The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-14


count Of the continued unlavorable vices respect
ing the disease in the potatoes go tierces Caro-
lima and 1900 bass East India found buyers at
rather higher prices. Prices OF Coffee are sup
ported though, generally speaking, the market is
Inactive; $500 bugs Brazil were disposed Of at
,ansierdam.-The market for Coffee remains
quiet in anticipation OF the September public sales
We have no alteration in the price OF ordinary
Java to notice. Purchases are restricted to the
wants or immediate consumption. Indigo Is firm,
without, however, much business. We have 70
mention the sales of $50 hhds. Maryland and
Kentucky Tobacco, at prices which have been
kept secret. k W.
Fsom The Dresden Tean Democrat.
The CONFERENCE.-THE mlils bring the
news that the Compromise Bill has been de-
'feated in the United States Senate This, to US,
was not unexpected, and while some features OF
the bill met our appreciation, there were others
to which the South could never consent with
out total disregard other honor and herrights.
Yet we had hoped that important amendments
might be adopted and the bill rendered accept
able to the whole country; but in this, rs in every
thing else the fell spirit of Northern fanaticsrn
has defeated every fair and reasonable PROPOSE
ton for the adjustment of the question, and al
though Congress has for more than eight
months been in session, we are yet in the dark
as TO what will be the final issue Of this eontro-
versy, but enough is known for us to say to our
readers, your dearest rights are in dlnger.
Your constitutional rights are attempted to
be tratnpled under foot, and If you dare raise
YOUR voice to demonstrate against the unconstl-
tutional encroachments Of The North you are
accused of treason and denounced as traitors.
We appeal to the citizens of the Southern
States, irrespective Of party, to take a calm and
dispassionate view of the perilous situation in
which you are placed, and then determine
whether or not you are willing to yield to the
unjust and degrading terms of the North. Are
YOU ready to yield to the unjust demands Of the
Abolitionists the entire control of California and
New Mexico! If the South had been united
and presented to the North an unbroken front,
we believe the question would long since have
been settled to the entire satisfaction of the
moderate men ofall parties.
II was with view of this end T. at we advo-
Gated the Southern Convention, and we firmly
believe that had it not been for the opposition OF
some Southern men to this Convention the
matter could and would have been settled ere
this The North has been made to believe, from
this that u large portion of the Southern peo-
| pie are willing to submit to their unjust and I'M
| holy demands. assE
We know of but one way by which the North
ern mind can be disabused of this error and that
lis, to let our representatives come home and
confer with therconstitutnts let every congress
sionaI district in the South be thoroughly can
vassed and the question fairly debated, and an
expression of the popular will may be had that
cannot be misunderstood.
With a full delegation to the Nashville Con-
vention it will be an easy matter for the South
to fix upon an ultimatum; and we have too much
confidence in her patriotism and devotion to the
Union, to believe for Il moment that she VIII
demand more than is her constitutional right.--
The resolutions Of the Southern Convention
furnish, in our Judgment, platform which, II the
| vote was taken Tomorrow, would command the
support of nne-thenth ofthe voters in the South
ern States, and all That is necessary to give them
their full force is the united approval of the
South. Let the entire delegation in Congress
from the South, unite upon these and they Will,
| in ten days from the reassembling of Congress,
settle the whole CONTROVERSY. Bnt before we
can ever expect to realize any benefit from them,
the North must be convinced that the South
is united, and that it is the entire South with
which she has to contend. g
The people must be stirred up before n cor
rect index of the popular sentiment can be OBJ
tanned this done, and the question can be easily
settled, and peace and harmoay restored to the
Union. The South has made many sacrifices
for the sake of the Union, and yet our Northern
/ brethren seem dissatisfied unless they are per-
mitted to entirely control the Government; they
seem not to be satisfied without the lions share,
and insist upon the whole, to the utter exclusic1
of the South Shall we yield, shall we cons.
to the UNJUST demands of the North or sna:
we demand that our rights be respected The
time is fast approaching when the people will
have to decide this matter for themselves, aud
we shall then see what their judgment may be-
AN M. G.. FOR CALIFoRNA.--General Will
son, a Representative in Congress from New
Hampshire, was to take his departure in the
steamship Georgia, for California, yesterday,
4 from New York. Gen. Hiram Walbridge 'ac-
companies him. sE-st "a sas@i
s1s5rT The Artic and the Baltic, the remaining
two steamers of the Collins New York and
Liverpool line arenearly completed. Both have
their machinery on board, and both are recev-
ing the finishing touches oftheartst about their
cabins and state rooms. The Arctic, it is ex-
pected, will be placed on the line about the mid
die of October, and the Baltic on the lust of No
vember. 4 "a
Will SALTPETRE EXPLODE Am answer to
! this long-mooted question may perhaps befonnd
in the following paragraph, which we cut from
an English paper:
"The ship Elizabeth Anislie has been destroyed
bvl fire at Cumsingmoon, liz India. She was
laden with cotton, saltpetre, and opium. A cask
of spirits first caught fire, and almost immediate
j ly afterwards 1900 bags of saltpetre went of
like SHE'LL blowing the side of the vessel, cotton
bales, opium chests, and other articles, high in
the air."
s.bfhssH q CINCINNATI, September |.
4 STEAMBOAT ExPBosToN.--4The boiler of the
steamboat Peter Miller exploded yesterday when
near Paoucah, and it is reported that six lives
were lost.
JUDGEMENT AGAINST A RAILROAD roR HAVING
MORE PASSENGERS THAN SEATs.---Commonwe alth
VS.. Fitchburg Railroad Co., before Josiah Ruuer,
ESQ.,, Trial Justice for Middlesex. This was an
action under the statute imposing a penalty in
case where any railroad corporation shall fail to
ron annalle for their mas