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FRANCE . CONSPIRACY MAIwr . ' iaiWMAl S 0 FFRAGE . Two propositions have been presented to tbe National Assembly , for modifications in the electoral law . M . de l'Espinasse demands tbat no one shall he an elector unless he has resid « d for two years in the commune in which he wisbes to exercise that right ; tbat ho one shall be declared representative , -unless he has obtained tbe absolute majority of the Totes given . He proposes , also , to inflict penalties on such electors _** vho , without some legitimate excuse , shall refrain from voting . According to his system , the military electors would vote for the _deparlmett in which tbey are born , and their votes be sent sealed np to tbe chef-lieux of tbe departments , and thrown into tbe urn and mixed with tbe other
bulletins . M . _Bourbousson , proposes tbat vacancies in tbe Assembly shall not be filled np nntil tbe number of members shall have been reduced to 700 , except in cases where the representation of a department may have been reduced to one-half of its members . The Prefect oi Police causes tbe existing laws as to f _Tfigabonds , " persons withont domicile , and foreigners , to be executed with great rigour . ¦ Tbe * - Gazette -de France' of Wednesday says : — The police last _nig bt visited several of the low _ioag iiig-iiouses of Paris , and arrested a number of individuals against whom information had been lodged with the authorities . '
r The Coxspirators is Cokclate . —An important meeting was held on "Wednesday evening at the Palace of the Council of S tate . Abont 230 representatives of the majority were present . Amongst the principal members who addressed the meeting were MM . Tbier 3 , Berryer , and Piscatory . t ? l . Thiere spoke in the name of a considerable portion of the majority , and declared tbat he and his political friends were firmly resolTed to concur in the adoption of all measures necessary for the salvation of the country . Hs was , however , anxious to ascertain , in _adistmctand defiiritWe manner , the intentions of the Right , aad requested to he informed , categorically , whether the Legitimist representatives . meant to support energetic _meamres intended for the public security .
_••¦ M . Berryer , in the name of the party to whicb he belonged , declared that the members of the Right were unwilling to pledge themselves to tbe future , and wonld not lend their co-operation to the _foundation of any establishment contrary to the interests of _thi party they represented . M . Piscatory censured very severely the amendment presented by a dozen members of the Right , the object ef which is to deprive the project ef law on transportation of its immediate and more necessary efficiency . ; ' * "The meeting soon after broke up . M . Thiers departing very sad ! ! !
_-.. Asi the President of the Republic was proceeding to _yersailles on Friday , to review tbe troops , one of the horses of his carriage fell in the Champs Ely sees . A number of idle fellows hard by began to sing to the air of ¦ Des Lampions , ' ( alluding to the' Repnh . lilfue . Sociale et Democratique , ' ) 'Nous l'aurons ! ; idas l ' aurons ! ' The horse being raised the Prince _Icqnliriued his journey . —Times . , _^ Tiie'Franc-Parlsm * dela Meuse' states that three Bon-commissioned officers of the 29 th Regiment of tbe Line having been disarmed and sent off to Afriea , thirty of their comrades scaled the barrack walls and followed them , ciying , - Vive la Repuhlique _Democraftqrie et Sociale . '
A letter from Auch , in the department of the _Gers , states that thirty _coicSronal schoolmasters have beeu dismissed from tbeir situations since the law passed pn the 11 th of January . - / Accounts from Bordeaux of tbe 8 th instant state that , the Prefect of the Gironde bas suspended from the exercise of their functions , for two months , a captain and a lieutenant of the National Guards of the commune of Peujard .
Saturday .- —The government has prohibited electoral _meetings at the Salon de Mars , Montmartre , Salon du Pont , and Ghatillon . These meetings have . been forbidden in virtue of the law of the 19 th of Jriie , 1849 , relative to clubs and other public reunions . The motive assigned for the interdiction is , tbat * seditions speeches' bave been delivered of a nature to excite tbe citizens to hatred of each other , and the rioting which took place at Chatillon in'the beginning of the month of March last .
- ' In addition to the above three more electoral club ' s have been closed by order of tbe Minister of the Interior—tbat of La Cbapelle , including the _Cotatnune 3 of Aubervilliers and La Cour Neuve , and those of Boulogne and Montronge , in consequence of' seditious speeches' having been delivered there . ¦¦ '* " _Tkl . Buvignier , the ex-member of the Constituent Assembly , who was returned en the election of the 10 th nit . to the _Legislative Assembly for the Saoneet-Loire , bnt wbo had his election invalidated , and
the other defendants in the affair of the Solidarite _-Republieaine , were yesterday found guilty by the jary . MM . Buvignier and Hizzy , the only two defendants who appeared in person , were sentencedthe former to one year ' s imprisonment and five years' interdiction of civil rights ; the latter to six " months' imprisonment and interdiction of civil ri g hts . The other defendants were condemned b y default to two years' imprisonment . In consequence of this verdict M . Buvignier cannot take his seat in the National Assembly , if he should be returned for the _Saone-et'IiOire at the election of the 28 th inst .
_MttiTAar Demonstration . —The government has received accounts from Angers , which show that a revolutionary spirit exists in tbe army to a greater extent than has hitherto been imagined . A battalion of infantry , in passing through that city , was entertained at a fete hy the Democrats . In the evening the soldiers , accompanied by the subaltern officers , paraded tbe streets of Angers , in com . pany with the leading Democrats , and shouted * Vive la _RepubliqueDamocratique et Sociale ! ' The Minister of "War has _already sent off instructions for the immediate disbanding of the regiment , and the soldiers and subalterns are to be drafted into the regiments in Algiers .
_Iu-atheb . rABTicciARS . —Thftntiws of the disorder which took place two days ago in a regiment of infantry at Angers is confirmed to-day . The regiment in question is tbe 2 nd battalion ofthe 11 th Light Infantry . In was proceeding from Rennes to Toulon , on its way to Algiers . Before leaving Rennes the regiment was known for its democratic opinion , and when marching out of that town , it was accompanied by a large body of the democratic party , who set up cries of " Vive la Repuhlique Democratique et Sociale . ' The llih Light infantry was formerly in Paris under the command of General Damesne , who ' was killed during the great insurrection of June , 1848 . At that time General de Lamoriciere was so dissatisfied with the conduct of the regiment at the attack of the barricades of the Portes St . Denis and St . Martin , tbat be had it sent out of the capital .
Incendiarism . —Scarcely a day has passed for the last fortnight or three weeks without bringing accounts from the departments of houses and corn stores being destroyed by fire . These are so frequent that it is impossible to attribute tbem to anything else than the acts of incendiaries . Yesterday we had account of three such cases , in one of which not less than _foily-fite houses in a provincial tows became the prey of the flames . This day we have an account of three more—one of them at Rouvres , near Dijoo , where , from the fact of a quantity of
Incifer matches having been found in clearing out the ruins , it is evident that it was not through accident . Another occurred in the arrondissement of Rennes , where seventeen houses were burnt to the ground ; and a third at _Noisy-le-S-jc , where a vast quantity of straw , hay , wheat , and barley was utterly consumed . These fireB are remarked to he the most frequent in the neighbourhood of Paris , and to occur particularly in houses where corn and hay are stored . It is believed that measures of an extremely coercive kind will be found necessary to put a stop to the evil . —Times .
The Prefect of the Sarthe nas dissolved the National Guard of St . Calais . Sunday . —The _closhig of the electoral meetings was yesterday brought before the Assembly by M . Baune in the shape of interpellations ; and M . Baroche , the present Minister of the Interior showed judgment in declaring tbat he was ready at once to answer any questions which might be put , and to defend a measure for which he was willing to be responsible .
M . Baune , iu his short and very moderate speech , stated that the Paris electors , in the lawful exercise of their rights , had , within the last few days , held meetings preparatory to the election . In these meetings the respect _dw to the law had not been _violated in any one instance , and still the ministry l _^ 0 ? _Jtfcp / ° per . - ? rohibit * b exercise of the sacred right of meeting . He declared that such an Cmor , TM , and De Hotte , oa the iQtfa _otMuch
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had intended to give a lesson to the government . He concluded by asking the reasons-which had induced the Minister of the Interior to interdict electoral meetings infive different districts ? M . Baroche , after a short exordium , in which he stated that the ' attacks' recently -made upon- him as an old ciub bi 8 _^' ' _W'iTe :: for - : the ' : _^ uriiose ef throwing odium on the government , approached the question before the Assembly . He founded his right to suppress electoral meetings on the law of the 19 th of June , which gave power to the government to interdict clubs and other public meetings which might he ofa nature to compromise the public safety . He contended that the election meetings which had
recently taken place were , in fact , clubs ; at which scandalous scenes had been enacted ; and he : produced reports of the police agents appointed to attend these meetings in support of that position-From the reports , it appeared tbat at these meetings , not only electors , but strangers , and even women and children , were admitted , and that political questions were discussed which had nothing to do with the choice of candidates . By the system followed at these meetings , the election was doubled , for there was first tbe election of delegates , and those delegates had the selection of candidates . This he considered contrary to the constitution , which laid down tbat the election ought to be direct . He
admitted that something of the kind was also done by the electoral union , but it was in a different way . At the meeting at Montmartre the President and another member appeared in red neckcloths and scarfs , and one of the speakers declared that there was no God but the sun . At tbe meeting ef the eighth arrondissement a celebrated sculptor had come forward as a candidate for being delegate , but the honour was refused to him because he was a proprietor ; In the eleventh arrondissement a candidate boasted' of bis having hunted gendarmes in 1830 , municipal guards in 1848 , and that he was the first to put up the red flag at the Hotel de . Yille . In another meeting the Abbe Chatel said , _« Material
prosperity and good fare is tbe real knot of the question . Let us in tbe first instance give full and entire satisfaction to the organs of the body . ' At another meeting one of the speakers spoke of the prisoners at Doulens ( Barbes , & c . ) as martyrs . At the same meeting a speaker complained that some people had 30 , 0007 . a year , while others had nothing and said that as before 15 * 80 nobles bad serfs and slaves , so at the present day the rich had serfs and slaves of a refined character . These were the only grounds adduced by M . Baroche for depriving the people of Paris of the right of holding election meetings , but in his opinion they were so strong as to be a complete justification .
M . Jules Favre replied to the speech of M . Baroche ih a speech so clever , and so full of matter , that it would have made a deep impression on any body of legislators not determined to support the minister , whether the reasons given for his measures were good or bad . "With respect to the right of the ministry to close the electoral meetings , be merely asked the question , If you have a right to apply the law of the 19 th June , 1849 , respecting clubs , to election meetings , why have you brought forward a bill which will confer on you the right which you are now using ? ' As regarded the facts alleged , he doubted if commissaries of police were the best or most impartial reporters of speeches ; and , as a proof of that fact , he stated that tbe sculptor who , it was said , had been rejected because he was & proprietor , was in fact rejected because he had accepted from
the government an atelier and other favours , when be was sufficiently rich to have one of his own . He was astonished that M . Baroche conld have laid such stress upon the fact of a red neckcloth being worn by an elector , while one of bis own most staunch supporters figured off at that moment in a magnificent scarlet waistcoat . This sally produced roars of laughter at the expense of M . Cunin Gridaine , who was sitting in his place at tbat moment in a magnificent flame-coloured vest , little expecting tbat it was to become the subject of such general attention . M . Jules Favre finished his speech by pointing out the want of confidence which the rulers of France show that they have in the cause of liberty , ' and reminded the house that those who had formerly been the flatterers of tbe people had now become their persecutors .
M . Baroche then rose to reply . He admitted tbat he had formerly been vice-president of a club , but it was a club of honnetes gens , and he denied that , in accepting office , he had become a persecutor of thepeople . Several members then expressed a wish to address the Assembly , but M . Dupin declared the debate closed , and the order of the day was carried at once by a large majority , notwithstanding the protest of the _Montagnards . The Socialist Candidate . —Last night the delegates of the Democratic and Socialist committee met at midnight , in conclave , to select a candidate on the Democratic interest for the Paris election of
the 28 th of April . This meeting created considerable interest , from the fact that orders bad been issued on the previous evening for the closing of several additional election meetings , and it was supposed tbat similar steps would be taken to prevent the delegates from meeting . The meeting took place in a large hall in the Hue de Chaume , Faubourg St . Antoine . Several members of the Extreme Left attended the meeting as delegates for their _arrondissements , and amoDg others MM . Cremieux ( formerly member " of the Provisional Government , ) Vidal , De Flotte , & c . The names of thirty candidates were brought forward , but those who appeared to have most chance were M . Emile
de Girardin and M . Dupont ( de l'Eure , ) the latter of whom bas given rise to so much dispute within the last few days between the columns of the ' Presse' and ¦ Voix du Peupie . ' The . thirty names were in tbe first instance reduced to sixteen ; those who had not the votes of a fourth part of the delegates present being at once struck out of tbe list . Among the names retained after the first ballot were —M . D'Alton Shee , M . Cabet , tbe lcarian , M . Dupont ( de l'Eure , ) M . Emile de Girardin , and Jean Daniel , a soldier of the 23 rd regiment of Infantry . The fact of this soldier being brought forward was not known till yesterday . The name of
this latter candidate , until now , was perfectly unknown . Born in Lower Brittany , of unknown parents , he has never known either his father or his mother . His childhood was spent in the bumble employment of a shepherd . He afterwards made what is called the tour of France , in order to perfect himself in the trade of a shoemaker , which he bad embraced . At the age of twenty the conscription took him , and he has exercised since that epochduring a period of four years , the functions of shoemaker in his regiment . His candidature was supported with extreme warmth by the workmen-delegates ; so much so , that he almost carried away the majority of the suffrages .
All of a sudden a name was brought forward , of whom no one had spoken before . It was that of Eugene Sue , the celebrated author of tbe ' Mysleres de Paris , ' the * Juif Errant , & c , ic . On bis name being brought . forward there was au immense sensation in the . Assembly- Loud-cries arose on all sides of ' Vive Eugene Sue ! ' ' Vive la Repuhlique democratique V and the excitement became so great tbat the sitting was for some time suspended . At length a vote was called for , and the following was the result : — ¦ •'• - '
Number , of voters 227 Absolute majority .. 114 For Eugene Sue .... 143 Jean Daniel .... _.-.... 80 jj * _u _Yiiiegarueiii _. ¦•• ... ¦• Itn . ¦¦¦• I . i _. n ' * Audry de Puyravan ............... 2 M . Eugene Sue was consequently proclaimed candidate for Paris . the proceedings did not terminate till half-past one o ' clock this afternoon . Just as the proceedings terminated , it was announced that tbe hall of the Rue de Chaume , in which the meeting had taken place , had been closed , like other places of meeting by order of the authorities . A protest against this act of the Government was immediately drawn up , and the meeting separated in a state of great excitement .
Monday . —The ordermongers fearing tbe defeat of their candidate ,. Foy _,-have withdrawn him and brought forward a new man , named Leclerc- MLeclerc _ig a shopkeeper in the secosd arrondissement of Paris , and an old decore of July . At the period of the great insurrection of June , 1848 , he had a son shot by his side , while charging a barricade . He immediately went home , and brought out his second son to replace the one that had just been killed , and both father and
sou continued fighting till the insurrection was completely suppressed . , ; The , idea _ of bringing forward M . Leclerc was suggested on Saturday by the Legitimist paper , the ' Gazette de France . " It was contended by that paper that , as M . de Flotte had been brought forward by the _Demscrats at the last election , as the representative of insurrection , it would be right to bring forward M . Leclerc at the present election , as a protest against that nomination . The idea bu been kept up by the _representatives of the _tynumtiTe press , asd will
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no doubt be adopted by the whole of the _Consemtive party . Tuesday , _U A . M . —The went of chief _importance in the Assembly ' s ; sitting of yesterday , was the vote by-which 300 , 000 francs were ' at : one fell swoop cut off from the succours afforded to tbe _condamnes _politigues . This will create immense irritation . The effect of the vote , it appears , will fall upon the fighters of July , 1830 , and February . 1848 . RETURN OF THE POPE TO ROME . Wednes » ay . — -The' Moniteur' publishes tbe following telegraphic despatch t— ¦" ' The Minister Plenipotentiary of France to the Minister for Foreign Affairs .
• The Pope entered Rome on Friday at four o ' clock . He was received with the most enthusiastic acclamations . ' Some placards of a highly inflammatory nature were fixed up in the Corso , and other conspicuous parts of the city a day or to before the Pope ' s entry . One was an address to the Romans on the coming of the Pope ; another on the same subject dated Naples : a third , on the preparatives for his return , ridiculing in strong terms the pretended reforms in tbe administration of government which are stated to be ready for publication * and a fourth on the affair of M . Gazzola .
Yesterday in the Legislative Assembly the close of the sitting was stormy in the extreme . The object of the Mountain was lo procure a nominal division on the suppression of the succours to persons condemned for political offences , a reduction which had been carried on the preceding day . For this purpose M . Schoelcher moved on amendment to restore that aid . This was set aside by the house voting the previous question . Hereupon M . Charras made some fervent remonstrances against the implicit disavowal by the Assembly of the ' revolution of July and February . This called out M . Dufaure . M . Joly next brought forward an amendment for granting 600 , 000 francs to political prisoners . The previous question was voted by-406 against 211 .
SWITZERLAND . According to tbe report of the Swiss _Pederal Council , the Government of the Republic has ordered 550-members of the German Workmen ' s Union , belonging to sixteen different branches ofthe society , to quit the Swiss territory , and p laced 214 members under the surveillance o f the police . The result of the inquiry of ' the Government into the proceedings of these societies is stated as follows : —¦ 1 . It is fully proved that the German workmen in Switzerland , were organizing themselves , and providing the means bf carrying out a revolution intended not merely to subvert the governments of Germany ,. but to destroy the whole present system of society . 2 . This revolutionary Propaganda , as
the central society called itself , did not ori g inate in Switzerland , and is not confined to that country . Its centres are in Germany , France , and England . From these the twin societies were called into existence , and are but links in the great chain of the Social Democratic "Union . In Switzerland these bodies could act much more openly than elsewhere , and their objects were therefore better known ; but tbe leaders were for tbe most in foreign countries , and at any decisive moment in Germany only , the German contingent would have been withdrawn from Switzerland . 3 . It is proved that the unions were in close _connexion with the fugitives from Baden and the Pfalz , and that the leaders of that insurrection were principally supported and assisted by them . _:- _.-.- '
ITALY . TURIN , April 1 9 th . —A signal victory has just been gained here in favour of the . liberal cause , not only in Piedmont and in Italy , but also , though indirectly , in Europe . An assembly , composed of elements essentially conservative ( the senate of Turin ) , has nobly broken through the trammels of superstitious _illiberally , and has boldly proclaimed , as it bas candidly admitted , the abandonment of an odious system of privileges hitherto in use .
Tbe senate , in Us sitting of yesterday , adopted by a majority of twenty-two votes ( fifty-one against twenty-nine ) the law proposed by ministers , and already voted by the Chamber of Deputies by an immense majority , that of the abolition of exceptional and special tribunals for the clergy , and on the right of asylum in places of refuge , where the guilty were screened from punishment under cover of an inviolable shelter in certain religious establishments , churches , convents , and the like .
Yesterday evening , some persons were desirous of making a flattering demonstration of their joy on the occasion , and in honour of the Minister of Justice , Count Siccardi , who had brought forward the lawbut the latter bad declared , on a recent occasion ) thathe would not allow of public order being in any way disturbed , and that all public demonstrations would be prevented , no natter in what sense they might be made ; and in accordance with this resolution , the armed force dispersed immediately the groups from which proceeded any cries , which , however , fortunately , was not attended with any consequences of a deplorable nature . The crowds ' formed on different points dispersed at tbe approach of the troops , and all was over in a short time .
Tbe Marquis A'Azeglio , the President of the Council of Ministers , thought it his duty to put on his uniform as a colonel of horse , aud place himself at the head of a patrol of cavalry , going many rounds through tbe streets .
GERMANY . A riot took place at Elberfeld on the Gth , in consequence of a soldier having , in the execution of his duty , and after repeated warnings , fired upon and wounded a prisoner in the house of arrest , who persisted to disobey orders to retire from a window where he was haranguing a crowd in the street . ' In consequence of its being reported that the man had been shot dead without provocation , a mob collected , insulted in the grossest manner the two companies of the 16 th Infantry called out on the occasion , and might have proceeded to extremities bad not the officers and men behaved with rare firmness and forbearance .
A curious incident took place three or four days ago at Magdeburg , whicb may serve as a warning to amateur draftsmen , and which , at the same time , affords . a very singular proof of the manner in which personal liberty is respected . A sentry on the ramparts , having perceived an individual occupied in sketching , alarmed the guard ; the delinquent was seized , sundry sketches of fortificationsef wbich every military schoolboy has done a dozen
plans—were found upon his person ; and what was still more criminal , an Austrian passport . He was carried off prisoner to the citadel , and there detained until application was made to Berlin , to know what was to be done with the dangerous spy , who turned out to be a young officer of rank , travelling for his amusement and instruction . The reply was , that he might be set at liberty- with an admonition to beware how be extended his studies to Prussian bastions and ravelines .
The officer arrested at Magdeburg turns out to be bis Royal Highness Duke Eugene Augustus of Wurtemberg 1 ! twenty-two years of age , son of Duke Frederick Eugene , the well-known Russian general . A cousin of tb e King of Wurtembergson of a Russian general-and an Austrian officer who , here is a syllogism sufficient to send the culprit for life to hard labour .
GREECE . The ' Allgemeine Zeitung' has letters from Athens ef the 2 d inst . The last French steamer which arrived in that , city from Marseilles brought a letter froin , M . _Tricoupis , the Hellenic Ambassador at Pans . M . Tricoupis informs his government of the arrival of another Russian note , addressed to the Czar ' s Ambassadors in London and PariB , and dated from Petersburgh on the 23 d February . According to this note the _Csar _' _s government insists on the restoration of the captured vessels before the affairs of England and Greece can be allowed to enter into further consideration . But if the vessels are not restored , adds Count _NesBelrode , the Czar's' government ' will not consent to recognise any of the proposals which Baron Gros may have to make .
INDIA . We have received , via Trieste , intelligence of the arrival of the Oriental at Suez , on the 3 d inst ., with the Bombay mails of the 16 th of March . The expedition under Sir Colin Campbell against the mountaineers in the nei ghbourhood of Peshawur had not been attended with the expected results . The expedition had returned , to Peshawur . Tbe Hindoo and Mussulman population in _Merzapoor had risen against each other under the influence of religious fanaticism , and in the disturbances which followed the city was burnt ; to the ground . —The rest of India was profoundly tranquil . The sale of English manufactured goods at Bombay had been large at middling prices . Cotton and opium were dull .
This intelligence was accompanied by a postscript from the Austrian Consul in Egypt , which we _gnafoMd'jr _, aa we received it , with the _setuM _* _-,
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that it , in all probability , refers to . the intelligence brought by the , last mail from Peshawur : — An English free corps of 3 , 000 men met with a reverse from the rebellious mountaineers , in the Koad Pass , near PeBhawnr , in which two European officers ind 150 privates remained on the field . '
AMERICAN . AFFAIRS . ( From the' New York Tribune' of April 2 nd . ) The proceedings of Congress for the last fortnight present nothing " worthy of special comment . No subject of interest has occupied the attention of either house , but that of Slavery ; and on this all action is lost in an interminable war of words . — M . Sain Bois LeComte , the minister of the French Republic , was presented to President Taylor on Monday , the . 18 th inst ., in the presence of the whole Cabinet . The speech of M . Le Comte was marked liy a conciliatory and temperate spirit , and was responded to by the President with cordial expressions of intercourse and friendly _, feeling .
TheReport of Hon . Butler T . King who visited California during the last Summer , as the Special Agent of the Executive of the United States , has just been published . It is a document of great interest and importance , presenting a well-digested mass of information with regard to California ' , derived from personal observation and authentic sources , and suggesting several practical measures for the consideration of the government . —According to Mr . Kin ' **; , the population of California in 1802 , was about 17 , 000 ; in 1831 , it amounted to a little more than 23 , 000 ; from this number it did not vary much for four or five years ; when it gradually increased , until the sudden rush of immigration in 1849 ; and at the commencement of the
present year , it may be estimated at 115 , 000 Americans and foreigners , exclusive of native Indians . Tbe Gold Region is between 400 and 500 miles long , and from forty to fifty miles broad , following the line of the Sierra Nevada ; Itembraces the extensive range of hills on the eastern border o ( the plain of the Sacramento and San Joaquin , which reach towards the East for fifty or sixty miles , and attaining an elevation of about 400 feet terminates at tbe base of the main ridge of the Sierra Nevada .
The springs of the Sierra give rise to numerous streams , which ,, augmented by the rains and melted snow , expand into rivers , running in a westerly direction , and emptying into the Sacramento and San Joaquin , at the distance of from ten to fifteen , and in some cases of twenty miles from each other . The rivers in forming their channels , have come in contact with the quartz , with which the gold seems to have been originally combined , and cutting the gold into fine flakes and dust , leave it deposited
among the sand and gravel of their beds . Inthe dry season a portion of these beds are found without water ; they contain large quantities of gold , in a coarser atate than in the rivers , often in a smooth shape , not , unlike pebbles ; In the dry diggings , where quariz containing gold has cropped out , the gold is found in pieces of every size , from one grain to several pounds in weight . These . diggings , in some places , spread over valleys of considerable extent .
The amount of gold collected in the operations 1848 and 1849 , is estimated at 40 , 000 , 000 dol ., one . half of which , was probabl y " carried out of the country by foreigners . Of this sum , 20 , 000 , 000 dol . is supposed to bave been taken from the rivers , although their richness has suffered no perceptible diminution , except in a few locations , which early attracted large bodies of miners . Gold has been found in twelve principal rivers , but the greater part of the above amount was taken from six or seven of them , when it was first _discovered and most accessible . " .- - .
In regard to the regulation of the Gold District by the government , Mr . King suggests that the entire region should be preserved intact , not exposed to sale , and considered as the common individual treasure of the American people . He then recommends the appointment ; of a Commissioner of the Mines , with a sufficient number of assistants , with authority to give a license to any American citizen , " on the payment ofa moderate sura , for digging anywhere in the Territory for the space of one year . The discoverer of a new mine to be entitled to work it , or to dispose of it , under suitable regulations , by paying a certain per centage of its products . A portion of the money collected to be expended in the construction of roads and bridges , to facilitate cammunication between the mining districts , and tbe other parts of the country .
The quicksilver mines of California are believed to be numerous , extensive , and valuable . Itis also supposed that the Territory centains large beds ef silver , iron and copper ores ; but the information is not sufficiently precise or definite en this point to warrant any satisfactory conclusions .
DEATH Ol ? SENATOR CALHOUN . The death of John C . Calhoun , the distinguished Senator from South Carolina , took place on Sunday , March 31 . This event had been long anticipated . Mr . Calhoun was born in 1782 . He was descended from an Irish family which emigrated to this country when his father was about three years old . Ho received his education at Yale College , where ho gratuated in 1804 with distinguished honours , giving a brilliant promise of the lofty fame which he has since achieved . He commenced tho study of the law at the celebrated Law-School in Litchfield , Conn ., and completing bis preparation for the profession in his native State .
he was admitted to the bar in 1807 , and rapidly attained to celebrity and _lai-ge . emoluments . In 1810 he was elected to Congress by an immense majority , and , taking his seat in that body , at once assumed a high position in the ranks of the Republican party . In 1817 he was invited by President Monroe to a place in his Cabinet < as Secretary of War . Be continued in this office for seven years , during wliich time he gave proofs of admirable industry , great practical energy and skill , remarkable sagacity in the administration of affairs , and an integrity which was never sullied by the breath of suspicion . He was elected Vice-President of the United States in 1824 . discharged the duties of that office , aa -ore
siding officer of the Senate , with eminent dignity and firmness , and , for the most part , with uncommon impartiality . On the accession of General Jackson to the Presidency in 1828 , he Was again chosen _Tice-Presidcnt , but the policy of General Jackson being widely at variance with his own , he resigned that ) office in 1832 , and was immediately returned to the Senate by the Legislature of South Carolina . In 1844 he resigned his seat in Congress and accopted the office of Secretary of State , which ho held until tho close of President Tyler's administration . He was then re-chosen Senator , which office he filled until the time of his death . Mr . Calhoun enjoyed a reputation for vigor ,
boldness and independence , not surpassed by that of any statesman in this country . His mind was addieted to great analytical subtlety in all its operations , and ho followed tho guidance of hislogioal convictions with an inflexible severity , that . made him formidable as an antagonist . His political views , oven when most strongly tinctured with extravagance , were the necessary result of _established premises , which had firmly planted themselves in _hisiuterlect , In hia policy hefhad primary reference to the claims and interest ofthe South , was never seduced into enthusiasm for the greatness and dignity of the Federal Union , and _rc-Sardcd tho institution of Domestic Slavery , as the est foundation , of political , liberty . In all tho
relations of private life , his character was beyond reproach . Of unsullied integrity , of rigid temperance and purity , of a high sense of justice and honor , it won the esteem and admiration of all to whom he was intimately known . With Clay , Webster and Benton , he formed a circle of statesmen which for nearly forty years has exercised tho widest influence on tho political developments of this country . Differing but little in age , they survive their illustrious _, compeer and are now by universal consent at the head of American statesmen . ¦ The Legislature of Ohio adjourned on the 25 th instant , after a session of 113 days . Among the acts passed was one for taxing banks m the same wav as other property * , ono creating a State Board of Education ; and an act for tho Homestead
ExAnother dreadful steam-boat accident occurred a few days since , between Buffalo and Niagara . The boiler of the steamer Troy " exploded , when nearly twenty persons were scalded to death or drowned , and about the same number were seriously wounded . There have been two serious riots among the labourers on tho canal , near Buffalo ; in quelling the latter of which four men were shot , and nearly thirty taken prisoners . CONDEMNATION AHP SBNIENCK OP HtOFESSOR WEBSTER TO DIE , FOR THB MURDER OF DR . PARKMAN . for the murder ot
The trial of Professor Webster Dr . Parkman was brought to a close on Saturday nioht and tho verdict of" . Guilty" recorded against the p ' risoner . The trial _occupied eleven days , and waB conducted with a deliberation , quietness , and freedom from excitement , almost unprecedented in the records of criminal jurisprudence . During its whole progress , the accused displayed a remarkable self-command , listening to the evidence with intense interest , but with perfect calmness , showing not the slightest consciousness of guilt , nor any emotion , from which inferences could be drawn , and apparently unmoved by the weight of testimony , whioh was accumulating with slow and terrible certainty _fyr ) uacQndomilftttQD . Tho _grounds , ta k . ea & gM
France. Conspiracy Maiwr. ' Iaiwmal S0ff...
Dr . Webster , and the admission that Dr . Parkman was at _his-ropiriJu "the _^ Medical / College at two o ' clock oh ; , the _; ' cIa-f of his disappearance—that he was never \ seen ! affer ' thai lime ? rthat the remains found in the College _arejidentified / as thoso of Dr . _Parkman---fand that the notes _^ which were the cause of pecuniary difficulty : between the parties , were found in possession of _DfrWebster , although he was shown to be destitute of funds for their payment . : ¦ . "" Tho counsel for the defence endeavoured to set aside the proof of identity—to show that tbe
prisoner was at Cambridge at the time alleged for his disposing of the remains—and to prove that Parkman had been seen subsequent to tho hour of the murder as stated in the indictment . In commenting on the testimony , Chief- Justice Shaw charged the jury in a . manner highly unfavourable tothe accused . They were absent about three hours , and at eleven o ' clock returned with the fatal verdict . Dr . Webster was sentenced on Monday , and his execution is appointed to take place at such time as may bo determined by the Governor of the State . '¦¦ - ' .
Tho result of tho trial was communicated to Dr . Webster ' s family at Cambridge on Sunday morning . The bearer of the agonising intelligence was Mrs , Prescott , the mother ofthe distinguished historian , and a half-sister oi Mrs . Webster . It was received with the most frenzied anguish , as an event of which there had nofc boon tho . faintest anticipation . The shrieks and groans of tho afflicted sufferers were heard to a groat distance . They are the objects of the most profound commisseration and symyathy in every quarter . On Monday morning a letter of condolence was addressed to them , signed by the principal inhabitants of Cambridge , Pres . Everett , _Pres . Sparks , the , Professors in the University , and numerous other friends . Ineffectual solace in their hour of agony unutterable !
Snipwrbcks , —Knfestow**, April Is.—The ...
_SniPWRBCKs , —KnfesTow _** , April IS . —The pilot boat Hawk towed into Kingstown a large piece of a wreck , the side of a vessel , found drifting between Lambay and the _Kish ; it is black , with two narrow red mouldings : a white flag was fastened to a rope which was tied on one ofthe masthead stays . The other pilot boats picked up 107 boxes of soap fifteen miles S . E . of Lambay . The schooner Wonder , of Waterford , with coals from Cardiff , was lost with all hinds , during the lato storm .
Medals Of Jam^S Morison ,. The Hygeist, ...
MEDALS OF JAM _^ S MORISON , . THE HYGEIST , AND GREAT _MEDICili ltEFOttMER _, be had of all tho Agents for the sale of _Alea-ison ' s Pills be had of all _ttio Agents for the sale of Alorison ' s Pills
May . PRICE ONE SHILLING EACH . In Bronze , 10 s ,, 6 cU ; in Silver , 2 * . ; in Gold , 181 . . ' X - . ' . ' _,. _- .:. JAMES MORISON , the Hygeist proclaimed—THE IMMORTAL lstly _.-That the vital prin-. • ciple is in tlie blood . . H A RYE Y 2 ndly .-That all diseases arise " rein impurity of the PROCLAIMED THE blood . 3 i'dly . —That sueh im-CIRCULATION OF THE purity can only be eradicated by a purgative such as BLOOD . Morison ' s Vegetable Universal Medicine of the British College of Health , Newroad , London . _, 4 thly . —That the deadly poisons used as medicines . by the doctors are totally _unnecossni-y in tlie cure of ' _.- ¦¦ ' diseases .
Gravel. Rheumatism, Lumbago, Stricture, Debilitr, &E.
GRAVEL . RHEUMATISM , LUMBAGO , STRICTURE , DEBILITr , & e .
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If Mankind are liable to one ensense more than another , or if there are any particular affections of the human body we require to havo a knowledge of over the rest , it is certainly that class of disorders treated of in the new and im proved edition of the "Silent Priend . " The authors , in thus sending forth ts the world another edition of then medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their gratification at the continual success attending their efforts , which , combined with the assistance of medicines , exclusively of their own preparation , have been the happy cause of mitigating and averting the mental and physical miseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the faot ,
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t j , . , •¦ - ' •'" Part the Fifth ~~ - _^*« _k Is devoted to _the'eonsld-sraHrin «* u . _~ _^ _" *> tions ofthe Ma iTied _1 _tara 6 Ue thfi D «« eg indflv the happiness or mise _^ of _ftoie wt i t ?*** _^ % _n bonds of matrimony . * B _^ _SfatoflKftl ? eat _X ried couples are _traced _' . to _^ _epS in ' tl » he _-W *• and errors , and the _meanTfoV their _remB * , _'' _« . >' within reach and _effect ,. The _Se _£ _^ . _* _ChS
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_EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OF _TnT _^ REMEDY !! _ut " _ft "? Which has never been known lo fail . —a cm or the money returned , " e _^ ' M _-HR . DB ROOS' _CONCENTRATE V _GUTTiE VllAl ' has , in all instance s _, ElJ speedy and permanent cure , for every varfeti- m _* _» arising from solitary habits , youthful _delusi ' i **""*" and infection , sueh as . gonorrhoea , syphilis t _^ - "'' _i . from neglect or improper treatment by mercu ' rv '' _"'^ eubebs , and other deadly poisons , invariably end ' i „ C 0 Wl "i the following forms of secondary - symptoms T ' z _? ° " ''i swellings In the hones , joints and glands ' skm » "" " blotches and pimples , weaknes ofthe eye » iJnf _% disease and decay ofthe nose , sore throat' _niL _' * "•" side , back , and loins , fistula , piles , ic .- diseis _}^ kidneys , and bladder , gleet , stricture seminal . v . »? _^ nat _* iriMlc and _cavnol rlnKiliftr _Inva _nC " « _KTlf !! i i ui
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Read this , and judge for yoursdvvs . GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AND LOSS LIFE , SECURED BY THAT HIGH !** ESTEEMED POPULAR REMEDY , " 5 ? A R It'S LIFE PILLS THOMAS PARR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_20041850/page/2/
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