The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1850, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. Nexthwest corner of Fulton and Nassau sts. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY TURATER, Bowery—-Waspxnixo Juw— sor Cowoas. ROADWAY THEATRE. ©an—Srinir oy Gorv—A BURTON'S THEATER, Chambers strect—Dousev—X, ¥. 2. y—Lavon Wax You Bro 40 NATIONAL THEATR®, Chatham square—Maraimony Natan Qurex—Dean SHOT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosdway—Wonvenrvt Wowrn Causkairamay—Sakacoea Sraines—-Tausreren’s Wippix. OBRISTY'S OPERA BH AMERICAN MUSSUM—AstUsING PeRvonmancns, Ar= wEnxoor aNd Brewing, MELODEON ~ Warr ‘New York, Tnursday, February 7, 1850. News from Europe. ‘The steamship Europa, with half a month’s later news from Europe, is momently expected. Message of the Governor of California, Among other interesting matter which we are compelled to leave out this morning, is the first annual message of the Governor of California. It will sppear to-morrow. Important from Cail on Ata late hour last night we received remark- ably important intelligence from California. Our ample accounts will be read with painful interest and intense anxiety. According to the news, San Francisco has {been half destroyed by fire. That | such a blow should have fallen thus early is s: Tiously to be deplored; and though the loases, it is | to be feared, will fall heavily upon some of the | young and enterprising, who are scarcely able to | bear such misfortune in this early period of their | career, yet the right spirit seems to pervade this | wonderful society at this crisis. The general loss | by the conflagration is estimated at between a million and a hai aad two millions of dollars— half of the city having fallen under the ravages of | the devouring element. In consequence of the snow and rain, mining | operations had been suspended; but the whole | community had started anew to repair the dama- ges sustained by fire. In Sam Francisco and | Stockton, in beth of which places fires have oc- | curred, new buildings were erected with almost magic speed, and it is evident that the losses will not, on the whole, depress the spirits of the brave pioneers of this newly settled country. Never, in the history of mankind, has aay colony exhibited such wonderful elements of self-government and perseverance as have been displayed in that region. The aceounts which we have been enabled to present so fully, will be read with interest for their political bearing. The returns are extremely en- tertaining, as showing the character of the denizens of this remote region. The dispatch of political business is as marked as that whieh colors every other phase of life in California. The Governor has been inaugurated, and his message has been published. It is not written ina very polished style, and several of its recommendations seem to have elicited much dissatisfaction. Among these is one with respect to taxes, wherein | the Governor advises that a law be passed that all persons failing to pay their taxes when legally due, thall be prevented from bringing a civit suit in any court of the State for one year,and not then, un- less arrearages are paid. The fact that Governor Burnett has passed in silence the subject appertain- ing to the * Civil Fund”—the money collected by Gen. Riley—is also animadverted upon. [t 1s con- tended that it belongs to the people, and should be demanded by the State. The amount of gold brought by the Empire City exceeds that received by any one steamer hereto- fore. Iris, probably, not less than two millions of dollars! This news will give another stimulus te the enterprise already directed towards this new | home of our active, quick-sighted people. Crisis of the Union—Mr, Clay and General Taylor. The recent proposition of Mr. Clay, compre- hending his plan for the settlement of the territo- nial question which is now agitating the country, has been transmitted to every point during the last week, and has elicited every kind of opimon and | declarations along its various journeys. The reite- ration of his resolutions, and the further expres- sion given to them by the same distinguished | Senator, at Washington, yesterday and the day | before, will soon travel in the same direction, and, | according to all appearances, will excite the same dissatisfaction in some quarters, and content in others, that his first speech created, These two speeches, delivered a week apart, in the Senate Chamber, are only parts of the same great plan by which Mr. Clay proposes to settle the question which is now agitating the republic, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific. How has Mr, Clay's project been received in Congress, and throvghout the country? Believing the motives ot this distinguished man to be these | | | of a patriot anda lover of his native land, con- | th vinced that he has more experience than five- sixths of his colieagues at Washington, yet we | must be satisfied, from the expressions of opinion | with which his project has been received all over the country, that the plan of Mr. Clay will by no Means settle the question im relation to slavery in | the Meraid cient as that which prevails among us. We allude to the system of peonage, which those who are acquainted with the history and character of Mexi- can affairs will require no explanation of trom us. Now, the fact of the matter is, the government of the new territory which the Mexican war brought to us must be settled on certain principles of com- mon sense, beyond the refined reasonings of law- yers and politicians. The new territories were acquired by the blood and treasure of the South, as much as by those of the North. The South are entitled, under the laws of common sense and common honesty, to carry their property into those territories, and to enjoy the same rights as can be enjoyed by their Northern fellow-citizens, or by the inhabitants of the new territories themselves. The Mexicans who became citizens of this great repub- jie, on the acquisition of that territory, still retain the night of servitude called peonage, while, under our general laws, they cannot exclude the different sects of Chnstians from equal privileges with those of Catholics. The citizens from the Southern Statee, going into the same region, have the same common sense right to carry their property there as those of the North have, or as those of New Mexico and Cali- fornia have, who were found there at the termina- tion of the war. All those mixed rights must be recognised under the new institutions which Con gress may please to organize for the governmeat of those territories. This is the only ground of equi- table action. The Southern States, m striving to come to some setilement for the government of the new territories, only demand those rights of property which the original Mexicans themselves possess and which citizens trom the North, who take with them servants for a term of years, are equally en tied to in those new regions. Here, therefore, is the greut stumbling block in the question, aad the difficulty of coming to any settlement, under some of the propositions submitied by Mr. Clay to the Se- nate. It is the Wilmot Proviso, ia a qualified | shape. Under the common sense view of the mat- ter, the Southern States will insist on equal rights and equal liberties, in those regions, with those of their Northern fellow-citizens. They contributed to that glorious campaiga uader which we acquired those territories, by their sons and by their treasure; and when they plant themselves on the immutable principle, that they have a right to carry their property there, it would appear that every principle of equaity and common sense would dispose every leading meme ber of Congress, from every part of the country, to acquiesce in such a natural and common sense view of the matter. But we fear that a settlement of this very knotty and difficult subject has escaped from within the regions of common sense and common honesty, and that fanaticism, on both sides, will proceed to such extremes as to endanger the peace, happi- nese, and union of this glorious confederacy. Our public men, in the White House itself, and in each branch of Congress, appear to be afraid to meet the question and the crisis fully in the face. The President’s message in relation to Califoraia, pro- poses nothing, settles nothing, but leaves the whole difficulty open to the agitation of conspirators, dis- unionists, fanatics, and the aworst and most dan. gerous men, in every section of the country. The proposition of Mr. Clay, although better and more pkely to lead to a practical solution of the diff- culty than the cabinet plan, 18 yet very short of the crisis which now menaces the union of these States, and which will, ualess settled at the present session of Congress, only lay a foundation for dis- union and dismemberment at an early day here- after. But we have yet hopes of General Taylor. sound common sense gives us higher expec- tations than all the learning of the schools, or all the intrigues of the cabinet. He may yet indicate @ litte of the same nerve which carried him through his fields of blood in Mexico. He may yet burst the shackles that surround him, and sead a message to Congress that will, in one blow, and in a few paragraphs, end the agitation of disunion at the South, and overwhelm those mean intriguers at the North, from Seward to Garrigon. What a glorious chance the old man of Buena Vista hi before him! fo Ste vas Tur New Dance ix Wasnixaron.—It is int! mated that the new dance, called the Schottisch Waltz, 1s about to be introduced at Washington. It is a union, as has been stated, of the waitz,polka | and redowa. The step is a gentle neing, with alternate movement and repose, with pirouettes and slides. Can there be any political omen in this new feature? Its peculiarities seem to point out | several prominent individuals, who might intro- | duce it with much grace. A blending of three political dances into one would be a consummation Tue Por.y Bovine Story Contranictep.— The story which one of our Philadelphia corres- pondents tells of Polly Bodine, is best explained by the following :— Staten Istanp, Feb, Sth, 1850, Mr, J. G. Bewnert, Bin- Deing @ daily reader of your entertaining paper, From your Philadelphis. correspond: 0, that, in the way of diatingulahed rtrangers, they | ¢ honered with the presence of one Mrs Polly Bodine, and she engaged in vending stocks, collate, &o. at hotels. Now, sir, there may be mau ut it ite meant for myself. Mary Bodie, ‘land, whem some of the small fr; ietake t* great, without phie cor man, will cblige m Please contradict spondence, and you gentle MARY DINE, | News from | flooded last City. We have only space for « brief reference to it, the new territeries, which has, unfortunately, Placed the two sections of the country in violent and antagonistic opposition to each other, and pro- | duced euch a state of feeling as threatens uli- mate dissolution and disunion. The plan of the President, with which this great controversy com It lett the menced in Congress, was no plan at all question, the difficulty, the troub! touched, and liable to be taken hold of by gogues, and turned into weapons of the direst calamity to the Union! lastead of a plan leadiag to any probable settlement of that troublesome question, the proposition of the President looks more like « trap that was eet for both him and the country—a trap that might, eventually, lead to | scenes of insurrection, b The plan proposed by Mr. Clay ws better then that offered by the cabinet, for we do not beleve that the President bad much to do with the m ture of his own plan. Yet the plan of Mr. ( one comprehending historical views and ¢ general principles, that we are sure will never be concurred in by Southern interests, or by the South ern States Let vs explain. Mr. Clay takes it for gran that by the very acquisition of the new territe trom Mexico, the laws of that rep’ to African slavery, still exist, and a paramouat even within our domiaion. If this argument is ood in one respect, it mux be good ia o By the laws of the republic of Mexico, all other ays tems of Christianity but that of Catholicity are Probibited and proscribed. Will Mr. Cluy say, that New Mexico and Califoraia, ow a portion of the territory of the United States, are atill subject | to the religious exclusion and istolerance which | prevailed in those territories duriag thei¢ connec: tion with the Mexican tepubliet We don't bes lieve that he will draw such « ¢ mnclusiag from wach premises. Why, then, con he ay, that by | the very act of 2 portion of Mexico beconiag part of our territory, the original laws of M Out reference to the laws of this repubdl a to the exclusion of any others? peti Bat the truth ie, that the inconsistency of such views is not the only point of dit ¥ connected with the plan proposed by Mr. Clay. tt ie well known that a syetem of slavery of servitude has | exinted, and still existe, in Mexico, which, although | different in some of its forms from Afrioan slavery in the Sourb, is equally as permanent and as effi- f ‘That from Jamaica is not of the highest importance, and we therefore omit it, with the exception of some ebipping leteliiy till to-morrow from the South Pacific , Char e Afurs to Chit, he luth of January and leit on the ° S Conrul and lady, left for Ve et . der, and Mr Pett paraiso, on Mr. Sullivan or Ditver Mir. Clay, Charged’ Affairs at Lima, had been very ill, but fast reco |. Avaoexed is the [From the Alte California. |, copy of the fan, of 3 ber 24th, y paper we bave reovived by a recent arrival opotula, aad this contains but lieth ulated erent the world abroad We perceive that the “turbulemt waters.” lashed into commotion by the Fremeh agerersion of July last have not dat the e re tribute to the just prov: bj: of education are specially grativied with the ed # that have been intr Mi ist r and the American name to ® high polat of jwation in every department end lite Tbe Shee been cet apart Ly ide Majesty for the observan several Lhanke giving throughout the [naw The Briich bark Daniel Grant. the Me Der ote ® tertived for thie ; at Tabane Nov 1 " Ibe following i# & list of ehipplog in the ot Hepo'ula, Nov. 16 pring ite Am sloop of war Preble Com Glyne, for San Franc MERCHANT VRSSE: S 4 the brig Pactiic 4 rt, Phe Samuel Fox, he Am ba Mery, Batley, § Mp ilams & Ce, for Boxton; Te be Facto; An Baber, Am te Veto | for Sen Br D, te fe rt Broo: 4 ba Daw el Geans, © be Magaret, Ko WHALS RA, tebal!. # Vi United Bow * chr? Chawpioa, Am rbips Triton Me ommnine, Be for as, for Wee Poke hich left this city, yes reich and Worcsster ratiroat, ar € ofthestenmer Choe S.culogton line, dia not arrive antil Ing (hes with eppropriate ceremonies THE EXPLOSION. The Third Day of the Horrible Catastophe, #ORTY-FOUR DEAD BODIES FOUND Two short and narrow streets, of which three days ago not half the citizens bad ever heard even the names, are now the central point of interest tothe whole elty, and continual streams of people, of every claes and condition, are pouring through the main streets and thoroughfares leading to this vicinity, going to or returning from the ruins. These two streets art Hogue, the immediate scene of the catastrophe, and Oak, where the dead bodies and the mutilated limbs 4 fragments dug from the ruins, are deposited, to await the inspection of triends and relatives. At first tho fallen building in Hague street was a compact mound of rubbish, So terrific was the shock and fo incredible the force of the concussion, that it is evident the whole of this large six-story build- ing must have been lifted from the ground bodily, and then crushed instantly in upon iteelf—as a weak man is lifted off his feet by a stronger, and hurled, # bent-up and shapelers mags, to the ground. The labor of tae workmen, however, has excavated this great heap of brick and mortar, which is now piled up in irregular hills on all sides, resembling the crumbling bastions of an old fort, while the oentre is scooped out like the crater of @ volcano, Already the workmen have im several places reached the foundations of the building; but a large mare still remains, and it is feared that many horrible discoveries of crushed and caleined human bodies are still to be made. But the point which at the present moment attracts the strongest interest, is the yard adjoining the Fourth ward Station House, in Oak street, and an old aad un- inbabited building adjoining. Hére the remains of the unfortunate victims are carried, as fast as they are dag out, end left for recognition. Many of the bodies are so crushed and disfigured that they can never be know: save by the keen eye of wife, or mother, or daughter, which examines by instinct and decides by s magnet- ism of nature more unerring than irrefragable proofs, But besides the bodies, there are fragments, and limbs, avd blackened stumps! In and around these premises, a crowd of women, young and old, many of them attended by children, ere con- tinually gathered; and the inconsolable weeping and convulsive sobbing of wives ever their husbands, daughters over their fathers, and—holiest and most awful of all—the lamentations of mothers upon the bo- dies or mutilated remains of their sons, are enough to break one’s heart to hear. No human being, however bard or bad his rature, could pass through this appall- ing scene without being meited to tears and choked with sympathetic agony. It seems as if all the mourning ahd suffering om earth had been, for the time being, concentrated here. Im presence of such sublime sor- row as this, all the common griefs and bereavements of life sink into @ silent insignificance, ashamed temake the voice of their complaint heard in the fearful chorus of agony echoing around these desolate and blood-be- spattered walls. Another night of suspense and anxiety baving parsed over the friends of those still missing, the search, which was ruspended from Tuesday eventyg, was sgain commenced yesterday morning at seven o'clock. The laborers went to work and fucceeded in clearing away an immense quantity of | the ruins in two or three hours. The Chief of Police was actively superintending and directing the work. The indefatigable Ckptains of the Fourth ward po- lice were also at their post; and the police of the ward, with platoons from other wards, were on duty preserving order and keeping off the crowd. Chains were placed, as on the previous days, across the streets leading to the scene of the disaster. A new arrangement was adopted, for the convenience of persens through Pearl street was | run lengthwise through the etreet, om the east side, | from Frankfort to eneloring the mid- the footpath and other portions of the shattered ma- | The workmen succeeded in clearing bricks mortar from Hague street. pitch it was ruppored the rematne of some women we buried, who, it had been stated, were | of the explorion. This, however. turned out to be only » for po bodies were found there. Within the site of ding itself, the search was more successful, as Deen still more complete, but fur ‘the fear of the isturers corner of it up to twelve o'clook.— They broke holes wall of Mr. Hall's Biistiment, avd let down a Tope bebiud it for | which | the purpore of overturning the remain they secomplished before one o'clock This ne- | cerrarily caused a delay of many hours, as the | bricks Glled up that on of the building which wae already pieoserel ana oompelied the workmer to begim their labors anew. !t would have been better, | perbaps, to prop the wall, which wouid have had the | etlect of expediting the earch for the missing. | And here we are giad to be enabled to state thet twe pereons suppored te have been overwhelm. | ed in aod Clark Vought—are both living, end ought to be classed atnong wed the > Vought’s Bends and face were belly burned. Clack | Vought was but slightly burt. He got out first, and then assisted his brother out ; and it was curious how be did get cut. At the first crash he was buried under & number cf beams, and be thought he was irreeover- ably lort In another instant U crach, which bad the effect of raising the beams off bim. and enabled him to get out. Then eeetog his bro ther strueating to get free, he pulled him out, consl erably injure Win. Delander, reported as among th ae tunately evoaped alive He is, however, severely in- jured pg cut, soalded, and bruised. His injuries ere pot fatal. Jeane Usborne and 8, T. Osborne are still among the missing. On Tuerday, the friends of the former claim. ds body as bis, but it turned out afterwards toat they we ¢ in errer, I bere were two persons named Annable In te build. ing, father aud sou (Robert and Joseph). at the tine of tbe explosion. The father eseaped; Joseph is still amerg the — ‘The name of 8 Scofield is fowed awong the list of the | missing It rhould be A. Beoteld who, it ty found, went to bis residence efter the explorion. His escape was something eimilar to the Voughts’. having beeo ret buried uuder the ruins and. by the second crash, the beams wore lifted off him. He was but ~ ‘ly burned o@ the face aud havds wees Nem! “y bas reevived ao iojury io the back Seta pbell. aiso turned up. fe resides in Wil- | reriding at LIL Front treet, Brook. sed to be among the missing, is raved, but | bere are three others at the Hospital, namely: Wil. Hem Proctor. 23 yeare of age, born in Connectiout; Ste. — H Smith. born in Connecticut. eed 21 years, fracture of the jeg; and Williem Quigg, 1) years, much | brotved. mesea.e to that at, ctherwiee, 4 there being prerumption will be that they are Ailie Hnowledge to the contrary Five persons, of the number killed by the late explo- tion, belong to the bemev order knowa as the 'm- roved Order of Kea Men Their names are Jaws 8, rietey 8. Osborn, Leonard Brooks, James Broohs, end Joho t Leckwoed = The order took ehar; bodies of those whieh Were recovered. and int he reason why the friends of th: é take their bodies eam dejretion and de-peir which D when the et- orton took place Hi killed, hh y ts not yet found. bet Those enother brother of ph Hampson, aged 29, England, 223 Delaooy t der Huggins aged 22. Ireland. 61 Third avenue. | a. aged 16 years *, of Cannon street. | ot aged 26 years af the 4 and rubbish of the wall pros: * arly all removed, and though not yet exte- to be at te Pike | * residl: ne teh Frenchman.” pane. as re this of feniab | in the Coro | o| eared bo lies was exepended, | evening, and Wil) be pursued thivaay the general destruction—Marsbail Vought © | their fort It is bone. . before night, most, if not all, Dodies will be recovered that are recoverable. CORONER'S INQUEST. At 123% o'clock yesterday morning the Coroner con- ducted 12 sworn witnesses to the ruins of the building, Nos. 6 and7 Hague street, in order, before testifying, to view the fragments of the exploded boiler; but on view- is the premises, it was found impossible to form any jes until the rubbish and otber parts of the falien building were removed, in order to come to some con- clusion as to the cause of theterrible explosion. The investigation. in consequence thereof, bas been defer. red usti} Fridey morning at 11 o'clock, when it will take place at the Fourth ward station house, The Coro- ner charged the witnesses that they were called upon to investigate the size of the boiler, the nature ef the irep coprtructiag the same. and, also, the ry driven by said boiler, for the purpore of ascertaining whether the boiler was of sufficient strength to work the engine; and thie they were called upon to do with- out fear, favor or reward, INCIDENTS. Mr. C. O, Jessup, the foreman in the hat shop of Mr, St. Jobn, was ip the buildii it the time of the explo- sion, and from the account given y Mr. Jessup, it was evident he must have been one of the first that escaped from the building Mr J. eays, the part he occupied previous to the explosion, was the floor directly over the machinery, and was standing on the east ead of the building. giving directions to one of the boys re- sprcting the work, and had just taken # knife from his pocket to cut u piece of eloth; that was the last he re- collected of the business, as at that instant the explo- sion must have taken place, He ot that he never heard the least sound of an explosion, but on coming to his tenes, he found himeeif simost in an upright porition, bis feet and lega covered up with rubbish, ope arm fastened above his head, aad the other resting 0” @ Ot pisce of irom, supposed to be a pertion ef the boiler. While in thie critical situation, bis first thoughts were. that Mra Jessup was a widow, and bis two children fatheriess; bat he soon to rally himself, and found that by moving his arm backwards and forwards. it became loose; thesame with the other; also with both legs. He then drow himself upin an upright direction, there being but just room emough. aud in 80 doing, he cut his vestand pantaloons from top to bottom against possibly some sharp piece of iron, the space being so contracted. soon as extricated, he crept out from his terrible position, and jemeee on the ruins of the blackamith’s shop alongside, ecram- bling over the broken beams and bricks to the next brome - pert yt —_ from roc beeen) he found the entry of the house, which he pasred, and hurried ue street. By this time his head and face were bieeding from contusions and cuts, On nearing the corner of Pearl street, beceming faint and dizzy, he called for asmstauce to a man sin feli on the ar of the stranger insensible; into @ drug store near by, and being ved by the kin cf the druggist, was conveyed home, feel- ing @ ver sious idea t! Mrs. Jessup would feel as if sbe was idow if he did not return, on hearing of the terrible calamity. Mr. 'p says he considers himee) of the lucky ones, and we certainly concur in the pinion, Just at the close of the day, yesterday, @ young wo- mau cailed at the Fourth ward station house, having that afternoon arrived from Philadelphia, in haps of her bectber. Thos, Henry Soatiin, who, sl . worked in the building blown down. Having see: account of the disaster and great loss of life, she believed that her brother must be among the killed, knowing that he was employed in the building a year ago. The bodies not recognised, lying in the yard, were shown her; but her excitement was too great—she was unadie to discover apy likenees, but became faint, and was conveyed ioto the “station heuse, heving fainted, and was Pubsequently sent to the residence of one of her friends. We imagine that ber brother is not among the missing, ae no name of that description is given either of the proprietors of the shops. Therefore. it likely the poor girl’s brother is yet safe, by being en- guged at work elsewhere. in our description, yesterday, of the actively epaeged in the work of et the burning bricks and timbers, on Monday last, in Hague street, weomit- ted to mention the names of Gen. Hall, and Capt. be of the Thirteenth ward police, who worked side by on the burping timbers, almost smothered in smoke, and, at times, washed from the hese oe the skin; yet still they continued their work, in hope of saving the life of some hut being confined under the fallen ‘timber They certainly did good service, and admired by the multitude looking on. Hee and the firemen together worke: infatuation all through. The following is a card from one of the two firms that Occupted the demolished build! A Canv.—The melancholy event that occurred im our city, on the morning of the 4th inst., will not readily be ten ce of it, are now enduring the aud the keenest mental teverest phy: rail. hile previ of tho heart-rending re- ferred to, Ten: necessary further of the painful portion of it, the fuichful discharge of thelr ducy dovs 2ot cauoel our obligations, nor debar us tl 1° privilege of pub- age is edoquame chorete. , for their f of the at it will Mf truction, the me fasted more Learttelt eympathy and ee6, Bor have put forth greater exertions im their Toeach and ail of the patties who leat ua their aid, we Pir 9 thus Dubticly cfler eur warment aud mos Foy ledgme ors BURR & CO, The ing card is from the. firm :— Te.guerscecert To thanks ve the Volioe deparewente, ble services in resouiag by which their establish the pleasure to n Herald of Wednesday & Cow to be appropriate: ‘The subjoined letter is from Mr, Wilson, agent of the Georgia Sieamboat Company WANNAM, Fob 2, 1843. Mangus, Paacn, Munrny & Co on Fi OK k— pay, Naw Genre—The boiler! based last November, from Walk- er & Milligan, for joo. St. Boat Company, we have fo will; c Mi 01 the usual a» & boiler o L of thirty-six iach eyli or one we got of Milligan & Wal jease write us by returu of mail, » you ve tr k, in good Ibe., and we paid i6e. per lb. The Ought to be about twen'y fect long Youre, respec: full t draft to kesp the 0 wh suthcien! City Intelligence. A Sixcutan Deatn.—A back driver, by the name of Teter Flynn, was engaged, yeater: orning, absul Soclock bya Mr. John T. ich, to convey his No, 20 Chambers street to his father’s house, sit a mat « of the polleemen cf the 3 refusel at the house, jum! rerving that the ppeared to be rick, an the driver to go to the police station the station house, Mr Rich was lified o and when conveyed into the station house, found te be dead. brother to Mr. Rich, h ward, The Coronet was called Asmat Cowrtr os place on | riday ev b sion the Poll be introduced. From ti ‘Mr Parker as @ teacher, the: will gather in a host, p Geive To Cacironsia —Mr. Joseph W. has, We perovive, issued @ very neat pamphist, prithed © Gregory's Guide for California Travellers. cia the Istbimns of It is @ very useful little work, @pd berides containing « gi deal of informa tom hecessary to be known by all who latend to seek formed ev out the evgegemente which h terily to sil #ho mey emplo: agents go to each, st: emer, wi proceed to California th dec pateh, sod will take charge of ail suc business & may be coma itted to tl Scrarux Couxt.—The examination of applicants for Sdmirrion to practice at the bar, will take plaee in the neral tena room, on Monday seat, the Lith inet., at clock A of Kobert Long, convicted of Jomber yere of Vem Pelt, Eighteen was brought te the Cit id der p Knoeked dewn by the en d hie hand sod arm ina It ts Goubiful if he recovers. je Kart eoan.—An itieoymen A NOt be ascertained. was brought to morning from the Erie the (ity Borpital, yesterdas Fallroad baving be in of & benk on ( tunate man lingered Affairs on the Atlantic Side of America. MAILS FOR CALIFORNIA. THE WEEKLY HERALD. ‘The steamship *hilatelphia, will leave this port this afternoon direct for Chagret, with the mails and pas sengers for the Pacific. ved to state that, by order of the Postmaster General. the entire mail for California, including the jatéars intended for the Em- pire ity, will be forwarded by the Philadelphia. The Weekly Herald will be pub ished at ten o'eloek with news from all pa. t# of this country te the iatest moment. It will be put ap in wrappers, ixpence per oopy. Those haring Oregon, of amy other patt of the Pacific, to whom they wish to send the Herald, 999 leave their crdete for copies at auy time before the oloa'™s of the mati. at two eo cloek this aftervoon, Agente supplied wich any quantity, te til the afternoon, aod expired TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Clay concluded his remarkable speech in the Senate yesterday. It willbe read with deep interest, The results of a fool-hardy agitation, as can be easily perceived through the abstract of his remarks, Were depicted in such terms as cannot failto make a vast impression upon the restless mind of the whole country Thelong discussion in the House of Represen- tatives at Washington, yesterday, on the purchase of the orginal manuscript of the farewell address of Washington to his countrymen, though exhib- iting on the part of several members a narrow spi- rit, formed a nucleus for many allusions to the disaffection between the North and South. It is to be hoped that the thoughts generated on the occasion may be worth more to the country than the few paltry dollars demanded for the manu- script. Ifthe love of the Union, breathed in that inestimable legacy, could be infused inte the whole mass of the representatives of the people by the purchase of the manuseript, it would be priceless —and it 1s to be heped that the suggestion for its purchase may prove the fo tunate and providential means of aweking our law-givers to a sense of the importance of cultivating the same spiritthat an:- mated the father of this country, when he penned those parting words to his countrymen. As to the purehese of the manuseript, if genuine there should be no hesitation. It would be disgracfeul to have it placed in the archives of a foreign go- vernment, as it might be, if once bandied threugh the hands of specularors. When the autograph of Shakspeare sells for hundreds of pounds sterling, itis easy to perceive that such a one as this is cheap at the price named for it. However, if any political capital can be squeezed out of it, the at- tempt already made for that purpose will be per- sisted in to the last moment. Our legislators are Temarkable men News from Washiugton. OUR SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. Wasnixatow, Feb. 6, 1850, Mr. Clay concluded his speech to-day, to the admi- ration of his friends; but his compromiss dors net ‘meet the demands of the South, and his argument will De stoutly resisted. His high compliment to (General Soott, over the shoulders of General Taylor, is supposed to bave ecme allusion to the next Presidency. In the Supreme Court, the case of Shultz against the Bank of Georgia and the city of Augusta, has kept Meters. Webster and Butler out of the Senate for the last two days; they being the counsel of Schultz. Th® argument on the other side, to-day, was by Reverdy Johnson and John Sergeant. The case involves a sum of $250,000. The French Indemnity biil introdaced by, Truman Smith in the Senate, is subtantially the “Five Million bill” vetoed by President Polk. Advices from Florida state that another conference ‘was held with the Seminoles on the 2lst ult., which terminated quite satisfactorily. The emigration pros- pots are more favorable, ‘The Hon. Mr. Bokee has been confined to his house for a week or ten days by sickness. THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate, ‘Wasnixctox, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1850. THE SLAVERY QUESTION. After prerentation of petitions, Mr. Mancum pre- sented resolutions adopted by a meeting of citizens of ‘Wilmington, N. C., adverse to legislation, by Congress, on the question of slavery, with afew remarks, in which he asserted what he believed to be the rights and the feelings of the South. The South had reached a point where they had planted their foot, and upou which, by the blessing of God, they expected to stand, and defy all the efforts to despoil them of their rights, whether by force or otherwise. She would never consent to le- gielative action which shall deprive her of an equal par- ilelpation in the territories acquired from Mexico. Mr. Haxe objected to the reception of the resolutions, and proceeded to say, that Mr. Mangum himself hed, early in the sersion. said, that when any papers looking to eny action of the government, saverse to slavery, ‘were presented here, and objected to, the question was taken upon receiving them, and the motion was laid on the table. Mr. Hale simply desired that the rule should be allowed to work with reference to papers on the Southern ride of the question also, and that the motion to receive there resolutions should also be laid on the table. The gentleman bas accused the Nerth of ag- gression. He would like that gentleman to point out the first line, or word, by the North, which was agzres- sive; #0 far from that, the whole history ef the North ebows their course has been concessit til thei women and children were upbraiding the made his motion ive gentlemen an opportu- of justice and equality. upon the motion, it was tak rejected, by yeas 2, nays 48. Mr. Masoum moved that the ladies be admitted upon the floor, and in the lobby, which was agreed to by Bimous consent. Iman instant, almost, the door was crowded in every part. CONTINUATION OF MM. CLAY'S SPEECH ON His COMPROMISE REVOLUTIONS The Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Clay's resolutions, and Mr Clay arose and continued his re- marks After few additional words in support of the proposition to pay the debts of Texas, he proceeded With ap argument in support of his resolution relative to the institution of slavery in the federal district. con- tending that it eannot be abolished there, in good faith, witbout the conditiens named tn the resolution, With thore conditions, the probibition of the slave trade ta the Lietrict, which he proposed, involved concession by neither section of the Union, All admitted the right of the States to probibit the slave trade within their Dorders, aud the right had beew exercised by Southern | Sia tucky, among others, Surely, thei thir potat, both sections might and ought to ms | mencause He held that it might be sbolished with- out jurt offence to any portion of the Union. There fureiy Was a power of abolition somewhere, and the fy ee wp veated beg ged eee over the Dictrict in Congress alone. it posseri at power, or wise it exited nowhere, But aithough the power to abolish siavery bere was thas vested, yet In view of the e\ident wishes, intention gad understanding of the constitution, in making this grant, susb ab Ltion could not be eflected without the content of tne States who ceded their territory for the purpose of estad- lirhing a seat of government. Virginia bad taken back het portion of the District, and Maryland alone had @ elsim upon the implied faith of Congress, to which he bed alluded upow the introduction of his resoiation The next resolution provides that more eifectual petition to his Excellency | | measures shall be taken to give effect to the conetita- | tional provisio® relative to the re-capture of slaves, | On this question he would go with him who goes far- | theet; be held that not only every officer of the go- | verpment, but every man in the community,was bouod to marist io the arrest, and delivering up. of fugitives from labor. as certainly as fugitives trem justice. Ie feit thar the South iad great cause of complaint on of the aifioulties which were te. u | thie subject, to wi | tenticnally, and recovery of their the result of bad meighborhood, an jerling Ov the part of who institu a 4 a Doped the free States themselves would, ere long, co regalating this matter od as the spirit of Reigbborhood @f ~~) Atte & better spirit id gindly give way for it pla '# tntroduetion to the e, he had theught | but be did wot think ¢ prevent ev the Miseours i that time He next contrast romise with the Mis to asking Senators sour comprom! which of (hem the most re D epgrese with respect te ala 0 legisiation would be equival oan war, he pa bad been raised by bi their gift. = dimes ary ite ing tribate to the merits of General Scott who in poi of eeience sill, strategy, bravery —all that makes tae was execiied 0 military hero fa the went on to show ft. ppositien w this A pater who bad presented resolu ens mianins th ter das ‘the Union t remedy would ‘as owners. to the recaptut the institution be more lumbia, th wenid ee b ‘woul ession property within the States! Hi, contended that they would not Wer, aud # dissolution of the U: he contended, were identical sod Insoperables bier sclution could only be effected by consent, or wer. ‘Consent, no one supposed, would ever be conceded and ay it were given, war ba. tween the free id less than sixty day and the third of the States of the Valley rippi, For ove, he was for staying im the Union, tr- stead of flying out of it He d ing within it, and to defy aii efforts to his rights, ‘and of bis privilege to defend those rights by the eword, if necessary, but he would never cousent to be driven out of it without ceremony. The adoption ¢ the dis- Union was a pisrriage bond whieh eouid never eclved and from which those who entered iuto it could never be divorced, Let them, remato nigprber, live together, aud dweil in peaoe, harmony, 0d, feelirg. What would be the result of ‘prising from disunion? [t+ termiustion would be the exting- tion of our republic The war would be cartied om with unrelenting ferocity, until, boch parties bein exhausted, some Cusar, \exender, or Napoleon wor ftep im. out the ~ Gordian Knot,’ solve the problem of the capacity of » poopie for self government, end crash our Liberties aba our iustisutios fa the 1a view Of ali the dangers wailed threateped the Unio is astrous Tes. which wore seen to be tae inevitable Cor sequence vf cerrain mexsures which had bsen egi- tated. be tuploted Senators by their lore of country, dy ail that wae ranted aud dear in the glortous ingtitu- tions or our republic to pause before they took the beedless, Iatal leap into an abyss from which the re- public might never be rercued. House of Representatives, Waaninaror, Feb. 6, 1850. States called for reeolutions, INDIAN HosTILITIES, Mr. Howanp offered one. which wasadopted, instruct- ing the Committee on Indian Affairs to faqutre into the expediency of reporting « bill to srry into effect the provision in the Gaudalupe Hidalgo treaty, to restrain. the incursions of indians into Mexico, and to provide against Indien hostilities on the frontier of Pexas. STATE RIGHTS, Mr. Kavrrman offered ® resolution, which lies over, to the effect that, after the admission of a» State into the Union, Congress has no right to curtail her boundaries; that the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court vf the United States eannot be en- Jarged by Congress, and that the beundary, as settled by treaty Inures to the benefit of Texas. SWAMP LANDA IN MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS, Mr. Bowiis iutreduced a bill granting to Missourl and Arkanrae the swamp lands in those States, for the purpose of draining them. LANDS FORK THE HUNGARIAN Ri 8. Mr. Burt introduced # bill granting lands to the Hungarian refugees. Both of th reeceettine, were referred te the Commit- D AND THE Mosquito, c resolut deciaring je, denying to Great Britain any = to and the Morquito coast, claiming the five Central American States have entive sor in themselves. That the rights of the Mosquito Indians are peoreety similar to those in our country, and nothing yond, and admite the sateel rights, which other na- tions now have in tral Am Mr. Puesion Kine objected to the reading of all the resolutions, and thi over. pt LIABILITY OF @HIP OWNER: Mr. MeLane. from the Committee on Commeroce, re- rons e. Mr, Born off ‘the Monroe de ~ ¥ ported a bill limit the lisbility of ship owners. It was referred to the Committee of the ‘Whole on the State of Urion, CANALS Mr Bixcnam intreduced @ bill to al@ in the com- tion of the Clinton and Kalamazoo eansl, in Mi- the right of construction at Sault Marie. They ferred to the Committee on Public Landa, The Senate's Joint resolution to purchase the Dates Lo to manu- script copy of Washington’s Desteclh “Aateee war taken up. An ei dollars, divag: 5 The question-was then taken on the passage of the resolution: Mr. Jouxson, of Tennessee, understood that the vote just tak It was oonelusive to his tina thee ore than that He asked, ddreas; spirit, Bot the owner of the ecerieh by ter wan pemenne by Washington to retain the copy from the type were eet. Mr. Stanron, of Tennessee, said he understood thi: morning that there is already one copy, in the han writing of Washington, in possession of the ment. He would like to know whether bis ot we if pnd an Having Ir. Jeuseox presumed it was true, larg price for thin there would oon bea dot sop e address. He thought that House ee 7 this. hehed 4 ir. Stanton said, that only repeated what hi had heard, a» toa copy being in possession of the go Mr Jonnson hoped that the House would reject th: resolution, pot fur want of yupont for Wi but because it would be a re mon We w pase it There was imposition enovgh ee or goverpment Geotlemen make a great pretension t patriot: n the money does not come out of thei own pockets. ‘There would be bidders for thi Seeey the eale in Phliedephia to speculat on Mr. Ince would be glad to know at executors of Mr. e : held this path no a Me, Cusmeesn F aie wae held at po price; it wa merely estimat ministraters, sold at suction, ia Phi on sod yee ‘There neither will bs over or under Mr. Jonsson understood that ihe apnraiers fixed price at @ thousand dollars, but ‘to take it—s ier ‘ing to throw it ina market. T. Cuanocen said that the laws of Pennsylvania di. tale. Rot authorize it to be cold at private Mr. Jonwsow wauted to know on what euthority th entieman said that the ri — manusoript belonged to the de Mr. Iwow desired to ray, in explanation of hts ‘vote 0 the amendment to limit the amount to ® thousand do! lars. that be wos not influenced by the views by the gentleman trom Kentucky. He belier. if ocertcin w established + + of — lution more acceptable motives which prompt ge to ever ws 0 of Washington; but thie was .no time for tk collection of thore treasures, The sentiments whic ted Washington have Passed away. Those ni 3 of this country now respond to ti 's farewell address? The: ; on the centrary, we are tor at war with tt it tC eouslder th mus th pesition as & desecration of the memory of Was! |. therefore. would op) tt. of Georgia, said it was trae that tl devas bas departed from the Union; b should be the course ot the represent je now but to reali, by aey possibilit Is there a man from ti Hast. or West, who would not imvoke i return’ For himeel!, he day he wou ish gentieme: ‘ contain: ne i a v they nev nf q patric to ill . Wo m Te the