Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

Tree Ststss) Tor Governor, Was 6,23S Mar
shall, Democrat, 6,568. Senate, Free State
10; Democrats s. House, Free State 20 !;
Demoskats IA. The vote on the Constitu-
ton i mot yet counted. calhoun says bic
shall not close the count now, but will re-
ccive other returns that may be presented,
although the eight days given for making
returns have expired. The Territorial Leg
islature has appointed Commissioners to
examine into election frauds, and will pro-
vide for another Constitutional Convention.
The Topeka Legislature will enact code Of
laws to b used in. case of emergency, but
will not conflict with the Territorial author
ity. A dispatch sent from Bonneville, Mo-,
January 10Th, to Washington by F. P. Stan
ton, states that the vote of the 2ist ult.,. for
The Leeompton Constitution was $4,000,
one half of which were fraudulent. The
vote of the 4th instant against the Constitu-
ton was 10000 bona fde voters.
A distressing calamity occurred at
Brooklyn, New York, on the 10th. Public
School House No. IA, corner of Concord
and Navy streets took fire between two
and three o'clock P. NJ, while the build
ing was filled with children. A terrible
scene ensued. Many were smothered or
crushed to death in the efforts to escape
Seven lives are known to have been lost
with two others reported to be dead, while
several were dangerously injured. The fire
took from the heater. The teachers in one of
the rooms noticing an unusual heat began to
open window after window, and it was not
until the smoke came pouring into the room
that the true cause was suspected. The
teachers showed great courage and frmness
in their attempt to rescue the children, and
remained in the room until all were cleared
Many children were saved by being thrown
from the windows, and caught in the arms
Of the people. The schools are for both sex.
es, but all the dead are boys. The building
was the largest, finest and most complete o.
its kind in this vicinity, and was believed tt
have been the best built. 1t was of brick
four stories high and covered large plot O.
ground.
| CoNGREss.-yun. 20th Mr.. Hale resum
ed his remarks from Monday and commente,
on two of the positions held by the Suprem
Court in the celebrated bred Scott case
First. The Court affirmed that the right o
property in slaves is of the same nature a
the right to all property. Secondly. Tha
the right to hold this description Of proper
ty and to traffic in slaves at the time of th
American revolution and adoption of tn
Federal Constitution, was acknowledged b
both England and this country. That n
man ever thought of disputing., He-took is
sue on both these points. The legal princi
pie was unsound and unsupported. VIVA
purported to be the statement Of fact wa
equally unsupported by both truth and his
tory. The first proposition was more dis
tinctly and fully expressed in the Lecomp
ton Constitution, where it declared that tn
right of property is before and is higher tina
any Constitutional sanction, and the RICH
of the owner to the slave and its increase i
the same, and is as inviolable as the right Q
the owner to any other property whatever
He had higher respect for the Lecompto
Constitution than for the Supreme Court
because the Convention had been more ex
plicit than the Court in stating just exactl
what they meant. He did not deny that il
States tolerating slavery that there was lega
property in slaves. In some of the Ere
States there was a qualified property in hu
man beings. In New Hampshire, criminal
are sent to the penitentiary for the publ
good, and anybody might contract with tn
Warden having the custody of these prison
ers, for the use of their labor The law
, recognize his right to the labor of the con
;. victs, and he can take them where he pleas
es within the jurisdiction of the State; but i
he should cross Connecticut river and un
dertake to make them quarry marble on tn
Green Mountains of Vermont, his right t.
I their labor would Immediately cease. Pre-
cisely similar was the right of the slave
holder to the labor of his slaves. It is lie
gal right where slavery exists by law, ant
nowhere else. The moment the slave goe
beyond the jurisdiction which imposes tina
servitude, that moment he is Free Durin.
his remarks he declared that if the attemp
be persisted in to force the Lecompton Con
stitution on the people of Kansas, he hoped
that they would fight and resist even untt
blood and death. Mr.. Harlan obtained tn,
food. The further consideration of tn,
Kansas question was postponed till Monday
next. The Senate then adjourned.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Presidents annual message
After debate, the committee adopted q
resolution that so much of the President's
message as relates to the Pacific Railroad
be referred to select committee of fifteen.
with power to report by bill or otherwise.
The committee rose, when the resolutions
heretofore considered referring the various
branches Of the message to the appropriate
committees, was concurred in. The one
relativs to the Pacific Railroad by vote Of
1856 against 60. The House then adjourn
ed.
The bill matured by the Pacific Railroad
Committee of the Senate, and reported by
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