The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-18

MoxDAY, Jurl II, 1850.
Yesterday, immediately after the meeting Of
the House, Mr.. BAYLT, the Chairman of the
Committee of WAYS and Means, offered reso-
luton to make the general appropriation bills the
special order Of the day for Monday next, and so
continue on thereafter until disposed of; but il
failed to prevail.
Mr. STEPHENS, of Georgia, moved a reso-
luton looking to terminating the present session
on the 18th Of August; which was also voted
down, the division being sectional; the South
voting in the affirmative.
Mr.. NELSON moved resolution to change
the hour Of meeting TO ii o'clock, A. NJ, instead
Of IL, M, as at present; which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. BURT, a resolution was
adopted, calling on the President for information
as to tlfe number of vessels, guns, and men en-
ployed by this Government the coast of At
rca in the suppression Of the slave trade, and to
know how many slave ships, &C., have been cap
tured by that force; and to ascertain the number
Of men and officers belonging to the United States
squadron that have died on that service.
Mr.. McCLERNAND offered a resolution to
direct the Committee on Public Lands to report
bill Jor the donation of township of the public
domain to each State and Territory for the aid Of
their respective institutions for the deaf, dumb,
blind, and insane; which prevailed.
Mr.. BAYLY moved a resolution enquring of
the President what amount of duties had been col
Ieced in California between the time of the ratif
cation Of the treaty, and that Of the appointment
Of collector for that District what disposition
had been made Of the amount thus collected UNI
der what law the collection was made, and under
what law the money was disposed Of; which pre-
vailed.
Mr.. JOHN A. KING having moved the sus-
pension of the rules to permit him to move to go
into a Committee Of the Whole on the State Of the
Union.
Mr.. DOTY, as an amendment to that motion,
moved to add instructions directing the Committee
Of the Whole on the State OF the Union, when
next in session, Qo-day,) to report his bill for the
admission Of California into the Union, and then
to discharge the said committee from the further
consideration of the Presidents California mes
sage. Upon this motion TO amend, there arose
debate and points Of order raised against it.
The SPEAKER having decided it to be out Of order.
Mr.. WINTHROP, among others, endorsed the
correctness Of the decision Of the Chair
Mr.. DOTY then appealed !; but soon after with
Mr.. JOHN A. KING then withdrew the mo-
ton to go into a Committee of the Whole on the
State of the Union;
And Mr. WENTWORTH moved suspension
Of the rules, to permit him to offer the PROPOSE
ton Of Mr.. DorY, in the shape OF simple reso-
luton Of instructions TO the Committee Of the
Whole on the State of the Union.
Mr.. TOOMBS raised point of order against
the resolution Of Mr.. WENrwoRrH. He held
that the motion of Mr.. w. was virtually to re-
scind rather than to suspend the rule. But
The SPEAKER decided the resolution to be in
order and from this decision
Mr.. McLANE appealed, and argued the appeal
at considerable length
On motion Of Mr. ROOT the appeal being mex,
laid on the table, the House came to direct vote
on the motion for the suspension OF the rules
which was lost-yeas 1877, noes II, two-thirds
being necessary
On motion the House ther adjourned
4g5a. aQs n ,g
CorToN CRoP.--We have had the opportunity
of perusing two letters, received by a mercantile
house in this city, from correspondents who reside
near Grand Gulf, Miss. The writers say The
river will keep up too late to allow anything to be
done on the rich low lands and in our hill lands
in places the crops are truly bad. In some dis
tricts they seem to be doing pretty well. The re-
port of great destruction to the crops, although
true in particular instances, are generally partial
if 1t were not SO, the cotton crop would be no crop
at all. heard to-day from Copiah county the
crops there are better" One genteman's over
seer writes him, that he has TO plough up ninety
acre field, which the owner saw about week
before, and it was then looking well. 1t is now
all dead. s'Another planter talks seriously of
ploughing up his entire crop and putting it all in
corn :: Another planter was telling me last week
Of a field Of very fine cotton which he had, nearly
knee high. To-day he is ploughing it up and re-
planted cotton fast it comes up. The ac-
counts are all unfavorable, but the above are
specimens Of the worst ~ O. Picayaine.
MORE NATIVE LIrERATURE.-Th Boston Post,
speaking Of the prize tragedy of Mohammed
which has just been published, says
.Mohammed, as a literary work. is neither worth
the 81 900 which it received from Mr. Forrest, nor
the handsome white paper and elegant type in
which it has been arrayed by the publishers. II
does not contain single line above mediocrity,
one passage to be remembered, while it is filled
with verdancies and crudities of all kinds We
should think it boys first attempt at work
ing out man 8 conception. point Of style, and
in the value of the poetry, it is inferior to thou
sands Of plays which have gone to oblivion with
in the last century.
This is less fattering than true. The work will
scarcely repay the trouble Of perusal.
Some 1913 hogsheads of Florida sugar from the
plantation of Captain H. R. Sadler, on st. john
river, were received at Savannah, on Monday
week. The Georgian says this is the largest
shipment of sugar from Florida ever made to
Savannah. II is n rood article and l,rinoS a