The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-25
WASHINGTON CITY:
THURSDAY. JULY IS. 1850 !
~ The Omnibus Adjustment Bin has been

| ~ The Omnibus Adjustment Bill has been
numbering along in the Senate for several weeks,
calling first on one side the North, and then ON
the other the South, for passengers to preserve
its equilibrium and keep it from upsetting. The
misfortune is, that when it gains from one side it
loses from another. Mr.. CLAY and Mr.. FoorE,
the two drivers, are touching their hats to pas
sengers on both sides of the way, and exclaim-
ing, going North sir?--or going South, eh p
clear through cheap, ehs
| The most amusing part of the trip is, that
when few Free-soilers step in, as many South
erners forthwith step out and the vehicle lurch-
es to one side and is ready to capsize.
We understand that tomorrow it is intended
to take in few Free-soilers by striking out the
amendment already adopted, which prohibits the
territorial governments of New Mexico and
Utah from making any law establishing or pro-
hibiting the introduction of slavery We expect
if that is done, to witness total stampede Of the
Southern passengers, and the immediate upset
| ting Of the vehicle.
! OF course no friend of the South can consent
|
that the Mexican population, conquered by our
arms, should be allowed to exclude us from
those territories bya vote of their first territorial
/ Legislature That they would do so--their own
recent demonstrations, as we'll as the letter Of
their Delegate, HuGu NJ SMITH, abundanty
prove.
| Are Northern men becoming convinced of the
truth of the position, maintained with such abil-
ity and force by Mr.. BERRIEN, and others, that
the Mexican laws are repealed BY the Constitu-
ton and laws Of the United States! Andis it
for this reason that they intend to authorize the
Mexican Indians and Poems by Legislative enact
ments forever to exclude the South!
More OF the Peculiar Institutions of the
| North
| We have frequently alluded of late to the
alarming symptoms OF socialism manifesting
themselves among the laboring population of
New York, in consequence of the exasperating
appeals made through certain presses in that
city. The performances ofthatpopular melody
"The Devil among the Tailors," have been very
striking recently,--and the friends of labor"
who rightfully are responsible for inAaming the
minds of the ignorant, must be much gratifed
| by such dwelling demonstrations.
1t is an easy thing for fanatics or knaves to
rouse the ungovernable passions of the ignorant
but it is by no means as easy a task to control
passions whenexcted- it sometimes happens
that like the rash students Of old who invoked the
6end, they fall the victims Of their own temerity
That the safety ola strong and apparently pros
porous community should be threatened by such
but a whole country has been inundated by the
burrowing of rats into DYKE ere now. The
subterranean labors of some Of the Northern dis
ciples of progress, the preachers of new social
millennium, can be hkened to nothing more APP
propriately for, under the pretext of the recon-
struction of society, their intent is revolution,
general overturning either by force or fraud.
Preaching up the inalienable rights Of man, Gas
though those could be inalienable rights which
are alienated daily and hourly0 they predicate
upon them rule of conduct which overrides all
divine or human laws, heretofore held sacred,
and would convert all society into carnival,
where license should be the only law, and all the
old landmarks, be trampled under foot. Mob law
the Northern cities of late years--sometimes
only to be put downat the point of the bayonet;
but never until very recently have organizations
like those of Paris sought to control the opera
tons of labor by brute force, in the heart OF a
great city, in the broad light of day. Occur
rences like the one detailed in the following ex-
tract from New York paper, are ominous in
deed, if viewed in the proper light. 1t has well
been said that the French revolution was the
work of an hour and that too was an upheaving
from below:
TAILoR's RIoT-Yesterday afternoon, about
FIVE o'clock, some $50 tailors, chiefly Irish and
Germans, presented themselves at the clothing
store Of c.. T. Longstreet 6 IL Nassau street,
gave shout and began to enter the premises, in
order to induce or compel the workmen to sign
a paper refusing to work for less than a certain
rate, which the strikers had seen fit to designate.
| The proprietors of the store immediately gave
orders to close the door, which was at length
effected, although some of the inmates were in
/ jured by stones and brick-bats thrown by the
rioters. j. HI. Graves, salesman, was severely
hurt by stone, which struck him in the head
and caused him to faint He was unable to
speak for nearly half-an-hour In the mean time
person from the store got out the back way,
and went and notified the police, who soon made
their appearance, and arrested five Of the assa-
ants, including, it is believed, the one who threw
the stone at Graves The rioters then dispersed.
DR.. Plat was called in, to attend to the wounded
man, who when we saw him, had recovered the
use of his limbs and appeared to be doing well.
Mr. Longstreet gave up the key Of the store to
the Mayor, and it was placed under charge of the
! Police.
! The following is a statistical account of the
/ Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Paris, in 1913:
4 sThe number of births was 32,S91; that of
deaths 80 0SS; excess of births over deaths, $500
OF the births, 1923 were males, and 15,968 fe-
NJ males % 06S were horn in wedInck and 10 Ssl3