Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-03-23

Accompanying this aay's Gaze>te,
will be found an extra. containing he
long expected Message vi The President
OF the q States on the Panama Question.
This is an important paper and viii be
read Dy our patrons with interest In
our next, we will lay before our sub
seribers, the proceedings Oh the secret
journal of the Senate.
Eriract Of letter from Washinyton--smder date
March l5ih
The Senate has at last decided in IA
vor of the Panama Mission, by major
ty of FIVE. The vote was taken al 2
O'Clock this morning-they were in ses-
sion all night. MIR. Randolph spoke ali
day yesterday; ostensbiy ON the Bit for
suspending the Writ Of Habeas Corpus,
which passed the Senate OF the United
States in Jan. lSJ7--0s easibty, but re-
ally upon every other subject tie
gave history Of many ofour own (Va.)
laws-a History of Engiand-the dis
fress of the Roman Catholics --of the
proceedings against Senator smith OF
Ohio, Burr's supposed accompfce--des-
cription of negro hut on the road side
near Fredericksburg. in stsrt, il would
be easier TO enumeI ave the subjects Oh
which he did not deScaut, than those ne
did. No man ever saw or heard before,
"such dish of all sorts !" Among other
things, he observed, [maDy ladies beng
in lie Gallery that when lady allow
ed approaches to be made, The citadel
of her virtue was easily token"
Our reders will have seen, from yes
terday's paper, that the loag protracted
deliberations of the Senate IN the Pana-
ma mission, have been at length brought
to close, and that they have eventual
ted in an approval of the nominations.
The Injunction of secresy has been re-
moved from their proceedings; and it
will be curious TO trace the whole oi
1rhem, if that should be practicable. from
she first reception to the final disposition
of the nominations. If. as hae be- n
stated. the Committee of Foreign ReIa-
tons, made an elaborate report against
the mission. that rep ort must in fact, If
nor in form, have b II set aside and
..,ve,waIl.sd In that event the Importance
xu;li he m an fest, of such an organiza-
siop oft,e Committees OF Congress, as
80 afford a, tue Executive the ppoltu-
nitv af npea eiltlng inchoative measures
in the most Favourable hight It's upon
an analogous principle that. according
so pariiameiaa usage, the Speaker
ALWAYS endeayo,. IS to appoint maJor-
" of all Commit, a,ss raised, IN favour
of the bill or pio position referred to
them. Such, We beh eve, has been, PRIOR
20 the present session, the UNIFORM prac-
sice of both Houses ~ Congress. II
che Committee 10 the Sei ate on orelgn
Affairs had been arranged on that pnn-
ciple, ii would have made al a''ii NATIVE
INSTEAD of negative report on inc ex-
pediency of the mission; and thel'e can
be little doubt, On that suppositlon, mat
the measure would have been long 81 uce
disposed of. We hope the delay may
not ultimately deprive the country on
the benefit of the mission.
We publish to-day from the Journal
of the Senate, all that portion of the
proceedings from which the injunction
of secrecy has been removed; and our
readers, who have no doubt will be era
tilted even with this small portion Of
light. upon subject around which so
much my stery has been thrown for more
than two ,n onths past, though they may
find it difficult to conceive that SO great
a length of time should have been ne
cessariy devoted to it.--.Nat. Jour.
The following extract from the manu- /,
script memoirs of an officer; a record
said to contain vast number OF inter-
esting anecdotes of distinguished OIL
GERS and men, known TO the public for
the last twenty years, has been commu'
nicaied to the Baltimore Patriot:
DgcATuR.-C The first time | mad the
pleasure of seeing this illustrious man,
was in the West Indies, during our dit
ferences with the French Republic. lie
was then a Lieutenant on board one of
our largest frigates, whose officers bad
been selected from among the most
promising in the Navy, and we're, on The
occasion TO which | allude, generally on
the quarter deck. grouped, as is the Gus
tom, in different places. conyersing ON
the various subjects Of their professions.
Y ,,.ns ,niroducad IN manv t,f them