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

| - az q uiootiAS a. Ac1SenWOItls Abupu
on the 21st ult., resolutions were adopte
similar to those passed at Lawrence on tn
10Th. Speeches were made by Vaughan
Phillips, Hutchinson, Moore and others.
Phillips ADVISES rallying around the Topek
Constitution, calling it the magma charta q
Kansas. Vigilance Committees are bein
formed throughout the Territory. A lette
to the St. Louis Democrat, dated Lawrence
November l7th, states that Walker said h
would call special session, provided til,
members would sign pledge guaranteein,
that they would not go into general legisla
tion. gs& ygls f&
John Cummings, convicted at Albany
| New York, on December 81. 1856, of th'
murder of Frederick Stumof, was this morn.
ling sentenced to be hung on the 2Sth o.
January.
- Ice was formed at Houston, Texas, OF
the Goth ultimo. sa
= 1t was stated upon high authority, al
Washington, on the Sd, that President Buch-
anan had decided not to remove Governor
Walker, but to submit the policy of his Kan
sas administration to Congress without note
or comment. ~..a sse - @
The defeat of Mayor Wood has greatly
excited the simon pure Democracy of New
York. Dan Sickles and Godfrey Gunther
have been summarily expelled from Tamma-
ny, and vigilence committee has been ap-
pointed to ferrit out other traitors to Greg
ular nominations" This is decidedly rich.
We are advised by telegraph that Mr..
Douglas had an audience with President
Buchanan at Washington, on the Sd. Both
were smiling and courteous, but could not
harmonize on Kansas matters. Mr.. Buch-
anan sticks to the line of action marked out
in the Union, and probably to be developed
in his Message to Congress Mr.. Douglas to
that misty ambiguity denominated "the
great principle of the Kansas Nebraska
bill" 1t is stated, however, that Douglas
F." will not place himself in direct antago-
nism to the Administration - So it seems
that even his courage in defence of his bant
ling is " oozing out at his fingers ends."-
Mr.. Bigler and other prominent Senators
warmly take the side of the President ON
this vexed question.
- The Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Times says that the Administration
had secret agent in Kansas during the sit
ting of the Constitutional Convention, en-
gagged in advising the members on their be-
half, and through whom the Executive die
tated portions, if not the whole of tbs sched-
ule.
= Congress was probably organized yes
terday, (7th,) without much difficulty in
electing officers. A dispatch from WASH
ington of the 5th states that the Democracy
had harmonized their differences and in
caucus would quietly nominate Mr. Orr, of
South Carolina, for Speaker of the House;
Mr.. Allen, of Illinois, for Clerk and Mr..
of Ohio, for Printer. Immedi
ately on the organization of the House the
President would deliver his message.
"A dispatch from Washington of the
5th saws the Treasury Report will take deci-
ded grounds against the organization of
Banks, and advocate mode by which small
notes may be expelled. The Presidents
Message commends the construction of
Pacific railroad, and the immediate organi-
zation of the Territory of Arizonia. The
Secretary of War recommends an increase
Of the army by an increase of five regi
ments.
- The weather in the East was cold last
Saturday, the 5th. A dispatch from Mon
treal says the thermometer was only eight
degrees above zero, while at Boston the
weather was cold and snow falling.