Washington telegraph., 1850-10-16

The Fugitive Slave btiE WnlslP Passcu
the House of Representatives on the
18th ulu, is precisely the bhb witheas
amendment, as it passed the Senate.
The District bill, For the abolition OF
| the slave trade in the District of Column
bia. has. as the telegraph informs us, also
passed the House without amendment.
| We have a copy of The bill as it passed
| the Senate.
| Tt forbds the bringing hereafter into
the District of Columbia of any slave Tor
the purpose Of being sold, Or Tor beng
| placed in any depot for sale or tor sale
keeping, to be transferred elsewhere Tor
sale--declaring all slaves free who are
brought in in violation Of the act. The
| corporations of the cities of Georgetown,
aud Washington, and the county court OF
Washington county are empowered to
| take all necessary steps TO break up the
dcpots for tho sale of slaves in contrasen-
| ton of the act.
Penalties are provided for the pnniSh-
| ment Of persons enticimg away slaves
| from their owners, aiding them to rana-
way or hafboring them afterwards. For
| all such practices the party. on convic-
| tion,. may be sentenced to not less than
| two nor more than ten years in the peni-
| tentiary; and in the event OF the success
of the negro in escaping. TIE aiding or
abetting party is liable TO pay the oWner
| the assessed vliue of the slave, to be recov-
cred by execution as in case Of other civil
judgments.
| The authorities of the Distric. are also
| authorized to make laws in regard to free
| negroes, and to prohibit them from resi-
ding in the District, except under such
regulations as the authorities may pre-.
scribe.
This is the last of the series Of bills
| bearing on the slave controversy. They
are all passed through Congress. have
been signed by the President, and are full
ly laws of the land; and will, without
doubt, be supported as such. notwith-
standing the violence Of remuneration
which they continue to meet with, in
quarters which have not yet cooled down
enough to acquiesce in the expressed will
of the people. The signs of overwhelm-
ing approval come to us by every mail
The General Committee of the Whig
party Of the city of New York ordered
the firing of salute OF one hundred
guns, in rejoicing for the passage OF the
compromise bills through the Senate
whereat the New York Tribune wakes
indignant. The General Committee Of
the Democrats at Tammany Hall have
| resolved to have general glorliicatlon
on the evening of the 18th, firing guns,
Illuminating Tamtnany Hall. and having
a grand meeting and speech making
whereat the Evening Post grow<.
So much for the general organs OF tha
two parties The subordinates are not
SO well satisfied. The Van Bureihtes
among the Democrats, aud the Seward.tes
among the Wings, are nearly as fero-
| cious in their denunciations as the torcl-
BILE resistants and threatening secession
| lists in the South. The Philadelphia
! North Americas and the New York
| Evening Post, the Boston Alias and the
| Albany Evening Journal, moan fearfrlly
over what they call the triumpfls OF slave.
ry. The Journal, Stewards special and
| confidential organ, cries ont
! "Freedom's banner trails in the dnst
al Washington twenty-five thousand
square miles of territory have. in the last
| half OF the nineteenth century, by an act
of the American Congress, been suren-
dered to slavery. And amid the clanking
of newly-forged fetters we hear the era
ven voice of cxuItation, Yes, Northern
throats are hoarse with rejoicings at the
! victory obtained by slavery over freedom.
Oh that some avenging angel would blot
out the disgraceful record, that posterity
| might be spared the modification of
blushing at the degeneracy of iheir
fathers"
For the passage of these very bills the
violent men of South Carolina, Georgia
Alabama and Mississippi are declaring
that the only remedy consislant with
honor and safety for the South is revolu.
ton.
Happily these excesses arc exhau>ting
themselves, and the moderate men of
the great masses North and South will,
in all probability, keep the desperadoes
of both extremes in check.-Pscayxne
PRESIDENT FILLMoBE.-Mr. Fillmore
| has been long in the public service. ever
| acquiring moro and more Of the peoples
confidence, and never losingi it, and never
| disappointing expectation. We do not