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honorable conduct The mild blue eyes Of Evans
lightened, as he replied, calmly Yes, cir, that
is precisely what mean TO say; and II you ever
again. while have the privilege Of sitting on this
bench, do another such disgraoeful act, and It
comes TO my knowledge, win strike your name
from the roll which it now polutes with your igno-
miny 10
The attorney gazed on the judge moment, but,
fearful of the impending bolt, did not venture
rejoinder.
Nevertheless this man Of the most undaunted
prowess though spending half life on the frontier,
and placed all the while in circumstances and stu
atoms of the greatest peril has never yet stained
the purity of his hand with single drop of human
blood. IL may be that he owes his peculiar honor
to the firm resolution which he has uniformly
maintained in refusing to recognise the barbarous
right Of the duello
/ have dwelt at such length on the judges cour-
age and GOODNESS in the presence OF danger, that
no space remains for the enumeration OF his many
other estimablc qualities; his stern integrity, which
never was called in question even by his enemies;
his singular generosity, dividing bis salary TO tho
last cent with his widowed sisters and their little
children; his frmness in political and religious
faith his fidelity in friendship, and veneration for
truth and fair dealing in all things IL may be
going too far, perhaps to assert that he possesses
every virtue under heaven" but IL would GER
tanly be difficult, before impartial jury OF Chris
tian men, to convict him of one solitary vice. He
il now a member Of Congress, where hazard the
prediction he will yet make his mark.
Judge Evans is by no means an orator, in the
usual sense of the term. He has the grandest
ideas, the most brilliant powers of imagination and
fancy, the deepest vein OF philosophic thought and
is endowed by study with varied and extensive
learning. But he wants the faculty divine of vivid
expression, the rolling thunder of quick-coming
words. He cannot shape the fire of his soul into
living forms, to dazzle the eye, move the reason,
or melt the heart In fine, he lacks the gift of Ian
guage His proper station would be in the cabi-
net, or in the tranquil closet of diplomacy rather
than in the legislative hall. But he would do bet
ter still in the field or foray, keeping step to the
music of cannon, and carving out his name on the
monumental marble of history with the hero's
sword
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MONDAY, January 4, 1866.
Petitions we're received, and referred 10 the APP
proprate committees.
Mr.. SUMNER presented petition from the
Boston Marine Society, asking that lighthouse
be erected on the southeast part of Block island.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce
Mr.. BRODHEAD called up the resolution that
the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire
whether the Senate has not the power to originate
the appropriation bills, in order that those bills
may not be left for consideration during the last
hours of the Senate He said that millions of dol
lars were often voted away at the dead hour of the
night, in passing these bills when the Senate was
completely exhausted and when scenes were
being enacted which delicscy would not allow him
to mention. The evil is occasioned by the long
time taken by the House TO originate and to con-
slider those bills and then giving to the Senate but
the last few days Of the session to consider them
To prove this the Senator read table showing
the exact time left the Senate to consider those
bills, showing that not one-tenth of the time is
left the Senate that 1t should have. To overcome
this evil, he proposed among other things to give
yearly salary to the members Of Congress, but
did not state how that would directly affect the
subject.
Mr. CLAYTON said the evil had never appeared
more enormous than Of late, and that it was
growing evil. He said that the Senate had the in
herent power to originate these bills, but that
courtesy had given it to the House. He thought
the remedy was to divide the origination Of these
bills between the Committees of the Senate and
the House.
&Mr. HUNTER expressed his decided opinion
that the Senate has the power to originate appro-
priatiOn bills, and showed that the principle was
allowed in the Senate for they were continually
passing pension bills, &C, that voted money from
the Treasury, and that II they could do this the
more important bills certainly could be originated
in the Senate.
Mr.. TO0MBS thought the evil did not lay in de-
ferripg the appropriation bills till the last Of the
session, but in the long string Of amendments tack
ed on the original bill by outside infuence--in
putting In the jobs, &c. that could net be carried
through other ways. If the Senate would refuse
to receive any amendments to the appropriation
bills within 80 days of the close of the session, the
great evil would be overcome.
Mr.. SEWARD did rot intend to commit himself
on the subject at present, but it was his opinion
thai should the Senate claim the power of orginat-
ing these bills, it would be claiming more power
than the Constitution awarded to that body, and
that, should the House Of Representatives grant
it, it would be taking from them the power of the
people through their direct represention.
Mr.. HAMLIN was speaking on the subject
when our report closed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
After the Journal was read, call of the House
was moved by Mr.. BOYCE.
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The treaty had been ratified between the Allies,
Sweden and Norway, the latter agreeing not to
cede any portion of their territory to Russia. The
former guarantee the Scandinavian kingdoms their
present boundaries, and neither will they permit
Russia to eneroach upon the north, nor seize the
important island Of Cortland. Contracts had been
made in Sweden for the French feet and accom-
panying army.
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ENGLAND,

The strike at Manchester continues.
London sugar msket dull.
Coffee active.
Rice quiet.
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IT AND WARRANTS
IL The highest rates will be paid BY
SWEENY, RITTENH0USE, FAINT 4 co.
jan 5-1w
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The trade of Paris was depressed, and the Bank
Of France was forced to increase its discount &C
commodations.
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ELECTION NOTICE.

TNHE annual meeting of the Mutual Fire
- Insurance Company Of the District Of Column
bia, will be held at The office of the Company on
Monday, January 81, nj l2 o'clock NJ, when cleo
ton will be held for seven Managers to the
suing year.
BY order OF THE PRESIDENT.
Gas. WnsoN Secretary.
jan 5-eod2w Intel&Stsr
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NEW York, Jan. 8.--The snow is Is inches
deep here. All travel is suspended. All the mails
due here are delayed by the snow storm. The
Pilot line of last night only arrived at noon to-day
from Philadelphia. Information from different
quarters is to the effect that there Is no chance for
the railroad trains getting through tonight. The
snow in many places is four feet deep.
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Efforts are making to establish the credit of th
Mobile Bank in Spaiti.
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step by step, as the lone defender Of the free ad-
vanced towards them with slow, steady, and in
voluntary pace. As the colonel gradually edged
away from the cleaning blade, he continually
cried out in his tremulous voice Of the most femi-
nine treble Stand off Ill shoot III shoot y
but vet he did not fire, or rather he could not for
in the mighty madness OF his panic he had
fixed his finger on the guard instead Of the
trigger !: and f he had been successful in dis
charging his weapon, his hand shook so strange
ly that he could not have hit any mark less
than the court house In a short time, the Judge
and sheriff. after the peril bad passed. boldly inter
fered, and the affair ended without loss Of blood
From that day the reputation of Lemuel d. Ev-
ans. as hero of the first class, was made in Ar
kansas could narrste score of anecdotes in
proof of his boundless bravery. One or two, how
ever, will be amply sufficient. Some months af-
forwards, at the village of Bentonville, party of
armed men attempted to lynch one of bis clients.
Having in the emergency no other instrument Of
defence, he opened his penkniie, and scared the
rufians away. When immense mob marched
into the town of Fayetteville to capture his friend,
accused of homicide, without the sanction OF legal
process although at the time filling the Office OF
State attorney for the district, be shouldered his
musket to fight for the law
When, number of years later, he was elected
one of the judges of general Jurisdiction in Eastern
ltAhr, taAtu htc thtfBitc W tNoiNe oIueF out
of tho existing chaos, and required the highest
courage to keep the scales Of justice free from the
bloody influence of the revolver and bowie-knife
BY the mild and timd administration Of preceding
fdnctionares, the people might almost be said to
have run wild. Selfappointed committees cxecu-
ted the criminal codes of their own creation in the
most summary manner, in public defiance of the
regular authorities; and when legal tribunals did
happen TO cit, by sufference Of the mob, things
seemed nearly as bad from the fierce rencounters
OF licensed bullics at the bar.
slluds only to particular counties But the
desperadoes very soon found in the new judge
their choice at the baIlot-box mighty master,
whom they ahould neither fee nor frighten, from
the rigid discharge OF his sworn duty. A cele-
brsted dueIlist, also an exjudge and lawyer, had
been guilty Of some sharp trick 10 practice, for
which the court rebuked him with severity. The
proud counsellor instantly took fire, and demanded
GsIssly, II. II was Intended 70 accuse him Of dis
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

Dg- The following from the Memphis
Morning Bulletin, is true to the letter.
all except that part about 'poor spawned
SAM" SAM will come out a length
ahead of the broken-down roadsters, the
" Hold fast-if-we-can-club have entered
against him. Clear the track-the riders
are up! there they go. One of them
gives "a yell of defiance and leaves his
competitor to con the way to private
life. An experienced fowler pitches into
the warren and makes the fur fly; and
another one is taught by grace to go and
sin no more and-Mr. Etter, what did
you do with our fan:
"ARKANSAs POLITICS.-We give in an
other place the Platforms of the two par
ties in Arkansas. 1t will be seen that
while that of the Democratic party is con-
fined entirely to National Politics, the
American platform is mainly made up
of matters of State Policy Contenting
themselves with simple endorsement
and ratification of the Philadelphia Hat
form and nominations, the whole of the
instrument nearly is made up of State
Affairs. 1t is mastery movement of
party strategy, and if anything can over
throw the party now in power in Arkansas,
this will. 1t gives to the candidates of
the American party the advantage of being
assailants, and puts the Democrats to the
necessity of defending their own acts,
instead of pitching into poor spawned
Sam
ave shall look with much interest to
the progress and result of this canvass
The Democratic party having so long had
absolute control in the State, there is neces-
sarily multitude of things to be cavilled
at and found fault with, which, in the hands
Of earnest and skilled debaters, will keep
their apologists and defenders busy Many
of these have been quite skillfully grouped
together in the Platform. and new measures
proposed possessing large clements of pop
ularity among the people.
"There are talented men on both sides,
and. if the discussions should turn on these
measures of State Reform and Progress
the result cannot but be beneficial to Ar
kansas. let the present or new dynasty be
put at the head of affairs"
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

rWe are authorized TO announce JAMES
K YOUNG as a candidate for Prosecuting At
.orney in the Sixth Judicial District at the ensu-
ing August election
T We are authorized to announce E. W.
CAN'T. Esq. as candidate for reelection for
Prosecuting Attorney for the 9Th Judicial Cir
cult, at the ensuing August election
U We are authorized to announce JOHN B.
SANDEFUR as candidate for reelection to the
office of Sheriff OF Hampstead county, at the cleo
ton in August next.
10 We are authorized to announce SIMON t.
SANDERS as candidate for reelection to the
Office of Clerk of Hampstead county at the ensu-
ing August election
% We are authorized to announce HUGH
A BLEVINS as a candidate tor Internal I'm
provement Commissioner of Hampstead county
at the ensuing election.
VWe are authorized to announce WILLIAM
MOSS, a candidate TO represent Hampstead
county in the next Legislature.
% We authorized to announce DAVID
BLOCK as candidate to represent Hampstead
county in the next Legislature
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11
The Assault on Sumner.

The recent chastisement of Sumner by
Mr.. Brooks, was an event of deep signif-
canoe and startling import. There seems
to be an almost universal condemnation of
the spirit which impelled Mr.. Brooks to
choose the time and place which he selected
for the inAiction on the pestilent Abolitionist
of the merited punishment of his fanatical
insolence. With a mind prodigally en-
dowcd by nature and sedulously cultivated
by art, commanding person and the gift
of eloquence, the Aboltionist Sumner. lack
ed only the will to turn from the nursing
of an insane idea, that forever preached to
his heated brain of the subversion of all
established forms, and the intervention of
human means to hasten the time to which
prophets have pointed, to have reared from
the elements of his mental power lasting
monument--''more durable than brass, -
to honor. to patriotism, to his native land
He did not choose the better, nobler part
But few years since. the acolyth of a
pestilent political heresy, which gave pom
Use of nothing save disgrace to those who
followed after its strange gods, he was but
yesterday the High Priest of a false and
dangerous faith, waving high In the temple
Of Freedom, the torch which he had swung
before his idol, not made with hands, but
fashioned by the spirit of all evil, to lure to
its worship the intolerant, the bigoted, the
knave aud the fool shouting, as the smoke
OF the hell-kindled flames of his incendiary
censer went up, mad and treacherous de-
fance to law and order and right A
spectacle upon which we verify believe the
Almighty could not look in pity. and upon
which devils must have gazed in scorn,
while they chuckled over the antics of their
apostle. If it was thus with the teacher,
with the man, it was worse. Over stepping
all bounds of propriety, heaping the con-
centrated venom of his malignant wrath
upon those from whom be could expect
notice under no other terms, he has brought
upon himself a merited retribution, which
| should teach him and all of his class, that
the hand which ruthlessly tears down the
barrier of mutual respect and forbearance
which should exist between disputants, by
the same act throws down the statue which
the genius of liberty has reared to freedom
Of speech aud converts the forum into an
arena, where insoIence and improperly can
be punished. and will be punished as ii
deserves to be. 1t may be, that for while
the disciples of this false faith may prof,
wrongly by what they term an outrage, but
the final result viii be salutary, and few
more applications of the same rule viii
teach them mock courtesy, to which they
are strangers by nature.
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

STAGE LINE TO GAINES LANDING
We underst and that the contract for carry
ing the mail from Washington to Gaines
Landing, In two horse coaches has been
awarded, by the Post Office Department, to
Mr.. j. G.. Beman, of Georgia, an enter
prising gentleman who has had considerable
experience in that line of business Mr..
b. is now making efforts to stock the road
and will no doubt be able to commence
running his coaches by the first day of j July,
according to contract.
Camden Herald, 18th INST
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

whether self-constituted or divinely ap-
pointed, of the Romish institution n,-leav-
ing it to the people to say that neither
because of the commands of the hler-
archy, nor in obedience to the false teach
ings of those who bow down to its influen-
ces for the sake of power, will they consent
to traffic away their liberties to combl-
nation which would make every human
being on earth slave, body and soul, to
the will of the despot, who would govern
all Who, that knows the willy character
of the foe against whom we war, but
knows that every word is weighed in the
scale of reason, and that no step is ever
taken until the security of the footing
which they seek to gain is foregone con-
clusion with them? And having, by ev-
cry recognized expounder of the ends at
which they aim, declared as we have
shown above-the master voice of all
cries out, ave must Catholicize Ameri-
car Aye! Catholicize America, and then
take away all the rights which Protestant
ism possesses-all the liberties which
American freemen enjoy We appeal to
every man to know whether such is not
the inevitable tendency of the supremacy
of this institution whether, in view of
these openly declared intentions, it is not
the duty of the American people to de-
clare, by the quiet and effective exercise
of their inalienable right of suffrage, that
no temporary success, no matter how
highly priced, should be purchased at
the price of tacit recognition of the
Justice of these insolent claims of a foreign
despotism2 -s--
We leave these questions with you for
the present. You will be called upon to
decide them sooner or later Examine
for yourselves and say whether there is
not danger to Republican institutions In
the unchecked growth of foreign infu-
ence, the abuse of the elective franchise,
and the failure to rebuke the Vaccinations
of the self-declared enemies to our civil
and religious liberties, concerning which
high Romish authority has but recently
spoken thus =
s'You ask if he (the Pope) was lord in
the land, and you were in the minority, if
not in numbers, Yet in power, what would
he do to you2 That, we say, would de-
pend on circumstances. If it would ben
eft the cause of Catholicism, he would
tolerate you, if expedient he would i'm
prison you, Danish you, fine you, and pos
sibly he might even hang you-but, be
assured of one thing, he would never toll
crate YOU for the sake of the glorious
principles" Of civil and religious liber-
ty-"
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11
MEMPHIS, Ell P6so AND Pacific RA

MEMPHIS, Ell P6so AND PACIFIC RAIL
Road CoMPANY.-We learn from the
Clarksville Messenger, of the 9th inst, that
the President and Directors of this COM
pany will meet the citizens of Bowie and
Red River counties at divers specified places
from the 18th to the 24th inst, inclusive.
The proper spiri: seems to be fully aroused,
and it is greatly to be hoped that every man
who can contribute any thing to this grea,
work will rally at once to the call
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

10 Col FULLER of the u S. corps of
Typographical Engineers. superintendent of
the Improvements BOW going on 10 the hed
River raft, and Mr. Norval, associated with
Col. Fuller in this important work, visited
our town during last week.
We are pleased TO learn from these gen.
tlemen who have charge of the work. that
it is progressing as rapidly as circumstances
will permit. The raft above the mouth of
Dooley's Bayou has been removed and
slowed away, except about two hundred
yards already saved up, and this viii be
completed in a short time. The points IN
the Bayou have been cut off, and large
quantity of timber removed from the banks
But in consequence Of the washing OF these
banks to very considerable extent, it will
be necessary again to remove the timber
which stands upon the banks.
Of the appropriation of 500 900 for the
carrying on of this work, only abcu: 800, 900
came to the hands of Col. Fuller. About
S1O.O 900 having been expended for adver-
tising for proposals OF this amount there
remains uncxpended about $4,000. From
$4,000 to 10000 have been expended
for snag boats, rigging. tackle, &c, the
residue has been expended On the work,
and we venture to say that more has been
done for the amount than ever was done on
any similar work.
The raft having been removed, the hands
advertised for in our columns are wanted to
cut the timber from the banks OF the new
channel, and remove stumps therefrom
The channel is widening and deepening
rapidly.
We entertain no doubt whatever of the
practicabilty of the route, or of the ultimate
complete success of Col. Fuller's plan The
general course of the new route through
Dooley's Bayou Is parallel with the river,
and the length of the route is very cOnsid-
erably less than the distance through the
cid channels of Red and Black Bayous
In this connection we wish respectfully
to direct the special attention of planters to
Col. Fullers advertisement, to be found iu
another column. Negroes acclimated to the
river bottop are wanted to continue the
work of which we are speaking Col. T
offers $50 per month for good hands. The
white force which he has at work will be
disbanded about the middle of the present
month, and unless negroes can be procured
to supply their places, the operations will
have to be discontinued until the fall The
planters on the river bottom are deeply in
terested in the successful prosecution and
speedy completion Of this great enterprise.
Liberal wages are offered, and they have
every assurance that their hands will be
carefully provided for We hope that the
necessity and nature of this work, and Col.
Fuller's we'll known responsibility will in
duce the owners of hands to furnish the
quota required without delay.
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

% a fatal and most distressing affray
recently took place at Bayou Sara, La, in
which Dir. Robinson. of the Chronicle. and
j. r. Marks, editor of the Bayou Sara
Ledger, and l.. d. Marks, Esq, Of Shreye-
port, were engaged. Mr.. Robinson was
killed There are so many conflicting
reports that we forbear to refer any further
to the event.
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

70 On Monday the clouds vouehsafed
US a shower. which, though slight, was
infinitely refreshing to the parched earth
to the painting beast, to the thirsty flowers,
to the scorched and withering crops, and to
all and everything To the pedestrian
whose way led him through the burning
sands of our streets it was particularly
agreeable; and everything wears a brighter,
pleasanter aspect than We have looked upon
for weeks But we have not yet enough,
and We hope soon again to see the clouds
drop
Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11
Their gaTner'd fullness down.

10 Circuit Court for Hampstead county
has been in session for the past ten days
a very heavy docket has been disposed of
Judge STITH has given very general salts
faction by the dignity and ability with
which be has presided. We learn that the
session of the court is rapidly drawing TO a
close.