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:o.c.iu-:ss. utrosit iiiMial.ttiiSjrcYrit eoi'fiiMi, tneaamm iii'iasmww "" 'i'i'ii ' yagS nEx.nn, Tl'tss T, nui- 25.-The Seuata took in romnttrtre of the whole, Mr. AH- in the chair, the bill to enable I he holdcri of French, Btiii.li, ami Spanish titles to landswitbin tin1 Mate of Louinia na, which have not hteu recognised at valid by the goven.iueiU wl the United States, to institute proi idlings in the courti of the United State ta ivy the va Jidity thereof. Mr. JViwn, of Lou. explained the o jeettof the bill, ami uracil the importance of acting cm toe subject at the present session. He thought it was not only the duty, but the interest of the government to provide lor the adjustment of the claim embraced by the hill. If they are not valid, they belong to the United States and should be brought into market, which cou'd not he done until they are decided on. But lie complained of the injury done to Louisiana, by keeping large claims of land waste, within the limits of the state. Emigration had been checked and the prosperity of the country retarded Upon this amendment a discussion arose, which occupied more than three Lours. It was ultimately adopted ayes 26, noes 10. It appeared to be the opinion of sever al members, that the three claims allude to, should not be referred to the judicia ry, but be decided on by Congress itself though the Senate seems to have acted on the ground that it was expedient to provide for their adjustment by a separate till. The gentlemen who spoke in favor c including the three large claims, named above, lo the bill, were Messrs. Johniin, of Lou. fan Dyle, Ilroivn, of Lou. Smith of Md. and Mill ; and those whoopjws ed it were Messrs. Taylor, of a. Fan Murrn, Eaton. Lanman, Harbour, urA Chandler. After considerable discussion on other details of the bill, and the adoption of several amendments ; and after rejecting a motion to postpone the bill indefinitely ; The question was put on engrossing the bill for a third rejoin ;r ; and was derided in the affirmative) by teas and nays Yeas 2, Nays 6. On motion of Mr. Talbot, the Senate took up the bill authorising the President f the United States to employ an enci tieer is examine and select the most suit able site for a National Armory on the western waters, and appropriating 25,000 dollars for the purchase of such site, &c. No objection being made to this bill, the question was taken on ordering it to be engrossed for a third reading, and was carried, with only two or three dissenting Toices. Friday, cd 28. -Mr. Storks, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to which had been referred an inquiry into the expediency of author izing an interchange of the laws of the cveral States, by mail, free of postage, made a report adverse to that proposi'ion. The bill providing for clothing the mi litis of the United States when in actual service, was taken up in committee cf the whole. Mr. Noble made some remarks in Support of the measure. Mr. Smith, of Md. opposed the hill, not on principle, be cause he was friendly to the principle, but frwm (fhiections to the mode pioposed by the hill ; and for the purpose of getting rid of the bill he moved to lay it on the table. Mr. Noble replied to Mr. S. and answered his objections; when The question beiis taken, the bill was ordered lo lie on the table ayes 21. The bill further to prolong, for five years, the continence of the Mint at Philadelphia, was ukrn up. Mr. Lato questioned the propriety of making provision for tontinuing the Mint at Philadelphia for five years. He thought ihe Mint establishment might be Ced at the acntef government, where it would be more immediately under the eye of Congress, and its operations and concerns more easily examined and un derstood. He did not assert that it ought to he removed i but he wished the subject to be inquired into, and moved to insert rme yiar in the bill instead of ve, that Congress mie,ht, in the mean lime, con sider the subject, and decide understand inglv on it. ...... This motion wm opposed by Messrs. Fi.liott and Larsias ; who among oth er things, argued thai, escn If Ii one enacted to continue the Mint at Philadel phia for five years, C ongress could revoke the law t any time, if it should he deem ed expedient to remove the establishment from thenre J hut they controverted the propriety of lemovintc the Mint from Phi ladelphia, from copsHcration of ronveni enrr, and the successful operation of the establishment, Sec. , The motion to .imcml the bill was neg atived ; and the hill whs ordered to a third The President I dd before the Senate, a report from the Se:retarv of the Ireas tr . rri .tive to loans or depo-d'f 1 mae'e h the Tie usury to hanks from the vear IT89 to ihe present time tendered in obedi ence 'o .1 resolution of 'he Sen ile : w hich report ns, rn motion of Mr. Catos, or c'eicd (o be printed. The Senate took i:p ti: Mc.sage froui the I louse of Representatives) announc ing it disagreement to lha Senate's a memlment to the bill, supplementary to the Revolutionary pttuion law. I he amendment disagreed to by the , House w Representatives) was a daue inserted by the St:nte, to reduce all the Involutional y pensions 20 percent. Mr. Nome, moved to postpone the bill indefinitely) tmd after home debute, the motion was lost ayes 20, noes 23. Mr. Baruocu then moved that the Sen ate recede from its amendment, which I motion was agreed to, by yeas and naya yeas 23, nays 21. About 5 o'clock, the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF UErilKSKNTATIVFS. TUESDAY, JEB. 25. On motion of Mr. Ilocheitcr, the com mittee of the whole was discharged from the further consideration of the bills of the following titles : A bill further to prolong the continu ance of the Mint a: Philadelphia The bill to continue m force an act, en titled " An act regulating the currency within the United States, of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, and the crowns of Fiance, and five franc nieces," passed the 29th day of April, 18 16, so lar as the tame relates to the crowns of 1 ranee ami live franc pie ces ; and The hill making the coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spam, rc ceivable in payments on account of pub lie lands. The first of these bills being taken up by the House, it was ordered to be en grossed lor a third reading, without oppo sition. The next bill was then taken up', in the following words: . Be it etHuteilL'c. That no much of the act, entitled "An act reguiating the currency ith in the United States, of the1 guld coins of Great HriUin, France, I'm-tuiraJ, and Spain, and the crown of France and live franc piece," passed on the 2'Jtli of April, 1816, a relate to the crowns of France am! five franc pieces shall he, and the same hereby is, continued in torcc, for the furihtr term of two yearn, from and after the fourth day of March next." Mr. M'A'im moved to amend the bill by extending the operation of the bill to four years, instead of t:o,' lor mercantile rea sons, which he stated. The motion was assented to bv Mr. Itockrttcr, and agreed to by the House. And, thus amended, the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to- morrow. I ho third till is in the following words : 1 It it enattnl, ifc. That, from an J after the passage cf this art, the following gnKI coin shall be received in all pawncnts 01; account of pub lic LuhLs at the several ami respective rates fo. lowing, and n4 otherwise, viz : the gold roiin f tireat Hritam and Portugal, of tlieir present standard, at the rate of one hundred emu for every twenty-seven grains or ciphty-eight cents and eight-ninths per pennyweight j the gold roins of France, of their present standard at the rate of one hundred rents fur every twenty. seven and a halt gram, or eighty-seven ami a quarter cents per pennyweight i and the gM coins of Spain, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred rents for every twenty -eiht ami a half grain, or eighty -four cents per penny weigm. Sec. 2. .ttul h it .srilifT rwrinl That it shall he the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to e ausc asms of the foregoing t oins to in- made at the Mint of the United States, at hast once in every yeur ; and to make report of die result thereof to Congress." This bill, also, was ordered to he en grossed for a third reading to-morrow, without debate or nppovi'ion. ELECTION OF t'MN I Elt. Mr. ..' , of Mass. purstiunt to the no tice he yesterday gave, that the house this day proceed to ballot for a Printer, to ex ecute the printing for the next Congress, now made a motion to go into the election of the said Printer. The question was then taken on agree ing to the motion of Mr. Allen, of now proceeding to ballot for a Printer : and it w as determined in the affirmative. After the nomination of candidates The house then proceeded to the !nl- lotting, and, upon counting the votes by the tellers, Mr. Cocke and Matlaru, it ap peared that the whole number of votes was 155, of which 73 were necessary for a choice. For (Jules and Seaton, J 02 Andrew Way, Jr. 15 Other persons, 10 Gales & Scaton were then declared duly elected Printers to the next Congress. THl'RSDAY, FED- 27 Mr. ('AM I'lJKLl, of Ohio, from the Select Committee a p. - ' - - i - u n ...mi, -. . .w.. ...... . .. t.w........- of suppressing certain passages of docu ments transmitted to the House, made a report in relation thereto, iccomtt-enrling that the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the inquiry committed to it; which report and reso lution were read and ordered to lie on the table. Mr Hemphill, from the Committee to which was referred the memoiial of several banking institutions and insurance companies in the State ff South Carolina, and a rnetnori;i of the President and Di rectors of the Hank of the United State, praying for ccrt.ttn Jaws in relation to the Hank, and for certain alterations in their chatter, made a long report t hereon, on cluuing'with a resolution that the Com mittee be instructed to prepare and bring in a till in relation to the Eai.k of the U- i tilted States i which wai read anJ euimd to lie on the table. An engrossed hill ' to authorize and empower the Secretary of the Depart ment of the Trcanury to dispose of all the public lots and other properly belonging to the, United Statcn, in thcciiy of Wash ington, in the District ( Columbia," wa read a third time, passed, and eent to the Senate for its concurrence. ; The Speaker .communicateil a letter from the Secretary of Slate, transmitting a supplement to the Digest of Manufac tures, printed in pursuance of an act for taking the fourth census of the United State ; which was read and ordered to lie on the tabic. SUPPKESSION OF Tl IK SLAVE TKADE Friday, rr.B. 28 Mr. Mkhckr, pic faced a motion to take up the following resolution, with some remarks on the pro priety and necessity of efierting the great and important national object contempla ted by the adoption ot this measure, kc. Jlrtolved, That the President of the United States be requested to enter upon and to prose- cute, from time to tiint, such negotiations with the several maritime powers of Europe anil A. merica, as he may deem expedient for the cH'ec tual abolition of the African Slave Truck1, and its ultimate denunciation, as piracy, tinder the Iaiw of Nations, by the consent of the civilized world. Mr. Mercer's motion of considcra. tion was then taken, and decided in the affirmative Aves 68. After Mr. Mkrckk had delivered his sentiments at some length, with energy and feeling, upon the general subject of suppressing the Slave 1 rauc, and on the policy of investing the Prt ident of the United States with the power proposed to be given to him by the resolution. Mr. WmcBT,of Maryland, then claim ed the floor, and spoke at some length on the merits of the question involved in the resolution, strongly asserting the neces sity of adopting some effectual measures for the total abolition of this odious traf fic. Mr. V. spoke with considerable ve hemence and zeal against the Slave Trade, but, being of opinion that no convention with other nations could make the enga ging in this trade Piracy, proposed an a- mendment to alter the phraseology of the resolutions in I his respect. When Mr. H . concluded Mr. Rl'rhows, of Connecticut, requir ed the Previout (Juration, and in this call he was sustained by a majority of the mtmbers. I he Previous question was put and carried ; and then, The main question (on agreeing to the resolution, as above stated) was taken by Yeas and Navs, and decided as follows Yeas 131 Nas9. INTELLIGENCE. He eonic-s, the herald of a noisy world, News from all nations tumh'ring at his back. FUK.II ITl L SACIUFICK. The following letter, dated July I, and addressed to the editor of the Calcutta Journal, contains a melancholy narrative of the immolation, or, rather, murder of a Hindoo widow: Sir Prompted by curiosity to endea vor to investigate the religious ceremo nies of the Hindoos, I was induced lo at tend the self-immolation of a Hindoo wi dow, at B Ilyghaut, yesterday. The pic paratory ceremonies, if any, must have taken place previous to my arrival nt the ghaut, for I found the unhappy victim of their idolatry in a perfect state of insen sibility. Thourrh I was aware her husband di;d at so late an hour as twelve o'clock on Saturday night, I Lid as'ulcall idea of grief for Ins loss being the actuating cause of her immolation; and I am not disposed to think I was h ron io so doing, from the circumstances attending this barbar ous custom. It was alxuit twent y minutes past 1 1 when I arrived the Undiniins were washing the body of the corpse in the river, and a few paces front them sat the apparently unconscious victim, his widow. She was 21 years of age, beau tiful to mr conception, by far the most so of any native female I have ever seen ; combined with the beauty of her face, her figure was perfect, which heightened the distress, if possible, in the minds of those who were witnesses of the sacrifice, and f.ilt their inability to prevent it. The hit ter, under any circumstances, I believe would have proved ineffectual to prevent her dissolution, and that speedily ; for, judging from her appearance, (which was that of slupefaciion,) I inquired of sever- - 3r hTTT!!?- 5nd mnn f K-r, I found men intelligently delivering their senti ments, and, except in acquiescing in the detestable custom, men with whom I should hnve thought our enlightened views of Christii-nitT might be pressed with suc cess : they lid it was her fate, and added, that if she wspieveiitedorpersu:dcd from her purpose, she would die before three o'clock. Upon thi intimation, I was led to at tend more minutely to her situation, and I rrrtir to the time I first saw her: She was sitting on the ground near the river, supported by two men, and, as I said, in a state of insensibility. Her eyes were open, hut apparency beyond the power of recognition of surrounding objects. Ik-re she remained until a paper was wned by open and rifled or about 700 dollars. Sus several Brahmin, who eagerly pressed pic ions immediately attached to a black upon the person in whose possession it; fellow named Antony, who had been cm-' 1 vtni3. While this was going fjru'jrj, the Thannadar asked her the usual questions of her sacrifice being voluntary, ke. $ to which, in a feeb'o voice, she replied affir matively. The pen was then presented to her, with which the ilrahminshad pre viously signed the paper, and she was made to touch it as significant of her ap proval. The corpse being laid upon the funeral pile, she was raised from the ground nnd supported to the river, and af ter being bathed, (for to bathe herself was beyond her power,) the was dressed by intending I.rahmins in a red scarf, and or namented with flower, nnd her head painted with red where her hair parted. She was then led up to the pile, and per formed, merely and solely by the assist, ance of others, the required ceremonies: she was supported round the piles seven times, and, alter having performed her task., her head fell on the shoulder of the man on her left hand, and for upwards of ten minutes the wan, to mv idea, in a faint ; but, in the sequel, I was well satisfied that the drugs that had been given her haxl be gun effectually to operate. The attendants waited this time, I sup pose, in hopes of her reviving and being ble to show somewhat of voluntary ac tion, in the sight of seven European gen tlemen who happened to be present ; hut in this they were disappointed, for she re mained perfectly insensible to every ob ject. And now commenced a scene so horrible, so revolting to every common principle of humanity, that one's blood shudders at the recital. 1 hey lifted her up, more -dead than alive, and placed her on the pile ; she had not the power, when on it, even to lay her arm over the body of her deceased husband ; "but this was quickly done for her, as well as phicing his head on her bosom. This was enough for me to see, and I left the srene of mur der, for no other term ran he applied to this "infernal" transaction. The decla rations of the Brahmins, that she would not survive three o'clock, luing a satisfac tory conclusion to my friend, th;it the drugs that might have been administered i to her were of the most destructive na ture; and it would be well if government would interfere, in a similar case of self- immolation, to postpone the ceremony be yond the time the death of the victim was so prophesied ; and if it occurtcd, to sub ject the body to the investigation of sur geons, in order to di .cover (he fact of murder, or not. In the instance 1 speak of, the woman was perfectly insensible, and no part of this abominable ceremony could be said to have had her consent. I am, Sir,&c. As Eye Witness. " NEW-0 R LEAKS, FEB. 4. An item oj Mexican Aewjt. ('apt. Mcs tre, of the bri Santa Anna, from Cam peachy, represents that the piovincc of Yucatan is in a state of romplete anar chy: that when he left Campeachy the people were fighting in the streets one party headed by the monks and priests, contending for the Emperor Iturbide, who has promised to establish the holy inqui sition ; and the other party, the people, contending for their natural rights and a republican form of government. Vc learn from another sourer, that Ituibide's prospects became daily inoic obscure at his head quarters, and in the neighbor hood of the capital. xkwtort, it. t.FEn. 22. Arrived, brig llowdoin, Carr, !8 days from Matanzas hound to Warren. Sailed on the 3 1 st inst. in ro. with brigs Abeonn, for Providence, nnd Neptune, of Bristol, for Trieste. Af ter being out 4 hours f.-om Matan.-as, saw a piratical schr. coming out from the land, full of men, and rowing with 1 4 sweeps. On hercominjr up with the Itowdoin, she hcis'ed a red flag and commenced firing with round and grano shot, at the Mine lime orderinrj Capt. Carr to u itrik or die.' As soon as the pirate was within a sufficient distance, the Howdoin rr tinned the fire frim her cariiage guns .m l rsius. kctry, which raked the deck of the pi rates, kil.inr; several, and compelling them immediately to haul off, having on ly 7 men to be seen on the deck, and row ing wiih only three sweeps she stood pgain for the land. Had it not been en tirely calm, Capt. Carr would have been enabled to have sunk the pirate. The Alcona and Neptune being in co. at the timr, and being both armed, assisted the Row-Join in repulsing the pirates. The r.owdoin mounts four carriage guns, with muskets. Sec. . In addition to the accounts given by our correspondent at Newport, of the jpHmt defence of the brig Bowdoin, the Provi dence Patriot mentions that the piraucal schr. mounted I large jrun on a pivot , anil was supposed to contain 70 or 80 rren and that she came so near the brigs '.hat the captains saw people on board whom the? had traded with at Matanzas. The brigs were injured in their rigging by the fire of the pirates, and some of the crew, were wounded. The Bowdo'm parted company with the other brigs after get ting through the passage. Doit. D. "JJv. Robbery.. On Tuesday evening last, Mr. John A. Inslee, steward of the Phil- adelphia Almshouse, had his desk broken ptoyeU by' him as a servant, tut who had absented himself a few days previous Search was made, but he could not be found some person, however, who knew him, had seen him passing through the streets with his coat pockets filled in or dcr, as it was supposed, to prevent the jingling of the silver he was presumed to have stolen, he at the time supporting his pocket wi'.h his hands. Upon inquiry t the Mail Stage Ollice, Mr- Ins'ec was in formed by Mr. Chester P.ailcy that a per son answering the description had started for N. York by the way of Amboy on Thtirisday ; that the wind waT ahead from Amboy to New-York ; and that by going on in the mail, he (Mr. L) would reach New-York as soon if not sooner than his servant. 1 his was I nday, i o clocK. At 3 Mr. I. took his seat in the mail stagc for this city, where he arrived at 8 on Sstt'. urday. At 12 the sloop from Ariboy aN rived ; Mr. I- proceeded on board with an officer, where the first person he beheld was his ciJeva.'t servant, bouncing up from the cabin with the utmost satisfaction ( hi escape but upon perceiving Mr. I. his countenance fell; and truly the tran sition of his features at this moment were a study for Cooper or Keun. Neglectful of the sable charms of his lawful wife, Mister Jutor.y had brought with him a mu latto lady, the partner of his treasure. Both were taken into custody, and upen examining their trunks, among new hats, hoots, shawls, and other articles, as the showman Bays, too tedious to mention, was found a pocket book containing about 270 dollars. Upon his examination, Antony confessed the robbery, and stated that a black man named Plato (not the philoso pher) was an accomplice. That Plato stood without the building while he (An tony) entered and committed the ihef and that Plato was to give the alarm by whistling if any body approached. Upon rejoining fiis comrade the money was put into Plato's hands for division, as he could read, most of the money being in bank hills. Pla'.o remains in Philadelphia. Mr. Inslee set off early on Sunday morn ing for Philadelphia, with a hope of ar resting Plato on his arrival. I he proba bility is that the greater part of the mo ney will then be recovered.. .A'. Y. far. 1 Z:h hit. .1 tr.cimcho'j cr?:e. A correspondent at Conwayborough, in Horry district, in forms us, that on the 2 1st ultimo he was called on by the coroner of the district to attend an inquisition on a most solemn and impressive occasion" On approach ing the spot," observes our correspond ent, u I was presented with the view of the dead body of a w hite man, of at least 60 years of age, whose snowy hut gory locks would have led us to believe his pursuits far different from'that, which an inscrutable Providence determined should be his last. It appeared, from the evi dence, that he had attempted to rob a po-latoc-house, in which a gun was set, and on his entry he inadvertently touched the spring, and was thus, by his own band, instantaneously hurried before an angry God!- What solemn and useful reflec tions might be drawn from this awful dis pensation !" If inrjnv Intel. The cotton factory, principally owned by Mr. D. Avery, in Meredith, N. II. with must of its contents, machinery, &e. were destroyed bv fire in the afternoon of th l.'.th inst. Tho fire is reported to have originated in the I'icier, placed near the stairs ; and the flames were so rapid as to produce the entire destruction of the building in 37 minutes. Seven females were at work in the third story, at the time, and being precluded the means of escape by the stairs, six of them leaped from the windows, a distance of thirty feet, and were more cr less grievously in jured from broken limbs and bruises ; and the other was taken from a small window bv means of a ladder, almost suffocated. The f.ictory contained 700 pnH,r,, nj 20 looms, nnd the loss is estimaicd at be tween 25 and 50,000 dollars. YVc have been told that the Indians at the eastward prognosticate great freshets during the approaching spring,' from the circumstance of the beavrri having built their houses tine story higher than com mon last fall. This they consider an in variable forerunner of great freshets. Sctcn Gazette. Lookup-clans Gjrfaifl.-i.The managers of the New-York theatre announced for eshii.iiion t,it Wednesday cveii'uur week. a looking-glass curtain, equal in size to the drop curtain. " For extent of machin ery, cost in the production', and brilliant magnificence of effcct. lT is asserted that this splendid spectacle it unequalled by any other in any theatre. - It reflrcta in one lucid sea of glass, the entire audience, and every object in front of the stage. The elegance and richness of'its frame work renders the superb ornament com-, pletc. , . An excellent rule for living happy in society is never to concern ourselves with the affairs of others, unless they desire.it Under the pretence of being useful, peo ple often show more curiosity than kind ness, v
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