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rciiimci) avsar avruaiuir horniso, 1 BY WILLIAM L. ADAMg. Oflice-CooJ'j Building, Main st. Edito rial Room in tirst story. TE !.'' Asoua Kill be furniahai al 'J'hrte Dolfail and fily Vinla fr annum, la aingla anbirri'imThrtt Dutlari taek la rlulu of Irn al ant afiee. tff Turn Valtori far m mantliiNa autitcrlp- liana rtrtivtj fur lean period, fjf Ka wiper ducoiilinurd unlit alt arrenrufet art paid. unl"t al Ike npliun uf Hie puhlithcr. fsueaW UtttUy t BY Jl'MA M. EMI ti". Speak gcutly j cil.l, Imicl ward am felt Beyond III piiuing hour J , la aflet Ufa U known, alas I Tusir chilling, douilly power. Bjwkk gently to III Millie auil Karlli genlly liMenou-h of TlioM do not by lliy eulilm check Thy ilrit'ij) omlluw. Spoak gt-ully tu til wirrowing The Imrt op.iend wMi grief, ; May Ontiiu lliy coiuoling ward , , AbU-staudeureriliif. Speak genlly lo tliu littlo one That cluster round lliy way ) ' Lift may nut alwaye wear lollrem Au epeot fair iuJ gay. . Speak geully to III euUerhig poor Twill help IokmiIi lliair woe, ! If tliou, with kind lud gentle worJn, Thino alme lu lovo bestow. ; Epcuk gently ; k'nd, friendly word It U not much to give ; Dut iu tli weary, cure-worn heart It memory long shall lira. Speak gently ; fur kind, lotiitg word Possess a innjio power, To lighten aorrow, care dispel, And cheer a lonely hour. mmrmmwmmmm mem mm Tuamvmm mm am i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Democracy, turn advocating me mw vi muum -A or.. Weekly Newdpopcr, devoted to the Principles of JeftlMwrnim n OREGON CITY, O.T., MAY L4, 1850. Xo. 0. An Englishman U America. Tlio following nniolo appears in the Lon. don Shipping and Mercuntilo Gazette : To tlio F.tlitorof tliu Shipping and Mercnn lilo Gazelle : i Sir : I have now mndo the tour of the Slates of North America, and think it prob ublo I can give your readers some useful information. I landed nt New York city teu months ago, and havo spout my lime in studying the diameter and customs of those people, and must confess thut if I re mained ten years tliu result would ho the eainc; and 1 know very little ubuut them. Dut upon one point naliotiul prido men, wemen, and children are nil uliku, and the idea of any nation of Europe, or the whole .r ii . ....... it.. ... ....ii.iiiniMiHr tliU eoun- VI IIICIM 'UV ',..iv.., r - try,.is perfectly absurd to them. Every .body 'rends the papers, and n good-humored urchin of twelve years used to rate me soundly nt Philadelphia lor our failures at Scljuiipo. The best version f Ameri can sympathy was civ. n me few days idnce. 'Wli.'ii iliu war commenced ih Turks were the weaker power, and our sympathies were uilh her. After the id liance, it was three against ono, an I our sympathies went for llussiu ; but, should Trance join Russia to morrow against Eng- land, our government could not prevent iis citizens from not only -.'ympathizrug with England, hut assisting h"r with uiHliri.il uid.' This I heard from a very intelligent man, who 1 do not think suspected my na tionality ; and I firmly believe it. In the South I spent some time upon the planta tions, nnd many times held long converse tions with tliu slaves, und always with the same result. Thcv aro much better satis- lied than 1 suspected, and when 1 spoko f the probability of sr,I was answered, thai "whito folks wouldn't let tiia fi'ln." 'Hut,' said I, "the blacks from the West Indies will cme here and help you tonm vour freedom." '-What! black soger I.r l..i 'nn eum. den. ninssa : lei ii fight the nigja, I know, and (ior Almih:y wo civoVm.goh !" If not in the s um- laifnage the same fueling was ever ex pressed I have viitud all their national armories, und nhhou"h the county is at peace, the roniPift netiviiv prevails : all ihe old arms nrecon(femned, and by next spring nearly 1,500,000 Minio rifles will bo ready for . ..iL,.;i,i;,.,. .1,..si,l,.s CoIl's. Clark's, and oll.ers. A Mr. Al"cr, at Boston, is now engaged on a new kind of gun for the navy 'The ranso with solid shot is nearly 5 miles with shell, somewhat shorter, and the explo ,sion of the shell renders conflagration cer lain to a i-reat distance. These are called C by those at work on them, the secret gun Hut what the secret is I could not acer tain. Since the war rumors 1 have been ubservanl of all and everything that could give a clue to the feclinps of the peopK This is not difficult to come at, as the feeling is general, and their confidence so great iu lheir own strength that the most diffident only speak of the cousequences and the re suit. In company with a party of mer chants, most of whom were engaged in the trade with England, I broached the war ...KwH.inil was astonished to find them to indifferent about the consequences. One of them, largely it.terc.led in cupper-.,.., in answer to a remak of mine, that he would i t inners "NTot a bit ol I.ava iu "i" ri -.,'1 h.v "thev will make capital pr. teen; the government will furnish guns of lon- range; no British man-of-war can catch them except a tteamer, and they can. not in a good breeze, so we must take thanoes." -But where will you get your m.f -Where 1 We have 94:000e- ti.4 fi.Wmen who will floJ our aeaportfi r.Hlv that in less ana i k j" , . .(..r. .! mon'h after the war la dec ared, there will be 500 of the fastest els in th. wor!J a!oit ar'iT-t:rr''' hti " ' li.h merchantman will nut oo uttoweu to ,ow herself at ten. W hat il'we lose a few, wo will nnkn it up in the end. Two steam- era were launched a few days since, each about 4,000 totif, built in chJil mouths, and it i jut as easy to build &U in the same time or lo." "Hut your coasts aro not defended, lti-member you have no Sebas topol or Cronstadt." Nor do we want any. Wo have a fov very pretty loris, but shot'l l any nation nttempt an invasion, we will meet them with hands and hearts equal lo any, superior to most ; and we can con centrate 800,000 men at any point on our coast in a few days. Let the alarm be sounded at this moment, and in a few hours nearly 80,000 men will makothoir appear ance nrmed and equipped." This sounds lik ! bragging, but it i fact. This city (New York) has near that num ber enrolled nnd equipped; every man keeps his rifle nt home or in the private armory of the company to which he belongs, and I find it is tlio samo throughout the country. I have frequently met with boys of 13 nnd 14, with gun and game-bag, starting at early dawn for the woods, for here they can shoot game wherever found. War is argurd against by everybody as something to be avoided, but the idea of backing out to avoid it does not appear toen ter the mind of any body. Some of the papers fpeak of the President's message disparag ingly, but the people are with him. I re gret I cannot defend my country at this t'uno as 1 would wish. The Bulwer Clay ton treaty is plain nnd explicit, and there don't nnd won't understand double mean- ings in treaties. They say the man with the white hat does not refer to the individu al in tho whito cap, und my Lord John Rus- s II acknowledge ihe American interpre tation. There are thousands of men hero that the Americans would he glad to get clear of, but that does not justify England in blinking their laws by enlisting them ; and my Lord ru'inerslon's instructions ivnroiiiethiii''like tullinira man to stab his neighbor but not hurt him. If the iren'y (Clayioti-Buhver) is adher ed to, wo have the Stat pledged never to occupy it, (Central America,) for, say what we will, they will stick to the trra'y and it wilbnot be annexed ; abrogate it, and in -ss than ten years it will be one of the State s of tho 1'n ion. The Canadians are n very h.yal set, and think they could take nosscss'on of the Uui'id States at a mo ment's warning. Tiny have caught the hubit of bragging from their neighbors without having the wherewith to brag on. A I rip up the lakes is the must convincing proof wo can have of the ilillereiife in the two pmple. In the American are well fin- J,iil cities and towns, sawmills, riiilwwls tunning in every direction u. o.ei, ,vu seldom lose ti;:ht of tho locomotive nnd there are innumerable teamris nt every itidilK'. On the Cann-lian, where tliere nre settlements, yon see the well-kept, com- fortnblu dwellings, the smooth snenrcd lawn, and everything wears an air of comfort ; but liille or no business, with the exception of the great railroad. However, they arc rapidly improving ; but should there be war, the largest nnd best portions ot i, ana da are lost to us. Quebec, Halifax, and ...Iw.r iwiints wmild bother them. But to " i sum up my own observations after every opportunity that one man could have ul forded him. the result wouM benslollows. Mexico, Culia, nnd the whole of Central America iu the. South, including Cuba, wmildbe annexed ; and I have little doubt of Canada, in tliu .North ; millions ot trea sure and thousands of valuable lives lost to En"!and forever ; our commerce crippled in tvery sen, and some fighting that will irliiddeti tho heat ls of our tried soldiery. Now, what can we gain ? A fool of ter ritory t We don't wnnt it ; nnd if wo did, six feet for the majority of our brave fellows, I feu, , wuuld be the extent. Naval or mili tary glory we don't want, nnd as for the sand beach of tho Mosquito king it is a de cided humbug. What would be the result to this country ? It would put her back in nrospcrity for half a century; it would i . - . ruin thousands who are now in Biuuei.ee,. but would en rich thousands who are now poor. But the great advantage the Ameri cans have is that they can produce and manufacture everything tbey want ; the different climates nfford this. They would get accustomed to their oWI. goods and dis card ours forever. But the greatest injury io all parties, and I may say to the world, would be the making of this nation of 2-V 000,000 a warlike people ; and once in stiled with the love of war, the propagand ists of Europe would have a fearful ally. The last rear's crop of wheat is officially given at 170,0110,000 of bushels, and everything else in proportion, so that we cannot starve ihera out ; and, f.om my own observation, would rather see England contending with the whole of Europe than against this country. I am no croaker, nor have I any dcubt of the power and wealth of my be I loved country, and, if need be, coull agin 'v-cj:e s a:T.krt f'rter l?n l'T but ihu day that wuris declared between those two niigh'y rivals a contest will bo commenced that will bring more honors in it tfiiti than the world ever vet wilnewed. There is another item which I am liko to forget. Many of my county men place great dependence on tho abolitionists, or friends of freedom, in this country ; but I assure you their greatest protection hero is their iusiyiiilicuiico. They flourish as long as thought harmless, but the slightest suspi cion of their collusion with a foreign fo and they would bo annihilated ; in facl ' have proved to my entire satisfaction that those terrible and exciting questions uro only intended for poliiical effects; but at tach any importance to thr-m affecting Jie interests of tho country, and they nre gone. You would, uo doubt, be astonished to hear that many children of foreigners, and, in fact, foreigners themselves, aro know-nolh-iiv.!s,Htnrted lo proscribe them ; but such is the fact. I have extended my remarks further than I intended, but they have one desirable feature that is, truth. Should they prove acceptable, I may again intrude on you. I remain, yours, JAMES li. WAKKr.iN. Buffalo. New York, Jan. 11, 1850. From New Mexico. Col. Savery, Mr, Bransfotd, Mr. Rccs, and several other "entlemen, have recently arrived in our ci'iy from New Mexico. They represent tho Indians as quiet, and a better prospect for a permanent peace among tho hostile tribes, who have heretofore been a terror upon the plains, than ever before. Indeed, tho Indians may ho said to bo suing for ncace and foi'eivoness. ihe Santa re mail, duo the hitter part of this month, wil' not, it is supposed, arrive, as the new con tractors for its transportation, it is alleged, have not the means or necessary appliances to put it through. The outward bound mail for Santa Fe, which started on the first of this month, only proceeded a few miles from West port and then camo back on account, it is said, ef the depth of the miimw. nnd lies there at present. Thero is no news of any particular interest in iSew Mexico. The winter has been the hardest ona ever experienced there, und the stock upon thepluins have suffered quite severely The Arkansas river is reported to bo frozen to tho bottom. A number of merchants from New Mexico are already in our city, utid others are expected, lo lay in their stock of goods fur tho season, lnu put cliases this year will be very heavy. Si. Louis Republican Munh 20. 05" Tho Wilmington, Del., Republican t. lls n story of John Bceson, nn old miser in tl.oso parts, who is a bachelor, about eighty years ol nc, nnd by his peculiar modo of living has amassed a lortune, ueing me owner of some two or three hundred acres of land iu Uraudywiue Hundred. It is al- e-ed that since he arrived to manhood he has never slept in a bed, preferring to lie on the floor near the lire place, with a stick of wood ior a pillow, lie. has taken all tho wheat he produced on his farm lo tho Uran dwine mills, whore, it is said, the money has remained for two or three years before he would lift it. No went without shoes, and the soles of his feel became impervious lo briars and even thorns. Predominance of Amuuican SmrriNO in Chinese Waters. Tho Friend of China, of Dec. 15th, gives the tonnage of foreign nations nt ihat lime in the ports of Shanghae Fuchow-fou, Whampoa, nnd long Kong, a total of 50,000 tons. Of this amount, 18,075 is British, and 2 4,192 American. The latter is within 4,034 tons of the combined tonnago ot all toretg'i na tions at these ports, and is larger than tho tonnage of England, France, Spain, Hol land, Sweden, Hamburg, Denmark, I'ortu al and Bremen. Our Hf-t'.oiil Uvrtnsts. From an elaborate article in Putnam's Magazine for Murch wo gn'hcr some inter esting facts relatiie to our sea-coast de fense. Beginning iu tho Eastern part of tho United States, iho writer of the article alluded to gives us tliu designation and lo cation of each fortification upon tho coast around to the Mississippi, together with our Lake defenses on our Northern boun dary. In addition to this, we have nn ac count of tho number of men necessary to garrison each fort, the total amount of money already expended upon them, and the amount necessary to complete each of the forts enumerated. We think tho writer has omitted one fort on our extreme Eastern border,' ut East- port, Maine. A high natural eminence overlooks tho town, upon the summit of which aro barracks and some 20 guns ol largo calibre, though not enough by any means to defend the town from nn attack of heavy war ships. The first fort enu merated in tho article in Putnam is fori ICiiox. nt BuckstJort. Maine. Situated nt about 25 miles from iho inou'h of (he Ve nobscot nt a "narrow" in ihe river, it coin pletely precludes the possibility of iho pas- sa"0 of a hostile ship. There have been AI.VKIUWN'j KATES. One Htuart (14 lu lt) ona i.iitln, )3,P1 II II Wul.lM!lt.Uk, 4,(0 m tlir c ii.s- rw'i, .','0 Tacit fiibwra'in inw'iuiii lV Reaneali'a dtJuc Iwa u. tli- aJftriiw by ll. v. ar. "JonPrintin. Tc ranraitma up m AHilS fa furi-tr lu iuluriii Urn H:ic stmt l.a li J'l raea.vcil a Uejnrtiiekor.il ll Tll'i: and o'.l.itl.tw J.M.W in unit, rill, and will ka la lU a, cciy ifi' t "f ud.liliiiiiasi.iiv4 mull Ilia rural. I'l.x-uss uf" ilia lo eulliv. 11.1X01111.1. I'lWTI'.ltK, libA'j IWKIW, UIU XI.Ai:. I'AMHU.ET-WOHk nml iitl.ur liii.Ja, Jour lo or.ler. Imrt not e. . i , ' 'jy'ALJ.'-1. '- i-5 No Fixu'itts is Nati'ue. Tboro aro .: i. :.. ,i... i'..in fierier, unon no fix uros In nature, ihe univurm ts tluid the recent war excitement, wo extract the and volniilu. 1't ruw.icncc is but a word of following: le'. Our gl,bo seen by Cod Is but .-England would l.nve no chance of win- transparent law, not a mas. of fads. fU nittg any glory from a contest with us, will, oueu out bor people wore thoroughly united and uur mur. I, "" . zealous for ho war-this they are not. nor an idea, hioh dr,,wa it . his Hat, o U, re they likely If bo. Should tiny, how- and institutions. Le, us ra,e an o.ho i v . over, forge, tleir own pursui.s of L , , -,,,1 !,.! .I,r-i, ,,i.r...nra in seeking a War ""cu with the only country in the world ihat of ie j here n.l lb.r Of 8 Rksoi'kcksop Naval SrnE.vuTH. solitary figure or as we ice IKcKf mm i ...... .i.i. .i.. f 1. 1.., 1 1 trai'tniiit remaining synipniiiiscs niwi inc iun i "" - ,, , ,. ,. . ...i i ... scrai sof snow left m cold dells and moun- i.oeriy lueairugj;.. .uu.u , . . ., .,.-.,; f , ... .. ..... .1... niuc e s.iiuunoor juiy. wor iy oi a neroic ago a conieM, iui mc , .,e. J . . .. ... . i ii .r.ni.i n.itw K.-imewliut else. Tho weakness of mu. crime - - - The Greek letters last a littlo longer, vu dominion of the ocean. England's insular position would bo appar ent in one or two years, when the unequal- ed sttppiics of liml cr and naval stores, iron and coal of America, would bo exhibited in the continuud prtduolion of fleets tur passing the capacity of all tho worlJ. ..n, 1 .. . t .... I ! .. . n , . r. m.l joiners enough in tho United Stales to build oflbo foregoing. Now art. dest oy the wo hudredw.r steamer, of the tiu of U. See the capital ... the Merrimaceach year, without diverting l": t at..- I ,.1. r.-n.In o. ffUnpOWUCr, lUilui u.iv. v r II IIlUll UUIII Oil y UlllUr UIIHUII va a-MVt iiu 9 msehiniits onoiifli to fit tlirm with encmes, h' kU'al" i - a . and sailors enough to man them. Since are already passing under tho same sen tence, and tumbling into the inevitable pit which tho creation of new thought open for nil that U old. Tho new contininU are building out of the ruins of an old planet, tho now races feed out of tho decomposition steam bv electricity. expended on it already 6130,442, and Xfl Mr. ISeorge Sumner in a recent tho daye of Tromp and Kuytcr, England cctur0 8poU of the excessive ubc ol sal- 05" A bill to establish an overland ex press mail from St. Louis to San Francisco, via Albuquerque, N. M .has been introdu red into Concress. The conttactors are to be paid $3000 per trip, and allowed lo preempt a section of the public domain for every ten miles of the route. The post- ago charged is lo be SO cents per ounce ; and if after the first year tho contractors fail to make tho trip In fifteen days, they are liable to a heavy penalty. Westf-bn Emigration. The New ifnmnshire Patriot says! 'e hear ot persons in nil sections of the Sia'.e. who are starting for the West, or preparing to go, while many have already gone this spring. In one day last week, an ag-nt on one of the great routes to the West sold fifteen tickets to men going from this vicin-i-y. There'." no doubt that more people will leave this State for the West this year lhan have gone in any three past years. 8500,000 more are required to complete it according to the original plan. Portland (Mo.) harbor has been prepared for partial defense by tho two forts Scam- mel and Preble, built at an expense ot 8111,137, nnd mounting 111 guns. To complete these works $7,500 aro needed. Forts McClnney and Constitution com mand the harbor of Portsmouth, N.1I. They mount in tho aggregate but 73 guns, and were completed nt au expense of $39,- 273. Boston Harbor and City aro defended by three forts and two batteries mounting in all 539 guns. On these an amount of 1,088,103 has been expended, nnd 5124, D73 ate yet required to complete them. New Bedford, Mass., has one fort of 14 guns, completed at an expense of $5,000 Fori "Adams c Jinmauds Newport, R. I. It mounts 4G4 guns, has already consumed 81,301,343, ni:d requires 830,000 to finish it. Fort Trumbull is tho defense of New London, Connecticut, mounting 08 guns, and completed at nn expensoof $-250,0-1 1. New York City is defended by soven forts und fmr batteries. Theso in all mount 1000 guns. To carry theso work as fur towards completion as they at pres ent are carried, has cost $2,511,404. To perfect them 394,520 moro uro required. Forts Delaware nnd Mifflin, on the Dela ware river, aro provided with 204 guns. There has been expended on them the sum of (021,013, nnd 8592,000 will be requi. red to complete them. Fort Monroe, nt Old Point Comfort, and Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads, have 595 guns, have cost 84,007,407, and require yet $804,332 to complete them. Forts Washington, on iho Polomnc, Sev ern nnd Madison, nt Annapolis, mount in all 133 guns. They have cost 8590.854. Tim first two are completed, tho last re quires yet an expenditure of $30,000, There nre two forts prepared in part for tho defense of l3altimorc Carroll and Mcilenry. They mount 233 guus, have cost 231,0G3, nnd require an outlay of 8G5,000 yet There is a fort (M icon.) on Iho coast Ol Vorth Carolina, at Beaufort. It mounts 01 L'uns, and has cost 8470,730. To fin ish it 83.000 are needed. Thero is nnolher nt Oak Island, Sinithville, N. C, Fort Cas well, mounting 87 cues. It has been near ly completed nt nn expense of $571,221 Charleston, S. C, has three Forts, Pinck ncy, Moultrie, and Sumpler. They have 225 guns, awl havo been liuis tar compio ted at an expensoof 1795,718. $158,090 will fill out the original plan of these three forts. Forts Pulaski and Jackson dominate the Savannah river, have cost 1,003,659, and need an expenditure of $90,000. On the coasts of Florida aro seven Forls from Cumberland Sound around to Pensa cola. On the ramparts of these are 1041 heavy cutis. These Forts have cost $2,- 410,321, and yet require for their comple tion'lha sum of $2,213,802. Fort Morgan, at Mobile Point, and Gaines, at Dauphin Island, coast of Ala- bama, have 221 guna. They havo cost $1 23-2,550, and need yet an expenditure of $2 10,000. There are seven works of detense on the coast of Louisiana. They have in all 446 cuns, have cost $2,393,101, and require $115,500 to coinpleie them. Forts Wayne, at Detroit, Porter, at Buf falo, Niagara, on Niagara river, Ontario at fhweffo. and Montgomery on Lake Cham- plain have an armament of 342 guns. They have cost $012,650, and require now $353,040 to complete .mem has never had a really naval power to con-1 (mtn, as a cardinal cause of our prevaleut tend with. Sho has destroyed fleets, but American ill health. Ow mg to it, ho say tho nations who owned thorn have not been ,,at tli0 overage Auwrlcau mortality i able to replace them again. We do not raull to that of the filthiest and most uoi- spenk of armies, for in such a war they som atrocts in London. Ho denounced would ho of secondary importance, i he jt a JcaJ?y poison whose uso should bit chivulric valor of our people needs no en comium, nnd tho superior 'military educa tion of our officers over tlio British is too notorious to require comment." SfcCKss or Pacific Missions. Thero are jjj ft pm,,hlet to prove that tho comot 119 American und English missionaries in Lxocted to appear in tho course of lh shunned as tho slaughterer of iho iufuut, nnd the destroyer of tho strong man. The Comi.nu Comet. Dr. O. A. Jahn, the astronomer of Leipsic, has just pub- iho Pueific Islands ; 50,020 communicants, and 51,708 pupils. This wonderful suc cess in the missionary ellorts of barely a inglo geueration, is nn earnest of the im meiise harvest vet to be reaped among tho millions of Asia, Afiica, Austrulia, and L ar0 glii exlant Polynesia, when onco the Bible and tho livin teacher shall bo found heralding the . . a i.t a nil ft present year is identical wiin mai oi nu und 1550. Tho latter is called in Germa. ny MJancthou's comet, from the fact of that reformer having written several let ters and dissertations about it, eleven of Si'GAit. Tho sugar planter in different . f T ..a it... I al.y .trnll'. aH in all tho diHeren, tongu -s and Ian- - J -" Vli'ji "ua"es of tho Eastern Hemisphere. nat'-rial injury from tho unusual severity Gold in North Cakou.na.-TIio Ameri- , .jn,er nilj ,iml ttjcre is every rea- can North Carolina Englo slates that the sOI) (0 01,p,.ciend another short crop of su- slaves nt the Tortis gold mine in Franklin itaf Tljs js jt,y t0 CI1U30 tho Mrti-lo lo county, the property of T. K.TIiomas.foiiud, "1)im)ta;n js present advanced rutoa, if not a few days ago, several nuggets of gold, (o nicr figures. makiii" about $1050; one piece was worth - . . - . ,,. i . frr The Norfu k (Vo.) -ilx'iM notice between $800 mid 8000 almost pure l ne ioiioik yy ) 0 ., , ..... ..... l, .i, fttor, with pleasure tho fuel iho British shipping -.oie,, ..i.o.ue. !.. ... ., , ... .. r v...r,ll- ,ln,.nml..d ibuir !...! ..-.it, .,,,, I . severu in uio nuiou. "i HI It I ilat.i-si ! ...... olhers worth from 810 lo $40. masts with flags, on tho 22d, in honor of ilm National Anniversary. lo L.nUa The School Ma'am at IIomr. While yo,;.,, Capt. Wallace, in particular, the world is perpetually insinuating its I prusCJt(.Ll a haudsonio appearance. sus,.icion that Mho schoolmaster is abroad,' pBI!eTi:B'. Hand it will, wo doubt not, feel relieved by the . "ow ..... - ; receipt of information of the most authen. iAVEt...--.i.iuus - - " " v - tic character that tho school ...a'nm is at Mlt.ng au ay, yei m .... - - . . I . . r,. In, ..i Inntl Inn l.anil ls.1 as home. It is not necessary to sav that the S"'l i't...., v-. - - . . ' ' i ... rllr.win.T document is authentic. Neither 'o ',a11 Prove w a flood nor Hook nor Hogg, nor nil three to- rtpther. could have done it. Great Nature c ulono is equal to tho effort. How we came by it is of no importance. e stole it. The thing will ntono for Iho Hit It. Vo plead it in justification. It is in response, as will ue seen, to u iiiuviiiiiuuun u,uu ment. Cm. Commercial A good Printer will a"t 8000 ems a day, or about '.'i.uuu wurr. Tho distance traveled over by his hand will nvonieo ubout ono f.ot per letlor, go ing to the bnxes in which they aro conUiin ed, mid of course returning, making two feet every letter ho sets. This would make a distnnce, each day, of 48,000 feci, or a little more than nino miles; ami, in the ennrsp of the vonr, leaving out Sundays, uNjAvrMuen tlio lfllh. A. D. 1855 j)rnr Siril i with great pleasure that the member travels about 3,000 links. I take my pen in hand to write n lew lines to you. "I was looking over my brothers newspnper. Seeing inserieu irieru ... um. Hud on Ihe 3d of March, aged 88 years. .h In pnniiiuii.icnto with any votll.2 It. u..i n son of Hull. KOUI'.K SllKUMAN, iady of rospectubilily with a View of" Mar- Qwof (ie s!ll0rBOf tha Declaration of In- riagu Dear Sir I profess lo bo one that are . j " j oll0 0f ,ho leading men in in possession of which you require. As "M-" , . j for Music, I profess, lo be a perfect hand framing iho Constitution of tho Ln.ieu at playing iho instrument called tho Accor- Slates. dean and piann. I am in possession of - " both Instruments. I obtained thorn from Excessive Ea'ino. In a letter to Lord my Unklo ua a present I nm Teaching jiurr.,y, found in the lifo of Sidney Smith, School at piesnct at 20 dollar per mouth. . , ' lU;lf ,lu ioUer says : Sear Sir when you write to mo 1 win navo ntlcixlins moro to diet moro foundation to write, my ago is i u my - ,.livtl.inff like lanrrun-ro is english for commo.n Dut 1 can than heretofore. If ou wish anyilung like talk German as goad as cnglisb. My prop- ln)pincssin the fifth act of life, cat and erty can be Sold nt any day nt Fourteen Jilk ul)0Ut ,Rlf what you could rat and hundred Dear sir If you ore a person Jrink r)iJ j rvcrtcy0u my calculation ehnrter1 $?Z hunting -d diinking J lining nscer- cWlitu!. Jierson that will do well for a mined tho weigh, of what I could live upon Woman I bono you will condescend so low ,n , to reserve health nnd strength, atiJ as to Answero those lines As I wish to com. d j j jve ul,0,( f JUn,l tlnat between r.i !... ...'.II Wriln mutlicate Willi somu peimni mi". on tho subject of Marriage, for I am the age that tho most of tho Ladies get Mar rnt in this neighborhood. I have never kepi company wilh Hut three young men ihpv are respectability. One of thetn is paying bis respects at present out no is noi one that will suit me for I believo he wants ten and seventy years of nge I had cairn und drunk forty-four one horse wagon loads of meat and drink more than would have rp.rv.,d me in life and health! The value of this mass of nourishment is considered to lo worth 7,000 sterling. It occurred to ... it.n. I mnj. lv voracity, havo starved liiu hi... -.- my ricnes nui. ue-. . ,., ti.;. ; Pleas exenso my poor Vriiing and com- t0 ,)t.ftih moro than one hundred, lun is posing, the Scholars are waiting to rocite rrufa calculation, but irtesistably truej tr i .,t , rli'r,inr-ltv l as ' 353,04U to complete .mem. Governor M..rehead of Kentucky as ? have of batteries, ea.llea. and Pn indicted by the lirana iry o. , - -- , . . "... . ' r. ' ... --. toioris, on our noio coosi, m, iu, county, for allowing one 0 Rlirr wn foral of the, they require 30, hire his own time. I he onl) d.mcui y f i is this that after they nne me . , a -v hire ihe matter Governor be a!'". Ilni.inir to hear from you soon. And then I will write better and write sensible, Yours truly OtT Mr. Daniel Bowen died in Pbilad. I p'nia not long since In ti.e 0'iih year of his as. Ho was the oldest printer and pub- lUher in the United States. lie published the New Havrn nepulcr in 1784. fcT Never touch your rye but with your elbow. and I .Link, dear Murray, your wagon. would require an additional Horse tacn. OCT Capt. Dobbing, of Erie, a well known officer in tho revenuo service, dieu on the 29th Feb. Ho participated as Lieu- tenant in the battle of Lake Erie, 'Terry Victory," hearing himself bravely and con apicuously in that memorable engagement. 2T Enemies toboauty ore fe-s to na'ur-.