Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 20th February 1858, Edition 2 of 2, Page 9, AMERICA. Thb news from Kansas stiU speak...

Page 9
Page 9
9 of 24

On this page

  • Text (4)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      No. *T* Twpaky 20,1868.] The Lbabeb, 177...

      No . * t * TWpaky 20 , 1868 . ] THE LBABEB , 177

      America. Thb News From Kansas Stiu Speak...

      AMERICA . Thb news from Kansas stiU speaks of disturbance . The St JLouis Democrat mentions " despatches from General Calhoun to the Cabinet at Washington . The despatches were telegraphed from Boonville . The tenor of these is that General Calhoun has thrown out tie vote returned toGovernor Denver , alleging as areason for so doing that such returns were not made in . accordance with the Lecompton schedule , and should have been delivered to him , and therefore are illegal and void . This high-handed measure gives the pro-slavery party a majority of one in the Council , and a majority of two in the Lower House , besides elects the pro-slavery state ticket throughout . " . A pro-slavery member of the Kansas Legislature nas been shot in a stage-coach by a horseman who rode up , called out his name , and fired , inflicting what is thought to be a mortal wound . " The party erring , " as the assassin is delicatelv and considerately called by the

      paper just quoted , made bis escape . The Lecompton constitution for Kansas was sent by the President to Congress on the 2 nd inst ., accompanied by a message which is described as having a pro-slavery tendency . Mr . Buchanan , says an abstract published in . the English papers , " characterizes the ^ city of Lawrence as the hotbed , of Abolitionism , denounces the persistency with which the Topeka movement is insisted upon by the Free-state men , and asserts that the dividing line in Kansas is not between political parties , as in other places , but between those who are loyal to Government and those who are endeavouring to destroy it by the force of usurpation . He says , in effect , that Kansas is now by the will of the people as much a Slave state as Georgia or South Carolina , and insists that an admission into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution is the only means of restoring tranquillity , the people having the power to amend it hereafter as they think proper . The message gave rise to animated proceedings in both Houses . '*'

      Further advices have been received from the Utah expedition . Colonel Johnston has mustered four additional companies of volunteers for a period of nine months . The troops are in good health , and very comfortable in their winter quarters . An abundan t supply of beef has been obtained from a settlement to the north of Salt Lake . A volunteer regiment had been organized in New York for service with the Utah expedition . Walker bas appeared before the United States District Court at New Orleans , when Judge M'Caleb said there was nothing against him , the grand jury having refused to find a bill . The Filibuster then asked to be put on trial for violation of the neutrality laws ; but the Judge refused .

      Mexico is still in a condition of civil war . General Comonfort , uniting with the Liberals , has placed himaelf at the head of an army which will operate- against the reactionists , who have proclaimed Santa Anna ^ By this move , Chief Justice Juarez becomes President of the Country . The belligerents are going to fight it out in the city of Mexico ; but they have made an arrangement that there is to be a three hours' truce every morning in , order , that every one may go comfortably to market ! This certainly shows forethought of a certain kind . From Monte Video we hear that Colonel Brigido Silyeria lias risen against the Government , but that the insurrection is very nearly quelled .

      Continental Notes. That Narrow And Unchr...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling ia to be condemned , which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion ox the ttfmvm race but that to which itself belongs . Da . Arnold .

      FRANCE . Count de Mobny presented the report of the new penal law last Saturday to the Corps Leglslatif . He remarked that the well disposed have no occasion to feel any alarm at the bill , which , as now modified , is to be only a temporary instead of a permanent measure . The Count made some observations on the position of parties in France , and on the fact of the Legitimist and Orleanist statesmen withholding from all support of the oxisting Government . Ho observed : —" The greater part of those men who have remained attached to the ancient order of things have all been men of government ; they know the conditions and difficulties of it ; they are not under the delusion that a now revolution could at the

      present day bo made in favour of their opinions j they aro-not ignorant that it is rather against society than against the Throne that a blow would bo directed ; and yot tliey prefer remaining aloof , forgetful of their anoiont principles , and seeking to weaken the Government which protects thorn . A lamentable contradiction , which diminishes the prestige of men , arid destroys political faith In the heart of the people !—a sad situation , with which , - -norerthele 8 B 7 ~ a" ~* trong — Govcmmont ^' ought' - 'to '" know how to livo without too much umbrage , and without violence . " Further on , he remarked : — " Wo must make a distinction . Legitimacy is the time which conseorntcg it , or the will of the people who found it ; hereditary right is only its political consequence . Does any ono bolievo that this last has been instituted for the advantage of royal families rather than in favour of popular Interests ? Ia not its only object to render the trantsmia-• lonv of the throne oxompt front / dispute and trouble ? If

      not , the elective system would certainly . present greater guarantees . But , now that our modern society has no longer the superstition of divine right , the first condition of hereditary right is possession ; and does not a good citizen sometimes feel his conscience troubled when , by the interpretation of a principle of which the sole object is the public tranquillity , he disengages himself from the obligation of defending the institutions of his country ? Moreover , this theory is not new ; it was that of the Orleanist party . That did not repose on any pr inciple . It was founded neither on right nor on popular election . It had only a glimpse of a revolution , and yet it deceived no one when it called the * dissentients to it by showing them the abyss that yawned beneath their feet , arid conjured them to rally round it in order to save society from being precipitated . " The Minister afterwards demanded a supplement of 1 , 200 , 000 franca for the secret service of the police .

      An Englishman was seized the other day by some police agents while walking in the streets of Paris , was taken to the Barriere de TEtoile , and there searched , and was afterwards marched some way on his road to the Prefecture of Police , when his captors suddenly changed their mind , and set him at liberty . They had mistaken him for an Italian of whom they -were in search , and , although he produced his passport when first questioned , and thus clearly showed that he was English , the police officers kept him in custody until they found out their error to their own satisfaction . The funeral ceremony over the remains of Count de Eayneval , late French Ambassador to the Court of Russia , took place yesterday week at the church of the Madeleine , with great pomp . The body was afterwards deposited in the cemetery of Pfere-la-Chaise . The Independance Beige is informed from Paris that certain officers of high rank in the Imperial Guard , who had received the order of the Bath at the conclusion of

      the Crimean war , have torn off their ribands in consequence of Mr . Roebuck ' s speech , and sent them to Marshal Vaillant to be returned to England . The decree nominating the Marshals to the new military commands appears in the Moniteur . Marshal Magnan has iifhe command of the troops in the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd territorial divisions of the North . He retains the command of the " Army of Paris , and of the 1 st military division ; head-quarters , P ~ aris . Marshal Canrobert , the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , and 7 th divisions of the East ; Nancy . Marshal Castellane , the 8 th , 9 th , 10 th , 17 th , and 20 th divisions of the South-East ; Lyons . Marshal Bosquet , the 11 th , 12 th , 13 tb , and 14 th divisions of the South-West ; Toulouse . Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers , the 15 th , 16 th , 18 th , 19 th , and 21 st divisions of the West ; head-quarters , Tours . The Marshals have taken their oaths to the Emperor , but they will not take possession of their commands till next April .

      The Chambre des Mises en Accusation has received the report of M . Salle " , substitute of the Procureur-Ge neral , on the attempted assassination of tile 14 th of January . The day for the trial is not yet fixed . The condition of trade in France is at present very languid . The Duke de Montebello has been appointed Ambassador of France at St . Petersburg . The Duke , though the son of Marshal Lannes , a Bonapartist general , has hitherto been an Orleanist . He > vas the French representative in Switzerland twenty years ago , and it was he

      who , in the name of his sovereign , demanded the expulsion of Louis Napoleon from the Helvetic Republic—a demand which induced the exile to leave the country voluntarily , and come to England . M . Ottajano , the Neapolitan Envoy , who was the bearer of an autograph letter from the King of Naples to the Emperor , congratulating him on his escape from assassination , returns to Naples with a letter from the Emperor to the King . There is said to be no prospect , however * of a reconciliation between the two Governments ; but France and Austria seem to be rapidly

      approximating . M . do Porsigny arrived in Paris from London last Saturduy night . The ancient exhibition of the Bmuf Gras was celebrated in Paris this week with great splendour . IMtUSSIA . The Prince and Princess Frederick William have received , since their arrival at Berlin , several addresses of congratulation ; among others , ono from the English residents in the Prussian metropolis . There have also been state balls and dinner parties , besides a subscription ball at the Opera Houao , in whioli the Prince and Princess appeared in public . The students have had a

      torchlight procession , which was very striking ; but a superb bonfire which had boon kindled was abruptly put out by the Aro brigado , lust tlio town should bo sot on five . Colonel von Woyinar , an Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia , has arrived at Berlin from St . Petersburg , coin-Tmls 8 lonod ~ by ~ 'tho" -Emperor-to—pTooont-to-tJjo-Prusalan Royal Family his congratulations and those of the Russian Court on occasion of the public ontry of the newlymarried couple : ho wua the bearer of an autograph letter from the Emperor and Emproas , and of the Grand Cross of tho Ordirof St ; Catharine for the Princess Frederick William . iTAi / r . Franco has boon making certain domanda on Sardinia olmilur to those already made on England . A verbal

      message has been sent to the Cabinet through the Minister at Turin . This ia said to have been expressed in very courteous terms , but the precise nature of the demands , has not transpired . The political trials have commenced at Turin . On the first day , a letter of Mazzini ' s was read , in which , according to the Times Turin correspondent , the extriumvir " accuses himself and his confederates of having unduly neglected the people of Lombardy , and urges the necessity of establishing in that country a secret organization under the name of ' 11 Popolo , ' in groups of five persons , to be linked together by means of one of .

      each group , who shall swear fidelity to the Republican unity of Italy , and to the rules and directions that shall reach him from the centre of action . Every member of this society is to be instructed to provide himself with a short weapon , and to collect , little by little , as much ammunition as possible . Intelligent proselytes are to be instructed and made chiefs of groups and useful as propagandists . The plan is to be carried out not only at Milan , but at Como , Brescia , Bergamo , and othei towns . Communications are to be kept up among these for the transmission of printed papers , and every opportunitv of obtaining mone 3 r is to be seized . "

      The cold in the north of Italy has been very great this winter . The Po has been frozen over for "some days at Ferrara to such an extent as to bear crowds of persons —a circumstance unknown since the commencement of the present century . There has been a good deal of illness in consequence ; but the carnival , nevertheless , has passed off with great spirit . A commission having 'decided that our unfortunate countryman Watt , the victim of Neapolitan cruelty , is liable to fits of insanity ( the result of his treatment in gaol ) , the trial has been suspended in order that certain phrenologi may make further inquiries de lunatico . The Turin correspondent of the Daily News states that the municipality of Milan refused to attend the funeral of Marshal Kadetzky .

      " Between Rome and Frascati , " says the Courner d'ltalie , " is a railway about nine miles long . A considerable number of persons went the other day to a . Jete at Frascati ,. the ladies being dressed in their richest garments , and wearing- their costliest jewellery . This was all known to the brigaads . Accordingly , they seized the officers who occupied the intermediate station in the midst of the deserted country , and proceeded to hoist the red flag , as a signal to-stop . The engineer , fearing something-was on the line , brought the engine to a dead stand , when the robbers instantly laid hold of the travellers ; and coolly plundered them , doing them , however , no other injury : Up to this time we had fancied

      that railways would put an end' to this sort of adventure ; bufr the foregoing stroke , performed at the very gates of Rome , shows that we were too sanguine . Instead of robbing some ten or a dozen passengers in a diligence , the brigands now take one hundred in one haul . Of course , the more productive this peculiar branch of industry becomes in the Roman States ,-the greater will be the numbers of those who follow it . " -i-The Sardinian Charge" d'Affaires has been directed to demand the immediate restitution of the Cagliari , and the liberation of the crew , on the ground that the capture was - illegal . The demand is said to have been formally refused , and the refusal has left Naples .

      SWITZERLAND . The Ultramontanists have combined with the High Church Protestants in a monstrous endeavour to make the Church superior to the State . The Bishop of St . Gall demands that tho clergy shall no longer be amenable to the temporal authorities . The Council of State of Freiburg has been revising tho oducatianal systom of tho canton , and has abolished from the list of subjects taught , history , geography , physics , and singing . To make up for the loss , the . students arc to spend several hours a day in reading theology . TURKEY . A brutal outrage lias been perpetrated upon an American missionary and his family atutioned at Jaffa , in Syria . His house was broken into during tho night , ho himself was stunned by a blow on the head , his sonin-law was murdered , and his wife and daughters were subjected to the grossest indignities . The American consul-general has brought the facts before the notice ' Of the authorities . BIDCGIUM . * The Duchosse do Ikabunt was delivered of a daughter on Thursday afternoon .

      Our Civiuza-Ti0n. Middlesex Sessions. Th...

      OUR CIVIUZA-TI 0 N . MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The February sessions were resumed on Monday , when a roapectablo-looklntf man , named John Reynolds , surrondered-to-tako- 'hls-trial ~ on-a ~ oharKe-of ~ aggravated assault on a Mrs . Jmie Archer . This woman claimed a right of way across Reynoldtt ' a garden , in Grovo > lnne , Stumford Hill , to a garden of her own . On tho 7 th of January , an aho was endeavouring to enter hia garden , ho pushed her back , « nd , on her trying to gat over a fence , ho threw her llown , seized her by tho right arm and loft leg , hold hor up over a well , threatening to drown hor in it , and oxpoaad hor in a shameful manner . While doing this , ho uttered the most revolting lap . -

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 20, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20021858/page/9/