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WASHINGTON CITY THURSDAY MORNING. WEPT. *4, 1867 *r*r. bus. K. jajum, N*. 1U KuuUi Ti-nlli *trwt, nuladelpl ? our general travailing agent, wauled by Wm- M. W?u?, Joint 0 uj?, Jamb lMvuao, J. lUMjurr, it. 8. Jajub tm*. d. Nkm, B- w. Hi hwi, k. w. Wiurr, Wm. l. wimuui, axax h ca**w, ii k h Tin, Un V 8*in, T. Aauui, ud P. r>>>? M-Mr HL>nr M ljwu, Mimlgomery, Alabama, In NT general tri ailing agent lbr the Stalea of Alabama and Tauneaaoe, aaslated JambO Ijtwia aad H. M. Una,Jr. ?arHr. c w. Jajuh, No- 1 Harriaon street, Onctanau, Ohio, Is < general .oik- (In# a#ent?*?be Wurtem states and Texas, asetsted H. J TUajasa, Wiuaam H Thomas, Tana. M. Jamb, Dr. A. L. Out (igoam; Hmuus, and IbtMAKu Iaau. RrfeiptA ef either will be goot an emphatic condemnation ok biack rj PUBLICAN ISM. That black-republicanism has forfeited all claim respect by honest, well-meaning men in New Yoi as well as elsewhere, is most indubitably establish' by evidence which political effrontery cannot den and too clear for impudence to dispute. It isallegi that a committee of one branch of black-repablica ism in that State were recently in session and e pressed opinions upon acts of party. The true a count of the action of that meeting has become f subject of newspaper controversy in the Stat Lieut. Governor Selden questions the accuracy the published statement. His known persor character for honesty and integrity precludes t possibility of his intending to deceive. But on tt very account it is not probablo that he was fully ? prised of all that occurrod, openly and privately, few really honest men of that party were ever adm ted fully to all the secrets. But what really occi red, whether known to him or not, is thus stated the Buffalo Republic, edited by as high-minded man as exists in that party, and reiterated from pc sonal knowledge after the disclaimer by Lieut, tic Seidell, as follows: "The radical democracy were represented in that coi inittee by James S. Wads Worth, Ward Hunt, Robi Campbell, John ti. Floyd, Philip S. Crook, Henry It. S den, Henry J. Sickles, Ira Godfrey, William G. Web William M. Groig, Charles H. Sherril, and others, a but one opinion prevailed, as a term of resolutions, whi were unanimously adopted, would show, if published, a that was denunciatory qf the general actum of the republic legislature of last winter. All the members of the comui tee appeared to feel that the republican 'machine' h been 'run' for the benefit qf s few political speculators, a that the time liad come for the radical democracy, if th desired to maintain their high character for politwal int rify, to insist on a better state of things, and to dcmn that they should not be mnde parties to plundering and i advised legislation. They were unanimous in their action Ac., Ac. The reiteration by the Republic contains the fi lowing: " We do not, of course, know from whom the Erpr obtained its information, but we can assure that jourr that a serif* nf TfiirJtiisnnm tsesk nrn ?1 ? v u? .VO IV, U adopted unanimously. It was not thought best to give tin publicity, and hence they were not published." That the radical democrats in the black-republic rankB condemned the action of that party cannot reasonably doubted. TELEGRAPHIC LINE TO THE PACIFIC. "What a wonderful people wo are ! The restle and daring spirit of enterprise never sleeps. T success of one great nieasuro is but the inccnti and the stimulant to attempt something else?son thing greater, better, more difficult. The first ste being successfully taken to carry the great ovorla mail from the Mississippi to California, we see i stantly projected the bold enterprise of constru ing a continuous line of telegraph, to extend fr< the Father of Waters to the shores of the l'acii At the first glance it looks liko a stupendous und taking, yet, when wo consider the character, talei and energy of the gentlemen engaged in it, wo ca not doubt for a moment but that they will succec They did succeed in similar enterprises when te graphing was in its infancy, and when works of th Ikind were more difficult of execution in the th condition of things than Hub will now be, with the present advantages of experience and scien to aid it. The public wills it; Congress ai it; tho projectors prosecute it, and tho thing donol Wo see by a published circular, that Hen O'Reilly, John J. Speed, and John Butferford ha associated themselves together to carry this impo ^.oomwiu uauuuu. j neir names, their c porience, and their great success in similar entt prises, are a sufficient guarantee, that if they a properly sustained, the proposed line will bo cornpl ted in less that eighteen months. First the overlai mail, then the telegraph line, then tho great I'aci railroad quickly following, and thus will be bou together, indissolubly and forever, the people of t extremes of our mighty country. These things rrii be?will be. Measures so important to our stabilil unity, happiness, and prosperity will be speedi and successfully carried out. A friend writing to us concerning tho loss of tl Central America, alludes to the necessity of establis ing a telegraphio lino, in the following wordi "Important as is tho newly-established mail roul how much more important is the speedy establis tnent of a telegraph line, that will bind together electric unity the extremities of our glorious confcder tion. When, and where, could such groat resul be produced so speedily and with such modera means, as by the completion of a telegraphic line fro the Mississippi to the Pacific? The late shocking ci tastrophe gives an impulse to the popular anxiety f( this great enterprise. Millions of people throug out the Union would bo relieved from torturing su pense, were the telegraph ready to transmit quci tions and answers between the Atlantic and Pacif States concerning those who were, or were no among the victims in tho Central America. The sa< rifice of so many human beings is bad enough ; hi the uncertainty and suspense concerning the persoi who were, or were not, in the ill-fated ship widens in mensely the circle of anxiety, among the millior whose kindred and friends are connected with ("a! fomia?uncertainty that must continue with increa ing fervency, until the name.i of the victims shall t: ascertained by the comparatively slow process of tli mails." Considerations like these will add force to th popular demand for the speedy construction of thi telegraphic line, and that demand will not cease ti the work is completed. THE PBOKPECT IN OHIO. The Ohio Statesman says: "We are by no means of an over-sanguine temper ment, and we therefore feel the more justified in deciarir to our friends everywhere that the prospect for a complel democratic victory next October is of the meet flnttcrin character. The struggle now going on between the poi tics is one of extreme severity ; but, from the first day < the canvass, the conviction has been strong in the min of every democrat, and of very many of the republican! that the democracy are destined to achieve a triump most signal and sweeping.'' HLAC'K REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT KANSAS AD MOT'ED AH A SllKK 8TATK We have often expressed our convictions that tin __ ! black republicans were ojiposed to Kansas beiuj >u* admitted as a free State, but that the object of th& "'K party fa to keep all matters tliere open for agitatioi m with reference to elections, and particularly the nex iv - presidential canvass. W& now have material evi bj ! deuce upon this point. Henry Wilson, United Statei senator in Massachusetts, has recently been in Kan *" I ' by I sas, and of course to shape events there fO suit tin purposes of his party with Reference to the presen | and future eleetfdhk. The Massachusetts Bay 8tatK_ | sayk 11 has the name of a person who heard Wilsoi j make the following declaration to his friends in Kan to sas?Lane, Robinson, and others?which wo have n< k, doubt is true: Bd " Do not vote at the October eiectum. IaU then form a slat State. Aid thetn to do so if you eah ttt&Absd ?upkion. This i alt the capital we ask for the next presidential election.'' This discloses the object of Wilson and his party and which they are seeking to carry out to the ut most extent. They expect to elect Banks, Chase and Wilmot by the aid Of this Kansas legerdemain. These views are fortified by an article in the Steu *' behVillfe Union, published in Ohio by a black-repub j llcan member of Congress who has recently beet I making the tour of Kansas. Hit developments con clusively establish lite views which we have hereto fore expressed. In that paper he says : ^ " Every street, corner, and "doggery," of which evei as in this old 'Massachusetts' town there wore not a few it- had its crowd of disputants. Hero I found Jaines H Lane, who invited me over to his wigwam, where w took a smoke and talked over matters. He justifies hi in course and that of the ultra free-Stele men of which h a is the leading spirit, upoh ^It'cumstances upon which hi alleges the peoo'e Va the free States know little or noth !r" ; 'nS- 1 Alio met Governor Robinson, General Pomeroy >V? Mr. Jenkins, Dr. Cutter, 8. N. Wood, and otlier notabil ities of the free-State party. The prinrii>al topic was thi | lopeka legislature, then about to assemble. No om ?- seemed to know precisely what they were going to do wt no plan seemed agreed xtptA, and the more prudent oc el- knowledged that the whole prooccding was a farce, whicl ih, they srarcely knew how to get out of with any kind o od credit. They were determined not to vote for member ch for the constitutional convention, but avowed that the; nd would vote for members of the territorial legislature nex an October, when they expected to carry every election dia 11- trict in the Territory. 1 endeavored to understand then id on the hypothesis of consistency, hut could not. The; id would not vote at tho constitutional election, bccausi cy that would recognise the bogus legislature ; but the; r3~ would vote In Octolier for delegates to Congress, and fo od legislative officers under the same 'bogus law.' "They also avowed their intention of voting down tin constitution, whether good or had, saying that they hat a majority, and would make a constitution in their owi jl_ time, anil such a one as they wanted. To a suggestioi that it would be of vast interest to the prosperity of thi Territory to haVe political matters settled immcdiatel; ej* and finally, the reply wo., that such a settlement migh ml tend to biuld up the 'd d democratic' party, wldcl ert they desired to see crushed to atoms. ;m "I withdrew, more than ever convinced that the free State leaders do not desire to see peace or fraternal feel au ing prevail among the people. Their object is to kec] ' Kansas bleeding for the purpose of furnishing black-re ',c publican electioneering capital in the States. Lookinj over the whole field, and after mixing with the people o tlje Territory for nearly a month, such a conclusion force Itself upon me irresistibly." 88 NEW YORK KNOW-NOTHINGS AND THE BIBLE, lie ? Underrating tho intelligence of tho people, ani ve presuming they would not see through a politica K ~ sham, the Now York know-nothings at a recent Stab P8 convention resolved that tho Bible should be read b; all men, and ought not to be excluded from Bclioola 1 Unfortunately for this exhibition of hypocrisy, no om c*" questions the propriety of reading the Bible both ii ,nl and out of schools, although the conmiendableness o doing so aeems to be a recent discovery in that part; er not favorably illustrated in the practice of its members it ' After this formal profession in favor of principle new to itself, though old to the democracy, wo horn a' to witness in its future course something of tha Bible charity for all mankind which lias been hereto fore unknown in its practice. The doctrines of tin ? Bible show that Heaven is largo enough to contaii Hll the whole human family, and that all who believe ii j its precepts and practiso their requirements ma; lawfully enter, and that neither special beliefs no: modes of worship nor birthplace create any obstacle If the know-nothings shall read and understand tin Bible and act upon its precepts, we shall expect ti see them abandon their leading and distinguishiuf features, and practically conform to tho charitable benign, and liberal principles of the democracy, whicl they drew from the Bible itself. ,ro ; le- THEY LOVE INFAMY RATHER THAN TRUE nd MERIT, tic Prior to the adveut of know-nothing ism, in seek nd ing associations men turned their thoughts to sucl he as would give them honorablo consideration among ist their fellow-men. This political sect has introducec ty, a new class of associations, designed and calcula ly ted to produce terror among the lovers of order peace, and quiet, and to drive them from the enjoy he inent of their privileges as American citizens. A h- few days since, Baltimore, the headquarters of tha J : party, was blessed with a gathering of this class o te, the faithful. Delegates attended from lodges, 01 h- clubs, bearing the following names, indicating theii in peculiar personal and associate qualities : a- "Tigers, black-snakes, stay-lates, plug uglics, rough skins, hard times, little fellows, blood tubs, dips, ranters, and rip raps." Fortunately, no party can long exist, or prosper m whose body and soul is made up of such materials 1 and whose practical operations illustrate their char^ acteristic and appropriate names. 8- "THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT." s- At a meeting convened in London September 1 ic with reference to a proposed improvement of the t, navigation of the Indus river, the chairman, Mr. J, A. Turner, M. P., in some very appropriate and sonit sible observations on the great difference between is "talk" and "action" in giving effect to any real, peril inanent works of improvement, hits off his associates is in the "cotton-panic" movements as follows : |j. " He was sorry to nay many of them In Manchester had been preaching the doctrine of a abort supply of cotton for many years, almost making themselves tiresome by >e their agitation ; hut the spinners appeared to l?e so satisie tied that as long as their accounts with their bankers were right they could go to Liverpool and get any amount ol cotton they wanted to carry on their mills ; that they had 10 come to the conclusion to go on as usual, and remain tolerably well satisfied. But the difficulty he had predicted was now coining upon them, and cither the mills must 11 1 stop or they must pay such a price for the raw material as would bring a lag of cotton to the value of a lag of silk. Even with this staring them in the face, though the executive of the Cotton Supply Association had expended a vast amount of labor, there was still an unaccountable spirit of apathy, and they had not supported *- the Cotton Supply Association as they ought to have done, ig He really felt most heartily ashamed of the order to which to he belonged." [Hear, and laughter.] ig 1 r- j Dr. Spccr, brother of Colonel A M. Speer, of Macon, >f Georgia, and son of Rev. A. Speer, of lag range, was d lately drowned in lake George, Florida, while on board i, of a small stonier going to Jacksonville for repair* Hie h steamer accidentally sinking, and Mr. Sjieer probably drowned by a negro who was clinging to him, - I EDUCATION W frOKTB CABOUNA. We have before us a pamphlet copy of.the tddreftk 8 delivered in July laat before the State Educational 5 Association of North Carolina, by William W. Hol* i dtn, esq., of K&leigh. Mr. Holden is favorably it known to the country as the able and accoint plished editor of one of the most influential demo* i cratio journals in the South. In the new character s in which he now Appears he has not only laid the * ! citizens of his native State under obligations for his 8 gratifying exposition of the present commendably t liberal system of public instruction in North Caroli8 ! na, but he has brought together an array of startling 1 facts in regard to the school systems of other States, the publication of which, we think, will lead to the 0 most beneflciil results. A large portion of the address is occupied with * facts and figures in relation to the common-school system' and common-school fund of nearly all the dates. From those facts and figures Mr. Holden de. duces the following results: The average length of the schools of Maine, whose sys' tern is in a highly-flourishing condition, is four months and three weeks ; of New Hampshire, five months; of - North Carolina, four months. K Maine distributes about 70 cents to the head of her white population ; New Hampshire about the same; Vir1 I glolft, 8 cents ; Connecticut nearly one dollar ; North . ) Carolina, about 50 cents ; Pennsylvania nearly the same j as Connecticut ; and New York and Ohio a fraction h over one dollar each to their total white population. North Carolina, though her white population is 200,000 j less than that of Kentucky, expends noarly as much as . . she does for educational purposes. North Carolina lias a larger school fund than Maine, e or New Hampshire, or New Jersey, (by $1,500,000 ;) or ? Maryland or Virginia, (by $600,000 ;) or Massachusetts, s (by $500,000 ;) or Georgia, (by $1,600,000.) B North Carolina has as many colleges as Georgia, more academics by 100, and 2,000 more common schools. The two States are about equal in white population. ' North Carolina has more colleges than South Carolina, e more academics by 100, and nearly three times as many e children at school. Virginia lias 340,000 white population more than North ' Carolina ; yet the latter has quite as many colleges as the j former, as many academies, and five or six hundred more f public schools. s Kentucky has 200,000 white population more than * North Carolina ; yet the latter has as many colleges as t the former, as many academics, mole common sckools by _ 1,000, and as many children at school as she has. The j same is substantially true in the comparison between Tenf nesscc and North Carolina. , It must also be borne in mind that North Carolina f lias no large cities, like Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, , and Kentucky, to build up and sustain colleges aad high Bchools. Upon a calm review of the entire facts, it is neither imI modest nor unjust to assert that North Carolina is clearly ^ llllt'lUi UI ail II1C UIIKT Mttvcuviuiiig ovuvcn nrni uu nj^vcm j of public instruction ; while she compares favorably in B several respects with some of the New England and North,, western States. j But, though our educational condition nnd prospects arc j thus cheering, wc have only made a good beginning in the great work. There arc now from fifty to sixty thou. sand children in the State toho nevrr go to echool. We must . reach these also, or the most of them ; for in ten years nearly all of them who arc males will be citisens, and _ will vote to make laws to govern you, themselves, all , of us. What if they grow up in ignorance and vice, they f will not be the only sufferers 1 The intelligent, the vir? tuous, and the owners of property especially, are all deeply concerned in this movement ; and it behooves them to do everything that can be done, justly and with reason, to prevent, as well as to diminish, vice and crime. Ignorance creates injustice and crime ; injustice and ' crime create courts of law ; courts of law create taxes ; I and men of substance have these taxes to pay. ASSASSINATIONS IN ALEXANDRIA. k A despatch front Marseilles, published in tho Paris journals received by the lust mail, announces the B assassination at Alexandria, on tho evening of AuII gust 9th, of Gaotan Citati, chancellor of tho consu' late of Naples at that city. The assassination took 1 placo in the public square in Alexandria, and * the victim is represented as a gentleman of high B personal character and worth. It seems that dhring c the past year several assassinations have been per* petrated in tho streets of Alexandria by a band of * Italian desperadoes, especially Neapolitans and SicilB ians, and that tho Neapolitan consulate had institu1 ted the most rigid inquiries into tho causo and tho :l authors of these atrocious murders. Mr. Citati had t filled the office of chancellor but two months ; but r during that brief period he received several anony mous letters urging him to withdraw from the con3 sulate. These were unheeded, and the investiga3 tions under his vigilant and active supervision had ' resulted in a discovery that would have revealed the > motives and the principal perpetrators of these mur1 dcrs when his assassination, as above announced, occurred. The consuls general at Alexandria immediately held a consultation in rofcrenco to the propor measures to bo taken in view of such a condition of things, and it was unanimously agreed that the local j police should have power to enter every European r dwelling?a privilege hitherto forbidden by treaty stipj illations?and tho result has been that a thoroughly organized band of miscreant refugees, composed almost wholly of Italians, was soon discovered, and . the leaders at once delivered over to the proper auL thoritics. 1 MEAT FOR THE MILLIONS IN FRANCE. ^ The Russian journals announce the establishment r at St. Petersburgh of a society for the exportation of r prepared meats for consumption in France. The factories are to be erected in the south of Russia and 1 in Siberia, where horned cattle can be purchased at but little cost. The prepared meat can be sold at a much lower price than fresh beef. The process to be employed will be thatof Fastier, which is adopted at the imperial factory of Bordeaux. The charter has been confirmed by a ukase, bearing date July 23 last. The proprietors are five in number?four Russians, and ono Frenchman, M. Maximilien C'hallet? ? and the capital invested is 12,000,000 francs. The ' Russian laborers have already reached the place where operations are to be commenced, in tho midst of an open country, about two verstcs from Restofif, 1 and French colonists are also collecting in the same vicinity. The So/is, chartered at Marseilles by 1 Messrs. Challet & Co., has taken on board the workmon and the necessary implements. The first cargoes j of this desirable produce will be expected towards tho end of tlje present year. This new branch of industry, if successful, will r doubtless be felt, in the meat markets of France, in which exorbitant prices have so long ruled that, if it had not beon for the material reduction of duties on imported meats, forced upon tho government by the necessities of the people the last year or two, such description of food would have beon beyond the means of the large masses of those who make up j the populations of French cities. The Jefferson (Cass county) Gazette learns that the report of the killing of Judge Reagan, member of Congress elect for the district of Eastern Texas, his brother, and three other persons, in an affray at Palestine, Anderson county, turns out to be a hoax. Such a hoax, the Gazette truly remarks, is nnjustifiable. ^ ( DEI?Al?tMEMT NEWS. * ? M stats department Money Mark* al Frankfort. ? WhaoU and Win*. ?A corres- j ^ |Kiudent, under date of August 11, writes that "Frank w j fort is the monetary centre of the whole of Southern Oer- Q( many. Large amounts of money are deposited here and ^ | iuveate^l in public fund*. But ai the period of harvests p { these depositee are withdrawn, to be employed in the y purchases of grain. In the present year the investments w ; of that kind will be much larger than usual, because at speculation will be excited, not only by the abundance 0j and excellence of the grain harvest, but also because there is every prospect of a win* fumrst equal in quantity and y quality to the best vintage of tire present century. Frank- g, fort being in a great measure tire seat of the trade in the |H wines of the Hhone and Mayn, large purohases are to be e, expected from the capital centred here. There is, there- a fore, every probability of a scarcity of money during the jj months of October and November. After that period, p however, the money market will no doubt recover. The proprietors of vineyards, who during the last ten r( years liave had a series of bod harvests, were obliged to borrow money from the capitalists. These sums will now ih) returned, and invested in public funds or other gj securities, and at the same time the smaller agricultu- 0I rists will be enabled, by the abundant harvest, to sell a greater amount of produce, and ttie proceeds will also lind the way to the Frankfort capitalists. The end of the year, by these means, promises to be a period of plenty of money, provided that political events should not arise to beget a want of confidence. There Is no de- ' mand for American securities." P , u treasury department- ,, Claims for Return Duties.?Canal Boats and Barges.?Sub- jj joined is the circular recently issued by the Secretary of 0 the Treasury to the collectors and other officers of the customs in relation to return duties and canal boats and ^ j barges: " Claims for Return Duties.?Act August 8, 1846. Treasury Department, tl September 18, 1857. p With a view to the correction of any erroneous practice n that may prevail in regard to the certifying claims against ? the United States for the return of duties alleged to have b l>cen illegally exacted on foreign merchandise imported o: under the revenue laws, the attention o? collectors of cus- ti toms is called to the subject. si The power and authority given the Secretary of the fi Treasury by the second section of the act providing for el the refunding of duties paid in excess, passed August 8, o: 18-16, are restricted in terms to eases where the duties jt "have been illegally exacted." d In a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, o at December term, 1851, in the case of Lawrence vs. Cas- ci well et al., it is declared as follows : 11 " Where no such protest [stating specially the ground a| of objection] is made, the duties are not illegally exact- o ed, in the legal sense of the term, for the law lias confi- ei <led to the Secretary of the Treasury the power of deci- o ding, in the first instance, upon the amount of duties duo c: on tiic importation. And if the party acquiesces, and ol docs not, by his protest, appeal to the judicial tribunals, tl the duty paid 18 not illegally exacted, out is paid m one- r< dience to the decision of the tribunal to which the law 01 has confided the [tower of deciding the question.'' tl It is, therefore, strictly enjoined upon collectors to fur- al nish no certificate of claim for return of duties paid on imports, unless accompanied by the protest required by s< law, as construed in tho above judicial decision ; the cir- r< ciilar instructions of this department, No. 70, dated June fi 23, 1852, to be considered as still in full force, any sub- u sequent instruction or regulation in conflict therewith n being hereby repealed. ai Qnutl Boats ami Barges.?Act July 20, 1846. 8C t| By a decision of the United States circuit court for the y eastern district of Pennsylvania, at October term, 1856, y it litis been declared that tho exaction of fees for license, C4 or of hospital money, from canal boats or barges, when known to be in the habit of passing out of canals into Bl navigable rivers and liays, and transporting cargo by the f, aid of steamboats or propellers, is illegal, and not in accordance with the provisions of the act "to exempt canal _ boats from tho payment of fees and hospital money,'' n [Kissed the 20th of .Inly, 1846. 3 This department having acquiesced in the judicial de- q cision as above referred to, collectors and other officers of (j the customs are directed to discontinue the practice of ? making such charges under the circumstances recited ; r and in cases where they have already been made, and the a [Mirsons who have paid the Hame shall nuike application c to them for return of the money so exacted, such officers n are authorized and instructed to prepare and transmit the a proper certified statements in the several cases for the c consideration of the department. HOWELL COBB, ? Secretary of the Treasury. y INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. The Michigan Railroad.?Under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1856, making grants of land for railroad purposes to the State of Michigan, the construction of C railroads is authorized to unite at several points, among which is the following : From Aniboy, by Hillsdale and p Lansing, to some point on or near Traverse Bay. After \ considerable investigation, the General I mid Office has T decided that the lino of route as laid down on the map of Mr. Sherman is wholly unauthorized by law, and will n not be received as the basis of an adjustment, and is ac- r( cordingly rejected, because the line of the route is irregu- M !ar and the map is not shown to be foundod upon actual g location, survey, and staking off on the ground of the a: line of route. w Robbery of a Land Register't Office.?The following tele- w graphic despatch appeared in the Baltimore Sun of this t, morning: t< "DrurrjcB, (Iowa,) Sept. 21.?The register's office at 11 Fairbault, Minnesota, was robbed on the night of the v 15th of land warrants calling for ovor 30,000 acres of 0 land. A reward of $500 is offered for the detection of the thief.'' The above despatch having been noticed by tire Commissioner of the General Land Office, that officer immrdi- tl atcly telegraphed to the register at Fairbault for full par- C ticulars of the robbery, with the view of suspending pat t'liia uu muse wiirimitn nmcu nmy iuivq pwu hk'icn. u Prompt measures will be taken in this matter. n Settlement* of the Mormcn* on the Upper Platte.?Subjoined ^ is the letter of Indian Agent Twins, detailing the circum- ti stances attending the settlements of the Mormons on the Upper Platte: Indian- Agency or tiik Upper Platte, 0 On Itaw-IIide Creek, July 13, 1857. 0 Sir : In a communication addressed to the Indian of- ' flee, dated April last, I cat lei 1 the attention of the de- y partment to the settlements being made within the bounclaries of this agency by tho Mormon church, clearly in (| violation of law, although the pretext or pretence under ( which these settlements are made in under cover of a con- ^ tract of the Mormon church to carry the mail from Indc- ^ pendence, Missouri, to Great Salt Ijike City. On the 25tli of May a large Mormon colony took pos- ? session of tho valley of Deer Creek, 100 miles west of Fort Laramie, and drove away a band of Sioux Indians f whom I had settled there in April and had induced to plant corn. 1 left that Indian band on the 23d of May, to attend to . matters connected with tho Cheyenne hand in the lower part of the agency. I have information from a reliable source that these Mormons are about 300 in number, have ploughed and planted 200 acres of prairie, and are building houses for the accommodation of 500 persons, and have a large herd of eattlo, horses, and mules. ^ I am persuaded that the Mormon church intend, by this j ! plan, thus partially developed, to monopolise all of the ! . trade with the Indians whilst within or passing through the Indian country, ?, I respectfully and earnestly call the attention of the |H department to this invasion, and enter iny protest against this occupation of the Indian country, in force, and the forcible ejection of the Indians from the place where I .. had settled them. I am powerless to control this matter, for the Mormons obey no laws enacted by Congress. I would respectfully request that the President will be pleased to Issue such order as in his wisdom and judg- ' ment may seem best, in order to correct the evil com- ' plained of. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS 8. TWIS8, Indian Agent, Upper Platte. K Hon. J. W. Drnvkh, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. M nr Shortly after receiving the aliove letter, the Acting hi I Commissioner of Indian Affaire addressed a letter to the ! hi eretary of the Interior, In which he cited the cue of r. Hall, (a contractor to carry the mails from Hide nideiioc to Hauta Ke,) who was allowed merely to occut hl? improvements on lands belougiug to the Indians ith the consent of the Indians, the department having i > authority to grant him permission to extend his im- ' oveinents, make use of tne timber, or cultivate land < i the Commissioner's opinion, the Act of March .'Id, i 165, granting to mail contractors in the Territories < est of the Mississippi the privilege of occupying stations ' ; the rate of not more than one for every twenty miles \ ' the mail route, with a pre-emption covering 640 acres ] ' land to be taken contiguously, had reference only to i lose lands to which the Indian title had been extin- ! j lislied and surrendered to the United States, and not i .nds belonging to tribes, to which the titles hail not been i tUtiguished, and therefore was not ap|ilicable to the i i isc of Mr. Hall, as his station was upon the lands of j . te Kansas Indians, to which their title hud not been ex- | nguiahed. The Commissioner holds that the views of the office in j igard to the case of Mr. Hall apply in the caso of the j urinous, since the lands upon which they have settled i re not the property of the government,. but of the ioux, to whom it was assigned by the treaty of Laramie f the 17th of Septemlier, 1851. BRITISH TREATY WITH HONDURAS. The treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigaon concluded between England and Honduras was ublished in London, in the form of a parliamentary aper, on Wednesday, the 2d inst. It contains the sual articles found ill such treaties ; but the supplelental article respecting the construction of the iter-oceanic railway to join the Atlantic and Uacilic ceans is deemed of sufficient special importance to resent entire to the readers of the Uittov. It is as illows : "The government of Honduras agrees that the right f way or transit over such route or road, or any other :iat may be constructed through its territories from sea > sea, slmll be at all times open and free to the governlent and subjects of Great Britain for all lawful purposes hatever. No tolls, duties, or eliarges of any kind shall e imposed by the government of Honduras on the transit f property belonging to the government of Great llridn, or on the public mails sent under authority of the line, nor on the subjects of the British crown. All lawll produce, manufactures, merchandise, or other proprty, belonging to subjects of Great Britain, passing from lie ocean to the other, in either direction, shall be sublet to no import or export duties whatever, nor to any iscriminating tolls or eliarges for conveyance or transit n any such route or road as aforesaid, and shall be searc and protected from all Interruption and detention on re part of the State. The republic of Honduras further jrees tliut any other privilege or advantage, commercial r other, which is, or may be, granted to the subjects or tizens of any other country in regard to any such route r road as aforesaid, shall be also and at the tame time * tended to British subjects ; and, finally, us an evidence f its disposition to accord to the travel and commerce of re world all the advantages resulting from its position in gard to the two great oceans, the republic of Honduras, f her own good will, engages to establish the ports at le extremities of the contemplated road as free ports for II the purposes of commerce and trade. In consideration of these concessions, and in order to cure the construction and jicrmanenco of the route or >ad herein contemplated, and also to secure for the lienet of mankind the uninterrupted advantages of such comninicntion from sea to sea, her Britannic Majesty recogises the right of sovereignty and projierty of Honduras in ml over the line of the said road, and for tlie samo resin guaranties, postivcly anil efficaciously, the entire ncu nlity of the same, so long as Great Brituui shall enjoy ic privileges conceded to it in the preceding section of ais article. And when the proposed road shall have been jm pic ted, her Britannic Majesty equally engages, in conlnction with the Republic of Honduras, to protect the irne from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, om whatsoever quarter the attempt may proceed. Nevertheless, her Britannic Majesty, in according her rotection to the said route or road, and guarantying its outrality and security when completed, always underlands that this protection and guar antee ore granted conitionally, and may be withdrawn by her if she should eom that the persons or company undertaking the manning the same adopt or establishing such regulations oncerning the traffic thereupon as are contrary to the spirit nd intention of this article, either by making unfair disriminations in favor of the commerce of any nation or ations, or by imposing oppressive exactions or unreasonhie tolls upon passengers, vessels, goods, wares, merhandisc or other urticles. The aforesaid protection and uarantee shall not, however, be withdrawn by Her Briannic Majesty without first giving six months' notice to he Republic of Honduras. 8ENAT0R FITZPATRICK, Wo copy the following from the last number reoived of the l'rattvillo (Alabama) Citizen : no uuwic ?o uuugiu .y.vh vuc ii.igu umu ui ur friends who serenaded our esteemed friend and fel>w-citizen, Governor Fitzpatrick, on Tuesday night last. irc learn, however, tliat the boys hnd a fine time of it. 'lie crowd met at Gen. Jackson's, where they partook irgely of the hospitalities of that whole-souled gentleian, after which they formed a torchlight procession, nd marched from thence to the governor's, at whose 2sidenoe a large number of ladies and gentlemen had asimbled to greet the serennders. We understand the overnor addressed them in a brief hut eloquent speech nd was followed by Judge Feldcr and Mr. Armstead. 'ho interested their listeners in a happy style. , " We feel assured there is no man in the Union for 'horn there is so general esteem and friendship cntcrained by his.neighbors as are by the neighbors of ScnaFitzpatrick for him. He is a kind neighbor, affable 1 his mariners, and his borne is an asylum for tire needy. Vc know of no man in our nation who is more worthy f the high esteem in which ho is held than is tins disinguished man." Alluding to the existing vacancy on the bench of ho United States Supremo Court, the Journal of !ommerce with great force and truth remarks: " It is very fortunate that this vacancy has occurred t a period when it will he so certainly filled by a statcslan who is perfectly sound and reliable upon all the great onstitutional questions which have too long divided poplar sentiment upon vital issues, and too dangerously agisted the country." The T/mdon literary Gazette says : Professor Rodgers, f the United States, who lias been for some time in this ountry engaged in preparing for publication his work on ho geology and physical geography of North America, is candidate for the chair of natural history in the Unicrsity of Glasgow, vacant by the death of Prof. Couper. 'he chair is in the gift of the Crown, and if no candiate of greater eminence should come forward it will lie Ire general feeling of naturalists that the government rould do a graceful act, as well as serve the best interims of the Glasgow College, by appointing tho distinuishod American geologist to the professorship. In the Initad States great liberality is shown in such appointicntR, of which we need only mention the name of Proa?or Agassiz as an instance. We learn (says the Buffalo Courier) that Mr. Henry iwigni, who uieu a lew nays siuir ai ucneva, oequeam1 the sum of $100,000 to the American Board of Misions, and $50,000 each to his three children. Mr. Dwight as originally a Presbyterian clergyman, but, losing his oice, became pi banker, and was made president of the enk of Geneva, which he managed successfully for many ears. He received a large bequcgt from a brother who ied several years ago. Mr. Dwight, although not nown as a large donor to the institutions and societies l his immediate neighborhood, gave largely to the misonary and Bible societies Of the Presbyterian Church, [e was supposed to lie worth about half a million of dolirs. According to the census taken in 1851, the total populaon of Lower Canada was 890,261, and of Upper Canada >2,004 -making a grand total of 1,842,265. On the it of January, 1857, the estimated population, liased [>on official returns, was, of Lower Cnjiada, 1,220,614 ; 'Upper Canada, 1,350,923?making a grand total of 571,437, showing an increase in between five and six ! ;ars of 729,172. Mr. J. W. Smith, formerly of New York, purchaser! 330 1 res of prairie, three miles from Cherry Grove, in Carroll nuity, Illinois, two years ago. This year ho has 260 i res of crops growing, estimated at $7,000. Besides this, ] > has fenced 320 acres and built a house and liarn. He m also 1,000 sheep and cattle feeding on the prairies. ' nam Uk IVtuiyIvanuu TUK DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR OO VERM OR OF PENNSYLVANIA It in gratifying to observe the manner in which our candidate for governor is received on hi* visits to th? Various portion* of the State. It U a very natural ami irdinarv thing that politician* should be entiiuaiaatR in Lire immediate preeenoe of their leader. In General Pack sr's case, however, there is a degree of respect, perluq*, we ehould Hay affec tion, for tlw perwou of the man very rarely displayed. This is not surpriaiiig to those a ho know him most intimately General Packer * appeal auoe, address, and conversation would make a deep impression anywhere. He would lie regarded by those who taw him for the first time as a gentleman of cultivated manners and perfect knowledge of the world. A nearer approach would show him to ire a man of frank, ,gemquus, and manly character, witlr nothing to conceal either in his life or his sentiments ; but those only who know him best know to what an extent lie is a man of close thought, whose opinions ate made up for hinio-lf f|Um actual experience and reflection, and with what spirit and eloquence he is capable of defending every conclusion he has adopted. As a candidate for governor, the democratic party have been jHculiarly fortunate in his selection. Tlierc is per hajis not a man in the State better informed on every question which concerns her interests. His labors as au editor and his services as a senator and representative, ax speaker of tire house, us auditor general, canal commissioner, &c., huve^ivt-n him an amount of information on every subject of public concern not to be obtained from books, and not to be acquired short of a reasonably long life. He could, we will venturo to say, give from memory the history, cost, advantages, and disadvantages of every canal and railroad improvement in Pennsylvania. In regulating our banks and currency at different periods in the Commonwealth's history tie has taken a prominent and successful part. In protecting her manufacturing interests lie lias always been foremost, without advocating any principle Injurious to the welfare of sister State*. On the vexed question which his opponent has been discussing for ten years, in nearly the same speech, Gen. Packer has at all times held the views entertained by the great democratic party of the nation, now fust becoming th? sentiments of all rational men. On the question of temperance, on effort was mode in the present campaign to orcat" some excitement that might operate to the disadvantage of tlie jiarty ; hut it was found, on investigation, that, although exceedingly temperate in his life, General Packer had simply said as a senator that he was willing to abide by any decision which the people by a vote might render on the subject of the sale of liquors. No advocate of democratic principles could have said less, and no honest man could bnvu required more. In his intellectual accomplishment* Mr. Packer has few superiors. He possesses, us a writer, a facility and readiness which can seldom be acquired out of an editor's chair. While he seems to form his opinions witlr caution and witlr a regard to the severest accuracy, ids style of expressing them is clear, natural, and bold. As a speaker, he unites with a commanding presence and a copious flow of language a quickness in bringing his resources to an attack or reply which renders him a most efficient advocate and a very formidable adversary. During his term in the senate he took rank as one of the ablest debaters in that body. As the speaker of a deliberative assembly he was equally distinguished. Nua a veteran politician, sitting in the lobby duriug a storin v debate in the house over which General Pucker was presiding, "That man never had his equal as speaker except in Henry Clay." As a legislator he had another quality which, in tiiese times especially, should not pass unnoticed. Every man knew him to be pure. A breath of suspicion never fell upon his naino. The thought never arose in any kutiiHii breast that he had betrayed a trust or forfeited a confidence reposed in him. lie has yet to exhibit these qualities in a higher sphere, and to that he will 1* transferred by the popular will on the second Tuesday of October. WASHINGTON AND TIN PUBLIC BUILDINGS. An occasional correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce furnishes the following interesting gossip about the federal capital and its public buildings : " The vicinity of the Capitol is still a ruin, though it is the ruin of preparation?not of destruction. What acres of marblo blocks 1 This country at least affords nothing to be compared with the new Capitol in the sublimity of extent anil majesty of proportions. It oppresses the mind with its grandeur. In the interior, utility has been consulted. For forty years the representatives liavo been holloaing to each other in that great forest their liall?which echoed and reduplicated their voices, until it annihilated them as means of communicating knowledge. But now a very different chamber has been l#?a? ??vuta>rlruiK ilfirk tLiifl liv tlltt people, the galleries of which are patterns for sight anil hearing. It is to he regretted that the superintendent lias been so slow nl<out the Senate chamber as not to have it ready for the approaching long session of Congress. The old gallery has for years been a nuisance. With a miserable narrow stairway, and a contracted gallery on one Bide, the best |>art of whicli was appropriated to laities, to the exclusion of the other sex, whenever the crinoline began to rustle ; with another poor gallery op|x>site, the entire front of which is occupied by that useful, but hard-worked and ever-wearied set of operators, the reporters, or ' gentlemen of the press,' the sovcrcign people have been well-nigh excluded. When Clav, Calhoun, or Webster spoke, hundreds upon hundreds could not get near the door. But even now the whole arrangement is uncomfortable for the daily, ordinary assemblage of the place. The new Senate gallery .could have been finished without difficulty, but all public works are slow of construction, except in time of war, when the timber that stood in the forests of Chutnplain in August floated upon the lake and went into the fight in September. "Through the whole of the summer there have been a stream of visitors to the Capitol to see the beautiful statuary wrought by the genius of Powers, Crawford, and Greenough. While turbulent politicians are clamoring about the dissolution of the Union, the real |>atriots and sovereigns are proceeding on the assumption that all i* well, and that all will be permanent. Plans nre set forth for additional edifices of various sorts. Every comely eminence throughout the spacious plot of this city, surveyed by Washington, is to lie appropriated to some public building. The presidential mansion, towards which so many ambitious eyes have been stretched, will be converted into some 'bureau' or ap)>cndage to the Treasury Department. A marble palace for the future Presidents of the republic will lie built on a lofty eminence west of the city proper, and not long since Its suburbs, a healthy, breezy place, untouched by the malaria and chills that might weaken the resolution or impair the judgment of a President. Then the old District jail, which lias held so many scamps, cxwipies too res()cctahle and sightly a locality for the public eye, or for its oycn penal purpose*, and the site will proliably lie devoted to nn edifice for the Dcjiaitnicnt of the Interior, becoming more important a* our Territory and institutions expand towards the Pacific. The government does Its work here so well that all these buildings will not only be solid in their structure, but highly ornamental. Even the armory, recently erected not far from the Smithsonian Institution, is so finished an edifice that it might be mistaken for a Philadelphia church. But the weapons of warfare therein deposited arc of a different kind from those wielded by the church militant. Among the noteworthy ordnance in the United States arsenal here arc si>eciniens of the cannon cap vurea ai ine surrenuer in inrKuiwii. v?n ui<- um m...pieces, especially if 8panisk or French, may l>c seen tlio portentous motto, 'L'Uima ratio rrpum.' Indeed, force hii* been the first and last argument of Kings from Nimrod down to Bom ha. But a cannon with that motto, in the hands of a set of valiant republicans, is indeed a curiosity." A man named Albert Patterson was recently indicted at Boston for bigamy for having married one Elisabeth Adkins under the name of Eli Merrill. He was positively identified by the clergyman and other parties, and ??* detained in jail two weeks, when be succeeded in producing the Itnui fid* Eli Merrill in court, who testified to hi* own identity and the fact of his marriage, and Patterson was thereupon released. The receipts of beef cattle in New York during the past week amounted to 3,927?an increase of 1,093 heads* compared with the receipts of the week previous. There was an active demand Wednesday, hut the large supply, and the inferior quality of the stock, caused a decline in prices. Common and inferior grades brought 8c. a 9e, while 11$ to 12c. were paid for the best descriptions only. The average price was 10c. I ^