Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-02-02

Tor sundry Congressional documents.
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA"
We yesterday noticed the extent to
which Executive interference in CaIifor.
MIA had been carried, as appears from Of
fetal documents submitted to CONGRESS-
We now cali attention to remarkable
statement of Mr.. Foote, made ON the
floor of the Senate, in the debate of
Thursday, the 18th instant, on Mr., Gle.
mems resolution. Mr. Foote was reply
ing to Mr.. Truman Smith, who, while Of
fering himself as the semi i-official repre-
sentative of the Executive, -professed isa.
norance of matters made notorious in Inc
newspaper press during the summer
Here is the statement, which passed
without contradiction or qualification
Char. Mercury
"1t has been stated in the California
papers, and [ know the Senator reads
those papers, and have no doubt he has
the most extensive knowledge Of Califor-
MIA matters. This fact has been pub
lished also in all the newspapers have
met with recently in the United States.
and must be known to every man of ir.
telligence in the country. And the fact
is this: 1t is a part Of tho proceedings of
the California convention, that leading
member of that body, Mr.. Bolts. by
hame-a distinguished Virginia Demo.
crat, and an old acquaintance of MY own
rose up, and in speech which has
circulated in a printed form. and which
| can hand to the honorable Senator If
he desires to see it say he rose up in
his place, at the precise moment when
Gen. Riley quilted the chair of the con-
ven'ion, which he occupied during the
whole course Of the deliberative proceed
ings which had been going on, and said
he felt bound to state the fact, and chal.
lenge denial, that coercive power had
been employed to bring about the pre-.
sent state of things; that the constitution
OF California about to be adopted had
been forced upon them He charged
further, that assurances had been given
in the most imposing manner, by the
powers in Washington, that, unless such
q constitution @as. adopted as was suited
to the tastes of certain high personages
perhaps including the honorable
Senator from Connecticut, for he may
have admonished them upon the subject
by a circular, for aught / know, and in.
cluding the Presiuent and his cabinet
all the influence Of the Executive would
be thrown against the admission of Cali.
fofnia as a sovereign State; but that, in
stheevent of the adoption of a constitu.
ton agreeable to them, then that the in.
fitiehce would be exerted--through tho
honorable Senator from Connecticut, i
presume, not I suppose intended to be
employed in any but legitimate modes-
for her admission. Now the honorable
Senator from Connecticut need not Inn.
pute anything to The administration osto
myself. Estate to him fact that has
been published, and must be dispr owed,
or this administration will. remain unyin.
Gated; state to hirN fact which / would
not like to take for granted, in tho alb.
senee Of evidence "a fact which must be
explained; in relation to which tiiia admin.
sistraiion must be vindicated, else it must
suffer in the,esianation Of the whole ooun
try" ---
The Committee Of Ways and Mernp
in the lower house of the Alabama Leg.
islatnre has reported against III, appropri.
alton for rebuilding the capitol, and h,
favor OF removing Temporarily to tho old,
capitol at Tuscaloosa, until the sentiments
oil the people may be aaceftainsd ob the
subject.
MgRpEa.--Mr. g. Fowler, was MIR
defed in Raleigh on The ard inst, by
Christopher Scott, who inflicted three
mortal wounds on him with knife
Scott is In jsil, and bail refused him. ..--
The deed was committed at house Of
the devil, DRILL fame. Asdtviie dfess,