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ME OREGON A11CUS. fUILlSIIKU SVKtV TUUr KOIXIXO," ' JBT-WILHAM L ADAMS. ... TERX3 Tht Aaous will fnmitkii tt .Skrit Dtitlnrt and Fifty Cintt r annum, in ndcaitci, la liutU iHlitcribtriTkm Dalian lack ti dull tin at qui tjfieiin advance Ytkiii tki minrtf li not paid in tdtanet, fmr D iUurt wilt ii tknrgid if paid within lit 1 momtkt, and t'ivt lUltnri at tki ini of thi year. 3T Ttta-D Mart fat tiM mantlitNt tubeerip- Horn rieiitid fur a Un piriod. f fto pif't diieanlinnid unlit all amnrngti an paid, mihn nt thtnptintf tht puhliikn. .I'l ,M , , . ADYBttTI8IfiO BATES. , ,i One aqaare (If Uses at less) ant basnioe, iiU - - - - two iossrUuas, 4M - -" - three Insertions, 8,09 "' "" Eseh subsequent InsertW, 1,00 RsasnaaUe deductions lo thuee who advertise fcf : . lha year. JOB PRINTING. J2 Taa rsoraitToa or tub "AROUS "is asrrf loiafortn the puUlo that be Baa Jutt receives' . large stork of JOU TYl'K aud thu mw print lag material, and will be in lbs speedy receipt additions suited lo all Uis rrquiiemraUi of Uiia le t. A Weekly Newspaper,' devoted to , the Principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, and advocating the side of Truth in every issue. eallty. IIAKDMI.I.8, rOiSTKHH, Ht.ANKS, CAKD8, CI ROT LA US, PAMfilLKT.WOUK Vol, IIf,,: ,, OREGON CITY, OREGON, MARCH 20, 1 858; , . i , ' . ,' , : No. id. sad iHher kinds, dune la order, ea abort notice, - 7 linon! Tin .11 or ii -.; 'I 'Nal 'A 1 : ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . ' ' ' mmm 1. : ,., .... ,. y,MUi Mtn.u 8( j8-,8. , Vditoe or Aeoos Sir; The soft He. Hi. - - mocracy in IliU conn. y mid also in Polk are becoming alarmed nt ilieir reputed or gan lha Standard fearing ihe new or ganization i really itileuiled in be pro. thptry organization,' Koiwiihtending ihe question is settled by a vole of ih people It it should be, yet I lift pro-slavery prnuliv. flies of some ere so strong, I hut, ineffectual as any effort may be, tly nu'i rH with, out' emitting something, mid advocating something, nnl proposing something thai looks', and "inflli, and IM"S ( negro sla ysry.,, . Mayhap, i tie constitution may ni be received; mid llien lit aa.ociaiion ! all the pro-slavery men in un bitdy, undrr eonia new and vigorous iiiipuNes, usually attending .recriit changes, in connection with iimny unsuspicious, honest hearted Fre-Sluie men, with two preasee at it dipnal, both emphatically pro-slavery (lie Ox and tits Standard all taken in. gether, ar enough ai least In raise suspi cion in l lie breasts of those often burnt by tha wily walking of puliticitl liamtjlern. thefaclliial both tha edito't pleading tha cause of "reorganization," are known an pro slavery men, and aft the pro-slavery men in lliu democratic rank uniting with them In th'tt party, and the unlimited en dorsement of everything appertaining to iIia past 'or present Administration with all tlm iniquitous appliance relating W slavery propaandism, Wder ruffianism suslnininu the begin lawn in Kansas, in vi. olalion of tile will nf a lure mnjnrity of Hie real iiiltHbitumn, ay nine lmiis rn. tljriing tlu Drud Sco't d'-citinn : pqual to Kiying that the Ouuiiluliou carripanlavory fnto all the Territurief, mid consequently into all tho Statrtj for no State coniiiu lion in paramount to that of the United Sla'en ; nor does a Slate orHiiizinion dis place, or remove, or draw off, or in any wito notitralire llie supreme law: ii ia still iujirnne and if it curriea slavery any where, il can ion it t-very w litre it gne, mid maintains it there, regardles.4 of any 'oidinato law, wlntlier coiiKlimtinnul or atanitory; the mean comph'uity of. tha rrssident with I lie filil)utering operaiiona jjrin;on fioin the Sr.uih, including alto a delerminaiion on his pari io furcn that 1ni(tiitotH L"cnniptnn 'Constitution on the people, in violation of l lie will of ai least iiirir.ioen twentieth of ilie iuliahitanta. . .ut iimt yon ill i tik I'm ton fat, or too full, or Ion mad. or loo frgeiful, I'll quote f winthe Siandard of Feb. llth, 1854. The Hitor gays, relative to the " Addreas," that '' it endnrcs uiiequivuoally tha (Jin cinnaii pln'furm, and none other;" (-o far, so' good ) Bnt hear thn next 5 "it must of ueoesBily inelnile every feature which faa ' since )rowii out of thai great vadt meeum of our party. For one, w lict late nut tn cay, that our nnqnalified alle gianea it accorded heartily to thai plat form, as -well aa tn tha subseqiinit CoiiHll. tutional and judicial dfc'aiona given under it."' Tho Hhreudiiesa of the Statesman dlor w apparent in accusiii!.' the irew or reorganization party of R pnlilic.tiHsui, bo as io suare or drive its M'lvocatea Hi'o a proalavery entrema (as a man i eauily Jijiven into that f.ir which 'his whole na ture ha an inkling) ; and in the end, afier hVeuciiiit' are , fully coiniuiited, he Mill aay that ha was mistaken, and, foraooth, Jiow ihey are indeed a pro alavery party and call on the Free Stuto men to rally in defense of tli-ir principle. An editor who uses but one pye, and that in the back of his' head, instead of in front, will have occasion to regret that at least one eyp had not hern in front, and il llie aharper of tho iwo. J'low Hot. aFblleaa Mrellni at Sltvtrtoa la Ma- i rtoa r.Buaiy. According to preriniiely published notire the Ri'piihlicans ol S lier Creek precinct met at the achoul-hoiiae in Silvertun on the 6lb inst., for the purpose of taking into consideration the necessity and propriety of an immediate orrjnniTjution of the Ke nuUicans ol Marion coiiniy. . v The meeting whs organized by electing lion. Paul Craudall preaident aud l.W, Daenpot aecretary. , ,'.' " ' On ihotiwn, a cotnmiUee of five waa ap .poiuted to submit resolutions for the con ai4eraikn of the convention. '.; Thacommiitee reported a series of reso lutions, which were unanimously adopted, 'in favor of immediate, thorough, sod geo- eraJ organization, entirely free from all en J tangling allitiices, coalitions, and amalga mations with any oilier party or any fac ,;'tion of party; in a word, a straighl-otit Republican organization, built 0on prin 'ciple, a party that will be satisfied with ; defeat until a triumph can be unequivocal ly, distinctly, and fairly won.' .1 A resolution was also adopted denying 'the binding force of caucus or conea liona.1 oVffrtes in rei-trit'ijig the oiberwie free choion and oncience of every person , By uaanimous vote of the meeting, a ;eoanty miss convention waa called, to be fceld' at the ctm't-BTJse in Salem oa Sat- onlay, March t7lh, at II o'clock, for the purpoaa of iiominatins candidates for cnun iy otticers, and for doing auuli other busi ness as may coma before tha meeting. . A committee of five, cnltit g of R Crandall, Warren Cranston, J. T. MaaUby, Rice Dunbar, and T. W; Daven- Hrl, was appointed Io publiah tha notice of the county convention,1 and secure re ajiei'ta'de attendance, ' 1 On matlnii, the secretary was requested in forward copies of lha minutes of the convention to tha K rgus aad Oiegoniau for publication, i , ., r . T. W. DAVKNpntT, Sau., Ctataat Csaaly at abtleaa Caavaattsa. -. : Astoiia, March 6, 1853. -' The Republican Ouiny Convention met here to-day, pursuant to call, and organ ized by electing Hon. Charles Stevens chairman, and W. W. Parker secrrtiry. : Jamas Wayne, V. W. Parker, and Josh. ua Klder, were appointed a committee to rejiorl resolutions expres.ive of die sense of the Republicans of Clatsop comity, and ha convention adjourned to 2 o'clock r. N. At t a'clnck r. m. the convention was called to order, and James Wayne, from committee on lesolutiona, reported a aeries of resolutions and principles, which, after di-cussion by A. A. Skinner, Jamas Taylor, W. W. Parker, J. Elder, and others, were unanimously adopted. P. W. Gillett was elected delegate, and A. A. Skinner substi tute, to the Territorial Republican conven tion, to be held at Salem on the Sid of April next. . .. The convention voted to defer tha conn y noniinaiiona until Saturday, April 10th, at 10 o'clock r. M., at this place ; to which time and place lha convention then, in tbe bectol feeling, edjourntd. ' 1 I ' The resnluiinna and principles adopted were ss follows: " 1 ; Resolved, That we cordially endorse the Philadelphia Republican platform adopted in convention in Jon-, 1056, as not only embodying sound democratic principles, bill was imperatively and pre-enitu -ntly uited to the time in which il waa first pub lie.li. d. Il.-snlved, Thai the charges made against the Pierce aduiiniairaiiun in the 4th rrao luiiouof and platform, have been verified midciflifirined by eat h succeeding item of inl. llig.-iice which has reached us f-oni VVH.Iimulon, Kansas, mid elsewhern. since hat lime, and I list the present adininistra timi, commencing, aa il did, With an en dorsement of the inhuman outrages I hen complained of, ha ever since been con- trnllffl by lite same Hwer which ruleu,and f.dlnwisl in the uoursn marked out for it bv the preceding adniinistralinn, heaping ontraee upon oalra';e upon ourdi-fenseleas if ii i.' i. ir J I.I: Diinw-omzeii in nansa', hihi nuiinig in sult Io injury, and injury to insult, until it it is now difficult to imagine what can he its next progressiva step in its career of infamy and shame. Resolved, Thai the democratic parly (so o died), as represented In ihe. J'ierce and Ituchaoan administ rations, has one quality alone calculated to exculpate it from ihe charge of being si ctional in char, auter, whhdi consIh's in ita having prmed false and faithless alike Io its allies North and Snu'h ; having, on the one hand, ut terly repudiated, in every practical Usue, i's avowed principles of popular snvereigii ty, on which il has relied for Northern sop port, and, nn the other hand, neglected to secure, hy the strong ami of Fedeial pow er (ilia only way in which il rould have been done), the beautiful, fertile, nun cen tral teru'tory of. Kansus to llieir slave breedinc allies, as a porinaneiil ma'kel fo.r those sable human chattels, so highly priz ed in certain quartera, and facet iutisly (?) said to be so devoutly worshiped in other quarters. Resolved, That the only political party existing in lha United Stales, which is ani. mated by no single spark of lh" spirit of true democracy, as regards national mat ters, is that which is designated as the democratic party, and that while we cor dially conceits to the mass of its coosii'ii encv a sincere regard f r democratic prin ciples, and lha intention to give them prc tical effect, yet their upart could never have been gained to such inonstnwiiiea as he present administration and Ha imme diate predecessor, other than by iheskillful exercise of fraud, treachery, and deceit, combined with a superstitious faith, too notiularlv prevalent, in the wisdom and patrietism of the leedera and m;iggers of a party which has obtained a hold on the I'CJiuiar affections through the important 'part which it has had in the administration of our government heretofore. Resolved, That whoever ua toyat pani- san of whatever parly, is no patriot; ad. hesion to principle alone being requisite io constitute a patriotic citizen ; and in ac cordance with Ihis sentiment we declare thai we acknowledge no allegiance to the Renuhlican oartr. with which we here ally ourselves, further than said party shall ad here tn ill avowed principles, which we now endorse. Resolved, That ihe great political issue between lb Republicans and any and ev ery other political party, is apou what are .UnMi bv ihe Republicans to be ihe "'nai ral and inalienablt righli of man," and which are made applicable in the umtea Stales, most especially, in the enactment and interpretation of laws with reference io what h termed 'sjerro innfrj." Resolved. Thai the Republican doctrines with regard Io ibia subject, alavery. a set forth lime and again in tha authoritative resolutions aid inanifestota of the party, ere aa follow: ' . -lit. Kp lava7 ie atlatio or eoadi- lion of , the colored man, founded in vio lence and frca against natural rights; therefore its legality cannot be presumed or inferied, but roust rent on a basis of positive law. 'ia. 1 1n law can have no force or valid. ity beyond the jurisdiction of Ihe enscting powt-r ; and io have force and validity tn hat extent even, such enacting power most have been clothed with ample au thority in the premises; and all . which being granted, th-re still must be some great iiublio cold apparent to justify the doubtful expediency of legislating away the natural null' of man. - 3d. Thai the. Fedeial Government wa never clothed with, and does not posses, the power of eiislaiinu men, and therefore cannot eatahlUh alavary within ita own espeeial jurisdiction. ' . -i 4th. I hat a Territory ia but a ereatre or dependency of the Federal Government, and therefore the federal Viovernment has no authority or power to estahlirh or up hold lha institution of slavery in a Terri tory. Ath, Thai inasmuch as it was and is ihe primary object and express duty of the Federal Government to establish justice among those subject io its sway, to the ex tent of its ability, therefore it is morally and mpera lively bound to establish eqnal and just lawa far lha Tarritoriea which it may create, or which may be under its jurisdic tion, and this obligation would and should preclude the toleration of slavery in those territories or any of them. .. Unsolved, that we deem it expedient upon ihn present occasion is say, for the thousandth time, that the Republican party of Oregon and elsewhere claim no right and have no desire to interfere with slave. rv as it exists in any of the States of the Union ; notwithstanding the foul aspersions of our political opponents, w ho have taken especial care to denounce us as ' abolition iff," u Union dittroyert," oVc, and thai if they would first get ihe beam out of their owi eyes, ihey would see that disuninniata exist anywhere besides in the Republican party. ' Resolved, Thai we beg leave modestly to mqaire of all honest. minded democrats who still adhere tej the so-called national democratic party, whether il would not be wise in them io be at diligent and earnest in requiring of their own representatives the faithful redemption of the pledges by them given Io their constituents, as in at tempting to crush out all or any apposition which may arise against any real or assum ed monstrosity which may be fastened upon litem... , , , , W. W. Parker. Src'ys Advantageous to Know. Many a death has resulted from an accident, when a little skill in the treatment of a wound might have prevented a sacrifice of life. In the excitement attendant upon the inju ry of a fellow being, we are too apt to lose the presence of mind necessary to a proper consideration of the means by which relief can be rendered ; and the necessity of mak ing ourselves perfectly familiar with the manner in which wounds and injuries should be treated in casea of emergency, for the knowledge of the proper means to be adopted for ihe atoppage of bleeding from a wound may be of service to us when we least expect it. ' First, if the blood flows out in a stream, notice particularly whether the stream ia an even, steady, or a jerking or pulsating stream if it is even and steady, the prob ability is il is from a vein, particularly if the color of ihe blood ia a dark red. Weeding fioin ah artery is peculiar; the blood is of a light scarlet color; the stream comes in that jerking manner which is seen when a fire-engine is playing upon a high building. To stop the flow of blood in a vein, first i-l"M the wound with the hand firmly, then fold up any cloth, tow, flax, or leather, make ii into a hard pad at inch thick, at least large enough to cover the entire wound ; bind over this firmly any bandage, handkerchief, or strap, or even ihe bark of a tree raise the wounded part higher than the body of the patient ; keep him quiet ; if he has bled a large quantity, give him (if at hand) a little splrita aad water, and send for the doctor. If the bleeding is fioman artery, take your hand kerchief, tie il around the limb between the wound and the heart) put a atrong stick under the handkerchief, givo it Iwo or three ibts, and you will stop the blood, if you have made il tight enough. In all ether reaped the tame treatment as above, " In all email wounds, merely elevating the part hmher than the body, and retain- ina it ao for a short lime, will arrest the bleeding. For bleeding at the hose, apply ice to any part of the body moving the ice around; it is best to apply it to the arm pin, nape of the neck, Ac., Ac Keep the patient qutei J do not let hi in cough, &cn or bleeding will return. far A tusk of a mastodon waa found In excavating a street in New Albany, Indiana, a few dava since. It waa seven feet io length, but much decayed, and was proba bly originally eleven feat in length. ter The total number of deaths in New York city during the year 1937 was 22,- a.97 1 An increase of 1,835 over the pre vious year. & A monument in honor of Gee. Har- risoa is to b art clad io Ohio. ' Thi DtrrasENCK. The following letter written by Mr. Sarah T. Bolton, now at Dresden, to the Indianapolis Journal, ahowt ihe extreme difference between the treat ment of American and European women. How thankful American women should be for the blessings they enjoy, tn which their European sisters are entire strangers ; "Yesterday morning the first thing I saw on looking out, was two young women sawing wood on tha opposite sidewalk. They stood at each end of a long hosvy aaw, pushing .alternately. ' When . we came home in the evenihg, they were there still. Through all the hours of that long day they had stood in the shadow of those palace like houses, pushing and pulling the great saw,' Sometimes, when they slopped to wipe the sweat from their facea, or In put another log of wood on the saw horse, the smaller and paler of the two pressed her hand on her side and looked aa if she suffer ed; but tbey worked on till dark. This morning the stout one sawed with a man. No doubt her companion of yesterday ia sick ; perhaps that hard day a wark will be her last. - All ihia forenoon that young girl baa labored with that brawny man, and they are tawing still. Her hair it nicely braided, and aba it comfortably dressed ; but her face ia flushed, her hands swollen, and the, position in which tho it obliged to stand to balance herself, is moat unwomanly. " From these windows I have seen an othrr sight, which is sickening to an Amer ican, ; Il was a woman and a dog harnessed together in a cart filled with matketing. I have seen this on two occasions in the streets of this fair capital. The dogs seemed to be well trained to this labor and the women look like respectable peasants. Through the great thoroughfares, crowded with fashionable promenadera, went the woman and the huge dog, side by side. No one looked surprised, no one seemed to see anything unusual, so 1 suppose il it a common thing." . The Sense or Sound. Tha human ear it to constructed that it may be truly called a reservoir of sound, in which the vibra tions occasioned by any disturbance of at mospherio equilibrium are collected and arranged into a definite and appreciable sound. Next to the eye, tha ear of all those animals whose higher organization placet them among tha hearing beings, is one of tha. grand evidence! of design in their construction and development, and by ita meana we human beings have been able to collect many highly interesting facta in acoustics, or the science of sound. For example, we are enabled to determine that sound travels with a wave-like motion through the air, and that its intensity, like that of attraction, diminishoi in the inverse rutio of ihe squares of the distances of the sounding body, when opposing currents of air or other obstaulea do not interfere, Again, we have been able lo delermine that sound travela al the rate of 1,044 feet per second, al a temperature of 65 deg. Fh. ; or, according to recent experiments in ilol laud, the rale ia 1,120 feet per second al the same temperature, i Adopting the lat ter aa the true rate, a noise in the body of the sun would be about fifteen yeara before it would be heard on this earth, being that long in traveling the distance that it trav eled by light in eight minutes, , A whisper, at far as il goet, travels as fast as Dm report of a cannon, and the strength of sound is greatest in cold and dense air, and least in warm and rarified. Capt. Parry, ihe Arclio explorer, when in latitude 74 30 N., heard people conversing in an ordinary tone of voice al a distance of one mile, aad each of our own winter's ex periences tend to prove (he same fact. The media through which it travels great ly affects its velocity ; thus, through water It passes at the rate of 4,0(10 feel per sec ond ; through cist iron 11,000; and through wood from 4,630 lo 17,000, ac cording to ita density. Distances may be easily measured by sound, by multiplying tbe time in seconds by the rate at which il travela; thus, for example, if, after observing a flash of light. niig, it waa twelve aeconda before ihe thunder waa heard, what was tbe distance of tbe cloud from which il came I . We multiply tbe lime by tbe rate, and tbe an swer ia Iwo miles and llree-sevenths.- Musio is an barmonioua arrangement of vibration, and lha different notea are pro duced by the number of vibrations in a giveo length of time) and any sounds which occur continuously, or at regular intervals, may be made to produce music; at, for example, the force of impact on the wires of ihe piano forte causes their vibration and consequent music t the (tower of the wind in the aeolian harp, the force of steam in the calliope, and the escapement of con. dented air, or a stream of air at a greater pressure than ordinary in so-called wind Instromenta. In playing aay Instrument whatever, aa much depends on the powor of feeling and expression of lbs performer aa on the meriia of ilea piece, and this power of expression can only be attained by great practice or a highly cultivated ear. While on the subject of sound we can not avoid soma mention of bells, which are cast in metal to produce large, harmoni HilSinf Tbey ware invented by Pau linas, an Italian bishop, about tbe year 400, and ihe largest at present in existence ia the great bell of Moscow, weighing tome 432,000 pounds ; the largest in Britain it in the Cathedral of Exeter, called Gr.at Tom, which. weight 17,472 pouad. , In this country we have no very large bells, with ihe exception of one at Montreal J as the American people will go to placet of warship, whan tbey feel it it thtir duty lo do to, without being summoned by great noise or peal of bells, Scientific American. Walled Laie in Iowa A Coeioiitt. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga lette, writing from Iowa, glvrt tha follow. ing account of a wonderful relio of antiq uity existing in thai State. ' I have Intendod for tome time to give the readers of the Gazette a description of Walled Lake, which ia situated ia Wright county, Iowa. - To me il was one of the greatest cariosities I had ever seen en veloped as Its history Is with a mantis that will probably never be withdraw. This lake lies in thn midst of a largt plain tha rich nadnlating prairie extending for many miles in every direction. The Laks covers an area of about 1000 acres. The water ia clear and cold, with a hard sandy bottom from, two to twenty-fire feet deep. ' There ia a atrip of timber about half way round it, probably ten rods wide, being thn only limber in many mites. Thm it a wall of heavy ilont all around it. It it no accidental matter. It hat been built with human hands. In some places ths land ia higher than the lake, in which case the wall only amounts to something like a Rip Rap protection. ' Thit, I believe, it what engineer call it. But in other places the water is higher in the lake than the prairie outside the wall. Ths wall in some placet it ten feet high ; it is 18 feet wide at tha base, eloping up both tidet to 5 feet wide on tht'top. Tbe wall is built entirely of boulders, from three tons in tize, down to fifty pounds. They are all what are called lost rock. I am no geologist, and consequently can give no learned de scription of them. They are not, however, natives " to tbe manor born." Nor has ihe wall been made by tha washing away of the earth and leaving the rotkt. There it no native rock in thit region. ' 'Resides, this it a continuous wall, Iwo miles ef which at least ft ie higher than the land. The top of the wall is level, while the land is undulating, to the wall it in teres placet two feet, and in others ten feet high. These rocks, many of them at least, must have been brought a long distance prob ably five or ten miles. In Wright county the best rocks are scattered pretty freely, hut as you approach (hit lake they disap pear, showing that they have been gath ered by tame agency, when, or by whom, history will never unfold, Somo of the largest oaks in the grove are growing up through the wall, pushing the rocks in, in soma cases outside in others, accommo dating their shapea to the rocks. The lake abounds wiih excellent fish. The land in that township yet belongs to ths govern ment. . ' ' When I was there in the spring of 1850, the wind had blown a large piece of ice against the southwest part of the wall and had knocked It down, so that lha -ter was running out, and flooding the farms of some of the settlers, and they were about to repair the wall to protect heir crops. It is beaui!,ful farm land nearly all around ihis lovely lake. The readers o the Gazette ahould not imagine that t'.ie wall around this lake is as regular and as nice as the wall around the Fountain in front ef tbe City Hall, in New Ywrk, nor need any entertiiiu tho theory that it is a natural wall ; but it has heeti built hundreds, and probably thou sands of yean. Tha antiquarian may speculate ay whom this mitruiv as well at ornamental work wat done, but it will only be speculation, Notwithstanding the water in the Lake is pure and cool, there is no visible feeder or outlet. Thit lake ia about twelve miles north of the located line of the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad, and about one bun dred and fifty miles west of the former place. The time is coming when the Ltke will be a great place of public retort. The Histosy of the Bible. Tha his lory of the Bible) ia full of interest to thi philosopher and Christian. The first edi tion of the whole Bible waa printed i Dutch, at Cologne, in 1475. Fublithert have been prosecuted and imprisoned for publishing thit Great Book upon various grounds ; some for counterfeiting it, and othera for circulating it. In some cases the Bible hat been publicly burnt. Lawt have beta issued againat reading it. Its pages have used as cartridges ; it bss been de noonced by tbe French, sad subjected 10 all kinds of misrepresentation and altera lion. It ia a fact that to the great Charle magne, in lha year 801, a epy of tbe Bi ble waa presented by aa Englishman, writ ten on vellum, and eniaining feu hundred and forty-nine leaves, and it ia also stated that Id 804, Charlemagne ordered il id be ' read publicly, and directed the priests lo msks themselves acquainted with its con tents. -'And yat Charlemagne, the wVat in tha ago Id which be lived, coald not write, and was forty-five yeart of age be fore ha began his studies! .-j tlJ", . , ,4 TLtro are a number of versions of ths Bible, though not all agreeing with oaf 1 own accepted edition. ' . , ; ' '' The present translation ef lha Bible, new in common use, was agreed upon, after a vast amount of research and labor, lo lha i seventeenth century, (1011,) in lha reign of James I.' Ths translation was begun in 1604 and 'finished In : 1611, The history of the labors of tho learaed men, engaged in ihia vast undertaking would Imost fill Tolnme. ' " In 1733, Ckrltlopbtr Saur, a German, established a printing office at Gemtantown, near this city, which waa carried forward energetically by himself aad son. lie had a typo foundry, wbioh cast German type I for himself and others. Thia lod lo Ihe ea. i tablishment of paper-mills, biadsriaa, aad " English and German type fouadtriea.' Ho i issued three editions of tho German Bible, in 1743, 1762, and 1776, aad this, wa think, was ths first Bible ever printed on thia eon t. tinenl. The following anecdote, in reference j lo bia last impression of tho Bible, it eori- out, but we do uot vouch for it entire truth : Tho properly of Saur wat much injured by tho Revolutionary War, particularly by ; tha battle of German town, in 1777. To t prevent the retidue of it from being do ttroytd by the British, he went to Pbiiadel phia. Ilia ealate was confiscated before the close of the war, and hit books bound and unbound were told J among them j were the principal part of the last edition of the Bibls in sheets. Philadelphia paper. ' Astronomical. Astronomical discover' ' let now appear lo prove that the tun num. bcrt among his attendanta not only planets, 1 aterold, and comets, but also immense ' multitudes of meteoric ttonea and shooting J stars. Great magnitude, Indeed, (snot et- tPhtiftl for membership in the solar system," while, at the tame lime, there is a neCet. ' tary limit to tbe size of projectiles, in cm-' sequence of the atresia of bodiet increasing iu a tlower proportion than their weight, 1 or the foree required for llieir motion. The larger planets, though formed of ma-.' terials possessing many thousand timet the tenacity of iron,' would be shattered le.' fragments in receiving their present vehcX' iiie, not only from an impulse, but from, any force applied under the most favorable ' circumstances. This, Il it argued, ahould.' lead lo tha conclusion, thai all plnnatnry ' motion, if it originated from natural cause' must have been first imparted to a number' of small masses, which subsequently united' to form the larger members of the 'solar system. If a rare medium be diffused) through the planetary apaces, ths imallett attendants of the sun will be the moat sen. sillo to its Influence as similar solids,' traversing it with the tame velocity, mutt sustain a lost of motion iuvarsely props-' tionod totheirlioear dimensions. Tbe porW helta of all tbe small and rare bodies be.1 longing to our system, and the intersection' of their orbitt mast, il it believed, be sihta. ted between the sun aud the poiul to which' he moves, nnd the line or the narrow space' extending in thia direction will bo accord-' ingly crowded with swarms of them arriv g there from every quarter of the plan. etnry regions. And from the great extent of surface which they possets, even with an' inconsiderable amount of matter, they art) enabled to reflect n large portion of the se ar rays, and to ibis cause it is thought tho zodiacal lilit may be attributed. Clneinl nati Gazelle. ; ' CtT "lie has no more law than Mr. Co bull." These words being spoken of an attorney, tha court inclined to think them actionable, though it was objected that the plaintiff had net averred that Mr. C. had any bull. Tha chief justice waa of opin ion, " that if Mr. C. had no bull, then tha scandal waa the greater;" and il waa gravely pronounced by the court, in tha same case, that, he says of a lawyer, " he has no more law than a goose, was eer tainly actionable. There is a query added, in this case, as to the ttytng, " tie hath no, more law (ban the man in lha moos ;" tho law doubtless eontemplttrd the possibility of there being a men in ths moon, and of hia being a most excellent lawyer. 03- George E. Ashby, late Chief Eogfn. ear of Ihe ill fated Central America, haa beea bonara'uly vindicated fram the charges preferred against bim, by lbs board of loca) inspectors. ' 00" To put a mw set of boilers in one of lbs Collins steamers costs about $110,000, aad this must bo done every six ysai. . t OCT The Fitisfisld (Mais.) Sun haa bees; conducted to fftx-mtn par$t by its pres ent editor, Hoa.ri.Bass A Ilea , , -