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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUS T A. MONDAY MORNING, JULY 27. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio ; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican— the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. s j;6r vice-president, J 6 H N TUEB, Os Virginia ; A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B— —of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriot statesmen. (b- —_ FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.; JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass. WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb. C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. FOR CONDRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb. LOTT WARREN, of Sumter. THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. dj* Nb mail North of Richmond last night. Lieut. Hooe and Negro Testimony, The Locofoco Journals and their n-usy politi cians, are endeavoring to defend the President for his recognizing the right of negroes to testify a gainst a white man, upon the ground that Mr. Van Buren acted in accordance with the Law. It is in deed a little remarkable, if such a law is in exist ence, those noisy advocates of Mr. Van Buren have not been able to furnish their readers with a copy of the law, in which that particular clause is con tained, that declares the testimony of negroes to be legal. If such a law can be produced among the Statutes of the United States, we will cheerfully s® publish it to the world, and let the people see that Mr. Van Buren has been sustained in this case by the law; bat until such a law is produced, we shall continue to hold him up to the scorn of the Southern people. The truth is, no such law is to be found among ■our Statutes, and the statement that Mr, Van Bu ren acted under the authority [of law, is mere as sertion without a particle of evidence to support it. Let those who assert there is such law produce it, and not attempt to impose upon the people by as sertion. If there be any such law, no man will assert but what Mr. Van Buren discharged his du ty, but the law must be produced before he can be defended by Southern men. For the Chronicle Sentinel , Mr. Editor —ln Saturday’s Constitutionalist, an effort is made by the Editors, to defend the course of the new allies, Messrs. Lawson, of Burke, and Hudson, of Putnam, on the Resolu tions in the Georgia Senate, in 1836. Certainly the Editors must have felt it of vital importance to de fend those gentlemen, that they have so soon es sayed that duty. And such a defence, if defence it ®au be called, as I apprehend those very con sistent gentlemen will not bestow upon them many thanks for. They have denied nothing contained in my communication, but a very labored effort is made to explain the votes of those gentlemen ; and how far they have succeeded, the candid rea der will judge. In ray humble judgment, the force of my communication is increased, and I must re turn my acknowledgements to the Editors for ex tracting the proceedings of the Senate on those resolutions. If the Editors can explain away the vote of Messrs. Lawson and Hudson, which posi tively unequivocally admits their preference for Harrison over Van Buren, in 1836, they will have accomplished a work for which those gentle men will no ckubt feel under obligations. A Looker On. The Election. The New Orleans Bee of the 21st inst. says:— “It is now more than two weeks since the election, and yet we are unable to furnish complete returns. The three parishes of Union, Caddo and Claiborne ttill remain to be heard from. All we know at this present writing is, that the whigs have elect ed one member of Congress by 2025 majority; the locofocos another, by 13 votes; and that, as far as heard from, Moore leads Winn, in the third district, 205 votes, rendering bis election highly probable* but yet not certain. We know, 100, that in the locofocos have a majority of one; and that in the House the whigs have 27 members cer tain; the locofocos 20. One member, Mr. Phillips, of Assuption, claimed by both parties, leaving two members, viz;—one from Union,Caldwell and Oui- another from Claiborne, to be heard from. We know that we have already three ma jority on joint ballot, giving Mr. Phillips to the lo cos, or five, if he votes with the whigs, as it is f said he is pledged to do. This is the amount of our knowledge. Our chance is fair for the two mem bers, and it is more than likely that we shall get one. This would give us either sor 7 majority on joint ballot, still conceding Mr. Phillips to the lo cos. Perhaps, however, ere this paragraph ap pears in print, all our doubts and scruples in re spect to the third district may be dispelled by the actual returns. ■ c The Hon. Thos. Butler King, came passenger in the Cars yesterday evening from Charleston and departed by the Savannah Stage. Collector of the Customs. —We have seen a letter, says the Charleston Courier, from a member of Congress to a gentleman in this cit}' stating that the Hon. Henry L. Pinckney, Mayor of our city, had been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, as Collector of the Customs, for the Port of Charleston, vice the Hon. Henry Deas, who declined the appoint' ment. From the Savannah Republican of the 2Ath. From Florida. By the steamer Isis, Capt. Pearson, arrived yesterday morning, we received the Jacksonville Advocate of the 2 Ist. No news. We also re ceived from our correspondent the St. Augustine News of the 17th inst. from which We extract the following: INDIANS. Information was received at Micanopy on the 13th inst. that the plantation of Mr. Hope situa ted on the border of the Alachua prairie, was visited the evening previous by a parly of Indi ans, who burnt and destroyed about two acres of corn, and killed a beef, which they packed up on a horse stolen from the neighborhood. The horse returned home, having it is supposed, es caped from the Indians. A detachment of the 7th Infantry, afce«l forty in number, under the command of Lieut. Hen shavv, have left for the place. A heavy rain was falling, which will obliterate the trail, and no hopes are entertained of the enemy being over taken. An express was also despatched to Holmes, at fort Fort Wheelock, which after an absence of about an hour, returned and reported that the Indians were on the Fort King*road ; that he had seen two on the border of theTusca willa hammock, and that he heard firing in the interior of the hammock. A detachment of Dragoons, under command of Lieut. Green, 7th Infantry, was immediately despatched for the place, but neither trail nor In dians were to be found. Some men were return ing from Fort Wheelock and were met at the ham mock, and it is supposed that thers were no In dians, or that they had decamped on the appear ance of the two parlies. A Court Martial is now in session at Polatka, for the trial of Soldiers for mutinous conduct at that post a short time since. Col. Riley, Presi dent, Lieut. Whistler, Major Wilcok, Captains, Bonneville, Barnum, Hawkins, and Lieut. An derson, Judge Advocate. The steamer Santee, Poinsett, arrived yester day from the Southern Posts. We learn that a negro came into Key Biscayne, who stated that he was a slave of Dr* Crews, killed at Charlotte Harbor, and that he had been with the Indians ever since. Hs is in confinement. The vthitejlag was not hoisted on Tuesday last. A scout has gone South. We hope tins coincidence may be ominous of a success to its efforts. From the New York Star of the 20th. Four days later Irom Europe--Arrival of the Britannia Steamship at Boston, in Twelve days from Liverpool. The steamship Britannia, of Mr. Cunard’s line from Liverpool to Halitax, was telegraphed off Boston, where such splendid ceremonials awaited her, (doubtless this day,) at 10 minutes after 7 on Sunday evening, as we learn by the extra Boston Times, brought on by the express to the newspapers at this city. 1 he Britannia had 60 passengers from Liver pool for Boston, and 25 for Halifax. She arrived in Halifax in just about 12 days, and was detain ed there for some time. The Hon. Samuel Cunard is among the pas sengers by the Britannia. The latest news which had been received from the U. Stales, was to the 13th June, by the pack et ship United States from New York. I he Britannia left Liverpool the afternoon of July 4lh, and Boston thus has the gratification by the rapid flight of her steamships to furnish the latest news from Europe to New Yoik and other cities. The shares of the Bank of the United States, have fallen to £ ls, at which rale were sellers at the close of business on the 3d inst. The rea son being, that an increasing opinion prevails, that no dividend will be declared for the past hall year. A letter from an American gentleman, dated London, June, 30, says: “When I left Paris, there was a Mr. Newell, a director of the Schuyl kill Bank, there, who had just arrived from Amer ica, and had already secured Levis, the Cashier, ana would shortly sail with him for home.” Texian Loan.—A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald writing from Liverpool, under date of 27th June, says— It is currently reported here, and strongly credi ted, Gen. Hamilton, who came over passenger in the Great Western, has succeeded in London and Paris in negotiating a loan in favor of Texas to the amount of .£1,000,000 sterling, which, if true, will prove of immense importance to that rising, young and much abused and much mis represented republic. We are indebted to our correspondent for the London Sun of July 3d, which contains the fol lowing important news from China. NEWS FROM CHINA. The Overland Mail from India has arrived, bringing Canton papers of the 271 h of March, Singapore papers of the 15th April, and Bom bay papers of the 23d of May, inclusive. From 1 Canton the news is more interesting than impor tant. The Chinese were making (for them) vig orous preparations tor hostilities with England. They were busily constructing numerous Airc rafts for burning British shipping, and as from 1 time immemorial the ingenuity of the Chinese ’ has been directed to the manufacture of fire works 1 there is more danger to be apprehended from 1 these infernal machines than from any of Admi- 1 ral Kwan’s floating batteries. The American 1 merchants finding that Canton was likely to be 1 too hot for them, and that Great Britain was not 1 to be deterred frein seeking reparation for the in- 1 suit offered to the Representative of her Sove reign and the robbery of her subjects, by their protests, and quitted the provincial city, which put a complete stop to all foreign trade. The Druid of 44 guns, had been ordered to join the squadron destined to make war on China and had arrived. News of the death of the Empress of China had reached Canton. Pekin was said to be in a dangerous excitement; (he stoppage of the foreign trade having occasioned great distress among the tea growers and the rheubard cultiva- . tors. A considerable loss of revenue was expe rienced in the Imperial Exchequer, and the Man darins who indirectly profiled by the trade were all discontented; and discontent sometimes finds a I tongue even under the despotic sway of the Ini- 1 perial Ruler of “ ten thousand kingdoms.” The reigning dynasty, being of the Tartar race, is ex- ' ceedingly unpopular in China, and it is not im- possible that the contest with England may lead to a revolution. i The Khivan Expedition. — A letter from I Jellahabad, of the 23d of April slates that the 1 Russian army had entered Khiva in triumph. 1 The Khan, finding resistance impossible, submit- ( ted with a good grace—set at liberty all the Rus- < sian prisoners iu his dominions—entered into an i alliance, offensive and defensive, with the Empe ror Nicholas —and promised the Russians all the assistance in his power towards the extension of their dominion in the East. The writer fur ther states that, on leaving Khiva, the Russian army would march to Bokhara. If this news be confirmed, we may prepare ourselves for an en counter with Russia, on the Indus. It is more than probable that from the battle fields of Cen tral Asia the voice of England will be first heard evoking the restoration of Polish nationality and independence. The British forces embarked at Madars on tho 16th April. The Chinese on their side were all activity and determination. Many Chinese families were flying from Ma cao. At Pekin and Monkden there was a spirit of discontent and rebellion manifested. A memori al had been addressed to the Emperor praying for the massacre of the English and the stoppage of the foreign trade. The evening edition of the Sun, 7 o’clock, con tains further particulars of the Canton news which we subjoin in a condensed fi rm below : Prepa rations for AVar. —Governor Lin has about 3000 recruits, who are being drilled daily near Canton in the military exer cises of the bow, the spear, and the double sword. The latter is a weapon peculiar, we believe, to China. Each soldier is armed with two short and straight swords, one in each hand, which, by being knocked against each other, produce a clangor, which it is thought will intimidate the enemy. Lieutenant Col. Pinto, the Portuguese Gov ernor of Macao, has been appointed by his Queen commandant of the armed forces at Goa. In consequence of the death of the Chinese Empress, the whole nation would go for one month in mourning, and the Mandarins not shave for 100 days. She had been but a short time married to Taouk Wang the Emperor, but had three children by him, the oldest eight. She was of great beauty and at one time at the head of the conservative party, and of great influence in distributing proxincial offices to her partizans. Hew— xad —belonged to her coterie. Lin publishes March 9th an edict re-opening the Portuguese trade. He declares that the port of Macao had been shut because the Portuguese harbored the English ; and the Portuguese for eigners being now represented by the Mandarins of Macao to be penitent, and that all the English are driven out of that place &c., therefore, thro’ “ Celestial Compassion ” the said Portuguese, viz: shopkeepers traders, storers and transporters of cargo, &c., are allowed to resume thier com mercial intercourse as of old. They are strictly forbidden conveying merchandize belonging to English foreigners, or illicitly making the goods up with others. The Canton Press of March 21st, states that the Portuguese had not driven out the English, and that the latter are unmolested; and further, that if the Chinese do lake possession of Macao, the Portuguese will regret not having accepted the offer of the English to defend that place. It was expected that the retirement of the American firms from Canton, in conjunction with a new order prohibiting vessels from going down from Whampoa with deck cargo, and the prospect of hostilities with Britain, would mate rially affect the export of lea, which some of our correspondents do not expect to exceed 23,000,- 000 lbs. for the season, should a force arrive, and a fall in the price of teas seemed to be confident ly looked forward to on the Chinese finding that it was the intention of the Americans to quit Canton. The papers report the decease of Taoukwang’s Empress, and some strange disturbances at Pe kin. The opium market was in a very unsettled state, some holders being willing to sell at $650 to 700 for Patna. Freights still continued high, and first class tonage was all engaged at £7 and £8 per ton. Exchange on England still 4s lOJ 6 months, and few transactions: on Bengal, at Rs 222. Opium Smoking. — A high civilian in the me tropolis of Keangse was denounced for having smoked opium. He at first denied the charge, was tortured, and then confessed. He was sen tenced to be transported to Ele, in order to strike terror into evil doers of the same description. Several officers of Shautung have been delivered over to a court of justice on a similar charge. Soldiers belonging to the eight standards who were found inhaling the noxious vapor have been banished to Chckcang. Advices from Alexandria of the 20th ult., states that Mehemet Ali, on hearing the dismis sal of Kosrcw Pasha had offered to give up the Ottoman fleet unconditionally. The insurrection in Syria was not yet appeased. The Emir Be chir had demanded the mediation of the Consul General of Franee, but the Viceroy would listen to no proposal, and sent 10,000 men to reduce the revolters. The plague was nearly at an end. The Paris papers of Tuesday contain the fol lowing telegraphic despatches, announcing the entrance of Balmaseda into France. Bayonne, June 29, 9 o’clock. The Sub prefect to the Minister of the Interior. On the evening of the 26th General Concha beat Balmaseda between Miranda de Arga and Tafalla. —He killed 100 men and 130 prisoners. Bayonne, June 29. The sub-preset to the Minister of the Interior. Balsameda entered France yesterday evening by Jaran, with 300 men. We are assured that 2,000 men will enter also by the same pass to night or to-morrow. The intelligence closes the career of Balmasc da, and puts an end to all hope of again exciting the Basque provinces in favor of Don Carlos. We aic informed Cabrera is about to follow im mediately a similar course. Late from India. —The Bombay news re ceived in England is up to May 23d. The Bom bay Courier, speaking of the drilling of the troops by Lin,says: Lin is acting drill sergeant to 3000 men near Canton, and is teaching the Fakecs a double sword exercise, and which from the description, is very much like the brush and shovel clatter of the sweeps on May-day. Jonathan is getting up his “dander,” and some captains are calculating upon turning into the Chinese naval service, at the moderate price of 1000 Spanish dollars a month. We guess Fakee will not he such a fool. The American Consul however, repudiates the measure. It appears also that, consequent upon the death of the Empress, disturbances in Pekin are rumored, while the mandarins have been setting a temple on fire; and as this is the fifth case of Swing in the Imperial palace, the Emperor is about to try a little beheading asa sedative. The heiress apparent is a child of se ven or eight yeans of age, the Emperoi is in his dotage; and the probability is, that the attack of ihe English will cause such a revolution in the Empire, as will place China in a different posi tion with regard to Europe, to what she has ever yet occupied. At Rangoon as late as April 11ih as we learn by the Calcutta Gazette of May 7th, the news of the English expedition to China had created a great sensation. Trade was in a very unsettled state in consequence. A mud fort, garrisoned by the Hazarchs, had been captured by a British detachment,and near ly all put to the sword. A great storm occurred in Orissa April 30th, (Thursday); a terrible north caster raised the sea to a great height in the district of Polec. The hurricane then shifted to S W with rain, and blew with such violence during the night that on the next morning it was found every bungalow on the station had been destroyed. Every house was blown down except that which contained the remains of Juggernaut. Several lives were^lost. From Jellalahad, we learn that his Majesty Shah Soojah, was to move with ti e troops to wards Cahul, April 20th. Letters from Bokara, Khiva and other places, fully confirm the arrival of a formidable Russian force altogether too dispropartionate to the alle ged object of merely liberating some slaves at Khiva. The Singapore papers to April 15, state that the letters from Canton to the last of March, mention that the opium trade is still going on up on the Chinese coast, but with more caution, in consequence of the Mandarines being more on the alert. It is staled that one house at Canton purchased nine millions of pounds of Congow tea, on their own account before e prices got up. The merchant fleet at Tongkoo was thin ning fast. Hyson brought S7O per picul. Seve ral of the American merchants had issued circu lars, declining to receive any further consignments or orders, and expressing their intention to re move their establishments to Macao. The total quantity of lea shipped to G. Bri tain, since July 1839, is 15,806,427 lbs. and the exports now going on will increase it to about 24.000,000. Silk is quoted at $505 Tsaltee. Exchange on England 4 10 to 4 11. There had been considerable arrivals of cotton at Singapore from Calcutta and China. The In dia navy is so short of officers that tho merchant captains are sent to supply the steamers to Suez, and the little iron steamers on the Indus. Dost Mahommed, the enemy of the British, had been treated with great attention by the Rus sians at Bokarah, where he is imprisoned. The Russian force at Khiva is estimated at 24,000 and 72 pieces of ordnance. They had routed the Khan’s army near there. Tho Russians were met at that place by an embassy from Persia and another from Bokara. Parliament.—Canada.— On the night of June 30ih, Lord Melbourne moved the second reading of the Canada Government Bill. The Duke of Wellington did not oppose the second reading of the hill, but thought the lime had not arrived when it could he safely adopted. Lord Gosford, Lord Ellenhorough, the Earl of Ripon and Lord Brougham were of the same opinion. As no amendment, however, was moved, the bill was read a second time. Sir R. Inglis then brought forward his motion for Church Extension, which gave rise to a very interesting discussion. On a division the num bers were: For the motion 149 Against it 168 Majority. 19 Lord Melbourne’s speech in favor of the Can ada union is extolled even by the London Cour ier, who, in reluctantly conceding to the measure, and expressing regret at non-concurrence with the “Great Duke” of Wellington’s straight for ward speech in opposition to the hill, calls him rather hyperholicaliy, “the master mind of the age.” The Duke said “ He had observed in this country for some pe riod, that there was a growing desire to get rid of these North American provinces—a desire that they would become Republics. These desires lie knew to prevail amongst a very large party in this country, and he was aware that there were others for whom he entertained the highest res pect, but who without entertaining the same feel ing, had a desire for a separation between this country and these provinces, and that it should take place in tranquility. His opinion was, that seeing the resources and the power of this coun try, that this country would sustain a loss indeed if there was to be a separation between this coun- t r y and these provinces. It was for that reason that he warned Noble Lords not to adopt this ar langement, unless they were sure, which they could not be, that it would work for the good gov ernment of the provinces. He warned them that they ought to he more certain than they could he from the reports they received. He entreated of them, before they made any such arrangement as this, to endeavor to ascertain what the results of such a system would be. “ H (said his Grace) they gave to Upper Can ada a good and secure communication with the mouth of the St. Lawrence—if they secured to themselves the enjoyment of the commerce of that river—if they did that, they would secure the prosperity of that province, and assure its union with this country, and having a hold of the province of Upper Canada, they need not fear for the separation of Lower Canada from them.” The Courier adds: “ For our own parts we must consider the die as cast, and the future destinies of the Canadas consummated, whether we now will or not. The most weak and wicked of ail Cabinets has labor ed hard for extracting, if not casting away, one of the brightest jewels in the British Crown,” The London Sun of July 3d, says: The opinion of the Lords on the Canada Bill is to be brought to the test of a division on the third reading, the Earl of Harwich having given notice that he will move to postpone it for six months. If certain Lords do not then vote away their own souls, as the Standard, describes its parly as doing, the bill will most likely he thrown out. On Monday, July 6, Sir Robert Peel was to ask the question concerning the construction of the orders in Council relative to China. On the motion that the House should go into a Committee on the Irish Registration Bill (Lord Stanley s,) Mr. O Connel moved an instruction to the Committee, with a view to define the fran chise. The Hon. Member set forth the necessi ty of defining the franchise before proceeding to enact registration clauses, at great length. He complained of Lord Stanley for forcing on the Bill before the. English and Scotch Registration Bills were proceeded with, and concluded hy moving that the Committee he instructed to de fine municipal cases and taxes. Lord John Russell explained at some length that he thought qualification and registration ought to be regulated by separate measures, and he could not vote with the Hon member for Dublin. Sir Robert Peel condemned in strong terms the course pursued by the Hon. and learned mem ber for Dublin. After a debate which turned principally on the course of proceedings which had been adopted, the House divided, and the in struction was refused hy 311 to 162. Russia and Circassia. —The following ex tract from the German papers just received con tains the latest news relative to the new cam paign undertaken by Russia against the brave Circassians: Jassat, June 13. The latest accounts from South Russia say that the Russian expedition had effected its land ing near Tuahs, (I’oaps) without meeting with particular obstacles. The main force of the Cir cassians seems to be concentrated about Nicola jewsky. In the neighborhood of Tuahs, on the first line ol hills about that fort, which lies on the river of that name, only some scattered posts could be seen with the telescope. The scouts on l ho coast retired rapidly, and the Russians regain ed por»2ssion ot the fort without striking a blow. The work ot repairing it was immediately begun. I he heavy artillery was still there, hut the light cannon was carried ofi by the Circassians. It is supposed that the Russians lost about forty such cannons on the forts stormed oy the Cir cassians. This would certainly be an important acquisition to the mountaineers. France.— There is very litte news of any in terest in the Pans Journals of Wednesday. The recal of Marshal \ allee from Africa, and the ap pointment of Marshal Molitor as his susccssor in the command of the army, was expected to ap pear in the official columns of the Moniteur cf Thursday. Three hundred of the colonists, in cluding Baron Vialard, had forwarded an address to M. Thiers, praying the French Government to remove Marshal Vallee, and to appoint some Governor capable of affording them protection. Os the deplorable condition of the colonists some idea may be formed from the following extract from their address to the President of the Coun cil : “ It is no longer a few bands of brigands who, creeping through bushes, suprise us in the midst of our labors; the enemy is now master in the fields of the Mitidja; he invades the Massif, and, under the eyes of a numerous army, paralysed by the incontestible absence of a good system of di rection, or kept back by still more deplorable orders, carries off the heads of our fellow-citizens. Our misfortunes accumulated and aggravated by a culpable want of foresight, and by the succes sive and inexplicable abandonment of all means of protection and all the elements of power, have brought the colony and the French dominion in Africa to the brink of ruin.” The well informed court correspondent of the Cheltenham Looker-on soys, “It is whispered though with an air of the greatest mystery, that her Majesty’s accouchment may be expected about the first week in December.” The Hon. Wilson Lumpkin and Walter T. Col quitt passed through this city on Saturday, on their way from Washington. From the National Intelligencer of the 2IsL The Close of the Session. Yesterday was the last day upon which, accord ing to the Hu es, any bill could pass either House of Congress, the two Houses meeting to-day only for the purpose of winding up the Session. Our reports of proceedings bring up the doings of both Houses to the houi of recess. Os all that was done in the afternoon and night Session, it is impossible to inlorm our readers intelligibly this morning. They shall have itall in ournext. We are enabled to state, however, that the General Appropriation Laws all passed except the Fortifi cation Bill, which was under discussion m the House at 11 o’clock, when this paper was put to press. Previous to taking up the Fortification Bill, Mr. Win. Cost Johnson moved a suspension of the 16th joint rule to allow of the reception of the joint resolution passed by the Senate to continue the charters of the District Banks o« condition of their resuming specie payments ; but, it requiring a vole of two-thirds to sustain the motion, it failed —ayes 73, noes 63 —tire members evincing a disposition to give precedence, in the order of busmess ; to the Fortification Bill. The bill providing for the support of West Point Military Academy was passed by the House and sent to the Senate for concurrence —a substitute offered as an amendment by Mr. C. H. Williams, proposing a different arrangement for the military instruction of officers and cadets having been lust rejected The amendmen of the Senate to the Navy Ap propriation Bill, appropriating the >u:n of S3O,UUO for the survey of the Southern Coast from Apa lachicola to the mouth of the Mississippi river, having been dissented from the House, ic became the subject of a conference through committees on the part of the two Houses, and resulted in a . reduction of the appropriatu nto the sum of $lO,- 000, to be expended under the direction of the Na vy Commissioners. The amendments of the Senate appropriating $6,C00 for outfit to the Minister resident at Con stantinople, and $12,000 lor the purchase of an isl and at the confluence of the St. Peters and Missis sippi rivers, were also disagreed to by the House, and the Senate receded from its said amendments. From the Petersburg Intelligencer, The Negro Witnesses Again ? Our Loco Foco friends are trying hard to de fend and excuse Mr. Van Buren for his anti- Soulhern feeling as manifested to Lieut. Hooe. “ The President,” say they, “has no control over the laws of the land, and if the laws recognize no distinction between black witnesses and white witnesses, how could the President set aside a verdict because it was founded on Negro Testi mony.” Softly there, gentlemen—Do you know that the President has entire control over the de cision of a Court Martial 1 Do you not remem ber that w hen Lieut. Randolph was acquitted by the Court Martial which tried him, Geril Jack son would not be bound by the decision, but de prived Mr. Randolph of his commission in spite of the verdict of acquittal. Now, we should sup pose, that if the President can interfere to con vict a man who has been acquitted by a Court Martial, that he would be justified in setting aside a verdict of condemnation against a white man, w'hich was founded on Negro Teslimony. Interesting Case. We copied a few days ago, from the Philadel phia Inquirer, a paragraph in reference to a case which had been brought before one of the courts, in which the Count D’Hautville sought to gain possession of his child which is now* in the hands of his wife, an American lady. Able counsel have been engaged on both sides, and thus far, it appears, the case has been heard privately. The Ledger of Saturday has the following statement, purporting to be accurate in the leading facts : A writ of habeas corpus was taken by Count D’Hautville, as he is generally termed, though we believe the title has lapsed, directed to David Seers, Merian Seers,and Ellen D’Hautville. The petition states that the above named persons have in custody the son of Mr. D’Hautville, aged twen ty months, and prays that he may be restored to his fathe-. It alleges that M. D’Hautviile mar ried Ellen Seers in the Canton de Yaud,in Switz erland, and that the said Ellen separated herself from her husband, and remained with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Seers, refusing to re turn to D’Hautville or to surrender to him his child. It morever al’eges that this separation is without just cause, and expresses the wish of the petitioner to be restored to his wife as well as his child. The return made to this writ, by Mr. and Mrs. Seers, is, that they have not the body of the child in their possession. Madame D’Hautville admits that she has the child, but claims the custody of it during its infancy, and avers that her separation from her husband has been the necessary resuit of want of sympathy and affection for her. To this return the husband has filed an elabor ate reply, termed a suggestion, which, with the return, comprehends a history of this ill matched and illstarred couple. The return and suggestions are said to be drawn up not merely with profess ional skill, but with touching eloquence, and each of them embodies letters and narratives of the most romantic and passionate interest. We will not venture to follow them in their details, in which, not deriving our information from the documents themselves, we might fall into error, but w ill content ourselves with an outline of the facts of the case, and a brief notice of the parties concerned. Madame D’Hautville, the wife, is now nineteen years of age. She is the daughter of Mr. David Seers, of Boston, a gentleman who inherited a fortune of nearly a million of dollars, which has been greatly increased by a well-directed and dili gent enterprise. la personal attractions she is al most unequalled, being considered one of the love liest of her sex. Her manners are lively agreea ble and her mind is said to be vigorous and ac complished. Such of her letters as were read are characterized, by those who heard them, as ad mirable in sentiment and style. We are informed, also, that she is fond ofsocie £aJ> fashionable, and accustomed to the best circles of Parisian life, to which she is greatly at tached. Flic husband, M.D’Haulville, is under the ordmary size, and has nothing in person or manner to distinguish him from the throng. His eye and face are dull, and his manner heavy and phlegmatic. He is about twenty-seven years old. At each ot the differeut hearings, husband, wife and child met without emotion. Not a nerve or muscle betrayed the presence of the U ity. M. D’Hautville appears to be 0 t cholic temperament; he is a light toned t/alvmifet, and his letters to his wife th V ei tionate, manifest more of religion than child is a fat, chubbv, lubberly infant to regard tae whole affair with signal and laughs or squalls without the least C ° n S», courts or parties, even in the most n».K ages of the trial. etlc The circumstances preceding and a!t c e v marriage of these parties appear to be t h n W| and Mrs. Seers, and their young and iov ’ ter, encountered, on their lour over Ui I finent, M. D’Hautvillc, whose family 0c 6 W place in the foremost social rank in He was pleased with Mrs. Seers, and d thought it a most eligible match for their ter. Their partiality for each other w as I ingly encouraged, and a negotiation forV ' ' * riage of the “young people” was comine ?' i due form. In the course of the negotiati * I ever, Mr. Seers discovered that M.° ])‘H° n the father of the gallant, was not so rich ! been supposed, an 1 the affair was sadden? > en off. Young D’Haulville,and his h'. ( ! both manifested considerable distress at il toward result of the courtship, and Mr moved by the affliction of his daugh er r the suspended arangements. and the love,?*** married. Mr. Seers alleges, in one of bis i that the marriage, on the part a sacrifice to duty. If this were so, it L haps, a generous fault in the girl, but does i-'T I also prove that the father hazarded the ban'- ' of his child for the gratification of his pride t** is also asserted that there were two distinct •. lations, though not included in the niarria? ’ cles, were of equal obligation : the first efV" was, that the bride was to spend all her in Paris; the second, that she should spe> I much of her time as she desired in Amt/ These stipulations were the rocks on domestic happipess wrecked. After the marriage, Mr. Seers returned America, leaving his wife with their dau? This lady pursued a course too common wjti considerate mothers in law. She soon etc' heart-burnings and unhappiness in the happy family of the D’Hautvilles, aud in pursuading her daughter that her hu-,, though exemplary and affectionate, was attentive and indulgent as he should be, | poison soon began to work. The bride, pa,/ ately devoted to the pleasures of Paris, that giddy and dissipated capital. The has/ whose tastes and principles are more serene • those of his wife, regarded a residence in p/ dangerous to their happiness, and required " return to Geneva. Determined not to coir with his wish, she fled to the hotel of the Ac can Minister. Several other incidents occur which demonstrate that she had resolved, if E must chouse between her accustomed gaieties; enjoyments and her husband’s love, that the mer would be her election. About this time; also insisted upon returning to America, too* her husband being in attendance uponasid* ent, was unable to accompany her. Thgpiej, which this separation took place, was pw accouchement. Though mortified and wretched atthe act of his wife, Gonsalva, for such is his name; not constrain her to remain. They parted * every outward token of sensibility and affec. Tears and the most passionate embraces sir* the real or pretended anguish of the separat The same feelings are expressed in a tender; ter written by her immediately on her arriva. New York. But scarcely had she placed i,ea ~ within the influence of her parents, befor achat •’ came over her spirit. She wrote a cokU • letter to her husband, concerning her deters; lion to separate from him. His reply was® ly and affectionate. He hastened to Amm His wife, who was at Nahant at the timei on hearing of his arrival, and secreted its in some sequestered pait of New England. Ti i correspondsnce was renewed, with tenderness the part ol the husband : on her part with err evidence of settled dislike. He entreated i she would return to her duty, and insisted up i seeing his child. Even the latter request r * lor some lime denied, and when allowed isl and embrace his son, was only in the presena witnesses. Mr. Seers meanwhile used en exertion to procure the passage of a law I would deprive the father of the cus odv o! child. Our legislature and that of New Je rejected the proposition ; that of New I more pliant and obliging, passed an acU. Gov. Seward, to his great honor, vetoed, After exhausting every persuasive effort,M Plautville has resorted to the writ of habeas pus to obtain possession of his child. The q'. tion involved is one of great interest and in tance. In all civilized countries the fathens tilled to the custody of his offspring, unies forfeits that privilege by his immorality, IB- State, the Supreme Court has decided tbat-t universal right is suspended during infancy when maternal aid and tenderness arenects for the child. The law, however, is but loosely settled,; this case will probably induce an entire reo of the principles which govern the case. E' parent has an interest in the question, anii trust that it will he settled without sympath any individual, but upon universal and ends: principles. In the present case the wife alleges, in add to her legal claim to the possession of (be C , during his infancy, that his true interest that he should remain with his maternal relit It is asserted that the separation of the p* 6 * 1 * has been induced by want of sympathy on-- part of the husb and, as shown by hiswifetotp hei winters in Paris, or to remain divorced her by the broad Atlantic, and that be is there disqualified for the task of educating bisA* and it is insinuated that if the child remains America, his prospects, as the heir of Mr-* will be better than they can be in Europe,®* 1 inheritor of the patrimonial estate of the P D;_ villes. Reminiscences. — At a Sunday School ceie : -‘ tion on the 4th of July, held in agrovenear- Haven, the venerable Dr. Webster briefly®'' ed the children. “In the year 1775,” saic • • was a freshman in Yale College. In June o year, Gen. Washington passed throughNe* 1 ' on his way to take command of the army atl> town, and lodged at the house of Deacon ■ now occupied in part as a store by Mr. B0 aB _ the morning he reviewed the military con ‘P . * the College. Gen. Lee who had accornp auie £ | and who bad been a British officer,cried 1 astonishment at tiieir skill and promptness- ■ | company of Yale College students bad the .i first escorting Gen. Washington after bis W. 1 ment to the American army. They acCU j 1 ;,j( I him out of town as far as Neck Bridge, J now addresses you went with them as one 11 | musicians. b-ixty-nine years ago, I shouldered | go to Albany to meet Burgoyne. My laa , I two brothers were already in the army* jj my mother and sisters weie left alone. at *hat time were very scarce The ste ' val ' eI ,; College, I well remember,could not proc for the students to eat, and many on tins were obliged to return to their parents. |p common thing to cut up corn-stalks, and / ing to make a kind of syrup, for sweeten 13 *,; n After the revolution, I turned ray atte °",t compiling books. They have been * | used in this country, and thus in one call most of you my pupils. Permit me ■ sion, my young friends, to wish you nou< ness and usefu ness.” obituary- Departed this life on the 15th instnn , county, Martin Rufus, son of A. J- 3 ( Nowland. gpjlf | “Suffer little children to come unto bid them not, for of such is tne kihg do vsn.”