The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1852, Page 2

Orrice Inpiax Avvains, Nov. 10, 1852. The Wyandotts now reduced te a enmparatively small fra—Among the errors that abound respecting our | Bamber find it Pe coeched Se ae re Tadian relations there is one #0 injurious to our national | 2d ate anzious ‘o station th Bepatation, that it should not be disregarded. The | they, in common with wany of our white popu ation, pinion is extensively entertained, that’our whele course | ere impatiently awai ing the establistunent of & ter- | ritorial goverument over the Yast region north of ‘of conduct towards the red men of this country has been | th, Arkansas and west of the Missouri rivers, Mbt: marked Ly injuitice and inhumanity. Am enlightened | measure though feaugh< wih aiMMoulty aad danger, wil | i of i doubtless force itvelf om the considera’ Congress; | censiiamation of the watjct will lend to diferent oom | see erase ony Carried nto eft tapareant | elere: | preliminary orrangements must be made, invoiviog the | When elviiaation and Darbariem are broght in seh | Rigs ainvaiion nd taviagement of various Tutiaa | t | tribes, occupying the territory in quetion. gelation that they cannot co exist together, it is risht | "inne Delaware [ndians are amoog the most remarkable ‘that the superiority of the former should be asserted, and } of gi) our colonized tribes. By their intrepidity und va the latter compelled to give way It is, therefore, mo | ried enterprise they are distinguished ina hizh degree “ps . ef dom af ban | Biaee: Reba Setucetoms fermmice Gail luecdeman tere matter of regret or reproach that vo large a portion of our | J ee , end made the happy aboie of am med and Chris. | quently expose them-elves to # thousand perils. Under tien le, That the means employed to effeet this | Shee cireumstanots Shey are steadily dimiuishing. test has been aitended by a vast amount of human sulk Obio, ere now lecaed onthe lands of the Wyaniotts, ot be denied. Of the Indians’ wrongs there is | Who consider them as intruders and desire-their removal, een a They have sirong claims on the goverament; ana the at maced no carthly record, But it will not be forgotten by | tention of Congress wae called te the sunject at the last Mhose who have a correct understanding of this sabject, | yercion ; Dut necbirg detuite was done. It is hoped that thot much of the injury of which the red man snd his | suliable provision for them may be made at an cary day. 7 ‘ a" 6 Shawnees are eminently sucess: ‘as ageieultur- Hriends ecmpiain has been the iueviiable consequence of | sty uad'are sdvanoing im general onprovemenee” Bat for his own perverse and vicious nature. In the long and | the baneful effects of intemperance, to which their proxi- Yaied conflict between the white maz and the red—sivilt- | mity te the border rettlements greatly exposes the saticu and barbarisem—the firmer has oftea been com- | foo age tose, ‘tare hy yg forge - Lesgetond pelled to recede and be destroyed, or to advance amd des. | Them Areattributable to this fruitful source of evil. troy. The history of the contest, however, bears witness | | The condition cf the Pottawatomies continues substan to the fact, that the victor has in general manifested a | {isils, the sme ea heretofore, reported. 5 Md generous desire not only to spare the vanquished, but te | annuity; and but little or no improvement is manitest Improve his condition. It would be » dimcult tark to in their modes of living. | ‘) : count the enormous sums of money that have been ex- | baat comet Genetatioes ney Cen -| pended by the government, and by philanthropic indivi- | tunste for them and’ the whites. They are a rade aud duals, in their manifold efforts to reclaim and civilise the | depraved tribe and little can be done for their welfare Indians within our limita; and who canfail to remember | [pur Wey (gma pable ta the prruciious, assoelations ‘with reverence and regret “the noble army of martyrs,’, | ae, ®. cause of frequent annoyance to the numerous i an use? The | d travellers who pass that way, Me with the | The small pox. reinforced by inebriety and general dic. means employed; but enough has beon achieved to attest soluteness, has this year dealt sternly with the Sacs aud the practicabill'y of the Tadhins redemption, ‘and to sti- | Forms 5 tr numbers have been t! ulate to further and persevering exertions to eceom- | wnsparing » the work. =! me ed, and their attachment to old habits, encouraged by ‘There tribes with whom we have treaty engagements, | their despotic chiefs, materially retards their improve- and who are mere closely connected with us through ths | ment. medivm of agents, continue to receive healthful impuises | The Swan, Creek, and Black River Chippewas of the Sac | towards a higher and better somdition. Andeven those | snd Fox agency are ina prosperous condition, ‘hough they who are more wild. and less inclined to cast off their indi- | make frequent and just complaints of the depredations ot grnous habits of indolence and improvidence, ure begi the Bacs and Foxes upon their stock. As these Indians | ing to profit by the good example of the other class, The | Speak the sume language with the Oitawas of this agen- | embarrarrments to which they are subjected, in conse- | oy, and are in all respests a homogenous people, it would | quenee of the onward pressure of the whites, are gradually | be well ifthey were all blended together in one tribe. teaching them the important lesson thut they must, ere | These Ottawas are distingnished for their steady progress, dong, change their mode of life, or cease to liveat all. It | and in their modes of life they are little behind the gene: | fs by industry or extinction that the problem of their | tality ofthe white population of the adjoining States | destiny murt be solved. They, too, suffer from the predatory practice: of the Saes | Ove of the surest guarantees for the geod eonduct of | and Foxes, and with a patient forbearance of retaliation | our Indians, is am adequate knowledge of the power of the | that merits some reward at the hands of the government. government, Where such knowlecge prevails, it is com. | But the depsrtment is without power to afford adequate | Paretively easy to control thom; but when displays of | Tedress, for although the Secs and ¥oxes ate therecipients | our power baye been feeble or fitful, the nataral ten. | of Jorge annuities. not a doller of their money can bs Gencies of the India to rapine and slaughter operate | tsken without their convent to pay for depredations com. | with but little restraint. mitted by thom ou the property of other tribes. The In- Tn the extension of our setticments, and the increasing | teroourse Act makes no provision for such cases, as it ap | tatercourse between our Atlantic and Pacific possessions, } lies slone to depredations on the property of citizens of | | janed by death with aanch opportunity 1 afforded the aborigines of theiute- | the United States. Tier to learn the truth concerning us. And itis only where this opportunity is wanting. or where there has | fi 3 been remissvess om ovr part to muke proper exkibitions | ble industry snd steady improvement. It is to be re- | of our superior strength, that a disposition is found to | gretted that the Miamics belonging to the same agency thwart the policy or provoke the hestility of the govern- | ze not entitled to like favorable notice. They stand 10 | ment. decided contrast with the otner affiliated tribes. The Though some of the tribes with whom we have treaty | effect of the large annuities that have been pald them has Telations have suffered through indolence, vice, snd an | been to check sil industry and thrift, and to tempt them | obstinate adherence to aboriginal modes and habits, to general idleness and dissipstion. Within six years | ifying to know that @ majority of them are subs! they have diminished one half, with # prospect of ly improving their condition; and, notwithstanding | further decreuse. ‘their sufferings in many cases have. doubtless. been The ©herokees are embarrassed by an onerous public | vere, perhepe the wisdom they have thus acquired has Gebt. which they are striving in good faith to discharge. met been purobaced too dearly. Deep s maladies | For this and other public purposes they are apxious to gan be remedied by no superticial curatives. and it has | sell to the United States the tract of country, containing ‘been the work of hu: disease, and death. to arouse in | about 800,000 acres, known as the “ Cherokee the survivors a perce; of the emily conditions upon | Ground;” and there is much force of ar; which human life and comfort can be sustaiaed onear:h. of ths obligi.tion of the government to relieve them by ‘The mission and other schools established amongst the | taking back the land at the price they were required to various trites are generally prosperous, expecially those allow the United Ststes for it when’ it was granted to | tmwhich the principle of manual iabor ix a leading fer- them. Put notwithstanding the evil alluded to, this | + impatience of regular labor, exhibi'ed in un. | ttibe, wich most of the others in the Southern euperin- of application, is the radical defect of the In- | tendency, are steadily multiplying stound them the dian character, it is but a dictute of ecmmon sense to blessings of life, and sfford the highest evidence cf the mddreee ourselves first and matuly to its correction. This justice and wiedem of our policy towards them affected. «foundation fs laid upon which our best hopes | By a convention, entered into in 1837, between the | for the reelamation of the ravage may be safely built | Choctaws and Chickssawa, the latter, under certain con- | Without it, no matter to what exient we may educate a | ditions and restrictions therein provided, became com- Sew individuals of a tribe, lasting goodis rarely prodused, | ponent part of the Choctaw yat‘vn. But they are becom. ‘The merely book taught Indian, ifthe radical failure | ing more and more diseaticfira with the poliffsal connec. be unreformed, is almost certain to resume, at length, tivo between them sod the Vbocta rs; and there isreason | the barbarism of his original evvdition deriving no other to believe that the best interests of both would be pro | advantages from bis acquirements than a more refinad moted by & separation ef the tribes. The Chickasaws | ounning. and « greater ability to concoct and perpetrate have applied to the government to interpose its autbority | schemes of mischief and violence for the purpore of effecting this object; but as the union ‘The dissesions amosg the Seneca Indians, in New was the result of mutual agreement, it is desired that York. respecting their forms of government, baring as- _ their reparation, if practicable, thall be accomplished in @umed a rerious aspect. the President, imJuly last. di- | like manner. Bected that sieps should be taken te ascertain the semse | A timilar state of things exisia in relation to the f the nation on the subject. An election was accord. | Creeks and Seminoles. Considering the previous rela @ugly held. at which all the votes cast wore in favor of the re-establishment of the o1d system of government by ehiefs But the number of yotes was @ly 194, while fhe whole number of voters om the sever reservations . amounts te C64. and it sppeare that thore in favor of | be néceseary for the government by trea'y or otherwise, | maintaining the present elective government usani. | to xdopt adequate measures for putting the united tribe | ‘mously refused to attend the polls. This they did on the | of Semincles in a more favorable condition. ound that it would be wrong to take part inany revo. | ‘The famous Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs, with several proceeding. as their eonstitution provides that | oiler é ominent Indians from Florida, have recently MH oball stand unchanged for at leatt five years, The re- | ‘ashington. and while here they sigaed an agree- gut of the election not being satisfactory, the questioa | ment, in which they acknowiedged tha; they ani all the which form of government +hall be recognised as tho | Seminoles in Florida were under obligations to emigrate, ‘bole of the people has not yet been decided | nd promised to ute their influence to effect their ‘The Indians in the State of Michigan are generallydo- | entire removal with the least postible delay. Late ad- well. They are becoming s sober, orderly and indus- | vices from the epecial agent represent that Bowlegs ad- , people, devoting themselves tothe cuitivation of ihe | heres to hie promise sincs his retu:n. A oounsil of hie ool. ‘their agricultural operations have been crowaed prope med Deen called for the purpose of making pre- with their proper rewards, Educati is epeouraged ‘minary arrangements, co1 @ goneral emigration may them, knd they are making commendavle pro- reasonably be expeoted at an carly dey Yn the knowledge and practice of the arts of civi- | At the last session of Congress an appropriation was feed iife. ‘Similar remarks are.equally app made for the purpose of effecting the removal from Texay Oneida Indians. in the State of Wisconsin. Bythe treaty of ceriain Indians ‘“ who have intruded themselves iato | 981848, with the Stockbridges, it is provided that the Pre- | that State from the territories of the United States” sident, within two years from the date of the treaty, | Suitable instructions in regard to this subject have been aball precure for their ure a quantity of land west of tho given tothe proper agents of the department; but the ‘BMissiecippi river, on which they rhail reside, not less than | Measure contemplated is difficult to execute, and sufi. geventy-two seotions. raid Incians tobe consulted as to | clent time and information have not yet been afforded to ‘the location of said land This provision has not yet been | determine when and in what way the object may be accom. | 4 into effect, and the aifeirs of these Indians are in | plithed. I have deen informed, though unofiicially, that ® very unsettled and embarrassing condition. They wero — the legisIature of Texas have passed some act or resolu- anxious to be located on the land about the mouth of the | tion authorizing the goveraor of the State to opem nego- ‘Vermillion river. in the territory of Minnesota; bat the ; tiations with the executive of the United States, concern. eleetion was not approved by the government, and they ing tle allotment of @ portion of hor territory as a com. Bave more recently expressed a wiliingnees to accept a | mon home for the Indians resident withia her limits. ‘teact on the Crowriver, in that territory. The treatin The expediency of sueh an arrangement has been re- Pith tbe Bioux indiees being now ratified there ssemst» | pestecly and earnestly, urged 4a reports from this office be no good reason for not complying with their present It is inderd indispensable to a proper adjustment of views; but the season is too far advanced (o make the ar- | Indien affairs in that State 5 ‘ ements required before the ensuing spring. ‘The moet recent advices from New Mexico represent | removal of the Menomonees, as eontemplated by the Indians iu tha territory as generally friendly, and fem act of Congrere parsed at the iast session. has been that our relations with them are ina more factory aatisfaetorily effected. The whole tribe are now comcen- , cordition, In the vicinity of El Paso, however, the depre- faated on the designated territory. between the Wolfeua | dations of the Apaches are of frequent occurrence. A Beonto rivers, @ location with which they are wel! pleased, | Well orgamized and energetic body of mounted mon. act- and where they are anxious to be permiited permancutly ing aa scouring parties throvgh the region iufested by fe remain. Should this be assented to by the Legiciature there marauding savages, is pempaps the only effectual @f Wisconsin, the arrangements necessary to effect the _ means of holding them incheock. wbjcot oon be readily made, on terms. {t i belicted. mu. | The Navejor, and other tribes in this territory, hereto- Waally advantageous to the Indians and the govern. | fore hostile and mireaievous, have recently manifusted a ment. The country where they are new located is well pros pent to abanden their predatory habits, and to wuited to thelr wavts andi kuvw of mone to which they see fupport in the cultivasion of ths foil. To this end ould with propriety be removed. and where they would, they are anzious to be furnished with agricultural and sat the same time, be #0 it:tle in the way of our white pop- | other implements of husbandry. and a judicious expendi- herever they may be rettied it willbeincum- | ture of a moderate appropriation in this way would seto make further provision for them, as Senn be justified by considerations of esonomy their eiaims appeal strongly to the ju ties and humanity lone, @f the government nid ips | Notwithstanding the Mountain and Prairie Indias A removal of the Chippewa Agency has been made from | continue to suffer from the vast number of ts former potition tow more favorable site on the Urow- river. weat of the Miassippi. A eonsiderable num. | of support, a di ber cf the Chippewas yet remsin at their old homes in | them yet ihose who were parties to the treaty ovaciad- the country ceded te the Unived States; but by adhering ¢d at Fort Laramie, in the fall of 1851. have been true :o Bothe pelicy of prying them their amnuitios oniy in their | their obligations, and remained at peace among own territory, It is thought thet such of them as it may | shi mrelves and with the whites be desirable to remove. will soon be indused quietiy to | for by a late act of Congres whendon the ceded lends. With the exception perhaps mches, Kioways. snd other Indians on ef one or two smal] bands, who may be cligibly located on | Arkansas river, bave been mecessarily postponed until the Lake Superior, measures should te promptly taken for | ensuing spring. the concentrstion of ths entire Chippaws tribe within Slimited district wert of the Mississippi river. | seems to be! of late increased dissatisfaction mong the Winuebagoes with their present location and have @ stromg desire to be permitted to occupy a of the territory recently purchasd from the The Wess. Peorias, and Piarkeshaws, of the Osage river egency continue to furnish evidence of commends the Seminoles has been the result. ing rimiler provirions. the Indians in Utah undertook with the approbation of they the Governor of the Territory, am expedition to he va- on rious tribes therein ceeupying the region west of the oy lying north of the Crew river. Arrangements for | (ircat Salt Lake. The thoroughfare of travel to California this purpose are in contemplation, and it is hoped they | and Oregon through their country, and the object amy be effected during the next spring, without cost te | of the expedition was to prevent s recurrence, if possible, ‘the government; but they should not be attempted un- | Of numerous and often fatal ecilisions between the emi- Jess the roattered fragments of the tribe be thereby | grants amd Indiams. It seems to bave been eminently Reowght together and all ettled contentediy in thelr new | ucor cuuaeGOh bf tage Eetians during too peourt In the month of Reptember last, the ameniments of | year. To give seme idea of the immenre travel along ‘the Senate to the two treaties concluded in the summer | this route, and the consequent importance 0! coneiliating of 1851 with the Sioux of Minnerota, were rubmitted to | the Indians, the agent states that in returning to Salt the different bands, parties thereto, and received their , Lake he parsed on each of several days as many us thee advikable by Jongress, im leu of making ths to appropriate from year to year a sum equel to the an- ‘ual interest at ro quiced to be invest Das already paid from ite treasury $1,742 240 a+ is now equ propriating the interest thal] be continued. A. Justify that body in refusing to make appropria!i Agriculture is almost entirely neglecs- | Agente, & | the Pacite ocean. She i ron. and proceeds from the port of Valparaiso to China. The following ere ber officers:— _ oe tions between these iribes, the attempt to unite them | the boiler | was injodicious. and great dissatisfaction on the part of | them to be hae pe failure: We learn that the two When thoze remain. | boilers of the P: ecntracts hav. diiphta. bound to Rie, via Pernambueo and Bahi | spoken on the Zist ult. in lat. says the business season is about closed there, Times says there has beon a large increase over any pre- vious season in tonnage of property sent forwat alo in that received by canal. in the rates of tolls, there collected at that place of over $7.000, as compared with last year, The most striking feature in the season's business is seen in the large increase ln the receipts and | shipmente of wheat, showing 1] @°, from the advantages of her market wheat have been received there tiuce the opening of navigation, a little more than half of which has been ground by the Oswego mills. A mach larger portion | then urnal has been sold there and shipped by canal to | central and eastern parts of the State, grain market bas commanded, relatively, better prices, | and been more active than eny other in the State, during the searon now drawing to a clore, something like half million barrels of flour have gone | jensbarg Railroad, and yet the quantity pass- | ing by the Oswego canal is nearly'equal to the largest of any previous seacon, notwithtsoding considerabls floar wade at the Oswego mills has gono by the former route, which is doubtless the legitimate channel for the sy} of Northern New to the Og: It will then be expedient to make them | to be Fabled: among some of the parties to the treaty of Fort Laramie, or to one conteia- | Amer! At anearly period in the last summer the agent for | tions have bow ( the subject Savarnah, is washed away at Cooper's Field for some distance. The five cent on the reveral auoun' On this account, the gov to two thirds of the prinsipal, few years be equal to the whole, if the practi no limitation to tho period of there payme policy. indefinitely pursued, would prove a most costly one to the government. At the end of every p=riod of | twenty years it will have paid from the public treasury, by way of interest, the full amount of the +tipalated in- Yeetments, But such, it must be presumed was never the intention of Congress. Nothing bat necessity could 113 Fee quired by the treaties of the government. The cause of the failure to do so in the case of these Indian treaties no Jorger exists The public Goxnces are in a provperous condition. Instead of fiscal embarrassment. th«re is now. Sredundancy of money, and one of the vexed questions of the day is hat shell be done with the surplus in the treasury? Considering the premi-es, it seems to be quite clear that 0 much thereof, as may be necessary for the porpore. should be promptly applied to the fultilment of our treaty obligations. But invesiments on Indian account may it is belie ved, ‘be wisely extended to other cases than thore in which they are exprestly required by treaty. If the policy in itvelf be good, and it has often been sanctioned by the goveroment. there appears to be no good reason why it thould not be more extensively adopted. There is ano- ther class of our treaty stipulations, by which the govern- ment holds in trust for certain Indian tribes $4 344 000. Cn this trust fund It is bound to pay interest at the rate of five per cent; and by a third class of like stipulutions it is bound to pay annually, to sundry other tribes. on account of permanent annuities aud ‘permanent pi sions, $141,260. For the sake of convenient reference and cilculations, tabular statements, A BC. with submitted, exhibiting in a connected treaties embraced in the fore; g classification, the pawes of the several tribes, and the amounts stipulated to be invested, funded, &e. The amount annually ap propriated on account of these treaty obligations is $478,280, By investing these amounts in safe stocks, yielding five per cent, the government. may be relicve for all time tocome fiom the necessity of making there avnual appropriations, and the question eertainly de- ex tobe considered whether ition in part of surplus in the public treasury can be made in apy way so free from constitutional or other objections, he want of uniformity in our Indian treaties isa source of much confusion and embarassment They have Deen made from time to time to meet the emergency of particular occasions, and without reference to systom or general principles. ‘They. however. constitute au impor- tant part of the supreme law of the land, and there are | second quarters of the year. eculiar reasons why ed should be carried faithfully ato effect. But this it is extremely difficult to do, in ountequence of thelt ditcontent and. virions, The whole code ifsuch an anomaly may be 60 called is a singular compound of crude and cuindrous matter. prolific of vexstious questions, and incapabie of harmonicus adjustment, There are mo doubt many of the tribes with whom new treatios could easily be oom- cluded, superseding those previously made, and simpiify- ing te o mort desirable extent ail our relations with them. Asmnil appropriation would probably be sufiicient for this purpose, and, in my judgment, the money it wou! cost could net be more beceficlally applied. If a larg number of exivting troaties were swept away, and o'hera substituted in their etead, comtaining only a few pisin necessary, and assimilated provisions, serving as models for fature treaties, and oll looking mainly to the coneen- tration of the eeveral tribes, to their permanent domi- ciliation within fixed and narrow limits, to the establish ment of efficient laws for the protection of their persons judicious administration of | and property. and tom more the meams provided for their ‘upport and improvement, | the day would not be distant when the whole subject of | | Our Indien affairs would assume a far more consistent and systematio form. presenting to the eye of the philan thropist and christian, a ectacie no longer cheerless and 1 Cleptriting, but redolent of conrolation, encouragennent, and bo} with studied brevity presented to you the fore. ws, I conclude by referring. for more detail to the reports of the Superintendents, .. herewith submitted, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, L. LEA, Commissioner. Hon. A. H. H Srvarr, Secretary of the Interior. Naval Iatelligence- The United Stater sbip Southampton ralls this dsy for js attached tothe Japan mjtiad- Lieutensnt Commanding—Junius J. Boyle. Msster—Alphonse Barbot. Surgeon—John 9. Messer/mith, Passed Midchipmen—George A. Stevens. James II. Rechelle, and T. 8 Houston Captain’ Clerk—S, McLeneban, Burgeon’s Steward—T. L. Jump. Pureer’s Steward—Burton. Ceptain McCluney took command, on Saturday, of the steam frigate Powbatan, at Norfolk. The United States Engineer Board of Inspection, eom- | posed of Mr Stewart, Chief Engineer United States Navy. m. P. Williemeon, Wm. Sewell. jr , Benjamin F. Isher. | wood. and Mr Ellis, Engineer at the Nary Yard, Wash- ingten. after trying cxperimente since Monday last, with of the ncetom, we are informed. have found The United Staves steam frigate Saranac, from Ph'la- was 5 80 lon, 84 30. OUR NAVAL CORRESPONDENCE. Norrox, Dec. 6, 1852. The United States Steamer Princeton not @ Total Failure, The Board of Naval Enginecrs, ordered by the Hon. Secretary of the Navy to inquire into the cause of the non- performance of her boilers, adjourned on the evening of the 4th, and repaired to Washington to make their report, During the greater part of last week they were eng: in experimenting. making ,temporary alterations in the beilers with brick work, and have satisfied themselves | that the boilers can be made as effective. if mot superior, to any style of boiler known at the brig: oo day. As far as I could learn from a member of t! decided to recommmend putti: reduced dimensions, which will make them similar to the | boilers In GK. Collins’ line of steamers, but much more efficient. The work can be accomplished in s month or | six weeks, and at a ve: toresume her position e Board, they have in double furnaces, of small cost, which will enable her the Japan squadren, Business Szason CLosing.—The Oswego Times The , and yet owing to the reduction @ failing off in the amount Forition, Orwego has become the largest, wheat in the State, Over six millious of bushels of The Oswego Daring the season. gland. State Bounpanigs — Boundary difficulties seem jcam confederacy. Virginia a parted between the State executives om eaeh State, and these ran durable granite mona. Tus Fresners at Tae Sour —A derpatch from ted December 1 rays that the Central road formal but reluctant assent. It would not besn exy | hundred wagons. cars cannot go ubove the fifty-five mile station Eigh- task to estimate the benefits to both whites and India Some timely and eMcient measures for the proper dis- teen hundred feet of the road has been warhed away be- which the conrommation of these treaties is calcula! porition and management of the Indians ia Califormia tween the seventy nine and uinety mile stations; also to produce. All danger of futare hostile collision be- | sre of pressing importance to all concerned. The difM- one culvert at Buck Hend crook, It is not expocted to tween our citizens and one of the most numerous culties in whish the rubject is involved ar more em. make connection for three days, Thirty miles of the tele- powerful tribes ef all that region has been happily re- moved a vatt tract of sdmirable country laid opan for Pesceable cultivation, and smple means provided for the ‘welfare and improvement of the Indians. Ia considera- of the increared iabor and responsibility that will bereafter devolve on the ent of the Bioux, his salary sould be raised from one aoMars barraseing in oonrequence of the sbortive efforc tl have been made to establish fixed and permanent re! | tions with them. Since the rejection of the treat! | eluded with a lerge number of the tribes. sufficient i formation has not beem received to justify » confident | opinion as to the plan of operations it may be most expe- | dient to adopt. To any that has been, or can be proposed, plausible objections may, doubtless, be urged; but f usand to fifteen hundsed | ‘The ecarcity of buffalo the preceed! immer was sc. | regard! the ley of the r ed treaties as ‘Werely felt in the winter of 1681-62 by the Bloux of the | finally yadoned. and considering the removal of the Misp0) Y were thus ni driven, when | Indians freta the State aa imporsible, I suggest, as worthy | Of consideration, the plap of forming them into two | | grand colonies, to be suitably looated.one in the morth- | | ern and the otber in the southern portion of the state, Like eiroumstances recommend & like policy in relation Pertinent.) rendered them what aid he could in having | to the Indians west of the Cascade mountains in Oregon, some lends plooghed for them, and they have been led to | That the plan suggested cannot be carried into succe:stul expect fariher arristance hereafter. Many whice men, | Operation without the expenditure of large sums ef mow or formerly im the employ of the fur companies, have | money, is readily conceded; but what other meseure Batermarried with these Sioux. and exert, for good or evil, adequate to the exigencies of the case is free from tha | vari. ageing come on. to {pely themselves to the sober mecee ‘ e cultivation of the soll. Their up- wight and faithful ogent (Mr James It, Norwood, whose ‘Geath by violence has recently been reported to the de- graph wire i | thirteenth station Intionery paper, recently brought to light, shows t! following was the weight of several eficers of the revolu- tionary army, August 10, 1788, weighed at the scales at | soil is of such @ nature as to be Le with the ‘wore probaly placed there iy be wo and broken between the tenth and ported by Mr. Fulton, whe walk- ty mile station. The water has fallen on the road at this end since yesterday morning, and they expect to get to work to-day Wricnt or RevoLutionary Soupirrs.—A revo- the West Point :— Col Michael Jackson262 Iba, Col. Henry Jackson. 238 “ Col. Huntingdom.212 « Lieut Col. Cobb....182 Lt, Col, Humphrey..221 “ je Col Swift Cost or Rateixo Cory tw [11~ —The Prairie Farmer bea made inquiry of several coro rateers in Middle Iitinols of the actual cost of this grain per bushel i There was very little difference in their entiuvates, which ranged from four to six centa! The No hoeing is needed. all 1! ng cultivation done by horees—the rows being from baif a mile to two | . and the husking of the hug» ears belt standing stalks ja the field. so om Discovery BxTRaonviwany.—At the up turning in Bouth Dedham, Mase., Plateswore found, of Wis- iF bank not to have been there some to forty years. T "Bank reed oe counter. @ powerful influence over them. It her been suggested | rame chjections? Somethiog better, tt is hoped, may yet ‘that it would be good policy to colowize these people along | be devired. In the meantime, doginatiem on s rubject of | ‘the rich bottoms with which those wild regions are inter | such diffieulty and Importance may well be forborne in the erib. eperved, giving ip ee vas A — in ie vig! Dove atreniion _ wf wo Seal yoreestice es tong a8 aotoally occupied. The suggestion is worthy | of the third work, respecting the In- ef consideration. 7 | Gian tribes of the United Staion, published under | eet ease ‘The Omabas, an im; Dut'pencefiul tribe, on the | the direetion of this bureau, and it will be fortn- | ‘wertern border ef Lows. bave suffered much for several ; coming during tbe approvehing session of Congress, The | miler in lem ‘years from the trecpasce | edition of the rst part, intended for distribucion to the | done from t) ‘Of the mere warlike Dew members, will be ready for delivery atan early day | Founded; but the appropriation im_the session, | 4 the last session The it seems to be an appropriate coeasion for and re-building of # dry brid; their distress, and calling the attention of Congress to certain treaty stip u- | days tince, fou ‘evadition It will be used lations. with various Indian tribes, which the government, | casei them the means for a number of years, has failed to exeeute. ‘In coms. Gram the deposition deretion of the cosion of lands +0 the United Eeedily appreciste und gtttes, by the Fious of jhe Mississippi, the Secs and | feltere. multifarious pro- | | to the year 1800, the mumber pemsioned is 975 | upon the government in the procurement of invalid pe ineeton were constructed upon a eup- | ing in Florida shali join their brethren West, it will | poted American improvement of am English invention. | There are four other United States stoamers for which been made to be supplied with the rame | kind of boliers, apd as a sew plan will now have to be | | adopted, there will not only be @ great lors incurred by the government but great delay in equipping them for active service —Norfolk Beacon, Deg 6. PPLY | ler members of the | Maryland are at | loggerheads about their mutual limits, and communica- more serious trouble seems to exist be- | tween Khode Island and Marsachusetts, the boundary | betweem which States was thought to be settled Gom- missioners were appointed ® line, which was marked ments, agreeably to instructions, The line was accept- able to Rhodes Ieland, bat the coalition party of Massa- churetts took ground sgainst it, and dirested the re sucorsetul a# no murders or robberies are reported to ted of the monuments, which bas been accordingly jena, THE PENSIONERS OF AMERICA. The Pension Office Report, Peni Orrice, Nov, 25, 1853. Sin—I have the honor to submit herewith a seport of the various operations of this branch of the department, ince (he amnual report of November, 1851. ‘The tabular statement marked A presents the number ef pensioners on the rolls of the United States and the | Distriet of Columbia, exelucive of navy pensioners, of whom a separate report will be made, from this state- | ment it appears thet the whole mumber is 18,868—lese by 743 than the number reported in 1851, Paper B exhibits the number of pensioners added to the rolls sinee the last ennual report; and statement 0 will a the number of deaths recurned in the same period of tim ‘The rtatem-nt D shows the number of penrioners paid in the first and second quarters of the year 1853; and thet marked E is a statement derived frem the books of the Third Auditor, exhibiting the balances in the hends of the coveral pensiom agents at the date of their last returns. ‘The sum expended on account of pensions, since the Jast annual report, as fares the eame can be aseartained at the Preasury Department, is one million five hundred thourand dollars—embracing many claims allowed before the last re) but not paid until the prevent year. The oe ‘the system is not materially change nor is it to be until the ouegersivehand Of legisia.iom is ap- plied to some of its abi J ls ne REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONS. The whole number pensioned under the act of 18th March, 1818, which was passed for the reliet of officers and soldiers in-indigent circumstances, was 20 485. of whom 1,046 are now on the rolls, and only 389 have received payment in the first and seeond quarters of the present year. Only 1,168 perrons have been pensioned under the act of 15th May, 1828, which was passed for the bemefit of officers and soldiers of the continental army who served to the end of the war. Of that number the names of 128 are still on the rolls, but 42 only have been paid in the first and second quarters of the year. Under the act of the 7th June, 1432, which greatly ex. tended the system, 33,066 persons have been pensioned since its passage, and the number mow on the rolis is 4,828, of whom 1,495 have received payments in the first and secend quarters of the year. WIDOWS OF REVOLUTIONARY MEN. ‘The act of 4th July, 1836, not only provided for revola tionary widows, but for the widows and orphans 6f cer- tain volunteer and militia troops who died in service since 1818. The whole number pensioned under the aet, which now, with few exceptions, is confined to the wi- dows of those who rendered revolutionary service, is 5,103, of whom 978 remain on the rolls, ‘The act of 7th July. 1838 gave five years pension to revolutionary widows who mariied before the Ist Janu- ary, 1794. Under it, 11,400 have, from time to time, been enrolled, but 162 only have been paid im the first and ‘The number pensicned under the act of 24 February, 1848, for life or widowhood, is 6,000, and under the act of 20th July, 1848, which extended the period of mari fe} are now on the rolls. under both these sets, 5,280 p stoners, of whom 4209 were paid during the first and | second quarters of the year. MEXICAN WAR, ‘The act of Zist July, 1848, made provision for the wi. dows and orphans of those who were killed in battle, or | perithed by disease, in the Mexican war. The number pensioned under the act is 1 890, and the number om the rolls is 1,122, . INVALID PENSIONS, ‘The whole number now on the rolls, under the several invalid acts, is 6.986, being an increase of 627 compared with the last annual report, of whieh number 4.232 have been paid in the first and seeond quarters of the year. NAVY PENSIONS. A reparate and detailed report om this partieular branch bearing the same date, is herewith communicated. An additions! year’s experience, since my last annual report, has copfirmed me in the opinion then entertained and exprested, that a revision of the Pension Laws by Congress, the only competent nuthority, is rendered ne- cerrary by the uncertainty which surrounds the rystem In_that branch of it particularly which reeognizes the rights of descendants of revolutionary men, it is mani fest that the same has been sustained more by a series of authoritative and sometimes conflicting decisions than by epy fixed and positive statutes on the subject. There may be danger that what was intended asa personal gratuity only, for services rendered, may acquire, by pre- cedent and urage, a descendable quality wholly inzom- sistent with the original design ome suitable tegislation is also necessary to guard againet the frequent frands and impositions practised sions. Notwithstanding the vigilance constantly ex: cieed, it is difficult to prevent evasions or punish viola- tions of the law. The act of 8d March, 1819, which required biennial examinations of invalids, in order to show that the disability continued, or that the pensioner was restored to health, was, I believe. imcautiously or unintentionally repealed by the act of July. 1832. Iw re-enactment, with additional and more atringent pro visions, if not absolutely neceseary, might furnish addi- tional guards to protect the government. It may not be irrelevent to remark. however. that I have never considered the repeal of the act above referr to as implying any legislative ranction of ‘the principle that admission to the rells eonferred a eontinuous right to an invalid pension. if the disease or disability for which such pension was granted had ceased to exist; and in this view of both the reason and law of the case. I have been sustained by a recent decision of the department. In adverting to the obvious abuses prasticed im some branches of the pension system. and expecially in that which originated in the grateful remembrances of revolu- tionary service, but is now too frequently porverted to purposes of private gsin and extortion, it would unjust te overlook a particular class, whose claims are as mech addressed to the justice as to the sympathies of the country. I refer to the widows of army ¢flicers, who have from time to time beem pensioned for short periods and under particular acts, but whose pen- sions bave expired, and remain unrenewed, whilet the more fortunate survivors, in a different branch ef the ser- vice, have been placed on a permanent footing. I am at @ loss to perceive why such discrimination should exiet between the two great arma of the national defence, in which both have shared equaliy daogers ‘and hardships. diseare and death, and both have left widows and orphans in a state of destitution. Nor have I been sble to diseo- ver apy just reason for the distinction in the history of the navy pension fund, which originated in the prooceds of captures bestowed upon the navy, and was properly #0 applied so long as it continued an available fund, but which furnished no just ground for withholding relief from the bereaved families of army officers, to whom the benefite of capturein time of war have always been de- nied. MILITARY LAND BOUNTY. The exccution of the act of 28th September. 1850. has been steadily advaneing since the spring of 1851. Up to the present time. the number of cases received and regis- tered amount to. Of which there Now at the rolls for exami: Suspended for further proof.... 200,000 Warrants are fsrued daily for all admitted caves, « the quantity of land required to sati«fy the issues to the ‘Ist inst. amounts to 9,945,320 acres. ‘The applications now reosived under the act of 1860 amount to a daily average of ove hundred In the execution of thi of other laws, it hes been weceseary to preseribe rules of constructfom, which, in their general spplication, have produced cases’ of individual hardship. I refer, 4 way of example, tothe instance of warrants which have lapred to tte goverpment by reasom of the unavoidable delay in the execution of thesct. Im the ease of @ soldier, or his Widow. whore elaim bas been regularly Presented. but who dies before the warrant could issue. and who leaves KO epecial reiative entitled to reseive. justice would seem to require that the warrant should vest as if it had just issued on the day whem the claim or deolaration was pre- rented. Cases, Under the act of 29d March, 1862, there bat Hf received and registered....... 7.668 Of which there have been admitted. 2.841 Leaving :till to be acted on, +» 6,314 To satisfy the warrants this act, y 143 660 acres will be required. The claime under the act of 11th February, 1847, known asthe Mexican Land Bounty law, which were filed ‘0 the Sist October last, amount to 89 377 Filed fer script, in liew of land bounty............ 4947 93,794 Numbrr of land warrants issued,.. Issued for money and rcript..... » $3,088 3. Leaving suspended, for verions reanor ‘The operations for the year, under t! follows, viz Applications for lai For seript or money Warrants lesued for land Yor ecript and money... Buspended for the year..... The number of applications w Febr , 1847, has inercased in consequence of the re- peel of the Inst proviso of the Oth section, by the passage of the act of 22d March, 1869. im the tied ending 26th October, 1852, land warranta ve issued on account of revolutionary elsims, as fel- lows, to wit :— Acres, ‘Three for lieuterants. of 200 acres each 600 ‘Twelve for non commissioned officers and 5 at 100 acres each. 1200 Also, om account war of , to wit 185 warrants, of 160 acree ench issued under the acts of Congress of December 24, 1811, and Janu- ary 11. 1812. OF: Leis Alco. reven warn: 320 aores. issued ler the act of Congrer! December 10, 181. equal to.. 2240 There have aleo been iseued, in the rame period, thirty. nine wew certificates of right to locate Iand warrants of 160 acres each ich issued under acts of 24th Pecember, 1811, and 11th January, 1812, but for which no paten shave been gramted 6,240 Also, two certificates of right to locate land ‘Warrants of 320 acres each, i:nued ander the act of December 10, 1814, upon which no patente had previously issued Aggregate of warrants iseued as above, for revola- onary service, and service in the war of 1812. . 32,820 VIRGINIA HALF PAY CLAIMS, ‘The half pay claims examined and allowed under the net of Sth July, 188%, tince the date of the Jast annual re port, amount to $1: , 78. There eamnot be many genuine claims now under the act referred to, A few however, which havo beem presented. and are on. fuspended for various causes, remain to be claims for commutetion should be again either by direett of Cor u je number or amount. are new on Sle but will not be considered antil the partment feting prebibitory order from the de} shall be remov Ihave the henor te be, very ove dlent servant, TH, Comminsioner of Pensions. Hien Aixs, H. H Brvant, Secretary of the Interior. | us Cherish.”? Counties, Cass, Taylor. Adoms. 305 48 Attala 653 484 Amie 305 426 Bolivar 49 89 Carroll, 885 Cialbor = os bow: te pish . 587 _ 4k Clarke. 282 2i1 Choets 143 642 Chieke 984 846 | Covington 6 185 Oelhoun we ae De Seto. a bs Fravhlin ... Ho aS | 822 1,26 rifOn ....+ 166 376 72 Hanocek., a 112 6 157 a re a Itawamba. ) 3 422 308 343 | 218 166 32 31T 298 381 14 135 95 | 51 450 416 | 395 438 145 | 45 780 sou | 335 239 328 | 688 667 474 | 689 760 , 130 1,804 1,344 1,306 497 AGT 614 | 971 1,062 92 | 207 163 99 | A413 687 617 | 248 a4 241 | . 217 197 184 . 344 424 388 | . 112 79 143 . 412 898 277 . 883 348 578 . 1,630 999 197 . . 274 316 370 386 Sunflower - 36 43 23 33 Bimpron . » 169 244 264 256 | Smith + 85 270 287 210 | Boott see 98 aAT 273 152 | Tallabatchie.... 143 186 219 206 | Tishomingo..... 760 1,312 1,190 810 | Tunica » 2 34 26 61 ippah 1,232 1,236 981 | ‘Wilkineon 365 291 455 Wayne 61 2 97 Warren. 494 478 890 Warhin; 90 ve8 179 448 425 307 559 497 641 633 846 843 26 840 26.537 25,922 | 17,648 25,9223 Dem. majority............. 9 202 616 ois 615 Dem. gain rince 1848. 867’ Total yote in 3848 Total vote in 1852 Decrease in four years .:. Domestic Mucellany. “Unele Tom’s Cabin” has been translated into Welsh, and bears the title of * Caban F’Ewythr Tum.” Thomas Sullivan was found drowned at Savanuah, on the 2d inst, The deccased was a watchman at Fort Jack- son, and 18 supposed to have fallen in the river in the night, some ten days previous, while passing between the fort and the city. Mr Thomas Gould died in the Baptist church, corner of Aston and Lombard streets, Philadeiphia, on the Sth inst.. while knecting in prayer. Richard Fosburg, a colored man, was drowned at Alba- ny on the Sth inst, Governor Hunt has appointed 8. Bowen, Esq.. of Look- port, a justice of the Supreme Court in the Eighth judi- cial district, to succeed Judge Hoyt, who has resigned, Taylor's Falls, Minncrota. on the St. Croix river, is said | to have improved wonderfully this last season; 150 new buildings have been erected there. | The steamboat men at Mobile have struck for an ad- vance of wages—from $40 to $60 a month; and the labor- ing men on the wharves have demanded an increase from | two to four shillings per hour, for discharging cargo. A new Post Office and Custom House are to be buiit im Wilmington. Del. The‘ location has been fixed at tho corner of Sixth and King streets. The Iberville (La.) Gazette says that Joseph Schlatre was killed on the 19th ult.. on mother’s plantation, near Plaquemine. by a negro engineer, who struck him twice on the head with an iron wrench. The mardercr ‘was arreeted. Aman, named William Cox, swallowed a quarter of a | pound of arsenic, at Charleston, on the let inst.,and died, of course. George Powers was tried in New Orleans, on the 30th | ult., for the murder of Michacl Hennessy, and found | guilty of msnslaughtcr. Governor Lowe. of Maryland. has offered a reward of $300 for the apprehension of William Gault, who is charged with the crime of murder. “Sarah Fertune, a free negress, was ordered thirty-nin laches, in Richmond, Va , Istely, for impudence to a lady, Acolored woman named Wilson, living in Decrcreek valley, near Cincinnati, gave birth to three children on the 3d inrt—two boys and one girl. Peter K. Love, Erq , of Thomas. has been appointed by the Governor Judge of the Southern Cizeuit, of Georgia, vice Hon. Avgustus H. Haneell. rerigned, A project is om foot in Bangor, Me., for supplying the city with water from the Kenduskeag and Pushaw pond. Five young girls in Wilimantic. Conn, were fined $2(67 each, last week, for disturbing Methodist meeting. Daniel Tucker. who hes been so often warned to ‘get | out of the way,” is said to have been run over by a train of care in Arkensas. ebich is the first imtimation we have seen that « railroad had been built im that State Two men with their wives. met on the sidewalk in Ni ark, N. J , om the 6th inst.,and both refured to yield and ellow the other to pass. A struggle consequent iy ensued for supericrity, during which one of the mem had his nose ‘almost entirely bitten off. Abram Hause the father in-law of Dr. Geltner, the mes- ter spirit of the Montour county ‘of counterfeiters, broken up by the Philadelphis and Pittsburg police, un- der Mayors Gilpin and Guthrie. was, on the 20th ult , sen- tenced, at Danville, where he was tried, to seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Hause, for many years, kept atavern which was the rendezvous of counterfeiters, horte thieves, and other villains, The New Hempehire House of Representatives has paged s vote of thanks te the civil authorities of the Com- monwetlth of Massachusetts. and of the city of Bostor and to the “Sons of New Hamprhire’’ resident in Boston, for the kird and cordial reception and attention they re- ceived on the occasion of the obsequies of Webster. The Mayor of Chicego has issued a proclamation against doge, warning all owners of any of the species to keep them in doors, ‘Two cars, filled with pressed hay, took fire from sparks from the locomotive, near Canandaigua, on the 3d inst. At the recent meeting of the American Board of Mis sions. it was stated that rince 1789 the United States had id to the Indians in money $35 974877, in lands $71,- 47,723, making an aggregate of $106,000,000, ‘The population of the city of Louisiana, Missouri, is 1,840. divided into 636 males, 659 femsles, 130 slaves, and one free person of color Mille Baron, who was #0 badly injured some time since, at the Varieties theatre, New Orleans, by her clothes catching fire, died on the 20th inst , at 8t. Louis, Jane Crowley has recovered $25 of Johu Kennedy. be- fore Justice Westen, ande jury of six men, st Charles: town, for slander. One hundred and sixty-seven deaths occurred in Phi- ladelphia last week, sixty eight ot which were children. ‘The Legislature of Florida met on Monday, the 22d ult- The Hon, Robert B. Floyd was elected President of tho Renate, and A. K. Aliisom Speaker of the House of Rep- ves. The new State House in Columbus, Ohio, is about covered. and ready for s winter campaign. The pillars on the a south sides are up, amd the west ones are commenced, About three years more will finish the work. Fungi Crremonias 1x New Ort Eans.—To-day grand triple funeral pageant in honor of Clay, Webster | and Calhoun, will be presented in New Orleans. Deputa- tions from all the parishes and towns in the State are to be prerent; all places of businers in the city are to be closed, the bells of the ehurcbes will be tolled. the flags at half mast, and the private dwellings of the re to be draped im mourning. Chief Justice Eustis is appointed to deliver the eulogy on Calhoun, Judge McCaleb that on Olay. and Christian Roselius.Keq , that cn Webster. There are to be thirty ome pall. bearers, one being from each State in the Union. A grand to be ereeted in Lafayette equare, sixty fect ip \t; the cenoteph to be surmounted bye cupola and to contain s foneral urn; be adorned with si! prerenting commerce. sgriculture, manufactures and the ig ution, and will be lighted up until 1@ o’clook at might, A Scrar oF History.—In the Circuit Court, on Paturday, daring a trial affecting the rights of Lion ip one of the witmesres raid that thirty. five yoars ago he, as ‘a boy, ured to bathe as far north as H etreet, near Klev- ¢nth, and, besides. caught fish there in the stream. And Mr. Bradley, one of the counsel, said he knew the place very well, for be bad oft hot, woodoock thereabout ‘There are older residents who kn the en ite of th ania avenue was @ marsh without s houre between the Capt tel and the Prevident’s mansion.— Washington enutbe, Dee, 6. rovid ] states that Maine Law.—Tho Providence Journal states thee it is expeoted that the decision of the Rhede Inlund in the question iovolviag the constitution. ality of the iquor law, will be given ine ral ee a vee care may be decided upon technical — was = ont reaebing the point of the conetitutlonality of the law. The counsel Lead ho yi hom fhe ap aiet that ibe court will eqmply. ‘he contrary decisions of the Courte of Msine jew - | ola tver of the law, the latter Ae _ it, have some. | | yublic mind, That nent a to ed for with anusual int . ecroraL Vors or Massacnuserrs —Tho Cnnnknaee Massachusetts has been given twiee to George Warhington; twice to John Adams; once to an Jefferton; ones to Charles Cotesworth Pi ren! of South Carolina; once to DeWitt Clinton. of New York; onoe to Rufus King; ones to James Monroe; twice to Ichn Quincy Adame; twice to He a eg i | thing im our lepgusge. | ford permanent record of the character ot his mind | recurity fo ited pro’ abortt an able odi- tor, one that we should dislike to loone; of all m | thrashes the abolitioniste reifall; ‘The Webster Obsequles—Mr. Hilliard’s Eulogy—oltection of” Bulogics—Mr. Woodbury’s Works—The City Election and the City Govermment—The Lectures of Mr, Choate and General Dir—Mr. Robinson's Lect wes on Athens—The Eu thywake—Miseancous. The “ Webster Obsequies ” Here, on the Soth ult, are all but universally admitted “6 have been a complcte fuil ure, In almost every Tapect, as everything must prove with which our shab'yy city government has any hing to do All the arrangements were bad, and not afew of those who were in the Erocession acted as if they had been yot to- gether faz the purpose of “having a good timo,” ant meant to have it. The musicians were very free ant easy, and showed to the world that if their seiencs hu charms, they are of & very various character. Thus, while one band was lifting the soul to a solemn sphere by an exquisite performance of Pleyel’s Hymn a second was seeking to dispel melancholy by pouring forth the inspiring strains of the “Low-backed Car; a third played the “Dead March,” which a fourth voted a bore, and gratified the spectators by playing “Life lets There were not a few of th practical antitheses throughout the whole and there was not much solemnity displayod dur- img the day. ‘The decorations, however, were ex- tremely good, and, in some instances, highly creditable tothearists who got them up. Mr, Hilliard’s eulogy ‘was an able and scholarly production, and just what might, have been expected frem him, While it did ample jus~ tice to the rare merits, and splendid talents, and great ser- vioes of Mr. Webster, it did not run into that vein—or, rather, broad and dashing cvrrent—of oulogy, so commom: fn with our writers and speakers then they have to treat of the dead. Everything is too often racrifioed to effect, and the offect amounts to nothing when produced, Mr. Hill- iard was the intimate friend of Mr. Webster for many years, and what he saysof him can be depended upom, while his reputation, and critical habits of miad, are ample warrants that he has exeggerated im nothing. Mr. Hilliard is to edit a volume, to be published by Lit- tle & Brown, containing @ collection of the various culo- gies that have been delivered on Mr. Webster. It wilf hardly comtsin Theodore Parker's sermon, Thetasts of ‘the editor is a guarantee that ncthing ofan inferior chae racter will be admitted into the volume—ihat the flies will be Kept out of theamber, It is to be hoped that no | felse modesty will cause him to omit his own eration, ia which there are passages not to be & by Three “handsome the writin being selections from | Juoge Woodbury, bave been published by Little & Brown, | The selections ap to have been made with dircrimi-, Bating taste. Judge Woodbury was a man of extraord!- nary industry. and probably wrote more than any othec American sisteeman, excepting Johu Quincy Adame, Hence, to make a selection from his writings, s© as to the nature of his labors, was no idle undertaking. It ap- pears to have been well done, and these volumes may va regarded as in the light of the New Hampshire atates~ man’s legacy to his countrymen—the fruit ef a long life’a experience. Judge Woodvury was for twenty-eight yeara {n the public service, twenty-six years of which were pare- ed in the national service. is death was the entomb- ment of many hopes. Had he lived, seme pages in our. political history would have read very differently fromm what they are ncw destined to. ¥ Our municipal election will take place on the 13th and» hopes aie entertained that it will result in giving usa local government that shall not. at least, be a disgrace to t! city, as most of our administrations have been. occurrences at the late fire are awakening tha “ solid men ef Boston’? to the nocassity of having a gov— ernment that shail protect life aud property. Ever since our old fire department was broken up there has been no ir property, and life has been constantly en- dangered. look, now, for the returns of the kille@ a wounded at a fire, with as‘much regularity as we do the amount of insurance. The old flowed may have had its faults, as what human this; not ’—buk it was as sworn am enemy to the Fire King as were the Romans to kings of all kinds. It considered that firey were to be put out, and would not chivalrously give then fair play, whereas the present department disdains ta tuke any advantage of thom, and allows them to “start fair,’ which property holders aze just #o unreasonable ag to find fault with. If we could enly get » good city government. we should have no more bad fires. Perhapa we shail have such @ government, after the city shalt have been fairly “copflagrated.”” I do not altogether despair of our rivaling Constantinople in that way. un- der the old regime. ‘Ours are literally “the good old heed when fire was all the rage, for mon as well ag 68. Our lecture reason has opened uneommonly rich; Mr. Choate’s opening lecture, before the Meresntile Library Aseociation, on Wednesday evening. on “ Intervention, ’? was the same that he delivered last summer at Buriing= ton, with eome brilliant additions. I de mot know, but Void it was, that bis reference te slavery was one of hese additions, t was very fine, and was anti-slavery in its character, but not abolition, a distinetion with = difference. I can assure you, s0 far as opinion here is con- cerned. He rpoke of the institution as “the only dark clloud” that hangs over our country, but expressed = firm belief that it would be dissi; ia such a manner. asthould leave the institutions of the. country intact. | Mr. Choate is a moral interventionist, but spoke iu most | eloquent terms of Kossuth I presume it ip this lectur that Mr. Choate is to deliver in your cit; lowed by Mr. Stark, of New York. who a poem, which orgie was well reeei and has bem highly praised on ail sides. The tle thickly sprinkled with notabilities, Mr.Clifford, Gov.Boutwell, Mr. retinal and other eminent persomages being jeneral Dix’s lectures, on Mi same Association, was much admire: Sua has lerpely i v a - orease: well-dererved fame of its author. Iewas Te- maikable for its clearness and force. and for breadth of view. The subject was “ Progress,’ briefly. It has since been delivered twice in Salem; and Geaeral Dix has been invited to deliver it in several ether Places iw this State. It was rather s curious coincidence. that the bag on the same evening should have boca delivered by ir. Pierpoint. one of our principal free sell divines. Among the lectures announced, isa course of six om Athens. by Mr John P. Robinson, of Lowell, in that eity. Mr Robinson is one of the best classical soholara in the world, and, asa ‘ Grecian,” I should not be afraid’ to pit him against Professor Felton himself, aed he | is very euinee Cte as standing A No. 1 iw thinge pertaining to the langusge and literature of Hellas. ith Mr. Robinson, everything that reiates to that wonderful land, to which both ancient ang modern civilization are so largely indebted, has pos- sessed o charm thet is not, ap; » often felt evew by ourrcholars Two years sgo he visited (reece for the express purpore of familiarizing himeeif with the localities of that country. He resi for eight monthe at Athens, or in i's vicinity, and no doubt knows every inch of the racred soil of Marathon A New Englander may be excured for dwelling with some complacency ot the fact. that such » courre of lectures has been aa- nounced to be given im a city like Loweil. made up as t's pepulation is of perrons from all parts ef our rection of country, and who are suppored to be devoted to none other tban material pursuits The earthqueke in E-tex county sail the talk im that part of the country, though the people there hare ao right to monoprlize the it, as it was felt in some other parts ate bey od the good people of Kasex bold ~ that the earthquake belongs to them by right of descent, for it seems, according to the old chronicles. that the used to get well shaken up im the last ¢ ‘Was all most who al tetts, ‘There a m from the earlieat day of tts settlement probably were not less so previous to that time; but a | the Indians had no Historical Societies or newspapere— noreven slmanacs—they are Ii the brave men who lived before Agememnon, and are “no great shakes."’ Mr J. R. Seott has issued ® card recommending the bistrionie fraternity to wear crape on the left arm for | thirty days, as a token of respect tothe memory of Mr. Booth. on ¢ Mr. Booth is much regretted here, where he was very Do ular, @ Maine law has been pronounced eonstitutional by our Police Court. The decision of the New Hamp- shire Supreme Court against a similar law, in every point but one. has no bearing upon the lawas it exists here> and on thet one point onr Supreme Court has decided advervely to that of New Hampebire. There is nothing important in political matters, so fae as the State is concerned. The exact whig majority im the House of Representatives is eight, which will be found je enough for all party purposes. A leatiog de deen up to see Ge Pier: reported ‘massacre of the innocents, ion Tre bewtine ag 4 a byes Sar hi 'y calmly, that as regarded the ould. m: no distinction between Maesachuretts demoorats. bat ha would show no favor to men who should hereafter ect im & manner that would ald abolitionim. Inthe future. all democrats who expect countewance from him must ry rquare,upon the Baltimore platform. This ts plain talk- ing, and t rhall perheps be able to tell you something of the effect of it on our Congressional ee prorer an account of an lon Bennett, igable editor. A bo: Cireums'ances occasioned Mr B 's suspicion of rome play, and the box was cautiously opened. after being welt Reed {nm water fora fall hour. [t was found to contain i ‘ine, with an arrangs. atchos, &e., so that it ‘om being opened. Mr B's pe effect whieh would have fol- cautious epeming of the box, printers every- where rhould regard as a matter for congratulation ant thankfulness—the Hraaiy, under his ¢omduet, ever bs {pg a welcome exehange, from which en refrorhy their own columns in. times of newsy destitution — muda Advertiser, Nov. Jams Gervon Bennett —A_villanous attempt has been recently made to take the life of '. Bennett, the fearless and independent editor of the New York Heastn, by moans of Tt was filled with combustible matter. and 60 niously eomtrived that im screwing off the top, it would expicde, osasing instant The plot wae Lo ay Se ‘end the villan. ve ve. ir. Bennett te Marsacnvertrs Pinot Laws.—In a decision of » reoent pilotage care im Boston, in which a Vimeyard pilot claimed pilotege of bark Portland, having offered to it her through the V: ard Sound and over Nao- tucket Shoals to her port of desti waa refused. Judge Shaw. in of the defendants, remarked it was subject of ro- yusotte were in 7