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rrom csf chade ma C-iare VABIOTO. Januaty 4. Although more than one-unrd of the session is past, niothig has been done in r elatiuu to The chief objects of the session. The w arehousio& bili has not yet been. ta ken up. and the iaankrupt Act is not yet repealed. %e have some little doubt abetber the bankrupt Act may not be re tained under more modifietions. Every day's delay operates against the uncondi tional repeal. Mr. Calbeen, ihis morning, in present. ;ag a memorial 1e he repeal of the Bank rupt Act, tok occasion to say that be was in favor of the epeal. as be held the law to be inexpedient mad uncousitutional. Mr. Tallmadge therespna presented two re moctranes against the repeal. and said that be hoped the committee on the judi ciary would so modify the law as to ran der it both constitutional and ex dinet. "An efbr:2 is to be made to retain th prom pbetive fetures of the Act, aud the cam to-day. settled ohe Oregon bouuary.question, by passing ibe bill for the atcupaion and-ettlememt of that terri tary. -There is no doubt, that under the iIueement of this law, there will be a vast eUig son to the Oregon. At the close of the prem century, when our population mill be ninety-two millions, a large portion of it wil be in that Oregon c6untry. and our trade with the East In. 4 edie, which is deitined to be immensely increased. wvill be carried on from the Co lumbia river, with which there will be an inlaud communicatio., by steam to the Mississippi. There is a great deal in this little Oregon bill; and I judge tros the remarks of odme of its ftiends. that there is not a ile danger that it will give much umbrage to John Bull. That there is to be a dilenly in settling the Oregon bonn dav by lreaty is certain. dome even doubt whether we have a good title to the torinery. But this bil setles the matter by ceulring our tide. There is no doubt that the Houe will also pass it. The debase o' the pro ition b) repeal the Bankrupt Act, sIll engrosses the House to the exclusion of every thing else. Very few or the speaks toueb the real merts of the question. The state of par. soe is alone spoken of. Mr. Browns, of New York. a loc, made a conciliatory spseeb In regard to Tyler. so * much so that be was accused of being a Tylerite. Mr. Brown condeuned the biboury of his Mends, who had said they would not re eive Mr. Webster and Mr. Spencer into their ranks-for be mid that even be (Mr. Browne) was a federalist once, and such were a good many more of his friends, whom he now saw around him! Mr. Merriweather undertook to prove that the democratic party were broken in plecie, said could not be reunited under ay leader. Mr. Pickens spoke in favor of the re peal of the act, which he considered as unu coastational. 7-.. Mr. MeDuMe was in the Senate to-day. He dags not appear to. be in gond health. He was at thoe tsidits Moe on Mon day. ad semed to attract much ats ion Ue was leaning on the arm of Mr. Pickens, Mr. Cathoun was also preseot, and we. almost us much remarked as the \. AsntNeos~. January 5. The' Oregtn bill, wbtcht was yesterday pase' trneuti ppositia tis a third read. ing. in the Senate, was arrested iu its wur~tse. te morni:.ng, by Mr. Calhoun. The tail ce UP for its third reading, and was about toa pass in silence, when .'. Galhaout stated that the bill, in his oprio:. n~%1 onec of the mu's tthmpurtaot ttat e passed. He wi.hed to e*xamnine itto ae fetrruLce I.) our treaty stipulitions, and ,.e. a at dlad not conflict with thetm. Tlh,- mait, upon thbis, was laid aside, with the resuetat consent of its author, Dr. Linn. There could, indeed, be little doubt, that the bill would he considered by Great Brit aim, as contrary to existing treaties; but it metht expedite a peacef.,l or hostile settle meat of the question. Mr. Benson mod Mr. Rives hadl a rope aition of their dispute to-day, in relation so the passage in Mr. IR's. speech on the British Treaty, whieh state, that Mr. Ben ton could see the dlotted lines on Mr. Jef ferson's map, 'Jut could not see the broad, red lines, &c. Mr. Benton again denied the statement, out and out, with great warmth. ad Mr. Rives re-asserted it.. Both appealed to the w htole Senate fur the veracity of their severalstatemaents. When the matter becomes so be sified, it will, perhaps, be found to he a suistake on both sies. The House ibis morning, took up for a while, the bill to rcmtt Gen. Jackson's Am. wish instes. Mr. Adam. opposed it very vehemently. as iatruducing a danger. ous principle ; and he called on the House so aseertain and clearly deine what prin edpI.. they meant to establish by this bilL. He wanai vote for the bill osano other ground than as a donation so Andrew Jack son, and thbis he wonad do cheerfully but for the reasom that he was opposed to the policy of peniing Ex-Presidents. Mr. Cushtiog made aelaquent harangue in snppmrt of the measure, ad proposed to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Now Orleans. by t:. pa age. The sub ject will comeu' up agin t -aoaW. The threadbare pohiue-sl deb,.'e n the bankrupt act was cotinued ina the House, ad without .tan prospect oft 'erniuatont. Wec hadl to-da. spe ne-, trom thr'e N. York democrasts. Mdr. Gohai'n sarangly censuired the liberal Vie ws taken yesterday l'5 his colleagueo Mur. Brownvae, an made a J.-!aration wvih i hirolleagus was to oieto hinaself, that federasltsts were sever . a.. sreatwd, in tite demucratic lines. Mr. Urowne, in returan, accused his colleague of malttat uverlares so the wbiga for sap port in 1140, which. Mr. Gordun said was Mr. McKsoa commenced a speech whieb Is iutended-to show what democra .Wi'asswroue. Jannary 6. Them.earea few synmstoms in the Mouse Withalt of hag an. appreheing outbreak besteen the Calhoun-meo amden Buren men. But the subjeet is cbIefly confined to private conversatten a. yet. The Senate has con~rmed very few o lnnsiennma e. The pe. .ne==n.e... ma.,. vacant by the dstbef lCaptain Gallagher, has been filled by the promotion if Coam mnader Wyman. The Navy appropriation bill is likely to be kept back some time. There will be a strong opposition to The appropriation of some three hundred thousand dollars for the African squadron. rendered necessary by the stipulations of the lat treaty with Great Britain. In the Senate. to-day, there was noth ing of importance. A bill was passed, after much discussion, to enable those citi zens of the United States who are placed beyond the borders of the United State. by the new boundary line with Texas, to returu into the United States with their slaves. in the House, a resolution was passed calling for information as to the tonnage on the Mississippi river. and the losses of property and life. in the last two years, Was the dangers of navigation, snags. bars and rocks. There are a great number of petitions before ie House and Senate on this sub. ject. some from underwriters in Philadel phia. asking furither apprupriations for the improvement of the navigation of that river. The House, to-day, by a solemn vote, refused to supply the reporters-shewing that of the membeis of the "'third house' are evidently declining its p-sopularity wbether they tell tom much truth or toe little. remains a question for the specula tions of futurm hitn ian* &of Coingress. The House t-iik up the atution in in stract the Commitnep on the Judicirry ia report a bill to remit tae fine imposed ou Gen. Jackswo, at New Orlenns, in 1815. Mr. Adams made a bitter speeeb spinsl the kuotion and ridiculed the Presideut' recommendation or the measure in hi1 mewnage. He said it was intended to catel a few Jackson men, and to secure the feelings of Jackson himself in favor of tih administration. He gave his colleague Mr. Cushing, some hard rube as he twetr along. The old gentleman was in a per feet rage. He submitted an amendmnen to the motion requiring that the hill shouk be an framed as to east any reflections at the judicial tribunal which imposed the fine; and also requiring the Committee ti report their opinion on the circumstancei of Gen. Jackson's conduct, which led ti his being Sned. Mr. C. Ingersoll spoke very eloquentl3 in support of the proposition to remit the fine. In the course of his remarks. ho made an ilusion to his feelings and thos of the House in 1815, when the inielli gece of the vietory at New Orleans wn received in tbis city Mt. Ingersoll tva, one or the only member, now of the H ouse who wan a member of it at that time. Th expiration of the hour asigned to iii morning business cut r ffir. 1%.. remark. The House, after refusing to take tap thE bill to repeal the Bankrupt .4ci, procel.e, to the consideration of private bills. FOm 4s Nissa sg nener. MR. PICKEN'S REMARKS, Os the Bigae repea te Bamkrvpt Law Mr Briggs had moved that the bill h: niinari to the Casnmitee oan tie Judi claryvwith the linlewig instructions: ** rpf s bil t - repeal that part .o the existing law which authorizes the via luntary application of debtors, andl to iu elude corporations which issue paper s circulate as money within the opieration of said law." Which proposed instructions Mr. C Johnson had moved to amndi so as to itn struct the committee to re-port a bill faa the immediate repealof the batnkrupi law withbout limuit or qualification; [simplly, it race, striking out the proviso of ite origi nal bill of Mr. E verett.] Thae moaaiona to commit with instrnetsiota takhes precedence of the motion to urmend rte bill. So the Brat question which vow recur red was on the proposed amendment o1 Mr. C. Johnson to the instrtuctiotns or .\r. Briggs. M r. Pickens took the floor, aud, arter a promise to he very brie' in his remaarks and an allusion, imperfectly heard tay 'he Reporter, to the commencement tat the present discussion, went on to say th.at s he should permit himself, in his actiona or that floor, to consult merely the feelinga of his heart, and listen alone to the prompt ions of the kindier sympathies of hisi na ture, he certainly should not be so hard hearted as to deny the benefits ini the bank rapt law to the unfortunate. His friend, the gentleman from Louisiana,.(Mr. Dawi son,) whbo alone, of the whole Democratic party, had originally voted in favor of tbe law. and who now opposed its repeal, had said every thing that could be said by any one os that side of the question;t and Mr. P. confessed tht, while listenaing to his hum waranappeals in favor of the poor debt or, alt tho symapaihetic emotions of his breast had been strongly roused. But he could not, he repeated, be guided in thec task of legislation by his feelings and sym pathies. He would not, indeed, unader take to maintain that no bankrupt law could ever he construeted whbich should conform to the requisitions of the Consti tution and meet the spirit of that instrn ~ment upon the subjeet. And this brought him to tbe closing remark of the gentlemen from Georgia whbo had just taken his seat, (Mr. Merrwether.) That gentdeman had asked how this law could he held useon stitutional while the Constitution express ly declared that Congress should possesis thec power to pass '"uanor laws on the subject of tanakrupteies throughout rte U. States?" It was very true that the Con stitution did so declare: bat what kind of laws? Mr- P. considered this very power as one of the most dangemous and most us eertaimr perwwbicb the Constitution con rained This provision, and rbst whichem piowered Congress to regulate commerce, were t wo of the most extensive grants of poner in the whole instrumsent; and this, in relation to a bankrupt law, was a pw er the least understood of anry. Under this convictio., he would be very strict in his construction of those clauses. A t the time the Constitution was drafled-the term hankruptey had reference to the statutes of England andtoithe decisions ofthe Er. ish courts, and the consructions- we nasd ved nmBritish law wtiiersupoitthemf. The statute asdia- the reign of He'nry VIII. was th frst ever enacted itt En-t gland on that subject: and gentlemen rfomiliur with leaal studies well knew hww very limited nod bow jealonsly. gAedI that statute was It applied I-tradis' only who were' areemed to-be swindk and had been enacted fur .the beneIibf creditora only. whom it enabled to saitait a comtission of bankruptcy in the canes -specified, and to conpel an assignmaent' and division of the debtor's assets among them. This ancient statute bad beei-the foundation of all the legislation which had since taken place on the general subject o' bankruptcy in Great Britain. an 'aery strong doubts were entertained, aWr all that had been done, whether more bAefit or injury had resulted; a'nd this even un der a consolidated Government like theiri, within the limits of a small island, acd with a Parliament that was held to be ow nipotent. It had been 'asserted in nrgumenu that there % a- 'n truth n. real diferener be tween an irsolveht and a bankrupt'law. This had recently been niintained.by a jurist of very distinguished repeiasion, and one vwhon lie confessed to be f15faore learned than Mr. P.; but notwithstandimg this, be must conceive thai there was a broad and obvious distinction between the two; insolvent laws being passed, *kefy if not solely. for the benefit crdbtors while statutes of bankruptcy wer inend ed. on the contrary. for the rel' dii tors. So far, therefore, as an rpt law included the principle oF engitary bankruptcy, so far it partook of 0 oature of an insolvent law, and to that isen he held it to be wholly un'onstitutiono. Mr. P. said be was for limiting tbe power giy en in the Constitution to the strictas pos sible limits. The idea of a bankrgt law. even so late as the times of Blachkune. had been that of a law intendedto afect traders only, and enacted for the bpeslt of creditors; but the law it was now propos ed to repeal was a law for the benefit of debtors almost exclusively; it wasin truth an insolvent law, and was opposed to the spirit if not the very letter of the Qpnstitu tion. do undeniably -true was this, that one of the friends of the law ianoether pant of the Capitol had been driven to take the ground that Congress di*possess tle right to pass a law interfering iitb the obligation of contracts, and to pass ex post 1fuclo law. The argument in sup port of this monstrous position was, that the pow er to pass such laws was by the Constien oion prohibited only to the St-tes. and that therefore it remained in posAbssion of the General Government. To'Mr. P. this appeared to be perfect solecism. lie had ever held the doctrine that the-Federal Government held its powers by specific grant. and by nothing else. But here it was contended that it derived its powers irss those same powers havinugJeen de hied to the States Such a doctrine went ta %weep into the jurisdiction of this Fede rot Governient every contract maeade throughout the United States, and allowed it the athibority of interfering witior abro gating inie. Had gentlemen seriously coitte.plaied the illimitable. the startling conbequenres of such a doctrine! No such lslow had ever before been atd at the whole sYsIe of credit th o t the wbojle comms snunity. It or -ry oundation- of civilized sition should be esr would any i0! one who tiad a ue of propet ty 'tnm- n under suenl a con-htion i .be advo cates of this hank aw which inclwted both vol. involuntary bankrupts-had be... uusven to atn argu ment like this. In order to mnaintuin the constitutiotnality of much a law they were cumpselledl to tmaitntain that thes Federal Govtermieut poseie ;a constittional pow' e'r to .titiul the ohsiigationm uf cuntrnert'. But M',r. IP. dlemtailed ts know where wu, 'he gramt -whsere wats any such pon'* contferre-l tby lhe t'oustituotion? Wity. it iin, pro'itbite.l ti ih,.- State-s, atnd there' hfire'a itiust Ihe itn the Getneral Govemnmetit. AIr. P. not on:ly enarithisit ifer,:ice, biut drew :n infte-r. nee. udircetly thet reverse of it. Tihe d.ecirttue wi.m mosnsi ronis ! Is is a-, hosrr.u*! Ii ,truck at: nsl the vaailitt-ve.. sat Is.r sery furit.. oilliberty. lfisuch pors er v. as denie-l to the, -Slates themisselt . ciutse it was withheld from the F. i. * , Goivernmetnt. it was to this priniciph-. u:t Mr. P. tias espiecially opposed at the inne the law was enacted, and it formed "tie of the leading reasos why he nseut ir its repeal. It as said by gentlemen that lte law hiad done all the mischief that it coaldt d.' and now Congress were bound to co.i. it'-. it, that they might help all who yet w e' desirons of obtuaining its benefits. Mr. P. said he 'lovedl the attributes of mercy. as exercised by Government in stooping to relieve the wretched and the downf~llen; but he loved ntot less another attribute which no less belotnged to it-that of hav ing a bandage across its eyes, in token of admsinistering its blessings to all alike, withoni dit inetuion of the tow or the high. of the prosperous or the poor; ansd he was. therefote. utterly opposed to thiese appeals so often made to their mere sypipathties as mcen, instead of to their duty am legislators. Mr. P. had witnessed wvith astmaihment the propositions of his frienad frdm N. York. in his eye. (Mr. AlcKeoni.) to incloide cor porations in the scope0 of the hankrupt Ilaw. This, instead of limiting and restricting the sense of the term bankruptcy in the Constitution within the narrowest ponsible limits, was to extend it not only beyond traders. to whom alone it originally refer red, bat eveni to include within its. scopo all corporal ions ? If gentlenmen went on at this rate, what power at all would they at last leave to to the State ? If the amenment should prevail, the law would be ,o altered as to cover all corporations of every kind with~n thie Stales. Church corporatonas, rail road coinpanlies, colleges, school corporations, all-all were to be swept within the bound less range oeta Federal law. 51r. P., as was well known to all who heard him, had ever been as muchi opposedl to bsanks. atnd all conntected with them, as any other man in the country could lie. Long ago. andu at a period when it required some hardi hood to oppose the overwhelming tide of moneyed itnlnence, in and out of the House. be had. on that floor, opposed the whole bank power and( inioence, whs-n some, who were now the loudest in their denuntciations,. had qusailed before it Hel wouldl be the very Jast mats to advocate the cattse of bsaniking corporations, there or esewhere: but ho trusted, also. he ahouldi so the Last to trample on the Cunstitusion if his country. ace admit corporations i ,if any kind, and be know of no litnita uions. Some of the banking corporations I were ident itied with [he State Treasuries: ilhis %-as the case in Alabama, and to some extent within his own native State. Declare the btate banks of Alabama in a state of bankruptcy, and you might !weep the whole State within the law-i law which had been paws.d by fraud and all sorts of iniquity. What would be the fiscal effect of such an arrhaagement! 1 would be to put all the banksof the South and South-west into the hands of the bunks of New York and of New England. Declare the fitst insolvent, and compel them to go into bankruptcy, Rttd you would place them at the feet and at the mercy of their Northern neighbors. The result would he. in ef feet, to establish a grand national bank in New York, with branches in New Eng land and in the Southern and, Southwes tern States. lie was astonished that the amendment should have been opposed by gentlesen from New York and New Eng and, except indeed on upright, constitu tional grounds ; never, certainly, on any calculation of their own advantage. He considered the whoed measure as uncon stitutional, and as odious in a high degree. He had opposed the amendment because he held it to be of the most dangerous tendency; sweeping away, as it tnust, with a ruthless hand, every power reser ved to the States. It might be very right in itself that some of the banks in the coun try should be declared bankrupt; but do this by a Federal statute of bankruptcy. was of the worst example, and would go to cover cases of every sort. As. however, Mr. P. was sensible how bard it was in gain the attention of the House on topics of this description. he should say no more about them, but would pass ti some others which had been star ted during the course of the present de bate. The gelideman from 1lassachusalls, M1r. Cushing, had certainl3 made a very extraordinary speech. and one which had Seen quoted and interpreted in a variety of ways. He did not know that he ex actly understood that gentleman's true meaning in what he had said. If he had meant, as some gentlemen thought he land, that the power and patronage or this Ad. ministration had been held out for the pur pose of winning over those ora peculiar description or politico, or that they were to be wielded with a view to put downsone and toratse others, it was a matter with which Mt. P. had no particular concertt. But if, in what he had said, the gentleman referred to atny part or that portion of the Democratic party with which it was 31r. P's. pride and honor to act, he would say to that gentleman that ie trainpled such of fets with scorn aned contempt betteath lis feet. He never had asked for ravors, nor had ie ever decaded, itn tie slightest dle gree, the whole power of the Government. On the contrary, be had stood up blddlI against it at i ttne when it required some nerve to hold such an attitude. lfhe wa to be reduced to a state of dependence or ier vility by of'ersor persuasions of the imple ments of Government here, it must be o. some osberoecasion t*an the present. Not that he had aty objcctioni to the exi-ting President ; Mir. P. respected htis private character for integrity, and thtou;;h he had been traduced and abused in a mnost shamcful tmanner; but it was not Mr. P's.I part to fawn or to act the sycophant to atty representation of power. HeI rejoiced for onte, to see the gentlemwan from Mlassat. chtusetts standing ns here he now did ; he laud long merved w ith that gentlemtan ont Ltht Comitttee ont l''oreigni Affairs, atnd he hadl atn uys thtoughtt the getntemati seeared a. have a S-cret les-nrig to their sr~t-. [shout% of latughter.] but that from terror ot Isis colague over tte wuay. .\r. Adamuts, it would tbe u long wlthue tbeinre hte expre.s ed it. [Rene's ed no-rrtnnt.] .i J r. P' rteembearedl the speec-h the genctletman t~td mnade up~ot his o's u oont toa alter thei aitte ot the Sot' Treasuty bill: and atltht' thet. get.i lemaan was at that titme riolent, a, i... attd almost abusive, so mucht so as ni.tt to raise event Mr. P's. ire, L[t l~tagh,-and although the oilier little gen temuan tromt lndhiaua had been so very h't raius thtat .\r. P'. at r- timeit ;taoot lear..d to has e bee-n beheamied ma his svtr, :ca . h vat' rously apjprnedt 1a n oneo of i. tautr-'tpeon the flie, -It-ecat~ulted- lim ,otu:iatmat ont havintg tnow emibraced thte a. .- -, .\i . P.- at tout time held, andtti l --.'a:: e :o hiold. .And although the tre ' io;:-, uow ti'mhpeni to b~e clothed mo the gtiaaeritg anid gorgeoius trappt~ings of powe5r lie ind ntot lme the gentIitan for htavittg ..s pouar'd her when thus arrayed. Truth, hae kne's, a as saitd tohbe mighty and w ould prevail; but Mir. P. also remnettbered that thte Ancient Greeks, whto were wise in the pahilosopthy of thae htuman heart, and pos sesed a thorough acquaimtanco with its mtost sotate w eorkinuls, had represented T'ruth with a croren upon her head and ar rayed in the shining habiliment of power. he would ntut be understood as meaning to say tat thae gentlemsan had beent iuduced to lall itt love with truth because he be hold her thtus arrayed, or liked hter atty thte better for the crown sl:e wore; but he utust be pertmitted to congratulate the gen thenman upont the (act that more than two thirds of his Eschtequer report, went, out and out, for the Sub-Treasury plan and the Sub-Treasury doctrines, which at one time the gentleman had warred against with greater bitterness thatn Mr. P. had ever wittnessed from any other quarter. As to the temrptatiots of office and pat ronage to which allusion had been pretty distinctly mtade, it was sufficient to say to thte genit~nmau that those with whom Mir. P. actedi. were governed by principle, and by principle alone. Of the divisions in the 1Democratic party of which the gentlei man bad spoken, Mir. P'. knew nothing. HeI knew of tio diviaioins which cotuld not readily be reconciled by a little prudence andl moderation, lie knew of no cause for any want of harmony. They stood upon the principles of the Cous:itution. [A voice: ''On what principlesl!" Mr. P. would tell the gentletmant from Massachtu Seits that one oh themt was the principles offree trade. He feared that tm thts the gen tiemnan did not agree with hint; but, be that as it mig ht there never could tte any har motty in the great Republican pa'iy hut on thte foundation of free trade. Hlollow and heartless truce there nmight be, hut no eolid and lasning peaco save en the itmo. rable, eternal basis ol free trade, and the mnmutable. everlasting riaht. of man.- th 'his he said upsin his own inlividual res 1ou1silility, without concert or consulta iod with any one. Mr. P. did not expect !o 'e here; b-i his he would tell gentlemern: the h.;saner. if free trade shoulul wave, whLther %vim he Adiniistration or without the Ad uinistratiou. [Laughter, and cries of ,*Go it! that's you!"] They -., v.'r had ac- Wi ;nowledged the power of patronage. nor am xowed to the rod of Federal pow. er What fit iad been their animating. th-e-r inspiring principle in those dark, but merorable and glorious days of *33. when thEy hail P drawn the sword and thrown away the p scabbard ? fiad they naked for favor! ti No. Had they begged for patronage I Never. Head they sued at the foot of power, or cringed tu obhtain its .miles or o it% forbearance 1 No. lie couid with R reait truth nv, that, had he been willing ut in sloop, to fawn, or wr thtrer, he might e have secnred to hiinelf the trapping. of Aflice; but lie scorned to be the menial or slave of any man. lie w--it for his coun- th try; for the Constitution .of his country ; th and for the rights of S. Caroliua Uaainst b the world! [Shout- nod laughter.) These were his sentiments ; and he should hold himself unworthy of the p!aci he occupied if he could feel or act otherwise. lie di would never contend for a mere party ri- w, umiph, but for those great, and immortal, r and vital principles delivered to us by our fathl,!ra%. and for which it should ever be A hi, pride to fight. ti As to the divisions in the Whig party,he ti hail nothing to do with them. hIc renem hered well the language held by their Captain General. and which they of the 5 opposite side in politics had been held up t to the scorn of the world as cu lprits under hi the gallows. Mr. P. felt sympathy for it the present condition of his Whig friends. c; They had cotne into power on the most corrupt and profligate principles ever maintained by any boily of men, ani they were now about to be dissolved as a party by those who seemed themselves to be y without much principle. ]A laugh.) it And in reply to the figure employed by the a' great Kentucky orator, lie would say of i him and his party associates, once so arri. cl gant in the hour of victory. that they now stood quailing and trembling like the guilty (t monarch (if Babylon aid his corrupt cour tiers and flatterers, when they beheld the n mystic writinas upon the wall that an- C nioneced their doom. c 0 etit au eretioer. i EDGEF1ELD C. H. I if WEnsD!s DAy, JANUARY 16. 1.842. % p -t it Ifa e, -iiag Jo fh alt t swill cling to the Pilars c fio e Temple of a our Aarte.ar. ifftautfall, s WUil Peris) FOR PhONGn.T it Col. WIlTFIE LD HBROOKS. P' (GP~Temper-meec Meeting.-A Meeting ai n ill lie held i: the Court Ilotuse, on Mon- t 'lht'y eveinug ilt:!w rdl inst., being the first ; evar of Court ne--.k: at which time- i< ir. Wui. ii .tnsso". will dehver a New C \-m A'b!re, -.. antd Mdlrev-es tmay lie ex prete-d fr-an 'oral u' 'er gerntlemeIan. A full attendance of the Members is r' quested , ad the Ladies and Gentlemia--na of ithe vilinga' and country are respectfully : ioritedal a .ititnd. a (f~ \. , ,~ oi f thre Court orfd Co P . .. o, : , I ht tr:--r. w-ill be kr ,rt . , i .-. ..cchi F :.r cti. .ccording to tlt- Act ot ke Le-g:.dlatire oa the last se-ssion, wili hie aeld hera.tter, a.n i he 24 Maonday iii March. c: iatread of thes 4th Monay as heretot're w Return D~as will therefore he on Satur- .p it day the 25t~h oft IFehrtarv. istressing Aaident.-On Thursdlay a last, Mr. 4hbsob n, Ihelaughter, a respect ablo planter of this Di-,trict, whilst on a gunning excursion with a number ofga-n- ti temen, and within a mile of his own house, er was shot with his rifle. which he had load- P' ed and stood byv his right side. His dog whilst playing around him. is supposed to have touched the cock ns hich camsed the explosioni of the calp. The ba-ll entered t his right sitde, and lodged in his right shoul der, he expired in about half an haiur. Mr. at Delaughter has left n wife, fAve chtildiren, ar and a number of re-lati-es and fiends to v0 mourn his umsimaely deaik. I: Fire and Loss of LiJe--On Thursday 0 afternoon last, the Cotton iintn, aind sheds atachedl thereto, belongis tio Col. Win- . Il. Mosas, with in three aor foa'r miles otis 1 illage, caught fire. it its oul'iosed froms Friction, and was eutirely destroyed. v.ith rom t welve to fifteen bales Cf Cotton. A p -aluble mulatto boy, about 21 or 22 years hi of age, who was attending to the Gin wasb bur to death. Tlhe loss is estimated at t abut $2000. There was no tnsurance. jg Repite.-We learn that his E xcellency hi ~ov. hlamnsaud has respited the negroes , Baccus and Paul for t wo months. Wet in ).pe this delty may bring to light other y1 acts- conneeted with the horrid murder for al hich they have been candmned ; anil th hait if any other's have, been connee'd th Ath the astrocity it tmay bte made mans- w ..-Southern Choie To our 'a .:.-- , ..-rC 0:41 .LIrty anks to .1!1 tta - .,. ae,e %I(r ird and liiu;-J d - .d.. :!. a., d L are torry to : .:;:, i1 aJ c a I lthow. n% h., a- the tnar.t l s:v.j, n14 aLt ;o tlot:m, we han : it as all nour threau- "ee :..uth far ught. and they are -till inying back, Ih the idea that we will .utily t/rIatnc, d not act, they wilt, when it is too late, id themselvcs mistaken, as we mubi have ash. to pay our debts, or be forecd to y c-ats ; we shall lit refure he obliged to ace into the hands of our Gray limb of e law, all accounts due us. fur more than e year's subse.-iption. or for advertising job work, done a year back, not paid by eturn Day, the 25th of February, to miake irseif safe, and keep the - Shoulder tap rs" from saying, "I trant you." Wo Iw issue this as our last Ploclamatioun, at all persons who have accounts of more an one year's standing, that are not paid r tbo 25th of February, need expect no uger indulgence, as it will not be granted. ur the infornation of such as are at a strnce. and do not wish to pay cas:, e will merely say, that the Pos:masters am whom they receive their paper. will rward the money, free of postage; and as ere is to be a Court held at this place on c 4th Monday of this month, when they n, should they not have business them ves, authorise their neighbors to settlo eir accounts by sendiug the Cash. Wo ave a hope. that we shall not have to em ie Gray limb of the Law, in lhis official ipacity, to settle any of our accounts. For the Adccruser. Ma. Entroa.-l have not received our paper for some weeks back, whether was caused by msy being in arrears for bscription. or the neglect uo the Postmas 1. I am at a lose to conjerture. I en use you the amount due for subscription, ith the hope that my paper, for the fu ire, will coine nore regular. In your last, which I borrowed from a eighbor, I perceive That the Hon. P. C. aldwell, of Newberry, is announced as a indidate for re-election to Congresd, from ar 4Congressional District. Thus we have ree Richmond's in the field, and each ntm a different part of the Congressional )Isarict, all - good and true,' and I be. eve firm Republicans, and who. no doubt ould do credit to any District in the 'rate. As there is no division e regards olitics, I tor one, can fnd no faNult with ither of the candidates, hu: . .iug, from :y youth, been always desirouse of seeing y native dibtrict represented b) *ne of s worithes. should one step forward who oul hhve its interest at heart, without vor or affection; I am now, more than er, in favor of her holding The balance power, when she has a candidate from nong her own citizens, who is in all ways pable to take charge of her real interests. ra Planter, whose whole affections arp aced on the welfare of the planters, and ho would be guided with an eye single the planting interest, let what would ho e conseqtuencc; one whose whole de :rdence was in planting, and on which -aione relied for the supaport of himself di family ; such a man, I think, will bo un itt Col. W~hi'fild Brooks, if what has done for the A grical'ural interest of' s anad the neighboring districts, are to taken as guarantees for sihat he would .should he be elected, on the floor of ungress. His opponents, noone w ill de ,are genilemen of great acquirements their ownI vocations, but I believe they e unacqtuainted, in a measure, wilt) the terests of P'lanters, more especially, with nutniber of the aaunts, which could the at tded to, by one -.o welt versed :o their islate necessities ;ts Cut. Brook', to him e Planters could more easily explain ir views on subjects which they might sire tu have attended to, a. hte own lowledge of their situation would enable m to act with more decision and judge ent thant onte totally unacquainted with e ,'lanting intterests. Wtthotut any ill' cngs toa either of the a~her centlenetn 'uddates, I hope the lPlaus , and .\1e uacs, 'sho are so cloaely sol.ed to them, td il areot, utn the day. of e.le-ciion, in all irts oif the Congressional District, and the majesty of their .strength, give the 1Old Planter," Cul. Wut-rvi ELtD Iaooas. long poll, a strong pull, and a pull all geher. As there is a Court week at Edgefield evious to the coming election, I should e 1o haear, andI I think a number of oth s would. tthe views of the candidates blicly expressed at the Court House. PINEY WOODS' Murdr.-A murder was committed in, ec upper p art oh this District during the rismtas lIIolidays bt ---ozier.upon ec body of John Petigru. the circumstancesl tending whieb, as we learned them, are follows: The parties htad, soame tinme pre ons had a,qutar. el, w; Ott the. day of the order muet on C . .c rad, whenac ezier," ho ns ;. ,.' a' a:.:tt'.nder the infn ceofhqtuor; at. * ' : ni' pi.,aVecatton the part of Pm . h i fe and tabted tiina -1,r att dm. cutting& a hole large that a p art . he iu''stines fedl to e groaund, which he. raiseud up rted in s hands until he r'an to the' b -4 ofr. his is the stateuaent fl t he .Cff-n', made by tigra himself prevtit. to hisde'n'h (there rng no. witnes. pre enr) ani c eoncutrred in , Dezier whno is now contined in the f ail oR is pilace. We ;aliao learn that Pecigru had treared to the house, he, was follwced by osier, whoa entered the room where te as lying, with his knife still dripping with u.d. and with oath, declared that he hal ime to Gntish w h-t be hand beguao.and was the aet of again stabbing his vietim when rirn told hinm to go away 'hat he had ready killed him; Ikosier replied that if at was the case,hte was satisied, and left e house. Pe tig'o lived till t he next evcotng bn he ex ied..--.CGamden Journal.