Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
"A Washington dispatch Of the 26th sa.
Gov. Walker has had long interview vii
tie President. They discussed Kansas a
u fairs Of length, especially the relation to Il
Z propriety If sustaining the action Of Il
Constitutional Convention in not referrin
3 the entire instrument to the people. tt
= distinguished gentlemen, though diaerin
: radically, parted friends, appointed anothe
interview for the discussion Of the sam
subject. Some of their mutual friends hop
for tie ultimate reconciliation Of thei
views, but the hope is fallacious. Thei
differences are too radical for compromise
Open hostilities are inevitable. The Gov
ernor's opposition to the Constitution is no
founded on the slavery clause, which is onl..
partially submitted, but on the refusal o
the Convention to permit the people to vot'
against as we'll as for the Constitution. H'
regards this as violation Of the Fedora
Constitution, of the Nebraska Kansas Bill
Of popular sovereignty, and the right Of self.
government. The President insists that as
the Constitutional Convention was authori.
zed by Congress, he is bound to sustain it,
action whatever it may be, while Walker
holds out that the application of his doc
trine, to sustain the refusal to submit the
entire Constitution to the popular vote, to
be a simple assertion of the right Of Con-
gress to force any Constitution on the Ter
ritory, instead of leaving the people to de-
eide for themselves. Gov. Walker has new
er yet seen the Constitution, and nobody
outside knows what it is. All effort of the
Governor to obtain copy Jailed. There is
reason to fear that its signers will be driven
out of the Territory, that it will be consid-
cred spurious, and that the State Govern
ment never can be set in operation under it
unless by the federal arms. Gov. Walker
declares that he cannot acquiesce in the ac-
ton Of the Convention without violating
every pledge he ever gave, and sacrificing
his honest convictions to make himself infa-
nous. If resistance be made to the estab-
lishment of the State Government the Pres
ident would necessarily call on the Cover
nor Of the Territory to exercise force to put
it down. This with his sentiments, Walker
cannot do, and will not, nor will he resign.
FoRElaN.-The steamer Africa arrived at
New York on the 9th, from Liverpool, with
nearly S35O,OO0 in specie. Her news was
anticipated by the Vanderbilt, but few ad-
ditional items of interest are communicated; ;.
The official announcement that the exporta-
ton of grain and flour from France was
stopped was followed in Paris BY an ad-
vance Of IL per cent on flour. The last
monthly returns of the Bank of France show
loss Of twenty million Francs in specie
The Austrian minister of Finance proposes
to meet the financial difficulty by the issue
of treasury bills to the amount Of OO,oOO,-
600 Aorins. The decree abolishing serfdom
in Russia, is to be published on the 18th
Of December. The Legislative body is con
voked for the 28th of November. The steam
ers Lady Bird and Champion collided at
Cape Otway. The latter foundered, and 4O
lives were lost. Fuller details of the Indian
news show thar the relief of Lucknow had
been only partially accomplished. Have
locks position was considered critical.
A dispatch from Washington of the
2Sth says that at a meeting of the Cabinet
on that day the President stated Gov. Walk
er's position on Kansas affairs. The Cabi-
net unanimously unite with the President
in favor Of sustaining the action Of the Con-
stitutional Convention with reference to sub
mitting the Constitution to the people, and
80 condemn Walker. The door to reconcil-
iation with Gov. Walkers position is now
closed, and bitter contest between the
two wings of the Democracy is unavoida-
Bile.
Telegraphic dispatches from various
parts of the Eastern and Middle States, da
ted the 2Sth, represent the weather as clear,
mild and pleasant.
FKox CALIroRNIA.-The Daniel Webster
arrived at New Orleans on the 18th, from
Havana on the 25th, with half million
specie The Northern Light left on the same
day for New York, with $4,000, 900 in gold,
having connected with the San Francisco
steamer of the 5th of November The news
of the loss of the Central America had caus-
ed a general g.oom at San Francisco. The
courts adjourned. Meetings were held, and
the mail company denounced 1t was sup
posed that the accounts of Indian depreda
tions in Carson Valley were exaggerated
Further from the Plains confirms the belief
in the completely of the Mormons in the late
massacre. The papers say that an efficient
armv could be raised in Califoruia against
the Mormons. Mr.. Harasthy, late re6ner in
the mint, had been indicted for embezzling
$l5O.OOO. Accounts from the mines are
good. Markets are inactive.
| FoRE1cN.-The N. York and Havre steam
Or Fulton passed Cape Race on the evening
of the 18th. She left Havre on the 18th and
Southampton on the l4th, and brings $780,
600 in specie, large and valuable cargo OF
French merchandise and four days later
dates than those by the Vanderbilt. Not
withstanding the improvement in the Eng
lish money market there had been several
heavy failures in various branches OF bust
ness in Great Britain. Several are also re-
norted in France There is no later new'