Mount Carmel Register (Newspaper) - February 18, 1859, Mount Carmel, Illinois y. 18. 1859. f - ' ' Il I. 8. no Main OF Dollar por Strictly in OP of Ten or less first 00 subsequent insertion 50 of Six Lines por usual deduction to yearly payment will be exacted in all S. senate removal of tho States Senate to its now has tho reminiscences associated with the old A correspondent of the New York Tribune have io the oW Chamber ih tho of The Senate now but then new pa the 6th of 1819. President congratulated Congress on the recommencement of its duties in the the being the Chair was filled by tho urbano John who twelve successive and a seat in longer than any other member CoL Benton and William B. most distinguished members at that Harrison Gray Nathan Rufus Nathaniel William William B. William and Richard M. had they entered their chamber before they a discussion that extended through two s tothe arena tho highest forensic powers of the and filling the whole with an agitation whose echoes have not died I allude to the - The long and vehement debate excited unprecedented The lobbies and galle ries were thronged from day to occurrence but a rare spectacle Mr. with more than twenty remarking upon the said scone in this chamber excels anything I have ever witnessed in the Senate this first struggle between Freedom and the North was and in the by its own On an early test New Palmer of Taylor of Edwards and Thomas of went with tho We embrace this occasion to rescue names from Their works On tho night of March 2d, storm of wind and rain that beat upon fhe Capitol being almost drowned by the tumult for the of Missouri into the without the slavery both The next morning the National the result in startling At the close of the it said few days past have beea a trying time in Congress but the trial and we look now only for harmony and conciliation on both The editors of that able journal have lived to see hov vain their The coals of that kept rather than extinguished by a superficial burst a third of a century with a more glowing flame than the tho Senate had never led the House in moulding public The exciting debates to and at the declaration of the war of 1812-15, it played a secondary Senate being quiet and House were able and Webster being tho leading when tho war was the only men of mark in tho Senate were Vamum German of New Bayard of of Crawford of Smith of and Gaillard of South lead in legislation assumed by tho Senate in 1820, was never afterwards wholly The next great question that agitated its was t je proposed Panama The discussion on this important and novel subject was congenial to the talents lofty ambition of several who bad the since the Missouri among whom Van and stood protracted and is era in Congressional took the Presidential A galaxy of talent studded the Senate Besides the names just there undoubtedly sent his fame as a constitutional lawyer and parliamentary higher and wider than it had ever gone His allusion the ensign Of the from the spot where he could be seen floating over the dome of the ranks among tho best sustained pas sages of ornate in the must omit all notice of many that Congress and the country about this as the Maysville Road the removal of the Indians across the nor can we dwell but a moment on the bitter in the session of 1831-2, over the confirmation of Mr. Van Buren as Minister to During a running fire of some days he was scathed by Hayne and and but defended by Forsyth and breach had been made in the Democratic then and four of his had the and Van Bureri was rejected by the casting vote of ' her to an Observatory which seems quiet as provocative of strife as Van Marcy was a poor debater ley was no debater at Marcy's extraordinary administrative talents did not enable him to with the great orators in the and he gladly assumed tba gubernatorial chair of New surrendering his Senatorial seat to Silas must also pass with the faintest the South Carolina nullifying which was never to be put in and Gen. Jackson's counter not one of which he was ever suspected of and those twin Congressional the and the designed to compel Carolina to pay her sugar and to sweeten the compulsion by the prospective ruin of the New England manufacturers of which questions kindled whoso fires yet passage of a the United States Bank and its veto by the and the tumult which and the re-election of and the brawl soon after on the floor of the Senate between Clay and where 6S.0U gave the other the and used language which would disgrace a pot not renowned is the general Scr deeply graven on the public memory are its that seem as fresh as the events of The chamber that witnessed them tho samo air that it wore when the assault upon tho led by the haughty was resisted by tho Greek meeting Greek in the As the eye falls on tho familiar scene of the with its pent up its narrow its circular its curiously variegated one ho hears the sonorous eloquence of the groat resounding through the chamber and along the passages leading to thu forum while the vigorous logic and defiant tones of the bold Missourian seom to smito upon the The field where the opposing forces were and the attack made and very spots the leaders iu the struggle stood tho seats on which thoy rested in tho pauses of the these remain But the chief combatants 1 Where aro 7 e from the Senate but from Jackson and whose names were rallying criffs for hostile wrangling like Shylock Antonio over of are they now In his Annual Message of 1835, the the Edward White W. R. King while Sprague and we there chiefs of the a sharp skirmish over the power of the President to remove from oBice cause heads were falling by into ibe they contest which is still known as great debate in the In 1830, Mr. Foot introduced a as harmless as about the public The of the that followed uninterruptedly for four will always rescue the name of the author from This grand oratorical contest will ever be and and commented as the debate Foot's ' who in coming will extracts from Hayne's from will remember that they were delivered Foot's The statesmen and iq times will quote the fiery logic of of the profound of predilection of to sustain will cite them as from the on Foot's is the discussion Mom drifted out 9f sight of the public like pushed boldly out into a wide ia of sew The of the South by Rowan aad The Richmond Mf the North rallied around and pursued M middle line of in to the respective powers of the Federal State it with thau his usual the fthat he was the author gf s Proclamation of a later principal is generally regarded as the great forensic effort of hia things written in the these stormy times many party chiefs gathered in tho Though Holmes and Livingston had left the the coming in of John Leigh and enabled to still more imperiously dominate Congressional proceedings during Jackson's last By the it was Hill that introduced into Congress that worst of the reading of manuscript nuisance which continues and grows more noxious with every the autumn of 1833, Jackson removed Duano because Duane would not tho from the United States and he appointed Taney in his place because he This was tho boldest act ever ventured upon even by The Secretary who did hi bidding two years rewarded with tho so long worn by the now raged furiously on all the Senate Chamber being tho field of Calhoun had descended to the floor and Van Buren presided in his The union of Calhoun and Webster was likened to the conspiracy of and They were called the Clay his famous resolutions denouncing the of tho The debate was of surpassing Inflammatory public held even on there being Sabbaths in revolutionary rolls of visit of numerous committees to fulminations of the resolutions of State stimulated the Senatorial proud crest towered high over the like the plume of Henry of Navarre at the battle As he was imperious and while Webster was argumentative and Benton learned and Wright logical and Woodbury statistical But by Jackson's preference for Van and driven to the opposition by his he hissed out through compressed lips bis scathing anathemas of the President and his After three months the resolutions wore Then followed the celebrated of Jackson against the No sooner was the paper laid on the Secretary's than the galleries used to call made a motion that it be pot Tho debate now broke forth and after raging with rare three resolutions strongly condemning tho Protest were It is Webster's speech against the Protest that contains where he speaks of our revolutionary fathers contending against power which had dotted over the surface of the globe with her possession and military whose morning drum following the and keeping company with the circles the earth with One continuous and strain of the martial airs of these turbulent the Hero of the Hermitage coursed up and down the White roaring and chafing like a while ho of Kinderhook presided over the gladiators with visage as placid and pale as even whop walking among his lindens on the banks of the the adoption of Clay's offered his giving notice that should continue to offer it till it or he ceased to be After two or three warm debates on this resolution in he called it np for in and Clay uttered severe against it Webster read a protest it. Other Senators the beaten discussion far into the he and floor were crowded with excited The question was put sroa The manuscript journal of the Senate waa The Secretary to draw black lines the obnoxious resolutions of 4- storm of and execrations burst from shouting like a that the be brought to the Order was finally The Secretary finished the work by writing the word across the there it to this of the of the persistency of The world the Jackson triumphed over tlie for the people 00 that went with the Abolitionists with circulating publications to stimulate the slaves to and produce all the horrors of a servile A to arrest tho passage through ths mails of and pictorials hostile to slavery was introduced by and after debate ordered to a third reading by the casting vote of Van On its final passage Tallmadge ond Wright voted for Crittenden and Benton against it. Tho attempt to legalize mail robbery Signal retribution eventually overtook the four men who sustained it. was discarded by his party within two tho Slavo Power spurned Van Buren in 18-t and decapitated Wright in 1846 and Buchanan has been spared to witness the Pennsylvania and Illinois elections of 1858. financial not unlike the convulsed the first session of Congress under Van In this contest over the Independent the Senate was the principal scene of and tho leading combatants were mainly the as in the and all rare and R. H. and 0. H. had enter ed. Calhoun had kissed hands with his and Tallmadge sat with the In this into tho regular session Clay Webster vigorously charging him with his Calhoun admitted that bo had ceased to act with the but repelled with keon severity the charge that he either changed his opinions or deserted his The borne through on the broad shoulders uf finally became ft law ill 1840. As to the other proceedings of the Senate during Mr. Van aro not chronicled in the with from tho of author an extra of Congress to give peace to the The kindly old man had not learned that the greatest of all disturbers of public peace is When it met was in his and Tyler sat in tho White and Grundy had retired from the and Berrien had and the most distinguished new members were and led off with a of old-fashioned Whig including a National The Biink The Tho vetoed it The reading of the veto was hissed by the Senate A scene ensued in the centro of which figured shouting tor the arrest of tho Clay was Tyler was The Cabinet Tho country was in a Whigs with the President all through his were only ablo to coax out of him one genuino Whig tariff of the of his term Tylor Calhoun Secretary of State in order that he might Texas to tho Ho concluded tt treaty of annexation in 1811, Its ratification was resisted in the Benton spoke three day against it. it stone Near the heel of the next joint resolutions wf were carried through both after a gallant The fraudulent scheme was consummated on tho last day of Tyler's by a juggling collusion between him and worthy of a couple of Sixth Ward Thus this full of calamities as Pandora's was oponed and of the slavery just a quarter of century after the Thot my is and olian music heard of t ' my soul when thou art ' Ward fruiti bright rad holy in each flower its the tho ry i L the depart bowed M of I eye of love and tenderness that giv Back to sky's own blue a soft Tho Parian of thine - The o'er tby temples Ob thess ara in my bosom now -As heaven itself mirrored in the may not leva thy gentle words Can stir within my soul its fount of tears Aud wake the echo of my hearts deep some dear melody of I mav not love thy radiance to my spirit g For oh I picture theo in ail my dreams Of bliss on earth and blessedness in the earlier years of reat changes occurred in the membership of the only to Clay in the predatory of debate his Buchanan Walker took seats in the Woodbury the Bench made vacant by the death of tho learned Choate returned to the in the find tho following in the reports of the Missouri Legislature on the 7th inst. It will at once occur to the reader of Mr. Pitt's that he as his name would a veritable descendant of Lord His chief to that distinguished orator is said to consist iu the possession of two apd a bead with a noso on it. Read Pitt's Mr. Pitt offered the that the Speaker be authorized to to be printed and one hundred announcing the 8th of 1857. to lay that resolution on the this House passed to in an appropriate the 8tii of This is a resolution simply asking that notice be given to the public of that We have declared an and when we come to publish some gentleman is suddenly seized with tho and squirms around like a red worm ou a pin Gentlemen keep continually talking about do not in tying tho public purse with but retrenchment with it assumes the fom of Such economy is like that of Old who had pair of boots made for his little without that they might last the I reverence day It is fraught with reminiscences tho most stirring it brings to mind one of the grandest events ever recorded in of living fire upon the walls of the god of On such we should rise above party lines and political I never fought under tho banner of Old but thu I wish I and If the old war-horse was hero be would not know his own children side Joseph's coat of many Know soft scrambled and and to no I am unbridled iti the political Like a bo b tailed bull iu fly I charge around in the high and fight my own let show our liberality on patriotic some men havo no more patriotism than you could stuff in the eye of a Let us not five cents till tho eagle on it squeals like a locomotive or an old Let us print the bills and inform the country that we are full of patriotism as are of I don't believe in doing by Permit Mr. to make a poetical quotation from 01)0 of our noblest authors love to saa the grass among tho red for sa 500, Railroad of the Yery the progress of the ta St like we thit afir work being they wtU ba St The the the road aro very He will give most important witli tills mat lot from pii tho Illinois Central to Mt. tho county seat of Jefferson a of 18 This part of the road if and hands are at it. county about twenty of her swamp and dollars to This piece of the roAl itf in fifteen mottes aia Court biP tir the of 40 contract is to be completed in two The Engineers are and the laborers will be on next Wayne County gives 100,000 acres of swamp lauds as a at per to be to the Railroad Company as the work A good portion of the swamp lands of this county are as landa as cfin be in the county offered an additional bonus of fifteen thousand acres of Jand if the road it completed to Fairfield by tho 21th of December 185a, which will most likely secure tho completion of the road to this point by that is very nearly finished from the boundry of Wayne through Edwards Wabash counties to What this grade can be had at is not at thin but can probably be had upon reasonable When this road is completed to Mt. the Wabash and Mississippi rivers will be connected by except about forty mites between Ashly and which will probably be put under contract in a few There ia a road in good running order from Belleville to the city of St. importance of this road to Princeton and pau ha seen at ono Jf the citizens of ever expect to op their and make it a place of any now is the There is no doubt that they can by proper efforts securo the terminus or crossing of this road at When this road is completed to to see an old ha and the 1819, young man who was and engaged in a business in of n beautiful and able by tho of wealthy after a brief married Ho loved her A of happiness in storo for thorn but evil and a brief but struggle with the njan became He was loft without n but not without a gold of were open to the adventurous and to the Ho would his beautiful wife aud seek its glittering where he would remain until his fallen were The resolution once taken soon but tho cloud still bung over He was enterprising and yet while others around him were gathering thu will the trading for a Urge portion of Southern Since I have been in these parts I hava a groat say they would rather trade at than almost any other point on the Ohio and much rather than at merchants gave them as ould get in any of the only reason why Evansville has not nearly tho entire trade of this II want of facilities for their merchandize and articles of jt is strongly here that at east build the iu If road stops at Carmel and the Southern Illinois Railroad is the trade of this country will all go to Cin and and Evansville will bo left to seek a trado iu other will keep you posted as tha work V. of the Olden following statistics of the good winters are 401, the Black SfiA vas entirely frozen In 768, not only the Black but the Straits of the was frozen the snow in some placet rose fifty feet In 822, the great rivers of the the so hard frozen as to bear heavy wagons for Iq 860, tba Adriatic was In 99}, was frozen the famine and pestilence tbn Jp 10(}7, jpost of the travelers in Germany were frozen to death on tho In 1133, the Po was frozen from Verona to the the wine casks were the trees split by tho action of the with immense In 1236, the A to they The husband came to this year since and ed to They drawn by of M in under a The wi faced children When we the the of and the They bear for One Bisted 16 found it very difficult log clothing otit a me. iccd one of seemed to frozen to tho that In 1310, the crops wholly failed in which years before at six shillings tha rose to two In 1339, the crops failed in and such a famine ensued that the poor were reduced to on many perished in the were uncommonly snowed forty days without Iu the wine distributed to the soldiers in Flanders was cut with In 1684, the winter was excessively Most of tho hollies were Coaches drove along the ice of which was cloven inches 1709, occurred the cold The frost penetrated three yards into the In 1716 booths were erected and fairs held on the In 1744 and 1745, in exposed to the was iff less than fifteen with icc the eighth fl wero remarkably there lie camo to ref they hod suffered from the no we are to it. The rather but wo are She looked forward to their rade and if of mmmm it id result of much exercise in open - ia the Minnesota Wheo a line was drawn through ' from North to The tho State of westerd i and without a is a of tine part of New Mexico with the atrip of land which we 1 in The latter ia is the western half of between Salt Lake end means the western part in which the Fort of that name ia iu in the mit of which Mr to cut off for the new or ia the between lakea Superior and df which now belonga to Michigan to fruit may be made to Iv late in the season to prevent ita fruiti tito frost present a bv the judicious the middle of when the moat severely frozen put a pile straw or oak leaves around the roots If extend for some distance in every aa to cover the extended robta that the of the Coyer thia planka Of to that no rain aim thu Let this cover remain gey from frost has then remove the cover aud look for a orap to follow The of this simply frozen earth will not thaw till ia if tho pile remain aud the is frozen the tree cannot bloom but wheft danger is remove the covering will bloom forth it farmer tirare of the and in the rural et it that of tt brother of the his only monument ia an oak tials of hi a carved in ita i He is to have been an hambie a minister of the to part of hia life in that new tho glorious tidi ngs of 0od', offer of eternal life to a i wearied and to him from the of the ' laying down the weapons closed his trust ifl him to hia quiet io of the winding to awakening of a Daniel Webater married the ibe which her brought him to the meridian of An anecdote ia current on this is not recorded in the Mr. becoming intimate with Miss when a skein of which Was her to getting Mr. We unravelling the he don't fou think we tie was a little said nota coarse of a few minutes a i a piece of it to ojt the thread pf | the death flf like mony somewhat annoyed by student York correspondent of the to see so there to scatter jewels in his every thus notices the book by Dr. consented to he with a prodiga I Arch- eight ho continued He I entitled ' - avd also retired the where they so often displayed their stores of learning and But tho great void thus created was filled during Polk's partly by the return of Calhoun and to the field of their greatest and partly by the into the chamber of several new of whom have since a largo in the public Wc this connection the names of Reverdy H. S. R. son of an eminent and wealthy Springfield has in with a young girl only fifteen years of gentleman leaves an accomplished young wife and two interesting As a coincident with about of money has from the bank of his in which Mr. Ridgely was but his pride not allow him to write home for He was at last to sell newspapers upon the foe a few weeks ago he was at Folsom street upon the arrival of among the passengers who camo he caught a glimpse of a richly dressed lady whom he thought he he followed her to u got a fair and her as his whom be had not for eight was poorly but hia affection conquered his and he immediately made himself to was followed by 9. beautiful exhibition of nnd the lody's parents had leaving her an She had not beard of her husband for eight and fearing for bis she to and for The lady closed her conversation with her husband by putting her arms about hie and saying ' we can go be happy in we used to They did go home on the I story History of are iv half dozen solemn facts believe that mine will bo the fute of said a wife to her one inquired the 1 Abel by a and your club will from are off the coast of kill if you go to ' to a Spirit of the is reported that two of that and to look in the As the of in New York this is the modern name for what Solomon called tho of largely some 4 and ind 6( a and seated of tho with lighted caudle in ma thd coun try towns and farm it Wi ' ' hia bo known by every a life in the the of abandoned woman's life in New just four It requires only that brief space and and a girl of eighteen into loathsome flung nut to put it on without speaking couple hired man's bed him Potter s by talk meir of half a send of this army of aud about the ' ' their wretched But saddest the least fact of and the one most aud rattled the Christian civilization is that of London and New York Were the en to the streets and by ibe iWf terrible alternative has a fair wUI do more to in those who 0)' the vortex of tho brothel is yawning than the Magdalen Societies in For Societies afford recovery to the other method safety to the 1