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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23
Congress.

~
March l4th.-The Military Academy Bill
with anamsndment by Mr.. Wigfall, making
an appropriation for a regiment Of mounted
volunteers for the defence of the frontiers OF
Texas, passed the Senate by vote OF Al tc
II. Also, bill for the protection of female
emigrant passengers. s;n. 4 1uof y5rjaT
In the House, several important bills were
reported from various committees. Among
others was bill reported by Mr. Nelson, OF
Tennessee, from the Judiciary Committee, to
declare all laws in Utah or Deseret allowing
polygamy null and void and that persons
guilty cfpolygamy be fined $500, and i'm
prisoned not less than two years nor moro
than five. The report and bill were ordered
to be printed. MIR. Hickman, from the
Committee on Judiciary, reported back the
bill creating and regulating paper circula-
ton Of uniform value throughout the United
States, and for other purposes. 1t proposes
on deposit of gold, silver and bullion, to
issue certificates to circulate as currency. -
Referred to the Committee on Commerce.
March 15M.-In the Senate, on motion
of Mr.. Benjamin, the Senate considered the
bill amending existing laws relative to the
compensation of the District Attornies,
Marshals and Clerks of the United States
District and Circuit Courts. The bill was
discussed and passed. The bill authorizing
the enlargement OF branch of the Louis
vile and Portland Canal was also passed
yeas 80, nays IA.
In the Hous ;, the Consular and Diplomat
ic Appropriation bill and the Indian Appro-
priation bill were passed.
Narch 10Th Tho Senate, in Executive
session, rejected the Nicaraguan treaty
ayes 81, noes 20-net two thirds. The vote
was of strict party character, with the
exception of Mr.. Wilson, who voted foI the
treaty.
Nothing Of general interest was done in
the House, which adjourned till Monday.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23

~ The National Union party having fixed
on the 9th of May as the time, and Baltimore
as the place, of holding their Convention,
speculation is rife as to their probable action.
tits generally thought that Bates, of Missouri,
will be nominated, with the view of forcing
him upon the Chicago Convention. A certain
portion of the party, however, including most
of the delegation from the Southern States,
will not submit to this selection, if made, and
will bolt and put up new man.
1t is worthy of remark that this great
Unconstitutional Union party" as it pompously
and mendaciously styles itself, is operating
with the funds furnished by the Administra.
ton: 1t owes its existence to the same spirit
ofcunning that begot the straight-out Fillmore
party of 1856. 1t is nothing to be wondered
at, only don't let it be forgotten by the people
of the North.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23

Su1oIDEs.-A thriving and respectable to-
bacconist in Hoboken, N j., who had long
entertained the idea that his fellow-citizens
sought his life, until the hallucination
made life intolerable, hung himself on
Thursday last. Jeptha Horde, young
married man, in Ostego, N. Y, recently
drowned himself for love of his wife's sister,
whom he had seen only once.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23

EXPULSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM MIS-
soURI.-The free negro bill, passed by the
so-called Democratic Legislature of Missouri,
provides for the expulsion of all free negroes
who have emigrated to that State since 1874,
unless they shall choose master and return
to slavery. Comment on bill so atrocious
is unnecessary. twill undoubtedly become
a law, as, should it again be vetoed by Gov.
Stewart, it will only require bare majority
of both Houses to give it vitality.
GT 1t is noticeable fact that Western
Democratic journals and conventions take
special care to avoid all mention or reference
of the new sedition law of Douglas, and his
speech in the Senate in which he declares he
will imprison all the Republican members Of
Congress, stump speakers and editors through
out the North. Douglas is now franking that
speech South by scores of thousands; one
account says he has already sent over three
hundred thousand copies South. The object,
Of course, is the nomination.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23

wMr. Douglas, in the Senate, answered
the whole of Mr.. Stewards pressing upon the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in single
pithy sentence. What, said he, led to the
repeal of that act, but that the majority in the
Northern States refused to carry it out in
good faith? 81, sir, stood ready to extend it
to the Pacific Ocean, to abide by it forever,
and the entire South, without one exception
in this body, was willing to abide by it. But
the free soil element of the Northern States
was so strong as to defeat that measure, and
thus opened the slavery question anew.
These men who now complain of the abroga-
ton of that act were the very men who
denounced it."-Enquirer.
YetSenator Douglas holds that the Supreme
Court has decided the Missouri Compromise
to have been unconstitutional. The inference
is plain that he and his party were in favor of
abiding by an unconstitutional law "forever"
By his own mouth he is condemned.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23

PoLlTIcAL BAsTARDs. There is one phe-
nomenon in our current politics, if not more,
that we own we canuot comprehend and
that is the transformation of Whigi of sound
reason and mature age into Democr; ts--
This staggers our comprehension. Herodo
tus, in his account Of the Persian customs
and religion, tells US, says Addison, that it
is the opinion of the Persians that no man
ever killed his father, or that it is possible
such crime should be in nature but that
if anything like it should ever happen, they
conclude that the reputed son must have
been illegitimate, suppositious, or begotten
in adultery. In like manner, we conclude,
for no other explanation seems possible to
Us, that when an adherent OF Wing prin-
ciples espouses the Democratic faith and
commits himself unreservedly to the spirit
and tendencies of the Democratic party, the
reputed Wing must have been spurious, hyp-
ocritical, or begotten in the orgies Of party
passion. He could have been no Wing at
all.-Louisville Journal. E-
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G. B. THURMAN Chief Eng G. T Wills see er
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