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cusation, liow false soever, can 1 prove
myself not guilty. Of all cowardice, the
! r and ci'uci If to strike the dead,
who tan jti.vki; no Ji hoiceoransv.i r.
“I ask nopraise. Do not piaise me—
probably I deserve none.
“I deserve reproach, doubtless, for I am
mortal, and have sinned. Say so, then of
me if you say anything, and let my sins go
with my mortality to His judgment, who
can tell, not only when, and where, but
why they were committed, and how far they
have palliation—how far they deserve par
don.
“Remember also, when you judge me,
that of all lives, mine has been the most un
happy.
“No counsellor, no friends, no country
have been mine for six and twenty dreary
years; every hope has broken down under
my foot as soon as it touched it; every
spark of happiness has been quenched as
soon as it lias been kindled.
If I have sinned much and sorrowed
much, I have also loved much more per
haps than I have either sinned or sorrow
ed. It is the last drop that overflows the
golden bowl, the. ^a6t tension that breaks the
silver chord. My last hope is gone—and
so, good night to
HENRY HERI3ET.
urestakel^o^mvenTfrE^ecumnce of a similar
act hereafter.
“I call your attention, also, to the circumstances
repot e ' by tie ec-ustt! yen >ral at Havana, show
er a .... : , ■
w i iAin. itc.il! v-ssels in that jior, are watched
and in erfered with, ard have to request that you
will bring the nutter to the attention of the Earl
of Malmesbury, with a view to the correction of
the evil.’’
May 18, 1858.
There's .Whing Lost.
There’s nothing lost. The tiniest flower
That grows within the darkest vale.
Though lost to wiew.iiae still the power
Their beet perfume to exhale:
That perfume, borne on zephyr's wings.
May visit some lone, sick one’s bed,
And, like the balm affection brings,
‘Twill scatter gladness round her head.
There’s nothing lost. The drop of dew
Tint trembles in the rosebud’s breast,
Will seek its home u! etJier blue,
And fall again as pure and blest,
Perchance to revel in the spray,
Or moisten the dry, patching sod,
Or mingle in the fountain spray.
Or sparkle in the bow of God.
There’s nothing lost. The seed that’s cast
By careless hands upon the ground,
Will yet take root, and n ay i t last
A green and glorious tree be found;
Beneath its shade, some pilgrim may
Seek shelter from the.heat of noon,
While in its boughs the brezes play.
And song birds sing their sweetest tune.
There’s nothing lost. The slightest tone
Or whisper from a loved one’s voice,
May meet a heart of.fcardest stone,
And make the saddened heart rejoice.
And then, again, the careless word
Our thoughtless lips tco often speak,
May touch a heart already stirred.
And cause that troubled heart to break.
There’s nothing lost. The faintest strain
Of breathing from some dear one’s lute,
In memory’s dream may come again,
Tbo’ every mournful string be mute.
The music of some happy hour—
The harp that swells with love’s own words
May thrill thy soul with deepest power,
When still the hand that sweept its chords.
Search and Seizure of American Vessels.
The President of the United States transmitted
to the Senate on Wednesday last, in response to a
resolution of that body, several official papers, re
lating to a subject that is now engrossing atten
tion throughout the county. The report of the
Secretary ot State to the President is as follows :
Department of State, \
Washington, ]>th May, i858. $
Sir: Since my despatch No. 103, of the I2th
inst., various statements have been made in the
public papers, showing other cases of the forcible
detention and search of American vessels by Brit
ish armed ships of war in -the Gulf of Mexico and
in the adjacent seas. In every case where these
reports have come to the knowledge of this de
partment, application has been made immediately
to the proper collector to procure from the captain
a particular account of the outrage, with a view
to make it the subject of recfcnution upon the
British government. Answers to some of these
applications have been received, and copies of
them, agreeably to the annexed list, are herewith
transmitted, for your information, as well as for
your prompt action. When others are received,
you shall, in like manner, be furnished with
copies, that you may be kept advised of the pro
gress of these assaults upon our national rights.
In addition to these aggressions upon the high
seas, another indefensible act of violence against
several of our merchant vessels, said to be eleven
in number, by forcible entry and examination, has
been committed by a British armed steamer, in the
harbor of Sagua la Grande, in the Island of Cuba.
The statements in the public journals contain the
details of this transaction, but no authentic re
port on the subject has yet reached the Depart
ment, with the exception of a letter from the Con
sul-General of the United States at Havana, of
which I transmit you a copy. Proper measures
have been taken to procure all the necessary in
formation, which will be forwarded to you as soon
as it reaches here. When all the facts are ascer
tained, proper representations will be made, w ifh-
out delay, to the government of Her Catholic Ma
jesty against this search of American vessels by
the naval force of another power within the terri
torial jurisdiction of Spain. The United States
are satisfied that the government of that country
will adopt the most efficient measures to protect
their vessels resorting to the Spanish ports from
lawless violence. Such protection they are enti
tled to, and if it fount found elsewhere, it must be
found in tbe power of their own country. I am
not informed whether any injuty was sustained in
consequence of the proceedings against the ves
sels. If there were, it will be expected that it be
made good by the Spanish government itself, or
by means of its interposition with the government
of Great Britain-
These flagrant violations of the rights of the
United States.have excited a deep feeling through
the country, and have attracted the attention of
both houses cf Congress. Their continuance can
not fail to produce the most serious effects upon
the two countries. The President confidently be
lieves that the British naval officers, in the adop
tion cf these high-handed measures, have acted
without the authority, and have misunderstood the
views, of their government. But it is not the less
due to the United States that their conduct should
be disavowed, and peremoptory orders issued to
prevent tin- recurrence of similar proceedings here
after. You will communicate to the Earl of
Malmesbury the earnest expectation of the Presi
dent that tois subject shou d receive the immedi
ate attention of her Brittanic Majesty’s govern
ment, and that the officers who have been guilty
of these outrages should be held properly respon
sible for their conduct, and that, win re pecuniary
injuries have been suffered, the interested partied
should receive just compensation.
You will also invite the particular attention of
Lord Malmesbury to the occurrences at Sagua la
Grande, and to the just expectations of the Uni
ted States th.it the measures of redress adopted bv
the British government upon this occasion will be
such as to mark with its displeasure the conduct
of the officer whose proceedings have given a se
rious cause of offence to a friendly power, and to
prevent asimilarinterfereuec hereafter.
I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,
.LEWIS CASS.
George M. Dallas,-Esq , Ac , &c., Ac.
A report from the Secretary of the Navy, dated
the !9th in«t.. states that the'United States steam
er Fulton. Lieut. Almy commanding, has been or
dered to cruise on the north side of the coast of
Cuba, or such other portions as may be deemed
necessary, for the protection of American vessels
on the high seas from search or detention by the
vessels of war of any other nation. Orders’have
also been given for the immediate preparation of
the razee sloop Savannah, at New York, and the
brig Dolphin at Boston, to join the home squad
ron. for the purpose of cruising in the neighbor
hood of Cuba: and tbe steam frigate Wabash,
now fitting out at New York as the flagship of the
Mediterranean squadron, has been directed en
route to show her flag in those waters, and to pro
tect at all times the persons and property of Amor-
can citizens.
Gen. Cass, on the 12th inst , instructs Mr. Dal
las, our Minister at London, to call the attention
of the British government to the aggressions com
plained of. 1 he letter is as follows:
“The accompanying papers, copies of the orig
inals ot which have just been received, will make
known to you another outrage committed against,
the rights of the United States by a British armed
vessel, which calls foi the immediate attention of
the British government.
“1 am persuaded that, if the occurrences took
place as they are stated, the conduct of the British
officer will be disavowed and condemned.
“I beg you would communicate Lord Malmes
bury the earnest desire of the President, that this
practice, which seems to.becoma more prevalent,
of detaining and searching American vessels!
should be discontinued, and that the most peremp
tory order for that purpose should be given and
enforced, ouch a measure is called tor by impor
tant considerations, which will readily occur to
you. \Mule thi, government is determined to
use ml proper exi-rtious.for the suppression of the
slave trade, it is not less desirous that the just im
munity of the vessels of the United States noon
the ocean should be preserved Whatever may
have been the true objects of the voyage of tbe
Cortez, if she had papers shoving her American
character, she was suhject neither to search nor
capture by the British cruiser. I do not doubt but
the facts reported will be fully investigated by or
der of tbe British government, and proper meas-
I,filer from the Hon. Jefferson Daria on tbe
Kansas Conference Bill.
Washington City, May 14,1858.
Dear Sir : It gives me pleasure to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, to
which being still unable to write, I must reply
by availing myself of the hand of another.
I ou ask my views as to what the South should
do in the event that Kansas should be finally re
fused admission into the Union under the Lecomp-
ton constitution. Your inquiry shows that you
had not, at the date of your letter, learned the
action which Congress has taken upon the ques
tion of the admission of Kansas under the consti
tution framed at Lccompton.
The questions which agitated the people of Mis
sissippi, when I was last among you, were as to
the course which the administration would pursue
in relation to the actum of the convention in Kan
sas, and whether the Congress would apply to the
applications of Kansas the dogma of “No more
ot slave .States?" Fortunately for us, neither the
issues on which I took position before my fellow-
citizens of Mississippi remains now for considera
tion.
The Executive, so far from opposing obstacles
to the admission of Kansas, because the convec
tion had not submitted the constitution formed by
it for the ratification of the people by a popular
vote, lias used all of his influence to promote fa
vorable action by Congress upon the application
of the new 8tate; and the Congress, barring all
side pretences, and overpowering all opposition to
the constitution of Kansas, because it recognized
the right of property in slaves, have decided to
admit Kansas into the Union with the constitu
tion framed at Locompton ; thus, at the same
time, deciding that the recognition of slavery in
the constitution of a new State should not ex
clude her from admission,into the Union, and that
the inliabitantr of a Territory, whan assuming the
powers and responsibilities of the people of a
State, have a right to regulate their domestic insti
tutions iu their own way—framing their funda
mental law either by delegates assembled in con
vention, by the people convened in mass, or by
any other model which to them may seem best
Appended to the constitution as a .condition
connected with the application for her admission
into the Union., file convention .of Kansas sub
mitted an ordinance which set up extraordinary
and inadmissible claims in relation to the public
domain, and demanded exorbitant grants of land
for educational, railroad, and other purposes.
These th e Congress refused to recognize as a right
or to grant as an endowment, at the same time
roposing to the people of Kansas terms which,
though more moderate, wore guite eouabto those
which had been granted to the .most favored State
at the date of her admission. The only question,
then, which remains is. will the people of Kansas
accept the terms proposed by Congress, or not?
If they accept the teams, then the action of Con
gress is complete; the constitution having been
already received, approved, and the State admit
ted under it; and the President of the United
States, upon notification of the acceptance of the
grants conferred, having been authorized, by pro
clamation, to announce the fact that Kansas is a
State in the Union. If the terms offered by Con
gress he declined, then Kansas remains a Territo
ry ot the .United States, and, as provided in the
act for her admission, must so remain until she has
a population which will entitle her to at least one
representative in Congress.
The mode in which the acceptance or rejection
of the grants offered .by Congress in lieu of those
claimed by Kansas should be decided, was speci-
j lied in the act far admission. This was a mere
question of policy or convenience, for nothing
can bo more clear than that, .when the conditions
annexed to tneir application for admission had
been changed by the Congress, the people of Kan
sas were not bound by their proposition and hau
a right to withdraw it, if they believed it to be so
materially affected by the change of the condi
tions as to render admission into the Union no
longer desirable to them.
By the act of admission a Territory becomes an
equal in the sisterhood of States, and those who
eiaim the right of Congress to modify the consti
tution of a State acting for admission, to coerce
her to enter the Union under terms unacceptable
to the community, offend against the doctrine of
State rights, and deny the freedom and equality
which are inseparable from the.idoaof State sover
eignty.
The consequences of admitting a State without
a recognition precedent of the rights of the Unit
ed States to the public domain, are, in my opinion,
t!,e transfer of the useful, with the eminent do
main, to the people of the States thus admitted
without reservation.
The bill first passed by tbe Senate, like that
which became a law, covered the two points which
in my opinion, contained all that was important
to the South: First, the recognition of the. right
of the people to exercise entire control over the
mode in which they would proceed ,to form their
constitution; second, that the recognition of the
right to hold slaves should not be a barrier to tin-
admission of anew State iuto-the Union. As a
question of preference between.fcheiillof the-Sen-
ate, which failed in the .House, and that of the
committee of reference, winch became a law, my
judgment is in favor of the latter, because it dis
tinctly reserves the rights of the United States,
and does not attempt to construe, or seemingly to
suggest any modification of, the constitution, or to
offer any justification for having admitted the
State, but leaves it to ,-taiid as the simple recogni
tion of the right of the people—they having form
ed a constitution republican in its character—to
be admitted into the Union.
The importance which I attached to the success
of the measure, and my willingness to incur any
responsibility which attached to a participation in
it, may be inferred from the fact that, though an
invalid, whoso condition rendered it less than pru
dent that he should leave liis.chamber, I went to
the Senate for two days in succession, that I might
have an opportunity to vote for the bill. Its pas
sage was then, and is now, regarded by me as th* 1
triumph of all for which we contended anil the suc
cess of a great constitutional principle, the recog
nition of which, though it should bear no present
fruit to be gathered by the South, was an object
worthy of a struggle, and may redound to our fu
ture advantage. By the same means the country
was relieved from an issue which, had it been pre
sented as threatened, our honor, our safety, our
respect for our ancestors, and our regard for our
posterity would have required the South to meet,
at whatever sacrifice.
I have thus thrown out rather hints than com
plied with your request to give my views fully,
which you will please attribute to the physical
embarrassment under which I reply.
Very respectfully arid truly yours,
JEFF. DAVIS.
F. Bostick, Yazoo City, Miss.
From"7he"^ewberrypor^^as^^Te raid.
marriages at the ilorth.
More than four-sevcnt’ns of the marriages in
Massachusetts are am. ng the foreign’. > ti. Why
is it? For the most simple ot reasons—the lor-
eign born can afford to get married, and the native
born cannot; and tiiis must be. so long as our ex
travagant modes of life continue. In social Site
there never was a people tending to deeper and
more destructive social corruption—and that is
most evident from the records of all the courts,
and the columns of all the newspapers—than
Americans. Our fathers used to tell of the profli
gacy of Baris : their children tell of the mysteries
of New York—a city not far behind any in
Europe. And making proper allowances for size,
how laris New York ahead of our other cities and
towns? Once was the time when a wife was a
“heip meet; ’ now, in a thousand cases you can
change the“meet’* to “eat, ’ and make it read
more truthfully.
We boast ot our system of education; we have
f inale high schools, female colleges, female medi
cal schools, and female heavens. Our girls are
refined, learned, anJ wise; they can sing, dance,
play pianos, paint, talk French and Italian, and
all the soft languages, write poetry, and love like
Venuses. They are ready to be court' d at ten
years, and can be taken from selrool and married
at fifteen, and divorced at twenty. They make
splendid shows on bridal toujs, can coquette and
flirt at ;ke watering places, and shine like angels
at winter parties. But Heaven be kind to the
poor wretch that marries in the fashionable circles.
What are they at washing floors? Oh, we forgot;
nobody has bare floors now—bow vulgar that
would bel What are they at making bread and
boiling beef? Why, hour thoughtless we are—to
be sure they will board, or have servants. What
are they at mending old clothes’ But there we
are again ; the fashions change so often tiiat no
body' lias old clothes but the rag men and the pa
per makers now! What are they at washing ba
bies' faces and pininng up their trousers? And
here is our intolerable stupidity once more; hav
ing children is left to the Irish! What 1 dy thinks
of having children about her sow? or if she is so
unfortunate, don’t she put them to wet nurses to
begin with, and boarding schools afterwards?
We repeat—we have come to a point where young
men hesitate and grow old before they can decide
whether they can marry, and afterwards be kept
clear of bankruptcy and crime. What is the
consequence? There are more persons living a
single life—are there more leading a virtuous life?
It is time for mothers to know that the extrava
gance they encourage is destructive of the virtue
of their children ; that all the foolish exf<enditures
making to rush their daughters to matrimony,
are, instead of answering that end, tending to
dostroy the institution of marriage altogether.
From the Washington Star.
E\-President Tiler.
A irrief article, descriptive of the various ex-
I’residonts of the United States after their service
in that capacity, was copied among other select
articles into the Star a day or two since, to which
our attention is drawn for the first time by the
communication printed below, which, in explain
ing its incorrectness in an important particular,
does no more than sheer justice to the distingush-
ed statesman, to whom it refers:
Washington, May Iff, 1858.
To It . D. Wullach, Esq., Editor of the Evening
Star.
•Sill: In your paper of the 1 fr’tlr May, in an ar
ticle purporting to be original with you, headed
“The Wealth of our Statesmen,” when yon come
to speak of ex-Bresident Tyler, you say as follows,
viz:
“.Tulin Tyler is worth fifty' thousand dollars.—
Before he reached the Presidency he was a hank-
nipt. In office he husbanded his means, and then
married a rich wile.”
I have every reason to believe, from the kind
PS A1f«H5U*I.—
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Pub: 18—
AN ACT for the admission of the State of Minne
sota into the Union.
Whereas an act of Congress was passed February
twenty-six, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven,
entitled “An act to authorize the people of the
Territory of Minnesota to form a constitution
and State government preparatory to their ad
mission into theiUaion ou an equal footing .vith
the original States;” and whereas the people of
said Territory did on the twenty-ninth day of
August, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, by
delegates elected for that purpose, form for
themselves a constitution and State government,
which is republican in form, and was ratified and
adopted by the people, at an election held on
the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hun
dred and fifty-seven, for that purpose; There
fore,
Be i! enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United Slates of America ia Congress as
semhled, That tire State of Minnesota shall be one,
and is hereby declared to be one of tbe United
States of America, and admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the original States in all
respects whatever.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, That said
State shall be entitled to two representatives in
Congress, until the next apportionment of repre
sentatives among the several States.
Section 3 And be it further enacted, That from
and after the admission of the State of Minnesota,
as hereinbefore provided, ail tbe laws of the United
States which are not loeally inapplicable shall
nave the same force and effeet within that State as
in other States of the Union; and the said State is
hereby constituted a judicial district of the United
States, within which a district court with the like
powers and jurisdiction as the district court of
the United States for tiie district of Iowa, shall be
established; the judge, attorney and marshal of the
United States for the eaid district of Minnesota
shall reside within the same, and shall he entitled
to the same compensation as the judge, attorney,
and marshal of the district of Iowa: and in all cases
| of appeal or writ of error heretofore proseeuted and
now pending iu the Supremo Court of the United
States, upon any record from the supreme court of
Minnesota Territory, tbe mandate of execution or
order of further proceedings shall be directed by
the Supreme Court of the United States to the dis
trict court of the United States for the district of
Minnesota or to the supreme court of the State of
Minnesota, as the nature of such appeal or writ of
error may require; and each of those courts shall
be the suec ssor of tin: supreme couit ofMinnesota
Territory, its to all sueh eases, with full power to
hear and determine the same and to award mesne
or final process therein.
Approved May 11, 1858—
Pub; Iff—
AN ACT—amendatory of an act entitled “An act
to establish two additional land districts in the
Territory of Minnesosa,” unproved July 8, 185.fi
tie it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen
tatives of the United States of Anuyira in Congress
assembled. Tiiat so much of an act entitled “An act
to establish two additional laud districts in the
Territory of Minnesota,” approved July eighth,
anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-six, as
defines the southern boundary of the north western
land district, on the west side of the Mississippi
river, be. and the same is hereby, repealed and in
lieu thereof the following boundaries are establish
ed, to wit: Commencing at the point ou tike eastern
side of the Mississippi river whore the present
south line touches the river; thence down said river
to the point opposite the intersection with tbe river
of the eighth standard parallel; thence aleugsaid
parallel to the point of intersection of guide
entiments you have usually avowed towards ex- j meridian number, tour; theuee along said gttid
llelaiitholi liiridrift.
Tbe Evansville Journal tells a strange story ot
an aged man who died in that city last week un
der very lamentable circumstances. A week ago
Saturday, a man past eighty years of age was put
off of the steamer Union, from Green river, on
O’Riley’s wharf boat. One eye had been destroy
ed by a cancer, and the other .was blind; Lis leg
was also paralized- He lay on the deck of the
boat from Saturday till Sunday, when Dr. Haliock
had him taken 1st the hut of a negro woman and
put iu a bed, where he was attended to by the old
woman and D.rs. Haliock and Casselberry till
Thursday night, when lie died and was buried by
the Sons of Temperance.
On examining sonre papers which were found
in his possession after death, it was found that liis
name was Dr John Pocoek Holmes, a member of
the College of Surgeons of London. Ainouw the
papers was a certificate from Sir Astly Cooper, tes
tifying to his capacity as a Surgeon. For sixteen
years prior to I 827 he had been a surgeon in the
employ of the Hudson Bay Company. Then lie
became a practising surgeon in London. Invita
tions were found from the I ord Mayor and Mayor
ess of London to dine with them on two occa
sions—ou one of which tjueen Victoria was pres
ent. lie appears to have been on terms of famil
iar intimacy with Capt. Perry, the great Arctic
explorer, letters from whom were found amongst
others. Among liis effects were two Iai<re and
President Tvlcr and his family, that this tissue of
falsehoods entirely escaped your eye In fore its in
sertion in your journal; but, being there, and hav
ing gone before your readers, I am forced to ask
that you retract it, and also publish this note.
John Tyler, before he was President, never
was a bankrupt. Besides paying, as surety
for others, forty thousand dollars, the day never
had been, from the day of his manhood, that ho
had Hot ample means always at hand to meet
every obligation resting upon him. The real es
tate he now owns is but a transfer of the real es
tate he then owned; and the slave property he
now owns is tlie identical slave property he then
owned. True, both have largely increased in value;
but what their value is I shall not say, either to
gratify private or public curiosity. Let it suffice
to say, that he will die as he lias lived—whether
poor or rich—an honest man, and no man’s debt
or.
John Tyler, as President, followed the example
of his great predecessors in that .high office from
Virginia and liberally expended upon the public
every cent of the salary he received from the pub
lic. He paid out of his salary for everything he
usedin the Presidential Mansion,save the furniture
he found there, and which was never renewed in
his time, through the want of an appropriation
from Congress. He paid for his own fuel, his own
servants, his own doorkeepers, his own steward,
and liis own secretary and assistant clerks. How
has all this been since, and how is it now?
The man who, among other things, annexed the
broad realm of Texas to the Confederacy: who
settled the Northeastern Boundary and a.!! our im
pending difficulties; who opened up our trade with
China; who restored a Bankrupt Treasury; who
rescued the treasury from a bank-nipt condition,
attended by universal ruin and disaster in eve-y
avenue of trade; who hammered the, veto through
the skull of the monster hank, and destroyed it
forever; who kept and administered in every de
partment of the government its revenues for four
years nearly, without the loss of a dollar by negli
gence, fraud or force, and without the realization
of a cent to himself or family; who reinvigorated
the army, elevated Scott, Taylor, Worth, Wool and
Riley to its held, and thus closed the Florida war
and held Mexico in awe; who raised the navy to its
highest ami noblest mark, and li Id squadrons in
every sea; who established the National Observato
ry and placed Maury at its lead; who reformed the
Coast Survey and placed Baehe at its head; and
who, last, but not least, retrieved the Democratic
party from its ovewhelming and annihilating de
feat of 184H, and raised it again to power—this
man can afford to smile, as he does and always
lias done, at the impotent slander of the hour, re
liant on history.
John Tyler did singly and all these things.—
They place him equally above poverty and riches.
His family motto is Luxuria el egestus commotlis
cedant.
I have the honor to be very respectfully yours.
JOHN TYLElt,*Jr.
From the Washington States, May 14
Tbe President's First Open-Air Reception—The
Fashionable Color.
Christendom cannot furnish a more pleasing.sigh t.
than was seen yesterday evening on the broad
green lawn which inclines from the Executive
Mansion towards t he silvery Potomac. The
President had ordered the Marine Band to perform
during the sunset and twilight hours, and we, the
people, went to listen to tlie music and enjoy the
scene. Grave Senators and veteran defenders of
the stars and stripes were there, with scores of
less notable officials, worthy citizens, artists claim
agents, office seekers, contractors. Newspaper
correspondents, and the other strata of metropo
litan masculine society, while with them were
matrons in the rieli autumn of their beauty, tair
girls in the May month of their lives, and troops
of fiolicksorne children, perforniii g infant ry mo\e-
ments at double-quick lime. The President, with
liis usual bonhommie, moved throughout the
crowed, picking out the prettiest, girls and shaking
all offered hands. As the setting sun lit up the
Potomac, and cast deep tree-shadows aslant the
bright green sward, the picture was one that
would have done honor to the merriest days of
Alerrie England.
Green wan predominant in the costumes of the
ladies at the President’s grounds yesterday after
noon, and the vernal hue was prominent in shawls
and dresses—silks, bareges and grenadines—
parasols and gaiter busts. T1 e bonnet materials
incline to it, and it triumphs iu the wreaths and
sprays that, flourish so near 1 lie cheek of the
beauty. It is not the golden green of the moss, or
the rose hud, or the silk of the young ear, or the
verdure ot the tender grass of April; it is a chas
tened sober green,pure and delicate as the crested
sea wave, and allaying itself harmoniously with
tiie pale violet and the lilac blossoms. It has a
freshness that suits the spring costume, and a
coolness that attracts the eye amid the heat of
beautiful gold medals awarded to “Docto? John i ? unu “ er ’ Yot h ^ been so_ universally a
Pocoek Holmes by medical societies for his valua
ble inventions ot obsteiical and magical instru
ments.”
There are also a large number of letters from
eminent professional men—from the nobility and
medical and scientific societies, acknowledging
the receipts of “Dr John P. Holmes’ very valuiu
ble and able treatise on consumption and asthma.”
There are letters from eminent and highly respec
table gentlemen in Tennessee and Mississippi,
whose friendship and intimacy he has enjoyed,
and whose esteem for him is expressed in their cor
respondence in v.-ry flattering terms. He appears
at one time to have resided in Nashville, in Ten
nessee ; and from other papers it is supposed he
has been residin'* recpntK- u-;*R ,
favorite as now. Fashion seems in love with
nature for once, and resolved to apprpjiate her
livery. Even some of the beaux have a verdant
look.
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Bos
ton is ungaged in discussing the question whether
it is consistent with the character of a Christian to
play the game of chess.
So savs an exchange, who hasn't heard that the
question has been decided in the affirmative—pro
vided no lager beer is drank during the game, and
no peauuts are bet on the result.
Rust in Wheat and Oats—We have heard con
siderable complaint amongst tbe farmers iu our
County on account of the rust in their wheat and
oats. They are not at all agreed, however, as to
the amount of injury it iias done. Some few es
timate their damage to he about half their crops,
recently with the community of
Shakers at West Union, not far from Bowling
Green, in Kentucky. It is not known how or
why he left them in his afflicted condition. 1st his
last moments lie spoke of a sister, but gave no j but most of them, we are glad to say, put it down
I name or residence. Before his death lie committed ' as much less than that. One farmer, who expects
| his funds, which he had k'-pt concealed about his ! to make five hundred bushels of wheat, informed
' person, amounting to about $250, to Iiallock, but us the other day that he had commenced harvest-
left no instructions in regard to the disposal of ing his crops, and although the rust had de-
tliem. His other effects were of little or no value, j stroyed all the blades, lie did not think the
He was evidently a man of correct habits and f grain had sustained much injury, lie expects to
great intelligence. By what misfortune he, who make a good average crop.—Southern Enterprise.
meridian to the seventh standard parallel; thence
west along said seventh parallel to the Sioux
Wood river; thence north to the line heretofore
established.
Section, 2. And be it further enacted, That the
line dividing ranges twenty-three aud twenty-four
be the boundary liue between the northwestern
and northeastern land districts, in lieu of tbe range
line between eighteen and nineteen, as heretofore
established in the above recited act.
Approved 11, May 1858—
Pub: 20—
AN ACT to enlarge the Detroit and Saginaw land
districts in Michigan.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives nj the United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That all tiiat part of the present
Cheboygan district, in the State of Michigan,
which lies soutii of the line dividing townships
twenty-eight and twenty-nine north, and east of
tiie line dividing ranges two and three west, shall
be attached to and form a part of the present
Saginaw district, and all that part of the said
Cheboygan distiiet which lies north ofihe. line
: dividing townships twenty-eight and twenty-iiine
north, and east of the liue dividing ranges one and
two west, including the island of Mackinac, be
I attached to aud form a part of the Detroit district
in said State.
J Section 2. And he it further enacted, That tiiisaet
take effect from and after the first day of July
next.
Approved May 11, 1858—
Pub: 21.
AN ACT making appropriations forthe support .of
the Military Academy for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-
nine,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States of America iu Congress «z-
semhled. That the following sums be, and the
same are hereby', appropriated, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, lor tiie
support of the Military Academy for the year end
ing the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
titty nine:
For the pay of officers, instructors, cadets aud
musicians, one hundred and twelve thousand eight
hundred and six duillars.
For commutation ot subsistence, three thousand
and sixty-six dollars.
For Image for officers’ horses, eight hundred
and sixty-four dollars.
For current and ordinary expenses, as follows;
repairs and improvements, fuel and apparatus,
forage, postage, stationery, transportation, print
ing, clerks, miscellaneous and incidental expenses,
and departments of instruction, thirty-five thou
sand six hundred and ten dollars’ 4
For gradual increase arid expenses of library,
one thousand dollars.
For expenses for the board of visitors, three
thousand dollars.
For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, eight
thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
For supplying horses for cavalry and artillery
practice, oue thousand dollars.
For barracks Ur dragoon detachment, one thou
sand live liun(h f .J Joilars.
For barracks r.r artillery detachment, six thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of a hell, and mounting the same
with the clock on one of the public buildings, four
hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs to officers quarters, five hundred
dobars.
For models for the department ot cavalry, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
For extension of water pipes and increase ot
reservoir, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For targets and batteries for artillery exercise,
one hundred and fifty dollars.
For gas pipes and retorts, extension to cadets’
mess hall, academic hall, and other "public build
ings, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For stables for dragoon and artillery horses, two
thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
Approved, May i 1, 1858.
a sir at WrelT That the right of pre-emption be and the
•ante hereby is, extended to all Hungarian settlers on
that body of land reserved from sale or location by or
der of the President of tbe United States, dated Jaima
1} t weuty-oecoud, eiguteen hundred aud fifty-five, said
lands being known find described as follows: North
east quarter of North-west quarter of sectiou ten,
township sixty-seven, range twenty-six; East half of
South-east quarter of section eleven, township sixty-
seven, range twenty-six; East, half of north-east
quarter of section fourteen, township sixty-seven,
range twenty-six; South-west quarter of South
east quarter section fourteen, township sixty-seven,
range twenty-six; East half uf North-east quarter of
section twenty-two, township sixty-seven, range twen-
six ; South-east quarter of North-east quarter of sec
tion twenty-three, township sixty-seven, range twenty-
six; west half of North-east quarter of section twenty-
three, township sixty-seven range twenty-six; West
half of north-east quarter of section fourteen, town
ship »ixty-seveu, range twenty-six ; North halt
of North-east quarter of sectiou five, township six
ty-eight, range twenty-six; Eust half of north-west
quarter of Section five, township aixtv-eight, range
twenty-six; East half of North-east quarter o
Section six, township sixty-nine, range twenty six
North-east quarter of North-weft quarter of sec
tion six. township sixty-nine, rauge twenty-six ;
South-west quarter of North-west quarter of section
six.township sixty-nine, range twenty-six; South-east
quarter of section six, township sixty-nine, range twen
ty-six ; West halt of South-west quarter of section six,
township sixty-nine, range twenty-six ; North-east
quarter of sectiou seven, township sixtv-niue, range
twenty-six ; north-west quarter of section seven,
township sixty-nine, range twenty-six ; South-west
quarter of Soutli-east quarter of section thirty-two,
township sixty-nine, range twcuty-six ; north-east
quarter of .South-east quarter of sectiou one, town
ship sixty-eight, range twnety-neven; north-east
quarter of north-east quarter of section oue, town
ship sixty-eight, range twenty-seven; North-east quar
ter of section two, township sixty-eight, range twenty-
seven; North-west quarter of North-east quarter ol
iction one, township sixty-nine, range twenty-seven;
North-east quarter of South-east quarter of section one,
township sixty, nine, range twenty-seven; South-east
{darter of aacrion one, sownship sixjy-nine, range
twenty-sevCT; north-east quarter of section twelve,
township sixty-nine, rauge tweuty seven; north-east
quarter of north-east quarter of section thirty-six, town
ship seventy, range twenty-seven; West hall of
North-east quarter uf section tliirty-six, township sev
en! v, range twenty-seven ; north-west quarter)
of section thirty-six, township seventy, range twenty -
seven; w,*st half of South-east quarter of section thir-
tv-six,township seventy, range twenty-seven; north
half of south-west quarter of section thirty six, town
ship seventy, range twenty-seven.
Section 2. Anil he it Jiir/lier enacted. That all such
Hungarians entitled to the right of pre-emption to the
above described lauds bv this act. who nuiy have gone
on to said laud, prior to January twenty-second, eigh
teen hundred and fifty-five, or since that time, and have
Continued to inhabit and improve the same, shall hold
their claims,uot exceeding one hundred and sixty acres
to each pre-emptor against any subsequent claimants
whatever: Provided further,tiiat said claimants under
settlement and cultivation may prior to January twen
ty-second, eighteen hundred ana fifty-five, or prior to
tiie passage of this act, .shall make known their claims
in writing to the Register at Chariton, within three
months from the date of publication in said district, of
notice to said claimants, of the privileges grauted
hereby, to be given by' the commissioner of the General
Land Office; and in all eases proof and payment must
be made at the Land Office aforesaid within twelve
months from the date of publication of notice afore
said.
Approved lltli May, 1858.
[Public—No. 24.J
AN ACT to authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to
sell tiie old custom house and site in Bath, Maine, and
for other purposes.
Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tive! af the United States uf America in Congress as
sembled, Tiiat the Secretary of the Treasury he, and
he is hereby authorised to sell at public auction, after
first fixing a minimum price therefor, when the new
custom house shall be completed, and tit for occupa
tion; and he is hereby authorised to use all, or so much
of the money arising from the sale of said old custom
house and site, as shall be necessary to furnish the new
custom house.
Approved May 11, 1S58.
California, or any instrument of writing in ~fela-Jwas conte mp'
: . : 1 „ :.. it,~ Ctnto o»* philrl TKz
j had enjoyed high professional reputation, and had
I been the associate and friend of eminent men,
was left homeless and poor, and died at last alone
in tbe shanty of a poor negro nurse, is unknown.
It is a painful lesson of tho sad vic.issituues of
life.
When Lady Holland wanted to get rid of a fop.
Distressing Affair.
Mr. Perkins, of the firm of Smith, Perkins & Co.,
of Rochester, N. ¥., was among the killed by the
rotten bridge accident on the New York Central
railroad. Mr. Smith, the senior partner of the
firm, was so severely shocked when told of the fate
of his old friend and partner, ns io become danger-
she used to say, “I beg your pardon—but I wish ously ill. Sad to say his sickness has terminated
you would sit a little farther off; there is something
in your handkerchief which I do not like.”
in insanity, and he was on Sunday conveyed to tho
i Utica Asvlum—a maniac
Pub: 22.
AN ACT to amend the act entitled “A11 act to
ascertain and settle the private land claims in
the Sta te of California,” passed March third,
eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprcscn
lances of the United States of America in Congress
assembled. That iu cases pending in the Dis
trict Courts of the United States, in California, on
appeal from the decree of the Commissioners to
ascertain and settle the private land claims iti th.-
State of California, under the act of Congress,
passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-
une, if either party shall desire to examine any
witness residing in any other district within said
State, or shall require the production of any paper.
written instrument, book or document, supposed
to lie in the possession or power of a w itness re
siding in another district, the court wherein the
case is pending, or any judge thereof, being satis
fied by affidavit or otherwise* of the materiality of
such witness, or of the production of such paper,
written instrument, hook, or document as evidence
of the case, may order the elerk of said court to
issue a sul.pwna, or a subpoena duces tecum for sueh
witness and for sueh paper, written instrument,
buok or document; which subpoena or subpoena
duces tecum shall run into any other District in
said State, and be served by tbe marshal of either
District as the Court or Judge may direct: And
the Court or Judge ordering said writ shall have
power to enforce obedience to said process, and
punish disobedience hy attachment, and iu like
manner as if said witness resided within the Dis
trict where the cause may be pending; and all at
tachments and process necessary to enforce obedi
ence or punish disobedience to the aforesaid writs
of subpiena aud siibjiti-iirufuce* tecum may be
served and executed by the Marshal of either Dis
trict as the Court or Judge may direct- Provided,
That a witness attending tiie Court under a sub-
prena issu' d under the provisions of this act ina
district in which he docs not reside, shall be enti-
t.od to the same ties for attendance as are allowed
by tiie laws of the 8tato of California to witnesses
in similar cases.
Approved, May' 11, 1858.
[Pub. 23.1
AN ACT for the relief of the Hungarian settlers upon
certain tracts of laird in I"wa, hitherto reserved from
sale by order of the President, dated January tweu-
tv-two, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.
lie it charted by the Si ante and House of Represen
tatives of the United States of America in Congress
I’llb 2ii.
AN ACT to provide for tbe collection and safe
keeping of public Archives in the state of Cal-
litornia.
He it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the. United States of America iu
Congress assembled, That.it shall be the duly of
the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be
collected and deposited in the surveyor General’s
Office in California all official books, papers in
struments of writing documents, archives, official
seals, stamps or dies that may be found in the un
authorized possession of any individual, relatin'
to and used iu the administration of governmen
and public affairs in the department of Upper
California, and which belonged to the Government
during the existence of Spanish or Mexican au
thority in Upper California; and the same, when
deposited ill his office, shall be safely aud securely-
kept by tbe Surveyor general iu the archives of
his office: And copies thereof, authenticated by
the Surveyor general under the seal of his office
shall he evidence in all cases where the originals
would be evidence—Provided that at the time of
depositing said books, papers, writings and docu
ments in said archives, a schedule aud acurate de
scription thereof shall be made by the Surveyor
General, with a statement of the time and place
where the same were found, and when they were
deposited in the archives, which shall be certified
under the seal of the surveyor General and filed
in his office: and a certified copy of said schedule
shall he transmitted to tiie commissioner of the
General Laud Office, and also to the Attorney
General.
Section 2, And be it further enacted, That if
the Surveyor general shall have cause to suspect
a concealment of any such official books, papers,
writings documents, archives or official seals,
stamps or dies aforesaid, in any particular dwell
ing house, building or place any Judge or com
missioner of the United States may, on affidavit
showing the facts and circumstances upon which
sueh suspicions are founded, grant to the Survey
or General, 01 to any Marshal of the United Suites
a warrant to enter sueh house, building or place
and there to search for such official books, papers
writings, documents, archives, seals, stamps or
dies, and to take possession thereof and deposit
ihem in the archives of the Surveyor General’s
office as aforesaid.
Sec. 3 And licit further enacted, That if any
person shall without lawful authority wilfully
take from tile archives of the said Surveyor Gen-
.eral’s office any espediente, map, diseno, book,
paper, writing record, document, seal, stamp or
d.ie, or shall wilfully alter, deface, mutilate, injure
ur destroy any espediente book paper, map, diseno
instrument of writing, document record, seal,
stiuup or die deposited in said aicliives; or shall
conceal or unlawfully w ithhold from the posses
sion of the Surveyor General or retuse to deliver
to him any espediente, map, diseno, official book
paper, writing, document, archive, record, seal
stamp or die, relating oi or used in the adminis
tration of Government in the department of Up
per California, and bv longing to tbe Government
during the existence of Spanish or Mexican au
thority in said department; or shall wilfully alter,
deface, mutilate, make away with or destroy any
such official book, eSpediente, map diseno, paper,
writing, document, archive, record, seal, stamp
or die, the person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and ou conviction there
of in @ny court of competent jurisdiction, shall
forfeit and pay a tine, not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, at the discretion of the court, and he im
prisoned for a term not exceeding ten years at the
like discretion.
See. 4. Aud he it further enacted, That if any
person shall wilfully, secretly and fraudulently
place or .cause to be placed iu or among tiie ar
chives of the Surveyor general’s office’ any ex-
pediejete, book, paper diseno, map draught, record
or any instrument of writing purporting to be a
petition, deere e, order, report, concession, grant,
confirmation, map, diseno; espediente, or part of
an espediente, denouncement, title, paper, or evi
hence of right, title or claim to any land, mine or
mineral, or any hook, writing, paper, or document
whatever, the person so offending xhal be deemed j
aud adjudged guilty of misdemeanor, and upon |
conviction thereof by any court of competent ju
risdiction shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceed
ing five thousand dollars, and he imprisoned for
a term not exceeding tjiree years; or be both lined
and impriserft d within said limits at the discretion
of 1 he 1 our:.
Approved 18 May, 1858.
Pub: 27.
An ACT for the prevention and punishment oi
frauds in land titles iu CaUiforuia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen■
tatires of the bulled States of America m Con
press assembled. That if any person shall falsely
make, alter, forge or counterfeit, or cause or pro
cure to he falsely made, altered forged or eoun
terteit'.d: or w illingly aid and assist in tiie false
making, altering, forging or counterfeiting any
petition, certificate, order report, decree conces
sion, denouncement, deed, pateut, confirmation
diseno. inad espediente, nr part of an espediente
or any title paper or evidence of right,title or claim
to lands, mines or minerals in Caliifornia, or any
instriinitnt of writing whatever in relation to
hurls or mines oruiinerels ;in the state of Calli-
fornia; for tiie purposed' setting up or es
tablishing against tiie United8tates any claim,
tie-lit or title to lands, uiiues or minerals
within tiie ft’tate of Caliifornia, or for the pur
pose of enabling any person to set up. or es
tablish any such claim; or if any person for the
purposes aforesaid, or either of them, shall utter
or publish as true and genuine any false, forged,
altered or counterfeited, petition, certificate, order
report decree, concession, denouncement, deed,
patent confirmation, diseno, map, espediente or
part of an espediente, title-paper, evidence of,
rin-ht title nr claim to lands or mines or minerals
in’the State of California, or any instrument of
writinf* whatever in relation to lands or mines or
minerals in the state of California, the person so
offending shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of
a misdemeanor, and being thereof duly convietod
shad be sentenced te tie imprisoned and kept at
iau d labor for a period not less than three years,
aiul not more than ten years and shall be fined
not exceeding ten thousand dollar
See 2 Anil lie it further emitted, That if any,
person shall make or cause or procure to be made,
or shall willingly aid and assist iu making any
falsely dated petition, certificate, order, report,
decree, concession, denouncement, deed, pateut,
confirmation diseno, map, espediente, or part of an
espediente, or any title-paper or written evidence
of right, title or claim, under mexican authority
to aiiv lands, mines or minerals in the State
tion to lands or mines or minerals in the State of
California having false date, or falsly purporting
to bo made by any mexican officer or authority
E riur to the seventh day ot July, A. D. eighteen
undred and /orty-six, for the purpose of setting
tip or establishing any claim against the United
States to lands or mines or minerals within the
State of Caliifornia, or of ^enabling any person to
set up or establish any such claims or if any per
son shall sign his name as governor, secretary or
other public officer acting under mexican author
ity, to any instrument of writing falsely purport
ing to be a grant, concession, or denouncement
under mexican authority, and during its existence
iu California of lands, mines or minerals, or falsely
purporting to be an infornie; report, record, con
firmation or other proceeding on an application
for a grant, concession or denouncement under
Mexiean authority, during its existence in Cali-
ifornia, of lauds mines or minerals, the person so
offending shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of
a misdemeanor, and being thereof duly convicted
shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept at
hard labor for a period not less three years nor
more than ten years, and shall bo lined uot ex
ceeding ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. Aud be it farther enacted, That if any
person for the purpose of setting up or establish
ing any claim against the United States to lands
mines or minerals withiu tho State ot California
shall present, or cause or procure to be presented
before any court, Judge, commission or commis
sioner, or other officer of the United States, any
false, forged altered or counterfeited petition, deed,
pateut, diseno, map, espediente, or part ot an es
pediente, title-paper or written evidence of right,
title or claim to lands, minerals or mines in ilia
Statu of California, knowing the same to be false
forged, altered or counterfeited, or any falsely
dated petition, certificate, order report decree,
concession, denouncement, deed, patent, confir
mation, diseno, map espediente or part of an es
pediente. title-paper, or written evidence of right
title or claim to lands, mines or minerals in Cali
fornia, knowing the same to he falsely dated: or
if any person shall prosecute in any Court of the
United Stages, by appeal or otherwise an}' claim
against the United States for lands, mines or min
erals in California, or shall, after the passage, of
this act, continue to prosecute any claim now
pending in said courts against tho United States
for lands, mines or minerals, in California, which
claim is founded upon or evidenced by any peti
tion, certificate, orjer. report, decree, concession,
denouncement, deed, patent, confirmation, diseno,
maps, espedieute, or part of an espediente, title-
paper, or written evidence of right, title or claim,
which lias been forged, altered, counterfeited or
falsely dated, knowing the same to be forged, al
tered or counterfeited or falsely dated, the person
so offending shall be deemed and adjudged guilty
of a misdemeanor, aud on conviction thereof shall
be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept at hard
labor, for a period not less than three years, nor
more than ten years, and shall bo fined not ex
ceeding ten thousand dollars.
Approved 18 May, 1858.
a child. The Saints
Tub: 28.
AN ACT to amend ail act entitled “An act to
authorize the President of the United States to
cause to he surveyed the tract of land, in the
Territory ofMinnesota, belonging to the half
breeds or mixed bloods of ths Dacotah or Sioux
nation of Indians, aud for other purposes.” ap
proved seventeenth July, eighteen hundred aud
fifty-four.
Be i -enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentuliccs of the United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That the act approved seven
teenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, above
referred to, chapter eighty-three, be, and the same
is hereby amended, so that the body of land
known as the half-breed tract, lying on the west
side of Lake Pepin and tho Mississippi river, in
the Territory of Minnesota, and which is author
ize! to he surveyed hy the said act oi eighteen
hundred and fifty-four, shall be subject to the op
eration of the laws regulating the sale and dispo
sition oi the public lauds, aud settlements here
tofore made thereon are declared valid so far as
they do not conflict with settlements made by hall-
breeds, aud tiiat the settlers shall have the benefit
of the preemption laws of the United 'States, any
location of half-breed scrip thereon after tho date
of the settlement notwithstanding: Provided, the
declaration of pre-emption he filled within three
months after public uotice is given of the passage
of this act in the proper Land District: And Pro
vided-, That when two or more persons have set
tled on the same quarter section, prior to the pas
sage of this act, they shall be permitted to enter-
the same; and the rights of each shall be determin
ed according totlie provisions of this act relating to
pre-emptions passed March third eighteen hundred
and forty-three.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pro
visions of this act shall uot extend to any tract or
sub division, within the body of land aforesaid,
which shall have been settled upon, iu good faith
by, and is in the occupancy of, any of the said
half breeds or mixed bloods, which lands, so set
tled upon and accupied by the half-breeds, are
hereby expressly d”tlared to be subject to no
other disposition than location by the • certificates
or scrip” authorized to be issued hy the said act
of eighteen hundred and fjty-four, for the ben
efit of said Indians. Nor shall tho provisions of
this act extend to any lands which may have been
located prior to its passage with half-breed scrip
with the consent of the settlers theroon.
Approved May lit. 1858.
[Public—No. 9.]
A RESOLUTION to exten 1 for a further time the pro
visions of the joint resolution approved March 10,
lSo-i, in relation to certain dropped and retired offi
cers of the navy.
'l-aJrril In/ the Senate and House of Representatives
of th ' United States of America, ill Congress as
sembled, That the time limited by the joint resolution
approved March tenth, eighteen hundred anil fffty-
eiglit, entitled a “Joint resolution to extend and define
the authority of the President, under the a it approved
January sixteenth,eighteen hundred aud fifty-seven,
entitle i “An act to amend ail act entitled an act to pro
to -.te the efficiency of the navy,’ in respeot to dropped
aud retired n ival officers,” be, and hereby is. extended
11 the first day of Jana iry, eighteen hn i h od au 1 fifty-
nine, in lien of six months as provided therein.
Approved M iv 11, 1S58.
Young was tame
no mission of vengeance
from the Lord to deliver te the people. Simply
Gov. Cuiuining entered the city of the temple and
the temple itself, and Mormonism bowed its head
in submission.
Of course the troops were in readiness to act, and
this the Danites knew full well.
The mass of the people, he thinks oppose war,
and says that the women had sent word to Col.
Johnston to come on, they will welcome him,
believing that when ho arrives they will bn free
from an intolerable despotism. If this be true,
it looks as if there was to be a speedy termination
of the Mormon war.
From the the Montgomery Mail.
The Capitals of Alabama and Georgia—Th®
Miltedgeville Iniou’s view of the One, and a
Wang Doodle View of the Other.
Our always clever friend, the editor of tbo Mil.
ledgeville Federal Union—who attended tho
recent convention in this c'ty—speaks very band,
somely. for the most part, thro’ his paper, oi the
people and city of Montgomery; but iu the sane
article gives them some hard rubs. We copy
below what he says of his visit, and also copy as
an offset to the exceptionable portions of liis re
marks what Wang Doodle, the inimitable cor
respondent of the Macon (Ga.) State Press, said
of Milledgeville a few months since. The Federal
Union says: _ !
After a long, monotonous and slow rids, wo
reached Montgomery about daylight, the capital
of our fair sister on the left. We were most
agreeably impressed on entering this growing and
beautiful city. The business part ot the city,in
the stylo aud magnificence of tho buildings, in
convenience and location, is not to be surpassed
by auy inland town or city south of Richmond-
The public buildings, or State House, stands ou an
eminence ou the east, it is an imposing building
seen at a distance, but grows “beautifully less "as
it is approached. The grounds are wholly uiflui-
proved, and this seat of the collected wisdont of
Alabama is enclosed by a fence that mould do dis
credit to any country Court House. The building
seems to have gone to seed—is top-heavy, and
the best thing that could.happen would he to have
it upset by the wind, so that the State might bo
compelled to erect a new one. The private
residences, many of them, are very handsome,
and the city generally betokens great wealth in or
near it.
Pub; 8—
A RESOLUTION to extend tho operation of the
act approved January Iti. 1857, entitled “An act
to amend an act entitled “An Act to promote tho
efficiency of the navy”
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Rrpresrnta-
tins of the United States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the operation of the act entitled “An
act to amend an act entitled an act to promote the
efficiency of the navy,” limiting the restoration of
officers in certain cases, be. extended to tho six
teenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-
nine:
Provided, that the time within which examina
tions by Courts of Inquiry may be made as pro
vided hy the first section otsaid act, shall not be
extended except as to any taso pending and un
determined before any Couft of Inquiry under the
act of tho sixteenth January, eighteen hundred
arid fifty-seven, at the experation thereof; and ex
cepting also the case of any officer who was absent
from the country at the tine of the passage of said
act, and hand not return'd previous to the six
teenth of January eighto'fl hundred and fifty-eight.
And any sueh officer shall be entitled to all the
privileges conferred by said act provided he applies
for the benefit thereof at any time within sixt}
days alter liis return.
Approved May 11, 1^8—
LatestI tah lltnis.
We glean the follo"i'>g from the correspondent
of our New York exchanges:
Camp Scott. U. I.» April 10, lsoo
A special express loaves here for the states
within half an hoir, turd I hasten to write a few
lines, aud take phasure in saying I am enjoying
good health. G^onor Cumuiing left here for
Great Salt I-ake City three days since, as reques
ted hy the MormiRs. Our camp was thrown into
great excitement-oil hearing ot the arrival ot Mr.
Gilbert, of Messn. Gilbert A, Gorrish, merchants
at this camp, froD California via Great Sait Lake
Citv. He reports that ou the, other side of Salt
Lalre city busfels of human hair of women and
children lie biR.'hing on tiie ground. This is
spposed to be t*in the party that emigrauted last
fall or Califonia, and believed to have beeu mur
dered bv tbe Mormons.
Mr. Gilbert Ket several trains of wagons, num
berin'’- from iOfl to 700 in a train, and Briglum
with them, ireat Salt Lake City is all upside
down. Thepeople are leaving fast tor the White
Mountains, on the border of New Mexico and
Utah Terri fry. They do not intend to destroy
their dueling*- They will let them stand, in
hopes tnat he present difficulty will he settled aud
they will riturn again; but from what I can learn
they are instaken in their calculations, as the
troops wifi follow them to their graves as soon as
reinforce i to lit s reach ns. fhe le.ideis of the church
are tri"h*ned to death, aud have already left.
Mr. licklin (guide) and party arrived here a
few dai* ago, after a hard three mouths to the
Flat H.ad (Indian) nation, for the purpose of
purchasing mules and horses for the army They
succeeded in getting about two hundred and fifty
horses Jter a laborious trip. They were welcomed
in ouicauip as if they had been lost and found
again What is to be done is not yet known; but
when my thing definite occurs I will let you know.
Mr Gerrish says that Govenor Cumraing was
bitter, on tbe 25th of March, iu the right arm,
by :-dog that was supposed to benrad. The dog
attiiLed several and wAb finally killed. The
(ioienor was quiet fearful and distressed about
thcfiatter.
i/ie army are living quite comfortably on ra-
l jejs of thirteen ounces of flour and two pounds
oi bad beef, and had enough to keep them comfort-
a jhr till the first of June.
The following extra, from the office of the
leavfciiworth Daily Times. May 14, was received
Jsterday evening:
j A special messenger arrived yesterday from
Camp Scott, bringing the important news that
gov. Gumming had entered Salt Lake City with
out troops, and that his authority had been fully
recognized by the Mormon officials. He brings
dates to April 10th. _ . . .
Nut only was no resistance offered, but none
It was our pleasure to make the acquaintance of
tbe entire editorial corps of the city; to whose
kindness and attention we arc indebted for most
of the pleasure of our visit. Our friends of the
Mail especially, will aceept our acknowledgements
for their courtesy and attention. Iu her Press,
Montgomery is not behind her sister cities at tho
South. Indeed, she is rather in advance of them.
Columbus has hut one daily paper—Macon, a
larger city than Montgomery, has no daily paper,
while the latter place has three. A pretty sure in
dex of the prosperity and energy of its business
population. We would not say ono word in dis
paragement of the city, but truth and caudor com
pel us to say, that it costs a man more for “fare
and fun” in Montgomery, than in any place we
ever saw or over heard of. If the idea of having
the Convention, waste bleed the public, it van
successful. Think of three dollars a day for hoard,
and ten in a room! Comfortable very, eh! 't hink
of having to pay omnibus fare to and from tiie con
vention, or take the dust and tiie sun going and
coming from the sittings of a.hody. near a mile
from tiie hotels! Think of these tilings, and bleed
from tiie bottom of yourpoc/:ef.
Two days in Montgomery satisfied us, and wo
left for Tuskegeo, with the following impression
iudellibly stamped on our memory: Montgomery
is a handsome place—admirably located for busi
ness—has a clever corps of editors—many hand
some ladies—the finest equipages—and the most
unmerciful hotel charges this side of 8an Fran
cisco.
The following is Col. Wang Doodle’s com
munication to the State Press:
Milledgeville— Its Productions—Situation—Public
Edifices Remarkable Characters, Re.
Messrs. Editors: I take the liberty of ad
dressing you a few lines for tho purpose of in
forming you that I have nothing to communi
cate.
Milledgeville is situated on the Tobesofkee
River Murry county, about forty-nine miles above
its source, and has about three hundred thousand
inhabitants ; composed mostly of Penitentiary
convicts, Irish Potatoes and Lager Beer.
Congress is now in session in the Bar Room,
where the members are seated so close together
that a small mouse iu endeavoring to creep
through them, bruised itself to death.
This body is distinguished for weak heads and
strong stomachs. Squire Ward of the State of
Dooly, is the Speaker of the Senate, lie is a
gentleman of large family about twenty-three years
old, gray haired and uses tobafceo.
Mr. Terhune, of Ware is the scribe of the Sen
ate. He is perfectly bald but refuses to wear a wig;
alleging this very just aud sago reason—that as
nature took his hair off, nature may put it back
again, and if dame nature doesn't put it hack
again, she is not the lady he took her for. He
calls himself the “ Big Brave of the Cherokees,”
but history Informs us that it is the “ Big Ugly.”
Gen Peter Cone is a young wan of fair com
plexion, who has been representing the County of
Bulloch for the last ninety-nine years. A disease
of the lungs prevents him from speaking above a
whisper. This is to be regretted very mueb.
Lieut. Underwood is President of the House.—
He is a mighty curious little man aud eats scarce
ly anything.
Mr. Speer, the Secretary, is a near relative of
his uncle the celebrated William Shakespeer: he is
ivfatoMman aud wears spectacles. He prides
himself upon liis superabundance of raven locks,
and asserts that he has plenty of hair on the “place
where the hair ought to grow.”
Findley from Lumpkin is the greatest orator in
either branch of this body. His voice is soft and
melodious; he slings ids sublime gestures to the
skies aud brings them down—to use his own
beautiful expression,— “ like a thousand of
bricks.”
There arc some buildings in Milledgeville which
would do justice to the magnificence of Palmyra,
or Balbec, or Hawkins villa in their palmiest days.
The Executive Mansion is a royal edifice—suffi
ciently to excite the envy of the ancient Cmsars.
From the towering observatory of this building we
have a commanding view of the buck-yard of the
livery Stable and the tan-yard of the superb State
Prison.
“Lafayette Ilall” is a noble pile. It lias no
lours or windows; and some of the floors are
knocked out. we understand, for the purpose of
free ventilation.
The members of Congress will be pleased to
learn that it will be fitted up for their accommo
dation next year, as they hace. now to sleep seven
u n bed and some on the floor.
The State House—like little jBilly Woodcock s
—is a “mighty building;” with a Porto Rico on
top, a Pizarro at the the bottom and a Revenue
running through the middle. A hill is now be
fore Congress to move it to the Okefenukee Swamp
The bill I hear, has passed.
Yours my dear sirs,
WANG DOODLE.
N. B.—I expect to be absent.on a journey to
the Mountains of Hepsidam, until the first Wed
nesday in next November, when you may expect
to hear from me again-
W- DOODLE.
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tive and restorative properties of these Fills render
them indispcnsihle to to the feebler sex.
From the New York News.
What IIxs Chasgcd You So’—We Lave all wit
nessed with astonishment tiie extraorordinary ami im
proved change in many a gentleman and !auy, who had
become prematurely gray, but who, by some means,
had become miraculously rejuvenated. There is a time
iu life when gray hairs seem to harmonize with the fur
rowed btoiv nod the wrinkled features, but unfortu
nately, from some cause or other. thousands of young
men and women not only witness tile gradual ehauge ot
their locks to a “mettled and speckled gray,” but are
mortified by the danger of positive baldness from the
actual loss of their hair. All this demands a remedy,
and a safe one. We naturally look about, and ask, m
this age of scientific invention, who stands highest ns
the Proprietor ami Manufacturer of a real hair restorer
—a restorer of color as well as health, a bonutifier as
well as a hair tonic. We find at the head of ail the
laimauts, in this long liue, a single individual. Any of
the splendid heads of hair along Broadway, once falling
lit. drv and gray, when naked, “u hat has changed
von so.”’ will reply, Professor Wood's Hair Restora
tive.
Caution.—Beware of worthless imitations ns several
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Restorative, Depot St. Louis, Mo., and New York,) are
blown on the bottle. Sold by all Druggists and Patent
Medicine Dealers. Also by all Fancy and Toilet goods
dealers in the United States and Canada*. 52 2t.
Uroin Washington.—W rSHI.NGTOX. May 27.
The proceedings of the Senate to-day were unim
portant. Tiie House passed the Civil Appropria
tion and Revenue bills-
The execution of the contracts for the California
mail, via Tehuantepec, was postponed.
The Wutcricitch has sailed for Cuba.
-1 Ueeling Tribute.—Our friend, Gen. James N-
Bethune, Editor of the “Corner Stone,”of Colum.
thus notices bis own recent sad bereavement!
• For several weeks past, our life has heen bno
of apprehension and anxiety, relieved occasionally
bv gleams of hope. Our time and thoughts and
footings have been occupied in watching over a
dying° wife. Patiently and uncomplainingly
she bore her affliction for months—calmly aud
peacefully she passed away, on Tuesday
night last. Her 'life was an exemplification of tho
.right , ..
truth of tho doctrines of Christ; and death never
ushered into the presence of God a purer spirit
than hers. We who aro left behind, mourn not for
her but for ourselves.”