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VOL. LVI.
FEBALD AND EXPOSITOR
CONGRESS.
Tredpesday Dec'r j,9.—ln the Senate Mr.
Clayton preiented memorials relative to the
French Spoliation claims and announce his in
tention at an early day to call them up, and
address the Senate on the subject He 'said
that the records of the State Department silks
the President to have been in error in assert
ing thnt the claimants were paid under the
treaty ceeding Louisiana to the United States.
Mr,Jones of Tennessee, offered a resolution
calling on the Secratary of the Navy for the
proceedings of Naval Retiring Board, and the
evidence on which they acted ; but, at the
suggestion of Mr. Clayton, that it should is 6
discussed in secret session, the resolution was
laid over, and the Senate went into executive
session. The House again balloted unsuccess
fully for a Speaker. Mr. Thornington with
drew his Plurality resolution, hut announ
ced his intention to renew it to day. A mo
tion to elect a Speaker by ballot was lost by
an overwhelmning vote. Mr Fuller defined
his position to be for the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise and in favor of the ad
mission of Rainsas, with or without slavery.
Thursday, Dec'r.2o.—ln the Senate, }ester
day, Mr. Broadhead, from the Committee on
Claims. submitted a report to the effect that
all claims founded upon contracts with the
Government, and which the claimants choose
to prosecute before the Court of claims, be re•
ferred to that court, which report was adop
ted. The protest of members of the Illinois
Legislature' against the election 6f Lyman
Trumbull to the Senate, together with sonic ev.
idence to the effect that Mr. Trumbull ceased
to be a judge two years before he was elected
to the Senate, was referred to the dominittee
on the Judiciary. In the House, the ballot
ing for Speaker was resumed. without effect.
The sixty-seventh ball( t stood as follows :
Banks, 104; Rigardson 73 ; Fuller 34; scat
tering, 10. Mr Smith, of Alabama, then pro.
posed a plan of electing the two most impir
tont committees, those of Ways and Means
find F6eign Affiiirs, members heir); take'n
from the various parties, in proportion to
their vote in the House, the Chairman to be
selected by majority vote, and to preside al
ternately over the ordinary business of the
House, until the Speaker is elected. Objec •
lion was made that the plan was a violation of
the law of 1789. After much debate, the
house adjourned without being able to elect a
Speaker.
Friday, Dec'r. 21.—1 n the House Mr. Gid
dings rose to a privileged question denying
that he used such a remark as was attributed
to him by Mr. McMullen, namely, that the
government should go into the hands of , the
North, that the Abolition party would elect a
President, and then thtl Union should and
ought.to be dissolved. Mr. Giddings trusted
that no one in the House would expect him
to reply to that gentleman except in a case of
palpable misrepresentation. Mr„ McMullen
rose and with an excited manner asked, what
does the member mean ? Does he suppose ho is
capable of insulting any member on this floor?
\Viten I am asSaile I by the contemptible mem
ber from Ohio, I will defend myself here or,
elsewhere. [Sensation.] I did not condemn
the course of that member, told I have noth
ing to take back. Mr. Cox resumedhis speech
commenced yesterday, ethievoring to show that
the Nati,mal American party could not unite
on the election of speaker wi It the anti-Slavery
agtitation party at _the North. Mr. Etheridge
and various others interrupted for explana
tions, when finally Mr. Cox concluded, after
a speech of nearly three hours. Mr. Cobb,
of Ga., followed in an exhortation to the llgin
°orate to preserve their organization. Tiiey
mild not join the Americans.
Mr. Foster and others continued the debate
The House adjourned 'without a ballot.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The debate in . , the
House to-day has widened the breaok between
the friends of Messrs. Richardson and Fuller.
Four or five of the supporters of Mr. Banks
have privately decilared that, unless he shall
bo elected within the next day or two, they
will drop him, in the hope of diverting and
concentrating the majority vote on some other
gentleman not yet prominently named.
Saturday', Deer. 22.—:The House again
voted down a resolution to elect by plurality.
The day was consumed in debate without any
ballot.
ILL-FEELING IN TUE CElMEA.—Kossuth says,
in a letter to the Now York Times:
'I have the most positive information ti tat
the Frouch and the English are on thewfvo
possible terms in the Crimea. Neither men
nor officers cultivate familiar intercourse.—
The French trent the English with to orcili
ony since tho Itedan affair; st us
the English have treated the. Turks f om the
beginning.'
t fur flit
WEDNESpiIf,'I)ECEMI3EII 26, 1855.
The Washington papers give the following
report of the debate in the House on Wednes
day last, in which Mr. Fuller, of Pu. declared
his position:
- Mr. Fuller of Pennsylvania. I am not in
the habit of being very much disturbed by
what is said iSither for or against me; but, in
asmuch as it was indicated this morning by
one of my colleagues that my position is mid
understood, I desire to avail myself of this op
portunity, with the indulgence of the House
fully and frankly to declare it,
It is said that the difficulty which lays at
the foundation of all our troubles here is tin
oue question of slavery. I desire to declare
hero that I am opposed to its present or fu
ture agitation, and for the reason that, in my
humble judgment, no possible good can result
from it; that its discussion here must result,
as it has always heretofore done, in evil and
mischief—in creating popular discontent, indi-
vidual distrust, sectional alienation and lids
iron. I desire to leave the question of slavery
just where the constitution has loft it, [ap
plause]—with the people who tolerate it, who
determine, control, and regulate for themselves.
[Renewed applause.] I will not meddle or
interfere with it. I would disturb no existing
regulatipos. If it be an evil, it is their evil :
if it be a blessing it is their blessing. I make
no aggressions upon the rights or feelings of
any .noin or of any section, nor will I submit
to tiq , invasion of mine. [Applause.]
I With regard to the past legislation of Con
gress there is no difference of opinion. lam
• frank to say that I support the .compromise
measures of 1850, and had I held a seat here
I should have opposed the legislation of the
last Congress : and for the very reason that 1'
am opposed to further agitation which can do
no good, I am willing that the past shold bury
its own dead. I desire to, unite with my fellow
citizens every where in a patriotic effort to
bring back this country to that state of good
feeling and social harmony which once exist
! ed. and which ought never to have been dis
turbed. 1 believe there can be no doubt as
regards my sentiments upon this subject. If,,
however, there be any, I am willing, to Stand
up in this grand inquisition and submit my
self to the grand inquisitor. [Laughter and
applause.]
Mr. Sherman Would you be willing to al
low the institution of slavery to obtain an ad
vantage or gain asceudancy by rejation of the
repiod '6l - the Missouri couiproniise.
Mr. Fuller.. I respectfully answer that I
will leave it to the people vibe tolerate it. I
say distinctly tl.at if Kansas 'presents herself
for admission I shall . votti foi‘ her admission
without reference to that question. [Loud
applause.] .
Mr. Sago. I desire to 'know .of the gentle
man whether be is in favor at or against a res
toration of the Missouri compromise ?
. Mr. Fuller. I assort that Ido not seek to
disturb that question. If the Missouri Com
promise could be restored I should certainly
be in favor of its restoration. 1 say I will not
disturb it.
Mr. Sage. I again put the question wheth•
er the gentleman would vote for a restoration
of the Missouri compromise line or whether
he would oppose it ?
Mr. Fuller. Whenever that or any other
question shall arise In this body I shall vote
according to my own convictions of duty.—
[Applause.]
Mr. Sage. The gentleman said that he
held himself ready to answer any 'question
which might be put to him. I put a question
to him, and I leave it for the country to judge
of the frankness of his answer. •
Mr. Fuller. The gentleman is entirely at
liberty to put questions to me, but ho must be
content with what he gets in reply. [Cries of
'good' and 'call the rill
Mr. Trafton. I wish to ask the gentleman
a question which relates to the great doctrine
of 'squatter sovereignty,' as allusion has
been made to it. I desire to ask the gentle
man whether, if Utah should seek admision
into this Union with it constitution tolerating
polygamy, he would vote for her admission
with polygamy ? [Cries of 'call the roll.'
. Mr. Todd. I desire to say, for myself and
the colleagues with whom I have acted since
the first day of the meeting of this body, that
we came forward and voted for our colleague,
Henry M. Fuller, under the impression and
belief that he wit+ sound on the Nebraska
question; and all that I desire to say now is to.
put myself right before my constituents. Had
I known that- my colleague entertained the
sentiments which ho has avowed here to,
day, my. right band should have withered 14-
fore I would have supported him. [Loud ap•
plauee.l
Mr. Kelly then replied to the remarks of
Mr. Whitney, and denied that the Know No
thing party of the North was national in its
feelings.
The House then pioceeded to the sixty
sixth vote for Speaker.
Mr. Walker, when his name was called, ex•
pressed a wish, before casting his vote, to ask
of the gentleman from Pennsylvania .a single
question, viz : Whether or not the gentleman
from Pennsylvania would vote for the repeal
of the Kansas and Nebraska not, or, jo employ
the language of the gentleman from New York
(Mr. Sage) would vote for the restoration of
the Missouri Compromise line
Mr. Fuller: I have already said that if I
had, been a member of- the last Congress I
should have voted against the Territorial
legislation then enacted; but I am willing now
to abide by the laws as they are, and, reale-
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MR. FULLER'S POSITION.
ing agitation, I shall vote against the resto
ration of the Missouri line. [Great applause ]
And now, fellow citizens, one moment more
of your indulgence. I have been charged with
being an obstacle in the way"bf the organiza
tion of this (louse. My position, humble as
it is, has been magnified into this importance.
I have never desired and do not now expect
an election. I have nevcr asked for nor de
clined ft. I have given no pledges to obtain it.
Thankful, grateful indeed I ant for the ex
pressions of confidence and of kindness which
1 have received; but 1 Fhould be vastly .more
pleased if the suffrages. I have obtained should
be given for an abler and a worthter man.
END OF TIRE 'VAR.
The storm in Kansas has blown over, says
the North American, and our readers, wo
doubt Dot, will share the pleasure we feel in
announcing the fact. The mob gathered from
the border counties of Missouri. under pretext
of eVorcing the odious laws of the Legislature
had fixed on the 9th inst. for the assault upon
Lawrence, but the Governor was not with the
torces he had evoked, and they, though far
outnumboing the defenders of the city, did
not feel themselves strung enough to attack,
without large reinforcements. Late accounts.
how Lexington say that forty,of the men who
went from Jackson county, Mu , to attack the
town, had deserted, and, as this comes from
the leaders of the assailants, it itt.' no doubt
en rect. A telegraphic despatch which will
be found our columns to-day, 111111 ounces the
compromise 4r the difficulties, and the return
of the Mob to Missouri.
',here is some good in all things, and so
there is in this Kansas war. At the very out
set the Governor found out that it was by no
means so easy a matter as he had supposed
to get the aid of the United
.States troops in
hiB nefarious schemes. The' alarming des
patches which he sent eastward for the pur
pose of taking the President by surprise, fail
ed of their purpose, and it is not at all
probable that the end will be
.his own rejec
tion by the Senate. In the next place, the
courage of the borderers has at last been
brought to a practical test. They have been
so long blustering of their anxiety for a fight,
that every body belieyed them perfect' fire
eaters the first chance of a genuine
struggle they have blenched. In the rescue
of lirnusoVt; the opposing-parties , were exactly
equal in numbers,
,ftnd the blusterers who had
only a few minutes before been regretting
that they missed a fight early in the day, in
continently gave up their prisoner, and sneak•
ed off for the aid of the ten thousand men in
'buckram, promised to Sheriff Junes by the
Governor. To overwhelm the fouK, , hundred
and fifty men in Lawrence, some two or three
thousand Missourians sally forth with mus
kets and cannons, but no sooner do they ar
rive in Night of the devoted town they are
going to demolish, than they began to desert
and talk about waiting 4or reinforcements.
These incipient struggles only serve to
develupe the dangers which threaten popular
sovereignty in the territory, and to enable
the settlers to provide against all emergencies.
The pre eat trouble was evidently the work of
deliberate design on the pert of Shannon, At
chison, and Stringfellow, and though it is
terrible infliction upon the people of the terri•
tory it will accomplish good in the end.
SErLINDEYannr, the celebrated grama
rian,was born in 1745, within the present
limits of Lebanon county. in this State, in
East Hanover township, on the Swatara, then
in Lancaster county. His father was origi
nally a miller, but subseque,ntly• became a
merchant. Lindley studied la v, and practiced
in New York. He subsequently removed to
England, where he lived torty-two years, and
died in Yorkshire, aged upwards of 80. His
grammar was first published in 1705, He was
a Quaker, and had the singular reputation in
New,York of .an honest lawyer.'
SW- e secon trig of Arrison, t 'infer
nal machine' prisoner, is still in progress at
Cincinnati. Some evidence not brought out
on the first trial, elicited. A witness
named John Wir fibs that one day,
but a short time he explosion cper
haps two week! i came into Mr
Fletcher's gun al eked to have Con
structed a machit mltl go into 'a box
and explode when Mr. IV. remarked
at the time to Mr. r, 'he wants an in
fernal machine to blow somebody to hell,'
whereupon theidefendant immediately left the
shop. Henry Fletcher, the gentleman alluded
to above also gave in his testimony corrobor
ting that of Winters. .
President Pierce, for, fear the press shall get
hold of a copy of the ;Message in advance of
its delivery to Congress, has, so it is said, di
rected that printers, with their oases, typo's,
&o. be sent to the White House, whore, find
whore only the message is to be put id type.
ger The Newark Mercury takes strong
ground against the nomination of Mr, Fillmore,
and says that it Would prevent a Union of the
Republican with the American branch of the
opposition.
STILL LATER PROM EUROPE
RUMORS CONCERNING PEACE
The R M. steamship Asia, from Liverpool
on the Bth inst., arrived at Boston on Wednes
day afternoon the 18th.
The news by this arrlval consists mainly of
peace rumors, but the public had no means of
estimating their truth, and they are probably
.f little value. It is a very noticeable circum
stance that the assertions of the British press
a n the subject of negotiations are quite at
variance with those of mllu'ential continental
pa CI'S.
NO. 17.
The London Times, and Disraeli's organ,
the London Press, are prominent in asserting
that peace is near at hand, and that Austria is
about to address an ultimatum, summoning
Russia, under the threat of breaking off nego
tiations with her, to accept those conditions of
Once which they will not assent to after anti
other successful campaign. '
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Morning Chronicle, under date of the 4th inst..,
says: 'lt is impossible to Separate what is
true front what is false in the peace rumors.
It is no doubt, true that all the Cabinets are
anxious for peace; but it is equally,true that
it cannot he said that negotkttions are going
forward—at the utmost, preparatory steps
only are being made. Austria maintains the
validity of the treaty of December 2d, and all
the attempts of other German States to exer
cise a pressure on the Western Powers, with
view to paci fi cation, have been completelY
paralyzed. Austria, moreover, is now ready
to accept the interpretation given to the third
of the tour Vienna Conference points. Prussic'
las urgently demanded at St. Petersburg that
Russia should name the conditions to which
die i- ready to submit. Russia's reply to this
temand of Prussia is ittlirmed to be conoili
ttory, but vague. The Cabinet at St. Peters
•iurg shrinks from the cdifficulty of making
I ,roposals that it may have the mortification to
•ee rejected.
Some undertake to say that Om , will be
arranged between Napoleon and the King of
Sardinia with respect,,to Italy that will render
oeace impossible for years to come; others;
that Napoleon is tired of, the expenses of the
war, and really desires peace. Meanwhile,
continued preparations, on the largest scale,
go forward for the spring campaign
Private letters from St. Petersburg indicate
no pressure fur peace, The St. Petersburg,.
Northern Bee hits an editorial headed •The
war is only beginning.' and declares that Rus
sia has ample resources to continue the war
6.r years. The London Times has a reply to
the lice, asserting that this boasting merely
betrays weakness.
The Times' correspondent writes from the
camp before Sebastopol, November, 24, saying
here is really nothing to write about, as no -
thing really has occurred. Very little firing is
exchanged between the North and South sides.
The Russian works on the North side of Se
bastopol were rapidly assuming gigantic di.
mensions. Preparations for destroying the
docks are nearly completed.
The bulk of the Russian nrmy has returned
to its former position. The French have been
reinforced by the arrival of 12,000 troops.—
Tle English and Sardinians have also been re
intorced Considerable, additions continued
at the same time to be made to the RußsOn
forces.
The Russians continue to threaten Kertch,
which has been largely reinforced.
A despatch front the Baltic, dated the 6th,
states that the united squadron, under Ad
miral Dundee, was then passing the Belt, home
ward.
A Russian Grand Council of War is to be
held at St. Petersburg, to settle a plan for the
defence of the coast from the Gulf of Bo
thynia to the southern extremity of Valltynia,
iu Asia.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that the
Russians have taken Kars.
DEATH AND VANITY.-The St Louis Herald
of Wednesday says:—.S.ome of our fashionable
ladies, owing to an excess of vanity, in order
to give tone and permanency to their com
plexion, or,. as they say, 'to improve their
complexion,' are in the habit of taking arsenic
in small doses. Within the past week two
ladies,of this city, members of wealthy fami
lies, and ladies of fashion, have died very
suddenly. Their nearest friends and relatives
say that they were 'arsenic eaters;' but in
order to guard against scandal, the real cause
of their death has not been made public.—
However, those same persons do not hesitate
to say privately that an over dose of arsenic
was the real cause of their death.
BIBLE BURNING.-A great excitement was
recently produced in Kingston, Ireland, by a
most revolting and atrocious scene enacted by
the 'Redemptorist Fathers,' a body of live or
six Roman Cattlelid clergymen, who it seems,
niter celebratieg mass and preaching in the
chapel of that place, brought their mission to
a conclusion by presiding it the burning,
'within a.few feet of the publio thoroughfare,
of a large pile of Bibles, &0., which they had
ordered their audiences to collect'for the-pur
pose. The pile consisted principally of Bibles,
but not exclusively—the orders of the Re
demptorists having been for the collection of
bad books generally, and the Bible, hi their
estimation, the worst of books for the peo
ple to readl
EMIQIZATION SOUTHWARD.- —A large -party of
aersons are about to remove from Boston to
leorgia; where they have purchased a fine
rut of land which inoludes a good water
. .ower, ready for immediate !Me. They pro
iose to build a manufacturing town, which
hall soon become a City; and carrying with
;tom, as they will, New England energy, in
°unity and aptitude for thrift, they can
ardlyfall short of full'suecess. They propose,
,'i take out quite a number of now and prac.tt
' working maohines,•snil , ut once establish
and trade ai well as agriculture.
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