Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1860 — How the President’s Message was Received at Washington. [ARTICLE]

How the President’s Message was Received at Washington.

The Washington correspondent of the New Y ork Pnbune writes thus: “The effort to get it read in the House was resisted by -Ir. Stanton, (Ohio,) who, in a few words, slated the precedent in the XXXIVth Congress which tabled it unceremoniously. Mr. Gollimer also opposed the reading in the Senate, as against the understanding that no bu iness should be transacted during the holidays. It was ordered read by a formal vote. As a document, it is regarded as weak and flimsy. Politically, it is considered utterly disastrous to the Democracy, by the recommendation of protection to Slavery in the Territories, which is more than leading Southern men desire, and which the Supreme Court never decided, as asserted bythe President. This, and the proposed inva-. sion of Mexico, have excited much comment., as a barefaced bid for a renomination. Mr. Douglase’s friends are greatly excited; nav the .whole movement is aimed prbtgipallv against him.” ' CttrSome six years ago, says- tfie Baltu more Patriot, Martin F. was. read in «* Clerk in the lirst branch of the City Coiincil ol diis city, and YY m. LI. Id- Turner was. a member from the Eighth Ward, aa*]! they were both candidates for the Clarifobip- off the City Circuit Court; which*was-just them established under tbe-aaew. sons hit lit ion. They went before the Demo attar jt ia a day-light vote, when Mr. Turner, received a majorityami of course tSre wosninatron and election. Shortly Her this defeat Mr. Cotway migrated to Kansas, e»d soon became a warm Republican—as actire for that party as he had been here as a Democrat. This week Mr. Turner loses his- r.<lwe as Clerk, and Mr. Couway eotu.es to Baltimore on his way to. Washington, as a Representative of the Republican party in Congress-.