The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-12-17
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Life OF AN American Slave


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Ea- Senator Hunter, of Virginia, has Just
been reelected TO the United States Senate for
six years from the 4th of March, 1859. He is
msn Of fee abilities, and is friend to the
Calhoun Constitution of Kansas. He will doubt.
less break lance with Mr.. Douglas upon the
matter on the Senate floor.
The Nkw HOUSE PRINTERs.-Mr Stesdmap,
Of Ohio, was elected Printer to the House by
union of his hackers with those of Mr.. Banks.
Of Virginia. The new firm will be that Of
Banks & S.eadman," and they are to Issue
new Journal, we learn. Mr.. Steadman is the
candidate Of Mr.. Douglas, and it has been sup
posed that the new paper will reflect Mr..
Douglass sentiments respecting Kansas, and
advocate his interests. Says the Washington
correspondent of the Richmond South:
"A very creditable feature in the arrange.
ment Is the prospective establishment by the
copartuers CT a newspaper, of an improved
standard, at the Capital, that will reflect the
Democratic sentiment Of the country. This is
an evident Improvement on the old beneficiary
system, in which the public printing seems to
have been regarded as mere private emolu-
nent without any attendant obligations to the
party at large. The establishment of a press
OF high Democratic standard, as Messre.
Banks and Steadman propose, that will not be
mere Executive organ, but that will reflect
the sentiment of the party at large, the printing
Patronage in fact being theirs, and not of the
Executive branch Of the Government, denotes
de-l 10 oh f,r he hate IL q
Il does q due acknowledgment to the party, and
conveying public benefit not lightly to be es-
umated in furnishing TO the country readable
washington paper. IL ia Understood that the
paper will be established some time between
THIS and the lst of January"
How is the new journal to natisfy Northern
Democrats and the Southern ones at the same
hmc, upon the Kansas question? If Mr..
Douglas holds his position against the Admin
lSlratior, il would seem certain that the South
will desert him. Mr. Banks's newspaper, the
Nouth Side Democrat upholds the Lecompton
Constitution. Mr. Steadman, we understand,
DOES not. How will the partners come to an
agreement upon this matter? Perhaps by re
necting, not only Mr.. Douglass views, but those
Oh the South-ssuing the paper as several of
the New Orleans urnals are, one half in
french, the other in Englishl
PARTY DISCIPLINE The action of the Pres
ldent IN Diminishing John McKeon, of New
York, from the ofica of District Attorney of the
United States for that district, excites consider
able attention throughout the country. Mr..
Mckeon is dismissed for opposing the election
Of Fernando Wood al the recent municipal
election in New York. 1t ia said that the Pres.
ident does not ike NJ. Wood, but will not tol.
crate any boiling from party nominations. This
seems to indicate disposition on the part of
the President to enforce party discipline in a
rigid manner. The NJ Y Erening Post re-.
marks:
-" IF the reason assigned for the removal Of
Mr. Mckecn be the correct one, it is certainly
calculated to shake the confidence of the most
eorhding in Mr.. Buchanan's patriotism, and
we may add, in his good sense, for no President
in MS senses, one would suppose, would DELHI
erateiy undertake to carry Wood upon his
shoulders since his defeat. Such burden
~ouid nave broken down the Administration Of