New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-13

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speakers to. day, up to the time of mailing this,
were Messrs Bell of Tennessee, Dawson of Geor |
aia and Norris of New Hampshire. Mr.. Bells |
| speech was. like that of Mr.. Clayton, an able |
exposition of the gross impoicy Of the bill. He |
dwelt forcibly upon the facts of the meagre sum
of white population, and the immense area of
territory over which it was proposed to give them
Legislative control The Senator from Illinois |
seemed to have sort of mania for making ter
ritorial governments, and if our people, like
those Of Greece and Rome, rewarded great
achievements with titles and crowns, his ought
to be Ciarissinaus condifor imperiorat,a, and
with it ought to be bestowed not one but ten
civic crowns. GMr. Douglas smiled affably at
the suggestion. MIR. Bell was very confident
that the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
would have no such soothing tendency in quell-
ing slavery agitation as its supporters claimed
for it,
The vote will no doubt be taken to- night, and
the bill will pass by nearly three TO one So
far as the discussion is concerned in the Senate,
we may rejoice that it has come to an end. AT
ter / closed my letter last evening, some of the
Senators got quite excited in debate and used
harsh language, but Chase and Sumner (who sit
together) have borne the lashing which has been
from time to time administered to them with q
degree of patience which would astonish raw
Southern audience, and which would be charac-
terized by them as pusillanimous-ind if
tiiCll pIolesSloa 10 W puoJ SoC" w iO0A
the necessity of preserving themselves for this
purpose, and therefore take good care of their
own persons while they strive to hound on the
multitude.
The House has not yet got through with the
Homestead bill.
The Gardiner case has come to an unexpected
and, perhaps, tragical close The jury have
, found q verdict of guilty and the judge has
passed sentence of ten years in the peniten-
tiary but Just as close this there is q rumor
in the city that Gardiner has taken strychnine
and cheated the law of its victim. Poor fellow !
what alternatives of joy and sorrow, hope and
fear, have been his-a splendid fortune in his
grasp turned to dross and the forfeit of his life
paid for the venture! The verdict was most
unexpected by the public, yet it accords with
the general sentiment. The evidence was so
yolumnous and conflicting that it had been sup
posed no agreement could be come to in the
premises. Perhaps the public sentiment oper-
ated as powerfully for the conviction of Gardiner
as any of the testimony taken. This same pub
lie sentiment does not stop with Gardiner, but
duplicates others in the guilt for which he has
been, thus far the only sufferer.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2s 1864
t Messrs Toucey, Everett, Fish and others pre-
scented remonstrances against the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise.
Bills giving land for the Indiana and Illinois
Central Railroad, and also for some railroad in
Alabama, were introduced on leave and referred
to the Committee on Public Lands
bill for the relief of purchasers and locaters
n of swamp and overfowed lands was passed.
q Mrs Dix's bill, granting ten million acres Of
land to the States for the indgent insane, would
have been passed, but for the interpostion Of
Mr.. Gwin, of California, who raised what APP
peared to me singular objection But first
let me explain the provisions of the bill as now
= drawn-l0O,000 acres are allotted to each O
! the States, and the remainder, nearly 100000
>, are to he divided among them according to ter
a ritorial area and population. The lands are TIC
9 be located within any State which has then
= subject to private entry by such State Anc
: Mr.. Gwin declared that California would have nj
lands subject to private entry for twenty years tt
come! This seemed most extraordinary state
u ment, but he explained it by asserting that the
d Government surveys were first to be made O
:. lands already located, and these were so extern
y sive that for twenty years there would be M
:, land for sale. l rather opine that the Califor
e MIA Senator had an eye to the mineral lands
J and was anxious to secure these from the public
e market DIR. Gwin is q good Representative fol
California.
The House has been all day upon railroad
II bill, and five minute speeches upon the Home
y stead bill
It Tomorrow an election of Printer to the Hous
takes place, and quite number of candidates
are on hand, TO wit: Messrs. Wendell, Forney
ss (the Clerk Of the House,) Nicholson, Curran
g. johnson and others, There will be caueu
Ii to- night to try and fix the matter, but caucu
may not do-caucuses are losing their old power
My conjecture is that Mr., Nicholson, of Ten
vi nessee, who has recently become associated will
!, the Union, will be the fortunate man.
The printing is not worth so much as it ha
II been heretofore. General Armstrong has mad
y large OUTLAWS but realized no great profit up t.
~ the present time.
- Your townsman, Randell Hunt Esq, has no
= - only been successful in the McDonogh suit, bu
es he has also, learn, won much more import
ant suit for himself in the person Of lady {
niece of Judge Mclean, of Ohio,) with whom
he will return to New Orleans as his bride.
J The far-famed Gardiner trial is drawing to
close; the jury will get the case tomorrow 0
ii next day, and presume will complicate it sti
= further by disagreeing to verdict
W WASHINGTON, Feb OF, 1854
-, In accordance with what | stated some tim
~ since, the Senate passed large number of bill
u to-day, granting lands in aid of railroads
oh several of which were of immediate interest t
+ Louisiana. 1t remains to be seen how tn
House will act upon this point but there ar
not a few members of the latter branch of Cor
to gress who are directly and personally ntereste
to in one or more of those railroads, and althoug
this fact ought to disqualfy them for voting
at yet have no doubt it will operate to make th
er mode of disposing of the public lands settle
ng policy. If any of your readers know of goo
he openings for railroads, where the track can /
made to pass through the public domain, Il
them make haste to secure charters and organ
a. ize companies.
he After the Senate had disposed of batch
ne these bills Mr., Dawson, of Ga, suggested this
it was favorable moment to take up Mr.
re Dix's bill for land to the States; but some on
ro had an amendment to propose, so the relief 70
Q the INDECENT insane must wait. The madnes
which finds favor with legislators is tbs
:, sort which has method in it.
= Mr.. Cass delivered himself upon the Nebrask
70 &c bill. There are probably few who care to kno
~ ~ by what process of reasoning the ex-candida
~ fixes himself to any new position on the SLAYER
u question. He always veers with the populs
wind Mr.. Cass played old card of his
giving out some oracular warnings Of the desg
To- of England and France to curb the progress
IN this country in the acquisition of territory, br
ed his Vaccinations have ceased to attract muc