Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-02-02

              ... n: .h VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 2, 1858. NO12 mi For tht Hopubliean, LOVE. Many sorrows gathor round ui, Life Ii e'er moos of oare Andoloudi loom In the distance, ' Wb.n our sky locmi bright and fair. But if In aaoh boma oirole, Content and klndnoai mov j Life's oaros th loss afflict ua, Oh, thtrt't nought to tmtt at lott. The thlokly gath.rod shadows, That gloom tho sunniest spot; Tha wearied ohaao for pleaaure, To And that ahe la not tho hopes ao oft' deoelving, As lb life's maie we more, Would grieve the aunnieat spirit. Were wa not blest by love. And tha awootest hope, when dying, Of tha soul that's freed from ain Ii to meet the loved in heavon, Who before bare entered in, Oh, love, In god-like beauty, Ruloa the Heavenly oourt.above; There hatred cannot enter, And we'll lira in hoaven to love. Froderloktown, Deo. t, 1867. AMA. 3y The following is an original aong of Bobibt Burns, noror bofora in print until it appeared in tha proceedings of the Burns Festival, reoontly held in Cinoiunatl. To the lovers of the great Scotch poet it will be a dainty morsel. After the song was sung, ooples of the lady's portrait to whom it was addressed, were presented to the Society. SONQ BT ROBERT BURNS. Addressed to Miss Jans Jeffrey, daughter of tha Parish Pastor of Lockmaben, Scotland. When first I saw my Jeanie's faee. . I could na' think what ailed mej My heart went Battering pit-a-pat, My 'een had noarly faiW mo, Sho's aye saa noat, and trim, and tight, All graoedoes round her hover, Ae' look deprived o' my heart, And I booame her lovor, She's aye, aye saa blythe and gay. She's aye sao blythe and cherry, She's aye soe bonny, blythe and gay, 0, gin I were ber deario. Had I Dundas' whole estate, Or Hoptoun's pride to shino in, Did warlike honors erown my fate, Or softer bays entwine in, I'd lay them a' at Janie'a foot. Could I but hope to move her, And prouder than a peer or knight, I'd be my Jeanie's lovor. She's aye, aye saa blythe and gay, 4o. But sair I doubt some happier swain, lias gained my Jeanio's favor, 4 If sao, may every bliss be her's, Tlio' I can nevor have her ; But gang sho oast and gang she west,, .'Twizt Nith and Tweed, all over, While men have eyes, or oars, or taste, She'll always find a lover. She's aye, aye sae blythe and gay, to. Bachelors Be o roful, young man, in the primo of your life, Not to fool your existouoe away j Tha best thing for you is to huntyoa a wife, And marry her right away, A bachelor's life is a horriblo strife, Of earthly eiistonoe alone, And whoo they are dead, and all has been said, There's no one oan tell where they're gone. Prom the Albany Evening Journal. OLD ItEPHtSlilMnVJCS' 1IALL. THE The removal of the House of Representatives this week from their old Hall in the centre building of the Capitol, into the new Hall in the extended southern wing, awakens many recollections of men and events, which, in this now silent Chamber, have played loading parts in the drama of political contests. The old Capitol was destroyed by the British forces in August, 1814. The incidents of the ' m ilian ramnv induced Mr. Madison to con- nw itvis "o O , - vene an extra session of Congress in Sept'ber of that year. They met in a piain dtick ouuuiug n Capitol Hill. Though the country was passing through the most critical period of the war, the message of the President occupies only about a column of an ordinary newspaper. The Speaker, Langdon Cheves, of South Carolina, announced tho standing committees the second day of the session, and the members went at business in right good earnest. As things are dono now-a-days, the message would have rilled a huge volume, and a month have been consumed in getting into working order. , A temporary Capitol was erected, in which the two Houses sat until tho assembling of the Sixteenth Congress, on the 6th of December, 1819, when the House of Representatives met for the first time in their then greatly )ni!M') iiAtr Hall He who shall horeafter write the history of these renownea legislative unaraDerH vuo u-cicnt and the modern will not overlook the remarkable fact, that the closing hours in the old Hall of 1819 were devoted to exciting do-bates upon the Missouri Compromise question that the opening hours of the new Hall of 1819, (now the old Hall,) as well as several succeeding months, resounded with the din of dobate on the same thrne that, after a lapse of more than a third ol i century, the last Congress which occupied this Hall shook the country with agitations respecting the samt Missouri Compromise and that the first speech delivered in the new Hall of 1857 was devoted to an examination of tha principles involved in the enactment of this celebrated measure, and the legitimate consequences springing from its repeal. The atruggle respecting tho admission of Missouri to the Union began in the old brick Hall, in December, 1818, and closed in the more stately Chamber where Congress then met, in March, IS'ZO. Scarcely had tho mom-bers drawn for seatH, in December, 1819, than the fierce sectional battle of the latfl two sessions was renewed. Challenging to the arena the highest forensic powors of that celebrated Congress, and convulsing the country scarcely less than has the reopening of the controversy in our time, this essentially irreconcilable conflict of opinion finally subsided into Mr. Clay's superficial Compromise, and the nation sank exhausted into apparent repose. nu. K ika Aran wn( dnarn. th imbera still smouldered end lived to break out thirty-four years afterwards with a more intense nama than bofore. This tsqubschabli fibb tet VUBNS. ' ,.'.' At tli nnAntnrr nf thfl AAnnnn1 UANiiinn nf thia Cnnavaam f1v f.nv hhvlnff rMRirrnnri thm flhair V John W. Taylor, of New York, was elected Speaker on the twenty -soconu Dauot tne opposing; votes being mostly Riven to Mr. Lown des, of South Carolina. It was a Hectional contest, growing naturally out of the agita- lations ol ice preceding sessions; aim u nrAflfurod thniiph it hut faintlr resembled. that more recent struggle which resulted in placing in me uuair, at mn viuiw vi it ww protracted scene in this groat drama, that model Speaker, Nathaniel P. Banks. We nave neither timo nor materials lor more than brief allusions to some oi the mighty themes and great mon who have figured in the old Hall, during the eight-and- tnirty years oi its occupancy Dy vongrew. The first subject to which wo will refer is fVia Aurlinut Congressional nrocoedinrs of which we have any contemporaneous rccolloction Webster's speecn, ana tne succeeuing aeoaio, in January, 1824, on the Great Revolution. The Grook debate was an era in Congressional eloquence. Clay, Poinsett, John Randolph, Dwight of Mass., dolivered splendid speeches. The keen philippio of thr fiery young Bartlott, of New Hampshire, against Clay, and the lofty Kentuckian's contemptuous and caustio reply,' are freshly remembered.Sam Houston, just from the wild woods of Tennessee, broke a lanco in the foray. A third of a century has gono, during which he has conquered a foreign Republic, has filled its Presidential chair, and annexed it to our Union j and yet, the towering form of the old chieftain maybe seen, erect and eagle-eyed, in the Senate Chamber, an active participant in its daily proceedings. -- a finr nl,t rnlira nf the revolutionary ceriod yet live to remember the brilliant scono when r .fiiiatta naftrlv hair a centurv alter ne had bade aaieu to w asnmgion, on iub eve oi his return to J! ranee, was receiveu in ma lionrospnlAt.ive.i' Hall, amidst the wildest plaudits ofhundreds olspeetators, Mr. Speak-er Clay, in tho name of the great Ropublic Kiili his valor had helned to found, wel- hi return to our shores. A later day witnessed a similar spectacle, when was thin this Hall bv the National Rep resentation, Kossuth, the eloquent Governor of Hungary. . In this Hall transpired that event, which n ..nmnintolir disonlved existing Dolitical com binations, and has influenced the destiny of .. i j. men and parties even uown ujouruav mo election of John Quincy Adams by the House to tho Presidency. The spiteful cotempora- HUUJ 4 oft-reiterated charges of " bargain and oorrup-i!m fh Inno-Htandincr feud between Clav nanno i nv nun rvruiiium ijuiicauuuuoiiwkuv and Jackson then engendered tne remorse ioco nh nniir that cha ed tne smril ana cioua .a i, fntnm of the irreat Commoner, (now known to have .been so undeserved by him,) . ... t 1 1. 1 n are among tne Diner remeiuorautea ui mm period. Wo nun havalv mention tho nronosed Con- gross of Panama the Tariff revision of 1828 tho ultimate removal of tho Aborigines be yond the Mississippi; measures pregnant with groat principles, aim yium.. i w r.nUhincr nncasions for nonius to ut . . . 1 1 1111. Ar mm n ft UUOMw, 0 w , . which rjosteritr will not ik a; Nnrnui wa dwell udou that other ..nrihiii nnntent which shook the Hall of Representatives and tho Senate Chamber to their foundations, and filled every corner of ihn land w th airitation. we mean tne nulli fication conflict of 1830 and 1831. Tt oKnnf ihn time when the two Inst mentioned events were pending, that the Senate began to take the lead of tho House in tho initiation and discussion of important measures, andattnet to itself an unprecedent ed share of the publio attention, inis was nart to the recent infusion into that body of several new Senators, who were dis body of several new Deumum, uu ivreul8. tinguished not only for great learning and ripe experience in affairs, but for splendid .mtixAl nnwsra. To sov that when Clar. oratical powers. To say that when Clay Webster, Calhoun( Wright, oiayion, mvors, Poindexter, Ewing, Tallmadge, and Dallas, roinaexter, iiwing, unuw, entered tho Sonate, they found already there Benton, Woodbury, Tazewell, Hayne, ti ! w-nllnrvhiivcnn. Holmes. Fnrarth. uemuu, 'mn"b""v- -- v-- lierrien, r renngnuyisuu uuiuiw, turj w, ourugue, uv i r---- -- the north wing of the Capitol was to be the ci . nn.i Mf.i,t!in. ih kuju h nrnni u theatre wnere viio giBm 4bhuub iuwh wu - vulsing the country were to play their princi- a tl.. nna.l nnfl Ann pal parts. But the other wing of the Capitol, during .inia nf Mr. Adams' ndministra kUCUVOlugv.v..v. tion, and the opening scenes of uen. Jackson's, displayed a roll of names scarcely less emi- atnrra MpDiihIa. John Ouincv Adams. IIQUV. LWI . ' 1 - Archer, Itoot. Cambreling, Hamilton, Burges, ' ar vtr T".. 11- T11 Buchanan, James m. vvayne, rum, utu, Choato, Verplanck, Stevenson, Corwin, Evans, ii;no l T. needed hut this arrav of learning and etoqnonce in the Houso, cotemporaneous-ly with the still grandor display in the Senate, to entitle these four or five years to bo called the golden era of Cougressional ora tory. ti.. .,ii!n-nt;nnrnntist and tho closelv-fol- lowing tariff compromise, and the protracted United States canu war, wouiueu;u m materials for a chaptor in even a meagre i,tk r m.hiin Avnntfl. But the intonso m- terest felt in these questions, together with .. i t ? -e .L. ar.ntit in BfTnirfl were the leaaersnip oi mu " " soon to pass away the hoat which they en-eondered being destined to "pale its ineffec tual fires" before the glowing lervor ot a life-long controversy concerning the jssest-TiAt Riohts of Maw, which commencing in 1834, has for thee-and-twenty years rogod in the Old Hall, till its every seat and aisle, Its every column and arch and tablature, is as-tit1 with onrnn h.ntnric event, aomo heroic struggle, some brillaint triumph in this Holy Crusade, or with some effort of genius elo-nuonce. and courage, in behalf of the Bight and the True, which will out live thii lot y domo that looked down uponiuem. i.uuiu that w had timo to linger arounu aomo . the scenei in this greatest drama in America a history. We can barely touch upon two or or three, in passing. The right of petition wM early put id issue by that presistent body of men, the radical Abolitionists, whoso convictions of duty no fire of persecutions was hot enough to burn out of Tt la enrinna fact, that the first mod ern memorial respective Slavery, ever presen- tea to tne uousooi nciiroiii"'. - proceedings of a meeting in Utica, N. Y., ae- prcatira tht agitation of the mbjeet I it was oi- Jud itiuu uy uuubv v yi .,?qoa m i.. rJ,;r, .i.ci nf the session of 1834-5 rv. niann nf Ontario eountv. N. Y.. in January, 1835, (just after tho reception of the .Tanuarr loot). IIUSI a lermo rutcynuu J anuary, iooj, ,;;;- ft,, ih. aboiUrjsaveryinthe District ofColum- tionof the Union any day forth, ast dozen bU He advocated its prayer in an able years, now throw itself into a foaming rage at socech ' Th's w the, lint potto zephyr of the bar. suggestion of taking it at iu word.-speecn. inis was me JS Ui 't, -i, nuhTu th.nloouontbuteccentricmom- swelled into atpest that raged in the House . . . , . 1 a. - . 1'1,--f. with unabated .ury hpii - YorkrSpVand JacofMassMhufiettl, and Slade of V.r; mont. Rosort was soon bad to the gag rule, urhiph ttiA flnnri nf tnAmnrifilu hftflLn til in crease in volume, was finally incorporated .1 ..J! 1 i.l.lTT flM among tne sianaiug ruies oi lue uuusa. i ueny ttrvannf'.n! mAnanrna Arnnanrl ihn irA nf .Tnhn j .-M...WW- - - - - ------ Quincy Adams, who soon bocauie the leading champion oi too rigni oi pennon. u greuv age, his eminont services, bis persistent cour-Aim. his alt ill in dohata at once elevatimr the controversy to a commanding position before the country, uuring tne session oi iooo- (-'8 and '9, his desk was loaded with heaps of Anti Slavery memorials from all the free States. Every petition day witnesses a graphic scone, as the old man deliberately presonted one memorial a ftor another, taking most provoking pains to make a brief statement of tho con tents of each, as he banded it over to the little page, to bo ultimately consigned by the Clerk to some dark cell in the subterranean vaults of the Capitol. On the 18th of January, 1837, the House nrtnnti.fl tlio uannl ruin to lav anti slavery edi tions on the table ; this being denominated the " Hawes gag," to distinguish it irom tno " Patton gag," or the " Atherton gag." un ttiA nth nf Fahrunrv. 1837. Mr. Ad ams having occupiod an hour or more in ex hausting his pilo oi Anti Slavery memorials, paused and looking significantly at Mr Speaker Polk, said, " I hold in my hand a paper purporting to be a petition from certain slaves. If I should present it to the House, would it n nn iUa IoKIa unrlnr tliA nrdftr nf the 18th January ?" The Speaker seemed bowildered, and bad just tune to stammer out somoimng about tne gravity of the question, when the entire pro-slavery side of the chamber exploded with tho most intense wrath. " Let him bo expelled 1 " screamed a score of voices. " Expel the traitor 1 " shouted Dixon H. Lewis, whose huge body weighing 500 pounds avoir- dupoiso, came waaaiing ana wneezing aown the aisle towards the Clerk's desk. The whole corps of oligarchs were on their feet, screaming, swearing gesticulating, like demons. i OIK pnca nis gave i aim vuiieu w uiuvr iu vain nrhilA tliA Knpfttntnra in the overhanirinfir galleries caught the spirit of the scene and were going wild with excitement, yuics as thought, resolutions wero prepared for the ex-nnlcmii nf Ml r A ilnma hiiaed on tho assumption that he had presented a petition from slaves for the abolition oi aiavery. are moy were fairly bofore the House, they were offered in mn,i;iil fVimi htr Mr. WnlJv Thompson. now demanding the soverest censure rather than expulsion. Thereupon tne donate oegan. Tf varraA vinlpntlv thrnA dllVH. ThomDSOn. bromgode.Wise, Underwood leading off for the slaveocracy ; liincoin, Lusning, rniiups, Granger, and others, dofended Adams. During the height of the tempest, tho rotunda, the galleries, the passages of the Capitol, being filled with the excited throng, the colleagues and friends of Mr. Adams felt great anxiety not only for his fate in the House but for his personal safety. Meantime the resolutions were going through various modifications, all tending to softon their terms and mitigato their conclusions. All this timo the old Roman sat unmoved in his place, tho calmest man in the chamlwr, with the incendiary petition safely locked tip in his desk. At length it began to leak out that the paper was not exactly such a document as the slaveholders in their hot haste had imagined it to be. Whereupon, Dromgoole of Virginia, still further modified the resolutions by sotting forth that the member from Massachusetts had "given color to the idea that slaves had a right to petition," &c. a phrase on which Adams afterwards roasted bim alivo. Finally, the Pro-Slavery side of the House began to suspect that they were pursuing the negro in the wrong direction ; that if there was a colored individual in the case at all, he was more likely to be found in the paling than in the petition, and so they stopped to tako breath. Thon Mr. Adams rose to aauress me nouse. wvtn great deliberation, his voice pitched on a shrill great deliberation, nis voice pucnea on a snnii k0y that pierced tho remotest corner of the galleries, and with a frail bit of paper rustling in hin otoH h:md. he called tho sneaker 'g at- tantinn tn iha miABtinn hn had nut to him inrco aays ago, wuicu mm iviuhwu uuu- swered, viz : Whether a paper purporting to be a petition from slaves would, if he were to ..n nn t Via 4nhla imrin Via ftrilar nf three days ago, which still rcraainod unan- present if, go on ine lauie unuer mo uruor ui iha ut i nr .ifinnnrv v nnirinp' Arnunn mm umiuuim --a I with a mingled expression of sarcastic cun- nmg ana lony ucuru wiiiuuj-juiu vunuiom W0uld have envied, he cried in a voice, not of ning and lofty scorn which Lord Chatham thundor, but in a sharp hissing tone, such as lightning might be supposed to employ if it aiml-A At U and im I to be axnelled from thisloquacious.babbling House, for simply asking a question ? " For the first time the thought flashed on friend and foe, that Mr. Adams had neither presented the paper, nor proposed to present it 1 Everybody felt queer, while some grave men looked liko lank sheep suddenly denuded of their fleeces. It had now got wind that the paper was a forgory, tho work of some stupid slaveholder in Washington, and purported to be signed by Soipio, Sambo, and other bogus negroes, asking the House to expel Mr. Adams from their body ! And now "the Old Man Eloquent" took his turn in the debate. How ho demolished one opponont after another, scourging, flaying, scalping, impaling, to his heart's content. How rank upon rank of tho Chivalry went down in heaps before his trenchant blade-how ho spitted poor Dromgoole, and roasted him before a slow fire of sarcasm, when ho told him that "giving color to an idea" was not a Northern but a Southoren practice, one of the peculiar domestic iustitutions of Virginia with which he had no desire to interfere how the House screamed with laughter, as Dromgoole essayed a grim smile in acknowledgment of this delicate allusion to the bleaching chemistry employed by the South to eradicate the dark tints in their variegated populationhow he wound up his triumphant philippic by warning his young apversaries "never again to run on an errand till they know Whither they are going" and how tho House firmly refused to lay the resolutions on the table, but brought their authors to a direct vote, and flnaly trampled them down by a decided majority: are not all those things written in the Chronicles of the Old Hall of the Houso of Representatives ? In JanUtjyj 1812, another attempt was made to expel or difgrace Mr. Adams for his practical defence of the right of petition. Among the numerous rooroorials forwarded to him was one from Haverhill, Massachusetts, asking Congress to take the initiating stops for the dissolution ot me union. uintii ;, mi.rfc nv that ho wtUODDOsed tO same time remarking that he was opposed to granting its prayer. As in the previous out mv - pi..mh- -rhirh had been threaten ne a disolu break of Xol, tne rro-oiaverj mu ui ber from Kentucky, gravely proposed to im M-r Hii Aflame for treuimi : HenrT A. WlSfl peach Mr. Adams for treason : Henry A. Wise, I ' -i L.u.!.a A a "7. a fcr hi. ahaurd he'resies. de m7n7e.7pulsion from the Houae; while mild.r memberi only called for sever, ten- sure. Mr. Adams domanded a trial. Of the thrilling incidents of that controversy, which extended through twelve bitter days, tlioro is no time now to speak. On tho fifth or sixth day, (we are writing wholly from memory,) Mr. Adams entered upon his defence We have a distinct recollection of tho mighty tliemos shadowod forth in his outline, and which he proposed to discuss at length ; and of the important documents for which he called under an order of tho Houso his thonies and his documents embracing the whole circle of Slavery. Having laid out work enough, as he said, in response to a question from a Southorn member, to occupy two or threo, he began by an examination of the positions of h'S assailants, seriatim. His reply to Marshall was magnificent. In the course of it, whilo responding to Marshall's proposition to impeach him for troason, he turned suddenly upon him Marshall plumed himself upon his birth and superior intellect and said: "The framersofthe Constitution have not left it for the puny mind of the member from Kentucky to dofine what treason is. They have doclared it solely to consist in levying war against the United States, and giving aid and comfort to their enemies. Lot him study the document ! " In his reply to Wise, he was terribly severe. For once, he mado the haughty, brassy Virginian blanch and quail. Wise took an active part in this attempt to degrade the old man. It will be remembered that, on tho occasion of the Cillcy duel, the House appoared to be determined to expel all tho members who had participated in that murder. Wise was one of the number. At a critical stage of the controversy, Mr. Adams made a spoech against the constitutional right of tho House to expel a member without a formal trial, and subsequently made a successful motion to lay the subject on the table. Thus Wise was saved. On the present occasion, in the course of his reply to Wise's bitter attack, he fixed his eye upon bun, and, pointing his skinny linger steadily at him, said : At a period not far remote, when tho member now sitting in that chair entered this Hall, pale and haggard his hands all dripping with the rod blood ot a fellow-membor, and this Houso in its indigna tion was about to expel him from its presence, who interposed the shield of the Constitution in defenco of his privileges, and saved him from disgrace f And is this tho roturn he renders me for that service ? " When the old man was uttering these terrible words, Wise, who was sitting erect at their4)oinmencement, taking notes, began to settle down lower and lower and lower, all eyes fixed upon him, till, at their conclusian, his abashed countenance was completely hidden behind his desk. No convicted culprit, standing in the dock, and writhing under the sentence of a judgo, over exhibited a more pitiable spectable than did tho cowed Virginian.We must forbear further dotaik Suffice it to say, that, at tho end of the twelfth day, the slaveholders, beaten at all points, and driven from tho field, while Mr. Adams was only on the threshold of the discussion, wore glad to lay their own resolutions on the table, and give up the contest. Of Mr. Adams's rare parliamentary tact, the celebrated Btrife over "broad seal" of. New Jersey affords an instance. At tho opening of the session, the Uork tor many days reiusod to put any motion to the House, though scores of resolutions wero offered, and he persisted in calling a roll of members which he had prepared the House being unable in the mean time to proceed to the election of a Speaker, and standing in a "dead lock" of disorganization. Finally, after long dobatos, Mr. Adams made a motion that Mr. Khett (we forget at this mo-mont whether it was Khett or Lewis Williams) do take the Chair tcmorarily, and preside till a Spoaker be chosen. " Ah ha ! " responded half a hundred voices; "but who will put the question to vote?" "I intesb to put it myself ! " instantly responded Mr. Adams. In the twinkling of an eye, the obstinate Clerk sank to the position of a mere scribe, order rose out of chaos, and Mr. Adams himself was placed temporarily in the Chair. Postority will regard the Congressional career of Mr. Adams as the most illustrious period of his great life. He served, he saved, the causo of liberty. The same unerring tribunal will place his forensic displaysin the front rank of tho manifold exhibitions of a mind richly laden with the spoils of all sciences and all times. That a man who had borne no part in deliberative bodies, and had spent tho greater portion of his lifo in foreign Courts, where he rarely heard tho accents of his mothor tongue, should, late in the evening of days, ontor tho tho most tumultuous popular assembly in the world, and for sixteen years, and until he reached the octogenarian period, hold the position of the most acuto parliamentarian and the most dreaded debater of his timo, is without a parallel in history. The circumstances of his death were an appropriate closing of his extraordinary career. On a sunny morning in February, 1818, the House was thrown into one of its wildest, most turbulont moods. Half the members were on their feet, shouting to the Speaker. Our eyes fell upon Mr. Adams. He was sitting in his usual seat, apparently calm and unmoved by the tumult around him. Instantly he turned very pallid, his lips moved, his hand nervously grasped his desk. We thought ho was trying to arise and address tho Chair. A moinont afterwards, his body began to incline over upon tho left arm of his scat, his head drooping upon his breast. One cried out to a member noar him, " Look to Mr. Adamsi he is falling! " The attention of the assorably was arrested, tho uproar ceased, mcmbors sprang towards the dying statesman, the House adjourned, and the venerable sage was borne to ihe Speaker's room. Like Nelson, his spirit ebbed, bis life wont out, amid tho roar of battlo, so familiar, so musical, to his ear. Not to compare him with vulgar heroes, he was stricken down like Chatham, iu tho plenitude of his fatno, on the theatre of his greatest achievements; and he died under the dome of th. Capitol, which so ofton bad echoed his eloquence, and witnessed his immortal deeds. fjlarumetvenrabilononia Oontibns, at uultum nostras quod prodorat urbi." The treason trial of Mr. Adams remindi or. of the censure of Joshua R. Giddings, later in the same session, for venturing to offer in th. House soma moderate Anti-81aver resolutions. Hi resignation, his triumphant reelection, are freshly remembered. Truly the present father of tho House may say, "Times chango, and men change with them 1 " The Old Hall, of which w. write, is not solely consecrated to the heroic and the sublime. The ludicrous and the facetious have laid their gift thore. Among th. richest of these was Tom Corwin's reply to a pompous brigadier general of militia from Michigan, Crary by name. It was in tho Harrison canvass of 13 JO. Crary had entered into a minute military criticism of tome of Harrison's battles in the war of 1812-'15, to prove Har-riann'l inraoacitr for command. Corwin re- eptodsd -in his happiest vein. Addressing, himself to "the two hundrod colonols, majors and captains, moro or less, on this floor," Cor win prococdod to describe a muster of Michi gan militia, with Brigadlor Crary in command The various evolutions and contortions ot th. lino, so that tho soldiers might enjoy " tho umbrageous shadows of the shady truos," tho ominous gathering in the heavens about noon, the wilting shower, th. scattering of the troops, thoir voracious charge near nightfall, the thirsty Crary leading tho hungry column upon the adjacent whisky shops, wator-melon booths, and gingerbread stands the intermingled allusions to Steuben's work on military tactics, Vauban's on engineering, to Al exander and the great Frederick were all given in language and tones exquisitely ludic rous, that for an hour and a half the House screamed with laugher, whilo poor Crary escaped to one of the adjoining committee moras. The next day, Mr. Adams brought down the House, by speaking of Gon. Crary as "the late member from Michigan." Tho country remembers, and tho historian will record the famous financial battles which have been fought in tho Old Hall. The sub-treasury the exciting scenes of the extra session under the Tyler dynasty tho imperi ous bearing of Clay the vetoes of the incen sed Virginian the sturdy dofence of the President by "the Guard," so called, in the House, which consisted of Wise and Cushing, and half a dozen lessor men, all of whom secured fat offices for themselves and lean places for their followers the protective tariff of 1842 the bankrupt act, by which debtors paid off their obligations in a paper currency most un satisfactory to their creditors the free trade tariff of 1846, and cognate questions, afforded for many years an ample field for great displays of politico-economical eloquence. Members of the House will recollect how ofton, during the long session of 1846, the dappor Secretary of the Treasury was seen in consultation with the rugged old Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. McKay, of North Carolina, whose sturdy sense and skillful loadorship carried through the tariff bill of that year. TlAQnitn IliAan nnnnr.ial mAAjmres. these monetary crisis, tho eternal conflict between Freedom and Slavery still wont on. The an-nexation of Texas, the consequent war with Mexico, the acquisition of new Territories, and the contosts of 1848 and 1850, in regard to the nature of the civil and social institu tions which should bo established in these Territories, bring this rambling sketch down to the eve of that greatest of all events in this protracted struggle, the overthrow of the f ieennri Cnmnrnmiaa. Wo will uauae hare a moment, to refresh our own recolleotion of the rich scene in the House, in 18 la, when Wilmot gave Father llitchie, then editor of iha TTninn n tnrrihlfl flavins, for ftttomntinc to read him out of the Democratic party, for moving as an amendment to a money mil nis Proviso of immortal memory. As tho ruddy, robust representative of the free hills of old Bradford was making the Hall ring with the blows he was levelling at the sallow, lank Vii-oinlnn. the ltti- wan flittincr around the lobby, dodging behind this column, peering nervously tnrougn wai cranny in ine screen and looking for all the world liko a lost spirit, struggling to escape from purgatory. But enough, aye, too much, of this, At some future time, should opportunity occur, we may sketch the incidents in that recent contest alluded to, still fresh in the recollection yea, and still going on, though its din will no nfore disturb the solemn repose of the old Hall which witnessed its opening scenes. Those yet unparalleled Congressional contests that of 1820, which resulted in adopting tho Missouri Compromise, and that of 1854, which ended in its repeal, both transpiring within this celebrated Chamber would afford rare subjects for the poncilof the paintor, the lyre of the poet, and the pen of the historian. a.i tun wnulil mnnv innidnntii in that ever- changing drama, which opened with tho de fenco of tho nights oi the union Dy oonn Quincy Adams in 1835, and which, twenty va49 thnrenfter. saw the closinz scene of its first act in tho crowning glory of elevating .Nathaniel r. lianas to tne oponKerscnair. Thirty eiirht vears atro. the Kebrosentatives of eighteen States, led by Henry Clay, of iin-perishablo famo, took their seats in this histo ric tlall. During tnat period, wnai cnanges has it seen at home and abroad I Thirty-one Slates sitting around the National Council Board, while others, lying at the base of the Rnxlrv Mountains, and standing bevond the crests of the Sierra Nevada, demand admission to the Union : A Republican Empire founded on the l'acillc, larger man mai which Caesar ever conquered : Every throne in P.timnA fwinn shaken to their foundations : Two revolutions in France : The death of Napoleon ; the restoration of his line ; the final extinction of the Bourbons : England destroying her rotten boroughs, reforming her Parliamentary representation, repealing her test acts, emancipating her slaves, abolishing her corn laws : The gonius of Fulton stomming thn rnrrenu nf all rivers, and nlouehimr the bosom of the ocean as if it were prairies : , The railway a common mode oi conveyance in all civilized States : The telegraph car-nf Inva and literature, finance and war, on lightning wings over land and sea, to the uttermost parts oi me eanu ; strut the old Hall sets lite same eternal conflict between tretdom and aiavery still going on i An angry Man. We have soen impatient excitable mon shut up in a room with their only pair of boots in tha hands of a dilatory shoemaker j we have contemplated tho countenance of an irrasiblo biped, when picking his new beaver from a mud nuddlci after chasing th. samo two sauarcs on a eustyday : w. have seen men approached for the tenth time by dirty-faced apple vendors, whilst adding up a complica ted column of figures t we have seon pnntors nursing their wrath to keep it warm, and somotitnes giving vent to the same upon "pi- ing " a handful of matter, but th. large man with the groat coat, who missed the Parkora-bureh boat yestorday morning, displayed in one vast combination all the angry emotions of which th. human mind is capable. His "traps" and his wifo wero aboard. When ha first discovered th. boat puffing and plow ing around tho bend below town he fetched a lorg drawn breath. For the space of fivo minutes he was too full for " utterance," but after the elapse of that timo he " fell to cursing like a very drab," and kept t-e record- in? anirel busy for about a half an hour, when h. betook himself to turning somersets, pawing ng the earth and chawing a hitching post, and then tat quietly and philosophically down to wait for th. next boat. Wheeling Inttlligm- For the Republican. . fcDtl STATION. This is a subject which has long sine, been exhausted ; but as we are about to have anew school-house erected and a Union School established in our city, I have concluded to say a fow words upon the subject, through the columns of the Republican. Nothing noed be said in regard to the advantagos of education; for the people of Knox county, so far as I am Kquainted, or have made observations are full j awake to this subject, and are hungorfng and thirsting for good schools. Tho Union School system is, undoubtedly, the best that has ever been gotten up ; and is destinod soon to triumph over all other systems. Union Schools are generally divided into five grades, viz: Infant, Primary, Secondary, Grammer and High School. . The child of five or six vears of age is taken, he commences with the Alphabet; or, according to the more modern stylo, is learned to read words by sight before ho learns a single letter of the alphabet, and is lod on step by step through all the different grades, until finally he may, at tho ago of sixteen or eighteen enter College, or a female may graduate ; and a malo if he continue through the whole course may receive what might be tormod a liberal education. But one of the chief advantages of the Union School system is that the poor have the means of liberal education placed within their grasp. Almost any man in moderate circumstances can afford to educate his children, especially the daughters , when a Union School is established in his town or hamlet, when the tuition for common branchoa is raisod by taxation and for the highor branches for the most part are raised in the same way when the getting of books is about all tho expense which he has to boar. This I know to be practicable. Go to any Union School and you will find at least one third of the students of this class; and this is perfectly right, I am well aware that somo object to the Union School system on this very account. They contend that the man of property should not thus bo compelled to pay the tuition of the poor; and what is meaner still, that they wish to have the priviloge of keeping their children above the common class in point of education and intelcctual endowments as well as pecu niary affairs. How contemptible such a person ! now contracted and ungenerous such a heart ! But it may be envy that prompts to such a position, as it is a world wide known fact that at least two thirds of our greatest Statesman, Orators, best Merchants, and, in short, smartest mon in general, have been poor boys if not orphans. But this argument need but be repeated, to bo condemned by every generous and honest man. Another advantage of the Union School system is tho education of Ladies. Upon the ladios, depend tho future greatness and character of Jour country. It has been said that there never was a smart man who had not a smart mother. It is also considered that a child learns more the first five years of his life than he does in any subsequent ten years. Besides all this, it is known that the ladios have an unbounded influence over the gontle-mon. They actually rule thejworld. Under all these considerations, how important that they be educated. A mother who has re ceived a liberal education will train hor children by answering right their thousand and one questions and by instructive conversations, so that they cannot fail to possess expanded intellects. An educated lady will exert a hallowod influence over her husband, whereas, an ignorant one will exert exactly an opposite influ ence. A young lady in these days makes but a sorry appearance in society without a liberal education. Now the Union School exactly meets those necessities by giving to all yourg ladies a liberal education by placing the poor man's daughter on an equal footing, so far as literary qualifications are concerned, with the daughter of the more wealthy. J. G. JONES. (To be Continued.) OCT General Willium Walker arrived at Petorsburgh, Va., on the 15th inst., and was greoted by a considerable number of citizens, He remained during the day at the Boiling- brook Hotel. Efforts were made to induce bim to prolong his visit, but he di regarded the solicitations, saying that it was essential that he should be in Mobile at an early period, Ho accordingly left for that destination in the evening. Theodore Parke Canonized. At a recent mooting of Spiritualists, in Dodworth'a nail, N. Y., a prominent professor of the faith opened by saying it was customary in religious assemblies to read a portion of divine truth ; and that he would begin the exercises of th. occasion by reading a portion of divine truth according to Theodore Turker. He accordingly read an extract from on. of Mr. Parker's discourses. - - Ilosf in Jahcart. The editor ot the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch was presented, on Monday, by a lady, with a beautiful rose, as fresh and fragrant as any ever seen in the month o May, accompanied by a note, stating that the flowers, strawberries and tomatoes bad unfolded their golden potals, even in the midst of winter. i Senator Douglas a Louisiana Planter. The Baton Rouge Gazette says that Mr. Douglas has entered into a planting partnership with a gontlemon of Baton Itouge, and that the negroes from his Mississippi plantation, recently sold, are to be transferred to that Slat.. , " Beautiful exceedingly " used to be th6 approach to Sunday in old timos, with its) threshold mad. of a Saturday night: - ' " Tbo tide of passion and tho glow of ambi tion wont down with Sunday' gun anil life's fever was followed by a sleep. The' black: smith's bellows grew breathless" and his hammer lay silent upon the anvil ; the fitful tinkling of a bell denoted the last wanderer of the flock safe in th. fold; th. mill's "big wheel" stood still ; and the tipper and low., er sections of its battered door were closed ; tho " ironing " of the old fashioned mother was aired and folded and laid away ; the laat ' loaf was draWn from the glowing cavern of the old brick oven ; the boys had come back from the creek, thoir brown feet twinkling lighter in the grass and their damp hair shade darker than it was; a light glimmers dimly through the great windows of th. church; young men and maidens go by in pairs, and pretty soon, through the shadowy air, there float the blended voices that we used to love in Windham, Mear and Silver street, ' Dun- doe's wild, warbling measures rise," and sweet old Corinth falls upon th. ear; the moon surmounts the woods, and rides a mo ment like ship upon the leafy waves, 1he bears away for the blue waters of God's .'Egan, and over all that scene and right it rules. The dew grows radiant and restless in the grass beneath it as if earth were our mother and she really breathed ; the mists of grey that with the willows fringe the stream, ar. silver ; and the memory of that hour is gold. A very beautiful provision of nature if it when Death has done his worst with us, and sealed lips that shall never more be parted ;-when the summer winds have bore away upon their wanton wings the dust we have bo often clasped, and fancied to be ourselves ; when the hungry moths have devoured th. records we have left, and dreamed to be immortal ; when Time has turned to sands and sifted through his hour glass, the mansions w. have builded, and thought would " last till doomsday " a very beautiful provision is it, we say, that somotimcs that second immor tality we longed to leave, is confided to a NAME. ' ' It is a little humiliating, perhaps, that a syllablo, a ripple in th. air, should bear our memory on to other days should be all that is left of us ; but so, indeed, ft often is, and this idle world, this empty name, alone float away into the future, like a little floecy cloud, betokening all the tempest of life that has passed, its great clouds gorgeous with hopes of gold and crimson in the sun. How Slavery Gained Ground la Ihe m. G. Church. . Peter Cartwright, in his autobiography, gives the following account of the way slavery gainod such a foothold in the church. ' At th. time of the General Conference of 1816, he says : "It is a notorious fact that all the preach ers from tho slaveholding States denounced slavery as a moral evil ; butasked for the General Conference mercy and forbearance on account of the civil disabilities they labored under, so that wo got along tolerably smooth, I do not recolelt a single Methodist preacher, at that day, that justified slavery. But 0, how things have changed ! Methodist preachers in those days mado it matter of conscience not to hold their fellow- creatures in bondage, if it were practicable to emancipate them, conformably to the laws o f th. State in which they lived. Methodism increased and spread ; and many Methodist proachers, taken from comparative poverty, not able to own a negro, and who preached loudly against it, improved and became popular among the slaveholders J and many of them married into slaveholding families) and be- camo personally interested in slave property, (as it is called.) Then they began to apolo gise for the evil ) then to justify it, on legal principles i thon on Bible principles ; till, lo and behold ! it is not an evil but a good ! it is not a curse but a blessing t till really you would think, to hear them tell the story, if you had the means and did not boy a good lot of them, you would go to the devil for not enjoying tho labor, toil, and sweat of this degraded race, and all this without rendering them any equivalent whatever!" C3 Sheridan was once taken ill, in consequence of a fortnight's continued dining out and dissipation. IIo sent for Dr. Heberden, who prescribed rigid abstinence, and calling again, soon afterwards, asked his patient if he was attending to that advico. Tho answer being affirmative "Right said the doctor ; " 'tis the only way to secure your longth of days." "I do not doubt it," said Sheridan ; "for these three last days, since I began, bars been the longost to me in my life." 03" Joseph Provost Carr, of Kansas, tb pro-slavery candidate for Congress, whom th. Calhoun returns announo. as defeated by Mar out J. Parrott, is a native of South Carolina, and an early disciple and protege of Atchison, in his crusade for the establishment of slavery in Kansas. He is about twen'y soven year , of ago, and was a graduate of Harvard College in the c!ass of 1850. . He is a lawyer of taleut. and has enjoyed tho advantagos of some two years of study in the University orueuiei berg, in Germany. ! . ftr W. observ. that Hon. David S. fleid, on. of the Senators from North Carolina, haa beenconflntd by illness at Richmond,. Va. , lor torn, weeks. Tb latest intelligence ficra that place is, that h. is slowly recovering, and expects to Uk. his place in th. Senate In a short time. . . (r. Good or bad habits, formed in youth, generally go with ua through li'fc II. F. Taylor's Homemade Chip; r r. A r of r- Jd I I r-th) to.