HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
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A communication was received from the
President, in answer to resolution stating that
four soldiers, while deserving from Gen. Tay-
lor's command in Texas, were drowned, and
two shot by the picket guard.


A question of privilege was argued, and at
last resolution was adopted, permitting Mr..
Hopkins Of Virginia, to obey the subpoena OF
the Circuit Court, to appear as witness in
the trial now progressing.


The House adjourned, after passing bill to
repeal that part Of the act of the thirtieth Au-
gust, eighteen hundred and forty-two, which
imposes duty Of twenty per cent. ad valorem
on Java coffee, and to refund the discriminating
tonnage duties levied on Spanish vessels Tex
cept those from Cuba and Porto Rico, by tho
act Of the thirteenth July, eighteen hundred
and thirty-two.