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had organized a national society f

The Senate had confirmed
bagoes, by which they cede half-a-million of acres of lan,
in Minnesota. Five Indian treaties, providing for the
cesssion of several millions of acres of land in Kansas, were
in the hands of the Indian Committee.

treaty wi

In Congress, the Committee on Ways and Means re-
ported a bill reducing and modifying the revenue, which
was ordered to be printed. Mr. Senard gave notice of a
bill regulating the navigation to the coast. of Africa of

The object being to

vessels owned by American citizens
break up the African slave-trade in American vessels
In the House of Representatives two members, Church-
well and Cullom, got to high words. The latter leaped
over the desks towards the former, and, shaking his fist,
called him liar and scoundrel ; whereupon Mr. Churchwell
drew a pistol and cocked it. Friends interfered, and order
was restored.

According to despatches from Washington, dated the
20th, despatches from Mexico show that the principal de-
mand by Santa Anna is the payment of the ten millions
in cash, instead of five monthly instalments.
The U. S. commissioner at Cincinnati had published a
communication denying the constitutionality of that part
of the fugitive slave law which makes it the duty of the
commissioner to issue warrants and hear cases. He says
he has refused, and will continue to refuse,
warrants,

to issue

A negro named Ned bad been sentenced to be hanged
at Jefferson, Louisiana, for having committed a rape on a
girl aged 18. The victim and her mother, with three
female friends, were picking blackberries in a plantation,
when, it appears, the negro followed them, drew a knife,
threatened the rest of the women with death if they inter-
fered, and, in the presence of the four women, committed
the crime.

General J. C. Saunders, of Alabama, and Judge Evans,
of Mississippi, fought a duel near the Alabama State line
Five shots were exchanged and both
ded, Judge Evans dangerously. Mr.

on the 3rd

parties were v

Sehlessinge
New Orlear

had been engaged in a mock duel at
lead by S. G. Ladd, du

is, was sh

e about the affair

[ring a dis-

The cotton and woollen-mills occupied' y Mr. Rivers
Messrs. Houghton, Roe, and Philips, and Mr. Holt,
Philadelphia, had been destroyed by fire. Several per
were supposed to have perished.
A large body of Mormon emigrants had ari..
The Connecticut legislature had passeu

Osceola, Kansas,

the Maine Liquor Law

Accounts from Hs
market was glutted

ved at

he 2nd of June, state that the

11 demand,
at Port

h provisions,

Coffee was scarce
lumber of European vessels

k. great

a-Prince.

From Venezuela we learn that, on the 2nd June, ev(
was quiet. The demand for produce had increau
rkc,cording to_ the__Quebec correspondent of the 21

York Herald; the folloiving is a synopsis of the recipr

treaty which was submitted, on the 16th ult., to the pro-
vincial parliament by the Earl of Elgin :—" Article Ist
throws open the fisheries of British America, except those
of Newfoundland, and the salmon, shad, and shell fisheries,
.:can citizens. Article 2nd provides for settling
disputes by arbitration, and also gives to the Bri-

to Ameri

fistuns

eries, to the 36th parallel
the free ex-

_
tish a right to the American tis
of north latitude. Article 3rd provides for
change of flour and breadstuffs ; all kinds of animals ; all
kinds of flesh, Smoked and salt meats ; cotton, wool, seeds,
and vegetables ; dried and undried fruits ; all kinds of

undresse d

fish, and the products of fish, and of all othr creatures in
the water • poultry and eggs ; firs and skins ;
stone, and marble in its under or unwrought st
butter, cheese, tallow, and lard : horns ; mama

all kinds ; coal; tar, pitch, and turpentine ; ashes lumber
of all kinds, round, hewed, or sawed, and manufactured in
whole or part ; firewood ; plants, trees, and shrubs ; pelts ;
fish oil; rice ; broom corn ; barley ; gypsum, ground or
unground ; burr, or grindstones, hewn or rough, wrought
or unwrought ; dyestuffs ; flax ; unmanufactured tobacco ;
and rags. Article 4th throws open the river St. Lawrence
and the Canadian canals to American vessels, the Ameri-

can government undertakingto urge the state gc ,
to admit British vessels into their canals. Both nations
to enjoy the navigation on equal terms. Article sth pro-
vides for the ratification of the treaty within six months,
or sooner if possible. Great Britain may withdraw from
Americans the right of navigating our waters, in which
case Americans can annul article 2nd. Article 6th pro-

.nments

vides for including Ne

,wfoundl

Lnd, with her consent."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

NEW YORK, 20th JUNE.--There was less demand for
money; prime paper was discounted at 9 to 10 per cent.
and call loans made at 7to 8 per cent. Foreign each
was dull. We quote, London, 109 to 109 i ; Paris
5.131

5.111-6

COTTON.-The sales of the 12th to 17th June, both in-
clusive, amount to 20,524 bales, of which 14,046 were for
export, 3,478 home use, and 3,000 speculation. The ad-
vance established on our quotation of 13th June is ie. to
on grades under " middling," and lc. to Vic. on those
For the cotton offering holders demanded even

er rates, and buyers consequently refused to proceed
Quotations based on the sales last effected for a strict

classification :

NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION
Uplands: Florida:

Inferior
Ordinary
Good Ordinary
Low Middling
Middling
Good Middling
Middling fair

N. Orleans
Mobile. Sr Texa,.

The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist of September last, as compared with the pre-
vious three years :

1854. 1853. 1852. 185].
Receipts at the ports 2,737,000 3,150,000 2,936,000 2,254,000
Exports to Gt. Britain, 1,333,030 1,569,000 1,537,000 1,244,000
„ France 280,000 402,030 405,000 290,000
„ other for. ports, 286,000 323,000 321,000 227,000
Total exports
Stock on hand' 455,000 303,000 201,000 303,000
BREADS', +, and

MTS.—The market for flour was qu
few sales were effected. Wheat was slow

Corn was firm. Oats in good demand.
PnovisroNs.—Mess pork sold at a decline from pre-
vious, prices. Lard was firm. Butter 16c. to 21c. CI
sc. to 9c. per lb.
FREI GIITS.—The
rates. The follow

had been no material alteration in
"ie ruling rates :—Corn to

Liverpool sd. to 50., in ship's bags
per 11.), id. ; flour, per barrel, ls. Gd. ;
goods, per ton, 15s. to 205.; beef, per tierce, 2s. (
London : Four, ls. 9d.; measurement goods, per ton, 30s
heavy goods, 20s. to 255... To Havre :

rotten, square

rosin ls.

tEon, pei lb,

To Australia and California,' 45c. to 50c. per foot
(By Telegraph.)
. .

NEW YORK, JUNE 22.—The Cotton market is firm
with an upward tendency. Flour dull, at former rates
Indian Corn rather higher.
__ _

NEw ORLEANS, JUNE 20.—Sales of Cotton to-day
reached 3000 bales ; market firm; New Orleans middling
quoted Bto Bi. Freights, 1, firm. Exchange on Londoil, 8.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 22.—The President of the United
States has announced to the Senate Santa Anna's uncon-
ditional acceptance of the treaty with the United States.
The President consequently asks Congress to make the
necessary appropriations for payment of the agreed pur-
chase-money to Mexico.
QUEBEC, JUNE 21.—The ministry have been defeated
on amendment to address in answer to the Queen's speech
on the question of the Clergy Reserves. An immediate
dissolution of the Parliament is anticipated.
JUNE 22.—The rumour is generally credited that the
Governor-General will dissolve Parliament to-day.