Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1847-02-25

ave sorno business TO ransact 10 rit intend 10 ate'
4 hus ness f,f string If aHsira-oas.
Mr. CALHOUN. Tie Seastf sats tie cannot iaAe
NJ asiraciiors The constitution IS an abstraction
PropTeiy abstraction Al lie great fa'fs u Iii are
ssiractons The Declaration of lad pendenee was maze
abstraction; and when hear msn declare ina h
Is against abstract Truth ma ease Il hrs klna am pr
pared 10 know y hat h course viii be! certainty sup
pssd that the Senator from sslur the rerresc taiise
Of slaveholdng State would haYr supported thc-e ies
lutons. moved them IN god tah under solemn coh
vcli5n # what was due II those ham present and
due the whole South and the whole MON
have lililc desire any Senator To usirucl pubic
business. All want Is dccson, and decision teire
the threr million bill is decided. Il the senator from MS
ur wants u mon w morning, very we'll / he resoa-
ton can be taken up on Monday.
Mr. BENTON. | vii pursue my own course when
the llnia comes I know what distractions. and
what not. know what business and nhat IS not
ir going with the business Of the Session; and
say. shall Mt vote f9r distractions years ahead 10 The
/ exclusion Of business. He says he calculated on my
course He is mis- aiken. lie knows very well, from
my whole in public life, that never would leave
public business to take up febrands to set the world on
fire.
Mr. CALHOUN. The senator does moi al all comPre-
bend me-
Nh BENTON. an Fl m the right place. am
on the side Of my country and the Union
he resolutions were then ordered 10 te printed.
MI ARCllfH suggested that Monday be the DAY
named ior The Consideration Of the Res luuuns.
Mr.. Calhoun said he had no objection Ills only wish
wac that the Resolutions should he voted upon before the
tl'.ee million bill The Resolutions were Then ordered
to be printed and tho.subcc passed from the Senate
The manner of this little dial quo between Mossfs
Ben.on and Calhoun much impressive than the
oriiscf l. earnest and solemn the part Of
the Senator from South Carolina and quite conenpuous
upon the othersde
THE NAVY BILL
was next considered upon the motion Of Mr.. HUNT
INGION of Conn.
New amendments WIRE proposed and one for the en-
Payment Of fne snip by nah Brown. rha same person
who made the experiments IN lSi III Balt'more) This
Bill was passed and TIE THREE MILLION BILL.
taken Up.
Mr. HOUSTON made very long speech flstn ref
en- TO the liberty ofthe Press and then upon questions
growing out Of the annexation OF Teas and the with
McNic5.
Mr. Calhoun's views were opposed and the Inc marted
out in his speech e last week
Mt CALHOUN thought, in regard to the war if we
had Stood upon the defcnsye-toob ,Nis as We found
IcXas-and made no move upon side OF the Neuces
or the ether we should have avoided He appealed
10 the , nator from Texas whether Texas had at
tempted to the Rio Grande with any considerable
force.
Mr.. HOUSTON stated that oneo they bad done so
with 600 men, aud once with 20 men.
Nj CALICO SAID that n,yer with 1000 men
had Texas been able the RIO Grande and
had she been able TO make good her claim by invading
force TO the line Of the Rio Grande.
Some controversy Ok place relative to the commnn-
cation recently published ~ Mr. Marks, late Consul IN
Mexico, IS 10 the correspondence between Arisla and
General Iaylo the end d which vas general misan
drrstandlng
Mr. SIMMONS took the floor aud will continue the
debate o-Inorrow.
Mr. DIN urged the Senate to take up the House Bill
for the relief OF tie heirs Of Daniel ID. Ioupkns. If
The Bill passed and the Senate went into Exoeu
i've session.
Hot Sc OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House adopted Resolution. moved last evening
n take the Territorial Bill tnpon which the River and
ilarbar hill as an amendment is moyod) from the Com
nltee Of the Whole in thirty minutes after the question
shall have again been taken up in COMMITTEE.
MI McC LER\AND Of H. presented a memorial
from hcJackson Monument ASS ciaon asking Congress
10 give the Ass catlon four ss taken Gy Gen
jackson al Pensacola for the purpose Of contributing
the erection OF Bronze Statue 10 be erected To General
Jackson. A letter read from the Ordnance Depart
ment stating that these useful for NAL
purposes. or OF any value To the government.
The House then ad, pied a Resolution granting the
prayer OF the memoallss, By the large vJte OF , To