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Till URKMN AMIS, ni.im avssr nwr muimmi, ' B7 WILLIAM L. ADAM 3. Office-Good's iiu iOm-i, Main tt, Edito t rial Room in lirat story. TERMS Tk A sue rtt A (urniihtd at , JV" Dollan ani (' r annum, ' it mhariUi$ Tkrta l)uliura T r ft Wu fi tnj a.ffir, T Potiort fur nt mantha'tSt luLterip tiunt x"ttid fn a n iWui, flff A juiper Jiifoalinunl uit'it all arrmrajn n paid, unltMt at lit iiom ( Iht fuUfkrr. AIVi:itThSINl HATES. . Uu tqiau (IS line vt U-m) mi ii!rili, J;X - " lwuiiisrriii.ru, 4,(iij M M tli rn iltarnlntil, 6,nu Kseh tulrwiiiit Inanrtiun, I, no Reains(il dtjuouoin n ilns who ajtarik ly , ili yi-ar. JOII 1'ltlNTINO. Tii rsrsist or rns ARCH'S mm lo Inform lli m b is ihnl l. jtwt recaivwl Urga suy-k ul Jtill 'I V I'M suit oilirr nw print in uisnrtnl, n will h in ili trx-rdy mi- pi nt inj l.t .jrniii;rd to nil ili riquiicnirni of lb s lot rnl iy. IIA.Mltll.I, J'tiK'l I. Its, I I.A.VKS, CAIilM, I lltcri.AIIrt, l'A.Mnit.KT-WOl:K n mlisr kin ls. dun lo imlrr, on short iioorn. I A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to tlte Principles of Jtft'ersoniait Democracy, and advocating the sido of Truth in every isnnc. Vor- H. ' OUKGON CITY, 0.T., FEBRUARY 14, 1857. No. 41 4m Far Hit A', .-l.arrju. Oregon Fxynlaucc. lit. KJilorl promise J your reader, III my last cominunieuliuii, tlmt I would give ilifm tho niiiuiiini of car'oi rd-dug, after two year' t-vperieneo in il. If your 'readers wih lo secant llio 'W) Iii1il I lo llio acrj which mine yiul-loJ last auin hit, they can d so without nny great difficulty. I will Mate my manii'-r of jlniilinfC and al-o suggest sonio improve ment by way of lightening labor. Prepare t!io gioiind will in l ho first plsco. 'IT' it very lmjnrtuiit in a'l not crops, an1! ciirci-!Iy so fur the carrot. The length ami i.w r,f (lie root will li vory much Increas'il ly deep pl-ming. I Wsultl ug:;et llmt ihn plow bn put In full ci(ht Inches deep ; nij where n man tvuhos l rniso n large quantity, lo lighten tbo lubtr, it tnny he wcil to first run the plow docp ancl then turn one furrow from each way into tlm oris first t lowd. This will give ridge of deep vt enr'h, upon lop'of which the row of carrot may be planted. This plan will givo tibiut twelve or fourtoeii inches of ilipth of loosened earth, which in our dry stunners will be if great . importance to llio root. Loos tied earth always retains moisture better lhau that which the plow lina not stirred ; and my ow n experience goes lo provo dial very inch deeper (he ground is plowed from ono (9 fifteen inches will add a htm drcrj bushels of carrots to the ncro to the crop harvested. This ii certainly an noin 01 no nine importance, it it no mora work to till an ncrn of dreppfniecd land than nil acre of shallow plowed, mid thesuccoss of every man's elforts will !o pend in a grcut mcaaiira thertfora upon thii ono thing, z : wh'llier lie plow Mn ground well. After llio ground is thu- prepared, the rows or ridej will be ub'Mit two' feet opart. Upon thu top of these ridges Id a lilit harrow be mn to b'c ik the earth, an J then with ilie corner of the Loo work a pl.iuo lo drill tlm Feud in. I!. careful to cover not morn than an inch deep, with loojo rurth. 'i'lia may be d nie with a fiuo garden rnk'e, r.iUii nurnsi the drill, which, while it d p ai-s th.t lino pul verized enrth on tlm su'd, will mU.i carry ftS llio lumps which would LindiT the 1l1 joule seed from throw in;; ou its sh ol. ' This seed should tirstbo rubbed ill the hand to prepare it for ling., Thin Wilis oil' the line hooked down which ticks 'them together, nnd enables them to Le sown scparau ly. . This ii of j;rem im portance. 'It will need yreat c.ire not to gel too man j sccd.i into tlin ground. When hey aru dropped uiih the thumb and. fin ger, perhaps nil o'y-ninu of tha hundred ,wliO sow will gel loo many seeds, while one will not get enough. And by ilie hy, Mr. Editor, I would here lis!; the readers of this article .through Tho Ar'us whether there is uny. better way of sowing their aeeds ihnn llio ono iudicaird above. It is of great importance thal tliey should be evenly sowed. We may have too lew or loo many plants on tho ground. If we ow too many, great lub.ir will bj neces aary to thin, them out, (which must be lone or the crop w ill fal ;) it' luo fan sced are sown, or if sown unevenly, then yUo there is waste, of ground and ar partial failure.., .' Tho dants should eland about six inches opart in the rows, and then they will neaily" fill tho ground along tho lino of the drill. . After they are up and piop erly thinned put, nothing more is necessary except to ke.i;p the ground perfectly clear of weeds by Mentis of the shovel plow and hoc. ,,They should not be dug till uf:er the first rains in the fall ; then tlm ground is soft, and a mnn can pull them out es fast as he catch them by the tops. Some pre fer to run n plow deep alongside, the rows, cutting the lop root, with tho share, ihus naviug the trouble of pulling. . Some have been discouraged from rais ing them, for tho reason that they could Jiot teach their cattle nnd horses to eat them ; but there is no trouble in that. Take a .little moistened bran or shorts, and chop I few carrots fine as you would mince meat) and minglu theru together. Once or twice eating will leach them so that they , will never forget it. Every creature I have, horses, cows, and hogs, will em tbcta hi readily as they would oats (t corb. . . D. , Salem, Feb. 2, 1357. , - Far tkt Argui. . At t meeting of the Free State Club of Grand Prairie, Lane county, Oregon, Jan. 17th, 18.fr, the folly wing preamble and etolutioos were unanimously passed : Whereat, the people of Oregon are, by an act of the Legislature, culled on oon to eltct delegates to a convention to form a Stale government ; therefore, j 1. Resolved, That we form ourselves into a Free Slate Club, irrespective of par ly, for the single purpose of promoting the principles of a fiee Slate, as the iiest nd only means of securing tho country exclu iely to the free hite race ; an J that we roi.f.mi our uraiiiatioii lo the ingh ob - jet-U.f the el.elion of dehgati , w iiliout ..m-,Wr...- an, par.y, or any omnr, 'i. ll-v.Urd, 'J'hai we will use our inflii- rm o ana votes lo limn Urrgnii peopled , pngaiu n ni slavery upon ireeicrriiory was with a fre populatixn of tlm wiiiTK race, ' aprung on the people of tho Union by the l.ilho xelu.ion of tlm African, either us prt.cni Democratic (.') nd-ninist ration J aliivcs nr freenu n, so us to linen n little 11 r ,. , , . I- -r .1 i iii and huv ng my iimiko of riitht so shocked ciiinniilijihng of lliu while and Llnck races " ' " in Or-aon as powil.le; und that in vmintr ,,"s tt'""l"n oat rage, I tlioiighl I would fur delegates, we will bo careful to vote for agniu rnicr the arena, and vindicate the men wli'iHtnud fully and exprey pledged rihn of the coiiHtilutToii and tlm Union. IOCXcllldei,l.lVi rVorhlVolllUllirVSeritude,S.rni11,.,l,:1.. f .l:,,,! 'i ., Tl.;i,t..t. HKei'N n a i i-li uiiTi t fir crime, by un; ..--. .. i . :. .i ,;, ,: . . i 'Xpres priiliilii'ion in the rnl iiutioti ; ; and that we will v.f fir no men who nruj in fnv.tr of bringiii liegroi- into Oregon. either as .ives or fr . einen, fur u mid our families, or them and their t.m.ilien, to us 0,'iatn w ith ; nr will wu knowingly Vote 't any man for il.-legiiio w ho is in favor of HUV ol to I to be put III Ilia Conslltuiloli alloning negroes to eome or b'i bronchi into Oregon in uny way or condition hat- eve r. 3. ne'olved, Tha', a Fr e Siute Club. w invi'e llm citizens of lliu vm'oii lielh hoi hoods of the T. riito'y, of all political purlies, t't cie-i ler this rjoesiii.li :i sionaleiy. in view or our coii'linon, cli mate, products, iz 'f inhabitable lerri lory, lncation, nnd of l ho peopl now hpro asn fro Inboring people; and to cooper-, ale with us in hnviug Oregon settled txclu livthj with a FRBR WIIITK POPULATIOM. P,enlved, Thai the secretary lurnisl) a copy of the nhove resolutions for publication in The Argus, with a request that the other papers of the Territory cony there from. J is. M. CtlANDt.RH, Sec'y. For the Argut. Tub Orrgoa Artniau. BY A POLITICIAN. Tha areopngus was a sent of justice on n small eminence in Athens the judg es of this court were called arenpngitae. Their legitimate business was "to direct public attention to men, w ho might en danger the Siuto, though their power to inflict puni.shiheiit was very limited." So says Herman's l'olilioal Antiquities. Salem, the capital of Oregon Territory, located on the eastern bank of llio Willuin. ellu river, in llio b tiu'iful Willamette valley, bus long Loon blessed with a uim ilar ilia' i'.u'.ioil lommouty colli d "The Sileiu Cliijtie,'' whose busino-s-iit-thief i t) supeiiutcild every Lo.ly 's buidne.ss but .he r own and to whip in the timid and fvfiactory discijdes of the nigger ihiving !ultou hole fuciioii. Sinco toy s..journ in Oregon, I havo been the suhjeel of the moil paii.f.il ai.xiity to this ' surdino' areOjiagus. I have had ndtioe enough to save a sinking ship have had it fice gratis, for nothing, oud thu m -t of it from the 'harmonious" such lis it was. , Tho b'lrdeli of thu soi.g was, "don't aspire lo otlico wl.il,! you rcmaru n whig." "Join the Democracy if you want lo bo pop ular, ui'd gain notoriety; you are emi nently lilted to fiila liigh Marion, hut don't ined.llo in politics with your whig procliv ities." 1 didn't ; not be cause of the ex cellent und disinte'e-ttd mhi e, but be cause it was tot mv intention to to do. The advice w as singularly co incident with my pre.Jetrruiinaiioii relative to politics. 1 have hern, not withstanding .my care to ovoid politie.d thouls and quieksauds, soundly abused by cPtlnin members of tin: "Cliqtiu" who averred in drinking houaes und other pl.iCus of ill r pule, that I had joined tho Know Noilangs after my dec laration to avoid mixing with cither party. Now, for '.ho sati.-factioti of those buy in dividuals, I offer my iour.se of conduct for examination ; let it bo dissected as carefully as a Jew would look fir 1. aveu, and then let reports he niudo of my do purturc from the platform I laid down foi myself on til y ariival in the Territory, 1 had been a sound Clay and Webster w hig had never been nblo to " stand the Julit.Tsoni.in test'' of pronouncing b'atis Lanes, nor ha I lev, r voted a Pemoernt ic ticket in my life. , Ono fine morning I ro.io curly, not thinking that any thing was wrong, but subsequently Jearned that the veiornu and lainented old jwhig party had "gone under," " defuncated," evaporated ; in short, and to use a plain term, had " fizzled out," and I, like the last rose of 8ii miner was left lo bloom and " wegitate," alone. The whigs had left, without con descending to give me any notice what ever, and I was abandoned lo brpo'l-over my broken fortunes without sympathy. Afier long and mature deliberation, I determined that it whs a moral impossibil- ity for an old line-backed whig to be trans- mogrified into a modern Oregon Democrat, I tried the " Jeffersnnian lei'' again, but ' for the life of me, I couldn't say 6an! with ihe proper unciion. 1 About ibis time, there arose a prophet in the land: one Samuel, whom some ..... patriotic and country -loving Tellow citizen Of the confederacy bad called from cave, and dens of the earth. Samuel came forth ins mysterious manner, carrying udarh&g considerable distance from it.j ,b ,he i86. adulj ob fvrei8n and lantern, with a scroll on which was in-"e' bank riband till with ihe rise and j Dfiii4b riu scribed : - Americans shall rule America!" W ' rivr. i1'. nd j Samuel called on me, and offered lo show , through the coarse sand and shingle of fr It is estimated ly the Ohio Farm me the pkantaamagoria of hi lantern, ' 1 bottom it passe la rapidly as through , ,T, that the profits of the wool crop in which be aid was fully eqaal to Aladdin' , eommon sieve. j thai Statu the past season were 3,0fX),- lamp; but I said: '.'Nay, verily," Samuel, I Dy the accurate sortey of several ' 000. 1 I intend to live without a party for the 1 pretcnt, innsniuch us I Jim seeling no of Pcj mJ Btf mg In llio meantime, the question of pro. ,. ., . .. ,, ,. , , , , phia lii'publican rlatlorm and dec u red a 1 ' WHri,f fxterminalion on the niggrr.driving rxteiisioiiists mid desrerntors of plighted f.iiih, and tnnijiromises. Now, what has been my o.Tence? and wherein huvo I bern so inconsistent that I should hao been pcmunnllif vilified, as I was, as I am informed, in a err tuin or ill of iiii'iii'y, by tha crunk-muu of the Organ of the nigger dnving clan, having obscene epithets ju'plicd to me that , a " nigger" cook would hesitato to speak in the presence of n dogl and all this for simply acting independent of thu clique" tlmt wouh! " rulo or ruin." IIu rotten and corrupt must the cause bo that re quires support by personal denunciation of n private citizen ! 'Tis worso than a dead carcass full of loathsome creeping things, generated by the amours of consumption and llio grave. And now, gentlemen of tho " Clique,' I 'fectiotiately bid you a Jew, and in con elusion, lot me kindly admonish you after thanking ynu for your profound to licit udo in my behalf llmt when you poke your nasal protuberances into affairs con cerning nm nnd mine, you may experience the glowing sensation ol seeing ihejiquid oozing then from. Therefore, Mr. 'Clique,' for me,rc( not thy gizzard. Singular Tbrory of lh Mississippi. The Mississippi lliver is tho longest stream in the world. Its total length is 1,000 miles. On looking over n volume r. cently published entitled "Lloyd's Steam boat and Railroad Directory," wo find the following iustruc'ivo article on tho wnsto of tha waters of thp Mississippi. It snys : No experience will rnablc a person to anticipate with any degree of crriuinly, tho elevation of the flood in nny given veur. In some seasons the waters do not riso above f..ir channels; in 0' hers, the entire valley of the iMisiippi is sub merged. Kmb'inkments called levoes havo been ruisd from five to ten feet high on both sid.'s of ihes'renm, extending many miles move nnu below iuw urlcans. liy this means ilm river is restrained wiihiu i's proper limits, except at tho greatest freshets, when the waters sometimes break over everything, causing great destruction to property and sometimes loss of life- The average bight of the flood fiom he Delfa to the junction nf the Missouri is above sixteen feet. At the mouth of the latter river it is twenty -fivo feet. Delow ilm entrance of the Ohio river, tho rise is often filty-five feel. ... At Na'chez it seldom exceeds thirty foct, and nt New Orleans about twelvo fel t. What becomes of tha w ater I It is known that the difference between high nnd low water mark, as high up as White River, U about thirty-six f.-et, and the current nt hi'h water runs near seven miles jicr hour, and oppusite lo New Orleans the differ, etice between high and low water mark is only twelve feet, and the current little over three miles to ihn hour. The width and depth of i he river being the puine, from which we calculate that nearly six limes as much water pa-sis by tho inuth of White lliver ns by New Oilouns. What becomes of tho rxciss? The only solution fitr ollcred is that it (scapes by the bayous Plaquemine, La Fourclie, and Iberville, but when wc calutilato the width, depth. and current of these bayous llnv f.dl vastly short r,f affording a sufHeieiit cs capement. The Uuo explanation can, we think, bu given. At low water, throughout the whole ox- t.-ntwosee aland structure exposed, un derlaying i ho bank, ao that the alluvial structure on which the plantations are, is a structure of deposit made by . (he river above its low water mark, which, opposite lo the mouth of White Hiker, is lliiny feel A J00 "ecen). '"e rif '" i1 'n "!"" difTerenci between '''g1' n'1 low 'a,er niarlc &m'll"i,e, and "tar'jT corresponds to it, and wherever the bottom ia exposed it shows throughout the bole extent that the bottom is pore coaese asd; exhibiting in many places the oceaji shiclb, througn me super-im- i ii i . c. P- "" ( "cv i ne waxr rrco..;c wuu .un. - ic'l'ty and rapidity thai the water 10 a well scientific engiin ers, it is ascertained thai llio fall of the Mississippi river is four in dies to the mile. Tho distance from Xuichez to Now Orleans of llireo hundred miles will givo twelve bundled inches, or one hundred feet. The depth of the river is Inss than forty feet at high water' mark. Tho river debouches intn the ocean from a promontory maJu by itself. Tho surface of the ocean, by measurement, below the boltom of tho river, above New Orleans, corresponds with the low water mark be low Now Orleans, therefore the Mississippi river is pouring through its own bottom in to tho ocean, the aupeMinposed weight giving lateral passu ro lo hurry the sub. terrunean current. If the reader ever stood upon n Missus, ippi sand bur in a hard rain, or seen wat er poured from a bucket on the sand-bar. he ha seen that neither can lie done in suf ficient quantity lo produce any cmn-nt or accumulation on the surface. The river is, therefore, from thnlimo it comes below the limestone struta of Missouri und Ken lucky, wasting itself through its own bot tom. If the Mississippi river had to pursue its course liko the Ohio, over rocky strata, walled in by rock and impervious clay banks, the high water mark at New Or leans would reach ono hundred feet above its present limits ; but funning over coarse sand, and waited in by a deposit made of sand, ancient alluvial detritus and vegeta ble mould, no more water reaches the ocean than the excess over the amount that permeates the surrounding structure and passes off in the process of percola tion or Irunsperaiion in a subterranean descent to the ocean. ' The river, without any other restraint from rock or clay in ike bottom or bank, is left freo lo the government of no other law than the law of hydrostatics. The washing or wasting of the bank cannot be prevented, though the caving or sliding of largo portions at one time may be easily guarded against. lUgul Eye.' . . , In a paper rend btfore the Association for the Advancement of Scicnco, at i's re. cent session in Albany, Trofessor John Brocklrsby, of Trinity College, Nurlfbrd, Conn., gives the following as tho if suit of a series of experiments on llio "visual di rection :" ''In view of thrsn facts, I am inclined to believe that most persons, when they gaze upon a near object with both eyes open, llubitually neglect tho image formed by tho left eye, and employ that of the right to lix the visual direction in fact, that we arc right eyed. Moreover that cases some times occuf where tho lefl eye is used for this purpose, nod in such exceptional in stances the observers may bo termed left eyed.' A boy shoots marbles with both eyes open, r.nu a sportsman not unfrequcully brings his gamo down in tho samo man ner; bul I .apprehend tlmt in both in stances tho aim is as truly taken as if one eye was shut ; and that either iho right eyo or the left gives tho range, while the other is passive. , If il is true tlmt tho right eye, under the circumstances mentioned, possesses a su periorly over tho other, tho fact would be in strict accordance with some oihor phys iological phonomciia. We are all of us aware of the pre-eminence which the right hand has over the other, either from habit or otherwise. How much more readv and piick it is in all its motions, being the first in advunca whenever it is needed. So marked is this characteristic that we term expertnrss and uctivity of manipulation dexterity. I!ighlhuudcdn?sa constitutes tha law, lefthandrdncss the exception. The same fact is observed in rc-peel to the feet. In the game of foot. ball, for in stance, the right fool naturally conies first into play, null is decidedly more active limn the other. Tho superiority of one organ of vision over the other woutil not therefore constitute an anomaly, neither would it be surprising if the same phe nomenon should be found to exist in re spect to one or more of the senses. ' Univeksaustsis U'itnesshs i.i North Caroli.va. Judge Datlle, of North Car olina, has w rilien a letter deny ing the stale- menl ibat ihe Supreme Court of that Siate has decided that Universalis! are incompetent as witnesses in North Car olina. The case which is alleged to have embraced this decision turned on a dif ferent point and the question is still un determined by the Court. Ddiies oh Spirits is England. -Th h , -.-.- 4-9 . , . Mermott on Vrattklln. Kev. Theodore I'uiker on Sunday de- liwred a sermon at tho !!.ton Mn.io ILII. which was fillud to overflowing. lis ihcTue was, Ucnjnmine Fraitllin eoitiidirrd in rdntion lo tht great art of life," It was treated with that ability and originality for which Mr. I'aiker is distinguished. The preacher presented Franklin in six phrases, viz,: as the Moy, running about iho streets of Uoslon ; as the Printer, the Philoso pher, tha Statesman,- the Diplomat, and in hi old nge nnd death. Each of then di visions of tho discourse wns elaborated in a most interesting manner. Mr. Parker Mien prnco'drd to consider Franklin ill his intellect, his writingx, his character socially as a man. This Constituted the greater portion of ihe sermon. In answer lo the charge I hut Franklin was nut a re ligious man, ihe speaker replied that tiied by the popular theology and mere thuich form, it was true; but in respect lo ihe elements that go lo liiako up a religious mind and a good heart, iho charge n not true, trntikliu hn regarded ns ihe greatest man in America in four genera tions, nnd almost the greatest in the world in that period, llu was not without fault nnd blemish, but iu tho wain was faithfil and honest. . '. r In his opinion, Franklin wast 'fast" boy, and up to the age of 20, lived a life that in many respects is to bo condemned ; a career of which he afterwards repented. The speaker said lliat it w as in tho power of Franklin to have prevented Slavery iu the United Stales, if he had only chosen and maintained that position in thr Con vention which framed the Constitution. Franklin Inter inlile sigred a petition for the abolition of slavery. The shivery of 1786, it was contended, was nothing so atrocious as that in 1930. Inferring to the recent celebration in this ci'y, ihe preacher said, l hat if Franklin could have returned and looked upon the long process ion, while he would have seen min h In re joice over, yet thero would have been some thing to make sorrowful. In this connec tion, he had reference lo tho exclusion of colored persons from ihe procession, and especially condemned the emirso of tho Mercantile Library Association. In another pnit of tho sermon, the preacher questioned tho wisdom of Frank- lin in his legacy lo provide medals for scholars in our public schools. While it rewarded a few scholars, it at the samo time caused heart-burning and discour agement to all o'thcrs. Could ho have foreseen ibis, nnd also tho favoritism of teachers, ho would hardly havo willed the sum ho did. A love affair" of Franklin, who, afterhe found thorn was little money to come, broke off mi engagement, was characterized us mercenary nnd mean. Franklin W'ns a man of progress, and therefore was both ahead and above the nge. J ii his simplo experiment with the lightning ha opened n realm of science which had as yet but begun to bo trod. Franklin's charities, his public and pri- vnle fife, his writings, his relation and in. fluence upon mankind, were ull consider ed in their turn. Mr. Parker summed up his sermon by slating tlmt Franklin' was the best nnd most successful life thut has yet been lived in America. Boston Bee. Why iloilles Turn la tuulr r.nClns. A paper read by Dr. Collin (Trail Green's) on so called human petrifneation, before the scientific convention, had a good ileal nf popular interest. It was a sort of com. menl upon a story extracted from the cur. respondents of tha llushville, Iowa Re publican, about the boily of a boy who died ul seven yea's of ng - and was buried. On being disinterred, said the story, the bkin and muscles wero found in a good sta'eof preservation, but changed loslnun. The bone were unallered and lhos0 oflhe arms wero movable in their stony emo llients. .The substance of the brain was found little altered, Ac., 4V c. The paper of Mr. Green's presumed ihutthis was a popular way of describing Ihe human body changed to nd'poccre. The present removal of bodies fiom city to Country church yards lias brought to light many cases of tin's sort. The proprieties of d poctro are well known. It i d. fined a that fatty and spermaceiti like substance into which muscle i converted br long immersion in water or spirits, or by burial in moist earth. The reader ex hibited a large specimen of il, and prn eeeded to give its history. Ii was taken from acortin that had been bnried in a very damp, clayey to.l, through which the wat er could not soak. Io the same ground another body in a similar condition was found seven year fter burial tSe body floating in the wat er. In one of the esse tht lower imb were crossed at I he thighs. IV Sjiecimen exhibited wa part of a woman who died over seventy year of rgf, and had Un interred seventeen year. The specific grsiiy of sdipooere is from 782 to 818 thousandth. Ilencs it will float in water, nnd if acoflinit lled with wa'cr tlnwholi corp- fi iat', and settles again as lbs wai, er leak out, in a position thnt will bn do icroiined by iho we'ghl of i: ditrcnu port ions. ; Tl is doubtless netoiint for llio Inisiii; ed tinning of bodies in ihcir c,.fniis, ard has led to th" popular belief that Lnriel before ilea'h is not tincimnion. Tho vs. cape nf L'nsrs wns formerly the theory to account for such turnings, but he did nut think it io .'iiifdctory, Tha knowledge of this fact will prevent tho occurrence of the fresh and iinn'-cessury grief often caused by the discovery of ihcso ' turnings.' The conclusion of Cibha, whi experiment rd iu 1701-5, ns lo the formation of adi- pneere, was that il i form d from Ghriuo. Dr. Kleiner reported a case of a body changed into hut seemed lo be an (Ji- poo re which was found in a Wasliipg'nn city ursve yard, after i: lean burial, but the only organ that could bo stisfuctoii ly identifi' d was the liver. More was a gland, not a fibrous s' ructure, undergoing this rem irkublo change ; j'Cssibly It was a case of fatly degeneration. The grave yard was very low ground, and the graves were all filled with water. Prof, llorsford cautioned the convention lo be alow ia admitting these re pot I of what are called human petrifactions. A communication has lately been made to (ha Boston Academy, detailing how iho bono of an infant in Illinois has been converted into phosphorous. l!ut a strict examina-. lion showed that, in ull probabilities there was no replacement at all in the gase. The Eakthquakr im Caxma. On tha. 14th I gnvo you tomo information relative to the earthquake at this Island on the 12th ult., and have now to inform you thai, with-, in a few duyt past, ofliciul 11 returns" have been made to ihe pasha, which state he loss of life and properly as follows,' Aarfaliiitft Ia IiaLiIIaiI nmlu'liISc ' ! bodies have been taken from tbo . rubbish. - 823 Ditto . wounded ' 027 Total killed nnd wounded. 1,103 Buildings totally overthrown nnd destroyed in ihn city of Cnndia. 2,239 liuilJinva very badly injured and . '.' uuiiiliubilublo. ' 1,8G;); Buildings much injured, but partly , occupied. 17 - 4,119 Destroyed in other soctiuus of the , 1 ialuuil. . .. .. . 0,111 ; Total. 10,1JU Can lia rnr. Boston Post, Xov. 13. ' 0r Hon. William Hill has been re elected by iho Legislature, Secretary of the Slatn of Nnr'h Carolina, an office he i; said to havo held for over fifty years. A, bill graining universal suffrage, in accord ance, with tho State Constitution, has been reported in tho Seuuto. At presunt to vote for a Sinlo Senator, tho voter must, own fifty acres of land. ( . 03" An lilectivn Judiciary was ordered in Connecticut at tho recent election. Term1 eight years and no service after 70. In a State capable of sending 80,000 Voters to tho polls, only 3,:)."2 took the troublu to givo mi opinion one way or the other.' Thero wero 7,00 votes for nnd 0,003 ngninst. frCT Tho receipts of the New York Statu TempernncH Soc'riy for tho past year, from donations amounted to $13,013. Five persons ISrastus Corning and L. C. Delavnn, nf Albany, Cbniles Puller, of New York. Genii Smith, of Madison county, and Dr. Nott, of Schenectady, gave $1000 rath. Tho wbolo amount was expend' d in the publication of Tern pern nee. papers and documents. OCT It was reported that Patrick Burke wn killed on the railroad at Tarrytown. His w ife recognized llio body, had it bond saintly colhVed and wal.ed, and was follow ing il lo Calvary Cemetery, New Yolk city, when Iho live Patrick himself inut tha funeral nnd the corpse was seal to the dead bouso for recognition. , OCT Ait ha suffered a great loss in the death of one of the most illustrious of its I'r nch devotees, Puul Djlaroche, ihe painter of "Cromwell at the Coffin of Charles I.,'' ari l Other pictures well known u K-igland, from engravings. Ila died November 5, afier some three weeks' ill ness. OCT The Cornier nnd Enquirer gives a list of the vessels launched at New York since the 1st of January. They are fifty six in number thirty-six of the in are sail ing vessel and the remaining twenty steamers. A Lena rUMR. Some soldiers who were firing a Minis rifle at a largut at Msgdebourg, Saxony, at a distance of 1000 pace, hit and mortally wounded a laborer at work 700 pares beyond. A sheep was accidentally killed in England with th Enfield rifle fromadUtance of 2,800 yards. ,1 IS. if if El. ' fr I i W :,vJ H i irSv : ! A l'( ' I'-'f!', If ii pi,.. hi lel i;s.f. i-! ; H ,r, J f. i 'if,'''' m. my 'or,. 1'"