The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1848, Page 1

‘ NO. 5297. ee Soll Meeting In Phitadelphia— Ene A Speech of Mr Wilmot, [From the Philadelphia Republic, Dee. 2] The free soil meeting at the Chinese Museum, last night, was quite large and enthusiastic. The meeting was cailed to order at half-past seven o’clock, by Mr. George Connell, upon whose mo- tion David C. Skerrett was appointed president. After the organization of the meeting, reso- lutions were offered by T. S. Cavender, and adopted with unanimity and enthusiasm :— Resolved, That the friends of free soil, so far from Deing discouraged by the result of the recent election, find ample cause of rejoicing in the fact that hostility to the extension of slavery has been declared psra- mount to all other poli | considerations by three hundred thourand freeme: umber larger than the entire body of slaveholders in the United States. Resolved, That we still demand free coil for free men, protetting against any compromise by which any tion of our national domain shall be given up to Wee aero ond stinme of human bondage, and declaring that any end every concession to the slave power shall be met by our prompt and determined demand for repeal. Resolved, That we re-affirm the principles and policy declared in the Buffalo platform, as demanded alike by the exigencies of the by the interests of the whole couniry—and by the progressive spirit of the age ; end thet we declare our unalterable determina- tion to sustain them, at all times and under all possible contingencies, until the preservation of freedom and he interests of free labor shall become the established policy of our national government. Mr. Witmor was then istroduced by the pre- sident, and was received with long and hearty cheenng by the vast audience present. He commenced by saying, that it first of all bscame his duty to make his most respectful acknowledgments d flattering reception they had been pleased to give him. He confessed that he had appeared before that intelligent and large audience with much reluctance—indeed, as his friends well knew, it was against his moet earnest advice that this meeting had been held. He had, however, jelded to the persuasion of many kind friends. who be- Hoved that his emall voloe would co¥ribute to uphold the standard of freedom in the present trying and im- rtant orieis in which the country was now involved. it was not necessary that he should inform his au- ce of what was meant by the proviso. It hasbeen @ subject of much misregfesentation ; {t had been the interest of both the two great political parties of the country to migeprerent it and impugn the motives of those who were engaged in sustaining it. An effort bad been made to blend this question with the subject of apolition, with which in his humble judgment it had ne connection whatever. He, for one, held to all the ® comprefhises of the constitution in relation to slavery. been the last man ever to have agitated Southern friends had been content mpromises of that instrument, in- stead of tranecending them. (Applause.) He held that slavery was a State institution, instituted by State authority, under the control of State laws, and that the general government has no power over this bi apdaied within any State of this Union. This was the doctrine hi ever advocated, and which he heid ; but when Vhe Southerm States asked to be per- mitted to extend slavery over the general territory of the Union—over new and free territory, recently ac- quired from the Mexican republic, he would say that neral government—that the whole people; should exert their power and stretch forth their arm against every effort to plant slavery there. This was a ques- tig, in his judgment, in which the free States have a ae and abiding interest—one second to none that had ever arisen since the foundation of the republic, We found the soil acquired from Mexico by the war with her, free from the pollution and degradation of slavery—it wasa free soil; and the question was— He would ha ‘thi - “Shall it remain 80, or shallit become the inheritance of the slaveholderand his black cattle?” This was the only question involved in this subject. On the sth of August, 1846, the President of the United States sent In a message to Congress asking for an avpropri- ‘$2,000.000, for the purpose ofenabling him to effect a peace with Mexico. It was apparent that this money to be expendedin the acquisition of ter- ritogy. We were indebted to Mexico in no sums of money; on the contrary, she was indebted to us_for ations committed on our commerce. This formed ‘opic -of general conversation on the afternoon of the day this message was received, and after full con- far as time was allowed for consultation, jet the unapimous approval of every democrat in Congress. (Great applause.) There was no dissent- ‘voice, so tar as he (Mr. W.) heard, in reference to the propriety of this measure—the proviso, There ‘was no disposition.on the part of the republican mem- bers of Congress to em! 8 the administration; on the contrary, among those foremost in the movement, was himself, he ping among the most eonsistent and uniform bow Logan administration. JSpelnase ) The pi was not introduced with any view toin- fluence or bave any bearing upon the Prosidential election which was to follow. {t was mot offered to break down one man and build up another. There ‘was nothing discussed, as far as his knowledge went, but the intrinsic merits of the question. Was it right—was it politic—was it in accordance with the nius of cur institutions, that this republic should Sevome the propagandist of slavery’? (Enthusiastic cheers) Were they to embark at this period of this world—in the middle of the nineteenth century—with the past experience before them—with a knowledge of this social institution—was it politic, he again asked that they should embark inthe extension of slavery? Under these circumstances, the proviso was offered to the bill. The proposition was offered on Saturday, the 8th of Aug but Congress, by resolution: viously offered. yd agreed to adjourn on the 10th. The whole of the Northern delegation, with two exce) tions only, from the free States, were unanimously in favor of the proviso. The demooratic delegation cone member only being absent) from Pennsylvania stood, united on the question. [Great applau The amendment, however, being sent to the Senate, failed being taken up at too late an hour, 12 o'clock ed as the hour for the fi adjournment of es. It met, he knew, the approbation of the most eminent leading republicans of that branch of the national legislatare The very eminent and re- +pectable gentleman who had been recently nominated by the Baltimore Convention, gave it his unequivocal approval. (Applauee.] declared that it was ground from which no Northern man ought to recede. (Tre- mendous and long continued cheering.) The Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr. Davis,) took the floor near the time of adjournment. and commenced debating the eubject, and occupied the whole time, and thus all action was <lefeated on the subject. The eminent Senator from Michigan, (Mr. L. Cass,) ao deop was hia anxiety in regard to the matter, that he remonstrated with the Senator from Massachusetts on the course he had pursued—that he had been instrumental in de- feating this measure. This was a fact the Senator never denied—never woulddeny Mr. W. wentontosay that his own convictions were, that ifthe vote had been taken in the Senate, the proviso would have become the law ofthe land. At the opening of the following session of Congress, a large proy ortion, if not the entire repre- sentation in Congress from the free States, was still in its fayor, Resolutions of instruction were unanimous- ly passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, sustain- ing the proviso—that is, ninety members of the House yoted in its favor, and in the Senate they were passed with three dissenting voices only against it, ‘The subject was take up by each of the free States of the Union, and in rapid succession, some ten or eleven of the free States, through their Legislatures, spoke an unanimous voice in favor of this prino! It wes democratic then--it was right, it was just, it was a principle which our North held sacred, and declared they would stand by and maintain. time influences were set at work to defeat tl prin- ciple—the influence of the general government was brought to bear in favor of the South. ting spectacle was presented of men occupying the first positions in the councils of the nation, who had maiptained this principle, abandoning it, and tarni their backs upon it! large proportion of the press- particularly of the republican press—commenced their attacks upon it, using all sorts of anathemas against It was treason to proclaim this principle—it was ou to the demooratic party, Such was the decree d at Washington. Every man who dared toapeak ‘or of it, was proscribed. The South united to- would support no man for the dered to maintain this prinoiple—that he would strike down every man, however eminent, Hpbi var kool, oc Dowsyer boble -etsty task whoctesiw: tained freedom in free territory, The consequence wos, that the ambitions men of the country—thoae who bad fixed their gaze on the Presidency, declared they would oppose any man who sustained it, To sustain it, it was alleged, was unconstitutional. The past experience and past action of the government ‘wae all wrong—Jeffersom was wrong ; Madison, Wash- ington, and Jackson, were also wrong, and all the gteat and good men who laid the foundations of the republio under which we live. were all wrong! This was no new principle, (Mr. W. proceeded to state) —it ‘was a8 old as the government iterlf. [m 1787, Thomas Jefferson, and other good men, hed this question in hand. They looked ‘upon it in ite true light—as ® curse upon men and nations—as an evil of the very firet magnitude. All the great men of that day de- plored its existence—looked upon it as @ calamity— ‘and while they saw no remedy, no means for its pre- sent eradication, they took the precaution against its spread in unoceupied territory. Mr. Wilmot here en- tered into a history of the acquisition of the North- western territory—referring to the ordinance of '87, and the 6th article contal therein, against juction of slavery. He next prooreded to show in how i ® proportion wealth, population, prorperity, &o., had increased in all those States o: this contederacy where slavery did not exist, as oon- trasted with thore in whioh it was fostered. He went on to prove that slave Iabor brings degradation and dis- honor upon the white laborer ~hence {i that the white laboring man would not emigrate to re State, No laboring wh' man would emigrate to a country w shonor was brought upon bis children because they labored. Slavery brings dishonor upon labor, ‘Where the great mers of the labor of a country is per- formed by black men, it is impossible that free labor oan be respected, The foreign population which comes to our shores, cannot bear the ides of being placed on a level with our negro people. They feel too much reepect for themselves, and a becoming they thererefore desite to wettle on ® slavery does not exist, and where they shall be free from all that interferes with their socia\ relations, The whole entire fereiga poprlati nde humill hia Union yhin fie 4 ' occupy the greater and more genial portions of the alaveho nm raek the free | | form American continent, or rather, itis given up to them; whilst the freemen dwell in the less congenial regions of the North, All that we require is, that slave! thall make no aggression upon the free soil of the lan (Tremendous applause) If our Southern friends look upon this institution as of value to them—if they regard it as @ blessing, my voice is, let them enjoy it unmolested within the boundaries set forth by the Constitution. Let us resist unto death the encroach- ment of slavery, The free soll of America belongs to the free laborer of America. (Enthusiastic and reite- rated cheers.) What is it that gives the laborer of America such a pre-eminence over the laborer of any other portion of the world? Why is it that the labor- ing men of America have better food, are better clothed. enjoy more of the eomforts of life than the laborers of other portions of the world? Why, these Dlevsings are to be attributed not only to the benign influence of our institutions, but to the great seoret of the elevation of the masses, and the cheapness of our soil, reach of tiating at seme length on this subject. that the day is not far distant—the day is near hand—when the soil we occupy will be as thickly settled as that of Germany. What will then be the condition of America? The result will be that the last refuge of the laboring man of America will be the vast territories recently annexed to this coun- try. They should be kept open for him and his posterit; the negro sl is to occupy them, as I ha Fray to you, the white man is excluded more positively than by gny law of Congress. No man will come from Germany; no man will come from Ireland—down. trodden as she © nettle there. ter making some further remarks on this that $1.200.000.000 was invested in sl than the real assessed value of New York and Pennsylva- on brought up a demo- crat—delighted in its name d principles ; but no matter with how much horror he had been accustom- ed to regard the monster bank, with ite capital of $35,- 000 000, he confessed that be looked upon it as but a pigmy compared to the capital invested in negro flesh! (Applause.) He claimed to be a democrat—one of the strictest sort, too, (applause) and he thought certain gentlemen who bad long been the recipients of go- vernment patronage should get tired, ifthey had not already become #0, of reading him out of the party ; (applause;) but he did affirm that this was no part of the creed of the republican party, (laughter and ap- pause.) that we should embark in the work of propa- gating human slavery. Ifthis damnable work was to be consummated—if they were to embark fn the colo- nization of slaves—for God’s sake let the odium rest on some other Per: He was one of those who felt con- strained by the highest considerations of duty, of self- respect, of regard for that people who had stood around him like a wall of fire, to oppose the late nominations made at Baltimore. [t was out of no factious spirit that he had done so. If he (Gen. Cass) had maintain- ed this great principle, he (Mr. W.) would have gone as far as he who went furthest in his support. (Ap- plause.) Mr W. next proceeded to ro in defence «f Mr. Van Buren, whom he most ably supported—in- sisting that that gentleman was fully justified in his recent courre—a course that had been brought about by the extraordinary and unjustifiable proceeding of the Baltimore Convention in relation to one of the leant ions fcom the State of New York. The right settlement of this question, Mr. W. said, was to deter- e character of our institutions. It was to be the hope of the down- whether this republic should be sustained and carried on, and directed by the real and true demoeracy of the counury and the laboring men, or the al South. Ifthe North fai ry was carried out to the Pacific Ocean, then would the South have the entire centro! of this government, and mould and fashion it to their own purposes. Af- ter making «few remarks laudatory of the course of the democratic party heretofore, and some comments upon the causes of their being triumphant over politi- cal Lorri evens he concladed his able, and eloquent, and te speech, (of which thisis but a mere sy- nia put together, nopsis, as neither time nor space will allow of our go- ing into details) by seying that those who supported the proviso were, in his humble judgment, in the right—that as sure as there was a God fh heaven. he would stand by the right. If the cause was right— was just—then let no man fear the issue. It would triumph. Let us make this republic what Jefferson intended 1t to be, and which every freeman of the North should desire—a barrier over which slavery cannot pass. James M. Morrisson moved. and James J. Butler se- conded, the following resolution, which was adopted " ealedy has en's on feed sswured ¢ man’s jom can oi freedom of the public lands from the prema ee their spproprin jon, in Henited quantities, ro the actual settler. Dr. Elder was then called out by the audience, and after a briet address from him. the meeting adjourned, in excellent spirits, at about 10 o’clock. Puape.ruta, Dec. 8, 1848. Great Meeting of the Young Democracy of Phila- delphia—Declaration of Principles—Uproar and Excetement—Fun, Fancy, and Declamation. A meeting assembled last night, at the coun- ty court-house, in Philadelphia, to hear the re- port of a committee who had been appointed at a previous meeting, and instructed to propose some plan for the re-organization of the demo- cratic party. At an early hour the court-house was crammed, and great anxiety evinced to hear the report. John G. Sharp was called to the chair, and numerous other officers appointed. ‘Thomas Dunn English then came forward, on the part of the committee, and read the following report and declaration of principles :-- REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The committee appointed at a town meeting of the democratic citizens of Philadelphia, held at the Demo- cratic Head-Quarters, on the evening of the 13th of November, 1848. and by that meeting instructed to prerent, at ome future public meeting, some plan for the better organization of the party, &c., beg leave re- spectfully to report— ‘That the great and controlling cause of the tage condition of the democratic party. in the city and county of Philadelphia, arises general dissatis- faction with the party governm and laxness of party discipline. The affairs of the party, its internal management, its mode of expressing opinion, ita dis- tribution of honors and emoluments, have all been, for # long while, under the control of self-constituted cliques, or caucus-created committees. These combi- nations, whatever may be the individual worth and probity of their members, must naturally seek to re- tein ail ower in their own hands, or in those of their adherents. Thus it is that we see this strange posi- tion of affairs—a party sometimes led by men inwhom it hes mo confidence whatever, and whose words and deeds it freely ridicules. This anomaly resuls from the want ofa proper representative system in the government of the party, by whick the will of its members could be expressed; and the fact that we have not had such a system before, arose from the timidity of individuals, who, while they gave vent to individual complaint, had a disinclination to propose a remedy. Thus, too, it has been that unscrupulous men have endeavored to make the democratic ey an in- ttrument by which they might attain wealth and po- tition, and tospeak the plain and honest truth, have frequently succeeded. By combination and organ- ized fraud, they have. time and again. destroyed the will of the majority, and diffused lukewarmness, if ot absolute discontent, in our ran Your committee do not believe that any plan of organization can totally prevent the evils of improper combinations. The cure, in the main, is with the democratic party itself, the individual members of which must apply the last resort of freemen when need- ed, and vote down the incapable, unsound or profligate. Nor do thiscommittee wish to go as faras their inolina- tion would, perhaps, impel them, in the recommendation of measures fon & re-organization, But they do recom- mend to you the plan which accompanies this report, for the annual election of a Democratic General Vom- ‘mittee, bared upon a ratio which ehall afford a fair re- presentation of the democratic party, for our city and county—a committee which, elected as its members will be by the people. will represent the feelings and wishes of their constitutents, upon all occasions where it ia impossible or inconvenient to appeal to the party im mass. To such a committee the further task of re-organizing the democratic party, by introducing such reforms as are needed in its action, could be confided with more propriety than to your committee, insomuch as the body chosen by democratic su: 9 could be fully re- sponsible to their conetituten Your committee also report a set of rules to govern the election of the first General Executive Committee—ruies sufficient to con- trol its election and organisation—after which they of course cease, unless adopted b; @ committee itself. In addition to this, aud asthe ofall future action, your committee report a declaration of democratic principles, which they submit for your adoption. This, while it contains tigre which Ja not or should not be reoogmized as democratic doctrine, proclaims well es- tablished features of policy in a fitting boldness ofatyle and manner. and presenta a political creed no and explieit that the humblest citizen can comprehendand discuss it. All of which, as well as the accompanying documents, which they include as part of their report, your com- mittee respectfully submit, DECLARATION OF PRINCIVLES Adopted at a General Meeting of the Young Democracy ine City and County of Philadelphia, held on the iecond Day of December, 1848, at th House. , * ‘We declare And publish, as well-grounded and settled prinofples:— 1. That, in adjusting any tariff of duties upon im- porte. the sole object should be to obtain a revenue adequate to the demands of an economieal administra- tion of the government; that it would be nnjust and oppressive to arra: purpose of affording ¢ County Court duties for t] to any man or set of men special favors, aggrandize- ment, crimmunities. Leglelation should be performed for the benefit of all,and when it becomes oppressive to either a greater or emaller portion of the community, or when its results impoverish the mans, ite proper ends are violated and itself rendered odioar Henoe it ip thet we denounce any tariff whore object i# protec- tion—anch protection heing, when fully analywed. « mere trick by which a few eapitalinte are enable to per- more than the pe ot the philosopher’ traneruting t and toil of the poor man etene MORNING EDITION----MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1848. — into goldyand plundefing all other classes, in order to add to their alre immense fortunes. 2. That the fi ey Of government should be ma- naged by the government itself, independent of the control or agency of banks or banking institutions— managed by eworn and responsible officers. who are lable to severe ities for @ violation of duty, and not by corporations whose actions defy scrutiny, and whose infractions of law cannot be punished. The plan of the independent Treasury now in operation, which has been tested through atime of war—in all countries a reason of great financial embarrassment — Teceives and will continue to receive our steady and well-dererved support ; and while we are willing to ad- mit such alterations in its details as may be necessary to its perfect success, we will never agree to surrender a ningle one of the ineiples upon which it is based, and by means of which the public money is preserved rom the grasp of speculators and capitalists. 3. That in the disporal of the public lands, a liberal course should be pursued towards actual settiers ; and Increare of small freeholders contribute to the prosperity and progress of the country, every actual settler ia entitled to and should receive a limited and inalienable amount of land, sufficient to support,in conjunction with his f andifamily. this country is » confederation of independ- ent sovereignties, whose interest it is to remain united; that the peculiar institutions in each of these States are purely domestic, and consequently @ subject of loeal government, independent of the supervision and interference of other members of the confederacy ; that when Congrers attempts to legislate upon or concern- ing any of there institutions, it grossly invades the rights of both individuals and communities, and com- mits a great constitutional wrong; that the saftey of the Union and the perpetuity of our republican insti. tutions demand that every honest citizen should re prere the agitation of any ‘and every prominent cause of discord and disunion. 6. That the public domain was granted to the general government by its donors as the source of a fand to be applied to the necessities of that govern. ment; that the money arising from the sale of the lands which compore the domain, 50 Jong as they continue to be sold, should not be diverted from its legitimate use, by being distributed among the States ; and that. when the government can spare the land fund, it is more for the interest of the nation that the land should be given to those who willactually cultivate it and add to the productive wealth ot the nation. 6. That the Constitution of these United States is a grant by sovereign and confederated States to the corporation of the general government, of certain powers specified and limited in the constitution itself; and we contend for a strict construction of the powers Tanted; comsequently we oppose the creation of a onal bank, a protective system of duties, and the ap-, plication of the public funds to the furtherance of any schemes or ton not necessary to carry out the duties or powers rectly assigned to the general govern- ment. 1. That the people areas fully capable to nominate as they are to vote for all candidates for office, and that the intervention of caucuses and conventions, at all times an evil, requires to be either modified so that the wishes and will of the people shall be truly ropre- rented, or else utterly abolished. The people have, frequently, owing to the corruption of the convention system, been presented with the alternative of either voting for a selfish and papelnet plea man, or one no- toriously incompetent to fill the station he sought, or by their vote sgainst him, attacking the policy which he represented, and which was dear to their con- sciences. Under this system, as now conducted, we have seep nominated and elected to legislative officer, men who were utterly unable to disouss measures of importance in the halls of legislation, or to defend the eer es of the party with which they were iden- tifled, and who did not make up for this deficiency by that plain common-sense and unshaken integrity so necessary for the efficient legislator. Such things are calculated to alienate any party from popular affec- tion. The condemnation whioh they ultimately ob- tain, is thus dealt on a deserving set of pelitieal prin. ciples as well, and the peace, prosperity, and progress of the State seriously endangered. from the temporary suspension of a proper policy im the administration of public affairs. That the pillars of the State are the laboring po- ion, whose brawny arms create the wealth, and whose every day sense forms the safeguard of the na- tion ; that their health, comfort, and happiness are to be fedulously guarded, asa matter of public welfare ; that no combination of capitalists shall be allowed to oppress or injure them ; that all excess of labor which tends to injure their physival comfort, or debar them from mental improvement, should be restrained ; that the practice of causing minors and fe especial- Jy, to labor for m: hours per day over the time suit- ed to their physi: th, in factories and ela re, not at debars them from mental improve- ment, 8nd deteriorates their physical condition, but tends to raise up a race of people in our midst. dwarf- ed and stunted {n body and mind ; and that all such things, as caloulated to render honest labor degrading, are fit subjects for specific and decided legislation. 9, That our coun’ is our mother, whoze honor is ‘as dear to us as our personal honor. or the peace of our firesides . that her cause is our cause, and an insult her is an insult to be resented by each of her that when she is engaged in war with a foreign land, the citizen who displays sympathy with hor foes, or encourages them to protract the conflict, is a traitor, whom it would be an excess of courtesy to pronounce dishonorable ; and that representatives, who, from their eeats in’ the halls of legislation, encourage the enemy, have attained a depth of political infamy eqnaied ‘by that only of one man in the history of these United States, 10. That the people of this country are devoted to the checks, compromires, and balances of the Conati- tution ; that they recognise the independence of the three several departments of government as one of thore great principles whose preservation is the surest guaranty for the continuance of our freedom ; that to destroy or cripple the qualified negative of the Pre- sident—falsely called veto power—would be to place our mghts at the mercy of any set of legisiative des- pots who might prove false to their trust, and would Teduce the form of government from that of a well- balanced republic to an elective aristocracy, 11. That banking is only legitimate business when pursued upon legitimate principles; but to call for charters which exempt stockholders from individual liability is to request the mantle of the State credit for the shoulders of fraud and falsehood; and that each State is prohibited by the general constitution from coining money, or emitting bills of credit, and conse- quently cannot confer on corporate bodies a power which it does not itself possess, 12. That the acoumulation of large bodies of lands in the hands of an individual, is an evil whose effects uch an aggregation of the foil, asit tends to decrease the number and dis- courage the efforts of tillers of the soil, is unwise and anti-republicen, and savors too much of the feudal times to accord with the epirit of our institutions or the temper of our people; and that s law should speedily be parsed limiting the quantity of the public lands which may be dispored of to individuals 18, That our people, as years of experience have de- cisively demonstrated, may be trusted to choose any end every office-holder; that official patromace is more likely to be exercised discreetly by them than by in- and that, es all officers should be of*right choren by them, no motives of sound policy demand that they should restrain themselves from the exercise of such aright. 14, That the foreigners who immigrate to this country should not be denied the protection of our laws, nor a participation in the blessings of good go- verbment; that itis good policy to extend to them, after @ reasonable time of sojourn, the rights of citi- zenship; that the present naturalization Jaws have proved themselves by experience to be highly politic and proper, and that, in their admission to offices of trust and emolument, the place of the citizen’s birth should neither recommend nor at 15. That the prerent system pursued in appointing officers in the army and navy is calculated to dete- riorate the service; that appointments should cease to be a matter of favor; and that the proper apprentice- thip for the future commander is before the mast in | the navy, din the ranks from the army, 16, That it is the duty of the democratic party to advocate the reform of all abuses in government; that abuse exists and a remedy is offered, the sole © be-asked are concerning the justice, pra lity and pre-eminence of the proposed measure; that whether it offends the prejudice or affects the pockete of individuals, is not to be discussed; and that the democratic party, as the true party of progress, hile it is conservative of the constitution, to guard it from the inroads of a loose construction of its pro- visione, has @ natural and invincible antipathy to that false conservatiem which retains abuses and preserves venerable wrongs. The committee also presented a plan of sores @ general committee, and Mr. English then move the adoption of the whole. Mr. E. A, Penniman, ex-Senatorfrom the county of Philadelphia, got up 1n great haste, and said he wasin favor of the plan of organization ; but he objected to the tone of the report, which he denounced as uncourteous. He did not know taat he was opposed to the principles avowed in the declaration, but thought 1t inexpedi- ent torgitate them at this time. The Baltimore platform had been defeated, and we were defeated with it. (Cries of ‘* No, no !”’ and greatconfusion.) He thought it ought to he brought before another meeting—that the committee had better be in- structed to report at a future meeting. Besides, some things were not explicit; nothing had been said on the free soil question. Atter some other remarke, the gentleman sat down, and was follow- ed by Thomas Dunn English, who said that he could notsit quiet under remarks so baseless as thoge that he had heard ; and when so respectable a body as the committee were assailed and their motives aspersed, he must give vent to justindigna- tion, The committee had merely brought forward the views generally entertained by the progressive democracy—had, in effect, only amplified and ap- plied ihe principles laid down at the Baltimore convention. As to the time, there was none more suitable than now. He then alluded to the fact of the recent whig and tree soil meetings held in the eity,and cortended this was the proper moment. The speaker then went on to defend the report of the committee, and attacked the positions takemby Von Burenaitd the free oilers, and finally sat down mid the cheers of the audience Y Piske next addr dth | slaveholding States, apart from the larues really 1 ry voy in support | r a portion of an essary inyegard to banking, w! Reb he had intended, at first, to have mecorporated in the report of the committee. This essay denounced the whole banking m as a fraud, and was received with great ent asm. This was followed by an eloquent gpeech from Wm. Little, when a warm discussion arose, sprinkled with sarcasm, spice and personality, in which Andrew Miller, late Re- corder_of Deede, Morris R. Hamilion, Thomas Dunn Engheh, E. W. Powers, and I. A. Penniman participated. All kinds of words flew around, and expressions left the lips of very naughty grave men. Na Little accused Andrew Miller of having caused the defeat of the democratic rty, by his former endorsement of Taylor ; and iller ‘retorted, by expressing his regret that the “John Donkey ” had expired; whereon Thomas Dunn English leaped up and said that the “Donkey” had died because Andrew Miller would not edit it. After this very rational dis- cussion had ceased, the question was put on the report of the committee, and enthusiastically adopted. Another debate now sprung up, in which J.C. Van Dyke and T. B. Florence, the late can- didates for Congress in the Ist and 2d districts, with others, joined. The oceasion of this was the | continuance of the committee to provide for the | election of delegates to a general convention, Fi- nally the motion prevailed, aid the committee were also instructed to lay the declaration ot prin- ciples befgre the several wards and townships of the city and county. The meeting then adjourned, with any amount of cheering. The moyementis one of eome moment,when we consider the prinesples adopted, It will be seen that mostef the positions of the land-reformers are incorporated, and that a thoroughly radical tone pervadeg'the proceedings. The meeting was very crowded, very noisy, and very enthusiastic, and the debate which sprung up was one of the most piquant and racy we ever listened to, We are sorry that we have not room to transfer it lite- rally. Message of the Governor of South Carolina, ‘We have received the message of Governor Johnson, of South Carolina, to the Legislature of that State,and we herewith present a synopsis of it to our readers. The report of the Comptroller, in relation to the State Ainances has not yet been received On the subject of education, Governor Johnson saya: —The increasing prosperity and usefulness of the South Carolina College, is so much a matter of pride, that the attention of every one is constantly directed towards The extensive additional accommodations for the students. projected by the Board of Trustees at its last annual meeting, have, by the liberal means rovided by the Legislature at its last anaual session, Boon completed; and yet there is no room to spare. ‘The students number now 255, including the gradu. ating class, which is thirty-eight in number. In regard to the free schools, he eays:---Defective in the frame work of their original structurs. t! have dragged on a wretched existence, if, indeed, they can be said to exist at all, down to this day, at an imment cost, without any apparent benefits, except in t) towns and cities, where, from the densenessof the population, the funds appropriated for the! can beconcentrated so as to make its influe: The necessity of internal improvements is referred to, Om this subject Governer Johnson uses the fol- lowing language: All eho are familiar with the upper portions of the State, know that few, it any of its pro- duotions, will bear the expense of transportation, by the ofdinary means, to a market, and leave any profits to the producer, except the article of cotton, which is not grown at all in the region bordering the moun- taine; and even that, at the present low prices, leaves but a small net income when the charges of transpor- tation gre deducted, All desoriptions of In may be The Tremendous Gale at Buffato. {From the Buffalo Advertiser, Nov. 3 ‘We have had more high wind this fall than in any season within our remembrance. Last night—or er early this morning—we were visited with the severest (Tye we have experienced since the fall of 1844, at the time of the highest flood known to the “oldest inhabitants.” The wind blew from the west, and was atits height from two to five o’clock this morning. The damage done to’ the buildings, and shipping in the harbor, is considerable, though not se- rious in any single instance. Much lumber and tim- ber has been displaced from the yards, and quite a large quantit; be lost or destroyed. ‘The water was quite high upon the Flats, though the grading of the streets, lcularly Ohio street, and the construc- tion of docks, protected the eastern section of the city to a greatextent; yet, notwithstanding there barri- ers, the water being driven up through the side ca- nals, pretty effectually flooded the low lands. Canal boats were thrown out of the Clark & Skinner and Mi nd Hambourgh street canals, and left high and dry by the receding of A portion of the floor of the depot the Bui nd Attica Railroad was torn uj nd wood, and.other movable articles in the vicinity, scattered in admirable confusion in every direction, We understand that the water was the highest bétween six and seven On the west ride, below the ship canal, the water wept over the space between the lake and canal, a hi she |i al, and ny families occupying the small tenements along ao baane tice compelled to leave. On the upper side of the canal, the water came up to within « few feet of the gas works, and several boats were thrown out and left upon the land as the gale subsided. Quitea number of chimnies were blown down, and several buildings unroofed. The roof of the coal shed of the Gas Works was partially blown off, doing damage to the extent of about $150. The building owned by George R. Bi ok, on Licyd etreet-and the canal, in which was the law office of Baboocck & Welch, was anroofed; as also a portion ef Bugbeo’s steam milis, ‘The ehipping in the Narbor sustained much damage by versels being driven against each other, by whioh +pars and other timbers were broken. One schooner had her sides pretty well jammed In, and several yawl boats were smashed. One sehooncr came in about balf-past seven, when the gale was near its height, She had but a speck of canvass up on her fore spars, but she shot ahead very repidiy, and rounded the pier and came in beautifully, Another passed down the river at the same time, Although the driving of many poor families from their homes, will cause much ant yet no lives have been lost, and the loss of property is trifling. ‘This gale, as does almost every heavy one, shows the absolute necersity of a sea wall, to protect. the oanal from ultimate destruction between this city and Black Rock. The lakeis making approaches towards it, and rometbing will have to be done to prevent the entire absorption of the strip of land intervening [From the Buffalo Courier Deo. 1. ‘We bave to record one of the most severe gales on Wednesday night and yesterday morning, with which our city bes éver bee visited, During its greatest height, our citizens were alarmed by repeated cries of “Fire,” but apply there ‘was batlittle damage done by thatelement. The alarms were mostly caused by tilnntes burning out. The wind was at its height between two and five o’cloek in the morning, when very considerable dam: was done to the shipping in the harbor and to Dulas Inge. The docks protected the eastern portion of the city; etillthe water was driven through the slipsand side canals, flooding the lowlands and throwing vessels out of the Clark and Skinner and Main and Hamburg street canals, leaving them high and dry when it re- ceded. It also did comsiderable damage to lumber lying on the banks of the creek. On the other side, the wa- ter came up within a few feet of the gas works. O} pilaings injured, We notice the depot of the Attica ffalo Railroad, the floor of which was torn up; Bugbee’s Elevator partly unroofed, and the build- ings of Geo, R. Baboock, Esq , wholly umroofed. The Joss in the last instance will be $500 or more, The roof betray to our markets from any of Northern cities et a less expense than from the mountain region, where it is grown in abundance; and, with faolilties of transportation, might and would be increased to almost any extent. Lime, which is found in abundance in York and mapas districts, of superior quality, is shut out, even from the market in this place, on ac- count of the difference in the expenres of transporta- tion, by the Thomaston lime For the same reason our great martes are closed against the iron produced in the interior, and they are supplied from Europe an the Northern States. The same remarks will apply to almost every article of production, the transportation of which is expensive on account of its weight or bulk; and I venture to predict, that unless greater facilit of transportation are supplied, the healthiest and most favored portion of the State will become ten- antless. Heretofore, they have found a market for their agricultural productions amongst their cotton neighbors, but at the present low prices, they it their Interest to grow: ‘will fin question of slavery between the slaveholding and non- volved, will of itsel! id inevitably lead tothe mort disastrous consequences. The passions of com munities, like those of individuals, are roused and in- flamed by constant vituperation, however unimpor- tant may be the matter in controversy ; and the de gree of reeentment engendered by it, is in proportion to the magnitude of the matter involved. ‘To us the question is vital, the issues of ‘life, liberty and pro- perty”’ are involved in it, the poiton of fanaticism is roinfused in the masres, that I have charity enough to suppoee that many worthy men Coaclantiouy, be- lieve that involuntary rervitude is a damning curse, and would willingly turn our slaves loose to cut our throats. But the mockery of the more liberal and enlightened politicians of the non-slaveholding States, in disclaiming the authority of Congress to interfere with the institution in the States where it now exists, but protesting against its extension beyond its pre- rent limite, is more galling. Do they not know that the encouragement and protection given to fugitive slates have rendered property in them of little value in the border States? Do they not know that, cir- cnmecribed to the territorial limits they now occupy, they will ina few years exhaust much of the now pro- ductive soil, and in their rapid increae in numbers overwhelm their owners, and drive them to seek an arylum elsewhere; and that by excluding them from additionol territories already or hereafter to be ac- quired, they will, through the agency of Congress, ac- complith indirectly what they concede to be uncon- stitutional ’ I will mot epeak of our equal rights as ci- tizens of this confederation. The argument haa been long go exhausted, and demonstration as palpable as & mathematical conclusion will avail nothing. The probability is, that whether we will or will not be permitted to carry our slaves into the territory no- quired by treaty with Mexico, will be definitely settled ut no distent day, If against us, the question will ne- cersarily arise a8 to the measures we ought to pursue, All the other slaveholding States have precisely the same interest in this question that we have, and we know that many. if not all of them, feel the same soli- citude about it that we do, and it may reasonably be rupposed they would readily unite with us in any measure promising relief, With our united, moral and physical strength, in a just and honorable cause, | we can successfully oppose any power that can be brought to bear upon us, Concert, as to time and manner of action, is indispensable to this unity ; and the question now is, when and how this is to be brought about? Is the present time propitious ? ‘We know already, or have abundant reason to eup- pore, that the present chief mhgistrate of the United States, adopting the Missouri compromise ana rule, will, if Congress, im its folly and madness, in total dis- regard of reason and right. exelnde ur entirely from the Mexican territory, interpose the conservative veto power, It is known. too, that in the election of his snocertor, many of the slaveholding States cast their yoter for the candidate who will he elected; and that in all the rest there was great division, more, probably, then the results have brought to light; and, I take it fer granted, that it was upon the faith, that, being a | Southern man, he would not be unmindful of Southern | rights. It cannot be supposed, then, that the States which will vete for him, and the minorities in those States which will yote sgainst him, can be brought to aot together in anticipation that our rights will be | violated under hie administration, he having the power to prevent it. The present time is, therefore, in my judgment, unpropitious for action. We ought, not+ withstanding, to provide for any contingency. The blow may be struck when we are unaware of our di ger, and no time ought to be lost projecting means to unite the eholding States in some common mode of action, when the occasion shall arise; and free dis. cursion and interchange of opinion will greatly pr mote this object in preparing the public mind to meet its conrequences. As before remarked, unity of time and concert of action, are indispensable to success, and a Southern convention is the most direct and prac- tical means ef obtaining it. Noone State can reasonably hope for success, when acting alone position the opinions of all the others. The effect of such ittempt would expose them to be overwhelmed in detail. What, it may be asked, will South Carolina do if she is left alone to fight this battle? There are spirits in her bosom that would willingly perish in defence of her rights. But would it be wise to seek such w destiny, as long as there is hope of euecor? In alluding to Mr. Whitney's ject of building » railroad to the Pacific, he says :—T'he project is one of | the most sublime that har ever been conceived by man. | One is astounded by its magnitude, and yet with ade- | quate means no one will now question its practica- bility nor will it be doubted that. if carried into exe- cution, it would greatly promote the settlement of the wild Ianda through whieh It is roposed to carry it, bringing us into communion with our fellow citizens inhabiting those remote regions, and greatly facilitate commerce, Svrrosep Murnrr in Sprinorigin, Mass.—We learn that the body of a machinist named Clark, who was in th ploy of the Wertern Railroad Corpa- en found yesterday morning near the shop in that town, where he worked, with his throat cut most horridly. The circumstance created much excitement in the town, and when our informant left yerterday afternoon, a coroner's jury were investh ting the clreumatances attending his death, The pre- vailing opinton hw Springfield was, that deceased who, wae on incflensive map, of good and strictly tempe- rate babite, heen mort foolly murdered by some | fend, who probably mistook him for some other pe Fon — Bos ideertiver, Dec 2% } ' of the coal shed of the gas works was also partially Ddiown off, damage $150, | The scene in tl icinity of the Eastern depot, where there are numbe! er, partook of the painful and amusing. The floors ot most of the shanties were entirely submerged and the inmates compelled to put out as fast as possible. bury in picking up the wood. box: odd. ends of Immber that came floating u: much competition going on, in fact, as to brirg on a occational “shindy.”’ What became of the shanties appeared to be a matter of no consequence -the wood ey must have, The greatest loss to one poor family seemed to be a brace of fine pigs, the pets and darlings of the hou hold, which lay dead in front of one of the cabini the rich the loss would be trifling, but to ¢ working laborers it appeared almost. irreparal distress of the men, women and children, who all join- jing, was really heartrending, We nevolent will remember the sufferings ot these and other unfortunate people who are losers. Water was at one time seven feet higher than theaverage, The accidenteand injuries to the ship- near as we can learn, as follows :— Lexington had her bulwarks, stanchions yards, &e , carried away by the lower lake schooner Jessie Wood—the bulwarks of the achooner were also torn away, and the was otherwise materially injured, together With the schooner Queen Victoria. The schooner Green Bay, lying on the west side of the creek,broke loose and carried away the propeller Charter Oak. which, in turn, carried away schooner Blue Bell. damaging the latter vessel to the amount of $400 or $600. Queen City. lying at the foot of Com- mercial street, was run into by the schooner Virginia Purdy, which broke loose from th e opposite shore—one of her arches and two state rooms badly injured. The steamer Hendrik Hudson aiso broke loose from ber moorings and tore up the bulwarks of the brig Globe, but received little damage herself. ‘The steamer Great Western broke loose and was driven on to the dock. a little above Bugbee’s Elevator ands ina ba’! position—the New England also The steamers Baltic and Key Stone State were also driven across the creek ‘The schooner Washington Irving is aleo high and dry near them. | ‘The brig Paragon and schooner Pilgrim are driven | bard onthe bank in Kinnie’s slip, together with the schooner Eudora, ‘The schooner Commodore Chauncey also broke Ioore, had her bulwarks stove in, and was considerably injured otherwise. ‘A couple of versets were seen going down the Niagara river in the morning, but we have heard nothing from them, One was suppored to be the brig lowa, but we learn that the Jowa lies a wreck at Point Abino. We may expect to hear of other marine disasters, and, wo fear, of lors of life, upon the lakes. ‘The gale here has ceared. [From the Buffalo Republic, Dee. 1. Our city har been vinited, since our last, with a gale, which, fer its disastrous consequences, is without a pa- rallel, since the disastrous gale of '44. Added to the fears bake by the wind, were the repeated alarms of fire which occurred since 4 o'clock. We are gratified in being able ynnounce but little damage from fire. ‘Two wooden shanties, occupied by Irish families, just below the Michigan street bridge, were burnt to the ground. The machines found great difficulty in ap- proaching the scene of conflagration, from the very nature of the ground, it being very low, and at the time covered with water. from the overflowing of the creek. No, 3.was the only machine which actually af- forded any assistance. Fifty dollars will cover the en- tire damage occasioned by the fire, this morning ; but | the loss from wind was much greater. A three-story trick building. situated on Loyd street, opposite Thomas’ Exchange, was completely unroofed. Lose at least $500. [tis really surprising that there was not some farther damage done by the rocf, which was blown a distance of 100 feet. A two-story brick build- ing, on Exchange street, near the freight depot, was also unroofed. Loss considerable, Bugbee’s Elevator partially unroofed. Atwo-story brick building. on the eastside of Michigan street, was unroofed. Damage considerable. Much other damage was sustained in different parts of our city, from the fall of chimneys, blowing down of signs, ete. It in yet difficult te ascer- tain the damage do: 0 the shipping. The water in the creek was at one time seven feet higher than the average water mark By the ass ance of Capt. Burnett. barbor-master, and from what we could learn from other sources of information, we are enabled to give the following items of marine intel- lgence :— ‘The steamer Queen City, lying at the foot of Com- mercial street, was run into by the schooner Virginia Purdy, which broke from ber moorings on the opposite tide of the creek, and had one of her arches taken off, and (wo of ber states rooms demolished. She was also otherwise injured. ‘The steamer Lexington had her buiwarks, stanchions aud sails carried away by the Canada lower lake tchooner Jessie Wood, which got under her guard. The schooner Queen Victoria and the Wood were consider- ably injured. ‘he propeller Charter Oak broke adrift from her moorings, and bad a good deal of her upper work ebooner Hope was driven into port with great js morning, but sustain e believe, no essen- bonk in Kinnie’s slip. The Paragon isin t! dicament. The schooner Eudora in out on & bank in same slip. The New Epgland, United States, Baltic, | and Reed's new boat, the Keystone State, broke loose from their moorings on the south side of the creek, and were driven over to the north side. ore New capens are bigh and dry on the nort! of the oreek. The brig Globe, steamer Hendrik Hudson, sohooner Commodore Chauncey, and two other vessels, broke from their moorings, and the Chauncey had her bul warks stove in and otherwire injured. A canal boat is saidto have sunk at Tonawanda, leaded with 2,200 buebels of wheat. ‘There are all the poritive dirarters we have heard of. We shall btleas be oalled upon to chronicle yet ‘The water in the creek is going er damage is apprehended from the There wili undoubtedly be great suffering among ‘ale. the many oor families who are driven from their homes by the high water. In fact, already do we hoar of cases of the moat beart-tending deseription We trust our cittrens will extend » helping and timely hand to th sullerers, TWO CENTS. Additional yeeegence from the California id Region. [From the New Orleans Picayune, Nov. 2%] Lieutenant Loeser, U.S. A., arrived here yesterday, in thesehooner Desdemona, from Jamatea, with des- patches from Gov. Mason, of California, to the U. 8. Government, Lieut. Loeser left Monterey im Ai last, for Payts, in Peru, which place he madein forty days. He came thence by the way of Panama and Jamaica to this city. In company with Lieut. L. came David Carter, who wept out to California in the employment of the govern- ment, early in the commencement of the war. From the latter we learn that there was no excitement in Californiaexcept that produced by the reportefrom the gold regions of the Sacramento and ite tributaries. ‘The wania for gold digging had reached such a length that it was difficult to procure workmen in Monterey, except at the most extravagant wages. Desertions had taken place from the United Stat marine, to such an extent that the U. te supply men totake the sloop W: e6 lower down t, out of the way of the infection. From the Tat La boat's crew dererted, in open daylight, for the gold regions. Company F.3d Artillery, and the dragoons, left at Menterey, had suffered little from desertion, but the a. generally had gone off in quest of the precious met Lieut, Loerer brings over with him specimens of gold obtained in the valley of the Sacramento. Some of the pieces are the first found inthe country. The ex- tent of the gold region has not been ascertained, but the ore has been found ina territory 150 miles in ex- tent and 60in breadth, Mr. Carter thinks that many of the acoounts of the great abundance of the precious metal in the region in which it is found are oxaggera- tions, but that it is discovered in'lnrge quantities is ab- solutely known. He informs us thatthe ore is pro- eure some risk and with great labor, yet that it must abound in the country—considering the “ quan- tities” brought to Monterey, and t! perfect (means employed in separating it from th: : ‘be tract of country constituting the gold region is a level plain. Whether tb rticles of gold have been washed down from the mountains or heaved up by vol- canic force, no one knows, but the latter ia general believed to be the true theor: Mr Carter has him reen drops of virgin gold weighing two ounces, andjthere are those who assert they Lave met with it in bulks of greater weight. An yet. all attempts to employ capital in procuring gold have resulted disastrously. Those who have or- ganized a company to collect the precious metal have lost their outfits, for the persons hired for such a ser- view foveriably leave their employers and set up busi- ness on thelrown account—-taking with them the im- plementsentrusted tothem The gold is not confined to the bede of the rivers, but every where within pre- ecribed limita it may be had by digging up the earth, and washing the roil from the metal. ‘The effect produced in California by this new source of wealth has been anything but beneficial to the colo-~ ny or advantageousto the public service. The New York volunteers, as soon as they were disbanded, re- paired to the gold region, Col. Stevenson with them. and every article of mereandize, food or clothing had riren in value to an exorbitant extent. The epidemic was univers: ‘The crews of whale ships and other commercial had deserted for the enchanted e enlisted men in the United States Money in coin, which was plenty enough for all pur- pores before gold was discovered, had grdWn ro roarce that the duties upon imported goods could not be paid except by bypotheoating “dust.” Those who could not procure better means of collecting gold, wandered off in its quest with ti d whi could be used to sepa washing. ‘We annex a letter and a proclamation from Col. Ma- son, showing the troubles which this gold fever has brought upon the custom house. Our informant thinks it will require alarge force to protect the {i teredt of the United States from the depredation of (Aiggers,” who form the largest, moat desperate, and vagrant class of" foreigners” In that terittory, Large numbers of them have perished during the sickly sea- son, on account of their reckless course of life and in- sufficient means of comfortable living. San Francisco, July 22, 1848. Sin—We beg leave to submit to your Excellency kt the proceedings of mecting held last evening at the City Hotel of h ‘We pray that your Excellency will take into imme- diate consideration matters of such vital importanos to the commercial as well at to the other Interests of the country, and will be pleased to forward us your decision at as early a day as your valuable time wil! allow. We dee, respectfully, your Exoollency’s most obedi- ent servants, W. D. M. HOWARD, C.'V. GILLESPIE. JAMES C, WARD. ‘To his Exc'y Col. R. B. Mason, lifornia, Governor of Heapqvantens Tent Minitary Derantoent, Monterey, California, July 31, 1848, i GentLemex—Your communication of the 29d, tege- ther with its enclosure, has been duly received. I willinstruct the Collector at San franciscoto re- ceive gold dust in payment of duties at the custom- house, with the pv Teserved to the payer of re- deeming one-half by a payment to the Collector in gold or silver ooin, any time within ninety days, and the other balf by » like payment, any time within one hundred and eighty days. This, however, is to be a mere temporary arrangement, owing to the present tcarcity of coin in the country. It would give me pleasure to comply fally with the wishes expressed by the public meeting held at San Francisco on the night of the 2lst instant, by making the whole redeemable im one hundred and eighty days; but it would have the effect of entirely cutting off the receipt of any available fands in the custom-house for tix months tocome. That is a longer time than it will be prudent to dry up the only souren of revenue that the country affords, and would be too wide a departure from my instructions. which are very poritive, tc ool-” leetthe duties * exclumvely in gold and silver coin,? before the goods, wares or merchandise leave the our- tody of the Collector; or, in other words, before they are suffered to go into market. I sm willing to allow the goods to go at once into the market. and to wait three and eix months for the duties—although I em ordered to collect them in cash—provided the gold dust is taken at a rate low enough to make it certain that the merchant will redeem it at the stipulated time, and if he does not, that there will be no doubt tbat the duties can be realized at once by putting it auction, if the money be immediately required. You will readily perceive the situation in which [ am placed; a large amount of duties will be received at San Francisco; should tome ten or twenty thousand dollars of this gold dust, received at the custom-house —reckoning at the rate per ounce at which it will be received—fail to be redeemed at | should be forced by this large amount into market, to be sold for cash, it should not bring that sum, I at once becom held personall: countable to tl ™, Tom very sure that none of the merchanta of your town would desire to see me assume arisk of becom- epartment ington for the Honiton of the departure from ing pecuntarily involved by departing from my in- structions for their accommodation; and, therefore, { feel by departing from my orders in this {nets nd merchandise to permitting goods, wares onee into t he x months befor uties can be realized, that the pre- cautions I take to guard both the public and myself from any loss, are not unreasonable or greater than the occasion calls for. I shall strongly recommend {n my first communioa- tion to the department the immediate establishment of ® mintin Upper California, 1 am, respectfully, R. B. MASON. your obedient servant, . 0 h Col Ist Drag., Gov, of California. To W. D. M. Howard, ©. V. Gillespie. James C. Ward, San Francisco, California, PROCLAMATION. Hranqvanten TH Mivitary DerartMent, Monterey, California, July 25, 1348, Whereas many citizens have gone to the gold mines of the Sacramento, without making proper provisions for the families they ha’ behind them ; a whereas many sol tempted by the fiatteri prorpect of sudden wealth, have deserted their colors to go to the same region, regardless of their oaths d obligations to the govern mdangering the y of the garrisons, and thereby the tranquillity of the eountry, it is made known that unless families are guarded and provided for by their natural pro tectors, ani unless citizens lend their ald to prevent desertions from the isons of the country, the mili- tary force now im California will be concentrated in the gold region, to the exclusion of all unlicensed persons. Persons employed at the mines are reminded that up to this time they havo enjoyed the high fod of aig ‘ing gold on government land, without charge and without hindrance. In return for this privilege, they are bound to assist in Gehan ger deserters, and in giving notice to the nearest mil id waiting three itary officer ere any are concealed. A dragoon force will soom fe at the mining district, and will traverse it in every direction, to arrest deserters from the army and navy, and to apprehend such cirizens as harbor or employ them ; for these citizens are as culpable as the de- themeelves. and, if arrested, will be tried by a commirsion, and punt cording to the laws of war, Should the officer in command of this receive the ccrdial aid and support of the olti- he will be enabled to check the serious evil which now threatens the safety of the country. But if citizens are not willing to lend their aid and assist- ‘ance. but one alternative remains, viz : that of tal military porsession of the mining jot. It is he tthere are enough reflecting men at the minas to ree how much the prorperity of California will be re- tarded unless they pursue the course that is pointed ut to the Mit Is desirable to develope the riches and wealth of California, but the military safety of the country must) be secured at all hazarde R, B. MAS! ale, ois. — The election shows that the increase of our population since 1844 has been very great, The aggregate voter polled amount to Maing Oow hundred snd thirty thousand and a comparieon of present returns with thone of "44, shows that in a lorge number of the southern counties Dragoons and Gov. of Calif Tie Porunation the voters were not out in force The result mokes it Jeet that the eeneus of 1850 willwive tus at least & mnlie pot in? firld, (LL) Reguster. Moo 4 A, EEE EEE