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r i 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. Holloway's Pills.—Delicate females, who suffer from those peculiar dislurbances of the system incident to the gentler sex, will find in these Pills a safe remedy for all the functional disorders under which they may labor. Acting specifically upon the locul irregularity, and generally neon the svstem, this comprehensive remedy will simultaneously remove the immediate cause of suffering, and invigorate all the bodily organa which have been affected by sympathy therewith. In the three most perilous phases of female existence, viz., the dawn ot womanhood, the period of maturity, and what is termed “the change of life,” the altera 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 ar< already in the market, called by different names — Use none unless tiie words (Professor Wood’s Ilnir 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.”