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Mr.. HALE. I have no objection.

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ment of Mr.. DOUGLAS, fixing the line of 81 deg
and il was adopted. -
| Mr.. EWING. / think there is very little
known about this bill, and in order that we may
better understand it, | move that the Senate adj
joun.
| Cries of no, no.
The motion was rejected.
| Mr.. SOULE. / desire to offer an amendment
to come in at the end of the tenth section. 1t is
to add the following proviso:
"Prorided, That the Territorial Legislature
shall have no power in any manner to interfere
with the establishment or the abolition Of sla-
very within the limits of the said territory, but
shall provide for the protection of such property
there as is recognized by the Constitution OF the
| United States"
ask for the yeas and nays on the amendment
| The yeas and nays were ordered. "a
Mr. HALE. / move to amend the amend
ment by striking out the words "provide for the
protection of such property as is recognized by
the Constitution" and insert the words 'provide
for the protection of personal liberty"
Cries of no, no. m
Mr.. HALE, at the suggestion of a senator
near him, withdrew his amendment
Mr. MASON. submit to the senator who
makes this motion the propriety of emitting from
his proposition all that impose duty upon the
Territorial Legislature. / propose, therefore,
by his permission to strike out the latter clause,
as follows:
| But shall provide for the protection of such
property as is recognized by the Constitution OF
! the United States .M,
| The amendment was then modified as sug-
gested by Mr.. MASON.
Mr. HUNTER move that the Senate adj
journ.
Cries of no, no, let us sit it out.
Mr.. BUTLER. | think it is time, and ask
for a division. @
The motion to adjourn was lost: yeas %,
nays 25
Mr. RUSK. move to lay this bill on the
table, and on that motion / ask for the yeas and
nays. I4 aa
Mr.. CLARKE. Oh, move its indefinite post
ponement, and then it will not be taken up
again.
Mr. DOUGLAS. This does not touch Texas.
The yeas and nays were ordered and the mo-
ton to lay the bill on the table was negatived as
follows:
YEAs--Messrs Baldwin, Barnwel Chase,
Clarke, Davis, of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge,
of Wisconsin, Ewing, Greene, Hale, Miller,
Pearce, Rusk, Seward, Smith, Spruance, Turney,
Upham, Walker, and Winthrop-2O.
NAYs-Messrs. Atchson, Badger, Bell, Ber-
rien, Bradbury, Bright, Butler, Cass, Cooper,
Davis, of Mississippi, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge,
of Iowa, Douglas, Downs, Houston, Hunter,
King, Mason, Morton, Norris, Pratt Sebastian,
Shields Soule, Sturgeon, Underwood, Whit
comb, and Yulee-29.
Mr. SOULE. Twill withdraw my amendment.
The amendment was accordingly withdrawn.
Cries of question" question on the bill"
The PRESIDENT. The question is now on
ordering the bill to be engrossed fora third read
ing. t
The yeas and nays were ordered, and the bill
was ordered to be engrossed for third reading
as follows
YEAs-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Benton, Ber-
rien, Bradbury, Bright, Butler, Cass, Davis, Of
Mississippi, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge, Of Iowa,
Douglas, Downs, Felch, Houston, Hunter, Jones,
King, Mason, Morton, Norris, Pratt, Sebastian,
Shields, Soule, Spruance, Sturgeon, Turney, I'm
derwood, Wales, and Yulee-32
NAYs-Messrs. Baldwin, Bell, Chase, Clarke,
Davis, OF Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge, of Wis
consin, Ewing, Greene, Hale, Hamlin, Miller,
Pearce, Seward, Smith Upham, Walker and
| Winthrop-l8. XIX
| And the Senate adjourned .yteI
ION the next day this bill, which now provided
! only for a Territorial Government in Utah, was
read the third time and passed.
THE MYSTERIES OF New ORLEANs-The New
Orleans correspondent Of the Concordia InteIli-
gencer gives some strange and interesting facts
| concerning that city, We extract from his letter
| of the 18th inst: ~ ~
| "fou have heard of the mysterious Of Voudow
| but to comprehend them you must read the French
papers of this city, and search the records of the
| police courts. These rites are of African origin
are practised in the West Indies, and are essen
| tally pagan in their superstition A sort Of sor-
ceress by incantations, spells, drugs and cereno-
MES, processes to accomplish supernatural results
and to control the destiny of the passions of indi
viduals. Crowds, chiefly of the tender sex,
throng her court at night, many influenced by
immoral motives, others to learn the way to a
lovers heart, recover lost affections. "A
hundred Of these deluded beings We're lately ar
rested, dancing like demons around the pythoness,
most Of them nearly naked, and under the inhu-
ence of some drug or diablere. One poor fellow of
my acquaintance Camp street operator of note
has been great sufferer from the roudo,o. For
some months past, without any ostensible cause,
his health has been declining; he has grown pale
and cadaverous, lost strength and appetite, and
the tone of his stomach has been entirely destroyed
The secret has just leaked out His wife and
another whom he loved "not wisely but too well,
the one to secure and the other to recover his af
fections, had applied to the Sorceress, and each
have been giving him portions prescribed by her;
and between the two the poor fellow has been al
most killed.
The same writer says the city continues as
healthy as it usually is, in the absence of an epide
mic, but medical inquiries every day establish
ing, by their carefully compiled statistics of dis
and tables of mortality, thatthe tenure Of life
in New Orleans is brief and precarious indeed
In very interesting series ofpapers which DR.. J.
G.. Smonds is now writing for the Delta, it is
shown that the morality greatly exceeds that of
any other city in the United States, and even the
densely populated cities of Europa. He (Dr. ST.
mond 81 says:
"The factories of Manchester, the cellars of
Liverpool, the pauperlsm and vice of London,
furnish, comparatively, fewer victims to disease
than this city, whose health has been, for years,
a subject of boast and Misrepresentation. In truth
| our mortality is treble that of Boston, and more
than double that of New York, which indicates
the want of medical assistance and the little atten-
ton bestowed upon this very important subject.
The deaths from Zomotic diseases Cholera de-
ducted) are more than three times as numerous
in England, and two and half times numerous
as in New York. Sporadic diseases cause here
fifty per cents more deaths than in New York.