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Massdchusens.-The House of Representatives of Mass. have passed to be engrossed, after long and animated debate Militia Bill. This bill provides that there shall be but company parade in year, and ,ha, by companies. in the afternoon Of the first Tuesday in May. Each company is then to be in- spsc,ed, drilled and disciplined.

 We are happy to state that the yonng gentleman whose mysterious disappearance was mentioned n our paper of Friday, is found; he had gone to Long Isand upon business and neglected to give any iufor- nation of his intended absence.-M r. Daily Adu.

 ASeducti0n.-In the case ofJohn Duryea vs Fran. cis Fetner, verdict was rendered in the Circuit Courtnow' sitting, few days since, awarded to the Plaintiff $69e damages. Another jury had previously given $ssO damages to the daughter ofthe pIanid, in an acton for breach of promise. The present suit was for seducton.-N.

 General Root has proposed in Congress an amend- ment to the Constitution giving the election of the President anS Vice President directly to the people, and making the President ineligible afier the first term.

 A Greenshurg, Pa. letter of the 25,h utmo, states, that man named Mcfarland, supposed to be rner- chant from the West, died in one of the stages. In his pocket-book was found $8000. ,t. vt1sn. Jackson.-It is stated ha, Gen. Jackson, hhe President Of the United States completed the 65h year of his age on "Wednesday the 14th. Mr.. Rdndetph. h.-Johm R. andoIpb has been formally announced as candidate to represent the county of Charlotte in the next House of Delegates.

 EruI 1rees.-The Salem Observer says" We have been informed by a farmer from neighboring town. who has hundreds of peach and pear trees that he believes the destruction amongst them is almost, general, and that his neighbors have met with the came fate. 1t will be recoIleced that trees grew vap- idly the last season, and owing to the protracted warmth ofthe autumn, the circulation of the sap con- tnued late; to the abrupt setting in of very severe weather while the trees in this siate aH its long continuance, he ascribes the fatal effects. It will be ound in cutting into the bark otrees thus destroyed that has lost its greennsss and looks dscoorea and dead: this s a indication of the fate of the tree."

 The meeting -house in Copenhagen, Lewis County, N. Y. occupied by the Presbyterian and Baptist Soci- cites, was entirely consumed on the l61h ut.