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Speech of the Hon. Mr. Clay, of Kentucky-
Hbfe ’ [CONCLUDED.]
aßkjsCVxay. Mr. President, with regard to Utah,
Hp is no government whatever, unless it is
i; has prompted the Mormons to
when you come to New Mexico,
| bent have you ? A military gov
‘ colonel of the army ?
—a mere subordinate ot the
IB’tyiited .States —holds the govern
in a time of profound peace !
'■'■v Wf whig who can—stand up, democrat
■a, and defend the establishment of a mili
■ ■ernment in this free and glorious repub-
Bjime of profound peace I Sir. we hud
the authority of the late President
Him time ot war, and it was cast as a re-
him. Put here, in a time of pro-
it is promised by the highest author*
Ehat this government, that this military gov
—and by what authority it has continued
Hypeace ensued, I know not—should be con
\ indefinitely, till New Mexico is prepared
; Hue as a State into the Union. And when
he ? There are now about ten thousand
composed of Americans, Spaniards,
and about eighty thousand or nine
HTd, and barbarous people, and when will
; W, ready to come in as a State / Sir, 1 say
a full sense ol the responsibility of my
■ , that if to-morrow with such a population.
Hlh a constitution as such a population might
■ they were to come here for admission as a
for one, wou'd not vote for it. It would
: HjculiMis’ it would he farcical; it would
■Rto contempt the grave matter of forming
Honwealths as sovereign members of this glo-
BUinuii She has no population, ill sufficient
■ks, m rally capable of self government nor
He bare, fur many years to come, such a
as will make it proper to admit her as
And yet the plan of the President is to
Hhre this military government under this iieuten
■t colonol in full peration, declaring, as he does,
Pin opposition to evidence, that they have a very
good government there now.
But what sort of a government does this lieu
tenant co onel, p aced over them, administer to
his subjects ? Why, I suppose one of the greatest
and first duties ot government is to give protec
tion to the people, to give defence to the Territory
which he governs, and to repel invasion from the
limits of the country. And bow does this milita
ry commander, acting, as it is said, under the au
thority ot the Secretary of War. behave upon the
first approach of an invasion? While commis
sioners are gent there as pioneers in the work ol
bringing all that part of New Mexico on this side
of the Riodei Norte under the authority of Ter
ias, as the territory of Texas, wnat does this mili
■ary governor do or propose to do, to protect
These people ami repel invasion, and to protect
the domain ? He says he means to be neutral,
Land has instructions from head quarters to be
this contest between the people ot
or New Mexico and Tex.s ? The
governor of this people who are op osed to the
jurisdiction ofTexas, says he means to take no
part with those he governs, but to leave them to
fight itout as well as they can with the power of
Texas. What American can say that, under the
■gtfumstances, this course is justifiable? And
will become of the sacred obligati', ns of the
t Os all the honorable distinc-
HRMrcharactcrize man in his social and
his individual character, that of
honorable fulfilment of obiiga
■Beobservance ol contracts in private
in public life, is one which
' most to the approbation of cn
■l mankind. Here we have a provision
staring us in the face, requiring us
the protection ol government to the
of Utah and New Mexico. We are told
Rvfe may safely—it is not said, 1 admit, in terms,
Ibut it s in effect —we may withdraw from the
llulfilment of our obligations, and leave this peo
■ple to themselves, to work out their own happi
ness and salvation in such way as they can.
what circumstances, will this country he,
adjourns without a settlement of this
question, and without establishing Icrri-
HEnlgoveriuflents for Utah and New Mexico ?
HnwEatcondition would the people of New Mexi
■co he, east o the Rio del Norte, in their conflict
■with Texas ? Sir, 1 need not remind you ol ».hat
f every body knows—of the settled dislike, insuper
able antipathy existing on the part of the people
of New Mexico towards Texas, denouncing and
denying her authority, contravening the existence
of her laws, and ready, il they had the power to
do it, to resist the claim of ji risdiction to the ast
ext emity. And yet they at eto be left 'o take
care of .hemselves I They have got a govern
ment good enough for them !
Mr. President, this is not ray conception of my
> duty as an American legislator. My duty tells
toe to perform what we have promised to perform;
Bmy duty tells me to extend to this people in Utah
New Mexico the benefits oi that supreme au-
residing in the city ol Mexico which they
they constituted a part of the republic
but which, when they came :o us, we
fßmnßß\i'4fl*extend to them fiorn Washington, on
'aur part. That is my conception of duty, and I
will undertake to perform it, if I can. It I cannot
do it, on account of the Wilmot Proviso, or if, as
the result of any other obstacle that may be
thrown in the way, 1 cannot accomplish what I
deem ray duty, I shall stand acquitted in the sight
of God and my own conscience ; I shall be irre
proachable as to any deliberate neglect, even if I
fall in the attempt to perform my duty.
I will close this part of what 1 have to say by
grouping, comparing, am contrasting the features
of the respective plans of the Executive and the
Committee, which I shall be glad if the reporters
i will publish in parallel columns :
i The Committee’s plan
t recommends an amica
i ble settlement ot all five
s of them.
t That of the Coramit
i tee also proposes the ad
mission of California as
a State.
■ They also propose non
. intervention as to slave
ry-
They propose action
i and intervention, by the
establishment of civil
government for the ter
ritories, in conformity
with treaty and consti
tutional obligations; to
give the superintending
and controlling power ol
our general government,
in p ace ol that of Mexi
co,which they have lost;
and to substitute a civil
instead of that military
government, which de
clares it will assume an
attitude ol neutrality in
the boundary contest
between New Mex.co
and Texas.
Their’s proposes a set
tlement ol the boundary
question, and, being set
tled, a civil war wth
Texas would be avett
ed.
The President’s plan
proposes an adjustment
of only one of the five
subjects which agitate
and Jivide the country.
The President’s plan
proposes the admission
of California as a State.
He proposes non in-
L tervention as to slavery.
B But he proposes,furth-
Kr, non-intervention in
the establishment of ter
ritorial governments:
that is to say, that w :
shall neglect to execute
the obligation of the U.
States in the treaty ol
Hidalgo ; fail to govern
those whom we are
I bound to govern; leave
I them without the pro
Uegtion of the civil au-
Rhority ol any general
government; leave Utah
Rtthout any government
Ht all, but that waich the
Htormons may institute;
■U leave New Mexico
B.™jk»c.the military gov-
of a lieutenant
HSSeI.
Blis plan fails to e»-
HKt the limits of New
HJfco east of the Kio
tafinde, a»d would ex
pose the people who in
habit it to civil war, al-
Lt-eady threatened with
He proposes no adjust*
inentof the fugitive slave t
subject. I
i
t
I
He pr.,po«e» no ar
rangement of the sub . (
jeci of slavery or the
slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Thus, of the five sub
jects of disturbance and
agitation—to wit: Cali
fornia, territoiial gov
ernments, the boundary
question with Texts,the
fugitive bill.andthe sub
ject of slavery in the
District.
His plan settles but
one, leaving the other
four unadjusted, to iu
fl a m e and exasperate
the public mind, 1 fear,
more than ever.
Under his plan, one
party flushed with suc
cess in the admission
of California alone, will
contend with new hopes
and fresh vigor, for the
application of the Wil
mot proviso to all the re
maining territory, pro- i
vokeu and chagrined by
obtaining no concession
whatever,may be uiged
and animated t 3 ex
treme and greater
lengths than nave been
yet manifested.
They offer amend*
ments, which will make
the recovery of fug lives
more effectual, and at
the same time it is be
lieved, will be genet ally
sa to the north.
They propose to inter
dict the slave trade in
the District,and to leave
slavery there undisturb
ed.
They propose to »d.
just ail five of them on a
basis which, it is confi
dently believed, is just,
fair, and honorable, and
will be satisfactory to |
the people of the United i
States.
They offer the olive j
branch of peace, har- I
many, and tranquility.
Under their plan, all
questions being settled
in a spirit of mutual con
cession and conn romise,
there will be general ac
?[uiescence, if uot satis
action ; and the whole
country will enjoy once
more the blessing of do
mestic peace, concord,
and reconciliation.
Whilst the President’s plan is confined to a sin-
Sle measure, leaving the governments of Utah and
lew Mexico unprovided for, and the boundaries
between Texas and New Mexico unsettled, ano
ther, and one of the most irritating questions, is
left by him, without any recommendation or any
provisions, io harass and exasperate the country.
He tails to recommend any plan for the settle
ment of the important and vexatious subject of
fugit ve slaves. He proposes no plan of settle
ment of the agitating questions which arise out of
this subject. 1 will repeat, let hint who can stand
up here and tell the country, and satisfy his o.vn
conscience—when the whole country is calling
out for peace peace, peace ; when it is imploring
its ruiei s above and its rulers below, to bring once
more to this agitated and distracted people some
broad and comprehensive scheme of healing, and
to settle all these questions which agitate this af
flicted people—let any man who can, not in the
public press, but in the Senate of the U
nited States, stand up ai d show that the plan
which is proposed by executive authority, is such
a one as is demand- d by the necessities of the
case and the condition of the country. I should
be glad to hear that man. Ay, Mr. President, I
wish I had the mental power commensurate to
urge upon the country forbearance, concilia: ion,
the surrender of extreme pinions and the avoid
ance of attempting impossibilities.
Sir, I know thet e is a floating idea in the South
ern mind, such as we have heard before, of the
necessity of an tquillibrium of power between
the two sections of the Union—of a balancing au
thority. However desii able such a state of po
litical arrangement might be, we all know it is
utterly impracticable. We all know that the
rapid growth and unparalleled progress of the
northern portion of this country is such that it is
impossible for the South to keep pace with it; and
unless the order of all republics shall be reversed,
and the majority shall be governed by the minori
ty, the equilibrium is unattainable. But, sir, be
cause there is not and cannot be, and in the na
ture of things it is impossible that there should be,
this equilibrium of power between the two sec
tions oi this country, does it therefore follow that
the southern portion of it is in any danger with
respect to that great institution which exi.-ts there,
and is cherished with so much solicitude ? 1 think
not; I believe not. All apprehensions of danger
are founded on flagrant abuses of power; aud .he
possibility of such abuses would prevent all in
vestment of power, since no human power is free
from the danger of abuse.
But what are the securities for the maintenance 1
of Southern rights, connected with that peculiar
institution ? In the first, lace, there is that sense
of justice, which appertains to enlightened man, .
in Christian man. In the next place, there is the i
Constitution of the United States, with the oath
which all t; ke to abide by that Constitution Next,
there is a necessity for the concurrence of both
branches of Congress before any act of legisia
tion, inflicting a wrong upon that Southern por
tion of the country, could take place. Then there
is the veto ol the President of the United States,
applicable to any unconstitutional legislation
which might take plaee in reterence to that insti
tution. Last ot all, with t egard to peaceful and
civil remedies, there is the Supreme Court of the
United States, ready to pronounce the annulment
of any unconstitutional law which might uncon
stitutionally impair such right; and there is also
a sense ol responsibility on the part of Senators
and Representatives to their constituents. But
last, though 1 trust in God the occasion for its ex
ercise will ne'ver arise, there is that right < f resort
to arms and to make forcible resistance when op
pression and tyranny become insupportable.
Nor is this great interest of the South, this in
stitution of slavery, the only one to be affected
by the fact that it is in the minority. Is it pecu
liar to that interest ? No, sir- How is it with the
fishing interest ? How is it with th- navigating
interest ? They are both greatly in the minority.
How is it with the manufacturing interest? in
the minority. How is it with the commercial in
terest ? In the minority, in short, without con
tinuing the enumeration, every interest is in the
minority, except that great and prevailing inter
est of agriculture, which extends from one end ol
the country to the other. We must be recon
ciled to the condition which is inevitable. There
is all reasonable security against any abuses
which may be inflicted in the progress of events,
which you can no more arrest than you can seize
and hold the beams which are poured forth from
that great luminary of the system of which we
compose a part, or than you can stop, on ita on
ward course, the flowing of the Mississippi river,
and compel it to run back to its sources in the
Rocky and Alleghany mountains. It is utterly
vain to suppose that you can acquire that equili
brium of which we 1 ave heard so much, between
the slaveholding and the non-slaveholding posi
tions of the Union. It is not necessary, 1 hope, it
is not necessary I believe ; bu*, whether it is or
not, it is unattainable, by the operation of causes
beyond all human or earthly control. And to
op ose the immutable and irrevocable laws of
population and of Nature, is equivalent to a de
mand for the severance ot the Union.
I conclude by repeating that there are five
wounds which, by the committee of compromise,
are pro. osed to be closed. Sir. I know what
may he said. I know it will be said that agitators
will,even after the passage of all these measures,
continue to agitate ; that the two extremes will
still ;crv out for their respective favorite mea
sures ; that the Wilmot Proviso, although territo
rial governments will be established, will be
pressed to be added by a supplimentary act,or to he
incorporated in the constitutions which these Ter
ritories may establish. I know it may be urged
—indeed I have heard it stated on this floor—
“ Pass all your measures, and we will cry out for
r ■peal.” I know somethingof the nature of man.
I know something of the nature of mv own coun
trymen. 1 speak also, with the authority and with
the aid of history. At the time of the memorable
Missouri compromise.as at this—and I have been
unable to determine in my own mind whether
more solicitude and anxiety existed then than
now—the whole country was in an uproar,
on the one side for the admission of Missouri, and
on the other, for her exc.usion. Every leg.slative
body throughout the country —I believe there
were twenty-four then—hail denounced or ap
proved the measure of the admi-sion of Missouri.
The measure was finally carried by a small ma
jority ; only six in the House of Repre-entatives,
where the great struggle—where long con
tinued exertion was carried on. And what were
the consequences —the tranquilizing consequences
—which ensued throughout this distracted coun
try ? The act was everywheie received with
joy,and exaltation, and triumph; and the man
who would have dared to interrupt the universal,
and deep felt, and all pervading harmony which
prevailed throughout the country,in consequence
of the adjustment, would have stood rebuke, l , and
repudiated by the indignant voice of his country
men. And 1 venture to say, if this measure of
compromise goes to the country with all the high
sanctions which it may carry—sanctions of both
houses of Congress, and of the Executive, and of
the great body of the American people—to a
country imploring us to settle their difficulties, au l
give once more peace and happiness to them—l
venture to say that the agitatiou will be at an end,
though a few may croak and halloo as they please.
There are a few miserable men who live upon
agitation—men who are never satisfied until the>
can place themselves at the head of a little
clique of agitators, and, fastening them to their
tails, go to the democratic party and say, “ Take
me—l am a good Democrat, and J will bring to
you this capital which I have, and ifisure you suc
cess or go the whig party and say, “ Take this
l ‘ttle balancing power which I possess,'and I will
enable yo ur p ar ty to triumph over their adversa
rtes. I venture to say they will be hushed into
silence, by the indignation they will meet every
where, in their vain and futile attempt to prolong
that agitation which has threatened this country
with the most direful calamity which, in all the
dispensations of God. could befall it.
•Sir, lam done. Iwo Id say much more, but I
cannot longer trespass upon your time. I did .-ot
expect to hare said so much, and my physical
powers will not permit me say more.
( Reported for the Baltimore Sun )
Thirty-first Congress—First Session,
Washington, June 3.
SENATE.
Mr. Webster laid on the table a bill which
he had prepared according to previous notice,
for the recovery of fugitive slaves. Ordered
to be printed.
Mr. shields presented a memorial for the
alteration of the j udiciary system of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Mr. Foote presented the credentials of the
Hon. Jefferson Davis, elected Senator of the
United States, from the State of Mississippi,
for six y- ars from the 4th of March, 1851.
Mr. Rusk, from the committee on post of
fices and post roads, reported a bill to reduce
the rates of postage. Ordered to a second
reading.
The resolution of Mr. Bradbury, relative to
removals, was made the order of the day for
to-morrow.
The Senate took up the adjustment bill re
ported from the committee of thirteen.
Mr. Soule spoke on the subject, and offered
amendments. The principal amendment re
quires, as a preliminary to the admission of
California, that she shall assent to the restric
tion of her sovereignty to the country north
of the line 36 deg. 30 min , and also establishes
a territory south of 36 deg. 30 min., to be ad
mit ed into the Union, with or without slave
ry, as the people of the same may decide.
After some discussion, in which a number
of Senators participated, without taking the
question, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
On motion of Mr, Me Fernand, the House
resalved itself into committee of the whole,
and resumed the consideration of the Califor
nia question.
Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, who was entitled
to the floor,spoke an hour in opposition to the
admission of California.
Messrs. Crowell, of Ohio, and Sylvester, of
N. Y., spoke each an hour against slavery and
in favor of admitting California; and Mr. Col
cock, of S. C.,against.the admission of Califor
nia.
Mr. Thompson, of Miss., obtained the floor,
but yielded to a motion that the committee
rise. The committee rose accordingly, and
the House adjourned.
Washington, Jane 4.
SENATE.
A joint resolution for remitting the duties
on Samuel Colt’s snuff-box, was ordered to be
engrossed.
The Senate took up the resolution offered
by Mr. Bradbury, some time ago, calling on
the President for copies of charges against
officers of the government, removed by him.
&Mr. Webster said he had hardly supposed
that the Senator from Maine had intended to
press this matter to a vote. But it seemed
that it had been otherwise determined. There
was no precedent for it, and it had no authori
ty in the Constitution. The President had
the power of removal, under the usage of the
government.
The original construction of the Constitu
tion, in this respect, he believed, was errone
ous. The power of removal ought to be the
same as the appointing power. In the year
1794, the question arose and Mr. Madison
took the ground that the President had the
absolute power of removal, and his opinion
was decided in favor of the power of removal
by the President, by the casting vote of the
then Vice President, John Adams. The ques
tion was settled, and he was compelled to ac
quiesce in it. But he would be glad to see
the decision reversed, for it *as destroying
the harmony of the government.
As long as the President held the power,
solely confided to his hands, and to be exer
cised at his absolute discretion, we had no
right to call upon him for the reasons why
he had exercised the power. He might as
well call upon us for the reasons of our ac
tion. The Senate, in their legislative capaci
ty, had no more right to make this call on
the President, than the House of Represen
tatives had. One department had no right
to interfere with another department of the
government.
In the part of the country where he resid
ed tht re had been as few unfit removals as by
any previous administration. He believed
this was generally true. The President was
not, in his opinion, proscriptive in his course.
Mr. Bradbury should certainly, he said,
press the question to a vote. It was his opin
ion that the thousands and ten thousands of
men removed from office, were entitled to
have their reputations vindicated.
He cited Mr. Webster’s speech in 1835.
If a law could be passed calling on the Presi
dent for reasons for removal, a resolution
could be. If the Senator would vote foMhe
resolution, he, Mr. Hamlin, would vote for a
law. There had been more removals by this
administration than any except Gen. Harri
son’s. If the removals were for causes other
than political, the resolution ought to pass.
It was avowed that the removals were on
charges affecting tne reputation of officers,
and not party reasons.
Mr. Webster replied biiefly, and the dis
cussion was continued by Messrs. Mangum,
Kins, Underwood, Bell, Turney, Bradbury
and others, after which the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Johnson, ofTenn., introduced, on leave,
a bill to encourage agriculture by donating
160 acres of land to each settler who will cul
tivate the same. The bill was read twice and
referred to the committee on agriculture.
The House then resolved it self into commit
tee of the whole, and resumed the considera
tion of the California question.
Mr. Thompson, of Miss, made a speech a
gainst the admission of California, unless as a
measure of final settlement of the slavery
question; and Messrs. John A. King, of New
York, Bingham and Booth spoke each an
hour in favor of the admission of California
into the Union, and against the further exten
sion of slavery.
Mr. Howe, of Pa., obtained the floor, but
yielded to a motion that the committee rise.
The committee rose, and the House, at 4
o’clock, on motion of Mr. Stephens, of Ga.
took a recess until 7 o’clock.
[The object of this movement is to enable
all of the many gentlemen who wish to de
liver themselves of a speech on the Califor
nia question to do so before Tuesday next,
when the debate is to be closed. During the
delivery of the speeches yesterday and to
day, there were scarcely twenty-five members
present. So it will be until the last or final
delivery takes place, which may not be ex
pected until the expiration of the last hour
fixed by the order of the House for terminat
ing this pro'racted debate ]
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
Washington, June 4 —104, P» M.
Evening Session. —The House resumed its
session in committee of the whole on the state
of the Union at 7 o’clock, on the California
question. Sixteen members were present,
and Messrs. Howe and Tavior spoke on the
anti-slavery, and Mr. Venable on the pro
slavery side of the question. The committee
arose, and at 10 o’clock the House adjourned.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
3.ttausta, (S&torgia.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 8.
igg" see First page.
By magnetic tEelegrapl).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Nashville Convention
FOURTH DAY.
The Convention met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Accredited Delegates were in attendance
from the following States Virginia six;
South-Carolina seventeen; Georgia twelve ;
Mississippi eleven ; Texas one; Alabama twen
ty-one ; Arkansas 2; Florida six; and a large
number from Tennessee.
The propositions from representatives from
different States were referred to a select com
mittee .
The propositions, thus far, are moderate and
conciliatory, but firm.
It was generally believed that the Conven.
tion would recommend the Missouri Compro
mise, and adjourn to meet in October next.
Nashville is overrun with strangers from
all sections of the country.
New-York, June 6, P. M.
Cotton. —The market to-day was active,
and prices slightly improved. Since the re
ceipt of the European accouuts 5,0C0 bales
have been sold.
Flour and Grain remains unchanged.
Rice 300 tierces have been sold at 3$ a 3|.
Government stocks are firm, and Sterling Ex
change is quoted at 9| prem.
Advices from California to Ist May, quote
Flour at $9 a 10 per lb. All produce had
slightly advanced and Lumber was dull of
sale.
New York, June 7, P. M,
Cotton.—The market is firm, with sales of
3000 bales. Middling Uplands quoted at
12J ; Middling Orleans at 123, and Fair Up
lands at 13} cents.
Rice is firm.
Stocks drooping.
Charleston, June 7 —P. M.
Cotton. —The sales to-day reach 1000 bales
at 114 to 12 cents —among which were 800
bales Common Fair at 12 cents.
Thx Crops.—The Tascaloosa Observe, of
the 27th ult., and other Alabama papers, give
but a meagre showing of the prospect in Ala
bama. In North Mississippi and the West
ern district of Tennessee, continuous rains and
cool weather have made the crops more back
ward than was ever before observed since the
first settlement of the country. The very re
cent cool weather in the south is not calcu
lated to allay the general apprehension of a
short crop.
Mayor op Washington.—The Municipal
election in Washington City, took place on
Monday last. There were 3055 votes cast, a
larger ballot than ever before polled in that
city. Walter Lenox received 1336 votes for
Mayor, and R. C. Weightman 1299. There
were 420 scattering votes, of which Jesse E.
Dow obtained 379. Mr. Lenox was elected
to serve for two years.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Sta e Conven*
tion , nominated J. Porter Brawley, of Craw
ford County,as a candidate for Surveyor Gen
eral, on the 4th ballot; and Ephraim Banks,
of Mifflin County, Auditor General, on the 2d
ballot.
Launch.—The Savannah Republican, of
the 6th inst. says—“ The steamer Isaac Scott
was launched at 34 o’clock P. M. yesterday,
agreeably to previous notice. She glided
gracefully from her way>, and her entrance
into the water was warmly cheered by the as
sembled spectators. After the launch, the
owners, Messrs, Brigham, Kelly & Co., Messrs.
Scott, Chrhart & Co., and Capt. Taylor, re
galed their invited guests with ample sup
plies of iced champagne and other refresh
ments.
“The Isaac Scott is 130 feet long, 27 feet
beam, with 6 feet depth of hold. The ex
treme breadth of the guard is 45 feet —draught
of water, as she now is, without machinery,
11 inches. She is destined for the Altamaha
and Ocmulgee.
“She does her constructors, Messrs. Jones
& Papot, great credit. Their first boat was
the Oregon, and her history is one of success.
They are now about to build yet another boat
for the Florida trade. All hat our Savannah
mechanics ;want is encouragement. Not
long since, we sent to England for every
thing, from a handsaw to a steam engine—
now we make the engines, and what is ‘just
as particular,’ the boats to put them in.”
Heavy Embezzlement. —The New York
Tribune says:—“Among the passengers by the
ship Yorkshire, from Liverpool last week, were
two men, named Thomas Ormsby and Thomas
Connolly. Both took rooms at the American
Hotel,in this city, where they remained in appa
rent security until yesterday evening, when
both were arrested on a charge of emoezzling
£40,000 from a bank in Cork, Ireland, in which
they were engaged as clerks. When they ar
rived in this city, they had a large amount of
money, which they deposited for sife keeping
somewhere in Wall-street. By the Asia, letters
were received from Cork, stating the fact of
the loss, and a description of the parties charg
ed; and officers were at once set to work to
find the parties. They were found at the Am
erican, where one registered his name as com
ing from Limerick, and the other from Cork.
They are now in custody, and will bo detained
for further examination.”
Honour to whom Honour is due.— lt is un
derstood (says the Savannah Republican,) that
the gallant Gen. Twiggs is about to leave his
command in Florida on leave of absence, and
that he may soon be expected to arrive in this
city. We trust that the opportunity will be
seized upon to give the Gen. ral some public
and cordial reception on the part of our citi- j
zens. It would be exceedingly proper, in our i
opinion, for the city authorities to render him ■
proper honours, and for our citizens to tender
him a public dinner.
“Gen. Twiggs has not, we believe, visited
this State since the Mexican war. The hon
ours to which he was then entitled are still
eminently his due, and we may add, that it
would be a proper occasion on which to pre
sent the sword voted to him by the Legisla
ture of Georgia. We have thrown out this
brief hint, hoping that it will be improved
upon.”
Our cotemporary of the Republican is not
correctly posted up. Gen. Twiggs has been
in Georgia once or twice since the Mexican
war.
Resignation of Commodore Stockton.—
A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune says,
that Commodore Stockton has resigned his
commission in the Navy.
A writer ii, the Georgetown (So. Ca.) Ob
server, states that there are several discharged
convicts from the Island of Bermuda in that
town at present. They are said to have been
brought there in March last, in a vessel from
Bermuda.
The Cuba Investigation. —The grand jury
in the United States Circuit Court, at N. Y.,
on Monday morning last, reported that no
evidence had been produced before them
which justified any proceeding against persons
in that city, suspected of conniving at or abet,
ting the late invasion of Cuba by Gen. Lopez.
The grand jury ascertained, however, that
Gen." Lopez spent the winter in New York
under an assumed name.
Revolting Disclosures as to a Burial
Place.—Potter’s Field, at New York, where
are buried the poor paupers from abroad, and
all who cannot afford to bury themselves,is be
come so disgusting and intolerable a nuisance,
that the Grand Jury have made it a subject of
presentment—calling upon the common coun
cil to stop further interments, as it ascertain
ed the number of corpses are already seven
thousand to the acre ! Horrid. The Present
ment says :
“ The thin soil is trenched for the reception
of the dead, and tiers of seven or eight coffins
are piled one on another, up to and above the
surrounding surface. Over the tops of these
a little earth is thrown, but so partially, that
frequently the ends, and in some cases, the
tops of coffins are left exposed to view. It need
hardly be added, that these mounds of putre
faction, spread out upon the face of a rock to
the action of the sun, infect the atmosphere
with pestilential effluvia highly injurious, not
only to the fourteen hundred persons in the
public institutions on the Island, but to the
surrounding neighborhood to a great distance.”
Public Debt of the United States.—The
whole amount of our public debt on which in
terest is to be paid is as follows :
Old debt—(about) $ 122,735 10
District cities 960,000 00
1851 5 per cent stock 303,573 00
1853 5 per cent loan 6,468,231 35
1856 6 per cent loan 4,999,149 45
1862 6 per cent loan 8,198.686 03
1868 6 per cent loan (January).27,618,350 55
j 1868 additional 149,828 00
1868 6 per cent loan (July).... 15,740,000 00
Treasury notes (about) 144,139 81
$64,704,693 71
The interi st accruing on this in July will
be about $1,800,000. What portion of this
debt is held abroad cannot be definitely ascer
tained, but probably about'one-third of it.
The stock market is more buoyant since the
receipt of the Foreign news, and both fancies
and Government have improved.— Journal of
Commerce.
( C JRItBSP INDENCE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN.]
Jacksonville, E. F. June, 3, 1850.
Messrs. Editors: —l send you a few Cotton
blossoms and some small pods, or bolls. My
Cotton is from eight to twenty-four inches
high, and some is even higher than that. I
first saw a bloom on the 31st of May, and now
there are a good many. My Corn is in the
silk, and tassel, and is very promising. Better
seasons Ido not wish, than we have had. As
far as I can learn, the crops are in excellent
condition throughout East Florida.
A Plantation on the St. Johns.
P. S. Since writing the foregoing, I have
measured several stalks of Cotton with a square
and find that some of it is as much as three
feet high.
Fatal Affray.—We are pained to report
the decease of Stephen Doles, the son of one
of the most respectable citizens of our coun
ty, who came to his death, on Sunday, by a
knife wound inflicted by Thomas Terry. It
appears, the two young men were not friend
ly. Doles was riding along the road on a
mule, Terry came up in a bnggy and ran a
gainst Doles’ mule. The latter reprimanded
him sharply for his rudeness. —Terry replied,
“do you want a fight?”—Doles answered in
the affirmative, and both got down for that
purpose. Terry came on with a knife, and the
first blow gave the death wound in the breast.
Doles, nevertheless, continued the combat,
and pursued Terry with a stick, picked up in
the road. He was arrested in his pursuit by
loss of blood; sat down and died without
again speaking. Terry has fled. A reward
has been offered for his apprehension.
P. S. Since writing the above, we have an
entirely different version of this unhappy at
fair. We will not state particulars, for as we
have been made innocently to give a false
coloring to the circumstances in one case, we
might be carried into further blunders. So
difficult is it to get at the simple truth, about
thesimplest transactions. We h-ve already
heard a half dozen different accounts of the
affair. The latter accounts are far more favor
able to young Terry than the first ones. But
we leave the case in the hands of the Law.—
Columbus Times, 4 th inst.
The Southern Mutual Insurance Com
pany.—We learn that in our notice of the
burning of the steamer H. S. Smith, the pro
bable amount of the loss of this company was
over-rated. The real loss was about $30,000,
which has been promptly paid.— Ib.
From Florida. —The steamer St. Mathews
arrived here yesterday afternoon from Palatka.
From an Army friend* Capt. Simmons, a paa*
aenger, we learn that the aspect of affairs re*
mains much in the same condition as they
were at the last accounts. The Indians ap
pear to be very pacific, coming in at the posts
freely, still professing in many instances their
willingness to emigrate next year. The truth
is with these Indians tha. time has no partic
ular value with them. They cannot see why
it will not do as well to emigrate a year hence
as now; and we apprehend, moreover, that
they will hold out for more pay.—These peo
ple cant be driven. It is bet er to negotiate.
—Savannah Republican, 6th inst.
Further by the America.
[Telegraphed to the Baltimore Su/*.]
Halifax, June 4.
The royal mail steamer America arrived
here last night, and departed at half-past tea
■ o’clock for New-York, which port she will
i reach to-morrow morning. She brings dates
from Liverpool to the 25th ult., and London
j to the 24th.
The Canada had not arrived at Liverpool
! when the America left.
The accounts from the manufacturing dis
! tricts continue cheering and highly satisfac-
I tory.
| Cotton was firm and steady, and breadstuff's
generally had declined. The following is a
I comparative statement of the prices of several
j staples at the respective dates of the sailing
| of the Asia on the 18th, and the America on
the 25th :
May 25th. May 13th.
Cotton, fair Orleans.. 7£d.
Flour, Western Canal 335. 6d. a 21s. 20s. a 235. 6d
Baltimore 245. a 25s 245.
Canadian.... ........ 235. 6d. a 245. 235. 6d a 245.
Corn, yellow 30s. 325.
The news from India and China has had a
favorable tendency upon commercial affairs.
England.— -The effect of the withdrawal of
the French ambassador produced a sensible
effect on the funds, but they soon rallied, and
the belief was general that any movement on
the part of the French was a mere ruse of the
ministers, to enable them to carry the new
election law.
Circulation has been given to an insulting
note from Russia addressed to Lord Palmer
ston, condemning in -.trong terms the policy
of the English government in regard to the
Greek question. The concluding sentence of
the note is as follows :
“As the manner in which Lord Palmer
ston understands the protection due to Eng
lish subjects in foreign countries carries with
it much serious inconvenience to Russia, and
Russia and Austria will not henceforth grant
liberty of residence to English subjects, ex
cept on condition of their renouncing the pro
tection of their governments.”
France. —Under date of Paris, Thursday
evening, the London Times, in alluding to the
difficulty with England, says ; “ Lord Pal
merston’s offer of compromise has been reject
ed by the French Government, and at the cab
inet council the President, of the Republic de
clared that the acceptance of any other con
dition than the pure, simple execution of the
convention of London was not consistent with
j the dignity of France, and to none other would
Ihe consent. The ministers unanimously ap
i proved of the conditions, and expressed their
' intention to adhere to and adopt them.”
J Prussia.— An attempt to assassinate the
King of Prussia has created quite a sensation
throughout Europe. The attempt was made
at Postham, by a Sergeant of Artillery, who
fired a pistol at his Majesty and inflicted a
1 wound in the arm.
The Markets.—Liverpool, May 25.—The
Cotton market continued firm, at the extreme
prices of last week. Fair Orleans is quoted
by the committee of brokers at 7£d. The
week’s sales amount ’o 32,000 bales, of which
speculators took 6,000 bales.
Breadstuff*. —The prices of flour are rath
er tending downwards; western canal is quoted
at 23s 6d to 245; Philadelphia and Baltimore
24 a 255, and New Orleans 24 a 25 shillings.
Freights—Fewer vessels offering ; rather
better rates have been obtained, both for goods
and passengers.
I [Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington, June 4, 1850.
I Chance of a War with Spain—Probable Slaugh
ter of Prisoners—Position of England.
If Spain wants a first rate drubbing, such
as will do her aged limbs some service, now
is a first rate chance for her. There is, in my
opinion, some probability that she will put the
prisoners taken with arms to death. Spain,
for a century past, has ceased to conform to
the laws oT civilized nations, and has been
looked upon, in Europe, but especially by
civilized France, as being situated extra mwos .
The Peninsula does not belong to the conti
nent. If the new Governor of the Island is a
man after Narvaez’s mind, Who obtained and
maintained himself in power to the present
day by bloody atrocities that wculd consign
him, in any other country, to the lowest depth
of infamy, but which, in Spain, have procured
him the reputation of a very great statesman,
i there is some danger of a conflict. Our pop
i ulation will never submit to the commission
of such wholesale butchciies.
As to the notion that England will protect
Cuba, and provoke a war with the C. States,
none but school boys can be frightened oy it.
England is just now engaged at home, and
will, in the present political aspect cf Europe,
rather set fire to Manchester. Birmingham and
Leeds, than pick a quarrel with their very re
spectable relative, Brother Jonathan—the man
that owns the big farm across the Atlantic. If
Spain gives us any real source of displeasure,
we have only to determine ourselves when and
how we shall annex Cuba to the U. States.—
The Southern Hotspurs, in the mean while,
ought to think of it; as it is impossible for
them to annex Cuba except under the stripes
and stars —thirty-one, I mean, and not some
shabby seven or eight. X.
The Cotton Chops. —There is no mistake
about the growing crops of cotton in this vici
nity. The planters, at least too many of them,
are so much in the habit of complaining on all
occasions, that it is often extremely difficult
to tell what the actua state of things is, from
what they say. But we 1 ave just returned
from a ride in the neighborhood, twenty miles
round, and can truly say we have never before
seen the crops look so indifferent and back
ward as at the present time. A very late fall
alone can produce even a moderate crop. The
plant is from two weeks to a month later than t
last season, and then the crops were consider- r
ed backward.— Griffin Jeffersonian, 6<A inst.
[ Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .]
New Orleans, June 5—6.50 P. M.
The Market, June 4.—Two thousand bale*!
Cotton sold to-day, at steady prices—good
middling 12 to 12$. Rio Coffee has ad
vanced, and 3,000 bags sold at 8$ to Bs. Flour
is improving, and Ohio sold at 7s. Sugar is
steady, and commands from 4$ to 4|.
New Orleans, June 6—12.10 P. M.
The Markets —Yesterday, 2500 bales Cotton
sold, after reception of the English accounts
per America. Prices unchanged—Middling
11|- This morning, 2000 bales changed,
hands. Rio Coffee has advanced, and prims
commands 9 cents. Rice is firm. Whisky
23 cts. Bacon is improving— 600 casks S.des
brought 5 toSJ ; Shoulders 4£ to 4s. -sS '
The brig Gulnare, Ellens, for your port,
has cleared.
ip—.
WANTED. ~
A GOOD COOK, immediately. For further
particulars, apply at this office, june 4