Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-21

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CONGRESS.
Tho proceedings of the Senate to-day were
not of general interest.
10 the House, after stormy discussion, and
an attempt to hide the Nebraska bill from the
light Of day in the Committee on Territories,
that it might be suddenly brought forth and
passed in all its deformity at some unguarded
moment, it was referred to the Committee Of
the Whole on the state Of the Union, bya vote
of 10 to IS. Now there will be no hood
winkiDg.
MRS ERNEsTINE l. ROSE.
We cheerfully comply with the request to
call attention to the Lecture to be delivered
tomorrow evening, at ~ o'clock, in Carusi's
Saloon, on the Education and Social Position of
Woman, by Mrs. Ernestinc L. Rose, o native Of
Poland. Her lectures elsewhere have excited
deep interest In Michigan, by vote Of the
House of Representatives, the hall Of the
House was rendered to her, and many mem
bers of the Legislature united in testimonial,
highly complimentary to her efforts.
GREENouGH's WAsHINGToN.-B. B French,
Esq. Commissioner of Public Buildings, says,
in card, that the support to the left arm of
this statue was removed by Mr.. Horatio Green
ough himself in the winter Of 1852, while he
was on visit to this city; and that, on the
night Of the 9Th instant, the marble belt at
tached to the sword in the hand of Washing.
ton, fell by its own weight.
10 The Texas creditors will meet at the
National Hotel to- morrow
10 Mr. Polk plead the statute Of limita-
tions on the claims Of our citizens for French
spoliations, the payment Of which our Govern
ment once solemnly assumed Now, the Con-
cord PATROL, Otter. presumed to speak for Pres
ident Pierce, opposes the award Of Justice in
advance Of Congressional legislation and this,
too, at time when the national Treasury is
OVERLOOKING, and the custody Of the public
lands Though We are negotiating the purchase
or desiring the conquest Of more) is regarded
as burden 10 our Government!
10 The passage from New York to Albany
las miles, in the steamboats,, Is only so cents.
What the extras are is not stated. On the
railroad, it is 81 So If we err not AT these
rates. it is cheaper to travel than to stay at
home
The Detroit Tribune is in the folio form
again. This is well. The quarto Is too in
convenient for newspaper.
70 The President and his friends are said
to be blaming the Nebraska bill for their i'll
fortune in Detroit Chicago, and New tIamp-
shire, sc. while Mr.. Douglas and his friends
are consoling them with the assurance that
but for the Nebraska bill, things would have
been great deal worse with them!
~ Mrs Hammer, wicked, vicious wo-
man, was sentenced in Philadelphia the other
day, to six months imprisonment for cruelty
10 her child. She Of course swooned when
the sentence was pronounced. We regret that
her husband could not be legally convicted
also, wretched brute that he is.
The NEBRASKA ExcIrEMtNT-The Phila-
delphis Sun, warm advocate Of Mr.. Fillmore
and his Compromise Measures says:
Everywhere the people are excited upon
the Nebraska bill. New Hampshire has
spurned il; large meeting at Dayton, Ohio,
has denounced it; Brooklyn, in New ioik,
Numbered against il, on Thursday evening
while Mt tho same time Tammany Hall spoke
feebly in its favor, Capt. Rynders, ex-senator
McMurray, and Lorenzo B. Sheppard being
the only speakers, when celebrated statesmen
were promised and expected. We do not zee
how Congress can pass the bill with such an
unanimity Of Northern sentiment against IL.
A vote in its favor will DO fatal TO the prospects
Of all political aspirants from the free States"
Charles 0'Conor, United States District
Attorney for the Southern District OF New
York, contradicts story that he is secretly
plotting against the Nebraska bill. He says:
" | have been and am decidedly in favor Of it,"
movement is on foot TO erect n monument
to the Rev. John Bunyan, side by side with
cnhkppcnfo anu Uhuu, III " oosnncsVf ~
hey. This is tardy act Of justice to the mem
DRY Of man immortal for bic genius and good
mesa
In Prussia, boys Of Is are drawn, and COM
PEELED 10 serve in the army till 80 years Of ago.
Mr.. Clinton Of the New York Assembly, has
given notice Of a bill TO prevent the abuse Of
horses.
To ual;fav IN Cl RsDt,bl,cnn baa an arti-
Gle recommending the nomination of Stephen
A. Douglas for the next President,
A dentiss in Boston has succeeded in the APP
plication Of India rubber TO the manufacture
Of artificial teeth.