express no opinion, but the question shall be care¬ 
fully considered if it becomes necessary. 
Another message from the President, recapitula¬ 
ting the {^rounds of his protest of March last, 
against the proceedings of the Covode Committee 
the charges against him being vague and express¬ 
ed in equivocal terms. He did not for a moment 
entertain a doubt as to the result, and did not be¬ 
lieve it possible that there could exist a man who 
could so basely perjury himself. The proceedings 
of the House were violative of the rights of the co¬ 
ordinate branch of the government, and which, if 
enforced, would establish a dangerous precedent. 
The House had acted without constitutional 
warrant, and in a manner tending to degrade the 
Presidential office, and render it unworthy of ac¬ 
ceptance by an honorable man ; and demauds 
authority for their action. He reiterates the 
power under the impeachment clause, and that is 
sought to convict him in’the absence of all proof. 
In the name of the representatives of this great 
people, and standing on the ramparts of the Con¬ 
stitution which they ordained und established, he 
voluntarily protests against these unconstitutional 
proceedings. 
After more debate, including remarks by Stan¬ 
ton againat the message, it was referred toaSelect 
Committee. 
The House refused to suspend the rules to take 
up the Post Route Bill, and it is consequently 
dead. At noon adjourned sine die. 
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Morning, July lltb. Commencement Exercises 
at 9, A. M., at Corinthian Hall. Wednesday Af¬ 
ternoon. —Alumni Dinner, and Meeting of the 
Society of Alumni. 
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Great Britain. —The English Parliament pro¬ 
ceedings are unimportant. Explanations were 
given in both Houses of the outbreak in New 
Zealand, confirmatory of newspaper accounts. 
It was reported that the £12,000,000 recom¬ 
mended by the Defence Commissioner, will he 
raised by means of annuities terminable in 25 
years, and that the works will be forthwith com¬ 
menced. 
Admiral Mundy writes to the Secretary of the 
Admiralty, from Palermo, June 3, that the scenes 
enacted there are most horrible. The whole dis¬ 
tance of 1,000 yards in length by 100 wide has 
been laid in ashes. Families have been burned 
alive with the buildingB where they lived. The 
atrocities of the royal troops have been frightful. 
In other parts, convents, churches, and isolated 
edifices have been crushed by shells, 1,100 of 
which were thrown into the city from the citadel, 
and about 200 from the ships, beside grape, canis¬ 
ter, and round shot 
The London Weekly Press states that the great 
Powers had discovered a scheme on foot on the 
part of Russia and France to give the Danublan 
Provinces to the Grand Dnke of Lcnchtenberg. 
Prussia escaped the obligation of a refusal by 
asking Cavour not to announce it officially. It 
also says that Napoleon is about to claim as com¬ 
pensation due to France in consideration of new 
territory which Garabaldi's success will add to the 
house of Savoy, that Genoa, the province of Nice, 
and the island of Sardinia should be annexed to 
France. 
Franck.— The annexation of Savoy and Nice to 
France was formally consummated on the 14th 
inst The event was celebrated in Paris by a 
grand military review and Te Deum. 
The monthly returns from the Bank of France, 
show an increase of 19,000,000 francs. 
The health of Prince Jerome had again become 
serious, causing much uneasiness to his relatives 
and friends. 
Negotiations for a treaty of commerce between 
France and Belgium were progressing. 
Breadstuff's in Franco higher, owing to unfa¬ 
vorable accounts of the growing wheat crop. 
The Sardinia Senate bad approved of the ces¬ 
sion of Savoy and Nice—92 against 10. 
The evacuation of Italy by French troopB was 
completed. 
The Prince Regent of Prussia arrived at Baden 
to join in the Conference on the 14th inst., and 
the Emperor Napoleon on the following day. It 
was reported that the Kings of Saxony, Hanover, 
Bavaria and Wurtemburg, and other German 
princes, would join the Conference. Various 
were the speculations as to the cause and effect of 
the meeting, but nothing authentic was known. 
The Conference ended on the 17th. The 
Krcnoh and Prussian journals declare the peace 
of Europe consolidated. 
Sardinia. —The Sardinian ministry had intro¬ 
duced a project for a new loan of 150,000,000 
francs. 
The two steamers captured by the Neapolitans, 
displayed Sardinian and American flags. They 
contained 2,000,000 pounds of powder, considers 
hie specie, and 800 passengers were made prison¬ 
ers. Everything was conveyed to Gaeta. The 
Sardinian Minister demanded restitution, and 
English Ambassadors supported the demand. 
Austria. —The Austrian Cabinet had unani¬ 
mously resolved to re-establish the Ministry of 
Commerce and Public Works. 
The Austrian Government had resolved to 
increase the effective strength of the second army 
annually, and corps of cavalry are also to be col¬ 
lected iu Italian Tyrol. 
Stadtholdership of Hungary, comes into effect 
July 1st 
Russia. —The Russian loan of £8,000,000, at 4$ 
per cent., is expected to be introduced in London 
by the Barings. 
•Sicily. —A letter from Naples of the 12th, men¬ 
tions, under great reserve, that 2,000 Garibaldians, 
under Gen. Maderi, had landed at Catunzaro, in 
Calabria, it was also rumored that an insurrec¬ 
tion had commenced in Calabria, aud that the 
Neapolitan Government had sent Gen. Nunziati 
there. 
Other letters say that Gen. Piannetti, the com¬ 
mander of the at my in Abrnzzi, had been sum¬ 
moned to act in Calabria. 
The French Government had declined any 
intervention. 
A political demonstration was expected on the 
13tli. Great anxiety prevailed among all classes. 
Eight French and two English inen-of-war were 
in the buy of Naples. 
Letters from Palermo of the 8th, estimate the 
forccB of Garibaldi at 4,000. Seven persons found 
plundering had been shot by order of Garibaldi. 
Tbe concentration of the Piedmontese arriving in 
Ferara is confirmed. 
The convocation of the Sicilian Parliament, 
according to the laws of 1948, is shortly expected 
for the purpose of ratifying the proclamation, 
which decrees to forfeiture the rights of the Bour¬ 
bons and the union of Sicily to the Kingdom of 
Sardinia under Emanuel. 
The order for the evacuation had greatly dis¬ 
couraged the royal troops. 
Garibaldi had opened a national subscription in 
behalf of tbe war. The Archbishop and all tbe 
noble families in Sicily had subscribed. 
A decree of Garibaldi fixes ibe 16th of June for 
the levy of the men furnished by the conscription, 
aud the 20th of June for the departure of the 
Conscripts for Palermo and Cateniu. 
Italy.— General Lamoriciere had dispatched 
troops to the Neapolitan frontier. It was asserted 
that Piedmont had promised to prevent an inva¬ 
sion on the Papal frontier unless each invasion 
was in consequence of a declaration of war by 
any power. This declaration of Piedmont is said 
to have been communicated to the Pope. 
Commercial Ij.-tkluge.ncb, 
— G. P. R. James, the novelist, is dead. 
— American horse railroads are being introduced into 
Athens, Greece. 
— Alligator shoeB are the style in Louisiana, made from 
the hide of the Alligator. 
— A walnut tree lately cut nenr Maquoketa, Iowa, pro- 
disced 4,180 feet of lumber. 
— Texas exchanges speak of the prevalence of an un¬ 
common season of dry weather. 
— Several cases of blackleg have occurred among the 
cattle herds in Delaware Co., Iowa. 
— There is no truth in the pretended identification of 
Ex-Post-Master Fowler at Pike’s Peak. 
— The Toronto Globe learns that tbe Prince will not 
arrive in Montreal till the 24th of August. 
— The Pacific Ocean coTprs an area larger than that of 
all the dry land on the surface of the globe. 
— They say $.100,000,000 more are yet to be expended 
on Paris, Despotism is an expensive luxury. 
— Three thousand bushels of strawberries have been 
sold aud shipped from Kalamazoo this season. 
— In the principal cities South, business is spoken of 
as very dull, and the weather as intensely hot. 
— A number of Indians of the Six Nations have enlist¬ 
ed in one of the English regiments in Canada. 
— There were six persons (women or children) drown- 
in the City of New York on one day last week. 
— The whole number of licenses granted thus far this 
year, in New York City, is only three hundred. 
— In ten years, from 1860 to 1860, the city of Memphis 
has increased In population from 6,280 to 36,000. 
— Fifteen hundred acres of watermelons have been 
planted in Driftwood Township., Jackson Co., Ind, 
— The gentlemen employed in taking the census find a 
great many Ladies aged sixteen or seventeen years. • 
— A company in Detroit lately made an agreement to 
deliver ten militant of broom-handles in Schenectady. 
— The City Council of Portland have voted to extend 
an invitation to tbe Prince of Wales to visit that city, 
— A bill preventing the intermarriage of cousins has 
been introduced Into tbe New Hampshire Legislature. 
— Of nearly 1200 Norwegians arrived at Quebec since 
the present season, not twenty have settled in Canada. 
— If New York gets off with $100,000 for the Japanese 
reception, her tax-payers may congratulate themselves. 
— A recent ccusub in Canada shows that there are 
46,000 runaway idayes in Canada West at tbe present 
time. 
— A Georgia paper gives an exulting and triumphant 
accouut of ,the manufacture of the (first broom in that 
State. 
— In sixty days there is to be telegraphic communica¬ 
tion via La Crosse between Minnesota and the rest of the 
world. 
— Since last November—or at the close of navigation, 
the Dubnque lead region has yielded 4,000,000 pounds of 
mineral. 
— In Dauphin, Pa, a little girl eight years old was at¬ 
tacked and bitten by a dog nnder the ear, and died in ten 
minutes, 
— Joseph Hefnorth died in Norfolk, Ya , recently, and 
his physician ascribed liia disease to the habit of wearing 
tight boots. 
— There hnT© been some extensive specimens of sheep 
stosling in Marion Co , O Three times a whole flock liu 
been stolen. 
— The population of Ohio, instead of advancing, has 
slightly decreased within the last ten years,by emigration 
or otherwise. 
— It is estimated that over ten thousand barrels of oil 
are now ready for market in the oil region of Nortbweatern 
Pennsylvania. 
— A convict, on his way to State Prison from Hnghtou, 
Mick., threw himself from the steamboat with his shackles 
and was drowned. 
— The St. Paul Pioneer says Minnesota has had this 
year an emigration of 10,000 settlers, and farming inter¬ 
ests are promising. 
— Two Yarmouth fishermen who bought the wreck of 
the Hungarian for $14,000, have recovered $80,000 worth 
of goods from her. 
— Some of the English papers assert that Louis Napo¬ 
leon in actively intriguing to bring about the annexation 
of Belgium to France. 
— During the last five months, upwards ofone hundred 
lives have been lost on the western waters, and one mil¬ 
lion and a half of dollars. 
— The freshet on the Susquehanna river carried off 
over eighty million feet of timber. This is the heaviest 
loss of lumber on record. 
— New York papers pay over $100,000 a year for Tele¬ 
graph reports, and as high as $1000 has been paid in one 
day by a New York paper. 
— It is stated that when the slaver Wildffre left the 
African coast, there were fourteen American vessels wait¬ 
ing for cargoes of negroes. 
— Three suits have been commenced in Cincinnati, to 
recover the $30 penalty for refusing to answer the ques¬ 
tions of the census marshal. 
— In Eeveu years the increase in the export of cotton 
from Western Africa, into the ports of Great Britain, haa 
been one thousand per cent. 
— Judge Wright, late Chief Justice of Iowa, has been 
appointed by the Govenor to fill a vacancy existing in the 
Supreme Court ol‘that State. 
— Ten years ago Wisconsin had not a single mile of 
railroad completed within her borders. Now 1,000 miles 
are traversed daily by the cars. 
— The number of sea-going vessels in tbe world is 
about 66,000 thousand, of which, two-thirds belong to 
England and the United States. 
— Lord Brougham has introduced a bill into the House 
of Lords fur the admission of a wife’s evidence in her 
husband’s favor, and vice versa. 
— The new fire alarm telegraph in New Orleans cost 
$68,000. and its first dutv was to announce a fire which 
Arrival of the Great liaweru. 
The Steamship Great Eastern came into the 
light ship off Sandy Ilobk, Jnne 28, at 7j o’clock, 
A. M. Bhe left the Needles at 10 A. M., on the 
17tb. With the exception of two days, she has 
experienced line weather. Bhe steamed the entire 
passage, varying from 204 to 333 miles per 24 
hours. Her engines were not (topped until she 
was off Georgia Shoals for soundings, filie came 
in a route south-east direct to tbe light ship, 
where she was boarded by the ship news collector. 
She was received, on reaching the light ship, by 
Capt. Nosgrove, with a salute and the dipping of 
colors; and as the mist blew away, all the vessels 
in eight Ret their buntings and cheered her. 
The following is the number of miles made per 
day:—17th, 285; 18th, 290; 19th-; 20th, 276; 
21st, 304; 22d, 260; 23d, 302, 24th, 299; 26th, 325; 
20th, 333; 27th, 254. 
From one of the passengers the following infor¬ 
mation is obtained:—There wire 38 passengers 
and 9 guest*, all in the best of health, and have 
been so during the entire voyage, which haa been 
a particularly line one and full of interest. It has 
demonstrated the Great Eastern's superiority as a 
sea-going vessel and the excellence and reliability 
of her machinery. The highest speed obtained 
was 14j knots. The ship’s bottom is very foul, 
and an allowance of at least 2 knots an hour 
should be made on that account Tbe direction 
from Southampton, as usually sailed, is 3,190 
miles, but to avoid the ice she went further south. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y-, JULY 7, 1860. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
WnNhington Bln Iter*. 
Tiik Herald’s Washington correspondent says 
recent intelligence from Madrid states that the 
Spaniards have become so elated with their suc¬ 
cesses in Morocco that they design having a dash 
at Mexico, making the necessity of preserving 
Cuba tjr tbe Spanish monarchy the pretext for 
their belligerent operations; and not only does 
Spain contemplate a descent upon Mexico, but the 
United States is to be called to account for the 
capture of the piratical war steamers oil' Vera 
Cruz not long since. 
Altogether contrary to the previous indications, 
the Dost Office Deficiency bill has become a law. 
It was saved from defeat by the House unex¬ 
pectedly receding from amendment. With a few 
exceptions, ol all the inland service suspended on 
the 4th of March, 18.59, apart from the uppropria 
tions for deficiencies, it requires the Post Master 
to advertise for proposals, and contract with the 
lowest responsible bidder or bidders for the trans¬ 
portations of mails from Charleston, via Havana, 
to Key West and back twice a month or oftoner, 
lrom the first (if July till the first of June, 1804. 
Among the acts passed by the late session of 
Congress was the one to carry into effect certain 
stipulations in the treaties between tho United 
States and China, Siam, Turkey. Persia, Tripoli, 
Tunis, Morocco and Muscat, by which our laws, in 
criminal aud civil matters, are extended on Amer¬ 
ican citizens In those countries. Also the common 
law including equity and admiralty. Ministers and 
Consult? have fuff judicial powers and can punish 
according to the magnitude of the offense. The 
President is authorized to appoint certain marshals 
to execute processes—one in Japan, four in Chiua, 
one in Siam, and one in Turkey. Murder, insur¬ 
rection or rebellion against the government of 
either of said countries, with intent to subvert the 
same, are made capital offenses, punishable with 
death. Our consuls or commercial agents on 
islands not inhabited by any civilized people or 
whom we have not recognized by treuty, arc also 
empowered to exercise judicial functions over 
American citizens. 
New* Parogenjilin. 
Tjik Marin War Steamers.— TheU. S. District 
Court at New Orleans, have decided that the 
Marin steamers captured by our Navy oil' Vera 
Cruz, are not lawful prizes. We suppose their 
owner will set up a claim for damages for the 
seizure of his vessels, and the detention and im¬ 
prisonment of his crews. 
Snow Storm in June.— The Newport (R. I.) 
News has the following chilly item, to comfort 
those who have engaged houses at Newort for the 
watering season:—There was, on this Island, in 
Middletown, Thursday morning, at four o’clock, a 
This is doing pretty well for the 21»t 
snow storm. 
of June. 
Tuk Rush to Pike's Peak. —A party of Pike’s 
Peakers returned to Chicago, state that, by accu¬ 
rate count and record, they met 6,488 teams on 
the road between Denver City aud Fort Kearney, 
and 1,500 more between Fort Kearney and Omaha 
City, making a total of 0,988 teams on the road, 
anil all going west. They say it looked like* a 
village the whole way, from the number of teams 
and people. As each team was attended by from 
four to ten persons, there must have been thirty 
thousand on route to the gold regions, beyond the 
frontiers. These returned miners speak in tbe 
highest terms of the prospects of wealth there— 
to those already wealthy. A man who can't allbrd 
the expensive machinery for crushing quartz, had 
better slay away. 
The Rev. H. II. Storrs, of Cincinnati, has re¬ 
cently preached a sermon on murder, and stated 
that during tiis residence in that city there had 
boon more than one hundred murders, on an aver¬ 
age of two a month, while in no instance had the 
perpetrator been executed. 
The Pope, says rumor, has publicly stated that 
he believes the Emperor aud the King of Sardinia 
are leagued together to carry out the territorial 
views advanced by Edmond About in his pamph¬ 
lets. 
Some idea of the magnitude and importance of 
the commercial interests of the great Northern 
Lakes, may lie formed from the fact that upwards 
of twelve hundred steamers and sailing vessels 
passed in sight of Detroit from the opening of 
navigation, March 0th, to May 14tli. 
The Iowa City Reporter counts up from the 
most reliable data, one hundred and two persons 
killed in that State by the tornado, sixty-five 
houses destroyed other than those blown down at 
Cainnnche aud in Clinton county, while the esti¬ 
mated amount of property destroyed reaches 
aboutsix hundredihousand dollars. Thenumber 
of w r ounded in Iowa reaches 205. 
In reply to inquiries addressed to the Philadel¬ 
phia Mint, a statement has been received in St, 
Louis, showing that the quantities of Pike’s Peak 
gold dust forwarded to that establishment since 
July last, amount in value to not less than six 
hundred thousand dollars. This would probably 
average six dollars to every emigrant in the dig- 
gins. 
It is thought that not less than one hundred 
men were drowned in the Ohio river, during the 
late tornado which passed up the valley. 
Foreign Postage. —The Post-Master General 
has issued a circular, requiring the pre-payment, 
by stamp, of letters directed to places in Canada, 
and all other foreign countries. Persons mailing 
letters for foreign countries, and wishing to pre¬ 
pay the postage, must, therefore, affix stamps. It 
is optional with them, however, whether they pre¬ 
pay letters or not 
At a meeting held in London to consider the 
best means for the extension of Sunday Schools, 
Lord Shaftesbury stated, as the result of personal 
investigation, “ that of all the adult male crimi¬ 
nals iu that city, not two in a hundred had entered 
upon a course of crime who had lived an honest 
life up to the age of twenty;’’ and further, "that 
almost all who enter upona course of crime dosu 
between the ages of eight aud sixteen.’’ Lord 
Shaftesbury is one of the most philanthropic of 
European noblemen, devoting almost his entire 
time and means to doing good to the poor and 
wretched. He is the son-in-law of Lord Palmers¬ 
ton, and is said to be consulted bv the premier in 
all church matters, even to the appointment of 
Bishops. He is the great patron and, we think, 
the originator of “Ragged Schools.” 
Cotigri'HHlounl Proceeding*. 
Senate. —Mr. Yulee asked that the post route 
hill be takeu up. Agreed to. 
Mr. Yulee offered an amendment that the P. M. 
General be authorized to advertise for proposals 
for transporting the mails to California overland 
on the central route, within 20 days, aud on the 
northern route from St. Paul to tho Bailies, Ore¬ 
gon; that he be also authorized to contruct for 
temporary steamship service, as the most expedi¬ 
tious ocean route to Calfornia. Also, provided 
proviso, which was done, lie then commented 
strongly on the Vanderbilt contract; was opposed 
to any more steamship contracts. The bill was 
read a third time und passed. 
The bill amending the act granting lands to cer¬ 
tain Railroads in Mississippi, passed. 
The Senate went into Executive Session, and 
when the doors were again opened, they adopted 
a resolution declaratory of the right and title of 
certain bands of Deeotahand Sioux Indians to the 
lands embraced in the reservations occupied by 
them on the Miunesoto river, and allowing them 
thirty cents per acre for such us they liAve relin¬ 
quished to the United States. All persons who 
have in good faith settled and made improvements 
upon any luuds contained in said reservations be¬ 
lieving the same to be government lands, shall 
have the right of preemption of 100 acres provided 
that when such settlements have been made on 
lauds of the Indians on the south side of the Min¬ 
nesota river, the assent of the Indians shall be 
obtained. 
On motion of Mr. Gwin, a resolution was adopt¬ 
ed that a Committee wait on the President and 
inform him that unless he may have farther com¬ 
munications to make, the Senate was ready to 
close its session by adjournment. 
A Committee waited on the President aud re¬ 
turned. Nothing further to communicate. 
The Vice President thanked the Senate for the 
unanimous resolution of thanks. Senate then ad¬ 
journed. 
House.— The House acceded to the request of 
the Semite to appoint another committee of con¬ 
ference on the Post Office deficiency bill. 
The President sent in a message notifying the 
Commencement Week in Rochester. 
Rochester Theological Seminary.— The Ex 
animation of the Theological Classes will com¬ 
mence on Thursday, and continue through the 
week. Saiibath Evknino, July Stb.—Sermon 
before the Judson Society, at the First Baptist 
Church, by the Rev. Dr. Brantly. Monday Af¬ 
ternoon, July 9th.—Meeting of the Board of 
Trustees of the New York Baptist Union at the 
Board rooms, at 2 o’clock, P. M. Tuesday Morn¬ 
ing, July 10th.—Annual Meeting of the New York 
Baptist Union for Ministerial Education, at the 
Sennon at 
First Baptist Church, at 9i o’clock, 
the same place, by Rev. Dr. Ide, at 11 o’clock, 
A. M. Tuesday 
Meeting of the 
Afternoon 
Alumni of Rochester Theological Seminary, at 2 
o’clock, P. M., atthe First Baptist Church. Thurs¬ 
day, July 12th.—Anniversary Exercises of the 
Rochester Theological Seminary, at the First Bap¬ 
tist Church, at 10 o’clock, A. M. 
University ok Rochester.— Sabiiatii Even¬ 
ing, July 6th.—A Sermon before the ‘'Judson So¬ 
ciety,” by Rev. Wm. T. Brantly, D. D., of Phila¬ 
delphia, at the First Baptist Church, Monday 
Evening, July 9th. — Prize Declamations, by 
members of tbe Sophomore Class, at Corinthian 
Hall, at 7J, P. M. Tuesday Morning, July 10th.— 
The Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of 
the University of Rochester, at 8, A. M. Also, the 
examination of Students for admission, at 9, A. M. 
Also, the meeting of the Alumni at the same 
hour. Tuesday Evening. — Anniversary of the 
Pithonian and Delphic Societies. Orator, Hon. 
Anson Burlingame, of Boston, Mass. Poet,-, 
_ Liverpool Markets — 
Meters. Richardson, Spence & Co. report Hour dull but 
steady. Wheat dull. Priced lower, but quotations un¬ 
changed. Sales ol red 10s Sd@ll.» ; white 1 Iu@19b 9d — 
Corn very dull. Sales mixed at 32s ; yellow 32s 6d ; white 
34s@3os. 
Wakefield, Nash & Co. and others report lard firm at 
57s@69s 4d, 
