The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1850, Page 4

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New York, Brite This Daye’ Herald, Our renders will findim this day's Herald, forty. eight columns of interesting and important reading Biatter:— he fullest details of two weeks later news from Ca- of Mr Web= | ting telegra- | rt of the great spe d other inter Migewee from Oregon. wivresiling lever (rom our London Correspondent; “ibe atricala, dings of yesterday. ur home eorrespondente, in- Daron, rou all parte of the United Land Ginarctal intelligence latest moment, from ali parts of | test comm pews, to th The city hour ews, tot going to press. ee wis mauces at the theatres. | itis reldem that euch an amount of matter is given | in eny cne sheet of eny one paper, in any pertjof the worls; and tor the low price of two cents per copy. | ‘The Dovsre Survey Hyeavo, with forty-eight columns | of reecing matter ts equal to any book you can buy of the Horpers or Appletons. at one dollar per volume, and ts twice as much in point of value and interest. | Single copies of thie morning's Herold cum be obtain- 4, in wrappers, at two cents, Evropean Inteil The Canada is in her thirteenth day. Mean- while, ili the ennouncement in the papers or oa the bulletins, of her arrival at Halifax, merchants and others bed better be cautious in their operations. nt from Weshington—fr, Great Speech—Important n= terviews between Mr, Webster and Mr Colboun—P rospect of a Settlement of th ¥ Questton—Kutive Revoiation in the resent Cabinet, with other Impor- auite, pts from Washington last night, are of est importance, leading us to believe that a full compromise ot the slavery question is not far ef], including, aleo, an eatire reconstruction of the | eabmet. Our tel © correspondence 18 equal ly interesting, a8 the speech of Mr. Webster. This speech isa remarkable and novel affair. We have hardly time to digest its principles, or its views, or ts tendencies and por As tar as we can un- en. derstand the report of this remarkable harraague of the New Loglend statesman, be is in favor of erecting several clave States in Texas—he would adiwit Coliform as a State, and New Mexico as a territory, without any reference to the Wilmot proviso, which he regards as nugatory aad ridicu- ous. In fect, the seathing whieh Mr. Webster gives to the Wilmot proviso, and, indirectly, to the free cecil agitators of the whig and demoeratte par- thes, 1 the moet severe thing of the kind we have ever read. Everything that we have predicted and prefigured of the new aud remarkable posi- t' umed by Mr. Webster, on na- tional affairs, has come out to the tallest extent. The movement, however, of change and revo- | ebout to be asi Intron, afleet parties, the cabinet and future events, 1s only begun. Mr. Calhoun led off ia the beginning of the week, and Mr. Webster followed up with @ speech of equal power, equal importance, end tremendous energy, atthe close of it. We are truly in the midet of a revolution, produced by | es a State ornot. Her trade, already so great apd Cctnmanding, promises to be much greater the coming year; and we have no doubt that it 1s among the politiemans only, that interest 1 felt in regerd to her admission into the Union She can guin but linle in being represented ia Washington; but her politicians can gain a greatdeal. The mileege elooe, of her Senators and Representa- ives, would amount to ten thousand dollars each—- & little fortune, and a sum that, with politicians, is notto be sneezed at. ‘n all probability, we ehall have, in avery few cays, two weeks luer iwtelligeace from the new © theg that which we publish to-day. At the time when the Ale bona left Chagres, the steamship of the first of February from San Francisco had netarmved at Penoma, The Philadelphia and the Georgia were both to eail after the Alabama, and they, no doubt, were waiting for the mail, then i» San Franeiseo. | hourly due fr Ayotrer Funny Frarg-ue—THe Caninet ann Burcisn Minierer’s Lerrens.—The fanny up in Congress, npon the introduction of two rts from Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, addressed 1H fla: Mr. Clayton, is a curions episode in the history | of diplomacy. Sir Henry, charged with the guar- | dianthip of his ntry’s interests, deems it his duty to communicate the antictpations of the Bri- tish government with respect to the policy of our government iv view of the liberal measures adopted | by Great Britam, touching iron and ships. The | proceeding is an ordieary diplomatic one. Me. Cloyton, however, reads the letters, talks over them in the cabinet, end, unaccompanied with any opinion or recommendation, places them in the hands of Congress. A very natural surprise eosues, in both houses; and it tékes form aud embodiment | in Mr. Stanley, in the House, andin Mr. Cooper, in the Senate. The former, with the spasmodic ener- gy of an ompulsive, active natare, taken all aback | by the novelty’ of the movement, springs to his feet, and exclaims—* How dares the British Minis ter interfere with our domestic policy 7” The lat- ter, full ot boiling iron ore, explodes, and scatters bie fiery metal over the country—when people are found weking up, rubbing theireyes, and inquiring what the whole matter amounts to ? Well, it amounts to this, that the cabinet are going on in their ridiculous series of blunders, stumbhngs end follies. They cannot meet the 1c of a difficulty; but they must contrive to throw it upon Congress. They have not an opinion, a policy, a diplomatic hook to hang an idea upon, | and so they ‘cringe, aad stare, and hesitate, and despeir, and exhibit their weakness to Congress, the country, and the world. Sapient cabinet! Judicious diplomatists! Was there anything so very unusual and iaformal in this literary and diplomatic little Lijow of a British minister, coa- veying to those with whom he has business, the hopes wnd anticipatious of his government upon two of the most important points of a great public policy, recently adopted, after a struggle with the prejudices that had existed for centuries? Was there anything out of course im opening a correspondence on themes of vital importance to the Englieh people? Or, did Mr. Clayton, fear- ing that he had made a mistake, in not publish- ing @ correspondence on the Nicaragua treaty, seek to retrieve the errors made oa that subject? Whatever was the immediate cause, sensible men will eet it down to no other than the total mability of the present cabinet to meet a single obstacle, and to face it. Such an uncourteous, bald, and lame presentation to Congress, on a simple matter, is but another seene in the fanny farce acted by the present administration. The excited state of Messrs Stanley and Cooper is scarcely a subject of wonder. The appearance of the cabinet, through the medium of the two letters, magnified trifles into important affairs, and was well calculated to touch the sensi of these two geotlemen, A great deal of merri- ment has been the result; and asa hearty laugh, in these times, isa treat worth enjoying, perhaps the public will be disposed to thank the cabinet for meking fools of themselves, and applaud Messrs. Stanley end Cooper for filling up the comic situ- ations for a complete effect. The cabinet, how- ever, ehould not press into the service of their com- pevy of comedians, gentlemen who are obliged to perform their parts impromptu. The only sense exhibited in this matter was by Mr. Clay, General Coase, and a few others of the same way of think- ing. Tur Stoo Pierson Mysrerrmes AGatn IN THE Court or Srssrons.—The first of those criminal cases generally known as the stoc!-pigeon myste- ries of the Court of Sessions, commenced yestet- day before that tnbunal. It was the trial of George F. Case, on the charge of forgery ou a Mr. Neefus, a rerpectable merchant of this city. The evidence end proceedings of yesterday, will be found in our thore two ¢ ven, that probably will not only ertile the slavery question for years to come, | nm that it | reat pte but setile the present cabinet ina px will never be heard of hereafter. We refer ont readers to the speech and our correspoudence for | full porticulars on these views, | Avether important point is the belief that the present eticis will bring wbout not only an entire | seulement of the slavery question, bat an entire | reconstruction ef the cabinet, aod probably the | withcdraws!, wader the new cabinet, of many ot the ebeexious appointments now before the Se- | Many of those appointments, should the | we of our Washington correspondent prove ro doubt be withdrawa with the new ' wl men to be placed im power in the administration. According to all appearaners, anentire revolution | In the cobinet, of parties and views, and political | bout being formed and coming toa re With these things b sus, is it not time for | the me pts of New York, without respect to | perty or polities, to held a great mass meetiog, to | give wid @ support to this new movement for | compromise, d the settling thes question on the basis of justice to both ous of the country, | which has now been commenved, by the probable anion of such great men and patriots as John C. d Daniel Webster, Now isthe time to act h Carolina, Calhoun, of Se of Massechace! The News tr yer part of thia day's paper, We publich, in anc two weeko’ later intelligence from Califerma and the gold mones, which was received in thie city yesterday, by due course of mail. The details will be found exceedingly interesting, and we have ne thot they will be read with avidity by the public in general. The feet is, that an arrival from Calitornia is looked forward to with as much in- | terest ae ene from the Old World, so intimately consectd have become the relations, commercial, politice!, and social, between the eastera and west- erm boundaries of thie republic. By thie uptelli «, weere informed that the new State of Californi f anything, more pros- perous then ever ve reeent calamity that oo eurred to the city of San Francisco, has been | aeorly, if not entirely obt ; for we learn thet all, or pearly ail the buildings that were de- stroyed, have been rebuilt. This ie a very signifi- | cant sign connected with the new State. It shows | that it possesses a recuperative power equal to any | emergency that may arise, and that it is bent | upon going ahead, no matter whether it 1s ad mitted into the Union or not. In fact, its admis. | sion seems pot to trouble the people at ail, nor is | There any reason that it should California is an indeyendent State; ehe has formed her own cone stitotion, ond has framed her own laws. She has a large trade with the Atlante sea porte of the United States, as well as with the whole world She hes a mone of wealth within her borders, whieh, according to all accounts, is inexhaus table. Emigration is pouring in from foreign countries, as well as from the United Stat im fact, che possesses all the elements of prosperity, and need not care much whether she is admitted is, erated columns to-day. The ease is not finished, but wall probably be terminated some time to-day. The waning up will eommenee this moraing, and it livered before night. We have ce erently lese associated with the interesting drama of dupes, is +0, although ap tomate and knaves, on some of those that will follow. What the result of the tral or the verdict of the jury may be, we cannot epeculate on. According to the evidence, there is some probability in thinking that the forgery was concocted by some chemical in altering a letter addressed by Necfus to preeee Atlngton Bennet. This, however, is mere con- coture, but a very probable one. Case bimeeclf dors ne tappear to be bat the possessor, or holder, of the forged paper. ‘The material individaal, who knew more of the matter then any other of the im- probable that the charge te the jury will be de- | ted this one of the enses connected | with the etool-pigeon mysteries, and we believe it | lice officers, and lawyers, and ecoun- | ‘- i TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. eee IMPORTANT PROM WASHINGTON. errr THE GREAT SPEECH OF MR, WEBSTER. &e. we, &e. OUR SPECIAL TELEGKAPHIC COREESPONDENCE. Wasuinaron, March 7, 1950. We are in the midst of a orisia of a very important ature bere but it is dificult todetermine yet. it may lead tou compromine very questivn during the present sestioa, or to allea- Ate till mere the North and South, the end of which fow can tee, I think, however. | see land, Mr, Web- ster bar spoken to-day one of the moet extraordiaary epeeches of the resston, You will revive o very fall report by telegyaph, and you can determine those points which approach or recede more or leas from the poritions ot Mr, Calhoun If Mr (Calhoun made a deep impression here, Mr Webster's has made & deeper But the speech of thix great statesman, thengh terribly egainet the Wilmot proviro, indicates lessthan the private movements and private inter- views which have taken place between him aod Mr, Calboun, and their mutual friends, Oo last Satur day, Mr. Webster and Mr Calhoun were together, and alone for two hours, in private consultation, After they broke op the interview, Mr, Calhoun ex pressed himself perfectiy matisfind with the views of Oa Cues. the distinguish<d New England staterman Gay lart, wfier the rcepes which took ph pate between Mr Calhoun and Mr Foot cated @ division among the Southern mero, of @ very serious import, | have bern informed, from the very dest rource, that Mr. Webster and Vir. Calhoun had ancther long and very interesting conference, of six or seven hours continuance A strong effervesence bas taken place between the Southern men on the sompro- mise, and @ dinposition towards a seitlement has been evineed by Mr. Wehater and sir. Calhoun. and their intimate friends, I also understand that e serious steps are being taken, growing out of the new combi- wation, which will sweep the present cabinet em- tirely from power, and reconstruct the administration of General Taylor, on # new and more imposing basis. Mr. Webster has sent to New York, directing some of his intimate friends such an Simeou Draper and others, to come on immediately to Warhington, for consultae tion and future cperations. If a compromise ean be effeeted through the intervention ef Me Catheun and Mr. Webster, with their respeative frieuds from the North and the South, we will bave an immediate change in the cabinet, reeonstrnction of partivs in both houres and @ pew phare of political affairs for the next twenty years Ap immediate compromise, however, cannct take place, even with the suspices before us, without farther movements aud further imdications, The friends of Mr Buchanan at the South, among whom are Mr. Foote avd others. Dare disoovered some signs of @ compromise between Mr. Caiboun aud Mr. Web- ster. and a terrible feeling of repugnence bas been ma pifested, as was evinced in the recent tart remarks of Mr. Foote, in opposition to Mr. Calhoun If, however, out of there movements and balf deve- Joped views. nothing should reeult—uothing should be eflected- the difficulties here will increase, the excite- ment will rise bigber, and the country will get more and more in danger, are, therefora, in the very crisis of affaire, and although the public speeches indi- ome approach to compromise, the private move- mente an@ private inter 8 of Mr. Calhoun aad Mr, Webster, with their respective friends, present @ better prospect than apy other manifestations. It is understood that R. W. Thompson, late whig lof which closed the wer, sod peace war neg» member from Indiana, will be nomivated as Minister to Austria, Many Southern men appear delighted with Webster's epeech, but the free sefiers cull bim dough face. An effort will fellow in bebslf of Jobm Bell's compromise. It was intended to open the way for Mr. Webster. THIRTY-FLLST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Benute, Wasnixatox, Marek 7, 1850, ‘The ladies Giled every svailable position on the ficor ct the ohamber. and every avenue thereto wae crowded with auxious espirapte tor similar favors. ‘The Vice Paxsiesr stated the Grst business before the Sepate to be Mr. Cuay’s resolutions, on which Mr. ‘Waxes had the floor. Mr. Warxen briefly etated that (he vast assembly which filled the Senate hed come to hear the Senator from M fully give way to Mr. Webster, Mr. Weretrs rose and after expressing bis obliigationg to Mr. Sewardend Mr Walker for having yielded to not ase bates an American, and desired to do bis daty with fidelity with the hope that the storm which is now r the land might be allayed He spoke for the preser- restoration of that quietsud harmony so necessary to the prosperity and happiness of the country, Chess vider the ite which bad led to the present d ties, commencing with a relation of the war with Meal ta Dattles, triutephe, aud results, one sior to there megotiotions, the people California, seristed, perbaps by officers and people of the United States, revolted against the t of Mexico, and run up an Independent was, that @ tide of emigration set 1s San Francireo, from every country in the ‘The rich and apparently mexhaurt California were subrequently wonders had inorenped to a wonderful de- eration to thore alstant shores, world. nines of territorial government for the people of this sew teid that, in this state of thiogs, theee peeple bad taken mesures to ment, bed eleoied Senators and rent them here. with a coneticw adopted prebibiting vision It was thet bow made to her admission Whatever was believed to be the object or manner of the commencement of | pot jmetity ot portent persona is probebly the man named Verees, whose locality, existence, and move- ments, are hidden in mystery. It has been con- jretured by some, that One-Eyed Thomp ron, it he had beea put upon the etand, coald | have revealed some important matiers, de- veloping the mysterious character of this, the first case of the batch thet 1 commg on; but prebably 3 MeKeon, with delicacy of feel ing, Was unwilling to put on the stand a person of his equivocal port Mr. Whiting, the lawyer on the opposite side, may have wished @ dillereat purpose. At all events, the cose 1s only mterestieg as foras it asthe first and opening chapter of the ttookpigeon mysteries, which will make a great revelation concerning certain parties and certain interests, before they will term one way or the other, in the Court of & We mean to beve a firm, and fixed, and just, and determined eye on all these mysteries, ae they rise up aad call | for the attention of the public. On v1 New Maxasenrat Posrrrows —It Ie understood that Mr. Mitebe!l, fer many y enterprising manager oft Little Olympte”’ theatre, will close that ertat- lishment, eed possibly epen a new hotel, near Me Nib po'eestablichm It ia said, aleo, that Mr. Nibloeontem: plates building évring the present reason Sooh # hote! ts needed. The position fe central, and there is ample patronege at band to sustain it, Rutmor says, also, that Mr. ¢ . the theatrics! manager, it about to erect anew theatre upon Broadway. [t ir possible that he will eeleet (be cite of the present Olymple. He is backed with funds for the success of the enter. prise whole of the Few been received Th Teenit t* a0 follows 7 Ou8, Palfrey. jeads Palfrey 808 vor which opeme the way for Trey elected. Bullalo | territory, Territory was ae exprotation thet ft wonld be # Aivappointed by # tory itrelf, Mr. Webster then @entinto « historical consideration of the tmetitation of slavery, from the arliert ages to the prerent th The ancients did ery wpem the ground the more fa- telligent, and therefore the s'ronger party, were ea pertot to the weaker—the Roman philosop! Juriete divewmed the tpett {pterrationsl law, arguing " the nal | whore liver eecording to the notion of that day were at the merey of the captors, might, in return fr their lives be made raver fer life, the obligation also resting apom thelr poterity He alee there might be slavery of an individual & coprequence of debt; and third, for era. be alluded, at geome length. to the fering Ino large portion of ti ty the eonssientions be. Viet that ry i8 moi d inoompativie with the Christian erotimente of br He ox preserved his cwn comviction that there war moat belief of thie character, There were men in the com- tunity, eho, in the too hot pursuit of one daty. forgot that there are y otber duties which they overlook Therefore, men who suppoxe that they could dietin- gulch between right and wrong with the certainty of Yerbrate equation who thought mething grod that ie pot perfeet; those who, if they see a spot vpop the suo. consider that god reason for striking the sum frem bear fe men too impatient to watt for a rlow workiog of great moral eaves; they forget that the miractes of Carist, in bordred years have converted bata small tee bad done much towards creating the prerent difies What #ee the feciing On the part of the moet eminent poblic men in relation te the inrtitation of slavery? It od throughout the country net dot af e politieal evil. Injartoue ly rabstituting slave for free labor, and come qnenty teminent pubite men comme: with great acerbity upon the conduct of the mother coactry, ‘ebicb, to favor her navigation. indicted this evil pom the cclonter, The question. In the early daye of the government, wae net whevher flerery was on achuretts. and stated that he would cheer. | him, proceeded to address the Senate, He rose, he sald, | vation of the Union with an ausious beart—for the | the evil should be dealt with? It wes thought thet its days would be shortened, by prohibiting the impor- tation of slaves, and @ proposition was introduced to probibit tuch importsiion twenty yeare thereafter, This tii obj to by Mr. Madison, among other promicent Sousbern men, as being toolong. He feared, ac he said, tat too much of this evil would be introduced, if 0 much opportunity was allowed. It would be observed that the word slavery was not male ure of im the constitution, perbsps in consequence of the feelings expressed by Mr Madison, who did not want to see the institution of dlavery recognised ia the con- stitution. Mr, Webster thought there were three his- torical truths, which must be elear toall First: There was anexpectation, formerly, that upon the suppres- | resulted from t) ¢ inorease of the cotton growing inte- | sion of the importation of slaves, slavery would begip to run out. Second, that so far as there was avy power in Congress to prevent the spread of slavery ia the United States, it bad used it in the most absolute and decided manner. He altuded te the ordinance prohibit. ing slavery in the Northwest Territory, Mr. Calhoun bed eaid that this wee the first of the series of measures caloulated to weaken the South. He desired to ray, in reply, thet the ordinance was passed with the unant- mous consent of the South, there being bat one vote ngainst it, and that one a reprerentative from the North, Since that time, there bad been a great change in opinion, both North snd South. Slavery was not now regarded by the South as it then was; there bed been @ ccntinual and growing opinion in the North agaiost slavery, ard a growing opimton in the South ip Ite favor, until now it was consicered ep inctitution of great interest and value to her prosperity. This je of things bad resulted from canses which would produce like effects—the interests of mun, The change of oinion inthe South had resulted, in @ great measure, from the growth end increase of cote ton raising in the South. It was well known that, in °04, the value of cotion exported from the United Siates did not exceed fifty thousand dollars; while now, under favorable clroumstances, its value was perhaps one hundred millions peraunum, Im those days there ‘was more of wax, indigo, almost anything else exported from the South than cotton. Indeed, he was told, that when Mr. Jefferson negotiated the treaty of ‘4, with England, he did not know that cotton was raised in this eountry at all, and when the first shipment of cotton reach portin England, aud was sought to be admitted there under the provisions of the treaty, it was objected to upon the ground that it could not bean American product, as no cotton was raised there. England would hardly say that now. (Laugh ter) Mr. Webster replied to Mr Calhoun’s assertion, that the operation of the government had been agaiast the South, and calculated to weaken her. He con- tended that the contrary was the fact, eo far as the legitimate effect of legislation was concerned Ia. deed. much direct legisiation bad been adopted ex pressly for the benefit of the South. In support of this position, he recurred to the voting for the ad mission of Louisiana and Alabama, and, at great levgth, upon the admission ot Texas. fe referred expres*ly to the action of the demooracy of the North, in relation to Texas, and incidentally to the eourse purrued by the same party, in the Senate, when, at the commencement of the war with Mexioo, Mr. Berrien introduced @ proposition in the Senate. to the effect that it should not be prosecuted with a view to the acquisition of territory. This the Northern democracy failed entirely to support, it indicating clearly their opposition to such senti- ments. It suited thore gentlemen to bring iuto the country @ world, in the vaileys and mountains of California and New Mexico and to put upen it the saving grace of the Wilmot Proviso. (L iter.) Returning to the quertion of Texas admission, related his own position, quoting from his speeches snd acts to show that he had always been opposed to it, Decsure he knew that wheever porressed Texas it would beaslave territory, and be was unwiliiag to extend that institution, He bad, time and agein, expressed himeelf strongly opposed to the institattoa of eny new slave Stater, or the acquisition of slave territory. Upon that polat be knew no clitnge in his eextiments, at the present time. (Sensation) He. on one cecarion, he beileved, expressed bimeclt against the | causing an inquiry to be made in relation to the aot of | acquisition of any more territory, North, South, East or ‘West. He bed expressed his belief in the Spartan maxim—imvrove apd sdorn what you have. ami reek nefurthér But, whet was our present condition ?— ‘Texas bad been admitted with all ber territory, with the Institution of slavery, snd an irrepeaiable law by which, if new States erected out of any portion of ber territory, they shail be slave States, and he wished st to be distinctly understood, that he considered tus govern ment solemnly bound by law te create new slave States out of Texas, when her territory shall contain a population suffi. erent therefor, Slavery was excluded from Califorais and New Mexico, by the law of nature, which had ereet- ed im passable barriers to its introduction there. Tis he considered as @ fixed fact--that that country was to be free— that rettied by the arrangement of Provi- ence, and could not be changed. Regarding ths asa Saved fact, he would not vote for the insertion into any bill, giving territorial government to the new territory, of any | provision prohibiting slavery there--ANY RE-EN ACT. were hie chjects, and if be could do ever ro little, hie | end would be accomplished. He proceeded to co. | joule | | complaint pom the part of the South. aud om od given rive to the opporition | ction of the people of the terri. | of Dations admitted that the captives of war, | im many rprecher made in the houses of © | MENT OF THE WILL OF GOD. HE WOULD PUT INTO IT NO WILMOT PROVISO—NOTHING THAT WAS SO USELESS AND NUGATORY. He meant to rtand or fall upon the propesition that eve Ty foot of the territory ia this country bas a character fixed and Immutable, which cannot be changed in aay way. In this connection, he satd, the proviso ta eure of Oregon was nuogatory aod senseless, aad ob- rerved that if there was avy of the Northern democracy who now desired to a Wilmot proviso into an aot, giving government to California, be supposed the same men would feel It necessary to assert the sawe principle tor the purpore of raving the enow-clad bills of Canada from the foot of the sinve,in case ebe shall be anaecxed. [Laughter,) The proviso would be Just a4 necessary avd proper im one care as the other, In the against the ing with the complaints of the South, over that jo relation to the manuer of ¢ol- @iMeulty arising from the failure of the give proper aid ia the captare aud delivert erlaves. Ip thie, he thought the North in the end the South right It ware jast couse of the North ought to remove. The by the constitution, aod it was not consistent with morality for Northern m and legislatures, to at tempt to evade thie ision. Congress ovght to pars eome low removing the evil; for one, he designed rupperts be bills of Mr. Mason, now the Senate, having that otject im vie ticn with thie point, be Gade so propriety of legislative them. and raying, in effect, poo the if inetructions rhoatd de rent to Lim tu relation to any matter affrotiog the interests of the South, he should pay no more regard to them then ja if appointed an arbiter to de cide some matter la dispute between indirideals, aod was to receive inrtructions from those *ho appotated the freedom of every slave ym the laud; bat, unforta- highly the freedom of the press; yet it was wate tunately trae that the press was frequently proxti- tuted to evil, ond thet articles were frequently found in the papers, having @ mischievous frrt tating tend ere euch expressions fteee [udeed, be must ray chat the verowoular of (he country bad been cremi)y vitiated depraved by character of the speeches in Congress, (LU t.)—= ministering a rebuke to persons for baving the abrotate ignorance of slavery with the educated, free labor of the North, be eloquently considered the yuesitom of dissolution of the Union, roouting the idea of peaceful secession, Could any man be eo foolieh as to expeet rach a miracle’ — of the bewating up of this he upheariog of the waters of the mighty deep withoat disturdicg it what wee to be the tesalt of a wl the line tobe draeat— Whet was to become of the State? What to be come of him? Where #as the fog to remaia’ War ogle to tomt, or was it to shrink and tal to the ground! The epirite of our aneestors, our very ohil- debildren, would ery shame, if we then to hear met taik of recession He ailaded, eto, tothe Southern Convention, He was bound to beliove gratiomen derigned aeeembling there for the purpore of considering matters for the sa'ety, perpetuity aod evil?=that wee admitted. The question was how | prorperity of the republic. If they had ony design of | considering any project of secession, he would only say that they bad been inappropriate in their choloe of a Place of meeting when they selected Nashville. It was said once, that if King William could have beard of the eonclusion of the peace of Amiens, be would have turned in his coffia. The came expressi might well be applied to the case of the propesition of secession talked of over the g' ave of Andrew Jackson. in conclusion, Mir. Webster delivered @ most impassioned and eloquent tribute to ‘the value of the Union, and the spirit of patriotism and philanthropy which would maintain it. Mr. Carnoun rose to reply to the suggestions by Mr, ‘Webster— that the acquisition of Florida and Louisiana reste, or the desire of the South to extend slave territo- Ty. The acquisition of Florida was the result of an In- dian war, and Louirians was purchased with the navigation of the Mississippi. He dented that in his connection with the project of Texan annexation, he was actuated by any desire for the extension of slave dominion, He bad advocated the annexation of Texas, with # view to defeat the scheme by which aboil- tonists ght her connection with Great Britain, with «view to the abolition of slavery in the United otates, where it existed. On this ground alone he had putit. The Senator bad eaid that the South acquiesced in the ordive: of 67 withoute dissenting voice. Mr. Calhoun contended that measure was under discussion three years before its adoption, during which it met with much opposition, and wes finally adopied asa compromice, the South vainly believing that she bad av] indemnity thereip, He complim Mr. Web. ster on the bold apd manly position which he bad taken im relation to the arrest of fugitive slaves. The Senator was willing aod prepared to fulfil contracts and stipulations—to vote for @ bill having for its object the better enforcement of ‘hore stipulations; but he must say te the gentleman, that all penal laws upon the subject would be in- operati uplees the people and the Legislatures in the Northern States would oo operate, The Senator had expreared himself opposed to the Wilmot proviso, 4 ready to throw open the territories to the slave States together with the free. Mr. C. boped that, in the rame spirit, the Senator would be willing to remove the impediment placed in the way of the slaveholding emigrant, by the Mexican laws in force in California, He could vot gr ith Mr. Webster, that the Union could not be dissolved. Could no insult, broken faith, or eggression, produce that result? The Union could be broken, and could only be preserved by an exercive of justice. good faith, and @ rigid adherence to the constitution, Mr, Wenster followed in reply. What he desired to fay was, that the breaking up of the Union, by volun- tary secession of States, was impossible. He did not doubt tbat e course of oppression, or aggression might produce resistanee upon the party thus oppreesed, but thet wouid be revolution, not secession In rejoiner to Mr. Caiboun’s cuswer to bis position about the cause, which produced the soquitition of Vlorida and Louisi- ane, he would suggest that it was usual for wise states. men, baving am object to accomplieh, always to take advantage of cecasions to accomplish it. The occasion it be Indian wars, the obetructiog the navigation of @ river, or what not, (Laughter.) Again, if the object of Texan annexation was simply to preveiit her acquisition by Great Britain, could not that have been ‘as effectually by making it free territory as slave? (Laughter) Im conclusion, he said that when the Cirect question of the admission ef California should come before the Senate, he designed saying rometbing im relation to the boundarivs aud coueti- tution of that State, and th pedieney of admitting ber, under all circumstances, the Union. Mr, Catnoun again rose, eald that in claiming ‘Texas f-r plavery, the South thought it ld give them by no means as much as they had been exciuded from ip the West. J Mr. Wat tock the floor, and the Senate ad- jou House of Representatives. Wasniwotom, Mareh 7, 1850. THE WOODWORTH PATENT. Mr. Purwam, (whig) of N. Y.,asked leave to introduce & joint resolution of the Legislature of New York, Congress extending the patent of Woodwerth's planing wacbire, No objection being made, it was received by unasi- ‘mous consent. THE CENSUS. On moticn of Mr. Tnomrson, (dem ) of Pennsylvania, eo much of the President's annual message as relates to taking the next census, be referred to the Committee on the Judiciery. PRINTING OF THE PATENT OFFICR RErORT, Mr MeWirrtie, (€em ) of Miss, frora the Committee on V'rinting, re] a tavor of printing thivty thou. fand cop the mechanical and seventy thousand ot the agricultural portion of the Patent Oftice ¢) Mr. Cororn (whig) of N. Y., maintained that there should be no division, but that it should all go forth to- getbel Mr. Stanton, (dem ) of Tennessee, ' fic commenced at the the germ of an agri eaid that the divi- but that 4 = vuch an estabit-ban - be — of bis State bad pasted resolutions ia vor of it, Mr. Fowurt of Mass, thought that a larger bu ber of the mechapicai portion ought to be printed, as the demand was great for it. The resotution was rejected, mi ) of Md.. moved for a reconsidera- raid that he that only ted, breaure, to four or tive ber for distribution, ts wenty-five thousaud of these colleges. mi) of Va, eas oppored to the printing He held to bis baud # copy of this re- port, printed by the «: terpricing establishment of the New York Tribune, and sold for twenty five ceats it ip» beutiful commentary on the Congressional print- teg, that thie should be fursiehed by « private esta- Ditebm Let those who want bay Ma, Ware, (whig) of cr EPL tO bare « copy of it; sod it wee the basiness of treed propie their avocations The idee was, to distri- bu & books. te eatoh votes Dir Carver, Céem,) of Oblo, said he would print doa- | Ol aerwite dispored of, aud yet m email pittance forty (bow and. was refused to the meehanio rieal- toriat. You vo ennds for the off-pri j tricus sires, becouse ettached to f FM 5. (Laagheer) Dir. McLase raid Be Gid not refer to the corruption Of cc Br tiuencio® but to the corruption of members. Do you peak from experience? Dit Cane Mr Mc Lase traded books with Mr. Baows, (dem | @ Ferelution to ong colleges Sbich be preaiced would be voted down | the amount of books publihed by ; would be corruption of members Without divporirg of the eubject. the Mouse went Into Committer of the Wh: eo tetenreseed, "hr Shasies to course of a, from New Y. he looks Rovy ae Mr Fle Ren he corse ares. ened, 11 reste the geverpment, Mr. Hilliard amendment " = constitution; he strumeut es it This Union is to be preserved by o strict sdberence to the orgenic law. way. thre ‘the series eh of kduun Dim. thet Diberty Mr, Stautes visiting (he grav Jackron, #8 having seved the country ; rpoke of Gener 1 eraytor, as eee yoy to use the wulitary forces, The is around General Taylor's brew were dearly earned, and were not to be orimeoned with blood. fis confidence in Gen, Y y ¥as unlimited, and he trusted that his flurces wend be foand om the side of peace, Im Yoiladelpbia convention, Mr. 8 Gefeat the nomination of Ge 1 ' now i thengbt that to de~ t the pemineation of Geaeral Cay’ adept. vo denoe hax grown with my kvowledge of the ma of the distinguished chief, Mr, Hilliard: ct be rpoke yesterday, and did not care. Whilehe (Mr. Stayiey) Wee spewking. Mr Hilliard mede # remar! which caught bts ear and then it was be said he wot yey bis respects tothe geptleman from Alabama, What did | say? . Hicttanp —You wholly misconeeived my re- vr arks slwply aeked a question of a gentleman near me, Mr. Stastty—How did I know whether spoke to: him cx ma? The semerk reashed my oor, ont 8 my Weelinun, una that is the reason { made the remark did But for the preceding remarks, | would not bave dow Iti iok that the gentleman is not incapable: of any euch purpors if Hiisano- 1 am incapable of orienting ofipe tive remarks toward: insisted that the grievance ca Mr Stavley. Mr Siantey—God help the ‘oonselanes of these poli- thea) parsour "t understand ft. The countrp knows that bet withont pablishtag it hi self, 1 aliended t odist Church in my bans | respect the preach: they "t understa: tell and Grotius, like the geatiemsu thera—hua- dred doar fellows, who preach the glad tidingy to bisck aud white. They go where nobody else goes, aud Gout preach for glory or pay, like Mr. Hiliterd, or any ofthaterort, He seid that po gentleman would say what | did ‘Mr. Hitisano—I said no gentleman would allow him. Y., eaid that this document, | B, } ab veel Mr. Poomns, (whig) of Ga, remarked, that If printed, it thoold wet be form part of the people ali people | irre to furnien public dooament+, net booke to | te +bo | Die a hundred thousand copies, if it depended om bis | v Thirty milifene of dollars were squandered. or | Feu Mr Staxivy—I want to know whether to treat him aracler:) wan OF ® politician? Doos he tollow the meek apd jowly Jesus—the man of sorrows and ac- Quainted wich arief—avd when smitten on one cheek dors he turm the other. and sey that ( am no gentle mar! inthe Alabama Methodism? He referred to me as the member tican North Careliaa. When gentlemen wirh to be cffevsive, they eay member; but he has shown by Dts remarks that | bave a higher respect for — tDaw Le has fd vn aruisey 19 commeneed ow me, by saying that ebosen « clergyman for m: adverray ‘Dbisis an iutimstion that (have made a cowardsy attack on a Methodist preacher. I su; ibe boborsbie gentiemaa from Pennsylvania (Mr. Stevens) is one of these, (Laughter) Mr, Stan- ley expiained what was considered @ desecration of the Scriptures; it meant to divert the Scriptures from their boly purpose, and to use them irreverent- ly, ip ordinary conversation; tuis was all he meant, cerbiug more; but Mr. Hiiiard said that was false, He then took up portions of Hillyard’s epecch. commenied thereon, apd contended that the extracts Were Lot in accordance with the seriptures, 0 that they looked towards disuaion, aud were ia- com patible with Christianity. Mr. Hittranv—Wiil you give me time to ssy a word? Mr Svartev— Understand the gentleman to say U letter writers with a shetch of my rel Mr Stasiev~T ow how the politic! rt commended the tekiog down the can preach, mea ho sin} your voce’ ; 1 have ugh cf Mise Naucyiem on this floor, He was 2 who raid he did certain things as a gene- cardinal, sod was s-ked what will you be Gov gets you? (Laughter) Whe; chet than ays! ee ay jet the eon wher my heart is im the right asks whether disupien sentime speech? | euewer several. to sa; HE & HE BSF) come ip, without em additional I meant fo @ parlieme: —It heey oy yee yat it is not ved, the aly preachiug in & Ptok 4 making ——— for ol je was urging Teniste on't believe that ‘mre = Dew ‘nercachment st any hasard— ih my judgment, the paeage of the +o- In mnt, Wilmot trove bs uld drive the people into tog y— How? 1akp— Revolution resistance. Do so @ We will etond poll! Reoctescckesscanss ny ae oe Dir, av~ He siey. starting up— If we fight with preschers ter) ‘Will the Southern people resist the wparmed (Laugh y—I don't believe it ill bo passed, iahv—Suppore it should be passed. y—If pasred, | believe the people of North ‘ine 8h etemd by the Union, Wilmot Proviso or bo Wiitet Proviso, (A storm of applease broke outon floor and inthe galeries, woleh was promptly atilied by the (teicmeo) © Kerletanoe, aod to the utmost ex- ray «re Lot words iv my voeabulary. Mr Muss —De you jeve that the South wilt tom per South eit rer guilty. 0 | have endeavored: (tie wot tree that ora the preacher of tresron. After further rela to the committer, {f, in a moment of ) of Aladame, by general con- | ake a persoral explauation ing that the Methodist Episcopal 4 that | Lise patpit, | be @riven from unis porition. His reli- gations had constrained bim fn hie inter- | to be courteous and respectful.— | from North rol (We. (bereh come | the imterests of tae people he | Teper betweea the geutieman Die: — be ¢ | represented and himerit aniey plants bimerif on felects him for ao @ivacsary | ta the Ie was not his object, yesterday, to ime teifere for & moment with thet genileman; bat two aee im frat, thet be (Me Hil Nero) hed deseerated the Soriptures with @ view of vietng the people ct the Ust Staten to shed blood: and theo her that he favored disurtom. To the first ef there charges, be sould say it wee gratuitous, He dd not remember, on soy of baving | taken from the eneted Seripteres @ single woru the | 19 fuppert of euch « Oa the com trery, in his he hed cistinetiy etd be wowd argue the rights of bis constituents, s¢ te Ai grocnds. beewure that woald adrait tha he bed deseorated the Seriptures, s pecod be examined, and that would show whetner be did Fo. Mr, Steoley, in the beat of the occasion. hed wot oviy rucbed to the barrier. but hed pe He chat. due court the North whem they ate generous, and be might etiogive tne North and do bemage, Shem they are pot arrayed ayainet his fection, but be wonld not under prevent cirsamstences, member trom No th Caroline went over the whote feld of the comcroversy in searehing whether he conid dt-covet the first aggression on the part of che North. Mr Conver] ie it ta order for geutiomen to rewi ” Let him go on. by (dem ) of Conn., in explanation — the hour rule apply? m Mr Fentiess wich to ~ whether other gentis- fn opporte: the whole progress of resnmed argument, Mr Stanley was unable to aiscover « | e OMe Sony's reply ¥ ly ‘ord to ray he would hereatier Guderstand “es rpeeches im a partians: fense. Sevens, (whig) of Pa. (Ores of Dear! en on op~ tenced to him we portunity. Thet balraas Golly restored of ter and gentlemen who bad gethered tuvod Mr. Stavley were returning to ther teas, when — Me Stevens ae! be heard Mr Stasros (dem.) of Kentucky, olalmed the floor Mr. Roor (free setier) of Ohio, waated him to yield it, for Mr. Stevens. Nr Srasrow did not want to be di.conrteon, bat re- fored. and then commenced bis speech. and rpoke m few minutes when he gave way to » motion for the commtttes to rise prevatied sod The Howe NEW YORK LEHEGISLACUaE, Senate Atoawy, Mateh 7, 1850. Mr. Moncan reported the Raqurtte riverand Moose river Improvement bile, for the consideration of the Serate. BILLA PaseRD, Pony the charter of the National Fite Insurance 7 ? be bill appropriating $1.000 each for three year, , for the rdveation of ten Indt, taken the Giseretion of the State Supertacentens om the. different Sesbee ret in exi-tence im this State, The bill for the reilef of the beira of Eauna Hughes. * ‘The Senate then them of ihe bit dem pif Panking be reattwr busi th mente Fated banks Whose ‘hertere have ci ip the coun eof 10 bustpers, the porer ot neh. and rede c ‘ ' n , ry