Congressional

Severnlevonts afmuch interest liave recently transpired in Congress. We will briefly reier lo some ofthe.n. The minlysis of the Wil mot Proviso will be found al length ín nnolher column. Thot the bill cannnt pass the Senate with thnt Proviso in it, is ccrlain. But the vote is valuable as showing the progress of antislavery feeling through the Free States. John Wentwor.h of Chicago, commonyknownas Long John, from his greai heighth - has had a falÜng out with the ExQculive qnd, h organ, S.ome little (lime sincc, John hnd ihe prcfumption to oppose tlie favorito rer.ommendation of' the Execuive for íaxing Tea and Coflbe. Whercuipon Father Ritcliie of tlie Union laid on the lash ssveiely to whip him into the traces, & pubüshed against hitn a sen[encp of YiVtual e.xcommunicntion f rom the party. John thereupqn 3t;cmpteJ an cxplanation i the House, the report of which wns bidly done by the reporters of the Union; whcreupon Mr. Douglas, John's collengue, moved that the reporters be expelled the House. Some debates oceurred. very interesting toth' se engaged, nnd nmusing to the spectators, when the matter was óropppd. fhp Editor of thp ünion. h qlso boen expelled the Sena:e by a vote of the Whigs of thnt body, nided by Calhoun and Butler,of S. O. a,nd {he Flojida Senators. His offencc was thnt he was not respectful enough in his comments on tlie nction of ihe Senate, and that he hnd ajiowed a coriu?sno.udept to ca!l the Senaios who oppospd ihe proscution oftlie war,'-Mexicnns," utraiiors," kc. Whcreat the said Ilitchie is cryingout lustily for "the ireedQ{"n of the press !" Mr. CalhQiin's spopch we gavs in subslance !nst week, ín lhe debate on exp.elJing tho Editor of the Union, Mr. Turney ofTcnnpssco referred to Mr. Calhoun as an aspirant for the Presidency nnd the head of n thlrd pa,rty. Mr. Calhoun denied that he was an aspirant to the Presidency. He hnd never been an aspirant. He would not tqrn upon his heel for the Presidency. Tho ehnrge of tlie Senator was a libel upon him. Mr. C. was glad the Sennior bad called nttention to his coursp. He ha.d spen these insinuatJons, and h"d hcari' them, but had regarded them as nothing He was not to be drawn from his conscientious convic'ious of duty. They coild not drive himinto a support of ihis war, because he saw Uien vvhat we all now see, and the end is not yet. The Presidency is a respeclable office, but i.o would rnther be an independent Senator, actingíbr he good of the country, thnn to be President of the United Staies, especially iL he were to be ekc!,ed aL ou,r Presidenta liad been for several years post - indeed, ho. tuigh say fur many y cara. Mr. Turney chnrgeJ it upon Calhoun thal he was a Whig n 1836; turned Democrat in 1337 : had brought on nnucxatioi) and through that, the war : now opposod tho prosecution of the wnr, and liad alwayá been on both sides of cyery public measure. Mr. Calhoun, in repy sc,id thot whatever his friendo might do, he would nol accept the Presidency unless t wa the volumary offer of he American people, nnd then i would be from asonse of duly and not from any aspira'ion for tho office. I have, said no, a far h'gher ambition ; it is to do mv duty witiiout reference lo parlies. Wliether my life tv 11 mnke good this nssertion, I leave it to time to to decide ; but I spenk with a conviction of ts truth. The Senntor ha.s ony specifiod one case ngninst rie at tfiij session. did not vote for the LieuU General; I am not alone in, thaj net. There is not a measure, perhaps against 'hich the Auiericau peop'.e are more unanimous. Mr. C. yith same farther rrma,rks on this point, returned to the question of the Texas annexaüon, and he would go into this maUer now. tosome detail, if the Senate would ngree. ('Cries of go on ' ye, yes, go on!) He objected to this undcrlaking at first, because the Administration w.-is weak (Mr. Tyler'sJ - it had, porhnps no friends in the Senate, and but two or three in the other House. He objected to coming into the State Department thent but his nomination had been unanimously conñrm&d befure his remonstrance had nnived. The Administration was weak ond that was a slrong renson aains.t alternpting the Anr.exa1,in ;i that time.- Bm he hatd Iqarned llial there teas a conspiracy bctween the World's Convttition ut London and the Abolitioni$l& of England, by which a fatal blow reas proposed to be given to Slavery, and t vvna 'o be s'.mci; through Texas. England ascertained that Texns about to beannexed to this Union and he ha.d had information of a letler from the World's Convention to Lord A berdeen, in which it was suggested ihat a fatal blote might be inJlictcd upon Slavcry in ihe United States, in an acknoledgemenl and support of the independenca of Texas, on condition that she would agroc ío the abolition of Slavery. There was no limr, therefore, to be lost. lt was a case of nccessily. - Henee the Tyler treaty. As to thattreaty naming the Rio Grande as abounJary, it did no áuch thir.g. lt left the question all open.