The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-12

rIoN-Agreeably to the proclamation of Cover
nor Bell, votes have been taken in most, if not
all, Of the counties in Texas on the "adjust-
ment" proposition to fix her boundary. We
have seen the votes in number of the most
populous counties in the State, and the average
of these votes is about five in favor of the pro-
position to one opposed to it. There is very
unusual regularity in these proportions in all
the counties heard from. The measure will
doubtless be approved of by about fre-sirtts
of the popular votes.
This result fully justifes the course of her
senators and members of the House on this
subject and should teach those who accused
them of misrepresenting their constituents that
they were themselves as ignorant of public SELL
timent in Texas as they were of many other
things that they did not understand. We ina
CINE that the " cotton-bule" politicians must sur
render Texas up to the fellowship of the border
submissionists." Having accepted her portion
of the Compromise, she will be hardly ready to
dissolve the Union because cotton will not grow
on the parched plains and snow-clad mountains
of California
TO make some amends, however, to these es-
pecial friends of Texas, who urged her to decline
the ten millions of dollars, and take her reward
in pure patriotism-or, in the language of the
poetical poet,
,
that FERTILE State offers "room and verge enough"
to employ most proftably and benefcially, in
sugar and "cotton" planting at least t,oo millions
of slaueS.-Union.
The principal reason assigned to us by some
among the Texan senators and members" who
voted for her ACKNOWLEDGMENT, was the appre-
hension that Southern submission existed to so
great an extent as to deprive Texas of all reason
to expect adequate assistance, in case she at
tempted to defend the integrity of her territory
against Federal invasion. And thus it has beer
that submission in one portion of the South
begets submission in another. And one tribe OF
submissionists keeps itself in countenance by
the desertion Of another
AS for the vindication Of the submission of
the Texas delegation, by the submission of the
Texas people, it is very poor one. If the
leaders abandon the field it is not usual for the
followers to remain.
We don't know yet that Texas has sub
United. If she has, she has requited in the
!, usual way, the section that defended her title
originally bad by betraying her friends into the
hands of her enemies well as theirs She is
welcome to the friendship of Mr.. CLAY and his
, Northern allies who resisted her admission into
the Union. We do not envy the position she
occupies in company with her reviers-of abject
submission to Union from which they at
, tempted to spurn her.
As for the preference of the Union for
"solid pudding over empty praise
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print. But like other parts of the system of
! SANCHo PANZA, it is not always so practical as
bread and butter moralists imagine The Union,
forfeited, in the late session, the "empty praise
9 of the country, but got no extra allowances for
printing after all.
And does the Southern Press see that If its
2 fivorite project Of disunion succeeds, we shall
have a Canada upon our own borders that
instead Of "one spot on the Northern Cont
nent," where the fugitive can escape, he will
have half Of the continent for his city Of refuge,
and that too at our own doors !--Richmond Re
publican.
And does not the Republican see that the
South has already Canada Oil her borders, and
a Canada in her councils! Is it not us hopeless
+ to attempt to recover a fugitive now in Massa
q chusetts, in New York, or in Ohio, as in Canada
e ~" Letters have been received at the Coas
i Survey office from Lieut.. Commanding McAR
f THUR, and Assistant GEORGE DAVIDSON, and A.
e M. HARRISON, ut San Francisco and Point Con
ception. All well.
I From the San Francisco Journal of Commerce., Oc-
! tober ], 1850.
. We had the pleasure to receive an invitation
=. from Lieut. Bartlett, U. S. n, who is associated
g with Lieut.. Commanding WIN. p. Macarthur, u
f s. n, as photographers of the Coast Survey
0 on this coast, to visit the u. S. schooner Ewing
f and inspect the results Of the work which the,
e have performed in this highly important depart
ment of the public service during the past sea
son, and which being now ready to lay before
the Chief of the Coast Survey, Lieut.. Bartlett
is about to bear to Washington city.
From the Alta California.
We had the pleasure yesterday of an exami-
f nation on board of the schooner Ewing, of the
U. S. Coast Survey, Lieut.. VIM. p. Macarthur,
commanding, of the maps and charts whic are
the result Of his long and arduous labors along
our coast. The charts are on large scale, ad-
mirably suited to the wants Of the large marine,
constantly increasing, already engaged along the
Pacific shores. They embrace the whole coast
! from the mouth of the Columbia river to the
r Bay of Monterey.
DINNER TO THE Hon, S. w, HARRIs-The
Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser q. Gazette, says
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