A continuation of our weather. I walked up to the Capitol after seeing Mr. Pope at home who called to visit my Wife. The debate upon the duel still continues. Mr. Bynum, Mr. Menifee and Mr. Duncan all let loose their feelings upon the subject,1 they are each implicated in the transaction and the course of the debate has brought the burden heavily upon two of them. Bynum seemed most to feel the weight of my father’s speech, and therefore directed his fury most against him. But the feeling of the majority seemed to run most decidedly against the course of the Administration party so far as it was possible to judge from the secondary questions decided today. Finally a motion to lay upon the table and print was made and decided as a test vote against the Administration by twenty majority. We left the House for a short time to go to the Senate where a brief discussion of the bill to sell the bonds of the U.S. Bank took place between Wright and Webster. Then 38home. After dinner, Davis came in, and two gentlemen, Messrs. Campbell and Smith came in with Hull, also Mr. Frye. We had some very good glee singing which finished the evening and we did not retire until late.