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from the giave, curses it in words olde-j
split !—Speak out, my fiiendt, would you!
exchaiwe it for the demon’s dunk, alco-
holf -
A shout like the roar of a tempest an-;
svvered “no”—“No !'
Critics need never tell me again that
backvv jodsmen are deaf to the divine voice
of eloquence; iur I saw, at that moment,
the missionary held the hearts of the mul-
mttde as it were in the holtow of his hand; ^
and the popular feeling tan in a current so
irresistible, that even the duellist Watt
Foeman, dared n it veulure another inter- :
ruption during the meeting.
I have just reviewed my report oi that
singular speech, in the foregoing sketch;
but alas ! I discover that 1 have utterly
failed to convey the full impression as my
reason and imagination received it. The
language, to be sure, is there—that I never
could forget—but it lacks the spirit; the
tones of unutterable pathos, the cadences
THE SLAVERY COMPROMISE.
of
IK THE 0- S. 8E.NATE, MAT 6.
Report mf ike Select Committee of Tbirteei
Mr. Clat, from ibe Select Cuuuniitce
Thirteen, io whom were referred various reso
lunons relating to California, to other portions of
territory recently acquired by the United States
to be neceuary and proper, •nderMtOatcircaaa*Tty•(Taaaa. Ou that question a great diversity (administer its own taws. If there have been temiorial governments (or Utah and New Max-
stands, to admit California, they iktnk it quite of opinion has prevailed. According to one any instances of abuse io the erroneous arrest of ico.
" “ 6. More effectual enactments of law to secure
as necessary and proper toestahliah governments
for the residue of the" territory derived from
I Me a ice, and to bring it within tbo pale of the
Federal authority. The remoteoem of that tor
ritory from me seat of the General Government;
the
from the Republic ol Mexico, and to other sub
jecis connected with the institution of slavery,
submitted the following
- report : —wswpmm* t
The committee emered oo the discharge of
their duties with a deep tense of their great im-
pottance, aud wkb earnest and anxious solici
tude to arrive at such cooclusioos as might be
satisfactory to the Senate and to the country.
Most of the matters referred to have been non
only subjected to extensive aod serious public
discussion throughout the country, but to a de
bate in ihe Senate itself, singular for its elabo-
raieuess and its duration ; so that a full exposi
tion ol all those motivesand views, which, on the
several subjects confided lo the committee have-
deiermioed the conclusions at which they have
arrived, seems quite unnecessary. They will
view of it, the western limit of Texas was
Nueces; according to another, it extended to
the Rio Grande, and stretched from us mouth
to ita source.: A majority of the committee,
having come to the couctusioo of recorn-nend-
tbe dispersed stale of its population ; the variety , i»g ao amicable adjustment of the boundary
of races—pure and mixed—of which it consists; with Texas, abstain from expressing any opiu-
the ignorance of some of tbo races of our laos, I >o» *>to tbo true aod legitimate western aod
language aud habits; their espoeoro to inroads I norther* boundary of that State. The terms
sod wai* ol savage tribes j aod the solemn st ipu i proposed for such ao adjust ment are contained
laiioos of the treaty by which we acquired do-j '•> «he bill herewith reported, aod they are. with
minion over them, impose upon the United States I ioeooeiderable variation, the same as that report-
ed by the Committee on Territories.
According to these terms, it is proposed to
sod laws suited to their condition. Congress Texas that her boundary be recognised to the
the imperative obligation ol extending to them
protection, and of providing for them government
ill fail in the performance of a high duty if it j Graode, and up that river to the point corn-
does not give, or attempt to give, to them the
benefit of such protection, government aod laws.
They are not now, and for a long lime to come
may Dot be, prepared for Stats government.—
The territorial form, for lbs present, is best suit
cd to their condition. A bill has been reported
tnooiy called El Paso, aod ruooiog thence up
that river twenty miles, measured thereon by
a straight line, aod tbeoce eastwardly to a point
where the hundredth degree of west longitude
crosses Red river; being the southwest angle
fugitives Irom service or labor, ibe committee
have not obtained knowledge of them. They
believe that none such have occurred, and that
such are likely to occur.
But in order to guard against the possibility of
tbeir occurrence, the committee have prepared
and herewith report (marked B.) a section to be
offered to the fugitive bill now peodmg before
the Senate. According to this section, the
owner of a fugitive Irom service or labor is,
when practicable, to carry with him to the State
to which the person is louod, a record, from a
competent tribunal, adjudicating (he facts of
elopement and slavery, with a general descrip
tion ot the fugitive. This record properly at
tested and certified under the official seal of
the court, being taken to the State where the
person owing service or labor is louod, is to be
held competeot aod sufficient evidence of the
(acts which had been adjudicated, and will leave
uothing more to be done than to identify the I ti
the prompt delivery of persons bound to service
er labor io ooe State, under the laws thereof,
who escape into a bother State.
Aod 7. Abstaining from abolishing slavery;
bur, under a heavy penalry. prohibiting the slave
trade in the District of Columbia.
If such of these several measures as require
legislation, should be carried out by suitable acts
of mournful music, alternating with crushes 'herefore, restrict themselves to a few general
of terrible pmver; it lacks the gesticulation, j observances, and to some reflections which gro
now graceful as the plav of a gulden wil- j uu ‘ ,{,ose subjects.
graceful as the play
low in the wind, and anon,
g< !
violent as the I • of our recent territorial acquisitions, 'and
motion of a mountain pine in the burri- of slavery, ques
cane; it lacks that pale face, wrapped in d
_ the lioe designated betweeo the United » gitive.
by ibe Committee onTerritories, dividing all the State* aed Mexico, aod the same angle to the i Numerous petitions have been presented
tetritory acquired from Mexico not compre- *‘ De °f territory set apart for the Indians by j prayiug for a trial by jury in the case of arrest
bended withto the limits of California into two | l ^ e United States.
If this boundary be assented to by Texas, she
will be quieted to that extent in her title. Aod
some may suppose that, in consideratioo of this
cooceasioa by tbs United States, she might.
territories, under the names of New Mexico and
Utah, and proposing for each a territorial gov
ernment.
The committee recommend to the Senate the
* of fugitives from service or labor, io the non
* slaveholding States. It has been already showD
{ that this would be entirely cootrary to practice
j and uniform usage io all similar cases. Under
the name of a popular and cherished institution—
.ns most grave have sprung, which, greatly
, c . . . , , , ■ hvtdtng and agitating the people of the United
Us dream of the spirit laud, and those un- ] States, have threatened to disturb the harmony.
establishment of those territorial governments; w >'bout any other equivalent, relinquish any j au institution, however, never applied io cases ol
{aod in order more certainly to secure that de- I c * a ' m *he has beyond the proposed boundary ;
fathomable eyes, flashing a light such as if not to endanger the safety, ol the Union. The
never beamed irom sun orbtais, and more j committee beltere it to be highly desuabie and
than all, it lacks the magnetism of the Dece ssary,speedily to adjust all those questions,
mighty -oul that seemed to diffuse itself ; ' n a 8 | ,lr ' 1 ol concord, and in a aaaoner to pro
among the hearers, as a viewless stream of
electrici y, penetrating thebtain like some
secret fire, moiling all hearts, and master
ing every volition.
The Camp-meeting continued, aod a re
vival attended it, such as never hefote or
since, was witnessed in the forests of Tex
as. But unfortunately on the last day of
the exercises, news arrived on the groun •
that a neighboring farmer had been mur
dered, and his wife and childreu carried
away prisoners by the Indiana.
; dace, il practicable, geserai satisfaction. They
think it would be unwise to leave any of them
open and unsettled, to fester in the public miod,
and to prolong, if net aggravate, the existing
agitation. It has been their object, therefore,
in this report, te make sut h proposals and re
meodations as would accomplish a general ad
justment of all those questions.
Antung the subjects referred to the committee
which command their first aueottoo, are the
resolutions off-red to the Seuate by the Senator
from Tennessee, Mr. Bell. By a provision in
the resolution of Congress annexing Texas to
the United States, it is declared that “new Stat^
The young missionary sprang into the of convenient size, not exceeding four in nutn-
pulpit, and proposed the immediate organ- * ,er ' ' a addition to said State of Texas, and hav
izutinn of a company to pursue the savages.
The suggestion being adopted, the mover
himself was elected to lead the party. Af
ter aeyeral days ot hatd tiding
took the btrharous enemy in the grand
praitio. Toe missionary charged foremost
of his troop, and having performed prodi
gies of bravery, fell—not by the band of
an Indian—but by a shot from one of bis
own horsemen !
I need scarcely name the assassin—the
reader will have anticipated me. The tn-
iog sufficient population, may fcerealter, by -h i
consent of said State, he formed out ol the ter-
titory thereof which shall be entitled to admi i
ston uuder the provisions of the Federal Coo-
tiiey over-j 3 ut u! ion , and such States as may be formed
-J out of that portion of said territory lying south
of 36 deg 30 mitt, north latitude, cotnr tonly
known as the Missouri compromise line, shall
t>e admitted into the Union with or wittiou t sla
very, as the people of each Slate asking at Imis-
ston may desire.
i he Committee are unanimously of op inion.
that whenever one or more States, formed out of
the territory of Texas, may apply to be ad.-, 11:ted
tncarna'e fiend, C‘*l. W art Foeman, chief into the Uoioo, they are entitled to such a. ft
hangman of the Shelby Lynchers, and ten
years later a master cook at the poisoned
wedding.
Such is the only ftagmen? ftom the biog
raphy of a wounded genius; the sole
twinkling ray of a dazzling luminary, that
rose and set in the wilderness—a torn leaf
from Paul Denton’s book of life. Peace
b.: with his a-hes. lie sleeps well in that
lone isle of evergreens, surrounded by the
evor-gteen sea of the great prairie. Na
tote’s beloved sou iuiieius her costliest
tomb—ih itla-t possession, the inalienable
fee-simple of all time !
BOB WAD DA M’S HORSE TRADE.
“ You know Bob Waddam, 1 reckon?”
said Uncle lMike.
** Not that 1 recollect,” I replied.
“ Well, B d > was an amazin’ hand at tra
din’ h tses, and generally carne nut.ahead
loo. 1 never knew him teally girdled and
the underbrush cut but once.”
“ How was that, Uncle Mike?”
“ Why, you see Bob bad been gettin’ a
gray ho-s in some of his deals, that was
jest about as nice a boss to look at as ever
put his nose through the rack sticks. He
was a human lookin’ boss and nothin’ short
er. He was always lookin’ arter stars, and
carried bis tail like the national flag on the
4th of July. But he wouldn't work—be
was above it. He’d almost stop when he
saw bis shadow followin’ him, for fear he
might be drawin' it.”
“ Now, then,” says Bob, “some individual
is bound to be picked up.”
“ So mukin an excuse tint gray’s shoes
wanted fixin’ he sent him to the black
smith’s and harnessed up his t’other hosses,
hitched on a wagon load of stone, and drove
down to Sam Hewett’s tavern.
Here he stopped before the door, took
out the near boss, and harnessed up the
gray in his place. Bob went in and look
a drink and waited around until some fellet
should come along, who wanted to specu
late. He hadn’t waited long when L*. see
soma feller cornin' up the road like all pos
sessed, his hossess uuder a full run, while
he
wo !
was sawin’ the bits and hollerin’ wo
with al! his might and main. He
managed to stop ’em after he got a little by
Sam Hewitt's, and Lamin’ ’em around, he
come up a slapin’ his hands and in a tearing
passion at his boss.”
“ He’s never ready to stop,” vays lie,
“that It033 ain’t—an’ though he’6 the best
boss 1 over owned, yet I’m determined to
get shut of lnm.”
“ Well, just then out comes Bob, and
mounted Inn wagon jest as if he was goirt’
to drive t ff, when says he, “ Hallo ! stran
ger, pe haps you’d like to deal with me for a
steady one ?”
“ \Vlty, yes,” stiys the.stranger, “ 1 would
like smething a little more quiet than that
go ahead snap-dragon rascal of mine.”
So Bob looked at the sotrel, and found
hint a line square built animal, his eyes full
of fire, and every muscle in play.
“ Well,” says Bob, “ a fqw words for me.
Thete’s my gray — here’s your sorrel.—
What's your proposition V
Now you’re talking,” said the stranger,
examining the gray a3 lie stood hitched to
the load ol s one. “ I'll give sorrel and the
best fotty dollar clock in my wagon for the
grai]"
“* Done,” said Bob, “just unhitch.”
Neither of them had asked t’other ques- j
tionfe. ’cause neither of’ent wanted to answer
any. The bosses were, exchanged. Bob
bad got bis clock, and the stranger got into
his wagon, took up bis lines, and bidden’
em’ good dav, was about to start, when
gray put a stop to it, and would’nt budge a
hair. In vain did the stranger whip and
coax,—not an inch could he get. There
sat Bob, laughing in his sleeve, almost j
ready to burst, to see how the stranger was j
trying to start and could’nt. Not a word!
did the stranger, say, however, but after he
had got quite tired, and had given up try-1
ing it any m >re, he came aud sat down on i
the horse block.
Bob thought lie might a.s well be going; j
ao picking up bis ribbons—“ g ( , along” says !
he. The sorrel turned his head and looked i
back at him, as much as to say “ don’t you !
wish I would but did ut stir a peg. In \
vain Bob coaxed and patted. Sorrel was j
thar and was’nt any where eke.
“ Well, 1 reckon it’s my turn to laugh
now,” said the stranger.
ston. beyond all doubt, upon the clear, u uarn-
biguous, and absolute terms of the solemn com
p:ict contained io the resolution of annexation
adopted by Congress and assented to by Texas.
But. whttet the committee conceive that the
right of admission into the Uuion of any new
States carved out of the territory of Texas, not
exceeding Ihe number specified, aod under the
conditions stated, cannot be justly controverte d,
the committee do not think that the formatio n
ol any such new States should now original.e
with Congress. The initiative, io conformi ty
with the usage which has heretofore prevaile d.
should betaken by a portion ef the people of
T»-xas themselves, desirous of constituting a n ew
State, with the consent of Texas. Aud in the
formation of such new State.it will be for the
people composing it to decide for then.tselves
whether they will admit or will exclude slavery.
And however they may decide that purely mu
nicipal question, Congress is bound to acqui
esce, aod to fulfil iu good faith the stipulations
of the compact with Texas. The committee
are aware that it has been contended that the
resolution of Cougres9 annexing Texas was un
constitutional. At a former epoch of our coun
try’s history, there were those (and Mr. J. ffer-
9oo. under whose auspices the treaty of Louisi
ana was concluded, was among th etn) who
believed that the States formed out ol Louisiana
could not be received into the Union without an
amendment of theCoo9tiuition. But the States
of Louisiana, Missouri. Arkansas and ,Iowa, have
been all, nevertheless, admitted. And who would
now think of opposing the admission of Minne
sota, Oregon, ot other new States formed out of
the ancient province of Louisiana, upon the
ground of an alleged original defect of constitu
tional power? In grave, national transactions,
while yet in their earlier or incipient stages, dif
fcrences may well exist; but when once they
have been decided by a constitutional majority,
and are consummated, or are in a process of con
summation, there can be uo other safe and pru
dent alternative than to respect the decision al
ready rendered, and to acquiesce in it. Enter-
tainiug these views, a majority of ibe committee
do not think it necessary or proper to recom
mend, at this time, oi prospectively, any Dew
State or States to be formed out ot the territory
of Texas. Should any such State be heteafter
formed, and present itself for admission into ; tie
Union, whether with or without the establish
ment of slavery, it cannot be doubted that Con
gress will, under a full sense of honor, of good
faith, and of all the high obligations arising out
of the compact with Texas, decide, just as it
will decide under the influence of similar consiue
ratiuns in regard to new Stales termed of or out
of New Mexico and Uurk, with or without the
institution of slavery according io the constitu
tions and judgment of the people who compose
them, as to what may be best to promote their
hap|>tliess.
In considering the yuesiioo of the admission
of California as a State into the Union, a ma
jority of the committee conceive tboU any trregu
lartty by which that Slate was organized without
the previous authority of an act of Congress
ought to be overlooked, in consideration of ilie
omission by Congress to establish any territorial
government for the people of California, and the
consequent necessity which they were under to
create a government for themselves best adapted
to their-own wants There are various instances
prior to the case of California, of the admission
of new States into the Union without any pre
vious authorization by Congress. The 9ote
condition required by theCoosniution of the Uni
ted States in respect to the admission of a new
State is, that its constitution shall be republican
in form. Cali'oroia presents euch a constitution ;
and there is no doubt of tier having a greater
population than that which, according to the
practice of the government, has been heretolore
deemed sufficient to receive a new State into the
Union.
In regard to (he proposed boundaries of Cali
fornia, the committee would have been gird if
there existed more full and accurate geographical
knowledge of the territory which those boun
daries include. There is reason to believe
that, large as they are, they embrace no very
disproportionate-quantity of land adapted to cul-
ttv.uion. And it is known that they contain ex
tensive tanges of mountains, deserts of sand, aod
much unproductive soil. It might have been,
perhaps, better to have assigued to California a
more limited front on the Pacific ; but even if
there had been reserved ou-tbe shore of that
ocean a poition of the boundary which it presents
for any other Slate or States, it is not very cer
tain that an accessible interior of sufficient extent
could have been given to them to render an ap
proach to the ocean, through their own limits of
aoy vety great importance.
A majority of the committee think that there
are many aod urgent concurring considerations
in favor of admitting California with the pro
posed boundaries, aod of securing to her at this
lime the benefits of a State government. If,
hereafter, upon an increase of her population, a
more thorough exploration of her territory, and
an ascertainment of the relations which may arise
betweeo the peeple occupying its various parts,
it should be found conducive to their conve
nience and happiness te form a new State out of
I ’sDOse you’ll California, we have every reason to believe, from
* - * - past experience, that the question of its adtnis-
| sion will be fairly considered and justly decided,
sorrel I ^ majority of the committee, therefore, re-
sirable object, they also recommend that the bill
for their establishment be incorporated in the
bill for the admission ol California, and that, uni
ted together, they both be pasaed.
The combination of the two measures in the
same bill is objected to on various grounds. It
is said that they are incongruooa, and have no
necessary connexion with each other. A ma
jority of the committee thiok otherwise. The
object of both measures it the establishment of
government suited to the conditions, respective
ly, of the proposed State aod of the new terri
lories. Prior to their transfer to the United
States, they both formed a part of Mexico,
where they stood in equal relations to the govern
tneDt of that republic. They were both ceded
to the United States by the same treaty. Aod
in Ihe same article ol that treaty, the United
States solemnly engaged to protect and govern
both. Common in their origin, comniun in
their alieaation ftom one foreign government to
another, common in their waots of good govern
ment. and conterminous in some of their boun
daries, and alike in many parliculats of physical
condition, they have nearly every thing in enm-
, mon in the relations in which they stand to the
rest of this Union. There is then, a general fit
ness aod propriety in extending the parental care
of government to both in commoo. it California,
, by a sudden and extraordinary augmentation ol
population, has advanced so rapidly as to mature
1 her for State government, that furnishes no rea
son why the less fortunate territories of New
Mexico and Utah should be abandoned and led
uneoverned by the United States, or should be
disconnected with California, which, although
she has organized for herself a State govern
■ ment. must be legally and constitutionally re
garded as a territory until she is actually admit
ted as a State in the Union.
It is lurther objected, that combining the two
measures io the same bill, membei9 who may
be willing to vote for one and unwilling to vote
lor the o'her would be placed loan embarrass
! ing condition. They would be constrained, it
: is urged, to take or to reject both. On the oth
er hand, there are o'her members who would
be willing to vote for both united, but would
: leel themselves constrained to vole against the
California bill if it stood alone Each parly
finds in the bill which it favors, something which
commends it to acceptance, and in the other,
something which it disapproves. The ttue
. ground therefore, of the objection to the union
of the measures is not any want of affinity be
tween them, but because of the favor or disfa-
i vor with which they are respectively regatded.
Io this conflict of opinion, it seems to a major
ity of the committee that a spirit of mutual con
cession enjoins that the two measures should be
connected together; the effect of which will be,
(hat neither opinion will exclusively triumph,
aod that both may find in such an amicable ar
rangement enough of good to reconcile them to
! the acceptance of the combined measure. And
| such a course of legislation is not at all unusu-
I al. Few laws have ever passed in which there
were not parts to which exceplioD was taken.—
It is inexpedient, if not impracticable, to sepa
rate these parts, aod embody them in distinct
bills, so a9 io accommodate (he diversity of opin
ion which may exist. The Constitution of (be
: United States cootaioed in it a great variety of
] provisions, to some of which serious objection
; was made in the convention which formed it by
different members of that body; and when U
was submitted to the ratification of the States,
some of them objected to some parts, aod oth
ers to other parts of the same instrument. Had
these various par's and provisions been separate
ly acted on io the convention, or separately
submitted to the people of the United States,
it is by no meaus certain that the Constitution
itself would ever have been adopted or ratified.
Those who did not like particular provisions
found compensation in other parts of it. And
iu all cases of constitutions aod laws, when ei
ther is presented as a whole, the question to be
decided is, whether the good which it contains
is not of greater amount, and does not neutral
ize any thing exceptionable in it. And as noth
tog human, is perfect, for the sake of that har
mony so desirable in such a confederacy as
this, we must be reconciled to secure as much
as we can of what we wish, and be consoled by
the reflection that what we do not exactly like
is a friendly concession, and agreeable to those
who, being united with us in a common destiny,
it is desirable should always live with us to
peace and concord.
A majority of the committee have, therefore
been led to the recommendation to the Senate
that the two measures be united. The bill lor
establishing the two Territories, it will be ob
served, omits (he Wilmot proviso,-on the ooe
hand, and tin the other, makes oo provision for
the introduction ol slavery into any part ol the
new Territories- That proviso has been the
fruitful source of distraction and agitation. If
that is, any claim to any part o( New Mexico
Bui, ooder the influence of a sentiment of jus
tice and great liberality, the bill proposes to
Texas, for her relioquishment of aoy soch claim
' preliminary uroceeding. and only io cases of
float trial—t^^e would be a complete mockery
ol justice, so far as the owner ol the fugitive is
concerned. II the trial by jury be admitted, it
would draw after it its usual consequence, of
a large pecuniary equivalent. As a considers- * continuance from time to time to bring evidence
(ioo for it, and considering that a portion of the
debt of Texas was created on a pledge to her
creditors of the duties on foreign imports, trans
ferred by the resolution of annexation to the
United Slates, and now received aud receivable
in their ireasuiy, a majority of the committee
rec'immeoded the payment of the sum of ——
millions of dollars to Texas, to be applied in the
first instance to the extinction of that portion of
her debt lor the reimbursement of which the
duties oo foreigo imports were pledged as afore
said, and the residue in such manner as she
may direct. The said sum is to be paid by the
United States in a stock, fo be created, bearing
five per cent, interest annually, payable half
yearly at the treasury of the United States and
the principal, reimbursable at the end of four
teen years.
According to an estimate which h is been
made, tbeie are included io the territory to
whieb it is proposed that Texas shall relinquish
her claim, embracing that part of N* w Mexico
lying east of the Rio Grande, a little less than
124.933 square miles, aud about 79.959 120
acrea of land. From the proceeds of tha sale
of this land, the United States may uitimai ely
be reimbursed a portion, il not the whol>- o the
a-nount of what is thus proposed to be advanced
to Texas.
It cannot be anticipated that Texas will de
cline to accede to these liberal propositions;
bui if she should, it is to be distinctly under
stood that the title of the United States to any
territory acquired from Mexico east of the Rio
Grande will remaio unimpaired and io the same
condition as if the proposals of adjustment now
offered had never been niade-
A majority of the committee recommend to
the Senate that the se< tion containing these
ptoposals to Texas shall be incorporated into the
bill embracing the admission of California as a
State, aod the establishment of territorial gov
ernments for Utah and New Mexico. The de
finition aod establishment of ibe boundary be
tween New Mexi< o and Texas has an intimate
and necessary connexion with the establishment
of a territorial government for New Mexico.—
To form a territorial government for New Mex
ico, without prescribing the limits of ihe Terri
tory, would leave the work imperfect and incom
plete, and might expose New Mexico to serious
controversy, if not dangerous cullisions. with
the Slate of Texas. And most, if not all the
considerations which unite in favor of combin
ing the bill for the admission of California as a
State and the territorial bills apply to the boun
dary question of Texas. By the union of tbe
three measures, every question of difficulty and
division which has sriseo out of the territorial
acquisitions from Mexico will, it is hoped be ad
justed, or placed io a train of satisfactory adjust
meat. The committee, availing themselves of
the arduous and valuable labors of the Commit
tee oo Territories, report a bill, herewith annex
ed. (marked A.j embracing those three meas
ures, the passage of which, uniting them to
gether, they recommend to the Senate
The committee will now proceed io the con
sideration of. and to report upon, the subject of
persoos owing service or labor in ooe State es-
from distant places; of second or uew trials, in
cases where the jury is hung, or the verdict is
set aside ; and of revisals of the verdict and con
duct of tbe juries by competent tribunals. Dur
ing (he progress ol all these dilatory aod expen
sive proceedings, what security is (here as to
(be custody and forthcoming of the fugitive
upon tbeir termination ? And if, finally, the
claimant should be seccessful. contrary to what
happens in ordinary litigation between free per
socs, he would have to bear all the burdens and
expeose of litigation, without indemnity, aod
would It-arn, by sad experience, that be had by
lar better have abandoned his right io the first
instance than to establish it at such unremuner
ated cost and heavy sacrifice.
But whilst the committee conceive that a
trial by jury to a Slate where a fugitive from ser
vice or labor is recaptured would be a virtual
denial ol justice to the claimant of such fugitive,
and would be tantamount to a positive refusal to
execute the provisions ol the Constitution, the
same objections do nut apply to such a trial in
the State from which he fled. In i he slavebold
ing States, full justice is administered with en
tire fairness and impartiality io cases of all ac
tions lor freedom. The person claiming his’ phantly the glorious problem of mao’s capacity
freedom is allowed to sue in forma pauperis ; for self-government.
counsel is assigued him ; time is allowed him io
< collect his witnesses and io attend the sessions j
of the court; and his claimaot is placed under
bond aod security, or is divested of the posses i
i ston during the progress of the trial, to ensure
the enjoyment >f these privileges ; and if there
: be any leaning oo the part of the courts and
juries, it is always on the side of the claimant!
' for freedom.
| In defetence to the feelings and prejudices
which prevail in the oon-slaveholding States, the
committee propose such a trial in the State from
which the fugitive fled, in all cases where he
declares to the officer giving the certificate for
his return, that lie has a right to his freedom.
Accordingly the committee have prepared, and
■ report herewith, (marked C.) two sections, which
they recommend should be incorporated io the
fugitive bill peoJing in the Senate. According
to these sections, Ihe claimant is placed under
bond, and required to return the fugitive to that
county in the State from which he fled, and
there to take him before a competent tribunal,
aod allow him to assert and establish his freedom
■ h e can, affording to him for that purpose all
needful facilities.
The committee indulge the hope that if the
fugitive bill, with the proposed amendments,
j shall be passed by Congress, it will be effectual
j to secure the recoveay ol all fugitives from ser
vice or labor, and that it will remove all causes
i of complaint which have hitherto been expert
’ enced oo that irritating subject. But if in its
! practical operation it shall be found insufficient,
| and if do adequate remedy can be deviaed for
i the restoratioo to their owners of fugitive slaves,.
i those owoers will have a just title tc indemnity
j out of the Treasury of the United States.
THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
Extract Owns Mr. Siepheu’a Syrech,
In the House ol Representatives, on the Census Bill.
Mr. Stephens said—
It has been said that tbe objection to this mea
sure is a sectional one , that (be South is oppos
ed toil because the statistics will exhibit her dis
advantages. I allude to this simplv to repel the
imputation in tbe most direct, emphatic, and
positive terms. A' least. I can speak for myself
and my State. I do not shrink from a compari
son of that State with any State in this Union, in
all the elements and resources of industiv and
prosperity which give wealth, dignity, and pow
er to a people. Georgia, i> is true, was the
youngest ol the old thmeen States that formed
the Union. At that time she was the weakest
of tbe fraternal band. Twelve years have not
yet passed since the last remnant of tbe abori
gines were removed from her limits, and since
she had complete jurisdictions over her entire
domain. Of couise tbe comparison would be
with great odds against her if matched against
Massachusetts. New York, ot Virginia, which
were wealthy and powerful communities before
the infant colony of Georgia was planted iu tbe
wilderness. Boston, New York, and Richmond,
were nearly as old as Geojgia now is when Ogle
thorpe first landed at Savannah. Bat notwith
standing all this, I will not shrink from the com
parison, let it be instituted when and where it
may.
The gemleman from Pennsylvania has told ns
of the iron aod coal of that ancieut and reoowo-
| ed Commonwealth. Georgia too, let me tell
It remains to report upon the resolutions in ; that gentleman, has her beds of coal aDd iron,
relation to slavery and tbe slave trade in the her lime, gypsum and marl; her quarries of
District of Columbia. Without discussing the granite aod marble. She has inexaustable ireas-
power of Congress to abolish slavery within the ures of minerals, including gold, the most pre-
capiog ioto another. Tbe text of tbe Coostitu- ~ r - -
lion is quite clear : “No person held to labor or ; . D,s,r,c '’ 10 regard to which a diversity of opin- ; ctous ol metals. Sne has a soil aod a climate
■ r ’ inn BVlfafO fnn n n m m illnA _ C * I . L _ ■ amlnku ,La -J ■ t t
service in ooe State, under the laics thereof es
caping into another, shall, in consequence of
any law or regulation therein, be discharged
from such service or labor, but shall be deliver
ed up on the claim of tbe party to whom such
service or labor may be due.” Nothing can be
more explicit than this language—nothing more
manifest than the right to demand, and the obli
gation to deliver op to the claimaot, any such
fugitive. And the Constitution addresses itself
alike to the States composing the Union and to
the General Government. If indeed, there were
any difference in the duty to enforce this por- {
tion of the Constitution between tbe States and
the Federal Government, it is more clear that it
is that of the former than of the latter. But it
is (be duty of both. It is now well known and
incontestable, that citizens in slaveholding States
encounter the greatest difficulty io obtaining the
benefit of this provision uf the Constitution.
The attempt to recapture a fugitive is almost
always a subject of great irritation and excite
* ion exists, tbe committee are of opinion that it suitable for the growth and culture of almost
’ ought Dot to be abolished. It could not be ! every product known to husbandry and agricul-
done without indispensable conditions, which are ture. A better country for wheat aud corn and
not likely to be agreed to. It could not be done all the cereal plants, to say nothing of cotton aod
without exciting great apprehension and alarm tobacco, is not to be found in an equal space on
1 in the slave States. If the power were exercised this continent. There, too, grow the orange,
withio this District, they would ap; rebend that, the olive, the vine aod the fig, with foiests of
under some pretext or another, it might be oak and pine sufficient to build and masi the na-
j hereafter attempted »o be exeicised within the | of the world. She has mountains for gra
slaveholding States- It is ttue that at present , zmg, rivets for commerce, & waterfalls forma-
all such power within those States is almost - chinery of all kinds without number. Nor have
• unanimously disavowed and disclaimed in the j these great natural advantages and resources
{ f ree States. But experience in public affairs has 1 been neglected. Young as she is she is now the
too often shown that where there is a desire to
j do alp#rticlar thing, the power to accomplish tt,
j sooner or later, will be found or assumed.
Nor does the Dumber of slaves within the Dis
trict m:tke the abolition ot slavery an object of
any such consequence as appears to be attached
to it iD some parts of the Uuion. Since the re
trocession ol Alexandria county to Virginia, on
the south side of the Potomac, the District now
* consists only of Washington county oo the north
ment. and often leads to most oopleasant if not - , . , .
perilous collisions. Ao owner of a slave, tt ts ' 9 ' de ° f ^ MTPr; and ,he re,ur09 of ,he decen
quite Dotorious. cannot pursue bis property, for
the purpose of its recovery, in some of the
States, without imminent personal hazard.—
This is a deplorable state of things,
oug'it to be remedied. The law of -1793 has (
been found wholly ineffectual, and requires
more stringent enactments. There is. espe
ctally, a deficiency in the number of public
nary enumeration of the people of the United
\W t
4 States sho\^ a rapidly progressive decrease io
the numb* of slaves in Washington county.—
. . . i According to the census of 1830. the number
w llc 1 was 4.505 ; and in 1840, it was reduced to3 320
showing a reduction in ten years of nearly
j one third. If it should continue in the same
• ratio, the number, according to the census now
it were adopted and applied to any Territorv. it i f unc, ' ODar i e * authorized to afford aid in the ( j- |wo thousand.
. * . * iniviiva and a srsroat n I I •« n ■ t 1/. C,.., a.
i about to be taken, will be only a little upwards
would cease to have aoy obligatory force as soon
as such Territory were admitted as a State ioto
the Union. There was never any occasion lor
I it, to accomplish the professed object with which {
! it was originally offered. This has been clear-
| ly demonstrated by the current of events. Cali
fornia, of all the recent territorial acquisitions
' from Mexico, was that in which, it anywhere {
1 within them, the introduction of slavery was '
; most likely to take place; aod the constitution
| of California, by the unanimous vote of her |
convention, has expressly interdicted it. There |
I is tbe highest degree of probability that Utah
and New Mexico will, wheo they come to be '
admitted as States, follow the example. Tbe !
proviso is, as to all these regions in common, a
mere abstraction. Why should il be any long- |
| er insisted on ? Totally destitute, as it is, of
seizure and arrest of fugitives. Various States
hare declined to afford aid ant) co-operatioo
io (be surrender of fugitives from labor, as ihe
committee believe, from a misconception of
their duty arising under the Constitution of the
United States. It is true that a decision of the
Supreme Court of the Uoited States has given
countensBce to them in withholding their as
sistance. But the committee cannot but be
lieve that the intention of the Supreme Court
has been misunderstood. They cannot but
thiok that court merely meant that laws of the
several States which created obstacles in tbe
way of tbe recovery of fugitives were not au
thorized by the Constitution, aod oot that State
laws affording facilities in (he recovery of fugi
tives were forbiddeu by that instrument.
The noo-slavebolding Slates, whatever sym-
I any practical import, it has, nevertheless, had fp a, bi*e **y of their citizens may leel for per
lite prenicious effect to excite serious, if not I 8on * *h° escape Irom other States, cannot dis
alarntiog, consequences.
It is high time that the wounds which it has
charge themselves from an obligation to enlorce
the Constitution of the United States. All
inflicted should be healed up aod closed ; and ; pa ' ,S ° f ' h ® 'J n ' TU "* M 1 beio * d *Pe° d e"t “pon,
,h„. oil .1™. .h. oo....; l aod connected with each other, ought
| that, to avoid, in all future time, the agitations
; which must be produced by the conflict of opio-
; ion on the slavery queslioo, existing as this in
stitution does in some of the States and prohtb
ited as it is in others, the true principle which
! ought to regulate tbe action of Congress in
j forming territorial governments for each newly
| acquired domain, is to refrain from all legisla-
| tion on the subject in the territories acquired, so
long as it retaios the territorial form of govern-
■ ment—leaving it to the people of such Territory,
be
fairly aod justly enforced. If some States may
seek to exonerate themselves from one portion
of the Constitution, other States may endeavor
to evade tbe performance of other portions of it;
and thos (be instrument, in some of its most im
portant provisions, might become inoperative
and invalid.
But whatever may be ihe conduct of individu
al Slates, the duty of tbe General Government
is perfectly clear. That duty is to amend the
when thn baVe n,uta£TT. Tbi/h I ”***''? rV° Pr ° ?id “ 80 ^i" 8 '
call again when you come to town.
“ Oh, never mind,” says Bob,
will go, or else you could’nt get here with ! commend to the Senate the passage of the bill
him.
“ Oh, yea,” says the stranger, “ you : can
statt-him if you’ll only bring some sba-
•’vif*g6, end kitsdlf C/Jire under him as 1 did."
And then he'laughed again, aud when I
came away they were playing a game toaee
who should take ’em both.
[Cincinnati News.
reported by the Cormnittee en Territories fur
the admission of California as a State into the
Union. To prevent misconception, the com
mittee also recommend that tbe amendment re
ported by the same committee to tbe bill be
adopted, so as to leave incontestable the light of
tbe United Slates to tbe public- domain and
other public property in California.
Whilst a majority of tbo committee believe it
entitles them to admission as a Stale, to decide
for themselves the question of tbe allowance or
prohibition of domestic slavery. Tbe commit
tee believe that they express the anxious desire
of an immense majority ol tbe people of the
j Uthted States when they declare that it is high
j time that good feelings, harmony, aod fraternal
i sentiments should be again revived, and that the
i Government should be able once more to pro
ceed io its great operations to promote the hap
piness and prosperity of tbe country undisturbed
by this distracting cause.
As for California, far from feeling her seosi
bilily affected by her being associated with oth
er kindred measures—she ought to rejoice and
be highly gratified that, in entering the Union,
she may have contributed to the tranquility and
happiness of the great family of States, of which,
it is to be hoped, she may one day be a distin
guished member.
Tbs committee beg leave next te report on
for the recovery of fugitives Irom service or labor.
In devising sneb a remedy. Congress ought,
whilst on one hand securing to the owner fair
restoration of his property, effectually to guard,
on the other, against any abuses in tbe applica
tion of that remedy.
In all cases of tbe arrest, withio a State, of
persons charged with offences; io all cases of
(he pursuit of fugitives from justice from one
one State to another State; io all cases ot ex
tradition provided for by treaties between for
eigo powers—the proceeding uuiformly is sum
mary. It has never beeo thought necessaty to
apply, in ceses of that kind, the forms and cere
monies ot a final trial. And when that trial
does take place, it is in the State or country from
which tbe party has fled, aod not io that in
which be has found refuge. By tbe expreee
laoguge of tbe Coostitutioo, whether tbe fugi
tive is held to service or labor or not, is to be de
termined by ike laws of the Stale from which he '
and consequently, it la roost proper that
tbo subject of tbe northern end western bounds- * tbs tribunals of that State should expound aod .
But a majority of the committee thiok differ-
j eoily in regard to the slave trade wiihm the Dis
trict. By that trade is meant the imrodnetion
of shvps from adjacent Stales into tbe Disirict
for safe, or to be placed to depot for the purpose
of subsequent sale ..r tiansporiatioo to other and
distant markets. That trade, the majority of the
committee are of opinion, ought to be abolish
! *d. Complaints have always existed against it,
j l* ss ° n the part of members of Congress from
the South, than oo the part of members Irom
the Noith. It is a trade sometimes exhibiting
revolting spectacles, aod one in which ihe peo
ple of the District have no interest, bui on ihe
contrary, are believed to be desirous that it
should be discontinued. Most, if not all, of the
slaveholding States have, either in their consti
tutions or by penal enactments, prohibited a
trade in slaves as merchandize within tbeir re
spective jurisdictions. Congress standing in re
gard to the people of thi9 District on this sub
ject in a relation similar to that of the State Lc
gislatures to the people of the States, may salely
follow the examples ol the States. The com
mittee have prepared, a aod herewith report, a
bill for (he abolition ol that trade, (marked D.)
the passage of which they recommend to the
Senate. This bill has beeo framed after the
model of what the law of Maryland was wheo
the General Government was removed to Wash
ington.
The views aod recommendations contained in
this report may be recapitulated in a lew words:
1. The admission of aoy new State or States
formed out of Texas to be postponed until they
shall herealter present themselves to be received
into the Union, wheo it will be the duty of Con
gress fairly and faithfully to execute the compact
with Texas by admitting such new State or
Stales.
2. The admission forthwith of California ioto
the Union, with the boundaries which she has
proposed.
3. Tbe establishment of territorial govern
ments. without the Wilmot Proviso, for New
Mexico and Utah, embracing all the territorv re
cently acquired by tbe United States from Alex
ico not contained in the boundaries of Califor
nia.
4. The combination of these two last mention
ed measures in Ihe same bill.
5- The establishment of tbe western and north
ern bouodary of Texas, and the excluaioo from
her jurisdiction of all New Alexieo, with the
grant to Texas of a pecuniary equivalent. And
the section for that purpose to be incorporated
in the bill admitting California and establishing
first cotton-growing State in tbe Uoion. Her last
year’s crop will not fall short of six hundred
thousand bales, if it does not exceed it. She
has 1 believe, thirty-six cotton factories io ope
ration, .and a great many more hastening to com
pletion—one ol them has, or sooo will have, ten
thousand spindles, with two.hundred looms ca
pable of turning out eight thousand yards of
cloth per day. Her yarns are already finding
their way to ihe markets of the North aod tor
eigo countries ; aod the day is not distant when
she will lake the. lead io the manufacture, as
well as the production of (his great staple- She
has also her flour mills and paper mills—her
forges, founderies and furnaces, not with tbeir
fires extinguished, as the gentleman from Penn
sylvania said ol some io bis State ; but in full
blast. Her expoits last year were oot less thao
thirty millions of dollars, equal io, if oot greater
than those ot all New England together. She
has six hundred aod fifty miles of railroad in op
eration, at a cost of fifteen millions of dollars,
and two hundred more io the process of con
struction. By her energy and enterprises she
has scaled the mountain barriers sod opened the
way for the steam car, from the Southern Atlan
tic ports to the waters of the great valley of tbe
West. But this i9 not all She has four char
lered universities—nay five, for she has ooe de
voted exclusively io the education of her daugh
ters. She was the first Stale, I believe, io estab
lish a female college which is now io a flourish
ing condition, and one of ihe brightest ornaments
of her character. She ha9 four hundred young
men pursuing a collegiate couise ; a greater
number, I believe-thao any State in the Union
in proportion to her white population. Go then
and take your statistics, if you wish—you will
find not only all these things' to be so. but I tell
you also what you will oot find. You will not
find any body in ihai Stale begging bread or ask
ing alms. You will find but few paupers. You
will not find lorty thousand beings, pinched with
cold and huDger- demanding the right to labor,
as 1 saw it stated to be the case not long sioce
in the city of New York. And wheo you have
got all the information you want, come and in
stitute the comparison, if you wish with any State
you please ; make your own selection, I shall
no: shrink from it. nor will the people of that
State shrink from it. Other gentlemao front
the South can speak for tbeir own Stales ; I
speak only for mine, and in her name and in her
behalf, as one of her representatives upon this
floor, I accept the gauntlet in advance, aod I
have no fears of the result of a comparison of
her statistics, socially, morally, politically, with
any other Slate of equal population in this con
federacy. 1 know gentlemen of the North are
in the habit of laying great stress upon the
amount of their population, as if numbers was
an tndex of national prosperity. If this princi
ple were correct, Iieland should be considered
one of the mots prosperous countries in the world,
notwithstanding thousands of her inhabitants die
annually for the want of food. The whole Idea
is wrong. That country has the greatest ele
ments ol prosperity where the same amount of
human labor or exertiou will.procure the Greatest
amount of humau comforts ; and that people are
the most prosperous, whether tew or many, who
posseastog these elemeots, control them by their
energy and industry and economy for the acco*
(notation of weal.h. In these particulars the
people ol Georgia are inferior to none io this or
any other country. They have abundant reason
to be cootent with their lot—at least not to look
to you to better it. Nor have they aoy disposi
tion lo interfere with tbe affairs of their neigh
bors. If the people of Massseho*,,
‘”ork or Ohio, like iheir con.fii|„ n '•
are at perfect liberty io do so. ‘
desire io interfere with iheir local ,!U '
tastes or sentiments, nor '•ill she all
interfere with hers. All she de.,,,,,
era alone and to be let alone by other.
meneed prosperous aod to prosper.
Mr. SweKTSKO interrupted, and
'i* h«
of Congress, ail contiosesstes to which our hue
territorial acquisitions have given rise, aod all
existing questions connected with the institution
of slavery, whether resulting from those acqui
sittons or from its existence in the States and
aod the District of Columbia, will be amicably
settled aod adjusted, in a maoner, it is confident
ly believed, to give general satisfaction to an
overwhelming majority ofthe people of the Uni
ted States. Congress will have fulfilled its whole
duty io regard to the vast country which, haviog
been ceded by Alexieo to the United States, has
fallen under iheir dominion. It will have ex
tended to it, protection, provided for its several
pans the inestimable blessing of free and regular
government adapted to then various wants, and
placed the whale under 'he banner and the flag
of the United States. Aleetiog courageously
its clear aDd entire duty. Congress will escape
the unmerited reproach of having, from conside
rations of doubtful policy, abaodoned to an un
deserved fate, territories of boundless extent,
with a sparse, incongruous, and alien, if Dot un
friendly population,speaking different languages,
aod accustomed to different laws, whilst that
popurattoD is rnakiog irresistible appeals to the
new sovereignty to which they have been trans
ferred for protection, for government, for law,
and for order.
The committee have endeavored to present to
the Senate a comprehensive plan of adjustment,
which, removing all causes of existing excite
ment and agitation, leaves none open to divide
the countrv and disturb the general harmony.—
Tbe nation has been gteatly convulsed, not by
measures of general policy, but by questions of
a sectional character, and. therefore, more dan
gerous and more to be deprecated. It waots re
pose. It loves aod cherishes the Union. And
it is most cheering and gratifying to witness the
outbursts of deep and ahidiug attachment lo it
which have beeo exhibited in all parts of it,
amidst all the trials through which we have
passed aod are passing. A people so patriotic a9
■ hose of the United States will rejoice in ao ac
commodation of all troubles aod difficulties by
whirh the safety of that Union might have been
brought into the least daoger. And under the
blessings of that Providence, who. amidst all vi
cissitudes, has never ceased to extend to them
His protecting care. His smiles aod His bless
ings. they will continue to advance in popula
tion. power and prosperity, and work out trium-
factories io G-orgia had not be,.,,
Norrh-rn capital ?
Mr. Stephens s*id : N«, sir. (he, 1
by Georgia capital. And I wif| tr|| j
man more. The six hundred and fif,, j
Rail Road now in operation, to which | h
Iuded, were bntli by Georgia capit,| '
dred and thirty six miles, from Atlanta . Vs
nooga. on the Tennessee river, which
tbe greatest monuments of the enle r ,.. r l , ,
age. was built by the State. Bur h 7j
debt is only a little over eighteen hwuh.!M
sand dollars, while that of 'teS'ateoi v, 4
isovertwentv millions, besides the four** -
ions owed by the city alone ; and ib. V* I
Pennsylvania is forty millions of di.ii,,,' . j
bonds of the State of Georgia are htk 1
by her own people. You do not see the ’
ed abont in Northern or foreign mar,„*
depreciation. But they, as well a S M
aud securities of the private comp mi?,
mos lv by her own citizens, and ate (
ing premiums at home.
! c °ir-
An Extraordinart Operatio.i \\
informed that a surgical operation watp^J
ed by a highly respectable physician 0 f if,., ■
the result of which is almost unpanHelc/'
anoals ofsurgery. For a long timepa,, v
Kennedy, who resides at 115 Broad
suffered intensely Irom some unknow a
tbe seat ofthe pain being in the bottom V
abdominal cavity. At times she lelt a
of some creeping thing moving about i*^
dompn. At length her distress became Wln
that, after much persuasion, she ar.d hJ
band induced Dr. Wright, who attended >»
perform an operation, which was skillfull,
on Friday last, in presence of T R 0». n ,
Dr. Sbeehy. To their utter astnnishm..
found a large irregular shaped tumor i n n .
domett, aod oo opening it discovered Mr,,,
eighteen and fifteen inches iu length, r
reptiles were of bloish greeo color, strip*;
upper part being darker than the iower
were removed, much to the relief m >i„ j
oedy, who is now doing well. Thetvnnm.,
been placed in a j <r of spirits for pre-mr,;.
aod are now at the office of Dr. Wright.
of Purchase and Broad streets.—BosIm^
nal.
Breach or Promise or Marriage-?
ly fonr and Twenty-four—Sergeant $he»*
ed in the Court ot Exchequer lately, | w< ,
trial in the rase of Adams v. Gibhg. i rK
Maidstone, before Chief Justice Wilde,o,.
ground of misdirection and excessive din ,.
Mr. Gibbs, a farmer, aged fifty four, soughti
Adams, aged ivbij lour, to marriage. A
preliminaries were arranged, wedding dr*
bought, and even the wed ling bseakf^irnidh
when the defendant suddenly set off i M [,
erpool. and suosequemiy America. >
geant Shee contended thar the damages 4,
were excessive. The deiendr nt was r*-ji
pay handsomely b>r his refusal rn nwm
plaintiff, but c£800 was far too much, ft
loss had the pla:nnff sustained > Then >
oo interesting correspondence, no senium
courtship, no broken heart, nr anything m>i
sort. (Laughter) What had, been th* t
ef ibis young lady } She had lost a hnstu-j
fifty-four Why, what had a mas uf filiy h.;
with n young wrte ol twenty ft,ur. 'bn£
all. She would be mnch better withus !w
(Laugb'er.) Sir F- Pollock..—It is very we 1 -
you. Brother Shee. who are under fitly. t«*
that; but I caw assure you that men lar adi«
ed beyond that age sometimes :hmk diffi-re-.
(Immense laughter ) Judgment detei»el
From the N. O Crescent, 11th inst.
OVERFLOW OF THE MISSISSIPPI: ;
One of the Editors of this paper, oo* mi
visit to Concordia Parish, writes u» ibe !e‘ut
ing :
Viualia, May 8.1359. ]
An eye witness alone can realize tbe extn n
(be destruction caused by the recea 1 tiooiJ
More than two thirds of the four panghMmJ
prising the oldCorcordia District, viz: Cmc ]
dta, Tensas, Aladisoo, aod Carroll, are nr
water. Tbe only portions of dry land arsvar
the bask of ihe Mississippi, where ibe Ww
still stand; bat ail rbe back country is mttA
Within a few years » dense populatui a
ted.
s
settled on the high lands bordering on tinw
merows bayoas id the roiermr. These b»*>
been drweo oar. In this parish afone truer
mated that at least 30.0G& head of canl*
been drowned, and is like proportion in ihe oik
parishes. Ja Point. Coupee the deatriicuai
equally great.
Phe water is falling here very slightly, bars
consequence of the crensse at StJjosepb'n
is rising in the swamp, ft is sow settled ib»i«
water will not felt to time, to plant eouae. 7s
plant is very small and backward for t he jeavi
The deficiency ia ihe four perishes will be»
least L50|000 bales. The country frssv tv
mouth- ol Red River re the Arkansas kw, 1?
miles is length and 38- it* breadt h. is the ft*
of the eat ten region ^ it writ dim produces*
fourth ef J- crop, even under the most faror.K
circumstances, because not a fourth ot the lad
Caw be cultivated.
I ar» aware that it is re© mtteh the cujioti »
cry stH short erop hem tbe start. But Icin'
mas visit aoy point io t he eottor: region of *
valley, aod be will be convinced thar the
,lhi» year wrU be less than that of last
, douhtedly ibe enhaosed price wilf dtitMtisli *
; civRsnmptioB. aud thus react ea ihe price—i
j that alone can prevent a rise. You um»*'
on it that ihw flood is ihe most extensive ?>*
j 1848-. aud infinitely more destructive.. For >»
j ODly Sf led up the swamps and the few pfo**
j lioim opened err the front fends, but thiss**?
t over a vast region of cultivated lands.
3
! A RICH SCENE IN AN AUCTION ROOM- i
J ^ A few days ago 1 ei.aac.-d to stumble imau I
tioa sale at damaged diy goods, where biddings*''’ A
" apinted,’ and me large rr,-wd ofmalceaud IMW S
wrie vieing with each utbei ia iheir offer*. ***' •
pair or Idanketj* were pst ap, sad a d Jon bik> I
instantly raiaod to tboro The puz**-d naafe** W
however, raugtir up th** luefe-,-1. which wa» I'*-**' w
dollar, from a tern-tie who wemed ifett-rmi^ed ’v' 1 ” I
l bens,a*i»ny price, when, me he could say “ »“f> ’ li
male voice cried out, “ Dollar fifty.” fra* dt i *ff'BH
•its aide of ibe room. ,
* Taro dollar*.’ echoed tbe vroroaa, eJbwwifig
way through the tfenie ma>* of tr-male*. •tw*'’ X
separated from the male* by a h»ug coutuer. <•* M
which, tbe gliStoogued functionary walked it* m*-’’ J
with the good*. 1
Turning in the ether side, be eommenred a®** st I
stereotype voewbafeely of choice and amu*u.j; ■
of speech tiir be touched the finale. .
‘Two fifty .'nodded the man. *
’Tbwuk ye, »ir? going at twnfifty.’ f
‘Thvee?screamed Ibe woman. i
' Four,’ replied lb*- roan.
‘Giwibe fifty J said it.e auctioneer, taming 10
wonawa wkb a half suppressed soule en hi* ^
her visage. .
A itodhoai the womaa. j®
‘Four fifty, Fra.offered, gin roe five T Come:^’ J
be afraid ; they’re worth double the money.’ 1
‘Yes, atidlhat’* %!!.’ w
'Sold ? cried the deafer in Ixuomers. alron't :
ing wmH leoghies, ‘loCapi Smith, (notJohiJj I
dollar*.’ ^
*Sn»khJ cried ike woman, ‘what, my hssh>-' J
raising herself ot» lip-toe to- catch a e ince *' T
* Wby^yoagood for nothing rub, yww’rc 4sen hsdhU (
against yovr wife r Of*, you, impudence I * jfl
won’t have them in the house.’
I vaaossed.—Spirit of Times *
From, vke Fsenth. •
Tlortf firms us of Beauty which const* 1 * 11
Perfect Ifttanx—Thit-e thi**«s whiteV tf.e
teeth aod hands. Three black : ibe ayes.
and eye-lashea. Three red: ihe lip*, cheek*
■ail* Three long i the body, huie and beads.
Tbrd
short: the teetu,ea»and feet- Three wide »« ^
tbe cheek*, ferebead and space between de r *
brows. Three small or nwiow : the mouth •****.
ancle. Three plaoip ; the era. leg and salt.
delicate or fine s lint fiagera, hair aod tip*- * 3 '
tmsU: tha head, ehia and i.ase.
Curiouo E feels of Fear.—The peseions ot j
says the Earl of Shatisbory. determines the tnu* f .
the knees, which are instantly ready to perform t
morion, by taking up Mie legs with ncomparsb®^
lerkj, ia order to remove the body out of barm * * -
SK
• ** You knew what physical training i» of ceofsVi
Partington I” said this doctor iw a mild way* j
“•Oh»yei t ” replied she; •* Pee jest seen •P ic ‘ # „
s whole family of twelve children that took boibii>I
rank bet pills tor thirty year*!"