THE MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. HE Political Incidents of the past month have been interesting and important. Congress, after spending eight or nine months in most animated discussion of the principles, results, and relations of various subjects growing out of Slavery in the Southern States, has enacted several provisions of very great importance to the whole country. The debates upon these topics, especially in the Senate, have been exceedingly able, and have engrossed public attention to an unusual degree. The excitement which animated the members of Congress gradually extended to those whom they represented, and a state of feeling had arisen which was regarded, by many judicious and experienced men, as full of danger to the harmony and well-being, if not to the permanent existence, of the American Union. The action of Congress during the month just closed, concludes the controversy upon these questions, and for the time, at least, prevents vigorous and effective agitation of the What that principles which they involved. action has been we shall state with as much detail and precision as our readers will desire. In the last number of the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, we chronicled the action of the Senate upon several of the bills now referred to. They were sent of course to the House of Representatives, and that body first took up the bill establishing the boundary of Texas, and giving her ten millions of dollars in payment of her claim to the portion of New Mexico which the bill requires her to relinquish. Mr. BoYD, of Kentucky, moved as an amendment, to attach to it the bills for the government of Utah and New Mexico, substantially as they had passed the Senate, both being without any anti-slavery proviso. He subsequently withdrew that portion of the amendment relating to Utah; and an effort was made by Mr. ASHMUN to cut off the remainder of the amendment by the previous question, but the House refused by a vote The subject was disof 74 ayes to 107 nays. cussed with a good deal of animation for several days. On the 4th of September, a motion to lay the bill on the table was defeated-ayes A motion to refer the bill to the 30, nays 169. Committee of the Whole, which was considered equivalent to its rejection, was then carriedayes 109, nays 99;-but a motion to reconsider that vote was immediately passed-ayes 104, nays 98;—and the House then refused to refer the bill to the Committee of the Whole by a vote of 101 ayes and 103 nays. Mr. CLINGMAN, of North Carolina, moved an amendment to divide California, and erect the southern part of it into the territory of Colorado;-but this was The question rejected-ayes 69, nays 130. was then taken on the amendment, organizing The quest I a territorial government for New Mexico, was lost-ayes 98, nays 106. then came up on ordering the Texas Boundary bill to a third reading, and the House refuse to do so by a vote of 80 ayes and 126 Vs. Mr. BoYD immediately moved to reconsider Mr. GRINNELL, of Mass that vote, and on the 5th that motion passedayes 131, nays 75. chusetts then moved to reconsider the vote b which Mr. Boyd's amendment had been rejec ed, and this was carried by a vote of 106 to 99 An amendment, offered by Mr. FEATHERSTON of Virginia, to strike out all after the enacting clause, and to make the Rio Grande, from its mouth to its source, the boundary of Texas was rejected by a vote of 71 in favor to 128 against it. The amendment of Mr. BoyD WE then passed by a vote of 106 ayes and 99 noes: and the question was then taken on ordering the bill, as amended, to a third reading. It was lost by a vote of 99 ayes to 107 noes. Mr. HOWARD, of Texas, who had voted against the bill, immediately moved a reconsideration of the vote. The Speaker decided that the motion Mr. HOWARD appealed was not in order, inasmuch as a reconsideration had once been had. from the decision, and contended that the former vote was simply to reconsider the vote on the original bill, whereas this was to reconsider the vote on the bill as amended by Mr. BOYD.-Oa the 6th, the House reversed the Speaker's decision, 123 to 83,-thus bringing up again the proposition to order the bill to a third reading. Mr. HOWARD moved the previous question, and his motion was sustained, 103 to 91;-and the bill was then ordered to a third reading by a vote of 108 to 98. The bill was then read third time, and finally passed by a vote of 108 ayes to 98 nays.-As this bill is one of marked importance, we add, as a matter of record, the following analysis of the vote upon it:-the names of Democrats are in Roman letter, Whigs in italics, and members of the Free Soil party in small capitals: AYES.-INDIANA, Albertson, W. J. Brown, Dunham, Fitch, Gorman, McDonald, Robinson.-ALABAMA, Alston, W. R. W. Cobb, Hilliard.-TENNESSEE, Anderson, Ew. ing, Gentry, I. G. Harris, A. Johnson, Jones, Savage, F. P. Stanton, Thomas, Watkins, Williams.-NEW YORK, AnPhanix, Rose, Schermerhorn, Thurman, Underhill, White. rews, Bokee, Briggs, Brooks, Duer, McKissock, Nelson, Iowa, Leffler.-RHODE-ISLAND, Geo. G. King.—MissoURI Bay, Bowlin, Green, Hall.-VIRGINIA, Bayly, Beale, Edmunson, Haymond, McDowell, McMullen, Mar tin, Parker.-KENTUCKY, Boyd, Breck, G. A. Caldwell, J. L. Johnson, Marshall, Mason, McLean, Morehead, R. H. Stanton, John B. Thompson.-MARYLAND, Bowie, Hammond, Kerr, McLane.-MICHIGAN, Buel.-FLORIDA, E. C Cabell.-DRLAWARE, J. W. Houston. -PENNSYLVANIA, Chester Butler, Casey, Chandler, Dimmick, Gilmore, Levin, Job Mann, McLanahan, Pitman, Robbins, Ross, Strong, James Thompson.-NORTH CAROLINA, R. C. Caldwell, NAYS. NEW YORK, Alexander, Bennett, Burrows, Clark, Conger, Gott, Holloway, W. T. Jackson, John A. King, PRESTON KING, Matteson, Putnam, Reynolds, Ramsey, Sackett, Schoolcraft, Silvester.-MASSACHUSETTS, ALLEN, Fowler, Horace Mann, Rockwell.-NORTH CAROLINA, Clingman, Daniel, Venable.-VIRGINIA, Averett, Holiday, Mead, Millson, Powell, Seddon.-ILLINOIS, Baker, Wentworth.-MICHIGAN, Bingham, SPRAGUE.-ALABAMA, Bow. don, S. W. Harris, Hubbard, Inge.-MISSISSIPPI, A. G. Brown, Featherston, McWillie, Jacob Thompson.-SOUTH CAROLINA, Burt, Colcock, Holmes, Orr, Wallace, Woodward, McQueen.-CONNECTICUT, Thomas B. Butler, Waldo, BOOтн-OHIO, Cable, Campbell, Cartter, Corwin, Crowell, Nathan Evans, GIDDINGS, Hunter, Morris, Olds, La Sere, Morse.-MAINE, Otis, Sawtelle, Stetson.-MIS- This analysis shows that there voted .24 Southern Whigs.......25-49 108 TOTAL.. ..44 1-45 AGAINST THE BILL..Northern Whigs Southern Whigs Northern Democrats ...13 TOTAL........ 98 The bill thus passed in the House was sent to the Senate; and on the 9th that body, by a vote of 31 to 10, concurred in the amendment which the House had made to it; and it became, by the signature of the President, the law of the land. slaves was taken up in the Senate on the 20th of August. Mr. DAYTON submitted an amendment providing for a trial by jury of the question, whether the person who may be claimed, is or is not a fugitive slave. After some debate, the amendment was rejected by a vote of ayes 11, nays 27, as follows: AYES-Messrs. Chase, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge of Wisconsin, Greene, Hamlin, Phelps, Smith, Upham, Walker, Winthrop-11. NAYS.-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barnwell, Benton, Berrien, Butler, Cass, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Dodge of Iowa, Downs, Houston, Jones, King, Mangum, Mason, Morton, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood, Wales, and Yulee-27. On the 22d, Mr. PRATT, of Maryland, submitted an amendment, the effect of which would have been to make the United States responsible in damages for fugitive slaves that might not be recovered. This was rejected by a vote of 10 to 27. Mr. DAVIS, of Massachusetts, offered an amendment extending the right of habeas corpus to free colored citizens arriving in vessels at Southern ports, who may be imprisoned there without any alleged offense against the law. This amendment, after debate, was rejectedayes 13, nays 25. The original bill was then ordered to a third reading by a vote of 27 ayes to 12 nays, as follows: AYES.-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barnwell, Bell, Berrien, Butler, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Dodge of Iowa, Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King, Mangum, Mason, Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian, Soulé, Spruance, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood, Wales, and Yulee-27. NAYS.-Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury, Chase, Cooper, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge of Wisconsin, Greene, Smith, Upham, Walker, and Winthrop-12. On the 26th the bill had its third reading and was finally passed. On the 12th of September the House of Representatives took up the bill, and after some slight debate, passed it, under the operation of the previous question, by a vote of 109 ayes to 75 nays. On the 3d of September the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the bill abolishing the Slave-trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. FOOTE of Mississippi offered a substitute placing the control of the whole matter in the hands of the Corporate Authorities of Washington and Georgetown. To this Mr. PEARCE of Maryland, in committee of the whole, moved an amendment punishing by fine and imprisonment any person who shall induce or attempt to induce slaves to run away, and giving the corporate authorities power to remove free negroes from the District. The first portion of the amendment was passed, ayes 26, nays 15, and the second ayes 24, nays 18. Mr. FOOTE then withdrew his substitute.- -On the 10th the consideration of the bill was resumed. SEWARD moved to substitute a bill abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia and appropriating $200,000 to indemnify the owners of slaves who might thus be enfranchised—the claims to be audited and adjusted by the Secretary of the Interior; and submitting the law to The bill to facilitate the recovery of Fugitive | the people of the District. The amendment VOL. I.-No. 5.—Y Y On Saturday the 7th, the House took up the bill from the Senate admitting California into the Union. Mr. THOMPSON, of Mississippi, moved an amendment, making the parallel of 36° 30′ the southern boundary of California, which was rejected-yeas 71, nays 134. The main question was then taken, and the bill, admitting California, passed-yeas 150, nays 56. -On the same day the bill from the Senate organizing a territorial government for Utah was taken up, and Mr. WENTWORTH, of Illinois, moved to amend it by inserting a clause prohibiting the existence of slavery within the territory. This was lost-ayes 69, nays 78. Mr. FITCH, of Indiana, moved an amendment, declaring that the Mexican law prohibiting slavery, should remain in full force in the territory: after some discussion this was rejected-ayes 51, nays 85. Several other amendments were introduced and lost, and the bill finally passed by a vote of 97 ayes and 85 nays. Mr. gave rise to a warm debate and on the 12th | RUSK, whose term as U. S. Senator expires wi was rejected, ayes 5, nays 46. The amend ments offered by Mr. PEARCE, and passed in committee of the whole, were non-concurred in by the Senate on the 14th, and the bill on the same day was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, by a vote of 32 to 19. On the 16th it was read a third time and finally passed, ayes 33, nays 19, as follows: AYES.-Messrs. Baldwin, Benton, Bright, Cass, Chase, Clarke, Clay, Cooper, Davis of Mass., Dayton, Dickinson, Dodge of Wisconsin, Dodge of Iowa, Douglas, Ewing, Felch, Frémont, Greene, Gwin, Hale, Hamlin, Houston, Jones, Norris, Seward, Shields, Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood, Wales, Walkor, Whitcomb, and Winthrop 33. NAYS.—Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barnwell, Bell, Berrien, Butler, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Downs, Hunter, King, Mangum, Mason, Morton, Pratt, Sebastian, Soulé, Turney, and Yulee-19. It was taken up in the House of Representatives on the 15th and passed by a vote of 124 to 47. the present session, has been re-elected by Legislature of Texas receiving 56 out of & votes. He voted in favor of the bill of as ment, and his re-election by so large a major is looked upon as indicating a disposition on part of the authorities to accept the terms pr posed.—Both Houses of Congress have agreed to adjourn on the 30th of September. Intelligence from the Mexican Boundary Commission has been received to the 31st d August, on which day they were at Indiana, Texas. There was some sickness among the members of the corps, but every thing looked promising. Hon. WILLIAM DUER, member d Congress from the Oswego District, New York has declined a re-election, in a letter in which he vindicates the bills passed by Congress, and earnestly urges his constituents not to encou age or permit any further agitation among then of questions connected with slavery. Hon. E. By the action of Congress during the past G. SPAULDING, from the Erie District, and Hon. month, therefore, bills have been passed upon George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, also decline all the topics which have agitated the country a re-election.- -Captain AмMIN BEY, of the during the year. The bill in regard to the Turkish Navy, arrived at New York on the Texas boundary provides that the northern line 13th, in the United States ship Erie, being sent shall run on the line of 36° 30' from the meri-out by his Government as special Commissioner dian of 100° to 103° of west longitude-thence to collect information and make personal obser it shall run south to the 32d parallel of latitude, and on that parallel to the Rio del Norte, and in the channel of that river thence to its mouth. The State of Texas is to cede to the United States all claims to the territory north of that line, and to relinquish all claim for liability for her debts, &c., and is to receive from the United States as a consideration the sum of ten millions of dollars. The law will, of course, have no validity unless assented to by the State of Texas. No action upon this subject has been taken by her authorities. Previous to the passage of the bill, the Legislature of the State met in special session called by Governor BELL, and received from him a long and elaborate message in regard to the attempt made, under his direction, to extend the laws and jurisdiction of Texas over the Santa Fé district of New Mexico, and to the resistance which he had met from the authorities of the Federal Government. After narrating the cir-performance of the duties of the place. cumstances of the case, he urges the necessity of asserting, promptly and by force, the claim of Texas to the territory in question. He recommends the enactment of laws authorizing the Executive to raise and maintain two regiments of mounted volunteers for the Expedition. A bill was introduced in conformity with this recommendation; but of its fate no reliable intelligence has yet been received. A resolution was introduced into the Texas Legislature calling upon the governor for copies of any correspondence he might have had with other states of the Confederacy, but it was not passed. A letter has been published from General Quitman, Governor of Mississippi, stating that in case of a collision between the authorities of Texas and those of the United States, he should deem it his duty to aid the former.Hon. THOS. J. vations of the character, resources, and condition of the United States. He is a gentleman of ability, education, and experience and has been employed by his Government on various confidential missions. He was the secret agent of Turkey on the frontiers of Hungary during the recent struggle of that gallant people with Austria and Russia. He has been warmly received here, and enjoys every facility for prosecuting the objects of his mission. Congress has appropriated $10,000 toward defraying the expenses of his mission. Hon. A. H. H. STUART, of Virginia, has been appointed Secretary of the Interior, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. M'KENNAN. He has accepted the appointment and entered upon the duties of the office. Mr. M'KENNAN resigned on finding, from an experience of a day, that his health was not adequate to the Mr. STUART has been a member of Congress, where he was universally recognized as a man of ability, assiduity, and character.--Mr. CoxRAD, of Louisiana, on accepting the office of Secretary of War, addressed a letter to his constituents, explaining and justifying the course he had taken in Congress. He said that opinions on the subject of the extension of slavery might be classified as follows: 1. There are those who seek, through the direct agency of the Federal Government, to introduce slavery into this territory. 2. Those who wish, by the same means, to prevent this introduction. 3. Those who resist any interference with the question by the Federal Government, and would leave to the inhabitants of the country the exclusive right to decide it. He claims to belong to the latter class. The Union, he says, is too great a blessing to be staked upon any game of labors have been cheered and sustained, by hazard, and the prolongation of the controversy Christians of all denominations. He was a man upon the subject of slavery, he deems in itself a of ability, of learning, and of intense devotion to calamity. "It alarms the South and agitates the welfare of his fellow-men.— -Bishop H. B. the North; it alienates each from the other, and BASCOM, of the Methodist Episcopal Church augments the number and influence of those South, died at Louisville, Ky., on the 8th of who wage an endless war against slavery, and September, after an illness of some months' whom this discussion has raised to a political continuance. He was in many respects one of importance which, without it, they never could the most influential and distinguished members have attained."-Dr. HENRY NES, member of the large denomination to which he belonged. of Congress from the Fifteenth District of Penn- He enjoyed a very wide reputation for eloquence sylvania, died at his residence in York on the and was universally regarded, by all who ever 10th. Several American citizens residing in heard him, as one of the most brilliant and Paris, having observed in the London papers an effective of American orators. His person was account of a gross insult said to have been of large and commanding, his voice sonorous and fered to Hon. Mr. BARRINGER, United States Min- musical, and his manner exceedingly impressive. ister at Madrid, by General NARVAEZ at Naples, His style was exceedingly florid, and elaborate, wrote to him, assuring him of the cordial re- and his discourses abounded in the most advensponse upon which he might count to such turous flights of fancy and imagination. He measures of redress as he should choose to shared the merits and the faults of what is genadopt. Mr. BARRINGER replied by declaring erally and pretty correctly known as the Souththe whole story to be false in every particular. ern and Western style of eloquence, and always In all his personal and official intercourse with spoke with great effect. His labors in the serhim, he says, General NARVAEZ had been most vice of the church have been long, arduous, and courteous and respectful. An election for successful. He has exerted a wide influence state officers was held in Vermont on the first and has exerted it in behalf of the noblest and Tuesday of September, which resulted in the most important of all interests. His death occhoice of CHARLES R. WILLIAMS (Whig) for casions profound and universal regret.-JOHN Governor, and the re-election of Hon. Messrs. INMAN, Esq., favorably known to the country as HEBARD and MEACHAM to Congress, from the a literary man, and as editor of the New York Second and Third Districts. THOMAS BART- Commercial Advertiser, died at his residence in LETT, jun., Democrat, was elected in the Fourth New York, on the 30th of August, after a linDistrict, and no choice was effected in the First. gering illness of several months. Mr. Inman -Professor J. W. WEBSTER was executed was educated for the bar, and practiced law for at Boston on the 30th of August, pursuant to some years in New York; but left the profession his sentence, for the murder of Dr. PARKMAN. for the more congenial labors of literature. He He died with great firmness and composure, was engaged for some years upon the New professing and evincing the most heartfelt peni-York Mirror, and soon after became associated tence for his crime. Intelligence has been received of the death of the Reverend ADONIRAM JUDSON, D.D., who is known to all the world as the oldest and one of the most laborious missionaries in foreign lands. He left the United States for Calcutta in 1812, and has devoted the whole of his life since that time to making Christianity known in Burmah. He translated the Bible into the language of the country, besides compiling a Dictionary of it, and performing an immense amount of other literary labor in addition to the regular preaching of the gospel and the discharge of other pastoral duties. He returned to this country in 1847, and married Miss Emily Chubbuck, with whom he soon returned to his field of labor. His health for the past few months has been gradually declining, and during the last spring it had become so seriously impaired that a sea voyage was deemed essential to its restoration. He accordingly embarked on board the French bark, Aristide Marie, for the Isle of Bourbon, on the 3d of April; but his disease made rapid advances, and after several days of intense agony, he died on the 12th, and his body was committed to the deep on the next day. Dr. JUDSON was attached to the Baptist Church, but his memory will be held in the profoundest veneration, as his with Colonel STONE, in the editorial conduct of the Commercial. Upon the death of that gentleman in 1847, Mr. Inman became the principal editor, and held that post, discharging its duties with ability, skill, and unwearied assiduity, until failing health compelled him to relinquish it during the last spring. He wrote frequently for the reviews and magazines, and sustained confidential relations, as critic and literary adviser, to the house of Harper and Brothers. He was a man of decided talent, of extensive information, great industry and of unblemished character. He died at the age of 47. The most exciting event of the month has been the arrival of the celebrated Swedish vocalist, JENNY LIND. She reached New York in the Steamer Atlantic on the 1st of September, and was received by a demonstration of popular enthusiasm which has seldom been equaled in this country. More than twenty thousand people gathered upon the wharf where she landed, and crowded the streets through which she passed. She gave her first concert at Castle Garden, in New York, on the evening of the 12th, and this was rapidly followed by five others at the same place. The number of persons present on each occasion could not have been less then seven thousand. The receipts best displayed in the first aria sung by t on the first night were about thirty thousand Queen of Night in MOZART's Zauberflöte, dollars, and JENNY LIND immediately bestowed ten thousand upon several of the worthiest charities of New York City. The enthusiasm which she excites seems fully justified not more by her superiority as an artist than by her personal qualities and character. Of her life a brief but spirited sketch, from the graceful pen of her distinguished countrywoman, Miss BREMER, will be found in another part of this Magazine. Her charities are already well known and honored wherever there are hearts to glow at deeds of enlightened benevolence. A young woman, who has not yet seen thirty years, she has already bestowed upon benevolent objects half a million of dollars, not inherited or won at a throw, but the fruit of a life of severe and disheartening toil, and has appropriated to the benefit of her native country the profits which she will reap from the willing soil of America. As an artist she has powers which are met with but once or twice in a generation. Her voice is in itself a wonder, and unlike most wonders is beautiful to a degree which causes those who come under its influence to forget surprise in pleasure. It is compared to all things beautiful under the sun by those whose grateful task it is to set its attractions forth in detail to the flood of melody from the nightingale's throat, to light, to water which flows from a pure and inexhaustible spring. We shall be content to say that it appears to us almost the ideal of a beautiful sound. It would puzzle the nicest epicure of the ear, we think, to say in what respect he would have its glorious quality modified. He might object possibly at first to the slightest shade of huskiness which appears sometimes in its lower toncs, or to an equally slight sharpness in the very highest, but if he listened long he would surely forget to object. The purely musical quality of JENNY LIND's voice is its crowning charm and excellence, in comparison with which its great extent, brilliance, and acquired flexibility are of but secondary worth. Its lowest tone can be felt at a distance and above, or rather through, all noisy obstacles and surroundings, whether they be vocal or instrumental. Another of its chief charms is its seeming inexhaustibility. It pours forth in a pellucid flood of sound, and always produces the impression that there is more yet, amply more, to meet all the demands of the singer. by a taking Swedish Herdsman's Song. In the former she vocalizes freely above the lines fa many bars, and in one passage takes the astr ishing note F in alt. with perfect intonation. I the latter, which contains some very difficul and unmelodic intervals, her performance is marked with the same ease and accuracy white appear in her simplest ballad, and the effect of echo which she produces is to be equaled only by Nature herself. M'lle LIND's shake is pr bably the most equal and brilliant ever heard There are some critics and amateurs who object to her manner of delivering her voice and to her unimpassioned style; but although thes objections seem to have no little weight, their consideration would involve a deeper investigstion of questions of pure Art than we are at present prepared for, and are content to ofer our homage, with that of the rest of the world. to the Genius and Benevolence which are united in her fascinating, though, we must say, not beautiful person. M'lle LIND's vocalization is to the ordinary ear beyond criticism. Her intended effects are so completely attained, and attained with such apparent ease and consciousness of power, that the hearer does not think of questioning whether they could be better in themselves or better performed, but gives himself up to this unalloyed enjoyment. Her intervals are taken with a certainty and firmness which can not be attained by an instrument, so nicely, so rigidly accurate is her ear, and so absolute is her power over her organ. Her abilities have been The Gallery of the AMERICAN ART-UNION was re-opened for the season in New York on the 4th of September, JENNY LIND honoring the occasion by her presence. The collection is unusually large and excellent. It already numbers over 300 pictures, several of which are among the best productions of their authors. The number and variety of works of art to be distributed among the members at the coming anniversary will be greater than ever before. The rapid and wonderful growth of this institution is in the highest degree honorable to the country, and affords marked evidence of the energy and spirit with which its affairs have been conducted. We understand that the subscription list is already larger by some thousands than ever before at the same time. The LITERARY INTELLIGENCE of the month is devoid of any features of startling interest. G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. has commenced in Boston a series of six Lectures upon the History of Civilization, and will probably repeat them in New York and other American cities. The subject is one with which Mr. JAMES has made himself familiar in the ordinary course of his studies for his historical novels; and he wil undoubtedly bring to its methodical discussion a clear and sound judgment, liberal views, and his characteristic felicity and picturesqueness of description and narrative. The lectures are new, and are delivered for the first time in this country.-All who are interested in Classical Education will welcome the appearance of the edition of FREUND's Lexicon of the Latin Language, upon which Professor ANDREWS has been engaged for several years. The original work consists of four octavo volumes, averaging about 1100 pages each, which were eleven years in passing through the press, viz., from 1834 to 1845. By the adoption of various typographical expedients, such as adding another |