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AnVKUTWNO RATM. (a Mjiiare (I'.' bn or I.mi mi murium, 3,oo - - iwu lnrris.n, 4,im " " ll.rer ink rts.in, 5,wi l ai li nliiriil iiwrroti, l,i'l !f deductiues Ui lli. lw ilvtri I'jr ihe y sr. 0 '-www - m.- -, -'- J.X JMWMW Job Printing. Tm rsorsiKion ur tiik .Midi S is turrr bi inform . ilui- 'Imi U lis Jinn leetivfii isrft Murk uf .l"lt 'i V H. aisl o lirr new i nl in J nut. ml, and Will lie ill llix si Hily reenu of TERMS Tl A sac will ii JumUhti at Mli . - f i it J l:i.. 3 At to rnrtv njiy i rnio prr nnrniri, 1$ tiuglo lubirnoritTlirro Dutturi inch to ttultof un at out ojlirt. JP Two Uallun or tit vwiitlit So tulneriji iiattt rffttrtll fiir iema timrittA A Weekly NewHpuiicr, devoted to the FriueijdVs of Jefl'einoiiinii Democracy, nnd advocating the ndo of Truth in every issue- 4il l 1 1. ii mi'i-il t nil ihe Mnln-n ni'i uf th i In lay. IAM)HII.I. l-dMl.liS ;I.A.NhM, Jfjf" A' pitprr ditroutiiiued until nil arrrmngri Vol. II. OREGON CITY, O.T., NOVEMIJKK 29, 1850, No. 03, IWIilW, t IKl I I.AliS rA.Ml,lll.U'.WOKK ainl i.tl.rr tiiu!, id, i. ( lu niilrr. nn kleirl im rf . art vmni til tnt npiton o iiir putiliihrr. thb'ohkmn ahgus, rt SLIMISU Tt HIU MOSXIXH, BY WILLIAM L. ADAM 3. OiTico-Coud's Building, Main st. Edilo . rial Koom in lir st story. i The MunaiWry 1,1 n brtwrm Wssltlnutoa Territory it Ike UrlUb I'umcssIous. It tlio II)uto of Representatives, Anr. 4, the bill lo provide for carrying iniu fT ct llio first article of tlio treaty between the United Sulci and tier Majesty iho Queen of Great llriluin and Ireland, of Iho 15th of Juno, 1953, being under consideration, tho following proceeding took placo : Mr. Pbn.ni.ngton of N. J. I will state , very briefly to tlio House the character of lhi bill. It Immediately concern the praco of iho country, as the, gentleman Ironi Washington Territory Mr. Audcr on well knows, nnd ought nut to bj fur. iher delayed. It will bo recollected, tin t in the year 1810 a treaty of limit was Concluded between tlio United State and (Jreut IJriluin, establishing the bound li ry lill'i between ihu liiiti.sh North Aincri Citu possesions nnd iho L'uili'd Stales. Tho object uf thin bill i lo cany into effect that treaty, so far as tci locate by survey llio boundary line in th-j Gulf of Georgia and ihu Strait uf Fuca, between W'unliiu lun Territory and I ho Hriiish. possessions. It is now ten years since thin treaty wan . made, and yt no part uf I bin lino lint been surveyed. Tim boundary lino, ns estab lished by I ho treaty, begins at the Lake of the Woods, oil llm 49lli parallel of north latitude, and run theiioo went ward along that parallel to tho middlo of the channel which separate tho continent from Van couver' loland, and thence southerly through the middle of that channel, and of Ftica's struits, to tho Pacific ocean. In tho Gulf of Georgia, nhieh constitutes a part of the water between Vancouver" lslati I and tho main land, is a group of small inlands, morn or less impoitnnt, knowu as Llimnii, Waldron, Urea's, Shaw's, DIakely, Cypress, Oucincs, Sidney, San Juan, Lopez, Docn'iir, Fioalgo, Chatham, Discovery, l!lunt's,Whiiby's. MDonough's, and others not named. Upon the ascer tainment of ilia true line of boundary in the gulf, or, in other wortN, ''the middle of the channel which separates the continent font Vai.eouver's l.land," ilepemls the question of the lisle to the isliin Is, and the settlement of such of lliein a in ly b' liabitable, of which ihero. are several of ciniderublu value ni.d initioitanci'. Tliere lire two principal c!ianii"ls in the tulf, one or (ho utlier of which is tie' f ue b uitiJary. One of these is known us the Kuiii, nod llu! other as 'lit Ai r.i strait. If the llosu I io -trait be (lie irue cliannel, the islands of Will hon, Urea's. Shaw's, S.in Juan, L 1 .-cu I lie, lilakt l v, will lull in the IJrili-h Cov'Tinu.'ht ; Mini if ' Iu Ai ro -'rait be the ti ue elniiai 1, lle'e iM.m U ill fall to the United S at. .H. The I'o-ailo hliuii Is cliiimd us I lie true cIihihi I by tl.e 13' ili.--U ( ..vcriini 'lit, un I the Arro strait bv Slant, of ill ' I'liited Siairs. The LeUlalure of Wihintnu Terri tory, claiming these i.-lands lo b- portions of stilt Tenitoiy, bitve iucluliil them within the limits of some one or in ae of. its counties. In April, I81i). the shuriiT of Wliaiconi county, in Wiihitii.jii Tcrrj. torv, -eiz' d a lul of she! j, in 1 1 inland of San Juan, b. lotiiny to the Hudson's Hay Company, and sold lliein for the payment of taxes, li vird under the authority of (lie territorial government. For this nut ol tha KlieriiTduinagPs are claimed, estimated tit ubout 83,0'JO ; nnd considt rable cor lesoiideiiee has been had between Guv. Uoulavs, of Vuncouier's Inland, and Gov. Stevens, of Washington Territory ; and iiUo between Mr. (Jiuutplon, the. Uriti.-h Minister, and our Secretary ol State, on the subject of this claim for damages, and the delimitation ofthe boundary. Aseurly ns 181 fi tho attention of our Government was called, by lhfil5ritij.il Minister, to a proposition for the appointment of a joint commission to run und mark I he entire boundary under the treaty; but nothing lias, as yet, -been done, either 9 lo this claim for damages, or ihe demntkntion of the 'line. It is impossible thai the present tale of things can coniinue without danger to the peace of the country; nnd, in view of the peaceful termination of recent dilli cultie with Great Britain foiirco of congratulation lo tlio great body of the people of boll) countries, whose interests are so Intimately blended, and whoso mu tual sympathies uro so strong it cannot be that uny embarrassment will be thrown in iho way of terminating nil causes of difference on our northern boundary. Mr. Houston of Ala. 1 picsutne Mint this bill is right; bull desire to ask the gentleman from New Jersey ona question. Points are given in the bill, from which I eeppese ho can calculate ihe length of line "required to be surveyed. Will the gentle iman tell me what that length of line is? dr. Penmnston. The line to Iks sur veyed, as contemplated by the bill, is the tor line from the intersection of the 40th parallel of north latituJe. an' tie 'middle I 01 III CllillolUl Di.'rtiwmtg 'flilbuutci a Island from the continent. The distance II cannot stale accurately. The Delegate ifrom Washington Territory Mr. Ander son mrty be able to state tho distance more satisfactorily than myself. I suppose the distance may be about two hundred and 'fifty miles, including the Gulf of Georgia and the Straits of i'uca. I will state to the gentleman from Alabama, however, that I shall propose an amendment to ihe 1)111, for ihe purposeof extending iis opera lion, so as to provide for the demarkalion of the land line between Washinon Ter ritory and the liritish postrssmn This amendment is rendered necessary in con sequence of disputed claim a to land ly inT on or near the line, and which are dJemcd valuable from gold deposi's. Mr. Asdersox. I will make a s'ale ment in regard lo thif, which I think will show the necessity of the piss.ize of this bill immediately. It will be recollected that bv the term of the treaty of I"th June. ii?46. between our Government and' that o Great Dntain, the 43;U pra,w, o, - . . . . f north latituile was Me me oounuarj . ;ween lh possessions, running westward of the constructive center of the Gulf ol' Georgia ; theneo southerly through the mjildlo of said channel, und of I'uca ttruits, to the Pacific ocean. The question that has arisen belwecn tho two Govern ments is this: which is tho middle of the chuuiiel llnit scpnratis the continent from Vancouver Inland, lly iho construction which tho Drilisii Government hni put upon it, the main channel runs westward of a cluster of valuable i.-lainl; and, by the Construction which our Government puts! upon it, tlio mam channel run east waul of tbut clu.tcr ot l-l.'imls. jhrsii lands ore now in possession of both IhilUh subjects and American citizens, A Collision has occurred b.twoen iho jurisdiction of the two Goierineiils on theso islands. Tho boundary line of tho counties of tho Tcr ri'ory of Washington has'becn run so as to include these Wands. Taxes have been llected from Hrilish subjects, and on Biilish property on theso islands, under protest. This will show the necessity of having that line definitively fixed. N w, as to the question which I ho gen tleman from Alabama ask. It is a line to be run on the water, not on the land. The bill was subsequently amended so an lo require tho wholo lino between Washington Territory nud thellriiish po. session to bu run beginning al the sum mit of ihe Rocky Mountains and running theneo westwurdly to the I'acifio ocean. The bill provides for the appointment of a commissioner, chief astronomer, surveyor, it'C , to unite with similar ollieers lo bo ap pointed by tho liritish Government. The bill was passed. The Uurlrd I'.lllcs Vumvvtt sua Ucrcutw- nvuui. The annexed interesting loiter, dated Na ples, July 10, giving un account of a visit lo the buried cities, Pomp' ii and lli rcu'a iieuin, is copied from the Ncwaik (X.J) Advr rti er : It is a solemn thiii!! to visit the citv of tho dead; unl nu-h is Pompeii, The ivo thiile r from Naiihsis of itself im prcssive and suggestive through Ihe val- y of llie burmiig river, w here tlio Mil liliurou.s tide hiisswenl along, overwhelm- nig vegetation, v.llages, It 11 mil 11 life, and like a liery iiMiister, lickid diy its course through to the sea. Now one pa-ses bo iweeu vvuils of lava, hard ns flint, standing immovable, ns midil have looked ihe wa lets parted for the passage of the raelites liu I tlu'y been lunicd siuhh lily into s'one. And what is ns'oiiishihg, new villages have been bii'lt mostly out of lava, llio very tomb-stone of these buried settlements sen iuo tin-in ns f limitations. Who enn (hive 'hrotigh these, gazing on tho reckless inliubiiatits, witliotit moralizing at every step on tie' ma liiess of human loll ,u, j comparing; the states of the past nud the isjiecino ticiioi- oi linn uteui -.-iji-iu ui . i .. .. i.. i . .... ..i ' ilea! ruction, wliicli towers over tlio vaiiey a its evil ecniti. a giant demon from whose ir'strils i -sties perpetual sitiuke, showing that those, internal fires are un spent which have destroyed, und lire gath ering new f iroe lo destroy iigain. One imagines that n descent is to bo made into Ihe heart of Pompeii, that day light but dimly and mysteriously creeps through thecrevicesof earili and wall, that ihe ow I und tho bat with tlie lizard and oth er creeping things, are lo be set flying nnd crawling; thai Happing wings nnd hissing sounds make hideous the twilight which invests those ruins. It is a surprise then, w hen your carriage stops before the nnoicnl gutn of tho city standing '-high nnd dry" above ground. Cut i'ompcii was built on a hill ; thus tho excavation made, leaves a part exposed on a level wilh the road. On entering, tho first impression in the general view of tile paved streets und roofless hous es is of tome vacated town over which n tornado has recently passed, unroofing the buildings, driving away thrir inhabitants, and sweeping clean the strcrts in itspus sajre. Silence, where life has been, has a denth like lawfulness in it, which comes over the imagination here as n spectral atmosphere. One starts at Ills own utterance us if it were a hollow voico from the louibs ; one triads cArefully ns in a giavc-yard, ami fears to go alone. Guilty like as committing sacri lege, cautiously do the faltering steps enter places which know no more ilieir once se cure occupants. In every empty habita lion the intruder's f 'ot seems starling ech oes from the past, which say, "Take heed, buwarel" and every pace is indeed a les son and a caution. Nowhere is the presence of a guide- T.jre discordant than among the f.,ent harme nlesof the ruin and ;;je rrvcrie. ' Here it w'ZiOn iho s;:it:s finer strings; yet, tike other discords in the great opera of lifo, must be endured. The Pompeian guidoisa 'necessaiy evil' ; you must fol low him. Pear patiently his anatomical dissections of your imaginary forms, bis close physiological examinations of your distant enchanted mysteries; bis amplifi cation of small probabilities ; his monoto nous repetition of the creed established on tradition ; in short let him bore you with his loutine till you get used lo it ; till your eurs grow callous and you become iusensi- !,! to outer sounds, absorbed by the inner voic-. IMeniii:; only lo the spirit tones of the buried past. le, f.llow llie incorrigi ble juide as he first leads the way into the villa of Diomedcs, or Diom.-U the only dwelling jet l,overe..,w,u, several .to ,- rje .re he bids an urchin precede with liohted torches, descends into the spac:ous cellar, and points out the numerous earth- wine which line ihe wall s . hough half buried in the ashes of two lliouanrt wars' hardening which were driven through the apertures for light by the fury of the vel.-anic storm. lo tin ce.iar nan ; ; - "w a i .. .i r Mnii rit v nT t r F'i r eitti ' --":..-..'.. - . . , One among me $tk--e...ui; ivs"' pressed inio tha wall ilml tho mark uf a woman's form is still visible. On that supposed to be Diomed's wife were found to be trinkets of value massive gold bracelets, fiii"er rins, neckhtce, Ac., all which, with numerous other ornumentai"ll"o'elini slavery.nnd, therefore, nb discovered, are preserved in ihu museum at Naples. U hat a sattro on remale van iiy is a skeleton In jewels ! The cvllur i damp with dismal interest; cold with the cliillin fascinations ol'ihe dud. One s eei, ds from it looking buck sh'inkiiigly, as if shades Were at his heels, und only re spires freely again when the court and gar den are gained. Here, as in all Pompeian dwellings, were lavished tho decorations and nttrae. lions of paintings, statuary and fountains, showing that the ancients lived out of doors, even when with their families, Tho evo iiing ni' nl chief f at iT tho day was spread in this court, where the O'lur of fbw. er, tho bubbling of water, and llm fresh uir, joined with every thing that could ch'irin tliPsiiFh!. enhanced tho id.-atire of , the luxurious repust. Tho hi d rooms un small, liavingciircnplaccenoiighliiral.ed, I'emocralio party tbis measure, rc-ebi.ii- mi.l liil.U loll caeli lei.l n ilrehsimr ' i in-J CoiieresHioiud illtervelilion," and room adjoining of tho nppioprialo frescoes which adorned their walls ; in some of them tho beautiful mosaic pavements too, aro well preserved. At this villa the apartments for warm and cold baths are more conveniently disposed, even than in other houses. Dslhs are, however, found everywhere in Pompeii; also careful urrangemeiits for bringing wa ter into tho courts. Oro would suppose, from the numerous fnuiilnius and bath among both ancient and modern Italians, that they iniiiht claim a reputation fur cleanliness, which they have Hut. Yet they revel in water like South Sea Islanders, lo whom filth is so natural, that the soiled earmont thai they resume nficr buihiug are no more olR tiiivo to them than their ow n skins. Though Diomrd's liotiso is more spa cious nnd rich than many 01 hers, it may serve ns an illustration of Pompeian resi dences: all were built after one plan on a latL'cr or smaller scale. Each was in two parts, public nnd private; the latter including ihe hi d-rooius, the halh rooms, the picture gallery, the dining room, iho sitting rootils, the drawing room, and a second long gallery, where shrubs uud plants were the cliiefornaineul. All ihese apartments were ranged round the peri style. The public part of tho establish ment wos composed of the vestibule, the corridors in tho wings of the building ihu court in which was an audience clum ber, whore visitors were first received, nnd the garden. The Chixkse Slt.xk Cane. The Wes tern Farm Journal, which is published at Louisville, (Ivy.) quotes from n report on the new sugar-cano made ly Joseph C. Orlh, Eq., of Indiana, to the Wabash Agricultural Society. Mr. Orlh renders tho botanical name snrglen sucre, or in plain IJnglish, "sugar millet;" nud states that he planted n number of tho seeds, which ho obtained at the Patent Offieo at Washington. When ripe he took a few slallfs nnd ex pressed the juice, tho result of tho ex periment showing that about twenty. five per cent of molasses, oi fifteen per cent, of good clarified sugar, could be obtained. The juice wili also yield alchohol nnd a fermented drink analogous to cider. This, it would seem, is evidence strong enough to warrant a moro extended trial of its merits, and if It will in any way supply the place of cane sugar, it must of necessity become a very important nnd valuable acquisition to the agricultural products of the Middle and Northern States. Me-feels fully satisfied that it will ripen in north latitude 42 degrees, which is about the northern limits of Illi nois. One week's boiling would produce from five lo ten limes tho amount of sug ar that is usually made from the maple tree in the same length of lime, and the same amount of water boiled. "This production, then, in an economi cal point of view, well merits the attention of tho fanning community, nnd should they givo it that attention whicl in my humble opinion, it deman)( jn sw yenrs it will be so T.tensivi'.y cultivated in Illi "C'.s, that he r rural population would have 'out little occasion to purchase their tugar and melasscs at stores." The Tkkascres of California. An editorial article in the Sacramento Union expresses the opinion that as fast as the mountains of that State are explored, sil ver ore will be found in large quantities ; as rich as tho mines of Guanajuato, in Mexico, or Cerro Pass", in Peru, and that in a few years we may see this interest, under the guidanc and direction of en tc rpri.-ing capitalists and practical miners, trow to be one of the most valuable min- ;eral interests of tho United States, OCT The National Migazine endeavors to show that sea sickness is not influenced fc b of vesse, b(J, bv their sLape, ' , . , ; "u a"' . less suojeciio sea s.ckucs, .are , ers than in small ones. The general - m - , prctsion j, f.ile ,ie reverse of this. r J j CtTRiocs BCT True. If you say of our.c; f ..j , atj() ;nwving lel the lrulh, yo0 ic. If you say, "I lie," and in .n j0;n . . rna lM ,h, ,ru,t - 0 . Fiom llio Clurle:on Mercury, (srptrnitxr II. Uoutta lraouurril a Trtttor al lb HimtM. What Iibt wo seen f Tho Territorial Legislature of Kansas past luws admitting noxious lo Almliiieiip.in. And what is the course of Mr. Iloiigla, and other Pern- ocrnttu Icsjers in Longress r mx year ig), when, under the same principle of "popular sovereignty," Auiiiiniiim in California cM'luded tlio S nitli fiom that magiililceiit domain, and sho pro'ested against it, the bailers or Hie l'emocnitie party sustained the principle, uud saiicl iotied our seclusion. What, we repeut, is their course, when the peoplo of Kaii-n, acting tinder the samu doctrine, pass laws protectirgslavo ry f Mr. Poiiglas came forward wi ll Ids "1'itciticution bill" a till which, in Ihe lecili of "popular sovereignty," in the teeth of the Nebraska bill itself repealed whole statutes of the Territorial Legila- '"" And this measure, so flagrant in ' violittion of the just uttered pledges of ritoriul Legislature actually passes (he United States Senate by tho vote of the lcmocratic party, and of Southern Sen ators. ' There is still lower Jeep, with an ef frontery beyond conception. Mr. Poiiglns, in Ida lute speech, oveil vaunts that the Democratic Senators were willing lo re peal 'ho obnoxious laws, while the Free soiler resitted it for political effect. Mr. Hunter of Virginia, adopts tho same view; and Mr. Oir, of South Carolina, "out llcrod"ull, by invoking executive inter, venlion, to slriingle "judge anil jury," for thn cscapo of Abolition malefactors in Kansas I Can betrayal nf principle fo further! Whut, is this doctrine of popular sover eignty, that to-day repudiates Congres sional intervention, and to-morrow invites it that makes the courts of tho United S'ates the sole arbiter, yrt calls upon nn abolitionizcd Congress nnd the President to tramplo upon them I Popular sovereign ly for Kansas, aro very different things, ll is to be lauded and upheld when it ex c'n les slavery, hut to bo repudiated w hen it admits slavery. Congressional inter vention, on the other hand, is to be repu diated when invoked to protect shivery in California, but lo be fostered when in voked lo crush it in Kansas I The Com promise of loO is to bo kept when it de frauds the South, but to be violated when it benefits her. Such is tho last warning specimen of national Democratic faith. And it is expected of the people of litis Stale, that tiny will shout lio-aiinas at the heels of a party which stands ready so to insult and tramplo on theint Shall we, cringe nnd fawn about a party which, by its recent ads, assure us in what con temptibh esteem it holds its own princi ple nnd our rights! Shutl we, despite tho experience of California nud those dciiiotistiMiions, still praise tiie glorious doctiine of "sqti.vter sovereignty," and look to iho Democratic parly to enforce it faithfully ! One thing is certain. The Democratic party in Washington nte ready lo abandon il. Northern Democrats quail before the pressure of nn overwhelming sentiment at home while Southern Dem ocrats, as b' fore, nro found ready to sao i ilice principle sacrifice tho South thai aliolitiou may bo nppeascdj and n spoils dispensing party ba led to triumph. A Marine Locomotive. Mr. Wm. Lnnsdell, a machinist of Memphis, Ten nessee, bus invented what ho terms a Ma rino Locomotive, and which is designed to be substituted for the preient steam wa ter craft, by making the base of the boat tho propelling ngent instead of paddle wheels, ns are now used. The invention consists in using two huge parallel hol low screws in ihe place of the present keel, and revolving thorn by means of steam power, so that they will cut their way ill rough tho water as a common 6crow cuts into wood. Tho screws are con structed of iron, nnd, as before slalrd, are hollow, but aro divided into cot'Tpar!- menUas a precaution tgainst sinking m case of an accident, The cabin of the locomo'.ivo will bo constructed on frame work, clevalcd above these screws, and will altogether be more pleasantly situated than the cabin of our river steamers, admitting the passage of fresh air beneath its wholo length and breadth. ' It is be lieved that when fairly put upon the water and under advantageous circumstance's, ihe locomotive enn make about thirty miles nn hour, and then compete wilh our railroad trains in speed. A Scourge. Grass hoppers in immense swarm oro making f-arful havoc en the grain upon the Upper Mississippi. At Little Fulls, Minnesota, they destroyed nil the crops. At Elk river they appeared in a swarm that seemed like a cloud, and lighted upon twenty acre corn field, destroyed the whole crop in a short time. At Crow Wing they alighled upon a farm and destroyed f,000 bushels of oats. " - " announce that tins distinguished old Father Waldo. We are happy to veteran land Chaplain of the House of Pvcprescn . j,, , ' , ', . , cellent sermon yesterday afternoon at the , Plymouth Church. He is now ninety-four years old and a quick and spry as the generality of men at CO. Sijracu:(,U . 1 Y.) Journal, 2h, J.NAIGLMIAIION OK A SrATt'K Vf UtXJ Ml I'lMMfLI AT lloTON. The ill aoguratioii u( the Franklin Statue at Dos lull yesterday, thn telegraph informs u, was ono i t the iiiotl imposing events over witnessed in that city. The procession was over two hours in passing given point, and represented nearly every me. chnnieal trade ind manufacture, and tunny novel Interesting features, It obi. 0. Lath rop was the orator uf the occasion, and delivered brilliant address of ona Lour and quarter. Music, sinking and prayer aUo formed a part of tho exer cises, llio city swsrincd Willi people, nud the event was pef et jubilee. IlotV TO EyCAI'K rilOM A liOOM FILLLP with FjioiB. It is nl gentially un ler- stood, says llio 1'ufTulu Fx p rets, that in cis. of fire in a house, the room becomes fill ed with smoke, the best plan for safety is to lie upon Iho floor, whero ono i suro to find a strata of pure air. Py adopting this method many hnve been enabled lo crawl out of a room, escaping siiflocntion. Another mode of precaution, said to be at- tended with equal safely, when caught in room filled with smoke, is lo hold a handkerchief before (ho mouth nnd noie, which will admit tho air in breathing and xcludi) Ihe aumke. PuESSUBK OF STKAM IN HolLERS. A pamphlet has boeti published in Fuglaud, by Mr, Anderson, tho well known machin ist, on tho mnnagemoul of steam boilers, in which ho says that the pressuro within n boiler is greater than is generally suppt scd. Tho joint nro weaker than the solid parts ; good solid phi to will withstand from 50,000 to C0,000 pounds per sqnnro inch of sec tional area; tho joints will givo way at about 31,030 pounds; which shows the importance of seeing that the rivets nnd other fastening are always in sound con dition. Mr. Anderson divides explosions in four classes, namely, from want of strength, deficiency of water, heating of plates, nud tho variety of other circum stances. OiiTiioi:rr. Tho Knickerbocker gives a pleasant scene in tho cars of iho Now York Central railroad lately, between n rather waggMi New York iudgo nnd an overfed John Dull, who pitched into our pronunciation ns follows: " ll is most hastotiisdiing, sir, to a Iling. lLh gentleman to find the pronunciation of tho lendwidg so defective in this km try. lleven propaw names, ns ofpursotis, places, and tho liko, you invariably pron ounce wrong j for example, you mentioned a moment ago, to your friend, speaking of the war in thn Ileust, thu Cri me-ali now il is uo( tho Cii mc ah, but tho (Vim cab." " Ah, well,"suid tho judge, " alter all, the namo cf a place is vaiioiisly pronoun ced. Wo have jus' passed through tho lovely village of Canandaigun. ll is va riously called Caiiniidnrgua, Canandawga, and Cuiian-rfa. And so of Onoiii'agiia county, upon which we arc about to enter. Out ii is dillereiit with you-. It is not only names of places which you mis-pro. noiiiice. In this country we all a homo u home, but you call it " a mm," and you think that n niRii who don't know whut a nor is, must bo t rW.'' A laugh, liko thu neighing of all Tut torsall's at this sully, ran through the cars, and our llinglishmun suddenly "dried up," and never opened his lips until the train arrived, Into at night, ut Albany. Material I'koguess op Texas. Of all tho slave States in the Union, Texas ap pears to bo the most rapidly progressing. Tho overngo vuluo of assessed lunds is now 81 18; in 1802 it was 57 cents. Tho toial voluo of land assessed in 1852 was 833,0O0,00Q row it is $.18,000,000 ; of negroes, $08 000,000 now 853,000,. 00(1 of horses and cattle, $8, ,100,000 now $17,000,000. 0O"Said Col. Denton to n Republican represcntaiivo, the other day, " Youblnmi! Picrco, sir; don't blame him ; I say, i-ir, he has nothing to do wilh Kansas, nothing sir, nothing. He can't say his soul is his own. Jeff Davis holds him as a nurso holds a Buckling baby. Don't blame Pierce, sir, don't blame him." GtT A member of tho Scfittish Mesmeric Curative Association stated at a late meet ing, that persons desirous of avoiding sleepless nights should lie with their heath lo the norlh on no account with their heads to the west. Dress. There is not in the world surer sign of a littlo soul, than ihe striving to gain respect by such despicable means as dress and rich clothes: none will de pend on these ornaments but they wbo have no other. (T Fashion is ihe race of tho rich to get away from the poor, who follow as fast as they can. OtT Confused thought is a cheap com modity, but some writers parade it as i it wero a prioeless jowel. OCT Zeco.ofall virtues, ma le choice of silence, for thereby he saw others' impurfec tbns,ndcooceldhieowo. , Jou Aiuy. In figuro John Adams was not tall, scarcely eueeding middle liiglil, but of a sloul, well-knit finme, de noting vigor nnd long life, yd as he grew old, inclining more nnd more lo corpu. Ic nee. I lis head was large nud round, Ii a wide forehead and expanded brows, Ilisevowas mild and beiiigunnl, perhaps even humorous, when he was five from emotion, but when evcilcd, il fully ex. pressed llie vehemence of llio spirit ihst stirred within. li s presenco was grata and imposing, on rr-iioim occasions, but not Uhbulldilig. lie delighlod ill social conversation, in which ho was sometime tempted to what ho called ihodomontadoi Hut ho seldi'iii f.itigtud those who heard in ; for ho mixed o much of natural i;jor, of fancy, and of illustration with tho stores of his acquired knowledge, as to keep alive their interest for a long time. His nllVctions wero warm, though not hab- itually demonstrated towards his relatives. His anger, when thoroughly roused, was, for a limo very violent, but when subsided left n I race of malevolence behind. Nubodr could tea him intimately without Inuring the simplicity and truth which hone in hi action, and stand in nemo awe at ihe power nud energy of hi will. It was in these moment that he impressed those around him with a sense of great, ness. Kveu the men employed on hi farm were in tho habit of citing instances, some of which have been remembered town to the present day. At time hi heuience would become so great as to make linn overbearing unu unjust, ims was most apt to happen in cases of proton siuti or any kind of wrong-doing. Mr rdains was very impatient of cant, or of pposition lo any of his deeply established convictions. Neither was his indignation at all graduated lo the character of tho in dividual who might happen to exciio it. His nature was toosuscepliblo to overture of sympathy und kindness, for it tempted his to trust moro than wa prudent in llio professions of omo who proved unworthy i f his confidence. The Missionary Schooner. Tho Dos ton Journal says that Mr. Joiham Stetson, t'.o Well known ship builder has upon Ihe sleek in his yard at Chelsea, a sehoon rr which is being Luilt for tho American Duard of Commissioners for Foreign Miss sioiis. Sho is lo bo called Iho "Morning Star,' nnd will be engaged in carrying sup plies and missionaries to the Islands in tho I'm ifiu Ocean. Her dam is already up, and il is expected she will be completed iu limo lo double Capo Horn in January, The lioitid rely upon tho children iu tho Sabbath Schools to raise the nmney to pay for this vessel. Shu will cost 810,000. Pt'LPiT Piioi'MAiirriBS. ll was said of Paysoti ihiitsiieh was his love of preach ing that when ho was dying ho directed ' th it a label he placed on his b east, after he was dead, with the text upon il : " He in in bur tho words which I spnko unto you while 1 was yet with you ;" and the same words wuro engraved upon the pluto of his colliii, so l hut being dead ho yet spoke to the thousands who thronged to his funeral. Whillield preached in lliirly fivo years eighieeii thousand sermon. He ouco put himself on what he called short allowances, . namely, three sermons on the Sabbath nnd ono only on every wcik day. It is related of a clergyman, tho lit lleY. Dr. Milton, of Nowburyporl who hti l n church member named Mark, who was in tho habit of sleeping in sermon, time, thai one day, in the middle of hi discourse, being about to i liieidalo on im portant text, he exclaimed, " Mark ! Mark I Maikl I say!'' Thu ihurcli dreamer, inkcii siuhlcnly, in tho dep'hs of a pro-, found no), Marled lo his feiilin tho midst of tho congregation, when iho preacher continued: " Murk the perfect man and' behold the upright, f'f the end ot that man is pence. The Wealth of 1'oston. Tho Hoard of Assessors have fixed upon $8 per thous and, as ihe ralo of taxation for tho pres ent fiscal year. The amount to bo raised is 82,(160,051. The real estalo of tho ci'y is valued at 8143,974,300. Personal property 8100,140,800. J ho poll-lax yields8 10,280,50. Tliere has been a gain in a year iu the value of real property, of more than seven millions of dollars, and a small loss in the vnluo of personal properly 8134,100. ThoStato lax paid by Dos- ton this year, is 810fj,000. Immortality. In iho beautiful drami of Ion, the instinct of immortality, to clo. quently uttered by the death-devoted Greek, finds a deep response in every Uiougtiliul soul. When about to yield his young ex. istctice ns a sacrifice to fa!e, his beloved Clemantho asks if they shall not meet again to which ho replies: "I have asked tho dreadful question of the hill that look eternal of tho clear streams that flow forover of the stars, among whose fields of azure my raised spir it hath walked in glory. All wore dumb. Put while I ga.n upon thy living face, 1 feel there is something iu the love that mantles through it beauty which can not wholly perish. We thUl iwel again, ICleuiautbe."