Marshall County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 February 1859 — Page 2

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- v Disgraceful; We loam from the ' SVaiftf Sentinel that a fracas occurred in the Senate chamber, " February 15ih, between and Heffren. Mr Good llm publiihel statement Iwtwecn hirasellana Air iieuren, anu ass - ed and obtained leavo to male a personal explanatioii. He had previously armed "himself for MrHffren. and other -Senators -saw the handle of a revolver protruding from his pocket, and frm his excited man er a difficulty was anticipated. Mr HeffTen took a seat near Mr Gooding's desk, utA 'when that gentleman read the report aadasleH Heffren if he had used the fan. gttajjo imputed to him, Heffren replied 'he had, re-i:crated it.". ; 1 V jih Ve:ii!emcn were by this time onj . . , I'1 '- 1 1 t 1 at ' their feet. 'Gooding said he hurled thej language back.' fcc.? and Heffren strack At Lim. tlx bJow takinircffcit on his head instead of his face where it was aimed. A ' VotW 'o'f Senator Gooding, who is n clerk n rtre Senate, rushed forward and coro -imenced strikinr; HeflTren About the face and -sides. Heffren had to keep off Senator,

Gooding with one hand while he defended himself against the brother with the other. While thus engaged, a third Mr Gooding, Vho had beco umroticed heretofore, rnshd forward and dealt Mr Heffren a heavy blow from behind with a Urge hickory s cano, inflicting ah'ügly but not a dangerous wound and then rapidly fled. . These affair3 of, honor are becoming entirclr loo numerous in the halls of our law makers. The guilty party shoulJ, iu . ii very instance, bo; expelled. ' : m 1 1 '' ' We had well nigh forgotten to state the - question. 'T was not the. .old one fwho struck,' itc, for that w tie finitely settled. Twas simply who wa the paternal parent - of a certain unmarried mother's , little .'daughter.;-'That' - the question. The r verdict returned was 'we the jury find for the little girlno father.' Local Rep. ' Well there! Bro Phillips you haver-; r ally been and gone and dne it! We arc! -' surprised! In hct, we nre astonished!! - Only the week before you faid you would - 'never intrude into the prt vate affairs of a .- family to get a local item ' .XMansfieldt's Liquor Hill, a Synopsis of which we published two weeks ago, was külcd in the Senate la ft 'lhtirsdty .-morning.

XhTX friend from Warsaw informs us that Williams of the Iudianian has commenced the publication of a Daily Pjtper! , A Dally pajxir iu Warsaw! What next? - JBTliSy the way Ratty, do you recollect that yon published part of a 'Ledger yarn . -about a yiar ago, for which you received .the enormous sum of two cents a line! Of course you didn't intend to -de fraud your readers, as you very generously told ' them that thev could Cnd the balance of the'story in the Xew York Ledger! A"o reeeived Üve sam storj with a requestio publish at two cents a line, but we declined because ' we did not propose to defraud cm r readers (or the 6tnall pittance of two cent n line. Poor old Ratty,, 'A skunk by any other name would -me"llas sweet. yritSPlf any of our town subscribers fail in rpr-flirA fli DrfrvT tliia wppI- -fhovi will attribute it to our new Carrier Boy Vho will serve you faithfully, as soon as 'he learns the route. Batakd Tailor will lecture at Hunts'man's Hall, La Porte, on Tuesday, March ;5fliafternoon, at 2 o'clock, and at 7 in the evening. .-Z3rThere were twenty-seven divorces granted at the last term of tho Marshall -Circuit Court, If all creation wants a di..vorce, Indiana is the place to get iL .XiT'Wo .repectfully inform the patrons of the Democrat, and all others indebted . to the " fiiee, that wo want mone;; to be plain about the matter, we must have it. i ' iSTSeb II. G. Thayer's Advertisement. 3TTho Post Office has been removed Yo Ed wards & VanValkenburgh's Boot Jc Shoe Store. 'v ' ' '" ' ' ! ' X-The New York State Medical Society, attheir recent session iu Albany, in .farmed the public that the small-pox is now wore generally prevalent throughout the State than ever before sines the introduction of vaccinnation. , " r . . . X2TThe exclusive right of the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the ext'ens'iro lerriteries they hare so long controlled fs töT) abrogated on the 1st 6f June. The "facf has been announced in the Canadian -PariUmcnf. r"' : : j '' VI ' ' ; otice. The Methodist Sociable will he held at iH residence of B. BssTz. this (Thursday) evening. A general. attendance is desired, as . it is ths eresisg for electing new officers. 'jrFSeo Mvers Adrertisepient,

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.ur Mowf. 1 he gentleman kits thcj northern part of the Cute; are opposed to thisjotie ms power. Now tlfve uptllere amonrthe"cranburv ' naaishea and LuU-4inr marshes, ami 1 know that my people in St Joseph and Marshall, arc in far!.f i.sfi., i i...1 for it. Thev arc willinz even to strike out three . three, TiaJ hivelul one county Commissioner. Thev pay 1 th:t cntititr 'Cnmr.4intip wilt iln ViA n-sMl ' tit L,,e Common Pleas Judge, or one Circuit Judge, Our county Auditor, who has been in the office ten ; Mohican comes down into Ihis State, we are , in fxvor wf tlus reform: We would save at least , 0 Utc br it, amMf.thataint a lath inward step l don't know what ia. Laughter. O'ln uninteresting letter which was handed us l it ( TlniNilir vrittn hf a. nntlmin in Tjmtmi. worth, Kansa?, to our worthy fellow citixen T.S. Taylor Es, and wluch we would have printed m j our paper ot to-iiay, uui ior 11a icngtn, says uiai the Cherrv Crek Gold Mines are nt of sufficient value for hira to recommend persons to go there ! foe the purpose of digging: that th diTery.of Hd was heralded for the purpose of building cp a town? thereabout, and that the n.iner only make from thrc to four dollars a day. SB Fvrnm. . - -L u. UXol J. C WutEa is now sole proprietor of j the Laporte Timet fMiucSALi. See notice of J. Loudon's Sale in to-days paper. The Cxnraissioner of Patents has written out at length hU reasons for overruling the application of Mr MtCormick for an extension of .his patent of 1045, for 'improve nent in reaping macl.ino. He says that the patentee realized from his patents of 1G45 and 1247 the sum. of $1. 297,015. SrEECii of 'Mr! Stephens ox the Orz; cox Bill! The Washington . Un ion says of the speech on the Oregon bill, by Mr. Stephens, of Georgin, on Saturday, the 12th fnst.: The speech of Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, in conciuaui inc ueune on im euuject in the House, was one of the most el: oquent and effective ever delivered in Congress. It received the most rapturonsand repeated applause, both on the floor of the hal! and from the galleries, and such was the enthusiasm of the audience that no efforts vn the part of the officers of the House were able to check it. It was a question of some doubt whether the bill would pass before the delivery of this speech; and it owes the decided majority it received to the patriotic and effective pleading of this gifted champion." New Papers. Iast week we received several new papers asking for an exchange with tho 2'lmcs. Among other3 Frauk Leslie ' .'Stars ; and Stripes,' The New York Mercury i the Picayune, the Chicago Wangdoodle, kc irc. Some of these want us to 'notice,' some to 'publish Prospectus,' and some promise ,us future advertising. We can't bite at any such hook. We believe the circulation of uch flash nonsense as tho new-style of New York Pictorials contains, is workiHg great injury to the western press and to the young persons who greedily devour it. A reader of the Ledger or aur of that tamily of papers, is necessarily uninformed in all matters of important, unless he reads other papers, and this he is not likely to do, becausehU taste for dreams and fictions, improbable in fact as they are pernicious in influ:nee, roots out all desire tor knowledge such as is rallj useful to him iu life." We waut no Ledgers nor Mercuries about the office of the Times the conductors of the Picayune and the Wangdoodle do ot know the difference between afunny ihing and a ßat one.- Xorth Iowa Times. Them's our sentiments, adzactly. For the Marshall County Democrat Slavery Extension. The Republiean party aims through and by ite lealer to impress upon the minds of the people tho idea that the Democrats are in i"or ol extending slavery into territories now free, and assert that, their own party efforis ai to piohibtt slavery from ex tending itself. They claim to bo the especial friends and protectors of freedom, while they unblushing)' aver that the Democratic party desires nothing so much a to smother and choke out every free principle, both in States and Territories. While we may safely deny each of these averments, and challenge the pwof of their correctness, it may not be amiss to philosophise a little on the claims of tU party making thesellegations and eharges in relation to theslavery extension question. Suppose Congress should adopt the Wilmot Proviso , or some equally stringent prohibition of slavery in the territories; what is gained for freedom thereby? Is any slave freed from his fetters? Are there iny fewer slave owner than before? I tho'conuition of the skves improved, their tasks lighter,; thir 1 treatment any more kind, and are their ruiuUrs In any better condition to taks care of them than they were before? Mr. Jefferson thought : that ths act of diffusing, or rather dividing it and spreading" the same amount of it over more tsf,ritorr, would , do much to ameliorate the condition of tho slave; and so: think sreri now some of the more sagacious of our opponents, I mean ths abolition, wing of the Republican party. They say that if the institution ran bo confined within its pres ent, limits,' it must soon I become unprofi ble.' and hence must die out ; Whatever our own opinion nay be upon this proposition, let us see what must be the necersary, legitimate s result of adopt

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Senators' Gooding years says the business could ( be done by one inVtoo 'offense at I Cowmtoiier as cheap again as ' by three. Tl.e 0 i 1 Senator tust sneaViw mit lire nn towanU the

of d' altercation ;ohioor Miclucan line somewhere, but where

ing jt. Irrihe first place, then, there tottld soon be more slave than could m profits blyj employed: hence the master would unable to provide as well fo rattern as ha

now aocs; in the next place the Have woujü I be Xorth less, and of course jho mastfrj would have less interest in providing well , ' T S B . . . . . "j;ourse ine condition ot tne. tiare wouia ' DOVÖrse, instead of better and yet yet these men claim to be the especial friends. of the slave. ' Well might the poor Bubject of op pression exclaim: ."Lord t save me from the tender merciej or my frjends.V. The Republican theory on this subject is near akin to that of some professed tern perance men of the present day,. who think that the best way to promote good morals is to give full sway, to' the surging tide of intemperance, in order that ajl, even the mot obtuse, cannot fail to see the neces . , . . . - 1 sity of .'a reformation; in other words let vice and crine of eveiy kind run riot in the land, until none ca fail to see the ne cessity of good order; let hunger with his keenest fangs, to fasten upon the vitals of the poor starveling that he is convinced that a Mix-penny loaf is worth at least a dollar away with such philanthropy", out upon such sympathy for the down-trodden and oppressed. This immaculate pink of perfection, tho Republican party, holding sentiments and advocating views like the above, have yet the duplicity to deny tho soft impeachment of abolitionism, and many of t'nem appa rtntly with holy horror raise their eyes and hands heavenward and meekly say, "convince us that our leaders are abolitionists and we wiil at once come out from among them." ; Thus much with regard to the legitimate result upon the slave, of the action proposed by republican leaders; its result upon white men in the territories, will be the ubjec: for a future coramui.ication. ALEK. President's Message. Washington, Fob. 18. To the Senate and House of Representatives: The brief period which remains of your present session, and the great urgency and importance of legislative action before its termination, for the protection of American citizens and their property, whilst in transit across tho Isthmus between our Atlantic and Pacific possessions, render it my duty to recall this subject to your notice. I have heretofore presented it in my Annual message of December 1057-8, to which 1 b2 leave to refer. In the latter I 6tate that the executive government of this country, in its interhcourse with foreign nations, is limited to ihe employment of diplomacy alone. Where this fails, it can proceed no further. It cannot legitimately resort to force, without the direct authority of Congress, except in resisting and, repelling hostile attacks. It would have no authority to enter the territories of Nicaragua, even, to prevent the destruction cf the transit and protect the lives and paoperty of our otvn citizens on their passages, it is trug that on a sudden emergency ol this character, the President wouid direct any armed force in the vicinity to march to their relief, but in doing this he '' would act upon his own responsibility. Under these circumstances, I earnestly recommend to Congress the passage of an act authorizing. the President, under such restrictions as they may deem proper, to employ the land and naval - f .1 tt i3 . forces Ol l lie u. o. in preventing nie transit from being obstructed or closed by lawless violence, and in protecting the lives and property of American citizens traveling thereupon: requiring at the samo time that these forces shall be withdrawn the moment the dan--- "hall have passed away. Without such r. 1 v ision. our citizens will be constantly exoosed to interference in their progress. And a similar necessity exists for the passage of an act for the protection of the Panama and Tehauntepec routes. Another subject equally important demands the attention of the Senate. The republics south of the United States on this continent liaro unfortunately been in a state of revolution since they achieved their independence, as one or another party has prevailed, and obtained possession of their ports open to foreign commerce. They have seized and confiscated merican vsssels and their cargoes in an arbitrary and lawless manner, and exacted from American citizens by forced laws and other violent proceeding?:, to enable them to carry on hostilities. . The executivegovemments of Great Britain, France aud other foreign countries possessing the war-making power, can promptly employ the necessary means to enforce immediate redress fyr similar outrages on their subjects Hot so with the executive government of the United States. If the President orders aves sei of .war to any of these ports to demand J prompt redress tor outrages coramittea tne offending parlies are well aware that the commander could do no more than remonstrate. He can resort to no hostile act. The question must then be referred to diplomacyand in many cases adequate redress "can never be obtained; Thus, American citizens are deprived of the same protection under the flag of their country which the. subjects of other nations enjoy. The remedy for this state of things can only be supplied by Congress, .ince the Constitution hat confided to tha. body alonC tho power to make ;war. Without the power f Congress, the Pretidot can not lawfully direc; any. fierce, however usar it may be to the scene 01 diftJcuHy, to enter the ' territoiy of Mexico,' or ICipagua, or New Grsnada, for the purpose of protecting the persons &cd property of American citizens, even though they n-y bo violently assailed whilst passing in peaceful trans sit over the Tehauntepec, Nicaragua, pr Panama routes. JIs ian tot, without transcending; his.'pQnitrtutjonal power, direct a gunobs fired into a Dorf, or Jand a seaman or mariner to protect the ljyesof our countrymen on ths shore, or to obtain redress for a recent outrage on " their prop erty. If ths bantjitti which I jnfest ogy

neighboring' republic of Mexico, always claiming to belong to one or, the other of the hostile parties, should make a descent upon y'ra Criz or the Tehauntepec route, he would have no öower to employ a force

neither to prevent the plunder of osr merJ on snipuoaru in me vicinity ior tneir renei, chants or the destruction of tho transit. In reference to countries where the local authorities are strong enough to enforce laws the i difficulty hero J indicated can. seldom happen,.. But .where this.is. uotUio case, and the local authorities do not possess the phvsical power, even if they possess the' will, to protect our citizens within their limits, recent experience has shown that J the executive should itself be authorized to render this protection. Such a errant of authority thus limited in its extent, could in no just sense bo regarded as a transfer of the war-making power to the executive, but only as an appropriate exercise of that a . . 1 power Dy tne oouy to mm. 11 exclusively belongs to tho riot in Panama in 1856, in which a great number of our citizens lost their lives, furnishing a pointed illustration of the necessity which may arise for the execution of this authority. 1 therefore earnestly recommend to Congress on whom the responsibility exclusively rests, to pass a law before their adjournment, conferring upon the President the power to protect the lives and property of Amerioau citizens in the cases r hielt 1 have indicated. under such restriction! and conditions as they may deem advisable. The knowledge that such a law exists would, of itself, go far to prevent the outrages which it is intended to redress, and render the employment of force unnecessary; without this the President of. the U. S. may be placed in a painful situation before the meeting of the next Confrere. In tho present disturbed condition of Mexico, and one or more of the other Republics south of us, no person can foresee whatoccurrences may take place before that period. In case of emergency our citizens, seeing that they do not enjoy the same protection with the subjects of European Governments, will have just cause to complain. On the other hand, should tho executive interpore. and especially should the result prove disastrous, and valuable lines be lost, he might subject himself to severe censuie for . having assumed a power not confided to him by the constitution. It is to guard against such ä contingency that I now appeal to Congi ess. Having thus recommended to Congress a measure which I deem necessary and ex pedient for the. interests and honor of our country, I leave the whole subject to their wisdom and discretion. JAMES BUCHANAN. . .Washington Items. We fiiud the following in the correspond ence of. the Cincinnati Enquirer: On the test vote which took place Mon day on the admission of the free State of Oregon, .every Democrat in the House, South as -well as North, voted 'aye, and nearly every Republican 'no.' The only Republicans from Ohio who voted for the new free State, were Horton, Nicholas and Leiter. ; Over sixty Republicans, including all the leading men of the party, Giddiugs among tho number, voted 'no.' Eli Thayer, a liberal Republican, from Massachusetts, declares that the Republicans, by this opposition to a free State, have cut the throat of their party. He told Giddings he would hear of it from every stnmp in Ohio, if he were a candidate for Gov ernor. . Thayer says it is remarkable to see Southern Democrats votincr to admit free States, while Northern Republicans, who profess to be a Free State ' party,' vote against Oregon. There are rumors here that Judge Mc Lean and Chief Justice Taney will shortly resign their seats on the bench of the Supreme Court. Both are very aged and in infirm health. The Chief Justice is over eighty years of age, and begins seriously to feel the need of repoae. The are of Judge McLean is seventy-six, and he is beginning to feel the heavy hand of time. It is the impression among Ohioans here, that if Judg McLean retires during the present Administration, the Hon. Wra. S. Groesbeck will probably be appointed in his place. Judge Douglas will spend two weeks in New York after the session of Congress. The chiefs of Tammany Hall will take him under their special charge. He will be the guest of the Hon. Richard Schell. It is rumored that Senator Hunter will not allow his name to go before the Charles ton convention as a Presidential candidate. I do not credit it, but believe it originates with some of the dissatisfied Pennsylvania ans. ' The dispatches , to the Cincinnati Ga zette say: The President has signified pretty un mistakably that he wiil veto the HomeStead bill, and those for agricultural colleg es and French spoliations, if they should pass this session. There is no prospect now that the Terri torial bills for Arizona and Dacota1 will succeed this session. The New York Tribune's dispatches have the following: ' The large amount of business to be crowded into the remaining nineteen days of the session. with neither apDrooriat'on bills yet passed, makes it almost impossible to avert an extra session of the next Congress ; ' ' y'1' A.. ' MrBuchanan threatens ths Democrats that if they don't modify the tariff ths Republicans will. -V1 ' .... Mr, Stephens, of Georgia, desires me to say there s no truth in the report that he desires to succeed Mr. Jvrson in the Senate.5 He" intends to withdraw eptjrel v from the publid service for the rest of his Hie, and says he prefers a seat in ths House to any other position in the govsrnmeat

Jhfi fce.allb of Gen. Cass; I amsony lojliruiahea all jurisdiction.

say, is becoming very feble, and strong fear 8 are entertained that he will soon be obliged to resign lis office of Secretary of State. Speculations are already rife as to his successor. Several r.ames are , mentioned, the most prominent of whom are Col. William Allen, of Ohio, and Hon. Ho

ratio Seymour, late Governor of New York. , , : ' I i ; S .....Colonel Benton's library - was sold at auction the other day.. Most of il was purchased by his son-in-law,1 Carey Jones Esq. Colonel Benton, after forty years of valuable public services, died ' poor. The property he left will not pay his debts. The Southern free-traders are greatly incensed against the 'Union' for its tariff articles. Some of them curse it as heartily as Douglas men did last summer. They declare they will never vote to give it any more official patronage, but will betow it ou the 'States.' Slides Thirty-Million Cuba Bill will pass the Senate, and the chances are fair of its going through the House. Certain ficts have corne to light, which rentier it very probable it could be purchased, if our Minister at Madrid had this appropriation to back him up. Spain is almost as unstable in its government as Mexico. Ministers and parties are constantly going in and out of office. Civil wkr frequently accompanies their ingress. Even the monarchy of the Queen is in a precarious state, and has several limes narrowly escaped overthrow. On these occasions, when the Queen and her Ministers are threatened with political annihilation, thev would not hesitate in their extremity to sell Cuba, to obtain the means by which to keep themselves in power. They must have, however, the ready cash. It was Mr. Soule's opinion that he could have purchased it during one of those revolutions, if he had had money to draw on. ' Washington Feb 15. There is no danger that the tariff will bo changed at . this session. What may be done at the next will depend upon circumstances then to exist. There is little chance that means will be supplied by the present House to tho treasury, even to redeem the outstanding treasury notes. Washixgtox, Feb. 17. Secretary Cobb fears that Congress does not appreciate the truo condition of the treasury, and says that the government must go to 'protest' before the 1st of June unless means are provided to meet the public liabilities. A change of the tariff will not meet the case. The best informed men in Congress of all parlies express the opinion that there is no hope of an agreement on any financial measure. Secretary Cass expresses great surprise at receiving no dispatches frcm Nicara-I gua, and intimates that foul play is suspected on the part of the British Govern ment. unc ODieci 01 me opposuion. m tneir determined efforts to embarrass the gov eminent by catling off the supplies, is to force a called session of the new Congress. It remains to be seen whether this strata gem will succeed. The President is working hard, and is in vigorous health. The fame cannot be s dd of all the members of tho Cabinet. Several of them are reallj invalid, though they 'stand to their guns' and go through the several duties of their departments. Signor Gaspa Morilli walked across Niagara river, between Goat's Island and the Falls, on a pair of stilts, Feb 12, on a bet of a thousand dollars to fifty. So says a correspondent of the Chicago Press. The last arrival from Europe brings the news of the death of Henry Hallam, the illustrious historian. He died in London, Jan 22. He was almost the last survivor of that illustrious band of prose writers whose works may be said to have rendered the early part of the nineteenth csntury the golden age of English literature. Paris and London club gossips pretend that the anticipated Italian war will break out in April next. Frakce. There is a tumor that Mr Morphy will play another match with Mr Ilartwiu. A report is current, too, that Mr Morphy, in emulation of Paulsen, has undertaken to play twenty games simultaneously without board and men. The Times Paris correspoiKient says he is told of extensive war preparations on a large scale, and that the members of the diplomatic, corps, with, few- exceptions, think that war cannot be avoided. The mart Lage of Prince Napoleon and the King of Sardinia's daughter was celebrated at Turin on the 30th, and the bridal party started forthwith for Paris. Yice President Breckinridge has sold his house for about 820,000, having, to he regret of his social friends, abandoned the idea of housekeeping ; in Washington. Claj ton -Qui vrcr Treaty, ' ' New York, Feb 19. A dispatch from Waahington says Government has been informed of the intention of England to cary out the Clay tonBulwer treaty acccording to the Ameri mdmuwlhg of it, prork-on,. This'.t jaci ooviaies the necessity of abrogating r l . i . . the treaty, as England withdraws from Iter Central American possessions, and re-

Rump Senator Laxe asd McCartt.

The Fort Wayne Time's, edited by a mem ber of the Republican Stale Central Committee, thus refers to the Rump Senators Laxä and McCartt: - A-few davs asro. this complflte farce was played out iu Washington, and resulted just where we all along predicted it would,

and were, under the circumstances, u was from all tnrtlier consideration oi tne auonot unalawful for it to end. The ear-wag- ject by a vote, respectively., of "32 yeas gers at Indianapolis have done the very j against 14 ways, 30' ) eas against lp. nays; thing that has best tended to kill the organ- 29 yeas against 16 nays; and 30 yeas a-

ization for which they acted they have repudiated the ground on which they stood in 1855 when the Democrats refused. 'a joint ballot for the election of United State! Senator; and then hai ground, got beaten beaten in the contest United States Senate and now over their sham election of this winter, have srotten the voice of the United States Sena'.e, on the full merits of the case confirming Bright and Fitch, while Line and McCarty make their bows, damn the Senate, and go home tobe lost in fo-getfulness. It is the only course that that body cos Id take and coming ages will make the" better appreciated. Again. we say, we would be glad to see some other persons holding the placcb of Bright and Fitch some persons nearer our politic! in notions but we would ; not unless it were bv a legal election. From Indianapolis. February 14. The Legislature vet remains in a state bordering on "masterly inactivity." Nothing has been done since my last writing of any general interest. Several acts have been passed fixing the time of holding courts in several Judicial Circuits; and that is tho sum total of legislation transacted so far this session. In the senate, last Thursday, a bill for the repeal of the Charter of the bank of the State of Indiana failed to paes by a vote of yor.8 29, nays 18. Rufus Brown, of Marshall, Hugh Miller, of Fulton, and David Turner, of Lake, voting against the repeal. On Thursday the senate refused to pass a bill, (which had been debated several days,) proposing to invest the Sinking Fund in State bonds, State Stocks and U. S. Stocks, but adopted a substitute for the bill which provides for distributing the 83,000,000 belonging to the Sinking Fund, among the several counties to be loaned out to residents of the same in sums of not more than 500 at 7 percent, iniercst, secured by mortgage on real estate. The substitute was sent to a committee t be perfected. On the same day the Senate passed a Temperance bill iu less ihan an hour from lite lime of its first rending, which provides for no license; but simply restricts the sale of intoxicating liquors in one particular not tobe drank upon tho premises where sold: prescribing a fine "for any uch offensejn any sum not less than five nor more than fifty dollars," and declaring "that this act shall take effect from and after the first day of July 1859. A bHl taking away from the Governor and giving to County Commissioners the power of appointing Swamp Land Com misiioners has passed the Senate by a very decided vote and been sent to the House of Rcpiesentatives, Lient. Governor Hammond is still con fined to his room by fever of tLe typhoid form through better now than for several days past and the Senate is presided over by the same gentleman whom they elected to occupy the presiden's chair prUempore at the beginning cf this present session. Editorial Cor. SR Foivm. Lane and McCarty. In memory of Lane ai d McCarty, we copy the following telegraphic report of the final action of the United States Senate on their case. It will bo seen that Judge Douglas voted for thir admission, with fourteen others. "The case of the Indiana Senators came up, and was debated for several hours. The debate, which was mainly confined to the legal gentlemen of the Senate, was high ly interesting, but turned so much upon tht legal and constitutional points involved, that it is impossible within the brief limits of a telegraphic dispatch to convey even an outline. Messrs. Seward, Fessenden, Harlan, Collamtrand others, on the Republican side,! and Messrs. Bayard, Green, Benjamin; Pugh, and others, against the con testants, delivered their opinions regarding the cae. - . ' . Mr; Seward referred lo Mr. Benton's expungent resolution, and said as the reso lution to-day would not certainly be carried he would move every year while in Congress, and perhaps some one will move it when he is gone, till it be carried, that ths resolution of the Senate, of-June 12,' 1858. he in the year 18cxpunged from the records of the Senate. Mt Harlan moved an amendment to the effect that the Indiana case, with all the papers, be recommitted to tho Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to in quire if Messrs Bright and Fnch have been elected in accordance with the Constitution of the State of Indiana., and that the contestants be allowed to appear k bsr of the Senate sn-l rgu, tl,er j t rights to seats. ! Mr Pugh moved an amendment to Mr Harlan's motion to the effect that the revert of the judiciary Committee declaring

ring taken the opposite' Green, It win, Houston,1 flutter,- lrerson.

in the election got j Johnson of Tern:, ;Jche's Kenne j? Lane.

Messrs Bright and Fitch as tl.e only le gallyelected Senators from Indiana, sus tained, and that the vote of the Senat final in tho case. y Mr Harlan's -motion w.is lost and Mr

: Pugh's adopted." j The J udiciary -Committee's re port was I sustained and the Cemmittro. discharged : gainst 2G nays. , On one side the nays were Messrs. Bayard, : Benjamin, ".' Bigler,! Broderiik, Brown, Chesriut,' Clav," Clingman, Davis, j Slieids, Shidell; Smith, Stuart, Toombs, Ward and Yulee. On the other side the yeas were Messr.c. Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, D jolittle, Douglas, Fessonder. Foote, ' Hamlin, Harlan, King,. Seward, Trumbull and Wilson. , Paired off Dixon with Thompson f N. J., Simmons with Alh?n. Wade wkh-'YuW, Fos:er with Pearce, Bell with Hamniunl. Messrs. Bright and Fitch not voting.. The Senate then adjourned. ; The Atlantic CaWr. St Johxs, N. F., Feb 19. Mr Heüly, chief electrician of the Atlantic Cable Company, has arrived here with Batteries and instruments, to commence operations with tbem on this end of the cable. ? Pittsburgh, Ft. W. dr C. R. R. W copy the following flattering notice of tho above Road, from the Chicago) Times of the 14th inst.: Dispatvh UjiPRECtDE-STiD. The freight agent of the Fort Wayno railroad received on Saturday a dispatch stating klhat a shipment of beef made by this line in Chicago on Monday, the 7th inst., at 2 o'clock P. M., arrived in New York on Saturday morning the 1 2th inst., making the distanc in four and a half days. This is unprecedented in the history of any heavy frejht carrying line iu this country, and speaks volumes in behalf of the superiority of the Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh route' A fire in New Oregon, Iowa, on Saturday of last week, destioyed lawyer's building, in which was the Sentinel office, and two small edifices adjoining. Loss 56000 ...... i A fire, a Painsville O, on Saturday destroyed the mill of N S Wheeler. LossSi 2,000: insured for 37,000. At Ogdensburgh on the 10th, ten teams broke through while returning from a raco track on the ice and Several horses werelest. Some teams not vet heard from. Fanny Fern says tho men are fast now-a-days. Prentice leplies they must bef to catch the women! FESTIVAL. There ill be a Masonic Festival held at Mason ic Hall, on Friday evening, March 4th. All the members (and their families) of Plymouth Lodge No,. 149, arc respectfully invited to attend. UroHorace Corbin and J. G. Oaborn will address the assembly. A regular communication of sl- Lodge Febru ary 25tli, A.L.5$9. M. POMEROY.W. M. II. G. Tiiatex, Ssc'y. JUST BXCEIYED. They arc or the latest Style And WHEN WARRANTED of THE BEST QUALITY. A. MYERS, No: 2 Pershings Block. fcb24t4. AT MY WARE HOUSE, ON THESOVTII tide t' the R R,the following articles: Goed Flour, Lard, smoked Haia and Shoulders Fil led Pork , Corn, Oats, Potatoes and Clover Seed. I have a few bushels of HUNGARIAN GRASSSEED to let on ghares. I will pay CASH for all the above named articles. Feb 24 59 II. G. THAYER. I WILL OFFER FOR Sale at mr residence one mile and a half south west of Zehner Mills on Saturday, 3Iarch 12th the following propertTU,ut: Two yoke of Oxen, one Log Wagon, Chains, four Cows, 2 two year old Colts, Sheep,. Hogs, Plows, Harrows and one Corn Cultivater. A credit of six months 21 1 given on all rums over five dollars, the pnrrhanr giving note, waiving valuation and appraise we i,r laws, with Interest Crom date if not paid when !tf13w3 JOHN LOUDONSTANFIELD &. JOHXSOXT. S. STaxntiD, bf Sonth Bead, fad- and . Johxsox, of PIr mouth Indiana, hare associate I thc-Bie!vea together for the practice of Law, in all the Courts of Marshall Comty MrStanfield will personally assist in the management cf all litipted business Office in Coroin s block. nl3v4 State of Indiana, JIarhalI tonnir Before George A Mctcalf, J.P., February 14 IbSJ Ozias Baird ) vs Proceedings in Att aewnent. Elitabcth Keyser.) It rnarin!?that the defendant has had no per sonal tervice of the summon in t'a case, she is herebv notified of the issuing of the same, of the n.f tSe aflidavkand bond, and of the pendenr th suit, and that the same wilt be heard and rird at mv office in German TwtHlp, or tie btn Gay oi .uarcu, iuj, - y I3w3 GEORGE A. METCALF, J. P. (ScalJ THE LAPORTE DAILY UNION! .' rVSUSHX 1CVHT MOaXISfl (axcEir f rstnav,) And furnished tö subscribers at the 'low rate of 8IX DOLLARS PER YEAR.-Twrterty to d- ... . ... . r i T JU the Vcw York Chicago, and other trrket. nf iiviu vm - Subscriptions received at the Dmocmt ot&ct. . ROOT J1 AC h. A KU, inorwwru- , Worte, Indn' Jan. 10. 1P39, WU M

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