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name among the nations of the earth. [Applause] Gentlemen, thanking you for your kindness and the honor you do me, I take my leave, and bid you good night.--[Loud cheers for Mr Crittenden, during which the speaker retired] The reverse to the negro expedition. We have published an account of the utter defeat of the Yankee negro expedition against Jacksonville, Fla. We take the following from a Port Royal letter to the New York World: On Thursday night a steamer came in from Fernandina with reports indicating that the force of 1,000 negroes which descended the St. Mary's river on the 9th of March had met with a most severe reverse and probably had been captured. It will be remembered that this force carried with it several thousand muskets for the avowed purpose of supplying with arms all the slaves whom they could incite to insurrection. If the report referred to prove true both the negroes and their commanders, Cols, Higgluron and Montgomery, and all the white o