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THE OREGON AKGUS, i i rusi.isnau sviav asTvaiur moinino, . BT WILLIAM L. ADAMS. , . rijifymlt . annum, in m-Zm m ' . ' W"Mrl ' VW. tjr. Viilluriar lis montkiNn materia. ' ftttttdfor fees neriW. OT ' aWeainurd nulil nil trrtnrngti y Hero ii one of Viola's ImsI. Af- ter a long repose on ilo enchanted luimnii ,of ',' Iris Hill," Viola catches the Inspira lion of the sweet warbler, and mingle her melody wiih that of the prince of aerial songsters. '' Fur Mr Argnt. Ts Ike Mradaw Lark, Beauteous chil l of melody, Ringing from out thul old ouk tree, feuding thyself oo III topmost bough, Who cau rival lliy niuaiunowl Scattering song on I he muruiug brerse Like shower of rain-drops from the trees, Telling the listener's heart of spring, (ilHing with hope-light every lliing, Hopping about in the aunuy hour O'er the yard's gay carpft of vcllow flowers, Tbyecir like, limn wert hardly em u If thy feathers wrru only tipped with green, llul the russet browu of thy humble wing la like leavra that grew in a former prim; They ore withered now, and lie scattered round Enriching and shielding the fruitful ground, And thy coat ia ao like thon dead lenvea aero f nl thy voice miut tell ua when thou art near. Cheerily now thy warulinjrs fall On my liaieulng can, and 1 Ireamre them all Up In the choicret nook of my heart, (part That their gladness and sunshine may never de Often I wake iu the cool spring night Aud listen to thee with deep delight, Breaking out in a trill eo long, Filling the Hill night air with mug, Wakiug the eehoea at midnight huura, Shaking the dew from the aleeping flowers, ,Aa if thou wert waking from some bright dream, Or gazing with joy on the moonlit scene. A treasure thou art of worth untold, Yielding u mueio that never grows old. but any, sweet lark, why ao hippy thou art ' why ao gay thy aoug, aud light thy heart ? Why not grieve for plumage more rieh end raw, ' Ad complain to thy Maker of ' nothing to wear'T uuresi iiwu ue seen in the summer light, Whea eo many are dressed in colon more brL'hl t . 1 lie bird H lied by, but sang as he went, I'm teaching a lemon of sweet anient.' ' 'U lliu. July 12, I8."8. Viola. BlJLWER ON TUB DESTRUCTION OF JERU SALEM. A short lime ago Sir E. Bulwor lytton delivered a lecturo iu Lincoln, which city ho has for a number of years represented in Parliament, on tlio early history of the Babylonian, Assyrian, Per tiun, Egyptian, Greek, alffl Jewish nation, and closed with the following powerful and dramatic description of the destruction of Jerusalem by Tilus , ( "Six years after Ihu birth of our Lord, Judoaand Samaria became a Roman prov luce, under subordinate governors, the most famous of whom was Pontius 1'ilate, These governors became so oppressive (hat tliH Jews broke out into rebellion ; and sev enty years after Christ, Jerusalem was fi nally besieged by Tilus, afterward Emperor of Homo. No tragedy oo the stage has the tame scenes of appalling terror as are to be found in the history of this siege. The city itself was rent by factions al the deadliest war with each other all the elements of civil hatred had bruken loose I lie- streets were slippery with the blood of citizens brother slew brother the grunnries werp set on fire famine wasted those whom the sword did not slay. In the midst of these civil massacres, the Roman armies appeared before the walls of Jerusalem, Then for a short time ilia rival factions united against the common foe; they were again the gal lant countrymen of David and Joshua they sallied forth and scattered the eagles of Rome. Out this triumph was brfrf; the ferocity of tha ill fated Jows soon again wasted itself on each other. And Titus marched on encamped his armies close by the walls sod from the heights the Roman general gazed with awe on the strength and splendor of the city of Jehovah.' ''Let us here pause and take, ourselves, a mournful glance at Jerusalem ;. as it then was. The city was fortified by a triple wall save on one side, where it was pro tected by deep and impassable ravines. These walls, of solid masonry, were guarded by strong towers ; opposite to (he lufiies' of those towers Titus had encamped. From the height of that tower the sentinel might have seen stretched below tho whole of that fair territory of Judea; about to pass from the coMQtry men oiaDavid. Within these walls was the palace of the kings its roof ot ce darj its doors of the rarest marbles, its cham bers filled with the costliest tapestries, and vessels of gold and silver. Groves and gardens gleaming with fountains, adorned wua avaiuMui oruiiir, uiviueu me cou.t. -:.L ........ f W. Jl.'J.J .L. a,. C;'1 nalace itself. , ;' ''But lL above ... uPon precipitous rock, rose the temple, fortified ana adorned by Salomon. This temple was as strong without as a taW within more adorned than a palacs. On entering you beheld porticoes of numberless columns of porphy ry, marble, and alabaster; gales adorned with gold and silver, among which was the wonderful gale called the Beautiful. Fur ther on throush a vast aroh, was the sacred TOrtal which admitted into the interior of he temple itself all sheeted over with gold, and overhung by a vine tree of gold, the branches of which were as large as a man. The roof of the temple, even oo (be outside, wss set ever with golden worW 10 oreveni the bird, sitting there and A.RV.nn rh hoi dome. At a distance, ih. whole temple looked like a mount of fwiiad Oitb srolian pinoscles. r "But. alas, the veil of that temple had already rent asunder by so tnexpi- Vbl. crims. ai4 A Lord of Hosts did not debt with Israel But the enemy is than at the wall. AH around, ibe city mm A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to tho Principles of Jeilcrsonian Democracy, and advocating Vor,. IV. arose immense maclimra, from which Tilus poured down mighty fragments of rock, and showers of nre. The walls cave way -Iho city was enlorcd-ihe t..n..d It.nlf ... ..,.... i- i' i .. ... ws stormed. -a,,no In the meanwhile had made such havoc, that thn besieged were mors liko spectres than livinir men they dovourcd the belts to their swords the ssndal. to lh,.ir f..o.. Pen .,..,' ... HHiiiiv II seirso pen.hcd sway, that a mother do- vourcd her own itifaut; fulfilling the awful aords of tho warlike prophet who had first 'd the Jews toward tho land of promise ,'l'k.. . i . . i i . I ho lender and delicate women amongst u,l. ......l.l ..I , "wuiu uui uvriiiuro io sui tue sole of her foot upon the ground for deli- catencss and tenderness her eye shall bo evil toward her young one and tho chil drcn that she shall bear, fur she thall rat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and ttiaitness wherewith thine ene my shall distress thee in thy gates." Still ss if the foe and the famine was not scourgo enough, citizens smotoand murdored each other as they met in tho way false proph ets ran howling through the streets every image of despair completes tho ghastly picture of the full of Jerusalem. And now the temple was scf on fire, the Je s rush ing through the flames to perish amidst its ruins. It was a calm summer night the 10th of August; the wholo hill on which stood the temple was one gigantic blaze of fire the roofs of cedar crashed the gold en pinnacles of the do mo were liko spikes of crimson (lame. Through the lurid at mosphere all was carnage and slaughter; tho echoes of shrieks and yells rang back from the Hill of Zion and the Mount of Olives. " '' Amongst tho smoking ruins aud over piles of the dead, Titus planted the standard of Rome. Thus were fulfilled the Inst aveng ing prophecies, thus perched Jerusalem. In that dreadful day men were still living who might havo heard the warning voice of flim they crucified "Verily I say unto you all, those things shall como upon this generation. ... O Jerusalem,' Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thco, . . . behold your house is left unto you desolate I" And thus were tho Hebrew prople scat tered over the face of the earth, still re tailing to this hour their mysterious identity still a living proof of the truth of those prophets they had scorned or slain still, vainly awaiting that Messiah, whose divine misson wss fulfilled eighteen centuries ago, upon the Mount of Calvary." C.rasstaopvipni in Texas IK-strncttna of the l'.ropMwarai a aft Myriads of the Pests HnnkUiiu an Trees anil Breaking Down Ike Branckes. . Corrcivnlenc qf the Jf. Y. Day Book. DASTaoP, Texas, April 27, 1858, During tho past month the grasshoppers have azuin made lueir appearance in west ern Texas, and have already destroyed our garden!), also the corn and cotton in this and adjoining counties. Tho grasshopper of tho Middle Slates is very dillerent from ours. With you the egg is deposited iu the fall, and in ihe spring the young come forth and feed all summer in Ihe same field in which they aro hatched. Not so wiih us. Here ihey are migratory in their hab its. Last fall myriads of these pests ap peared in ibis and adjoining counties, ap parently blown from the west; they de stroyed the fall crops and' gardens, and deposited in the ground hundreds of eggs for every old grasshopper. This spring those eggs were hatched out, and the re sult is a hundred-fold more grasshoppers than we bad last fall. We know where they come from, but no one can tell where they go when they leave. After the hatch ing nmpcess is gone through with, they emerge from their nests in the ground, and immediately commence feeding upon the nearest vegetation. For ihe first six weeks of their existence, they uso their logs for tho purpose of loco motion, as their wings do not appear until a few days before their departure for parts as yet unknown; but during the six weeks they do incalculable mischief. On last Monday wees, one ot our planters uaa six hundred acres of corn knee high, prom isinu to average fifty bushels per acre ; the grasshoppers appeared in his field the next It .' it'll I 111 uay 8nu on i riuay he hadn't a : T I. h.Jn'l a hliniifAn , acres left standing. They resemble fish in their habits in one respect, going in shoals from field to field, but they do not destroy vegetation promiscuously, seeming to have a very discriminating Jasto. In our gardens they eat tho cabbage and on ions, and leave lue saisuy uu i--they eat the Irish potato vine, and this, loo, when these plants stand side by side. They are fond of the grasses, but leave ihe prairies to feed upon the corn and cotton, the latter when both are found in the same field. They are not to be found lower down the Colorado river Ihsn the 07th degree of longitude, but as far west as the country is sciueu. i , already commenced immigration from this aection of Texas. But where ihey go to w, as I nave saiu, . ...j..j. --" i ' ,i:..i.,l i.n into the air until they reach an elevation of about 100 feet, and j then take an easterly course, u lny Pur: sued ibis course in aright line, we should find them eilher in the lower counties or in tH Upon the hypothesis that they descended the lower COUniiea win uiu wtt,....-..-- '"rr.r,:: kIiT;.;.. weld they - Wid i. r.ke,rna.." , where is in me gruu..- - -j - , i ke p .. w rf , jj , where men, taken at random irorn any omer MVhy: W logeder.m..;!sUit of ,lfc, of who th, M Scropl rS? c.o ..Vi. or ucljou'pear.tob. berry 'licuiardi. mornmriS..d OREGON CITY, OREGON, AUGUST 7, 1858. ravel their mysterious nVlit i,v aunnositur I H'1" to be drowned in the CJulf, for surely, ' 1 ' myriad or grasshoppers which Hew ?vr """ ; nj'w'nit. counties last year, I nmi conllnued lluir flight to the Ouir. some j ,,g,UB, Jatk Ur woufd ,v, ,efn , do. scent and reported the fact. Last year : "') emi Hucl' numbers from the West 1 "'' tl,f ' "'P"1 iun " Utrnf& dl,J i i.'!,? nihl for . fcw "" d"'in8 ihv" , tllielil Muai II. a .111 ri.i.l .1 1 I.. ..S M sidcr this exaggeration, for I can assure you llint In many instances they broke down our peach trees by going upon them te roost. I know this will set in very strange. uui u is a iaci, uiai mo 1 rxis crassuopper :,,k. willl ' lllfill niinolllilv . . i I.... !. !. . e .1 m- i . I ' . ' ctiickflis at sundown, to lind a roosiir-B place. Our citizens here are now re plant- m lheir fP nnd Bre l)unyed VP wit'' the reflection that notwithstanding tho grasshoppers, Texas is tha greatest Slate in tha Union, and tho West l ho loveliest and most desirable portion of Texas. OCT Robert J. Walker says he will go to Kansas and speak against the English bill if necessary to secure its rejection. Ilia seo retary, Stanton, stil has his residence there, and his wife remains ia the Territory. Neither of these gentlemen show any abatement of their hostility to the Admin istration, and are apparently enlisted for the war. - Secretary Stanton says the courso of the Republicans in voting for the Crittenden-Montgomery bill was "liberal and palriotic," and that the Administra lion, by its course in regard to Kansas, has "assumed tho sectional and indefensible ground, leaving the Democratic, and true Constitutional platform in the po-scssion of tho aiiti-Leoomptoti Democrats, Americans, and Republicans." Thr Atlantic TELF.nRAi n. About the 13th of June, both ships, with the accom ponying frigates, make all speed to the ceutrr of tho Atlantic, or rather to the cen ter of the space to be traversed by the ca- ble, which is about 32 deg. west of Green wich. Hero the splice between the two halves will be made without loss of time, There is l,.ri00 fathoms water where this join must be made, and both vessels will remain stationary uniil the splice has well settled on the bottom, when tho Niagara will at once steer for the New World, and the Agamemnon will return to the Old. Each will steer as fast to her homeward destination as is consistent with the safety of the undertaking, fo the cable will bo ei ther laid or lost within twelve or fourteen days from starting. The depths to which the Niagara will hare to sink her portion vary quickly and irrcgulurly from 1,500 lo 2,000 fathoms, or from 1 to about 3 J miles; and this is tho case also with the Agamemnon's portion of iho distance. But on the American side tire wator shoals easily and gradually toward Newfoundland, whereas, on the British portion of ihe ocean the Agnmcmnon will have to sur mount a tremendous ridge, which may be called tho Andes of those vast submarine plains of the Atlantic. It commences at about 13 deg. west longitude, and in the courso of a few miles the water suddenly shoals from 1,750 fathoms to 00. Up this vast rocky precipice almost as steep as the side of Mont lilanc the cable must bo laid with extremo care. The difficulty once overcome, the way thence to Valen- tia becomes comparatively of no account. Past Pboobess of Christianity. The following tabular statement, a conjectural but probable representation of the progress ive increase of Christians in the world, is attributed lo Sharon Turner: 1st century, 500,000 10th cent'y, !i0,00n,000 2d " 9,000,000 1 1th " 60,000,000 3d " 6,000,000 12th ' 70,0(10,000 4th " 10,000,000 13th " 80,000,000 5lli 15,000,000 14th u 90,000,000 Cth " 30,000,000 15th 100,000,000 7lh " 25,000,000 Ifllh " 125,000,000 8th " 30,000,000 17th " 1 55.000,000 9lh " 40,000,000 16lh , " 800,000,000 In this nineteenth century, the Christian population of ihe world cannot be far from three hundred millions, and its progress now is more rapid than in any period since the Apostolic age. What imagination can fnr7t ihs AAhitlnita nf hr. hnV) fif ....... .... j - t years' T'1? leaven is working in every land. The old empires of idolatry and su perstition are effete and ready to vanish, while new Christian empires are born al most in a day. Every new discovery in nature, or invention in art, helps to speed the Gospel. Trade, commerce, revolution, exploration, all prepare Ihe way, and her. aid the approach of the heralds of ihe Cross. This work of preparation has been long going oil. OCT Stone bullets were used until the roar 1514. when iron came into use. It j ... was near the close nl the sixteenth centu ry before leaden bullets were generally -j0Dte(j auopiea Stone cannon-halls are yel useo in the East, (Or Gen. Scott was seventy-two years old on the I3th of June lsst. Ue hss been In the army fifty years. rKr " Where is the hoe, Sambo !" tlrpubllraa Patriotism. " It is not our habit to suspect our fcl-low-citizens when ihey utter sentiments of patriotism, and give vent to apparently hon est expressions of indignation against those who wantonly assail the Uovernment and i'eopie or the United states. It is delight ful, indeed, to hear our Republican fricndi drclare how valiantly they will maintain the honor of the Republic, nnd how ihey will put down its foes. Republicans do not often utter patriotic sentiments; and so we are more inclined to commend their conduct in reference lo the outrages re cently commiltod upon our rnercbsnt ships in llie west India waters. " Hut, sflnr'all, wecsnnot forego the op portunny oi recording a propiieoy upou this matter: we believe eur whole Repub lican family, under ono pretext or another. should the search question become serious, will turn their backs upon the Government, and trot over to the British side." Wash ington Union, The Union and its party are disap pointed. I low they would have exulted, had Republican members of Congress pur- sued the course taken by the Tost and Tribune, of Now York had they apolo- gized for the British outrages, advocated the British claim to visitation, and declaim ed about the overwhelming power of Eng land I " Behold these sectional fanatics !" would have been lheir language; " willing, in their mad crusade against Southern in. stitutions, to sacrifice the honor and inter ests of their country, to join with its en emies, to pander to British schemos of uni versal empire! Now, as always, it is left to the South and lo the Democratic party to maintain the honor of the flag aud the independence of the Republic" Belter counsels controlled our Republi can friends in Congress. Much as they abhor the slave trade and deplore the pros titution of our flag, they could not, with out denying a principle vital to the freedom of the seas and the independence of sov ereign States, admit for a moment the British claim. They saw no conflict of duties. They wero roady lo maintain alike the independence and Arwor of ihe flag to resist the establishment on tho high seas of a despotism ; and at the same lime lo hunt down piracy and the slave trade. So they thought and spoke ; and the unscru pulous Pro Slavery Party, which had fond ly hoped to win glory by a cheap display of patriotism, found, much to their morti fication, a wonderful unanimity of opinion. There was no chance at all fur sotting themselves up as the peculiar champions of the country's honor. In fuel, the pa lriotic sentiment was so strong, that Mr. Buchannn and his friends are constrained to play the part of conservatives. They have the responsibility, and it ia for them to indicate what is to be done. So far,, their policy is to await the result of com munications with the British Government, and meantime lo obtain from the Sebate a calm assertion of the (rue doctrine in rela tion to the claim of visitation, and a firm expression of the determination of the American people. The Republicans make no opposition they unite in support of this policy. Does the Administration want anything more I What impertinence, then, to be casting imputations in advance upon party which has shown at least eq'ial teeal for tho honor of the country, equal jealousy of its rights! National Jira. More Difficulties with England. Tho National Intelligencer, under the head of " rumors," has the following : " We are likely to have a question with the British government, as to our north. western boundary lino, which is about to be run and marked by Ihe Joint Boundary Commission. Mr. Archibald Campbell is the American Commissioner, and has taken passage for California. He was employed there the last year upon the duty, and now returns lo it. The question which has arisen is as to the title to the Important group of islands in or near the Straits of r uca, and between Vancouver s Island and souib of the parallel of 40. By the treaty, the 49tb parallel is our northern boundary, till it strikes Vancouver's Island, but then it turns south, giving the whole of that ::!und to England. The British govern ment set up a claim to lbs small islands as oppurtenanccs to the larger ones j while on our side we claim everything south of 49, except Vancouver's Island. When Ihe Oregon treaty was before the Senate for ratification, Mr. iienton maae some state ments as to the importance of these small islands as a key to the Strait aod Gulf, and claimed Ihem as belonging to the United Slates under the treaty," A br Ministers' Sons all Rascals! The Episcopal Recorder has an article touching this class in which it deprecates the idea that they are worse than other sons, aod draws for important information on Dr. Sprsgue's late work, which gives the lives of several hundred ' Cslvinistio' ministers. It takes the biogrsphics of the first five hundred, and says : ' Of the sons of three hundred, over one hundred aod ten became ministers. Of ihe remainder, by far the larger proportion rose to emiarr.ee as honorable ar,u success ful men in business, or in 'learned profes- !s there, any body of one honored pur- can be the side of Truth iu every issue. No. 17. Byiiiin Hm Marriaok, Etc. The fol lowing is the solution of the mysterious marriage according, to Mr. Trelawny's comment and recollections : "Byron's marriage must not he classed with those of tho poets, but of the worldly wise, he was not under the illusion of love, but of money. If he had left his wife and cut society, (the last ha was re solved on doing,) he would have been con tent ; that his wife and society should have cast him off, was a mortification his pride could never forgive nor forget. As to the oft-vexed question of the poet's sep aration from his wife, ho has told tho fads in prose and verse ; but omitted lo Male that he treated women as ihines devoid of soul or sense, ho would no: eat, pray, walk, nor talk wiih lliem. If ho had told us ibis, who would have marveled that a lady tenderly reared and richly endowed, pious, learned, and prudent, deluded into marrying such a man, should have thought linn mad or worse, and sought safety by flight. llyron loouitur.1 'As to my m. .:...... I.:..L l . x . .t i- iiiMiiinv, ttnii.li ivunv iiinufi vuen riuicu lous stories about, it was managed by Lady Jersey and others. I wss perfectly indif ferent on Ihe subject ; thought I could not do better, and so did they, I wanted mo. nry. It was ao experiment, and proved a failure.'.", The greate'r mystery than even iho mar riage, the man himself, is resolved by Mr. Trclawny into an imitation of George Prince of Wales. " His conversation wss anything but lit erary, except when Shelley was near him. The character he most commonly appeared in waa of Ihe free and easy sort, such as had been in vogue when he was in London and George IV, was Regent; and his talk was seasoned with anecdotes of Ihe ereut actors on and off ihe stage, boxers, gam blers, duelists, drunkards, &a., Ao., appro priately tarnished with the slang and scan dal of that day. Such things had all been in fashion, and were at thai time considered accomplishments by gentlemen ; and of this tribe of Mohawks the Prinue Regent was tho chief, and allowed lo be the most perfect specimen. Kvrm, not knowing ihe tribe was extinct, still prided himself on having belonged lo it; al nothing was he more indignant than al being treated as a man of tellers:, inslead of as a lorl and a man oe-fashinn ; this prevented foroiirnrra and literary people from getting on with him, for they invariably so offonded." Served "Ciiaritaiiari" Right. The New Orleans Picayune gives an account of a very proper punishment inflicted on one of those disgusting1 nuisances called Mar rowbones and Cleavers Concerts, given as a sort of Musard welcome to newly. married ouples, for the purpose, no doubt, of keep ing thorn awake. It seems thai a Mr. Sey mour married a Miss Mary Horan, at the house of the bride's mother, when a party of dirty rowdies commenced their diabolical musical devilry. Upon their refusing lo desist when Mrs. lloran entreated them, her son James, a lad only eight years old, look a loaded re volver and discharged several barrels into the mob, wounding several. It has been decided that it is justifiable lo shoot such parlies. Ethan Allkn's Remains Discovered. The Springfield Republican says that the long sought remains of Ethan Allen have now been found the doubts are for ever put at rest. In more thoroughly re moving tho earth at the place of burial in Burlington cemetery, Tuesday forenoon, for laying the foundation of the monument, tho consecrated bones were found right be neath tho place of the old tombstone. They were boxed up and ro-inlcrred be neath the new monument. Insects Never Grow. Many people fancy that a little fly is only little because it is young, and that it will grow up in process of lime to be as big as a blue-bottle. Now this idea is entirely wrong; for when an insect has once attained its winged stato it grows no more. All the growing, and most of the eating, is done in its pre vious stales of life ; and indeed, there are many insects, such as the silkworm-moth, which do not eat at all from the time that they assume the chrysalis stale to the time when they die, (& The French Gazette Medicale states that by n accident charcoal has been dis covered to be a cure for burns. By laying a piece of cold charcoal upon the burn, the pain subsides immediately. By leav ing ihe charcoal on one hour the wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on sev eral occasions. The remedy is cheap and simple, and certainly deserves a trial. Q3 After various experiments with all sorts of paving for twenty-fire years, Bos ton has returned to cobble stones, as the only convenient and practicable material, The iron pavement is belter but too expens ive. All other materials have proved infe rior to cobble-stone. - , t. i , OO-Jonathan Suggested to his sweet heart tht i hair marriage should be in May Susan though it an unlucky momn. "Make it June, then," said Jonathan. "Would not April do as well!" asaea ou ssn, with a blush. (VV Strain I ha bow and the arrow v- . . jwetrcs ; such is tha est'! wjih tbe mind ADVKKTIHINO IUTK8. One square (12 line or Itsa) one insertion, f 3N) " " two insertions, 4,00 " " thn-e insertions, 5,H0 Kach sulmniuent Insertion, 1,MI Reasonable deductions to those who advertise ly the year. JOB PRINTINO. Tin raorairroa or Tim AftRl'S is lurry lo inform the public that he has just rreeiveH a large slock of JuU TVl'Ksnd other new print ing nuiu-riul, and will be in tha S),erdy re. e pi o additions suited to nil ihe nquirenirnts of ties Ii -ealiy. IIANDIIILIX, 1'OhTKItH, HI.A.NKH. CAUDH, CIUCI LAKS, I'AMniUiT-Wulilv nnd other kinds, dune lo ordrr, on short notice. Books in Ancient Times The mod erns, ovsn with the aid of the printing presa, are not so f,ir in advance of ihe an cimts in ihe power of multiplying copies of hooks as is generally supposed. The rli.' interment of buried cities revealed a sin gular perfection in all that pertained lo lheir domestic comfort, and in ihe orna-' monis and articles of taste which marked a high civilization, but later iuvesiigaiioii) havo brought to lighl facts more surprising in regard lo lheir literary labors nnd the extensive diffusion of books among the peo. plo. In the timo from Cicero up to Marcus Aurvlius, scarcely less was written and read lhan in our day. This was effected by slave labor. Slaves were the auiunu. enscs of Romsn publishers. What the printing press now does for the spread of intelligence for bringing the pool and the orator, ihe historian and the essayist in communication with the minds of tliu masses, bond-men then performed, and the cheapness of lheir labor superseded tha ' necessity of machinery. " ( In tho large publishing establishments a work lo be produced was dictated lo aev. -era) hundreds of slaves at once, who were' capalilo of an almost incredible precision and celerity. Martialis tells us that tho second book of his epigrams, which num bers some six hundred and fifty versos, did not cost mors than one hour to the copyist. If three hundred were engaged al the samo moment upon it, fifteen hundred could , have been produced in a single day. The prico of this work was quite as cheap Is one of similar diiuunsious printed at the present day. , , j , The passion for literature, if we can form a correct judgment from the broken , records that have come down to us, wss equal la that manifested iiUlie present sge.i From l'ublius Viutoriuus we learn that during the second and third conturies after Christ there were in Rome alone twenty, nine public libraries, many of which as lo he number of books, equaled the celebra ted Alexandrine Library, which is sup. , posed lo have contained 700,000 vol-, umcs. Freezino to Dbath. That to be fro-' zon to death must be a frightful torture, many would consider certain, front their own experience of the effeots of cold. . Uul here we full into Ihe usual error of. supposing thai the suffering will increaso with the energy of I lie agent, which ceuld only be Ihe oaae if sensibility remained ilia same. Intense cold brings on speedy - leep, which fascinates ihe senses, nnd fairly beguiles men out of lheir lives. The most curious example of the seductive powers of cold is to be found in the adven tures of the botanical party who, in Cooke's ' first voyage, were caught In a snow mrm on Terra del Fuego. Dr. Solander, by birth a Swede, and well acquainted with the destructive decoits of a rigorous cli mate, admonished tho company in defiance of lassitude, to keep moving on. " Who ever," said he, "sits down will sleep, and whoover sleeps will perish." The doctor spoke as a sage, but he felt as a man. ' In spite of the remonstrances ol those whom he had instructed and alurmud, ho ' was the first to lie down and dip. The same warning was repeated a thou. sand limes io the reircal from (Mocow, Alison, the historian, to try the cxperi. merit, sat down in his garden at tiiilit when the thermometer had fallen four de. grees below zero, and so quickly did thn drowsiness come stealing on, that lie won dered how a soul of Napoleon's unhappy . band had been able to resist the treuchcr- ous influence London Quarterly, An Infidel Converted. Tim Eng-, lish correspondent of the Ziuu'r Herald, writes: " TLomss Cooper, the noted skeptic, and author of the ' Purgatory of Suicides,' has rccontly become a convort lo Lliristmnily ; and after having spent thirty years of his lifo in lecturing and writing against the Bi ble, he is now striving to make reparation for the mischief he must have done, by lecturing in defense of the Sacred Scrip Hires." Well Said. A cotomporary says: " In our estimation, the result of long expe. rience and observation, an editor of a news paper deserves far more credit for what he kcqit out of his paper lhan for what he ul mil." 04T Ii is said that, at Ihe very lowest es. timate, Kansas has already cost this country fifty millions of dollars. New Orleans Battlr Monument. A monumental obelisk is being erected on the New Orleans battle ground. The foundation is completed. The obelisk is to be entirely of while msrblc, and one hun dred and fifty feet in height. Ii is lo have an inner stairway running up the entire, shsft. r Mr. Buchanan, of Hamilton, has deA . J .1.. ian,1ian Pttrliemunf. that clarea in u . - there are five hundred thousand persons in Canada without employment, and with-, out money, (CT In order to live justly, and be re spected, we must refrain from doing we blame in others