The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-02-04
EAsTERN NEw's

EAoIEftN NEWS. 53
We have before us New York Wash
ington, and ST. Louis advices up TO the
4th Of January. In Chicago dispatch
70 the St. Louis Republican, It Is stated
that the Republican Association Of the
former city had fred one hundred guns
on the morning Of the fourth, in honor Of
the election Of Sherman We very
much doubt the correctness OF this dis
patch, As the Washington telegraphic adj
vices Of the same date are silent ON the
subject sherman has held the wholeSl
the Republican votes from the GEN.
mencement Of the ballotting, reaching
on several occasions within three Of the
requisite number 10 secure his election,
while the other leading names in the op.
position have, one after another, been
Withdrawn from the contest.
The Senate seems to be entirely occu-
pied with the Niger question in the
Presidents Message. The House has
added to its bumcombe speeches, sym
patty for mail contractors. The nom
election OF q Speaker Is said to greatly in.
convenience the latter gentlemen--no
pay I'LL the House Is properly organized.
A Washington dispatch Of the fourth
states that our Delegate will, as soon Is
the House is organized. present an APP
plicalion from this Territory for admis-
sion into the Union as sovereign State;
but in case that justice should be de-
MED his constituents. he suggests that III
they were allowed to elect their officers.
they would be almost as well satisfied
with q Territory as q State organization,
and probably be willing to pay the ex-
penses Of their government besides. s
Several Of the Governors ofthe northern
States condemn, in their messages TO
theirlTespectiye legislatures, the Harpers'
Ferry affair. Governor Banks Of Mas
sachusetts, has the following very sig
Enificant passage in his message
I"It is unnecessary for me to call the
attention Of the Legislature, in view ol
the rugged paths Of national life, upon
which, too obviously we are entering,
TO the expediency Of maintaining the in
stitution Of the militia z
Quite number of very respectable
citizens Of Kentucky have been forced q
leave that State with their families on &C.
count Of their Abolition sympathies; NO
lmisdemeanour is laid to their charge A
large meeting had been held at Rich.
lnond, at which speakers laid down as an
axiom that such sentiments as Abolition.
lists entertained were not to be tolerated
by q slaveholding peoplethat Abolition
doctrines and slayeholding we're not Il
be permitted together--that one or the
| other must go under, and that they
were resolved that the parties and theil
friends must Forthwith seek other homes
The persons warned 10 leave the State
appealed to Governor Magoffin for pro
lection, and committee Of them pre-
scented a petition. The Governor re
4 ceived the bearers Of the petition courte
ously and advised then, for the sake o
! preserving the peace of the State, Il
leave it. He said that the public minC
/ was deeply moved by the events in Vir
/ ginia, and that until the excitement sub
l sided. their presence In the State would
/ be dangerous, and he could not engag'
to protect them against their fellow. Cit
liens, who had resolved that they mus
i go. He promised them security Will
taking their departure, and that thei
property should be protected.
i TExAs,-DEATH or Elk PREsIDRNT La
MAR,-The Galveston News Of the 22,
brings intelligence Of the sudden dealt
of Mirabeau b. Lamar, ex. President 9
i Texas. The News says: As a soldier
Il Gen. Lamar was the prestr cheUdlier OF tn
army of San Jacinto. The official repoi
| Of that battle states that lis conduct o
1 the Goth won for him the command {
+ the cavalry Of the 2lst. His friend
!. Gen. Rusk, while on a Reconnaissance
was surrounded by Mexican lancers, an
! Lamar rushed singly to the rescue. Tn
| enemy's line confessed their admlratio
!. by volley as he passed, he refining
his horse and bowling in reply. 4
!, President, he met the difficulties Of ii
period with an open, straightforward
. policy. He audited the public debt an
ascertained the amount which it WI
/. necessary to acknowledge. as matter
Justice, whether the government was ey,
able to pay it or not. He expelled IL
= Cherokee Indians from Eastern, Texa
}, where they occupied section now Il
most valuable in that region. and larS
enough for an ordinary State. In Il
vi Mexican war he won new laurels at Mo-
S terey, as a volunteer with Burleson al
n others, in Woods command. Ills Ia
!, service as United States Minister to CeI
d trail America showed him in anoth
: light--as gentle and soothing to the priC
h Of that Inferior people. as he had be-
ofl fierce and ,lnyielding to the insolence
a the Mexican hoIdes. Gen. Lamar di'
, OF apoplexy, -. ......
~ -. STILL LATER. D. F., -,'s..; /"
Ave have been favored with a perus
!. of a St, Louis paper of the 9th, contai
ing Washington dispatches, some da
later. No Speaker had then been ele'