The Northern Star, And Constitutionalist

The Legislative Council of Michigan assembled at Detroit, in extra session, on the 11th inst. After the usual preliminary proceedings a committee was appointed to wait upon the Governor, and inform him that a quorum had assembled, and were ready to receive any communication he might think proper to make. The Message of the Governor, subsequently transmitted, is chiefly occupied by suggestions upon the subject of the admission of Michigan into the Union. He is of opinion that the claims of that territory have not received the attention they merit; and suggests that, under the present policy of Congress, she has but one course left for the assertion of her equal right. It is to ascertain her population, which is beyond doubt, more than sixty thousand; to proceed, in that event, to the calling of a convention for the institution of a State Government, and to the election of a representative and Senators to Congress. The State of Michigan will then, he says, have a right to demand admission into the Union. He also recommends an extension of the laws of the Territory over the country north of the State of Missouri, and west of the river Mississippi, which Congress has attached to Michigan—and improvement of the territorial roads—and a full examination of the expediency of abolishing imprisonment for debt, which he considers a great violation of personal liberty, entirely at war with the spirit and genius of our institutions, and a stain upon the legal code of the country. He also suggests the propriety of an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the survey of a route for one or more Rail-Roads across the Peninsula, which is about to be commenced by competent engineers, obtained from the army for that purpose.—Boston Post.