The Michigan Regiment

Wenoliceby exchanges that e fforis are making in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Marshall, ócc, to raise companies towardsthe cotnplelion of ihe Regiment of Volunteers. It will consist of ten companies, of 80 privates'each. We have not henrd that any one comnany has yet been fillrd. We do not wonder at the backwardness of our citizons in enlisting in a war of conquest, two thousand miles froni home, with the probability- nay, nlmost certainty bfifore them, drawn from the experience of otliers, that if they remain twelve monthsin the enemy's country, one half of them wil! never return. Far different would be the spirit of the people were our own soil invaded by a foreign enemy. In a war of defenre, they would cheerfully turn out by thousands to repel the invaders. There is a large poriion of community who will not enlistin the service at all, and this portion annually ncreases. In a community rfsavagps, all who can use arms, are fighting men. As civilization increases, the proportion of warlike people diminishes, and will continue to lessen until the whole community will refuse to fight, unless in a case of absolute self-defence : and by that time the people will become so far elevated in the scale of beingthat no such contingency will happen, but diificulties will be settled. as all rational beings should settle them, by mutual concession and liberality. In the mean time, however, it mustbe, from the very nature of things, that wars and fightings will prevai!. We learn from the Free Press that the following gentlemen were commissioned as Captains on Saturday last : Thomas Fitzgerald, of Berrien co , Fred. W. Curtenius, of Kalamazoo, Lkwis Scolt, of Ciilhoun, A. II. FIanscom, of Oakland, G. D. Huel, of St. Clair. William L. VH[pi.LE,of MoHroe, was also appointed as lst Lieutenant. OT'Nofurtlier news from Mexico has been reccived sincelast week.