The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1852, Page 3

es THE LECTURE ASON. wey New York Historical Society. The regular monthly meeting of this society was held at the rooms in the University, on Tuesday evening. The cbair was taken by the Hon. Luther Bradish The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and several gentlemen were duly admitted members of the society. Mr. Eowin Wittiams read & report of the committee eppointed to inquire into, and report upon, the advan tage of prepering an index to (he newspapers, reported progress, and atked leave to continue sitting; which was granted. 1: bad been sta‘ed that the expense of the in- dex wou'd be ten thousand dollars, and that it had been Proposed to complete it in two years Five thousand dollars would be incurred for the labor of compilation nd five thousand dollars fir printiag aud binding: which expense it bed been proposed to defray by sub scription copies. A discursion next took place relative to the society's act for the exemption of the society's premises from tho payment of texca, and from their liability to legal execution in case of debt; which ended in its being resolved to precent @ memecrial to the Legislature for the passing of the act reported bs the trustees z Mr. O'Rercy then read a paper on “the early history of Western New York.” It hud been prepared by the late Mr. Thamas Morris, once President of the society. We had, like other men who bad devoted themselves to the benefit of bis country, felt the keen aud bitter gripe of poverty. Mr. O'Reily commenced by observing upon the conflicts which had agitated the contiguous Btates, especially Massachusetts, at the period ot the revolution- ry war. Tbe paper, which was of extreme length, was simply a mioute detail of all the liftle negotiations which Mr. ilorris had taken in haud during the latter part of the last century, which were of « private and simple cha- racter lie had determined to take up his residence at Canandaigue, when he should have attained twenty-one. ‘Captain Williamson came out as the ageot of Governor Thornby, and his energy and talents contributed to the rapid rettlement of the provinces. Untortunately for Mr. Morris, about 1793, Sie William Paltney had con- tractea with some Germans in London; but instead of their being industrious labourers, they turaed out to ba ‘vagabonds, and would only work at cu:ting down trees, which they did with swords. Inu the course of the nar- fative, he also alluded to the impostuce of a woman named Jemima Wilkinson, who exercised sovereign oom trol over certain portions of the peoyly, by means of reli- ious imposition and assumption. Upoa ous oscusion she Dansportea ‘aman to Nova Scotia for two yaura, for an offence, and he only returned at the due expiration of cay term She was always attended apou by two girls, and was in concert with another impostor, by the name of Elijah Parker He was in the habit of tying a cord roand his waist, e0as to caure a swelling of the abdomen, in which siate he used to deliver himself of the divine doc trines with which he pretended he was fliled, (Laugh ter.) This man was subrequentiy appointed a Justice of the Beace, and in that capacity on one occasion, granted a werrant for the arrest of Jemima ((laughter.) Bhe was x woman of great ignorance—could neither read nor write—and whea rebuked for the valgarism of her tones, ured to say tha’ she always preferred adapting her manner of discouree vo the character and undersvanding ofherhearers (Laughter) The Mermon Prophet com- menced his career wear the sacs ideutical spot. Alluding to the ucgotiations carried cn with the Indians, the pa- er remaiked their strict tenacity to their customs, e Sachems had a right to deal with every thing, acsor- ding to custom; but in the case of difference respecting land, the women aud warriors had a right to intertere, the women were considered #s the strength of the w: riors. Shey could not comprehend the meaning of money stocks, but conceived a bank to be a receptacle for monty from which an annual crop was gatbered. (Laughter.) ‘These were theonly points in the paper to which any general interest was attached, MINNBSOTA. Mestage of the Governor, Gov. Ramsay, of Minnesota Territory, seat his annual message to the Council and House of Rep- rosentatives, on the 13th ult. After alluding tothe encouraging stato of the territorial fiaances, tho message £6; If we regard solely the amount of our assets and liabilities, asurvey of the monstary affairs of Min- | nesota may seem 4 very insignificant matter; but it cannot 60 be considered, when we reflect that ox- travegant oulays and habits of waste, whon oace created by a government, are diffisnlt to bo re- formed and retreuched, and that iu this respect its earlier legislation may in no inoonsiderable dogreo bias the tuture policy of the territory The utmost economy is recommended in order to keep the territory out of a labyrinth of dobt, from which it would be difficult to extricate it. ‘The prodigies achieved by individual adventuro and private eaterprise, are said to be visible in the unyaralisied growth of the principal towns in Min- Desota, shye the message. Saint Paul, ocoupying a site which but throe years ago Was an uninhabited waste, with its popu- fati of twenty-five hundred inhabitants, its com- mercial activity, its numerous pubiic edifices, and private dwelling houses of superior construction, is rapidly pressing forward to besome the great capi- tal of the Northwest. Saint Antbony, pastels: situated almost under the spray of che great falls of the Father of Waters, with its intelligent popula- tion, and the genial and refining influences of the University, so fitly located there, must enjoy an enviable distinction as the seat of learning in the valley of tho Miscissippi; while Stillwater, the lumber depot of the North, with the rapid a mentation of this giant interest, is increasing with uoabated vigor in wealth and population, and will ever occupy a commanding position as the central mart of the opulent valloy of tho St. Croix. Jn pursvanoe of law, a Board of Building Com- ionsrs was elected in May last, and contracts have been let by thena for the erection of a territo- rial prison at Stillwater, aud for the building of a eopilol at St. Paul; the former to be compleved by the Ist of December, 1852, and the latter so as to accommodate the two branches of the Legislative Assembly, at the session 1853. be * * Highly satisfactory progress has been made in the survey ef the ceveral roads in the territory, for which appropriations were made by the act o! Congress of July, 1550. The road from Poiat Douglas to Fort Ripley; that frem Point Douglas to the St_ Louis river of Lake Superior ; and taat trom the Mississippi to tho Winnebago Agency at Long Prairie, have all, daring the past season, been loeated and surveyed. The fruit of the labors of the last Legislative Agcembly, in collecting, revising, and putting in ncocssible form the statuto laws of the territory, is a matter of sober, but just congratulation. The Governor Saprecsiek partial or special legislation as an evil to bo avoided; and as pro- vision has been mado for the incorporation by general lew of al! agsociations essential to the prosecution of business, or to the dovelogement of the resources of tho country, it is to be hoped that the time of the Legislature will be occupied as little as possiblo with business of a local character. In relation to judicial districts, according to tho present divisions, he says it seems inadeyuate to the exigoncies of the territory, and he invites tho deliberations of tho legislators upon the subject. In relation to the public echools the message says: Onthe motion of Judge Campbell, a vote of thanks was awarded Mr. O’Reily, and the chairman then for- mally adjourned the meeting. The Actual and the Ideal. A lecture was delivered on Tursday evening, in Hope ‘Chape!, b¥ the Rey. E. H. Chapin, on “The Actual and the Ideal.’ There was a large audience. The Rev, lecturer said, that the subject suggested g common distinction between the ideas of “actual” and © ideal’ —between palpable and known qualities, and thore of rarer beauty and higher truth. Those terms he feared had a two-fold meaning—it suggested those con- ceptions which belonged peculiarly to the region of the Imagination, and the province of art, and also indicated what should be, as contrasted with what was—that tran- scendent vision—that standard of perfection which in- duced arpiration after knowledge, virtue, or religion, — in short, the ideal was the conception of something bet- terin the “actual,” and of something better than the “actual? He should define generally that clags of con- ceptions which receive new customs, and ersential and comprehensive views He proposed to speak of the iaeal asan element of human culture, and although his re- marks imght be abstract, he would endeavor to make & practical application of them to the present time. To some extent every man was an idealist, The artist was haunted by visions of beauty which he could never psint—the poec with ‘imagery which was but the wavering rhadow of his inspirtio —the philosopher traversing the shorelers immensit of truth, were only illustrations of common experi There was no period of life, there was no sphere of uc tion without its influence It suggested romance, of iu maturer yeers, and uncoiled those energies which must grapple with the hard qualities of the world, in the street and at the forge. From the ideal spruas all enterprise; it was the very vitality of hope. nor wa: this» mere incentive to selfizhness—the foremost sensua’ expectation. There were moments in whish the mos: worldly natures detected in ihe horizon, between earta and heaven, the light deepening into infinity, and per- ceived that the mortal pass covered exhaustless posai- bilities; and the discrepancy of that distinction, like the whole achievement, begot a loftier air in its profoundest aspect, and prophecied a larger scope to thought and ac. tion, This yearning of the soul, its flights to an unseen here were the restless index of mortal life. But u ideal faculty of our nature, like every other wer. flourished by exertion. ‘There were many ground jown by the drudgery of labor, who could have no know- ledge or conception of any higher reality than that which sprang in hop+lessress, and which glided aroucd child- hood, Bus there were many, also, who could not queach all the bitter sympathies and sordidaess, and who did not look beyond the service of things, They exhibited no unworldiy enthusiasm inart, Life there appeared in its sensual ge! It was strange to see men of liberal educa- tion contradict the nobler sources of inspiration, from whom the world expected a better prompting. very man pessersed the ideai faculty, and there was no part of eur being without its end, and no part unimportant; but all tended to the harmonious developement of the whole ‘The glory of astronomy, revealing the celestial movements, and of geology. leading us down stone steps into the tombs, to the borrowed epochs-—the glory of these conristed in the ideal grandeur which they struck open for us, and in the proof which they fur. pished, from splendor, of its manifestations and the majesty of itsrchool. Tae utilitarian offices of na- ture were the least of her attributes. The express adaptation of the ideal faculty in our nature was equally apparent when we conridere:! how in the ardor of Pro. ‘vidence there appeared certain men who were oracles in poetry, painting, and sculpture---men who shrunk from the rougher elements of the world, and had searched into the deepest recesses, and what they had seceived they had communicated as free as inspiration hey bad carved it cn stone, and hed painted it on canvass; how enduring wore those expressions of the ideal! Let them consider the noble inilaence of the ideal concept! ns; nothing cou! proof afforded by the radical made bis own word and their inspiration, and, accordingly jective to | cour spiritual condition. He contrasted this state with the view end position taken by tho mer- cenary man of the world. Some men lived more in an hour than others lived during their life. Ths tecturer yomerked upon the spirit of aspiration | which wae generally visible in the younz, upon waich he welt, in au eloquent manner, at some length. addrested himself to this ace. We m receive | —The territory of Minnesota early recognized the importance of engrafting upon its policy a good common school system. Hardiy had tho first flood of immigration, after the organizatien of tho ter- ritory, reached the shores of our upper rivers, be- fore public meetings were held to devise means for securing to the rising generation the inestima- ble plomiogy ct education. At tho two preceding sessione of the Logislature such provision was made for the maintenance of public schools as cir- cumstances seemed to warrant. Increased useful- ness and efficiency have been attained by the crea- tion, last winter, of the office of Superintendent of Schools; and I recommend that provision be made by she present legislature, for fixing the compen- eation of this officer. By an act, approved February 19, 1851, the Go- vernor and Legislative Assembly of the ‘Territory of Minnesota, are authorized “to make such laws and needful regulations as they shall deem most expedient to protect from injury and waste, sections number sixteen and thirty-six in said territory, re- served in each township for the support of schools therein.” By the same act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed ‘‘to set apart and reserve from ssle out of any of the public lands within tho ‘Territory of Mianesota, to which the Indian title has been, or may he extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire sonrashibe, for the use and eupport of a uni- versity in said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever, to be located by legal eubdi- visions of uot lees than one ontire section. Tais princely dovation of forty-six thousand acres of land, will place the University of Minnesota, if ja- dicious eelections are made, among the best endo w- edinstitutions of learning in the West. ‘Tke message ailudes to a paper currency as followe:— **] am satisficd that, in staid and settled commu- nities, a well regulated paper currency, circulating on an adequate basis, is a decided public advantage. But the experience of the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa should admonish us that in the peculiar condition of society in an early stage ef political | existence, banking is extremely hazardous; andthat the distrust, agitation, and alarm, arising from over issues of paper, and improper use of banking facilities, is more dificult to overcome and more dangerous in its tendencies if not overcome, than the actual inconveniences and losses usually incident to an insufficient currency. 1 am not aware of any disposition in this community to apply to the Logis- jal for the incorporation of a bank. Uatil there shall be a gereral call of tho community for such an institution, I think its establishment would be premature and to be deprecated.” The second public sale of lands lying in the Tor- titory of Minnesota, was held at Stillwater, in Au- gust last ; 440,000 acres wero offered, and 2,705 acres sold, at the minimum price of $1.25 per aore. All the surveyed lands in the Torritory, the plats of which have been filed in the office of the Regis- ter, are now subject to private entry. During the year 1850, 36,935 acres were disposed of, of which 33,120 acres were located by military land war- rants. The etd claims filed during the same year, covered 335,000 acres. During the year £51, 53,494 acres have been entered, of which 18,- 720 acres were located by military land warrants. Ciaims under the pre-emption law have beon made during said year, to 59,200 acres. Governor Ramscy devotes a portion of his mes- sage to the advocacy of internal improvement, and argues the matter thus:—* Jt is entirsly reason- ablo that this government, being tho great land- holder in the West and in all the new territorios, should sustain maser of the expenso in making the principal primary roads. The owners of the soil, whose property is supposed to be increased in value by reads when mado, are taxed for their construction; and why should the government be exempt from its fair proportion of the assessment ; The case is still etronger in relation to ers, which the federal authorities declare to be public highways, assume jurisdietion of, exclude from the eurveys, and thus prevent thom from care that roience did not e tov much influencs over | pecoming private property of the citizens, or us, not only in respect to ht, but in mat. | gh property of the States through whica ters of religion. Kcience told us to subserve acertain | they ‘flow. In this i the woWee oF law to ® certain end; but the only purpose of that by | +? ey ‘i fits Lr gain, whioh the law was given subserved no end, Theessen. | provement seems inseparably connected with x than the critical mind 6 came from inspiration. otk byrales. Raphael did | tal creative mind was hig ghts and proje genius did not v | owlership aed jurisdiction = * 7 the people of Mionosota the most interesting event that has occurred sinso the organiz of the territory, is the ex . th mot wo although many rules in paint- ing hed from bim; and no great dra- | matic poet had written. but who had violated the dramatic nities. The man who worked into the movements ond | sympathies of men, aud who went hore after his day’s work, and opened a volume of rome great poot, and let his thorghis sweep with the currents of the poet's thoughte—that man understood that poet better than the cold critic with his dissecting knife. This ideal con- ception was the beginning of all discoveries; therefore. in the enterprise of discovery, imagination precoeded | reason, The great eupport cf science bad been the poets. He alluded to the great power ef imagination porsessed | by Kepler. Newton, aod Columbus. Whenever a great divoovery had been made, it always eclipsed anticipation. The reverend lecturer then dwelt in # general manner | ‘upon the powers and superiority of the imagination, in | ‘various pliases in an address marked by great eloqueaca, and in thet siriin closed his lecture, of which the above de but a briel abstract, Exrtoston or Fimeworks anp Loss or Lirr.— ‘The Charleston News of the dist Jan., says -—An | explosion took place this morning, about 10 o’clook, at | the U 8 Arsenal, Cannonsboro’, in two brick buildings, 12 by 16, used as laboratories, aitached to the Arsenal, dy which Jobn Boltasr was instently killed, We wre in- formed by the commanding officer'at the Arsenal, that Baltrer was employed as pyrotec hnist. and had been en- r two or three days in preparing a handsome vt of fire Works for display on the approaching ve of Washington's bicth wary, COmmemora pposed, by one of the soldiers who had been Haltser, and hada short time before the gooident left the room, that in ramming the Romea sears friction must have caused the explosion, uediately commanm the next build- ion, by eatios of ‘Traverse des Sioux, Mendota, and Pem- | bina, of the Sioux ard Chippewa title to immense tracts of land upon the western side of the Missis- sippi. These treaties bridge over the wide chasm | which could alone obstruct the advance of Minao- | sota to the lofty destination evidently reserved for her. | By the two former treaties, the Dakota Indians relinquish to the government their right of use- fruct to all the country py, claimed by them east of the Sioux Wood and Big Sioux rivers, ex- tending over four degrees of latitude and five of longitude, and covering a superficial extent of 45,000 square miles. This vast district nature has marked out for exalted destini Of the 37,000,000 square goographical miles of | u '} eonbee | was indeed sad eight—Dbeards, shingles, timbers, bricks, territorial surface, which the globe, acsording to Malte Brun, contains, probably no tract of equal extent embraces a fower number of acres doomedto eternal sterility. Within its oxtreme limits, it mey be safely asserted there is hardly a rood that is not arable: for the wet and swampy lauds are casily drained, and eventually will bo the most eagerly sought for agricultural purposes. Rapid streams, fod from rich prairies, and shaded by ho- blo forests; clear lakes stocked with fish; a soil en- riched with the spoils of the decayed vogotation of al thousand years, are feavares common to the eutire region. Rich veins of mineral woalth, ard an inexhavslible command of water power, peist it out asthe future abode of manufacturing gxeatners; while the boundiess plaing, subdued by ae ee eeaevout Eo loa of porter, entirely decteeg. | ‘20 Voluntary toil of freemen, will beovme tho oe ‘ the side of apolner, and domng const. | CbOSen abiding-place of pastoral republi d were toe thicd Baltser must have boen | ‘Che whole is w streams which form 80 r anger, af he was 1 trying to make his | Many natural our he great commercial ar- but wns rtu riod wader tt tery’ of our oc Mississippi. 'Thoso pgled, Bi t has left a w vollous rivers, in rt navigable, each with it orover’s inquest will be h im fi r day, This ought to de v . ju the ha f a andy as the danger de Drsvaver Vine at Troy.—A | . oer of River and Perry | putlding, ¢ wan dectroyed by fice on Monday morning. thousand dolars worth of property was destroyed, Bove thor OWN sof Of tributa vidi irsams, some fod by which gush from fertile highla lakes of transparent clourne. and communigation, which, as a natu toavurs, is unknown in the physical geography of the oastora hemisphore. Over ail, and turough ull, pervades a climate which ptimulates exertiva, and is eminently favorable to healih, A glowing description is given of the conatry the Des Moines—through the famous valley of the sot, or St. Poter’s—on the Crow river— the well wooded banks of the Siuk—the couatry that skirts Lake Pepin—the Undine region of Ni- coll to. ‘There are suid to be 25,000 Indians in the Territory. In concluding, the Governor eaye:— J have confined myself, in this communication, solely to subjects which | have deemed to be of interest to the Territory. Minnesota occupies the relation of ward to the whole country, not to any part or section thereof; t matter of just congratulation, tua the x , citements which have pervaded our land, havo served only to create a proper estimate of the valus of the Union. and to fix it, more firmly in the reve- rence and and affections of the people 0, ib is The Reception of Granville John Penn ia Philadelphia, A grent grandson of William vean, the founder o Pennsylvania, in now in Philidelphia, where he was. on Monday last, formally receivea by the officers of the city government, The ceremonies on the occasion were interesting. ‘They ere thus reported in the Ledger, of Tuesday:—The Belect and Common Councils mevat noon After the separate orcanizution of eash Council, both met in the chamber of the Common Coun- cil, whero committees were appointed to wait upon the Mayor and Recorder, to participate in the ceremonies of the reception, These officers appeared, and they and the Councils proceeded to the Hall of Independence. A wumber of citizens had assembled in the hall to witness the ceremonies, among whom were Geacral Cadwalader, Wm D, Lewis, E-q. (Collector of the Port), aud several very aged citizens, After « ebort ence, the committee, who had been pointed to wait om, and to conduct Mr, Pean to the Hall, appeared at the door with their guest, who was immediately brought forward to the Hon, Obas Gilpin, Mayor, who, with the Recorder and members of councils, were standing in front of the statue of Wash- ington. The appearance of Mr Penn was quite remark- sble, and elicited some observations of surprise and dis- appointment. ‘The large painting of William Penn, banging up in the Hail, snd the early improssioas of all who have read of the great founder of the Btate, seomed to induce the belief that his great grandson would come before them in a broad brim, a fuil vest, (Juaker coat and smailelothes The surprise was therefore natural, whea they beheld the neat, small figure of aman about fifty fle yeurs of age, with a decidedly English appearance not to say @ Bond street mattishness, with @ brigh smiling countenance. and @ pair of whiskers, which, it they did not appear military, were leas like the embollish- ments of a Quaker’s countenance than a London dandy’ . A little scrutiny, however, and a comparison with the picture of the great original, discovered a strong fa mily resemblance in the features of the descendant. In ell the peouliarities of manners and dress which marked his English origin, there was unmistakable evidence of the intelligence ef a man of sound natural sense, and habits improved by education and trav On being introduced by the committee to the Mayor, he was ad: dressed by the latter, 8 follows:— ‘Mr. Penn:—Sir=The municipal authorities of the eity of Philadelphia have assembled in this place to re- ceive and welcome you to this city. and to tender to you its horpitalities. Mony years ago pilgrims—we may now call them—from England, settled here, under the guidance of your ancestor, and founded thiscity. Now, after the lapee of almost two centuries, you, his descend- ant having come among us, the deroendants of those pilgrims,and the city of Penn—Philadelphia—through her constituted authorities, receives and welcomes you. William Penn was emphatically a man of peace, None but a man of peace could found a“ Vity ot Bro- therly Love.’ We are an industrious, a peace-loving. a law-abiding people, especially when we consider the large liberty allowed to every one in thia free land—and the great-grandeon of Willism Penn may well {vel an honest pride in all he sees around him, and about him, in this city and in the State of Pennrylyapia. May your sojourn with us be long and pleasant. Such is the wish of the authorities and their intelligent constituaency—such is the desire ot him who now addresses you. Accept, air, our welcome and the hospitalities of our citizens; bear them end us in kind remembrance when you return to your friends beyond the ocean—to the land of your birth —to your home, You will bave with you our hearty wishes for your continued health and presperity, ‘The Mayor then took Mr. Penn by the hand, and, after giv- ing him a cordial shake, introduced him to the Reoor- der, Colonel R M. Lee,to the Presidents of Councils, Mesars, Morris and Snowden, and to the members of both these bodies. Atthe conclusion of the ceremony of introduction, Mr, Penn made the following reply to the address of the ayor :— “Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen--I thank you very sin- cerely and gratefully, for the distinguished honor you bave been pleased to confer upon me, es the representa- tive, in the fourtn generation, of the founder of your Commonwealth, by inviting me to meet you, in your municipal capacity, in this Hall, to receive from you the hearty welcome you have tendered to me with so much Eindness and courtesy on the present occasion, and whieh I receive with feclings of the highest gratification, asa testimony cf the sffectionate regard you entertain towards the memory of my ancestor, on account of the wire and just principles on which he originally foun ied your Commonweslth, and which has endeared his me- mory to its citizens. Nothing, I can assure ycu, gentle- men, can afford such gratification to his descendants, or be regarded by him as so great a privilege as to witness the ultimate eucoess of that - holy experiment’ which he entered vpon amidst trials and difficulties on these shores, and to see, which my vitit to this country has given me an oppertunity ot wil: ing, the province ke originally founded become, in th» co apara- lively short space which has since elapsed, great ard flouriebing State—and the city he laid e foun letion of, amidst the wilds of the forest, one of the chief eities of the world, dis uisked for ite learsing and its coa- merce. daily extending its limits to meet the wants of ite rapidly increasing populetion. and nobly sust it character as the city of * Brotherly Love’ by the sox barmony which exists among its citizvos, the valuable and extensive institutions fur the relief of want and suffering with which it abounds, the care with which it educates its youth, and the horpitality it offers to the stranger. My visit to this State and city, end che kind- ness and hospitality 1 have experienced from its oicizens, will ever be deeply engraven on my heart aud on my wind, and J shall always regard the present occasion. on which, gentlemen, you bave welcomed me in your muni- cipel capacity, as one of a solema character, as being a tribute to the memory of the departed, paid with almoat filisl reverence by the descendants of those who orizi- naily accompanied my sncestor to these shores, and as a tribute to that principle of universal love, of Chris- tian charity, which was so distinguished a mark of his cherecter, and which animated allhis actions in carry- ing Out the great work which, under Providence. he has accomplished. And in uttering afervent wish for the permanent Prosperity and welfare of this State, (in which I shall elways take aa deep an interest as if { was one of its citizens), I think I cannot clore in terms more exprersive of my sentiments, than inthe words:--"' iT Philadelphia meveto”’—interpreted both in their sense of “Esto perpetua,” to your utiful metropolis, and in thelr more literal and intended meaning, “ May brotherly Jove continue,” and ever remain the pervading principle of the whole social system of your State, which, as the developement of the great internal rerources 8! seases adds to her power and ber wealth, wil! bu their ministering, at the same time, tothe true happi- ness and welfare of her own citizens, and imparting hap- pines to all around her. I thank you, gentlemen, for the kind withes you have expressed for my welfare; and I wish you all, with all my heart, both in pose public capacities and in your private families, “God speed? Hie was then introduced by the Committees of Voun- cils to such of the citizens present as desired an intro- duction; after which the authorities returned to the city buildings, and Mr. Penn retired to his lodgings. Awful Explosion=jSteam Boller Burst— Seven Persons Killed and Wounded. (From the Adrian (Mich ) Expositor. | ‘The most distressing accident that ever happened in this tection took place in the town of Palmyra, avout five miles from this village, on the moraipg of the #0.b ult The morning was very cold, the thermom: stabding at 19 deg. pelow zero at six o'clock. Mevsrs. Harrison & Wm. H. Ros, the lessees of the mill, Jerome Bowen, Phi! Wolever, Hamlin Soraburger, Richard Caswell, and Bara Bartrum, were in the mill at tho time Of the exploston. Roe, Bowen, Bartrum, and Wole ver ed inetantly, and Caswell and Sornburger dread ured, so that the latter died on Thursday, and 3 fe of the former is deepaized of, and Mr. Harrisou severely injured. been The force of the explosion must have tremendous. We visited the tcene of disaster Wednerday, and the signs of destruction were mill, which was built of uncommonly timber, and braced in every direction, was utterly demolished—part of the frame is stand. ing, but stattered aod thrown partly over, in such @ henner bs to render it worthiese the engine is scat- tered inevery direction. and completely few bricks of the foundation of the arch re: rest are ecettcred over acres. We baw where cue almost buried iteelfinafrezem raw Ieg. The boiler, with its Dossied strengih, wax seperated near the midule, one port Wax torn ia shreds as one would tear a piece of c#t ten felt cloth, and the pieces fattened iike @ sheet of | boiler iron, end thrown irom three te ten rods: one strik- irg the top of a tree some ten rods from the mill, and thirty feet irom the ground, Tbe other half of the er was not tormacunder, but rai bodily and thrown thirty-six reds, passing near che house of Mx, Whit- roareh, come ten feet from the ground, making rad havoc with some peech and apple trees im its flight before | it struck. Where it fell the frozen ground was torn up to the dep'h of a foot or more, when it rebound: ed some ten rods farther. This part of the boiler was | about ten feet long and four feet in diameter, with two large flues. We suppose it will weigh something like a ten. Had it struck Mr, Whitmareh’s houre in its wecial flight, itmust have entirely demolished it. The scene | fragmente of the boiler and engine, with the dirt and rubbith of the arch, ie rcattered over reveral acres of ground, and the toppling and shivered timber of the mill yet standing, make Up a tad picture, revealing the awful explosive force which produced it Had the boiler been filled with gun powder, and exploded, it could not beve been more devastating, The explosion was, of courte, caused by the lowness of tho wairr in the b and the formation of an explosive gas. The mill cwned, we believe, by Volney Spalding‘ and Mr Llurri ove of the wounded Mr, Whitmarsh de bes the bear: ri nding scene which followed the explosion, at peculiarly eficoting, Young Wolever had lett bis f je house,afew nt, afew minutes previous: ts soon his mangled corpeo r rived, and her agony at the righ bly Ti Dainy of her brother wee enough et heart. A eon of Mr, Whiuu notwithstanding | the revere cold, Immediately mounted a horse, and com: to Adsion fer medioul tance for the wounted, Mr. Harrison escaped (b wounded) with his life, haviog 1 tected from the full fores of the explosion by two the lange Uimbere of the frame, which were betw i ine boi'er, which was outside the main fea the bulidivig, Hed it been im the mill, not « x uid have beow stax t is caid come of ther ters ali of which were be spol yet he largeat pleee 6 was two b nat Tens » lyo.—Smith's house, one of the largest buildiogs on the Wabash dertioyed by fire, et Terre Haute, on the Wi bb) some 0,000 bushels of wheat, ware was A git. ud AFFAIRS IN CANADA. Our Quebec Correspondence Quesxc, Jan. 24, 1852, Decision in Favour of St. John's Valley Route—Ru- moured Differences in the Cabinet—Report of Re- belion Losses Bill Commissioners—Future Prose pects—Joloay of a Cabinet: Minister—Decease of the Avenir— New Post Offices, &e , &. From Fr icton, N.B, we learn by tolograph, that our minietore have been presented to the House, wud coucur with the New iaswiek Cabinet, ia pieferring the St. John’s V. route for the rail- way tothe Jive traced along the baak of the St. Lawrences. If a definite understunding is arrived at, on (bis point, the only remaining dificalty will be to cbtain the consent of Great Britain to the do- viation, My last letter explained the subject so fully, that I need add nothing here on the probable temper of Earl Grey. [t must be obvious to all, that if the latter insists upon the railroad being a mere military, instead of a commercial line, the re- lations between tho mother country and the colo- nies will undergo a serious modification. Kumora ofa split in the cabinet have beon rife during the week. Mr. Morin, the Socretary, is gaid to be heartily sick of his position, aud only Waits for a material differonge of opinion between his colleagues ard himself, to withdraw from the administration. The government press deny tho story, of course; but they havo not succecded in persuading the public that the ministry are “a happy family.” Dr. Rolph has gone to Uppor Canada, to make a last attompt to induce Maloolm Cameron to accept the prosidency of the Coungil. He can hardly hopo to succeed. Poor Cameron hasbeen sadly humbugged by his colleagues, and must feel very sore, when Mr, Hincks’ name is mentioned. The report ef the Commissioners, under the fa- mous Rebellion Losses bill of 1819, has just been sentin. Tho number of claimants is 2,673, whose claims amount to £202,000. For some reason or other, claims amounting to £18,000 have not been filed; and thus the balance required te satisfy those whose deinands have been presented to the Com- missioners, is £184 000. Of the £100,0000, voted by the act of 1549, £10,000 has been already paid. The Commissioners’ expenses amount to £12,500 —a very neat thing for two years’ work; and the ba- lance, £77,500, 18 to bo divided among the sucvossfal claimants. The publication of the report will create some sengation. I cannot bring myself to believe that 2,673 persons, who were entirely innosent of any pe uopenics in the rebellion, wore actual sullerers y the reprisals ef the troops and volunteers. { know that great atrocities were perpotrated by the Queen’s forces shortly after the murdor of Lieute- nant Weir—that at St. Brule and St. Euetacho many lives wero unnecessarily sacrificed to the ruthless tury of the soldisrs—that much senseless destruction of property followed the defeat of the rebels—and | am not prepared to give an opinion as to whether some oomponsation ought not to be made to the misguided sufferors. But this issue isnot be- fore us. Mr. Caron and the ministry pledged their faith that no rebelsshould be paidunder the bill; and itremains to be seen, by the Commissioners’ report, whether tho 2,673 persons, who assert that their property was destroyed or injured, wero all loyal subjects. But even if it were shown that all wore rebels, ae must not expect a renowal of the agita- tion of 1849. The question has exhausted itsolf. it has altered the tone of the loyalty of the British population of Lower Canada, and substituted dull indifference for chivalrous devotion. Now, if an- other bill of similar import, were introduced, it would attract little attention, and perhaps moet with few assailants. Hereafter, when, perchance, the city where [ write this letter may be enrolled among the large seaports ofthe United States of America, or marked on the map as the capital of independent Canada, the perane, of the Kebellion Losses bill will bo noted by tho historian as a momentous epoch in our annals. From the month of Aprli, 1519, he will trace the first symptoms of a spirit of disaffec- tion to the mother country among the British set- tiers in that colony. At that dato, he will discover the first ovorture towards emanicipation. In what terms will ho note the event !—wita regret or exul tation | And when, with carefal acouraoy, he con- neots this insult to the sentitive pride of tue Brit- ish colonia's, with the removal of protection from jal produce inthe home market, and points ont the jaevitable consequenoes of euch moourse of polioy, how diferent will the feelings of his readers be from ours, who cannot disvern tho instruments by which the immutable designs of Providence are accowplished | Some strange disclosures have been made at the annual Shel of the sharcholders inthe St. Law- rence and Atlantic Rail Company, hold at Montreal, on the 20th in It scoms that the cowzany, being unable to negotiate their bonds, gueranticd by the provincial government, excopt at a beavy loss, applied to the Vice President, Joha Young, Esq., now Cominissionor of Public Works, to undertake the disposal of them in tha Londoo market. The English capitalists declined to treat, except at an enormous digcount, in consequonce, as they stated, of the clause in the railroad bill which pictged the government to guaranteo half the de- | entures on acy railroad seventy-five miles long, which might hereafter be undertaken in tho pro- vince—thus exposing the government to incur an unlimited liability. ‘Lo meet ticse objections, the railroad bill was remoddied, under tho directions of Mr. Young, it is ewid, and the provincial guarantee limited to railroads actually coumonced. Baring Brothers then took the St. Lawrenco and Atlantic bonds at par. The prospects of the road are good. Forty-one miles are now open, and are paying well. Seme two thousand men bave been employed during tho past season. : The Avenir newspaper, a journal republicain, public dans les interas poputaires, as stated in the beading, bas ceased to appear. I am sorry for it. It was one of the most useful periodicals of Lower Canada. It waged a courageous and effective war against ignorance, euperstition, bigotry and priest- craft. Engaged singly with all tho Fronch press of the prevince—denounced from every pulpit in the country parishes—its editors excommunicated, audits subscribers held up to public censure—its courage never flagged; its fire never cooled. Some of the articles which appeared in its columps wight have appeared as premiers: Paris in tho best French journals. Had it been allowed fair ploy, it would have opened the exes of the lower ciastes in the country te the state of wretched ser tude and nonentity in whivh they grovel; as it was, it iste every ene a matter of astonishment how, in the teeth of such powerful aud unsorupulous foes, it cffecied s0 much, and existed so long been replaced by two newepa teal, and La Voix du Peuple, of Quab 7 promise much—timo will show how much they ean perforin. A few more post offices have been recently opencd, | making, altogether, upwards of two hundred which have been established since the advent of It James Morris to power, in April, 1851 i eal consent, Mr. Morris is one of the efiicers Canada over possessed; his popularity will 0 @ long way to expiate the mistakes of his col- leagues. We have had several ¢ of intensely cold her lately, the thermometer having bee as twenly five degrees below zero of Fabrouheit. it was thought, a few days ago, that the ice bridge | would teke; but the reappearance of a milder tem- Our Montreal Correspondence, Monrreat, Jan. 25, 1852. A Chapter on the Jesuits of Lower Canata~ Their Rise, Progress, and Future Policy. ‘This colony of Lower Canada—properly so called to distinguish it from the western section of the province —now peopling with the Anglo-Saxon race, has long lain under the reproach of neglecting the eduvatioa of the masses, and perpetuating an ignorance, which was imputed to the Roman Vatholic clergy, as aottlod maxim of thoir polisy. Tho fact was palpable, though it may be questioned whether tho clergy doliborately conspired against tho intollec- tual culture of the ‘bebitants.” Thoy wore born | and educated in a state of socioty essentially primi- , tive. They lived beloved and respected amidst their parishioners, who wore contented and pros perous. Thoir intorcsts wore ciccumseribed within the limits of their parishes, and the provis' their material wants absorbed their exolusive tention. The wealthy * habilaat” boasted of steady adherence to the precepts of his forefathers He resigned to his wife the purso, ho consulted upon all important occasions, and ho ¢ caughters at the convent that instrus extended to the mates. Tho trus explanati in past days, unodusated, may be found in bat we had then no secular clergy connected w the Roman Catholic Church. There wore, it i, true, a few colleges scattored throughout the colony, but thoy wore obviously ynoqual to the edugation | ceep the foundations of their fature powor. It t | 29th January. of tho masses, while the terms were an insuporable difioulty to the poorer classes. On the other haud, the convents wore numerous. ‘They werea tabtisn- ed in the rural districts, and the cherges wire mo- dorate. Mence the salient feature in ou’ social condition, s0 frequently cemmentod upon by tour- iste, that the femalos ef the French Canadian raco were as polished as the men, with the additional charm of mental culture. Within tho dust ten years, a silent, bat momentous, revolution has suc- ceeded the stagnating torpor of other days, and thas revolution has boon acevmplished by the untiring energy of an order who bave stood a3 conquerors upon every soil, and under every climate; who have achieved greater victories, and suat: 4 profound: ed humiiations than any other sect It is tho Jesuits who bave the rigbtfal claim to be named aa the n Wi0 invaded our dark atmosphere of ig- borance, aod imiued the sluggish minds ef oar people with a tarte for literature, science, aud tho clareies ‘Lhe Josuite have acquired an histocioal reputation, whieh exalts th ae 1083 at the expenso of their probity. They aro rarelyawarded the merit of acting from unselish motives, and their organization 1s 80 perfovt, aud their polisy 80 studiousty concealed from even the interior mom- bers of the order, that it would bo unsafe for a spec- tator to pronounce tho causes which impelled them hither, and enlisted them in the work of oducating our people If wo may be allowed to draw our couclusi from the apparent influences which attracted the Jesuits thither, wo should point to the efforts of our ivan- elical religionisis to convert the Mronch Cana 1ans from tbe Loman Catholic faith, through the inetrumontatity of Huguenot clergymon,drawa from France. ere hag existed for several years an ao- tive progelyting school, styled the Grand Mission, the seene ef whose labors may ‘ound among the French Canadian Roman C vthelies, who divoll ba- tweou tho Richelieu river aud our common frontier jine. ‘Tiewe converters of the Canadians gathered numerous oonverts, and the oonvertions wore felt by the Roman Catholic Church in a pecuniary as wellasa religions point of view, because by our luwa, Jands occupied by a Roman Catholic are charged with the cburch-rate, cailed a dime, or one- twenty-sixth portion jof the produce; but if the care land becomes the property of one not a meim- ber of the Roman Uatholio Church, the charge Oruses; hence you will perceive that the hositating Convert had the stimulus of pecuniary guia to quickon his conversion, and the priests hed the prospect of diminished incomes to rouse them to c.wbat rather formidable enomics. We have hora an illustration of tho fact, so forcibly brougat to our perception in many a ¢age of history, that tho very weepons with which sects arm tavmsolves, are often turned against thom in the day of disaster. Tho dimes were instituted to upaold and maintain the dignity of the Koman Catholic riesthood, and that priesthood was invested with legal power to coerce the payment of their rights ‘The conquest of Canada restrictod thore rights over the land, and exempted ovher see's from com- paltry payment. More recently, the Huguonot French clergy have seized the aimendment to the act, and though they have not urged ths lrouch Canadian Roman Catholics to abandon their reli- gion for the sake ef escaping the payment of the dime; neither have they concealed from thair pro- posed converts the pecuniary advantages of a speedy conversion. ‘The grand mission is in full accivity; and if you refer to eurjournals, you will loarn there from, thas bazaary, and soirees, and such fashion- able modes of extracting monoy from the worldly minded, are in full operation—all conceived with the avowed purpese of extending tho list of con- verte, {it can cause no surprise that the Roman Catholic clergy should entertain well founded fears, in the face oi such carnal and religious woapons of assault; and we can comprehend the probability ofthe Church turning, in such an emorgency, to those resolute champions of Roman Catholicity who row stand on our soil, in the guise of /reres Chreticnnes, or declared Jesuits. ‘Lhe membors of this society are not ia the habit of chattering in public or in private about their instructions, intentions, or resources. ‘They move noiselessly through the land under perfeot or- ganization. hey plant select and disciplined de- fenders of their cause in every hamlet. They port in the larger towns, mon of unquostiouable ability, polished manners, and oxtensivo learning. ‘Phe combined energies of all are directed to one special object; they concentrate all their strength to bring under thoir control the education of the rising generation. Throughout this extensive district, you cannot travel in any direction without being rewiaded that some new power bas been called into existence. As the moles working underground within fields indicate their progress by the mounds of earth they cast off, so the Jesuits attest their presence by the massive piles of masonry ercoted in each hamlet. ‘These buildings partake of eur uniform devoid of ali ornament, solid, compact and serviceable looking They ars built to endure for BEER He symbolizg the convictions of the order, toat the Jesuits are permanently ostablished upon thie soil; and in that conviction many who do not belong to the Church of Romesharo. If they have becu careful to impress the beholder with a belief in the durability of their schools aad colleges, a prsling to his imagination in tho substantial forms of masonry, they have for the intorior management of their institutions, provided agamst failure by a combination of learning, econo, religious, and secular education. Other educational tystexws depend for their maintenance npon govermental aid, or private speaulatioa. In either case, whether it be the government paying teacher, or the teachor embraciag the ovcupa- tion, as a peouniary speculation, you search ia vain for that self denying and uawourying interest the Jesuits invariably exhibit. ‘Taeir philosuphy, or religious echooling—if you prefer the phrase— teaches them to exist upon a sum of wm i en hotel waiter would spurn with conte ‘Thoy demand but the commonest necessities of life— food and raiment—both of the simplest character ; and their pupils are not expected to pay for educa- tion and boarding a fie the prics asked for Hes in a fifth class boarding house ia New ork. ‘Tho principal institution, in operation in Mon- treal, has been but recently completed; it issituated upon Blewy street. It is lighted with gas, warmed with hot air, and constructed to accom: modato several hundred pupils. ‘Tho dist is abundant and of excellent quality. The course of education embraces the living languages—the clessics, modern literature, mathematics, and the sciences. For these varied advantages, tho entire sum the pupil pays is but $120 per annum, or ten dollars per month, and he may romain in the college throughout the year, for the Josuits allow themselves no holida: or cessation from toil. In the hamlets, the charges aro lowor— there the same education, with plainer feeding, ney be purchased for $75 por wnnum, o¢ ollars per month. It is possible that some of your readers | Anti-Temperance Movement. The following remonstrance is circulated very oxtensively for signatures over the 10,000 grog shops in New York, and will receive 30,000 names :— REMONSTRANCE. To the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York, m Legislature Assemied :-— Whereas, it bas become known, from proceedings already commenced in one or beth of your honora- ble Louies, and from other sources of public infor- mation, that it is theintention and desiga of certain of your members ty obwaia, if possible, the enact. ment of a law utterly prohibiting the sala, as woll | asthe manufacture, sod consequently the use and | enjoyment, of ell thore acows.omed beverages of the people of the United Ssates, aud of all other civ))ized nations, from time immemorial, known ag Wines, liquors, cordia.s, beer, ale, porrer, der, or Otherwise; and enforcing thia prohibiiion by solzares, multiphed fines, imprsonments, and other penal- ties: we, the cilizens, inbabditanty, and commercial visiters, of the cicy coanty of New York, do horehy, against the enactment of this, or any similar law, for the following, and many other reasons, reepeci{nily reu onstrat Ist. Decause we believe it to be our natural, pri- wary, and irrevocable right to use the fruits of the ogrth, whother naturally prodaced or artificially prepared, both for meat and for drink, at our owa peréonal discretion and responsibility. 2d Kecause the enactment of such a law, by any legislative majority, however great, would be w usurpation of despotic powers, in contravention of obvious principles and provisions, both of our federal and State constitutions, andof the nasural and inde feasible right already stated. od, Because we regard the proposed law asthe audacious, unscrupulous, and fanatical prejuct of certain conventional avsociations, known as Tom- perauce, or Total Abstinence Soeietios, acting ia ’ concerted combination, aud actuated by a prurient, perveited, and reckless zeal to effect, by legislative coercion, and the ultimate physical force of the law, extreme avd impracticable purposes, which their moral influence bas oonfeseediy tailed to ad- complish; and because wo believe that these se- cictics, however usefuland commendable heretofore. within their appropriate and practicable sphoro, as moial agencies, for dirsuasion from an odious and deetructive, though not prevalent viso, already punishable by law, have justly incurred the indig- nation, and the political resistance and hostility of every enlightened treeman of the land, as the chief instigators and abettors ot a despotic usurpation, more seating to the moral volition and dignity of a free people, and more atrocious in its political cbaracter than any which history records. ‘th. Because we believe that the accustomed beverages of civilized men, intord cted and render. ed unobtainable by this threatened law, are essen- tial to the health and comfort, the social enjoy- ment, and the beneficial intercourse, of o large number of persons in every community, and who now use them unobjectionably and worthily, for those desirable purposes. Sth, Because man, as a superior, social, and moral beiog, exercising a rational intelligouce and choice as to what is most beneivial and agreeable to himself, can no more be confined by restrictive logisiation to the drink of the inferior avimals than to their food or clothing; and requires neither me- dical nor legislative prescriptions for the ordinary preservation of his health, and recuperation of his strength, nor the example either of drunkards or reformed drunkards to protect bis morals. Oh. Because wo are convinoed, both by obsor- vation and reilection, that the infatuated tutal ab- stinence from agreeable, nutritious, and renovatin, bevereges, under conventional and unmitigate obligations, bas caused, and is still causing, & greater cacrifice of health and life than even tuo in- temperate abuse of them; the former victims, of both sexes, bying far more numerous than tho lat- tor, though lees publicly known. th. Because it is undeniablo and obvious that but comparativ y fow persons, in any community, immoderatel; immorally abuse these beverages, out of the vas ajority who moderately, virtuous ly, and beneficially use them ; and because their abuse by the few is no just reason for their being interdicted to the many. Sth. Because even tho abuse of them, however fincerely and deoply to be deplored, is grossly and ridiculously, though systematically, exaggorated, as & source of pauperism and crime, nearly all the evils of society being fanatically ascribed to this cause, to the exclusion of all other causes inherent in humannature and its imperfect social condition; aud in impudent defiance of the notorious fact that these evils prevail,to at least an oqual oxtent, in those countries where such beverages have been absolutely interdicted, both by oivil and religious Jaw, and total abstinence established for more than a thousand yeurs. 9th. Deeause these beverages are not necessarily intoxicating, ag is falsely and fanstically assumed by the cenventional advocates of the proposed law, in the face of common exporicuce wna obdservar tion 10th. Because we believe and obeerve that tha Vive ofintoxication, now rapidly diminishing among ull classes, under tho influence of moral auasion and example, would be aggravated by clandestine indulgences, under the proposed Jaw, as under the tuflrage license law of 1545; while the laws now existing, properly enforced, would be fully adequate to buppress its groseer manifestations aad cunse- quences. 1ith, Hecanse wo well know that the enforse- ment of the proposed law in the city of New York. would cause a loss of many millions of dollars in- vested in the real estate of our many magnificent hotels and other buildings, and be incai c ula- bly destructive of the commercial intereste, cha- racter, and prosperity of the American Union. i2h And, finally, because we are solemnly con- vVinced and assured that such a despotic and unrea- conable law could not be enforced in the city of New York, except amid scenes of riot and biood- shed, in which, though its reckless advocates would be the first and chiel sufferers, vast multitudes ef tke populace would bo involved, and which would be two frightful in their resulta for any but calous fanatics to contemplate without horror and dismay. Antt-Kossuth—Anti-Mad Republicanism, The following potition is extensively circulated over the city, in opposition to the revolutionary committee of tho Astor House, and the further pro- gress of mad republicanism. To the Senate and House of Representatives in Comgrcss Assembled:— ‘The undersigned, citizens of Now York, respoct- fully pray your honorable bodies, in theve times of foreign discord and domestic agitation, to stand firmly and faithfully by the principles of Washing- ten, a8 embodied in his farewell address, and illus- trated throughout a life devoted to the welfare of my fancy that the charges are mis-quoted—that some error has crept in, when they are told that a | boy of sixteen may be housed, fed, and educated | in atuperior style, for ten dollars per month; or that less pretendiog services of ihe same natura, | my be éecured for six dullars per month; but be | | | | ared the facts are as quoted; and learn, more over, that the men who preside over those institu. tions of learning are not the hired pedagogues of | broken fortunes, or doabtful reputations, but men | faturated with learning—zealous in the cause in | which they are employed, and laying wide and | 8 a warvel, even in this cheap colony, how the Jo- | suits can contrive to house, warm, aud feed a youth | of sixteen er eighteen for six dollars per moath— | setting cducation altogether aside. Yet, that they | do so, is notoriously the fact; and, oa more, they 80 wind themgelves around the afisctions of th at the boys | loc forward, with om of hap- | piress, to their return to the Joauit seminary. There is not on the continent of America, aneduca- | slogous to the one here skotohed— | eminently calculated to r. The Jesultsare usually | French by hirtu—hence they are familiar with the language cf this colony. They belong, uf course, | to the Uhurch of liome, and the majority of them | are pries yneequently they bespeak the confi- dence of the simple-minded “ babitant,” and their val caution, their intellectual attainments, and | alovle manners, attract within the circle of their | influence, even these, who might under oth cumetances, regard them ag intruders, ‘Uh oe ture of the social condition of the colony, undor the | auspices of the Jesuit doctrinaires, portray, in | faithful colors, the rise and progress of an ¢usa- tional system, which refutes the accuaation that | the Church of Rome chains its foliuwers to igno ance. The future can alone solve the problem, | hew far the soil of America is congenial to the per | manence of that church, expoed as it then must | be, to the full glare of developed intelligence. ‘The Jesuits have boldly thrown down (he gauntlet, and are training their peoplo to enter the arona of wai- mated civilization; but whatever the issue may be, the immediate effects must be to elevate Canada to a high position 1 1 seats Of learnis ticnal system none could be device realize the policy of the Ts wed “to those em the spiritual AND who Cat ron a Convention of Srinirva ty Barrie Brinits =A card, ad¢ sre joking for bigher manifestations world,” is published in the Cleveland Hore is a copy of it =~ ly urged by spirits, that a Convention of Spiritual. eonlled in the city of Cleveland, for the purpose of Ling together ou the aub- tion of the ekeptical and unbelievin Let us | abroad. Let the Spirits be consulted throuvhout the Iend,and jet us have tuch a gathering in city, as will coll together @ spiritual host." ‘Thier sbie preduction ig headed “A Card,” and rigued * a Byicivualet. | own to be inditlore | to his country. ‘These principles, as we understand them, wore designed and admirably adapted to con- fer honor, glory,and prosperity on America, by keop- | ing our country free from all entangling alliutces with the powers of Europe; by abstaining from all interference with their torms of government, as well ss from any act which could justly bo con- etrucd as intermeddling with the affairs of Euro- bie governmenis, in their conduct towards each other. It is, indeed, impossible for a ‘ree nation like our ito the success aud extension of the principles of rational freedom throughout the world; stil wo deem it inexpodient, oven if it wero practicable, **to leave our own to etand on foreign ground.” We give to the oppressed exile from overy cline a country anda home, the berefit of free institu. tions, the assurance of protection, and the promise of reward in the exercise of his industry and calling. Wedo more. We give to ths nations of the earth a bright and theetog example of the success of republican institutions, ard in that success the hope | of a glorious emancipation from every form of tyranny aud oppression over the minds and opinions oi men. We presont Amorica as tho boacon light which pointe to the way eur fathers trod, to servo as a guide for obtaining liberty and indepondence, to all men and to all nations capable of maintaining their own freedom. ‘To go further than this would not only present » case of unjustifiable interference, on our part, towards powers with whom we aro at peace, and ia the enjoyment of friendly telations, but preve inju- rious to these poople who seek relief by relyin, more upon foreign aid, than upon the justice o} their cause, or their own ability to achieve their independence, it was the good fortune of the previous Congroas to settle, hap ily, jastly andseasonably, important questions affecting the domestic quiet of our land, aad the unity of our government; and now, when in danger of becoming divided among ourselvos in regard: to our duty towards foreign powors, wo entreat your honorable bodies so to act as to prove tothe world that our country, now, ag ever, siands by the principles and the policy of the father of his country—principles which, although thoy may seom admit of cecasional modification by cwcam- starces, will remain, in all eegential eternal oa truth itself Naw York, 2d February, 1852 Norru Canc extertive depostt of coal, both cite, has been recently dscover bam county, North Curolinn tcientific rontieman, ¥ Coan 1 may be an import a ap ports