The native American., 1838-01-06
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
[FRoM OUR REpoRTER.l
Fifth Week Of the Session.

Il !.
The New Year has commenced in sunshin,
and loveliness. Never was there such spell o
weather. The very birds seem to have come
back again, and the flowers will yet be fooled in
to general bloom. Instead of the icy blast O.
winter, we have the bland undulations of spring
breezes, tanning our cheeks, and filling our whole
systems with elasticity. tits bright opening Of
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and Heaven
preserve the bow of promise that decorates his
birth. To the Native Americans | wish peace
prosperity, and continued liberty.
Congress is dull-dull-except on Wednesday,
when the Senate was in some excitement, owing
to Mr.. CALHouN's Resolutions referred to in my
last, being in order. Mr.. MoRRIs, of Ohio, of.
fered substitutes, which would give to Congress
the power to abolish slavery in the District, and
also empower the citizens of one State to agitate
the domestic institutions of another. Mr.. CAL
MouN's first resolution was adopted as it was of
fered; but the second, after considerable discus
sion, was amended very materially.
The Senate Chamber was crowded with ladies
though to tell you the truth, it is impossible to
distinguish lady's face in the immense folds and
corners and labyrinths her bonnet. First comes
| a wreath of illy-imitated roses-then gauze
screen-then something else, not counting the
wagon-top of bonnet, and lastly, two large
wings of hair pasted or wafered to the check
and the poor fair ones can neither move to the
right nor left, least the wafer or the paste should
drop out.
| II is great pity that our beautiful countrywo-
men should so entirely abandon themselves to the
dictation of foreign mountebanks and milliners-
giving upin vile servlity their own pure delicate
and simple tastes. A lady all the way from Pa
ris, with the exploded fashions Of that frivolous
capital, sets up shop on Pennsylvania Avenue
or elsewhere in our Metropolis, and of sudder
she is made goddess-that all, young, old, in
firm and gay, setup to worship, and she dispenses
with the gravity of an oracle, the bonnet shape o
opera dancer, or the gown cut, of retired lady
Of the ton in Europe, as the beau ideal of ele
gance, refinement, and perfection.
! But | have but small right to wander abou
in this way to quarrel with the lovely natives o
our land. All that | wish to inculcate is tha
| they give up courting foreign milliners, and no
permit themselves to be courted by foreign fops
and incog noadescripts; for celebrated Eng
lishman says in his last work, " that marriages
with foreigners always turn out unfortunate.
have no personal allusion to any one, but ad
dress myself to the good sense of all who arr
concerned in the subject.
| In the Senate Bill has been reported to buil'
an Insane Hospital in the District 1t will b
a great goodsend to the afflicted here--for tn
poor creatures are now placed in common jail
with the murderers, convicts, and worse tha
all, with the prisoners for debf;" which latte
connection, in the opinion of some people, j
worse than sleeping with the Old Boy himself.
do trust that some generous heart in Congress
will move and urge through Bill to abolish thu
last iron link left to us Of the feuda times. TIL,
Mississippi contested election is before the
House.