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CHROMCLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, ® Os Ohio : The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor ruptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican— the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN T YLE R , Os Virginia ; A State Rights Republican of the school of : 9S— one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriot statesmen. 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 CONGRESS, W ILLIAM C. DAW SON, 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. Louisiana Election. 'T) From the New Orleans Bee and Picayune of the 10th inst. we have obtained the most gratifying news from the late elections in Louisiana. In the first sufficient intelligence is received to leave no doubt of the election of White, the pres ent Whig representative, by a largely increased majority. In the second District, in which we anticipated defeat, all the Parishes but three have been heard from, which leaves Morgan (Whig) 104 votes ahead ; it is therefore net improbable that he has succeeded. From the third Distiict nothing has been heard. For the Legislature the Bee says : “So far, the whigs have neither gained nor lost. If the rest of « , the State has done as well, the majority ia the Legislature will be very decided. So far, the popular vote is for Harrison by hundreds.” Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. The July No. of this valuable periodical is on our table, and like its predecessors, is well filled with valuable matter to commercial men. This v. No, leads off with a lecture from the Hon. John Sargent, of Penn., on “Mercantile Character,” delivered before the Mercantile Library Associa tions of New York and Pennsylvania, which fully sustains the high character of Mr. Sargent.— There are many other valuable articles, among which we notice one from Henry C. Carey, of Philadelphia, being a continuation of a series on the “Causes of Unsteadiness of the Currency, and the remedy therefor which abounds in the sound practical views of a mind well versed in the sub ject of which the writer treats. Mr. Nisbet’s Letter. In publishing this able letter of our representa tive to the Morgan co. Com., some typographical errors occurred, which have been corrected in our weekly paper of this morning. Those papers copying please copy from the weekly paper. Meeting of the Tippecanoe Club o t New ton County. Tuesday, July 7, 1840. This being the regular day for the assembling of the Tippecanoe Club of Newton county, the same organized. There being a large assembly, it was Resolved, That in the discussions which may be had lifts day, any and every person, without regard to party names, be invited to participate. *• The following Resolution was offered by John N. i'Silliamson, Esq., viz : Resolved, That the election of William Henry Harrison to the Presidency, and John Tyler of Vir ginia to Vice Presidency, will promote the bes interest of the country; and that in the promotion of that interest we approve and will support the Electoral and Congressional nominations made by the Convention held in Milledgeville on the first Monday in June last. After the reading of the above Resolution, Col. John J. Floyd made an address in support thereof. f He was followed by James H. Rakestrun, Esq., a t I Union Van Buren man. Mr. Rakestrun having * concluded, was replied to in detail and at length by John N. Williamson, Esq. The arguments t hen closed, and upon the passage of the Resolu tion it was carried unanimously. ‘ The following Resolution was presented, and decided in the affirmative, viz : Resolved, That we approve of the Convention to be held in Macon on the 13th August next, and {hat we will send at le ist one hundred Delegates. Resolved, That the proceedings of this day be sent for publication to the Reformer, Georgia Jour nal, and Southern Recorder offices. THOS. BABER, \ ice President. J. M. Colley, Secretary. Upper Canada. —It may be remembered that, sometime in January last, one Livingston Palmer was arrested in Upper Canada, charged with dis tributing “patriot” commissions, and endeavoring to enlLt’new recruits for a new rebellion. He has recently b?£m Lied for higli treason, found guilty, and sentenced to death. He is said to be an Ameri can, from Vermont. One Hiram Mann has also been tried for Lie same offence, and in like manner found guilty and sentenced. o o Macon Convention, 1 The Committee appointed at the last meeting of the Central Tippecanoe Club, of Richmond County, have appointed the following delegates to the Con vention, to be held on the second Tuesday in Au gust next, viz. Gcnl. Thos Flournoy, Robeit Clarke, \ H T Kilpatrick, E W Spofford, Joshua Key, J G Marshall, W J Rhodes, C D B Dill, J D Mongin, I A Hibler, James Palmer, Edward Collier, sen., L H Murphy, James Gardner, jr., James Cashin, James Reeves, A W Rhodes, Meigs Hand, S Tarver, Wm Holmes, B Daniel, John Kerr, S D Clark, Porter Fleming, Alex. Walker, W M Fraser, Chas Clark, James Hulbert, G VV L Twiggs, C L Bussy, Jer’h, Winters, T M Simmons, James Malone, A S Holland, Jno. Chanvous, J Bond, Jacob A Dove, Win Jones, Win Johnston, C B iiitt, H A Hudson, Geo Rackett, James Brandon, sen., Jesse Kent, Joseph Burch, J W Jones, Doctrine Bunch, W H Howard, L A L Boisclair, R B White, Joseph Ware, J W Walker, Daniel B uner, J B Campbe !, R.obert Thomas, E W Staines, Charles Carter, A G Bull, Geo. Crawford, T W Miller, Jno. McKinney, E W Doughty, James Colman, J’ II Cooke, James Knight, John Hill, Seaboin Skinner, John Miliedge, Wm Skinner, F Spears, Jno M. Turner, A Boggs, Amory Sibley, P Bennoch, P H Mantz, C J Jenkins, Edward Bustin, E B Beall, P Fitzsimmons, John Cashin, W E Jackson, J Thompson, John Foster, James W Davis, Robert Rutherford, O E Carmichael, Charles McCoy, M P Stovall, W W Holt, J M Dye, J M Adams, E D Cooke, T M Nelson, Benjamin Brantly, W T Gould, L Hopkins, B W Force, A Mclver, Jhon Rily, Robert A Watkins. Who together with the Committee of appoint ment, viz : A J Miller, Wm Bryan, Sen. M F Boisclair, Jonathan Palmer, WmM D'Antignac, Middleton Sego, Adam Johnston, Robert A Allen, Pleasant Stovall, John Skinner, John J Cohen Wm P Beall, Edward Thomas, Daniel Walker, Eli Muslin, W J Eve, M M Dye, ‘ John Tarver, G T Dor tic, John Williams, constitute the entire Delegation. If any of the delegates appointed shall be una ble to attend he is requested to notify the members of the apointing committee in his district. Harrison ami Tyler Meeting in Morgan County. At a meeting of a portion of the Morgan Coun ty Tippecanoe Club, at Madison, on Wednesday evening, Sth instant, it was Resolved, That a Committee be appointed by the Chair to select the names of persons opposed to the present Administration, and in favor of Harri son and Tyler, which being agreed to, the Chair man nominated Lewis Graves, John Robson, Charles Whiting, Lancelot Johnson, William S. Stokes, John G. Reeves, N. G. Foster, Stewart Floyd. Augustus Rees, Elijah E, Jones, and Thad. B. Rees. Who having met in accordance with their ap pointment, after consulting and deliberating, re port the annexed list of names of persons, suitable to represent the Harrison party of Morgan county, in the contemplated Convention, to be held at Ma con, in August next: John A. Braughton, Charles Whiting, Joseph B. Slack, F. W. Arnold, William V. Seats, William B. Wiley, Amos Ward, John G. Reeves, Henry Harris, John B. Martin, Edmund Walker, James Tatum, Peter Walton, Adam G. Salih Id, Geoge W. Humphries, Lanslot Johnson, John S. Colbert, Hugh J. Ogilby, Jonn Swanson, jr., Wm. O. Salfold, L. T. P. Harwell, Robert Harris, Thomas D. Speer, A. H. Overton, Thomas Harris, Isaac W. Earley, Beverly Walton, James Tate, James Wade, Stewart Floyd, John L. Moody, N. G. Foster, Benj. M. Peoples, Elijah E, Jones, Benj. Harris, Augustus Rees, Wm. G. Powell, E. L. Wittick, jt John R. Baldwin, Terrell Speede, Charles J. Baldwin, James Blount, Joseph P. Penick, Thomas C, Wood, Simeon N. Brown, Washington Baber, William Brawncr, Francis Moss, Samuel P. Aldridge, Uriah Smith, James Aldridge, Hilliard J. Smith, Amos Brown, A. B. Bostvvick, Charles P. Shoemaker, S. Few, George F. Ponder, Joseph B. Winston, Phillip B. Awtry, A. B. Wool, E. J. Mattox, H, P. Turner, Alex. Awtry, Thomas P. Thomson, Jacob Smith, Thad. B. Rees, Robert Prior, Zeno Walker, Jacob C. Butts, Ansalurn Walker, Hilliard Harris, Jon D. Swift, William G. Smith, Garland Prior, Mathew Hester, Ellis W. Sammonds, Thomas Nolan, Jeptha Ball, B. H. Bishop, William Cox, Baldwin B. Hoad, Reubin Mann, Nathan Massey, George K. Davis, Rob. Fretwell, Thomas Low, John T. McNeil, John S. Harris, Willis J. Rhynes, Henry Floyd, Baldwin Copeland, S. White, Daniel Gunn, Minor Higby, John Emmerson,! Augustus Aldin, James Fitzpatrick, John Robson, James P. Smith, William Lane, John F. Johnson, Weakly J. Pearmon, Merret Warren, Samuel Shields, William Cousins, B. F. Jackson, William Millegan, Wm. Hail, William Hammonds, Reubin Butts, C. R. Zachry, Geoige Jones, Richard Park, Alfred Shaw, David Love, James O’Neal, Janet Kirby, Wm. B. Stephens, Wilds Kolb, John Gordon, W. G. Ballard, James F, Few, Wm. S. Stokes; A. Atkinson, Wm. Johnson, Job Jenkins, Allen Jones, William Prince, Moses Davis, T. Tunison, John R. Kendrick, Madison Crocket, James Skinner, F. M. Boon. John Gratton, The Committee in obedience to the Resolutions of *he Club, directing them to select men to repre sent us in the Macon Convention, having performed their dnty, respectfully notify all the Harrison men in the County of Morgan, that they are also invited to attend as Delegates, and will be consid ered as regularly appointed, in conformity to a Resolution made by Charles Whiting, Resolved, That the proceedings be published in the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, with arequ st that the Georgia Journal and Southern Recorder, publish the same. A. ALDEN, President. T. B. Rees, Secretary. To what do the signs of the times point now. Globe. They point to Gen. Harrison’s election as true as the needle to the pole, or a leg-treasurer’s nose to Texas. — Prentice. In Boston there are 6,039 females, over the age of 16 years, more than males. Under 4 years of age the number of males exceeds that of females, 207. Between 4 and 16, the excess of females is 407. Whole population, including the immates of the Jail and Hospital and the I Slate paupers, 84,401. Gain since 1835, 5,798. 1 From 1830 to 1835 the gain was 16,211. j For the Chronicle and Sentinel. Party Spirit and Party Names. Messrs. Editors— -I was musing the other day, with regret, on the rancor of feeling which is en gendered by party spirit; and wondering how the precious piivileges es this wisely framed govern ment, could be made by some men to assume any shape suitable for their schemes and stratagems. In former times, when an assent was given to a ques tion, we understood it to be yea—a dissent, nay. It is now neither “yea, yea, nor nay, nay.” Peo pie slip and slide so much, that you only know where they are, when you actually see them. I hose reflections had scarcely passed through my mind, when in steps one of my neighbors, whose political views differ somewhat from mine. “ Si ■non,” says he, “did you hear that the State Rights folks had a meeting, a great meeting ! at Miiledge ville; and that we are all coming together as straight as a shingle.” “ Not the other day,” said f, “ Our State Rights friends had a meeting a few weeks since, to nomi nate electors for our electoral ticket, in support of General Harrison for the Presidency.” “ Well, well, that may be so,” says he ; “ but I tell you on Friday, the 3d July, there was a meeting of the Union, Democratic State Rights Party.” “Ah!** says I, “ is it the party that Gov. Troup accuses of stealing and plundering the government. Tell me ? did’nt they rake him fore and aft, for such vinification “ Umph ! no,” sa3 - s he, “they did’nt even grin at it. They said he had come to this conclusion after exhausting the argument.” “ But stop,” says 1,“ aint the State Rights Par ty of Georg a, the same set of refractory chaps, who would’nt be bamboozled by John Quincy Ad ams, John C. Calhoun, and their cats-paw, Timo thy Andrews, on the New and Old Treaty affuir j for the Indian lands. And did’nt Gov. Troup sen I Timothy back with a flea in his ear—then survey and take possession of the lands, in spite of their’ teeth. I used to flinch in those times. Yet, I tho’t he was right. Your Union Democratic folks, then said the Governor was mad, stark mad. Mr. McDuffie called, through the papers, in those days, for ‘ another Brutus to rid us of our Caesar,’ for thus trampling upon the power of Government. But, psha! Guv. Troup’s State Rights remedies were milk and water to Mr. Duffie’s revolutionary nullifaction. “ Consistency, thou art a jewel.” “ Stop, stop, Simon,” says he ; “ you don’t make allowances. Time and circumstances make migh ty changes in men and things. Some of your nois iest, and most blustering Nullifiers, are now our leading men. We used to think their quinine was a pretty strong dose for our slow fevers. They have quit tins, and say they are determined to give you arsenic—arsenic ! Simon, every thing else is too weak. Now, altogether, we can move like a torrent. We have, as a party the purse of the Sub-Treasury. We will soon have an army, more powerful than the grand army of Bonaparte. We shall neither seek aid from ‘ Missionary,’ or ‘ Hard Shell.’ We are the real ‘ Union, Democrat ic, Van Buren, Poinsett, State Rights, Flint and Steel Party.’ ” I give it up. I trembled like a leaf. I trust in an Almighty interpositon, to save my country. SIMON SCRAPER. Negro Witnesses. The following article from the Louisville Journal, upon the subject of the Negro Witnesses, we commend to the attention of our readers. It brings to light a case which is new to ns, and no doubt to most of our readers, in which General Jackson was called on to set aside a decision made at West Point, upon the same ground, viz., that Negro testimony had been received. This testi mony for which General Jackson exploded the de cision of the tribual, was taken in a non-slavehold ing State —while that on which Mr. Van Buien acted, was received uy a Court holding its session in a slave holding community. From the Louisville Journal. The Case of Lieutenant Hooe of the Uni ted States Navy—a Pill lor the South. This officer, a native of Virginia, was tried in May, 1839, by a naval court martial, on board the national vessel Macedonian, lying in the har bor of Pensacola in Florida, on certain charges preferred against him by commander Uriah 13. Levy of the Yandalia. To sustain the prosecution, a negro servant of ‘commander Levy was called and sworn ; Lieut. Hooe objected to the testimony of this negio; the court overruled Lieut H's. objection ; he pro tested against the decision and had his objec tions spread on the record of the proceedings. He declined cross examining the negro, and had this fact also spread on the records of the court. Daniel Waters, another negro, a cook and pri vate servant of the prosecutor, was also called and sworn by the prosecutor; Lieut. Hooe again objected ; his objections were overruled ; he pro tested, and declined cross-examining this negro, and had this also spread on the record. The court martial heard the testimony, and sentenced Lieut. Hooe to be dismissed from the West India squadron, after having been reprimanded, in general orders, by the Secretary of the Navy. ’Phis sentence was approved by the Secretary, J. K. Paulding. Lieutenant Hooe appealed to the President of the United States and submitted the case to his “consideration and discretion,” and the President (hear it, oh, men of the South!) returned the papers with this laconic endorse ment —“The President finds nothing in the pro ceedings in the case of Lieut. Hooe which re quires his interference.” What! Nothing to require his interference, when an officer of the American navy, a son of the Old Dominion, is dismissed from the service of his country, upon the testimony of negroes, and these the menials of the commander, the prosecutor !! It is not remarkable, that such a sentiment should be expressed by Martin Van Buren, the man who voted in the Convention of New York to confer, and who, by his vote, did confer on free negroes the right of suffrage, the man, who voted to instruct the New York Sena tors to oppose the admission of Missouri into the Union unless she would give up her slaves, the man, who holds the opinion that Congress can abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and turn all the negroes free without the con sent of Virginia, Maryland, or the people of the District; but it is astonishing, that a court mar tial, composed of officers of our gallant navy, could be found, who would so far outrage the sentiment of the- nation on this subject as to tolerate a prosecution founded on negro news, and sustained by negro witnesses. Independ ent of the wound that this conduct of the court and the Secretary and the democratic President must inflict on the honor of the American navy, and upon the feelings of all honorble men, whether, of tc.e North, the South, the East, or the West, we pronounce the decision not only without law, but against law. The accused was a citizen of Virginia ; he did not lose his citizenship, nor the rights, which belonged to him as a citizen, because of bis ab sence for years in the service of his country. For what was he tried I For an alledgcd viola tion of some of the naval rules and regulations, for a breach of which the la v prescribes that he may bs tried and punished wilh dismissal from the service; but the rules of evidence to be ob served in such cases as are not pointed out by the acts of Congress. His offence was not mur der or manslaughter, which, if committed on the high seas, wrould have made him liable in a district court of the United States, or, if committed on ship board within the waters and jurisdiction of a Stale, would have rendered him amenable to and triable by the court of the Slate within whose limits the offence was perpetrated ; but the charges preferred were for such a violation of those rules for the government of the Navy (not amounting to crime) as would subject him to a trial by a naval court martial. Then by what rules of evidence should he have been tried ! Certainly not by the rules of evidence recognized by the English common law. If by those rules, then it is admitted, that free negroes might have been sworn as witnesses against him, provided they acknowledged the religious obligation of an oath. By those rules a white man, an Englishman, tried for an offence at sea or on land, can be convicted upon the testimony of negroes; but the Federal Govern ment of the United States has never adopted the English common law or its rules of evidence, and the Federal Government has no common law of its own or of any other coun.ry. 'To say that it has is perfectly preposterous; every law yer knows the contrary —and the President ought to have known, being a lawyer, that the supreme court of the United States has decided these points. All that Congress has said on this subject is to be found in the 34th section of the act of 1789, entitled “ an act to establish the ju dicial courts of the United States,” and in these words, —“And be it further enacted, that the laws of the several Slates, except where the con stitution and treaties of the United St: tes require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in suits at common law in courts of the United States where they apply:” so that, the common law of England not having any relevancy to the subject matter, and the United States having no common law of their own, and Congress having passed no law to make negroes competent wit nesses, this outrage on the honor and rights of an American officer, a native of old Virginia, stands without show of palliation for its mon strocily. On board the vessel of the United Slates, Lieut. Hooe was still a citizen of the United States and of Virginia: the sovereignty of the United States existed in as plenary a mode on board his ship, in the middle of the Atlantic, or in Pensacola Bay, for all the purposes of his in dividual protection against judicial tyranny, as though he had been tried on board the same ship on the same charges in Hampton Roads. Sup pose the trial at sea, beyond the jurisdiction of the States or the territories—by the rules of evi dence of what law would he have been tried 1 Suppose his ship at the time to have been lying in the Bosphorus, or at Toulon, or Port Mahon, or Liverpool—could the naval court have tried him by the rules of evidence which belong to the Sultan’s government, or those of France, or England, or Spain I Certainly not. Though the imputed offences had been committed while the ship was lying at anchor in the Bosphorus, and the couit had been convened and the trial had there, he would still have been, in contem plation of law, within the sovereignty of the government of the United States, and his loca tion would have been in that particular Slate of which he was a citizen. No matter where he had been, he would have been a citizen of the United States and of Virginia still ; and, though he was actually abroad, he was, in contempla tion of law, at home, and the rule of evidence applicable to his case were those which obtain in the State of which he is a citizen. As a citi zen of the United Slates, charged with a violation of the rules for the government of the navy, the federal government has no law of evidence of its own by which to try him; it has adopted those of no other country, no capricious or arbi trary rules for the occasion can be resorted to, hence we insist that the rules of evidence of his own Slate are the only ones by which he could have been legally tried. In Virginia a negro, whether bond or free, cannot give evidence in any case against a white man; consequently the oath and testimony of these negroes, the servants and menials of Commander Levy, were an outrage, which should call down the indigna tion of every Southern man and of every Ameri can citizen on the head of this President of a party, this “ Northern man with Southern prin ciples.” If the law were otherwise—if the places of trial regulated the rules of evidence, and the Secretary wished to screen a friend, (forinstance Commodore Elliott of figure-head memory) or to sacrifice an enemy in the Navy, he might in any case order a trial from Virginia, where ne groes are excluded from giving testimony, to New York Harbor, where they may not only vote but give evidence against white men. Would the ‘illustrious predecessor,’ of the Header in the footsteps have found in the procee dings in the case of Lieut. Hooe, nothing to con demn * Would Andrew Jackson have permit ted a Porter, a Hull, or the lamented Bainbridge, or even Lieut. Hooe, to he tried and sentenced to dismissal from the navy on the testimony of negroes, though they had been even the free ne gro voters of Marlin Van Buren! Tis but a few years ago, a Cadet at West Point was arre ted for some violation of the rules of that estab lishment, and the Court Martial, upon the testi mony of a free negro, one of Mr. Van Buren’s voters, sentenced him to be dismissed. The case was carried before President Jackson ; did he say that he could find nothing in the case to re quire his interference 7 No—with the indignant feelings of an American, of a high-souled South ron, he annulled the decision and restored the ca det to his rank and standing. To Southern minds, the mere statement of the fact, that a citizen of the United States, a citizen of a slave stale, an officer of our navy, has been tried on board of his own ship, on American wa ters, in sight of, nay moored to, the shore of a slave state, and convicted on the testimony of ne groes, and, that all this has been approved by a President, who claims to be the exclusive friend and favorite “of all their chivalry,” must be revol ting beyond expression. What would Virginia have said, or the palmetto State, or Alabama, or Georgia, or Louisiana, if Jackson, after his great victory at new Orleans, had been arrested, tried on the testimony of negroes, and cashiered, and John Quincy Adams had found nothing in the proceeding to claim his interference! What if Gen. Harrison, after his great victory of the Thames, had been arraigned on false chaiges and convicted upon the testimony of negroes admit ted to testify against him by a corrupt Court mar tial, and President Madison had found nothing to disapprove ! The deep and withering curses of the nation would have been the po~tion of the court, and not all the great services of the vene rable President would have saved him from the nation’s scorn. Yet Martin Van Buren, this free negro suffrage candidate, this abolitionist in heart, this man who would have dissolved the Union sooner than permit Missouri with her slaves to enter the Union, this men who permits the creatures of his appointment to plunder the nation and still hold office, who is surrounded and sustained by a band of officials the most cor rupt and dishonest that ever marked the annals of civilization, no doubt flatters himself, that he can perpetrate the additional outrage of permit ting the officers of the Navy and Army to be cashiered upon negro testimony and yet com mand the confidence and the support of the South ! Crops is thk Virginia Vallt.t. — The Win chester Virginian of yesterday savs— • The present week is one, in which our farmers are actively engaged in the business of harvesting their grain. The rye has been almost a total failure. The wheat and oats throughout the Val ley will probably yield a scant average crop— the oats rather more—the wheat will fall short of it, being partially injured by the rust within the last ten days. The crops of grass have been abundant, and well secured. Correspondence of the Boston Atlas. Washingtox, June 24, 1840. Proceedings of Congress—Tory Oppres sion. In my letter of yesterday, I left Mr. Jenifer of Maryland in possession of the floor. He contin ued his remarks until quite late in the afternoon, when Mr. Allen, of Ohio, obtained the floor, and the House adjourned. The remarks of Mr. Jen ifer were replete with more biting sarcasm, sting ing invective and bold denunciation, than any I have yet heard in the halls of Congress; and the fluttering among the wounded or “obscene birds,” and the constant emotion manifested on the part of the Tory members, showed that the darts he scattered right and left about the House, all told with marked effect. The Locos dared not per mit his remarks to be heard, and the most repeat ed and outrageous attempts to gag the bold spea ker, who was thus exhibiting them in their true colors, were kept up the whole afternoon, during which, Mr. Banks, of Virginia, played his custo mary despotic and arbitrary part, as a partizan tyrant of the first water, Mr. Jenifer referred (n the interest which per vaded the whole country on the Sub-Treasuiy. He said a recent visit to Maryland had shown to him that the whole State was alive to the subject now before the House. The Administration members had called their attention to the subject of flooding the whole State with their documents. A circular addressed to the people of Georgia, and signed by Mr. Colquitt, as well as Dr. Duncan’s speech, had been circulated by thousands, espe cially in his district, and he would take this op portunity to thank all members who had thus taken such an interest in the welfare of his con stituents, thus publicly. He had received a number of letters, informing him of the effect produced by these documents upon his constitu ents, which, however, he would not read, lest these gentlemen might be induced to discontinue their praiseworthy and highly beneficial attempts to convince his Loco Fcco constituents of their error. As, however, there was in one a message to his colleague, (Francis Thomas) he would read an extract—which was to the effect that the writer had had a copy of Duncan’s speech and Colquitt’s circular sent to him which he returned with the request that he would send to him the Log Cabin Advocate instead. Mr. Jenifer said he had a copy of that paper in his hand, which, if his colleage intended to comply with the re quest of his former political friend, he would give to him for that purpose. He then took up Colquitt’s circular, and began to dissect it in a most merciless manner, when the Chairman call ed him to order. He contended he was in order, inasmuch as he was showing the manner in which the friends of the Sub-Treasury were attempting to affect tie public mind with regard to that mea sure. He was proceeding, when he was again called to order by Mr. Black, of Georgia. He told Mr. Black he was a little too fast. That if he would wait a little while, he would be glad to call him to order on his own account. Black said be would call him to order whenever he had a chance. “No doubt of it,” said Mr. Jenifer. “The man who, when he rose to speak upon this bill, announced his intention not to touch upon the subject at all, and confined himself to calum niating and villifying one who was absent—who was not a member of the House, and unable, therefore, to defend himself because he had been nominated in his own place for Congress by the opposition—now rises in his seat and calls me to order, because I refer to a circular of his col league, with which my district has been flooded. Your colleague, you say, is absent. It is his du ty to be present. But absence is sometimes very convenient, and you will find, sir, before I sit down, that presence is sometimes very disagree able.” Mr. Alford hoped he did not mean to speak of his colleague’s absence as any thing unusual. He was very seldom in the House. Cooper of Georgia, said he could be sent for if Mr. Jenifer desired it. Mr. J. said, if it would be in order, he should be very happy to have him sent for. Mr. Colquitt, who is usually to be found in and about the basement of the Capitol, was soon found, and the Georgia bull dog, as he is styled by his friends, was unmuzzled and let loose upon Mr. Jenifer. All would not do. He war worst ed and disarmed in a few moments, and declared, with eyes glaring like a demoniac, the gentleman from Maryland might say what he pleased, be had nothing more to say to him. Having thus sued for peace, Mr. Jenifer left him, and turned upon Mack, who sat quaking in expectation that his turn would soon come. He referred with be coming indignation, to the mean attack of that member upon Col. Gamble, defended the course of that gentleman, and proceeded to show, from Mr. Black’s own letter in 1838, that he had been most glaringly inconsistent. Mr. Black hoped, if Mr. Jenifer was permitted thus to attack him, he would be permitted to reply. Mr. J. began to read extracts which denounced Van Buren as an abolitionist, and Mr. Johnson as a practical amal gamationist. He said what followed was too gross for him to read, as there were ladies in the gallery. He was proceeding to remark upon the letter, when the Chairman called him to order. Mr. Jenifer then reverted to the attempts of the Tories to affect his district, and spoke of the ef forts of Mr. Hopkins, among others, in particu lar. He spoke of the inconsistency of that gen tleman, who, he said but a short time since, had gone further even than he could go, in opposition to the measures of government on account of the Sub-Treasury, which he was now supporting Mr. Jenifer then referred to the remarks Mr. Hol lernan had made in the morning in attacking Mr. Rives; he paid a beautiful tribute to the true and patriotic consistency of that gentleman, and bore down with no little severity upon his abuser. Mr. Holleman, however, bore the attack, as no other of his party in the House was able to do, without wincing, and, in consequence, escaped with a moderate whipping. Mr. J. showed how much more applicable the charge of inconsistency and recreancy was to the retreating Conservatives lhant ) Mr. Rives. He spoke of the visit of the Vanite members to Bladensburg last Saturday, and hoped they had all been pleased with Old Maryland’s hospitality. Mr. Hopkins could stand it no longer. He assured Mr. Jenifer that he had gone there with no sinister designs. He had no intention of affecting the gentleman’s standing, and had not mentioned his name there, either for censure or praise. Mr. Jenifer begged the member not to give himself any unnecessary uneasiness. He mistakes me very much, if he supposes I have any objection to his visiting my constituents, or that I have any fears for the re sult. On the contrary, I care not how many vis its my district, and sincerely hope none have to complain of any lack of welcome. Lest any should doubt my sincerity, I now give notice that every one present will receive a warm and enthu siastic welcome to another meeting which is to be held in Bladensburg next month. He proceeded to speak in terms of bitter irony of the proceed ings of last Saturday, when Mr. H. again rose, and disclaimed having either witnessed or parti cipated in them. Mr. Jenifer than asked whether or no it had been publicly stated by a member of the House at that meeting, and without contradiction, that Gen. Harrison was not within a number of miles of either the battle of Tippecanoe, the Thames, or Fort Meigs ? Order, o der, order, —was shout ed on ail hands. Mr. Hopkins replied that he had heard this attack there. Both members were called to order, and directed t 0 * , seats. Mr. Jenifer was, however r, p *** % goon, bu; not without a good deal’of He inquired whether it would be in onl • L to reply to a speech which had been ,ij r the bill by Mr. Strong of New York 1 replied in the affirmative. He accordin ' i red to a point in the speech as ren<,r. I! Globe, when Mr. Banks called him to o V' 1 ii stated that no such remarks had been 1 the member in the House. Mr. J. t)r . ma( k L Globe, and called upon the member f rt , , !t i S York to say, yes or no, whether that wIV* rlj ported to be his speech in the Globe, p not what it assumed to be. Mr. Strong * had be.m called to order on that point 3 J ted it in the House, but substituted whaU°**’ intended to say, in his prin ed speech a ■' .* ber suggested that neither Banks “rSiron,,""* iD know exactly to what portion of the R ) ?C Ji I referred to, and, consequently, had no II positive whether they had spoken in the Hi C * or not, Mr. J. then asked Mr. Strong w jT ll ‘ OI such a sentence in his speech had or h f f ’ a been spoken in the House.—Mr. S. sa'./ ,' - been. Well, said Mr. J. that is all I know. He then read aloud this passage ” was full of Log Cabin, Hard Cider, Abol,!' t &c, as making up the Whig party. for j | fer had not finished reading it when Mr. B ! 1 called him to order, and in a most in»ol Pnt ' fc ° intolerable manner, ordered him io take his ll Mr. J. protested with some warmth, and I ed to know on what grounds he was thusarbi! I rily cut short. The Chairman refused to | word—about half the House rose to order' \ I one of tne greatest scenes of confusion ever** f’ nessed in the House, ensued. At last Mr.J* ifer, after attempting in vain to extort from \ Banks the excuse for his tyranny, appealed * the House, Bat ks rose, and in a hasty outrageous, and garbled manner, asked the v \ of the House.—Tellers were ordered ; a nun, of members asked the question. Mr. Banks - dered them to take their seats. The tellers • 1 ported 68 voting in support of the Chair.-;,i * Jenifer then rose, and, with a great deal of wan* ! said that, inasmuch as the Chairman hadmai* false representation of the case—had refused- 3 permit him to put his appeal as it® was and pi there consequently was no question before / I House touching upon the point at issue, he ho* j no one would vote. Mr. Adams demanded to have the question again. Mr. Banks thundered upon the desk, I if in imitation of home made thunder, and» I dered him to sit down. Mr. A. protested asais 1 such tyranny, and said, that inasmuch asnoqit I lion had been legally submitted, no one bad right to vote. Mr. Ramsey, a half-fledged Lot, Foco from Pennsylvania, hoped thes Chaim# would compel the members to vote. Try it, j. | it, said Mr. Adams, but the valiant young mi i from Pennsylvania did not deem it worth nr. and the tellers reporte 1 no one voting in the nq alive, and consequently no quorum. The co> I mittee, consequently could no longer sit, but In I to rise and reported the fact to the House. I|- Jenifer proceeded to state the case as it stoo'n’ I the Speaker, and demanded his views uponiij I matter. Mr. Hunter could only say that u Chairman of the committee was subject to u | same rules as the Speaker, Mr. Proflil roses I ask whether it would not be in order to let 4 | House have another and an impartial chair® I The Speaker declinedcomplying’ar.daquoruaij 1 ing present, a call of the 1 louse was dispensed nu I and Mr. Banks resumed the chair. Mr. Jen* I demanded to be permitted to state the grout;; | his appeal. He contended he had been callKKj order and put down, fur simply reading tii % which the gentleman from New Yorkhadba | permitted to say without interruption. Mr. Banks insisted he had been called tent der for his own remarks, and proceeded again: . make a garbled and false statement of the grouna - of the appeal. Mr. Jenifer protested, amihowt | none of his friends would vote. No quoruracw sequently voting, there being none in theiw live, the despot was again dethroned, and 8 | chair resumed by r Mr. Hunter. The House,; ; the while, was in a great confusion ; hardly ia© than a dozen speaking all the time. iMr. Petriks | of course, figuring all the while with the object!; I and his points of order. The House was,ho* ■ ever in no humor to listen to him, and uponr> ing warned by Mr. Alford, that he had be||r quiet, the long-cued nuisance dropped intok? 1 seat with a look like that with which a frights ed monkey gets out of the way of the lash oh I circus rider. Mr. Jenifer then gave notice® I unless he was permitted to make his appeal,; should move to have the chairman turneds 1 of his seat, on the grounds of the most gross s 3 insufferable tyranny and partiality. Mr. Bss I promised to try to be impartial and fair, anil that, was permitted to resume his seat. Het s peared to have thought better cf his forineriw lent and overbearing course, and to be notafo'T sobered in the firm manner which it had be* t met by the Whigs. He called Mr. Jenifer to* f peat his statement and gave his permission tot to give the grounds of his appeals to the cletk writing. Mr. Jenifer then took up Strot; | speech and again lead aloud the extract amiss | ed Mr. Banks whether that was not thatfonvhr he had called him to order. The chair acknot j edged that it was. Mr. Jenifer then asked the House if that w not a most precious acknowledgement. Heretb | chairman acknowledges that be has pronoun# to be out of order for me to say, but the saS - has been perfectly in order for the gentle®* ' from New York to say, and yet the chains; pretends to try to be impartial. Notwith»U» ing, Mr. Banks thus avowed that he hade: Mr. Jenifer to order by mistake, he was not hi? minded enough to recede from his tyrannical 1* sition, but persisted in putting him down.i though confessedly on no grounds whate ve He was so far humbled, however, as to recc.« Jenifer’s appeal in writing. The Vanitesbo*' ever voted and thus decided by a small niajortv that Mr. J. was out of order to read what a iie had been permitted without interference - say. Was there ever anything so mousing It was then moved that Mr. J. be permitted • resume his remarks, which was carried by as®* majority, nearly all the Yanites voting in gative. He began saying that he could not*** for stronger proof of the truth of his remarks* lative to the demolishing effects of the sub trf® ury than the whole proceeding of the House" reference to him. Members of the Admin ls1 * tion have been permitted, in their remarks, in troduce every thing under the sun, without - terferencc, while we, the moment we bring ar gument to bear upon the sub-treasury, are down by a party majority, utterly regardless rights or fairness. I expected when I began. - although the sub-lroasuiy is the subject unef debate, I should not be permitted to discuss it- • have I been disappointed. I have attempted to reply to the remarks of the j men from Georgia, New Hampshire, Maine, - _ York and Mississippi, and been prevented— 0 more I have seen these very men voting me down. Heathen commenced 'with a ? deal of serverity upon the cowardly and course of Mr. Black, who after provoking tp® ’ tack had voted for the gag, and asked vvas't® sistent with Southern chivalry and expected the people of Georgia would sustain g in it. Mr. Black was in perfect agony, , I plied in the affirmative.—Well said Mr. J- £ I be Georgia chivalry, hut it is not that ut . j Maryland, nor do I believe that the p c T Georgia arc so far demoralised yet by ti' e treasury as to sustain you. Mr Jenifer then turned upon Brown o sissippi, who had voted to gag him alter given notice he would convict him of an j He gave him a tremendous lashing, an^. a i f jjj: the proof that, notwithstanding his deniab J