M. Copway a native chief of the Chippeway tribe, Mr.
Miall, Mr. Chipple of New York, and several others.
They delivered their speeches in their respective
languages, but when an oration was considered unusually
important, the substance of it was given in two
other languages by competent interpreters. The last
meeting was held on the 24th; on this occasion thanks
were voted to the municipal authorities of Frankfort
for their kind reception of the members of the Congress;
and Mr. Cobden caused infinite delight and astonishment
by acting as fugleman to an English "Hip, hip,
hurrah!" demonstration of gratitude. A resolution to
publish the proceedings at three kreutzers (about
twopence), terminated the meeting. Next year the
Congress is to be held in London.

The accounts from New York are to the 14th inst.
A bill has been passed by both houses of Congress to
establish a territorial government in New Mexico.
The senate have passed the Fugitive Slave Bill, the
object of which is to provide for the settlement of
questions respecting fugitive slaves. These make all the
bills which were incorporated in that of the Compromise.
The bills passed are the Utah Bill, the Texas
Boundary Bill, the Admission of California Bill, the
Territorial government for New Mexico Bill, and the
Fugitive Slaves Bill. The following are the principal
provisions of this last-mentioned important measure:—

The judges of the United States' District Courts, or
their commissioners, in every county within their district,
shall hear and summarily determine all cases of
claim made by the owner for his Fugitive Slave. The
deposition or affidavit of owner, or other satisfactory testimony,
sworn to before a magistrate, according to the
law of the state whence the slave escaped, shall be held
sufficient to establish the right of property and to
authorise the arrest and reconveyance of the fugitive to
the state whence he or she may have fled; but in no
trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of the
alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence. Any person
aiding or abetting the escape, or interposing to prevent
the arrest and reconveyance, will be subject to a fine
not exceeding 1000 dollars, and to imprisonment not
exceeding six months, besides forfeiting 1000 dollars by
way of civil damages to the party injured. In case of
affidavit being made by the claimant of a fugitive that
he has reason to apprehend a rescue before he can
reconvey such fugitive beyond the border of the state in
which the arrest may have been made, it shall be the
duty of the officer making the arrest to retain the fugitive
in his custody, to personally remove him to the
state whence he fled, and then to deliver him to said
claimant or his attorney. To this end the officer is
authorised and required to summon such assistance
as may enable him efficiently to perform this duty.
Finally, should such fugitive, subsequently to his arrest,
be rescued by force from those having hiim or her in
custody, and the rescue be proven to have been without
collusion on the part of the owner, then the said owner
shall be paid from the public treasury the value of said
fugitive, and the amount paid (which is to be limited)
shall be recovered by the general government from the
state or territory in which the rescue was effected.

The present state of Slavery in the United States is
illustrated by several recent circumstances mentioned in
the American newspapers. An insurrection, in which 400
slaves were to be engaged, was discovered at Lowndes
County, Alabama, some weeks since. The rendezvous
of the negroes was fired upon by the whites, killing one
slave and wounding twenty others. The slaves then
fled. It is said that the slaves were incited to the insurrection
by an abolitionist, for whose apprehension a
reward of 6000 dollars has been offered. A general
massacre is supposed to have been intended.—The runaway
slaves have been so numerous of late, that the
owners have become very much alarmed, and hence are
disposed to remove them to safer parts of the United
States, or to sell them to slave traders. The family of
William Williams, the coachman of Presidents Polk,
Taylor, and Fillmore, were suddenly, on Friday morning,
seized by a slave trader and taken from their homes
in Washington, to be sent to New Orleans. His wife,
over fifty years of ago, three daughters, and three grand-children,
were thus snatched from him in an hour to a
fate worse to him than death, to be sold in the South to
the highest bidder, and separated from him and each
other. The poor man was nearly crazed by the dreadful
parting. After many years' toil he very recently purchased
his own freedom, but his family were owned by
some one in New Orleans. The President, feeling
deeply for his distress, gave him money, and let him go
to see them again. Williams found the trader would
take the sum of 3200 dollars for them, and he returned
with the hope of raising that amount here to redeem
them. The President, Mr. Webster, General Scott, and
a number of Senators, members, and citizens, have contributed
sums from five to fifty dollars. Mr. Corcoran
gave 200 dollars, which was the price asked for the aged
wife, and he made her "free" at once. Besides doing
this, Mr. Corcoran has purchased one of the women,
who has lived in his family for some years, Mrs. Commander
Paterson another, and Mrs. General Towson a
third, who lived with her some years past. So the
children, for whom 1500 dollars were asked, only remained
to be purchased by their grandfather, who is
said to be in a fair way of raising the money.

Professor Webster, convicted of the Murder of Dr.
Parkman, was executed at Boston on the 30th. According
to the American practice the execution took place
within the prison walls, in the presence of certain
citizens chosen as witnesses. This, however, did not
prevent the display of the curiosity always exhibited
on 'such occasions by the public. A local paper says:—
"The rear of the houses in Lowell Street looked into
the gaol-yard, and both the windows and roofs of some
of them were packed with persons of both sexes, and of
all ages. It grieved me to see ladies and young girls
manifest their morbid curiosity in this way. I am happy
in being able to say, however, that three of those houses
were shut by the occupants, who went out of town
rather than witness the execution, or be in the vicinity
of the place when the solemn preparations were being
made, and where a fellow-being was to expiate his crimes
by a violent death. If I had had time I would have
procured the numbers of those houses, and the names of
their occupants, and inserted both in this report. On
the door of one of these houses a bill was posted to this
eff'ect; 'Not at home; opposed to capital punishment.' "
It seems untrue that Webster made a second coffession,
admitting the commission of a premeditated murder.
It is stated, on the contrary, that immediately before his
death, he expressed his adhesion to his statement that
the deed was not premeditated. It appears, however,
that the general opinion in the United States is, that
the murder of Dr. Parkman was premeditated, and that
the verdict of the jury was in accordance with the facts
of the case.

Jenny Lind arrived at New York on the 1st inst., and
was received with the most extravagant demonstrations
of enthusiasm. On the following day, it is stated, 800
American ladies paid their respects to her. The day for
commencing her concerts had not been fixed.

There are accounts from San Francisco to the 1st of
August. Emigration to California is still on the increase;
hundreds were daily flocking to the diggings by way of
Panama and across the plains from the southern states
of America. The rivers during the winter months being
so high have prevented many adventurers from working
to any advantage. At the beginning of the dry season,
in May, dams were commenced across the different
rivers, with the intention to turn them completely from
their course, but the dams as soon as formed were washed
away. It is in the beds and on the banks of rivers that
most gold has hitherto been found. The mode of appropriating
land is a curious one, each person being allowed
on arrival to stake off ten paces of ground till the whole
river or ravine is taken up. At Dew Creek, emptying
into the Yuba river, gold has been found in the highest
mountains to an enormous extent; after digging some
80 or 90 feet, a vein of gold was struck yielding from six
to eight ounces per man per day, and with every prospect
of its continuing. One man sold his claim (ten paces)
for 20,000 dollars. The mountains near the Sierra
Nevada also proved very rich, two men having averaged
7lb. a day for several days.

The intended road across the Isthmus of Panama from