Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-16
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& NV YoRK, Jan. IL. Z
u The ru,nored burning of steamboat on the
Sonnd has turned DAT 10 be untrue. AL INC
boats have been accounted for.
Il A barn vas burned q Nes Rochelle q the
time which gave rise 10 thG story.
By telegraph from Sew Orleans we iearn ina. tnat
the steamship Sonora arrived at San Francisco,
Dec. 18th. with passengers hence. She lsft on
/ the 2sah Dec. with *i50oop in treasure.
& News lust received that French ship OF 100
| or 500 tons. has capsized and gone ashore II
I Great swamp. Az hands we're lost except one
of the crew.
The Evening Post states that telegraphic
dispatch was received here from Washington on
Wednesday evening, after the sailing OF the Star
/ Of the West, to fit out the Government steamer
! Arctic for pursuit, and bring her back Before
| the Arctic could be got under way she vas no
| zen in at the Navy Yard, and the expedition was
abandoned.
| The steamer Arago, Capt. Lewis, left to day
| for Southampton and Havre with So passengers,
and $4,000 in specie.
The following are the names Of the persons
drowned by the wreck of the Pilot Boat y. n.
Collins
Robert Mitchell, Pilot, President ofthe Pilots
Benevolent Association; Morris Eiwood, boat
keeper Joseph Rust, seaman; John Loan, sea
man; VIM Williams, boy, the cook was coiored;
Two Pilots and an apprentice who were on board
were saved.
Tho clipper ship which went ashore on Fire
Island on the morning ofthe llth, was owned
by Wakeman, Denison & Co., of this city. She
was an A No. vessel, and insuredlat about $50,
600. Freight 100000, and cargo probably worth
$500, 900.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. H.
A debate ensued in which several members
expressed opposition to making the House de-
batting society and opening the boundless sea OF
debate.
Mr.. Richardson thought he could get through
with his part of the performance within the pre-
seribed 10 minutes.
Mr.. Campbell consequently, and at the request
of Mr.. Richardson, withdrew his motion to sus-
pend.
Mr. Humphrey Marshall suggested that that the
patches Of interrogations be filed, the candidates
to reply in printed publications at their own con-
venence. Naughter.)
DETROIT, Jan. 12-9 Pm.
Gen. SCHUYLER of Kansas, is addressing
meeting of Citizens at Republican Hall, on the
wrongs, condition. and necessities Of Kansas. His
audience are of the most respected citizens OF
Detroit. and his address is very interesting.
The Message ON Kansas and slavery.
The New York Evening Post remarks with well
directed and well merted severity upon this part
of the message. And it but speaks the senti-
ments of nineteen-twentieths of the people of
the Free States:
The message is quite voluminous on the SUBJ
iect of recruiting soldiers for the British army |
for the war in the East. We do not mean to say |
anything on that hackneyed subject, except to |
contrast the zeal shown by the President in pre-
venting tle enlistment of soldiers to serve in the
war against Russia, with his perfect willingness
to allow soldiers to be recruited for the war
against Kansas We can protect Russia, he
thinks, against such proceedings, but we cannot
protect Kansas, being territory of the United
States was directly under our protection, and
that the Executive would by virtue of his Office
have power to keep off armed invaders from the
public lands. The paragraph in which Mr.. Pierce
dispatches the late troubles in Kansas is so cool,
so brief, and in some respects so extraordinary,
that we detach it from the message.
''In the territory of Kansas, there have been
acts preiudcial to good order, but as yet none
have occurred under circumstances to justify the
of the Federal Executive. That
could only be in case of obstruction to federal
law, or of organized resistance to territorial law,
assuming the character of instruction, which, if |
it should occur it would be my duty promptly to
overcome and suppress. cherish the hope,
however, that the occurrence Of any such unto
ward event will be prevented by the sound sense
of the people of the territory, who, by its Or
ganic law, possessing the right to determine their
own domestic institutions, are entitled, while de-
porting themselves peacefully, to the free exer-
else of that right, aud must be protected in the
enjoyment of it, without interference on the part
nf tha citizonS nf INV of tho stateS
1t is some comfort to know that Mr. Pierce adj
mits that the doing of the Missourians in Kansas
have not been quite regular Shooting people
dead without provocation is, he acknowledges,
not quite the thing, and though not to be called
by so horrid name as assassination, it may be
safely styled proceeding "prejudicial to order"
Invading the country with armed hordes, break
ing into and plundering the public arsenals, rob-
bing the farmers of their goods, driving voters
from the polls, ursurpng the legislative authority
of country in which they do not live, keeping
people in constant terror, and forcing
the settlers of the territory to arm themselves for
the defence Of their lives, are allowed to be acts
which, if you please, you may go so far as to call
disorderly. But though these acts are hardly to
be justified, the President tells us he can do no.
thing to prevent them. We can help Russia, we
can do nothing for the people of Kansas.
The people of Kansas have, the President tells
us 1.-THE right to determine their own lnstitutlons,
and they ''must be proteced in the enjoyment of
it." But although they must be protected, the
Executive, he insists, must not protect them. The
true remedy, he facetiously tells us, lies in the
"sound sense of the people of the territory" If
they will exercise little of this sound sense, he
hints that all their troubles will disappear, They
must beware, however, of making any organized
opposition to the laws of the territory; if they
should, he intimates that he will order out the
federal troops against Them
This idiotic paragraphs very suitably follow
ed by long and tiresome discussion of the slave
ry question, the southern side of which is direct
ly taken. Some passages of it sound Ikea col
lege exercise. One of the arguments by which |
the writer attempted to show. that the repeal of
the Missouri prohibition of savry was not breach |
of faith, is, that like other laws it was repeala
BILE. No doubt; but that does not make the repeal |
a just or honest proceeding. The power to do
an act does not imply that the act is right Mr.. |
Pierce seems to have become bewildered in his |
reflections on this abstruse subject, and to have
arrived at the strange conclusion, that whatever
and individual or body of men are able to do,
they are justified in doing. Perhaps it will be
better if hereafter he abstains from meddling |
with subjects of so high nature.
NApYET REpORTS