Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-19
THE NEWS.

renee on the I'd, at which the entire Terri
tory was represented. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted repudiating and pledg'
ing ceaseless hostility to the Leoomptor
Constitution and denouncing the proposed
elections on the 21st and 9Th prox. Score.
tary Stanton has called an extra session o1
the Territorial Legislation. The people o1
Kansas are certainly moving ard we may
now expect them to give an illustration Of
what they regard as popular sovereignty
In the Senate. on the 10th, Mr.. Doug.
las gave notice of his intention to introduce
bill at an early day to enable the people ol
Kansas to form Constitution and State
Government, preparatory to admission into
the Union. This is his foreshaaowed 6 Ena.
bling Act" which is TO set aside the Le-
compton Constitution.
"A dispatch from Washington of the
10th says the Treasury Department has sus-
pended payment. Requisitions to the ann,
of nearly half million dollars are held in
the Department.
Mr.. Mexican, o. S. District Attorney at
New York, has been removed by President
Buchanan because he opposed Wood, the
Democratic nominee for Mayor of the city.
Ills successor is announced as Theo Sedg.
wick.
Mr.. Hunter has been reelected to the
o. s. Senate from Virginia.
Hon. N. P. Banks, Governor of Massa-
chusetts, has given notice that he will resign
his seat in Congress by Ian. 1st.
--Chas, E. Brown, agent of Adams Ex-
press Company, was killed by an accident
on the Central Ohio Railroad, near Glencoe,
on the 9th. No other lives were lost.
From appearances the sspowers that
be" at Washington are getting into an inter-
esting muss. Secretary Stanton, of Kansas,
has been removed Tor rather the recall of
his resignation has been depied) by Presi-
dent Buchanan, for the offence Of complying
with an urgent solicitation of citizens of
Kansas to convene the Territorial Legisla-
ture. Gen. Denver, full bloo1ed Border
Rufiian, of Boonville, Mo-, has been ap-
pointed in his stead. Douglas opposed the
ratification of the charge on the floor of the
Senate, but lodged the question when the
vote was called. Broderick was the only
Democratic Senator who stood by Douglas.
The removal of Gov. Walker is also daily
expected. 1t is stated on high authority
that should lie move in the direction OF
Kansas, this result wonld Immediately fol-
low. He left New York on the 1lth, for
Washington, en- route, it is supposed, for
Kansas.
"A dispatch from New York of the 1lIh
states that the leading banks of that city
had decided to resume specie payments on
Monday.
- Intelligence has at last been re-
ceived from Fillibuster Walker. He has
not been wrecked at sea as was appre-
hended, but landed at Punta Arenas
on the 25th of November, with 15o
men, entirely unmolested. He sent 81
men up the river by different entrances.
He will probably do much harm IN the
unfortunate country against which he
has directed his forays, before he meets
the ignominious end which he merits.
Official dispatches were received
by the War Department at Washing
ton, on the 9th, from Col. johnson, Of
the Utah expedition, dated South Pass,
October 18th. Several Of the supply
trains were yet behind, with provisions
and clothing, Of which the advance
were greatly in need. Col. J. intends
to form a junction with Col. Alexander,
at the mouth Of the Fontenelle creek,
about thirty miles from the officers
present camp at Hams Fork and not
far from seventy miles from his own
camp at South Pass. He will winter
at Henry's Fork, on Green river, where
he hopes that Gel. Cooks command
with whom is Gov. Cumming-wlll join
him. Col. J. thinks his for. es barely
adequate to the protection Of supply
trains, and predicts that the contest
will be a protracted one, unless large
reinforcements be sent him. He speaks
Of the impossibility Of his making a
retrogade movement.
"A special dispatch from Lecomp-
ton, dated December 1, to the 1rib-
une says, that it is the new Territorial
Legislature which has been convened
by Secretary Stanton. He had been
informed that the Convention would
otherwise take steps that might result
in civil war. A paper signed by ma
.jority of both branches Of the Legisla-
ture and FIVE or six prominent free
State men was presented to Stanton
telling him that this step was all that
could avert a civil war, and that the
special session would con6ne its legis-
lation to what might be required to de-
feat the Lecompton Constitution. He
was informed that the Legislature would
meet in any case.
= Bethany College, at Bethany,
Virginia. was destroyed by fire on the
10th inst. Supposed to have been the
work Of an incendiary.
"A dispatch from Washington of
the 18th says !" it is stated in confident
circles that the Democratic delegation
from Indiana have had an interview
with President Buchanan, in tre course
Of which they said that on full consul
tation they could not support the Le-
| compton Convention after the expose