Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-07-16

and that any attempt to do so will as clearly
evince the hostility of the Government to that
property or section, as would any act of leg
slative hostility.
Resolred, That the principles of constitution
al equality enunciated in the two Immediately
foregoing resolutions were violated in the sew
eral acts of the last session of Congress for
the admission of California into the Union as
a State, for the formation Of territorial Govern
ments for New Mexico and Utah, and in the
bill abolishng the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia
ReSoIred, That as some redress for past
wrongs, and in pursuance OF the spirit OF the
Missouri Compromise, Congress should obtain
the consent of California to the extension of
the line of SO 80 to the Pacific Ocean and that
the right Of The people Of The South 10 carry their
slaueS TO all the territory south Of IL, should be
erplicitly acknowledged and secured.
THE New POSTAGE IAw.-The law reducing
rates of postage went into operation on the first
of July. The rates are as follows:
Single letter, less than 300 miles, prepaid &c
................ unpaid DC
Over 5000 miles,. .......... prepaid DC
............... unpaid l0c
Double letters, double postage
Every letter not exceeding half an ounce in
weight is to be deemed single letter, and eve
ry additional half ounce or less to be charged
with an additional single postage.
Letters when conveyed wholly or in part by
sea, or to and from foreign country, for any
distance over $500 miles, 20 cents-for any dis
lance under $500 miles, 10 cents-except where
postal treaty provides for different rates.
Newspapers, not exceeding three ounces in
weight sent from the Office of publication to bo-
ma fde subscribers are charged as follows:
Weekly, in county,. ................ free.
out Z" and within 80 miles, Sc ar
over 80 and not over 800" -. 10c"
" 800 {" 1000" e. l5c"
Z" {" 1000 1000" -. zoe"
$4,000 1000" -. 25c''
" 1000 miles ............. SOC"
Monthly papers, / the above rates.
Sem-monthly,
Semi-weekly, double I"
Tri-weekly, triple ="
Oftener than tri-weekly, times the foregoing
rates.
A circular from the Postmaster General inter-
prets the law so us to confine the free circula-
ton within the county to weekly papers This
may be correct, but the law expressly states that
weekly papers may circulate free within the
county where published, and within so miles at
5 cents per quarter, &C., and that papers print
times these rates. We take it that Gpe times
nothing-(or free)-on a dailypaper would not
be very heavy tax. Daily Wisconsin.
MIcHIGAN-HER PRESENT PRosPECTs.-From
all parts of the State we have the most hater-
ing reports as to the coming crops The
present season bids fair to be one of the most
prosperous to our farmers ever known in the
history of our State. The wool trade, Just clo-
sed, has been immense, and has drawn from the
pockets of eastern capitalists no inconsidcrable
amount of the precious metal. Our agricultur-
lists are beginning to appreciate this, and arc
turning their attention to the raising of stock,
for which this State is rs well adapted us any in
the Union There is no reason why our farm
ers should not in this way realize rs great Il rev.
enue as do those of Ohio, Illinois and Western
New York.
The coming wheat crop here promises to sur
pass that of any other State. While the crops
of Illinois and Wisconsin, and other Western
States have been nearly ruined by the heavy
rains, not only destroying the winter crops, but
preventing the spring planting our own prom
ises most abundant harvest. The day is not
far distant when the rich wheat growing lands
of Michigan will be as valuable and as thickly
settled rs those of the Genesee Valley The
immense resources of our State, rs yet compar-
atively undevcloped, are attracting universal at
tention, and are inviting the enterprise and
wealth Of other States. At no time since the
first entrance of the pioneers has our State been
moro prosperous than at present-at no time
have our future prospects been more cncourag-
ing. Marshall Statesman.
VERMoNT-The Hon. Lucus B. Peck, who
was nominated by the free soilors for Governor,
in opposition to the candidate Of the National
democrats, has written letter renouncing the
tenets of that party. The candidate of the
National democrats against whom Mr.. Peck re-
fuses to run, was nominated by convention
which re-allirmed the principles of the Balt-
moro Convention, as proclaimed in their reso-
utions from 1886 to 1913, and unquafcdy
commended the Compromise Of the last Con
gross in all its features. The Burlington Dali
ly Sentinel, of tho 26th ult. has the following
paragraph:
Hon. Lucius b. Peck, the free soil nominee
for Governor, appears in the last Patriot with
a letter declining nomination, on the ground
that the convention passed resolutions denying
the consttutionality of the Fugitive Slave law,
and approving of the Vermont habeas corpus or
notification act The former law Mr.. Peck be-
lieves (and proves) to be constitutional, and the