The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1850, Page 1

NO. 5753. MORNING EDITION----SA TURDAY, MARCH 9, 188C. THE NEW YORK HERALD. MORE NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. 2 RIVAL STEAMSHIP PANAMA, AT PANAMA, STEAMSHIP GEORGIA, AT THIS PORT, wrtn Over Half a Million in Gold Dust. Another Half a Million on its Way to New York. HIGHLY INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE. _ GOLD DISCOVERED N@AR SAN DiiG%, enn Jews from Oregon, the Sandwich ‘alands, and the Isthmus of Panama. “TAE LATEST PACIFIC SHIPPING INTELLIGENC &e., &e., &e. we The United Stata mail steamer Georgia, Lieut D. D. Porter, commander, bas arrived from Chagres, with ¢.§nt days later intelligence from that place, and two weeks later intediigence from California than that puriithed on the New ‘Yorx Henatn of yesterday. > The Georgia sailed trom the anchorage at Chagres on ‘the 27th of February, at half past 4 o’olock, ?. M., and enchored in Havane in three days and fourteen hours. ‘She was detained iu Havana thirty-six hours, coaling, -and Jeft her anchorage at Havana on Monday evening, . Sbe arrived at the bar of New York last 7 o'clock, making her run in nidety-six hours, The Georgia doubled Cape Hatteras in sixty hours after leaving Havana. She encountered heavy gale allthe way through. On the second day, the wind wa. very favorable. The distance from Ha ras is one thousand and sixty m!) © remarkable rum om reer goles, which the sbip a to Hat is the most : for beary N.W after passing Hatte- ‘Fas, she would bave ork in three days and nine hours. Tho Georgia bri pgers from Charges, be- sides 50-left at Ha Lhe Faleon, im all 300, with about $600,000 of gol. 6 The Empire City leit Legres 24 hours previous to the Georgis, with about 50 passengers; and tho Phila- -delpbia 43 hours. Tbe Cherokee left the day previous, for Navy Bay. % The Philadelphia remsined at the anchorage at Cha. gtes whem the (ico: gia left. ae The Georgia brings all the mails by the steamers Panama and California; they amount toa large num ‘der, besides two thourand five dred way letters, collected from tbe passengers om board. The California leit San Francisco on the 15th of Agnuary; ber rew: published in yesterdsy's Herald. The Panama \et; Sen Francisco on the Ist ult; her maews we glve in this mcrping’s Herald. ‘The following isthe amount of gold dust brought by the steamer Panama from San Francisco to Panama, and now on its way,im the Empire City and Puila- elphia, to New York. $99,165 90 Aa. oO 9149 00 140 | eRe Cur Ohegres Correspondence. Cracase, Feb 23, 1850, I have just seen Capt. Porter, who tells me that the Georgia will proceed from Havana direct to New York, 480 perewtih cond you il the Califtenis papers gether. The California, on her downward trip, both bound to San prenes (PF eare that ship from Callao : was seized Ce list, the Colleotor ‘of ‘Sen + soem 4 ‘The vessel. together with her: was sold. including s juantity of merchandise ne q - ipped on freight by News of the Pacific 31 os = in ‘malta on this Capt. Budd, on the Thy January. The tteamshi ‘ae pams, Capt. Bailey, leaves this port on Che Ist of Fe ru. ala sof the tights Bese wbich exieted in the moi arket, The ee cilito, by the orders of Cemmodore Jones, until the Ponama, then due. should arrive from below, and bring information with respect to the Nicaraguan difficulties. There wa: much excitement in the’ public mt id the chances cf wer were ly discussed. T! no founde'ion for the re} e The Li ag es Wei Capitol _ working quite in- justriously the treasury is so perfectly empty. A lca of $200,000 wae authorized, in sums = 44 slapred, ond vo cayitalst appeared peed, oud DO cap an service. Phe Legislature are undecided what to do. 4 is pow pre probably ly expedient which can be resorted to: under military authority, is ongress is on —the ofvil fund, collected claimed as the property of California, and C: to be solicited ro to consider it. Several wise and sa- tutery laws have been enacted; am others @ pilot law. A recclution is pow under co: tion which declares the coin issued by va:ious parties here, of the euppoted value of $5 and $10, to be counterfeit, and coming within the full meaning of the law relative to counterfeit ccin; also @irecting the issuers of such coin to redeem it within thirty days after the paseage of the under penalty of lege! proceedings for oounterfeit- ‘The parties ¢ od that their coin is of the full d that it is only in the power of thorities to prohibit ite issues and utmort evergy is evinced ' The overflow at Sacramento City bas in a great mea- sure, eubsiced, end the unt of damage sustained far hort of what w \cipated. Aithough the | is not over y repatations for the s; tvicy, while measures are ¢ cotried ¢, which will disaster of a simalar o) 4 we from a pature. uot one-baif cf as pre- dicted baving occurred. in the upper portions of the placers the enow bas been #0 deep as to compel ti miners to come down further, but thore who bare ntered above have uo reaton to compluin. fa | made. and the reevit of labor bas exceeded the most tapguize expectations. Provisions have not beea scarce. avd have been procurable at reasouadle rates, New towns are springing up im all directions upon the bar ks of the various streams, and are being built up | with uvexampled rapidity. Of course, Jand speculation is extens vely Induiged im. The smat! steamers are deily pushing their way higher and her up, and s1eaping a rich harvest, while th abeten thatch of property. and increase the labi:ants. The facilities for co: cod, and: daily i as the winter- 4 over, tbe “dust” which . soon been collected durin; thé fast reacon will be thowbred down ‘pon us, ‘ond every branch of business will receive a fresh impetus, (The news trom the Sandwich Istands to the 2vth of Decer ber, will be found ip another column ot New Yook Herald } From Orr are mrived the Zlet in: ment. end inierest Our city is becoming quite refined, and intellectual awusemente are beginning to be the order of the day. A small Cramatic company claimed the vntion of the piace for a couple of weeks, but yielded the boards to other Ric} monds with creater pretensions. ‘The Olym- pic Amphitheatre. quite an extensive estab! to day's many of the © digyimgn’’ new discoveries have been | arrive at their place o! there. A which have large seivee, are various to mining mi wil often find places in where the earth is very earily Prove to be so much impregaxte Girt; hut by washing » muon larger amount of earth ficd,at the end of hisdey's Isher thas he nas about as mach dust, if not wore, bettom, by which me: ttled. The ri ould could bate afew dune of svttety mind tod Le anelee Srapanied about Wail of the time: with tela a3 have formed Rordly ques meee Kchaeerisians dove th: to up ® large mber of ae a undzed--iost of whom peomed' te pete seu aianee, Grev, sup. 23-P. *. ame wp yesterday mi ving made t) oteen hours, which is very aaiok for's rapalier, ¢ StKONK Current setting down She brought one hundred and tof whom are going directly to the iting to most parte of the placer it to the fort from this city «m= thine into consideration th for over half the distance. will prove not only cont fo. after they but also on their way and boots to matoh it, every one to provide himself wit! or four lankets sre indispen: aricus machines (with the exception of h quicksilver), I think those preferable nd are straicht up and down at the the bottom. Tnere ed 68, inetea averging te is Kind of y thai B e ix on ow can get through ue mere carth, and it requires vory itle more labrr vo work it thaw a staller one. £ho miner field of his operations ot at, but which will mot with gold aa some other | he will | arg’ than if be considerably rich he bottom. by the of Washing, halfas mach earth you are very likely to lose much of Always velect @ mi t ad of @ wooden one a fluence the water has receded soveral inches, and people are looking more cheerful fang the wore enterprising of our cities the Many the endortaking sol offers a atic dich serv: by & theatrical com- pany from Sydney. A pretty little theatre is pear! tor French vaudevilles, pantomimes, burletias,&o No little excitement was . few days sivoe by the trial of the captain of the abip | 2 a2 by yt Consul at Panama, ‘itt & Oo., New York, ao but frem the east upon theiz California Marter, we are ti id iy the held at the omee of Priest Le 4 think itoan be done ata very trivial expense. I hops Fr cone ul. at $155 per M., whi bisa large rice rd ef gore very suoceseful operations on asT ould not find out mames Through the courte: enabled y of to requested information of passen, daily arriving at {vee sive for the Uenent of the omlgrants # venture, that 1 {4 4 Angelique, pote opirst. — seule bene = | Reyne di ary the celebrated Mrs. Farnham, for damages sustained inte can always be obtained u; plication at loninns em we to | inconsequerce of the ceptain's having left thet lady | the cen Muster, of persows who have ingen Wells albu oo | debore at Valparaiso, separating ber from her children, arrived by eea at this port. eats Fire] by bringing t cvdedee! ob tet, JC, &, 0 for | From the 12th day of April, 1849, to January 20th, 9816 inducing ber servant, a white girl,to marry the black | 1850. inclusive, the passenger arrivals at the port of 8.500 styrene. There was contiderable scandal introduced | Sen Francisco, by sea, is as follows :— 1i'soz co | dring the trial, but we belleve it was only proven tbat | american. . 29847 males. 919 females. Led Mrs. F. was litle too much of en advocate for the | Foreign..... 620 2 S00 rights of women, and had « penchant for climbing the | — — Tw riggizg in unmentionsdies. Withers, the m n | 5 ++ 38,007 14an 14,000, has not bern Sab eet © the Total males and females, 30888 These have ar- Tiss to | Country. One Cel. Myers, © base imitetor of Shooko | rived by sea, in eight hundred and five vessels, to wit : Jones, recently abeconded, after having victimised . 487 perple. abstracted upwards of a thoursod . 38 Bae sees SSTESSSSSCSSLSRSISESSSSEESS ad been appointed treasurer. A re’ 4100 $ was cflered by the society for hie apprehension. Bae An incendiary attempt to fire a new bail near the 129% 08 | office of this paper, was frustrated nights since : ALES WD | by the custom-house watchmen. Gen. fersifer F. + Wow Sinith arrived from Scnoma yesterday, upon official 5.00) business, He will :con retarn. To ryeak in general terms, ing upon this side of the Atlantic gives token of perfect prov pesity, and picteres to us the future replete with fond entic! ag of a continuance of the favor ef the Supreme r. 38 to and Placer Int Sacrai ri Nant etyle on inging us ad- the 1. to the 18th feet, and Saora- mento City t! aye later inte! noe. ‘Lhe disastrous overfiow of the Sacramento, is still uch ee, oe euffertn; he, we are gratified to be wo @,that preepects are m: cheering for the rpeedy abatement of the waters. The mes has resumed its branch The Tuerday, vioes from th. Sesssaese alg brought im addition to the ebore amounts, some $250,000 in dust, not on the manifest. ‘The steamer Coeliforcia, which sailed on the 16th of Jamvary, brought some $500,000, which is on board the above vessels. The reason for the emall amounts ship- ped ie, there not having been any intercourse with the amines for several weeks. in consequence of the great issue, and fell tide height of the rivers, has beet ‘The bark Paoli was et Acapulco, Mexico, for San perme! Frapeiseo, with p astengers. Awes named Henry Pullen, of Providence, R.I., died om board the Georgia, om Sunday morning last, just before the @ entered Havana, and was buried at -, Amnered are the im the Georgia: — a NA pk 3 Pack ‘a Barn a ‘eeter, © rove af rich as A flakes of gotd few days pay, and we saw a washed 2 “oll B Kirk, C ey Bowia?, 4 the bet gold Ln | is ‘- 7 tothe othr The washings are and (he tivers teo swo lon, the fait of work Siners whe ave, linger out the a ‘ation with beer ming fortitude, but for those at the digaicgs. with bo shelter but canvas, bard ano the only al ernetive—that of ooun‘ainr with great frequer teen the val ry settlements am wretched. Ware weather enables various minrs #0 that provi everywhere and fo be purebased att prices; ine any inctances, with but t advance bye freight. Flour, Ye selling at 25 cents per pour: Poratoss reeatty ocmmand $1 £0 per are to be obtained. On North Fot ke of the Americs! ber,’ yo ‘with venicon At Cecrgewosn Degiogs thenrand sonia, the placer is seid to be meariy ex- baust) eat the South Ferk, where about ed Mr. James B. Devos, the tle mail agent. aed Me Stephen Roberts, of thi % who came passengers in the © , for the eariy delivery of our parcsis. ‘We learn that Vir. Devoe has made the | vlokert trip from See Francisco to New York on reeotd. He was commissioned as the special agent to soavay thy Call- a fornte mall 1, to the United States ie lett 5/80 people quartered. although the snow bas io- \@am Fransisco on that day in the steamer Pansma, on! po oy mining operations, Lyn & ~ | reached Panama in nineteen days, sod Chigres in | that the oper ee Gen rs tweaty three diys Theooe he proceeded to Harace in the Gectigie, in ‘Sree days and fourtere houre—theace to this city fm lexs than four days, The whole frvrriling ime from San Prancises ty Mew York was anty (wenty- (trem our Sacraments City Cormsopomsont ) sass, seorn dege. Aereal time from city te city was thirty flee pew none ra ‘ Deed days! White at Ohagres, he overhauled the California vat voor eto smaile of the 15th of January, whieh left San Frnnoio> | the "Set great \sevemtere days befe bia, This is ox twvrdiaary sat wn ee, i hoe Se it to add to th ing. Th Sissy places on the Babarontere, and ts na med b; j the Alta California of Jan. 24) ] ler MeKim came down in the region | vith the slang jipe is exclusive of army and navy veerels, and steamers, which have arrived during the | San Diego and the Bo nee. | , our © | U. 8, Tepogra = | H pe. hurried letter from of a arrived eizce April 12th, and January, is :— ndary [rem the Alta California, Jan 31) friend, written while the wesin portat San Diego, furnisher i t rel Condé. chief of rr, vee for the m letter stat that th great state of excitement ¢ than one hundred per cent in Miscel: enue Seoens a Pacifie Ne january nother shootl fracas other ing?” On replying in the affirmative, Kurte true! id Long with e slaag shot, and at the same nthe band by another person not or. from the ho and struck reveral tines, before officers B and I!egan arrested them. é [From the Alta California of Jan 28 } Arrests Svicipe.—A named John Campbell tent ide by iy oe. and ie hese the He con. taining the laudenum near him. A letter, direoted “To finder of my corpses,” was lying on s table in thercom. Its contents are as follows: — “ T have committed this ayful act, rather than die lin- death by stervation, Please get Ca Worster, om beard the Tgtat sehsner ae A Kher Ge | Clarke's Point: end he, I tepat, Us are * offered for rale. a postey nay + the 4 Ferry. om the 9th lost, Mr. Canrrorann J. Swerer, ‘80 years, cf Clark county, Arkansas, im Sam Frencirco, 1ith instant, of hold fever, Acowerve W. Kear. aged 22. formerly eatchester Ts Y, New York papers please copy. At MeSpedon's ranch, on the Calevara river, 2ist Inet James Cans aonas, of Now York city, aged 20 years, i York morn! ug, s1th inet. Me N. ¥. deceared was a ie Fara, and is, weare in- place wever, our not eccataet aed tendency. 4 eeponied solicita\ion of many merokants, #9 insect pipmens Breus the Vatted Bratce' No this orks woulda bread t] ‘Boots AND for hem EX parts of steamer. Gorn De Jen Lt -Am sbtp, George Wash = Cb be, ‘The Colleator of this that a DING Maren tava. Rrety article in thi . has sul . ae $2836; 94 bble. tr dt bbla. at $1975. eales have beer mad $20 and refused. FLOUR AND Mra1—The sean Hikely to be 9 of 60 bai Bu tion; the market is u siderable reduction in pri HANGER ~ To: very conriderabi, every steamer cert! Worey is very coat’ obtained upon ‘There is no quotations mw Tre ‘Am bark Eli Du = Bu 21--Stearmah'p Paosma, Baily, Pa: Brasil Be has decided that 1 ns decided. tha isstedeedy 7 us foreign ar meets ‘he Sate ef shipaces _ has eas lnguiey during the Inst week lots hands at parton, ia whisky . irty days; for navy rtioulas: mth; the stock is for. Sal antine, to close, $l. Im tallow there h uotkoiag. BO transactions to notice {1 t, bat fully equal to the continue withons ange in regard to many ar! a ob, rox: led . 0 $25; we aloo hear of che lot otf of ipply of flour is large, 40. Sales have been I at $1350 a * $675, and qu, doing. artor pri stock is moderate, ai tions. ttle doing in provisions of any 4 1d, kud our quotations sho: ‘The stock of sugars ia growing larco, although and; prices are ialiag, and the voller rea- otations. e general aspect of money affairs continues without any material alteration sivce oor Jass, and we can resreely look forward to au, Permauent improvement watil is over. We have nodonbt but that large it have slready securu!ated in tho i tiom with the mining a "will acain beoon hit’ is doatio nts going by walling, veasel arly to, Coili aud Syd the regular remittai orld, par borades way. amd 10 per cent. per month is readily on. 8 of exchange; our last regarded ayments are being mado in- offering at 3 to sv is st par, ap or gola d ork bave G ‘@ very small remii LOSBE & GALLAEK. ‘Therolis nothing doing in oacward freights of «rtonoe to novice. In intand, the old rates me ot entirely to thi To Sceramento City. undred.. . $225 por cabse foo 109 Pp. 3009 win 2500 “sailing veosels. 20 09 sags, ‘on oak 10 0 To Stockion. wanted bosi +4 F eubie foot oo 00 Shipping Intelligence. Port or San Francisco. ARRIVED Jan 14- “pra For Parker, Dott, Menincet. ‘achalet, Legrand, Mavee. . Farris eter, Ble ‘Sifaear ‘Pitladetpdia. fi ate Babee, Cailand, Sydney. rk Bwily Farnh: jiam bara Princesss Belgiolose, Dodero, Val- Boston. New Bedford. leas. Fawn, Patten, Bath, Curlew, Bassett, Salem. Phonix, Mye CLEARE 9, Bol ther fart, Promigces, Pana £ Oda Fellow, Chapman, Sandwich Islands, ‘alperaiso. ma. my Griffor, Halstead, Panams. am bert J Rofe, Callas. - a Smith, Panvms Am orig B @, Macy, Santa Crun NEWS FROM TH ISTHMUS OP PANAMA. ARRIVAL OF AN ENGLISH FLEET He, Ue, Mts ia, the Penama Star — o one oS wing items of tn- It gives us the f ng the broad arrived on the én: alee very. ri is se'Sandvich Inland ‘she frome five or siz mer a few days, What is in the i. . fines our last issue: ‘tig Octavia, Madden, 26 days from New Iaee. » of dyventery, Me. eur News. fn ola, Richards it Pacis, im atge70 | - | the ordization of the Ort Hawailan to the gospel na 0 xulivg Fates for vhis | tance will go forward | . | tation of the State of On) | deverted her. Strange to say. the hulk floated on safely | States. Tite constitution through this davgerous pass, aud went out to rea . bition egatost nue volantary Subsequently to this, @ French veseel, not being able | State ct California It is raid. ew? I tral to obtain a aud finding the southern pass toll | that of the membera who com tv Boa 4 on avi Tae tes aa Uf oe en erebeldlon Siete anand, nad Deets residents a . 4 peers te i eweassnataran 'o be sure, this pass may be rcoty. me: — e Ron: some benez agcident. have fallen di tored? ore me er ee ohennel; this only shows that all that is needful to meke the southern entisnce the more feasible of the two. lea ead skilful pilots. We ueder- measures are now being teken to accomplish | care to preserve order. end we cannet congretul our The Vick Presioent—The neighbors in Oregon the good fortune iato which close the door: a poder mea and permit me more to bi Mr. Wenstex resumed—It iy this clreumstanet t+ has contributed to raise—I do wef ray that it haw weit ly ratsed— & dispute upon the propriety of the afui- jom of California into the Union wider thase ote ui: happily jen. pews contaiued is barely of general interest, but we are pleased to note a reaction tn the agricul- tural prorpects of our sister territory. Her citizens are returning from the placer of this ewmutry. en- U0 {cet aeworte, per i | Pehed bi ‘ps a 5 42,000 we y & summer of sucorssful gold digztog, sad | stances. Fa ee aren we Serre tt Site AW) AC SIUT | Attention In now being diteoted to the votthemeut and | It le mot to be dented, Mr. Prosidet—no body thluky feot,o0 pn eyornge ot gg ad J. es aro plenty, and | improvement of ber broad and furtile lands, by those | of denying— that. whatever reason» were arsigaed for are as o} bricks is fair, with i who, during the prevaleney of the gold mania have | the commencement of the late war with Vexieo, it’ Mmited and a Feadily purchased at | condvced but little to the stavillty of Oregow affairs, | was prosecuted for the purpose of sire acquisitt an 1” RA ox ene or permecency of her prospects. territory, and under the argument thte® the oes-ion ut BUG Seat Scout Ato ibe as ah pwig= pees er enar sensancemane Lo are ¥ 8. inferior, at 5% c | - menue. We 1 tecies AG con The Latest from the Sandwich (slands, | {{" 2074, nas Gemands whictr the puupie of this count: against her A\ 2 1 | We have received coptes lela, of the 2th the Polynesian, of Hono- mber. This is one week lator than cur previou | Jobn Brown publiche: letter of grateful scknow- | le¢gments to thore who aided him in saving hie pro- perty from the ill-fated brig Palapsco, on the 14th De- | cember, wreeked o1 eet in the harber of Honol: found that Ds ‘that the war was to be prosecuted rill of ti was obtelned. And as the a The Polynesian learns that Mr. Bailey, of Honolulu, region hi * P is about to establish an express botween that port amd | the United Btates. Pibrrsnegonry ts end San Fraveirco. expected. and xprotation had not been raatinnt The Polynesian spnounces the death of Kaloloahi- | and therefore, in some degree, disappointment an. Jani, ite or his Exeellenoy Kekuanaoa, Governor of Oabu. She died of pulmonary consumption, at the | age of 28 years, on the morning of the 20th alt. | The same paper contains the following account of the | loss of Hawalian vessels :— Wo are sorry ( | the Raipbew ), b Mavi, wee tot: few di prise bave been excited. Ip other words that the question which has ro long country, and et some times very serioas!: minds of wise and good me frenb discussion—the question cf slavery ia th United States. Now, eir, 1 propose. perhaps at some littie expacns te the attemtion of tne Senate, to review hietocir this question of avery, which, partly in sonseqimo (formerly jevernor of a = St yes cing hs i of ite own sete, aud partly in consequence of «fae z to Mr. Pikot, of 2 0 one tu eh, aud nothing but hen mapper in which it bas been discussed in one aat fur other portions of the cauntry, has beea tie d from her. allenati as A commoticatien in the same paper thus sunounces istry :— “Ordained andinstalled pastor of the church at Ka- | buka, 4 of Oahu, December 2ist. Rev James Keke- | Ja, m graduate of the Seminary Lehalnalana, and for | eoveral years a beneficiary of James Hanewell, Esq, Charlestown , Mass,, formerly a merchant at these | islands, “All the native churebes in Oahu were invited to take | Part in the Ordaining Coancil, and nearly all w presented, but owing to ill health and bad w several of thi stora were uvadle to attend. theocratic geverpment of that p: tions agatust it. fhere was and the ingenious philorop! T sought to ficd, @just:catioa of i grounds which have been assumed for » Geatien in this country, that original difference between the races the inferiority of the colored or binck race to to» white. Che Greeks justified their system of slavery upon that ground precisely, They held the Africans and some portions of the Asiatic tribes to be fafectir to the white race. They did not show, | thiuk, by nny close process of logic that, if that were trae. the more intelligent aud tbe stronger had, therefore tur right to subjugate the weaker. A more maoly pli'to- sepby aud jurisprudence of the Romaue piarei cha jeapel ministry. s ‘The following is a It | ances : | | Anniven-~ Deo 19, Tahitian ship Courrier de Tabiti, But. Jer, from Tahiti. 25th, G: p Burgermeister Jausen, M he ea back Wo Malvi | An justication on entirely diviereat grounds he Bo | Bee man jurists from the very frat dawn to toe fail of tne ix emplie, admitted that slavery was agsiast the os ure: Cheansp— law, by which they msiotained th Doe rat ever ciime, eclor or capacity, w: Jartiied slavery, first. upon the aatno nations erguipg and arguing teul ntioual law of patioas adit according to ti ‘Thomas, Hobart Town. 27th, Wi | India, Swift, to cruise. THE GREAT SPEECH for «xemption frou for life, and that that servitude m | or THE persopel and hereditary; firet. by the voluata HON. DANIEL WEBSTER xs tnateaeal, she eighierl biameell tgeo ac. | very; secondly, by his beiog received into a sta « of ON THR servitude by bis eveditors, to vatisty the debrehe hat incurred; avd, thirdly, by beiog placed ima etace ot servitude or slavery for crime At the introduction of ( hristianity into the weeld, the Roman empire was full of slaves. ( eappoee thera is to be found no injunction against that relation be- ap end man io the teathiogs of tas grpet s Christ or by auy of his apostios, Pus ob- ject of the instroctions given to mausiod by tae of ty waste touch the heart party @prove the lives of individual os direetly to the firs fo d sociel relations of men ual beart 4 of man. tir, worn oharacter. and Isefulnew of SLAVERY QUNSTION, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE, MARCH 7, 1850. LL REPORT. | jefore | go op, | must return my thanks to the Sena- | t Wisconsin (Mr. Walker) and the Senator from _ New York (Mr. Sewsrd), for their kind courtesy in al- lowing me to address the Senate this morning. | 1 wich to spenk (o-day, not ass Marseshusetts man, nor esa Northern man, but as an American and a member of the Senate of the United States, it is for- | of the United State: | body not moved from its prepriety, nor lost to a just sense of its own dignity or its own high responsibility —a body to which the country looks with confidence — wise, moderate, patriotic, and with true feeling. It is not to be ied that we live in the midst of strong agitations, and in the midst of very considerable dan- gers to our inrtitutions of govecament. The impri- soned winds are let loose. “The East, the North, end the stormy South, are all combined to make the whole ocr an toes its billows to tbe skies, and disclose 4 ante ot te ite profoundest depths.” I do mot aMfect to held, or to | the seiteieusivelinue cfs womesdcoat be fit to hold, the bel: this combat with the politi | kin cal elements; but I bave a duty to perform, and { | , The South. wpou the ober side, having be mean to perform it with fidelity - mot without asense for Geir nivchenerion booe of surroundlo; gers, bot mot without hope. | . ing thie bondage with care have a part to act, net tor my own security or safety— geveral. to feet for them eorst \ for lam looking ont for no fragment upon which to ve not taken thie reek, if we 4 ntioned Th th eonssiences brethren at the Nort! , is founded merely ia 5, it te Like all fiicta by which mighty nation: ot tions to their will. Ybey think slavery io its whatever can be :aidof it inthe modificatis: take pleoe im it in fact—ts not arcording to tis * meet spit” of the aportie; it ie not “kindly afention,”’ 16 , dees not “seek anothea’s, “Jet the oppressed go fre: There are seatin that are clerished. recently wiih greatly fores, smoug tbe prople :f che Nortue a Ste e pd act ite on,” is does not ad “ voey rantimeut of that part Jess taken hold of portion of mae ¢ preserwatl that whieh will yet be upon rat oval 0 sostety whe: ht. thing, establiabed relation of vation to the | @ avery to be ° country of that qui y which make | they live, no way in which - let their oplainns bieerings of this U: 4 eo dear to ue = pOD the eba*rect question be what they may~ it is ia the power of the present generation to relieve then selves from this relation And, ia this re-paot. candor obliges me toray that | believe they are just a © ro- releptions many (f them- and of the religious o> .i9, them aswearein the North, holdiog dutsceat nts, tir, the houcrable member from South Vero!ina, These ate the bet | propors to These are jotives and the sole motives to iniivence me to tothe Senate and to the over little, for ve aco mpliehed Mr. President, it may not be amir to recur very briefly to the events, equally sudden and extraordine- ry, Dave brovght the political condition of this country to be what i: now ir. In ao 1845, the United States declared war agaiost Mex Our araies then om the fronticrs entered the provinces of that re- public, met and defeated all ber troops, penetrated her mountain passes, and cocupied ber capital, The marine forers of the Uolted S:ates took possession of her per te aod townscm the Atiantioc sad the Pacifie In lors (han (wo jrarsa treaty was mege ed. by which Mexieo ceded to the United States @ of pany ob oem f seven or eight along shores ot the Paciic, ranpi: Wh: | (Mr. Calbovn) the otber day alluded to the separetiom jethod! of that relip(: as commanit thoreh That reparation M Het Kpitrooal adout by difur- about the reruit the difference of © wapay real ground for that separe , that any gool could be produced by tha Sir when jvesiions of this kind take hold of the enti. Ur reptiments of mankind amd come to be dissassed n religious assemblies, by clergy aud Iaity, w ways to be expected, aod «lays to be fom degree of excitewent [tia tn the matare of mx, mae wilested by bole history, that relictous ereapt to become warm Mr: c tion bs proportioned to their view of the magaiiats of the In all euch disputes, there will sometimes be mea to mountains and across the deserts, till it re frontier State of Texas distracted and han im partioular— goverament of ( all- thet ver had been declared by the ted fag wes pulled St down, ageinet | vp pens yd ent bolsted in b¢ found, with whom everything will be sbeotut Hestend. Go. sir, before the wat wae over, the powers joey Ky Sthare ones ton o G oety of the Unil I Ty bed « tatablieh @ bread ioe of di wion of b rash of em! 8 from varles | Portions #f the ‘wotld, took place into Cale fornia in 1546 and 1847. And now behold another wonder. In January 1848, the Mormons, it fe sald, er some of them, madea disco. ©F8 opinions are williog very of an extraordinary rieh mine of geld—ot rather Sealab yess kaeee of © very great quantity of gold, hardly fitted to be call *7¢ Marked by posts and stones, edamine powk boyy #0 pear the surface—at the jower part of the South or American branch of the Sa. o ; ‘There are men, who. with clear peresptions, as ther too bets par the vivbatt a of otbers, or how too war may lead them to aieregard other trathe © jaal'y tm crtant, As | heard it stated stromgly. rit, not macy . these perrons are dirpowed to mount ape w rioady and way. There ore men who io times of that sort. sed to die | putes of that sort, are of opinios may be ar u The +. Damen dates certeined with the pre deal with that what ii y be dietingar.4- a with all ecision of an ol- hey have, therefore, none too uation wuch eberity towards others who diifer from them, They are apt to think thet mothing ix good bat whet is perfectly good; that there « SOpromises OF modifeaticns to be wate ta rub om to jiferenge of optni.m or in Geferenes to other mens jadgmeut. If theit pereytorcions vision epabies them to detect @ pot om the feoe of the sun, teep think tosta grt reeeen why the run sheuld be etegek dows from hee ven, They prefer the chance ef running Carknese to living in heavenly lignt, if ther t- Ngkt ie Co be Bot ebroiutely Wirnout avy Lapertoc There are itm pationt men, too tapatian= al heed to the saa@enition of St Pan, thet we “de evil that end may comme," too impationt to wait for the slow regions of meratoancas tn (he improrement of Mankind They de not remember that the doctrines end the mirecton Of Jeeus Christ have, te bendred serre, converted only armel portion of the bemen ree; and. a i Christ anity, they forget bow many vices and ori Public end private. still prevall, sod thet man thrm—the pwbiie crimes fence eal: sepp-se that the asureocrs are ae strong after the experience of thove several months, that there are mines of gold, apparently inexbs ustibdle, ta the regions near San co im Callfornie, er they were at any pet.od of Ube early transmisrion to us of Chore accounta, It ro happened that, aithongh in @ time of peace, it Lecame @ very grent wubjece for legisetive conviders- thom and legiiauive desition to provide per terri. jortal goversiment for California, bot differences of fon In the conncits of the goveramemt prevented the establishment cf any such territorial government for Califerpia at the last sersion © Under tbls state of things. (he inbebitants of end California, them amounting toa great by the people Saiut” Deuter shear: | Peper ins diate copme rion with United States, restores were just ware, I dow ites’ boheme entatives chosen, who heave come | there corteinly ar them the authenticated ifernia, | themetlres, aking, tn bebaif me) be pdmitted lato the Union