Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-11
FROM TEXAS.

hO4A iL<NxtOs
By The steamship Portland, Gal.
weston papers to the Doth inst. have
been received at New Orleans.
In regard 10 the Texas boundary
bill which recently passed Congress,
the Journal says:
The proposition 10 Texas, we have
no hesitation in saying, will be accep-
ted, and thus the excitement which
has agitated the country will be put
to rest. We could have desired that
our boundary had been different and
that the provision in the bill, inserted
doubtless for tho benefit of the credi-
tors OF Texas, reserving five millions
until theirrecepts are held at Wash
ington city, had been stricken out.
These important alterations might
have been made through our Legis-
lature, but that body has shown itself
by its action, or rather non-action,
to be SO entirely unreliable and in
efficient that there is now no other
resort for Texas than to accept the
proposition as ii stands.
The Huntsville lem of the l4lh
inst. saws a meeting was held in that
place the, proceeding week. A com
mittee was appointed TO draw up
resolutions which being presented,
Were found to approve of the Pearce
bill &c, but after a warm discussion
a motion for adjournment was car
rled by 44to Sd and nothing was
done. 1t appears that the meeting
could not approve the Pearce bill
and preferred 10 do nothing rather
ahan express an opinion against it.
Carohn;an.
The F'ootc mM Fremont Difficulty.
Washington, Sept. 2S.-The Sen
ate went into Executive session last
night. at seven, in order to get rid of
the California land bill, which was
likely TO raise storm. The bill
was one of Col. Fremont's, and pro-
vided for The settlement of private
land claims in California. One Sec
ton of the bill established commits
sion in California, which was to de-
eide finally and conc|usively on all
claims, arising under the Old Spanish
government of Mexico, or the au-
lhorilies of California. This was
much opposed, though strcnuousl adj
yocated by Benton. The object of
the bill was to dispose of the claims
AT once, to quiet titles, and prevent
the necessity of an appeal to the Su-
preme court Of the United Siates.-
This departure from every establish
ed mode of adjusting titles occasion
ed much debate. The hour ofthe re
cess had arrived, and the discussion
was broken of.
AT seven, after dinner and wine,
the Senate re-assembled, and in the
ante room, Fremont met Mr.. Foote,
and upbraided him in no very mild
terms, for opposing his bill. Fre-
mont said that Mr.. Foote had prom
iscd to support the California bills,
and by his hostility to this bill had
committed breach of faih, and that,
in fine, Mr.. Foote was no gentleman.
These were the identical words. AIr.
Footc replied instantly, by slapping
Fremont's face. Fremont struck at
hina, but at this moment, Mr.. Clarke
ofRhode Island, came between the
parties and forcibly separated them.
So much excitement prevailed that
Mr.. Dickinson thought it necessary
to move an Executive session.
Both Fremont and Foote left the
Senate chamber some time before
the termination of the sitting. Mr..
Foote was going homewards, to Mis-
sissippi, tomorrow, Sunday morning.
The difficulty that has arisen could
be adjusted, fit had arisen casually
and # there was no feeling between
the parties, arising from other causes
But Foote's hostile relations to Ben
ton are well known, and in the com
mittee of investigation into the Foote
and Benton affair, Mr.. Foote asked
some questions of Fremont, which
the latter took exception to, in such
way that it was then thought the two
Senators woul d not long avoid COM
ing to blows.-Ch0. Cour.
From the Southern Press, 3Oth uk. I
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