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Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

The delegate from New Mexico, MIR.
Hugh N. Smith, hasissued pamphlet at
Washington city which attracts much
attention. 1t urges the people of New
Mexico to form provisional Territorial
government prohibiting slavery; accu-
ses the Military Governor of conniving
at the introduction of African slaves, and
demands military protection from the In
dians, and from the aggressions of Texas.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

Edmund Burk, late commissioner OF
Patents, retired from the editorial depart
ment of the Washington Union on the
31st ult.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

AcouIrTED-Thet trial of Badger for
the murder of Thomas was concluded on
Wednesday evening last. The Jury at
ter few moments absence returned with
q verdict of NOT GUILTY.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

INFORMATION WANTED.-Who is }. II.
Powell, whose name appears as sole repre-
sentative of the State of Arkansas, In the
Southern convention al Nashville!
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

The CUBA ExPEDITIoN.-It is stated
that orders have been issued at Washing
ton for the arrest of all those connec-
ted with the expedition to Cuba. A
commencement has been made by arres-
ting Mr.. ToLoN, secretary of the Cuba
junta in New York, and Editor of LA
VERDAD. Judge Belts of the U. S. Dis
trict Court, in New York, has charged
the Grand jury to inquire into any infrac-
tions of the law of 1918, on the part of
citizens or foreigners in getting up hos
tile expedition against Cuba.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

A HoAx.-The account of an insurrec-
ton among the slaves of Monroe county,
Virginia, which was extensively publish
ed short time since, is pronounced by
the Richmond Em9uarer, on the authority
of w. Erskim, Esq, of Monroe county,
to be entirely without foundation.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

The steamer ST. Louis, on the 28th ult.,
collapsed two fews, at quarantine, below
St. Louis. killing twenty-five persons and
wounding forty. The sufferers were nearly
all deck passengers.
Among the passengers killed by the
explosion was MIR. Plummer of Red Riv-
er. He was a cabin passenger but was
on deck at the time of the explosion
He also lost negro servant.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

Destructive observation-disclosures has
been received at New York, stating that
a very destructive fire occurred on Satur-
day morning, the 18th inst. in the village
Of Corning, N. Y. Before the flames
could be subdued, the greater portion of
the business part Of the town was destroy
ed. Not store was left standing. The
loss is roughly estimated at quarter of
million of dollars. The amount of insur-
ance is not known. This calamity has
brought great distress upon the inhabi-
tantS.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

The Hon. Isaac Toucey, and not Charles
A. Ingersoll, received the nomination OF
the Democratic caucus of the Connecticut
Legislature, for United States Senator In
place of Senator Baldwin, whose term
expires next year. The Free Soil mem
bers have nominated Hon. John M. Niles
as their candidate.
Orlando Brown of Kentucky of the In
dian Bureau, has resigned his office, the
resignation to take effect on the first of
July.
Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

The Prussian Cabinet has recently ad-
dressed note to the several great pow
ers, claiming right to participate in the
regulation of the affairs of Rome. Ac-
counts by the America state that the
Pope is accused of attempting to again
escape from Rome, and to place himself
under the protection of Austria, but he
is too closely watched by the French
Unless the Pope yields 20 liberal instItu-
tionS there is reason to apprehend that
the Papal government is near its end.
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WAsnrscrss. TSesdsD Mo20inE

"A'"'S"ivS, IuFsufy Morplng. /,
DEAR Sin: My attention. his been csIIkd to o
resolution by the Senate a13>by tho: House a
Representatives, to the Hep1fntte sn.PTintina, Oh
which you the Chajrnan. IItfelatesi to- the
printing of 10000 eopies of led1ogies a both
Houses, with other tstlnsactfuns Connected wtfffp
funeral honors paid the deceased President of the
United States --- .-.--.-------.----.---.
Although it is completely clear to see that the
printing of the pamphlet falls within the contract
OF the public printing, I5-ioiM which / an, con-
necfed-sT And, although am satisfied that the
job would be done under the only profitable part
cf the copiract, yet, so great is my confidence in
the gastee raiidR magnanimity of Congress, that
they will grant liberal appropriation from the
other very oppressive parts of the contract-and
SO great my desire. that this pamphlet should be
executed IN the best style of which the American
press is susceptible, that as c.eerftliy WELD
any interest may have in.i Its execution 'fl
& We could do the work very handsomely at the
Union Office but there are some appliances i'm the
printing art TO be obtained in Philadelphia or other
cities in the North, which would enable their
presses to execute the work in more elegant style
than we could display. f0 fR
Therefore, to rid you of any embarrassment,
which your General Printing Contract would inn
pose, hereby beg leave to be understood that
I5@ all the obligations Of the Contract are dis
pensed with on my part and hope that you will
take all the necessary means to have it executed
in the most elegant style, which suits the digni-
fed occasion.
Very respectfully,
THOMAS RTTCHIE.
To Col. Melville, Chairman Printing Com.
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Randolph, OF Roanoke, on Fugitive Slave

Randolph, OF Roanoke, on Fugitive Slaves.
The production Of this celebrated writer on a
subject 50 important as that of fugitive slaves,
published in our paper, cannot fail to attract gene
raj attention. We have not had time to verify
his calculations, but the conclusions are start
ling His established reputation as awriter of
great force and research entities his arguments
and opinions and facts to high respect
We shall publish his article in pamphlet form,
and will supply it at the usual rate of speeches
in Congress. We
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sag@ The editor of De Bom's Rerie,c, pub
lished at New Orleans--a journal intended to
supply the place of Hunts Merchants Nigga
zine at the South--has stepped out fhis way in
his last number, to indulge in very gratuitous
and injudicious structures on Congress, the
Southern people, and the Southern Press We
regret this the more because the writer has evil
IDENTIFY formed his opinions without due know
ledge of the topics on which he speaks so con-
fdently-and can only account for the despond-
ent tone assumed, and the very remarkable as
sertions INDUCED in, on the ground of his having
derived his political information from the WASH
ington correspondence of the Picdyune, under
the appropriate signature of lie Sages, snarling
Devil on two sticks" (Diable Boiteur). The
whole drift of that correspondence is of such a
character as to produce the impressions evident
ly wrought on the mind of Mr.. DE Bo,c, whose
structures on the Southern Representatives, and
Southern people, are as sweeping as those of
any of the Free-soil editors-and we therefore
indulge in the hope that he will see the error
into which he has been seduced, and make the
proper amende for it. g,as ayaug.ans
That the editor of Southern journal in q
Southern city, should at this day pronounce the
Nashville Convention and the address, failures
while admitting at the same time, his entire
ignorance Of the proceedings of that conven.
tion-should sneer at the Southern Representa-.
tives for their course, and indulge in the most
| gratuitous and unfounded surmises on the
course of the Press" which has been estab
lished at their instance to support Southern
rights and interests--all this we say, is to Il.
so unaccouutable, that we scarcely know wha
notice to take of it. a| a1a~aE.a tts.0aa
Concluding that the editor must have beer
most egregiously duped or deceived in some
way, and that investigation into the matter vii
convince him of his error, and lead him to co
operate with his natural allies instead of assail
i ing them, we refrain from retorting, as we wei
might do, in the hope that he viii be more care
full hereafter not to pass judgment on matters
on which he has not taken the pains to inform
himself.
r We anticipated assaults both on the Southern
men and our Press--but certainly not from
, Southern editors-and if some among then
e should even seek to provoke so unnatural fra
ternal strife, can only pity their blindness, anc
: pass them by unnoticed
|, No wounded vanity, or natural indignation
arising from unjust insinuations, can tempt u,
so far to forget the great interests Of our sec
) ton, as descend TO elimination and recriinina
ton with those, who, if they cannot act harmoni
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y A MUSICAL CHURCH CLoCK.--The Charleston
Courier gives the following account of a curious
piece of mechanism in st. Philips Church IN that
city: 't,'
From the tasteful steepe of this beautiful edihce,
we now, at intervals, have tones of sweet music,
emanating from machinery attached TO the clock
manufactured by Mr.. f. Stein, of our city. The
clock was presented to the congregation OF this
church by Colin Campbell, Esq, of Beaufort, 5.
c., and is masterpiece of art, highly credtabe
to the mechanical ingenuity of Mr. Stem.
1t is thirty hour time piece-Achimes the quar-
ter hours with four hammers on four different
bells. and strikes the hour the largest of set of
bells. eleven in number, the weight of which is
near 5000 pounds. The movements of the ma
chinery plays three pieces Of music at three differ
ent intervals during the twenty-our hours, viz /:
\. Welcome our Day Of Rest, Greenland's Icy
Mount, and Home, Sweet Home. These tunes
are played with a sweetness of note and regulari-
Nv, that would do credit to parlor music box
~ A frame work has been erected, as we are in
formed, with the aid OF which other pieces OF
music can be performed. Mr.. Stein has given
evidence OF much talent in the construction OF this
clock, and also in other pieces of mechanism
When the work is entirely completed, the dials
will be illuminated at night, and the whole will be
not only an ornament, but highly useful work to
the citizens generally,
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COMPROMISE.

We announced several weeks ago the proba-
BILE failure of the Compromise plan of the Com
mittee of Thirteen. Anotherpaperin this city has
wasted many columns of predictions that ii
would succeed, and of arguments in its favor.
But now the impending failure of the bill is adj
mitted "a.
Those who have hitherto supported it will
now choose between division Of the acquired
territory, between the North and South, or to-
tai denial in word, as well as in deed, Of all
Southern right whatever to that territory. The
alternatives are very plain---they are diametri-
cally opposed--and their consequences respect
lively are very obvious. BY one the Union can
preserved-G the other it cannot
By the atteuim to exclude the South from all
share in the territory acquired, the country has
already been brought into revolutionary con-
dition . w.t
The functions of Congress have been paralyzed
for seven months. The Executive has been
brought to the verge ofconflict with a sovereign
State. A vast extent of territory has been left
without government. And an inHammmtory sec
tiona contest has been excited. We are now
to see how much real love Of Union remains.
We shall now ascertain how much of the pro.
tessed love OF it is a mere lust of the power and
spos to be won by an abuse of its authority
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RAILWAY TRAFFIc IN GREAT BRITAN.-The
gross traffic receipts on railways in the United
Kingdom during the first "a weeks of The present
year amounted to Is ,291 1885, being at the rate OF
1878 per mile. AT the corresponding period OF
Is49 the receipts amounted to ga ,032, being
at the rate of fl 1000 per mile. The aggregate
length over which the traffic was carried at the
end Of the "a weeks in 1850, was $3.50 miles IN
1S49, 4,7ll miles. The increase Of the receipts
during the "a weeks in the present year over those
Of corresponding period in lS49, amounted to
f627 ,S03 the increase in the receipts during the
same period in IS49 over the preceding year was
.f527 1856. In the mileage theincrease at the end
of the "a weeks in 1850 over the corresponding
period Of 1919, was $40 miles in ls49 over that
Of the preceding year s07 miles
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To PURIFY COVERED WELLS FROM FOUL AIR.
1t is well known that many incidents take place
by persons going down into wells for cleaning
them, by the noxious gas in such places. To
move the gas before the descent is made into
my well or deep pit, a quantity of burned or
unsacked lime should be thrown down. This
when it CONES in contact with whatever water
is below, sets free a great amount of heat the
water and lime, which rushes upward, carrying
all the deleterious gases with it; after which
descent may be made with perfect safety.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY, JULY 90, 1850

,Sy The last Cabinet rumor is as follows
Mr.. WEBSTER, of Mass.--State. a
Mr. CoRWIN, of Ohio-Treasury.
Mr. GRAHAM, Of ~ C.-War.
Mr. PEARcE, of Midway.
Mr.. CRITTENDEN, of Ky.-Attorney General
Interior and Post Office not named.
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CoTroN AND CoRN-A letter from the interior
of Tennessee, dated the 28th ult., and written to
the Memphis Eagle, says the strands of cotton
are even worse in Hardman and Madison coun-
ties, than IN Shelby and Fayete. Cotton (what
there is of ~ is at least two weeks behind ordi-
nary years. The corn crop looks very promising,
though not as large or as forward as usual by two
weeks. rs ..."" .""
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ny- We would call attention to the proceed
ings of the public meeting in Mr.. AvERITT's dis
trict in Virginia, which will be found in another
column. They breathe the right spirit.
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Drying PLANrs.-Pants may be dried in
such manner as to be exceedingly beautiful
Eetnining the whole of the volatile oil and aroma,
and their true coiors. To effect this, they must
be dried in a dark, close room, and not, as is
usually the ease, by exposure to a current of
mir and the action of the light. When the sep
aration Of the aqueous particles is effected by
their evaporation, and they are tolerably dry
they are to be submitted to pressure in small
quantities, enveloped in slightly absorbent pa
per- until the oil appears on the surface, and
which is known by its discoloration by this
all change of color by the action of the light
or further action of volatile matter by evapora
is prevented. In pot herbs, as well as medici
nal plants, this viii be found a very decided
improvement. Eta8 s2ia. ~
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- TIE FiRsr CoTroN BLooM.-The Memphis.
papers of the 2nd. notice the reception there by
a broker of the first cotton bloom of the season,
from the plantation of Mr.. s. Manning, seven
teen miles from the city. ............
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TuRrrNTME.-The product of Georgia and
Florida, for the year ending LIST September next,
is estimated by the Savannah Republican at 80 900
barrels-25, 900 of which is to be credited to
Georgia. toNtl aaF E.aaM 81" N..| an.a
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Public sen sirnent.

The following extract from private letter
ilas been put into our hands. The author is
Wing, Of the strong wing county of Green, in
this State man of more than matured age
man who has been largely connected with the
Government of Georgia, and twenty years a
member of its Legislature. He is also a lead
ing man in the religious denomination Of Bap-
lists, on the subject of whose experience in the
Abolition vortex, he writes. The views Of such
man are important in the present crisis. - Co
ilinlbia (G:al Times
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CHOLERA AT CINCINNATI.

" w CINCINNATI, Thursday July Is.
The cholera continues to abate in the city, but
we still have alarming reports from towns along
the river.
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ASE's'
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA
me WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.

SIR ROBERT PEEL KILLED BY AN ACCIDENT
ADVANCE IN COTTON AND FLOUR.
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U.S. TRoops The Albany Evening Joa,7'a!
of Tuesday says The steamer Oregon arrived
this morning with about $50 7, ,. Recruits
from Fort Columbus and Bedlows Island, un,
der the command of Lieut. Page, They VIII
leave this afternoon for Jefferson Barracks and
Fort Leayenworth,
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Respectfully, yours, &c.
Hon. A. BURT. EDW. STANLY.
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1850.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1850.
SIR Your note renders it unnecessary that
should point out or insist upon the errors which
/ believe to exist in the report of our remarks
alluded to in my note to you of the 18th instant
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
Hon. E. STANLY. ARMISTEAD BURT
THE CRors IN MARYLAM.-The latest ac
counts from the Eastern Shore, are not so favora
bic as the previous ones.
The Centreville, Queen Anne's county Times
Of Saturday, gives the following unfavorablc re
port
The farmers have finished saving their whea
crop. In some parts of this county it has beer
so injured by the rust as to be entirely worthless
and is therefore given up to the stock which is
turned nupon the fields. The crop Of the county
will not be more than half the usual quantity, and
large portion of what is saved win be of infe-
rior quality.
The farmers pastures and corn fields are in
want of rain---it is getting quite dry. In some
parts of the county no rain has fallen for several
weeks.
The Easton talbot county, Gazette of satur-
day says: Esf a5ttW 8a{ taaE.
Most if not all of our farmers have done their
wheat harvesting, and we regret to say that none
as far as we can learn, have made good crops
Some have made two-thirds of an ordinary CROP
others one7half, and some absolutely nothing.
We are informed by one gentleman that he mas
field Of fifty acres, which he shall not tnresn, y
being only fit for straw. This almost total fai,,
ure of the wheat crop was caused by the ny,
g army worm," and rust
From, present appearances il is thought that
full crop Of corn will be made throughout the
county
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THE CHOLERA AT CoLUMBUs.
COLUMBUS, Ga, Thursday, July Is.
S'veral cases of cholera are reported to have oc'
Cured here
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BosroN. ! of PPM.
BoLD ROBBERY IN BosToN.

N ----"'
BOSTON, July IS.
The jewelry store OF Ebenezer R. Lalkeman
was broken into last night The safe was blown
open with powder, and robbed of gold watches,
& &C., to the amount of FIVE thousand dollars
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HOUSE or RrpRrsENrnvEs.

Yesterday, 1921 20 esassoHs5 % ,msfi no
Mr.. FEATHERSTON asked the unanimous
consent of the House for liberty to introduce
bill; objected to, ,re ~ 5,s.g, al.
Mr. BISSELL asked and obtained the unani-
nous consent of the House to introduce memorial
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-20

From The :. Globe" (Otcial Reporter and Pub
fisher Of The Debates Of he House Of Represent
tatires.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, jury II, 1850.
Iothe Editors of The Globe:
Having published in your paper the speech of
the Hon. Mr.. STANLY, of North Carolina, on the
Galphin claim, ask, as an act of Justice to me,
that you will publish the following correspon-
dence. | ask the same favor of others who have
published or shall hereafter publish that speech.
ARMISTEAD BURT.
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ton:
"We saw yesterday letter from the twins
dated June 18th at their residence in North Car
DINA, which said they were both ingood health
and spirits, each having inst received an addition
to his family, making Chang the father of five
children and Eng of -four, This lisa pretty good
evidence that they are still in the land OF the
! living. IA 7..t a8,t
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BALTIMORE, July 1915 pm.

Yours, respectfully, &c
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-06-01
SURVIVOR FoRrsr. Nav 81. !

quehce 10 70 tne ooutn Wnene the country be admitted
one or more Sates Is tno better for the South that
time to come twill be represented by two instead of four e
nator the two Senators being by BIRTH by connexon and
by education identified with the South!
But we object 10 the admission of California part of
the proposed COMPROMISE and thereby defeat it, pray tell
what shall have gained BY the bill as reported two new
Territories tie erected Utah and New Mexico as
which not only Is the Wmot poviso waived, but express
stipulation is made that the Territorial Legislatures shall make
law upon the subject Of African slave labor Congress
passive, them and the Territorial Legislatures passive
We might Justly require but, mpedimen, (po
duced by United States legsa'ion is in way; II cli
mate inerposes obstacles and tho constitution overrdes
Mexican law, which do doubt those Territories
fully to DESIRE They only in the pro-
gress of settlement and emigrants from the South should
mae destiny Of things must, however, in csndor, say
that do believe that the Southern planters will ever resort
either to Utah New Mexico for purposes OF settlement
go further and expires the opinion which have on another
occasion that ar the North Is concerned
the Wmo provso has from the t been mere abstraction
Mr. WInot might have saved himself all the solicitude he
has felt upon subct Nature and circumstances askeno
sid Of tim carry forward his gr at scherne philanthropy
He has placed himself The head Of the as t,to and
oil the ho and distinctions arising from that source but
this ell The Southern would scarcely have periled
his property by transferring il TO the gold dggngs He has
kno wn from the first while he transferred his es the
Northern would pour their h 'usands and that
when the question Of forming Safe Government
he would be The eff Of that immense emera-
lion from the North still TO be realized home II may
after ALL bo discovered that instead Of encouraging emgra.
ton 81 the labor Of tie NORTH 1t would have been better to
have thrown open the door wide possible for emigration
from her quarters. But go fuffh into IN matter
only intend to add that the bill report eues t,e South
from nsus grauitdus insult and therefore the Diff