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House ef Representatives, so as to avoid both Houses actio; oa the same subject at the ssme time, Mr. Clay said he did not desire the ac action - tion action of the Senate upon them at this time but would ask tbat they might be print-id, and laid on the table; which was age8dto. Mr. Bayard, from the select Committee to ennsider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States to ex ex-pre?s - pre?s ex-pre?s ihe deep sensibility of the nation to the event of the decease of their latePres latePres-ident, - ident, latePres-ident, William Henry Harrison, made the following report: The melancholy event of the death of Willliim Henry Hirrison, the lite Presi Presi-dent - dent Presi-dent of the United Stales, having occur occurred - red occurred during the recess of Congress and toe two Houses sharing in the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of that public bereave bereavement: - ment: bereavement: therefore ; Resohed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, That the chairs ot the Tresident of the Senate and of the speaker of the House of Rep Representatives - resentatives Representatives be shrouded in black, during the residue of the Session; and that the President pro tern, of the SeBate. the Speaker of (he House of Representatives and tbo members and officers of both Hous Houses, - es, Houses, wear the usual badge of mourning for inirtyoays. . KeolcecL That the President of the United Slates be requested to transmit a copy ofthese resolutions toMrs. Harrison and to assure her of the profound respect ot the two Houses of Congress for her person and character, and of their sincere condolence on the late afflicting dispeu dispeu-sanon - sanon dispeu-sanon ol Providence. The resolutions were reasl a first and second time by unanimous consent, and ordered to be engrossed for a third read reading - ing reading . Mr. Benton submitted the following resolutions for consideration: Resohed, That the President' of the United States be requested to communi communicate - cate communicate to the Secretary of the Senate the orders (if any) which have been issued to the officers of the army and navy in reldtion to political offences in elections, and threatening ihem with removal or dis dismission - mission dismission for such offence, also, a copy of the same orders (if any) which have been issued to persons in the civil employ employment - ment employment of the United Slates. Resolved, That the Preident of the U U-niled - niled U-niled States be requested to communi eate to the Senate a copy of commission and instructions (if any such there be) which may have been issued to inquire into the conduct of laborers nr contract ors in the public service in tJie District of Columbia: with all the information which may be necessary to the under standing of the objects, powers, and du duties - ties duties of the commissioners, their compen sation and organization, the law under which appointed, and the time they have been in service. Mr. Clay of Kenlucky asked if there was any thing before the Chair, and being answered, said he wished to call the at attention - tention attention of the Senate to a resolution growing out of some suggestions made in the report of (he Secretary of. the Treasury. The report contained an ex explicit - plicit explicit expression of tho Secretary's opin ion in lavor ot a United states Jiank. He hoped to be able to submit a plan which will effect the desirable object of reconciling ail parties. With a- view of obtaining this plan, he (Mr. Clay) had prepared a resolution, which be wished might now be read. ,'. 1 he resolution was then read, as fol lows: . ' Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed lo communi cate to the Senate, with as little delay as practicable, a plan of sucn a bank to be incorporated by Congress, as, in his op opinion, - inion, opinion, is best adapted to the public serv service. - ice. service. , . Ho (Vlr. Clay) would make a single remark with regard to the relation which ho conceived ex isted between the public officers of ihe Government and Cougtess. The Secretary of the Treasury stands in a peculiar relation with regard to Con Congress. - gress. Congress. He is the servant of Congress; and by thejet, of 1789, he is requited to report to Congress any plan he may think conductive to the public interest. His (Mr. Clay's) object in submitting . the . present resolution, was lo obtain for the consideration of Congress the Secretary; of - ihe .Treasury's plan of a United States Bank. ..... . . ' Mr. King-was desirous of having any definite plan which is in contemplation, submitted to Congress at once. He should feel pleased if this or any other plau brought forward . by the Senator , should be sncb as to reconcile all parties. He would however, submit to ' the Sena Senator - tor Senator from Kentucky, that, as' his object is to arrive at jhe plan of the Secretary, for the purpose of submitting it to Congress," It would be proper, in wording bis resolu resolution,' - tion,' resolution,' to adppt the language of the Seere-

put me in ihe ." I could Ulter nn mnra fright absolutely took away the power of "Why not!" returned they," with cer tain significant winkings. "We are ac customed to despatch our business and ask no questions." .. . It was now plain that there was a cos spiracy to bury me alive. What Could be aonei it 1 retreated into the house. I ui . 1 couiu nope lor no protection from the in mates, who were doubtless in the plot. IT .1 mow otnerwise would a cothn have been brought to the door! There was no re source but to cut and run. 1 rjuahfirl through the entry, knocking down two of me conspirators as sorans out of tha door, and took to my heels without a hat. Turning a corner, and losing sight of my pursuers, I came upon a hack standing in the street, with the door open. I sprang in without a moment's thought, glad of any means of escape. The Hickman, thinking me ihe person he had been wait waiting - ing waiting for, shut the door, mounted the box and drove on. The fatigue 1 had suffered in runnino threw me into a slumber. At last I was awakened and told I had reached Ihe place. On alighting I found myself in a yard, from which I was conducted into (..spacious building, which I took for a avern. I imagined mvself at some dis tance from the citv. and conoiatiilntnH myself on my escape from it. Unlucky wretch'. 1 was at the moment in the Massachusetts General Hospital! in a tew moments 1 lour.d myself sur rounded "by numerous members of the faculty. "This patient," said the princi pal surgeon, taking my head between his hands, "is afflicted with a paralysis of the lower jaw he so good as lo open your mouth." I shook my head, struggling to get tree, but he held on the laster. "We shall now proceed to exhibit some elec- ncal experiments upon him, which I am strongly of opinion will be attended with beneficial results; the worst ta that they may Knock out bis grindeis, and loosen some of his front teeth." these nomine words sounded in my ears like a death-knell. 1 could not speak ; for the scientific operator had dis tended my iaw to the utmost stretch with a wooden gag, which I in vain at tempted to force out. My hands were secured, and 1 was held fist in my seat by the doctors, who all crowded round me. "It will be such a beautiful experiment,1 said they. Was ever any destiny like mine? Driven half to distraction by rea dy-made coffins on one day, attacked by a stomach-pump on another, within a hair's breadth of being buried alive on the next, and now Ihe grinders about to be blown out of my jaws by a broadside from electrical battery! "Verily," thought I, "this is destined lo be the last day of my life; an army of octors are upon me, armed with all sorts of bloodthirsty weapons. Death or dis- ocation will most assuredly be my lot." grew as pale as a sheet: the preepira- ion stood in large drops upon my face. began to bellow like a bull of Bashan, and struggle and kick with all vengeance. Nothing seemed likely to avail me, and he machine approached thai was to disa ble my power of mastication for ever, when all at once the back of the chair gave way, and a dozen of us were spraw- ng on the floor in an instant. . With, the uickness of lightning I sprang to the door, cleared every passage lo the street nocking down all that came in my way and throwing chairs and tables behind me to encumber the passage ot my pursuers. On gaining the street I continued runn- ng, determined lo escape irora the city is duick as possible. 1 directed my course towards West Boston bridge, but ist as I set my foot upon ttr the draw was hoisted for the passage of a sloop. turned about and ran to the Western Avenue. 1 had proceeded a quarter of a mile upon it when I was stopped by the sight of a stiange looking carriage ap approaching - proaching approaching me! It was a hearse! "Then came my nt again r i couia no more have endured to encounter it, !;an I could have faced a hungry tiger. Most assuredly, had I approached it, 1 should have been seized and carried on; for so my terrified imagination whispered me.. Again I turned and ran back. Af After - ter After passing througli several streets, my terror a little subsided; I -felt irnawing hunger; think of an unfinished dinner, and the gallopades I had practised! It was now evening, and I entered a tavern. 1 ordered a supper, and while it was get get-ling - ling get-ling ready attempted lo divert my miud from the harrowing thoughts that occupi occupied - ed occupied it, by reading the various, bills , with which bar-rooms are generally ornament ornamented. - ed. ornamented. But woful attempt I The firs', thai metmjf eye was a starting sheet, headed with aa enormous black coffin, and the ti ti-tle - tle ti-tle n( "An Elegy on the death of John Brown, who committed Z suicide under meutal. derangement, ' occasioned by tt scolding wife. etc.,y: In a pasoxysm of horror and vexation. I tore, the sheet to atoms and tushed into, .the street. All human things seemed combined to drive

"Nonsense it is idle to say that salt peter is not poison; a whole ounce at time. Terrible burning.' pain in the atom ach, you say Warm water, girl, itiime diately." . "1 tell you Doctor, you nave called at the wrong" "Fiddlestick no matter whether I call it by the wrong name ot not, poiBou is poison, call it what you will. I must apply the stomach-pump immediate ly." "Get out of the House, blockhead: Til have none of your infernal machines thrust down my throat. 1 tell, you again; I am not "Ab! what an obstinate old man and ust on the brink of the crave, perhaps. some people will have their way, thougli tiiey die tor it. But we cannot wait. ' "Goto the "Bless me! he begins to rave! Seo how his eyes roll. 'Tis the effect of the poison. Quick! quick! seize him by (he arms hold his mouth open, 1'oor man I fear it is all over with him!" My Condition was now , desperate. I waa already in their clutches; but despair gave me strength. 1 lent the Doctor punch in the ribs with all the force I could exert, which threw him over backwards; and in falling, luckily for me, he knocked down one of his assistants. Ere they had a moment's time to pick themselves up,l attacked the third, and pitched him out of the room. Then returning to the two fallen heroes, I succeeded in trundling them through the door-way on all fours. I then clapped the door to, and locked in an instant. For a moment I imagined myself in safety, but presently overheard hem speak ol (etching a ' crow-bar and bursting open the door, "to save i lie poor creature s life," as. they compassionately added. Not an instant was to be lost. I hurried on a few clothes, stripped the bed to make a rope-ladder, fastened it to the window, slipped out silently, and eli ded iim the street. I ran through the tirst narrow lane I came to, without look ing behind me, scampered up an alley and down another, and did not think myself out of danger till I was entirely out of reath. ..' What became of Dr. Burdock I cannot say, for I felt loo great a horror at ihe dm- ger 1 had escaped, ever to go near the scene alter ward. I took new lodging, and began to recover from the efiects of the catastrophe. There's nothing like a sud- en fright for taking down a man s flesh however, for a long while, I could not hear the door-bell ring of a morning with out being thrown into a cold sweat; and if ever the nightmare assailed me, it was ure to come in the shape of. a stomach- pump, with a nozzle as bigasthe boi'er of a steamboat sticking fast in my wind- ipe. Alter a tune I recovered some se renity of mind, and was master of a 'tol erable appetite. Ah! with what discon disconsolate - solate disconsolate regrets did I look back upon the golden days 'of good eating! when the peaceful calm of my mind resembled an n ruffled ocean of turtle soup, and each happy year glided round withes noiseless and undisturbed a uniformity as a fat goose revolves on the spit! One day I was interrupted In the midst f my dinner I think i bad not felt so gdbd an appetite for many a month. I ad been but an hout and a half at table, and several courses remained K come on. 1 was told there were persons at the oor debiring to Bpeak with me. "Panic "Panic-larly - larly "Panic-larly engaged," said I. 1 "But they . are come ou very urgent business, and must be attended to," said the servant and I observed a strangely mysterious express expression - ion expression of face with which this was uttered. 1 hurried to the door, hardly knowing why. No man in his senses surely ever would have left his dinner for such a thi ng. But let that pass, there was a fatality about it. At the door I was met by four men bearing on their shoulders a coffin ! !-I - I !-I was horror-struck ; all the terrific foie foie-bodings - bodings foie-bodings and frightful images which had haunted my imtgination from -the begin ning returned with tenfold blackness Aly hair rose on end. I stood aghast, rooted to the ground, and had no power to move ! ' "Are you Mr. Brown!" asked one of the spectres, . i; i "Iam,7,raplied I. (JohnBrown.cood read er, i my unfortunate name.) f Here is the coffin we have made- for you. We have worked upon it with all possible despatch, because wo knew you would want t immediately." 1 "But I have no particular desire to be buried," said trembling; and una una-ble - ble una-ble to stand without leaning against the wall. " "That is neither here nor tbere." they replied.' "Our business is- to bring! it to this place for Mr, Brown, who. is to j be buried to-day J(oa ;rft , the man.' "But I am not dead, nor likely to die.- have just eaten a hearty dinner that Is I have begun to eat it. You surely won't

"I'll drown myself;" said I,and make an end to it " I cannot sav I was quite se rious in the resolution, but I ran towards the wharf, determined at least to devise some means of escaping from the city by water. But how idle to struggle against ine oecrees ot late! rassing through Broad street, I stumbled into a cellar am ong a troop of Irishmen who were hold ing a wake over the dead body of one of ineir countryman. I lost my senses by me mi; and the padd-es having settled tne matter that 1 was kilt, resolved to bu ry us both together, in order to save time I know not how it hannened. but when I came to myself I was scampering off at lull speed with the whole troop in pur suit, calling out to me to come back and be buried "decently like a gentleman." i no upshot or it was that I fell into the ock. The Humane Society must tell the rest. Iam still alive and have not-been buried, though I consider it a downright impossibility avoid the catostrophe much longer 1 now teel disuosed to take the matter into my owo hands, and fairly to entomb myself tor some short and safe space f lime, hoping this may break the spell. Reader have pity on me. Six months ago I quite filled a capacious ea sy-chair, and now you mig'it truss me in lo an eel-skin. The Three Perils of Man bave long been notorious; but there are two others that might make the number fiveA Deputy Sheriff and a Dead Set. From Cist's Cincinnati in 1841. Reverses of fortunes. Few people are aware of the ups and downs of society beyond the piesent moment. We see one man rise by some fortunate conjunc ture ot events, to honor, power or fortune whose descendants, perhaps wliose child ren, may be steeped in poverty or infamy to Ihe very lips, liut the same genera tion, in this cae rarely witnesses the ascent and descent of the ladder; it is on ly by inquiry or recorded history, that we are railed to contrast the affluence or dignity of the past with the destitutions or insignificance of the present- In the course of my travels, I found an old lady the widow of a distinguished professor in one of the eastern cities in allied poverty, that a board stretched across an old barrel was all the table she possessed, the chairs were in keeping with Ihe table, being sawed pillars of wood. I discovered a man who had been proprietor in a large foundry, on the riv er Carron, in Scotland reduced to the condition of a day laborer at iron works here, I found a descendant of a distin guished governor of one of :he eastern States, and a cousin of a late governor of new Jersey, making their subsistence at washing by the day. What impressive rebukes to pi ide may bo found in such lessons. In all these cases the individ uals appeared lo bear the reverses of for tune with a suitable and becoming spir- t and some of them with such dignity and i hilosophy ns commanded not only my sympathy but mv respect. liut 1 found deeper grades ot wretch edness than these, "the spirit of a man shall sustain his infirmity, but degrada tion and infamy who can bear? Yes, some are so far sunk as to glory in their shame or to become callous under dis grace. Ihe daughter ot a respectable clergyman in Philadelphia and a niece of a member of Congress from New Yo:k. sa public proBtiime in this citv whom no remonstrances can rouse, nor recol lection, shame. The grandson of gen general - eral general officer of Iho revolution, a distin guished son of a Pennsylvania is a vag abond in our city now, and uot lor iho first time on the chain-gang appearently one of the most hopeless ol the lost. 1 assisted to lift out of the gutter in which he lay drunk, a man whom 1 knew years before in Pittsburg, worth even to those days when -nan's wealth was counted by only tens of thousands, as much in real estate and warehouse as fifty thousand dollars. ; I found in another case a man of my own age I had left bim in Phila Philadelphia - delphia Philadelphia twonty five years ago, a youth of the highest promise, Ihe pride and joy or his parents and the delight and favorite of female society, he was so disfigured by ntemperance, that not a vestige by which could recall him to memorv, remaiued. and nothing but certain tones of bis once musical voice and the narration of early events which a stranger could not have known, did at last induce me to believe him any thing else than an importer. He waa so completely ruined that u.was impossible to render him any service. He has since gone down the river to 1 ex- as ',.'., Such i human life.' . " According to Hunt's Merchant's Maga zine,the. amount of capital, in the State of Nevr, York, invested in foreign trade, is $18,808,401, ,. The number of retail dry goods,' groceries, and other stores, in the State, is 12,003, with a capital of $i if 381,551.. r,-;.-,, '

IN SENATE. MoHDAir, June 7,1841 Mr. Clay presented a petition of certain citizens of Dahlonega, Ga. praying the discontinuance of the Branch Mint at that place; which was laid on the ta ble. Mr. Merrick presented tha memorials of the Farmers and Mechanics Biok of Alexandria, and the Patriotic Bank of Washington, ptayingfora recharter of those institutions; which were referred to the Committee on the District of Colum bia. Mr. M. also presented a memorial of the Legislature of Maryland, recommen ding the imposition of countervailing du ties for the prelection of the tobacco in teiest; which he moved might be prin tea, ana reierrea to the Jommiltee on Commerce. ' .. . . After some remarks by Mr. King, On motion of Mb. Clay of Kv.,tha me morial was laid on Ihe table. Mr. Tallmadge presented two memori als from citizens of the city of New York, in lavorol a bankrupt law; winch were referred to the Committee on the Judi ciary. Mr. T. also presented the memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the city of New York in favor of the establishment of a United States Bank; which was refer referred - red referred to iheselcctCommittee on the subject of the Finances. Mr. T. also presented the memorial of of merchants of New York praying that a drawback my be allowed on goods ex exported - ported exported inland to Canada; which was referred to the Committee on Com merce. The Chair called the attention of the Senate to the fact that this was the day designated by law for the Senate to elect its officers, and the Senate, in compliance therewith, proceed to elect its Secre tary. . y Ihe ballots having been counted, the following was declaied to be the re suit: Whole number of votes - - 43 For Mr. Dickens - 41 1 1 Mr. Naudian -Blank - - Mr. Dickens was declared to be duly elected. The Senate then proceeded to ballot for bergernt-at-arms and Doorkeeper, and the ballots having been counted, Ihe following was declared, to be the re sult : Whole number of votes 42 For Mr. Dyer 39 2 1 Mr. Beale . - Mr. C. Dyer -Mr. Dyer was declared to be duly elected. The Scnale then proceeded to ballot for an Assistant Doorkeeper, and the votes having been counted, the following was declared to be the result: Whole number of voles 44 For Mr. Beale 41 2 1 duly Mr. Anderson - . . Mr. Basselt Mr. Beale was declared to be elected. The oath of office was then administer ed 10 the incumbents respectively. Mr. Clay of Kentucky s.iul, in compli- laace with suggestions thrown out at the last sitting of the Senate, he bad framed some resolutions which he would submit for their consideration. The resolutions were sent to the table, and were read as follows: Resolved, . As the opinion of the Sen ate, that at the present session of Con gress no business ought to be transacted but such as, being ot an important or ur gent nature, may bo supposed to nave in fluenced the extraordinary convention ot Congress, or such ss that the postpone postponement - ment postponement of it might be materially detrimental to the public interests. Resolved. Therefore, Astne opinion of tha Senate, that the following subjects ought first, if not exclusively, to engage tha deliberations Of Congress at the pres present - ent present session, viz: 1. The ropeal tjf the Sub-Treasury; 2. The incorporation of a bank adap adapted - ted adapted to the wants of the people , and of the Government; -. 3. The provision cf an adequate rev enuo for the Government by the imposi imposition - tion imposition of duties, and including an authority to contract a temporary loan to cover the public debt created by the last Adminis Administration; - tration; Administration; ., ,' 4. The prospective distribution of the proceeds of the public lands; '. 5. The passage of necev7 appropri appropriation - ation appropriation bills; and . . . ' 6. Some modification of. the banking vaiem of the Distiict of Columbia for the benefit of the people of the Dis- Resolved, That it is expedient to dis tribute the business proper to bo done at this session,.be(weon the Senate And the

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like unto' a wheel," I always regarded as tha bitterest curse ever uttered. I chose a different part of the city', and took care never to walk through the street! had quitted. Iq a short time I began-to pick up. '. .'.'', '.'' . j'.J had not quite recovered my pristine rotundity, .when I was awakened one morning just at daybreak, (I never rise before ten,) by a violent ringing of the door-bell. In less - than a minute the , house-maid burst into the room with "Sir Doctor Burdock has come to see you." 5'A murrian confound Doctor Burdock," ssid I, "what is the quack after here?" My reply was unattended to by the maid, who instantly popped nut and introduced the Doctor, a cadaverous-looking caitiff, attended by a couple of fellows young beginners, I suppose, in the art of killing. "Ah!" exclaimed he, "lucky we found you so quick called at three houses in 4hie street before we came to Ihe right one, some alteration made in the num numbers - bers numbers last Week. But I must proceed to work immediately hope you sent for me 'the morrrent you felt the first symptoms." My astonishment at this unexpected in- " Xrusion pievented me from uttering a

diments or the cooking art; spices were iio longer stimulating, nor pickets provo provo-vocative. - vocative. provo-vocative. Carta worse accident happen the I ingest day in the year, than to. Joose ones dinner? Think of my vexation, tlien to be bauUed at the very threshold, and by such a provoking occurrence. -' I put up with the1. disappointment as philosophically as 1 was able. "To-mor-; row,'xsai1 1 to myself,."! shall get over it, and make amends for lost lime." Nev- cr was fond anticipation more cruelly falsified. The sight of that accursed sign had lost none of its dire potency.- I could not eat mj dinneil Just so the next day, and the next. It was a perpet perpetual - ual perpetual scarecrow to my affrighted appetite. appetite.-I - I appetite.-I never could look put at the window without seeing it, in fact, it seemed to be Stereotyped on my brain. This could not be endured long. 1 began to grow thin. Horrid!- I was thought of for an alder alderman - man alderman not six months before. ' "'So I changed my lodgings; no Inconsid Inconsiderable - erable Inconsiderable exertion for "meU of mould." I hate to be moving about." "Make them