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Benewed at the then session. He also declared, that Me and com in one, toavoid stri 4, thus covered under geueral terms, was to divide Texas fate twoequal parts, by # line drawn north and south, a ‘which the western part was to be subject to the ordi- Bance of ‘87 A measure. = from a quarter s0 hostile. and accompanied by such a declaration, was justly suspected as intending mischief. it was 40 con- sidered. generally, by the ids of annexation in ‘the Senate, and was assented to reluctantly, and onl, Decause he had a few supporters, who, with hsmself, held the balance, and refused to vote for the resolution of the House without the amendment. Among them, if my memory serves me, was his friend Heyward, who ‘was for covering all Texas and the whole region north of 36° 30/ with the ordinange of Timeo Deanoas et dona Serentes, I come now to the last of his charges; that I aban- doned the Seuth, and lett him and a few others alone by the side of the ill fated owners of the Comet, Enco- mium, Enterprise, and Creole. He does not state by what act | abandoned you, but leaves it to be inferred ‘from his remarks, that it was by voting in favor of the Ashburton treaty, which contained no stipulation in favor of the owners of those vessels. It is @ trick of his to make his charges very vaguely, so as to make it di eult to detect his errors and repel his slanderous at- | tacks. | admit that I voted for the Ashburton treaty. | Idid more; | delivered a speech in its favor, which, in | | the opinion of its friends, saved it from rejection. Its fate was doubtful. ‘I'be opposition, headed by Col. Ben- ton, was violent, and it required two-thirds to coniirm the treaty. 1 am willing to take whatever share of re- eponeibiltt he may think proper to allot to me for | voting for it. I look with no little satisfaction to my eourre on the occasion, from tha belief that | rendered | then great and permanent service to the country; for | its adoption was the first link, in that series of causes | by which war between Great Britain and us was avert- | ed. Whois there now so blind as not to see, that if the treaty had been rejected. war could not have been avoided? ‘The two countries were, in truth, on the very ‘eve of a rupture, the way events were moving at the | time, without either being aware of it. At the very wext session the Oregon question for the first time as- | sumed a dangerous and menacing aspect, A bill was | introduced immediately after its opening, which cover- ed the whole of that territory, the object’ of which was to commence systematically the work of colunization and settlement on our part. | took my seat iu the Se- nate two or three weeks after the commencement of the session, and found the bill on its passage, without op- ition, and apparently without division of opinion. raw the danger to the peace of (he two countries, and that the time had eome to stand to save it. f } determined to do my duty, regardless of consequences to myself. | arose and opposed it, and thereby exposed myelf to the oppesition of the entire West, wiieh was | strongly in its favor. My name, then, as well as when the Arhburion treaty was peuding in Lhe Senate, was Defore the people tor the h'ghest honor in their gift— placed there. not by myself, but by my friends. Did { then permit the low motive of aiming @t the Presidene ey. to which be attributes my course on the treaty, to sway me frem the path of duty? ‘My ttand prevented the bill from becoming a law. and that constituted the second link, ia the seri¢ causes, by which we were enabled to avert war between the two countries, Col, Benton then went for the biil, and was. | be for the whole of Oregon. Had the treaty been r at the preceding session, the stand I took and the resistance | made to the bill, would have deen all in vain, |t would have passed, aud the coua- try precipitated into war; but as it’ was, time was gained, which was all important. The agitation. how- ever, was kept up about Oregon, and similar bills were introduced the two succeeding sessions, which failed by small majorities In the meantime, negotiations were commenced and the claim to the whole of Oregon mado, ‘The ery was “all or none.” and so strong was the cur- | rent in its favor, that both parties yielded to it in the early part of the session. id resigned my seat in the Senate, but was re-elected a short time before the session commenced, and took my veral weeks afterward. } saw and felt the strength of the eurrent, but resolved to breast it,andsave the peace of the whole country if possible It was arrested.and a coun- ter-current created. Col. Benton himself yielded to the counter-current, and delivered a speeet after the | Dattle was won, in which he belabored thore who stae to “all or none.” after he found that they were in a minority. it was this chain of causes, ot which the | Arbburion treaty was the first and indispensable link, which averted war, and by it saved the two countries | from one of the greatest calamities which could havo defailen them, avd. | might add, the civilized world — I shall ever remember, with proud satisfaction, that [ took # prominent lead and a highly responsible part oa the side of peace, throughout the whole. 1 also amit that the treaty contained no stipulation in favor of the owners of the vessels, norany to prevent similar outrages in future, It wax ao objection, and | admitted it to be so in my speech in favor of it not sufficient one to induce its rejection. But, although | the treaty contained no stipulations to guard against | like outrages thereafter, much. nevertheless, was done in the negotiation to prevent them, and to place the South on much more elevated ground in ref-rence to | the subject. than where it stood when the negotiation | commenced. ‘To understand how much was done to- wards this. a brief statement of facts connected with | the care of thore reports, is necessary, ey were all coarting vessels, having slaves on board, and were all cither stranded in their voyage frem the Atlanti ports to those on the Gulf, on the Britich pos- sessions. Bermuda, and the Bahama Islands, or force 4 to putinto their perts by stress of weather to save themselves from shipwreck, or were carried in by the rising of the slaves and taking the vessel into port. Their fate was the same. The slaves were liberated, Under circumstances of more or less violence and in- dignity, by the local authority, ‘The outrage was enor- mous and the insult tothe American flag great. ‘Tho first occurred as curly as the year 1830, aud all under the administration of General Jackson or Mr Van Ba- Ten, except the Creole. Application was made to the Executive, by the owners, for redress, After a feeble and tame negotiation of many years, the British govern- ment agreed to compensate the owners in the case of the Comet and Fncomium, but refused to make any in that of the Enterprise, on the ground that the two first ‘occurred before her act of abolishing slavery bad gone | into operation. and the other after it had. “The admi- mistration (Mr. Van Buren's) accepted the compensa- tien, and soquiesoed in the refusal {n the case of the Enterprise, without remonstrance or protest, and thus waived our right, and admitted the absurd and dan- | gerour principle on which the refusal was placed. What the admivistration shamefully omitted to do, T resolved to do through the Senate, if possible; and with that view, and in order to perpetuate our claim of right, | moved in the Senate, in 1840, the three fullow- jolutions, and sueceeded in passing them by ous vote, with some slight amendment—Co she da word in their sapport:— * Resolved, Thi hip or vessel on the high seas in time of peace, engaged ina lawful voyaze, is, according to the laws of nations. under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State to which her flag belongs, as much so as if | constituting apart of its own domain. “ Resolved, That if such chip or vessel should be | forced by stress of weather, or other unavoidable caus, Anto the port ofa friendly power, she would, under the fame laws, lore none of the rights appertalaing to hee on th igh seas; but, on the contrary, she and ber argo and persons on board, with the! uban jenton voting for’ them, but not stan ling by me, says, for he never utt ‘bie Jong, would be placed under the protection whieh the Jews of nations extend to the unfortunate under suel eircumstances. “Resolved, That the brig Enterprise, which was forced unavoidably by stress of weather into Port Ha- milton, Bermuda island, while on a lawful yoyage on the high seas, from one part of the Union to another, comes within the principle embraced in the foregoing resolutions; and that the seizare aud deteution of the negroes on board by the local authority of the Island, ‘was an act in violation of the laws of nations, and highly unjust to our own citizens, to whom they be- Such was the condition in which the administration | of Mr Van Buren left there outrageous cases, They never were brought to the notice of the public, and the inciple first contended for was surrende aad it maintained by Great Britain in the case of the En- terprise, acquiesced in; and, of course, all claims of compensation on the part of the owners rendered hope- leer, The following admivistration had nothing to stand on, but my resolutions and the vote of the Senate in their or. the ill fate sacrificed, it was not by me. Their ca hepeless by the preceding administration with whieh Mr. Benton intimately associated, and in which he acquiesced; for he never raised bis volce in their favor An the long period of ten years, during all which time hile voice might have been potential. | turm now to explain what war done in reierence to this subject by the negotiation, which ended in the Arhburton treaty, fand how much the South, which he accuses ine ae hay- fing abandoned. bar geived by it. For that purp ineert extract from ty «peech on the treaty “Such was the state of the facts, when the neg s commenced in reference to remains now to be shown in what state it them. In the first place, the broad prineipl Jaw of nations, on which I p esolutions, have been clearly # Vindicated. in the very able levior of the See ve, which bas strengthened our cause not a i ‘Well from its intrinsic merit, as the quarter from whieh iteowes. Inthe next place, we have @cgnition ot the principles f answerot Lord As followed by “an ex shail be given to the go- colonies. on the sout! to execute their « With careful attention to the wishes of their govern. Mest to maintain good neighborhood aud that there Gball be no officious interference wih \mertcan ws fels driven by socident or viol ener into thete ports The la nd duties of hospitality shatl be executed * This pledge was accepted by our exeoutive, accom panied by the express declaration of the President. reugh the Secretary of Sta places hie on those prinei ples of toh had boon lias stated in the note of the Seer: Here we have whielr th ry of State ositive acknowledgment of the ministration of Mr Van Buren @ pledge that noc “ aken to prevent simiiar oo re and the Inxs and duties of he gated. Now, when | add, that all this, thas far, hae Deen faithfully exeeuted, | may assert with teach, that fou gain muck far more than | hud hoped. considering state in whion the subject had been left by the pre ceding edu inittration b for the ehargs that Thad abandoned you on t » and the as« tion of Colonel Benton that h a stood by “ the ill- fated owners” | J have now repelledall the charges jutended to shake | confid i py fidelity tu you Mort vital of all subjects to the that they all rest either on #iatem false, or Conclusions that ar or ineovolurive hae involved hime contradiction. ineu reference to ah | have # that entirely erro I have alo shown, thas Col. 6 if at every step. in faixe statements, leteney amd absurdities | will not ray, that he made bis charges knowing them tobe | Falge; for that would brand hiv base eatumuiator ught to hays known too mu, the dis- ¢ passed over all that was dircoted against mo Pereonaliy, and not intended to impeach my flielity | rational or irrational. property everywhere and ef every kind, is subject to | | seription, but to protect the te you and your cause; because it did not fall within the reasons which induced me to notice him at all. [ have also passed over the torrent of abuse be has pours ed out against me; notonly for the reason, bit bes cause | deem it beneath my notices He doubtless thinks differently, and it as the finest portion of his speech ; he has used expressions which roe, Orr 4 indfeate that he anticipates it will raise to the level of the Athenian orator, for indignant denunciation, He mistakes his fate. He will be fortunate should he escape sinking to the level of Thersites. He reems not to apprehend that the difference is wide between the indignant eloquence of patriotism and truth and scurrilous defamation. [also his attack on the Southern address; because it has been too generally read, and isto well und stood by you, for him todo any mischief by assailing it. The wonder is, that be should venture to make aa attack in open daylight. ‘The remote twilight region of the past, lying between truth and fiction, best suits his taste and genius. Parsing ail these by, I am brought to where he throws off his disguise, and wuters the camp of the enemy, and openly proclaiming himself an abolitionist, endorses all their doctrines, and steps forth as their champion. In that character, he arsumes a dictatorial air, and pro- neunces that it is absurd to deny the power of Congress to legislate 9s it pleases, on the subject of slavery inthe terrirories; that it has exercised the power from the foundation without beg questioned, uutil | introduc: ed my resolutions; that siavery is local in its charac- ter, that It must be created by law. aud cannot be car- ried an inch beyond the limits of (ne State that enacted it; that slaves cannot be curried into New Mexico or California, because the Mexican laws abolished flavery there, and are still im ferce and concludes that it is @ mere abstract question of no importance because the people there and especially the foreigners, are opposed to it, and will not permit you to emigrate into the terri- tory with your slaves. ido not'propose to enter into a formal competition of agsertions so Ostentatiously pronsunced, It is not ne~ cessary. ‘They were the Fame that were put forth and relied’on by thore oppored to you in the diseussio ‘on territorial bill, during the session pre and whieh were then fully met and refu me ard others who took your side of the question, What | now propose 1s a very summary and brief notice of these several assertions I begin with that which ngserts that Congress has | the power to do as it pleases upoa the subjeet of slavery in the territories, I deny the assertion, and maintain that Congress has no sue elsewhere. or over eny other subject grees has any nbsolute powers whatever; or that it has any of any description, except suc are specifically delegated, or that are necessary and proper to earry them into execution. I maintain, that all its powers are delegated and trust powers, aud not positive and absolute, and that all of the latter description belong exclusively tothe people of the several States in their sovereign character, I also hold, that Congress ia but their representative and trastee, and that in carry- ing inte execution its powers, it cannot rightfully ex- ercise any inconsistent with the nature end object of the trust, or with the ebuacter of the party who created the trust, and for whose bonetit it was created, power over slavery there or I deny that Con. I finally hold, that instead of having the absolute yO" over the territories, of doing as it ongrers is restrained by all these limitati its power toexelude you from emigratin, with your slaves into them, catinot be matotained without deay- ing that ours is a government of which States and not individuals are the constituents, and that Cougress holds its powers as delegated and trust powers, Nor can it be maintained, without assuming that ours is a consoliduted government, and holds Its powers abso- lutely in its own sovercign right of doing as it pl lalso deny the truth of next assertion, t has exercised the power over the territories pleased, without being questioned, until | introduced my resolutions. | maiutain, on the contrary, that such power never was exercised by Congress, until he and his associates passed the Oregon territorial bill. ‘That was the first bill containing the Pele peas, that ever passed, as has been stated—passed solely to assert the absolute right of doing as it pleases. All others, including the ordinances of 1787, were passed as compromises which waived the question of power, as has been frequently shown. Nor is his assertion moro | correct, that the power never was questioned, until the introduction of my resolations. It was questioned from the start, beginning with the ordinance of 1787 Mr. Madison pronounced that it was adopted witho: ashadow of mght. Since then, it has been acquie: in not as aright, but esa compromise, until the N. refused all compromise, and forced the South to stand on its rights, where it should have stood from the fest. ‘he next assertion, that slavery is local in its cha- racter. that it must be enacted by law, and cannot bo carried an inch beyond the limits of the State that enacted it, is equally uumaintainable, It is cloar that in making it, he intended to afirm, that in these res- pects, prop ground from every other description of property I deny the fact, and maintain that there is no di tlaction between it and other property, in that re spect express it more specitically—to havea positive enact- ment for its origin, than property in land or anything else, The relation of master and slave was one of the first aud most universal forms in which property ex- isted. Itisso ancient, that there is no record of its origin. It is probably more aneient than separate and d'stinct property in lands, aud quite as easily defended on abstract principles. So far Tom being created b, positive enactment, | know of no instance in which it was, or to express it more accurately, in which it had its origin in acts of legislatures. It is always older than the laws which undertake to regulate it, and such is the case with slavery, as it exists with us, They were for the mest part slaves in Africa -they wero Dought as slaves, brought here as ‘slaves, sold here as tlaves, and held as slaves, long before any enactment made them slaves. | even doubt whether there is single State in the South, that even enacted them to be slaver, There are hundreds of acts that recognize and regulate them as such, but none, | apprehend. that undertake to create them slaves. Master and slaves are constantly regarded as pre-existing relation ‘e local in its character than other pre in reference to everything, including property of every kind. are local, id cannot go an ineh beyond the limits to which the authority of the country extunds In caso of property of every description, if it panes beyond the authority of the country where it is, into another, where the same description of things are regarded as preperty, it | continues to be vo there, but becomes subject to the laws and regulations of tbo placa im reference to such property. But, if it be protibited as property, in the eruntry into whieh tt passes it ceases to bi uoless it bas been forced in, ui laced it under the protection of interm Thus, one und the same principle applies in this respect to all property; in things animate or imanimat ‘There can be no exceptio as the control of the authority of the ceuntry. Thus fer, IT hold that there can be no reasonable doubt. Nor ean there be any that the same principle applies between the several States in our system of govern ment. Slaves, or any other property carried iato a State where it is also property, continues still to bo 99; but if into one whore it is prohibited, it ceases to bo property, Th d, too, by It iy also ade mitted “by wil, that the general government cannot overrule the laws of @ State, aa to what shall or shall not be property, within the limite of ite authority. The only question, then, is, what is the power of the general —- where ite authority extends beyoud the imits of the authority of the States, regarded in theie reparate and individual character! or. to make it more #pecitic, can it determine what sball or shall not be property in rity éxtends. to make it # territories? iy! or, ry in the providing that any negro d in the territories of the United States be liable to be seized and treated never may choose to do so? According doctrine that Congress may Leei: | as it pleases. upon the subject of slavery ta the territo- | ries, it would have the power; but (doubt whether there i another fndividual who weuld agree with him, But, if it bas not the power to establish slavery in the territories, how can it have the power te abotish it? ‘The one ts the counterpart of the other; and where ia ‘the provision of the constitution to be found whieh authorises the o d forbids the other? 11 @ high seas; for the applies to the territories equally applies to them. ant to all places to whieh the authority of the genera! eo- Vornment eatends, beyond the States regarded sepa- rately , itis, leed, a great misconeeption of the character and ovjeet of Lhe general gevernment, te uy it bas the power either tu establieh or abolish slavery, or her property, where ite authority extends be- yond the limite of the States its authority is but the united aud joint the several Stater, conferred upon it by a dopted on mutual agreement, b. ofeneh State. in like manner ia adopted its own separate conatitation, wit exception, that one war on mutoal agreement of all the States its, then. tn fact, the constitution of each State, as much ao as its own reparate constitution, and ix only the consticution of all the States, becmuse it is that of each, Ae the titution toads the general government, that too im Like moe the single without, and the other | only the of ened. and for the nite authority, then. {* but the united and eewmon authority of the several States, delegated by each to be exercised for the mutual benefitofrach andall and for the greater security of the tights and intercete ofeach end all, It Was tor that purpose the States united ta a federnl Union, and adopted a common evasticution and gyverament. With the sawe view, they conferred upon the gororn meut whatever power it bas of regulating and protect. eppertwined to theire xterior reintions among ad with the rvat of brief, with th thority and power to p prowete the interest of ewah, by their walted power, Sueh ie clearly the character aud ob ent of the gene went, and of the authority and power eon- In ite power and authority, having fur ice cl the more pertoet p tion aod prom stion of safety wri rights of ereh all. it ie bound to protect. by their u A power, the enfety, the rights the property. and interests of the © the wherever yextonda, That «a fur cont r power and fod it it falle to full Came tt fale to for whieh iL wae created. It fe eno: that it ie the at. to tor property ot a citizen of ' one cfth Co make it tte duty to proieet it, when- ever ite within the sphere of ite auttrerity whether in the territories. of on the hich seas, or any where else Ite power avd authority were eouferred on it not to establieh or to abolien property, of rights of any de To establi niiehy Delovgs to the States, in th eity— the eapneity in wh ator pervers to use them to extablish of aby property of the citizens of te ye territories All U vwer it hes Fpeet.is to resognise as property thete whatever is ro ecgnised as such by the authority of any one of the Bates, ite own being but the united authority of each And all ct the States, and to adopt eueh laws for its regulation and protection as the slate of the ease may rty in slaves stands on very different | It no more requires to beenacted by law. or—to | ire; nor is there the htest danger that pe rabaPe aa shee See pete tapas tl the re- all the Mexican lew abolishing slavery, is still in force in New Mexico and California, when not 4 particle of its authority or sovereignty remains in either. Their conquest by us, ‘and the treaty that followed, extinguished the whole, and with itannulled all her laws agpueanle to them, except those Pg | to such rights of property and re- lations between individuals, as may be necessary to revert anarchy; aud even these are continued only by sufferauce aud om the implied authority of the con- quering country,and not the authority of the conquered, nd only from the necessity of the case, Her lay lishing slavery, are not braced ia the exception; ud if it were, it would be taken out of it. as the as- sent of Congress could not be implied to continue & Jaw which it had no right to establinh, But stfll higher ground may be taken, The moment the territory became ours, the constitution passes over and covers the whole with ail its provisions, which, from their nature, ure applicabie to territories, carrying with it, the joint sovereignty and authority of each and allthe States of the Union, aad sweeping away every Mexican law incompatible with the rights, Pro- perty, and relations belonging to the citizens of the nited States, without regard to what State they be- Jong, or whether it be situate? in the northeru or the southern section of the Union, The citizens of all have equal rights of protection in their property, relations, and person, in the common territories of each and all the States. The same power that swept away all the laws of Mexieo, which made the Catholic religion the exclusive religion of the country, sad which letin the religion of all denominations; which swept away all the laws prohibiting the introduction of properiy of almost every deseription—some abso- lutely, and others under the condition of paying daties, and letting them in duty free until otherwise provided for, swept that whieh abolished slavery, avd let in pr: aay, in slaves. No distinetionean be made be- iween it and any other description of property or thing, consistently with the censtitution, aad the equal rights of the several States of the Union, and their citizens But we ure told by Col Benton that the question has Decome a mere abstraction, of vv importancs; that few have gone into either territocy except citizens of the North and foreigners, and that they are all opposed to us, Whatinsult! What! taunt us by telling as we cannot go into them. becas foreigners and others, who have been let in freely, and we kept out, by the threat of confiscating our property by himself and his associates, have become sufitciently numerous to keep us out, without the intervention of Congress to aid them? He knew that“ property is timid,” and could be kept out by threats; and that to keep us out for @ short time was one of the ways to exclude us ultimate- ly. What a comment on the equity and justice of the ‘overnment, that we, who have so freely spent our lood and treasure to’ conquer the country. should be excluded from all its benetits, while it is Jeft open for the use and enjoyment of all that rabble of foreigners which he cuumerates, with such zest, as the efficient | Meuns of our exclusion! Is there another instance of such an outrage to be found in the history of any other government that ever existed ? His avowal of the doctrines of the abolitionists will have an effect he little suspected, when he made it. It furnishes awple evidence to show that he used decep- | tion iu assigning his reasons for declining to obey the in- struction of his Legislature. 1t will be remembered. ho offered as his reasons that their resolutions mstracs- ing him were borrowed from mine, aad that mine were iutroduced for dicunion purposes, and that there was no difference betweep them, exeept that mine aimed directly at disunion, and theirs ultimately at the same thing. He added, in effect, that hia devotion to the Union would not permit him to vote for resolutions so deeply tainted with disunion, That was at the com- mencement of hisspeech. We now have in its conclu- tion conclusive evidence from himself, that all this was & mere fetch—astiagem to conceal his real motive, for declining to obey them. His real motive, as it DoW appears, Was that be could not vote fur them under eny circumstances; for how could an abolitionist, as he vowed himself to be, possibly obey resolutions; whieh re utterly at variance with their doctrines! To obey | would have involved him in palpable coutradietion, so | | Buch so, that it coald not fail to prostrate and toever- | jm with shame invulaerable. This he saw, and alternative left bat to resign or disobey He determined in favor of the latter; but this of itself | did not relieve him of his dilemma He knew weil that | | it would defeat his object to come out boldly, and say | that he had abjured his former creed aud adopted that of the abolitionists And hence, be was forced to adopt | some other expedient; and for that purpose, adopted the miserable pretext of slanderourly chargiag me and my resolutions, and his own Legisiature aad thei lutions, with disunion, and of assigning that as his riason for not obeying ‘them, when he knew that his position made it impossible for him to obey them, But there are not the only resolutions adopted by the Le- gitlature of bis State to instruct him. The previous Legislature adopted two others, of which he says that they truly express ths sense of tho State, and that he cbeyed them, not only in their letter, but spirit, They are in the following words: * Resolved, That the peace, permanency and welfare ot our National Union depend upon a titict adherence to the letter and spirit of the 8th section of the act of | Congress ot the United States, entitled authorire the people of the Missouri territo: a constitution and State government for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with | the original Sintes, and,to prohibit slavery in certain territories,’—Approved March 6th, 1820." “ Resolved, That our Senators in the Congress of the United States are hereby inetructed, and our repre. sentatives requested, to vote in accordance with the provisions and the spirit of the said Sth svetion of the faid act, in all the questions which may come before them in relation to the organization of new territories out ef the territory néw belonging to the | United States, or which hereafter may be acquired, | either by purehase, by treaty, or by conquest.’ | Itis hat the Sth section to which uri compromtse, whieh 20 as the dividing line between the laveholding and non-slaveholding States, drawn be- | tween the western boundary of the State of Missouri | and the western boundary of Louisiana. ‘These reso- lotions he says he obeyed, im letter aud spirit, fact he flagrantly violated them, by his yo! Oregon territorial bill, prohibiting without any compromise a rt the principle of the unlimited power of Con- gress over the terricories, and in opon defiance ot all compromise. He calis that bill his proiveo, aad well he may, for he passed it whon it was in his power to defeat it, A very few remarks will suffice to show that 1 bave not expressed myself etronger than trath Wworranta ‘Lhe fret resolution asserts “that the peace, harmo- ny, and welfare of our natioual Unien depends upon @ stnet adherence to the letter and epirit of the Missouri compromise, and the last fnstructs their Senators and Representatives to vote in accordance with its provi- rit, in all questions which may come up be- fore them in relation to the organization of new terri- | tories or States, out of territories now belonging to the United States, or which hereafter may be acquired’ | No instruction could be more full or explicit, or astiga stronger motives for obeying them, expecially to one Protesing so great a devotion to the Union, “There 4 no mistaking the meaning, He is instructed to vote for all bills in reference to the territories which may con- form to the letter and epirit of the Missouri compro- mise, and against ail that do not; that is, to vote for all that extend the line westward from i rminus on the western boundary of Texas—for that is ite let to reeure to the South that portion of the territ! on the southern side of the line, as effectually compromise did in fact, all the territory which lay on its southern side, and to vote against nif bills that did not; for that is meant by iteepirit, There was good rea- n to put im “epirit,”’ for it was understood thea that the doctrine began to be breached; that the laws of Mexico abolishing slavery would continue in force, un- lere they were repenied, if not prevented by rome effec. tual guard. Ne additional remarks can make his diso- bedlenee more lear. now stands mmned for disobeying the ins ot bis Legislature, which he himeeif pi which he does not even pretend to charge with I notice in Ube progress of this communication, that Col Bent ineed tu citude to confound the Missourt compromise, and al 4 af the kind, with the Wilmot provito I attribute it, im part, ton desire to rercon himeelf from the odium of having voted for the Wilmot provito by confounding it with other measures, that were far leas offensive; bat | said that there was another more powerful reason, which d be explained in the sequel. ‘That reason was to shelter himeeif, it possible, against the charge of lating Instructions, whieb he ack exception. If he could possibly « four! compromise the Witwne teal. n@ he would have his constituents belie obey the one would be to obey the other But | have shown that was imporsible, and thus he is left, without the possibility of weaping the charge of disobeying them, With a few additional remarks, | shall close this long communication, Col. Benton assigns devotion to the Union as hia mo tive for taking the course he has; avd by implieation, charges your's a« being the side of disnnion, and hi nd the abolitionists’ that of w ple of all who bave betray Fy you, It is Fo common, th we thet A strong protersion of attachment come ni tothe Un d condemnation of what is called the Viclenee and witreism of the South, aecompanied by a Tolley of ehare of me, and the absence of ali censure or nérnna'ion of your asailante, are ceriain signs that he who utters them ix ready to setae the rst opportu- niiy to desert yeur cause, ‘Te there designs may be added another—an appeal to that portion of the farewell address of the fatty . Benton, under ciroan plication apply to yoa, and I respond to every word tan not to thowe who aseall ye it reneaing, with a hearey amen. [tis inded, deeply tobe deplored, that parties should be designated by tecrraphical poltion, and [regard whatever party or Indivivvel may bave cansed it, as desorving of pubtte repre But to avoid geographical desigaation of partion, it fe indispensable thas each section of the Union ehevtd reapret the rights of the others, aod | eerefully abstain from viomting them. Unless that is it —ngwreeston will the part of thous wig eutangered ional resistances Gone Mt whl be impossible te a | and * epple re rights to, lend to resistance trampled pon a si aeranitem ene side. aw en the other, eannot fail Ate seetiowal desien tien ef partier, ‘the blame and reapsneh lity right. fully fale on the seetion that agile, and mot that which repels meennite, Whieb that is in the present cate sdmits of to dovbt, ‘dhe South has heen on the Gefemive throughont, and borne indigaities and en- eroneh ments om ite rights wud safety with a patience neerampled; and yet ehe ts barely charged with dis- p and the North jauded a its advocate We learn to dleregar h unfounded aud an) nantly do duty. ty eave both th if it ean be doas conietently e thich severed the wnion between th aed the mother ecuntry. Me was ardeatly at- | twehed to that Unton, strogeled hard to preserve it | by resisting the enercaehments of parliament on the | vetabliahed rights and privileges ofthe solonter, | but the folly and infatuation of parliament, aud the | and the menicipal authorities in ordering out the Semecbionton ct Settenconengenmeires rendered ‘Ms efforts, and those of the of his day avail ‘The world knows the consequence My sin- cere prayer ie, that those who are encroaching on our rights—righte ersential to our safety. more - ly gusraptied than those of the colonies—may, as well ‘their sakes as eurs, protit by the e: . JOHN v, LHOUN. Font Win, July 6th, 1849, NEW YORK HERALD. florthwest Corner of Fulton and Nassau ste ner JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, wee ne RALD—Three editions, 2 eente per copy; TE DAILY HEH MORNING EDITION we published vee e’clock, A. 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We me 1 dusertion must be a by the name and adress of the writer; not ne: publication, but as a yuarantee of his cannot return rejected communication: AMUSEMENTS THIS EVBNLN NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham square.—Marreo Far~ conk—Mintines’s Houmway—Jonn Dewss—New Youu as irl BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street.—Loxvow As- SURANCE, MECHANICS’ HALL, Broadway, near Broome.—Curis~ ey's MinsTReLs. CASTLE GARDEN—Pxomenape Concent—-Frencn Orrna. — CHINESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Broadway.—Miss Va- tantini's Sorkee Mv sicaL : casnnen MUSEUM, 539 Broadway.—From 9 A. M. to10 New York, Saturday, July 21, 1849. ARRIVAL oF THE STEAMSHIP CALEDONIA. One Week Later from Europe. It was announced to us at noon yesterday, that our overland express from Halifax had arrived at St. John, N.B., with the news of the arrival of the steamship Caledonia at the former place. Soon after, a thunder shower came up, and the operations on the line between this city and Bos- ton, ceased, owing probably to the mcreased amount of atmoepheric electricity. To the hour of sending our forms to press, the line remained out of order. The news may be expected early this morning. We chall publish it in a second edition, or in an Extra Herald, immediately after it reaches us. ‘The Caledonia left Liverpool on Saturday, the 7th inst. Mr, Cathoun’s Address to the Southern - States. ‘We publish to-day, at length, a highly important paper, in the present condition ef the country—the address of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, to the Southern States, being also a vindication of him- self fromthe aspersions cast upon him by Colonel Benton, in the speeches which he has recently de- liveredg in Missouri. This important paper will be read throughout the whole country. It1s writ- ten with great talent and ability, and presents all those points of interest which will demand the attention of the South, and the friends of the Union throughout the whole country. But for some gross mismanagement in the Post Office department, both at Washington and at Augusta, we would have been enabled to publish this document several days since. The copy in- tended for this establishment was mailed at Pendle- ton, S.C., on the 7th of July. It was addressed ina most legible hand, to this office,but, by some extra- ordinary bungling, we not receive it till yester- day. We find the following endorsement upon 1-— Postmark—“ Pendleton, 8. C., July 7.” On the reverse side :— “ Missent te Washington; recelyed from Washing- ton this morning, at this office, “Aurarp Hvoer, P.M. “ Charleston, July 1849.” From this it will be seen that, by the bungling of the Post Office department at Washington, this important paper has been travelling nearly three weeks, backwards and forwards, between Charles- ton and Washington, instead of coming directly to | this city, aecording to the plainly written direction | upon it. This is not the only blunder that has been | committed recently by the Post Office department, | under its present management. We have much to say on this point at a future day. Unless Mr. Collamer, the Postmaster General, | manages his department with more skill than he has exhibited during the last few months, hia boast | of reform is a mockery, and his numerous removals | an outrage. Execution or Woop—Connuct or Governor Fisn.—Wood, the Irishman, was executed yester- | day, in pursuance of the law and of his sentence, an account of which will be found in another part | of this paper. We entertained the belief, up to | the moment of his execution, that a commutation | of his ceutence would yet arrive from the Gover- | nor, but it appears his Excellency thought differ- | ently, and this white man and Irishman, who took the life of his own wife by poison, has expiated hi crime eecording to the judgment of the tribunals’! | Parks, has taken upon himeeif the responsibility to do, and laws of the country. We do not deplore this action, because we be- | lieve, from the be:tom of our heart, that if laws ex- ist, they ovght to be put in execution, according to their tenor nd import. But while we declare this to be our opinion, we are not quite prepared to juetify the conduet of the Governor in making a difference between Wood, a white Irishman, and Jones, a black Atrican, each of whom were found | guilty of an offence of equal enormity, and subject to the exme puniebment. We are unable to ac- count forthe motives which may have mfloenced the Governor, or to trace the causes which may have led to his determisation. His conduct im these two cares is palpably inconsistent and «b- surd. No reesenings, no apologies, no explana- tions cam prevent an independent mind from thus thinking. A great effort was made in some benevolent quartere, to save the lives of both these culprits ‘They eweceeded in the black man’s case, but failed in the white one A vast quantity of benevolence | has also been thrown ont in favor of all sorts of criminals acd felons; and the punishment of death under the law, has been etigmatised as bloody, dix | gracefel, villanous, and uncivilized. It is singular enovgh that eome of theee denunciations come from the seme quarter, and origmate in the eeme hearts, which justified the Mayor of this city military, awd shooting down, in cold blood, twenty- | five of their fellow-citizens, because of a quarrel | between two pley-ectors, and of a dispute sprang | up on thet point between the codfish aristocracy of | Astor Ploce and the codfieh democracy of the | Lowery. In point ef propriety, morality, and justice, the conduet of the Chief Magistrate of this city, on the ene cecasion, ie about of a piece with that of the Chief Magistrate of the State, on the other | occasion. Governor Fish has expended all his sympathy and exhausted all his intellect in the e of Jones, the black mon, who was found guilty of areons therefore, he had none left in his | heart, to bring wp in the cave of Wood, the unforta- ‘The African race is rieing in the nate Lrishman, world. thine oF tie Sreausnir Wasiiverox.—The United Statea mail steamehip Was! ton, Capt. Floyd, tock her departure yesterday, at noon, for Southampton and Bremen. A list of her passen- gers will be foand in another columa. | dress, ex Cart. McCerren anv THe Witp Irisu Grat.— This singular ease of love and abduction has been before the megistrate three or four days, during the last week. The evidence recently taken, coming from the boatswain of the ship and one or two others, gives rather a new complextion to the matter, an? exhibits the two Irish girls in anything but a decent light. According to this evidence, of which there ap- pears to be more doubt than of the other evidence by the other witnesses, they conducted themselves during the voyage in any way but a becoming manner. The sympathy therefore in their favor and against Captain McCerren is oozimg away, and probably will pass away from the public mind at the end of the week ; it certainly will not last as long as the cholera. According to the testimony, the conduct of the Misses Dickson during the pas- sage, was such as no man could call reputable. Without being criminal, it certainly bordered close upon that region, and is quite enough to take from themany right or ttle to that sympathy which hitherto they have received from the community and the Irish Society. We are sorry that it is so ; but soitis, and there isnohelp for it. Yet, while we think in this case, that* these two wild Irish girl, have lost the right to mdoh sympathy in their favor, there is just as little warrant for feeling or pity at the conduct of Captain MeCe He was a merried man, occupied a respectable position in society, had a family, and ought to have exhibited different traits of conduct in the whole matter, than what unfortunately have been displayed to the public in the evidence. Now that the affairhas been sufficiently investi- gated, so as to ascertain the disreputable conduct of all parties, and that neither of them, whether it be the Irish girls or the captain, are entitled to much sympathy on the part of the public, we trust that the Police Justice will do what is strict- ly legal in the case, and dismiss the whole busi- ness from notice hereafter. Turn them out. INTERESTING FRoM Soutu Amenica.—By the ar- rival of the bark Agnes, Captain Gerard, in a very short passage from Rio Janeiro, we have received our files of the Jornal do Comercio to the 12th ult. A meeting of shipmasters and others had been held at Rio Janeiro, at which resolutions were passed, condemning the conduct of the U. S. Consul, in removing masters of vessels and ap- pomting others in their places, a full account of which will be found below. A letter received by the Agnes confirms the re- port we published a few days since, in relation to the loss of some of the passengers of the bark Hebe, of Baltimore, in the mouth of the Straits of Magellan, though there was a strong probability of their having gone ashore at the east end of the Bay. The letter states that the first mate, three of her crew, and all of her passengers were in the boat. The following persons were passengers in the Hebe :— A. H. Taylor, Va ; J. R, Cass, Baltimore; P. Dorsey, Baltimore Co.; John Hill, Old Point, Va; Lawrence Brook, do ; Wim. G. Larsh, Baltimore; Jas. Beeman, do. From Montevideo accounts had been received at Rio to the 28th May. On the 24h, at 3 P. M., the armistice (which our readers will remember was agreed upon pending the decision of the re- ferred treaty) com: enced, and both the besieged citizens in Montevideo and their besiegers_re- frained from hostilities. This armistice 13 to con- tinue for six months, we believe. The frigate Erigone, which carried the copies of the con- fidential treaty for approval by the French govern- ment, sailed for Brest on the 23th May. On the same day General Melchoir Pacheco, Charge d’Affaires from the Montevidean governmeat to the republic of France, sailed for Marseilles. The Erigone would soon be followed by the steamers Chimere and Grondeur, also the brig Tactique, all of the French navy. The French Admiral, taking advantage of the suspension of hostilities, was sending home to France all the men of war whose terms of service had expired. All the letters we have seen, says the Jornal do Comercio, agree in | stating that every day the impression was grewing stronger that the French government would not approve of the treaties of Predour, because they were incontestably worse than the bases of the Hoed treaties modified. From Buenos Ayres the accounts were to the 26th May. On the 24th, the anniversary of the Queen of England’s birthday, a salute ot twenty- one guns was fired from the fort. The day fol- lowing, which was the anniversary of the revo- lution of Buenos Ayres, the English war steamer Harpy saluted with an equal number of guns. Up to the 26th nothing had been done as to the re- ception of Mr Hood (we presame the Rio editor | means Mr. Southern—Transl. Herald) in his cha- racter of British Consul. Rio De Jaxeino, Brazil, June 6, 1849, Tursvant to en adjournment of @ meeting of Ameri- TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. U.S. Consul at Messina, Wa:minetor, July 20, 1849, I learn that Mr. A. Hamilton Clements, of George- town, D.C., will be appointed to the Consulship at Messina, in the Kingtom of the Two Sicilies. Mr. Clements is admirably qualified for the post, and his appointment would give general satisfaction. Stationery for the Executive Departments. Wasnineron, July 20—P. M. Messrs. Wheeler & Co, of the city of New York, have obtained the contracts for furnishing all the sta- tionery required by the Exccutive Departments, ex- cepting that of the Interior, for which Mr, Baily, of Washington, claims to be the lowest bidder. The rates at which the contracts have been taken are said to be ruinously lew. Death of Hon, Harmanus Bleecker. Auwaxr, July 20, 1849, The Hon. Harmanus Bleecker, one of our most esteemed citizens, died last night. He was formerly a member of Congress, and also U. 8. Chargé des Affaires atthe Hague. Death of the Hon, Ebenezer Mack. Irnaca, July 19-6 P. M. The Hen. Ebenezer Mack, of this towa, died at his residence at 6 A. M., this morning, of consumption. The Late Robbery at Washington. Wasminorox, July 20, 1849. No clue has yet been obtained, leading to the detec- tion of the perpetrators of the robbery at the city post- office, although the poljee are actively on the lookout, Ex tion of 4 Murderer. Baurimonn, July 20, 1849. Conrad Vintner, who was convicted ot the murder of Mrs Cooper, was hung at half-past 12 o'clock to-day. ‘The unfortunate culprit behaved firmly throughout the terrible scene. On the gallows he made a speech, in which he confessed having committed the dreadful deed, for which he had forfeited his life to the la’ Accident In Philadelphia—Custom House * Appointments—The Weather. Puravenrisa, July 20, 1849, Mr, Frederick Hoffner, a respectable tavern keeper, in the Northern Liberties, was accidentally knocked overboard from a yacht, last night, and drowned. He leaves a wife and several children, Mr. Wallace, editor of the Daily Sun, has been ap- pointed Inspector of Customs, He still continues to speak to poor people, The weather, in the morning, was excessively warm; but about noon a heavy shower came up, and the tem- perature went down several degrees, Destructive fire at Cranston, R. 1. Bostox, July 20, 1849. The extensive bleaching works at Cranston, R, I., bo- longing to Mr. W. M. Cooke, was destroyed by fire on Thursday last. The loss is not far short of $20,000. ‘There was an insurance on the property amounting to $7,000, Fire in Baltimore, Bazarmonr, July 20, 1849, The wool store of Mr. James Baques was destroyed dy fire thisggorning. It was insured for $3.000 in the Fircmen’s, and for $2,000 ta the Aartford offices, Movements n the Coal Trade, Prrvaveuriya, July 20, 1849. The whele amount of coal transported on the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad, for the week ending yesterday, was 33.706 tons; and the amount shipped by capal, on the Schuylkill Navigation, during the same time, was 11,772 tens, The Weather in the Country, Bixcuaston, July 19—6 P, M. The thermometer here at 12 M., stood at 90, andat 4 P.M., $2. Trnaca, July 19—6 P.M. The weather to-day bas been pleasaut. The thermo- meter at noon £@. Dansvittn, July 19—7 P.M. ‘The thermometer at 12 M. to-day reached 90; at 6P. M. it stood at 83, Warrnvoe, July 19—6 P.M. At noon to day the mercury rese to 90—weather fine. Burrato, July 19~6 P.M. ‘The weather is quite pleasant, though rather warm. The thermometer at 12 M. 00. Trirorarn Ovrice, New York, July 20—9 P.M. The following is a summary of the latest telegraphic reports in regard to the weather on the New York and Erie Telegraph line, stretching over the southern tier of Counties to the town of Fredonia—some 400 miles’: Fredonia reported at 2 3¢ ® fine rein of two hours duration, since whem atmorpherie electricity has interrupted communication with them. Ithaca has bed no rain up to half past 8 P.M., but bad romelightning. Binghemton hat bad tweshowers, Nothunder, but fonsiderable lightning, accompanied with wind. At 12 o'clock the thermometer stood at $6, and at 6 P. M., 80. At Montrore, Pa., there has been some thunder and Lightning, unaccompanied by rain, ean shipmeasters, (( aptain Lioyd Slemmer, inthe chair) called to Investigate the right of an American Consal to discharge an American shipmaster from his com- | mand on eeperie evidence, without any hearing on the | part cf raid shipmaeter, when the lawa of our country | particularly exprees that in all civil and criminal pro- | outions, the accused has aright to be heard by him. | jena the nature and cause of it hint—to meet witnenses face to hieh the American Consul of this port, Gorham in diceLarging Captain William Long, and other mas- ters, as expreseed to him in the following note : Consulate of the Umited States, ? Tio De Jannimo, June 6, 1849. § Sir-.I bave removed you from the cemmand of the | schooner Sacramento, in compliance with phe writte request of Ubaries Stewart, aud Mr. Roo, th agent of the versel. I likewise inform you that Iam not in possession of | the reasons which induced him to make paid request, Rerpeettuily, GORHAM PARKS, U. 8, Consal. To Carr. Lono, late master sehr. Sacramento. Rerolved, That such preeeedings are arbitrary, cruel fend unjust contrary to the constitution and jaws of | the Un St Resolved, That we, therefore, masters present, do deem it our right and privilege to reprene! h pro- credings to the Exeeutive department of our govern- murnt. Hesolved, That in a country where we have no ro- pt in and through the Consul, a mam ought | to be appotn ted whois governed by justice and tempe- rance in ail thin Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings be rent | t to the Hon. Secretary of State, the lion. Reverdy John. | fon, Attorney General, and a copy to the public jour. At Honesdale, Pa., it was reported there had been a shower, about two o'clock, P. M., the particulars of whieh we have not received. At Newburgh, a rain storm commenced at a quarter past four P.M., which continued an hourand a half, aecompanied by thunder and lightning. The thermo. moter stood at S4 degrees, at ten o'clock A.M.; and 00 degrees at half-past three o'clock, P.M. At Coldepring it commenced raining at 434 o'cloek P.M., and itcontinued to fall very heavily for fifteen minutes. At 5 P.M. another shower, eecompanied with thunder and lightning, ocecurred, which lasted about ten minutes, Peekskill was vieited by similar showers to those which fell at Cold Spring, and which were also accem- panied with thunder and lightning. Specie by the Steamer Canada, ° Bosrox, July 19, 1849. We are informed that Madame Weiss, guardian of the Viennoise Children, who sailed for Europe in the steamer Canada, on Wednesday, took with her $54,000 in specie. c marr. Jul 1849. Flonr—The demand is mostly limited to pty: nde, ion, for which moderate sales have been $625 per bbl. Grain—There ix no particular to notice in any description. Bacon—We no- les of sides at 5 4c. and hamsat Tie. Whis- ke: — advanced. Sales have been made at 17 ‘ec. jon. Prrapenenra, July 20, 1840. nals In the United States for publi jon; dina ae Coneul refuses any raticfaction or hear. ng. vO Copy be went him, T, President, master of Ar: the bark Agues, of New York; Joseph R. Curtis, b A.G, Hilt, North Yarmouth; Timothy Pratt, bark Ab- by Baker; William W. Cator, bark Ratobow, Balti- nore; Silas D. Warhburn, brig Snow, Bostow; Justice Wright Richardson, rehooner General Worth; Wil- liam Long. late master of Sacramento, W. R. Turner; Jobn Girdier. bark Maeeppa ; Edward Howard, Row Famurl K. Appleton, Jolin Morris, brig J. Morga: Baudre; T A. Forryth, Cainila;' Joseph MRo- +, Witensmet, Me. ; JR. Gagh, brig Zoe, of Balti. | more; Kicbard J, Regers. sehr W illamantic, N London | The Inspections of flour and meal. during the week | ending at noon to-day, were as follows: —10 536 barrele of flour; 100 half barrels do ; 1,840 barrels rye flou 95 corn meal; 10 half barrels do. TI flour market is quiet, and holders arc firm. $476 is asked for good parcels, Sales were mate of about $00 barrels of old stock, Rye flour is fru, at $2 per barrel, Corn meal Hunited reqnest, at $275 per barrel. Wheat is in good demand, and prices are well sustained. Corn is scarce and wanted, at 60c. per bushel. Whiskey is firm, at 240. 20. for his, and Burrato, July —P, M. ‘The receipts since yesterday have bev as foline:— Flour 4.000 bbls; whient 11.000 bus: corg 44,000 bas. Translated from New Orleans Le Patria, July 11) | Flour—ihe market is firmer, with a fair home do- My Boy of Havane later accounts had been received | mand, Including some lots for export. We noticu enles by Ja Pacria trom vatlous of the South American re- | of 8,400 bbla. at $4 U2\ for Ohio. and $437 4 tor Michi- wbiies at the market i# dail, Myrem Ecoapen we learn that the scarcity of provi. | § tte frmmeoes the mocrtualtnasteios tlons in Guy Dad be hh as to cause the ior: ad for Chicago 65 cia. Corn—The nor ve sli duties Oa | ident of the republic, jared that he had no) herefors, the governor | fa togive up the plem, and left the question to the | deoltion of the legislature. The resuit ts not men. ticned. | Peau Files of the Corres, of Lima, to the 12th of | May. hed been reecived, ‘There had bean prepar meetings of the legiviative bodies ealied for the extra | jon of Congress. dd from these mectinge it wae ght that © faitly convent, drenesene the most de. nintstration of Gene-al dor rather against some of hie minis tere, to whom f# attribated mueh of the perseeution which mony of the best men in the conutey are wuffer- fog Our readers wil remember thet. ia domsequencs | ofa conspiracy whieh was aid (o bare been di covered | Jast Febioniy, various parties were apprehended and exiled ihey were sent off in the beigentioe Tambes, bound to Kio Janeiro, Tbe captain of the vessel, i i. arrived Talerhuano in Generals Sao Roman and Part of tin followed bie reat of the # to (alla in th 1 San form panions preeerdea on to Valparaiso, | How ira —Notwith- tending the vietortes obtained hy General Cele, and the disneters which this rep soflered during the past few months in consequence of | the pranmnciomenio of that chief against the tretion cf Velaroo, and of the friends of th ard of Ballivion, inet the same Belt iu the ne: likely to taxe | On the eoutrary, Unings Look | place to there dieasters. Gar ker and darker, | roems in the + demand for corn continues briek; the «ales roach 20 (Oy bushels at 45 ct# for tixed western —rales of Chto are making at 22 cts is nothing ew tn freights. Whiskey Freights—There Atrawr, Joly 20—P. The receipts of prodnes, since ye: erday, wer Y Dbie Moor, and 14.000 bushels of corn ; ‘There was a god buriness doing in flow of the day ere MCP barrels, at 947 straight tate and weet common State milked wertern The eorn market was hensy, bata goad business was €one ; the sales fost up % 000 Brebele, at be. for yelow found and 44 for mixed wottern. Cats are steady ; sates of 6,500 o 8 $4 8756 for and $4 5646 a $4 75 for bnge were made at S26, wees Roard of Sapervisors —Speckot Meeting Jrry 20 — The minutes of the last meeting were road and epproved The Jury List —The jary list, conta! nam! ean y list, coni mining 000 names, Bilis Several email dbille for cleaning the eourt Toon # were ordered tu Le pad. Alderavaa James Ki offered the teilowing rerottion : — Revelred. That ihe eubject of fixing a perration, to be paid mouthiy by the the cleaning aud Keeping to order the A the eonrt r Ve offees tn th Beard Adopted. Of committe va the payment of re some enum tite i Commererel oid Of committer om 6 eounty ‘*, recom. veral qmail billie fur adver. tn favor of payi fit pubile rare and poles. ia for homed aut lodge thew rporie mer riser lawn, favor of paying Willian | wel ivg for yoeore avd officers, In the tral of m Woed and others, ihe Beard then aj armed