Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fWr. A* r said h?- could not give V? vote ; a Upon th*5 question without assigning hi-* rea- ! ( He could not vote f?r the inquiry o t ^HP^his honorable and di?ttii;<^uiahe(l' i"rie;i'r, ev- n m anieniJ?'(J*l?y his "frit/mi from North ,OaroTr-. ' ha. "The intjuiry proposed to do spin thing Il3Se which was obviou?y repudiated by It s own * doctrines upon the subject. Tne Sena 'or ' f ) ??! justified and vvou-d continue to justify j f the distribution '?t t'te nroc ieds of the public * t lands upon the-ground that the land.* had been i f withheld from the State?, to whom lit *y be- J Jon/o l, by the General Government. If this |. land.-belonged to tlie States, where was the I 1 ?p?> Jright to withhold it from them? From 41a.. , py v -bartta, for example, rven supposing she re- t MSf$#r >,*..4 tf? receive her nortio'i? Oul the refu. ' I a] of Alabama. even If factious, make the } . nr?n v ours t Not beinsr our property, the ; . P '$ h>or. / should lie in the Treasury forevsr, if; neer <,irv,befoie we could touch it. Mr. A."also glanced very briefly at the j coarah of debate, and the reasons which | had beer, given by Senators upon all sides ; . I for (he adoption ami rejection of the res- < ; olotio 1. He noticed the remark of the j Senator from South Carolina that the I K"- " distnhurion act would tend to the sever. IB* " < v % j; . V a nee of the Union and said that this a jp was a new doctrine in regard to this act. jL/ IJpoo*TorTimr occasions it had been con-j, ' to ?dod thnft it was a dourer to the Stales i b inging tltcui to the foot of the (ieneral ^(sovornment as recipients of ail the moneywhich ihey would- receive under tlie . Ipw. i Mr. Calhoun rejoined very briefly. He did think thai'he measure had in ft the ! needs of disunion. . Ho did not believe | that it at all tended to consolidation; he; * had always differed with his friends upon & ^ this point. He did regard it as the ninxi- ( mum of all unoonstfiuliooal .::?.\ifures. Toe character of the measure had been fairly stated by the - Senator from Oiiio. j The scheme was this : to give awav the ; ' ' proceeds of a cornmfcn /iind, and this was (a one section of the country & bounty,' and to another section a loss. Mr. fit-men desired to say a single w<jfd. He could not withhold his assent to the reference of the resolution to a: committee ;.but he held himself by such assent uncommitted as to the- principle oi tho'ineasurb suggested, by it. Tiie roso lotion did not propose any specific appropriation of tpe fund . declined by the j .Scales. One pr-more if the beneficiaries j refuse ! to receive (his fund, and it be- j came neccssa-y'to know what should be j ?i *.':?? with it. If (he TuJeral Government 1 we're the trustees of this fund, and could I -,not comply with the requisitions of the i > law in regard to it. it became necessary j know what should he done with it ; and : 7 with a= view to this inquiry he should vole k'for the resolution; AllA?.;, j aU? ? i*lf? .irciier cun.inui."i me ki^uiu^ih j very brii fly upon the uteri (a of tire que*i; lion,giving as an additional reason why the lands belonging to one Slate should ! not be appropriated to the uses of other} 'States, that a S.'ate might change its op. -J in ion in letter tape,-and. acknowledging < Ijseli' factious in it.* former refusal, ask to receive its portion. Mt. Wright said a few word*. It th'-*re* vya*any money in the Treasury i' answered to any cnil made tipoir it. A 1 sovereign Stale had refused to receiw this money, and it went into the Treasury. *; - auhjected |o any demands upon tne Tren ' *nry.. If the State hereafter called fo: its timnev. it would he entitled to draw upon such nuans as were in the Treasury The technical part of thi* question wn> therefore unimportant- The inquiry w.r unimportant, unless It proposed to obtain "v"- J fhtornuition as tf the disposition of tie hrnd which the two States r.-fuse I to re ccivj^v The reasons foi not adopting the resolution had been sufficiently stated hv the Senator from Virginia, and he would / not add any thing to them. ;Vlr* Clay said he did not ipfend to say I single word rnoret though the author o. the proposition which had been submitted The proposition was, whether we should leave the money in the Treasury or ap propriate it. The argument was thai 1 the money belonged to Alabama, and ?r could jiot touch it. ' Tho money did no? . belong to Alabqpna accepted it. Suppose | * " , -.0 the money wns to he put out at interest for the benefit of Alabama. wouW the Sen ator say that we could not do this? The ( resolution he had offered contemplated any disposition of the money. The honorable Senator from New Y'-r!. ' nuked whether the refusal to receive the laud was any offence to the General Gov eminent-? Ho would ask, in return, j ' whether a State was not ; -ouml to obey the laws of the (Government ? There was no criminality in the refusal, he admitted; but was there no offence in dis- : obeying the laws of the (General (Govern- ' 1 men I ? Did the Senator from South Car- t blinn menu to countenance nullification, and in this sneaking nnd cowardly form ! ofrefusi/ig to carry out a law of Congress, > instead of the bold and daring mode as- j sumed by South Carolina when she put j her hand upon her ?word to nullify the ! _ laws of the land. Afr. Clay then briefly replied to the ar- j gunient of the Senator from New Hainp- ! \ hire, as to the trust fund, and also in an- J ' swer to the views of the two Senators, , ' (Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Allen.) the former ' of whom contended that the planters, were the tax payers, and the latter of whom said they were the men who wofk- I ed all day and slept all night. He'hoped the two Souators would settle this mutter 1 c between them. Mr. Wright rejoined. He did not : s think it ever war ao offen<^' to refuse ' y money. Mr. W. ?!ien replied >j one an - i j ccdote, told by Mr. Ciay, bv anoth r, both equally good, and both much amusing the Senate and all present. > Mr. King, then gave his reasons for re-j j aisfing the resolution. At the same time h? Ifurrnly vindicated his Slate from the! * charge of tupidify and faction made a - j i1 gninat her for refusing to receive herpro- lJ portio:. of proceeds under the distri- j u Lu;iou- Mr. Iy. uisosnid thai every Sen- 1 <> .. . I ' * - - V h. tor who voted for the reso'ufion commitcd himself to the doctrine that this mon- i v, belonging to Afnbnma.' ahould be np- < imprinted to other States. Mr. Preston t??ok is^uo wi hltre Sena- , er frorn Alabama opon the last point of | lis argument, and said he,, committed , limsolf to no such thing. ,On -tKn con- , r.irry, in voting for the resolution, he disvowed any such object. Mw Pt stated he object of the lesolution to he one of nquirv merely. SSmcfhing must be done vith the money thus refused, and the juestion was, what shall he done? Mr. \ in the course of hie remarks, said that io dpsired to see the Land Distribution ict repented. * 4 The debate closed here for the day; ; JA5. 8tii. Mr. Berrien took the occasion to say that ie should vote for the resolution, without at j ill committing Inuiself to the subject ot the in- ' iuiry- - "... Mr. Mingum held the same opinions in re. fard the inquiry. H ; dilF rod rroin the Sen ?or from Kentucky to tbe. Ja;vls. He egarded the lv If as the common | ,1-opertv of tlje Union* to be dis|K?sed , >i as Government 4 thought proper. He j lid nut think iiiitt ?<t belonged to the S'area an ! i debt due from the General Government to the Slates.. Mr. Buchanan w as djspwd to vote for the amendment of^th'T Senator from Alabama, and would not consent that any thing should be done which wou.d Kqtimt at einuajijing the proposition ofdividing laud* among tie* Si tten which belonged tu Stiles not receiving. their portion adoted. Mr. Smith, of Indiana, complained of the j disposition manifested to one sight of tlie pro- i position before the Senate. It was no more than a resblntion of inquiry, and he repeated, as lie had before saul, ?hat no Sena'or was at all committed upon the 'subject of the resolution bv voting tor it. The votfe was finally taken upon the amend-.' incut t?y yeas -md nay* as follows; Vkas ?M'-ssrs. Allen, Archer, Benton, Bucnan in. Calhoun. Kmg, Linn, Mc Roberts,. Mouton, Pu ree. Preston. Sevier, Smith, of G noucticui, Sttirgpun Tannan, Walker, Woodbury, Wright, Young? Nays?Messrs Barfow, Bates, Biyard, Berrien, Cooate, Cay, ot Kentucky, Clayton, Evans, Henderson, Hunting ion, Kerr, Man* gum, M<afru:k, Miller, Mo re head. Porter, Plenties, Simmons, of Indiana; Southard, Tall* madge, White, Wnodbridgu?"-W. The question recurred upon the resolution a? offered by Mr Clay. 1 Ttie yeas and nays were ordered, and the resolution was adopted by a vole ol2") to lb. Tuesday, Feb. 8. Mr. Benton presented a p tition from the City of Now Y??rk. praying for th? repeal of the g moral Binkrupt Liw. in .vliioh he took ocea* R?on lo make *omo remark* in favor of the repeat. * ... ? Mr. Tulhnadge presonted several remonstrances on the subject ot tlic Bankrupt "Law; and tvlu'bt he was up, t>ok occasion to. so:n? reutuks. which he said had been rug/eteri by .;;e re.naikb ofthe S^rutor t'roin Mistoiiri Mr. Ltentm. . /. - : Mr. T. auim uivert.J very wrongly/on fhe , L'OU; ?i of Iba S?n .tor fr .ni Missouri, and naid lhatth doctrines p'oinnl^aled by hit(\,.arid the upon which lie had ne'ed. were the Muse 01-the Biiilifdptcv and l ie ui.-troa* in the ;u:iniry, and inade u Bankrupt Law necessary; irui iiiiLintiMi?_i_h it In* had now no heart left ty 'ciTTTor iTio d F'ossha wldchlie hid created??* The h-lidiving sceifu then took place: Mr, BeUoq, interrupting the 6euutui?'Ti* also, si.! 'Tie fdse!'Tis fhmoj The Chiir fc tiled ?o order. Mr. T.diuiudgc took his Mr. Tres-on remarked that i: -.Van power f>r .re ervtug the dignity of the Seiut-, that homo >rd<u sitould >e taken to prevent further inter, option to (lie proceedings, antl to a Sen!tor whilst addressing - the Senate, He o-ild not move in it himself, hut would ubmit to the direction ofojder Senator.*, ts to what should i>e done to preserve its liguitv. Ho should deeply regret thai inv collision of a painful character should ! rrow out of the interruption, and the op. irohriousepithets which were applied.? lie made no motion, hut suggested the iropriety of action. Mr. Tallmadge observed it was a mat. er which would .iot disconcert him at all. Ho repeated what ho had said. Mr, Benton. Then it is false?utterly als<7 Mr. Clay hoped the Senator from Missouri would take his seat and order he osfored. Mr. Benton. I am in rrv seat, sir, > * 'Pi _ ; 4 4 J f M Ml'. I/HiV? I nen II IS ii"i in orucr mi ? r lie Senator, whilst seated, to address any ( oniarks to the Senate, or to interrupt an mnorable Senator who was on the floor. ' t was a breach order. i Mr. Benton. I will not suffer any i i"im*or to make false assertions of me 1 vithout repelling thein in the strongest a signage I ran coinmand. , Mr..Clav replied, that if the Senator iddressed language to hint w hilst seated, ie should apply language corresponding o the act. Mr. Benton, sitting in his chair, renarked,* that the Senator's language vould be f<4lowdd by corresponding ac- ' i?n. If no w ords, no action. Mr. Clay. The Senator well knows [ Here eries of order w ere interposed hv levcrai Senators and the Chair, and the ! 1 I Senator from Kentucky did not finish the ', innteiice. for the confusion was so *?reat I i hat what he said could not l>e heard.] After order was restored, Mr, Phelps ask^d what was the ques- | ion before the Chair! The Chair observed Iliat there was no nest ion pending. Mr. Phelps requested the Chair would < tato what were the remarks of the Sen- I tor from New .York, when in:- rrupted iv the Senator from Missouri. Tiie Chair stated his impression of the j ' rounds assumed by the Senator from j ?ew Yi.rk when he was interrupted.? le conceived the Senator from Now York ( ras altrinuting to the opinions and course , ursued by the Senator from Missouri, in roinutgating them, all tho late excite- f tents about Hie Bankrupt In w, and to the j c pinions and incus ires ol the "Senator and i t ' " . . f i , ; X-k- T.. .*** iZ : =-* ' lv ' . ?? II ? W??i>??BB .? . ri V. J-its*-..I his paft v the causes of distress which had t i rendered the taw necessary, lhe Chailr | i did n??t consider the words used person-'1 J'y to the Senator from Mis.-sourr, but to 1 the d jetrjives and measures advocated by ; the Senator. The language, though very ! strong# the Chair did not conceive, a? , applied, called for the interference of the ; Chair. ''r' I After some remarks Iwrfween Senators J about the nature of the remarks us-sd by Mr. Talhjpadge, goin? to show that they j were not intended to be Of a personal,' character. . ? Mr. Mangum offered the following re*, olution, and asked : to he excused from: serving on the Committee j " Resolved,'That a Committee jof. * : Senators be appointed to inquire what order ought to be taken Uj>on a Senator in his seat addressing another in possession of the floor, and using opprohious and insulting language and tUat 3?id'coin..< mittee. inquire what order ought to be taken with regard to I he language address, ed bv the Senator, from Missouj-ttn tlie Senator from New York, while in. possessioM-nf the floor."-' '"."vifsi ?-? j f After some conversation Jiet'^reiyse vera! members, Mr. Benton o tieredVhe ifol-j lowing atnen linent to the resolutions "And how. far it wus proper and con- ' sistent with the rules of,the Senate for the Senator from New York (Mr4 Tallimdge) to address the Senater from ^Missouri "(Mr. Benton) for a long time ns a disturber of the country?as being particularly so in relation to the Bankrupt law ?beseeching hi in for once -t? cease his custom?impencUiog/hiiu him with being the atiihor of the indebtedness of the^bankriipts?and as having no heart to feel for the distresses wh;ch he had created.7 After a good deel of confusion,Mr." Tallmadge finished his remarks, in which he observes that wiilk-regard, to the cpi-' thets thrown out against him, he should merely say that Ve'Yfurled them bacK to source from whence they came. i The subject was then dropped. . From the Correspondence of the Charleston Coiirior. . ' WaSHIMOTON, Feb. 9. The nomination of .the Hon. Waddy Thompson, of South Carolina, as Minister: to mpxico, has been sent to the Senate, and ' wilt so u be confirmed. Washington Irving has been nominated as Minister to Spain* ? It is now said that Mr. Forward will resi n -his office of Secretary of the Treasury, but I s^e no ground lor the rumor, and 1 have no doubt that it is premature. Mr. Bradford is! to have the pltceof I).a:rict "Judge of the U. S. in Pennsylvania, whirhj.it' wms supposed, the other day", Mr. F. r.vard would take. There is rtiucfr excitement in this region, sn rogard to the currency. We have .notlting. ,that can'be caliod .41 current funds.7. Our localbanks issue no paper. Those 01 me , Baltimore Banks that are not br<?ke.-have ) little paper afloat. The circulation here consist of Virginia hank paper?and rmstlyof t!^e Bank of Virginia the paper of which is now repudiated by the other banks in Virgin. ia. So our principal currency is now twenty percent below par. There is neither specie nor Treasury notes in circulation he o?they having been bought up and run off to the North, as soon as issued or paid by the Gov. eminent. The Treasury notes of the new issue- are one per cent below par, and many Government drafts have been protested for non-payment, on that account, since the r ew issue. The government is certainly in a had way.' It wi'l require luucii ol prudence, economy, aud all tuat, to-avoid a total bankruptcy of the Government, unless some new and adequate scheme of revenue shall soon be adopted. * ?" The hot blood of the House has moun'ed to the Senate and produced a little irritatiisi there ; but every tiling was calin and even ' sleepy to dav. Mr. Archer mad'' a long speech against Mr, Clay s resolu'ions -for reducing the power of the Executive, showing that we had demoer icy aud anarchy enough in our system already. - '* Fks. ior In addition to the notni nation*, which I,| mentioned yesterday, ws learn that Mr. J, Blackford, late editor ot the Fredericksburg ( (Va,) Political.Arena, his been nominated as j , Charge of Affairs at Bogota. In (lie House, to-day, the Speaker an noun j , red the following gentlemen as members of j , the Committee on Foreign* Affairs, in the ( place of the five members whn^vesforday were ( excused, in consequence of their relation fo. ; , wards Mr. Adams, viz; d/r. E f) White, j| r>f La.,, Mr. A II Shepperd, of N. C., Mr I j E Holmes, of S. C., Mr. M (> Cooper, of j, Ga? aud Mr. R Chapman, of Alabama" It i , is presumed th.iL the gentlemen appointed will ( consent to serve. a6 neither of lliem has had \ j any personal collision with jlfr. Adams, Imw- i . ever much they may dissent from his course. ( The selection appears, moreover to be very | judicious, i ,i ". / * ; i Upon any question in the Committee'affect. | ipg the rights of Lite South, ill# m-?j?r*ty.yir*il ? j be in favor of Southern views and intereMa, j, Mr. Gushing also, who remains on the corov \ mittee. dissent*, as is well known from Mr. Adams' views in regard to some questions ? torching our foreign jK>|icv, which are iippnr- . < tant to the South. !l The businoMi of the t? day was of , litile public importance. .4 proposition to *1- i low a Clerk to the Committee on Expendit-. j urofl, was warinly cleb;ited and tilitflly adop. ted. The argument in favor of the motion was based on the necessity of instituting a < searching inquiry into the abuses aVid eXtrava. j gmces, which the late admin srration auiho. rised. But.it was objected that the Wings had suffered nearly a year topass without discovering or remedying any of these much | talked of abuses. Thursday, Feb. 1ft. | Nothing of much interest occurred, j The Pension hill nnd that for the telief i r>f American Seamen in foreign countries, , had their second reading. IIOUSK OF KKI'HKSENTATIVKS. The tending of the. Journal disclosed i !lie nitmes of the following gentlemen, . ?s appointed in the pb.ces of those of the ! Committee on Foreign Relations, wi o .vere excused by the If mis.; from serving >n the same, viz.? VI. A. Cooper, Th-lj. , White, Chapman, Shepherd, nnd UoJru'". i The motion of Mr.. Williams, to I V I' >n the table the Resolution hereto!? *? iFored by 'Mr- SMtonstall. Chairman of, | he Committee On MaiHiiuctures, (emoow*'t, /' c I .,1 r.-jp ... H?WBMPg?B?BMBI11 II Jl 11 III 3CT? r ^ 7T ~ ering that Committee to send for persons ss and papers) was taken up, and a cnll of the House ordered. The vote was then yy decided hy Yeas and Nays?Ayes 103, Noes 79. v. } The'House then resolved itself into a Committee of the Wool*, (Mr. Briggs in 1 the Chair,) on the Civil and Diplomatic wo Appropriation Bill. ani On n claiiso of this bill, which provides a11 that $12,500 he appropriated to pay the nM Clerks and Officers of the House, a debate mf arose from an amemdent offered by Mr. Gushing. to increase this sum to $15,000. in -In this debate Messrs.- Cashing, Fill mnre, Gentry, Wise, and S. Afasoh took pnrt; Mr, Gentry finally moved to re. J'j commit tl?e bill, with instructions to the eg Cornmitt e to strike out every item of appropriation which was notst.ictly provi. bra ded for by authority of law. tio IN SENATE. . C' Friday, Feb, 11. J"ec "'Mr. White laid before the Senate a ,ul Hit) HiTge number of Resolutions adopted by a|), the General Assembly of Indiana in rela- jol :?- *" n?uii?ntinn nf the Western A? |iuji |i; *?*" "* * 'ft * " .. riveriu and asking appropriations for the Sti reiltoying of obstructions in these rivers, ?t* Other resolutions were, promoted, re- ne: lating to the time of the election of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, designing to .fix .the tj,e same day throughout the United States for ed this purpose.?-The subject# wor,e all ap- ?g; propriatety disj>cscd of, and the . Senate as preceeded to like consideration -of other tt?r business. Afr. Evans reported the two Bills from f wli the House in tehtion to Pensions and the Co Ftmd for American Seamen. Sp The first Bill having been read, ha Mr. Evans,- Chairman of the Com- Cu: miftc* of Finance, was ready to give the 8C, rensan* to the Senate why it should pass, but no objections; were made, and the Bill was read a third time, and finally passed. ' " rej The bill for the protection of American in seamen was also jussed without opposi. lion, and both Ul sare now ready for the signature of the President of the United wj States. ajt The other business was not important, nar ?At an early hour of the day (as soon ' as soon as the morning business wn.s fir;- c *8 nished) the. Senate went into Executive k'al session, on motion of Mr. Clay. The. ^ doors remained closed thro' the day. ^ HOVSK or REPRESENTATIVES. an Mir. Saltonslall called up his Resolution ' to allow the Committee on Manufactures cor a Clerk. . *?" Mr. A. V. Brown opposed it. Mr. Randolph advocated it in a few animated remarks, and adduced strong ^ arguments for - the necessity of granting ' t#k the *K.s?tanee of a Clerk; he said that the ! she numlter of articles of valuation amounted the to nearly 4000, and all of these were to * l>e examined. ' . ani A motion was made to la v the Resolu- j tion on the table, and the Yeas and Nays j q, were taken and the vote* was a tie 88 to 88; for the Speaker voted in the negative. exp The Resolution then cnineup. and on ' its passage the provion question wag j a,u moved, hut withdrar. A. to let Mr. Ha her. ! sharn, one of the Committee, make some netl remarks, and when he concluded, wjl Mr. Atherton moved anew to lay the pro Resolution on the table. pap Washington, F< b. IV* 4< The nomination of Washington Irving, as tioi Minister to Spain ; of Waddy Thompson, he as Minister to Mexico; and of William Tui Blackford, as Charge d'Affairs to Sew Gren- bot ada, have been confirmed by the Senate. teil The Senate was long engaged, to-day, on tior the nomination of Majoi J. N. Barker, as tirai req comptroller of the place of Walter Forward, will promoted to the office of Secretary of the atir Treasury. Major Barker was removed on I at 1 politicaljgrbund* hy Gen. Harrison and it is j J now said that his restoration will be a slur wn J h I he-memory of Harrison. The opposition to 1 44 him will he very s'rong. It is further said rniti that the whigs will onrte against this appoint- m u men?, in order to shew Mr. Tyler that they i I hi can act together, as against him. VVe shall I war see the result. * | till i Very littJe business of interest was tran- ! furt ~ 1 * 1 * ? " -1??. 'Fk<> r?n1 it i(\na ' lliwi Hcico in me tj.'naie, lo-unj. nc , ~r. for and against the. bankrupt art continue to or * come in. I do not think there in any prospect 44 that the bankrupt act will be postponed or Hin repealed at ?h ?. * session. The rush I or the the benefit* of the act has proved to be much less Hot than was imagined. The army of five hun- obj* J red thousand bankrupts has not heen mue- j vl tered. Of the small numbers, who in the large j unit cities, so far as we know, have availed them- in, i selves of it, there are very tew who could, by j hu* my course-they might Choose to take?with j p**rl [he law or .without the law?save a cent or hun lose a cent for their creditors. The alarm m sati respect to the law has already subsided. It of S ba? been supposed that the banks would suffer hott from the sweeping awsy of some of their a?- deti lets ; but they will lose nothing that they cen would not have lost, any how. her In the House, trvday a'tsr the adoption of shal lome resolution# of inquiry, Mr. Saltoristafl. the not Chairman of 1'ie Com'ftitlre on Manufactures, eye) bought rip hi* motion for the employment of a ? SL'lIi tu the Committee to conduct its corros >01110119:!, &c. This created a debate on the . luti and present purposes of the C'onimittoe on ^ Manufactures; and it was insisted thut, as the pr House had vestorday refused to authorize the a nt Committee to enter into nquirios on the subject nn >fthectF-ct of duties on manufacture#, &r, it vas absolutely a contempt of the House, to np. P 3* iroaeh the same obj ct in this new form. Tlib ca,V notion of Mr, Saltonstull, wis lost-much to, Scr\ lis chagrin, as was very evident?and, really, j (J ml es tlte. Committee ufo be a non on'ity, the j attei ncasure is prop r enough?perhaps indispeusa. | be o >io, as Mr. S. represented it. I?ut. the House he | ins. as I consider. by these two deliberate votes, do* uken after debate, 011 two eucces ive days, ferr !e ;ided tl at the Committee on Manufactures iifeli iave nothing to do?that ill y shall n?l be heard ?that the g ani^is not, as it once was, in their ?ands. TU.j protective policy is Vdcud at /rre- T tent '* That it m iy and will lie revived, af er of a he next apporti mmcnt. is very probable. The ing. rery neoisssity for rcve.iue to'inenl our expniidi-1 year ires wiJI-rQyivc viljn ktii'hvci'y lung about onr govern iioiit believe* tiiat any guvs nibni intia' reform oi/.Tctr?iinhm?-nt of expendilire* will over bo effected, l?jr any administration the >r by any party. Wji lu saying this, I do not inton I to d 'r.y?for I in tl uiiy boljovo, 'bat Congress will expend .. thirty* is tJj lions tnd ffbllj\rs, at thii? session, it. debating a of th iropjaiio 11.^11 ovv before the Utilise.to save a ingt? lion^.tiulor two of dojlars. by cutting off oua or milf ivo clerk*. Ti'ijil will be the beginning and tit? rjreui uu o." Ui iir rctw^ii, . ' S5*"-*a*?'^~^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmgB0mB. r3 CHERAW GAZETTE. j?| WEDNESDAY, Fkhruary 23, 1842. fa ? ' el Last week 31 negroes were sold in s town, at auction, consisting of men riicn and families. The aggregate in innnt of the sale was $13,620 ; being ! p< nvernge of four hundred and thirty. 81 ic dollars and fifty four cents. Three [J in, sold separately, brought, each, just q, 00. The sale was on a credit of one tl d two years with interest from date. ; . d Virginia.?An attempt was made in the " rginia Legelature, on the llthinst., to el; a Governor of the State. The Candidatwere Gon. Kdward, Watts, of Roanoke , f."l and Win, P. Taylor, (D.) son of ihe eel- j ited John Taylor, of Caroline. The oppod. " n to Mr. Taylor was made chiefly on the t! >und that he would not appoint an agent to s :eive the share of Virginia under the Dietri. h tion Art. On the tirst ballot, the joint vote i v od Wart? 80. Tavlor 78?acatierimr 5? 1 .. " ~ ~ " f ' r? i ^ tent one Whig and one Democrat. 2d bal. j ?VVatt9 81. Taylor 81? scattering 2. | 11 this stage of the proceedings, Mr. Andrew , P evenson. and Judge Sumuiei* were nomiii- 6 id, aud the election was pos:pon*d utilii the S ict '-day. . .. | / ")ntne morning of i he 12?h, Mr. Stevenson Li s withdrawn as a candidate, leaving Mr. | ylor, J.idge Summers, and Gen. Waits in ! t field. One ballot was had. which resdlt- i T' m no choice, when Mr . Stevenson was , ? tin pdt in nomination, and one ballot taken t * follow#? Stevenson 76 Sunt iuers 66, scat v tng 16. ' I Me-nrs. HolnuSf oojier and C'tapman, w io had been appointed members of (he v mnmitlee on Foreign Relations, '?y the h nnkoroftho House of Representatives, " ve nil, at their own request, heen ex. ^ ted Irotn serving. Thotr objection to ving was that Mr. Adams is Chairman , s> the commit tec. I A Perfectionist:?The New Haven Herald ^ firta the case of a petition for divorce tried n the Superior Court of Connecticut, on the i iost.,in which 'he Mowing singular in- * ent occurred. Ti e Counsel f r the peti. n ner stated to the Court that there was a lies* present, whose testimony war maferr. j . 0 his case. She was the wife of Mr. Leod Tuttle, and an the counsel stated, p She had told that she saw circuinatan. h 1 which would sustain the charge m ?de a- fi nst ?Mr. Sco't, but he understood that the *[ it Id refuse to testify. She was a nonresisl. jj I. She had refused to come to Court on iphoena. and was now there in custody of ^ officer on c<tj>\ax. j ^ 'Judge Church said to her. that if she nad '* rscienious scruples against taking an oath, d t mightaffirm. t ? u She answered,??/ I decline to tiks an ? h, fir give testimony of any kind." j| His Honor tb? n i formed her. that he aid give ber tune to consder about it and ~ ;e advice of counsel; and for this purpose, '' l could have till the opening of the C u.t n ^ afternoon. - n 1 To which she answered,? ' I do flot wish p{ 7 time to consider. I t annnt reroguiz - the jr iic iples on which Cnirts are ha??- d. They not in accordance With the principles of. >. " I t K,?o (hmir/ht delihnruli'li' arwt atL ...... . ..-.v w.w..s... ^v, ...... no counself, and wish fur- no tune. 1 >ect to abide the consequences." I' ' His Honor* however*Greeted the cxarnin. ?u >n to proceed, and gaVe Mrs Tuitle Idl the rnoon to make up her mind." 'nc trial ihen proceeded, and oth r wit- i, ses were examined. In the afternoon the ness was again called, and the following ceedmgs took place, as reported by t.,e >er above named: it > Mr. JucI iliuman, counsels for the Pet - oi ?er, now rose and stated to the Court that wifjied the testimony of Mis. Leonard . (tie Judge Ch irch asked if thecounsel mi ?i sides could not agree, that the lady might 'c her story wi bout either oa'h or afTjrin.i- hi i. of this they agreed. His honor th n |)( uesied Mrs. Tutllo to?tell what she *?w hout going through th" lornuliy of oath or, illation. To this she replied, ' 1 do not toel iberfy to do so." n udge.?* Do vou refuse 79 <r\ Irs. Tut tie.? "4 I do " n Ju.!g" ?see no way to avo:d a com- " in?*nt ; and if I do it, I shall do it with e regret than I'have felt in any official act NV *ve ever done. Mr Clerk, nuke ??ut a 11 rant cf commitment for contmujit pfCouri, |;| *he give evidence in this case, or until her order of the Court, and predicate it n her refusal to give evidence upon oath . 3111 iffirination, or in any manner whatsoever." The lady was then taken into custody. i?j (pan asked his Honor, if the husband of (J lady might go to jail <tuh her ? His lor answered,* that he certainly had no ,n actions, if the jailor had none. The cause remains in statu quo; and. Wi ;ss the lady gives, in or the petitioner gives i ,,| must remain so tcrall eternity. The lady's j(> hamJ, it is understood is like his wife, a fectiomst and nonresistant, ret oguising no ?' i?m institution. 'I'lie lady expressed great hi ^faction at the comfortab c accommodation A ShcrifTCtirtiss, ami said they ware much ^ er than those her iSavior had. She is ermincd to be a martyr of tne nineteenth 01 tury, and is no doubt now highly enjoying B martyrdom in iter quiet way. And who tli II gainsay her right to the crown ? Is she g, suffering, for conscience sake, as truly as ^ r did the pilgrim fathers? . Mr Ebon C. Tut tie is said to belong to " same creed." sit ,)r Jo Stomaching it,?In a frmpcranc? :e?9 on the other day, at Albany, they had w feature, certainly; it being nothing more re less than the human stomach in its various [ ge ;es of decay from int- mperance, pain'i d on | /ass and borne as banners,?JV. Y. Tran. *" ' he n Monday night last a soldier lost hie life in opting to desert from tl e Canadian side Pa .v the falls. In order to elude the sentinel, Sf procured a c<?rd, and ' saved t ht himcelf n the precipice between Table Kock and the j? but t?e bie iking of tiie cord dashed him [ dss oti the rock* and ico bi'low. gl ? d i: . ELOPEMENT. lie New York papers spn.ik of theolopement young lady, in Iter I4lli year, from a bondschool near that city, with a nun nearly 60 Tl a of ?ge, and thai they had railed C o u that __ f,r Liverpool. The New Y- rk Herald to rim young lady referrod to, is Mies Crowhin, to daughter of a Mr. Croglian of one of tho tor . States, wha h t? been an ftgmit wr"icr! of the Givcrnwout. Her uncle ev celebrated hero of Suunfteky, C-o . Crojjh'an to 0 17. S-Army, U^r lathe in now in w.,h Ln ?r*. She -W hoiri^, it id- $>ul, #IS half n j? ^ at dyUare- The uffiiy hg* produced a *1**. 1 cJfciUujcnt, iu f^fuutuOij ?f;lca? and tip ' ' ' ' ' * iterations ire, ?f course, thrnw-Q m?t.atTr-?ndnm m |jon all partioa concern d. The evil, however, cists in the >la<? of f?e?oty, and the*We of sliiond'lo moral* that prevail in teruin iquet" From the National Intelligeocer. When in July, 1832, a b ill K.r rechsrterg the Bank of the Tinted State*, having w?ed both Houses t>f Congresa 4n4 hem ?nt to the- President for his ?ignajor*t was tturned by him to the Senate wjf h Ws objef- , one, a solemn debate took plate dpWi the uestion, arming under the Constputidn-'wheier the bill should past notwithsiandkig the 'resident's objection* ; ii. the ooune of v? Inch ebate, as reco drd in the Register of Debatee? Je followin g remarkable passages occur.* Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, said: "If thie restitution is really to be prostrated?if it as now receivod its death-blow, and is ut to u wait and pi eparo for its final fall-~ 4 he distress and ruin which it will ocraion rests not with.the wealthy money, older, whose funds have found an in. estment in its stork ; hut it must roma rith fatul and unbroken force upon the ndtistrv. the'enterprise, the public pros* erily, and private comforts of the whole xtended West. The Bank pf the United Itntp* must withdraw. Lnd then Mr, E. continued as/follows : But this is not all. . You tayihf.mornl* t the same time, you ihuj rudely thule the: rox-jierity of a people. Their first resort rill bo to legislative aid, and relief laws >ill follow, or, in other words, laws to pre. ent the collection of debts, (for what t - * j al i * _ -j *cgisiaturc can wnnsiano ine appeal* or n ?h?le people suffering under a general isita tmn ?) or, if mU that, the creation ofa / ost of hanks wilh fictitious cnpilal, which iny seem for r lime to suspend I ho low, hill will make it fall *he heavier at tat. And then, instead of the safe. and v/nd currency irh'rh ire now enjoy, ice hall again hare a dtjrrr dated and irorih- ? 'ss mass of trash, which will pass into the ands of the People, ami there sink into othing, leaving them la hear the lossf Mr. Clayton spoke irt'the nanie spirit : The prediction of Mr. Lowndes in 1819 mat he fulfilled : 4 that the destruction f the United S'ates Bank would he fol* >w?*d bv the establishment of paper mon. y he firmly believed ; he might *tso uf e knew. It wns an extremity, he ieidfrtnn which the House would recoil,'? 'he farmer must again sell his .grain to f>e country merchant for State hank finer rU n discount of from ten to f treaty, or pen thirty-per cent, in the nearest com* lorcial city,"<&c. V The loss of confi. ence among men. the total deranpenrnt f that admirable sys'em of es changes rhich is now ackrnwlegcd to he bettor hnn exists in any other country un the lube, overt a i.ng and speculation on *ise capital in every part of the country* lot rapid fluctuation' in the standard of Hue for money, which, like the unseen rs'i'ence, withers a7 the effort* of tndus y, while the sufferer is in alter ignoranea f the cause of his destruction ,\l?aukrypt- t ? ins and rain, at the anticipation .pf which* - , ic heart sickens, must follow in the long nin of evils which arc assurcdlv before s.? ; > THE TENTH WEEK ul' THE SESSION as exhibited more act.on and more disolation to carry forward public business un) any three weeks that httvc |>r<?? xh?<f . The House of Representatives baring n Monday, apparently under the* infiu- i nee of the intervening S ibhnth'dav's lei-etions, hastened to lay aside the privi. god question which for. several daynlmd j.spcnded all the properfu net inns of.that rv.v, next got through wit ? the call Upon lemlwrs for petitions, so often interrtrp. :d and so long sus|>emled ; and on flu* ext day, the th>od-gnte onco raised* n real body of reports -from (Qammittcei ? - *M. I . / mired into the Mouse. I lie rummer 01 lese report* prove* how industriously the ork-i;:g main! er* o*i the committee* have bored during the week* which burn npsed whilst the House, a* a body,..was akiugalmost i'.o progress; and the reill in most creditable to them. The If oii-e has n'so ?nndr a beginning ion the A nuu A Pr iairoil Bill* which nder charge of the very efficient Chair-iri of its ' 'omniittee of Ways a??i enns, have f?een digested and prepared ith a care, precision, and minuteness 'explanation, never exceeded, tosavfhe nsl of it, on nny former occasion. Two these hills, having passed the House, ive already heroine laws, the Pension ppropriatioh B II being one of them, s for the remaining Appropriation id especially the Civil Appropriation, ill, if any opinion may be forced from te indications of t e last week, its pro, ess through the House will be very dew lerato, if not slow, and even tedious, rilh this nrosnect lie fore the Hons". de .... J . ? I . -able as \vc admit it'o l>e that the Ap-'opriatipn Bills should be pi;s ed at art* rl\ day, we cannot hut think that, in gard to another measure yet more ur).it?the bill for the Apportionment of itpresentntivcs under the ne\y CCh&uS?is very desirable thai its passage should i expedited by some such order on tho * irt o( the House as was proposed on Uurday hy the respected Chairman of e committee who reported the hill, viz. make it the Order of the Day fyom a ^ ven day until finished, and to limit the scussion ol it to a clay certain* (?o that should not for too long a time obstruct ft passage of the Appropriation Bills*.]} lie time is rapidly drawing*nigh at ine of the States have lxen accuMowd; make their election* of RipreaenV*&H?* Congress; and *ina^, as every aoader iows, the action of The Legislature of ery one of the Stales will he'wenafcary JSS give efloct to the apportionment hilt or Congress shajl have p/wrd it, it is^ i|e obvious that Congress cannot net on the subject too sowik Ijn ^Uit(uir