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l-.. rifini:ssioti. 'veulaif, March 31. SENATE. Mr. Cays nddresed ih Senate tjpon ihe .Oregon! question. ,f lie d fended himself nnd thoc who took the si me position ihnt he did. from the charge than find been imd-agHins'. ihem nnd quoted from a speech of Lord Urougham, in the British Parliament, to show that, on the score of decorum, the debates in Congress would bear s favorable comparison xviib those of tiiat body. Mr. Cass ther entcfeAirHoap argument to hoV that the assumption of ifte.Iin'e of ID" as the Nor thern boundury of our claim was founded upon an rrroneroisnnpress'ort.'tliflf lhat line was rstablish- -ed ,by the treat)' of Utrecht and was not new bind i inj upon ibis country; ' He also advanced some Reasons why thetvhmeterfHwy i?rego!iihouli held one an4 imjitislbl afid 'maintained that onr claim tojhwlc tif Jt!, was placed upon the ; very same grounds 'as those upon, which. England, herself, no w, h'olfl iroan y of her Colon mj posses sion8, Vhe ii was shown) to him, that tl linn ;4$4S)4 was establisiwd by the treaty of Ut recht he would be willing to slop at thai line, 6ol 'until it .was, Jie elioold march up to theRussian boun dary.'''. ' ""'' Sit. Cass then went'on to show ihat the oiler, of 49' had been four limes made ancl rej-cteu ana ( 0( thrice withdrawn twice tby Mr. allatin, wno withdrew u proposition made. bv Mr. Kusb,, and rthen one which ha had made himself -nnd that Ihia country was not bound by any proposition which it had ever made in reference to this ques- the Pacific Ocean." U I he authorities; be were old acquaintances of hi, of at least thorities which he-ha-rftiinlHi mxt with, thai bv the treat V of Utrecht the line of 4J was extenJ- .i .i . u .-::.J eu io said, ! iwnnt vmm standing. - ' U I Mr. Ashley moved, that the previous ordres be suspended, and that the Senate proceed to the special order -of the day;- 4 le said bewas-eome what peculiarly situated. ' He was entitled to the floor yesterday, and hadt yielded it 46 the Senator Rom Missouri, whose remarks extended to sucha length aao fender the Senate indisposed to have the debate go at that time, and. now httffelt bound to vield it to the Senator from Michigan, who hav ing been taken prisoner by the Senator from ,IV1 is- souri, might iuirly be considered, as on nis paroie. Mr. Cuss thanked the Senator from Arkansas for hraxourteeyrand bmI he omU been captured bv fneiniea twice in his life once while fighting against British 'pretensions in war.and once while rroiesting against British pretensiqiis in peace, ri i nsiiig .the word enemy, in the latter case, of course, ji was only metaphorical. . .. . Mr. Cass said he was going to vindicate him self against the ''position given to him by the Sen ator from Mo., an J if he failed to make out his case in the opinion of a single member in this chamber, lie would come down to fight the battles 40, which he considered one of the greatest pondence relative to the Aslibiirton treaty. .Mr. Webster .-nid that, as the Washington Treaty, und those who had Jmd the honor of par ticipating in its negotiation, bad ) been made subject of Irequeptpllusionduring the present de bate on the Oregon question, he felt called upon to lake some notice of the matter, nnd he had asked for the communication of the paper which were now received from the President. tic proposed if the honorable Senator from South Carolina (Mr.. ; and MclJufhe) should conclude his, ' observations on i Louisiana Saturday, to submit to thtf Senate on Monday wl)at he thought, necessary in reply to""lhp allusions to winch he had referred.! 1 ' . ".'-l,.. ' i-'. XT? - .'i ';. , ... 4 i ii) one nana nna a waiennff pot 'in line otner, can rear tender Voung sailings, nnd model, them so that they will grow up tall and gracellul trees, monumental Emblems of. the. care bestowed on inem" Jt was a , napyvrneetinj:, ana win De iong i.l il' . h 1 ". n membered bv all who were present, both old ! Empire. he Sikh army crossed the). Sutlej , to and A ent, SIR IIENRV JIARDTN'tiR. ;2 . Tho cngng(niiept (last "December between the British and the Sikhs, near rerozeporel'xvusvvone of the greatest bailies ever fought in Ho Indian )'ounr, v . im unusn siae, tome numucroi ou.uuy foi wnici) t n wouiau yswe to vmpioy tni ir iduhibi surplus number of distmsuished persons were pfes- U0, or 30.000 were cavalr nnd about 160 "rnnT-phyaU3l powePin s,ubdumg and Civilizing the bar- , amonr whom where the Hon. IlerirV Clav A r . ' i:i.J ..:ti . . :.S-f barons aces of mankind ; and, belter still, if they llie Governor find Lieuteiinnt Governor of J, . . . , ,. , f . . , I could' do this work -without the sword, by peuce- ' if- l uuir inuir wuivri iui iiihii us ocr uiuu"iii miu . -ki- A n,nt. ;.,fl,.A.,,-.t i .mm.mvmmm., i.i wnjYui the field of Wellington or Napoleon. A division ! ." ' ' , "'' '' - i calamities that could beful him. t vsMrkCass said the Senator from Mo., had miSf tinn." ; . Mr Cass read; front a speech which he had - made tome years sine, to show that he then look I 4he same ground ; that he does now. That he then declared' that "our tiiU to Oregon- should be - inauusinvcT at alV hazards, and thai nothing was to 4 Be gimedjpy cotwesiofh , When he spokeofOr " rjon be meant the whofe of Oregon, and not one inch of it should ever be yielded te Great Britain with his consent, t'VV Mr. Cass then defended ihe rresidf nt from all the charges hat , Ud jetn made iigainstim 4 in reference to his positioneaid that be hr.d reason 1 1 know that the chairman of the committee on Por . eign Affairs M. (AJlen) was in daily communion 4 1 withthe Presidcnt.'and enjoyed his fullest onft-'-itntei-rrz-fr ".-v:vV Mr. Cass said that this was riot question, of -rfe horrors of far or the blessings of peace but " Ht was whether peace could he honorablV preserv ' -cd-We must not lull ourselves into fancied se " urrty '.; We mustj,noC,change our swords in'.tf , wlough shares and pur Vpearsjnto pruning hooks. 1 The lime had not yet come . when the Lion and the Eigle could, lie down together, fie would not cry j'peace, peaee, when there was no peace, and for Jbimseif he could not yet see the light dawn ' ing opon'lbe horizon.-- He earnestly urged pre . paration, and said that the nation thit would not , go, to war to jiefend its rights, would very soon have do rights to defend. . ,. - Mr. Cass said he had heard it saij thst m this enlightened ae tviro great nations could not go to warwith each other." rTWrrtbe-fnget sentiment he had ever heard.; It would certainly she more honorable for two great nation to goto Svar with each other, than for to great nations to inako war upon a little one, as was now v the' case i. ,K T.i PUta. , lie also adverted to the war now . going on between two creat armies in India, and. - the war which iiad becii made by England upon i China, and the..uprighteous pretexts made for ..,4hem. .,X:-&& . ' ', Mr. Cass spoke for .about three hours, and ;was listened to With much attention. When he 'had - ' concluded Mr-Ashley obtained the flooi, and the -u, Senate went inte E-tecutive session, and, shortly ' ' after adjourned. ? $0?$ - ' " -. ji HOUSE. The House went into Committee oi the Whole oft the slate of the Union Mr. Johnson iof Va., in the Chair. stated what he had said in his speech but it was or little consequence to llie main pointot issue. The question was, whether the line of 40 was established by the treaty of Utrecht, taking into view the Spanish claim, west of the liocky Moun tains! If it was, he should come down to 49 and yield himself a prisoner for lif. The Sena tor from Mp. had no where shown that 49 was ihe line beyond the liocky Mountains. It was the line up to the Mountains and that was exactly the point where all the-difficulty began. Mr. Cass then went on to show that u was a matter of doubt on the' mind of Mr. Madison and that it might well be a matter of doubt in his (Mr. Cass s) mind linn'Sr' 'Pi,- (imi ........ :.r :.. r iK Whni.. ih cJun, k;ii ...i..i, masterly portraits of Healey, and proposes 450,000 to be equally divided among 4-eopies of Cooper, find in the Rotunda a new ob the Stales of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Several ject of attraction in the department of Painting. of the Western members addressed theXJommittec i 'fhis is a lare picture by Mr. J. H. Beard, of on me meiusoi me uiii. bly more powerful thA ine item oi Wellington or Aapoieon. A division NORTH CAROLINA EMIGRANTS. "' of 30,000 of the Sikh army, with 17 cannon was Thpse lovers of the arts who have not visited ! mt on the,18th Dec:..nenr .Mood! ee, by the iirit the.Capitol very lately, will now in addition to the ! jsh nrmy gnde:r Sir Hugh Gough and Governor the beautiful j General Sir Ilenrv Hardinr as eeeond in com- show what ki nd iif enemy tftry' would . prove a gainst us, and what they would have a right to ex pect from us in return, who have descended from a Common origin. When Greek meets Greek, ihen comes the tug of war." Il is "much better that an honorable peace should prevail between us. Saturday, April 4. ... SENATE. MrJVlcDuffie made a long speech on the special orderfnf which we give a full re port. He contended that the question ou?lit to be adjusted on the basis of 4!)J, in accordance with the terms oliered in lsly, nnd on several sub sequent occasions ; and that the only alternative was such n settlement, or war. He was ready to vote for " the notice " in such a form as would render it tubst-rvient to that adjustment. Union. HOUSE. After adopting n rosolution to close the debate on the Cumberland road bill in two hours after it liall asrain have been ' taken up in j Cincinnati, representing, party of hum'jle and ) harjiy emigiants from North Carolina to Ohio. It l is The second of a series of paintings designed by ' the artist to present a graphic description of Emi gration, the whole of u'hich series ure bespoken , by an opulent gentleman tf New York, at a price j we are happy to l.-arn, beyond what any other i native works of the kind have ever commanded, ' but by no means beyond their merit, if the present beautiful production is to be considered a fair speci-, 0f jls Jlorrors jn these modern times mand, and after a fikco conflict the Sikh artillery was taken. The Sikli division having fallen back or, their main bo3y7and lffi7TIriiis!i nrmy been re inforced, the shock of battle was renewed on the 21st, and continued on the 22d until the Sjkh camp was captured with an estimated ' jossof from 23,000 to 33,000 of their soldiers. The loss on the British side, in killed and wounded, is es timated at 3,300, including 50 European officers, among whom were Sir Robert Sale nnd Sir J. McCaskill. War upon the earth seems to have lost none men. The first is up ; me secona, tp represent on the road : the " breaking ' the third, an Committee of the Whole bit the slate of the Union, M encampment at night; the lourln, the consum went into Committee of Ihe Whole, on motion of : 'a"on of l,,e hopes ol the emigrant, representing Mr. Daniel, and look up the private calendar with what results the report of the day's proceed im will show. Union. Monday, April G. SENATE. After the introduction of sundry memorials and reports from various committees. Mr. Webster rose and addressed the Senate in a speech of nearly three hours, in a history and .The Senator had spoken of Mr. Madison's lan- defence of the Treaty of Washington of 1812. gunge as me .language pi certainty, j i a was tue ioi uavmgconciuaea nis speecn ai nan-pasi mree o clock he yielded the floor to Mr. Greene' for fr motion for adjournment and the Senate adjourned lansuaee of certainty he would like to know what the language of uncertainty was t Mr.- Cass said no notice of the fact of the line of 4!)having been established by ihe treaty of j HOUSE. The coinniiitees for the first time, Utrecht, had ever been taken' by the British jjov-: during a long period, were called for Jeports. einment, and he went on to show that the claim The House subsequently went into Committee of of the United Stages to all the territory south of. the Wholeon the state of the Union, and resum 4!)" was based not upon ihe treaty of Utrecht, but , ed, to benches almost entirely deserted, the debate upon the treaty ofneace of 1783. , on the Cumberland road bill, which was continued K r.. .-. .,J . . .. . ; j..:Lu.. i ...i.:.u Air. VaSI lllen veni nil viuuuraic fTAaiiiiiiu-, uuiiiiif uic iwu iiuuis iu nuii.ii us uAiairiiwv uctu tion of authorities, to show the truth of his position and that Mr. Madision had great doubts upon the subject, with all the facts before him, that were in possession of ttie.:Sena'.or from Missouri. He asked the Senator Jrom Missouri, whether he himself believed that, the treaty of Utrecht settled our boundary in Oregon upon the line of 49 T M r. Benton did noilsns wer. Mr. Cass said he should men assume that the Senator from Mo., did not believe lhat the boun dary was i thus settled, and, if so, why his" st udied speech of yesterday? If to make him a prisorer upon 49 he had now broken his bonds and was nain free. Our claim, to the whole of Oregon was as valid as if the treaty of Utrecht hadi never 'been made. - : , Mr. Benton replied, and said that he understood the Senator from Michigan to say that if the pro viso to the vToiet of 1807 had befn stricken out, it would have had no effect west of the Hocky Mountains. "The Senator jumped out of the fry ing pan into the fire. According to a. position laid down by the Senator this morning all our chum to the territory west of the Rocky Moun tains, dates subsequent to 1807. -'.iV Mr. Benton said that Mr. Jefferson pressed 49 as our boundary. No pernicious influence sway ed him, and ihe Senator from Michigan could not been limited by the resolution of Saturday. The committee then voted on the amendments offered, and fina'ly reported the bill to the House in the form of an( appropriation of land as proposed by the substitute of Mr. Wick, and not of money ns contemplated by the original provisions. tiraW him down in the estimation of the American Mr. Chipman of Michigan, made an earnest ! peope Mr. Greenhow must go to work and make another dook. ine senator iromivncnigan can never escape from the position he has taken .defence of the Sub-Treasury in his own peculiar, unequalled, Myle u eloquence. , . Mr. J. R. lngersoll of Pa. made an able argu " , ment ujion the rneriis of the question, and set forth his views at length. 1 ' .... The debate was furthfr continued by Messrs. Holmes, of S. C, C. J. lngersoll of Pa., and Mil ta Brown, of Tennessee. , ., , . ... ,i , Jfednttaay April 1. SENATE After some unimportant business the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the special order of the day and the Qrt'gon debate M PUninn mide a brief and hiehly interesting speech, pointing out some errors irtthe speech of i the Senator from Michigan (Mr. CassUyesterday and shewing that the line agreed opon by the trea ty of Utrecht, and thut by the acquisition or Louis tana, tho Uniwd.'' State besa -treaty and occupied iEovplace-of -fr ranee. The importance of Mr. B's examination into this point was greatly enhanced, from the fact, thai M r. Cass said yesterday, that unless this fact coujd be. es ' tablished. he should march IcTthe Russian boun dary,' and when it was established he would be willing to stop at 490." v v 1 From the low tone in, which Mr., Benton spoke, rendering the greater part of his remarks inaudi ble in the gallery, we are unable to give the pro minent heads of his speech. We hope, however, that be will write tbenoutibr publication, and we shall lav them before our readers at the earliest nuibli mrnaent. Jt wut the most important - $pech tbathaeecerte and bnacs uenerai uass, uy j'iv-uo u vai- day, fawn to the line o "u . ... . Jlr. Hanaegan briefly replied irt an impassioned ' lurst of eloquence, in which he denieq" the posi tions assumed by the Sertator from Missouri, and ' Made t,he same pledge for himself that 4iad been ' made yesterday by the Senator from Michigan y' He congratulated the distinguished Senator from South Carolina, (Mr, Calhoun,) that the antipodes had at last met. His victory in bringing the Sen ator from Missouri round to isiide, vvnsthe great- est triumph, bf hiaJife.'VT-i.J.?J-v'-.-w ,Mr. II. said he had ttceived Jus lesson fipon 'Oregon from the Senator , himself flVjrVCentoh) V and he thanked God that he Could not unteacb what ho had tauchl Vim. . I" ' When he had concluded there were manifesta tions of applause from ihe galleries which were i promptly checked by the presiding. officer, Mr. Webster remarked that such manifestations were-lMghiy indecorous, ana neave notice, ma w non the first repetition of them he shouldexer cise his privilege, ns a Senatorand insist mat the galleries ie cleared without the exception of a sin- Il6USE. Went into Committee of the Whole on ihe Sub-Treasury bill. The Committee -was uitriited in opposition to the hill bv Grider, of Kentucky.and Hunt, of New York, arid Ilnrman, on 'of La.. Sawyer, of Ohio, .Daniel, of N. C, nrl tt.VT Jones, of Tennessee, spoke in favor .. the tilL ... .- -v. .. ' -r --..vkl-, '....IV'JIi.'. Thurtdini, April.2. :4T'"" SENATE. Mr. Benton dciind. to correcrun Prom tho Register. ... WHO 13 IN ERROR! From the ..Special Message- sent last week, to Congress, by Mr. Polk, we lake the following sentence : . ",. " ; "In my Annual Message, I recommended to the favorable consideration of Congress an increase of our Naval force, especially of our Steam Nvy, and the raising of an adequate Military force to guard and protect such of our citizens as might think proper to emigrate lo Orgon: S'iHce that period I have teen no (oust to recall or modify these recommendations. On the contrary, reasons exist which, in my judgment, render it proper not only that they should , be promptly carried into effect, but. that additional provision should be made for the Public defence." Nove, Mr. Polk here declares, that he had re- a family settled, and surrouuded with all the com- ; forts of life. Xutionul Intelligencer. .. From the Intrllipnerr, "Emigration fkom Noutii Carolina." There is now exhibited in the Rotundo of the Capitol, n large picture by a Mr. Beard, of Ohio, designated "Emigration from North Carolina.'' It is very creditable. to the artist, nnd is to much admired, that at nil hours of the day crowds ore seen about it. It is well drawn and finely colored. The group of persons and the scenery aree.xquis- Ivsexecutcd. Ihe emigrant, with Ins Title in his hand, with his haggard and care-worn counte nance, seems the very picture of sprrovy and des pair, while he leans- his weary limbs "against a tree for that support which all other earthly things seem to have denied him. His wife is mounted on the old white horse, with the remains of her bed, nnd a few household goods thai calamity and the constable have spared to her. While 'the guides with one hand the lines (for there is no bridle) of the horse, she supports withthe other the baby, who is struggling on her bosom to ob-. tain that support which nature will doubtless deny from the wearied mother. She is pictured a most complete companion for the old'man. He took hertn the commencement of their journey of life for better or for worse." She may never havo seen any " belter," but surely the "worse" has now arrived;Their very-fog-shows-the calami ties and the leanness of his owners, by his famish ed appearance and the savage voracity with which The New York correspondent of the "Union" gives the following account of Sir Henry Har dingc, and his letter de'scrrptive of the night of the 21st December. A more wonderful instance of personal fortitude and courage was never re corded : 4 - Englishmen Progressive DEiiopRAcyrrWashinglon's Fare well Adt'lress abounds "fwiih. the most powerful appeals to t he people of thtj United States to a void entangling alliances witfy foreign nations, to havo with 4hem a liule ;joi7ic connection as . possi ble. Until Ja'tely', ihetse were regafded "as words of'isdom,hyy:y'r!ei nojonly adftyttecl I jjn the ory, but observeuln practice. 'Progressive De mocracy" has, hoeverJost sighfof" themi both theoretically and practically. The. late, Admin istration took upon iel.t inform, .leico lhat it was time she had ceased 4o wage warvithTexas The present Administration has declared lhat no more European colonies (janbe pergnted on this continent. These were not exactly ip accordance' with Washington's advice. "JButihe government official, the Washington JJniori1, Jib's taken another progressive step. It sas,SrT -J t . "The United, States! have their path .of duty pluinly marked out. They cannot, without oppo sition, suffer any standard designated, by royally to be reared in the city of the Montezumas. As they were the first to recognise the independence of Mexico us a republic, they could scarcely con sent, w hile there is a shot in the locker, to tho erection ofa monarchy upooits ruins.even though every, crowned head jnEurope should marshall their forces lo nid in Jta consummation." We do not exactly see what business we havo to interfere withthe form, of government in Mexi- i i f a J"! jS - av a co. ii snesnouia enpose 10 navff a Monarcnicai he attacks a bone found on the road. The whole picture would be melancholy but for the brighl eyed and modest girl, who trudges by the side of the mother, and ihe open brow aud brave face of the boy.wilh his tattered straw-hat, whoseems de lighted with the excursion. The sign-board points, through green and beau tiful woodsvthe way to Ohio, while the opposite finger, broken as it is, tells that they came from North Carolina, whose barren hills appear in the distance. Excellent ns is the execution of this picture, the able pencil of the artist should have had a worthier subject. It is a slur upon the State of North Carolina ; unjust, undeserved, and cpmrr.ended JpCpngresstqpreparefo.ro Whater else Americans and may think of eatU other they have no cause todis nuttf each other's courane. To discredit the brave ry of the English would be casting reproach oo form bf government, wfiat,u9iness is' iipf.6urs T our progenitors, and lor them to deny heroism what ngnt nave we ipnieneret ii we; nave to the Americans, would be to slander tWjr dcs-l such a right, would ft n,ot be 4wellio exercise il cendants. 'J now, for she can scarcelyhave a4worse govern- The late great battle fought in India proes that mnt that she now hasiinJIias had for tea yeare me Angio-oaxon spiriisiiu exists uiaiitiui leaus . i'oa' v--w, ' . on to conquest. . ' The truiffi, it is none of out business tovpre- Sir Henry Hardinge is one of the Dke of Wei-1 icribe a lorm oi government forAIencoi but we inctonVold Peninsular officers. Ue at one timesuspecl that the principled BOw sel up thai it acted as deputy quartermaster tohe Portuguese may be rnade familiar to the public, mind, id army, lie participated in all lhi principal events mat, wnen me uinecoiueBior.HnHexrHgi ttiexico, of the Peninsular war, including the battles of j this may be the pretextorn.-j-7Vy. O0. ' r...' tit O..J...- c.i v:.i.:.. " . --4 v" " uusecu, -viuueru, JJauuiui, uiuuinuta, iliuiih, the Pyrenees, Orthes, &cv He was .also nt the j bailie of Waterloo, where he Ijst an arm, for which ; he was allowed a pension of 300 per annum. Sjs Henry was born in 1785, and is now, conse quently, in his 01st year. In 1S2G, he repre sented the city of Durham in Parliament, and sub sequently sat for the boroughs of St. Germain's; KewporttJmd-Jjaunceslon. llehelonged Xa ihe tory side of the House, and was, under its rule, appointed twice1 chief secretary for Ireland. , His mother was the daughte r of -i he-1 Ion. - Si t John Pratt, chief justice of the court of king'sench. HiThaJ a"tro the navy, and who fell in option commanding her majesty's ship the TiorenzdTafter capturing the Piedmontese friiate. He has another , brother From tlifaytfVvflle Carolinian y A feeling'of melancholy, wasjr6d treed inour community, on Saturday aadfiuoda iast. bylhe wandering irom his home, of Mr. Jaa. Fosteran industrious and good citizeSviu, & deranged state of mind t wbiclvhe had been app'roachjng for some weeks. He w as missed from dinner on Saturday last, and diligent search wab rhade on that day and Sunday, and'epntinued up to Friday morning last, Without success,"; although Veports w;ere pjeyalent of his having beenaeeM , On nday morning hea$ 'discovered about two -prd-srtiarf rTei6tofthetownrby-m- yotfs man named Peebles who 'was hauling wpfcl to town. He heard tome person "groan A.'vuy, ana on loohwa. aopnd. tlisciavered Mr, whe is a clergyman, Sir Charles Hardinge, Bart., oster, lying near a g, .with , Vrae i bVk and ndondrrvl ed to protect himselffrom the rain which fiad fhl- "?rr6r1niediiorial of nhrUniortrin which 8S saul'hai It insisted, t upon ihe ground ofau.- to day. He has denied that we had any claim to Oregon before 1807. Mr. B. concluded with an expression of good feeling lowadrs the Senator from Michigan, which that gentleman cordially reciprocated. Mr. Cass reiterated his ple'dge as made in his speech of Tuesday. , HOUSE. The debate was renewed at once, upon the Sub-Treasury Bill, by Mr. Davis of Kentucky, in opposition to the bill. - Mr. D. made an able argument upon the currency showing lhat in a Country as extended as this, a paper cur "Tencyronveriible into gold and sil vet is absolute ly necessary for the business of thd people. A svslem of Banks was safer than this Sub-Treasu- rvVvVtem. The Government had lost ten IniH-j ions of dollars by Sub-Treasurers. It was noth. jng against ibe LJanks lhat the ouu-i reasurers had deposited their money iu Banks. It was the individuals and not the institutions that had de frauded the Government. - . TTV-; W Mr. Davis at the close of his argument pul some pungent questions to the dominant party, as to the manner in which they and their President de ceived the people in the fast Presidential election., Thtf conclusion aimed at by Mr. Davis was that the people had been grossly deceived and hum bugged by ihe election of Mr. Polk. ' Mr. Dromgoole, of Virginia, continued the dis cussion, and inamlv in examination of the consti- 4;ntipaaLque3iiQniiiIe..argued. that HDder.lbe.con.- stiiution there was no currency known but one of frold and silver, nnd that the currency of Govern- ment could only be kept pure by ihe abolition of Bank parier. It was argued that there was spe cie enough in the country to do the' business of the country, and la the world to do the business of the world, ; , Mr. Dromgoole, called upon his party to resist oil Whig. amendments to this bill, let its' friends nass it and not its enemies. - . r . Mr. Martin, of Ten'n., closed the, debate, in a brief defence of Mr.. Polk, for his vple upon the fGordon ltesolutiot-in-l34tJ ;j Mr. Graham, of N. Coilered, an amendment to make the Sub-Treasurers personally liable, by n lien unon their real estate. .' i. I " This amendment was announced as carried, 73loC0vbut a new'call having been odered, il was lost, 81 to C I. ; -v1 Tho Committee rose nnd reported the bill and amendments to tug House. . - r The specie clause was odoptcd by tho "follow ing..yoteAyes!.l07,''Noc 74,, t The bill, ns amended, was theni passed by the following vote- Ayes 123, Noes 67. - - I The I louse then adjou rned. ',' ,.''.'.' . Friday? April 3. - SENATE. - the Sub-Treasury bill fiom; the House w'os referred to the Committee on Fmnnce and ordered to be printed. - ' 1 , iMr. Ashley addressed the Senate fortwa hours in favor of the notice, and in support of our claims .. il t.l. rn , . AV..UIB. wu.uiu.oi.Ajrrgon.-. m ...- p'J&tAUVoBio lias the floor for to-mbrrortr. Agreeaji)lynto'7es61ulionili transmitted lo the Senate, the unpu Wished cojrres But what does Mr. Haywood say on this point, in his late speech ? For the purpose of proving that ihe negotiation about Oregon was still under progress, and that no thought of War was enter tained, he uses the following strong language : " The President knows lhat, if he terminates negotiation, and rashly encounters the hazard oj asserting our extreme claims to the whole of Or egon up to 51 40, the United States must either retreat ingloriously from her pretensions or pre pare to dislodge Great Britain and to defend her self by force of arms ! That I think I have alrea dy proved. And yet, oh ! what an OMISSION ! No notice has been given for this necessity to Congress or the people plainly nnd directly, as it oueht to have been. A'o recommendations to Congress to prepare for our defence, or for the lorcible assertion oi our rights, are in these " re cords!" - r To prepare- .now to 4au No esti mates have been sent up to us for lhat object. None. Notliing of the kind. The estimates are lowered, not increased I What is the inference ? What does he meap that you shall understand by this I 1 hat there ist on Jus part, no intention to compromise! That negotiation lias come to an end, and will not "be pursued by him 7, And will not his friends permit themselves lo see, when they thus misconstrue his Message, that they in volve the I'rrsident, were it true, in a guilt too tlcep "for; decent utterance? .In inexcusable, treacherous, cowardly, criminal concealment of our country's danger1; when if in reality there is to be no further negotiation on our part, there can. be no excuse no reason no pretext forsilence. Butthe:cbnstroction-ir falsei'Presiderir Potk" would not betray his country thus ; depend upon it, he would have told you plainly and directly of it, if he had abandoned negotiation on his parti npt daring thus to bringyou to an "inevitable War," or a worse alternative, for "All of Oregon r none," against ydur consent, anil without notice lo pre pare for it. That he has not so warned and t;o informed you plainly, is, to my mind, conclusive." ary- No or Virginia, it would would have been removed immediately from tho Capitol ; or. if not, it would have been thrown out. And yel Virginia or Mar; land has as much poor land as iNorth Carolina one bears with patience to see the nakedness of his country exposed ; but, like Ihe sons of Noah, prefers to conceal it with the covering of filial fond ness. Are there not subjects enough for the pain ter's pencil, without portraying miseries or mis fortunes? And, least of nil, should he prostitute his " divine art" to libel as good and as pure a Stale as any of our Union 7 Not to go back to her history, when, in May, 1775, (more than a year in advance of the nation,) she declared her independence, and, with the valor and blood of her Davie, Caswell, and Grabam, gave proof of her patriotism ; not to go to the last war, when her Forsyth on "the field and her Blakeley on the- ocean proved their genuine descent but in this, our day, in the verv Capitol, she presents living pictures of her worth, her virtue, and her pat riotism.- Where was he bom who, lor nearly a quarter of a century, has shed a flood of light up on the councils of the nation, and of whom il miy be said, as was of Goldsmith, "ho touches nothing which he does not adorn," (nil tetigit quod ho ornavil,) and who, from his firmness amid all the panics and pressures, disasters and distresses of his country, in the eloquence of Sena tor Sevier on Wednesday last, was styled "the Cmsarofthe Senate ?" The Senators from North Carolina themselves, representing, as they do. the of Belleisle. in the county of Farma brother-in-law to the Marquis of Londonderry The father of Sir Henry was Nicholas Harding'! esq., who was joint secretary of the treasury1" 1752. These data I compiled from a small yrk entitled "The Assembled Commons," prin in London in 1838. The gallantry of Sir nry was recently alluded to by Sir Robert PeeyWben he bad moved a vote of thanks in Parliament to the officers and men under their commd who had carried the Woody day of Ferozepre. Sir Hoben'safdhntiifrTn lhat gallant man, (Sir Henry Hardite), - 'ee' proud to exhibit him during such a njht that of the 21st." To understand wl.atjhe night of iimO'ist wac. it i npri'ssjjrv to let S Henry Ilar- Aa .r.nb rv,r lima..lf. lie suce-'ded Lord El- lenborough as governor-general'' lndin who himself had succeeded Lord "cklnnd. The military reputation of a whole 1 won bP'n and on thefleld of Waterloo, h uPon the cvent,3 of the 21st. Although onlyicnd . cona"d (Sir Hugh Gough being sen fcer) ,n field, Sir Henry feltlhe entire ?ceC h.'3 cnl'CaI and responsible, situation. 7,s fact;,s W-e more manifest by a private If' ' 10 ,son?? rte"? ber of his family after'16 balllti a"d which bir Robert Peel read inWsenco of the assembled members of lTliar"1- J he tf,f 1 y etmif rest ing details given ' lhe "' . Ie8,v V give entire, with.. comnncnt of Sir RrtPeel. " " The night 6e 21st was the most extraordina . nfm lif- - bivouacked withthe men, with- eA nr vering; and our nights are bitter ..ij a himg camp in our front, our brave fellows lv awn under a heavy cannonade, which cAn,ued.durine who! "'Shf? with thwua cries 01 ine aiKna' our Wff" "J" rol, ,v tramp of men and the grns of th dy- len for the preceding 43 , hours. uoSt was rah ,lrnmn t in this state, wilh handful "r raen, who .iignt Deiore, I re- mLtl till misrn inc. very short intervals reet by IviW '' n wun' various regiments in two great p-Nies ol the country, are iu rcpref,je,r spints. TGneat checiincl (That is to saw M Peter Parley. S. J, Goodrich", Esq., of Bos tor, more exlensviely known as "Peter Parley," iwas recently in IS'ew Orleans, on a visit. The many marks of respect show n-tp him bylha nu tliorities and, 'people, of that city have been of a very gratifying character. On the 28th ult. he held, by request, a levee at the residence of Al fred Ilennen, Esq., at which a very large num ber of children -were present. The Picayune, speaking of this pleasing Bcene, says sentutives ol a brave and honest elate. A even Ohio herself, in the peroii of her Sen (who nW..holds.lh.impoxtaat pfist.o.Gha1'trc of the Committee of Foreign Relations.) k, js. North Carol inian. One of the Senator jtl ne sissippi, well known,and '8l'ngui.'me,nbers history of the countryand also niCj glates of the House of Representative ffe'first Senntor' are natives of North Carolina; the, n9tion from who ever sat in i the councik, Fri(J ,asl took the lone star of I exas, graiulalfons of the his seat amid the joy nn6aloiniafi) G),ncru people, is a native Nofand'lhat produce8 such Rusk;) W hy, lhen, l.blc isknown by Its ftlflU sonaas these T " la&le oflhtt arlist and rali. :- J-.ul 11 J"easc?North Carolina to iniiuLTe iolut4thiarue Ehrtlish stvl-. '. . ..." . o - -j ... lies some reviiet.;m I will such subjects,,,,, offensive subject or a " fancy n'm, "J R"neJic stern reality ol truth. Let, him sketch, mory 80me foriy ycars fancy from turn backing and verdant vales of ibis same 'be grJabused State, a'substanlial farmer (not ' "ess pioneer) is seen leaving her borders. .- . i . w . : . Jtwarflmusinrtor.Taslhehildrcn camtrfa u-.iTtTrT into the room, the general question, on their part. , (oh cr0Ssing the bread and beautiful Catan'ba, 44 M, Where's Peter Parley T" The blandness fa hj8 family, for the State of T ennessee. Uy of Peter Parley, or Mr,, Goodrich, to the childrenfs Bye el ,;m painl i,rave and ioteljguntt bov as ihey were introduced ipi him, seemedjo wns 10 j13s inwe prescnt picture, whose active the attention ol theiryoung Hearts most eilectg motions and quick eye permits nothing to pass un sjf ivi vssvjr , iiatviu -v mi u& iiiuvii n JVC ihe address which he spoke t0 them as thc&jng doubtless often felt while reading the i Die one stories "that hisbooks.Bboupd.wilh. A)jgpenks extact from this gentleman's addrejbt 4elost truropel-longUL'd, ftmtwill, .wer trung,as-'ilif eight of hy euf community at jcaTt Alan Con on the eve ofa neiv cducationhd gnarled Pale not,; he iaid, straighten ihe afl(Lstrengtb;.he of ihe forest witjii flfihijcjiha 'prohing-knife- possesses,-but tue garde noticed orunremembered.. Let him,then suppose that tliissnme boy is afterwards sent to Congress, and there wins such golden opinions that beis inuue ihe bpeaWer ol that distinguished body, the House of IlepresenlaiivesfCthat he afterwards is elected-Governor pf his adopted - State and .thnt now helsVby "the voice of the people, the Presi dent ofthe United States. He will then have the iruip jpr -Bis u ojepi,. ana. Sir Henry Hardinge spent the night in goingamong the regiments. lying down with them, animating therripiTiTs ; th fort could insure it, the conquest of ibe coming dajO Cheers. "I found myself again with my old friends of the 2!)th, 3 Ist, 50th, nnd llh, and all in good heart: My answer to all nnd every man whs, that we must fight it out. uttack the ene my vigorously at daybreak, beat him, or die hon orably in the field. The gallant old general kind-hearted nnd heroically brave entirely coin cided wilh ine. During the night I occasionally called upor, our brave English soldiers, to punish the Sikhs when they came too close, and were impudent ; and when the morning broke we went (..ouoh-was on the right. I placed myself, and dear little Arthur by my side, in the centre, about thirty yards in front ofthe men,tQ prevent their firing, and we drove the enemy, without a haft, from one extremity lothe other, capturing thirty or Yorty guns as we went along, whicfi fired at twenty paccsjrom us", snd were served, obstinately. The brave men A"" North Carolinian" I drew" up in an excellent line, and cheered Gough and myself as wetode up i'he line, the .regiment al colors lowering tome us op parade. The mourn ful part h tha heavy lost I have sustained' in my " officers. I have had ten aids-de-camp hort da combat five killed and fivejvounded. ( The fire ofgrape was very heavy from one hundred pieces of cannon.; The Sikli army nre drilled by French officers, and the menthe most warlike in India." It was certainly a brave action which induced a father. Jo take his son by his side nnd march forth' foMyjiaceiirf frtinrof his 'men;iOT pTevepi:t,heir firing might which His tbr cut badly, as though it had been done wh a pen-knife; but fortunately; thieftyirfdnjpl Jmd the important Veins were nof severed, and he was brought to town alive.Tlnd restored lo bis afliicted family ; and hopes are entertained that he will yet survive. Ills wound.w1asdressed-on;the groupd where he was discovered. - ; He had probably been sufTeringTrom bis wound -for severe WdyearvdfromiibstinerrcefoTllxrdaysT" When bu was discovered, he asked lo be taken home, and seemed to be perfectly rational.. 1 L-a-.JL. m 4-lLjM.Jr."J' 'LIST "OF LETTERS- - EMAlNIN(J in the Post jtlIice at tiroeiiKtioro' At. March 31st, 1810, whiclt if jUot take our in : ' months will be senu to Hie Gtyioial I'ost Oflicc as- dead loiters. W. W. Avery A. P. Askew Kmsly Arm field Shedrick Andrew Thomas Beard Jesse 11 own 2 Squire 11 Breeding I)r Robert II Brooks Mr Robert 11 Brooks Miss LouissrCrump Henry Carroll Rev John Coe John Olapu Rev William Carter Bedford Chance -Absalom Conrwt J s cu-f , janor Coml . Levi Chandler II Criven f Miss I)ii isa Dobson William Denny Rdbert Donnell William Dennis Mary M Donnrll .: -Dr Wm I. DiftenduiTer J6bn Kafljnd . Job Elliott V Abijrnil Frances E Forbis Fran Haver Fonbum I'atiick Foster , Alex Cray. , 2 - , J MissEO'Gillam t, R O (Jllmcr's , Mrs Sally Anri Garland James Gorrcl Ralph H Graves Miss Margarett Hull ' Alex Manner ' Hezckiah llovvcrton l'cter lsely F.I iza belli Ivc Williaiii Ingle .Emily C Ireland , Warren Kr Kenned yr -Mrs Nancy Kirkiimu Edward Kirkman John Kiikman 2 James Ixck Nancy Lundny Jana's Ijengfetd &. Br. Nath'l i,ubei-toii l!ranhyL4wreiie,e .Wm. J,McElroy . WillTfim MgLeart . Ainaoda M Mendenhall' Philiji Michel Andiew McUurch Madison M icy , Richaicl II Napier ' Jacob Owen Elifihaoi Tho. OzmCul l'hebus.Farrish James Pully Hansil Parly W II Poge Deli'ha Lambeth I, I.nmbcrl, Esq Jaine J,ilo i l.evi Iewis i Mrs Jane lianib William McKnight, MadisonMarUiW Jesse Montgomery Mirth Mmphy . v Catherine, lllerit Geo CMendenhall Henry Merrell - Patrk -itiliinci - Mr Mss F Pincei oTnTIbwcrToh, i "Cufo Pucci George Parsans, - . Win Pinlintqii t James A Powel, ..... John'A Prichct . John Pilchard- , Thonias Jlioli . , Absaldtn It eve , Colli LRobard JcbbiJ Re id , A P Ren ' Adum M Rankin William Rickets Adduin Saflim llenj E Spencer Mrthy Sears 2 - SolomomShdtcri jttn Henry Shofner f m . Mrs, Edward. Sliiidrock. or Tliom-i Stanly (Willaim S(iry 3 Mrs Margtret atdKrcy Mrs lx)uis AjScaweH James A Stewart..- Mrs Jletsey Thoriibury ('are of acob 'I'lioumn. John Turner, E'1 MartCD Trotter Drury D Tyler ' , Martha A Taylor..- Weaver Thornbeiry-,--. Reuben Trolter JoSCpIl afVTB 4tvr Andrew I. Williama t " Johji W Walker f " 11 Uev " Akx Vilson 'A .Woodbuin ' , -' Mrs Sarah Wriodburnj " Jonathan Welch AbjgoiLiLWidkex gunrm order, lhat ihe bay ontt-alone 1, Win Wodleton i PlcaeatifWilron . John Wright, or . Robert A Moody ... Allen Wilson " JoKepli Whitiinton Isaac While ' llezcknh Whitworth Anderson II Web, Mies Jario D Wiley '. Ezekiel Whittingion fJImi-p Wcalherly .- AV'iHiim .Ytkfg -t--' Jolwv I'Ziiiuiiei nian John Ziinpierpian4 Ivq w uaru ui currv n ii c.woriis oi lue cuv- r j... s .. ..?, .n r .- n,. -t . . r i . , . ' .;.rcjBUM. vuHtnu i't iwiy oi e auovc win ineoso interesting ip a ipiliiaryftinT o view, ;;ThejVu-.'..';v VL50 L..S 2U
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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