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No. 47. , orw yutu, umit uc upitvn oj me punuenrr. mid oilier kiud, dune to order, mi xliurt notice. THE OREGON AKGUS. i , relLMHKU KVKUY A1IUAV MUSNINll, BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. Office-Good's Building, Main st. Edito , ml Room in first story. 1 A. For the Argue. Mr. Adams I wish a short space in your paper for tbo purpose uf noticing some inisrcpresoiitaf ions and falsehoods propaga ted agiiiitst my old friend mid neighbor John Bell, by ono Tliomus il. Fcariic, of Sulem, Marion county, Oregon, in respect to letter published by Mr. Hull in tlio Westorn Methodist Protuataut in regard to (lie diffureM churches in Oregon on the temperance and slavery questions. This Thomas II. I'earno charges Mr. Bull with propagating a falsehood against tbo M.E. Churcb. Now the Irutb is, Mr. Pearno is hot only guilty of misrepresenting Mr. Bell, ILi !'. ....il..'. -t ' r .1... i i will dow rewrite fur publication Mr. Hell's letter io the W. M. Protestant, verbatim as it is in print, with respect to the different churches : "The Churchbs i. Oregon. Br. Hits- set.' I will give you some fuels in relation o the churches in Oregon, on the slavery and temperance- questions, , "The United Presbyterians of Oregon, ai a church, are opposed to slavery, and will receive uo slaveholder into (buir church, lior any person holding proslavery princi ples, And nro in favor of a stringent torn peranco law, The CoiigiegationalUi church liolj the samo sentiment. The Kpiscopa. lian church I am not so well informed of their views but think they are somewhat divided. Tltc Old School Presbyterian, 1 think As a church, arc rather pioslavcry, and sotnewliul divided on the temperance question. The Missionary Lt.ijiti-.ts, as u church, in Oregon, nro pro.-davcry ; but thero are many noblo exceptions. All the miiiiters and members from ihu Northern Slatcsaro strongly aiilislsuiry io their sen timents, and in favor of a temperance law, but a largo portion of the church is from the South, uud proslavery, and amitem pranco. They have nuw started a church paper. The editor of this paper says he will neither write nur publish uo) thing on the temperance or slavery qu.stion, but will advocate the now version of the Di hie nod this paper wns ciidoised by a majority of the JJaptist church, at their last Association, embracing the fourth Sun day in June, 1830. The Old School Bup I ills are prosla.vcry and uuii!ump ranee us a church sonio tew txctq f.ons in tlie inciubarship. 'J'he Protestant Methodist ministry ore warmhearted temperance men, nu J, so far us 1 am acquaint. I, unlislavery. The mnml)urship, 1 think quite a majority, are proalavcy and auliiemp. rauca I mean a tjmpcraiice law. I am sorry to say that many, very many, members !' the different churches ill go to the ehc lion and vote fur a downright drunkard knowingly, in preference to a obor, decent man. The Episcopal Methodists have a churcb paper in Oregon. They lake no stand on the ti'inpuraiicd or slavery qiies linns, and I think, as u church in Oregon, th'-y are pro-.biviiy, and opposed t a tem perance law, with some exceptions. The United Brethren it anti.sl.ivery as u church ; don't know their view on the such members within its pales as nltcwhd, full lis much common seuso about them the Sth of January jubilee iu Salem, and especially one Delusion, who is a fre. quonter of the doggery in Albany, and gets intoxicated quite frequently, and that too under tbo noso and sanctum of the proslavery editor of the (would ho) Chris tian Advocate. 5th. Mr. Pearno brings in tbo name of tbo Rev. J. Kennovor : "It has seemed to us that h flvcnnnvcr) conceived his most successful modu of building up the interests'of liis denomina tion was to accusx and defamo the Methodist Episcopal church." Now it appears that Mr. Pearno is very expert in giving the faults of othors. 1 1 will now givo what Mr. Pearne considered his most successful mode of building up a church iu Oregon. Thomas II. I'earne came to Oregon otruo nntislavcry Whig, bat finding Lis most successful modo to build up the interests of Lis churcb wns to join tLe democratic party und have the approbation of his savior, nno A salt J Bush, (as Whig preachers wore .not very popular) be has followed this same Bust'i, in order to keep his favor, into the black democrat party, and is now as strongly iu favor of extending tlio chains of slavery as his mas ters, Push and Delusion Smith. I take leave of this gentleman, a professed min ister of the M. E. church, advising him not only to learn and praciico tlio ciglnh and ninth commandments, "2'hou skill not bear false witness aguir.st thy Mbjhbor" etc., but to practice tlio whole Scriptures uud learn to quit misrepresenting and lying about his betters. David C. Wil . Pine Hill, O.T.j Feb. 21, 1857. .IT The foregoing article is published merely as a iuut.lt r of justice to Mr. Dell, who has been ma.li) the subject of a pretty seere attack by both the Salein papers. The writer, who, it seems, is a personal friend uf Mr. 0., must excuse us for striking out several bard adjectives, which he used from n warmth of feeling, which a Second temperance question; divided." suppose they arc Iu the Pacific Christian Advocate of Do ce'inkr 20:b, 1 SOG, is the fallow ing : "Thou sm.ilt not fin a it Pals 8 Witness.'- One John W. D.-ll, of Washington Butte, Linn county, has recently pub lished a letter iu the Western Methodist Protestant, iu which ho undertakes to "givo some facts iu rululion to the churches ill Oregon, on the slavery and lempernnve questions. llo li pivsi'iiU tbo United Brethren, tlio United Presbyterian-', and Congregationalism, as being uulisluvcry and in favor of temperance, und iho minis try of the Protestant 'Methodists us being both antislavery and warmhearted tem perance men; while a majority of the membership of that church tlio Old School Presbyterians the Missionary and 0. S, Baptists, are proslavery w ith some uublu exceptions ; and are either divided oti I ho temperance .question, or are anti temperance, of cl.ureh members generally, and of episcopal Methodists in particular." 1st. Does not Thomas II. Pearne know be falsifies the facts when ho says Mr. Bell's letter reads "iho Protcstinl Metho dist ministry aro both antislavery and warmhearted temperance men"? But Air. Bell did say they wero bulls- warm Learted temperance men, ''und, so far s am acquainted, antislavery." ?d. oes not Thomas II. Pearno know that lie lias published a slanderous false hood when he represents Mr. Bell to soy that the "church members generally, and Kpiscopal Methodists in particular," are antitetnperanco aud proslavtry? Shame oh such a professor, under the cloak of a minister of Chris .'s gospel I , 3d. Mr. Pern no says: ' '-The M. 13. Church has always been an tislavery in ber discipline, doctrines, and administration. She has never madesim pleslaveholding a bar to church member ship ; and we hope she never will." . The M. E. church professes ru bo anti slavery as a church, and at the bame time Thomas II. Pearoe, of Sa'eiu, Marion co 0. Tn is exerting no more of an antisla very influence than Bully Brooks of South Carolina. ' 4'h. Mr. Pearno says : 'As to temperance, the M. E. church sober thought would have probably induced him to correct himself. His article is suf ficiently scvore as it stands. it is painful to us lo see brethren falling out by the way, over ini.understaudings. We thiuk that the Advocate very much misrepresented Mr. Bell's letter to ilia W. M. Protostant, and wo lave no doubt but what ho feels bad over his attack upon Mr. B. by this time. We sincerely hope our free Statu friends will not get to quarreling over minor matters just at this crisis, but will unit; their lubors toward keeping oil' the etusoof slavery from nur own country. In justice to Mr. Pearne, we must .-ay that we believe his sympathies aro iu faor of freedom, and he will probably vote for a free constitution, unless the dem ocratic party should make slavery a party issue, or unless there be danger of losing sub-ciihors by it. This much wo feul that wo ought to say in justice to Mr. P., as our correspondent intimates that the editor of the Adocaio is sentimentally proslavery. Fur the Argus. liaviU'ns. Salem, Feu. CI, 13o7. Mr. Editor Having, for tlio three years I have been iu Oregon, enjoyed the luxuries of a good garden, perhaps 1 may be per mitted to say a few words lo your readers about the value of the humUo and often despised garden. Many seem to feel that gardening is small business for a umu to engage in. It will do for old women and children, and possibly for old greyheaded men, who can do nothing else. But, sir, I contend that uo man can live a rational life who docs not have access in some way to that kind of blessings which, through the direction of a wise Providence, Coinc to view only through a garden. A man can have bread and meat, aud meat and bread, (about tho way somo change their diet,) if he has no little beautiful spot around his house, all balmy and sweet with (lowers and fruits. But bacon was not made for man lo eat all summer, as well as all winter. AVhen God made man first, He did two things for him which think are very suggestive. He first made a garden and put him into it, and then he made a woman and brought her to him. She had her first introduction to him in that sweet est, pleasantcst, most Lomelike-looking place, a garden, and, from all I can learn, bhc was "well content1' with the man. Sue never got a divorce, and never asked fur one, aud tha inferences which we would half of Stvcdiiiborg's inter relations al least. I do wonder there are not moro di vorces in Oregon than there are. Ridn ever our beautiful bills and vulleys, and you will find nearly half of tho Louses without a green thing within gun-shot of the door. All looks us barren as the parch ed desert. Bvery shruh is cleared away, and even the last "old oak" bas fallen a victim to tho allconsumiiig ax. Into a house in such a place, stuck up on a parch ed kuoll, with a burning sun in a cloudless sky, all summer long, pouring its swelter ing rays upon that unprotected roof why a woman must be a perfect lire king for endurance, and a perfect angel in love, not to leave a man's "bed and board" who would establish ber iu such a pluce. A man can love bis wife and live happy a great deal easier under a cool shady tree in a Lot day than ho can without it. lie wants shrubbery all round his house, with peach aud plum and pear iutorminglcd, uud near by, and but a step from the kitch en door, the green heads of lettuce, with pens, beans, beets and carrots, aud all sorts of vegetables, all fresh and nice. Let a man ti;ve sucb . house, with its beds of flowers and tu.fn of ros.rs to surpi iso and delight with some new phase pf beauty each successive morning, an J iTiy word fr it there would bo an end of domestic strife-1 So much for the moral effect of a good garden. If any of your rcalers should think this article about gardens is not what they expected to find it that it is not di rect dies nut come to the poiut you may tell them it was perpetrated on a very dark rainy night, aud it is very diillcult to keep beaded closely to a poiut at such times. GOOSEBERRIES. I find the following preventive for mil dew oti this kind of fruit in the " Kural New Yorker." Il is easily tried, and, if found to answer the purpose, it will be worth the price of Tho Argus per year lo each of your readers. Many of our farm ers have tried cliilerent plans iu vain to save their gooseberries. If any ono has succeeded, 1 hope ho will communicate the fact aud givo us tho items. Oregon farm ers must not be selfish ; a happy hit by one .may benefit thousands, if it is only known. tJive us tho f.tets, thon, that we may all enjoy the luxury. d. Mildew in gooseberries may be prevent ed by watering with soapsuds over Ihu blanches: nuil iiain, privilege, and compulsory prepayment on all' transient priuted matter. Sucb an amount of free matter passes through the mails as is almost impracticable to be for warded by tho ordiuary conveyances, after it passes fiom the railroads, thus interfer ing greatly with the regular transmission of correspondence. The evil is greatly increasing. Lale from I'.urope. Wo have dates from Europe to the 3d of January. . Tub Swiss PimctiTr. Hopet of. pcaco preponderated, but warlike proper alious continued with vigor. Mr. Fay, United Slates Minister at Berne, Lad gone to Berlin, nnd it wns reported, with the in tcntion of offering the mediation of the United States. Other reports of irooeW But "smooth water runs deen." Itidenih . . . A cninpleio euro for mildew maybe made by mixing a peek of limo and a pjimil of sulphur in ten gallons of water, mil let it sihiiI and settle; tneti take one pint mixed w ith four gallons of water, ami spi inkle it over the bushes when tho fruit is funning. This will keep them clean. Cover tho ground with manure, nnd spread a small quantity of salt over it ; to keep s much moisture as possible about the roots, will be vuluable. . National. The receipts into the U. S. Treasury during the year ending Juno 30, 18."0, wero 73,913,111, and tho expendi tures $7l!,!)18,7U2, inclutliug tbo payment of $3,000,000 to Mexico, and 112,778,300 of the) public debt, which, during tbo past four years, has been reduced from $71, b79,037 to S:Jll,7;)7,li:a, which could bo paid within a year if tho public creditors would accept it beforo it was due. Tho average expenditure of tho Government for iho last five years, exclusive of the pub lic debt uud the Gadsden purchase, has been about 43,000,000. Tho total imports for the year were 314,039,912, and tho exports 320,001, 918, both being larger than ever before. Tho expenditures of tho Post-nflico do partmctit amounted lo 10,407,8o3, and its receipts to 7,00,801, the deficiency being 711,000 greater than in the pre vious year, resulting from tho extension of mail service and the increased compensa tion of postmasters. Of public lands, 0,227,873 acres were sold, amounting lo $3,821,414; iu addi tion, 31,100,230 acres have been located with military scrip and land warrants. Under the Reciprocity treaty, the im ports from tho British North American provinces Lave increased from 87,500,713 in 1353, to 21,310,421 in 1850; and the exports of American pro-luce to tLcm from 7,404,0S7 to 822,714,097. The country enjoys amicable relations with all foreign powers, and order and tranquillity prevail throughout the Union. Post-Office Department. There are 25,505 post-ofilces, being an increase of draw from these facts are full of meaning 4,004 in four years ; there are 7,972 mad to our Oregon discontents. I believe if j routes in operation, 239,0 12 miles in tLe locofocos would pass a law that, 1st, do j length, over which tha total transportation man should be considered competent to 'of mails was 71,307,397 miles, costing tstnmc the responsibilities of the marriage 80,035,474 : of these routes, 20,323 ciles 'has alwivt been unambiguously and Ulion until he possessed land enough for are by railroad, 14,951 by steamer, 60,- strongly iu lavor ut n. . uunurcu jer j arjcn 8nj) 2i, that be snouto actually j uo uy coacn, ana ioo.jij iuuc vj mu!:e and till a good garden before be got conveyance, the increase during the last married, there would be moro wisdom in il year being 11,734 miles. Within the last than ii. V.a'if the laws made this winter. ' four years, the IUilroad sorvice has more This interpretation and these inferences j than doubkd. The Postmaster Genera1 a fiuu 'he above fuels, I thi:.k !mc ! recouimcuus u.e aoou'ion oi mo irai!kmS .ago she was a deiieUiy ieinperar.ee- or ganization, and kho is now fully abreast with the public in that sentiment. ' Oae would ni3.t certainly thiuk the M. T church Lai fallen a litile bcuiul the i caj.e, n'j' a it keeps '. n: officers on the part of tbo United States prevailed; namely, that America would lend $20,000,000 and ships of-war to con vey the Swiss regiments from Naples. This report was favorably received in England. It is said Ibat a French army of 00,000 men under Gen. Can robe rt, will be assem bled on the Eastern frontier to meet any emergencies. Berlin reports, which aro probably ex aggerations, assert that the French will actually occupy Moufchatcl and Geneva- and tho Al.'strians tho Pays D'Land. It is also addtid, with more probability, that France and Austria are united in intention to seize tbo opportunity that is offered by the present difficulty to wring from Switz erland a concession lhat ber territory shall be no longer a harbor for political refugees. TLe 2d of January was the day spec! fled for the march of tho Prussians against Switzerland, but the time Lad been post poned until the 5th, aud snino reports stat ed that it would not take place uutil the loth, or later. The Swiss would put the Neufchatel prisoners ou trial on or about the 12lb inst. PiEASSEMllM.NG OF THE PARIS Co.NGREsS 1 he Plenipotentiaries of the powers which signed the treaty of peace met at Paris on Wednesday, the 31st of Decem ber, at noon at tho Hotel of Foreign Af fairs. At the first meeting the commissioners of the Plenipotentiaries were verified, and a programmo was read, staling that Whereas, A difficulty having nriea in executing Article XX of the Treaty of Puris, tbo contracting parlies had mot to consider under what circumstance the dif ficulties in qucstiou could be arranged. Compliments were then exchanged ou the conciliatory spirit exhibited all around. A now line would thereforo be traced out as a Bcssarabinu frontier, Russia renoun cing her pretensions to New Bolgrad aud tho Isle of Serpents, and tbe Delta of tbo Danube being given up to Turkey. In compensation for these amicable ap proaches, a district of land would be ac corded lo Russia towards tbe north of Moldavia. It wa3 reported outside that none of the Plenipotentiaries ofi'ered any remarks ngaiust tbe proposition, but that sonio minor points were mooted of a na ture unknown to tbo public. Tho Confer ence on Wednesday sat fivo hours, each member having before him a map, prepar ed by a Commission of Engineers, of the localities in dispute. France. The silence of the Monitcur on the subject of the Conferences gives contradiction lo the conjecturo that all busi ness was finished in the Cougress. Tho Constitutinunel announces thai the second sitting of tho Congress will take place on Saturday, or Sunday at tho furtherest. The Pays says tho next silting will take plnje soon. Persia. A K tier from St. Petersburg in the Debats, says : "The accounts which Lave been given of tlio concentration of a considerable military force near Bukou, on the Caspian Sea, are confirmed. These troops are composed of picked regiments from the Caucasus. The olLcr troops couceulrated in tLe Caucasus are very numerous. The fivo corps of which they are composed are to uct in concert at any given moment, in addition to the corps of Bakou, which be longs to tbe army of the Caucasus, and which in case of need could proceed te Persia. There is another corps, that of Oren bourg, which if required, could lake part in the expedition. It would be destined to invade tbe territory of the Afghans, and prevent them fighting against Persia, in concert wirh -England. Tbe treops would proceed from Orcnbourg by the road followed by the expedition of Per- owski, on Khiva. Permanent pickets Lave been established on this road, as well as New Orlcaasaad the MUsltilppt. Tho city of Now Orleans extend' nearly six miles along the loft bank tf the Mississippi river, which forms here two bends, liko the letter S elongated. It wan originally built upon one bend only, hence tha name of, the "Crescent City," but its rapidly increasing population, and tbe improvement of tbo " English" quarter, soon extended the city limits farther " ur stream," giving its preseut extensive front The river surfuce presuiits to ibo ob server no proof of the Mississippi being the mighty volume which drains nearly half a continent as it is, Lore, not much more than one-third of a tuilu w ide ; and its mud dy eddying curieut seems moro like tLut of some second rale stream in a spring fresh el, than of the largest river in the world. far more than makes up fur its narrowness as opposite the city, and for sonio dis lance above and below, il attains the nl- most incredible depth of ninety fatLoms or overjiet hundred feet. And this vast depth is carried up almost to iis very banks, forming subaqueous precipices of one and two hundred feet in depth. And strange freaks dues the " Fa ther of Wators" play sometimes, with his alluvial limits and their human occupants. It Is no very uncommon occurrence for a long line of bank to bo undermined nnd swallowed up by the whirling flood, with out leaving a trace behind, aud with little or no previous warning of tbe catastrophe. A gentleman residing near New Orleans, whose couutry scat bad been located near the river bank, was informed in the mom. ing by one of Lis servants that the front verandah had settled. Closs examination proved this to have been the case, and that the same movement continued during the day, although the bank appeared quite sound. Fortunately the owuer took the precaution of removing Lis family and ef fects, leaving nothing but the houso stand ing. On iho following morning the latter had entirely disappeared, not a trace of it, nor of the ground on which it stood, being visible. In sounding afterwards from tbe edge of tho bank fur Lis " real estate," the unlucky proprietor found no bottom with a plumb line over ono hundred feet long ! Some idea may bo formed of the pro digious mass of water passing by tbe Miss issippi, bp comparing it with other well known rivers. It would require a " Del aware," same depth as at Philadelphia, six miles wide, and an "Ohio," with a tweuly fool " stago" at Cincinnati! nine miles, w ide, to equal the capacity of ibis mighty stream. New Orleans has stronger claims than any city of its size, Venice or Amsterdam not excepted, to be callod " water city." At most seasons, whenever the river is above its low stages, the majority of lh" streets are below water level, and are only protected from an inundation, which would flood the whole city, by an artificial dam, called hero " Levee," extending with a width of one to two hundred feet along the enliie city front, and for many miles above nnd below. There are no cellars, and tho dead aro buried, as the richer classes in Ilavannn, in niches buill in stone or brick walls above ground. Tho condition of Iho streets indicate the dampness of the soil. They are budiy drained, ami in many places very rough, from tho settlement of the stono blocks. Lake Ponchartrain, about four miles north of tha city, receives its whole drain age. As the fall (some Iwelvo or fifteen feet,) is too light lo carry off the sewerage by its natural 11 jw an artificial drainage, is created by Steam Engines, pumping up the water to a lumber level, whence it runs olT into tho Lake. Cor. Hcadinj Pa.) Journal. JUT A few days ago we published care, fully aud accurately compiled statistical tables showing that frauds were extensive ly practiced by the Democratic party in Kentucky and Indiana and also showing, by reference to the statistics and election re turns in Kentucky, Virginia, and Illinois, that the Democrats obtain their principal majorities in the counties where thero is the greatest amount of ignorance and that the American majorities are usually obtain ed in the counties where thero are the few est number of persons w ho can't read or write. The statistics wero conclusive. The deductions from them wero legitimate and incontrovertible. The editor of tho Democrat, the chief fugleman of Sag. Nichtism, couldn't defend Lis parly from the charges which were thus sustained, but he attempted to break the force of tho evidence by challenging us lo produce our authority for such statistics. He says: " We want to see the authority for the statement, at least about ihe Ninth Dis. Illinois and some counties in ir- trict m other establishments of great importance' ginia, where the editor makes out two to . ,m u,i. ,,rw. .H..k nr.i I one of tbe lecral voters unable lo read and vj ou hi im j " iivu is iv iu j vivM mmwu k v . a .1.1 . . r ' write. We Lave not examined the Uti- WiiSteB. . , , i... : siii'K district in the United States. The statement is a slander, and ws suspect it is from a Black Where am tue canor His demand is mot unfortunate for bis cniise. Jlo lias losi tits usual cunning in asking for the cource of the s'atistiis. He ahull have it. The statistic of the vole were taken from tho ofliciul returns of the recent Presidential election, and the statis tics of iho population and tbo number of persons who cau'l read or write are found in iho Compendium of the U. S. census, printed iu Ifljl, by Beverly Tucker, print er lo ihe U. 3. Senate, under the supor. vision of I). B. 1'eIW, iiiperinleiiduiit of tho U. S. census. We believe these aro pretty good authorities. They are generally received ns correct, nnd were, wo believe, made up principally by Dem oc ratio officials. This fact adds nothing whatever to the guarurty of their accura cy, but it should be sufficient to satisfy Deniocruts thai they arc absolutely correct, unless they Lavo reason to doubt tlio in tegrity and ability of their own officers. The editor of the Democrat is nut in. different to the value of education. Among the selections in the same number of the Democrat, from which we have pmteil, wo find an article upon '' ignorance mid low wages," from wuich we extract as follows: .1 man who can't write it us much a slare as if he had been born a brute. Ue is doomed to bo a hewer of wood and a drawer of wnlor all ihe days of his life- Drudge I drudge I dru(lufl! is all thai is in store for him, should he Continue on en i tb for a century. Fdoca'e your chil dren, therefore, not only for their happi-i.e-s, but their incomes. All can see that wickedness leads lo misery ; yet very few find out lhat which is equally certain, that ignorance leads lo misery and misery to wretchedness. Dr. Johnson was once ask ed, " Who was Iho most misorablo manf' "Tho man who cannot read on a rainy day" The writer once passing through a park taw nailed to one of the trees this warning. " All dogs found in ibis park will be shot." A friend who was with us remarked, " Un less do?s can read they are pretty badly off here." If a man is not aide to read, he is "preily badly off' here" Worso off than tho dog, for the dog has a master to read for him : but man has no master between him and his God. Tbe consequence is ht is trapped by cunning at every comer, lh is taken in and done for by the sprinatun duplicity and the man-traps of ungodliness, and all ho can do is lo lloiinuer and Dear. He is even worso off than the w icked, for they may hope ; but for tho ignorant man thero is uo hope." TLis chief fugleman of Democracy is certainly severe upon his benighted Sag- NioLt breiheren who can't read or write We Lave sLown by undeniable statistics that the large -a Democratic majorities are found where the greatest Ignorance pre vails, and in the above cxtrnct, which we llad in tbo columns of tho Democrat, it is said lhat " a man who can't read or write is as 'much a sluve as if he had been born a brute;" that such men are "worse off than a dog;" they aro "trapped by cun ning at every corner," and are " taken in Hiid done for by the spring-gun duplicity aud tho man-trans of ungodliness." We aro not willing to believo that those who can't read or writo, even in ihe benighted Sag-Nicht counties uf Illinois, Kentucky, and Virginia, aru as much slaves as if they had been born brtitos, or lhat they aro Worse off than dogs, but w aro willing to admit that they aro " trapped bj cunning al every corner" and are continually 'taken iu and done fir' by tho knavish dema gogues of the Democratic parly, by whom they are -deceived, mLluJ, aud betrayed. LouisvL'le Journal, CrST Friendship is a silent gentleman that makes no parade; tbe true heart j Republican source, dances no hornpipe on tbe tongue. I got Lis ligujos A Wonderful Man. There is said to bo living on tho Western Reserve, in Ohio, a mun about forty-six years old, whose joints aro completely turned lo bone, who cannot make the slightest movement, ox cept opening and shutting two fingers of lih right hand. His body is as rigid as iron, and could not bo bent backward or forward without breaking some of his bones. This process of ossificution, which has been going on for twenty years com menced in his cnklo j ''nils, and gradually extended through his whole system, till ha became entirely helpless. He con- versos fluently, is cheerful, and appears contented and happy. (Kr The British government Las or dered a steamer to bo fitted out, to exam ine thoroughly ihe coasts of Ireland and Newfoundland, and to sound across tbo Atlantic between them, to ascertain the best placo for laying tho submariue tele graph cable. The government Las agreed to guarantee four per cent, interest per an num on the whole capital required to man ufacture and lay it down. Contracts for the whole cable have been signed, and it is lo be completed and placed on board two. steamers ready for sea by June 1, and by July 4 il Is expected that Great Britain and the United Slates will be in telegraphio communication. OCT TLe Hindoos are petitioning in. great numbers for the abolition of polygi amy by law, I! it-. h iv fc w t$.' 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