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VOL. 1. oanoowciTY, orboom TanaiTORT, babprpat, dsosbsbsr i, isss. ivo. 33 fully. 1 And Ihe first effect of Hit Introduction of the dlocuiMoti will be la relievo Tut Aaovt to some extent from lliu charge of undue coldue oa this grunt question. Ia favor of ths agitation yeo, iniTATioii of till aubjrct, II ia urg.d that if the people can U ' '" w eawrw. ny Ht ,0 inki ud Dve.(;iFt,. eluillu rf Jn. i. ,;. t .,. ma year. ., '. , . .. . -. , r- very their minds wilL be enlightened and Milled ''JI- TaIi VitntliiK preparatory Ui the sdnptiuu of a Slate ooiutilution. 6 ' I Tliia in iiiin itlniil Tl, I. n-.l...... ....... r 1 . . . (V iwinnia U.ir-.H.IU VI TiiH raoraiKToa or tub AItGL'8 ia nAm, "' PHli'i in faror of ulavery. Circuiustances jiiiuforiii tho public that lie luw jimt rcooiveil a ' tnilit ariae tliroiigh which the dominant -ty of JV" if'i'1' U.f o:,,t'r,,lew I!'1"';1 Territory by a "fusion" will, the friend, of.!., lug inater.nl, and trill be in the anc-ei y recc p! of . ...... . . . addition, muted to U.e r,uii em, of .1, , j "hl ",em "Y- " tidily. Jl.M)ltlt.I,S, 11JSTKKS, Itl.AN'KS, ! l'ull, mmdeanbe Ihoroiyhly nwnknitd, the do CAUD.t, ClUCUr.AliS, l'AMI'lll.KT.WOltK efw:il beavfiled. .Tlwre are ii.any p.T-o. ia ..... mmr ,, uu.io ,o oruer, ou anon nouce. OreBm who hnve never thought much .bunt ia ' On lowland mart, and marble dum.e, Ktill oruvcu vamula gave ; ..lint iievor yet on iiiouutuiiMop Wa. bornur divcit n .luvo. On moiiiitiiin ..p (lie roihet Tint Oud'a awful uuindatia bore j On Miouutaiu ptuk the dove did lent, That flow the delugo o'er. Then ye, whose heart dolh weary bent, ' With care or son-ow riven, ' vCoruu, climb with me Hlieve Cnllau'. brow i ? And let your Ui.iughti, liku Tilnu'., now, ...AKeud from Ihouce to lleuvcn! 'riieacholarhathaquletlook :'. i . ,. Within hi. cloistered coll, ' I . t lie poreth o'er nine goodly book, , Till peal tho veKjier bill. , I)ut Iho' hi. lifo uiirufl'.i'd flow., " ' ' ' ' "' L'ke gentle ctrcnni. Hint glide ' 'I All tmooth and .till, thrnngh level pluins, With .miHhiue on their tide, ' That .tu.lcnt pule, I envy not v '' Such guise ill w.itvth m, Oil, better, far, Ihe wave towed luke, '"he pine crowned crag, Ihe forest brake, "'' ; And tep o'er heather, free ! ' ' 'The trickling r that cool your ' Soft (lowing throngh the gleu ; 1 Or 'elan trie pring that buret from rocks, ; c Uko team from nigged men , .llalb Cyprua wine audi fluvor awcet, , ..pratoia) from Malnaaiut ;. Preached ever ab'jott l.ko llnao hills, . ..'So iruv alioiuilie? ,' . . Vhen in their SuLbath aolitvdc, . ' (Jo, often mediate ; ' 1 ""And when their leavon right U read, ' JThe yulley elope iheu boldly IrcaJ, A wiser uiou in heart and head, .i..U'o Wreatle ilh your fate , i ,' , nlni-ji - .DubUn Univtrsily Magazine. Mil 1 ,. ,, . lor Hie Argue. '!' .'J.;! oiegon am.l Slavery. ;f?rbn Aiu'iiiiDo uot be atai tled by the cap. 'W uf this article. ' Tho great questions brought to iiiud by the uwaiciutiuu of those Iwo w.irda should Te'eeive jirnfouiid anj atrioin attention. You may, -Howeveri feel soinc little eurpriw when you learn that froK! Aiuius hae not breathed ijnite audi a 'spirit to til tlnvcry q jcatioii ns some of your rend er had anticipated. . And you muy .with an invol. njry itu.i t uslc, "have wo not declared uursolf inpt .lavery propugaudism ?' Uuess jou have But will you point us lo the paragraph ill Tin All ot where you have presented an argument in any ahnpe to show : that Amoricivn alavery is wrong ; Uiu( it ia not politically or ccoliotiil'cully wisej and iiecully jhat it would bo auicidal lo all that is aa vrcd and valuable in tho future destiny of Oregon to admit (hat institution iulo out borders. . Per tontra vrt ' can point to more than one number of Tut Aaauathataavored very much of pro-slavery iam. For example, an extract ie made, and Btroug lyrrecominended, from au address of the late Hon Silas Wright, of New York, iknouncing severely sectional agitutors. The anti slaverj' men of tin Xoi th wore ll.e olijecti of Mr. Wright's denuik-ia-utioii'. ''Don't know that yon meant that; but the' extract was generally understood in that nay.' I that your view of the extract? Are Ihe free lueu, of the north to be, "branded'1 with eidi ep- 'itiiiui while they are making tho ballot box ring with their condemnation , of the present corrupt po.s!i!very',administrutioiit? Are not the slave ihdsters of the south the real scctionul agitators who Wtdisturbing the peace of the Union by their sleep lesflbrUte 5ATioNAt.ni their "peculiar iuatilu-V00"-peculiar lo their owp section and therefore etrietly and uvowedly aeotioual ! . Again we arc fa vored with an extract from Dr. Brcckenrdge'a letter to the Hon. Charlea Sumner, which waasub tahltaHy in the same atrain. Well, you havo giv en the taewa from Kausaa, informing your readera pret'ty fully of tho outrageoui proceedings of the Du.,ier ruffiaua" Alchisou, Stringfellow, & Co. Iliut evea here die "hundred eyes'1 have not nli ien had in requisition. An odd ono might have 'discovered that there arj two version, of nearly all the occurrences which transpire in Kansas. Your tXtrecta here are just such aa appear iu the K. Y. Ierald aud paper, of that ilk, and by no means in all untabces do justice lo the free aeltiera of tliut Territory. TUt-ro is au aalislavery plure to the 'events there trauspiring, which if prenuted would 'cita'c far oilier feelings with regard to the aboini fi Alona of despotisui in ifcat m'oTi-ridoVn land. " AViA rti., perhaps what you would call fault lisding mtroduetiou', the principal object f tbi. :49)manitli ma be suggested. It thesghl by manv dtizeui ef tiiii Jenilory that re ought lo agitate the question of elavcry here, so To antic ipate aiiy attempt tliat Blight do made to foist the giecdiar institution Into Ortgon. If it would be tMiceptsble to youreolf, and prewmed to b so to soar readers, vs wo old be gralrfol for apaee in t our coiutfeii kit a few artiete on uie mDject f very, a no anuw nine 01 in evils. These perams can easily through party hitiiguri and parly f.-vl- iugs be induced to fuvoj iu introduction, rsjiecially iu a season of great party excitement. But when neauuh excitement prevail, these perams may be ret righ', und so s.ived to freed iu. biuse. Agjiu,it maybe urged iu f.ivor of ttiis discus sion that in the course of some half a dozen years Oreg n muy become one of the Stales of the Union, audit is all-iiiipotlaut that we be prepared then to send meu lo Washington whs will not join hand, with oppress-.rs, and become slavery propa gandists. But ouee again till. i. the question, the great political iteue now before the American people. Old partie. are tearing up and r. planking their ilulform preparatory to the Presidential contest in '60, but amid all other jarring element, this one overrides every thing else, and elands out in bold relief as tiik question. There is no t-vadiug it Theu why .hull not the people of Oregon keep up with llie spirit of tliest.nies, and labor to have in telligent view, of thi., the leading question of the age in whi-h we live? You perhaps may differ from us on these matter.; if so, "etrike, but hear." My sheet is about full, and aa I wage no Indian warfare, and intend to skulk behind no cowardly incog-., I will Ueg lo subscr be myself very sincerely, . lour friend, ,. . WILSON BIjAIN. aT2T Tliu foregoing It-tier was received some two weeks ago, but for want of time lo attend to the diUicultin prr sentcd by Mr, lllaiii we bnvo laid it by till this moment : not tbt wo exprctcd to enter into a lengthy tscussidp exculpntory of ouraclf, for onr time and space are too precious for a long article in Rclf-dcfense, especially when nine- y-inne out of a humlrod of our readers will bo n a ly to exonerate us from the charge before they read our reply. We have been posed to slavery extension and the iniquitous .XuUro.Nkii bill, toethor with the practical workings of squatter sovereignty iu Kansns, Mr. B. citn b , tliat our course in refer ence! to this matter has been satisfactory, and in their view politic and Bnfu. Indeed, wo do not suppose that ten of our readers could be found who would be willing to en dorse tits views of our course. Wo ao not, towover, profess to bo infallible, and always right, in cither principle or policy. Truth is our riches, and the more we have, the icher we are, and shall altvnys tuke it kind ly in Mr. B., or any of our friends, for ei ther information or advice which we prom ise to weigh in all candor, and then, after comparing it with our own opinion, we shall lake the course our own judgment recom mends. ; ; .. :. That our paper "Ims not breathed quite such a spirit on the lavery question ns some of our readers had cnticipated" we bo came aware of some months, sinco, by care fully perusing sundry letters from Bro. McKenn. , He. torjether with a Inrce class of his admirers and political brethren, thought us nn abolitionist of tho Garrison school, arid fairly shuddered at the idea of boint? called upon ere long to shoulder the responsibilities of an underground rail.'nad. This the poor fellows thought was a horri ble "objectionallehm,,' and only the precur sor of a Ktill niore dreadful ono which they thought Tub Ahgos would soon "let out of the bacr." by advocating amalgamation. Some of them have already shed rivers of tears over the danger of our soon pitching head first into such dreadful "objectionable, if ins," ns amalgamation, voting a colored ticket, and advocating a dissolution of the Union. , Whilst we have taken strong ground against the Nebraska bill, which we consider to be the wooden horse by which Douglas Co. have endeavored to intro duce the peculi.tr institution into every part of the Territory belonging to the General Government, and whilst we Lave exposed the iniquity of border ruffianism, 'as exhibit ed in the conduct of Strirujfellow and his ! brother mobocrais, we hnve not been at all surprised that such weak brethren as we have already spoken of, shnnM infer that we weal for every thing liorrill that their leaders are wont to uHI them makes up the sum of AbolitionUro. ' .urcaiu.to.Wt, lew arue.e. on u Jf Batwe mnsl nfifM llwt wfl bsve lueiiitroducuouof slavery imo vregon, me wjjeei , . . t of which shall be to show that I. eM.blisb slavery 1 a" somewhat by SHrpr.se hy the fcregc- opour ro3 would be Uie vey in.duea. of political , ing letter from tritnd Blaio. If he hs any assured by many men who are as much op- Pisaet' during our absence. But upon look- just cause of complaint we Lave not been able to see it Iu fact, we are left to infer just how far he would havo ui go In disclos ing the quuMion. We Lave certainly gono as fir as wo promised lo go in our first issue, and we think as far as any person Lad any reason to expect us to go. nut we shall at tend to tho complaints made in Lis letter presuming that they embrace the sum of his difficulties. Take fur example the fol lowing: "Will yon point n. to the pnrnsranh. in Tim Aa au. where you have presented -au argument in any .'iiipe tokhowlhat American slavery i wrong, that it is uot politically or economically wise, dee. Now we have not taken the lime to look over our filo to s-.-e whether a "paragraph" can be found taking up those precise prop oiiiiotis and urguing them at length, neither do we recollect to have seen a paragraph jut of that sort in a single one of our ex chunge papers for the lust seven months, al though wo have large number of strong anti-alavory papers among our exchanges. As to writing articles in proof of these par licular propositions, wn have never yet had time, neither have we yet thought it imper atively necessary to do so. All know our position to be positively and decidedly op. posed lo the introduction of the curse into our Territory. Whether we have always taken tho wisest course to prevent this we are not able to say.' The next difficulty is, tliat We published an extract from Silas W right's speech, de nouncing sectional agitators, &c Now it so happens that we took the extract, togeth er with the "recommendation," from mr ica't Own, one of the strongest anti-slavery papers in the Union, and America1 Own used it as a club to rap Southern fire-eaters and South Carolina States Bights disunion, istsovcr the head with ; and if in drawing his weapen in order lo belabor them well, he gavo Garrisoniau fanatics a back lick, what barm was there in that I The whole speech we never read, and are not able to say whether Wright aimed at Northern or Southern disunionists, but we do know that the extract was mainly aimed at Southorn firc-cat 'rs. Tho letter of Dr. Brcckonridgo was pub- ing it over carefully, wo see nothing objec tionable in it. It seems to havo been writ-' ten in a kiud and conciliatory mnuner, and wo are in the habit of publishing produc tions from tho pens of all parties and all creeds occasionally, without taking the trou ble to point out every tlnug in them that we do not endorse. We always supposed that our renders wero nil aware of tho fact that I he appearanco of a selection or a com munication in our paper was no certain evi denco that we endorsed a particle of it. e sometimes publish clippings and corres pondence which wo do not endorse, simply to let our readers havo a glimpse at the workings of a variety of minds, and choose lo let ihcin exorcise their own judgments in sifting the wheat from thechatr. in prefer ence to winnowing it out oursclf. Mr. B. thinks that our news from Kansas is such as is contained in the A7, Y, Iferahl, ami is unlutr. We hardly ever read the Herald, aud aro unable to say. . But if the Herald gives pretty much such a version of matters in Kansas ns we have given, it must havo improved a great deal of luto. . Wo have not been in the habit of considering the Herald more than second rate authori ty, and have therefore) depended upon such papers as tbe N. Y. Tribune, St. Louis In- telligeucer Chicago Democrat, and Indiana Stale Journal, for Kansas news, with now and then an interesting article from String fellow's Squatter Sovereign, jusl for variety. The news we have published from that quar ter we believe to be correct ; at all events it places the Atchison and Stringfellow gang in a very unenviable position, and entirely exonerates the free state men in Kansas from any blame excepting that of being a little chicken hearted in letting armed ruff ians from Missouri drive them from the polls. It may be christian to run, but somehow or o'her it never aeertH to us ex actly human. For an American Arifdo- Saxon to be driven from his privileges and his duty, by an Indian, an African, a canni bal, or a greater, without fighting a little, always seems to us humiliating in the ex treme.' It may be a weakness of ours, but w have always thought that thise border ruffians, who threaten peaceable citizens with bludgeon and bemp, ought to be made to taste blood, and we incline to tbe opinion that they arc hastening on the day when they will drink the cup they are now pre paring to iu very dregs. But as we have got to the extreme boundary of our j present limits, we close right here, by say ing, our prper is open to discussion, We will always "hear" before w strike .tallati Barbarities Oa WalU Rtver. We ask our readers to peruse the follow- ing account of Indian barbarities on Whit" River, in Washington Territory, as contain cd iu a letter written by Capt. Hewitt to the Pioneer it Democrat, and then road the com munication below signed "IIunteb," which we take from the Corvallis Statesman, aud which was undoubtedly written by the edi tor of that sheet; It seems to contain a very full synopsis of tho editor's positions, views, sympathies, and feelings, as hereto fore set forth in editorials, forming a history of his "coarie" in reference to this Indian war since its commencement. We ask the citizens of liogue Kiver, whoso Lcnrts are now bleeding over the lotsos of friends bru tally murdered, of wives atid'children who are now probably held captive by the sav ages, and suffering abuses and tortures a thousand times worse thau death, and of property destroyed by tho flames ; we say we ask these citizens how they relish the rebuke for not having "vigifanc(e?)ized" Ihe men who have been "constantly abusing tho Indians" f Who ought to Lave been "vigilnnc(e) ized" for provoking the Iudians to commit tho White River barbaritirsf Who ought to have been tied to a whipping post aud tigilane(e)ized for instigating the fiendish deeds that were perpetrated last fall on Sunko River! And will the Corvallis Statesman inform us whom his vigilnoc(e) izing committee should have sacrificed in order to appcaso the wrath of the Cay uses before they, imbrued their hands in the blood of Whitman and his family I Reader, look upon tho two pictures as presented in tbe two 'pieces we publish bo low, and then say fthethor the torici are all dead yet. - i ... i . , ;t Aftor two day's hard work, reached tho bouse of Mr, Cox, which we found robbed confirming our suspicions that greater mischief bad been done to the settlements farther up the river. Wo then proceeded to Mr. Jones' place, whore we found our worst fears more than realized. The bouse was burnt to ashes, aud Mr. Jones (who was sick at the, time) was burned in it. Mrs. Jones we found lying about thirty yards from the house, shot through the lower part of tbe lungs face and jaws horribly broken nnd mutilated, apparently with the head of T...I r i, t .. f. i uu ha. , i uu oi'iics oi air. ooues wo luunu tho roasted flesh having been eaten off by the hogs. W (bund Mr. Cooper (who was living with Mr- Jones at the time) about 150 yards from the house, shot through the lungs, tho ball entering the left breast. We buried tho bodies and proceeded to the house of W. It. Urowr), a mile distant. Mrs. B. and child wo found in tho well, her head downwards the mother was stabbed to the heart tho knife entering the lower pnrt of the led breast, and also in the back and back part oi the head. ' Hue had ap parently started torun with her child (an infant about ten months old) iu her arms- was overtaken and pitched into the well. The child was below Ler and had no marks of violence on it. It was not dressed show ing that tho mother had taken it from the bed and attempted to (lee. .. : Mr. IS, was found in tho house, literally cut to pieces. The left hand hnd two cuts, ns though ho had grasped a kuifu, and had it nulled out. cuttintr the hand to the bone. There were also two stabs in the palm of tho same band, as though be had attempted to ward ofl the fatal weapon. . Ill's arms and legs, were badly cut, und . I should think there were as many as ten or fifteen stabs in his back, mostly a little below the left shoulder, hvery thing seemed to show that he bad fought desperately, and I think he must hat'e killed some of the devils, tVora tbe fact the fence where they went out from the house, had the , appearance of having had something dragged over it, and the rails below all srhearcd with blood. ' " After burying them as well as circum stances would permit, we proceeded to the house of Mr. king, of rather where his house was, w hich wo found burned lo, ashes, and where tlie most horrible spectacle .of all awaited us. ' Mr.! Jones anil the two little children were burnt in the liolise, and the body of Mr. Kin(f, after being roasted, was eaten almost entirely up by the lioj.'s. Mrs King was lying about thirty yards from the ruins, " almost entirely in . a' state of nudity. She was shot apparently through the heart the ball enterin; the leftside tile left breas) was cut entirely off she was cut open from the pit of the stomacn to about the centre of the abdomen, and the intestines pulled out on either side. We performed tbe last sad rites and proceeded back to our encampment, and the next morning started for Seattle, ',' I From tho CorvaUui Statesman. j Ma.EoiToi: I have just looked over your last paper, and if ever a man deserved ered- It for so tuny exposing tne weakness oi ma ny of our citizens, you are certainly the one. It it a fact that toanr Oregon City and Portland people Lava lost lesh for beinc ob liged to stay where they are so exposed to i...i: a ..... ' i ' ... i uiu.'.ii ui-pnuuiiuiia. i hid periecuy OatonikU ud that men will talk so foolishly and sim ple about a few worthless Indians as those are in this valley. The Methodist Pacific Advocate at Salem, even, is afraid Ihe sin ncrs will not shed enough blook, or appear excited enough, but Las to put in a little for ouncome. in lualatin 1'lains the saints are pulling pickets around a church, and calculate to make a fort of it i a cellar nn dejneath is to be dug for a mngazino. unmn and ApnulUing are Ibe principal In ginoers, and if their plant are carried out, Subastopol will be a small willow thicket in comparison. . - I have been 25 rears In and near Oreiron and for my life I cannot yet bcliuve but tbe neon e are tokins?. ther almenr In nut anMi confidence in overv examreratcd stor? tho? near, i reel sorry lor the poor women who nave been frightened by their cowardly bus bands. Manv simidetons talk of tuiernii nating the Indians south; pohl that is nonsense. Land claims will sell on Rogue Jdvcr tor Vi first. Ihe whites havo made a great mistake in murdering those women and children, old men, tc, out south; had they taken thorn prisoners, nary hut in my opinion would havo beon burned not tho life of an inmate taken. Had tho farmers and citizens turned out and viiiilanceiztd the blacklegs, loafers, and idlers who hang aootii ana are constantly abusing tbe In dians, nnd making all kinds of trouble, thev would have done themselves honor nnd a worthy service to our country; but it isoth erwise, and I would nol now live in Rogue tuver tor ull the land there, for no family will be Kafe for years, in my opinion. There is a treat spirit for extermination. but after you kill and kill until all aro cone. as you ininn, men the Indian will return from his exile, with his knife more sharp. uuu nguiu arouse tne lunocent, and say I have come to avenge the death of mv moth er and father whom you killed ton years ago. nowever, our uovornor has been wise in recalhnjj tho ftlhbusters : now if he will con vince the Indians that what hat been done was done without authority then wa mav Lave peace, but not without. Mr. Bush, one thinsr more I wish to sav about the northern volunteer snap ; I believe it to Do unnecessary. Gov. Curry. I am sure, will be sorry ho ever went up there. The regulars, with a few scouts, are all that was necessary to subdue the Indians who wished to war with the Americans. But seeing tho whites so excited, they run for life, not to war. Gor. Curry should come home with nearly all hm army, and lot the men go to work ) he wilt starve in before he will effect anything, I fear, only to stop the communication to the States ; Lo can not keep as good order as Le wishes over the volunteers, and a general war will be on our hands, which throw back our country, and prevent emigration over the Plains, ' , ,, ' . , ' My opinion is that 400 good mon will whip and put to rout all the Indians within 200 miles of. the Dulles to-day; time will correct mo if wrong ; and good management is required, to make us as well off as when wo chose this war. Parkinson is just such a man as you say he is, only he will steal. -. . . . i The man who will take your course to , put down the present excitement, deserves much credit, etc., etc. . 1( ., ' Ferguson has got back all safe. I expect when tho truth is found but, Maj. Ilallar's five men will come up some day driving the forty lost mules. A IIUNTEB. November , 1855. idislu" 1'bo following Is .tho auUtujlc of the recommendations W.iho wwii'wrW t Church, onderthe watch jure of lVsbjtCry, which- wero appended to ihla ra-purl 1. To extend thoir sj tiipMihiwa to all tlm victims of this syittein of ielvuilo enmity and oppression. - - 2. To pray for the oppressed and ulso, for their inlatuatfd oppressors. 'I l 3. To diruct.all their influences in prlvute intercourse with their ' fellow-niuli, to the suppression of this evil. , 4. To improve, in public, every opportu nity when mingling in the primary assem blies, as citizens, by word, or act and hcii called upon, to exercise the elective frunehiso to elevate, if powible, to office, nun, ho will not only opposo slavery extension but Slavery's very existance. . rrebyterla MeellaR. The Trashy tcry of tho United Presbyteri an Church of Oregon, held its Pall Mooting at Union Point, on the 3 j and 4th days of October. ' f Tbe meeting was full and the members manifested ah net ho interest iu tlie great Work in which they are engaged. ' This Presovtorv is wholly an Oregon or- 4it,,,.. "i . anization having no ecclesiastical connec tion with any other body of Christians. It adopts as1 the exhibition at large of its doc trinal sentiments the Westminster Stand ards, but embraces only , a "Summary" of those doctrines in Its "Manual of Doctrino and Discipline." The following will give a tolerably cor- ceot idea of the present strength of this body :. . . . .... Congregations, 8 ; Ministers, 0 ; Mem bers, 20q ; one .Minister without chargo and another, David Thompson, is Principal of Union Academy, at Union Point. .The several Ministers are laboring, iu connection with the Churches and Congre gations as follows, viz : Willamette, Linn county, Samuel G. Irvine ; Albany, do., John E. Hannon; Kendalls Bridge, do., Tbos. S. Kendall ; Union Point, do., Wilson Blain; Camp Creek, Lane county, James Worth ; Mohawk, do, J. M. Dick. Among the subjects of discussion before Prebyte7, Slavery came in for a liberal hare. On the subject, a paper was adopt ed, with entire unanimity, the argumenta tive part of which concluded with the strong declaration, that "the whole system pro- claims ltseu to pc eariuiy tensuai, ana aev L,ll. Manry tho Mr. Maury, having tcliiovcd a success so signal upon the sea, hna left thut unstable element, and turned the rays of his lllumi. nating genius upon the land. As Le ' Las enlisted a strong corps of salt-w utcr people to do Lis bidding, to watch the flying of the spray, and eye tbe set of tho undcr-currenta, aud, as it were, to scizo old Neptune by the foretop and mako Lim tell all Le does, and, by these littlo acts of violence, doing much for tho world, so he now proposes to set on the agricultural population, so thut new ideas may be developed through its agency from the skies that water and tho earth that yields. In short, if is a system of Meteoro logy for Farmers which tho gallant Lieut enant intends to innguralo. , We wish him joy of the experiment no'hitig doubling that in this ho will succeed as well ns ho has in everything else, though uot, perhaps, iu equal measure. l is proposod that the charges of tem perature, tho occurrence of storms, the pro valence of raius, the extremity of drouth, shall bo closely observed by a corps of vol unteer Moterologists, whose plau of ora tions shall bo a system of thorough coopera tion. Tho idea is very similar to that pur- ued in the investigation of the phenomena of winds and currcuts. The parties who may undertake the task aro invited to report to tho Government, and for payment's sake, will each be furnished with a copy of the results after results ahull hare been calcu. latod. Tho discovery of now truths, tho development of secrets thai yet remain se curely locked up, tho wisdom which the farms ing population will be in a way to acquire, the safeguards that the tiller of tbe laud ill place about linn and his, are the in ducements held out to enterprising men to undertake this work. Head quarters for those land observations, as well as those Lieh are made upon the sea, will bo fixed at Washington. The theory of such a plan of operating is Very plausible. But does it promiso practi cal results t If we are to accept Mr. Maury's xpo&ition, it does. Hu cites tho well-es tablished law of the progression of storms shows that every storm that occurs Las a bogining, and necessarily an end a: fact hich nobody will disputo and goes furthr er, to demonstrate that tho laws which ef fect the changes of the atmosphere are uui- form and certaiu that we may by dint of study, unravel tho mysteries of Atmospheric Currents as well as those . of Gulf Streams and bulls of heated wutcrs, and thut the farmers, when onco apprised of tho ralo of progress of a storm, may reasonably expect to bo au unvarying alumnae in himself, and so predict tho period of the advent of the floods. Hence, the benefits to the ero, and through thorn to the farmer's pocket. An office of tho reception of Meteorologi cal observations ia in cxlstnnco tit Waaliitig. ton having been established y Mr. Cal houn, during his Secretary-ship in lho,War Department. It now recoivi-8 the relurus from the military stations of the Govern ment. Upon tho basis of this organization, Mr. Maury proposes to erect lib superstruc ture. I lis plan is lit the market for an air ing. Farmers are respectfully invited ,to coinmuiiicnto freely, work, cheerfully, and so muko us and themselves wiser and bottitr men. Ex. ,. How Members ark "Got Up" port ink Newusia I.F.GisLiTiiK. A Mr. Purple', a member of the Nebraska Legislature, t'tr foruied a gentleman at Chicago a abort time since, something Low membors nrn gotten vp in Nebraska. Ho said : "Cnnt- mings, tho Secretary, said to me one morti- ing, 'Purple, we want a memdorfrom Burt County.' So I harnessed up and took nine fellows with mo,' nnd we started for the woods, and when we thought we hnd got far enough for Burt County, we unpacked our ballot-box and h"UI an election, canvassed the vote, and it was astonishing to obeervo. bow great was the unanimity at tho list election ever held in Burt County. J'uir ple had every vote ! So Purple waa dvvlat td duly elected, and here I am 1" Ex. XW Hon. Thomas 0. Pratt, U, 3. ator, Las written a letter in favor of Uew Union party, to be composeJof conservative. wLigs and democrats!