dan ger of being forgotten, nor their services uutbought of or unhonored. . Sir, we leave behind us, in going, from this Hall, these associations, these proud imaginations so well calculated to prompt to a generous emu lation of their services, to their country; but we will carry along with us, to the new Chamber.to which we are to go, the spirit and the memory of all these things: we will carry with us all the in spiration which, our illustrious predecessors are calculated to give; and wherever we sit we shal be the Senate of the United States of America a great, a powerful, a conservative body in the government of this country, and a body that wil maintain, as l trust and ociieve, under all cir cumstances and in an times to come, the honor the right, and the glory of this country. Because we leave this Chamber, we shall not leave behind us any sentiment of patriotism, '.any devotion the country which the. illustrious exemplars that have gone before us have set to us. These, like our household gods, will be carried with us; and we, the representatives of the States of this mighty Union, will be found always equal, I trust, to the exigencies of any time that may come upon our country, i No matter under what sky we may sit; no'matter what dome may cover us; the great patriotic spirit of thcSenate of the United States will be there; and I have an abiding confidence that it will never fail in the performance of its duty, sit where it may, even though it were in a desert. But it is yet, sir, not possible to leave this Hall without casting behind us many longing and lin gering looks. It has been the scene of the past; the new Chamber is to be the scene of the future; and that-future, I hope, will not- be dishonored by any comparison to be made with the past. It too, will have its illustrations of great public ser vices rendered by great men and great patriots; and this body, the great preservative element of the (Gpvernment, will dischargejill its duties, . taking care to preserve the L nion 'of the States which they represent the source of all their hon ors, the source ol trust which they sit here to execute, the source as it has been and as it will be of their country's greatness, happiness, and prosperity in times to come, as it has been in the time that is past. Vice President Breckinridge followed with a long account of the different places of meeting of Congress, and closed with the following eloquent remarks: the fcenate is assembled lor the last time in , this Chamber. Henceforth it will be converted to other uses; yet it must remain forever connect ed with great events, and sacred to the memories of the departed orators and statesmen who here engaged in high debates, and shaped the policy of their country. Hereafter the American and the stranger, as they wander through the Capitol, will turn with instinctive reverence to view tUe spot on which so many and great materials have accu mulated for history. 'They will recall the images of the great and the good, whose renown is the common property of the Union; and chiefly, per haps, they will linger around the seats once occu pied by the mighty three, whose names and fame associated in life, death has not been able to sever; illustrious men, who in their generation sometimes divided, sometimes led and sometimes resisted public opinion for they were of that higher class of statesmen who seek the right and follow their convictions. There sat Calhoun, the Senator, inflexible, aus tere, oppressed, but not overwhelmed by his deep sense of the importance of his "public function seeking the truth, then fearlessly following it a man .whose unsparing- intellect compelled all his emotions to harmonize with the deductions of his vigorous logic, and whose' noble countenance hab itually wore the expression of one enga'cd in the performance of higlrpublic duties This was Webster's .seat. He, too, was even such a Senator. Conscious of his own vast powers he reposed with confidence on himself; and scorn ing the contrivances of smaller men, he stood among his peersall the greater for the simple dig nity of his senatorial demeanor. Type of his northern home, herises before the imagination, in the grand and granite outline of his form and 'in tellect, like a great New England rock, repelling a New England wave. As a writer, his produc tions will be cherished by statesmen and scholars - while the English, tongue is spoken r As a sen atorial orator, his great efforts are historically as sociated with this Chamber, whose very air seems yet to vibrate beneath the strokes of his deep tones and his weighty words. Un the outer circle, sat Ilenry Clay, with hi impetuous and ardent nature untamed by age, and exhibiting in the Senate the same vehement patriotism and passionate eloquence that of yore electrified the House of Representatives and the country. His extraordinary personal endowments, his courage, all his noble qualities, invested him with an individuality and a charm of character which, in any age, would have made him a fav orite of history. lie loved his country above all earthly objects. He loved liberty in all countries. Illustrious man! orator, patriot, philanthropist his light, at its meridian, was Been and felt in the remotest parts of the civilized world; and his declining sun, as it hastened down the west, threw back its level beams, in hues of mellowed splen dor, to illuminate and to cheer the land he loved and served so well - All the States may point, with gratified pride, to th services in the Senate of their patriotic anna femurs? im? tha mAnmrv pome the names ot I ia ArJunic ITovnJ fJnn Otia. MaOflll W WT Et x--J 1 I -- . . Vv m I . , 1'inekney, and the rest I cannot number them who, in t rt.l . 1 , 1 i tne record 01 tneir acts ana utterances, appeal i tneir n .P..aQniM tn otVa the ITnion a destinv not i,i;,rthiT f the. at WWttkmIpIs were these, 'J . " . to awaken emulation or to plunge in despair; Fortunate will be the American statesmen wno; in .... . . . w ' v i this a"e, or in succeeding times shall contribute to invest the new Hall to which we eo with his- torie memories like those which cluster here. AJ nror Snt- v lpave this memorable f!kmtn.r. hearing with us. unimDaired. the Con- stitution we received from our toretathers. Let . Z . l , r . I . us cherish it with CTatetul acknowlegments to tne .. . .. i . ,i i Divine Power who controls the destinies ot em- pires and whose goodness we adore. , The struc- those days of freedom. But amid the worry and lows: After the storm of ridicule which the vo tures reared bv men vield to the corroding tooth fret of every -dav lifehow can one maintain these taries of fashion have braved in defence of the of time. These marble walls must moulder iuto ruia-but the nrincirjles of constitutional libertv. guarded bv wisdom and virtue, unlike material elements, do not decay. Let us devoutly trust that another Senate, in another age, shall bear to a new and larger Chamber this Constitution vigorous and inviolate, and that the last genera- tion of posterity shall witness the deliberatious of the ReDresentatives of American States still uni- ted prosperous, and tree. - i . . r i The President and the Secretary on Tariff's, A correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette furnishes that naper with the following extracts from the President s message and the report ot his Secretary of the Treasury: I Pbesidest. "Specific duties are the best, if nut the only meana for securing th revenue a gainst false and fradulent invoice. " ' ' "Specific duties would afford to the American man ufacturer the INCIDENTAL advantage to which he in fairly entitled. "The incidental protec tion afforded by a revenue tariff, would, at the present moment, to tome extent, increase the confidence of the manufacturer. The Secretary. "If fraud have 1 been practiced upon the revenue it is not owing to our pre sent ad v a lou em tystetn. "Adhering to the prin ciple (ad valorem) of the present tariff act, I would recommend such changes aa will produce "the amount required for the public ser vice. "By taxing article made at home, theeonaumer pays the enhanced value not only on the quantity im ported, but on the quantity present system is a sliding 9oale to his disadvantage." made at home. Our readers are very well aware, says the Richmond Whig, that the principles avowed in these two extracts formed the dividing line be tween the old Whig party and the modern Demo cracy. We find the President asserting in the broadest terms, the very doctrine for which Mr. Clay contended, during at least twenty years of his legislative hie. Mr. Cobb still contends, that by taxing the article made at home, the consumer pays the enhanced value not only on the quantity imported, but on the quantity made at home. Poor Cobb! He is altogether beyond the reach of reason, and there is no good to result from arguing with him. He has a theory, and what are facts to a man who has a theory of his own: What the Dtmocracy are Doing. The Wash ing Union says that the Pension Bill lately passed by the Democratic House of Representatives might enough in the seed to survive planting, it will de properly be "denominated a bill for giving a little velop by the means to a larger life, and a nobler of the public money to everybody who will take growth. If it were only a sickly fancy, it was not the trouble to applvTor it, and for establishing a perpetual High Tariff." "It -is no other than a measure for taxing all the people for the purpose of giving some of them pensions from the public purse. It rivals in wisdom and economythe policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul." I Old Xeictpaitert. The oldest regular news paper iaLngland is said to have been established in 1662, and the oldest in France in' 1632. The oldest of the Dutch journals completed in 1856 its two hundredth anniversary, on which occasion the publisher issued to his subscribers copies of the first number as it appeared on the 6th Jan- uary, 1656. It contained two small folio pages of news, and declared its purpose to be to supply the public with a digest of the most important news conveyed to the publisher either by private or by special communications, lhe first Kussian news- paper was established in 1 , OS. Peter the Great, if iq amrmpfl nnr nn v tnnlr Tinrr rwroinnlltr m ,tQ editorial composition, but in correcting proofs, as appears from sheets still in existence, in which are . . ' . . v, - t rv""j marks and alterations in his own hand. There is said to be two complete copies of the first year's edition in tne imperial norary ot St. .retersburgh. Ameriean Newspapers. The first paper pub lished in North. America was the Boston: News Letter, established in 1704; and the second was established in that city in 1720, about which time a paper was also started in Philadelphia, and there were four others in other parts of the American Colonies. When the Revolution besran. in 1775 there were only four papers published in the city of Boston, and the whole number in the United States was but thirty-five, viz: seven in Massa chusetts, one each in New Hampshire and Georgia; two each in Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina; three in South Carolina; four each in Connecticut and New York; and nine in Pennsylvania. In 1810 the whole number in the United States was 359; in 1820 it was 852; in 1840 it had increased to 1,631. and in 1850 to 2,526. The aggregate number of copies circu lated in 1850 was 426,409,978. The whole issue for one year, estimated upon the basis of an ordi- ' ij r o. x lie wnoie iaue naiy nimiui paper wuum cover a Bunace 01 one hundred square miles, or constitute a belt of thirty . . 1 ..' . . . J jctji. niuc aiouiiu me cur ill, anu weigu nearly 000,000 pounds. These facts I gather mainly from triA Wnan BtjitiBtJca nf lfif WW ih in. 1 A. ,L J t. -A .1. J 1 1 . 1 crease has been since 1850 I have no means of de termining; but the whole number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States at this time is probably little, if any, less than four thousand. In Europe and other parts of the world the number, in proportion to the population, is much less than in the United States, if, indeed, in all the world beside there are as many : as in the United States alone; although in England and Germany, in the business of. book-making, they are doubtless in advance of us. The New Orleans True Delta says that the fol lowing verdict was rendered recently in the crimi dal court of that city: "We the jourey find the verdict guilty." Wonder if an action could not be instituted against that "jourey" for murdei' of the President's English? . - "i The above reminds us of the finding of a jury in the "third of Baker," many years ago. It was a case of forcible entry and detainer, and the ver dict was, "Ws the jury find this case are flung." Macon Telegraph. ASPIRATION AND GROWTH. " ""Three years!" mused a young mother, as she sat one Sabbath evening at an Open window, and watched the sunset light fading out of the calm September sky. "Three years ago, I was but a school girl, my course of study just completed,! my plans for life (rinwincT with horiA unii &smra.tion. L.ite itsell was I seem to be too olten courunir a school, to my thinking; I would learn its les- last English mail brings the sad intelligence that T 1. r.rfVw.t .TMu !a tho viH nf Crtu t .Av I.nrv Brideman has followed her sister. even vour sanctificatiou, I had read, and from the depths or my soul I responded, lnj will be done, The only object in life was to ! grow, and surely the world must be so organizedas to aid our growth., W hatever was great or pure, or noble or loveable, must be attainable, and I would attain it. inose uays 01 aspiration, now viviuiy i recau- i ed them to-day, as I opened an old book of ex tracts, collected them from favorite authors. Here the 1 st sentence: fcG reat obiects make trreat minds; I 7 . . ' ' 1 -" 7 J O f I hence, uod, eternity, heaven, the Kingdom oic nnst, 1 . - . 1 1 V 1 1 - I . the perfection of the worldourhighestgood, these 1. IJ 1... 1 "! . X .1. l. ' A ..,1 1 sxiuutu ue uur uujcl-ui ui muugui. auu uic uwi i is from Dr. Johnson: 'Whatever withdraws us from the dominion iof the oresent, whatever makes I . .... ,i j - tne past, tne distant, and tne ruiure preuomniaw; over tne present, advances us ; in tne dignity 01 -., , .1 ! . -f f thinking beings. Tbe dignity ot thinking beings; alas! I have fallen from that dignity. My thoughts are. ot necessitv. engrossed with the petty details of the nresent: and 'the nast. the distant, and the future, are ouite bevond; my. sphere. I It only 'great objects ot thought maice, great minos, men . .. '.. i -i .1 mine must necessarily ije crampeu anu uiminutive. . . i i i . jj.i:.? . i And yet it is all true; I felt that it was true, in attitudes of thought? ' j ' I " Th breezy call of inonse-breatUiug morn, . summons me only to the duties of the kitchen and the dairy; the golden hours or mid-aay unu me still engrossed with the exhausting routine ot me- ehanical toil; the calm serenity of twilight scarce- lv brings a reprieve from the labors of the day; and when the holy hush of night would whisper to the soul, of ! ! fne uign, i i .,-.. -.r t .r . iiiiii..ii jit w - jij iuua tuiuja vi utfu a imincu.11, i the over-tasked nerves and; weary brain refuse to admit the elevating influence. A slight rustling, in the cradle by her side, in terrupted the soliloquy. !"ihis would be quite like one of those thoughtful hours in the olden time, were it not for this little interruption," said the mother, as she quieted the little sleeper, and resumed her place by the window. This time there was a smile of quiet happiness upon her face, and the shade oi melancholy had disappeared. "After all, is not mv life richer and nobler for this small responsibility, with all its cares and vexations? Could all the! delight of calm, un troubled thought compensate for the want of this well-spnug of joy; this deeper,- purer fountain ot happiness than ever earth bestowed before. Just then the words echoed in her mind, as it a voice had fallen through' the clear air: "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, aud should sltiep and rise, night and dav, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. And a voice in her inmost soul echoed the interpretation: ! "The kingdom of God is within you; the seed is. the truth, the soil is the hard and cold surroundings of thy earthly hlc; the growth is not lor thee to measure. God s grandest processes of nature and of grace are be- ueath the surface of our observation. How canst thou number the million processes of growth that ' .t; it .1.1 are going on in tne: vast laboratory Deneath the ground. How canst thou .know the deep design of God in the education of 'thy soul, through suf fering, through care, through labor, through the no cessary trials and vexatiousf of thy daily life)!' And those aspirations and longings fora noble life, which thou recallest with regret, may be included in the general law: 'Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and di.e, it abidetli alone; but it it die it bringeth forth much fruit, j It there were vitality worth nursing let it die. uunai is the condition of resurrection; death, of life, j Take heart, then'. It is not essential that thou shouldst watch the gradual growth of God's design in thee. Whilst thou art concerned only in the faithful, humble performance of common duties the good seed mav bespnngingandgrowingup,thouknowest not how.' In the calmer flow of thought which followed a little legend of the olden time recurred to mem ory, and shall be repeated here, if haply it may vi brate with peace and consolation in some other heart. A holy monk of old for such there occasionally Wer was surprised one day, during his hour ot secret praver bv the personal annearann of the Jesus in his cell. Filled with rapture at the gracious condescension, his whole soul overflowed in love and gratitude, and he exclaimed, "Here let me breathe out my life; let me die at thy feet, if only I may continue to. behold thv gracious" counte- nance, my Ixrd and my God'.'1 , At that moment I .1 . t n i , i i ... me conveni oew oroae ruueiy in upon nis irance of worship, summoning him to his routine of daily duty. Must he go. as there not sufficient ex cuse for one day's absenc from his post? No, those clear yet loving eyes that, penetrated the ucpviin oi ilia rojui, mm uvuviii uc otvivw offered no encouragement to prolonging happiness a . t. i-1. : . i i v.i.,.i.i o- :nnn;nr at the expense ot fidelity. , J hey seemed rather to say: ". ow tne laDor. ice sen ueuiai; "ereaiier tne glory, tne rewaru. rumu my ruuuu oi uuiy as a good soldier, it snan pot; suotract irom tne . , . . 1 1 I ' I . . A .l eternal ages of communion with thy Lord. ' With tearful eyes, and slow. reluctant steps the monk withdrew, casting a last look upon the heavenly vision.- Longer than ever before seemed the hours of dull observances, and often the question r. ... , 1- e, T . ' .1 ... lorced itseii upon mm; "is inis tne way ot holi ness: oureiy it is Deanng tne cross, but is it fol t, i 'i i .i ..... . lowing the Master: And as often spake, the an Kwpr of faith in hi8 inmost heart.! 'Tli lntTT - - ,, -7 -v the joy nereaiter At length the morning's task ..v , "& than ever with the pure radiance of hat counte- i 1 1 , i , . . o . v "orusoi era- TAZt C, l 1 T r t iwC ' 6 joy of that hour shed its light on all the remaining , k: v J i i i .1 ..7 8tefps rd a.nd Pay, until the I crarpa ot trip honvonltr nitw rmorxwl k: 1 I - w ....... . T It I Mill 11)111 M r 1 1 1 , , i . -,, - . - i . Wy joy was swallowed i up; in the exceeding weignt 01 glOTy. , ... . " X , How much more may. we aspire to the same Diesseuness, when it is not a routine of dry and useful observances, but the active service of a sell sacnhcing life, that robs us of our quiet hours oi tuougui anu communion, nay, it is not alone when we are privileged to enter into ourcloset and shut the door, that we may enjoy the real presence Xieu 1U uie miust or common daily ion, uoea mere not oiten ian upon our path a urigu wieaa as were a ngnt irom heaven a glow ot quiet joy, a peace which passeth understanding whose presence we could not explain, did we uulluuw" 1 f i- All unseen tht Master walketh, In IsTSSm is no longer exhausting, or petty details toe T infracting n their influence. The path where Christ can lead is not too narrow for his disciples to follow. And we are satisfied to labor on, m faith and patience, saying to ourselves as did the monk of old: Courage courage, O weary heart! the duty now; til 6 Tfit. thf lOV. t rip TprTAntnoofl V ovon AdvocaU and Guardian. Burnt Offering to ths Moloch of Fashion. When the poet made one of his ideal characters declare that "Golden lads and lasses must, ' As chimney-sweeper, come to dust," it is not suDDosable that he meant ashes and cin ders. Yet do the golden lasses of our own day ' such a late, xne ' Lady Charlotte, to a premature grave, victims both j to tne naDituai carelessness wun wuicu uvwiiuuc, dangerous in itself, is worn by the fashionably j clad. Great must have been the gloom fallen j upon V estern Hall, in atanorasnire, tne seat 01 the Earl of Bradford, since the night when these nis two uauguiem were ouuucuijr umuicuw tne gay insouciance ot a urawiug-roum w ut-us ui Ugony, thence to be moved only to the family mausoleum! 19 it not also a s s tran ee coincidence . . -. . . tnat tne grana-momer 01 mese yvuug muius, mc "1 . 1 1 i 1 .r 1L . ... I . . . . late Lady Elizabeth Moncrief, lost her life by a ,.:..,C1 - . AnlAfilivinlia 9ft motlO rDUN U (Tl P ft nil til uiiunai iwuujjuv j j this sad tale may still be added another, drawn from the same walk in life. A few weeks ago . il. tj.. xt:.... oi !, at criguion iuc nun, iui iuuku, uuki laay joutn, igniieu ner uress wuue smuumg t j i .t . j i .1 j: v. tore the fare, bne was dreadtuiJy Durnt. ler nble suffering in such cases is certain: recovery is very rare. Hers is considered doubtlul. lien Clara Webster on the English stage, and Lar- oline Lehman, ot -ibIo s, in this city, perished Dy accidents 01 mis distressing navure, me pern, waa t . (i.i- jr.! .i - :i pernaps tnougui to oe inciueuuu loiue proietiuu. r . i l . . t. . - : i.i.i i. . ! : Can there be the same delusion now: W hat lol "troublesome disguises that they wear," it is al- together hopeless to expect that they will throw aside their crinoline merely because the prevalent styie cosis now anu iucu a icw iuuauie urea, uui we men can t anord to let our mothers, our wives, our daughters sacrifice themselves thus recklessly, A remedy must be found. The miner has his safety - lamp; we must have safety fire-grates in our houses. Guards and tenders need not now be in venteu; out n oenoorcs nouseiteepers u cave mem HHel. JxlOXOTl f . . l Awi Blaze-loof Dretset. Te Medical Timessays: The melancholy raccident by which the ladies Lucy and Charlotte Bridgeman and Mis Plunkett have been such fearful sufferers teaches a lesson which must not be neglected. The light fabrics manufactured for ladies' dresses must be made blaze proof. Nothing can be more simple. The most delicate white cambric handkerchief or fleecy gauze for the finest lace may, by simply soaking in a weak solution of chloride of zinc, be so protected from the blaze that if held in the names ot a candle they may be reduced to tinder without blazing. Dresses so prepared might be burnt by accident without the other garments worn by the lady being injured. When poor Clara Webster was burnt we inculcated the same moral, and now the dresses of stage dancers are prepared in the way we recoinnlbnded. Why are dancing ladies ot rank to be exposed to danger from which their dancing sisters by profession are protected: lhe hint may be put to a proh table use by some enterprising manufacturer. Hoxc .Coffee Came to be Used. It is somewhat singular to trace the manner in which arose the use of the common beverage, coffee, without which few persons, in any half or wholely civilised coun try in the world, would seem hardly able to exist, At the time Columbus discovered America, it had never been known or used. It only grew in Arabia and npper Ethiopia. The discovery of its use as a beverage is ascribed to the Superior ot a monastery, in Arabia, who, desirous of prevent ing the monks from sleeping at their nocturnal services, made them drink the infusion of coffee upon the report of some shepherds, who observed that their flocks were more lively after browsing on the fruit of that plant. Its reputation spread through the adjacent countries and in about two hundred years it reached Paris. A single plant brought there in sixteen hundred and fourteen be came the parent stock of all the coffee plantations in the W est Indies. The extent of consumption can now hardly be realized. The United fctates alone annually consume at the cost of its landing from fifteen to sixteen million of dollars, l ou may know the Arabia or Mocha, the best coffee by its small bean of a dark color. The J ava and East Indian, the next in quality, a larger and Daler vellow. The West Indian Kio has a blush greenish grey tint. A Romance in Politics. One of Texas's dis tingui shed citizens, name not 'given, who has figured largely in public life, first as a lawyer then as a soldier jn the Mexican and Indian wars and then as a leading politician, has the following related of him in a sketch of his life by the New Orleans Christian,' Advocate. He had been put up by his party in usoi to succeed Ueneral Houston in the United State Sn. W fi; called to the ministry, and distrusting his own" 1 . ... . - - . P abilitv to resist the temntations of Wash ncrton lite, was unwilling to accept the nomination. He laid the case before his wife, leaving to her the cnoice Detween the United States Senate and destruction to his morals, and the pulpit and salvation: "Taking the letters and papers from aH parts cf the State, giving him assurance of election, he went to his wife and said: I can go to the Unit- ed States Semite Hon. nr. fh. r A t l - - "- lUUVO. J. A vou wish it. I will co. Rut if T cm hU doom. I shall die a drunkard as certain as I co to Washington. I can vet escane. Tf T JL mis point, i never can. 1 can enter the ministry which I ought to have done long ago, and save myself from a drunkard's grave, and my soul from t il Tfc. t.m ... . nen. isut you shall decide.' His poor wife, un willing to relinquish the glittering prize in view rAnliH WMninrr tit of olia 1 A w.- 1 1 I u L . r ' . . . J couid not re a great man and a Christian too But. after nraverful reflection. h WnllM nnf in. u.10 conscience, ana toia mm to go into the uin eracy and she would go with him. To the aston ishment of the who e State, a letter from him i " m uurc. a icuet ir aPPd in the papers, just before the .,.! a v . meeting v -"6 " v uuums me ouicc uuu ail- nouncing his retirement from political life. The I . . . . . r. and an I lir A L 111111" LUAL WH IfTHIII 111 II I III WHW I 1 1 11 T w r h,nswhn fr. J i L. . 1 . 1 i - vmut preaching - was Law out West. A former member of the New Haven County Bar, now resident in Iowa, in letter to a Waterbury friend, gives the follo'win piquant portrait of the legal profession and other operators in that State and as it is rather rich we give it publicity. The writer says: "There are but three classes of people here, let and the most numerous, the bankrupts; 2d, the cut-throats common, and 3d, the refined cut-throats. The courts here are got up on the MocK Auction Drin ciple, to save the time and trouble of legal inves- tigation, and their judgments are knocked off to the highest bidder. The Supreme Court here reversed its own decisions once a quarter, at least: ""fS? " brie SiSJ 1? 6 -d the ' F""'U'C The Jananese h the obligation which is assumed by the husband at the marriage ceremony. Among other vows he agrees to "find plenty of tea and rice for his wife during life." The Japanese are Hot confirm- ea csamens, alter all. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF N. CAROLINA. We condense from the Standard some items of interest not embraced in our Reporter's letters in the last Observer: In the Senate, on Tuesday, Mr. Worth present- ed a memorial from Ephraim Mauny, on the sub- lect oi leasing me xNorin Carolina v,eninu mmui- road for hve years, at fell:y,UUU per year, tteterrea. A lone discussion took place on the manage- ment of the State Roads, as heretofore noticed, auu iucu iu w " ar- The Coal Fields Railroad. Mr. Bledsoe oflered the following amendment te section: "And for the better security Qf tne payment of the interest upon said bonds until tViA tfvttrmWinn nf Riiiil road, the COmDanV shall deposit with the public treasurer gooa and sufficient bond made by individual stockholders or persons interested in said road, amounting to $50,000, to secure the payment of interest as aforesaid, which said bond shall be payable to the Dublic treasurer, , and shall be deemed due and payable at any fcinie prior to the completion of said road, if the said company shall tail to pay the in terest on the pond given in exchange for the !xnds ot the State, which bonds shall, upon the lavment of the; interest to the completion of said road, be surrendered by the public treasurer to the said company." Mr. Gilmore said the friends r the bill desired the State to be i fully secured in her aid to the work. They therefore cheerfully a pt the amend ment. I The amendment was then adop:ed. Mr. Bledsoe Idesired to explain his present posi tion on the question. He had formerly regarded the bill as calling for a virtual increase of the State's liabilities, and was therefore opposed to it. Such was not tbe case now, howevt r. The pub ic treasurer co!uld not now be called on to pay either the principal or the interest. The princi pal was secured by the provisions of the bill, and the interest was equally secured by his amend ment, as it called for the forfeiture of $50,000 to be due and payable on the first failure of the com-, pany to pay the interest on the bonds, lie would ote tor the bill. Mr. Walkup had voted for the bill because he telieved it dead. He would now vote for it under its-altered circumstances, because he believed it would develop a! great source of wealth for the State Mr. Guyther' felt bound to go tor the bill; the interests of this vast coal region should be de veloped. Every thing tended to call for the pas sage of the bill and the letter of Cora. Wilkes should settle the question in the minds of all. Mr. -Leach said the question was to extend a friendly hand to'a praiseworthy company who had already done all in their . power to help themsel ves. ) lie did hot know what hia constituents would think of it, but he was willing to go down as an individual to raise up the State. Mr. Miller had voted against the bill, but it was not because of a fear of his constituents. If they scud him here he would do what he thought right. v ii ' . rt .1 111 He would now rotator tne Din. The bill passed, as stated in the last Observer. On Wednesday, Mr. Walkup offered a resolu tion to loan $12,000 out of the literary fund to Carolina Female College, Anson county. Prefer red to the committee on education and literary fund. j Mr Leach, a bill to increase the revenue of railroads. He moved the bill be printed and made the special order for Monday next. The bill proposes to kill, the dead-head system, and inclu des in its operation even the officers of the work. Referred to thei committee on internal improve ments -the proposition to print being rejected. WILMINOTON AND BCTHERFORD RAILROAD. The bill to amend the charter of the Wilming ton, Charlotte aind Rutherford Railroad Company, being the special order of the rday, was now taken up on its second! reading. The Committee report ed a substitute for the bill. This proposed to is sue State bonds, in lieu of the bonds of the com pany iudorsed by the State, to an amount of $8000 per mile, as pledged in the charter, secured by a lien on all the works; and also empowered the State, to sequester the receipts of the road to pay the interest, and gave the State the further pow er of making a purchase in the event of the com pany failing to meet the interest for two consecu tive years. Mr. Steele said the substitute had been drawn up by himself, and as a friend of the road he was satisfied with it.j He then proceeded to explain the charter and its provisions and pointed out the parts amended jby the present bill. He alluded to the difference between State bonds and bonds of private corporations endorsed by the State giving the reasons for the difference in their value in the money market of the world. And in this connection he read a letter from John Potts Brown, Esq., of the firm of DeRosset & Brown, New York, in which the question of the difference in these bonds and the effect of endorsed bonds on State bonds was clearly and ably discussed. Mr. Steele also alluded to the loss on the endorsed bonds of the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Com pany amounting to some thirty per cent., while at that very time our State bonds were selling at 98 cents. It was not proposed to add one cent to the State's indebtedness nor to affect her inter ests in any way, save in one, which was to her ad vantage. . An irregular discussion followed which elicited nothing of Importance, but in which Mr. Steele stated, in ahswef to a question, that the Finance committee were providing in tbe revenue bill for the interest on : $800,000 the mm likely to be called for within the next twelve months. Mr. Bledsoe offered an amendment providing that the public treasurer should not be required to issue bonds unless he had money to pay the interest without, borrowing. Adopted 22 to 18. The bill was then made the special order for Monday. I 1 . Supreme. Court. The following gentlemen have been admitted to the practice of the law in the Superior Courts of this State: Jas. ' B. Averett, Craven; L. W. Humphrey and J.. F. Murrill, Onslow; G. W. Whitfield, Edgecombe; Thos. W. Brown, New Hanover; J. W. Roberts, Gates; Asa Ross, Brunswick; E. J. Gaines and A.j B. ; McEachin, Montgomery; J. W. Ellis, Columbus; J. T. Foote, Warren; J. A. Hampton, Yadkin; A. G. Watere, Cleaveland; John Anthony, Halifax; J. W. Stevenson, Craven; Josiah Collins, jr., Washington. Ral. Standard. Council of State. We learn that Gov. Ellis has notified the council of State to meet in this City on the 15tb, instant. Ral. Standard. ' A Bad, Business. On Saturday last an affray occurred in our midst, which came very near bringing to sudden and bloody termination the life of Mr. Henry May. We know not the origin of the fracas, but the result1 was the stabbing of Mr. May, in the' right breast, by a young man named C. Kirby., He was arrested and taken before S. W, Neal, Esq., who caused him to enter into bonds for his appearance at the next Superior Court. At night, however, Mr. May's wound ap pearing more dangerous than was at first supposed Mr. Kirby was again arrested and committed to jail, to await the further progress of the wound. We are happy to' say that the wounded man is now ( doing well.-j Wadesboro Argut. - The population of San Francisco is estimated at aeyenty-five thousand or eighty thozrwd. LATER FROM EUROPE Halifax, Jab. 5 The North American; from Liverpool oil tl- 22d ult., put in here to-dav.' ' The President's message had been receiveu i-, England, was printed in full in the English new -papers, and has been very severely criticised. 1rk Cuban, Mexican and Central American question are unpalatable. It is also stated that the French foreign buri-Hu had heard with some surprise Mr. BucLan.'i recommendation to purchase Cuba, France having already notified the American Minister that she, in conjunction with England, had entered into determination not to tolerate the secession 'ot Cuba, even with the sanction of Spain! Commercial. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 22. Sales oi cotton for three days, 22.000 bales speculators 2000 bales; export 2000. Closed at a slight d cline, some say of a sixteenth, others say "easier, but unchanged. Manchester quotations make it firmer, with an advancing tendency. Breadstuff dull. Wheat firm. Provisions dull. J-Vom Japan. The. Hong Kong eorre-iDOii.i.-nt of the London News, writing on the 29th of Ocu,. ber, says: "The news of the death of the Emperor ofJ pan is confirmed. He died of cholera, which disease was carying off great numbers. The Uni ted States Minister had returned to Shanghai ibut some apprehensions are entertained forth. rrench Plenipotentiary, nothing having btii; heard of the chartered steamer Renii, on board (Jf which vessel his Excellency had embarked fp,m Japan for Shanghai." The Emperor of Japan being childless, lt-t" jr his death adopted Foer-tsigo, Prince of Ku-in. aged sixteen years, as his child and successor. Washington ltms. The Xtic Sinate Hull. The new hall allows seats' for a hundred Senator's Two-thirds of the space iu the hall is approprim ed for the public, which is a remarkable exempli fication of the progress of popularization which the" Senate has undergone since it was first organized At first, the Senate held its session in secret, au l for a long time the public were excluded from it chamber. Its proceedings were those of au Ki ' ecutive Council, rather than of a legislative !oJj Speeches were not addressed then to the puUic. neither were they reported. Wah. Cor. X. Y. four. The Iron Interest. The iron interest is aliout to make a strong demonstration upon Congress in favor of specific duties. If it be cordially sup ported by the cotton, woollen and other inter-ts. the movement, strongly aided as it is by the Pre sident's influence, will comedo something. TU Pennsylvania say that they will be satHfaed with a specific duty of ten dollars a ton on iron. This is actually a less degree ' of protection than thi: present tariff affords when iron is high. Politicni interest are to be combined with this movement in a greater degree than has been supposed. The Republicans find it their interest to go with it. be cause it may fail in effecting any legislation, and leave the iron interest in opposition to Democratic, ascendancy, at the next Presidential election. The iron interest has undoubtedly the political control of Pennsylvania and of New Jersey.; lb. Tariff. We are to have no difficulty on th score of our foreign relations, but it is undoubt edly true that we are in some financial trouble. The present Tariff will afford Tevenue enouyb after a while, but the question is how means art to be supplied for the present. Another loan, if it be necessary, would be the proper resort, but both the Administration and Congress are reluc tant to adopt it. The Tariff question is, ther i .i . .... lore, w dr more serious one, even at this session, than has been supposed. Arrangements of a po litical character are forming which may ensure the passage of a bill for the increase of duties in the Houso, but the friends of this incipient measure say they have but little hope of passing it in the Senate. The House Committee of Finance will cut down appropriations called for by the different departments, and propose such an increase of tin Tariff as will afford some addition to the revenue.' But it is quite as likely that the appropriation:- will, in the aggregate, exceed the estimates, as fall skrt of them. -Jour. Com. A Aretc Territory in Prospective. Colfax's bill for the organization of the new Territory ot Colona, embracesin its provisions all the recently discovered Gold Regions of Pike's Peak, Cherry Creek, etc., extending from the parallel of longi tude 130 deg., to the crest of the Rocky Moun tains, being four to five degrees in width; and from the 37th to the 4 2d parallel of latitude, including parts of the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, and New Mexico the larger part of which lies in the present limits. Xev Fork Item. The expenses of the public schools of the State for the last year were $3,792, 949, teaching 842,137 children of all sizes by 31, 747 teachers. The State militia embodies 367, 613 officers and men; of which 17,613 are Organ ized, uniformed, and equipped, and are divided into eight divisions, twenty-six brigades, and sixty two regiments, all in an efficient condition. The number of convicts in the several State prisons on the 30th September, 1858, was as fol- lows- Anrinrn 747. Sincr-Smor 1M10 f'Hnfnn P.nS- .. . .., .--.f, 5 - J " J .... total 2,215. Of which were insane: Auburn 13, Sing-Sing 21, Clinton 3. The expenses thereof forthe year ending 30th September, 1858, were: Auburn $77,674, earnings $59,840; Sinr-Sing' $119,900, earnings $70,916; Clinton 855,781. earnings $21,420. Eclipses in 1859. There will be four eclipses of the sun in 1859, viz: a partial eclipse on the 2d of February, invisible here; a partial one on the 4th of March, invisible here; another on the 29th of Julyj partial and very small it will end at 41 minutes past six in the evening; another on August 28, visible only in the Great Southern Ocean. There will be two eclipses of the moon; the first on the 27th of February will be total. It will commence at 13 minutes past 4 o'clock in the mornings middle 6 o'clock end quarter before 8; The other one, Aug. 13, will not be visible. All eclipses of the moon are eclipses of the sun. when seen from the moon, and a total eclipse ot the moon, is a total eclipse of the sun when seen from the moon, and the difference of theduratiou of the solar eclipse of the earth and moon is the; difference of the magnitude of the' earth and moon. First Item of Pacific Railroad Expenditure. The Washington correspondent of the Alexan dria Sentinel, in noticing the report of den. G: W- Bowman, Superintendent of the public print ing, calls attention to the fact that the printing of the Pacific Railroad Report, will cost over on million of dollars. Re-election of Hon. S. A. Douglas. Hon. Stephen A.' Douglas has been re-elected U. S.. Senator, by eight majority over Lincoln. I Russian Serfs. The Russian nobility have ex pressed an unwillingness to emancipate their serfs, in accordance with the wishes of the Enrperor, without full indemnification. Large Payment. The U. S. Government, on Monday, paid a million and a half of interest which accrued on beads, . It leaves the treasury tivuj tsaptj,
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