Semi-weekly Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 2

SEMI WEEK LY REE PRESS BVGG BAHNS CO CITY PRINTERS DETROIT TUESDAY MORNING MAY 9 Henry IP I a aw iggate You will with your publicity 1 'tr Mrc mid penal is the san! ami Avirh like effect as a deed regularly executed and by the owner and duly record ed may be Liven in evidence Sec 15 The treasurer of said village shall re ceive the same fees ui cases of sale ns aforesaid as are allowed bylaw to the county treasurer for like services and the expenses in advertising any land for sale in pursuance of this act shall by the treas urer be added to such taxes respectively as arc charged upon lands and unpaid in proportion amount each tax so charged and unpaid See 1G The said corporation shall lie allowed the life of the common jail of the county of Le nawee for the imprisonment of any person liable to imprisonment under the by laws or ordinances of said corporati on and all persons so committed to said jail shall be under the charge of the sheriff tfutr ci hands and scats of said trustees or a majo itv ol them di reclei to and requiring him to coltcci from the several persons lined in said roil thesev respcctnc names as the tax or assessment and au thorizing him in ease any oi them shall refuse neglect to pay such sum or sums to levy the same by distress and sale of Ins or her goods and chattels together vi th the costs an charges of such dull ess and sale and directmg him to pay sti money when collected to the treasurer of said vidam by a certain day to be therein named not less than forlv da vs from the date of said warrant affairs of the country The crisis is ast: though failures may continue to occur in commercial cities until the last dollar of surplus revenue of last year is drawn from or alley or making side walks shall re inrun a lieu upon said create until paid Sec 9 The president and trustees shall at the expiration of each year cause to be made out and published in some newspaper printed said village if one shall be printed therein and if not printed therein then to be posted up on the outward door of the budding where the last annual election as held said village a true statement of the ucipts and expenditures of the preceding year i I Mfo i Put into the tea kettle a flat oyster and keep it constantly there it will attract I stony particles that are in the water to and prevent their forming upon the tea In Texas' flour is 25 dollars per barrel toes 8 corn 4 and lumber 70 per thoiwsni A ration shall have any effect until the same shall have been published three weeks successively in a news paper pnpied in said county or by written notices posted up in three of the mint public places said and an affidavit of said publication in the maimer aforesaid entered at large iq on the records oi saul corporation by Temptations to Industry The Grand River Times of the 29th April says: That flour is selling at that place for fifteen' dollars and pork from twenty eight to thirty six dollars per barrel potatoes two dollars pur bushel and other things in proportion' Appointment Brown late of the States Army' has been appointed General Su perintendent of Public Works at the harbor oi Erie Dunkirk Buffalo and Black Rock Climax The Boston Post has the fol lowing sentence is the judgment of this court that you you be fined one dollar and may the Lord have mercy on your said a judge to a loafer who was convicted for sucking cideh AN ACT to incorporate the Village of Tecumseh Sec 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan That all that tract of country situated the township of Tecumseh in the county of Lenawee included within one mile and a half square the centre of which shall be at the intersection of Ottawa andShawnee Streets in said village and the north and south line thereof to run parallel to Shawnee Street aforesaid be and the same is hereby consti tuted a town corporate by the name of the village of Tecumseh Sec 2 The male inhabitants of said village having the qualifications of electors under the con etilution of the state shall meet at the court house in said village on the first Monday of May next and on the first Monday of May annually thereafter at such place as eball be provided in the by law ji of said village and then and there proceed by a plurality of votes to elect by ballot seven trustees who shall bold their office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified and any four of said trustees shall constitute a board tor the transaction of business and a less number may adjourn from time to time but it an election oi trustees shall not be made on the day when pur suant to this act it ought to be made the said cor poration shall not for that cause be dissolved and it shall be lawful to hold such election at any time thereafter public notice being given of such elec tion as hereinafter prescribed Sec 3 At the first election to be holden in said village under this act there shall be chosen viva voce by the electors present two judges and a clerk of said election each of whom shall take an oath or affirmation to be administered by either of the others faithfully and honestly to discharge the duties re quired of him as judge or clerk of said election and at all subsequent elections the trustees or any two of them shall be judges ana the cl er a ot the village shal be clerk of the election at all elections the polls shall be opened between the hours of nine and ten in the forenoon and closed at three in the afternoon and at the close of 1 i be counted anal a true statement ihcieot proclaim ed to the electors present by one of the judges and the clerk shall make a true record thereof and within five days after such election he shad give notice to me persons elected who shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first Mmday there after and it shall be the duty of the village clerk to give at least five days previous notice of each and every election by posting up written or pri uteri notices thereof in five or more public places in uad village or by causing the same to be published in some public newspaper Sec 4 Each one of the trustees before he enters upon the duties of his office and in the presence of rhe boat of trustees shall take an oath or affirma tion which oath or affirmation may be administer ed by any trustee present to support tlie constitu tion of the United Slates and the constitution of this state and that he wiil faithfully and impartial ly discharge the duties of the office of trustee of said village according tolhe best of his abilities and it shall be the duty of the first board of trustees and of every subsequent board of at their first meeting to elect by ballot one of their number presi dent of said village whose duty it shall be to preside at all meetings of the board ot trustees but in case of his absence any other trustee may be appointed by the trustees present to preside at such mcefings and it shall likewise betheir duty to appoint a vil lage clerk to attend ail meetings of the board keep a fair and accurate record of their proceedings and perform such other duties as shall be assigned him by the by laws of the village Sec 5 The president mid trustees of said village shall be a body corporate and politic under the name of The President and Trustees of the Vil lage of and may have a common seal which they may alter at pleasure and may purchase and hold real and personal estate for the use of said village and at any time sell and convey the same and may sue and be sued defend and be de fended in any court bu' when a suit shall be com menced against said corporation the same shall be commenced by summons an attested copy of which shall be served upon the president of the village at least five days before the return day thereof Sec 6 The board of trustees shall have power to ordain and establish by laws tides and mgula tions and the game to alter and repeal at pleasure for the following purposes: lor the ction or ap pointment of a treasurer three asstniors a marshal and other officers for said village and to prescribe their duties declare their qualifications and (he pc riod of their appointment or election Provided That no officer shall hold his office more than one year or until others be elected or be appo nted and the fees any one of them shall be entitled to receive for his services and to require of any or all of them an baih dr affirmation faithfully and impartially todischarge the duties of ibcir respective offices and to require of any of them such security by bond for the performance of the duties of their respective offices as shall be thought expedient which bond shall run to the treasurer of said corporation and his successors in office tint! said treasurer or his successors shall have power to sue for all breaches of the same before any justice of the peace or the 5 circuit court of said county according to the amount claimed whlph courts are hereby authorized to hear try and determine tho same To prohibit the running at large of swine cattle mules geese and sheep within: the limits of said village To regulate building of partition and other fences To purchase fire engines and other necessaiy apparatus for the extinguishment of fires to cause building occupied as a house or store to be provided with fire buckets and' to prescribe tLc manner tn which stoves with their pipes in actn use shall be put up and chimneys built to guard against fires: A To remove nuisances To grade the streets and alleys 'and pave them and cause side walks to be made and the cxpensc thereof to be assessed on the lots in front of whicheitheror all of said improvements shall be made no one of said improvements shall bo made un Jess thc individuals owning more than one half of property be assessed the me improve Cleveland If the merchants and ca pitalists of Baltimore and Philadelphia do not see the importance of making energetic efibrts to establish a Railroad communication between their own Cities and Cleveland they must be blind and dull indeed to their own The experience of the present Spring added to that ot the past in regard to Lake naviirathn makes it certain that Cleveland is the proper point for the western termination of the great thoroughfare which is yet to be made between Lake Erie and the Atlantic for transacting the Spring business of the great Northwest with the Atlantic merchants No point beyond Cleveland will answer the purpose Had a Railroad communication with' the zUlantic Ci ties been in operation this season from Cleve land the Spring purchases of our merchants would have been upon their shelves weeks ago and a large portion of them by this time have been disposed of to their customers We are surprised that our Cleveland neighbors do not exert themselves more zealously oh tins subject A Railroad communication with Baliimore or Philadelphia would make Cleveland the great CITY THE LAKES ine times for The Peninsular published al the County Seat of St Joseph Co the heart of the most fertile country tn the West is complaining bitterly of the high prices of pro visions in that quarter flour being worth four dollars and fifty cents per hundred pork thirty dollars per barrel and oats and corn at a dollar per bushel The Peninsular adds The cause of these high prices must be ap parent to the purblind the immigrants come into this State in swarms as the locusts of old visited Egypt devouring all before them In behalf of our neighbors we earnestly ap peal to our well fed of Ohio and In diana Send a few thousand of hogs and of those animals yclept in common in parlance Beef into these parts and take away some of our hard Light houses in Michigan In the act making appropriations for building light houses and for otbf purposes passed by Congress on the 3 of March IBB we find the following provision: a light house on a proper site at the month of Grand River five thousand dollars for a light house at a proper site at the mouth of Detroit river five thousand dollars fora light house on Wind null Island at the outlet of lake St Clair five thou send dollars for erecting a light house at the mouth of Saginaw river five thousand dollars for erect ing a lighndiouse at AVagooshance Or ox point on the straits of Michillitnackina five thousand dollars for erecting a ligbi house at the mouth of Kalama zoo river five thousand Shiawassee and Genessee The Pontiac Courier speaks highly of the agricultural char acter of these two counties It savs counties of Shiawassee and Genessee arc now filling up faster perhaps than any oth ers in this portion of the Peninsula 'The lands are represented to be generally of a superior A good road we learn has just been made be tween the County Sites of those Counties by their enterprizing inhabitants Another Bank Notice is given by the Treasurer and Clerk of he County of Kent of application for a bank to be located at Grand Rapids with a capital of oueliundred thousand dollars dated Pris March 6 which has been publish ed in the Globe completely vindicates his con duct relative to the Seminole war from the un just aspersions cast upon it by General Ciinc! in Ins tcstmony at rederick: during Crcnera con mat it is written with clearness aot ability and is highly honorable to the character as a gentlemen and an officer of th( general government We cannot refrain fron copying the following it iies a slight view of the character of that remarkable tn whose fame will last as long as the coun try stands: feel I violate no confidence in saying that there vv as not a report received of the opera b)rda from the first apprehensions of tmficultses which was not submitted to the Pre sident nor a measure of any importance taken which was not approved by' him' It is well known that from the practice and organization of our government i fie heads of departments are in daily communication with the President and that all questions: ot much interest are dis cust cd with him and to those1 who know the habits of rigid scrutiny winch General Jackson carried with him into public nfc I need not say tnat no question coud he presented to him which he did not carefully and tally consider In the examination of papers he was remarkable for the most patient attention and I wall say of him now in his day of retirement what would not have thus publicly said of him in thesdayof his pow er that never have I known a man who urougne ro every subject quicker powers ot pre ception nor a more intuitive rom tlie Lockpoit Balance Lockport and Niagara alls dWe are gratified being able to announce that op erations will be commenced upon the Lockport and Niagara alls Railroad on the first day of May next from which time cars will perform regular trips twice per day from this village to the alls By an arrangement between the two companies the operations of this Railroad and the Buffalo and Niagara alls Railroad will be so connected as to open io travellers a continuous Railroitd communication from Lock port to Buffalo viat the alls Much less time will be required topass from one point to the other by Railroad than is necessary to perform the journey by canal boats When The loco motives shall have been 'received on the Lock port road it is calculated that but 2 1 2 or 3 hours will be consumed in passing from Buffalo to Lockport The Lewiston Rail road connect ing with the Lockport road near the Indian vil lage is to be completed in the month of Juhe An important I nk is thus added to complete chain of communication'1 By the 'Lewiston Railroad in connection with the Lockport roadi all he Canada travel passing east and west will be accommodated in connection with the Buf falo road it opens an avenue to accommodate all the travel and commerce between Erie and Ontario tr 4 Official Department of State April 24 1837' Information has been received at this Depart ment from the United States Consul at Mexico that the following ports of Mexico and partments appertaining thereto have been ed to foreign commerce by a decree of the ican Government to take efiect six months ah ter the publication of the decree passed 2d 1837 viz On the Gulf of Jlfextco Eacaiar GoatMC' Alvarado Matagoido and Oil the Pacific Huatulco Manzanilla' Na tividad Mazatlan La Paz Loreto and San rancisco Notice to settlers onthejuLlic Grund River aforesaid and the said treasurer purchaser or purchasers of any si imitate in writing describing the lands purchased and the Bum paid therefor and the time when the purchaser will lie entitled to a deed ibr the said lands: and if the person claiming title to the Said lands desenbed in the said certificate" shall not within Ivvo years from the date thereof pav to lhe treasurer for the use of the purchat cr hciiH or assigns the sum mentioned in such eeiiificiUe to gether with imtrest thereon at the rate of twenty percent per annum from the date of such cmtli cate the trr a' nter or his sue ussur in office shall at the ex pit ation of the said two years execute to the purchaser 'his or assigns a conveyance of die lands so sold which conveyance shnlLvest in the person or persons to whom it shall be given' art absolute estate mfee simple subject to all the claims the state shall have thereon and rhe said conveyance shall be conclusive evidence that the sale was regular according to the provisions of this act and every such conveyance executed by the said treasurer under his hand and seal and ac knowledged witnessed and recorded in the usual form may be given in evidence tn the same manner employed on them are producing enormous profits to the proprietors The purchaser of farming lands who is now engaged in their cul tivation is sure of realizing his four and five hundred per cent a year for his investments The owner of pine lands who has erected hismill? and is sawing his lumber is realizing his profits in the same proportion The western men can pay all their debts to the cast and have enough left to make decent fortunes Important to Non Residents We pub lished some wet ks ago the act parsed at the last session of the Legislat ure relating to tax ation without calling public attention particu larly to it In consequence of the importance of the act to non resident holders of real es tate in Michigan it has been suggested that it would be well to call their attention to its pro visions It is known that the now States which were admitted into the Union previous to Michigan are prohibited from taxing the lands of non re sidents for five years after their purchase of the government and it is generally supposed that the same prohibition extends to Michigan This however is an error By the act of Congress admitting her into the Union Michigan is plac ed upon the same footing as the original States in regard tolhe rights of taxation Acting un der this authority her Legislature vyith a wise discretion passed an act at the late session tax ing the lands of non resident as well as resi dent proprietors The following is the section referred to 17 Tn all assessments for taxation of land actually used and occupied for farming purposes all improvements of less value than Jivehvndred dollars and erected thereon under the value of tico hundred and fifty dollars shall be exempt from the assessment list and from taxation NO LANDS shall be assessed AT A LESS SUM THAN THREE DOLLARS PER es may be imposed by the law it board of trusters may deem proper fine o1' penalty fhtdl not exited lars the same may 'be recovered be of' the peace in the township of Tecumseh and any interest the inhabitants of lite village of Te cumseh as a bodyr corporate may have the fine or penaltv to lie recovered shall not disqualify any inhabitant of said village to try said cause or serve as a juror or be a witness therein and the circuit court of the coiintj shall also have jurisdiction over all fines and penalties imposed by said by laws Sec 7 To ascertain the value of any property to be taken to open or continue a street and tho damage the owner will sustain by its being taken the board of trustees shall appoint two commission ers ami the owner of the property to ho taken may appoint two and the four shall choo fifth and in case the owner neglects or refuses to choose two any justice of the peace of the couniy may choose for him which commissioners shall be disinterest ed and inhabitants ot said county and freeholders therein and who shall take an oath or affirmation to be administered by the president of the village well and truly and without partiality or favor to val ue the property to be taken and the damage to the owner ns aforesaid and to assess the same upon the property benefited by the improvement and to report such valuation and assessment to the board of trustees which report when confirmed by the circuit court of the county and entered upon the records thereof shall be final and conclusive upon all parties interested ami nny person i 1 1 tervs ted in said report may object to its confirmation by affida vit or otherwise and the said court may refer the same back to the old commissioners or now com missioners to be appointed by the court to mako a new valuation and assessment as often as the court may deem the same necessary to promote tho ends of justice property lying upon the street to lie open ed or conliii ued only shal! he assessed for opemnT or continuing a street winch shall be assessed up on property benefited thereby and no s'reet shall be opened unless two thirds ol the interest thereby affected shall petition for the same Sec 8 All taxes levied upon real estate and al! assessments made thereon ior opening or continu Sec 17 This act shall be favorably construed and received in all courts as a public act and copies thereof printed under the authority of the legislature shall be received as evidence without rtiriher proof The legislature nny alter amend or ic pcnl ibis net Sec 19 No person sliall be eligible to any office in this corporation unless he shall have resided in the said corporation one year next preceding his election Approved March 14 1837 A true copy Kixtzlng PttiTciiETTE Sec of State Detroit May 2d 1837 I The following letter from the Commit of Imhan affairs at Washington enclosing opinion of the Attorney General of the 8 the subj ct therein reterred to is published the information of all persons concerned 'I district or country ceded by the treaty comt bends thejreaty north of Grand River on achigan extending through the straits of Mi ihmackinac to Thunder Bay River of Lake 1 ron and all the country situated norrii of drattywuf the St and south 1XAC Superior which lies east of a line dn through flic Skonawba River of Green Bar Chocolate River of ike Superior A 3 ar Department Ofee of Indian Affairs rpi APnl 2kr 1637 ii 1 he question proposed to tne in otter of the 29th ebruary in relation to proper construction of the 13th article of 3 tbc and xMtrch hen one of thong hl exponent to submit to the Attorney neral tor his opinion a copy of which I haw honor to transmt you herewith perceive that his opinion coincic ovn and it may be well to give pay tiie sum or sums at which he or she shal) be taxed or assessed as aforcsad the said marshal is hereby authorized and required levy the same by Oiatiess and sale of the goods and chattels of the person who ought io pay the bamc and tn ease the I goouj and choituls dutranieu shall fur mori than the amount of the tax or assessment: with the charges of distress and sale the surplus shall be paid to the owner oi such goods and chattels on demand Sec 13 The tax upon real estate with all as sessments for the purpo named in the eighth sec tion of this act sha'I be put down in the said as sessment roll a column by itself and whenever any such tax or assessment and the interest there on which shall be computed at the rate of fourteen percent thereon per annum until paid shall re main unpaid for two years front the date of the war rant to the marshal aforesaid the treasurer of said village shall cause so much of the land charge i with such tax and assessment and interest to be sold at public auction at some public house in said village to the highest bidder as shall be necessary to pay the said taxes and assessments and interest together with all charges thereon first giving at least four months notice of the time and place of such sa'c by advertisement posted up three of the mof public places raid village or by eaiirirm the same to be publshed in a newspaper printed said village and affidavit of said publication recorded in ihe manner prescribed in the tenth section of this act shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the fact of publication Sec 14 On the day mentioned in said notice the said treasurer shall commence the safo of said lands and continue the same from day to day un til so much thereof shall be sold as will pay the tax es ami assessments as aforesaid with the interest ceeding one hundred and fifty dollars to mako further necessaiy improvements at the capitol A sum not exceeding two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated to be drawn by and ex VpendeUjujder the directions of the Speaker of the House for the purpose of repairs and alfor in the'House of Representatives provid ihg additional furniture for the same and caus jng the same to be white washed and cleaned an accurate account of which expenditure shall be made at the adjourned session of tho Lcgi lain re To the Secretary of State one hundred dollars to insure the capitol against fire There bIkiII be a contingent stnn rot exceeding two'thousand dollars" placed at the disposal of tho Governor made subject to his order pay tm foteseen expenses and for the distribution of the laws and journals and to procure a seal pres" a statement of which disbursement sliall be laid "by the Auditor General before the Legislature at its next annual meeting The said several "sums' of money by this act appropriated shall be paid by Agent and he shall draw the same' from the state treasury out of any moneys therein not otherwise appropriated which the Auditor General shall audit and allow as in this act directed And it is hereby ex pressly declared that no account for articles fur nished the Legislature shall be paid by the is 1 cal Agent unless such and every account al lowed shall specify the items and the price charged for such item so furnished and by whom audited and the account so allowed shall be deposited by the iscal Agent with the Au ditor General of this State Approved March 1837 A true copy Kintzing Pritchette Secretary of State THE TIMES Beware of desperate steps the darkest day Live till to morrow will have passed Although we are not a prophet nor the soa of a prophet yet vve cannot forbear predicting that the dawn of brighter and more propritious tithes is now beginning to open upon the pecuniary Al ike the the doposito banks and paid over to the states still the times will daily grow easier to nine tenths of the people until the highest degree of pros perity again returns In the train' of causes which have produced the disastrous consequences from which we arc now emerging the first and most prominent were the overtrading and speculation which ac cumulated in the treasury surplus revenue to the enormous amount of fortij tii'o millions if dollars This amount was deposited by the gov ernment with the banks and by the banks loaned to the people Next in order came the distri bution bill which required the secretary of the treasury to collect in this forty two millions loaned to the bank's and pay it over to the states between the 1st of January last and the 1st of October next The period of painful travail winch he mercantile class has just gone through has been produced (secondarily wo mean) by the collection of this amount one half of which i has already been called in and paid over to the states The operation of the measure of dis tribution taken in connection with the legisla tion of the states consequent upon it will Dow I bring repose We have endured lhe evils of the syli and we are now to have its benefits We have passed through the gloom and are yet to enjoy tne sunshine We shall be greatly mistaken if the whig presses do not soon begin to laud the distribution lull as warmly as thev have assailed the specie circular By the timely legislation of the several states the surplus money coming to them under provisons of the deposite act is returnimr among the people in rivulets as fast as it was poured into the treasury in currents Ttcculy 'ne millions of dollars are now heirw diffused in this manner throughout the United States 'and ticenty one millions more are to be spread in the same way bet ween this and the first of October Let ns tni New York for instance Shelias just passed a Liw providing that the share com ing to her amounting to near five millions of dollars should he loaned out in the several counties proportion to their population Two commissioners in each county have been ap pointed for this purpose with authority to loan it to the people on bonds and mortgages in sums ot not le than $200 nor more than $2000 'riiosr otiicers are now performing their dutie and vid soon scatter over that state the two millions and a half of dollars now in its treasury winch it received out of the surplus revenue The twenty one millions of dollars which have been paid over to the states are now returning to the people in this manner and nearly eight mllions of that amount goes to the states ad joining Michigan Now York Pennsylvania (hio Indiana and Illinois rom these consi derations we think we arc warranted in antici pating a quick return of easy and auspicious times Slanders ufon the The Adverti ser copies an article from an eastern paper which among of her things says Not a tuxntlcth part oj t' debts nom due from the south and WEST will ever be paid This is a slander upon the west and we are surprised that it should have found its way into awestern paper with the re mark that contains too much Now the truth is that as far is unprofitable speculations have been carried on in the west they have been done by eastern men As re gards government lands no debts arc due But ashir as speculations have been made in the'pur case of second hand property such as pine lands village lots it is the eastern man who has involved himself in embarrassments and is in debted to tne west The western resident wound his way into the forest and entered at government jirice is pine lands and sold out to the eastern' speculator at $5 per acre receiving part down and taking notes for the remainder The western man squatted upon choice lands at the mouths of rivers and at the head of their navigable waters the out his at the rate of thousands of dollars an acre paying part cash and giving notes for the balance There cannot be the least doubt that the eastern capitalists are now indebted to the west for real estate far beyond what the west owe them The fact is that the purchases of rea estate in the west owned by western men are gener ally paid for and in connection with the labbr Tu keep the public hipbwnys and bridges within the incorporation limits in lepair To cause the streets alleys side and pub lic highways and every part thereof to be kept free from ructions To lay out new streets and alleys and to extend such as me already laid out Provided 'I hat the land of any individual shall not be taken for sucji purpose until said individual shall be pad the val ue thereof and of all buildings upon said land and all damages he will sustain to be asceitaincd as hereinafter inentior ed To lay taxes on all personal and real estate with in the limits of said village excepting piupcrty be longing Io the village town county or state ex cepting 'k Iso places of public worship belonging to anv chinch or congregation and all school houses beclt It smm be tire duty ci tho once in each and every year and immediately after th assessors have assessed the a id personal esiam lying and bemg in said village to estimate appor tion and set down a column left lor that purpose opposite io the several sums set down as the ard value of the real and personal estuie the as acssiiicnt roll the respective sums in dollars and cents to be paid as a tax or assessment: thereon and they shall cause tlie assci smcnt rail or a copy of it to be delivered to the mnr lmi of sm! vJIago with a warrant annexed to the same under the Abolitionism The following communica tion has been handed us for publication together with the extracts which accompany it Although wc are not aware of having spoken of abolition ism except incidentally in our columns still we comply without reluctance the request of our correspondent It is our intention to avail ourselves of some future and less occupied mo to give our sentiments more at length up on the subject or the present we can only say that from the evidences which uc daily see of the deep feeling of the south upon the action of lhe north upon this subject it is our deliberate conviction that the first fruits of success of the abolitionists will be a certain dissolution of the American Union When Congress by the force of law and the coiifequent power of the sword sends its officers into the fields and firesides of the planters in the Dstrict of Columbia to wrest from them the property which our patriot fathers left to them in their skives that moment will the American Union be at an end or tin Press Mr Editor I have observed in the sever al late numbers of the ree Press remarks inju riously affecting the Abolitionists As you are' no doubt sincere in your disapprobation of their principles and proceedings you are in the right to publish your sentiments and to express open ly the censure you conceive them to merit I have as yet however seen in your piper no statement of their principles and views As ma ny of your readers may have incorrect notions on this subject I would respectfully suggest whether justice and fairness would not render it proper to publish some brief summary of the avowed principles and purposes of those who are so frequently the object of your attack Such a summary is contained in the preamble and second article of the constitution of the Mi chigan State Anti Slavery Society which is subjoined The great democratic principle of free discussion would seern to require that edit ors opposed to abolition should occasionally' open their columns to a oriel explanation and defence of it Connected with no party in poli tics and with no sect in religion it simply asks a hearing from all Its advocates would say even to those who are treating them with vio lence whether in word or deed but The course recommended would do doubt be agreeable to numerous political friends who are in fovor of free discussion and to MANY CITIZENS PREAMBLE undersigned citizens of Michigan de sirous of aiding in the progress of universal free dom and especially in the em incipation of mil lions of the American people from personal bon dage do form themselves into an association lor this purpose They believe that every man lias a right (ih ueieasible except by crime) to his personal lib Cily and that the violent deprivation of this right stops tiie sufferer of tlm mo valuable at tributes of Imm mty and a similates him to the brute creation tnus inllicting the greatest wrong to winch a human being is liable They believe that man can rightly hold no property in man and that every exercise of ir responsible dom nion in accordance with the op posite principle is sin since it is contrary to the precept Do justice and lure nierru nrer ept winch they believe binding on all and towards all and that this sin I ke every other ought to be immediately forsaken They believe that slaveholding is deeply inju rious to the temporal as well as spiritual inte rests of the master and that he would find it ex pedient to do right and restore his bondman to that freedom which by the gilt of Heaven is the rightful inheritance of every human being They anticipate the vengeance of heaven up on their beloved country should it persist in a crime of so deep a dye and so abhorrent to the spirit ami prect pts of tnat religion which is from above They design no unauthorized interference with tlie rights ot others but oppose themselves in tlie spirit as they hope of the Gospel of Peace to practices destructive of all right Their efibrts shall be within the limits of the Constitution of the United States tending directly to the extinc tion of slavery and the slave trade in the Dis trict of Columbia and Territories of the United States and operating elsewhere by moral influ ence Their reliance for success is on tlie goodness of their cause the power of justice and truth and the blessing of CONSTITUTION 2 The object of this society shall be the entire abolition of slavery in the United States of America and the elevation of our" colorei brethren to thier proper rank as Men While it admits that each state alone has by the con stitution of the United States the exclusive right to legislate with regard to slavely own limits its a shall be to convince all our fellow citizens by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences that slave holding is a crime in the sight of God and that the duty safety and best interests of all concern ed require its immediate We must take the liberty of making from the pamphlet sent us one extract more which was not marked for publication rom this it would seCtn there are more objects in among ab olitionists than meet the eye in the above ex tracts One of these objects is nothing less than a complete revolution in the foundation of our state government We copy from the address of the executive committee may we not come nearer home and still find somewhat in our newly organised state in stitutions contradictory of the broad principle of inc equaiiry oi civil and political right hat says our state constitution white male citizen shall vote apportioned according to the number of white male citizens Is this not establishing the test of color and has this your consent and approbation Will yoti introduce the distinction of caste and that too founded on so slight ground hue of the skinl Alust we not rather believe that thic odous feature of onr institutions 1 has crept through inadvertency or has been introduced through pro slavery interference and that it is not heartily sanctioned by the independent yeo manry of the State the friends of equal laws lhe supporters of the doctrine of universal libers ty Will the friends of human rights in our ris ing state continue to sanction such a departure from first principles in the CuDotitution of their Paying Specie When called on for specie the Charleston Banks instead of paying silver turn out foreign gold weighed piece by piece by some slow motioned old men in spectacles The whole bank hoursof a day werejately used up without weighing $500 and the applicant was requested to call again next day to see the weighing of that sum finished Slow business draining such banks Bath Adv' 1 Your most A HARRIS Commissioner Schoolcraft Esq Detroit Michigan Attorney Office Anril 2()tfi Sir: In answer to the questions proponed the letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affaii and referred tome by your communication the 33J ultimo I Pave tlie honor to inform ye that my opuion rhe thirteenth article of tl treaty of March 1533 with the Ottawa at Chippewa Indians by which Indians sti ulate lor the right of hunting on the lands ded with the other usual privileges of occupanc until the land is required tor inustl regarded a reservmgt he use of the ceded land for all tlie purposes of Indian occupancy as existed prior to the treaty until such lands sht have been actually disposed of to indw iduals I the United states tsucli disposition may I tnade by sale Cinder the general laws or bysp cial grants or in any other way that Conrei may direct and whenever an actual disposilic of any particular tract shall he in ide the usi fructuiiry right of the Indians will cease as such tract In the mean time however that right canni lawfully be interrupted by the Government sb Jess by any citizen of the United States I am sir very respectfully Your servant (Signe i ') BUTLER Hon Poinsett Secretary of War rom the Boston la I.