Decatur Eagle, Volume 2, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1858 — Page 2

TH E E ABLE H. L. PHILLIPS?) ' Editors a I’uormKTQKS. W. G. SPENCER,) DEC ATUR, INDIANA. FRIDAY MORSINO, FEU. 10. 1838. DEMOCRATIC STATE OF ST.xTS. DANIEL McCLURE, of Moreau. *ci>>ioß or w.»rr, JOHN W. DODD, ol Grant. nc.ASI’BUI or STATE, NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. >.t riIJIISTtXI >.\T OF ri'BLlC UtTRtCTIOA, SAMVEL L. RUGG, of .Mien. ATTOn.'a.Y GENERAL, Joseph e. McDonald, of Montgomery, »bk irnnir ji uctk, SAMUEL E. PERKINS, of Marion. ANDREW DAVISON, <>t Decatur. JAMES M. HANNA, of Vigo. JAMES L. WORDEN, of Whitley. The Legality of the Sth of January Election in Kansas. We dip the following paragraph from an able article in the Washington States of -ith instant, which shows conclusively that the Election was a legal one, at which the residents of Kansas, by a majority ofovei ten thousand, decided against th'- Lecompton Constitution; yet in defiance of the expressed. will of the people, there is a feeling to admit Kansas by force. Here is the paragraph referred to: It the election of the Ith of January proves anything, it proves that the people of Kansas are morally opposed to the Lecompton constitution, and legally and constitutionally expressed their moral conviction against it. If so, the natural and national deduction is, that in receiving the ' said constitution, Congress would infringe on the most sacred right of citizenship, nnd attempt to dislodge the bulwarks of) popular opinion for which our fathers fought, and were scalped and frozen to ; death in seeking to attain for us, their proud and reverential inheritors. The premises are incontrovertible, ami the deduelion is equally beyond dispu'e ' The late acting Governor of Kansas Ti rritory convened an extra session cf the Territorial Legislature. On the 9Ji December he communicated the fact to the Secretary of State of the United States; and this official, in his instructions tv General Denvtr—promoted to the acting governorship of Kansas—dated December 11, bids him to respect the rightful action of this Territorial Legislature, convened by liis predecessor. General Denver was instructed that, •‘should it (the Legislature) authorize an election for any purpose, this election should be held without interruption, no less than those authorized by tile convention.” If the election under the authority of the Legislature was not a thoroughly legal and constitutional one, why should it be ullowed at all, much less be protected by ihe Federal powers? Certainly, there was no necessity for allowing it or protecting it; and if it were not strictly and fun-i dainenta’ly legal, we may be sure it could not be the intention to complicate matters j l y sanctioning i:, and implicitly admonishiog the acting Governor to see that its consuinalion was perfect, if it was desired. 'I he Legislature did desire and authoriz- the submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the will of the people on the i 4th of January. 1858. The legality of the Legislature is not questioned ?the’legahty of the election to be held under its I authoiityis not only unquestioned, but ordered to be ‘held without interuption. . for anv purpose; am! thus it seems to us the “Herald” mightjust ns well term the ♦ lection of the 21st December as being held a day or two before the fair, as that on the 4th January a day or two after the aforesaid fnir. The eh ciion of the 4'h January was ordered by the Government to be held. It held t’w'h-r the united orders of the T.rritoti' l Jzgi Ittt:-. <r.d t’ Federal Government. What was its purpose? 'I ■' vote • n the Lecompton Constitution. I’lat document was voted on; and the returns. assigned byacting Governor Denver, who was instructed to hold the election, show l’ o a majority of ten thousand of the people of Kansas were diametrically opposed to the Lecompton Constitution. Now, what man who believes he Aa* s -veri ign lights in the Republic, what member of Congress who con’iires the ■ spiiif, of liberty when he is seeking Che rtifftages of h s constituents, nnd who throws himself upon and is buoyed up into preminertce by the rights of popular . < p.r-Ton, can outrage the beauty end simf hery of Democratic system, liv at’■•mpti;- ■ to deny to others, or not recogn:zing;:i them, that sovereign right which . is the foundation stone not only of liis political fortune, but of the complete fabric of the Union JP-y We would dire*ct the attention of the public to the advertisement of the Fort Wayne Marble Works, Mr. Underhill is a gentleman and will dealj-mtly with all who favor t in: wi'h their j n’rototg''

Is u Slavery or State-Rights! attempl-io drive the Lo- ' compton consflTuticn wholesale down the I throats of those who believe that the majority of the people of a State have some ! constitutional rights touching the making ' of the laws by which they are to be gov•erned, a most insidious and reckless at- • tempt is being made to arouse ail the latent antipathies of extremists, North and South, by proclaiming that the question 1 before Congress is one of slavery or non shivery. Nothing more unjust, untrue; oi ungenerous, could well be devised, or, being devised, publicly offered for the consideration of either Congress or the people ’at large. The slavery question has nothing whatevei iodo with it; and the South, if it goes off on what the “Herald” sneeringly calls its ‘abstraction’ will have , de<-p an? serious cause of repentance. The old adage says, ‘merry in haste and repent al leasure. If this hollowcheeked and consumtive Lecompton constitution, however padded up and painted fur the bridal occasion, be wedded by the Democracy, the latter will have soon and sudden i. lengthy widowhood for repentance. It will behold the projects of its manhood overthrown, its household gods leveled, and the very foundation of its 1 hopes bias-led; for the offspring begat of the temporary union will all have in time the seeds of that constitution-wrecking disease, which no healing power can eradicate, nor falc itself alter. Under any circumstances, the disease only can he prolonged. The ‘Union’ admits, the “Herald” admits, the members of Congress who are luring the Democracy to this wretched and unwholesome alliance admit, that the reversion of the Lecompton constitution is inevitable; that the people of Kansas can kill it, and will kill it, as soon almost as we have recognized its political life. Why, then, should the stalwart Democratic party be allied to a corpse—'to a painted bauble that tempts the eve, but ‘turns to ashes on the lips? D was | not by such alliances that the hardy children, the warriors and statesman of this Republic, were produced. It was not by I such alliances that souls were born of the Republic that expended its area North I ami South, and carried the truths of Democratic self-reliance and State-rights individuality, that have made this country i the lival not alone of ant - one European nation, but all Europe combined, and the wonder of even itself as well as of the world. It could scarcely account for the magic strides Ly which it stalked into prominence, dignity, and wealth. : The seeds were implanted in the offspring which had made the fathers of the Republic invulnerable. They were born almost with arms in their hands, and the divine spark of individual sovereignty in their hearts. This magnificent providence which made each man, as it were, a responsible sovereign of the nation, created a Democratic community in which we all only truly breathe, bv not crush- ; ing the right of breathing out of our neighbor. This individual right is the tout ol what, being applied to localities, l is termed State-rights. This State-rights doctrine has been more than anything else the sentinel of Southern-rights and the bulwark of Southern institutions. What Magna Charta was to the barons of England, State-rights has been to the Southern States. Being exactly the reverse of Federalism, it defied that intervention in States’ affairs which would make the latter only appendages of the city of Washington. The States from a ring on which Washington is affixed as a seal. It is an j appendage of the States, not the reverse. the Democracy, who so reverence their 'State-rights birth-right, cannot be either blinded or seduced into any such belief as that the issue hanging on its fiat embraces any question of slavery. We who ' are Southern in every sentiment where the lights of the South are concerned, in vain strive to see the slightest connection of the slavery question with the reception or rejection of the Lecompton constitution. We would be untrue to our Southern instincts, feelings, and education, if we receive it; and, in rejecting it, we signalize our career by upholding in a moment of danger and doubt the sound and wealthy ' doctrines of State-riiriits. I • • • It is with the will of the ballot-box, and not with the extension of slavery, we have to do. No single man or journal, opposed to our views, gives the faintest hope that slavery extension could or would acciue from the measures they advocate. On the contrary, they all, with one voice, admit the reverse. Thev also admit that a rut- w:., polled of ten thousand majority against the Lecompton constitution; and in extenuation of their opposing this majority, go off into the most incoherent quibbles to show that the election was not legal. We have shown from a consecutive and simple argument on the facts, that the ejection was not only held by authority of the Territorial Legislature but by the sanction and under the protcc’.iou of the Federal Government; and that further the Federal official duly signed and published this ten thousand majority against the constitution. Where then comes in the question of shiverv? The question is reduced, it would seem to one of Honesty versus Policy. Butin the shadowy policy propounded we cannot see any benefit. Will the admission of Kansas, under the L-'comton constitution, ex‘end slavery? The L-'compton constitution, advocates say it will not. — Will it end the slavery agitation? Not more than if it wer’ rejected. Then where is great policy fur the 1 South, where? j

i No, slavery is not in the issue at all. — •- It is a question of State-rights, in which *'the Southern, as well as the Northern! ■ Democracy, will find that honesty is the i best policy. — States. r —I ii • Letter to the Secretary of the Navy. To the Honorable Secretary of the Navy . of the (J. S. 1 Sir: Enclosed you wiil find the proi ceedings of the people of the city of Mo- . bile, in public meeting, on Monday, 25th 'ofJanuary, 1858, at which resolutions - were adopted demanding an investiga- • I lion of the conduct of Commodore Hiram • Paulding, of the United States navy, on 8 i the Bth day of December, 1857, in the - harbor of San J uan del Norte, in the Cen- , j tral America. ’ The committee, for reasons which they ? do not deem necessary to state, have to request that the Hon Secretary will so ; constitute the court which is to try the - said Hiram Paulding, by the appointment -of an equal number of naval officers, 1 lives of Southern portions of this Union, » that exact justice may be insured without 1 prejudice to this section. The undersigned now become the pross ecutors in this trial, and have subscribed ! s to the charges and specifications herein > contained. f F. B. Shepard, ; 0. J. Mcßae, / Wm. F. Cleveland. i. Charges and specifications preferred r against Hiram Paulding, Commodore 1 of the United States navy, by the citizens of Mobile, in meeting assembled, on the 25th day of January, 1858. e Charge 1. Violation of the Constitu--1 tion of the United States. t Specification. 1. In this, that the said • Commodore Hiram Paulding, on the Bth ■ day of December, 1857, did invade the - territory of the Republic of Nicaragua, I and then and there did capture and make t, prisoners of certain persons organized as -a military force, and claiming to be the j , army of said Republic, thereby commits ting an act of war without the consent of - the Congress of the United States. s Specification 2. That the said Commor dore Hiram Paulding, of the United s States navy, did on the day and date afi orsaid, seize and unlawfully retain the ■ commissary, quartermaster, ordinance, I - medical and other stores belonging to • said military force, and treat them in all i respects as prizes of war; and this with- ; I out the sanction or authority of the Cuni! gress of the United States. Charge 2. Conduct unbecoming an of-; j ficer and a gentleman. Specification \. That the said Com. i 'Hiram Paulding, of the United States ; navy, demanded the surrender of said i' military force in manner and language; derogatory to the character of an officer ' i and gentleman. 1 Specification 2. That after said surren- j , dor of said military force to his orders, no ■ guard was for several hours placed over i the properly within the encampment lute- i ly occupied by said military force, and; ■ when said guard was placed it was im f ■ ficient, owing to its number and intoxi- ,; cated state, to prevent the robbery and ! plundering of said property by sailors and • other persons. ■ Specification 3. That the said Capt. 11. ■ Paulding, of the United States navy, did ■ after the unlawful seizure of said proper- ■ ty, assume to dispose of it as if it were f his own, airl this without having it sub- i i jected lo the judgement of a prize court ■! of competent jurisdiction. Specfication 4. That, after the surreni i der of said military force and the seizure iof its properly, tlie said Com. 11. Pauld- . ing, of the United States navy, wrote sev- • eral dispatches lo the Hon. the Secretary : of the Navy el ihe United States, in wich ; he used language and epithets derogato- ; tory to him as a gentleman, and unworthy > of an officer of the United States navy; : and also, in a boastful and unofficer-like II manner, assumed to himself and command i the credit of skill and courage in the <-x---i ccution of the unlawful act ot the Sth De- .! ceniber. ' Charge 3 Conduct unworthy of an : American citizen. Specification 1. That the said Com. 11. I Pauld'ng, of the United States navy, did, in the presence of a British naval force, make said capture an 1 seizure of said I military force, and, by the manner in ■ ■ which the act was done as well as by the ' ‘ act itself, afforded a pretext for the future / interference of Great Britain in Central • America, thu* contravening the declared policy of the American people. Specification 2. That, while in the act i of forcing said surrender and making said surrender and making said seizure, he ! received and permitted to remain on board his flag-ship tor the time being, the United States steamer Fulton—Capt. Ornrnany, and other officers of 11. B. M. naval . forces. Spcification 3. The conduct of said Hiram Paulding in presence of the Eng- ■! ii*b—the old enemies of the American Union and opponents of slavery as it exists in the southern portion of said Union, and while under the guns of the Brit- ; ish forces in the harbor of Sanjuan, made an exhibition entirely at variance with the conduct of other officers in the American navy on former occasions. Specification 4. That the said Paulding, 'of the United States navy, committed an unpardonable assault on the chareter of the service in which he is engaged, when ; he proclaimed to the world, through the Secretary of the Navy and President Buchanan,that Gen. William Walker and ' his command were piratical, and immediately thereafter received said Walker into liis cabin and at lii; table, and personally I plated the pirate on his parole of honor.

i Correspondence of the New 1 ork Ilciald. IJII’ORTANT FROM MEXICO. The Smashing I p oftliat Republic. i Ch it 81/r in the City of AfeHeo— F'iyhtI iny in the Streets —How the Afixicans fight—Perils of Foreigners— Challenge of Comonfort, dec. Mexico, January 19. 1858. Since the departure of the last mail for New Orleans, events of a startling charjacterhave transpired in this city- On ;the 9th instant, the parties opposed to the • Comonfort government assumed a definite position, by making pronuneiamienlot, both opposed to the ‘plan of Tacubaya’— ' one in favor of the ultra pure parly, ami the other in favor of Santa Anna. Ihe latter of these was quite unexpected, as the Santa anna party here is very small ; indeed, nod the opportunity was not lost bv parlies who felt disposed to circulate reports, that it was a deep scheme of ►(Jwnonforl’s to head off the ultra pttros. ' Shortly after l}\eprununciamentos, uii Monday morning, the contending patties were i actively engaged in fortifying themselves ; in many of the churches and other strong positions, and in every way making ac-1 ' tive preparations for a severe light. Having secured their various positions, a firing of musketry took place at once, without. however, doing much injury. This was sufficient, though, to show ■ that, the pronunciados by no means intended to give up their point without fi Siting; and as they were very numerous, and held strong' positions it was clear that a protracted ami severe struggle must ensue. That residents of the city were to i be seen conversing in knots at the stieet ! corners, devising methods of protecting their lives and.property during the disturbance. The shopsand places of business were all closed, and really the city . presented a most wretched appearance.; During the early part of the week, the two contending parties were more engag-{ 'edin fortifying their various positions than in active hostilities, although during ■ 'the whole time stray shots were being I fired from various points, many of which ! i took effect on peaceable citizens, while ; engaged in taking precautions for the pro-1 . tection of their property. | On Thursday, however, the works of ; fortification having been sufficiently cotn- ; pleted, and after ineffectual attempts had ; , been macle to arrange matters peaceably.; ' a tremendous fire commenced from the; ' top of the convent of Sax Augustin —a ; I strong hold of the pronnneiados. It was ' i well returned by the government troops, ' who marched up in a column and took . ; possession of a building in the vicinity of I the convent The firing having once ; commenced in earnest, it was generally . ’ taken up by the other positions of both ; I parlies, and continued without interims-, i sion for many hours; but, strange to say, , after so much tiring, we only heard of | ! about fifiv men killed on this dav. ■ I This, however, is an art peculiarly Mex-' ican. Four or five thousand men can be ; actively engaged firing upon one another ■ j all day without killing more than a dozen j on both sides. The firing was continued at intervals j | until Saturday evening, when an aimistice | ol forty-eight hours was proclaimed to alI low non-combatants to leave the city, and 1 ■ to give a further opportunity for a peace- j I able settlement of the affair. But matters i had gone too far—the preparations of both ! ' parties were too complete to allow them to . settle matters amicable; and, consequent- j I ly, as soon as ever the time of the armis- ■ lice had expired, the firing commenced as soon as eve r the time of brisk as ever, and continued till a late hour last night. We notice, however, that the reports of cannon are much more frequent than they were before,ami must expect that more injury will be done, and the destruction of lives and property be much greater than in the early part, of the week, when they confined themselves almost entirely to musketry. Oil the whole, the condition of the city : and the feelings of the contending paities ; hid fair for a siege which may last for a long time, and will certainly be hotly con- ; tested. The position of the belligerents to-day is as follows: The government foi-' ■ ees hold the palace with 2900 men, horse 5 and foot; the convent of San Francisco, I and tiie Mineria, with 600 men, and sev- ' ei al other churches, with small forces in each. The pronunciados bold ihe citadel, with 2500 men; the convent of San Augustin, with 300 to 460 men: (he convent of Santo Domingo, with 600 men; and the custom house and several churches, with small forces. Besides these fortified points, the streets are all barricaded, and . breastworks of sand bags thrown up at many places, with £4 pounders placed at most of the barricades. Although tiie preparations are extensive, it appealed to us (while we took a walk through the various positions yesterday, during the trurce,) that if all the guns were brought. into cervice at once, and both parties went' at it with a will, the whole city would be in ruins in a few hours. But there is no j danger of such a thing occuring. It is not the Mexican style of doing business. It is truly astonishing and amusing to witness their mode of lighting. Nobody except the men immediately connected with the guns remain in the streets, and they would notdo soil it were posible to get the guns up to the top of a house, or into a church steeple. All the others get on the tops of the houses, or in the steeples of churches, and tire away at one another incessantly, but at such distance that their shots are hardly even effective ' In this manner they can manage to keep a tremendous fire many days without killing many men, except' the'' poor unfortunate citizen- who arc iinprndc-n? enough

L o gp7nto the streets during the filing. whether for business or pleasuie. casualties iimcng the hUer ba- been qnite heavy during the the ew d. t-•, b . i”decree has ..been pu dished now . will do much to avoid the d ' fficultJ r ' • , r ’■‘is to the effect that there wnl be ffu the hostilities, anarmtsuce oflbel .reej hours every morning, to enaole people to ! provide their marketing and other neccs • saries of life without danger, i his sa ■ yerv comfortable arrangemet- . an I i quite an improvement on the system puli' sued in other parts. ■ Most of the families hare left the ci y, and hardly anv one remains who n a non ( ■ combatant, except those who have proper- j Iv io defend, which might be sucked. -, Some few foreigners have been killed by accident, in consequence of being in the ; sireet-. during the firing, and a few oread-, J ful outrages have been committed by the . ; soldierv of (hepronunciudos. , It is*generally understood— although wc have no official information to the (f- > i feet—that Comonfort has resigned the presidency in favor of Senor Juarez, and had taken his post as comuiander-in-chte f i of the army. Government reinforcements are said to ■ be on the road, and are expected to arrive soon; but the reports are doubtful. Os course, while the fighting is going j ion nothing else can be done in the city, | and business suffers very much. Comonfert last evening made a proposition to the pronunciados that the contenting parties should both go out to a distance of. i seven leagues from the city, and therequietly fight it out, without disturbing the townsfolk’; but his opponents very ungraciously refused his chivalric challenge. Some of the newspapers have already 'been obliged to suspend their publication, ! jaml if the revolution co..tinues ail will j ; have to stop. s Congressional News. I o Washington, Feb. 8. Senate.—Mr. Allen, of R. L, present ; ed a joint resolution passed by the Rhode 1 ; Island Legislature, instructing its sena- j tors requesring the representatives in Con-1 ’ gress from that State to vote against the ; admission of Kansas into the Union under ' the Lecompton Contitution. Mr. Douglas made several ineffee'tial 1 efforts to take up his resolution offered on , ; Thursday, calling for information relative j !to facts alluding to the formation of the ; i Lecompton Constitution. . Mr. Seward resumed at length on the I j message, saying that he was opposed to j this attempt to force slavery upon the ' people of Kansas, and would agitate so i long as a single hope remained that slavetry might be driven from the Territory, | which was stolen and robbed from free- ; dom. The President’s Kansas message was then referred to the committee on Terr ; - torics, pending (he effort of Mr, Douglas I to get up his resolution calling on the 1 President for information relative to Kan- ! sas affairs. I Adjourned. IlOU'E.—The galleries of the Hoose I were more thronged at the opening of the j sessions than oh any previous occasion, including many ladies. The Speaker announced the pending proposition to be on ; seconding the demand for the previous ‘ question on the second motion to refer the President’s Special Kansas Message.— : The demand was seconded by a vote of 115 to 105. i Mr. Washburne, of Me , demanded ihe yeas and nays, wishing the question so decided instead of by the tellers. Mr. Barksdale said it was a violation of the contract heretofore agreed upon. Mr. Washbure did not press his motion. The main question was then oidercd to be put: yeas 113 nays 107. The resI ult of this vote was waited for bv members and spectators wtlh the greatest anxi ‘ et yThe next question was announced to he on the motion of Mr. Stephens of G*or ; gia to refer the Message to the Committee ,cn Territories. The House disagreed to I this motion, standing yeas 113 nays 114. I Ihe next ques T ion to be taken was announced to be on Mr. Harris’ of Illinois, ! amendment to Hughes’ resolution to refer the Message to a special committee. The ' amendment was carried bv yeas 114, nays 111. Mr. Harris moved to reconsider the rote, and lay that motion on the table. .■ which was carried —lls against 111. Mr. Hughes’ resolution merely to re-I fer the Kansas message to a committee of 13, as amended, by the adoption of Mr. Harris’ substitute as given above, was agreed to—lls against 111, showing in n test vote anti Lecompton majority, of four in the House. The following is the resolution of Mr. Harris as tinally adopted: That the message of the President concerning the constitution framed at Le- i compton, in the Territory of Kansas, by a convention of delegates thereof, and 'he papers accompanying the same, be reerred to a select committee of thirteen to be appointed by the Speaker; . 1 hat sai-J committee be instructed to inquire into all the facts connected with tue iortnation of said constitution ami the laws, if any, under which the same was onginated. and whether such laws have been complied with and followed; hether said constitution provides for a republican form of government; and whether there are included within the proposed boundaries of Kansas sufficient population to be entitled to a R»pre-,.. n n-

[tivein this House upon the b■- ——s fixed bytlaw, nnd whether said c,?- 't' w ! tion is acceptable and ' a majoriy of th® legal voteu of Ka J - Also, the number of v O t e , C!U| ® cent 1 and when in fevorof ewrne a constitution as aforesaid, and the-: mmmh where they were cast, and the J? nrpn .t r i r « f d '* o y n ‘“ county in the territory; sth inM The apportionment of dele ga t M to rife of I convention among the different eoa n ‘dbo leav and election districts of said Territo tfen, he - and the census or registrationn n d er ‘* ' nO rn be ' the same was made, and whether the?,. ■' l i was just and fair or in £’» The names ot the delegates ta sail * ' - , vention and the number of voles cas't 'W* I ; each candidate for delegate, and th,7] ces where cast, and whether ru-upi j tution received the votes of a majoriij urfcr - s( 'l the delegates to said covention. J "-‘mary : The number of votes cast in said '■tory tn the 21st of December last f Wi , agaiustsaid constitution, and iceofCe '.any parts or features thereof, and Mhe Dr number so cast at each place of vo'.i 8 .. M-Sl-pi said Territory; Mlsshs I The number of votes cast in Mull,.’! 8. C. ritory on the 4;h day of January law and against said Constitution, and ( ?r lagainnst any parts or features (h ft ,, jj- M j and the number so cast at each place ho X voting in said Territory; ,ty 1?1! () f Tiie number of votes cast in said Tf 1 11" 1 ritory on the day last named for K ? >blie ‘ “ .State and legislative officers Masi.: the number so cast for each candidatef-,.‘^ i f such offices, and the places where tv l c?rd.' That said committee also ascertain, # :ratie p ! nearly as possible, what portion, ifa W !of the votes so cast at any of the timj, 'i’o th and places aforesaid were fraudulent ... i ’ >i« nmn _ Ute fur W hether nny portion, nnd u so, w;xt».-i«ior portion of the people of Kmsaj are ,J-‘ v ' o ’’ open rebellion against the laws of country— h’?™? And that said committee havepoiurti'f -end for persons and papers. [Messrs Davie, Foley, Nibiml,sk English, Democrats', of Indians, ’n't: ffi.-e ? ; tor Mr. Harris’ anicmlmi nt to refer tm , *" u ’ cl ; si led committee with instiuclionsl J h CO! ~ late fii \\ asiiisgton, Feb 19. fuioii ' | Senate.—Mr. Harlan presented th 4 ! 1 ' 11 ' j credentials of Mr. Grimes, the new Sene Nestor from lowa. i Mr. Douglas attempted to bring nphii u,. ln „e , Kansas resolution. frigid! ; Mr. Davis objecleJ, andcall-JtliepM yr',' land nays. if.’OS Mr. Dauglas proceeded to give Lis ressons whv the resolution should be consiu-., \ s .' cred now. - Mr. Davis objected to the discussion ■ ■ the merits of the question, when Al Sorrei Doughs fired up. claiming the right'. . I discuss .rum the practice of 'he Senate’ "]»<’» other cases. In his remarks he referrt to the fraudulent elections in Kansas. The debate on the Army bill was r [<■.-<, sumed. Mr. Mason confessed to have I little knowled •' • on the milter but relit . Jf* 11 ) on estimates ot the War Department. He ! was merely blindly regestering edicts of Jhora the Executive. U j Mr. Crittenden advocated the bill.euologizing ihe Army ns having pcrformti! j greater feats ilu-.n any in the worldol similar number Mr. Hale would state in behalf of ths jr) o ’m Administration (though not by requisj Rye' that the Government does not desire ths bill topass, fortify ing his position by re&'ling an article in to day’s Union. A; ]; ar t, though he would not endorse the Admin- Rye, istration in al! things yet would rotein accordance with its desire to kill the but )|il( * Mr. Houston oppose ! the bill, saying j u t* e he would never again vote to increase tD Jhw Army. He bad once been read out of the Democratic party, but had never care! 14co ’ enough about it to ask the reason. Jac»- n-— son had principles without platform, ltd M 1 ihe present Administration had n platform without principles. Mr. Davis commenced answering ths s objections without concluding Ihcfroate adjourned. . [‘" n ' House.—The consideration oi the bill le t amendatory of an act for she safety " i passengers on boats propelled in whole or part by steam, was up. ri ’ : I Mr. Clark, of New York, in stating hi* J objections to the bill, said that the psn o _ t] allowing only one passenger to ev'-ry st', ~,[: en tons would confiscate ten millions .-.fi’ I properly and lay at lbs wharves of N-* York every steamer engaged in the con. . meres of the ocean. He wanted lu’v“ e ‘ ~a l ; time to consider. . '' tse ' Mr. Letcher regarded the bill as a' j lation of the Constitution, as it propow-1 to control the private businessotTho»" rn ion; gaged in freighting and to interfere withe rights of Slates. we ; Miles Taylor advocated new provision* to carry out the present law. Coch rane explained, mid showed iLi necessity for the immediate passage o' ■ " _Fi bilL ' Pl Mr. Washburn, of 111., showed the t 1 a ccssitv for the passage ot the bill, an - 1 ] plained that it brings under it the opera, tions of the law of 135?. ferry » n J tu j n‘< boats; additional restrictions are unp o ’ 1 <oi against inscribing false names on b ' l ”' ha providing for a more thorough in>p< ? - uU ‘ lor of boilers; and sailing vessels are req-i' l ac ed to carry lights aud have their divided into water-tight compsrtmer.m the number of passengers limited. *n 1 1 removal of rotten planks required. J Mr. Scott urged the necessity Dr F r ‘ ] visions to protect life on the ocean ’■'•.'"j u ] ers, briefly reviewing the features 0 11 ye ■ bill for that purpose. Adj >urmi d.