Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-05
MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1858.


MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1858.
In SENATE.
Mr. DORLAND presented the credentials of the Hon.
VIM K SEBASTIAN Senator elect from the State of Ar
kansas for six years from and after the 4th Of March
next; which were read
The PRESIDENT Of the Senate laid before the body
communication from the Secretary of the Navy, con-
tanning list of contracts entered into by the bureaus
Of yards and DOCKS and abstract of offers to furnish
articles which referred to the Committee Naval
Affairs.
sevenyve copies of the official Army Register for the
year 1858, for the of the members Of the Senate
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS.
The following memorials and petitions presented
and appropriately referred:
By Mr. HALE From the Pennsylvania society for
promoting the abolition of slavery and for the relief of
free negroes unlawfuy held in bondage and for imprev
ing the condition Of the African asking such mod
cation of the fugyesave law as will protect the rights
offreemen, by conforming operation the principles Of
the common law and the theory of our Government
Also, from the Grand River quarterly meeting
ference of Freewh Baptiss, of Michigan asking the i'm
that it endangers the liberty of free citizens and also
that it is unconstitutional, nasmuch it deprives the
alleged ugitves of the privileges of the writ of habeas
corpus
Both Of the above were laid on the table
By Mr.. BORLAND: Several resolutions of the Legis-
laure of Arkansas in favor of the passage of the home
an appropriation for geological survey of the State
modification Of the bountyland law in favor of the extern
sion Of the Champagnoe land district and grant Of
land TO aid in the construction of railroad from Van
Buren, to Springfield and in favor of certain mail routes
in that State.
Petitions also presented by Messrs. SHIELDS,
HALE, CASS, JONES Of Iowa. B0RLAND, and others;
and papers withdrawn by Messrs. BUTLER and GWIN.
VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.
Mr.. HUNTER submitted the following resolution, which
lara anfo rQaH IN
Resored, That committee be appointed, to join such
mitee may be appointed BY The House Of Representatives
President Vice President the United States and Of
tifying the persons elected Of their election
The following Senators appointed by the Chair
the part Of the Senate Messrs HUNTER, BRIGHT and
PEARcE.
DEATH OF MR.. BUELL..
message received from the House of Representa-
tives announcing the death Of the Hon. ALEXANDER ii.
BUELL.
Mr. SEWARD, of New York, then rose and addressed
the Senate follows:
Scarcely two weeks ago arrested the debates Of the
House Of Representatives by message announcing the
cath of Senator from Vermont To-day, when we have
yet reached the subject assigned for discussion the
House Of Representatives appeals for coincidence in
its bereavement Of delegate from New York. So fire.
quent the montons receive, teaching that al
though the legislators OF great nation, are
nevertheless also subjects Of King who is not Of this
world, and Of whose kingdom there shall be end.
New York has thirtyfour Congressional districts, &C
seventeenth Of those districts includes that part of the
valley Of the Mohawk river which in the Revolutionary
age the western border but which is the middle
region Of the State At early stage in the war Of indie
pendence Herkimer aplebeian patriot general fell in re-
polling British force from that beautiful valley, and
Montgomery ofhgher connexions gave up his life in
the attempt scale the heights Of Abraham which were
the stronghold Of the invaders The Continental Congress
decrecd monument to the memory Of Herkmer but the
decree yet remains unexccuted. New York, just
erased from the valley Of the Mohawk the political names
"a - r. - D-s4..
dividing the region counties bestowed the Of
Herkmer upon that within whose limits he had fallen
and the other the chvsrous hero Of Quebec These
countless they are after many civil changes cons-
tue the district of which the deceased ALEX
H. BUELL. the representative In the contest Of
organic principles which attended the establishment Of
the Federal Constitution the people Of that part Of New
York followed the safe lead and guidance Of Schuyler JAY
and Hamilton. But when, without change ofparty
gan1ation that contest followed by involving
the principles Of political action, that people came gene
rally to the adoption Of the bengnant and comprehensive
philosophy Of Jefferson, and they still adhere to it it
taught by himself Nowhere, not in that great
satesmAns native are his principles more
highly cherished and firmly maintained than in the
region which have mentioned and only there but
throughout the StatY Of New York We indeed break
into parties and undergo changes Of combination the
american people do every where but only religious
bodies divide and recombine each striving get
to the original and common standard Of faith
New York, so late the beginning Of the present CEN
tury had very few considerable institutions Of learning
born and reared in Fairfield in Herkmcr county, where
some settlers from Connecticut had thus early founded
academy that has since given many eminent to the
service OF the State Mr.. BURLLs father shorved,
and his sons patrimony exhausted in his education.
With mother and sisters thrown upon him for support
he engaged In the mercantile profession at home After
wards as capital and credit increased he established
from time to time branches in adjacent towns and coun-
ties Ultimately, when the gold on the Pacific ocean
was opened TO American commerce, Mr. BuELL without
giving up any Of his domestic foothods Of trade
his business into California and the unpretcndne mer.
chant Of Fairfield In New York. had also his
houses in San Francisco
Iisamost needless to say that he man Of probty
of assduty directed by keen sagacy and OF energy
gusted by exemplary moderation nevertheless had these
been his only marked qualities he would never have been
among here He cultivated all domestic and socia and
public virtues and he early, and he steadasty
famed the respect and affection of the community in
which he lived They admired his fortunes, but they still
more admired the
" All who deserved esteem he made his own,
And TO be loved himself but needed to be known"
He reached his high position, however, not in day. but
through the exercise Of activity and energy Tor
many years In 1845 he represented his fcllowcitrens
in the Legislature Of New York. and in 1850 he was nd
vanced to honors Of Representative In the Congress
of the United States He brought to the discharge o.
that high trust the faculties and virtues which had