South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-01-23

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thirty -four years; making the aggregate
cost for that period of intemperance in
one half ofthe District Of Columbia to
have been Ssas 1898 SO.
za
o. The Boston Transcript states
that the insurance Offices in that city
sustain the following losses by the fir 9 in
New York:
Tho offices In State street lose from
100000 to Sl2o.ooo The Manufactu-
rers office loses $50 900, the Franklin
| $50, 900, Merchants Si2.ooo, National
$40, 900, American no. ascertained, pro-
baby $4,000. Fireman's $4,000.
The Merrimac Manufacturing Compa-
ny, at Lowell, lose Sa5,ooo, Hamsilton
1000. Salisbury Ss5.ooo, Appleton
S5l 900, York (Maine) $4,000.
An ArrAIR.-One of those disagreed.
BILE affairs, which too often disgrace the
| National Couacis, end which ought to
be repealed by public opinion. took place
on Thursday in the Senate, between Col
BENTON, of Missouri, and the Hon. Mr..
GoLpsBoRoUsH, of Maryland. 1t was
personal in all Its parts and bearings,and
| led to the proyoeation ofthe most undis-
gused insult on the part of Col. Benton,
who applied, in the plainest terms that
his ingenuity could collect within the
| pale Of legislative decorum, the epithet
Of LIAR to MIR. GoEDsBoRouGH. The
dispute grew out OF discussion on res
olution offered by Col. BENTON, provid-
1 ing for the distribution of the surplus re-
venue, by applying it to system Of for-
LITIGATION. We shall not undertake TO
| decide who was the aggressor in this in
stance; but we will say, that the affair
was disgraceful to the parties concerned
in it and to the Senate. Col. BENTON
was Immediately called to order, and
chatting with rage left the Senate.
! 1t has been supposed that a personal
meeting might grow out OF this unpleas-
ant TRANSACTION but it gives US pleasure
TO state that such, in all probability will
not be the fact. The Hon. Mr.. COLDS
BOROUGH, though by no means deficient
in the firmness that belongs to chival.,
T rous gentleman, has right to act on his
own sense of religious and civil obliga-
ton, " lille Col BENTON is of opinion that
the practice of duelling is bad. Under
all the circumstances Of the case, We
cannot see that it is possible that the
gentlemen should run a ut at Bladens-
burg. We are happy to say that the af-
fair has been lett TO the adjudication OF
mutual friends. Wash. MIR. Jan. i6.
I ~ The bill to amend the judicial
system of the U. States (adding one to
the number of Judges Of the Supreme
Court, and altering the Judicial districts,
&c.) passed the Senate of the United
States ON the 9th inst, 81 to 1.
An act was passed at the last session Of
the British Parliament, which, while it
legalizes past marriages between a wild
over or widow and q sister or brother Of
deceased wife or husband, declares flu
ture connections of the kind to DO void.
TIE DIsTRicT BANKs.-A bill was
|, Yesterday ordered to third reading in
the House of Representatives, and will
undoubtedly pass that body, and proba-
bly, the Senate also, for extending the
Charters of all the solvent Banks of the
District Of Columbia TO the LIST day Of
October next. Their existing Charters
j run only to the 4th of March next; and
f the intervening time being obviously too
short to allow of mature consideration
of what is proper to be done in regard to
them, this partial extentlon of their Char
! tiers 10 to leave time TO the two Houses
of Congress, by their committees and o.
therwise, to act freely and understand
ingly upon the subject, whether the
Banks are, or are not, to be re-chaitered
| for further term Of years.-Nat. Int.
Jan. 10.
| u"ALPHA," we presume, is unae-
quainted with our rules, as he has not
furnished us with his name. A compli-
ance and his ''lines" will be inserted.
| "Lost in the Fog"-We observe by
a London paper of Dec. IS, that no
less than six persons were drowned on
thu 9th OF tina. month, in London, by
walking off the dock into the river
| the density Of the fog preventing them
from discovering their mistake until
too late. All Of them were persons
of respe ctabiity and sobriety. From
| this remarkable occurrence, some idea
may be formed OF a "London Fog"