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Committee. requesting that the Convention would abstain from nominating him, and com Veying these trIths-~s ~sf

 ss did not believe that the character Ofmy services had been placed in that elevated pos sitiOn before the American people. which citizen should first occupy to justify his see lection for the second office in the govern u1ent. TO preside over the Senate of the | United States, and to decide compositions on | which they may be equally divided, is an ex- alted public trust, which can never be useful- Iy or safely cOnfded to any. .citizen, unless he enjoys in advance the highest confidence and | respect not only of. that body, but of the peo- pie of the sovereign states which it's members | represent. Besides. when reflected that l this office was the resource provided by the constitution to supply any vacancy which, in future times might occurin the office of Pres ident, felt still more solemnly impressed that the station demanded statesman of more mature age and longer experience than possess"

 COmets.-The approaching year 1882. will introduce to us one of these extraordinary phenomena, which at so recent period as the middle ofthe fifteenth century, had struck civilized Europe with terror and dismay.- It appears that another comet and the only one, whose clements have been accurately as- cer:ained amongst the 500 which are suppos-

 ed to belong 10 our system, will pay US in

 1885 his periodical visit, after an absence then of seventy six years. And what shall render this comet of 1885 still more remarkable is,

 that it happens to be that very one which

 blazed with tail of such immense extent in the year 1456, as it will also in 1885, occupy.

 ing an arch of ninety degrees in the heavens,

 n. APALx o1.. II I singular appearance at that period. together

 with the invasion of Europe by the Saracens, and the complete destruction of the Constan- \ ftinopoIitan Greek Empire in Asia, so terrified

 Christian Princes us to have caused Pope Calixsus to issue a form of prayer wherever both the Turks and the Comet had been pro-

 pitiatcd.- Times Telescope. Maine-The Legislature of Maine closed its session on Friday last. The injunction of secrecy on the late proceedings with closed doors, has been removed. A resolution has

 been adopted by both branches of the Legis- Iature, on communication made by the

 Governor, authorizing the Governor and l Council to appoint three Commissioners to ! treat with person to be appointed by the National Government, fora cession to Great Britain of the territory north of the St. John, or in other words for the acceptance of the l award of the King of the Netherlands, on the

 payment to the state of an indemnity. .-the

 arrangement to be submitted for ratification

 to a future legislature. This resolution pass l ed in the Senate by a vote of l8 to 6, and in

 inc House by a vote of 30 to es. It is pre-

 posed that the indemnity shall be ample. eith-

 CT in money or other territory. y.-Boston pa.

 . Melancholy Event.-Three boys, of the ages 2, 4, and 8. were drowned yesterday

 morning. in the factory and oil mill canal in { this Village. The oldest was son of MT. i f a-1rss Uuys were sntDg down hill upon sled,

 when. probably, they were all preciptated in-

 to the canal together. No one was. near

 them and it is supposed they had been in the

 water an hour before they were missed. We

 know not when we have witnessed scene of

 greater distress than at the houses of the pa-

 rents of these children, yesterday. Mrs.

 Mitchell was very nearly distracted. She

 has lost two children before, the last one a.

 bout fortnight since.-Ne,cport W. H. Spec. Foreign.-During the past week there

 have been arrivals at New-York bringing

 London papers to the 9th, and Paris papers

 to the 10th February. A conspiracy had

 been discovered at Paris and suppressed.

 @DS WSTO composed or CNrBlStS. and Republicans. who had for their obicot

 the overthrow of the present Government.- About two hundred individuals had been ar-

 rested. but the affair was not considered very

 Formidable and produced but little excitement.

 Fresh disturbances had occurred in the Papal States. Don Pedro had arrived at Belle.lsI and was about repairing to Tercera, where great preparations were making for his expe-

 dltiOn against Portugal. News had been re-

 ceived from Alexandria, that Ibrahim Pacha

 was completely defeated on the 9th Decem-

 ber before St. Jean d'Acre. In England the

 Reform Bill makes but slow progress. Sir

 Henry Parnell, Secretary of War, had with draws from the Administration of Earl Grey. Four of the Bristol rioters had been hanged. and the " balance pardoned." The Cholera

 has extended it's ravages into Scotland, par | tlcnlarly at Musselberg and Kirkintiliock | about seven miles from Glasgow, and though ! many deaths have occurred, the latest report says the nalady has assumed a u,ilder form. Great consternatiOn prevailed at Glasgow.-} The whole number of cases in England and Scotland since the eommencement Of'the dis ease is S,75l; deaths 1,155. The King Of England has appointed the alst of March to be observed as day of public fasting and hu- niIation. on account of the prevalence of this disease. ~g ~

 Papers from Canton received at New York furnish an account of terrible hurricane ex- nePiNnRaA ne in Chsna r,x eh. maA |