of lhe watcfsfcimau jption.per vear two dollars — payable in | iui it not paid in advance two dollars , ets will be charged nserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts i cnt insertion court orders charged higher than these rates a liberal deduc ose°who advertise by the year r to the editors must be post paid —. — — — i inthenew york tribune aug 17 founding developments-curious < tse of conspiracy \ case of conspiracy which if truer ex , tic ii debtee of vilainous daring on one i and the most imbecrle weakness on "! otheralmost unparalleled was brougltf ; more the ti*>t i o of justice bleakly at u jefferson market court house on thursday last and attracted consider , t,le attention on that day mr ira top , 8 a gentleman residing at tammany | ilotel appeared before the magistrate i ■ entered a complaint for conspiracy 8jnsi two persons one of them a gen i looking female named mary jane riritigston alias starr and tht other an iderl v m;it named james t boyd one r clerks ofthe supreme court in this city under the following circumstances bout lhe latter part of 1847 or the beginning of 1848 the accused female came |() s residence then at gtjane-st and inquired for him she was immedi ately shown into the parlor where an in terview took place in which she profess ed to he familiarly acquainted with every action of his life and knowing him to be the owner of considerable property de manded a portion of it threatening at the same time if he refused to go into courl and prefer a charge against him that would ruin his reputation for ever and destroy tbe peace of his quiet and happy family ft was in vain that the complai nant remonstrated and entreated bis tor mentor not to pursue such a course she continued to visit his place and even in the presence of ids wife threaten to have him sent to state's prison unless her de mands were acceded to by these means she acquired such an influence over his mind tiiat at various times he gave her large sums of money which were coerced out of him by fear of exposure mr boydi who acted as legal adviser of the woman starr was also charged with con ; spiring with her in accomplishing the ru ! 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 complainant states on one occasion they induced him to go to a house in south second stieet williamsburgh where the woman procured a quantity of arsenic which site said ve was going to take and then send a letter already written to the chief of police charging him with 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 house and lot no 57 jane st also a handso ne establishment iu fourth-st val ued altogether 830,000 through one ap pleby to the woman livingston alias starr after the conspirators had succeeded in getting the complainant to sign over the property they called on his wife and rep resented to her that her husband had sold the property to them by these false representations they obtained her signa ture ami thus rendered the deed perfect mr topping was thus turned out of house and home but the successful villains as if not satisfied with their ill-gotten goods made him also build a house in sullivan count for lhe residence ofthe parents of livingston alias starr justice bleakly on hearing the com plaint issued his warrant lor the arrest of the accused who were shortly afterward taken into custody by officers davie and wyman of the second district police court boyd was yesterday held to bail in the sum ol 5,000 which was procured and the female prisoner was locked upiu default ol ihe same amount the prem iscs so felloniously obtained were levied upon by deputy sherriff cunningham nnd mr topping and family had the pleasure of bfing reinstated in their old home a further examination will take phue in ;». lew davs when some more particulars it relation to this tangled web ol mystery wil be elicited 1 great country — the united states have a frontier line f 1 1.000 miles a sea coast of 6,340 miles anil 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 than england and bayous and creeks that shame the tiber ami seine new york harbor rect ivi s lhe vessels that navigate the rivers canals and lakes to the extent of 3,0 k i miles — equal tothe distance from america to europe from maine to new-orleans is 200 miles further than from london to constantinople a route that crosses england belgium prussia germany austria and turkey truly this is a *• great country utiles in olden times — as fur back as the year 16o7 a clergyman hy the name ol wil kinson wrote a sermon on the follow iug text : " prov xxxi 1-1 ; she is like a mere ha tit's ship she britigeth her food from afar it contains the following passage : " but of all t'tiahties a woman must nol have one qualitie of a ship : that is too much rig , r'ns oh ! what a wonder it is to see a ship under saile with her tacklinga and her masts i and her top-gallants with her upper-decks and so bedecked with ber streamers hags and en signes and i know not what ; yea but a world of wonders is 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 ruffe like a saile yea a mffe like a rainbow with a feather in her cappe like a flag in her i top to tell i think which way the winde will blow any employment may he exalted hy a mind superior lo its circumstances — the carolina watchman i j j bruner > > " keep a check upon all your editor 4 proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this axd llbertv is safe < gen i harrison ( volume vii number 17 j salisbury n c thursday september 5 1850 a talk of horror while ravelling a couple of weeks since a-e heard from the lips of a friend one ol lhe nosl heart rending recitals we have lislened lo or a long lime he was put off from a steam boat at or near wolf island about 23 miles ielow ihe mouth of the ohio for lhe purpose of collecting a delit irom a man living about five miles back in lhe country on the missouri side we think with a carpet-bag in his hand he came across a small cabin i et cabin would not describe he place of habitation for such il proved lo be it was a little dilapidated shed with no boards on one side and great crevices on the other sides and in the roof he would have passed it by bul moans from the inside fold lhal il was occupied wishing to inquire his road he stopped and stood before the open side of the shed and gazed upon a spectacle which as he said was present before his eyes days afterward and haunted his sleep we describe what he saw as be told us only say ing lhat strange as the story may seem full re liance can be placed upon his words there was not a bed or chair in the shed but stretched upon the bare ground lay the body of a youthful looking woman who had evi denlly just died her form was almost a per fect skeleton ; yet the face was that of a refin ed and beautiful woman on her breast lay an infant about six months old with its mouth to the breast of iis mother and dead and sitting up in a corner of the shed and staring the traveller in the face with glazed eyes was what he thought another corpse but life was yet in it the figure was that of a girl appa rently about len years old she could not rise to her feel and yel she was not sick she was literally dying of starvation ! by the side of the woman and clasping her hand lay a man covered wiih blood and apparently in a dying stale add to this the 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 could not speak but the man cried " water in a feeble voice and pointed to the girl as if lo attract the stranger's attention to her the traveller mr j of cincinnati hastened away taking with him a tin pan and says he never ran bar j der in his life than he did about a half mile to a small stream he had passed on his return he found the man still alive and gave him wa ler which he eagerly drank he pointed to the girl and said — " she's starving mr j gave the girl some waler which appeared lo revive her and she tried o talk but could not ; with much difficulty he learned from the man j lhat there was a house about a mile distant to i which he hurried on his arrival there he ! found only a negro while getting some provisions and haslen j ing back with the man the latter informed him | that the cholera had broken out iu lhat neigh ! bothood and lhe family owning him had left | for the lime being he said the little girl of lhe i shed had daily made her appearance there for i provisions until about three days back — that i the man and woman had been sick for a long i time c on iheir return the man was dying and lived but an hour the little girl was re vived by food and before they took her away ' could talk she said she had been sick her ! self and could not walk to the house for food and that her mother died ihe day previous and the baby aboul the same lime and that her fa ther had iricd lo kill himself when ihey died — it was horrid the child was laken lo lhe house and the rest of the unfortunate family buried the child afterwards stated her name was mary williams and bethought from what he could gather the family had formerly lived in new albany but in what new albany he could not ascertain more lhan as the child said there were a great many houses there and it was evidently new albany n y the ne gro said lhe family had been there several weeks and came directly after his master had left as there was no a family in the neigh borhood ihe person having gone whom mr j wished to see the girl who was sick & exhaust ed was left with the negro who promised faith fully to attend to her yet tbere were but little hopes of her recovery if has never been our misfortune lo hear a more horrible tale of real ity than this — evansville ia journal capacity of a soil to enelure constant culti vation — the capacity of a soil to support for a series of years the cultivated crops depends mainly npon the following conditions : 1 upon tbe quantity of water it can imbibe or retain during the seasons which would be considered dry 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 nutriment in the soil ; it must not escape immediately from the superior part of lhe soil or that part through which it usually ramifies the quantity of nu triment which may be condensed in a soil de pends too upon its retenfiveness for water ; if it is too porous il it is speedily washed out and lost ; if loo close it is not received into it but is lost by exhalation from the surface ; in cultivation then we seek to modify both ex tremes the object in all cases being lo secure that texture which shall give it certain relations lo water which experience and reason have determined to be best definitions — the northern tribes of indians call rum fire-water the camanches call it " fool water and the malays a nail-in-one s coffin some chrisiians call it " a-erea'ure of god who gives the best definition — the untutored savages or the bible-taught chris tians experiment with ashes — a correspondent ofthe new england farmer spread " on a small square of a few rods ten bushes of ash es on worn-out meadow " the grass there was three feet high while all around with equal advantages except ashes it was hardly five inches high in july 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 lhe wonderful ubiquity of the true yankee lhe writer says : " it is harder than a chinese puzzle lo 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 ihe 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 his name on trees stones and african slaves be 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 lake pos session of it in the name of her majesty ima gine his concernment to discover a dozen of these fellows seventy feel deep in a guano cav ern scooping il out with their fingers and a bangor schooner bouncing up and in a little ' cove like a duck among bulrushes now if you walk on the sea shote at bildarax you will find that you are not the first there per haps lo your great sorrow as captain jix swore violently when in walking through the streets of rundown al 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 just so it was with the poor soul who discovered bimpaz and was just uncorking a bottle of madeira in commemora tion of the event when he saw a yankee on a hill side administering lhe cold water pledge to three natives apples for human food 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 tiseptics ; and when freely used at the 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 streng then the powers of productive labor " the op erators of cornwall in england 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 that 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 ihem 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 liule sugar and milk they make both a plea sant and nutritious dish if our friends will j only provide themselves with plenty of choice i fruit we will venture that not one man woman or child in fifty would care for animal flesh to i eat who doubts for a moment that many j scrofulous and other diseases are traceable to a 1 flesh diet ? it is well known lhat much of the i meat we eat is in a diseased state when slaugh tered and its effect may be well imagined — j yet our fruit is always in a healthy state and cannot generate disease in the human body ; j but il has a diluting purifying and renovating tendency — water-cure journal conjugal endearments ' my dear i'll thank you for a little more su gar in my coffee if you please ' 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 — i she had got up as the saying is ' wrong end ; foremost lhat morning and nothing could please her she was not better pleased with i being called my devil than my dear though she | had a moment before declared tbat she prefer i red it on the contrary she took her husband bitterly to task for his ready compliance with her suggestion ' oh you vile wicked good for nothing man !' she exclaimed ' is it thus you apply names to me names which i dare not mention !' ' my devil you did mention it just now you suggested lhe 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 i mean — a little more sugar if you please ; ' sugar ! i won't give you a jot more i'll see you hanged first yon use more sweeten ing than your neck is worth * ' i've acquired lhat habit from having so : sweet a wife besides i pay for it with my own money ' now reproach me with that do you ? if i did not bring you any money i brought you re spectable connection and ' ' true you brought ail your connections now you reproach me with that do you i dare say you grudge my relations every mouth ful they eat while ihey are here ' i grudge nothing my dear — i would say dev ' - don't use tbat word again mr snapgragon — if you do fll leave the table ' thank you my love ; then i'll help mysell lo sugar ' yes and you would help yourself to another wife i dare say if i was gone 1 am afraid there is little chance of thai but my coffee is cooling while i'm waiting for the sugar then it will be like your love which has been cooling ever since we were married thank you my love ; there'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 i'll go home to my connections i'll have separate maintenance ' whenever you please mydev — darling ' i won't take such pesky language from you going with the sugar-bowl in her hand my dear leave the sugar bowl if you please ' here lake it !' throwing it at his head and exit letter from governor manly ! to the editor of the register : il is unpleasant and generally unprofitable to refer to the bickerings of a heated polilical campaign when lhe 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 " a card to the pub lic — wherein ho gratuitously makes what he is pleased lo call a question of veracity be tween himself and me impels me from motives of self-respect as well as a proper regard for | the opinions o my fiiends to make a brief j statement upon the subject the discussion of such issues whether as ; sumed or real in 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 j ist in fact can always be adjusted more satis factorily in private i am not responsible for this intrusion upon the public and truly regret the necessity which leaves tne no other altern ative 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 wentworth in rockingham county on the 29th june preceding and lhat they un derstood me as declaring that 1 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 better fiiend to equal suffrage than my opponent accompanying mr ruffin's " card to the public in the last stan dard are published sundry other certificates of gentlemen dated since the election was over who were present on that occasion and who affirm in substance that they also so understood me now i do not undertake ft say that these gentlemen slated 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 lhat being my first speech in the campaign or whether the impressions of those gentlemen were derived from unfounded inferences from 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 the discussion and alluded briefly 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 lhe qualified voters in the house ol commons to vote also in the senate it was contended lhat this made them equal or j gave them equal political power under our con j stitution it was a mistake : that it would not i accomplish that object by way of illustration i argued that the county of onslow formed one j senatorial district and was allowed one sena j tor the counties of wilkes caldwell burke j and mcdowell formed one senatorial district and were allowed one senator that allow ing 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 800 voters and the other i four counties had about 4000 voters it would j be making 800 men equal to 4000 or making j 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 oue 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 j 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 lhat i was advocating the establish ment ofthe white basis while on the same subject i stated that the recent democratic con ; vention had proposed lo change the constitu tion by extending the right of voting for mem bers of the general assembly and of electing the judges by the people : lhal the whig con vention not only proposed these changes but 1 also the questions of electing the officers of state and justices of the peace by lhe people ; that the whigs had thus gone 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 lhat many persons in this stale myself among the number were of the opinion that when the new basis of repre sentation was established in our constitution slaves and properly in slaves entered loo large ly in ihe composition that slaves formed a most important item of calculation for both houses of the assembly in the commons j slaves being estimated as persons by counting ! three-fifths in the senate as property by count i the amount of taxes paid on them into the pub lie treasury in this connexion i stated fur ther as an abstract proposition lhat 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 one branch at least of lhe lawmaking 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 upon compromises ul sectional in i fluences and adjustments of antagonistic inter ests like the constitution of north carolina and it was a total mistake and misapprehen sion of my argument and opinions to suppose lhat i at wentworth or elsewhere ever advo cated the doctrine of charting our present con stitution so as to abolish federal and substitute white population as lhe representative basis — these were the opinions lhal i expressed my self ready '■ to stand up to and lo swear by ; and not the upturning of our constitution and i the abandonment of its compromises i was not proposing amendments lo our constitution ; for as i said in my printed address to lhe whig | convention " in my judgment il is no part of i a governor's duties or right to make or pro i pose new constitutions foi lhe people yet i have no doubt that those who have given certificates about my speech understood me as they have stated and were honest in their convictions but as i have already said i eiiher they drew inferences not warranted by the argument or my views were loo ambigu ously or obscurely expressed and when my attention was drawn to the subject subsequent ly that i had been so understood at wentworth it was promptly disavowed and my true position explained this speech at wentworth was made on the 29lh of june on the 3rd of july at salem my opponent stated iu his address to the peo pie that he understood me at wentworth as going in favor of changing our constitution so as to adopt white for federal basis o 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 oppomnt in our public discussions at various other places after wards and always repudiated and disaffirmed by me and on some occasions with surprise and warmth that he should persist in alluding lo il after he had been so repeatedly disabused , these olten repeated disclaimers too it will be i observed were made in part ofthe state where ' the doclrine is understood to be popular and i where il might have been received with great favor by those whom i addressed j on the 17th of july when on the eve of leaving morganton i received information for j the first time that circulars and hand-bills had ' been sent into the eastern part of the slate j 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 j me but the general idea merely was conveyed j to my mind by the intelligence lhat it was set i forth and circulated in the east on the eve of ] lip inflection when but little lime was allowed for ex anation there lhat i was conducting the campaign on this issue ; that in other words i had come out for il 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 ofthe register ; and other whig papers in the slate denounc ing the charge as lalse having no time lo ! write explanations i contented myself with a simple denial and requested a fiiend who had heard tne at wilkesboro lenoir and mor ganton to write to the register and explain the matter this he did on the 18(h of july and it was published on the 27th in the reg ister and fully sustains what i here stale i > knew that i was advocating no such doctrine i and pronounced the charge to be false every ! respectable man of both patties among the ; thousands who heard me in the west from sa lem to cherokee knows it to be false they | all know lhat i not only did not advocate the doclrine but that on all occasions when i brought to my notice i expressly repudiated : and disavowed it in my communication lo the presses i had ! no reference to the certificate of messrs t ruffin jr and others addressed tothe stand ard my communication was written and da ted 17th july at morganton mr ruffin's cer l lificale is dated 10th july at wentworth the places being 150 miles apart and appears iu the standard on the 20th — three days after the date of my communication and which in fact i never saw until alter the close of lhe cam paign on my return from cherokee of course i could have known nothing aboul il when i wrote and could not have referred to it — whence then arises thi 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 lhe lime i wrote ? that messrs ruffin and others may have understood me as taking the ground et forth in their certificate i have already admitted but i say they were mistaken whether that was their fault or mine i will not say one word in conclusion their certificate is dated the lglh july my disclaimer of ihe doctrines therein imputed to me was made on the 3rd of july and continually up o the 6th if at lhe dale of their certificate on the 10th they were apprized of my disclaimer and expla nation i leave it iheir own sens of justice antl fairness to decide their purpose in selling forth the ccrti/ieate being as mr ruffin says in his card to the public to *' meet and orred the misrepresentations of a portion of the whig press whether i ought not to have received at their hands while volunteering to " set things to ri_hts the benefit of my disclaimer and explanation charles manly raleigh august 22 1950 somebody says thai politeness is like an air cu hion — there may be nnfhing in it ; but it eases our jolts wonderful proceedings of congress transmitted for the pet intelligencer washington august 19 senate after lhe morning business the fugitive slave bill was laken up mr da lou moved o grant alleged fugitive slaves trial by jury lost — yeas 11 nays 27 the same thing in another shape was vo ted down mr winthrop moved in grant a habeas cor pus afler award commissioners rejected — yeas 11 nays 20 the senate adjourned house the judiciary committee reported the sen ate bill increasing the compensation of depu ty marshals and extending the time of making the census returns with amendments which were agreed lo and the bill passed mr ashmun moved a suspension of lhe rules to offer resolutions making the senate bills in relation to utah the texas boundary califor nia and new mexico the special order frotn to-morrow until disposed of — yeas 9 4 nays 94 — not i wo thirds so the motion was losl a motion was made lo suspend lhe rules for lhe purpose of offering a joint resolution for closing the present session of congress on tha second monday in september rejected the house then went into commiitee of the whole and resumed the consideration of the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill ; whioh occupied the remainder of lhe day's session washington august 20 senate afier the morning business the fugitive slave bill was taken up mr mason's substitute was agreed to mr pratt offered an amendment giving mas ters after using all efforts to recover their slaves the right to bring suit against the gov eminent and to recover from the treasury what ever is awarded by the verdict of a jury a debate occurred upon this amendment but no question was taken the senate adjourned house mr thurston the delegate irom oregon presented resolutions from the legislature of lhe territory and desiring their commitment mr thompson of miss s.iid the chairman of the committee of the whole had decided that the delegate had no right to make a mo tion mr mann wanted the question settled the speaker decided lhal the delegate had the right an appeal was taken and tho matter dis cussed and the speaker's decision was finally sustained the house then went into committee ofthe whole and resumed lhe consideralion of the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill without reporting the bill to the house lhe committee rose and the house adjourned washington august 21 senate afier the morning business the fugitive slave bill was taken up mr pratt's amendment was debated all day and no question taken when the senate adjourned house the house was all day occupied in lhe con sideralion ofthe diplomatic appropriation bill after amending it by adding outfits for sev eral missions abroad and without completing ihe bill the house adjourned washington august 22 senate after the morning business the fugitive slave bill was taken up mr pratt's amendment was rejected — yeas 10 nays 27 mr underwood submitted a substitute for the bill a long debate took place and no question having been laken the senate adjourned house the house was engaged all day on the ci vil and diplomatic appropriation bill which was not disposed of when ihe house adjourned mr elliot the successor lo mr winthrop was introduced qualified and look his seat iu he house washington august 23 senate after lhe morning business the fugitive ; slave bill was taken up mr mi son proposed iwo amendments the first making the marshal who refuses lo exe cute process under this act responsible to the owner who offers it if the slave shall be lust in a thousand dollars ; and 2 i if afier arrest the slave be allowed to escape the marshal shall be responsible in the same manner both amendments were a»reed to mr underwood's substitute was rejected mr john davis moved to add to the bill that if any manner or other person of color be arretted and imprisoned in any slate it is made the duty of the district attorney lo sue out a habeas corpus lo test lhe validity of such impri sonment this amendment was debated and the ques tion being taken it was rejected i'he bill was ordered to be cn_rossed by the following vote — yeas 27 nays 12 the senaie then adjourned house the bouse was again engaged throughout lhe day in lhe consideration ol lhe civil and diplomatic appropriation bill and without coming to any com lusion adj turned an important invention has recently been made and unreduced in the wesl indies for ihe extraction of juice from s<i ar cane by which ii is said an immense increase will be : gained in the quantity of bugar extracted irom a eiven weigh of he can one hundred pounds of cane which had !-<•,■ ,, cul for a month wa pul into the machine and in the short space of ihirly sii seconds seventy-eigbt and a half pounds of lhe juice weie produced the machine was tested in lhe mosi borough manner producing at each trial resnhs srhici proved roost satisfactory — ball sun the texas boundary bill the washing loo union says bat so strong is he feeling of opposition lo ibis bill on tbe part of the nor thern and sotilhern extremes eve the " mod i erates are beginning lo give way i he edit or is assured thai tin btll.il pressed fiist will i be lost by 20 votes