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10 THE ‘UNIO’ MASS MEETING, (CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE.) tinge ed how much had been been sulfered, to ought that I would be t) bear my testimony in arly ancestors, when the yotance, leit their ploughs ker Hill, J am giad to be Js eminently appropriate, birthday of Washlogtoa’ is something divine in piause. )Patrick Heury, Pi is car to ip aivanee the threbbings of the {was there that Thomas Jetferson declared ‘ence of his eountry in letters of living light. that George Washington stood forth, and fought for the relief of his country from ite afflictions; and yet there the sharp pikes were tanufactored to strike wt the Dosome of the women and children of tae Southern confederacy; and \t seemed to me that if Wathington were alive be would fall to the earth, declaring, with More truth than it #2 strong ingratitade— more stropg than traitor’s wrm—that had vanquished Bim. Gentlemen, I come no! its bebalf. (App captaius and gen and went out to Bpeech, but to give you some thoughts that your patriot- jem may clotoe with something of eloquence. This ery of disunion is always met with derision. It i@ something hike religion, which Se the goof of the int- @el, but the masses koww its value. And so the man who loves tne «d at and derided by the aman is almost afraid to speak in its aavo- the masses cling to it as the foundation of erty and prosperit ‘ho was {i that drst warnod ountry of the risiag of the cloud of disunion? Washington. (applause) What has inis se: party done? Yt has destr destroyed the whig party; with the democracy, and of Horry Cay. (Applaues ) toexpress no political opinions, it would be a source of pride and gralilication tu sion of the gratitude ‘@fthe noble and generons all sections of tue eountry to p Benate of th Of Winfield Scott, ance Bai thai w) Of deve ern States the Pacitic States we jestified them in such uguration of cisunon. cf Boston, say quote ’ nearly “While Tspeak the arches n of gitated the « that when the the Southern § and retire, That w dit fond an act he ray: civil war.”? by no party th voice n wherever they may be, that wherever the flag ¢ Union may de raised to follow under that banner, and ni permit it to trail fo the dust, but to be as o4e unit aad one man to pat down ectionaiizm in every part of our common country. Afew points more and 1 have done. Lor the agitation of the question of fis alluded to, aod I am not going to ¢ Toe great evil ery b been strast right of sinvery; bat im my bi I believe m the © of corenants, a: bold to th f keeping wyiolate, I resr r this when I look » Berenc heavens after the storm and eee there the bow of God’s promise never more to Celuge the exrth with a flood. (Applauee) We have mate a covenant to & Miver up ihe fugitive man, aud we must stand b; our boud We cannot forfeit the covenant by which ¥ are Dound, We are wot 80 wise, 80 good, or #9 grea, Bhat we tbc expect 10 ese the galaysi which bave befal'e r nationg. The Assyriau e: was very great, b Faway; and Ro ‘ory and magaifisence, tha! groat na {it would last ver, has also had been by otber thia the nt “ self, with all her ause of the ¢ Japits of the rep in i 14 be cosily overpa Jd raizein revolt ag d state z as near ay 8h y ia defense o Whatever may b free Statce, nad € ite @ tis ner x at is the promalgation inson then continuea immortst genias of Shaksp: hig works. No one now cay ‘ole a deer or indulge m drink, ry for the noble sentime! Je then alinded tot at Ea Half WL yhety pees mend’ Obediahe te ail lawe be law was #1 Pale ee ae Rove pgalnst Boer, i the effect that if slave os oto that city that be would nos bo given He denied ‘this charge na e. It yotand slaves had egcaped, nj were under the f Bonker Hill itself, if their delivery was de. ‘ven W The duty of all clneses st. ‘To the proslavery man he nt Four jnstiintions preserved hold 4 wonld say—if hold fast to in the prog! lading us on to (Applause.) Ia oon that Exgfind and Amer? slavery England as thete noble (Applause ) nt up. five the ty erved AI ‘ he must #1 iB lo oppose and Chairman had put and t Excuses Moershall, of Ken p, of Tennessee. The anc r song from tho san he tht f © evening. baring beep put a al from th Hon. feft Fon Thos. Phitadelphia. bi ment God speed. With three cheart for Philadelphia the gae)ights wer 4 down, and the vast y parted to their homes During the proceedings the following letters were read — FROM HON, JON J CRITTENDEN. Wasninetox, Feb. 6, 1860. Gest ceive to day your letter of the 2d ting me to be “present and ad the Gity and State of New York,” on ihe “eve of Washing- ton’s birthday, 2ist of Febra Ithavk you ry. poe me by your invitation, Dut wy duties will detaim me here, and obkge me w deciive it. ‘With my best wishes for the success of your m its pes most’ r riotic obj , 1 remain, J. PROM HON. EDWARD E T. Bostox, Fed. 8, 1860. GrxtiEMEN—I have received your favor of the’ mass meeting to be held on evening of the 2st of February, under the auspices of the National Union Men of the city or New York. it will not be iu my power, in cohsequence of duties aud engage ments in this quarter, to comply with your request; and having had frequent occasion of Inte to express my ‘geno- ral views of the state of public affairs, I will only ad the hope that the proceedings of your meeting may tend » Present dangerous excitements, and reatore a kind); ng between the sister States of the Union. remain, gentlemen, with great respect, your friend fellow citizen, EDWARD EVERETT. PROM HON, JOSHUA HILL. OF GRORGIA. Wasaixetox, Fed. 20, 1860. ** Tam glad that any feoble’ expression of at. tachment to the Union that may have fallen from my lips Nightest aed m arousing the Union seatment of the country. The state of the count-y at the time of ‘the assembling of the present Congress was such as to Awaken solicitude. if not apprebension, for the safety of our institutions. It therefore seemed 19 me a matter of Patriotic duty to lend my name and counsel to the effort Of wrovsing the bation to the lmportanc> of emboayiag ‘the most conservative men of all parties in a constiutioa- 8) Union party. True, i did not permit myself to hope that such a movement would attract a majority of tue ‘voters of the couatry at large; but I did believe that it Woulu at least consolidate the weatiered forces of the old whig party that had, io their devotion to conservatism, refused to amalgamate with their ancient advergarics, or that powerful association that had absorbed and sapped ite power in the free States. More than this, 7 trusted that such democrats as had severed their party ties, and uvited with the Union loving Ameri- cans, would find the Union movement more consonant with their feelings than apy other exietiog political as rociation. It was my fudgment, thet though we mint not be able to control for ourselves as a party proper, a majority in many of the States, we could at least make ourselves a balance of power, to be feared and courted | Canadians, the two great rival parties of the country, as ao ele- aan capable of turning the political scale our sense of patriotism might cirect. In coming to these conclu- gions I have not permittea myself to be influenced, much less governed, by the probable fatlure to enlist a ma- jority of the voters of any one State in favor of this new ‘Union movement. It will require time w calm the ex- detract from hor $ ” NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEWS TROM WASHINGTON. INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS, Forthecming Speech of Senator Seward on the Mfnirs of the Nation. Sprech of Mr. Lamar, of Miss., on the “Irrepressible Conflict.” Henry Winter Davis’ Defence of his Vote for Pennington, THE MEXICAN AND PARAGUAY TREATIES. THE HARPER'S FERRY INVESTIGATION, Correspondence Between Thaddeus Hyatt and the Senate Committee, Rory Rey he. Our Special Washington Despatch. Wasnivcton, Feb. 21, 1860. INAUGURATION OF THE WASHINGTON STATUR. The city to-night is filled with strangers, who havo poured in ag much to witness the reception of the Seventh regiment early in the morning ag to participate in the in. auguration of the statue. The promptness of the Seventh to reepond to the Congressional invidation, in view of the sacridice of time, business and money it incurs, is the tubject of universal comment and admiration for the gal- lant New Yorkers. OUR TREATY WITH MEXICO. ‘The general impression in politica! circles here is that the Mexican treaty will not be ratified by the Senate in tts present form, although it is not believed they will go to the extent of rejecting it, The principal ground of oppo- sition to the treaty is the authority which it confers upon the government of the United States to intervene forcibly atthe call of the government of Juarez; and this opposi tion is not confined to party, but is equally shared by democrats and repubticans. The proposed amendments teek ty guard against any poesidle interference between the opposing parties in Mexico otherwise than diplomati- cally. mon bas sent here to every Senator an urgent pro test against the ratitication of the treaty, and endeavors 0 show that the treaty making power cannot be exercised by Juarez, To th.’ Mata, Juarez’s minister, replies, that an act ol the Mexteas’ Congress expressly authorizes the President, uncer contipge.icies like the present, when the Biato of the conniry preveit!s the mecting of Congress, to make treaties. He tas failed, Bowever, to produce a copy of thie act; and, of caugge, the fact is not accepted unquestioned, The treaty undoubted)y grants important privileges; bat wheather enflicient to counterbalance the objections urged, is debatewdle, An armed intervention would soon give us the two provinces on the Rio Grande—New leon, anc s—magoifivent territories, donbticss, and simi rably adapted te the cultivation of sugar apd eotton, bo tides being porsersed of much mineral wealth. Without this armed intervention, Sonora will, probably, be the te we should acquire for the present, an? that muet, negerenriy, be & free Siete. Hence it fs that ex treme Southern Senators generally are favorable to the treaty. But, at tho eame time, others are yowilling, for the fame reason, to enter into an arrangement of doubtful Propriety, which, if successful, might reopen the nigger end keep up an agitation waore baneful effects jae already glven thé republican party @ prominence it could not otherwise have obtained. ‘ Vnices a very marked change takes place in the minds of Senators may vert ettieded (he {r20! fy, ite pre. Sent shape will not be ratidedy It is said here that Mr. La Reintree, Mr. McLane’s Sec retary, furnished’® copy of the treaty, though in a muti lated form, to & third party, through whom it was given to one of york contemporaries. Mr, Mcl ane avows that the treaty *° published is materigily different from the document “before the Senate. Ite publication is believed bare been caused by some rinister motive, and many Sewy.ors consider ita grave offence, and oe which cal's ‘ar explanation on the part of the Secretary of Legauen Yr it be true that Mr. La Reintree permitted it to be pab d even in a mutilated condition, he was guil miseness in bis official duty, the Senate aty back to the Senate. ¢, with Mr. Crittenten against it. They also intimated. their intention to pet it under every and all circumstances, If ae course is pursued by the republicans in the Senate, the treaty will be rejected. Seuator Macon in formed the Senate to-day, that on Monday nex! Move an executive session, and ask its continuance unti the business before them was disposed of, the meaning of which is, that the treaty is to be considered from day to day, until it is either ratified or rejected. The imprestion among democratic Senatore is that the treaty will be reject : Not @ single republican Senator is squarely for the treaty, and but one has been heard to eay that he wil go for it ot all, and then not usless there existed a legitimate and generally recogniae! government in Mexico, and a re publican President of the United States. Jam authoritatively informed that the aanouncement in the Henan of to-day, that Mesera, Sumner, Seward ana others, baye sent circulars to the merchants in their con atituencies, and have received replies favorable to the ratifcation of the Mexican treaty, is a mistake. TUR PARAGUAY TREATY ‘There was quite a sharp and interesting debate in ex uein reference to some of the provisions in the commercial treaty with Peraguay, publizhed in yee. terday's Heap, relative to the navigation of the Parana and other rivers in that country. It was finally ratified fearaguan treaties were made the er for the next executive session. PAL PLATFORM OF THE DEMOCRACY. The Senatorial Democratic Caucas will report their a Dongias resolutions on Thursday. Report says Douglas will be present and denounce them as no platform at all, and will inform the committee that they cannot make a platform which be will recognize as either binding upon him or the Democratic Convention to be holden at Charles ton. The republicans on the would ecutive se TUE SICKIRS AND WILTIAMSON CONTESTED CASE. The Committee on Elections to-day continued the ex amination of the contested seat of Mr. Sickles. The lat. ter and the contestant, Mr. Williamson ,argned the cage at some length. Without coming toany decision, the com- mittee ad journed to Thursday next. It is supposed that the case of Howard vs. Cooper will do next taken up and diaposed of. It is less voluminous ‘and more easily digested than the other cases. Cooper's official majority 5. Itis attacked upon four distinct grounde, each independent of the others:—First, it ia claimed that the Fourth ward of the city of Detroit should be thrown out, which gave 200 majority for Cooper, on account of irregularities; second, it is claimed that Ward second, with 76 majority for Cooper, was improperly counted in consequence of mob violence; third, the town of Groes Point, with 160 majority for Cooper, must be rejected for gross irregularities ; fourth, the contestant claims to have proved illegal votes cast for Cooper, mostly Cooper has taken no rebutting testimony. MR. SEWARD'S FORTHCOMING SPERCK. ‘The bill introduced by Senator Seward to-day provides for the admission of Kansas under the Wyandot constitu- tion. He gave notice that he would cal it up on Wednes- day, the 29th inst., when he will express his views upon cited popular mind in the Soush, 80 as to permit a dispas- | the subject. This announcement will satisfy the nume- wionate consideration of the motives that brought into existence a party soificiently pational and cop- cilistory to embraco all true men in all sections. If wy convenience would permit I should be bappy to be present with you on the interesting occasion that calls you together, and to afford all the aid in my engin the advancement of your patriotic put trust eity, and of your stil greater State, may be awakened to 4 of the merits of your cause, and that you ‘may receive thourands of converts from tne ranks of those dese conservative then yourecives. In conclusion, I beg to be allowed the expression of this eentiment:— aoe caangh anne sein riling ob 2 \y , an and mate laws. JOSHUA HILL. ots coraben. vamerara Arion jusiasic, 10 consequence of the before alluded to, although kindled at the corners i lil E rous inquiries which have been made as to whether he intended to make a speech. Senator Seward wil make a speech on Wednesday next on the admission of Kansas, and upon the State of the Union generally. Contrary to his usual practice, he wil! most sincerely, that the public mind of your great | not furvish advance copies of his views to the press. ‘THE PUBLIC PRIMING QUESTION. ‘The action of the House upon a report of the Committee on Public Expenditures to.day knocked the life out of the select committee appointed to report a plan for ecomo- miting and systematizing the public printing, binding and engraving. The first named committee were pre- viously authorized to perform the same duty. ‘THE COMMITSONERSHIP OF THE LAND OFFICE. the usual ‘The President has nominated Joseph Willson, the pre- THR ABOLITION OF THR FRANKING PRIVILEGE. ‘The Special House Committee, to whom were referred ‘mued—These are the grounde 4} which we ot the South place our aig ioatit the vpfilness of the bieck race for any condition higher ‘bap that of slavery. Our position is, that wherever the two races are brought into contact the supre! of the white man must be acknowledged, It aeawened (aalithe object of the Revolutionary war was to establish an abso- ¢ cquality of rights, socially and politically. The gen- tleruan from Connecticut who aseerted this ought to haver had the candor to hold up bis own State to reprebension, for violating thoge principles of equality, far in Conaectl- | cot the pegro is neither politically or socially equal witt. the «bite man, but, on the contrary, he 18 deprived of ina right of yoting, he is held tneompetent to a witness, ond be is precluded from the privilege of intermarr: oe with whites, and the people guard sedulously against contact between them. Sir, the only difference of jegisia~ ton between the States on the subject of slavery is, that the number of negroes North tg nod eviliciert to juptify or to make it necessary to keep thema ip a condition of domestic slavery, while with us that gou- ditten is indispensable to good order and to the welfare of society. This demoustrable that in negro in that eopdi- fon im the South hug attained bis bicbest moral and iatel~ lectual cevelopement—thet while in that condition he haey done more for for mankin: their adjournment, I shall ask for process to compel your appearance, ly, your obedient servant, . M. IN, Chairman, &c., &¢., &e. Wasmyoron, D. ©. } Turspay Morning, Feb. 21, 1860. Hon, J. M. Mason, Chairman of the Select Committee :— Sim—Your favor of yesterdey, in immediate response to mine of same dat, informa me’ that you will ask pro: cess to ‘cempel’’ my appearance. Were this & personal matter, J could not but take offenc: at the executionary manner in which I find myseif «is; osed of; bat being aware that with your honorabie com” ittee the duty is & mere judicial one, it would argue ia me the weakness of a man were I disturbed by the treatmen! designed only for the citizen. To me the most painful fret connected with this affair is the circumstance that there seems to be Lo way of arousing the honorable Senate to a full and search. ing discussion of a question involving 80 deeply the hap- Piness of freemen—involying, indeed, [ may say, the ea- Sentials of liberty iteelf. But 1 venture to hope that a day, not distant, will come, when ths liberty of a Northern white man will awaken not less attention than the enslave- vement of a Southern black one. - Your favor, sir, of yes- terday, suggests to me that perhaps a State Court at the North might poesibly take some-interest in a free born citizen who claims the benefit of Article 4 of the amend- ‘ments to the constitution. As your honorable committee have seen proper to disregard my prayer for a ten days delay, T am now constrained to ask their indulgence while I test the constitutionality of this question elsewhere. Eay- ipg availed mrt of no concealments, and proposing none now, I take this occasion to say to your honorabie- committee that within the week I will apprise them by letter where any further process of theirs may reach me, whether at New York or Boston. Tam, gir, your obedient servant. THADDEUS HYATT. Mr. Hyatt failing to appear before the committee yes- terday, as requested by Mr. Magon, the latter brougbt the subject before the open Senate today, and asked for Process to compel Hyatt’s attendance, which was granted by a vote of forty-three yeas to twelve nays. Those who opposed granting the power were Messrs. Pugh, Toombs and Chestnut, democrats, and Hale, Sumner, Wilkinson, Wade, Bingham, Hamlin, Clark, Durkee and Wilson, Among the republicans who voted for the proposition of Mr. Mason were Meesrs. Seward, Collamer, Fessenden, ‘Trumbull, Harlan, Dixon, Foster, Foot, Grimes, Ten Ryck and Doolittle. Al) the republican Presidential candidates, except Hale and Wade, voted for the proposition of Mr Mason. Mr. King was absent. Mr. Douglas left the Senate when the question opencd, and took refuge in the House. Mr. Chandler, not votiog, was approached by a the Senate bill abolishing the fra: k rg privilege, have the eubject under consideration, and it is understood that a majority are in favor of retaining the privilege, with such legislation a8 will prevent violation of the law. The mi- nority will advocate, in their report, its entire abolition, A large majority of the members of the House are strong- ly oppoeed to abolishing the franking privilege. APPOINTMENTS: CONFIRMED, The Senate in executive session to-day confirmed a large number of Pestmasters and other officers. They also confirmed the nomination ot Joseph S. Wilson as Commiseioner of the General Land Office; John 8. Hutton of Georgia, as Consul at Hanover; and Jobn T. Pickett as Consul at Vera Craz. THE HARPER'S FERRY INVESTIGATION-CORRPSPONDENCE TE (TWEEN THADDEUS HYATT AND THE COMMITTER, ETC. A rather epicy correspondence has been going on be. tween the Senate Brown Raid Investigating Committer and Thaddeus Hyatt, President of the National Kansas Aid Society. Hyatt, since his arrival here, on the Ist of Feb- ruary, st which time he was subpoenaed, has been con- fined by ilInees to bis room, and has never appeared be- fore the Committee. His original intention, as announced in this correspondence at the time, was to go before the Committee, and refuse to answer any question, 0 ast» bring the matter before the Senate and country, and if be wan then ordered to be committed for contempt, his friends would apply for s writ of habeas corpus and bring the care before the Supreme Court, where it woul! b thoroughly argued. Hyatt, it is said by his friente knows nothing about Brown’s affairs, but is de sirous to test the constitutional rights of the citizen. Ge organization are good and true men, and to them he owed THe bonor of his seat bere. tn conclusion be speke in {a- vor of the compromise resolutions of 1850, agreed to by | both ibe wing and democratic parties, a8 the means of | quieting the slavery agitation. Mr Texprsvo, (cem.) of Obio, remarked that be uv- | Serstood Mr Simi to ray that he (Pendleton) had, during | the contest, correctly stated his (Smith's) political pria. | ciples. He whated “Mr. fmith to eay distinetly whether | tat was so. | Mr. Sxrmm replied, while you ¢id not state the details of | our COUVerBAlOD, your gidtement of the result was cor: reet dir, Alten, (c¢m.) of Odio, wished to make an explana- tion in relation to the subject, bat was prevented by « calls to order.” Tm a sarr, Mr. Monris, (A. L. Cem.) of Ui., from the Committee Roads and Canals, reported a joint resolution, giving oe argent of Congress to the wction of ihe States of ‘Texas and Arkavear, relative to the removal of the River Ratt, by linposing conaage duties, and moved the qucrtion on itt passage. *his reeolution occasioned much confusion. Mr. Fars wortn, (rep) of Ill, said chat it was read merely fer information. bir. Rust, (dem.) of Ark., remarked thet it was utterly untrue that there was any altempt to deceive ‘The reeolution was then recommitted. RESTORATION OF THE CHAIRS AND DBSKR Mr. Wasuwukss, (rep.) of Ill, from the Select Commit- tee on the subject, reported in fayor of removing the present seats and restoring the chairg and deeks; and in order to give time for the purpose proposed an ajourn- mont, the Sengte concurring, from Friday next to the bth of March, Nir. Mines, (dem) of S. C., made a minority report. Mr. Wasnnoasz, of Ii., for the purpose of testing the renee of the House, moved the previous question. Mr. Farnswonis, (rep.) of Il., moved to lay the re- ports on the table. Noegatived by 16 majority, ‘The regoluton for restoring the chairs and desks was peered by nine majority. ‘The resolution to adjourn from Friday to the 5th of March, to muke such chage, was tabled by thirty-one Buajority, peous pifvence, there. ‘but vice, poverty, Wretchednees ena debagement. 1 Liberia, Mr. Blatr, of Missouri, upon this floor that Liberia waa: Was Btill the house of bon The eee sag ps eome doubts about this ly could not point to n Of advance ond | <riginal moral status of ibe cottage And if Liberia red / ot show signs of decay and itwas because of he tide of free emigration from the United States, which rings into the ehrunken bay of its sickly efresbing tide for its moral and mental ot refer to the condition of, the n the Northern States, for gehitemen wel it. The census returns showed thas bi cal condition was superior in the the North, Besides, if freedom bletsing to the African, more had dee! the South than bad been done by all tionista, for there bad been a emancipated by the Southern States than cipated by the Northern States, and thousand freo ve, 8 living in the South residents in the Northern, States, Degro at the South was superior to his condition other country, and if the abolition of slavery wi followed iz eden retrogression, vation Now E ‘ME PRINTING INVESTIGATION, Mr, Flaskix, (A L. dem.) of N. Y., offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the Select Committee on Print- ing band over tothe Committee on Public Expenditares ali their books and papers, and such evidence as they have taken, and be discharged from the further conside- ration of the subject. INTERESTING DRVRLOPEMENTS, Mr. Hoaxp, (rep.) of N. Y., offered a resolution that a committee of ‘Sve be appointed to inquire and investigate whether any improper attempts bave been made, or are about being made by perrons connected with the Executive Departments, or acting under their advice», to influence action of this House, or members thereuf, on any queetion or measure which the House has acted upon or which is under consideration, by directly or indirectly promising favors uoder the government, or ewbordinate, ia conside Tation ol any veie withheld or to be given, and that the cornmiitee have power to eend for persons and papers. Mr. Winerow, (dem. of N. C.) objected the coné Tation of the resolution. Mr Hovstoy, (dem. of Ala.) was willing (t should be in- troduced at gore other time, but he objected because a privileged question was now pending Sir. Hoaxp withdrew the resolution for the present. ‘THE ELECTION O¥ PRINTER. On motion of Mr. Wasurcry, (rep. of Me.) the election tion of Printer was postponed till Thursday, by four majority. be Fee wel Sxiecr Comaniree Room, Unrmmo Srares Senate, Wasninatoy, Feb. 4, 1860. Tuarpers Hyatt, Fsq.:— SuR-—J am directea by the committee of the Senate ap- more than If the condition of the org ay Lye ig ree eoil, and to ee men of the North. The: free labor ts dishonorea by contact with cB Tr Were not the two systems co-exisiing with the republic? Were not the toil millions that constituted the sub- etratum on which splenvid fabric of the Territorial ‘system rears its y men : each one of them est, and tenacious of bis rights ‘Though he was uently compelled to work in midday, when the very earth was melupg with fervid heat, ant when the negro slave was resting from his labor, still his work was dignified and honorable; and though commerca ight Janguish, and manufactures fail into decay, and the ‘wages of Jabor might fall, and the price of provisions in- orcage, sti)the could’hush their mut of discontent au assuage the gnawings of hunger by one proud, glorious thought—the dignity of labor, But how is this labor can taminated by the existence of Southern slave labor? Tra. game coptact exlea jp tbe South, and was jabor honored there? According @ the estimate made, there wire three hundred aud twenty’ ‘hovgana, slaveholders 10 the South, Esch one of these three dred and twenty thousand bad one vote, and no more, Ex*D oue of tha five miilions of non slavebolders had one ye, and Lo, less. Therefore the institution was in the holo und of the non-tlaveholders of the South, and they had Dub to. close their bends and the institution was crushet. 1 the effect of slavery was degrading, why dia not thé #0K+ slaveholders throw it off, w ide- and proud of his position? DRRATE ON THE STATE OF TRE COUNTRY. went into Committe of the Whole on the Union dtr. Lanan, (Gem ) of Mise., said—Mr. Chairman, in re- Dg to FoMY Of thy arguments advanced a few days ago the ingenious aud well corsidered epeech of the gentle. man from Connecticut (Abr. Perry), I will commence by calling the attention of the committe to a prediction ut- tered by the cistingvished commander, Commodore Deca. or, Wit re erence to the results that were to be antict pated from the South of hostile fecliogs between the two great sections of tbe coufederacy, North and South. (The quotetion was here read ) Sir, the drecord which reigned for seven long weeks upon thie floor was fearful evidence of the deep seated disorder of the political system. My object to day is to inquire how far my copstiwents, and Tremain, sir, Your very ebliged and obedient servant, THADDEUS HYATT. Seect Commurree Room, Usrrep States SevaTE, WaswNorox, Feb. 17, 1860. Tnappevs Hyatt, Bag :— ? bas been persuaded by some of the ablest republican The correspondence which follows becomes | ant eilizen, and involving the question as bo Low (ar a le; © Pointed to inquire into the facts and circumstances attand- waggish Senstor from New England to know if he was Jith inst, at their room in the Capitol, whon and where was placed in the hands of the later, informing him of your Honorable body, to the effeet that my presence is MISCELLANROUS MATTERS, within such range a8 bot to embarrass the action of your present circumstances, a8 & peculiar favor, It is'proper national copyright io Mr. Morris, of Pennsylvania. iDg Couges$s to pass a law forthe purchase of self-right- bas received your note, und in reepouse thereto desires lawyers here not to contend with the Senate; cthers hav inasmuch as it is the basis of futare interesting Senatoria tive body has the power to assume the prerogative of ing the recept ivasion at Harper’s Ferry, to notify you aleo a candidate for the Presidency, After the vote, Mr Your presence is dccmed desirable. Respect(uliy, yours, Wasuixctor, D. C., Feb. 17, 1860. It is the ‘Committe the latter to test the whole question in the courts raid will be trapsferred for a time from the political to bas already laid me under obiigations, but considerations eroue regard of your boporabie committee, embolden me Among the buriness of the House Committee on Foreigt: Bud the Canadas, and for a commercial treaty with Cuba, for me to add, in this connection, that I waive ali claim 1 Mr. Corwin; the resolutions relating to the seizure of the ‘MR. FLORENCE presented jn the Houge to-day a memorial ‘ ing life boats, and other appropriations necessary for the me to say that the committee will meei on Monday morn- advieed him to make the contest, but not to make it here. nd jucicial proceedings concerning the right of the Judicial branch of the government:— that the committee will meet on Friday morning uext, the Hyatt’s letter, of this date, m reply to Mr. Mason) D. F. MURPHY, Clerk to Committee. r ’ ’ ~ To mx Hox. J. M Mason, Chairman of” the Senate Select J Where ® process will reach Hyatt, Sin—1 aim ip receipt Of @ communication from the Clerk | York, go that to some extent the interest of the Brown this day desired. 1 would not presume on a courtesy that the commercial metropolig of the nation, that, if explained, would commend my motives to the gen- to solic a further indulgence. An extension of tine : Affairs to day, the regolutions for the aquisition of Cuba honorable commitiee wonld be regarded by we, under together with the French Spoliation bill, were referred to ihe ordinary per diem allowance of witaess. bark Adriatic to Mr, Burlingame; and the bili for inter from the Philadelphia Board of Marine Underwriters, ask Sin—Mr. Mason, Chairman of the Select Commitied, equipment of life-saving stations on the coasts of Long jug next, the 20th inet., at eleven o'clock, when the com- Island and New Jersey. Jt wee appropriately referred to mittee will expect to meet you without fail. F _ the Committee on Cotomerce. Very reepecttuily, you PMU. ork te i el K eae they could do it by simply’ DP MURPHY, Clerk to Committee. Messrs. Bane aud Joun Cocmrane presented memorials | ine people of the South generally, are recponsibie for | depositing in a senseless urn paoss af Paper ? it on Wasutncton, D. C., Feb. 20, 1860. from citizens of the State of New York prayingfor thefree- | the preeent condition of things. Mississipp: has grown | becavse that there is no class among whom To me How J. M. Masox, Chasman of the Senate Select dom of the Dublic lands to actual settlers. The number | Up under the federal Union, and there is uot a | Slavery secures ¥ Dieasiugs Committee :— such idespread as C amongst the non slavcholders of the South; and st Sm—J am fa receipt of your honorable committee's pe Proprietor within her limits w)o doce not feel himself among: then you will not hear a whisper of discontent, not a mur- of such memorn.'s is largely on the increase. pleaged to the permanenes of ihe fedora! Unon. Her remptory demand for my appearance, despite my very Some of the pape'S erroneously represent Mr. Adams, | noble U sity apd Ler aimurable telolastic institu. | mur of disapprobation, uot a protest agains: its morals 9 respectful, urgent and searopable request tor delay. : Mr. Adame, of Mf, yusotts tions were aj) establizhed by donations from the public | justice or expediency. Ido not pretend to say toa} w I find myself at present subject to one of the 1 Keniticky, trtead of 1% Adams of Massachurotts, a8 j at her industrial puree, her coi. | have arrived to astate of perfection in the Souls) partie | following contingencies, viz, ith first ~ T a momber of the Howse Aigiect Committee on the Sonalo's 5 and enterprlea, 78 covernmentiathe shape | say that the reach of thought, the maturit-, of ju tify under protest, or, secondiy. to , ~» t0 te ee ee ae 4 cived, and Drought to beak upon the insututions of hore, out protest; of, | third ¥ &} tesitly wit | bill avolisbing the franking privilegé. Ce a eae eevtuie Cay witha love or order Steger antag Noreaen ite ‘a tent » 9 HL tesnrpy at all heart of her peopie beats this cay with a love of order, a, mer’ fimo , ant’ fah decision herd, I respect ato wy own 5. me. Were I tniuenced’ only by a convenietice, or were I merely # con- peace and tranquility throughout the Upion. Missiaeippt, sir, bas neyer declared hereelf in favor of disunion per se, med, in DOF will ehe ever Make that declaration till she becomes 7 Blavery shall be THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. fous witre % 7 si ke North are delibe- | to im its ay; for’ 088, T should novacek, ag 1 uould not need, Gepyinged that her slater States of e delibe- Property "wp the firet event | ould testite either with oF Senate. Milly determines to encanger her nic"@llé ANN Impect | Becwty anid uepeinran tre Union. protest and go my way, while in the iast I or Jabot % de could maintain a resolute @flance end take (he cont quences, which, indeed, woutd be of no great account, Since the age of martyrdom lis betm again inaugurated, and since men are brougiy to otheider anew the utter worthicesnegs uf a merely Moma life in a crisis of great pritcipies, and ip the presence’of a sublimer and « better to come, for by the death of oo mia hasthe race Deen ught afresh the great lesson that life's great end is life. 1 desire to impress your hovorable committee with the fact— and T urge & upon them with the force is trabtagands— tibet Tam in theirspower, # witacss by courtesy. I was under po obligations to heed the summons served upon me, had the committee even possessed the right to issue process in a case hike the present, for the summous was tself “ informal,” its genumess not being cert any one, This point I state, not of myseif, bu advised by counsel. Such being the honorab| the position which I hold before your honorable commit- tee, I maintain that, by every principle of fair aud manly reeiprocity, Twas entitled to receive from them af least ap equal amountof courtesy; instead of whieh, to my utter amazement, | find that your committee have assumed toward me ap attitude that, were it coustitutiousl even, could not be justified under circumstances such as I have herein eet forth. Power exerted for the legitimate euds of power freemen can tolerate, especially where they are themee)ves its recognized and only source; but when the agebts of a free prop)e fail to comprehend theirown limited junctions as the mere and temporary repositories of gated trusis, and get to regard themselves ag ‘sources of power, then it is not the repositories alone, but, as ministers of government, thetr very fuuctions becuaie dis. lastelu) and hateful to the puople; for no man who re ‘Wasrixcton, Feb. 21, 1860. Sondry communications were received from the depart- menis. her peace and socis) insiitutions, ade her from her equality in the corfederated ‘ates. I should not, however, be can if 1 did not fay bere that there are many—perhapes, indeed, a majo- rity, ip my State—who would speak on this suaject with the same regerve and caution which I do to: There are obvious tokcns of a deetgn in the long protracted tation C7 ihe slavery question, and it bas evidently pro duced alienation and distrust. "The same spirit of candor requires me to Pay bere that it is the unanimous ani. ment of the South that a continuance of {ai Apiaiion isa. slandering menace to her peace ayq Becurity and an in- sult to her choracter. Mord éSpecially, recent events in Virginia, and the talé proceedings in this Flouso, with the angry discussions that took place with reference to the Helper book, bave ail created atone and tendency of public feeling which were calculated to tell against the political trenquillity for many yeara to come. 1 was pained during that discussion to hear the distinguished geutleman from Objo 4 ) ask, in @ tone of levity which evinced how lighuy be estecmed the temper of our people, “How covld a small book endanger our property ipetitotions! ir, millions of such books could an shake the broad founda. fobiety or Southern finstitu- tiens. The pignification which the people of the South Bitached to the discussionn was to be traced to the fact tbat they were convinced that the seutiments ox- pressed in that infamous book were the sentiments enver- Yained by the great masees of the people North. You who disclaimed {ts peculiar recommendations have not denied this, Indeed, 1 believe you sll admit the senti- ments and doctrines of the “book—that slavery is & great social, moral and political wrong’ to AR DAVIS, OF MARYLAND, DEFINES 18 POSITION: Mr. Davis, (S pp.) of Ma. 7 annonnced his we acknowledge the ©! it paid him by the re" of that State. It had Deen lpg since the present domi. Dapt party bad a majority ‘in Goth branches, but it bad conducted iteelf in 60 *emarkable a mapner that pro- badly & long time WOrjd elapse before this accident would be repeated, If one might judge from the force and con- Quot of that party, the gentlemen who comprise it ara perbaps more surprised at their present power than their oppouents over whom they triumphed. He tuat party tc the clown who, waking in the nobleman’e chamber, asked himself whether he was as! or bak slept, esying: “I speak, I hear, I think, T smell aweet savers—on my life, I am Jord, indeed; then bi our wife to our person.” (Laughter.) They were of that ciasa of men cescribed by Montesquieu ia Paris, ignerant of everything, yet who had the genius to teach every- thing to the world, and empioyed an atiorney to keep ‘bem from folly. He proceeded to speak of their acts a3. a series of blunders in disregard of the fundamental law. Smitten with the resolution of Mr. Clark, of N when the police bill was before them, they incorporates & proviso that “no black republican, or endorser or ap~ prover of the Helper book should be appomnted to office under the Board o: Commissioners.” Having thus pro tected Baltmore from such inijuences they shortly afier j 48800 another measure jn relation to the city railroad, & capgerous machine by which thousands of people daily come in contact, and where a subtle political poikom might be infused into the veins of Baltimore without any ove being the wiser. They thought the people should be , protected aggipat the poison in the atmosphere, and there- TUE ADMISSION OF KANSAS. Mr. Sewaxn, (rep.) of N. ¥., introduced a bill for the admission of Kansas into the Union, and it was read the first time. As the Secretary was about to read it the se cona time, Mr. Seward said: “I do notask its second read- ‘ng, but on a future day I shall do 0 for the purpose of reference.g On that day I propose to address the Senate upon it, I find the Senate engaged in the consideration of special orders, but I will ask the Senate to allow me to speak upon the second reading of that bill on Monday next,’? Mr. Masow, (dem.) of Va.—Monday is a very busy day. If the Senator will say Tuesday, I think there will be no objection. Mr. Sewann—I will say Tuesday with great pleas Mr. Masox—I wish to give rotice that on Monday next I hall move to go into executive session, and continue it ontil the bugmees for consideration is disposed of. Mr. Sxwarp—Tuesday will be agreeable, but i will say Wednesday of next week. Mr. Mass expressed himself satisfied. Mr. Guexs, (dem) of Mo.—I shall resist anything like a test vote on the bill antit it shall be referred fo the appro- priate committee. But I have no objection whatever to Accommodate the gentleman if he only wants to speak it ait teal the’ ( the bill, that apects h f can for an instant be forced to feel the Mr. SewaKp—I will ask whether or not the gentieman | be opposed dy the government everywhere,’ and pabeliets e re; yaad Lemar je eepitiond r of be power of intolerance and arrogance without ai | means peaceable resistancle under ail circumstances, by ail constitutional means— } Helper Meck soula Teceive any of the benefits or privi- he cage, Moment finding | witain | bimsclt the | Mr. Greey (with a playful manner)—Oh, one of those | that the powers of the goverment are to be exercised for Jeges Of this act, or be employed in any oagaciy. Power, to. be respected, must tirst’ deserve re. J Jttepressible conflicts.” (Hoarty laughter and great | ite limitation, with « view to its ultimate extinction. This | {vs would therefore tell ihe repubhcans they 1aast be pre~ good humor, in which Mr. Seward participated. ” THR MENEMONEE INDIANS. Mr Doourtie, (rep.) of Wis, presented @ memorial ‘rem the Legislature of Wieconsin in regard to the Me- nemonee Indians. The memorial says those Iudians bave been shamefully imposed npon and reduced to destitution, and asks the paseage of & law to protect them. a is the predominant sentiment of the great mass of the people North, and it is the rallying cry of the leaders of the people. It pervades the judiciary, and is inculeated in This very day it comstituies the sole creed of cai party Who Commands the majority of Staves, overwhelming majority in States atthe North. S portentous fact of u moral sentiment thus pared to answer at the cab-doors tor their poltucal prunci- ples or uge the lightning train. (Laughter.) A biil was “before the Legislature concerning an Agricultural College, when & member rising, moved to apply the same provizo. \ that; but contamivation does not ran 80 rapidly in the country a8 m the city, and 1t was qnickly voted down. They then assumed the guardianship of one of the Mary- spect.’ Every abuee of it, every indecent exhibition of t, each encroachment of it upon the rights of the ciuzen, every curtailment, and every attempted curtailment of tac eople’s tights, privileges and {may nities, tends to insubor. “ination, breeds anarchies, and begets confusion, [his go vernment, republican in form and name though it be, must maintain something more thau 1's forma, and revai ‘ aahisee \jority of the greal body of the fi a 1d & resolution thing better than its naine, if it would keep the a: 3 Mr. Hay, (dem: ) of Cal., offered a resolution that the | peop! elf at last to this practical acti lanc representatives on this floor, and passed & of the people. Nor can its ministers long betray their } Coromitiee on Public Lands Inquire into the expediency of | the State which stapds in the wan of ite donche eae, | that Henry Winter Davis, one of the representatives of Maryland in Congress, by bis vote for Mr. Pornivgton, the cancidate of the black republican party, bas misrepresent- ed the sentiments of al) parties, and thereby forfeited tne vontidence of the people. Oniy ’think—this’ is on the statute book to remain there forever. (Laugbter.) Now be would say, he would speak to their masters, face to face, and not to them. It bes always been a striking peculiarity of that party’ which accicentaily predommates in Maryland, that tt will allow no opportunity to puss to indicate it entire fealty ‘the Eouth, and this always consists in stirring strife and im hibelting its neighbors who live next duo: oy saying that @ man whe js noi a democrat ia an avolitionis: The Legislature can be describes in its policy, aims. and prin- ciples, #8 Miton describes the foulness of hell. Te would. Jet looge wild apd cemonixeal paesions to destroy and ruin the covptry, if it conld. There were small, restless crea- tures. incupable of striking blow, incapable of logic, but skiliu! to scratch, and of these was the honorable gentle- man who offerea the condemnatory resolution. He knew his copstitvents better than thosefdabbiers in eternal agi~ tation, At this da) vote for bir. Pennington was not only approved, bat honored by every man whose opinion he regarded. (Applause in the galleries.) He had no apology to make or excuse to render. What he did was according t bis own judgment. He told his constituents when be came here that he would come ag a freeman, or not as all. He told them if they wanted a slave torepresent them, they could get one. He foresaw, then, what had come to _ pase; but he knew his duty, and it was his proadest satis faction that bis constituents approved what he had done. They recollected that Mr. Pennington’s bame was con- nected with a broad seal, which was dieregarded. They did know that fact, and they thought that vengeance was coming after long delay, and after act of parliamen- tary wrong. But the Legislature could pot be expected to know that President Taylor appointed Mr. Pennington. | to cffice; they could not be expected to know that Presi- dent Fillmore appointed him to another; they, of course, ad wo Lt no i Pennington in politics, in favor © enforcement of be ea the Southern States are interested, land more than any other is inte- oh apes jaw. The gislature Could pot be expected to know, but hie constituents knew that Mr. Pennington is in favor of put- an end to slavery and strife, and was a sym- trusts by becoming the executors of an irresponsible wi without engendering conspiracies, treasous, insurrections, apd every other fierce gpirit of the fell brood tl bates where bate within the shadows of tyrauny sits tering despair. laws of the buman the eame, wniversa', confined to no peo and bounded by no zoves. The power whien despises mau is in torn by man despised. A power whicn is feared bat Lo: respected, is but the cloud-barrier to the light ning. How vain is the barrier in the rift of the gleaonog. Every sentiment bath its counter sentimeut— resietance to tyranny is reverepce for law, ants gon'sms and attractions are equal. The man who hates oppressien is tbe man who loves hberty. The man who reepects bis own nights respects the Tights of all honor the law isto maintain the law. To maintain aw is to maintain the ry to law is to resist subv attenay sions of it, come they from whatroaver quarter t And Whether the atiempt at subdversions come trom w in or from without the govern affects not tue erimi pality of the design, save that they are the worst conap! rators, and they are the most be feared, who, withvc wikesor “provisional” teeasons, sap the foundation government at its source, under guise of its fancdons, as the mipisters of its power organte the magazine, lay | the train and the fuge, and then, by acts of tyraany and co ercive legislation, strike from the hearts of an indignant people toe fatal sparks. Before the ruieras the law; be fore the Jaw are the people. Law makes we ruler,’ the people make the law. Say to your honorable committee, Mr. Chairman, tuat I mean them uo disrespect. 1 Rave sought po cvacen!- ments, and availed mysel! of no diegmiges. Iam he the seat of their power to look this question in tue face, It lam wrong I will recede; but if the committge are Wrong, and if the inate who created @ committee with such powers are wrong, they onght to recede from such Unconeti utional assumptions; but if the ministers of the people's power will pot recede, if the plainest provisions Of the constitution can be thus trampled dowa—pro- ‘vitions explicit and exact—provisions imeerted as amend - ments to the constiwwtion for the express purpose of shielding the citizen from just such inquisitorial processes and persecutions as are involved in the powers of this In- ve wap Me ge hour has surely come for ac aking 8 survey of the silver aud other mines on the eastern: slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Adopted. He aleo offered a resolution that the Committee on Mili Atfairs inquire into the expediency of granting the proceeds of the New Almaden quicksilver mines to Cali fornia, toward building a railroad from the Pacific. Laid over Mr. HAUN algo gavenoticeof a bill to appoint an agent to take care of the New Almaden quicksilver mines. He made scme remarks showing that the Pacitic Railroad could be built out of the yield of these mines, without taking a dollar from the public treasury, FOREIGN 1k0: Mr. Wane, (rep.) of Ohio, introduced several potitions in relation to the importation of foreign ‘ron. ‘THE BARVER'S FEREY COMMITTEE AND THADDRUS HYATT. m) of Va, from the Harper's Ferry ported a regohution that the Sergeant at- arms be instructed to bring Thaddeus Hyatt, of New York, before the bar of th: nate, to answer tor con- tempt, for refusing to come here and testify before the committee. bir. Hae, (rep.) of N. H.,eaid this was a dangerous precedent. There was no warrant for it inYthe constita- bon. Powers not express!y delegated to the federai gov- erpment were reserved to the States. This power could only be exercised by a latitudinarian construction of the constitution. He would aek for the yeas and hays on the pageage of the regolution. Mr. Pron, (dem ) of Ohio, said be had arrived at tue conelusicn that the Senate has no power to summon any witness from beyond the District of Columbia. Mr. Couamer, (rep.) of Vt., thought the Sena‘e had the same power a8 a court to compel the attendance of witherses, Mr. Hate said he must differ with the gentleman from Vermont. He seemed to think they had all the power possessed by the British Parliament." Ours wag a govern- ment of limited powers. The Senate could not sit asa court with plenary power. The resolution was adopted by yeas 43, nays12. Tne noes were Messrs. Bingham, Chestout, Clark, Durkee, Bale, Hamolin, Pugh, Sumner, ibs, Wade, Wilkinson and Wilon. Mr. Seward voted ip the affirmative, OUR RELATIONS WITH PERU. Mr. Hare introduced a resolution asking the President to communicate whether Pera bad complied with hor Wuet yield to wt or be overborne by it. Sir, the mstt- tutions, the constitutions, and the laws of gavernmeut are but the external siructures which guile the m And intellectual life of the people over whom they exist, Aby revolueon in that moral, miental life, muet have acor- responding effect upon the mstitavons subject to these influ. ece® aB0L g a great Moral, religions people, whose convic. tioos are that slavery is hatetul to God, unjdst to maa. In the language of ihe gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Corwin), I atk what evpport can be given to a constitution which sanctions that in, or to institutions which uphold it? Let, sir, the par y Who represents tuis sentiment get posses: s)ch of the government, entrench itself ia ail its depart- men's, and foriity iteelf with ite power, and I ask if the Provisions Of the constitutiou, the forms of law, the obli- gauions of humanity, and the sovereignty of the States themselves, will not all disappear and melt away betore its fiery pathy Js it, therefore, strange that people should “think of withdrawing ‘their imgerilied in- stitutions from the sweep of these fanatic rev lutionaries? = Yet if Southern men express such fentiments upon this oor, aepudlican genuemen here— aye, end grave Senators, wo, at tbe other side—telze up- on and misrepresent the spirit which prompts the utte- and prociaim that such sentiments are calculated e the passions, inflame the prejudices and madden the fanaticism of men. Sir, it is almost time that the peo- pie of the North uncerstood the people of the South, and no Wp he! beg would understand each other, but that is the object of fome to perpetuate the estrangement which unhappily exists between them. The geatieran ompecticut asserted that it was the policy of the founders of our republic to prevent the establichinent of Slavery in new communities Sir, in my opinion a greater error than this was never committed. My own Xery State presents a refutation of that position. There never was a disposition evinced on the part of the founders of the repubiic to inter- jere with this delicate question in new territories. Gentlemen speaking of it ueed euch language ag this—that Congress, by a species of consent, allowed slavery to go into vew Territory and become the established institu- tion ip that Territory. Now, Mississippi staude bere to- day, with slavery one of its instituuons, the result of pure action. with all the elements of the social system infused With the establishment of that institution—imfused with its tion of some kind. Constitutional method of . industrial pursaiis, its capital, its investments, and the po- | pol to tbe country of that peace which sho! Id bere prevail. righting wrong, the first course would seem | treaty stipulations with this country, and what litical . " Bome of thowe wt mmatory . to be to get authoritative exposition of the f were adopted to-enforoe them. Adopted. emai 5 ptm rpg oe, oO ee constationslly te ts De cequsatare corer aay tion went to the Legisiature on his shoulders, and they bad not the senee to know that when they sawed off Dovgbe connected with the tree they would fall. So he was worth pursuing re knew he would be well hound. ed. There was a distinguished example of this in Hall of Representatives. Mr. Clay Jobn Quincy Adame for detraction which pursued bad eat at the feet his apostle that no policy without being will As for bimeeif, be would in his honest purposes. representative of fundamental Jaw. Failing by this to secure the people in their righte, the next step is for the people themselves to amend the fundamental law. The issue must be mace by some one of the citizens, and I propose todo tt. Your honorabie commitiee will perceive, therefore, that min tumacy is po part of my programme. hope is it the ‘bovorable Stoate will.on the cape tanning before them, see the propriety of civing this whole question a more earnest und thorough sttention than they a to we bestowed upon it. Owing to indisposition, I have not deen able to prepare mysel{ as I desire in order to meet the requirements of my position. In conclusion, Mr. THR PERSONNEL OF THR NAVY, Mr, Brcuer, (dem.) of Pa., introduced a resolution ia- structing the Committee on Naval Affairs.to taquire into ine expediency of having the nominations of captains and leutenants of the navy sent to the Sevate§conformation for erp ecteree e pay of the same. Ado} . motion of Mr. Iversoy, (dem) of Ga, it was re- solved that Friday of each week be get apart’ - sideration of private bills. eee 2 nde dae Axsoms. motion of Mr. Davis, (¢em.) of Miss., the Senate then took up the bill to catherine? ¢ sale of public arma Tegulate the power—but have you the moral it 10 carry On & of hostility upon that institution which the action of the government mace the basis upon which social and politi- cal order are constituted? Sir, the condition of Mississi; ig that of other new io the and Southwest. *The gentleman bis policy on the ground that the institution is by the people of the North to map—that it cannot to the severai States and Territories, and to appointment of Superintendents of Armories. a oe ihe subject was postponed till Thursday, BANK NOTE CIRCULATION, ‘indictment, trial, judgment and The epecial order, the bill t igeue of bank 1d, thus not a witness here in any criminal case known notes in the District of Cotamieie ee ee ee On motion of Mr. Grow, (rep.) of Pa., the Select Com- mittee on Printing, Engraving and Binding was authorized to employ a clerk. A PERSONAL EXPLARATION. Mr. Surm, (8. opp.) of N. C., corrected certain errone - ous and unjust impressions existing in the public mind, growing out of the recent contest for the Speakership. om, but was still a whig, and had t : i EE 35 i