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Fort Wayne Weekly Republican (Newspaper) - February 2, 1859, Fort Wayne, Indiana Mem Zsirai v Fexer p. Bailet kid Toni. Ano so Petok. B Oifer a a traits iwo in essay morning feb. 2,1859. C. H. Scriven commercial agent Chiego Iii., is authorised to receive sub Tio scrip and advertisements for the fort Wayne Republican at our published rates. The Bauk of the state. Of debate or from other a mtg no itt is Lead to Sadr what ought not to have been said must Onoe mak�fa0 Amei ids ble and in doing to appear the More the gentleman and on the Mother hand he. Who knowing or insults another without making Airenda for it is not a gentleman and on that very acct the is unworthy of notice and be who descends to notice him further Tiu in to rebuke him Pulis himself Down to his level a who favors the poor Man the present Bank of the state seems to have inherited from the Day of its birth an opposition which for intensity and bitterness it has not Follen to the lot of any similar institution in the country certainly not in the state to resist. Much of this has undoubtedly Arisen from causes connected with the obtaining of the charter and the distribution of the Stock into the hands of original holders. Gov. Wright vetoed the Bill As a first step in opposition. The legislature passed the Dill authorising its establishment Over the veto. At the meeting of the next legislature he denounced it in his message and a committee was appointed to investigate the foundation of his complaint who published an elaborate report on the sub to after the legislature had adjourned which Gaye a full history of All the Means resorted to by which the charter was obtained and which shows some of the parties interested in not a very enviable Light this did not disturb the Confidence reposed in the institution by the people. The Bank having in the mean time got under la the same legislature which authorized this investigation a Resolution was introduced and referred to the judiciary committee looking to a repeal of its charter but the committee reported against it. Gov. Wright then instituted proceedings in court in the nature of a writ of quo warranty inquiring into the authority by which the institution exercised the Powers of a Bank hoping to get a decision against it but the court held that the Bank was legally chartered and held its franchises by constitutional right. The Case was appealed to the supreme court and that has lately confirmed the judgment of the court below. One would think that opposition had now Boen carried far enough to meet the ends of Justice and to gratify party or personal dislike but it seems not for we notice that but a few Days ago a Bill was introduced into the Senate of the state by or. Conley for repealing the charter of the Bank which was referred to a committee composed of messes. Conley March Weir Wagner and Hefren. What is to be the result of this movement we do not know but we regret to learn that Republican members of the legislature Are advocating voting for and sustaining this latter movement which if successful is fraught with ruinous Conse quinces to the Best interests of the state. Why republicans should want to share in a warfare which had its beginning chiefly with the democracy we Are at a loss to conceive. That party claims to have been mainly instrumental in passing the Bill by which the Bank was chartered. The fight about it has Ever since been principally confined to members of that party and Why not let them have the credit of fighting it out to an end that will be anything but creditable to the state should the Bank be crushed in the struggle. It should not be forgotten that the Bank is not now in the hands of those who organized it. Its controlling Man ement has passed into the hands of the substantial and conservative men of the state men of capital and business capacity the same men indeed who so successfully managed the old Bank of the state and from whom the school fund realized the Large sum of $2,-700,000 As the state s share of its Twenty years earnings. There is no Bank in the West or in the East that has a better credit to Day or is More deservedly popular than the present Bank of the state and All because of the efficiency of its management. It matters not with the Community what were its begin rings a the question with the people is Quot is it now what the wants of the Community require it unquestionably is now meeting the great wants of the state in furnishing a Safe circulating medium and a War upon that 6ank now is a War on one of the useful institutions of the state and in effect it is a War upon the Best business men of the Sute who Are its really Hope that republicans will keep their hands off it it the democrats do All that kind of fighting and shoulder All that kind of responsibility. The Douglas and Fitch correspondence which we publish to Day like Many other of that class of blustering exhibitions ended in a real Back Down on the part of Douglas. It would have been much better never to have written a note demanding an explanation thai fur it was conditionally made and withdrawn to be obliged to profess to be satisfied with it or resort to the extremes requited by what is Felly called Quot the code of Hor or. Douglas appears in this controversy to about As much advantage As did or. Breckenridge now vice president of the u. S. In Bis dueling correspondence some since in Washington with or. Cutting a member of Congress from new in this Case when or. Breckenridge found he could not bluster or. Cutting off from bit font Miniand Itiat he must in act choose be few fighting or being satisfied he profess Iti Denly to have disco Reed after Iwrey ral Teiry threatening notes had passed to it tween them suf Lucient. Topology among ill Teiry first notes Liat cutting m so a. These Doe Lii a Chi Kitiona Are a Diing to Tom Portie Soo red Tow a t tiie a wet in we opt chief sit Ai Bemben. It would be to Ete Dii of ism Law Man m it we to a Bill recently introduced into the House of representatives in relation to surveying Public lands and providing for their settlement or. Grow of Pennsylvania offered the following amendment be it further enacted that from and Afler the passage of Thi act no Public land shall be exposed to Sale by proclamation of the president unless the same shall have been surveyed and the return of such Survey duly filed in the land office for ten years or More before such Sale. The effect of this amendment if adopted and the Bill had become a Law would have been to let the poor Man who settles in the far West have ten years in which to buy the lands and to make the Money therefor out of the very soil itself upon which he May have squatted. Under so Liberal and Wise a provision As this had it become a Law any Man in the country it matters not How poor he May have been if he could but get out on the unsettled lands of the West would have had an Opportunity of at once commencing to make a living and of securing for himself a Good farm at the end of a few yers. Yet this amendment was voted Down by a vote 82 to 97, and the Bill itself Defeated by a vote of 91 to 95�?All the republicans voting for the measure and nearly All the democrats against it the Southern democrats in a solid Phalanx against it. Well did or. Cavenaugh of Minnesota exclaim after the vote was announced Quot i have been attached to the democratic party Quot continued or. Cavanaugh from my boyhood but sir when i see Southern gentlemen come up As i have to Day and refuse by their votes to Aid my a Ronsit cunts refuse to place the actual Tiller of the soil the honest industrious labourer beyond the gras and avarice of the Speculator i Tell you sir i falter and and Well May he hesitate and Well it would be if All of his democratic associates were As honest in All their votes As he was in this but so Long As the South controls the democratic party so Long As Northern voters sustain that party in Power so Long May we expect to see Northern labourers and Northern Farmers who Are too poor to buy land treated As if they were the Quot mud Sills Quot indeed of society As Hammond of s. C. Called them on a former occasion and of no More consequence in a country than the Mere slaves of the South. Casual Jureti Sisr. The canal meeting on wednesday night at the court House was Well Sam l. Edsali was called to the chair and Henry j. Rudisill made Secretary. The following Resolution offered by Henry Baker was adopted after a lengthy debate. In which the relations of the state to the Bond holders the nature and extent of the Trust the value of the canal to the people of that part of the state through which it runs and the necessity of adopting some Means of keeping it in navigable order were All discussed. The debate was participated in by messes. J. L. Williams w. H. Combs Henry Baker w. W. Carson Sam l. Hanna Peter p. Bailey Moses Jen Kinson and we. S. Edsall. Resolved that our senator and representatives in the legislature of the state be and they Are hereby requested to use their efforts to procure such necessary legislation at the present session of the legislature As will insure the opening of the canal in the ensuing Spring and keeping it in repair in the future. The following Resolution offered by p. P. Bailey was also adopted resolved that the committee appointed by this meeting to go to Indianapolis on the 1st of february be requested to correspond with the citizens of Toledo and solicit their co operation in plans having for their object the keeping open the canal and that they be requested to Send a delegation to Indianapolis on the first of february for that Pur pose. The following persons were a posted a committee to go to Indianapolis Samuel Hanna James Humphrey Jno. Orff m. W. Hubble m. Jenkinson d. H. Colerick h. B. Reed b. W. Taylor b. D. Miner p. Hoagland e. Rudisill Thos. Tiger b. W. Oakley Samuel Edsall g. W. Wood f. P. Randall Jos. Brackenridge c. E. Sturgis h. C. Gray j. H. Robinson Jno. Rudolph b. Trentman Joshua Holmes p. P. Bailey Geo. L. Little i. D. G. Nel a a. Orbison b. W. Townley h. Baker c. Parker h. J. Rudisill John Brown f. Kennett d. B. Litchfield l. S. Bayless. A a j. D. Nuttman. Adams co. Jno. Studabaker Wells r. Collins Whitley Quot m. Graves Kosciusko Quot the proceedings were ordered to be published in the City court House wanted we Leam that on monday night the 24th ult. The court Houm at Albion in Noble co. In this state took fire in the clerks office and was. Entirely consumed v loss of building is tinted at $5,000, value. Of judgements destroyed about $80,000, which it win Uke much time and Troub Letot Estoil. Tho Bogia in All the other offices were Pic red. This is a great misfortune to the Plis of that aunty. To or Saitow a a proof building and it May be Weh five them to a Der wit ther after ally place tie Kiwi air Orcas had their local news. A a a via i -.r-. A the Oncina re Komi Ilij of i saturday sea Ogof local news says Quot it would he Well if the in Publia in the towns and a villages Rii cd Al we a minutes or hours journey torn to Centera of politics Trade and i i wira pay More attention to that which to Cadi of them local news. Instead of giving matters that immediately concern their readers their Home incidents and enter priv a and speculation and thus becoming useful in their Day and generation at Home and abroad in nine cases out of ten they Burden themselves with ponderous matter from the City papers which is bad enough at first and at second hand is Mere we can agree with the commercial that local news is of great value but we dissent from the idea Here inculcated Quot that local news gossip and Home incidents and Enterprise Quot Are the Only things of value in a country town or Village newspaper published a few hours ride from the great Center of politics Trade and it implies either that people who read country newspapers feel no interest nor have any taste for or Are incapacitated from want of intelligence to appreciate the general news of the Day from All parts of the world or that this More extended information should be furnished to such country readers through the medium of newspapers published in these great political centers leaving nothing for the local press to do but to publish local news. Country papers under the plan of the commercial would doubtless become very valuable adjuncts to the City papers in furnishing them with local items but for All other purposes of a newspaper such As Are demanded by a Reading and intelligent Community they would be totally to pen an accidents to note the weather and report the proceedings of a police court May be very Well As far As they go but this constitutes a very Small proportion of the whole mass of Reading matter necessary to make a newspaper such As any Community of Ordinary intelligence would support. Who Pray is so stupid As to be satisfied with Reading the accounts of fires runaways and other Small items making up the local columns of. A newspaper these Are but the incidents thrown in As it were valuable to be sure As far As they go but by themselves Are of but Little it is the Stiring events of the whole world that the Reading people want to be kept informed about. They want to know what is going on at the National Capitol at the centers of thought whether at Home or a Broad and an intelligent mind will not be satisfied with less and if the country press does not furnish it the City papers would be taken instead. The commercial s suggestions Are Good As a design to Root out the country press and Institute in its Stead the free circulation of the City papers. Such is evidently the design of the article from which we have quoted and it amounts in fact to an attack upon the country press which should be resented. For ourselves we Are now publishing daily the news of the whole world at the moment almost that such events transpire and Lay them before our readers immediate i3. For example we receive by Telegraph the proceedings of Congress the foreign arrivals and All other news that the associated press in any part of the a a. S. Receives at 2 o clock and Lay the whole of it before our readers by 6 o clock p. M., on the same Day. Our citizens therefore need not subscribe for newspapers published in the great cities when All the leading events Are published by their Home papers from Twenty four to forty eight hours in Advance of such intelligence reaching them by the mails or express through the columns of the City press 0 5&Quot Rev. Or. Daily has been suspended from exercising the function of the ministry in the methodist Church by an ecclesiastical c Urt at Indianapolis on charges effecting his moral character. The conference however has yet to act in the Case he nevertheless is suspended until it does act. The doctor has resigned the presidency of the state University at Bloomington in consequence. The daily transcript stopped. Or that Adele i lbs Ledo will win Atte Iida it a a Asp orig on the 2iid Fet Ewy tract to of Ike it a Ith Othen film this state to insider what is Best to he done towards keeping Jen us it Adal in the Toie. We also lean that to it Velmor cum of Ohio has written to gov. Wizard of his state Joppa to the dem Butic member of the Senate of the u. S. Voted the other Day not to admit Lane and Mccarty the floor to be he on the question of their right to its or. Douglas was not present but said afterwards that he would have voted for their Behig heard. A or a a a Africa Tarar Meetin i All persons who Are interested in the improvement of our agricultural interests of North Eastern Indiana Are requested to meet at Kendallville Noble county on saturday the 5th Day of february next for the purpose of organic no and nut cing the necessary arrangements for a Union agricultural fair embracing the North Eastern counties of Indiana. Ligonier Register Elkhart county times and Democrat Lagrange Sentinel Steuben Republic Dekal Democrat fort Wayne times Republican and Sentinel Are requested to county Democrat. 05&Quot the Young America is the name of a paper just started at Decatur Adams co. Ind. By f. It pc j. G. Tolan it is Republican in politics and we Hope it May be the Means of wresting that co from the error Long adhered to of always voting the democratic then to the Young America. Or we see it noticed in several of our exchanges that Henry Reed esq., Loi the Able spirited editor of the Cincinnati commercial has withdrawn fix it a that who takes his place is not stated. It is believed that col. Forney of the Philadelphia press looks upon Douglas Servile submission to Buchanan with Especial Disfavour. In speaking of the proposed Grant of $30,000,000 to the president towards the Purchase of Cuba which Douglas has favored. He says our own feelings Are resolutely against it for every reason of expediency and of right and we Trust for the Honor of the democratic party that those who Are in the majority in the great committees of the House will pause and Ponder before they assume the responsibility of recommending such a project to the representatives of the people. 0�7"ayonng Man wants to let himself out to Quot any respectable family Quot that would like to learn the names of the streets in this City by being shown around. He thinks he has been Quot about town Quot Long enough to know the Way without Finger boards. He Hopes the City authorities wont put up any for he Hopes to earn a living in this Way in the future. Crit is computed that ten thousand persons visited the new York Central Park on Friday last to enjoy the sport of skating. There Are two Ponds in the Park one of sixteen and the other of three acres. The Small Pond was set apart for the use of the ladies. Man was knocked Down with a Slung shot the other night at such things Are becoming very common in Indiana As Well As in the Large cities of the country. The where should be Active to catch the scoundrels and Deal out to them there deserts. 0 Hon. William Cumback of Indiana is spoken of As clerk of the next House of representatives. Hon. Thos. Corwin has been named for speaker. We agree with Many others that or. Corwin would be much More useful on the floor As a do Jator than in the chair As speaker for whatever May be his abilities As a presiding officer he has but few equals As an orator. 0 5&Quot the Atlantic monthly for february i at hand this periodical now sixteen months old has already attained to the highest stand among the very Best Ute Rary periodicals of the Day. A Ftfe to tort House of Thetla lug if we Leam that the daily Tranacki Jet has stopped mainly we apprehend from a want of support though the immediate cause is said to be a disagreement Between the partners. The proprietors have done a Good Deal of bragging outside of the office during its Short existence and something in the Way of detracting from the merits of our daily but neither seemed to make theirs a Good paying paper but we let that while we Are really sorry on their account that they have not succeeded in nuking their paper a paying establishment. We shall be glad to Send our daily to any or All of the subscribers to the transcript. If they will Send us their names we will at once enter them upon our list and Send them the paper every evening at 6 o clock for 12 cts. Per week payable to Carrier. Our columns Are Sui plied with local mat tors general intelligence and the very latest telegraphic reports. Our subscription and advertising patronage in increasing and we can assure our citizens that we shall furnish them regularly with a daily paper that they May safely Sun Rte but we want and solicit All the Patrowic lire can get Send along your Nam your advertise a a. I Quot. A Tei Olaf off i imy Woll wave we ill Authon. To offer of dude Ward to Como Iitto of the of Stato bib can or ezi8tiiebfflbers, will within six Weelti Iii Uris an exact statement of the a Vul be. As8es a the Stato of in a a. Including Tuo an Ilabel of the Suu Kev True Salii county a Mma Baliv swamp und lipid Ottar a it is Buie ired by it those wow nity to Leam that such hmm til Job i to Imi Filisi it Iii All i sure thai Titei Ai la m Apps of or to the divorce Bill from the Senate the House on tuesday last with some amendments which will More than Likely be concurred in by the Senate. For the Republican. The canal again. The Railroad Early in the Field. A meeting of the people was held recently at Logansport to consider in what Way the canal May be maintained without in any Way increasing the liability of the state for the debt a proposition was made to enlarge he discretion of the trustees so that they May if a see proper drop the South pm division which is understood to be in a Down the other portion and keep up Only East of Terre haute. In opposition to this proposition certainly in Nio Way involving the debt judge Stuart made and has published a threatening and dictatorial speech calculated to frighten the people into by acquiescence in the Railroad monopoly. I extract the following Quot judge Stuart said he was utterly oppo sed to the Resolution offered or to any oth in my Popit of a Cli a i Teresta this ape ibb i swed a Imp Bat Atwould Deundian it Lien Penly a get Lonati of judge and Dittin gnashed Amity would Rentoul an option that the Mere Tria Gem 0/ Justes Diverd Motif in this Sumer or Iby authorizing them to lease the canal in whole or in part could in any degree increase the Liau Lity of the state for the debt. Surely there is discernment and i Al Lity in the a Lantre to fit me a Biu or res solution accomplishing the one Olget without involving the other. Z. It is understood that judge Stuart holds a prominent position As attorney of the Wabash Yauya Railroad at $3,000 per a num. The poets of Scotland. Read at the Brinit it festival at the Roe Bill House in Thi c�i7, of Tea Day a Vao inf january 35th, ism by Isaac Jenkinson. Hail land of cakes an land o Sang i Wadna do your sir idea Wrang. While Here the Brither scots among sae Spruce an Brownie for right Afore me in the throng. Sits chair noun Johnny. An weel i Ken his honest frown wad put sic vain presumption Down. An Ilka Scot in fort Wayne town for sic great Folly. Wad bran me a the country Rouxa Bleth Rin Collie. Sae i will try to mind my ways an if 1 pass by Scotia s Braes. Her Gowan Glens i Burnie stray an sic like thing to say a word about the lays her poets sing tis a my Diamint e in. Her Braes an Burns Hae never seen but by her birdies Sanga Hae been fun Mony a time. Transport i mirth or tears or spleen a changed their rhyme. Time winna let Tad Tak sae Lang. To name ilk Bard 0 a the throng wha filled i glee the land o Sang frae Days 0 Yore. But just a few it were not Wrang to Tell them o or. Frae Days when Jamie King o Scot made rhyme an reason rant an route. As ony sturdy Thielan atom. By Gasman s lash in Sang o Gabe Lunzie lout an a sic trash. Can Scotland boast a Tungfu Strain Hie glorious poets o her Ai Quot chiefs wha their chanters winna Hain. But tune their lays. Till echoes resound again her weel Sung famed for the Quot gentle shepherds Quot chime Auld Allan Ramsey As in time the first in Scotia s honoured rhyme Ca d aft an Lang theocritus 0 Northern clime an Northern Sang. An he wha did Parnassus Peel sae soon an Sang sae True an Leal the songs that caledonian s feel an love the most a Fergusson the tuneful Chiel too soon was lost an there not weel if we had missed thy Shepherd Ettrick frae our list o scotia8 poets loved an bless d by a the land sae sweetly is a nature dress d at his command. Nor be thy wizard strains forgot. When Baras Are named Ioa mortal Scott the magic wonders thou Hast wrought in minstrel lays i weel earned Praise thy name has fraught till end o Days. An Campbell thy melodious rhyme loved weel to Praise our Western clime yet each True caledonian chime. Thy notes prolong. An ilk Leal scottish heart beats time a swells thy Sang. There s Mony a Bard that richly earns the Meed o Fame wha sweetly Leams to tune his Harp mid Scotia s ferns an Banks an Braes. But none can lilt like Robin Burns in Wallau lays. Tis not the scottish heart alone la moved i transport at the tone o Burns Harp for there is none sae Sweet can sing. An a the world bows at the throne o Poesy s King. There s Mony a one o Scotia s barfly i yet wad Gie my full regards. But that Auld time just now retards my further speech sae now i Gie i parting wards a health to each. Or. John Cochrane who presided on the occasion. Or which contemplated any legislation whatever on the a Quot it is said that it is needful to keep up the canal to compete with the Railroad ill whenever a Railroad or canal is profitable it will be built and maintained at if they ar6 hot in a it Citable in a lation can Force conic Tittoni t the Means of to Iuis which shows itself Superior must necessarily put Down All bvaii7, mid it cannot be helped a of it we old Bei Eoin tending against a settled us where it is a Litt a member of the legis Vitore dare to no Pete any thing i id a i Goring the position of the state Iet with Tut Lor had his hit a Kiel Jpn inthe lobby ethic look that Way Atid he will be branded by a Tab Loloh Jadegba till the Ihil i t it a All Idle itis Mei a rate Budh in act ii Dan Ai idafae peo a a Iii Phi Conesco Tidence of Oie be Pulican matters and thins in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Jan. 21. 59. Quot did you hear the earthquake Quot this was the general question asked yesterday afternoon a question caused by an unusual rambling of the Earth and a loud rattling of Loose doors windows amp a. People went to the doors to ascertain the cause of the noise and numbers of persons were seen thrusting their Heads out of windows inquiring of each other Quot what s the matter Quot but this morning the mystery was solved by a Telegram stating that there was an explosion of Dumont s powder Mills at Wilmington Delaware Twenty five Miles Distant this is the second time these Mills have exploded within a few years. By the one of yesterday two lives were lost. An interesting Case was bedded in the Nisi Prius court last saturday Viz that a child who had lost its Oiler is As much an orphan As one that has lost both Ite parents. Certainly not very complimentary to the Mother the Case was brought be foie the court in account of the directors of the Girard College having refused admission to children who had not lost both parents. The bodies of thirteen philadelphian who died of yellow fever at Norfolk and Portsmouth while rendering assistance As physicians lad nurses a were brought Here on tuesday and interred under a it beaut Ihil Monument erected to their memory by the City authorities. Quot Bob butt Quot a save came on with Aem my was present at the Simeral ceremonies. His conduct during the a male a fever. Punish and in said to Vel Edt his own hands look of the victims. He has a wife and an a five is a made. To i Monkjr to Ulieru to a the , by his Otto a Xiv a a Savl a do of the 4�0� Ira que tour readers my like to know Oliie of on anus of Law Lily iils ii sir Lithal doring the a Yeara raatcha�ige4 of Stato Bank with by Bee a Al Mcwhir revival Aunon a a a a to evening prayer Imit to it me or More of the in me houses under the and Sioea of the Totag Hei a Christian Sawda eni Wei is Doi a a fact and Good Fra Lull to int ii a m of attended and May rather . To the Doit Lias and Inch corp and How. A a. Douglas to Hon. Bahan s. Me. Washington j an a str 1809 -. , in secret see join Yon offered me an affront void unprovoked and unjust Bable that i Ami obliged to infer in push is is it must be been the impulse of Momenta by inns in a and not of deliberate premeditation. This note is written for the purpose of affording you an Opportunity of saying whether or conclusion is Correct and further of affording you an Opportunity of retracting the offensive language which you thus gratuitously and unwarrantable applied to me. Respect Billy &c., s. A. Douglas. To Hon. Graham n. Fitch. Fitch s reply. Washington Jan. 22,1859. Sib your note of yesterday was handed me this morning. In reply i have to say that you yesterday made a charge that the lately appointed Federal of scars in Illinois were corrupt and dishonest men or words to that effect you know my son to be one of those officers and you could not expect me to hear such a charge without prompt denial of its truth. I pronounce it to be to your knowledge untrue. You subsequently so modified it so As to satisfy me that you excepted my Sou from the general charge although you did not name him and i made no further Issue with you on that subject when at a subsequent period of your remarks you attributed to me statements which i had not made i requested that in quoting me you should do so truthfully. These remarks were certainly not deliberately premeditated but they cannot be qualified correctly As the impulse of momentary passion. The first was prompted by a determination to defend the Honor and character of my son As dear to me As my own against an attack so general in its terms As necessary to include him and the second was the exercise of my right to rectify a Misrop mentation of my own . N. Fitch. To Hon. S. A. Douglas. Douglas to Fitch. Washington 22�?p. Sir your note of this Date has just been placed in my hand. I admit without hesitation your right and duty to do Justice to the reputation of your son. At the same time i maintain my right in the discharge of my duty As senator to comment freely and fully on the character of executive appointments especially in my own state. I deny however that my general remarks in relation to the Illinois appointees confirmed by the Senate during my absence could be fairly interpreted to embrace your son. When you seemed so to construe them i promptly replied that what i had said of the Illinois appointments was True As a general Rule but that there were exceptions among whom i recognized some of my own friends. Alluding particularly to your son i added that i had nothing to say in regard to the merits of his appointment choosing to leave that question where i placed it by my remarks to the Sanate during the last session in your presence at the time of his confirmation. You now admit that you understood this explanation to exempt your son from the application of my general remarks and yet you have failed to withdraw the offensive language but on the contrary at a subsequent stage of the debate when apologizing for a breach of senatorial decorum you expressly declared that you had nothing to retract thus appearing in my apprehension to re affirm the objectionable words. As to the other grounds of offensive language admitted in your reply to my note i have to say that i did not understand you to assume to Correct me in a quotation of our language As i was unconscious of Maing any such citation but to repeat the original ofic nce in another form otherwise i should have made a proper response on the instant this explanation which is due alike to us both on the Points presented in you re ply affords you another Opportunity of withdrawing the offensive words which you admit you applied in yesterday s Date. Respectfully &c., s. A. Douglas. Hon. Graham n. Fitch. Or. Fitch to or. Douglas. Washington Jan. 23. Sir your note of last evening was handed me at 12 m. To Day. Your explanation in regard to my son being now explicit i have no hesitation in saying that if you had excepted him from your charge or not made it general. I would not have deemed myself warranted in repelling in the words of which you complain As offensive and which in consequence of your explanation i now withdraw. I am also in formed by your note that if you had not been mistaken in relation to my remarks on the subject of your misrepresentation of my sentiments you would at the instant have made proper response. This likewise enables me to say that in my closing remarks explanatory to the Senate of my share in the exciting debate upon a subject not rate Vani to anything before that body and the responsibility for the introduction of which rested solely with you i would have withdrawn As i now do the second offensive remarks if you had made the same Satis amp a tory explanation then you have now made. Respectfully &c.,g. N. Fitch. Hon. S. A. Douglas. My. Douglas to or. Fitch. Washington Jan. 24. Sib your note of yesterday has been received and while i accept your withdraw of the words to which i have taken exception i owe it to myself to protest against the idea you seem to entertain that my note of saturday was intended As a precedent and inducing condition of the redress which i solicited instead of being As i certainly designed it merely responsive to the specification in your reply to my first communication. In regard to the introduction and relevancy of the matter in the debate out of which this difficulty arose i cannot think that a proper subject of discussion in the present correspondence. Respect Fiille &c., s. A. Douglas. Hon. A Bahai a pitch. Fitch s Beni a. I Wasbin otoy Jan. 1859.r Sib tour note of to Day wet received at a. It is not for me to judge the motives which dictated yours of the 22d i can Only say Liat my answer was predict taxi upon the explanations Itco tuned if your Eph nations Are disavowed my i Ritli drawl Mist likewise be disavowed respectfully = a g. N.frr��. It Hoke s. A. Douglas. Rdouglas s befit. Wash Motok Jan. 24.189. Anti Al am averse to Troverso after gaining the Suhie Sioe of or sin Tania but i Cai Inot cow Withim and we a. Rig tip Dor Lut Noto of Sakiw it Liat it k Mitti to me upon we Allysia and Oefele Ira Ter a risk drawl a 8 Ai a ii in a themselves and tothe state. Movement referred to is a Ltd it Ai amp Gulf a one following As it does the did a a Doii of the supreme court of Indiana Wahidi fully Esau Isles the constitutionality of the Bank and the legality of Ita should a Bill repealing the charter of the Bank pass the leg suture which we sup i win not be the Cash it won the slightest degree affix the rights of the Hank but it Ini i to some extent injure the credit of the Bank where its chartered rits Imd to character of the men who manage it Are unknown. If would have no such Felt Here the solvency of the Bank was indicated by the Maimer in which it Munt Ned specie pay Mehta during the financial crisis of1837. Ita character now stands a redly High throughout the West the Industrial and financial interest of Indiana Are largely connected with it and the Jde of that state will commit a capital mistimed if they permit their representatives to do anything calculated to discredit or cripple it Gin. Gazette. New St. Johns . Jan. 31. The steam ship circassian from Gal Way 11th, inst., arrived Here at Midnight of saturday last Short of Coal she experienced very heavy weather. For the my Mew Washington Jan. 31. Mccormick s Patent for improvement in reaping machines expired to Day and the invention therefore becomes Public property. The commissioner of Patent Over pulled the application for Extension on the ground that it is Clear that the invention was new and patentable when patented and that it possessed motive of Utility but he is Well satisfied that from the exhibit and testimony in the Case that the Patentee has received not Only a reasonable but most Liberal compensation for the time ingenuity and expense bestowed on the invention and upon its introduction. A letter received Here from Chili dated dec. 26th, says that Senor Rementa Secretary of state has made a correction with or. Bigler u. S. Minister subjecting the ship Macedonia claim to the arbitration of the King of the belgians. It has been approved of by the Senate and probably by the House of representatives. The correspondence about the Franklin is not a Law and or. Bigler would receive the $15.000 agreed upon before the 1st of Jan. These claims Are of Many years standing. The letter adds the political horizon is becoming every Day More Cloudy that the hitherto prudent Chili is rapidly losing her credit and that there is no present Security. The p. General estimates that about a million dollars Are necessary Abr the transportation of the mails Between the United states and the foreign countries and from new York to new Orleans and san Francisco and Back for the next fiscal year. The larger part of the service is to be paid with the sea and Inland postage. No new lines Are recommended. Baron von Grott the prussian minister will return to this country by the next Steamer As his arrival was not expected till j Une. It is not impossible that our demonstrations towards Cuba have enacted some uneasiness with the european Powers. House a or. Bear presented a memorial from new York asking the passage of a Law to Stop the further traffic of Public lands and the parcel Ling of them out for the exclusive use of actual settlers. Or. Eddie of Penn. Moved to discharge the whole House from the consideration of the Bill extending the Chaffee India rubber Patent for seven years. The report of the com. On patents Speaks of the great Utility of the improvements the profit from which have not been re Numera Tive to the inventor. Or. Vamp Ashburn of Iii., asked whether the Patent has not been in existence 21 years whether it did not expire a year and a half ago. Whether the Effort of the Bill was not to make private what is now Public property. Or. Eddie replied that the report stated All the Fiu to but one and this he was willing to repeat the motion to suspend the rules was disagreed to 86 against 85, a two third vote being necessary. Or. Buchanan has determined to remove judge Sinclair of Utah should it be proved that he charged the grand j Ury that the mormons were liable to indictment for offences covered by the president proclamation. Taylor says the Louisiana sugar crop amounted in 1857 to upward of 300,-000,000 ibs instead of 87,000,000 As stated Branch s cuban report. The Senate caucus on saturday agreed to support an increase in the rate of letter postage to 5 cts. The special agent of the Treasury department dispatched some time ago to investigate matters connected with the California mint and custom House has Laid his report before the Secretary. He charges Gross mismanagement and abuse As existing in All the departments of California. An agent of the squatters on the Mariposa property California has arrived Here to ask the interposition of the government to set aside the Fremont Patent on the ground of fraud in the Survey. The matter has been Laid before the attorney general. Thouc on elections Aro unanimously in favor of the Hon. Bird Chapman Contes Ting the set of or. Or. Ferguson As Delegate fit it a Nebraska. New Yolk Jan. 31.�?advices from Para say Lopez was busily arming and drilling troops Laiu Iching. Ste ers storing magazines with munitions of tray and pie no to bar the Waters of tie Baraga Rivers Frith heavy Chung. A Bohiw Jami Quot litters relayed a finnic Jim Ted the 12tk inst. Is the emperor liar been compelled to Retay to port a Lamb with Tio it of his to whim and Tia Thorlt of a 4 a Praia my the to of ecu a is it % Alanm Lier Jim acid will pc half Molto the in Dicoiu a my of Laws. Or Cramb Bond i a eminent Strano Mer and director of thir Cambridge of Amer Atoy died last Naglit aged 69 Yeaw. New Haven jai�.?Ari. A a f the Extension Bolle Iriki Fra my he picturing a planto in a lbs Southington were do troyed Quot by Flie this my less 100.00q Thobani la i contents were insured for $60,000. The fire is believed be been the twp in of Desi my Luve been a Hirn out of Emilio Zinent Augasta Jan. �1. The Adams express was robbed Between Montgomery and Atlanta on Friday of $40,000, mostly in 5 and 10 Dollar urls of Georgia and South Carolina Banks. A w Ward of $5000 b offered for Ita recovery. Leaven Worth Jan. S9. A party from Weston Missouri have Ter turned to that place from Kansas having captured several runaway negroes also or. Day and son charged with aiding their escape. The latter is now in jail in Piatte City. Summary punishment having been threatened there is some talk of a dem it on stration in their amp Tor. General Lane is. Expected to night. St. Louis Jan 31. The new Mexico mail with dates to the 10th inst. Reached Independence on saturday night. Colonel Bonneville and superintendent Collins arrived at Santa be on the sixth having concluded a treaty of peace with the navajos on terms we sch Are advantageous to to the United states. Lieutenant Beall s party was at hatches raunch recuperating. Richard Owen merchant died at Santa be on the 27th. Or. Perkins and senior Juan Sandoval had each submitted to an amputation of the leg by being badly Frozen. Washington Jan. 29. Messes. Toombs and Benjamin were willing to favor specific duties on great Staples but against attempting this session. Or. Iverson amp voted an increase of the Tariff As absolutely necessary while not amp a it Oring specific duties he would give 30 per cent a Iron. Or. Douglas thought it was important that the democratic party should Settle their policy As to whether they were for specific or adv lorem duties. Or. Hunter replied that All seemed a greed on the party policy that the Tariff should be for Revenue but that the Mode of assessing the duties was not a party test. Or. Fitch acquiesced in this View remarking that senatorial democratic caucuses held for conference never sought to bind men to vote for measures. The result of the caucuses has occasioned much excitement among members of Congress and others. The president will probably Send a message to Congress Early next week showing a deficiency of $20,000,000 and urging arrangements to release the government from prospective embarrassments reminding Congress that there Are Only 4 weeks remaining of the session. The subject of a horse rail Road along Pennsylvania Avenue was debated All Day the proposition to conceded the right of the Road to the metropolitan r. R. Co., was lost. The motions now pending Are the District con missioner s Bill to gnat a Concession of the Road for 20 years to messes. Van be Verken amp co., and the Douglas amendment to make out the right of the Road to the corporation of the City. Finally there being no quorum present or. Brown moved a Call of the Senate but was prevailed on to withdraw it when the the Senate adjourned. House the House com. On Indian of. Fairs has unanimously agreed to Abili relative to the Indian Reserve in Elsas known As the n. Reserve embracing nearly 2,000-000 acres All preempted by Whites its details have not transpired but it is understood that it is satisfactory both to settlers and indians and that it will ensue All the settlers to obtain titles after one year. The com. On elections decided this morning in fiver of Bird b. Chapman As the fitful Delegate for Nebraska in place of or. Ferguson the sitting member this contested cae has been pending since the commencement o the present Congress. A message was received from the president enclosing a report from the Secretary of War Recco unending prepayment to a Rov. Stephens for the Purchase of munitions and subsistence stores during the ind War in Washington territory. Or. Houston of Alabama asked leave to introduce a Ihu authorizing a loan of $15,-000,000. Objections were made t4 this on the Republican Side. Or. Palmer of n. Y., asked leave to introduce a Resolution instructing the Cumi Mittee of ways and Means to report a Bill so revising the Tahiti As to make the Revenue adequate to the expenses of the government economically administered and Dia Crimi Natii in fit or of american product and substituting specific for adva Lorum do ties. Of sections from the democratic Side when the House . Itobi Nam trim air Tel a for it is a common observation that there Are More sufferers from de Bilir a Mong americans than can be found Amon any other civilised nation the reason in obvious. We take too Little exercise and forget the wanta of the body in the absorbing pursuits of business. In All Sudier it ses Ordinary medicines can do Little Good. What is required is just Sudi a Toi acid invigorate or As or. J. the world in his celebrate bit. the weak and nervous Denisea of the counting House the exhausted toilet upon the so boards and the pin Attmer f student of the Midnight amp have food a it a wonderful Rego Aerator in the Firmun a a prefer it to More pretentious w Imi Eseau Cious me Kanea. But it should Mioc by of cry Al ton thit the Quot m mip Fri a in Ito influence upon a Frame Wydh it Jdee by debilitated is equally Power iat Fem Ting nature to expel the Mott terrible Fonna of Iwase. Who jul not Gin h a trial ? sold by Draggist and dealer pm be ii l of to Cree Aew Tir or it Tow to Mark api Iii i a .-5 til of vim a i i a a i a Lite i a if a Temak fief Iii ill or Quot a

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