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      TRANCE . On Friday General Lahitte , the Minister of Foreign Affaiis , annonnced to the Assembly , in the following terms , the settlement of the dispute wnh England on the Greek question : — « Gentlemen , — We have toannounceto you that the British government has consented to substitute for the convention of Athens the stipulations concluded at _London'dn the 19 _ih of April , between our ambassador and the English minister . (* Oh , _ohlWery good ! ' ) You

      will be able to recognise that in the whole course of this long negotiation the French government bas been constantly animated with the desire of maintaining ihe national dignity , and preserving peace within the limits of this dignity . ( 'Very good ! ' ) In consequence , the ambassador of France will return , to resume ia England the position which he occupied before the 14 th of May \ as the convention which he had concluded for the arrangement of the affaire of Greece is to be executed . *

      The sitting of the Assembly was hardlv opened when M . Hardin made his appearance in the tribune to read his report on the Dotation BUI , the Chamber having desired to hear it in full . The ministers , he said , had been twice heard by the committee in order to give explanations . The bill demanded the opening of a credit of 2 , 400 , 000 fr _., to be reckoned from the lst of January , for expenses of representation . The committee expressed nearly unanimonsly its regret at the _inopportuneness of this demand . Nevertheless , it acknowl dged the expediency of coming to an understanding with ministers . The minority represented that the Constituent Assembly had not intended to fix permanently the allowance of ihe President . The committee could not admit the theory of ministers . On the other hand , they

      acknowledged that old customs did not allow the expenses of representation of the President to be restricted within the narrow limits assigned by the Constituent . Without admitting either the form or tenor of the ministerial bill ; without admitting the motives brought hy ministers in support of their application ; finally , without pretending to grant a civil list , tbe committee has thought it just to grant the expenses of establishment and installation ofthe President . The majority fixed at l , 600 , 000 fr . the figure of this grant . It has acted as a jury , with the intention of allowing to the . President a natural compensation for his outlay .. Unfortunately , the ministers have not thought fit to change . either the terms or tbe spirit of their primitive project . They had maintained both the form and the tenour of this

      bill . They bad refused to change tbe character of the credit . All conciliation appearing impossible , the committee was obliged to put the question to the vote . Nine votes against six had rejected the government bill . Nevertheless the majority , in thus pronouncing itself , had not adopted the idea of admitring every amendment which should be presented hy the minority . The majority was neither moody nor alarmed ; it had confidence in the government .

      One incident ought , however , to be mentioned . While tbe committee was deliberating it received a petition , addressed to the National Assembly , signed by a great number of tbe inhabitants of Paris , praying that the President ' s salary might be raised to six millions . ( Clamour on tbe Left . ) The President said that the report should be printed , and the project of tbe allowance of l , 600 , 000 fr . discussed on Monday . The house was agitated considerably for some time after this communication . The

      amendments of tbe committee are as follows : —' Art . 1 . An extraordinary credit of l , 6 f 0 _, 000 ' r . is opened to the Minister of Finance , for tbe expenses which have been incurred in 1849 and 1850 , in consequence of the installation of the President of the Republic . Art . 2 . This credit shall be charged by halves upon the budgets of 1849 and 1850 . ' We find tbe following in tbe' Salut Public' of Lyons of the 19 _ih : —* M . de Lamartine passed through onr city yesterday , enroute for Sjmrna . The measure adopted by the Prefect of Police in his late circular with respect to the refugees in the

      French territory has been imitated by the Mayor of Bordeauz . In a circular to bis subordinates , tbat functionary instructs tbem to institute a rigorous inquiry into tbe conduct and situation of those persons , and their means of gaining a livelihood , with the view of separating the really pacific and wellcondncted from those turbulent foreigners who may be disposed to abuse the privileges allowed of residence in France , and who are ever ready to make common cause with domestic conspirators . The example of the Mayor of Bordeaux will , no doubt , be imitated by tbe authorities of other towns where refugees are stationed .

      ' An incendiary placard was found affixed on the walls of the town La Guillotiere , near Lyons , on the 19 th inst . Tbe placard is a formal summons to insurrection , and is signed ' Tbe Central Committee of _Resistance , ' and dated ' Paris , Jane , 1 S 50 . ' It was taken down by the police , end an inquiry has been set on foot io , if possible , discover tbe authors . After uttering the most terrible menaces of speedy vengeance on ' tbe majority which has usurped the right of the people , ' and having milked out for the poniard the leaders of tbat majority , and in particular M . Thiers , the authors of tbe document terminate in the following manner : —' Yes ,

      people , you expected from your representatives who sit on the Mountain an energetic solution . Ton awaited tbe signal to rise and administer justice . ' This revolution , this signal , you await still ! For this weakness , or this cowardice , you will soon exact an account . But side by side with them , people , remember tbat there are men who have no donbt of yon , who bave ao fear for themselves , and who are watching over you . They tell you The Bepublic is in danger ! ' Ths revolution , with one vioce , invites you to a speedy rendezvous I Prepare yourselves for tbis last struggle . Watch ; watcb ! « _Ve watch 3 Vise la Repullique . '

      PARIS , Monday . —To-dsy the Assembly grappled at last with the Dotation Bill . Notwithstanding the excessive heat tbe house was crammed in every part . The ladies were very numerous , and expressed their political tendencies by white dresses . Some representatives appeared on return from distant missions to be present at this important vote . M . Fotjld , the Minister of Finance , opened the debate by declaring , in tbe name of tbe government , tbat it accepted the amendment which proposed' to open to tbe Minister of Finance an extraordinary credit of 2 , 161 , 000 fr , for the expenses of the President of the Republic' Tbe government consented to adopt tbis form , because it implied no reflection on the past ; because it relieved the bill of those features which were accused of betraying an arrierepensee ; and . while it reserved the future , maintained equally the dignity of the legislative and executive

      powers . M . _Mathieu dk ia Dromb said , I will neither vote 2 , 160 . 000 fr . nor l _, 600 , 000 fr . I will not content to an extraordinary credit or expense of installation . I respect tbe elect of the people , but I do not like those who surround him . These persons find the Elrsee too small—tbey want tbe _Tuileries . The President has been educated in the school of misfortune ; itis not he . who is in want of money . Those who incite the President have not considered the consequences . Is it not strange tbat tbey should avow that the man who directs our public affairs cannot administer bis own ? It is said tbat the

      President does much good . Society should provide for the distressed , but in investing the President of the Bepublic with this duty it deprives the country of his valuable time . The measure has tbe effect . of lowering the President in public opinion . It is a reminiscence of royalty , a shred of purple tbat is thrown over tbe shoulders of tbe nephew of the emperor . Kings and emperors have need of wealth ; a usurped power can only exist by means of benefits conferred . Understand , then , the _difference between monarchy and the presidency . Royalty is a fiction , the presidency is a reality . Hence the hereditary nature of rovalty , because " the person i 3 nothing , and the temporary nature of the presidency , because the person r j . counterfeit Forget

      is all in a'd . Do not royalty . the cradle . of M . Louis Buonaparte ; he owes his royalty to chance , his glory to the choice of a great people . Gentlemen of the majority , this is the time to explain yourselves . What do yon want ? Will you have an aristocratic republic ? It would be madness . Ton will never have an aristocracy proceeding from the bosom of that bourgeoisie which has behind it 1830 and 1789 , which is enriched by the property of tbe clergy and the nobility . ( Murmur * . ) Yon may venture to restore the titles of nobility , but they would but be epitaphs for tombs . Aristocracy is for ever gone in France ; Do you want a monarchy ? which ? Begin by agreeing among yourselves , and then agree with the people .

      A Yoicr : What people ? The people of the barricades of June ? :, : ' M . Mathieu : What you do without the people , the people will undo withouftyau . Ifyou have monarchial hopes they are notftmnded on the President of the iepublic ; your _ideiu . ! ypur affections / are _elsewhere . Why give these _thttaZmillions' to the _Pre-^ teffce . RepnM _^ "" - _''" ¦ " _"; _: ' _=:., ¦ . ; _sZvrJi- " i . ' _-4- yy-. yy :.: ' :.

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      be used against you ? After the vote _ofths . _dotation , M . Cre on has said in the bureaux , we iball have the decennial presidency , and after _tbatswnat shall we see ? . To grant tbis _moriejjpitberfby the votes of the Right or the Left : _plfWto supply the enemy with _munitiensoftwar . Ioppose- the grant because it wo _^ _disgrace the President . I oppose _itbecausevifwouldencourage insane hopes . lop . pose it because the people are dying of hunger . M . Sevestrb complained of the unseasonableuess of tbe billwhich he opposed . :

      , ,. , _, After a debate as to the order in which the propositions should be discussed , the Assembly settled that the amendment accepted in the name of the government by M . Fould , and presented by M . Lefevre Dunifle and four other members ofthe minority committee , should have the priority . General Changarnier then occupied the tribune , and spoke amid deep silence . He counselled them to grant the credit demanded , as . became a great assembly in dealing with the representative of a great

      country . The ballot then took place , when there appeared in favour of the amendment 354 , against it 308 . This result was received with loud cheers . M . Leo de Lahorde proposed an amendment tbat from the promulgation of the present law , the pay of representatives should be reduced to 6 , 000 fr . a jear . Tha previous question was voted , and then the sitting broke up .

      Twenty-seven persons , all . of them convicts of June , 1348 , and wbo bad returned to Paris in virtue of the President's pardon , were arrested on Sunday at Belleville while in the act of deliberating in close committee . The conspirators were astounded when the police , who have been watching them for some time , made tbeir appearrnce . It is stated that papers of'an important kind , and which will lead to serious disclosures respecting parties here aud elsewhere , were seized at tbe same moment .

      Paris , Tuesday . —M . Laugrand , the editor of the' Voix du Pueple' who was yesterday sentenced to four years * imprisonment and a fine of lO . OOOf ., for an article published in tbat paper . He did not appear , aad it has now been ascertained tbat he bas taken refuge in Belgium . It was , in fact , time for this gentleman to escape . The number of years imprisonment for alleged libels to which he has been sentenced , on prosecutions at the instance of the government , exceed , in the aggregate , a century , and the fines to several hundreds of thousands of francs .

      Another of those extraordinary instances of persecution ( for they go by no other name ) in which the French authorities have recently indulged , has just occurred in the department of the Seine and Marne . A Madame Hourseaux , living at _Fontenelles , who had just received a journal ( a Republican journal , of course ) from Paris , lent it to a friend . For this she was prosecuted for the hawking without licence , and tbe criminal tribunal of Provins sentenced her , by default , to a month ' s imprisonment and a fine of twenty-five francs . Both

      the prosecutor and the defendant appealed to the tribunal of Melun , the prosecutor declaring that the punishment awarded by tbe court of Provins was insufficient . An able advocate from Paris defended Madame Hourseaux , but tbe court confirmed the sentence of the court below , only reducing the imprisonment from one month to eight days . Here , then , is a respectable woman subjected to prosecution , fined and imprisoned , for lending a newspaper to a friend . This is the second case of the same kind that has happened within tbe last two months .

      The question of the prolongation of the powers of tbe President of the Republic is to be shelved til ) the agitation on the dotation shall have calmed dowo . The intention of the government is to agitate tho question in the conceits gereraux , which meet in September . Petitions will then be got uppraying the present Legislative Assembly , to proclaim itself a Constituent Assembly , with a view to an alteration in that portion of the Constitution wbich prevents the President from being re-elected .

      GERMANY ; BERLIN , Junk 21 . —The Erfurt parliament will not meet before the beginning of August , A new electoral law is in preparation for tbe Union . The Grand Duchy of Hesse bas seceded from the Erfurt Union . The prime minister is about . to resign in consequence . More provincial papers have had the post debit withdrawn . Stralsnnd is to be made a naval port , and

      dockyards are to be established . The editors of several of the Berlin journals have held a conference to discuss tbe measures which they , ought to adopt in order to overcome tbe disadvantage caused by the loss of tbe past debit . As the postage of each single copy of a journal would be too great for either subscribers or publishers to pay , and as the post-office has a monopoly of all parcels under forty pounds they resolved on taking _advantage of tbe railways , and on establishing private _newspaper transport agencies .

      _ftiree pamphlets have bsen confiscated in all tbe bookseller ' s shops . One of them is entitled , ' Jesus Christ tbe First Democrat . ' In searching for the pamphlets in question iu tbe shop of a bookseller , named Springer , . who is also a member of the town council , a book was found by the police , tbe title of which has not been published , but wbich is said to contain treasonable allusions to the King . The owner of the shop was immediately arrested .

      AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . An English engineer-officer , named Charles Aston _, who served in the Hungarian army at Comorn , was carried as a prisoner through Vienna a few days ago to the station of the northern line , in whicb be was accompanied by a sergeant and a small guard to the frontier of Austria , where he was set at liberty . Bakunin , who has been delivered up to Austria by the Saxon government , has been taken to Prague .

      ITALY . R O ME ,- —Junk 14 . —The principal event which has lately taken place in the internal administration of this country , is the promulgation of General Kalbermatten's plan , for the new organisation of the Roman army , as approved by tbe government of his Holiness . The minister ' s order of the day , which appeared in the official paper of the 12 th , aims at making a favourable impression upon the troops , 'by convincing them of the superior advantages to be conferred upon them .

      The Papal army , according to , tbe new plan , will consist of three regiments of infantry , each containing three battalions of eight hundred men . One of these regiments will be composed of picked men , and distinguished as guards , Be 8 ides these three regiments of infantry , there will be a battalion of chasseurs of eight companies , armed with rifles like the French Carabines de Vincennes . The cavalry will consist of only one regiment , or four squadrons , of which one will be formed of picked men . The artillery is to comprise three field batteries of eight pieces each and five batteries of unmounted cannon . A quarter , of each

      company will be considered as scelti , or picked men . Four companies of veterans and one of invalids complete the materiel of the army . It is doubtful bow far the minister will succeed in obtaining recruits , since most of tbe fighting men in tbe country bave already wielded their arms for the republican cause , either as national . guards , volunteers , or regular soldiers , and , therefore , could not be trusted as sincere Papal soldiers . The whole plan as yet exists only on paper , . and , as a million or two of dollars will be the preliminary step to realising it , the present state of the finances will probably prevent its getting any farther . .

      Another proclamation appeared upon the 12 th stating that the government had grounds for supposing that , in spite of tbe former , proclamations upon the same' subject , numbers of arms and war * like stores were concealed by the inhabitants of Rome and the environs , and summoning , all individuals who bad any kind of weapon in their posses ' sion to deliver them up within the peremptory term of seven days . , f The fortifications fin the Lqmbardo-Venetian kingdom are rapidly progressing . The works will soon be commenced' at Milan , which is to be made as strong a fortification as modern art will permit . .

      We read in , the _Nouvelliste' of Marseilles : — _« A letter from Naples on the 18 th inst ., informs us bf a terrible catastrophe , which has caused tbe greatest consternatien ia that city . The morning before , at five o ' clock a . m ., a part of the Grenaglto , an immense edifice which the troops occupy as barracks , gave way and fell down , swallowing up iu its ruins 400 or 500 _persens .

      IONIAN ISLANDS . . . .. ¦ i « y ¦ - . A courier with despatches _frosa Corfu passed through Vienna on the 18 th . Tbe House of As . sembly had been dissolved . A stormy debate bad taken place on the day preceding the dissolution , _indithe president had been forced out of the chair . -. ; _» .. ;; . !•• ;) ' -:.- x- !¦ " fi ¦ ¦ . ' ¦•

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      _~ _,., _> f ~ f TURKEY . v ; r _^' Letters : from Belgrade state that a revolution ag ainst the Turks had broken out in Bulgaria . ' The three districts , Widdin , _Gurgyssova , and Belgradcieza , are stated to be in open insurrection _^ Tbe insurgents were marching against the fort of Belgradcieza , which contains but a small garrison ; but an immense quantity of the munitions of war . Another statement is that the fort is already in their hands . _l f " _- _.- ¦ , _^—¦ i _^ _^ _mimm _«^————«^—————

      AMERICAN AFFAIRS . ( From the New ' York Tribune'of June 11 th ;) In discussing the Compromise Bill , Mr . Davis ' s amendment proposing to authorize , the Territorial Legislatures to pass laws for the protection of the rights of property , has been lost . Mir . Seward ' s amendment to add the Wilmot Proviso to the bill * has also been lost , Mr . Webster voting with ' ' the Southerners in the negative . Mr . Berrien ' s amendment restricting the Legislatures from passing any law either prohibiting or . establishing African slavery , has been carried , Webster . voting for it , and

      Benton and Underwood , Southerners , voting in tbe negative . Several other amendments were lost , and among them one by Mr . Douglas , who : moved to strike out from the bill everything relating to ' slavery . On this Mr . Clay voted , wiih several Free _Soilers . in the affirmative , and Webster ,. with eight others from the Free States , in the negative . The only amendments yet adopted are of Southern origin . An important amendment , uffered'by Mr . ' Baldwin of Conn , was lost without debate . This proposed that the Mexican law _abolishing slavery shall -remain in force in the Territories until altered or

      repealed by Congress _, y _' _- _' _i- - - Gen . Lopez has been arrested at New Orleans by direction of President Taylor . _^ . A telegraphic despatch was received at New York * from Washington , announcing tbat official intelligence bad been communicated tothe Government of the capture ofthe American vessel Rolls , with one hundred and twenty-three passengers , bound for California , by the Spanish war steamer Pizarro . It was also stated that Gen . Campbell ; the American . Consul at Havana , had been ' seized by the Spanish authorities and thrown into - prison , on account of

      his remonstrance against the capture ofthe vessel and her passengers . A subsequent despatch stated that an engagement bad taken place between the United States sloop of-war , Albany , and a Spanish frigate , in which the Albany was taken , and the vessel and her crew carried into Havana . A despatch received at a later hour contradicts the repert with regard to the Rolla , and says nothing of the . action between the two men of-war . The whole account appears to . be without foundation , although at first received at Washington as _authentic f . . i

      From previous accounts we learn that four men belonging to the expedition of Lopez have been shot at Havana . They bad been-left behind by the boat and were returning leisurely to the shore ; when they were arrested . The officers and men -who were engaged , in the fight against Lopez have been liberally rewarded . It is reported that a large party oi Patriots were ready to join the standard of Lopez , and would have risen against : the authorities if he had sustained his position one , day niore at

      Cardenas . His defeat , however , has put a stop ' _. to all expression of opinion , and the disaffection to the Government is veiled under professions of loyalty The most active measures are on foot to protect the Island from invasion . The whole naval force is kept ready for sea . One ship of the line , a frigate , and a war steamer were in port . The rest of tbe vessels are scattered along tbe coast . The Cholera bas subsided at Havana , few cases being now reported . . _.-,

      The difficulties between this country and Portugal are assuming a serious aspect , Mr . Clay , our Charge at Lisbon , is expected home _inasbbrt time . Tbe President , it is said on good authority , will then transmit a special message to Congress , recommending the adoption of the most . urgent measures if Portugal shall continue to refuse the payment of the American indemnities . We have California _^ dates to May 1 . The gold di gging is represented as in a highly prosperous condition . The new settlement at Trinidad Bay pro raises to be a place of a good deal of importance . The Legislature has adjourned , after a session of 100 days , having passed 143 acts , roost of wbich were essential to tbe complete organisation of the State government . The people express a decided adherence to the position they bave assumed in favour of Free Soil and a Free Constitution .

      A large fire occurred at Pittsburgh on the night of the 7 th inst ., destroying af number of private dwellings and warehouses , as well as a large Presbyterian church . The total damage amounts , it is supposed , to 100 , 000 dollars . r The Legislature of New Hampshire commenced its session last week . The annual message of Governor Samuel Dismore , discusses the corporation and railroad questions , common schools , Agriculture , tbe Militia , and other topics of public interest . It states that there are how in New Hampshire 450 miles of railroad , in active operation , at a cost of 16 000 , 000 dollars . The message concludes' with the statement that the people of New Hampshire are hostile to every form of oppression , and that the question of slavery , now pending at Washington , can only be settled by compromise . .. '• ¦ '

      The steamer Atlantic , Uapr . West , from _Liverpoo 1 arrived at this port on Sunday at about half-past four o ' clock , having had a fine passage , of eleven days and four hours . This is one of the . quickest voyages ever made between the . two ports , nearly equaling the unrivaled trip of the Asia , whicb was made in ten days and five heurs to Boston , a route 245 miles shorter than tbat of the Atlantic . Making tbe usual allowance of nineteen hours forthe difference of distance tbe Atlantic exceeded the time o ' the Asia only four hours , the return from her first voyage to Liverpool produced a general excitement . The news spread rapidly through the City , while the peals of cannon gave loud assurance of the event . She came up to her wharf in admirable sty le , her flags fljing , her decks crowded with passengers , and was welcomed with salutes and cheers from the assembled multitude .

      The Count of Cupua , brother to King F e rdinand of Naples , is now in this City incog . He was " recog . _nised by , several Italian gentlemen in Broadway one evening last week , who have no doubt of tbe corredness of their memory of bis features . The deaths during the last week . in this City were only 204 , the smallest number by twenty per cent , of any week within our recollection .

      CANADA . TORONTO , June 12 , — Last night the provincial Parliament refused , without discussion , Sir Allan M'Nab ' s motion to intioduce the Indemnity Bill of last session . The vote stood thirty-six to sixteen . '• .

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      The " Cradle of Stockinq-makino . '' This phrase reminds us of the precarious terms on whioh we hold our Hinckley trade . It seems tbat the invention of Lee , which , by tbo bye , , has been beautifully enpraved lately , is going through an endless series of transformations and improvements ; some of which may possibly throw our antiquated machinery into tbe lumber-room and forge . Stockings aro now ( says one writer ) wholly made from the warp-macbine , which threatens to affect tho present location of the hosiery trade continually . jThb Flemish frames recently exhibited here ( says another ) continue to advance , and will assuredly furnish looped fabrics in far greater profusion and variety tbau bave been made hitherto . Williamb and Marsh

      ( says a third ) have invented a maohine fur superior to the rotary frame of Brunell , which produces a wonderful variety of texture and colour . Ono species resembles the '' knot , " another the'" rib , " and beautiful stuff is made , the inside thread , ithe outer one silk . The variation , of the loop in this machine is effected by means of the well-known claw-wheel . The Nottingham Review of last wool ; tells us that cut-up , from three distinct fraihesiare made by means of an additional maohine ; _thatitho narrowing stitches are removed by maohinery which has been in process of perfection for sixty years . Here is matter of serious reflection for our Hinckley mechanics , who regard an / angular three-hose frame as an achievement , and the practicability of

      fashioning its produce a delusion . —Leicestershire Mercury , _ Convicts . — From returns just presented to-the _Hou 8 eof Commons relative to convicts , it appears that the number of persons sentenced in tho United Kingdom during the years 1847 ,. 1848 , and 1840 , were , to death-England , 177 ; Sbotland , 11 ; Ire i _??« « T T rans P ° t'on ~ England , 8 , 001 ; Soota . l _ffi i nd , ' _W 33 ' Imprisonment-England 6 . 101 ; Scotland , 5 , 200 ; . Ireland , 39 , 632 . Total convictions-- England ; 15 , 170 ; . Seotladd , _W ; Ireland , 47 , 088 ., The sums expended ! for tood , fuel , clothing , and bedding for the oonvicts , in 1849 , was-in England-, £ 75 , 10716 s , Id ., andifor maintaining transports , £ 19 , 353 0 s . 4 d . ; Scotland _* 10 , 437 ; Ireland , £ 9 , 792 . . . _, ; i

      _Jsnnt Lind has just given six" concerts at Stockholm , in aid of the pension fund for the wives and orphans of the performers at the Theatre Royal of that . city . The dear profit has amounted to upwards of 60 , 000 .

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      _i'JTTERSVILLE . i ' Z TO THE EDITOR OF TflK NORTHERN STAR . f SiR _^ The following is a verbatim copy of a letter received from America , dated May 16 th , 1850 , and just received ; -your insertion of the same would much oblige yours respectfully , _Thos . Curtledgb , Hart _' s-hill , near Stoke-upon-Trent , Staffordshire Potteries . " Baraboo , May : 16 th , 1850 . " Dear Brothers and Sisters , — ,.. ; _. " We write these few lines to you hoping they _wjli find you in good health . The vessel was hauled out of dock on the 18 th bf March , and we arrived at New York on the 5 th of , April , and landed on ¦

      the 6 th , making '¦ a passage in _twenty-four days . A great many of us put our luggage together on the deck , and had _asteam-tug alongside the vessel , and all the luggage put _f on , her and taken to the Troy steam-boat , and started for Troy the . same evening . We went from Troy to Buffalo on the railwayirbm Buffalo to Milwaickie , by steam-boat . When we arrived in Milwaickie , there were two men j at Mr . Simpson ' s , one , whose name ia _Kirkhamj from the Potteries . They told such _deplorablftftales about the land that they were not believed : *! They were classed among the rest who were called lazy , or enemies to the society that said anything against the land that did not please the managers of ihe

      society , but we all said we would ; go and see ; tbe land for . ourselves . We hired a team to take us from , Milwaickie to Fort Winebagp , which we _' paid twenty dollars for . Two other . teams went up ! to the land , and the rest followed in a day or . two after . When wegot to ihe Fort ' , and got . the Children right , I went up to the land myself ; Philip , my son , not being able to walk , haying a , bad knee , with- walking a great , part of the way from Milwaickie . I went-to the store and got my axe , wedges , and butting rings . A lot of us took pur axes with us and went to look for our land , but we could find none good-but which was claimed mostly by the Yankees . There is some' good land ,

      about twenty miles from the fort , and about twelve from the first store , but , taking it altogether , it is a very bad lot—it is so full _, of sand-banks . > I went three or four times to , the land to get . some good , but could not meet with any without going eighteen or twenty miles up in the woods , and . Ann would not go . The society is a poor concern , and those who wrote such nice letters about the good qualities of the land have' an interest in it in some shape or other . You will , perhaps , remembers letter appearing in the Potters' Examiner that a man sent from the land , stating what a fine vineyard he had , and that it would find his family full employment to

      look after their dairy . The same man has been nearly starved to death—he has not got even a watercloset to the house * , he now lies ill in bed . One of the members put an _hammer before him , and asked him what made him send such a letter as that , and he ih such a state . He replied , 'I had an interest in so doing . ' . Nearly all the colonists have had nothing but flour and water to live on all the winter , and sometimes they have got a little molasses and salt pork ; some that are in favour have a little better food than the rest . When we got up to tbe land there was scarce any food in tbe store . , I went into one house , and tbey said , they would ask me to have something to . eat but they

      had nothing in the house but a bit of flour . This put me in mind of-two letters—one of Peter Watkihs , stating . tbey had got a good stock of provisions , and the settlers would have nothing , to fear in the coming winter ; but it does not appear so when the settlers have been living on flour- and water ; Tl e other letter was that which Cartledge read from the Northern Star , one Sunday night , when you were all at our bouse , stating what sand banks the land bad , and how badly the settlers were off for food . That letter stated true , and many things are worse than tbat letter stated them to be . If a roan gets on tbat land with a large famil y and . very little money , he will never be worth a cent ; for if he works for the society be gets but two thirds for his

      labour to what be can get elsewhere , and has to take it out in store goods , and pay fifty per ¦ cent _, more for his goods than what he could get them elsewhere . Itis impossible for a man to get on , having so little for his labour , and paying such a high price for bis food . A man coming here with a litlle money , would do best by getting a piece of land near a town , as be would get one er two days work when he wanted it . ' I would advise you all not to have anything to do with the society ! I will own that Joseph Barker is right , regarding the society ; you know that I did not think so before we started , but I have found it . so , and a great many more have found it so , to their sorrow .

      They have got there and have no money to get away again : It would fill ' volumes to tell what the settlers have suffered tbis last winter . There , bas been what they call jumping claims—that is , a man going and squatting on another person's claim , which causes disturbances , and each settler ' s house has been thrown down . There was a man in the next room to us in the Fort who had his shanty burned down through one of the officers putting him on another man ' s claim , and the man got no recompense made him . It is a fine-managed society , but . I hope they won ' t have to manage longj for I think the working classes have better use for their hard-earned pence than to let them squander

      it in the mauner tbey are doing . I don't , say anything about ' a raan coming to America , but I say ' Let him come on his ow ' ii hook' as the Yankees call it . Well , we thought we must be moving , and not expend our money with stopping at tbe Fort , and going to look at the sand banks , so I and Philip started for Baraboo . When we got there we inquired for George Newsom , and found that he and his-family had arrived' the day before . We found it a very nice little town ' , with plenty of good soil around it . We fixed our minds on staying , so we bought two town lots of Squire Davis , and have built a house next to Mr . _Newsotu ' s . itis in a very fine situation , and stands on tbe bank of the

      Baraboo river . It is twenty-four feet in length and sixteen feet wide ; there will be a deal of fruit this summer , growing wild—such as p lu m s , gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , blackberries , & c . Nuts in abundance . It is likely to become a very fine town . f Noit three years since there was but one log shanty ; there are now four saw mills , and four flour mills , and they are going to make more . There are about nine or ten stores , and they are building more ; in fact it is quite a nice place . We think of having a boat on the river this summer . We are going to set potatoes on some land close by our lots , and then get ours fenced in , and sow it

      with turnip and other seeds . We think of having a cow and a few pig s . It is tbe prettiest place we have . seen since we came to America , but there is very little money in it . The people want pottery in the place . The squire has been to our house two or three times to try some clay he has found ; lie . will give 300 dollars himself towards starting , if the clay will answer , and otlrr parties will give a deal more . We mean to try it when we , have got a little settled . Tbey are the kindest poople we have met with . * * * * If there are any questions you ' want to ask we shall be glad tb answer them ; We conclude with out kind loves to you' *¦*' .: _? » " From your affectionate brother and sister , " Philip and Ann Pounton . "

      Fiobt With A Bbar.—A Gentleman By The Na...

      _Fiobt with a Bbar . —A gentleman by the name of Ryder ,. residing in tbo Red Woods , came in contact with , one of these grizzly monsters the other day , and came out _bitt second best , although he exhibited no lack of either courage or coolness in tbe contest . Mr . Ryder had gone out in the dusk of tho evening in search bf some cattle , and was passing , as ho supposed , tbr e o bull o cks , when , pausing for a moment to ' examine thorn , they proved three bears , sitting a la posteriori , side by side . In a moment two of them bounded off ; : the third and middle one mado _. up to tho man , took him , by : the waist andcavoa gontlehug . _Thiswas _^ _aken very coolly by the apparently doomed victim ! who during the operation _^ took a knife from _his popket , opened it , and returned , the compliment by a

      vigorous thrust . This : only enraged the beast , florae Immediately changed tactics , seized his viotim by the shoulders , tearing and lacerating the flesh hor _« ribly , and throw him violently upon the ground . At this crisis , thinking "discretion the better part of valour , " and , possibly , recollecting tho old story in the spelling book , of the man who , in a similar predicament , feigned death ; and cheated the bear , our hero resolved to try the experiment . Bruin nosed his' viotim a moment longer , then walked off , whether in the belief that he had effectually used iip , the unfortunate man ,. or . frightened by the appoarnnoe of . a third person iri the scene , is not' for us to determine . Although badly bruised and laoeratod , Mr . Ryder is in a fair way of recovery — Pacific News . ' ' ' ' '• ' - ¦¦ f '

      Savikos Banks and _Friendm SociMiBS .-From _fj _^ r . _. , P _resenteiJo Parliament , it appears thatthe ; total excess of interest paid to _thetrustess . of savings . banks and friendly ,-societies by _taft _?^ the _Mellon of the iNa-

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      f Tippling in Norway . —Notwithstanding the success that has attended the labours of Mr , Andersen , the great temperance advocate , it appears by the official excise returns , that the consumption of spirits in . Norway ia still excessive . By the returns between October , 1840 , and April , ' 1850 , ' there _appeals to have been distilled aho excise duty to have been paid upon no less than 7 , 700 , 000 quarts of ardent spirits—a tolerable quantity lor a population numbering only . 1 , 400 , 000 .

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      _.-.. ¦ . Brother Chartists ! BE WARE , OF . ENGLISH KNAVE 3 WITH _ASSUMIM ? FOREIGN NAMES . . Numerous complaints having been received from persons who have been cruelly deceived by useless imitations of these pills , sufferers are earnestly cautioned against _swindling ignorant youthful quacks , who dare to infringe the proprietor' _^ right by : advertising a spurious compound under another name , the use of wbich can only bring annojance and disappointment , and to attract patients , profess to cure them for less than is really possible , - assume a foreign name , place Dr , before it , and have recourse to other practices equally base . . ,

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      OLD FARB GATHERING HEHB 3 . " " THE OXLT RATIONAL REMEDY PARK'S LI FE PILLS , The Advantages derived from taking _Paiib's Life Pius arelst . —Long Life and Happiness . 2 nd . —Sound and Refreshing Sleep . 3 rd . — Geod Appetite . ith . —Energy of Mind and Clearness of Perception , 5 th . —General Good Health and Comfort . Gth . —They are found , after giving them a fair trial for a few _iveeks , to possess the most Astonishing and Invigorating Properties . To have produced a medicine so benign' and mild in itj peration and effects , and yet so effectual in searching _oul and curing disease of however long standing , exhibits on the part of Old Parr deep research and a thorough know ledge of his subject .

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      Brother Chartists ! Beware of Wolves in Sheep ' s Clothing ! ! Numerous complaints having been received from _periom who have been cruelly deceived by useless imitations of these Tills , sufferers are earnestly cautioned against ignorant youthful quacks , who dare to infringe theproprie . tor's right by advertising a spurious compound uider another name , the use of which can only bring annoyance and disappointment , and to attract patients , profess to cure them lor less than is really possible , assume eminent English names , place Dr . before them , and bave recourse to other practices equally base _.

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 29, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29061850/page/2/