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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, on Wednesday, 12th inst, the compromise bill was taken up?the question being on the motion to postpone it till March 4th, 1851. Mr. Dayton continued, and concluded his speech against the bill. lie resisted the conglomeration of the bills, and declared that there was no compromise in them. There was nothing of any value iu the measure outside of the President's plan. Mr. Clay argued the question on the motion to po6tpoue. At a proper time he would answer the Senator from New Jersey. Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, commented on some - * x. oi me senators statements. Mr. Foote said the Senator's efforts would be entitled to a high reward from the other end of the avenue, if there was any thing like a sense of merit in that quarter. Mr. Benton said he wished to allowall amendments to be offered. If any wished to offer amendments now, he tvould withdraw his motion to postpone. Mr. Clay said he had requested the Senator from Mo. not to move the postponement. It would lead to the loss of three days. He hoped that the Senator would now suffer the Senate to vote on the motion to postpone. Mr. Yulee offered an amendment, fixing the northern boundary line of Texas. The debate was continued by Mr. Shields and Mr. Ilottston. Mr. Shields offered an amendment in relation to the Texan boundary, which was rejectedyeas 24, nays 28. All the amendments offered in relation to the Texan boundary were tben rejected. Mr. Tame}* moved to strike out the 39th section of the bill, making a proposition to pay for u? lerriwrj ?.?i j ca?o. Mr. Foote opposed the motion. Mr. Hale moved an adjournment at four o'clock p. m. Agreed to. The Senate udjourned. In the House, another fruitless day was spent. Debate on the bill to admit Calitprnia having ceased by previous resolution on the day before, the members talked the matter over under the rule which allows five minutes for explanation to any member offering an amendment.? Various amendments were offered. Mr. Seddon offered an amendment?in substance, that the Missouri compromise line shall be extended to the Pacific ocean, "as by the past action of the Government the benefits of that line have been realized by the non-slaveholding States." He contended that the North should now give to the South reciprocal benefit; and asked for it as from just and honorable men. After five minutes' conversation each by a 6Core or two of members the question was ta ken on this amendment, and it was rejected? yeas 68, nays 90. After some further five minutes' debate the Committee rose and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on Thursday, 13th inst., the consideration of the Compromise bill was resumed. The motion pending when the Senate adjourned last nigh? was, to strike out all propositions relating to Texas. Mr. Webster advocated that part of the bill, and opposed the motion to strike out Mr. Seward favored the motion to strike out, and said that the delay in business was all attributable to this bill. Mr. Clay replied and defended the bill from being the cause of the delay in the business of the House, and charged it on the minority. Mr. Foote replied to Mr. Seward, and was very severe on him. He was called to order several times. Mr. Turney advocated the motion. Mr. Clemens moved to fill the blank in the bill with one million. Mr. Benton replied to Mr. Cla}*, defending the minority, and read Mr. Clay's speech of February, as published in yesterday's Republic, showing that the minority was exactly on the, same stand Mr. Clay took there before. If Mr. Clay lectured others, he should be without sin himself. Mr. Clay replied that he was informed that Benton last summer took ground in Missouri that the admission of California was unconstitutional ; also referred to Benton's change of opinion on Texas Annexation. They were as great as his changes on this subject. Mr. Benton read a letter which he published in March last, which refuted the charge of having said that the admission of California was unconstitutional. Mr. Clay read a letter addressed bv gentlemen in Missouri to a member of the House, in which it was said Benton had denounced the admission of California as unconstitutional; that it was cowardly in the President to form a State Government to avoid the Wilmot Proviso.? This was his justification for what he had said. Mr. Bentou violently denounced the letter, and said Mr. Clay reading it hud endorsed it as his own, and was responsible, lie wished Mr. C. had made the charge elsewhere than in the Senate. He denounced the charge now as Mr. Clay's?and branded it as an infamous calumny. Mr. Clay. I repel with scorn and indignation the calumny, and throw it back on the Senator from Missouri with his other calumnies. Mr. Benton. You may throw it back, but you got it first. Mr. Webster called on the Chair to prevent J debate beyond the immediate question. It! was improper to allude to Senator's former j course. Mr. Hale hoped the Senate would fix some rules on the subject. He had been denounced the other day and no one interfered, but his denouncer was urged to go on. On motion Senate adjourned. In the House the California hiu was umier consideration. Mr. Stanton, of Ky., moved by way of Proviso, that hereafter there shall be no objection to admission of slave States. Rejected. Yeas 68?nays 89. Then an exeited debate arose under the five minutes' rule, as to the intentions of those voting in the negative. The Southern members charged it as a declaration that should New Mexico tolerate slavery, the North would resist her admission. Messrs. Duer, Winthrop, and others resisted such interpretations. They would vote against all amendments of whatever character, The discussion became very personal between Mr. Toombs and Mr. Wiutrhtjp, and Messrs. Baker and Venable. House adjourned. RESOLUTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION. Nashville, June 8,1850. 1. Resolved, Tlmt the Territories of the United States belong to the people of the several States of this Union as their common property; *L,? /.ifS.fMi.o 4-l.zx 1 Qfofnc ltflVA A/111 !ll aiiU Lilt? llll&CTia \M L11U BO Yd <11 kJUUto uuiv v?jwih rights to migrate with their property to these Territories, and are equally entitled to the protection of the Federal Government ii the enjoyment of that property so long as the Territories remain under the charge of that Government. 2. Resolved, That Congress lias no power to exclude from the Territory of tha United States any property lawfully held in the States of the Union, and any acts which may be passed by Congress to ciii'ct litis result is a plain violation of the Constitution of the United States. ii. Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to provide proper governments for the Territories since the spirit of American Institutions forbids the niuiutuinance of military governments in tune of peace, and as all laws heretofore existing in Territories once belonging to foreign powers which interfere with the full enjoyment of religion; the freedom of the press; the trial by jury and all other rights of persons and property as secured or recognized in the Constitution of the United States are necessarily void so soon as such Territories become American Territories, it is the duty of the Federal Government to make early provision for the enactment of those laws which may be expedient and necessary to secure to the inhabitants of and emigrants to such Territories the full benefit of the constitutional rights we assert 4. Kcsoked, '1 hat to protect property existing in the several States of the Union the people of those States invested the Federal Government with the powers of war and negotia tiun, and of sustaining armies and navies and prohibited to State authorities the exercise of the same powers. They made no discrimination in the protection to be afforded or the description of the property to be defended, nor was it allowed to the Federal Government to determine what should be held as property.? Whatever the States deal with as property the Federal Government is bound to recognise and defend as such. Therefore it is the sense of this Convention that all acts of the Federal Government which tend to denationalize prop erty of any description recognized in the Constitution and laws of the States, or that discriminate in the degree and efficiency ol the protection to be afforded to it, or which weaken ordeffmv flm r\? on\r oifi7nn nnnil AmP.rip.5in Territories, are plain and palpable violations of the fundamental law under which it exists. 5. Resolved, That the slaveholding States cannot and will not submit to the enactments by Congress of any law imposing onerous conditions or restraints upon the rights of masters to remove with their property into the Territories of the United States, or to any law making discriminations in favor of the proprietors of other property against them. 6. Resolved, That it is the duty of the Federal Government plainly to recognize nnd firmly to maintain the equal rights of the citizens of the several States in the Territories of the United Slates, and to repudiate the power to make a discrimination between the proprietors of different sjjecies of property in Federal Legislation. The fulfilment of this duty by the Federal Government, would greatly tend to restore the peace of the country and to allay the exas perauou anu excitement wnicn now exists oetween the different sections of the Union. For it is the deliberate opinion of this Convention that the tolerance of Congress has given to the notion that Federal authority might be employed incidentally and indirectly to subvert or weaken the institutions existing in the Spites confessedly beyond Federal jurisdiction and control, is a main cause of the discord which menaces the existence of the Union, and which has well nigh destroyed the efficient action of the Federal Covernment itself. 7. Resolved, That the performance of this duty is required by the fundamental law of the Union. The equality of the people of the several States composing the Union cannot be disturbed without disturbing the frame of the American institutions. This principle is violated in the denial of the citizens of the slave-holding States of now. ..Miles* into the territories with the j?n?]uTtv l:iwt:i!!v .-icipiired in the States.? | The warfare ;i g-iiuM this light, is a war upon the Constitution. The defenders of this right, are defenders of the Constitution. Those who . deny or impair its exercise, are unfaithful to the constitution, and if disunion follows thedestrue- ' tion of the right, they are the disunionists. 8. Resolved, That the performance of its tin- j ties upon the principle we declare, would enable j Congress to remove the embarrassments in ! which the country is now involved. The va- j cant territories of the United States, no longer regarded as prizes for sectional rapacity and ambition, would bo gradually occupied by in-j habitants drawn to them by their interests and i feelings. The institutions fitted to them would j be naturally applied by governments formed j on American ideas and approved by the delib crate choice of their constitution. The cominanity would be educated and disciplined under a republican administration in habits of self government, and fitted for an association as a State, and to the enjoyment of a place in tho Confederacy. A community so formed and organized, iniglit well claim admission to the Union and none would dispute the validity of the claim. 0. Resolved, That a recognition of this principle, would deprive the questions between Texas and the United States of their sectional character, and would leave them for adjustment; without disturbance from sectional prejudices and passions,upon consideration, of magnuuimity and justice. 10. Resolved, That a recognition of this principle would infuse a spirit of conciliation in the discussion and adjustment of all the subjects of sectional dispute, which would afford a guaranty of an early aud satisfactory determination. 11. Resolved, That in the event a dominant majority shall reffise to recognize the great constitutional rights we assert, and shall continue to deny the obligations of the Federal Government to maintain them, it is the sense of this (Convention that the Territories should be treated as property, and divided between the sections of the Union, so that the rights of both sections be adequately secured in their respective shares. That we are aware this course is open to grave objections, but we are ready to acquiesce in the adoption of the line of 30 deg. 30 inin. North latitude, extending to the Pacific Ocean, as an extreme concession, upon considerations of what is due to the stability of our insuiuuons. 12. Rejoiced, That it is the opinion of this Convention this controversy should be ended, either by a recognition of the constitutional rights of the Southern people, or by an equitable partition of the Territories. That the spectacle of a confederacy of States, involved in quarrels over the fruits of a war in which the American arms were crowned with glory, is humiliating. That the incorporation of the Wilmot Proviso in the offer of settlement, a proposition which fourteen States regard as disparaging and dishonorable, (s degrading to the country. A termination to this controversy by the disruption of the Confederacy, or by the abandonment of the territories to prevent such a result, would be a climax to the shame which attaches to the controversy which it is the paramount duty of Congress to avoid. 13. Resolved, That this Convention will not conclude that Congress will adjourn without making an adjustment of this controversy, and in the condition in which the Convention finds the questions before Congress, it does not feel at liberty <liscuss the methods suitable for a resistance to measures not yet adopted, which n-nnrhi invnlvn n rlicltAimr fn fliA SniifliAPn St.ltP.Q. < ?.v? w.v ~w.v..v. .. ? Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury. Nashvillk, June 10, 1850. Gentlemen : I sent you, by yesterday's mail, an uncorrected copy of the Address as reported by Gen. Gordon's committee and ordered by the Convention to be printed. I herewith enclose a more accurate copy. The Resolutions, a copy of which I also sent, were taken up this morning, and the previous question being moved by Gov. Chapman of Alabama, the main question was put and the Resolutions went through by a unanimous vote. The Tennessee Delegation, to the surprise and gratification of all, through their organ. Gen. Pillow, voted to a man in the affirmative. The importance of this vote will be seen on examining the eleventh resolution, which adopts the Missouri Line as " an extreme concession upon consideration of what is dve to the stability of our institutions." n%i . Ail ^.1 r _ * 1 i! i ue Auuress men came up ior consiueniuon, and Gen. Pillow addressed the Convention, preliminary to moving certain amendments which, if adopted, he said, he was authorized to state, would ensure the vote of Tennessee in favor of the Address, and remove all objections from other quarters. The amendments, he said, did not express his own opinions, for he was satisfied with the Address as it stood, and was prepared to follow up its principles into actiorf. But unanimity was necessary to strength; and he submitted these amendments in deference to others who were less thorough than himself.? The General spoke remarkably well, and much, I assure to the gratification of those who received the cold shoulder all the way from the Tennessee river to this city, only a week since. He was followed by an old man, who said he wanted no amendments; that the Address met his views in every respect, both as to temper and sentiment; that he left Virginia for Ten nessee in 1708, bringing with lntn the heart and principles of a son of the Old Dominion, and it. would he his fault if his children suffered through his pusilanimity in defence of their hereditary rights. (Jen. Pillow's amendments will probably be adopted They do not affect the Address m substance, and are mostly either verlial or in qualification of a few strong expressions. There were some other amendments offered by other members, which, with Gen. Pillow's propositions, were referred to the committee, to which the Address was at the same time recommitted, without instructions. The Address, with the committee's amendments, will be reported to-morrow morning, when the previous question will be moved, and tho vote taken. The vote, bv States.- will be unanimous. But there will be some dissenting Whigs from Alabama and elsewhere, although it is questionable whether they will venture to express their dissent in writing. Some of these gentlemen have come here in very bad temper, which they are at small pains to conceal. They look upon every movement in the Convention indicative of spirit, as a Democratic plot to subvert their influence; and having more strength in the Alabama Delegation than in any other, they are perpetually getting into a snarl. So hard it is to forget party even in the pursuit of principle. They have been fighting their colleagues at home all their lives, and they can't consider themselves safe in their company abroad, unless they stand facing them with drawn weapons. The Whig gentlemen in the other Delegations are generally firm and ingenuous, and some of the Georgians are noble fellows. If I have the leisure 1 will furnish you personal sketches of some of the leaumg mem. hers. But it is likely this will be my last letter. B. During the month of May, 45,648 emigrants arrived at New York. Since the lirst of January, there have been 84,812. An acre contains 4"*40 square yards, or 70 yards in length, and 68 1-7 in breadth?or 198 feet by220. The Cleveland Bank, Ohio, was broken open on the 24th ult. and robln-d of ?>.40,000 ?20,000 in gold and the rest in Ohio hank hills. Last January, a slave belonging to a lady in Missouri, bought a quart of whiskey at a store, got drunk, and froze to death. The lady sued the firm and recovered a verdict of ?850, the value of her negro, The Secretary of State of Ohio estimates tho population of the State at this time to bo two mil. lions and sixty thousand. Oil Saturday night the 1st inst. the Lord Bishop of Jamaica arrived in Washington city and took lodgings at the National Hotel. Tm jJWIEKAILo_" CAMDEN. S. C. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1850. Sons of Temperance. The second Anniversary of Wateree Division No. 9 Sons of Temperance will be celebrated on to-morrow evening by an Address to be delivered in the Presbyterian Church, at 8 o'clock, by the Rev. J. P. Lee. The public are earnestly invited to attend. The Southern Convention adjourne I on tlio 19th instant- tn mpot at Nashville nt? th^- sivth Monday after the close of the present session of Congress. The Address to the People of the Slave-holding States was adopted by a unanimous vote of the States, bul nine members of the various delegations dissented from it We frill lay the address before our readers at the eariiest moment after its reception. The Resolutions adopted by the Convention will be found in another column. Plank Roads. The people of western North Carolina appear to be waking up to the advantages of this mode of improvement. A meeting was held at Lincolnton on the 11th uit., and another at Charlotte on the 15th, to promote the construction of a road between those two towns; and a third was held at Newton, Catawba county, in favor ol a road from that nlnpo tn Ynrlrvrillo. S The evident tendency of affairs at present is, that all the thade worth talking about will be most effectually cutoff from Camden. It is a matter of small consequence to us where the trade goes to, if we lose it. But certain it is, we think, that it will go some where else, and that very soon, if we do not mend our ways. Let Lincolnton and Charlotte build ai road, and it will be so much the better for us, if we muster up courage enough to connect with them. If we fail to do this, let us think what will be the probable state of affairs: Without a passable market road to North Carolina, we will have no access to that valuable trade; the Columbia and Charlotte Railroad is converging to that point with (to us) fearful rapidity. The trade which we now get, and the probable incrooto if we hnild a road. will, in our failure to do so, be entirely cut off, and we be left without remedy. VVe propose briefly to discuss, or recapitulate what has already been said upon the Plank Road subject. In the first place, we premise that a necessity exists for better market roads to the town of Camden? particularly towards the North Carolina line. In the busy seasons, or at wagoning time, the roads are always at their worst?because generally in the winter, inclement weather and a large amount of travel tends to keep the public highways in such a disagreeable state, that a large degree of fortitude is necessary to undertake a journey to market The present mode of working our public roads is not calculated to do much good, but on the contrary, tends rather to their injury. The idea of summoning men twelve days in the year to work the roads, and^ do as they have heretofore done, is next to a farce, and is an absurdity. Our roads, particularly the clay hills, are getting worse every year; and it is a difficult matter, under present cncumstances, to change the course of things unless some better way be .1 M ? i .. ? I OUOpit'U. I^IOW It'l IIJS KUJjpUBC d Laar, u mi a in | part is a fact, and oik' to be lamented. We have no passable market road to North Carolina; and next winter tho Railroad is completed to Charlotte from Columbia; where will Camden be? No pro' phctic vision is necessary to answer this ques' tion. Is it reasonable to suppose that North Carolinians will incur the risk of sticking in the mud, breaking down horses, wagons, and themselves, to rtach our market? Is it presumable that they j will, when they can, lor a few dollars, go elsewhere?to Columbia or Charleston. We think i not; they never will when sell-interest, comfort, ! and pecuniary advantage indicate this as the bet; ter way. We settle the question then, and take it | | for granted that a failure on our part to build a Plank Road to North Carolina, and the completion of the Railroad to Charlotte, will seal our fate as a business place; and we fear irrevocably, it* we ' 1 ? ? 4. ^ ???? W?A mOtf Kllll/1 Q lei me pre.seiu nine nucu u?>j ? road. Send in your subscriptions, citizens of Kershaw and Lancaster, and lot us build a road?then mark the change. The sturdy sons of the old North State would never think of unloading their wagons at Charlotte. Self interest, the great moving principle of human action?the only perpetual motion yet discovered?would impel them tpwards our market, particularly as the idea of one or two dollars per bag, freight, on cotton, and six or seven tor themselves, cash, to begin with, necessary to expend for the privilege of a market Whereas, a small item of expense would enable them to reach us, where they can always get as much for produce, if not a little more, and buy about as cheap as in any other place?no tavern bills to pay?and enjoy the same free and easy privileges which their fathers had before them. Say what the world mayt about Ono Rip and his descendants; if tljey don't bother themselves much about Nashville Conventions, they are apt to be with you when there arc bargains about. Build a Plank Road, pay as much for produce, sell as cheap, and if Old Rip is not with you, it is no fault olhis, and who blames him? These aro honeHtly and plainly some of our notions on this subject; if the citizens of this and the adjoining Districts intend to do anything in this matter, let it lie commenced at once, If they intend to do nothing?taking it for granted that our town is finished?let it be so. This latter course will demonstrate most conclusively to our sorrow, that we are finished. If wo havo already resigned us to fate?laying the nattering unction to ourselves, that whatever is, is right?it \yere a pity to disturb the equilibrium of our minds; for surely 'tis a fact, " If ignorance is bliss, 'Twcro folly to be \yise." Bills for reducing the rates ol postage have been reportod in both houses of congress end there is a strong probability ot their passage. > ' Missouri Compromise Line. It is said in an exulting manner by some South' ern politicians, and some who are intending to be true tQ the South, that we will get the Missouri Compromise Line as a sine qtta -non. Have they considered what that is to the South? The ex-* tension of tliat line to the Pacific. Would give us a small part of California, (the mines all lie above,)* a portion of the other Territories, and! throw north of it a small portion of Texas. Now if with that line we could get an equality of rights South, withthose North, then we would say, extend the Line.It is something tangible, something that the people* of the United States understand?but let us for a' mompnt see what we are to get from the extension ol this line. And just here we would make a smgle remark relative to the proposition of Mr. Ma-son to Mr. Clay, to extend the line, which Mr. Clay refused. Mr. Mason did not intend to commit' himself to the line?he would not vote for it, miles* accompanied by something else; he merely madethe proposition to unmask Mr. Clay, and show t<r the Southern people the baseness of the Southern traitor. But it will be observed, that if you extend this line, that from all territory north of it you expel the slave-holder, and virtually legislate to that effect. South of it though?and remember thi*f you do not recognize slavery?but leave it open for the same Yankee manoeuvring that has been exercised in relation to California, to bring in all territory sou th of it eventually as fret soiL like twa the other receives to two-thirds of the income^?" Now if the Missouri Compromise Line be extendedto the Pacific, let Congress distinctly say, north.' there shall be no slavery?south there shall be no* free soil. What, though they say this is legislating; on slavery?and the south has always called that uuconstitutiona. When the constitution isuswrfbed by an oppressive majority, who bend ft to suit their own purposes, and wield it against us, it is poor philosophy to cry out, it is against the Constitution. It is useless?madness to talk about our constitutional rights?there is no such thing as a constitution?there was, but there is not. The constitution has been rendered nuH and void by the North?they have found a higher power, and only use the constitution when it is a necessary instrument to gull us. Let us have the Compro mise Line, but only with the condition that slavery be recognized south ot it?otherwise it passes, the Wilraot Proviso over the territory north of it? and leaves that south of it open to the same. Members to our State Legislature. The important issue, which it is probable the ensuing Legislature will be called upon to meet, should cause the people to be careful in their selection. No half-way men or policy statesmen should be sent; but men who know their duty and dare do it. Men who are ready to meet any and every emergency. The present' aspect of affairs in Congress indicate the determination of the North to destroy the political equality which has heretofore existed between the two sections?and deprive us of what we hold most dear, our rights. The very position of South Carolina will call upon h r to act-and we hope it will be determinedly and decisively. If we cannot get our rights in die (Jnion we must seek them out of it 55pThe report of the Proceedings of Congraa in another column are exceedingly interesting^ It will be seen that Benton and Clay came into collision on the 13th inst One iB afraid that the other will be more successful in ruining the South. Both are traitors to the interests of the South. Bribed by the lure of power, they stand the chief Judases of the age. Mr. Wallace's Letter. The " Union" is down uppo.-Mr. Wallace's Letter with all its vim?tn .a leader of two columns. with about as much sense as justice. The letter of Mr. Wallace we consider as one of the ablest productions of the. day. Well may the Union kick?for the strikes are too hard" to pass by lightly. Mr. Wallace shows the. Tuinous features of Clay's Bill?knows we can and should separate^ and (different from many Otfeff ffeptherti men) is not afraid to say so. We wish every Souther^ man would read the letter~%It .could not fail to. convince bint The day ^Bpoipe when men should speak out And"ha who cries peace at this hour, }? ntSI/itlTw hlin/l tA^ko T>1ain oenAnt r\f afftiirc CI LUC in Wlliuujr UUiiu IV ?f*v ^>?m? v. v< or sneaks from the issue whioh the South should meet at once. last night's Union, we see that General) Wallace has made the venerable Editor therbof take a "step backward." He should have recpj*. lectod whose letter it was. he condemned, Cotton Statement. , The receipts tq date amount to l,958,l87bale*^ * being 670,280 behind those of last season. The foreign exports are 800,446 less than those of the last year. The stock on hand is 168,899 bales more than at the same time lggt season. CaroKniah. The American Farmer. We have received the June numberof this val- r uable work, which closes the fifth volume. We are glad to perceive that it continues to improve 'in value and usefulness?each number surpass* ing its predecessor It is published monthly, by Samuel Sands, Baltimore, at #1 par annum, and the articles entitled "Work for the Month," and the chapter on Gardening, contained in each number are woith more than the price, of the paper.? A specimen number may be seen at this office^ and we will receive and forward the names of any of our friends who may wish to subscribe. Editorial 0orrMpoi*taiM of tha Journal. Washwr^oii Crrr, JunelO, 1850. This is my last iette*, aoj shwft for Camden to-, morrow, and it must necessarily be short The House has been the scene of attraction now for I some days, as it meets at night, and we have had quite a volley of speeches. But decidedly the best effort since I have been here \yas4hat of the Hon. John McQueen, on Saturday, ft surprised the most sanguine hopes of his friends?it was his maiden speech. Hie fine and commanding form, beneath the soft light of the chandelier, gave a better effect to his remarks, especially to that portion of jr -n T I ^ J