The Columbian fountain., 1846-03-14

|. The select committee OF the Senate, IS now
sitting in the committee room on Indian Al
fairs. Mr.. J. E. Dow, was this morning sum-
moned before it as witness, but the doors
are kept most inquisitorally shut, and reporters
| refused admittance. II the conductors OF the
Times succeed in proving their allegations, II
would not be advisable, OF course, TO let such
facts go forth through the press to the people.
| A great outcry is made about purity, &c.,
when, in many cases in this world purity is a
matter ofPer centage and pro rata; but, we
are bound to believe, that those who are the
loudest in their professions OF purity, are OF
course the most pure.
Since writing the above, Mr.. Dow has been
| liberated from the committee room, and looks
very much as though the committee had judg-
ed il safest to gag instead of to manacle hira.
They cannot keep him mute, though, the days
I of star chambers and lions mouths are past,
and Senators are neither hereditary nor life Of
fcers, nor are they by their official stations
any further removed from temptations.
| Quite number Of petitions, &c. were pre-
sented, and the House toook into consideration
| bill No. 232, being the bill mentioned yester-
| day relating to the value OF certain foreign
coins, when, by consent, il was postponed TOR
the present.
A motion by Mr.. Daniels to take up the
private calendar was negatived by large ma
jority, aud motion was carried TO 60 into
Committee of the Whole on the State OF the
Union The Speaker left the Chair, which
was taken by Mr. Thomas Smith, of Indiana,
who has presided so ably during the debate
on the Harbor bill, which is now before the
committee r
Mr.. Thompson of Penn, Mr.. Wood of N.
Y, Mr.. Vinton of Ohio, Mr.. Allen Of Miss,
Mr.. Severance of Maine, Mr.. Douglass Of IL
linois, participated in the debate.
The debate was rather dry until Mr. Doug
lass speech called up considerable interest
1t extended over the Stony Mountains, and
chock up to $40 4O. Mr.. Douglass, in rela-
ton to the 6 reasonable" as he called it, de-
| sign Of settling the Oregon question, was re-
markably eloquent. He described Mr.. Polk's
| course when a member of Congress, where
he then pledged and committed himselfto $40
4U. Mr.. d. also stated that he himself, when
electloneering previous to the last Presidential
election, had argued that if Polk was elected he
would insist on the whole of Oregon to $40
4O, and that Mr.. Clay would not He had
made to the people within sight Of Mr.. Polk's
rather was cut off by the hour rule, some al
tercation took place between him and Mr.. Sed-
don, after which the committee rose and the
Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr.. Jacob Thompson endeavored to bring
up the resolution supplying reporters with
copies Of documents, but failed, when the
House adjourned. at past p. m.
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EDITORIAL CoURTEsY.-The Epoque states
that the messenger Of the London Morning
Herald, while on his way from Marseilles to
Paris, and striving to distance the courier of
the Times, with the intelligence by the latest
mail from Calcutta, was killed by fall from
his carriage, just as he was entering Roans.
With true generosity, the courier Of the Times
took the dispatches OF, his rival and carried
them on to London. More than this, the
Times people caused the dispatches TO be i'm
mediatey remitted to the office of the Herald,
thus waving all the advantages they might
have derived from the accident that befel the
courier its rival
The BRoccHERl WATER.-On Tuesday
morning, at DR.. McClintock's anatomical
rooms, Surgeon Barrabino, of the U. S. Navy,
repeated, before a number of professional gen
ltemen, the experiments with this new styptic
which attracted SO much attention lately in
New York and Baltimore. Two healthy
sheep were the subjects of the experiments,
their carotid arteries being half severed, and in
both cases the flow of blood being stopped by
the application of the water, in the course Of
from fifteen TO twenty minutes-the animals
on being released running about apparently as
sound as ever.-Paladelphia Penasyluaaian.
D- The first public meeting of Junior AS
sociation No. 2, was held at the Baptist
Church, near the Navy Yard, on the evening
of Thursday, the 18th instant. The meeting
was well attended, and ably addressed by DR..
Matchett, Messrs. Joseph Whipple, George
Savage, and James Little. We are glad TO