From the National Gaz ekfe.
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On Friday. grand Temperance meeting was held at Washington.

 The meeting was called to order by the Hon. Lewis Condict, member of Congress from the State of New -Jersey-who moved that the Hon. Lewis Class. Secretary of war. be invited to take the Chair.

 The Hon. John Blair. member of Con- gress from the State of Tennessee, then mov- ed' that Walter Lowrie. Esq. Secretary ofthe senate, De appointed Secretary of the meet ing" '.,s.

 The meeting was addressed by Felix Grun- oy' Theodore Frelinghuysen, Mir. Bates. Mir. Wayne, MT. Webster, all members of Con. gress. Resolutions were passed against the use of spirituOus liquors.-The National In- telligrncer says

 :, we noticed among the audience most of tne members of both Houses of Congress: also, many ofthe officers of government. and gentlemen ot the army and navy. The meet 'ng was such as cannot fail to give the cause o' temperance powerful impulse through out the country. We understand inc sneech. es ot the gentlemen who addressed the meet Ing: will he published in pamphlet form, and extensively distributed"

 Atrocious Murder.-The St. Louis Times ot tne 24th uit., states that on the sth of De cemher last. a man by the name of Johnson. m the town of Old Frankiin. Howard county. was shot while asleep in he'd with his wife and child. In the dead of night his wife was awakened and found her husband struggling in the agOnies of death, and the bed .clUthes on ire! The shot was discharged through a window of the room in which they slep..- Much excitement prevailed in the town and Sicinity-no clue has yet been found by hich to trace the murderer. The wife and child are not injured.

 Sudden Deoth ofG Member of tke Legislc- tnre.-The Hon, John Walker, a member of the Assembly from the county of Clinton. was found dead in his he'd, at the Merchanfs' Exchange, about half past II o'clock fhis forenoon. Mir. w. had been in feeble health for several weeks, hut was in his seat vestsr- day. and retired last night. after passinp ths evening in cheerful conyersation with his friends, as well as he had been during the session. His absence at the breakfast fahis was not remarked; nor was he missed nnt;f Mr. wright had occasion to open his roor aoor' when he was discovered lving. o1 h;s side' without the distortion of muscle. and apparently in quiet sleep. But upon at- tempting to awaken him. it was discovered !nat ne had fallen into the sleep of death l- D0cts Maxwell. who visited the remains. in. Iorms us that Mir. Walkers death was oeca- stoned by the rupture of blood xe..s, ros- tne heart and that he undoubtedly died with out any consciousness of his situation.-Ai6o. "y EUe"'"g Journal cf Saturday.