Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-02-18

Who know hawk from a handsaw.' After 2 a.
CLOCK the question vas taken. BY yeas and nays aut
the proposition to amend was rejected, By a vote o.
~ TO H. Mr.. Edmunds then moved 10 strike ou
Tue 10Th section Of the BILL which authorizes the
Slate to subscribe FOR SO Goo. 900. 10 the Company
to be paid In insalmcuts not exece iidg 81 900 ZOO
in 1s4l. and the same each year thereafter This a.
mendmen, WAS briefly supported by the mover. and
more at length by Mr.. Wncher,-the latter gentle
man not having concluded when the House adjourn
cd, At ha'i past2. Ina conversation with Mr.. w.
alter tho adjournment, learned that il this section
be stricken out. no will vote for the bill, rs will
several others, who will vote against It il it be retan.
ed. lfsucken out, the Company will be restricted
to the 400 900, authorized to bs borrowed on the
credit OF ITS corporate funds, backed BY tho State
guarantee. Tie bill WILL however, unless the symp
toms arc deceptive pass In the shape originally re-
ported.
Last night the Democrats held a Caucus, the re-
suit Of which tho nomination. ~ tho candidate
OF that party for Senator, OF Judge John Y. Mason,
who, learn, received 30 votes, Mr.. Mcdowell 2s,
and Mr.. Rives 1.-The latter given by ths only Con-
serrdtire who attended the meeting. The Wings
have held no meetings for tho last three weeks. /
suppose they will do so, however. before the day Of
election comes The result is as difficult to fore
as ever.
hear, from Mississippi that the legislature Of
that State has elected Mr.. Henderson (Whig) to ill
the vacancy in the U. s. Senate occ a,oned by the
resignation Of Judge Trolter. and which is now e.
led by Mr.. Williams, who received the Executive
appointment, and which expires on the 4lh Of March
next. We shall probably hear, in day two,
the result OF the election, for years from and az
ter tia, day, the two Houses, after m angry alterca
ton, having fixed upon the 3oh utno for tina, pur.
pose. have strong hopes that Mr. Henderson, who
is genuine Wing, will succeed, his majority for The
vacancy having been votes.
In New ork, the outrageous attempt, successful
thus far, Of the majority in the Senate to effect an
election tins winter, for the purpose of defeating
Mr.. Tallmadec, will only cement more strongly the
union of the Wings and Conservatives in tia, State:
and j; persisted in. will render Wing triumph in
tina, State as permancr, ii has been decisive
Mr. Rivcs made another demonstration in the
Senate. on Tuesday last, against tho Adnin,stra-
tion 1t will be rccollectcd that Mr.. Crucnden re-
Gently introduced bill, in conformity with the old
Jefersonian doctrines, which were reiterated in Gen
Jacksons inaugural speech, to prevent The active
interference OF federal officers with the popular cleo
tons. This bill was violently assailed by Report
from tho Judiciary Committee, TO which i, had been
referred. in which 1t was compared, la mode Pre-
sident Jackson. to the Spanish lnquistion Mr..
Cruenden, in debate, defended his bill, and Mr.
Wall, in reply, the Report which, il seems, was HE
offspring. Mr.. Rives followed, in a severe attack
upon the Report, which seems 10 have excited some
OF his late allies not little In the course of tn.
discussion which ensued the resumption of his
seat, Mr.. Wall. who lately mitted tba, he had al
ways been Federahst, until he "dycd in the
WOOL by the Jacksonan process OF Democra max
ing, referred Of the doctrines put forth by Mr.
Rives, and sneerinely asked, E" Was this the Demo
cracy which the Senator had lately acquired !" Mr.
Rives responded, with great pungency, with re-
gard 10 his Democracy, il was not as that of
the Senator from New Jersy, which, rs he under
stood, went back only to 1872 (Mi. r. ought to
have said 1928, "whiIe his (Mr. R.) he could trace
back to 1903" The New Jersey Democrat, who
was black -cockade Federalsi, said nothing more.
Mr.. Robertson, the able Representative from this
District in Congress. at our last dates from Wash
ington, was making powerful speech in vindcation
of the rights ofthe old States IN connection with the
Public Lands. An Intelligent gentleman, who heard
a portion Of it, speaks Of effort of peculia
brilliancy and force.
The Mobile slips Of the 5h inst. bring infor,na-
ton Of the suspension ofspecie payments by the branch
of The State Bank Of Alabama, located IN that city,
1t is accounted for by the large portion of specie
drawn from it since the 9Th Of January which is said
to be over 100000. The suspension was altoge,h-
er unexpected, and came upon the Mobile citizens
like clap Of thunder. 1t is stated that the suspcn
ding Bank declined aid from the other Banks in The
city, which was freely preferred The other Banks
in Mobile continued to redeem their notes in specie
0}"Thc agent OF the Safe Bank at Alabama who
is now in Liverpool announces the shipment of one
million OF dollars in specie, which is TO 60 in equal
sums to the banks at Decatur and Huntsville.