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"I II ! ' M- I li I I'l -IH CONttltESS. SENATE. Washington, June 3, 1850. A message was received from the Pre?dont of the United States in compliance with the resolution of the Senate inquiring in relation to the recent expedition against Cuba, transmitting reports from the several heads of Departments, con taming nil the information in possession of the Executive relative to the subject, and suiting thnt no information ha,* been received establishing the existence of any revolutionary movement in the Island of Cuba among the inhabitant" of that Island. The correspondence discloses the fact that repeated attempts have been made under the direction of foreigners enjoying the hospitality of this country, to get up armed expeditions in the Liuled States for tlie purpo?o of invading Cuba, nnd showed that the Government, had heen faithful in the discharge of its treaty obligations with Spain and the execution of the acts of (Congress. The message was read and ordered to lie on the-table. Mr. Seward presented the proceedings ' of a meeting of citizens of .Syracuse, New j York. The first resolution condemns the loss of time in the action of Congress, which j the mee'ing considers as having resulted from the efforts of the slaveholders in tf.e ^outli to give unreasonable and unjust; preponderance to the interests of the lo- ! cal institutions. The second resolution declares that, in the opinion of the meeting, and, as they ; lielicve, in accordance with the universal _ .1 _ . .1' . XT .1. min unanimous sentiment in ?ew 1 oik, California is entitled to ad mission into the Union with her present constitution and her present boundaries, without condit;on, restriction, or limitation, and with- ) out reference to any other question now 1 before Congress. The third asserts the constitutional ~r n 1 *i . | ii j?? 11 ui in |Muiui;ii >m\ ti \ ill the Territories of th? United States*, nnd protests against tlio passage of any law for the establishment of territorial governments in New Mexico nnd Utah which shall not contain the Wilmot PiOviso. The fourth protests against the passage of any law for the apprehension and surrender of fugitives from lnhrir orservinn which shall not recognise the right of the writ of habeas corpus and of trial by jury in the jS'tate nnd in the county in wh:ch the claim is attempted to be enfo'ced. The fifth asserts that it is the duty of j Congress to piss laws providing for the security of all persons, inhabitants of a free State, whose business or inclination leads them temporarily i..lo any of the slaveholding States. The sixth protests ngninst nny legislation in Congress hv which the continuance of slavery in the District of Columbia, beyond the time when it-s abolition may bo demanded by public, opinion, or become necessary or expedient in the judgment of Congress itself, shall bo effected, or by which such abolition mav be made to depend on the assent of any adjoining State, and expresses u desire for the removal of slavery altogether from the national capital. The seventh expresses anxiety ami alarm at the attempt to induce Congress to assent to compacts and compromises tending to compel or restrain the action of future Congresses. The eighth declares that if the Oonstition was formed upon the plan of com promises to feelings and opinions then ex lsting, it by no means follows that the I -f * . VIII isiiMu ui compromise snouiu DC perpetual until the end of time. Mr. Webster, by unanimous consent, asked and obtained leare to introduce a bill amendatory of an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters, approved 12ih July, 1793; which was read and ordered to be printed. On introducing the bill, Mr. Webster remarked that at an early period of the c.ict1! am !?/* ? 4 * ? ? a? ?? -*' - ov99iuii, IIU luiduu nib ui iciiuon 10 iMC subject of preparing a bill in respect to the reclaiming of fugitive slaves, or preparing some ament! nents to the existing law on that subject. lie, conferred with many eminent members of the legal profession, and especially with a high ju 'ici.il authority who had more to do with questions of this kin 1, he supposed, than any other judge in the United jS'tates. ylfter these consultations nnd conferences, ho prepared a bill amendatory ot ti e act of 1703; intending when the time to lay it before the .Senate for consideration. lie now desired to present it to the senate, ns it was prepared some linioln Kfthriinvu luet Tin Jay il upon the table, ns it seemed to be now altogether uncalled for. The bill was a? follows: A BILL amendatory of "An act respecting fugitive# from justice, and persons escaping from llie service of their masters,roved February 12th, 170-3. fif it enacted Inj the Senate and lloune of Repreuutatives of the United State* of America in Congrats assembled. That the provisions f the said act shall extend to the Territories of the United States; and that tho commissioners who now are, or who may hereafter be appointed by the Circuit Court of tiie Unii<xLSlat<w, or the District Court, where circuitcourt are not established, or by the Territorial Courts of the United States, nil of which courts arc authoiised and required to appoint one or more commissioners m each county to tnko acknowledgments of bail and affidavits, nnd iiIlo to take deposij sitionsof witnesses in civil causes, and ! wlio snail eacn, or any duago 01 mc j United States on complaint being made j on oatli to him that a fngitivo from la- i hor is believed to he within the State or ! Tcriitory in which he lives, issues his warrant to the United States Marshal, or I j to any person who shall be willing to ! ' serve it. authorisingnn arrest of the fu- j gitive, if within the .State or Territory, to i be brought before him or some other ' | commissioner or judgo of the United j States Court within the State or TVrri tory, intu me ngni 01 me person ciaim: ing the services of such fugitive may he ; [ examined. And on the hearing, deposiI lions duly authenticated, and paiol proof, shall be heard to establish the identity of the fugitive and the right of the claimant, and nlso to show that slavery is es tab'ished in the State from which the fugitive absconded. And if on such lioaring the commissioner or judge shall find the claim to the services of the fugitive, as asserted, sustained bv the evidence, he shall nvike out a certificate of the material facts proved and of his judgment tli^rnnn wliirli lin vJvtll *;irm nnrl wliii-li hall be conclusive of the right of the claim ant or his agent to take the fugitive hack to the state from whence he fled Provided, that if the fugitive shall deny that he owes service to the claimant unucj the laws of the .State where he was held, and afier being duly cautioned as to the solemnities and consequences of an oath, shall swear to the same, the commissioner or judge shall forthwith summon a jury of twelve men to try the right of the claimant, who shall be swo:n to try the 1:..,- .? ?:.i ".i .i.? inu?v; ii 1111i in v'YlUUIlCt'j HIKI IIIC commissioner or judge shall preside at triid and determine the competency of the proof. Skc. 2. And bt it further enacted, That tho commissioner shall receive ten dollars in each case tried by him, ns aforesaid, (lie juro-s fifty cents each, and the marshal or other person serving the process slvdl receive five dollars for serving the wnrrant 011 each fugitive, and for mi | leagenncl other services thy yame as are allowed to the marshal for similar servii ccs, to be examined nnd allowed by the j commissioner or judge, nnd paid by the claimant. On Moti ?n of Mr. Gl?v, the Senate, I as in Committee of the. Whol , resurncd the con-adoration of the bill for the admission of the stale of California, the establishment of the Ter itorial Government of Utah and New Mexico, and miking proposals to Texas for the settlement of of her Western nnd Northern ! boundaries. jfhe Vico President stated tlie ques- j j tion to be upon the amendment proposed : by Mr. Chase, to nn amendment submit* ! ted bv the Senator from Mississippi. (Mr. | Davis) to the 10th section of the bill. Mr. Soule jDf-i vc notice of his intention ; to move tiie following amendment, which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. After the word government, in tho ti tie, insert the words .South Cul fori i i.' j Sttike out the 1st, 2d, and 3d sections, j and insert: j lie it cnactcd, d~r. Thatnssoon as Oal ifornia shall have passed in convention an I ordinance providing that she relinquishes all title or claim to tax, dispose of, or in nny way interfere with the primary disposal by the United .S'uttes of the publie domain within her limits; thntbho will | not interpose her nuthori y and power so to disturb or impede nny control which United Sta'es may deem advisable tnoxI erei-so over fiuch districts in the mining : ? j: vmnri ikj?t uwovcrrti, or 10 no discovered hereafter, as mny bo included j in any lawful grant made to private indi| vidmU, or to corporations, prior to the ; cession of California to the United States: that the lands of the non-residents shall never be taxed higher than those of resident; that the navigable waters sholl he ' ope:( nnd free to all citizens of the. United . .S'tatcs, those of California included; nnd i that Iter southern limits shall Ikj rcstrie.j ted llic Afiasouri compromise line, (30 j deg. 30 min. of North latitude;) and as ; soonns she shall have nrivlnrnrl Iftilm j President of the United .States satisfaetoj ry and authentic evidence that the terms I set forth have been fully and exact lv I complied with, tho President of the Uni| ted Slates be, and he is hereby author, ised and requested, without any further ' action on the part of Congress, to i"sue his proclamation, declnnng that Califor nia is, and she shall theupen, be admitted into tho Union upon an equal fooling with the original states in all respects whatever. Sec. 2. Ju it enaclcd, tCr., That such portions of the revenue collected in th? [ ports of California ns may lemain nnexj pcndcri n( tlic time of tlie issuing of the President's proclamation ns aforesaid, shall be paid over to the said 6tateof California. Sro. 3. Be it enacted, <kc., That thr senators and Representatives now elect before Congress from tho said state of California, ehnll be entitled to receive, il lil II 111 ! ' "WB and shall reccive, the mileage and the per diem pay allowed to the delegate from the Territory of Oregon, from the day that the message of the President transniitt'ng the constitution of California was received by Congress. Sec. 4. Be it enacted, <?c., That the country lving between 30 deg. 30 min. of North lHiitnde nnd tho boundary line between J/exico and the United States, cst 'i Illicit.)/! I\if (iwi iKiattr nf H iniftiilitMn I Hidalgo, and extending from the Pncitic to the Sierra Mndre, shall constitute n territory under the name of the territory of south California nnd shall be organised as such under the provisions of this bill applying to the territory ofUtnh, (changing names where they ought to be changed) ?n all respccts whatsoever, nnd shall, when ready, able, nnd willing to become a state, and desiring to be such, oc uunii'ieu nuo tne union wun or witnout slavery., as the people theof may desire or make known through their constitution. Without taking any question, at a quar ter past four the senate adjourned. Watiiinoton, June 5, 1850. SENATE. Mr. Yulco moved that the Sennte take up the messnge of the President respecting Cuban aft'.iirs. Mr. Bradbury urged upon the Senate the expediency of taking up his resolution and voting on it. Mr WoKcfni' wriu U'illSnrr 4 nlr.% ??*> ?" " yif, the Cuhan question for discussion. lie presumed there would be much discussion. Mr. Yulee thought that n committee could make a report of pome of (he fuels presented in the voluminous message of the President. If we waited for the documents, the subject could not be discussed this session. Mr. Footc was in favor of a deliberate discussion of the subject, ltwasnecessnr\* llmt snmii ri>iilv ?lir>iiM ho f<-? the views taken of the subject by the //on. ijentleman from AAassaehusetts, (Mr. Webster,) wben it was before the Senate some days ago. The motion was l;?id aside. Mr. Bradburry again urged his molion. Mr. Clay sriid it was evident that a long debate would follow, and no question: It wnsa high party topic; and was that to b considered when the country was iifritated bv a ouestion hr>t.w?>rtn unirm and disunion? The Prendent would, of course, reply to the resolution (hat ho could not answer it without derogation of his executive character. He hoped thu subject would be lutd on the table. Mr. Foote hoped the Senator from Iowa who had the floor on the resolution of the Senator from J/iiine, would give TI./? :?<-? ?. 11 vs xr. uuiv "UUIU UU lllli:i llllim* hie on it. lie hoped that a m ?rc imporj tnnt question would be first disposed of. Mr. Benton said the bill from the cornpro .ise committee hnd been long before the .Semite. It was a bill of forty sections. A debate on one. rlause of one section had occupied one month. Injustice to California he could not 'o ?< r than this week defer the motion to postpone the bill indifinitelv. Mr. Kootc said it was evident thnt after this week, the Semite must in reference to the proceedings of the other Hou*e, determine whether to go on with the joint I ill or take up California hv itself. Mr. Bradbury's resolution was laid aside. The /Senate took up the Adjustment Bill. Mr. Turne.y commented on some remarks in the "Union," respecting his vote on the bill. He should give his vote for tho bill, though ho should support some amendments. Mr. Footc made some explanations in defence of the venerable editor of the Union, whom he highly lauded for his patriotism nnd wisdom. Mr. Ritchie was nobly sustained in his course by the present Governor of Virginia, who had pronounced this to he the proudest no tions i j of liis life. Mr. Ritchie liad treated t)tis j question as one above all party considerations*. Mr. Whitcombmade sonic remarks in vindication of bis course from the comments of the "National Era." After debate the, amendment of Mr. Chase was rejected?yeas 25, nays 30. Mr. Jefieivon Davis' amendment was also rejected?yeas 25, navs 30. Mr. iS\}Wf>rd moved the Wilmot vrovi po, which was rejected?yeas 23, nays 33. Mr. Berrien's amendment prohibiting the judicial 'from passing laws, either exeluding or^Wablishing slaver)', was agreed to. Yeas 30; nays 27. Tho 6'cnate then adjourned. A gentleman of Baltimore lias in his possession ft watch which was carried by Lord Cornwnllis at th?s time of the hattlo of Yorktown. It in made of silver, is of nn oval shape, and is enclosed in a wooden ens-. It hes a very antiqe appearar^e and though in its day was no doubt considered "a beauty," would hardly pass for one now. It is what is called a military watch, and has inscribed on the inside, 'Mohn 3/ulhull, Fleet street, Fecit." It i? about to be transmitted, through the British Consul, to the family of Lord | Cornwnllis in England. KEoW"EIS~CO"C1U^Kit I Friday,' June 14, 18flO. 1 Will A viow of accommodating our Sub | wribora who live at a distance, t)iu following i gentlemen arc authorized and requested to on* do n^ntWfi in fA^niuilirv nm] fni'tt'orilSntr finli . criptions to the Kkowkk Courikr, viz: Maj. W. 8. Orisiiam, pt West Union. Edward 1Ii;c:iik8, Esq., " Horse Shoe. K. P. Vkiinkr, Esq., " Bachelor's Hctrcat M. P. Mitciiki.l, Esq.. " Picktnsvillc. J. E. Haoowd, " Twelve Alile. J. T. Wkrh, for Anderson District. Mil. WEBSTER. The position which this gentleman is found occupying nt the present time is certainly very unenviable; having a eonKripnri" mndorntclv imulor. nnH wliinh. refusing to sanction the 'higher law," has occasionally found utterance, as conscience always will, in some noble words, he is scourged at will by the ruthless and unpitying faction, of which he is the unhappy servant ; and while he would do us some justic3, and vindicate his own great name, he is forced by his masters to become the champion of men, nnd the instrument of ptinciplcs lie must, and docs affect to despise. No one, upon the lending of Mr. Webster's great speech, could have, lor one moment, supposed that lie would ever have given to I he country such a Fugitive Slave Bill us he has lately ii Dduced in the Senate. The man who, after reading this speech, could have imagined Mr. Webster capable ol so great an enormity, would have boen*reor:irdpd n<5 J1 misfrnhln hnv ing no faith in human virtue, nnd had lie given words to the imaginations of his heart, the whole country would have cried uno voce, "slmmo on your bnse dctraction!" For who could believe that the man who saw so clearly the owners constitutional right to reclaim hi.s fugitive slave,and, who so forcibly enjoined the strong moral obligation, which is con- : st'intly resting on the people of free j States, to restore these fugitives, and to j bring tbeir purloincrs to juslico, could ever, by any self-contro', so blunt Jus moral senses ns to bring himself to countcnnnce, still less to conceive, and in his^ place in the ?S'enate to introduce, n Bill which renders the exercise of this clea** and unmntakeahle right nn impossibility, and which shifts the discharge of this solemn obligation into the hands of men, who do not recognize its existence, and who openly and boldly avow their determination never to regard it. Mr. Webster said, "I tread no step I 1 1 ft -1 _ t 1 1 uncKWHra*, i nose were nonie words, nnd nobly were they spoken ; but, alas, for the weakness and imperfections of humanity, it is much easier to talk beautifully tlmn to net firmly, "doing justice to nil men;" and Mr Webster lias t:iken,nnd rapidly taken, btige stride* that have borne him buck\va*d and still farther backward into the distance fmm his former position, until he is almost lost in the dim obscure. Mr. Webster's movements have been watched by the South with intense interest. because he U known to be the faithful index of the mojt rejpcctnblo and powerful of the Free-soil party ; nnd therefore the position he assumed in reguard to fugitive slaves, in the speech referr d lo, was hiiilwd by the South as an indication of a returning sense of justice on the part of the North, but subsequent events have shown how fur we were mis taken, and that, instead of hi* words be -/ - nijr ii just <ixpnsu 01 me sentiments ot his friends, ho had assumed a moments independence nnd was then acting withoui authority. His masters hnve since spa-, ken and he lias "heard and been afraid.'* Mr. Webster's bill may be regarded as another clear indication of the unalterable determination of Free-soilers, never !o settle the3e questions until we have yielded all they have the audacity to demand, and to cease harrassing only when they have deitroyed us. NORTHERN ENTERPRISE SUPPORTED BY SOUTHERN PATRONAGE Wc have frequently heard men asking such questions as these: Why is Northern enterprise more successful than Southern? why nro Wot thorn manufactures superior in quality to, nnd at tha same time cheaper than those of the oouth? The answer is plain an ' unm!>take bio; Northern enterprise receives not only r ' ... I Northern but Southern patronage;? Northern manufactories arc supported by the monopoly of the Southern market. while Southern industiy receives but a scanty support at home, and none from abroad. Almost all the articles of com* fort or luxury found in our houses, f?om the humble and unpretending fu? nitu?e of the kitchen to the rare nml ek'g?..?t orna- .. i ment of tho drawing-room und boudoir, are of Northern manufactory. '>5 The southern lady thrums an air from La Somnumbula on a northern piano? languishes in graceful attitude on a northern sofa, sighs away whole evenings over the insipient pages of Graham or Godey, and makes her morning calls in carriage built in Newark or Albany; whilo her lliislmnil luirvni) f/.ll .i? unm-to !? ? IVM'Mlf lO 1J ID IJ'/IVII* em castor?luxuriates in boots put up at No. ?, Broadway,?takes his coup from a northern dish, and writes sonnets to his gray-hound with an Kdwards pen on northern paper. The very baby is learned to stand in a northern jumper; is choked with "yankee notions," and if she is not poisoned by yankee quackeries and, esc-mes to her teens, she is killed in a "'patent elastic corse*." Thus the north has been enriched, and is still supported, bv draining sonthurn wenlili, while our own resources have been left undeveloped, our own industry unrewarded, and our enterprises allowed to perish for want of patronage, or to draw out a sickly and precarious existenc>. The south is flooded with northern papers, many of which are strongly tine- j] tured with socialism, and nholitionism, and atheism, and all the foul family ot di ^organising isnis, which, in other countries, are poisoning the fountains of knowledge and sopping the very foundation of society; while the southern press i* too often neglected. Support southern men in their efforts to diffuse energy among ihe people, re ward with your patronage southern industry, and then will tho south he able to competo with the north, not only in her own, but in the markets of the world? Thon w>ll you see the south rapidly developing her countless resources, manufactories will spring up in the land, bringing to its children enterprise and activity, and ali i.iosc comforts and refinements which arc born of industry. Our cities will begin to teem with wealth and population, tho traders of Europe will come to barter in our markets, and tho ships of our merchants will be seen on the most distant sens. Wo noticed, some lime since, a very sensible article in the Carolinian, deprecating the practice which has for a great, while obtained among a large portion of our wealthy citizens, of wasting their summers and what is worse large sums of money annually at the North. Wives and dau?rht?>ra must drink the w!itr? [ Sat ato /a and flirt with the young yantees j who are to be fornd at Cape iVay, bc[ cause'lis pleasant, forsooth, and fashion; able. Some respectable people actuallythink it gives them 2X>sitioti to be acquainted with the localities around Astor Pluco, and to he able to tell you t no scandal of Union bouup*. To those people the Carolinian says "staj' nt home." Aye, stay at home, and seek health in the pure nir of our mountains, or in the solt breezes that blow over the isles that gem our own empyrean seas. Is there liny *ky .?o blight and to blue as the sky of this sunny clime? Or any scenery , moro grand ahd beautiful than that which God has given to the mnnnWtinAof our land? The bul-bul of the Peasian's Paradise sang not mores meetly than the thousand songsters that aro carolling all day long in our southern forests, and the roses of Cashmere were not more beautiful than: V- -.tft-.-'.J- - ? ? tuv 111 > iiuuo ui iiuncm which nrc OIOI* soming to-day on these solitary hills. But when these votaries of pleasure nnMiwhion nre told tosiay at home, they BvnwffB?aherc are no hotols in tho mou"* tnrns. iMttno such accommodations on the sM^mist as we find ai the North'' Forsjmftfa be *ilent. Do you expcct . holelm&Bbc opened, O ye inhabitant cf the m^a*e country, where there has beent no calj2ffpr then)? Or thai Sullivan's Island ^ufl become tho Kden it mightb? if you, yMitlzens of Charleston, do not create Stay^ot home, then, and show a dispo silion to patronize your own people, and soon South CaroJ^Mk will hovo many Gape May* and Saratogas, # .