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hers of the House would suffer the gentleman from Massachusetts to proceed without interruption, and hear him through this most extraordinary speech. Mr. ADAMS proceeded, and repeated that one great objection to the proposed reference was, that m out tit nine upon the committee, were slaveholders, and were, therefore, not a proper committee for such a reference. They were in feeling and in interest committed in favor of that against which these memorialists remonstrated. He would say, witli all respect to the two gentlemen from South Carolina, (the most deeply slavcholding State in the 1'nion,) who had just taken their scats, that whether the discussion arise now or hereafter, was as immaterial to him as it could be to them; it must come! And although it might for the present be delayed, he did not believe it would forever be smothered by previous questions, motions to lay it upon the table, and all the other means and arguments by which the institution of slavery is wont to be sustained on that floor the same means and arguments, in spirit, which, in another place, have produced murder and arson. Yes, sir, continued Mr. Adams, the same spirit which led to the inhuman murder of Lovejoy at Alton The ('hair here interposed, and remarked,' that the gentleman from Massachusetts was straying widely from the question of reference, which was immediately under consideration. Mr. PFTIUKIN, of Pennsylvania, sent a written motion to the Chair, which was not read, the Speaker declaring it to be, at that time, out of order. At the ropiest of Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, it was withdrawn. Mr. SNYDER, of Illinois, asked the Chair if he should be permitted to reply to so much of the remarks of the gentleman from Massachusetts as related to the recent Alton alfair? The SPF.AKKU decided that to what was said out f order it was tut competent for any member to rcj "V. in order. Mr. SNYDER must, then, lie said, call the gentleman from Massachusetts to order, and move that lie take his scat. Mr. ADAMS should do this when the sense of Vc House indicated it to be their w ill. The CHAIR decided tnat having been pronouncrd out nf order by the Chair, and a motion made by a iiK-mKor that he take his sea!, according to the lulesofthe House, the gentleman from Massachusetts would do so. Mr. UIIETT went on to make some remarks, expressive of the hope that gentlemen whom Mr. Adams, as he allege I, had so gratuitously assaulted, might be allowed an opportunity to make a reply, when he wa railed to order by the Chair. Mr. ADAMS said, in reply to the last observation that had fallen from the Chair, that he would proceed without even so much as a whisper more in relation to the recent affair at Alton. He was proceeding, when The SPEAKER sii l, the gentleman from Massachusetts will take his neat. Mr. ADAMS resumed his scat for a moment. Mr. D'JULDIN, rising to address the Chair. Mr. AD AMS rose, and asked by whit decision he had been bidden to take his seatf TheGHAIll repeated what he had before said, A: read the rule again. Mr. ADAMS then said: But I had said I would not tit'er a whimper even to the winds of what had

L'lti'ii the senile. nan Jrom Illinois so much uncasi-

n ss to hear. The CHAIR insisted on the rule.

.Vr. ADAMS. Anil docs the speaker, when a iiifinber isoutof order, peremptorily Lid him to take

hisjjf at?

The CI I. MR ntrain explained the requisition of

the rule, and the duty of the Speaker to enforce it.

Mr. AD AMS. But there is certainly an appeal to

I ho House: and to the House I appeal, and ask the

.was and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered

Mr. 15' l LDIN claimed the door. Me had nscu

t addrs? the Chair, after the gentleman from Massachusetts had resumed his seat. If there was to be an appeal from the decision of the Chair, it should have been made before another member obtained the floor. Tho SPEAKER said that, strictly speaking, that was true; but the nature of the case seemed to require a more liberal construction of the usual rule, in such cases. Mr. CRENNELL put this question to the Chair: When a gentleman makes a motion, the elfect of which is to permit him to proceed, is it not understood that his motion involves the condition that he proceed "in order?" The CH AIR said certainly. Mr. ADAMS declared that to have been his declaration, in what he had already said, when called to order by the Chair. The yeas and nays being about to bo called, .Mr. SNYDER withdrew his objection, and Mr. AD MS proceeded. He said that, as there appeared to bo an indisposition on the part of a por

tion of the House to hear him farther upon this

topic, al this time, he would abridge his remarks, &

alteration made? Whatever the motive, he must

say it was, to his mind, an additional reason why,

as one of the Representatives of the People of Massachusetts, he should not consent that their interests, as freemen, should be confided to it. Upon

that committee, besides the fact that six out of nine were slaveholding members, he observed the same proportion of friends to Ihe Administration had

been placed. Perhaps not the identical six before

alluded to, but yet members ever ready to support

the Administration in every and any measure, be it what it may consistent with their sense of duty. Now, said Mr. A., it may be urged, as, indeed, in his section, it had been repeatedly, that the President

of the United States was against the annexation of

Texas; and that it is a base calumny to say that any prejudice in favor of this measure had existence at the White House! He had seen such things in the public prints, and lately in the official paper in this city. The CHAIR reminded the gentleman from Massachusetts that he was straying from the subject immediately undar the consideration of the House. Mr. ADAMS would come back, and keep as nearly to the mark as he could. This he might be permitted to say, that he and his colleagues had seen, in reading the la'.e Message of the Executive, how much was not in that document, as well as how much teas in it. History, sir, tells us (said Mr. A.) of the funeral of a sister of one of the Roman Emperors, which took place at a time when Rome was steeped in slavery, at which the statues of Brutus &

Cassius were not seen among the splendid array of

statues ot friends and relatives, which it was the custom to bear in the funeral processions of the great. And the historian remarks that the absence of those two frteuds of liberty was more noticed by the people who witnessed the display, than the whole train which was present; and that the spectators of the scene, instead of admiring the pomp oc magnificence of their tyrants, were thinking only of the absent statues of Brutus and Cassius, the friends and advocates of freedom. Sir, I could not but recall this historic incident as inversely applicable, when I saw, in the late Message of the Executive, so much allusion to the grievances of this

Government at the hands of Mexico, and literally

not a single allusion to our relations with lexas. The CHAIR observed that the Message was not now under consideration. Mr. ADAMS. The Committee of Foreign Relations will, of course, have the subject of our rela

tions with Mexico befoic it; and my objections to the reference proposed by the gentleman from Ma

ryland are strengthened by tins consideration. The annexation of Texas and the proposed war with Mexico are one and the same thing, though expressed in ditferent forms. Now, the Message is diametrically adverse, or, as the recently fashiona ble phrase is, it is decidety "antagonisticaP to the prayer of these memorialists. The CHAIR again reminded Mr. A. that the Message not having been referred, the connexion attempted to bo shown between any portion of its contents and the present motion of reference was too far-fetched to be in order. f Mr. ADAMS. But suppose the memorials were against a war with Mexico; would it not bo in order to discuss that part of the Message relating to that subject, upon the question of reference? The CHAIR. That is not the point under dis

cussion, and it will be time enough for the Chair to , decide it when it arises. j Mr. ADAMS remarked that, did he not know j what the composition of that House was, he would, appeal from the decision of the Chair. He consid- j ercd it perfectly competent to argue, as he had j done, upon the unfitness of the Committeo on For-, cign Affairs to act upon these memorials, by reason

Mr. RUETT and Mr. DAWSON appealed to Mr. Wise to withdraw his motion, to enable them to make some reply to what had fallen from Sir. Adams. Mr. WISE insisted upon his motion, as the only proper course to be taken in the present position of the subject. Mr. GRENNELL, of Massachusetts, demanded the yeas and nays, which were ordered; and being taken, stood as followos: Yeas 127; Nays t8. So the motion of Mr. Wise wasagreed to, & the whole subject ordered to lieon the table.

Staff off iidianu, Gtin count j. ' 1 1 Uteen county Prelate Cuurt, Xot: Term, IL'DT.

James M. II. Allison, E.x'r,

and Elizabeth Allison iixr x of the estate of John li. Ali; son, de'ed.

I

Petition to sell Real j Estate.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. TWENTY-SECOND SESSION. IN SENATE Thursday, Dec. 21. The President laid before the Senate a communication from His Excellency, the Governor, nominating Caleb B. Smith of Fayette county as a Fund Commissioner to fill the vacancy in said Board caused by the resignation of Jeremiah Sullivan. Mr. KENNEDY, proposed the following resolution: Resolved, That the Senate do advise and consent to the nomination of Caleb B. Smith as one of the Fund commissioners of the State of Indiana. W hich was adopted, all the members voting for it except Mr. Mitchell. Mr. TULEY presented a petition from James W. Porter and others on tho subject of establishing a Seminary at Gecnville, which was read and referred. Mr. THOMPSON of L. from tho Judiciary committee, providing for recording mortgages on personal property, which passed to a second reading. Mr. THOMPSON of L., from the same committee, reported a bill regulating the fees of grand and petit jurors, which was twice read. Mr. MITCHELL moved to amend by inserting at the end of the first section, the following: "and that the Associate Judges of the several counties of the State, be each allowed three dollars per day for every day they may be necessarily employed in the discharge of their official duties," which amendment prevailed yeas 26, nays 11. Mr. S1GLER moved to amend the bill by adding the words "and twenty-five cents"' after the word "dollar" in the 1st section, which motion prevailed yeas 23, nays 19. Mr. DUNNING proposed further to amend by adding the following: "and that each person who is summoned and serves as a juror before any justice of the peace in any case, shall be allowed as a compensation for such services, 50 cents, to be collected and in the same manner as jurors'1 fees are now collected and paid before justices of the peace,1' which was agreed to. The bill, as amended, wa3 then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. Mr. THOMPSON of L. offered the following resolution : Rcsnlvcd, That the Senate will (the House of Representatives concurring) when it adjourns on Saturdaythe 23d instant, adjourn to meet again Thursday, the 28th ins'ant. Mr. THOMPSON of P. moved to amend by striking out Thursday and insetting Wcdnevday, which was not agreed to. The resolution was then adopted, yeas 25, nays A. 4. . Mr. TFLEY, from a select cunnuiitec, reported a bill to iii'-orpora'.'? the Greenville Seminary in Floyd county, which was read a first time ami ordered to a second reading.

CK.lMES J their

The heirs of said deceased. J

S now the said Petitioners, Ly Champr-

attorney, and on motion leave is given, be

ihey tile their oil!, herein, 'and on further motion, or- . dered that snbpa-nas issue herin, against .Mary Ana 1 Joslin and Amasa Joslin, Samuel iiowe and Elizabeth his wile, Noah Allison, John F. Allison, ani benjamin A. Aliision, directed to the Slierilf of Owen county, and Joshua U. Howe and Lucinua hi.; wife, and John A. Farmer the heir ot" Matilda Farmer, late Matilda Allison, directed to the Sheriff ol Monroe county, and against Junior Lathorp andLuisa his wife, directed to the Sheriff of Cass county, and upon motion and affidavit liled. it appearing thai David Shepherd and Mahala his wife, two of tlx? said heirs, are non residents of the State of Indiana, it is therefore ordered that a copy of this order be published for four weeks in succession, for at least sixty days before the first day of the next term of this court, in 'The L'loomingion Post,' notifying eacfi of the said heirs, to be and appear hereon the first day of the next Term of this court, to answer, plead and demur, to said bill, or the matters and things therein contained will be taken as confessed and decrceed on accordingly in their absence, and on further motion ordered that Eh 1'. Farmer, be, and he is hereby appointed, Guardian ad litem, for and on behalf, of the said John A. Fanner, herein, and ordered thai this cause be continued until next Term. A true cony attest T. C. JOHNSON, Clerk. Nov. 1837. 1-1

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATiVES. Friday, Dec. 22, 1857. The speaker laid before the House a communi-

BY John Snider, of Highland township Green county Indiana, one Pale Red Cow, with white

specks on her Hanks, belly and shoulders--, supposed to be 4 years old la.-t spring, marked with a crop off the left ear, and a bole in tlie same, a swaliowfork in. the right. No other marks or brands perceivable, appraised to eleven dollars by JauA-s E. Snider and Willis Pontine, before me, ISAAC ANDERSON, J P December 6th, KJ.JT. 2-Jw KSTUAY HOUSES. TAKEN IT by Lanwi..siough, living in Jefferson township, Owen county, lnd.,oae dark chesnut sorrel mare, fourteen and a lm.ll" hands high, Loth hind feet white, and the right forefoot white, a sea on th-e. near side behind the girth, supposed to be a burn, a small saddle mark or the near side, close behind tli--withers, a brand on each shoulder supposed to bedone with the bottom of a stirrun iron, a blaze in her

forehead and af-nip on the nose, the right eye somewhat funk, no other marks or brands perceivable, supposed to be 7 or !! year old, appraised to 30 dollars. Also one dark Cay colt; with black legs man and tail, supposed to be one ) ear old past, no brand or marks perceivable, appraised to $18 ty Emsdey Hall and Adam Pir-em-, Sr. bey.rc me, ANDREW ARNEY, JT Dec. 6:h. I0.i7. 2-3w Sale ol'BjUiMl and Ton u Lots.

JY virtue of a decree of th Monroe Circuit court. at the Oct. term thereof KU7, I shall t?cll to thchiguert bidder at public auction at the Court Has "a. in f.loomington, on the l.Jth day of January next, the following real estate of Ueorge LUnry, to .atisfr h ,iidgtnint rendered at said term against said Hcnrv

ind in favor of James Faris, to wir

The South East quarter of fection 9 in township

N.

be referred ; subiect of the action of their agent, in convention.

in reference to the resumption of specie payment;

of the fact that so much of the Mcssages relates to ' cation from tho President of the Slate Hank, on the

the affairs of Mexico would, of course, be referred j

lo that committee. Dut, under the decision ot the Chair, he should reserve what he had to say further 1

on that point until the mouths of members inclined

to advocate the cause or freedom upon that lfoor should be permitted to be opened more widely; if,

indeed, there was any hope that the time would ever arrive.

Mr. A. remarked, in closing, that he did not wish

the parliamentary usage in such cases lo be strict

ly observed in this instance, m the appointment of a mover of a select committee to be chairman of that

committee, should the motion he had made prevail.

But he did claim that the chairman and the majority

should be favorable to the prayer of the petitioners. This he considered it was his right to claim, as parliamentary practice of long standing. He did not

ask for a great majority, but simply a bare majori

ty.

,t xirior.' f v: .. i i.i.i :

iir. u oij. u ii LMiuu.saiu ne nuu not risen to , , ...... ,. ' b ,' , . , ,. tI and passed to a second reading, discuss the motion immediately before the House. 7,1 , , r-. Fy ,, i.i ..i .i 3 r m . I Resolutions. On motion ot J

itc regretieu tuai me gentleman trout luassacuusctts had gone so much at length, and in such a man-

read and referred to tho committee on the State

Baak . Mr. Glenn from tho committee of wavs am

means, reported a bill to provide for the election of county assesors; read and ordered to a second : residing. j On motion of Mr. Chamberlain, The communication of the President of the State Bank, which was referred to the committee on the State Bank, was laid upon the table, (theotc being reconsidered.) Mr. Crume from the committee of ways and means reported back to the House a bill relating to the collection of the State and County revenue, with ono amendment. The amendment was concurred in and the bill read a third time and passed.

Mr. Sims, from a select committee, reported a)

bill to incorporate the town of Martinsville: read

ot 1 W est. .Also, one in lot in the town ol ii.onni-

iii'ito:i, known by number 162. Said land will b sold i:i ijuarter quarters, and a good and valid lit!, will be made the purchaser or purchasers accordt.ii;

i lotne liiient oisani uecree, ana w ii bp sold between.

the hours of lo o'clock A. M. and -1 o'clock P. M. on said day. E. LLAIR, Sheriff, M.C. Oct. llth. U1.37.

hasten to a close. What he had said was intended

lo enforce the objections w hich he had stated aL'ainst the proposed reference of the memorials Iron: Massachusetts to the Committee on Foreign A Hairs

first, that the subject-matter of those memorials was

not appropriately referrible to that committee; and,

secondly, that the committee was not, m itsell,

properly constituted committee of such a reference, inasmuch as six out of nine of the members composing it were already committed, by feeling and position, adversely to the object and prayer of the petitioners. He had allowed himself, while urging t'u-se objections, to make some remarks upon the j-niiit manifested in this matter by gentlemen similarly committed, and those sections of country to which they belong; and thence to argue against the propriety of the reference proposed by the member from Maryland. Nor was this objection, he con

tended, at all inconsistent with that respect which

I, e entertained towards the gentlemen composing that committee, in every other point of view. Mr. Adams urged a still further objection to the proposed reference, derived from the change which, since the special session of Congress, it had been thought proper to make in the Committee on Foreign Affairs a change, the contemplation of which

impressed him still more deeply with the belief that the coiumiUeo was decidedly adverse to the prayer jf these memorialists. Three new members had

been placed upon that committee; and, as if to make

it still more emphatically a slaveholding committee, u gentleman from Virginia had been taken from

th i chair of another important committee, and placed upon this. For what, he would ask, was this

ner, into the merits of a question not yet before that

body. He felt no excitement at what he had just been listening to, though the remarks which had fallen from the gentleman were calculated to produce such feelings. He had risen merely to make

the motion he had indicated his intention of oflering yesterday, and he should give his reasons, very briefly, for that motion. All these memorials are merely negative. They do not ask for any action of this House upon any

matter yet before it, but, simply, that the propriety of an act, not now proposed to be done, be referred to a committee of this'House. There was, clearly, no need, at present, of any such reference as was proposed. The Republic of Texas had attempted

to open a negotiation for admission to the Union, with this Government, which overture was declined

on the ground of our relations with Mexico. This

Government had peremptorily refused to do any thing whatever upon the matter. Nothing had

been done, or had been proposed to be done, in Con

gress upon the subiect. No memorial in favor of

such a measure had ever been before this House. No

reference of any such subject had been made to

committee, nor had any committee to consider it

been appointed. It was time enough, Mr. Wise conceived, to discuss the subject which had been

dwelt upon with so much feeling and earnestness

by the gentleman trorn-" Massachusetts, when it should come up regularly for discussion. As to the

question of slavery in Texas, on J the infusion of its

"venom" into the pure morality of this Republic for

the present (said Mr. Wise) tee certainly may not

say to the Kepublic ot Texas, in the words of St

Paul, "Would to God that thou wert both almost &

altogether such as we are, except these bonds!1'

He moved to lay the pending motions of refer

ence on me table.

ofMr.Proflit,

Resolved, That the committee on cauals vVc. enquire into the expediency of providing by law for the more certain payment of the wages which may be due to labourers on the public works. On motion of Mr. Arnold, Resolved, That the committee on canals be re

quested to report to the House, the number ol olfi- . ii i . t r t

cers now employed on the puonc worns, wnicn can

be dispensed with the ensuing year.

Mr. Stapp offered the lollowing resolution: Resolved, That the report made by the Board of

ntemal Improvements to this House, "calling on

said Board for information relative to the number of engineers, assistant engineers, with their neces

sary attendants now in the employ of the State:

with a statement in detail ot the compensation allowed to each of these officers and attendants, to

gether with an aggregate statement of the certain annual contingent expense including pay to com

missioners, clerk hire xc. of the system of internal improvement as now progressing "is satisfacto

ry to this House" and that the order of yesterday

referring said report and resolution back to the Board for a more perfect answer be, and the same is hereby reconsidered.

Mr. Smith of W., moved to amend said resolution

by adding the following "and that the House will

wait on the board until they shall find it convenient to communicate the remainder of the information

which has been called for. A question of order arose as to the right of intro

ducing said resulution to rescind a previous order of

the House. The Speaker decided the resolution to be in order.

An appeal was taken by Mr. Bennet and Henly. The decision of the chair was sustained. Before any discussion was had the time alloted for resolutions expired, and the House on motion, adjourned.

(atcol'Iiiliacaa, I-uiwr ence. county. iMirrencc Circuit court, Scjt. Term', lfi:'.7. Mary Ann llartwell, compla't. 1 f Petition lor divorce Calvin J. llartwell, deft. ) COMES the complainant by Dunn, her solicitor, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, (on affidavit filed) that said defendant is not arcsident of this state. It is therefore ordered bv the court that the pendency of this cause be published in the Bedford Transcript or Ploomington Post, for

ttien weeks successively, and that unless said defendant appear on or before the callingof said cause,

ai me next term ot sain court to ue lioiden at the court house in Pied ford, on the second Monday of M-rch next, the same will be tried in his absence, until w hiclMiiiie this cause is continued. A cony attest.

ROBERT MITCHELL, Clk. L. V.

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EHriiioval. T. HARDEST V,

FA S 1H OJS'AB LE TAILOR.

RESPECTFULLY informs the public that be has removed his shop to the new frame buildinsr

of G. H. Johnson, Esq. 2d door cast of the building

recently occupied oy J . iu. iierry Uo. as a 6tore,

where he is now prepared to execute all kinds of work in his line of business, in the most fashionable,

neat and duable manner. Latest Eastern Fashions Just Received. Jilooiningtun, Jor. lTth, 1837. 51-tf.

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BY Jared Waluen of Franklin township Owen county one dark bay mare three years old past with a etar in her forehead, a small snip on her noe, with a heavy mane and tail, fourteen hands and tw o inches high no othy

marks or brands perceivable, and appraised to thirtyfive dollars by Noah Allison, Myranda Wcstfall and David M. Dobson, before me this November '213 1837. MESSER SECREST, J. TI certify the above to be a true copy from my estray bonk, crivpn under mv hnnrt onit sfnl tbis 2lt of No-

I vember 1C37. I M.S. J.T.

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