charge in a second letter, and not having withdrawn it when it had been shown to be untrue he was no longer entitled to respect. Mr. WINTHROP Continued for some time longer, and made it appear that the Committee he had appointed had reported a bill to abolish the slave trade in the District, and it was admitted by gentlemen from the free States to be a very great improvement upon any bill which had previously been reported to the House. Mr. WINTHROP manifested considerable warmth during his remarks, and in concluding he said he had not intended to allow the gentleman from Ohio to ruffle his feelings, but he trusted he should very soon recover his ordinary calmness. A time might come in the course of the Session when he might feel more at liberty than he had ever before felt, or than he now felt to go into this subject, and say something in reply to the gentleman from Ohio and the gentleman from Tennessee. For the present he would leave them to answer each other.

Mr. ROCKWELL continued the dispute, and showed how little ground there was for the charge of Mr. GIDDINGS respecting the action of the Committee on Territories. The fact was that but three legislative days had passed between the appointment of the Committee and the passage of a resolution of the House in structing it to report bills for the organization of territorial governments containing the provisions of the ordinance of 1787, or as it is called, the Wilmot Proviso. There was, therefore, neither a refusal to report, nor a delay in reporting. As to the present appointment of the Committees by the Speaker, he was in favor of it, because it would cause only great confusion and delay to select them in any other manner. In whatever way Committees may be constituted, they cannot entirely control the course of business and the policy of the House. The majority, wherever that may be found, will direct its proceedings. Mr. ROCKWELL was one of those who had voted for the measure which resulted in the organization of the House. Three weeks had been spent in vainly endeavoring to elect a Speaker by a majority vote. The interests of the country demanded an organization, and there was but that one mode left to accomplish such an end. It had been in the power of Mr. GIDDINGS and his friends to have changed the result and secured the election of Mr. WINTHROP. There stands the unalterable record. For Mr. COBB, one hundred and two votes; for Mr. WINTHROP, one hundred votes.

Mr. SCHENCK expressed the reluctance with which he took part in this extraordinary debate. He went on to define his position and that of his party, and he defended Mr. WINTHROP in a very able manner from the charges which Mr. GIDDINGS had made. He showed that Mr. WINTHROP had always been a con

sistent advocate of the docrine of the Wilmot Proviso, and had moved to incorporate that very provision into the Oregon bill. He had opposed the annexation of Texas in the twenty-eighth Congress, from the beginning to the end. Mr. SCHENCK proceeded to show the inconsistency that the Free Soil Members had displayed in voting for Mr. BROWN, who had ever been opposed to them, and favorable to the slave interests, and in refusing to vote for Mr. WINTHROP whose whole political life had been adverse to the extension of the area of slavery. Mr. BROWN had been for the annexation of Texas, for stifling debate, for laying on the table and smothering resolutions inquiring into the propriety of abolishing slavery in the district of Columbia, and extending the ordinance of 1787 over all the territories of the United States. Mr. GIDDINGS knew these facts, yet he chose to vote for the gentleman from Indiana upon a pledge of that gentleman, vamped up for the occasion, contradicting the tenor of his whole previous course. Mr. S. averred that he had but little faith in these sudden conversions, and least of all had he faith in them when they seemed to have been made under the strong impulsive influence of a reward just ahead, that was to be given in case pledges were made on the other side. He denounced the system of exacting pledges, and said there were persons at each end of the Union, who made this a condition of support-in the South they would not vote for a candidate because he belonged to the North, and in the North they would not vote for a candidate because he lived in a slave State. This amounted to disunion. One section, either the North or the South, must have the majority. Disfranchise all on the other side, and the Union could not hold together a single day-it ought not to hold together a day. The Whig party and some of the Democrats believed differently in this respect from Mr. GIDDINGS. They believed that this Union resulted from a compromise between the free and the slave States. He, (Mr. SCHENCK) was in favor of the ordinance of 1787, and he had always voted with Mr. WINTHROP in favor of it, yet he did not feel that upon this account he must stand here and disfranchise every 'man living in the slave States because he differed from him on that local question. It was not so with his colleague, (Mr. GIDDINGS.) Like Mr. TоOMBS, of Georgia, he preferred that there should be no organization, and that "disorder should reign for ever," rather than yield upon this point. He then expressed his regret that gentlemen had been heard to declare that they would sooner dissolve the Union at once than suffer the present state of things to be enforced on the country. Mr. SHENCK quoted from a speech of Wendell Phillips, of Boston, to show that

there were parallels among the Free Soil advocates of the North for the Disunionists of the South. Here the two extremes met. The Whigs were the conservatives of the country, and coming from the north and from the south, representing every sectional interest, they acted together for the general good, for the maintenance of the rights and interests of the whole. These rights and interests he was ready to maintain here and elsewhere, wherever his hand or his voice could do it, against these impracticable gentleman.

Mr. HOLMES, of South Carolina, said that one thing at least was certain from the discussion that was going forward—there was an emulation among the Northern men to show each, for himself, the utmost hostility to the institutions of the South. In voting for the Speakership, they had shown their sanction of the Wilmot Proviso, and their opposition to slavery in the District of Columbia. He was delighted with the exhibition, because it convinced many persons of the South that the whole North were opposed to their institutions, and in time would destroy them, unless the South was aroused to maintain its rights. He had no apprehensions of disunion, because the lords of the loom, if gentlemen choose to call them so, were the natural allies of the lords of the "lash"-the interests of the North were identified with the labor of the slave. He ended by saying that the Union, dear as it was, rich in its associations, embellished with all that could make it desirable, was nothing when compared to the interests which were to them life, without which all that they owned and which they would transmit to posterity as a heritage, would have passed away.

The discussion was kept up for some time longer by Messrs. GIDDINGS, SCHENCK, and VINTON, without presenting any thing further of general interest. The resolution of Mr. BURT was then adopted.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

Of Elections.-Messrs. Strong of Pennsylvania, Harris of Alabama, Van Dyke of New Jersey, Disney of Ohio, Thompson of Kentucky, Harris of Tennessee, McGaughey of Indiana, Ashe of North Carolina, Andrews of New York.

Of Ways and Means.-Messrs. Bayley of Virginia, Thompson of Mississippi, Vinton of Ohio, Green of Missouri, Toombs of Georgia, Hibbard of New Hampshire, Duer of New York, Jones of Tennessee, Hampton of Pennsylvania.

Of Claims.-Messrs. Daniel of North Carolina, Thomas of Tennessee, Root of Ohio, Wilmot of Pennsylvania, Nelson of New York, Hubbard of Alabama, McLean of Kentucky, Dunham of Indiana, Butler of Connecticut.

On Commerce.-Messrs. McLane of Maryland, Wentworth of Illinois, Grinnell of Massachusetts, Bingham of Michigan, Stephens of Georgia, Colcock of South Carolina, Phoenix of New York, Stetson of Maine, Conrad of Louisiana.

On Public Lands.-Messrs. Bowlin of Missouri, Harmanson of Louisiana, Sheppard of North Carolina, Albertson of Indiana, Baker of Illinois, Cobb of Alabama, Brooks of New York, Hoagland of Ohio, Henry of Vermont.

On the Post Office and Post Roads.-Messrs. Potter of Ohio, Phelps of Missouri, McKissock of New York, Featherston of Mississippi, Hebard of Vermont, Alston of Alabama, Powell of Virginia, Stanton of Tennessee, Durkee of Wisconsin.

For the District of Columbia.-Messrs. Brown of Mississippi, Inge of Alabama, Taylor of Ohio, Fuller of Maine, Morton of Virginia, Hammond of Maryland, Allen of Massachusetts, Williams of Tennessee, Underhill of New York.

On the Judiciary.-Messrs. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Miller of Ohio, Ashmun of Massachusetts, Meade of Virginia, Morehead of Kentucky, King of New York, Venable of North Carolina, Stevens of Pennsylvania, Wellborn of Georgia.

On Revolutionary Claims.-Messrs. Sawtelle of Maine, Morris of Ohio, Newell of New Jersey, Bay of Missouri, Butler of Pennsylvania, Millson of Virginia, Goodenow of Maine, McWillie of Mississippi, Kerr of Maryland.

On Public Expenditure.-Messrs. Johnson of Tennessee, Bissell of Illinois, Conger of New York, Harlan of Indiana, Bowie of Maryland, Sweetser of Ohio, Caldwell of North Carolina, Booth of Connecticut, Calvin of Pennsylvania.

On Private Land Claims.-Messrs. Morse of Louisiana, Brown of Indiana, Rumsey of New York, Gilmore of Pennsylvania, Campbell of Ohio, Harris of Illinois, Marshall of Kentucky, Whittlesey of Ohio, Anderson of Tennessee.

On Manufactures.-Messrs. Peck of Vermont, Bowdon of Alabama, Houston of Delaware, Cleveland of Connecticut, Breck of Kentucky, Ross of Pennsylvania, Rose of New York, Orr of South Carolina, Owen of Georgia.

On Agriculture.-Messrs. Littlefield of Maine, Deberry of North Carolina, Risley of New York, McMullen of Virginia, Young of Illinois, Casey of Pennsylvania, Stanton of Kentucky, Bennet of New York, Cable of Ohio.

On Indian Affairs.-Messrs. Johnson of Arkansas, Hall of Missouri, Crowell of Ohio, McLanahan of Pennsylvania, Outlaw of North Carolina, Hackett of Georgia, Bokee of New York, Howard of Texas, Sprague of Michigan.

On Military Affairs.-Messrs. Burt of South Carolina, Richardson of Illinois, Wilson of New Hampshire, Caldwell of Kentucky, Evans of Maryland, Carter of Ohio, J. A. King of New York, Ewing of Tennessee, Chandler of Pennsylvania.

On the Militia.-Messrs. Peaslee of New

Hampshire, Savage of Tennessee, King of Rhode Island, Doty of Wisconsin, Moore of Pennsylvania, Briggs of New York, Robbins of Pennsylvania, Thompson of Iowa, Meacham of Vermont.

On Naval Affairs.-Messrs. Stanton of Tennessee, Bocock of Virginia, Schenck of Ohio, La Sere of Louisiana, White of New York, Gerry of Maine, Cabell of Florida, McQueen of South Carolina, Levin of Pennsylvania.

On Foreign Affairs.-Messrs. McClernand of Illinois, McDowell of Virginia, Winthrop of Massachusetts, Haralson of Georgia, Hilliard of Ala

bama, Woodward of South Carolina, Stanly of North Carolina, Buel of Michigan, Spalding of New York.

On the Territories.-Messrs. Boyd of Kentucky, Richardson of Illinois, Rockwell of Massachusetts, Seddon of Virginia, Clingman of North Carolina, Kaufman of Texas, Gott of New York, Fitch of Indiana, Giddings of Ohio.

On Revolutionary Pensions.-Messrs. Waldo of Connecticut, Beale of Virginia, Silvester of New York, Wallace of South Carolina, Freedley of Pennsylvania, Gorman of Indiana, Evans of Ohio, Tuck of New Hampshire, Sackett of New York.

On Invalid Pensions.-Messrs. Leffler of Iowa, Olds of Ohio, Nes of Pennsylvania, Averett of Virginia, Walden of New York, Johnson of Kentucky, Matteson of New York, Hamilton of Maryland, Hay of New Jersey.

On Roads and Canals.-Messrs. Robinson of Indiana, Mann of Pennsylvania, King of New Jersey, Mason of Kentucky, Putnam of New York, Parker of Virginia, Wood of Ohio, Gould of New York, Howe of Pennsylvania.

On Rules.-Messrs. Kaufman of Texas, Jones of Tennessee, Vinton of Ohio, Strong of Pennsylvania, Stephens of Georgia, Phelps of Missouri, Ashmun of Massachusetts, Littlefield of Maine, McGaughey of Indiana.

On Patents.-Messrs. Walden of New York, Otis of Maine, Hamilton of Maryland, Watkins of Tennessee, Harlan of Indiana.

On Public Buildings and Grounds.-Messrs. Bowdon of Alabama, Edmundson of Virginia, Houston of Delaware, Young of Illinois, Rey.

nolds of New York.

On Revisal and Unfinished Business.-Messrs. Cobb of Alabama, Ogle of Pennsylvania, Averett of Virginia, Julien of Indiana, Jackson of New York.

On Accounts.-Messrs. King of Massachusetts, Mason of Kentucky, McDonald of Indiana, Clarke of New York, Bay of Missouri.

On Mileage.-Messrs. Fitch of Indiana, Duncan of Massachusetts, Howard of Texas, Haymond of Virginia, Sweetser of Ohio.

On Engraving.-Messrs. Hammond of Maryland, Dimmick of Pennsylvania, Fowler of Massachusetts.

Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.Messrs. Holmes of South Carolina, Mann of Massachusetts, Gilmore of Pennsylvania.

On Expenditures in the State Department.Messrs. Bingham of Michigan, Reed of Pennsylvania, Orr of South Carolina, Alexander of New York, Gorman of Indiana.

On Expenditures in the Treasury Department. -Messrs. Caldwell of Kentucky, Schermerhorn of New York, Ashe of North Carolina, Dixon of Rhode Island, Dunham of Indiana.

On Expenditures in the War Department.Messrs. Dimmick of Pennsylvania, Schoolcraft of New-York, Harris of Illinois, McMullen of Virginia, Hunter of Ohio.

On Expenditures in the Navy Department.Messrs. Holliday of Virginia, Thurman of NewYork, Carter of Ohio, Pitman of Pennsylvania, Harris of Tennessee.

On Expenditures in the Post Office Department.-Messrs. Thompson of Iowa, McWillie of Mississippi, Halloway of New-York, Robbins of Pennsylvania, Corwin of Ohio.

On Expenditures on the Public Buildings.— Messrs. Beale of Virginia, Cole of Wisconsin, Ross of Pennsylvania, Burrows of New York, Hoagland of Ohio,

On Enrolled Bills.-Wildrick, of New-Jersey, Dickey of Pennsylvania.

January 11th. After spending several days in voting, the House succeeded, this day, on the twentieth attempt, in electing THOMAS J. CAMPBELL, of Tennessee, Clerk of that body. Mr. CAMPBELL was the Clerk of the last Congress, and was the Whig candidate. He was elected by the final support of a few Southern Democratic members.

On the 15th of January, after several days' voting for Sergeant-at-arms, A. J. GLOSSBRENNER, of Pennsylvania, a Democratic candidate, was elected to that office.

Excess the present year,

1,550,55 03

78,305 10

This (the Harrisburg Intelligencer remarks) is the largest receipt of revenue from the public works ever received in any one year, and is an encouraging indication of their future usefulness and worth to the State.

The New York Canals, says the Albany Evening Journal, notwithstanding the depressed state of business during the cholera season, have done well financially. The tolls of the present year exceed those of the past year. The amount collected last year was $3,245,662. This year the amount collected is $3,259,210 30, which is an increase of $13,548 30.

Georgia, as regards manufactures, is the New England of the South. She has built with her own means, more railroads than any other State in the Union, except Massachusetts. She has already invested in them $55,000,000, and is advancing more rapidly in her cotton factories than any other southern State. Immigration is also setting into this highly flourishing State very rapidly.

Alabama, it is asserted, has more manufactories than any other State of her age. She has invested twelve millions in roads, mines, and manufactories.

Mississippi, it is said, has fifty-three cotton factories; some of them, however, are only

on a very small scale; but the manufacturing spirit is up there among the planters, and a manufacturing town has been commenced, and is progressing. A very few years will see a strong manufacturing interest existing in that State.-N. O. Pic.

At the late Fair of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the Graniteville Manufacturing Company of South Carolina, received the first premium for specimens of shirtings, sheetings, and drillings.

THE MINERAL LANDS IN ARKANSAS-Our readers will recollect that some time since we called attention to the mineral lands in the

northwestern portion of the State. These lands about two years since were placed in market, were for a long time reserved from sale; but subject to entry at the minimum price of public lands. Strange as it may appear, even after this, these lands remained unnoticed until very recently. Within the last few days several individuals have visited that locality, and secured a large amount of these lands for themselves, and for the Arkansas Mining Company, and also for Wallace & Ward, two enterprising capitalists of Van Bubeen exploring these lands, that they abound ren. We learn from the gentlemen who have in minerals of various kinds. On a large extent of the country, specimens of a fine galena are to be seen, cropping out of the sides of hills, and sparkling in the beds of the numerous brooks; but as many of the residents of that region considered it of no value except for bullets, it has never attracted much attention. But a very small portion of these mineral lands have, as yet, been taken up, and there are yet fortunes in reserve in that region for any persons disposed to secure them. These min

eral localities are within a few miles of flat(Ark.) Democrat, Nov. 23. boat navigation on White river.-Little Rock

MINERALWEALTH OF ALABAMA-This State abounds in coal, iron, and marble. The coal is mostly bitumenous. The Mobile Herald says, that the amount raised this year on Warrior River, will be greater than ever before. Over two hundred flat boats have been projected, or built, to carry it to the market. A correspondent of that paper says, most of the coal beds hitherto found are too thin to work, but several of them are four feet thick and upwards. Those between three and four feet

are still more numerous. They are not merely found in numerous places, but that they are different strata, clearly defined, lying one above another. The far greater number are above the level of high water, appearing in bluffs, which overhang the channel of the stream. The river runs on coal sometimes bare, sometimes shielded by sand or rock, for above one hundred miles. The greater part of the land, in the coal region, is public property, and may be obtained at the government prices.

The dip of the coal is uniformly in the direction of the natural drainage of the country. All the Warrior beds, thick or thin, are so, and therefore require nothing but ditching to keep the mining operations free from the ingress of water. This is true of those on the North river, also, as far as has been examined. Those on the Cahawba river are at an angle of 45 deg. with the horizon. They dip obliquely across the drainage of the country, and will, it is apprehended, require great power to keep them dry.

A correspondent of the New York Tribune, who writes at 130 miles from Fort Laramie, states that on the banks of the Platte river, eighty or ninety miles west of Laramie, a coal mine had been found, with the vein cropping out of the bluff, one and a half to two feet in thickness. For forty or fifty miles that the party had travelled, after making the discovery, wherever an abrupt bank appeared, the coal stratum was perceived, embedded in soft sand stone, sometimes as much as three feet thick. It was much harder than bitumenous, broke with a shining fracture, and when put on the fire, although it kindled slowly, it burnt with a bright, clear flame. The writer conceives it to be like cannel coal. The quantity is inexhaustible.

An iron steamboat is building in this city to run on Lake Titicaca, situated on one of the peaks of the Andes, in Peru. She is wholly constructed of iron, with two small engines of ten horse-power each. It is intended that the boat shall be transported to the summit in pieces of 350 pounds weight, packed in boxes or otherwise, on the backs of mules. Mechanics will be sent from this country to put the whole together, on reaching the place of its demonstrations.

N. LONGWORTH, Esq., of Cincinnati, is now constructing a wine cellar in that city, of great depth and dimensions, that is designed exclusively for the mauufacture of sparkling wines. For some years this gentleman has been engaged in such pursuits, and has succeeded in demonstrating that it is possible, in the climate of America, to produce wines of a quality in no respect inferior to the foreign wines of similar descriptions.

The chief University libraries may be ranked in the following order:

1. Gottingen, University Library, 2. Breslau, University Library, 3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 4. Tubingen, University Library, 5. Munich, University Library, 6. Heidelberg, University Library, 7. Cambridge, Public Library, 8. Bologna, University Library, 9. Prague, University Library, 10. Vienna, University Library, 11. Leipsic, University Library, 12. Copenhagen, University Library, 13. Turin, University Library, 14. Louvain, University Library, 15. Dublin, Trinity College Library, 16. Upsal, University Library, 17. Erlangen, University Library, 18. Edinburgh, University Library,

360,000

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200,000

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CRIME IN ENGLAND.-The British Govern

ment, after several years' experience, has been forced to the conclusion that imprisonment, either solitary or accompanied with labor, has no effect whatever either in deterring from crime, or in reforming criminals. Statistics, compiled with scrupulous care have also demonstrated that education has no perceptible effect in checking the increase of crime. It has been ascertained that the number of educated criminals in England is above twice, and in Scotland above three times and a half that of the uneducated. In 1848 the number of educated criminals in England and Wales was 20,176, while the uneducated was 9,691.