Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1858 — Page 2

Now for the evidence. The President of the United State* tells us, in his Message. t! at he had unequivocally expressed his opinions, in the form of instructions to Governor Walker, assuming that the constitution was to be submitted to the people for ratification. When we look iliio uonruur »» wiser s leuer 01 acceptance of the office of Governor, we find that he stated expressly that he accepted it with the understanding that the President and bis whole Cabinet concurred with him, that the constitution, when formed, was to be submitted to the people for ratification. Then look into the instructions given by the President of the United States, through General Cass, the i Secretary of Stale to Governor Walker, i and you there find that the Governor is l instructed to use the military power to I protect the polls when the constitution < shall be submitted to the people of Kansas I for their free acceptance or rejection.— I Trace the history a little further and you will find that Governor Walker went to i Kansas and proclaimed, in his inaugural, ' and in his speeches al Topeka aud else- I •where that it was the distinct understand- < ing, not only of himself, but of those high- < er in power than himself—meaning the i President and his Cabinet—that the con- 1 ttitulion was to be submitted to the peo- I pie for their free acceptance or rejection, < and that he would use ail the power at his command to defeat its acceptance by < Congress, if it were not thus submitted | to the vote of the people. Mr. President, 1 am not going to stop j and inquire bow f r the Nebraska bill, which said the people should be left perfectlv free to form their constitution for themselves, authorized the President, or the Cabinet, or Governor Walker, or any other territorial officer, to interfere and tell the Convention of Kansas wherther thev should or should not submit the question to the people. I am not going to stop to inquire how far they were au thorized to do that, it being my opinion trial the spirit of the Nebraska bill required it to be dene. It is sufficient for my purpose that tLe Administration of the Eider al Government unanimously, that the administration of the territoiral government, in al! its parts, unanimously un- ' derstood the territorial law under which the Convention was assembled to mean that the constitution to be formed by that convention should be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection; and, if not confirmed by a majority of the people should be null and void, without coming to Congress for approval. Not only did the National Government and the territorial government so understand the law at the time, but, I have al ready stated, the people of the Territory to understood it. As a further evidence that print, a htge number, if not a majority, of the delegates were instructed in the nominating conventions to submit the constitution to the people for ratification. I know that the delegates from Douglas county, eight in numb-r, Mr. Calhoun, president of the Convention, being among them, w ere not only instructed thus to submit the question, but they signed and puhlrihed, while candidates, a written pledge ti.at they would submit it to the people for ratification. I know that men high in authority, and in the confidence of the Territorial and National during the election of delegates, and each ore of them pledged himself to the people that r.o snap judgement was to be taken; that the Constitution was to be submitted to the people for acceptance, or rejection, that it would be void unless that was dene; that the Administration would spurn and scorn it as a violation of the principles on which it came into power, and that a Democratic Congress would hurl from their presence as an insult to 1 Desecrats who stood pledged to see the people left to form their domestic institu- , tion* for themselves. Nut only that, sir, but up to the time when the Convention -assembled, on the Ist of September, s_ far as I can learn, it was understood everywhere that the Constitution was to be submitted for ratification or rejection — ■ - I f Bej 'ember, and adjourned until after the October election. I think it was wise and prudent that they should thus have adjourned.— Thev did not wish to bring any question into that election which would divide the Democratic party, aud weaken our chances of success in the election. I was rejoiced when I saw that they did adjourn, so as not to show their hand or any question that would divide and distract the party until after the election. During that recess, while the Convention was adjourned Governor Kansom, the Democratic candidate for ccngr-ss, runing against the pies-«-nt defegato from that Territory, was canvassing every part of Kansas in favor of the doctrine of submitting the Constitution to the people, declaring that the Democratic party were in favor of such submission, and that it was a slander >1 the Blaek Republicans to intimate the Democratic party did not intend to car’y out that pledge in good faith. Thus, up to the time of the meeting of ;he Conventi.sn, in October last, t'.ie pretence was kept up, the profession was openly made nnd believed by me. and I thought believed bv th*-m, that the Convention intended' to submit a Constitution to the people, and not attempt to put a Government into operation without submission. The election being over, the Democratic party being defeated by an overwhelming vote, the opposition having triumphed and got possession of both branches of the Legislature, and hav ir.g elected their territorial delegate, the Convention assembled and then proceed to complete their work

Now let us stop to inquire how they redeemed the pledge to submit the Constitution to the people. They first go on aud make a Constitution. Then they make a schedule, in which they provide that the Constitution, on the2!stof December, the present month, shall be submiltea to all tne bona fide inhabitants of the Territory on that day, for their free acceptance or rejection, in the following manner, to-wit: thus acknowledging that they were bound to submit it to the will of the people, conceding that they had no right to put it in operation without submitting it to the will of the people; providing in the instrument that it should take effect from and after the date of its ratification, and not before: showing that the Constitution derives its vitality, in their estimation, not from the authority of the Convention, but from that vote of the people to which it was to be submitted fortheir free acceptance or rejection. How is it to be submitted? It shall be submitted in this form: ‘Constitution with Slavery, or Cons'iiution with no Slavery.’ All men must vote for the constitution, whether they like it or no'-in order to be permitted to vote for or against slavery. Thus a Cuusiiiuiiou made by a Convention that had authority to assemble and petition for a red’ess of grievances, but not to establish a Government, a Constitution made under a pledge of honor that it should be submitted to the people before it took effect, a constitution which provides, on its face; that it shall have no validity except what it derives from such submission, is submitted to the people at an election where all men are at liberty to come forward freely, without hindrance, and vote for it, but no man is ; permitted to record a vole against it — That would be as fair an election as some of the enemies of Napoleon attributed to him when he was elected First Consul.— He is said to have called out his troops and had them reviewed by his officers with a speech, patriotic and fair in its professions, in which be said to them.— •Now. my soldiers, you are to goto the election and vote freely. just as you please. If you vote for Napoleon, all is well; vote against him, and vou are to be instantly shot.’ That was a fair election. [Laughter ] This election is to be equally fair . All men in favor of the constitution may ' vote for it; all men against it shall not vote at all. Why not let theta vote against it? I presum" you have asked many a man tb; s question. I hare asked a very .arge number of the gentlemen who framed the constitution, quite a number of delegates, and a still larger number of persons who are their friends, and 1 hare received the same answer from every .one of them: I never received any other answer, and I presume we never shall get any other answer, What is that? They say if they allowed a negative vote, the constitution would have been voted down bv an overwhelming majority, and hence the fellows shall not be allowed to vote at all. [Laughter ] Mr. President, that may be true. It is no part of my purpose to deny the pro position that that Constitution would have been voted down if submitted to the people. I believe that it would have heen voted down bv a majority of four to one. lam informed by men well posted there — Democrats—that it would be voted down by ten to one—some say by twenty to one. But is it a good reason whv you should declare it in force without being -übmitted to the people, merely because it would have been voted down bv a majority of five to one if vou had submitted .i? Wh.t does that fact prove? Does il not show undeniably that an overwhelming majority of the people of Kansas are unalterably opposed to that Constitution? Will you force it on them against their w:.l, simply because they would have vo- | ted it down if you bad consulted them? liyou will, you arc go.ng to force il upon them under the plea of fearing them to form their domestic institutions iu their own way. Is that the mode in which lam called upon to carry out the principles of self-government and popular sovereignty .a the Terrtujriea? To force a constitution on the people against their will, in opposition to their protest, with a knowledge of the fact, and then to assign, as a reason for my tyranny, that they would be so obstinate and perverse as to vote down the constitution it I had given them an opportunity to be cowsulted about il? Sir, I deny your right oc min* to inquire of these people what their objections to that constitution are. They have a right to judge for dranselyes whether they like or dislike it.

It is no answer to tell me that the con- ' solution is a good one and unobjec'.iunable. It is not satisfactory to me to have ' the President say in his message that that constitution is an admirable one, like all the constitutions of the new States that have been recently formed. Whether good or bad, whether obnoxious or not, is none of my business, and none of yours It is their business, and not ours. I care , not what they have in their constitution, so that it suits them and does not violate i the constitution of the United States and ■ the fundarfhntai principles upon which our institutions rest. I am not going to i argue the question whether the banking ■ system established in that constitution is wise or unwise. It says there shall be no monopolies; but there shall be one ■ bank of issue in the State, with two bran- , ches All I have to say on that point is i if they want a banking system let them ' have it; if they do not want it, let them ■ prohibit it If they want a bank with two branches, b« it so: if they want twen- > tv, it is none of my business; and it matters not to me whether one of them saaii

be on the north side and the other on the south side of the Kaw river, or where they shall be. While I have no risht to expect to be consulted on that point, I do hold that the people of Kansas have the right to be consulted and to decide it, and you have no righful authority to deprive them of that privilege. It is no justification, in my mind, to say that the provisions for eligibility (or the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor require twenty years citizenship to the United States. If mtn think that no person should vote or hold office unless he has been here twentv years, they have a ri«ht to think so; and if a majority of the people of Kansas >hink that no man of foreign birth should vote or hold office unless he has lived there twenty years, it is their right to say so, aud I have no rightto interfere with them it is their right, not mine; but if 1 lived there 1 should not be willing to have that provision iu the constitution without being heard on the subject and allowed to record my protest against it. I have nothing to say about their system of taxation, in which they have gone back and resorted to the old. vxplod.d «ysjem that . we tried in Illinois, but abandoned because we did not like it. If they wish to try, and get tired of it and abandon it. be it so; but if I were a citizen of Kansas. 1 would profit by the experience Illinois on that subject, and defeat it if 1 could.— Yet I have no objection to their having it if the want it; it is their business, not mine. So it is in regard to the free negroes. They provide that no free negro shall be permitted tolive in Kansas. I svopose they have a right to say so if they choose; but if I lived there I should want to vote on that question. We in Illinois provide that no more shall come there J We say to the other States, ‘Take care of 1 your own free negroes, and we will take : care of ours.’ But we do not say that the negroes now there shall not be permitted j to live in Illinois, and I think the people of Kansas ought to have the right to say whether they will allow them to live there and if they are not going to do so, how they are to dispose of them. So you may go on with all the different clauses |of the constitution. They may be all right; they may be all wrong. Thai is a question on which my opinion is worth nothing. The opinion of the wise and patriotic Chief Magistrate of the United States is worth anything as against that of the people of Kansas, for they have a right to Judge for themselves, and neither Presidents, nor Senates, nor House of Representatives, nor any other power outride of Kansas has a right to judge for them Hence il is no justification, in my . mind, for the violation of a great principle of self government to say that the constitution you are forcing on them is not particularly obnoxious.or is excellent in its provisions. Perhaps, sir. the same thing might be said of the celebrated Topeka Constitution. Ido not recollect its peculiar provisions. I know one thing we Democrats, we Nebraska men. would not look iito it' to see what its provisions were. Why? Because we said it was made by a poln i cal party, and not by the people; that it was made in defiance of the authority ol ' Congress, and il it was as pure as the Bible, as holy as the ten commandments, yet we would not touch it until it was submitted to and ratified by the people of Kansas, in pursuance of the forms of law. Perhaps that Topeka constitution but for the mode of making it, would have been unexceptionable. Ido not know- I do not care. You have no right to force an unexceptionable constitution on a people. It does not mitigate the evil, itdoes not ameliorate the wrong that you are forcing a good thing oa them. I stn not willing to be forced to do that which I would do if I were left free to judge and act for myself. Hence I assert that there is no justification to be made for this flagrant violation of popular rights in Kansas, on the plea that the constitution which thev have made is n r >t particularly obnox < u-> But. sir, the President of the United States is ready and sincerely of the inion that the slavery clause has been fairly and impartially submitted to the 'ree acceptance or rejection of the people ol Kansas, and that, inasmuch as th** was the exciting and paramount question, if i they get the right to vote as they please ou that subject they ought to be satis-

bed and possibly it might be better if we would accept it and put and end io the question. Let me ask, sir, is the slavery clause fairly submitted, so that the people can vote for or against it? Suppose I were a citizen of Kansas, and should go up to the palls and say, ‘I desire to make Kansas a slave State; here is mv ballot.’ They reply to me.’ 'Mr. Douglas, just vote for this constitution first, if you please.” “Oh no’.” I answer, "I cannot vote for that conscientiously. [conclvbed on rorara rwi ] There have been recently two s'tern pts at highway robery betw-en Boston and Salem; and between White R-xk and Pawcatuck. R 1., on Wednesday night. Sheriff Berry was robbed by several met, of his pocket-book and valuable papers. When you see a young lady so very delicate that she can't make her own bed. just chalk it down that she is a piece of calico vou can’t invest a stogie penny or pulsation in. The following toast was given recently : , “The Ladies—May we kiss the g.’ls we please, and please the girls wek'M.”

IjTHEEJGLE , H. L FHIUJI-S.) ; W. G. SPENCER,) I ~T ~ 1 DECATUR, INDIANA. j ntlllAY MOKNING, JAN. 8, 1858. - I SENATOR DOUGLAS’ SPEECH. i We, ibis week, lay before our readers the entire speech of this distinguished ' Democratic Senator, almost to the entire , exclusion of all other matter; but we think j the perusal of this great speech, made in I vindication of “Popular Sovereignly,”; 1 will amply repay our readers. There is a difference of opinion in the , ranks of the Democratic party, and hon- , estlv entertained, as to the admission of i Kansas into tbe Union as a State under ! the Lecompton Constitution; there can be ‘ no doubt in the minds of the people that . both the Lecompton and Topeka Consti- , turions alike represent opposite political i /actions within the territory, and that 1 both should be rejected, as not represen- J ting the people, That in accordance with ■ tile principles of the party, as laid down i in the Kansas Nebraska act, and the reso- < lutious in the National Council at Cincin nati, we hold that neither Kansas, or any other territory, should be admitted into , the Union as a sovereign State, until her ■ constitution, as a whole, be fairly and im- 1 partially submitted to the people for confirmation or rejection, at an election, and when ratified by a majority of all the bona | fide residents of tbe territory; the will of I the people as thus expressed ought to be p respected. r i ' 1 And, though her constitution be perfect in every respect, it ought not to be forced by Congress upon them contrary to their ' will The position which Mr. Douglas has ta- ; ken upon this important question, is in ac- , cordance with the Kansas, Nebraska act, i and the interpretation of it by the party i during the canvass of 1856, and he will 1 be sustained by the mass of the Democrane party, notwithstanding tbe present | opposition. He is right. ■■■»... State Convention. The Democratic State Convention assembles at Indianapolis to-day. and we hope to be able to lay the proceedings ol that body before our readers in our next issue. ----- THE MORMONS INSURRECTION. We published yesterday a rumor, brought by the late California mails, of a battle at or near Salt Lake, between the Mormons and the United States troops under Colonel Washington. We had not supposed that Cononel [sic] Washington's force had reached Salt Lake; but the California papers express their belief that the report of the fight is true. It has caused intense excitement in California, and volunteer companies have already been formed, at various places throughout the State, which are to hold themselves ready to match [sic] immediately, when called for by the United States authorities. The feeling in California against the Mormons has long been very strong, and nothing has been needed but overt acts of treason to bring upon them the fierce punishment they have so richly deserved from their neighbors. The California papers declare, that if the reported collision has taken place, the doom of the seditious tribe is sealed; and they very plainly intimate that California will take the lead in meting out to them retributive justice. Utah is so much nearer to California than to the States in the east, and so much easier of access on the west than on the east, that California must necessarily be the base of the chief military operations of our Government against the Mormons, in case of continued resistance.— On the east of Utah the mountain gorges can be held against an immense force; while on the west, the approaches are much less dificult [sic] and dangerous, and could readily be traversed by an army of enterprising, hardy, California volunteers, fresh from a comparatively short

march, and fully supplied with provisions and munitions of war. If well conducted, with California as a base of attack, a contest with tl.e Mormons would be short and decisive, even if they were to carry out their threat of resistance to the last. But they are not so mad as to persist in their rebellious course, and will gladly avail themse.res of the permission of our Government to emigrate to Sonora, or to the far-off islands of the Pacific, where, among people as barbarous as themselves, they would meet with no opposition to their barbarous practices.—<Daily Globe>. ----- Texas. A letter from Texas says: ”In the eastern part of the State the had rains, and , the earth yielded her increase. But the whole of western Texas, from the Brazos - to El Paso, has failed tow for two years to make bread. Asa consequence, the ( people are in the midst of the most der plorabie pecuniary trials. Almost every day I hear of persons who are entirely desiitutue of breai, and who live on beef : I alone. Perhaps this class may be speee , dily relieved, as there is a bill before the ! Legislature for that purpose.”

MORMON PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.—By the details of the Star of the W est, we learn that the Mormons are certainly earnestly preparing for war, and we should not be surprised if, ere this, the troops under Colonel Johnson had come in deadly conflict with them. Mr. John Aiken makes a sworn statement from which we extract the following: We learned from Dr. Dunion, Surgeon to Brigham Young’s Army, that they had taken a vote at Salt Lake City that, if the United States, [sic] Army forced its way into Utah, they themselves would burn their city, towns, forts, &c., and lay every habitation in ashes; that they had already picket [sic] out secret places in the mountains to ‘cache’ their provisions and make the future abode with the Indians. The Doctor stated that arrangements were already entered into that, provided the army should enter the settlement, <every city, towns and village in the States of California, Missouri and lowa should be burnt immediately—that they had men to do this who were known to be Mormons!> And that they would cut off all the emigrant trains, army stores, provisions, stocks, &c, that no man woman or child should hereafter cross the Plains without being scalped! That they depended upon and expected the Indians to perform this infernal and cowardly part of their designs. We arrived at the city in the afternoon of the same day. Here I found all that I had heard stated by the soldiers, on their way out to the various stations assigned them, confirmed by the repetition of the same by the people of the city I found here, among the people of the city, the most hostile feeling and bitter sentiments that the heart of man could possibly conceive. I was cautioned to be cautious in my remarks, and say nothing against the Mormons, by a friend from Yankee land, who had to exercise the utmost discretion in all he said or done. ---<>--- Letter from Utah.—An express, recently arrived at Levenworth [sic] from the

Utah expedition, brings information that the whole force, with the exception of Colonel Cook’s command had concentrated at Black’s Fork, and was moving toward Fort Bridge [sic]. The progress was very slow, sometimes making only two and three miles hourly. The animals were giving out, and it was thought that all would perish this winter. All the supply trains were with the military, and provisions were abundant. The report that two companies of infantry had met with reverses on the route to Utah is without foundation. Five companies of Colonel Summer’s regiment of First Cavalry have recently taken winter quarters at Fort Riley. ———<>——— The Pestilence iu Portugal. In a letter received from Lisbon, dated November 7, there is the following interesting account of a recent epidemic there and the conduct of the king, Pedro 11, in the distressing circumstances: “On the young king’s birthday, September 16, first broke out a pestilence which has since stricken thousands ot the inhabitants. Some call it yellow fever, some typhus; is probably a mixture of the two, and has been very fatal. There is something very insidious in its nature —it advances to the various quarters of the town so slowly and surely, and carries off its victims so swiftly. The Portugese are a timid nation, and over a hundred thousand persons have left the city. Cintra and the adjacent villages are full to overflowing, and there is scarcely a person of • society in town. It is sad to go into the ' city, it is so silent and deserted; the shops are closed, business is suspended, and one meets only funerals and litters carrying the sick to the hospitals. Highly Important from Mexico—The Constitution Overthrown. New Orleans, Dec. 26.—The steamship Tennessee, from Vera Cruz, with j dates from the city of Mexico to the 17th insl., has arrived at this port. The news is important. On the 10th insl tbe garrison al Tacu- . bava, pronounced in favor of dissolving the Congress and overthrowing the constitution; also declaring Commonfort Abso- , lute Dictator. Vera Cruz followed the example, and iit was supposed that the other States would soon follow. The Tennessee brings later advices from • Yucatan. The Reactionist had captured

Sisal, which has again been re-taken by the Government troops. — Strange Disease among the Deer.— The Georgia, Wire Grass Reporter says, the deer are dying in great numbers in the southern portion of that State. Many have been found dead in the woods, and many others eaught by dogs after a short chase. A hunter discovered a large buck by hearing him cough, a few days since, and killed him. The blood was thin and watery, and the joints seemed to be blood shot. The Kansas Election.—A gentleman who le f t Leavenwort about 11 o'clock on the morning of ths 21st informs the St. Louis Republican that the election was proceeding without interruption, although there was considerable excitement, and that a very few votes would be polled.— Chicago Tribune iZth. Smart Damages.—Mr. Nicholas Masters has recoverd a verdict of 5',500 against the town of Warren, Litchfield i county, Ct., in consequence of the insufficiency of a bridge belonging to the town.

Astonishing Depravity in a Years. 1 of U A remarkable case of female prec , and depravity is related in the folio letter from a correspondent, dated f) N. H., November 28th. The usually dull routine of law bus' in the Supreme Judicial Court fu, o, Mll county, was disturded at the Kst se ■ by the presentation of two youthful 8,101 inals for capital offenses. A lad, four; 101 ' years of age, named Joshua Eaton j/' 1 ; sandwich, was sent to the State Prisin’) six years lor shooting a young son o)t) M T. J. Sweet of the same town' J,., er case has rarely a parallel in lh erf ,, of crime. A girl by the name oiy a °? Ann Mclntire, was charged with ad ? , le murder, that of a child of Jeremiah B Whiting, of Tamworth, and al, o iyi' causing the death, by abortion, of her ow offspring she being but fourteen yeari] age at the time of the commission crime, in August last. The girl, w: o is of illegitimate age, had been brought up in variousL. ilies and was employed by Mr. Wb : i»' as a nurse for hi* wife (sick in chilJ bJ J when, as is supposed, she conceived horrible idea of making way with y rj Whiting’s infant and substituting her The facts, as gathered from missions and from tbe testimony of others are as follows: i Mrs. Whiting laid down with her child (ten days old) on a bed in the silting , room, about noon. After sleepin? hours, on awaking she saw Martha thro'l; , an open door in the kiteken in an act of undressing as if for tbe purpose ol goin» to bed. the immediately rose and iissii° . ted her, being convinced hum p re . . vious obsevation and appearance ol tin . girl at the time, that she had been bruu hi . to labor prematurely. It was nolumil i then that Mrs W. discovered the absenci .: of her own infant. A search beinginsii- | luted, the child was found in a brook I near by, with a stick of wood placed ■ across its neck. i! The girls account of the matter was,

tliat she took the infant from the bed, strangled it to prevent its ciying, placed it in the brook, and afterwards gave bir h to twins, which she buried in the woods. All this took place within thespiwof two hours. No corpse were found locotrobot ate the girls slorv. but the fact that she passed through the pains of travail is indisputable. Thia young fiend was apparently sane enough in some respectsbat with regard to the proprieties pertaining to the sex, was almost on a level with the brute creation. While confined in Dover Jail, she received every attention kindneu | could suggest at the hands ol the ladiesol lof that city. The Grcnd Jury of Carrol County refused to find a bill against her. and she was sent to the N. 11. Insane Assy iurn. From Kansas.—Advices to the 221 to ‘Aw* Rtpublic an, state that the Consti;u...a with slavery has been carried by a large majority. The returns are meagre. The follewing is the pro slavery vote as tar as heard from; Shawnee, 765; Alatha, 200; and Lexington, about the s-une-It is reported that a large body of mm have gone to Lecompton to seize upon the Territorial Arms. A letter dated Lawrence, Dec. 21st says that Lane has gone to Fort Scott with the avowed intention to destroy that place, exterminate the proslavery settler* at Shawnee reservation and to carry tin war into Missouri. Gen. Denver assumed the government of the Territory, and has issued sn address in which be < worts the citizens >0 appeal to the ballot box for the settlement ol their difficulties. He makes copious extracts from tb« President’s instructions, as indictive o the line of policy which he designs to p ur ’ sue. He also s’tates that Calhoun has invited himself and the presiding both Houses of the Territorial Legid i jre to be present at the counting ol the r«turns of the election on the 21st iu->-There is nothing authentic from Scott. Washington. Dec. 26 —Dbe partment receiveed a dispatch cent rm ry of the previous advices from Lta■ All the troops of the expedition concentrated near Fort Bridg‘' Si a ". . in a comparatively comforts rc■ The reported ad verses of the ri ry from the Mormons is untrue. ’ All the vacant lands heretofore »

drawn from sale or entry. I . v,n ’j’i, of six miles on each sideo . , granted to lowa in 1856 Jor rai.p>poses, having been released. restored to private entry al • .> land-offices in the State, on Ute February. ~ The Secretary of War this e' ~ . ceived a telegraphic dispatch r °‘ it tenant General Scott, dated . eW , 6 i which the General says he has good news from the Utah expe Colonels Johnson and smll ’. t (jj. mands and the trains were up '' ‘ * >s onel Alexander, and the whole marching upon Fort Bridges, « " only sixteen miles off, on the <> . vembei. The troops were in big r its, and there was just snow eno b protect the grass from fire. The ,e ' The Treasvrt Receipts. y |itii ceipts at the Sub Treasury at. on Saturday were 861,0 U £>■ ) 1 ( l toms; payments 892. 083 91 w balance of 83.912.7 / o 77. 20th, last year. there*>P« 000, payments -3346.000, t i reached 811,977,225 30.