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THIRTY-FIX l'* f —!*t Sca*lo. ;
JN SENATE :::: March 12.
After the presentation of a large Lumber of peti- |
n -, (J introductiono! oiiia, &cc , the Senate I
i ... r.- L>d .. *.*.• <:.. ;-r.i’ion of the Kansas bill.
Vi, < unt.-iler c! Mi hi*.-tn, delivered an earnest i
.!•■*. I, i,i, •> luh Lecompton Constitu i
,! -it by Congress. lie j
• • nuosiriur to that instrument on four grounds i
l lit* •iU-* •. wsf. conceived and executed in fraud. .
lirraums it did no’ emanate fr in the people nor
. . . ~ . .amieof a feeHea t
i.wT theh i, . and. Because k waeOTie
: , „ committed by the s ave power,
J ~ : ~ . “JJ j * w ‘ luid ( ‘.; 7 d by rubverttag the
•/, . IVcau-e i T * recognition would
’ tW \ and popu j
, ( , <fr , r , |,y ahuiiir to the anti*alave
i v-'-iTtimec’ entertained by the founders of our
<i wrur-wi* -K< ited the varioua compromises!
arran ‘** > • - 14 ,cii been made on the aub
’ . v< . j-, at the admission of Missouri,
IKj l H - • nexalioti of Texas, and in 1800 at
< : C&niornia. Every compromise
, -i b TANARUS: =’ dby the South a- a ‘ finality,’’ but
- er n.eio with the North had not been kept
1 .. j• v. ul of ‘ squatter sovereignty” was at last
vert'doy Mr. Caw, though he had at one time
, i * Wi.mol proviso. The South was not
mi- - to it* pledgee. but to those whom it
Tut the North, a> was i.iustrated in the treat
• H awarded to Messrs. Caw, Webster and
a> reflßiorf* >f slavery. He denied that the con
*r.WifHiv.rr:d ti* Idea of property in man. Ine
_ .ri,. Jt rurneiu recognised the common
of*Fy anu w .<a-4 every one knows, gave
s . runfLtev r;— to slavery, tatting from this
, • i,t , ; •.,.♦ •, ~ speaker next proceeded
poiitV ai events in Kansas,
i ,j v#-r’e - ei.s of riot and bloodshed
ad *H-or v/ rtd its &nnaia. Michigan number
*;noug the people of tha*
. .. . whom bad been killed in cold
V,',l fry the pro Slavery parly,
vjf i *r- v.evved me successive steps which
()er f, -r. . u framing the LecoioptoD Cousti-
T n . .. ni: it Missouri invasion, the estab
.ii:ji Vi ll i.Me-t ca ns, the prohibition of freedia
,:njMirfect and fraudulent registry of
nrun r-- tuat it should be submitted and
~ , r, . tilm-nt by the Lecompton Convention,
j. , .--d by rq lying to the charges made by Mr.
ilai/rmend mr- m-d the character oi Northern labor
tnd qiioufd from various documents to prove
■ j a destitute and worthless cia-s of
. rwv it*- in-!! in South Carolina, whose condi
-1,„„ poßUMlfcd with that ot the labor'.ug men of
Ur llnpter in a brief but lucid argument, din
u.., fi t!.*• merits < f the pending question in ( >D
nexi'Si With the general relations and of
. * iy. lie acknowledged that the subject was
allies—which, however, were
V ;tly exaggerated by the spirit of party, from
‘i they prang. Alter presenting a rapid aum
gj events which had resulted in the lorma
, not the Jitcoinpton Constitution, he alluded to
fh-tact that its recognition was opposed by two
i k rr- <it i,i’ * tin.-, (it whom the one deny ibe le
lT y o f j n*- -tepn which had led Uj its formation,
*a i , she o; i;tr quo -non it* validity on the ground
• had n't b♦ n framed under the sanction ol an
!. a and .ad u**t be* n submitted to popu
a, T*Yhe ‘ las-ca he replied by arguing
’ ’ n *! were true that Missourians had
ed the tir l Lcgi-lature ot Kansas, it would
’ remain an incoittestible fact, that the govern
-1 * it u was the only one under which
it ” i .!o. .t i...• ‘1 erritory had been organized as
. ih V .imo.unity, and therefore was at least a
Vveiiiint* ! //o-to, entitled to recognition by Con
,, me the authority with
j,v( h cTI by the o ganic act. It any
fV. , n.-ujiie ■ t Kansas refused to exercise the right
I*',,/. ihiM government they were none
rU-Jr* bound by tho-* who voted.
.., f rt.- rt f objectors he replied by de
. , , inf
♦ *n of a State.
■ • rr rrfi* *:T cirtried against the Eecompton Con
. n t*li- ground that it had not been ratified
„ , ,i e i,. mass proceeded upon anegation of
J ri* i*l 1 of n i.ii-.-entative government, and if
. 1 |)f ., o lejfiumate consequences would be
1 rf’ abl*‘ in tact as it was unsound in theory,
‘i IJ I.M ti’Jlit that t b<! vott on the Constitution, a au
; hi: hr *i by the Territorial Legislature,
ii whirii i war aid that more than ten thousand
u-..i i.oon |.olieii BKu'h-t it. formed no proper
present tirtpnntnt. Ibe Le^taiatero
Ii n lei oil nutlioriiy to piles curb au ae*, wbieh
..I i.u tho province o( the Con
“ 11 . t ill It hi, raid tliut thin vote offers a
V “ Yui.Dtioii airahiH the acceptability of tl.e
J *' n | J lB ,7; ■ lemaiuat .add tliaUmch a
I*l, r I- : .11 by tbe legal presumption
’ I l i, In\"r of tbe Constitution in its present
i | ‘ lr Hi.- inletprelation of that vote, ad
‘ ,-|, i ii,i..d for it? Nothing more
| i It Congress to
1 I,„|i t u. ,|j Kan-afl for the sake of
111 ‘ , , j'*. orders wbich they themselves oaus
1 r ‘ ootariiy leliisiug to vote until it was too
. ili ■ o ballot-on the question ot issue—
ad little olaim to beregatdedas
. ; jifft* “ •!* lau lime ciaitt*
ii re than in law , for it would
men had refu ied to vote with r-
Intel* *:!, ot Kansas, and had onlv
in ghf sei v- tofeuraush fire !i
t., ; I ~, t .(itemcnt created by the Kansas
>rltj be< t poiod lo hoLooooap
’ u wroidone’ that majority by
• K -.: i as will bring with it. a speedy
~ • p f.v* with which it will invest them
, , jo;r<ll . IVI , v - ♦ iih-i by emancipation, with com
- . ,oiby ihe foi aa
lion .f anew constitution.
‘!■ 11 then proceeded lo review a portion
t i’. ... .ini. i lately made by Mr. Seward on the
,'. : ., Mi , .T-ututioual relations of slavery,
.'j . , rll • public sentiment of the clvil
,i world wa daily more just to the
itn lon It** did not
the white man i
. , . , nt but he would hold it
*„ and would keep interior races in their
.j rit nn‘i"ii. In tins way only could the
~, . - \ ouiig America bo fulfilled,and he
rring period in human hieto
, the I —i States should be en
i .* tv ,*v petty inquiry into the result of an elec
.i, i>> id at ti * 1 >elawni**Crossing in Kansas.
Vii Kennedy, of Maryland, in an emphatic
... 1,, d-tined Ins position with respect to the
, . <i>- turn. This, he thought, became the
•btigatorv upon him aa th representative of a
.Imh.uiuhu in 1 il strength in the Senate was
ii,;: bit winch occupied au independent and itn
ween the iwo pan ics to the
K pudiating the whole theory of
Kansas N< m3 depreca ing the re
*
n no aay bound
f ;i, ( . i ?.i i,.,aii eiign rt uiciits wbich had grown out
mu of 185*1, and w l*i h aeie
‘ ti • embodied in the Cincinnati platform,
p i,, , , • . f,i ~ny aln g'Hiice to that platform his
, .. , question might bo diffflrrat,
f bis own, he had dater-
i. r the almission of Kansas under
i i(.inp t ,i, Constitution. Compelled to side
wd j, ,| (lie other of the parties which have
ii and ands. stored this sectional oon'roversy,
i, in 1, 4 . instance, vote with the Democra
.V On quest it *ns of national polities he could in
\ii with tho Republican party.
,j r -< ti nal andoulv sectional In voting,
AI . N ., t,r ti.* adini • in of Kansas he was main
i. 4* ilu.M * and by the desire of putting a period to
i vv: than trull ice-* agitation ot the si very ques
\j, K.niu-o’v then commented on certain decla
, : , Mi > ward in his late spebch on
■ . i into an elab • ate statistical ar
~ ■ ..... • ; , politico *• omi< ulrelath^nsof slave
. \ r the purj ><t‘ of showing that the laws of oil -
mu* iui.t i >pu hi im. of supply and demand would
, ...... , nivoe ■>ufiU , e|to determine the metes and
b Miidaiics of slavery, without any extension on the
• ,i ..i th< North or t>f the Federal (government—
U,. p. „ ved tl. principles of the Rebublic&n party
H , iangbrous to the stability of tin* Duron.—
\l n\ uid was fully identified with her sister States
• tin* South, but her destiny was bound up with
it ofth( I'niou, a- indeed was the destiny of all
:iic States in thi-’ (Confederacy It was impossible
. 4*,* tin. i ‘its culd exist on the North
... nti >ntinent with the s. urces es its great
t .it the one and their mouths hi the other.
i non to the Constitution of
M .mi* -.'a. tu entered his prtTtest agaiust such arti
*
r, lie toil pit ud to defend the principles of the
m*iu’Nii” party before the Senate and the world.
I*., im*M* prim ipics he would adhere, and though
j , ;. ; u euicnt by Minnesota (instituted no val
1.1 .•(. ! lion lo her ndutissiou into the I'nion, he
i. • rvi*r cease to protest against such depart
n tl.t‘doctrines of sound and conservative
At oast four o’clock the Senate adjourned.—
Mr \\ oic, i*t Ohio, has the floor to day.
HOUSE.
C iulai and DjphnwtM
( a.- nun the i*oimntUeeon Foreign Af
.
the Norw gun bark Burnt,
-1 .1 America lassod.
’
veral ex
j, .ini.. I niled States engaged in search
. ■ ■. ! >■; Fr.-uikliit. to receive medals from
S
!, ;iv he appeal ot Mi Harris, ot Illinois, rroox
. the Chair- that he could not read
; ,-viid >iatemeut of the Kansas ('oinmit
t.r t*. rhow that tU committee Sad uot executed
I . -4 4► ti House, for the reason that ami
Mr Hi- aid ti.at no*t ..ig but imperative duty
. , ,i im o i- h . e* the question. It was not done
. / . Hit* < see quoted by the Speaker, be con
, . w ;i- no( ttiintegon* to that under eonsiJer-
H* and o'iifrti of the minority don't pro
. ..ikr i re|u*rt from tlie committee, but
t<v. ‘ .ii the other member*i>ftb com
• .. . , yvd {i.** orders of the House.—
i hv. i'tc\ ’ii ■-* . thepririligesiffthe
11
..mu. > :*■* a part v*t that report, and therefore
.
lie WJ • td ibat this was not a report, but
. iv a tu.'dui of facte to sustain the action of
• , \oniy lie quoted authorities showing that
• . , . .:.:n M i a movement as a ‘
m o. jty, it is saffii lent ground for further
, V’ mlh House It si*, how is it ever to
. . , u . ; , li. that tue committee ;s k*iui*
..s.’ ‘ ‘ e Ho.: e. au :
. , , j ... sufficient to produce the tact 1
M n rep* nted that no precedent for the
, u v , , i i.eu by Mr Harris could be touudm
-8 or any legislative body ia
V c : email from Illinois had net
u.nty o him. TLe question is
•I. .**■* .1 majority or nminority ©i’the
\ • ge. 1 >
, , . couid lie found ;n Hafc
‘a .h<: authority. The gentleman had
v . : r*. n:
x . X. it.iie in the House since the
- . . .* ti. \ t j uieut. It is revolutionary
tu. .. *• .kr- at t * tcm.eaticn of the rules and orders
K a: ; . : its operations the Uouss
M . S • *• • -.u. .;ed That the majority must
f * at Ut-.-rc the House can d4er*
- w : i it • r icomuuiiee have executed the or
i: iot Hou. i He was prepared to show that it
*>’j -■ *’ ■ * reportis not sat is
” . 1 H was reauy to meet the uIS, but^
, , , • side way of overturning rules and
- House, and the upsetting of Parlia-
Vi, i. * i to be read the resolutions under
w ... oomuii; was appointed, to show that
- , ... - juire into ail
intuited with the adoption ot the L©
... v n. and whether said Constitu
f m*-.*■:* on- to ci majority of the legal vo
v -of Kansas.
Hr put s rv* to a point of order
\; i, ,\ r a?ii tua* oame with a bad grace from
m v 1... iiad been indulged in the utmost
Mr v. rr-plied. that he had confined liim
.. * ,-j- * u,. :. question before the House. If
>{- (; h w&iite. <• g into an investigation of
wli>> ttiL-i • u *.-one, he was ready.
Mr. tjrow said .-.’ \ . damentary law requires
~? n mai-on-V ct un .. ads of the measure be put
, i, .*, t-e . presiding officer had put
.• vpi* rh: on. 1 U a correct prin
... , .• , h c i i ith uid not be put to nurse with
•• w ho earns m4M±g about it.
Hi. W, ,ok- Mr ttrow to tuder.
Mr. Grow.—Ot couree
! • f ;>♦.’ k&aid i;,e question was adeiicate one,
tirew was wmmrtting on the action of the
Chair
i rsuu-ofc. if the mrguity of a
committee violate order ol Ike lP>u*e,.kow i* |
li.i House to lak£ etioi*4 > ascertain the Ta& unless
by the statement^of one or more ot the members o: j
that committee. . , .
Mr. Stepbena slid reUy to tuot, wnen |
Ike report come* up. tkat tke committee examined
every material fact.
*Mr. Grow said die cc-inm.tiee bad no discretion.—
They were directed to investigate all the facts.
Mr. Eng.isS asked how were to know wheth- j
er the committee had executed*th£ order of the :
House, under of fh* ca?e ? The |
gentleman trom Illinois says the cbminiifte had not
done so. Mr. btepbens takes pFec*sely opposite
ground, lie thought the proper way was try abmi;
an ofhciai record, which he understood embracea
tne entire acium of the committee, iftclafling the re
port ot the majority. Let each branch of tne com
mittee put in their papers.
Mr. (/ritmair oadaa him to order saying that he
waa re idy to show that the c-jimnittee bad done
their duty, she bpeak-r euki that the reports could
be received by general consent, and it would be
proper i**r tn* iiooee to take suen action as they
lliink proper..
, Mr. English aj4>e*:ed to ail aides of the lionae to
! receive Urn papers and fix a day for their
tiou.
1 Mr. Washburne. oi Maine, objected.
Mr. Harris, ol Mary land, offered a proposition
! that each branch of the committee present their -pa
per- and postpone further consideration of the mat
ter till Tuesday.
| Mr Underwood offered a similar proposition, both
of wflieh were objected to.
! Mr. Lainpben suggested to Mr. English to affix a
; proviso that no amendment be made to the report
of the majority. form of a bill to admit Kansas, so
i'jitt ns any five members of the committee dessred
to be neard on the facts.
Mr. Houston said that no eraiiiar proposition had
ever been made.
Mr. Campbell said he reocfileefced that a foreign
State was our* acttnitted into the Union by a joint
resolution , and why couid not an attempt be made
to admit Kansas in j* same way ?
Mr Coßax abked Mr to modify his
sition o as to call only for the official report of the
committee’s proceedings
Mr. fttepuecis naid be didot know that any offi
cial journal wa- kept There wa*i do clerk and no
journal was read u the committee.
Mr. Colfax said be was unwilling that the mem
bers of the committee should couie together and
agree up**a a statement of their proceedings. ~”
Mr. Jiarrip saul be did not know what gentlemen
underett/od by official report—but one was kept.
Mr. .Stephen*, said he never heard it read. He
diduotcali it official unless sanctioned by the Com-
mittee.
Mr. Morrill suggested an informal submission of
the reporta and t hat the pending question be post
ponetl until Friday next.
Mr. Washburne explained why he objected to
Mr. English’s proposition. Ht thought if tLe House
adopted the report of the majority with a proposi
tion in favor or the admission of Kansas it would
arm unt to Legislative action
Mr. Stephens said it whs not the object of the
Committee to appeud a bill or joint resolution for
1 he*adanrrion ot Kansas
Mr. Washburne, of Maine—You can have your
report introduced into the records of the Committee.
Mr. Stephens—l stand upon the rights of the Com
mittee.
Mr. Adrain said we w’ere approaching a definite
point. The great excitement was passing off. If
Mr. English’s proposition waa correct, it ought to
b? adopted.
Mr. English asked unanimous consent that Mr.
Stephens and Mr. Harris be permitted to present
their reports that they might be printed, but not
with a bill or joint resolution appended.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, moved that the pending
appeal be laid upon the table. Negatived—yeas
Jd*t i ays II J.
Mr. Harris here withdrew the appeal arid the
House adjourned till Monday.
IN SENATE March 13.
in the Senate an earnest speech was pronounced
by Mr. W ade, of Ohio, in opposition to tim admit
-ion of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution,
and in general review of the aggressions commit
ted by the South against the North. Those ag
grese one had been repeated and aggravated. It
was needful only to recur to the hisiory of recent
events to prove the truth of the statement. It wa*
notorious that Texas had been annexed, by what
was generally believed to be an unconstitutional
stretch of power, expressly ft r the purpose of ex
tending and H’reugtheniug the institution of slavery
in thin Confederacy. Inis was the motive, as
boldly avowed by Mr. Upsher and Mr. Calhoun in
concerting and effecting that great transaction
Next in order of time came the tugitive slave law,
so constructed as to be offensive to the consciences
and cherished sentimenteof all liberty loving people
at the North, indicting, the speaker said-, a badge of
disgrace upon the whole land. The tame and easy
servility ot the North had, however, invited further
aggressions, and the Miosouri compromise was abro
gated in palpable violation ot every consideration
of honor and plighted faith. There once was such
a thing as Southern honor, but, in the face of a
deed o nefarious, who could longer rely upon it ?
And, ns and all this were not enough, the North is
now called to submit to an act of degradation and
oppression precisely similar to that which lighted
up the tires of the Revolution. Popular rights are
ignored in Kansas, and it is attempted to fasten up
on the people of that Territory a constitution and
government which they abhor.
Yet Southern Senators talk lluently of Northern
aggression?. What aggression, lie would ask, has
tne North ever commuted against the South ! If
a solitary instance could be produced he hoped the
case would be cited, or, in default to do so, that
those who now venture to make the vague and
general charge will hereafter hold their peace. How
was it jiossible that, the North could have “oppress
ed’ and “plundered” the South, when, as Mr. Ham
mond, of South Carolina, had recently and truly
said on the lloor of the Senate, the slave-holders of
the South have ruled this country during sixty out
of the seventy years which have marked its exis
tence l
There was indeed a great gulf fixed between the
’nsti tut ions and social polity ot the two sections.—
In the South a close aristocracy had the reins of
power and place. In the North the doctrines of po
litical equality and democracy prevailed. With all
the com rarities between them, however, the two
were united in indissoluble partnership, for better
or for worse, and though so far as the North was
concerned,he did not know but that it was for the
worse, he saw the impossibility of any divorce.
Ihe difference between the North and the South
was strikingly illustrated in their different appreci
ation of humun labor. Mr Hammond had described
the work'ng class as needing but a low’ order of in
tellect. So thought not the North. She demanded
:ki I in her laborers, and its results were seen in the
prolific inventions and mechanical appliances of her
sons. What did the world owe in this respect to the
refined aristocracy of the ISoutli ? What contribu
tion had any aristocracy ever made to ttie mechani
cal conquest of nature ! Their highest invention
had generally ceeu expended in devising new’ modes
of stuffing sow ls and mixing liquors.
Mr. Wade then proceeded lo review the decision
of the Supreme Court in the case of I>red Scott,
which Donatituted, he thought, another and most
dangerous aggression of the South against the Con
stitution and popular rights.
Turning from this general discussion the speaker
was proceeding to examine the pending question in
relation to the admission of Kansas, when a col
lateral debate sprang up with respect to thecircum
stances under which the 4 Toonibe’ bill” ot the
last Congress lmd been brought bafore the Senate
without cdhtainiog a clause providing for a sub
mission of the constitution to the people, as was
done in the case of Minneeeia. The discussion on
this point, which gfew T into an earnest, colloquy,
was participated in by Messrs. Stuart, Higler, Ma
son, Trumbull, Pugh, Seward, Wilson, iiroderick,
and others.
Mr. Wade, having yielded the floor to those who
engaged in this incidental discussion, was pbout to
proceed with his argument, when the Senate ad
journed. It is expected that he will conclude his
remarks to day.
The House of Representatives did not sit to day.
IN SENATE March 15.
After the reception of several reports and memo
rials, the Kausas bill waa resumed.
Mr. Wade gave way to Mr. Itroderick, who said
he had seen Mr. Douglas, who intended to be here
to day but was still prevented by sickness. Whilst
up, he would refer to tbe special correspondence in
the New York Herald, which represented him (Mr.
Broderick) having been rebuked for imperti
nence by the Senator from Pennsylvania.
He did not flunk he had received any rebuke and
iie hoped he never would, lie tried to conduot
liimseli like a Senator, and he branded the writer as
a tanner of the tacts. He said he called attention
to the matter lest other gentlemen had been mis
represented.
Mi. Bigler replied, and Mr. Wade proceeded to
conclude 4he remarks which lie commenced on
Saturday last. In defence of. the Topeka Consti
tution lie u ged that its framers had merely design
ed to present it to Congress as a projected form of
government by way es petition far the redress of
grievances. Tley had not undertaken to establish
their government in opposition to the Federal au
ibority . and when tiie President of the United
States denounced these men as “rebels,” he uttered
a charge which was wholly without foundation
either in fact or law The Territorial Legislature
uot being invested with power to overthrow the
organic act, it followed that tbe law authorizing the
call of the Lecompton Convention, carried with it
no obligation which was legally binding upon the
people ot Kansas or upoq Congress in the matter of
accepting the* constitution as thus initiated and
trained. Suppose it were true that the people had
refused to vote for del gates, aud that in so doing
they had eufft red their riglds to go by default.—
\Viu wished to profit by their laches ! What ty
rant occupied the place of au adversary party in
this suit, upon which the liberties of Kansas were
suspended, that judgment should now be claimed
without regard to right aud equity ? Was it the
South which assumed this unenviable attitude ?
Mr. Wade then remarked upon the ingenious but
deceptive form in wh, h the constitution was sub
mitted to the people. He thought the plan showed
more cunning than might be expe *ed of “border
ruffiaus”—a consideration which favored the sus
picion that it had emanated from this District, un
iler the auspices of Federal functionaries. The ex
traordinary power confided in the President of the
convention, and the equally despotic manner in
which used them, were also reviewed with
much severity. To tbc ailment tiiat the peopl
might at any rime alter or abolish the constitution
in spite of the limitation contained in its body, he
expressed bis surprise tt> find Southern Senators
giving their countenance to a dogma which was not
only iiisorganisirg in theory, but which might be
turned against them with terrible effect at a future
-.lay. The speaker closed *his remaikswith a de
twnce of the principles and objects of tte Republi
can party.
Mi Mason, of Virginia, in an elaborate argu
ment. reviewed the history of the events and causes
which have brought African slavery mto discussion
j .•* connected with the ex pais ion of our territory’
and the admission of new Slates. By the very
terms of the constitution African slaves were re
cognised as an element of political power, and it
was chiefly, if not solely, because of this fact that the
increase of dav©holdmg Slates was opposed. So it
had beer, in IVJW. when the Missouri congest arose,
and so it had been at the :übsequent periods at
which the anti-slavery agitation had been revived
in Congress.
Much stress was laid by many Senators on the
ordiuauce ot ITS?, tis indicating a repugnance on
the part of the early s'atesmen of the land to the
spread of slavery, lie had the authority of Mr.
Madison for affirming that that great measure was
designed as a blow against the slave trade rather
than the migration and diffusion of slaves already
within cur binders. In proof of thia he cited a
etter addressed by Mr Madison to Robert WaWh.
j h-iq
After regiiing the crcum**aaces under which the
Couipromise measures of lSob were passed. Mr
Mason proceeded to defend the repeal iff the Missou
ri rtstric!.on an connection with the K&n*sAs Ke
braska act. Heretofore it hadbeeu usual for Con
gress to re-erve to itself supreme eonuol over the
Territories of tit* Cnion. By that bill anew policy
w.t* inaugurated—the policy of ecu-intervention—
which left the people free, under the limitations of
the coxistitn*ian, to fonn and regulate their insti
rations in their own way. This act gave no couu
tenance U) • tquatter sovereignty ‘ He bad never
admitted that the peopleui a Territory were com
petent to exclude slavery until at the period of
forming tbr State constitution, and. at the passage
ofthe Kansas Nebraska law. he had anticipated
that the more southerly ot the two Territories w ould
become a sl&veholding State. And such, in a., pro
bability, would have boen the result, if, in violation
°* the spirit of the act. the North had not resorted
to such extraordinary means and agenc w for peo
l*iii)g she Territory with emigrants from the tree
was in reanty an attempt to defraud
the bouth and to defeat tk natural and legitimate
working of the bill.
Mr M after reviewing the progress of political
•£"“ iL Proceeded to discuss the fotrnda
u P°f w , L . ;Ct K r .'* bt ® f P~Pty in *!rw is
“ e helu ‘ ha: w* before
lumber than any oonetitmt.eoa! Wnetwc. reeUiw as
aad be.n S equal.v enUUed seapect where it ie not
jvoeittve r m’.erdieieJ. Before our secaraiion -mm
Great Britain slaves were held under the common
law ot that country, which recognised as prooertv
whatever was held as property in the land ‘from |
which it cam tv Slavery, being thus planted in ‘his ‘
country, had.grown up as a domeetic oouditkm, and
did not tea* fur its eetabfiahmeni upon any posit*ve
law Kxpeiiecce haa proved that sUverv was the i
natural gud noruia: <-<ndiUi>n of tn Atru-au race - 1
Under it the negro was elevated in tbe scale of be- ]
ing. Left to kirn-elf he relapsed into barbarism In
vi-w of tbe melioration wrought in hia condition
by involuntary servitude, and in view of the ben* -i
ficent agency now exerted by African labor in ibe
production of sthaias needed by the whole world,
why was it that tbe extension of slavery encounter
ed such determined opposition from the North It
was because the Constitution had made it an ele
ment of political power.
The speaker cosed his remarks by alluding to the
capacity for expansion possessed by a confederated
Government like ours, provided each member of
the Confederacy would respect the just rights of the
others. *
After a short debate upon a motion to take a re
cess. with the view of reassembling at 7 o'clock and
af:er two iuaffectuai motions that the Senate should
adjourn—
Mr. of New Hampshire, proceeded to de
liver an earnest speech against the Lecompton
Constitution, in the course of which he instituted
an examination into the foundation on which the
utafu* of slavery is based, citing under the iatter
Lead a copious array ol authorities to prove that it
found no # Aoction in either the common law of
England or the law of nations. He also entered in
to an elaborate historical review of the proceedings
of the Convention which formed the Constitution of
the United Buttes, tor the purpose of showing that
the power of admitting new States into the Union
is purpiy discretionary in the bands of Congress,
and may Ire fairly exercised in obedience to other
considerations than those derived from the mere in
quiry whether a State constitution is republican in
form.
At Go'c. xjk, Mr Clark said he felt very much fa
tigued, having had neither bread nor water since
eight o’clock in the morning, and he moved that he
be allow ed to finish his remarks to morrow.
The yeas and nays were.called, which resulted in
yeas 13, nays 22, a* follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Chandler, Clark, Crittenden, Fes
senden. Foster. Hale, ilamiin, Harlan, King, Pugh,
Simmons, Wade and Wilson—l3.
Nays—Messrs. Alien, Bayard, Benjamin. Biggs,
Bigler, Brown, Clay, Fitch, Green, Gwin. Iverson,
Johneon, of Tennessee. Jones. Johnson,of Arkan
-is: Maiiory, Mason, Polk, Slidell, Thom
son ,o New Jersey . Toombs and Wright—22.
The aosentees numbered 27, as follows : Messrs.
Bates, of De.aware . Bell, of Tennessee; Bright, of
Indianas : Broderick, of California: Cameron of
Pennsylvania; Coiiamer, of Vermont; Davis of Mis
s’asippi; Dixon,oi Raodelsland; Douglas, of Illi
nois Doolittle, of Wisconson ; Durkee, of Wincon
sin ; Evans, of Bouth Carolina; Fitzpatrick of Ala
bama ; Foot, of Vermont; Hammond, of South
Carolina ; Henderson, of ‘Texas; Houston, of Texas;
Hunter, of Virginia Kennedy, of Maryland;
Pearce, ot Maryland, Reed,ofNorth Carolina; Se
watd,ot New York ; Stuart, of Michigan; Sumner,
of Massachusetts ; Thompson, of Kentucky ; Trum
buil, of Illinois: Yule*, ot Florida .
Mr. Clark resumed, and addressing himself to the
phrase of Mr. Hammond, that Northern laborers are
slaves, pronounced a glowing eulogy on New Hamp
“hire, and painted in not exaggerated colors the state
of ner society.
Mr Hammond, of South Carolina, said he would
now reply to the gentleman who had taken excep
tion to hia remarks but would reply generally at
tome future time. He would only now say that the
Senator knows that he is depicting a state of things
that does not exist. Many of his constituents, he
knows, cannot get their dinner.
Mr. Clark —With all due respect, they cannot
only get their dinners, but they can give the Senator
one it he wants it. In the Revolutionary war. a black
smith ot New Hampshire gave liiu services to the
State. His father said to him, the State is poor, do
not ask tor your money now. Aye, the sum due him
stands on record in the capital oi New Hampshire,
co many pounds, so many shillings, and hia descend
ants are proud ot that recoid of his patriotism. Lit
tie did the son of that man (Mr. Clark himself) think
that he would come into this Senate chamber and
hear the Senator from South Carolina call that father
a slave [Applause.]
Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, moved that the Senate
adjourn. Negatived—yeas 14,nays 22.
Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, said the opposition would
agree to take the vote next Monday, and adjourn
now.
Mr. Green, of Missouri. Any day this week, but
on no other day.
Mr. Broderick moved a call of the Senate.
The Vice President ruled the motion uot in order.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, asked if it was
fair lo gag the other side of the chamber. This was
the courtesy that prevailed in oldeu time. * For him
self, he did not wish to be a Senator if the usual
courtesy did uot prevail.
Mr. Green. The Senator from Pennsylvania is
in conflict with what Senators told me not five min
utes ago. They said they had not consulted to
gether.
Mr. Cameron understood the gentleman on the
other side had held a caucus and agreed on their
course. His side would meet in the morning.
A Senator rose to call the Senate to order. He
wished Mr. Clark to go on.
Mr Broderick moved an adjournment. Negatived
—yeas 15, nays 28.
Mr. Wade moved an adjournment. Negatived—
yeas ti, nays 21
Mr. Pugh suggested that a quorum waa not pres
ent.
Several points of order were raised but were ob
jected to.
Fiually a proposition was made that the Senators
who had not answered to their names be again call
ed.
The Vice President direct and the clerk to call the
roll.
Several Senator? attempted to address the Senate,
when
Mr. Seward rose to a point of order, that while a
call is pending no speakei can speak. He further
objected, that no quorum being present, the Vice
President had not the authority to direct the roll to
proceed.
The Vice President said the Chair was uuder the
inajpreesiou that a quorum was present.
Tiie vote was called, when Messrs Chandler, Dix
on, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Harlan, Seward
and Trumbull auawered.
The corrected vote stood—ayes 15, noes 24.
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, moved a postpone
ment until to-morrow.
Mr. Seward asked the yeas and nays—not grant
ed.
Mr. Ilale, of New Hampshire, moved that the ser
geant-at-arms be sent for the absentees.
Mr. Green moved to lay Mr. Hale’s motion on
the table.
Mr. Seward called for the yeas and nays on Mr.
Groen’s motion.
Toe motion was agreed to—yeas 25, nays 16.
Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, in reply to a question,
baid he thought—but could not state for the others
of the opposition—tha* there was nothing to prevent
a vote being taken this week. lie thought the mat
ter should stand over.
Mr. Toombs of Georgia, said that the first speech
on Kansas was made on the 9th December last.—
Since then the whole business of the country had
been made subservient to it. The opposition gen
tlemeo had spoken of their rights, but the country
also has rights, the majority have rights, and duties
as well aa rights. One of these duties is to ex
pedite the business of the country and crush out this
faction.
Mr. Harlan, of lowa, would like to know how that
crushing out process waa to be accomplished. He
defended hia side from the charge of having pro
tracted the debate The opposition did not know
that the question was to be iusicted on to day ; but
they knew the rules of the Senate, and would resort
to them and make it a ques'iou of physical endu
rance. He would add, that if the senate would
adjourn till to morrow they might consult on the
subject
Mr. Green said that the bi'l had been more am
ply discussed than was the Kansas Nebraska bill,
when only three days were allowed. Minorities
have rights, and majorities responsibilities. We
are resolved to take the responsibility. The good
q£tbe North, of the South, and the whole country
requires it. A postponement will subserve to pub
lic good. It is as well understood to night as it will
be when the Senator from New York, the Senator
from New Hampshire, and the Senator from Massa
chusette shall have spoken.
Mr. W ilson. When the Senator from Missouri
made his report on the 15th of February he pledged
himself that Senators would have a full opportunity
for discussion. Every Senator has a right to speak
and to speak in proper hours. Fourteen Senators
opposed to the Lecompton swindle intend to ad
dress the Senate, and by holding sessions of six
hours each day the subject may be terminated this
week, or, at ail events, within a week from now.
If you adjourn at once we will cousult and let you
know what we will do.
Mr. Benjamin, of Louisiana, thought that the
gentlemen on the Democratic side would not ob
ject to an adjournment if the gentlemen on the other
side will say that to-morrow they will name some
day this week for taking a final vote, or otherwise
assent to a permanent session until the question
was decided.
Mr. Hamlin thought that, considering the number
to speak and the amendments to come in, Monday
would be a better day to close the debate. He
approved of the suggestion to adjourn over to con
hult.
Mr. Seward was not going to make an argument
to-night for his associates, nor assent to their mak
ing one for him, for the reason that, aa the debate
proceeds, it comes out by degress that the majority
intend to press the vote to night, unless the minori-
ty will consent to fix a day. lie would be willing
to name a day. but not without consultation. It is
impossible to decide without consultation. The
main question might be taken any moment, were
he to leave the chamber. The minority is entitled
to a consultation. He would not—could not be
drawn into any tactions in opposition to the public
business. The crushing process had no terrors for
him ; he was accustomed to it, and had seen the
party crushed and grow stronger. Such a question
as the present had not been here since 1850. Great
men were here then, and they undertook to bring
in Calif rnia. The great debate began on the first
day ol the session of 1849. The leader of the Sen
ate promised that every man should be heard. That
promise was faithfully kept and the bill was passed
on the 15th of August. This debate began just fif
teen days ago, which, less Sundays and adjourn
moots, gave ten business days, a time entirety too
short. And of that time one-half was consumed by
the opposition. He wished to correct the idea that
this debate began in December. lie thought it
best rot to come to a vote now, because there arc
Senators who desire to sneak and have a right to
be heard. He closed with giving assurance that
thesubjti should be taken in the morning and an
honest answer given, by which he supposed all per
sons shall be bound.
Mr. Brown, alter consultation, was disposed to
assent, if he understood their proposal definitely.
Mr Wilson said that other parties—the Ameri
cans—had to be consulted.
Mr. Hale suggested that though h party would
have to take care of the Americans, as well as the
eecedirg Democrats, they had not got them yet,
and so his party could only answer for themselves.
Mr Kennedy, of Maryland, said the Americans
were ready to take a vote to-night The country is
worn out on the subject.
Mr. Brown said the extremes! concession of the
Democratic parly is to take a vote by Saturday,
white the other party propose Monday* He thought
Senators could hardly hold out on this difference
promised, and he (Mr. Brown being dependent on
no party influence, telt free to say that he thought
this friend should aoce; t.
Mr Cameron repeated that he would consult to
morrow. and briug an honest and fair answer.
Mr Wade said that after the words “crushed
out were uttered, ali hope of reconciliation with
him had gene. He might be outvoted, but could
not be crushed out. He would rather die in his
place than humiliate himseif and hie constituents.—
He would teii tne Senator from Georgia he could
die, buT could not be conquered. So help him God,
he would not be crushed.
On motion of Mr Brown, Mr Clark was permitted
:o resume his speech, with the understanding that
when he concluded the Senate might adjourn.
Mr. Clark then resumed. He said the Senator
from Georgia would find it bard work to crush out
! twenty Northern St-nators. A different class of men
v ame from the North—men who will not bow down
and yield. They are sent, not to bow down, but to
stand up. Tht- more you crush them the more they
will stand. Had the Senators on the other side
persevered, he would have spoken till the day of
uooui, ff be lived so long But as they bad been
v eurteous be wouid meet them halt way* He bad
the various amendments to consider, and had an
amendment of bis own to propose, to tack on the M .s
----souri compromise. Under these amendments he
would Rebate the matter fully.
Mr. Green declared that unless he couid have a
distinct understanding that the vote shall be taken
on Monday, he would go on.
Mr. Cameron was disgusted with these fnriflow
attempts. Who is the gentleman from Missouri,
Mr Green* he asked ’ He is but our peer. Is he
the commander of the Senate majority, that ad
journed over from Monday to Tuesday to attend a
political pageant at Richmond ?
Mr. Green—Tnat is not true.
Mr. Cameron—Did I understand the gentleman
to say that I state what is uot true ?
Mr Green —I said so.
The Vrce President called bulb the Senators to
order. •
Mr.Cameron —TLe Senator has applied tome
h.vsh language. 1 will also use hareh terms, and
say it is an untruth.
Mr Green—You re a liar.
The Vice President caiied'botb of the gentlemen
to order. *
Mr Cameron asked pardon of the ben ate for
having done what the Senate says is not right
though he still thought he was not wrong For.
anything I have said to that gentleman, I am re
epoasibla
Mr Green denied that be arrogated to biilMisif to
uietata to members. The Senator does me iiyiu
tice. H.e knows he doea me injustice. He (Mr. ]
Green) was man enough for him or any other. The 1
eiai.der of the Senator will reverberate on his own !
head
The Vice President,emphatically ciMed the gen
tleman to order.
Mr. Green said he had said enough to the Sen
ator in this chamber ; out of the chamber he would
use a more appropriate epithet—the epithet which
belongs to the Wt. He would uot infringe upon
the propriety of t-ha Senate. If there is any animosi
ty to be set (Jed it must be done outside. He did uot I
go to that eide of the chamber to dictate, but to ask
whether it would be agreeable for them to vote. *
He did not go individually, but aa an ageDt of the
committee. He would settle the matter with the
Senator in fiv# minutes. Snapping his fingers as
he snoke.j
Mr Cameron said the Senator's remarks bad no
effect on bbn He waa able to take care of himself.
He repeated that all this discussion had been pro
tracted by them.
Mr. Broderick—lt is evident that the majority 1
have received to eit here until the adjournment.
The Senator from Michigan'Mr. Stuart) has gone
home, which is fortunate, as he will be here early
in the morning. He sagged ed that tbe gentlemen
on hia side es the chamber make no further con
cessions or compromises.
There being no quorum, Mr Toomba moved that
the sergeant-at-arms bring in the absentees. Car
ried.
Mr. Doolittle moved a recess till 11 o’clock, A.
M , to enable the sergeant-at-arms to bring in the
absentees. This not being in order he moved to
adjourn. Lost—ayes 8, nays 19.
At half-past two o clock, there being but one
Senator in his seat, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Broderick
and two others reclining on solas, and twenty per
sons in the gallery, with the reporters. Mr. Bigler
proceeded to address the Senate, stating that hia
speech was not for the Senate, but for his constitu
ents. He spoke half an hour, when Mr. Biggs com
menced reading a speech, a Senator snoring au au
dible accompaniment.
The session continued up to six o’clock in the
morning, without resulting in any definite action.
HOUSE.
Mr. English offered a resolution calling for infor
mation relative to the Louisville and Portland Canal
with a view to securing the interests of the United
States and providing tor a reduction of tolls. Mr
Eogiish said the government had owned the Caual
for turee or four years and he wanted to know what
because of the money. The tolls hau amounted to
SIOO,OOO per annum, none of which had gout;, so far
as he was advised, into the treasury of the govern
ment.
Mr. Humphrey Marshall replied, when the reso
lution was adopted.
Among other bills introduced was oue by|Mr. Gil
mer, to prevent an undue surplus in the Treasury,
and to equalize the grants of public, lauds among
the several States.
Mr. Leiter introduced a bill providing for the
election of Postmasters by the people.
Mr. Wright, of Georgia, introduced a Homestead
Mr. Humphrey Marshall asked leave to present
the memorial oi certain citizens of Washington
with reference to the employment of the United
States Marines at the last June election. He pro
posed a Committee to examine into all tbe facts,
and to ascertain the President’s and Secretary of
War s agency inthat matter.
Objection was made.
A large number of bills and resolutions were in
troduced and appropriately referred.
Adjourned.
IN SENATE March 16.
After some prelim nary unimportant business tile
Kansas bill was resumed.
Mr. Hale made a statement of an agreement en
tered into by his frieude, and acquiesced in by many
gentlemen on the opposite side. The agreement
reads: “We agrea that tbe debate shall close and
the question be taken on Monday next, but if it
appears necessary that the sessions be protracted to
allow free discussion, they shall be extended to such
an hour as we may indicate.”
Mr. Bigler said he considered the agreement in
accordance with the views of his friends.
Mr. Green said, that after consultation with mu
tual friends, he would make a personal explanation.
He was said to have used language lest night which
was understood to be personal. If so, he now with
drew it.
Mr. Cameron said he might have come into the
Senate last night under wrong impressions. He
had no disrespectful feelings towards the Senator
from Missouri. He could have none. In common
with all Senators, he respected that gentleman, and
did intend nothing disrespectful toward him.
Mr. Green rose as if to say more, but the friends
of both seemed to wish that no more be said on
either eide and the matter waa dropped.
Mr. King, of New York, then proceeded to de
liver au elaborate speech in opposition to the ad
mission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitu
tion. In view of the question now pending lie
thought an intelligent stranger, unskilled in the de
vices of our party strategy, would be led to sup
pose that the republican institutions of the fathers
had been overthrown, and that we had been traus
formed into a consolidated Government, or had re
verted beneath the domination ot the British Par
liament. For the Kausas question involved the
most elementary principles of popular rights. It
was the inherent sovereignty of the people which it
was now sought to override and ignore by fasten
ing upon the people of Kansas a constitution known
tj be repugnant to the majority. It was the first
time any such issue had been made in our country,
and its success would cause, or rather indicate, a
decline in the spirit of American civil liberty aud
public virtue.
Mr. King then recited at length the progress of
events in the territory of Kansas, and review
ed the political professions made by the North
ern Democracy during the last Presidential
campaign. It was notorious that the friends of
Mr. Buchanan at the North had promised that jus
tice should be done to the free-State majority of
Kansas, and without such assurances he could not
have commanded the vote of a single Northern
State. The platform and principles of the Demo
cratic party had long been susceptible of two inter
pretations—one intended for the North aud the
other for the South. It was by such a species of
double-dealing that it had prevailed at the last elec- ,
tion.
The President’s change of policy in respect to the
popular submission of the Constitution of Kansas
seemed to have been inspired by the clamors of the
South in its complaints against Gov. Walker ; and,
considering the nature of the present question, he
was constrained to regard it s one of a series of
measures devised by the Nullitiers of the South for
the purpose of overturning our free Government
or of precipitating a dissolution of the Union. He
had no feai£, however, of the latter alternative.—
Tne people of no State would tolerate the designs
ot these scheming politicians. The Hartford Con
veution, aud the supposed comp'icity of 4he old
Federal party in its alleged unfriendly purposes
against our National Union, had forever rendered
the very name of “Federalist” a term of political
reproach, in spite of the eminent services rendered
by that great and patriotic organization in the ear
lier days of the Republio. If the Nashville Conven
tion and the complicity of the Democratic party in
its avowed objects had not wrought the overthrow
of modern Democracy, it was only because the
people of all sections regarded that Convention as
nothing more thau a sham, which, as such, frighten
ed nobody, and was already well-nigh forgotten.
Mr. King closed his remarks with an earnest in
vocation against the passage of the pending biff.
Mr. Mallory, of Florida, in a temperate aud lucid
argument, defended the policy of the bill and de
fined the rights of the South in relation to African
slavery. Under the latter head he endorsed the
views of Mr. Benjamin, and Mr. Hunter in their re
ply to Mr. Seward. Nothing had seemed to him
more surprising in the extraordinary speech of the
last-named Senator than the icy coldness with which
he announced propositions that he must know would
be revolting to the sensibilities of the South.
Mr. Mallory then reviewed the progress of po
litical events in Kansas, and maintained the legali
ty of the Lecompton Convention and its doings.
He thought the rejection of Kansas would be fraught
with dangerous consequences, wbich it would re
quire all the wisdom of Congress to avert, as it
would be hardly possible to convince tho South that
Kansas had not been reject*! purely aud simply
because she asked admission as a slave State. In
view of the dwindling phalanx of those at the
North who had heretofore sustained the rights of
the South, that section might find herself compelled
to take anew point of departure, for she copld not
refuse to see that her enemies weye every day
gathering in strength around her From the past
progress of the anti slavery party it was easy to
predict its final success. He agreed with Northern
Senators in the opinion that the preponderance of
the South in the Union was already lost, and, if he
thought that the rights of his section depended
upon mere numerical strength, he woqld already
despair of the Republic. The South could not keep
pace with the North in the march ot expansion. It
was idle to deny the fact. Hitherto tho South had
swayed, in the main, the destinies of the country.
When the sceptre should have passed into the hands
of the North it remained to ue seen whether she
would prove competent to wield it. Should that
event occur tbe South would be only the more
jealous of her rights and the more vigilant in thei r
defence. Thought in a minorty she would still
strive for the honor and wefare ot the country, and
whatever might ensue, would not submit to live
under a violated Constitution.
Mr. Pugh of Ohio, in au earnest speech, defended
the legality and validity of the Lecompton Consti
tution, though. nnounciug that, in obedience to the
instructions of the Legislature of his State, he
should be constrained to vote against the admission
ol Kansas under that instrument.
After entering into an elaborate historical review
of the nature, obligations, and force of enabling
acts, and after reviewing the successive steps which
had attended the formation of the pending Consti
tution, and which seemed to him legal and proper
throughout, he proceeded to defend the amendment
which he proposed to attach to the bill, to the effect
that nothing therein contained should be construed
to deny the right of the people o* Kansas at any
time, in a legal way, to alter, reform, or abolish the
pending Constitution at their pleasure. He did not
think this amendment was rendered necessary by
the terms of the Constitution, but offered it merely
to silence the clamor which had been raised by a
clause in the schedule. It was every where true
that the power which makes can unmake what it
has made. On this point he quoted many authori
ties from the English, French, and civil law, and
cited a decision made by Mr. Justice Campbell, of
the Supreme Court, in further enforcement of this
doctrine as applied to State Constitutions.
The Senate adjourned at j o'clock. Mr. Critten
the floor to day.
HOUSE.
Mr. Blair asked leave to introduce a resolution
instructing the Committee on Judiciary to report a
bill punishing the importation of Africans uuder the
pretence of apprenticeship. Not granted.
Mr Greenwood introduced a bill punching n6gro
stealing in the Indian country.
Mi. Stephens introduced a bill for the construe
lion of a wagon road from the navigable waters of
the Missouri river to the Columbia river.
Mr. Foster introduced a resolution of thanks to
Commore Pauloiog for eeizing General Walker and
his followers and bringing them to the United States.
Mr George Taylor introduced a bid to equalise
the pay of the navy and army.
Mr. Phelps introduced a bill for the construction
of a lailroad between St. Louis and San Francisco.
Mr Burroughs introduced a bill granting lands to
the Niagara Ship-Canal Company.
Mr. Montgomery introduced a bill for the admis
sion of the State of Kansas into the Union. It pro
vides for anew convention, to which the Lecomp
ton constitution shall be submitted. If amend
ments be made thereto, they 6hall be referred to the
people for acceptance or rejection. The bill oon
tains the usual restrictions with regard to the non
taxation of the public lands prescribes the boun-
daries of the State, and entitles it to one represen
tative until the next census.
Mr Montgomery moved that the bill be referred
to the select committee on the subject.
Mr. Stephens moved that it be referred to the
committee on territories ; which was disagreed to—
yeas 94. nays 105.
The bill was then referred to the select committee.
On motion of Mr. Florence, a resolution was
adopted for a select committee to examine into the
trutn of the statement made by the commissioner to
examine into the affairs of the Bank of Pennsylva
nia that $ii5,900 were given for the selection of the
banking house for a post office, and further saying
that rumor has connected this transaction with a
person holding high official station.
On motion of Mr Covode, a joint resolution was
adopted that, the Senate consenting, the two houses
of Congress adjourn on the first Monday of June
next, at I*2 o'clock. M.
Mr. Bowie introduced a bill for the improvement
of the harbor of Annapolis.
A memorial was laid before the House from the
Legislature of Utah, oou plaining of the manner in
which they had been treated by the United States,
and asking for justice.
The House then adjourned.
IN SENATE March IT
After some unimportant preliminary business the
Utan memorial was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Ha*e had a personal explanation with Mr
Beniamin. The laiter said in his speech the other
day thar the former approved of the Toombs bid.
Mr Hale quoted his exact words from the Globe,
which showed he oniy approved of a oertain portion
of the bill.
Mr Benjamin said be spoke from memory oniy,
and in general terms.
The Kansas bill was resumed. Mr €rttonden
addressed the Senate
The announcement that Mr Crittenden would
have the floor upon the Kansas question bad early
attracted a crowded auditory, which thronged the j
galleries, lobbies, and every available space in the
Senate chamber.
The distinguished Senattu commerced his remarks
by all tiding to the nature of the pending question
as involvingthe rights of tbe people in a distant
Territory, xhe President of the United States, in
a special message of uuusual earneeineee, had urged
upon Cougress the duty and expediency of admit
ting K ‘.nsas into the Union under what is known aa
the Lecompton Constitution. The application
: made in the name of this instrument naturally raised
the inquiries. Is it the Constitution of the peopl** At
’ Kansas, and does it embody their will? -To both
| these inquiries he wa ; constrained, as the result ot
his candid judgment, to repiy in the negative —i
The prima facie evidence in favor of the instrument j
might be fair, but behind it there were other and ‘
contrary evidence to which he oould not close his I
eyes, it was in evidence that at a special election [
mure than ten thousand votes had beeu cast against
this Constitution, and Feieral authorities, such as
I ex Governor Walker and ex-Secretary Stanton, had
given assurances of a similar purport, which wen*
too well authenticated to be lightly ignored. At
the election had upon the slavery article it was
“claimed that but .ittle more thanstx thousand votes
were cast by the friends of the Constitution iti its
present shape, and of these recent investigations
seemed to show that nearly one-half were fraudu
lent and fictitious The late Territorial Legislature,
moreover, had uuanimomiy declared against the
pending document, and asked its rejection by Cou
gress. Who, in the face of evidence like this,
could affirm that the Lecompton Consti utiou was
the Constitution of the people of Kausas? These
latter evidences are equally matters of record with
the Constitution itself, aud, being latest in point of
time, are entitled to the greatest weight in ascer
taining the real wishes ot the Territory.
•The President, it is true, urges Congress to con
sider as no better than a nullity the election had up
outbe Constitution, under authority of the Territo
rial Legislature, on the 4th of January last; but the
reason assigned for such a course is most unsatiafac
lory. Though expressing regret that the whole Con
stitution had uot been submitted according to hi*
original preferences and expectations, he regards
the submission oruained by the Legislature to be
null and void, because, at tnat stage of eveuts, the
Territory was already too far prepared for admis
sion into the Union to be affected by such a prelim
inary measure. What was this state of prepara
tion f A projected Constitution had been framed,
it is true, but the instrument was without binding
force upon tbe people, and even now it remains for
Congress to say whether it shall ever be made obli
gatory. While the Constitution was in this unexe-
ga, “ 1 V • LUC VVUDLIL.ULIUU LUIS ULICAC
euted shape there was nothing that could dimmish
the power of the Territorial Legislature to affix this
new condition to its formation. At tire best, this
Constitution was nothing more than a proposition to
the Congress of the United States. The organic act
had authorized do Convention, clothed with Legis
lative authority, to bind the people of Kansas or to
exclude the National Legislature from the exercise
of its sovereignty over the Territories. Nor did this
doctrine rest upon argument alone. Congress, in
the case of Wisconsin, had remanded her Constitu
tion to the people of that Territory upon a disputed
question of boundary, at a period in the process of
her preparation for admission when she was much
further advanced in her application than was Kansas
at the time her Territorial Legislature authorized this
vote on the Lecompton instrument. Were the peo
ple of Kansas forever restrained from further pro
ceedings in the matter of a Constitution after the
Lecompton Convention adjourned? What then
would have been their condition had Mr. Calhoun
suppressed the document or Ire* used to transmit it
s o Congress ? An argument which proved too much
proved nothing.
The Lecompton Constitution could not work as
au estoppel on the people in their application for
admission, nor were the little rules of Westminister
Hall pertinent to the discuss.onof agreat political
question before a tribunul like the National Leg is! a
ture. In its adjustment full sccpe should be left for
the play of reason and justice, unrestrained by legal
ffetions or technicalitisj. If, in respect to their fun
damental law and out of abundeut caution, the
people should desire to vote again and again upon
their project of a constitution, who could object ?
In the case of Kansas the result of the election held
upon the whole Constitution had sufficiently vindi
cated its propriety and necessity. It enabled the
people unmistakeably to indicate to Congress and
the country their opposition to the pending instru
ment. Who would now be willing to force them
into the Union under a Constitution thm tried and
condemned ? To do so would clearly be a palpable
violation of the right of the people to govern them
selves.
This Constitution, moreover, on closer examina
tion, seemed to be conceived and executed in fraud.
Recent investigations in the territory, conducted
under the authority of the Territorial Legislature,
had disclosed the tact that of the votes cast in favor
of the slavery article on the 21st of December,
more than twenty-seven hundred were fraudulent
and fictitious. And, in order to estimate the force
of a statement like this, it was necessary to take
a connected view of political events in Kausas.—
The first Legislature of that territory was elected
by others than the people of Kansas. This fact
seemed to be undeniable, and was certainly so con
sidered by the free State party of the Territory,
who, for this reason, had long renounced allegiance
to the Territorial government. This abstinence on
their part from all participation in civil affairs na
turaliy pleased the minority, as it left the field open
for their unimpeded sway, insomuch that Gov.
Walker, for attempting to conciliate the recusant
majority by promises of fair dealing, encountered
the determined hostility of the minority party.—
That the latter were net incapable of fraud is suffi
ciently patent, and that they sought to retain their
power rather by artifice thau numerical strength is
apparent froiq the machinery devised by tire Lecom
ton Convention, as seen in its refusal to submit the
whole constitution, in the extraordinary powers
conferred on Mr. Calhoun, and in the test oath pre
scribed as a condition of voting on eveu the single
article referred to the people. Its little respect for the
will of the majority is also shown by the clause of
the Schedule, which, in case the constitution should
be accepted by Cougrees, repeals all laws passed
by the late Territorial Legislature. What power
had that convention to paralyze a Legislature act
ing under authority of the organic act of Con
gress ?
Mr. Crittenden expressed his disapproval of much
in the conduct of the free-State party of Kansas.
They doubtless have bad and seditious men among
them, but laws were provided for. the punishment
of such individuals. The political rights of a whole
people were not forfeited by the factious practices
of a few lawless men. If, however, it should be
said that this seditious spirit is general among the
people, he thought they were in that case hardly
prepared to take their place in this peaceful con
federation of States. * key should be left to serve
a little longer apprenticeship in the art of self
government.
Regarding the Lecompton Constitution iu the
light he did, it was impossible for him to vote in
favor of admit*ing Kausas under that instrument
lie would submit to any consequences rather than
stain his baud by putting it to what his conseiene©
did not approve. And what was to be gained by
it? At the North, a renewed agitation of shivery.
To the south it was destined in any event to be a
barren triumph. Let us, then, said Mr. C., author
ize the people of Kansas to express their will fairly
and definitively in the matter. Let tbe majority
rule. This was tbe principle which* commended
theKansas-Nebraaka law to Southern acceptance.
Let the So\itk now give full scope to its exercise
Passing .from this particular question, Mr. Crit
tenden then proceeded, in eloquent terms, to demar
cate the sectional agitation created by the repeal
of the Missouri compromise, and closed his remarks
Which commanded throughout the profound atten
tion of the Senate, by protesting against the dogma
that a constitution may be rightfully changed at the
will of the people in other forma than those for
which provision is made in its body, lie also gave
notice of his intention to bring in a bill providing
for the admission of Kansas conditionally, on the
ratification of the Jueoomptou Constitusion by a
full and fair yoto of the people, and, iu case of ita
rejection, by authorizing the formation of anew
Ste,te government.
Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, in an earnest speech,
reviewed the history of the legislation of Congress
on the subject of slavery in the Territories since the
year 1850. He explained and approved the theory
of the compromise* pleasures of that date, and quo
ted from a speech ot Mr. Cass in illustration of the
paeffio effect they had exerted upon all sections of
tee country when in 1851 the Missouri compromise
was repealed. He remarked upon the little success
of the Kausas-Nebraska bill iu accomplishing the
object of its patrons, that of banishing slavery from
the halls of Congress. Reviewing the decision of
the Supreme Court in the case of Died Scott, he re
plied to the recent argument of Mr. Benjamin, in
yelation to the legal status and extent of slavery,
whether under the uomrnon law or the Constitution
of the United States. He cited five decisions in
which the Supreme Court assert the power of Con
gress over the Territories, aud hence inferred that
it ill became those who now deny this power to as
sail the “Republican' 5 party for refusing assent lo
the mere okUer dicta of that Court iu their late
opinion.
Mr. T. then recited the course of events in Kan
sas, aud entered an emphatic protest against her
admission under the Lecompton Constitution. It
was idle to suppose that such an iniquitous measure
would tend to “localize the agitation’’ now raging
in the country, That agitation could be allayed
only by doing justice in the premises.
The Senate adjourned at 5 o'clock. Mr. Foot, of
Vermont, has the floor to day.
HOUSE.
The Utah memorial was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Quitman appealed to the House to take up
the Army bill and deb,ate it until disposod of, which
he supposed would be to-morrow.
Mr. Pendleton advocated an increase of the regu
lar army, stating its necessity if we expect the Ex
ecutive to perform efficiently the duties invested in
him by the Constitution.
He spoke forcibly of the necessity of defending
our extensive possessions against the Indians, some
of whom are incited to war by the Mormons who
are themselves in rebellion. Incidental to the pre
sent necessity, Mr. Pendleton referred to the fu
ture, wden these possessions will be largely extead,-
ed by the acquisitions of Cuba, Central Americas
Mexico, etc.
Mr. Humphrey Marshall earnestly advocated the
employment of volunteers, as proposed by the bill,
as the most efficient force, and one which can di
rectly be brought into the field.
Mr. Bingham opposed any increase until further
advised. As to Utah, he would pats a law prohib
iting polygamy. Let ail peaceful remedies be ex
hausted before we resort to the dread arbitrament
of war. I<et the civil office”- be sent there without
an army . let negotiations be tried. If these lail,
then resort to the conflict of arms.
Mr Bryan briefly advocated the employment of
volunteers for the defence of the Texan frontiers—
after which the House adjourned.
IN 5ENATE........ March 18.
A letter was received from the Secretary of War
saying that Rock Island is not required any longer
for military purposes and that steps have, been ta
ken for its sate.
Mr. Wilson stated that an informal agreement had
been made that the Senator from Georgia should
take the floor on the Kansas question. He also pro
posed an evening session, which was agreed to.
Mr. Gwin offered a resolution of inquiry as to
what steps had been taken to punish the perpetra
tore of the massacre of 118 emigrant in Utah.
Alter the usual morning business the Kansas bus
ineesjw&s resumed.
Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, in a speech of great ear
nestnees, argued in favor ot the pending bill. He
agreed with Mr. Crittenden that this was not a sec
lional question, but Its importance was such that
many people in of the States considered it
worth mere than the Union itself. It was useless to
deny that the great shibboleth of the opposition to
the Lscompton Constitution was found in the cry of
“no more slave States in this Confederacy.** Re
j?Krn :nt? thi, si* rht-
„v, uiun 0i... uj i.e
garriing this as the real queatfon at issue, he should
proceed to inquire whether it was a doctrine which
could be admitted in any consideration of constitu
tional law. authority, or policy.
Ic was plain, he argued, that the Constitution of
the l uited States gave no sanction to any such cog
ma. It provided only that Congress may admit new
States, and that these States -Lai. be harmonious
and equal by virtue of a ctmmon repub.ican form
of government. Tried by the standard of the Con
stitution, a!! the States stood, and of neces.-itv mu-:t
stand, on a footing of perfect equality. And this
dogma wae equally destitute of authority. Every
branch of the government had nr ’Doune’ed against
it. The question was first raised ia 1820, on the ap
plication of Missouri for admission into the Union.
Mr. Jefferson had weli sard that it was an issue
made by the .eadeis of the yesforal party in hopes
of retrieving their political fortunes by an appear to
Northern fauaticiam. The question “was then set
tled by the admission of Missouri, coupled with the
odious and unconstitutional restriction of slavery
north of 3c- 30 He thought the ratter enactment
involved the grossest injustice to the South, and any
attempt practically to carry on! its theory won and
provoke opposition. For himself he had calculated
the value ot this Union, and had come to the con
clusion that the Soutn less than any other section
bad an interest in its perpetua’ien. ” Southern citi
lens bad never sought the fostering care of the Fed
eral Government. During the eight years he wasa
member of the House of Representatives no con
-Btitoert of his bad ever sought a Federal office or
asked protection for his industry.
Asa question of policy tins political dogma was
equally inexpedient, tf'hat more natural c r proper
than that the people of the Territories in forming
their State governments should be left free to de
termine for memse! ves whether they would adopt or
reject the institution of slavery f In the case of
Kansas she had a triple right to admission —a right
under the treaty of acquisition, under the organic
act, and under the Constitution of tne United States
The Lecompton Constitution had beeu made with >
extreme dclilifraliofi, regularity. srfd legality. Ad
mi Lung os true a'l tb* of fraud i orotiiit
ted at the eleotton on the slavery Hritole, they dW
not afreet tbe ioHn l ed m'i m„f that clause Sod of
the whole inrirnmerd Sit thousand veto*war*
in ‘avor of inerting thi *rftc!e against low than six
hundred in favor of its rejeCtfoft No one prWnrnoa
to intimate that more than f hree thousand of the !
votes thus cat wore fraudulent JBkn* vould still •
leav** three Hamsacd ballots in favWof that e!auj u
-ballots who” •••ga l !‘y f? undisputed. and by j
, which the validity rrf the slavery article, a a part j
df the IVnetituften, i* placed beyond cavil.
He held that tfie Tetrtfnriaf T .eglslsttire bad no
right or authority to submit the Constitution to a !
vote of the people after ?♦ had been framed and
adopted by the Convention aiding as the people’s \
represent ativeo H the 4 Mr Crittenden !
Bhuld have given the weight of his great name ho
\ the charge that the Legislature of Kansas had been
elected by Missourians, and ti tided frotn a report 1
I marie by Mr In>ugiaa, a#* chair-nan of *h<* Commit I
tec on Territoitea, under date of March |2, 1856, in j
disproof of the allegat ion There was no invasion of
Kausa Thu Census and registry of those entitled !
to participate in the first election showed that of
twentyeaveb b dud red totem wore than sixteen ban
died w**ru Southern men They had the numeroial
strength in the Territory, and OO invasion was
needed to s.'cure a majority. At the most it was
claimed that there had been fraudulent voting in
only seven dint riots—lubh than were uuflicient to
affect the legal character ol the Legislature, which,
moreover, should be lefl to determine the qualifica
tions ot its owm members, without revision or in
quiry by Congress. This whole cry of fraud was
evidently gotten up to distract and bewilder hottest
and credulous people for the sake masking tho real
i^eue —the questiou of admitting any more slave
States.
lie differed radically with Mr. Crittenden in his
views ol the Missouri restriction and its repeal. He
rejoiced that that odious statute bad been effaced,
lie was sure that Kentucky,even though, as some
ot her sister States feared, she loved the Union not
wisely but too well, would never endure the bond
age ol its renewed imposition. But should that
event occur it would not be among the least of its
aggrav at ions that her own cherished sou had con
spired to effect the wrong.
Mr. Toombs closed his fervid argument by paying
a warm tribute to President Buchanan, Mr. Secre
tary Cast?, and such of the Northern Democracy as
now exhibit the sublime spectacle of maintaining
the constitutional rights of the South against the ad
vancing strides of Northern fanaticism.
Mr. Crittenden, in a few eloquent remarks, re
plied to the strictures of Mr. Toombs. He hoped he
snould be pardoned for regretting the repeal of the
Missouri compromise, after having learned for more
than thirty years to revere and honor it as a great
patriotic measure, which had brought to the coun
try a lcveuue of peace aud goodwill—a richer reve
uue than any tariff act could ever bestow. He had
no quarrel with the Supreme Court. Herecoguia and
it as the tinal arbiter in questions belonging to its
jurisdiction, but he could yield obedience to its man
date without foregoing the matured aud honest con
victions of Lis reason aud judgment. He regretted
that the subject of slavery was made an incident of
this debate. It really formed no legitimate element
qf the Kansas discussion, which he had hoped would
be conducted on high considerations of equality aud
political justice. He was a Southern man, aud al
ways desired to see his section in the right. So feel
ing, he was eoustrained in the pending issue to ad
vise that which seemed to him right as a true son of
the South, and at the same time as a loyal citizen
of the United States. He prayed that the South
might ever bask in the sunshine of prosperity, and
that peace might return and reign throughout all the
land.
The concluding and eloquent remarks of the ven
erable Senator were greeted in the galleries with
loud applause, which, however, was soon repressed
in respect for the rules of the Senate.
Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, next obtained the floor
and commenced a speech, which having been ne
cessarily * impended upon the arrival of tbe time ap
pointed for a recess was afterwards resumed and
concluded at a late hour last night. Wo reserva *y 4
analysis of it for our next puper.
HOUSE.
In the House of Representatives the whole, day
was occupied by the debate o' u the bill to raise a
regiment of mounted volunteers lor Texas, and four
regiments of volunteers for Utah. Mr. Savage, of
Tennessee, supported the bill, and thought the reg
ular army should Continue to be but a fimall part of
our national defence so long as the citizen soldiery
could be retied on. He gave the Mormon leaders
eredit for sagacity, aud argued that they had count
ed tho cost of rebellion. Brigham Young was re
solved, like his model, Mahomet, to propagate his
faith by the sword ; but he had made a great mis
take in selecting this country first to war upon in
stead of a weaker nat ion—as, for instance, Alexico.
Mr. Washburne, of Maine, denied the legal right of
the President to send troops against Utah or any
other Territory and opposed a standing army as dan
gerous to liberty, lie apprehended that|the increase
was asked for to enable the Administration to force
the people of Kansas to submit to the Lecoinpton
constitution.
Mr. Blair, of Missouri, denounced the Mormons,
and favored the adoption of strenuous measures to
put them down. He hoped this rebellion would put
an end to the heresy of “squatter sovereignty/’ and
thought it was the duty of Congress to invest the
Governor and Judges of Utah with legislative pow
er. Gen. Quitman dosed 1 lie debate on the bill. —
lie denied that the Government was disposed to
war upon the Mormons or their religion, and hehj
thaftke mission of the troops was purely peaceful
The troops were detained too long in Kansas
summer, but that error was chargeable maiuky to
the Governors of that, Territoiy. Volunteera were
the best troops that could be employed, esjvwiially
as the country was averse to increasing the regular
army. He believed the lour volunteer regiments
would be ready for the field in forty days after the
passage of the bill:
The House adjourned at near four o’clock without
coming to a vote on the bill, but the main question
had been previously ordered, so that the kill will
be the first business in order this morning.
From the Philadelphia Baileruin.
Important from !apnr la
The Commissioners sent by Ho)’.and to the tem
poral Emperor of Japan, immediately after the con
elusion of the treaty with tbe U nited States, have
succeeded in obtaining au acknowledgment, as a
principle, that ah tho ports of Japan, without dis
tinction, shall be suc-oesaivaty opened to European
commerce. Not only have the ratifications of the
treaty of 185fi bee r * exchanged at Nangasaki, but
new articles of Ike highest importance have been
added to it, by virtue of which the ports of Nan
gasaki and llakodadi, to which the Dutch alone
were adw’.tted under very severe restrictions, will
be heno'di'orth open to all nations ; the first to date
from October ltilli, 1857, and the second ten months
late'..
Until a regular tariff of duties on imports can be
established, the Dutch will continue to pay fifty-five
per cent, on the value ot goods imported, this value
being determined bv public sales, or even by pri
vate sales, the good faith of which is undoubted.—
But as a compensation for this truly exorbitant rate
of duties, tho Court of Accounts is bound to re
cover, withont charge, all claims of the Dutch upon
Japanese, and guarantees the payment of all goods
bought by the Japanese at public Bales.
Purchases made by the Dutch will be paid in
bank bills, issued by the Court of Accounts, which
ia bound to change them on presentation for Ja
panese coin.
Au exchange and bazaar will be established at
llakodadi to facilitate transactions between the na
tives aud Europeans. Professors of the Japanese
language will be appointed by the authorities, with
power to receive as pupils, without distinction, all
foreigners who may wish to learn the language of
the country. The Dutcli resident will be received
by the chief of the government whenever he may
have international questions to discuss. The free
exercise of their religion is granted to all the Dutch
and the practice of obliging them to trample on the
cross of Chsist is abolished forever. They will also
be allowed to bring their wives and children with
them to Japan.
The Japanese have, however, combined some re
strictions with their generosity. Thus, it is strictly
forbidden to export specie of auykind, or to sell
arms or munitions of war to any other parties than
the government. It is believed, however, that in
regard to the first of these prohibitions, the com
missioners are not far from obtaining some conces
sions.
Disasters in a Fog. —Steamboat Sun/c—Rail
road Collision. —For several days during last week
dense fogs haye enveloped New York Bay and
Long Island bound, causing several accidents. The
steamer Worcester, from New York for Norwich,
got aground on Wednesday morning on the rooks
between the light-ship aud light off New London.
Altei some detention she was got off, and reached
New London leaking considerably. The Perth
Amboy steamer Thomas Hunt ako struck on the
rocks at Governor’s Island, but got off without
damage. Several of the ferry boats at New Y'ork
also come in collision and were slightly damaged.
Tne most serious injury was the sinking of the stea
mer Empire State, at five o'clock on Wednesday
morning on the trip from Fall River to New York.
We have the following additional particulars :
It seems the pilot lost his reckoning, and im
mediately below Oyster Bay he got so far out of
his way that the boat ran upon the rocks off Ma
tinacook Point and soon began to settle. This was
about ten minutes past 5 o’clock, and it wae as yet
before daylight. There were one hundred and ten
passengers on board, who, when the steamer began
to settle gave themselves up for lost, as they could
see no succor near.
The captain immediately gave out signals of dis
tress, which were fortunately noticed by the offi
cers of the Commodore Vanderbilt, which was
close behind. Captain Brayton, although there
was much risk in the endeavor, determined to do
all in his power to save the passengers, and ac
cordingly approached the spot carefully. In five
minutes after the Empire .State struck the rocks
she filled with water to the level of the deck, and
the excitement on board amongst the passeDgeru
reached a great height.
The Vanderbilt finally got near enough to com-
mence taking off the passengers, a task which was
accomplished after several hours’ hard work, to the
great joy of those who feared they would meet a
watery grave. No one was hurt, though the ma
jority of the passengers suffered from cold, ae they
were kept in an involuntary bath for over an hour.
Aftei the pa9seDgers were saved, the work of ta
king the luggage on board the Vanderbilt was com
menced, and finally accomplished at 10 o’clock in
the morning, at which time the Vanderbilt headed
for the city.
The Empire State with her after-deck two feet
now lies under water, while the bow is dry. Three
tugs with a schooner have been sent up, with pumps
and other apparatus, to take oft'freight and assist
her in getting off. Should a storm come up nothing
could save her from going to pieces; but should
the weather continue mild there is a possibility that
she may be got off, much damaged. The Empire
State is insured to her full value.
A collision occurred on Wednesday morning
about one o’clock on the New Haven railroad, near
Stamford, between the midnight express traiu, which
brought the European mails by the North Ameri
can, and a freight train. Both were proceeding to
New York, but the freight train had been delayed
for half an hour by the breaking of a wheel. An
the midnight Boston express was due, men were
sent a quarter of a mile'back with lanterns. Un
fortunately there was a dense fog at the time, so
that tfieee signals were useless, the express passing
the signal men and not applying th e brakes until
immediately upon the rear of the freight train. The
engineer lumped off. eeeaping with a tew bruises.—
The engine was badly injured, driven off the track,
and one freight car was shattered to pieces. The
conductor wa3 slightly wounded, every other person
on board escaping.
Lat eh from Utah. —We have received, by way
of California, Salt Lake advices to the ~th of Janu
ary inclusive. It is reported that Brigham Young
has been instigating the Oregon Indians to rebel.
He has offered to pay them a certain sum per head
for every horse or mule they may capture and bring
to him. A regular express is continually running
between Sait Lake City and Oregon Territory.
The San it. ego He raid gives currency to a report
that the Mormons had actually commenced mov
ing towards Northern Mexico. The tone of the
Mormon sermons, delivered in the Tabernacle, is
neariy the same as before, except that Brigham
YouDg seems to use less v.olent language. The
otter preachers continue to preach against the Uni
ted States just as they did four months ago.
A memorial signed by the members and officers
of the Utah Legislature has been seat to Congress.
This document recites the alleged wrongs of the
Saints, and caiis upon the President to restore to
the Mormons their lost property in Missouri and
punish the murderers of Prophet Joseph Bmith, and
the assassins of Parley P. Pratt They say if the
government will restore their constitutional rights ;
withdraw their invading army, and permit them to i
make their own official appointments, all will be
right, but intimate that unless this be done trouble
will come of it We have also news from Col.
Jonns’-oo s camp to the -loth January, seventeen
days later than previous accounts. The health of
tue troops continued good. But little had occurred
to vary the monotony of camp life. It was suppos
ed that another route than that heietofore decided on
would be taken by the army in their advance upon
Salt Lake City. No mail from the East had reach
ed the oamp since October.
China, Jatan, and Siam.—The Chinese official
census of 1825, stated the population of that im.
mense empire at 367,632,905. That of Japan is va”
riously estimated at from 25,000,(100 to 50000 000
while that of S am is not mare than 5,000 000 ’ The
three may be estimated in round numbers at some
thing like 400,000.005 The superficial extent ofJheae
nations is from 1 ( to 2 millions of square miles .
WEEKLY
Cfjnmiclc & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. GA.
WKPMIfnA V MORNING, MAR’II 24, IN3N.
THINGS TO REMEMBER!
ifKAI> THEM.
A* it is always be.H that men who have buai*
ma<34 franeaction* together, ebouW Understand each
j othet fully, we hope every reader of the Chronicle
! Sentinel will read and re member what follow*
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Southern Cultivator
The April number of this excellent Agricultural
Journal is at hand, containing much useful instruc
tion and information adapted to the season. We
would not so often commend the Cultivator to
Southern patronage, says the Edgefield Advertiser
iu a notice of the April number, did we not know
from intimate acquaintanceship, that there is not a
more ably managed publication of its kind in Ame
rica. The following is the table of extents for tbe
present number :
Plantation Economy and Miscellany.—Ani
mal Force and how to maintain it; Sugar made
from the Chinese Sugar Cane; Destroying foul
Grasses—Summer Fallowing; Hungarian Grass;
Fiah Ponds and Fish Breeding; Premium List of
the Southern Central Agricultural Society—Fair of
1858; Sucking up Water from Sand ; North Devons
—the proper Cattle for the South; Cut Worms ,
Fossilfzntion; Chinese Sugar Cane ; Vivaperous
Cut Worms ; Experiments and Essay—A Proposi
tion; Treatment of Manures, The Negro Race;
Camels for the “Dry Plains/’ Hog Feeding and
the Sweet Potato, dec ; Harness Galls; The Farm
er; To Clear Steep Laud; Remedy for Leaks ; Abo
litionism; Sorgho Brandy—Distillation, &<\; Ber
muda Grass ; Chickens—Their Treatment, &c.;
Banks in the United States ; How Agriculture may
be improved ; Warm Bathing.
Editorial.—Superior Agricultural Implements ;
Fence and Fencing ; Modelled Fruit ; French and
German Prunes; New Advertisements, <fec, The
Effects of Moonlight; To Measure Corn in the bulk ;
Native Wines; Estimating Crops.
Horticultural Department. —Hints for the
Month; Fruit Raising in the South, Native and
Foreign Grapes; The Warren Grape ; I low to make
a Garden out of Clay ; Ye Rhyme of Ye “Rutrtyc,”
(Poetry). Consumption of Fruit.
Terms per annum, in advance. Address
‘ W. S. Jones, Augusta Ga.
The United States Hotel.
The attention of Visitors and the traveling pub
lie, is invited to the advertisement of the Pro
prietor of the United States Hotel, in which he
announces a reduction in the price of board, in con
sequence of the reduction in the price of provi
sions.
KeMuinption of .Specie Payments.
At a meeting of the Presidents of the Banks of
this city, on Thursday last, the following preamble
aud resolution were adopted, looking to an early
resumption of specie payments by the Banks. Al
though the bills of our Banks are now, aud have
been for some weeks, virtually equal to specie, be
cause they are supplying the entire demand for ex
change on New-York at a half per cent premium,
yet this announcement will be received with sincere
gratification by the friends of a sound currency
everywhere: #
Whaveas, a resumption of specie payments by the
Banks of Georgia, especially by those in Augusta,
in advance of South Carolina, would at any time
be inconvenient; and whereas, a delay of that mea
sure until the Ist of June, when most of thecrop will
have been realised upon, would materially lessen
the inconvenience ; and as the Ist of June has like
wise the recommendation of promising the coope
ration of the South Carolina Banks, that period
commands our decided preference; but, notwith
standing these views, be it
Resolved , That the Banks of Augusta trill resume
specie payments, simultaneously with those of Sa
vannah, whether the day fixed upon be the Jut of
May or June, irrespective of what may be done in
South-Carolina.
This action of the Bank Presidents of Augusta
we hope, will satisfy our Savannah contemporary,
the Republican , that he was rather in advance of
the music in his Buncombe blast yesterday. Such
a feat is, however, not rare in the bistory of fogy
dom. Its peculiar vocation is to lag behind, and
when it fancies that it is about to acquire a position
in the lead, it is perfectly natural for it to cut up ca
pers. It is excusable. Much should be pardoned
to the freaks of senility.
A Wild Cat In Limbo.
The Albany Patriot contains the following para
graph in reference to the Bainbridge Wild Cat:
Southern Bank at Bainbriiige. —A private
letter says : “ Hr. McElveen is out of the Southern
Bank, and its best friends have wholly forsaken it.
Its bills will not pass at all. I'm sold.”
We had indulged the hope, that tbe day was near
at hand when Georgia would be rid of these swind
ling shops, but the last Legislature quite dispelled
it. With a Legislature so entirely ignorant of the
great interests of the State, there is no calculating
upon the future. If they do right, it is rather the re
sult of accident and sheer good luck, tlian the ex
ercise of any sound discretion or judgment. This
is not a very flattering picture of the Georgia Le
gislature, but it is as faithful and truthful as if
traced with a pencil of light.
Resumption. —We copied from the Chronicle &
Sentinel, a few days since, some remarks upon a
publication in the Charleston papers, to the effect
that Georgia bank notes would be received on de
posite in tbe Charleston banks, as an accemmoda
tion to customers. The Chronicle was qui -e indig
nant at the lliug at our institutions, and commented
upon it somewhat severely, all ol which we fully
endorsed.— Sav. Rej>.
Wk are certainly very much obliged to the Repub.
lican foT“cndor.iinf’” the Chronicle Sentinel, and
still more obliged to our contemporary for inform
ing us of his “ endorsement otherwise we never
shovjd have dreamed of it, much less have known
it. If oopying an article, and purposely omitting,
as did the Republican, ail that could have been tor
tured into severity or indignation, is “ fully endors
in if” it, then the Republican endorsed us most fully
for which we repeat our thanks, with the earnest
hope that our amiable contemporary will spare us
such endorsement in future.
Medicnl College of Georgia.
We are gratified to announnee that the Profes’
soi ship of Chemistry and Pharmacy in our Medi
cal College, vacated by the resignation of Prof.
Means, has been promptly filled by the unani
mous election of Prof. Joseph Jones, now of the
University of Georgia.
We understand that the Professor elect will make
our city his permanent residence.
Could we have gained permission, we wonld
gladly have published his letter of acceptance to
the Secretary, manifesting, as it does, a noble zeal
for the i aterests of Medical Science.
Seldoi i has it happened that so young a man has
made for himself a national reputation, by original
Physiological researches.
His dwvotion to the subject of Chemical Physiol
ogy gives assurance of a most valuable course of
Medical Chemistry to the students of the Medical
College of Georgia.
A Kansas paper states that it is the intention of
a gentleman in Virginia to carry to Topeka, early
in the coming Spring, 200,000 grape roots, embrac
ing the most productive and hardy; varieties cultiva
ted in this country.
The whole amount > Appropriated for the State ex
penses of Pennsylvania for the ensuing year, is
$3,095,400, of which ffj, ooo,ooo is for interest on the
State debt, and $254,£30 for the maintenance of the
eanals.
On the 29th of January’ two Americans at Con
stantinople fitted up is sleigh and drove around the
oity, an exploit never before accomplished in that
place. They passed up and down by ths Buttau’s
palaoe The Turk p ware delighted.
The Albion.
The friends of this excellent journa l . will 1 , !s
ed to learn, that the Agent, J. E Lyman, i, now
this city, on his anuuai tour, delivering tho yearly
Engraving to sub cribers. The engraving this year
is a most superb specimen of art, representing Dr
Kane at the Graves of Sir John Franklin** Me .
The likeness of the celebrated Arctic navigator, i
pronounced by his lather a moat excellent OBe. In !
j a note to the publishers of the Albion, lie* says : _
Fern Rock, near Philadelphia, ItKJan., 1858.
! Gentlemen—l have to thank you, and Ido it
most cordially, for the admirable portrait of my son
. which you sent me a proof of, It ia, ia tlm. qstima-*
! f >f all my family, the very best ftßencs# w.
have aeen ot him, as he was alter engaging in the
Expeditions of iteecue . and, as a work of ai t, it i •
worthy of all praise. I -hall be glad to secure copies
for distribution among his friends.
Very faithfully, your most ob*t sejv’t,
J. K Kane.
Messrs. VVm. Young .1 Cos., of the Albion.
In reference U the merits of the Albion , as a jour
nal of English literature and bows, its reputation ..
too well oMablisksd to need ahy tHi/nmembitioii at
our hands
The Agent, Mr. Lyman, may Imj found at the
Mansion House.
A Splendid Bouquet.
MM Smith , has been pleased to remind us in the
most agreeable maim fir, that the season ot Hqu. i-Ji
again at hand and now here, by presenting u- iv<rb
one of the most beautiful and tasteful Boaqucls, we
over rrcollect to have seAn, which wa. j culled from
the splendid collection of rare and beautiful plants
in her garden. It was a perfes gem.
A Wild t at in So\annul*.
‘rhe Republican fUiHpects Wild Cat-isuT wi tffe
“ Timber Cutter’s Bank/’ which has recently gorn*
into operation in that city. Here is what it say
“ Ih it Ho? —Che Timber Cutter's Hawk hast he
reputation of being a “ Wild Cat ” The rumor has
been current in the streets for some t ime, and w- ,
have published one or two comimmioationH broadly J
hinting at the same idea It is tunc this jinriHitU'W
wan defending itself, or it must expect to b riiJ
credited, and fail in all those end* or whi oh !*gH- !
mate banks are instituted. If everything ha 1” e ,
conducted according to the requirement* of the char j
ter, no harm can result from the expofutiou. It not,
then let the concern go by the b*nrd 1 *me,
tleraen, show your hands aud clear ynn riven rd ij*
odium which Attache** to a body that refur-s* to de
fend its own character.
Banks are public institut ions, and fair subject s for j
public criticism and exposition. We have received
a communication in which bold assertions are made
iu reference to the above-named bank, and by a
writer who seldom takes positions that he unable
to defend. We see no reason that would justify us
in reiusing to admit it into our columns, and n. U |
came to hand too late for this issue it w'rll appear on
Monday. ’ ’
Georgia Item*.
Delicate Operation.— A son ot Mr. K D
Ivey of Baker county, about seven years old, ay
the Milledgeville Records, got a grain of corn down
his wind-pipe near four weeks tiu< e ; and after an
unsuccessful attempt in that section to extract U
be brought his boy on Saturday last to Dr. Samuo
G. White of our city, who opened the wiud-pipc,
aud extracted the grain with but little difficulty,
much to the relief of the little sufferer.
Burnt to Death.— The Millegeville Recorder
says :—A subscriber in Striven county writes us
under date of the 7th iust.,that a Mr. (fbadiah.
Dumas was so badly burned on the night of the slh
inat, at Station No. f> on the Central Railroad, as to
cause his death the next morning. He was asohooj
teacber, had been iu that county about two years
and had a father in our near Forsyth, Monroe coun
ty, Georgia.
Found Drowned. —On Sunday last, Cormier
Wright was called upon to hold an inquest on the
body ot a man found by some fishermen floating in
the river three miles below this city. The vcrdic!
of the jury was, that he cauie to his death b\
drowning, as no marks of violence were found upon
his person. Subsequently to the verdict of the jury,
it has beeu ascertained that his name was R bcrl
Jamison, and that he resided a few miles from the
city. He had evidently, from his appearance, been
in. the water several days. Acmpi • gold stud
were found in his shirt bosom, wim !r wese file only
articles of value on his per si u. < Vi. mbus Son.
Conviction for Mukdeo—-A- * ‘urin ’ the
Superior Court of Crawford cou* t . week Jas
Revel was returned by the G m.h . ury ns yuilty. of
the crime of murder, for shou.t g . ih.mmaek
aud George Adams. He wae nud f*rr the murder
of Hammack, and found guUy, na#J v.:mx . :'>l by
Judge Lamar, to be hung on u‘. j 1 • May.
Revel is quite a youug man, as were ibosa jvho
were murdered. No circumstances wue developed
in the case to show any serious personal difficulties !
between the parties, or immediate oftfifivlbi tho hc!
lie attempted also to discharge a revolver at two ,
other persons, but the caps did not explode. Not
even the common plea ol int ixication could be in
terposed in extenuation of the crime, with regard t .
any of the parties. —Macon Mt as.
The Dean Cotton.-— The Mercury states tha Ia
bale of this cotton sold in Mobile, the lltli inet., tor
4 JO cents F ff>. It was produced on the plantation !
of Messrs. T. T. Tyree, and is of a riefi creamy
color with a long silky fibre. If found in Chart* ston
or Savannah, it would be called sea island cotton.-
It is important that its cultivation be extended-.
A Sensible Wife ! Extravagance in dress, at
the French Court, is said to exceed any tiling of the
kind ever known there. An income ol s*,*o,ooll a
year scarcely suffices to dress equal to the requite
ment of the court. An American lady, whose hus
band was rich, determined to outshine the Empress
at one of the receptions. She nearly ruined ber
husband, but she accomplished her object, .and. wan
called the beat dressed wornau of the party.
The Duke de Montebello has been appointed
ambassador of France at. St. Petersburg. He Was
formerly au Orleauiat.
This diplomatist is a son of the famous Marshal
Lances, of the first. Empire, who was created Duke
of Montebello, in Italy, on account of a victory >b
tained by him at that place. The present. Duke is
known in the United States, having visited this
country in company with Count de Bresson. Who,
on a mission under the French Government to the
South American Republics, took the Uutted States
on his way, to see his wife’s relations, having mar -
ried a daughter of the late Judge Thompson, of tho
Supreme Court, when he was here as Secretary pf
Legation to Mr. Hyde de Neutville, the French
Minister during Mr. Monroe’s administration.
Th North American Medico-Chikukgk ai.
Review. —The March number of this invaluable
bi monthly has been on our table some days, and
after an examination of its contents, we take great
pleasure in recommending it lo the Altont on of the
profession. This work is worth the subscription
solely on account of the able reviews if contains of
the various Medical works that are now teeming
from the press. The present number contains eight
analytical and critical reviews of various works,
besides eight original articles; an able report
from Dr. Austin Flint on the progress of Practi
cal Medicine in America, and an extensive Bi-
Monthly Periscope. This is a periodical that should
bo on the table of every practitioner.
It js edited by Professors S. I). Gross and T. G
Richardson, and published in Philadelphia by J.
B. Lippincott & Cos., at per aflnuin in advance.
Address the Publishers, Philadelphia.
Godey’s Laj>y’s Book. —The April number ot
this flourishing and popular Lady’s Magazine, lias
been received. The opening engraving ot this
number is “The Fishing Party’’— a beautiful and
tasteful picture. The usual copious supply of fash
ion plates, patterns and receipts are given. These,
with the interesting variety of reading matter con
tained in each number of the Lady’s Book, render
it by far the most useful and popular publication o!
its kind in the country.
Receipts ok Cotton. —A romparHon of*tbo
receipts of Cotton at all the Southern ports at thi
time, with the receipts at the aame lime last year,
show a total decrease of -J77,3(>7 bales.
No Free Negro Introduction.— The biil Ik-fore”
the Louisiana Legislature for the introduction into
the State of free negroes troin Africa, to be uppren
tices for fifteen years, has been indefinitely pont,*
poned by a majority of two.
Distressing Accident.—We regret to learn
says the Atlanta Amr,ric(hu of Friday, that Mrs.
Turner, wife of Kev. Mr. Turner, while riding *wi a
buggy with her husband, yesterday, near, Talinct
to, Coweta eo., was instantly L’ • J y u kick
from the horse, which taking fright in.maii
agable.
Mississippi—^at a L Fight \.m ; i Law
vers. —W r e learn troin the Mi . ; i>,<d
Saturday last, that at a fate ter. . , r Probate
Court of Choctaw county, Mia - • . being
argued before the Probate Jt V ’ ‘ iWm.
Brantley, Esrp, represented one side, and Mess-n.
Nowland and T. W. Davis the other, in tbe oourne j
of his argument Brautly became very personal; and
said that Nowland and Davis were both (od.d —n
rascals, who would steal, dec , 6cc. An angry al
tercation ensued, when Brantley drw a pistol and
presented it at Nowland, who dared hjin to fire,
saying at the same time that he was not excited.
Brantiey told him to go and arm him elf, upon
which he started outof the room. As he turned lo
leave Brantley kicked him, when Nowland slabbed
him in tbe side. The wound was considered mor
tal, and Brantley was borne to his residence where
be made his will. On recovering from his agitation
however, he was found to be less injured than was
at first supposed. Ills recovery wit- nevertheless,
cousiderd very doubtful at last accounts. On the’
following morning, as Nowland was going to his
breakfast, he was waylaid and shot by Brantley’s
brother, who immediately made his escape.
The Richmond Enquirer thus rebukes tin Wash
ington Union: —“The position of the Enquirer on \
this question, entities ns to urge the present pro
test, in which we are sustained by the Democracy
of tbe State. However cordially the majority of
Virginia Democrats approve and endorse the Pres
ident's position, they will neither fraternize with
Van Buren and Bennett, nor will they hunt down
with insulting opprobrium, eilher toe masses or the
leaders of that portion of their own partisans who
may honestly differ from them on a single *yopora ‘
ry issue.”
The Wheat Crop or Tennessee.— /The Chat
tanooga Advertiser states upon the authority of re
ports from different parts of East Tennessee, that
the wheat crop looks unusually fine thus lar it
has a good stand on the ground, and is as forward in i
usual, and growing beautifully. An unusually large
amount has been sown, and if no mishap tmfale it
tbe harvest will be abundant.
The Washington Union give* Mr. John Vail Bu
ren a capital puff, apropos of his recent speech at
Tammany Hall- It says “he is one of the ni*.
electrical orators in this or any other country. ~
Judging by the shocks has given the Democrat ic
party, from 1848 to the present time, we think th- ,
Union is quite right.— Sev iork Sun.
Cotton FACTqRiEJ.-'Tbree of the principal cot
ton mills in Allegheny, Pa., the “Penn, An chop,
and “Eagle,” commenced running rhree-quarters
tim6 on Monday-
The Washington Union announced Ihat Mr. H;r
nelina Wendell baa become iu pubiiaLer, vie* Ilou
W. A. Harris, who retires.
Fatal Aeon Cit zenoi
Sffurd • aya “We learn that a Mr. Brawner,—
:i teacher by occupation, was fatally stabbed on
la“ Monday evening, by one of his students only
twelve year-: old. The circumstances connected
wild t e,i< ;;s >ltows : YVhilothe boys were
1 at play, during rents ‘, Mr. Brawner beard the little
i boy making use of ptofane language ; he addressed
| the boy—William Collins—and asked him what he
| said. The lad repeated-the oath, whereupon, tho
i teacher enid to him, ‘William, come into the house,
j and I will settle with you.’ The lad walked to the
school room, jmd while on the way, report says that
| u largti boy said to W illiam, ‘if he attempts to whip
i yen,stick your knife in him.’ Mr. Brawner struck
I him once in twice with a switch, William returned
j til* blow ; aud* m&dfe hi* escape by i mining off.—
J Mr. B. ran after him some distance, and on his re
j burn was observed to fall several biuic s. lie died
1 from a slab received in the left breast, before reach-
I ing the school liou^e
• “We 4earri that Mr. Brawner w> rained nea
j Rlberton, Rlbert dquniy, Georgia. Ho was an es
| tunable young man, beloved by a!) woo knew him,
and w;u a particular favorite w ith William’s pa
;• he lut'd been chief attends nt at n wedding
i matriagt) “nuptials of William’s sis'er. This sad
j accident occurred neai Berlin, Chambers county
Alabama.”
Destructive Fire in Philadelphia— Loss of
Blooded Horses and Cattle. — A despatch dated
Philadelphia. March IG, rays:—This morning about
i Iwo o’clock, the extensive barn on the Lancaster
| pike, near this city, belonging to Tlios. P. Reining
ton, Esq., was totally* destroyed by tiie, together
| with a large number of horses and sixty-four head
of the best blood,-d cattle iu the county. # They had
I **en collectsby Mr ft minimal pv-.l <*p <-,
j but by the farmers generally. The loss isestim ted
i at about f*JS,CKiO, upon which there is no insurance*
his policies having exp<rad about one inonUi since
The fir<* is ibefft and t-• an it.cendinr\, many el
. whom arc p/ovsl'.ug-about the < uunty The farmers
are in great alarm.
I jVIi sAKD in New York.—The Paris Courier
Franc;* Italian, Feb 25th, says that Musard will
| depart on the Ist March for the United SUi< h, hav
I ing been engaged by Uliman, a! a salary . 40,000
I francs and four half benefits, (we presume for one
■year. The concerts, says the Courier, will alternate
| with the representations of tho opera, aiui will also
| ilc given with the sipgevs at the opera- Tkalb'-rg,
| Vieuxteinps, &<\ Among other artists of the Con
1 eerts do. Paris who will accompany Mm aid aiv
| lVjneiaon, flutiit, and Unbans, hautboy the best
j in Europe. They are engaged for New Yoik, Phil
adelphia, iToston and Bait unors
Another Tooth will Answer as W ell.—
Another sorrow has fallen upon Sa erno. “No
sooner,” says the Lon lon Daily News, “has the
panic occariotied by the earthquake lx gun to cease
than the population are again alarm* and by another
sfttLevent. The tooth ot Si. Mailhew, the Bishop,
one of the precious relics of the church, has been
stolen. It disappeared during Uio agitation con
‘sequent on the late disaster, and this iiu dent is
. auother proof o£that moral disorder wh-eh often
pseceptible in times of gi* • ‘ <ud and . !<t. The
bishop has ordered tlx* cxcoinmunicution of the
sinner, but to no effect ; processions v*t i torches
have been made, all equally u ilr s , the precious
relic is not to be found.’
Fih vi >n in Ohio —The report of Ohio
Oeminis.-ioiKis of the ‘(’oinmou Sclnx*! for is.v;,
8,01)1 . scholars enrolled, G0.*.:117; uvera o atlen
dauce, :iSO,BGi f total number of aclic-d y..uth, HP,
8k); tiumbdf of makTt each era, 10,181); iriiiul-teach
ert, 8,(181 ; paid to m !• teachers, $1,181,8!'.); to fe
male teachers, ssßl), lffr. The report, einbrnoes re
turnsplso, of ID seminar h land II c I’.eg In the
colleges there are 1 ,GD.*pupils, pursuing a full course t
and JGS a partial cturae, and there in the pre
paratory, department, l -’ pupils. Th M.lue of
co legp property is and U endowments
amount to $700,000. Thqir libraries contain, alto
gether, 80/100 volumes.
Mysic and the Dk\m\ -The New k'n ! ers are
having a Tine time in tlx mbit t of flu religious ex.
| nitemenf Tbe grand opera ol ‘ Thu Hugonots”
continues with unabafed stucei’ at the Academy
Two ot tlx* theatres are running tho Bie ; , v of Luck
now, twid a third Announces Nt-na Sahib | repara
lion. •Burton is bringing out “ Lif* at Salt Lake/*
llilH lon-stalling a Mormon dra a w!.ei\ Wal'iick
Iras been underlining for weeks past, and which is
to be produced there in the course **f a fortnight-
J’he Wifureß in Eurofk,—(Jontrarv i** tho ex
paiieuoejof early aud mid winter on thi suh-of thx
Atlantic, those seasons in Europe ha < 0i * y a r
been remarkably severe, even iu rather Southern
latitudes In the Island of Malta,which i not far
from the Afiioan coast., the snow was several fe*t
seep, anti this was the. find snow . j.riu of ronse
qqence there since 181:1, a year-tliat will bo ever
lueumrable for the diradrous Ru-siau campaign ot
the first Napoleon. v\t l onirtautinople, up to tlie
3d ult., snow fell for fifteen days in succession, aqd
so terrible a winter had not been experienced in
Turkey for twenty yeaifl. The navigation wish
Odessa was, entirely cjosed, and oven the Greek
Islands were clothed in whitg. For tho first time in
a century the river Po, in Italy, had boon frozen
tight, so that men, horses and vehicles passed over
its surface. In Smyrna, generally so fr< o from win
ter, th * frost and jnovy have occasioned much in
convenience and suffering. In many of the towns
in T-urkey and Grece • the n>< h >f hoii.-. .< lui.l fallen*
in from the weight of snow accumulated upon them
This reminds ue of the *reoonta of former ages,
wlien, between the years HIOO and I“00, il o Tiber
an? even the Adriatic Sea were several times frozen
hard—the lattei near Venice and Tries!
liuviNii “Old Masters. I The following ex.
tract, says an Albany paper, from a private letter
lately received by Palmer, the Sculptor, from a
distinguished ex-< iovernor now in Rome, contains
a suggaetive commentary on those numerous art
bargains, in which the purch?. ran well an the pic
ture is “ sold : ’’
i hav not the mge ho what are ca!l-d and sold
for <r old 1 1 •
iJourts 1 ere short ti e im s, agi nl nui ho
i had purchased an ttUtlientieatMl and tjfn dongi
nal painting, with a celebrated name, for £80(1
(SIOOO ) II*; subsequently lean,-.? the; the prigu.al
was. in actsrthiii galiery, or palace, ad that he had
only a copy. He sued tho person from whom he
purchased it, and on the trial the painter who made
his copy whs a toitnew, ami swore t hat lie made it,
and received only'thirty dollass for it. from ti.o rner
chant wlio sdW Dto i... p aiuhff So . are
not uncommon. The imitation of old pa'iilinga is a
taade quite an much as an art lu re.
Dastardly Murder ivaMavon County Just
before going s, to day, says the Montgomery
Mail of Tuesday, we heard v< i bally tlm* on Friday
nigid lost, J* thro Walker, an old and v. ill-known
citizen of Macdn count v, living betw.-rn ~
aud Tuskegee, was shot instantly dead while Hitting
by the fire iu Ms own house. It is supposed that
the discharge w < from a double-barreled shot gun.
The assassin is anyel upknowp, but it id
said, attaches to some persons of the vie.infly.
The M)armomoi;h Demc( racy TJie e.uT-tive
Leeomi*ton zeal of the Washington Unioit having
hiducqj that paper -to undertake the riielt of pro
scribing apd.persecuting Senator Donglaq that
statesman has retaliated by injuring j| ;< mi beer ip
ton list. IB* has sent circulars through Illinois and
the West, addresned toJiis peculiar friend*, recom
mending them topiocure nb riber-j to t.im VUn-fi.
ingteu “States, [’ as “the only democrat i. paper now
publb.-hcxi rn the District of Columbia. One of
these letters was received at Peoria, and on the
strengilrof H. a list, of br-tw* a ii-i and 30 subscribers
for ttif states was obtained immediatel y
KottiiKHJES.—We regretJo learn, nays the l)al
ton Time 8, that. Capt. James Morris and .1. F. B
Jack son, of this chy, were robbed a few nights
since of abrht three thousand doilair tin forioei
losing one, and the latter two thousand. Tin, rob
beries were Committed between this city and Nash
ville, while travelling upon tiiecaj . Judging from
tlHrnumSrouk outrages of this charad ei v* i. hJmvo
recently been-committed, we think that the Devil
is certainly at iarg<\ with tjie last link of c am bro’
ken .
| Rostra MouAMum Pasha.- . despatch
fro;n-Washington City, dated Tu ‘day, 1 I met ,
I says : Mohammed Pa-ha arrived to mgi.; luu
I dor.-,laud that he had noi been at Willard <• Hotel
twenty-*nl nut fiis room vyas broken op ;i hi*
trunks ransacked and their conteuU strewn about,
and his enrpd.- bag cut fairly in two. Two tkoua-nd.
dollars in gold, and a crown eet with gems vo- i h a
- more, were.undiscovered by tbethieve.-
The New York Express says that only about one *
in ten of the.passenger* on the under ground rail
•load, reported by the abolifcionitt papeffs, arc in re
alky fugitive slaves! Cunning negroes, under thin
jiretence, now thin Travel about, with “ free rides,’
“free board/*and without work. If “the Under
ground'” did the twentieth part of the real work it
’ reports itself doing, Cahhxla would br so full of no
groes^that there would be ... room for the white
man. w #
; A'Kuhstiyute for iy£*KANSin Bill. Mr Hit
hiner/'of iN’o/th Carolina, has given notice to the
I Hon** of Representatives of n substitufo f*r the
Kansas bill, wbictf proposes to admit th 7 T- rritory *
into the Union without Recognizing or mentioning
any constitution whatever, except to declare that in
thus admitting said Territory Hie act shall not “In
■o construed as” to “recognize or reject or to deb i
mine the validity M any constitution, which has been
presented to Congrei.-; the true intentand meaning
ofthis'ach beings to leave the people of Kansas per
%tly trap foform and regulate their domestic ineti
J4tiffe<and affairs in their own way, subject orilylo •
tiie oopstitHlion gs tbe United State*.’’
J AfquiTTA*. or Cue. Sumner. — Tbe New York
j Time* learn* from a reliable quarter'that the remit
I of the recent court martial upon Cel. Sumner, at
i Carlisle Barrack*, wan the acquittal of Col. 8. upon
| both the ehargea preferred against him by Gen.
j flgrimy. ‘The court, deliberated lops than fifteen
I minutes before agreeing upon tbeir verdict. Col.
‘ Sumner ha* left Carlisle for Watertown,-N. Y ,
where fie will meet bis f *trily. He is und r order*
for Utah, and Wiii leave Fort Leveiiw.iltli with bis
regiment on tbo Bkb of May.
. Exciting Trot for $1 ,060 on the Ice.— A I rot
for SSOO aside came off last Saturday afternoon on
the ice, near Tivoli, N. Y., betw'een a horse from
Hudson and another from Poughkeepsie. LTpwarde
of 3,000 persons were present to witness the trot
ting powers of the fastest horees in Ponghkeepele
and Hudson. The Hudson horse appears to be
quite a “fast horse,” a* it won the first three feats
iri a regular Flora Temple style, and is. perhaps a
little of the most remarkable trotting ever witnessed
on tbe iqp in tbe Hudson river. The following is
the time made by tbe Hudson horse : First heat
2.3* ; second beat, 2.29; third heat, 2.27.