" TO THINK OWN BKLF 1IK TIIUK, AND IT MINT t'OLI.OW, AB TIIK NIOIIT T1IK DAY, 11IOU OAN'BT NOT THEN UK FALSK TO ANY MAN." IBmL 8. f 1'K'KK.NiS COURT IIOI'SK, S. crip(ions not clearly liuulfil, will be j onnidered as made fur an indefinite time. Mi l ontinued till h di-continuance is ordered and 11 nrrenr.agc* pui.I. A(lctrti*cincnt* inserted nt 75 cent* per square ' ?r the first insertion, ami 37 l-'J ct.<. for encli : ontinued insertion. I.ilcral deductions made o those advertising l?v the year. I3T All Conununicatioin shou'.d bo addressed t<> the Publishers post naid. t CONGRESS. In the Semite, on Friday, the 2Sth st.. tlie consideration of the com omise was resumed. The question pending at the adlurnment yesteruay was on the subitute propo. ed hy Mr. Soule, (for j tat pa.t oi the bill relating to Cali- j >rnia,) and tlie amendment to es- j iblish the territorial government for oulh California. Mr. Davis, of Miss., resumed the marks commenced by him on yesjrday. lie said the amendment of ll'. Sonic vvns ono invnlvin.r I promise which once restored peace to a (distracted and agitated countiy.? (ireat as was the danger then 1o I lie country, he still believed that it was nothing compared with that of tin; present day. lie hoped that now n~v? lbere would be found in Congress a k majority equally willing to preserve ^he Union, even by a sacrifice of themselves. l ie had supported the j ^ motion to raise the committee, in the , IIHU r.uuiVUIUI^ CUUKI oc devised calculated to preserve harmony and peace, upon which he could unite in . supporting. He had been disappointed. He could not see in this bill anything which he could sanction as a 1 Southern man, nor anything that he ! could approve of as a measure to re- i store peace to the country. Mr. Jef- . fcrson had truly said the Missouri I compromise was but a reprieve, and such it had been proved ; and now j that which was denounced by a Southern man was considered as too ultra to be considered by Congress. Thev were now to be denied a se-' CoikI reprieve. lie contended that the line of 3G 30 seemed to be marked out as the natural as well as the geographical line of division between the Kotth ; and the South. He then examined ihe geographical and topographical I situation of California, and commented upon it, maintaining that the division of that country by the line of 30 IK) was a measure eminently advisnblc and desirable. He proceedAo ?*d at great length to advocate the i |K adoption of that line. Mr. Soule said that he proposed to j offer some remarks in reply to Mr. Webster. The Senator had controverted some of the positions taken |n#j nun in nm lunucr lemurns i:pou this amendment. Mr. S. then repeat-' i een entered into as a condition Bfc-B precedent to admission of any State. Mr. Webster also replied to Mr. 'JMv., in denial of the doctrine that Hp such compact wav necessary for uiu picHiTvauon 01 ine rigiil ol the United States to the public lands. The question was then taken on the amendment ol Mr. Soule, as follows : Yeas.?Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Berrien, Butler, Clemens, Davis of Miss., Dawson, Downs, Koote, Houston, Hunter, King, Mason, Mor Inn. 1?i,cL- 'P .niMioumi, uuiiii:, AUiliey, and Yulce?11). Nays.?Messrs. Badger, Baldwin, Boll, Benton, Bright, Cass, Chase, Clarke,Clay, Cooper, Corwin, Davis o [' M ass., Dayton. Dickinson. Dodge, Douglas, Felch, Greene, Hale, 1 lanilin, Jones, Miller, Norris, Pearce, Phelps, Pralt, Seward, Shields, Smith, Sturgeon, Underwood, Upham Walker, W ales, Webster, and Whitcomb.?3(>. Mr. John Davis addressed the Sen ?ilc at length iti opposition to the hill. Mr. Davis, without concluding, yielded to a motion to adjourn. Mr. Clay expressed a hope that the Senate would agree upon a day to take the question on the engrossment of the hill, lie suggested Wednesday next. Mr. Bell objected. lie wished to give his views. He and others would not be able to address the Senate, if so early a clay was fixed. Mr. Yulee laid on the table an amendment to the bill. Alter an Executive session, the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Parker introtroduced a bill respecting the nation-1 al armories at S'jrii.or field and Harper's Kerry; which was read twice and referred to the committee on nvlifjirv jifTs.ii.u The IIou.-o then proceeded to the | consideration of the Iowa contested election case. The debate being closed, the Chair stated that the question would first be oil the resolution of Mr. Van j)y!e to give the seat to the contestant, moved as a substitute for the resolution of the majority of the committee of-elections to give it to the whig member, Mr. Thompson. The question was pnt and decided in yeas 95, nays JM. The chair voted -i < ? in me negative; so uic amendment was not agreed to. The House adjourned to Saturday. Slave Lahou in tiik Territories. House of Representatives, June 1, Dear Sir: In a speech delivered by you, in the House of Representatives in March last, I understood you to say that you had been in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and that you were acquainted, from personal observation, with a lanre part of the ter ritorv of California. \Vill yon be s6 good as lo give me vonr opinion, and tlie reasons for entertaining it, of the probability or improbability of the introduction of slave labor nto any part of the territory recently acquired by the United States from Mexico; provided such introduction be not p?ohibitud by law? i . jl wish 10 ooihiii jour opinion 111 regard to other kinds of labor, as well as agricultural; because, as it seems to me, a most unvvarantable, if not a most disingenuous attempt has been made, e in conformity with what I have frequently said, heretofore, in private conversation with gentlemen on this subject The point of inquiry seems to be, whether slave labor could he profitably employed in Oregon, California, Utah and New Mexico. If the nature of the climate and resources of these countries are such as to furnish a profitable market for slave labor, it appears to be conceded, on all sides, that it would be introduced, if left i free to seek profitable investment* j like other capital. The w< ole point at issue, then, is dependent, as it is conceived* upon the determination of the first point of inquiry- Hence to that point, o*ily, it is necessary for me to confine my answer. f* / * 1 nemt not remind yon of the law regulating the investment of capital. It will always go where, under all circumstances, it will yield the greatest return to the owner. Upon this principle I am very clear, that slave labor if unrestricted, could be employed in Oregon, with at least double the profit to the owner of the slave that it now yields in any State 1 of the Union. lain uniniformed as to the usual price of slave labor in the States, but the mire mi id in iiidinne in Oregon dining the past year, lor labor, lias ranged from two to three dollars per day. Domestic negro servants, whether male or female, who understand the business of housework, would command, readily, five or six hundred dollars a year. I recollect well, that there was a mulatto man on board the vessel in which I took passage from Oregon to San Francisco, who was paid one hundred and c'glity dollars per month for his services as cook. I will not stop to particularize further, in regard * 4 4 I. ! 1 ' v u> me liuiuceniems urcgon would offer to unrestricted slave labor, but will simply add, that a very large; number of slaves night now be employed in Oregon at annual wages ! sulticiently large to purchase their | freedom. ] think, therefore, that the point is settled so far as Oregon is | concerned; and that slave labor, if it had been left free to seek profitable ; employment, would readily find its way 10 mat Territory. [ As to California, I am eqanlly clear, j California will always bo a mining ! country, and wages will range high. At present slave labor in California would be more profitable than in Oregon. And I have always been of the opinion, that wherever there is a mining country, it not in a climate , uncongenial to slave labor, that species of labor would be profitable.? That it would be in California : is evmeni. a good, able bodied slave, would have commanded in California, during the past year, from i eight to ten luirdred dollars per an: num. When it is recollected that one I hundred dollars per annum, upon on average, is considered a good com; pensation for their labor in the Soutlij ern States, it is idle, in my judgment, I to contend that slaves would not be j carried to the California market, if I protected by law. j The greatest impediment which ' >vunu muor ims 10 encounter in me | mines, is the intensity of the heat and prevalence of billions disease. The one is almost insufferable, while the other is pestilential. Against both of these the negro is almost proof.? Now, while white labor is so high, it is evident that no one can hire a white laborer, except at a rate that would consume bis profit. Not so with negro labor. That species of 1 i - -1 .i km/mi no uijuiiuuu n?i llilll lit' , amount which you would have to pay . for while labor. The result will be a , profit a!:';e to the hirer and seller of slave lo'ocr. There is no doubt, in my judgment, that almost any number of slaves might be hired out in ! California, were tfce whites willing to allow it, at from eight to ten hundred dollars a year. This is pay so much above what their services command in the States, as t? satisfy any one, that could this species of service be protected in California, it would L A .. it. - - V - 1 hush iv uiv jrucijic 111 aimosi any quantity. T.?ot us turn our attention to Utah and New Mexico. I have 110 doubt, from what knowledgeIhaveoftho.se countries, that they will turn out to he filled with the richest mines. I clip the following from a recent paper, containing the news from Texas and Chihuahua*. "Mr. James was informed, by Maj. j Neighbors and Mr. l*>e Vining, that ! they had been shown by Maj. Stein, j some gold washed out l>y his troops, i *jn uic *juii uver, 111 u?nori excursion j to that stream. "It is reported that, at the copper ' mines al>ovc El Paso, there are anout 1 100 tons of pure copper lying upon the ground. This had l>een got out by Mexicans, and aSatuloned when attacked by Indians. "There are at El Paso, in the hands of different persons, several larire I amounts of silver ore, taken from the mines in that neighborhood. With j guaranties of titles to lands, and protection from Indians only a short time would elapse before all these mines would be well worked, and we would have large quantities of metal seeking a market through this place." And if you consult !< remont's map printed Dy ordor of 'the Senate in 1848, you will find near the source of one the branches of the Gila River, "copper and gold mines," laid down. And if I am not greatly mistaken, it wiil turn out that the Mort'm^4 ,4 " -,v v.;? v < ' : > -y molls lire in possession of the riches! 1 kind of mines, east of the Sierra Nevada. Jt is known, too, ti. t silver ; and copper mines have, for many years, been worked in New Mexico, and 1 am informed by Hugh N. Smith, esq., that there are in that Territory, gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc mines, of the richest (nudity, and the rea on wli) they have not latterly heen worked more ex-I < ivii?ivi:iy, is uuii 11 is prevented t?y i the incursions of the Indions. He is of tii? opinion, and lie is borne out by what history we can get 011 the subject, that when these mines shall come to be explored, their wealth will turn out to be onormous. W hen you have once cast your eye over that country lying west of the Rocky Mountains, and b/ast of , the Sierra Nevada, and are informed of t lit* gold hearing region, you at once become convinced that the United States is in possession of mineral wealth so vast that ages will not be able to measure its extent. And wllPtl illovn mnmo clw?ll ?... ' - - .. ....... ...V.JV 111 I IV'l Olltlll IU Lie I developed, and their un < ^niaAinni|'jii ?u?- (ijJjJUSCvl lO lli 1111(1 that if Senator Koote will not yield i to them, lie ought not to retain a position in which lie misrepresents his i constituents.1' Mr. Koote, on the other hand, declared in a recent : speech in the Senate, that he had ' abundant evidence in his possession I that he was sustained at home. Judge Sharkey, the President, of the Nashville Convention, has addressed a letter to the Jackson South 1 ?4.?I.~i ...i i- - - iI ivii) ouuui^ melt vv lU'll 111' WI"iHC I11S I letter to Air. Foote, approving the i Senatorial Compromises ho was not | fully possessed ofits details, and was | under the impression that no better measure could be obtained, and that ' the Convention itself would prove a failure. He now makes it known ! that the Missouri line, as proposed ' by the Nashville Convention, was J what ho originally preferred, and j that he will cordially sustain the ac~.*.i ii--' <1 * 1 nun ui iiiiii uvnij 1 a nil 11 i.> i wilting to be prevailing one among religious people: "Fourteen years ago we travelled at the Norih with two gentlemen.? In public houses, in singe coaches, on steamboats and canal boats, wo were beset by persons keen to discuss the slavery question. One of our company never indulged this appetite for debate. lit; arrested the Ciltor'his.iiir vvhifli :? vnrifprniiy nlii lanthropist was about to practice, by remarking that this question would some day be decided by the musket, and he would await that time. "That time is nearly come. It depends upon two things- The. do termination of tin; North to maintain the false position they have assumed, and the resolution to supersede their paper arguments with the arguments of iron and lead. If their consciences will not let them go back, and their $ obligations to humanity shall compel them to draw the sword, then what wo have said is true?the time for this final debate is nearly come. Wc know very little of what is current among politicians. Our intercourse lias been with religious men mainly. \\ e have conversed in families where C>od is worshipped, and there wc have seen the calm, settled conviction that the only thing to be feared might be the pusillanimity of some Southern members of Congress. W c tell our Northern brethren that when the time comes to try the last argument, they will have to enforce it against the opposition of Southern mothers and Southern ministers, ft ic l< \ r 1 1 wt It 4 #-v t l?<\ ivi v*iv/ 11 im i ii iv> vuuui 11iv.; i.uDh that is no part of our business. ! They have a favorite theory to maintain, we our firesides, our altars, and our honor. "We are no alarmists. We eschew <>d the excitement of party politics more than twenty years ago, when we began to preach the Gospel; Hut the times demand that every man should do his duty. Fanaticism has placed the powder-mine under the foundations of our republic, and Northern editors are ^coolly drawing their matches and smoking their se gars over tne explosive material. We clo our duty by' warning of the danger." ! f I MAINE. They say "the Wilmot Proviso is dead." It is easier to say it than to produce any evidence that the North has in the least degree retreated from its support of that hostile measure. The last developement is from Maine, where a few days ago the Legislature adopted unanimously a resolution in favor of tlu' immediate and unconditional admission of California, and by a majority of 100 to 21), passed others in favor of tho Wilmot Proviso, against connecting the admission of California with any other measure, and instructing their Senators to carry out their views. And this unani| mity against the South is seen in a Legislature so cut up with factions that they have been vainly struggling for three weeks to elect a United mutes ncnaior. l lie same is true of Connecticut. Both States have shown ati unusual degree of discord except in the matter of anti-slavery. There they all agree, or the dissentients are I so lew us scarcely to break the monotony.?Charleston Mercury. i The Texas Difficulty.?uX"of the Baltimore Sun, in relation to the prospects of the Compromise bills, , says: "The Texan boundary question is , the only one which looks ugly. Texas was admitted with her constitu! tional boundary, and the Democracy I North and South will sustain that proposition. There is lanr'^at stake, and the descendants of ti.e AngloSaxons will finrlil mnr? m???lrl?> JJ,... IWI lands than lor abstractions. The I Texas ease in a word, is tangible, mid the whole South, with a ronsid! cable portion of the North will back : l.er. If a drop of fraternal blood bp | spilt no one call tell whether the Un1 inn virill l?%ti * M j >un miimoi niiuiiivr ycur< I O-V The Connecticut legislature, i unable to clect a Senator, nas post! poned the choice until the next Session.