New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-27

s25 900, which amount is mostly covered by insr-
rance.
Thifty-Sixth C0ngress-Ffrst Session.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-ssendte.-Mr. Seward
introduced resolution calling on the President for
information respecting the expulsion of natural
ized citizen Of the United States from Prussia in
1853, which was adopted.
Mr.. Yulee from the Post Office Committee, re-
ported bill in relation to undelivered letters. 1t
provides that persons by indorsng their names on
letters can have them returned free OF additional
charge, when undelivered The bill was passed.
Mr.. johnson, from the Committee on Pnblic
Lands reported back the House Homestead Bill,
amended by substituting the Senate Bill.
on motion Of Mr.. Gwin the Pacific Telegraph
Bill was taken up, in order that certain amend
ments might be introduced and printed, which were
ordered.
The Homestead Bill was taken up, when Mr..
Wade moved to substitute the House Bill.
Mr.. Clingman explained the amendement offered
by him, which proposes to give at once to every
man in the United States, who comes within the
provisions of the bill, warrant for l6O acres,
with power to retain the land or sell it out it un-
suitable.
The present bill requires man to work five
years continuously on the land in order to get
title.
Mr.. Pugh spoke in favor of the passage of a
Homestead bill.
course of his remarks expressing his sympathy
with the strikers in New England, hoping their
| combination would continue until they obtain the
| highest wages compatible with the general good.
| Mr., Wade advocated his motion to take up the
| House bill, which he showed to be more liberal
| than the Senate bill. -z -
| Mr. johnson, of Arkansas, opposed Mr.. Wade's
| motion and referred to Mr.. Hale's remarks as in
| sincere and demagoguish. He wanted to hold on
to the cdnate OF New England by the cry Of Stree
homes for free men,, fearful that under the pres
| sure of starvation they would desert him and his
| party. y,
could not pass this body, and the true friends Of
the homestead principle should take that which
i they could get.
| Mr.. johnson opposed making this party ques
i ton.
| Mr. Wade withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Wigfall regarded the matter as a party
question, involving as it did the power OF the Fed
eral Government. If this Government was estab-
lished to provide for the halt, blind lame, ETC., if
it could give land to the landless, why not nggers
to the niggeress? 1t might open the African slave
| trade on missionary grounds, and bring negroes
here to be converted. He then went into an ex-
| animation of the power OF the Federal Govern
ment and contended that as the trustee of sover-
! eign States, it had no right to vote away their
| lands. # =.
4 In the course Of his remarks he said that it is
nonsense to talk ofsa State committing treason
the thing was impossible. He owed allegiance to
the State of Texas, which, conformity with the other
States exercised the same portion of the sovereign
power.
no longer her agent, then it would be his duty to
return to his State, and if he should be captured
fighting under the lone star, under the law of ma
tions he could not be treated as traitor.
He thought nothing better could occur than q
dissolution of the Union. New England would
then beg the South to come back. Her spindles
would cease to turn, and her ships rot at the
wharyes; her sailors and operatives turned out to
starve, would burn and steal.
He also drew picture of a mob of deceived and
infuriated people, bearing poles the heads Of
Seward and Hale. Ii these men only knew thai
the South was in earnest, they would keep quiet
They were not the men to coin their hearts bloot
into draehms.
He denied that these were threats the day o
farees has gone by. sHe would speak his mint
freely. and say that he believed that no Black Re
publican ever could be inaugurated President
believed that Southern army would winter il
Boston before Northern one could reach Texas
J He would like to know how they were going t.
take the South.
, Let them look around this chamber and the,
would see on the Republican side but one man VIII
ever saw the flashing of gun, while he particular
ized members on the Democratic side who had rem
dered signal military services The military ches
was the first matter Of consideration in war, am
, where would the North get the money to fill it
The South could send out her cotton, tobacco, etc.
in the bottoms which would carry them tn
cheapest. .
Where would the Senator from Rhode Islam,
(Simmons) get the money for his calico? The,
might talk of blockading the Southern ports, bu
u
2 where could they get iii Cotton was king, ant
without it Queen Victoria's crown was not safe
The Union was nothing moro than compact be
tween eonfederates, which the North had broken
and then tried to persuade that it was of divin
origin. Our forefathers shed their blood not fo
3 this Union, but for liberty. He compared the Fed
eral Government to lens, which concentrated an
A applied the powers conferred by the sovereign
States, as the lens concentrated the rays of til
sun.
They admired not the lens, but the glorious or
} from which it derived its power. The ancestors
. | New Englanders went to Holland, butas the Dutc
would not let them persecute anybody, they cam
to the North. They drove out Roger Sherman an
the Baptists, and spread themselves over tina
I country. Providence having macadamsed tina
country they thought it useless to dig for what tn
soil could produce and have since lived off of thei
neghbors.
He went into an argument that the slave States
properly speaking, are the only free States. HI
e concluded by denouncing the Homestead bill a
4 unconstitutional.
= The subject was then postponed till Monday
II Adjourned.
House.-Mr. NOEL made a few remarks on tn
c bill heretofore introduced by him, proposing t
withdraw from the people of Utah the power t
make their local laws through an elective Assem-
I bly,. Ii the House should attempt, by direct leg
they would not strike at the root Of this festerin
: sore on the body polite. He held that organize
{ Territories derived the power to legislate froi
y Congress, but Utah should be an exception an
:
y | should be invested in some other tribunal whic
= = would protect not only the inhabitants of Utal
e but the rights of the entire nation.
e Mr.. Davis, of Ind, called up the bill grantin
alternate sections of land in Nebraska for the col
"A struction of five railroads therein, to be free
e tolls to the property and troops of the Unite
States, and carry the mails at such prices Coz
IL gress may decide.
~ ~ On motion of Mr.. Etherdge it was tabled yes
\. ISL, nays 81.
= - The House proceeded to the consideration of tt
N resolution declaring nexpedient to grant furthe
+ time to Mr. Cooper of Michigan, whose seat is col
~ tested by Mr.. Howard, to take testimony.
=. ~ Mr.. Campbell spoke in favor of, and Mr.. Steyel
son against, the resolution.
Mr.. Howard spoke in support of his claim.
TX After further debate, the resolution.was agree
,e to by 10 majority.
y The House concurred in the amendment of tl
Senate to the bill for the protection of females
ly board emgrant vessels.
y, Adjourned.
u DEATH IN A BALL RooM.-The Rome (Sew Yorl
Sentinel of late date says that Miss Helen Pix
T. young lady aged about Is, died the ball roo
er floor at Taberg on Friday the 18th. She was 8
il. tending dance at Gillets Hotel and while on ii
ae floor complained Of feeling faint and almost imm
ell