Show THE E at elmir EASTERN lf MAIL mall cw jj jrr bithe mail from st joseph arrived on monday azout about noon but as anticipated the news was nob not inot as late as that received by the pony express the latest dato from new york and other eastern cities being only to the 0 2 march and ania from the frontier a a few days later Con congress grisk griss has done little or nothing r since the hous houe ideas ewas organized but to quarrel about the silvery s i avery arery T question and not a few of the members are badly troubled about polygamy they do not seem to know what to do with it as the mie more itis handled the more thorny thorns it appears appeal a to some of those who would like to see it suppressed by a law of congress it if it could be done without involving other questions of i vital importance to the existence of their re aie sie etive clive parties r the following from a corres correspondent p ondene of the N Ye leial aal ial illustrates to I 1 some extent the I 1 ps position bof 1 of things t in relation to the matter and what is expected to be gained by those who are agitating the he question polygamy in utah is is at last presented in the nice solution of a party question before congress the bill of 0 mr nelson of tennessee southern opposition man reported from the judiciary committee today to day for the suppression sion bion of this mormon nuisance of licentiousness brings up the question of the jurisdiction of congress over the territories in a very interesting shape share and from the objection of mr nir houston of alabama to the immediate louthern passage assa e of this billbe bill we perceive that he as a southern man discovered at once that it was a tr trojan troian pan pin horse against the institution of slavery in jn the territories if congress can abolish polygamy in utah can it not abolish sl slavery arery in new mexico if we grant the I 1 power dver over over the one subject we must concede it over oyer the other we may therefore expect the unbroken lien liem vote vac of the southern democrat democracy cy against I 1 this bill for the suppression of polygamy when it again comes up but doubtless the bill will be passed over their objections by a large majority kle kie ole IV will go to the senate I 1 and there it will be stifled this is what the r 1 ep m s expect but their main purpose will nevertheless be gained which is the presentation of the democratic party to the country from the evidence of the journals of of both houses as a part party prepared to tolerate and defend all the horrible mormon crimes connected with their beastly abomination of polygamy rather than consent to any step a against v ainest them which would concede the power on t part of congress to prohibit slavery jn in the territories this issue raised upon the stump will be calculated to exert a prodigious influence among the religious elements of the country as may be conjectured partly from the fact that mr nelson who reported this bill is a methodist preacher thus the republican gramme pro of bostil hostility til t to those twin relics of barbarism polygamy olega and sla sli slavery vervyl veryll will assume in 1860 a much more definite shape upon both questions than it assumed in 1856 and that polygamy especially is to be made a natural con of slavery in the territories the elic election tion in nebraska for delegates to the convention to form a constitution preparatory to admission into the union resulted in favor of the republicans who elected about three fourths of the members the conven 06 11 howe verwill not be held as there was a sya sma N against a state organization j there were nob not not nob quite four thousand votes gast cast at the election IV H bissell governor of illinois died at springfield vav kab on the of march |