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j p-arri'Jv 1>'»1 we, insuffer Ji’:n giuirfbie tallest Ireeilotii fo futuritv, anJ uuveileJ a pin- ■ conleiupfiitioii ol v.l ich our eip’inded ; scarcely liuJ we, ,j r||t, enjoyed a noble lVa«l. mee (1k‘ picture rtselt i*d*»lroycJ, Mg behind only a t>»' recollection* munificent (lO.-pect. Jo liitn, a.iurt lived pleasures of the world pa«w — » • j —- »» a Cl* pir,merit* wiil rovr r, at two dollar* par tins gorer-metat t.n* to this instant p -.r- its torriUirict a flr*t and secar.u ,:r nlc for I wonld cheerfully relinquish all; pt. , . . (lie deli-lit c. pi o*in-; a rue prophet ml arm, relinquishing the residue ol the j sued toward the state ol MimsOuii, is - am ■ ' ' land to the United Mute*—another pray j tinned rf flic conduct whtdi was p'lrsu- he loav- of its the like fleeting dicams.” One day, Ttli/ed Indian, proud of the awakened faculties of his Blind—the next, an un- recognised tw eek of hit former sell 1 K. Extracts from the Jddrets of James M. Garnett, President of the Jgricultvral Society of Pirfinia. • • At first view the extraordinary pres sure of the piesent period, the low pri ces ..fill the products of agriculture, the languishing state of our commerce, and the general embarrassment in the pecu niar concerns of all the classes of our community, would scorn to combine so monf dwi ourugements to agricultural en- I, r[ rue and exertion, as to forbid every efi ut at relief. A little reflection, how- ciei, will shew us, I think, the lolly as well’as utter inutility of indulging any feelings which should incline us, even for a moment “ to give up the ship.” If me constant exhortation of the l’utri- ct be " never to despair of the common- wealth,” the neter failing determina tion of the agriculturalist, should be to “ speed the plough to fertilize the soil; to use its products with well judged e- couomy ; to defend his rights, and to tr„»t the. rest to Provide nee. It is cer- Hinly true, that for some time past we have had very little encouragement to labour, a.al still less to hope for » favor able change. Hut 1 think wo may at pes-"nt perceive, at least the dawn of brighter prospects f jr some of us. The co!•nn and tobacco planters have ration al ground- io expect belter price*. The cro|. • f cotton in Indiu, it i*.#.ii I, has so far i ilcl, that none ran be spared fisc irtution. Britain, therefore, and oth er countries where this article is manu factured, must procure their supplies princip -liv liom the United States. Our principal domestic manufactories too, notwithstanding what you may have heard to the contrary, 1 have been informed from most unquestionable authority, will require more during this approaching year, than it did in the hist, without any aid from additional duties. Should an, Virginia agriculturalist ask, what is all this to me? lean inform him for!' benefit that actual experiments ha proved, the rapacity of a large portion 01 our state to produce rntioo, if set as abunuautly as the Carolina* and Georgia, al least in such quantities as to render it et this time, well worth cultivating. The labour is greater from the necessity of tupping and succoring to mature the crop before frost ; but the product is not much less in a suitable toil and season, than in the warmer latitudes oflhe south. With re-pecl to tobacco, I know not that the kind usually made iu Virginia is likely tu find a much more eaten, ive market than it has at present. In regard, how eti-r, to the various rivnlships in this ar ticle with n liich the Virgioians have been thientened, it is a ridiculous tale which nobody who has any knowledge of the subject would venture to repeat. The peculiai ities of our climate, our soil, and the superior skill of those who make the strong, dark tobaccos, will always secure the pref rence to the Virginia tobacco over all others, for the purposes of chewing, and making the more pungent kii-b of snuff. As to the tobaccos of Maryland, which we might make, as well a* the citizens of that state, it is said, that a market is nuw opening in Russia, where thu demand, if my information is cor rect, will be commensurate to any sup ply that we can furnish.'’ “ The foregoing remarks on the cul tare of cotton and tobacco, nnd in rela tion to the prospects of selling them, 1 have been inUoced to oiler, from having heard, that many nf my brother ngricul toriiti had determined on cultivating them for a part of their next crop.— How far such determination may be ju dicious, each man must determine for himself.—l could not forbear, however, to suggest what appears to me worthy of mature consideration, before any final choice is made. A cotton crop may he made by tho*e who have not heretofore attempted it, without any additional ex pense of preparation ; without much previous experience : and with nogrea ter exhaustion cf the soil, than is occa- sinr e-l by the feast exhausting crop which tv* now cultivate. This cannot he sail of 1 oIvhcco. The outfit is very expen sive, where none has previously bet raised ; the deterioration of the land and the destruction of timber very great ; and the skill nee* ,-ary for the profitable management of this crop, both in the Virginia and Maryland mode, which are quite distinct from etch other, is a mat ter, to be acquired only by long and la borious experience. Not Tri«inegi.-lu-' himself, could he visit the earth, would be able tn malic a tolerable tobacco plan ter by a snorter apprenticeship, than some five six or seven years. The at tempt therefore to make tobacco, as a temporary expedient, aJnpted by those who know little or nothing about it would be a hazardous experiment, to s tv no more of it. Sonic very good friend, of mine, I know think differently; for thev seem to calculate ou acquiring the lequriite skill merely by wishing for it, and asking a few questions of old practitioner*. There is certainly much p!e*»-;r in seeingwtrpredictions verili- * 1 ; hot 1 e muot yet admit, as applica e io tovowlf, what Dr. Swift once sai l oe friend whom be represented as orviWhis Heath— rj-*„e*ehiis*l l *t) AioiiW die, m hu prediction prove a lie." tins«use, lor the supreme gratification ol finding the hopes of Uit-c friends reali zed in becoming oil-hand tobacco plan- of adequate skill, w lieu they now scarcely know tobacco from mullen. To my forlorn brethre.n with the breadstuff farms, in whiih class I must rank mvself, 1 scarcely know what to say. Alter turning my eye* in every direction for a glimmering of hope to cheer our gloomy prospects, I can ice but one narrow vista of light. If con gress, iu its wisdom, would only think fit to diminish the enormous duties with which the great staples of France, Spain, I'urtugal, and the West Indies, are at present so heavily burtheued; they would greatly replenish their own exhausted coffers, by a restoration—at least in part, of the revenue formerly derived from these sources, hut now almost entirely lost ; and they would at the same time, again open to us an extensive market, where in better days we found a very lucrative vent, not only for the flour, indian corn, and pork of the middle and southern states ; but fur the oil, lumber, fish, beef, and cheese of the north and ol the en«t.” The public we hear wants reve nue ; and w hat has been done, or propos ed, tn obtain it ! lias foreign trade been encouraged, that the treasury might In filled in the mode most agree.ihl>- to thu American people, bv such moderate du ties upon l. irign importations as invari ably increase revenue ? No such tiling. Other nations have discovered a disposi tion to injure or destroy our commerce, and we have most sagaciously done all we could to In-Ip them, by annihilating somt branches ol it, anil crippling all the rest ; like the cunning farmer, who made it an invariable rile, whenever a lamb or a pig was stolen from him, to kill another for himself, on the princi ple of always securing at least half of bis own. Have we piul'esseii ourselves the devoted friends of the grc.it landed inter ests of our country, as the lifeblood, which gives health, vigour, and activity to the whole body politic?—how In* this friendship been manifested ? Why, by making the rice, the cotton, the to bacco, the bread stuff-farms ; and the verniers of lumber, beef, pork, oil, fish aral cheese, tributary to some hundred or two sugar planters in Louisiana. Has the insensate clamour hoof, r.fis-J .it ; “ come, li t us make ourselves indenen- dent of ail tiie world ; an achievement, by the ;v.,y, which ihe raod ol nature has denied to every kingdom upon earth, whose object is to cultivate to the fullest extent every source both of individual and national happiness ; what project would the most ingenious guesscr a- moogst you conjecture has been devised to accomplish so glorioas a purpose !— Why to enact a kind “ tender law in an ticipation” by which the domestic fabri cators of certain favoured goods, are to he enabled to pass them like depreciated money raised by force to the highest standard value ; at some forty, fifty, or one hundred per cent more than those goods are intrinsically woitfi. Hussoine hydraulics! dreamer seen in his sleep, a contrivance for making water run up hill without any reference to its source, ot to the eternal principles vvliii h regulate its motions ;—or what amounts pretty much to the same thing ;—has a financial conceit got possession of some of our cranium*, that the precious metals in the form of money, can he made by the mere process of legislation, to flow or remain wherever they may be supposed to he wanting ?—hoiv is it to ba execut ed ? Verily, by restraining or destroying that commerce with China nnd India which has in times past circulated, most profitably from ten to fifteen millions of dollars worth of our property !! Is a home market proposed to he created, as an adequate substitute for all t!tc most In- crulire part of our foreign commerce ; —w hat are the inodes suggested to i fleet this desirable object ? One of the most ingenious of the device* is, to tax tin coinraeroe to the utmost extent ;—to make less bread and meat ; to convert a portion of our hardy yeomanry into spin nor* and weavers ; and if alt this will not do, to import more mouths fiom Sheffield, Birmingham anil M inchestf \Jare excises and direct taxis been held up to us for year*, as abominations to the land ? how are we to bo guarded against their rectirrcn- e ? Not certainly, bv punning « course which directly load, to them, as inevitably as the suction of a whirlpool lends to ingnlph all those who venluie within its c ach. Po not under stand me, gentlemen, bv the foregoing remarks as objecting either to an ov i-e, a direct tax, or any other legitimate means of raising anv amount of revenue required by the public wants. But I certainly will object, as long a* ti.ad spares me life ; as our constitution give* ine liberty of speech, to any mode oft ix- ation whatever, winch i- calculated like the proposed tariff, as well as many part* ofthat which row exi«t», to load any One cl.i«s in the conunouitv with mor* than its fair and just proportion ol'llie public burthens.” in-' that persona entitled to the iira-l ailed toward* these stale* when colonic-, pre-emption in the purchase of public j by hi* Britannic alajebty and his l.iilhlui lands, tuny be permitted to make p-1)- Lords and ( ominous m Parliament as- fluent for said l#nds within the tunefl here-! spudded, tfl'iiat was their language at tnfure prescribed hj law, or prompt pay-1 ter our independence wa« declared ?— irent, at Ihe option of the person hoi*}. I tVhnt w as their conduct which led to the mg such pre-emption nght---the other,, long and bloo„y war w!.i. It terminated praying that the right of pre-emption in | in the acknowledgment of our indepen- the purchase ol public lands may be ex- j donee ! i he very language w hidi we tended to certain settlor* therein de-crib-1 .ire holding, and the very conduct we are ert ; which memorials were referred to I pursuing toward* Missouri. ’I lie p pprehen-iv e you willccnc \ government, preparatory to tin if as munion table by the came * xmiiinc the rank "fa state of the Union, j give yourselves, that we will"; lie Cul not see why it could not give toi no name. Air. laid he sliof them u third, fourth, nr fifth grade of against the proposed amendmV lie considered Missouri " “ 1 M the coumnttpc oa the i’ublic Lands Mr. Kobcrtson, conceiving that Mis souri had, in this entry, been styled a territory, objected to her being so sty led ; but, on examination, finding it was not so, waived a motion ho was about to have made to amend it. Mr. Coea, however, adverting to the terWv* of the memorial, said, that it ap peared to he from ihe Senate and Hon--’ of Representatives ot “ the Mule ot’ .Missouri, though nut so stated in the Journal. Mr. C. moved to amend the Journal in tlwl particular, by inserting the words “ ihe State of,” before the word “ Alisso n el, said Mr. li. ran* on all fours. In our extreme tenderness for the rights mid privileges of the colored citizens we have already brought into jeopardy the right* and privileges o f our white fellow-citizen* a* well as of these color ed one* who are the objects of our Bidi- -ritude. Air. li. said, be. had intended to abstain, as he had until now abstained, from taking any part or lot in tlii* affair. But, when he saw the Coogres* of the United Stales pursuing a course of con duct in servile imitation of the British Parliament, he could no lunger retrain, lie would stake hi* salvation, ha said, dear to him a* that v» as, that, if the Con- When the Reporter entered the Hall, j «titetion of Missouri had contained an in- •Mr. Barsocr was up arguing in favor of hibilion of Slavery, the lluii*e would ne- tli amendment, which would in ike Jourual conform to the fact, which, he couieotleJ, it di I not a* it now stood. .Mr. Amii.r*on expressed his opinion flint the Journal, as it stood, expressed ^ruly the fact of a memorial being pre sented from Missouri. Though it iroglit have been more distinctly stated, yet the omission of the words proposed to be in- serted did not take from Missouri the character of a state, it being a frequent mode of expression in regard to other *tate*, to speak ot'th :tn without the pre fix of " the state of.” Air. A. a!*o sug gested a wish that hi* friend* should not press the objection they had srt up, by way of obtaiaing a decision ot the JUitsou* ri question, on a motion to amend tile Journal. Mr. Robertson made *ome remarks in favor of the motion. The memorial*, lie mid, professed to he from the Legis lature of the State of Missouri. It .Mis souri li id not been considered a* a state, of course the memorial* in that shape would not Imre been received. Having been received a* memorial* Irotn the state, why should not th* fact be correct ly stated on the Journal ‘i Mr M'L.'.ne, cf Del. v,a» h. favor of the proposed amendment, w. the geticr iff ground that, if it took place, the Jour nal would correspond mare pr< ■ liciy with the fact, than in its pretent >bupe. .Mr. Warfilld taul, that a deridon in favor of the proposed amendment would not express the s*-nsc of the House, ei ther in one way or the other. Conceiv ing that the entry on the Journal, as it r.ovv stooJ, wa* an entry of that descri; lion which would explain sufficiently vvhat was the nature nf the memorial, he was epposed to the amendment. Mr. Smith of Md. proposed, in order to obviate the difficulty, t j irwert in the Journal the word* “ purporting to he,” a memorial from the Sen ate and House nf Representatives of the stale of Missou ri, U-t. * * Mr. Cook was opposed to the propos eil amendment. If made, he slid, it would deride no principle. It' Missouri was not a State, rolling her so would not make her so. It would he an equally appropriate amendment to style her the Republic of Missouri, a* her Convention had styled her in the Preamble to the Constitution which had been formed for her government, Stc. Air. Cobb, in reply to a wish which had been expressed, that lie would with draw hi* inoticn, ■aid, that lie could not consent to do it nal to conform, as it ought, to the fact.— Three memorial* had been presented from a body, organized under a Consti tution of government, formed by virtue ol a law of Congress authorizing the peo ple of .Mi-souri to form a state govern ment. In th .1 shape having been pre sented, in that mid in no other shape could the memorials have Int-n receiv ed ; nnd the Journal ought to state the fact a* it occurred. .Mr. I1amv;vtx was sorry, hn said, that any discussion should have ari-en a* to tiie description of any paper presented to the House in the stupe ofa memorial. It had beeu tl.o uniform practice, in ma king up the Journal, to give to tnemou- ali I* tin: iialDO which they thnnselves j*»umed. By way of illustration, lie re ferred tu the memorial presented at the present ses.iion from person* styline iheais Ives the N itional Institution fop the protection -fiDome-tic lndu«'ry,from the Delegates of Agricultural Societies. i, .Missouri ory. Those' 1 Y f - m ist he comp \ V . this propositioVl , ter have heard of the objection now rais ed to it ; and, were he to engage in the discussion of it, he would take that ground. How ever that might he, he said, it was a more important matter that the J on nisi* of this House should contain Un truth. An honorable member behind him had uttered the sentiment, the other day, that it was proper that petition* to this Hoo»e should contain tiie truth. It was of infinitely more importance, Mi. R. said, that the Journal should contain the truth ; and he pronounced, that the Journal for yesterday.in it present mu tilated, mangled, and garbled state, did not speak the truth. It holds out that, •aid he, which wo know to hr And is it a mere matter of form, that v. e should send out to the People, a* the re cord of our Proceeding*, a paper which contains, on the fare ol it, a palpable an ) atrorion* falsehood ? Mr. Little called for t'.q^c -liag of it was read in part, when iu*e, in his opinion, Missouri’ *tntc, am) not a territory, held the other opinion in i 1 to vote in favor of this |.ivpuouos. i v acknowledge that their ground w;ss\ \ V 4 tanable- *1%. Mr. KnvvARns, of N. C. said, gard to tlits motion, he did not, when i\y before, mean to insinuate that the gen'd. man from Virginia (Mr. Parker) h.u'\ meant to set a trap for others. He might have laid a snare without designing it.— For himself, Mr. Id. *aid. he believed .Missouri was a State. He feared that the motion of the gentleman might he a- dopted, and that the misnomer would he entered on the Journal. For no otln r reason had he wished the motion to ba withdrawn. Hr should vote against the motion with pleasure, because he believ ed .Missouri had lost her territorial char acter and could not he otherwise than a state. Mr. PvnKZR said he was placed in n diffi cult situation by the application to l.inito withdraw his motion. Other friends vvito opposed to his withdrawiog it. He had cou- i laded to per-ist in it. It was not hitendrd as a trap for any one. Had it hern so in tended, he did not know hut that he might Inve found illustrious examples. It was not a question of mere form. The state of the. vote jii-t taken proved thr.t it was not. The question iu faet,:is voted upon, had hern, is Missouri * state or terri'ovy ? If she was u territory, ns she had hero voted not to he a State, why reject this proposition so to design nat • iier ? I say, said lie, sbe is a slate— aad, were I a citizen of that state, 1 would never, at your suggestion, strike out that rlause in tlir constitution to w hich objection Ins been made. Il l found it convenient to government, ile consider to be in a grade between territorial de pendence and the condition ot a membei of the Union ; w hich idea he illustrated bv reference to the situation of the Stale of v erinont, before she adopted the fe deral constitution, iec. Mr. I'.DWAKos, of North-Carolina, ap prehended that this proposition would operate ns a trap-question, producing embarrassment without benefit, and ex pressed Ills hope that the mover would withdraw it. Air. Livkrmo&z made a few remarks to this effect : that the house ought to regard the substance and not tiie shadow; that the name was of no importance tu the actual condition of .Missouri. When the que-timi should present itself in a proper form, he wo* ready to decide it ; but it could not he affected, either in out way or the other, by the appellation w hich should be given to Missouri on the Jonrnul of this house. Mr. Mzrceiv was gratified that this motion had been made. As this w as the commencement of our intercourse with the l’eople of Missouri, he was desirous th tt every step of it should bo marked. Mr. AL made sonic further remarks, iu Ihe cour«e of which he expressed hi* re gret that Ihe course ol the remark* oftne gentleman from Illinois, (Mr. Cook,) had been, in hia vio-v, disre-pectf il to Alis- *onri. Mr. Cook disclaimed r.nv intention to speak disrespectfully of the IVople ol Missouri, whom, on the contrary, lie said, he heM in high re-pect ; anil he , , , i i i it in iivrn mi.Ttir-. at ■ hmi su u ii»ii*rmr-in 'w sincerely hoped that Misioun would h« ) :av-.-lf to do so, I would ; but I would not do admitted into tbc I nion, and soon Mr. Cutler of Lou. said that, on in specting tiie Journal, it appeared that the original entry in it corresponded with the caption of the Memorial, in which the word State, is employed. As the Jonrnil now real", moreover, in the part speaking of the public I inds, the word* " within the said state” had lin n erased in two instances, tu avni I the word “ Stale," which in ido the whole your recommendation, even for tho ir.iporMnl boon of being admitted into the Guinn. 1 wonld rather lie trodden dewn by tli" armies from the North nnd Ihe Kjst. and, if you could ret them, from the South, than y e! ) this point; and t avow it in the face of Ihe world. If ever on ra th a people lialv been maltreated, it i* this people. There seemed, Air. I*, •ai’l, to be a suppressuin of something on th t Journal—beeaose the ve ry word* vv iicti li ,d been stricken out of :t w ere to be I'.ouid in flip caption of the me ttle memorial . „ „„ , - —- . , , • , , Mr. L. expressed hitutclf satisfied, and entry absurd, inasmuch a* the memorial I moHa.-. by were they suppies-ed. . , , • , _ i . , . . . t or Hie purpose, svi. ently, of implying the saul he was sorry the chair ha, depart- » made to apply not to purchaser* o. I th „ p » * He was not for this mode of eturom the uniform practice and regular l*»n<i < *ntth , .n trie? « m I state, winch | -he for bavin* the facta stated rule in recording the proceedings of 111: [ words were erased, but to purchasers of j pi, j, Rnglisb, tiiat all might iindemtand bouse. I bind) throughout the L'v.tcd Bt.dw>. AL. i iliem. .'Ir. 1*. smd lie wanted to bear no Air. Rhe.1 was in favor of the propos-j D. said he would therefore e-k whether , '"u- r p.,.-, us here—tie list! beard tu amendment, it was the duty of the j the Clerk had undertaken to make these ■ IM,,rc l ' iarl '‘" "igb «f them l ot, il bouse, lie thought, to see that facts were alteration-. correctly stated on tfic Journal. Tiffs j 'J'lie Srr vnr.r. then stated from th" boose had, in its public act*, styled Mi*- souri a State ; and why should she not be so called on the Journal ? He read the caption of one of the memorials, to -hew that it purported to fie from the Senate and House of Representatives ol the State of .Missouri, in General Assem bly, Stc. The Journal, he sai l, ought to describe the memorial j« it really was. The question on Mr. Cnob’s motion was then taken, by Yens and Nay*, us follows : j to the form of the it shout I -»o a pnu Jnui fire lit mat- ei.ent, cron as ho wished that i one way or chair, that it was the practice, th.it the I tho other, « : ,d iiota mere, riumoc'ibon. Journal should be written by the Clerk. I .'.1,-. Rosa said fie was ■whit that the Ihe rules of the Iloi:*n mado it the duty House had involved itself io tw J iBcultv ofllie Speaker to “ examine and correct | by the reception ol the petitions in t, e form the Journal before it is read.” If, being | in " bicl1 «',ey wa re presented, as be- so examined and corrected by the .ipea-1 » Th * y ought not to have I. wtate. reived iii ti;.»t form. Irom n i e- • . . * , ■ , i *t«vi;ii ii.fsv iuiin, M'lfijfinr!, Air. I«. said* ker, it tlunilJ not, n» the opinion ot nn\ , t V as either .1 territory or a state. 1 f uh« he a member, be correct, it was competent J state, >h" i* u state known to the vowstituti- for any member to move to atn-snd it, an.l un of the United States. Sin- is not one of for tlw house, shoo! I such be its pi suro, to dire-t it to bo amended. In live present mffance, the presiding officer Yeas—Me«*rs. Abbot, Alexander, Allan, Ten. had thought proper so to correct the Areher, Md. Archer, Yu. BJil.t ic, bull,Barbour, j Journ tl, -,t tli.it it should not tie taken P,u>ly, Bloomfield,Brevard. Brawn,Bru.di,Bry- e .;), e r to affirm or deny that .Missouri was an, ii.irton, Burnell, liulkr, !.* j. ( .tnit*»:., . .t . 1 .• , . ...i • 1 Cobb, Cocke, Crnwi'on' CrmvctT, Culpepper, ' th-.t being a question Oil which Cuthbect, Bdn’nrfl*, N. C. Eu«tit v rislmr. Floytl, | tho hvwas greaily Uivided itl oj»m- Foot, (iari»»*.!f, CJorham, flacklry, Hali, N. C. | icu I la.'rJi(i. Hill* Honk's htcksoii, Johnson, Jonr old origin il thirteen a.aies. Man sin* *’v«*r i’ui’civimI into th** federal fau.dy a statr? Sii> has not. Docs sou asa mif. the cliarnctcr of a slate without bein^ so le- ceivrd ? Does she tell yo«i, we were once a territory, hut we hate thrown oft* our ter ritorial diameter atSiirnd (hat of a state, witii'Mit your auUifrity ? if this* doctrine ia to h toh i it* (1, <*aid *'i.*. 11. away with your forim of t«*rnto?i:d government at once.— Jones Term. Little, Livermore, Lnwnrlen, McCoy, McCreary, Mu Lane, Del. McLean, Ky Mci<s t Mercee, Metcatf, T. fv. .Moore, Ne..ile, N(*!son» Ya. Newton. I'arker, \ a. Pinckney, Ramlolfili, itankiri, hiiea, ftubvrtsoii. Sawyer, Settle, Shaw, Simpkui*, Sloan, Smith, N J Smith, Md. A. Smyth, Va Smi:h, N.C. 8*c’ven«, Terrell,Trimble,Tucker, Va. Wulker, Williams, Va. William*, N. C.—7<S. Nays—-Manrs. Adams, Allen, Ma«s. Allen, N. Y. Anderiou, Reecticr* Bo Jen, Baihun, but ler, N. II. Campbell, On v*tt, Clark, Cook, Crffts, Cushman, l>anr, Darlington, Dennison, lie wirhed the Juur- I bicluvn< Kddv, Ldwards, Con. Lev, Fuller. ‘ Orov, N. Y. Geo* , Penn. Cnyon, Hall, N. Hull, Del. Hemphill, Hendricks, Herrirk, Ili!?- sham, Hobart, lioMetter, KemUil, Kinsley, Ln- tliro|», Lincoln, Macluy, McCullotirli, Madn y, Mart bam!, Monell. it. .Moore, S. Moure. Aim- ton, Moseley, Murray, Nelson, M>ws. Parker, Mass. Patter f*n, PhiLon,Pitcher, Plainer, Hi; ii, Kichard«* Ricniooad, Ko^er?*, liou, Hum, Scr- reont, Sil-bee. So iilmrd, Rtorrs, Street, St.-onp, Vt. SHrontr, N. V. Tfoinlin'on, Tracy, Ddree, I’plmm, Yu.1 Iteasselurr, Wallace, Warfield; W eiidovcr. V^ hiiuian, \\ ootJ—-*o. The Y e.ts nnd N’nys br.in» p^ual in number, the Speaker declared bis vote with the N.i\s. No Mr. Cobb's motion tv ns rejec ted. On this result bein'; dec bred— Mr. Papier, of Virginia, ro-»e. The vote which h u! j<i*t been t.ikivi, lie «;ud, was, wit Vi a few exception*, of iii.it geo- t:raj*hi«; d chnrartrr whir.li h i.I marked tin? whole proceedings in regard to Mis- Mr. Tnr-tBiv requested the Clerk to L*‘yo*ir t.'riatori.'SH.,ii.iio «t o.wt. tiie ch«- . . . a I . - racier of staies. II .Misaotin l*e a Plate, «ntt state the date ot the pc.ition, in order to nllJ „ H | awf|) | (Utr . , {) H j lat taw U ,, le shew that the petition was not posterior [ a state ? It sound ovlhodoxy in to the decision of this house .against de- pul,tic-, Hat there cannot he a slate within daring the admission of Missouri into the Union, and tint therefore Missouri had not n-sumeil a name which h i I been denied to her by Congress. Air. T. ex pressed hi9 satisfaction that Air. Conk bail explained hit meaning ; having be lieved, until he had .made it, that his ob servations in regard to Missouri bail been ironically intended. Mr. T. did not by any m-ans consider the present motion a* a trap, hut a* a serious prepo sition, which gentlemen would not find * if easy to dispose of. There were mem ber* of this house vv ho believed that .Mis soni! vv.i* yet a territory. Mr. T. said he was not one ol them ; but those who did believe *0 would of course vote for the resolution. Ile was obliged, he said, to the gentleman from Virginia for Iniv- ing suggested what lie had dune in regard! Court hasoyirtin- presentment ofa jury— to tlieqini'nUflbf'tiroC'i) the proccudii: .sof a power to alt r it in manner or forin, hut the British i’ai !i urn-at during our Revo-! ’ 1 ;'- ‘ 1 sou- 'ama-. Mr. U. hiir,- required t!i« lotion and thuea nf tlm present Con/r-s*. : ' '■ 11 'I 1 ' u ‘ Journal a* it was I., fore ii Ho did remember himself maty instan I” d '. the speaker this imyrnlng. i i,. , -• i . ,1 i tie speaker pronounced that >t wi-s not ces in wlii. ti flic p'titi'iti* ut flic peo.di ■ , 1 1 t 1 nn.er to reau any Journal, as the Journal of the Hu the territorial l inits of tlie United Stales, without tiie authority of the Congress of tho United Slates. Missouri was not astute by that authority; and he was perfectly ready to vote and declare Ilia opinion that Missouri is now a territory. Mr. Rims referred to the nrt of tile last session of Congress to shew that Conges* had authorized the people of Missouri to form a state g jVernm. nl mid assume Midi name as they might think loo per. They had assumed a name accordingly, mid Mr. U.said it cool.t not he taken from them ix- ept hy law. This lloiiso, then, had given them the name, which wa* now rrfuied to them on the Journal. Nay, at this veiy scs- -ion, a joint cm.uni.tee nf the House, ap pointed to modeler the sub,eel, had r, ported r rc -ol.itiou iii La.-in;-, nit- adiuiseloi, o(the st.itc "/ Alt.*-ouri into the Union. Wttfiw peetto too Journal, Mr. R. •aid th - Speaker had n power over it aonl.igous to ih.it which of these ft ties were refused to be rect-tv ed ia I’arli uncut bccaosc th- pi tilioners did not correctly describe themselves. souri. 1 or Iff* cwn p irt, he s..id he did 11 lc remembered the letter of \V out at first consider t!ii* ijue‘lion as in-j ton was refused to he received because valving any matter ol principle; hut. it purported to come from General iVa*h- j being a new mem! t, b« foil referred to I in-tors. Had not the People of Mis* mri | Bio Journal, and In* found that, in all a right to hnp'.ize themselves by *uch from the UelegHtcs irom fanout mter- „ f rnsM ,. r i 11 |, fron , „| ,te*, they had n .amu as thev chose ? Mr. T. ,,iJhe I In. ute ,mi i, ixc. all orivlnch.| 1)ccn Mated to he from it. "s ; and lh.it j re K reted that the chair should have tho’t PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. huuse of REPi:r.sE.\T.rnrEi Fripav, Nor. 12. The Journal of the preceding day was read, which is, according to the Rule, of the House, the first business on the o- peniug ef each day’s sitting. The tirri entry in the Journal of yes terday was read in the following word#: Mr. I.oti'ndes presented three memori als of the Senate and Hou-e of Repre sentatives of Missouri,on* praying tiy.it the nu:*-hi,<frs of fuhlic lands may he permitted to app.ly 1he payments already Qiadc to lucli of their entrits as the said without investigating the merit* ot’th* . pretensions of tho respective ineinutial-1 voilorl as l i-t«, ha I been announced in the J jur.ial I, ,, ;^| iu their own Imguugc. We pay that) respect to petitioners, (aid Mr. B. that we designate them ns they chose to de signate Iliem-elves. The unnuuci ition on the Journal oftlieir designation*, was, properly, amoie recital of .what they chose to call themselves, ll'j^he princi ple were now to be introduiy-d, t’aat very person or association were to be held to prove that they are wh.it they profess to he, it would in volve the lion ie in endle-- difficulties.— He was therefore in favor of the amea,,- rnent proposed hy Jlr. Cobb. Mr. Randolph, after a preliniir.ary remark or two, not distinctly h* ml from the pre-sir.g of Members rour.d him, laid that he rose to introduce □ precedent ap plicable to this occa.ion, which, he trust ed, would be reteiied with all ihcre-- pect due to so high and transcendantal authority. The conduct, (aid lie, whieii Uii-d, tl.at e- « person* it they re.i'll-, memorial He dev i ffion from tiff* unit should have orcurrr instance of Mi souri, and not in any o ther. There iv Iip -.rid. something in it—he did not sav vvhat it ivu*—but ho was for consi-tenry, at all event,, in tin: rc-'ords of the Congress of tho I'nion.— lie was tiir t!ic record* nf this house speaking, in the u.vr.ls of the laiv, the Iriitti, the whole truth, and nothing hut the truth. Under this impression, a-Jtlie hoove had n fused to acknowledge Mis souri to he a stale and as she mint be a territory ifth* he not a flute, lie moved to lose.* in the Journal, he fare the ward *• Missouri" th* words " the territory of.” Air. Dsush objected to this amend ment, for reasons which he assigned at length. He was-I -pinion that Missouri was, constitutionally and politically, a slate, and not a territory. Rut, as it was the custom of tin, government to give to m torritori.il j Journal. The subject, in itself not very w no reason why n; important, had been mule so hy the a?- nilormity of practice j terniion of the Journal, which alteration d iu this particular j it seemed had been undo hy the Speak er. It appeared to betray tin unreasona ble jealousy oa tiffs subject, to say tin- least o! it. Ile begged the Speaker’s pardon, ! u said—he ff;J not tn" 11 to s iy that lie frit this jealousy ; tssit, in the coarse which he h ,d taken, there was an overweening e .'ition—an appearance ol i jealousy which ought not to have been betrayed towards this lh nple. Mr. T. said he trusted gentlemen would not I’eci much difficulty in voting nn this euesti.Ti. i \\ c t.iul, s,ud lie, that the quettiou jus| taken, sm ill as it was, lias drawn a fine Across the I'nifeJ State*. 1,-t the Jogr- n-d st.ir.d as it ought to do. Do not tell tli- I’eople of .Missouri we are sojaalous of you, we are fearful of your thruting yAurself into the Union, nnd partaking at the tarred hoary and dimkiag of tho cup of wiq*f. not,ay to them, vacate Jo is,-, hat that which had been cor- rerti-'l by it, presiding otliecr. A.ftn a few further rein ok*, tn tiie same t'licet as the preci-diag, Mr. Ilhva took hi, s-.'it. •Mr. Tr. ( HER sai.l hi? had voted a^aiosi themiitioii to iot4*drt the word “State” tz he should vote agninnl th ii; bumum lit* ronsi- d<*r»’d ii not ai|iisrinle or pn»p«*rlo decide ii»- ui«lt* 11any a main Question, and one wliieli vv«s mucii fon'C'tnij. Tu avoid afftirdinjj a ^»ne umlormity oi practice |>rc - J it sett‘under the n • c^sifv ol ailerinpj tin* P r, eud»*nt, lor precedents had l>e»*n already *| ,, «:ud horn tbe Journal, ho thought it |>ro per to le.’iv,! th- Journal in its present shape, n .Lier JiT.nni.iy; nor denying any things He Niiould, Itteiefore, vote n^iinat the «* niendment now under consideration, as he- h.id against tint firit proposed. Mr. Lowndes rrnr, in ronsequenre of a sugic-tion from Mr. Knss, to say, that, ivhri lie yesterday presented these uiem". ials, he J s i n tie staled, in midilile vv ords, that tiie; were from Ihe State of Missouri, lie ill*, out mean tn enter into this question—but, he * i d, io the anxiety to escape one difficulty, tin: object of one of the memorials at hast was presented on the Journal differently from vs hit that olijeet was. It w*s necessa ry that the object of each petition should tu stated on the Journal of the day on which it was presented. By the erasure ofthe word* “ u ithin Oit State” twice where it ought Ii have occurred on the Journal,the objects o. thu memorialists were perverted. Buth- did not mi an toenler^feft the discussion. Itav iug otily risen tflfeu^ie fact which o. ciir#d yesterday. ■ Mr. Archer, of Virginia, said, lb« hou*' had decided one half of the question re peeling Alfcejouri, They had decided wb-j