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pRlTAtttRlNO. This savngo business the destruction or confiscation orprtvato property In war has, we trust, received Its death blow. England and France havo both decided not to Issuo letters of nurquo to Americans ; and It Is believed that our Government has expressed to those powers its dotcrmlnation not to tolcrato the lilting out of privateers within Its jurisdiction, to operate against tho v sscls of eithor of tho belligeroiita. If this determination should bo faithfully carried out, It will obviate tho greatest danger which tU6ts, of our becoming ultimately imolved in the conflict. A few years ago, tho United States was at war with Mexico. Onrcom mcrco was floating on every 60a, and if pri vateers had been iltted out In England and Trance, or cither of them, with-Utters of r.iarriuo from Mexico, the daraago d.mc to our i commercial interests would have been iin-i tnenso. But during the whole ol that wur, not a single American merchantman was cap tured on the high scab, This shows that, the Fiiflish and French Governments afforded no c unt.nance to such acts of robbery nay, that they exerted their inlluencc to prevent the-ni. Iho United States now has an oppor turity to return the compliment. By all means let her do so , not merely because it is a but reciprocity, but because it Is right in itaulf, and its o'r iitj is wrong. A Conven tion between the Lnited Suites and England ' nd Tranea is proh.ibly under negotiation at t lis moment, which will banish piivalceiing m l will also establish, by mutual consort, t ie tirinciplo long eontendod for by tho U. v.- ' .that nsuh.il ships nuke Tree' goods, exc 1 1 contraband of vvr. The admission of this p.inciploon tho part of tho belligotents, will crui e an iiiui.nse demand for our set s Is during tho war ootli steamers r.'id sail ing verbis. For nil freights and p.ics:n:jers. . ' , , , . , , j r n will civo our ves Is a decided i reurcneo A'cr tho English, French, KiiS'i .a. and, in , f , ver tho vcs,ols ol any other nati jn. 1 v. o hopo our pioplo, as wen as our uovern u -t, wi 1 !uvo the wisdom to use. their pii- vii , a nn jut a aisuig tiium Wo must ex pa . sainl a.i:iytnot.s, hero and there, grow-in..- on of t io" war : but if we aio patient utiJ f .ro'ariiig, even under provoealioiis, i (w i -e ul at 11 tifford to.bc..fl ' iwi j.:eion,and jiirr.i t, nlli mainly as an umpiro between the belligerents, i t ie L" o. nai its pnp.rvrork to perform, and we bopa wili not Lo found wanting. Jour. o' Co -int cc i Ctfccktn iruec Itec&s. BI R LING TON, FF ID AY, APRIL 23, 1S51. The Whig T rlv nnil Whig Principle. Recent e;ents have raado it evident that there ia both a "Korth" and a Whig pirty. I' is alto char that without tho Utter thcro "ould bo no former worth naming. Tho utter tubserUency of the Administration party to Southern interests, is a fact as un deniable as it u sha I'Sful ; and not less un doniablo iB the fact tint without tho Whig pirty, there wouid be no effoctivo checi upon tho encroachmontt of Slavery. The Whig party of the Xorth has always been tho main, and often tho solo and unaided opponent of slavery oxt6naion. It was there fore no more than was to have teen expected that in the preier.t crisis the Xcbraska bill should havs paesod tho Senate without the aid or aesent of a singlo Xorthern Whig, while fourteen Northern Democrats wero on the black list of yoas , that on tho test voto in the House, of tho twenty eight Northern votes for Slivcry not one was a Whig ; that of thoso whose voices have rung out so i'eailessly and loudly against the outrage the SewarJs, tho Wadoc, the Smiths, tho Chases, tho Evcretts, the Hunts, the Sunoers, the I'csscndens, the Bells and the Culloms, niueteon out of twenty ehould havo been Whigs. There should undoubtedly be i rogross in esrything that is good, and that thcie may i hs room for prorcsb in the Whig party, we do cot deny Wo believe that in this junc ture the J.uty .hould plant itself more li'raly 'nine principle c" uncompromidng orpcci- ( fun to Slave extension, and that it should rai ro fro, 'y w ! irao into itc iankb all, Noith and South, who5" eyes aro open to tho evils uf1 tho pe-ul ar institution," and who are -ii!icg t j can crate to Freedom every inch eft il now r ' i n to Marery, or which can ' ii r claimc 1 fro a its grasp. 'I hat thin the n f t o ; Wl ij pirty can and : il ' o 1-iiiuM.d we freely own hut we d r iu l -to Whig party ot Vermont i.smiyt iiij tj repent of in this retpect. It c in'-, id must stand, just whoro it has 1ys eto J. Tho sane spirit that in WM, f-r i.e out in t.ie resolutions, drawn by a "' in cna .a ! adopted by a Whift Senate a ill1' g lljiue of Heprcscr.tative s, in which c i lire' " t'it Vermont has no raw n 'o tu'-.t oi the subject of C.'cien" i : a"i vnyie'ilinglij opposed to any tx t ' n'al cr of' its evils or : intlut.iet s. '() t'n If-nncr of the Republic ; and that i. i)' r i re is a foot nf soil to le st'iid hack f n ,cm "g f . territory, iu tcid insist u i tp otee'i' n of such soil hy leg islaltve pr ii.-n;' a. I "that the people of Ver m J do-, r avprove of the Act of Congress rr 'ins to persons escaping from the service or thvr masters, ' still animates tho W!ii;,a 'J Vermont a 1 it will continue to. At prcsont t o slaiory qucstun reeu-.e to f..l t a w 10I) hoiizon, but tluio au other l p. at paestions havuiy less iit.pjrtant though ro v c rshudowel. and groat i vincirl's which ' . u'ht ,- ,e .1 . . e , . I t o W mg party of the vorth c .nr.ot furse. i T y still c..i t and, thoogh peril:, s unoon- b ioutly, help to inikabro-i a'ldd.epthej lino ol division Between tho Whig partv, nnd i tho party of Pierce &. Doughs. It is per- i naps wen jusi now ro lemcmoer sorneot these fundamental principles. rrctte(ion to American laior is a Whig prueijle Perhaps it is never to bo futly ra!i:ed, thouuh its untaRonistie prinrirU is :''ong and overbearing. At this present time, for instance, when the iron makers aro beginning to recover from the ruin of years p'Lt, Mr. Douglas is pressing his bill for re-1 swing all duties on Railroad iron and striving 1 f-us to put out the newly lighted forgo fires a,-d enable the British 14'ikers to hold down th American M tnufuturtr, whom they pros, ti t d The policy of Duuglas and the p trty he leads, would in like manner if caniod out ' pros.trato all other branches of productive 1 ipdustry But such is no Wjiib pulley lo manufacture what we consunio , to pay our, own l.tliorers what we now givo to foreign operatives to retain in our o"-n coff. rs the w noy we now fc.'nd a.hroad fur foreign goorU , ' to make onrsolvcs independout as wo aro I powerful, is Whig doctrine It maynsvir be carried into full effect, but if it were we 1 evmot ceas? to b-lieve that itwoul ! bo for the posterity of the Country. , t . 1 t , l 'rna' impr'n-iinenis ny ine vieneill G v rnment ia still a Whig doctrini A sys- t dl of affordlne Governmental aid i,1ii,.h fiia'l improve our fresh as well as salt water 1 r'.iors, which ehill benefit the narion, in- et I of appropriations which shall aid party t 3 and cniich the Mood suckers of tho T itury is wo bolievo both expedient and 1 e' try Imula't n of Executive p over is another inal Wing piinciple, and who can say is no nei i to enforce it' A weak and 4 less Kxe 'utivo is now striving to ce:i ' '! in ilatdf all tho function of power, no and Individual as well as puldic. I' allows its minimi neither, free will nor fi ev -eh It bemoans itself by a degrui- iii rf r' nei lu tho local all'.irs of tho is It corrupts by a roekloss distribution 'Hi '- a -I rri'cri'ies for opnim's wi ' nn ui r an I d. p -ratn 11 i,im..n t 01 all s in ii uu .. ..I 1, in ,- in J ,, J 1 u 1 f i i-atn j r 1 1 '" Mi r 'run H n t'j in Puff c ants, is ar. 'I r Whig doctrlno, and a good one. It would fliiiitlicrnl'omtiilliiii r-oiillicni 1'ollllclnns put an end to tho corruption In high places, j - -'"cMc ltnllroad. to the control of votes in Congress hy wealthy ' Iho Southern Convention which lately elus monopolies and lobby members, which is ! ed Sti session at Charleston, S. C, had a great becoming so alarming t It would restrain deal to s..y about a liailroad to the Puciuc foolish and extravorant r-rants of land ni.d osneeially fur 'the S .nth." Tho chief talk-1 money for public and private oMvts, and i compel our public servants lo a faithful dls charge of their duties. Preservation of Piatt with other nations is Whig doctrine. To Wars of agression and conquest the Whig party has never given its assent, although considered so profitable and right by the Democratic party. Tho increase of 1 ' ' , 11 , , , rather than an increase of temtory grasped from our neighbors, is Whig policy Compliance with Compacts is not the least of Whig principles. Wu would have that sacred observance of public pledges which we desire to seo in tho private relations of lifo, and therefoio it is, that when a sacred compact of thiity-throe yoais blinding, ac cepted by tho Noith, though not iilwiye ap proved, as a settlement of great differences and a bar to soctional agitition, in to be an nullod, and thatnt tho reiv moment when tho Xoith is to reap Its share of tho benefits of tho measure, tho voice an 1 arm of the Whig party ol tho North le raisod high in rebuke of tho outrage. Tho Whigi of tho North nro no covenant-breaker. Such are somo of the fundamental princi I'lvnui mi) i, iiijt uni I v aii-4 I ivy Skill ' , .. , , ,, u such as "Waketa perish n nnd while they live the Whig pirtj ples of thn Whig party and they "still live." never. rty h not dead. Whil,) such priucirl.s remain to be contended f,.r, it ia idle to talk of forming a party with but ono rlnciple. The doctrines wa havo montionod muct, we fir( tun J-i wmincna tbcmtelves to the judgement and consftence of a m.ijoilty o! tho people of Vermont At tho present juno turo the course of the pirty in this Stato eeeme to ua plain. It should opon its arms , to all of other parties, who will aid in resist ing tho spread of the monster evil, and when blavcry ib driven back to its den, when tho ' broad plains of Nebraska are sociued for free i dom, wo trust they will still join us in ondeav- oring to nako them, and all other portions or our grcit domain, as prosperous as they ! aro free, in fosteiing tho industry of our ! common country, in promoting temperance, , honesty and enterprise, and in securing a right administration of our national afl'airs. The Wreck of tho l'owliatlnn. The apprehensions of disaster hy the recent gilo havo been eadly verified. Another fright ful cataetropho is added to tho terrible list of the winter's wrecks, Tho large ship reported in Now York papers, of the l-th. on shore upon theCiattof Now Jersey some sixty miles below New Yoik, and which it was feared would not out last the galo, which prevented all help from shore, was the Towhattan, an emigrant packet. On Sunday night tho ship went to pieces, and not a mm, woman, or child, of over three lmtdred souls on board, reached tho land alive It appears that three hundred and cl'.vm lives were lost by this awful disaster, mainly of German emigrants. Ths ship was an old one, owned in Baltimoro, and l on her voyage from Havre to New York. I The storm in which she was lost is represented 1 to havo been the fieiccst north-easter which has visited the coast fir years, attended with sleet and snow, and very culd while tho violence of tho breakers, which was almost unprecedented, (the turf, according to ono statement, rising to the height of cne hun dri and fifty feet and een washing over the masts of the vessel from Birne'rat village ten miKi off) prevented all uttcmVts to gU on shore or to convoy aid from the beach .although for more than twenty four hours the shrieking sulfeicrs were within hail from the land. Long Ejach i3 about twenty miles Jong, nnl vari.- fro.n o.ii hu.idred to five hundred yards in "-iJt'i. It is from ton to twenty-fivo ftet nbnra the lovl ofthsci. Iho ground is nothing moro or less ti'an an i immeneo sand heap, glistening ia the sen, and has no inhabitants, except two or three men stvtioncd there by tho government to render allthoatttistauceintlipirpower to shipwrecked mariners, thrown hy tho f rco of wind and tido upon its inhospitable shores. Mr. Jennings the wreck master of Long Boach givoo tbo following suctiuct account ot the enustropho. On S 1'iiUy niirnins; 1 observed a ship of about 900 tons t'ounpino; on thu bir. I im m'fliiteiy sent t'tosi men who wore with mo to tlio government station-hou e, distant about 'x milfs, for f'9 liie car, moU.ir, and ot ler wreokiiv; appiritin. Duiing the d.y tho snip's deck was crowd'd with p isstngej-s, and when the sin f ran nut I couli gi-t within savinty-Svo yiuds of t' e v- rsel, which 1 found out ti he tho ship Pouki:un, Cart, Myers. The surf ran moaiit.dns hi'i ; indied I ncvir saw such a 6ea isi my lite. Capt flyers hailel mo throujth his rpcakin trumpet, and iibked ino lor God'r sake to try and sive soma of those who mig i happen to wash nk'inre. T tnlrl liim I f n 1 lui..n flntvn tl-a hcach to where tha bodies carne on shore, but found them dead, all dimmed befoio they got llal1 "uv l" tho ,,oafh' A'10llt 5 o'clo.'k P. M., on aundav. tho ship keeled o.er to wind- w.,rd flQm th9-sh0r0. p!ie S3il thcn, of course, rn-ido a clsan breach ever I or. and i aisengers began to be was'.iod ofl'i:i g.-oat numbers. Tho ,w.lu"'r; mountain i.igo, unu compicitiy ""i i""1 f,jra n:,i.cw- 1 "uIJ " any coniraunication with the captain. I never Eaw hirn oner. The main ami inucn musts sj.ui went ':y the board, and houi.-saj poarod floe ting in tho eurf in great nuiu'urB. S mio .0 J-jau bodies, mostly women, eaaic on shore ah.i nt a milt, south of the wreck. About dark tho tea ruse tu a treat height, J andone lnrgowave, fully a hundred I'ett hi I struck the unfortunate vo-tl, and in one rnotnent tho hull was scattered into fragments which toseod wildly through tho surf. The shrieks of the drowning creatures wero mel ancholy indeed, but I could render them nu aid, ns tho t;a ran so high I could nut cot near tho unfortunate rco!.. In a few ino- I raents nil disappeared beneath tho surface of 1 tho water, ticopt a fov frigments of the wreck. Never did I soo such a tight in my I liio. rsevcr ua I rcmtmi'er witntting such 1 a dreadful gale or euch a high-i unniug sea In many pliccs it made ouiiplute broaches ovei the I.dand, and carried, no doubt, many a poor fellow into the bay behind it. Tho tun got back next morning from the Govern-i-ient statiun-hotiue with u lifo boa, moitar, and tho usual wroekirg apparatus, hut it was too late, us 171 on Isold the ill-fated Powhittan had perished not oi nwained to ti" the fearful fie In mortality this wreck eclipses the awful ones which have gone licfoie it. Tl.e lots from tho Staffordshire, wrecked off Capo Sable, was one hundred and eighty, frum the San Fran- ' tl!0u u,lfl hundred uud thuty, or uvir Dvo 1 hundred souls lost ill tho threo disasters. ! Of tho winters sad history, the New York Courier says Tho average annual loss of life on tho At. lantio does not equal the loss within tho last j four months. There aro aieidcs lour other I ships not heard from, and which there is too good reasun 10 believo, have pcrii.h'd. The . fctuamthiii Ci" of Gla'L-ow, sailed finir. Glua- , row for Philadi l bia on tho 1st of March, nun psuiu iuui iiiiuoi-u n out. Oil I ouril, ul!u has nover sinco boon spokui Fue Lcitathan paokot-sbip sailed from thib pint on tl a Z2d of Novembur, and tbo Lucia Pi. Id i.hwt the 1st of Deoumber, both for Luuip,,ol, and no aocount of either has been lemwud Ti' ilippi-r Dauntless lull Boston far Vulpumiao 011 the 23d uf Octo'ier, and nuthl.ig ia known of her f.i 1 1. Tl.o uu nib r of hri gs and si hoon- ors, our b , t ! In unrl ot1 rr H111.1I ir ve .. wucked upon -no.-' 11. '.iiioii 01 v.ioi r Ol- .r oil. 1 .ei 1.' t t j r q er- UrilLIXOTON FREE PRESS, FRIDAY MOUSING, APRIL 28, 1854. era assumed ns beyond dispute that thoSouth- em rout" was altogether ino nt, -tuai mu great aim of tho G ids Ion Treaty was to so- cure the way for It tint all tho objections to Iho treaty were from Northern men, and out of " spile t,i the Sjuth." lien. (adsdcnlns the report stilt. s, PMin made the riiliuiilous statement that Commissioner Uartlett was Instructed ny Mr'. Scwaid lo run the boun dary line, under the Tiealy with Mexico, so ns to cut oft" from "the South" all chanco of getting a Railroad to the Pacific To a groat extent, ao grc-t as t" bocharae teiistic, the Southern public men take it for granted that tho world is made for "tho South," that tho Government is constituted for "tho South" that wisdom, honor, pa triotism, diplomatic skill, executivo ability, all h a e their special homo at "tho South." They admit the t;.isti nee of illibirality in tho nation, but nono of it is at -'tho South " If any statesman presumes to say that some measure, untastoful to "the South," will bo I'nr tbo intoicst of the nation as n whole, be Ijat onco denounced as a fue to "the South" the measure in their view is an "unconstl- , tutionalone,"and oiiginatesin the steady aim of tho Northern families and cotton manu- , facturers to dufraudfirid oppress "tho South." j The Union mut bo dlddi d if this wrong on "the Siuth" does not IviU.illy case. , t)n tho other hand, if soino Suuthoin Con- volition or Sjut'icrn man wante a thing dono 1 which will be bcn.lici.il to "tho South," and f o,,..Mo ti.i. Ojuiti" to got tho uppor hand of i tho superior industry, general Intelligence, , oquality and entirpriso of "tho Noith," and I a Northern member augosts that the general 1 welfaro will bo injured by it, ho is saluted j with the same outcry The Southern politicians, as a clais, aro tho, most ono-sided set this country can furnish. Chiming to bo the vciy pink of courtesy and cencious breeding, they are dictatorial with out boundB. Insisting npen liberality as a quality bolongingezclusitcly to "the South," they aro the must grasping of all. Offices, lands, expenditures, laws, treaties, all are to bo disposed ofor them, and as far as possi bio by them. They lay hands on everything, and cry out that they are wronged if others insist on a just participation in that which belongs alike to all I hey threaten all who i .1,,... :..,.! ,l,Aen hn oppose their demands, they insult thoso who wish calmly to roason with thein on Humer us of tho case in hand, and challenge to fight those who are well known lobecon'ieien'tiout ly oppotal to diudlina. Now, we have no with to sec tho men from the Tree States copy such a vicious mode of action. Wo do nut bolievo in haiing our Senators. Representatives, Conventions, pub. lie debaters and writers, tike up a steady cry of "tho North" "tho North." Rut we do believe in haiing them, ono andull, say opeu ly, calmly nnd firmly ; " we caro not a straw fur all such arrogant pretensions. Swagger as much a'e you please, gentlemen, talk as loud as you pie isj, and mako as many impu tations as you like, praise your own liberal ity as much as sems to you good, charg selfishness upon the industrious and laborious in Wilcomo, fjr aught we caro, praiso grow ing ignorance over increasing intelligence, and even slavery over freedom, to your hearts content. Wo caro not a sixpence for tho wholo of all that, nor a cent moro for all your threat3 of disunion if you cannot havo J your own way in every thing. e enau argue tho c.iso whatever it may be, on its substan tial merits. Wcshall.uim to regard the beet intc-icito of the whole country, and to tako j caie of the righU of all, North as well as South, East as well as i est , and wo aro going 1 3 judge as wo best can, but certainly for oursilccs what votesour duty to tho Con iitution, to our constituent", to ourcommo'n ouitry. to humanity, to truth, to honor, and t0 iUs:icn, demand of us to give T hose votes wo shall givo without favor or fear, iho mucker vou undent md all tint, tho easier you will bo in your own minds, and the moie pieasintly we shall get on together. As for what you and your folks will do, if tho action of Congr-ss shall bo this or that, we have 1 nothing to say. Do what you like. Wo for- I see r.n revolutions but tliuae made by tho ballot-box. If any other comes ulong, we, in our part of the country, will find out what we arc to do when it is actually on hand." Give usSenatois and representatives who roilize that it is t'10 business of a statesman to look further ahead than the next presiden tial election, who by their action as well as by their speech, will show their self-reliance, their ability to find out their duty and their Grmness to do it, who have the faces of men and not dough-faces, and they will soon cure their Southern fellow-nicmbcrs of their ever bearing propensities. As tor railroads to the Pacific, come appa rently strong arguments are presented by their respective Ii lends in favor of the feasi bility ut 0110 in the vicinity of the parallell of 32 - (the S juthern ioute),aud also of ono pro. ccoding from th great Lakes oMnke tlio Pa citic in latitude -Poor (tho Northern route.) Too little ii known, however, to far as we have seen, to authori:o any very positive opinion in favor of fithor. m far as cost of construction goeoi but tlio evidence such ns it is, favorb the Noitliem one, and thcro are powerful reasons in its favor to far as lelates to the national welfare. some ol intend to speak of bye and bye . these wo Wo think llio U. S. government ought to spend some of its unemployed treasures in in stituting such surveys as thall furnish some reasonable batis for futuro action cither by Congress, by StatC6 or by individuals, us a candid examination of tho subject shall call fur If both roads can be built without having to surmount very uncommon natural obstacle, wo believo that in time they will he, nnd that tho siibitaiilial aid of Coogrett ""ill be given to both, or to neither. But we do wit look to ice a railroad to the Paeifc made in a hurry, nor for any turn so email as ia usually spoken uf Wo remember a pamphlet published four or Evo years ago, which set out what was called " a mathem.i- lical plan" for surveying and building a rail road to tho Pacific within three ytar. We thought tho thing absurd Thirty yours wo thought would havo been nearer the taaik, and wo think to still, and threo hundred millions of dollars, in uur view, more nearly than one hundred millions, would bo the coit of ono which should ho constructed and put faiily at work within filtcvii yoar. J-Tnr. uji. stokm was widely extended 1 IW-road. because tin ir might ls a possii 1 and of uouiual s-vuity At Halifax it com- of establishing a 1pi1it11.1l telegra) h b i uicnced on Thursday, ot Washington, New tween the natural und the worlluf ties Vol land Buu'ilo, ou Fnday, uud continued spiiits ihe pvtitiun w is finally ordered to through Sunday and in tome pi iocs through Re nj 011 the 1 iM-. but, us the mm 0 goes, Mau.liv. tho blow fallinif Irani fivu imdioa I -s (.oil) to I all over sev oral time liter In iog ill some (Ucci. to ten it.chfu iu ultima, vvilh a very hiirll wiud. Sjoliuuii dinonLilrit uro nnure. noiided among the cunt front Ibis piutructed and violent tonu. A largo ship went athuio ou Ln.g bo-ich, below New York Saturday night audit uoou Monday was still therewith Jill) persoi.e uu d k tuj tho uoa making a cKan 1 1 1 1 . '1 t 1 1 r T 1 i t r Concrcsslonnl. In the Senate, Wednesday tho l'Jth, a bill granting $100,1)00 t0 ttio discoverer of tho popular nnastlietlo agents, such as chloroform Ac, was passed, with a provision that a suit 1. l. .1., ...... if.. .1!ir ..r . OU U.OtlOl UUIWCCII mi .unci nit i miniums ui J the discovery, and tho award made tn the sue- ;C,rul party. Tho Iloiuestcail lull was then considered and postponed, tn the House, tho Scn.ito hill, originally Introduced by Senator Foot, and known as Miss. Di.v's Insano Rill," was taken up and iii6ed l.y a vote of 81 to 53. The hill grants to the several States for the benefit of indlg cut hiMno persons, 10,(100,000 of acres of land, to ho apportioned under the direction of l tho President of the Lnited States, In tho 1 compound ratio of tho geographical area and lcprescntatlon of taid States in tho House of Rcpie6cntativc8, according td the hit cen'us. The amount to each is to be invested, and the interest to bo applied to tho support of tho insane. The President has refused to sign the bill, as tho telegraph informs us. On tho 29th a bill for settling tho accounts of certain mail contiactors, where tho con tracts wcro suspended In 1838 and '3D, and tho bill establishing a 1 ind system for tho tciritory of New Mexico, wcro passed In the Sonato. On tire 21st tho Sonito bill giving 5100,000 to tho discoverer of Ether, was laid on the tvblo In tho House. Ou tho 2-lth in tho Sonato tho House joint resolution directing tho cottlemcnt of certain expenses Incuircd hy tho Legislature of Oregon in pro paling and printing a Codo of Laws, was passed. Tho j"!nt resolution appropriating 30,000 ti cnal.lo tho President to express public gr.ititudo to tho lescuers of the pas srngers on the ttoamship San Francisco, was passod In tho House a resolution was adopted rc qnettlng tho President to communicate to the IIouso the instiuctions referred to by Prc&i dent Monroo in his annual message of Decem ber, 1S23, and transmitted to tho United States diplomatic agents abroad, on tho sub ject of issuing commissions to private nfmed vessels, together with the responses from said Goverumsnt! The Rrjcrllon of lliu (iuiUilcii Ticnty. The fin il rejection by tho Sonato of tho trea ty with M J i , vihii h has hadn l.ni: -'ii.uc of public attention lately, will not, wo suppose, cause much mourning aiming tho people at large. In Pict it cannot be much of a blow rt tl.A t.oi il (Yi..m!c nf ill. Irn.itf !,,.-.. H,n , amendment be which the sum 1 to bo paid out of tho treasury for the strip of desert to be acquired, was cut down from twenty millions of dollar, lo seven miUioni. The piiiv ip.il 1 isi'is by tho r"fual to ratily i tho treaty as presented, iii-oS.vnt.v A.vvv and I tho speculator in Mexican claims, to the i meeting of when' demands fiyo million uf tho purchase money was to bo appropriated It ' is difficult to sco why our government should in effect pay thoc claim w ithout more of an i equivalent th in was off'-red in this cae. To Santa Av.v, the itji.etiun must bo a severe blow. He sits uneasily in his seat. With an empty treasury, a formidable Insurrection, under Alvvee.z, in progress in his dominions, (which, according to the more probable of late conflicting accounts, is likely to over throw his authority,) and forces daily dimin ishing from detail m, hi condition is criti cal With tho fifteen million; his share of the money demanded he could regain his fortunes and estiblish his Empire Without it he must be in an extremity. l It is stated as not improbable, that n new treaty, giving siuh a boundary as will allow a feasible loute for a railroad to the Pacific, may y.t be adopted The btule of Vermont. We may hav o r iders who never read the Act of CongtCbS, by winch, sixty-thr'eo yeais ago.our Stato was admitted a member cf "the glorious galaxy" of tho Free and United States of America It is considerably shorter thaji Mr. Douglas's Nebraska bill, bull, mg enough for ull practical purposes Tho following is tho document : " AN ACT lor tho admission of the State of Vermont into this Union : The Stato of Vermont having petitioned the Congress to be admitted a member of the United States, He it enacted hy the Senate and House of Jlcprescntatncs of the L'ntted States of America in Congress assembled, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That on the fourth day of March, one thousand seven bundled and muctv-onc, the said State, by tho namo nnd stylo of "the Stato of Vermont," shall be received and admitted into this Union as a now nnd entire member of the Unitod States of America. Approved, February 1?, 1791 3rCo:,'GiE!sioAi Jukixo. Iii tho Senate on tho 17th, Mr. SniUM of 111., presented a petition with somo ytecn thousand names appended praying the appointment of a scien tific commission to investigate certain pheno mena thus described. " An accult foreo is exhibited in sliding, raising, arresting, holding, suspending, and othervviso disturbing ponderable bodies, np liaiently in direct opposition to tho acknow ledged laws of matter, and transcending tho accredited power ol the human mind. Lights appear in dirk rooms where chemical action or phusphoresic illumination cannot be deve loped, and where there arc no means of gene rating electricity or of producing combustion. A variety of sounds, of singular significance and import, consisting of nivsteriousrappiiigs, indieating tlio presenec oi' invisible intelli gences arc produced without any visible agency. AH tho functions of die human body and mind are influenced in what appears 1 to ou L-iriani uunuruidi siuies 01 me system, 1 by causes not vet adequately understood or 1 accounted for.1' Mr Shields made a speech in which he went over tho whole ground of spiritual mani festations, from L'oinclius Agrippn, who sum moned Cicero, King David and Kiijg Solomon from their tumbs, for the Leiiefit of the Pm peror Chailcs Iho Fourth, " whu talked with them lung on the science of government,'' down to tho present day. The suhject. he slid, "showed the truth of Burke's beauti ful aphoiisin, the credulity of dupes is as in. exhaustible as the invention of knaves." Mr Pew went for referring the petition to the three thousand clergymen Mr Miller fuggept-.dth.it H h referred lothoCoiiinnttce on Foriign relitnns. as wo might h.iveoeca bion to enter in' fircigu relations with the'e spiiits, or it ui hi bo necessiry to ascertain whether Ami 11 is who leivo this world ne their iitiien.-bi" Mr Mijon thought the ooinunttec on Fon ign relitions had nothing to do with it, and suggested its reference to the Committee on Militiry All'iiis Mr Shields said he h id thought of proposing to refer it to tho Lninmittee on P,it odious and ' "idired, ' sueeesadv.dv woih the table lilted e.n b lug villi a i.iiiii'est iuteuliiin ol kicking thmi irrevi "nt fw iiaturi, out ul tbo Suuute ilmuib, 1 . Whereupon the 11 itv ad joun.ud. 07- w w !n n w-' : s,' el ri hi Il ive a ri tu.k 1 M . tl III ! 1 lo tor e S, III,.). ' ,1 .'. r ..II ... '1 11 11 ' 1 III lilt .pil'S s I I 101 1 t atr jui , I I " II I 10 1 w t 1 in rh under i.md 1, ,.,(. ' 'I'll o Snmtukli Islands, Sonic week or two sliico the public was warned by some of tho N. Y, papers to took , out for " slartllng ilclcluiinent!i" soon to bo made public in relation to thcSaiidw ich Iflullds, Tho developments have nut arrived ns yet. It Is to be presumed however, that when they come they will bo found to havo reference to tho question of annexation to the United States. 'I hat question is the one of greatest importance nnd most absorbing interest In tho Island i, and must continue to bo till it is settled. We ri'celvcd not lung since from our occa sional correspondent in Honolulu, tho last report of the Collector General of Customs for tho Islands. It contains sumo statistics which have a decided Inuring on the annex ation question It api'iNim from this docu ment that tho total value of the imports into the Islands for the year 1 K.i.1 , Was ,l,2til, 951 IS of which S95t,0l'J 01 was the value o', tho goods from tho United Stales, while the whole amount of imports from 'ireat Britain and the Rritish Colonics is under $ 10,000, and from France but $.10. The total value of tho exports was but frC,l,.109 17, or less than one third of the imports from this country alono Of tho merchant vessels at tho ports of tho Islands during the year, 13G wero American, 32 British and 5 French Of tho 535 whalers which slopped at the Islands, and which constitute threo fourths of tho arrivals fur the year, 00 wero Americans, 19 French, 12 Bremen, and 4 Russians With such an intimato connection between the Islands and this country as the above facts show, it is not surprising that annex ation is looked forward to as something which must come sooner or later, and wo shall not bo surprised if Iho startling de velopments" prove to be a lcport of tho action of tho il.iwai.tn P.irliimcnt, (now in session) on the question. Sf'Thc attention of Tcinprranco men m this County is called to tho following notice, from tho Treasurer of tho Slate Temperance Society ' Tin: lot), O(H) Dolliir fund. Cvsti.emiv, April 19, l!ol. Those engaged ill prociuing subscriptions to tho 250,000 dollar fund, to aid the cause of Temperance in thh State, although they havo not yi t rumplc'li-1 thufr h.l.or', are i-rprct-fully rcquclml to rcpoil In inc. without fur ther delay, the name of Mib-i i ibuiK, their place of residence, and the amount siib-ci'ilied hy each, that it may he ascertained what pro gress is making to prucuii' the amount re quired. It is vcrv ilciirahlo that this fund fhoitld be tiumeiliatidy rai-ed. The State Executive Committee have no nie,in at their eumni.iiid, and I am nut nnure lh.it they wiU nave liny, n, eiiauiu iiieiii in ev;i -un; me wnrK intrusted to their eire by tl.e bluto Societv, until this luiid i- completed. The Temper ance men of the State will, therefore, sco tho necessity of prompt action in this mutter. i nose cngajeu in .i-ucurio siiiKiTiui-is win please continue their etl'urt", and from tiimi to ' tinio, make returns to me of the sums silb I scribed ZIMK1 HOWE, ! Titrt'ti'ir of S. T. .S'. t2"fnnunt papc?' vtlf plc.'ii'e '-opy The Vermont Teuelieis Asoci'utinVi, Will hold its Pout th Annual Session nt Windsor, the 22d, Slid, and IMth of August next. The following gentlemen havo consented to prepare nddrcsi.es for tho occasion . l!ev. J II. Hoikins, D. D., Burlington. Rev. J. C'!r.MEs.T, 1). I)., of Woodstock. Prof. N. G- ('Lvhk, Veimonl University. Mr K S. IliwAnL', Bangor, Me. Mr. B. W CuK, Bratt'lcL?ro Mr Afsil.v A davis, Windsor Rev. C. W. Cliin.vo, Newbury. Short essays upon pra'tiral school ul'jtets will be read before the Convention, by Messrs. i J. S Spaulding. Barro ; J K. Colby, bt. Johnsbtiry; Z. K. Pangborn, St Albans ; J I S. Lee, South Woodstock. ('. B Ilulbcrt, Swanten , and John Grah.uu, Barton; each I essay to be followed by a discussion upon the I sublet presented. Tho Committee aim in i their arrangements, to render the meeting iniiiv i'iftre.uint- uiri luminal 111 us enarat: to?, and they hope their call will meet with j a hearty response, and secure tho activo co- opera lion ui uu menus n cuucaiion lurougn- r .,, I--.;-- l- i . ., .. .1 1 out the State A more particular notice of the meeting, with nn order of oxeicises, w ill appear in duo time, ia tlio form of a cheul.ir Newspapers in the Stato Inendly to the cause of Education, are re-spLCtlully requested to copy tho abovo. 1UUA.11 (JUL LIT, I K ( Co . C. TRACY. Kxecviivi C- II. HAYDEN. Committee. A Fair Hit. At tho lite nnli-Nebrtska meeting in Hartford, John M. Niles, formerly a Senator in Congress as well as Postmaster General, thus paid his respects to Mr. Doug las ; "Who is the min that ?o generously offers to bestow this (Nebraska) territory, unasked, upon iho South ? Who is he th it would break dow n the b irricra of freidoin and give slavery free course 111 the plains of Nebraska and Kansas? It is not tho northern man with southern prin ciples uf w hoin wuhc-Hr much, but il is tho northern man with southern intmsts, an owner nnd a huldcr of Mayes. But Young America Ins been outdone 111 Ins inignaiiunou tender. Ho is not the Pioneer in his present course. Wo lind'a moro liberal ntlcr linn Ins recorded 111 sicrcd history. Wo read thoro uf another who made oflcra of extensive territory, of not nloiio this Mine Nebraska and Kansas, hut all tlio kingdoms of llie earth, ami ho wlio made th" oiler then, Was, bko Mr. Douglas, a slave holder, one "ho has slaves without number, and who has thorn now etnolovi'd u-sUtllig Mr. Duuglio 111 this enterprise. Ho linked, aiso, as a return tor tho promised poscsinus, that the tcinptcj bhotild Mall down nnd worship hun,' whilo Mr. Douglas now requires the smne thing, and demands us n reward fur his generosity, that the South shall fall down and worship hun, at tho doors of Ihe White limine. Uut the answer of the tempted in tbu olden 111110 was, 'Get thee behind inu S1I1111, for it is written, thou shiil worship the Lord thy God, and Mini only shalt Ihuu servcj'nnd our hujiu now is. Hi it the answer lo Mr DouglHs Irom Ihe gen- erous South will be, "Get thee behind .1.0 Satan lor it is written, cursed be he thai removeth the ancient Istid-inark.' Honor to whom Honor Is Due. Tho course of somo of the Southern Whigs iu Congress must gain for them the commen dation of every lover of honor and right in the country. No speeches have been moro 1 effeetive against the Nebraska wrong than thoso of Bell, Hi'.vt and Cfl.uiv. Of this j last gentleman', late effort a Washington correspondent says 1 "The speech of Mr. Ciillom of Tennessee, I against the Nebraska hill, was a bold and ) ttloclivo assault upon the bill, and its author was nut spared. The motives of tho Senator , from Illinois, nnd of the administration, in I trampling upon the Missouri Compromise, j wiro exposed iu plain linguigo and in an ef. ' 1 leetive manner The speech will cause some wincing, and can hardly fail to strengthen .southern opisisition to the Nebraska hill It has product d more sensition than any other i'IikIi has thus far bee n ni 1 Ic on the same side in the House." large and excocdinglv lespectablo por tion ol tbo "southern press, aio aim) earnest in their imposition By cvny piper of stand, mg, influence or charaittr in Missouri, with a single exctption, hy both the Whig papers 10 Louisville, by the N ishvillu Banner, by s"Vi ral journ lU in I.ouisiini, IVias, Ark. 111 sis, Virginia, Alab.nni and Tennessee, it is earnestly, consistently and ably opjsised. I he Arkaiis.s IVi.ig holds the following hiigu.g. fluiM we lave ite.-n the most fruitful s tuiut: ol 1 011I1 ul 1011 In-1 ween the two net lions ot tl.e Union, dug up from the grive wheie it was tiorieil iu Ih.ill, at the iuuaid ol u ro ut .1 ol toe iear.nl stnh ol that peiiod, and mil even the s"nd I. in f 11 beiu-ht resulting to any set 1 1011 , and for nn purpose Initio 1 roni ne i n .tin .111011- anus 01 a s -i ,,1 trail 11 il ti II 'in prt'iluml Pi' it' . utiil to .11 '1 tl it If, im it It litis m 11 . it "1 1 tht Muni ami ru it ft tt ' - 'i 'v '., .S'nui, It tlf I' I p Ill'llllllUllltg t 11 1 tn. tin ir grtiv s ij mfniiiv, ' II ri l"it In 1 1 '' '11 I'Hir math Idr !inY Pulillcntluns. EvioM iiKoi tiiK 'f.iiwo.t IIvnkisii, by the Her. .Irreinliih O'Calhtghan, Burlington, IS.'il. In n pamphlet or . '12 pages with the aboto title, tho reverend author reviews the general banking law urthe Statu, with stric tures iijHiii tho w bole system of public and pri vate banking, usury, Ac. It is s.ifo to sny that If the positioiir taken by Mr, O'Calhtghan are sound, our monetary svstcin standi una poor foundation, We coiiitiiciid the treatise to the attention uf all who deal ill money. For sale at Nlchuli' llookstnrc. "Nkiirvskv, a Poem, personal and politi cal" Ii tho title of a recent publication, by John P. .Ir.wt.ff A Co., of I'o'ton, to wlinin wo aro indebted for u copy. Of Its character our readers can judge from the extract wlilMi w c give in another column. A Ilostonicview cr has suggi stcd that Wiimil u might bo it author. dotiivAL or tm: I'RAMkLiN Isstm tf., for April. Full of valuable scientific articles, .with a list of American Patents recently is sued, itc, iVC. Wiir Ci ru is U'v.sfKn Cuivldontble at tention has been attracted to art arliclc in the Hilhnond Inqvirtr upon the annexation of Cu ba. Tho following C. net shows tho spirit of the article : "Our view of the policy of this rr-easurc, as , of every other, is determined by tho pnrarfiO'int i and controlling consideration of southern in j tctesls. It is because o rugard the acqiim- ' lion of Cuba as cs-icnlnl to tho bUbilily of the system of Slavery, and to the just ascendancy of the South, tint we consent to forego our hi- bitual rcpucance to political change, and to ad vocate ar measure of each vast, and in somo rc- j 6pccts, uncertain consequence. The only pus- nble way in winch lh South can indemnify Itself for' ils concessions to tho Antl-Slamy faniticism, i hy lh acquisition of nrfditloinl slave territory. " We must reinforce the powers of Slavery a an element of politi cal conlrul. and this cm only bo done hy tho annexation of Cubi. Ill no oilier direction in thcro a clntico for the nuorandi.cinciit of Sla very The intrigues of Great Britain for tho abolition of Slavery ru tlrot islam, urn pursued , with a zeal and arrcnerpy which cinnol fail of sucocbs, unless tho United States mtcifcro to , prevent the coniiiminalion. The only cfTbctml mode hy which this miy be dons, ra by the transfer of tho island lo the dominion of the Slates. If we contemplate tho possible alter native of the disruption of the Union, by the uiiil spirit of Abolition, the neav-Hiity lor Iho acquisition of Cuba ns a Mipport lo the South, become' even more miinfu-t nnd urgent With Cuba in the possession of uu hostile in terest, sotnhern Slavery would bo cxposud lo nn nssiiult vrl.ich it could neither resist nor en dure. With Cuba a? a member of n re it Southern Confederacy, Slavery iniylit bid dc liauco to ils encinic." WlUT CVN THE MTIKR H- Till flrt- rnrtl Patriot labors hard In prove that .Mr. Hi ker, the Governor elect, i" not such n popular man after all Tbo Diver 11711 rer, after stat ing in belief, lint with any other man as tho I.ocofoco cindidate, the pirty would have been sumo two thousand in tho minority, nsk-s '-if tli attempt to iliDirngc .Mr. Baker is not hc cauio ho is strongly opposed to tho Nebraska iniquity, or because ho docs not entertain nn inordinate estimate of tho qu iliflcations, cn picily, &c, of tho presejit incumbent of tho PiC?rdcntlal Chair? Wo h.ivo board that ho via j little better tliaiia heretic 011 both these points; and tho manifest desire of the Patilot to make it appear that tho rtorfy rrn-cs nothing to him, goes strongly to confirm the report." .Mat. gf Qlifr i'Hirt.1. for amuseiiient in Green land. They have a play in which everybody pulls his neighbor 'b nose, nnd the harder it is drawn upon, the louder the sufferer is ex pected to lih2h They sit down to bear's meat, nnd drink a conploof quarts of grease. For fun and luxuries, yon must walk up north. ITLMS AT Iltl.Mi: AM) AHItO.VP. I.I'tiiir P. HLonor.rT & Co. havo be como tho proprietors of tbu Kxclniigo Hotel in this place, known of old 113 Harts IIolcl slid , ,,. . ...o more reccmly n- Iho lathed House, and .ll keep it open for the accomodation of tho pub. lie. Mr Blodgett's many friends in town and county need no assuranco Shit he can and will dispense ''aid and comfort" to tho travelling community in a style second to nono. To those unacquainted with the gentleman, we have only to say tint tho Exchange in its piescnt hands cant help but be a good house, and thoso who try its "bed and board" will endorse our recom mendation. A great deal, of talk and not a little excitement has been occasioned among those interested in the Lake Champlain Steamers by reocnt transactions in the harbor. Among so ninny conuiciing Bimeuieiiis 11 is iinui-uu 10 arrive at the exact truth. That tl.e Steam- so many conflicting statements it is difficult to boat Trancis Sun's was refitted during the past winter and intended to be run by par ties residing in Plattsbiirgh and elsewhere, between Burlingtunand Plattsbiirgh, in oppo sition to tho bAKVNvi ; that her departure from the harbor.iit the time theSvKVNvi- cuiiio out, was prevented by legal process, that counter processes wcro issued in favor of tho other side ; that violent removals from those who claimed the legal (lossi-ssion of the boat, wcro threatened if not attempted, und that yesterday twoof the old Steamers, the Wiiiti: 1111.1. and BuKi.IM.Tox, were scuttled and sunk ill such positions as to hem in thoSvl.Tisto tin-shore and prevent her removal from the Imrhor, in which condition she remained at last accounts, arc we believe lacts. Considera ble cxcitoinciit exists ut Plattsbiirgh, we un derstand, iu relation to the a flair. . A Mvv with a glazed cap, Wednesday, made a small purchase in the drug store of Mr. SiT.tR, and in payment, offered 11 conn. terfcit one dollar bill un a lloston bank, which .. . ,, ,, , , . , 1 wa" r,,l,'"1' "c "" " lmt l"'rP"r,l'J ' to be a ten dollar bill ou tbo Cat!eton Bank, which was taken, and nine dollars and a quarter in good money handed over to him, 1 with which he left. The bill turned out tu lw a one dollar bill altered to a ten. Search was mado for the man without success, till I this forenoon, before tho starting of the But 1 land train, he was found by Mr. Sikvr's clerk, skulking between two freight cars near the depot. Ho had exchanged his cap fur a , palrn-lcafhat.and was waiting there for the train to start. The clerk contented himself with requiring hiin to refund the nine dollars and a quarter, which he did, and shortly after took the cars South. He needs looking after, that man. Tut St. JouMBCRr Caledonian states that the Island Pond Lumber Company have recently disposed of their interest at Island Pond, consisting of a 1 tea in saw mill, ,v;f , and 13,000 acres of timber Itnd, for about 570,000 No hoi sr. has been recently broken open in Burlington, nor any Mr. Austin Harmon robbed ol five hundred anil fifty dol lars in this town, as some hall dozen papers iu tho St.ito have crmnfously stated Tor Bratili boro pipers stain that the house, shed and t.irn biril belonging lo M . Jacob Lswlon, of Diiinnierslou, Vt., together with four hundred bushels nf grain, snn con ftuuied bv lire on .Miunliy, 17th lust, I'.h'IiihI el loss t'L'iOO, uiiI'iiiii insurance. 1t01 t ioktv men, wotuen and children, from the towns of Bridgew iler, Sb rbiirne, and Ludlow, I'll the Hull 111 1 station on 1'iieod.iy ol last wiok, fur Wisconsin. j Ml!. Asl llol.i was killedillShelburiie, about tw weeks sim-n lie bad tut nil a tiff, whiib in lis fill was thrown sii ld-nlv rid'-stis bv sum- iilintriietioii. and struck Mr II dt 11 1 ni ihe km- 'l ie' knee was triishtsl to aloms and the iinl'oitiiiiale man itied limn loss nf iilnm! before in1 dn-iil aid could iiiuve lie wasau honest, industrious num. and leaves a wile unit neieti eliiM We 1,i.arv that the managers of the I Statu Agricultural Society at their meeting j ... II... 1 1 i...t , l .1... ;.i,..i ,.. 1. ..1.1 ,1... I ill JIUllllllll ... V , 1 - .-,. I next Stato Fair at Brattleb.ini, on tl I lib and loth of Septo nber next. old the Kith, Till; WlllTHiilr. Clnoiiiili states that 1 the canals 'will bo open the 21th of this I month or first nr next, and that the transpor tation business promises lo bo larger th" coming season than in any previous one. A I'l.w is In contemplation tn connect I Pittsburgh with House's Point by 11 Rail . road, and that speedily. The Rouses Point paper saysit is proposed to build a road from Rouse 'n Point to Wrst t'bacy, and there con nect with tho Plattsbiirgh and Montreal track. In this way a direct lino to Plaits- liu';th will bo secured by building a road of j only rJinfli" Tut. E.-i Co 'N V ) tlipvhh.rnl I, ililormcd that Mr. Gibbs, tho fWirVlef, at the Port Henry furnaces was killed ofd h-nly at that place on Tuesd ly by beins crushed In tho imniMiso vv.itir w le-el w bi"h driven t'r in.iehinery of that c-itahlishmcnt. 0'Tiifmni the tilth s o-c loarn from llie Insburgh Gnvllt, Jnine, sgid four yeotn, son of William and Stivin Mitchell, if Glever, Vt., came to In death hy sitting buck into a ketllo of boiling viter tho miller t (ending to the fire, close by, at Ihe moment. The little miffcter lived ibmit eight hours after tho Occident On hie r-uf of tho eth instant the Ochro Works of Mr S L. Godfrey, Jr., situ ated a mile or two cast of R'-nniitjtoti vSlt. wero totally destroyed byfiie The llnnnrr pav,s it is suppled to hive lieen t) work of nn incendiary Loss .7im. l olly insured. Hon Jons Dvvi', or " Holiest John DavM.' ns hr was often cull-d, died at his rcsi dencoin Wun-etcr, Mas- ,011 Wednesday, tin l'Jth, aged I'll years He was rlmseii Gov ymor of MasMediusptts' fur years in IS.II, :!-. 1 1 , siti'l '12. the lit time by the largest majority ever given to a gubernatorial eundi. date in that State, lie was several years liepreseiitativc in Congress, nnd M-rved two terms In the United States Senate. Tter the expiration of his hist term as Senator, in IS.V5, he fool: no active part in politics. As a lawyer, Mr. Davis W,i ti ry sin ecsi-riil. hi pcciilhnly honest uud fair lii.intur haling great weight with juries. He win 11 Whig, us is well known, and greatly respected bv his fellow citizens. 'I he crowning net of his Congressional liTu was the steniiilHi-.it bill, for the prevention of explosions ; one of the most 'r'niiMphnnt and siueessfnl nets of legislation that cicr sought to arrest a great public evil. Lonii Finis was vvpeefeil to return to Canada by the list stiMini-r, and vtlll.it is said, oien the Canadian Parliament in June. Tbo main business uf the session will he the introduction of a bill for secularizing the Clergy Keserves, and the pisMge of 1111 Act for currying out n change in the Franchise. The Toronto Colonist leiirus that it was i,.. (lortcd in London, that Lord Plgln wn to re suiiic the Government of Canada for a short time only -. and he w.i then to be transferred to the Governor Generalship of India ; and that (bo Marquis of Chiiiidos would succeed him in Canada. The Marquis of Chandos is son of the Duke of Buckingham The Nrw .li.n.-iv liailroad Company have placed on their trains a car for tho ex clusive use of ladies and their compa nions. Signs on the corners of the car inti mate that no gentleman will he admitted ex cept thoso accompanying ladies. A Si.tMiy Misi ike Ihe Land Com missioner, Mr. Wilson, has scut to Congress a eorrctted statement in regard to the extent of the public lands of the United Sta'es. He says the whole sulfate K the United States embraces only 1,301, sii,3;0 acres, which is , less by 220,701, VJ3 thin was reported la the I annual statement from Ihe land office. The mistake arose in over estimating tho eitent of O'regcn, Nebraska, and the Indian territo j rier. The difference i .1 rather important one. 1 Mr. Kent WEtcnr, formerly of Shore ; ham, Addison Co., merchant, died lately in ; California, on Sunday the 5th or 12th ult. ! Private lotters to his fiiends inform them that he had gone out to a mining location I near Downerville, and standing upon a cliff accidentally fell at first some 30 fctt on , .... . 's heajl- upon loose fragments uf rock from thence rolling nnd fallin another descent of some r-0 feet more to the foot of the pricipicc, where he was taken up senseless, shockingly bruised and lacerated. Soino little hope at the first was entertained of his recovery but he died soon uficr the fall. Tm: Soitiiirn Cow i.stiii.s, adjoiirni! last Saturday at Charleston, without passing resolutions in favor of the Nehniska-Konias bill, or touching that subject (whilo they touched almost every other) exceptsso far us to express much apprehension that a new re gion with twenty Mates, more or less, all iion-slayeholding, were to grow up in that quarter, and through the homestead nnd oth er contrivances wcie to he rapidly peopled with foreigners. Tin: tvow storm uf a week ago proved fatal to many robins and other small birds where it prevailed. Th" N. Y. Tribune says, " one farmer in Westchester County could havo picked up a bushel uf robins (dead) 011 his farm. A WisitR.N F,ditur, who 'goes it blind' ' for the Nebraska swindle, iu animadverting on the course of the Clergy says . 1 "Now, our huniblo opinion oT tbo duty of Ministers of the Gospel, is to "Preach Jesus and Him SACRIFICED." It is supiosed that that editor was the identical schoolboy who read the passage. "And he said, Saddle vtK.in ass, and they sad dled 11m." Tiir. wevtiiir of the last month is ac counted for by the New Haven Rrgistrr oil the supposition that the persons in search of Sir John Franklin have gone through t(ie North-west passage, and neglected to shut the door after them ' Tht Nrw Yorr Thhv" is able to an nounce as certain the appointment of Count Airxssnis nr MrprM to succeed Ihe de ceased Mr. Bodisco s llussian .Minuter "t Washington. Count M belongs to one of the innst arulocratic finnlies, is about 45 years old, highly ambitious and well bred, and hns been for nearly twenty years in the diplomatic csreer. He was for some I lino Consul Genertl In Egypt, Prom Ihcuce, two years ago, he was mil as Minister to Branl Niw Yuri. Legislature has adjourned, and for a wonder its ineiuls rs are not ac cused by either party of hiving w isted lime during the session. It is sr.vTin by tbo II imiltou C. W. ''I'ltttitoi , r reliable piiper.tli.it itbasheen d 'teiiniued ,y the British Government to wit;,ilriw the troops fioni Ciiiada, and that the I'rovimi.il I internment have det idetl In net ujHiii a suggestion thrown out in 11 recent debit,, in tbu llousu nf L.rds, tn the elfet t that the IVotiiiii- a.iould esaMili ,1 standing army of their own, und m .iiiiaiu it at their own ep.-nse- a loot v . i, l 1 , in the opinion nf iho .Vyn ',it r must weaken the Isiud nf I111I011 bt tweeii tne Pi it lute and the patent tuiuilrt, so thai it will nnlv leiiuiie the adoption of thu elective principle tu loud. A nr.' S1 counterfeit bill nn the Bank ol Troy is pfi-mmncisl by lmdTs and business men lis one of tin.' Itst Imitations of the genuine they havo met witfl- Tin. bill U daleil Oct Hi, IHtM. It ins iiii-v lately decided by the pro per officers of the I'o.t-Olliee Department, that letter pnst.ljre s ig,iy ilia rgeilble oil. packages baling wilting, other thnii the s'titiplc addl e!i, uu the inilsidt. If pavmcnt is rcfiisei), th,. party sending it cannot be pin scented for a I'l.iud 011 lb Hcpai tnient (,i an attempt to immnt the wilting is nceos-xry to constitute. 11 Iraud) us in tho inse-of writing words ol iin i',ni nf .1 p.iis.igo of printed inatt'-r, nhiili a fraud, under tho law . A l ot ti si ritl.i:'" nejt broken hp last weik in New xoik,iiinl si i.iur toide of .1 large number of nuntero it bills, jtite. dies, moulds, Ac. Among the bank note jhiti were well executed pbltes on the I'.irtiHr.'i and limn r's Bank, ol .somcrs. N V.. Manu faiturtr's IlinV, of Ilii'gbam Ion ; Uniof Hank, of Albany ; Union Bint, of Montreal, nnd sevrral Southern banks A large quan tity ol' coiinter!'rtt sold oiu of various dciioin ilHlions was also fiuetl. Ma. IluM.VMi, our .Minisirr to Contrnl Auierira, lias negotiated and sent hoin" 1 ticoty with Nicjrag'i 1- but not such trcsly os hn niiss'nn coiit' inplitcd. If the rumor in regard, to the treaty is cornet, the main nbj'ct of it is the extension of tho boundary of Nitatat'in over Iho Mu-quito lerntorv, including lli llti" quito King and all Ins lmliin, ulionre .' under the protectorate of the Uueen of Gresir "ritnin. Sriinr hi Dims have been consulted in Baltimore in relation to the fate ol the miss ing Stcalii'hip City ol Glasgow, and hive aiiswcied that 'he stenmrr took fire from thn engine, when clghlC" days out from Fnr-ipe, and that Pjrly-one persons were lost thirty by file nixl eleven by water, the survivors, two hundred and sl.inty.niiio persons,, esi-nping by the small bouts. Afler fifteen days expo-nro they made Prince Ldsrnrd's Island, April fth, since which 12 have died . A M'M'vtiii, to the New Yoik paper from New Orleans that a rumor reached that eily on Saurdny last from Vent Cruz lo the 1 Meet that fifty Americans had been ar rested at San IHas for landing without pa--(oi ts, and oidcred to be shot. Two Stvtk prison eniivicts, on their way to Auburn prison in charge of un r-Aicer. heavily sbiiekl-d. IniiM-ruffed and ehainr together by the legs, leaped together from tin ears, which were going ut the rate of thirlv miles an hour, mid sih-cci'iIi-iI in making their use.ipo. 'I'hey h.ivs sin,.,. Iirn reeiipturcd. WvsttiM.Tiiv ilespati ft s-ivs thn Douglas lU-i-lares that the Nebraska bill Win' go through the hmi-o. It also gives Col. Benton's last. ii follows "A gct.'tk'iiinn talking. with the Cnlotv-l about the Administration vesterday, thc Colonel remarked, ' I never 111 iji,,-l tbey ' had much Kig.11 It v, but I did think tln"- bad common s.;n-e enough to know that it ' they applied .1 mutch to gunjsivvdr it would ' explode.' " 1 A Swi Im iiii.st of the reicnt wrick of 1 the IVwhattan, is told in some of the aieounts I of the disaster. On .Monday morning the i body of a man was found upon the sand hi-K about fifty vards froiu,the corpsc-trcv. 11 beach , ' with a child in bis arm-. It is supposed that lie alone of all 011 board reached the shore ! alive, and craw-ling out of reach of the wares, j in order to savo his oven life and that of the I infant in his amis, fell dow n exhausted on ' the sand, and was frozen to death during th , night. The child was firmly locked in I ;s arms, quite dead, and appeared as if it h rl i also died a-hore Irom exposure 1 A mm. girl 11 years old in llicot- , ville, N V while getting down from her 1 chair last Fridiy. fell, from her clothes be coming entangled in the chair, and was j thrown upon an axe which lay with its "Igs upwards bstween two sticks of wool. Her head was split open and instant death v-as cau"d. A iicf.se was recently killed In I.rh non, Mo ,rom fright. First, an elephant, belonging tn the Hippodrome, passed by, which nearly killed. him, them came ths camels, and finished him He was previously in good health. The New York Trihun' tays " A steam-engine capable of doing the work of 1 , 1 t 1 .l twenty s avescan be purchased for he pric, nf a single one, and fed nt less cost than ths single hWircr " The last species of foul play pcrpe- ' t rated iihiii the unsophisticated portion of Gotham is that of glueing feathers upon tho j legs of the common fowl and selling them for t Shanghacs. ', TilL HtKiioiin 7'ii.i't seems disposed I to take the recent decomposition of its party pretty complacently, though inclined to hold on to any small fragment of hope that may present itself. Speaking of present prospects, the Times says " The democrats may possj. hly carry four Senators probably only three, 1 however, possibly only two." Did tlio editor ever hear or the "blacksmith who undertook 1 to make an axe -and burnt down his iron till he concluded to make a hatchet found lie only had iron enough left for u horso sho' nail, and not succeeding in saving material enough for tli.lt, then threw what he had left into the water trough exclaiming ' I limit care, there is enough of you for a darned . siss i" .Y.ie .1111110, Chronielt . Ciiitviiiv. The Washington Sttn is fearful that the liei. Henrv Ward Beet her may be settled over a church in Washington. 1 and threatens him with tar and feathers if lit is ' Till- Cvs.viilvN Iaiw. It is just twenty years since the province of Canada first Isir rowed money of this country. The loan was for twenty tears, and tho" tunc being up -ui Saturday 'lu'st, tho 1st of April, lr-ll, tb vt hole sum due w us paid in full out of th surplut irt'rnue of tot jirorinces. This fact svcuks volumes for the progress uf the colo ny. P.uropean 'Pnnrs. Dmtii oi Profisvir Wilson. The last steamer brings to us news of the tleath, on tho third of April, of Prof. John llson, i t lebrated 11s the Christopher North of Black, wood's Magazine, and whose works, poetical and prose, have secured him a warm welcome among all classes of readers in England and America Mr. Ilalhun characterized Wilson as a writer of the most ardent and enthusias tic genius, whose eloquence is as the rush of mighty waters. Prof Wilson was ono of that brilliant githering of British literary men, whose writings have illiutrated the early part of the present centurv Byron, Wordsworth, Moor. Jeflrey, Campbell, 'Shelley, Coleridge, Limit, and others, who started on their course, most of them alsiut the sime time with him, have diMppearcil hefoiehim. lingers, De Quinc. y Leigh Hunt, still remain. Subsoil plowing is the process altsr all. In iissex county, Ya., J. N ward plow ed up a jug in which fie found fM'O in gold and silver coin Hurrah for subsoiling. "In i ohm vtion W.iTin' Of Stephen . Douglas, late rcsi lent of Chicago, 111., who lelt his home for Washington City in November. When last hoard lr.nn, he'w.. ill that city, trying 10 pass 11 bail iiil If any ol the oiheeisoftlj.it uty fan give anv inhir ination as to his w litreabouls, and will leava tho inteliigi me at the nlhtt of the Motional .V... it will be 11 great n lief to his itdlittid fiiends, who gitutly fear hi has done avny with Aiioi'." li. is iii. Niuiit A German in this 1 itv pro1 nop ,-,,p liene si a grealtl villi, ly if iuiHii taut t-iii in on., night, la-1 ttt. k. Ih. 111 any ither ne 11 ih.it ever 'it' I II. w 1 . 11 r I' I 1 i.i-tli I 11011V pr sent.'l n 1 'ti a s n four III -nt is old Li-' the d 111 in 'I tieiu.i s, and 1 si id the ;,le.it 1' M "T li.itiili' 'ttt-en S o 1 lo, k at iiint and 111 the morning He uu 1101 111111111 me Kn.it t-v 1 11 s iH.i.ii'