The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-01-12

the Inscriptions enemies OF senator Douglas
had charged him, in securing the Illinois Cen
trail railroad grant from congress, as having sa
crifced the interests Of GaIena. The Courier
pronounced the allegation to be false, and de
clared that the wrong, if any, was inflicted by
senator Jones. of Iowa, who chad it in hi.
power 10 defeat the measure which has mad,
Illinois what She is today-one Of the frs
States in the Union In response TO these as
sertions, the hon. S A. Douglas addressed ;
letter to the editor of the Courier, in which be
says:
General Jones, his colleague, and perhap,
some others, objected to Galena as terminus
on the ground that the road would not connec
with the Mississippi river, and thus hiatus
would be created iii the railroad between the
east and west side of the river. / endeavored
to dissuade them from their objections, and to
induce them to allow the bill TO pass in the shape
| had introduced il; but they were immovabe
and insisted on defeating the bill unless we
would extend the road TO Dubuque"
Judge Douglas closes his letter with the fol-
lowing remarks:
Il will only add that any insinuation OF in
timalion on the part of general Jones, or any of
his friends, that had any collision with him,
and was willing to sacrifice the interests of Ga
lena to those OF Dubuque, or any other point,
is basely and UNANIMOUSLY false
In reply to this statement, senator Jones has
addressed and published letter to judge Dou-
pI.s ~ birh nlacpc &c follows.
!" This, sir, is the third time you have made
'.infansouSly. false accusations against me, and
that have been compelled TO iasten the LIE
upon you Though you may, at the sacrifice of
democratic organisation, have effected tri-
uph ii your State, as you say, ''over executive
and congressional dictation," l can but look
with contempt upon any fame or position you
may have acquired by union with white
spirits and black, blue spirits and gray" black
republicans, South Americans, disappointed
office seekers, etc. as | do upon the miserable
resort to opprobrlous epithets connected with
my name, but covered with contingency which
gave sure escape. Gro. WALLACE JONES. "
The Baltimore papers state that at the last
session both Messrs. Slidell and Tocmbs ndulg-
ed in personal reflections towards Douglas in
open senate; the failure to notice which excit-
ed considerable comment in political circles
The indignites now published are believed to
be of such character as must lead to choice
ii very positive alternatives. The quarrel is
exclusively family alair-an out and out de-
nocratic hght-and the parties oughtto be al
owed to settle it in their own fashion
The position recently assumed by senator
HAMMOND, ofSouth Carolina, on national ques-
ions, has set his constituents busy to work at
racing out his early history and antecedants.--
fhey have been rewarded for their labor, by
he discovery that, after all he is not a south
,rner, by birth or education, but "a real, live
'ankee," all the way from Connecticut, and
therefore, that it is but natural he
hould back out from his former ultra views on
outhern rights. According to the record, forty
ears ago, senator Hammond father who was
wner and commander of trading schooner,
migrated with his family from Weathersfeld
to Charleston, South Carolina.-
he removed to tbe interior, and
a small patch Of ground and taught
chool for the benefit of>6is own and neighbours
children. The young Hammond at an early
lay gave promise of great talent, and so soon
5 he reached his majority entered the polti
al arena, and, better still, married the sister
j, the celebrated Wade Hampton, the largest
layeholder in the Carolinas, thus becoming
onnected with Preston and other leading pol
Clans OF the Palmetto State; being thus placed
l the line of precedents and sure promotion,
e became most eager and active champion
southern rights, and was finally sent to the
rnited States senate, where be speedily gained
le esteem Of both his political friends and foes.
UGH is the biography of senator Hammond,
nd it, at least, sheds as much honor upon :
i'm as it does upon those who took the trouble
compile it.
In TRoUBLE.-It seems that the MormoDs in
alt Lake city, are very much annoyed by the
.esence Of two to three hundred discharged !
amsters in their midst, whose term of service S
as expired. They are tough set of custom t
s, and neither feel nor manifest the slightest
verence Or respect for the prophets, priests, :
bishops of the latter day saints. They ex /
ess their heterodox opinions, regardless Of a
they invade the sanctity of the I
lrems and make love to the saints wives, and :
ordered away, frequently obey by knocking =
e male saints down. They nearly all travel c
their muscle, and strike from the shoulder, c
ID it is said to be amazing to see the fear they
i've inspired in the breasts of the valiant Dan :,
's-the destroying angels, who, but few v
onths ago. professcd TO think no more of r
ping out the army Of Utah, teamsters and n
!, than Of eating their dinners. But now they
e very solictous that portion of the army $
all be quartered in the holy city, to protect C
EN- against the ''wagon-boys, and their ha- s.
ms from the nocturnal visilations of these 1t
truly Gentiles. We presume that the dis .
arged teamsterS are hard set, and that the h
quest of the saints should be granted. But A
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