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CnKONICIiE AND m Aiai’stA. ! •—■ ddfftr-MF FRIDAY MOftfUNOf JAXCATIiY 3!. "■ No null north of Chath-slon last n|;ht. Ihe faft or# of the mail is at all times pcrr -xincr. but ° it IS ptovokingly so 311 st alibis time, w ,en we are looking *v ; lh so much anxiety for th news by . 9 the British Queen. While on the su iect of the mails me w ill take occasion to respr id to the numerous complaint* which have n iched our ears, of the n m-arrival < f our papers. We can assure our subscribers that the faul is in the Post Office Department, for until v* trday, our pp ,* have Been regularly sent to ir Olf.ce in j this city in due season ; and then oul a portion j or <?ur weekly Mkbafcnbexv were not ser «1, owing > to an accident which happened to |ur power pres*, just as wc were beginning to w s rk off tho impression. It will, however, be repaired in a . day or two. when wc hope our usual punctuality will be sustained. f “ Lafayette Course. \ The race, over this Course, four mt.es, which ( come off yesterday was the roost in t|resting ot any that Ins transpired at the present* meeting. The*coiitest was animated throughfut. ihe lime, however, was not good, in conc'jjuence of the heavy state of the Track produce Iby the rain in the forenoon. The following is the re sult : 0»d, Hampton’s, Santa Anna, 2 I-l Lovell’s, Gcrow, 3 2-2 Edmonson’s, Mary Elizabeth, 1 3-drawn Complimentary Dinner. The Bar tendered to the Hon. A 5. Long street, a dinner In testimony of their 1 sped for him, on his retiring from the Bar, to a tume the duties of his station as President of En *ry Col lege. It was served yesterday evening at the U. 8. Hold. j ——— Kuonr. Islajh).—The Whig State Jonvcn tion of Rhode Island, assembled at J’n vidence, nominated on the 17th lost. Samue 1 W (King of Johnston, for the office of Governor, at 1 Byron Diman of Bristol, for that of LicutenaT Govern or. The locofocos nominations for lliesafi : offices, ere John Brown Francis of Warwick, Vr Gov ernor. and Nathaniel B. Dulkick of B jivl, for I.icut. Governor. i G>;yeral Hatvk—The Char.’estor pou irr of yesterday say-:—The remains of tbi. beloved and lamented citizen, of this eminent a d gifted patriot and statesman, were brought to iis city* from As.ieville, N. C.,-on Monday last and im ostentatiously interred in the cemetry .of i t. Mich ael’s Church. Peace tolas ashes! [onor to his racunory ! Congress. Wo are not m ptfksssaion of any lahr dates ■from this body than were furnished in c ir paper ot yesterday. I rom the correspondent 1 of the Charleston Courier, of the 241 h instant, owevci* we learn that another of those disgracefi scenes, of which the House has so frequently bo n made the theatre for some years hack, came of on the afternoon of that day, in which the Hon. Mr. By num, of N. C, as usual, rendered him *lf infa- 1 roously conspicuous. But as our indig ation is aroused, we fear we may do tho honor a lie bully' injustice, if such a thing were possible, ive on’y when he is represented as a gentleman, we tho language of tho reporter, who. it w I be re collected, acts with the party to which r. B. is attached: 1 Mr. Bynum resumed and concluded his long speech on the subfect of abolition, and 1 endeav ored to prove the identity of the Whig with the abolitionists. In doing this, he trip'i 1 once; finding his own name recorded as ha\| n g voted in 183(5, with the abolitionists. But b°declar cd, amidst an uproar of laughter, on sides of til • House, that I Here must he some rnisiike about it, as lie have voted in that.wav. Mr. 8., in the course of his remarks! alluded to Mr. Peck, ot N. \ as an abolitionist. Mr. Peek, replied that he hud sold what Ivas not true. | Mr. Bynum said; “you a c a bl.xkjmrd and . a scoundrel, a negro and an abolition .It.” At'- ’ ter some time spent in cirdeavojing, wittioul su*. cess. to procure a retraction of the langtlige from both members, the House adjourned. ° Mr. Bynum, however, nude an apol ;y so far as the House was concerned. VV isiiingtov, J ,i. 2.j. The Senate did not sit to-day. In j - I louse Mi. I «ck ot N. \ made some cue plan ion con cerning Ins position ia regard to „bol ioniao;; an 1 Mr, Cost Jolmson explained that i/heu ho nfave f that Mr. Bynum be permitted t. proceed, *T® that ho had,withdrawn hisfiffetis-ivo’ .w \ d-orderly remaps. Mr. .1. well i.bsCrved ' «t indqporaus and abusive language on this floor, wax more calculated t . tmu.c iln who umM It, man bun against whom it was Untried. -Mr. Bynum went on with his anti tbolitiun <py .u«j, .)• «1J I.r fixing Mr. Peek’, >o s iii J) "W .Huta.,l.l 01 tl„, 11, preh.nmary to a vote on - »ne rcsolutio for tho ui>position of abolition p. titions, Mr. P remark • that there were some Southern tugit e slave.* who he m 1-, el to bring to the vote Itis stv ' m j»f ire to Mr. Peck., that hu sofemu Ind Z I t!ve disclaimer of abolttioniem wffl i,r u |- him at home, as the .1 olilioauls hold ance of power in his district. __ • i U. 8. Bask.— The Harrisburg lie no er. (aj. IwniMatratfalHMl.) appears to be quite Onfideat ti.atllie bill now bclhre the State l,egi« iture.tor die repeal cf the charter of f. S. Bank :i\’n n . *ylvama wilt become a law. The ive|ft»rtd „ in fact, •ppean to Im? quite certain of this result' It says bill w;’l pass both houses, and will n-; leive the Hxecwive «gnature. £ Phc Ph.Uk-iptna North American :L> leans o xamc optnioa. That is, u exprises the opinivn 1 iai the attempt now making in *he Le - * lu ' Bapitulot the I i.;on armed with U? _ ° a £ ,ce of ,he P 00 !’* 0 «f a great empire. en| ot v " n !; Ihaaoxneriga mujmy of th, If w.-i;, crawled with the duplet ot virtue, and bearing aloft thl end m of Itheny, neo and the constitptim.— MHUMttm. • I I fl 4 0 ■ ' ® * J o I o e r % m m « Fvr thi ChranitU 4- Sentinel. Mr. Juxrs—ln your p*pcr of the 29lhinst. is a communiaiuon, signed No. 2, respecting a pre mium to the engine first getting to a fire. I mere. ly wish to correct an impression which may ha%e been made. j We dcr.v :hat the author of the piece has any thing to do with Section So. 2. ami farther, tha we Jo not require any inducement to simulate ;ux Vfe always have been ready, ari lwe always ; are, to do our duty when called on, or occasion ! requires. Wc cannot be bribed by money to get j to the scene of action quicker loan w„ a,ways j have done. We would advise this sham No. 2* I when he wishes to gain information of the kind, ; to appear in his own clothes and not in tne garb of others. Ssctios No. 3. From the Globe of the '2±>th. Projected Invasion ot Tcxai by Mexico. i Wc copy from the “Cosmopolita.” of the 4th I pf December,* a paper published in Mexico, the [ following communication from Scnor Almonte, i the Secretary at War, to Ihe National Gongreso. i He asks that extraordinary powers be gianted to I the President for a military expedition against ! Texas ; and that he bo authorized to use politico j ,>jj if ary measures for tl « reduction of that Ke j public, as well as’in reference to the bordering j States. The Editor of the “Cosmopolita” re marks, tha*. there extraordinary powers might ultimately cotnpromil the relit «ms of Mexico with frbmdly nations. “The Supreme Government has resolved to prepare anoiher expedition, and to offer to the ! usurpers sf Texas, peace or war, pardon or pun ishment, and at every hazzard. to compel them to return to tl.e bosom of family. The President earnestly desires the co-operation of the Congress for this pat riotic object, by giving him the extraordinary powers which are requisite for its accomplishment. “ The Government on 1 every citizen of Mexi co wishes to prove to their enemies, their deter mination and tlieir power to sustain the rghts of the country. The criminal adventurers of Texas have committed acts which merit the severest punishment. Their views have extended be yond what was expected; and now the whole Mexican nation, desirous of promoting the inter nal t anquihty of the hhate, demands a guarantee for this repose in external security. “To Texas we must chiefly direct our atten tion. Its perfidious inhabitants seek to promote their fortunes by the ruin of Mexico. The fer tile and beaut fa I lands of that province have ex cited their cupidity. These must be recovered at every risk. With this view, the President, with the ad vice of his council, has directed me to submit to Congress the following measures : “I. Thai the Government be authorised to in cur any expense for the reduction of the depart ment of Texas, to Iho National Union. “2. That all po!,t. comil Jury measures be au-* thorised, with respect to this province and its limitrophe Stales, that may be deemed necessary to effect i s pacification.” The Mexican journals assert that the scheme of the Texans is to support the Federalist party in Mexico, and to encourage the separation ol the States A new Uep iblic is proposed to be established by the Federalists, to be called the Republic of Surih M-.xtco. It will comprise the departments Tatnaulipas, Z icatecas, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora, A uevo Leon, Coahuila, Nuevo Mexico, and he Culifornias. 4 RKSimxgUitUTS or Cahiiikus.—An in'rrest- I ingcasv, involving ihe responsibilities of common i carriers, was decided in Ba'.litn re County Couit, I on appeal, during t le present term. Certain cases of tools were shipped on board a i wss. 1 belonging to the defendant, then lying in ■ the port of Boston, to be conveyed to the olain- j tiffs in Baltimore. The vessel lost her anchors in ' Hampton Roads, and in endeavoring to make the | port of Norfolk, was driven a-hore. It became necessary to unlade tho cargo, to get too vessel 1 afloat; and the cases in question wore deposited | , in a warehouse in Nbrfolk for about ten cloys, j when they were taken on board and conveyed to | Baltimore. On examination by the plaintifls,a defi- ' ciency was found in the contents of one of the ! cases, and suit was brongh. before a magitrate to ■ recover the amount. On appeal to the County Conrt.it was decided ! that a common carrier is an insurer of all goods j entrusted to his custody from all perils except ! those stipulated against in his bill of lading, or arising from the act of God or public enemies.— But that if, during the voyage, the carrier is I compelled, by the happening of any of the ex ! peeled perils, to unlade his vessel and store the * cargo, he will not continue liable, as an insurer , : for any accidents, injuries or trespasses, which j may be su-tained by the cargo while out of his I custody. He will then be acting, not as a car rier, but as ogenf for the benefit of all concerned. Vet so firmly established and so wise is the poli cy of the law, which regards carriers as insurers against all risks hut tho.-e specielly excepted, that it will not be competent for the captain to excuse himself from responsibility for goods lost or abstracted during the course ot the voyage, on the ground that they were taken from the wa e- I house where they had been stored, unless he cast adduce satisfactory evidence that the loss was j sustained while the goods were so stored. I C. W. Kidgely, Esq. for appellant—Wm. H. I Domna and J. ii. Ulackburn, Lsos, for appellees. Patriot. ‘ 1 —— The Algerine and French War. The organization of a powerful Arab army, ; under the Shtek Abdel Kadier, and the repeated i an, l successful attacks on the French outposts, have created great sensation in France and gen erally throughout the array. The question is, what is to be done 1 How is this outbreak to be | punished and put down k The w andering Arabs no doubt supported on the one ! by Morocco and the other by Tunis. If an army is routed to-day, another is formed to-naor j row; they are like our Seminoles, indomitable in their hostility, craliy in their plans, and bold in I their attacks; only, unlike our Seminoles, they have no everglades or impenetrable forests; they have to keep the pi .in—to hold on to the desert.' What, then, is to be done ? Wtjl France aban* doi. its conquests i 1 Africa ! Will the Citizen King surrender Algiers, captured,as it was, under the Bourbons ? By no means. His honor, his I safety, his very crown, forbid it. No matter how unprofitable the conquest may turn oui,o»ce conquered, to be kept cs a French province, it cannot be given up.—The Barha>y corsairs have received many seve.e lessons from the Christian powers in their time, but it was a mere bombard mom, a flogging, a payment of the expenses, and a new treaty, and here the matter ended; but when I ranee, with a powerful army and navy, attacked and captured Algiers, Bona, and the I P rlnc 'H the kingdom, it was to be re | tamer a- a I rerch Colony, and no objection was mace p European powers to Franee con querin,, 1 poss. 1e„ the neghboring provinces. A.gters Wli s to receive the snrp! us population of I ranee; it was a fine grain country; commercial and manufacturing establishments were formed and Algiers at this day looks hkea town in France’ The country cannot be given up. What folio* *? France will send an army to Africa which will drive the Arabs beyond .Mount Atlas, and which hereafter will he the boundary line. Morocco wdl be punished for its interference, and Tunis, in all probability, wil l be annexed to Algiers. This | Wlll ret l uirc a great array, great outlays but the 1 ; gmft nation can do it Instead of 15.000 men, ijo »v dispersed over the kingdom, making treaties with Emirs to-day to bo broken to-morrow and having whole sacks of Frenchmen’s heads sent in'o camp, obi Soult will be cn the spot with 100,000 men. something after the fashion which France formerly exhibited in earn ing on her wars; no heavy la'te’ring trains, mortars and howitzers, but light infantry, cavalry and sharp shooters, such as were with Napoiean in Egypt. } j 1 ** same people are to be met, the same sands ot the desert traversed. Algiers is very near to France? - no difficulty in transporting troops —no tliiT,culty in rising and paying'or them. France is tired o peace, and*this war will create no breach on the Continent, and at the same time keep up the esprit militaire. Volunteers and conscripts will flock to the tri-colored standard; soldiers wilt con tinue to shout “AUojis enfant de In Pa/rie • ami over they will go with a light heart, and a I thin pair of breeches, as usual, secure that if in Algiers they have plenty of fighting with Mes sieurs V. Turc , they will have, at the same time _ good brown bread and cheese, vin rouge, grapes, and a dance at night on the green sward that skirts the desert; and what is ot some importance in these times of infernal machines, Louis I nib lipp.-, contributing, as he really.does to the glory of France, will be safe from the assassin s gun,* or treachery from within. Abdel Kadir was rasa to break the treaty. France required only the seaboard and part of the interior; the Arabs could have found a profitable market for their wheat, barley, wool, goat skins, camel s hair, ostrich feathers, mules, tallow, dromedaries, ivory, olive , oil, wax, and gold dust, and now they will get j plenty of hard blows, and no trade at all across the mountains to the southern coast of Africa. From Cape Spartel to Tripoli, the whole line cf soacnast will eventually be under the dominion of Franco; probably erect into a Single powerful kingdom governed by one of the sons of Louis Philippe. Morocco from its position is the most difficult to subjugate, and even that kingdom nvght finally he conquered by taking Ceuta and Tangiers, with in the Gulph, and Magadore on the southern coast. Algiers, the Cisarienus of the Romans, was always an important kingdom, as well as a most productive one. It is the finestgrain coun try in the world: onne the granary of Europe. VJensis called it speciosfas fotious trrrve jhr enfir.” It produces all kinds cf vegetables and flowers, figs, pomegranates, plums nectaries, ap p'es, pear--, peaches, mulberries, lemons, limes, oranges, citrons, dates, cherries, apritofs, melons, quinces, grapes, in every variety, almonds, pis tache nut, sugar canc, tobacco, cotton coffee, small bullocks, broad tail sheep, equal to our chnvass backs in delicacy ; pigeons, red legged pafridge, woodcock, snipe quails, gees ducks, plover, teal, thrush,lark, linnet* Becca fi<r. hares and rabbits, for the mere shooting of them; aro matic herbs in abundance, roses, ranuncalus, nar cissus, pinks, and all kind of curious plants and flowers. To ask France to abandon such* a country, once conquered, and within two days sail of the Gulph of Lyons is rather asking too great a favor in these peaceful times from a nation of so nc celebriety at Austerlitz, Ma rengo.'and sundry other places. There really has been, but little hard fighting in Algiers by land, since the lime of Hannibal, Jugurt'na, and Massanissa. Charles the sth, af ter defeating Hyraddin Barbarossa, was after wards overtaken by a violent storm, and his whole army beaten by Hassan with a very small force at Algiers, la 1775, Charles t! e3d scuta pow erful naval force and 20X00 men under the Condo O’Reilly to attack Algiers, but it was miserably I I conducted and ingloriously beaten. The city of 1 Algiers. Oran, Bona, and other ports on the Mc- I dberranean. can bcersilv fortified and retained by I the French. Constantine, the C'ria Ci tli on or mu i of FI uy, dnee the most splendid of cities in Nu i m'dt !. and even now a most important frontier | town, is 160 miles from the Mediterranean, con | taming 60.000 inhabitants. If a good road can he made from A Igicrs to Constantine, and the country between trie two cities cleared oft'ue w an dering hordes, there would be no difficulty in hold ing the entire kingdom. Ternpo%a;e and determined as the Mus ulmcn are. they yield readily to what they consider their i destiny. If France is determined to send a pow j erful force to Algiers, and to apprise Morocco and < Tunis, that there must bo no interference, Aecicrs | cm he easily conquered and tranquility retained.— i New York Star, i From the Houston /Texas) Telegraph, of Doc. 25/ h Among the thousands of emigrants that are j now constantly arriving in our country, we no ! lice with regret too large a portion of young law yers, physicians, clerks and graduates recently from the various universities of the United State s. These y oung men come to our shores lured, bv ihc brighest prospects and burning with high hope. They heard* Texas described as an El Dorado, where naught but golden visions cheer the bold adventurer who has but to seek her fer tile yrairies, bask in the bright sunshine, ot un interrupted pro But alas what bitter dis appointment often awaits them ! They have found indeed a country unsurpassed for beauty and fertility, and abounding in agricultural wealth; but all this affords them no encouragement.— They wander abroad from place to place, only as Arabs wander amid the fertile fields of Goshen. What is to the farmer a pa adise, is to them a desert. The occupations which afford them the means of support, are here either neglected, or are ovetburthened and rendered sterile by compe tition. Often have we seen young men of this class, who have been nurtured in the lap of luxu ry, and who. previous to the period of their emigra tion, had never known the sting of want, but bad been constantly fostered and sustained by wealthy and indulgent parents, here bowed by disanp-int ment, suffering under the most abject p’ovetry, embittered tenfold by the recollection of former and brighter days of happiness and of ease.— Our country is yet quite too new and its popu lation too spare and widely diffused to afford ma ny asylums to individuals of this description.— The population most required in Texas at pres ent, is that derived from the farming districts of the Llifted States, and not from the cities end ia r ger towns, i hose publications and pnblic lec tures therefore, tuat tend to urge emigrants from the large cities o, that country, do injury, by en- • ticing to our shores, a class of individuals that are wholly unfitted either by habit or disposition, to encounter and endure the privations and hard ships of a new country. We have frequently on former occasions alluded to this subject, and endeavored to check this species of emigration • but, nothstanding these efforts, we believe* the number of emigrants of this Hass now con stantly arriving is greater than it has been at 1 any previous period. To those young men who have already arrived in our country and arc still unemployed, we would say, waste no lime in idle • expectation, nor loiter any longer in our towns : but hasten at once to the “ Upper Country,” ami engage immediate y in the business of farming ing, the planters in ti.at section will recieve yfiu with open does, and however iiksome may be the change to this new occupalion.it will ensure a competence and perhaps lie the means of se curing the avenues to affluence. * - • We cull from the Washington Correspond ence of the New York Star, the following com plimentary notice of one of our Members to Cotv gross , a compliment by the way whicfi seems to be quite a* just, as it is fl ittering: ‘ Hon. Win. C. Dawson done an act on Sat urday last, which has won fur him the most ex alted praises. It will be recollected that he was placed by the Speaker at the head of th? Com mittce ot Claims. This was an unexpected ap pointment to him ;it was a disappointment t.» ! the friends'of Mr. £as*oll. of ymjr State. Mr. K. hsd long t>e£ti one of the most useful members ol , that Committee, scarcely inferior in any respect jto Mr. 45. Whitllesy, who was long its able chair man. Every body expected that he would be • designated in theagpointnent of the Committee as its Chairman. It was left to be due to him as a matter of courtesy, vastly more so as a matter jncrit. No one foil this more than Mr. Daw son, though he kept his thoughts to himseif. I For the first time the Committee rrtet on Saturday j last, and without consulting a single person, Mr. I Dawson imam mediately offered a resolution, i which he enforced with a tew appropriate remarks, eminently creditable to him, that Mr. Kussell be appointed Chairman of the Committee, and it j passed unanimously. I have never known an. act of similar disinterestedness; and yet, when I we consider whence it emanated, our wonder 's ment ceases, for Mr. Dawson is all magnanimity ; j< he never allows a selfish feeling to approximate | him. In this instance his course was no less I creditable to himself than it was to Mr. Kus | sail.” During a debate in Congress, which origina j ted upon a motion to print some thousand maps i of Florida, at the public expense, and which ! was resisted* by the opposition members, many striking points and of much interest were stiuck out in the cducse of the discussion. Among oth ers is the extract below, making a dislinct issue of veracity in relation to the late message of the President. As the truth of the position of the i President in relation to the public losses, is dc i nied, and that denial founded on docu | mrnts, from the Departments themselvg*, and as 1 those documents have been published and are in, | the hands of the people, they are a wed qualified j jury totry the issue. That issue is a seriousonc, 1 ami ought to be fairly decided by the people, as between their public agents. —Southern liocor der. * . “Mr. Wise said that he was very sorry (being at this time unwell) that his colleague (Mr. Banks) had upon this motion made an attack upon a motion of his (Mr. W s) submitted at the last session of Congress. He (Mr W.) made the motion to’print an extra number of document 2.97—which document would show, and had I shown to many thousand voters in the United-j States, that the Message of the President of the j United States sent in this session ot Congress was not true. In ihat Message the I resident had stated the fact that, independent of the defal cations of Swartwout, only sixty odd thousand dollars had been lost by public defaulters. I bat very document 297 (continued Mr. W.) togeth er with document 111, (extra copies of which I moved to have printed, and would again move to have printed, to contradict the statement of the President of the United States,) will show that, bv the Land Officers and Collectors ot the past and present Ad i.iuistmtions, nearly one m;l ion of dollars have been lost by means of your pn>- lic defaulters. This does not rest upon my state ment. The documents of the Secretary of the 1 Treasury himself, transmitted officially tons, an ! which disprove, the President’s Message, show cither that he is disposed to cover up these mat- | tors, or, as I rather believe of the Fresident o! the United States, that he has been deceived by his 1 own Secretary. And I say—believing Martin Van Buren to be a gentleman—that it he had read document 297, he never would have made the statement he lias made—in the face of ihe fact —in the faceof truth —in the face of official doc uments. If he had read it, he would not have i been as ignonmt as I fear the constituents of my j colleague have bci n kept ignorant ot these start ling facts. Permit me to salTfto my colleage that that doc uindni was better calculate 1 to subserve the pur poses of pnblic economy than any other that I know of amongst all the files ot tiv.* Government. It is a drummed which shows how the pnblic mo ney has been lost and squandered—and I will at any time, on principles of economy, vote to pay ! ten dollars out of the public Treasury, to show ' bow one dollar has bwn lost or stolon —cither by | fraud, by ignorance, bv vice, or hicompetcncy. ! It is economy todo it. And will my colleague i here permit mo to sav. not to him personally, I that 'here may have been other motives, ho dues ! that of economy, prevailing at the last session oi 1 Congress against the printing of this document ! ; If I coVkl g«ft a vote of the Home to do it, in the 1 face of the Message sent tons, I would to-day ! move to print the official Report oi the Secretary ! of the Treasury against the Message of tbe Pres ident of the United State*. 1 would print five thousand more copies of that*document—and if my honorable colleague annul circu’ale that doc ument in his district, his constituents would hold him accountable for voting against printing the truth—for failing to hold up torch-lights to the : People. We are in darkness : and I will take the I tile remnant of two or three millions—the ! wreck of a Treasury that \vas*fu!l when this paS ; ty came into power—full, ay, full since this Pres ident came into power—full, overflowing with forty otl l millions of dollars—l say I will take these two or three remaining millions to enlighten the People upon the fact h nv the other thirty odd millions have been squandered. / Remarks of Mr. Kisbct,. OV GEORGIA. Friday. December 27, 1839. The question being on a motion to reconsider the vote of the House concurring in the resolu tion of the Senate for the appointment of a Chap lain— Mr. N»s bet, of Georgia, rose and addressed the Chair as follows: Mr. Speaker —Convinced that the motion before the House involves matter of serious moment to Chr stianity and the coun try, I beg leave to offer a few reflections. I con fess, although informed of the opinions of my col | league, (Mr. Cooper,) I have been taken by sur i prise by the debate now in progress. I certainly i did not expect it this morning. I mus t say that i I differ with my honorable colleague in the views he has exhibited. And although his searching : and accurate mind, in its investigations after and j elucidations of truth, rarely errs, yet I believe | shatf hat he is now wrong. I know full well and : justly appreciate his motives. No one is to Chris , 1 lia ‘*‘ t y a more sincere friend than himself, and no j onft illustrates its precepts in practice more fully j than he does. He, by sustaining the n otion, in- I tends to maintain both Christianity and the Con j stitution, Suc h are my own wishes. We differ | in ihe mode of accomplishing the same ends. | ft cp ftainly would be to my mind a melancholy : result should the House ot Representatives of this | 5, reat na J ion revive certainly tlfat it would not CTect a Chaplain— a minister of the gospi 1, called to throw around the legislation ot the country the hollowed influences of piety—a result which would . strike with alarm and apprehension the whole People .»( the I a:o;i ; apprehension, not so much for religion or the Constitution as for that conser vative influence which it exerts upon the princi ples of free government. What, sir, does not liberty owe to Christianity * Phe history of the Colonics proves that we arc indebted, m a great degree, for those noble princi ples of tree government engrafted upon our Con stitution and m our laws, to that freedom of thought and action which broi-ght our PiUri m and Huguenot ancestry to our shores. They°fled from the religious bigotry and political intoler ance of the old w. rid for conscience sake, Thev came hither to worship God in freedom And upon the shores of a new world they planted the standard of religious and, with it, 0 f civi i ju® That independence of mind which they asserted in matters ol conscience made them alike inde pendent as to ah rights. Freedom of service to Heaven, by a very necessity of our nature, con - strains men to think and act freely in matters of lest consequence. The free spirit of the pilgrim ' j impressed itself upon colonial governments, *nu some of the best features of our most admirable : system are tiaccd to colonial parentage- I make j these remarks to show, sir. that civil liberty is too 1 largely indebted to Christianity to permit us to ! endanger the former by abandoning S'cn the forms of the latter. Its influences ought to por |*vade, aud do now pervade, all the departments ot I Government, more or less. Into our courts ot 1 justice, our executive olncos, and our halls of leg* islation, it ought to send, atid does send,its sana tive power. It gives a hcalthlul tone to pub.ic sentiment, and purifies the fountains ot legisla tion, the external ceremonials of religion. VV hat though it is sometimes desecrated, and its minis . ters false ? What though it seem to sumo to be but part of Congressional pageantry,empty, vain, and a lie 1 Yet still the very form of service maintains the ascendancy ot morality. tost, forms are the emblems of its essential puuiy- Blended, as they are, with the procedure of Con gress, they themselves become vitd. Destroy, sir, the external manifestations ot Christianity, and you weaken its influence and endanger Jt a vitality. You should observe even here, sir. the form of prayer. The voice of praise should hush for a brief moment, at regular intervals, the noise • of parly war, and say to the troubled waters, ! “ Peace be still.” The appointment of a Chaplain to this House is a declaration, by the nation itself, that the Bi ble is true. It is the practical recognition of its obligations. I? this no advantage ? Is this not bearing evidence to Christianity I Is it not the voice of the Confederacy ? Docs not this act proel.una, through the length and breadth ot the land, that, according to the belief of the American Congress, God reigns in Heaven and upon earth J The statesman, therefore, should not withhold jbis evidence. In all we do, it seems to me, we should recognize the sanctions ot Christianity, and should maintain the purity both of the Church and the State by a decent regard, in our public acts, even to the forms of piety. The manifestation of regard to religion, in the election of a Chaplain to this House, is due (o th* convictions and moral sensibilities of the con stituency of this body. It is a just response to { the requirements of that moral feeling which per- J vades the States. No than this, I will ven- I ture to a-sert, is required by the People, whether i professors or not. It is a tribute of respect to that religion which makes sweet the homes of the thousands who dwell beneath the fostering care of American legislators, and in the peace of an unobtrusive yet sustaining faith. Let it not he said that the 261 h Congress has declared of re cord that it will dispense with the services of the ministiy. Conceding, for the argument’s sake, that the power to appoint a Chaplain, under the Constitution, is doubtful yet I know it w.ll not he denied that a fa Hu re to appoint would shock the country. It will do violence to that fervid piety which lives and breathes and bums in the great heart of the nation. The service with which it is now proopsed to d spense has been maintained here for years.— The wis * and virtuous and patriotic of other days ■ exercised the power, and believed in its expedieu |<• y. It is hoary v> ith accumulated years. The i» first Con'ress that assembled under the Consti tution elected a Chaplain. We are scarcely wi j ser or better than that august body of men. They mingled worship with politics Most of the State Legislatures, I believe, sir, do the same. It has’been objected that the worship conduct ed here is insincere—a form and a mockery. Ad mitting this to be true—and I lament that, in j part, it must be conceded to he true—yet, still, the general good is accomplished, and toe gene ral evils averted, to which I have before referred. And these general ends are paramount; they out weigh particular objections. In all assemblies j there are insincere worshippers: me i will bring j the cares and thoughts and reelings of the world j into the sanctuary. Ido not know that this body, j being professedly political, is, on that account, the i Icssdevout. That distraction of mind awaits him l who mingle' in the stormy strife of this House, ; i-rtrue; and on that account it is well to ! ring | hither the soothing, softening influences «f chari- Ity ami loro. Rut I think. Mr. Speaker, that there j is in this Hou r n t only a sacred regard lor Christianity, but also a strong feeling of piety.— j Beneath the surface of ordinary emotion lie irn j bedded Jhc fountains of moral sensibility. There i flows through this assemblage of men an under current. of piety, invisible it is true, under ordina ry circumstances, but which occasionally flashes ' and sparkles in the light o day. This is obvious, f in the eloquent-words and thoughts of the gen - tleman from Virginia, (Mr. Wise.) He gave ul ! terancc to the irrepressible feeling of respect for • moral livings, which, doubtless, he imbibed in his : earliest formation of character. Nor can I pc- J nait myself to doubt that there are many here who 5 meet thr-se services with all that solemnity of man - nrr and feeling which becomes the occasion. • My colleague and also the gentleman from Lou i isiana, (Mr. Garland.) fi/rd a reason against elect -1 ing a Chaplain, in this, that they are paid—that i they pray and preach by contract, and that they 1 make this temple a place of merchandize, selling alike their consciences and their services. I find myself nothing wrong in religious or political principle in rewarding the minister. It is a vol untary contribution by the House to the necessi ties of those whom they invite to officiate foi them. It is not a pension for the clergy, by law r or from constitutional necessity, but a donation . to the man. Reward, to my mind, docs not ne cessarily demoralize and secularize the preacher . else there were no ministry—no temple—no vvor j ship. Shall not the priest live by the altar? j And is not the laborer worthy of his hire ? Thai r . some who wear the priestly robe hav e corne hith . er, trading upon the stock of their ministeria . character, and vending for a consideration the sa . c,ed ministrations of our holy religion, is perhaps . tr,JC —but not all have so come. It may be con r ceded at once » without weakening the obligation to elect a Chaplain, that there are false professors j ° r religion. In its purest and earlie t state r among the twelve who listened to the words an< ] saw the wot ks of God himself, there was one trai ; tw -1 I connot concur, Mr. Speaker, in the appre • benson expressed by my hono: able friend and > colleague, that the act to which he objects may ul i h m ately lead to a union of Church and State - I think that our whole political system, as alsc . the state of the church in our country, makci r such a union an utter impracticability. Such - thing could not be without an entire change i‘r f l ' le <; ssentlal elements and actual organization o s the frame of government. The very freedom oi t religious opinion and action guaranteed to tin ] 1 eople must operate an insurmountable bar u j such a union. I shouhj as, nay sooner, look foi ] a despotism in place of our constitutional hberty ? as the result which gentlemen apprehend Thi » of the past, the interest of the pre . sent, and the expectations of the future—reli . gion, which sepks Us own perpetuity in tin maintenance of jts purify— a l! forbid it. Ou | dcnom.nat.onal divisions constitute a system o ; sleepless and enterprising vigilance over the en . croachraents of the church. Protestant Christian. - m n » ngo ascertained, from history written in th« f the matrydom, that their, rights of conscience de , pend upon free government. They are committee | to maintain the separation of the Church and th. . Stale by the instinct of self-defence, and by th. - precepts .of their own faith. I think I am no | mistaken when I say that the Church her«el s w °ul d be the last to seek an unholy an. . self destroying alliance with the State ! Piety, would die in the embraces of govern ■ men V , N r °b Sir ’ Christianity mus • stand aloof from political associations, by the lav of her own existence. A loss of liberty mmh( r perhaps would, necessarily corrupt the church | ■ whilst liberty remains the church will mil : ■ j its purity. Keep pure the church in our i. , 5 I and the Constitution is defended with i.m, r ! ; ble bulwarks. c ® n ** ' j In England we know, Sir, that the ch Ur h - ’ ! part of the Government—that the articles r li 5 ! established religion are held to be p urce ) die * i common law—that the sacrament is a C 01 ° ' \ precedent to the tenure of office—that rich* 011 1 vernmental revenues sustain the sacred arb cy—that lands and franchises and political °° ra ' er, by the very principles of the British C.v*' 1 1 tution,) if Constitution Britain has, which much doubt,) appertain to the church * Christianity, Sir, but to our form of church 10 ization. Not so here. That aid which the o°* * vernment can here give the church is alon ° • ’ freewill ottering to the principles it professes 2 tearing all creeds and names equally by h s j *f°’ ant and equal legislation. For myself I cau Uer ' teive of no abomination more offensive!- p° n * rent than a union of the Church with the S * and I would resist the very first approach * wards it with the sternest and must . t0 ‘ * hostility. But, sir, there is a union which!* T J ready, in some degree, consuraated, which Ihr 1 I shall not live to see dissolved: I mean ■°P ? union of religious principle with * > duct. n> * Th u ’rT" of . m ;’ ra l l p™"!''" *<«m the whole lump ot the body politic. We should be cautious lest we divide things so happily an! s usefully united. We should he careful lest ' 1 invite into our legislation, and adopt us rui Cs *f I ‘ conduct, the philosophy of a merely human * faith. No gentleman, I know, would give his j 5 vole directly or jfndirc tly to unhinge Christiani- I % ty, or in any way lessen its influences. I not to be understood as so charging. I on £ ‘ mean to say that the rssult at which they now aim may, in my opinion, produce that else-t ’ The politicians of France desecrated the temple 1 | ot God—burned the Bible—endowed the goj. | dess ot Reason with the attributes of the Deity— and soon, very soon, the foundations.of society j were broken up, and anarchy reigned triumphant, j } vine-clad hills and fertile plains and crowd, cd streets ot France flowed down with blood. To ' a public relaxation ot moral obligation, I have no I doubt, may be traced those startling horror, which preceded and followed the French Revo lution. i ! „ Ax Impoutaxt 'Astronomical Ivvzvtios. Mr. Russcj, of Georgetown, has invented and tor. , st: ucled the most ; erlect apparatus for the easy anj practical attainment of Astronomy that we ha. ( . ever seen or heard of. It is in the form of an| woiking on the same principle as the terrestrial j globe; hut instead of the heavenly bodies bei r ,j transcribed, on the surface only, they are redeem I I kewise on the ceiling of the room, in all the (j. | gurcs of the heathen mythology, large as life,am . so simple and plain that‘ he that runs may read,' and in a few lessons understand thoroughly ti> e ( whole principles of this neglected but vastly fa. pirfant scincc. , The app iratus is about sixteen or eighteen feci ’ in circumference, and formed of brass rods, ami, , when divested of the transparent covering which represents the stars and figures of heathen an thology, shows, by reflection on the ceiling a mii i iatnre resemblance of the rising and setting of the , s-tn, moon, and principal constellations, as well a. the variat ions which cause the change of the sea son. In fact, the whole action of the heavenly bo dies is here represented as plain and simpleasit| it were possible for man to bring the heavens with 1 in so narrow a compass. The plain of the ecliptic, as well as the causer? eclipses, are beautifully illustrated, ami even th. I motion ot a comet in its course around the sun i. plainly s,-t forth. M c understand t.iat several scientific senile * men have examined and greatly admired the ap paratus in all i'licre are vet manvoth- ; ers in the Distrct who. though they have been in- I vited. have neglected to nil and examine it. Wc 1 would, therefore, remind them to call at an early I day if they wi-h to sec this important in-enfri’, I ? i feeling confident, that they will he pleased, while at the same time their opinions will be of mvia 2 to the*invcnior. Mr, K. resides on \Vashington street, m-ar tbi canal —Georg-'//>/<•« .1 .• tncutc. 2 Consignees per South < a:o.i,i:i Unii ftosui. llajibuuo, January sh, IblO. , VV Smith? 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G, NIMMO, General ( ommission Mer chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the Constitutionalist. nov' it OTWe are authorized to announce G. d H MUEL C. WILSON, as a candidate for I ONELot the 10*h Regiment Georgia Militia. jen 21 td 13 (ry EXCHANGE ON NE W YORK—M s# n and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by s ncv23 GARDELLK & KHINP^ 5, M. CURTIS, House, Sign and OrnaM A ‘ tal Painter, 187 Broad street. —sign and ornamen j. tal work done at short notice. d<? c^ PUBLIC NOTICE. —Dn. Munboe, Surgeo: Dentist, has returned to Augusta. jec9^ d CT S- M- SHAUVIRE, ARTIST, has opened ni; 1- Rooms at the Masonic Hall. 2d story, where he *■“ p. be happy to receive orders for Miniatures.—Correct o likenesses will be warranted. , a dec 2S * tnvlm*- a 03* NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger W" n between Charleston and Hamburg, will le» ve 1 )f follows: >1 * UPWARD. o Not to leave Charleston before I o • “ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30 )r “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00 “ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00 0 “ “ Midway,* - « . ]I3O M 16 ‘ “ Blackville, -« - 100 .*■ '■ ■ “ “ Aiken, - - « - 300 i- Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400 ie DOWNWARD. I , r Not to leave Hamburg before * 600 a> I 5 p “ “ Aiken, -« - . 730 I , “ “ Blackville, “- . 9 30, I “ “ Midway, ** . -10 30 ( 18 “ “ Branch vill « - - 11 DO e « « Georges’, ** -' - 12 00 tf -2* * “ Summerville,“ - - 2 Off- | d Arrive at Charleston not befare 3 . iq Distance—l 36 miles. Fare Through—. jj l 0 Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain t minutes-each, for breakfast and dinnei, if longer than 5 minutes for wo' ’ and watc; at J station. i ld To stop for passengers, when a u‘hte hoisted, at either of the above stations; and an m t- Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile ■ st Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johns 1 -’- ■ w and Marsh’s T. O. t Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock I * dine at Blackville; down, will breaKlast al *.{, 1 1 * »nd dine at bummervilic. ® a X * I