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It I i PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The following message was tent by Mr. Polk, on Monday the 24th ultl, to the House o[Representative*. . Ib the House of Representatives of the United States. In answer to resolutions ol the. Hou?e of Repreventative ot the lOlhimtt. request inn information in-relation to. New VfetiroaiKl Califor-. nia, I communicate herewith report* from the Secretary ol State, the Secretary ot Treasury, the Secretary ot War, Secretary of the Navy, wilh documents which accompany the same.. These reports and documents contain infbrmalion upon the several points of inquiry embraced by the resolutions* "The proper limits and boundarie^-oPNew Mexico and California" are delineateil in the, map. referred to. in iho late treaty with Mexico, an authentic copy of which is herewith trausmittedr and all the additional information upon the subject, and also the reliable information in respect to the population of these respective provinces which is in the pns session of tbe Executive, will be found in the accompanying report of the Secretary of State. The resolutions request information in regard to tbe existence ot civil governments in New Mexico andCaidhhiia, their "form and character/*, by "whom instituted," by "what authori ty," and bow they are "maintained and sup P?rted.**v' . f In mj message of December 22, 1646. in answer to the House of Representatives calling for information "in relation to'the establishment or organization of civil governments in any portion of Mexico which has or might be taken ?k? nrmv or navv of the United SUtes." " * 1 communicated the orders which bad been given to the officers of our army and navy, and stated the general authority upon which temporary military governments had been established over tbe conquered portions of Mexico then in our military occupation. Tbe temporary governments authorized, were instituted by virtue ot the rights of war. The power to declare .war against a foreign country, and to prosecute it accoording to the general laws of war, as sanctioned by civilized nations, it will no*, be qtiestioued, exists with a foreign nation, **general laws of war apply to our situation," and it becomes the duty of the President,*as tbe constitutional commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States," to prosecute it. In prosecuting a foreign war, thus duly declared by Congress we have the right by conquest, and military occupation to ' acquire possession of tbe territories of the enemy, and during tbe war, to exercise the fullest rights of sovereignty over it," The sovereignty of the enemy is in such case "suspended," over the conquered territory, or be obligatory upon the inhabitants who remain and submit to the conquerors. By the surrender the inhabitants "pass under a temporary allegiance" to the cooqueror, and are "bound by such laws and such only, as he may choose to recognise and impose. "From the nature of the case, no other Jaws could" be obligatory upon tbem; for where there is no protection or allegiance, or sovereignty, there can be no claim to obedience." These are well established principles of the laws of war, as recognized and practised by civilized nations; and they have been saneI,* ),? hit,host iiidir-ja! tribunal of our """l" "J " O J country. The order* and instructions issued to the officers oC our army and navy, applicable to such portions of the Mexican territory as bad been were, indeed ameliorations of the rigors of the war upon which we might have insisted. They substituted for the harshness of military rule, something of the mildness of civil government, and where not only the exercise of no excess of power, but were & relation in favor of the peaceful inhabitants of the conquered territory who had submitted to our authority and were afike politic and humane. It is from the same source of authority that we derived the unquestioned right, after war had been declared by Congress, to blockade the ports and coasts ol tbe-eneray, to capture his towns, cities and pro. vinces, and to levy contribution upon him tor the support of our army. Ot the same charac tar of these is the right to subject to our temporary government the conquered territories of our enemy. They are all belligerent rights; and their exercise is as essential to the success, ful'prosecution of foreign war as the right to tifht battles. New Mexico and Upper Calififnrnia were among the territories conquered and occupied by our forces, and such temporary government* were established over them. They were esta* Wished by officers of our army and navy in command, in pursuance of the orders and instructions accompanying my message to the House of Representatives of Dec. 22d, 1846. In their form and detail, as at first established, they exceeded in some respects (as was stated to that message) the authority which had been given; and instructions for the correction of the error were issued in despatches from the War and Navy Departments, of the 11th of January 1847; copies of which are herewith transmitted. They have been maintained out of the .military exactions and contributions levied upon tbe enemy; and no part of the expense has been paid out of the treasury of tbe United States. In the routine of duty, some of the officers of ilia a emir a ttrf narv mi K n ? xot auto l.lie'knrl t n /> llir OII?;J nnu n??j, win 11191 coia??iiMiru rary governments In California and. New Me*, ico, hare been succeeded in command by other officer*, upon whom like duties have devolved; and the agents employed or designated by them to control the temporary governments have also in sopia instances, been superseded by others. Such appointments for temporary civil duty during the military occupation, were made by the officers )p command in (be conquered districts respect? rely On the conclusion and ratification of a treaty of peace with Mexico, which was proclaimed on the 4th in*tr> tbass temporary governments necessarily ceased to exist. In the instructions Jo establish a temporary government over New Mexico, no distinction was made between that and the other provinces of Mexico which might betaken and held in our military occupation. TV province of New Mexico, according to I jti aqcjpnl boundaries as claimed by Mexico, lie " aa bt4h si(Jes of the Rio Grande. That part qf ft on the east of that river wax in dispute whpn the War between the United State* and Mexico commenced. Texas, by a successful revolution in April, 1846, aohieved and subsequently maintained her independence. By the act of the Congress of Texas, passed in December, 1836, her western boundary was dedared to be the Rio Grande, from its mouth to ' its iwoe, and thence due north to the forty *e' cond degree of north latitude. Though the republic of Texas, by many acts of sovereignty which she exerted and exercised, some of wliich were stated in my annual message of December, 1846, had established her clear title to the country west of the Nueces and border. ing on that part of the Rio Grande \yhich lies below the province of New Mexico, she had never conquered, or reduced to actual possession, and brought under her government and Jaws, that port of New Mexico lying east ol the Rio Grande, which she claimed to be within her limit*. On the breaking out of the war, we inund Mexico in possession ot this disputed territory. As our army approached Santa Fe, (the capital of New Mexico,) it was found to be held by a governor t.nder Mexican authority, and an armed force collected to resist our advance.? The inhabitants were Mexicans, acknowledging allegiance to Mexico. The boundary in dispute was the line between the two countries engaged in actual war, and the settlement of it, of necessity, depended on a treaty of peace. Finding the Mexican authorities and people in ~ thorn and ex possession, our Kirucs , tender) military mle over them and the territory which they actually occupied, in lieu of the so. vereignty which was displaced. It was not possible to disturb or change the practical . boundary line in the midst of the war, when no negotiation for its adjustment could be opened, and when Texas was not present, by her constituted authorities, to establish and maintain government river a hostile Mexican population, who acknowledged no allegiance to her. There was, therefore, no alternative left, but to establish and to maintain military rule, during the war over the conquered people in the disputed territory, who had submitted to our arms, or to forbear the exercise of our belligerent rights, and leave them in a stale of anarchy and without control. Whether the country in dispute rightfully belonged to Mexico or to Texas, it was right in the first casp, and our duty as well as our right in the latter, to conquer and hold it. Whilst this territory wax in our possession as conquerers, with a population hostile to the United States, which more than once broke out in open insurrection, it was our unquestionable duly to continue our military occupation of it until the conclusion of the war, and to establish over it military government npeeRsary for our own security, as well as for the protection of the con' oiio rr%A no/vtU. By the joint resolution of Congress of Marc! 1, 1845, "for annexing Texas to the United States," the "adjustment oi all questions o boundary which may arise with other governments," was reserved to this government.? When the conquest of New Mexico was consumated by our arm*, the question of boundary remained still unadjusted. Until the exchangf of the ratifications ot the late treaty, New Mcx ' ico never became an undisputed portion of the United States; and it would, therefore, have been premature to deliver over to Texas thai portion of if, on the east side of the Rio Grande to which she asserted a claim. However just the right of Texas might have been to it, that right had never been reduced to her possession and it was contested by Mexico. Bv the cession of the whole of New Mexicr on both sides of the Rio Grande to the Uni?e< States, the question of disputed boundary, so fai as Mexico is concerned, has been settied, lea. ring the question as to the true limits of Texas in New Mexico, to be adjusted between that State and the United States. Under the cir stances existing during the pendency of thf war, and while the whole of New Mexico, at claimed by our enemy, was in our military oc cupation, I was not unmindful of the right o Texas to that portion of it which she claimed tr be within her limits. In answer to a lettei -. Gam |pYrrfl"r pf T"^", on the 4tl ? my directions. imormeiTTtTm, in a letter of I 12th of February, 184ft, that in the Presidents annual message of December, 1846, "You havi already perceived that New Mexico is at pre sent in the temporary occupation of the troop; of the United Slates, and the government ovei it is military in its character. It i? mtfrolv such ? covernment as must exisi under the law* of nation* and of war, to pre. serve order and protect the rights of the inhabi. tants, and will cease on the conclusion of the treatv of peace with Mexico. Nothing, there, fore, can be more certain than that this tempo rary government, resulting from necessity can never injuriously affect the right which thu President believes to be justly asserted by Tex' a* to the whole territory on this side of the Rio Grande, whenerer the Mexican claim to it shall hare been extinguished by treaty. But this is a subject which moro properly belong* to the legislative than the executive branch of the government. The result of the whole is, that Texas had asserted a right to that part of New Mexico east of the Rio Grande, which is believed, under the Acts of Congress for the annexation and admission of Texas into the (Jnio'i as a State, and under the Constitution and laws of Texas, to be well founded; but this right had never been reduced to her actual possession and occupincy. The general government, possessing exclusively the war making power, had the right to lake military possession of this disputed territory; and until the title to it was perfected by a treaty of peace, it was their duty to hold it, and to estah lish a temporary military government u?ei u, for the preservation of the conquest itself, the. safety of our army, and the security of the con. quered inhabitants. The resolutions further request information whether any persons have been tried and condemned for "treason against the United States in that part of New Mexico lying east of the Rio Grande since the same has been in the occupancy of our army," and if so before "what tribunal," and "by what authority of law such tribunal was established." It appears that after the territory.in question was "in the occupancy of our army," some of the conquered Mexican inhabitants, who had at first submitted to our authority, broke out in open insurrection, mur. dering our soldiers and citizens, and committing other atr??ciou? crimes. Soine of the principal offenders, who were apprehended, were tried and condemned by a tribunal invested with civil and criminal jurisdiction which had been establi-hed in the conquered country by the military officer in command. That the offenders deserved the punishment inflicted upon them there is no reason to doubt! and the error in the proceedings against them consisted in designating and describing their crimes as "treason against the United States." This error wus J * 1 ikaealiu nrAUAnf pOIIIIPU mil, tlllU I IB ICkliuriiLD |iis<cuf od, by the Secretary of War, in a despatch to the officer in command in New Mexico, dated on the 26th of June, 1847, a copy of which toaether with copies of all communications relating to the subject which hare been received at the War Department, are herewith transmitted. The resolutions call for information in rela tion to the quantity of public lands acquired within the ceded territory, and how much of the same is within the boundaries of Texas, as defined by the act of Congress of the republic of Texas of the 19th day of December, 1836.'' No means of making an accurate estimate on the subject is in the possession of the Executire Department. The information which is | > ?? * ?A?I ' possessed will be found in the accompanying I report to the Secretary of the Treasury. J The country ceeded to the United States lying west of the Rio Grande, and to which Texas has no title, is estimated by the Commissioner ofthp General Land offire to contain 526,07fl square miles, of366,689,920 acres. The period since the exchange of ratifications of the treaty has been too short lo enable the government lo have access to. or lo procure abstracts ofcopies ofthe land tides issued by Spain or by the republic of Mexico. Steps will be taken to procure this information at the earli est practihle period. It is estimated, as appears from the accompanying report, of the Secretary ofthe Treasury, that much the largest portion of the land within the territories redpd remains vacant and unappropriated, and will be subject to be disposed ot by the United St ates. Indeed a very inconsiderable portion ofthe land embraced in the cession, it is believed, has been dis posed of or granted either by Spain or Mexico. What amount of money the United Slates may be able to realize from the sales of thes vacant lan^s must be uncertain, but it is confidently believed that with prudent management, arter making liberal grants to emigrants and settlers, it willjexceed the cost of the war and all the expenses to which we have been subjected in acquiring it. " The resolutions also call for I he ."evidence, or any part thereof," that the "extensive a d valuable territories ceded by Mexico the United States constitute indemnity for the past. The immense value of the ceded country does I not consist alone in the amount of money for which the public lands may be sold. If not a dollar could be realized from the sale of these II lands, the cessions of the jurisdiction over the t country, and the fact that it has become a part I of our Union, and cannot be made suhject to European power, constitutes ample." indemnity I for the pa?t," in the immense value and advani tages which its acquisition must give to the com? mercial, navigating, manufacturing and agrii cultural interests of our country, t The value of public lauds embraced within 1 the limits of the ceded territory, great as that value might be, is less important, to the people ofthe United States that the sovereignty over i the country. Most of our s tales contain no I public lands owned by the United States; and f vet the sovereignty and jurisdiction over them t? is ot incalculable imporiance iu me uauwu. the Slate of New York, the (Inited Stales is the owner of no public lands, and vet two thirds of ' our whole revenue is collected al the great port ! of that state, and wilhin her limits is found about one seventh ofour entire population. Although none of the future cities on our i coast of California may ever rival the city of 1 New York in wealth, population and business, , yet, that important cities will grow up in mag t nificent harbors of that coast, wiih a rapidly int creasing population, and yielding a large reve, nue, would seem to be certain; By the possession of the safe and capacious harbors on the ) California coast, we shall have great advantages I in securing the rich commerce of the east, and r shall thus obtain for our products new and in creased m i rkets, and greatly enlarge our coast, ing and foreign trade as well as augment our t tonnage and revenue. These great advantages, far more than the < simple value of the public lands in the ceded i territory, "constitute our indemnity for the past." JAM ESK. POLK, f Washington, July 24, 1848. > r From the Charleston Mercury. > GEN. C\SS. I " We havfT a .ready shown tbiit the State*can? not support Gen. Taylor, because he is an aJ vowed Whig, and supports a party which advo rates a Protective Tariff\ a National Bank, the t Distribution of the Proceeds of the Public r Lands, a System of Internal Improvements, the A itviimniinn nf Silnin Drh/s the Ilankmnt. Law. t and the whole brood of Federal measures sus tained by Henry Clay under the name of the American System. ! We proceed to show that South Carolina can sustain Gen. Cass. 1. Because, during the whole course of his i political life, he has been a consistent Demoi crat. In 1840 Hnd 1844 he stood upon the platform ? of the great Democratic party?a platform, he I it remembered, with South Carolina approved i in all the primary assemblies of her people, and by the repealed resolves of her Legislature. In 1840 Gen. Cass publicly expressed hi< sentiments in lavor of the seventh resolution of the Baltimore Democratic Convention, which was all that the South demanded, and was as follows: "That Congress has no power under the Constitution to interfere with or control the domestic inslitu'ions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and prnperjudges ofevery thing appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all effort* of tho Abolitionists or others made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps i* kklijluu.> thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the h-ippincss of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Uninn, and ought not to be countenanced by any triend of our political institutions." In 1843 Gen. Cass was .Minister to France. While there he wrote hiii celebrated pamphlet in opposition to the Quintuple Treaty, contemplated by England, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, which treaty, under the pretence of abolishing the slave trade, was to authorise the war ships of those countries to search arid examine, and ultimately to seize, the vessels of other nations at pleasure. This pampelet was translated into most of the modern languages of Europe, and created a great and salutary sensa* tion; and, together with a protest, written by Gen. Cass, to the French Government against the Treaty, had the effect of defeating the measure. Garbled passages from the pamphlet have been extracted into our slave institutions.? II - !. r< L Li . liere 18 wrmi uni. unsa Jiaj'o in i;ic |iuinjjiiiri. "We are no slaveholder. We never have bepn. We never shall be. We deprecate its I existence in principle, and pray :br its abolition i eveiywliere, where this can be. cfictcdjustly and i peaceably, and easily for both parties. But wo 1 would uot carry fire; and devastation, and murder, and ruin into a peaceful community, to push on the accomplishment of ih e object. But I afier having visiled the three-quartern of the | old continent, we sny before God and the < world, that we have seen for morn and morn i frightful misery since \vn landed in Europe, and I wit have not visited Ireland yet, than we have ever seen among this class of people in the U. States. Whatever may be said, there is much ( of the patriarchal relation between the Southern , planter and the slave. And as 10 the physical ( distress which is seen in Europe, resulting from a want of food, and from exposure to a rigorous ' winter without adequate clothing, we believe it I to be so rare as not to form a just element jn I the consideration of this matter. But the sub. ject of the emancipation of two millions and a halt of human beings, living among another pop. ulation ofdifferent race and color, and with different habits and feelings, is one of the gravest questions which can be submmitted to society to solve. It can safely be left only to those who are to be so seriously affected by it; and there it is left by the Constitution of the United States. It is a matter with which the General Government has no concern." The. first part of this extract has been most industriously circulated in all the Whig papers at the South to prove Gen. Cass an abolitionist, while the latter part, in which he takes the true Southern ground in opposition to Congress haoing any concern with the waller, is most unjustly withheld from the public eye. For the course Gen. Cass took in behalf of his country on this occasion, Gen. Jackson thus complimented him in a letter, dated July, 1843: ' But what has endeared you to every true American was the noble stand which you took as our Minister at Paris against the Qnintuple Treaty; and which, by your talents, energy, and fearless responsibility, defeated its ratification by Fiance?a treaty intended by Great Britain to change our internal laws, make her mistress of the seas, and destroy the national independ eiace, not only of our country, but of all Europe and enable her to become the tyrant on every ocean. Had Great Britain obtained the. sanction of France to this trpaty? with the late disgraceful Treaty of Wathinglon, so disreputable to our national character, and injurious to our national safety; then, indeed, we might have hung our harps upon the willows, and resigned our national independence to Great Britain. But, I repeat, to your talents, energy and fearless responsibility, we are indebted for the shield thrown over us from the impending danger which the ratification of the Quintuple Trea tv by France would have brought upon us. For this act I tender you my thanks." Gen. Cass, 1844, wrote in favor of the annexation ofTexas and the consequent extension of slavery; lie subsequently opposed the Wilmol Proviso, made an able speech against it in 1847 ?t .. 1 C> 1 - -n,l vntoil ncTainst in 'he Uniteo oiaies oeiiitic, mm ^ it, with Calhaun and other Southern members; and, besides, published his Nicholson letter, in which he denies the rigid of Congress to meddle with slavery, either in the Stales or Territories. or even to insert a cluuse excluding it in any treaty of acquisition. We repeat, besides ta. king this firm, consistent and truly constitutional ground, before retiring from the Senate, in conformity with his previously declared sentiments, he voted against the insertion of the Wilmot Proviso into the Mexican Treaty. In what we shall prove, as in every position we have alreadv established both against Gen. Taylor as a Whig, and in favor of Gen. Cass as a Democrat, we ask the reader to take nothing for granted. Wo rely upon testimony apparent on the living records of the country, and in the deductions from it we feel the utmost confidence, because, our positions are founded upon TRUTH. Earliest Dutch Translation op tub Bible.?Jacob Van Liesveld, ol Warmoes Staat. Amsterdam, was the earliest translator of the Bible into the Dutch language. It was ??< Ar.iii.orr,. nut to nress in 1526: re | |iriiucu ai .linn* l?> ? rMimed in 1532 ana' J 534, and completed June 3, 1542. 25,001) guilder* were offered for Lies[ veld's head; he was not betrayed, but at length was taken, and stiflfe *ed martyrdom at Antwerp j!?>?\<??ton A perfect copy of (his Bible is in who occupies the holjse'm h\vrffi<A^i^Kveitf u1?' gan and finished hi* translation The house is known a* the Bible Hotel; over the entrance there is a well finished model of a large, open Bible, mistaken by many for real a book. It is open with part of the first chapperof Matthew on one page, and six apparently wood cut illus trations on the page opposite. It is a custom with parents, when they leave church on Sunday morning, to bring their children to note the sign and the fact signified as given above. The landlord, Her Hardenberg, is a liberal Roman Catholic, and not a little proud of having in his possession a copy of the Holy Scriptures, so intimately connected with the house and the sign of the house he occupies, which is other .L- ?). i u..??i wise Known ns inn Ejogiiso .-ihu nuni an .? >?? ., | and much frequented by the natives of both countries who visit Amsterdam. Horrid Mukdkr?One of the most brutal tnnd horrid murders that we have ever heard of, was committed between 0 and 7 o'clock on Sunday evening last, by a fiend named William Bailey, residing in St. Peter street, between Dauphin and Burgundy, First Municipality. Bailey's wife was delivered of a female child about half an hour before the fatal deed was commit led, and he appeared very inurli incensed at the time, that it was not a male child. Bailey went to a coffee housp near by, soon after calling for some whiskey, remaiked that his wife had been delivered ofa d?d brat ol a girl, and that he meant to kill both mother and child. Soon a'ler his return to his house, he seized the infant, dragged it from the bed and dashed it on the floor, after which he commenced beating the unfortunate mother. He also dragged her irom the bed, and slampce her under his feet on the floor. The nurse ran out in (he street and call ed for assistance, and when some persons, who were in the room of Ovido Debys, opposite, wont into the house of Bailey, they found him standing over the prostrate and senseless form ofhis wife. The inhuman monster was immediately arrested, and is now in jail awaiting an examination. Mrs. Bailey expired in about an hour after receiving her injuries, but the infant although thrown upon the floor with great vio lence, escaped without serious injury. It has n' Ver been our duty to record a murder under such atrocious circumstances, and we cannot as yet believe that the murderer was in the posses, i sion of his senses at the time he committed so horrid an act. For the sake of humanity we hope that he was not. His examination, before 1 Recorder Genois, will take place in a few days. N. O. Crescent. Wisconsin extends from Lake Michigan to the Lake of the Woods?a distance of 1000 1 miles. Lividing this whole territory into two < ?qual parts, each part wuuld be as largo as the 1 State of New York. i The longest day in Great Britain, is two , hours and twelv minutes longer, than the Ion *est day in ihe United States; and the shortest Jar in the United States is one hour and fifty nimites longer than the shortest day in Great t Britain. t Housekeepers should look to their woollen dothing, blankets, furs, dso., during this month j md next. A small quantity of spirits ofturpenine dropped upon a ahect of white paper, and aid with the articles to be preserved, is said to j; >e a thorough protection against moths. | I THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. pQ Wednesday Morning, August 9, 1848. ^ WfLLIAM B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR. " ai fo Defeat of the Compromise. Alexander H. Stephens, a Southern Whig, a Representative from our neighboring State, has ^ assumed a fearful responsibility, in moving to lay el the Compromise Bill of the Senate upon the table, to That effort which had engaged the entire talents ^ and laborious aDDlication of the Senate for an un interrupted session of 21 hours, just before sending it to the House, deserved a better fate, than to c< be thus struck down by the ruthless hand of par tizanship, After the Senate had adopted this con- n) ciliatory nieasere. we Baw many papers, whig and a( democrat, congratulate the country on the proba- fa bable settlement of this dangerous question,but alas the peace of the nation, the stability of the Union ? and the rights and interests of the South had to be sacrificed at the shrine of party. The history of this master stroke of iniquity appears to be that the whig members of Congress held a caucus on the p] Sabbath day, and that caucus decided that the te election of their candidate (Gen. Taylor) would be m promoted by k illing this Compromise in the House; & they could then rally Southern votes, leaving the ?'i question open, by h dding forth that Gen. Taylor w as a slaveholder, must of necessity be true to r.< Southern interests, whilst at the North, they could F readily, and with truth point to their vote upon this 1 bill, as an earnest of future fraternization, with ti them upon this .question. This caucus and its de- pj cision, being reported in Washington, without any jr contradiction from the Whig party, stand revealed. fa as the modus operandi by which this pacific mea- w sure was killed, this ray of hope distinguished. We had forebodings of the disatrous fate of this bill, but it was difficult to believe, that the best inte rests ol the whole country, would be so lightly es- tc timated in comparison with more party sue- ri cess, but it is even so, and wo have even the morti- ? tication of announcing that this bill was laid upon the table, at the instance of a Southern Whig, and that the votes of eight Southern Whigs, defeated j it finally. ?. We trust the Charleston Democratic Taylor jr clique will now see their miserable folly in en- a deavoring to elevate the candidate of this party, c who have, without the slightest compunction of g, conscience destroyed and trampled upon the olive branch of peace and security proffered, we must presume, in good faith and which was unquestionably the best "Compromise" we may ever hope to 0 obtain. The eight Southern Whigs who voted 0 with Giddings, Palfrey and Wilmot are as fol* a lows:?Alexander H. Stehhens, of Georgia; n Boyden of North Carolina, John S Pendleton of 0 Virginia, John G. Chapman of Maryland, John II- b Crozier of Tennessee, and Adams, Buckner and 11 TnoMPSON of Kentucky. Our readers will see 1 from the following statement that these eight votes 73 killed the bill: '' The vote to lay on the table was 112 c Deduct the above 8 votes 8 f< loJ ; The vote in the negative wfe 97 Add the 8 votes 8 n 105 ( which would have sustained the bill. Not a South' d ern Democrat toted against the bill, and not a Nor- P them Whig voted for the bill, whilst 21 Northern ' 1/niIUl-ldlO UIU ?w%v ivi tv? ?vv no ft tflTT ^ pie of the South, which party deserves their confi- g deuce and support? The only opportunity-~cer- T tainly as favorable as we have reason to expect? e we may have to settle the question, was destroyed, ^ because a Whig from Massachusetts declared that d if this compromise passed, General Taylor would not get a vole in a free State. We believe that never was the tranquility of the Union more en- ^ dangered, than by this base act of Whig reckless. n ness. r< 1 Wilmot Proviso Passed. The Oregon bill, containing the Wilmot Proviso, or rather a section extending the the ordinance of w 17-7, passed the House cf Representatives by a b< vote of 114 to 88. The following is the section : "That the inhabitants of said Territory shall be w entitled to enjoy all and singular the rights, privi- tl leges and immunities granted and secured to the tl people of the territory oi the United States north ai west of the river Ohio, by the articles of compact jr contained in the ordinance for the government of j said territory, on the thirteenth day of July, seventeen hundred and eight-seven; and shall be subject to all the conditions, and restrictions, and pro- 01 hibitions in said territoy." th Redaction of Fare to New-York. al It is stated that the Companies forming the line ct of communication between Charleston and New York, by steam boats and rail roads through Balti- A more, Philadelphia, &c.. are about to reduce the fate through from 28 to 820. W1 _____ m D* Both Houses ol Congress have agreed to adjourn on the 14th inst. ,c< _____ In General Cass on the Proviso* lb A Telegiaphic dispatch from Washington on th Monday, to the Philadelphia Bulletin, says, that a ?f letter is in Washington from General Cass, pledg- 0f ing himself, if elected, to veto the Wilmot Proviso. "ll O" General Taylor . declined to answer this question at all, when it was requested. The only an pledge we have from him, is, that he will not inter- j pose his veto on any question of " domestic policy." Southern people choose ye, which ye will support Since writing the above we have the following notice of General Cass's letter from the Union:? " We are are happy to understand that General Cass firmly standson the ground which he has ta.ten pn Being applied to formally by a man or two of the Sr Wilmot stamp, he declared unhesitatingly that he adhered to his Nicholson letter; and that if elected President, he would Veto the Wilmot Proviso." p( August Elections. Wl The State elections were held in North Caroli- *n na on last Thursday. On last A/onday, Kentucky ^ sleeted her Governor and Legislature, Indiana, her WJ Legislature, Illinois, her Governor, members of na Congress and Legislature?Missouri, Governor, nembers of Congress and Legislature?-Iowa, ca nembers of Congress and Legislature. t|o ed Profitable Business. The New steamer Crescent City is now on her Di ;hird trip to New Orleans a..d Havana, and pn B. mch of the preceding trips, she cleared over fifty W housand dollars, or 635,000 each way. Before itarting on the present trip, pass? ngers and freight >oured in upon her until she could hold no more. mt 0T Nathan Clifford, of Maine, has been apwjnted Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- &t >otentiarv of the United States to the Remihlionf the Mexico. | ele A Convention. The following is from the Washington conesndent of the South Carolinian. It will be seen at others, besides ourselves, are of opinion that Southern Convention, is the most effectual step, r the Southern people to take at this crisis *- The Crisis down upon Us! " Washington, July 28,1848. ^ ' The House to-day, without even reading the 11, laid the territorial compromise from the Sene, upon the table?112 to 97, and then a motion re.copsider was also laid upon the table, 114 to 1. So that question is settled, and the South are )w left lo the necessity of e tiling a general Conation, to nee what they are to do. " The Senate, as soon as they beard of this pro>eding, took up the House resolution of Adjourn-, entf and nfter a discussion of Messrs. Haunegafif alhoun, Foote, Benton, Dayton, Atchison, Turey, Douglasr, and others, amended it from the7th. ! it came from the House, tu the 14th of August, r closing the session. * r "This, we think, settles the case. Men of the outh, the only alternative now, is a general Coointlon, to determine what you are to da" Irish Affairs. The New York Correspondent of the Phi'adeff , . Ilia Inquirer states that contributions have beet# indered so liberally to the Irish collecting Com-littee in that city that the sum of fifty thousand illars will go by the next steam ship. He says ? ?,: Our wealthy Irishmen are coming up the mark r ith great spirit! a thousand dollars from one is othing, and I am informed that one man has given ive thousand dollars. Tbe Her aid st&tee on good authority that the quad- * " <y of ammunition and arms in Ireland, secreted in laces known only to the leaders of the pbrffrtfe'ts' nmense?sufficient to last for a prolonged wan* ire, in case that the matter be not decided at once hen the blow shall have been struck. ' ' Georgia Constitutionalist. This admirably conducted paper in its weekly >rm comes to us, enlarged and improved. * We^ ' egard the Constitutionalist as one of our best outhern papers. General Cass's Personal Character. J Abbot Lawrence, a Boston Whig, andcanci--' ate for the Vice Presidency says of Gen. Cass: I know him well, I have broken bread with him 1 hie.own house, and he with me in mine. He is gentleman?a roan of unblemished personal haracter, against which nothing can be justly aid." * Disgraceful, We conceive it to be the duty of the press through* ut the country to rebuke the coarse abuse of some f the partizan papers which disgraces the very ink nd types which convey it to the paper* It need, A ot be said that this style of writing is eonfined to ne party?there is too much of it to be found ia othwhig and democratic papers, though thos.far a the present campaign, we have seen nothing in he press of tlie latter party to equal the following torceau, selected from the Southerner, a paper * n Richmond, Va., originally started for the adrtv' * acy of a protective tariff but which has come nut 7T General Taylor and the whig party. This is ai pecimen of the way in which be wages war against democratic adminis* ration:? "A Dirts' Pack?That scurvy crowd, in the nain, who formed the Coort of Inquiry to tunnrr ne the charges preferrrd by Gen. 3eoU against 3en, Pillow, it seems, have declared the '"ditch iigger" as innocent as a little sheep* This dirty5*' iack were called there to do tbrs very tiling. IT ' hey have done it, as it seems they have; they alt >uglit to be rolled in the nearest rood bole, and Den unhnml to stand up MBtU-jtome black fellow. , liould break fifteen cords of wood over their heads* Phis d' ne, they should be driven out of town by wcry dog in the city. "This country is a horrible ugly fhc. Hurryoit, oys, let's elect old Zac. This is the only way of riving the evil doers out of power. "Since this event the President has sent in Pif- ' aw's name for the high rank of Major General, and . bushing's as Brigadier General, and they have een, we under.-tand, confirmed. Gen. Kearney's nme for Brev t Major General has been, we hear,* ejected. This is a most shameful stale ol things. O a- I *^.1 no oeiidie nave aouou auuminauiy. . ,. IT" At the request of the gentleman alluded 19 e copy the following paragraph from the last nam* er of the Southern Chronicle? Having understood that certain numbers hich have appeared in this Journal toudrrng e management of the Bank of the State, over le signature of "One of the People," have been Ltributed to the pen ofa certain Bank Officer i Camden, we deem it our duty to remove such npression at once, and to state further, that lose numbers were not written by any present r past officer in any Bank, nor by any stocks >lder whatever. We very cheerfully give lis disclaimer, because the gentleman to wboni lusion has been made has not offered for our >lumns a communication of any kind. NNIVERSARY TEMPERANCE MEEET1NO. Tho Sandy Run and Smyrna Temperance Society ill hold their first anniversary met ling at the Smyrna ceting house, Kerxhaw District, on Saturday the ]9lh August. Messrs W. B. and J. H. Carlisle ar? a. :led on tore for the oocasion. The cilizene of Rieh. id, Fairfield and olhar adjoining districts are respect. Ily invited. Tho ladies we hope, will cheer us with II |HTOHWI VII IIHI uajr, inu oy a unanimous IO(| the committee of invitation, all officer* and piivatM the Palmetto Regiment are affoctiouately invited to .end. A Pic Nio dinner will be prepared fof the pocaainn, d wo confidently hope the friend*of Temperance,wiU me up to our holp that wo may all do battle veliaaU for ono day in this glorioua cauee. Jas. B. RicHaouao, Ch'n Coin, of Arrangement*. From the Temperance Advocate. Mr. Editor:?I herewith forward you a rt of the Lynches Creek Union Tempernnc* 4 iciety. at their last annual meeting, holde* at jthel Church on the 4th inst. The meeting was opened with prayer hy tl* ?v. H. L. Tiller, when eloquent addresses ?ro delivered by the Rev. S. P. Murchifuu^ d the Rev. H. L. Tiller, after which, and ring the performance of an appropriate air by b Lynches Creek amateur Band, the pledge ts handed round and received eight new sig, tores. . , .lftJ The Society then proceeded, Dr. B. F. Lilt s in the Chair, to elect officers, pass resokh ins, and transact such other businesiMdevolv. upon it. Dr B. F. Lpcas was re-elected president, ml. Rethiin* alor-taA ?U> ? * ,? _???i>bo i irjmrnii jmmrw Bell, elected Secretary and John R. Shaw m. Jordan, James Tiller, S. P.'Murchison, McSween, elected directors. On motion of John R. Shaw, Esq., the (bin iring preamble and resolution* were unsaid msly adopted: Whereas, The practice of candidates treating elections in order to influence the people in iir favor, tends to destroy the freedom of the ctjve franchise, by the promotion of design.