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- " We il cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it mnst fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruin.-" VOLUME VIII E&QfAbXl C ourit ouse, S. C., 3anary 10, 844 1. . EDGEFIELD ADVETIJSEgR BY W, 1': DU1tSOE.PR OPR1ETOl., S.tERMS. rtree bollars per annum, if paid in acdanc -Three Dollars and Fift.,Cents. if not paic before the expiration of Six Months from thi date of Subscription-and Four Dollars if no paid within twelve Months. . Subscribers ou of the State are required to pay ir advance. No subscription received for lees than ona year, and ne paper discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the Pub. uisher. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise ordered before the expiration of the year. Any person procuring five Subscribers and becoming responsible for the same,shall receive the sixth. cony gratis. Advertisements conspicuously iuserted at 024 cents per squard, (12 lines, orle'.e) for the first insertton,-and 431 cents, ror each continuance. Those published Monthly, or quartetly will be charged $1 per square.tur each insertioi. .Ad vertisements not having the number of inser tions marked on them, will be continued until oidezdd'out, and chargel accordingly. All Job work- done for persons living at-a distance, mut.be paid for at the time the work is done, or the payment secured in the village. All communcutions addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be promptly and strictly attend ed to. . Read Quarters, :DECEBEi 14th, 1843. ORDES, No. P URSUANT to orders from Col. J. C. Sproull, an Election will b" held in the Edgefield Squad'ron of Cavalry, at .Edgefield C.' H., on Saturday the 13th January next. for Brigadier General, of the First Baigado of Ca valry, S. C. Militia. Captains J. J Sentell..A. J Hammond, and W. Harrison, will act as .Managers, By order of Maj. J. E. Smyley. JOHN F. SPROULL. Adjutant, --2nd ltegt. Cavalry, lst 3rigade S. C. M, Dec.20 4t .47 Ikissolution.. THE firm of GOODE & LYON, was this day dissolved -by mutual. consent; all persons idebted to us will please call and set tle with S. F. Goode, who is alone- authorized to settle the business of the firm. GOOf)E& LYON. Dec. L 1843-, The Subsciiber wouldfiake this opportunity to return histhanks to . 'aind the com munity in general, r. the lib' al patronage they, have conferred, on him"f the last ten years. He intends carry the J erehant Talorin' Business, in all itsbsanches,' at the oldstand,. and hopes by strict -attention to business, to merita continuance of those %ivors which have beenso liberally.bestowed on him. JOh1N LYON. Dec. 1, 1843. Dec.12. tf 46 Notice. LL persons indebted for work done at the L. Saw Mill, are requested to come forward adsettlc their accounts for the.yieai 1842, eith e; by note, or otherwise; and those having dc n'ands against .theestato of Jesse Swears .mgen. de'd.,'are requested to hand in their' accounts, properly attested. :JAMES SWEARENGEN. October 18 .tf 38 . otice A L. Persons having any demands against the Estate of.A. Delatighter. deceased, are requested to render them in preperly attested, accordingto law, and all iiidebted are earnest iyiequested to make immediate payment. "S^ANIER.- Administrator. .A CY DELAUG HlTER, Dec 4,1843 tf. 54 . Adm'trir. -Final Notice. ALLPersona indebted to the Subscriber. ALL on lyotes"and Accounts,' due in mv old' business,-which-expired the 1st January, 1843. are hereby. notified that longer indulnence can , not be given.. *E B. PRESLEY. Edgefeld, Oct 10, 184l3 . tr 37 -Notic~e A1 the Sale of B. A. Wallace, deceased, are solicited t...pay tbie claims. now du e his .Estaio. H. R. SPANN, F-xecutor. 'Dec 12, 1843.' .if'46 To Plraters # Mferchants. TBEG leave to infori ytiu, that I continuei Kth.,WAREHOUSE and COMtMISSION BU5rNESS.at my old stand, known as the .WATERt-PROOP WAREHOUSE. Detach ed'asit is froni-other buildings. its location ren ders-it aearly. as:secure from fire, as if it was fire- proof. The floors have been elevated above the high ~water mark of the great freshet of May, 1640. 4Planters will thus be secured from the possi bility of loss and damage by freshets. - Ilavail myself of the present ocain to re turn my thanlistYo my friends and pfatrons,.fo r theirjliberal support durin'g the past season.. I solicii'Abin thern aqd ihe publie generally, a contiuanef this conldence, andassure them qti t i eter'n for illeir patroniage, I will use my btiffipersonal - fforts to piomote and protect tiieir igterests, cominitted to my' charge. In ddition. tothis assutduce, I pledge inyself that I willin'no case purchlase a bale of cottoni, di iectly'ofindirectly." 1 will attend personally to tiealeand forwardig Qf cottOO to Savannah orthbiresten; aLqdito the salg of Bacon, Floui-, &c.'h1i.,.and to the reteivingiand forwarding of go'ods..to the :diijeountry. .Having a .fine wharf attached to my W'arehouse, no w~harfuge w'ill be .charged ori.otten tqiny came, either for sale'or to be fordia to Savannath or Charleston. My coammissions for selgg cotton, wili ie -25 cents per bale, and 124.cents .for forwvard ing. I will also attend to the'baiyiiiof'godds pe'r order. Very respectfully, yours, &c. - G. WALKER. Hlanburg August 2, 1843 August 9 .. . 6m 28 .*- 'P. S. BROOKS, ATTORNEV AT LAW. Office 'pesto Mr. Comapty's Hotel, Edge field Cour Iotgg, S.- C. MISOiELLA.EOUS. Sentende of Death.--Me. find in'the las Temperance Advocate, the sentence' o John L. Brown. for aiding a slave to run away from her master. The crime is out 'of no small niegnitude in our society, bu we have wished that the punishment foi such an offence could be mitigated without danger. The punishment tunquestionably appears too great for the crime, and yet, without a penitentiary systemtwe fear that no other can be' substituted for ofences of this nature; and we think also, that if we had a penitentiary. many'whose hands are stained with the blood of a fellow being, and who, from sympathy, or the general antipathy to take away life, almost entire ly escape punishment. would be certain to spend their days within its cells. But it was neither about the crime or punishment which we wislied to write ; but of thesen tence itself passed upon the convict, by that truly humane. enlightened, and chris tiau Judge, the lIon. J. B. O'Neall. Though it is the sentence of death, yet it breathes mercy, hu mauiy and lorgiveness in.every line;. the guilty mano is directed to sue for pardon to Him who never said to any nat, "seek ye my face in vain,".in language so touching, and so full of elo quence, that we cannot forbear giving our readers the lollowing-the concluding par agraphs.-Camden Journal. . Remember now thy Greator in the days of thy youth," is the language of in spiced. wisdom. This comes home ape propriately' to you, at this trying moment. You aro young, quite too' young to be where you are, and if you had remember ed your Creator .in your past days, you. would not now bein the felon's place to receive a felon's judgment. Still it. is not to late to remember your Creator;- he calls early, and toe calls Into ; hetrotches out the arms of a father's love to 'you, to he vilest sinner,. and says "come unto tue and be saved." You can 1.rhaps read, if you can, read the Scriptures ;-read- them without note, and without comment, and pray, to God for his assistance, and you will be able to say, when you pass from prison to execu tion, as a poor slave said, under similar circumstances,.'-1 am glad myiFriday has at last cane.": If you cannot read the Scripiures, the ministers of ourholy religion, will be ready to aifyon, they will read and explain to you, until you.will be able to understand, and understanding, to call upon the only one who cn help and save you, Jesus Christ, "-the Lamb of God who taketh a vav the sin of the world." To him I, commend you: and through him may you have that opening of the day-spring of mercy from on high, which shall bless you here, and crown you in. an everlasting world, as a saint forever, and for ever. r'partcd for IA :Courer and Enrnircr COMMON. PLEAS & CH1MiBERS., Before Judge Ulshoeffer, .ingular Case.-Or. Tuesdzzy of last, week. Judge Ulshoefl'er was called otn to decide as :knotty a case as ever came within his praciee asJudgo or Counsel two Albino Negroes. who, -had been ex. hibiti:g at Peale's Museum, were brought' before him on awrit of habeas corpus, by a negro named John Jones, from Dutchess Couty, who claimed. them as his chil dron, while another neg-o from. Shrews bury, N. J.. name" John Mannah,claimed. them as.his own offspring. Jones swore that he'lad hired the children out about two years ago to a mna'aned Rusted for exhibition, and that he had never seen them since, but he brought numerous wit n-essesfrom Dutcheis country.,.who knew him and the~ children, and all swore pos itively that they belonged to Jones. On the other hand, Mannah produced evidence .that the. ehcildrcen were hts, and were brought up by'him fro~m infant cy, and that hie had hired themfor exhi tion a feiv weeks-ago. . In this state of the case, both. parties swvearing p)Qitiv.ely to the, identity of the children,. Judge Ut sb,)effer,. was nou-plussed, and he ad journed the caso over until Satutrday. .lIn the meantime 'Mr. Niles, counsel for' Maunnah, receiveud itnfortmation that two other Albino children were exhibiting in assachusetts, and he took measures to have them broughit to this city, where they arrived yesterlay morning. Whlen the ca'.e catie up for the hearing for Tuesday, Jones and Mannahi still stuck to it that the above boys belonged to them, and whbile disputing as to tihis, the two otlierboys were slyly introduiced into the room. The astonishinment of all pairties at tiis denouement was ludicrotjs itn the ex reme.. Mannah.stared at the tnew corn ers.-as if he. doubted -his ownt eyes, atnd Jones who knew these at once t.o be his own, was scarcely less a'stonisheod. - The boys, too, stared at ea::h oilier with the most ladicrous seriousness, andI finally the new comers gave ven- to their feelings in a regular-break down- dance; which the sacrcatess of the Judge's Chambers could not restrain for the instant. Each parent thus .obtainied his offspring, and.' all -the parties left the office quite elated at the result.' For :Manntah,. Mr.-Niles. For Jones, Mr. Shufcldt. .A Mammoth Mfan.Ti is stated --that a farmer, lately died at Moersted, Belgium, enormous dimensions. He wats seven feet itr dircu'iiference, and tho calves of his legs w'eisas large as the body of an ordi. nsi' m'in.' His coffin' was three feet wide and thrue'eftdeep, yet he completely fil lcd t. ' '-'' -'. Arrest of Counterfrilers.-A man named Sarni. Ilayes was arrested on Saturday night for attempting to change a spurious coin purporting to. be an American half E agle, dated 1836' a t the ticket office of Stickney's Circus, in the Second Munici polity. Hayes was taken to the Baroune street prison and searched, when three more of the same description of coin- was funud upon his person. Upon Capt. Win ter's arrival at the prison he searched Hayes, and found fifteen more secreted in his clothing, and upon examining the pavement in front of the prison, sixty seven others were found, which Hayes had dropped while being in custody of the watchman. Hayes was ,brought before. Recorder Baldwin, who remanded hitm for further examination. A mai named Patrick Mdgary, who was in Haye's com pany, was also arrested at the saute inse, who had in his possession one of the same species-of coin. He was examined yesterday, and sent to the work-house for sixty days.-N. 0. Bee, 251h ull. Arson and Murder.-Rev. Mr. Seely, Pastor ofthe Baptist Cuttrch of Port Rich mond, Staten Island, has informed us of a sad calamity that hasjust happened in his Parish.' Last evening about 9 o'clock, the dwelling of Mrs. Housman was discov cred to be on fire. The shutters and doors being fastened on the inside, the neighbors were compelled to make forcible entrance, when the. fire was extinguished. - It was supposed at .first that no one was. in the houso, but on going to the bed, the body ofMrs.'.Housman and'her child weie found lying - together, nearly consumed.,-so that when removed, the heads dropped off. Mrs. Housman ras'seen last on Sun. day evening. Monday soine ofthe 'neigh bors 'called at the house and knocked, but finding it lucked snpposed she' hd gone away, and no suspiciotr was excited. It is now supposed thatsome one entered the house, and having robbed her, set fire to the bed and escaped through the windows, the shutters of which closed with a spring lock. In ro other way can the fact, that the house was fastened on- the inside be accounted for. A gold- watch and some silver known to be in the house are mis sing. Mr. Housman is an oyster dealer, and is now oi his way from Virginia with a load of oysters. A brother-in-law of Mr. I-Ious man states that there Were a'tholsand or fifteen hundred dollars in the house, if Mr. Housman did not take it with him Mr. Seely informs us that Mrs. Housman was a member of his Church, and in every way an estimable woman. A painful greeting awaits the return of her husband. The home lie, left so prosperous he willfind desolate, and desolated under circumstan ces chat aggravate the calamity. Thewhole affair remains a mystery. We have since learned that Mr. Hous man has returned, and that the S-1000 to which we referred was left in the house, and douldess furnished one of the incen tives to the villatous deed. N. Y. Tribune Indictment for Kising-It is' fortunate that there are other high crimes and mis demeanours in the world to be tried -besi des libels, in which the truth may be giv en in evidence without referenue to mo tives. The Gloucester county,'New Jer sey, Circuit:Court was occu pied the whole of last week with case of Ware vs. Bate man, the latter gentleman' having kissed, with malice aforethought, the wife of the former.' A great many of the most res pectable persons of the county have been examined, and the testimony is not yet throegh. Mrs. Ware testified positively to the kissing, and the defendants have called a great many witnesses for the pur pose cof invalidating her- credelity.. Elopement .-The town of Lexington, Mas, was thrown into a great excitement recently, by the elopemenit of two "young ladies of fashion with two journeymen tai lors. Another.-lt was reported' in this city-, says the Philadelphia Times of yestorday, that a certain Lieutenatnt in the U. S. Navy had eloped with the wife of another Lieutenant, now absent 'on dluty.. We are not at iberty to give names as yer. A duel with unquestiopably be the result of this affair. 'lErinting Ojpce . dest royed.-On Sun day night last, about 10 o'clock, Robert Idague tieutenant of the night Watch of Pitsburgh, Pa. went into..the offie of the "Man ahotmt Town," in that city, demo lished the press, scattered the types,. and did all the mischief lhe could to the mate rials. N'opersim wvas ini the office, at th e time, and i~t is said' that Hague broke the oflice open before lie .could get' ii. The noise lie made drew a croyvd around him, when 'the Mayor camne up, 'and ifagiue stepped out.. In'consequenice of an act so disreptablo to the city, thbe Mayor and Police Commtittee' immediaiey .met and diischarged himn from his situation oa the njght~watch. . -Mammolt Cabbage-We klere shown a day or twvo since,.by ou'r-friends White and Donnell; a--cabbage, sent'td'thetn ns a present fron' Pennell:TaylorEsg.,of'this county,- weighing -twenty seven pounds, andl'measuring'four feet- four inches in cir cumference. 'This would be hard to beat 'in ay --country, and- we venture to say, never has been equalled in Mississippi. c'lhmbue, ( Miks.) Deoan From the Camden Jourxal. 'T'he Slate vs. Bennet Dozier.-Th Court of Appeals have reversed.. the do cision of the Circuit Court in this case and granted the prisoner a new trial. We understand that-the principal groun of appeal (and on wthich a new trial wea obtained) is entirelynew in our Court, am that it was urged successfully by Majoi Smart, in an argument of great ability, exhibiting groat research and legal know ledge. Supposing his argument would be interesting to many of our readers. we ap plied to Maj. S. for a copy for publication, w hich he has promised us, after the trial of the prisoner. We annex the opinion of the Court. APPEALS, DECEMBER TERM, 1843. The Slate tvs. Bennet Dozier. OrtsrOY. O'Neall J.-In this case, it is only ne cessary to consider the 'prisoyer's thirl ground, in arrest 'f'udgment-for that will avail him. In'2d Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 260, it is Said, "the venire fucias, as all other processes of that Court (the King's, wench) isues in the King's .arne under the Seal of the. Court and teste of the Ch. Justice, and always ought to bear the teste after the issue joined hetwveeu the King and prisoner." The description of process to compel the attendance ofjurors 'iu 20 llawk. P C. book 2, c. 41 sec. 1, is very mouch like the course of our prac tice in relation to the ventre. He says, "it is agreed that Justices of tho-goal delivery may have a pantel so returned by the Sheriff without any precept or writ; and the reason given for. it is, that before 'heir coming, they always made a geieral pre cept to the Sheriff on parchment, under their seals, to bring before.them at the day of their sessions trenty-four out of every hundred,' &c. " to do"those things which shall be enjoined them on the part of the King." &c. This 'is a general venire for the term, and 'is so far, like ours, and is only differentr that 'it has no pannel an nexed, and ours, according to our jury law has. It is to be observed, that this general precept is under the seal of the Justices; and without that would be bad. The argument is therefere, irresistible,' even from this authority, which is more~ favorable to the State thanany other,.that a summons of the jury by virtue of a pre tended writ of venire, no. under seal, can not be good. The jury law of 1791, sec. 4, the manner of drawing a jury, and that a painel cootaining'tihe names of the ja rors shall be annexed "to the writ of venire facias. to be issued for summoni g the said jurors." To be a writ, it must he tinder the seal of the Court. (Jac. Die. tit. Writ.) And hence therefore, a venre not ttndor seal, is no writ, a:sd is not au thority to the Sheriff to summon the jury. What effect has the want of a venire not under seal, for both the grand and petit jury, upon a prisoner convicted of a cap. ital felony ! The case ol the People vs. McKay, 18, J. R 212, is full to the point, that it'is 'n good gronnd to, arrest the judg ment. T:idependett of it, I do not per ceive that there is room to doubt, the writ for both juries'are ' parts of the record of conviction." Irthey 'be nullities. it follows that the prisoner has' not been charged or convicted by the finding of good and law ful men of the vicinagc. The prisoner's motion is granted to ar rest the judgtnent, and he is remanded to the goal of Kershaw Disttict, to answer to a hiew bill of indictment to be preferrcd against him at ths'iext term. JOHN IBELTON O'NEALL. We concur -J. 5. Rtichairdson, Josiah J. Evans. A. P. Butler. D. L. Wardlaw. A trite copy : ' A. 11r EnraTo', Dec. 23, 184A3. C Lrk Court of A ppeaIk. 'C00GR ESSIONA L. Curres'pondence of th~e Charleston Mercury. W~ASars-rON, Dec. 27. In the Senate, a gommuriication was reeived from the department of war, made in comlhiantce with a resolution of 2d March, callintg for the extent arid valuo of the claims of the Cherokees according to Treaty stipulations, ,embracing only those WVest of the /1'kansas. "The report received is decidedly againist those clairas. Among the Petitions presented were those from Rail Roads, 'asking to be e:: enpted from the duty imposed on Rail [oad Iron, and 'from the great. Cental. Rtail Road of Illinois, asking to be alloi~ed premption rights to certain public lands. A mong the Bills introduced was otio by Mr. Bree.se, allowing' 'those persons who ad reserv~ationsof land made in their fa vor, to alieniate the; same in fee. The resointionl <uhmitted by Mr. Walk er, calling on the 'Treas~ury for the exppn ditures inade from the organizattion of Go vernment op to the present time, speci. Fying ,Aere and for to aiywirposes made, &c. came upl, when an 'attempt was made by the Whigs to defeat 'the call; on..the groundi. tit there would be great difficulty and expens'e aiteuding upon the furoishing of the ;nforriiationi. Mr. Walker, howieAver, let them know, if they meant to withhold the informatioin he shoidd be compelled to call for the yeas and nays. They'had re ports publishe~d .year after year of the grants made of the puhilic lands to the neW States, 'for'the purpose o~f.showiig that there was a <jispositiori on their parn to appropriatle the, publie' lands to theii ow-n use, a'nd y~et Whenf he ansked to shews where-the public moneys had 'been ex pended, and for' .what purphi'ses ma~de, there seemed a dispostion to refuse it or the gronmd of trnnhin'nand exnense'to' the department. s Mr. Woodbury gaye them to underst'na - that while at the he'a of the'Treasury h had endeavored to make out such a stale ment, and expressed the opinion that I could be done without any great difficulty the part of the reponrl!e submitted wonl have to be generalized. The resolbtioi was adopted-and the reply will-"show v hen furnished; how little of the publi< money has been expended amoaug'the Sonihern and Western portions of the Union. Every thing has been taken from the South, whle she has asked in vain for the most trifling appropriations - eithet for her line of sea coast, or for any othei purposes. . The resolution submitted by Mr. Allen in relation to sitting with open doors while in Executive.Session in all cases where treaty stipulations were not discussed, was ordered to be ptintcd and postponed for the present. Mr. A. avowing his deter mination to c'all it up on some favorable occaston. The other lcsolutions, the one relating to a Canal round the falls of St. Marie, to connect the two Lakes. Huron and Snpe rior, and that calling for the suits brought by the U. S against trespasses-upon the public lands were taken up and adopted; after which the Senate adjourned. In the House the debate on the resoh tion inquiring into the expense ofthe Home Squadron was very interesting, it as much as it exhibited the feeling manifested in' a. certain quarter to do away with' the de fence of the Southern coast, by abolishing even this branch of its defence. Who that looks back to the cases where our property being transported from one portion of this union to the other, has in consequence of the vessels bein' obliged to put in at neigh boring ports, oiing to stress of weather, I een taken without coor of law;' and again in other. cases where 'negroes bad committed murders and piracy, been de feated by the same power "that resolutely refised to give them up as fugitives from justice-shalla Squadron for the defence of Southern rights and Southern property be abolished, while' we are spending mil lions for the maintenance of a squadron on the coast of Africa ? Mr. Ingersoll who looks at this subject in a right point of view, said if there were items of ex penditure to reduce 'it would be better. to look to the Capitol' where there-was more. extravgance thair in any other quarter, than abolish a squadron so necessary for the rofe guard of oar coast. M'fr. A Jarre with hie racniinr viewrafin' relation to certain matters, intimated that this branch of the public service was un necessary, and that the expenditures of the navy ought tobe roduced-intimating at the some time, that gentlemen who held opposite opinions were in favor of war with Great Britain. Mr. Ingersoll said, that rather than Great Britain should have a foot hold in Cuba or Texas, he was for immediate war, and in that, 1 am persuaded there is not a true patriot in the country, that would not respond to him. No question was taken on 'this subject, and of course, it will come' up again to morrow. A resolution was introduced to go into the election of a P. M. of the House, on the 4th of January next. An ineffectual attempt was made by Mr. Holmes to lay this resolution on the table. Every effort has been made by the Southern interest to save this valuable officer, but from pre sent appearance 1 atn led to believe that the dominant party of the House will add him to the list of victims. A resolution calling for a list of soldiers of the last war or their heirs who bad not received their land bounty and' balances of dues, was after some debate, taken up and adopted. It is not, perhnps, generally known, that. there are miltions nowe standitng on the bookisor the department to the credit of persona connected with the last war, and others of the army and navy, of which the heirs know nothing. Occasionally, a par cel of agenis inanage to get possessiou of the facts-and fleece the poor claimaunts out of at least onne-half. Certainly, it would le mnore'to the honor of the governinent to publish a list of all such, and' make the payments to properly authorized persons to receive the justice of the governmoat.. Correspontdence of' the Chasrleslon CourierL Therewas q Wass5t tiToN, Dec. 28,' Thee ws qiteahsttemp~t on thepeace and composuire of the House to day, and it may yet he successful The whole af fair was evidently arranged for- effect both out of the House and in it.6 Mr. Giddings presented a memorial from a person repre. senting that he is a free man of color; that he' was'arrested: and imprisoned under a a law of Marylanid, 'ap'pli'eab to this' port tion of the Dlistrict of Columbia, providinig that persatis of olor, withoumt free pap-rs be nrrested, &c. that he has been eon fitned in Jail in this city for some time, and is now 'advertised to be soldifor his jail fees; andI that he, a free-man, is con demned'to perpetual slavery.- The facts of the memorial are attested hy.David A'. Hale~hisi attorney. Mr. G. moved that the subject be i-elerred -to 'the Committee ott the Judiciary . Mr. Dillett,a f Alabama, suggested that if the proceedings were le gal, the rtmedymntbe by legislation-,!i illegal, bj t'he itnterpositiontof the Courts He moved to lay the petition on the ta ble. Lost, jens 55', nays 100: The sub ject lies over for futureoenneideriitions The attorney for the petitioner needed on ly to bring him before the.Court,~uow :it session; under a writ 'of'hab'eas corpes, i order to proeure .his Lischargez wtthdtu fde'or expense. The lairs art, trcxertlie ,.tess, very;imperfect, in so.u as. the improvements in them by.Maryad. oce the year 1800 do not applyto the Dstiict Iof Columbia. The same emark, app,,lis L so.laws on almbst all sttbjects,as.theyn -op. :prevail here. It was certainly in power of..those now so solicitous. these laws respecting, slaves,,.to: - brought in a bill at any time in Congres - for their.modification, but it bas: not been done. It may well be doubted,.bowvej-e whether Congress can receive a petiton.; from a person not a citizen, but that o. jection was. not made, Free negroe;ta . "citizens" of some of the..States, but.no , in Waryland or in Virginia. Mr. Giddings gave notice of .his.intea tion to introduce a- bill prohibiing oier. of the United States from arr etng 'uiive slaves. From the Charleston .Ptti4 j, WAsairGTois.;,Dec. 28. The Senate was- in. legislative seeo - but a few minutes. After the reception of petitions. Mr. Atchison onteav tntroi duced his bill to organize a govrnment . for Oregon.. I t was iwice read apd-ry .; ferred to committee whicl hasycharge of thatsubject. Mr. Allen introduced a resoliion. cat.; ling on the President for eols f;all structions giVen to our MmD -ss land, on this 9ubject. It. lie.s oer. After a short. time spent i v. ' . v session in confirming: sofe...u - nominations, the Senate. adjouned/ In the House, numerous notice-oP were given. Among them was.. a, Rbr by.Mr. Morris of a bill,.;o-providho. - building of at dry dock at Philadl a and a notice by Mr, Duncan of;a.i4 o. amend the naturalization laws;-the also a notice of a bill to repeal :i tribution Act, and to extend- th 38, granting pensions, to eetat'Q.* Mr. Giddings;prsene 4 epetu a free coloured .man, cotage i of this city, on the spposkitiot e., " ing a fugitive-slave. Mr. Dillet. said it was a- Juidaa4 tion, and that the Housewas laid, o . '. t troubled with euc{ matters. - After some converation; e -s appealed -to the gjilantry .oftd Hie presente'aIetition froms ~( olic ladies now holding a fans f.I 4, the beneftof St. o afpw, The fair petitioners invo gree8 ?t' " give.them a call and. patroniie .ths .Mr. McConne[ moved thatbo rij '. be referred to a select Co - viz: aay the member who presaete He intimated ,that the C'atioli get along very well and hav,.e uough, if they would cut down a fes :. . their Priests. - - This declaratioa was ' C4'jeeived r. shouts of laughter. - The petition was finally laid- or .4, table. If Congress .mili ot1,visit ihpJa dies, they must do as Mahomet did :Jay the hill refused to approach bim.-He said, "Well, if. the lill will got came to me, I will go to the hill:" On motion ofiMr.'Campbel),4- a " j tinn was adopted directing-'the- D-trick Committee to report, on ihe'expedency of abolishing imprisonmeti for debt District. - A lettter from Mr. Rh-ett, was read ask ing to be excused fro n crvidg'on ihietL lect Committee,: appointede jpg - the Massachusetts resolution, present d by Mr. Adams, last week.' Mr;1.t.. that he cannot submit to'even enteriajoi question which involves a sacred144 guaranteed to the South, by. iit aer . of the Constitution, and without -bic li' Uni-.would never haf ee.ndst'a " ted. He was excused. The remainder of'the day w to the consideration "of th bfia ~ Mr. H ale; calling for infwitnsTid tive-to the Home.,Sqadron.tHHeinae~ a~ nother speech denodiicitg be~znro extravagant expendit - -tlfr that the idea o( atioi 'National blessing, waar .~~. - J.J *'Messrs. J.R\Ingersofi nMo'rr 4 ~ vocated the support of the Na . Nto in~ present'extent~ ~They contend' eth'atoli ships'of war.Ore not too numer'ous' for tIW' protective of our commercial mai'ipo 'e *: . Mr. Giddings was very miuch affs that'thelHoin Sqnadron was pVOtidat~d' .A to the slave trade.: '" No question haed been-taken wient - House adjouirned~ - ,- . It is pr6b6ble iii both Itodideswili ai jurn.fi-olii to-m'drrow. to Tueda~ ~ - - .ec . In ths'Senate, a gr.es number of Mem orial ,-snlIingCongre5to rgke imomeahie possession of the Orego. Terntory, were presentedt and referred tr the Cqigittpe having charge of that stibject. The resolution of'Mr. Allen,.calling on tho.Presidenit for copies of instrutinas given to Mr. Everett, relatives q Oreigen came- ip, but. was again postponed.; M'r. Crittenden presetnted a Preamble and Resolution .fromr .the Legisjatitef or - Kentucky. in favorof an agency anojtie W.est.for the, purchase of Hemp. fof p -' Navy..-.- - - ... Mr. Atchison. gave, notice .of a btk g extend the provision of the Act of 1838w granting .pre-emptioarights. . . ~OnmotionofM1-. Bugby,- a.resoluii was adopted, instructing she Peaislonir Committeeto corsider-the expeidienay o reporting a.hbill increasing th e'omnpensaa r tioo-idfPensius -Agents, and fixing a-umi form t.ate therefor. A fr a few minutes spent-in .Ezee 3