Alton Weekly Courier (Newspaper) - January 29, 1857, Alton, Illinois THURSDAY JANUARY BY GEORGE go I OO insertion Two without alteration One without J Two without alteration alteration OO Six without handed in by 4 THE Clubs of in advance OO TERMS to the getter up of tbe Oni 12 lines or first 00 Each subsequent 2 00 One 3 oo Two 4 Three fi oo Six Business 1 1 THURSDAY JANUARY Wednesday to for and to 50 per additional on Dally A literal tuc above will be made to regular Adver AT ALTON BANK will give prompt at to all business confided larly lie will also attend to the prosecution of claims the MEI i Jw ATTORNEY OS nearly opposite the tenon sliTH AT and Commissioner lor the State of Missouri for taking Office on J AT And Solicitor I at to all business entrusted to their BOWMANS Store Third Office from 111 to services to the citizens of and its at lib drug have Uken au office on Third over directly oppo Alton Vr lit corner ot Seventh joining in Mitchell s new on Mill AT MEI Metcalfs Bookstore on Third street Alton AND COMMISSION Alton 111 particular attention to tbe of goods wade on goods to be Bold at N B will go into the country and attend to of personal or pro v or real d perly AND See on Belle opposite the janl dly IN STAPLE FANCY GROCE wholesale and retell corner State WHOLESALE RETAIL BALERS IN and dry and ready made clothing corner State nud Third a I TON JOT ABIltK J E IN MARBLE hydraulic plaster plaster ing marble white whole sale and State sal Ho 33 60 Commercial A HAVENS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL in and nia looking table cut Third Alton 111 ware tin wire block sheet Sec ond door west of Al PAIN COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MER Office and warehouse Office the Packet and general AT HIS OLD ON THB northwest corner of Market Second coon manufacturer and funeral under and on t pal done at the molt reasonable terms oil and furnishing goodj Third in choice wines and forwarding and commission EALER IN LIME AND AND COM and forwarding street and TY for tbe Western District of third STATE HOSPITAL FOB THE We have received from the ANDREW the Fifth Report of tlie Board of of c Illinois State Hospital for the ic Trustees state that there is an urgent cither for some further the Insane of tho State or of modification of the existing law by hich patients are received and kept in the The present building is not capacious for the accommodation ith safety and comfort of more than a max mm of two and at a meeting held March the Trustees resolved upon a discharge of such patients as are incurable but Fifty ave thus heen discharged during the year The following is a statement of the num cr of the inmates of the Institution since o last as shown by the report of the ANDREW umber of patients in since Making whole number under bv order of Jo it 21 under 214 of patients under treatment has 1C average has From the accompanying report of the we obtain the following summary the financial condition of the Institution mount tho State Treasury for two 00 f this there was to liquidate the of the clue after making tbe paid the expenses of In Legislative ii 210 200 on the to incorporate the Chi cago and Louis Railroad in thh Springfield Journal of the 20th from Select re ported a for an act to incorporate the Chicago and Com Culloin moved to suspend the rules that this be read a third time with a view to its thought it was not the time to discuss the until He thought ILLINOIS TUESDAY January Arnold introduced tho following re which was adopted That the requested to con fer with the State with reference to the Geological Survey of tho and enquire of him his reason for not making a Report to this General Assembly tho subject committed to his information to this Body which he upon this offered the f resolu Burke tlie after the rules were the objections and amendment raised by the from Clinton Sparks were wholly and stated that the road j was adopted had been under the title of the and Mississippi Railroad for a con Representatives of the State of length of the company had been to considerable some thousands of dollars in getting up this and the and that if this meas ure did not nil that would be a loss to the He hoped the motion to suspend the rules would The merits of tho were argued at some by and all in favor of suspending the Sparks said he hoped that the motion now pending to suspend the rules of the House with a view of taking up this would not from the fact that parties interested in this had left the city with for au Act to incorporate tho Chicago and Louis which passed on the 12th under a misapprehension of the f Vanderen introduced the following which was adopted the Public Printer be requested to at an early for the use of the fifty copies of the Report of the Mate Su of Public small number is merely for the sake of getting the Report before the when probably not less than will bo ordered from the The for an Act to incorporate tho i mi i i n mtn Southern Illinois Railroad was in this lull had left the city w itn The proposed road is of returning and defending those H in nnd have not yet and as I IT he had been charged by gentlemen A fc t ko W the State Greg Whiting was excused from up on his r Wyche explained his by saying that he had at first meant to vote for the printing twenty and hadso stated in his speech on first day of the Sineo then his political friends had determined to make a party voto of and in had determined on for only ten thousand He had gone into that of compelled by its decision and to vote his but he now warns his political friends that he will not caucused or driven into votin contrary to his own sense of right and I leave your readers to mako their own comments on the policy of any party that will resort to such means to accomplish its The voto was then taken on Logans motion to print ten thousand Ri 0 interest in this he would say that he J taken and on motion of was uu had no object personal to himself to be Gnl io to a committee of the attained in the objections that lie Md g d the special order of n the Ot i Wil He was not a citizen of the city of never had been he had no property in that and no interests there to induce him to take upon himself the defence other than that that ho conceived should prompt any to defend the right and op iic wron wherever and whenever they the dav for tomorrow at two Cook introduced a for an Act al lowing married women to hold real in their own in certain without Davis of Davis of The House for to authorize An was made to ad The veteran Senator from broad of our a fertile region of and affording to that region the means for the transportation of its productions to and what has been the result all their efforts in the accomplishments of that an over grown railroad company have now got con trol of it and turned the down to leaving Alton with a switch of ahout three miles connecting with Hut that company have had the generosity to let Alton retain its name in the This proposes to deprive it of its name and its existence in the And what has Alton done to prompt this of Alti the me m this road had its birth in the city ul when it was first chartered and built as the Alton and Sangamon Eail Who avc the money and and the e asked from San mon Culloin who exhibits so much lie eaving as the coit of tlie Institution lo the State for two Dividing this sum among the average of patients in the hospital for tho mo which has been about leaves 10 cost of each per This ascertained to be less than the cost of any similar institution in the wih but a single exception at the and two or three at the where much of the domestic service is performed j slave This leaves nothing to be in the way of economical manage The report of the Superintendent is and He has prepared a table bowing the number of admissions from aeh county since December The umber admitted from Madison county is from 15 from Jersey 9 rom 11 from 20 from Kino patients have been cnt to this institution from tkc State of one from and eight from The highest admitted any one county is Cook Several Southern counties have cnt ono The causes of insanity arc is follows 111 Hereditary Domestic Vicious Religious Menstrual o Disappointed Domestic i Business Excessive Structural disease of o Hard n pressing this through the his people contribute his money Mr eeling in did Not much he Bu 10 well knows that the city of Alton ity as a and af ter The Speaker announced Kuyken and Goudy as mem on behalf of the of the Joint Committee to district the A resolution requiring the Secretary of State to furnish the members and officers of the Senate with the same kind of gold pencils and as have been furnish ed the members nnd officers of the was introduced by nnd Somethin of a discussion arose upon a made by to raise a Standing committee on said that the project of building a new now pending before the Legis together with other matters connect ed with the old were such as to require the attention of a distinct Parks and OKean said they did not think this committee was needed all its proposed duties can be discharged by the committee on State OF from Iowa City the tion Senator from that to fill the vacancy caused by the party conspiracy the in the United States to oust him from that They have gained nothing by their trick this to d technical that may trouble them in tho fu and to pay Senator for a trip and give him the assurance that ore stronger in Iowa today ian ever The vote stood 63 for against 35 for his Nebraska op Tho Washington correspondent of the supposed to bo Judge says Xo can the Press with indiscriminate and libelous without some time or to repent lis We have no doubt ho is correct in this as sertion The Judge has been on stool of repentance ever since he heard from the eople on the subject of repealing tho Mis louri Arnold explained his vote by saying that he regarded the refusal of the House to print the usual number of as an insult to his and to the peo ple of the State of who have placed him in his present and ho is now opposed to printing any at explained by saying that ho regarded the Message as an incendiary doc containing principles wrong in their very and that he is opposed to print in and circulating it at His had determined to vote for print in and ho will vote with his party under any and all Denio then moved to order the print in of copies in which was agreed to by a voto of 06 to Those votin in the negative were This great question the House re solved itself into Committee of the and took into consideration the for an Act to amend the general banking aw of The debate on this important was learned and and occupied the re mainder of the Pending the the committee reported and obtained leave to sit again on Frida A THOROUGH SOUTHERN Richmond paper relates that JOHN has been altering in the passes of and then taking them to prison to be in order to make the Mayor think he was extraordinary vigilant in the dis charge of his by showing a larger number of arrests than any other t is thought that ho will be indicted for of perjury and for as well as malfeasance in lie is evidently a get and a useful man to the poor white trash in a proper state of The authorities will let him y afternoon House of those philosophers wh is nothing in it an ether over towards building this together with other sub to has raised its taxes to an enormous morp than anv other city in the But still it has kept steadily on with a determination to succeed that reflects credit upon its But it is argued by the gentleman from Cook Arnold that Alton is willing to be He to be one ho thinks that there nd savs that Chicago JD T dont care about her name being known in the if it cant afford its present and if one name is to bo stricken let it be The citi zens of Mton think there is something in a and desire if any name of the three is to be stricken it shall be one of the Chicago or St that have con nothing toward building but de sire that the one that has done all toward it should live in its and not be treated with what they conceive to be a gross The gentleman from Clair Ro man who is from the city of a rival of Alton seems to be sensitive be cause he should undertake to speak for and that this has come through the in which body Madison county has a He was aware of that but was also aware that that Senator has been absent from his seat more than a week and here charged that the movers of this have taken ad of that absence to pass it through being this 3 Abuse of Defective Domestic Loss of Disappointment from Metastasis of J Anxiety for sick Excessive use of 1 Old J Home Mechanical f Sudden accession of 1 The superintendent argues that many cases are erroneously charged to from the fact that most in times of fore those that are absent can return and defend their Tis by that Alton takes no interest in t and that Madison county has Represent here who do not feel called upon to oppose this He would ask those gen tlemen whether or not feel called to oppose this Mason and Ricks answered ai The answer of those gentlemen relieves the necessity c But tis said n of this some of the in ton all of them that are here from and amon whom he would mention Robert Smith and who have mani a feeling that these gentlemen sel on any so much do they feel the injury and indignity that is pro posed in this But whv do gentlemen the amendment that would quiet this discus sion Simply to insert so that the road will retain its present the argument in answer is that the for twentyfive There is no danger but that both these Committees will plenty to if they will only do thought it would be to the on State tions to at this stage of the a new Standing Committee to assume a part of its Mr he most certainly meant no disrespect to the Committee on State could be further from his His only object in makin the motion was to facilitate tlie business of legislation and the only ques tion really at issue is whether two commit tees can perform these duties better and quicker than Bryan spoke briefly in opposition to the n The aves and noes being called tlie vote stood 14 G The motion n The Senate then resolved itself into com of tho and continued the con sideration of the for on act to perfect the laws of Kuykendall in the The discussion occupied several Goudy and for tho and Post and son against The discussion was an able and manifested a respectable degree of talent and ability in the mem bers who addressed the On motion of the Com reported leave to Bit L Mr asked and obtained leave to take up Senate for an aet to incorporate Chicago Louis Railroad and which had been amended by the House by the name to Alton The amendment was unanimously concurred Senate TUESDAY A large amount of unimportant work of a nature was Dyckes offered the following By the House of the That copies of the of the THE OF Long years the misty vale Of ere fair Creation first sprang forth From that dark Queen of drawn from ages infinite around With iron enthralling all in bonds Of utter when the Bright heralds of tho newborn day did And their silvery voices in notes Of praise to the Eternal one When all in heaven and all on earth Was trembling iu the new ecstatic Of sinless life there mid the green And fragrant boughs of Edens cooling Abird of brightest plumage sprang to that spake of unbending And eye of yet unflinching fire His Frond bird of Liberty Would that thine eye had never cause to grow Less bright j thy wing had never cause to take Us flight from and seek a home in vnin 1 Alas the evil hour drew on apace And noblest imagery of By and bitter Envy Struck down the brother whom had blessed And gave the thirsty earth his blood to The of pure and lofty shrank back That wip From off his blackened With saddened ey away from grounds that such vile deeds Sould and with spreading Her home in other long she hut found not yet a sure Abiding place the earth rs full of And and crime lio place she found To resther drooping wear At heard The battle of And those who long had cringed the heel Of arise in giant To call themselves bright sons of Now can sherest Her wings with proud complacent now can scream in Thrice worthy to be called her own light of argument on that opposition is heard outside lie could say that some of the most prominent citizens Al FRIDAY JANUARY We find the following report of tho dis THE ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY January Shallenberger introduced a remon against the improvement of the Illi lois as chairman of the Com on introduced a for an Act to amend the Practice Read twice and referred to Judiciary Wilson moved the adoption of the resolution That the two Pages of this House be ch furnished with a gold pen and and Congress of the same kind as those fur to the members and Kelsey and simul moved to amend by including Reporters in the The although accepted by the was laid on the on n motion made by Boal moved to amend by including the Preston to lay the whole matter m the which prevailed by a small ma Arnold submitted the following reso which was adopted That five hundred copies of the Re ports of the Trustees of the Illinois and Michi TUI for the hist two be hree for tho use of the and two hundred for the Canal Stipp moved the following That the Secretary of State furnish tho In an article on the condition of the banks in we alluded to the fact that a proportion of tho stocks on deposit with the Auditor were those of the total amount of that State being We stated that some sion had been expressed in regard to these on account of tho very large amount which has been thrown market for various recent of the of wo ob erve that the credit of that State has been in this manner to the amount of in addition the State has au the issue of the following in with the conditions imposed in the several acts of the General Assembly relating thereto For the Pacific main For the Pacific branch For the Hannibal and St Joseph For the North Missouri For the Louis and Iron For tho Cairo and Fulton Total When the whole is it will make a total of some a debt which for tho State of Missouri is almost appalling to think has a sad experience of the effects of their pledging its credit for purposes of internal improvements yet her Si feel some distrust for the During last it is Missouri bonds have held their own in the hut if issue is to be thus extravagantly in there cannot to bo an in their Springfield Pages of this liouse and n gold pen arid si nth a go silver ho ood or STATES Boston Advertiser in cementing upon the election of mentions the fol lowing significant illustrative of the progress of Free Soil opinions in this State It impossible to refrain from com paring the election of yesterday with Simmers previous the six vears Now he receives nearly all the on the first taken on the third day of the every member aloud his Then no received only the exact number necessary for a one more than half the wholo num the election was not effected until the taken on the 14th day of l and the votes Then he was The resolution was adopted ayes noes Wickizer submitted the following That the of State be requi red to furnish each of the members of this House with a copy of Freemans and Sixteenth Ayes 18 noes of introduced the which was laid on the table by a vote of 45 to 12 That the committee on Finance be in to report n Act to require col ectors of taxes to in payment tor the notes of all Illinois Stock Secured and that the State Treasurer he required to receive the lame from the Blades introduced the following reso which was laid on tho table by a vote of 44 to the Secretary of State be instruct ed to furnish each member of this House with a copy of Freemans Ingersoll introduced a for an Act to provide for erecting a tombstone to the memory of Albert and appropriating five hundred dollars there Head twice and referred to Judiciary Adjourned until two A for an Act for the relief of the Illinois Institution for the Deaf and was read a third time and A large number of House bills were read a third time and which occupied the greater part of the as the most ef them had to ie read in They were all for laws of a private or local in enough to those but would not be to your About half bushel of Senate near as I could guess at the read twice by their titles and referred to appropriate or to be engrossed for a third Of such of these as are of interest to your 1 have already given yon an on their introduction in the Senate you shall hear from each of them again when they come up on their third reading in the The House has already done a large amount of bat business is The pockets of the com arc full of and a large lot of new ones are referred to them every Members say they have a great many bills behind which they complain they cannot et opportunities to introduce fast Speaker Holmes urges busi ness forward as fast as he possibly can ho exerts himself to the utmost to put through the work with all possible dispatch as it will be almost SATURDAY the committee appointed by joint resolution of the Legislature to visit tho State Prison at this arrived in and took rooms at the Franklin The committee consists of Messrs and of the and and of the They made a thorough examination of tho rison during the accompanied by one of the Inspectors and the They return to this i NEW AT propose to start a new daily and weekly paper at to be denominated the Illinois Slate The prominent idea set forth inthe prospectus is to make it a poli tical and to make the success of the Republican party the great As a party paper it appeals for the the friends of free throughout the A We observe considerable deaire is by tbe throughout the for the passage of a law requiring general registry of all the legal voters as a qualification for tho exercise of the elective It is a matter which may and should claim the consideration of men of all us a much needed An argument in its and a very strong one is found in the numerous bandied by political at every closely contested and too often with too much of frauds in the ballot Let every State pass a law requiring all voters to go before the board of judges of elections and after proving themselves entitled to have their names recorded in the poll lists within a definite time previous to tho day of Let the claims of men to vote be definitely set tled previous to the excitement attend ant at every opening of the and we at once put down but the nu merous and destructive riots that disgrace the country at every recurring This its prevails in several of the eastern States at the present and is attended with the most complete in preventing It is now advocated with zeal by leading poli and not as aparty measure but a measure of the We make a few extracts from the corres of the Missouri in reference to Kansas Under date of January the OBSERV ER writes i who in which organized in Prayer waa offered by the and after thoroughly OT to meet at three The House failed to elect a Speaker in the but succeeded in electing of at too late an hour for the During the afternoon aes the only thin of importance was in relation to A resolution was offered by from to admit reporters inside of the that the the April I thrown in in the candidate of a party which threw votes in the at the proceeding po or about the fifth of the 1 the whole Now he is the candi i date of n party which threw votes in the State jt popular or of this whole Then he was chosen to a body where he could expect to find but two or three asso with his ty which has a m e of a quarter of the members even of the Senate of the United nosit Their eye with brighter Ore and crown their brow CAMERONS ELECTION TO THE With neverfading Washington correspondent of tho writing says are impossible for members to what is before them within the Constitutional length of the As is always the of this legislation is of a purely local and a large part of it is for charters that will never be of any use to any When any public measure of any impor tance docs come there are so many orators who feel impelled to dis a great deal of time is occupied in making speeches which no one wants to and no one docs hear ex cept the A number of petitions and remonstrances were presented and referred to appropriate They nearly all referred to private and local A lanre part of the forenoon was taken up by a debate on the for an Act to incor the Chicago and Railroad in which Post and Henderson took The discus sion would have no interest f the matter at issue is simply Another discussion arose upon a fo an Act to indemnify John Deck for services rendered to the State in bringing back a f u from about fifteen years to find WcO irum by Governor and who no compensation for that cultural Socii ted under accompanying papers the direction ot tho Society two hundred or those copia be for the f the Legislature twentyfive copies for the ASD the of tut have teen re We presume that this fact far MER lisTies one reason among many might c urged for the recommendation of the in behalf of this unfortunate lass of our fellow We cannot ketch or condense further from the COMMISSION AND DING in foreign Short street and iB on Hit bv them Mr inquired if the resolution eon the printing of a large such as the one recently laid upon the table of he If so they cost the State at least ono dollar a and could not be finished before the adjournment of the and of course could be of no resolution was gentle an from Franklin voting against Jones introduced the following re solution That our Senators in Cougrea be in would disarrange those and be at tended with costs to this Then he in anticipation that the leg of the State of Illinois would do as it was had the audacity to make so bold a movement He charged that it was in New by Wall street that this these were gotten they and we are ordered to put this just as it is no addition of a no crossing of a or dotting of an though an city has built a road that these through means foul or Proud domes finch as earth tho attending circumstances has en appeared that the recommendatory letters which Buchanan wrote did not express any positive preference for For ney over his but showed a friendly 1 friendly the Republican has Simon me Senator just elected in been in the Senate He was formerly a and in 1845 was elected to serve out tho unexpired term of James who resigned to become President Secretary of served till when ho was succeeded by James a present less Tho inhabitants of de pended from the mutineers of the ship have been removed to Norfolk it should be checked on account of their numbers having the rules would not be suspended outgrown the capacity of their old They numbered 199 whom 97 aro and 102 Some 2000 450 head of and 20 and provisions for twelve were left it Norfolk Island for their Singapore Times says A man has been broughtto confess having killed and is to be executed forth so that all pretext on the part of the United States Consul to longer withhold payment of export duties having been taken ire ehall now hare an opportunity of manner in which back duties are paid SUPPER AT BUNKER The ladies of the E Church at Bun contemplate giving a grand Supper at that place on tho evening February the proceeds of which will be applied to canceling i debt on the Church m All interested in this good and who are willing to aid are to We can assure W that a supper prepared by the ladies of is one of most attractive and successful donees wo have ever known to provoke tha human family to good of Congress the pnc public lands in certain The resolution elicited a lengthy nnd was finally laid upon the and the subject indefinitely A resolution was granting the UBO of the on Monday evening the 6th for the annual meeting of the Illinois State Colonization The twentyfive dollar gold pens were distributed to the members and after which tho House adjourned until two When 2 oclock the House was called to and it was found was not a single Democratic member m tho So quorum being of course no business could be The Doorkeep er was sent out after the and finally found them assembled jn grave and caucus in the Library where they had got together to decide how they should volS on the AU the members being in seats except Mr who is the yote was taken on the motion made by Mr Boal to print twenty thousand copies of the Governors Inaugural The motion was by tne vote J Davi of of Had never known springs np beneath grossed the attention of all parties The beaming lustre of her Ah soon from tho proudly reared her letters fr Shes trampled in the Upon her hills and direst Tyranny her alters to the very Grieved to the very with bleeding wing And weary eye showings her lonely flight not where hut seeking still some spot Where she may find secure a resting A people she may call her Alas Tho bird of and with rich blessings She found no welcome till far across The great Atlantic bends her flight To where Columbias and noble sons Are pouring out their free and To win of sweet Tis gained at last with proud exultant scream She takes her place upon the loftiest And sole Empress of the western For many years our laud has basked beneath The radiance of The crown She such as wore Till Her hut And black distrust nnd hateful wish for Bums like an eating canker in their The bird of now sits sad With tolone and low drooping Has pierced her to Yet she sits half and wing Half to take her weary flight Forever from our Stay oh stay thy sons return And harmony shall reign The chain them and Rich ardson objected to any lying scribblers for free state eyed towards the INew York correspondent who sat with my perched on a stick of wood in the He said that a man present who correspond ed with the ami stated before the Investigating Committee in when asked by iC he had the of all the women ravished in the southern part of the that Ufi bat wonld have be oro and that the correspondent had be ied erery man in the Rees was in favor of admitting all and would ad mit old Horace Greeley just to see what i dirty dog he ii After some dia I he resolution was but yon need for any for says he will pitch every state reporter out the window manufacture the charge Phil lips out he can prove by was intended ad n thrust against the The probabilities are that we will be excluded from the Legislature and that a melee will be gotten up is not improb Under same date ho January and Order culled by the Squatter appointed a full At 7 hall com to and Coffee was appointed tem anil speaking I want it particularly under stood that is a We are going to mako this but honorable men can d none but men have a right Immense iho Free State Aboli and black hare no right in this After speaking in a few the Doctor sat down ening we come here law and which we have fought and in the battle field Cried of law and order Lawand order Law and A committee of ono delegate from each county was appointed to elect permanent officers for the and then adjourned to meet tomorrow at ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE THURSDAY January To tht Editor of the Alton Courier Willard introduced sundry together with n for an Act to rate the Louis and Terre Haute Railroad Rend twice and This is the same route formerly known as the B rough from Judiciary pe ported back a for an Airing Jus tices of the Peace jurisdiction in cases of and recommended that its enacting clause be stricken which was from Committee on Banks and to whom were referred sundry praying for the repeal of the Bishop Hill Reported from a Select re ported back a organizing the Judicial accompanied by a and recommended its Report concurred t The new Circuit will be made by dividing the Third in the southeast part of the Morrison introduced a for an Act to make the office of Master in Read twice and on introduced the fol resolution That the Committee on Banks and In be allowed to employ a The Speaker announced the Standing Committee on State Institutions at Jacksonville Mason introduced a for an to amend the charter of the Alton and Wood burn Plunk Road Read twice and Blades introduced a for an to establish the Judicial composed of and Liv Read twice and Shallenberger introduced a for an to provide for the distribution of the School and information in regard to Common introduced a for an act nnd Pana Rail road Rend and Gilbert introduced a an ac to amend the charter of the Rock Island and Alton Railroad Read twice and Trail introduced a for an act to regulate the fishing ajd fish trade of the Il linois Read twice and referred to a Select Huitt introduced a for an act to amend the so as to release Greene county from the prohibition con in said The rule was the read three and of introduced a for an ace to amend the Fees and Sala ries so as to pay the States Attorney in the Springfield Circuit one thousand dol lars a and in all other Circuits eight hundred On motion of the was laid upon the Willard asked leave to introduce the following resolution j That when the it ad Tuesday Leave was refused The House to take up the order of the House Bills on their third Those in which the readers of the Courier will probably feel an were disposed of as follows for an Act to amend the General Bankin so as to make County and City Bonds the basis for Laid on the To incorporate the and Bloomington Railroad To amend interest BO as to make any rate of interest agreed upon between the Boal introduced a joint authorizing the Speaker of the HoOse to pro cure Committee for the use of the Standing Committee of both Several attempts were made to adjourn over until Monday or but without Adjourned until tomorrow The forenoon session of the Senate was occupied in private and local legislation al most in which your readers have no A for an act to Justices of the Peace jurisdiction in coses of the value of the property claimed does not one hundred dollars was read a third time and The afternoon session of the Senate was entirely occupied by the in Com of the the for an act to perfect the laws of Kuykendall m the wood and Carlin advocated the passage of the It was rejected ayes The vote was then Look hoped tho would for the reason at the time the service was there was no State contingent not enough to pay the States was referred to the Finance Mr Jndd introduced a resolution instruct the Judiciary Committee to report a for an act to protect the General Assembly in tha discharge of their which was CANE FOR SENATOR Chica go Tribune says that of who passed through that city for the East on Friday bore with him a beautiful cane from Major one of the Free State for The cane was wrought with the Majors own during his imprisonment at device is peculiarly appropriate and tho whole heing carved from a solid piece o E wood and high T polished upon it are thirtyone artificial fifteen of which are within the coils of a representing the fifteen States and sixteen without its rep resenting the sixteen Free and as the still reaching after more States around which to coil the Liberty grasps him around the neck and far hast thou ut no canst thou go thus forming head of the Shall crumble in tie dust and call this lovely land thine HOPE Prof Amherst College to Journal of Commerce that he has just opened a large collection from old and among its good things is a seven feet leaning on his sword and offering A gen of Amherst has agreed to a Ninevah Gallery next large enough to hole all our as far as we as they were upon the walls of the old Gentility is neither in man ner nor in the A high sense of determination Tiever to take s mean advantage oE another and an adherence to delicacy and towards those dealings are its essential T W Xi to tempts to enforce order and Only last session an officer of the Senate was ar rested and tried before a magistrate for ejecting one of these bad At the present the municipal authorities tavo been applied but have refused to Senate adjourned over tomorrow the discussion of Under woods for an act to perfect the laws of Illinois will bo perhaps con cluded tomorrow It is regarded cue om bv many as the most important measure be T as man warm Tho discharge of defendants in these Courts for the lost twelve amounts to Tho Grand found 980 and dismissed 105 There wero sen to the State Prison 203 10 fe males time of sentence Of the total sent to State City Prison and House of 1574 were and 229 The Coroners held and persons convicted of DEATHBED Ah said a voice from the Marseilles quilt and frilled pillow I shall die before feat ami limbs are get ting cold aud nerveless shall be dead bj Dont trouble about re plied Augustus with great please yourself 1 been an excellent wife to Augustus continued the beloved and dy Middling responded KANSAS January To the Editor of the Mton Courier The Bogus Legislature met at Lecompton on There was a large attendance from all parts of the also from There was no business transact ed the first day only the organization of the was elected and Clerk of the Captain Robertson was unanimous 1 account of le of Hickory Quite a difference between his treatment and that of the Free State men who were engaged m the same He is elected to a profitable the others are convicts and in The by declared that the old officers who had served at Shawnee should be declared The Thomas Johason is President he opened the session by The first dav there was no important busi ness before the could not be received until the House was organi ly elected his being wounded at the has many warm Deer are abundant in Charles New and the lower part of Henrico Vai and are being to some extent with the aid of dogs The Richmond says that in Penn and the mountain regions of Vir they are hunted without hunters falling dogs that are found on because they drive away the ng Middling Susan think it will get Persons are said to bo almost daily arriv ng at the Lead mines in Newton At the principi game T An old sailor passing through a grave saw on one of the tomb I It much for Jack Shifting his he Ive heard say that there are cases a man may he but dead Fd mm THK SICK hu been made to the statement that such att enjoys bad The fault lies there are three furnaces in op and two more nearly The population at this point is some and and some of them men of BRIGADIER of Sunn a brevet Brigadier General for gallant service in the Mexican war was confirmed by the Senate on Tues as Brigadier to fill created two years ago by when some additional regiments were added to the not in the class of but in its men who live in the con slant enjoyment of bad they are bnt the We learm by the La Salle Press that tho work of enlargement of the Steamboat Ba sin in that city has to be com by by the 1st of May HARROW has the the tearless and appreciating Congress is trying to get rid of the depre sixpences and and in common with the rest of the we hope the effort will prove With one of the most convenient fractional divisions of coins in the we have a mean and troublesome currency for the small tions of which cannot without entailing loss upon It is time that trade was relieved of the and the pretty and convenient American coins substituted for the old Spanish Ax INDIAN REPUBLIC OR five Dakota living at some forty miles above Fort on the Peters have renounced their tribal donned civilized and formed themselves into a sort of with a written They are intelligent and and have wheat and com to At the Red Wood Agency there is a simi lar with some ten or twelve families uniting in Quite a and interesting discussion took place in the Council caused by an effort made by Richardson to prevent of the New Tii from getting a scat as reporter within the A resolution was offered by to admit to which Richardson as he said he saw Phillips in the Recs wus in favor of the resolution they coud not stop their writing they would and by we were in them a chance to say that they wished the proceedings to ho kept secret he wus in favor of admitting even if once the Bogus would see what he After some the resolution was so that the was to provide a table for reporters without de who should be Easton declared ho was in favor of admitting any no matter how he differed with Resolutions of mourning and respect for member Barbec was formerly from oclock in the evening the ProSla very Convention There was much interest and enthusiasm and a very large Stringfellow introduced the following re solutions This is a and whereas there is a motion before the The omnibus drivers of it is charge for ladies wearing tion fore to hava a Committee on Credentials there er That no man who is not a good Pro Slavery man should be admitted to a scat in this Prosecuting Attorney for was elected President of tho Con It is ultra and determinedly Prc They have done nothing of im portance but hold secret The Governors Message was read m both Houses It is giving great ICE citizens of Xew York and Brooklyn crossed tho East river on the A safe bridge had been The cities on the Ohio river were suffer in great distress for want of the low winter closed in them without their annual Public meetings are held in Cincinnati to devise means of Douglas is at work on a striking at the peculiar institution of said to be the result of his new home
