Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1859 — Cuba to be Taken by Attachment. [ARTICLE]

Cuba to be Taken by Attachment.

The Washington Union indorses the scheme of Senator Davis of Mississippi, to to proceed by attachment against Spain as an absent and fraudulent debtor, and levy upon Cuba. The Union says: “Mr. Davis proposes, ‘ inlet* all tlie circumstances, that the federal government shall notify Spain and demand paymenCTor certain indebtedness, and, in df fault Hereof, that attachment issue with directions to our naval constables to seize the island of Cuba. Inequity Mr. Davis is right. Spain’ has justly forfeited all claim to the United States. That Island lias been governed for twenty years by tlie iden-that England and France would not consent to its falling into our hands. It lias been regarded ns perfectly safe to treat our people as barbarians and pirates; to arrest confiscate their property, and, even when pronounced innocent in criminal prosecutions, to refuse not only to return their estates, hut make them pay enormous costs! The whole judicial system of Cuba is in the hands or under the control of the governor-general. This is not the theory of the government,, but it. is in practice; so that all the authority wherever, and by whomsoever exercised is a unit.”., . |.

A Noble Deed and its Reward. — -Night before last, during a heavy rain and windstorm, a freight car at Salina Station, on the Great Western Railroad, was niov-ed from the side track where it. was standing, directly across the main track, and in such a position as to entirely impede the passing trains. A young lad, named Peter Dunn, seeing the imminent danger, land knowing that the passenger train west would be along in a short time, patient ly w aited in the storm for it, and by signals stopped the train in time to prevent the collision. It was two o’clock at night, when the train came along. The little hero was brought to this city and retarded by Supb, intendant Mitchell with an entire new suit of clothes and was otherwise cared for.— lll. State Jour., 21th.