Then the Senate betook itself to considering an appropriation for educating the colored infant.  Mr. WILSON strongly approved it, not only on account of the colored infant, for whose education he did not in a general way feel any particular solicitude, inasmuch as the less educated he was, the likelier he would be to give his voice and vote to him, (Mr. WILSON,) and his like; but also because the appropriation would provide for a number of the supernumerary female school-teachers of Massachusetts, who had become a great trial to him, and particularly to his colleague, Mr. SUMNER.

Mr. SUMNER said “that’s school,” and explained that he believed he was venerated by the women of Massachusetts, but that their reverence for him was too great to allow them to approach him with importunities.  Nevertheless, he was in favor of the bill, as tending to break down the accursed spirit of caste, and to disseminate throughout the South the three or more R’s which he had so often had the honor of reverberating throughout the Senate.

Mr. YATES approved of the bill.  It was his general principle to vote for any thing that looked to the disbursement of money.  He was particularly in favor of this measure, because he wanted an uniform education for every body.  He didn’t want any body else to know more than himself, and he didn’t want to know more than any body else. (Voices—­You don’t.) Take spelling.  There was only one correct method of spelling—­the one that he pursued.  And yet he had never found any other person who agreed with him in it.  Evidently, this was not right.  He demanded that the children of the country should be taught to spell on proper principles, so that his works might be intelligible to posterity, as they were not to his contemporaries.

Of course Mr. SUMNER seized the occasion to quote crowds of authorities on education, which debilitated the Senate to a dissolution.

HOUSE.

Mr. LYNCH wanted to revive American commerce in behalf of the ship-builders of Maine.  If he were a judge, as a celebrated namesake of his once was, he would do it by hanging a majority of members of the House he had the honor of addressing.  In default of that he wanted them to legislate sensibly upon it.

Of course nobody paid any attention to the suggestion.  The House did itself credit by refusing one land-grab, out of a thousand or so submitted.

Mr. BUTLER actually produced again his bill to annex San Domingo, and refused to be comforted, because every body laughed.

Then came up the Tariff.  COVODE said he supposed it would be admitted that he had as little regard for the right and wrong of the thing as any body.  But this thing had really gone so far that any man with any regard for his re-election must protest.  Nobody but SCHENCK and KELLEY cared about the tariff.  Every body cared about the taxes.

SCHENCK could not regard COVODE with any other sentiment than disgust.  He wanted a duty upon foreign oysters.  The oyster of Long Island and the oyster of New-Jersey ought not to be trodden down by the pauper oysters of Europe.