WHIPPING POST.
Mr. Cummins' bill [H. R. 302], to provide for the punishment of certain assaults and batteries committed by the husband upon his wife, was read the third time.
Mr. COMPTON was in favor of the bill because, in an indirect way, it was in the interest of temperance. When a man gets drunk he usually whips his wife, thereby imposing a penalty upon him.
The bill failed to pass--yeas, 35 nays, 34--for the want of a constitutional majority.