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tJeOUEGON AUGUS' iv. t it II u. tfHMS OF SVBSCRIPTIOS. Bl Tnree Dollar, if paid in adranet. ''. 7 tUrg'd If paid in .ui month., ,7 IbllanwU tttkurgidoriiM month " ' v"M ' eublul"r- "!HUeipi"l'"''!',e"'"- --" for Me Argn: The Ptaw-Doy. , h.( rone, ilb lis fruin and ill . Ule Slid "i,h '"" l'r-,v,n lMWl TTt l" "'""'"P "'rrd i i..liliirbu, fr th lurf waxes green, v,lb eli'" 10 le",, . "." .nd urmireie the tern may be went, . . lre,r, i. thoughts wander thue, or akin : Tta b i" i"d ril k .... ThVilieuve. in ell s.hered, tl.e gram to the bin, lliefiuit iii-trdy 10 Mk. I WW efniechal jy fi""l h. tM.i: j,i V,ati leael ti a cod winters day, Vwd for brekllt U find! 'Hi' mm P' f"r f'l"!r! w:, t'ultr u VR- CieMu, arce Would believe. HMfllurfii there came from yonder hill, Aiiiwere.aehoweraf raid, i frtaite of winu-r u gloomy ami fhill lb lliouglit i Weeeniber ' TV, bcUiouglit uf "" ,,,e h'"1' brihl VJ A.,! uwa, uie '" ""' , . l'V" "- , thniiglit of the board fruin which daily ho fed, The pallet of eiraw werni end umt. , ihouglit of lli ir'oi m lliey rocked in the blW, U n.e ln" b""1 1"der "J Ul11. Hi U'lbly Utcy hrvl i' '' W'heu I lie ohovk Secinedeomeiuueornolliiiif willul. (i'H, JUcOjoujIiI.Ioo, the leuvra (hut wcro etfcwu o'er (lie crauiiil Anuieil liim lli.it he toon muit die ; tl, pnui rreJ ewliile, wlielhe.' jy would be found u ihiiee realm to which nil meu hie. IV dirk frowning !y, the elemeote' arritth, III t ho kuime not nlarm : i:nul i uiuliackled by bigotry I Imli, - All nature ht him hw a charm. 0, plow bny, iu nmtic mpliuity groat, , Vrwi nalure thou ureuuit lo (iiuw wiee Tkoufli iedinU of bouki may oterually prate, Tliy wixioui theira all uudi-rliuk Jiow, lint euininer hm fluwu and auluinn ie here, And v.iitt-r U fat drawing u gh, Jliy peace, lirulih, ninl pieuty lliy iathay Mill Thy. Iireut be wtnuifjid l a ri;'h. choir, And alien lliou haet wliiatlcd, and pondered, and Tltc yrara that lo niortale are giveu,' ilotd, May a rent that ia iramjuil lliy diut be alluwi'd, Tliy ul traialemd U a ptagetul heaven, b'lua, Nov. I, I860. Lao. "Thk Hoisk that Jack Built." One of tlie brst travesties ou tliu oKI nurscrj tale ii the following from au cxehuiige: Tin White House This is the house that i Sum built. ' ' $100,000 This in the mult that la; in the houso that Sum built. . Jainrts Buchanan -This is the rat that i t , tlio malt that lay ii the liottsu that Sum hu.lt. S. A. Dottnlan This Ts the cut that k'Hed the rut, that ate the oialt tnat lay iu tlie house thut Sum liuilt. llwkiiiritlge Tiiin i the dog, that wor ried the cat, that killed the rut, thut ute the malt that lay in the house thut Sum Imilt. BtllKvcrett This is tin cow with the crumbled horn, thut tossul the dog, thut worried the cut, etc. Xcw York Exprtss This is the maiden, all forlorn, thut milked the cow with the cruuihled horn, that, etc. Journal of Commerce This is the man, ill tattered uud torn, that kissed the . maiden, all forlorn,' that, etc. Sew York Observer This is tlio priest, all shaven uud shorn, thut married the mill, ull tattered and torn, unto the maiden all forlorn, etc. Independent This is the cock that crowed in the morn, to waken the priest, ull Wen nnd shorn, thut married the man, nil tattered nnd torn, etc. Abe Lincoln This is the hunter with trumpet nnd horn,, thut owned the cock . that crowned in the morn, to wnkcu the priest, ull shaven and shorn, that mar ried the man, ull Uttered and torn, uuto the maiden nil forlorn, that milked the cow with a crumbled horn, that tossed Hie do,', that worried the cat, that killed the rat, that nte the mult thut lay in the bouse thut Sum built. There is an old story which repre ot a couple of sagacious crones discours ing on the probable principle which guided Adam in tle names he gave to animals. One asserted that ho did not see why he 1M liou by the name of lion. " Why," replied the other. " thut is simulo enoiiirh to mf. ; He called it a lion becunse it look i like a lion I" We doubt if the Pemo- "tic parly could now get its appellation " Mch a principle of naminff. Nobody would think of colling it a Democratic PrtJ because it looks like a Democratic . WJ.-N. Y.Posi. ; - w ' They say that smoking cures "Mi nd herrings, and buddotks, and "J other things but all I know is, that tried it on my wife's temper for the Wdoicn years, and it hnsn't hud the :Usat effect iu curing that." Many Imre been the discussions In ref'd Ui the essential distinction between "iter ud pirjt punch ome time ago nnptm to settle the question in tin rp. short way: " What is mind? Ni "?. What ia matter? Never m:ud. Musthesottl? It is immaterial." , " How ara won. Smith?" s'nirt ..Slnit pretends not t know him, r "T'im hesitatingly. " Sir. tou have dvaauge f me." " Yes!" retorU 1 sappose everybody has that's ppy. tJr ran n atiirH funny. 7 range above or below it. They mar and witty, bat not hnmowns. sua. r f tJ ,re 8d creatures i Vl mem. t , JTr " Dll If mado mea wery often, - uiauc ones a good UeaJ cftencr. in!o-b.'y. I" rut.o implicity great, l, a fw (("'". ''' iu me A Weekly Newspaper, devoted Vol. VI. mmmmaaammm For the Argui T Nalrllaatlata. No. 1. I gave you In my Ul a sketch of spirit ualism us it appears among the cultivated, among those who see the necessity of organization, of lectures, of pners, of mor als, of Sublinth observances, and an aping of the machinery for religious propupulion. These nre tlio nristocrncy of the sect, and, like nil aristocracies, bear but a email pro portion to tlio other classes. What may be, perhaps, termed the middle, and by fur the most numerous, elm's, believe simply us an opiate to conscience their Interest Is entirely subjective when they have suc ceeded in niuking themselves comfortable they go ubout their business very curdem as to the faith of other people. These would be infidels In any event their adop tion of spiritualism or any other particular form of infidelity is of no consequence to the world. There Is still another class the lowest whose influence Is much more felt, much more baneful, than either of the preceding;. It is composed or thoso who buvo not only an athletic and subjective, but ulso a positive pccuniai'J or passional interest in the propagation of their sect. Thcie are the agrarians of modern soci'7,' they prey npou it with Iritis of hocus pocus they shriek at woumii's-rights con ventions, getting op the anti-orthodox res olutions they seek to destroy the right of property, the sacreduess of matrimony they overthrow whatever is established. I saw a very good type of this class iu U about six mouths ago. I was at a Wuter Cure, seeking to amuse myself while my body should expel some of the pains that hud crept into it during my boyhcod It was a snowy, blustering day, and we hud gone through with everything thut promised a chance of fun. We hud walked the prescribed distance: we hud played in the gymnasium till we were tired; wc hud read in the l.brury where there was no Gre till our Gugers ached; we hud sung till our throats were iu dunger of being obstructed l.ke Munchausen's hum; and finally in de spair we hud returned to the parlor (unan imously voted a bore always), piled on fresh coal, and sat around the debilitating store, idly wutching the snow-flukes with out, till dinner or something else should give us a better occupation. It is strunge whuta trivial circumstance will arouse a party to life from such a mood. The an nouncement of some one coming in our d rcctiou caused a score of fair noses to he proved against- the southern windows, in spite of the danger thut the roses of their proprietors would immediately desert their cheeks to bloom in a niore conspicuous place. The authoress, who wulked with her eyes resolutely bent to the earth all day, forgot her melancholy In the general e.xcitcmuut. Hero was a little old ludy who hud been blest with spiritual visions; who had been jerked out of shape and health by unseen forces; who, in obedience to her heavenly guardians, hud deserted futhcr ami mother to till her exercises to the unsympnthiziug world, but whose pas sions hud all fiuully degenerated into nn extravagant fondness for a little green reti cule; deserting her lust friend lor a peep into the snow. Curiosity was literally on tiptoe. A tull ninn, bending hefore the storm, came up under the bare oak trees, and when ut length his foot was heard on the scraper, there were a great mnny hopes that he might prove interesting. He proved to be quite elderly, and, to the dis- ppointmeut of the ladies, dressed in shab by clothes. His forehead was narrow and retreating in the line of a very long und protuberant nose. The whiskers straggled over his face at pleasure, without fear of scissors or razor; the hair hung down his neck in thin Indian locks. Ou entering, he threw an eager, scrutinizing glance around the party; his next motion was to send from his trumpet like nose, through a folded handkerchief, a snort not very soothing to nervous putients. Ther., in a creaking, unearthly tone, he inquired for Dr. T . "I'm Dr. Coggswell," continued he, " mebby some o' you bev heard o' me the first spirtoolist in Amer ica. Some o' my cases were published in the Spirtool Telegraph. Tell character by phrenology or psychology." After a pause, " Tell yer friends' character just as well a hundred miles off as if they was here." And here, elevating his eyebrows till they n.iH with his hair, and doublinz himself, ..'..rl'rl.aninwhiakuMa. he burst into a startling shriek of langhter. Then .nd- I lie ,u uVnly stopping, he drew from his bosom a hunt'le. and, taking a sheet of paper, held mitH. e . , , ' .:. it indefimte.y towaru .ne company, any,.. a,, "Here's my circular; prliaps some si you'd like to see it." Now, spiritualism and phrenology are standing topics for dia - enssiou at all HOier-uurCT, -m. v? r . it muff .!! U aiimttsed that this "- ii Miiaed what the mesmerists .l.w t Rat I beg pardon. I left our visitor holding b circular toward ns. A -iiiin- to tamper with so dangerpus dornment, I flammed it, aad up n to the Interests of the Laljoring Classes, and advocating the OUEOON CITY, OREGON, DECEMBER entered into conversation with the Dr. To my great satisfaction, I learned that sexuality is a principle of the universe thut my left side is feminine and my right masculine, which accounts for the fact that paralysis oftener seizes the left idc, that being weak by virtue of its femininity and a great many other curious thinirs the Dr. winding up with another sudden con traction of the body and a fit of the most hideous laughter. Detecting almost in stinctively the little old lady with the little old reticule as a good subject, he informed her that Providence hud no doubt sent him expressly to cure her, and it was not long till the two were closeted together; hat I never could discover that she appeared any better for the interview. Finally, in order to test thoroughly the Dr.'s powers, a pa tient, who, though blind, appeared lo have goiMl eyesight, was brought forth for exam ination. As we had anticipated, the Dr. was mystified, and revealed bis true char acter so thoroughly that he thought it best to leave us immediately. The next morning, as I walked to the village, I found my friend washing his face in the snow. In answer lo a jest which I could not n fruin from, he gave me some " mdyiiftic" explanation of his habit. I have not seen him since. r. J. INew Yow, Oct., 1860. Bayarb Taylor ok Papal Dkspotisu. " 1 have reud, during the past week, in various papers, that the Papal States are the worst governed iu Europe. I hove read it often. The precise noturc and ex tent of this despotism I am a little in the dark about. Our general eulighteners, the editors, do not condescend to come down to the particulars. Still a plain man may be permitted to ask a few questions. In what does this despotism of the Papul Government consist? " Is it thut clergymen hold office? For many years there has been a smaller proporlion of elergymcu holding office iu the Hoinan States than iu some of the Siutes of the Union, and their salaries have been in a still smul'er proportion to those ofscculur officers. It is one of the most economical in Europe. The suluries of the higher officers of State do not ex ceed $3000 a year; and the whole civil list costs about $000,000. " Arc the people ground down with tax- n.. t v. , .1 ei-r The taxes in nome are iur icss.tuan in England, France, or New York. Are they deprived of the benefit of education? The Pnpul States, with a population of less thnii 8,000,000, have seven Universities; and the city of Rome has more free public schools than New York, iu proportion to her population, oud what is still better, a larger proportion of children attend them. " Perhaps the poor ore oncared for and their sufferings trented with neglect. There are more and better free hospitals for the sick, the poor and sged, the suff ring of every class, iu Rome, in proportion to the population, than in any other city in the world. It is not usked in lloms what is a mini's country or creed. Perhaps the bad government has reduced the people to pauperism? Holland). France, and the other free nud enlightened countries, have from three to ten times as mm:h pauperism iu nronortion to the population. Where then is the horrible despotism? The gov eminent is an elective monarchy. It has a liberal Constitution, light taxation, very little nnunerism. an economical Admiuis- tration; a cheap or free education for all i classes, and abundant institutions of charity for the needy and suffering. I venture to assert that the single city of New York pays more tuxes, is more plundered by dis honest officials, supports more paupers, has more uneducated children, tolerates more vice and drunkenness, rowdyism, &c, and suffers more from crime, year by year, than the whole nearly 3,000,000 of people of the States of the Church." They still occasionally burn a slave at the South. A letter to the editor of The Cohunbns (G.) Enquirer, dated Tuskegee, A!a., Oct. 9. says, referring to a crime, the nature of which was not stated: "The boy, belonging to Maj. Cockey of this county, was arrested to-day. A large number or the citiz-ns, perhups 150, met, tried, and sentenced him, and before the snn set he was burned to ashes. A horrid death, surely, but his crime was such that m.M f-nulri lie shown. No JuuVe, . . . , .-WM impaneled. He un ,nrned about seven miles north of , Tu-keiree, near Gen. Gut.n'a plantation. Horrid the puuisnmeni, mh ju, , . . w of -t i ; eaae. F-.ofonr readers, and perhaps - .-'...re of the . - h th fotf i curried. j( (j,,;,,,. There are men who, during ; tne pntjre seasmi, have made the catching tw frinrlTfTllltr Ul lltU I m " ".--r .Jl,.,lav is announcement them earning v r . r. - , ii .i .Iy this fulwr. Thousands of frogs have s call a pleas-j ,ll(.r,, rTom marshes and low wet r; place to gratify the epicures or the Uaroen City, and we are inf-rm-d tho trade is each seasctf r w . bune. The Bawl la Maitaa-Tbi lfrotU t-f UUnaloa. The following article is from the New York Times of Nor. 10th: We are not surprised nor in the least alarmed ut th" symptoms of resentiii'-nt and the movements towurds secession which greet the news of Lincoln's election in the Southern States. Wa have never suppos ed the South would sit down quietly and submit at once to Republican ascendency in the General Government. The stake for which they have been playing is too high. They are too deeply committed lo permit any such retreat. They would incur the scorn and contempt of their own people if they wero thus to quail before the sceptre they have invoked. They are compelled to go ahead if only to prove that they were not hypocrites and knuves in their threats. Wo look, therefore, for a great deal of violent talk in the Southern States. Their Governors und legislatures uud journals will denounce the Union and proclaim their determination to withdraw from its obliga tions and to repudiate its protection. They will cull conventions, and organize their militia, and make all the preparation In their power for secession and for war for iu spite of all their talk ubout a peaceful separation, they know well enough that peace could not ln.t sixty days after a dis solution of the Union. All their move ments will be angry, violent and menacing. They will seriously damage the business and financial interests of the South, and u QVct injuriously those of the North. It is not at all impossible that boutli Carolina may adopt resolutions of secession and vote herself out of the Union. For all these things, and many more like them, we are fully prepared. Tin y are to be deprecated, but we do not see how they are to l avoid ed. They are the results of what we believe to be a causeless pauic, and find unjust pro vocation in the event lo which they are as cribedthe election of a Republican Pres ident. But wo havo entire faith in the final subsidence of these waves of popular frenzy in the Southern stales. We are well assured that the oldest, wisest and most influential men of the South look upon Disunion ns the most fatal step which they could possibly Uke, and that they only wait the propitious moment tor throwing tneir weight into the scale of justice and of safe tr. They may not at once breast the storm nnd denounce the s-ccssion movement but thev will prevent all sudden commitments und action, nnd insist upon the most care ful examination of the whole subject, in all its bearings, before any final steps are takeu. This will lie the best service they can render to the Union cause for with every day of discussion the Union will grow stronger tlio confidence uud uttuchment of the South. There Is ono delusion which Southern Disnnionists may as well dismiss from their minds at once. They ev dently cherish the belief that the Federal Government will never attempt to coerce a seceding State to return to the Union. Much of their confidence is based upon this expec tation. Now, this is mere nonsense. Its truth or falsehood depends wholly npou whnt they mean by secession. South Car olina mar undoubtedly withdraw her S"iiators and Representatives from Con irress. if she chooses: she cannot bo " coerc ed" into sendinir them to Washington. If she decides to stop the mails, nud f rhid the establishment of hed'-ral Potolnccs within her limits, there is i0 mis. in why the Federal Government should force them upon her. If her juries acquit men charged with offences ugxinst the Federal IIWa if her citizens refuse to serve as Federal marshals or judges the Govern ment need not specially interfere, for it has no direct interest at stake. But if a vessel enterini Charleston refuses to pay the Federal duties, the Government has no choice but to compel payment. If a vessel nrnnosca to leave Charleston without a nroiier clcuruuco under Feder.il authority, the Government vessels win compel tier return or seize and confiscate her ns a law fill prize. And if South Carolina troops ttikn possession of Fort Moultrie, the terl ml Government has no choice but to send a man-of-war thither and drive them out. These are acts of positive aggression ,ipU of war. nnd must be met ns such, If Carolina chooses simply to t'ind 'till, she mar consider herself in or out of the Union as she my prefer. But if in any way she makes war upon the Federal Government, she must not look for peace, In our judgment the less we of the North have to do with this matter, the better. The Union will he safe in the hands of the Smith alone. The moment the issue is mud we shall find a powerful Union Party in every Southern Statu. It will comprise the a-rcat liulK ol me property ot me aonin and will rally to its support all who hsve anything at stake in the welfare of the country r of their own State. The discus sion of this subject will no longer b ull on one side. The whole subject will be fully canvassed in all its bearings and nnlews the Yancey and kindred Catul.nes of the South light the flames of civil war by me act of desperate infamy, the whole south will eventually hecomo perteetir san-men that every evil they suffer from the present Union wnnld be infinitely aggravated by its dissolution. The French Emieror is reported to have purchased five superb Vermont horses, at a cost or $1,500 each, nis stud of horses already includes seteral Morgans purchased in this country. Fonr hnndred years have e1pd since the inrention of printing, yt looks are not in circulation nfl over the glolie: whilst the o of tobacco heeame universal within filty years of it discovery. Uar A pet say: " Oh. she was fair, hot sorrow came and left his traces there." What became of the balanca of the harness be don't state. side of Truth in every issue. 1 8 60. No. 3G, An Editor's Lovk Story. An editor of a Southern paper relates ns follows, how he once fell in love: We were never, kind reader, " desperate in love," but once, and that was with a red no, auburn-haired girl, with a freck led complexion, who had but a few pre tensions to beauty; but then she had such really beautiful eyes, deep liquid orbs; through wh ch her soul, iu moments of tenderness, looked out in passionate, fer vor, aud iu joyous mirth flashed and spark led with the light of a thousand dew-drops diamond, we were about to say but we never saw a thousand. Her name wos Laura which when breathed softly by a very soft lover, is a very sweet name and her ch ar ringing laugh fell around you like a shower of silver bells. Moreover, she wore a dark wine-colored dress, trimmed with lilac-colored velvet and black fringe, with a neat littlo white collar of fiuo luce, which is the prettiest of dresses, and has the effect to make a very plain girl look abso lutely charming. She never perforated her ear to hand thereby a pendulum of glass or brass, and the only ornament on the little white hand, which needed none, was a plain gold ring, sacred to the mem ory of u maiden promise. Well, one even ingit was moonlight, in the summer time we sat aloe iu the porch, by the cot tage door, holding that little white hund in a gentle pressure, but one arm had Inad vertently stolen around her waist, and a silent song of joy, " like the music of the night," was in her soul. Our lips met iu a sweet delicious kiss, and bending softly to her ear, we whispered tho tale of passion uto devotion we proposed. In a moment she tore her hand from ours, and, with a look of ineffable scorn, she said, in a voice trembling with suppressed rage: "Wlmtl Marry nu editor? You get out!'' We slid. Close Commision Qckstion among tub Discin.es. Tho " Christian Disciples" of Great Britain an J Ireland, at their Annu al Meeting lust year, appointed a commit tee to Inquire into the reports circulating in that country, " that some of the Churches of the Disciples in America admit ' unbap tized' persons (thut is, members of non- Baptist churches) to the Loro's table." The committee addressed Alexander Camp bell for information,' xpn ssing the hope that the principle of close communion would be strictely adhered to. Alexander Compbell affirms, that so far as his' knowledge ex tends, no such custom exists among the American Disciples. Ho knows of no churches that have formally invited ' unlmp- tized persons' to participate with it on such occasions. Extraordinary Lovr. Amm. The London Court Journal chronicles the fol lowing, which is without a parallel iu af fairs of the heart: " A divorce case, un der peculiar circumstances, is likely to ut- truct public attcntiou. A lady belonging to a distinguished family, long hesitated be tween two eligible suitors; she at length selected one of them, and was married, but soon fancied she had mode a wrong selec tion, and eloped with her rejected suitor. Proceedings were instituted, and she was among the first to nvuil herself of Sir Cress wull Cresswcll's process of " Freedom Made Easy," by marrying her guilty part- i . l . . ... 1. ner; but she seems to scarcely Know nor own mind; for she has since re-cloped with her first husband. Casuists nre puzzled to decide which she may be disposed to like best." Dysprpsia. Dr. Tucker, of the Mcdi cat Journal, has no faith in bran bread, rve bread, etc., as remedies in dyspepsia, They are commonly supposed to exert s good feeling by keeping the bowels open by their mechanical irritation, but it is an ubsurd idea to give indigestible bran to a stomach already weakened, nnd whose con plaint is that it cannot digest. Bran and other mechanical effects of irritants, though they may relieve the constipation, are not remedial, and afford a present relief of one symptom, purchased at the risk of aggra vating the real difficulty. Dr. Tucker be lii-ves that cold and stale wheat bread is the motit digestible, and therefore the best. Romanizing. The N. Y. Churchman is credited by an exchange with tho fol lowing: " We say that our Lord's words, 1 This is my body,' are to be understood literally, and that they contain the doc trine of the Real Preserteri While Pro testant Dissenters generally, as well as numerous party professedly belonging to the Church, will unhesitatingly declare them to be figoYative." The Churchman is an Episcopalian organ. tSt The Bell Everett party of Virginia are now fully committed to .Mr. Botu' new doetrin, that property in negroes exists only by municipal la, ehrf, consequently, where, there is no mnnicipal HiW establish ing property in negro, there is no title to said protierty. Richmond Enquirer. That agrees precisely with the Republi- I'll-.-. can platform. KATKS OK ADVERTISING!' One aqiiaru (twelve linee, or leaa, brevier measure) one uiaerlion 9 8 OU Knoll aiilieiiieiit inwriinu.... , . 100 lluineae oarda oim year SO 00 A liberal deducliou will fee made te tboae who edverliac by the year. (3P The number of inaerlieni should be noted on Ilia margin of nn advertiaemenl, olherwiao it will be published till forbidden, and eliarged ac cordingly. fV Obituary notlcea will be eliik-rd half Ilia atxie mlea of adverllalnf. t3S Jus l'aiNTiaa executed with neetntee and diai.ilch. Payment for Job Printing must It modt o drlirtry of the rork. The macs r Wales at Ike Teeak f . Waihtailbil. Correpoiidruoo of Ihe N. Y. Timra.) WaiiiiNdTON, Oct. 8, la.au. Tho startling incident of tho week just closed Is tho visit of the Princo of Wales to the President. I do not speak ol it us a piece of news, or to follow fn the wako of the adulatory scribblers who chronicle every word the Princo utters, and the precise number of times he sneezes. It is tho moral character of the extraordinary event which I would notice an event which will take its place ou tho page ot history, solitary aud alone, for there is none other like It. When Kings visit Presideuts, when Royal Priuccs visit ihd graves of rebel democratf, may not tho Millenium be dawning? , There is nothing l.ke this visit of Prince Albert Edward to the grave of Washington in the history of any other prince or poten tate. Meu havo risen from lowuess to splendor from corporal to bo emperor . from 'prcntico boy to be president but when before has tho heir to the proudest throne in tho world mado a pilgrimage to the tomb of a reliel general? Tho man whose bumble tomb tho Prince reverently visited, was tho chief instrutuout, iu the hands of Providence, iu wresting its most brilliant gem from the very crowu be is td wear! , The day chosen for the visit to Mount Veriioo was one of October's finest. A few yellow leaves in the forest which line1 the broad Potomac, were the only indica tion of "the melancholy days." Tho Prince and bis suite, accompanied by the Presidcut uud a few of his friends, went 6'ri board tho Government steamer, Harriet Lane, at 10 o'clock of the morning of Friday lust, and steamed down to Mount, Vernon. For more than two hours the royul party remained upon the Mount Ver non estate, the most of the time eagerly searching tho Washington mansion for every relic of the greut and good man who' once occupied it. No American' traveler iu foreign lands ever displayed more enthu siastic curiosity or reverential awe at tho grave of royalty or intellectual greatness, than was manifested by this English party of dukes and curls, and the future King of England, at the gravo of Washington. The place where the patriot wrote, the room in which he slept, the couch on which died, were sought out and ponderod , over, aud as tho party approached the tomb each one almost iiivolilntnry uncover ed ids head. Ono cut a cauo to carry back to England as a relic of the place) another plucked a flower as a memento of the day and scene; and the Prince planted a treu by the side of the grave, taking with hitn a companiou acorn to plant iuWiudsor Forest. Meantime- the day was in very midst of1 its splendor a Virginian October dujrl It seemed us if Nature smiled at the happy pcuevful occurrence, and purposely added every charm of her own, that the day might never, ucver be forgotten.. The overhanging furcsts( the calmly flowing river, and the beautiful sky, made up a picture the like of which pnintcr never put upon canvas; Few were the words uttered by the visi tors, lor thought overpowered speech, and after more thuu two hours speut at Mount Vcmou they again took to the bouts, aud were rowed back to the stuutner. The novels of to-day all carry a moral with them: this trip to Mount Vernoa has a striking ono ulso. " Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren td dwell together in unity 1" Instead of English cannon roaring up tho Potomac, we have tho next English King' at our guest. Instead of horrid Wur, gentle Peace. A few years o and our notional capital was ablaze) set on fire by British torches, aud Wash ington was full ef hostile British troeps. All this is changed. The new Order of things is more consonant with Christianity. England and America will never again war with each other. D. w. b. Lands eor tHk Landless. In the' year 1809 our very eflicient Democratic administration disposed or 18,650,292 acre or the public lands, receiving for the same $1,028,187, or about 11 cents per acre Of this sum $1,310,750 went id pay tho expenses of the Land offices, or; in other words, into the pockets of democratic1 offi cials, leaving $317,429, or about two eenf per acre i to give into the Treasury I And yet the Democratic party refuses to give the poor settlers 100 si-res of those lands, which, after deducting expenses and' ttealintt, reafie to tne Treasury the poor pittance ef three didlar$ and twenty ccnttf A Horrible Scsricirfx. tn (855, one Mayberry was hung by a mob in Wiscon sin, for the mardcr of a mat Alger. Sub sequent developments hsve given rise to the horrible suspicion that Mayberry wa Innocent, as he protested to the last. I i a i " ' 99" Value the friendship of bias who stands by you In the storm; swarms of insects will surroand you io the laminae.