The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-29

WASHINGTON. January %, 5 P M.-Senate.--Mr.
Dix presented resolutions of the Legislature OF New
York. instructng their Senators and requesting
their Representatives use their best efforts to ex-
clude slavery from the territories recently acquired
from Notwithstanding that the territory between
the Nueces and the Rio Grande does not belong to
Texas, and that slavery should be prohibited there
in that the existence OF slave prisons and slave
markets at the seat of government ought to De
abolished; and that law should be passed to pro-
tect slaves from unjust Imprisonment and to put an
end to the slave trade in the District OF Columbia
He moved that the resolutions be laid upon the
table and ordered to be printed A long and inter-
esting debate followed the presentation OF the reso-
lutlons, which was participated IN by Messrs Rusk,
Yulee, Dickinson, Foote, Dix, Mason, JET. Davis.
Butler, Fitzpatrick, Douglass Miles, Downs and
Metcafe. Mr.. Rusk said that Texas would MAIN
tain the boundary described in her constitution, at
all Lizards. Mr. Yulee insisted that the resoln-
tons were Insulting to fifteen of the States of the
Confederacy, and opposed the motion to print them.
In this position he was sustained by Messrs Davis,
Downs and Fitzpatrick. The resolutions were
finally ordered to be printed-ayes IS, nays, g..
The nays We're Borland, of Arks; Davis, of Miss;
Downs, of La; Fitzpatrick, of Ala; flanagan, of
Ia; Yulee, of Fa The Senate then adjourned.
House.-Mr w. Hunt presented the memorial of
Mr. O'Reilly, the agent of the Western Telegra pm
line, praying the impeachment of Judge Monroe,
of Kentucky for malfeasance in office, which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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New Mexico and California was made the special
order of the day for the Both inst.
Mr.. Hilliard moved suspension of the rules, to
enable him TO introduce bill to define the north
boundary of Texas, by running it on the parel-
lei of 800 3d. from its eastern line to the summit of
the Sierra Nevada; then south to $40 4O; thence
west to the Pacific. Also, a bill to authorize Cali
fornia to form State government. On the vote
being to suspend the rules (Which requires two
thirds,) the ayes were co. nays liz
Mr.. Wilson presented the resolutions of the New
Hampshire Legislature, instructing the Senator'S
and requesting the Representatives from that State
oppose the admission of slavery in the territories
of the United States which were laid on the table
and ordered to he printed
Mr.. Flournot moved a suspension of the rules, to
enable him 10 introduce bill to retrocede to the
State of Maryland all that portion Of the District of
Columbia originally belonging to that State, except
what is occupied by the public buildings and
grounds. On the vote being taken, the ayes We're
II, nays IA
The bill for the relief Of Dan Drake Henrie, cap
tain of a volunteer company in the late war with
Mexico, was taken up and passed. The bill allows
him $1,000 and two sections of land.
The House then resolved into Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union, and took up the
General Appropriation bill, which occupied the
remainder of the sitting.