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THE OREGON ARGUS. rviMiiiKP svssv MTvaoif mosxinq, BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. ' Ofike-Good'i Building, Main t. Edito . rial Room in first story. TERMS Th$ Asovs trill hi furnUUi at . Thru Dollari and Fifty Ctnti per annum, to oiiiglt lukieribtroTkm Dollar tack to cluki of tin at ont ofiei, 7170 Dollari for lit monlkiNo lubierlp tiono neiitii for Im poriod. Pf No paper dticontmtttd Until all arrtnragei on paid, unlmo at tki option of thi puklitktr. Urcaklas p of Iht lea l Ml. beats, Destruction of titeasstrs. On llio evening of the 20th, tbo ict iu tlio Mississippi, at Si. Louis, gave way, and under tlie great pressure of tlio rising wa. ' tors, ran down upon tlio steamers that wer King nt the lovec, and lora lliam from their fattening, wedged them between henps of !cn, ground them Into kindling wend, or bore them ofT to be cant upon the shore hopelessly wrecked. This catastrophe tins ' been for some time apprehended, and any thing that seemed practicable was done to nrrcst it, but in vain. The weight of the ' ice and the waters was not to be over come by any means at command, and as a conscquonco this wholesale destruction is recorded. The reporter of tho Republican, who visited the scene of disaster, reports w hat he saw : ''The loveo yesterday morning presented ft dreary and dcsnlate spectacle looking ' more like a scene in the Polar regions, than in tho fertile and beautiful Mississippi val ley. The Father of Water, wakened up from his long sleep, was pitching along nt a wild and rapid rate, as if to make up for lost time. His ice cont of moil was torn into shreds, which lay strewn along the shore on both sides in huge, continuous ' piles, and fragmentsof which were still float ing on his bosom. The ice on iliissido was forced a considerable distance upon the lev eo, and was in some places heaped up to ' tho height of fifteen and twenty feet above the water. Where tho bouts hud lain 'thickly a few bouis before,, nothing wax ' now to be seen save this hih bulwark of ice, which seemed as if it had been lefi purposely to complete the picture of bleak desolation. The whole business portion of the levee was clear of boats, except the two wrecked Alton wharf-boats, which were al most shattered to pieces and cast upon the bore in the midst of the ridge of ice. Tho tipper works were rendered entirely useless, save for fuel, and both hulls are badly cut by the ic, but may be repaired and made to serve their purpose again. ''We yesterday visiied the boats which were carried down, and fur which so much solicitude was felt. They are twenty-three in number, all lying between the Lower Dyke and the Arsenal scattering along the river for the space of a mile. They are in groups of threes and fours, and an occa sional one is soon by itself. About twenty canal boats lie scattered in great confusion Among the steamers, making a delightful variety. . "We may now remark, in connection with the total lose sustained by the breaking up of tho ice, that it will be far less than was at first anticipated. Several of the boats sunk, or otherwise rondeied useless, were 'old and of little value. There was no boat in port that entirely escaped damage, and the injuries varied in extent from $100 to $3,000, excepting those boats which are entirely lost. ''Tlio total loss is variously estimated from 150,000 to 150,000. It is certainly snore than $50,000, and we presume that $100,000, the medium, will not be far from a Correct estimate. ' Nor is it known that there will not yet be further damage. The Maimers near the Arsenal are in a helpless tecftditton, feeing bedded in the ice which Lad gorged in the sWagh, and is sufficiently strong to admit of persons passing to and from the boats. They are merely stick ing thero aground, awaiting sufficient rise to carry them ofT, and titer'e is no telling theaccidents they may yet meet before they tan be considered ss safe. Their owners are now taking every means to provide for their safety, and we hope they may succeed. "The prospect re, however, still dreary for many of them, but as the river was rising last evening, we shall probably know their fate in a day or two." Breaking P of tae RiverWreck of fleet TbrmtBg aees.es. , " Persons familiar with, the ways of the river saw on Saturday that the time for the. dreaded ''break up" was imminent. For fifty three days the river has been closed, the shores of Ohio and Kentucky have been for weeks united by a bridge of crystal strong enough for the safe passage of droves of cattle and pondereus wagons with their loads and teams. But on Sat urday it was evident that this phenomenon "having existed for an unprecedented length tfiime, was about to be dissolved. The teamboatmen made every preparation in their power to meet the impending cri.is, hut were to a crcat extent powerless. The - o boats were immovably fixed to the shore, exposed to the combined fury of an ava lanche and flood. Saturday bight ibe great Kbeetof ice in front of the city, was anxious ly watched br many sleepless eyes ; ex peeling to see it start like monster from bleep,. and do it work of ruin. A Utile af ter eleven o'clock the ice started. The ex citement was painfully intense. The bells of all the steara?rs run? their wildest aVrm. The tleun whistles shrieked, and ,1 th.:! there "if gra grf A Weekly. Newspaper, devoted Vol. II. mortal fear expressed in their deep, hoarse roaring. All the river men who were not on the spot, made the utmost haste to the scene of action. Dut the ice stood upon the order of its going, instead of going at once, and the mass remained in an uneasy condition until moving. Then Licking be gan to show symptoms of giving out with a vengeance. That stream was rising, with some rapidity, and about tea o'clock largo quantities of ice were forced against the still bosom of the Ohio. Thoro it rolled, and leaped and plunged, accumulated and crushed, with a moaning, grating noise, un til one o'clock, when tho brittle clasps of the Ohio were partially broken and loosed, and the Licking poured forth an angry eruption which raged across the Ohio, and spent its first fury on the boats lying at the foot of Walnut street, where it made half dozen wrecks. Persons looking down Main, Walnut or Sycamore streets to the river, where recently all things have been motion less, beheld a vast whirlpool of dingy ice rushing at dizzy speed, in lumps of all im aginable shapes, many of which seemed inspired with individual life, so strnnge and complicated were their evolutions, and to apparently unaccountable their vertical movements. It was a chaos of wrecked icebergs a maelstroom choked with the de bris of a frozen zone, and struggling to an nihilate the tumultuous fragments. This spectacle was observed by thousands of per sons, and few even of these who had no special interests there made precarious, but recognized tho scene as an imposing dem onstration of the tremendous forces of na- ure. Yet the bridge in front of Newport remained steadfast, and in a couple of hours the gorge below had checked the rush from Licking, having fust given it a turn up the river. Is was curiously suggestive to see for some time the ice from the Licking take a run up in front of the Newport barracks. About the time that the gorge became so tight that the ice ceased to movo, the pres sure against the steamer Grapeshot, lying just above tho foot of Sycamore street, was too heavy for her timbers, and she began to leak and slowly succumb, while her crew and all persons who could be induced for love or money to assist were with frantic energy hurling ashore everything about her that could be handled. The whole landing was now black with people, who were gazing on the gorged nnd portentous river, with something of awe mingled with their excitement. Though there were dangers that tho ice might start at any moment, and sweep some of tho boats awny, snapping their cables as threads, and sinking other at the landing, people crowded upon them. A large number were on the steamer Flag, which was the next west of the Grapo Shot, when she was observed to totter and commence settling. They moved ofT, but slowly, when a sudden destruction overwhelmed the boat. She was heavily loaded on deck and on the guards, and when fairly started, broke up in an instant, falling into a shapeless, utter wreck. Sucb instantaneous destruction of a boat few had ever witnessed, and as the steam and smoke arose from that part of the wreck remaining out of the water, there was a minute and fearful susponse. Thero was fire in the furnaces 1 Would it spread! If it did, wholesale ruin would oversweep the whole fleet at the landing. The bells of all the steamers clanged a fire alarm, and the sensation among the great crowd on the land was awful. It seemed certain that several persons had been killed in the destruction of the boat, or that at least a number were confined amid the splinters ; and if that was the case and the fire should extend, they would, be tween it and the swelling river be speedily either drowned or be burnt to death. But thanks to a kind Providence, the sinking was so sudden after the boat careened, the furnaces were so completely submerged, that the fire did not find a rosinous splinter on which to seize, or bis red and conquer ing banners would have flaunted, almost in the twinkling of an eye, over the whole ar ray of steamer that are the pride of our city over the lordly Strader, and toe "tubs" and all. After a brief interval a fire engine was at hand but the last living coals in the fur naces were quenched by the timely applt cation with buckets, and when this became known the multitude breathed again. And it was presently discovered to the deep gratification and surprise of all that no lives have been lost on the Flag. But we never before saw such foolinh recklessness of life as was displayed along the landing and on the river yesterday. The crowds had to b driven from the steamers by throwing water upon them ; and op to the time that it grew quit dark last night, a strip of ice just below the Newport ferry remaining un broken, the people were crossing npon it, though the danger that they would be swept away wa obviously imminent. Cincinnati Commercial. The ts! y t tb.3 h'Siif at to tlio Principles of Jeffereonian OREGON CITY, St. Louis is stated to be fmin 950,000 to 100,000, which is considerably less than the first estimate. The St. Louis insur ance companies will suffer to the extent of 930,000 to 40,000. The Mississippi Bridok. This struc ture is rapidly approaching completion. The third span is up from the Iowa shore, which is the span connecting with the great draw on the centre crib, on that side. The first span reaching Irom the Illinois shore i also up and there yet remains only one span more to connect il with the draw on the Illinois, or inland shore. That is, there is only one span of the bridge yet to eroct, and the draw to complete. Tho ceutro pieces on which the draw is to swing is about finished, and looks in its solidity and size something like the cominenoemrnt of a modern tower at Babel it is a tower, too one whose usefulness far surpasses that of iU ancient prototype, and which we hope may endure much longer, as a monu ment of the real progress of the age in which we live. On each side ofthiscen. tre circular pier, aud in which it is enclosed, in tho great wooden crib, filled in with rock, extending some three hundred and fifty feet up and down the river, and on which the draw is to rest, when not in use for the cresting of train. On the upper end of the crib there is room for a house in which the draw-tender is to live far out amidst but high above, with a firm foun dation under him the rushing water of tho Mississippi rapids. When the whole is completed it will be one of the grandest structures on the con tinent or in the world. It will be comple ted probably by the 1st of March, proximo. Rock Inland A J v. "Tub Gray Mare is the Detter Horse." We know very well the line is in Prior's Epiloguo to Lucius; but the story from which the phrase is derived i something liko this : A gentleman who had seen the world, one day gave his oldest son a span of horses, aud a chariot, and a basket of eggs. "Do you," said he to the boy, "trav el upon the high road until you come to the first houso in which there is a married couple. If you find that the husband is the master there, give him one of the horses. If, on tho contrary, the wife is the ruler, givo bcr the eggs. Return at once if yeu part with a horse, but do not como back so long as you keep both horses, and there is an egg remaining." Away went the boy full of his mission, and, just beyond the borders of his father's estate, lo 1 a modest cottage. lie alighted from the chariot and knocked at tho door. Tho goodwife opened it for him nnd curtesi. cd, "Is your husband at home J" "No;" but she would call bim from tho hay field. In he camo wiping his brows. The young man told them his errand. "Why," said the wife, bridling and rolling the corner of her apron, 'I always do as John want me to do j he is my master ain't you John!'' To which John replied, "Yes." "Then," said the boy, "I am to give you a horse; which will you take !" "I think," said John, "as how that bay gelding seems to be the one as would suit me the best. "If we have a choice, husband," said the wife, " think the gray mare will suit us best." "No," replied John, "the bay for me ; he is more square in front, and his legs are better." "Now said the wife, "I don't think so ; the gray mare is the bet ter horse ; and I shall never be contented unless I get that one." "Well," said John, "if your mind is set on it, I'll give up ; we'll take the gray mare." "Thank you," said the boy J "allow mo to give you an egg from this basket ; it is a nice fresh one, and you can boil it hard or soft, as your wife will allow." The reel of the story you may imagine ; the young man came home with both horses, but not aa egg remaining in his basket Couen's Wineprett. mIs TaraUt PreltanUTt It was remarked, that indolence and bad management are always unprofitable, and these are often allied lo agriculture. Elev en hours a day are required of operators in manufactories and workshops, all winter long, and merchants keep their stores open from fifteen to seventeen hours a day. Farmers work in winter as many hour as manufacturers. Some, on the contrary, rest all winter, and idle away part of the summer, and these are the ones, usually, that cry out against the profitableness of farming. Iffarmers were as diligent and constant as other men, they would make as much money. If farming is unprofitable, how happens it that farmers' families are so well fed and clothed, and so many have money in the Savings Banks I The farmer's salary come in by driblets, instead of lump. Little by little be re ceives his yearly stipend. A down of eg(i liij, a few pounds of butter to-mor-,p: al-ts, p-!:ry, c;, yW Democracy, and advocating tie O.T., MAY 10, 1850. apples, are some of the things be sells. Land worth ten dollars an acre often pays for itsslf, besides taxes, interest and ex pense of cultivation, in a single year. A man in this vicinity sold (210 worth of po tatoes from an aero this year. They were an early variety, and were dug and sold in season to sow the ground with turnip. Besides, money is not the only think in which there is profit. Farmers are healthy men. Is health problaoie J ask the in valid. Is pood digestion worth any thing! Aik the dyspeptic. Is sound sleep good ! Ask the slecphws. It longevity valuable! Ask him who diss in "manhood's early primo." All these belong to the farmer. They are almost inseparable from his business. They are allied lo his calling. Who would not then be a farmer! N. E. Furmer. Flo(li am E4IUr a Bad nanlaets. Clark street was yesterday the scene of an unmitigated outrage. If Chicago is to be made the thsutre of such acts by govern ment officials, although we bad some knowl edge as to tho depths of degradation to which the defenders of the Kansas-Nebraska outrage would descend, we must con fess that we have yet much to learn in ro- gard to this sad and pninful lubjeot. The public certainly have a right to expect a due regard for the laws, if not for common decency, from those high in authority. The facts to which we allude, as we have them from nn eye witness, are substantially theso: Yesterday moruiug about 11 o'clock, as C. L. Wilson, Esq., editor of the Journal, was pasting along Cl.irk street, near the State Bank, he was met by the United States District Attorney for the Slato of Illinois, Thomas Iloyne, Esq., Mr. Iloyne accostud Wilson and told him not to use his (Uoyne's) nam in his paper so of ten, or ho would ring his nose for him. Wilson replied that he had bolter not un dertake that job, when Iloyne struck Wil son a severe blow in the face. The blow staggered Wilson somewhat, but he rallied and pummcled Mr. Pierce's official pretty effectually. In tho progress of the fight Mr. Hoyno was knocked through the show window of the State Bank, and safely de posited among the other tmall coin to the great consternation of the man of mammon. The editor having pied his dignified (?)as sailunt, the gentleman of Irirft was per mitted to withdraw his suit without furthor damage. It is a legal question which will not be likely to figure in the law reports of the State of Illinois, who shall pay for tho elegant show window of the State Bank 1 Chicago Pre. America, Read I The Duke of Richmond, formerly the celebrated Col. Lenox, was Governor of Canada in 1815-'16. The late Horatio Gates, of Massachusetts, was at that time an eminent merchant in Montreal, and was known and respected by thousands in Can1 ada and his native country. Mr. Gates r ported the following remarks as having been made in his presence by the Duke of Richmond : "The Duke, a short time before , his death, in speaking of the Government of the United slates, said : ' It was weak, in consistent, and bad,' and could not long ex ist. It will be destroyed ; it ought not to, and will not be permitted to exist, for many nnd great aro the evils that have originated from the existence of that government. Tho curse of the French Revolution, and subsequent wars and commotions in Eu rope, are to be attributed to its example ; and so lone as it exists, no Prince will be safe upon his throne; and the sovereigns of Europe are aware of it, and they have de termined upon its destruction, and come to an understanding upon this subject, and have decided upon the means le accomplish it ; and they will eventually succeed by subversion rather than conquest.' 'As th low and surplus population of the differ ent nations of Europe will be carried into that country, it is and will be the recepta cle for the bad end disaffected population of Europe, when they aro not wanted for soldiers or to supply the navies, and the European governments will favor such s course.' This will create a surplus and majority of low population, who are so ea sily excited; and they will bring with them their principles, and in nine cases out of len, adhere to their ancient and former governments, laws, manners, and religion, and will transmit them to- their posterity, and in many cases propaga'e them among the natives.' -These men will become citizens, and by the constitution and laws will be invested with the right of suffrage. The different grades of society will then be created by the elevation of a few and by degrading many, and thus a heterogeneous population will then be formed, speaking different lan guages, and of different religions and sen timents, and make them act, think, and feel alike, in political affairs, will be like mixing oil and water; hence discord, dissension, anarchy, and civil war will ensue, and some popular individual will assume the govern ment and restore order, and the sovereigns of Europe, the immigrants, and many of toe natives, wm sustain D'.rr,. 'ThtChur-; of Rome hat a design npon ;'uat country, and it will in time be the es tablished religion, and will aid in the de struction of that republic. . I Lave con versed with many of the sovereigns and jrl:of E-ope, 4iJ ti. iive u.-.ia- bide of Truth in every issue. No. 4 mouily expressed tfiiso opinions relative lo tho government or (lie United Mates, ana their determination lo subvert it.' " These remarks were made by tho Duke of Richmond, nearly forty years ago for ho died in 1810 and the correctness of his assertions has, linco that time, been remarkably verified. The low nud surplus population of Eu- ropo lias been brought to this country as he predicted. It has becomo "a receptacle for tho disaffected population of Europe." These men have become citizens of this country, aud have been invested with the right of suffrage. The question now arises shall this state of things continue I Shall the United Stales remain forever a receptacle for the ignorant, vicious, and disaffected popula tion of Europo! Shall Europe b permit ted for the future to vomit forth upon our shores annually five hundred thousand pau pers, criminals, and vagabonds of every grade nnd hue, to become, after the lapse of five years, American citizens, American law makers, and American office holders ! This is the question which the American people aro now required to answer. We say uo. iiecause, il the settlement of tins great question be postponed for five or ten years longer, it will be too late to answer it, as it should be answered. If postponed for a few years, lbs foreign party will bo como so strong that it will be impossible to effect the reformation in our naturaliza tion laws, so imperatively requirod for the conservation and well-being of our repub lican institutions. Delays are not only dan gerous, they are fatall Now or never is the time for action. The Terriiile Issue. Col. Benton, in a letter to the St. Louis Democrat, makes the following thoughtful comparison of tho all-pervading Kansas question : "What the Holy Land was to the Sara-cr-ns and Crusaders, what the Crimea has been to the Russians and the Allies, tho scene of their exploits and the theatre of their struggles, Kansas is to the Northern and Southern coalitions in Congress ; it is now the camping and fighting ground of these parlies, and will be the btirvinr ground of the defeated, for no political fu ture for those who have chosen the wrong side. The national peaco cannot bo re stored bv compromise. The total over throw and subjugation of one of the com batants is the one sole guarantee of peace. The old policy of dividing new territory between the slavo and free States, will bo established, or tho new policy of the Kan-sas-Nebraska hill (which ignores the State in behalf of individuals) confirmed by the issue of the contest. As a national ques tion, the Kansas problem is invested with an absorbing interest, but in Missouri it has the added interest of a local question. The position which St. Louis will maintain in relation to the contending parties will show whether she will be true to tho instincts and the genius of commerce, or bo held enthralled by tho feudal, turbulent territo rial spirit of the border. Tho feudal spirit which is manifested so strongly in the frontier, is at war with the spirit of com merce as much in (he nineteenth century, as il was in the thirteenth, when cities that had orison in defiance of the territorial power, revived the arts and sciences, and rekindled tho smoldering embers of a more ancient liberty, which sacred fire they have transmitted to moiiorn times." Prosperity of California. Sinco the discovery of gold in California, now almost eight years, the prospects of the miner hove never been more fluttering than at the present momont. Every day brings reports of new discoveries, and exceceding in rich ness all preceding ones. Immense opera tions have been projected, in which capi talists are investing freely, as thero is no branch of business which pays so large a percentage. There are quartz mills in this State, which have paid fifty per cent, per month upon the amount of capital in vested, and several water ditches whore the profits hare been nearly as largo. Al though the mint has boon making coin for nearly two years, at the rate of moro than a million a month, there is not coin enough in tho country to purchase the gold dust offering by tho miners. OCT The fuel for the President's mansion costs $2,000 per annum. Congress appro priates 81,000 for this purpose. Th ser vants paid by the Government are a door keeper, who receives 9000 per annum, nn assistant door keeper, who receives 8-120, and a furnace-keeper, who receives 8305. All the other domestics required to keep this extensive establishment in order are paid by the President. There has been a call for another convention of such of the Amerscan party, as bolted the Fillmore convention, to meet in N. Y. Gty June 12th. It is ihouaht to be a movement in favor of George Law. (fir The Washington correspondent of the Commercial Averliur states that hs bss infonr&iion from a responsible source, which renders it almost certain thst if ibe late Nicaragnan decree, annexing the Mos quito territory, shall be attempted to be carried into force, the commanders cf the BriiUh eet on the West India station will interfere to J revcLt il. ADVKttTlSINU RATICS. One wjiiaro (If! linos or turn) un Inuninn, $3,00 " " two iiwri ..!, 4, ni) " three liiw riimii, A,U9 l'ncli suWquenl Innortion, 1,00 Reuonabls deduction! to tlxc whu tJuTli. by the ytar. Job Printing. The rsofRisTi or tiir AItGl'8 is lurrv to Inform Ilia public thnt hs has jiwt received a large stork of JOll TYl'E and other new print ing mnU-rinl, and will bo in tin speedy receipt "f otlJ itiona uili'cl to nil the requirement! of lira lo cality. 1IAXDH1M-S. POSTEIW, M.ANK8, CAKDS, CIKCUI.AK.S, I'AMl'llLET-WOlilt nnd oilier ktiidn, done to order, on short notice. Private l.lfs of Qutea VtctorU. We copy the following description of the personal habit of the Queen from the recent Loudon correspondence of the Phil' aJolphia Inquirer : "There is among tho Spring west end residents of this enpitnl, nn excellent and amiable lad-, who rejoices in n husband and soven children ; a spacious and elegant mansion, skirting, like several other psla tial residences, St. James' park ; and seen abroad almost every diiy, sunshino or cloudy, in a gentle but exceedingly recher che, barouche nnd four, sometimes only a pair, with natty looking post-boys. Said ludy makes calls of a morning on those of her own "set," when she chats for ten min utes on ordinary matters of gossip ; the lutcst murder, poisonings, public Improve ments, new fashionnblo arrivals, newest novel, newest opera, newest bonnet, any thing in short but Tulilies, and llie church rule.' Doing, without peradventure, a lady, and no sham, our west-ender atsnuies no airs, dresses in no very striking or ruinously cost, ly robes, exacts no special homago, and rather shuns than courts tho stare of the crowd among whom she modestly and noiselessly mores. She is much respected by all for she is by all known to be n put tern English womnn a good original for Mrs. Ellis, i. e., a careful housekeeper, who can turn her hand to any kind of house work above the mcro department of drudge ry, notable at ber needle; lostuful in domes tic appointments ; a good gardener, who can handle, if need bo, a garden trowel, train a shrub or creeper, and arrange a par terre. She is clever with hor pencil ; she is fond of her children, and assists in their tuition; withal, n loving and considerate wife. ITor parties nre unexceptionable, and (as I havo heard of a hospitable nnd fashionnblo hostess in west Chestnut street,) her guests thoroughly enjoy them selves uuder her gilded nnd fretted roof. To come to what is moro directly per sonal, our West-ender is "fat, fair, and for ty." Fat she was not, when I (almost dai ly) saw her sorno years ago ; but English women in high life all grow full, if not nat urally so, when they reach forty and the lady in question, for an English woman, appears ovcry dny of her nge. Yet "fair" she is as a lily, and no sunbeam could look more clear, more free from care, or habitu ally wear an aspect of moro entire nonrm- lance. Ytt retiring nnd simplo ns are tho char acter nnd personal habits of this lady, (who is always glad to escape back again to the Bhade and rural scenes of the coun try,) she is relatively the most important person in this island, and in her nnme is evory act of state or government performed. Indeed, though so good a wife, hor own husband is her obedient "subject" (like a few Philadelphia husbands I) and she even disclaimed his proper surname, Mrs. Al bert Wittakind is she not, but "Her Majes ty, the Queen," of tho less account, and less honorable house of Guclph. Albeit bcr sons will inherit their father's surname. How fully the British public distinguish between the sovereign and the executive head, was strikingly manifested yesterday, when our good-humored little mother, bringing, as she nlwnys docs, fine weather, emerged from the main entrance of Buck ingham palnco, and was home along In her Btate coach through the largest crowd of well dressed citi.ens I ever saw in St. James's. Bhe was on her way to the House of Lords to rend a "speech," writlcn by my Lord Palinerston, which everybody knew would recommend an inglorious nnd humiliating peaco, to be concludud at tho dictation of the French Emperor, which proposition is so exquisitely obnoxious to everybody in London, that public indigna tion thereat can scarcely preserve decent limits." President Stiles. Old Governor Hull, our first Territorial Governor, used to re late with great humor the manner in which old President Stiles, of Connecticut, told him of his only military adventure. Speaking of th war, (of the revolution then raging,) the sufferings of our people, and the barbarity of the enemy, he would say, "When they came up here, I saw our people all turning out under arms to inert and fight them, but I hadn't fired a gun in twenty years. I knew the red coat had no right here, so I got down tny gun, though I hadn't fired it fur twenty years. I cleaned it up, and followed our people to mark the enemy. We soon came ntar t!,cm, and the firing begun. I drew up oy gun, though 1 hadn't fired a gun in twenty years. I drew a fin sight on a red coat, prayed the Lord to l.e hi oul right to heaven, shut my eyes, and pulled the trig ger," Exchange, t3T Seven of ibe eight Judges of the Supreme Court of Michigan have affirmed the constitutionality of the Prohibitory Liquor Law of that State, which is siimUr to 'Is i -i Ns Yik.