The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-05-08


stcr 1 sad M ~ sls speech, no s. !,
renaes iii.,ss tpllatioi,s more bitiing
s'r, " y i,ps e;,eec!, is Si,i,ii,
tided isd Is cerisi,|Y eli 81
his most seellcni efE,fta. Tha sy,gsls 81
take inD step BAG wards, will !onf is Is.
raembcred and cited sta tiie ma.
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The Committee of the Senate. ar1,, H.,
iracas between MIR. Benton and Mr. Fno,s
heid meeting this morning, and c0mmen.
ced the examination OF witnesses. II ,ya..
determined tn summon William f,ssss
Jones, Esq, the son-in-aw oil Mr.. I,entnp
! and who had left the city for New Yn,t'
whence he was to sail 10 California s.,
full statement of facts.
The Galpl,in Committee nre sill ,,s,;. Il, 49,,
ing their Investigations. Air. Rave,,lv
Johnson snd Mr. Meredith have testif;aa,i
that, while acting on The claim. ii,cv ia
not know that Mr.. Crawford WAS inies;ao,a,i n,J
III il in any way.
1t IL officially stated that corresp.nJ-
cncc has been held with the British fioyIZ
ernn"nt, ON the subject Of the FREQ nay;-
CATION OF the ST. Llwrence, and that M,
British government is willing 10 crneede
IT, and also oI The Canal, 10 the United
States as soon as the Canada Reciprocity
Bill shall pass. That Bill will pass Con.
sress, and nj terms corresponding wiiti6e
ACT Of the Canadian Legislature, whichhas
already passed. gs,Ss
The Coinage Bill, wlicI, passed tl,irinn
The last week. remedies the defects t,f thss
present system, by authorizing ibe tircc-
tors OF the mint to pay out specie Tor gold
dust and bars deposited. Hrretofnre, de.
poslt"rs have had 10 wait sixty days Tor
their money. fisa
The Army and Navy appropriation bills,
for the next fiscal year, have been report.
cd in the House. For the Army six mil
lions are asked, and for the Navy sixteen.
Mr.. Seward has declared, recently, that
he ana hia friends, the opponents of Mr.
Clay's compromise, will beat the breath ont
OF It's body in the Senate. and leave it 10
the South To give it The comp ae grace. Mr..
Seward must invoke the ..h,gher bow,
Tor he has s. own no strength in his own
arm.
TENNESSEE rvR THE CoxyEsTJos.-We
take the following extracts from the last
Nashville Union
"Ihc democratic parry Of Tennessee in
unanimously y in favor OF the Southern Con-
'cntion, and is taking means 10 be falIg
represented in it. Every democratic pa-
per IN the Stale h 5 strongly approved il,
AMI we have not heard oi n single ,denpa-,,
crat in tho State who is opposed 10 it.--not
one! Such is tie position OF the demo-
cratic party.
Fer time, about the close Of the ses-
si"n OF The Legislature, we feared that only
the democratic party Of the State would
be represented il, it. These fears are now
dssipaied. Within The last few dlrz4.yc
have learned enough To know that 4 strong
and irrcPrcssiblc feeling in taFSS 81 Ihe
convention is rising among thes ssii.ss as 8
this vicinity. Many in This county VIII
cordially JOIN with the de,r ocyaia isss sIie
appointment of delegates Such afss, we
knnw. is the condition of ,l,ings elsewhere
ti,rnu .hnu' &ssy8tate. We believe that
by thG,,s tSafYuuc, the subnssiOnists Will
be IN %4s1niempttb!e minority softlieir;fag-;
", and have 4earned bitterly 10 regret lie
in:atatIon whicR has driven ibeyn 10 Ilrpye
fa!sc to Tic rights af their own sectsts5i OF
;hesUnion aud false to their own earlier
AMI ioblcr Instincts.
The Memphis Enquirer, a leading wbig
pnper OF Tennessee, speaks out IN the fol-.
lowing noble and impressive words -: x
The question now is, whe,her the
s pSf'ssSsl viii IA fg5tgE sg
c,.a..n and sustain their cons,itu,;aSsi sls4
r,ghE:, The o5l@ct OF the proposed Nash
''i'e Convention is TO settle this question:
ana II the States there represented shall
ue'ermnie 10 sub'ns, and heeo;ne obe,lienr
siaHes' iti:y Will agree and put on their
ron necklace II not they will dcTiise and
recommend the ''.node aml measure Df re US
dress, which the people shnuld adopt
ihis convention viii claim no Legislative
or other authority. They will lie. the rep
rcSeniat'ves OF an oppressed and aggrietci
people ana viii only suggest the remedy,
ana the people will act. We viii not Ia
i,3ue lhe reader. This is fruitful theme.
we Shall from day to day present 10 onr
readers some oI The reasons which intln.
encc us 10 advise the people of the South
10 act The prating about treason and
danger TO The Union is mere pretece. We
snail undertake to show, in our future
numbers, That the only salvation OF the
Ohinn consists IN an energetic effort on the
part OF The Southern people to preserve the
oaiY 6"nG IF Union-nure
and ,inconta'natcd from the touch of the
'oul destroyer. The real traitor is the n,an
'oho confe:c'ss rih The enemies Of The Souih
md sfdnders her friends The pcople of
The South, without distinction OF party, will
these pretended friends. who
speak loud 'corIs .for he Union, and at The
same time stab her best friends by a false
:hHrSe Of ,eason."
Affairs i'm Cubs.
a correspondent Of the New York Her
AID. writing from Matanzas saws.