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Extraordinary disclosures" said Mr.. CAss
in the debate of Saturday in the Senate, shave
been made during this discussion; and must
say that have never seen more unlooked-for
condolences Of opinion than the Senate have
witnessed this day. Gentlemen Of extreme
opinions, antipodes to one another upon every
other question connected with the exciting
subject which has SO much divided the coun-
try, unite very cordially in condemning agi
tation at this moment, and in saying that the
honorable Senator from Kentucky is the cause
of it. Why, sir, great breach of the peace
has been committed. The honorable Sena-
tor from Kentucky very properly calls for the
evidence in possession of the Executive on
the subject, with view to ascertain the true
state of things, and what further Legislation
be necessary. That is called the renewed agi-
tation Of this question, as though all the old
issues were brought up, from the Wilmot pro-
viso downwards, to be rediscussed and reagi-
tated, and as though that were the actual
motive of the Senator from Kentucky, when
his real motive is to carry out faithfully and
truly the compromises Of the last session of
OVHSi Coos anu w Put " otVP W aBitatioH anu
excitement in the country by calling for the
faithful execution Of the laws. This coinci-
dence does not stop here; it goes still further.
It is pronounced, er cathcdra, by gentlemen
from the East and from the South, that tho
9 law cannot be executed. Both speak with
the same certainty. The irish is sometimes
father to the thought"
These reflections very naturally suggested
themselves to the Senator from Michigan when
he saw Mr.. HALE and Mr.. CHASE upon one
side, and Mr.. Mason, Mr.. TURNEY, and Mr.
BoRLAND upon the other, uniting to deprecate
agitation, to assail Mr.. CLAY, and to utter
their concurrent predictions as to the non
execution of the Fugitive Slave law.
They are all opposed to the Compromise
they are all opposed to the PRESIDENTS recon-
mendation Of acquiescence in the peace mea-
sures of the last session-they all condemn
these measures, with one or two exceptions,
and refuse to consider them as an adjustment
and, while protesting these sentiments, they
denounce Mr.. CLAY for seeking to establish
them as an adjustment, by providing such
means for their enforcement as in the judgment
of the Legislature may be deemed necessary or
proper.
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giving to the master, agent, owner or owners Of
the vessel receiving the same, description in
writing Of the true character and value thereof,
and have the same entered ON the bill Of lading
therefor, the master and owners OF the said ves
sci shall not be liable carriers thereof In any
manner; shall the master owner be liable
for any such valuable goods beyond the value
thereof 80 notified and entered. Section third
limited the liability of owners for embezzlement,
loss, or destruction by the master, officers, and
mariners of any property shipped, to the actual IN
terest said owners may have In the vesse'. Inc
fourth section regulated the mode of recovering
the losses sustained from the owners The
fifth section made the charterer OF snip
manned. victualed and navigated by him or by
his procurement, owner OF said ship In the
meaning of this act Section six declared that ex-
isting remedies against the master, officers and
mariners vessels for injuries and losses, as in no
wise affected by this bill: The seventh section pro
vided that parties shipping oil Of vitrol, unslaked
lime, inflammable matches or gunPowder in ship
taking cargo for divers persons on freight, with
out delivering description Of the same TO the per-
son in charge of the ading OF the vessel should 10
felt to the United States one thousand dollars.
He urged the passage of the bill as highly i'm
portant to the shipping Interest,"
Messrs. BUTLER, BERRiEN, BADGER. and
aARN SGRSSsd roo oS S GAss sa
SON, and RANTOUL, supported it.
MIR. PHELPS, by way Of obtaining test vote,
moved it be laid on the table; lost-yeas 20, nays
25-as follows:
YEAS-Messrs Atchison, Badger, Berricn,
Butler, Clay, Dodge of Iowa, Downs, Ewing,
Fetch, Hunter, Jones' Mangum Morton, Phelps,
Turney, Underwood, Wales, Walker, Whitcomb,
and Yuee-20.
NAYS.-Messrs. Baldwin, Borland, Bradbury,
| Cass, Chase, Clarke, Cooper, Davis of Massachu-
setts, Dawson, Dayton. Dickinson, Dodge OF Wis
consin, Douglas, Foote, Greene, Gwin, Hanlin,
| Miller, Norris, Pearce, Pratt, Rantoul, Rusk,
Sebastian, Seward, Shields, Smith, and Spru-
ance-2S.
Messrs. PHELPS and RANTOUL continued the
debate in favor of the bill; and Messrs. WALKER
| and BADGER in opposition to it.
| Mr. BERRlEN moved to amend the first section
| by strkng out that owners shall not be liable for
| loss sustained by "fre happening to or on board
the said ship vessel unless such fire ia caused by
| the design or neglect Of such owner or owners"
and insert shall be liable for any Gloss arising,
without any fault the part Of the owner or his
agents, from any cause which Is excepted In the
bill of lading." Lost.
Mr.. HAMLIN moved, and the section was amend
ed as to provide that nothing therein contained
should be construed preventing parties making
any contract they thought proper relative to the
liabilities of the owner.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed for a
| third reading.
SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS IN CALIFORNIA.
| Mr.. GWIN moved, and the Senate took up the
bill providing for survey of the public lands in
Califor MIA, &C.
| And then the Senate adjourned.
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The LoursvrLLB JouRsAL.-This sterling news
paper and unwavcring advocate of Wing princi-
pies has lately appeared in new typographical
dress. and greatly enlarged in its dimensions. The
prosperity Of this journal is the natural result of
the talent, enterprise, and unfiinching integrity
with which it has been conducted, and Il has our
hearty wishes for its continued success.
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New CouSrERrxiTs-Onc of the new blue back
S. counterfeits on the Merchants and Mechanics
Bank of Wheeling has been detected at Cincinnati.
The plate appears TO have been exceedingly well
executed and the note marked letter "a, No.
2020," and payable at Morgantown. II il said that
several of these notes in circulation.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills Of the Mechanics
Bank, New Bedford, Massachusetts, are in circu-
lation.
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LAND LiMirArroN.--A bill has passed the popu
lar branch of the Wisconsin Legislature, by vots
of 80 to ~, limiting the quantity of land which any
one person can acquire to six hundred and forty
acres. '+
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RAILROAD SrocKs.-A very heavy amount ofrail-
road stocks are being offered in the New York mar
ket at the present time. Yesterday Messrs. Hag-
gcrty, Draper & Jones were to sell $780, 900 in
bonds of the Ohio Central Railroad, interest at Z
per cent, 800 each. To-day they are to dispose
of $4,000, 900 of the per cent mortgage bonds OF
the Lafayette and indianapolis Railroad Company.
Of 81 900 each; and on the 9th of March they will
sell $500, 900 Of the New York and Erie Railroad
convertible bonds, bearing per cent interest, also
6 900 each
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Tho American consul at Turks Island has for.
warded to Lieutenant MAyRY the following, taken
from bottle that was picked up August 23d. 1850.
at Long Bay, latitude 2lo 49, north, longitude To
26 west
ECU. S. SCHOONER TANEY, March 4th, 1850.
Latitude at noon, l60 81 north
Longitude at noon, 36o 09 west
Please report to Lieut.. M F. Maury, Superin-
tendeft of National Observatory, Washington, the
time and place where picked up.
81. C. WALSH, 1t. CONG"
This paper was forwarded by H. Stubs. jr., to
Richard Dorrell editor of the Turks Island Gazette
who sent II to b. E. Smith, esq, United States
consul, by whom it was forwarded to the National
Observatory.
The bottle was picked up one hundred and
seventy two days after it was thrown overheard.
The distance by great circle from the place where
it was cast overheard to the place where it was
picked up, is little upwards of two thousand sea
miles, which gives average rate of travel Of
twelve miles day.
II il, however, not improbable that this little
cruiser went along with the great equatorial cur
rent into the Caribbean sea, thence into the Gulf
of Mexico, and that, after passing the Tortugas
and Key West, it took the old Providence channel,
and was thence cast ashore on Turks Island. II il
took this route the distance travelled could not be
much short of four thousand miles, at an average
rate of something like mile an hour.
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General HousTos delivered temperance address
in New York on Monday evening
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THE REPUBLIC.
WASHIN GTON:
THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY n. 1851

1.-THE series Of measures to which have alluded
are regarded by me as a settlement, in principle
and substance final settlement-of the danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embraced"
"By that adjustment we have been rescued from
the wide and boundless agitation that surrounded
us, and have firm, distinct. and legal ground
to rest upon. And the occasion. trust, will JUS
tify me IN ExHoRTINo NY coUSTRyaKN TO RALLY
. UPON AND MAINTAIN THAT GROUND as the best, II
not the only means, Of restoring peace and quiet
to the country, and maintaining inviolate the in
tegrity Of the Union"
[PREsIDENr FILLMoRE's MESSAGE.
'The Presidents message, at the opening of the
present session of Congress, expresses fully and
plainly his own and the unanimous opinion Of all
those associated with him in the Executive admin
istration Of the Government, in regard to what
are called the Adjustment or Compromise mea-
Of last session. That opinion 10, that those
measures should be regarded in principle as
final settlement of the dangerous and exciting
subjects which they embrace; that though they
were not free from impcriections. yet, in their
mutual dependence and connection, they formed
9 system of compromise the most conciliatory
and best for the entire country that could be OBJ
tanned from conflicting sectional interest and
opinions, and that therefore they should be ad-
hered to, until time and experience should de-
monstrate the necessity of further Legislation to
guard against evasion or abuse. That opinion, so
6 far as know, remains entirely unchanged, and
. will be acted upon steadily and decisively. The
peace of the country requires this the security of
the Constitution requires this; and every conside
: ration of the public good demands this. If the
Administration cannot stand upon the principles
of the message it does not expect to stand at all
[DANIEL WEBsTER's Letter to the Union Meeting
at TVestchester.
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the purchaser loses his money and his land. He
can neither sell his warrant, therefore, nor raise
money upon his bond, though he is an honest
man, and his bond is good one. This is the
case of a man who has local habitation, and is
known to neighbors and friends, and has good
character. But if such man cannot get a
dollar for his warrant or his bond, how utterly
impossible it must be for man who is among
strangers, where he has no friends or acquan-
lance.
The neighbor of our wooden-legged soldier
has an assignable warrant, which he can To-
cate or sell for $3.50 at the corner of the street,
or to the next man he meets. 1t is cash in his
pocket to that amount any day in the week,
and he feels that he has substantially benefited
by the bounty Of his country.
There is no doubt whatever that if the bounty
law is designed to be beneficial to the poor,
aged, and decrepid soldiers, who have risked life
and laid up inirmities in their country service,
the warrants issued under it ought to be made
assignable. Not only are assignable warrants
the more valuable, but the unassignable war
rants are Of no value except just to that class of
we'll do persons with whom it is matter of
indifference whether they are assignable or not.
Men in need Of the bounty Of the Government
do not profit by the law. To men who require
pancy or sale, and wait for their patent and a
market for it, it is measurably beneficial in its
present shape.
The southern press., 1851-04-02
English and American Slavery

Let those who taunt me with the slavery Of
England, point me to the English mother that
can be robbed of her child; TO The English huS-
band thai can be torn from has ,oje; to the Eng
lish daughter whose chastity can be violated
with mpunity. George TAompson's speech, on
Sunday nigh.
Well we can point him to thousands. In
Blackwoods Magazine, for March 1851, there is
table showing the commitments for serious
crimes in England, Scotland, and Ireland" which
exhibits the appalling number Of 74,l62, in
l849. Ofthesc commitments something like one
third are women. Hence men and women by
thousands are annually torn from husbands,
wives and children, and committed to prison.
If these crimes are committed from want, there
is the worst of slavery, the compulsion of ne
cessity to sacrifice not only the ties of relation
ship, but responsibility, as well as liberty. II
they are committed without that necessity, the
case is still worse, for it shows that vast multi.
tudes in Great Britain, will wantonly sacrifice
liberty, character and Affection to an extent at
least one hundred times greater than slavery in
ficts in the United States and the same work
tells us that crime has advanced for the last
twenty-eight years,--for generation--ten times
as fast as population! But this is not ALL The
same work informs us that the number of pau.
pers in England alone in l84S, was I,626,2OI-
more than half the number of slaves in the Uni
ted States. And English paupers are worked
by overseers in the alms-houses, and what is
that but slavery 1t is slavery with more con-
fnement, harder work and meaner fare than the
slavery Of the South In Ireland on the Sd
July, ls47, no less than 3,O2o,7l2 persons were
supported by public charity, making in England
and Ireland, only four millions, sir hundred and
forty-sir thousand nine hundred and thirteen pau
pers. In the Southern States there are but
about three millions Of slaves And in multi
tudes of eases the child is torn from the pauper
mother, and bound out to service and treated
with cruelty, for which Southern slave holders
have no motive.
As for the violation of the chastity of
Southern female slaves, it is perhaps the rarest
crime committed. We never heard of such a
case-we never read Of one even in abolition
papers. But look at the promiscuous inter
course Of the coster-mongers of London look
at the immense hordes of courtezans, in all the
cities of that empire. If prostitution is the re-
suit Of want, then there is more violation o
chastity in England, in one year than in the
Southern States in a century. Ifit is voluntary
it is still worse.
Yet Mr.. George Thompson comes from the
Tower Hamlets, the hotbed of all this vice. mis-
cry and crime, to preach reform to the United
States.
The southern press., 1851-04-02

tor living on the canal board, or out OF State
pap, echoes the cry About the whole power OF
the State goyernmcnt--and such State is not
without power--is exerted to crush the admin
istration Of the federal government and the
consequence is--the Wing party here is rent IN
twain--and certain defeat is before us, if this
war upon the federal government is persisted in.
The State government isolates itself from the
Wings OF the thirty other States of the Union,
and is forming here an independent, outside,
Wing Abolition party--which, thousands and
thousands of us, never can, and never will follow
We cannot desert our old standard bearers, such
as Clay, Webster, Crittenden-nor our old prin-
ciples, to interpolatc upon the Wing creed any
new issues, never known to our party
But what has President Fillmore done, that a
New York Legislature thus ostracses him tie
signed The Fugiire Stare iap! SO did George
Washington sign just such law, in I796-ss-
actly such law Besides, for twenty years, it
has been a Wing principle, that constitutional
laws, enacted by Congress, ought 10 be sap
Prored" by the Executive, and mol petoed Pres
ident Fillmore having thus in the solemn dis
charge of his duties affixed his signature to the
series OF measures known as the Compromise
bills, asks in his annual message, the South "to
acquiesce IN" The admission of California, the
loss Of Utah and New Merico 10 SLAVERY and The
abolition Of The Stare trade in The District Of Co
lumbta and the North, ito ncquiesce in" the con-
sttutionat obligation TO surrender fugitive slaues
Then follows a discursve dissertation on the
State of South Carolina, and the history of the
f" settlement" - when, towards the close, the
smothered grief Of the editors for the sufierings
of the Administration, breaks forth sobbngly
thus with an unfraterna snap at its conductor
the Republic:
IL is lanlentable thai he should be ostracised in
his own own State legislature, but it was the
fate of many an old Greek and Roman, and he
can endure it till better day. New York,
however, will sooner or later do justice to him
whom all the other States, Wing and Demo
cratic, save alone South Carolina and New York,
delight to respect and honor. II MIR. Fillmore
loses the legislature Of his o,on State, he wins
the favor Off union of st ties. The Republic ex-
presses gratitude mol yetteh or expressed in Al
bany under the malign influence ofa selfish Junta
there, which rules us just now with rod OF
iron.
And, how Senator SEWARD very graciously
pleased to extend his favor and protection to the
Administration, and the Union party Of New
York, is it not written in the chronicles of the
Legislature thereof!
The southern press., 1851-04-02

Three cheers for Old Virginia These reso-
lutions, are better than those Of '98 We con-
cur with the Union In the opinion that they form
an ample basis for Democratic harmony aDd ac-
ton. "Peace and Brotherhood among men,
"Deyoton to Human Liberty,-"Love of Justice
and Equality"-"Ha to tyranny in whatever
form it exists or il exerted" Glorious Demo-
cracy of the Old Dominion. Ii the Democracy
of the Union will hold National Convention
grthwith, and adopt these principles, and set
up candidate faithfully representing them, we
pledge ourselves and the Abolitionists Of the
country to stand by them to the death. We
hope our co-laborcr Of the Union will strike
while the iron is hot "Hunan Liberty"-3Love
of Justice"--"Hatred Of all Tyranny, in what
ever form, il exists or is exerted!" What noble
maxms for a free Democratic party.-Naiionai
Ero
The southern press., 1851-04-02
New York.

The New York Herald thus speculatss ON the
position of parties in New York--a puzzle more
perplexing than the Eretan Labyrinth, at this
moment.
SEWARD VERSUS FnLMoRE-THE NExr PRE-
Weeds opposition to the
administration of Mr.. Fillmore is again awakened
by the recent removals and appointments in ttais
State In fact the Seward dynasty in both New
York and New England, are combining in
bitter opposition to the present administration,
with distinct declaration in favor of General
Scott as their next candidate for the Presidency.
This policy seems to have been adopted as the
best for the ulterior purposes of Wm ii. Sew
ard, who is probably not exactly prepared on all
points, to enter the field in 1852, although he
may be ready in 1856 The Boston ALIAS, the
Albany Erening journal, and various other
papers of the same stripe in New York and New
England, have indicated distinct tendency in
favor of General Scott for the next Presidency
on a positive anti-slavery platform. The sub
Ject will soon be a matter of general discussion
IN The newspapers.
The southern press., 1851-04-02
The Plea for Mercy

We had been puzzling ourselves for some
time to account for the reason why Senator
SEWARD so suddenly took pity on President
FILLMORE, when accidentally we encountered
an editorial in the New York Express, which
must have touched the sensibities Of the sena.
tor, and produced that result.
We append specimen--fearing to give more,
lest our readers should become
Like .Niobe, all tears.
The Express is one of the "By-Authority"
papers in New York-its editor n Silver Gray
compromise administration Union--a --anti-Sew
ard Wing The paper denounced the Seward
ties, until they proved too strong for it to stand
up, when down it goes on its knees, and thus
puts up this humble prayer and supplication.
The ADMINISTRATIONS. President Fillmore
and his administration command the cheerful
support Of Wings in every other State saue his
own-but here, we feel panied to see and TO say,
that n legislature elected as Wing, declines us
yet to stand by him, and his cabinet--but on
the contrary, frowns upon his measures and
upon him. This arises from the fact, undoubt-
edly, that nearly all the federal Offices, and the
State offices here, were put into the hands Of
men, who received their offices upon the ground
that they should damage him and cry him down,
and who made it their boast, that under the Gal
phin cabinet, he could not command even a
clcrkship in Washington. The President up to
this hour, has overlooked these insults and these
injuries, and suffered these adverse influences
even to crush him and his friends in New York !;
and the natural, inevitable consequence is, that
in New York alone, Of all the thirty-one States,
there is large body Of men calling themselves
Wings, opposing his administration when else
where, and every where else Wings support him
and his cabinet with energy and enthusiasm. -
From Texas to Maine, from Maine to California
IN all the States, even in States side by side
with us, and sympalbiziog in all our anti-slavery
feeling, such as Connecticut, the Wing party
and the Wing administration act henrt and hand
together-but not 80 in New York.
Why is this 500 What reason is there for t'
The pretended reason is, that President Fill
more has gone over to the South and turned
slave catcher but this is not heard Of among
Wings out Of this State not in Connecticut, in
Michigan, Massachusetts,, or even Vermont
The Albany Evening Journal, however, starts
this cry in New York, and every newspaper edi-
The southern press., 1851-04-02
More Dining in honor of the Compromise.

The new patent plan of preserving the Union,
devised by the New York committee, has been
put in vigorous operation of late. The hero of
Rabcais is rivaled in his gustatory feats by the
elect Of Unionism, who eat, drink, and are merry,
while piously feicitating themselves that they
are not like other men.
Mr.. WEBSTER has recently been made the
chief recipient Of the culinary congratulations Of
these hungry patriots, and his speeches are made
the sauce Jiquante to flavor the entertainments
Scarcely has he fired and fallen back" from
the Annapolis feast, before the Legislature Of
Pennsylvania invites the mayor and city coun-
ell of Baltimore to visit that city on Tuesday
next the 9Th inst and partake of public din
ner in honor of the compromise, sending stimuli
taneously an invitation also to Mr.. WEBSTER
The challenge has been accepted, the day fixed,
and
Stroke of knife, and thrust of fork,
Flow Of wine, and flight Of cork,
will constitute an accompaniment to another
exposition from the Expounder
Well, there are certainly many other modes
of displaying "patrotic devotion" which are
more unpleasant than this mutual stuffing with
compliments, congratulations, and the delicacie,
of the season. We sincerely hope that the,
may not, while stunning the Scylla of adis
union,' wreck their selfcomplacency on th
Charybdis Of indigestion.