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THE OREGON AKGUS, ., rHILIflllU IVISV iATUHUAV HOK.HINg, ..BT WILLIAM L. ADAMS. TMKMSTkt A toot uiill k, furnuktd at I f area DtUr$ and Fifty CihIi r annum, in IHWii la if l iulncrilnriTiru UoUar eelea to htk f tin at oJHetU adtani Win ik mtmy ii not paid in adcunci, Four DtlUri will It cknrgtd if paid wilkin lit , and Fin dotUri at Iki tad of Iki year. 3T Tim Dollar far lit montkiNo lubtcrip tiam rirtitii fur a Un period. If ditentinufd until all ammgi . ftpaU,aUi t tkptinuf Iki puhiuktr. s Fajsea Amusi I send you a pices of poetry etlpped from the Independent, ' rieaee nint It for M la Mm Argue, as it Kinwi my feel'ngs for tetter tkaa I eould do It Uilli W. Cook . '" taai tteraeral alihT Death af hU Hoi. " The) foihiwlng touching ml beautiful itntitm MM written by Paul (jerhardl in I6j0 on the eUela. of hia aon. They luivt boon recently Irane laMd, acrordintf to the ordinal meter, by Miae CelberiM Winkwunh for her neon J aeries of the Lyra Gtraiau'eai Thoa'rt mine, yen, still thou ert mine own ! Wbo telle me thou art lost! lot yet th'Mi ert not mine alone ; I thM He who emai'd My Ropes bah greatest ri((lit in thee ; Tee, thoaitb lie ek end like from me Thee. O my eon, my hoert'e delight, My wieb, my thought, by day enJ night Ah, m'ght I w'uh, ah, ni-lit I chooie, ' Then thoa, my tiur, thiiuMit Hie, And fledly fur thy take I'd Ime 1 All elee Ibut life van give. . Oh, bin I'd eey i Abide with me, The eanehiue of my how to b.' 1 ': No ether joy but tliii I crave, Te lore thee, daring, to my grave 1 Tfcne nith my heart, end menu it well, Ood nuunelh better etill ; My kwe ie more then words cjii tell, ' 1 ' Hie love le greater Mill; , ' I eee a tuber. Ho the Heed ,t And Crowe of fathers, whence is she! 'n The life and lue from wh.ch hare tprung , All blessed tiee in old and young, ; I long for thee, my eon, my own, ' And lie who ouce hath g eu Will have thee now bea.de Hit throne, Te lire with U rn in heuveu. ' I ery, Aloe ! my I ((lit, my child 1 c But tied bath welcome on him smiled, Aad eaid, ' My ch id, I keep thee near, Tor there ie nought but gluilueu b.re." . (i O blessed word, O dei p deeiee, ( More holy Uian we Uiiuk 1 ,' With God uo grief or woe cm le, ' ' No bitter cup to diink. No sickening hopes, no want or cere, i Ma hurt can ever reach him there; i Yea, iu thai Father 'a ehelterrd home I know that aorrow canuut uoino. We paae ear nighta in wukeful thought For our dear children's nkei , All day our anxious toll hath au0'ht ' How beat for tin in to muke ' A future enfe from care or need, - Yet aeldoin do our ecln mea aucceed ; , How seldom dea their rulure prove , What we bad pluuued fur thuee we luve! Hew snany a child of prom'se fu r j . Ere now beih gone aatruy, , By III exampte taught to dura ' Fenake Christ's lio'y w.iy. 7 O, fearful the rewnrd ie then, Toe wrath of Go I, the acorn of men 1 i The bitten tear that e'er are ahed j Are hie who mourna a child lulled. ,,' Dot now I need not fear for thee, Where thou ert, all ie well, Far thoa thy Father face doat aee, With Jeaue thou doat dwell. ' ' Yee, elouilleea joya around him sh'ne, .' Hie beurt ahull never eof.t like miiie, ! Ha aeea the radiant arroiea glow (il That keep aud guide u here be'ow. Ha heart their a'uging evermore, Hie little vuioj loo uiugs ' lie draka of wladom'a iteepest lore, He ep. aka of eecret thiuga , That we cau never aee or know 1 Ilowe'er we et k or drive below, While yet am'd the m'ata we stand ' That rail thia durk nud tearful land. i : ' O, that IcouM but watch afar, Aad hearken but a wh le " Te that eweet aniiK that huth no jar, k . And eee hia lieav nly emile, Ae be doth pruiae the lio'y Gml Who made n.m pure for that abode ! ' In team of j.y lull well 1 knoy Thia burdened heart would over.W. And I ahould any : Stay there, my eon, My wild laments are u'er, f. 0, Well foe theu that Uieu hast won, I eall thee baek no more; ' ' But come, thou fiery char ot, come, Aad bear uie ewiftly to that home Where be with nuiny a loteil one dwella, 7 Aud efi rniore of gludueiui tells ! Thea be it as my Father wills, i " I will not weep for thee j ' thou liveet, joy Ihy spirit filh, ' ' i Pure eunahiiie thou dost sec, h The euaaliiae of eternal rest ' Abide, my child, win ro thou art bleet : I, with our frien ls, will onward fare, '' And, whenOod wille, shall find thee there, Criticism apon lue On'snn Vres, by . . P. J. SWloac. x. We find in the Sacramento Union a let ter from Umpqua, dated Nov. 8, 1858, and iigned ' P. J. M.' It was written by P. J. Malone, Esq, who is now a steno graphic reporter iu the Legislature at Sa lem, and was formerly a ' hard' democrat. The letter, which is devoted to giving a general iew of Oregon as relates to our Indian policy, our politics, agriculture, and future prospects, is written in that clear, concise, and pointed style so peculiar to'an dacated Celt, and has a vein of elevating nTmpathy and scorning of sneaking despot ic that to never found in a ' reliable dem ocrat' We give below mostly what re lates to the Oregon press: v "Our local press is at last beginning to eWhibit something akin to a sense oi sname at its own vileness. The organ of the Dera vtmii iirwanization. published at Salem, a pTevabyiago had an article apologizing for gtl ffftnese W SCUmmj aim uui"9 tatter far tbe future. The editor says he , nrtsrally inclined to be 'dacent, but that his eateaporaries will not let him, but mat keep continually drawing out bis 4 tMfMr ejaalitiea. To this the Oregonian, thu ODDOskion oreans at Portland, rephea, that it fcsB't in the aforesaid cbnp's .u. 4. Atnemt Ar courteous either: that Bine w "- . , . r and not areument, is nis joru. end that it wohW be an up-hill business for v: in r asra'mst ' natur.' He fur- ther adds that the literature of the arore aid Democratic organ is fully np to the re qainnwiti aad mental capacity of its tUders. who are mostly from tbe classic aaudem at Pike and Ja?e graduated in a vxttfol where, as tlie Argrn fitly expresses It, Ue world ie believed to be flat, and too mr the outer edse of which poor Sir John Prokiia. tailed when he dropped over the aMak! "HiXirxftam as this picture ms appear, Aj u adaant of intelligences in Oregon of -A Weekly Newepajwr, devoted Vor.. IV. Iiiinily be oIiwtvciI tltitt they are tlto luvn-' riolile prey of tlio tli-mnjfojruc and tlic prop of the di apot here, n in i-very otltot coun-1 try. JKiioruiH'o u the rood 01 tyranny the wurld over. The mint who in posnweicd of ' the d.titffcrtitw iift of tlioiifrht' will ulunyn exercise au inllucnee over his Ima (rifli'd neighbor, whether it be in a tuonurehy or a rqiublic, and if that influeiicu in directed by Kelfisliness, it will nlway deirenemtu into tyranny; and Oregon in, tKrhiip, an remarkable an example of thin a could be fouud. While the bulk of our nulut!on came from thu frontier State, with limited opportunities for education, with Btrong pri judlccs In fuvor of the democratic organ izut'on, aeipiired when Amcrigan Dcmoc ruey meant soinetliing more than an engine for the propagation of human slavery, white and Muck they arc fit uiiiUtinls lur our ruling class, who hail mostly from New hugluud, to work ution ami mould to their put poses and liking. The Democratic jour nals of Ori'irou never lose siirlit of these thrco tliinirs when nddressinv; their readers: 1st. Tito class of iutclligeuci s to which nn the Stutcbtniin, the organ of the clittic, they belong; 2d. Their sectiouul and party . sings small it is too busy licking the por prejiKliccs; and lust, though not least, the ridge pot to say anything. If Douglas 'i- j. !. i. .....!... :t m i., .i. ..!- -i : . r u ...;n A., necessity for lightening, if possible, their ideas of the hideousuess of ull opposing par tics, and their iguoranro of nil that is pass ing in the world of politics beyond the limil- ...I ..i.:.. i. :.. .i:...;ii...i l...r. .,,.i. cs them U, ,.M, ilia iilembio of ' ,mr naiHT .' As an instanco in point, I may mention , this: Very little is known by the people of. Oregon, even at this lute day, of the cuuscs I of d.lT.rcnco between Douglas and thol irrcnr ilttiwuiciir aT riwlnrnl unit Tin SiIiupc i man, the great light of tho party here, ould hayo been equally strong had Meth hordly ever uientioued it never published , odist or Baptist clergymen 6tood in the a line of the debate iu Congrccs on ' Le-1 jIiol-s of tho 'priests.' We do not expect i ... i i f r -I. ...i I I ' tuiupioii, iiuruum ui iuugiiu. Vm.xK since he returued tobisconstituetitHl Stop! I'm too fast. It did publish a paragraph of his Chicatro snecch euloirizius the Dem- ocrutic organization iu Illinois, and exhort ing every 'sound und riliubh (which means slavish) Democrat to ubido by its usages. But it carefully avoids any allu sion to that part of bis speech wherein he characterizes ' uuiforniity' us the parent of despotism; or to that other speech where he denounced clique-controlled conventions , .i.i, r l I. anu caucuses as tne rooo oi tne piop.f s mil. .runt cicitfuurntir T T ia Kt (ilf'CHmn'iJ mission is theniiMouofthe drill sergeant, a; ml. ns the vounr snroutsnid in relation to tl he tic of his cruvut, it 'gives all its mind' to that object. " And if the Slat: sninti, as the organ ot 1 the' (Democratic) 'party,' gives its miud solely to the work of drilling the awkward squad, that they nay without questiou obey the word of command, it must bo con fessed that the Uregoman has a mm pre eminence in the work of endeavoring to pro duce insubordination in ranks of ' the faith ful.' Nor is it very choice iu tlie selection of weapons. It addresses itself to the work with more zeal than discretion, and, ns with ull ill-directed and ill-timed efforts, often produces results tho very opposite of what is intended. Sarcasm and coarseness, how ever wi II they may do on the stump, when put on paper always injure the causa wliicli they espouse. They may cause men to laugh for n time, but there the iinpress'on ends. Men rarely ever go to the ballot box and deposit their vote upon an impulse of laughter. Tlie Oregoiiiun is just now engaged in a Very foolish and fruitless cru sade against the Jews, which can only re sult in damaging itself in the eyes of all prudent, thinking minds. The disinterest- d community are too niucn occupied wmi their own concerns to espouse tlie Orego- ninn umns private qnnrrci, wuatcver n may be, with the Jews, and arc sure to for rct it ull in a week urter the newspaper war ceases while the opposition journals, and especially tho belabored sect, or race, will be sure to treasure it up against wnatevcr party Dryer may act with for years to come. Tins American worm oi ours is iou old in experience to favor auythintr suvonng of proscription of sect or race. Those who engage in it, whatever may bo the provoca tion, only snow that iney nave stuinea nu man nature and civil history to little pur pose; . The Oregonian might lmve given its columns to better1 purposes man eiiner the demolition of the Sulein clique or the Jews. Had it let in upon our Oregon Egyptian darkness the flood of light which Lecomptou disclosed, exposing the false Democracy which would prostitute the Na tional Government to the tyrannical pur pose of compelling the majority to bow to trie will 01 me miiiumy, uu i the nefarious efforts of the fire-eaters and their pliant tool, the President, to turn Kn. if tlm tirin nf frpe labor, bv the in- tpmoiitinn of the arm of the rodurai .. . . . Government from the national domain, it would have rendered a service to UffR011 and to itself which could ot fa. tocom - mnnrl resneci. as ii is ii nuo ius n'l nnnrtrtnnltV OllCe lost taa OppUl lUIIM, " - never De recaueu. The Oregon City Argus (Ucpumieanj t!m onlv miner published ill tho Territory' from which an intelligent and r ,,ec.acC0""t..r: .L:rn;,rX,r Tw nmntnn mn lil ! irlcnnpd. Its circula tion, as may be seen from the smallness of ti n Kennhlicon vote, is as yet limited consequently its light didu't shine into the rtnrk places where light was most needed Taken for all in all, our uregon press m -i- a queer inst.tut oni ine prcsiuiiijr r-p.rn. of tlie lust named paper, while exhibiting a peculiar fitness, in iwtn composition ana se- lection, for a Black Republican journalist while disphiy n?, perhaps, the most argu- menutwt.ndl.aytical mind of ..-.j of l.is mtMnnorarics ne is, nevertneiess, crazy upon some subjects. Like the Oregontan with tue Jews, tne Argui um a t;.iii "- tpnthy against tne rap. is. ik u. m nvsforlane to be brought op in a school which turned him out upon the world a boiled down bigot. He has yet to karn that thia frorcrnment. under which we live, lie Dan tne contemplates the making of men free and lrarin? relirion to take care of itself. tn- til be coos this lesson over and over again and acta npon ft he basal learned tbe el- to the Principles of Jeflersoniaa OREGON CITY, OREGON, JANUARY 22, 1859. ili;tlet ot ri-nutliciiiiiiiin. nor exhibited flic 'Jtrtt qimlificattun of t n-publicnn jotinwliat 'flicre ia en undurKromid war ru? iuk in our Dcinocrutic cwup, between the friends and emtnics of Laue, the flrxt ' gptirk of wliicli came to litrht, a few wot k ' nj-o, through the eoliinnm of the Sentinel in jtlio lmio of an nttnek aiion tlie Surveyor , Geneml, who bt thu futiier-in-luw of the , head of the auti-Lune pnrly. It in the first andible fruit of the war that will either j bury 'Old Jo' politienlly or consign the ' cf que to pot. Should Douglas mistnin . Imnn'lf in Illinois this Full niinut the combined force arrayed niruinst liiin, I pro- ll;ft ttint hia hnrtv in ftrnirnn liv iKI'iH - I'- 'j v n I - r will bo the must powerful iu it. The men who nre now office holders here, under Old Buck, will rnn from hitn as soon as his star begins to wane. Already there are indica tions that of the two wings into which the Democracy is split, the stronger portiou will', on a favorulile opportunity, dfcluro for H I., a Tl. Ct...,,l..-,1 o.wi T,,., nt.A Sentinel have already declared for Btiebim- ttuuna nny eifcus ui niiiiiin 11. uoiv iw hitn if not, it will feed on and say nothing." Mr. Mulouc'e notion thut the ' presiding spirit' of the Argus is a 'bigot,' is drawn c0 f'om our "posUlon of the con duct of Pundozy and other priests during our Indian disturbances, lie mistook our eSnoi ns an attuck on ' Popery,' and little , , . b, , t onr ji.mlllciutioug r J cvcn our wurinclit Triends to nttriliute er- , . , .. on 0 ?l,r P"- m,(11 c T d U to let it rest under the unjust (ut least it seems so to us) Imputation of being slightly tinctured with 'bigotry' by Mr. Mulone, so lo.ig as he concedes that it Is the only paper that has shed Might' on Democratic villainy, and Intimates that if its circulation was what it ought to be, tilcrB Would bo some chuncc at least of hav' , , jcn)0eracy. ftg ffl,c rrom conniving at ! rt "'I'porting swindling by Government omeials ana a negro urecuing, sect.ouui policy by the party, as he is himself. For Ik Argui, Woman's nights. Mb. Editor: Your correspondent Xc nittie, notwithstanding her representations that women arc cternnlly harassed with a press of business of one kind' or another, has found leisure to concoct nearly two newspaper columns of whiuing complaints and foul-moving appeals on behalf of the female sex. What private grievances or peculiar prejudices Xcuittie may have, I know not; but this I do know; she, with that microscopic vision pcculiur to monoma niacs, has made mountains out of molehills. Sho charges men with being ' supporters of a system of servility, which, if possible, is a thousand times worso thun the wost aspect of American shivery ever was.' The Lord deliver us! ' Who would have thought that men, with all their professed admiration and tenderness for the female sex, were such monsters! And then what a sublime ex ample of generosity your correspondent fur nishes when she declares that sho 'has no disposition to find fault with nil men, for she loves them, God bless them.' What! love such horrible wretches as sho describes ? Oh, Xenittie, thou paragon of benevolence! if I only kuew thou wcrt single and pretty, I would wude through Oregou mud, knee deep, to do reverence nt thy saintly shrine! But in another place Xcuittie says, ' In my former letter I hinted that from the Creation dowu to the present time, woman hud been the nufortunute victim of man's despotic rule.' And again: 'The day is coining when tho onward and resistless march of civilization and Christian benevo lence will dispel the disgraceful wand of masculine' superiority, and restore woman to the peaceful enjoyment of her lust inher itance.' Now will Xcnittie please to tell us how long before the Creation it was, that woman lost her inheritance ? and also ......... . . 1 Tl wimt mat inneritancc consisted oi i near her again: 'Now it may seem humiliuting ; to the proud spirit and lofty genius of man ito doff , .g . o(j ffa ays r and walk np to; i . ... All this may be true: Lut " WaSll-tUD, nfter nn intimate acquaintance with that nnrticalnr portion of the human family for : ,i, ,i . thut . bctter'claims to exemption ! from mb services than woman.' And say it may seem rltvUing to the humllr. enirit and loitlu irenlus of woman, to doff i hef m and wak to tlie r,loWi j thrcshimr-floor. All this m -" - - .!.. I .a imn. lint. nfiM1 a. MutHrhrtal ar.- - - r- qtmintonce with that particular portion of tie i,uman fum;iy for the Lord knows years, I can't discern that they "u" 3 ' . have any better cla.m. to exempts from : sucu services man man. Your correspondent further lays tliat woman 'should be treated with that cour- , d t due ,0 ,)nm&n heins.. i 1 . " 1 1 answer that ,ke u, and more too. I was lately traveling on a steamboat that was ! rather overcrowded with passemrers. who ijehared as if they had not tasted food for t. , wi.- ii i.winth a week past When tbe UbhxJoth was spread, they began to secure placs at the1 Democracy, and advocating the board, Just as Ihavo sceu hog do at feed- ing tinie, until eve7 space was full: but, behold, when tho expected signal was given, out of tho best cabin marched dulgcd In by most of the company. Twas a number of women, (neither of them so ' a Jovial specimen of out-doors hilarity, in hniidsomo uor to intelligent as I dare aay j which all tho fatigues of the way, and ap Xenittlo Is,) and those voracious bljicds, or parcntly all other troubles, past, present, at least enough of them, apparently In a '' and to come, were forgotten In the joculur starving condition, did lucoutiuently and plunging and luxury of the bath. Hud without grumbling evneonte the premises, 'some ancient Grcciaubccn Introduced Into thereby eimblimr the aforementioned women ' our society without a knowledge of tho age to sutisfy their delicate littlo apetitee undia-J or of tho country, his first aud perhaps bis turbed!! Now, sir, do yon imagine that only impression! would have beeu that the these free-born American citlzena would ' gymnastic games were in full blast, end have resigned their rights for any iuf wo-' that the arena hud only been changed from menf No, ami I doubt If oven the Ma- dry bind to water. , : ry Ann of the Mexican war could have I" the cousecutive prosecution of a jour procured a scat, except by main force, or nuh'tod story, however, I should have said an order from the Clique. that a little over half way from the summit Lastly, we fiud this accomplished writer, to Dcs bhutes river, off to our leit (nortu;, Xcnittie, (what a funny name) devoting a o passed another lake, about tho same In lurge space to condemning the abominable and appearance as the summit lukc, practice of men, in the matter of taklug "l kss interesting only from its locality cure of tho baby; but her extreme good- aud iu being surrounded by a thick growth nature, in spite of all, at last gets off the of P'" timber. From this swim following: 'Really, it seems as if every d- miug eucampiucnt, we traveled down the mcnt of man's nature is opposed to taking er (uorth), and passed in the foro iart care of the children:' which declaration cf- uf tue day several small mounUiusor lava, fectually shifts the responsibility from the Lov ut Tolcnuic cmptious, which look overburdened shoulders of man. to thoso of " ent and fresh as though it had not Nature, i. 1 The remainder of this article I address to Xcuittie in person, requesting all others to skip what follows. Dear Miss or Madam, as the case may be: Permit me to offer you my most sincere sympathy, if you happen to be a victim of tlie multifarious wrongs to which you al lude in your letter in the Argus vol. 4, No. 37. But, inasmuch as sympathy alone Is but poor comfort in affliction, I will offer you a few hints by which you may escape some of your difficulties. If you are mar ried to such a man as yon describe, lecture him day and night, publicly and privately, until yon drivo him into drunkenness, or both; then get a divorce. But if you are single, pretty, accomplished, and under thirty, just nutborizo the Editor of tho Ar gus to put us in 'rapport,' as A. J. Davis has it; and if on better acquaintance we arc pleased with each other, and if I can prevail on you to become my better half, I solemnly pledge myself, at all convenient times, to tnko care of the baby. I am, Miss or Madam, Leah. P. S. I have just opened the Argus of Jan. 1st, and find that Xcuittio is going it yet. Sho tulks of placing ' husband and wife upon that equality which Nature's God intended.' That equality may be found in Genesis, chop. 3, verse 16' Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and hciAa rul over thee.' t. , Fr tkt Argui. Trie Into the Cascec Heaatalaa. - Mr. Editor: In the conclusion of my hasty notice of the two passes through the Cascade mouutuin, I announced a forth coming essay relative to a strip of fine farming country on nppcr Dcs Shutes river, lukes, &c. I will now endeavor hastily to redeem that promise, and shall begin where I left off iu the preceding communication. Ou the summit of the mountain, about two miles south of the new emigrant road, lies a peaceful lake, calm and tranquil as a May morning, refiecting the golden ruys of the king of day on all surrounding objects, imparting a variegated richness aud gran deur to the landscape scenery in its vicinity. This hike was supposed to be alwut two miles wide and five miles in length. Its depth and the character of its water we did not test, ns no one weut immediately to its mnrgin; but from our encampment, on an elevated position, we could see it to greater advantage than had we been on a level with it at its water's edge. At the rising of the sun next morning, it gave a most sublime aud picturesque aspect to ihc nionntuln top, as it lies immediately on the summit. Hero I should delight to linger for a time, to feast my eyes and my whole inquis itive nature on the beauty, the novelty, and me ooiuncss oi tue prwpcci which hitc ' presents a new field for scientific luvcstiga- Won and metaphysical speculations. As from this stand-point, the lake, the snowy ' nonks. of various hicrhts and distances, the ! volcanic eruptions, the projecting mountain ridges, some near by, others only to be seen in the blucness of the distance, all present a ponderous volume of materials well calcu lated to enlarge and amplify our Intellectual horizon, and to give a fresh and rigorous impulse to our perceptive and reasouing faculties. A volume, indeed, magnificent in dimensions and character! inexhaustible in its resources! which no one csn study as works of their real Author without being enlightened, improved, elevated, ennobled. And notwithstanding the scenery "! the subject constitute a delightful theme, which, when leaving, involuntarily extracts from us ' many, longing, lingering looki behind,' jet we mast leave on our journey eastward. Traveling from the summit due east, about ten miles, on a gentle descent and ' over undulating pine ndges, we came the bead branch of Pes btnrtn nw, nl, side of Truth iu every iasuo. No. 41. after traveling down it about ten miles more, encamped for tho night. Here, a lilcral amount of swimming sport was In- been thrown up six months, notwithstand ing there is sufficient evidence thut the erup tions occurred sonic oue or two centuries ago. After we pass these lava mountains, and indeed in their vicinity, there are some good farming situations, at rather remote dis tances, but water and grass ad infinitum. About twenty miles below our first encamp ment ou Del Shutes river, the very good strip of country alluded to, so much and so universally admired by the whole company, sets iu is one coutiuuous body of tbe most delightful farming aud stock-raising coun try. Its size, according to my estimate o it, is about three miles wido and from tarty to sixty In length. I would not disguise the fact, however, that different gentlemeu iu our company made various and conflict ing estimates of the size of this good coun try; tho estimate above is my owu. But others considered it much wider in length we agreed. Some set it down at ten, some fifteen, and others at twenty miles wide. I restricted my calculation to whut wo ac tnally saw in journeying down the river. Some others took in a wider scope, and oth ers again took into their estimate all be tween the desert cast and the Cascade moun tain west, presuming that much of the vul ley or Out-appearing country was suitable for farming and commodious settlements. That which mokes it so desirable for agri culture Is, 1st, the composition of the soil, 2d, It Is naturally trrigutcd! Tho soil is a deep rich loam, mixed with just about sand enough to render it looso and mellow for the plow and to prevent it from becoming either too wet or too dry. Tho most singular-feature in its history is that it is nat urally irrigated, and it by tho river, und, notwithstanding, entirely free from danger of inundation. The major part Is prairie bottom bind timber plenty ou both sides. The surface of the soil is generally from four to six feet above the water in tho river at a common stage, and dump spots can be seen of a morning on the surface, even In remote parts of tho bottom, notwithstand ing its apparent dryness of an evening thus demonstrating a river irrigation. I have never seen a volley of tho same length so free from wet lund or miry places. There aro several small streams which enqi ty into the river on the west side, sufficient for mills aud other machinery. They, how ever, are too short and too few to endanger inundation. Ou the cast sido there is not a single branch or crock. It msy very nat urully end very consistently bo inquired, What goes with the water which fulls ou the east sido T Were I unable philosoph ically to account for this phenomenon, it would bo sufficient as to tho fact to provo by the whole company of twenty-seveu men that there is not a single branch or creek, for the distance of one hundred miles, putting in on the cast sido of the river. But it is a problem of cosy solution, ou sound aud common-sense principles. There is a strip of table land lying Immediately connected with this strip of good bottom laud iU whole length; which, after going oue mile back from the bluff (ouly twelve or fifteen feet above the bottom), descends gradually from tbe river, as though there was a water-course in that direction also, wken in fact there ia none. In a mile or so more, the country becomes one continuous, open, sandy, sage plain, tlie earth being so thirsty in its character, coarse, loose, ana sandy, that it abtorbs the entire amount of water which falls npon it; and bence doe not mmire channels to carry off iu super abundant waters, as other countries de lta powers of absorption are fally adequate to tbe demand. Should a railroad erer be made through either of the paesca mentioned la a former comumnication, it will of necessity pass over eome portion of tbi very excellent fanning land. Or, should railroad be made fr Crnta !f, h is art APVEHTISINO KATES. One square (13 line or lies) cue li'itrtlcn, (I CO ,l,a,ji j, w . ' M'O.iiieeMiiias,. ifiO ' '- three inmniuua, 6,t 0 Eneh etifcefiient iiuwi tlou, 1,10 Keasonable deiluutivna to thuse hu advtrtiae hj . . . the year. . laiimiwi ' JOB PRINTING. , Tut raorsirrox or tub AHGl'S is aarrr to inform the iiubllc that be hai just received a large stock of JOB TYPR and ether new print ln mat rlnl, and will be in the )eedy rrioipt o udu't'ons aui'ed to nil the n quirenirint of Ih'a k nl iy. 1IAXDBIIJJS, rOHTKKS, M ANKR, CAU PS, CIRCULAKS, rAMl'IU.KT-WOKK and other linda, dune to order, on short nollce. . aaaeaeaaaaaaaaaaaMieaaeasaaaaMaaaaaaawaaaaaaeaaaaaa likely to bo by this couutry to the Dalles, as this country lias already been reviewed from California, uud reported on favorably, and as tho only good location from Califor nia to Oregon. Of these probable advan tages or disadvantages, each man mast and should think for himself. - i -i But I regard the present political aspect of things more favorable to tbe I'uciflc Railroad enterprise, nnd of consequence to diverging branches through our own State and that of California' and M'ushingtou Territory, than at any previous time, for several good and substantial reasons, but one of which I, will tuku, time. ,to give.- The almost universal success of the Republi cans iu the northern and western States hi their recent elections, is prima fade evi dence that a Republican rrciu'dcut will be chosen by tho American people in 1SC0. , And it is known and acknowledged by their opponents thut they will charter a road to the Pacific. And the present Incumbent ia doubtless in dread of losing tho honor of that highly nntioual enterprise. His pnrty tho same, notwithstanding " they vetoed it in advance." 2d. Their pro-slavery preju dices, predilections, aud Inklings will induce them to strike while they have the power to make a railroad as far down south as their doughfuced allies iu the North will go, lest they lose tbe honors of tho road and tbe location, and thereby discourage and offend the Culhoun nullification scctionalists. ' Iu conclusion, permit me to suy thut tho whole country cast of tho Cascade range is now thrown open to settlement, and it is now proper, nnd should he expected of ull,' to give publicity to whatever knowledge of the couutry they may pocsess, in order to settle up aud developo tho resources of our truly " Pacific couutry." . J. McBmde. 1 Dec. 21, 1858. Waifs From the Dkkp. Tho dreadful disaster on the Austria iu mid-occau, by which so many huudrcd precious lives were sacrificed, has struck a thrill of terror through the country. Tho Philadelphia Press thus speaks -of incidents couucctcd with those terrible losses: , "A curious circumstance connected with the unhuppy losses which all so greutly feel nnd deplore, is tho ' hoping ngninst nope' which some of tlie snrvlving relatives enter' tain. The wife of Mr. Theodore Oroeck,' of Baltimore, is now visiting her relatives iu Philadelphia, and while they have no doubt of his loss, iilonc has a deep con-' viction that he is not dead. Kithtr ho was not on board the Austria, (though ho wroto to her that he bad actually paid his passage) or, if bo was, then he mutt hare been among the few who were rescued. 1 It may bo within tho knowledge of many of our readers that a clergyman of this city was among those who left for England on the ill-fated President, and was never again heard of. His wife, who remuiued iu Phil adelphia, and was deeply uttached to him, never did, because she never would, believe that ho was lost to her. Kighteen yenin have passed away, nnd yet thut trusting lady wo eaiinot sneuk of her as a wife, anil she repudiates the unnie of widow contin ues to expect his return. livery day a cov er is placed for him nt the table, where still stands his accustomed chair. Every ring at the bell, we are informed, awuktma the cherished convictions of her heart thut the loved one will return." Anscdoti or V. Wedhtir, a Sootcm Minis- tsa. Iu 1774, Dr. Webster was a popular preach er of the Kirk uf Scotland, in Edinburgh. Bui ne-a brought him to boudon, an.l one duy, when, paining the House of Lorla, hia curiuaily Induce! him to make au efTurt to ettp III and acu them. Nouu were admitted without an order, eacept no blernuu's acrvauU. Webstar, being iguoruul of tbe rule, requested admlltaiiao. ; ,' ' What Lord do you belong to !' suiJ tlie door kerper. . . 1 To tho Lord Jehovah,' replied Wtbeter. ' The Lord Jehovah,' fpraicd the kerprr,'! have kept hero ecven yeara, but I have novr heard of euoti a Lord. Jack,' auid he to his fellow-keeper on tlie front steps, 1 here's a chap who says ha belongs to Lurd Jehovah ; doit'l you know such a Lord!' ' Never beard of him,' sujs Jack. . . ' Uut,' says Webster, (willing to keep up the il lusion,) ' there ie suuh a Lord.' ' Pas 'em in,' aai J Jack, ' I a'poee It'e some poor Sootch Lord.' This oocurred at a period when there was aot one in Iweuly of all tlie manufacturing aud rural districts in England who could read tho H We or write ble own name. Sabbath schuula were intro duced In 17S3. Now the people are intelligent and happy, and oan not only read and ri(o, but hare found out who the ' Lord Jehovah' la. Grant Thorburn. y Mr. Ourley, Itepublicau candidate for Con greae in Cincinnati, wae formerly a Unircrsaliel min'ater. One of his oppuueqts was trying to per made an old Methodist not to rote fur him. ' Do jou Uiink you are furthering the cause of rrligon,' sad be, by voting tr a UniTnreeliel one who dote not believe ia a hell V Yea,' was tlw old Methodist's reply ;' if by the time Mr. Curley h as been in Congress a year be don 't find oat there, is a bell, then I dou't understand the present Ad mia'stratiuo. I shell Tola (or him (yCaoiphene, of burning Auid, which ke, kilied eo many poop's by eipkding, ie eaid as be rendered perfectly safe by sa la rating It with car bonic acal gaa, winch ia well kuowa a be aaab! to support combustion, aad whiob, wUa eombiae4 with burning fluid, nOe.ly deal toys Us espioeira quality without Ut the least impairing ita itliunioa ting property. Lota. A little world witliie, ltlf. ia'imatvlw aooaeirtvd starr ui . mVeh it is no trreat eiageratKm. It aeea