The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-07-25
Foreign News.
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Arrival of the Steamer Giro assiar
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.


LoSpoS, July l0.--The money market is
slightly easier. Consols for money are quo
ted at 92ta92A.
The House of Lords defeated the Jewish
Oath Bill by large majority.
Naples was tranquil.
Further slight disturbances had occurred
in Spain.
Aslaver named Adams Gray, Of New Or
leans, had been captured at Sierra Leone. /
Provisions -Beef firm, pork dull, and quo
tatons barely maintained. Bacon heavy
Lard quiet.
London Consols for account are quoted Mt
92R.
The Bank of England's rates for discount
are unchanged. The bullion has increased
El3S,U0O. American securities are I'M
changed.
Barring Brothers report Welsh rails as hay
ing closed firm. Welsh bars firm with an
improved demand at 7(a7 for both descrip-
liens.
LIVERPOOL Breadstuffs-Th following
quotations arc reported. Flour, Western
canal 30s Cd to 3ls Cd; Ohio 32s to 33s.---
Corn, mixed 37s Cd to 3Ss white 39s to 40s;
yellow BIS Cd to 3ss.
Government asks half million each on
account of China and Persian wars.
Notice has been given OF q resolution to
continue the present duty on tea and sugar
for two years from next April.
Palmerston has promised government
regulation in regard to the supply Of free no
groes in the French West Indies.
The French National Assembly has been
suspended two months in consequence of the
election disturbances.
There has been disturbances ut Urea, in
Spain, but they we're suppressed.
The Cortez had passed a gag law on the
press.
No further demonstration at Naples. De-
tails show u considerable loss Of life.
Mazzini had escaped from Italy.
what tho bred scots Case Dccidtd,
and what ~ did not Decide.
The Boston Law Reporter for June con-
tains very able and thorough review Of tho
Dred Scott "DeCision,' whioh witt enable
the reader to know what the Supreme Court
has decided in that important case fur more
readily and clearly than he can learn from
the official report itself. la fact, the Review
ha. done Just what the reporter, Mr.. How
ard, in long and confused head notes at
tempted, but failed To accomplish.
Those, also, who desire to understand, not
merely the points which the so-called decis-
ion really decided, but what it did not de.
eide. will do well to consult the Law Report
er's article, the authorship of which is as
cribed to Horace Gray, Dr., and John Low
/ ell, two wcll-kno.n legal gentlemen Of Bos
/ ton. The result Of their investigation Of the
| decision is briefly stated, as follows:
'First-As to the question, Can negro
be citizen of the United States" IL has
been commonly supposed that the Court de-
| cided this question in the negative. This is
| a mistake. From the form in which it was
presented. it was very doubtful whether it
was before the Court for u decision. Four
| of the nine Judges thought tina, it was these
were the Chief Justice, and Justices Wayne
| and Daniel, who answer the question in the
| negative, and Justice Curtis, who answers il
| in the affirmative. OF the Judges who give
no opinion on the point, one Judge McLean)
declares that if he answered the question AT
all it would be in the Affirmative; Judge Cat
ron, when Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court Of Tennessee, gave an opinion directly
involving an Affirmative answer TO the ques
ton; the three other Judges give no clue to
their opinions. On this question, then, the
Court stands thus three in the Affirmative,
three in the negative, and three silent,
"Secondly--Was the Missouri Compro-
mise constitutional? 1t is q perfectly we'll
! settled principle Of the Supreme Court, and
one that has been often laid down from iis
bench, that no part of an opinion Of the
Court is to be regarded as of authority AZ u
precedent which was not necessary to the
determination Of the question before it,
Anything beyond this is merely the express
sion Of the individual opinion OF the Judge,
and it has been we'll said that sf general
dicta are to be considered as establishing the
| law, nothing is yet settled or can long be
settled Bearing this in mind, let US look
ut the facts Of the case. Scott was slaye
I in Missouri; w.s taken by his master to Illi-
4 nois, and thence into territory Of the Uni
! ted States where slavery was prohibited by
| the Missouri Compromise; and thence back
/ to Missouri. The opinion Of the Court is
placed upon the ground that the laws OF
Missouri are to decide whether Scott is or 10
not slave now that he has returned to Mis-
souri, Ii this be SO, what matters it wheth-
err the Compromise be valid or invalid? In
other words, whether Scott was free when in
| Illinois, or in the territory, or whether he
continued to be slave all the time? And
| If the Court goes out Of its way to give an
opinion on this point, could palmer in
stance be found OF an opinion on point not
necessary to the determination of the rights
Of the parties?
/ "fhe Court, then, has not decided that
the Missouri Compromise was unconstitu-
tional.
| "Thirdly-This case is often spoken OF
as deciding chat a master may take his slave
to a free State, and there hold him as slave.
This is u simple mistake there is no such
point decided. But
1 "Fourthly doctrine il here estab-
lished that, il slave be taken BY his master
70 a free State, and does not there claim his
liberty, but consents to return with his mas
ter to slave State, be may be held as a
slave there, if the highest court of that State
considers him still to be slave. In other
words, the bred Scott case does not decide
that negro is n slave in free State be-
cause he lcds u slave the State from which
he was brought; nor, that u slave carried
from slave to free State and brought
back, is free because he might have claimed
his freedom in the free State nor that he is
necessarily slave after his return; but
leaves his freedom or slavery to be settled
! by the laws Of the slave State to which he
returned with his MASTER
An ASEcDoTg or WAsH,NGroN.--Notinh his
/ Ltte.-WhiIe the American army under the
command of Washington, lay encamped at