Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-10-21
MR. CT,AY.
our postscriE

Shortly before the ad journment of Congress
the Common Council of tho city of Detroit,
adopted series of resolutions, expressing their
qualification with the settlement which had
been effected of the vexed question which had
so long agitated the nation, and their warm ap-
probation of the exertons of those who were
chiefly influential in procuring that happy re-
suit, and awarding especial praise to Mr..
Clay, MIR. Webster and Mr.. Cass. Mr.. Clay
responded in letter dated the 26th of September,
and we insert the following extract from it, that
our readers may see with what philosophical conf
dence that eminent statesman relies upon the heal
Ing influences of the adjustment:
81 beg TO tender to the Common Council an express
sion OF my grateful acknowledgment for the flaering
testimonies of their erteem and regard. The ADJUST
ment OF the question to which you refer is, think,
just OF general graduation it was attended with
great difficulty, and that difficulty augmented by
amount of ultraism. from both sections OF the Union
which have never before seen in the National Coun
Gil. thin the adjustment would have been effected
considerably earlier but tor objections which taken
to the form in which ii was proposed. Without, how
ever dwelling upon that let all rejoice that has been
accomplished 1t was not to be expected that 1t would
everywhere meet with unanimous acquiescence, more
than is to be expected that after violent storm has
ceased the ocean will instantly become calm and tram
quill.
There will be ebullitons Of discomfort and passionin
different quarters, emanating from the which
DISTRACTED the compromise, but with dimnsed force
And sincerely hope and believe that these disconents
will find sympathy with the great of the peo-
pie any quarter of the Unon and that they will soon
die away and disappear
81 should be extremely happy, gentlemen, to accept
the invitation which you have so kindly conveyed but
after absence OF eleven months from my home, am
so anxious again to revisit that cannot consent to de-
lay my arrival there by any deviation from the nearest
route. l must console myself by the hope that may
yet live to crafty wish, long entertained ito visit your
city at some future day."
CALFoRNIA.-The details of the news by the
Crescent City are ola piece with those before re-
ceived-he mines yielding abundant returns for
very hard neutrality-suspicious. scarce and much suf-
fering in the Dlggings- we regret to see,
an increasing tendency to deeds of violence.
Among the deaths are the following
The Placer Times tells US that Mr. Henry J. Durable
fell from on board the steamer Yuba Or her downward
passage from Marysvile, when within few miles Of
Sacramento City, Thursday night last, and was
drowned. The deceased young gentleman OF
good promise and of most amiable department. His
father the late Martin Durable of New Orleans married
avourte daughter OF Henry Clay; she died when their
only was few years old, and he subsequently
| reared inthe family of his grandfather.
On Friday, 18th inst at the Waverly House in San
ginia, in the oath year ofhis age.
I DIR. VIM. jackson, aged about3l years, native OF
Virginia, but more recently from Camden Ar
kansas, died on the morning of the Goth of August.