The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-24

mcn'b anu my lrreVOcaDlo Will. i cannon say
or do otherwise-so help me God Not while
Douglas stands in the Senate; not while Wise
speaks from the Virginia Vatican; not while
Walker can give US wisdom, or Stanton can ut
ter truth, or Stuart can argue the law, or For
ney can WELD the pen, or the Northwest can
echo the aggregate thunder of these tribunes of
the people-shau this great sorong be done in
the face of thirty millions of Freemen."
stephen Dillaye, prominent New York
politician, having been turned out of fat Of
nee IN the custom. house, at the instance of
Congressman Sickles, who had uarrelled with
him IN the party caucusses, writes a very sharp
letter to Secretary Cobb Of the Treasury, which
illu inmates some of the Democratic dissensions
in high places. He charges the Secretary with
using the patronage of his place to help him
self to the Presidency in 1860, with secret op-
position to Collector Schell and Secretary Floyd
of the War Department, who stand in his way,
and with gross personal bad faith to him (Dil.
laye) and others. But the worst thing Mr.. Dill.
laye says of the Secretary is this:
you offered, in case should resign, to add
your official certificate to the fact that had
fully disproved every charge, at the same time
saying that If l did not resign, you would remove
me, and decide that the charges were not dis
proved"
The civil appropriation act passed by Con.
gress provides about $500 900 for the river and
harbor works now in progress $6,440 for self
righting life. boats for the coast of New JERSEY,
and $4,000 for ife-b boats for the Long Island
coast. Among other appropriations are also
the following: SAB 5000 for the insane asylum
in the District of Columbia $4,000 for the
instruction of the deaf, dumb, and blind, of the
District; $4,000 for paupers in the Washington
in6rmary; $4,000 for the Norfolk custom.
house; $4,000 for the Alexandria custom.
house $4,000 to improve the Washington
navy yard 1885 808 to prove the Norfolk
navy yard $1,000 to repair the Norfolk
hospital; Sc 1865 to complete the magazine at
Norfolk; $45,67l.22 to improve the Annapolis
naval academy.
The Salt Lake mail has arrived at St. 10.
seph's, Mo-, in seventeen days and half bring
ing advices from Camp Scott to May 49, The
Mormons, instead of going to Sonora, the White
Mountains, or any other distant point, are now
stated to be concentrating at q place called
PrOverst, forty miles from Salt Lake CITY,
where, it is asserted, they intend fortifying
themselves against further molestation Gen.
Johnston intended to march on the city as soon
as provisions reached him, independent of the
arrival of Capt. Marcy, who, at last accounts,
was on the Cherokee trail, two hundred miles
from Camp Scott. The mail party encountered
the Peace Commissioners ten miles from the
camp. Whether this last news relative to the
disposition of the Mormons will be coutradicted
by the very next dispatch, remains TO be seen.
j. Ross Browne, the author of several pleas
ant articles in Harpert' and of book of travels
entitled Yusef," several years since, is now
secret agent of the Administration on the
Pacific coast, and has sent home such charges
against Thomas j. Henley, of Indiana, the lately
appointed Indian agent of California, that his
removal is decided upon. Henley only got the
place after hard contest, and John Nugent,
editor OF the San Francisco Herald, will most
probably be his successor.
The President, in granting the respite to
James Powers, condemned to be hung in Wash
ington, clearly sets forth his reasons therefor.
1t will be remembered that under a peculiar
law of the District of Columbia the prisoner
was sentenced to suffer death on the FIRST Fri.
day after the final adjournment of the then
next term of the Circuit Court for the said
District, and that said Circuit Court did adjourn
on Saturday, the 18th day of June instant.
This left the prisoner in uncertainty as to the
day of his execution, and probably unprepared
for his awful doom. The President, taking
these facts into consideration, postponed the
execution until Saturday next. "And this l
and earnest request, as afore said of his spirit.
ual adviser and others, in order that The
prisoner, looking forward to the time herein
appointed for his execution as the ultimate and
absolutely fl xed period at which the offended
law of his country will surely demand the life
he has forfeited by his crime, may spend the
few Intervening days in undivided attention to
the only subjects in which he can now have
any interest"
The Douglas candidate for Congress in op.
position to Hughes, of Indiana, is g. w. Carr,
of Lawrence county, an able man, and Presi-
dent of the State Constitutional Convention
several years since. The Indianapolis Journal
gives the very acceptable news that |" this is the
inevitable defeat of Hughes" since Carr is not
man to be bought eff or satisfied with q
small vote.
Nose Harrell, an editor, has been chosen
Mayor of Mound City, Ill, by the decided vote
Of l54 to l.. AS at last accounts the place was
all under water, the honor cannot be consider.
ed very burdensome. ..|
1t seems from q statement in the Ather eum.
that I" after all, and in spite of his many former
refusals, Professor Agassiz, of oston, will be
won over for the dictatorship of the Museum
of Natural History of the Jsrdin des Plantes,
at Paris. 1t appearts to be favorite wish of
the Emperor Napoleon to draw this celebrated
scholar, whose personal acquaintance he made
in Switzerland, to Paris. Agassz has been
offered salary of $4,000 francs, and the i'm.
mediate Senatorship, which brings another
81, 900 francs and at last he has consented to
60 over to Paris for verbal and personal
negotiation"
Cadets are appointed to West Point equally
from all parts of the country, according to the
maintains them there, and at graduation there
are frequently decided sectional differences.
Thus of the u graduates this year, Massachu.
sets has four New York, Mississippi, Tennes.
see, Alabama, New Jersey, Connecticut, South
Carolina, Maine, Indiana, Utah, Pennsylvania,
and Kentucky, one each; Maryland, Ohio,
North Carolina, and Georgia, two each; and
there are three at large. New England has
six the free States have eleven, and the slave
States ten, and Utah has one.
An extraordinary quick mail trip from Camp
Scott puts us in possession of advices from that
post to the 18th ult. The news is very interest
ing. Gen. Johnston was about to be relieved
from the starvation which threatened his army
by the arrival of the supplies sent forward from
Fort Laramie by Col. Hoffman and Captain
Msrcy's command had been heard from, and
was within two hundred miles of Camp Scott
The Mormons have stopped their fight at Provo,
one of the strongest of their settlements, about
forty miles from Salt Lake city. Gen. John.
ston intended entering Salt Lake city as soon
as Col. Hoffman arrived, leaving enough men
to garrison Fort Bridger.
The combination of Ohio and Virginia poll.