Mr. SANFORD moved to fill it with one thousand dollars. The House agreed to Mr. NICHOLSON’s motion--ayes 58, noes 43. The yeas and nays were then taken on the engrossing of the bill for a third reading--yeas 57, nays 49. _Ordered_, That the said bill be read the third time to-morrow. WEDNESDAY, November 30. The SPEAKER laid before the House sundry depositions and other papers, transmitted from the counties of Greenbriar and Rockbridge, in the State of Virginia, respecting the contested election of THOMAS LEWIS, one of the members returned to serve in this House for the said State; which were ordered to be referred to the Committee of Elections. _Amy Dardin._ An engrossed bill for the relief of the legal representatives of David Dardin, deceased, was read the third time; and on the question that the said bill do pass, there appeared--yeas 58, nays 57. And Mr. SPEAKER having declared himself with the nays, the said question was, in conformity with the rules of the House, decided in the negative. And so the said bill was rejected. MONDAY, December 19. A memorial of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory of the United States, signed by William Dunbar, their Speaker _pro tempore_, and attested by Richard S. Wheatly, their Clerk, was presented to the House and read, stating certain disadvantages to which the inhabitants of the settlement on the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers have been and are now subjected, in consequence of their remote situation from the other inhabited parts of the said Territory; and praying that a line of separation may be drawn between the settlements on the Mississippi river, and those of Washington District, or that judges, learned in the law, may be appointed to reside within the said district, for the benefit and convenience of the inhabitants thereof. _Ordered_, That the said memorial be referred to the committee appointed, on the 25th ultimo, on the petition and memorial of sundry inhabitants of the District of Washington, situate on the Mobile, Tombigbee, and Alabama rivers, in the said Mississippi Territory; to examine and report their opinion thereupon to the House. _Mail Routes._ The House went into a Committee of the Whole on the following report of the Post Office Committee: The Committee on the subject of the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred a resolution of the 2d ultimo, directing them to inquire by what means the mail may be conveyed with greater security and dispatch than at present, between the City of Washington and Natchez and New Orleans, report: