Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-02-16
CONGRESS-.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Daily Expires.

gainst the annexation OF Texas, aud prayiE
for the RECESSION ofthe gag-luw Of the 2lst {
December ordering all petitions ofthe fir:
character on the table
MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
The battle is 0cer THE Mississippi; co,
tested Election decided Mississippi di;
franchised, and the State not represented
and according 10 the decision of the Hous,
cannot be represented during the presen
Congress, The House, from three TO seve
o'clock, was like Bedlam ofreigning Bed
lamites, where man might as well uttemr
TO preserve order, as among the representa-
iives of the people. A call of the House
designed to drum up recruits, and bring il
the members from all parts of the capitol anC
from all quarters of the city-begun between
three and four o'clock OF 240 members o
Congress, $50 were in the city. Horse:
and carriages, messengers and officers, wer,
sent in all directions to bring in the lost anC
scattered flock. The friends of the claim
ants, in the city, TO man, were early at then
posts, and ready 10 bring the vote to 4 trial
and to close the discussion. Not so the Ad
ministralion members. A Mr.. Fletcher oil
Vermont, the only Administration member
from the Green Mountain State, appeared in
the Hall looking like the ghost of Hamlet
father, declaring that the importance Of the
question, and nothing more, had brought
him from his sick bed. Mr.. Murray, from
Kentucky whose physician had given him
orders not to leave his room or his bed was
led in by two members, looking more like
one who had been taken from under the
earth, than living man upon its surface
Pale. detected, seemingly from his death
bed, with no power to lift his hand to his
head or to support his weight, he had been
dragged, apparently from the bural-place Of
his resurrection for the purpose of lending
himselfto the services Of his party. BY and
by came Mr. Snyder from Illinois, as was
told, with his grave clothes upon him. pale,
wan, and woe-begone, looking as though he
too had been
Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night,
And for the day, confined 10 fast in fire."
Thus the lame, the halt, the blind, the sick
of the palsy, the deaf, and the dumb were all
brought in. The doors were opened, and
after prolonged and hideous cries of "ques-
ton" and "order" and question" Mr.
Towards Resolution came up for action,
reading thus:
Resolved, That J. Prentiss, and Thorn
as G. Word are not entitled to seats in the
twenty-ilth Congress" The question came
up on the adoption OF the Resolution, clouds
and thick darkness being over the resultant
breathless silence reigned throughout the
Hall. No loud voice or even whisper
was heard among an immense crowd ofper.
sons who filed every part Of the House
The decision was announced precisely at
quarter to 5, and the vote stood One hundred
and seventeen in favor of the Resolution.
and One hundred and seventeen against it
A loud and satisfactory expression of ap-
pause went through the Hall from the
friends ofthe Administration upon the floor
of the House, and from two or three friends
of the'party and the sitting members in the
galleries of the House A moments inter.
mission followed, and the Speaker said, "The
Chair cotes IN the affirmative! The REso-
LUTON is ADOPTED !"
Mr.. Wise of Virginia, here sprung for The
floor, and caught the Speakers eye AID
dressing himself. to the Chair, he poured
forth torrent of indignant denunciation,-
not personal, however,-upon the Speaker
and the party for the votes they had given,
and the decision that had been made
Mr.. Boon, Of Indiana,-the solitary and
alone, whole.hog, swapping turtle, haIfhorse-
and half-alligator V. B. member from Indi,
ana,-followed next with boast that the
decision had been made on party grounds,
and threat to those OF his party who had
not gone the whole with him. A dozen |
members followed the collar man" The |
loud roaring Buckeye from Cincinnati, EN-.
deavored to speak first by the force OF his
lungs; with a Stentorian voice he cried. |
" Mr. Speaker" and began a speech. An. |
other earthquake rumblng cry of "qucs-
lion" question" ORDER" ORDER" fol. |
lowed--Duncan with all his noise, was not
noisey enough TO be heard and Mr. Prentiss
himself caught the eye of the Speaker, was
suffered TO proceed
" Confusion worse confounded" followed |
The remarks Of Mr.. p, and hequeston soon
came up on the resolution of Mr.. Bell. which
declared that Messrs. Claiborne and Gho.
'on were not members of the 25th Congress
This was adopted l2l TO ll3 ! 4! and all the
members, therefore, are sent home with
from the Speaker, that the seats
ire vacant
The Correspondent of the ~ Y. Jour.
Com. gives the following account of the
'ame scene.
Mr.. Wise made very excited speech up.
IN the subject of the decision OF the House,
md declared that, If he were the Governor
# Mississipp.-and he wished that be was.
.he would send back the same certificate
the House a hundred times, before he
would issue writ for a new election. He
4lso declared that were he in the position off