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2 Georgia Legislature. ACTS PASSED. An act to amend the 9th section of the 3d article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. An act to grant the privilege to the Stock holders of the Cross Plains and Red Clay Branch Rail Road Company to change the name of said Road and for other purposes. An act to authorize Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary in the several counties of this State to grant marriage licenses directed to Jewish Ministers or other persons authorized to per form the marriage ceremony between Jews, »nd to authorize Jews to be married according to their own forms. An. act to change the time of holding the Inferior Court for the county of Troup. An act to regulate the mode of election of Constables in the city of Savannah, and to repeal so much of an act assented to 23d Dec. 1811, as relates to the election of Constables in said city, etc. An act amendatory of and in addition to the various acts heretofore passed in reference to the city of Savannah. An act to authorize Mark Water & Co. to establish a Ferry across the Chattahoochess river on their own land in the counties of Gwinnett and Forsyth. An actin relation to the holding of the In ferior Courts and Courts of Ordinary in Glynn county. An act to amend the several acts in relation to issuing Grants on Head Rights in this State, so far as to extend the time of granting the same until the 25th day of Dec. 1851. An act to establish additional election pre cincts in the county of Habersham. An act to authorize the Justices of the In ferior Court in Elbert County to levy an extra tax for the purpose of building a Court House in said county. An act to authorize Mrs. Elizabeth Mont fort to erect a mill-dam across Flint River in the county of Crawford, upon certain condi tions. / 1 An act to amend an act incorporating Atlanta & LaGrange Rail Road Company. *r. An act to incorporate the town of Oglethorpe In the county of Macon. An act to incorporate the Rising Sun Lodge, No 20, of Reidsville, Tatnall county. An act to repeal an act entitled an act to cous 'Mate the offices of Receiver of Tax Retains and Tux Collector in the counties of Rabun, Camden, Irwin, Floyd Scriven, Pauld ing, Wayne, Murray, Cherokee, Glynn, Tel fair and Laurens, so far as relates to the coun ty of Murray,assented to 25th December, 1837. A n act to authorise Osborn A. Lochrane, of Clarke county to plead and practice law in this State. An act to authorize Hardy Strickland of the county of Forsyth, administrator on the estate of M nk W. Killingsworth, dec’dof the county of D Kalb to make his returns in the county of Forsyth. An Act to provide for the compensation of the Grand and Petit Jurors of the Superior and Inferior Courts of Elbert. An act for the relief of Mary Louisa Pritch afd. An act to change the county line between the counties of Cobb and Paulding. An act to repeal an act consolidating the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns of the counties of Bald win, Chatooga, Franklin, Gwinnett, Heard, Upson, Wilkes, Mclntosh, Thomas, Jefferson, Cobb, Hancock, Dooly, and Monroe, passed the 9lh of Dec. 1839, so far as respects the counties of Frank lin and Heard. An act to enable tho Savannah and Ogee chee Canal Company to extend the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal to the Altamaha river etc. An act for the relief of Wm. H. Graham, nnd Hardin Perkins of the county of Lumpkin from their liability as security on the Tax Collector’s bond. An act to extend and define the corporate limits ot the town of Madison in Morgan coun ty, and to prescribe the manner of levying tax upon such property as may be embraced in said extension. An act to change the name of Elizabeth Kelly to that ot Amanda Elizabeth Cooper, and (ogive Thos. W. Cooper,and his wife Fran ces J. S. Cooper the legal claim to said child as parents. _ . No. 40, r.f FIJ6 nndQkcceplcd mas county. An act to auth v ize John Dillon of the coun ty ofChatham to erect a toll bridge over the gteat Ogeechee river on his own land near Fort Argyle. An act to incorporate the Savannah Gas Light Company, and the Augusta Gas Light Company. An act to incorporate the Washington Fire Company ol the city of Savannah, Ga. An act to incorporate the Trustees of the permanent fund of the Hebrew Congregation at savannah. An act to be entitled an acl-to reduce the official bond of the Sheriff of Cherokee coun ty and Murray county. An act to amend the several acts in relation to the city of Augusta, and to amend the act to incorporate the Augusta Canal Company. An act for the relief of William P. Beale, and Davis B. Hadley, and other persons there in named. An act to quiet and confirm the title of Peter Pauliett, a naturalized citizen, to a lot ot land, in the city of Augusta, conveyed to him before his naturalization. An act to amend the Road Laws, and open a new road in Camden county, etc. An act to incorporate the Savannah Institu tion of the Sisters of Mercy. An act to authorise the Justices of the Peace elected for tho first, second, third and fourth districts G. M., composing the city of Savannah, to reside and hold their respective offices nnd courts at any place within the cor porate limits of said city. An act to consolidate the otlice of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector in the coun ty of Cherokee, and to make provision for pay »ng Grand and Petit Jurors in said county. An act to incorporate San Marino Lodge, No. 34, Greensboro’, Georgia. An act entitled an act to reduce the She r iff’s Official Bond, in the county of Dade. An act to regulate Justices Courts, in Cha tham county. An act to incorporate the Second Baptist Church of Savannah, county of Chatham, and appoint Deacons and Trustees. An act for the relief of certain citizens of this State/ram any and all disabilities, pains and penalties to which they may now be sub- jected by law. Au act io amend the several acts iu relation to the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com pany. , "An act to repeal all laws respecting the im portation of slaves into this state, etc. An act to authorise and require the Judges of the Superior Courts in the Coweta Circuit, to hold Court in the county of DeKalb, two weeks toeac.h term of said Court, unless the business dan be done in a shorter time, and to provide for the same. Au act to incorporate La Fayette Chapter, No. 13, and Darley Lodge No. 17, in the town of Fort Gaines, in the county of Early, and Pythagoras Lodge No. 41, at Decatur, De- Kaib county.’ An act for. the relief of David Dobbs of the county of Cobb. An act to add certain lots of land, and parts . of lots in the counties of Macon and Crawford, to the county of Talbot. An act to authorise Sami. C. Lippett to es iitblish a ferry across Flint river. Anact to compensate the petit jurors of Ear ly cpuniy, etc. Ao act to compensate the petit jurors of HouetOt’ county. ' An act for the relief of poor childrenin the county of Gwinnett. An'act to regulate the fees of Attorneys and Solicitor GeiXfrgl, etc. , An act to cousoudate the offices of Clerk of bhe Superior and Inferior Courts of the couu- .* ty of Talbot. An set to repeal an act conaohdating the of fices of the Cierk of the Superior and Inferior Courts of Emanuel qounty. An act to incorporate the Houston Branch Mali Road Company, and to authorise said ■Comps nv to construct a Rail Road trim some suitable point Sn the South Western Rail tjlnad, in tbs tow n pf Perry in Houston county. * An soi to araet.d an act entitled au act to amend me sevetai aete regulating the road iatrv iu this state, so tar as relates to the coua-1 ties of Bryan, Liberty, Mclntosh, Glynn, Cam den, and Wayne, approved B<hJ)ec. 1806, so far as relates to Liberty cotfittyr An act to authorise and empower John S. Rowland, to establish a ferry or build a bridge across tho Etowa river, on his own land, in Cass county, and to take toll. An act to incorporate the Griffin and West Point Plank Road Company, for the purpose of constructing a Plank Road from Griffin to the town of West Point in Troup county, etc. An act to incorporate the Hancock Steam Boat Company. An act to incorporate the Wellington Aca demy, in the coijnty of Macon—also, the Cen treville Academy in the county of Talbot, and appoint Trustees for each. An act to authorise Wm. S. Hammell, Sr. to establish a Ferry across Plint river. An aot to alter and amend the Poor School Laws now in force, so far as respects the county of Dooly. An act to make Ellen M. Baker the heir of Jas. R. Ware, and to cause her to stand relat ed to him in all respects as if she were the child of his body, etc. An act to revive and make of force, an act incorporating the Thomaston and Barnesville Rail Road Company, with power to construct a Rail Road from some point on the Monroe Rail Road, at or near Barnesville in Pike co., to the town of Thomaston, in Upson county, etc., assented to December 23rd, 1849. An act to alter and change the time of hold ing the Superior Courts of the county of Ma con of the South Western Circuit, and to re quire the same to be held two weeks if neces sary. An act to alter and amend an act to provide for the compensation of grand jurors of Lump kin county, passed December 7th, 1843. Also to provide for the compensation of the petit ju rors in the Superior and Inferior Courts of said county. An act for the relief of Bedford J. Head of Macon. Co. An act for the relief of Chas. B. Lombard and for othe* purposes} * An aet to the Trustees ftr Wes ley Cb'apel, Aidrew Chapel, and Triniiy Church, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in the city of Savannah. An act to relieve Wm. W. Barton and Ejfli riam G. Bender and their sureties from all lia bilities under their respective recognizances for their appearance at the May term 1849, of Chatham Superior Court. An act to reduce the official bond of the She riffs hereafter to be elected in the county of Franklin from the sum of Twenty thousand dollars to the sum of ten thousand dollajs. An act entitled an act to repeal an act to appoint county Treasurers and define their duties so far as relates to the counties of Troup Carroll,Crawford, Murray Monroe, Montgom ery, Pike, Appling, Randolph, Warren, Fay ette, Chatham, Cherokee and Stewart, and "to give to the people of said counties the elec tion of Treasurer. An act to amend the several acts now in force regulating the fees of Magistrates and Constables, so far as relates to the county of Chatham, etc. An act to appropriate money for the support of Governments, for the political years eigh teen hundred and fifty and fifty-one. An act to add a part of the county of Mus cogee to the county of Marion, and for other purposes. An act to amend an act to provide for the Education of the poor, so far as relates to the counties of Rabun and Union. An act to change the line between the counties of Gwinnett and Jackson, so as to add the residence of Dilmas L. Jarratt of the county of Gwinnett, to the county of Jackson. An act for the relief of Wm. H. Monroe. An act to amend an act approved Dec. 19th, 1829, entitled air act to incorporate the St. Mary’s Library Association. An act for the relief of Jonathan C. Pear sou and Wright Noles. An act to authorize the issuing of a certain grant therein specified. An act to incorporate the Andrew Acade my, etc. An act to pardon Sampson Braziel a con vict in the Penitentiary of this State. An act to repeal so much of an act, as relates to tho consolidation of tax Collector and Re ceiver of tax returns of the county of Mont gomery. Au net to repeal an act passed on the cons<*tdatirig tlfS offices of Re ceiver of tax Returns, and tax Collector in the counties of Rabun, C&mdan, Irwin, Floyd, Scriven, Paulding, Wayne, Murray, Cherokee, Glynn, Telfair and Laurens, so far as telates to the counties of Irwin. An act to appoint the Justices of the Inferior Court of Laurens county, Commissioners of the town of Dublin in the same county, and to authorize said Commissioners to sell and dispose of a portion of lot No. 232 in the first district of originally Wilkinson now Laurens county, known as the commons es said town. An act repealing so much of the acts of Dec. 1837, and 1839, as relates to the consoli dation of the offices of Receiver and Collector of Tax returns of the - counties of Laurens and Marion. An act to alter and amend an act, to incorpo rate the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, approved Dec. 29th 1847. An act to incorporate the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institution, etc. An act to add an additional number of Trus tees to the Attapulgas Academy in Decatur county. An aetto compensate grand and petit jurors of Muscogee county, and to authorise the jus tices of the Inferior Court of said county to le vy and collects tax for such purposes, and for other purposes therein contained. An act to compensate petit jurors of Lau rens county. An act to incorporate tlie Nortli Eastern Plank Road Company, etc. An act to incorporate the Sweet Water Ma nufacturing Company of the county of Camp bell, and to incorporate the Augusta Quoit Club. An act to add a part of the county of Twiggs to the county of Bibb, and a part of tho county of Bibb to the county of Jones, and a part of the county of Jones to the county of Bibb. An act to authorise aliens to receive, pur chase, hold and convey mortgages, and devise real estate. An act to incorporate the Augusta Machine Works. An act to extend the time for the comple tion of the Ocmulgee and Flint River Rail Road. XT But for having been misplaced, the pret ty piece of poetry of" Virginia,” should have appeared some weeks since. [For the Republic.] To Charley. I’m thinking of thee now my friend, I’m thinking of the day On which I first beheld thee, Before you went away. Responding to your country’s call You sadly left my side, Buthoped that you would soon return To claim me as your bride. Months rolled on, and you came not, But wandered many a mile, Yet often did fond letters My anxious cares beguile. Nineteen months at length passed on And brought you to the end How time our happy dreams had chang’d, You catue —but as a friend. Not Jong you tarried with us, And with an aching heart, Bade you a long—a last farewell, And saw you then depart. I gazed at your receding form • And turned away in tears, For well I knew we’d meet no more Through all succeeding years. Should these poor lines e’er meet yourview, Whatever Is your lot, Bestow one thought an her by whom j You’ll never be forgot Viaewa. ’ i November 19th, 184*1. CONGRESS. CONGRESS, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1849. The Senate did not sit to day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tlic Journal of yesterday was read and ap proved. Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee, rose and said that lie desired to presents proposition to the House. He presumed that, under the rule which had been adopted, it would not be in order to debate it. He would, however, be perfnitted to say that it was a proposition known to have bqpn presented on the part of 1 the committee appointed by the Whig caucus ' to confer with a similar committee tyipointed by the Democratic caucus Mr. Root, (interposing.) Is this in order i under the resolution prohibiting debate? Mr. Stanton. Ido not mean to debate. Mr Root. I know it; but it is talk, and that is out of order. The Clerk. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Root) rises to a point of order. , Toombs rose and claimed the right to ’ be heard'&s to the power of this House to pass I the order prohibiting debate. [Calls to order.] j - Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) I desire to show that this House has not the constitution al power to pass any rule of order. [Loud cries to order from all parts of the House.] Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) I intend to in sist upon if as a constitutional right at all haz ards. Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee, called the gen tleman from Georgia to order. Mr. Toombs. The gentleman will take his seat. No man has a right to call me to or der. Mr. Stanton. But I had the floor. Mr. Toombs. It was given to me. Mr. Root. I have no objection to hearing the gentleman, if the same privilege is ex tended to all. But I have been gagged down once, and I object toother proceed ing. \ Mr. Toombs. lam upon the floor, and there is no rule of this House by which any gentleman can interrupt me, or by which any order of this House can be enforced. Mr. Stanton. I* appeal to the gentleman as a matter of courtesy between him and me. I was on the floor addressingthe House— Mr. Toombs, (interrupting.) As a matter of courtesy I yield to the gentleman. Mr. Stanton, (continuing.) And certainly vou will not take the floor from me. Mr. Inge. I ask tho gentleman from Ten nessee (Mr. Stanton) to yield the floor to me to submit a motion to rescind this of “agreed, agreed.”] Mr. Stanton yielded. Mr. Inge moved that the resolution of the 14th instant, prohibiting debate until the elec tion of Speaker, be rescinded. Mr. Peck said, if the motion were adopted, it would open tlie door to a discussion upon every subject. He moved so to amend the motion so as to allow debate alone upon re solutions looking to an organization of the House. This amendment was not insisted upon. Mr. Toombs. The question before the House is on the motion to rescind the rule.— Is the gentleman from Alabama upon the floor. Mr. Inge. No; I make the motion. I do not propose to debate it. Mr. Toombs inquired of the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Stanton) if he yielded the floor? Mr. Stanton. I do, if it is understood that I am to have the floor as soon as the question is decided. I have no objection to its being de bated. I yield the floor fur that purpose. Mr. Inge, (to Mr. Toombs.) I hope the gentleman from Georgia will yield to my mo tion, and allow the question to be put. If the House vote it down, the gentleman can then make his point. Mr. Toombs (still remaining upon tiie floor) said: I desire to be heard, to show this House that they had no right to pass such an order as they adopted on the 14th instant; that, ac cording to the constitution nnd act of Congress of 1789, the House has not the right to pass that or any other rule. That is the simple question. I wish to address myself to that point. Will not gentlemen inquire whether they have the right to pass so important a rule which -he frcAlnm of spWCdh, anffvto jni - Uie. cwZHMryl Is H true that the majority qhall demand absolute silence on the part of tffq representatives of the people in this hall, when a question of so grave import is to be determined by this House, in volving the rights of my constituents and the whole people, and the integrity of the consti tution ? Mr. Root, (interrupting.) That is precisely the question I wished to debate yesterday, when I was gagged down. I call the gen tleman from Georgia to order. I object to his proceeding, unless the same right is extended to others. Mr. Toombs, (to Mr. Root.) I deny your authority to interrupt me. By what authority does the gentleman from Ohio interrupt me? The House has no rules by which it can en force its orders. Mr. Root. By the same authority under which the House call me to order yesterday. Mr. Toombs. I deny lhe right of the gen tleman from Ohio to call mo to order. I claim the constitutional riffht ot freedom of speech, and I deny that this House, under tlie law of 1789, has a right to pass such an order. Mr. Root, (interrupting.) If the House will let tlie gentleman speak, and gag down another, let them do it. 1 protest against it, in the name of justice and my constituents. Mr. Toombs. I demand to know by what rule the gentleman from Ohio interrups me. Mr. Stanly. Mr. Clerk, I call for the read ing of the rule adopted by the House on the 14th instant. That (addressing Mr. Toombs) is lhe rule by which the gentleman has lhe right to call you to order. Mr. Toombs. You have no rule. I don’t yield tha floor. Where is the rule that gives gentlemen the right to call me to order when 1 am upon the floor exercising my right to de bate? Mr. Stanly. The rule of the 14th instant, prohibiting debate until after the election of Speaker. The majority of the House having adopted that rule, it is the duty of each mem ber to obey it. Mr. Toombs. There is no such rule. The majority of the House having refused to adopt rules of the House, there is no rule by which the gentleman can cal! me to order. The majority of the House must adopt rules for their own government before they can enforce any rules. Tho strict observance of rules ar.d of first principles is tho only security for a minority. Mr. Van Dyke. I call the gentleman to order. Mr. Toombs. J deny the right of any man on this floor to call me to order ; and I will not yield the floor for that purpose. Ido not yield. Mr. Van Dyke. Nor I either. I claim the right to require the gentleman to observe the order of the House. Mr. Toombs. Very well; the gentleman may call; lie may violate the decorum of the House and of debate, if he please; but I have the floor, and 1 shall exercise my right of dis cussion. Mr. Duer. lam willing to hear the gen i tieman from Georgia, and I propose that the ■ unanimous consent be given, to allow that i gentleman, and all other gentlemen, to discuss : the point. ■ Mr. Toombs (continuing.) There is no rule of this House to enforce its order; and if the House say they will not hear me upon the constitutional question [Call to order.] ’ Mr. Baker. . I move that by unanimous con i sent the gentleman from Georgia be allowed to : debate this question. : [Cries of “ No, no,” “ Repeal your rule and i allow every gentleman to speak.”] ■ Mr. Baker. I make that distinct motion. I : call upon the Clerk to put the question. Mr. Toombs. If the House see fit to give unanimous consent, I have no objection ; but I desire it to be understood I waive no right. I demand as a right, in the name of my con stituents, to be heard. Mr. Inge called attention to the fact that the motion of the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Baker) could not be received, as there was already a question pending upon his molion to rescind the resolution of the 14th instant The Clerk, (to Mr. Toombs.) Will the gesclesiw from Georgia allow n.e to put the i question upoa the motion to rescind the rule ’ ! Mr. Toombs. No. 1 have i the floor. I deny the constitutional right of this House to pass that resolution, or any othel rule or reso lution. It is an unauthorized infringement of the great right of freedom of speech. The constitution and the law of 1789- [Loud calls to order.] Mr. Toombs. You may cry order, gentle men, till the heavens fall; you j cannot take this place from me. I have theiright to pro test against this transaction. It Jis with you to say whether this right shall be yielded, and when it shall be yielded. I ilwre, then, gentlemen of the House, to show tluhvyou are without rules, and that no orders can—y- [Cries to order: “Sit down; you have no right to debate.”] , Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) lam attempting to show you that no man can rise to order [Calls to order.] Mr. Stevens of Pennsylvania. I call the gentleman to order. Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) I say that by the law of 1789, this House, until a Speaker is elected and gentleman have taken the oath of office, has no right to adopt any rules what soever. [Loud cries of order.] Mr. Tdombs. Gentlemen may amuse them selves by crying order [Calls to order.] Mr. Toombs. But I have the right, and I intend to maintain this right to Mr. Van Dyke. 1 call upon the Clerk to put the question and let us see whether the •gentleman will disregard the order of this House. Mr. Toombs. I have the floor, and the Clerk cannot put the question. I submit that [Calls to order.] Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) The Clerk has not the right to put the question of order. [“Order, order.”] Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) That it can not. The House has no right. Gentlemen may cry “order,” and interrupt me. It is mere brute force, attempting,- lhe-power •of lungs, to put down a gentleman in the exer cise of his right. [Cries to order.] Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) But gentlemen cannot deprive me of my rights. I shall insist upon them to the last extremity. Mr. Van Dyke. It is for the House to decide whether the gentleman is in order or net. The Clerk. The gentleman from New Jersey rises to a question of order, and calls the gentleman from Georgia to order. The question submitted to the House is Mr. Toombs, (still retaining the floor.) I deny the right of the Clerk to put the question. I have the floor; and I submit that the Clerk has not the right to put this question until I have yielded the floor. Where (addressing the Clerk) is your authority ? The Clerk. The resolution adopted by the House on the 14th instant. Mr. Toombs. There is none. Mr. T. remained upon the floor and was proceeding with his remarks, while The Clerk at the same time was propound ing the question of order to the House, which was, that the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Van Dyke) having called the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Toombs) to order, the House to decide was, whether the gentleman from Georgia should be allowed io proceed. The question was put, and the Clerk an nounced that, without a division, the point of order was sustained by the House, and the gentleman from Georgia decided out of order. Mr. Toombs was still upon the floor, and had been speaking during the entire time in which the question upon the point of order was propounded and take!), and the vote de clared. Mr. T. continued : Having the right to the floor. I shall proceed to the argument of this question. [Cries of “ order ! ” much conversation and confusion in all parts of the hall.] Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) I can speak if gentlemen interruptand speak at thesame time. The Clerk (while Mr. T. was continuing to speak) stated that the question now recurred upon the motion of the gentleman from Alaba ma (Mr. Inge) to rescind the resolution of the 14th instant prohibiting debate until after the election of Speaker. [Calls for the question—“ Call thet roll.”] . Mr. 'Toombs, 1 tlie rtgnt of t l.q Clerk I am upon theUtSkr,aritT it is [Calls and nays front various parts of the House.] The Clerk, (Mr. T. still upon the floor.) The yeas and nays are demanded upon the motion of the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Inge.) Gentlemen, you who are in favor of agreeing to the motion will, when your names are called, say “aye;” those of a contrary opinion will say “ no.” The clerk will call the roll. Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) I deny the tight of these gentlemen to [Cries of “ Order I ” “ Call the roll I ”] Mr. Toombs. I shall debate the question whether you call the roll or not. [Great confusion.] Mr. Breck. I move that this House do now adjourn. Mr. Toombs, (continuing.) I keep upon the floor. Shall the Clerk deprive me of my constitutional rights? [“Order, order.”, — Shall members, by crying ‘ order’deprive me of those rights ? I desire to show my rights under the constitution. You do well to call the roll and cry “ order,” [loud calls to order ;| but I deny the right of any and every man to interrupt me. [Cries of “ Go it Toombs,” “ Call the roll,” “ Order,” and great confusion ] In the midst of this and while Mr. T. was still addressing the House— The Clerk commenced to take the yeas and nays on the motion of Mr. Inge. Mr. Toombs continued to speak amidst much confusion. He said: If you seek, by violating the common law of Parliament, the laws of the land, and the Constitution of the United States, to put me down—[“ Order, or der,” “Call the roll,”] —you will find it a va. i and futile attempt. [“ Order, order.” lan sure I am indebted to the ignorance of my character of those who are thus disgracing themselves, [“order, order,”] if they suppose any such efforts as they are now making will succeed in driving tne from the position 1 have assumed. [•* Order, order.”] It is too strong ly planted in the very foundations of public liberty. [“ Order, order.l stand upon the constitution of my country, u;onthe liberty of speech, [“ order, order,] which you have treacherously violated, and upon the rights of my constituents—and your fiendish yells may be well raised to drown an argumeuc-wiueb you tremble to hear. You claim and have ex ercised the power to prevent all debate upon any and evdry subject, [“ order, order,”] yet you have not even as yet shown your right to sit here at all. I will not presume that you have any such right, [“order, order,”] 1 will not suppose that the American people have se lected such agents to represent them—and I therefore demand that they shall comply with the act of 1789, before 1 shall be bound to sub mit to their authority. [Loud cries' of “Or der, order.”] The second section of that act j is iu these words : “That at the first session of Congress after 1 every general election of representatives, the oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be administer ed by anyone member of the House of Repre- ‘ sentatives to the Speaker, and by him to all i the members present, and to the clerk, previous to entering on any other business.” This you have not done. [“Order, order.”] Your power to make rules for your own go vernment does not belong to you in your un organised condition. [Cries of “order.”] — You must be first sworn ttfobey the constitu- | lion before you can bind me, or yourselves, or . any other citizen, by your rules. [Loud cries ! of “order, order.”] You refuse to bear either the constitution or the law, or the comments upon it. Per haps you do well to listen to neither; they ail i speak a voice of condemnation to your reck less proceedings. But if you will not hear them the country will. Every freeman, from to the Pacific shore, shall hear them, and every Itosest man will consider them. They are the securities for his rights as well as mine. Y’ou cannot stifle the voice that shall reach their ears. The electric shock shall proclaim to the freemen of thia republic [“order, order,”] that ati American Congress, having conceived the purpose to violate the constitution and the laws, to conceal these enormities, have disgraced the records of tWir proceedings by placing upon it a resoiutioa that their representatives shall not be heard in their defence; and finding this illegal re solution inadequate to secure so vile an end, have resorted to brutish yells und cries, to sti fle the words ot those whom they cannot in timidate. ['‘Order, order.”] The law is clear, plain, conclusive. You cannot answer it. It has solemnly been affirmed by an Ame rican Congress in 1839. [“Order, order.”] I read from the Congressional Globe, page 56: On motion of Mr. Dromgoole, of Virginia, to adopt the standing rules and orders of the (then) last House of Representatives as the. rules and orders of that House, it was moved by Mr. Lewis Williams to lay the resolution on the table. Mr. W. C. Johnson here made a point of order, that by the act of 1789, to which I have referred, the House had no pow er to adopt rules until they were sworn. The Speaker (Mr. R. M. T. Hunter) decided that the better way of deciding the question would be (on the motion of Mr. Williams) to lay it on the table. The yeas and nays were called, and the resolution was laid upon the table by the casting vote of the Speaker ; Con gress thus deciding that, even after a more advanced stage of the] proceedings, after a Speaker was elected, the House could not be fore its members were sworn even adopt rules for their own government. [The clerk still continued to call the roll, a few members were answering, olhers inquir ing what was the question, others demanding that their names should be called, and great confusion; during all of which Mr. T. held on his remarks.] I ask (said Mr. T.) by what authority that man (pointing to the clerk’s desk) stands there and calls those names ? By what authority does he interfere with the rights of a member of this House ? [The clerk continued to call.] He is an intruder, and how dares he to inter rupt members in the exercise of their constitu tional rights ? Gentlemen, has the sense of shame departed with your sense of right, that you permit a creature, an interloper, in nowise | connected with you, to stand at that desk and i interrupt your order. [“Order, order.”] ' I have shown you that the House of Repre sentatives decided this case in 1839, pending the New Jersey contested election. At the head of the names affirming it stands that of John Q. Adams —a gentleman distinguished at least for his vast and varied knowledge of constitutional law and the science of govern ment. The members of the House whose seats were not contested having decided (be-1 fore they were sworn or organized) that the votes of certain members of New Jersey should not be counted, and the validity of the decision being insisted upon, Mr. Adams said, “That decision was illegal, unconstitutional, null and void, on the ground, also, that the House in its then unorganized state, had no power under the constitution, to decide any ' question.” The history of that whole contro-1 versy shows such to have been the general , opinion of the House, as I am prepared to' show from the debates now before me ; but as i the House seems to be a little more patient, 11 I will not inflict further quotations upon them. The House continued without making any new rules for days, until it was finally or ganized, and the members were sword ; then rules were adopted for its government. If, then, the House, before its organization, could decide no question, how can it enact a law binding upon its members, abridging the liberty of speech? I venture to say no such rule was ever before adopted in any <]elibera tive assembly. It is without a precedent in the annals of civilization. Even the revolu l tionary tribunalsof France, during the Reign i of Terror, did not soil their blood-stained re r cords with an order denying the liberty of • speech. This deed was reserved for you, re presentatives cf a free people. (“Order, or > der.”) What, then, is your condition ?—what i your rights, and what your duties, in your pre sent condition ? Under the constitution you have the right “to choose your Speaker and other officers.” This must be done in con formity to existing laws, for you cannot now make a new law. The general parliamenta ry law, the common law of Parliament, as far as not inconsistent with your constitution and statute law, is your law. By it you are bound until you are in a condition to make others. It is is amply sufficient for all legitimate pur poses of organization. Thirty Congresses have met and been organized under it, and.no such tyrannical proceed»»>£?_aa that J ou firnve atluptetTfirtS ever been Seemed necessary. What now do you pretend to have for it? Its adoption was probably an 'inadvertence ; it was certainly without debate or consideration; but now you want it, and you hold on to it in order to enable you to perpetrate another wrong on the constitution, by passing the re solution now before the House, and foisting a Speaker upon it, by a plurality of votes instead of a majority. There is no impediment in the way of your performance of your constitution al duties. Your path is plain, your duty clear. But you find yourselves trammelled by your party ties. Your plain duly is to break these ties, and perform your constitutional duty; but you prefer to break the constitu tion of your country. Therefore you will this day do what you have already determined in caucas to do—you will delegate that pow er which the constitution vests in the House of Representatives to a minority of that House, and you will permit that minority to exercise your constitutional duty to choose a Speaker. A power delegated to the House must be used by a majority of the House. In Jefferson’s Manual we find the true and correct doctrine laid down, page 183 : “The voice of the ma jority decides; for the lex majoris partis is the law of all councils, elections, &c., where not otherwise expressly provided.” It is not otherwise provided in the constitution, nor laws, nor rales of Parliament, nor in any rule of any preceding Congress. They, one and all, where the question is referred to, sus tain the majority rule. It is the basis of our whole system. The will of any assembly can only be known by a majority. Therefore, whether every member of Congress is present, or but a majority of one, it is but a “House,” and a majority must declare its will. I there fore demand of you, before the country, in the name of the constitution and of the people, to repeal your illegal rnler, eject the oqe on the table, and proceed to the discharge of the high duties which the people have confided to you, I according to the unvarying precedents of your predecessors and the law of the land. Mr. Toombs resumed his seat. During the latter part of his speech the Ho’tfse was more tranquil. While he was speaking, however, • the Clerk had progressed in the call of the roll I about twenty names. Responses had been given by a few of the gentlemen called, but I the disorder was so great that it was impossi- Ibb for gentlemen from The.r seats to make i their answers audible to the Glerk. There were now cries from all parts of the House that the roll be called over again. The question was upon the motion of Mr. I j Inge that the resolution of the 14th instant, j ' which prohibits debate until a Speaket* shall I 1 have been elected, be rescinded. ! 1 And the roll having been called, the Clerk : * announced the vote as follows : Yeas 97, nays i 120. So the motion was rejected. Congress.—A Speaker at Last.—Ou j Saturday last, the House met, and after some desultory debate on the proposition made by Mr. Stanton from the committee of the two . great parties, Mr. Stanton called for the read i ing of his proposition, which was read as fol ; lows: Resolved, That the House will proceed im- I mediately to the election of a Speaker, viva voce; and if. after the vote shall have been cal led three times, no member shall have receiv ed a majority of the whole number of votes, the roll shall again be called, and the member I who shall then receive the largest number of l votes, provided it be a majority of a quorum, I shall be declared to be chosen Speaker. Amendments were offered by Messrs. Meade • Kaufman and Giddings, on each of which a vote was taken, and the two latter were voted j down. The question then occured on the resolution of Mr. Stanton, which was adopted —yeas 113, nays 106. The House then proceeded to ballot for j Speaker, and after three trials without suc cess, the fourth was entered into, when the vote stood: H. Cobb received 102 Winthrop 100 ! Wilmot 8 Morehead 4 Strong 3 I A. H. Stephens I Colcock 1 ’ Durkee i Potter 1 Boyd 1 222 For Mr. Cobb.—Messrs. Albertson, Ashe, Averett, Bay, Bayly, Beale, Bingham, Bissel, Bocock, Bowdon, Bowlin, Boyd, z\lbert G. Brown, William J. Brown, Buel, Burt, Cabel George Alfred Caldwell- Carter, Williamson R. W. Cobb, Colcock, Daniel, Dimmick, Disney, Dunham, Edmundson, Ewing, Feath erston. Fitch, Fuller, Gerry. Gilmore, Gor man, Green, Hackett Hall, Hamilton, Ham mond, Haralson, Harlan, Harmanson, Isham G. Harris, Sampson W. Harris, Thomas L. Harris, Hibbard, Hoagland, Holliday, How- , ard, Hubbard, luge, Andrew Johnson, R. W. Johnson, G. W. Jones, Kaufman, La Sere, Leffler, Littlefield, Job Matin, Mason, McCler nand, McDonald, McDowell, McLanahan McLane, McMullen, McQueen, Me Willie, Meade, Miller, Millson, Morris, Morse, Olds, Orr, Parker, Peaslee, Potter, Powell, Richard son, Robbins, Robinson, Ross, Savage, Saw telle, Frederick P. Stanton, Richard H. Stan ton, Stetson, Strong, Sweetser, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, James Thompson, Wm. Thomp son, Venable, Walden, Waldo, Wallace, Wellborn, Wentworth, Whittlesey, Wildrick and Young. For Mr. Winthrop.—Messrs. Alexander, Alston, Anderson, Andrews, Ashmun, Baker, Bennett, Bokee, Bowie, Breek, Briggs, Brooks ' Burrows, Chester Butler, Thomas B. Butler, i Joseph P. Caldwell, Calvin, Campbell, Casey, i Chandler, Clark, Cleveland, Clingman, Cole, , Conger, Conrad, Corwin, Crowell, Deberry, , Dickey, Dixon, Duer, Duncan, A. Evans, I N. Evans, Fowler, Freedley, Goodenow, Gott, Gould, Grinnell, Halloway, Hampton, Hay, Haymond, Hebard, Henry, Hilliard, Houston, Hunter, Jackson, J. L. Johnson, Kerr, Daniel P. King, George G. King, James G. King, John A. King, Levin, Horace Mann, Marshall I Matteson, McGaughey MoLeap, I Meacham, Moore, Nes, Newell, ! Ogle, Otis, Outlaw. Phoenix, Pitman, Pulman, i Reynols, Risley, Rockwell, Rose, Rumsey, j Sackett, Schenck, Schermerhorn, Schoolcraft, ' Shepherd, Silvester, Spalding, Stanley, Stev , ens, Taylor, John B. Thompson, Thurman, . Tuck, Underhill, Van Dyke, Vinton, Wat- I kins, White, Williams, Wilson. For Mr. Wilmot.—Messrs. Allen, Booth, | Durke, Giddings, Howe, Julian P. King and Root. For Mr. Stephens.—Mr. Cabell. For Mr. Strong.—Messrs. Cleveland, Doty and Peck. For Mr. Colcock.—Mr. Holmes. For Mr. Moorehead.—Messrs. Morton, Owen, Stephens and Toombs. • For Mr. Durkee.—Mr. Wilmot. For Mr. Potter.—Mr. Wood. For Mr. Boyd.—Mr. Woodward. The Clerk then prepared to declare Howell I Cobb of Georgia, to have been elected Speak er of the 31st Congress; when Mr. Stanley offered the following resolution: Resolved, That Howell Cobb, a Represent ative from Georgia, be declared duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 31st Congress. Thereupon, there was clapping on the floor and in the galleries, and many members called for order. The Clerk called on the Doorkeeper to clear the galleries, if further demonstrations were made there. Mr. Root, declaring his belief that the reso lution of the gentleman from North. Carolina [Mr. Stanley] was unconstitutional, demanded that the yeas should be called thereupon. [Great confusion and uproar, many members calling him to order.] «<■ Mr. Schenck protested against calling the yeas and nays, Mr. Cobb having already been elected the Speaker of the 31st Congress. But, amid great confusion, the toll was called on agreeing to Mr. Stanly’s resolution; and the resolution was agreed to—yeas 149, noys 33, as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Albertson, Anderson, Ashe, Ashmun, Baker, Bay, Beale, Bennett, Bing ham, Bissell, Bocock, Bokee, Booth, Bowdon, Bowie, Bowlin, Boyd, Breck, Briggs, Albert G. Brown, William J. Brown, Buel, Chester Butler, Cabel, George Alfred Caldwell, Joseph P. Caldwell, Carter, Uasey, Clingman, Wil liamson. R. W. Cobb,tonrad. Corwin, Deber ry, Dimmick. Disney, Dixon, Dixon, Dotv, Du er, puiicun K Ptidliuui,XJ /V. Nathan Evans, Ewing. Filch, Freedley, Ful ler, Gerry, Gilmore, Gorman, Gould, Green, Grinnell, Hackett, Hall, Hamilton,Hammond, Hampton, Haralson, Harlan, Harmanson, Isham G. Harris, Sampson W. Manis, Thos. L. Harris, Hay, Haymond, Henry, Hibbard, Hoagland, Houston, Howard, Inge, Andrew Johnson, James L. Johnson, Robert W. John son, Jones, Kaufman, Kerr, George G. King, James G. King, John A. King, LaSere, Leffler, Levin, Littlefield, Job Mann, Marshall, Mc- Clernand, McDonald, McDowell, McKissock, McLanahan, McLane, McLean, McMullen, McWillie, Miller, Millson, Moore, Morris, Morse, Newell, Ogle, Olds, Orr, Otis, Parker, Peaslee, Phoenix, Pitman, Potter, Powell, Put nam, Reynolds, Richardson, Robbins, Robin son, Rockwell, Rose, Ross, Savage, Sawtelle, Schenck, Schermerhorn, Shepherd, Stanly, Frederick P. Stanton, Richard 11. Stanton, Stetson, Sweetser, Taylor, Thomas, Jacob Thomson, James Thompson, John B. Thomp son, William Thompson, Thurman, Van Dyke, Vinton, Walden, Waldo, Watkins, Went worth, White, Whittlesey, Wildrick, Wil liams, Winthrop, Wood and Young—l 49. Nays—Messrs. Allen, Andrews, Averett, Bayly, Burt, Cabell, Campbell, Colcock, Crow ell, Daniel, Durkee, Featherston, Giddings, Hilliard, Holliday, Holmes, Howe, Hubbard, Hunter, Julian, Preston King, McGanghbey, McQueen, Morton, Outlaw, Owen, Root, Al exander H. Stephens, Toombs, Tuck, Vena ble, Wallace, Wilmot, and Woodward—33. The Clerk then declared that Howell Cobb, a representative from the State of Georgia, had been duly elected the Speaker of the 31st Congress, and requested Messrs. Winthrop and McDowell to conduct him to the chair; which duty was performed by those gentle men, amid profound silence and great sensa tion. The Speaker elect then addressed the House as follows: Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : Ifwould be useless to disguise the fact that I feel deeply embarrassed in taking the Chair under tho circumstances attending my elec tion. I am conscious of the difficulties by which this position is surrounded at the present time. The peculiar organization of this body, as exhibited in our proceedings since we first met—the nature and character of tho various important and exciting questions of public policy which will engage our attention during the present session of Congress—conspire to render the duties of the office peculiarly em j barrassing, onerous, and responsible. I may I be permitted, therefore, to ask, in advance, your , generous aid and support in the effort I shall I make firmly, faithfully and impartially to dis i charge its duties. I The country has been looking with anxiety to our efforts to effect an organization—the ’ people will continue to regard with intense interest every step we take in our legislative course. Our duties will be laborious—our responsibilities great. Let us then, in view of these considerations, invoke in the discharge of these duties a patriotism as brood as the Union, and as comprehensive as the nature and character of her various interests and in stitutions. Guided by this spirit, under the blessing of Heaven, our action will result in the continued prosperity of our common coun try- • Accept, gentlemen, my grateful acknowl i edgements for the honor you have conferred , on me in selecting me as your presiding offi cer during the present Congress. Mr. Vinton said that the annual communi- I cation from the Executive had been delayed so I long as to render it highly important that it should go forth to the country, so anxious to receive it, without greater delay. He would therefore propose for the purposes of prompt ly communicating the fact of the organization of the House officially to the Senate, that the members be now sworn in. A Member. The Speaker has not been i sworn in himself yet. The Clerk then called Mr. Lynn Boyd, the ’ senior member, to the desk, who administered j to the Speaker the customary oath of office. Mr. Jacob Thompson conceived that by swearing in the members now, nothing was to be gained in the way of getting the message, &c., before the country, as before jt could be received by the House it was necessary that the faet of the organisation should be an-' Bounced to the Executive by a joint cuinmitee ! from both brunches of Congress; aud the Sen ate would not be in session again until Mon day Morning. Mr. Jones, with the view to the early trans- ■ mission of the message to the House and Sen- 1 ate, moved that the House do now adjourn till 10 a. m. on Monday, so that by noon of that day, the members being all sworn in, the Executive communication might be received. This motion was understood to have been withdrawn, (much opposition to the early hour having been manifested on all sides.) On motion, the House then adjourned until noon on Monday. 1 From the Columbia (S. C.) Telegraph, j acts of 1849. 1. An act to continue in office the late Com-1 missioners of the Poor for York District. | 2. An act to alter the Constitution so as to j change the name of Saxe Gotha, to Lexington, I and extend its boundaries to its present judicial . limits. 3. An act the formation of the i Spartanburg Railroad Company. 4. An act to incorporate the village of York. ' 5. An act to renew the charter of St. Peter’s Church, Charleston. 6. An act to incorporate the Marine Church of Charleston, and for other purposes. 7. An act to alter the law in relation to slaves hiring their own time, nnd for other purposes. 8. An act to incorporate the town of Ches ter. 9. An act to incorporate the town of Dar lington. x 10. An act to incorporate the Society for the relief (of tho families) of deceased and dis abled indigent members of the Medical profes sion of the State of South Carolina. 11. An act to amend the law in relation to the rights of sureties. 12. Aqactto establish the Mt) Pleasant Ferry Company. . . 13. An act to amend the act incorporating theKeowee Turnpike Company. 14. An let te amend the limits of the city of Charleston. 15. An act to amend the law in relation to | the lien of judgments. j- 16. An act to require Commissioners of | Buildings, of the several Districts of this State I to furnish the Sheriffs the books required to j be kept by them. 17. An act to vSst in Susan Conelly all the right, title and interest of the State in certain escheated property. 18. An act to authorize the City Council of Charleston to prevent interments within said city, without proper certificates, and for other I purposes. 19. An aetto amend an act entitled an “ act to authorize the formation of the Greenville i and Columbia Railroad Company ;” and an act entitled an act to amend an act to authorize the formation of the Greenville and Columbia , Railroad Company. 20. An act to afford aid in constructing the , Laurens Railroad. 21. An act toimend the law concerning the publication of Sheriff’s Sales for Pickens Dis trict. 22. An act to appoint Commissioners from Horry District Io clear out Little Pee Dee River, and for other purposes. 23. An act to apportion the representation of the State. 24. An act to establish certain Roads, Fer ries and Bridges. • 25. An act to alter the License laws of the Slate. 26. Au act to authorize and require the transfer of all papas appertaining to the ad ministration of estates now deposited in the of fice of the Secretary of State in Charleston to the Ordinary’s Offito for Charleston District. 27. An act to vest in Mary O’Neale the right and title of the State in and to the estate of John M. O’Neale. 28. An net to vest the right and title of the State in and to a tract of land in Chester Dis trict in David Lyle and his heirs. 29. An act to amend an act to prevent the obstruction to the passage of fish up Lynche’s Creek. 30. An aetto raise suppiitn for lhe year commencing October, 1849. 31. An aet to Itico’rporate Plank ~kdge!iel(i 33. An act to cbiffter und Dar lington’ Railroad Company. 34. An act to incorporate certain Societies and Companies, and to renew and amend cer tain charters heretofore granted. 35. An act to muke appropriations for the year commencing October, 1849. [From the Alabama Journal, Dec. 25th.] Late from California. The brig Mary Estland, arrived at New Or leans on the 20th from Chagres, bringing advi ces from California up to the 4th iust. The general election in California took place on the 13th ult., for Governor, Lieutenant Go vernor, members of Congress, and members of the California Legislature. At the same time, the vote on tho ratification of the Consti tution was taken. The Pacific News gives the returns of the election in San Francisco as far as received, as follows : For Constitution, 2,051 | Against it, 5 For Governflr. ! Peter 11. Burnet, 1,935 I VV. S. Sherwood, 89 j John A. Sutter, 1,084 | j The election, as far as heard from, has re- I suitedin the election of the Democratic ticket j for Governor, members of Congress, &c. It seems that the leading Democrats with their usual energy, got up a party organization just previous to the election—the Whigs did not. The Alla California refers to the fact that the regular democratic ticket in San Francisco for State Senators and Assembly men, is elect ed by a large majority, and says, “ it is, tbere | fore, certain that Air. King will get no support | from the district of San Francisco. Under I these circumstances, we regard it as certain ! that he will not be returned to the United | States Senate.” i The character of the Constitution framed by i the Convention, says the Pacific News, and i now unquestionably ratified and adopted by the people, in our judgment, settle) fully, as we have already stated in our columns, the ascen dancy of the principles of the democratic par ty in California, but we were not prepared to believe before the election, that the communi ty, even of San Francisco, was at this time so ready as it has proved to be, to enter into a democratic party organization. We do not ‘ yet by any means believe, however, that party I organization will be found to be nearly as strong jin any other part of the State. It will be ob served, that in San Francisco only about 2,000 votes out of rhe whole number polled, were cast in favor of the Constitution. We believe this disproportion to be owing entirely to the circumstances that many tickets were inadver tantly issued on which the words “ for the Constitution,” were, by mere accident, omitted. We regard it as almost certain that Burnett i is elected Governor; and we think that either McDougal or Roman, the candidate of tho San Joaquium district, is elected Lieutenant Governor. [From the Savannah Republican, Dec. 22.] We place before our readers this morning the Report of the Joint Committee on the state of the Republic, introduced into the Legisla ture on Tuesday last. The report and accom panying resolutions, with the bill for calling a Convention of the people of Georgia, re main for the consideration and action of the Legislature, when it shall again convene, on the second Alonday in January next. We embrace tire opportunity to express our approbation of the course of the General As sembly in taking a recess, and -especially are we pleased that the Senate placed that mea sure on the ground that it was proper to see the coarse of events at Washington. The subject is one of the deepest importance, and Georgia, in common with all the Southern States, should now, unhesitatingly, take a stand which cannot be mistaken by the non-slave holding States. Time is now given to the I Congress of rhe United States to see what is | the temper and the determination of our peo ple, and we trust they will, at last, perceive (what we know to be the fact—the fixed, unal terable fact)—that the Southern States will not any longer submit to the injustice which has, for years, been imposed on them. We believe that the action of the Legisla turewill be unanimous—we desire ardently to see it *o, and if there should be on any part of the report a difference of opinion, we hope it may be reconciled to the saiifaction of all par ties before the final step ia takea, From the Charleston Ev. News, Dec. 22. The Union and Messrs. Toombs, Ste phens and Hilliard.—We concur in the strictures of the Charleston Mercury, io rela tion to the language which The Union has been pleased to adopt in reference to the con duct of these gentlemen, in the present con test in Congress. Thb Richmond Enquirer, following in the course of The Union, is “will ing to excuse them measurably for their deeds. We have no such stinted measure of approba tion to offer to them for their manly and patri otic conduct, and which has so well sustained their character as the representatives of a gal lant people. To say that they have done their duty, so fully as to leave us nothing more to desire at their hands, is to pay them a tribute not higher than they deserve, and yet, in it self the highest that any man could receive, i True it is, that we never doubted the course ! that would commend itself to the high-toned j representatives of the South, whenever the 1 question of tame obedience to such gross op ! pression, as is now threatened, should be open ly presented. But the promptness with which j they have burst asunder the ties of a 'mere ' party associaiion, when it impeded their vindi * cation of the slaveholding section of the Union —the boldness with which they defined their position, and proclaimed their sentiments — | and more than all, the confusion which they j have caused in the faces of our opponents, ' and which so conclusively shows the moral i and political influence of their conduct, all prove the high and unabated satisfaction with ■ which their conduct should be hailed, not only I by their own constituents, but by the people of j the whole slaveholding states. From the Columbia S. C. Telegraph. The True Ground.—The Charleston Mer , cury.at the conclusion of an editorial i th<i Washington Union fur ’ i enrhe effect of the able aid eloquent speeches of the Southern whigs, lorYarty purposes, usei I the following strong and truthful language.—‘ I Our leaders will bear us witness, that it em- I bodies lhe views which we have, for the last ! eighteen months, striven to enforce, to the ex ! tent of our ability : ■ Is there justice or discretion or .patriotism, 1 in stirring the prejudice of party, or parading its comparatively petty interests in the presence of an issue such as this? Ought we not rather to consider it natural and irresistible that party ties should shrink and crumble before its blaze; und that, as the fearfulness of the catastrophe becomes apparent, and its approach near, the sentiment of union, not for party but for their country, should spread through the South, ■ should melt down all other differences, swai- I low npali meaner passions, and gather into a | phalanx all true men? Such, we feel sure, I will be its effect. The Washington Union can- | i not prevent or stay the tide—it will tie engulfed 1 |by it, if it persists in attempting to compress . i its current within the narrow and shallow I [ channels of party. THE SUBSCRIBER, BEING desirous of eoucciitratiiig his busi ness, offers for sale the following property in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee: —looo acres of Land in Clark county, Geo., with good dwelling, large aud convenient, with every necessary out building. The most of this tract within three quarters of a mile of tho Colleges and Chapel at Athens, with three splendid wuter privileges; one on the Oconee river, just below tho Athens Fac tory, which will require* a small darn which can be built at a trifling expense, say only feet high, j which will command water enough to turn 12 or ; 15 thousand spindles, which is within a mile or less of tho Rail Road Depot; also, there isa water ' privilege on a creek, and a sett of Granite Mills in a state of progression which will have a water i wheel 26 feet in diameter by ID feet buckets, aiQ i the dam complete, made of stone, which will give a head and fall of over 25 feet, on a never-failing stream, within less than three-quarters of a mile of the Colleges. It is thought sufficient to drive a saw and three or four run of stones, or a cotton factory. There is also a smaller stream, with 18 feet head aud fall,sufficient for a mill or a tannery, on the direct main road that leads to Athens; and the wood that is on this tract (being near 700 actee of woodland,) will pay, at the low price at ■ which it is now selling, between 30 and 40 tliou saud dollars. This tract may be divided into three verv valuable settloments, with a splendid waLimujulege on each, and an abundant supply fine w county, ou the Ocklockony river, with a charter for ferry or bridge, lying on the main road from Bainbridge to Thomasville. Also, 40 lots in Habersham and Rabun counties. The follow ing lots iu Ist district, Rnbiui county, 490 acres liu each lot: N 05.29, 89, 32, 96, 86, 50; and in I the 2d district the following lots, each 250 acres: ' Nos. 85, 86, 110, 111,112,65,64,67, 194, 139, I 195, 168, 137, 116,42. 170, 166, 73, 87, 151, | 157, 188; and in 3rd district the following lots, i each containing 490 acres: lots Nos. 110,56,58, 37, 98, 61, 116, 115. And in Habersham coun ty, lots No. 83, 13th diet.,.Nos. 41 and 18, in 6th dist. Also, 40 lots in the Cherokee district: No. 958, in 4th dist, Ist sect; No. 460, 4th dist, Ist sect; No. 559, 4th diet, Ist sect; No 699,4th dist, Ist sect; No 649, sth dist, Ist sect; No 1054,17th dist, 2d sect; No 651, sth dist, Ist sect; No 492, 20th dist, 3d sect; No 536, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 694, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 765, 4th dist, Ist sect: No 442, sth dist, Ist sect; No 784, 4th dist, Ist sect'. No 332, sth dist, Ist sect; No 656, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 279,4th dist, Ist sect; No 641, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 165,4th dist, Ist sect; No 362, 4th dist, Ist sect; N 0976, 14th dist, Ist sect; No 636, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 263, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 555,2 d di.st, 4th sect; No 449, 4th dist.,-let » sect; No 566, 20th dist, 3d sect; No 265, 20th diet, 3d sect; No 755, Ist (list, 4th sect; No 342, Ist dist, 4th sect; No 250, 11th dist, Ist sect; No I 306, 2d dist, 4th sect; No 142.11th dist, Ist sect; ’ No 170, Ist dist, 4th sect; No 588, 4th dist, Ist I sect;No'464,lst dist, 4th sect; No 140,11 th diet, i Ist sect; No 698, 20th dist. 3d sect; No 88, 11th diet, Ist sect; No 302, 3d dist, 4th sect; No 303, ; 3d diet, 4tb sect; No 1002,20th dist, 3d sect; No ■j 255, 20th dist, 3d sect;No2Bß, Ist diet, 4th sect; No 301, Ist dist, 4th sect; No 237, Ist dist, 4th ; sect: No 934, 20tli dist, 3d sect; and one lot in ! Union county, No not recollected. And the fol- I lowing Lands in tho State of Florida: about 2000 acres, in three tracts, all contiguous, with a first ■ rate Plantation, of between five and 600 acres I cleared land, now in it high rtate of cultivation, with every improvement for convenience or com fort, with algood cistern for holding water, spring and well of water, and lying immediately upon Lake Jackson, which abounds in the finest fish in the spring, summer and autumn, and abound ing with wuter fowls of the fluent kind through the winter and spring; 10 miles distant from the city of Tallahassee, und in an excellent neighbor hood, and but a few miles from the Ocklockony river. This tract is now capable of affording comfortable quarters for a large family, having* good dwelling house, 60 feet front by 44 rear, with six rooms and two passages on first floor, and four rooms und passage on second floor, bewdan piaz-za in front, nn4. good _ Also 3000 acres of Eand iu Cu?He county, Ten nessee, in all of which a great bargain will be sold. And if the Lands can be sold, 50 Negroes and Stock of all kinds will be sold with them, be sides Corn, Fodder, Blackemitha’ and I’lantntion Tools of every description. August 21 ly WM. A. CARR. Fare Reduced to S2O from Charleston to New York. The Great M.lll. ROUTE from C IRIREESTO.V, S. C. ILF Ceasing the Wharf at the foot of Laurens street, daily at 3 p. m., after the arrival of the Southern cars, via WILMING TON andWF.LDON, N. C„ PETERSBURG RICHMOND, to WASHINGTON, BAi.TI MORE, PHILADELPHIA, and N. YORK. The public is respectfully informed that the Steamers of this line, from Charleston to Wil mington, are in first rate condition, and are navi gated by well known and experienced command ers, and the Rail Roads are iu fine order, thereby securing both safety and despatch. A Through Ticket having already been in operation, will be continued on and after the first of October, 1849, as a permanent arrangement from Charleston tb New York. Passengers availing themselves thereof, will have the option either to continue without delay through the route, or otherwise to stop at auy of the intermediate points, re newing their seats on the line to suit their con venience. By this route travellers may /each New \ ork on the third day-during business hours. Baggage will be ticketed on board the steamer to Weldon, as likewise on the change of cars, at the intermediate points from thence to New York, Through Tickets to New York at S2O each’ can alone be had from E. WINSLOW, Agent of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Com pany, at the office of the Company at the foot of Laurens street, to whom please apply. For fur ther information, inquire of L. C. DUNCAN, Aug 11-ly at the American Hotel. October2o, 1849. JOB PRINTING Afvatly at Hit* OMic«