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' '^v C ON?KESS. In the Senate, on Wednesday, the 23d instant, the compromise poheme was taken up, and Mr. Upham, of Vt., replied to that part of Mr. Soulo's speech which relates to tho constitution of Vermont, lfu O 1 1.1 -1- 1 . < niiiuii ntr. smu tuii'ruieu !i soi l oi pconngo, Mr. Upham explained the opemtion of the laws of Vermont. Mr. Soule replied, showing that the provisions of the constitution of Veripont established the same Plate of things which prevailed in J/c.\ico. lie did not wish to say nnytlung disresp?ctful to Vermont, but to relieve poor j/exico, by showing that she was sustained by libertv-loving Vermont. The practice in Vermont might not conform with her paramount law, which could bo nt any time enforced by law. Mr &oule, in reply to Mr UEham's remarks as to the constitution of lOuisiana, said that the original constitution of that State was silent as to slavery. it nmn .ivn iiimii uuuii. I ml I 111; constitution which the Senator had road from was not in existence. In 1815 a constitution was adopted, which distinctly tolerates slavery. Mr I'ratt moved an amendment, which he said would meet villi the nunrobnlion I of nil, to the 1 Gtli section, so us to pro- ; vide that the territorial legislature should j neither introduce nor exclude African 1 slavery; provided that nothing shall prevent them from protecting the rights of property of any denomination which may at any time be legally recognized. Mr Jefferson Davis expressed his foncurrencc in the amendment and withdrew his own, believing that this would accomplish the same purpose. Mr Davis vindicated himself- fiOin the distorted statements made of lib amendments. It h id ben represented as opposing the right to ..?.v umtM in niu h-iiiiuiu^, wncrcns no has explicitly stated tlint lie does not admit the light of Congress to affirm or deny the right to hold slaves there. Mr Downs addressed the ?.c'eialo at length. 7/o expressed his regret that1 the Wilmot Proviso had not been first disposed of. and that the details of ihe bill would be considered. 7/i: referred to the compromise of 1815 as ncreptable *0 the South, which left the question of, slavery for the judiehl tribunals. That j compromise was defeated by Southern ! votes, and deep execrations were hurled j nt those who defeated it- 13 v the loss of 1 that bill, we lost llie application of it to California. What reason had we to suppose that, by delay, we would gain anything. lie and other Southern Senators were committed to that compromise, called the Gluyton bill, and of which this bill was a copy. His honorable colleague (Mr Soule) was not lice at that lime. He (Mr Downs) sought to prohibit the territorial legislatures from inhibiting ?1 r.! i - i i r.,n, tl_? , wiu Will 1H?I IIIL'I II IlllMUlS IlilU ;>n equal right to dcinnnd hat thcv should I not establish it lie could see no objection ; to t e in roductionof this provision. He | would vote for the nmendmdnt of the | honorable member from Maryland?not caring for the form of words, as they restrain the legislature from prohibiting slavery. After Mr. Downs concluded, the Senate went into Executive session. In the Senate, on Thursdav. t.1?? on,i : the compromise bill was again taken up, and Mr ?Sfou!c took the floor nnd spoke in reply to Mr. Downs. He spoko of his duties nnd his determination to fuldl (liom. He remarked upon the manner of the Senator from Kentucky ns bein^ a little overbearing, but he would not complain of it. No one had greater admiration than lie had of the eloquence and high character of that Senator. That Senator had asked him if he was not satisfied with this compromise to offer another that was better. He (Mr &ouie) was in a minority here, nnd one of the humblest soldiers in that minority, nnd not from him, but from those who had the power in their hands, was an ~rr e -- 1 ? uuur m comprumuc 10 ue cxpectOU. Hut should lie ofl'er a compromise it would be one that would r.ot speak to tlie eyo and deceive the sense. The south had been losing considerable I ground ever since the Honorable .Senator | from Kentucky offered his compromise. I What has become of the hope that the i territories back of the Sierra Nevada were one day to have access to the ocean? ] What had bccomo of the delusive promise of "suitable boundaries?" Was he to be called n disunionist bccaus? he would not support a plan that wrecked the 1 ist hope of the South for redress? The South, instead of progressing, was Actually losing ground at ef< rv swp. What had become of the fifth original resolution of the Senater fro n Centuckv. which d?. ?*'" clarcd that it was inexpedient to abolish slavery in this District? The Wilmot Proviso was commended by its boldness. Willi the advocates of that proviso, it wn<? proviso or no proviso. Why did not the friends of tne South, in the committee of thirteen, meet the question? Here were six Southern members of the committee nnd one northern member who were committed against the pro viso. With r mijorty, then, why wns not the proviso condemned? IFIiv whs not the Wilmot proviso deehrcd to be unconstitutional? 7'imt would have been, atlenst, a clonk to our misfortune. ^ ? * ~J -. v gJ.'JJ'gi'ii'a.1. JJL Ji'J-l1'. '.'1'- J-JLL-iil 1 " 'Jg? Afr Soulo considered tlmt the amendment offered by the Senator from Maryi land (Mr Pratt) nn assent to the posij (ion which he took the other day. The nirtmi'lmmf lAmovnd tliA nltii'nlirm In fhi> i i original section, as it provided for the i protection of slave property. M\\ &oule had never dr.-amcd of claim * I ing any triumph?for ho was strugling again i feartul odds When pome other mutters should come to be considered in connexion with this debate, it was in his beleaf that not a Senator here would vote for the odrnission of California as she was. I intend to vote for her aduission, and on such conditions as will not disturb tho mind of her wannest friend. When those ? ll'J IMUU <111 IlliriUbt 111 IIII3 l'U(ll|)r<JlllISU | should come to reasonable terms, ho would bo willing to listen to them. Mr. Clay rose, not to reply, but to ask an explanation. He wished to know what the .Senator intended in saving that the bill spoke one language to the eye and n110 her to the.sense? hat it seemed to ! intinm'u one thing?and meant am thjr i Mr Soulc explained that he "tiered no ! reflec t oils on tho motives of the committee. They did not entirely agree themselves as to the effect of some of the proportions. Mr. Clay was satisfied. lie could not as chairman of the committee, assent I any charges of n deceptions course 011 their part. From tho Constitutional"^. Iinjittrliiu} from Cluba. LANDING OF THE INVADEVSThe steamer Ohio, arrived at New j Yntli from TTnviiivi lii'iinia tl\n ininlli. i - - v"" " i qeucothat Gen. Lopez, with five bun ! died men, landed at Cardenas on the | fStii inst., and ioi'k the town and grrison i oi six hundred soldiers, who surrendered \ after losing three men.?Great excite- ! ment prevailed in Havana. Marshal law prevailed in that city. Several thousand militia had been despatched to protect Ma tanzas. It is i ej.orled that troops and ! collected at Mor nan's Island Several vessels had been despatched for that ; place. The Spanish steamer Pizirro re- j turned with 103 prisoners, mostly French j and Germans Arms were distributed ' to the militi'i. Resident foreigners were J compelled to enrol their names for service. The force under Gen. Lopez is e ; (minted at two thous md. It is reported that the rail roads leading to Oardenas, and several other places, have been taken up bv Gen. Lonez. Tim niei-nhnnta I and bankers at Havana were removing j their deposites to places of snfety. Protection Jmd been refused by tlio Spanish i Government to American veescls and tluir pa&a^ngcvs. Tho C hio brings nothing later from California. She brought six hundred thousand dollars in spccie. SI ILL LATER. A despatch from our Charleston corrc -pondent, brings us the. following highly important intelligence from Cuba, which was received in that city by Telegraph, under date of Savannah. May 25: The stunner Isabel, from Havana, touched oft' ihc b;ir, bringing advices to the 22nd inst. (Jen. N. Lopez, accompanied by one of his aids, J. San liez Esanaga, took Iqdgings at the City Hotel, and from liitn we obtain the following intelligence respecting the invasion of Cuhn. The Expedition left Center Yucatan on the 10th, and landed at Cardenas on the 10th inst. The troops lost some time landing, which give time to the inhal itants to semi i>n expresss to the post Cv?l1^7.n crimn 1r>\\ miloc ilictnnt rPI?/% (lition entered the town nnd attacked ihc jiil, supposing it to bo thobnrrntks The jail guard, consisting of about fifteen men, stood the fire well. At this moment, more troops were seen rimsing tho square, who were hailed, nnd answered by firing on tho invading troops, who afterwards proceeded to t'i<* Governor's house, which was attack* "1. The house was well defended, but fin. 11/ tho troops sui rendered themselves. The town remained in tli^. penccablo posression of the inv uling army, but the troops being dissatisfied at the warm receplion they mot vvitli, and having lnat lime in getting their wounded and fuel on board fie steamer Creole, which was to return f >r rcements, b'JCnme dis heartened aw\ insisted upon going to Key West. They were closely pursued , l>y the Spanish war steamer Pizavro, but j happily ccapcd. | The Isabel had not arrived At Charles- J I ton when the above despatch was sent,! to us. The CVda Expedition.?This affair has been brought to 'a most lainc and im potent conclusion.' Tho fair flower of liberty in th"t beau- i tiful is nipped untimely in the ^ud, and must whiter in the shade of despotism, perhnpa for years to come. 7'he conI duct of )ho invaders wems to have been anything but her ?ic. If Cuba is ever des tined to be five, her liberators must be t\f oft.flt iknn 1-- 1 MI..UV VI ?I^? Piun uinu HIU.MJ WHO liavo followed the lead of the redoubtable Gen. Lop. z. The intelligence we have received by U'Tegraph, ii imperfect.. We hope more full details by mail will redeem the patriots from the ridicule which seems to bo invoked by their ignominoM flight Constitutionalist. - , );.-A; M, **' 'fr-VV**1 fc. J?B? fin^p ? II LATE ANP IMPORTANT. Savanxah, May 20. Much excitement was produced in this city Inst night in consequence of the "ftrrest by the U. S. Marshall, of Gen. Lopvz and liis aid, under order by tojogrnph of tho President of the United States. 'Jliey xverj exp.lninod beforo Nichols of the District Court, nod no evitlenco of n. tiimrililn ti.'ifnrA hi?ir.'/ nm<lurv><) itrniiuf thorn, (he parties were discharged at threequarter* past oloveri o'clock. 7'ho Court room was much crowded during the examination, and when it closed the General nnd his aid were escorted to their lodgings by a largo number of citizens amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. On arriving at the hotel, -Gen. Lopez made a erpeeoh, in which lie asserted his unalterable determination to prosccbte his present purpose (the emancipation of Cuba) at all risks, lie is a man of pleasing appearance, and decidedly intelligent, lie left at seven o'cltick for Mobile.7'?olograph. KEOW KE CO II IM 10 U Friday, May 31,18?0. "VVitli .* view of accommodating our Sub scribcrs who live at a distance, the following gentlemen are authorized and requested to act as agents in receiving and forwarding Sub criptiom to tho Kkonvek Counina, vise: Maj. W. S. Orisiiam, at W#xt Union. Edward Hughes, Esq., " Horse Shoe. E. P. Vkrsku, E*q., " Bachelor's Retreat M. F. Mitciiki.l, Esq.. " Pickensville. T l? 11. (i n' * f :i ~ ? U. ii/tuuifir, I WU1VU JJUlf, 1 T. Webb. for Anderson District. What should ih? ?outh do with the Compromise?" asks the Richmond Enquirer; we answer, reject it, ns she certainly will unless greatly amended, ns by tho present scheme slip is 1 equirid to surrender every thing for which she lias been contending. By sanctioning this bill for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, she will recognise the right of Congress to interfere with slavery in the District, and will be linlnii^Y I lt/i TCni?j1\ i f ul-*n o f <-* ?-? VIIV# JL? VI Ilk VV IUUU HIV UIDW OlV|/ for its abolition there. By the Fugitive Slave Bill, (lie power is given to the scoundrels who may kidnap our slaves #o harass the unfortunate owners with bomls and jury trials. Bv the Bill admitting California, pro- , ..!1: t !. -- 1 4- f TTi .1. viuiiiu ici i lioriui govern mollis loruuiu and New Mexico, and settling the Texan boundary, wo are called upon to sur- ] render a large portion of the State of Texas, now slave, to he mado free ten i- j tory, to acquiesce in the admission of Gal- 1 jfornia with her enormous boundaries and j fraudulent Constitution, to acknowledge ! ilie lylit of Congress to pass the Wilraot Proviso; and to consent to be excluded from all participation in the ten itories acquired from Mexico; for this does exclude us as effectually from these territories, as if an excluding clause had been expressly inserted. It denies to the Territorial Govern* ments the power to make any regulations j respecting African slavery, and therefore all power to protoct citizens in the enjoymonf nf ll^r* enmn Will n?.r v.. .. ... ....J V... ..V. V,. slaves be so foolish an to carry ihem into a country where his right to them cnnrvot be prolecled where the judiciary would have no power (o authoiise the seizing of his absconding slave, and (he Legislature no authority to grant such powei to the judge?. But if this should not happen to be enough, (o 'make assurance doubly sure, and lake ? bond f fate,' ngainst. the extension of slavery, the father of this Compromise tell;} us, that tho Saws of Mexic(>, abolishing slavery, are in force in those territories, nnd that therefore we nnn/1 nnf /\f m ivvvi ..?/v vi inrv ui *!,q ll> UU'IU, And slill tlio South is told to accept of this compromise, and those of her defenders who reject it nrc callcd by hard names, and charged with meditating disunion. Can we concede, when every concess'on only weakens our moral force and sirenLCliieng (he force of our adversaries? For tho North to tell us of concession is idle impertinence, to contemplnto U oufselves weak nnd suicidal. Beside* have wo any assuranco that when these concessions nr?- made niove will not be de mundod? Do we not know, that when oace the barriers to legislation on the subject of slavery arc broken down, all our defences will bo swept away? With n generosity, for which she has over been ns famous as she has been for her truih and loyalty to the Union, the South hns made concession after concession for the soke cf peace and harmony in the brotherhood of ales. The wholo history of her connection with the North has been one of concession on her part, vainly sought to be disguised under the name compromise. And hns this been enough? n n * A - ooiur irom lonner concession# satisfying the fii onious nppotito of the North, it has u;lually grown hungry on tho food that ,1 was meant to surfeit it; tbo more we giv? I t'ie more wo have been expected to give, ; nnd tho more wo may givo until nllis^ gone. By former concessions tbo North bns been tmurht to look for more, to ojiU culate too much upon our devotion to the Union, to forget that there is n point beyon 1 which human endurance rarely ev e> passes, and that thos^j who arc loyal toothers, will in their last extremity be true to themselves. ! Gen*. Taylor and this Ci'dan Patri ots.?Our readers will remember, thnt CFcn. Taylor despatched two vessels of war to intercept and prevent the landing oftlio Cuban Patriots under the command of Gen. I ope*;?we sec that Mr. Yule? in (lie Senate, nnd Mr. Inge in tho House ! have offered resolutions, inquiring upon what authority the President of the Unii ted Slates ha# ordered a squadron to , Cuba. It is difficult, wo humhly opine, to understand by what riyht or authority the puisant General has undertaken to arrest i persons bcincr out of the iuri-diction of \J J the United Stales, and still more difficult, to account for that strong and abiding sympathy which the 'second Washington has continually shown for tho despotic government, which by i;s nets of injustice ...wi i ~ - -i - <iiivA v|'pi utmj iiiuiincu Bil'll lilt! ! easy and indolent C ubans to action. We do not. affect that magnificent plain nth^opy of which some people arc so very proud, and would not, therefore/ insist upon making n nation free agninst its will, but when an outraged people arise to assert the dignity of humanity> turn uoon their oDnressors and demand to be restored to those rights, which God lias been good enough to give to his creatures, and which our fathers were fortunate enough to secure for ourselvest we think thntan American Government should be the last to interfere in favor of i the tyrants; and we are sura- that the Ameiicon people can have but little sym path) in common with such government. It appears that the expedition has fail ed, independent of tho Presi lent's interfeicnce, but this docs not exculpate him from his attempted exercise of unlawful power. This Zachary Washington seems to have some strange notions of America and the Americans, and of the manner in which their Government should be ad| ministered; we wonder if it has ever occurred to him that he is not still dealing i with Mexicans? A IIl'MANK ?kNTTMENT.?The New York Tribune, in defending I lie Keoun; drels who have recently b?en rebuked for | their nssaults upon the Union nnd the Constitution, nt the New York abolition meetings, exclaims: "Rather than Garrison nnd Douglass should hfl silwnrofl. lor. nnr n tv lin rr-flnopfl ' to ashes, and let n sea t>f blood roll along ts nndistingui. liable ruins.'' A nd this in justification of the man who said that "In this country Jesus has bccomt obsolete," and that General Taylor ! believes in "The Jesus thai gave the Mexicans hell," Such was Garrison's horrid impiety; while the gentle Douglass, a black fellow, sc (Ted at our country, its institutions, i's laws, the dead patriots of the past ..and those who are now canonized in the national affections! ?9uch are (ho men who oppose (hat settlement- of the slavery question, which ClTey know would save the. country from the cab' mitics they invoke upon it.?Pcnnsjlvanian. Ami these are the men we are told by Mr. Clay, and others, to lovo and revcrcnce, because of the beauty and purity of their sentiments; those are the leaders Of tha* fanatical hoast whose aggressions wc are told not to resist, or to resist moliter mantis because, for sooth, they arc prompted by feelings of tho highest nnd most cxnuUed hiimnnhy. This is tho strangest of tho many strange tvondorings into which the great Compromiser has Jntely fallen. For even could wo see, ns ho nnd some of his friends see, tho beauty nnd purity of that sentiment which is urging the abolitionists to crush Ir. Sr. <K..? 1.^1,1 !? -> IW VU .Ull, III I lid v IUIIUU9 IIUIU) IUUIU we sco, as llicy sec, tl)Q_sensafivc nnd feeling heart* that arc said to bleed at the mention of human ill; could we uoic-ctin tho abolition ranks, the preasnnce of that religion and philanthropy of which they host so much, of that religion which inspires meekness, forlnearancy nnd long suffering with men, of that enlarged and comprehensive philanthropy which em* hraccsf the whole human race and battles far it? iwlI'linwmcut rind Mtrw-linrnlinn j then, ovon then, though might listen ' *o their lectures with some degree of pa* ' -' > ' tlonce, we should be bound to resist. But ftlas, we have not the wicrosopio oye9 of Clay & Co., and therefore we can see none of these fino things. We do, however, by ibo Jiolp of our common senses, see and bear soma tiring? tbo sight and hearing of/v.uch, send tbe blood curdling and cold to its sou&e?* wo hear these Northern emancipators blaspheming Gq^ we hear them councel-^?-' ing a bloody and exterminating wnr Of races, we hear them urging oor negroe? ' ' to violate the person of our wives and * dmicrhtnrs. nnrl fn iyhiV? n liiiifMi-ailo cost of the whole Southern population, and in this we can boo nothing like religion, or philanthropy, or human feeling. ' $P* Wc sec want filling the streets of th<-ir cities with beggars, and their goals with ciiminuls, wc see their work-shops crowded with withered formes ar.d haggard faces; faintly, mid the din of looms and the roar of spindles or wheels in their great factories, we hear the smoth red cough of consumption and staiving opperatives, from the great Babel of their land, mingling with the voice of mammon, wu hear arrisintr to Heaven the voico and. cry of dying nnd uilbllevlnled misery* and we can see nothing to admire in that philanthropy which regards with cold nnd stony cyo all the misery lying immediately around it, and which goes out in sympathy for that alone, which is immnginary or "ar removed. No cant could ho more rediculous, hipocritienl, orinsuitingto the understanding of the /South than thjs The North, indeed, urged by the prompt, ings or religion and humanity, to blast forever, by nets of injustice and userpation the sources of our power! No, no, Mr. Clay! this, the most bold and audacious of ail her iniquties, springs from the yankee instinct love of gain, tha great sourco of all yankeo action. She would make of us "hewers of wcod and drawers of water," she would make her interest supreme in the land, reducing us to a sfcit of abject and hopehss dependence, and she would hide titeso :nTilniAiio ?!./? ? I! |iiiiiuivug UUUVI tllU VIV/UU U1 IUI4* gion and hum&n feelings. Tiik London Quarterly Review,? We have received the last number of ihit Periodical which we find, as usual, full Of interest. The following is one of several letters of tho liko import which wo havo received in tho course of tho pro-sent week, all of which, wo may l>e uudet oil as answering by tho publiCiition of thU. In our ivtlvertUing rolnmn# wilj be found tho proclamation of tho Governor calling upon tho teachers of tho Stato to meet in convention at Columbia on tho 12th of Juiy next; Mr. Editcr.?I hope you -will oxcuso mo for troubling you withthi*, but I am so anxious to know whether Go 'ernor Seabrook's project of a Convention of teacher* moot* with tho approbation of tho fer rule handling fraternity in our District, that I could not choose but ai'ail myself of thiiopport unity tomnko tho inquiry: Do our teacher* approve of tLia Convention, on approving of it, do they rwan to send to it any of their number as delegates i Tho project appoara to mo, sir, to b3 oxcco J i i 1. ? ? '"<4'J "'I'PJ'i 1,1111 "l,u ?uv "J which Iimcn (jciki may grow. It is impossible to deny that there arc many and radical detects in our Free School ?ystem, defect* which go to tho very founda* t ion of tho institution and in a groat moasuro destroy its usefullnoas; th it reforms arc also necessary, in th?j system of academic cJuration which obtain* in our schools, is equally epparent, and as no class of men are so well acquainted with these imperfection*! as tho tenchorg themselves, nono aro ho competent to suggekt tho nocessnry reforms. 7'he Convention is to convcno, I believe, on the twelvth of .July; tho teachcrs of our District might meet At tho Court Houso early in Junonnd nppoiut one or raor? dolcgftto# to attend its fitting. Will you bo kind onouglt to make some ?uch suggestion through the madlqm of your paper. Yourj roHpootfully. ;*y A. Fort Qeorgo, Muy 20, 1850. Mr. Calhoun's letter on tlio Bank will i r_.? i ii 1.. ?J ? i>u iuuiiu 111 iinutiiur cuhiiiiu, miu we uopo that those, if there aro any among our subscribers, who nro disposed to agitate ^ j the Bank question now will head its earn, est warnings. No time for domestic agitation, disccntion and division could bo more unhappily chosen than thti present, when tho people aro called upon by ev&ry voico that can reach a people's heart, to watchfull and united, for the purpose ol averting a great calamity. Now, while thfcto is a groftt gamo being I played 'at "Washington for a torrib'e stake 1 jn which the interest of our pcppjp/muit \ bo forever bound up, is it nqt yvr<>ng to ' attempt to divert thoir attention ^froni the 1