American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-06-14

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Sales of three thousand barrels of flour at
$3.94@4.00; southern, $4.5O@4.62, Genesee
wheat, $l.14 Corn, mixed, 56e.; yellow, SO.
Stocks firm.
BALTIMORE, June 14-2 p. m.
Jenny Lind Expected.
Information has been received from undoubted
sources which states that the Lind concerts will
be given here in July, under her own manage
ment.
Flour dull sales of four hundred bbls. How
ard street at $412; the majority of buyers
unwilling to give over 81; grain unchanged.
Excitement among the Mormons.
DETROIT, June 13.
The Daily ADVERTISER contains an account of
brutal murder committed on Beaver Island,
on Friday last, upon Thomas Bennett, under
the color of ecclesiastical authority. Mr.. Ben
nett was shot through the body with five rifle
bullets and thirty eight buckshot, by party of
| fifty Mormons. His brother Samuel was also
shot, but not killed. Great excitement per-
vaded the whole community.
The Railroad Corporation trials are proceed
ing slowly. The evidence for the prosecution
is gradually unfolding.
Letter from the President to the Conn
mon Council of Boston.
BosToN, June IS.
| letter from President Fillmore was re-
ceived and read at the meeting Of the Common
Council last evening, in reply to the invitation
to visit Boston. After abiding to the recent
slave case, and complimenting the citizens of
Boston for sustaining the law, the President
says:
Nothing but stern sense of duty founded
upon rational firm conviction that a constitu-
tional and legal obligation must be obeyed at
any and every sacrifice, could have insured the
execution of the law in a case like this; but for
myself, | never doubted that the law would ul-
timately triumph.
"Good faith is the foundation of all morality
and all security. The free States had pledged
themselves by the Constitution to the perform
ance of this duty. The slave States had a right
to insist and did insist upon its performance.
"There was then no alternative but to break
our faith, forfeit our word of honor, and thereby
trample the Constitution of our country in the
dust, and run the hazard of civil war; or else
to admit the obligation like honest, true-hearted
men, and do all in our power to comply with it,
still hoping and trusting that in due time some
mode would be devised by those who have Con-
stitutional power to abolish slavery, and who
are most deeply interested in its final extinction,
rid of the evil without destroying the fairest
fabric Of freedom that mortal hands have ever
raised, and in its ruins extinguishing the last
hope of humanity for self-government.
"Permit me to say that this Government has
cost Boston too much to be given up or hazarded
for slight or trivial causes-some of the patriots
of the Revolution still linger among you, and
the monumental pillar of your grateful recol-
lections of the heroes who fell Mt Bunker Hill
would seem to be a mockery, if their sons so
forget that this Constitution cost the heart
blood Of their sires.
stThat your citizens have acted wisely and
periodically in sustaining the law l cannet
doubt; their conduct has been governed by the
highest sense of moral and political obligations
and for this double example feel constrained
as the Chief Magistrate, whose especial duty i
is to see that the laws are faithfully executed
to return the citizens of Boston my warmes
Acknowledgements and | should have been
happy to have done this in person, were it con-
sistent with my official engagements to leave
this CITY,"
Jenny Lind's Concert.
PHILADELPHIA, June ID D. m.
The last of Jenny Lind's concerts, tonight,
was only moderately attended, and tickets sold
very low this afternoon.
Steamer Washington.
New YORK, June IS.
The steamer Washington, which sails for
Southampton tomorrow, will take out 100000
in specie.
TORONTO, June II.
The Minister of Finance stated, last evening,
in the Assembly, that the Canadian government
had power to make the st. Lawrence free to
vessels Of all nations, without referring to the
home government
UTICA, June H.
Henry Newell one of the incendiaries, has
been committed to Jail in default of $40, 900, in
an action brought by the trustees of the Firs
Church to recover damages He is worth con
siderable property.
Prof A. Is. Garfield, of the Oneida Confer
ence, died in Cazenovia on Monday night.
circuit, who was sentenced to be hung for
arson, has made full confession to the Rev. ID.
c. Corey, of this city. 1t will not be made pub
lie until after the execution.