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THE OHEGOiNi ARGUS; .". rveLuiise ivur tusoat komiio BT. WILLIAM L. ADAMS. ., tTERNS-Tke Aiom will U f.ni.hrj at 7'krta UuUaraand Fifty Vents prannam,in ' advance, la tinuli itibtmbrrt I ki ti Dalian tat a re ciuua nj ten at oat ajtteln adennet, Wat Ike mant it nat paid in gdeanet, fvur Dollnri will la charged (( pn,d teiikin aia monini, ana riot Mini at the tndof Me year, IX', 1'wa Voliorttr aia manlkaNo autueriji- liana received fur a Uti period. 3f JVe paper diirontinued until all arrearage! an paw, aatru at tut anun of I hi paWihtr. , . Uewavo or Uraaiy. We warn 1L0 good pcojile of this cilyi wLo occasionally take a lilt! "for itio atomncu t sake," to beware Low they drink , bran dy, or we should raihsr ay, the red liquid which it handed out to llicni at lav- , rn counter, unuor that nuuio. It n a well known fact, that there it scarcely a ' bar-room in the city, ho over extensive, elegant, or pretentious, mat contain ' drop of the genuine article Indcd, very littlo of it, comca into the country from France, and what doe como, commandt an almost fubulous prjee a price so great, t any rate, as to cxcludo it, almott en tirely, from tlio retail trade. Indeed, even frith the best will to tell a good article, the tarvem keeper cannot suroly jet it. The article which he buys uuJer customhouse leek, and which unquestionably has come from France, is nothing more nor less than portion of the millions of galloni of 'pure spirits, i. e., alcohol, which bus boon ex ported fiem this country, to receive, in France, it coloring and its flavor from the essential u nil of Cognise," and then to be Imported back. This is no illusion, but fact of daily practise, and it would be snfe to conclude, that any glass which you may ' take up, at any bar iu town, is nothing but ( colored pure spirits flavored with a few drops of the poisonous oil alluded to. The same may he said of the stuff that is furnished you in demijohns by wholesale . grocers and liquor dealers, fur family une, at the rate of five, six, and even seven Jul- lars per gallon. Through the failure of the grape iu Fiance, ami the immense con sumption of tho article of brandy in thin . country, not one twentieth part of the do . inand madu upon France can bo supplied ; and as the major part of this demand is for high priced brandy, it will at once be seen, what perilous stuff even the most . fastidious and careful drinkers are obliged . to swallow. The only shCo course is, there fore, to elniuin from culling for brnndy altogether. There it but liulu good in it, even when it is best ; and it has been mil . died upon us, as a national drink, in pluco of the comparatively harmless beverages chosen by other nationv, by a school cf " T6(lf'iocd old cocks, who, with the profundi ty, if not the sohiicty of oracles, yi-ked our necks years ngo, with the notion that hrnnily was " the best thing in the world for t ho stomach," especially after eating oysters a doiiblo fallacy, ns has long ago been proved. We, therefore, advise that brandy permitted to po out of fashion at least while it h oat of our country and if we must bavo a national drink, let us follow the example uf tlm tint ion which manufactures hramly for use, nud adopt something ns a daily beverage, lhat is at loa.st, a slut Jo lighter than hell Are. Por ter t Spirit, (iVtw York.) From the Chicago l'rett. Home Facts about Moriuoulsm. We have had a number of interviews with the lion. W. W. Drummond since his arrival in lliii city from Utah, and have learned much from him of the manner in which affairs are conducted in that modern Sodom, ' Judge Drammond expresses free ly his belief that the design of Brigham i Young and the Mormon leaders generally is to build up a sovereignty in Utah, ac knowledging no allegicnce to the Constitu tion and laws of the United States. Even new the Mormons draw a broad lino of distinction between themselves and Ameri can citizens. They glory in the appella tion of Mormon, while American is a term of reproach among them, synonymous with " Gentile." How Gov. Vouny Exercises llie Pardon ing rower. Judge Drummond states that all tlm monstrosities that have been pub Jished concerning the Mormons, and their acts, but feebly express the condition of af fairs in- lhat Territory.' The first Court1 he held tho re was at Fillmore. ' It occupi ed fifty-".-9 dayvW of which en' igaged in twenty-serf of prosecution. 'Thejeries only convicted two one before Hheywent le prison, Gov.' Young pardoned 'boihof them. ; Murderer Acquitted. Carlos Murray, nepbew of Elder Kin ball, committed a cruel, cold-blooded murder, and fled. The Marshal a Mormon raised a posse and pursued him arrested him and brought him back. He was tried, and though the proof was ns clear as could be, the Mor. mon jury, without leaving their seals, re turned a verdict of not guilty, and ha was acquitted 1 The arrest and trial of this man cost the United States about $20,- ooo. , . " ; '.''. ' The Way the Mormons Fleece the Gov trnment. One way in which the Mormons fleece the United Stales Government is as follows: Some of the leaden will bring c?eriplajflU against "bad Mermons" who, say they, we wish punished by the laws of the United States, so as to put our selves right before the world. Warrants are made out, and as it is an Indian d ua try, a posse Mormons of coarse is rais ed to assist the Marsha, who ramble ever A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to tlio Principles of Jctlersoiiinn Democracy, nnd advocating Vol. III. the Territory, arrest I hem, bring them tu trial wheu they are acquitted by a Mor men jury. Meanwhile the bill of coils sent In by the Marshal. In this way the Government is rolbcd of thontnuds of dul- A Mormon Leader who Killed Sctcn Jln. Murder there is an almost common occurrence Ono of the chiefs of the church is a notorious fellow named Win. A. Hickman, lie has murdered as ninny at seven persons, and has never beoa bro't to trial. The lost man he killed was a Mormon, who would not promise not to tell goods to the " Americans." . Hickman buried an axo in his bruins. Tie mur. dcrcr is tho soma person who figures In the scenes of which Donney gives an account in bis " Banditti of the Prairies." H,i hns been tried for different offences in Hancock county, in this Stale, before Judge Purple, always contriving to evade the law. . 77i Design of the Mormons regarding (he Indians. It is the design of the Mor mon leadera to gain over to their side the chiefs of iho various tribes of Indians bare thorn baptized into tho Church, and so possessed of tho malignity of Mormon ism towards the United Stales, as to make them hostile to all American!', and in lime be able to use litem to accomplish their own ends. . , ' Searching the Mails. The mails of the United Stales have been habitually broken open, and nothing can go out or. come into tho Territory safely unlets by private car-j riers.' " ' ' ' Wife Whipping. Whipping women is a common occurrence. ' Gov. Young's hi red man whipped one of his (Young's) in his presence till the blood trickled down her back and that while the woman was teilhin one month of her confinement. The crimo was disobedience to the laws of the church. ' . ' Jud'je Drummond to be murdered by or acror tne vimrcn. t.iuer jiyde (who lies recently left thr ill) stated that ho and Hick man (spi.ken of aboe) were set apcoiallr apart by the D.imlo band to murrlcr Jud"e Di utninond. The deed was to have been commiiUd last July while crossing to Car son Valley. Hyde stated this publicly, be fine the Legislature of California. ; Briyham Young indicted for Counter feiting Douglas's knowledge of theftic!.- Judge Purple, of this State, informed Ju 'g; Drummond I hot nt tho timo Fillmore ap pointed Hrigham Young Governor of Utah two indictments were pending ngninsl him, in the U. S. District Court for this State, for making and passing counterfeit money. Young was appointed Governor of Utah at the express solicitation and recommenda tion of Scnutor Douglas at the time these indictments were pending' against him. Douglas and Fillmore are the most papula mon for the Presidency In Utah. This is the reason. How a Mormon is served when he at tempts to leave Utah. Judge Drummond also informs us that when a Mormon makes up his mind tr leave the Territory, he in forms Brigham Young, who says, ." Oh, yes, you can leave. Pay up your tithes don't steal anything and then you can leave and go to h 1." One man, named Benbow, from Kenosha, Wis., resolved to leave Mormondom. , He paid his tithes paid all his debts sotlle'd his whole busi ness, and started off, taking with him his cattle, goods, and wagons.; He had not proceeded homeward, however,' over 150 miles, when he was overtaken by a posse, who arrested hira because of a debt which was stated to bo unpaid. Benbow looked nt the claim, and stated that he never owed claimant a cent; but rather than go back he would submit to the imposition, and of fered to pay the sum demanded. This was not sufficient he must pay the costs, which he at length agreed to do, by turning out some of his stock. ' But ne he must go back to Sail Lake City such was the or der, lie had to submit he went back, and his goods, cattle, and wagons, were taken next day, and sold under the ham .Tier, without trial, without law except the orders of the leaders of the church. , He is now in Utah, without meant to lake him out of the Territory. ' ! These constitute but a small portion cf the revelations made to us by Judge Drum mond. Is it not true, as we said the other day, that a strong arm is needed in Utah ! Worth Knowinc.. Lieut. Maury con tinuing iu the Rural New Yorker his re marks on the planting of the tun-flower at a preventive of chills and fever in the marshy districts, suggests that water lilies planted in marshes would have "a similar beneficial efTret. : . . - (W The Rev. Dr. Seymour, who read the buriel service over Sir John Moore at Coruona, lately died suddenly in a railway carriage in the North of England. ; 1 Lasd Waeii.nts. Up to the prevent lime we learn from VTaahington, 200,000 land-warrants have teen Issued, repairing 29,0CP,0O9 aeree.. OREGON CITY, OREGON, JULY 11, 1857. Fir Iht Argut. The Wy of Trsazrmors It turd. Concluded.) The shock to the feelings of tho two sis lers CUrisasnd Amanda can be bdior conceived than felt, when they viewed tho lifeless form of the wretched Mathews. Alas! lhat human naturo could fall so low. The bodies of the two nniin were bur- led without pomp or sympathy, save that of tho hapless wife, now led to mourn tho sod fate of L.m on whom she had placed Iiab l Alll I. Iltl AtloMtlAMA '11. A . J mAakI her youthful aflections. The day after they were interred, our student prepared to continue his journey, anxious to em brace his parenis and other friends. Miss Wcldon requested him to remain at leant another day, while she should show him her gratitude for the part he had so nobly and bravely performed in saving her life. She addressed him thus: Sir, I owe to you, under God, my life and what I pos sess or this worlds goods, lou are a total stranger to me: I know not even your name or parentage; but something tells me that noble blood flows in your veins, I never can express by words my gratitude lo you. It is true that the events of that fatal night, when you arrived here, have plunged my dear titter and mytelf in deepest sorrow, yet your noble valor has won my profound respect for you. As a token of my gratitude, I now am ready to make over lo you, in legal form, the half of all 1 possess on this eaith. Aiid besides this small token of my regard, 1 shall ever pray for your welfare, wherever your lot may be cast in this world. These words were uttered with deep emo tion; she could say nomoro. Mr. Leland replied as follows : Esteemed Miss, it is true that the vicissitudes of life are not al ways under our control. Could I have supposed that on that calm nnd beautiful night, when first I had the pleasure of see ing you, that I should have to shed the blood of two of my fellow-men in order to savo your life ? Yet it was so ordered that I should he armed, and that I should place my pistols under my head, and that they sent the messengers of death to the hearts of those men, who were determined in a few moments to thrut Ihcir weapons to your heart and the heart of your compan ion. . Oil, God ! that avarice should prompt men thus to act 1 . My name is George Lo land; my parents, and an only brother, who is tho prop of their declining years, are living one hundred miles from here, and I was returning to their beloved society, intruding to establish myself near them in tho profession of tho law., I am proud of my parentage, and hope that I may ever so act as to houor the nnmo of Leland. Your kind and generous oflurof lenJcring tome half your wealth, I must respectfully do- dine. I have only done my duty, and could I have dono loss ? That I have been instrumental in saving your life, and that I am assured of your lasting regard, is compensation of which I shall ever be proud. Permit me, then, to depart; and may I bo permitted, without offending you, lo correspond by 'letter J But, perhaps, ibis might be fruitless; your heart nnd soon your hand will likely be bestowed on some one who is worthy of you, ' But of this I have no right to speak pardon my presumption, but permit me lo say that your image will ever go with me, firmly tixed 08 it is on my heart. The lady replied, with emotion, that he had her permission to correspond with her, that she could not, under her distressed state of feelings, say more ; but that, on receiving his first letter, she would reply candidly lo it. They then parted,! but their heart felt more than their tongues expressed. . In about three weeks, a letter was handed Miss Weldon, who, on opening it, read as follows; ".. Pbince William Co., Va., ) July 10, 1700. . J Esteemed Miss Weldon Having your kind permission lo addreis you a letter, I avail myself of that dear privilege, and shall lay open a heart which pulsates in strong emotion, and whose life blood, whose all, is in your keeping. - You nobly offered me half of your largo estate as a token of your gratitude. . But what would be a thousand such estates as you possess, if, with them the band and the heart of its fair owner should be withheld I . Never. till I beheld your lovely form, did I hiiow the import of the word, lovbJ My life had ben studicyjsly devoid to the acqui sition of ll,e sciences, and to me all ladies were alike possessing my respect. Ob that memorable evening, when I arrived at your hospitable mansion, and experi enced your kind permission to tarry during the night, a new and indefinable emotion took possession of my very nature, and not till I have been absent did I know the depths of my heart's devotion to you. Will you, en you, pardon my presump tion while I thus write! But, knowing the goodness of yoor oat a re, I (eel assured lhat I am already forgiven, and of your lastinc friendship I am well assured. But if your heart is bestowed on another, let me forever deplore my lot, and bury in solitude my bruised heart and widowed love. Will you, dear lady, reply to these enquiries, and assure ma that you still re member me 1 shall wail, with the ot (Tott impatience, your reply, upe which Ml my all depends. And hoping to receive a kind reply from you in a chart time, I re main your devoted lover nil death. Gftoncc Lelaxd. ' To ahlch the fair Amanda replied : July 23, 1700. Dear Friend I have just received yours of the 10th Inst., and huslcn to reply. Will you pardon me, if I throw ofl the af fectation of my sex, and reveal to you the very dopih of a heart whose emotions and whose affections are in unison with yours? ,,louIJ (W , nnM (q . m t m . under otlior or di lie rent circumstance!, I man iho state of my heart. But lo you, dear sir, who are, under God, the preserver of my life, and who so frankly avows for me, a lone orphan, a preference lo all other women, I have confidence to apeak plainly. You appear to ho,vo deep solicitude as to whether my affections are placed on any one, or whether my hand and heart are free. The death of my dear parents and my studies left mo but littlo timo to culti vate or even indulge in thoso tender emo tions so common lo girls of my age. Deep and truo love I have known, but it was the love of my dear and now widowed sister. My heart would now direct me to reveal lo you its deep and true love, but prudence would dictate a difliirent course. Perhaps I have said enough. Your absence fully proreo to me hew dearly prised Is your presence. I hope to hear from you again in a short time. I remain yours ever truly. , , Amanda Weldon. On the reception ef this letter, George Leland waa seen retracing his steps toward the mansion of the lovely and impatient Amanda, who received him with all the modesty yet deep emotion of her nature. After sponding two weeks in her society, during which timo the preliminaries of their marriage wore settled, ho returned to his father's. On the 15th of September, George, In company with his brother and some dozen othersof his acquaintance, ar rived at the residenco of his adored Aman da, and on the next day they were united in marriage. Two hearts were never closer united in all the ties of deep and lasting lovo. At this wedding, Charles Leland made the favorable acquaintance of the charming widow Clarissa, and, after a courtship of three months, they were uuited in the ties of wedlock. Thus these two affectionate brothers and sisters be came united in the closest of all earthly ties, and were permanently settled near each other. The large estate of Mr. AVel- don was well managed in iho hands of its present owners.' Love, peace, and earthly prosperity attended tho parties along the journey of life. x. T. For tht Argut. Slave l.abor or Free Labor. No. III. PRO SLAVERY ARGUMENTS, The following i3 the wholo of Mr. Ste- phens's demonstration of tho rightfulness of slavery " from the laws of naturo" : " Gradation, too, is stamped upon every thing animate as well e& inanimate if, indeed, there be anything inanimate. A scale, from the lowest degree of inferiority to the highest degree of superiority, runs through all animal life. Wo see it in the insect tribes we see it in the fishes of the sea, the fowls of tho air, in the beasts of the earth, and we see it in the races of men. We see the samo principle pervad ing the heavenly bodies above us. - One star differs from another star in magnitude and lustre ; some are larger, others are smaller, but the greater and superior uui- tormiy influences and controls the lesser and inferior within its sphoro. If there is any fixed principle or law of nature it is this. Iu the races of men we find like dif ferences in capacity und development. , The negro is interior to the wuito man ; nature has made him so ; observation and history, from the romotest times, establish tho fact; and all attempts to make the inferior equal to tho superior is but an effort to roverse the decrees of the Creator, who has made all things as we find them, according to the counsels of his own will. The Ethio pian can no more change his nat ure or his skin than the leopard his spots. Do what you will, a negro is a negro, and be will remain a negro still. In the social nnd po litical system of the South, the negro is assigned to (lint subordinate position for which he is fitted by the laws of nature. Our system of civilization it founded in strict conformity to those laws. Order and subordination, nccording to the natural fit ness of thing, is the principle upon which the whole fabric of our Southern institu tions rest." rn. 14.15. Impudence, is unquestionably a great Ind most effective power in the transaction o; the business of this world. To utter such stale truisms in connection with such gross falsehoods as we see above, and to place them in an order intended to repre sent to the bearer that the latter were au (hemic and inevitable deductions from the former, would hare required not only great command of countenance in Mr. Stephens, but no inconsiderable amount of ceurage, had he not teen surrounded by a majority j (in the House of Representatives) who, having thoroughly committed themselves, in private and public life, to the tyrannical policy advocated by Mr. Stephens, were thus committed to the support of any method of defending that policy, aad might thus be relied on to make whatever effort was necessary to avoid laughing in his face when he altered the preposterous language k .. Bine. hoer. it has been uttered, and sines seme ore kti'pheoi'i taints, the sputa of Europsae ifd one Til ' tho sido of Tmth iu every issue. No. 13, thought so poorly of tho intelligence of the people of Oregon as lo distribute it among them as a defense of slavery, we will spend a few moments in examining il iVe may fairly presumo tho captain of a pirato vessel to have made some proficiency la Impudence, and to have disenrded, at thoroughly as Mr. Stephens himself, the idea of obligation to speak the truth. We shall therefore do no injustice to such a person in supposing him, after boarding a merchant ship, killing those who resisted, and tying the hands of the survivors be. hind (heir backs, to address those survivors aa follows i " Gradation Is stamped upon all the works of nature. We see it In tho insect tribes, the Ghes of theses, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the earth, and the heav enly bodies above us. One star differs from another star in magnitude and lustre; some are larger, others are smaller; but the greater and superior uniformly in fa ences and control the lesser and inferior teilhin its tphcri. If there i any fixed prmetple or law of nature, it it this, h the races of men we find the differences of cs pacity and development. The merchant sailor is inferior to the pirate; nature has made him so ; observation and history, from the remotest times establish the fact ; and all attempts to make the infeilor equal to the superior is but' an effort to reverse the decreet of lbs Creator, vlio ha made all thing as tee find them, according to the counsels of hi own mill. If you had ca pacity and development enough to keep this vessel, we should not have taken it Your inferiority is thus proved by unquestiona ble facts, and in our social and political sys tem the inferior ia assigned to that subor dinate position for which he is fitted by the laws of nature. Men, run out a plank, and show them over the side." Facts aro stubborn things. '. In all ages, pirates have not only averted this superi ority, but proved it. They, not less than the slaveholders, have in all ages illustrated the operation of that great law of nature quoted by Mr. Stephens ' the greater and superior uniformly influences and con trols the lessor nnd inferior within its sphere." And supposing ono of the infe rior and subordinate class, in spite of the overwhelming evidence of half his ship mates lying dead en the deck, and of his own hands lied behind hit! bock, had been so absurd as to mutter something about might not making right, and about his having been engaged In an honest occupa tion, would that have changed the laws of rature and reversed the obvious position of tho parties ! Would he have walked the plank any the less Mr. Stephens's argument may be stated in another form, thus: Trees grow accord ing to the laws of nature ; man, in the use of the powers which the Creator bestowed upon him, modifies certain parts of the trees into clubs, and organizes the Institu tion known as club-law ; is it not plain, then, that whoever resists the application of club-law, resists not only human law but the laws of nature and the laws of God I But, as all human works ore marked by imperfection, even Mr. Stephens, when he strays beyond his strong hold of club-law, and the divine right of the strongest, makes one or two little slips, which, at the risk of seeming hypercritical, we will notice. Although tho gradations in stars, beasts, birds, fishes, and insects, to which he refers us for illustration, are exceedingly numer ous nnd varied, and the varieties of condi tion nnd degrees of development of the human family not less so, Mr. Stephens makes but two classes of the latter, white men and negroes: tho former all A, No. 1, superfine specimens of the dignity of hu man nature, the latter all Z, No. U0, per. feet specimens of the degradation of 'numan nature. The simplicity aud eomnrehen- i sivenest of this classification would be ad. miralle if the classification itself were only true ; but, unfortunately for Mr. Ste phens, the testimony of all the most com petent and reliable travelers and historians is diametrically opposed to his. We learn, from unquestionable evidence, that very great variety exists in the manners, cus toms, capacities, and attainments ef even those African tribes which are known; that some have made great improvement in agriculture, others in manufactures and mechanis arts, other in hunting and the domestication of such animals as can be made useful ia that manner, and others in gentleness, courtesy, honesty among them selves and hospitality to strangers though it may be that Mr. Stephens, educated in conformity to the very different standard of morals and manners prevalent in Georgia, may not admit the qualities last named to be virtues at all, except those instances of hospitality which are exercised at the ex pense of others. But, as successive discoveries acquaint itn he inlerior Afric, ,nd "iih those of its tribes which have been least, r not W aoquaimea . .. . -.1. r e.- APVERTIHINO RATES. One squars (13 lines or leu) one liiMrtlon, $n,n " ! " two liinarllntm, 4.HO " , " time inat'itkina, 8,no Ksch subsequent inMHion, 1,00 Reasonable deductions tu Uium Who advertise by Uis year. ; J O D PRINTING.' Tns raorsiiroa or tns ARGUH is utm lo inform the pubiie that he bu Just received a larie stock of JOH TYl'K Slid oilier new Mint ing man-rial, and will be In the sneedv rereint tit additions suited lo all the rcmilraititnts at tliii In. onlily. IIANDIIII.I-S, rosTWiS, M.ANKS, C AUDS, ClltCCLAUS, PAMI'IILKT-WOKK and other kinds, dune to order, on short notim. American commerce, we find mere and more specimens of a higher character nnd a better culture. All these, however, and all which yet remain lo bo discovered, are unceremoniously tumped together by Mr. Stephens in hit second class ; they are ne. groet ; " do what you will, he soys, p. 15, J a negro Is a negro, nnd he will remain a negro still." Tho fact Is incontrovertible. No washing can whiten him. Cut, intelli gent reader, if you t'op thsre, and do not ump to tie further conclusions that no justice can aid him, do humanity benefit htm, no culture refine him, and no efforts elevate him you slop short of the pur poses, and disappoint the expectations, of Mr. Stephens. But again : the testimony of history in all ages, and of the most reliable voyagers and travelers of the present century, eon tradicls Mr. Stephens's major premise not ess absolutely than his minor. We find the varieties in character, condition, nnd capacity among white men also to be very great ; and we find, not only that all white men are not superior lo all black men, but that many tribes of white mon are aa low as the lowsst, and very far Inferior to the highest, of the negro tribes. To refer lb only one of the recent testimonies Dr. Kane haj shown us thai the northern tribes of Esquimaux (reduction te whose mode f existence wore eut the health aqd de stroyed the lives of even such hardy and seasoned adventurers as himself and his rave associates) must speedily die out and become extinct becnuto their dogs, on whom their very existence depends, are tmiinshing from year to year. Not one of tho African tribes, not even those which have been deteriorated by the society of Mr. Stephens agents on tho Gold Coast, is lower In morals or manners, present con dition or future prospects, than those Ef quimaux; who, by Dr. Kane's unim- peochod account, living not only without metals, and Ignorant of letters, but, amid tho greatest discomforts and privations, were too stupid to imagine the existence f a better country than their own, and ad too little energy to seek it of their own accord or migrate to it when the news had been brought thsm ; who alternately gorged and starved, as fortune helped or hindered them slept in a promiscuous mass, all tho inmates of a hut, more or fewer, lying clustered together, entirely naked, in the warmest place, "like worms in a basket" killed their children when tey became too numerous or loo trouble some and had no better prospect than to ie themselves whenever their dogs should die. Yet these, in Mr. Stephens's clnssifi cation, are " white men," superior, in vir tue of thai fact, to any actual or possible negro I As all ganoral rules have their except lions, we find one curious exception to the weak, torpid, lnzy, and inefficient character ascribed by Mr. Stcphons to tho negro blood. A single drop of it tufflces to neu tralize, and even immediately to annihilate, a bucket-full, or any conccivablo quantity, of the purest Virginian or Georgian blood. For instance. Since it is woll known that planters do not suffer the reproductive pow ers of their slaves to lie idle, but bestow even more porsonal attention upon the in crease of this than of any other variety of their cattle, It is very possible tlml there may bo now in cxistnnco the fifth genera tion in regular (or rather irregular, but certainly natural,) descent from the slave daughter of Thomas Jefferson, formerly Presidont of the United States. Now if we make tho supposition, not at all improb able, that a daughter was born in each stage of this dvscent, nnd the further sup position, a highly probablo oni, that each of these successive daughters had issue by ler master, or hit son, or tho class mate, or other young Northern friend lo whom tbia son was showing " hospitality, we shall have, In the child last born, merely one sixty-fourth, or one hnndred-and-twenty. eighth part of African blood ; the former, if the Presidents favorite were black, the alter, if she were yellow. But the singu lar fact is, that this minute proportion of black blood not only annihila'cs the sixty three sixty-fourths, or the one hundred and twenty-seven bundred.and-twenty-eighths, of white blood, making its poKenor fully and absolutely what Mr. Stephens calls a negro, and his overseer a nigger, but it an nihilates also the ordinary rules of nativity, stamping as an African and an Ethiopian (both of which terms Mr. Stephens uses interchangeably with "negro,") a person who was not only born in the United States, but whose ancestors, for five generations back, have all been bom at seme point be tween Virginia and Georgia. Still further. Not only docs this minuta interfusion of black blood reverse the tech nical designation of the white blooj so pro fusely mingled with it, which would other, wise have remained Cauctkian. Virginian, or Angla-Saxon-Georgiao, it annihilatea the Intellectual superiority which ia in ether er.sot tpcscUd, from tiff ,o ion,