The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-28

iects which It is understood the French
and English allies seek to accomplish by
treaty stipulation are First-To procure
from the Chinese government n recognition
Of the rights oil other powers to have &C.
credited Ministers at the Court Of Pekin,
to be received by the Emperor, aud to be
in communication with the authorities
charged with the foreign affairs of the
Empire.
Second, An extensive commercial in
~tercourse with China, which is now re.
slricted to the five ports enumerated IA
the treaty.
Third, A reduction of the tariff duties
levied on domestic produce in the transit
from the interior to the coast, az the
amount now imposed is said to be in vic.
lation Of the treaty.
Fourth, A stipulation for religious free.
dom to all foreign residents Of China.
Fifth, Arrangements for the suppress
sion of piracy.
Sixth, A provision for extending the
benefits of the proposed treaty to all 9TH
er civilized powers Of the earth.
These objects, the Secretary says, are
recognized by the President as just and
expedient, and SO far as you can do SO by
peaceful cooperation, he expects you will
aid in their accomplishment. In confor-
nifty with this policy, you will commune
cate frankly with the British and French
ministers upon all points Of common in-
t%erest, SO that it may be distinctly under
stood that the three nations are equally
Influenced by q determination to obtain
justice, and by a desire to procure treaty
arrangements for the extension and more
adequate protection of their commercial
intercourse with China.
WASHINGTON, April 81, 1858.
The Senate Committee on. Foreign At.
fairs will soon report the same as did the
House Committee, advising the ~abrogation
of the Clayton AMI Bulwer treaty on the
ground that England and this country
differ as to its construction and that it in.
wolves US in an entangling alliance.
The New York Central American Col
onization Company have commenced set
Element on the Bay Of Fonseca, on the
west coast of Central America.
1t is reported that government has
bought 10000 head of ken in Missouri,
at s126 a yoke, for the use Of the army in
Utah.
-Nr. Buchanan said he would put
Lecompton through Congress in thirty
days or burst" The thirty days are gone.
So is Lecompton. A catasthrope at the
White House may be momentarily expec-
ted. The people in that vicinity may as
we'll begin to hold their nosss.-LouisrMe
Journal.
Between Buchanan who would put
Lecompton through or burst" and John.
son who would "let Lecompton in" and
the House Of Representatives, which seems
to dislike both the President and johnson
the whole Administration is in a beautiful
mess. In attempting to read Walker,
Stanton, Wise, Douglas, Harris. &C.. GU,
of the party, they have read themselve:
out, are aground, and will have to beg
for help from those whom they would have
beheaded. What a beautiful thing is de-
mocracy, to be uncomfortable Ban
ner.
PApEn BY ELInu BuRRIrT.-This we'll.
known reformer is about to publish a week
ly newspaper in New Britain, Conn, de.
voted to the plan for the abolition of slave.
ry which Mr.. Burritt has advocated in hi
lectures and pamphlets for some time.past
viz, by compensation to the owners. i
is to be called Tie N5yth and S9ufh.
EXPLAIN OR SuFFER-The Savannah
GeJrgian, a leading Democratic paper
addresses a letter to Aiessrs, Howell Cobb
Robert Toombs, and A. H. Stevens, cal
ling upon them to say whether they hav'
been correctly charged with urging Gen
Calhoun TO declare the State election o
Kansas against the pro-slavery party. L
says:
"These are troublesome times to Geor
gia, to the South, aud to the Democratic
party, whose existen.e depends upon it
ability to f'lil its pledges to the coun
try. 1t is meet that the South shout,
know her friends and how fur they ma,
be relied upon in this emergency. We
therefore, in the name and behalf Of tn
people of Georgia and OF the Democrat,
of the State, call upon each and all of yo'
to answer to the charge preferred agains
you"
The PROSPECT AHEAp.-Lieut. Cover
nor Raymond writes from Washington t
his paper, the New York Times, in re
gard to the Lecompton villany:
my own opinion is that this Lecomp
ton agitation is only the beginning Of tn
end.-If the President is beaten upon thi
1 have very little doubt but that he vii
throw instantly new issues upon the coun
try, which will override all existing part,
lines and divisions, and launch our polite
al vessel upon a more tie npestuous SCI
than it has yet encountered,
BUcHANAy's AID 'I~YTsrRATIoy.- F RS
YEAR.-The Cincinnati f~;0zette in sum
ming up the events o. the first year Of BIZ
cuANAN's Administration correctly says
When the impartial historian comes t.
write the history Of President Buchanan
Administration the index to the first yea
will probably read as follows:
Bankrupts tn, Treasury.
A hard money Administration sustain
itself by issuing shiuplasters.
, Kansas conquered by the Army.