Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-07-26

prevailing i'll the Senate. 1t was in
relation to the vacant presidency of
the Senate:
"We observe that the name Of the
Hon. Daniel S Dickinson has been
mentioned III several newspapers in
connexlon with this office; and we
learn that he wash fact very warmly
urged by various gentlemen, both
from the South and the North, and
OF both the great political parties, TO
allow himself to be proposed as Il
candidate But he conceived that
there would be more or less of impro-
priety i'll his permitting himself to be
chosen to the second Office in the re-
public at a period when citizen of
the State of New York already oc-
cupies the first; which consideration,
together with the fact of his unwiI-
lmgness, III any case, to conflict with
his friend, Col. King, for political sta
ton, induced him at once to decline
the prollercd honor. 1t will be re-
marked that Col. Kings unanimous
election did, in point of fact, occur at
the instance of Mr.. Dickinson. IL is
with high qualification ws..mcntion
that when Col. King learned that
Governor Dickinson's friends were,
some OF them, urging his claims to
the vacant place, he did not hesitate
to dec.a e his willingness to unite in
his support, and actually proposed to
do SO; to which the Roman-like sena-
tor from New York would bv no
means consent. May such generous
rivalry ever mark the conduct ofdem-
ocratlc senator's towards each other!''
TIE LAST MESSAGE OF GEN. TAY
LoR.-The Washington correspond
ent Of the Charleston Courier writes:
Gen. Taylor wrote a message to
Congress, which was finished and
copied by some hand, in the early
part of last week, upon several I'M
portant topics. Had been commu-
nicated, it would have caused a
profound sensation. 1t urged his
views as to the adjustment of the ter
ritorial question, and the immediate
admission of California. 1t impor-
tuned Congress to provide the neces-
sary supplies for the government. 1t
declared his determination to support
the present srate of of things in New
Mexico, against the pretensions of
Texas. The message, as | have
learned, lies in the State Department
That the new administration will car
ry out such police in every pariiict,-
lar is not TO be supposed. Mr. Fill
more cannot take so bold tone.
He viii be obliged to conciliate and
even tcmporize. He will rely on the
passage of the Senate adjustment bill
if pass it ever should, to settle the
New Mexican dispute"
The RUMoRED CAUcUs.-HX," of
the Baltimore Sun, concerning the
rumor so extensively circulated of
Union caucus, says:
zone Of your 'wellsinformed Wash
lngton correspondents certainly did
not hear a word of the Union cau-
caa, that was held on Friday, ac-
cording to the dispatches sent to the
baltimore Patriot and New Yc;.;
Herald, and what is worse, / have
not heard of it since, nor been able to
discover the Senator who has been
there. The thing was manufactured
out of the whole cloth, or rather out
of the uooL which myself had fur
nished in my published letter of Fri
day morning. there alluded to an
amendment that was about to BIC pro
posed to the compromise bill, by pro-
vidlng for a division Of the State, by
a line forming the natural boundary
OF California, south of 35 degrees,
and the establishment of territorial
government south of that line, on the
same principle as that Of Utah ard
New Mexico, And i also stated,
long ago, that the parallel of Sd de-
grees, would probably be adopted as
the northern boundary of Texas.
"Ihe amendment will be proposed
by Mr.. Douglass, and consists in an
amendment 10 his amendment, all
ready r offered and printed,by which
Calitornla may form two or three
States, all of which shall come into
the Union on the same footing as the
original States. Mr., Cass will make
a speech on the amendment, which
Will be, his crowning work of the
season, and in which ne may possibly
take the ground that but for the late
period of the session, and other pres
sing circumstances, California would,
ofniaccount of the extreme irreguari-.