The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-07-04
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reported by JudgeDousLas, from the Committee
on Territories, with some unimportant amend
men,s This bill embodies the features OF MI.
TooNBs substitute, which had been referred, along
with all other projects on the subject to the COZ"
mittee.
We have already stated the material points III
the bill II provides for the appointment OF n'e
commits sioners from all political parties, ana from
all parts of the Cpiou, who shall take census OF
all the legal votef1 of Kansas and make fair ap-
portionment OF dAhga,es to be elected in each
county that delegates from the districts 50 up
portioned shall be elected by the legal voters
printed copies of whose names shall be- given to
the judges of election and circulated publicly, ana
that said delegates shall meet in convention, de-
eide whether or no. Kansas shall come into Ine
Union and if they decide that she .hall, then they
shall frame a Constitution which shall be Repuo-
lican in form and with which Kansas shall be ad-
United ON an equal footing with the original
States
These are the main features of the bill They
are certainly commended TO the nation by their
fairness. No Injustice could be done, if they were
faithfully carried out The passage OF the bili
would indeed be happy settlement OF the Kansas
difficulty. We however, doubt whether the Black
Republicans will be ready to settle that vexed
question. 1t is good capital for them, and without
it we cannot see what material they would have
for electonee-ing. IA long as it 10 kept open and
they can foment the ieslouses Of the North By
their unfonnded charges sgsinst the South and by
the gross fabrieatOns of pro-slayery outrages.
which they are ever sendirg forth from Kansas
they can turn Kansas troubles account Settle
it, and they can make nothing out of i. whatever
This is motive enough with them, and we shall be
IN ost agreeable disappointed II any of them favor
the bill.
=. 5. After the above was written, teegra phic
dispatch announced that the House yesterday re-
considered the vote which rejected the bill admit
ting Kansas under the anti slavery Topeka Con
stituton, and passed it-sye. 100, noes o. We
are not surprised at this. We suspected that the
first opportunity that offered this would be done by
the free sellers The South valves the proposition
TO admit Kansas upon the Constitution framed by
the pro slavery men, although it has much stronger
claims upon Congress than the Topeka Constitu.
tlon. The South further proposes fair ground of
settlement of the troubles of the Territory but the
free sellers of the North seem 10 have neither
enough OF patriotism nor justice to prompt them to
respect generous offer to restore peace to the
from doing what they would at the expense of the
Union.
RAISING OF THE STEAMER ATLASTICs SAFE
Thrilling Scene.-Tbe raising of the safe of the
steamer Atlantic, which was sunk in Lake Erie of
Long Point, III e52 has been noticed. The De
| trot Advertiser of the 2sth ult., says:
1t will be reeslleeted that this steamer was In
stantly sunk by eolliding with propeller, and
that d large number of passengers were lost The
diver was protected BY copper arlnor and was
under water forty minutes, during which time he
had some strange adventures The upper deck
Of the steamer lies one hundred and sixty feet uu
der water, and far below where there is any cur
reut or motion Everything, therefore, is exactly
| as il first went down.
When the diver alighted upon the deck, he was
! ssluted by a beautiful lady, whose clothing was
well arranged, and her hair elegantly Dressed As
lie approached her, The motion OF the water caused
an osc latou OF the head, as if gracefully bow lug
| to bin She was standing erect, with one hand
| grasping the rigging Around lay the bodies of
several others, as If sleeping. Children holding
| their friends by their hands, and mothers with
their babes i'll the. arms were there In the cab
in the furniture VAS still untouched by decay and
| to all appearance had just been arranged by some
| careful and tasteful hand
III the office lie found the safe, and was enabled
to move it with ease, and took it upon deck where
the graphing irons were fastened on, and the prize
| brought safely to the light Upon opening the
safe il displayed its contents in perfect state of
| preservation. There was in the safe 81 600 in
| gold, s3,JOO in bills of the Government Stock
| Bank, and large amount OF bills other banks
| amounting in all to about $50 900. The pape Q
| were uniDjured, except that they smelled very
strongly Of decayed human bodies if it had
| laid So for many years in coffin with their own
| er. Of course, all this money goes to the persons
| interested in this wonderful adventure
The Detroit Free Press says The new bills,
| we are told are comparatively uDipjured by their
long imprisonment and exposure to dampness, but
| the old ones are quite injured anu defzced,
| whether 80 much 30 as to prevent their identified.
ton and redemption we have not learned. There
| are several thousand dollars on the exploded Go
yernment Stock Bank Of Ann Arbor, included in
! the amount recovered.