THE JOURNAL.
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HUNTINGDON, PAS
Tuesday Morning, August 13, 1850.
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iVIIIG STATE TICKET FOR 1850.
CANAL COMMISS/OXER,
JOSHUA DUNGAN, of Bucks Co.
ArDITOR GF NEB %1.,
HENRY W. SNYDER, of Union.
811111E1 OR GLNER 11,
.10S. HENDERSON, of Washington.
State of the Thermometer.
7 a. m. 2 r. m. 9 r. sr
Monday Aug. 5,• .73 90 79
Tuesday " 6,••••70 92 72
Wednes. " 7,• • •73 . 86 73
Thursday " 8, • .69 90 75
Friday " 9, • •75 94 78
Saturday " 18, ••••72 P 7 74
Sunday, " 1 t,• • • •63.• • • •65 65
cr. Sec Si IN ADVEILTISEMENTS. Rare bargains
may be had from those who advertise. We ad
vise all to consult our advertising columns before
making their purchases.
66" I3:3CP. Wu. H. SEWARD, U. S. Senator,
will please accept our thanks for valuable favors.
The Whig County Convention and
County Meeting.
The Delegates io the WHIG COUNTY CONVEN
TION will assemble in the upper room of the Court
House, on to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, at
2 o'clock.
The "WHIG COUNTY MEETING will assemble in
the lower room of the Court House, at the ringing
of the hell, in the evening. It is expected that
Monxex M'Abett.txt., Esq. of Philadelphia, and
others, will address the meeting. Let there be a
general rally.
OUR IMPROVEMENT.
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more—we'll DESEIWE IT."
The very best way to succeed in business is to
deserve success. And for this reason we have la
bored, to the utmost of our ability, since our con
nection with the " HuNriennos JOURNAL," to
render it a useful and interesting paper to its pat
rons. And n•c flatter ourself that in this we have,
at least in a measure, succeeded. Notwithstand
ing the division of old Huntingdon county took
place since our location here, our subscription list
is now larger than when it was first handed over
to. us. But in thus keeping up our patronage, we
have incurred considerable expense, and have not
.realized more than a comfortable subsistence. We
do not, however, complain. We have some as
generous patrons as ever honored the subscription
list of any paper in the land. And we return our
thanks for the manner in which a portion of the
citizens of this county have thus far sustained us.
They have appreciated our efforts to please them,
and we as highly appreciate their patronage and
good opinion.
With a view of keeping pace with the constantly
increasing taste of the age, we again, for the third
time in five years, present the "Journal" in NEW
AND BEAUTIFUL Tron. Our whole paper will
hereafter be printed on this type, which only ap
pears this week in She inside form. This arrange
ment wil not only enable no to give a larger quan
tity of reading matter, but will render the JOURNAL
the neatest, while it i, now conceded to be one of
the very best weekly papers printed iu this section
of the State.
We confidently expect this improvement to be
appreciated. The Whigs of Huntingdon county,
on whom we mainly rely for support, number over
TWENTY-FI•VE HUNDRED. They are generally men
of taste, intelligence, 'and sound judgment, and we
feel assured that with the aid of our present friends
we can secure among them an addition of FIVE on
six HUNDRED to our subscription list. This would
give us a patronage that would fairly remunerate
its for our labor, and would cause us to make in
creased exertions and incur additional expense for
the benefit of our readers. n party can be sus
tained in any county without an efficient LOCAL
pause. And no one can-better subserve the inter
ests
of Ids party than by aiding the county paper:
to extend its circulation. If, then, the " HUN
TINGDON JOURNAL" is deemed an orthodox and
efficient Whig paper, and we believe this is gen
orally admitted, we call upon the Whigs of this
county, one and all, to come up to its support.—
Let those who take it themselves urge their neigh
bors to subscribe, and let every Whig who takes
no paper, and can afibrdto do so, send us his name
at once. The price of subscription is utterly in
significant, in comparison with the benefits to be
derived front the weekly receipt of a well conduct
ed Local Paper. Give us a support Ruh as we
deserve. This is all we ask.
A Good Ticket.
We would respectfully urge upon the Whig'
delegates who assemble in Convention to-morrow,
the propriety of keeping in view nothing but the
good of the Whig party. We hope that harmony
and good feeling may prevail, and that such a
County Ticket will be formed as will meet with
general approbation. This result can readily be
arrival at, if the Delegates set with becoming in
dependence, and in accordance with the dictates
of their unblessed judgments. Give us a 0000
TICKS; and old Huntingdon will be right side up
in October.
or The Loeofocos of Mifflin county have no
minated Joint Roes, Esq., for Assembly. This
is a Cameron triumph.
Prom the Hollidagsburg Register.
Declination of llon:S. Calvin.
Below will be found a letter from Hon. SAM
rm. CALVIN, member of Congress froth this Dis
trict, declining to be a candidate for re-nomination..
It was received some two weeks ago ; but impress
ed with the belief that it was the shied.° and ardent
wish of the Whigs of the District that ho should.
again be their eimdidere, tie took the respensibili.-
ty of withholding it tuhil tl3 present, itr the hope
that he might be induced to withdraw it. No such
withdrawal having been received, we now deem it
our duty to give it publicity.
Me. CALVIN, we must take occasion to say, du
ring his brief Congressional career, has acquitted
himself creditably, and to the general satisfaction
of his constituents. He has been attentively at
his post, and ever watchfid of Pennsylvania inter
ests, and can return to the bosom of his family and
friends and constituency, with the consciousness of
having been a faithful steward of the trust com
mitted to hint by their generous confidence, and
with the assurance of a friendly welcome.
WASHINGTON, July 21, 1850.
J. PENN Joivas, Esq.—The time is approaching
when it will become the duty of the Whigs of the
17th District to select their candidate to represent
them in the 32d Congress; and I consider it pro
per to inform them, through your valuable Journ
al, that it is my intention not to be a candidate for
re-nomination. My duty to myself and fluffily
requires this step.
I desire to express my sincere thanks to all those
who gave me their generous support and confidence;
and. I hope the gallant Whigs of the District will
' he able without difficulty, to agree upon and elect
a successor better able to serve them. I shall con
sider it my duty and pleasure to give them any aid
in my power in promoting his election and the
cause of the Whig party.
Very respectffilly, Yours, &a.
SAMUEL CALVIN.
We take pleasure- in endorsing all that our friend
of the Register says in regard to Mr. C's course in
Congress. A more honorable, high minded man,
never represented a constituency, than SAMUEL
CALVIN. And hence we cannot but regret that he
declines a re-election. Had his duty to himself
and family permitted him to accept a re-nomina
tion, his majority in Huntingdon county would
have been largely increased. As it is otherwise,
all we can do is to submit to his decision with the
expression of our sincere regret that we are to be
deprived of the public services of so able a repre
sentative and so pure and upright a man.
The President and Texas.
In another column will be found a message from
President FILLMOB.E, in relation to the Texas
Boundary question. The Ledger says the Presi
dent is not to be deterred from his duty by the
threats of Gov. Bell, of Texas. Ile intends to en
force the laws of the United States, and treat Tex
as as he would any other armed. intruder into ter
ritory not its own, at least until the question of
boundary is settled by the proper tribunal. This
is the right kind of language to toe, and we shall
see it have its due effect, not only upon Texas,
but upon all who have been threatening disunion,
because they can not have everything their own
way. President FILLMOREN language may muse
much bluster in certain quarters, but we may de
pend upon it that, as far as open resistance to the
power of the General Government is concerned,
there will he few rash enough to hazard the issue.
In a State which is continually begging the Gen
eral Government to come and protect it from a few
poor miserable Comanches, to dream of such a
thing is superlatively preposterous, notch less at
' tempt it. Some of the States seem to think that
the Union was made only for their aggrandize
ment. Those for which, the Nation has made the
greatest sacrifices are generally the most exorbit
ant in their demands, and the most insignificant
are usually the most troublesome.
Congressional Conferee Meeting.
The time and place for holding the Congression
al Conferences for this district, was fixed ut the
last Conferee meeting, held in Lewistown Septem
ber 1848. The following is the resolution adopted
on that occasion :
Resolved, That we recommend that our Con
gressional Conferences hereafter be held uniform
ly on the first Tuesday of September at McVey
town, Mifflin county.
This arrangement will doubtless he adhered to,
and we recommend that the Whig papers of the
district publish the above resolution.
North, Carolina Election.
Reed, the Locofoco candidate for Governor, has
been elected in North Carolina. The Locus have
also carried the Senate, and the Whigs the house.
Slavery knows its friends.
Missouri Election.
The returns come in slowly from Missouri. As
far as heard from, the Whigs, it is reported, have
gained two members of Congress, wills a prospect
of carrying the Legislature.
The Cabinet.
The MR. CHARLES M. CONRAD, of Louisiana,
has been appointed Secretary of War, and Hon.
T. M. T. M'KENNAx, of Pa., Secretary of the In
terior. This completes the new Cabinet. The
appointment of Mr. WRennan will be received with
universal satisfaction by the Whigs of this State.
Lebanon County.,
The Whig nominating Convention of Lebanon
county, woo held at Lebanon on Monday the 29th
nit., and nominated THOMAS M. linnou.tue for
Congress, and Jour/ W. KILLINGER for Assembly.
- - -..
Better nominations could not have been !nude
by the gallant Whigs of ever-reliable little Leh- I I
anon. We have but a slight personal acquaintance
with Mr. Bibighaus, but know him well by repu
tation. He possesses every requisite to make an
efficient and popular member of Congress.
Mr. Killinger we know well. He has always
been a favorite of ours. He is not a large man,
but what is of him is the "clean wheat." Social
ly, he is all that can he desired. Mr. K. was a
member of the last Legislature, and stood high as
a debator and efficient Legislator. The Whigs of
Lebanon have shown that they know how to ap
preciate merit by re-nominating, hint. His elec
tion is a matter of course.
ADAMS COUNTY.—TI2O Whigs of AtitiMACMllll
- have named Daniel M. Smyser for Congress
and William MeSherry for the Assembly.
UNION COUNTY.—Tho Whigs of Union county
have nominated James Armstrong,. of Lycoming,
Ifor Congress, and Eli Slifer for Assembly.
Mr. Drawley at Home.
Some time ago we gave some extracts from Lo
cork° papers, together with proceedings of a Lo
cotbco meeting in Crawford County, the residence
of J. Powran Bit.ilritsv, the Locofoco candidaa:
for Surveyor General . , pretesting against his had
inalidn by the State Convention.• This was begne
the nomination. Sittet the nomination the indica
tions of hostility to Min on the part of his own
party friends in Crawtbrd have not abated, but on
the contrary have beconte more emphatic and de
cided. Ile Is repudiated at home, where he is best
known, and his chances are "growing small by
degrees, and beautifully less."
A late number of the Erie Gazette states that
Mr. George W. Howard offered a communication
to the editors of the Democrat and Sentinel, a Lo
cofoco paper of Crawford county, urging Brawley's
withdrawal front the ticket, which they refused to
publish. The last Meadville Gazette and Journal
contains a protest against the refusal of the editors
• of the Democrat :mil Sentinel to publish Mr. How
' errs communication, signed by one hundred and
twenty-eight Democrats, among whom we observe
the names of some of the leading members of the
party in that county, which Au:hides thus :—" We
say publish it—we say the Erie Observer is not
mistaken, and we further say, 'take the Donkey ont
of Harness.' Mr. Howard recommends that he
should be "turned out in good pasture that has a
high fence around and pure water in it." It is
manifest that Mr. Brawley will run very far behind
the balance of the ticket in his own county.
At a Democratic meeting held at Conneautyille
on the 4th of July, the following resolutions, with
others, were passed with hot five dissenting voi
ces
Resale ed, That the Democratic party of Craw
ford county have heard of the nomination by the'
Williamsport Convention, of .1. Porter Brawley of
this county, for the office of Surveyor General,
with feelings of the most profound regret—and in
sons meeting assembled on the anniversary of a
day that gave birth to a nation. of freemen, declare
that we will not rote/br hitt,
Resolved, That we will go into the Convention
and make one more eflbrt to save Crawford from
going into a permanent minority and we appeal to
our friends to send their best men. If that con
vention attempts to endorse I3rawley, we will not
be held accountable for the result in October.
Mr. Calvinrs Declination.
The Lewistown Gazette, in noticing the declina
tion of Mr. CALVIN, says, that "immediately on
its becoming known, a strong determination. was
manifested by our leading Whigs from all parts of
the county, who happened to be in town attending
court, to remonstrate against it, and letters, nu
merously signed, were at once forwarded to that
effect. We most sincerely hope that he will re
consider the matter, and if he can do so without
a sacrifice of his best interests, yield himself to the
wishes of his constituents. From personal inter
course with our country friends during the present
week, we are satisfied that no man in the district
would be more cheerfully and strenuously sup
ported, and that nine-tenths of the Locofocos
would sooner see him the Representative than any
other Whig in it.
Truth from the Right Quarter.
The Hon. Mr. Chappell, an ex-member of Con
gress, from Georgia, has addressed a letter to the
Democrats of Mason county, saying:
"The annexation of Texas led to the Mexican
war, the Mexican. war resulted in the acquisition
of New Mexico and California, and this acquisition
gave rise directly to the great territorial quarrel
which now agitates and threatens the Union. The
annexation of Texas, the war with Mexico, and
the acquisition of New Mexico and California, were
all emphatically Democratic measures. They were,
moreover, peculiarly and eminently, measures of
the Southern section of the Democratic party.
"It can never be forgotten how loth our North
ern Democratic brethren were to launch the coun
try on the stormy and uncertain ocean of the first
of that series of measures ; nor how stoutly the
whole body of Northern Whigs fought against it
from first to last. The Northern Democracy, how
ever, yielded to the urgency of their Southern po
litical allies, and, conquering their own strong re
luctance, embarked fully with us in support of the
great opening measure, the entering wedge of the
series, the annexation of Texas—a measure which
was undoubtedly, the potent productive cause, the
prolific parent of all that followed."
This (says the Albany Journal) is a manly, frank
admission of important truths—truths which con
firm the views we have taken of the question, and
which fully justifies the course we are pursuing.
Annexation, war, and conquest, were the acts
of the South. And now, because California choos
es to come into the Union with a free constitution,
the South threatens us with disunion and civil
war !
" The crisis," Mr. Chappell adds, "is mainly
of their own creation, of their own bringing about..
It was the Southern Democracy that forced the
annexation of Texas as a leading party measure."
And, in conclusion, Mr. Chappell says:
"Is it consistent with honor, with justice and
patriotism, for Southern Democrats now to take
an extreme stand, and to say that this dangerous
conflict, which they have been thus largely instru
mental in bringing about, shall never be settled
except on terms of their own dictation?"
This was, essentially, the view taken of this
question by Gen. Taylor. Such are the views of
Secretaries Clayton, Johnson, and Preston; Messrs.
Bell and Gentry, of Tennessee; Mr. Stanly, of
North Carolina; Mr. Conrad, of Louisiana ; the
Senators and Representatives from Delaware, and
other :friends of the Union residing in Southern
States. And such, as the abortive efforts of the
Nashville Convention shows, are the views of fair
minded men throughout the Southern States.
Front California.
The Steamer Cherokee, with dates from San
Francisco to the lot of July, arrived at New York
on Tuesday, bringing the immense amount of two
millions,
ninety-four thousand, two hund.ied and nine
ty-eightdollars and sissy cents in gold on freight,
and four hundred thousand dollars in gold, in the
hands of passengers. Tho Californians are get
ting impatient at the delay of Congress to admit
them into the Union. Thoy have good reason,
and their waiting so long is only another proof of
the attachment to the Union,
and the value set
upon it by the people, which is in striking con
trast to the miserable disunion senthnenta uttered
by ambitions demagogues at Washington. Sun
Francisco is recovering from the late disaster, and
considerable improvements are in progress. The,
gold appears to be abundant, but many wild sto
rms are circulated respecting new discoveries,
which reports are sot afloat usually for interested
purposes. One in relation to great discoveries at
Gold Luke drew off numbers, of persons, who
have lost time and money, and returned disap
pointed and indignant. The rumor that the State
of California intended to take possession of the
custom revenues is not confirmed,
Bribery at the Williamsport Con-
♦•ention.
The anti-Cameron portron of the Loeofoco press
in this State, have assumed an air Of the utmost
indignation et the disclosures concerning the at
fenipt of Messrs. Ofewshine and Ranken to bribe
certain delegates to the Williamsport Convention
to vote for Mr. Hubley for Canal Commissioner,
and openly charge the odium of the transaction
upon Gen. Cameron. The Carlisle Democrat de
fends Mr. Cameron, and turns the tables upon his
assailants by charging bribery directly upon Mr.
Painter, one of the Canal Commissioners, and by
implication, also, upon Jesse Miller of the Har
risburg Keystone. The Democrat has given publi
city to several articles upon the subject, and among
other things brings forward the following very for
midable affidavit; and Messrs. Painter and Miller
have been repeatedly called un to vindicate them
selves from the charge. This affidavit, together
with the Ovenshine business, must satisfy every
one that the Williamsport Convention was a rare
gathering of the most beautiful specimens of Loco
foco politicians
EDWARD CALVERT, one of the Justices of the
Peace in and for the county of Lycoming, do cer
tify-, that Joseph Filler and Hiram Lentz, the Del
egates from the county of Bedford to the late De
mocratic State convention, having been duly sworn
on their solemn oaths before me, on the 30th day
of May last, did depose and say, that Israel Pain
ter, one of the Canal Commissioners of Pennsyl
vania, had offered each of said deponents an ap
pointment worth two dollars per day on the Por
tage railroad, if they would leave Robley and vote
fur Strickland.
Certified at my office hi Williamsport, 15th day
of June, 1550. E. CALVERT, J. P.
Things to be Remembered.
Remember, says the Chambersburg Whig, that
the last Legislature cost the State nearly ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS more
than sessions of the Legislature should, or ordina
rily do.
Remember that this Legislature voted to its
members EXTRA PAY, over and above what
the law authorized them, for their criminal waste
of time:
Remember that this Legislature RAISED TILE
SALARIES of all the heads of Departments,
cept the Governor.
Remember that this Legislature perpetrated this
piece of dishonest and extravagant PARTIAL I' I' Y
because all the heads of Departments WERE LG.
COFOCOS AND THE GOVERNOR A WII I G.
Remember that this Legislature RAISEI ) TILE
PAY of the Locofoco Canal Commissioners flout
THREE TO FOUR DOLLARS PER DAY,
when it is well known that these officers are not
engaged in the business of their office more than
one-fourth of thei. time or three hours per doy.
Above all things, remember that this Legisla
ture was a LOCOFOCO BODY, and that when
the Whigs are in power such EXTRAVAGANCE
and DISHONESTY are never heard of. Remem
ber, also, that two of the nominees on the Loco
fern State Ticket, Messrs. Morrison and Brawley,
were members of this corrupt extra-pay Legisla
ture, and supported the above measures. Let
them be remembered on the second Tuesday of
October I
A Scheme of Disunion.
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Courier speaks of a scheme of disunion deliber
ately planned, and, to a certain extent, actually
prosecuted. It is alleged that an individual of no
small influence at the South repaired to the city of
Mexico in April last, and submitted to the Mexi
can authorities a formal overture for their co-oper
ation in the establishment of a Southern confeder
acy. Conference- after conference was held, and
at length the. MCX.6.1111 Minister of Foreign Atlitirs
espoused the proposition and• strenuously advoca
ted it in Cabinet Council. The measure was re
sisted by other members of the Ministry, and was
finally defeated. The British legation, it is said,
connived at, if it did not openly countenance this
infamous treason.
This is the scheme. How far other persontibe , .
sides the "individual of no small influence at the
South" were concerned in it we are left to con—
jecture, but such overtures would not be made or
be entered by another government without au un
derstanding with others, and without their sanction
and co-operation. if such be the fact, it is time
that the traitors were brought to light. The story
may have no tllundation, like musty other reports
which come from Washington, and it may be true,
for we have sects men of distinction +lnd political
position compromising their characters and the
honor of their country in lending out to a piratical
expedition against a nation with whom we arc at
peace, and with whom we have solmnly ratified
treaties, pledging, ourselves to maintain towards it
good faith anti amity.
COMPLIMENT TO GEN. SCOTT.-The U. S.
Senate on Tuesday, adopted a resolution offered
by Mr. Clemens, instructing the committee on
Military Affairs to enquire into the expediency of
conferring the Brevet rank of Lieut. General upon
Major General Winfield Scott, for his eminent
services. The measure is a deserved compliment
to his great talents as a commander. We hope to
see it reported favorably upon by the committee,
and speedily passed.
Arrival of the Cambria.
The steamship Cambria arrived at Halifitx on
Tuesday afternoon. She sailed from Liverpool on
the 27th of July, and brings one week's later
The Corn market was animated. Flour advan
ced sixpence. Corn advanced one and six, to three
shillings. Wheat advanced twopence.
The Portuguese government having declined to
accede to the demands of the American minister,
he demanded his passports, and advertised his
household furniture for sale. The American
squadron was still in the Tagus, and Mr. Clay in
tended to leave Lisbon on the 19th ult.
The news of the death of President Taylor pro
duced a great sensation in England. The leading
journals devote much space to a review of his
character and exploits, in which they pay a just
tribute to his worth and fame.
A large meeting of American citizens, in Lon
. don, assembled on the 25th ult., at which the
American Minister presided, and passed a series
of highly patriotic resolutions expressive of their
sense of the great loss their country has sustain
ed in the death of the President, and of their sym
pathy with his family.
MOM WASHINGTON.
Passage of the Texas Boundary Bill
Mr. Pearce's bill to settle the Texas boundary
question, passed the Senate on Friday last by the
following vote :
YEAs—Messrs Bulger, Bell, Berrien, Bradbu
ry, Bright, Cass, Clarke, Clemens, Cooper, Davis,
of Mass, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge, of lowa,
Douglas, Fetch, Foote, Greene, Houston, King,
Norris, Pearce, Phelps, Rusk, Shields, Smith,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Wales, Whitcomb, Winthrop,
Naas—Messrs Atchison, Baldwin, Barnwell,
Benton, Butler, Chase, Davis, of Miss, Dodge, of
Win, Ewing, Hale, Hunter, Mason, Morton, Se
ward, Soule, Turney, Underwood, Upham, Walk
er, Yulee-20.
- ABSENT—Messrs Borland, Clay, Dayton, Ham
lin, Jones, Mangum, Miller, Pratt, Sebastian—l.
The Bill as amended and passed through the
Senate, is as follows :
A BILL to establish the boundary linen between
the State of Texas and the Territories of the
United States
Be it enacted, &c., That the following proposi
tions shall he, and the same hereby are, offered to
the State of Texas, which, when agreed to by the
said State in an act passed by the general assem
bly, shall be binding and obligatory upon the Uni
ted States and upon the said State of Texas :-
Provided, That said agreement by the said gener
al assembly shall he given on or before the Ist day
of December, 1850.
First. The State of Texas will agree that her
boundary on the north shall commence at the point
at which the meridian of 100 degrees west from
Greenwich is intersected by the parallel of 36 deg.
and 30 mM. north latitude, and shall run from said
point due west to the meri dian of 103 degrees west
from Greenwich; thence her boundary shall run
due south to the 32d degree of north latitude ; thence
on the said parallel of 32 degrees of north latitude
to the 'Rio Bravo del Norte; and thence with the
channel of said river to the Gulf of Mexico.
Second. The State of Texas cedes to the Uni
ted States all her claims to territory exterior toiler
limits and boundaries, which she agrees to estab
lish by the first article of this agreement.
Third. The State of Texas relinquishes all
claim upon the United States for liability of the
debts of Texas, and for compensation or indemni
ty for the surrender to the United States of her
ships, forts, arsenals, custom-homes, custom -house
revenue, arms and inanition, of war, and public
buildings, with their sites, which became the pro
perty of the United States at the time of the an
nexation.
Fourth. The United States, in consideration of
said reduction of boundaries, cession of claims to
territory, and relinquishment of claims, will pay to
the State of Texas the stun of ten millions of dol
lars in a stock bearing live per cent.. interest, and
redeemable at the end of fourteen years, the inter
e,t pe}•able half yearly at the treasury of the Uni
ted States.
Kit; h. Immediately utter the President of the
Uni:ed States shall have hVell furnished with an
authentic copy of the ail of the general assembly
of Texas, accepting these propositions, he shall
cause the stock to be issued in fitvor of the State
of Texas, as provided for in the filth article of this
agreement. Provided also, That no more than
five millions of said stock shall be issued until the
creditors of the State, holding bonds and other
certificates of stock of Texas, on which duties on
imports were specially pledged, shall first file at
the Treasury of the United States releases of all
claims against the United States, for or on account
of said bonds or certificates, in such form as shall
lie prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
and approved by the President of the U. States.—
Provided farther, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to impair or quality anything
contained in the third article of the 2tl section of
the " joint resolution for annexing Texas to the
United States," approved March 1, 1845, either as
regards the number of States that may hereafter
be formed out of the State of Texas, or otherwise.
California.
The bill for the admission of Calitbrnia is upon
its final passage in the Senate. It will puss by a
large majority whenever a vote is taken. Some
of the Southern Senators are now engaged in the
profitable business of talking against time.
Abduction of Slaves in Washington.
WASHINGTON, August 9.
A very great excitement has been created here
by an• attempt at the abduction of slaves. It seems •
that four male slaves, the property of lion. A. IL
Stephens and Ebben Toombs, Congressmen. of
Georgics have been missing for several dayS. No.
one knew of their whereabouts until last evening,
when it was discovered that they had been con
cealed by certain abolitionists. The latter, hear
ing of the discovery, determined to take them out
of the District. The police, however, had got an
inkling of their intentions mad started in pursuit.
When about four miles from the city, they over
took a carriage containing the four tbgitive slaves,
in charge of a white man. The party in the car
riage fired upon their pursuers and the firing was
returned.. Two men were badly injured. After
a slight altercation, a capture was effected of three
of the slaves, their white protector and•the hack
driver, and they have all been committed to pris
on. line - of the slaves, belonging to Mi. Toombs,
made his escape during the melee.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.
A white man, not attached to the National Era
Ace, as reported, attempted last night to abduct
two slaves belonging to Messrs. Toombs and Ste
plums. They were pursued by two of the auxili
ary guard and one chive anti a white man were
captured. The other slave got away. Twenty
six shots were fired by the parties and the slave
that was taken was badly injured. There is much
excitement in the city about it.
Slave Excitement in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, August 9.
Five slaves who had run away from their own
ers in Maryland, were brought down this morning
in the cars of the Susquehanna railroad from Penn
sylvania It appears that there were eleven run
aways, from different counties in this State, and
• certain Pennsylvanians, learning that they were
secreted on the farm of a negro, one mile across
the Pennsylvania line, proceeded to capture them
and succeeded in getting seven of them.
In passing. through Strasburg, York county, the
abolitionists, headed by Postmaster Brown, en
deavored. to rescue them, and succeeded in getting
two of them. In the struggle Brown was knock
ed down. The five slaves that remained were then
put into the cars and sent to this city.
While in the cars, pistols were fired at the Penn
sylvanians. One slave, in attempting to shoot his
captor, shot himself The afthir produced a great
excitement here, as well as all along the railroad.
The slaves were lodged in jail this morning, to
await the arrival of their owners.
Ballooning.
Mr. Wise, the Aronaut, inflated his great Bal
loon, at Lancaster, on Saturday. An immense
number of people assembled to witness it, and the
passenger cars upon the Columbia Railroad were
crowded. After taking up passengers and letting
them down again fur some time, the sport was ar
rested by a sudden squall of wind, which capsized
the balloon and burst it. Mr. W. expects to re
pair the damage again, and then make a trip with
his family to the upper regions.
SERIOUS Loss.—The loss of property by the
lute stonu and freshet in Lancaster county alone
is estiwated nt on, million of. dollars.
PMESIDENT 9 S MESSAGE.
The Texas Boundary Question.
To the Senate and Iftnse of Representatives.
I herewith tratisnile to the two houses of Con
west, a letter from hie excellency, the Governce
of Texas, dated on the 14th day of June last, ad
dressed to the late President of the United States,
whirls, not having been answered by him, came to'
my hands on his death; and I also transmits copy
of the answer, which I have felt it to be my duty
to cause to be made to that communication.' Con
gress will perceive that the Governor of Texas of
ficially states, that by the authority of the Legis
lature, of that State, he despatched especial Com
missioner with WI power and instructions to ex
tend the civil jurisdiction of the State over the
unorganized counties of El Paso, North of Presi-•
din, and Sante Fe, situated on its Northwester!,
limits. He proceeds to say that the Commission
er had reported to him in an an official form, that
the military officers employed in the service of the'
United States, stationed at Sante Fe,
interposed ,
adversely, with the inhabitants, to the fulfilment of
his object in favor of the establishment ofaseparato'
state government East of the Rio Grande, and'
within the rightful limits of the State of Texas.
These four counties which Texas proposes to es
tablish and organize as being within her own juris
diction, extend over the whole of the territory
East of the Rio Grande ' which has heretofore been'
regarded as an essential and integral part of the
Department of New Mexico, and actually govern
ed and possessed by her people, until conquered
and severed kom the Republic of Mexico by the
American arms.
The Legislature ofTexas has been called togeth
er by the Governor, for the purpose, as is under
stood, of maintaining her claim to the territory
east of the Rio Grande, and of establishing over
it her own jurisdiction and her own laws by three.
These proceedings of Texas may well arrest the
attention of all branches of the government of the
United States, and I rejoice that they occur while
Congress is yet in session. It is, I fear, far from
being impossible, in consequence of these procee
dings of 'll'exas, that a crisis may be brought on
which shell summon the two houses of Congress,
and still more emphatically the Executive govern
, nient, to an inunediate readiness for the perfor
unmet of their respective duties. By the consti
tution of the United States, the President is con
stituted Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy and of the militia of the several States,
when tallest into the actual service of the United
States. The constitution declares also that he
shall take core that the laws be lisithfully execu
ted, and that he shall, front time to fime give to
Congress inforniatiou of the State of the Union.
Congress has power b u y the constitution to provide,
by calling forth the militia, to execute the laws of
the Union, and suitable and appropriate acts of
Congress have been passed as well for providing
for the calling forth of the militiary nc for placing
other suitable and efficient means in the hands of
the President to enable him to discharge the con
stitutional functions of Isis office.
The second of the act of the 28th of February,
1795, declares that whenever the laws of the Uni
ted States shall be opposed, or their execution ob
structed in any State, by combinations too power
ful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of ju
dicial proceedings, or the power vested in the mar
shals, the President may call forth the militiary
so far as may be necessary to suppress such com
binations. And to cause the laws to be duly exe
cuted by the Act of March 3d, 1807, it is provided,
that in all cases of obstruction to the laws, either
of the United States, or any individual Stttte or
territory, where it is lawftd for the President to•
call thetit the militiary, for the purpose of causing
the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful fur
him to employ for the sante purposes, such part of .
the land or naval force of the United States as
shall be judgeduceessary.
These several enactment , . arc now in full force.
so that it' the laws of the U. States are opposed or
obstructed in any State or territory by combina
tions too powerful to be suppressed by the judicial
or civil authorities, it heroines a case in which it
is the duty of the President either to call act the
militia, or to employ the militiary and s i d I;,ree
of the United States, or tole both, it; to his joihr
ment, the exigency of the occasion , hall so re itti
for the purpose of suppr,,iag such c,
The constitutional duty or the Pre , hient is plain
and peremptory—the authority ve,ted in him by
law for its performance clear and ample.
Texas is a state authorized to inaintatin her own•
laws so far as they are not repugnant to the con
stitution, laws and treaties of the United States,
to suppress huturrections against her authmity, and
to punish, those who may commit treason against
,the State, according to the forms provided by her
i,own constitution and her own laws ; but this pow
er is local, and confined entirely within the limits
of Texas herself. She can possibly confer no au
thority which can he lawfully exercised beyond
her own boundaries. All this is plain, and hardly'
needs argument of elucidation.
If the Texan militia, therefore, should march
into any one of the other States, or into any ter
ritory of the United States, there to execute or en
fipree any haw of Texas, they become, at that mo
ment, trespassers, and they are no longer under
the protection of any lawful authority, and are to
Inc regarded merely as intruders, and if within such
State or territory they obstruct any law of the
United States, either by power of arms, or mere
- liower of numbers constitutingsuch a construction
!iIFI is duo powerful to be suppressed be the civil an- -
thority, the President of the United States has no
option left to him, but is bound to obey the solemn
injunction of the constitution, and exercise the
' high powers vested in him by that instrument and
by the acts of Congress; or if any civil posse, ar
med or unarmed, enter into any territory of the
United States under the protection of the laws
thereof, with intent to seize individuals to be car
ried' elsewhere for trial for alleged offences, and
this posse be two powerful to be resisted by the
lducal and civil authority, such seizure or attempt
to seize is to be prevented or resisted by the au
thorny of the United States.
The•grave•and important' question now arises,
whether there be in the territory of New Mexico
any existing law of the United States, opposition
to which or the obstruction of which would consti
tute a ease calling for the interposition of the au
thority vested in the President 7 The Constitution
of the United States declares that the constitution
and the laws of the United States, which shall be
made in pursuance thereof; and all the treaties
made or which shall be made under the authority
of the United States, shall be the supreme law of
the land. If, therefore, New Mexico be a territory
of the United States, and if any treaty stipulation,
be in force therein,. such treaty stipulation is the
supremo law of the land', and is to be mainhtined
and uphold accordingly.
Iu the letter to the Governor of Texasony rea
sons are given for believing that New Mexico is
now a territory of the United States, with the
same extent and the same boundaries which be-.
longed to it, while in the actual possession of the.
Republic of Mexico, and before the late war.
In the early part of that wet both California and/
New Mexico were conquered by the arms of the.
United States, and were in the military possession
of the United States at the date of the treaty of
peace. By that treaty the title by conquest was
confirmed, and these territories, provinces, or de
partments, separated from Mexico forever; and
by the same treaty certain important rights and
securities were solemnly guaranteed to the inhabi
tants residing therein. By the fifth article of the
treaty it is declared that the boundary lino between
the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of
Mexico three leagues from the land, opposite the
mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called the
Rio Bravo Del Norte, or opposite the mouth of
its deepest branch, if it should have more than one
brunch emptying directly into the sea, from thence•
up the middle of that river following the deepest
channel, where it has more than one, to the point
where it strikes the southern boundary of New