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l)e rcgoti Strgus. W. b. ADAM, SUITOS AND rorIZTOR. pnnaou CITY I SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1858. Ilottf las lleheae4 l lUtnoU rare h Uoaal Bemoeraeylt later prctel. We find in the Missouri Republican of June 20th an account of ilia " National Democratio" convention in Springfield, Il linois, held June Oih. Tbe previous Stale convention was largely Douglas in ill ro clivities, and the proceedings not harmonis ing with the views of the Administration, a few office-holders, in obedience to instruc tions from Washington, bolted the " regu lar" State convention, and got op a call lor o convention to be held June 1), and to be composed of siiuon pure "Nationals," or Administration democrats. Whether this party East is designed merely a branch ot tbe national democracy in Oregon or not, wo are not ablo to toll; but, if it is, it is certainly looking to a reunion of the two factions, as it has most certainly got on the Salem platform and advocates the same kind of democracy thnt is taught by the Salem clique. The extracts we shall make from speeches made at this convention are taken from the Missouri Republican, a ra bid Administration paper, which applauds the convention as entirely " aound and re liable." We quote from tbe reported proceedings "Mr. Bonnoy, of Teoria, was then called out for a speech. lie took the plat form, and after an exordium, somewhat rhetorically ornate, he announced thai he should discuss the questions: " What con stitutes a Democrat," and " What consti tutes treason. In answering these ques tions, Mr. rtonney said that a good Demo crat must abide by the platform of the par ty, and also swear allegiance to those who, .tor tbe time bum?, are tbe tribunals to ex pound Deraoorntio law; and that tribunal, he said, was the Democratic majority in Congress. There can be no talk about compromises. Adherence to the plutforin, and obedience to the constituted nuthori ties, are the tests." Some of the democrats in this district thought we misrepresented the party when wo stated that by the declaration "the 'majority rale" democrats didn't mean majority of the people, but a majority of a caucus, clique, or convention. We showed them that tho reason why all democrats in Kansas and elsewhere were required to aid .in forcing the Lecompton swindlo upon the 'people was, that a mnjoriiy of the demo crats of Congress had decided in caucus to support it, consequently all democrats must submit to it as a democratic test, notwith standing it trampled on the rights and scoffed at the wishes of an overwhelming mnjoriiy of the people of Kansas. Wo proved it by an article in the Times which staled that Lecompton was a party meas ure because a majority of democrats in Congress bad agreed to adopt it. Accord ing to this Bonney, the man who, like Dou glas, looks to the masses for majorities, is a "traitor." But we again quote from the report : " Mr. Ronney then passed to consider in a rapid manner, tho history of the Demo cratic party, (or the past twenly years, and of the fundamental principles that have controlled them. lie announced that the doctrine of expediency was a fundamental one with the Democracy that thry took things as I bey round them, and legislated according to the existing state of facts, spending little time in wrangling about abstract questions of right and wrong ; what on the whole is Ihe best thing for the whole conntry, not what abstractly cotmid red is right or what is wrong." There is democracy for you, and clique democracy at that. A democrat mustn't atop to reason as to the " right or wrong" of a proposed measure, but must " lake things as he finds thorn," that is, he must stifle his conscience, if he has any, and meekly open his mouth and " take" the pill " as he finds it" prepared by the leaders, asking no questions, but to be satisfied that it harmonizes with the "doctrine of expe diency" (will it pay), which is not only a "fundamental one wilh tho democracy," but with pirates and outlaws generally. But let us quote further from this speech : "Mr. Bonney in the course of his re marks, said thnt ours was a government oflaw and order, not of popular clamor, and so far as I understood his decimal ions, lie repudiated the commonly received doc trine that tho people rule, and that their opinions and will are law." Ihe old democratic doctrine that the ficoplo rule is sneered at, and a government by the people is stigmatized as one of "pop ular darner," while such rule as forced the Missouri Legislature upon Kansas and en deavered to force Locotnpton on the peo ple, is catled a " government of law and order." This " law and nfder" idea is not original with Bonney and the Springfield convention, as (he border ruftims of Kansas Jiad long since styled their marauding ban dits as " law and rder" parties. The Sa lemites in Otvgaa were also ahead of them in repudiating and sneering at the doctrine that the people are sovereign. Let us quote again : " Mr. Bonney then took a wider range, and dwelt consecutively upoa the topics of rotation in office, w hich he regarded as heresy, unless it meant to rotate the best and most competent men into office that could be found, aod let them stay there." By the "best and most competent men" of course we are to anderstand the most bumble tools of the party who will do most to advance its interests. The bold avowal that a few party whippen-in ought to be put in effice and left to "stay there," is but M gradual and careful approach toward tbe j hereditary despotisms of tho Old World, toward which tho democratic party is fast drifting. The three great points made by this Ad ministration orator aro : 1st. A majority of democrats in Con. greu is the constituted democratic authori ty, obedience to which is Ihe democratic kit. 2d. Tht doctrine of expediency, or u will it pay?" it a fundamental one in the dcm. ocratie creed, and democrats art not to in quire into the right or wrong of any policy ictlled upon by their matters. 3d. Popular rule being a government of "popular clamor," it'to be repudiated and scoffed at at unsound democracy. 4 th. The soundest democrat ought to be put in office and kept thcrtfor life. These are the five horns of the beast as developed by Bonney, and as much as they may shock every man who has any patri otism or self respect they present a fair and full exhibit of the fundamental principles of the party that is now cursing the govern ment. , No excuse can be offered for Bon ney's speech by supposing that it was a spontaneous ebullition of feeling instiga ted by the excitement of tho convention and strychnine whisky, like Judge Wil liams's speech at tho Jubilee supper, fur the reporter snys of it, " I have barely indicated some of the points of Mr. Bunuey's speech, omitting alto gether to mention others. It was a care fully prepared address, written and mem orized, delivered with much fluency and earnestness, and marked by many good poinis which called forth the applause of the audience. All tbe speakers spoke in bitter terms sf Dsuglaa as an apostate, traitor, disorgan ize r, dec-, die. We give a sample in the speech of Car penter, an old " war horse" in the demo cratio army : " Ilia position, like that of his predeces sors on the floor in the Convention, was one disdaining compromise or proposed peace with those whom he characterized as bolters from the Democratic party who had sloughed otiirom it because they had noaffiniiy with it, no sympathy for it, and whose chief characteristic now was a style of villification and indecent blackguardism of the National Democracy of Illinois, which Black Republicans did not pretend to rival, and had not yet equalled by their most ambitious efforts. " Col. Carpentor, after this severe de nunciation of Mr. Douglas, which was re ceived by the Convention with many to kens of favor, proceeded to nn analysis of the inconsistency of Mr. Douglas upon the Kansas question. IIo then drew a picture of the character of the Illinois Senator, and presented him to the Convention aa the boon companion and fellow-councillor with Seward, Greeley and Weed caucusing wilh them, and abjuring Democratic cau cuses for many long months eulogized and sustained by Republican papers, and by his factious course nearly overwhelm ing the National Administration with de feat, and now menacing the Democratio party of Illinois wilh a triumph of the Re publican party, if he cannot succeed in crowning his treason with renewed Sena torial lienors." Now isn't it a little strange that democ racy' is so different in different latitudes! or rather that democrats are not willing to own up to the beauties of their creed only in certain localities! Why is it that the harda in Orogon hold to the same doctrines with the "nationals" in Illinois, and that the 'nationals' here are afraid lo ssy a word In favor of Douglas for fear they be read out of tho national party East ? We are, however, satisfied that some of the national democracy here, such as Leland and Dryer, who were once old line Whigs, have both some faint respect for popular rights, and do not approve of Ihe " coarse" taken by the "nationals" East; but wither they will risk excommunication by intimating it hereafter we ahull probably see. Our own opinion is that in principle there is lit tle difference between the leaders of both wings of the democracy in Oregon, and tbe sooner they call a convention in some In dian sweat-house and make a fusion, the better. . fctr J. W. Johnson, Esq., who is mak ing a tour through the valley, will present bills to such of our subscribers as he may see who are in arrears. This is the first time in over three years thai we have sent out bill.", and we should not probably have done so yet if our circumstances did not compel us to. We are owing money which must bo paid. We must have $1, 500 iu by some means in a few months. If all our bills are paid promptly, we fail to get our dues, ns we have to pay a trav eling agent for collecting. - 05" The " hards" were quite disappoint, ed by the news brought by the last steamer that Oregon wasn't admitted into theUnion. They Lad bought a large quantity of pow der, and, we are informed, had kept a pris oner in the jail making cartridges for a day or two. They will have to keep their powder dry till next full. Their cannon is a " hard" article, and was bought by dem ocratic money. Those who got a glance at the subscription paper that was around, say it ran about as follows " we the underlined prommis to pay the sums annxed to our names to by the Brass canon on the seenyirety for the youse of ihe dimmocrisy in origen sitty." We have quite a lot of correspond ence laid over for next week, when we shall be nbssnt, and our contributors shall have most of our space. (W Packers are still passing through here occasionally for ihe mines, but the stream has sensibly diminished ef late. The Oreiaa Veratr. We have received the first (August) number of the Oregon Farmer, published at Prtland by W. B. Taywi k Co. The paper is quite neat in typographical execu tion, and contains nearly sixteen pages of reading matter such as will not fuil to In terest and instruct its readers. It has quite a full complement of communica. lions from practical farmers, among which wo notice an interesting one on DEBS, from T. T. Eyre, of Marion county. From this we loarn that at present there are 338 swarms in Oregon, all of which are doing well, and owned as follows : Mr. Stevens, St. Ilolons, 0 ; Bozart, do., 13; I lay den, Vancouver, 2; Marquam, Portland, 30; Meek ii Eddy, Milwaukie, 25 ; Lenox, Wash. Co., 0 ; Eborts, do., 4 Cason, Clackamas, 3 ; ilunsaker, O. City, 3; Brown, French Praiiio, 17; Savago, Sulem Prairie, 5; Gilbert, do., 45 ; Eyre, do., 43; Warren, Salem, 3 ; Ilolman,do., 7: Robbins, do., 4 : Harvey, Polk Co., 8 ; Allen ds Buck, 0; Cox, Salem, 10; Knowlcs & Buck, Wash Co., 52 ; Coolege, Silverton, 2, (not 60, as reported); Buck, Wash. Co.. 14 : Templeton, Linn Co., 8 : Kinney, do, 3 ; Wood, Polk Co., 8 ; Strong, 0; Sbrum, 1 ; total, 338, We aUo learn from Mr. Eyre's article that whito clover is being extensively sown to kill out Ihe sorrel. Will it do that? Let us have an article on tho best method of dest roy ing it. The publie doesn't seem to relish the Advocate's method of "brin ing it." It's most too costly. Seth Luolling, of Milwaukie, the noted nurseryman and orchardist, has a short nr-J tide on the " CHILL BLIGHT," , so common to apple-trees, and thinks it Is caused by the "dry summers and early fall rains." No remedy is suggested. We also.notice an anonymous eommuni tion on JIEDGB FRHCRS, from which we clip the following : " A live fence is in all respects the best that is known, and let farmers be as prompt in planting and setting their hedges, aru) then take any where near tbe proper care of them, and in a very few years we shall see the unsightly and unsate rail-fence disappear aud the beautiful and trusty hedge take its place. Now as to a rail fence being " unsightly,' that is a mere matter of taste. We con sider a good staked and ridered rail fence to be about as "good looking" around a farm as any other, and if built as it ought te be it is safe enough for most any purpose. As long as a farm can be fenced at a light cost, as all farms can that aro handy to timber, and that with fir rails which will be as good as new a hundred years hence, thero will be little inducement for farmers to go into the hedging business unless in some prairie localities remote from timber. A " live fence" would probably be desira bio and add much to tbe beauty of such a farm. D. J. Schnebly, Esq., of " Rosedalc," has a communication on FHC1TTBEES, The varieties ef apple trees thought best suited to this climate are enumerated, and the writer then enters upon the subject of tbe terrible blight so common to peach trees in this country. No remedy being known, he gives over in despair. Not loo fast, friend S. ; wo believe a remedy exists, and wo hope our experimental farmers will per severe till they discover it. We can't give up the peach 60. In speaking of the cause of the loss of fruit trees in some orchards, the writer says: "Most of ihe kinds of Apples have strong tendency to early fruiting : this fact, added to the disposition on the part of many, to cultivate and manure too highly, is one gr(;?t causo of early decline in fruit trees. It produCJ over luxuriance of growth, which renders iS wood too brash and ten der to stand the winter" weather." Now we don't want !o get inld an argu mentwith friend S., but we will very mod cstly suggest that ten trees are killed for the want of cultivation while one is ruined from a " disposition to cultivate and manure too higlily." To be sure, an orchard that is pushed in this way is more likely to lose now and then a tree, but those thai live over are worth far more than the poor stinted things that barely throw up sap enough to put out leaves, such as we often see in orchards overgrown with weeds and fern, where the owner has little 11 disposi tion to manure or cultivate highly." We have tried both ways and we believe in serving an orchard as we do everything else that our hands find to do put it through. We always did love to read an agricul tural paper, and when we see a farmer who is properly imbued with the dignity and importance of his calling, a farmer who prides himself in making his farm shine, in raising good stock, in adorning his gar den and outgrounds, in providing conven ient buildings for his wife, in educating his children, and in supporting such papers as the Argus and Farmer; we say when we see such a farmer, we always imagine we stand in the presence of one of nature's noblemen. May the Farmer long find its way lo the domicil of many such farmers, for they always pay the printer. (r Czapkay's last issue has a letter da ted Washington City, with several editorial squibs, all written by the tame pen, in which it is more than iutimated that Jo Lane has kept Oregon out of the Union on purpose lo pocket about f 17,000 mileage as Delegate and Senator. DOT Flour is retailing ia this city for 114 per bbl. 7 tW We have received the first and fifth numbers of "Tho Pacific Journal,'' new paper published at Eugene City. The me chanism it quite good. Like President Mahan's preaching, It meddles with "nei ther religion or politics," but is devoted almost exclusively lo republishing dippings from other papers, similar to what we often publish od the oulsido of the Argus wilh an occasional "hymn" in imitation of Rouse's version of ihe Psalms, and set to the tune of " Old Hundred." Such a pa per. If it fails to please the public, we are quite sure will offend nobody, as long as it is entiroly " neutral", on all tbe great ques tions that agitate the publie mind In this age of moral conflict with deviiism in ev ery conceivable shape. The publishers seem to thiuk ihut there is an opening lor just such a paper, as all the other papers are too political or too sectarian. Ihe Journal has not boon in existence long enough to show the inclinations ef the ed iloriul corps upon the great questions of the day, moral and political, which are sure to "slick out," sooner or later, in every paper of that character, provided the editors are human The modern Tityrus, who, tub kymint abittit, can fill up the measure of his tool by reclining upon the banks of ihe Wil lamctte and tuning his reed to such themes as enwrapped the soul of Tom Moore upon the banks of the Schuylkill, may be a very amiable poet and senile lover, without possessing the qualifications for a success ful Oregon editor. The Journal, however, so long as it eon, fines itself to its introductory programme. will do good, at no paper containing proper food for the mind can be circulated in a community without producing its legitl mate effect ia the way of elevating and refining public sentiment, We wish Rogers, Seavey, and Wilson, publishers, and J. II. Rogers, editor, of the Tacifio Journal, success, and hope they have extra loose change on hand sufficient to enable them to keep ihe head of their enterprise above water longer than " Mat toon's medium of denominational corres pondence" was kept from strangling; (Hr Tho Journal says that a party of four or five drunken rowdies lately made an assault upon the drug store of Danforth Si Bre. at Eugene City, and did considers ble damage to the building by means of clubs and stones. No cause assigned cx cepting the strychnine whisky which stirred up the latent devil in the composition the mobocrnlt. ft During the four preceding issues of the Times we have been absent from our post, and a visitor to the 7aA of the red men on the Ceast Reservation. We have something to say of the visit. Times. Some incidents of the visit you " have not something to say of." Eh I States man, Tbe " ruling passion strong in death" is an old saying. Bush has used the Times, and the Ethiopian who edits that paper, long enough. He now desires to cast him and it ofTas a worthless encumbrance, unfit for further use. Oregonian. Oh, no that's not his object. He only alludes to the fact of the " Ethiopian" hav ing "conferred with flesh and blood" while on the Reservation just as all leading democrats. do, hard as well as "national" (especially new converts). 03" The Occidental Messenger gathered up its foot and breathed its last July 31. Its demise will be heard of with regret by now and then a pro-slavery man who took it from a negro-worshiping prompting to " support the paper," allthough he may have paid nothing for it. We know some of its woolly patrons in this section who voted for slavery and took the Messenger merely to " advance tho good cause," who yet owe (and always will) their sub scription. e would as soon (Link of presenting a bill for collection to a " runaway nigger" ; as he popped his head above water on the i Ohio shore, after swimming the river on a ! dark night, as to thiuk of trying to collect the ! bills of the Messenger upon two thirds of I its negro-worshiping delinquents for nig gerism won't pay. It's generally too I poor to. OCT Czapkay's organ has at lost taken it in hand to assure us that the "delay in is suing patents" is not chargeable upon the present officials as upon Gardner and Pres ton, but upon the Department at Washing ton. It is admitted that a "great major ity of claimants in Oregon have become entitled to their patents from three to six years ago." Now there might be some plausible excuse for this delay were it not for the fact that these same claimants, a majority of them we presume, many of them we know, were entitled to their "cer tificates" years ago and will probably be entitled to them till we have a Republican Administration at Washington that will cleanse the Augean stables here and else where, and devote a little time to the inter ests of the people, instead of keeping bas tard Senators In their seats, perpetrating and enforcing frauds in Kansas, engineer ing Fort Snelling swindles, lashing employ ees of the Government up to the polls, and concocting schemes for plundering the U. S. Treasury of thirty-five millions per annum. Is the delay in issuing certificates chargeable to Col. Gardner! or are they merely delayed te " save the Union" f 05 There is no news from the mines this week worth publishing. The grasshopper plague has reached Iowa at well as Texas. Their ravages in some teclions are described at terrible. All through the Western Stales, what Ihe hurricanes and grasshoppers have IcA, the floods teem lo be taking. We expect lo hear of the people laving their tccih shak. en out by the ague this full, and iheir noses frozen off by the frosts of next winter. We have been looking for such plagues tor some lime, and another Administration such as Ilorce's and Buchanan's, and wa shall begin to look up for fire and brim- stone. ' Latavette, July 31, 1859. En. or A aaus It is ihoimht by the hards here that tho rraton Oregon wasn't admitted and the war debt not paid, was that tho Lafayette PostmaMer detained Czapkay's organ mailed to Jo Lane till it was loo late lor ins steamer ui iuno sum. If that was the reason, Ihe Lafayette Post master has an awful responsibility resting on bit shoulders. Will you inform tho "hards" whether there is any truth in the report I r at. It must have been owing lo that or the dutenlion of tbe package mailod to Long Tom, or to Col. Gardncr'a "delay in issuing patents." The democracy" here did no bly in voting the whole hard ticket with their eyes shut, to "save the Union," gel Oregon admitted, and the war debt paid, " when we got a democratio Congress" as Jo Lane and Dulazon told them they must, and these dreadful "failures" are of course chargeable to the default of some sucn unreliable officials as the Lafayette postmaster or Col. Gardner, Tkaakt. Rev. Neill Johnson, of French Prairie, has caused a great flutter among our little ones by a contribution of a keg of apples, consisting of tbe July Dough, Sweet June, Sops of Wiue, Summer Sweet Paradise, Early Pinnock, Red June, Summer Pear main, Red Astracan, and Early Harvest, with a lot of larze Siberian Crabs. Mr, Johnson has a fine orchard and a very ox tensive nursery, comprising the best va rieties of fruit. The tamples sent us are all genuine, and aro very acceptablo " May the Lord reward him according lo his works." Jiew Adverlluncalt. Hoi 1 an.d & Day have opened a new store in this city, and have, like sensible men, advertised their goods. That looks as though they are petmanently located, and mean to deal on such term as will justify public confidence and patronage. LATE VROM UTAH. THE MORMONS RETURNING I By the overland route the San Francisco Bulktin bus the latent news from Suit Lake : At Salt Lake all is pence and harmony. Gen. Johnston has marched into Salt Lake City, and was camped near by. Ho in, tended to establish bis camp and head, quarters at Cedar Valley, which was 60 miles Irons the city. 1 bo rcace uommis sioners had succeeded in effecting a treaty satisfactory to all parlies. The Commis sioners left on July 3d, for home. President Young had returned with his family to the city. All tho Mormons were returning. Mr. Clift says I hey are return intr in hundreds, both niuht and day. Gov Cummins was exercising hie functions o office, and the best of feeling seemed to be fell on all sides Judge Eckles was making arrangement to organize his Court. The officers and soldiers there number about 3,000 men, were all well and in ex cellent spirits. MoG raw's Volunteers, numbering 400 men, would be marched back and discharged. The Indians are very troublesome about Salt Lake, having already killed several of the Mormons. One family had been mas sacred as they were moving South ; among their numocr were two women. Dr. For nev, the Indian Agent, was out among the llihis rr,r.!:!hir f MStics. and so far. had keen successful, the Inoians promising" peace and obedience hereafter, and admitting that their teachings had been bad fur some lime post. There is a plenty of provisions in the territory. The crops look fine adt war rant abundance. Improvements have al ready commenced in all directions. Gen. Harney was daily expected in Salt Lake ; orders had been sent to his com mand to halt, as all further difficulties are supposed to be at an end. Gen. Johnston expects to give up li is command on the arrival of Gen. Harney, and return east. Gov. Cumming had issued a proclama tion to the saints throughout the Territo ry, and had visited their settlements in per son, and ex-Governor Young had accom panied him back to the city. The most friendly relatione existed between them. Washington, June 19, 185S. The Postmaster General has completed a contraot to-day for the conveyance of a weekly mail to California from St. Joseph, Missouri, by way of Salt Lake City, with a branch contemplated to Oregon and Wash ington Territories, the contract for which will soon be made. Tbe eeveral contracts made this session by the Postmaster General for overland routes will in a short time do more to open the interior of the continent, hold in check Indian tribes, and facilitate emigration, than all the acts ef Congress or the oper ations of the army. Tbe contracts for mail service across the continent now completed are, from St Joseph by Salt Lake, from North-western Missouri by Albuquerque, from Memphis by El Paso, and from New Orleans by In dianola, Texas, and El Paso, thus opening the entire continent North and South. Fees Labor in Texas. The New Or leans Bee of a late date thus speaks of tbe rapidly growing strength of free labor in Texas : We have recently conversed with aa intelligent and observant gentleman, who has spent many yean in .Texas, and has traveled all over the northern and wee. tern portions of that Stale. He informs us that throughout those sections nf (he country the immlg ration it nearly tatlrtly ucii.tu mm! imvigurra, ot Wliurn SSVtB eights are Germans. ExevMent agrieuha. rists, hardy and patient lifters of the soil sober, temperate, Industrious, peaceful' and obedient to law, this population, ia many respects, cannot be surpassed, but they are, from birlh, breeding, and habit. of thought, invincibly hostile to slave Is. bor. ro one in a thousund owns a negro and thoro are whole tiera of counties in ear.' tain psrls of Texas which cast, in Ihe eg. grrgate, many thousands of voles, where one may travel many a day and scarcely see a black skin, or besr the accents of ike r.nglith tongue. Uur Informant stales, ts the result of personal inquiry and observa. tion, that if no marked change should oc cur, before ten yesrt ellipse Texas will be divided into four States one slaveboldino! and tho other three free. . The Naval bill, at it passed both (louses'. provides fur the construction of seven steam sloops of-war, and a small aid. wheel war steamer for the Chinese seas. OrTho late session of Congress was remnikublo for fuwerscenet of disorder la its closing hoars than any of Us predeces sors. (kT The assessed value of taxable Tana's- in Mississippi in 1857, was $141,740,420, being an increase since 1864 of $50,126, 275. The number of taxable slaves asses sed in the same year was 308,182, or 18,. 450 mere than in 1850. , At $000 apiece, this would make tbe stave population of the State worth the immense sum of $220, 002,200, or more than all the landed prop, erty. Singulab Remkdy fob. Fits. William M. Cornell, M. D., of Boston, gives the following directions for warding off fits: '' Stretching the muscles powerfully will generally prevent an attack ; for example, when tho aura commences it the great loer or in the leg, strong traetion, or elongating the too or stretching the muscles ot the leg, will carry the patient over the tnreil. ening attack for the lime; or, when the patient has premonitory symptoms of an attack, opening the jaws as widely as ean be done, and placing some hard substance between the teeth, to keep the mouth eptaP will have the kered i fleet. 1 have had one patient who, by my advice, carried a. piece of iron with him for a year, fitted for the purpose of expanding the jaws lo their utmost capacity, and keeping ikes thus expanded. When he has fell what he calls tbe "Utile spasms,"" which aav usually been the precursors of the great ones, or the "fita," be has immediately drawn from his poIWl the iron wedgf, opened I. is mouth to its utmost width, and) placed tho wedge between his teeth. He then becomes quiet, poes about his Dusti ness, or gives himself no further trouble about the convulsions, aod has none." . ; S3T A lover is one who lives on sentf menl and moonlight, who dislikes advice and sail poik, and1 supposes that all that' required to convert this world into pars de, is a' six-keyed flute aud a pair ot blue eyes. Q4r Although the term guinea is still is familiar use in England, the actual coin is selsW seen, and is so much wore that it can only be taken by weight. Baptist Books. WE EXPECT by next mail ateamcr squsa tity of the American Baptist PubtieaUoa Society's Books, coimisling of Fuller's Works. Bunyan's do., The ftalmiat, pocket, pew, and pul pit sizes, and a variety of other works. We will stute that wo intend to keep a com pleto amurtment of the Society's hooka, Order for ingle books, or by ihe quantity, will be promptly filled. Churches and libraries furnished; at the lowest price. E. L. BRADLEY fc ce. Oregon City, Aug. 7, 1858. Poetical Works, A FINE assortment, iut received by E. L BRADLEY & co. . A. & ADA M. WSSBi : PHYSICIANS, OFFER their profreiional services lo the citi zens of SALEM and vicinily. They will practice the Hygeo-Medical (better known as 'Hydropathic) ayetem, believing all druge to be not only unnecessary in the sueeeerfU i;atment of diseases, but injurious to the eoaetH tution of !ho patient, and relying entirely upon! Hygenic appliances. Special attention will be given to Ossrsriief, and those diseases peculiar to women and childrea, by Mrs. Wesd. Patients at a diatance treated upon reasonable terms. References Drs. R. T. Trail and O. W. May, of New York city J Dr. G. M. Bourne, r Sau Francisco. Office-Citv Book Store, Saltm, wig. August 7, 1S58. 17 GOLD MINES AT HC"EI A. HOLLAND. I.. DAT. HOLLAND & DAY ' HAVE juat opened a new and splendid aosrt meat of GOODS At the Old Stand of F. S. tf A. Hollands opposite Geo. Aberaethy's brick stow, wbTUy can be found at all times rfiuy to wait oa ere. They are now permanently lecsM. hope by strict altentioa te basiness to merli tai share of patronage. . . Their stock in part consists of UMtoOow licles: Ginghams, lawns, delaiiei,nBtsrMW, flannels, alpacas, bleached domestic, wool PJJJTj damask silk drwi goods, hosiery, w.blW,"7; cheek do., hickory do., over under do., shoes of all kinds & sizes, shawls, & satinets, blk, brown & white linen thread, Mr nool cotton, ribbons, artificial flowers, itlso, East Boston syrup, California refinr op,suganiof all kinds, tobacco, coffee, "? salt, candles, and a thousand other things, wtm mcrous to mention, all of which they wis low as any other house iu Oregon City. .. They will pay cash or goods for all IDT' dnce,such as butter.eggs, chickens, or V""Vi' thing the farmers have to aeO. There - like trying. So give pAT: Oregon City, Aug. 7, 1858. cASHMToLLIsffil, Yamhill Farm tor Salt). I Go DFFKR a beautiful faro? " acres ia YarohiU county " or sale- "- s Md.BS-JL-- Good ba Wings on me P"-" J njiua' W tie land ander . . j.i:k(r.J iaiuafs m all to one ot . rMll th.ntry. rmpX or the Argu?, formatioa. k .KU ta trire all July 31, 1838-16