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THE SOUTHERN WHIG.
flare Labor in the Territories. j •• It *• reported ibat, at the copper
House of REPKBSEaTATZVES, > ; mines above £1 Passo, there are about
wv - %v ' '"Y *"*‘Y r Y- Jiioe 1*» # 1850- > 1100 ions of pure copper lying upoo the
The Galphla Ca*c. | Dear SirIn’a speech delivered by • ground. This had been'got but by
The Washington correspondence of-you,* in the House ot Representatives, j Mexicans, and abandoned when aiiack-
Norilicrn Whig papers, says the Rich- , in March last, I understood you to say j ed by the Indians,
tumid Times, teems just now, with ( that you had been in the Valley of the ; “ There are at El Passo, in the hands
gross misrepresentations and calumnies ' Great Salt Lake, and that you were! of different persons, several Urge
Tnnrrrning the course of the leading' acquainted, from personat observation, j amounts of silver ore, taken from the
S'otbcrn Whigs in the House of Rep- with a large pari of the leijilory of Cali- mines in the neighborhood. With gua-
lesentutives; Wc noticed, yesterday, [‘frnib. Will you be so good a# to give ranties of titles to lands, and protection
theiMitntgeoun libel ol one letter writer me your opinion, and the reasons lor from Indians only a short time would
tpon the coudoct of Messrs. Toombs entertaining it, ol the probability or elapse before all these mines would
ami Stephens, timhitg ».« alleged improbability of the introduction of slave be well worked, and we would have
visit of those gentlemen to President labor iuto onv part of the territory re- large quantities of mctal secking a map
Taylor, during his last illness. An- i cently acquired by the. United Slates ket through this place.”
oilier malevolent imputation, which has : f f otn Mexico } provided such imroduc- And if you consult Fremont’s map,
f«»uud its waj- into print, charges those( don be not prohibited by law. printed by order of the Senate in 1848,
iso prominent members, and others J wish to obtain your opinion in re- you will find near the source of
!«• joined ihofa in the zealous defence gnrd to other kinds of labor, ns well as the branches of the Gila River,
i f Mr. Crawford, against the furious agricultural; because, as it seems to per and gold mines” laid d<
warfare made upon him for his connect j me, a most unwarrantable, if not dis- if I am not greatly mistaken, it will
tibn with the Galphin claim, with vot- ingenuous attempt has been made, to turn out that the Mormons are fn posses-
ing a censure upon Gen. Taylor .whilst | ca d thq public to believe that no form sion of the richest kind of mines, east
lie wnt on his dying bed. The facts, 0 f slave labor will ever bo introduced of the Sierra Nevada. It is known, too
upon widch this ridiculous allegation there, because, possibly or probably it that sil
is piedicated, might possibly deceive may not be introduced for ngricullural many years, been worked in New Mex
person* nt n distance from Wasliington purposes. ico, and I am informed by Hugh N.
mid unaccustomed to scan minutely) \ reply at your earliest convenience Smith, Esq., ibat there are in that Ter-
the proceedings of Congress, but they ' w jj| much oblige, yours, very truly, ritory. gold,, silver, copper, lead, and
cannot be” misunderstood by any of the j HORACE MANN. zinc mines of the richest quality, and
mischievous brood of news-mongers' Jlc.n. 8. R. Thurston, Delegate from Oregon. , that the reason why they have not lat-
vrlio haunt the purlieus of the Capitol, j Washington, June 10. 1850. 1 terly been worked more extensively, is
and ore perfectly familiar with the pro
gress of legislative business.
On Saturday, ».b* Silt of July, the
question was, in the House, on the
adoption of the resolutions reported by
the majority of the committee of investi
gation which were ns follows:
u Is/. Resolved, Thai the claim of the representa
tive* ol George Galphin was not a just claim
n^ainM the United State*.
“ Si. Resolved, TJiat tlie act ot Congre** made
it the duty of the Secretary of the Trcr
“ 3J. Resulted, That the a*l aforesaid diJ not
authorize the Sccretarr of the Treasury to pay in
terest on Mid claim, and its payment was not * in
roa/urmity with law or precedent.’”
Mr. Shenck had tmtved'ns a substi
tute for these resolutions, the following:
Resulted, That there is no evidence submitted
by the commitlt'e to which was referred the letter
of tlie Hon. George W. Crawford asking “an
investigation" into his conduct in reference to the
claim of the representatives of George Galphin
which impugns his personal or official conduct in
relation to the settlement of raid claim by the
proper officers of the Government. Prutidcd,
tHiveier, That the Uouse is not to he understood
hs approving.his relation to that claim in contmn-
•sled in the
of it whei
he deserved the contemptuous' treat
ment be had received. His sentiments
might differ from those of the honorable
Senator. He (Mr. Rhett) regarded the
NVilmiot Proviso, as an oppression to be
resisted to the last extremity $ and, he
thought with the Senator from Georgia,
(Mr. Berrien,) that the admission of
California was the adoption of the pro
viso. likyour own act we excluded
slavery, it was the VVilmnt Proviso.—
The term disuuinnisi had no terrors at
the South. It was rapidly assuming the
odor of rebel?—such rebels as fought at
Bunkers Hill and Fort Moultrie. Mr.
Barnwell went on to speak, with deep
emotion and in a most eloquent strain,
. of the character of South Carolina.—
of | While we listened with great admira
tion, the other day, to the eulogy on
Massachusetts, by her distinguished
Senator, (Mr. Webster.) it did not seem
to him that he touched on the highest
points of her character. He, Mr. B.,
honored Massachusetts, because “ she
and copper mines have, for J had sought peace with the sword.”—
“ My Stale,” said he, **is small, but it
is not numbers that make a State, but
the spirit of the people; and this he
could say, that she had not a son, am
where, who in the hour of her peril,
would not fly to her side.
Mr. Clay, in reply, was vehement and
excited. He knew Mr- Rhett, he said,
and had some respect for h>m. But if
he expressed .the sentimen's imputed
to him, he 'was a traitor, ami t hope,
said Mr. Clay, he will meet with the
fate ofa traitor. He respected South
Carolina, but his respect for her was
rather ancient and revolutionary, than
on account of any thing in her modern
history. I tell her, said he, and I tell
the gentleman himself, that there are as
gallant-men mother States as in South
lhe Department* ftf the Govcr nrnrnt, he himself
living at the name time, at the head of another of
those Department*; but the House considering
that *nch Cannes inn and interest of a member of a
Cabinet with a claim pending and prosecuted be
fore another Department would be dangerous as a
precedent and nuglil not to be sanctioned.”
And Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi,
had moved to uutend the substitute,
by adding toil the following:
“And. consequently that the House also totally
dissent* from the correctness of the opinion ex
pressed by the President ot the United States to the
Mid Secretary of War. ‘ that he, (the raid Craw-
fordj being at tlie bead of the War Department,
aad the a^ent of the claimant*, did not take from
him any right* he may have had as such agr— —
would have justified him in having the ess
lion and decision of tlie claim by the Secretary of
the Treasury suspended.’
*• Resolud, further, That this House decidedly
disapproves and dissent* from the opinion given
by tlie Attorney General in favor of an allowance
ot interest on Mid claim, and from the action of the
Secretary of the Treasury in payment of the
from you some days that it is prevented by the
ago. makingeertnin inquiries,hut which, the Indians. He is of the opinion, arid
up to this time, I have been unable to he is borne out, by what history we can
answer. 1 desire to lake no part in the gel on the suljcct, that when these
question now dividing the country ; but mines shall come to be explored, their
as you have asked my judgment upon wealth will turu out to be enormous,
a matter which appears to be a disput- When we have once cast our eye
cd point, I cannot, consistently with the over that country lying west of the
law of courtesy, refuse you ftri anivVci*. s Rockv Mountains, and east of the Si-
Tlmt answer will lie in conformity with erra Nevada, -and are informed of the
what 1 have frequently said, heretofore peculiarity of (he gold bearing region,
in private conversation with gentlemen you at once become convinced that the
on this subject. ' ; United Stales is in possession of mine-J Carolina herself. He hoped the sen-
Tbc point of inquiry seems to ho, ral wealth so vast that ages will not be ( umentofdisuniofi was confined to South-
whetber slave labor could he profitably able to measure :ts extent. And when j Carolina. He would answer for Ken-
cmployed in Oregon. Calilnrnia, Utah these mines shall begin lobe developed, j tucky, that hundreds and thousands of
a nil New Mexico. If the nature of the and their unquestionable richness 1 her sons would fly ti the standard of
climate and recources of these coun- known, population will set. that way,! the Union and disperse the rebels.
tries are such as to furnish a profitable attended with the usual consequences: L Mr. Barnwell rejoined with much
market for slave labor, it appears to he high prices aud a demand for labor. II! feeling. There were two ends, he said,
conceded, on all sides, that it would he ; slave labor is like other capital, ii it {to a rope. It was . the Imast formerly,
introduced if left free to seek profitable j will go where it is best paid, then we by a certain General, that, with a few
investment like all other capital. The have a right fo’Aay it will seek these ! troops, he could march through the conn-
whole point at issue, then, is dependent, : mines and become a part of the pro- try- and suppress rebellion" He made
ns it is conceived, upon the determina- , ducing capital of the country where j no threats and no comparisons; an<l it
lion of the first point of inquiry. Hence | those mines are located. That these was far from frim to say that any State
to that point, only, it is necessary for j whole regions are filled with rich mines, I was deficient in gallantry. South Car
ls to cnn6uc my answer. j i* little less than certain, and that they olina, ami Virginia, anil other States,
I need not remind you of the law reg- j can he profitably worked by slave labor believed their course to he just, and n<
elating the investment of capital. It is sure. Hence, were I a southern man,! State would submit because of he
will always go where under nil circutn- and my properly invested in slaves 1j weakness. South-Carolina would de-
stances, it will yield the greatest return should consider the markets in New ! fend justice at the hazard of safety,
to the owner. Upon this principle I am Mexico, Utah, and California, lor slave j This episode, produced deep excite-
very clear, that slave labor if unrestrict- 1 labor, worthy of an honorable contest rrient in the Senate. It foreshadows
cd, could be employed in Oregon, with ! to secure. . ' what is to come, soom
nt least double the profit to the owner! I atn, sir, with due considerate
live, but in general there are complaints
of dull times. Small sales and large
profits have been the order of the day.
This state ofaflairs is not confined alone
to San Francisco; but extends to near
ly all the surrounding country and re
gions, where much inactivity prevails
in consequence of the streams being
greatly swollen and the water too high
to allow of successful mining operations.
The bulk of the miners are leisurely
wailing a fall ot the streams, and the«r
number at the mines have greatly de
creased. Numerous new and rich mines
have been discovered since last season,
and when operations shall again have
fairly commenced, it is confidently be
lieved that immense, almost untold,
quantities of gold will be discovered.
The continued arrivals of lumber
have kept the market for this article
much depressed. A large cargo of fair
quality has sold recently at an average
of S50 per M. Rough cannot be quot
ed over 830 per M.
There is no change to notice in the
price of boots and shoes—a good de
mand prevails. American Pilot Bread
is selling at 9J to cents per lb. The
flour and meal market has been dull aud
the prices per cargo tor whole sacks
range from $9,25 to 10,25. Fresh Ore
gon Flour is not abundant, ami held at
$10.25 to 10,75; superior Richmond, in
good order, is selling at SIO per bbl.
Corn Meal is ranging from 813 to 15 per
hbl., being in active demand. A mill
THE SOUTHERN IVEIG.
ATiSNS, SmSih,
Thursday Horsing, August 1, 1850,
O* The Editor of this paper will be absent
some two or three weeks. A gentleman fully com
petent to the task, has kindly consented to occupy
his place during that time.
The reader's attention is directed to the ad
vertisement ot the second annual Fair of the South
Carolina Institute, to be held in Charleston during
the week commencing the 18th of November.—
The Hon. Jose pit Heset ’Lvmpkix, of this place,
will deliver the annn^l address.
r Atlanta.—
o doubt regret
an, Col. John
Southern Agricultural Fair
- , - e - ^ r,U * *? ,,l |The friends of this enterprise will
r.,r the manufacture „f this nrt.cle bus, lh „ our ^ town ,
e,lal,lis!i-,I here, (in San Fran- BaLm , owine 9fl „ r imratia „,
'•)."'here it is turned out in fihy has been compelled to decline delivering the an
nual address before the Southern Central Agricul- j their
tural Association, at their approaching Fair at
CISCO,
pounds sacks, in very good condition,
nnd sold at 12£ cts. per lb. Molasses
Syrup is mostly in request and selling
nt $1.25 per gallon. Now-Orleans brings
~»6 cts. per gallon. Present arrivals of
ugars have added greatly to the stock
in hand and prices are declitrng—sales
of crushed while have been made at
cts. and for average qualities 30 cents
as much as can he obtained.
Tobacco is firm at the prices quoted
by the previous arrival and tending to
The market is dull for Wines and
Liquors-transactions are principally
confined to good Ale and Porter.
.f the slave than it now yields in any
Slate of the Union.
I am not informed ns to the usual
price of sldve labor in the States, but the
price paid to Indians in Oregon during
the past year, for labor, has ranged from
two to three dollars per day. Domes
tic negro servants, whether male or fe
male, who understand ihe business of
house work, would command readily,
five or six hundred dollars a year,
lecollect well, that there was
vours truly.
SAMUEL R. THURSTON.
Hox. Horace Manx.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Courier.
Washington, July 22.
Yesterday was assigned to Mr. Clay
for liis last speech in support of the
Compromise Bill of the Committee of
i year. i q'hj rlcenf of which he was Chairinn
n mulatto . —
»r later.
It was rumored, yesterday, that the
Delaware and Alabama Senators would
yet vote for the? hill, hut ] doubt it.
Pearce, of Maryland, declined his ap
pointment, yesterday, but will be per-
uaded perhaps to rc-consider that deci-
claim.'
The vote being tuken (continues the
Times,) on the first clause of Mr.
Thompson’s amendment; it was adopt
ed—yeas 99, nays 91. Amongst the
nays were recorded the names of
Messrs. Toombs, Stephens, Cabell,
Morton and others; and this especially
is the vote by which it is eburgrd that
these gentlemen voted n cruel and un
timely rensuic ol the President, (who
was then certainly far from being con
sidered a* dying ) Any one, however,
with a scintilla of sagacity must per
ceive that the vote of the Southern «le-
fcndersof Mr. Crawford, forthis amend
ment was no censure upon Gen. Tuyli
but simply a skillful, justifiable, and,
tu it proved, a successful parliamentary
move, in present those Northern Whigs
who were trying to break Mr. Crow-,
ford, whilst they- were afraid to con
demn the President for sanctioning his
conduct, from effecting their purpose.—
These members were 'all for Mr.
8chenek*a amendment; by which Mi.
Crawford would bavc been disgraced.
If (lie House adopted the amendment,
it was a necessary consequence that it
dissontt-d float the President's opinion
approving what Crawtord did. Mr
Toombs mid his'coadjutors, openly de
fending both -Crawford aud -the Presi
dent ngiiusi all imputation of blame,
tor the payment of the Galphin claim,
property determined to hold the North-
•Vu Whig assailant j of the former stern
ly to the position they occupied.
The result was,T!nt Mr.*Thomson**
amendment was carrie d, nnd then the
Northern Whig* incontinently backed
hilt -from Scbcnck’s amendment as mo
dified. It was defeated on the questibn
.wbetly r it should be agreed to tu a sub-
stitKtc—yeas 33, nnys 163. Messrs.
Toombs; Stephens and Owen voted
the affirmative on this division, (though
others of- the Crawford men did rnu.) Not
, - . , A great crowd was in attendance.—
tnan on hoard tho vessel in which I to»>k summed up the arguments in
passage from Oregon to San Francisco. porl oflhfi bill, and compared it
who was paid one hundred and eighty W||h n|her pro j ecl3 . H e spoke kindly
dollars per month for his services as 0 f General Taylor, and approved of his
cook. 1 will not stop to particularize f ore jg n policy, while in regard to his
further in regard to the inducements ( | nmRglic *| icyf it had not, he said.
Oregon would offer to unrestricted slave ,, rcn fu „ developed. He undertook
labor, but will simply add. that a very (n s how why the bill ought to pass, and
large number ot slaves migh> now be depict the consequences of its lai'i-
employed in Oregon ot annual wages j ure 1 The cch was , necessarily,
sufficiently large to purchase their free- j vpfv declamatory. He did not go into
dom. 1 tlnnk, therefore, ihat the point a jj j| je a |, 8lr aci points which have been
i, willed .ofcras Oregon cnncernp.1; ‘ mwlw bai dwrll wilh force upon lhe
nnd llial slave 'abor il it bud beer, left n( , c( . 5sitv „| a „ c;ir |y adjustment of tlie
Iree to seek profitable employment, | l( . rrilorill | „ lles ,j„ n ; the dnnge
would readily find ns way to that ter- . u,-.ion which would result from further
ritory. _ . ... (delay; the bad policy of admitting New
“* * state; and the propriety
the dispute betw
J for the
laltim
The meeting Last Night.
Savannah, July 24.
The meeting at the Exchange last
night was very numerously attended,
and the proceedings evinced an unusual
degree of enthusiasm. The Long Rnntr
o( the Exchange was brilliantly illu
minated with gas, anti was literally fill
ed with peopie, who, notwithstanding
the oppressive heat, gave their earnest
attention to the speakers, anti manifested
a lively interest in the deliberations of
O’ Wc arelndebted to the Hon. James Cooper
ol Pennsylvania, for a pamphlet copy of his speech
on Clay’s compromise.
Ot}- In our paper to-day iviil be found a
account of the proceedings of a Southern Rights
meeting in Franklin county, which was doubtless
intended for our last paper, but did not reach us
until it had gone to press. It will be seen that
t'iey have adopted resolutions in favor of the doings
of the Nashville Convention. We understand that
the wire-workers of the Democracy here, w ho op-
platforin,” arc talking about “ strjrig't-
? mng oi
t affiiii
n Frauklin"
rDemocni
friends in that county, who participated in the pro
ceedings of the meeting, may look out for ahull of
excommunication or some other manifestation of
the hot displeasure of the would-be leaders here.
Look out, gentlemen of Franklin, there is n rod ib
pickle for you!
TbeCIar ai«the r« Com pro miv.
These two measures are now presented for tlie
c onsideration o{ thecountry, as the means of qoi.
eting and settling the existing agitation upon the
subject.o! slavery.. '
The first 'is the oflspVing of the Committee of
Thirteen, of the Seudte, and is an effort to dispose
of the variety ef aggravating question* now at is
sue, at one swoop —tlie admission, of California
into the Union—the establishment of territorial
governments itrNew’ Mexico and Utah—the boun
dary between Texas and New Mexico—the slave
trade in the District of Colombia—and the virtual
refusal of the non-s!avehntding States to give up
“fugitives from labor” from the : slaveholding
States. TJie Clay'cohipromise bears-in its every
j feature, (save one,) hostility to the slave states of
1 the Union. Its ‘ most energetic- defender, and
I originator too, doubtless, has shown by a course
! of policy adopted through a long 1’fe, a determina
tion to gradually 'extinguish shivery in this coun
try. and did, but a short time since declare in ths
Senate, although representing a slave State,
“ that no earthly power could induce him to vote
for the establishment ol slavery in territory now
free.” With such well known prejudices and
such a firm determination of enmity to the * pecu
liar’ institution, what could bo expected other than
that a committee of which he was the ruling spir
it, would propose a plan injurious and insulting to.
the South ?
This plan proposes to drive the South out of
possession of any interest in the vast and richly la
den territory ol Calitornia, l»y tlie acceptance into
the Union of a population unsettled—mere adven
turers alter gold—men possessing no permanent
interest in the territory—scattered over «n extent
of country sufficient for a half dozen large
States—commanding many hundred miles of sea
coast, and holding a most important position in
the commerce of the East. And why ? Is it because
cessities arc such that a territorial govern-
i meat would prove insufficient for them in their
present unsettled condition—because a state of
territorial government would prove detrimental to
(their interests? No. But because and simply
| for the reason—that the fiat of the North has gone
I forth—no more slate territory shall be admitted into
| | the Union—and California presents herself wilh a
institution interdicting it.
It proposes to establish territorial governments
New Mexico and Utah, wilh the express un-
r-standing, however—for so the father and de
fender of the “ plan’’ announces it—that the lex
loci governs those territories now, and will
their admission iuto the Union in future,
States—and to place them in the position
ries, so that, acted upon by extraneous in
fluences, (as in tlie case of New Mexico already,)
they may at tlie very next, or even at this session
of Congreas. present themselves with constitutions
slavery in their limits desiring ad-
the Union—all unfit as they will be—
ign States of this confederacy,
the r
cling.
Later from California.
New York, July 22—5 P. M.
The steamer Crescent City arrived
here this afternoon, wilh later advices
from California.
The steamer Columbus arrived at Pa- ^ ^
the. 6lh inst., having left San Vv”*
ci... '-'Lta
The meeting was organized by call
ing Dr. Jas. P. Scriven to the chair, and
appointing Montgomery Cumtning, Esq.
Secretary.
On motion of John Bilbo. Esq., sec
onded by C. A. L. Lamar, Esq, a
committee of ten was appointed by the
chair to draft resolutions expressive of
the sense ot the meeting.
The following gentlemen were ap
pointed said Committee.
John Bilbo, Andrew Low, John Bos-
Dr. It. D. Arnold, It. G. Guerrard,
Cohen, Judge E'. J. Harden,
Joseph Lippmnn, M. J. Buckner, ami
C. A. L. La
The committee retired and during
nama
Francisco on the 18th of J
brought over 150 passengers nnd
hundred and fitly thousand dollars
,IU3l \ 0 ; v fre ’: 8 P * * * their absence the meeting was addressed
The mail steamer West Point arrived • • . . ? . . .
at Panama on the 4.h of July. n »PP”>P? a > e and
The Crescent City brings one hun- ^ LeVy ’ “ nd Jobn U - M,1Ien -
dred and forty thousand dollars worth v?..
of gold dust in the hands ot passengers, .
besides a considerable amount on freight. P° r -
tiern Ulgai».Uceiltigr on !
ting which was called in this
As the
ived.
Utah—to
•y,by “a
effect the darling obj<
It furtlie
The committee having returned
ed to the meeting a preamble and
_■ n . . or, • •—Jutions endorsing the proceedings of
Terrible Conflagration at San Francisco. Nashville Convention, and in favor
Another tremendous conflagration has of the Missouri Compromise Line, which
occurred in the city of San Francisco..! were manitnouslv adopted.
....... It broke out on the 14th ol June, atul'J The resolutions were advocated by
California, 1 atn equally clear. ’Mexico as a state* and the propriety ^ e ^ ure ^ ie Writes could be subdued, John Billbo, Esq., Dr. Richard D. Ar-
California will always be a mining coun- compromising lhe dispute between abn "‘ lhre ? h “" dr r d •><“«»• omres, | uold, and Edward J. Harden, Esq., in
try and wages will range high. At pre- h er nn d Texas. If that dispute was dwellings, hotels, occ., were burnt to; temperate, patriotic and eloquent ad-
seut, slave labor in California would he no t settled It would lead to civil war. a $heS. It is estiinated.thal the loss will dresses, in which the harmony and
more profitable than in Oregon. And p |rs , p W ouId be a war between Texas ' rPac ^ millions of dollars. Sup- , unanimity of the South, in support of
1 have a 1 way* been of the opinion, that: an( j , he penp i R n j- n C w Mexico; then ! l M . ,set * lo havc be en ‘be work of aft incen- her just rights, was earnestly invoked.
there is a mining country, ; t |, e United States would interpose, and !
where „
if not in a climate uncongenial to slave > .........
Ulmr, dial species of labor would be I iriaorfamT leader "before" I.
profitable. That it wouh) be in Cali-)
The great fire in San Francisco, origi- .
the Sacramento baking estab-'
—Morning News.
Professor Webster.
ler the gallant and often ; "
J -!r before him (Gen. 1 n . a,e ” . , •
- w present) might defeat! a small wooden building ip j. ' Dr. Webster first learned the deci-
fornia mines is evident. A good, able ; Texas alone; but then the South would , lb f rca J ol iheMercnanls Hotel. It is sion , of the Executive Council,, in his
bodied slave, would have commanded ( unite with Iter, and lhe war, beginning *? ldl “ hl ‘ vc ,ee " **y. :incel >* ; case, by reatljng the re|iorl in an eve-
-n California, daring the past year from] „„ the Rio Grande, would soon extend I d “ r1 * 1 "- 1,ul ,, y. a .‘ efccl ln '»« ehunney. j ning paper. Il is aimed lhal he wm
ighl mien hundred dull-irs per annuin. j 10 ,| 1( , p ( „„ m;lc . Acivil nnd servile war The flames quiekly cijmmuiiiealed to but slightly agitated, having,
When it is recollecled lhal one hundred | wou j,i I,,, ibe consequence. When
dollars per annum, upon an everage, is ■ wai wa , imjvoestble lo see
considered , a good compensation Tor wllcre j, vv „ u |j end.
their labor in the Southern fctatos, it is i Ho spoke „ f , lK . , wo e ,lremcs of
idle, in my judgment to contend that Northern and Southern men united for
slaves would not be earned to the Cal-; l!ie porpoS e of defeating this bill. He
ifornia market if protected by law. j alluded to the daily conferences of
The greatest impediments which white i Southern opponents of the measure.—•
labor lias toencoufiief tfdhfc mines, is: Mr; Mason here -interfeted aotl s«id
tire iftteusity of the heal andlhe preva-l that the object of these conferences
fence of hillious disease. The one is . was to protect the interests and hon-
almost insufferable, while the other is or or the Sontb. Mr. Clay, in re-
pestilential. Against both, of these the (joinder, made one of his oratorical hits,
negro is almost proof. Now, while that prefaced an uproar of applause.—^
white lalmr is. so high, it is evident lhal ( The. itlea conveyed was that the con-
no one can hire a white laborer, except j ferences of the friends of the bill hail foi
at a rate that \Vonhl consume bis profit, .their object the protection of tlie -whole
with negro labor. That species j country, and the preservation of the
tboir object ‘being evidently to have the j of labor might be obtained fer-half the j Union. The cheering was tumultuous
main queslinn token un the committee’s! amount which you would have to pay
resolution* as amended by jlie mtxlificd for white labor. The result will he a
aolistiuite, ami, then defeat the whole. 1 profit" alike to Ibe hirer and the seller
Their prirtci|»al ol)jit*i, v liovtfcver, was of slave jabor. There is no doubt, in
ntready nccimiplislicd. The substitute my judgment, that almost apy number
failing, the question was next taken on of slaves might be hired out-in Califor-
»he committee’s residutioos, aud tliey nia, were whites willing io allow it, at
were - severally ’ adopted. Messrs.- from eigbrto left hundred dollars a
Toombs. Steplfens. ^c-., voting for each year. This is pay so much above what
because they deemed tbe payment ol tlie their services command in the States, as
claim* both principal and iittnrest, just to satisfy any one, that could this spe-
and proper. Though in * small utiiio- *c»cs of service be protected in Ca
nty. ihrtr v»ues .defeated the adoption .lifnriiia, ii would rush, to tbe Pacific in
of any resolution censuring 'Mr. Craw- almost any quantity,
ford or the" President. Tl|« wlmlc thing Let us turn our attention to Utah and
was perfectly understood.by < »ll'pnnie* New Mexico. I have no doubt, from
in the House, and tfras coqsUlered one what knowledge 1 havo of these'cmiti-
:d the ablest perliainentai^nmtKBuyres tries, that they will tjutn out to be filled
ever carried out. It is, int.ccd, gheerly with tho richest mines. I clip the fol-
ridiculous IQ accuse' t.be* udvocates of rl.iwingiroth a recent paper, containing
Mr. Crawford of any design iiftjmgo'lhe news from Texas ami-Chihuahua:
the course of tbe President in con'uec-- M.i 1 . James was informed by Maj.
lion wilh the Galphin ufftir.' They cop- Neighlmurs and' Mr.Lee Vi ning, that
tended lhal Mr. C/awmrd was not to I hey had been shown by *Muj. Stem,
blame,rind, of course, Ibfcj would not Some gold washed out', by Itir troops.
condemn Gen. Tayhiv for sanctioning bn the Gila river, in "a short extursum
liheiutlvct.' ' * to that stream.
the Merchants’ Hiuel, Wnverlv House,
the Sacramento Hotel and the theatre.
It progressed with great rapidity, de
stroying all the buildings on the South
side.of Clay street, from Marcy street
to the water on the North sideuf Clay
street. Also all the buildings between
Barney street and Montgomery street,
except Battel’s and jMlerade’s build-
ings. . ^ ; V J.... ,
On Sacramento-si., from Harney-st.
the water not n building has been
left standing. California st., on -the
North side From tbe Custom House to
Huruey-st., is wholly destroyed includ
ing lhe most valuable buildings. Be
low Moiiignmcry-si., all is in ruins-—al-
between Clay'anti Caliloruia-Streels.
Every building on Montgomery-st., be
tween Mr.-NagoL’s and Mr; Cannon’a
(of Baltimore) auction store, are burnt.
Between one side ot these points and
Clay street wharf, aniTAdams & Co’s
office, on the other, there is entire ruin;
That part of the city between Monigo-
mery-st. and the water has suffered
•much in the destruction of very valua
ble property, including all the buildings
<m Central wharf and a very large quan
tity x>f lumber.
informed, prepared himself for the
worst. It is further stated upon relia
ble authority, that he had expressed
of late no desire to have his sentence
commuted, nnd that he appears to have
a mure realizing sense of the awful sit
uation in which be is placed, and also,
that he is evidently pre|>uring himself
lor the awful late which surely awaits
him. 1 ■ ; Y
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Webster
and family visited him in his cell.-—
They hail not then learned the decision
The
attended by
if the citizens of the town and c
vas no final action on any of lhe various measure*
lubmitled lor consideration, and no authorization
by .the meeting of an official report of its pro
ceedings, we shall not attempt to give such a re
port—but, as our readers at a distance probably
interest in the milter, it i* due lo
them that we should, a as chronicler of passing
enls, lake some notice ot the doings on Satui-
After an address front the chairman (the ven-
akle Ex-Gov. Lumpkin) setting forth the ob
jects of the meeting and tbe objects of the friends
of the Nashville Convention, Col. \V. L. Mitchell
read the report and resolutions adopted by that
body and followed the reading by a speech of some
length in their advocacy, concluding by moving
tbeiradoptiou. VotingL.G. Harris, Esq ,tbeu offer
ed a preamble an 1 resolutions as a substitute, takii
position in favor of tbe Missouri Compromise lit
a* a basis of settlement, but objecting to portio
of the address and resolutions of the Nashvi
Convention. After Mr. Harris resumed his se
in response to a call upon him by the roeetii
Judge Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, address
ed the meeting at some length. Wc understood
him aa expressing a decided preference tor the
Clay Compromise over the Missouri line. He
was followed by Judge IIillykr, (of Walton Coun-
ty.) who took the same ground.
After an adjournment for dinner. Col. IIenhy
G. Lamar took the floor in support of the action
of the Nashville Convention. At the cone usion
of his remarks our neighbor up street mounted the
rostrum and moved to amend the substitute o -
fered by Mr. Harris, by striking out all reference
to the Missouri Compromise line and inserting in
lieu thereol substantially tlie amendment recently
offered by Mr. Finite in the Senate, bounding Cal-
iforni,“.lone with lh« Mi.«iuri Cwpromi.. lin. ] .h«>«l<* U>. .UUw'iige.
(or rome natural boundary noar it) and leaving I -ncomjtliiliing tlnur ub
lhe balance o! lhe Meiicen territory under the pro. i b r *• P™P<>‘' d bl “ !
visions of Mr. Clay’s bill. He stated at the outset
that there wan a greater degree of misapprehen
sion in the public mini} in reference to the Mis
souri line than perhaps concerning any other po
litical question, and proceeded to enlighten the
public by reading EXTRACTS FROM EDITO
RIALS IN THE SOUTHERN BANNER and
from the speeches of Mr. Clay and oilier lummati
ot the day. At the conclusion of which. Judge n,nc
DovonET.Tr being loudly called for, addressed the P* 8 * -
audience at considerable length, and with his
ponderous battle-axe, wielded with the arm ot a
giant, dealt heavy blows on all sides, (particularly
on the deflfftcetes!“Wad 0T Democracy) in giving *
brief and lucid history or the various step* that
have brought tbe country to it* present stand on
the very brink of fuia. He advocated the Mis
ting the Slat
s may he for,)
: dust thru
ofa slave ha
prolu
ting l
n tho
(the right ofthe
to permit hthi
| and the fanatii
i to liberate th
‘ f«gi
Will n
wilet
wfety
The Missa
It proposes to purchase from Texas, (or wrest
■om 1ier,) an attempt at which will prove the
Iternative of rctusal to comply with the terms of-
ned—ail the claim which she has to New Mexi-
t», by cutting down the Northern boundary of
’exns to four degrees below the Missouri Compro-
lise line, as applied to her, by the articles ot an-
nt, to meet with
r New Mexico and
three large
Texas and
i,” thus putting
he Northern fa-
■sliing the inati-
?ry by hemming it in. and confining
ind prescribed limits,
proposes to prohibit the slave trade
in the District of Columbia, a measure against
which the South has been struggling for years,
and which if adopted, will prove the entering
wedge to burst asunder every guarantee which
the constitution has thrown around slavery in the
And lastly, it proposes to make a great conces•
sion-to the South, by aiding in securing her fu
gitive slaves escaped into non-slaveholding States.
How.' ]f\ allowing the owner to apprehend the
slave, and by giving. his own bond for the proper
trial ■ol any claim the slave may make to freedom—
take him away. What do we gain by this tnea-
impoaaibility, gen-
’ State offi-
to his slave—the retusal
i confine the slue in their prisons,
I spirit ot the people, causing them
arrested fugitive by brute force.
. usually resorted to, tail of
ject. Can we gam anything
Can wc arrest and bring
:rmn labor ?” Will not the
hy the Slate laws continue
sorted to ? The only c!
owner of a slsve escaped into the Northern States,
is, for the people ot Ihc North to feel Ike constitu
tional obligation binding, and so long as they
do not, he must suffer the loss of hi* property in
nine cayes in ten, with any act Congress may
Such is the Clay Compromise of the
Compromise, on the other hand,
is a measure, which, although nut strictly consti
tutional— uoL graining tits.eu>ire right* rif-Jh® ..
South—yet has tbe force of precedent to recom
mend it, and has once proven the means ot settling
slavery agitation in this country, when it threaten-
rend the Union asunder, and to cast the con-
ngry struggle. Il proved
and prolonged, and beyoud the rebuke
of.the Chair. Mr. Clay put an. uncom
mon degree of fire and electrical power
into his speech. ‘ He commented, with
great severitj*, on the Nashville Con
vention; the projects, of disunionisis ;
the speech, made in Charleston, by one
ofthe members of tbe Convention, &e.
He mentioned that a gentleman, who
was at the meeting, bad informed him
that sentiments ofthe speech in favour
of disunion and war were applauded.
Mr. Clay went on to conclude biiiH—~~—:—~ - ~~~ ly ~.j;—-
speech, and admitted' that there was . e office of the Herald. They lose a
.u -bis gPn.raUl.pwnince. ! ^a. th. conclnsioo of I»J S 0 Dougherty
fiieil^Uis^gnature^Site”Dea!h' ; XVa“ j “' k - lle “IfYVthe.ffl.of'X
Tlie tarailj of the prisoner, for o long j„„ rn unti i Thurrf.y, the eiehth J»y ol Augu:
i ve mus enucavoreu io i»e ,u off-hand - l ^ e North by r mad .determi-
I buildings destroyed wjs l The prisoner expressed the hope this I a^£Tat«Us pLce J^oza exclude as from all tlm ierritory of the
jlbat of the San Francisco Journal—abo | morning, that tis > family would be kept; Jin which we' have honestly aimed to do Lumn, trample onour rights, andtew.uato
ho certainty of the passage o! the hill.'
It- depended on . half a dozen Senators
whose determination bad not been made
known. He made a strong appeal to
large quantity of printing material. In
E.Vett& Co’s warehouse a vast amount
cf properly was 'consumed. Cornmis-
w sion merchants are losers to a very
iktaon nnii'Rhode I largb amontjt..- The Iom, it H heltevet!
Isbntl u. support the hill. | ta.fi fall nto’l .heavy open shippers end
Alter Mr!' Clay .bed fini.he.l, Mr.;°, n fefji aaiahtehetl by person* fron,
Barnwell, e. everyone eipecled, Siatcaa-.d fitm. New
to reply, to the remarks relative to} * orb * * - ^.
Mr. Rlielt. ‘Without pronouncing a | Francisco Markets* June-18.
eulogy on his friend, he would, he said, j A Saiv Francisco letter of the 14ib June
leave it to the many in this, and tbe says that wtUijiTthe past few days bti-
of ibeExecui
a oil bis 'execution'
who knew him, whether sine'ss has become somewhat more ac- Fridiry.---BGi^oR Journal.
plan of settlement n
In thi* controversy, i
far the largeit and ino
will give to the North by
: valuable of the territory
will secure to them < a poai-
years ago; and will only guarantee
x no tutnity ol ine prisoner, lor a long . unlil 5,^. ,h. eighth d.y ol August, “ ,be So "‘ b * , J r "8'“*' n f'° ,be , ' h “ l '; b " l .“ *
mne past, hove stiidinusly avoided w wa .wdopt«I. The mteting, thttc- 01 ' lui L’..too--hut, it wtt
reading ouy newspapers whatever, and , , u ^ udjoumetl over until thuitimo. without.’“ iel . thedlM ™ c 3 * 5 " “TJ*” d
hence camlot'have been advised frutl. h"”g « U .o Y uctioo «u uuy ot the pwp*. “»* b >,^ and « «•»
lhait sOttTce, of the progress of any mat-; 61t i on4 presented for iu consideration. What . ‘.f' 10 "*' , ,, ... .
ter ; pertaiiting to theVinfn! cL. in ^ ^ *? « - - — ~%£ SSS
so immediately interest- [ are ,ot course, unable to p
We have thua enJeavc
whichtheyt
morning, that Lis’ family would be kept, _ in •»» ».<v ..—..., . . . - .
‘ ignoranceof the day fixed for his ex- j„,tice to all. If.h T gentleman .Ml deem him- mmumug.m.U*.
ecution. - ' J Y. ; Lf wronged by ear Element of the fitet^ and it rtorserdtssoktogoarcoaoexfouwahthem. mar-.
In connection with this case it may (shall turn out_we have been misuken,
be stated as a somewhat singular coin- 1 cheerfully make the correction;
cidence ibat JohaAV. Webster commit- j We migtit *pecu?ate on the various, tricks re
ted the murder on Friday—he was a r-'sorted to by certain parties for the purpose of-con
riors or dissol ving our connexion with them,
der to be-treed from tlomination- and injustices—
j We shall see. The prospecte- of the South ap
pear cheerless ftoy, and it behpovea-erery South
ern ttian la think, speak and act, for the emergency
rested on Fri.lny—,be'' verdict of~ Ute 'wita,oiu» mruting-bm, “
Ononer-B (.eeretj .Jnqnes, wn./ntn.le M thuru,».«l» o. .»y ,u„tio„. «, fw>urf
public on Friday—pf the. regulai for the present.
The Choice,between these two measures, is, ito
the South an'ell-import* pt matter.
the Missouri
was given od Friday. j n (foogres* some days ago, that th? defolcaUtin*; cocfSeracy > tb^be scftUd. -If adopted, v
to take place on. of piw!e officer,*ppointed by Mr. Pol*, in four maintain tbe earne position with 'regard
ofdolhrs! rxrerrfon, which we have mail
itri?*wa. r *0, V, B I SS*"- ' he ' ItoALCAnou. » a lllAUt^tuti-jir, Sl„: By On ud.jituw'w rejection or 1