The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-15

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The previous question being demanded il was car
| ried yeas 81 nay Az.
Mr. GlLMER moved that the resolution as amend.
| ed be read.
II read by the Clerk.
| So the resolution as amended was adopted.
| MIR. GlDDlNGS gave notice that on tomorrow
or some subsequent day, he would amend
meat Of the 23d rule
MIR. LEVY offered tho following resolution which
was adopted;
Resoired, That the Secretary Of the Navy be re-
CURED TO report TO this House. what buildings and
/ other structures there AT the Pensacola Navy
Yard and the cost thereof what further improve
ihen's are required to complete il yard for con-
sirucuon and repair OF vessels of war; with esti-
| males the efor; what plans for the improvement Of
SAID yard have been reported 10 his Department by
engineers employed for the purpose; whether the
said navy yard is in condition TO furnish repairs
supplies to vessels Of any class requiring the
what amount OF appropriations, under their respec
i've heads, have been made in each year for the i'm
provement OF said yard since its establishment what
| number and description of vessels are employed as
| naval force in the Gulf Of Mexico and its neghbor-
| ing waters what amount OF appropriation has been
| made for the naval service in each year since the
adoption Of the Constitution.
Mr.. j. II. INGERSOLL offered the following re-
solutions, which were adopted;
Resolved, That the President be requested to cause
to be furnished 10 this House such information as
may be on file in any Of the Departments relative to
The formation OF Juncture between the Atlantic and
Pac fic oceans.
Resolved, That the Committee Of Ways and Means
be instructed to inquire into the expediency of intro
ducing bill to levy duties upon the importation Of
teas and coffee.
Mr.. JAMESON, Of Mo. gave notice that on to NOR
row, or as soon thereafter as practicable he would
ask leave TO introduce a bill to repeal so much of the
act approved the Odd day of August lsaa as requires
the second regiment Of dragons to be converted into
| regiment OF rinemen, after the 4h day of March,
lS43. Also, bill making appropriation for the
pay OF horses lost by the Missouri volunteers in the
Mr.. MCKAY moved that 10 900 copies Of the an
nuai Report Of the Secretary Of the Treasury be
| printed.
MIR. THOMPSON, of Mississippi, moved to amend
by inserting l5,00)-which was lost.
SO The OH sina motion of MIR Mckay was adopt
ed, and 900 copies of the report ordered to
be printed
MIR. STEWART, Of Pennsylvania, gave notice,
that on Tomorrow he would introduce a BILL direct.
ing the conditional transfer of the stock held by the
United States in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, to the State of Maryland, and the cities of
Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, so as to
secure the early completion of the canal to Cumber-
land"
AT this moment several gentlemen were upon the
floor, which was yielded to-
MIR. STYLES, of Georgia, who addressed the
House as follows:
MIR. SPEAKER
AT the request OF my colleagues this floor,
rise to add another shade to the gloom which already
pervades this House. Day after day have we here
been admonished from the tomb warning after
ing have for three days successfully received and
yet il hath pleased Him +" in whose hand the is
sues of life" that fourth shall not set until it
shall have furnished still another memento of the I'M
certainty Of human existence.
II is, ] perceive, time-honored custom of this
House, that the announcement of death is fol-
lowed by cessation from the duties Of life. Whe-
Their the practice " to strike our coors" at each re-
peated triumph of the fell destroyer" be designed as
emb!emalic of that day when ,he wicked shall cease
from troubling and the weary be at rest" whether
intended opportunity 10 listen 10 the solemn ad-
monition of our own frail and transory being, the
object is commendable, and the occasion, If i'm
proved, will instruct US in the value Of life, its pur
poses, lis duties, and lis destination and enable to
return again to the world the purer, the better and
the wiser from this silent and uninterrupted commu
Mon with the dead. 1t is not my purpose, nor in
deed would it be my wish, to pronounce studied
logium, or TO bestow unmerted applause upon The
subject ofhe present resolutions Eulogies upon the
departed have become but equivocal evidences Of
merit, and lndiscrminate panegyric no honor 10 the
dead and no benefit 10 the living
Col. JoHS MmLEs, born in Savannah, elected by
the citizens Of Georgia to the present Congress
died in his native city on the 18th of October last
aged about forty years.
Finding himself in carly life cast upon the world
without parents and without patrimony, Col Millen,
with energy which ever characterized him, and
which could alone supply the place Of the former
md ibe ~.
himself with farther preparation than defective
early education, TO the laborious profession of the
law. After the shortest term of preparatory study
he was admit ed TO the Bar and became at an
efficient member OF tie legal profession. lie was
soon distinguished among his associates by perscver-
ance acueness, and eoquence, and by extensive
and lucrative practice, which almost Immediately
companied his efforts abe succeeded (as il is sad) in
accommodating property abundantly sufficient 10
satisfy any reasonable man."
Like the sun Of his own native South, he was
warm and ardent in his feelings true and unwaver-
ing in his course. His errors and infrmtes il any
he had, (snd none spotless) were but the result
Of his generous nature his faults such only as
were found 10 have grown out Of virtues and his
heaviest offences TO have been grated by human i'm
projections upon the best and kiadest affections.
He was never married. The warmest and tender.
cs, ties were not severed in hisdeath. Ie left no pa
rcn's TO deplors widow to mourn, no orphans to
weep over bis unimey end, but there docs survive
him one, and one alone, Of whom il is too much 10
that in her all these dear relations were most L. n
derry and beautifully blended. lie len lone and
single sister, who to him these call in ono, and
one in all, and who, the grave closed over the
/ al .T A -
have pronounced an agonizing farewell to all her
earthly kindred, happiness and hopes "May that Be-