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TUB OREGON AKCUS, ri'iLuuiRQ ivmr utususv mossiso, BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. . OHce-0ood'i Building, Main it. Edtto rial Room in first story. tERMS-Tka Aaavs vill k, JurnUkti at Tktti Dallma and Fifty Ctnts pn annum, ta tihglt tiikarrittrtTkrta Dollar taek la ilubtajltn at out ajfea. IW T Dalian jar ,ti mantkaHa tukierif tiant rtctitti jut t leu f triad, fa ft dittantinutd Hull) all arrtaragn art paid. uhIim at tht tptfon af tkt puhlitktr. TUK Dfc.tKT. it thun hut ormlu-i) Burn er, Tbt root mij di be b:iliif J j If llm but qutaclitd lump, One mors it any la lighted ) ltulou thy harp, or on lliy lul, Tbt firing that thou but broken, Khali never Id eweet smincl igsia Give to thy touch a token. If thou but lootoj bird, WIkhs 10'xa of ong would cheer thee, Blill, still, bo Buy be w.in From iho eltiee to waib'o near tbee ( Cut if upon tht iroub'e J ea Tliou h.iat gem unhejdoH, Hope not tluit wiiid or win will bring The treasure tuck when needed. If thoa hut brutal vine, The summer's waimtb le healing, And Ite clusters Mill may g'ow, Through the learn their bloom revealing ; Put If thou hut cup o'erlhrown, With t bright draught filled oh ! never fclull earth girt back that lavished wealth To cool thy parched I'ps brer. The heart le like ibat onp, If thou watto Uie hive It bora ihee An I like that jewel gone, Whiuh the deep will not rcetore thee J And like that etrain of harp and lute, Whence the tweet tound it acalterrd J Cently, oh ! gently touch the chorda 80 toon forever shattered ! letter of Ooverner carry la the Secretary f War. Tebritost of Oheoox, ) ' Postlaxd, April 7 1850. J Hon. JerrKisnn Davis, Secretary nf War:' Sir : My attention has been called to a letter in pablic print from Major General John E. Wool, to Hit Excellency Isaac I Slovens, Governor of Washington Territory copy of which I beg herewith to endow. In this remarkable production, my official conduct and ibo patriotic and solfsacrificing efforts of my fellow-citizens, in thesuppres von of our present Indian hoatili lo, oro nlluded to with such perversion of facta aa to impose upon mc a necessity tlint because of the distinguished public service of Gen. Wool, in the past, I would most gladly Lave been spared. The Legislative Assembly, at its recent session, adopted, with eutire unnniniiy, a memorial to the President osking the re call of tlut distinguished officer from llio command of llio Pacific Military Depart uionl. The) reasons assigned in that docu ment had my cordial concurrence, and I have now, itt behalf of myself aud (ho peo jila whom Le litis aspersed, to request for tho additional caescs lierciu nssigno'', 'liat lie be withdrawn from n position which bis prejudices and indiftWnce to the dangers which threaten to desolate our settlements Jiave rendered him incompetent to hold. Since the commencement of Indian hos tilities, I have been actuated by tho one purpose of their seedy and complete sup iressiou. To this end I have din-cted all any energies. Up to the arrival ol General AVoo in the "Columbia River and Pugct Sound district," the volunteers and the iroops of lbs United States had acted in concert, with the utmost harmony aud pood feeling. By his order, the latter were with drawn from llio field at a season when ihoir e vices could have been of the greatest :possible avail I lie war was notwithstand ing still maintained by the citizen soldiery, utiid important successes achieved. (Gen. Wool arrived at Fort Vancouver, VlVrrihington Territory, in November last, vsvlillo-l was 'engaged by public duties in isouthotn Oregon, at a point over two hun dred rnjles dtstutii from that post. On my (falu-rfl 1 learned from those representing :tue,s ho hud tnnde him an official visit in Any .absence, of the inauguration of a plan AHfcwty at variance with my own, which niatod llio necessity of a personal inter view, The wisdom of my plans it remains only in part for time to viudicate. What those plans actually were and the necessity for their adoption are matters of reenrd, and may not with impunity be misrepresent ed, or nsperscd, directly or by inuendo. Tho inconsiderate and impolitic plans of Jen. Wool find fining illustration in the treceut bold bloody massacres at the mouth of Rogue River and at the Cascades, boib within convenient distance of military posts of the United State. . '' In refutation of a statement so unfounded and presumptuous as that denying the ne cessity of volunteers east of tlie Cascade mountains, I have the honor to refer you 10 my communication 6F the 24th of Octo ber tat, and also to submit the following extract from a letter from N. Olney, Esq., Indian Agent for Oregon, addressed to me under date, Walla Walla, Oct. 12, 1955. ,4I beg leave to draw your attention to the fact of all the Indians north and south of the Columbia, this side of the Nez Per te and Spokans having either commenced Open hostilities upon the white, or are con centrating their forces for that purpose. I have just arrived at this place, this morn ing, from the Dalle, and find the most alar mine state of affair existing as td the friend ly relation heretofore exUtiii between the Amerkane, and Walla Wallas, Pelouses, t'.w-tn'a !M C.irr-'t. I 301 oVnj .! mm A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jefl'ersonian Democracy, and advocating Vol. II. in my powr to cluck the gathering storm, but I fear nothing but a largo military force will do any good toward keeping thorn in check. "The regular force now in the country, I Uo not consider sufheiunt fur tho protection of l ha settlers, and the chastisement of the Indians. One thousand volunteers should be raised immediately, and sent into this part of Oregon and Washington Territo ries. "These Indians must be taue.Lt our power. 1 hey must be humbled, and in all conscience send a force that can do it effect u ally and without delay." Tlnsoxtract is a part only of the Infor mation referred to iu my first communica tion to the Department, as controlling my response to the rrquUiilon of Mhj. Rains. It is also decisive in (he conti adit-lion of the subjoined quotation from Don. Wool's very extraordinary letter : "Now waa thore any circumstance to justify Governor Curry in sending bis troops from Oregon to Washington territory to make war on the Walla Wallas from which tho Orcgonians bad no danger whatever to apprehend." I do not deem it essential to dwell upon tbo want of geographical knowledge here displayed. The Walla Wallas and their allies have given unmistakable signs of their hostility iu the smouldering ruins of the settlers homes and by their occupation of the strongholds of the country. Prior even to the 10th of October, the Iorii m Agent had ordered out all the American settler from among them. It bad been deemed a privilege for Americans to travel through iheir country without being sub jectd to indignity and peril. The immi grant to ibis Territory for several years had complained of their insolence and rob beries. Ever since- the war waged upon them by the Provisional Government, fur the Wailutpu (Whitman) massacre bad the Cay mes, a large majority of them at least manifested an uiifiiendly spirit towards Aniericans. On the O h of October last, a vigilant of fleer of the efficient 4th Infantry, thus ad drvshed me : ''I have reliable information that the Walla Walla Indians are determin ed to niurd t Gov. SluvejMand his party, if they can possibly do so. Thoir chief ouiHit to bo arrested at once." " The chief hero alluded to is IYu-Peu-Mox-Mox ; for whose death, in ord r apparently, to tra duce my fellow -citizens tbo Volunteers of the 1st Regiment, disparage their service and reproach their humanity, it has suited the aims of Gen. Wool to affect a gener ous sympathy. I bnve to state that the lentil of this chief occurred in accordance with the strictest usa:e of civilizad war fare. The four day battle of Walla-walla is now of record. The reports of the offi cer engaged in that brilliant affair, have been already transmitted. History will dn those brave men justice upon whom as persion is sought to be cast. Prejudice and error live but for a season. The alembic of time will preserve the indistructiblr- rutb. It was no "untimely and unproduc tive expedition" thut vanquished a power ful enemy and opened the way for a safe return of Governor fetevens and bis parly from the Itlackfoot country. As indicated in my last communication, the Volunteers who constitute the 1st Regiment in service on the Northern Fron tier, are, I presume, by this time, on their return march, supposing that the U. S. Troops have advanced to a position outside the settlements in the Indian country. I have to express my acknowledgements fur the promptitude with uhich the Oth In fantry were dispatched by the War Depart ment, and my regret that such extraordi nary expedition should have been rendered abnitive through the military mismanage ment of Gen. Wool. The most fecent information touching the opeiations of the volunteer forces, will bo tbo subject of another communication. I am very respectfully, Your obed't servant, GEO. L. CURRY, Gov- of Oregon, Chicago Mcnicipal Election Chica go, March fi. Mr. Dver, the Democratic candidate for Mavor, was elected at the city election yesterday by 400 majority. The vote was 2000 larger than at any previous election. The election of the officers cho. en for the till Ward will probablv be contest ed! five hundred vote more than the legal number of voters bcihir returned, all for the Democratic candidate. The Common Council will consist of four Republican and five Democrats.' OiT The Soui h Carolinian learn from a sonrce on which it relies that there is nd doubt that the friends of Judge Douglas, notwithstanding a long cherished desire to keep hint back for a term or two, have now come to the conclusion that it ha become, under all circumstances, expedient to brinj I'm TsTvxi fur tie nest vt&pn OREGON CITY, O.T., APRIL 26, 1 850. Paette ftattroaaj The San Francisco Herald, a few day since-, contained the following articlo in re lation to what i doing on tho Atlantic tidu to advance the Pacific Railroad. "The steamer brings ut news of a stir among the citizens of the frontier States of Missouri and Iowa, in favor of a connection overland with the Pacific coast. The Mis souri and California Overland Mail and Transportation Company have organized, and are adopting energetic measures to re alize a project that promise such import ant results. They see clearly the vast ben efita such on enterprise would confer upon the inhabitants of Missouri the mnhitude of traveler who would pas over their rail, roads, sojourn in tbrir cities, purchase- out fit the market it would furnish for many of tbrir staples, the valuable trade it would open with Utah and California, and with the energy and foresight for which theciti- zonsofSt. Louis aro provorbiul, they have set to work to put their scheme in operation. The rapid settlement of Kansas, and the extension of the Mormon Outposts, remove many obstacles at first apprehended. If California will only do her share of the work, (be wholo may be accomplished within a Very brief period. What ha become of the famous wagon road to the eastern limit of our State, about which such an excite, tuent wai raised a year ago! Surely that will not be abandoned just as Missouri is moving to unite with us. The mail can be transported overland with a much se curity as by a sea voyage of six thousand miles, and in really less time. The cor porators of the Overland Company are in earnest. The whole State sympathizes wiib them, and in their success many nf the Western States now connected with St. Louis by railroad are indirectly inter ested, and will lend their aid to procure the favor of Congress and the Executive Departments. The people of Iowa, too, are looking anxiously to a connection with California. They are now engaged in building a railroad directly across their State from Davenport on the Mississippi to Council Bluffs on tho Missouri, a distance of three hundred miles. This road con nects with the Rock Island and Chicago road, aud thence by the Lakes and a scries of railro.ids, without interruption, with New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The road crosses the Mississippi over a spacious bridge at Rock Island. On the third of January tbo first section, sixty- seven mitos in length, from the Mississippi River to Ion a City, tho capitul of tho Slate, was opened to travel. Upon that occas'on (3 on Dix. ex Senator from New York and President of the Company, delivered an en couraging address, in the course of which he dwells with great earnestness upon the importance of extending this road from Council Bluffs to California. je avers that litis extension will become a necessity as Kansas and Nebraska fill up, aud enters into details to show ill superiority of the route it would traverse; Within the last ten years the people of the United States have built twenty thousand miles of railroad at an expense of over five hundred bullions of dollars. It is surely not such a gigantic work to construct the two thousand miles of road required to connect the Missouri with the Bay of San Francisco. This con nection becomes more important in view of nur unsettled relations with European pow er. Should a war ever arise, Communi cation between the Atlantic States and the Pacific coast would be entirely cut off by sea ; tne overland route would then bo ex clusively used and necessity would at Once lead to tho construction of a railroad across the Plains'. War, with all its borro', would bring this great benefit, even though the rest of the Union would be wasted by ibo struggle." Japan. We take the following important an nouncement from Tht Friend of China : H. B. K. steamer Tartar left Nagasaki, Japan, on the 17th of October, and reached Ilong Kong on the 2 2d of the same month. The day after the British Convention with Japan was ratified at Nagasaki, Admiral Sterling was asked by the Com mist ioner to give his advice on the best course to be pur sued towards the Americans, who, it was said, with nine vessels at Simon's, were breaking the peaco iti the most outrageous manner. The Admiral is reported to have recommended concession to the American demands, provided they are in any way rea sonable. An American genllemau writes on the subject : "I understand that a fleet of twelve sail of American whaler visited Simoda, in an ticipation of receiving supplies, agreeable to the late treaty. Report U that they were treated very unkindly, and a determi nation wst made by the Japanese, from some cause, not to furnish them wi'h any supplies. The Americans ;ere not to 1 trifled with ; too!; what they wanted, and paid in d-j'.'.srs at their fair weight ; the one-ibird the value, as fixed on by the treaty, they would have no knowledge of. ia said thai guns bad been fifed, and jirre Jar-wc;. killed." V.adaad aaa the vatic mates. At a meeting of tho Manchester Cham her of Commorce, Mr. Bright, M. P, made a speech on the difficulty with the United Stales, in which Ibo Centrul American ques tion wis introduced. Among other tilings, he said : "The American government would give notice and abandon the treaty, because they would never consent that the protec torate and occupation of England should continue, while they understood it should be abolished, and still adhere to a treaty which said they should never occupy ; and therefore tho end would bo that tho treaty would be at an end, and thiiiL's would bo just as if it never Jiad been made ; and the result would be that the United States, being on tho spot, as compared with this country, would he pushing somo way or other some of their ways lie did not think wero Very w iso or very just in that di rection, and there could he no doubt, that, whether we went to war or not. our chil dren would find that the whole of these countries were either iu the actual possess. ion or unuerine dominant innuence ol Hie United States of America, and nothing tte could ever do could prevent it. Hear, bear. tie could not say that it we chose to im poverish ourselves and co into the work house in order to keep up an cstablhdiment there we could aot do it, but that would Le an that toe could achieve, lie thought that the Timet gave admirable advice to them the other day, when it said it would be in finitely better that this country should have no interest there whatever, and no swny over those savages in the Mosquito territo ry, rather than have any interrupiion, for a single day, or amicable relations with the United Slates." Origin and Progress of Frlnllag. BY WILLIAM T. COGGESHALL. ' the tity of Mentz, in Germany, is enti tied to the honor of being the birthplace of Printing. Straabii'g and oue or two oth er cities have laid earnest claims to this high honor, but it is generally conceded by historians that it belongs to Mentz. Guttemburg invented and first used sep arate letters or movable types in 1442. Asearly as i 423 he had printed with lines cut on wood, but this was only a small me chanical advance on what bad been done for many years. Xylographio printing, or tho taking of irhprexsion from wooden tables, on which letters of figures were engraved, had pre viously been practiced in Germany. This was an Eastern invention. It came from China and Japan, Where it is still in use, Among the Jaj anese from time immemori al, the ait of taking impressions on wax ha been exercised, and these curious nnd iKolated people claim the morit of having originated Xylouraphic printing. Typographical printing, or tho taking of impressions from movable wooden br metal types, began properly in 1449. The oldest work typographically executed, was a Latin Bible, which was published in 1455. A man named Johu Faust, or Faustus, became associated with Guttembarg, and did much to improve the art tho latter had invented. The Bibles then extant were in manuscript, and the writing them gave profitable emplnpment to many Monks In 1402, Faust weut to Paris to sell the Bibles he had printed, when tho Monks, fearing his business would so interfere with theirs as to render their copying labors unneces sary, opposed him bitterly, and appealed to 'he prejudices and superstitions of tho poo plCi by declaring that he Was leagued with the Father of Lies. Faust became alarm ed , on account of the violence of tbclf per secution, and (led frotll Paris ; hence arose the tradition that Satan mysteriously con ducted the printer to his invisible king- drtii From Germany, printing was first car ried into Italy ; it was next practiced in France. It was introduced into England by William Caxton, about the year 1471. Guttemburg, at first, look impressions from bis types, by fastening iherh upon a table coloring them with writing ink spreading the paper over them and press ing it with a rubber of horn. Faust invent ed printing ink, and GUttenburg constructed a rude printing press. Iron presses were earliest employed by Lord Stanhope, of Engl aud. It was not nntil 147C that the tiilos of books were printed on a separate page- ti'les to chapters bad been used as early as 140, but (ban tlierH were no capital let ters, nor any marks of punctuation. Priuting was regarded with marked suspicion by the powers of een cultivated England. For a lbrtg series of years prin ters were obliged to take but license. As it was the foe of the selfish Monks who persecuted poor Faust, s5 it has everywhere been, and so it must forever be, the direct foe of tyranny and bigotry, of illiberally and prejudice; and therefor it is true that in every country of the worlr'out Q Ameii- ca, it Las been, and is now, subject to more or less embarrassing restriction. The men who came to the shores of New England in the May Flower, bad more en larged ideas of tbe power and usefulness of printing, than tbe mass of their fellow En glishmen among whom they towered like cLurcb steer-lc: amofj b-ninesc edifice the side of Truth in every Ustio. No. 2, j0n our city streets and yet, after many years, their dusccndi-nts, ami the di-sccn dents of thoso u ho joined thorn in the New World, wero extremely cautious how they encouraged printing, It wits nntilw d and guarded hi a medium of great good and great harm, according to the liberties or liceuso grauted it. Tho first printing press set tip in Amerl ca was "worked" ut Cmnbridge, Mass., in 10:19 Rev. Jesse Glover procured his press by "contributions of fi lends of learning und ro ligion," in Amsterdam, and In England, but died on his passage to the Now World. Stephen Day was tho fiut pi inter in America. In honor of bis pioneer position Government gave him a grant of three hundred acres of laud. Tho third book published by Lin) was Tho Psalms Metre." In 1001, the Now Testament and Baxter's Call, translated into the Indian lungttnge by Eliot, tho great missionary, were printed at a cost of 3,200. Pennsylvania was tho secoud State to encourage priuting, William Brad ford came to Pennsylvania with U'illium Peen, in 10S2, mid In 1090, established a printing press in Philadelphia; its first issuo was an Almanao for 1087, it was but a shoot. The first book printed by Mr. Bradford was a collodion of Essays, by Francis Bacon. It appeared in 1088, nnd was called "The Temple of Wisdom." In 1002, Mr. Bradford was induced to establish a printing press in New York. Ho received 10 per annum, and tho privi lege of printing on his own account. Pre vious to this time there had been no print ing done in tho Troviiico of New York. lli first issue in New York was n procla mation, bearing the date of 1002. The first paper mill erected in America was at Eliznbetbtown, New Jersey, which William Bradford, Royal Printor of Now York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, pur chased in 1728. In 1730, the second went into operation at Boston the Legislature of Massachusetts granted nid. In the time of the Protectorate, the Governor ol Virginia congratulated his peoplo in the following Words i "1 thank God that thore is not a printing press or free School within my province." It was nearly a century uftcr a priuting press had bpen set up in Now England, be fore one would bo tolerated in Virginia. These colonists had no printing dotio among them till 1727. Trulu Htrsugtr than V'W-Uon. Tardon Davis, a citizen of Wisconsin, resident for some time- ill Milton. Rock county, and afterwards in Marquette, has just been pardoned out of tho Louisiana Stnte Prison, after a confinement of one yenr aud a half, under circumstances which demand more than a passing notice. Some two years since, Davis was keeping a wood yard on the Mississippi River, in .Tensas parish, Louisiana. One night there came to his hut three hegrde, fugitive slaves, with bleeding backs nnd lacerated limbs, hungry, naked and nthirst. They stated that they hud been raised in Kentucky and recently bold south ; that icy bad been pat on a cotton plantation and set to picking cotton ; that this wns new work for them, and they nisdo rather a poor fist at it ; that the Overseer, by way of quickening their faculties, bad them flog ged.fievorely aud repeatedly; And thut at Inst, maddened by such Undeserved pun ishment, they had fled nnd were striving lo nioko their way to tho north. DaVis, forgetful of the hjSpecl duo to the "peculiar institution," but remcmboring that in junction of the "higher law," uhich commands us to feed 'ho hungry und clothe tho naked, ministered to tho wants of these poor fugitives, furnished them with a little money, and bid them God speed on their way towards the North Star, that bright Star of hope and Freedom which hod shone upon their dark pathway. But the pursuer was on their track ; blood hounds followed tbem as they fled, and ran them down ; and under threats of torture they revealed tho name of the good Sama ritan, who had bound their wounds, relieved their hunger and clothed thoir nakedness. Davis was immediately arrested, tried for the high crime against the laws of Louiwi-1 ana, convicted of the felony, and sentenced to twenty years imprifconmep.' iD lha ritate Pilaon! The intelligence fell upon bis friends in Wisconsin li'ie a thunder clap. 1 bey could not brieve that in this boasted land of Freedom a man, guilty of no other offence .oan tba Cxerciso cf his ChrUtian chs.-.'ity, was lo be incarcerated in a dun- geon tor twenty years, uut the fact was indisputable, and their only appeal was to Executive clemency. Accordingly a broth er of tbe prisoner wont to Louisiana and labored, all through last wiuter, to obtain his pardon but in vain. Tbe interests of (be "peculiar institution" forbade the re lease of the victim. This winter, tbe ages parent of tbe prisoner renewed the effort to dbtaia their ssa's pardon. For this purpose, Lis fath- f J mj AD "KltTIHIXO ItATta. ' 7 One squall (12 l".e or U) uim inirtim, .1,0,1 " two itrt...m, 4tm " - tli e in rifcus, .iKi Kseh i-.H--'ru ni iiwn an, I, hi llswiiml! deiluciiui.s to III who alnriss If lit yt r. Job Printing. Thr rsoi-sisrei vf thk AlidlH is Hmf U Inform llm ii.Ij'h' ilml ,f liat juMrieJa lire siork uf Jolt VI'. !! o l r erw ru! inir iiutu riul, ar.il ill be in tit s, e ily r.- pi ut ml.lit.oiii tuiird in nil il.t riuiien.rnii isT lhs V wliiy. II.MHIII.I, IWIkltH, KI.ANM. CALIM, I IIK.I'I.AIIS, I'AMI'III.KT.WOIIK ami other ltittU, iluur to urJtr. n hart not'c. er went to New Orleans in DecimUrand has been over since using all the influence and arguments he could lommnti I lo edict the ol ject so nenr his heart. At length he has pret ailed. A telegraphic dispatch re cited yesterday apprises us of the fact that Pimluii Davis is n;;u!u free, af er an impris onment of one yenr nnd a half in the Louisi ana Stalo Prison, fr the high crimo and misdemeanor of relieving thrio J oof, wandering, naked, bleeding mi I starving fellow creatures ! M'hut a story is ibis td tell of '-tho land of the free and tho Imm of tho brave 1" What a frightful commeU' t'iry upon the fundamental truth proclaim ed iu the Dcclurutiou of Independence, that "all men aro created eijual" and endowed hy tin ir Creator, with theiualieuable right of "Life Liberty and tho pursuit of hitppi- uess 1" What a f 'ul blot upon tbo boasted scutcheon of Southern Chivalry I What stain and stigma upon tho nbole A meri no People! What can bo urged in de- folic, ort'Xcuco of an Institution which con tantly and Inexorably demands, as the in disieunblo conditions of its existence, such an outrage upon humanity, sttch violation f privato rights, such an insult to Human Statutos and u-h defiance of the Divine Law. MilirauLe Stiitiml. ' A Swaumi.nu Navy. On the 30th of Juno, 1933, the American had 6,21 3,000 tons of shipping a greater amount than tho British owned. Our ships are tbo fast est, strongest, best manned oud best sailed of till others. A great number of them can bocomerted into men-uf war a great-. er number into privateers. Warfare upod privato account is adapted to tho specula, live and adventurous spirit of them of lb seaboard. If hostilities should take place) botttccn England nnd America, which the Spirit of Peaco forbid! nil tho oceans known to Commorce would swarm witk armed vessels fitted out by the men who now chase the whtile under the circles, and trndo upon the Afiicannnd Asiatic ooastsi British merchant ships would be deemed mure accessible to adventure their chase . moro exciting nnd their capture more ro munerativo than that of the fib of. the A relics. Albany Journal, Horace GtiEEi.Er. Tho Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Timet given tho following description and ancc ' dote of Gro' ley ! No man in Washington nltracts moro at tention. Hi) cuts a quaint figure every. , wh.-ro with his shambling, lopsided ('nit, loosely cut clothing, bravat awry, and hat perched back On thti t p of his head, leav ing his great white face standing out like tho figuro head of it Dutch lugger. I be-. licve his address and negligence of drotst bo mostly assumed. It nits the bitter re mark of a certain Greek philosopher, con cerning the Ppurtuns, that "he saw their' vanity through the holes iu tlioir garments." Horace's is amply visible in his pretended eccentricities. Let lito tell JoU a little joke I heard last evening while at the Na tional Hotel. A trio uf Irihh servants wero busily tttlkirg politics iu the corner of the reading-room, (Irish servants are great politicians hc.ru,) when one of tlioin sudden ly exclaimed ! 'Bo jaben, boys, nti' tlieto's ould Oreo ley !" "Where!" exclaimed his companions, with its much interest in their kiuks us they would naturally exhibit on being told that St. Patrick or Bishop Hughes Wat before them. "Gtatidin yonder by the table, talking wid tho tall giiilluniaii." The Hibernians gazed curiously and in- ' tensely at Horace for an iustant, whon the youngest of them, nppnrenriy a lato impor tation, with wonder in his voice, observed : "Shurn, an he's a white mon !'' ''Av cooiko bo's n white man," said the first speaker, iu a patronizing tone, as though Horn to at.d he wero tho greatest of cronies. "Well, hy my sowl, I've been deceived iu the ould fellow intircly," continued the ' other ; "I thought be was a nager '," Effect of Clf.anli.nkss. Count Rum. fori?, the celebrated practical philosopher, w'-0, writings havo been of greater value to maiiKinu man tne ausiruso spccuiuuou of a host of metaphysicians, thus describes . the advantages of cleanliness : "With care aud attention do tho feather ed race wash themselves and put their plu-' mage in order; and how perfectly neat, clean, and elegant do they appear. Among the bcUMs of the field, we find that those which aro the most cleanly are gen erally the mot gay and cheerful, or are distinguished by a certain air of tranquilli ty or contentment ; and singing birds are remarkable for the neatne3 of their plu. mage. So great is this effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to hi moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth ; nor do I believe there ever was a per son scrupulously attentive to cleanliness, bo ras a coD'umciats viilsin."