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J c'alon.prr yfar.Two DoM-ARspayatle in lrl B no1 PaiJ in advance, Two detlaraT " .SJSiwrsinrtrd at 1 for thdfirst.aiidSScts. ArI .1.1-uhsraucnt insertion. Court orders charged .i -biiiher.lhan these rates. f So to who eiselb3r tl,e na5' r ! tu lbe Kdi,or n"9' be p91 Prd- rTrlm'tW New York Tribune,Aug liberal deduc ed . Curious : ,(oU k di ii S DcVcl oiiiurti tfi- Cacof Conspiracy. Co of conspiracy whjclji, if true, ex b bUsy cSrec of vilainous djaring on one Jeand the most imbecile weakness on oihefftlmostutiparalieledj was brought .fort vthH notice of Justice Bleakly, at xt Jetfcrsbn Market ' Courit House on fpkrifav last, and attracted consider- H J J. J. BRUNER',;; Edilot 4' Proprietor. "-if i KEEF A CHECK ALL TOJ7R R0LEE.S. Do THIS, axdLiberttis safe. Gen' I Harrison.' NEW SERIES. - VOLUME Vli NUMBER 17.; SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1850. A TALE OF HORROR, j While travelling a couple of week we heard from the Hps of!a ff iend on since, of the able attention. . un mai uay xur. ira i oPr i most heart rending recitals we have listened to ping, a gentleman residing at Tammany i for Along time. He was put off from I steam llotrL .'appeared . before, the magistrate : boat at or near Wolf Island, about 20 miles and entered ay complaint for conspiracy, ' against nvo persons, one oi iiuem a gen .'jje looking female, named Mary Jane jjrjngston, alius Starr, and the other an elderly man named James T. Boyd, one $fthe clerks of the Supreme court in 4his CitV'i ttnler the follovving circumstances : About' the latter; part ofj 1847, or the I ginning of 1818,; the accused female carne ib: bin residence," then at 07Jane-st. and iiiquired for him.r She was immedi ately shown into the parlor,jvhe're an in- terViewtooK place, in wnicn sne proiess below the mouihiof the Ohio, for the purpose of coiieciing a aeoi irom a man living about nve jniles back in the country, on the Missduri side, we think.: With a carnet-baff in bis hand, he came across a small cabiiu Yet ' cabip' would not describe the place of habitation, or such it proved to be. ; It was a little dilapidated shed, with no boards on one side and great fcrevices on thejother sids and in the roof. life would have passed it by, but moans from thfe inside told that it was occupied. Wishing to! inquire his road, he stopped, and stood before the open ! 8"de of the shed, and gazed upon a spectacle, wnicn as ne saia, was nresent beinrn iiia vps cd to be mrnmariy acquaimeu vvuu every days afterward, and haunted his sleep. We action of his life,-and knovvjing htm to be describe what he saw, as be told us, only say tie- owner of considerable; property, de- ing that strange ar the story may seeni, full re. manded a portion ol it, threatening at the nance can be placed upon his words. ..'meitime if he refused, to eo; into Court. There was not a bed or chair in and vrelrT f,a charge against htm that woula roin- his reputation for ever and destroy the peace of his quiet and happy family. lUwas in vaih that the complai nant remonstrated and entreated his tor mentbrj tiot to pursue! such a course, he continued to visit his-place, and even in j: the presence of Ins wife, threaten to have him sen! to State's Prison unless her de mands Were acceded to. By these means she acquired such an influence over his ) mind thM at various timei he! gave her largd sumsdf money whiah were coerced out of bun by fear of eiposure. Mr. I Boyd, who acted as legal adviser of the j, woman fcitarr, was also charged with con- spiring with her in accomplishing the ru the 6hed, !the body ! in of Mr. Topping, by getting possession of his property in order to show some of the means resorted to by the accused for the accomplishment of their ends. The eomplatnarU states on one occasion they induced i him to go to a house in South Second street, Williamsburgh, where the worrin procured a quantity of arsenic, which $hc said she was coin ir to take. and then; send a letter already written to the Chief of Police, charging him with j poisoning her, so as to have him indicted 'for murder. At last the unfortunate man felt himself so dreadfully persecuted and driven almost to dispair, that he conveyed his hou.se and lot, No. 07: Jane st.lso a handsome establishment in Fourth-st. val ued altogether .(),000, through one Ap pleby to the woman Livingston alias Starr. After the conspirators had succeeded in getting" the complainant to sign over the propertythey called on his wife and rep resented to her that her Husband had sold the property to them. By these false represeiitations they obtained her sigrta turej and thus rendered tihe deed perfect. Mr. Tonjung was tjius turned out of house and home, but the successful villains, as tCnot satisfied with their ill-gotten goods, made hjni also build a house in Sullivan courity for the residence bf the parents of Livingston. alias Starr. Justice Bleakly, on hearing the com plaint, issued his warrant for the arrest of the accused, who were shortly afterward taken into custody, by officers Davie and Wvrnan; of the Second District Police, Court. iJoytl was yesterday-held to bail, in the sum of 85,000, which was procured j'andjtho female prisoner was locked up in default of the same amount. The prern , isesjjjo felloniously obtained, were levied upon . by Deputy Sherrilf Cunningham, and Mr T opping and famjjy had the ' pleasure of being reinstated in their old home; A further examination will take place in :a few days, when some more particulars in relation to this tangled web of mystery will be elicited. A Grciit Country. The United States, have d' frontier line of 11.000 miles, a sea coast of (5,.'l 10 miles, and a lake- coast of 1,160 miles. One of its rivers are twice as long as the Danube the largest river in ; Europe.- We have single States larger ! but stretched upon the bare cround lav i. . i. . . -w i j oi a youmiui looking woman, who had evi- i : j j ii , i i f. ucwujr jusi uien. ier iorm was almost a per fect skeleton ; yet the face was that of a refin ed and beautiful woman. On her breast lay arr infant about six months old, with its mouth to the breast of its mother, and dead. And sitting up in a cornerof the shed, and staring the traveller in theiace with glazed eyes, was what he thought another corpse, but jjlife was yet in it. The figure was that of a girl. aoDa- rently about ten years old. She could not rise to her feet, and yet she was not sick. She was literally dying of starvation ! By the side of the woman, and clasping her hand, lay a man covered with blood and apparently injja dying stale. Add, to this jhe filth of the room and the half naked condition of the sufferers, and we wonder not that the scene long haunted the observer. He went in. The girl 4ould not fpeak, but the man cried tl water," inl a feeble voiceand pointed to the girl, as if o attract the stranger's attention to her. The traveller, Mr. J., of Cincinnati, hastened away, taking with him a tin Dan. and sava he nevA,! ran har. , , j ... -s.v I Wll M V - der 0 his. life than he did about a half mile to a small stream he had passed. On h'is return, he found the man still alive, and gave him wa ler, whicbr he eagerly drank. He p'ointed.o tne girl and said "she's starving." Mr. J. gave the girl some water, which appeared to revive ner, and she tried to talk, but could not. With much difiicultv.he learned from' the man that there was a house about a mile distant, to which he hurried. On bis arrivallthere he ! YANKEE DOODLE. A late number, of the Knickerbocker con tains some amusing adventurers of Yankee Doodle. The following is a pretty fair illus tration of the adventurers and wandering char acter of the hardy sons of New England. Speaking of the wonderful ubiquity of the true Yankee, the writer says : . "It is harder than a Chinese' puzzle to put your finger on a bit of territory, disputed or undisputed, where the Yankee Doodle is not. If you go to Land's End, he is there ; to Mt. Ararat, he is there Chimborazo, Himalaya, the Mountain ofthe Moon, or the Pyramid of Cheops, he is there ; anywhere, in fine, where an ark; a dove, a camel, a snake can arrive, by their several faculties; bartering, scratching nis name on trees, stones ana Aincan slaves. He knows the whole map of the ancient do minions of Prestor John, and every nook and corner of Mosambique, and he is hand and glove with all the savages in the world. He has been to Ichahoe until he has scraped it perfectly clean ; and if your English trader has discovered a new bank of Guano, and is getting ready to fire a gun or two and take pos sessor! of it in the name of her Majesty, ima gine bis concernment, to discover a dozen of these fellows seventy feel deep in aguanocav ern. scooping it out with their fingers, and a Bangor schooner bouncing up and in a little cove like a duck amonsr bulrushes. Now if you walk on the sea shote at Bildarax, you will find that you are not the first there, per haps to your great sorrow, as Captain Jix swore violently, when, in walking through the streets of Rundown, at the very limits of the domin ions of Prince Pompadello in Africa, he heard sharp whistler going through the tune of " Yan kee Doodle," with an easy execution, and a de- vilish unconcern, which threw him at once into a coast of fever. And iust so it was with the poor soul who discovered Bimpaz, and was just uncorking a bottle of Madeira in commemora tion off the event, when he saw a Yankee on a hill side administering the cold water pledge to " 1 am afraid there is little chance of that. But my coffee is cooling while Vtn waiting for the sugar.' j i Then it will be like y6ur love, which has been cooling ever $ince we were married.' Thank you, my j love ; ihere's nothing like a sharp acid for a cooling draught.' ' Sharp acid ! Do you call me a sharp acid I'll not endure your, taunts any longer. , Til go horne to my connections. I'll have separate maintenance.' i J Whenever you please, my dev r : PROCEEDINGS OF. CONGRESS. C Transmitted for the Furintelligencfr. Pj-f'Js ' -VA8iiixoTo'sr; August 19 j '. SENA TE. . r After the morning bumesj, the Fugitive Slave Billxras taken up. ..5 ': ' : 1 Mr. Dav ton inoved to grant alleged fuitire Jsiates inai by lury.s Lost vea 11. nar27- I nape, way To. :11iq same thing, m another ted down. J Mr. AVinthrop moved to grant a habeas cor. jrns after award Cornmii&'roners. Rejected yeas ii, nays zi. I 1 " The Senate adjourned. , . , . HOUSE. - " darling.' 4 1 won I take luch pesky language from you. Going, with theisugar-bowl in her hand. My dear, leave the sugar-bowl, if you tlje please.' Here, take it !' Throwing it at his head, and exit. LETTER FROM GOVERNOR MANLY. To the Editor of the Register : is unpleasant and generally unprofitable It three natives.' APPLES FOR HUMAN FOOD. found only a negro, f While getting some provisions, and hasten ing back with the man, the latter informed him that the cholera had broken out in that neigh borhood, and the family owning him1 had Teft for the time being. He said the little girl of the shed had daily made her appearance there for, provisions until about three days back that' the man and woman had been sick for a long time, &c. On their return, the man Was dying, and lived but an hour. The little gil was re vived by food, and before they took jaer away could talk. She said she had been Isick her self, and could not walk to the house for food, and that her mother died the day previous, and the baby about the same lime, and thtt her. fa iher had tried to kill himself when tha'y died. -It was Jiorrid. The child was takiin to the hou.se, and the rest of the' unfortunate family buried. The child afterwards statedlier name was Mary Williams, and he thought iroin what uo vvuiu goiwei, me minay nau lormeny uvea in Newilbany, but in Avhat New Albany he could not ascertain, more than as the child said. mere were a great many houses there, and it was evidently New Albany, N. Y. j The ne gro said the family had been there several weeks, and came directly after his master had left. As there was not a family in tie; neigh borhood, the person having gone whoxn Mr. J. wished to see, tbegirl who was sick dp exhaust, ed was left with the negro, who promised faith, fully to attend to her. Yet there wer but little i hopes of herirecovery. It has never! been our misfortune to hear a more horrible tafe of real ity than this. Evansville (la.) Journal. The importance of apples, as food, has not hitherto been sufficiently estimated in this coun try, nor understood. Besides contributing a large portion of sugar, mucilage, and other nu tritive matter, in the form of food, they contain such a fine combination of vegetable acids, ab stractive substances, and aromatic principles, with the nutritive matter as to act powerfully in the capacity of refrigerants, tonics, and an useptics ; ana, wnen ireeiy used at tne season of ripeness, by rural laborers and others, they prevent debility, strengthen digestion, correct the putrefactive tendencies of nitrogenous food, avert scurvy, and probably maintain and slreng. then the powers of productive labor. "The op erators of Cornwall, in Erfgland, consider ripe apples nearly as nourishing as bread, and more so than potatoes. In the year 1801, a year of scarcity, apples, instead of being converted in to cider, were sold to the poor ; and the labor ers asserted ihat they could stand their work on baked apples, without meat ; whereas, a potatoe diet required either meat or fish." The French and Germans use apples exten sively ; indeed, it is rare that they sit down, in the rural districts, without them in some shape or other even at the best tables. The laborers and mechanics depend on them, to a very great extent, as an article of food, and frequently dine on sliced apples and bread. Stewed with rice, red cabbage, carrots, or by themselves, with a little sugar and milk, they make both a plea sant and nutritious dish. If our friends will only provide themselves with -plenty of choice truit, we win venture mat not one man, woman, or child, in fifty, would care for animal flesh to eat. Who doubts, for a moment, that many 1 l.i i scrotuious ana oiner diseases are traceao:e to a flesh diet ? It is well known that much of the meat we eat is in a diseased state when slaugh tered, and its effect may be well imagined. Yet our fruit is always in a healthy stale, and cannot; generate disease in the human body ; but it has a diluting, purifying, and tendency. Water-Cure Journal. to refer to the bickerings of a heated nolitical ! i 1 campaign when the contest has ceased ; or to reproduce the speeches that were made when the excitement, which called forth and invest, ed them with a temporary interest, has passed away. An article however, in the last Raleigh Stan dard, published by Mr. Thomas Ruflin, Jr. un der the head of " CARD TO THE PUB LlC." wherein he gratuitously makes what he is pleased to call a question of veracity be tween himself and hie, impels me from motives of self-respect as well as a proper regard for the opinions ol my friends, to make a brief statement upon the subject. the discussion of such issues, whether as sumed or real, in j the newspapers, is, in my judgment offensive to the public taste, for va rious reasons. Personal difficulties or misun derstandings among gentlemen, when they ex ist in fact, can always be admsted more satis- factorily in private. I am not responsible for this intrusion upon the public, and truly regret the necessity which leaves me no other allern alive. In a certificate addressed to the editor of the Standard, dated Wentworth, July 16th, 1850, and signed by Mr. T. Ruffin, Jr. and others, and pudlished on the 29th of that month, it is stated in substance, that they were present at the po litical discussion between my opponent and myself at Wentwdrth in Rockingham County, on the 29th June preceding, and that they un derstood me as declaring that I was in favor of abolishing federal population as the basis of representation in our Constitution, and of insti tuting white population in its stead; and fur ther that I stated I was a belter friend to equal suffrage than my opponent. Accompanying Mr. Ruffin's " Card to the Public" in the last Stan dard are published sundry oiher certificates of gentlemen, dated since the election was over, who were present on that occasion, and who affirm in substance that thev also so understood me. Now I do not undertake fb say that these gentlemen stated falsehoods, nor that they have corruptly and maliciously represented me. By no means. I say my positions were misunder stood. Whether this arose from any obscurity in the manner in which they were stated by me, that being my first speech in the campaign, or whether the impressions of those gentlemen were derived from i unfounded inferences from Capacity of. a Soil to endure constant Culti. vation. The capacity of a soil to support for ; a series of years, the cultivated crops!, depends . mainly upon the following conditions 1: 1. Upon the quantity of water it can imbibe than Erigland, and bayousand creeks that ; or retain, duriug the seasons which! would be shame the Tiber and ieine. New York 1 poniderpd Hr ! L j , renovating , harbor, receives the vessels, that navigate ihe rivers, canals and lakes, to the extent flf d.OOO miles rqual to the distance from America to Europe. From Maine to New-Orleans is 200 miles further than frorh London to Constantinople, a route that crosses England, Belgium, Prussia. Germany, Austria and Turkey. Truly, this is a f great Country." 1 . , 1 : ' Belles in'Qhlcn Times. As far brfck as the year 1007, a clergyman by the name of Wil. kinion wrote a sermon on the followiug text : " Prov xxii. 14'; She it like a merchant's Vip, she bringeth her food from afar." It contains the following passage :' uiBut of all qualities, a woman must not have ooe qualitie of a ship ; that is too much rig . ginjj. QhJ what a wonder ills to ee a ship under saile, with her tacklings and her masts, ad,ber top-gallants, with her upper-decksvand o bedecked with her streamers, flags and en aignes, ami I know not what ; yea, but a world of WondersVis to see a woman, created in God's image, so miscreante oftentimes, and deformed with her French, her Spanish, her foolish fash ions, that He that made her, when He looks upon her,, shall hardly know her, with her plumes, her fannes, and a silken vizard, with a ruffa like a sailctyea a ruffe like a rainbow, with a feather in heV cappe, like a flag in her top, to tell, 1 think, which way the winde will UIOW. . I " - A,ny employment may be exalted by a mind superior tp its circumstances. j 2. On account of nutritious matter which may be introduced without waste. ! A supply of water must ever be regarded as one of the most essential things in the cultiva tion of all crops. This water must be retain ed long enough to act' upon the nutj-iment in the soil; it must not escape immediately from the superior part of the soil, or that pah through which it usually ramifies. - I he quantity of nu triment which may be condensed in a soil, de pends too upon its retentiveness for kvater ; if it is too porous, if it is speedily washed out and lost ; if too close, it is not received into it but is lost bj exhalation from the surface ; cultivation then, we seek to modify f both treme9, the object in all cases beins lo that texture which shall give it certain relations to water, which experience and reason have determined to be best." in ex- secure Definitions. The northern tribes pf Indians call Rum "Jire-icater" the Camancries call it "fool. water" and the Malays "a nak-in-one's. coffin." Some Christians call it " icreature of GodJ1 Vho give the best definjtion the untutored-savages, or the Bible-tauht Chris liana. . . ; . - I Experiment tcilh Ashes. A correspondent of the New England Farmer, spread "on a small square of a few rods" ten bushes of ash . mi I- , . es, on worn. out meadow. " l ne gfass mere was three feet high, while all around, with equal advantages, except ashes, it was hardly five inches high in July." CONJUGAL ENDEARMENTS. My dear, I'll thank you for a little more su gar in my coffee, if you please.' 4 My dear! Don't dear me. I'd as soon have you call me my devil as my dear.' Well, my devil, then, I'll thank you for a little more sugar in my coffee.' At this proof of affection, on the part of her husband, Mrs. Snapdragon burst into tears. She had got up, as the saying is, wrong end foremost,' that morning, and nothing could please her. She was not better pleased wil b being called my devil than my dear, though she had a moment before declared that she prefer red it. On the contrary, she took her husband bitterly to task for his ready compliance with her suggestion. 4 Oh, you vile, wicked, good for nothing man !' she exclaimed. 4 Is it thus you apply names to me, names which I 'dare not mention !' My devil, you did mention it just now. You suggested the idea you put the very words in my mouth and I always like to comply with your wishes, you know. So, my dear my de- vil, 1 mean a little more sugar, if you please.' bugar ! 1 won t give you a jot more. I ll see you hanged first. You use more sweeten ing than your neck is worth.' I've acquired that habit from having so sweet a wife. Besides, I pay for it with my own money. 4 Now, reproach me with that, do you ? If I did not bring you any money, I brought you re spectable connection, and 4 True, you brought all your connections.' Now, you reproach rne with that, do you? I dare say yougrudgemy relations every mouth ful they eat while ihey are here.' 4 1 grudge nothing, my dear I would say dev ' ' Don't use that word again; Mr. Snapgragon if you do, I'll leave the table.' -4 Thank you, my love ; then I'll help myself to sugar.' 4 Yea, and you would help yourself to another wife, I dare aay, if I was gone my arguments, instead of legitimate conclu sions, I know not. But by some means my position and opinions were misinterpreted by them, as I shall proceed to show. On the 29th day of June last, I met my op ponent for the first time during the campaign in his own county at Wentworth. I commenced! .1 lll ll-S, . I I tne aiscussion ana auuaea urieny to several topics. In regard to Equal Suffrage, I said or intend ed to say, as I had done many times before, that, if by allowing the" qualified voters in the House of Commons to vote also in the Senate, it was contended that this made them equal or gave them equal political power under our Con stitution, it was a mistake : that it would not accomplish that object. By way of illustration, I argued that the County of Onslow formed one Senatorial District and was allowed one Sena tor. The Counties of Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke and McDowell forrned one Senatorial District and were allowed one Senator. That allowing all the free white men in these districts to vote for their Senators respectively, would not be granting to them an equality of power, for as Onslow had about 80U voters and the other four Counties had about 4000 voters, it would be making 800 meh equal to 4000, or making one man equal to five. And I argued that it would be necessary for those who advocated the proposed amendment in the Constitution on this ground, to change the basis of representation to the white population principle, so that one white man in one section of the State would be of equal weight to a White man in any other sec tion that the advocates of the doctrine, to be consistent men, must go for the change. Such was, I think my argument ; such was certainly my meaning. Yet in a rapid debate, heard only once, gentlemen might have adopted the opinion that I was advocating the establish ment of the White basis. While on ihe same subject, I stated that the recent Democratic Con vention had proposed to change the Constitu tion by extending the right of voting for mem- ! bers of the General Asse'mbly and of electing the Judges by the people : that the Whig (Jon vention not only proposed these changes, but also the questions kf electing the Officers of State and Justices of the Peace by the people ; that the Whigs had thus Jgone further than the Democrats, and, I; remarked playfully, that therefore I was a better Free Suffrage man than my opponent. In regard to the federal basis of representa tion, I said in substance, that many persons in this Stale, myself among the number, were of the opinion that, when the new bais of repre sentation was established in our Constitution slaves and property in slaves entered loo Urge ly in the composition. That slaves formed a Tnost important itern of calculation for both Houses of the Assembly ; in the Commons slaves being estimated as persons by counting three. fifths, in the Senate as property by count the amount of taxes paid on them into the pub- lie Treasury In this, connexion I stated fur. ther, as an abstract proposition, that if I had to make a Constitution for a people ab initio (they having had no Constitution before) that white population should form the basis of representa tion in on branch at least of the law-making department. But making a Constitution ab in itio or from the start, a new Constitution tor a new State, is a very different thing, in my judg ment, from changing an old one already exist, ing; existing u)on compromises of sectional in fluences, and adjustments of antagonistic inter ests, like the Constitution of North Carolina. And it was a total mistake and misapprehen- j sion of my argument and opinions to suppose that I, at Wentworth or elsewhere, ever advo cated the doctrine of chaning our present Con- stitutionso as to abolish federal and substitute white population as tlie represent alive basis. ; These were the opinions thai I expressed my- ! self ready " to stand up to and to swear by," and not the upturning of our Constitution and the abandonment of its compromises. I was not proposing amendments to our Constitution ; for as I said in my printed address to the Whig Convention, "in my judgment it is no part of a Governor s duties or right to make or pro pose new Constitutions for ihe People." Yet I have no doubt that those who have given Certificates about my speech undejstood me as they have staled and were honest in their convictions. But as I have already said either they drew inferences not warranted by the argument, or my views were too ambigu ously or obscurely expressed. And when my attention was drawn to the subject subsequent ly, that I had been so understood at Wenlworlh it was promptly disavowed and my true position explained. This speech at Wentworth was made on the 29th of Juner On the 3rd of July, at Salem, my opponent stated in his address to the Peo ple, that he understood tne at Wentworth as going in favor of changing our Constitution so as to adopt white for federal tasis, 5cc. 1 in terposed for explanation and assured him that he had misunderstood me ; that I did not advo cate any such change, and when I came to re ply, I explained my position more fully. This allegation was repeated by my opponjnt in our public discussions at various other places after wards and always repudiated and disaffirmed 1iy me, and oik some occasions with surprise and warmth that he should persist in alluding to it after he had been so repeatedly disabused. These often repeated disclaimers too, it will be observed were made in part of the State where the doctrine is understood to be popular and where ii might have been received with great favor by those whom I addressed. On the 17th of July, when on the eve of leaving Momanton, I received information, for the first time, that Circulars and Hand-bills had been sent into the Eastern part of the State where this change in the Constitution is very unpopular, stating that I was advocating this doctrine in the West. The information given me was quite indefinite ; I had seen no news papers ; no time nor place was particularized where such sentiments had been expressed by me, but the general idea merely was conveyed to my mind by the intelligence, that it was set forhypd circulated in the East on the Eve of tlp-iriedion, when but little time was allowed for ex, anation there, 4hat I was conducting the campaign on this issue ; that in other words I had come out for it and was travelling through the West urging it before the People. Under the impulse arising from this gross injustice, I wrote short notes to the Editor of the Register and other Whig Papers in the State denounc- C The Judiciary Committee reported the Sen. ate bill increasing the compensation of Dru. ty Marshals, and extending the time of making the Census returns, i with amendments, Vblco were agreed to, and the bill pased. Mr. Ashmun moved a suspension of the rules to offer resolution! making the Senate bills' in relation to Utah, the.Teia Boundary, Califior nia and New Mexico, the special order from to-morrow until disposed of Yeas 94, Naja 94- not two-third. So the motion was lost. -A motion was made lo upend the rules for the purpose of offering a joint resolution Jfor closing the present session of Congress on the second Monday in September. Rejected. ' The House then went into Committee of the Whole and resumed the consideration ofShe Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill ; I which occupied-the remainder of the day's ' session. r.. . August 20. ASHINGTON, SENATE. j. AOer the morning business, the Fugitive Slave Bill was taken up. ' Mr. Mason's substitute was agreed to. Mr. Pratt offered an amendment, giving mas- all efforts to recover their ters, after using slaves, the right to bring suit against the gov. ernment, and to recoVer from the treasury what ever is awarded by the verdict of a jury, j A debate occurred upon this amendment, but no question was taken. - ! The Senate adjourned. ! HOUSE. i j Mr. Thurston, the delegate Irom Oregon, j presented resolutions from the Legislature of i the Territory, and desiring their commitment. Mr. Thompson, of Miss., said the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole had decided that the delegate had no right lo make a mo- i tion. i A Mr. Marfh wanted the question settled. The Speaker deciJed that the Delegate had i the right. ! An appeal was taken, and the matter dis-1 cussed, and the Speaker' decision was, finally, ; sustained. I j The House then went into Committee of the ! Whole, and resumed the consideration of the j Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, i j Without reporting ihe bill to the Houie, the i Committee rose and the House adjourned.! Washington, August 21.' SENATE. After the morning business, the Fugitive Slave Bill was taken up. ! Mr. Pratt's amendment was debated all day, and no question taken when t The Senate adjourned. HOUSE. I The House was all day occupied in the con. i sidt ration of the Diplomatic Appropriation Bill. After amending it by adding outfits forsev- j eral missions abroad, and without completing ! the bill, I The House adjourned. - I Fugitive. ing the charge as false. Having no time to write explanations, I contented myself with a simple denial and requested a friend who had heard me at Wilkesboro', Lenoir, and Mor- Washington, August 22. SENATE. After the morning business, the Slave Bill was taken up. Mr. Pratt's amendment was rejected Yeas 10, Nays 27. j v Mr. Underwood submitted a substitute for, the bill. j " . j A long debate took place, and no question" having been taken, L The Senate adjourned. ! HOUSE. ; i The House was engaged all day on the Ci-j vil and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, which ganton, to write to ihe Register and explain ; was not disposed of when Ihe House adjournedi . rw- t . t i.i .1 r T ... mm ?. the matter. 1 his he did on the 18ib of July, and it was published on the 27ih, in tbo Reg ister, and fully sustains what I here state. I knew that 1 was advocating no such doctrine, and pronounced the charge to be false. Every respectable man of both parties among the thousands who heard me in the West from Sa lem to Cherokee, koows it to be false. They all know that I not only did not advocate the doctrine, but that on all occasions, when brought to my notice, I eipressly repudiated and disavowed it. In my communication to the Presses, I had no reference to the Certificate of Messrs. T. Ruffin, Jr., and others, addressed lothe Stand ard. My communication 'was written and da ted 17th July, at Morganton. Mr. Ruffin's cer tificate is dated 16th July, at Wentworth, the places being 150 miles apart, and appears in the Standard on the 20th three days after the date of my Communication, and which. in fact I never saw until after the close of the Cam paign on my return from Cherokee. Of course, I could have known nothing about it when I wrote, and could not have referred to it. Whence, then, arises this question of veracity. and whence the necessity of Mr. Ruffin's Card to the Public to vindicate his certificate which had no public existence at the time I wrote ? That Messrs. Ruffin and others my have understood me as taking the ground set forth in their Certificate, 1 have already admitted. But I say they were mistaken. Whether that was their fault or mine, I will not say. On word in conclusion. Thir Certificate is dated the 16th July. My disclaimer of the doctrines therein imputed to me was made on the 3rd of July, and continually up to the !6ih. If at thn dale of their Certificate on the 16ih. thev ivprp nnnrized of mv disclaimer and eiul.i. , a j . i i j i ia .1 ... . r .- . i n nanon. leave 11 inrir own sense oi nmicr nnu - . . ....... . .-..( oounus fairness to decide, ineir purpose in selling Jorin ' . tt.aJ the certificate, being, as Mr. ilufhn sayi in his . .... Card to the Public, to 44 met and correct the misrepresentations of a portion of the Whig Press") whether I ought jiot to bare receiwd at their hand, while volunteering to 4 set things to rights," the benefit of my disclaimer and explanation. CHARLES MANLY. Raleigh, August 22,-1850. Mr. Elliot, the successor to Mr. Wintbropi was introduced, qualified and took his seat ia the House. ! - T WASHINGTON, August 23. SENATE. i After the morning business, the Fugitivf Slave Bill was taken up. . Mr. Mason proposed two amendments. 'The first, making the Marshal who refuses to exe. cute process under this act responsible to the owner who offers itif the slave shall be lostiti' a thousand dollars ; and, 2 J, if, after arrest, the slave be allowed lo escape, the Marshal shall be responsible in the same manner. " I . Both amendments were agreed to. i Mr. UnderwoodVsubstitute-was rejected. Mr. John Davis moved to add to the bill that if any mariner fr other person of color be arrested and imprisoned in any State, it is made I the duty of the District Attorney to sue out -a habeas eorpus to test the validity of such impri-; ' sonment. . ; '. j ' This amendment was debated, and the quel, i tion being taken, it was rejected. . j The bill was ordered to be engrossed by the following vote Yeas 27, Nays 12. The Seuale then adjourned. ( ! HOUSE. - t' enmgd throughout and The H.ue was agiin the dav in the consideration ol the Civil Dioloinatic Appropriation Bill; and without coming to any conclusion, adjourned. given. km An imnortant invention has recently been made and introduced in the West Indies, fur Ihe extraction of joice from sugar cane, Oy which, it is said, an immense increase will !j ned in the quantity of sugar extracted irom of the can?. Uue hundred of cane, which hd been cut- for put into the machine, ana in mo short space of thirty sit seconds, seventy- igbt i and a half pounds of the juice were produced. The machine was teted in the mof thorough manner ; pioduciug at each trial reuluv which , ! proved most satisfactory. Hal. Sun. j, The Texds Boundary Bill Tb Washing ton 44 Union" says 'hat so Mrong is ine iung j Somebody says that politeness is like an air j cushion there may be nothing n it ; but it ! eases. our jolts wonderful. of opposition to thi. bill, on the pan oi tne nor them and southern extremis, even tbej44 Mod .. . u',n,,tn? to ffive war. The edit- or is aured that this bill, if pressed fiist. be lost by 20 votes. ill
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