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Augusta, (Georgia. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 14. Toy ms of the Weekly Paper- One year, in advance $2,00 If paid within the year 2,50 At tne end of the year.. 3,00 above terms will be rigidly enforced The Crops- A letter received by ns from Troupville, dared the 4th iast., says—“ The Cotton Crop looks well here and a good deal has been picked out already. Corn will not average a half Crop.” t7§T We publish in another column a com munication signed “ A Southern Clergyman,” which we hope all will read. Its length should deter none, and the subject on which he writes, is important to all. Congress. We have not room this morning for com ments, and if we had, should prefer leaving that duty to the Editor, who we are pleased to inform our readers, has in a great measure recovered his health, and in a day or two will be at his post. But we cannot suffer the op portunity to pass, to request our readers to scan the proceedings of Congrees in this day’s paper, and particularly the remarks and'vote of our immediate representative, Hon. Robert Toomb , when the Utah Bill was before the House. He used, to gay the least, strange language for a representative from Georgia, with the proceedings of her Legislature stare ing him in the face. Extract of a Letter from Athens, Tenn “ Farmers along the valley, from Chattanooga up to Virginia, are not only suffering from short crops but are now losing all of their cattle, such as co,vs, steers, &c, from a disease intro ueed by drovers travelling from Alabama to Virginia. The disease is called tlie murrain, and [is spread in this way; whereever these droves are put up for the night, the neigh boring cattle will be sure to take it, and when one has it, the rest must all die, as no pre ventative can be found. “The disease acts in this way', the cattle firs* ' become covered yntbc„ ptftaiiar tick, and then j in a day or two die. I passed yesterday from Cleveland to this place, and could see numbers 1 of dead carcases lying over the fields. “One farmer has just lost his last, number- | ing 15 hea l in a week; with another who has ! 20 or 30, this disease has commenced and is ! certain to take the whole number. “The farmers will have but one consolation, j and that a poor one, which is that they will j re iuire lea corn to feed, and they can fatten ! tlier hogs oil the carcases.” “I learn that the crops in middle Tennessee j are generally good. Speculators are purchas- | ing all the poor hogs here, intending to drive j them where corn is plenty, where they wil j fatten and bacon them up. So we may have | bacon, if not hogs.” Tho State Convention- We lay before our readers to-day, (says the Mulledgeville Federal Union,) the Act of the last Legislature of Georgia, directing the Governor to call a Convention, upon the pas sage by Congress of certain measures desig- ! rated in the Act. We also lay bafore them, j the votes by which that act was passed. By i these votes, eight only dissenting in the Sen- I : ate and twelve in the House, will be seen the ! ; almost unexampled unanimity which pervad- 1 ed both branches of the General Assembly. All of those who voted in the negative, if we * mistake not, were the peculiar advocates of 1 the Missouri Compromise line, and it may be ' inferred, that they voted n 3 they did, became < an amendment to that effect had been reject- I ed. 1 In the Senate, none who were present, can forget the pointed and pertinent conversation- 1 al debate, bet ween Mr. Bailey and Mr. A. J. < Miller, the leader of the whig party, and the < prominent advocate in the Senate of the Mis- j : souri line. During the debate on the amend- j < ment, the Missouri line, introduced by him, j i with more than wonted zeal and energy, he J 1 insisted upon its adoption. Mr. Bailey asked - ’ hint, will you resist any encreV yynts upon E it. fir answer was “l tm J' ou i ’ make it your fighting line? - j f gain was “I will.” j i In the House, Mr. Jenkins, the leader of j J the whig party iu that branch of the assemb- i ly and of those who then and there planted s them-selves on the Missouri line, with equal j t boldness and decision, insisted that that I 1 should constitute the line beyond which, the \ 1 .South, slio ild not and would not recede. By j 1 common consent, the majority and those who • sustained them; for the sake of union, have ] yielded their own views and assumed the position indicated by Messrs. Miller and j Jenkins, and occupied by the minority. It ' the latter were sincere then, and will adhere ! to their own declarations, all parties may now harmonize. They cannot object, with any consistency to the Convention, for it is now understood, that it will do nothing, unless Congress shall make its aggressions South of 3C 30, tlieir own “lighting line.” Georgia Convention- The Washington Union of Saturday says : We understand that a respectable agent of Georgia, who is nowin Washington, is au thorized, as soon as a bill passes for admitting California as a State into tho Union, to obtain a certified copy of it, and transmit it forth with to the Gavenor of the State. As soon as this is received, Governor Towns intends to summon a convention of the people, lay the whole matter before them for the purpose of rc-con-idering it, and then to propose a gen eral convention of the Southern States.” [communicated.] Mr. Editor ; —l beg a place in your col umns for some remarks upon the speech de livered by Mr. Stephens, before his cor.stitu- i cuts, at Crawfordville, on the 3d inst. I had i seen his late speech in Congress on the sub- j ject oi tne Texan question, showing most j clearly the rectitude of the claims of Texas ! and t..e false position of the new President i in threatening force against Texas, should j she persist in extending her jurisdiction over | that portion of her State lying on the East of j the Rio Grande, and claimed by New Mexico. | Such was tlie Southern attitude there assumed by Mr. S., tout I fondly hoped ire had return- ; ed from his wanderings, and that we were f about to find him with his riagstaif planted on | the broad platform of Southern Rights, as a i champion in their defence. But, sir, I am j sorry to have to record my sad disappoint- j merit. I supposed the speech intended for political capital, and would, of course, be published, and therefore did not take notes. I perceive, however, from the papers, that he declined furnishing a copy, and one reason j may be, because a synopsis of his Warrenton j address has been given to the public. This con- I tains, throughout, the identical things, if not | the very words spoken at Crawfordville, with j perhaps, the exception of a few cant phrases : j such as, “If you give them (the North) an j inch, they will take an ell.” “ The difference j between whigs and democrets at the North is similar to that between tigers and sharks, | both being deadly against you.” “ But if you crowd them they will give back, that is, if you will stand up to your rights, the North will not violate them;” and byway of impressing a spirit of vigilance in watching and guarding the rights of the South, he, ! with emphasis, referred his auditory, thus far j applauding him, to the example of our fore- j fathers, who resorted to revolution against the j British Government because their Parliament j passed a preamble merely asserting the right ; to tax their colonies without their consent, j and that when they put a nominal tariff of j the bare fraction of a penny upon the pound \ of tea, the first cargos which approached j American shores, were thrown into the sea, ; and the Flag of Independence planted upon the tattle fields of Lexington and Bunker’s j Hill; and he might have stated, at Eutaw Spring and Monk’s Corner : for we believe history tells that the Charlestonians, as well as the Bostonians, cast the tea overboard. But you may now judge of the poignancy of piy disappointment on discovering that all /) ( V, */ -fit It —__—^ __- - ~ ~ lll ■ TT ir i■■■■■■ . ~ ~~ -• *- .IIJI ir -nrnmmru I—rr -nunm - .urr.jj ! i I ■ ill raTMHTiMiTi ryvijM-r Hill I mail i » ait'" i lib m iU BY JAMES GARDNER, Jr. this show of courage and fight was only in tended to cover up and render tolerable to his auditory the poisonous pill contained in his main purpose, which I found to be the in culcation of implicit submission to all the movements of Congress upon the slavery question, designed to take from us all part and lot in the whole of the territory acquired by the Mexican treaty, and to throw us into the absolute power of the abolitionists. Mr. Stephens proceeded to name the several bills which had passed the Senate, and which would doubtless pass the House, and for which he might or might not vote, viz. : those giv ing territorial governments to Utah and to New Mexico—the latter including the dis memberment of Texas ; and that of Taylor administration memory, admitting the vast domain of California as a State. These sev eral measures Mr. S. not only advocated, but justified ! The Utah bill, he hailed as a great triumph for the South, because its provision is, that States to be formed of it might come into the Union with or without slavery, at the option of the inhabitants—thus' opening the way for slavery to extend to the 424 de. gree of North latitude. When at the same time, Mr. S. was careful to let it be known, that his former opinion of the prevalence of the Mexican law over the whole of the ac quired territory was unchanged, and which he must know would keep the slaveholders from Utah and New Mexico, as it had already done from California—a wonderful triumph 1 As to the affair of the General Government! cutting off and turning over to New Mexico and the abolitionists a large portion of the slave State of Texas, and holding up the sword in one hand, and the bribe of ten mil lions in the other, as the means of forcing j Texas to accept, Mr. S. justified it on the ! ground that the remnant of the unsettled 1 part of Texas would be the sooner populated and ready to be admitted as slave States, in i accordance with the articles of annexation. [ Why any sooner settled ? Did Mr. Stephens I think that this lion haul upon Texas u ould induce slaveholders to hasten to get posses sion of the rest, lest a similar haul be made upon another third of that State, and another ten millions taken as a bribe from the: treasu ry, three-fourths of whose contents come from the South, to pay the abolitionists for 1 taking possession, not of territory in which : we have equal right with them, but from ; which they are constitutionally excluded? j Such an argument may set well upon those j who have purchased the Texas loan bonds at 25 cents to the dollar, and it may guil Mr. Stephens’ immediate admirers, but we hope ; not the Governor and people of Texas. As to the admission of California under the j scheme of Gen. Tvylor’s Cabinet, Mr. Ste phens seemed to entertain not the first scru ple. For he called for a book containing the American Constitution, and told bis audience that he could there show them an authoritaie clause,which says that States may be admitted into the Union if they have a republican form of Government, and he therefore ulieJged tnat it would be unconstitutional to reject California, and equally unconstitutional (and 1 I suppose he would say treasonable) for the South to enter upon any measures of redress against the act of the General Government i admitting her. Now, the sophistication in this [ argument is, that Mr. S. did not show what I constitutes a State qualified for admission j into the Union. Were a band of marauders j Iroin the old world and elsewhere, of any ! number, to take unauthorized possession of i any portion of the unsettled territory belong- j ir.g to tl e United Stutps, and sue lie to pro- | sent themselves under the name of a State to ' Congress tor admission into the Union, would j Mr, Stephens say that they were a State, and j must, upon the clause ha refers to in the Con- : stitution, be admitted, and that it would be j treason to resist it. Would he not rather al- j lege that such a community would possess few or none of the constituent principles of a bona fide State ? That a State, such as the Constitution contemplates as worthy of a place among the States of the American Union, must be a community consis ing of go d citizens, domiciled upon a portion of territory of suitable dimension, into the pos session of which they have honestly come under the patronage of Congress, and under whose pupilage they have attained to the number and character luting them to form under the authority of Congress a State Con stitution. Such a community doubtless would, by all, be considered wot thy t> be styled a State, and upon proper application, with a re publican form of government, must, upon the authority oi the Constitution, be entitled to admission into the Union. But the question recurs, is California such a community ? What is her number of domiciled citizens who rightfully own an interest iu the soil upon which they have settled? Mr. Stephens knows that there have not been shown to be more than about fifteen thousand such in habitants in the va=t domain of California, and that the balance are a mixed multitude of actual trespassers upon others rights, having no home in the country, and who, according to the laws of nations, have no right to the elective franchise. Where then the authori ty of that 15,000 to lorm themselves into a State even without consulting the Govern ment of the United States, to whom the coun try alone belongs ? That number would be too inconsiderable for thejoccu ,ancy of a por tion of territory of the usual limits of a State ; and upon no precedent of example or law, could Congress admit a State from any quar ter of California with so few domiciled citi zens. How then shall Congress presume to admit as a State the whole of the vast terri tory of California, whose dimensions are un known—sufficient, it may be, to form a dozen States of medium size—arid with the handful of only 15,000 lawful citizens, utterly unable to sustain a State government, as seen by late communications from that country? Every reflecting person, upon a bare glance at this strange affair must, suspect that there is some deep and malignant wrong at its bot tom, and we must be excused for suspecting Mr. Stephens of knowing that this whole matter of California’s claim for admission as a State, is one of the most palpable and iniqui tous frauds ever attempted to be palmed upon an intelligent people. How can he help know ing that it is a scheme concocted by the abo litionists to depr.ve the people of the South ern States of their just rights in that • ast do main, purchased by their blood and treasure, and thus arranged, to enable a Southern Pre sident to dodge the necessity of vetoing the Wilmot Proviso, which if passed and sanc tioned by him they knew the South stood pledged to resist, by secession from the Union? Anjl the malignity of the dark design is not fully seen in its merely excluding the South ; from the invaluable territory, secured to the people of the United States by the Mexican treaty; but the purpose in so excluding us, as openly avowed in the halls of Congress, and : published to the country and the world, is to I surround us with a cordon of abolition States for the speeialgdesign of destroying from fif teen to twenty ntiuloiis of slave property; for the purpose all the Southern slaves |to be freed in twenty-five years, as declared by Mr. Stephens’ namesake of Pennsylvania.— , Our negroes then are to be turned loose among i us—not only our property in them to be de stroyed, but they put upon equal footing with us—aye, having the elective franchise given them they will elect their own race, and take the whole government of the South into their hands. Such is the fiendish object for which this California scheme was concocted, and to which it is destined with the certainty of fate o lead if not resisted, if need be with war to Jf-H - "MMMMWMKMCTiTBnrHBri at acmwtiiraywv tit ... -Kj.gai.-iwan-g::.- I -.ZSTimS-'C •»-* ~ -'iIGkXKWK i£2aa;aiW'^J^-.xa*aafC»fcl!«sS-«B?2HS':XS3 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNIN(S. SEPTEMBER is, 1850. the knife. Even if Mr. Stephens,of Pennsylva nia, should have uttered a prophecy, which would fail of fulfilment in twenty-five years as the natural result of our hampered condi tion—still our fate would be sealed even by J the natural progress of abolitionism in filling up the new territories. The plan of tempting the thousands and millions of Europe’s pau pers to settle up the country by giviug each i one a lot of 160 acres, moved by even a South ern Senator, would ensure the vacant territo ry from which we have been excluded to be settled up in less than twenty-five years, giv ing the abolitionists the two-thirds.majoriry in Congress, authorizing the change of the Con stitution by which they can, by constitution al authority, effect the ultimatum of their fell design for our destruction. Thus, contem plate submission to the admission of California in every light, and in evtry aspect,it flings be fore us a scene of -woe and ruin far surpassing j Mr. Stephens’ “raw head and bloody bones” of civil war with which he sought at Warrenton and Crawfordville to frighten his consti tuents into submission to these high-handed abolition measures of Congress against the South. And how inconsistent the preliminaries with the main object of Mr. Stephens’ speech —non resistance and passive obedience —why tell the South that the North will take an Ell if we give them an Inch, and then not only gi’’e the Inch but the Ell, without troubling them to take it. For_ the territo ry and then given - —pual'c ietiiTg--* !h.<‘Cfe«*h, the aboifooni stVw ill laugh in their sleeves while waiting with somewhat of im patience for Mr. Stephens’ quietude to give them numerical strength sufficient to enable them to put their* spurred heels upon our submissive necks. Why didba compare the political parties at the North, em bracing the whole mass of the people to tigers and sharks in reference to their predatory j measures and designs against the South, and i then inculcate tame submission to all the j aggressions they ever design against us for j j the present ? Was it to whet their appetites j I and prompt them to make us their willing j j prey even sooner than they originally con- j j tempk.ted ? And why say if you crowd the j North by standing up for your rights, she i will not violate them? Is it not in effect ' [ saying that if he and the presses sustaining j j him, had not given the North reason to be- ! j lieve the South divided and powerless, that j the North would not have made her present j encroachments? Aye, and why shake his j ! tiny fist in tlie air and say, if they attempt to set our negroes free, his reply will be, “do it | if you dare,” intimating that he would then | fight, tiger like, when lo! they do not intend i tnat movement till our condition, under the natural consequences of present submission, present us in a predicament in which it would be impracticable to make resistance. And then to cap the climax of inconsistency, Why insuit the memory of our courageous fathers by referring to their deeds of chival rous daring, and then call their sons degene• j rate should they resist present Northern ng- j 1 gressions and injuries a thousand-fold greater I than any ever contemplated by the British Government against those heroes of revßu tionarv fame ? In short, we must be permit : ted to remark, that such is the difference be j tween Mr. Stephens’ speech made in Congress, on the Texan and other great questions which I are agitating the country, and giving the death knell to the Union, and his speech made i at Warrenton and Crawfordville, that any j discerning person could but suspect,that while I I tiie former was intended for effect at home, ; ! the la. ter was designed for foreign capital, j Iu the long string of resolutions, the obnox- , j ious ones of tame submission were so surround- j j ed by those which were unobjectionable as | j scarcely to be noticed in the reading; and < when the whole were put to vote eu morse ! Mr. S. stared, with evident surprise, that some half dozen only voted affirmatively, while the vast majority (there being from four to six hundred) dwelt in sad silence. Indeed, although Mr. Stephens’ purpose to produce submission, was so adroitly managed as to be well calculated to delude some of his political admirers, yet I thought it percepti ble that the same sad teeling of disappoint ment pervaded the audience which had thrown a slight gloom over my own spirits. But un der such circumstances, did Mr. S. send a telegrapnie dispatch, assuring Congress that j such are the divisions in Georgia as to render her powerless, and that they might proceed | with propriety to pass the California bill, ' which, while writing, I have been told, they done 5 Could they then not depend upon the representations ol'the Augusta Chronicle and Macon Messenger that Mr. S. must come in person, and feci the pulse of public opinion in Georgia, and give the quietus to feelings of resistance. Surely Mr. S. has not been so reckless of responsibility, as upon the authority of the above named presses and his meetings at Warrenton and Crawfordville, to say to the mad majority in Congress that no resistance would be made by the South because Geor gia will not lead. We trust the Convention of Georgia, to be called by the Governor upon the contingency of the California bill passing in Congress, which has happened, will show that she will be true to her word, and upon her movement will depend the simultaneous action of at least four of her neighboring sisters. And may I not quote the sentiment j of Mr. Stephens, used on another occasion j and lor a different purpose, and say, the first j Federal Gun fired to suppress such resistance ! will produce a thrill from Mason and Dixon’s line to the Rio Grande, effectively uniting the whole South for the defence of her rights and ! j institutions. A Southekn Clergyman. [COMMUNICATED.] Dying Struggle in Gwinnett. | The thing is dead, Mr. Editor, but it died ! j hard—Lord, how it kicked and struggled as :it took its final departure for free territory. I ! would not trouble you with any more commu- I i nication than its short obituary, but it is a j solemn duty that we owe to the submissive j party of the South, to inform them that up to | the last moment we done our duty, and even | went farther than decency or interest required, j Our scheme was laid with all the sagacity of j Howell Cobb. Oh, it was a glorious effort— i and as glorious a downfall. Yes, Mr. Editor— | j I had rather be a big man and tumble a thous j and feet in such a cause, than to go up at the j | tail end of a triumphant party. I wrote you j not long since, narrating our grievances, and | the unwarranted, unaccountable, and un looked-for defeat which we sustained about the 6tli of August. I avowed that I would i never meet with this people again—but on | consultation with my friends, we thought best , !to make one more effort—a last sail without i more money. Misery loves company, or I ( | should never have breathed the subject of our mortifying defeat, even to my friends. As for , j me, I was virtually unwilling to try a public . \ meeting again—l knew that we might as well j try to turn a stubborn mule as to change this | people when they had set their heads another way. But I was persuaded to make one more trial. We leaders openly avowed that we would not attend the coming meeting, but we secretly resolved to pull the wires and sneak I in all of our own party, and to be ready to ; take any advantage that might offer itself. It was to be a public meeting—all parties were invited ; and so we appointed one of our own men to go in with a set of resolutions. He was to pick up the old exploded Clay Com promise, and was to try to get the Whi<* party to rally round their time honored lead er. He was to bamboozle them by a resolu Ition saying we would have been satisfied with Mr. Clay’s Compromise, with some sight a mendment, but was not to say what those ! amendments should be. That was a gap we | left open to back out at. This resolution was to be washed down with one that showed | fight—if we was tuu over ; and by the time that dose was down, they would get use to ! the medicine, and swallow most any thing we would give ’em. All this sphysicir.g was t 0 be done by the insider, who was to make a speech, and blow the toot-horn. Then we had an outsider, who was to go about among the outskirts of the congregation, and beat up for volunteers on a muffled drum. After a while he was to be called on to speak, and then he was to get up way back in the lobby, and make a kind of decline, saying “ns did’at wan' to have any thing to do with a disunion- meet ing, and should not waste his breath, &0., but - was to make a few remarks, and then a few more, and keep speaking, till he had blown off all the steam ha had to spare, ana either gained the day or blown all the people out of the house. He was to brand them, as Traitors and Disunionists if they Southern Rights resolutions. He was to come it over the democrats by telling them they had left theitfold and tried leaders, Cobb and Lump kin, and were now running after Toombs and Stephens, and he was to blind the Whigs by tolling them the democratic leaders of this meet’lad'v.is clinking thc*r. fvjJTh sole - strwwS&f To them abandon their old principles and side with the democratic party. The watch word was to be, “ beware of your lead ers." Well, sir, we worked a whole week extract ing the spikes that, as I wrote you, was drove into that big gun, and we set it right agin that same post where it was before. It was to | shoot at the right time, and when it fired, our | speakers was to tell by the number of shots j that followed, how many were on our side. If the small arms increased, we was to rally, and ! make a mighty to do ; but if not, our spankers j was to speak on as long as they could talk at ! ail —; just out of spite. Ah, Mr. Editor, I would willingly stop this i narrative right here, but I want the free j soilers to know they have got friends at the I South, if they are few and far betw en in ; these diggins; and I want ’em to kno w what an intrigueing, ambitious, rough-shod p- rtv they have got to deal with and overcome Why, sir, just as soon as our insider got up with his Compromise Resolutions, uni mad a short speech upon ’em, as a feeler, up pops a Yankee school-master, and he told ’em tli y could make nothing by compromise with such an abolition set—and he said he had a right to know, and he planked it down so strong agin them resolutions that I iairly groaned. He begun from the very first start to spike our gun again, and be talked mighty solemn about Northern encroachments, and wound up with a whole iot of Hebrew from the Bi ble, something about menu rnene tekel upharsin, that the abolitionists wanted to write on the walls of the Southern States. Now, if he had’nt been a Yankee, ard born and bred in Yankee land, it would’nt have been so kill ing, Then another States rightsen pot up, and because our big gun Hashed and bio wed at him a little, he thought ho must spike it some, too, and he drove ’em througn and through, and fairly nailed it to the floor, and pinned it agin the post. 1 am a free-soilcr, but 1 would’nt have set there and took it for all the free soil in Christendom. Which party carried that big gun ofF, I cannot say, tor I have never seen nor hxuid ot it since, j Well, our oo'tddor was hoisted up next, awry back iu the lobby, and i • d >u:- ta .y thing a poor mortal could do, and a more than j he was told to do, but it was no go—we could’nt raise a breeze, and so our only plan was to tire’em all outtalking. Our outsider j talked a heap of ’em out doors, but that same i little hard hearted lawyer got up and talked j i ’em back again, and poked at that very same mop again, and smashed our outsider as flat as a pan-cake. I’m thankful he was not there ! ■ to hear it. Our insider next took the floor, and I tell you he stretched himself about there, and spoke about Clay’s Compromise until it leaked out that he was going to speak | ’til night, and he was called to order. The qu< stion was called for, on our insider’s re solutions, but that same poking lawyer got up and poked the resolutions on the tab’e, and hud the vote taken on a long preamble with a little, short, insignificant resolution tacked on the tail end ot it, about Equality or Inde pendence. Mr. Editor, I did’nt stay to Lear a.ty more. I was sick, body and soul —and like Mr. Hanleiter, I thought it was not only a disgusting, but an unhallowed kind oi business. I would’nt f cl so bad, but we had got cut Corresponding Secretary to write to our Ed- ; itor, Mr. Burke, telling him what plans we ha i laid, and how we was bound to succeed— and nothing was necessary but industry and perseverance—and that we would send him a \ copy of our resolutions, and of our triumph ant meeting. Farewell, Mr. Editor, I shall now leave for parts unknown, and I assure you I sha.l not i find a resting place until I meet with a people whose treatment shall not make me, as I cm here, an embodiment of indignation coupled with Despair. State Convention ! An act to authorize and require the Governor of the Slate of Georgia to call a convention of the people of this State, and lo appropriate money I for the same. Whereas, The non-slaveholding States have for a series of years perseveringly interfered i most wrongfully with the ir.stituiioa of slave ry at the South, by such aggressive measures ; of intolerance, as to render it no longer a ques- ; 1 tion of doubt that the Federel Legislature ' will soon a-opt such restrictive measures a ; gainst the institution of slavery, as to tram ! mel, fetter and confine it within certain geo : graphical limits, never contemplated by the : original parties to the constitutional compact: And, whereas Georgia, in her sovereign eapa | city as a State, has delegated no other power | | to the Federal Government than those found in the constitution of the United States, and I believing that her best interests, and her hon or as a sovereign and government require that she should rWfeZ ail encroach ments in a calm and mark* < spirit of resis tance, Sed. 1. Be it enacted by Ike, and House of Representatives of the State--of Georgia in | general assembly met, and it is hereby enaated by j the authority of the same. That should the ! Congress ot the United States pass any law j I prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory of the United States ; or any law abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia ; or any law prohibiting the slave trade be tween the States where slavery may exist, or , admit into the United State as a State of this Confederacy, the sparsely peopled territory of ' California and New Mexico; or should the j Governor of this Stale icceive at any time, | satisfactory evidence that any slave or slaves having escaped from this State to a non slave holding State, and tnat such slave or slaves 1 is or are refused to be given up to the proper J owner by the authorities of the State in j which such fugitive or fugitives may be found, ! then, or in either of the foregoing events it | shall be, and it is hereby made the duty of the Governor of this State, within sixty days thereafter, to issue his proclamation ordering an election to be held in each and every coun | ty, to a Convention of the people of this State, j to convene at the seat of Government within twenty days after said election. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the \ \ counties now entitled to two Representatives \ in the House of Representatives of the gene- I ral assembly of this State, nhall each be en titled and shall elect four delegates to said Convention, and the counties which are en titled to one Representative shall elect two delegates to said Convention. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said election for delegates shall be conducted and held in the same manner as elections for mem bers of the Legislature are now held in this State, and that all returns of elections shall | -to the Governor of this State, ; who E-nil, upon application, furnish each de i Ic.gjbetw. nth a certificate of election. *** el ad he it further enacted. That the | sum of thirty thousand dollars be and tlie same 1 is herc'jy i'lf’-'opria‘ed out of any money in I the IV t.iUry,,for the purpose of defraying the expens* of.said Convention and that the i wemhe? ijfs-d.i Convention shall by vote re gulate'v v eir per diem pay and mileage. Sec. i And be it further enacted, That said Convent; ~fi shall elect all officers necessary I to their< • -gunizinion. Approved, Feb. 8, ISSO. 1 On t'j* ' aasagb of the foregoing act, the yeas an-: ;a ■ a Were recorded. In the Senate. Yens, kit »rs. Bailey, ; -■ • tteal, Blanks!-2 w, James F„ Brown, Joseph Bryan, Chitoin. Clark, Clay tea, Diir,h»i.y Kberhari Edmorui du ; Gander, Grubbs, f Hines, 4~%- Joh J. i «. Nays b»s*rs. And,r. i ■ E.iasj Byrd.rV- « ... ; Fern’s V Adam ... I Akin, ! Anders-: t.nf- hatbam 1 Anders- n of Wilkes, : Ar.drc- ArnolJ. Barlow. Barratt, Bivln-.. Blount, Brandoii, Brown, Bryan, Calder, Carlton, Carter, Chandler, ! Clark. - i Colbeit, Culberaoa of Floyd, I Culberson o> Troup, i Deadn-vier, j D:gbv. | Dortni.uy, I Dubiguoi) Farmer, | Faver of ) • riwethor, j F-.ver of Ikoup, I Fields, Fleming, Fietcfcir, Fortner, Gartrell. -*-• Gaston, Gilmore Gray, l Green; u, Griggs, Goodn an. Gordon, Hamm t il, Harris, Harrison, Heard, Ilill, ! Hines, ! Hodges oi Houston, i Hodges i f llaudolph, Howard, Johnson, ; Jones ... Paulding, 1 Jones < t W.’ircn, 1 Kendall, LaUghiidge, Mays, Mes -rs. Avery, Dawson, Jenkins, Kenan, Ned, Perl.ii..-, * Leonard, Long, Love, Mcßee, Mcßae, Mosely, Murphy, Napier, Purse, liawls, John W. G. Smith, Ira E. Smith, Spullock, Stell, Turner, Thomas Johnson, Anurew J. Miller, James A. Miller, Quarterman. ' ■■■ '.<*■■ ■ 4 Hjusef,.. ■■■ , afc. f — .—. v Lawton, Leith, Manning, McDougald, McDonald, Mclntyre, McLeod, McWhorter, Mints, Morris, Neely, Nelson, Ninbct, O’Bannon, Peacock, Penick, 'Penland, Pililli; Pickett, Pringle, Rauisay, Rei«, Reynolds, Roberts, Robinson of Fayette, Robmson of Talbot, ! Senders, Sanford, Shackelford, Slaughter, Snelling, Strickland, T i Hr y, 'i’anell of Coweta, j Thomasson, Thor ton, Tillman, Tom pi ins, Trippe, Tucker, \ iilalonga, Waldhour, Walker, Watson, Westmoreland, Whitworth, Wiggins, Wilcox, Wolford, W olf, Worrell, Wilson, Yopp. Richardson, Riley, Robinson of Macon, Stephens, Terreil of Putnam, Wooldricigs. ‘ > Vhii sy-. .st tloiii'-ies3— 'Jossuii. Washington. S ..t. 5, 1350. The Senate was not. iu -ession to-day, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The bill .o admit Cub! .mia as a State into : the Union ctine up n-. xt iu order. It was j read a first .i d second ti ue by its title, when 1 Mr. Boyd CV.n n tho floor and m.-.ved to amend the bil by adding to it tiie bill to or- i ganizu a Territorial Government fi r the Ter- j ritory of Utah—tins same as passed by the i Sena e, with the exception of the appropria- I tion k>r the erection of public buildings in said, territory. Mr. Viuti a raised a question of order on the : amendment-**that it was not germuin to the i bill. The Sprx .er ruled that it was in order, as i much so ns the attachment of the New Mexi can territorvl bill to tiie Texas boundary bill. I Mr. V.ntou appealed from the decision of j r, id arg d that it waa just as pro- I per to amend r. bid by 'iding to it a proposi- ! . ,ii t.."i_-. :-h a court in Texes or elsewhei. . Mr. Mu h .maud moved the previous questin', i on the -ppeai. Mr, Jl r.is, of Term., moved to lay the ap peal on the t}ole, which was decided in the negative— t : S 6, nays 116. The quj.-tio.. recurred on tho cull for the previous q ust on. Tin qu. stion ws» then taken, Shall the j decision of Ik-Chair stand as the judgment of the Uou- and it was decided by yeas 67, nays 167. So the decision of the Chair was overruled, j and Mr, Boyd’s amendment was'll .cared to j be n .t in order. Mr. T.'.gwij: n, of Miss., declared himself I in opposition to the California bill a3 passed i by the S i. e—and moved as a substitute; therefor a bi.i remanding California to terri torial jurisdiction, and providing that her Southern boundary snail be 3C> deg. 30 min. Mr. T. i 1..-., went on to argue that if Califor- i nia was admitted under the Senate bid, she \ would hold on to all the public domain. Mr. M ,1 • desire d to move as an amend ment to the t riginal bill a provision to pro tect seme of his constituents who he said ; were in California, allowing them twelve; months from and after the passage of this act to rera.) -e fb air slaves therefrom, and provid- ; ing, should -hey runaway, that they shall he i reclaimed under tlie constitution and laws of the U. States, as fugitives are reclaimed in Mi the States, v The Chair ruled it not iu time, Mr. Thompson, of Miss., a!; o moved an 1 amcridv.roox .*> the original bill, providing that td* Soutl.crrj boundary of California shall be \ or. the line o! 30 deg. 30 min. N. latitude. j Mr. Thompson argued 'to show that the . Ooundarie.- of California as set up, are out- j rageouy an. should be curtailed. Mr- li-ct .tdson moved the previous ques- ; tion. The chair said if the previous question was i sustained it would bring the House first on i the a iiendunmt of Mr. Thompson to the ori- I ginal bill, fid on his substitute, and 3d on the j third reading of the bid. Tne previous question was seconded, and ' the main question ordered. The question j was than u-ken on tne amendment of Mr. ! Thoapson to the oiiginal bill, fixing the ! southern boundary at 36 deg. 3d min. and it was rejected—yeas 75, nays 142. Tne question then recurred on Mr. Thomp son's substitute for the entire bill; which quest; ii wps decided in the negative—yeaa 71, nays 131. Mr. Holn.es moved an adjournment; nega tived. The quest.cn now being on ordering tho bill to a third reading, the motion was ear ri d, yeas 151, nays 57. The question now being: Shall the bill pass.- it was put, and decided in the affirma tive. by the fallowing vole. Yeas.—Messrs. Albertson, Alexander, Al len, Anderson, Andrews, Baker, Bay, Benett, Bingham, 1, a 11, Bokee, Booth, Bowie, Bow li.r,fiieck, Briggs, Brooks, William J. Brown, Bud, Burrows, (Jhes er Butler, Thomas B. Butler, Cable, Joseph P. Cald well, Calvin, Campbell, Carter, Casey, Chandler, Clark, I Cole, Corwm, Crowell, Dickey, Dimmick, I Disney, Dixon, Doty, Duer, Duncan, Dun- i ham, Durkee, Eliot, Alexander Evans, Na- j than Evans, Ewing, Fitch, Fowler, Freediey, i Fuller, Gentry, Gerry, Giddings, Gilmore, ! Gorman, Gott, Gould, Grinned, Hall, Hallo- J way, Hamilton, Harlan, Thoa.L. Harris,Hay- I moral, Henry, Hibbard, Iloaglaud, Houston, j Howe, Hunter, W. T. Jaalcson, Andrew John- j son, James DCMohnsou, Jones, Julian, Kerr, | George G. King, James G. King, John A i King, Preston King, Lcffler, Levin, Little- j field, Horace Mann, Job Mann, Marshall, Ma- j son; Mattescn, MeClernand, McDonald, Me- ! Gaughey, KuKissock, McLanahan, McLane, | McLean, Meacham, Moore, Morehead, Morris, j Nelson, Newel!, Ogle, Olds, Otis, Peuslee, Peck, Phelps, P.nsnix, Pitman, Potter, Put- | [VOL. XXVIII.—NEW SERIES.—VOL. V—NO. 32. v»i»i —■ u. nam, Reed,Reynolds, Richards,Robbins, Rob inson, Root, Rose, Ross, Rumsey, Saekett, Sawtelle, Schenek, Scherinerhorn, School craft, Silvester, Sprague, Stanly, Stevens, Stetson, Strong, Sweetser, Taylor, James | Thompson, John B. Thompson, Thurman, Tuck, Underhill, Van Dyke, Vinton, Walden, Waldo, Watkins, Wentworth, White, Whit tlesv. Wildrick, Williams, Wilson and Young, j —l5O. Nays.—Messrs. Alston, Ashe, Averett, | B iylv, Beale, Bowdon, Boyd, Albert G. Brown, Burt, Cabell, George Alfred Cald well, Clingtnan, Williamson R. W. Cobb, Colcock, Daniel,Deberry, Edinundson.Feath | erston, Green, Haralson, Isham G. Harris, ; Sampson W. Harris, Hilliard, Holladay,How ard, Hubbard, Inge, J. W. Jackson, R. W. Johnson, Kaufman, La Sere, McDowell, Mc- Mullen, McQueen, Me Willie, Meade, Millson, Morse, Morton, Orr, Outlaw, Owen, Parker, Powell, Savage, Seddon, Sheperd, Frederick P. Stanton, Richard 11. Stanton, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, Toombs, Venable, Wallace, Wellborn and Woodward—66. The bill as it passed the Senate only needs the signature o; the President to be a law, On motian of Mr. Harris?, 111., the rules were suspended and the House resolved i self into Committee of the Whole to take up the Utah bill. The Committee laid aside other business and proceeded to consider the bill from the Senate to provide a Terricorial Government for Utah. Mr. Wentwquh moved as an amendment, to insert the >V 1 no- Proviso. S,lt was voted down—ayes 67, noes 73* Mr. Me.-.u piv. gsed an amendment, pro “““nglor iMa repeal ot .my and all laws which shall prohibii'slavery in the territory of Utah. The Chair ruled it out of order, and the I decision was sustained. Mr. Seddon moved as an amendment a pro position, the tffecL of which was to admit i the carrying of slavery into Utah prior to the ; tune of the organization of a State Govern -1 ment ihete, and giving protection to slavery until that tune. The question was put, and rejected—ayes 55; nces S 5. Mr. T. Stevens moved lo strike from the bili the following words, viz: “and when ad- I mitted as a State, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the | Union with or without slavery, as their Con j stitution may prescribe at the tune of their ! admission.” j .le was opposed to binding future Congres ses in this matter. For the purpose of hav ing complete non-intervention, he was in fa j vor of striking out the clause. The question was taken on striking out, an i ir was negatived -ayes 53, noes 85. Mr ( Pitch proposed an amendment provhl | ing that the Mexican law prohibiting slavery be and remain in full lorce in said territory, j Mr. Millson offered a substitute lor the | amendment of Mr. Fitch providing for the repeal of ail Mexican laws in existence in said ’ ten itory at the time it was acquired which would intcti'ere with the rights of property and the relation between master and slave. | The Committee rose and a resolution was adopted, at the instv-co of Mr. Boyd, to close j tie'ate on the bill in five minutes after the House should go again into committee. i The House again resolved itself into Com : mittee. Mr. Bavly appealed to the Southern mem | btrs not to offer any amendments to the bill. He said that Li.e bill had received the vote oi 1 all the Southern Sena'ors, and was accepta i bie to them as Southern men. Mr. Seiidon said the Southern Senators i would never have voted for the bill, had they 1 known that such outrugts would have been committed < n the rights it the South as had ! taken place hem in a day or two. j Mr. Miilsuu’s amendment was voted down ; ayes 4d, noes 92. ; Mr. Toombs wished to know' of the gentle- I man vii.it were the wrongs of which he com plained. Ii there was any aggression upon the rights oi the South it was committed by 1 two-thirds of her sons, whose loyalty to her could not be questioned, lie did not view ; the admission oi California as an aggression on ! These bills had received two thirds of the So inborn vote:., and therefore weie satisfactory * to tho South. * '} be discussion was continued by Messrs. Sen fir , Wellborn and Hubbard. Mr. Pitch’s amendment was withdrawn. Mr. Wellborn proposed an amendment, pro j v.uing that the people of the territory of Utah may pass laws ii r the protection of slave pro i petty, should slavery be introduced there. After discussion by Mr. Seddon, and Mr. Brown, of Miss., the amendment of Mr. Sed , don was rejected. Mr. Brown, of Miss., said the South had been fairly wliipp d, and he trusted his friends i would yield any iurther opposition, and turn I the matter over to the people; but, lor one, he ! was lor resist nice. Tue bill was then reported to the House. The queston being shall the bill be read a ; third time, it was carried in the affirmative, and ! the bill was read a third time, and The question being shall the bill pass, it | was put arid taken on a vote by ye ts and nays j and dicided in the affirmative, as follows: Yeas— . Messrs. Albertson. Alston, A udenou, i Aslic, Averett. Bay, Bnyly, Beally Bissell. Bokee, Bowlin, Boyd, B.c' k, Briggs, Brooks, Win .1 | Brown, C Butler, <- A Caldwell, J P Caldwell, Casey, W it W Cobb, Deberry, Ifimmick. Disney, ihialiani, Kdmi.ndson, Elliot!, A. Evans, Living I Puiler, Gentry, Gerry, Gilmore, Gorman, Green, ! Hull. Hauii! ~i, Uaiulsriu. IG Harris,TL Harris, : Maymond, IPbbur I, ii.lliard, Iloaglaud, Houston, j Howard, A W Jaekson, A Johnson, J I, Johnson, Jones, Kaufman, Kerr, La Bere, Lediar, Levin, Littlefield, J 51 aim. Mar hall, Mason, .hcCiernaud, McDonald, McDowell, Mcl.unahun, McLane, Mc- Lean, McMuiicn, McW Hie, Morehead, Morton, ! Outlaw, Owen, Parker, Peaslee, Pitman. Potter, ; Richardson, Robbins. Robinson, Uo„e, Ross, Sav : age, Shepperd, .Stanley, F P .Stanton, R II Slan j ton, Strong, Jacob Thompson, Jas i hompson, J B Thornpsoa. Thurman, Toombs, Walden, Watkins, W dborn, Wildrick, Williams, Wilson, and Vmpig Nays—-Me srs. Alexander, Alien,. Bennett, Bingham, 800 h, Bowdon, A G Brown, Burrows, i Burt.’l’ 15 Butler, Cable, Calvin, Campbell. Chan dler. Clark,Colcock, Cole, Corwin, Crowe I, liick | ey, Dixon, Doty, i/uer, l ipioan, Durkee, N ! ,v --i aas, Fe therslon, ] itch, Fowler, Giddings, Gott, Goilld. llailoway, Hailan, S W Harris, Hebard. : tleary, boi.a.iay, Holmes, lloive, Hubbard, Hun ter, In;;.-, W'l Jackson, Julian, G G King, J G King, J A King. P King, 11 Mann, Muttesou, Mc ; Kissoeb, McQueen, Meade, Mooie, Morris, .Nel. son, Newell, Ogle, Olds, Pock, Reed, Remolds, ; Root Ramsey, riackett. Saw telle, Bchenck, fcseher ! meriiorn, Schoolcraft, Seddon. Silvester, Sprague, I Stevens, Stetsi n, Sweetser, Taylor, Tuck, Van Dyke, Vinton. Waldo, Wallace, Weal wertli, and Woodward —38. On motion, the itotiie at o’clock djeurned. Washington, Sept. o. SENATE. The Texas boundary bill, with the House amendment, was taken up. The amendment was concurred in, yeas 31, nays 10, as follows: Yeas—Messrs Atchison, Badger, Bell. Eer ! rien, Bright, Cass, Clay, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge, of lowa, Douglas, Downs, Felch, Foote, Houston, Jones, King, Mangum, Mor | ton, Norris, Pearce, Pratt. Rusk, Sebastain, j Shields, Smith Spruance, Sturgeon, Under- I wood, Wales, Whitcomb— 31. Nays—Messrs Baldwin, Benton, Chase, | Davis, of Mass., Dodge, of Wis , Ewing, j Hamlin, Seward, Upham, Winthrop—lo. An explanation was made by Col. Benton ! in relation to attacks on him in the Southern Press, and by Mr. Wallace. He was replied to by Mr. Butler, of South Carolina. The joint resolution of the House for the termination of the session on the 30th of September, was taken up. Mr. Davis, of Mass., moved to amend by inserting tlie 22d. Mr, Walker said legislation was necessary for his State. After some conversation, the amendment was rejected and the resolution was passed. The Senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House passed a resolution, at the in stance of Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, by a vote of 117 to 71 to provide for the adjournment, sine die, of the present session of Congress, on the 30th of' September—this day three | weeks. The Committee on Enrolled IBills report ed t. e California Bill as correctly enrolled, j It was then signed by the Speaker. Mr. Boyd moved to suspend the rules to | enable the House to proceed to the business | on the Speaker’s table, and to take up the | Fugitive Slave Bill. The House refused to ! suspend the rules—yealo9, n;;y s 58_ not i two-thirds. On motion by Mr. Bayly, the rules wete i suspended and the House resolved itself into j Committee of the Whole. ! Mr. Bayly introduced a bill appropriating $160,000 tor tlie pay and mileage of members j of Congress. Alter some discussion and several amend | meats, in iclation to Mileage of Senators from I California, and Representatives from California I and the New Territories, Mr. Thompson of Miss., moved to strike out the provision in relation to the p’y and mileage of delegates. It was rejected by yens 49, nays 86. The bill under the operation of the previous question was passed on a vote by yeas and nays, of 78 in the’affirmative and 77 in the ne gative. The Chair voted in the negative —so the bill was rejected. Mr. Thompson, of Miss, moved to recon sider the vote and to lay it on the table. Pen ding the question, On motion, The House adjourned. Washington, Sept. 10. SENATE. Mr. Douglas presented the credentials of . Mr. Gwin, Senator elect from California. Mr. Barnwell presetted the credentials of J. C. Fremont, Senator elect from California. Mr. B. remarked that he had doubts as to the j propriety of admitting California, but to Col. j Fremont he had i: o personal objection. Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, said it was a mat ter of duty with him to interpose objections to j the admission of these gentlemen as Senators, j as it was impossible that they could have been j legally elected He moved to refer the ere- 1 dentials to the judiciary committee, to be con- j sidered and reported on in reference to the law j and the fact. Mr. Douglas would have no objec’ion if it were earlier in the session. Bat time was pres sing, and it was important that the Senate's from California should be in their seats. Mr. Clay argued that„ California, after th.u -stgriatwre -of the Bill —jfeterday :y CrT Presi -4 dent, in tut Union. £ u im&, she was a State out of the Union. The motion to commit the credentials was j rejected-yeas 12, nays 38. Messrs. Gwin and Fremont appeared, were j qualified, and took their seats. Mi. Fremont gave notice of bills estiblisli- j ing post-routes m California. Mr. Chase gave notice cfa bill to prohibit slavery in the territories of the U. States. The message of the President of the U. B. relative to Now Mexico, was ordered to be printed. The bill to abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia wa» taken up, and Mr. Ma son moved to amend by striking out the sec tion which prohibits the slave prisons from keeping foreign slaves, as merchandize. Air Clay opposed it. Mr. Pearce proposed an amendment fixing the penalty at SSOO fine, to be imposed by the criminal court. After some discussion, Mr. Pearce m.o lifie.l his amendment so as to give one half the pen altv to the informer and the other half to* the corporation. After some debate, in which Messrs. Clay, Jefferson Di.vis, Turney, and others, took part, Mr. Pearce’s amendment was rejected. Mr. Mason’s amendment, striking cut the first section, was also rejected—yeas 13, nays 30, as follows. Yeas—Messrs. Atchison, Berrien, Butler, Davis, of Mias., Dawson, Downs, Houston, Hunter, King, Mason, Morton, Pr ut, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Turuev, Underwood, Yuleo lB. Nays.—Messrs. Badger, Baldwin, Bell,Ben ton, Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Chase, Davis, o- Mass.; Dayton, Dickinson, Dodge, of Wis* j consin; Dodge, of Iowa; Ewing, Felch, Foote, Greene, Hamlin, Jones, Mangutn, Norris, Phelps, Seward, Smith, Spruanee, Sturgeon, Upham, Wales, Walker, Whitcomb, Winthrop —3O. Mr. Mason’s amendment, striking out the j second section, was rejected—yeas 17, nays 31. Mr. Davis offered an amendment to strike out the provision giving power to remove or punish free negroes. Mr. Saward offered a substitute for the bill abolishing slavery in the Dstricl of Columbia , and providing compensation for the slaves. The second section submits the question of j emancipation to the people of the District. ; It the majority of votes be for it, the act is to go into immediate effect. Mr. Baldwin spoke in support of the amend ment in the abstract, but was opposed to it us x provision of this bill. Mr. Dayton opposed the amendment. Mr. Pratt followed on the same side. Mr. Atchison i. v'i C i •. lerh.nks V .v/ing that the Senator front Ne w Jersey was oppose t to the amendment only us out of season, but [ would be proper at another tinio. Mr. Chase said this bill to abolish the slave trade had been amended injudiciously. He would have supported the original bill, but lie j would not support the bill in its present form, without amendment. The debate was continued by M Pratt, Mason, Butler, Winthrop, and Badger, when, without taking any vote on the question, the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On motion by Mr. Ewing, of Tenn , the i House proceeded to the consideration of the I business on the Speaker’s table. The Senate bill granting to the State of Al abama the right of way and a donation of' public land, lor the purpose of locating and 1 constructing a railroad from the point at j which the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad j crosses the Tennessee river to the town of Chattanooga, was taken up, The bill was I read twice. Mr. Ewing asked that the hill be put upon i its passage. Mr. Vinton moved its commitment to the' committee on public lands. The bill was discussed by Messrs. Ewing, Bowlin, Hubbard, Bissell, in favor of the im mediate passage of the bill, and by M.ssrs. Vinton, Venable and others, in opposition to the bill. The bill was finally referred to the com | niittee on public lands—yeas 96, nays 79. Mr. Boyd stated that the representives from the State of California, Messrs. Woodworth and Gilbert, were present, and desirous to be swcunin, 1 Mr. Yenab’.e raised the question of consti tutional right of those representatives to take seats—having, he said, been elected bi fore California was recognized as a State, and be fore she was admitted into the Union. Mr. Boyd sent to the table and had read their credentials. They certify to the fact by the Governor of the S,ate ot California, that the Representatives were elected in Novem- 1 ber, 1849, under the sixth section of the act I appended to the constitution of California, ! which sixth section (being read,) directed the constitution to be submitted to the peop!; for ratification, and authorized an election to be held on the same day for representatives in Congress. Mr. Venable said it would be seen bv the facts disclosed, that there was no legislature in existence to determine, in accordance with the constitution of the United States, the time - and place and manner of election in Califor nia; but that they had been elected at the time the constitution of that Sta e was ratified, | and befoie a legislature was in existence. Mr. Toombs suggested to the gentleman I that these representatives came here with prima facie evidence oi right,and that the pro- i per course would be to let them qualify (as was usual) and refer their credentials to the j committee on elections, when the question of 1 right could be raised. Mr. Venable said it was his intention to move such reference. Ho had raised the con stitutional question now with the view of j calling attention to ‘.he matter. Mr. Thad, Stevens inquired of the gentle- ! man from North Carolina, whether these members had been elected before the Legis lature of California met: and ifnot, whether they had been elected subsequently and under the law authorizing the State tobe laid off into proper Congressional districts, as required by’ the federal law. Mr. Venable said that they were elected be- 1 fore any Legislature was in existence to au- j thorize the districting the State into Congres- j sional districts.—He concluded Ins remarks j snd moved that the credentials be referred to ! the committee on elections. Mr. Thompson raised, as a point of order, I that it was the duty of the Speaker on tiie j piima facie evidence before him—under, the gisat seal of the State—to swear in those rep resentatives. There was no doubt, he said, about the authenticity of the credentials. 1 iie Speaker said that it was a question which belonged to the House to decide; that the chair could not determined who was en titled to a seat. If he could qualify these representatives, he could qualify, according to ins opinion of the authenticity of the cre dentials, any set of members who might pre sent themselves for admission to seats. Mr. Thompson did not maintain the power of the Chair to admit permanently to seats but that as a judicial officer he was bound to regard the prima facie evidence before him and to swear the members in, and leave the question of authenticity of credentials to be settled by the House, as well as the ri»ht ot a member to his seat. The action of the Speaker did not, nor could it preclude the right of the House to go behind the ereden ,took a » “PPeal from the decision ot the Chair. Tha Chair decided that he had no right to i qualify the members unless so directed by the House. He had that section of the constitu tion read which declared that eaifn house shall be the judge of the qualification of i’s own members. Mr. Stanton, of Ky., cited a ease, as did Mr. Robinson, of la., several, in the admission oi new states,where the repre entatives were ad mitted, although they were elected at the time, or at a shrrttime fubsequunt to the rat ification of the constitution of those States the constitution prescribing the mode of sai l election. Messrs. Toombs and Morse took ground u gainstthe admission of the representatives.— The first named gentleman did not beii ve that they were entitled tobe sworn in. He did not think that the cases cited were exact ly in point, although if it was a fact that there were such cases and the constitutional point was not raised, they could not be taken, as a precedent upon which to determine this ease. Mr. Stanton, of lenn., took the ground that the convention which authorised the e leetion was a legislative body of the highest order—and that, therefore, t’he constitutional requisitions were fuliy satisfied. Mr. Toombs denied that a convention of the people was, in a constituiional sense, a legis lative body. The legislature comprehended in the constitution, was a part of the constitu tional orguniz ition of a State ; and the con vention, such as in this case, was a creature of the democracy—the mass of the people— before there was fny organised government, ) therefore ,here was no legislature, j Mr. Robinson,.of Indiana, moved to amend | the motion of Mr. Venable, so that the mem | bars qualify, and that their credentials be re j ferred to the committee on elections. He I moved the previous qajstion ! Mr. Houston appealed to him to withdraw ; the previous question. The friends he said of j the admission of California were not he friends j of the admission of their representatives. | Fending the question, the louse adjourned* Extracts of letters received in Charleston dated “ Barnwell, (S. C.) Sept, 11. “ The crops on the Edisto where] I plant, and on the river, has been greatly in jured by the drought and storm. dry weather stopped, tku.w—• '* he im m-gsßon. ino planters with whom I have conversed is, that the top >_•?«> wi lf3ot •nature; in fftci, in my fields, I observed that the top forms ar? dropping very badly. The storm has torn tae cotton dreadfully with me, and injured us as much as the drought.—• A.t one time, I hoped -e wou d have made an average crop in the district, but since the storm, I am confident that there will be a great fitliii.g off.” ‘ Darlington, Sept. 7. “My present crop bid h.ir i > make about ICO bales. It has, however, been injured by rust, and more recently by the late storm ; ni consequence of which, I do not anticipate i* crop of more than 05 to 75 bales.” Slaves Running Hu sir Again.—The !»al aware Gazette states that the seven slic es who som,. time ..bice run away from Mr. cJ t’fvt, ol Frince George’s county, applied at ! the watch-hou.-e i r'lo.lgings, "i.i that city, 1 a low nights since, statin- that they had been. to Pennsylvania, were tired oi freedom, and were triying to ;et back to their master. They staled tha; they had boon decoyed off by it white nan, whose name they did not know, by specious prom ism and ibdusive hopes, ami that they much pr< rred li? ng with Mr. Cai ven as his slaves than to !e..d the life they did aster they reached their destination, and desired to be sene home. The mayor had them lodged in the jv.l at N»w Castle, ai d l sent a dispatch by telegraph to their owner, who had them removed lo h . home. New Cotton.—Two iiuudrc l bales of a q- Cotton have been received at Deraopelis A H tJcammcrcial. “savannah ... ~ Ibe Ist net . 1,589 bales I p ;y 0,. «»» Liaud—(l,34l per RailroJ .„.J .1.048 from A u"- gusta). Exports lor the same time have been 2,- Ih. ba.es Lj,la,.], uml 19 no. Sea Island, viz : to i\ow A oik _,i id bales Upiand, and 19 do. Sta Is lands, and to J Uiiadelpiiia 53 dales Uplaad-leav- Irl i " -““V f l .? , sl ' i ! ,bol “ ‘l ’-l cleared, a stock o. 11 .v .. bales Upland, and 16;,’ do. Sea Man 1 a gainst 9,012 bales ( plaad, and 553 do. Sea lsdands at same tune last year. Tim market was firm at the close of our last re poa ’ViJi out iiK o flni!j£, caused l»> li&tilnessof k fin MOll iy the suits amount tdloih. ba.es at full prices. On Tuesday the rm.r.vci was i.nll. and i 10 b iles were sold at prices paid the day previous. On Wednesday the At lantic s accounts u ere nmioimctd, noticing a de- f sd,itirercoy uo transactions took place On I 111. sduj the s its amounted to .106 bales. On r n«i iv 111 llihctrniu’s ucvr was announce l, show '' : 4*l-» the . ales during the day I amounted 10 220 bains. On Saturday and Moi , day *b~ S-1«. were l)M. ycstMdaj the- e wasa better demand and 266 halos were sold.— I here has been an adv.c.ce. ~f fc. on all qualitioa Iff!";;:::::”:;: I 1 air toiiiliy J-’air o 4 j.^ J amount to 1.122 l»aleV*at !, , ".'f, T rißes :1 a Gd: 69 at Id; f!) at 1»1- ; ‘m a ,. if*; lyo at 12 9 16; li ! l\t iSVcenN wt j and i>9 l>aies liice,— I ho demand lor the past ten days has beta active, principally- for the WV»I ' Mies The OI V W C ?- k *, ut aa ic - The (• h . E l’: ,rl,, '" al ’s of t.e sales: 30 a,. favorably am. promises ,0 be au (le ctiidtons , T Ket 1S . wcii s "i , l ,lk ’ ,t with ail ers • 1 ’ merchll “ts are busy filling 01- deis at .asi week s quotations. ».s.b"'.r W,i . h * VJ l ar g e salos to report tins (m ■’ ‘ ICPa N 11 vcrv fair lock in the market.— “'om store at 80 a 90c. per bushel. • saU ’' oi small 10l Shoulders' 1 . ? ; also, -0 hluls. sides at li.j cts. per lb. II ./• J; V' — Ab '"0 300 bags mo changed hands at. 11 a 1 l.jc. per pound. Jfo.’j. 6(j hales Eastern sold at s’! 20 a137 1 nee cwt. “ ’ 31 Calg0 ’ an ived our last, has been disposed of. Exchange.- \Va qio.e Sterling at 9 percent, premium. Dom-stic Exchange. The banks are seilmv .Sight Checks 01 all Northern cities at * percent, premium, and are purchasingSivlit so days at par ; 3) days gar] per ct. dbc.;'dO da vs l a I j per ct. di-c.; 90 days 1< al] per ct disc.' 'tights.' Liverpool, jjd. Coastwise to Boston o-l(. square g for roa.nl ; New VorkSOc.foi square i lor round ; Baltimore .j square. CHARLESTON, Sept. 13 Cotton— When we closed Oil file afternoon of the sth ir.st. die market was firm, with middling Fair quoted at 1 c the stock however, was taken about this period bv one el «ur brokers, wiv n it was ascertained that the actual amount on sale was much below the gene, al estimate; ami this (act taken iu come e- Hon with the kiio-vn backwardness of the new crop soon changed the aspect of the Cot! m mar ket, the article as wilt be seen hu dug muteiiaiß improved in value, and that too in the face of the unlavorahle advices b.ought over by i!,l sio ituers Hibernia and Asia. On Fr. ay last—the first day oi the week under review— the transactions reach ed about 600 bales, with a decided upward ten dency 111 prices. During .Saturday ami Mon day upwards ol 1000 bales were sold, on higher terms; prices, however, wore very unsettled On toe day about 560 bales changed hands amt prices which were full, exhibited mor • re gularity than on Ihe p-eceding day, anil‘at the • lose of bus n; au auv nee of Je. ,i' lisheu over former quotations. Tha transac tin’* gii Wednesday were confined t , 13 > b iles at correspomlii g rat s; but ve teiday buyers took some uoo bales, an 1 prices w. re mere stringent than the> had been at any time du ring the week, notwithstanding the t'tnfav, r.,ble accounts by the Asm, win. h : cached us on U t.d t.osdav cveiiuig. On revising our quotations at the close of the week, we find that the different gradi s have advanced g to j;.. and buyers found some difficulty in procuring them c ven at Ibis im provement. The stock on sale j eslcrday was esti mated at 4,000 bales, ihe receipt ,of the week reach 5..13J bales, and the rales iu the same time time toot up ,»,033 bales, as follows ; 20 bales at 114; * ,,;i nl l-'i I<> at l-’i; 293 at I7 lat 1 ’•-< r i7n at 124; 973 at 1 3jj; 150 at 12 11-16; 483 ilt ft ,t , at 13; 3.m at 13.1 an 53 bales at Wc quo e. Ordinary to good Urbina-y 12 u 13»- Middiiu- to good Middling 1-3 a l2DM ( {ddUi. s FaV,i3;aid sass and l’lilly l air 13 } a 134- The transactions during the week in all descriptions of Long Cotton do . „t exceeJ lol) bales. I'rices were very mil, with a tendency in favor of holders. Corn.-— ’There have been received since our last, about 2.00 bushels Mary and, which were sold ; t 63 and 70 cents; and TOO bushels troni North Carolina, which brought 65 cents per bush el. Ihe latter cargo was not in good order, and sold at a decline on previous sal -s. liucon. — The transact ions during the week have been limited and confined to small parcels at prices within the range of previous quotations.’ A lot of bright Bides were sold, to arrive, at GAc. feii'd.— ibis artic c continues to bo neglected \\ e have no sales to report, and our quotations arc nominal. Sugars. —There has been some activity in the Sugar market during the week, ami at fall prices. i.uiers took about 250hhds. Muscovados, at prices ranging from 5 10-lotns up to 64c., as iu quality, and -0 lihds, represented as prime, brought us Inga as (>]c. 1 here w s also a saio of 50 hhds New Orleans at 7 cents. The stock comprises from 2200 to 2400 hhds. of all descriptions. Tho sti ck in importers hands docs not oxeeed 2UO a 3uo hhds Exported coastwise since our last 148 hhds. Coffee. —There bus been a moderate demand tor Coffee during the week, the transactions however have been c ntined solely to liio, at prices rang ing from 104 to 114 c as in quality. Molasses. —This article lias aDo attracted sonic attention dm ing the week, the stock how -ver is light, and llie transactions have necessarily been limited. About 170 hhds. and 13 tierces Musco vado, received a short time since, have been fi" ken for export, at 23c.; and 40 bbls. Comm' 11 Or leans sold at 24c. per gallon. The last sale of Cu ba was at 13c. borne 90 hhds. and 11 tier ces nave been shipped coastwise since our last. Freights The current rate to Livernool d.,n mg the week, for Cotton iu square bags has Mien (|d. I here is no vessel loading lor JJuvrc Ti coastwise rate, are the same as those reported, viz ;to New Yo k 20c nor ion n vi y ton. and 624 c. per tierce for uL' and to lfiw U 31] for the former and 75c. for the latter and » tOU little offering. ,ue utter ' ‘‘ ud