Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-31
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Sickness on Roard the u 8. Steamer
jamestown
tTas' srtfh Paraguay.
resignation Of Canadian Ministry.
THE PRESIDENT AT BEDFORD.
The Ohio Democracy in conVention.

WASHINGTON, July 30.-The steamer Isa-
belle arrived at Charleston from Havana,
reports that the sloop Of war Jamestown
was spoken off Havana with 80 or 40 cases
| of Chagres Fever on board, and that she
was bound for Africa
WASHINGTON, July %.
The course to be pursued towards Para
quay. which has occupied SO much of the
attention Of the Administration, is now de.
termined upon. 1t is reliably ascertained
that from the isolated position Of Paraguay,
and the difficulty of access to it, that il is
capable Of making vigorous resistance to
an outside force
Independently of few small vessels.
mounting altogether an armament of six or
eight guns, Lopez has had three or four
steamers recently constructed in England,
and at an eligible point Oh the river. u fort
mounting loo guns of different calbre. He
has also standing army of 10000 men.
which has recently received from England
cargo of arms AID ammunition. In his
employ as Engineers and ordnance men there
are several French officers
The Administration will send fleet of
elk or seven vessels, including the Harriet
Lane and the Fulton, the former as the flag
ship. Commander Page, who has been Sc.
lected for the command of the expedition,
has proceeded to the north in order to char
ter such additional steamers as NAV be ad-
apted to the expedition. Although it Is not
supposed that it will be necessary to fire
single gun. Yet in view of the defensive
preparations Of Paraguay. it is determined
our force shall be sufficiently formidable to
meet all possible contingencies. A commits
sionor has not been selected
There is good authority for stating that
no such letter as that purporting to have
been written by Secretary Cass to Pre-i-
dent Martinez, on the subject of the latters
refusal to sign the Cass Yrassarri Treaty
was ever written.
Lord Napier had a long interview with
Secretary Cass to day
ToRoSTo. July 29.-The government was
defeated last night on the seat of government
question, the House annulling the decision
of the home government to make Ottawa
the Capital.
The Ministry resigned this morning.
BEDFORD SPRINGS July 29.-The President |
Miss Lane, Miss Bright, daughter of Senator
Bright, Sir Gore Ouseley lady and daugh-
ter, and r. NJ. Magrow, Of Baltimore, have |
arrived at the Springs The President is in
excellent health, and it is supposed that he
will remain two or three weeks
CoLuMBrs, July 27.-The Democratic
State Convention met this morning. Three
hundred and eleven delegates wer4 present.
Judge I. j. s. Smith, of Montgomery pre-
sided, The following ticket was nominated. |
For Supreme Judge, Thomas W. BARLEY of
for Attorney General Josse Dur.
bin Ward Of Warren county; for Comp
troller, L. w. Gibson, of Mahoning; for
Member of the Board of Public Works, Il. |
II. Hendrckson of Butler
The Convention adopted the following
platform without debate:
kesolued That VIC reaffim and indorse
the principles set forth in the platform of
the Democratic Convention which met at
Cincinnati in 1856.
Resotced, That we accept the adjustment
OF the late Kansas controversy by the pas
sage at the recent session Of Congress of
the conference bill reported by English for
The constitutional admission Of Kansas into
the Union, and recognizing the right of the
people Of that Territory alone to
decide finally AID for themselves, with
out Intervention from any quarter, the ques-
lion Of admission under any constitution
We regard the Lecompton controversy.
50 called as at an end, and as being set
led issue We refuse to recognize it as
ext prescribed by either side OF those who
Uttered IN opinion upon it. believing that
Ill who upheld the cardinal principles Of the
)arty, and sustain its organization by vo.
ing the Demodratic ticket as good enough
Democrats for all purposes. That we have
NIL and abiding confidence in the ability,
and elevated purity of character
If James Buchanan, the present Chif Magis,
rate of the United States. ard in his Wis
lom and experience to administer our ma
ional affairs
Resolced, That we congratulate the coun-
ry upon the recent settlement, by the pres
mt Democratic Administration, OF the pre-
ended right of Great Britain to search and
'isit our merchvnt vessels on the high seas
n time Of peace, thus adjusting controver
y which had remained unsettled from the
of our government, and which
lad already cost US one foreign war
RESOLVED, That in future we are opposed
o the admission of new State into the
Mon until the population therof shall
quail representative in Congress, and un-
u, as in the case of Minnesota, its proposed
shall have been submitted to
nd approved by vote of the people