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- : - ? * \ -v?' vt "> HMHMiiMateiiHi Reported fur the Baltimore Sun. I CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, f WA3HiNOxox, May 27, 1850. I Sknate.?Petitions were presented and pri-I vate bills reported. * I The bill to divide the judicial District of the? United States for the State of Arkau&g was J passed. ?j Mr. Butler, from the committee on the judi-f ciary, reported a bill to regulate the terms of i the U. S. District Court of the State of Ohio. I The Senate took up the bill to establish as branch mint of the U. S. at New York. I Mr. Jefferson Davis offered an amendment,! establishing two assay offices in California;! and to have a treasurer, assayer, &c. Thej treasurer to have tho keeping of the public mo-1 ney, and a salary of $5,000, and the assayer a j salary of $4,000; and it provides an appropri-l ation of $50,000 for the purpose of buildings,! &c. [ niwl?i?nml coiH liA WAR (ll'sirOHS of haV-S ing a branch mint at San Francisco. He wished J to have the sense of the Senate again on that-* question. He was against the assay offices, g A discussion followed on the question of or-S der. fx Mr Badger said he would, at some time,C move to strike out New York and insert Sana Francisco, in California. fi The bill was laid aside. p The Senate took up the adjustment bill re-(j ported front the committee of thirteen. H The question being on the amendment offer-K ed by Mr. Jefferson Davis, as modified at thea suggestion of Mr. Pratt. h Mr. Davis said ho had not, when he adopted! the modification, noticed the word " lawfully."? He would modify it so as to strike out " law.? fully," and include " conformably to the laws! aud Constitution of the United States." ? Mr. Mason, who was entitled to the floor,3 rose and addressed the Senate. f He pointed out some objections to that part* of the report which relates to the surrender ofi fugitive slaves. In the committee, it did not? strike him that die clause requiring a bond froms *' ~ ^ IIhIa mAtnunf Knf lia nnu/ft UJC U1UHIlclliLS WAO *71 lliuv IUVUIVIIV| ?.W thought it objectionable. B As to the proposition to abolish slavery inl this District, he was precluded from exercising* any discretion by the resolations of the Legis-? latare of Virginia. The Legislature made the* passage of any law for the abolition of slavery* in this District, one of the events upon which* the Governor was directed to call the Legisla-? ture, arid to consider the mode and manner of& redress. fc Mr. Foote said these were the original reso-1 lutions; but, in th ' ist resolutions passed, that* provision was significantly left out Mr flaked whjit was their date. h Mr. Mason. January, 1810. But they werea never revoked. Mr. Mason proceeded to say that he would be as much pleased as any man in the coin fry at any adjustment that could be made, but he luul no belief that the scheme proposed would have this effect Ho was willing to make a concession, and a great one, for the peace and harmeny of the Union. He demanded that every citizen of the United States should be permitted to go into any common territory of the United States,S1 and tike and enjoy any property that they! could enjoy in any of the States. California,!1 therefore, should 1 ecome a territorial govern-! ment, and open to slavery. If any law forbids!' it, it should be repealed. ' He was willing that tie final questiol of the! right to h dd slave property in those territories! should be left to the decision of the Supremo! Court, untrammelcd by Congress or any local! law. He thought the defeat of the Clayton! compromise unfortunate. b As to territories that could not be enjoyed ing common, he would agree to a division bv a cer-5] tain line, according to the Missouri cornprom-K ise. 0 He would not agree to the proposition to dis-g member Texas. To fix the boundary line at! 32 deg., and cut off two-and-a-half degrees of! the territory in which slavery was now estub-B tablished, below 36 30. He could never as-n sent to give up that territory. The act fixings . the State constitution of California had no val-B idity. Mr. Mason offered to extend the line of 36g do it an mm tlirnnirh Tp*n?tn the Pacific. k, Some conversation followed between Messrs.E Clay, Foote, Mason, and Underwood. p Mr. Underwood took the floor. ? The Senate then adjourned. K House op Representatives.?The Chains stated that the first business in order, being aE special order, was the consideration of the re-E po. ts in the case of Mr. Hornor, acting door-B kee|>er of the House. k Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, offered a resolu-K tion for the dismissal of Mr. Hornor. H Mr. Chandler rose and depreciated the in-Bl iroduction into the House of a business of soar little importance to the nation. He defended? Mr. Hornor against the charges brought againstP| him, and Mr. Brown replied, justifying his ac-B| don. Finally, B Mr. Inge moved to lay the whole subject ouBj the table. The motion wag agreed to, by uB. vote of yeas 1)6, noes 68. .g, Mr. Stanton of Kentucky, asked the nnatii.l| mous consent of the House to introduce aH resolution, which was objected to, and tlicB, House refused to suspend the rule. pi Mr. Crowell asked the unanimous consent ofS, the House to introduce a bill to abolish the?, slave trade in the District of Columbia. H Objection was made to the -introduction offl the bill. H Mr. Sweetser moved to suspend the rules forg' the introduction of the bill. The question wasB' i? ?o *.1 hi VIMS iv, iiiiyo \hi, imi mu iiiiiko. h Oji motion of Mr. Raeock, the rules wereS1 suspended and tlie House resolved itself intoff. committee of the whole and resumed the con-Bj siderittioii of the California question. E' Mr. Thomas, of lenn., being entitled to the# floor, spoke an hour on the pro-slavery side ofl the question. [| Mr. Bonnet next obtained the floor. He nr-lf; gued in favor of the admission of California,Pi and against the further extension of slavery, il Mr. Rahcock then obtained the floor. ThePi committee then rose and the Honse adjourned.li ?.yj . V.-- ~ I . Washington, May 25. I ?' The Cuba news by telegraph was read at the! Presidents reception last night, aud created as sensation. The President had been giving his J views against the boundary claimed by Texas,! but immediately changed the topic to Cuba,! and appeared to be taken by surprise with thef 'news. I I There was a cabinet meeting to-day. | It is expected that a proclamation will short-! ly appear. We understand that Sir Henry Bul-1 wer has had a conference with Mr Secretary! jClayton, in which it is stated that there is aC secret treaty between Spain and England, which J; [will require the latter to interfere, even if the a island is liberated. It is apprehended that tliis^ [will lead to a blockade of the whole coast by!j [England, and that soine chance collision with J (the American flag will end in a war. H | It is supposed that this business will hurryg 'on the compromise of the North, while the J 'South will go for delay. g _Tf ta nn.l f UtlUAl IV.1 ur M IB IV VWAinvMion* j parent that the chances for the passage of the'a measures proposed by the committee have^ 'wonderfully diminished of late. The opposition^ of the Administration, together with the iucrea-^ sing disfavor with which it is being 'received! j throughout the South, as well as the strength 3 'which is given to the ranks of its opponents by J !Northern Whig votes in support of the lJresi-v dent's plan, all indicate its defeat. F Another inducement to oppose the bill ap-^ pears for the first time to have taken prominent 7 hold upon the minds of the friends of the South * |?and that is, if California is remanded back as a territory, slavery will find its way there, un-;i der the protection which the Constitution^ throws over property in the Territories of the T liuited States. Horace Mann, in his infamous letter to the people of his district, brought con-^ elusive arguments forward, to prove that if not i prohibited now, the institution must inevitably go there, because it was profitable; that slave J labor was just the thing for mining purposes;! and that if the restrictions were removed, capital, in that form, would assuredly take hold of ' the investment jjj The fanatics of the North oppose the Com-?* promise, because it does not meet all their iniquitous demands; the Administration oppose it/ that the President may liave the honor ol bringing into the Union the free State of California,*!, untrammcled by other mutters, intended as reserved capital for another campaign; the men/ of the South oppose it, because it is unjust and dishonorable; and every lover of his country ' i ought to oppose it, because it does not settle I definitely the question of slavery. Those who J sustain it are chiefly a class of men who desire J peace upon any terms.?SotUh Carolinian. Pj From the Montgomery Advertiner and Gazette. Ir> Messrs Editors: The Washington Corres-? pendent of the Charleston Courier says, " an V ? i s a . i i f.L. Ir liiTeuigenianu lnnueuuai meinour ui me nouse,T just returned from Alabama, says that nine- a) tenths of the people of that State are for the compromise" reported by the committee of the^t Senate. The member of the House, to whom?i allusion is made by this letter-writer, is Mr. Hil-j liard of this District He spent a few days iu = this city, some few weeks since, and before there port of the committee was made. His mis-j sion was a melancholy one, and excited the sympathies of all. jj His means for forming a correct opinion asj Lo the public sentiment of the people of the? State, or even this community, upon the coin-1 promise, even before it was reported, must, ofj necessity, have been of the most limited char-W ucter. And there can be no better evidence offll his entire want of correct information upon this*] subject, than the opinion expressed by him, that! nine-tenths of our people are in favor of a com-j promise which, iu the language of a distiu-j guished whig, " abandons every ground taken! bv the South, and introduces a Drincinlb not tol Ihj tolerated?a trial by jury for runaways." y No, sir, the people of Alabama are opposedg! to the compromise, and the politician who shalla, sustain, by his vote, such a measure, will incurB, the deep, settled, and lasting displeasure otB, those wliose rights and interests will have thusflj been betrayed. South. B, Puosrp.cTs of Crops.?We have learnedB, from a gentleman residing in this city, who husfl, just returned from a visit to several of the East-B, ern Counties of Mississippi, that the prospect?H| of the planters and farmers in that region haveflj never been worse. He was a planter in Ea-tfl, Mississippi for thirty vears, but is now engaged!]. iii other business. He was, therefore, while ouB iiis visit, the better able to view the sceiicfl around him with an impartial eye. He inform^S us that on the uplands the corn and eottonjl plants were literally .washed away, while the! low and Hat lands were all under water, audi the crops drowned. Many planters haveabun-fl doned all hopes of a cotton crop upou lurgcfl portions of their lands, and are putting them in corn.?Mobile Register. ... The Crops.- It is now, the day we write, the &id of May, at which date cotton is usually beginning to bloom, and corn about waist high. At present, whilst the most forward arid promising cotton in this section is, we understand, lot more than three to four inches high, much jf it is barely up, and several planters, as they Iiave tills day informed us, are engaged thisHI week in re-plantiug. Nor is the corn looking much, if uny better. In place of its being waist high, as is ordinarily the case at this date on good lands, it will probably now average on the same lands ten to twelve inches. Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon. The Cotton on Red River.?There is no Janger of an overflow, but most of the plant* irs have planted three times in consequence of the cold, long continued rains. Cotton blooms in the last of May or first of June, but this fear the ulanters are nnw nerniiinur Tim tihintl is six weeks behind lime. The caterpillar latefls in September even, will prove most disastrous.Hi N. O. Crescent City. fi| Jambs Mon rob.?-We have lately heard of Br in incident in the history of this distinguishedfls nan, which at this time ought to he written inl(i etters of gold! In tho year 1814, during theBg nost gloomy portion of the history of the war an vith Great Britain, he hold both the offices of ah .<??fcvA Mi Secretary of State and Secretary of War for? some time, ITie salary of the first was Jhen J .$6,000, and that of the latter $4,500. When a the first quarter expired, the agent of the States I Department took him the salary attached to the? Joffice he held in it, which he refused to accept? 'although earnestly urged to do so. He received* ;the lower salary only, observing that his con-* duct must be ia such matters above suspicion. J Although then poor, and pressed with debt, and* poorer to the end of his life, he never did re.? [ceive a cent of this difference. After his death J ;and upwards of 30 years, it was allowed and? ipaid to his legal representatives. K Washington Union. B IPBUE jJOTOMAIL . CAMDEN, S. C. : FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1850. Court of Equity. R We are requested by the Commissioner to stateR that the regular term of the Court of Equity forg Kershaw District will be held on the second Mon-fl 'day in June. ? Railroad Fare Reduced. p On and after the first of June, until the 15th of? October next, the rate of fare on the South Caro-B lina Railroad, by the first class passenger trains,B will be reduced to four dollars from Camden,R Hamburg, and Columbia-to Charleston, and theg same from the latter place to the others. The re-R turn system has been entirely abolished. We areR also pleased to see that passengers are now re-H ceived at the new depot in Charleston, entranceH from John street, on the west side. These newg arrangements cannot fail to be of material advantage to the Company, and the travelling public. ! Dearth of the Hon- F. H. Elmoro. flj We learn by a telegraphic despatch received at this place, that our Senator, the Hon. F. H. Elmore, died in Washington city on Wednesday evening last, at 8 o'clock. Truly are we pained at this sad intelligence. Again is South Carolina c illed upon to mourn the loss of a beloved and distinguished son. Scarce have the waitings of sorrow ceased in an orphaned State for a lamented Calhoun, ere we must weep again around the bier of departed worth. Truly has another strong T i i* ?i_? ...JJ i__ it.. :J.4Q man in israei jauen, lanen suuaeniy in mu mhudih of usefulness and honor to the spirit land. g The Hon. Armistead Burt. 3 This gentleman, as will be seen from the follow ing extract of a letter written to Hon. F. W. Pick-H fns and Col. Drayton Nance, is not in favor of theH Compromise Report of the Committee of Thirteen fi is was erroneously supposed, and intimated in|g Mir editorial correspondence from Washington a published in our last paper. Well might we ex:1a im, "who next?" should Mr. Burt, too, "submit :o political subjugation." His unwillingness to do so, and his readiness to meet our enemies, and * combat them all with the same stem courage ind defiance," "at all hazards, and to the last extremity," are plainly evinced in hie closing remarks, to which we invite the careful attention if all our readerc He says "the compromise of Mr. Clay, and every other compromise that has jeen offered or suggested, intend and would ef-E, < _* _ii a..* -t. _ ? tirri 1 . u ./r B [e.ci au uiai me tviiiiuu uueuus or wuuiu tMicci.pj rin'ir common purpose and aim is the denial to#the South of admission to equal rights and privi-H( eges with the North. The means are different,fl, but the end is Hie same." | I sec no hope of a satisfactory, or even any# adjustment of the sectional issues which have#( so unhappily disturbed the repose of the coun-8 try. I have long: since, utterly and forever,H despaired of obtaining even the Missouri Com-H promise, which was denounced by the SouthI1 when it was made, thirty years ago, as craven#' submission to the North. The Compromise#' reported by Mr. Clay, from the Select Com-fie nittee of the Senate, I regard as a capitulation#; to the Abolitionists?as the first, but a decided#, =tep, towards the overthrow and disaster of the#, South. But even this mockery will fail, be-#, ;ause it falls short of their insolent and arro-ff jniit demands. I liavc been careful to ascer-#' certain its probable fate, and with this view,#' limrn rtrvncnlfiirl a?Miin nf ikn ivifnllwvnnf nn^l :m\c uwiiouji^u ouiui. in uiu mvoc iiibcui^viil auun influential members of the House, of the North-B1 irn Whig party. I have not seen or heard ofB* ine Northern Representative who will supportBr it. But 1 think it will be supported by manyB* jf the Northern Democrats, and I presume, by 8' the Southern Whigs. The President adheres!] to his policy of admitting California, as she is, | md of withholding territorial governments from Doserct and New Mexico, and, 1 have reason to believe, will give no countenance to any Jther plan.. When these territories shall havie he requisite population, they like California, ire to be admitted into the Union. The North rn Whigs have determined to sustain the re-j commendations uf the* President. The Mexi 1: 1 l... VT ?U I.. I ;<ui itiwo arc rcucu uu uj uiv nuiiu, us UAinu-n. ling slavery from these territories, as offectu.B illy as the Wiliuot Proviso. Hence all but thefl nere Abolitionists, 'are content to forego IhcH ' Wilniot," as Mr. Webster, contemptuously!1 sailed it. I have beard but a single Represent" ative, of either political party, express theopimS> on, that the South bad a right, or his readinessB o concede that right, in any compromise, t<>9 larry its property into those territories. MyHs jpinion, therefore, is, that every Northern Sen-J^ itor and Representative, bo he Whig, Deino*!e Mat, or Free Soiler, and many Southern Dem |t icrats and Whigs, will vote for tho aduussion|t )f California, and that all schemes ol Comprom-!o se will tail. Hut if I should bo mistaken in this opinion, ind a compromise shall bo made by Congress, cannot too strongly express niy belief, that I ihall not be mistaken in supposing it will be a ioIIow and deceitful truce. It will remove >ut one cause of discord and irritation. Othirs will remain to fret and phrensy the public nind, until the South is driven to resistance, or ubmitsin humiliation and despair to the bidding if an imperious master. The North will neverjjd ;ive us any peace but that which the solitudeju f desolation will spread over tho South, iltl ave always supposed that the determined re-Itl sistauce of the Southern States to the Wilmtil Proviso arose ifrotu a sense of the wrong and degradation that would be inflicted opou them by exclusion from the enjoyment, on equhl terms with the North, of the common property of both. This was all that this famous proviso sought to accomplish. It uttered no words of insult, of reproach* or of taunt These were implied from its assumption, that the South is the inferior, and unworthy of equality with her. In my opinion it afforded ample cause for resist tance "at all hazards and to the last extremity." It gave rise to the Convention to which you are the delegates of our common constituency. The policy of the President?v the Executive Proviso"?as our greatest American Senator and statesman branded it?tlie compromise or Mr. Clay, and every other compromise that has been ottered or suggested, intend and would effect all that the " W ilrnot" intends or would effect Their common purpose and aim are the denial to the South, admission to equal rights and privileges with the North. 'J he means are different, but the end is the same. Is it not, then, wholly immaterial to us, what means are employed to accomplish that end i Are not they all equally offensive, equally unconstitutional, equally subversive of our rights and liberties, and equally to be re.sisted ? i can see no distinction between tBem. They are alike insulting, and for myself, 1 would meet and com Dai uiein all wild tne same sieru courage and defiance. Believing, as I do, and have so long done, that the Southern States will soon be required to surrender their equality iu tlie Confederacy, and submit to political subjugation bv the North, or assert and uphold at once all their rights under the compact of Union, I am for maintaining them now, at whatever cost or hazard. 1 know not how to calculate the cost, or the chances of a struggle, thai involves the honor and litarties of fifteen States, and four millions of freemen. In iny calm judgment that struggle must speedily come. May we have the courage to meet it 1 am informed by their Representatives, that Delegates to the Convention at Nashville will be sent from all the States in the South, excepting Maryland and Missouri. The Delegations from Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana,'will not be full. 1 may be allowed to add, in conclusion. that the spirit of the Southern members is undaunted by the difficulties that inviron the South, and they are ready to do their whole duty, whutever that duty tuny demand of them, as Representatives and citizens. Very respectfully, vour ob'd't seivant, ' ARMISTEAD hURT. Another Destructive Fire in Charleston. We learn by the Charleston Mercury, that another disastrous fire has visited that city, com mencing on the morning of the 29th inet., and :onsuniing a portion of the most beautitul busi. ness part of the city. Ten of the twenty-one stores jomposing that magnificent block on Hayne street, ire now a heap of ruins, besides the large Grocery Store, corner of Market and Meeting streets ilso some three-story brick tenemeuts destroyed jn Jlarket street, east ot iuoe -ing, street, wntcn were occupied by a large number of famifit s. The Charleston Hotel was in imminent danger 'of be ng consumed. The numerous doors and .win Jows of its Southern front were repeatedly it: flames, and nothing but the most energetic efforts >n the part of the numerous citizens, could possi jly have saved it. The injury it has sustained s considerate, and the joss of furniture is not an nconsiderable matter to the enterprising proprie* or, Mr. Mixer, We are pleased to see, however hat the Hotel will be open to receive visitors; and ive hope an increased and liberal support may continue, and eventually remunerate the proprieor for all his losses. A very large and valuable A _ I* I J! J w . A. J J iL. imoum 01 mercnantiise was aesiroyea, ana int ivhole loss of property cannot be less than four tundred thousand dollars, all of which, we are jlad to learn, is covered by insurance pretty equally divided between Southern and Northern )fHces; so that the entire burthen will not foil upon my one or two particular offices. This was p vise arrangement, and shows very readily that >ur city merchants displayed great prudence and udgtnent in providing, so far as they could, against! contingencies. The Mercury, In closing its lengthy! md full account of this conflagration, say*: fl From the manner of its origin, there is every! qason to believe tiiat this disastrous fire was! he work of an incendiary, as there had been leithcr fire nor lights used on the premises foi leveral weeks past. Mr. Francis Miller, who tccupied a room over the store of Mr. Waldron, md had returned from a party a little before wo o'clock, distinctly heard the sound as of tome person.leaping from the fenoe, and he had etired to rest but a few minutes when the ilarm was sounded. There is but top much enson to believe in the existence of a band of hose miscreants in our oommuuitity, and we rust that efficient measures may be taken for l J 1 it 1 1-.J lT.i. ..J !_ neir ueiecuun, nuu 11 aupreueuuuu uiat uu unaaken notions of mercy may interpose between he offenders and the most rigid penalties of the aw. 557"The following letter is a copy of one written o the Georgetown True Republican, by one who * an eye-witness and a judge ofaffbirs in Wahngton? Washington, May 23. 1860. Dear Sir?I wroto you some three weeks inee, when things here were suspended in a ;rent degree, awaiting the report of the so-call* d Compromise Committee, and I ventured jn hat lettor to predict a failure by that commit, ?? ??/\i\aoa milt lluitfv *Knf ttrnnlil vinrlittoia ou Hi |iiU|iu<9U Aiij iiuii^ biiav uuuiu ?|iiM|u<?vy ir protect the rights of the South in the great trnggle going on, in which she would be derided and ruined. I again repeat that altho' bo great compromise is before the country, bat 1 have seen no time in my life when I have pen the North more determined in wrong gainst the Soiith, than at this moment. When say this, I mean in substance in coqtrftdisi action to professions and shadows, by which ley would gild ovor their measures?buy up outhern men with the lure of office and plum er, and in the meanwhile, divide and weaken s at home, so as to perfect their sohemes with je least possible danger to the Utijon, in which icy would hold us, until by dissension among v- v/ rT . oaraelves," Ave become so wdi&, that we will i?ot be able to protect ourselves in any way, when the wishes and predictions of the most ingulfing and ultra abolitionists may be accomplished^ ^ . -2-/.'' That we are to get justice fay any act of this Congress I have yet to believe; and that the people of the South ought to look well to tho.^0* duct of man v of their politicians bere/Iihawt as little doubt There are too marry c&mfklatcjaibr the Presidency, and their sateoi^/ ap^Tt^Rints for national honors of every other grade, to hold the scale of full and stern jugtuje, with unwaveiing nerve, where a majority is known to have the power and to be against us. oil slavery. This, I am aware, is strong language, but it is truth? lamentable truth. It is to be regretted greatly, that the Sooth ever attached importance euougn eitner to tue speeen at 3ir. Webster, the nominal denunciation of mot Proviso, or Mr. Foote's Committee with Mr. Clay at its head, to iudace a lettiugdown of feeling at so important a criai./^ j^ftjaae here, at all familiar with tlie revoff Northern men, who occupieawhnt-Tcoupeive* i true positiou himself, ever sappost&l auy goocE would result from the Committee, 'although many were willing to let the experiment Sis made. The report ie made and in my opintinu it much better embodies the terms of the barter and sale of the South to free-soiiisui, than of compromise. . . ' The admission of California herself, under all the circumstances, would give to the abolitions a victory unparallelled in all their former progress. DV nit* esuimnuuRnii u? gvieruoieiits for the other territories without the- Wilmot proviso, no great good can result to'the South, as Mr. Clay himself agrees withthe.abolitionists, that the Mexican laws are of force there, and exclude slavery, and that no taws shall be passed by the territorial legislature on the subject of slavery would seem to roe but to hold it subject to the Mexican laws until settlers from the North should enter in sufficient -quantities to fonn a State and exclude slavery forevnr. The fugitive slave bill, as reported by the Committee, appears to me -to be legislating for the slave instead of his muster, makings precedent for further steps in that direction, and at the same time famishing the means by which a plantation of slavetit mightrom their owner by I endless litigation. . - . More objectionable than all, is theproposi- I tion to take off nearly one-third of Texas?.-admitted now, even by Mr. Webster, to behaveterritory?to l>e paid for {some tmlve millions o#doll:irs) ont of our common treasury, and eventually to be under abolition dominion:-^ Add to all this, the flliolion of'the slave trade in the District of Colundaa, and Ave have the substance of the compromise? amounting, fa ;ny jndgnient, to nothing less tbau a dapng offer of the sale of tlie South, in much more rapid disposition than the abolitionists everbftfbre contemplated accomplishing at one g&nd no ve. , No Representative in either BoeeeofConrress from oar State is forit, so far as I k now. To say the most of it, ifr seems ta me to be bat i pl.ttfonn for craven and ignominious submission by the Soafli, and to baHd op the proe:>ects of certain candidates for tho Presidency, uid their trieuds, whilst it doe* not fnintifr ja diadow of a pledge of aatf *y/> that eyen'rif it .vere .adopted, other and wore rapid agressions would not follow in that spmtwhieh threatens our olhtniite-rtin, iukI from whieb We 80 mash want repose. . ,nis-c;iiied compromise. u js laoawi^we Union in the hi^liest terras, artd its c^iroiis nre fi led with such letters as can be fixed jj> here f om Southern men, to effect public sentiment in its favor, whilst there is as ,yeV"^||g<n here,' through which a single sentiment against it can be sent to the people; and yet its enormities are bei ig exposal in the Senate, Md. will be in the House, If a numbex ^ ^ it will pass the Senate; if it doeaf I i^ink there is not much likelihood thu: it can be defeated 111 tlio Hqu*>, as the North know their. interests too well to giyo. it the cold shoulder, and a number of Southern men occupy positions here, tnost strange to inc.; Bat I look to the people?the stern integrity and good - sense dt the Southern jieople?ultimately to proteet themselves from this whole iniquitous scheme of wmug. pAUtarto. . .. . , 1 me Turkgraph.?\ number of the telegraph poets being burnt by.the fire yesterday, our telegraphic communications were intemip ted. It is supposed the wires wW be replaced and operations resumed in the course of to-day. Charleston Mereae* of Thttrsd##. EDITORIAL OUUUVXtrOS. Great Railroad S?kd.?-The express ix*\n from Boston on Thursday morning having been delayed by an accident Off the Wort^t^ ronlv , made the run from ClapvSle depot to Spriii^fteld, for/tf.fiee miles, in ong hour, . JThi&ia tbe quickest run ever made by a train on die Western Road, and Drobablv eaual to smv isDeed ..vtt attuned W & regular train of carson any rot4 m the country." The republic of Chili ba^eenf-to the Popeyes a specimen of hermetallic riches, a mass ot silver worth from $30,000 to $40^)00. A gold mine baa been discovered iu Jtarfo co., Pa., which yields fifty per ceut of: pure metal, part gold, part silver. The migration of gold hunters to that region has not yet put the inhabitants to any inconvenience, of raised the price of provisions. r r ' The Emperor of China has fcrhiddeu anyofhi^ subjects to go to California, Yankee Sullivan has made lus debut in Ban Francisco. His exbih(fc*? ^eweH.ittadaed, Admission 8J). Col. Jack {lavs,fofiflarlyoftheTexanRangers, t^as bepn elected Shefip of San Franc jaeo. Sacra* nento city has again been Udly irtuftdated. It is sajd that t^epp &pp manufocfoftes of apnrijus guano in JJverpopl, There are seven Ufge hotels in Roston ponduct;d upon strict temperance priucip^ ., James G. Dfafco, the poet, diet} at Louisville >n tho 12th inst, His 44 Tom Breeze**. "Peu6eZ a Hoi," apd * Parlez Bas," with Variousother beauj<ul flowers in the field of song, will he perennial.