Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1850 — Page 2

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ÜiUll WILLIAM J.-BROWN, Editor. INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTE31DCR 10. 950i To Correspondents. P. B , Sauit Oner, Is. The money received psys for only ix months. If 5 additions! names we aent, witb Ilia same amount of money, the ten nbscribers will be entitled 10 the Weekly on year, at Club prices. JL G , Morgmufown, la. If you ea procure six uamea, you may end theia at the term preief. Washington Street, Indianapolis. This, the principal business street, in Indianapolis, is undergoing quite m change for the better, in the way of improvement. In the Eastern part of the city the crossing of the Eellefontaine Railroad, now completed almost to Fendletotv, has formed a new era in that quarter. Added to this the completion of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, but a short distance out of town, makes every thing look well for the future. Coming West, we next find that Mr. Little has, this season, made a fine addition to Lis Hotel of a large brick building three stories high. The basement to be occupied for a store and reception rooms, and the second and third stories with some fifteen or twenty rooms for boarders. He intends shortly to fill up his corner, now occupied by a frame, in like manner, when he will have one of the finest houses in the city. His business pays. Next is a fine business house, of three stories, erected by Squire Stevens, for store rooms setting a good example to one or two owners of cornerlots in our eye. The next is the fine three story block erected by Messrs. Yandes and Sharpe on the M'Carty corner. This building has a splendid concert and assembly ' ycoro. in the third story. ühe'next isailock of buildings erected by S. W. N orris, Esq.,tfor the City Post Office, and storerooms and' offices. Sir. Norris is ahead of all our property-holders in Indianapolis. He lets no ground fie idle. He even sold an improved business stand on Washington street that he might build up all his ground. His investments pay well, and every body is glad of it. Judge Blackford, the Locomotive says, will build up the corner right opposite next siHTMiver. This will be a popular movement for the Judge, and we hope he will erect a building that will make him remembered years to come. Coming down to the Palmer House, Dr. Teal has j'jst commenced a building for a business-bouse on Illinois street a few doors north of Washington, near the fine residence erected by Judge Hammond this season. Mr. Wiley has also erected a fine building close by. The two corners on Washington will be built up by splendid buildings, ahead of anything in the city, by Messrs. Bates and Blake next summer. The next balding nearly up is the splendid block of our friend Charley Mayer and Messrs. Reck and Warner, four stories high. Charley will have, when completed, the largest business room in the city. He, like friend Norris, is also doing right. He sold a lot with a ti-'porary improvement, that will be moved off by Mr. Bates next spring to make room, in part, for his fine row, and has erected a stately edifice on a vacant lot. Mr. M'Ouat, on the opposite side of the street, has added another three story business house to the building he erected last season. These last are all beIow"lhe Palmer House. The next building is the large Masonic Hall, now nearly completed, and where it is supposed, by some, the Convention will hold, its sessions- It is to be brilliantly lighted up with gas. These are some of the more prominent buildings on Washington street, erected this summer, and contemplated, for the next. We look for many improvements next season. We neglected, in the above, the "Capital House" erected last season and finished this summer, and now in full blast, with our old friend Capt. Cain for mine host. His new honors set well upon him, and his guests are always met with a hearty smile and plenty of good cheer. His house will be well filled at the Convention, as well as all the Hotels in our city. Oliver Morse, Esq., well known in this city many years ago, for several sessions, as the Door-Keeperof the Senate, has returned to Indiana and purchased the Holmes House, two miles west of Indianapolis, n the Cumberland road. He will be well provided with all kinds of good cheer for travellers, and pleasure parties from the city. ' Oliver was one of the best Bar-Keepers, as then called, ever known in Indianapolis in early times, and having had much experience as a Hotel-Keeper during his absence from the State in the East, with his present splendid establishment, will do up things "brown" for all that give him a call. Adjournment of Congress. The Senate has agreed to the House resolution to ardjourn without day, on Monday, the 30th of September Monday next two weeks. 07" Robert Suttos, has declined the appointment of Stenographer to the Convention, and the Governor, on the recommendation of the Indiana Delegation in Congress, has appointed Harvey Fowler, of Washington City to that station. Mr. Fow ler is well qualified, and has been engaged as a Reporter for the "Congressional Globe " for several years past. (rThanks to our old friend Norman for a basket of most delicious grapes. We know no other name , for them than luscious, and if any person doubts our judgment, let them try their own palate, at his stand, in front of our office, and if they do not prove the I best in the market, why, then, tell us we don't know what's what. He has also for sale a few gallons of T tmperance wine, the pure juice of the grape, manufactured by himself. (grOur friend Parrish, at the corner of Washington and Meridian streets, in Norris's block, at the old stand of Hamilton k. Parrish, has procured an addition to his former room, so as to make it one of the largest business houses in the city. He has just opened a spendid stock of new goods, and the public will do well to give him a call. See his advertisement. Q-We knew as well as the Journal editor that Mr. Seward was not bodily present at the "Slaughter House" Convention. He had fixed his wires before the day of meeting. We did not say Mr. Fillmore was present; we knew he was not. . 07-The editor of the Journal has come out, in his last paper, as the organ of the free-soilers. In their name he arraigns Doctor Fitch for his votes. The Doctor, we have no doubt, has redeemed all his pledges and is well able to take care of himself. Mr. Evans, of Maryland, thinks so, we guess. Q7""Tlie editor of lite Journal is mad. If he will Call at Xowland'i he Can have a Stick of Candy.

Thomas II. Benton. The result cf the triangular election i Missouri ensures the election of a Ü, S. Senator in place of Mr. Benton. It was at one time supposed that a large por tiorrof the Whig party, sympathizing with this cmiucnt statesman in his struggle for the cause of Humen Free dura, would unite with him in the overthrow of the faction who sought his destruction, but the tempting prospect of wielding the sceptre of power in a Siato where they had so long been in the minority was not to be resisted. Under the circumstances the defeat of the Democracy was a matter of course. Indiana Statesman. Hum Air Freedom! Now we should like to know when and where Col. Benton struggled for the cause of Human Freedom. Was' it in favoring the admission of Missouri as a Slave State? Was it in his successful exertions to add to Missouri the Platte river country, lying north of the Missouri line to that State? a district much larger, than the State of Delaware, which, but for the exertions of Col. Benton, would now be a part of the State of Iowa. The Colonel always gives this instance, as the evidence of his fealty to the slave interest, that his exertions converted this large tract of country to slave territory. It is the only case, on record, where, by the act of Congress, free soil has been made slave soil. Has his struggle in favor of "Human Freedom" been exhibited by his universal opposition to the proviso? His votes against, and his open denunciation of tliis "dead and rotten humbug," to use his own language? We are the friend of Col. Benton, and we protest against his being used as a prop to bolster up the fallen fortunes of abolitionism. "Human Freedom!" What does this mean? If it means freedom from African slavery, then the term will not apply with the same force to Mr. Benton that it does to Cass, Dickinson, Bright, and other Northern Democrats, who have always advocated the doctrine of non-intervention on that subject. Territorial Acquisitions. Under Democratic Administrations Louisiana, Mis

souri, Iowa, Oregon, Florida, Texas, Utah, New Mexico and California, have been acquired. Acquisitions which secured to us the mouth of the Mississippi, the command of the Gulf of Mexico, the keys of Florida, and the ports and harbors on the Pacific in Cali fornia and Oregon. It secured an empire five times as large as the original thirteen States. The federalists and modern whigs have always opposed these measures of territorial acquisition and national ag grandizement. Their opposition commenced with the purchase of Louisiana, tinder Mr. Jefferson, and has since been steadily followed up. The Demo cratic policy of Jackson, Van Buren and Polk, is now lifting up the country to greatness and glory. The Whigs are now in power. They talk against Democratic men and Democratic measures; but they have signally failed to change or alter the De mocratic policy adopted by Jefferson, and carried out by his successors. The United States' Bank, once a favorite Whig measure, is now an obsolete idea. A tariff for protection is scarcely advocated by any one except the Iron interest of Pennsylvania; and that monster of hideous form, the Sub-Treasury, is still in full force, and no one recommends its re peal. The arts, agriculture and commerce flourish, and peace smiles upon all the land. The dark cloud which has hung over our Southern horizon has been blown away by the breath of patriotism, and now is "the winter of our discontent made glorious sum mer." Had the federal policy been adopted, we would now have been hemmed in on all sides by foreign possessions. France would have commanded the navigation of the lower Mississippi, and with the British possessions on the North and the Spanish on the south, we should have been crushed to death. So much for Democracy. The New Paper at Indianapolis. The following is from the editor of the Logansport Pharos, an old political and personal friend of Dr. Ellis. It shows the opinion he has of the new paper and its results on the "union and harmony" of the Democracy of the State. He says: "We can see no possible pood that will result to the Democratic party ol Indiana, or of the Uu ion, from the establishiuent of another Democratic paper at the Capital The State Sentinel is al'lv conducted, and. so far as we know, meets the approbation of the Democrats of this county. N e have not 1 card a regular JJerntx'rat find fault with its course on the contrary its tone is looked upon as truly national. We have the same opinion now, in reference to this two organ system, that we had in Sept., 1345, when Mr. Spann in company with Mr. A. F. Morrison, started the Indiana Democrat to break down the State Sentinel. That enterprise, which created division in our ranks to tome extent, and would have done great injury had the paper continued, was fortu nately wound tip by the Chapmans getting Mr. Span.v over to their interest by taking him in as a partner. Mr. Morrison being in Mexico at the time, the Democrat was thus suspended. Whether the present lowering of the cloud of division will pass off with as little harm as on the former occasion, time must determine ; but we fear not. We said in the Tharos of Sept. 3, 1845, as follows, and it expresses our view of the present new paper movement: "This movement wc think is wholly uncalled for by the pood of the Democratic Party. On the contrary ,it must inevitably result in harm. There is n Demo, cratic paper at Indianapolis one that meets the approbat ion of almost the whole party iu the State. Why, then, under these circumstances,is the attempt made to break it down and build up another? We have no personal feeling in the matter. The Union of the Dcmocrarr is our desire. If the Sentinel is controlled by a clique nf it is not conducted with an eye single to the prosperity of the whole Democratic party, and is strivin: to elevate this or that man, regardless of the wishes of the mites of Democrats we say, put it down. ' If not, let it be sustained." "Dr. Ellis nscd to he one of those rare birds, a "Wilmot Proviso democrat," and we presume still holds to that faith, unless, like some others we might name, he has turned a "somerset" backwards. If, however, he intends to excel the 'Sentinel' by the superiority of his paper, it will require more of his timo and attention, than his official duties will permit." Indiana Courier. That'a true For six months in every year the whole time of the Auditor is required in his office, if he attends to the public business. Qj We do like a friend of our glorious Union let him be either a Whig or a Democrat. Judge Conan!, editor of the Terre Haute Courier, in relation to the measures of conciliation adopted at the present session of Congress, uses the following patriotic language, so different from the cold acquiescence of the Indiana Journal, that we must give it publication. He says: It is with gratified feelings we are at length enabled to announce the action of Congress on several important subjects. The spirit of patriotism w ill triumph the Union is safe. The bill tixing the boundary ol Texas with the bill to create the Territory of New Mexico addid , have passed the House of Representatives, by a majority of ten votes, and without the IViltnot proviso. The dill admitting California as a State passed on the 7th inst., by a majority of ninety-four rote. On the same dar Utah was formed into a Territory by a vote of 97 to 83. Thus have psscd several of the Important measures included in the Omnibus Bill, br larre miiorities and the probability now seems to le that the whole scries of measures crooracea in me .senate Compromisa bill will yet be pasncd. The other two papers at Terre Haute are with the the Courier in feeling, and the people must be right. Vigo county is a good county, notwithstanding her whiggery. We have hopes of her yet.. Good bye, McGaughey. (fcjrMr. S. G. Goodrich, the world-renowned ' Tctcr Parley, is at the " Capital House " in this city.

Vote on the Texas Boundary Dill. We clip the following article from the- New York Herald, a neutral paper : :

HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON PASSAGE OF THE TEXAS BOUNDARY AND THE NEW MEXICAN BILLS. It is with infinite pleasure that wc inform our readers of the passage, hy the House of Representatives, vesterday, of the bill providing for the settlement of'the boundary dispute between lexas and New Mexico, and the bill establishing a territorial government for New Mexico, as they were recived from the Senate. We congratulate the whole country North, East, South, and West on these glorions tidings. The great ques tion is settled tue country is sale harmony is preserved between the different sections and interests of our republic; and,thank God, the agitators and disunionists, of all colors, factions hues, and shades, and sections, have been met and overcome. 1 hose disorganizes have done their worst, but they arc now transfixed They sought, by every means in their power, to disturb the harmony of our beautiful political system, and to convert this happy and God-favored republic into a cluster of rival and, perhaps, hostile States; but they were met by the pat riotism oi tne land, and, alter montns or warlare, they hava been repulsed and defeated. They have been throttled with the infamous and sacrilegious cry of disunion in their throats, and their fanatical followers have met the fate which they courted. Let us hear no more of disunion no more of nullification no more of factional or sectional upbraiding. Henceforth let us know no North, no South, no East, and no West. Thanks to the patriotic friends of the Union, we are again one, reunited and invincible. The crisis, the great crisis, is parsed in safety and the principle of republicanism is again as potent, and more so, than it ever was on the continent of America. Our foreign enemies, who fore boded tho dissolution of this confederacv, on the slavery question, have proved to be false prophets, and our "higher law" fanatics arc defeated and prostrate. ior the uuormation or the public, we give the following analysis of the vote on tho third reading of these bills, the vote on their ultimate passage being the same, with the exception of Mr. Ashe, of N. C, who did not vote on the latter. AYES. NORTHERN TOTE. TVAt 2-1. Andrews, N. Y. Bokce, N. Y. Brigg, N. Y. Brooks, N. Y. Butler, Pcnn. Casey, Pcnn. Chandler, Teno. Duer, N. Y. Duncan, Mass. Elliott, Mass. Grinnell, Mass. . King, Rhode Islaud Levin, Pcnn. McKi.Hsouk. N. Y. Nelson, N. Y. Phoenix, N. Y. Pittman, Penn. Rose, N. Y. Schcrmerhorn, N. Y. Taylor Ohio Thurman, N. Y. Underbill, N. Y. White, N. Y. Wilson, N. H. Drmoorot 32. Albertson, Ind. Brown, Ind. Bnel, Mich. Dimmick, Pcnn. Disney, Ohio Dunham, lud. . Fitch, Ind. Fuller, Maine Gerry, Maine Gilmore, Penn. Gorman, lud. Harris, 111. Hibbard, N. H. - Hoagland, Ohio Lefler, Iowa Littlefield, Maine Mann, Pcnn. McClernand, III. McDonald, lud. McLanahan, Pcnn Peaslec. N . II. Potter, Ohio Richardson, HI. Robbins, renn. Robinson, Ind. Ross, Penn. Strong, Pcnn. Thompson, Penn. Waiden, N. Y. Whittlesev. Ohio WihlrickN. J. Young, III. SOUTHERN VOTE. Democrats 27 Bay, Missouri. Bayly, Va. Bcalc, Va. Boyd, Kv. Bowliu, Mo. Caldwell, Kv. Cobb, Ala. " Edmondson, Va. Ewing, Tenn. Green, Mo. Hall, Mo. Hammond, Md. Harris, Tenn. Howard, Texas, Johnson, Tenn. Jones, Tenn. Kaufman, Texas Mason, Ky. McDowell, Va. McLanc, Md. McMiillcn, Va. Parker, Va. Savage, Tenn. Stanton, Tenn. Stanton, Kv. Thomas, Tenn. Wellborn, Ga. NAYS. NORTHERN VOTE. Democrats 14. Bingham, Mich. Booth, Conn. Cahlq, Ohio Carter, Ohio Doty, Wis. Harlan, Ind. Morris, Ohio, Olds, Ohio Peck, Vermont Sawtelle, Maine, Stetson, Maine . Sweetzer, Ohio Waldo, Conn. Went worth, III. Whigs 25.Alston, Ala. Anderson, Tenn. Bowie, Md. Breck, Kv. Cabell, Fla. Caldwell, N. C. Dcberry, N. C. Gentry, Tenn. Havmond, Va. Hilliard, Ala. Houston, Del. Jhouson, Ky. Kerr, Md. Marshall, Ky. McLean, Kv. Morchcad, Ky. Morton, Va. Outlaw, N. C. Owen, Ga. Shepperd, N. C. Stanly, N. C. Thompson, Ky. Toombs, Ga. Williams, Tenn. Watkins, Ten. - Alexander, N. Y. Baker, III. Bennett, NY. Burrown, N. Y. Butler, Conn. Calvin, Penn. Clark, N. Y. Cole, Wis. Conger, N. Y. Corwin, Ohio Dickey, Penn. Dixon; R. I. Evans, Ohio Fowler, Mass. Gott, N. Y. Halloway, N. Y.' Hebard,Vt. Henry, Vt. Hunter, Ohio Jackson, N. Y. J. G. King, N. J. J. A.King, N. Y. H. Mann, Mass. -Matteson, N. Y. Free Soil 11. Allen, Macs. Campliell, Ohio Crowell, Ohio Durkee, Wis. Giddings, Ohio Howe, Penn, Julian, Ind. P. King, N. Y. Root, Ohio Spraguc Mich. Tuek,N. H. McGaughey, Ind. Mcächam, Vt. Moore. Pcnn. Newell, N. J. Ogle, Pcnn. Otis, Maine. Putnam, N. Y. Reed, Pcnn. Reynolds, N. Y. Rockwell, Mass. Rumsey, N. Y. Sackett, N. Y. Sehe nek, Ohio Schoolcraft, N. Y. Silvester. N. Y. Stevens, Penn. Van Dyke, N. J. Vinton, Ohio, SOUTHERN VOTE. Drmocratt 30. Ashe,N.C. Averett, Va. miqs 1 Clingman, N. C. Bowdcn, Ala. ; Brown, Miss. Burt, S. C. Colcock, S. C. - Daniel, N. C Featherston, Miss. Haralson, Ga. - . Harris, Ala. Holliday, Xn. Holmes, S. C. . . Hubbard, Ala. ' Inge, Ala.' Jackson, Ga. Johnson, Ark. Lascrc, La. McQueen, S. C. . McWillie, Miss. - Meade, Va. Millson, Va. , Morse, La., " Orr,S. C. Thelps, Mo. 1 Powell, Va. Scddon, Va. Thompson, Miss. . - Vcnable, N. C. . " Wallace, S. C. Wodward, S. C. The above classification exhibits a very curious vote. It was in the main a test between those who desired to see no compromise, no adjustment, and those who desired a settlement of the whole question. The entire free soil party voted against the bill. So did the South Carolina delegation, and all the Southern Democrats who have heretofore acted under the lead of Mr. Calhoun. The Southern Whig voted for the bill, except Mr. Clhigman of I North Carolina, who bad the honor at the commence

ment of the session of making the first disunion speech, and the first, we believe, ever uttered in Congress Hall. From Indiana, it will be seen that seven Democrats voted for the measure, and Mr. McGaughey, whig, Harlan, democrat, and Julian free soil voted in the negative. It is due to M'Gaughey to stale, that on all the preliminary voles he favored the bill. He voted against rejecting it against laying it on the table, against inserting tht Wilmot proviso, and in favor of Mr. Boyd's amendment to add the Territorial Government for New Mexico. Mr. Julian from his free soil position, as a matter of coure voted against all measures which did not contain the proviso,' and we understand, tlial such were the views of Mr. Harlan, who voted against the Utah bill, because the committee had refused to insert the slavery prohibition. The Troviso Dead. A motion was made to attach the Wilmot Proviso

to the bill for the organization of the territory of New Mexico and the establishment of the Texas boundary ; but it was a most signal failure. It was defeated by 41 majority yeas 60, nays 121. It was afterwards offered by Mr. Wentworth of Illinois, to the Utah Territorial bill, and again rejected by a vote of 69 ayes; 7S nays a email vote. Mr. Fitch of Indiana moved to insert a' provision, to continue in force the Mexican laws on the subject of slavery, which in effect amounted to the Proviso, but it was voted down by 33 majority. The territories arc now organized on the Democratic basis of non-intervention and California, a free State, has been admitted into the Union. Slavery is excluded from our vast pos sessions on the Pacific, the laws are extended over our new acquisitions, and an empire . added to the confederacy. In the adoption of these measures, which were measures of compromise, although much stubbornness manifested itself at first, in the end there was a generous yielding to the spirit of compromise, and the impulses of patriotism. It was neither a Northern triumph, or a Southern triumph. It was not a Democratic victory or a whig victory; but a victory achieved over a most unholy combination of Northern and southern disunionists. One marching under the Ebony flag of abolitionism, and the other mustering under the Palmetto banner of Disunion. The questions are now settled. Let harmony and good feeling once more preside over this republic. They arc not adjusted as a majority of the northern men desired to see them. But whenever questions, in relation to 'he institution of slavery arise, in this country, there must be a yielding of extreme opinions, or there can be no compromise. The disunionists threaten to secede. Let them attempt it. The people must unite with them before the politicians can succeed. The abolitionists have already raised the cry of repeal, and have proclaimed their determination to agitate, and agitate. There is now no new territories to be organized ; nothing for the proviso to operate upon, and we trust good men of all parties, will indignantly frown down every attempt to create sectional divisions, and sectional animosities. Kemcmber the last injunction of the father of his country, w1k warned the people to beware of designing men, w ho would attempt to excite among them local divisions and sectional parties. "Indiana ksows iso North no South, nothing but tub Union." This is our motto. It is written on marble, and stands out proudly among the mementoes of State sovereignty, in that magnificent column which is lifting its head to the clouds in honor of the Father of his country. These measures received the sanction of President Fillmore and his cabinet. Without their influence they would have failed. Will the whigs then make war upon them. If they do, they make war upon their President, and the leading men of their party. These healing measures have been received in theeast with rejoicing, illuminations and the firing of cannon. Let the Patriotic West respond, and in future fanaticism may spend its fury in vain. Doughfaces, &c. On the purchase of the State Sentinel by the present proprietor, a hue and cry was raised by the Whig press, all over the State, that its principles were to be changed, so as to be the subservient tool W the South. That its editor w as a dough-face, &c. This, for the time, was calculated to do the paper an injury with Democrats, as well as Whigs, so far as the statements of men, from whom better things should have been expected, were believed. We hope the public mind will now be disabused. The editors of this paper risked something in yielding a hearty support to the compromise mea sures tliat have been adopted. Politicians were timid on this subject; but not all of them. Gover nor Wright distinctly showed his hand, when he in vited Gov. Crittenden to pay him a visit. The wri ter of tliis article sho'red his hand when he procured the passage of a resolution not the strongest he and his democratic associate could have wished, but the strongest that would pass the whig portion of the committee on resolutions favoring a settlement of the slavery question by the large meeting assem bled on the occasion of Gov. Crittenden's visit. He showed his hand, when in a meeting of both parties, to make arrangements for that occasion, he declared boldly for Mr. Clay's compromise and not a w hig present would back him. Well, this compromise is all adopted by Congress and who complain?. Ultra abolitionists of the North and the disunionists of the South. The "star spangled banner" that glorious emblem of our country has been trampled in the dust by a few hot-heads in South Carolina, at the passage of this compromise. This shows our Southern subserviency. This is our Calhounism. The whig press that called us "dough-face" and "sold to the South" are now climbing upon the platform we have stood upon, risking all consequences, from the first. We hope these will take back their epithets We are opposed to slavery. We never lived in a Slave Slate, and never expect to live in one. We believed the Wilmot provLo was unnecessary and therefore did not wish to increase excitement by passing it. We believe tl e people of a State should regulate their own local institutions and make their own Constitution, without dictation from the General Government. The spirit of tho age is in favor of universal freedom, and it is begging the question for Congress to act for others thousands of miles off. It is w hat the people of Indiana would not like, and what the people of Indiana would not submit to, should they disagree with a law that might be enact ed in tliis manner. ... Lixd-iajta. We could fill nearly a whole paper with fulsome descriptions of the Swedish Nightin gale. It is stated that Jenny Lind is twenty-nine years of age, but does not look more than twenty five. .She is not what many persons would regard as a very beautiful woman; but she possesses a beauty vastly superior to mere symmetry of features a soul beams in her face, lighted up from the bright in telligence within, especially when she is excited or speaks. Her large soil eyes are ol a beautilul blue color. ' None of the portraits of her do her justice, because no portrait can convey her hne expression

Rejoicings of the Tress. fjrTLe National Intelligencer, announcing the

passage of the two bills on Friday, New Mexi co and Texas bills, says: The pasage of these important measures will satisfy all reasonable men of every section, and give peace and quiet to the country, lhe bills were passed by a small majority, it is true ; but the scant majority was no test of the true sense of tho Ilonse. For it was remark ed, by a sagacious member, after the vote w as announc. ed, that be had no doubt the result gave joy to at least Iour-nnns oi tne meiniiera oi tne House. Our hearts are too full of a sense of joy on this event for any comment upon it to-day. When Decatur was learing down on the Mazedoniern, and ready to open bis batteries on her, an officer came up and said, "Sir, the men wish to cheer." "Let them take the ship and then cheer," said he, Now, then, friends all! Three times three cheers roa the Union of the States, and thnte vho hare in the counc'ds of the nation, gallantly stood by it! The "Southern Press,'? the disunion advocate in Washington, on the other hand, pronounces the Union and the representative system both failures, 1 .tsrtr . wnen me House can oe lounu voting so oppositely as it did on these bills. The question, it says, now goes to the people and first to Texas and Georgia. We have no doubt that the response will be in favor of the Union. The New York Journal of Commerce announces the result as follows : We congratulate the country and mankind. After nine months of agitation and conflict on the floor of Congress, the rainltow of ieace has spanned the heavens By a vote of 108 to 97, the IIoumj of Representatives yesterday passed tho Texas iMiitndary lull, with Mr Bovd's amendment, which provides a Tcrritorial gov ernment for New Mexico without the Wilmot proviso, i. e., without any restriction cither for or against slavery. A motion was made to rc-consider, hut failed. The legislation is, therefore, complete on the part of the House; and as the bill thus passed is in substance the same as two of the bills passed by the Senate, the latter body will no doubt at once concur, and thus the most difficult parts of the compromise w ill be secured beyond the possibility of a failure. Let the hve hills constituting the Compromise be passed into laws, and there will no longer be any dan ger of collision on the Texas frontiers, and moreover, tho lactionists at lioth extrcmeties of the Union will have their eye-teeth drawn. Their means of agitation will have been taken away, and they will become as inefficient lor evil as they have latterly been lor good. It will be observed that both the Texas Representatives voted for the bill. Also tho New York City dclcsation entire. RECAPITULATION BT FIGURES. Yeas. Nays. Absent or not voting Maine 3 3 1 N. Hampshire... 3 1 Vermont . . ..4 Massachusetts 3 4 1 R. Island 1 1 Connecticut 3 1 New York 13 17 IN ew Jersey 1 3 1 Pennsylvania 13 6 Delaware 1... . Maryland 4... . 2 Virginia 8 6 1 N. Carolina , 5 4 S. Carolina , 7 Georgia.. 3 2 Florida .' 1... . Alabama 3 4 Mississippi 4 Louisiana 2 1 Texas 2 Tennessee .....11... . Kentucky 10. . . . , Ohio 5.... 14 , Indiana ,.. 7 3 Illinois 4 2,. Missouri 4 1 Arkansas 1 Iowa 1 Wiscon si a 3 Michigan '. ..1 2 . 107 97 24 Of the whole number of votes for the hill, 49 were given by v nigs, and oil .Democrats. (Jl the votes against the bill, 53 were given by Whigs and Free Soil crs. and 44 by Democrats. Of the votes for the bill, 56 were given by members from non slavcholdmg states, and o'l by meinliers Irom slave holding States. Of the votes against the hill, 63 were given by non-slave holding States, and 23 by Slaveholding. Hence, it appears that the votes were divided pretty nearly according to the relative strength of the parties ana sections, mis is an auspicious circumstance, as it will be more likely to harmonize the whole country. The Convention Printing. We invite the attention of members of the Con vention to the following: From tbe Locomotive. In looking over the proceedings und debates of the Constitutional Convention of Nortu Carolina, in 1836, the question of employing the public printer to do the print ing for the Convention was discussed, and as it may be of interest at this time and serve to show the manner which this question has always been considered, and al ways decided, we make a few extracts. They can be f - . l. .t r.. . t?i.. iouiio in me uook aoove reierreu io,in me state iiurary Mr. Giles then moved the following: Re solved, That the Convention proceed to the election of a Printer and thvt the prices for printing shall be the same as are paid by the General Assembly, and that the accounts lor printing shall be audited by tue same Board (consisting of the Heads of Departments) whic h audits the accounts of the printing done for the Legislature and Public Oilices. Mr. M'Diarmid moved to amend the resolution so as to employ the public pi iuter of the state to execute the printing for the Convention at tbe same rate at which the printing for the state is executed. Mr. Wellborn was unwilling to place the printing of the Convention in any hands in which bo could not have con hdence that it would bo laitnlully executed, lie was clearly in favor of the Convention having a Printer of its own. lie tbougbt tne course pursued ny tue gentleman from Kowan (Mr. uilcsl was the proper one. Mr. Branch said if wc elect an olHcer of our own, we shall have securitythat our business will be wcu done We shall, in that case, have justice done to our cause the arguments used in support of our proceedings wil also be fairly given to the public and all misapprehensions id relation to our doings will be avoided. Mr. Smith of Orange, was perfectly willing to take the original proposition but he objected to placing the busi ness in the hands of the Public "Pi inter. It has been proposed, said Mr. Fisher, to employ the State Printer to do the work ol this body, lo this he ob i'ectcd. This Convention is separate and distinct from the jCgislatnre; it is direct from the people, and ought to have a printer of its own. He could not see any propriety in employing an indvidual because tbe Legislature had employed him. If, indeed, it be thought that he can do the business better than any other person, let him be chosen by ballot; but if tho members of this Convention think otherwise, they wiU act accordingly. Mr, F. said he had this morning looked into the proceedings of the Virginia Convention, recently held, and he found that a proposition similar to that otlered by tbe gentleman from Orange, was introduced, and the same aguments advanced in support of it, as are now urged by him ; but it was voted down by a large majority and a Pnntea elected. . . The question was taken on employing the Public Prin ter. and negatived by a larcre maiority. The question, "Shall the Convention now proceed to the election of a printer?" was put and decided in the alhrmative. This course has been followed by every Convention that has lKen called together by the people that we can hnd any record of, and we think will be sufficient precedent for the action of our Convention. '.. Railroads-The Farmer.. The Rushville (la.) Republican, makes the following reference to a direct railroad communication between that town and the Ohio river, at Madison. Since the article was published the road has been completed : ' "We are growing impatient about the completion of our railroad. The work is progressing very finely, and the road will bo completed in the time designated by us last Week, should no accident occur and tho weather remain favorable. The Shclbyville and Edinburgh road sent up a freight train on our road, on Monday. It came within a couple of miles of town and brought freight and passengers from Madison. Our merchants opened goods in the evening which were shipped from Madison, in tho morning. Our farmers can unload wheat in the evening, and the next day it can be carried to the Ohio riverf A new era in business is about to commence in Rudi county! Farmers, hol J on a few days with produce, and give it a fair opening! The road will be ready for you w ithin two weeks, and from thence forward the shrill sound of the steam whistle will make muMc for the people which will replenish their pockets end augment their business." - . - 3v"AU is well that ends well.

Washington Correspondence. Washixotox City, Sept. 11, IS5Cf. On yesterday, after eoirs resistance, Messrs. OwinrJ

and Fremont were admitted as Senators from Cali fornia. In the House, Mr Venable opposed the mo tion to administer tlie oath lo the Representatives, Messrs. Wright and Gilbert. After much debate, in which Mr. Robinson of Indiana participated, with much credit to himself, the House adjourned, with" out taking the question. To-day, however, under the pressure of the previous question, they w ere axfmfttcd and took their seates. So ends one of the most fearful struggles this country ever witnessed. On Staturday night, after the passage of the mears" ures, the Hotels were illuminated, and the glorious event was hailed by the firing of cannon, and the blazing of bonfires. A splendid band of Music pa--; raded the streets, and serenaded Clay, Webster, Cass, Dickinson, Foote, Rusk, Houston and Speaker Cobb. I cannot better describe the feeling of gen' eral joy than by inserting the following notice fron the N cw York Herald. The editor says: " The crisis of the republic is passed! The great question is settled. Fanaticism is rebuked, and the sathed demagogues of all parlies will slink back to their Kennels. 1 hose despicable humbugs which so lon arrested the progress of legislation in congress, andlilcd! the nation with alarm, are exploded, and their authorswill go with them to tho sleep that knows no waking. The ghostly fiend of disunion is laid, and "all the clouds w hic lower d around our house " are buried in the deep bosom of oblivion. The national vessel, which so long lay struggling with the storm, has at last reached her port in. safety, freighted with the dearest hopes of mankind for freedom. Tte great experiment has not failed; and the weary and disheartened millions or the old continents may gaze, through a cloudless sky, upon tho wonu-inspiring spectacle oi tne nrm and triumphant march of our empire. California has been, by an overwhelming majority, greeted as a sister State. Her golden star rose clear from the Western ocean, and calmly took its place in the grand constellation. Saturday, the marriage of the Atlantic and Pacific was celebrated and as the lightning had flashed the glorious intelligence ; all over the continent, from ten thousand christian tem ples, ascriptions ol praise and gratitude were offered by millions ol the American people, to the rrotector of the Republic. Such a spectacle reminds ns of the days of the Roman republic, when, after the discovery and tho defeat of the conspiracy of Cataline, Cicero, in dosing bis great oration, called on the fathers of the Senate, and the people of Rome, to go to their altars and thank the immortal gods for the protection they had extet c!ed to the Eternal City. And what spectacle more grateful to Heaven than the thanksgiving of a mighty nation, after such a deliverance! Tne last great act of the drama is terminated. For the first time, tho republic touches the two oceans. Its sunrise begins in the dark forests of Maine, and its sunset is over the glittering mountains of California. The world has waited for the consummation; and 1550 will he marked in all future time, by this most signal and grand event. Yes, the crisis i past, and the republic is safe. The Cat alines have flea ana Rome can now breathe free again." On yesterday morning, on motion of Mr. Clay, the Senate took up the bill to abolish the Slave trade in the District of Columbia, and it would have met with but little opposition, but for a most unfortunate move made by Mr. Sew ard of " Higher law " memory. He introduced an amendment to strike out tlie bill, and insert one to abolish slavery in tlie District of Columbia immediately, and to appropriate two hundred thousand dollars from the Treasury to pay for them. He assailed the South, and it had the desired effect to arouse the chivalry, and now there is great danger that a practical measure of much importance, will be defeated by the fanaticism of this one Senator. So far he has met with but one supporter, Mr. Chase of Ohio. But discussion will go on, until Senators get tired of the whole subject and it may be laid on the table. In my opinion Congress lias no power to appropriate the people's money to pay for slaves. There are about si hundred in the District, and, to emancipate them would only be taking a drop out of tlie great ocean of slaver'. They are mostly house-servants, and it may be a great question wliether their condition would be improved by this misplaced philanthropy. Seward, Hale, and Chase care nothing about them. They are looking for political capital, and whatever policy can make that they will adopt. Congress will adjourn on the 30th inst. - XAVIER. Congress. I. Senate September 9, 1S50. GRANT OF LANDS TO INDIANA. Mr. Bricht. I ask the Senate to tako up Senate bill 200 being a bill making a grant of land to the State of Indiana fur the construction of a railroad. It was made the special order for Thursday last; but, owing to the press of other important business, I did not insist upon the consideration of it at that time. It is a copy of tho bill which has just been passed in relation to Missouri. I hone, therefore, that there will be no objections to it. The President. The hour for the special orders has arrived, but the Chair will jwt the question if the Senate desire it. : The question being taken upon the motion, it was agreed to. The Senate accordingly, as in committee of the whole, proceed to the consideration of the bill granting the right of way and making a grant of land to the State of Indiana, to aid in the construction of a railroad from a point on the boundary line between Indiana and Illinois, -near its intersection with Lake Michigan, to the city of Indianapolis; and a branch to intersect tbe southern Michigan railroad at or near where the same enters said State of Indiana; and no amendment being offered, it was reported to the Senate, ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time. Tliis bill, the next day, passed the Senate. The bill grants the right of way through the public lands for the construction of the Railroad, with the right to take materials for the road from public lands. And also grants to the Stale of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding in making the ratd, every alternate section of land designated by even numbers, for six sections in width on each side, and doubles the minimum price of the sections which remain to the United Slates. It also provides that the road w hen made shall be a public highway, for the use of the Government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon transportation of any properly or troop of the United States; and that the United States mail shall at all times be transported thereupon, under the direction of the Post Oflice Department, at such price as Congress may by law direct. The road is to be completed within ten years, or the grant will be revoked. The Washington Correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce speaks right up to Mr Seward. He says: If Mr. Seward gave a conscientious vote against the Compromise Bill, no one could do arything more than to exprcs regret at what might be considered merely as an error in judgment. If he acted on principle, hi honest' might be commended at the expense of his judgment. But should it le showed that he had offered to sell out his conscientious scruples and to cary a bill drawn by Mr, Rusk, of Texas, in tcrms'niore füvornMe to Texas than the bill of tho Committee of Thirteen provided that only Mr. Seward should have the credit ot leadership in the matter should all this be shown, on the authority f Senators, I w ill submit it to the majority of tho New York and Massaehusett Delegation to the House, who voted with Seward, to estimate the exact amount and character of the principle which govern him: Ür"A letter from San Francisco says, that Major Gaines, apjointed by the Galphiu Cabinet to succeed Gen. Lane, as Governor of Oregon, arrived at that city, after a protracted voyage around Cape Horn. 0T"The Daily Bulletin estimates the present population of New Albany at 10,000. ßrThe popular vote of Missouri stands whig, 30,372; anti-Benton, 21,0 IS; Benton, 15,157.