, 1856-10-03
Extra Session Of COngreSS-LetterS from
Gen. Lane and Gov. Curry

Gen. Lane and Gov. Curry.
On the first page of our paper to-day
will be found the letters from Gen. LANE
and Gov. Curry, which ore copied from
the Oregon Times, announcing the defeat
of all special appropriations for both Wash
iugton and Oregon Territories by the late
session of Congress also foreshadowing
the gratifying intelligence that the volun,
teer war debt for the two Territories had
been recognized, and will probably be adj
iusted before the close of the XXXIVth
Congress. A Commission will doubtless
be appointed to audit all accounts for vol
unteer services and citizen outlay, and it is
but reasonable to hope that action for
their adjustment will be authorized during
the next session. This cannot otherwise
be looked upon but as just and proper,
and as a severe and merited rebuke to Gen.
Wool, his satellites and red tape" pan
derers, who have been using every exer-
tion, no matter how despicable and unwar-
rantable, to initiate against the hard-earned
claims of our volunteers for recognition at the
proper departmental length acknowledg-
ed as right and proper by the representatives
of the people. Thus it will be seen that Gen
Wool and his coadjutors are likely to be
foiled in their dastardly and unscrupulous
exertions, in having our patriotic citizens
and brave volunteers defrauded out Of their
Just dues. Their slanderous course is likely
to exemplify to them the truth of the
adage, that villainy has oyer-leaped itself.
On the inside Of our paper will be found
the message of President Pierce, calling an
extra session Of Congress, for objects set
forth therein-that body having adjourned,
as per joint resolution, on the 18th Of Aug.
Their deliberations were closed without
passing the general army appropriation
bill, as indicated in several articles publish
ed in this paper some weeks since, concern
ing the interference in Kansas matters by
the regular forces, &C., &c. This, Of
course,-their refusal to pass the appropria-
ton bill,-virtualy leaves our country
without a regular army and, indeed, as
far as this and Oregon Territory is con-
cerned, it had as well be so. But all will
perceive that the refusal so to do, for the
reasons set forth by the Nigger-worship-
ping" majority of the House, was revolu-
tionary in its character, with disuion in
its design, giving as an excuse for so doing
their opposition to the interference of the
regular army in Kansas, which all know,
or ought to know, was done merely for the
purpose Of preserving law and order in
that distracted Territory. To obtain their
object, it seemed to them necessary, pend
ing the presidential election, that few
more murders and outrageS might be COM
mitted there, more disorder and confusion
prevail to carry up to the presidency the
Nigger-worshipping" candidate for that
position. To the end that peace and quiet
might continue there, and for other objects,
Immediately after the adjournment of Con-
gress, the President issued his proclama-
ton calling a special session, which con-
vened three days after its adjournment
38 senators and 119 representatives pres
ent after which, says the New York
Tribune, the =" message was read and refer.
red to the committee on Ways and Means
in the House, and after a discussion in
committee Of the Whole, the House, by a
vote Of yeas 90, nays 85, reported the army
bill exactly as it stood when lost by adjourn.
meDt-that is, with the Kansas restriction
attached" What action the Senate will
take in the premises, had not transpired
at our latest dates from Washington. 1t
is generally understood, however, that that
body will adhere to its original position,
unless suitable compromise can be OBJ
tanned.
Whether or not this extra session will
do anything in the way of passing the spe
Oial appropriation bills for this and other
Territories, time alone will develop We
are pleased to observe, however, that an
act for the relief Of John H. Scranton and
James NJ. Hunt" had been reached in the
calender, and passed, before the final ad-
journment.
We hope, by our next issue, to obtain
new and further Information of the doings
Of the special session,