and thence to Nashville, where his father was. Then he went to Mobile, where an address was presented to him on the 13th of July. One of the signers was Julius Hesse, agent of the "Mobile and Nicara

hundred more. Walker's plan was to and utter destitution. Their importunities escape to the sea-shore, and to embark caused him to leave New York rather in the Granada, a small schooner, the suddenly. He proceeded to Charleston, property of an American citizen, which he had taken possession of and converted into a ship of war. On board this vessel, which lay in the harbor of San Juan del Sur, he had some stores and munitions. Whether he could have succeeded in get-gua Steamship Company," in which capating on board this craft is doubtful, but he was prevented from making the attempt by a message from Captain Davis of the American sloop of war St. Mary's, which had been lying some time in the harbor of San Juan del Sur. Captain Davis gave Walker to understand that he would not allow the Granada to leave, but intended to seize her and hand her over to the Costa Ricans. At the same time he offered his mediation to procure terms for Walker and his men, and on the 30th a treaty of capitulation was signed. Under this treaty Walker and his principal officers were taken to Panama by the St. Mary's, whence they proceeded to New Orleans. The miserable remainder of his forces, including many who had previously deserted, were sent home, partly at the expense of the Costa Ricans and partly by British charity. So ended this expedition, in which more than three thousand men had miserably perished-a large part of them seduced into it by false representations. The Transit Company was rewarded for its league with Walker and assistance to him with the loss of all its property.

city he soon after announced the sailing of the steamer Fashion as the first regular vessel of the line. On the 25th of August it was announced that a "Central American League" had been formed in all the principal cities of the Union, and that a second and well organized expedition would soon set sail. The Central American Ministers at Washington became alarmed, and on the 17th of September, Messrs. Molina and Yrisarri addressed a letter to Secretary Cass, calling upon the Government to interpose to prevent the sailing of the expedition. On the 18th, Secretary Cass issued a circular to the United States' officials to use the utmost diligence in ferreting out the filibusters and preventing any departures. On the 29th, Walker addressed a letter to Mr. Cass, claiming to be the legal President of Nicaragua, and denying" with scorn and indignation any intention to violate the neutrality laws. On the 11th of November, late at night, Walker was arrested at New Orleans on a charge of intended violation of the neutrality laws. His preparations were already in a state of forwardness, and a few hours after his On landing at New Orleans, Walker was arrest, a portion of his men embarked on received with demonstrations of respect, board the Fashion. Walker was released and no doubt at once set on foot arrange- the next day on giving bail in $2,000, and ments for returning to Nicaragua. He immediately he embarked with another next visited Memphis, Louisville, and Cin-party in a steamer for Mobile. On arcinnati, in all of which cities he found a number of sympathizers. On the 13th of June, we find him in Washington, where he had an interview with the President. On the 16th of June, he arrived in New York. He was escorted by a committee from Amboy to the Battery, whence he proceeded to the Park, where he made a speech under a drenching shower. His reception, however, was not very flattering. Many stories of his cruelty and indifference to the comforts of his men had been disseminated by returned filibusters, and stories of the same kind were circulated by the arrival about the same time

riving there, he and his party were put on board another steamer which placed them on board the Fashion, then waiting in Mobile Bay. The Fashion appeared off the harbor of Greytown, on the 24th of November. She passed by, however, and proceeded twenty miles south to the Colorado mouth of the San Juan, where she landed forty-five of her company. The next day she appeared again off Greytown, run into the harbor, and directly under the guns of the Saratoga, placed there to watch her, landed the remainder of the company, one hundred and forty one men; who, with Walker, were soon

and

forty

fortunate followers, who were brought to the U. S. In the meantime the to New York in the United States Sloop-five above referred to, passed up the of-War, Wabash, at the expense of the Colorado, seized Fort Castillo, and sevenational Government, and presented a ral of the transit steamers, which they miserable spectacle of want, disease, held at latest accounts.

LAWS OF CONGRESS.

of said river to Lake Travers; thence up the centre of said lake to the southern extremity thereof; thence in a direct line to the head of Big Stone Lake; thence through its centre to its outlet; thence by a due south line to the north line of the State of Iowa; thence east along the northern boundary of said State to the main channel of the Mississippi River; thence up the main channel of said river, and following the boundary line of the State of Wisconsin, until the same intersects the Saint Louis River; thence down said river to and through Lake Superior, on the boundary line of Wisconsin and Michigan, until it intersects the dividing line between the United States and the British possessions; thence up Pigeon River, and following said dividing line to the place of beginning-be and they are hereby authorized to form for themselves a Constitution and State Government, by the name of the State of Minnesota, and to come into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, according to the Federal Constitution.

The act farther provides for the calling of a Convention to frame a State Constitution, and its submission to a vote of the people for their ratification or rejection; for the granting of two sections of land in each township for schools; 72 sections for the support of a State University; 10 sections for the erection of public buildings at the capital, and five per cent. on the sales of government lands in the State for public roads and internal improvements.

MILITARY ROADS IN OREGON.

It was enacted that all entries of the public lands under the act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to entry, to actual settlers and cultivators, approved Aug. 4, 1854, made prior to the passage of this act, in which the purchaser has made the affidavit and paid the purchase-money as required by said act and the instructions issued and in force, and in the hands of the Register at the time of making said entry, are hereby legalized, and patents shall issue to the parties respectively, excepting those entries under said act, which the commissioner of the General Land-Office may ascertain to have been fraudulently or evasively made; Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to confirm any of said entries which have heretofore been annulled and vacated by said commissioner on account of fraud, evasion of law, or other special cause; and provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive any actual settler and cultivator of his right to any land on which he resided at the time of an this act is an amendment.

Eighty thousand dollars were appropriated for the completion of military roads now in course of construction in the territory of Ore-entry by another person under the act to which gon.

OBSCENE PRINTS, ETC.

An act of Congress declares that the importation of all indecent or obscene articles, prints, paintings, lithographs, engravings, images, figures, daguerreotypes, photographs and transparencies, is hereby prohibited, and no invoice or package whatever, or any part thereof, in which any such articles are contained, shall be admitted to entry; and all invoices and packages whereof any such articles shall compose a part, are hereby declared to be liable to be proceeded against, seized and forfeited by due course of law, and the said articles shall be forthwith destroyed.

INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS.

The act making appropriations for the current contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for the year ending June 30, 1858, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes, appropriates as follows: Current contingent expenses, $75,750 For pay of interpreters, etc., .174,500 For annuity to Blackfoot Nation, ...... 52,000 For the Chippeways of the Mississippi and Lake Superior,

For annuities to the Creek Indians,
For Florida or Seminole Indians,

To Shawnees for lands, etc.,

Carried over,

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.

It was enacted that the Secretary of State, under direction of the President, may contract with the Submarine Telegraph Co., for the aid of the U. S. to the extent of the use of two national ships to assist in laying the telegraph cable across the Atlantic, and for the use of such telegraphic communication by the U. 8. Government, as said Government may require, at a sum not exceeding $70,000 per annum, until such time as the Company shall divide 6 per cent. per annum, and then not exceeding $50,000 per annum for 25 years. Provided, That the government of Great Britain shall, before or at the same time, enter into a like contract for chose purposes with the same association, and upon terms of exact equality with those stipulated by the United States: And provided, That the tariff of prices

for the use of such submarine communication by the public shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the government of Great Britain, or its authorized agent: Provided further, That the United 78,679 States and the citizens thereof shall enjoy the 649,140 use of the said submarine telegraph communi.829,100 cation for all time on the same terms and con....105,000 ditions which shall be stipulated in favor of the government of Great Britain, and the subjects $1,664,169 thereof.

POST OFFICE APPROPRIATIONS.

The act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the year ending June 30, 1858, provides as follows: For transporting mails inland, For compensation to Postmasters, For wrapping paper,

For advertising,

For mail-bags,

For blanks,

..... ..............

For mail depredations and special agents,

.........

fifty-seven, ad valorem duties shall be imposed, in lieu of those now imposed upon goods, wares and merchandise imported from abroad into the United States, as follows, viz.:

87,622,247 Upon the articles enumerated in schedules .2,140,000 A and B, of the tariff act of eighteen hundred 45,000 and forty-six, a duty of thirty per centum, and 80,000 upon those enumerated in schedules C, D, E, 55,000 F, G, and H, of said act, the duties of twenty95,000 four per centum, nineteen per centum, fifteen per centum, twelve per centum, eight per cen65,000 tum, and four per centum, respectively, with 765,000 such exceptions as are hereinafter made; and all articles so imported as aforesaid and not enumerated in the said schedules, nor in schedule I, shall pay a duty of fifteen per centum. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all manufactures composed wholly of cotton, which are bleached, printed, painted, or dyed, and cisco, Cal., to Olympia, Wash. Ter., 125,000 Japanned leather or skins of all kinds, shall be de laines, shall be transferred to schedule C. Ginger-green,

For clerks in Post Offices,
For postage stamps and stamped en-
velopes,

For other Items,.

95,000 229,000 For deficiencies in P. O. appro. for 1857, 666,888 For possible deficiencies in 1858, .2,500,000 For semi-monthly mail from San Fran

transferred to schedule D. $14,488,180

The act also authorizes the P. M.-G. to con- ochrey earths; medicinal roots, leaves, gums, ripe, dried, preserved or pickled; ochres, and tract for a semi-monthly mail by steamers and resins in a crude state not otherwise probetween California and the Territories of Ore-vided for; wares, chemical, earthen or pottery gon and Washington, at $125,000 per annum; also to contract for carrying an overland mail from some point on the Mississippi River to San Francisco, in California, for six years, at a cost not exceeding $800,000 per annum for a semi-monthly mail, $450,000 for a weekly mail, or $600,000 for a semi-weekly mail-the service to be performed with good four-horse coaches, suitable for carrying passengers, each trip to be performed within 25 days.

FORTIFICATIONS.

An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defence, provides as follows:

For Forts Montgomery and Knox,
each $50,000,

For fortifications at Kenebec River,..
For Boston and Portland harbors,
For fortifications at New Bedford,
For Fort Richmond, N. Y. harbor,
For fortifications at Sandy Hook,
For Fort Tompkins, New York,
For Fort Delaware,
For Fort Carroll,

For Fort Sumpter, .....................

For Fort Calhoun,

For Fort Gaines,

..................

For Fort Taylor,

For Fort Jefferson,.

For fortifications in S. Francisco bay,
For fortifications of Ship Island, coast
of Mississippi,.

For fortifications in Mobile bay,
Other appropriations,

Total appropriations,

of a capacity exceeding ten gallons, shall be transferred to schedule E. Borate of lime and codilla, or tow of hemp or flax, shall be transferred to schedule F. regulus of; Barks of all kinds not otherwise Antimony, crude or provided for; camphor, crude; cantharides; carbonate of soda; Emery, in lump or pulverized; Fruits, green, ripe, or dried; gums, Arabic, Barbary, copal, East India, Jeddo, Senegal, substitute, tragacanth, and all other gums and resins, in a crude state; machinery exclusively designed and expressly imported for the manufacture of flax and linen goods; sponges; tin in plates or sheets, galvanized or ungalvanized; woods, namely, cedar, lignumvitæ, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rose wood, satin wood, and all cabinet woods, shall $100,000 100,000 benzoic, boracic, citric, muriatic, white and be transferred to schedule G. Acids, acetic, 90,000 150,000 all other acids of every description sed for yellow, oxalic, pyroligneous and tartaric, and 150,000 chemical or manufacturing purposes not other250,000 wise provided for; aloes; amber; ambergris; 150,000 200,000 aniseed; annatto, roucon or Orleans; nic; articles not in a crude state used in dyeing 100,000 or tanning not otherwise provided for; assa100,000 foetida; asphaltum; barilla; bleaching pow100,000 der, or chloride of lime; borax crude; boucho 200,000 leaves; brimstone crude in bulk; cameos, mo800,000 saics, diamonds, gems, pearls, rubies, and other 850,000 precious stones (not set); chalk; clay; cochineal; cocoa, cocoanuts, and cocoa shells; cork tree bark; cream of tartar; extract of indigo, extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dyewoods not otherwise provided for; extract of madder; flint, ground; grindstones; gutta percha unmanufactured; india rubber in bottles, slabs or sheets, unmanufactured; India rubber, milk of; indigo; lac spirits; lac sulsize and shape for shoes, slippers, boots, phur; lastings cut in strips or patterns of the bootees, gaiters or buttons exclusively, not combined with india rubber; manufactures of mohair cloth, silk twist, or other manufactures of cloth, suitable for the manufacture of shoes, cut in slips or patterns of the size and shape

150,000

100,000
100,000
681,300

..$3,871,300

.........

REDUCING THE TARIFF.

An act reducing the duty on imports and for other purposes, provides as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and

arse

for shoes, slippers, boots, bootees, gaiters or tural, horticultural, me.licinal and manufacbuttons exclusively, not combined with india rubber; music printed with lines, bound or unbound; oils, palm, teal and cocoanut; prussian blue; soda ash; spices of all kinds; watch materials and unfinished parts of watches; and woad, or pastel, shall be transferred to schedule H.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hun-vided, That all regulations to ascertain the dred and fifty-seven, the goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule I, made part hereof, shall be exempt from duty, and entitled to free entry:

SCHEDULE I.

turing purposes not otherwise provided for; glass, when old and fit only to be remanufactured; goods, wares and merchandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States, exported to a foreign country and brought back to the United States in the same condition as when exported, upon which no drawback. or. bounty has been allowed: Proidentity thereof, prescribed by existing laws, or which may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be complied with; guano; household effects, old, and in use, of persons or families from foreign countries, if used abroad by them and not intended for any other person All books, maps, charts, mathematical nau- or persons, or for sale; ioe; ivory unmanutical instruments, philosophical apparatus and factured; junk, old; linseed-but not embraall other articles whatever imported for the cing flax seed; madder root; madder ground use of the United States; all philosophical ap- or prepared; maps and charts; models of inparatus, instruments, books, maps and charts, ventions and other improvements in the arts; statues, statuary, busts and casts of marble, Provided, That no other article or articles shall bronze, alabaster or plaster of paris, paintings be deemed a model or improvement which can and drawings, etchings, specimens of sculpture, be fitted for use; oakum; oil spermaceti, whale cabinets of coins, medals, gems and all collec- and other fish of American fisheries and all tions of antiquities; Provided, the same be other articles the produce of such fisheries; specially imported in good faith for the use of paintings and statuary; palm leaf unmanufac any society incorporated or established for tured; personal and household effects (not philosophical or literary purposes, or for the merchandise) of citizens of the United States encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use dying abroad; plaster of Paris or sulphate of or by the order of any college, academy, school, lime unground; platina unmanufactured; rags or seminary of learning in the United States; of whatever material except wool; ratans and animal carbon (bone black); animals living of reeds unmanufactured; sheathing copper, but all kinds; argol, or crude tartar; articles in a no copper to be considered such, and admitted crude state used in dyeing or tanning not free, except in sheets of forty-eight inches long otherwise provided for; bark, Peruvian; bells, and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from old, and bell metal; berries, nuts, flowers, fourteen to thirty-four ounces the square foot; plants and vegetables used exclusively in dye- sheathing metal, not wholly, or in part of iron ing or in composing dyes, but no article shall ungalvanized; shingle bolts and stave bolts; be classed as such that has undergone any silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, not be manufacture; bismuth; bitter apples; bolting ing doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufaccloths; bones, burnt, and bone dust; books, ture in any way; specimens of natural history, maps and charts imported by authority of the mineralogy, or botany; substances expressly joint library committee of Congress, for the used for manures; tin in pigs, bars or blocks; use of the library of Congress; Provided, That trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, and roots not otherif, in any case, a contract shall have been wise provided for; wearing apparel in actual made with any bookseller, importer, or other use and other personal effects (not merchanperson for books, maps or charts, in which dise); professional books, implements, instrucontract the bookseller, importer, or other ments, and tools of trade, occupation or emperson aforesaid, shall have paid the duty, or ployment, of persons arriving in the United included the duty in said contract, in such case States; Provided, That this exemption shall the duty shall not be remitted; brass, in bars not be construed to include machinery, or other and pigs, or when old and fit only to be re- articles imported for use in any manufacturing manufactured; brazil wood, braziletto, and all establishment, or for sale; sheep's wool unother dye woods in stuffs; bullion, gold and manufactured, of the value of twenty cents per silver; burr stones, wrought or unwrought, but pound or less at the port of exportation, and unmanufactured; cabinets of coins, medals, hair of the alpacca, the goat, and other like and all other collections of antiquities; coffee animals, unmanufactured; Provided, That any and tea when imported direct from the place wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpacca, the of their growth or production in American ves- goat, and other like animals, which shall be sels, or in foreign vessels entitled by reciprocal imported, in any other than the ordinary contreaties to be exempt from discriminating du-dition, as now and heretofore practised, or ties, tonnage and other charges; coffee, the growth or production of the possessions of the Netherlands, imported from the Netherlands in the same manner; coins, gold, silver and copper; copper ore; copper when imported for the United States mint; copper in pigs or bars, or when old and fit only to be remanufactured; cotton; cutch; dragon's blood; felt, adhesive for sheathing vessels; flax unmanufactured; garden seeds and all other seeds for agricul

which shall be changed in its character, for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the intentional admixture of dirt or any foreign substance to twenty cents per pound or less, shall be subject to pay a duty of twenty four per centum ad valorem, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all goods, wares, and merchandise which shall be