Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-30

he result of the election depended entirely
upon Calhoun in giving certificates, and if
The Free State men are defrauded Calhoun
cannot return to the Territory without haz-
ard of his life. Mr.. Stanton represents the
election frauds rs monstrous, open and nd
mitted. People at Weston and along the
river admitted that young men had gone
over in hacks and voted as often as they
chose without opposition. He thinks CAL
houn will come with the Lecompton Consti
tuition. He says that Shareholders are NOV
ing out of Missouri, and the whole effect of
the Kansas policy will be to make Missouri
= free State. ,.
- At New York, on the 25th, in the ia
nous Burdell case, John j. Eckel was final
ly discharged from his recognizance and an
order of nolle prosequi entered.
= Late Kansas advices state that an act
was passed in the lower branch of the Leg
islature abolishing slavery in the Territory,
on the first of March. Serious disturbances
occurred between the settlers on the Shaw
nee Reservation and some Indians, resulting
in the death of one of the latter, and the
driving off of all settlers, burning their hou-
ses and crops by the Indians.
CoNGREss.--Jan. 25th--In the Senate, Mr..
Mason. from the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations, submitteda report on Central Amer
lean affairs. The report reviewed at length
the whole case, saying in conclusion that
the law of 1874 equally with that of 1878
was bounded in wise policy to preserve the
peace Of the country and maintain amity
and peaceasle relations with foreign States,
and that no further provisions of law are
necessary to confer authority on the Presi:
dent to cause arrests and seizures to be
made on the hi h sens for offenses commit
ted against the Neutrality Law of 1875
The committee reported bill making it the
duty of the commanding officer making such
arrests to bring or send the offenders, to-
gether with the cargo of the expedition, to
the port from whence they started or where
the clearance was obtained, to be surrender
ed to the collector, to be dealt with accord
ing to law. Mr.. Douglas, as member of
the Committee on Foreign Relations, dis
sented from the report. The subject was
de the special order for the 9th of Febru.
airy. Mr.. Harlan made a speech against the
Lecompton Constitution. He contended
that to carry out the views Of President
would be to secure the organization of a
slave State on free soil, but to adopt the
views of Mr.. Douglas would be to secure
the organization of a free State, in accord
ance with the will of the people. The SUBJ
jcct of Kansas was postponed till Friday
Adjourned.
In the House, the Speaker announced the
following members as a Select Committee
on the Pacific Railroad: Phelps, of Nilsson
ri; Jones, of Tennessee; Washburn, of Me.
Millison, of Va; Curtis, of Iowa ; Corning,
of New York (; Underwood, of KY; Groes-
beck, of Ohio; Gilmore, of N. c.; Single
ton, of Miss. Farnsworth, of Ill. Phillips
of Pa. Leach, of Mich; Bryant, of Texas:
and Scott, of California. The House went
into Committee of the Whole on the state
of the Union on the Invalid Pension bill
and after sometime spent therein, adjourn,
ed.
FOREIGN. = The news brought by the Eu.
ropa, which arrived at New York on thu
25th, is of an unusually interesting charac.
ter. There mas been very hard fighting ir
India. The 9th English regiment was al.
most annihilated in an engagement with the
natives not far from Cawnpore, though the
latter were afterwards comp cely secuted by
Sir Colin Campbell. Gen. IIayciock died al
Lucknow on the 25th of December, of dys-
EMERY, induced by general anxiety and cx.
posurc. Active preparation for combined
attack on Canton continued to be made il
Hong Kong. Some reports were to the eff.
feet that the French would not take part il
the operations. The London money market
was easy, and the bank directors had rcdu.
ced the rate of interest to FIVE per cent. The
launch of the Leviathan was proceeding sat.
isfactorily, the vessel being moved eight o,
ten feet daily. Madame Rachel, Marshal
Radetzky and Resshid Pasha were dead.
-Adyices from Kansas to the goth state
that Calhoun rejected the returns which were
sent to Denver, instead of himself, on the
ground that in accordance with the Lecomp.
ton Schedule they arc illegal and therefore
void. This gives the State officers to the
Democrats; also one majority in the Council
and two in the House. Mr.. Storen, Demo
cratic member of the Legislature, had been
shot in the stage between Wyandott and
Lawrence. lie would probably die. Hen
derson was still in custody at Lawrence.
An enthusiastic fillibuster meeting was
held at Mobile on the night of the 25th, at
which speeches were made by VIM. Walker,
Parson Brownlow and others. Walker dis
closed the secret of the government opposi
ton to his Nicaraguan schemes, which was
rejection of their proposition that he
should 90 to Mexico and incite war there,
with view of then acquiring that territory.
Resolutions were passed, denouncing the
government and demanding trial of Com.
Paulding.
Mexico, as we learn by advices brought
by the Tennessee at New Orlens on the 25th
is again in state of anarchy. Many states
and towns have pronounced against Com
onfort; some are in favor of elevating Zu-
loaga to the Presidency and others favo,
Santa Anna. The city of Mexico was in q
state of siege Comonfort at the head o3