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WAsHNcrON, Dec. 27-Evening. Mr. Ca!houn, moment or two before the Senate adjourned this evening, brought for ward several resolutions, preceded by a long preamble, upon the subject of Slavery-nOt merely in the District of Columbia, but slave " m all the slave-holding states of the Un- ion. The resolutions are intended as an ex- precision of Southern rights upon the slave question. You will find them in full in the papers of the city. Mir. Preston, of s. c. made few remarks after the resolution had been read, and seemed to doubt the utility of their introduction at this moment, especially when the whole subject of slavery was about to come before the Senate in an anticipated discussion upon the Vermont resolutions. have not read the resolutions, but those who heard them say they are very like their au- thor-sententious, pointed, cross and pep pery. They were ordered to be printed and laid on the table. No other business ofpub- llc importance was transacted in the Senate.
 The House adjourned at three P. M., after referring the papers, touching the Mississippi election, to the Committee on Contested Elec- tions.
 WASHINGTON Dec. 29th,
 Slavery and Abolition, Abolition and Slave ry, is still the burden of the song in the Sen- ate of the United States.-As the session ad- vances the subject becomes more and more snGrled. Already four distinct propositions are before the Senate upon this subject, pre- sented by four Senators in part representing the interest of the North, the South and the West.
 The first proposition is embodied in the resolutions ofthe Vermont Legislature, which requests the Vermont Senators and Repre- sentatives in Congress, to do all in their pow nr fo ohfoio fho Abolition of Slo %Lr, Slave Trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the Union, and to abolish all traffic in slaves in the several States of the Union. These resolutions are very strong and irritable. as you may imagine when told, that, already in debate, MT. King, of Alaba- ma, has said, that Vermont diSgraced herself by adopting such resolutions. MT. Strange, of North Carolina, no less severe, during the discussion of yesterday, said, that Vermont had degradeaherselfb by adopting them. Thus much for the first class of resolutions about to be discussed by the Senate.
 The second class of resolutions were intro- duced by MT. Calhoun-and enter into nice discussion of the relationship between the several States and the General Government, and are intended to show how far the one has power over the other. In regard to Slavery, the resolutions deny that one State, having different opinions from another upon the sub- ject of Slavery, has any right to make sys- tematic attacks upon any peculiar institution of a neighboring State. The same resolu- tions also assert, that the intermeddling of a. ny State with Slavery in the District of Co., lumbia, or the Territories, on the ground that Slavery is immoral or sinful, is direct and dangerous attack on the Institutions of the Slave-Holding States.
 Another and a third class of resolutions have been introduced into the Senate by Mir. Norvell, of Michigan. These resolutions take the broad ground that the duties of Congress being confined to certain specific matters, defined in the Federal Constitution, Congress has 10 power to legislate upon the subject of Slavery, which is not defined among the du- ties, and should, therefore, neither receive nor entertain any memorial or resolution for the prohibition of Slavery.
 The fourth class of resolutions were intro- duced this morning by MT. Morris, of Ohio They are ten or twelve in number, and con- tain strong language in favor ofthe powers of Congress to Abolish Slavery in the Territo- ries and in the District of Columbia-in favor of the right of petition-of the freedom of speech-the liberty of the press, and advo- cate many ofthe peculiar notions of the Great Abolition Party. The resolutions seem to agree that Congress has the power to grant the prayers of all memorialists for the Abo- lition of Slavery in the Territories belonging 10 the United States, but expresses no opinion as to the expediency of such measure.
 Thus you have the pith of the four subjects before the Senate. In the House, Mir. Adams, today, after calling MT. Patton's resolution, for laying Abolition memorials upon the ta- ble, odious, infamous, unconstitutional, c-c., gave notice that he should, in a day or two, bring in another resolution demanding it's re- scision. He said that although MT. Patton's resolution was so recently adopted, he had al- ready received memorial from large num- Der of citizens of Philadelphia, demanding the rescision of the resolution, he said, he should bring forward at an early day. About three Anti Slavery memorials were presented to the House to-day and laid upon the table, Forty or fifty were presented against the an- nexation of Texas to the Union. MT. Adams presented liberal share of each kind. Up. on one occasion, after the House, upon his motion, had refused to refer certain memori- als against the annexation of Texas, to se- lect committee, he introduced another bun dle, preceded by a motion that they De reter- red to the Committee for declaring acar against Merico-meaning the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which MT. Howard is Chairman. Upon another occasion he introduced a me- morial after the following manner" Sir," i" said he, addressing himself to the Speaker, "I have a memorial against that Internal Pi- racy, called the Slate Trade" 4e. Thus you see the war continues upon the subject.
 Crocket's Memory.-Among the many re- markable qualities of David Crockett was his wonderful memory, of which my friend Col. 4. whom he ran against for Congress, lately gave the following anecdote in proof "When we begun our electioneering cam