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THE OREGON ARGUS. rusi.i.nr.n kvkhv mnniuT murnuq, BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. TERMS Thi A so us wilt hi furniihed al i Thru Vollari ami Fifty Cent! per annum, in tdcanct, to tingle lubtcriheriTkrei Dulluri tack to elubi of ten at out office in edvnnei ' When Ihi money ii not paid in admnee, four Dollar! uill he ehuriitd if jiid within tit month; and Fire dulluri at the end of the year. Two Dulluri fur tix montht Noiubierip lioni received fur a leu period. 0f No paper diieontinued until nil arrenrnget an paid, unleu at the uptiunof the publisher. BUSINESS CAHDS. W. T. MATLOCK. t W.C. JOHNSON. Matlock it Johnson, ATTORNEYS Si COUNSKUUM AT LKW, And SiiVritun in Chancery, ' WILL promptly alteml to any business which inny be committed lo iheir prolWJonul ' charge before District and Supreme Court. Ulrica ill Hghlicld's biiiltliiijf, immediately op ' posits the Muiu Street llouw. Oregon City, Mur.ili 7, 1837. 47y JOHN R M BRIDE, iTTOIItlY AND COUNSRLOR AT LAW, Lafayette, Yamhill County, 0. T., w ILL faithfully utlriid to nil business en- irunitu to ii proiesaiouai care. Win, C. Dement tfc Co., WHOLESALE and Mail Dealer, in Grocer ies, Provisions, l'uints, Oils, Hoots and Shoes, Crockery, &c. Opposite Ilia Laud Office. Alain mi. ungou uity. June 1, 1B55 ' CHARLES POPE, JR., TEALEIl in llurdwara, Groceries, Dry Goods, JJ Clolhiug, lloota ii. Shoes, Medicates, liook. and hlullouery. Main-st., Oregon City, April 21, 1857-Itf C8EO. ABEIIXETIIY fc Co., MERCHANTS, OREGON CITY, O. T. Aborncthjr, Clark it Co., COMMISSION AND FOKWAHDINU MERCHANTS, San FranriHco, Cal., Will attend to selling Oregon produce, aud fill or der for Goods, Groceries, Sic, at the lowest rule. The patronage of the people of Oregon ia re spectfully solicited. Aug. 2. S3. r.Iilwain, Manufacturer, Wholesale and licluil Dealer in COOK XXU IMKLOK STOVES, Tr II corrKK wank, hakdwark, lc, Main St., oppoaita Muin Street Hotel, OREGON CITY, O. T. Steamboat and jobbing work attended to with lifiKllcll. Order from the country promptly filled. je7 Time. WF. HIGH FIELD, WATCH-MAKER. i'ersons dobiruus of gelling good work done Mill do well to give mu a cull, ua my whole lime ia de voted to lliA rcnuirmir of Chronometer. Lever. Duplex, and lloriioulul wutches. An iixaortiiirut of Jewelry on bund. Jewelry made to order, unci repaired. I'ricca to auit the tiinoe. I am thunkful for punt favors, und hone to L'ive satisfaction in future. (D Located at the old atnnil, nppoaito the Tel graph Office, OREGON CITY. Feb. 2. n Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, ffl and 3)yo-stuffs, f at the ORKCO.N CITY DRUG STORE, a15 Main Street, Oregon City, O.T. JOHN P. BROOKS, IVioIiBif if- Retail Dealer in Groceries, Produce, Provisions, dc.. Main Street. A General Assortment kept up of Selected Goods Ouiemtih, March 28, 1837. GUN SMITHING. T)EING permanently located In Oregon City, I 1 am prepared to curry on the business of GUN' -SMITHING AY ALL ITS BRANCHES. Those who favor me with their patronage, may expect to have their work done right. Those who leave G lrJSTS at my Ship for repnra, und do not cull for them within nine uorimof tlm lime sot for the wurk to be done. ni iy expect to have them old lo p iv chnrgra. FEUUINANU W1LUE. Juno 27, 1857. 11 ml 8 Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, Between Oregon, California, the Atlantic Qt.ilnm .nil TSumn Kt'ti" o iff, xf.r.''i, . HAVING made advuntugeona ASS arrungenienta with llie United ftStfi i?Sfii Stutea aud Pacific Muil Steum- JL alnp t'oinpunies for transportation, we are now pre spared to forward Gold Dust, Rullion, Specie, .Paekaget, Parcelt, and Freight, to aud from N .York, N. Orlcaua, San Francisco, Portland, aud principal town nf California and Oregon. Our regulur Somi-mouthly Exprcaa between Titland and Sun Frnneinco, ia dispatched by the Putiiic Mail Steamship Co.'b Bteanship Columbia, f-conuecting at Sun Fruncisco wilh otir semi-inonth-1 ly Expresa to A'e w York and New Orleant, which is diapalched regulurly on the 1st and 16th of each .mouth, by the mail ateamera aud in charge of our own messengers, through to destination. Our Kxpresa from New York leuvea regulurly on the 5th uud 20th of each month, alao in charge of lnossongers. Treasure insured in the best New York com panies, or at Lloyd in London, at tlie option oi abiopers. Omcea New Toik, No. 1G, Wall al ; Now Orjeaus, No. 11, Exchange place; San Fraucuco, No. 114, Montgomery street. A. II. STEELE, Agent. Oregon City, April 21, 1 8 j".-1 tf Reading for the Million. S. J. McCORMICK BAi COXSTANTir OX HAND AT THE FRANKLIN 00k STORE, FRONT -ST, FOnTLAND, ORIQON, A Choice selection of Popular Books, News papers, Magazines and Fancy Stationery. Among the books on hand will be found works od Temperance, Agriculture, Horticulture, His tory, Poetry, Hiography, Medicines, Religion, Science, School Books, Romances, aVo., See., oVc. Jj-Subsenplions received for Harper, Graham, Godey, Leslie's, or Putnam, at 9 year, poet age free. ST Subscriptions received for any newspaper published in any part of Ihe Union. Remember the Franklin Book Store and News paper A gency, Fronl street, Portland Oregon. rae-A priced catalogue will be published early in April, and will be sent to any part of the torn tory free on application. ' Oregou Lodge Ho. 3, I. O. O. F MEETS at their Hall over the Oregon City Drug Store every Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. Brethren ia good sUndinii are invited FUED.CHAR.MAN,N.G. Georo Piasr-, S'y. 31 mEMPLE OF HONOIt-TaabUin Temple J X Honor, No. 1, meets on the 1st and 3d r ri day eveningsof each month at 6, o'clock, at Tera perauce Hall, Forest Grove, Oregon- Membera of the Order in good ataad.ng are m edtovisathrafempl. DixQVWC T M- Tern.. W. B- 3a -Tj GALS, sperm oil (soperior quality) m ioc saw "j n y WM. a DEMENT & co. OYS, of ifferotU kinds, sale by -A Weekly lSmit'r, Ucvotwl to tlio Princijilea of Jeflcrsouiuu Dcuiocrucy, and aJvocatiiifj Vol. III. Forth Argm. TknM.lll. U ralK.1 II la . f I I. . lieath of Ur. JoUn MiI.ouiiuiib. The old man venerable has pawed away. In marts of trude or on the bu.y street No more is seen his noble form, as mie We suw in daily wulk, a piomeuade Ho ofl rupculed wa had learned to mark H a very step, and wonder ofl Ibul now We hear Ho more Ilia old fumiliar tread. The snows of iiiuny winters on his bead Hud fallen, aud silvered e'er bis raven lucks. Ago, wilh the cares of hfe, had striven in vain To out him down, till death was sent in love, Culling him lo a brighter, nobler mdierv. In manhood', prime he sought tbia western shore, 1 lie leader or a band of luinly men, Seeking pells, the furry spoil of victims stain Then suvuge lieusts and still more sava''e men Roamed o'er Ihi. luud, and eluini-d it all their own, Holding the smiplu law that might mukes right, They acrupled not to seine a ati auger's goods, Confiscate lo their curetoua desires. But justice atriutly .njetcd out In all Within hiasphere, realraiued thia lawlessness, And soon to him all matters in dinpula Referred, an one impartial, they received His word their fiuul luw, nor sought appeal. Then nulure wore a uuiurul air.uuchanged Save by the hand of I, me aud elemental wur Ou mountain side and in the grny drll The aullered game nil ample pualure found, While bear uud prowling wolf, not seldom seen. Stalked boldly through liie durksome forest glades. in crystal atream, lha Iruilof melting enowe, The mottled trout wa found, while fiuuy tribes From oceau depths iu semi-auiiuul visit came To spread rejoicing through Ihe red man's lodge. Where now our cities stand, the lofty lir Its head upraised, and threw its shadow e'er A lesser growth of shruU and crooked vines, Whose foliage oust a sambre shade around. Hero, neur Willamette's Full, our worthy friend liuill up a liome, and wailed pilieiilly Till over plain uud desert roud the pioneer Should furce his lailxome wuy, in hopo lo find A homestead hi this new ami rich domain. His homo a chieftain's daughter ahured, United ill the bonds of mother church ; And thus years came und went in quiet joys, Till children's children climbed upon his knee, Aud frolicked gaily round his elbow chair. Anon fuir maideus graced his social board, Cluiming him gruudsire ; now with muaio rung Ouce quiet hulls. Ilia tubles rpi-ead with luxury To tempi the rye and pleuse the nicest tuate, Rewarded Micnfice and youthful toil. A lifo well apent, insured a happy age, Strewing with ilowcra bis pathway to the tomb, Aud when Ihe summons cuine, be dreaded nut To paw the gate of death, looking by faith To liud a belter life. Though dead, his memory lives enshrined In many grateful hearts, and thus 'lis true His work, do follow him beyond Ihe tomb. Thus blessing, followed him upon Ills earth, And in the world tocomu eternal life, Fulfilling prom so given iu holy writ, The merciful ahull mercy find above. Wo deeply mourn his loss, yet nut na those Who have uo boie beyond the present life : For, when our nice ia run, we trust to meet His spirit in a brighter, better world. Cratus. . TUe Mormons. dipt. Van Vlic't, U. S. Army, who was sent by Gen. Harney to Utah, to gather nectary information concerning the dis position of tlio inhabitants, the geogrnphy of ilio mutes lo the Territory, the condi- tton of Iho crops, ccc, has returned to Washington with Iho result of his mission. Capt. Vnn Vliet arrived at Suit Lake City on Sept. 8th, and remained ihere week. His measurement of its distance from Fort Lnraniio was 518 miles from Fort Laramie to Fort Leavenworth, as measured by Col. Smith, 628 miles the total distance of Salt Lake City from Fort Leavenworth being 1,140 miles. Hi) was received wilh much considera tion, and invited to partake nf the hospi talities ofllte leading men of iho city. A n official dinner was given in his honor by Ileber C. Kimball, and he had daily In terviews with Drighain Young and the other dignitaries of the Mormon Church. Their expressed determination, from first to last, was, to resist at all hazards the entrance of the troops thia autumn. When they were reminded of tho certain ty that in case their resistance one year hmili be elTecluul, a force would be dis patched lo. Utah the next, against which twice their population in arms would strive in vain to close tho passes, they replied that they had considered all tha', and that when such a force had stormed those passes, they would enter a valley in which not one shrub would be green nor one stono remain upnn another, fhey look upon the present movement of the Gov ernment as only the renewal of the perse cutions which they complain of having en dured in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and they arc determined to resist it at the out set, and never will permit United Stales troops, or the officers appointed by the U. S. Government, le get a foothold in their dominions. In all their public declara tions, and in their private conversations, this seotimpnt is boldly avowed they will never suffer the troops to enter the city, and if they do, it will be after the town ha been committed (o the flames, the country around it laid waste, und al' the inhabitants have fled to the mountaius. Their fanaticism knowi n buundt; they believe Brigham Young to be the appoint ed agent of ihe Lord, and whatever he commands them lo do they will perform with alacrity. Tbey say that they bare previsions sufficient to last them three years, and that, persecuted a they have bean and arc, by the Americans, tbey will resist to tha last extramily. Brigham Young remarked repeatedly that this was the most glorious era of his faiih, and that a happier day sever dawned an Mormenism than lhat on which the advance of the troops was ordered, for the more bis church was persecuted, the more it would thrive. The Captain confirms the fct of the OREGON CITV, OREGON. DECEMBER 26, I cwicrnlrulinn of (lis pniiuluiion ef L'tuli I . . . . . . in Salt Luke Valley, by the iibaiulontucnt of ihe remote settlements, and he estimates the force which the Mormons can set in the field at between five and six thousand men. He was also given to understand that they intend to recall their missionaries from the States, but not from foreign countries. II says there I in certain quarters a diMike of the present authorities of the Church, but that nothing less than tho presence ef a lurgn Gentile force will ena ble it lo develop itself, dipt. Van Vliet states that there it no powder mill, lo his knowledge, in llmTcr ritory, although there is a manufactory of firearms. The Capt. reports lhat snow fell at Fort Dridger on the 21st of September. Dr. Kernhisel, Dolegute to Congress from Utah, traveled in company wilh Cnpl. Van VI iit, on his way to Washington. The Americas. Laaguage. I Boo it staled lhat the Russian Govern ment has decreed that in the public schools of Irkutsk, in Siberia, the " American" language shall hereafter bo taught. " This is tho firiit time," says the London corre spondent ef the N. Y. Commercial Adver tiser, " that I have seen the English offi cially called the American language." Tho London csrrespaudeut is mistalion. The late Mr. Marcy, while, Secretary of Stato, sent to the Consuls and Commercial Agents of the United Slates circular in structions requiring them to furnish an swers to a carefully prepared series of questions about the trade and navigation of the ports to which they were accredited. This dispatch bears date October 8, 1833. Tha second query of the first series is this : " What official documents (register, Jtc.,) are issued lo vessels as proofs of nationality or ownership! Translate n form of each, if practicable, and trnnslnla into Amer ican." In the first years of tlio Republic, soon after the Revolution, when hatred to Eng. land was at its bight, it was gravely pro posed by some enthusiastic "Nationals to change the language of the country, and substitute Hebrew far that which boro tho detested name of English. If 1 remember rightly, the project wao actually talked of in Congress. Not long afterward, some of the officers of tho British Expedition lo Copenhagen, whilo strolling about the streets of that city, discovered the 'shingle' of some enterprising and patriotic Yankee, informing the Danish public, ar it pusscd to and fro, that there dwelt "Jonathan Dodge, Teacher of the American Lan guage." Cor. N. Y. Tribune. New Army Rifle. Washington, Oct 13. The Hoard appointed to test certain fire-arms, say in their report to the Secre tary of War, that aftor a full and careful consideration of all llioso tried, they are of the unanimous opinion that the breech louding ritlo submitted by Gen. Surnside, of Rock Island, is best suiled to military service. As a breech-loading arm, it is thought to be simple and strong in ils parts, and therefore less liable to get out of order than any other. In expressing this opinion, they do not wish to be understood as disparaging the merits ef other guns, for ihey consider thai soma possess much merit, and evince much ingenujty in their construction, but they feel it their duly to stato that they have seen nothing in their trials to lead them to think that a breech-loading arm has yet been invented which is suited to replace the muzzle-loading gun for foot troops, but on the contrary they have seen much to impress them with an epinion un favorable to the use of a breech loading arm for general military purposes. . The new model riflo muskets are to bo at once distributed to the army, par ticularly among tho troops in Utah, Kan sas, and on tha Pacific. Weahing Flannel. In our climate, fickle in its gleams of sunshiue and ils balmy airs, as a coquette in her smiles and favors, consumption bears away every year the ornaments of many social circles. The fairest and lovlitstare itsfavorilo vic tims. An ounce of preventation in this fatal disease is worth many pounds of cure, for when ence well seated, it mocks alike medical skill and careful nnrsing. If the fair sex could be induced lo regard the laws of health, many precious lives might be saved, but pasteboard soles, low neck dresses, ana" liliputian hats, sow annually the seeds of a fatal harvest. The sugges lion in the following article from the Sci entific American, ii followed, might sa many wilh consumptive tendencies from an early grave : Tut it on at once, winter and summer, notbinff Utter can be worn next to ine . . I . - A,l t kin than a loose red woolen snin, iw, tor it nas room to mo m - - causing a titilatioo which draws the blood ".JSl tin in no v,.v.- , - red," for white flannel frills of. m,s Jgelher, and becomci tilit, stilT, lieiivy, und i I ' .1 1 .. 1 ,L hm.Ki impervious. Cotton-wool tnuiclv absortu lha moisture from tho surface, w hilo wool, ten flannel conveys ii from the shin und do posiia it in drops on the outside of the shirt, from which the ordinary cotton shirt abtorbs it, and by it nearer exposure lo the air it is soon dried without injury lo iho body. Having these properties, red wool flannel is worn by sailors even in midsummer of the hottest countries. Wear a thinner material in summer. llalCi Journal o f Health. Tub I'oitfbTs of Ancient Days. Hugh Miller, in a note appeuded to his Into work, " Tho Testimony of the Rocks," arguea that tho cxis'.ing flora of tho Uui tcd Slates, at the present duy, is ntt to be compared to that of the "old carbonifer ous ages." lie says, "The American coal fields have been carefully explored ; and what is the result I Tho geologist has couie to know, that even the mighty forests of America are inconsidornble com pared with the deposits ofcoul; nay, that all its forests gathered into one heap would fail to furnish the materials of a single coal scam equal to that of Pitts burgh ; and that centuries after all its thick woods shall have disappeared bo fore the axe, and it shall have como to present the comparatively bare, uuwoaded aspect of tlio long civilized countries of Southern Kurope : it will continue to de rive the elements of its commercial great ness, und tho cheerful bltizo of ils many millions of domestic hearths, from the un precedetitcdly luxurious flora of the old carboniferous ues. Truly, very wonder- I lfn I nr. ll, ..,l flut.li nf Will, A ni.riim t If geologists inferred, as well they might, that tho extinct flora which had originated tho European coul vastly oulrivallcd in luxuriance that of tho existing time, what shall be said of that flora of tho same ago which originated the coal deposits of the United Mates tieimtts twenty tunes as great as all those of all Europe put to gether 1 The Nkw Yobk Fost" Ofkick. Somo interesting facts are related, concerning tho immense business transacted nt the New York Post Office. The weight of the Southern mail, on a single day, is over ten thousand pounds! or more than five Ions. The weight of tho mail forwarded forwarded by the Erie Road is over six teen thousand pounds or more than tight tons that sent by the Hudson River over four tons in weight. The weight of the entire mails forwarded on one day last week was over forty thousand pounds or more than twenty tons There is now employed in tho post offic nf New York, a clerk who has beeu there forty years. Thirty-five years ago this clerk carried the entire Southern mail daily, under his arm, across the river lo Jersey City. That mail which could then be tied up in a handkerchief, now weighs some live or six tons each day, and lias to bo trans ported from tho post office in heavy wag ons, making several loads. If the in crouso of tho mails may bo regarded as an index of the general growth und progress of the country in all that adds to the pros perity of the nation, then, truly, wo are a progressive people. Imfortancf. of Ventilation. In re gard to the transmission of fever, an Eng lish physician says that when tho infection is not destroyed or dispersed'in the sick room, it attaches itself and adheres with great tenacity to all articles of furniture chairs, tables, drawers, Ac. nestling in their innumerable pores; and unless these articles bo scrubbed with a solution of chloride of lime, or exposed to a strong heat, or a free current of air, fir several hours, it may again become ovolved more virulenily than nt first, after the lapse of weeks. But it chiefly ad heres to cotton and woollen materials. The paiient's body-clothes and blankeis become saturated with it, like a sponge with water; and in uiiing these materi als, a mere passing breeza is not always sufficient to carry it away. Thf. "Hero of India." Gen. Have lock, whose recent feats in India have made his name familiar lo newspaper read ers, and who, at 'the latest dates, had won his ninth victory over the rebel natives, was born near Sunderland, in England, in 1705, and is consequently sixty-two years of age. He studied for the bar, but, by the adviee of a brother, and through his interest, he obtained a commission as lieutenant, soon after the battle of Water loo. In 1823 he went to India, where he first saw active service. In 1827 he pub. lished a Listory of the Ava campaigns. In 1838, after having served twenty-throe years as a subaltern, ho was appointed ma jor, by brevet, for service in battle. He remained in India till 1819, being in active I duty all the time, and then returned to ungiana, aiier an oeuc i i-euiv-mc . g jo j -j j,e wBt to India. ! H. -t - i t. -my u Persia, and on rr.i.. ..,f ' lb m'J back WM wrecked cT lhe CWl ut the siilo of Truth in every issue 1857. No. 37 Ceylon. Upon his arrival at Calcutta, he was at onco appointed to iho command of the army wilh which he attacked and de feated Nona Sahib. In all his service in India, a period of over thirty yenrs, he has never been wounded. His brother, Cul. Wm. Havelock, was killed in n battle with the Sikhs in 1615. Lord Bkouuiiam. It is liko old times again to have Lord Brougham addressing a Mechanics' Institute. He is on his own ground there, and is monarch of all he surveys. What he says of himself, too, is perfectly true "I ana myself, and have been all my life, a working man;" and, therefore, on that ground as well, no man has a greater right to adJress the operatives of Manchester. Tbero is perhaps no man living of whom more feats of labor and triumphs over tho frail physique of hu manity nre recorded than of Lord Brough- am. Legends of this sort havo cuthcretl round him like a Hercules. There is a le. gend tliat ho once worked six continuous days i. e., I ll hours without sleep that lie then rushed down to his country lodgings, slept nil Saturday night, all San- day, all Snnday night, mid was waked by Ins valet en Monday morning, lo resume the responsibilities of life, and commence tho work of tho next week. A man must, of course, have a super human constitution who can do, wo will not say this particular feut, which is per haps mythical, but feats of this class and probably the greatness of our great men is quito as much a bodily nfl'iir ns a mental one. Nature has presented them not only with extraordinary minds, but what has quito as much to do wilh the matter with wonderful bodies. What can a mail do without a constitution a working consti tution I lie is laid on the shelf from tho day he is born. For him no munificent destiny reserves the Great Scut, or the Rnlls, or tho Chief Justiceship, or the leadership of the House of Commons, iho Treasury, or tho Admiralty, or tho Horso Guards, the Homo Office, or the Colonics. Tho Church may promote him, for it does not signify to tho Church whether a man does his work or net, but the Stato will Intro nothing to do with the poor const!. tutionless wretch. IIo will not riso higher thnn a Recordcrship or a Poor Law Board. "But," somebody will ask, "has lhat pale, lean man, with a fauo like parchment, and nothing on his bones, a constitution " Yes, he has ho has a working constitu tion, and a ten times better one than you, my good friend, with your ruddy face, and your strong, muscular frame. You losk, indeed, tho very picture of health, but you havo a sporting constitution, not a working one. You do very well fer llio open nir, and get otitolnrubly well with fine healthy exorcise, and no strain en your brain. But tiy close air for a week try confinement, with heaps of confused papers and books of reference, blue-books, law-books, or dispatches to get through, and therefrom extract liquid und transparent results, and you will find yourself knocked tip and fainting, when the palo lean man's if not " as fresh ns a daisy," which ho never is, being of the perpetually cadaverous typo at least as unaffected as a bit of leather, and not showing tho smallest sign of giv ing way. Thore are two sorts of good constitu tionsgood idlo constitutions, and good working onos. When Nat tiro makes a great man, she presents him with tho latter gift. Not that wo wish to deprivo our great men of their merit. . A man must make euo or two experiments before he finds out his constitution. . A man of spirit and nuttlo makes tho experiment, tries himself, and runs the risk ns a soldier does on tlio field. Tho battle of life and death is often fought as really in chambers or in an office as it is on tho field. A soul is re quired to make use of tho body, but a great man must have a body as well as a soul to work with. Charles Rullcr, Sir William Molcsworth, and others, are in stunces of men whose bodies refused to support their souls, and were, therefore, obliged lo give up the prize when tlicy had just reached it. And how many hun dreds and thousands if ono but did know them perish in an earlier stage, before, ihey have made any way at all, simply be- eau, lhouu they had splendid minds. they had very poor bodies t Let our kan, cadaverous friend, then, when the laurel surmouuts his knotty parchment face, thank Heaven for his body, which, he may depend upon it, is almost as great a treas ure as his soul. Nature may not have made him a handsome man, but what does that signify f Sho has made him a strong one. London Times, Sept. 11. A Scjirrpl Story. The drouth having cut elTlhe corn crop on the Texas frontier, tho squirrels ara emigrating lo Arkansas, swimming the Red river by thousands. It is stated that one woman killed five hun dred with her washing implements, in ono day, on the bank of the river. Rather tough. .ma nm,t(u, t- to-. m. sss ADVKItTIHIXO IIATKS. One fuaio (12 lines or Wa) one Insertion, 3,D0 " " two insertions, 4 MO " thn Insertions, 5,0(1 Kach suh-queut insertion, I, HO Reasonable deductions Ui tlioae whoailvtrliia by the year. JOB PRINTING. Trial raorsiBToa or Tiir. ARGUN is iurrv In inform Ihe publin ihut lie has just received a large slock of dull TVI'K and o'her new print ing ma:, Viil, and w ill bn in lhe i redy rree'pt of additions suited to nil lhe f nuiirmt n.'s nf ill hi. enliiv. IIANDItll.IX I'OMKCS, CI.ANKH. CARDS, ( lltCl l.ARS. I'AMl'III.l.T.WORK and other kinds, dune to order, nn thorl notice. A Capital Hlory. The Bangor Jeflersoniun says lome jenrs aince an eccentric old genius, whom for convenience we will call Barnes, was employed by a farmer living in a town como six or sojcii miles westerly fiom the) Penobscot river lo dig a well. The soil nnil suh-lraium being mostly snnd, old Bamei having progressed downward aloui forty feet found one morning upon going out ear. ly to his work that tho well hud eventually caved in and was full nearly to the lop. So having that desire, which men have, of knniiig w hat will bo suid of them after I Ik y are dead, ami no ono being yet astir, ,o concealed himself in a rank growth of butdoclis by lhe si Jo ef a board fctico near the mouih of the well, having first left hat and frock upon lha windlass over tho well. Atlongth breakfast being ready a boy wa dispatched to call him to his mrul, when lo ! it wss seen that Barnes was buried in the grave uiicouseioiuly dug by his own hands. The alarm bring given, and tho fumily assembled, it was dccnh.d first lo tat breakfast and then send fur tho coroner, tho minister, nttd his wife and children. Such ntithy did not flutter Barnes' svlf-es-tcein n bit, but ho waited patiently, deter mined to hear what was to be said, and see what was to bo seen. Presently all parlies arrived and began "prospecting'1 iho scene of etitaatropho, a people usually do in such cases. At length they drew together lo exchange opinions as to what should b done. Tho minister nt once gave it as his opinion lhat they had better leave tho well ns it was, and let Barnes remain : 'for,' said he, ' he is now beyond the temptation of sin, and in tha duy of judgment it would make no dill'er ence whether he was buried five feet undor ground or fifty, for he is bound to como forth in cither case.' Tho coroner likewise agreed that 1 it would be needless ex pome lo his family or tho town to disinter him when he was so cllectually buried,' and therefore entirely coincided with tho min ister. His wife thought 1 ns he had left his hat and frock, it would hardly ho worth while to dig him out for the rest of hi clothes ;' and so it was settled to let him remain. But poor old Barnes who had no break fast, and' was not at all pleased at the i.e. suit of the inquest, laid quiet unU tho shades of evening s'elo over the landscape; when he quietly decamped to parts un known. After remaining incognito for nb u: three years one tuornihg hosuddenly nppeared (hatlesn and frecktcss as he went) at the door of tho farmer for whom ho had agreed to dig Ihe unfortunate well. To say that an avalanche nf questions rained upon him ns to mysterious re appearance, iV-c, would convey but a feeble idea of tho excitement which his bodily appearance created. But the old man boro it all qui ( tiy, ond at length informed thorn that on Gliding himself buried ho waited for them . to dig him ont, until hi patience waa ex. hausted, when he went to work lo dig him seli'oul, and only tlio duy before had suc ceeded ; for his ideas being confused by tho pressure of the earth at the tiino he was buried, ho had dug very much at random, mid instead of coining out directly lo the surface, ho hud come out in tho town of Hidden, six miles cast ol tha Penobscot river. No further explanations were sought fof by those who were so distressed and sor rowful over his supposed final resting plnce, Southern Books. Quo of the great works proposed by tlio Southern Commer cial Convention, was tho preparation of text-books forS'uihern literary institutions, as tho acknowledged sentiments of the civ ilized world, taught by Wayland and oth ers, wore deemed ob-olete by that pro gressive body. A commi'.too was oppointod lodo this impoltant work, and were to meet in Columbia, S. U. It included some of the most rioted literary names of the Sooth. It has been n total failure, and our conferee of the New Orleans Advocate, satirize it, and says : " The convention, in getting up southern school books, is a failure. On tho 18th ef May, not ono of their committee met in Columbia, S. C. A gentleman of this city, who sent on the manuscript of a text-book for their examination, had it re turned to him by lhe 1'ostmastcrof Colum bia, w ith the words lhat " not a man or dog was there." This fierce determination to ignore the sentiments of all Christendom, is a wretched furce of southern dema gogues. We doubt uot that the common ssnse of the south generally blushes for it. The reformer are attempting a miracle a fight against tho inevitable law of tho moral world ; their folly cannot fail lo re ad sooner or later. Christian Advocate and Journal. Derivation of tup. Word "Sepoy." The namo Sepoy or Sipoy, is derived by Bishop Huber, from "sip," the bow and arrow, which were originaly in almost nrri. versa! uso by the soldier of India in cTcft. sivo warfare.