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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Blips. VOLUMIE X. dgeeld CouIt douse, B. C., February 6A, 1S44. wo. 4 EDGEFIELD ADVERITISER. BY W. F. DUIUSOE, PROPRIETOR. NEW TERMS. Two Dollars and Fifty Centb, per annum, if paid in adranec-Three Dollars if not paid betdre.the expiration of Six Months from the dais of Subscription-and Four Dollars if not paid within twelve Months. Subscribers out of the State are requited to pay in advance. No subscription redeived for less thain one year, and no paper discontinued until all ar rearages are paid, except at the option of the Publisher. 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 re ceive the sixth copy gratis. Adverliscments' conspicuously inserted at 621 cents per square. (12 lines, or less,) for the first insertion. and 431 cents, for each continu ance. Those published Monthly, or quarterly will be charged $1 per square for each inser tion. ~ Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be contin ued until ordered out, and charged accord. ingly. All Job work done for persons living at a distance, musthe paid for at the time the work is done, or the paymentsecured in the village. All communications addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be promptly and .trictly attend ed to J. M. LANDIRJM, ATTOR NEY AT L AW. O FFICE at Mr. Compty's Hotel; Edge field Court House, S. C. Jan.24 , It 52 57 The Hamburg Journal will please copy twice, and forward their account. Law Notice. aHE subscribers have f rmed it partner ship in the practice o' It. for Edtiefield District. Otfree near Go deian's Hiotel. .. TERRY. JOSEPH ABNEY. December 23. 1843 tf 48 Notice to Guardians, &c. G UARDIANS, TRUSTEES. and RE. CEIVERS. who halve not nade their Annual Renarns, are notified to do so. before me, on, or before the first d.ty. of March next. S. S. TO.MPKINS,.c. E. E D. Commissioner's Office, Edgefield, Jan. 19, 18.14. - Jan.24 6t 52 - Notice. The Subscriber would take this opportunity to return his thanks to his friends and th com rnunity in general, for the lib al p ronage they have conferred on him I r th ust ten years. He intends carrying the elerchant T ilo ins Business, in all its bran .. a e old stand, and hopes by strict attention to businiess, to merit a continuance of those favors which have been so liberally bestowed ot.him. JOHN LYON. Dec.12 tf 46 LIJMBER Jl Redured Prices. T HE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public generally. that he has a good stock of well sawed I.UMIER on hand, and sawing daily of the best heart Pines at the following prices: At the Mill 50 cents per hunilred. Delivered, 80 " " within 10 or 12 wiles of the Mill. MARTIN POSEY. Feb. 7 3imi 2 Notice. T HE Subscriber takes pleasure in inform ing the public, that he has succeeded in engaging.the services of an experienaced Miller for the ensuing year, and havimg his Mills in thorough repair, is prepared to do any quan tity of grinding grain at the shortest notice. Persons having Whleat, and wishing superior flour made t'rom it. are invited to give him a call. His terms are thme tenth. S W. NICHOLSON. Dec 5, 1843 , 6m 49 Remnovai. D A~ff;Saddler and Hiarness i1ake'r. D . ha~s rnio.ed his establishntsent to the Store adjoining. B, J1. R~y.:ts Grocery, where he will be thankful for all t'avurs in l:is line of business. Jan 10 . t f f 50 Paints & Oils, JUST aVc~tvED 0 94) LRS. Extra atnd No.1I White Lead 10 bbls. Train Oil,. 10 "Linseed Oil, *. 5 ." Superior Lamp Oil. For sale by SIBLEY & CRAPON. Hambunrg, Oct 25 tf 40 MACKAREL. SHAD. CODFISH,tfc 2 Brs. and 1V2 brlj. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 SM ACKA REL. 30 kits and 1-2 kits No. I Mackarel, 400'bs-: CODFISH, 10 boxs H ER RINGS. 3 half barrels No. 1 Shad, for sale by H. A. KENR[ICK. Hamburg, Nov. 25 tf 44 BALTIMYORE IIA1S. 5choice canvassed Baltimore H AMS, jutreceived, and fo sale by Hamburg. Nov. 25 tf 44 China, Crockery, etc. AGENE RA L assortment of CH IN A CROKERYandGLASSWA RE, con sisting ofcormmon and fine Teas Plates, Bowls, Pitchers,. Dishes. Ewvers and Basins; granite aid Chinzt Tea setts; Turmblers, Wine Glas ses,'ecanters, Lamps, Salts, Crnets, &c. &c. for sale by H,' A. K.ENRICK. Habr..,A Novr. 925 44 TEMP1ERANCE SUNG, Written and presented at the late Temporance Convention, by the Rev Mr. Cu!pepper. Tuns-" Hail to the Clief." Hail to the cause, which in triumph advances! See how the world stands amazed at the sight; All that is noble and good it enhances, And mansions of sorrow it fills with delight. CHORUS. Brightest and noblest of earth's enterprises. Push on thy conquests to earth's farthest bound, And wherever sorrow fram alcohol rises, 0, there let thy bslsamr of mercy be to in'J! Behold. how the banner is waving in beauty, Arid sweetest of music is filling the air; To stand in the front is the patriot's duty And Liberty's children should all rally there. Brightest, &c. Come, all ye who plead for the lost and de graded Who stand up for God, and who publish his laws, Your Heavenly calling will greatly be aided By giving your aid to the Temperance cause. B3rightest, &c. And ye who would honor the laws of the nation, Tlie. guilty condemnu,and the innocent clear Come take, in the Temperance Army, your. station: To all who love justice this cause must be dear. Brightest, &c. Ye noble Physicians, ye nIl are invited To aid by your counsel and medical skill; This cause is your own, and it must not be slighted Your business is curing, and why will you kill ? Brightest. &c. Ye merchitnts, who traverse the land and the ocean. Or. hard by your counters, heap treasures untold; The Temperance cause needs your noble d,: votinn, And ofTers a treasure far richer than gold. Brightest, &c. Come Planters and Artists, our Done and our smiew Wte give you a place in the front ofthe line; No power of Alcohol ever can win you Or draw you away from your noble design. Brightest. &c., Ye stout, gallant Tars, let the Temperance Banner " Be nail'd tight and fast .;the top of the mast: And sail right .head, in the most noble manner, Till'life's stormy ocean in safety be pass'd. Brightest, &c. And now, let the ladies be present to cheer us To aid by their smiles and their influence sweet;. And theri shall the armies of Alcohol fear us. And.down shall the tyrant be hurl' frot his oat. Bra test. &c. . . Temperance Reports. ME3s01tIAL ON THE SPtRIT RATION IN THE NAVY. The Honorable the Senate aitd House of Representatives of the U.iited States in Cungress assembled : Twelve yearsago the Secretary of the Navy expressed his conviction that the use of' ardefn spirits was one of the great est curses; and declared hi~s intention of recommenditng a change in this respect, in the Navy. For reasons not necessary now to be e'n-uiner.atedl, the subject was allowed to sleep till one. year ago, when it received the consideration and action of Congress, by diminoishing the Spirit Ration one half, nud giviug a substitute therefor. This was a gratifying beginning, as it furtished a kind of pledlge of a .ypeedy end of the great enemy of Seamen,'and hence of the Navy... It encourages the undersigned, your M emo'rialists, to petitton your honorable bodies again, and to ask, that inasmuch as the use of intoxicating liquors asia drinak, creates and confirms vicious appetites. Ios ters habits of intemperance and vice, pre disp'bes the humnan systemt to disease, promotes itnsuibordinatiou and mutinies; causes shipwrecks anti other disasters at sea, andl an immense loss of' human life and property ; and inasmutnch as the evils occasionted thereby have ito countervailing advantages, and as these evils ef'ect tiot merely those employed ins our natvnl ser vice, bitt the good name and glory of their country, and the happiness of thousands whose existence is tenderly liuked with t heir own- you teilt at the present session of Congr'ss. repcal the S pi rit Ration lawo of our Nat'y; and furnish stich a substitute as may appear to your honorable biodies of acknowhedgr-d utility. Such a measure seems not only to be justified, but demanded by existing facts. The law regulating the Spirit Ration int the Army has been abolished many years. and so h.appy have been the results, that none but a foe to outr country can wish it restored. If the soldier now drinks the intoxica .ting draught, it is not from a cup adminis teied by the baud of Government. It is not "driok according to law.ti But the soldier, the representative of his class, does not drink; and with the progress of "Total Abhstinene" in our Army there has been a corresponding increase of moral improvement. And why should it not be thus in our Navy. Why should the gallant sons of our Navy he tempted to drain the cop (of woe, by the very government which it is their ambition and glory to defend ; and which Government has enacted severe laws for the punishment of intemperance in the Navy. We rejoice to know that self respect, as well as the high principles of philanthropy, have co'nstrained many of them to take and keep the temperance pledge. Recent statistics show thai large num bers of the men composing the crew of our public vessels voluntarily relinquisit their grog for the stipulated commutation, :not withstanding it is fourd that the practical working of the late reduction to one gill per day, is against "Total Abstirience." asthe inducement to abstain for the corn mutation of two cents per day is small in .omparison with the previous allowance of six cents per day-while it is admitted, throuAhout the service, that the reduction was a good one, as it furnishes the men with tea, sugur, &c., in lieu or the extra ;ill ; and it is confidently believed by your Memorialists. that the. entire banish nent of spirituous liquors from our public chips would tend vastly to insure onal dis eipline-for, it is universally stated by the >fficers of the, Navv. that it is the. arch .nery of good orgiitiization and mild milf Lary discipline. The devclopements of ecience. and the ;oundjudgrteu of the age, based on ,the experience of the past, condemu it as a a verage. In the Mercantile Marine, the progress )l Temperunce is even more strikiug than n the Navy, -hence there need he no fear hat men will not volunteer for the Navy, when the Spirit Ration is abolished. New York City supplies the larger portion of he enlistrtteuts in the Navy, and in New York there is a si:tgle larirme Tenperancn Society. numbwring over fourteen thousand tetibers, and we believe the solns of the ea keep their pledges quite as sacredly as hose on the land. Every Miercatile Lity in the Umion has large Temperance societies, and our temlerance ships float n every sea. The time then, we believe, has fully ome, when a rectified public sentitent. is well as sound policy, and the princi >jes of right will justify. and the country Will cotninend the granting of the prayer >f your petitioners, who, as in duty bound, rill ever pray The Rev. Mr. Barnwell, Chairman of he Committee appointed to prepare an i'dress to the importers of and ts holesale lealers in intoxicating liquors, reported the following address, which was adopted. Address on the part of the Temperance Convention. held tn Charleston on the 6th day of February, 1844, to the mt porters 8 ,wholesale venders of intoxiaat ing liquors in the State of South Caro lina. FalENDs & FELLOW CITZENS: We venture to appeal to your liberality and philanthropy in a matter of some deli racy, by which our regard for our race in general-for your own best welfare-for the prosperity of our State, and, the honor of God suffers us not to overlook. We are happy to believe that those whom we ail dress are too intelligent not to perceive the prosperity of our State. and the honor of God suffers us not to overlook. We are happy to believe that those whom we ad dress are too intelligent not to perceive the propriety of our application, and too respectable to receive it with any thing but .attention. The interest .which you utquestionably feel in the well beintt of the common. healh-the readitness whichi many of you habitually evince to mak' personal sacrifices for the general good the uoconsciouness under which we are persuaded you lhor as to the extent of the moral evil wh Iich. grows omt of the custom to which we would direct your at tention, all conspire to .urge us in our course, and we shoul be mortified in the extreme, if t: should appear ini the least dleree uncalled for or offensive. . .We deprecate all suspicion of a desire to dictate. WVe disdain all intention of censure. But wvithouit pretending t,. ques ion your perfect righit to imaport or receive upon consignmont any quantity, and ainy kind of liquors, that the state of the mar ket seems~ to call for, wve. venture-in the nme of the tmany reformed inebriates in otur State-int the name of thteir wjves, children, parents and frieods-in the name of oor Iloved State, which onc'e blushed at their downi'all, hyut now smiles at their re covery; and above all, in the natme af our God, who htas rejoinedi us by precep~t and example to deny ourselves for the sake of doing good to others-we implore 3 ou to abandon the importation and sale of such liquors as can intoxicate. As we are aware thtat the'applicatiot we make is one of tno ordinary charactor, and thtis is the first time' that you have been sperifically addressed utpon the sub ject, it may lhe expected that we should lay before yotu some cottsiderations, which we hope may have their due influence uponl.vyour mitnds. First. We would beg you to bear in mind that to make personal sacrifices for the sake of doitng good can scarcely lie a new thing to any of you, and wo doubt not thtat the incidents of your lives to which your thoughts revert with most satisfaction, have been those which have been tmarked by such acts of self denyitng beneficei:ce, so that when upon a reasonable showing we call upon you to be disinterested, and hbnnevolent, nnd patriotic, and ousdea for others, we are only soliciting you t promote your own future happiness, an to lay up in storb. fur yourselves food ft future enjoyment Next. We scarcely need remind yo .that td forego a pro6t is as much an actc sell*denial as to contribute out of our ac quired possessions. So that if you shout be prevailed to abandon the traflic in the which is likely to bring you a certain gain you may be regarded as contributing tha amount for the suppression of vice and th mitigation of wretchedness. Again.. We would remind you. the restpectability and standitig in the eye a the community carry with them high ant important responsibilities. They enhance and set forth the gooil, but they aggravati and spread abroad the evil gpnsequence of every act or opinion ; and to say tha the.pu'tlic always expect to receive aton and impulse in matters of great and gene ral interest from those whose educatiot and station, and influence.. render theu inost likely to arrive at just conclusions, i only to state what in the. promotion of tht temperance cause in this coutnnonwealtl we have too often been made painfully it feel. . We would ne?L beg you seriously to con sider that the importation and sale of in toxicating liq'uors by persons whose name stand among tihe highest in the conitunitr is an examplc,.which those who are striv ing to suTppress intemperance by the disust of these liquids as an.;ordinary heverage find it extremely.diflicult to withistand The retailer receives his supplies fromntyou 'and is the only negotiator between your selves and the drunkard who inflicts undel the influence of those stimulr,nts which yet introduce into the State stch fearful inj ries upon himself, his fairriily, his. friends the community and the State at large. We would further state that the presen is no attempt to compel you either by thi strong arm of Legislation or by the forca of public opinion.to forego the profit which you have been accustomed to maks in this business, but we desire only to per guale you of your own accord 10 do tha which we.ate: sattsfied philanthropy. pa triotist, reasot, good feeling and religiot will never permit you to lush at o'r regreJ Autf with' the' same;cpn .dence that rv would call upon yotr aong the very firs to help forward by yotir pecuntary contri butious any cause which had for its emt GoIt's glory' or man's best welfare, or th public good. '.We'respectfully and earn estly beseech you to cease, even at a pe cuniary sacrifice, to carry on a businr. which we think none can deny is supply itig intemperance in our state ,with its mos perilous provocative, its most fatal stimu latt. We are aware that others might tak your plaes, but those others would not h yjou. and the moral weight of your hig respectability and dleservmd influence woul1 be all on our side. We know that our pro duce is exchanged for these 'articles, any non-importation may diminish the valu of our staples. But the best and tro valuable staples of a commonweadth -are mten. virtuous, intelligent. hottest, sober pious men-and any exchanges which in juriously effect 'heso must he disadvanta goous. The misery and degradation, au positive pecniary loss, of which these at ticles are the prolific seed, are but poorl; compensated For by the highest prices fit the most abundant harvests. Crowne, heads as well as free republics are begin tning to count the cost of intemperance and if the autocrat of Russia has been wil ling, at the solicitation of an Americai friend of temperance. to abolish a numbe ofliis stills, the emoltment of which wen directly into the imperial coffers. we wil not permi.t ourselvet to suppose that th highly itntelligent attd patriotic merchant of South Carolina, wil tturn a deaf earlt a respectable lasdy of their fellow citizen! who, engaged in a c.onfessedly good, bu arduous enterprise, solicit-their co-opera tion, by the atbatndonment of the cotmpara tively stmall p~rofit tderivedi from ttie trad in these tmoxion1s stmulants. If t he Etmperor of China, at the cost so mnany nmilhons, at the hazard ofa fearft wvar, was corntetnt tot destroy at itmmens qutatntity of that fat:tl drug, which wa c!rutshing the energies of its subjects, sha it he that tere is not in America, enligh ened Anmglo.Saxon. Free Atmerica, mor: virtue enottgh to banish spontaneous1 these liqiuidt poisons, which have beetn dii fesing through onr veino such silent an suwm butt inevitable death. We will ne 'oelieve it. Tell it tnot in Russia-leti neut be whisperted in thte palaces of Pekic Desp.ism woul~d revolt at the though and the friendls of reptubticatnism woul sieken mt the intelligenice. Rather woul we indulge the hope, that this our-eart atnd afetionati appeal. will not be bo' upou the minds of our fellow countrymet Thea may prosperity bless you as thei benefactors. All of which is respec'tfully submitted. W. H. B IRNWE LL, Chairman. The Hon. John Belton O'Neal, Chait mnan of the Committee appointed to pri pare an Atddress to thte Militia Ollicers< tho State of Stotth Carolina, retported tb followitng Address, which was adopted:i To the Officers of thre Militia of thre Stae of SothI Carolina. The State Temperance pSoeiety of th State of South Carolina, in Conventioi assembled at Charleston, would most rei pectfully anti aff'ectionately address ye ott the subject of thte use of intoxicatin dtrinks, at musters of all kinds. The r pelT of the sutlers' law prevents the 1 galized sale of such drinks-it is left o the face ofofficers high in rank. many of dt whom are the law makers, and all el r whom are constructively the guardians ol the law. Ought such things to ho ? Does u it comport with the best interests of the if country ? Are those who are. to be the right arm of defence in our hour of dan i ger, thus to be corrupted ? Are the mer, t who are to teach men to meet privation and danggjr to begin that instrucrion, by t indulging themselves, orsutTering the gul latt yeomany of the country to steep them selves in drunkenness? You -will answer t bow are we to prevent it ? Do your dity f -suffer no intoxicating drinks to he sold I at your' canps,.rcegimtental, batiallion or 3 company musters ! Deny yourself the indulgence. For tie days of muster. at lead set the cxammp!e of Total Abstinence I to your t en ! > What will be the advantage ? Much every way. . You will wipe off that dis grace which adheres like a brand, to every militia muster in the State. It is in the mouths of every one, the muster ground, is the place of all others, where drunken ness abounds. I Such a course as we recommend, will teach subordin-ition. Tie sober soldier is easily governed. The drinking soldier i. ready for nutinv,every tinoe he is matched t a fout further than he fancies to be right. Can such a man be taught ? You tuy explain and explain again, but it is all in t vain, the ear receives it, but the under standing and memory' are not at home, they are to day on a froliek, and the ex planatiun is as if-not mado. - If it should ha.ppeu that an officer drinks what are the effect4 on him? He may ride well, he may march correctly, still such a-utan is corrupting the citizen soldiers by the influ etice of example; he is leading them into forbidden paths ; he is sending home men taught in the sad lessons of. temptation, instead of being instructed to hear aloft under all circumstances, their country's standard in honor and glory! Which course does your country desire? that which we recomumeud, or thatwhicn has been too much pursued ? We repre - sent a large portion of the free armed moon of South Carolina. Probably one half of the militia are Total Abstinence men Maif of you we know honor the noble distictions which you have attained, by lived of Totak Abstinence. Another large body c'f the people who are not, as we are. pledged teen, commend the principles - which we have adopted, as those of grent practical utility. There can be no douh that a majority of the freemen of South Carolina, are prepared to sustain you in t expelling strous drink, as you would a - lurking enemy from the busotn of y*" etconpments, and from the midst of y,. ranks. Act as a distinguished General did in i the morniug of the Revolution. To pre I vent the soldiers from the indulgence it. strong drink, at the time when the siege of I Boston was pressed by gallant farmers. undisciplined soldiers, who with naked t breasts wvere exposing themselves .to dan gera that their country might be free-he ordered the head of every liquor cask to he stove. We would cot have you liteall to pursue this example by a similar tres pass now. but we would have you imita:e it in spirit. Order the sellers from your grounds. If they wot go, plhce the vcnt r der and his poison under gBard-or if you prefer, indict for every drop sold Act thus in keeping the temptation away froit the soldier under arms. But abo'e 'all deny; yourselves. Let Total Abstinenc from the cotmmander-in-chief to the senti r tol, be the rule of life, in camp and on I parade ! S The [ion. John flelton O'Neale, Chmair S mn of the'Commtitee appointed to, pre pare an Adtdress to Cong: -ss, on the sub .ject of the spirit ration allonwed to seanmen. I submitted the folltowing Address, which - was adopted:; and on motion, it was restil - ved that-the'samte be signed by thme Preei a dent and,.Secretaries and forwarded to Congress. 'I THE STATE-OF Soutn CAnoIANA. I To Lihe Honorable thce Senate and Members B of the House of Representatives, in Con. -- gress Assembled i Th~e Memnorial of the State Temperance Society of the State of South Carolina. tn .1 Convention, assembled at. Charleston, Y would respectfully state and'showv that the issuing of the Spirit Ration to thiecrews of d' vescels in the' Umted Stat es Service, is ma t terially -etartding thegret work now so b apily uniting all ranks and classes of so. - cie'ty in -its sttpport. . In this place, the ,Washington Total: Abstinence Marine So d ciety numbers at Ieayt two thousand mem ii bers. Sailors are now no longer the inti ' mates of tipplitng shops arid brothels on It shore. They are sober even on land-it is I- on the sea, w ben sailitng under the starti r and stripes of our own free and happy country, thtat they are temnpted to be drunk ards. E very day, a gill ofSpirits is thtust upon the sailor-and if it is not drunk. it would indeed he a signal triumph oven tetmptatiot. Ratrely is hurm'an nature strong enough to be so htonored. TrheRa tidon thus furnished, is weaketning the strotng e arms and tmisguiding t he clear heads, which are every where to dtrect our National yes e sels to safety, honor and glory. Justice calls aloud that it should cease. In its e place let the value of it be paid in money m, It will thus secure sobriety in Service. and~ -remove anxiety from many a .remnbling u heart, which beats in alarm, as the refer med husband, brother, or father leaves the -shore, to serve his country "in the battle -and in the breeze." o ' By order of thne Convention.. n JO.HN BELTION O'NE AL. President, CONG RESIONAL. Correspondence of Charleston Patriot. WAsHINGTON, Feb. 6... In the Senate after the presenration. of Petitions joint resolutions in favor of re trenetiment, were presented by Mr..Tap pan, from the Legislature of Ohio. They propose that a reduction of 33 per cent shall be malie on the salaries of all. gov ernment oflicers. ~ T Mr. Allen made a'vigorous effort to take up the bill for refunding General Jaekson -; line, lie reminded the Senate ;thatahm General is now in fary feeble healthand: cannot cont upon, a much longer.exis lenc. Uderthese circumstances,..he fec. Udrteecrusacs -ehoped the bill would be suffered to' -take. precedence of all other business. After some conversation fp. the. subject the hill was made the special order for Thursday next; when I presume it wis pass with an amendment exempting Judge Hal! from any blame whatever...: Several private and local matters wern~ disposed of. after which the Senate oncei more resumed the- consideration of ther reco lution from the Finance Committee.6 proposing the iudefinite postponement of: Mr. McDuffie's tariff bill. Mr. Evans spoke for t(vo hours, after which Mr. Voodhury obtained the floor. It I eing late. however, he did not speak. The Senate, after a short executive session then adjourned. In the House, tho morning hoorwas oc eupied by .Mr. llamnet, of Mlississisippi, by an eloquent speech on - the Report. of the Committee on the Rules. "He attacked. the abolitionists without mercy,! and asked them what -they would -do for the negroes, provided they were all liberated:; and sent to the North. Judging from the. present deplorable, condition of :-coloted people in the North, he thought they' would stand but a poor chance. Refer ring to authentic documenta, he shewed; that out ofevery 43 negroes in Massacha setts, there is one lidiot,-and soon in the same proportion among the free States, while in Louisiana. there is but one idiot. - to every furtyi.hree hundred colored peo ple. lie next proved that in the Pen Ieutiaries of the North, seven- out of nine: were colored, while in the South; the reverse is the . case. lie scouted the idea': of nasteriafearing their slaves. On. the yatitrary said he, our farmers in Missis-? .ippi never lock their doors it night,ex- " cept they happen to live in 'hevicinig of - a Yankee. settlement. -(Greaflaughter.; After touching' upon many other 'points, lie alluded to the present course of Mas-: sachusetts and said be would do her the-. justice to say that she was always true to. her principles. In proof of this,' he refer red to the petition presented to the Legis lature of that State, from certain ladies, for the repeal of the law, which prohibited in termarriages between the white and black population. lie said be presumed those ladies wore.; either very old maids, or-else:they hadbad white husbands, and wanted a variety. Be that as ,t might, the law was repealed. 1.ui said he. although I will not -call in T.esiotn the taste of said ladies, I will call ii qluestion their smell. (roars of laughter.) II:: next shewed what a predicament the colored women were in when they found that the white ladies were going to .mo ropolize all their black husbands. They abo sent a petition to the Legislature:to re-enact the law, but they met with no. snczess. ' Mr. H concluded by speaking his mind in no very measured terms, relative to the course of Lord Broughton and Prince Al hlert, with regard to the institution of slavery in this country. . Tiho hour having espired, -the -subjecr wvas againa laid over. Mr. Drotngoole then moved that the ICommittee of the Whlole-be dischiarged froam the consideration of the report of the E.lectioan Commaittee, declaring thai the nou-dhistricted members to be entitled- to their seats, thae second section of the apper tionmnent act to the contrary notwidistand~i ing. - - Mtessrs. Barnard,-Davis, and others .of thec minority warmly protested.. st~s this. They desired to debate the pohits' itnvolved, which could onlyGe dotinwiti security in Committee of -thie WVhole, They feared if the matter should -be repor ted ,o the liouse, all debate would~be ter intated liy the previous question. Mr. litilmes made some forcible re marks in favor of having a fair and ful debate in Commil tee of the Whole. ' A fther further discussion, the Commit-' tee was discharged from the further'code sideration of the subject ; the noo-distrief ed members~.voting .with the rest: Mr. Elmer,. Chairman of the. eia Commril tee,- eOm)menced an argumea - favor of the report, but it being late,^ihet H-ouse adjourned :The subject will prob abily be summarily disposed of. to-morr'ow Of course the repiort will-be adopted, aid' the non-districted members confirmed in their sests. ' Feb. 7.. In lbe.Senate this. morning, Mr. ..-. Francis. elected in the- place of the Hon. Mr. Spmaue, appeared and took his seat. Mr. Archison presented a memorial. from inhabitants of Oregon, complaIning that they have been driven from A beir-lo catton by the Hudson's Bay oInrtIing. They call upon Congress to aid them in renewving their rights. . . Mir. Buchanan presented several petil k :'ons remonstrating against the annexation of Texas... Mr. lHerrien presented resoluitis. fromh'e the Legislature oh Georgia. denouncing the