The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-02-02
WAsnrEdrov, Jan %,

WAsHtEGroN, Jan %,
SENATE.-Mr. Dix presented resolutions
Of instructions from New York Legislature
f%avoring the prohibition Of slavery in the new
Territories and restoring the Texas bounda-
ry.[?l
Motions were made 10 lay the resolutions
on the table and TO print them.
Mr., Rusk moved the reference to the Jude
larry Committee.
Mr.. Yulee said that he considered them in
solent.
Mr. Dickinson remarked that he desired 10
give the subject fair hearing.
Mr.. Foote opposed the reference.
Mr.. Dix r%ejoined.
Mr.. Niles Intercepted Mr., Yulee, and said
that he believed there was a plan on foot to dis
solve the Union.
Mr.. King said he did not think the present
a fl occasion TO array pasties upon this sub
icct.
Messrs. Butler and Berrien had similar
views.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis said that he could not
treat the paper respectfully as its incendiary
and revolutionary doctrines forbid their circu
lation. He pronounced it tissue of false
hoods.
Mr.. Foote said that when the time should
come he would defend the Southern institu-
lions at all hazards.
Some further debate was had, when the mo-
ton to print was carried and the Senate adj
ourned.
On ROMANCE READING lis it possible, says
Tissot, that Of all the causes which have in
iured the health Of women, the principal has
been the prodigious multiplication OIL romances.
From the cradle to the most advanced age,
they read them with an eagerness which keeps
them almost without motion and without sleep.
A young girl, instead of running about and
playing, reads and perpetually reads and at
twenty becomes full Of vapors, instea of be,
ing qualified for the duties OF a good wife or
nurse. These cases, which influence the phys
zeal, equally influence the moral man. have
known petsons Of both sexes, whose c%onstitu-
lions would have been robust, weakened grad
ually by toohstrong impressions Of impassion.
ed writings. The most tender romances him
der marriages, instead Of promoting them
A woman, while her heart is warmed BY the
languor Of love does not seek a husband-a
hero must lay his laurels at her feet. The
fire Of love does not warm her heart, it only
influences her Imagination.
To THOSE WHO TAKE NO INTEREST IN PoLITns.
In a letter written in 1888, Lamartine thus
beautifully and roligiously explains his mo-
tlves Tor entering political life:
"When the divine Judge shall summon us to
appear before our conscience at the endaof our
brief journey here below, cur modesty, our
weakness, will not be an excuse for our mae.
tion' II will be Of no avail to reply, we were
nothing we could do nothing, we were but as
q grain Of sand. He will say to US. l
placed before youth your day, the two scales
ota.0eam' by which the destiny of the human
race was welghedi in the one was good and
the other evil. You were but a grain mo
doubt, but who told you that the grain of sand
would not have caused the balance TO incline
on my side! You have intelligence to see, n
conscience to decide, and yon should have
placed this grain Of sand in one or the other,
IHs LARGEST BABY YET-A race Of Giqut..
MI and Mrs. Randall, the celebrated Scotch
giant and giantess, have recently had a son
porn TO them, ut their residence near Mineral
Point, Wis. whose weight at three davs ola
was tUenty-tacO pounds. This is their first cb;ld.
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