ward of New York; to incorporate the Tompkins ration of the bill to construct the Chenango canal on the Troy and New York steamboat company, for an county bank; the Oneida county bank, at Utica; the table till a week from Monday next, as sickness act of incorporation; from the inhabitants of the and the Watervliet bank; to incorporate the Sarato south part of the city of Albany, a remonstrance ain Mr. Wescott's family necessarily called him home. ga and Fort Edward Rail-road company; to incor. gainst the bill from the Assembly authorizing the porate the Warren county Rail-road company, to After some debate the motion was carried. The bill Hudson and Mohawk Rail-road company to conmake a Rail-road from Glen's Falls to Caldwell. to amend the revised statutes relative to courts of struct a branch road. By Mr. Remer, on notice-concerning the interest justice in the city of New York was passed, and the on monies, (reduces it to 6 per cent.) conmittee of the whole again entered upon the conMr. Stillwell moved that the report of the bank committee against the Commercial Bank in New sideration of the bill to incorporate the Hudson and York, be re-referred to said committee. Mr. Ar. Erie Rail-road company. nold, who is one of that committee, said that he In the Assembly petitions were read and referred wished this would be done. Owing to his absence, for Rail-roads from Salina to Pulaski, and from Lake he had not had an opportunity to give his views on The bill to incorporate the Hudson and Erie Rail. road company was made the order of the day for Monday next. THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE passed the bill to incorporate the North American mining company; and the bill to incorporate the Smith's Beneficial Society of the city of New York. The committee took up the bill to incorporate the this matter. The applicants wore of the highest re- Erie to the Hudson, and for canals from Rochester New York Protestant Episcopal city mission Soci spectability, and he desired that their claims may be to Orleans, and from the Erie canal to Oneida Lake. ety. fully understood. Mr. Stillwill's motion prevailed. The chairmen of the several committees reported Mr. Edmonds opposed the bill on the ground that Mr. Houghton offered a resolution to give leave the following bills:-To incorporate the American he doubted the propriety of this kind of incorporato introduce a bill to incorporate the Delaware co. tions; and that an injurious precedent might be set Bank at Delhi. (This bank was reported against by Fire Insurance company; the North Western Insu- by it; these missionary operations had heretofore the bank committee.] rance company; the Good Hope Insurance compa- been conducted without incorporations. Mr. Myers opposed the resolution. We had any, all of the city of New York; the Ithaca and Mr. Sherman said, such acts were on our statute committee on this subject; they were appointed Susquehanah Rail-road company; the Renssalear and books; and he could not understand why this was with the object of expediting business, and that we opposed; business incorporations were opposed on Saratoga Rail-road company; the Mechanics Insti- the ground of their monopoly, or interference with night get their opinions on applications. The committee consisted of able men, and their judgment tute of the city of New York; the Delaware county the business of private individuals; these compelled was entitled to much consideration. He had regret. bank, with a report against it; the Saugerties man. all purchasers to come to them for articles produced ted the course taken yesterday, in relation to some ufacturing company. by the company, by driving private individuals out bank applications, and he thought it was time to of the business: but he was willing to give these apMr. Van Schaick offered a resolution postponing plicants this monopoly to improve the morals of the change it. Mr. Granger was opposed to singling out this ap- the further consideration of all bark bills, till the ignorant and destitute in that large city; because it plication from all others; every other application 2d Tuesday in March, which was lost. would not interfere with private interests. which had been reported against, had been returned to the bank committee or leave had been given to Mr. R. D. Dodge called for the final question on introduce a bill, that is, where such course had been the bill to incorporate the Seneca county bank, when the bill was lost-ayes 51, noes 26. asked for. 1 Friday, Feb. 17.—IN SENATE. Mr. McDowell, presented several petitions for a Mr. Maynard described the missionary operations of the different missionary societies of the country, and went into an argument to show, first, that these operations were better carried on without, than they Mr. Hammond spoke in favor of the resolution. could be with acts of incorporation; and second, Mr. Bishop, chairman of the bank committee, that if the legislature commenced granting these made some general remarks, at considerable length. Rail-road from Elmira to the Pennsylvania line. acts of incorporation, applictations would probably He said, that if, as it would seem, there was a dispo- The Committee of the Whole again entered upon be so numerous as to occupy the greater portion of sition for a personal conflict in relation to the course the consideration of the bill to incorporate the the time of legislation. of the bank committee, he was, for one, ready to Hudson and Erie Rail-road Company. The first section of the bill was then rejected. engage in battle, and he could assure the gentlemen February 17.-IN ASSEMBLY. IN ASSEMBLY.-A petition was presented and rethat if such contest should happen, blows would be Petitions read and referred: Remonstrance against ferred, to alter the charter of the Harlem rail road given as well as received. If the course now pro- a Rail-road from Brooklyn to Jamaica; for a Rail. Company. posed, and which was adopted yesterday, should be road from Saratoga Springs to Salem, Washington Reports, to incorporate the Buffalo and Erie rail Report in favor of the bill to incorporate the county; for a Rail.road from Utica to the Susque-road company; to incorporate the Commercial InsuSteuben County Bank. hannah river; to incorporate the Bank of Rome;rance company in the city of New Yark. further petitions for a Bank at Utica; for a RailThe committee of the whole took up the bill to inroad from New-York to Owego. corporate the White Lead Manufacturing Company. Messrs. Arnold and Reports of Committees: a bill to construct a Mr. Myers opposed the bill. Rail-road from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence. Morgan supported it. The bill was rejected. The committee of the whole resumed the consideraCommunications were received from Judgestion of the bill to incorporate the New York and AlMosely and Gardiner in relation to their fees and expenses. rail read company. The committee again entered upon the considera tion of the bill to construct the Chenango Canal, which occupied the remainder of the day. February 15-IN ASSEMBLY. adopted and continued, the bank committee had bet. ter be discharged, and a resolution passed instructing the committee to introduce a bill for every application which came before them. Mr. Van Schaick offered a Resolution inquiring Messrs. Granger and Myers made some frrther into the expediency of granting a bounty for the remarks, when Mr. Granger stated, that at the re- cultivation of the Mulberry tree and for the manu quest of the friends of the proposed bank, he would facture of Silk. move so to amend the resolution, as merely to di. rect that the subject should be re-referred to the bank committee. This amendment was adopted, and the resolution then passed. The bills to incorporate the Leather manufactur. er's bank, New York, and the Westchester county bank at Peekskill, were read a third time and laid on the table, as the house was thin. Mr. Curtiss moved to refer all Bank bills to a Select Committee of seven to conform them to the bill incorporating the Little Falls Bank. Mr. Granger and Mr. Maxwell opposed the reso. lution, and it was laid on the table. bany Mr. Granger renewed his proposition to define and fix the location of the Branches of this Read, which was adopted. Mr. Butler offered an amendment confining the road to the limits of this state, which was lost. Mr. Andrews was opposed to giving the Company three years time to speculate upon their Stock before the construction of the Road is commenced. He tho't the time too long for a bubble to be blown about the State, to light, at last, upon the head of some honest men who have exchanged their substance for sha Bills read a third time and passed to incorporate To incorporate the Herkimer County Bank-laid The committee of the whole took up the bill to incorporate the Herkimer county bank at Little on the table. Falls. Mr. Genet gave notice of a motion to suspend a Mr. Howell proposed an amendment which worked a forfeiture of the charter if the whole Road was not completed in ten years. Mr. Stillwell opposed this amendment with a great deal of spirit. Mr. Dygert moved so to amend it that the bank Rule for the purpose of re-considering the vote of spirit. He meant to hold Corporations to their conMr. Granger supported the amendment with equal should be located at Herkimer village. After some yesterday respecting the Seneca County Bank. debate this motion was lost. tract. They ask for a charter from New York to The bill to increase the Capital stock of the Mo-Albany; and he intended to make them construct the Before the bill was gone through with, the com- hawk and Hudson Rail-road Company, and to con whole or none of the Road. mittee rose, and the House adjourned. February 15-IN SENATE. Reports. To incorporate the Commercial Bank of the city of New-York. To incorporate the Washington County Insur ance Company. For the New-York Fire Insurance Company. The House in committee renewed the consideration of the Herkimer county bank, which was gone through with and adopted. struct a Branch, was read a third time and passed. Mr. Stilwell said there was no intention of aban Mr. Granger wanted the line of the proposed subject was agitated, and now he was entirely satisRail-road to be defined. He was opposed to giving fied, that the Counties of Columbia and Dutchess the commissioners the power of floating over the were not to have the road on the west side of the whole eastern territory of the state. mountain. If this was to be the course, he was oppoMr. Stillwell wanted the power of selecting such posed to the bill. route as they please to be given to this company.The debate continued with much animation till The committee of the whole renewed the consid. Strong inducements must be held out to secure the the hour of adj urament. Messrs. Stillwell and King eration of the bill to construet a branch Rail-road completion of this Road. opposed the amendment, and Messrs. Howell, Gran. through State street to the Albany bason. The amendment of Mr. Howell was adopted by a vote of 40 to 27. Adjourned. Mr. Granger expressed his decided friendship forer and Bishop supported it. Mr. Granger offered an amendment conforming the bill, but he was utterly opposed to the loose and this bill to the provisions of the act which authoriundefined character of the section. If it passed the ses the state to take possession of the road at the directors of the company would become a company end of fourteen years. of speculators in villago lots. The amendment was adopted, and the whole bill gone through with, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. The committee rose and reported. IN SENATE Monday, Feb. 20. On motion of Mr. Birdsell the committee on Banks and Insurance companies was discharged from the further consideration of the petition of the inhabitants of Chatauque county for a bank at Dunkirk, and the petitioners had leave to withdraw their petition. county bank, was agreed to, and ordered to a third The bill to increase the capital stock of the Jefferson Saturday, Feb. 18-IN SENATE. Mr. Allen opposed the bill on the ground of its inter-nate adjourned. fering with individual enterprize. different from this.-Sir, said Mr. S., two thirds of The committee again entered upon the considera- Mr. Allen in the chair, the committee took up were produced in the most glorious periods of the tion of the bill to incorporate the Westchester steam- the bill to incorporate the Ithaca and Geneva Rail arts, and never ceased to be copied and imitated till, boat company. road Company, but rose and reported, and the Se. with the commencement of the lower empire, barba. rism overspread the land. IN ASSEMBLY. Mr. M'Dowald supported the bill, it was not a moMr. Bouillon, in order to attain his extraordinary Petitions read and referred :—Of the Chamber of object, has made use of the process of etching; but nopoly, it was a county measure, and the county took Commerce for a repeal of some part of the pilot and what has astonished and delighted both artists and an interest in it. Steamboat companies had been here harbor laws, for a Rail-road from Salina to Palaski; amateurs, is, that this ingenious and expeditious protofore incorporated. Mr. Sherman opposed the bill; the object of this salaer Institute; for a Rail-road from Owego to the draftsman are preserved, but which is also atof Stephen Van Renssalaer to incorporate the Rens-cess, in which the intention and purity of touch ot bill was to break down an individual, and although New York; for a Rail-road from Lake Erie to New tended with a harshness rendering it less pleasing to steamboat companies had been incorporated, they were York; against the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail-road. the eye than engravings, has received, under the deyour acts of incorporation are infringements of indi Reports: To incorporate the Bowery Fire Insu-licate hand of this skilful artist, all the effects of the vidual rights; anti-republican, and opposed to the spirance Company; to amend the charter of the New smoothest and most vigorous graver. He has, inrit and nature of our institutions; if we had done York and Haerlem Rail-road Company; for a Rail- deed, carried the illusion so far that many of our wrong it was time to retrace our steps; if possible, he road from Saratoga Springs to Schuylerville. most distinguished engravers long imagined that he was for bringing back our public policy to its original] The House, in committee of the whole, went used both methods, and could not be undeceived, till simplicity. He heard much of late of monopolie and through with and adopted the bill to construct a they saw the artist's valuable and extraordinary perjuggernauts, and he hoped that this monopoly would Rail-road from Albany to New York. formance on the copper itself, and this immediately be frowned upon. The House, in committee of the whole, had the after it had undergone the action of the aquafortis. Mr. Tallmadge replied, and advocated the bill, and bill authorizing the discharge of honest debtors upon thought the opposition to it arose from a desire to pro- their own application. tect Mr. Vanderbilt's interest, whose boat had been Mr. Crookshank ealled for the reading of some blown up and this incorporation was asked to secure petitions, to amend the act abolishing imprisonment to the public a more safe boat, and protect them from for debt. a similar disaster. The bill finally passed, and the Senate suspended of the contemplated bill. Mr. Stilwell explained the provisions and objects legislative business and the Court of Errors was opened, and on motion of the Chancellor, the court admittee rose and reported. After spending some time upon this bill, the com. journed till the first Monday of March next. The Senate then again resumed legislative business. IN ASSEMBLY. Mr. M'Keon, from the Select committee appointed on behalf of the Assembly to make arrangements for the celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the academies on Long Island. Birth day of Washington, reported the arrangements made for the occasion. Mr. Granger offered an amendment providing for the re-investment of the lands taken for the Road, in the persons from whom they were taken, in case the Road is not made. Mr. Hammond opposed and Mr, Van Duzer suppor ted the amendment; and it was adopted by a decisive vote. The Committee rose and reported before getting through the bill. IN SENATE-Tuesday, Feb 21. Mr. Allen reported a bill to amend the charter of the Jackson Marine Insurance Company in the city of New-York. LEMOT, Member of the Institute, Department of Fine Arts. CONDITIONS OF SUBCRIPTION. This has been the process followed with regard to the first two volumos, which are throughout drawn and engraved by M. Bouillon's own hand. In the third, which it was impossible, and, indeed, needless, that he should do entirely by himself, on account of the quantity of monuments which it contains, and the inferiority of many of them in point of execution, a style of engraving was adopted, which, at first sight, seems closely to approach the method usually The House, in committee of the whole, passed the employed in etching. It however essentially differe bill for the relief of the New York Eye Infirmary. from it, inasmuch as it does not present those large The committee of the whole, went into the con- and vigorous masses, those sudden transitions of sideration of the bill relative to the distribution of black and white which are only a preparation for the the literature fund, which was reported by Mr. King more delicate operations of the graver; the line is of Queens, in accordance with a petition of some here only supported by a few shadows, by means of which the object imitated is, in a certain degree, Mr. King spoke for some time in support of the produced of itself, a method which gives to this la. Mr. Ostrander gave notice of a bill relating to the provisions of the bill. The object is to bring back bor an equally delightful character of originality. Marine Court in the city of New York. to the academies the sums which have been diverted Yet, although M. Bouillon has made use, in the less The committee of the whole resumed the considera- from them, to the Deaf and Dumb institution in imporantt objects of this volume, of the assistance of tion of the bill to incorporate the Albany and New New York.] 30me talented and intelligent artists, who constantly York Rail road Company. Mr. M'Kean said he considered that this subject worked under his immediate superintendence and ought to be investigated, and he therefore moved to direction, it is his hand which is invariably discover. rise and report. Carried. ed in all the pieces that offered the greatest difficulty, either in point of character or of execution. Nearly Notice by M. Lemot, sculptor, respecting the Museum all the busts and statues are of his own engraving; of Antiques, extracted and translated from the and there is scarcely a plate which does not bear the Journal des Beaux Arts. stamp of his masterly hand, and scarcely any kind M. Bouillon, may be considered as The completion of the Musée des Antiques, by of monument on which he has not exercised his ta an era in the lent. history of the arts. It is now about seventeen years since this chalcographic undertaking was com. menced; which is so original and extraordinary in The whole collection of the "Musée des Antiques" its character, that it does not resemble any other, comprizes five vignettes and two hundred and seventy either in its means of execution or in its results. six copperplates in folio; and is divided into three This somewhat startling project, of drawing and volumes. engraving the immense collection of ancient monu. VOL. I. Divinities (Statues, Busts, and Bas-Reliefs.) Resolved, That the Secretary of State cause to ments which an unexampled circumstance had II. Heroes, Greek and Roman Personages (Statues, be furnished, for the use of the Legislature, state. brought together into one museum, was not con- Busts, and Bas-Reliefs.) ments of the different counties of this State, ar-ceived, either by a set of speculators, or by a union III. (Engraved in a different style, and consisting ranged in the order of the respective congressional of skilful artists who might have shared the labor almost entirely of the eelebrated Borghese collecdistricts, showing the population of each county in among themselves: it was one man who imposed tion,) Divinities, Heroes, Greek and Roman Person1820, 1825, and 1830, and the population of each upon himself a task which seemed to require the ages, (Statues, Busts, Bas-Reliefs, Altars, Candecongressional district in 1825 and 1830; and show-lives of several individuals. We knew him to be labras, Seats, Rytons, Vases, Urns, Funeral Urns, ing also the rate per cent. of the annual gain or reckoned among the distinguished artists and most Cisterns, Fountains, Instruments of Sacrifice, Or. each county and of each congressional district from learned draftsmen of our school; to possess a facility naments, Sarcophagi, Cippuses, Funeral Inscrip. 1826 to 1830 inclusive." of execution equal to his science, an ardor and pa- tions, Animals, Fragments, &c.) Bills passed:-To amend the charter of the vil. tience which nothing could subdue; yet the magni- The three volumes together containing about 800 lage of Watertown, Jefferson county; to incorpo. tude of the work seemed to be so much above the monuments. rate the Smith's Beneficial Society in the city of powers of one person, that those whom their love Subscription Lists will be opened in the principal New-York. for the arts, and their desire for the advancement cities of the United States, from the time of the The committee of the whole, Mr. Lansing in the of their study, had induced to take the greatest in publishing of this Prospectus until the end of next chair, again entered upon the consideration of the terest in it, dared not even to hope that M. Bouillon July, at which time they will be closed. bill to incorporate the Rochester and Dansville Rail. could ever attain the object in which he had, as it The Proprietor pledges himself to introduce in road Company. Several amendments were adopted, was thought, somewhat too rashly engaged. America but the number of complete copies which and the bill passed. His success has justified his boldness. In the first may have been subscribed for. In the course of the bill through the committee, two volumes, which he finished about six years ago, But six hundred copies of the work have been much debate was had on the question whether com- he published above two hundred monuments, groups, printed, of which five hundred have been sold in missioners to assess damages for land taken for the statues, busts and bas-reliefs, almost all of which Europe, and it is not necessary to mention that the use of the road, should allow the full value of land were reckoned among the masterpieces of art; these, copperplates are very well preserved: 1500 good or other property, without reference to any supposed however, a new circumstance has redispersed over proofs could be struck off from them. advantages that might accrue by the construction of most of the principal cities of Europe. The third, The "Musée des Antiques" has always been sold said road; or whether such supposed advantages which he has just completed (though executed in a in Paris for 940f. ($188); but by this Subscription should be taken into the account ?-in which Messrs. less forcible manner, is not less original,) contains it is reduced in the United States to $161, if pub. Maynard, Birdsall, Tallmadge and Fuller took part. alone more than five hundred monuments, statues, lished by numbers. Those Subscribers who will take The committee finally passed the bill, leaving it to busts, bas-reliefs, cippuses, sarcophagi, altars, can the three volumes together will obtain a second di. the commissioners to exercise their own discretion delabras, vases, seats, fountains, ornaments, inscrip minution of the price, which will reduce the work in making assessment for damages, without prescrib-tions, animals, monuments, among which are also for thein (half-hound) to $138. ing to them any rule on the subject, although the several masterpieces of the highest order, and of The first Subscribers will receive immediately the decisions were made subject to the revision of the which the remainder offer, in the varied characters copies already arrived, which are but few in number. vice chancellor of the district where the road is lof their forms and execution, nearly all the kinds of The Proprietor will bind himself to deliver the re, cated. sculpture which were practised by ancient artists, mainder (on the terms expressed) in the course of Mr. Fuller offered the following resolution, which lies on the table, to wit: Mr. Maynard moved to amend the report of the and in almost all the degrees through which art the present year, 1832; but the subscribers shall be committee by inserting the principle that the com- passed down to the time of its decay. Even the equally bound to receive their respective copies. missioners should assess damages without reference most indifferent of these monuments, those which In New.York, the Register for Subscription will to supposed advantages; which, after some discus. are executed in the most barbarous style, are still in- be opened at PEABODY & Co's, 233 BROADWAY; sion, was lost by the casting vote of the President, teresting as picturesque compositions, being, for the where a copy of the work has been deposited, and and the bill was ordered to a third reading. most part, imitations of celebrated prototypes, which will bo shown to Amateurs. CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.-As this will be a uni- Owners and Captains of vessels in the harbor, are present Cashier, A. B. Hays-It is numbered 851versal jubilee, and one not likely, in all human pro-respectfully requested to hoist thier flags from sun-letter Dd-and is so well executed as to require rise to sunset. Salutes will be fired from the Navy Yard and Governor's Island, together with such caution and close inspection from those who are not other military display as the weather will permit. A Band of Music is provided for the Day and Eve. ming. bability, to recur to a single one of the many millions who will witness, and join in, it, we too shall observe it as a holiday, and therefore shall not issue a paper to-morrow. We annex the order of procession as agreed on by the Committee of the Common Council. A salute of one hundred guns will be fired from Gover nor's Island, by order of the Cominander-in-Chief of the U. S. Army. Salutes will also be fired from the Navy Yard and by the City Artillery. The oration, By order of the Committee of Arrangements. Among the interesting exhibitions for to-morrow, as will be seen, is to be in the Middle Dutch Church: we understand will be the Tent used by Washington the orator one who in the day of our trial, stood by during the War of the Revolution, which is to be the side of him whom it is intended to honor. In pitched in the Park, and occupied on this occasion the evening, the City Hall will be illuminated, and by the Members of the Cincinnati Society. the Theatres. A splendid Civic and Military Ball familiar with the Bills of that Bank. Also three dollar notes on the Chemical Bank, letter C, number 661, dated June, 1830, payable to T. J. Chew, are in circulation. They may be distinguished by the Eagle, which is darker than the true bill, and the Eagle, larger and whiter. [From the National Gazette.] MR. EDITOR-Walking up our Avenue, the other day, I discovered a roll of paper, carefully tied up with red tape, which, from its appearance, had evidently ced to open it, in order to discover its lawful owner.allen from the pocket of some great man, I was induI was, however, disappointed in that respect. Findng that it relates to weighty matters, interesting to the ation, I enolose you a copy of it, in order that through The following is a copy of a letter to S. E. BUR- he medin of your "ubiquitous" Journal it may jeach its lawful owner. A PENNSYLVANIAN. is to be given at the City Hotel; and every where, Rows, Esq. of this city : repay. Order of Procession for 22d February, 1832, being the Centennial Anniversary of the birth day GEORGE WASHINGTON. of the By order of the Committee of Arrangements, appointed by Washington, Feb. 14, 1832. [COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND.] Resolved, That the President of the United States be of Washington, to add lustre to the approaching celebration of the twenty-second of February, in New York, I have to send requested to inform this House, what is the reason the you some of the General's clothes: and as you propose to take River Mississippi always runs down towards the Gulf charge of the venerable Tent of Washington, that you may delight the Veterans of the Revolution, whom the noble liberality of Mexico, and never runs back again. of the Corporation of New York have invited to the ceremonial, inform this House, whether, according to his view of Resolved, that the Secretary of State be directed to by a sight of the revered relique of their hero, their friend, and date transportation, under your especial care, to New York. at Court in white-topped boots: and said Secretary their country's preserver, I am preparing the same for inme- the law of nations, a public Minister can be presented 'Tis the same canvass which was first pitched on the heights of be further directed to inform this House, whether Dorchester; and was, after the vicissitudes of a seven years' conflict, used as a banquetting-hall, at York Town, to entertain Grotius and Vattel had not both long noses. To leave there precisely at 11 o'clock, from the the gallant Cornwallis, a prisoner and a guest. Resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury bo front of the Hall through the North Gate to Broad-request, accompany the reliques. Philip is the nephew of Wash My old and favorite body servant, Philip Lee, will, at your directed to inform this House, how many Silk Wormse way, down Broadway, around the Bowling Green, ington's celebrated revolutionary follower, Will Lee. Philip is Caterpillars, and Grasshoppers, there were in the through Beaver street, up Broad street, to Nassau a highly intelligent, nay talented man, of gentlemanly manners, United States on the first day of January last: also, and worthy of every confidence and consideration. He will that the said Secretary be further directed to inform not be my slave much longer-he has been my friend for two- this House, how many Codfish had been taken upon and-thirty years. street, up Nassau street, to the Middle Dutch Church, ESCORT. The Tompkins Blues, commanded by Capt. Vincent, Committee of Arrangements, Doard of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermon, their Officers, Society of Cincinnati, Soldiers of the Revolution, Clergy generally, tion of '89 I pray you, my dear sir, to present me most respectfully to the Bank of Newfoundland since the Declaration of the Hon. the Corporation of New York, of which magnificent Independence, distinguishing the number of each city I have some early and interesting recollections, touching sex. the first days of our happy government and the inaugura Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to inform this House how many men were killed To the society of the Cincinnati-the most venerable association on earth, and to the oid soldiers, I say, my dear sir, and wounded at the memorable siege of Troy, and what the child of Mount Vernon ought to say, that I cannot ho how many of the latter were placed upon the Penand nor them more than by sending to them through your most kind sion List. and liberal instrumentality, the tent of Washington, and may heaven shed its choicest blessings upon the honored remnants of the revolution. Professors and Trustees of Columbia College, Professors and Trustees of the College of Judges of the United States and State Courts, I pray you, my dear sir, to accept an assurance of the esteem with which I remain your obedient servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON P. CUSTIS. Coke usually slept in his night cap or in his full bottomed wig. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be di. rected to inform this House, what was the exact tonnage of Noah's Ark and also, what was the mode of computing tonnage before the Deluge. Resolved, That the Attorney General be directed, Colonel Trumbull, who was one of the Aids of to inform this House, whether the renowned Lord Washington, has permitted his principal Battle. pieces to be used for decorating the ball-room of Resolved, That the Commissioner General of the the City Hotel on the night of the celebration. Land Office be directed to inquire into the expediBILL FOR THE APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTA- the Public Land to the West Indies, where it is unency of exporting one hundred thousand acres of TIVES..-This long discussed bill has at length been derstood there is a great want of elbow room. passed by the House of Representatives, and sent to the Senate for concurrence, at the ratio of 47,700. Foreign Ministers and Consals and Foreign Guests The Senate, as a matter of course, we presume, on bill that refers solely to the composition of the other Resolved, That the President of the Bank of the House, will acquiesce in its decision. From the Te. United States be requested to inform this House, legraph we take a table, showing the numbers to what is the capital of the Bank of Newfoundland, which this ratio will entitle each state, and the frac. and whether said capital consists in Specie or Cod. fish and that the President of said Bank be fur. ther requested to inform this House, whether, ac. Apportionment of Representatives under the fifth cording to his view of the law of nature and the census, at a ratio of 47,700. not on duty Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Trade, invited, Members of the Bar, Collector, Surveyor and Naval Officers of the Port, And such other Societies and Citizens as may wish to The Gallery of the Church will be appropriated. exclusively for the ladies. After the procession shall have taken their seats, the ceremonies will be opened by a prayer from the Rev. Dr. KUYPERS. An Ode will be sung by the Choir, under the direc tion of Mr. Earle, composed for the occasion by SAMUEL WOODWORTH. The Oration will be delivered by Major General The procession will then form and pass up Nassau street to Maiden-lane, up Maiden-lane to Broadway, up Broadway to Chatham street, and will enter the eastern gate of the Park to the City Hall. The City Hall and City Clock will be brilliantly illuminated in the evening, to commence at 7 o'clock and close at 10 o'clock. Resolved, That when returns shall be made to these resolutions, ten thousand copies of each be printed, for the benefit of the Shopkeepers and Trunk Makers at Washington. Small Pox.-A man sick with the small pox was removed from the vicinity of North Square, on Tuesday; and yesterday, a sailor was taken to Ramsford Island from the Marine Hospital, Chelsea, with the same disease. It is a curious fact, that this last man, about fifteen days since, then at work at the Quarantine Ground, stole a Goose from the steward, aided by some other workmen, and went into one of the wards of the hospital, at night, to cook it by frying, and there contracted the disease. Being unwell in the city, he availed himself of the privilege of the Marine Hospi. tal, where the disease was developed. On his way to the Island, he made a confession, touching the defunct goose.-[Boston Daily Advertiser.] Such are the general outlines of the exercises of the day-the whole to be under the direction of Brig. The steamboat John Marshall, lying at ElizabethGen. GILBERT HOPKINS, Marshal of the day, ap. River Bank. It appears to be from the same plate town, New-Jersey, lately took fire and burnt down nted by the Committee of Arrangements. of those before issued-but has the signature of the to the water's edge. POETRY. [FOR THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.] MARRIAGES. [intemperance 3, jaundice 1, measles 22, old age 4, peripneumony 9, pleurisy 1, pneumonia typhodes 2, rheumatism 2. scrofula or MARRIED-On Monday evening, 13th inst. by the Rev. Mr. King's evil 1, small pox 6, sore throat 1, spasms 3; sprue 1, still. Brientnall, Mr. J. P. Ware, of the firm of Brown & Ware, to Miss born 10. teething 1, unknown 1. Eliza Alvord, of this city. ABRAHAM D. STEPHENS. City Inspector. THE CABINET DE TOILETTE. "J'arrive plein d'une emotion qui s'accroit en en- Mr. Waller Howell, to Miss Clarissa Eliza James, daughter On Tuesday evening, the 14th inst. by the Rev. J. M. Krebs, trant dans cet asile; Julie! me voici dans ton cabi-of Mr. Samuel James, all of this city. net, me voici dans le sanctuaire de tout ce que mon On Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Rice, Mr. Aaron cœur adore. Que ce mystérieux séjour est charmant! B. Heath, to Malvina, daughter of Stephen Conover Esq. all of O Julie il est plein de toi. Je ne sais quel parfum presque insensible, plus doux que la rose et plus léger que l'iris, s'exhale ici de toutes parts." Abode of enchantment! Retreat of the dove! Asylum of innocence ! Temple of love! Mysterious realm Ot voluptuous repose, How rife breathes the air, Plus doux que la rose. Could this mirror reveal All the charms it reflected! What beauties unfolded! What blushes detected! The heart's sweet commotions! Its throbs and its throes! Plus dux que la rose. Tho' oft driven away Plus doux que la rose. How, hid in those tresses. Love watches unseen, For some charming dream, this city. John M. Nixon, of the firm of Doremus, Suydam & Nixon, to In Rushford, on the 9th inst. by the Rev. E. I. Gillet, Mr. T 8. Gillet, Merchant, of the firm of T. S. & K. Gillet, of Cuba. Allegany county, to Miss A. S. Beckwith, daughter of Mr. Ez ca Beckwith, of the former place. DEATHS. DIED--17th Inst. at 8 o'clock P. M., BENJAMIN MOORE, Esqr., of the firm of De Rham, Iselin & Moore, and son of the late William Moore, M. D., of this city, in the 41st year of his age. In perfect health yesterday morning he was engaged about noon in the business of the Custom House, when overcome by the heat of the room or incipient disease, he fell to the floor, in a state of partial insensibility-medical aid, though prompt, proved vain, and he was borne to his sorrowing home, where, after a few hours, he breathed his last. PASSENGERS: U. 8. Army; Capt. Blois, of the 52d Regt. R. A. and servant; steerage. In the packet ship Albany, from Havre Messrs. Lane and Hamersley, of New York; Destouet and Darainville, of Philadelphia; and Westermann, of England. steerage. In the ship Henri IV. from Havre :- Chas. Rataban, C. G. Dominico, Jno. Maurice, F. Martin, Thos. Anderson. In the ship Boston, from Greenock, via Charleston:- Mr Wm Quilla and son, Mr R Catter, two Miss Nelsons, and 29 in the In the brig Halcyon, from Rio Grande:-R. V. Lucey, B. H. Brow. In the ship John W. Cater, from Kingston, Jam.-Admiral J. Griffith, of HBM Navy; Rev. J. Stone; Messrs. Wilson, Giner, Gegg, Myers, Greaves and Phillips. Seldom has a greater shock been given than in the sudden death of this most amiable and estimable man. To the public, We recognize the hand as well as the initials of Mr. Moore stood prominent among the honorable and liberalHalleck, in the following lines from the New York minded merchants of our city: to his family, he was the tender son and devoted brother; and to all who partook of his intiniacy, street.. Mirror, though their beauty is obscured and nearly disposition and domestic in his habite, though his worth was front, and 63 rear, and 30 feet deep on one side... he was a kind, generous and attached friend. Retiring in his lost in the jingle caused by the ill-judged repetition most felt where it was best tried, still his gentle manners, in each stanza. If the reader does, what we were vorite wherever he was known, and left a strong and pleasing amiable temper, and modest, unassuming sense made him a fa-each 950 .. strongly tempted to de, strike out the repeated impression, even upon his most casual acquaintance. One trait words, he will find that the verses read like a dif- sincere and humble Christian. yet remains, as the greatest of consolatious;-he was an open, ferent thing altogether: * LINES TO HER WHO CAN UNDERSTAND THEM. Air-To ladies eyes around, boy!" The song that o'er me hovered In summer's hour, in summer's hour, To-day with joy has covered My winter bower, my winter bower. Blest be the lips that breathe it, As mine have been, as mine have been, When pressed, in dreams, beneath it, To hers unseen, to hers unseen. And may her heart, wherever I hope may be, its hope may be, Beat happily, though never To beat for me, to beat for me. Is she a Spirit, given One hour to earth, one hour to earth, To bring me dreams from heaven, Her place of birth, her place of birth? Or minstrel maiden, hidden Like cloistered nun, like cloistered nun, A bud, a flower, forbidden To air and sun, to air and sun? For had I power to summon With harp divine, with harp divine, The Angel, or the Woman, The last were mine, the last were mine. If earth-born Beauty's fingers Awaked the lay, awaked the lay, Around my way, around my way; With voice and eye, with voice and eye? When sleep is Ligh, when sleep is nigh? Her bosom's throne, her bosom's throne? With One alone, with One alone? Why ask? why seek a treasure, Like her I sing, like her I sing? Her name nor pain nor pleasure To me should bring, to me should bring. Love must not grieve or gladden My thoughts of snow, my thoughts of snow Nor woman soothe or sadden My path below, my path below. Before a worldlier altar I've knelt too long, I've knelt too long, And if my footsteps falter, 'Tis but in song, 'tis but in song. Nor would I break the vision Young fancies frame, young fancies frame, That lights with stars elysian, A poet's name, a poet's name; For she, whose gentle spirit Such dreams sublime, such dreams sublime, To sons of rhyme, to sons of rhyme. Whate'er his pen, whate'er his pen, Yet though unseen, ungeeing, We meet and part, we meet and part, In mind and heart, in mind and heart. And bid thy song that found me— My minstrel maid, my minstrel maid! Be winter's sunbeam round me, And summer's shade, and summer's shade. I could not gaze upon thee, And dare thy spell, and dare thy spell, And, when a happier won thee, Thus bid farewell, thus bid farewell. F. G. H. Feb. 14.-The valuable brick brewery on the south side of side, 147 feet, including an alley 4 feet 3 inches wide, in front, Cross street, 106 feet on the westerly side, 182 on the easterly $15,400 Lot on the north side of Gross street, opposite the above 3,850 Two lots on the easterly side of Wooster-st., 1st vaeant On Monday, 13th Feb. Mrs. Elizabeth McCarty, wife of TOWNSEND & DURFEE, Rope Manufactu Gen. Richard McCarty, after an illness of five weeks, in the rers, having machinery for making ropes to any required length 51st year of her age. Mrs. McCarty illustrated, and enjoyed (without splice), offer to supply full length Ropes for the inin her death, the power and preciousness of that religion which clined planes on Rail-roads at the shortest notice, and deliver she professed in her life- To her to live was Christ, and to them in the City of New-York, if requested. As to the quality die exceeding great gain." In this city, on Monday morning, the 13th instant, at the residence of her sister (Catharine Sice), after a short and severe illness, Widow Eleanor, relict of Wilhelmus Van Nuvs, of Flatlands, Long Island, in the 75th year of her age. Monday, 13th instant, Heber Hobart, only son of Wm. Hinton, aged 1 year and 3 months. On Tuesday morning, 14th inst. William W. Gilbert, Esq aged about 87 years. He died after a long and active lite, during which he was employed in many of the most honorable sit. uations in the affairs of the government of the state and of his native city. On Wednesday morning, Feb. 15th, Julia, infant daughter of Thomas A. Ronalds. This morning, February 16th, Edward, infart son of John Anthon, Esq. On Thursday morning, Feb. 16th, Cornelius I. Bogert, Esq. of Jamaica, Long Island, in the 78th year of his age. Friday evening, 17th inst. aged 4 years and 4 months, Louisa, daughter of Richard E. Mount. This morning, Feb. 17th, Sarah Louisa, daughter of Isaac O. Barker, aged 1 year, 6 months and 4 days. On Saturday morning, 18th inst, after an illness of three days, Miss Mary Lang, daughter of Jacob Lang, aged 26 years. Saturday evening, Feb. 18th,atter a lingering illness, Dr. W Hortsen, in the 634 year of his age. Dr. H. was a native of Benton upon Trent England, but for the last 30 years a resident of this State. On Sunday evening, 19th instant, Mr. Thaddeus Whitlock, agel 51 years. Monday morning, 20th inst. of consumption, Mr. Fredrick A. Mc Niele, aged 22 years, son of Edmund A. McNiele, Esq. off Cushindun, Ireland. On Monday evening, 20th inst. Mr. Robert R. McKay, in the 23th year of his age. Wednesday morning, 15th inst. at Brooklyn, John Howard, youngest son of Jacob Sweetser, aged one year and three months. At St. Andrews, Orange county, Feb. 6, Phebe Jones, the wife of Dr. H. I. Hornbeck, aged 51. Suddenly, at his residence in Henniker, N.H. on the 7th day of February inst. in the 52d year of his age, Ephraim Morrill Jr. brother of Elisha Morrill of this city. On Tuesday afternoon, at Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary R. Chan dler, wife of Joseph R. Chandler, Editor of the United States Gazette. WEEKLY REPORT OF DEATHS. NEW-YORK AMERICAN, TRI-WEEKLY. The NEW-YORK AMERICAN is now published THREE TIMES A-WEEK, in addition to the Daily and Semi-weekly, as usual. This arrangement is made to accommodate a large ing the advertisements of the day, yet are unwilling to encoun class of business-men in the country, who are desirous of see ter the expense of subscription and postage of a daily paper By this arrangement, it will easily be perceived, their wishes may be gratified, at one half the expense of a daily paper, as most of the advertisements, both of the Daily and Semi-weekly papers, will appear in the Tri-Weekly American; and the reading matter as published in the Daily paper. It will be issued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at FIVE dollars per annuni in advance,--to subscribers out of the city of New-York, and forwarded, according to their order, and or any length of time. All letters relating to the TRI-WEEKLY AMERICAN may be addressed to the Publisher and part Proprietor, D. K. MINOR, No. 35 Wall,st. N. Y. The New-York American is published DAILY at $10 per annum, and SEMI-WEEKLY, at $4 per annum, in ad vance, as heretofore, at No. 35 Wallstreet. New-York. PATENT, RAIL-ROAD, SHIP AND BOAT SPIKES. keep constantly for sale a very extensive assortment of Wrought Spikes & Nails, from 3 to 10 inches, manufactured by the subscriber's Patent Machinery, which after five years successful operation and now almost universal use in the United States (as well as England, where the subscriber obtained a Patent,) are found snperior to any ever offered in market. RAIL-ROAD COMPANIES MAY BE SUPPLIED WITH SPIKES having countersink heads suitable to the holes in the iron rails, to any amount and on short notice. Almost all tho with Spikes made at the above named factory-for which pur. Rail roads now in progress in the United States are fastened pose they are found invaluable, as their adhesion is more than double any common spikes made by the hammer. All orders directed to the Agent, Troy. N. Y., will be HENRY BURDEN, Agent. punctually attended to. Troy, N. Y., July, 1831. The City Inspector reports the death of 141 persons during the week ending on Saturday last, viz:-25 men, 20 women, 47| boys, and 49 girls-Of whom 33 were of the age of 1 year and Spikes are kept for sale, at factory prices, by I. & J. under, 17 between 1 and 2, 30 between 2 and 6, 9 between 5 and Townsend, Albany, and the principal Iron Merchants in Albany 10, 5 between 10 and 20, 13 between 20 and 30, 14 between 30 and and Troy; J. I. Brower, 222 Water street, New-York; A. M. 40, 5 between 40 and 50, 9 between 50 and 60, 3 between 60 and Jones, Philadelphia; T. Janviers, Baltimore; Degrand & 70, 7 between 70 and 80, and 3 between 80 and 90. Diseases-Smith, Boston. Apoplexy 1, asthma 1, burned or scalded 1, casualty 1, consump P.S. Rail-road Companies would do well to forward their ortion 22, convulsions 11, diarrhea 3, dropsy in the head 4, dysente-ders as early as practical, as the subscriber is desirous of exry 2, fever bilious 1, fever scarlet 10, hives or croup, inflam-tending the manufacturing so as to keep pace with the dally inmation of the bladder 1, inflammation of the bowels 3, inflam-creasing demand for his Spikes. mation of the brain 2, inflammation of the chest 4, influenza 2, POSTSCRIPT. [From the Philadelphia Gazette.] Mr. CONGRESS-Tuesday, Feb. 21. Boggs, Hill, Talmage, Bigham, Keesler, Brenneman & Co. and Clossen, are the principal sufferers on the Kis In the Senate, Mr. SMITH, from the Committee on keminetas. The loss of the first named gentleman a Finance, reported, without amendment, the bills THE GREAT FLOOD in the West, exceeds any dis lone is estimated at from 40 to 50,000 dollars. On the from the House making appropriations for the naval aster of the kind which has occurred in that quarter Conemaugh Messra, Rogers and M'Cowen were the service of the United States; for the arrearages of for seures of years. We are informed by some friends heaviest losers, Win. M'Farland, Arts & Dobbins, Hen the Navy prior to January, 1832; for the fortifica tions of the United States; and for the payment of who arrived on Saturday from Pittsburgh, and who ry & Jacob Drum, Barker & John Rover. Thousands of barrels of salt have been destroyed the revolutionary and other pensions. Mr. Smith recently passed several days in their progress along the Ohio, that the damage caused on the shores of and many of the salt establishments completely having stated the importance to the public service of that river is almost incalculable. Thirty houses and demolished. Houses, stables, salt pans, fixtures and speedily passing the above named bills, they were stores were seen floating in the course of one afternoon: tools swept off by the resistless torrent. severally read the third time and passed. barns and haystacks, on the top of which coveys of With painful feelings we record also the loss of Clay's resolution, on the subject of the tariff, having domestic fowls had resorted for safety, were continu-one human life. A man in the employ of the Messrs. been taken up, Mr. Miller, of South Carolina, adally observed passing on the waters. A portion of Drums, was endeavoring to get the horses out of dressed the Senate until a late hour, in opposition to the village of Marietta, was quite invisible; and it was the stable, which was surrounded with water. He the protective system. Before Mr. Miller had confeared the best part of the town was swept away. was drowned, and two of the horses. cluded, the Senate adjourned over to Thursday. On one occasion, the steam boat was lodged in the tops Many distressing instances occurred to families In the House of Repretentatives, Mr. Boon, of of some low trees, which the Captain and crew were compelled to fly from their habitations in order to Indiana, reported a bill to graduate the price of the obliged to cut away. The distress which will ensue escape a watery grave. Many have lost their houses public lands, which was read twice and referred to a is boyond present calculation. The following account and all their furniture. Property that could be res Committee of the whole on the state of the Union. is from a Pittsburgh paper of the 14th inst. On Friday last Pittsburgh, Allegheny town, and the cued from the raging element was carried to the It provides that after July 1st, 1832, all the public lowlands bordering the rivers were visited by the hor high ground, where the owners were shivering over lands which may have been, or may be offered for rors and devastations of the greatest flood that ever a cheerless fire in the open air waiting with intense public sale, and which remain unsold, shall be suboccurred since the erection of Fort Du Quesne by the anxiety for the subsiding of the waters. In some instances the rise was so rapid that the ject to sale by private entry, at seventy five cents per French. It would be in vain to give particulars of the loss sustained by our fellow citizens to describe the inhabitants had scarcely time enough to save them. acre; and that all lands offered for sale and reThe resolution of Mr. Ev. perilous escapes from the raging element--or the selves; one case is related of a family on the shore maining unsold for ten years, shall be subject to sale alarm that pervaded the city at the prospect of a gen- of the Kiskeminetas who had to open a passage in at fifty cents per acre. erett, of Massachusetts, on the subject of the In. eral inundation. An eye witness of the terrific scene the roof of the house, and in that way to release a idian land leased to the Second Auditor of the Treawe can but faintly portray the destruction and distress sick woman, who had been confined only two days by which it was attended. before, from her perilous situation. Many of the inhabitants of Freeport were compelled to leave their houses. The salt works above and below that place on the Allegany, we are also informed, have been very seriensly injured. MEADVILLE, Feb. 11.-Copious rains on Thursday sury, was next taken up. The question was on the motion of Mr. Wilde to refer the subject to a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, to which the memorials on the Indian Question had generally been referred. Mr. Everett, of Massachusetts, in a few remarks, explained the reasons that had induced him to offer the resolution in its On Thursday evening last in consequence of the immense rains that had fallen and the rapid thaw, the river rose to an unusual height-many houses adjacent to the rivers became untenable. During the night,many families were awakened by the flood pour ing into their dwellings,and many effected their escape at the risk of their lives. The shrieks and cries of the last, and the night preceding, again filled the streams to refer the subject to the Committee on the Public women and children could be heard throughout the to an unusual height-A heavy flow from Mill Run original shape, and concluded by modifying it so as night. On Friday the rivers rose with astonishing into the Canal, has added to the injury sustained rapidity-and deluged parts of the city with such by the late freshet. Forty or fifty rods of the canal Lands, with power to send for persons and papers. celerity that the inmates of dwellings were obliged to at the north end of the village, have been excavated fly for personal safety without stopping to save their by the force of the current to a very considerale moveables. It is impracticable to estimate the pre depth, the towing path destroyed, together with cise amount of damage; but it will not surpass the three bridges. reality to say 200 000 dollars. Several weather boarded houses were carried away or displaced-bales of Mr. Bell argued that if it were intended to go into the question of the private rights of parties, it would be unjust to throw the weight of the House into either scale, and he should therefore move that it be referred to the Committee on Indian CONGRESS.-The Senate did not sit on Saturday. Affairs, although, as a member of that committee, cotton and cotton manufactory machinery damaged In the House of Representatives, the resolution he was reluctant that it should take that course.— -lumber, dry goods, groceries, furniture, &c. destroy- from the Committee on the Public Buildings, for the Mr. Drayton intimated his opinion that the commit. ed or injured and the foundations and the super-execution by Greenough, of a marble statue of tee on the Judiciary was the proper committee.— structures of brick houses sunk and rent, to such an Washington, to be placed in the Rotunda of the Mr. Davis, of South Carolina, the Chairman of that extent that the above sum will hardly repair the Capitol, was passed by a vote of ayes 114, noes 50. committee, objected to this reference, and stated loss. Various private bills were reported and acted on, that it was a question of fraud alleged to have been The rivers roso about thirty one feet above low after which the House, went into a Committee of the committed by two individuals, and the committee on water mark-of course this flood exceeded the meni-Whole, to compensate Mrs. Decatur for the destruc the Judiciary therefore had not cognizance of it, but orable Pumpkin flood" of November 10, 1810, by tion, by the gallant Commodore Decatur, of the that it was within the provision of the committee on about two or three feet. The first flat of Allegheny frigate Philadelphia, in the harbor of Tripeli. The Public Lands, the alleged fraud being committed town was completely inundated. In this city the following ground was subinerged, viz: the whole consideration of this well known case, occupied within the public domain. Mr. Wickliffe agreed in "Point" to Union street--and generally north of Lib-the House during the residue of the sitting. The opinion with Mr. Davis, and said that if the House erty. The water ascended Wood street to the mid. bill appropriates the sum of $100,000 for this pur. wished a full statement of the facts in relation to the dle of Second-the corner of Diamond and Jail alleys, pose, and provides for its distribution among Mrs. subject, it could be fairly presented after an examina. Decatur, the widow of Commodore Preble, and the tion by that committee. Mr. Taylor made an inef.' and the corner of Market and Liberty streets. There are numbers thrown by the sudden calamity officers and crew of the United States schooner In. fectual motion for the previous question. After some on the sympathy and charity of their neighbors. Let trepid, or their legal representatives. Mr. Carson further proceedings, Mr. Wilde moved the postpone. us indulge in the noblest dictates of humanity, and addressed the committee in support of the bill, and ment of the resolution for a fortnight; but the morelieve speedily the wants of the poor and the needy. Mr. Tracy proposed an amendment to distribute the tion was, on a division by yeas and nays, negatived BLAIRSVILLE, P. Feb. 16.- The Flood.-After twice sum according to the provisions of the prize law, but by a vote of ayes 73, noes 86. Mr. Taylor renewed witnessing the breaking up of the ice, we had formed the amendment was negatived. Mr. Pearce moved his call for the previous question, and it was carried, high expectations of an early opening of canal naviga- a further amendment, that $10,000 of the $31,000, ayes 65, noes 59. Upon the previous question, tion and a prosperous season for business. Our hopes allotted in the bill to Mrs. Decatur, should be paid to which was on putting the question as to the adop. have been blasted. Three days of heavy and almost the nieces of Commodore Decatur. Upon this a long tion of Mr. Everett's resolution, Mr. Cambreleng incessant rain, swelled our waters to an unprecedented discussion ensued. Fefore any decision was arrived called for the yeas and nays, which were ordered.height-higher from eighteen inches to three feet at, however, the committee rose and reported, and Mr. Adair requested to be excused from voting, which was granted, and the main question was carried, ayes thau the disasterons flood of July last. The public the House abjourned. work we fear has sustained as much damage as on 80, noos 76. The question was then on the adoption that occasion, but the loss of private property has been The Senate spent about one hour in the consider.of the resolution, upon which, likewise, the yeas and much greater. nays were ordered on motion of Mr. Clay, of Ala. Monday, February 20. The dam and its embankments opposite this borough/ation of Executive business; after which Mr. Clay's bama. The resolution was adopted by a vote of ayes stood perfectly firm until the water rese higher than resolution was taken up, and Mr. Ewing resumed, 92, noes 77. the embankment. About 11 o'clock on the night of and concluded his remarks in its support. Mr. Mil. the 9th this was discovered to be the cass. In a few ler has the floor for this day. As doubts have been expressed at a distance as to the con In the House of Representatives, numerous peti-tinuance of the RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL, it is but justice to hours the whole of the embankment was swept away tions and memorials were presented and referred.those who are subscribers to say that its permanency is certain. -the Lock was slightly injured. The publisher is permitted to refer to the following gentlemen: WILLIAM A. DUER, Esq. President of Columbia College. JAMES RENWICK, Professor in Columbia College. ROBERT L. STEVENS, Esq. Engineer. Editors who have published the Prospectus, are request The damage done to the canal above this place we Mr. Thompson of Georgia, from the Committee on The saw-mill at this place was carried off bodily. METEREOLOGICAL TABLE.-Montreal, Feb. 11. ¡Feb. 4 7 A. M. 3P. M. 7A. M. 23 X 5 4 10 x 29,83 30,27 Fair Fair 6 4 X 20 X 30,12 30,17 Fair Fair 30,00 30,12 Fair Fair Fair 10 x 30.57 30,23 Fair Snow Fair 10 |