Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-09


It's not supposed that any of their colleague.
VIII find themselves bound by the same nc
ccssilies Of position.
Mr.. Calhoun's health continues bad.
III is said to be seriously unwel. The III
ness OF Mr.. Dix also still detains him from
Senate.
The election of Gen. Shields TO lie Uni
ted States Senate by the Illinois legislature
is assumed to have taken place on Saturday
the 18th inst, pursuant 10 the nominatior
on the Friday before, though no dispatch
to that effect has been received. IF thai
prove TO be the case, it is expected that :
question will arlseas 10 his eligibility. TIE
constitution requires that senator shall be
native, or if foreigner by birth, that he
shall Lave been nine years a citizen of the
United States. 1t is said that Gen. Shields.
VINO is native of Ireland, becamea citizen
only eight years ago last October, and con-
seqnenlly thathe will not be entitled to take
me seal. to which he has been elected on The
iourth OF March next. Ard it is further ar.
guea mat the disability will notbe removed
oy the lapse of time between that date and
me beginning of the next Congress. unless
he he IN the mean time regularly electef bv
'ie legislature. A decision will he made
on This case at the extraordinary session of
Tie Senate beginning March 4th.
Mr.. Clay Is coming on With General
Taylor. His most ardent friends begin u
entertain the hope that he will he again pla-
ced at the head of the cabinet. as he was %
years ago. If General Taylor should cx
hIoIt SO high an appreciation of his merits.
they say that Crttenden will vet be check
mated and Daniel Webster will be requit-
ted Tor preferring his own peculiar friends
to Mr.. Clay's eight years ago, when occu-
pylng the same place. People will talk,
and this is wing talk.
4he Union is intensely gratified by the
passage OF the bill for the payment of the
Iacheco claim for a runaway slave. I'm the
eXtasy of It's delight the Union bursts forth
with the classical adjuratron. 80 81 sic
onaa'a." Precisely. O that the northern
representatives wouldonly, on all occasions,
be equally accommodating to their southern
friends, and grant their little reasonable de-
mands.
1t never occurs 10 tic government journal
tIat 1t Is worth While to inquire whether
ms is or Is not just claim, and whether
there exists any constitutional obligation 10
pay 1t: but, true TO instinct, it knows it to he
southern claim, and for slave, and lis
heart and soul is enlisted in the cause
Finding The south, as usual, has prevailed,
II pously lifts its hands and ewes, and pravs,
On, that our enemies NAV likewise WELD
when California and New Mexico become
the subject Of conflict The sincerity of
this prayer will not be questioned by any
one who reflects that the petitioner has been
PAD between 100000 and 100000 year
Tor The last four Years, as the price of Just
such CALCULATIONS.
The Senator IN executive session Yesterday
referred Colonel Dunran's nomination 10
the committee on the judiciary. One of
Colonel Medll's treaties with North West
ern tribes OF Indians was discussed a, lergih
and ratified. BY this treaty the United
States acquire title to large tract Of coun,
Try bordering the southern and western shore
OF Lake Superior, as well tracts in the more
central portions of Wisconsin.
Considerable progress has been made in
business this week. The Senate has pass
ed the important bill for establishing a ter
rItorlal government in Minnesota, which will
eiieclually settle the question that has so
much agltaled the House, as to whether it
be necessary to provide for the con,inu-
alton of a territorial government in The resi-
due of Wisconsin territory, now represent
ed by Mr. SibIey.
The House, having got rid of Pachcco.
have prepared the way for doing something
better. The discussion upon the reforma.
ilon of the abuses Of the allowance for mile
age, has been temporarily concluded bv the
adoption, IN committee of the whole, of the
most Objectionable mode of compensation
ever suggested. Ii is Nr. Shcnck's plan of
$1,000 salary, and mileage by the usually
travelled route at ten cents mile. No one
can conscienIiously form any estimate of
the amount that would be drawn under this
system of mileage, but there is no doubt
that II could be made to average $500 TO
each member, and consequently that the to-
tai compensation would be So, 500 wear.
for about four and half months service.
The plan is not finally adopted and ven.
ture TO predict that it will not be. b.