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I S gSM^BSIIWjW i|iilBM| l f 11 I H? I Hill upon the other, the better will they t>e masticated and the cnore nourishment will thev nflford. Like their owners, cnttlc relish variety, and it is well to very the kinds of food frequently?a foddering of corn stalks or siover. daily, is relished not <ijily by animals that are made to eat mean hay, but also by those which are plentifully fed ^rith hay of the tinest quality. Roots are fed out profusely by some fHrrnurj # a ffftAl* lU.??r aro inimi.i.1 iv IIIUII I u?u inry ?iv valuable. no one doubts?hilt wo have sometimes* thought that whore more than h peck or at most a peck and a half per day rs given to a cow, that the excess nhoVe this quantity is much less service, able than the first peck. A largo qnantify ** too loosening, and produces an ir. ritation which causes much of the food to pass off too rapidly, and before it has given out the nourishment it would have furnished hnd it been longer retained. Where such results follow, though your at-K'k may thrive?vet the keeping is expensive. We deem it doubtful whether tiie use of loots diminishes to any considerable extent the quantity of hav which an animal requires; hut where roots are oscd, meaner hay will answer the purpose, and the stock will come out in a much bettor condition in the spring. Be regular in your hours of feeding. This regularity contributes much to the quiet and contentment of all animals. Keep the barn Hoor clean: a broom should always he kept there, ar.d frequent. ? Iv used. Save every tiling that the stock ciin be made to eat. The time apetit in the barn in preparing the loud and in keeping the animal* clean and comfortable. is far from being thrown awav. W altr should alwnxs be in the barnyard; and it is desirable to have it under cover. The testimony in regard to the ccono ?? * liiy of chopping bay and straw, is strong and lull.?\etr Eng. Farmer. .AGKfCCLTl/RAL SOCIETY OF THE OITED STATES. The Committee, appointed bv the Ag li I J* * IT* i CI. * a rrciiuurut society or mc uiiueci oaioio elect the officers of the Society to serve until the first general meeting and ex In hilion on the 4th day of May next, liave mm, and do hereby recommend ami report the following gentlemen to fill the offices annexed totlieir r<s;>ectivo names. TI?c ' Recording Secretary is imjueMed to publish the list, and give special information to each individual of his selection. Levi VVoomjiky, Chairman fur Committee. Preside nt?J nine* M. Garnett. ' Corresponding Secretary?John S. Skinner. Recording Secretary?John F. Call an. j Treastirer?Ed ward Dyer. Hoard of Control?Levi WondNirv, Ciisha Whittlesey, Alexander Hauler,, John A. Smith, W.J. Stone. Vice Pi esidenls, Maine George Evans. ?iew Hampshire Isaac Hill. Massachusetts B. F. French. . Connecticut Eli Ives. Rhode l*iaint Gov. Fennrr. Vermont VViiiinin Jarvis. New York C. H. Bemeiit. New Jersey C. S. Green. Pennsylvania G-orge M. Keim. Delaware *J. VV. Thompson. Maryland Thomas Emory. Virginia Edutond Ruttin. N or til Carolina Edmund i)e!>errv. South Carolina Wade Hampton. Georgia VV. Lumpkin. AlatiHina L)txo:i H. Lewis, } Louisiana Alex. Mouioii, Arkansas Arciuhald Yell. Tennessee F. H. Goidon. Mi**i**ippi M. VV. Phillips. Kentucky Chilten Allan. Missouri Lewis F. Linn. Illinois A. VV. Snyder. Indiana Solon Rolnnstn, Michigan Isaac K. Crary. Ohio John Hastings. Tli?iri<*l ni r!<ilnmlii? H I. P.ILiv/irlli Fonda It W Williams. Timothy Davis. W i?corisin ll?nrv Dodge. The Vice Presidents of Virginia. Maryland. District of Columbia. IVnnsvlvania, and Delaware, arc; ex-otficio members of the Board of Control. J. F. CALL\N\ Roc. Secretary. LAW OF S )I TH CAKOLn A Aii act to prevent the Citizen v of New York from carrying Slave* or persons held io service, out of this Slate, and. to prevent the. escape of Persons charged iri'h the commission of any Crime. ]. Be it enacted, by tin- S -naie ami House of Representatives, now tuet and billing in General Assembly, and by tinauthority of I hi; same, 'J bat it shall 1101 be lawful for any vessel o! any size or (!? script ion, owned in whole or in part, m commanded or navigated, l?v any citizen or resident of the State ofiSow York, or auv such vessel owned in whole or in part commanded or navigated, by any otln-i person than an actual inhabitant and res ident of this State, and departing from any port in this State for anv port in the Sta te of New Yoik, in depart from this State, or out of any bay. river, creek, or other watercourse, of this State, until ^uirl LtfJwGP I haw 11 n He! l/i ifli' ihe inGn.i?li<ui _ ft V ll'li provided fo in this Act. an.I until the other provisions-hereof, shall have been ci?n>pliedwith: Procibd. That nothing herein contained shall apulv to any foreign or national vessel. .lit He itfurlh; r enacted* That no such vcwel *? is hereinhetore described, sh;tif mul .frotn any port in i his Mate, or de part I'ruiii the jurisdiction of this. Stale, until such vessel shall have been inspc.-. t*d I* un Inspector* or other pt rso.i ; authorized to net under the provision* of I this Act, to see that no slave, or person . held to service or lnl?or, in this Srnte, j shall he coneenlod on hoard of such "?? j sel, and until the commander thereof shall j > have received a certificate of inspection | : from such officer; and if any such vessel ! ' shall depart froin this State without such ! certificate of inspection, the captain or | owner thereof, shall forfeit and pay the i ( suin of five hundred dollars, to be recov. J I ered by any person who will sue for the ! , same in any court of record in this State, i i by indictment or information, or by action of debt in the name of the (governor, for 1 the benefit of such person, on the bond ; I hereinafter required to betaken, i 111. Br itfurther enacted, That when-j ; ever any vessel, owned in whole or in, ; part, or commanded or navigated, by any : ; citizen or resident of New York, shall j come into this State, no irmttcr from ! what port, it shall be the duty of the in. | specter, or ether officer hereby authorized ! to act, to take and keep possession tff said j vessel, until the master or owner, or j i some other person for him or them, shall j | have executed a bond, payable lo the , j Governor of this State, with l wo or more j sureties, satisfactory to the officer taking i; the bond, inhabitant* ol this Slate, tn the ; < penalty of one thousand dollars, condition- ' cd lo pay and satisfy all judgments which | j may be rendered in consequence of the I | violation of any of (he provisions of this ji ! Vet; and particularly to pay and satisfy the i : owner of any slave which may he carried i< 1 away in such vessel, the full value of such i ; slave, with ail other damages sustained j j i lhereby by such owner; or if the captain I or master of such vessel shall allege His < inability to give security, then it shall he j ins duty lo deliver up the papers of his : I j vessel to the Inspector, to he retained by i j him till the departure thereof, and shall' I j moreover make affidavit before some < , magistrate, tiiat he will not depart with I | to.* vessel, or sutler the saine to sail from < i i!?r port or harbor in which she may be. i ; until the inspection herein required shall i I | have been completed; and moreover, that < oe will not carry, or suffer to be carried f 1 ' . . . i : out ol this ?tale, anv person, in violation 11 * of the provisions of (his Act. And if the j captain or owner, or some other person < for them, shall fail or refuse to comply j 1 with the foregoing requisitions, the said .< j Inspector or other officer, or any police u | officer by him appointed for that purpose, Ji ! / > ii t It.>r i f t.- -iniwunt ivhnm id Korulii' in v . I , en to such Inspector or other officer.) , i shall take and hold possession of said ve>- s 1 .st*I, until she Mahout to depart out of th?- I jurisdiction of this State; and during the I ' time such vessel shall he in possession of I i such officer, he shall he entitled to demand * | and receive the sum of three dollars per i i diem, to he paid by the captain or mvnc ; i thereof; and tor payment of which the i vessel shall he liable, and she mav he held I iitilil ttie shimi be paid: Provided never- i thrless. That the master, o. o wner, of each f | in the vessels constituting the several \ | lines of packets now trading, or which t may hereafter lie trading regularly be. i tween Charleston and New York, may h< ? permitted, instead of giving a bond or . each arrival in this Sinto, to give on< i bond in the penality of one thousand do! lars, conditioned to pay and satisfy all judgments which inay be rendered in con sequence of the violation of anv provisioi ol (ins A< t, at any time within one yeai Iroui the date thereof. IV. Beit further enacted. That no pi) ot. acting under the authority of the laws of this State, or other person, shall pilot } out of the jurisdiction of this State. nn\ melt vessel ns is described in this Act which has not nh'ained, or shall not ex hibit to hun the certificate of inspection / hereby required : and if any pilot, or nth- j _.. .t- ? 11 ^1.i Ui, .?w.kni.,i.. *>., *\r 11-.to person, suau viui>tir ui?- pi<iviai??im ??i miA?m, lie shall forfeit and pay the .mini ot not less than ten. nor more than one hundred dollars, one.halt' of which shall jjo to tin? informer, and in default of payment, the per><>n so con'icted shall-be imprison ' el not less than one mouth, nor more than three months. ? V. Be it fvrllicr r.nncted, That every pi- r lot. or other peson, whoshall detect any 1 such vessel in attempting to depart rroin ? tins State, without such certificate of in. I spcetiOn, or shall deteet or discover on t hoard of nuv vessel whatever, any slave, , or person hehl to service or labor, in this State, or any person charged with the ! commission of any crime, under the laws j ( j of this State, such slave or person being J : therein concealed in order to depart, or I i he carried out of the jurisdiction of this j Abate, "hail he entitledto a reward ot ! five hundred dollars, to he recovered hv 1 ' actio:) of debt, upon the bond hereinhe. * fore required to be executed in the name ' of tile ivernor, for the benefit of such ; pilot or other person, if any such bond t ; shall have been given, and if not, by ac- i jtionol iteot in the name of the pilot, a- < gainst the ow ner or muster thereof, and t i the said vessel shall be moreover liable ^ ! for th<? payment of the same, and may be j I attached for that purpose, j VI. Be it. further enacted, That if. f j upon such inspection. or in any other) ! ma liner, any slave or slaves, or person 1 . held to service or labor, or any person;1 charged with any crime, be found con. I' coaled on board of any vessel whatever.;' for the purpose aforesaid, or said vessel be ! detected in the act of leaving this State, j . with any such person on board, the cap- j! tain and owner shall forfeit and pay tiie'; t ! sum of live hundred dollars, to he rrcov. ] ,'cred against the obligors ol the bond he-j | fore mentioned, in ihe name of the State,! ' m case the person s-. found on board he a | person charged with any crime; and in} case the person found on hoard he a slave, j, ' or fugitive from service, the captain or j j owner shall forfeit and pay bis or her val- I ue, together with ail costs, to he recover- j ed bypne owner by action of debt on' said bond, in any court of record in this: State, in the name ot the Governor, for ' :he bi uvlit of such owner; and the said :1 vessel ahull moreover be liable for all pen J allies imposed by virtue of any other law ' of till** State. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Executive of this Slate, be am! he is hereby nuth< fixed and required, to appoint ; one or more Inspector* at Charleston, i Georgetown and Reatiforf, and at siirh other places as he shall deem it expedient . for the due execution of the provisions ot this Act; and that in all places where no, inspector may be appointed, the' Sheriff, j of the District, either in person or hv deputy, shall act as lii?pec:or, and per'ovui | all duties required by this Act to' he per- j formed hv ao Inspector. VIII. Br. It farther, enacted, That for' evorv inspection under this Act, the In spector or other officer, shall he entitled J to demand and receive the sutti of ten ? dollars, for the pAymcnt of wliici. .^?:h j vessel shall be liable; nnd the said Inspec- j tor or other officer, may a dze and hold , i_ <:i .l ; i .t .ai_ ' nor iimn ine same is pan. together wun , all charges incurred in inking can: of th* : vessel. as well as in enforcing the pay- i nicnt of the same. IX. Be il further enacted. That if any , Inspector or other officer, shall have rea- ; son to suspect that he will he obstructed i ^ or opposed in the discharge of any duty required of him under this Act. ho shall 1 have power to summon ami command the j ' force of the District, to aid hiit* in the i discharge of such duty; awri every person ; j who shall resistor obstruct any Inspector j or other otlicer, in the per fori nance or 1 discharge of such duty, shall he deemed j 1 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- j | vidian thereof, shall he fined and trhpri*. ', oned as iti other cases of inisfletwamir. X. Be it further, enacted. That the j bonds authorized and required to he taken under this Act. shall be executed before j the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, j or a Magistrate of the District, and sfowll; lie lodged with the Clerk of the Court of | * Common Picas of the District, nnd he iiifely kepi by him iu his office. For j ! taking every such bond, the said Clerk, j < or Magistrate, shall demand and have the fee of one dollar, to he paid at the 1 | time by the person executing the same. j 1 XI. Beit Jur:her enacted, That in all ! ] questions as to residence and citizenship, i irising under this Act, the onus probumii | | dial I rest upon the person claiming to he J , i citizen and resident of this Suite, or | i?v State other than New Y??rk. I | XII. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence and he in force, from 1 ind alter the first day of May, one iiioiisand eight hundred and tort)-two; ' ut that the Governor of this State may, I ' ?y proclamation, suspend the operation 11 >f the same, until the end of the succeed- 1 < ng session of the Legislature of this ! 5 I Stale* whenever liesiiaiteeofficinllv infor- I ned thai flit; Executiveof New York,shall ; < iave bona fide consented U> comply with i { he demand ol the Dxccuiivc of V irginia. ( "or the surrender of Peter Johnson, FA- ; | tvnrd Simth, and Isaac Gniiscy. as t'lij/i- I ives from justice, and be satisfied that j he law of New York, of the sixth of May, |, ighteen hundred and forty, entitled ari j \ct to extend the right of trial -by ju ry,'> y wsbccn rr|H.aled by that State. 1. In the. Senate House. the seventeenth j j day of JJccnnbcr, in the. year of our,, Lordy one thousand eight hundred and j | forty-one. and in the sixty-sixth year of the Sovereignty and lndeyende.net f of the Vailed States of America. ^ ANGUS PATTKRSON, Paesidcnt of j the Senate. ( rV. F. CO LI.OCR, Spcukcr of the House, [ oj H rpresent a. i ves. | { EARTIIQUAKK IX CENTRAL AtfKRICA. I *rom the. Corrco Seuwnario del Salvador. | RIGHTFUL I.NTKLLUiKMJR FRO* COSTA | RICA. i The earthquake was so sudden that Ii<?se person* who escaped had hardly ? i:no to gel out of their house#before tin* jr ailing of (he walls. I ' In a second, the Department of Carta, i4 jo has become a total ruin. .The desiruc- j( ion is so great, that the site of any par. j J icular erlifiee is harcily to he distinguish, j d among the ruins. In the citv, the ? louses, even to the stone work were :. Itrown upward hv the shock, and fell i ; lown ngnin in heaps of rubbish. It is painful to dwell upon this event, i ( I'he loss df life is very great among all i I lasses?all ages; the number is uot even I t o he estimated at the present moment, j I The inhabitants of those villages in the !( Department, which have 1 suffered the 11 east, have assembled by order of the (* tovernmcrii, with ?pades and picks, to * list liter the bodies. They are now linhJ j' it work, and will continue digging while j iccessary. People perished in the streets, n the phi/.as, and in the churches. All ; j uir provisions are heneath the ruins, and ! j iV ! I. 'II i . / ve are .siuiemig u nomine state or waul, t vliich is likely t? continue, lor the fences i mving been tnrown dmv;.v the call In are ; lestroying all they can reach. In Turi- ! laba, Tresrms, Cartage, Farm so, ITjaincs, ' ind even no the vicinity of Mali tin, there j1 s not left a single shed; and in everv oti? |1 if the valleys, and on the haciendas, we j ind proportionate destruction. From Sam J ?. *? to ibis place, and lo j ^ Mijoeln, the ruin is considerable. In1, sail Jose, a numlier of edifices were , hrown dowti, and those houses that are , standing are unmhahitahle. IVe are liar- ? ily belter off in (bis city; ami Alajuela , I ins fared worse than we have. 'I ran- 1 i pillion Bomlia and his family are among j < hose taken from the ruins. They are ' ilivc, hut bruised and crippled. The ;( lumber of sufferers is very great. Bodies; 1 ire disinterred thai cmnotbe recognised ' inapeless,massesjmd headless trunks; to ' '.very thing in horrible confusion. . Up the present moment, there litis beep no j jruplion irom the neighbor.,ug . volcano; | the blocks continue without cessation? and no one can i?tl how it will end. Tho jjrenl shock look place at nix o'clock on the morning of the second of September. \ * , From the Favetteville Observer. KXVMINATIO AT KLOKAL COLLKUK. TheCommittee which was delegated from ihe Board of Trustee* to attend the Examination at Floral Collpge, at the close of the first Session, made a Report from which the following is an extract:? The Hrst Class in English Grammar coosisted of about twenty Students. The facility with which thes<? corrected faj.se English, and applied Rules in Parsing, indica ted close application In, and an accurate knowledge of their studies. The second Class, consisting often, are on resjiectahle standilg, and showed evident marks of application. The first Class in Bofarv, equally nil. rnerous with the first in Craiiiium, did well. The second also. A Class in Chemistry acquired much rrredil. The examination of a Class in Genme. try passed off' tolerably well. Had its mem hers been less agitated. Ihev would have acquitted themselves better. The Ciass in Natural Puiiosuphhy de? serves praise. The Heading and Spelling Class did well i i Spelling The Readers progressed with ease, and were generally correct in pronunciation; but were deficient in oth. | sr respects. The First Class in Arithmetic was J large, and gave great satisfaction. Toe Rales were at commune, and applied understand! ugly. The Second Class did not perform i quite so well. Miss Mary R. McRac, Miss Elizabeth I Me Eachiii, and Miss Caroline M<*Etrh-1 sri?t constituted the Class in Rhetoric. ! Tuey were prepared as far as the doth ; page in- Riair's Lectures, and examined , in lire ciKvpler on Taste. They were j highly approved. A Chfc? was examined ill Grimshaw's History id' the United Slates, and n?eriled much praise. The First Class in Geography was' highly ciHiuneiulp L The second was | lot equal to the First. In this branch of itudvr n little girl, about nine years of ifagtvcainc forward to !>e examined n/ one. Her name is Marry Ann McKin-' ion. Questions were wpvd+y propound?d and a^ promptly answered by the little : Student. It appeared as if she had made | he tow of the Earth, and become ac-j ununited with oterv kindred and tongue! 1 ? c iiid tM'liofi and people. The JS|?ectmens in Drawing and Painliny showed taste and judgnicn-f. Tire Copy Book." exhibited evident ini- j Hovernent. Tiie hand-writing wait ehur- i iclerized by case and regularity. j The wend day of the Examination ; .vas now for spent, when the Mu*umI Class. numbering fifteen. was called up-. ; Each in bi-r trim played and sang, Miss VIart ha Crawford and Miss Mary Ann j b'nirley had made some advances in the itudy ami practice of Music before fhey ; :ame to this Institution. Thev still ! odd their supeiioritv. Those who wen*! ie*t qualified to judge of the proficiency ! nude by the meiubers of (hi" Class, gave | horn inutii praise. We can not dismiss j Ills subject, without notice of a display | nadc together on the Piano, hvtwo morn I . * t icrs of this Class, viz: Miss Marv Ann i darllee of Ciicraw, both equal in size and 1 n age, 12 or 13, whose performance ex iled much admiration. Lastly, as if i>v enchantment, all the Students wore formed into a semi-circle iround the Piano, arid joined the Iristruc- : res?; in singing that beautiful little song, | Home, sweet Home." The sympathy I if no many silver voices floating on the j iiellifluous tone* of the Fin no. reached the ; isteuing ear with thrilling effect. The < jcrnision whm nn appropriate one. They i now look leave of each other with lender1 'egret, though the plar.rl sensations of S'weet Home still plaved m. their cheeks, j The assemblage of spectators was mi-' nernus and respectah e. The College i ilal!, though large, could not contain ; hern all. They manifest*H a lively in.wrest in the occurences of the. day, and i >n the ,'rf?rt of the Indies, the anxiety, was ! ntensc. They were pleased to see the j Sun of Science shedding its balm v influ;nre over the land ; feeling that nothing tould elevate the female character to its! ireper rank so effectually as this mental ; Milttirc. 6'tich were the happy result-, j it the termination of the First Session at i s ! Unral College. A happy presage of the : ufuro. whose " coming events cast their, ilia do wj> before." i TTIK oLDKN Tf.MKS. The modern fashion adopted hv our | idles of wearing hustles is not -o new j is many persons imagine. In J ho reign \ i ?' . I .1-- r...i . r i: _ . )i j<iines i. nit* i?isniiiii in ihuk'm wearing | otrdinglades. in order to make themselves o have enormously large hips, appears j ii have rcn' hed its height; and about ! die same period the men adopted the ' dan of (duffing their trunk h??se lor the niiue purpose. A writer of tin? day de. ! icrihes these .stuffed trunk hose as a kind j ?f *!verdi?gale breeches." Tins ridieu- | lous custom oerasiornillv led the wearers j into awkward piedicament*. On "tie oc- ! nsion it is related that a young man so Iressed and distended with bran, while in run versa! ion with soine. Indies, unforhinntely tore his hose with a naii ami all the. bran escaped, leaving him so much reduced in size as to he scarcely recog. J nizable. Atone time.a luw whs passed prohibiting the nmn ngainxt wearing I heir j breeches stuffed with bays; and a man having been taken before a justice on >uj? position of infringing this law established | his innocence l?y drawing forth the stuffing. which consisted of a pair of shoots, , two table cloths, ton napkin*. four shirts, I a brush, a comb, night caps, and some i other minor aiticlcs. The ladies, who I were the first to s<-t the fashion in this , way, were not a whit behind the gentle men in the-size to which they distended ! themselves; hut whether the gentlemen i of the prf-s nt dav will have the gallantrv i to follow the fAsiiiou of the Indies, and i ndnpt the bustle breeches vet remains tw j i he seen. London Tim's. | CHERAW GAZETTE. i , WEDNESDAY, Jaxuaky 12, H42. The following is an extract from instructions to postmasters issued from the ! Post Office Department during its admin, j nil ration by Mr. Kendall, and reoeated j uirtler the administration of the Present ! Post Master General: i 44 4 Paofmnclor anntr t\n/ In^-o m/tnAL' in i "a letter to th?* publisher of a ?i?ws}>a[>er, | I "to pay the subscription of a thirl person, ! I "and fr.ink the letter, if written or signed ; "by hbn.self." We return our thanks to the Ron, J \ ? Messrs. C.i.nphell and Sumter for valauble ' public dociii.K'itt*. Tim peopl.* .of M on prose, I own, in the | I neighborhood of lite Mormons, have held ' a public meeting, nnd passed resolutions I j very peremptorily calling iim?n the W'?r- I | m?ms to depart forthwith from that ' neighborhood. The Mormons, seton from | i nil accounts of tliem, to !>e a pea re tile in. i offensive |H*ople, who mind their own I business and let other people alone; and I V t wherever thev settle tliey seem to he I most cruelly persecuted. 'J'hts porsec'i. ! tion attracts more attention, ami pmhaps inore converts to the Mormon superstition than a it y other cause. * i More than 91.),Odd have been paid for j Castor Iteaits, in tin* village of Edwards. | ville, Illinois, the past season, for the pur- j | po.se of making Castor oil Clarified ! Castor oil, mixed with one third spirits f of turpentine, is found to' be excellent !1 i la mo ,oil, and costs le.^s in the Northwestern states than sperm oil, [ A paper is about to be published in To. | diana, to advocate the election of Judge , | McLean, of the Supreme Court, to the I Presidency. j Extensive beds of gypsum, or Plaster of Paris, have been discovered in iM.cliii gan. X inajniity of ihv citizens *21 year* f?l?f i and upwards, in Rho le Inland, have vo. (| fed for the constitution proposed liy the j1 late popular convention. j < CONGRESS. N" business has yet heen done in ei. ,, ' llier house. In the S.mnte, the debate |. on the President's Fiscal Ajjeiif or I ' ! Hoard of Exchequer" is still c inlinued. 1 .Mr. Mangum of X. ('. made an aide speech against the measure; Mr. Hunt. !. inoloii of Connecticut followed on the 1 . sain-.; side. .Mr. Rates ot Massachusetts ; next made a short and temperate speech, ' < in which, without expressing any opin ' ion of the President's plan, he r^coin. ' mMuded that the Senate, instead of the ( present denunciatory discussion," pro. coed and endeavor to do something lor i ' I the relief of ilit; country. If they could not earrv such a hill as they wished, he * was of opinion that Ihcv ought to adopt I the best tltev could carrv into effect, and 11 let it lie improved hereafter if it should not lie found to answer. Mr. Harrow, T I II \f I I I* If.. I or JLioiiisMiiiii, arm ;?ir. .vinrciieau, 01 j\v , , lol lowc< I ill (Willed condemnation of I he plan. Mr. Simmons of R. f. win lor ' 1 1 i taking up then-ail, and modifying it. All these ore Whigs. Jfr. Woodbury. , of New Hampshire, D-iuoerat, had (lie* I | floor for Jinuarv Oth. Tim (notion In;. ; t lore tin; Sella(n is that of J/r. Tallmadge | to refer the hill and report to u select j c committee. ' I In the House of Representatives the t debate, on the motion lo refer that part 1 of the President's message which relates 4 to the 'PariIf, and Domestic J/inufae. j tnre.s, whs brought to a close h\ the P?e. . vioiis question, on the 3d of January.? I: was determined lo refer iliat part of' the message to the Committee on A/ami- j j factnn;s, instead of the Committee of j e Ways and J/eans, by a vote ol 104 to j | 9.3.' ' ' \ Nothing impor ant has since been c done by the House. i c i t In flic preceding columns will bo found <t tlu: act passed by tlio General Assembly 1 * of tin* ftialc at its late meeting In pre-:' vi-nl citizens of New York from stealing i slaves and carrying 'licni ??ut of ilm si ale. | * Tins act is, in its general p' visiors, n copy of an art passed by the General An* ! j semblv nt' Virginia, in retaliation upon New- York for a refusal by her Gov rnor and Hie subsequent eoneurrennn of the Assembly, to deliver three men chrged ( in Virginia with the crime of stealing | < slaves, the property of citizens of that sta'e . < Witi'tbcr or 1:01 the nri>vi virme tin. ... ... - - ?"* K? *' ' t.'f.MICT ? " j I act roiitiict wi(U that claiUM o. the con- < stitiitiofi which gives Congress (he power i jo regulate commerce iitnoii" the stairs, sa question for decision hv the judicial '1 riInitials oftim country, and in Ihr Inst csort.by the. Supreme Court of Ihr Cm- '' eJ Stales. The civil lulaluut* of citizens IIIBI ? Mggy o' one slats to other states, and to citi* /.(Mis of ?:ti???r stall* arc federal relation# and as such the regulation of then) if| expressly provider! for in the constitution; or power is g.vcn to Congress to provide for it. Taw was necessary to prevent ihe conflict# which must arise out id' different slates utKlertakmg to legislate .itrainst each other. In the ease I adore . . / i .us, however, Cohgi ess has failed to dis. charge the duty assigned to it by tho ! constitution, and it therefore devi4V** on the slates to take care of thiMiiseJves. | New York has undertaken to shield her I citizens from pi mis anient for thu crime I of stealing a certain species of property ' in oiher slates. The other state* nr% ! therefore,driven te the necessity *f see* | ing to it that the citizens of Now Turk. ! shall Is* prevented fr ?m stealing theprop, ertv. Virginia and South Carotin* have already taken their si and, and will iikii?~ tain it bo (lie consounences what thew ' / inny; tihints either Now York shalt mcode, or the Federal, Legislature shall do* Us duty. Toe position taken by (JovcnwicSeward of New York, in winch heituw. tuiued by the General Assembly sC die Slat<'. that the stealing ol* slaves is ant * t * | 1 / criminal ofFonee under the consl^lulwHi el the United States, one use it is m* leeegnixed to lie such by the h>o;M)r><r*bt* !%e w* York, is as uisurd as it is illegal* 'IW Federal Constitution is the ".<uj>rej?ic-l?*r of the land" in New York iw well as im every oilier statu.of the Union ; andllatt instrument in recognizing shivery, rrewgmzrs nil the relat o s i.icid nt to it, ami the liability of those who trespassagninsl these relaiions to punish iivnt. Tire p**eition of Gov. Scwurdi* tlmt the menrriunr of the term "crime" in the clause of" ? 7 " 7", *" ; 4 - ^ tho constitution wlih'li provide* tor thr V (fclivcrv of fugitive* I mm justicr, iit to ?*? .settif by ilie common low meaning of the t-r.n ; (oat, at, common law stealing person* '.a not a crime, and cannot there, fore lie a crime in tbc in -aniug of I? >const nu'ou. Tins common law does not recognise slavery Um.u, nor, oj course, lite re.alums gtOWintj out of it, but the ramstitulioii dots* A >.i in tlw* country, Ihti constitution is not sulmvdinnte to iholOiiimon law, iHit the common law to the constitution, where ttiey come in conflirt.. The inclining of Cite term at common law would clou lit les* t?e held .?y nil to la; iU meaning in the constitution, where th?r constitution itself does urn expressly, or by implication, provide differently. If, for instance, Virginia stiofild pans an act to render it "criminal in itial slate fur m parent to chastise his cuild, ;uid a cdilcn of Now York should Ik? ili'iiviuilud hy the hixccuiue of Virginia as n fugitive from r pis'.ice, because, during :i brief sojourn m tiiut slate, or hi passing through it, he puttkilind ills child lor some dehih|CH?u<v, liicritki; Executive of Now York might, la.rly bike Mielter tinder liis'cuiitinoh Umi Liithn.liou of the term "cri.ne," and refuse to deliver me j?er?oii 'claimed as a l*tigitive lro.il justice. The nn?e, uowe*er would be dliferent, if the I'oustjtutom look, awav fiom parents the couuuuii law rigiift r>li!i.iuiinr iIwmp i?hiidreti. A new Governor hashy ihw time hftrito inaugurated in .New York, or wi?l very soon he, and a new Legislature is in *?*?-non. Unci iter tuev will relinquish or continue the luntrle attitude assumed f?v ^. liteir predecessors to liie Sdutn will ?ooi? ^ lie known. ?Since the above was in type w'? havtr received the uvissagu ot (m.v. Seward t?> the Legislature at the opening of the woHon which lias just ruiuiiii-iictd. Theollowtng is iiis allusum in tiie Virginia ind Georgia controversy, *'l lay he tore you a law of Virginia, rah. -tilnled to eiuiiarrass our eoirilUcrrc>?~ Pile effort of the act is postponed until May next, ami the Governor is* nulhnru ecii luriner to suspend it whenever the jXiiiMitivr authority ol this sta'e shall snr. en<l?:r three p? i*on* heretofore demanded >v itie Lieutenant (invcriior nl' dial Ootu* iioiivvtiiltil as fugitives from justice, and lie Legislature shall repeal the law ex tellling Hie trial by jury, 1 have respectfi|L v informed the authorities o| Virginia hut my convictions of lue illegality of hut requisition are unchanged ; and that ilihougu New Yoik. from motives of muf sped and devotion to the Union, will lot retaliate, nor even remonstrate. yet .in* cannot consent to 1 emu in a respond* mt, since Virginia nas seen Ht to trans, :end the sphere assigned to her by fhe Yiieral Cons.it*.tion, and to pass an >ag* ;r? asive law; but that this state w ill.chirr* uliy return to a discussion of the subject, wth a sincere destre to arrive af u i on* atision mutually satisfactory and comlu.ve to the gene: a I harmony, whenever he etVcct of that unfortunate statute shal >e tetiioved hy the action of our aistpf itute, or by an overruling decision of the Supremo Court of the United plates. The Legislature will decide whether lie trial bv iurv shall he relinnnisiud. tnd wnether h Slate, which nek now ledges. ^ n? natural in* quality ci men, npd no |*>- ^ ileal in< quality which inuy not ultimate* IV be r?moved, shall wrest that preeiou* (hie d fr in those only, whose freedom * ivsmhd, n<>t iroin any wrong doing of liieir own. nut because/tin "iialcsl of all [ .runes was committed again*! their an*. Cos ?>rs. Tatigni as we have been by IU# f.r n < rs of the Count uulioo, and jiio^t empiiatieally by il?e statesmen of Virgin. ia. we cannot renounce (be principle, tii.it all men are horn free and equal, nor nny of its legitimate couscqaeitc* >. Out we can, nevertheless, give to Virginia, und ?o the whole American laintlv, pledges of j^race, a (Fee I loir aiiu bawirty to i " s .