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he should do nothing to aid the union of the banks with the government. 1 shall never aid h reunion, and I shall do nil I can to prevent any union. We must not unite ourselves with them. Mr. Calhoun then said, 1 believe a National Bank in any form or shape out of the question entirely, and if established, I believe it would do more harm than good. Mr. Davis hoped the motion would not prevail. He saw no leason for 6uch a motion. If the Committee of Finance were dis

posed to give us a detailed report, their opinions ami reasons; the motion might be of more importance. But that Committee never had made a detailed report upon this subject, or upon any great question of this character. And now said Mr. Davis, addres sing himself to the friends of the Administra tion, you have tried your experiment of di vorce; yoa have been to all intents and pur poses divorced Irom the Banks for the past ten months, and w hat is the result? You have almost ruined the Government and the business prospects of the Country. Your experiment has failed, and you have had warning upon warning to abandon it. Why not abandon it, then? The people have hooted at it, and upon alt sides you have entreaties and warning to pursue a new policy. Any thing was better than the present state of things, imd it was time for Senators to learn some experience upon this subject to do something ior the relief of the country. Thejhusiness of no country under lieaven could prosper under this interference of the Government in its concerns, and he trusted the Government would abandon it. He hoped the resolution would not be referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Benton foil owed, and spoke of the moVal principle of Banks. The Banks were to resume, and no power could prevent them. The resolution was intended to make this a shin-plaster Government down to a penny. That was the design of the resolution. It was to be the sequence of other, and Mr. Benton closed his remarks by saying that if he was not mistaken he should thank the mover of this Resolution for bringing it forward. Mr. Clay said I have nothing to say to what has now been said. lie wished to say in answer to the Senator from South Carolina, that the resumption was not so general as he supposed . But a few of the many Banks had resumed. Mr. Calhoun lejoined, and in some remarks eaid he looked upon the Sub-Ireasury as the great healing measure of the Government. He thought the Sub-Treasury had brought about resumption. Mr. Calhoun lien becked of Mr. Wright to withdraw his motion to refer. He hoped also that Mr. Clay would bring in speedily his plan of a National Bank; which National Hank, however, even if created with a view to regulate ihe currency,he thought would be the greatest calamity that could befal the na tion. Mr. Clay said he was surprised to hear the oenatorirom fsouth Carolina ask him to pro pose his plan or suggestions for a National Bank. Could he think him so silly as to bring torward a project for a National Bank, when such an attempt would, beyond all question, ant here a majority of this very Senate uau recorded Us names Hgainstit? Mr. i'reston then followed, and spoke at tome lengui in defence ot the resolution lhe Senate had spoken upon one provision of Uie refOHlllOll. Air. Wehsfor'a men, monl to the Sub-Treasury Bill, and spoken affirmatively. But the House had laid that opinion upon the table, and this resolution would ire the House an opportunity to act upon this que!on. The resolution, Mr. Preston wished to have adopted, independent of the Sub-T reasury Bill. Mr. Xiics K..''?weJ some remarks, out the Senate had not disposed of the motion of relerence when 1 closed my package. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. lhe House transacted some unimportant private business, and then took up the REPORT OX THE DUEL. The attendance being thin, the call of the House was ordered, and was persisted in for some time. The report was again taken up, and Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, withdrew his motion to reconsider the vote of yesterday, striking out the second part of Mr. Adams s mstruc tions, in order to allow Mr. Kcnnon to offer A proposhion. Mr. Adams took the floor and spoke for near two hours in support of his motion to re commit the report, with instructions to report the testimony alone, without any argument. ir. t)i.- i i tf - ur, xiennoa ucuinca ouenng any pro position. Mr. Williams renewed his motion to recon eider the vote striking out that part of the mo tion to recommit, which discharged the com mittee from the consider ition of the question oi privilege. Mr.llawes spok at length in reply to the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. Boon followed also in reply to the genii P I r J O iiemaii irom Massachusetts. Mr. Murray moved to lav the renort and the whole subject on the table, which was lost jeus, ii nays, lzii. lhe motion to reconsider was negatived. jena o-a nays iw. lhe motion of Mr. Thomas to strike out all the instructions was lost yeas, 82 nays, 93. The question recurred on the motion to re commit wiin instructions to" report the testimony without comment. The House si ill in session when this despatch was closed. Washington, May 3. HOUSE OF .REPRESENTATIVES. A soon as the Journal was read this morning,

Mr. Bt-ll ulTenn. brought in a resolution that when the House adjourn, it adjourn to

meet again on Monday next. The lesolution staled that the motion was made for the purpose of taking up the carpets and ventilating the Hall of the House. This is n usual custom with the House about this period of lhe long session.! Objections were made to the reception of the resolution, when Mr. Bell moved to suspend the Rules of the House. The yens and nays were asked, but not granted. Tellers were called, and eightyeight members were in favor of suspension to some 30 against it. No quorum voting the motion was again put, and 1 14 members voted for suspending the rules, and some 35 against suspension. The Resolution was then adopted, vivazoce the House refusigg the yeas and nays, and four-fifths favoring the motion to adjourn. The Bills brought from the Tenale yesterlny, for the preservation and security of the Indians and other emigrants west of the Mississippi, and for granting a right of way over the Public Lands for roads and canals, being read, they were referred to their appropriate Committees. A message was then announced from the President of the United States, and rcfened to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The messige g ive some information in relation to Mexican AHYirs. Mr. Curbing made the motion of reference. Mr. Adams, from the Committee of Manu factures, then brought in a Senate Bill, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Bell then moved that the House adjourn but withdrew his motion at the request of Mr. Cambreleng, who said I. e should oppose the cummer I at this time, and over to Mon day, if by general consent, the House would then take up the treasury JNole Bill. Mr. Wise said, as one of the parties impli cated in the late duel, that he should consent to take up nothing until there had been defi nite action upon that question. Mr. Bell promised to aid Mr. Cambreleng in the early consideration of the Treasury Note Bill, and the House then adjourned over to Monday next. UNITED ST.2TES SENATE The Senate met as usual at 12 o'clock, and after the reading of the journal several memo rials were referred. The Vice-President after a message had been received from the President and laid on the table, laid a Report upon the table from the War Department, with a Report from the Second Auditor, in pursuance of the Act of Mav, IS22, to regulate the intercourse with the Indian tribes laid ordered to be printed. upon the table and Mr. Southard presented a memorial against the late alledgcd treaty between the United States and the Cherokees laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. Mr. Swift presented a similar memorial, which was attended with the same motion. Mr. Linn presented a memorial asking the establishment ot a Mechanical Agricultural Department Referred. Proceedings of yesterday. The House of Representatives were in ses sion until nearly sunset last evening. Three hours were spent in useless motions to adjourn and nothing was done. The Senate adjourned soon after I closed my lettei, deciding to refer Mr. Clay's resolu tion to the Committee of Finance by the followmg vote: Yeas Mtssrs. Allen, Benton. Brown. Bu chanan, Calhoun, Clay of Ala.,Cuthbert, Fulton, Grundy, Hubbard, King Linn, Lumokin. Lyon Morris, Nicholas, Nlles, Norvel, Pierce, Koane, Kobinson, Sevier, Smith of Conn I rotter, Wall, Williams, Wright, Young ZO. iSuys Messrs. Clay of Ky., Clavton Cril tendon, Davis, Knight, Merrick, Prentiss Preston, Rives, Robbing. Ruggles, Smith of Ind., Southard, Spence, Swift, Talmadgc Tipton. Webster, While PJ. Mr. 'Wright yesterday from the Committee of Finance reported a bill authorising the sale of Bonds belonging to the United States, which was read and ordered to a second reading, Mr. Benton brought forward, by unanimous consent the following resolution That the Secretary of the Treasury be di rected to communicate to the Senate a con densed statement of the condition of the State Bonds according to the latest return received at the Treasury, and also the returns on which the said statement may be founded. From the Daltimort American. Washington, May 7, 1838. IN SENATE. Petitions and resolutions occupied the morn ing hour. Mr. Grundy offere I a resolution calling upon the committee of the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of further amending the law, so as to prevent the counterfeiting Trea sury notes. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Williams, of Maine, presented several resolutions ot the Maine Legislature upon the subject of the North Eastern boundary, State 1'orlitications. tJcc. 1 he resolutions were or dered to be printed and to be laid upon the table. During the morning, Mr. Webster introdu ced an interesting memorial from several ofhcers of the United Stales Army, who repre sent, that instead of whiskey rations, coffee and sugar would be a most desirable substitute. The petitioners say it would preserve the health, efficiency and happiness, and fre quently the moral reformation of the soldiers of the Army. They believe that the gill of whiskey still allowed to men on fatigue duty under the act of Congress of 1819, unnecessary, and fails to answer the end for which it

was granted. They believe it contributes in

a great degree to form and keep alive habits jjn reference to the disgraceful position of the of intemperance, the legitimate result cfj present action of Congress in the eves of the

w hich are insubordination, disease and crime. In presenting this memorial, Mr. Webster made some brief and happy remarks. He thought that if ardent spirits could be beneficially and usefully dispensed with by soldiers on fatigue duty, it would be difficult to maintain the neceaitv of their use by persons in any occupation or employment. The petition was read, ordered to be printed, and referred to the committee on Milita ry Atlairs. The Vice-President, during the morning, laid upon the table aieport from the Treasury Department, giving the condition of the State Banks and Public Depositories from the latest returns. Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. A great number of petitions in reference to the Chciokee Treaty, Slavery, &c. were re ceived nnd laid upon the table. 1 he Senate, atone o clock, took up the bill to increase the salary of the Commissioners of the General Land Office. The bill was dis cussed for a half hour and lest by a vote ofG yens to u nays. Ihe Senate then leek up the bill for the erection of a Hospital in the city of Washington, and for other purposes. Strange fo say, the bill found a zealous opposition. After a long discussion the bill was ordered to be engrossed, appropriating &30.000. Mr. Wright then moved to take up the bill proposing the sale of certain bonds belonging to the United States. Mr. W. remarked that the condition of the Treasury was such as lo require means. The Committee of Finance of the Senate have had some action upon this subject. They had reviewed various plans and various propositions, and studied the means of the Government, and could think of nothing but the sale of the United States Bonds for the relief of the Treasury. If this bill is passed, said Mr. Wright, it will not give the proposed relief, but it may do something. In view of the condition of the Treasury, said Mr. Wright, I have asked the Secretary of the Treasury what were the current means at command in the Treasury, every where. They were not more than 700.000. including the entire available deposites of the General Government, and such being the condition of the Treasury, and the Senate having power to originate no other measure, Mr. Wright thought it best that lhe bill should now pars. Mr. Webster said he did not think the bill a wise or a salutary measure. In the state of the credit of the Government the present was not a good time to sell bonds belonging lo the United States. There was no surety that such stock would bring their par cash value, because there was no surety that the buyer would receive his cost for the stock bought when the payment was due. Mr. W ebsler continued his remarks, and i said that the chairman of the Committee ofi Finance makes an acknowledgement of a fact which i3 certainly with a parallel in the histohistory ot the Government, eitherin war or in peace. We have never had such a condition of things before, and the condition of the Treasury is such as certainly to demand the action of the Congress. If the Senate could not originate any other measure than this for the relief of the Treasury, it still would be re quisue ior me nouse to act upon this mea a r tt yt ... sure. The House had power to originate all measures of revenue, and we gam nothing by early action upon such a measure as this. The House would not probably act upon this measure belore acting upon others. We gained nothing by the bill, and probably might lose. If Treasury notes were to be re-issue.d. or new issues were to be made, it would not be necessary to make the proposed sale. Mr. Wright briefly pressed the necessity of action upon this subject, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed. The Senate then made all the business relating to the District of Columbia the special order of the day for Wednesday. A bill for increasing the salaries of U. S. District Judges in the Stales, was indefinitely postponed, 26 to 12. The bill to continue the corporate existence of Banks in the District of Columbia is now (at 4 o'clock, P.M.) under consideration. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On leave, several memorials were present ed and referred to their appropriate commit tee?, several Kesolutions were adopted, and one oi an important nature, proposing to inquire into the expediency of having the mails and the transportation of public stores carried through the country on the Rail roads built and building. The Committee are to inquire into the expense, &c. and fo report to the House as soon as may be. After a half hour had been spent in the con sideration of miscellaneous business, the or ders of the day were called, w hen Mr. Cam breleng brought in a resolution for the con sideration of business referred to the Commit tee of the whole. The reception of the resolution being ob jected to, Mr. Cambreleng moved for a sus pension of the Rules of the House, for the purpose oi oringing thu resolution torward. Mr. Hunter, of Ohio, called for the yeas and najs, which were ordered. Two-thirds being necessary to suspend the Rules the vole stood, in favor of susnpnsinn 112, against suspension 57. And so the Rules were not suspended. Mr. Cambreleng then moved to take u the Treasury Note Bill, and called for the yeas and nays upon his motion. i he yeas and nays being ordered, the votn stood: Ayes 102, nays 77. Two-thirds were necessary, and the motion to suspend was lost. The orders of the day were then called, being the still further consideration of tbp Rp. ports of the Duelling Committee,

Mr. Sawyer, of N. C. after some remaiks!

people, moved to lay the w hole matter on the table, with a view, as he said, of bringing members to a lest of their sincerity to act upon the Public business. The yeas and nays weic ordered on the motion to suspend the rules, and the vole stood yeas 4o, nays lol. A motion was made to postpone the subject until the first Monday in June next, and lost, yeas 5G, nays 103. The subject is still before the House, and the debate as uninteresting as it can be. Mr. Bynum has had the floor during the day. The House, at four P. M. in session. Congress. To allow of carpets being ta ken up, and other preparation of their Hall for serious work in the approaching warm weather, the House of Representatives, soon after meeting on Thursday last, adjourned over to Mondav. Some persons are ill-na tured enough to say that the vicin'ty of the race course to the city had its influence in this adjournment, and it is said also that some members were tired of listening to eight or ten dnvs debate on the duelling reports, and so voted for the adjournment, in the hope, when the House re-assembles for business, that the reports referred to will be laid on the table, there to remain. Against this course, however, the reader will have seen that Mr. WTise earnestly protested. The Senate, having nothing to do that they were in a hurry to pass upon, followed the example of the House of Representatives, and adjourned over also. Neither House of Congress, of course, sat yesterday, or will sit to day. J'al. Int. ABNER KNEEL AND BLASPHEMY. The city of Boston has been recently thrown into a state of much excitement, by the trial of Abner Knecland for blasphemy, which closed a few weeks since after beiDg protracted for nearly 4 years. Mr. Kneeland has been for several years the editor of a heretical paper in Boston, called the "Investigator." He is now about seventy years old, and is reputed, even by his enemies, to possess a high order of intellect. The blasphemous expression, for which he has been tried and found guilty, occuned in one of his editorials in the Investigator. It is worded thus : "Universalis believe in a God which I do not; but believe that their God, with all his moral attributes, (aside from nature itself,) is nothing more than a chimera of their own imagination." The construction which the Court put upon this sentence was that Mr. Kneeland denies, generally and without reservation, the exis tence of a Deity. He, himself takes strong exceptions to this construction, and asserts that he intended to convey the idea that he di4 not believe in thai peculiar kin2 ?f Deity which the Universalists believe in. Durine I the course of his trial he at all times freely ad mitted the existence ot a God, but refused to accord to him the attributes ascribed by Chris tians, l he court, however persisted in its construction of his language, and the jury found him guilty of blasphemously denying me existence oi a uod. It is strange that a prosecution like this should have occurred in the most enlighted city of the most enlightened country in the world; and, that, too, in the middle of the enlightened nineteenth century. Have we got back to the days of John Husa and Jprnmp oiiraguer Are Americans to bp rir.ur.H before the tribunals of the countrv for error oi conscience: it has been thought that the . ... . . j . - constitution of the Union guaranled to the citizen the ample right of believingashe nlea ses in all matters pertaining to the worship of me supreme uemg. it is, therefore, somewhat startling to learn that a court in New England has assumed the responsibility of pre siding in a case, the disposal of which com mon sense must admit, belongs only to Heav en. Lrror mav be tolpratf-d whil. left free to combat it. So said Thomas Jef ferson. But the legal functionaries of Boston appear to have but little confidence in the potency of reason. W ith the founders of the Inquisition, they believe only in the effieacv of the dungeon. If Abner Kneeland has been euiltv of avowing a disbelief in the existence of a Dei ty, pains and imprisonment will be found hut inetlectual nistrumentsin convertinghim to the truth. Nay, rather, will not this persecution tend to throw around him the halo of mart vr. dom? Will it not tend to injure the cause of vyunsiianiiy rather than benefit it? Th are thousands of people in the United States, who have never heard of Kneeland and his doctrines, that will now become interested in us late: and interest will excite svmnathv. and sympathy will awaken enquiry; enquiry may possibly lead lo the very results against nuitii me noston tribunal has been laboring to protect the public. The true maxim is let every man believe as he pleases, so that the exercise of his belief operates not to the injury of his neighbors. Extend the same right of conscience to the Atheist thai you accord to the Christian, and he and his tenets will remain innoxious nr. secute him, and you make him the active mis-J sionary ot a sect. Reason, and not legal force, is the true bulwark of religion. Massillon Gazette. TOBACCO. A selfish person is always impolite, ungentlemanly, and unchristian in his manners Thisis manifest even in the beggarly elements ol indecency, from the tobacco chewer up to the veriest gormandizer, or from him w ho smokes in your face up to him who imites you upon the cheek. A due, and becomiDg, and

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&. n.c j! j ri.i:.ii rights f.f others taught Abraham to bow down to , sonsofllelh. l!le I received, the other day, a very interesting letter from a sensible lady in Philadelphia on the grievances to which herself and others had been subjected by a tobacco chewer in the church. Not only was the floor of thest-r, agogue polluted by their amber floods, so tW Kneeling was impossiDie, Dut even the cup0f blessing bore upon it the narcotic perfume of some tobacco-breathing brother, whose juicv lips had either defiled the cup or impregnated the symbolic wine. This is really intolerablt Last year the General Assembly, that supreme and August court of the Presbyterian church, was refused the best meeting houses in the 'city cf brotherly kindness,' because r the pollutions of its priesthood at the shrine u the idol Tobacco. They were, as we learr almost literally turned out of doors, becaus' no decent synagogue would throw open the doors to be inundated and strewed with the libations of these devotees to the stupifyhu. herb. As I hava been reclaimed from this vice 1 v..... .... ..j, ...j .w.v.v. ..ci 11, Sim tesuiv thai in my judgement it is obnoxious tc the reDro r.u v.:i i .1 ... uauun oi uic puuusumier, ine DhvsiCian. the moralist, the gentleman, and the christian i JUiuen. Harbinrr. Q. What is Tobacco? A. An ill eavourrd, slinking. nar,-nf,v : sonous weed. 1 Q. Do animals feed on this weed? . A .lit a. an in loosing reptile, called a innr worm, a species of stinking goat, and the no-l uK.ai,Ui uumuwiuitb, man, are the onlvj oeingsunaer the canopy ol heaven that will toucn or nave any thing to do with it. Q. What is chewing tobacco? x. ii is 10 siuu me moutn ot a man with! that which would make a hog squeal or a dJ ' u"&c man an associate and ooon companion vith the tobacco worm. II. What benefits are to be derived from! tobacco: A. It discolours and destroys the teethJ causes an unnatural and deleterious flow ofi saliva, produces dispepsia, and all the evils it tendant upon indigesticn. Q. Do gentlemen chew tobacco? A. Mum. Q. What is a cigar? A. A cylindrical roll of pollution, formed 1 A . 1 f . A-A . io proiruae irom the irontal orifice of the heads ol tools and dandies. Q. What is smoking cigars? A. It is that roll of pollution ignited at cnof tiiu auu a can tugging at tne other. Q. Do gentlemen smoke cigars? A. Mum. Q. What is snuff? A. It is the stems, and stems, and refuse, and mojE naiiseous portions of tobacco ground to now der; but not to be trodden underfoot ofmenj Q. W ere ladies' noses made for snuff? A. If we rceason from analogy we conclude! not; for, ill au tl.t TorkB of lhe Creator wj observe a wonderful adoption of parts to the! use ior wnicn tnev were dps ontA. Wrf therefore conclude that, had they been de signed for snuff, they would have been turned! the other end up. WouldnH this look nice? Vevay, May, 12. AJ.-i. i ii it i ijiuHTNixG. Jjuring the vkh lent thunderstorm on the night of the 27ih ult., the dwelling house of Mr. Collin McNutt! ol I osey township, in this county, wns Btruck U i: . li-ii t uy ngumiug, wnicn Kiueo ayoung man named juiiu viianuier, wno was seated, at the mo ment of the accident, near the fire-place and leaning back against the mantlepiece. The electric fluid struck the top of the chimney, which it penetrated in an oblique direction, and entered the dwelling immediately above the fire-place, tearing away the fire-bord. and slightly injuring the wall. Times. It is said that the Mexican Con frrrss hare before their august body a proposition lo ex pel all Frenchmen from that republic. JLou. Lnq. The Boston Pearl savs. that a Kentucky buster imitated the crowing of cock so exactly, at two o'clock in the morning, that day broke immediately, and the sun rose two or three hours before the time set down in the almanac. Lou. Enq. Patrick Burns was tried at Newport, Ky. on the 4th inst. for the murder of his wife,and found guilty. We stated, in our "Odd Fish," a few days ago, that this brute had beat hi wife with a dray pin; but it turns out otherwise. He killed her by blows given with his fst! Lou. Eng. Mississiypi Election. A slip from the office of the Nashville Whig, received by the Express mail this morning, contains further returns from the Mississippi election. The editor, in publisning these returns, makes the louowing remarks: "The arrival of the Western District mail this evening with further returns from Mifsisippi, place the election of both the whig can didates beyond much doubt. Prentiss' majority will not be less than 1200; Word's 500. Cin. Whig. United Stales and Mexico. The disputes between this country and Mexico are to be referred to the arbitration of a Ihird power, on the suggestion of Mexico, which has been ac quiesced in by the President. Another Member of Congress dcad. The Hon. Joabf Lawlear, a Representative in Congress from Alabama, died in Washington City on the 9th instant. Wayne Chronicle. Wordcn Pope, Esq. a leading member of the

Louisville bar,diedin that city on the 20th ut-