The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-12-19
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WAsHINGToS. Dec. IS

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.
HoUsE-Twenty thousand copies of the
Presidents Message and accompanying decu-
ments were ordered to be printed.
The consideration of the Presidents Mes
sage was resumed. sas
Gen. Quitman believed every word of the
President on the slavery question was well
timed and true, and developments in the
House show that the objects of the Republi-
can party we're such as the executive had at
tribdtcd to their leading men. That organi-
zation had declared their purpose to destroy
that institution which is enterwined with
Southern States.
Speaking on the subject of the Central
American question he said he was opposed as
an American to bowling and yielding to En-
gland or France. This has been the rock on
which we have SPLIT.
We want no treaty with any foreign nation
relative to our duty on this continent and
should not therefore call on any European
power to cross the ocean to help regulate our
Central American affair. We should our
selves attend to this matter. He believed
Gen. Walker was an instrument in the hands
of Providence to carry on American civiliza-
ton and it was the duty of. our Government
not to throw obstacles in his way.
Mr.. Blair said his colleague Mr.. Curtis pro-
posed to argue merely the constitutionality of
the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Blair then
proceeded with his argument in support of
the jurisdiction Of the court and the claim of
his client to citizenship mainly on the same
grounds as adduced in his remarks of Mon
day last.
He instanced various authorities in support
of his propositions and defended at length the
constitutionality Of the Missouri Compromise.
WAsHGNGroN, Dec. 49,
The case of bred, Scott VS. Sandford re-
sumed.
Mr. johnson presented precedents in sup
port of his views on the question of citizen
ship Of the negro.
New ORLEANS Dec. Is.
Arrived-Lecomptc, Montgomery, Niagara,
Twichell, Susquehanna, Woodford, Oglesby.
Sultana. Bageley. Departcd-Alma, Ohio,
Chancellor.
New YORK, Dec. Is.
Dates from st. Thomas to the 3D. announce
the arrival there of DR.. Kane His health is
greatly ffhpro1ed from the cold he caught in
England. He designs going to Havana.
BosToN, Dec. Is.
The thermometer 90 below zero; Sack
vile 159 below; st. Johns 149 below; Calais
179 below; Bangor 159 below; New Bedford
40; Providence 40; Brooklyn, Mass, 80; Lex
ington 13a; Highland Light, Cape Cod, To-
New York 12o above; Phladep hia 16a above;
Salem; n j., 12o above
NEw YORK, Dec. Is.
The counting room of Carr, Bennett & Co.,
Water street, was robbed Yesterday of
trunk containing $4,000, in bills receivable.
John c. Stanford, Assistant Post Master at
Florence, Oneida county, Vas arrested Satur-
day for robbing the mail. Tie arrest was
made by direction of Mr.. Holbrook, of the
post office department. en-
A call has been issued for Nicaraguan
sympathy meeting at the Tabernacle, on Sat-
urday evening. The names of Gov. Price, of
N. j.; Ex-Gov. Smith, of Va; Brown, of
Miss; Jones, of Tenn, and Senators Cass,
Douglass, Mason, &C., are announced as
speakers:
HALIFAX, Dec. 49,
The steamer America, now over due from
Liverpool, has not yet been sigualled below.