Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 2

I 'It. Mexico, that New Mexico and Utah should Proceeding of ihe'MmJbersof 'Congrtsi Opposed the I Palo Alto. Utir traae. Wim these counts already begb, to of the' States ef Mexico to be admitted alto as slave States. These are to 'be made peaceably if they can he purchased at the cost of hundreds of millioas.

If they can. not made peaceably at tho cof 0f war with'fii'glarid, and a war with nndTtthe st of an alliance with Kawij 1 scarclly losii repugnant. UnmtakabU in. dieatUns afl "ppear of ijf tolling the eiis terns part of San! Dominzo, in1 tb'siitijugafce the Vhol4 island, restoring ji to the ti9ra1hiorf pf( slaveryand. this it to be followed up by an alliance with Brazil and the'extensioii'df slavery in the valley df thb Amazon.

It is for rou to jud trKottAr. when sl iverv shall have mA. T7 tAffflV if TRI-WEEKLY JOPRNAL, 1 JOHS MA1IT5, Y.JULY 13, 1S4. i Anil nr znaa liii mmlM ef YrUao ef 11 rmeeuca oc f- I Mrf ef MTciaij. cor.

4 -i statc; rickct. i fg ItcnOX XTSST 01AT AtCCST. 4 i or via tkotxtm coprrri 1 AKDBEW JACKSON STEVESS? Kort oocrrr. For Conffress -Second JA2EE3 TSOSnJOTOIT, or tcorr twr Whig County Ticket Vi For RepreseDtatirei, rU PRITCHATID, J. A.

PIG MAN. For Clerk of District Court, RICHARD CADLE. For Proiteotirr Attorney, WM. G. WOODWARD.

Tbe VTkgt of ocUws coonty will hold mmts meeting at the Coot House la Ue cttj cc nuscaune 2 0'dock, r. m. on M0NDJ1Y MTH a candidate for STATE For the mrpoBt of oomloatiog 6SNAT0R. Let erery Wbtff Attend Trade of Muscatine. The trade bf this city isrery extensive.

wholesale and retail. It reaches far back into thelnterior it comes to us from all mrts of a wide area. It i with much concern we have recently noticed a cir cumstance which threatens its diminution. This is a monopoly of the steamboat carrying trade between here and Rock Island and an apparent combination to extort exhorbitant prices for freight. Consider .1..

,1.1 i i me iaci inai uuouk uie same iscuuiltcu iui and ind tion the Sf be to be organized without an maiuiwuu yi verv, and that the? should be afterward as slave or free States; as ihe. ipeople, when forming should detferrainej that the pubho slave trade in the District of Columbia should he'abolishedrwithout affecting the existence of slivery in the District: and that new and nzorou provisions ror the re-capture of fugitive aUyesf It ispufed constitutionality should he adopted. and that on thse condiMens C.Ui-fornia should be admitted as a free State. this ftomnrornise was to the people of the free States, acquiescen nevertheless practically Obtained by artlomn insurances, made on -oe ipscencs was means made on 'behalf of the 1 slaveholdlng States, 'iliaf. the was and should he forever rcgnrJfd fiqal adiustmcnVof the slarpry question-A new.

Congress convened, in Deoeiuber, 1851. liepreseataiive ru States d.M.rmded a renewed pledge or edel-ity to It was Rented by the Uousa of Representatives on the ollow- inz terms Thai we recoznize the binding efficacy joLtharcomprouisea1efrthft Comity tution, and believe to. be the intention o. the people generally, as wo hereby declare it to be ours individually, to abi lo by sueh compromises, and sustain the laws necessji-ry to carry them out; the provisions for the delivery of fugitive slaves, and the act of the last Congress.tor tbat purpo include id, and thit we depnseftte all further agitation or questions in the jacts of the last Congress Wwo as the compromise, and of questions generally connected with the institution of slavery as unnecessary, useless and danzerpus. A'few months subsequently the U9mo-cratie National Convention met at IJMti more, and assuming tiio sentiments of the Democratic party set forth in platform, that tha Duoioeratio party will resist ail attempts at renewing Conzress or out of it.

the azititbn qf the slavery aairiA aitv. anil, assumms lue ngut 10 declare the sentimenta of the Whig party, said tr ilonrertiita all further asitation of the questions thus settled as dKerous to our peace, andi will disc)untnnoo all er-foit to continue or renew such agitation, whenever, wherever and however in iJe. I he present Administration was elected on the principle of adherence to the the President refernnz to it his inaugural speech, defjared that the which had been secured by it, mat he disturbed durin his term of Olhce. The President recurrioz to the same renewed bis pledze in his mesaage to Congress at the beffinnin of the present i- he followinz Imzuaze ii.it. idifierenees pt onlnion and sentiments which there existed in relation ti details and specific provisions, the acquiescence of distinguished citizens whose devotion to the Union jCn never bo has ariren renewed vizor to our institutions, and restored a sense 0 repose and security to the pu'dic mind throughout tha Confederacv.

That this repose is to suflfer no shock durinz my oSeial terra, if 1 have the power to avert it. those who placed me here may be assured." 1 1 these circumstances the propoi tion to repeal the Missouri Compromise was suddenly and unexpectedly made by the same Committee on Territories, which only ten diys before had arSrmed thi sanctity of the Mfssonri Compromise, and declared the end of agitation in the following exphcit and nnraistakible language: Your Committee do not fecl themselves' nllpd tinon to enter into i idiscussion of thosa controverted They involve the same "grave issues which produced the agitation, the sectional strife, and the far. ul stru''le of 1850. As Conzress deemed it wise and ptuient to refrain from deciding the matters in controversy, then, either by affirming or repealing tho Mexican-laws, or by an act declaratory of the true intent of the C'onstitotion, and tho- extent of. the protection afforded by it to slave property in the so.

your Committee are prepared now to recommend a depart mo from tho course pursued 1 upon that memorable occasion, either by aHirmins or repealing the eighth section of the Missouri act. or by any act declaratory of the of the constitution in respect to the legal points in The abrogation has been effected in pursuance of tho demands of the Administration itself, and by means of its influence in Conzress. In tho House of Representa tives, that body which is more immediately responsible to the people, the contest was more equal than in the Senate, though it is due to justice and candor that it should be stated that it could not have been carried in either, House without the, votes of the Representatives from the free Stajes. The minority resisted the attempts to arrest discussion upon the grave through a struggle of longer dora'tioh than any other known to the Congressional historyi Sime attempt was4 afigmatize tha4ia nority rfs factionlsts, yelf We fearlessly declare that throughout the contest'! they resorted solely to. the powers secured to them by the laV and the rule the House, and the passage of the measure through the House, was effected through a subversion of its rules by the majority, and the exercise of a power uuprecedented in the annals of Congressional legislation.

The deed is done. It is done with a clear proclamation by the Administratibn jand by Congress, thai the principla which it rontains extends not enly to Kansas and Nebraska, but to all the other territories now belonging to the United and to all I which may hereafter bs acqjired. It has been done unnecessarily and wantonly, because there was no pressure for the organization of governments lof KansaCaJ.iNebr;aska, neither of which territories ijontained one lawful inhabitant I who I wai jcitizen of, the United States, and ibecauai there was not oaly no danger of disunfoa apprehended, but by this reckless measure the free States have lost all the guarantee for. freedom in the territories contained in former cqmpro while all the States, both slave and free, have lost the guarantees of harmony and unienwhieh those Compromises It seems plain td that, fatal as the 'measure is in these respeota, is is only a cover for. broader propagandism of slfcvery.

in the future; iTheSobject of the Adraiuis "tration, and of the many who represent the, slave as iwe believe, to pepare the way for annexing'Cuba at whatever cost, and a like annexation half a dozen question under whatever snape or coior ie attempt may be made, 'toon afterwird another National Convention in 1 a Bllili. WAsatxcTovrW9dnes Jay, June 21. At a roeetingof tbamemhers of Consres? who opposed the passage of the bill to or-Jiiiie' the ofHNebraek ftnd Kansts. held pursaint to the City the 2)th day June, instant, theIlon. Solomon oot, Vermont, was elected Chairman, ami the Hon: Daniel Mce, of Indiana, and the Hon.

Heubei K. New York, were appointed Secretaries. -A. A Committee appointed for tha parpose, reported an Address to the People of the United States, which having been diiensaed and amended, unanimously adopted, and ordered to be published. to tub rserL or tub vsvttD states.

The eiffhth section of the 'Act for the Ad-mission of Mi souri into the Union, known as tne xuissoun infrftJuction of slaterv; into the regions Lhnifn A4 1 Kansas and Nebraska, forever, prohibited, has i been 1 hat Law, which, in I820i quieted a controversy which menaced the Union, and whmh von hare so lone reposed, is obliterated from the statute boak.g We had oo reason to expeot any such proposition when we assembled here six mooths aeo, nor did you expect H. No State, no em-sen of any State, demanded the repeal. if a dutv we one to the country. to state the proands upon which we have stead-fastlv, though ioeffeotually, this aUruiinz and dangerous act. You; need not be told' that- the slavery question lies at the bottom of it.

As it was the slsve-holding power that demanded thi enactment of the Missouri Compromise, ao it is the tame power that has now de manded its abrogation; African Slavery was regarded and de-r nooncedas a great evil by the American Colonies, even before the Revolution; and those Colonies, which are! now slave-hold, inz Mates, were equally earnest in such remonstrances with those wbi-h are now free States. Colonial laws, framed to prevent the increase of Slavery, were vetoed by the of Cr.it exercise of uri.i'rmrT nnr to enlff'e and perpetuate a system universally regarded as equally wrongful in itself, nnd injurious to the Colonies, was one ol the causes of the Involution. Tben the war as ended there was an imperious necessity for the instittijn of some government in the then unoccurid Territories of the United State. In l84, Jefferson proposed, anJ in 178T the Continental Cingress adopted, jthe ordinance for the goverr.mentof the territory lyinz northwest of Ohio, by which! it was declared that there shall be neither Slavery or involuntary servitude ekcept for the punishment of crime. The grat and iflonrishing States organized within that te-ritory, on tha! ba-n at that ordinance, are endurinz tuonu- ments of the statesmen ol the Revolution.

The foreign slave trade was reani-id as the source of American Slavery, which it jwas believed, wuld be dried op when that fountain should he closed. In adopting the constitution, it was so universally aa ticipated that the foreign slave trad would he promptly prohibited, that all parties acquiesced in a stipulation postponing that measure till ISD5. me lorein siave iraae whs nrohibited- thus the source of slavery was understood to be dried up, while the introduction of slavery into the Territories was prohibited. The slavery question, bo far as it was a national one, was understood to be fiaally settled, and at the same time the States had already taken up and were carryingvforward a system! of gradual emiti-eintion In 1S03. Lonislana was acquired ly purchase irom trance, ana: laomueu what is now known as the Stat of Louis- iana, Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa, and the territories known as Kansas and Nebraska.

Slavery existed at the, time in New Orleans and at St. Louis, and so this purchase resulted in bringing the slavery question again before Congress. In 1812 the region immediately, surrounding New Orleans -applied for "admission into the Union under the name of the State of Louiti-ana, with a constitution tolerating slavery, and the free States acquiesced. Kizht years afterwards the regioa connected with St. Louis demanded admiss'on under the nimo of the State of Missouri, with a constitution tolerating slavery.

The free States reverted to the principle jof 1787, and opposed the admission of Missouri, unless she would incorporate into her constitution an inhibition of the further introduction of slavery into the State. The slave-holding States insisted upon her unqualified admission. A controversy aroso whica was sectiooal and and which we are assured by cotemporaoeous history seriously imperilled the Union. The statesmen of that day in Conzress settled the controversy by By the terms or this compromise the free States. assented to theiadmission.

of Missouri with her slave-holding constitution, while the slavehold-ing Statei cn 'their part yield ad the exclusion of iavery in all the residue of farritq-ry which lay narth of 36 deg. 30 con-stitutinz the present territory of Kansas j. 1 end Nebraska. "The slaveholding States nccepted the compromise as a triumph, and the free States have ever since left it undisturbed and unquestioned. Arkansas, a part of the territory of, Louisia ia, which lay south of 3d deg.

3d in compliance with an 1 implicatioq wliich was contained in this compromise, was afterward admitted as a slaveholding St ite. and the free States acquiesced. In 1819 Florida, a slarebold-' ing Province of Spain, was acquired. This Province was afterwards admitted as a slaveholding State. The free States again acquiesced.

In 1845 Texas, ao independent slaveholding State, was annexed, and. with a provision in the article of, annexq tion for the subdivision "of her territory into five States. The free States, although they regarded the annexation, with the probable, increase of the number of slave States, with very great disfavor, nevertheless acquiesced azaia. 1 New territories were Required by the treaty of peace which ciosM'tbe war with, Mexco. The people of Ca! jrme.aconStv.tution'fhhibit-Ihg ery, andipphed for admissioo into the Violent op position made by the thve States in.

and out of Congress, threatriog Che diisolutioh of the Union if CaJirtrma should, be admitted' Proceeding on the ground of these alarms Congress adopted another compromise, the terms of which were, that ten million dollars of the peoples money should be given to Texas to mdn? her, toirelinquish a very doubtful glaus pon aa inconsiderable part of New a The business men of Muscatine shouiu inwe this matter while it is yet tunc. They can only move effectually by pur, to run between this in an east i a iim wvww trace 01 eaiiei west direction ana uauy innre ahiftintf that war, ana as wge i- of it passes now through Muscatine, there can be no doubt that ucn an invest ment on the capital stock would pay a good interest, i But if 1 the boat should make nothing if it should only dear expenses, enteroriie would be a paying one by effect on our trade. A small, near, ooai, sufficient for the, purpose, could probably purchased for four 'or five thousand -1 i-" We suggest the propriety of our busi ness men immediately calling a meeting to consider this measure of self -defence. Pbooecssiko Backwakds. -Time was when we were favored with a daily mail between this place and Iowa' City, but now it is carried only tri-weekly.

Of course, as this is one of the roost impor tant routes connecting with the new. arrangement creates much dissat isfaction. If the matter was properly represented to the Department, we doubt not the daily line would be resumed. Failed Aoais. The steam ferry boat Eagle, freighted with material and fixture, be used in the construction of the railroad bridge at Moscow, attempted to ascend Cedar river last but' without Uuccess, the water having again fallen.

The boat returned to this place Monday afternoon, and discharged the cargo, which will be hauled to Moscow in wagons r. 'T 1 lit fl" A large locomotive' Was on the steamer Hindoo, at our landing, Monday afternoon, destined for Galena, for the Illinois Central Railroad. It was the first locomotive that ever visited Muscatine. The Cholera is prevailing in Chicago, though to what extent we are not inform ed, as the papers do not publish reports, though they state that some or their cast citizens have fallen victims. The cholera is reported lo be very rioient in ThirJy deaths are said to have occurred there one day.

Know-Nothings have swept everything at the city election in Memphis from Mayor down. Ta David A. Starkweather, of Ohio, is appointed Minister to Chili. Rine peaches made their appear ance in the St. Louis market.

By Telegraph. Arrival of the Baltic. FOUR DAYS LATER NEWS FROM EUKOPE. THE SIEGE OF SILESTRIA. Desperate Fighting Brilliant Success of the lurks and immense Slaughter of the Russians Jtfuss 3 Pasha KUlet.

New Vork. July 8. The U. S. mail steamer Baltic arrived at this port at one o'clock this morniog.

She left Liverpool at 1 o'clock on Wednesday June 2Sth making the run in 9 days 15 hours and 53 minutes by iltam alone. A private letter from Constatinople, dtted June 14, contains news from Silestria. of which the following is the sum: After the attack on the 29th of May, which was described as sanguinary, the Russians returned to prepare for a fresh assault, on the 31et. They ad- TinctM with force, and renewed the assault in the same order as before. After a prolonged and bloody struggle the Russians were lepulsed, and the same evening icover of a flag or truce, demanded permission to take off their dead, who aro not less than 3,000.

i i On the 2d the eeneral assault took place and the whole of the Russian flo-f tills bombarded the town, but by the truly heroic intrepidity of the Tui ks and the excellent management of their generalin-chief, the Russians were again victoriously beftten The victory, however, cost the Turks dear, as they lest their gallant' chief Mussa Pasha who was in the aide by the fragment of a grenade. The same night a mine which had been carried under the first Turkish battery was destroyed by a countermine. Four hundred Rusiians were blown into the air, and under cover of the confusion that followed, the Ottomans sallied out. The enemy were routed in all irec? tions, and the entrenchmnts taken. -The total loss of tLe nusiaua in their assaults fronTu io ji tboasar 4 ia killed, while the'Turks'lost'butlittle in proportion.

Resim Pasha, who had left Shumla lor that purpose, approached Silestria with divisions of 2U.0UO men. Letters received at Coustantino-i pie from Shumla, dated June 4th, state thai iresb attacks' had been made against Silestria on the 31st of May and 2d of in which the Turks obtained the teost tiiijiiut ucce. in of of i these additions to the United States, it will demand urioondi'iohal sohmission on- tb part of th free States, and failing in that deiHARd aitfcrapt a wunarawai oi toe elava Statei, and' the organization' of a separata empire in the ceotr.il region of the cocti. nent Krom an act souniust and wrongful in itself, and frauzht with consequences jo fearfat, we appeal to the people. Vp.

peal in no sectional spirit. We appeal to thenurtn anu io buuvhw ins ireeina to thl slayehotding States iihemselTetv it is noUime for exazeration or for pasaion, and we therefore speak calmly of the tusr and warn you in sober seriousness of tho I future. would not become us, nu? I necessary to suggest the i'nea8ures Wbieh quoht to bi adopted in tbis'great em ren- cV. For iiirselves, we are reaay to 4il that enail.oe infsuripwww rriure idi Missouri Compromise, nnd to execute mch furt'i'pr measures as you in your wnJoa shall pommand, and as, may i be tejeijarj for the recovery of the grdund lost to frw. prevent further aggrejsloj of slavery I DLOMON FOOT, Chairman.

Daxikl Mack, Secretaries. 1 The meeting was fully, attended, and the address is endorsed by all the Anti braska mfctnbers of Congress. J. Iowa Items. -4 The Progressive Era, a democratic paper published at Cedar Rapids, is cut I in favor of a prohibitory Liquor Law.

"J.Mr. candidaie for Congress in I 1st District, is accused of having kct bar or a hogro 111 Anti-NxbraskiuPabty. We fn4 ia the IjLirlington Te egraph a call for 0 man conventiori of the opponents of the braska Bill, lo be held at 3arlingon, next Saturday, I5lh in'sf. The avowed ubject is to: consider lh propriety of nomina ing CinJidates for the Stall Leglslatute. The call isUigned by manj of most prominent4 rnri in Dcsraoiwi couMy, boilh whigs and democrats.

Elections. The fotbvving are lo be fveld at the following times: Iowa. A'uL'iist 7 CcilifgrtH'a. SeplcmbrrOj Veimoiit, September 5 Maine, II 11 Pennsylvania, October 10; qhio, October 10 i IhJianalOciober.lO; Massacnuselts. November 13 ew York.

November 7 Kew Jersey, Nov, 7 i i Michigan, Nov. 1 Wisconsin, Nov 7. 1 MAKHD.LsTrTn, edilor ol the Madison Plaindealer, was niarrie! onCe3rd to Miss Mary 13. Lee county. Deaihlof a votary of Udfbrookt who has sq much lowan-.

simplifying ihe nitural sciences, found downed in a creek in Virgin ihe lOlh Wt. probably fell fJ, cliff on which he Was look ing for gcoioe cal srecimens. Ah Argument fob Beabol ShsJJs occupies, on an average, fil' uies. A man who shaves every jtoraj. lor fitiy years thus employs thatu 380 days, of 12 bata Is this a applicjiHOtt 01,0 fleeting riiomeiit? I 1 'iPorl oi gkiiscatis JDtT itlAMIR, RllTHt W8M MoiMUyj Ift; J.

McKe. To Ige, i 'Hamburgh; M. I. BurJ I VorJi Siste, Crifflih. i- "vL, 6 Vlienw.dni, Lviel Sl; Caleb Cr ir' 'I tl fUW.

Ij.imsrtiner W1IIIHB UUt ui-ue, FRESH AERIYAii Atj HENEY HOOVEB'S tne bh solrt Mprlos th will asti'h i i 1'. 1V har tcP been oldt in ttf p' ill, 12, 1854 -twtf HESBlfggJ I cn ehp St Lo JJ iVI Jmv it. Ai LARtiE LOI of Fraia gooVP. tb cha.pt. JvU'w KLi Dissolution of Co.PcnS;J -T0riCJES it herebf giie tht tat i en than lor payment, or4 1 wlrl indited H'Jlsi inoriiMt stu ifl uouui q7maRSh- The baiioesi win ooatlnued Marshall.

Musoayn? Jul 8, KW-Jl IWUUI. rwpotfolly iaiut tmra (befure parchasioeelsewberrj gnlf ffOdd. which JW i 1 tween these two points, as over the three hundred 'miles between St. Louis end Muscatinel Twenty to twenty-five cents per hundred is charged, for freight, and one of our citizens paid twenty-five cents epieca for bedsteads. The result is, that merchants in the interior are beginning to stop, their freight from the East at Davenport, and haul it home rather than pay sueh prices.

This has been the case at Iowa City, although Muscatine is twenty-five miles nearer than Davenport. When it becomes cheaper to haul goods twenty-five miles in wagons than to carry them thirty miles on steamboats, it is time to JT, think of some means of putting a check on tHsrirer monopoly. I See what we are losing by this shifting cf trade. When wagons are sent here for goods something is usually 'purchased or sold.4 The wagoner and his neighbors take that opportunity to sell their produce andbuycry goods and groceries. Besides, this shifting of trade will assist in building up at Davenport to compete with ours.

Farmers wagons go ing 10 marvec win oe incunea to tail in company with the merchants' wagons. Thus, in a variety of ways we are threat ened with injury by steamboat monopoly. Ita efiects, if not will extend through ten or more counties. AgaHi, snrreyrs were to start ouVes terday morning, to lay off a State road from Marietta to Fort Dodge. It will be fin ished by the lime the Legislature meets.

when it is expected that it will be recognized as a Stale if our Senator and Representatives and others interested, attend to their duty, as it is to be presumed they will. There being already a good road Marietta, connection will be complete betwen the fertile and rapidly growing region around Fort Dodge and Muscatine, which is the nearest point on the Missis-, sippi. Pretty soon the very excellent counties cf Humboldt, Kossuth, Emmett and Palo Alto, lying1 north of Webster, win be settled up, and their valuable trade i may be drawn here if this Rock Island tad Muscatine river monopoly should not frighten it away 'in advance. We hall ndJartheT advantage in their trade being adready'set in this direction, when we come to intmect at 'Cedar the Dubuque, Fort Dodge and Tloyd's Bluffs Railroad. To recapitulate.

This river monopoly threatens Injuriously td affect our present an! prospective trade with the counties of Io.Cdar, Story, Jones, Linn, Benton,.