BEDFORD INQUIRER.
BEDFORD, Pa.
- Friday Mrutag. JAM 28 1859.
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
D OVER-Editor and Proprietor.
MONEY! MONEY! ! —The approaching Court
will be a favorable opportunity for many who
owe us for subscription, advertising and job
work, to call and scttic. Those not coming to
town can send the amounts with their neigh
bors who do come. This is intended fot all
who are indebted. If persons cannot pay all
they owe us, (and none owe us very large bills,
tbey can certainly pay us a pirt of the amount)
We have payments to make, and must have
money aome how or another.
Jan. 29, 1859.
MORE TAXES.
The taxpayers have no doubt become aware
of the fact, cro this, that the taxes for Red
ford Connty have been increased to u consid
erable amount for the next yosr. The Poor
Tax was considerably lowered under tho con
trol of the late opposition board of Directors,
and sines the Loeofocos have got ioto power
there again,.they have put them up. All our
taxpayers know that the County taxes for Red
ford County have been enormously high for
many years, and yet the Loeofoco Cnmrnis
■iooers have increased them alarmingly for the
next year. Whither are we tending? Is it
not time the people of poor old tax-ridden
Radford County should look to their own in
terests, and place officers in power who are in
favor of retrenchment and reform? People of
Bedford County, fhiiik of these thiugs,and act
upon them when the proper time comes.
DEATHS. —We are sorry to record ihe death
of Mr. SAMUEL BROWN, on Tuesday morning
last, in tho 6itbyear Of his age. Mr. Brown
was an old and much esteemed citizen, and bis
demise is much regretted. Rut a few meu'hs
since be enjoyed his usual remarkably good
health.
O. 0. HARTLEY, Esq., of Galveston, Texas,
and formerly of Bedford, died very suddenly,
of apoplexy, a few weeks since, aged, we pre
sume, about He was a young man of
taleut, and stootv nigh iu his adopted State.—
ll was only a few weeks since he returned home
from a visit to his fnends in this place, in per
fect health. . He was Reporter for the State of
Texas at the time of his death, the superintec
duce of the publication of the law* of which
he was attending iu Philadelphia last summer
and fall. Truly, "in the midst of life wc are
in death."
Resolutions have pissed the Pennsylvania
legislature instructing our Senator* iu Con
gress, and requesting our members, to vote for
u increase o" duty on article? of foreign im
portation. They passed unanimously to the
Senate, and only two voted against them in the
House, Messrs. Goepp and Laird, both Locofo
cs. Wc are sorry thnt on account of sickness,
<ur representative, Mr. Williams, was r.ot pres
ent to record bis vote in their favor.
We received a letter the other d>y, from a
ypung friend who recently removed to Philadel
phia, and we are happy to hear of his good
prosptcts. Ho speaks encouragingly of the fu
ture of Philadelphia. The good opinion be
expresses of out friend, D. J. Chapman, Esq.,
is subscribed to by ail acquainted with that
gentleman.
Tbey have had quite a lively time iu the U.
18. Senate on Friday last, between Douglasi
Fitcb, and Jeff. Davis. Very hard words pars
ed. Davis apologised to Douglis. A duel
was oxpeetcd between Douglas and Kitcb, and
a long corrcspon ieuce between them has taken
place. The Democratic cauldron is boiling.—
Wc will publish 'he f*a'* nexv week.
A hill has passed both branches of the Leg
islature, abolishing the Canal Board. It will
be signed by the Governor. This is right, and
it would have been well fot the interest of the
tax-payers, had the board been abolished years
HgO.
We publish on the outside of our paper, to
day, the speeches of M-* B rs. Ciittendeu an!
Rreckcnridge, delivered in the old Senate Cham
bet, previous to the S-tnate'i vacating it for the
new Hal). They arc i*ters , ing and will rermv
perusal.
The weather has again become mild and
pleasant. The Juniata has hern frozen over in
>nly a few places this winter, and we have not
yet had any goo 1 Heighing.
RIGHT.— ihe Kepubiicaus in Congress have
held a caucus and decided to oppose the admit-
MOO of Oregon, and insist npou the removal of
the English restitution on Kansas to a to place
tho two Territories on an equal footiDg. The
L n comptor.itca wish to admit Oregon with 46,-
000 of a population and reject Kansas with
y0.,000. What will l.ooofocoa not do?
PURCHASE OF CUBA.— Mr. Siidell, chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Relations, in
the Senate, has introduced into that body a
bill to authorize the President to renew nego
tiations for the purchase of the island of Cuba,
and placing in tbe hands of the Executive the
sum of thirty, millions of dollars for that pur
pose. Provision is made for raising tbc money
by loan at five ptr cent., redeemable in not less
than twenty years. The proposition is under
stood to bo in accordance with the views of the
President; and his adherents in Congress, it is
said, intend to press its passage at an cnrly day
It is doubtful whether is ready to part
with Cuba, and there is, therefore, nothing in
the project of Senatur Slidcll wor'hy ot con
sideration.
Tie regular Meeting of the "Young Men's
Christian Association" will be held this (Fri
day) Evening in the German Reformed Church.
An essay will be read by O.E Shananon, Esq.
PURGATORY NOT RECOGNIZED IN COURT.
—The heirs of John Ilandly, of Senaea coun
ty, Ohio, deceased, contested the validity of
certain clauses in his will, which bequeathed
sums of money to the Roman Catholic Church
for the benefit of souls in purgatory. At the
last term of the court a jury sustained the will,
but the case having been continued, the couit
held that the devise was not to any one iu bo
ing. Also that tho prsvisions of the two claus
es were uncertain and not susceptible of exe
cution of their own provisions. Tbe clauses
mast therefore be set aside aod the property
decreed to the heirs.
The Tariff— Our Legislature.
The foliowiug resolutions were passed by both
brunches of our Legislature on Wednesday
week—in the Senate unanimously, in the House
of Representatives, with but two dissenting
votes —Goepp, of Northampton, and Laird, of
Erie :
Whereas, The expeiienes of tho p.ist and
present most fully demonstrates that it is a wise
beneficent policy of the General Govermueut,
which dictates the impositions of duties on such
products of foreign nations as come in such di
rect contact with those ol our eouutry, as to
interfere and prostrate >ho trade on our own
soil and among out own citizens.
And, whereas, for want of such aid, the
country is filled with foreign products, the re
sult of cheap labor ; the momentary affaire of
tho nation disarranged by the exportataiiou of
specie, to pay an indebtedness abroad, and the
citizens and laborers in money departments of
trade compelled to abandon their accustomed
employment; especially do our own coal and
iron interests suffer. Therefore,
Resolved, By the Senate tud House of Rep
resentatives of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, in General Assembly met, That our
Senators iu Congress be instructed, and our
Representatives requested, to labor for the
passage (at the present tcssion) of such au act
as will not only-tend to increase lite revenue
by the imposition of duties, but afford adequate
protection to all the interests of the eouutry,
injured by the productions of the cheap labor
of other countries, but more especially to urge
an increase of duties on coal and iron— in
which so large a portion of our own people are
deeply interested.
Resolved, That the views of the President,;
expressed iu bis late annual message, in refer
ence to the auvautage of specific over ad valo
rem duties, as mote uniform, less liable to
frands, and affording the most certain amount
of revenue and protection, meets our most
hearty approval.
Resolved, Taat the Governor be requested
to forward each of our Senatois and Represen
tatives in Congress, a copy of the above pream
ble and resolutions informing thein of their
adoption.
TUB MOST EFFECTIVE APPEAL FOR TUL
MOUNT VERNON FUND. —John A. Washing
ton, the occupant of Mour.t Vernon, advertises
iu an A'cxaudm paper that he has five r.e
gro women Dd girls and two boys that he
wants to Lire out —"apply personally at Mount
Vernon, where the negroes can be seen and ex
amined." Let us by all means fill up the
Mount Vernon fund without delay, and stop
; this profanation cf the last rcsiing place of
t Washington. We cab conceive of no more
i eloquent appeal to tbe patriotism of tho coun
try than this advertisement of John A. Wash
ington. "Negro men and women to let at tho
grave of Washington !" By all means let us
get this John A. Washington and his human
i cattle from Mount Vernon in the quickest pos
sible time.
DEATH OF BAM JONJCB. —The Tampa I'enin
sular, of the Ist inst. states that tbc celebrated
Semiooio Indian Chief, Sam Jones, is dead, and
tbnt Tiger Toil has been oppointed in his stead.
So the old Chief has at last carried out his re
solve, to desposit his bones iu the htid of his
fathers, from which no bribe or persecution
with fire and sword could swerve him. lie
teli the government agent, when approached a
few months sioce on the subject of removal,
that "wagon loads of tn-ioey'' would be uo in
ducement.
Donovan, the Irish buily, was convicted in
the Dauphin County court, last week, of as
sault and buttery. Sentence i-> deferrod till
Fab. Court, when wo hope he will get his dc
ser's.
An Kini to the Kansas Troubles.
ST. Louis, Jan. '22.
Leavenworth advices to the 20th state that
Capt. Montgomery, of the "Jay-Hawkers,"
has voluntarily given himself up to the author
ities to await a trial upon the charges of com
plicity in the reocnt troubles iu southern Kan
sas. It is roporled that Oapt. Brown, tbe chief
of the opposition desperadoes, has left the Ter
rilorv. No further uiffi-nltics are apprehen
ded.
Tbere was no exidterueut at Leavenworth.
BEDFORD INOUIRBK.
Bl'flM* CVBt.
Immeasurable u are lite euormities of hu
man folly, it would seem at first Llusb thai
the follies enacted by our politicians who pro
fess to be intent ou uccquiriug Cuba —("/-eatj
nexing" it, will probably be tho term by wlticb
the proposed robbery will be commended in
the next National Democratic Platform) —
would seem to out-Herod any former exhibi
tions in this line. Cuba is the largest and most
cherished external possession-of a nation which
outlived, indeed, its palmiest days of power
and graudour, but which is only rendered the
more prouJ, sensitive and jeaions of its honor,
by paiuful couscicnsness of its own decline
and decay. Under any circumstances, to per
suade this nation to sell us Cubs would be a
very difficult and delicate operation, like ask
ing an old noble, tho living bead of a family
that won renown in the Crusades or tho War
of the Hoses, to seli his daughter to a iuoky
grogseilcr or pigdriver for tho means of eking
out in relative comfort his few remaining years.
A Frunklio or a Talleyrand, with carte blanche
from au astute and close-mouthed Government,
might well shrink from undertaking so critical,
distasteful, unpromising a negotiation. Suc
cess in it might well uike tho fortune of the
shrewdest diplomatist ever "sent abroad to lie
"for the good ol bis country/'
Hut in the management of their Cubian di
plomacy, our Democratic statesmen evince
neither tact, adress, nor eveD simple common
sense. They act precisely as the grogseiler or
pigdriver would wore he to bolt into the pre
scuoo of the dccayod aristocrat in muddy boots
and with his hat on, and, shaking a bag of
eagles iu bis face, blurt out, "There's §IO,OOO
"in hard cash for your daughter—ail earned in
"my regular course of trade—and if you don't
"give her to me lor that oiaguificeot sum, I'll
"take her away by force, and you can't help
"yourself." A slimy, crawling wonu would
bo ashamed to yield to such solicitation as
that.
The House has, very properly, aaked the
President to inform it whether he knows, of
ficially, that Frauce and England have agreed
to prevent our getting possession of Cuba un
der any circumstances. That he knows it un
offi ially, we presume no one doub's, as i;n ex-
M mister to London is not to be supposed ig
norant i n such a point of a fact ?hieh is "reity
well known to everybody oise. Tin/only
que-' ;.,n in the premises is—Have France and
.ongUnd formally apprised our Government
that they will not let us do what we have for
mally notified theui that we will rot let either
of them do ? Since we have reportedly notified
shem we will not allow any formidable .mar
itime power to acquire Cuba from Spain, have
they been equally frank ID revealing their in
tentions and resolutions to us f Plainly, they
ought to have doue so, and we presume they
have, since Mr. Buchanan hesitate* to answer;
and meantime a caucus of Democratic Senators
is held at which it is ieolved to have Siidell's
modest proposition to f put §'10,000,000 (of pro
mises lor uui children to pay) into the hands of
Mr. Huohanan, to be used in operation* look
ing to the acquisition of Cuba. The Demo
cratic side of the House is to follow suit, and
we shall soon have thii Thirty Million job
brought before Congre-s and 'be Country in all
its monstrous proportions.
The couooetors of this nefarious scheme are
not idiots, as they would at first seem to be.—
They know, just as well s vre do, trial .Spain
will never yield to sue!, beastly Aolnitatimi*,
and that, if her Oonrt and Cabinet could be
bribed into yielding assent to such a National
dishonor, her People, backed by France and
England, would arrest the conspiracy far this
side cf consummation. What is the real mean
ing, then, of this seeming futility? Wo answer
—itis a dodge of political gambler.—a bold
stroke for triumph in 1860. It is not intend
ed to acq lire Cuba, but to diffuse among the
ignorant, greedy stid unprincipled portion of
our people a notion that the acquisition cf Cu
ba woali bo a capital thing if it could only be !
accomplished. That is enough for the present
purposr. How Tyler tripped up Van' Buren
in 1843-d by pressing the Annexation of Tex
as— how Pierce swept State rf'er State in 1852
thrcttgh the secret organ;*;tion sad ouebins- i
ti.ms of "The Order of the Lou? Star," or i
whatever was the name of the filibuster organ
ization at that time, our Siidolls and Jeff. Da
vises understand right weli. Let them only, !
with the help e? sundry whiffling journals in
this city and elsewhere, inflame the popular lust
of acquisition, and direct it toward "the gem
of tho Antilles," and their battle for 1860 is '
hsif won.
We meet this juggle at the outset. We in
sist that territorial ex eoaion is not now desira
ble for our country, that wo Lavs more good
iand already thau we can subdue and cultivate
for a century, that the acquisition of a great,
rich island iiko Cuba would involve an pnor
inous increase of our Military aud Naval ex
penditure, and a general misdirection of our
National policy and aspirations at war with re
publican purity and simplicity. The acquisi
tion of Cuba would largely increase the annual
cost of our already prodigal and needy govern
ment, while it would scarcely add to so much
as it subtracted from our annual revenue. It
would thrust uy into the midst of the posses
ions iu the West Indies of the great European
btateti, would soon involve us io pro-slavery
filibuster raids upon Ilayti, and expose us to
dangerous complications and frequent wars.
If Cuba were freely offered us to-morrow, with
the hearty assent of ev-ry European power, we
should urge its prompt and posi'ire refusal.
But to dream of acquiring it iu defiance not
only of every impulse, every instinct, of the
haughty and sensitive Spanish nation, but of
the stern determination which wo have justified
by proclaiming that neither of them wouid be
permitted under finy circumstances to acquire
that iiland—is sheer madness. Far better
strike for India at ouee, or propose to revolu
tionise Irciaud by the aid of the plotters whose
reoeut arrest has excited 60 muob good-natured
surprise on both tides of the Atlantic. Had
Commodore Vanderbilt, during his pleasure
crui'e to Europe, stopped a week to bombard
aud carry by assiult Gibraltar, he would not
have acted more absurdly than do those who
shali favor Mr. Siidell's proposition with any
idea that it is to lead to the acquisition of Cu
ba. lint look at just the project in its true
light of a politician's dodge—a tub thrown to
the greenest of whales—a shrewd device for
keeping possession of the National Treasury,
and enjoying ibe disbursement not merely of a
beggarly thirty millions, but of eighty millions
porwnnum, down to March 4, 1865- and the
is easily understood. Viewed in that
' ''s'dj the inevitable defeat of the project in
Congress is no obstacle to the realization of
its ends, but rather a means of securing them.
—.V. Y. Tribune.
MEXICO.
News from the City of Mexico to the 27th of
December, and from Vera Cruz to the 30th, re
ceived via Havana, furnish some additional in
formation as to the late Mexican revolution. It
appears that Eeheagaray, commander of the ar
my knowu as the Eastern Division, pronounced
at Ayutli on the 20th of December. After fruit
less negotiations, Zuloaga was just on the point
of marching against Echeagoray, ignorant that
in the meantime that commander had been made
a prisoner by the Governor of Puebla, wheu he
was himself stopped by a pronunciamiento on
the part of the garrison of .Mexico, beaded by
Gen. RobLs, who, it seeuis, had been in cor
respondence with Eeheagaray.
This Dew pronunciamiento sot forth that, as
neither the Government of Zuloaga nor that
called constitutional had the moral or physical
force to give peace to Mexico, it was necessary
that both should cease to exist, end that a new
Administration should be established, resting
not upou the proclamation of tho aimy,but up
on the consent and co-operation of the peacea
ble, wealthy and industrious citizens of ail par
lies, wlin suffered most from the present state of
commotion. That to bring about this result, a
junta should be formed (to whioii measure Eehe
agaray had consented) of such respectable citi
zens of the different ritates, of all classes and
parties, as the war had driven to take refuge in
the capitol, which junta, within five days, should
proceed to establish a provisional Administra
tion, nominating the person to exercise provi
sionally the supreme power, fixing the limits of
his authority, and prescribing also the mode and
form in which he should call upon the Dation to
frame a new Government; and that, until this
provisional Government was established, Gen.
lloblvs should be invited to the chief cotn
mtmd.
Thi Governor of Puebla gave in his adhe
rence to this uew movement. Rohles soot off
commissioners to Miramon, commanding the ar
my of the north, and to Juarez, at Vera Cruz,
;>nd, p.s if to "pej, me way ro reconciliation uud
union, ail the political prisoners in Mexico were
released, ar.d the towns of Cordova and Orizaba,
in the State cf Vera Cruz, which the Zuloaga
ist had occupied, were abandoned to the Con
stitutionalists, who are also reported to have
occupied Jalapa.
During the session of the junta assembled in
accordance with this pronunciamiento, news ar
rived ot Miramon's victory over Degollado—
whether details of the occupation of Guadala
jara, of which a telegraphic account had some
time before been reeuived, or fresh viotorv,
dees not distinctly appear. This news, howev
er, whatever it was, decided the choice of the
junta in favor of Miramou as Provisional Chief.
What conditions for tbe exercise of this Provi
sional authority were fixed upon, or what pro
visions made for framing a new Constitution, we
are not informed, nor is there yet #ny certain
information whether Juarez, at Vera Cruz, and
much less whether Vidwri and the. other north
ern chief*, will bo disposed to conic iuto thia ar
rangement. Miiauiou, thus raised to the bead
of affaire, and who has tbe prestige of two bril
liant victories to sustaiu biui, is qui'e a young
man, not yet 3G, and brought into notice en
tirely by the recent troubles. While Comonfort
held tho supreme power and cndeavoied to steei
a middle course between the Conservatives and
Reformers, Miramon, who, in Santa Anna's '
time, bad been only a lieutenant, beaded, along
with O-ollos, one of those bodies of guerillas
which, in the uaius of "roligiou and privileges,'' j
annoyed without essentially endangering the ,
aduiiuistralion of Comonfoit. When the ru*o- ;
luiion beaded by Zuloaga broke out, Osoilos !
and Miramon joined in it, and by their skill j
and daring contributed largely to its success.
They were rewarded for their services by the i
command of tbe Northern army, Osolfos re- :
eeiviog the chief command, to which, on his
death, Miramon succeeded. Whether he pos
sesses civil as well as military talent, remains
to be sees.— „V. Y. Tribune.
THE PUQUESNE LETTER IN EN
GLAND. I
The celebrated epistle of our worthy Presi
dent has at length r-aebcJ England, and the
London Times takes Fold of it in sober earn
est, commenting upou it with a gravity of man
ner that wou'd be only suitablo to a more im
portant paper. The British Journal thinks
that this letter affords conclusive evidence that
our institutions are fust going to decay. It
cauuot separate James Buchanan, the Presi
dent, from James Buchanan, the individual, but j
seizes upon his ex-offirial platitudes, designed ;
to tickle the ears of his personal adhereuts, as i
if they were invested with all the importance
that official seal* and government endorsements
could confer upon them. There it a little se
cret history connected with this demonstration
of Presidential honesty which has not reached
England, if it ever teaches that country, our j
sensitive neighbors beyond the Atlantic rnsy ;
find a text for a legion of sermons ou the po- '
litical corruption in our high places, as well as j
the political duplicity among our great men.
Tbe New York Times ridicules the earnest
ness with which its Kngli-b namesake treats
this letter, alleging that Mr. Baohanau no more
represents this ccantiy, except in barely his !
official seta, than William Walker represents j
the government of Nicaragua, and styles our 1
President tho "Great American Mistake of j
the Nineteenth Centnrv." In this vein the i
Times continues:
"Anything, therefore, that Mr. Buchanau
may write to Fort Duquesue, concerning
"iba future of the United Siates," is of
about as much consequence as anything that
Fort Duqnesno might write to him would be.
Mr. Buchanan's perceptions of the present are
not particularly keen; but, when wo come to '
looking into the future, we t eat of that which {
is an utter imposibility for a man of Mr. Bu- j
obanan's calibre; and a very fortunate thing |
it is for him, too. If be could look into the j
future sufficiently to judge wbst posterity will j
say of him, or even how his present parasites
will talk of him after the first Tuesday of No- j
vember, 1860, ho would be the most miserable j
of tneu. What Mr. Buchanan wrote to Fort '
I Duquesne he wrote to gratify his spite at fiod
j iug himself so entirely scouted in liisowu State,
as he was in the October elections. His letter
meant nothing more than bile, and no body ev
er accepted it as meaning any more.
"We gladly believe in the bright predictions
iof still further greatness and prosperity for
England, iu the future, which the Times and
many of the public men in that country de
light to indulge in. But we also believe in a
brighter and a more glorious future for our
own country thau Mr. Buchanan has sufficient
capacity to anticipate The Mistake took s fit
ot maudlin piety when he found, or imagined -
for indeed the charge, so far, rests only on his
assertion—that money had beeu used against
his party. Money enough had been employed,
i before the Duquesoe letter, for the purposes of
the Democratic part*, aud had been used with
success, without the voice of the Mistake being
heard in the laud to denounce it. We regret,
; as much us anybody can, to see corruption per
. vert the uses, and destroy the purity, of any of
j our institutions, no matter who enjoys its re*
l suits. But neither do we approve of the hy
pocrisy which selects convenient eases for ob
jection, and leavos all others to go unwhipt of
Justice; nor can wo be content to see the fu
ture of this country regarded through the spec
tacles of the Great, if not the greatest, Amer
ican Mistake of the Nineteenth Centurv."
FROM KAN'S A3-MO HE FIGHTING IN
PROSPECT. I
Sr. LOUIS, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1859. j
ihe Osawatamie (Kansas) correspondent of
The Democrat says that Oapt. Hamilton, the
leader of the party who committed the atro
cious murders at Chouteau's trading post last
May, has taken the field in Southern Kansas,
with a large body of desperate men, and has
already committed various outrages.
Mr. Bailey, a Free-Ststo man, was charged
with stealingjnegroes frotnjVeruon Ccnntv, Mis
souri, aud killed, and the house of Mr. Bloom
field, a wealthy i'rco-State resident of Vernon
County him Decn sacked and burned. It was
reported that Moutgomery was raising party to
repel the invasion by Hamilton, and that both
parties are determined to fight.
A dispatch from Kansas City says that a
gang of "Jayhawkers" under Capt. Brown en
tered Bates County. Mo., ou Thursday last, and
stole four horses from Jesse Jackson and burn
ed bis house.
Meoary has ordered four companies of dra
goons to that region ; Viso, that he bag ordered
tour companies cf militia to be raised in Linn
Hud Bourbon Counties, iho officers for which
have already been commissioned ; and that bo
has telegraphed to the Secretary of War to
send uo arms aud ammunition from St. Louis,
which has been done. It is expected that these
counties wili be kept undr martial law for
some time.
A trustworthy person frcui the viciuity of
I'on Scott represen's the actg committed there
as similar to tho.-e of the time of the notorious
Murrcll. The whole country is divided into
"Jayhawkers" and 4 Anti-Jayhawkers." The
former commit all sorts of crimes, and are
openly upheld by some mcthodist preachers and
many respectable people. The "Jayhawkers"
justify their acts as a proper revenge for the
same kind of depredations and worse atrocities
committed upou them by the Pro-Slavery party
when they were in a majority. The Pro-
Slavery party still hold most cf the officos, aud
are accused of oppressive acts. The old pro
secution pending on account of the former
troubles aie the great cause of dissatisfaction.
A dispatch from Kansas City says that a 1
q jorutu of both Houses of the Kansas Legis
lature met at L.wicnee on the 3d, and passed
a resolution to meet and orgaoite at Lecompton
on tbe next day. A caucus was also held for
the purpose of fixing upon a place to hold the
session, nearly all of those present being agreed
to adjourn from Lieompton to soma other point
in the Territory.
At night, a general caucus of the Ultra* was
held, and nominations fot officers made, em
bracing Mr. Laisalere for Speaker, Mr. Delabsy
for Clerk, and Mr. Thatcher for Printer. It
was the general opiuion that this organisation
wcnld carry everything, aud control the House.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. A caucus of the
democratic Serators was bell yesterday, on the
President's recommendation, in reference to
Cuba. A debate of some three or four hours
ensued, involving the question whether any
steps should be taken in relation to it, and if
so, of what character. According to the best
attainable iuforuiaticn, Mr. Mason made the
opeuiug speech, and was followed by Mr. Hun
ter and Mr. Shields. Though favorable to the
acquisition of Cuba, they thought actiou at this
time impolitic and calculated to impair rather
than improve our prospects to that end. Mr.
Doug'as regarded appearances as gloomy, but
would snpport Mr. Slidell's bill placing in the
hand* of the President $30,000,000 to be used
iu negotiation. II expressed the belief that
the President would endorse this measure with
out sufficient data io justify him iu so doing.
He (Mr. Douglas) had long desired the acqui
.-ition of Cuba. Iu his judgraeut there was but
one mode, and that was on the happening of
another case similar to that of the Black War
rior, to seise the Islaud byway of reclamation,
and negotiate) afterwards.
The determination of (he eauons was, with a
few exceptions, to favor the reeommcudation of
the President, although the precie mode io
which it sbouid bo consummated was not so
clearly indicated, but the probability is the
Senate will pass Mr. Slidell's hill.
The fallowing paragraph we clip from the
Hagerstown "Herald and Torch:"
"HON. E. MCPHM&ON.— This gentlemsn,
member of Congress eloot from tbe adjoining
District in Pennsylvania, has recently been
spending a few days among his relations in this
town, and looks remarkably well. Mr. Mc
pherson is the youngest member of tbe Penn
sylvania Delegation in the next Ooogrese. and
when a candidate, waa ridiculed on account of
his youth and obscurity, by the Locofoco press,
but he vanquished their veteran war horse, and
taught I hem a lesson which they will not soon
forget. Being a gentleman of mnch good
praotical seuee, fair oratorical powers, aud lib
eral, conservative views apoo tbe politioal
questions of tbe day, we have no doubt b will
attain a position in tbo next#ooie,aud beoome
a useful and creditable representative."
See advertisement of Bsnfords' loiter luvig
orator.
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Executive GurMchanifl,
Judge Robertson, of Richmond, Va u,
written an article for the Richmond Enquired
to which he shows, in a forcible intoner, the mo
! narcbieal proclivities of Mr. Buchanan, as et
hibited in the following passage of his late An
! uu&l Message:
"The Executive Government of this couetn
in us intercourse with foreign nations, it li J'
ed o he employ went of diplomacy alone. Wbsa
this fails it can proceed no further. I Mnnc ,
legitimately resort to force, without the direct
| authority of Congress, except in resitting afi*
repelling hostile attacks. It would have no an •
thorny to enter the territories of Nicatavu,
to ptevsnt the destruction of the transit' and
protect the lives and property of our own eiti
xeus ou their passage. It is true, that on atud
den emergency of this character, the President
would direct any armed force in the vicinity t 0
inarch to their relief, but io doiog this he would
act upon his own responsibility."
After commenting upon the term 'Executive
Government,' a thing not recognixed by the Con
stitution, the 'executive' being but a department
of the Government, and the expression as used
by Mr. B. is calculated to create ati improper
impression, Judge It. continues :
"Nothing iu the whole paragraph quoted s
bovc, until we reach the concluding sentanoe
couli be more unexceptionable than the Presi
dent's views of the powers and duties of the ex
ecutive iu conducting our intercourse with for
e.-n nations. It is United, he tells us, to di
plov toy aloae, and if that should fail, it Uu
proceed no further; that it cannot report to force
without the direct authority of Congress; o T
he admits emphatically that it would hive no
authority to entor the territories of Nicaragua
eveu to prevent the destruction of the transit
and protect the lives and property of our citi
zens. Vet, in the very next breath he declares,
that on a sudden emergency cf this character'
he would direct an aruied force to march te
their relief. Was ever a conclusion more at wr
with the premises? Did any absolute potentate
ever more boldly proclaim a meditated and pil
psblo usurpation? Has Senator Seward himself
ever affected a loftier power to dispenao
the laws and Constitution of the Union?
FOREIGN INTE LUGE NCE.
Interesting Jidvtces from Europe —Threatens
Difficulty between France and Austria—
Panic in the .Money Markets.
NEW I ORK, Jan 19. —The steamer City ef
Washington, with Liverpool dates to the s'l
ioat , arrived here thia morning.
Italian affairs weie more threatening.
At the New Year levee of the Emperor Na
poleon, he made a menacing remark to (bt
Austrian minister, which attracted great atten
tion and produced considerable sensation. Tks
Emperor's words cere as follows:
"I regret that our relations with your gov
ernment are not so good as thvj were; tut 1
request you to teli the Emperor my persona!
feelings fur him have not changed."
The emphatic tooe of tbt Emperor, and the
animated gesture with which he accompanied
hia remark, attracted the attention of the as
sembled diplomatic corps.
The Bourse was closed till the 3d, but ou
tbe opening on Monday quite a panic prevailed
—the decline in the funds beiug fully one per
cent. On the 4th tbe Bourse continued de
pressed, aud again the funds were rather lower.
The London Exchange sympathised with lbs
Paris Bourse, and the decline at one time was
nearly i per cent.
Tbe money market also closed flat at Vienna
where, also, a panic prevailed, under a rumor
that Austria would send troops to Belgrade.
Italy is still in an unsettled state, particu
larly Lomtardy. The news from all parts is
pregnant with alarm, aud the steps which have
been taken in Lotnbariy are almost tsntsmonot
to a atate of siege.
The Spauish Ministry have declared that
Spain will never sell the island of Cuba, and
have protested agnint the insulting hypothesis
to the country implied in the President's mes
sage.
Count Olrsaga introduced a tuotiou support
ing the ministerial declaration, and it was unan
imously approved.
(*oW of Pike's Peak.
Specimens of gold from tbe Nebraska sod
Kansas mines, from no particular locality hot
from the diggings along Tlie PUtte River sod
Cherry Creek, above tbe town of Auraria, in
Arspaho eonnty,in Kansas, embracing the conn
try for 10 or 15 miles around, have been anal
yxed at the Philadelphia Mint. Tbe result of
the assay is as follows :
Fineness. 968 thousandths; value, for ounce
troy, after melting, S2O 01. The loss in melt
ing was very small; but in ordinary caaes • d<-
duc'ion of two per cent from tbe above may be
rusde in stating the value of native grains. A
recent assay of a sample of gold from tbe same
region gave a fineness of 964 thousandths; and
a eous-'cpent value of sl9 92 por after
melting. These results seem to confirm tbe
character cf the Kansas and Nebraska gold,
and ihow it to be of a very high fineness; moob
above that of California, and eqnal to that of
Australia.
England, Fraoe and Ike P. SUieav
By tha arrival at Halifax of tbe steamship
".Vtagsra," w* have a highly important piece
of intelligence. It if that France has official
ly informed the British government of its eoi*
dial snpport, should the latter adopt meeanrrs
to counteract tbe policy of President Buchanan,
as anaounoed in his recent message. This me?
prove bat an idle rumor, end yet it is quite pro
bable that Lonie Napoleon has said something
about tbe subject, aud iu a formal manner.—
Mr. Bnchanan has been particularly unfortanate
in tbe Message alluded to. He bas incensed
Mexico and Spain, and BOW it would eppeer
that be bas raised the ire cf tbe Emperor of
tbe Freuoh, and induced hits to propose an An
glo-French alliance, with reference to affairs
in tbe New World- We ooofese, nevertheless,
i that we doubt the story of its fall extent—
However averse England aud Franoe may be to
' tbe dootriaea of Mr. Buchanan, (bey sro not
likely to interfere, except in tbe way < (fnotli
' ly protest.— Penna laf.