Litchfield enquirer., 1842-01-20

of the amendment, and for this reason alone, as they say. The yeas and nays, as given upon the final passage of the Bill, shows a singular mtnging together of parties and names. The wisest political chemist could hardly analyZe such vCte, and the strange admixture of men IS matter of amazement and amusement. Politics, you know, make strange bedfellows. Yet the Treasury Note Bill has passed and by fair means, and there fore the way in which it was done is a mat ter of but little importance. The Bill will probably become a law in all next week, in. asmuch as the Senate have never discussed the Treasury Note Bill much, and the Bills there have usually passed without much op- position.
 A new set of instructions were proposed to the Judiciary Committee today in reference to the General Bankrupt Law. The Speak CT presented memorials praying for repeal of the law, from citizens of Kentucky, and Mir. Briggs of Massachusetts, moved the commitment of these with instructions to amend the Bankrupt Law, so that all corpo- rations circulating paper as money should be included within the provisions of the Bill. An effort was twice made to lay these instruc- tions upon the Bill, but both motions failed i; the last, however, by the close vote of 1Ol to 100. The instructions were amusngly veXa. tiouS to some of the members of the Loco FOco party, for the reason that vote either way conhicted with some one ot the notions of the party. If the instructions were laid upon the table, the inference would have been that the party were opposed to including cor porations. This, therefore, was m the face of the party creed; but what was much worse, if they were not laid upon the table. the inference was that they were for repudiG- ting,-this is the fashionable word now,- nl.. fo hn Tn6i in Committee to bring in a Bill to repeal the Bankrupt Law. To instruct Committee one week to repeal and the next 10 amend. did not seem to be exactly the thing. For an hour, therefore, the scene of lodging. chang ing ot votes, moving of provisos, making ex- plantations. sc. &lc., presented Q most amus- ing byplay. The difficulty was obvious enough, and to get rid of or meet it anew an adjournment was moved. The Wings did not all understand the subject, and gave a helping hand in time of need by voting most unwisely as politicians for the adjournment.
 The Select Committee upon the Appor- tionmen,, I am told, will report in day or two in the House of Representatives in favor otion !-N. y. Express.
 WASHINGTON, Saturday, Jan. l5.
 The proceedings in the House of Repre- sentaiives today have been most disgraceful, and the members who have encouraged it deserve and will have the scorn and con. tempt Of all who regard decency in legisla- tion, or justice in action. The Loco Foco members, and some twenty Wings, have been the prominent and responsible actors. By fair means or foul, they are resolved to repeal the Bankrupt Bill, and to that end Kept the House six hours in session to-day. hG,ft fcS0 Af .fsO rp. suit is not far of:-the resolutions of instruc- ton having been adopted by Ayes ll6, Noes go. Reliance must now be laid by friends ofthis measure upon the Senate and the Pres ident.-ETpreSs.
 The House was in the greatest confusion during the whole sitling-and the yeas and and nays taken eight CT ten times
 LOSS OF TIE U. S. CORVETTE PEACOCK.
 In our last, we had the pleasure of announcing the safe arrival of the U. s. shp Peacock and schooner Flying Fish, at the Sandwich Islands, about the 18th of June. from successful cruise of exploration and survey nnI"ng the Samoan and other groups of lsl- ands. Also ;s,e departure of those vessels, few days afterwards. to join the Vincennes and Porpose on the North West Const of America. It now be- comes eur duty To annnnnce the Loss OF THE PEACOCK, in Columbia River, Oregon TerntoryJ We have however the satisfaction to state that the disaster was Nur attended ~ifh fhe loss of any hUea Nothing else was saved, except the instruments. This intelligence is contained in a letter from the North West Coast, dated in November last. and received by n nercan- tile house in this city. We have no other particulars
 N. Y. Jour. of Con.
 Torrid Murder of r uife by her hmsband.-Thc Cor o1cr on Thursday night held inquest a, the house of Mrs. Elizahe'h Tanner, N". 2l3 Wooster street, corner of Amitv lane on the body ot Mrs. Ann Ad- ans, native of England, aged 4s years. who was inhumanv murdered by her husband From the evl- dence ndduced before the Coroners inquest, it ap- peared that James Adams. the husband and murder asr n OcPunnd AnaFtmpnt9 building in Anlity lane next 10 the corner of Woes ter street, where he nd his iamly resided He was a native of England man of very incorporate hab- is, and worked for Mir Leach, the Street Inspector of the Fifteenth Wnrd-whe his wife was sober, steady and industrious woman depOsting her earn inGs in the savings bank. On Thursday evening about half after o'clock, Adams, who was in the habit of beating his wife, came home drunk and com menced abusing girl named Ann German, who was setting the supper table for the family, ny calling her odious names. throwing plate at her head and say noise from the backward. where she was, entered the house md asked her husband why he had thrown the plate? When he replied that he would serve her SO likewise and would have the lives of both of then,.-- She then told him that she would have him taken m, when he rushed upon her with the lsrge carving knife he had taken from the table, and plunged 1t four inches deep into her right breast; dra wInG out he again thrust with grent violence through her corset hoard and the of the hrens, bone until pene irared the right venvice of the heart inficng fat wound. The wounded lady screamed murder again and again, when the monster lett her and pursued Ann German with the knife. but she escaped by jumping through the rear window into the yard. and ran round into Wooster street. 10 the house Ot Mrs. Tanner. There Mrs. Adams followed, gOry with her own blood and her life rapidly ebbng away, and af- ter being seated some eight or ten minutes expired.
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 Remarkable Eacts.-The Rev. Mir Alvord stated ln his address on the evening of he 5th iDs the markabe facts, that for the tro hundred ye0ry that the first Ecclesiastical Church and Society has exist