The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-12-10
CONGRESS.
CorresDondence oi lire Baltimore Sun.

Two days have passed, and the word negro has
not been heard in Congress. The members
must he heartily tired Of the subjects OF the dis
cussion of the late session, and will hardly re-
omen them with much gou. The members who
voted fer the compromise measures Will not'
tf course, seek to disturb them; and there are
msns who favored the measures who had not
the pluck to vote for them, and will now dis
courage anv renewed agitation.
All ewes are turned to Gov. Seward and 1t
is expected that he will give tone to the CHAR
aeser of this session. lie is too polite, perhaps,
to commence soon or very rashly in his work.
No serious agitation can arise from any Propo'
sition except to repeal the fugitive act.
1t is rumored that arrests of slaves are 10 oe
ATTEMPTED in Boston very soon. 1t would be
unfortunate If any irritating incident should oc-
cur at this iuncture. The repeal movement
will be made by some Ishmaelites in the House
and be suppressed, at least for the present, by
the genera! voice of the body.
The arrest OF Gov. Quitman, on United States
process, will create much feeling a: the South
The Governor will submit to trial after his term
of service shall expire, but hequestions the va
liditv of the process against him while he is the
Governor of State The result of the argu-
meut in the case, which is before Judge Ghol'
son. will be looked for with much anxiety.
/ notice that the expenses ofthe Commlssary
Department are increased about five millions
over previous wears. The cause Of increase is,
mainly, the employment of a large portion OF
the United States army, including many mount
ed men, in the new territories, where expenses
are very great, and will continue to be till the
resources of the country shall be developed.
Mr.. Benton's string of bills embrace many
more measures than the President recommends.
IoS.
WAsHIHGToN, Dec. 5.
The present week so FIR as Congressional
business is concerned, is closed, by an adjourn.
meut over to Monday. Thus one week of the
session has passed without renewal OF sla-
very agitation. There is now some hope that
Thaddeus Stevens, Gate, Root, Giddings u Co.
will not be able to excite storm in the House,
by agitating repeal on any slavery topic.
Senator Butler appeared to-day in the Sem
ate, and three representatives are now IN their
places. Thus it appears, that the Senators and
Members from that State will await, in their
seats, the final action of their Legislature upon
the resolutions which are to direct their course.
Under the resolution of the Legislature, adop-
ted last Friday, directing an inquiry from the
federal authority as to the motves of sending
U. S. troops to Charleston, the Governor has,
it is said, written letter to the President.
The troops, It'll sid, were destined for Tex
as, and, as every one must know, their move
ments had no reference to a state OF things
which may hereafter occnr. There was a
time, however, some ighteen years ago, when
the government thought it necessary to send a
considerable military and naval force to
Charleston, to enforce, il the occasion should
arise, the collection of duties. 1t is not Proba-
BILE that it will occur again.
' Tho U. 3. government would not, in case
of the solitary secession of Sonth Carolina do
more than that to take the precautions against
the violations of our revenue laws. An appeal
to force-or the denial of the right of State
to secede-on the part Of the general govern
ment, is Just what the secessionists would most
wish, for nothing would be better calculated
to enlist in their Iavor the sympathies of the al
ready half disaffected southern States.
The demented north rushes upon its fate.
Vermont has, by solemn Legislative action, put
herself out of the pale Union, and it is to be
presumed, that the southern states will treat
her accordingly. Vermont leads the van in
the notification of the fugitive slave act. am
not sure that she will not be followed, though
at some short distance time, by other states.
The tone of the message of the Governor of
Virginia is high enough for any practical pnr-
pose; and there is something in it more than
talk.-it proposes action. 1t proposes retail
iatory system of measures which will strike
down the bonds Of the Union. even though they
were of steel, instead of sand.
There is no doubt that these measures will
pass, and there was no doubt Of it even before
Vermont acted. North Carolina and nearly
all the Southern States will follow the lead Of
Virginia in the adoption of this retaliatory sys-
tenn which, in fact, is suspension of COM
mercal intercourse with the North. This war
oflegislation will rapidly carry US back to the
state of things that existed before the Federal
Union, and (which men call Chaos" Ion.
The Deal Alire or "Trmh Stranger ihan
Ficfion"- Robert Shean, a resident of Middle.
ton. in this county, was on board the Anthony
Wayne at the time she blew up on Lake Erie,
last April. After that dreadful catastrophe
body was found floating on the lake which an
sw cred his description and no doubts were en-.
taned that he had lost his life by the explosion,
and that the body which had been found was