Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-06-27

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portant incidents in the day-and- flights
stirring in both Houses.
In the SENATE, vast amount Of le-
gislatiye business was transacted, be-
sides that growing out Of the confer
ences between the committee of TIE
two Houses on their disagreeiag votes
upon amendments to the appropriation
Bills, which, it IS believed, were at last
all reconciled, &c. 1t was as late as
two O'Clock yesterday morning, how
ever, before the House finally yielded
it, opposition to the Senate's amend
mentS.
Among The great number Something
like one hundred) OF House bills pass
ed by the Senate was the bill concern.
corning D1csne process in TIE District Of
Columbia, (abolishine Imprisonment
for debt)-which news will rejoice the
hearts of the friends of humanity here
and elsewhere.
The HoUsE OF REPREsENrATIvEs
was in storm of confusion and up.
roar during the whole night, without
efecting any thing whatever after the
hour of nine o'clock in the evening,
the whole time being spent III ineffectu-
al struggles between the friends and
opponents Of the Cumberland Road
appropriation bill and the District Bank
bill to obtain direct vote upon either
Of those measures. During this con-
test the yeas and nays were called
more than twenty times on questions
raised to defeat those bills, until the
House, fairly tired out, ia qurom being
present to the last, adjourned at near
" four O'Clock.
The mass of Senate bills lying on the
Speakel's table were, Of course, all cut
off, and are finally lost, unless possibly
the House may this morning make
some exceptions TO their general fate.
The SENATE, on Saturday, ordered
to lie on the table the nominations,
heretofore made by the President Of the
United States, of Edward King and
r. II. Walworth, to be Justices of the
/ Supreme Court, 70 succeed justices
Thompson and Baldwin, dec.
! The Senate also rejected (unanim@
ously) the nomination Of James S.
Green to be Secretary Of the Treasury;
The President of the United States
having then nominated George NJ.
BibJ Of Kentucky, to be Secretary Of
the Treasury, the Senate confirmed
that appointment.
'Fhe Senate also rejected the nomi-
nation Of Judge Christian 10 be Dis
trict Judge for the District of Virginia,
and confirmed the subsequent nomina@
ton of James D. Halyburton to that
Office.
| REORGANIZATION Of Alderman Towne,
to be Naval Officer, and Mr. Livings-
ton and Mr.. Palmer, to be Appraisers
-. for the port of New York, We're con-
frmed, and that A. B. Mead, to be
Appraiser, rejected.
| No nomination for Collector of the
! port Of New York was sent IN BY The
President.
! N. P, Tallmadge, of New York, was
nominated, and unanimously confirmed
| by the Senate, to be Governor of the
j Territory Of Wisconsin, at the expira-
ton Of Governor Doty's unexpired
term of four years.
Besides these, a number of nomlna-
tons of Collectors, Postmasters, &C.,
were acted upon, and some confirmed
and some rejected.-.Nat. Int.
IN Earthquake al Porto Rico.-We'
learn from tie New Orleans Courier,
that on the 10Th uIt. heavy shock of
an earthquake was felt at Porto Rico,
accompanied with slight subtelTane-
GUS noise. The shock continued for
about fAy seconds. The walls Of
nearly all the houses were more or less
split, and the churches greatly dam
aged. The towns OF Ponce and Quay
anna suffered much, and the captain of
the brig Alfonzo, which arrived at Por-
to Rico from New York two days after,
states that he felt the earthquake 200
miles from the island. The newly ap-
pointed Captain General, the Conde de
Mirasol, arrived at Porto Rico on the
23d ultimo Phil. Courier.
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Among tine rumors from Washing
ton, is one, that Mr., Rhett is spoken OF
as Minister TO Russia, and Mr.. CD
Inrersool as Minister TO Austria.
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Census Of LoaosA.-The population
Of Lowell now number p, J4o, being