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b The European and American snobs in Par.
who have been greatly exercised about ~,
legitimacy of live Yankee who sports q cs,5
entitled Major Franklin w. Fish of Connec,
cut I'd Foot Guards, U. 8. A." may be consoIeJ
with the reflection that the commission If ,ta
Governor OF Connecticut is worth just as much
as any OF the titles freely conferred by The
PauPer Princes of Germany. Major Fish i
Just what ne processes to be, although little
inconsistent with his past Democratic creed
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George shattuck, Of Exeter, N. H., had his
face completely crushed by piece of wood
thrown with great violence from a circular saw,
on Tuesday, and his life is in doubt.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
AMERICAN PIRACY.
SPEECH or HON. JOSHUA r. GIDDINGS,

Upon the Joint Resolutions proposing Hostilities
with England, on account Of her exercising the
Right of Visitation.
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VOL. XII,

Holding Office in Utah ia no Joke. and
very dignifed, if this passage from the co-l I"
pondence of the Tribune is as true a. Are; !, 8
graphic: Is
> ! have seen the Governor of the Tetri,.,
walking gravely up the road, toward his , ,.s'l
carrying q piece of stove funnel upde, '. .a
arm l hayereen the Chief Justice cuttno ,S &c
turf for chimney, and punching the ~. ue
which were drawing logs to build his coh 4s'
the Secretary of State splitting wood, and 5' u
U. 3 Attorney and Marshal plastering the VAL ~
OF their hut with mud. Yesterday ssw ' o.
U. s. Commissioner, stripped to the bpF O oes
riding on horseback, plotting a wagon thu aaa
ford across the South Platte, which Ie IIs s3
discovered BY wading, while the other Con- us'
sioner, having accomplished the passaye ~. :.
upon a corn sack on the opposite bank, ms' ~
ing rent in his psntaloons. These pic,u D..
may convince you that the civil officers At lie
in connection with the Utah expedition, a..
not sinecures." ~'
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Charles Dickens has met, by full, empba,,
denial, the scandals which certain London Inn,
nalists and letter-writters have recently s.,
atioat with reference to his family relation.
Until further advised, we shall believe that /.
states the truth, and that the gossip of bis ,ta
aucers had but narrow basis of fact. if ANY
II seemed from the first improbable that h.
the father Of family of grown.up cbiIdrer
ana never till now blown upon by the breath
OF scandal, could have deliberately expos
nimeeii, In the autumn of life, 10 such gossir
MOST hkely ne had some momentary diferept..
win MS wife, which the tale. bearers ageravats5
in,o serious alienation, and then invented n,
noehy on his part to account for that aliens.
tion.-Ne,o York Tribune ''''e'''
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I ord Lyndhurst tells good story apropos
of is surrender Of the great seal of the Eng
lisb. Ministry in 1916. When won't to the
pail ce," says his Lordship, II alghted at the
gra d staircase I was received BY the sticks,
gof and silver, and other officers Of the house
hoE who called in sonoreus tones, from land
ing to landing, and apartment to apartment,
B. Om for the Lord High Chancellor Of Eng.
Ian 1 entered the presence chamber; I
gay the seals to Her Majesty; / had the
h0' # ;as her sas hand left he S:
stat case down which descended without any
one takiag any notice of me, until, ~ was
loo, ing Cor my carriage at the outer door, .
lacE sy basled mp and, with patronizing air,
sale Lord Lyndhurst, can / do anything for
yoyS9'" E ...a
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tad, Spanish slave ship. Her cargo had been
imported from Africa in June, 1910, for the Gu
ban market. The Amistad took ifty-three of
these people on board at Havana, with the inten-
ton of carrying them to Principe, on the south
side OF that island. Those ignorant Africans
spurned the doctrines of our Senate, our Secre-
tary of State, our Executive, and of those Span
ish pirates; and, Obeying the Divinity which
prompted each heart, they stood forth in the
dignity with which God had clothed them By
the physical power with which they were en-
dowed, they asserted their God-given preroga-
tives of Liberty. The captain and cook endeav-
ored to carry out the doctrines of our Senate !;
but the negroes, by the dim light of their own
moral natures, pronounced the men who attempt
ed TO enforce such doctrines, pirates and the
captain and cook were tried, condemned, and
executed, in less time than have occupied in
relating the incident. They then took possess
sion OF the ship, sent the crew on shore, and di-
rectlng the two slave-dealers whom they retained
to navigate the ship to Africa, were BETRAYED,
the pirates directing the ships course to our own
shores. y
As soon as they came within the jurisdiction
of the United States, they were arrested by au-
thority of our Government. Instead of being
Hospitality entertained, they were placed on trial,
and the Spanish pirates set free. The Executive,
with all these facts before him. sent a national
ship of war to the of Connecticut with orders
to take these victims of the African slave trade
on board at the earliest possible moment after
the court should refuse to give them their liber-
ty, and to transport them back to Cuba at the
expense of our people, and deliver them over to the
pirates Uho claimed them.
But, thanks to our Judiciary, it had not then
become 80 corrupt as to declare that Africans
hdUe no rights that tchte are bound to respecs."
Tney ordered the Africans set free and the Ex-
and Mr. buchanan, have had the consummate
For fourteen years, the claims of our Government in
behalf OF the slave dealers board the Enterprise and
Creoie were resisted by the British Ministry Hut Mr.
ferce while President induced them 10 the cues
Son Q, % an umpire who is ssd 10 have
Senate and of Mr. Webster and n is4 $1,000 I'll in
demniy 70 'aese men, SO richly de.ervg the gallows
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near Loanda, showed American papers, and
declared the object of their voyage was the
slave trade. This same vessel landed near
Sierra Moreno, in Cuba, 4l5 Bozals, and was
then burnt. Ten days before this occurrence,
600 were landed at Vertientes.
Feb. g. ls57.-Mr. Gabriel writes from Lo-
anda to the Earl of Clarendon, that "the whole,
or nearly the whole, Of the slave trade at pres
emit carried on at this part of the coast is for the
supply of Cuba, and pursued under the Ameri-
can Asg@
The same authority says: " Only three YES
sells we're captured on the coast south Of the
equator in 1885," One of them was the Gen.
Pierce, which was seized on her third voyage
for slaves. A she chief haunt Of the slavers ia
the mouth of the Congo, he suggests that an
American vessel Of war be Immediately sta.
toned off that coast 81
Jsly 6, l857.-The British Consul at Lagos
writes Lord Clarendon, that all the slave vessels
then arriving on the coast were covered by the
flag of the United States. III
Oct. 10, 1874 letter of this date, proba
bly, from private seaman on board the Cum.
berland, gives humorous and contemptuous
account Of the boarding of the Shaver Cortez
in the river Gambia. The proofs of her being
SLAYER were about a. clear e. that there ID
water IN the sea bnt she was not molested
though waited by boats from the Cumberland
This Cortez 10 the came vessel whose capture
one day ont of Havana, and condemnation al
Jamaica last April. caused the commencement,
Of the excitement relative to British aggres
sions. j.. 4s sa afis
Jan. I, lS58.-Lord Napier furnishes to Gen
Cass the particulars Of the destruction of the
barque Charles, Of Baltimore, on September l9
Lord N. estimates the number Of slaves or
board this vessel at 200, of whom only 35s
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Sequel 10 Judge Lorfng,s Removal,

Ihe Massachusetts Legislature has very
properly followed up the removal of Judge
Lorng by voting the sum of $500 to VIII
liam II. Ella, as an indemnity for injuries re-
cieyed by charge upon him by portion of
the Boston Brigade, at the time OF the rem
| dition of Anthony Burns.
| This unfortunate young man, who happen
ed to be passing on the business of his en-
ployer, through one of the streets occupied
by the military, with an ink bottle in his
hand, was furiously set upon by military
captain, under the suspicion that the bottle
contained suiphuric acid or some other for
lnidable liquid, by means of which Ella in
tended to dispense tho Boston Brigade aud
rescue Burns from the clutches of the Mar
shall. Ella, who was severely and perma-
neatly injured, brought this action against
the Mayor who had ordered out the troops,
the Marshall IN whose service they were, and
the General who commanded them, on the
ground that the calling out of the militia in
this case was not authorized by law. The
Supreme Court sustained this view of the
| case; but the jury before whom the question
was sent saw tit, for some reason best known
to themselves, TO give verdict for the de-
fendants. Under these circumstances, the
Legislature has handsomely stepped forward
and voted Ella the compensation above men,
| toned. Thus at last is closed up the case of
the rendition of Anthony Burns, not with
out heavy outlay to all the parties concern
ed in it. 1t annihilated the political party
which had ruled Massachusetts for thirty
years. ousted Loring from his professorship
and seat on the bench; cost the United
States an enormous bill Of costs, and has now
finally taken So, 500 out Of the Massachusetts
Trcasury-N r. Tribune
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Very Satisfactory.

Pending the vote on the final passage oil
LecOmpton swinGle through the Senate, Mr.
IversOn, of Georgia, said he should vote fol
the bill, bat in doing 50 wished to protest
against the doctrine that the people of Kan
sas could alter Constitution before 1864. He
did not believe they could do any such thing
under the Lecompten Constitution. He had
lost his interest in the passage of the meas
urc admitting Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution since the manifesto of John
Calhoun, declaring tfsat he should issue Ger.
! tificates giving Leavenwortn county to the
Free State party, which would give the major
ity of the Legislature elected under Lecomp
ton to the Free State party. He regarded
this usurpatiOn on the part of Calhoun, who
had no RICH. to 60 behind the face of the re-
turns, Delaware Crossing vote.) He regret
ted to be compelled to say that he under
stood, from reliable authority, that he hac
pursued this course under advice from South
crn men. Its effect was to make the passage
of the bill a barren victory for the South, as
no one could doubt that the Abolitionists
would soon make that State too hot place
for the residence of decent Southern men.
Mr.. Wade, Of Ohio, in response to this re-
markable admission, asked the following
question
. wish to ask the Senator from georgia
whether understand him to say that MIR.
Calhoun proposed to give his certificates OF
election on the advice of certain Southern
members. Or according to the truth of the
vote
I hat struck me as a very extraordinary
statement and should like to know wheth-
- Jorctond il CORRECTLY.
Mr.. Iverson responded very satisfactorily
as follows:
: do not recognize the right the Senator
from Ohio to catechse me on the subject,
and, therefore, decline answering.
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How Very Strange !-Isn,t 1t,

writer in the Pioneer, in speaking of the
Loan Bill and its opponents, says
"HOw strange and unaccOuntable is it,that
this most unjust suspicion of fraud haunts
forever the minds of the most jealous oppo
nents of the proposed amendment They
utterly repudiate the good old-fashioncd doc
trine, that "every man shall be presumed to
be innocent until he is proved to be guilty
and, indeed, reverse it, and presume all men
guilty until they are proved to be limo.
cent?
Y,es-,-it is strange, isn't it, that we should
have suspicious of Railroad Companies now
a-days
Look back over the financial history Of
our country for the last few years, and see
what is the record they had left
Trace their operations from Schuyler down
to the last great fraud in Wisconsin and if you
please, even later, TO our own 1ezvisogN and
what list of frauds and Oscillations
The world has never produced a parallel
never
And yet, this sapient writer thinks it strange
that this "mos' unjust suspicion Of fraud should
haunt our minds.
Yes,-it is strange, isn't at.
And then toe, when we see who are the
authors and abettors of this swindle scheme,
it is still more strange.
They are the very Inen who have nearly
destroyed ;..e magnificent grant given to
Wisconsin, and whose frauds and rascalities
are 'oac being brought to light 10y the legislative
Investigations there
Had we not lived ID Wisconsin for years,
and did We not know Moses NJ. Strong and
Byron Kilbourne and their CLIQUE, to be a.
mong the biggest Fascals in all the west,
then it might appear still more strange.
Did We not know, and did not everybody
know, that these same men were at St. Paul
with thousands of dollars of their bonds
aclth ~hich to bny their aoay through our Sfgisia
tire, as they did that of Wisconsin, then too,
1t would appear more strange
Ii tho friends of this scheme at home, had
not voted down an attemp. at investigation
here, then too, it would seem still more
strange
But such record as this before their eyes,
the people Of Minnesota Valley are not going
to swallow any such hook no matterh how we'll
baited nor will their suspicious OF these
companies be in any way lessened, by the
plain evidences of dishonest intention con-
tanned in this bill,
You mistake very much sir, when you say
we reverse the rule that '.men are to be pre-
sumed innocent until they are proved gull
ty."
The fact is,havc they been pronounced gritty
They have been convicted Of almost every
crime Of which soulless corporations could
be guilty.
They have robbed their. own etate-de-
fIauded their own credtors-corrupted their
own Legslature-ln short, done every dis
honest act in their power to do.
And if they would do that there, what
have we to expect of them here
If they intended to be honest why did they
vote down the reasonable amsndment propos
ed to the bill.
Answer US that, will you ?
Men who are dishonest at home, are not to
be trusted abroad-&. Pster Free Press
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New York, April 10.


A Washington Correspondence states that
the Printing Investigation Committee have
substantially agreed upon the bill of Mr.. Tay-
lor to establish the Government Printing
Office: under Commissioner, and the Sec
rotary Of the Interior.
The Committee will probably report next
week.
The Tariff Investigation Committee will
also report next week.
1t is said that Gov. Banks has had an in
terview with the Chairman, Mr.. Stanton,
touching the developments before the Com
mittee.
The bill of Mr.. Douglas, creating an addi-
tional judicial district in New Mexico, makes
the submission of the constitution to the peo-
pie hereafter requisite for admission in all ter
ritories ofthe United States, excepting Utah,
and dispenses altogether with an enabling
act.
There will be no acceptance of volunteers
by the President until the final passage of
the Deficiency Bill.
Senator Davis is regal ded as GONZALES
cent.
The amount in the Treasury subject to
draft is over $6,OO0,O0O. Recei pts last week
were nearly $4560,OOO.
Lieut.. Henshaw has been appointed to the
brig cambridge, preparin at Norfolk to join
the African squadron.
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Proposed Muster of the Firemen Of the
United States in Boston.

We are informed that certain parties are
interesting themselves in the subscription of
a sum of $4,000, which they design, with
the appreciation of the parties interested, in
authority and otherwise, to offer as prizes to
whatever fire company in the United States
should throw stream the highest, draught-
ing and playing through four hundred feet of
hose, and using such nozzles as they should
choose-the competition to come off on Bos-
ton Common in Augustor September next
as might be agreed upon also to hose COM
panies for the running half mile and un-
reeling five hundred feet of hose in the short
est time. .+-t
tits proposed to classify the engines. The
first class to be engines with cylinders seven
inches in diameter and upwards !; the second
class to consist of those with cylinders from
six to seven inches in diameter and the
third class to comprise all engines with cylin-
ders under six inches in diameter. Each com
pany is to have the privilege of selecting from
their own towns, or immediate localities, as
many men as they choose to work their en-
gines. &c.
The prize for excellence in the first class
is $4,000 for the second class, ST. 500 and
for the third class 1000 The prizes for Ito
hose companies are to be for the winner,
81 900 for the second, $500. These prizes
inclade Sc 900, and the remaining $4,000
are to be devoted to the payment Of inciden-
tai expenses of competitors from distance
1t is designed that the competition shall last
three days.-Boston Ledger.
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Minnesota.

The man of all men for dashing PROPOSE
ton is Mr.. Toombs, of Georgia. He pro.
posed the other day in the Senate, that Min
nesota should have, for the present, three
Representatives, and hereafter, such number
as a census might show her to be entitled to.
That is, he proposes to give seats to the
three Democrats now elected, (who are said
to be Lecompton Democrats) but hereafter
to reduce the delegation, (which may be Re-
publican in the next Congress) and conse-
quently to reduce the Presidential vote in
1860 to the proportion of her actual num-
bers. 1t is easy to sec that this proposition
harmonizes with Mr.. Toomb's party interests,
but not so easy to reconcile it with the Cor
stitution Of the United States
Minnesota is entitled to one Representa-
tive at all events, but to nothing beyond, ex-
cept upon the basis of numbers. The case
OF California is precedent for setting aside a
palpably erroneous census, and arriving at
numbers in some other way. We dispute
neither the precedent nor its application to
Minnesota where the recent census is shown
to have been glaringly erroneous. But, af-
ter all, numbers must be ascertained and ad-
Indicated in some way as the basis of rep
resentation, and however this number may
be adjudicated, the representation based upon
it cannot be changed until the general reap
pOrtiOnment under the next census. Repre-
sentation is not to be accorded temporarily, or
as matter of favor. Congress cannot to-
day give Minnesota three Representatives,
without deciding judicially that her popula-
ton is large enough for that and when that
is so decided, the representation cannot be
altered again until after the census of 1860.
If we must take these three Lecompton
Democrats now, so be it, but let US have the
chance for the three seats in the next Con.
gress. and let US have the weight of these
three votes in the next Presidential election.
Mr.. Toombs should not take everything to
himself and his friends.-Washington Re-
,n,I!;c
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New YORK, April 10.
The following are additional details of the
Foreign news:
FRANCE.-The Paris Constitutional has an
aticle in large type on the English alliance
1t expresses most friendly sentiment
throughout
Petitions for a reduction in duty on sugar
and coffee are pouring in,
The Minister of the Interior has ordered
the artillery Of the towns of France dismoun-
ted and deposited in the arsenals. The plea
for such an order,is that they are to be repla-
ced by others in better condition. The i'm
preston prevailed that the guns we're remov-
ed lest they should fall into the peoples hands
in case of a rising.
SpAIN.-Some slight disturbance had &C.
Cured at Valencia, but were Quoted
There were doubtful rumors Of disturbances
at Saragossa.
The government had presented project
for abolishing slavery in her colonies.
Count Cavour sent very energetic note
to Naples on the refusal to give up Cagia-
ri.
RUssIA.-There is great agitation in Russia
in consequence of the opposition of the no.
bility to the emancipation OF their serfs.
Many great families had fed to St. Peters
burg in fear of their lives.
A camp of 100000 is to be formed in May
1t is considered as manifestation against
Austria.
TURKEY.-Eght hundred Montenegrians
violated the Austrian territory and penetrat-
ed Herzegovina, and 400 entered Suternia and
burned everything.
Turkey refuses to submit to the treaty for
the Danube. -
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Later from Utah.

ST. LOUIS, April II.
Col. Strain arrived here yesterday from
Santa Fe, in advance of the mails.
He reports that Capt. Marcy left the camp
ground 40 miles from Fort Union, the 18th
of March. He has about 100 animals,
mostly mules. There was an abundant sup
ply of forage, and plenty of provisions for the
men.
He has $50 regular troops, and the same
number of mountaincers and herfsmen with
him, and expressed his entire confidence in
being able to reach Camp Scott without DIFF
ficulty. He intended to travel slowly, SO as
to keep the animals in good condition, but
expected to join johnson before the LIST of
May.
An express from Fort Leavenworth with
orders to Gen. Garland to furnish money and
strong escort, met on the 10Th ult., 60 miles
east Of Santa Fe, q large number of Indians,
all of whom expressed their desire for peace
with the Americans. 49,"
The grass was growing rapidly.
The Republican learns that on the 9th of
March hurricane passed over Bentonville,
Arkansas, blowing down nearly every house
in town killing % persons and wounding a
great number.
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W AsHINGToN. Anil 3

EARLY RADIsHEs EARLY PLowING.-
Martin d. Clarke, ESQ.,, who lives down the
river few miles, yesterday presented US with
abunch of early Radishes well grown, of the
1Mt. Moriah" kind, raised on his farm. This
will do for April 7th, and we advise those
who think some things can't be done as we'll
as Others, in Minnesota, in the early vegetable
line,to make note Of this. Why, we have be-
fore US letter written by II. Y. jackson Of
Lakeland, Washington Co. to the Messenger,
on the 2lst of March, that so effectually ex-
plodes the common idea that our farmers
have to wait until about June l. before they
can do anything, we feel inclined to give it in
full.
Dear Messenger 1T is known in this neigh
borhood, and perhaps Throughout Minnesota,
that we are having spring. But VIVA is we'll
known here, may not be known or even sus-
pected in the States further south and east of
US. ..f.
In the Sales.--future to five hundred miles
south of us,-this is the season of mud, rain,
snow, and sleet, cheered by the merry music
OF frogs And in that favored land familiar
ly known as Down East, the farmers have
scarcely ventured out into the fields to see if
the stones have thawed loose enough to be-
gin the picking up and hauling off operation
that has to be repeated every year.
But here, in Minnesota, north latitude As
just half way from The equator to the north
pole-"away up NORTH" in the eg;ons of buff
talo, beaver and squaw corn, we are pillow ing.
Yes, blowing, narrowing and quietly enjoy
ing our spring work. commenced blowing
on Wednesday, 18th inst. Not merely plow-
ing an early potatoe patch, to say that 1 have
plowed in March, but pitched into thirty
acre oat field, and have now some ten or
twelve acres nicely turned up and ready to
SOW.
This may, and perhaps should be consider
ed rare. But this is my fifth spring in Min
nesota. and twice have I witnessed goo9
blowing weather in March.