THE, OREGON ANGUS,
rtiiMMiicu smav ayri-auAif uiu, ,,
BY WILLIAM. L. ADAMS.
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CAl'tlW, LiiCCULAUS, J'AMI'IH.KX-WUKK
Mid nthor kin l, June to onier, uii simn n""m
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f KV. L WITIIINUTON.
r The tdlawing line wero published a few year
riuco. . Tbo article isuuo of uncommon beauty aim
.r..Mice. nud will fin 1 n ready buJ warm re-
.iio from every Christian ireiit :
J At tlila i hushed lwur, when all my children sleep,
II. ro in tTiy presence, gruc'oiu Clod, 1 kneel,
1 Ad! while Die hurl of gratitude 1 weep, t "
Would poor the prayer which gratitude must feel.
Familial lovo U, M tliy holy seal ..
' Oil those ac.ft lienrUi, wliiuli lliMi to mo lioat ncnt;
liepel teiuplation, guiirj llie'r b ttr weal,
l!o thy pure h'piril to tlioir f.-ailty lent, " ""'
' 'Ami lea-l them In tli pnth their Infant Pavior
.'went. - 1 :'-'uu n m ' ";
'' I iii iiot fr tlioin e'm'nenco or w. nlili,- '' '
Fofthwe In VMem' view ore Irilling toys, - "'
t. But oocuimtion; onmiceiico,' anil lieallli, !
Thy Ivve. thy prvcedec, un l tli lttiij0 :
That flow tin refr iiii ; tho (hirsIimi nliivh ciiiply
' 'flic breas'.a of holy man, nut thus to bo
From all that taint,' r iliirken, or ilcilr'iyii ' '
'Till! tren!rih of irlne"i1c, forever free ;
rTh'n ia b Uot b ion, O tiolj I k of thoe.
""ThiiVorlil, 1 know;' wlmt a inrrow liriilpe,'
Anil trenehoroii water rour ntlil tain bt"low '
. I With Teiblo feet we waik tlio womlen bri.lije, .
'liieb orukii auJ liuke beneath u. u wy gii 1 ,
Bonie fill by iici-iiUiit.'iuiil thoiwamlH throw t (
Their b li heiUo:ip in the hungry streuin ; ,
Inline iiik by wcri.'t nivalin', ni'i.l never Imorf '
Tlie liAn I xvhMi '.r(t. k tliem in the:r tromlrtit
t . iVeaiu, i
TiifwU lom vnkcn in ilmlli, aiul in ilepair llioy
FVr: y - ., I v..
. If tliw,soffe(ltvliieli liuw these fealhor pnw,
Areiloom'd $h pvtlM of rtiii ionito trcail
f vice eonceate l in, her iiiu-paj'e.l ilrcss,
Is on to'tu'rn tc her pollute 1 lie.l
If thy foreseeing eyo ilisccrn a thread
i -Of w!e (piiSI Im;"1iii3t Ihelr itrm, '
O, rparv them not in meroy. slriku lliiin JenJ;
. rrdtmrt! for them tin early weicomo tomb,
Xut for e'.emal b!i''lit. let my fu'-1 blwsoirw
bloom. , ..
)ut if immo UM'ful path before them lio,
Where they may walk o'.iuilieut to. thy luw.,
Though never b inking in ambition' eye,
Ami pimperM n-ver niib the worM's applause,
Active, yet humble, virtumw too, the cmso1
Of virlue in tho duvllius wliero tiny dwell,
Still following where, thy pvrjout Sjiifit draw,::
neloasliig oilier from the b:mJs of hull,
If til8 boifc, then lot them longer live j 'ti wel!
And teaeU nio, Power Supreme, in their green
days, , . ,. ,,, , , i
.With ineo'hcst skill thy Jcsnom to impart;.
'"To iiliiiii tlic harlot', iih'.T to show tho m.izo
Through whieii 'her honied aoccilirfreach tho heart;
Jlnjp them to lcarii, without tlio bitter niart '
n.l'f aid. oiptriiuje, vices lodvfliuo ; in !i
From treaehory, falwhou4,,1kwory,iiiay..Uiey
. i . tnrt, .. . i. , ., ',
" A from a liUden t
lu'dden snak, from women, wiuo,
'3Fr6m all tlio guilty
scenes with w hich' suck
tr.
;soeiie combine.1' ' " ' 1
. ,. ' , ,.t ii - j' ". if, lfi :iiM
How sotl they sleep J vha innoceuf repwo ,
Hosts nri their ies, from older sorrows free j '
Sweet liabo, tln onrtain I would not Unclose,
Wlueh wrain tlir futunj from yonr mind mid mo,
Butj.Hoavijiily Jiajlieu, loavinj them with tbeo)T-i
whether on high qr, low may be their lot,,
Or early dealb. or life await tliem, bo ' ,
"''Their1 Gukrdiaii,"Saviir, Guide, and Ucss tho
simt '"" "'.'.""
i Wkomhey ilmll lire or die till death; forsake
them not. , Tf
Though perncelition'a arelies oW tliem spread,
OrsicLneat hadermiir oiiiming;Blow;r -ni f
Though they jiUoiiJtt not lead the tit tlicir Savior
'" t .' .S k.i i'T vn .,iT
And hi deep iK1T.Srt' Le .aoomeu to know,.
V'itcva'tb. akau ff i" '"
;'lgt'veltl.cTn 4 tb'ThelVy not mmd.""
And I cximd ii?M to' U" 1 '
.'Tabenrthani troro mo, to the pijowfiiiei '!'
In distant land io'plaut tlia gop,' ,blccdiin
Wken as the aeroll these heaven shall p" away,
WhaUjlha 90UI grave, shall c'er up its trurt,
When ealiall burn and the lat dreadful day
Restore the spirit to Hsaeattet'ddiHt,' ' ""'
Then,thii'rnoit'mereirul, an well as jurt,
tt nbl rtiy eyej'wheh elemenU are tossed
In trfld conftisioii, aee fliat darkest, worst ( )t
W paiufu aSalOs, .that ever parepts' croascd ,, ,
lilear m aad, earaaat pr;rjrer, and lot not mine be
1;.t I'J ,.v.i . . . '
St. XouU 1 Intoiligoncer contain an article
annwaia? a foil belief in the tustcnca of abund.
ant mIH A-iv-wti a't the onTee of the Arkansas
rivej.eoaoero'uj i'fijJi j'e'tavofIate tad many
V. I- lMH,
V.4iur a praurtftor,
VOL. 1.
l.V.TTt'.H VROU LOV1H WOHHtTB
The lH ot apeo, and lUe poMtWm af
the BetUuerenl Pawer.
No. 8 Sonlh Ilaiik, Regent1 Turk,
. London, April 'JO, S
Hit s I trust yon will not expect me to enter
tain you by writing aliout the comedy of Loui Na
poleoii' visit and reception. Thank God, Lon
don I largo enough to have the quiet quarter
about Krgsnt' Park absolutely undisturbed and
unaffected by the comedy, except ao fur that I see
a miserable Instrument of the Anglo-Freuch ae
cret police condemned to keep hi eat behind tha
transparent curtain of a window opposite my Cot
tage, with eye rlvetlcd through a holo in the cur
tain to my door, with ear watching the found of
my bi ll, and hi hand busy to note down my visi
tor. It I amusing to' see how lie starts from hi
drowsy ' "ofium Imnorabfle" whenever my bell
rings, and with what disappointment lie drops when
II lipp"ii to be but the .butcher' boy or the milk
woinau. The poor creature, if he wore knowing
how much lie anmaea my family, and if Messrs.
XuiKjIcon, ralmeikion & Co. only knew how little
I care about these sjjic ! , , ..
I have herein my rooni the weicomo aud con
gratulatory address of Hie Lord Mayor, Aldermen
and Coinmoiij of ike city of ndoiif presentcu 10
mq iu 1801, poinuou specimen of typographic
art iu a heavy, gilded frame, so largo that I needs
iuiihI leave it exiiofcd to ga. In that addre
tboir honor xproa their fervent wUlie for my yet
aeeiug my country enjoy tlial oonstitutiouul liberty it
bit bcu my object to secure. ; If you now nappeu
toee the addrowo of the same corporation to Lou
is Napoleon, . and will reflect on theuature aud the
character of I will not ay the man but of tha
nolicvof that alliance, sotomuiied by these ova'
lion, it UiiiuiossiMe you should not be atruca wmi
the ultor rottenness of all these elements.
1 allude to lliia policy at wo see it reveulcd by
ihn nffi.-ial nriixles in the Moniteur on the war
and on the negotiation. The great fuct we learn
from this "mystery' of degradation revealed is,
that England aud France would like to pursue the
defeat which the Turks inflicted en the Ruwiane
In the principalities, but that they were forbidden
by Austria, they, tho two great boastful power,
with 00,1100 men on tho spot, a brave men can be,
and with all the Turkish forces to boot, spirited a
they we're from recent victorie (not 60,000 men,
as they say, but 13.".,000 strong) they dared not
cros tho Diiuube, from frar - of Austria they
humbly sued for their gracious consent and co-op.
eratiou, but she refused, so the mighty potentates
dared not advance.
Wo learn further, thai tho expedition to Hie Cri
mea is uot duo either to any strategical combina.
tlou, or to a promedilaled design, but1 simply lo the
circumstance, that Austria having forbidden them
to do what they ought to have done, and dreading
.nmnii.iii ilinonramzatioii of their armies from
humor, inactivity, (tbo Zuavcs were already not on
ly murmuring, but loudly ihouting "Vive Lamoii
oiero'') llioy' wero compelled to embark on the
mad Crimea expedition, because their fear or
Austria loft ihem uo choice to do uuylhing better.
And lastlv, weioam that England and Franco sot
down the four points fer their terms of peace ; not
because they thenght thorn either honorable or
sufficient, but merely because the foar of Austria
the consideration to Austria, overruled the inspira
tion of legitimate exactions. "Tlii is their very
word. " ' 1 "' ' ' ' '
Tim we have it now officially, unequivocally ac
kiiowledged, Hint the miserable llguro both these
Governments have shown in the conduct of tho
war and in tho negotiations alike ; the failure in
both, the blunders everywhere, the sacrifice of an
enliro army, and all that there is heart-rending in
tl(e situation, ami disgusting in their coliduci, can
not oven plead "error ' in extenuation ;
simply and wholly due to ''their fearing Aus
tria. l , 1 .. 1. i ' ', , '
That Austria, Sir, which moans tho Hapsburgs,
whom I, a plain, unpretending citizen, weighed in
tho hollow of my hand just seven year ago j the
very existence of whom depended on a breath of
mine; whom I saved with ill-fated .generosity
fool as I was, to trust a kings' oath ; whom the
people of Hungary bus humbled to tho dust, un
armed, unprepared, forsaken, and hermetically
secluded as we were ; those Hapsburgs whom, the
Cxar propped "P fot wl"K but lo whom no aid,
no combination cnu impart vitality, and whom the
very band of the Eternal has doomed to certain
destruction j Itiathia Austria,. Sir, which trike
terror on the' adventurer who oarved his way
through all the bloody'horiur of December, and
through unscrupulous penury to a throne ; this
Austria, Sir, to wbich the cabiriei of St Jame
bow with fear f litis Anstria whose finger pull the
leading string on which' England and France are
hooked in the camp and in the council alike.
s If I wire a vain man, these revelation in the
Moniteur could afford me a proud satisfaction, by
seeing all my warnings, forestallments, andimpu.
latious thus un'eiiuivocnlly justified. However, I
muslTcohrcs what we now are led to see is worso
than even I hare anticipated. i.When 1 reproach
ed France' and England for being Austrianixed
when 1 demoustratcd.bow; people hero are made
to bleed, to pay and to die for the despotic , inter
est of desecrated Austria, the words came once to
my pro, ''England and France fear Austria ;'
hntscareerr Were Uio word on paper man 1 oiov
led them out I thought Kktio much-Kings
and Emperor may dai'b one another, parvenue
mav awbUiousiv seek admia. to higti-bora 00m
pony, aristocrats may lean toward despotism, and
all of them abbor freedom and national aspirations.
but fear fear Austria ! No, that' too much
that cannot be 1 thought-i-and aow it turn out to
be a faet,nrecrved!y acknowledged, unblushing.
ly avowed. . ..t
; Oh! what : a degradation that ia, Sir!
' That the star-trusling parvenue should not hav
dreaded to Heat ibe french national dignity to the
r. of stick a humiliating paiwy. bat may yet
paa-a tame submisrion to Uie Deeembrisade
IV.Ull'. ukiowt nouithl of
Know nouiilitflf f.orof !,
ORBOON CITT, OftBOO W TBB.B.XTOB.'g, 8 ATXTKP AT, JV WD
may wry likely generate strange dream of mis
estimation in a mind like Bonaparte' but that ho
should (elect just that moment for 0 visit to Eng-
nnd, when these revelations nro published that
he should come over to Knglund with these disclo
sures of humiliation brought upon England in his
hand and thould, notwithstanding, lie received
with ovation like a triiimphator, or like a great
man, a look on whom bring joy and satisfaction
en the looker that certainly i a strange sight,
even in those our corrupt time.
However,!! is remarkable with what inexorable
firmness the logic of history wield the balance of
retribution. Fear ia tlio worst poawblo counselor
in war. It evade defeat but by suicide like
that lloman of whom Emiiusleft us the record,
' Mortem dura fugtret, $e Fanniui ipit pertmit,
lite Togo won jwot r,c ...v...., ..
Fiance nud England, acknowledging that they
stand iu fear of Austria, ore of course not feared
by Austria in their turn still less by the Czar.
Tho consequence is, that though the Wertorn powv
era waived from consideration to Austria any ' lo-
gillmnte exactions," still tlio Ciar scorn their mod
eration, and reject thejr terms. And Austria in
her turn, though she has been pledged, as lliey
thought, to the terms, which the consideration to
her lins made so void and so low, still, on Iholr re
jection bylhe Cxar, she turn the cold diouldcron
her dear allies, aud refuse to uelp luem out 01 ine
mire, Of counie why do thoy fear her? They
are rightly served. Notjiing but what was due.
I now tell you that you shall see tho A estem pow
ers iust so drifted in degradation, down and down'
a they have been drifted in war. ' They will
thank Austria if she only graciously consent not
to tako up aim openly against them for the Cxar.
Theywill swallow her neutrality and k'w.her
hand to boot. ... j ,
But, as somebody ha to pay the bill( so they
turn 011 tlicir friend Turkey. They keep their In
trusive dominion over Constantinople will not
leave It hold a fortified camp near it, and hold the
Black Bern and the Bospliom. ;. i ;;.
In a word, to avongo thcnuiolve on Russia nnd
Austria, they keep their hold on Turkey, nnd by
tearing to pieces the sovereignty of the Sultan, by
lacerating the treaty of ' 1S41, transform' their
friendship into a dominion, and act like master
where they liavo been admitted as friends. i) ;The
Mouitanr doe clearly intimate as much. . J'oor
Turkey ! fatal friends, . . ., , ,. , Kossum
From the St Louie Intelligencer. : ;
Tlio Proceculnp la Kansas rrocliiuiaUou
ot Uie SoverelBiis-!luatter Sovcrcmniy
wltn a Vengranee. 1 ' " . '
In anothor column' of tho Intelligencer
will bo found a startlirtg document a doc
umcnt'without precedent in Amcricnndocu-
mc'titnry history.' ' It is a proclamation sign
ed ostensibly by "Citizens of Kansas," de
claring tho incompetency of Gov. Reeder
for tho discharge of tho responsible and
wotghty duties of his post, and appointing
the 28ih of April for the election of anoth
er Governor, in his stead. ' ; :
Who the "Citizens of Kansas" arc, that
thus set at defiance tho lnws of tho nation,
and usurp to themselves prerogatives, lodg
ed only, in the nation's Legislature, we are
not allowed to know. No names aro signed
ed to the document ; the placo of its publi
cation is not disclosed, and wo are utterly
ignorant as to whoso auspices it was gotten
up. Wero thore appendod to it a long ar
ray of the names of those who aro undoubt
edly citizens of Kansas, and who, trrcspect
ive of party and birth, had united together
to seek redress for reasonably stated griev
ances, wo should respect even while we felt
bound to characterize it: as illegal, impru
dent, and unjustifiable. But the fact that
no responsible name's are attached to it
michtilv acrainst it. Wo know not
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whether it was published in Kansas, Missou
ri, Arkansas, or some other part ot the world.
' It is dated the 9th of April." Then Gov.
Rccder was in Kansas'. ' We conversed with
him when he was in St. Louis,:rtn the 21st,
but ho know, or at least said, nothing about
this strango proclamation. Wo hard re
ceived Kansas and Western Missouri papers
as late as the 12th, 15th, and 17th, yet iiot
one word do they say of this document.
We arc, therefore, inclined to think that Hs
circulation is confined to few "citizens of
Kansas," and that if was kept back until
Govi Reeder's departure from his post has
made its issuajcasy.1 aJ"
" It is a "squatter novcreignty" document
to the back-bone, and exhibits that interest
ing principle in a phase novor witnessed be
fore, even by its most ardent advocates and
espousers. It is Squatter Sovereignty bar
tpg its brawny arm, and defying Federal
Sovereignty to a contest. It is practical
nullification, such as has never been exhibit
ed at the West. ' If Gov. Reeder, as an offi
cer, is obnoxious to any considerable portion
of the settlers in Kansas It is their right to
represent the fact to the President, and solic
it his removal. : But it is not their right to
oust birri, declare his post vacant, and forth
with proceed to fill -it by electing another
man. : In Usurping that power they hurl
themselves against tha national authority
and defy iu resistance.
But we lave no assurance that ny consid
golden promise ef'iWuiC,
anil Ktar, eud Htvlens.ll
erable portion of Kansas citizens are implica
ted in this liigh-hnnded act of violence
asaiiist tho Constitution. We behove that
this proclamation bus been gatteir up, nnd
the 2Hth of April election cullnd, by a few
restlcM, ambitious men, who, conscious of
their own guilt, aro unwilling ami afraid to
father their guilty offspring;. We do: not
bulievo that any number of law-abiding citi
zens of the Territory, ovon if they do uot
liko their Governor, will engage, in tho ef
fort to depose him, unless instigated by de
signing deniugogueg, who,, themselves, will
contrive to keep in tho buck ground. ' How
ever, we shall seo. r lt. !. ...I i
The Bovrors of AVar Fearful Tragedy.
The London Times lays before its readers
the particulars of i horrible affair, ' which
recently occurred near tho Dutch settlement
of Transvaal, at the Capo f Good Hope;
and which can only be paralleled iu atrocity
among the achievements of modern times
by the oxploit of Marshal St. A maud in
Algiers, when ho smoked and burned to
...
donth thousands of his barbarian opponents
who had sought refugo in a deep and spa
cious cave:"'' ''' ' ' '' ' '' -':
"In the case at the Capo of Good Hope,
the CnfTre Indians hud murdered, in October
last, under circumstances of great barbarity,
ten or twelve men and women of the Dutch
settlement. " Immediately Gen. I'rctoriotis
raised ' an army of 500 men, and accom
panied by Commander Gonerai Potgiotter,
proceeded on an expedition to rcvongethc
blood of tho victims. , After an absence of
several weeks, thoy reached somo remark
able subterranean caverns, half a milo in
length, and from threo to' five hundred feet
iu width, whoro tho CalTies had ontranohed
themselves. , Upon his arrival at this spot,
Gen. Pretorious attempted to blast tho rocks
above the caverns, and thus crush tho sav
ages bencnth the ruins.' The peculiar
character of tho stone, however, rendered
this scheme impracticable, and ho then sta
tioned his men around tho months of tho
caves, and built up walls in front of them.
After a few days, many of tho women and
children were driven by hunger and thirst
from their hiding places, nnd wore allowed
to escape ; but pvory man who came forth
was shot dead by their rifles, , On tho 17th
of November, at tlio closo of a siege of three
weeks, tho besiegers, seeing no signs of life,
entered the caverns, and the silence within,
together with the horrible odor arming from
the bodies of tho dead, told how effectually
their object had been accomplished. Moro
than nine hundred Catl'res had been shot
down at the mouth ot tho caverns, and a
much greater number had perished by slow
degrees, suffering all the horrors of starva
tion in tho gloomy recesses within."
HcarcUy of Urn In In 'Kentucky."' ' ' "'
'' Some idea of tho inconvehionco, ' If 'not
absolute suffering, occasioned by the scarcity
of grain in portions of Kentucky,' Way be
formed by a perusal of tho following para
graph, that wb find in tho Madison Courier
of the 17th inst: ' ' '"
"The county authorities of Carroll and
Trimble in Kentucky, hnvo sent agents
out to purchase corn, which is to bo sold at
cost delivered to persons able to pay for it
and on a credit to those who are unablo to
pay now. ' Trimblo county has two depots
on the river, one at Garrett's landing, the
other at1 Milton. "' Yesterday fivo hundred
bushels, tho first arrival, was divided out in
lots none to exceed fifteen bushels to ono
porson. " The' sceno yostcrday at Milton
was lively ; town crowded with people.
Some dissatisfaction was expressed on ac
count of the security required by tho county
officers for repayment in Novombcr. Many
were unablo to "give the security, others
would not;' both went away without com
We understand Trimblo county ' has more
corn on tho way to her depots." ' ' .' '.''"
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Good He ase Vasnton. ;. ,, , '; -
: ,Tho New 'ork Times, in the courte of ao
article under the head of " A Column of
Talk fur, Young Men on Small Wages,'' lias
this plaiu aud sensible paragraph on the sub
ject of dress: ,, . ,, , ..... ,. I .ui...
''Then as to dress it is great nonsense
to say that all must dress fashionably, or
lose caste.' ' What is tho fashion f Who
wears a fashionable coat I and how do you
know it i the fashion t Tell us of one sub
stantial mcrchaut, one thrifty mechanic, on
successful lawyer, or one. gentleman, who
wears it, and . w will name ten of each,
equally noted and successful, who do not,
and ten fops, whom" you utterly despise, that
do. The fashion in New Ybrt for mon jtist
now requires a clean decent garment with
no patches on it no more, no lew. , A lady
might wear her grandmother's shawl in
Broadway and not be noticed'. ' The timid
ones, and those just in from other cities and
village, alone are worried about their looks
when they wear last winter's bonset to Um
lecture or to church. Let the young imitate
the substantial and common-sensible rather
than thoe who are keeping up appearances
at a sacrific.' ' It will be saving in this
iteoj.?;; 'i t: r :;'! ...' i" .' " '
hi iiHt'.mivrios, ,
Five Dollar Veer.
16, 1888.
WO. 9.
From Uie N. Y. Tribune.
Marriage Vnder Trntett. . ''
Miss Lucy Stone, tho young lady who
has frequently made her appearance upon
tho Anti-Slnvory rostrum, in this city, was
married on May-Day, at "a farm-house
among tho hills at Weak- Brookfield," lo
Henry B. Black well, a loader in tho western
Anti-Slavery movement. The marriage
ceremony was performed by Mr. F. W. Hig-
ginson of Worcester, the parties to the nup
tials formally protesting against, the laws
of tho Commonwealth concerniug marriage
Mr. Higginson communicates the protest to
the Worcester fyy, as follows ;., , . , .-.
"I never perform the marriage ceremony with
out a renewed senso of Iho iniquity of our present
system of Inn-, in 'respect to marrlngoj a system
by which 'man and wue are one, ana inai one is
the husband.' It wo with my hearty concurrence,
therefore, that the following- protest wss read and
signed, a a part of the nuptial ceremony, and I
send it to yon, thai other may be Induced to do
likewise. " ' T. W.H."
;" rnoTEST. " 1 . '
While we acknowledge our mutual affec
tion, by publicly assuming ho sacred rela
tionship of husband and wife, yet in j untie
to ourselves and a great principle, we deem
It a duty to declare that this acton our part
implies no sanction of, nor promiso of vol
untary obedience to, such of tluj prescut laws
of marriugo as refuse to recognizo the wifo
as an independent rational being, while they
confer upon tho husband an injurious and
unnatural superiority, investing him with
legal powers which no honornblo man would
exercise, nnd which no man should possess.
'We protest especially against tho laws
which givo to tho husband ' " ' ' '
,' 1. Tho custody of his wife's person. , .'(
2. , Tho exclusive control nud guardian
ship of their children.'.' '
3. Tho solo ownership of lief personal.
and use of her rial os'tate, unless previously
settled upon her, of placed iu tho hands of
trustees, as in tho. case of minors, lunatics
and idiots, ' .' - " ' '
' 4. Tho nbsoluto right to tho product of
her industry. ' " 1 ' , .. '
".. 5. . Also against . laws which givo to tho
widower so much larger and more permanent
nn interest ia the property of his deceased
wife, than they givo, tho widow in that of her
deceased husband, '! . ,. ; ' , " , ,
, 0. Finally, agaiuat tho whole system by
which "the legal existence of tho wife is
suspended during marriage," so that in most
States she neither has legal part in the cholco
of her residence, nor cau sho niako a wilt,
nor sue or bo sued in hor own name, nor
inherit property, 'i ' ' ' - '
' We believe that porsonnl Independence
and equal human, rights can never be for
feited, except , for crimo ; that marriage
should be an equnl and permanent partner
ship, and so recognized by law ; that until
it is so recognized, married partners should
provido every means in their power.
.'. Wo believe that whero domostio difficul
ties arise, no appeal should be mado to legal
tribunals under existing laws, but that all
difficulties should be submitted to the equit
able ' adjustment of arbitrators mutually
chosen. '- ; ; ,- j i :
, i , TUus : reverencing Law, we outer our
earnest protest against rules and customs
which aro unworthy of the name, since they
violato justice, the essence of all Law. i :
. (Signed) ' Henry B. Blackwbll
, !::. ..: Luot Stone. :. .
The Crops tn l'.atlforla. i
From alt parts' of tho State,' wo continuo
to reccivo flattering accounts of tho State of
the crops. There is every reason to believe
that the crops of tho present year will hi the
largest ever raised in California, and will be
sufficient not only for support of our own
population, but thore will alsd bo a large
surplus for exportation. Tho Sonoma But
jVrm'says, in relation to the crops In that
section : "Tlio rain during the' first two
days' of this week, ' lias p roved highly bene
ficial to vegetation. '' Somo of our farmers
were apprehensive that their fields of wheat
and barley would be injured, from prostra
tion by heavy showers ; but it fortunately
rained lightly, 'though almost continually ;
so that we hear of no damages being done
in orir vicinity. ' In Napa, however, we are
told that a quantity of wheat has been
ruined. ' tt may havo rained harder In that
valley, besides the crops mature a little soon
er than in this, which may account fer the
low."' Corn and every variety of garden
vegetables look more promising. In fact a
rich harvest is in prospectirei." S. F.Ifer
aid. '
Hmot ta Wheat.
Take one pound of blue stone, dissolve It
In water, and sprinkle It over four bushels
of wlieat tha day before you aow iu : It is
an infallible remedy. ,, .
VHrre aa vul l ueui-s t
, iTbi uJpvi qucstlo'p forn'vtd tM tQ 'M
ruthor reuorkubW discourau recently duliv
erod at Manhuttnnvillc, N. Y., by Rer. M r.
Wulworlh, a Cat hoi io I'riest, and the son of
tho former Chancellor of tho State of New
York. Wo find a sketch of his remarks iu
the N. Y. Kvening Tost. He" U"(lescriboo!
by tho Post as a man of intelligence ana
great eloquenco. 1 " .'i .1,
Atsuminir that thoro was a hell lor tho
punishment uf the wicked, ', lie inquired
where it was, and what was tho nature of the
punishment. Ha said that there had been
many suppositions as to Its locality, somo
placing it in tho fixed stars, others at an in
conceivable distance, but the Scriptures in
variably sneak of it as bencatb us. JIo
quoUd many texts of Scripture iu support
of this statement, and concluded that "Hell
must necessarily be in the cntre of this
earth, as in no other way could our concep
tions of its pomtiou beneath us, as defined m
the Scriptures, bo adequately ronliztd; our
ideas of what is above mii'ht be as Infinite as
spaco itself, but there could be bu bne 'be
neath,' and that was subtcfraneau. . r,
Having satisfactorily fixed iu. placo, the
Post says he next discussed the nature of I lie
punishtneut, which he concluded to be Win-
tcrinl corporeal punishment, wliere the bod
ies and souls of the wicked woro subjected
to ctorual tormont. In support of this lie
quoted Scripture to show that Hell i
"fire, nnu tlio punishment wouiu oe ujr
burning, and then quoted Humboldt's Cos-
mas and tho speculations of Ueologista, fat
to the nature of the Earth's centre, to show
that that region oxactly filloil ho rotjuiro
uicuts of the placo of punishmont spoken of
in tho Scriptures,; The centre of the Earth
was mass of firo. ! l- ,'''' ""'
"nethen," says the Post, "inquired Into
tho degrco nnd Intensity of the heat, w'hicli
almost passed tho bounds of human concep
tion. ,,' As a means of approximating to a re,
suit, however, he referred to experiments
which had been made with a thermometer
in Artesian wells aud deep iiiincv Hero.it
had beou observed thnt with every fitly feet
of depth ono degree of Fahrenheit had been
gnined; consequently, at this ratio of in
crease, it would only be necessary to peno
trato tho crust of tho earth twenty-one miles,
in order to reach a stato of heat in which
the granito would be found molten.; Wa
ter boils at 212 dog. Fahrenheit, but it ro
quires 2,000 '(leg. to melt rocks.' ' This,
therefore, was tlio Minimum of tho heat of
Hell, whoso frou tiers, thcreforo, lie twenty-
one miles liclow tho surface of 'tlief oarthf
ITo also citodn well-nutheiiticiitod 'niruclo,
by otic of the Fathers, to tho oflt ct that God
oiico permitted a curtain religious por,ou to
receive a visit fur s few tuomeiils from one
of the damned. In the course of the Inter
view, the latter thrust his hand Inte'd vos6
of water iu tho npartinent, which was thcro-
by so poworiuiiy iicnleit, tnui a urunzo can
dlestick haying been placed iu it win imme
diately molted. These Illustrations yniild
afford perhaps n slight conceition of, the
fearful nuluro of the fires thut were awaiting
thoguilty and uiirepentiiiit.y ,, :.
( Tho Cleveland Humid, noticing n state
ment of this prcnclicr's notion t iu a New
York papor, adds a description of the intens
ity of tho heat of that place, by. Hurt'linnl,
which, in vividness aud point, is far ahead of
the Priest's ,U says :(! ,'. " ' .'j',;.,',!,.
"The tempernturo of Hell lias exercisod
the speculations of very many djvines, but
we think the talontcd and cccentrio Uurcli
ard must take the pulm for a ylmniiig illus
tration of tho question. Burchard, once
passing through a furhaco with a theologi
cal pupil, stopped and gazed into tho white
boat of tho. moliod iron; Said he, in his
deep, solemn, musical voico, "do you wish to
know how hot Ml isf . I'll tell you. IIoll
is so much hotter than that fiery furnace,
that supposing a being who could.ilive in
Hell, should jump tUence into thut furnace,
lie would freeu to dtath in Jive minute 'I
"'aw.,.;, i, :.f); ,v.-.,i,).1 .,l
, We notice thatsujeralof . the Ng.YoVk
papers are discnswng the project of divis
ion of that Stato since tho passage of tho
Maino law. It is suggested that the' how
CommonwcaitKbo' composed of the counties
of Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Itock
land, Tutnam,. Westchester, .Neuti York,
Richmond, Kings, Queens, and Suffolk.
The population of this new Stated which ft
is proposed to call Manhattan, will be one
million three hundred, and four thousand
three hundred and sixty-seven. ' It 'is not
probable' that there is liiu'th sincerity in tho
proposition.' ' Thoso wbo'hihke it,' we sup
pose, want'to continue tlie blessed (nstilu
tions of murder, prostitution, and tfie wliolo
dark catalogue of crime which in New York
city is a dit-grace to civilization, and thoro
fore would le rid of tU iuflucnco of the vir
tue of tho rural ditricU. Ci ico Dtm.
Gen. Culloin," a Whig from Tennes
see, who voted against the Nebraska bill, is
in the field' for re-election from the fourth
Congressional District.. He is supported ly
the Know Nothings. s,, ,vu;, ,:j