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" KIKAL F(?\0?1\. * 1*0' Instead of practical matter under this head in our present number, we extract from the Farmer & Gardener of Baltimore, s| part of a memorial " of farmers, planters ir and those friendly to the pursuits of Agri- ^ culture" to the General Assembly of Mary, land. The memorial, after depicting the {] low state of Agriculture in Maryland, and n insisting upon the necessity of improve- tl mentto prevent the drain of population by a emigration, continues: n At a period like the present, when the c coders of the ?>tate are full?when with a c laudable and jus: ambition she is generous- ri iy engaged in promoting great objects of e internal improvement, your memorialists n cannot believe tor a moment, that you will tl withhold your counienunee and support f from the agricultural community?from that e community which is at cnce the pride and s s rength of Maryland. And they therefore g pray, that your honors w ill make such op- ti propriations, as will set on foot, p 1st. An agricultural school and pattern c form. fi 2dly. A general State Agricultural So- a ciety, to be formed by delegates from coun- y ty establishments. b 3Jly. 'County Agricultural Societies, to b be voluntarily formed. c 4'hlv. That the State should grant boun- g ties to those engaging to certain extents in v o c O t J the culture of the Mulberry, making of Silk, n and in the culture of the Sugar Beet, and t! the manufacture of Sugar therefrom?and n 5thly. Titat the State should appoint an u Agent to collect and prepare all available a information, relative to tfio last branch of y industry, and that the expense of publication tl should be borne by the State ; which when si published, to he circulated gratuitously for p the benefit of the people of Maryland. n Another plan suggests itself to your me- Si morialists, the which they submit in all due a respect to die superior judgement of your d honors, leaving it to your wisdom to adopt b rither, or to frame some other suitable plan, c calculated to answer the proposed end, as n to you may seem mosf fit and proper. c A pattern Farm and School for each p county, or districts to be laid off by law. a At these establishments the students or ap. b prentices, in addition to the usual avoca- h tions nf the farm and school, should manu- ^ facture the implements of husbandry for their own use. ' n The capital to be raised by subscription b to an incorporated joint stock company, by tl the inhabitants of the several counties or s districts, which should not exceed one s thousand dollars for each thousand white p inhabitants, and in no county should the p capital exceed thirty thousand dollars. The stockholders ufler ten thousand dollars 1 shall have been subscribed in such county, a | or district, to rn et and choose eight manaK JZ^rs, and annually thereafter to make a 9 similar election. The Stare to choose four e | managers, making in all twelve managers s I to eaeh incorporated company. These J] J managers to select a headman or superinI tendant, and all necessary assistants to car- 6 | ry on the farm,?and also to appoint a pro- ^ | lessor and such assistant tutors as may be c I l^A | ItlJUUVU# The managers thus to he appointed, ^ should meet monthly and give such directions and instructions as might ho called lor e by the interests of the institution. At. these schools students might he admitted, or apprentices taken, in such num. , bers as might be thought proper, who should regularly serve until twenty-one years of age, and be governed by the same obligations and laws as now obtain in cases of other apprentices. s When any such school or farm shall k | have been organized and put into practical operation, and the sum of ten thousand dollars actually paid in, on a legal notification to that effect, being made known to the j State treasurer, he should be authorised to pay into the hands of the treasurer of such association, a sum of mon? y equal in amount K to the interest of the capital thus raised by a such county or district : or in event of a 1 larger capital being raised, that he should 1 pay sue!) sum as would be equivalent to the ^ interest thereon, which interest should be li paid annually or semi-annually. ^ The sum or sums of money thus to he !' Ibc raised by the counties or districts, to be '' exclusively appropriated to the objects con- a nected with the establishments respectively. '] Periodical accounts of ail expenditures to be made to the State treasurer, to be by ^ him laid before the legislature at their anLual sessions. s All profits arising from such establishments to be biennially divided among the a several stockholders, and the property of a such incorporations to be exempt from tax- ii at ion, either to the State or the county in ? w 1 1i ihev mav !>r> re<r>?ctiv"1v located. r To your memorinlists it appears most vident, that such Institutions are loudly ailed for by the best interests of the State, nd they feel confident that your honors 'ill coincide with them in the opinion, that le period has arrived when it is imperious{ necessary that something must be done, .^hey conceive that by the establishment of lose schools and pattern farms invaluable enefifs will ensue to the agricultural comlunity and to the State at large: they beeve that by a judicious arrangemeent and conomy in their organization, and in the lunriAj- r?f rrvi'ntt rhem on. no other bur lUlfliVl VI cut I J **'? > , hen will fall upon the State tint) the first utlay, should you adopt the first plan sugesied?and in the event of your fixing on ie second, that nothing farther titan the pecified interest money will 1?" annually squired, as it appears plain to your metoriaiists, that tne labor of the farm could, nd would be performed, in the adoption f either plan, by the students or apprentics. It appears also to your memorialists highr proper, that in these establishments there lould be engaged, 1st, a competent and itelligent farmer: 2d, a lecturer upon ihemistry, as applicable to the business of usbandry: 3d, a gardener skilled in the roper culture of the Mulberry: 4th, a person loroughlv acquainted with the managelent of Silk-worms and the conversion of ie cocoons into sewing Silk, and another cquainted with the beet culture and the lode of making Sugar from that root. The organization of the Agricultural Soieties, which your memorialists propose, ould not be onerous to the State treasuies; because the outlay would be restrictd bv the interest of those who should be lembers of them. In Massachusetts, with ie view of stimulating agriculturists to D O jrm such associations, the State has gen rously enacted, that for every dollar sub. cribed by each of i:s members, she will ;ive a like sum. The aggregate amount fius collected is, periodically, distributed in remiums?some to the owner of the best ultivated farm, of given dimensions; others )r the greatest quantity of corn raised upon certain number of acres. So also, the dieat and rye grower, the raiser of the r>vt crnn of nnfniob* ? the breeder of the r r 7 ? est horse, cow or hog ; the owner of die ow, feed considered, which yields the reatest quaniiv of milk and bulier in a ear; llie person wlio raises the greatest umber of Mulbcriy trees, and Hie raiser of le most si'k, have each and all the'r mducelent, in the shape of bounties and premims, to animate them in the noble contest ^ricuhural rivalry. Your memorialists -ould fu<-iher state, that they are informed, lat while the annual bur.henupon he ireaurv of the State of Massachusetts is comarativelv small, compared with the mogitude of the good effected, the happiest re. ults have been produced. Each individu1 there, engaged in the pursuits ol husbanry, feels himself called upon by ihat ennoling sentiment?moral obligation?to exel his neighbor,?and thus, bv the excite, lent of a spirit of rivalry, virtuous in its onception, and holy in its objects and rosreution, have the legislature produced feelirg and a pride, whose benefits ore to e seen in the frui fulness of a comparativer barren soil, and the prosperi v and hapinoss of 1 lie people. With this <?\posifion of their views, your icmonalists respectfully ask your Honorale body, to take the subjects treated of in lis memorial, into your serious and dispasiona e consideration, and to grant them uch relief as to you may seem meet and roper, and tliey as in duty bound will ever ray. From the Presbyterian. PPEAL OF THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. Of the sum of $35,000 which the Amriean Tract Society at their last anniverary resolved to be the least amount equired during the current year tor foreign mds (and which many at the time expressit an earnest desire to increase to 850,000 ?a lady prcseni, and she a widow, ottering, lirough a friend, to pay 8100, in case <10,000 should be added) onlv 88,221 35 ave been yet received, leaving to be raised efore April 15, when the Society's year nds, 820,778 05 Notes for paper and other ngagements of the Society, vhich must be paid betbre ^ r?ril m amnnnt tn 1 1 27ft 7Q The treasurer is short of neeiing bills due this day, 1,394 50 Making over and above all ? he current expenses of the Society, to be paid within 81 lays, 39,546 94 The whole amount of dona, ions designated for foreign listribution, received within the ist five months, is but 2,303 33 The Committee are aware of the difficuly which has attended the raising of funds, aid of theclaims presented by Oilier Chrisian objects ; nor would they divert attenion from the great work of Tract and folume distribution, accompanied by Chrisian effort and prayer in our own country ; ?ut when they look at the press in foreign ands, and the multitude of laborers dependng on aid from this Society, they feel that ,11 to whom the facts are known will unite t. the conviction, that this department of neans for the world's conversion must not ie neglected. Presses in operation, and laborers to be uppHed. Missionaries and Tract Societies, from imong almost all the nations of the earth, ire urging forward their operations, expectng a measure of assistance from this Society. Their presses arc in motion; olporteurs, missionari'*^ and assistant mis. sionaries, native Christians, and all whose services can be secured, are engaged in the distribution. Millions, among whom some portions of divine truth have been distri-1' buted,wait for further supplies. Thousands of pagans, who have read the Tracts they have seen, call for new ones. Original Tracts are preparing ; translations are in progress; blocks are cutting; stereotype plates are casting ; punches and matrices, and fonts of new type (including metal movable type for the Chinese, the written language of probably one-fourth of the human family) are in preparation at great; expense. A large part of all that is doing by the American churches for the conversion of the world is more or less intimately , ....... tlwi ..noi-ntiAflo t! i K S/|. Willi IIIV^ U|/(.IU|iVIIO VI una p^wcioty. Not to dwell on wliat is doing for the North American Indians, among whom are about 168 missionaries and assistants, with two printing establishments; or on the labors of the Moravian Brethren and others for the American continent, the .Society is intimately co-operating with the following agencies abroad. Tract Societies in Europe,?The So' ciety at Paris, laboring for 32,000,000 French, and for Spain, issues 500,000 Tracts annually, and has 40 Tracts, the same as published by the American Society, * and to which its funds may be applied, and also seven volumes (Saint's Rest, Call, Rise and Progress, Pilgrim's Progress, Keith on Prophecy, Bogue's Essay, and Young Christian.) In Belgium, the Rev. Mr. Boucher and a few others are just commencing Tract operations. The Tract rr i r\r\f\ rP _ Society at Jtiamourg issues z/u,uuu jltucis annually, and has 60 Tracts and two volumes (Pilgrim's Progress and Keith) in common with the American Society. The Society at Barmen have 25 Tracts to which this Society's funds may be applied; that at Bremen 12 ; that at Berlin 9; the last Society having issued 2,000,000 Tracts{ with access to millions of Poles, Hungarians, Bohemians, Wendish, &c. The Society at Stockholm have 84 Tracts, and are now about to issue the Young Christian and life of Page in Swedish. The Friends of Christ in St. Fetersburgh printed 155,-' 000 Tracts the last year. 19 Tracts have been sanctioned bv this Society, besides 1 *-? -? " " i... ? n:?u i uuxier s v^au iransiuiuu uv a ivu?;uu ui?uj op, and printed at the office of the Holy ! Synod of Moscow, and the Young Christian ' translated ; a population of 60,000 000 to be supplied, and Tracts every where gratefully received. In France, eight American , Baptist missionaries and assistants, and in Hamburg a devoted missionary and colporteur, are also co-operating in the work. Proposed appropriations, including $3,000 for Russia, $5,300. In countries on the Mediterranean are (including reinforcements on the way) 85 American missionaries and assistant*, with a printing establishment at Syra, which has issued iu two years, at this Society's expense, .',700,000 pages; two printing esi ? i . o i : UiOlisnmenis ai omymu, emuruciug a sineotype foundry,and fonts of type for almost all the principal languages of the surround, j ing countries; on Arabic press at Beyrooi; & a press at Oomiah among the Nestorians of Persia. About forty Tracts (including Robinson's Scripture Characters) have been adopted lor publication at Syra; about fifty approved Tracts, and the Saints' Rest, Pilgrim's Progress, and Flavel's Touch, stone, have been issued from the press lately removed from Malta to Smyrna; eight issued by Rev. Mr. Drewer, at Smyrna; and ten Tracts of the American Socie y are published by the Church Missionary Society at Malta. Proposed appropriations, SG,500. In Africa are 19 missionaries and assistants; the South African Female Tract Society at Cape Town has issued six approved Tracts and Pilgrim's Progress; and Rev. Dr. Phillip says 1101 hing is now so r\A/\/)/\/l /ai? m?mt inrv /IVortfc I IlJUUll litCUCU CIS JUUUIJS 1UI Jf! IllMllg 1 JUUO, | Proposed appropriation, 8500. At the Sandwich Islands (including i reinforcements now on the way) are 90 missionaries and assistants, with a printing establishment issuing 10,000,000 pages annually ; two Tracs adapted and a number of Scripture T racts printed. Proposed apropriation SI,000. In India, the missions to the Mahrattas, in Ceylon, Orissa, and other partes of Southern India, and in Northern India, embrace (includmgreinforcements'onthe way) 160 missionaries and assistants, with a printing establishment and type and stereotype foundry among the Mahrat'as; three presses in Ceylon, two in Northern India, and numerous Tracts issued by the Calcutta Tract Soceity in.various languages; 13 Tracts adopted in Mahratta, 30 in Tamul, ? t i... rvi ?_ ti ^ in v^rissa, uesiues riiuriiii s rrugrcss iu o o # seveial languages. Proposed appropriations, $7,000. In Burmah are 48 missionaries and assistants, and 30 native printers ; 5 presses, 2 wholly occupied with Tract printing, and a stereotype foundry; 24 Tracts approved; the whole Bible printed, and operations extending among the Karens, Talings, (See. Proposed appropriation, 84,000. In China and South-eastern Asia are 49 missionaries and assistants; a press at Canton ; a large printing establishment at Singapore, with a stereotype foundry and type in various languages, and 11 Chinese block-cutters and printers at work; 4 presses in Siam, and one among the Shans ; 9 Tracts adopted, and many large Scripture Tracts issued. Proposed appropriations, 89.800. Summary.?659 missionaries and assistants, of whom nearly 200 are ordained preachers ; upwards of 500 have been sent out from the United States, of whom 17 are printers, and the romakvl'T nr" native teachers, printers, or assistants, supporte by our various Missionary Societies. Eigh teen mission printing establishments, foil of which embrace stereotype foundries and twenty nine presses in operution, be sides six Tract Societies in Europe an the laborers in Russia; 259 Tracts an 16 volumes issued in common with tli American Society or approved by the Pul lishing Committee; and the Society an the various Institutions aided, issue Traci in ffty.six different languages, embracin a very large part of tiie earth's populc tion.* Shall all these laborers be told that th American churclifcs are sunk in so dee poverty, or have allowed the love of tl; world so to absorb the spirit of benevolenc that further aid must not be expected? Tin they have forgotten their Saviour, the vows, and perishing millions for whom 1 died ? Shall our brethern who have bee borne out on the arms of our faith and tl i t i: :_u >u? pieoges oi our suppuru rriuiquisu mc plans, lay aside their translaiions, stop the presses, disperse ihe native printers, se; up the truth of God, and hide it from tl eyes of inquiring millions ? VVno sha bear this responsibility ? bear it before Go< and bear it to the judgment? Is there a evangelical pastor who will not do so muc as to bring tiiis cause without delay befoi his people, and sec that their contributioi are transmitted? Is there an officer of a Auxiliary Society who will not attem] to rouse it to action in favor of this object Are there any individuals, male or femal ransomed by blood Divine, who will not b personal gifr, and gaining the co-operatic of others, do what they can ? Is there Christian so poor, that he will not pro for the dews oi the Holy Spirit to descer ? J * on the Society, its omcers ana adorns, nr all who take any part in this great workBy order and in behalf of the Executn Committee. JAMES MILNOR. Chairman. William A. Hallock, Cor. Sec'ry. NewA'ork, Jan. 24,1837. *From American Board of Commissioner 454 missionaries and assistants, 16 pressesai 2 foundries; Americau Baptist Board, 1( missionaries and assistaits, 8 presses and foundry; Western Foreign Missionary S eiety, 24 missionaries and 3 presses; Board Protestant Episcopal Church, 10 missionarii and 2 presses. Languages.?Seneca, Mohawk, Delawar Ojibwa, Otoe, Wea, Puttawatomie, Shawne Creek,. Choctaw,Cherokee, Creole, Englis Inonich PnrtumiPfiP, T f alia V X rCtlC/Ii) 4, vi vi4^uv^vf ? Dutch, German, Lithuanian, Bohemian, Hui garian, Wendish, Danish, Swedish, Polis Finnish, Estonian, Russ, Armenian, Hebret Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Syriac, Persian, Ca fer, Hawahan, Mabratta, Tamul, Teling Oriya, Hindoo, Hindooetanee, Panjabe, Bu man, Karen, Taling, Siamese, Shan, Bugi Javanese, Malay, Chinese.?Total 56. Theproposed appropriations are for Chin $4,000, Singapore and Indian Archipelag 3,000; Siam, 2,000; Shans, 800; Bnrmah, 4,00 Northern India, 1*000; Orissa, 1,000; Telinga 500; Ceylon, 2.CC0; Southern India, 1,501 Mahrattas, 1,000; Sandwich Islands, 1,00< Persia, 500; Nestovians, 500; Asia Mine 2,500; Greece, 2JOOO; Constantinople, 1,00 Russia, 3,000; Sweden, 3C0; Hungary, 301 Poles, 300; Hamburg, 600; France, 800; Soul Africa, 500; United Brethren, 700; N. A Ii dians, 200.?Total, 35,000. Statements shov ing the claims of each station, with the et couragements, maybe found in the Sociei Annual Reports and other documents. Remittances may be addressed to the Sei retaries of the Society; or to Mr. O. R. King bury, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, N 150 Nassau-street, New York. 820 const Intes a Member for Life; the addition of 8* or $50 at one time, a Director for Life. From the Charleston Courier. "SKIMMERINGS"?BY BASIL HALL. Sir,?The last production of Capr. Bas Hall, of which the title is a litile quee forms a sort of episode in his very evenif life, and I think ample repays perusal, nan a es the particulars of a very singuh visit to a German Castle, near Grafz, i Austria, where he remained long enough become well informed of the circumstanc< of that singularly governed country. A ter mentioning many particulars, fro which we republicans and Protestants cai not but revolt, he says: "To bring a coui try into such a state is a melancholy atfui to keep it so, is still more melancholy. J the mind is the first and most importa thing to be controlled, the most powerful < all moral machinery is brought to bear uj on it?I mean Religion." He proceeds to say that all such bool as have a tendency to enlighten the unde standing and improve the heart, are not a Jowed to cross the frontier; while such i minister to the sensual appetite; and imp to vice, are printed there, smuggled in, ar may be had in abundance. But, he add "the most truly hellish dance that has y been contrived, is the celibacy of t! Clergy; and until the deep curse be reino1 ed from the nations of the Continent whet tho Roman Religion nrevoils, there seen '- - I to be no gleam of hope ihat they can evt obtain that degree of domestic virtue, witl out which no genuine political freedom ca be hoped for. So long as there exiss numerous, widely spread, and educate class of men, in close alliance with th State, but whose interests are entirely se| aratefrom those of the rest of the countr and whose manners are necessarily an universally projiigate, it is in vain to expe that domestic morals can be pure. Wei it possible, indeed, to detach this privilege class from the rest of the coinmunit there might be a hope; but when, throuc the medium of public preaching, and, aboi oNof auricular confession, and the inni merable other methods by which the pries obtain free admission every where in tho. countries, they succeed in establishing the influence?there is little hope felt. It needless, and would be painful and disgu* d ing to go into details; but this may be said a i- ?that the wide spread looseness of domes- a l tic manners in Italy, Austria and other v* ; countries where the same system prevails, It ! not only has its origin in the undue influ- tl d ence and profligate habits of the pries's, p d but owes its continuance to their in- ti ie strumentality. This depravity pervades p >- all classes, to such extent that shame is d out of the question; and the whispers of f Is conscience being, especially with such ma- o g chinery, the easiest thing possible to set to si - rest, viee has all its own way. IVe (En- tl glishmen) have a Protestant Church and ' ie \ genuine liberty?two blessings which 11 u p I aflirm, no one can value to their full extent, a ie till they visit Italy and Austria, and see the i e, horrible vices engendered and fostered by s< at Catlio'ocism?the misery and meanness o ir promo, ed by the r spotic espionage?and A ie finally, not only 'he extinction of freedom, tt ;n but, apparently, ihc suppression of all wish g ie to be free, in those degraded coun'.ries."? ir Page 126 and seq. . b ir O that we could he admitted to a sight n al of the Communications forwarded, almost tl 1 1 r ' ? -- I n le weewy, irom mese states to 111s nuuutsa & ill Pope Pius, congratulating him upon the prod, gress that is daily making in the extension & m of this blessed sect among us ! 0 h ii ro A FACT. fi is Some vears since, it became necossarv, tl J ' in in the judgment of the clergy of P>ards- v pt town, to tax the Roman Catholics pretty h :?1 heavily, according to their wealth. Some v e, few resisted this measure, which they con- P iv sidered tyrannical. The consequence was, c >11 that they and their families were deprived n a ! of the privileges of the Church. Notwith- g ly | standing this privation, one of them persist-! a id | ed in resisting clerical tvranny, unlit one of r id j his negroes was taken til, and died. Just v . ? before his death, the priest was sent for, to e ;e 1 hear his dying confession, and to prepare r 1 kirn rtmitli Tl,? nripc* r?r,?itivf>lv rpftl. I J sod to go, and so the poor negro died.? a Whether, according to their notion, he went s to Hell, because the priest would no! ab. s solve him. or whether he only endured long, c er sufferings in Purgatory, we cannot say. r This occurrence, however, had the desired t j effect: The tax was paid, and the family r restored,to their privileges ! s 0f This fact may show the power of the } ?s clergy over their people?and it muv show, t also, that money, in the view of the clergy, c e, is the one thing needful. i e- IVestem Protestant. h, > j | NEW YORK. t From the National Intel'igcnrcr. s I Everything, too, in this American Baby. c tf. Ion of ours, which in the splendor of real * a, 1 greatness will one day outvie Babylon of, r r- old, is done with order as well as with dis- 1 patch. We move on atone and the same a i time with the order and precision of the 1 ^ ' city clock, and at the same time, too, with [ 3! the speed of locomotion. Every man here v ^ is a business man, and there are none * 0; among us who are not business men, for t D; here, even idleness, licentiousness, and a r? drunkenness are trades at wheh children of f j|j both sexes are yearly made apprentices. ' ^ Each go to their business as regularlv as i a- the minute or hour hand of the cfock t j moves upon its pivot. The fashionable 1 n-' man or woman, to his or hers, rising from t ty bed at early evening, and retiring again t after the revels of the night early in the \ c" morning. The industrious man or woman, { who 4< Jive by the sweat of their brow," to f f i theirs, "early to bed and early to r. ?,"liv- r JO ing as all men who can should live, natural- I ; ly, happily, and in health. f Men, too, in New York, in winter make t a business of begging and a business of J stealing, prowling about at night for food < iil and raiment to'sustain them tor the coming | f r, day. These ore your low loafers, each of v 'ul whom carries his business, character, and i - - - m. . f It title in his lace, men comes yourgciuee^ t ir gentlemanly loafer, who lives at the lip of ^ in the ton, who rides perhaps in his coach, ? to with his servants perhaps in livery ; at any ^ js rate, he is the most fashionably dressed man ^ f- J of the city. He can swear by rote, drink ( m j more tattles of champagne than any other ^ ii- j man, and looks leeringly and lovingly with f a- i his exquisite quizzing-glass upon every wo- I r; man under thirty and over sixteen that f ls comes across his path. There nre your nt Jeremv Diddler loafers, who raise the wind t c 9 uf as Jeremy did by their wits, and live upon f [>- long credits and new debts. Keepers of r ' hotels and boarding houses, the tailors, boot- * cs j makers, hatters, and hack-owners, know t r- j thetn well. For all such men, and there t il- are thousands here, winter is the great h is i carnival,the season for planning, scheming, it ' " " 1 1. _ t _ ^ el and borrowing. Tins me gentcei maier |< id calls living by his wits, and thus be will live t s, from January to January again, year after fi et year, and live better, too, than the richest I le nabob in the city. v. f v scene in congress. ls Correspondence of the Baltimore Palrio!, ;r i Washington, Jan. 27. tl i. | There was a personal scene of the most in j intense and painful interest in ihe House to- t a j day?which has however terminated with, a ;d ! out any serious consequences,and in a man. j( le j ner regarded by their friends as perfectly 3.1 hohorable to the parties. The unfinished v. | business of yesterday was the bill introduced t d | by Mr. Bell, to secure the freedom of elec. f ct tions. This having been taken up at the v re proper time, Mr. Bell was proceeding to; n ;d address the House, but gave way, with j . v, his usual courtesy, to several gentlemen i " Jh who wished to make reports from standing a re committees, present resolutions, &c. Mr. f j. Jurvis asked the consent of the House to j s ts ' take upa bill providing for the enlistment of! se boys m the naval service of tho I nit ed | . ;ir ' States. Mr. Bell objected. Mr. Jarvis is made some remarks in support of his pro-! ' ;f. 1 posal to take up the subject at that time.' r nd referring to the objection of Mr. Bell, nd the wish of that gentleman to go on ith the consideration of his hill, he osed inguage which Mr. Bell and many genernen around him construed into an imeachment of his motives, and an impaiaon ihot Mr. Bell sought only to gratify his ersonal feelings in a speech. Mr. Be!! rose instantly and said uk ie i/iff/"?The Speaker instantly called to nJer. Mr. Jarvis then replied, ih ash. tnnce, that he had no hing more to say in tat place. There was a dead patise for several mines. Mr. Merct r, w ith a vifew to bringing* bout a reconciliation, called upon * Mr. arvis to re-state die language he had used? a that the House might judge of the extent f the provocation as well as of the retort, fr. Jarvis replied that lie wouM not re. act, nor say one word mora, o?>^ the lanuage applied to him was withdrawn. Mr. Mercer then offered a resolution that oth the gentlemen should be coded upon nutunlly to pledge themselves to the Homo bat they would not prosecu e n qunirel [rowing out of he words ert?ploye<r By 'W tern. At th:s point, it was suggested that Ir. Hell had i? sonde,stood the language f Mr. Jam's, aud that ihe lat er had not tended to impeach the motives of the jrmcr. Mr. J Jell then rose, aed recitfog iie language which ho understood Mr. Jar* is to use, namely, Mhaf ihe gentlemfcn com Tennessee had subm: red a proposition rhich he must know could no. lead to any ublic good, but only to the private grahfiation of h mself." He said he could put io other construction on this, but that the [ent'eman meant to imp^eh his motives nd insu' him. If, however, the geotfc:. nan would disclaim any such inten ion, he rould wiihdraw the epi.het he us*d. Sevral gentlemen rose in their placet and cor. oboriicd ihe accuracy of the Jangnege of Jr. Jsnds, as recited by tfr Bell, and greed lha they had p'aced I:kj same coni . nr. inn on li? Oihef sen lemeo rose and ,MW w" c tated the<r impressions as io die language imploved, which were different in some espects from the construe :oo of Mr. Bell; iut i here seemed to be a genera' concurence that the words " gratification of peronal feeling" were employed, and these, 'ou will und rrstond, wcre'exactly the wolds o which Mr. Bell took the strongest ex. :eption, and used the s roofjesi expressions n order to repel. A gr&> deal of desidforv conversation trose, in which several members pariicipaed, making appeals to Mr. Jyfvis to re. state his 'aoguagi.?-and t > Mr. Bel' to withIraw his language. Mr. Phillips made an jarnest end solemn npp'-ul to bo'h nen and to the House, to have .be matter econfciled. Mr. Pey on. in reply to these tppenls, reminded ilic Hoiise of ^hai Mr. Jell hdtJ volun an'ly sued. and he not# re. >eafed in his behalf, that if Mr. Jarvia vould say he did not intend to insult him, le would withdraw all he said byway of reor. Mr. Jorvis made no reply?but agaio * - - * .rk . r'? i great deal oF desuUory conversation iook dace. which it is perfectly useless to repeat. Motion if er motion was made to adjourn? r being regarded by many members that he spoeches made by the ibembeis who iad interposed, only made matters worse, md rendered a proper understanding more ind more difficult. But these motions vere successively defeated. There was a (enerul des'reto have thj matter sei'led bebre the Hous? should udioorn.1 fn the nean 'ime, while he was contused around, >oth :he gentlemen irterested sat with perect coolness and composure, and left it to heir friends lo ta'k. At last Mr. Wise, who had been ass?du>usly engaged during the whole day, in the tusiness of the invest igadng commhitee, and vbo had not been present during the proceed r ngs nn il laie in the day. arose <k took up the >art of peace-maker?and I am glad .o say, vith perfect success. Mr. Jarvjs yield. ?d to Ids solicitations. lie w?se, and said he vas prepared to make an explanation, pro. dded the objectionable epi hep was with. Irnwn io as to enable him to make it. Mi1. Wise then sr'id that in the name of his frtend ie would withdraw it for the t'me. and for he purpose of a'Fording Mr. Jarvis the op. >orlur?itvto explain* Mr. Jarvis replied fhnt :he load was now aken oft*, and he could proceed eesilv. fie >roceeded -hen to give an explanation c?ey way satisfactory. He meant to say 'Mr. Be I must be aware that hit proposiion was of such a character that no legislaion could prow out of it?and thai it could . lave no effect bu' to gratify personal feeing"?but he did no' mean to make any ersonol reflection or allusion ; on the conrory, notwithstanding political differences, Kirt nlw?v? hplrl tlm r.horacter- of Mr. IW MUVI M.I ?? T ? Sell in high respect. Mr. Wise repeated f!)is disclaimer fotfie douse, and said he thought his friend (Mr. Sell.) ought 10 be perfectly satisfied wi'li it ?and therefore in this name he wiilidrew he objectionable language. Mr. Mercer congratulated the Hotlse on his hrppy settlement of a painful subject; nd on motion the House immediately ad3urned. - /( Some disorderly proceedings occurred ipfore one of die Committees of the louse of Represent&:iv?voa account of diich has b< en extensively circulated in the icwspapers. Tho whole matter is exceedigly disreputable to the parties concerned nd to the country. It originated in a reusal by the notable R. M. Whitney to an* wer a quesiion put to him, on his appear, ince before the committee as a witness. ,Ve publisli the account below as a spccinen of the language and temper of some >f our members of Conerrss.