Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-03-04

will not be great amount of business
to be transacted at this term, and it will
no; probably last more than week.
AS number Of our friends will be
here during Cont, we respectfully re-
quest those of them indebted to us for
subscription, &C., to call and settle, as
the "necdfuI' is as necessary to carry on
a newspaper as any other business.
THE CUBAN BILL POSTPONED. 1t ap-
pears by Saturdays proceedings of the
United States Senate that the bill for the
acquisition of Cuba has been allowed to
80 over to the next session of Congress,
the friends of the bill having considered
the test vote Friday night as sufficient of
the indication Of the Senate upon the
question. This step has been taken in
order that the appropriation bills may be
acted upon i'll the Senate, and an extra
session prevented. Mr. Slidell gave no.
ticc that he should present the Cuba bill
again on the fist day of the next session
VETO OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
BlLL.-The President on Saturday re-
turned to Congress, with his veto, the
bill which had been passed granting about
5000, 600 acres of lands to the States,
according to representation, for the pur
pose Of establishing and sustaining agri-
cultural colleges, &c. In message of
some length, he states his objections to
the bill, which are mostly of constitu-
tional charac ter.
THE VEro. The Democratic party in
Congress, (says the Starr with very few
exceptions, hail President Buchanan
veto of the Agricultural Colleges land
donating bill with unalloyed satisfaction,
its conclusive reasoning having satisfied
not a few of those who voted for the
measure of the wisdom and entire pro-
prioty of his action in the premises. We
have yet TO converse on the subject with
the first Democratic member of either
House, who fails to applaud this exercise
of the Executive authority.
E5- The President has issued his
Proclamation declaring that an extraor-
binary occasion requires the Senate of the
United States to convene for the trans
action Of business, at the Capitol in the
city of Washington, on the 18th instant,
at noon of that day, Of which all who
shall then be entitled to act as members
Of that body are required 10 take noticc
FAREWELL SPEEcH.-Gcn. Houston
addressed the T. s. Senate on Monday
last in what he termed his farewell speech
at the close of the forty-sixth year of hi,
public life, in which he reviewed at some
length the attempts to defame his char
acter, and reciting, in refutation of them
his military career in defense of the State
of Texas.
JUDGE TASEY.-The rumor which has
been going the rounds of the press that
Chief Justice fancy contemplated re-
signing his judgeship in the Supreme
Court of the United States, the Star
learns from the best authority, is wholly
without foundation. Chief Justice Ia
noy does not, and has never contemplated
taking such step.
T. S. DIsTmcr ATTORNEY. There arc
said to be a number applicants for the
United States district attorneyship Of the
District of Columbia, made vacant by
the death of Mr. Key. Robert Ould,
Esq, is likely, it is said, to receive the
appointment.
Since the above was in type, VIC learn
that Mr. Ould las received the appoint
mcnt.
ILLNESS or JUDGE PRIcE.-Tho Cecil
Wing says:-''The February term Of
Cecil county Circuit Court came to an
abrupt conclusion on Monday last, owing
to the illness of Judge Price The ju-
rors were in attendance, and the Grand
Jury went to work without the Judge,
at the appointed hour. BY the afternoon
mail the intelligence of the Judges in
disposition was received, aud after con-
sultation among the members of tho bar
the jurors and witnesses were discharged
until they should be called together again
by order of the Court"
THE HEALTH OF GEN. CAss. in reply
to a newspaper paragraph current, the
Cleveland Democrat (whosc editor la,
had frequent opportunities of intercourse
with Gen. Cass) says:
Through life Gen. Cass has been
the most temperate Of men, and now, al
an age when most men fail, he is still in
full intellectual vigor--still equal TO a
diplomatic combat with any statesman in
Europe"
E1- The National letelligcnccr says
The Potomac fisheries, under the inAu
cnce Of the present fine weather, must