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, ' Portland, O.T., Juno 24, 1850.
My last was dated Oregon City, and
contained tome account of lluit place. Tbo
last two days I wan there it was nithcr cold,
raining more or lest, particularly on Sun
day. Fxtra fire were needed, and in dif
ferent placet I heard the expression of ro-
gret thai there are no Indians left to chop
our wood, or catch us salmon, gather us
berries, or do our washing. Throe while
lflen ; Lave lately been drowned in this
place ; tbe salmon are bo large and strong
that it requires tome skill to capture, even
When csughj. ...
I inquired the reason the civilixed, useful
Indians were driven away, and was an
swered that one party desired their remov
ed lest they should join the war tribes
Rgnitmt tbe whites; others urged their ro--novel
to prevent their destruction by in
censed volunteers.
, , I was sorry to learn from various per
40ns that though it was really the true in
terest for both red and white live in prox
imity and peace, yet under the circumstan
ces neither could depend upon the other for
.security. : The following statements, which
I believe aro true, go to show that although
there were many persons and families who
gave due heed to justice and mercy per--liapt
the majority did yet there were oth
, even amongst I lie respectable, who
scrupled net to supply them secretly with
alcoholic drinks, and then declaimed against
(he legitimate effects of their own unprin-
! principled avarice.. There were some oc
casionally who took advantage of the ab
sence of legal protection to gratify a cruel
propensity. The following is nn instance:
'A white man encouraged a small white
boy to switch a larger, Indian boy in the
face. At length, when the latter could
bear it' no longer, and attempted resistance,
the man threw him down and pounded his
head upon the ground until bystanders took
him off, when he drew a knife, .threatening
vengeance upon any who interfered with
him. Surely there should be some law and
'tome power to protoct human beings (how
ever humble their condition) from such
, abuse. It is unreasonable to expect of these
poor savages such an amount of Christian
, meekness as to feel no dcsiie for retaliation
' and revenge.
" I heard also whilst in the City the state-
ment of a physician in regard to his fees
for a single year for the cure of a certain
disease, which made my soul sicken, and
I could not help wishing that I ha pile of
, books (23 cents each) which I saw in I Id
' land's store, entitled "Home Treatment for
' Self-Abuse," were distributed and read by
' every man and boy' in the country. ' Con
. ' siilerations of health, purity, self respect)
and our responsibility as a civilized Chris
' tian and superior race, should bo sufficient
to deter every one from the thought of pros
tituting themsolves with those whose reason
and religion demand that we should strive
Mo raise to a higher grade in the scale of
being.
" Heft the City on Monday in a little
( steamer for Portland., Two steamers ply
' daily back and forth between the cities,
' which are only twelve miles apart, with a
smart looking place midway. Milwaukie
is situated on the east side and upon the
" edge of a beautiful curve in the river. I
noticed a number of men driving piles in
' the riter, upon which I learned a large
' grist mill is to be erected. The beautiful
" Willamette may literally be called the Riv
er in the Woods the tall trees with but
L few clearings come down to the river's
brink. I noticed a little below Oregon
City an extensive nursery in thrifty condi-
tioo.
' Portland is situated if) a circle, being
surrounded by high timber. The river is
; pptf the east side, the land rising beauli
towards the west. "' The soil appears
rather wet, or at least it mui be very
muddy in winter ; but the difficulty seems
t jto W in a fair way of being remedied.
Already the sidewalks are all planked in a
j eery neat and substantial manner; also
.,nhe. whole ihoroughfare of Water Street
, .aid the angle of all the others are well
planked. There are several streets each a
; mile long, and most of the lots are occupied
either with buildings, or as gardens or
yards. i,I am told the population amount
(' to between one and two thousand..,'. Like
? all placet of similar, age, it has as yet a
i'. very .rough, unfinished appearance, .: On
- the western rise tbe encroachment en the
i'. uabrriksn forest appear but recent. Elegant
'" structures, neatly painted, and neat inclo
''sure, srs rising op midst fallen timber
and stsatps, wbers it i difficult to wind
i along with a team. There b not generally
"'the sice taste which is manifested to tome
'i cxteat la Oregon City I mean in regard
to the twaimental surroundings of their
i- dwellings A patch of timothy or clover
' ' or potatoes, sometimes wesdt, or nothing
' bat few flowers, and none of that Queen of
Jteauties. They do not teem to regard
' the good old prophet whs sajd "tbe wilder.
A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, nud advocating
Vol. II.
ness shall blotsom at the roie."
. There are a few exceptions, however,
one of which I particularly noticed. Tbe
office of the Oregoitian, and the dwelling
house of Mr. Dryer, its proprietor, are a
pattern of neatness and tasle. Tho build
inps, Instead of being placed close on the
sidewalk, are situated about 25 or 30 feet
in the rear, and thus there is left a patch so
wide and about 130 feet lung, tastefully
arranged by division paths, and planted
with fruit-bearing shrubbery and lovely
flowers. Every thing (except the shade
near the entrance) was in perfect order
not a weed or surplus growth to he seen.
The large gooseberries hung in rich profu
sion and looked particularly tompting, nnd
and the apple trees at tho lower end, though
rather too profuse, formed a delightful
shade and n miniature rural walk. Tho
fence too beautifully harmonized with what
was inclosed. It consisted of open wire
work on a substantial frame of wood, expo
sing all the beauties within, but strong
enough to protect from obtrusive hands.
There was however one unpleasant object
to the pleasant feelings which this delight
ful spot inspired : nil along the top of the
fence was a row of sharp iron points about
5 inches apart. The sight conveyed the
idea of rogues in town, or at least tho sus
picion of such. The ugly thought marred
one's appreciation, for who can contem
plate beauty, peace, and plenty, in connec
tion with crime and punishment, without
feeling the painful incongruity of the. con
nection. .
The steamer Columbia had just arrived
before I reached Portland. She brought,
in addition to the usual number of passen
gers, six hundred Indians from Por Orford,
in charge of Gen. Palmer. ' 1 did not see
the General, but I took a good look at the
Indians as they were cooking on the shore-
They appeared cheerful and happy ; no
doubt they realized the difference betwoen
being hunted and killed, and being provi
ded for and protected. . I saw one infant
only, but n large, number of children of
both sexes and various ages, all of them
fat and playful. I saw but one sick, a boy
about 12 years old. As a general thing
they are a broad set, muscular people, in
dicative of strength, and with a sufficient
motive would be capable of great endu
rance. Their phrenological organization is
not such as to preclude them from being
any thing but savages. Combativeness and
destructiveness undoubtedly predominate,
yot there was a better show of heads than
I expected to see, nnd I believe more
strongly than ever that with proper culture
these people, even the adults of this gen
eration, can attain a high degree of civili
zation. Respectfully Vours,
John Beesox.
nontct to baltrorala;
We need not now restate the general con
siderations which urge upon our Govern
ment the policy and duty of immediately
establishing an Overland Mail to California
and Oregon ; if any of our readers are still
ignorant of them, the fault is not our
The'Panama Railroad was a noble en
terprise, and has been nobly pressed for
ward to completion. We can scarcely
name anything else so well calculated to
exalt our National prestige in the eyes of
tho civilized world. We are sure it should,
and we trust it will, prove a lucrative' in
vestment to its stockholders. We believe
its business calculated to increase year by
year, until most of the trade with Europe
of Western Mexico, the Pacific, and West
ern South America, will traverse this road.
So the Nicaragua Transit enterprise has
been prosecuted with spirit and courage,
and has redounded to our credit as a peo
ple. . We fervently hope for its safe deliv
erance from its present troubles. f .,
But our Pacific Mail system is a mistake
a grand, dashing, magnificent one, if
you will but none the less a blunder at last.
We never should have submitted, except
for tho moment, to the transportation of our
domestic Mails from one" section of the
Union to another by an immensely circui
tous route through a foreign country or
countries. If forced to send them by. the
Isthmus for the first year, we should have
been prepared to send them by the direct
overland route the next season.
.' We are now paying soma hundred
thousand dollars. per annum for the trans
portation of our Pacific' Made. - This is
eqnal to the highest price paid by the Post-
Office Department for tbe transportation of
a daily mail each way on a first-class route
over two thousand miles of railroad, equal
to tho distance from St. Loo is to San Fran
eisco. Now a letter written in Minnesota to
a correspondent in W'aslungtos Territory,
hardly more than a thousand mile due
west, must come ' east t the Mississippi,
down that river to Dubuque or Dunleith,
east again 'o Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo,
and New York ; then touth south-west to
Atpinwall, cross the Isthmus to Panama,
thence north north-west to JSas Francuco,
thence er steamship tgsio to the mouth of
rep it
OREGON CITY,
the Columbia, and thence east north-east to
its destination, traveling somo sight thou
sand miles, or about the diameter of the
globe, to reach a point hardly more than a
thousand miles from that whence it set out
on ibis protracted end devious wandering.
Tho practicability nnd tho proper loca
tion of alUilroad from tho Mississippi to
tbe Ptcifio have been earnestly and very
properly discussed. We believe the enter
prise perfectly feasible nny : we beliove
there will be at least three distinct lines of
Railroad completed and in operation be
tween Mr. Culboun's "inland son" nnd the
great Western Ocean within the lifetime of
many readers of this article. But, how-
e'ver and whenever these railroads mav be
constructed, they are net adapted to the im
mediate exigency. A Railroad to the Pa
cifio is the work of years, and we need nn
overland mail forthwith. It should bo ad
vertised at once, contracted to tho lowest
responsible bidder in July, organized and
run through expeditiously this Pall, hay
cut and cured along the line wherever it
exists, and grain sowed around the several
stations fur next year's service. Then, hav
ing everything in readiness, let tho line be
started regularly next May, and run weekly
thenceforth from April to November in
elusive, nnd monthly through the four least
profitable months, until arrangements can
be perfected for running it more frequently
and regularly. Such a mail contract would
secure the opening and constant improve
ment of a good wagon road across the prai
ries and ovor the mountains ; it would soon
bring Kansas and California within hail-of
each other, and reduce the mail time bo
tween the Missouri sod the Sacramento to
ten or twelve days. Let the routbe sim
ply protected by U. S. dragoons or mount
ed volunteers, and a Telegraph will trav
erse it within two or three years, construct
ed by unaided private enterprise, and bring
ing New York und San Francisco within
an hour's call.
Our Government is acting with com
mendable promptness on the information
just received from the Isthmus ; we trust it
will act with commendable prudence also.
N. T. Tribune, May 2.
Dow tUo Destruction of Trees affects tbe
Rain.
We find in a magazine before us, says the
Suvanah Rvpullicaji, an interesting article
upon the subject, a synopsis of which will
be found both entertaining and instructive
to farmers and land proprietors. By cut
ting down the trees upon mountain sides
and ravines, we are inevitably entailing
two great evils upon posterity a scarcity
of fuel and a scarcity of water. The form
er evil is the more obvious, but the latter
is equally certain and far more formidable.
The lack of wood for fuel may be supplied
from our abundant accumulation of coal ;
but no art or labor can supply a substitute
for water.
The hidden fountains of all our springs
and rivers arc in the atmosphere. Every
drop of fresh water is drawn, in the form
of dew or rain, from these inexhaustible,
ever-renewed reservoirs. Trees act in
many ways in regulating and distributing
the supply of moisture. In certain locali
ties they even produce a sensible effect up
on the amount of moisture deposited from
the atmosphere.. Thus, in the Island of
St. Helena, great attention has been paid
within the last quarter of a century to the
planting of trees upon the steep bare hill
sides : and it has been found that the fall
of water has almost doubled since the time
when Napoleon was a prisoner there. The
reason is obvious. ' The temperature of
trees, in hot climates, is always lower than
that of the surrounding atmosphere. Tbe
winds, loaded with moisture exhaled from
the ocean , over which they have passed,
sweep over the island. The trees condense
this, and it is deposited in dew or rain.
Still more remarkably is this shown by the
famous fountain tree on Ferro, one of the
Canary Islands. So great is their condens
ing power that they seem to be always
wrapped in a vapory cloud, and the mois
ture collects in drops upon the leaves, trick
Ip down the branches and stems, and col
1 im .fiuie cpcciuujr will llll uw tuo
lecliog into a reservoir at their feet, formsalcse if a railroad or an iron establishment
pcipeiuai iuu.iu.iu. w - repetition On a
larger, seals of J,e phenomenon which oc
r;whea a jug of iced water it brought
into a heated room. '
We have of late years heard much of
drought and consequent famine in the Cape
de Verd Inlands. The soil is of a pecu
liarly porous nature, and therefore requires
a constant supply of moisture as an .indis
pensable condition of fertility. For a long
time the climate bas been constantly grow
ing less and less humid. The Socorrodos,
the largest river in Madeira, formerly had
a sufficient depth of water t float timber
down to the sea. It It now a mere rivulet,
whose waters, except in flood time, are
scarcely discoverable as they trickle along
it pebbly bed. This diminution of mois
ture can be traced directly to the destruc
tion of the forests that formerly covers d the
'mountain sids. The Portuguese govern
O.T., JULY 5, 185C. ;
meut were early aware of this, and laws
were framed prohibiting the cutting down
of trees. But timber wot valuable, and the
land was wsntod for vineyards. Portuguese
laws were powerless against the demands
of Immediate interest. So the treet were
cut down, tho springs failed, and fountain
dried up. " Hence came drought, famine,
and destitution. Present gain must some
time be purchased by future loss.
Trees regulate tho supply of moisture
inroauy ways, even where wo cannot sup
pose that they affects its absolute amount.
The evaporation from their leaves is con
siderable, nnd this diffused through the at
mosphere, is wafted over wide tracts of
country. They shelter the ground be
neath them, and thus prevent the water
that fulls from being carried off by evapora
tion, allowing it to penetrate tho earth,
keeping tho springs and fountains in n per
petual flow in tbe driest seasons. Their
roots and interlacing fibres penctrnto the
soil, preventing it from being washed away
by sudden showers, and forming a tort of
sponge that absorbs the water, and gives it
out slowly and uniformly, thus equalizing
ita flow, prevents droughts on the one hand,
nnd floods on the other. When tbo forests
on hillsides and ravine slopes are cut down,
tho rain slides off from them as from a roof.
A sudden shower swells every rivulet Into
a torrent. Every tiny brook pours its ac
cumulation at once into the rivers,' whose
channels are inadequate to carry off the sud
den accession, hence, disastrous inundations,
followed at short intervals by low water.
The supply of water that should have been
distributed over weeks is exhausted in
hours. That which should have bubbled
up in springs and flowed through rivulets,
making the meadows green, is carried at
once through the great rivers to the ocean,
to be sgain taken up by evaporation only
Uo go again through the same round. The
volume of the great riverf, the Danubcs. the
Mississippis, the Niles, the Rhino, and the
Euphrates mny undergo no change from
age to age ; for they derive their waters
from a wide extent of country, and droughts
in ono section are balanced by showers in
another. But the smaller rivers diminish,
tho rivulets dry up, and the springs fuil,
except immediately after rains, when they
aro greatly swollen. Thus by the opera
tion of one law, the destruction of forests
causes the two opposite evils of floods and
droughts.
Humbolt called public attention to the
probable consequences of the destruction of
forests, as early as the year 1800. It is a
well known fact, that the lakes in the val
ley of Mexico have greatly contracted ever
since the old Aztec times. The city of
Mexico occupies its ancient site, but it is
now some distance inshore instead of on
an island, as formerly. This is to be as
cribed to the fulling of the forests that
clothed the adjacent hills. The British As
sociation has collected from India a vast
amount of information bearing upon the
same point. Among the hills of Ceylon
where the forests have been cut down, in
order to form coffee plantations, the loss of
thespriugs and fountains has already be
come ah evil of great inaguitude.
Our own country hyet tod new, and our
forests are yet, in spite of woodmen and
axes, too numerous for the scarcity of wa
ter to have become a serious evil. But like
bauces produce like effects ; and unless we
change our proceeduro, our children will
suffer from our wanton carelossness. We
have no right for Our own temporary ad
vantage to desolate the country. No gen
eration has more than a life-interest in the
earth, of which it is but the trustee of pos
terity. Every man who has revisited his
early home in (he older States, after an ab
sence of a few years, can not have failed to
notice the dimunition of the streams and
springs. There is probably no water in th
brook that turned his wator-wheel. The
springs in tbe pasture, which he remember
as ever flowing, are dry ; and if a Season of
unusual drought happen the cattii must
be driven a lonj distance to water a ne
cessity wicn Dever Was known in his early
cars. More especially will this be the
hss occasioned a rapid demand for fuel.
The trees have gone, and with them the
water ;' and the meadows and fields arc
dry and parched. In their haste to be rich,
the farmer! have killed the goose that laid
thcgolden eggs for tbem. '
' A kk sic as Coma. -Although the cop
per mining interest in this country is at yet
in its infancy, it has already produced re
sults that give promise of its toon standing
among the foremost of our industrial pur
suits. Trevious to 1840 we were entirely
dependent on England Tor our supply of
this metal, while riow we srs producing
about 5,000 tons of it, equal to l-17th of
the whole world ; the beds of its ore are
inexhaustible, and It is of great purity.
Eighteen new stamping mills were erected
last year, and at least tiftjr more wilj be
adedra
tho side of Truth in every issue.
No. 12.
Canai, Acsoss tub Isthmus o Suez.
This great enterprise, which, for many
yoars has seemed too vision try a project to
be toriously entertained, is likely to prove
not only practicable bnt to be actually re
alized. Tho commission of engineer and
scientific men whom the Viceroy of Egypt
appointed to examine and determine upon
the practicability of uniting ocean to ocean,
by this means have made a report, in which
they declaro that the canal could be built
on nearly a direct route from Suez to the
Gulf of Pelusium, with branch to the Nile.
The cost is $3,000,000, and the construc
tion will toko six years. . At Suez 83 feet
of water will be found at the distance of
5,000 fvot from the shore The port to be
constructed in tho Gulf of Pelusium, which
the former project placed at tho bottom of
tho Gulf, will be located twelvo miles to tho
west on a part of tho coast where the water
is 25 feet deep at less than tho distance of
two miles from the shore, and where the
anchorage is good, nhd getting under sail
is easy. It is estimated that a saving will
be made in distance between the rerpective
places aud Bombay, as follows t Constanti
nople, 12,000 Havre, 6,028; London,
8,550; Liverpool, 8,550; New York, 5,81 7;
New Orleans, 8,173 ; More than one half
tho distance is abridged between the prin
cipal ports of Europe and Asia by the pro
posed canal. This single fact shows its
immense utility to all nations, as well as to
Egypt and Turkey, and will securo fur its
projectors tbo best wishes of tho civilized
world.
A Perilous Balloon Descent. The
Havana correspondent of the New Orleans
Picayune writes on the 21th ult !
"Mr. Godard mads his grand ascent last
Sunday, accompanied by no less than five
young gentlemen. Just at the appointed
time a heavy shower commenced falling,
and the sky looked very black and overcast.
Tbe public, however, insisted on Gedard's
starting, and the lines wera cut loose. He
was soon lost sight of behind the dense
black clouds, and, as tho wind was blowing
pretty fresh from the northwest, the bal
loon crossed the bay south of Regis, and
descended about nino miles from Havana.
The intrepid aeronaut and his passengers
come noar losing their lives. Tho valve
got out of order and, when Godard at
tempted to lot the gas escape, he found he
could not open the valve. He immedi
ately informed his companions of the nature
of the danger in which they were placed,
and proposed two alternatives either to
continue in the clouds and wait fur the coil.
densation of the gas, and Inatco a descent
by night, exposed to all the dangers of so
perilous an undertaking in an Unknown
place, or tear the balloon nnd make an im
mediate, rapid, and equally dangerous one.
Tho passengers chose tho latter, .and the
balloon was immediately torn. Everybody
thought that they had been killed, for tho
fall was very rapid. Tho balloon Struck a
palm tree and rebounded about two hun
dred yards. Ono of tho young men Louis
Zayas was badly injured by tbe fall, and
Mr. Perez had his leg broken. Tbo others
received some slight bruises, but returned
to the city about 0 P.M."
The New Nicaragua: Minister. This
functionary has forsoveral.weeks been tho
the most attractive "lion" in Washington.
It is said, howoverj that he cannot under
stand a word of bur language ; he is there
fore, free from any annoyance that might
othorwise cOmo from the numorous remarks
mado about him in the papers and in official
and private circles. lie is described as
being "a rather stout, well shaven man,
whose long-skirted coat, knee-breeches, and
black hose, and silver shoe-bucklcs, accord
with the priestly functions whioh he exor
cises at homo. His hair it concealed by a
sort of brown and slouched cap or cowl ;
and though of a Very dark complexion, the
President does not consider him a Black
Republican." :
OCT Tbe Boston Timet says a fow weeks
siucothe late Dr. John C. Warren disin
terred from the family tomb, under St.
Paul's Church, the remains of his uncle,
Gen. Joseph Warren, who fell in the fight
of Bunker's Ilill. The remaips were ptaccd
in a stone urn, upon which an appropriate
enltanh had been eneraved. The skull was
quite perfect, the chin still remaining.
Behind ono of the cars was seen sn aper
ture, which Indicated 'the place were the
fatal ball euWed, which ended his brief but
glorious career. . , ,
. For tome time past, the leading
spirits in the Unitarian and Universalis
Churches have been rndeavoring to fuse
the two sects, and the Unitarian organ In
New York strenuously advocates the move
ment. : , ; , . .i
OCT Wisconsin is coming on rapidly in
the way of Railroads. There are now
eleven different Railway Lines in the State,
in all 695 milee in length. 432 miles Srs
finished snd the remainder in pron of
coasfiuction,. ,
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and other kinds, done to order, on ehort notice.
Death of a Sum or Molly Pitches.
Tho Carlinle (III.) Prmoftat notices ther
doathiu that place, on the 10th of April
ofSorgi'Riit John L. liny, an old resident
of Curlisie, nnd a soldier of the war of 1812.
Sergeant Ihyw wss born on the day of ther
battle of Lexington, and was consequently
63 years old. Ho was the son of the Cele
bratod Mully Pitcher, who distinguished
horsvlf at the bailie of Monmouth, and of
whom the ''Life of Washington" gives tho
following account t
"It was during this prtrl of the bsttlOf
when Lee wss straggling nobly against tho
ovorwhclnyng numbers that pressed oil
him, that nn Irishman, while1 serving at his
gun, was shot down. His wifo, Molly, but
22 years old, employed herself, while list
loaded and fired his piece, in bringing water'
from a spring near by. While returning
with a supply she saw him fall, and heard
the commanding officer order the gun to bJ
taken Itn the rear. She immediately rant
forward seized the rsmrrtcr, declaring she)
would avengo his death. She fought witll
her piece like a hero to the last. The noxt
morning Geu. Curette, who Lad been struck
with her brnreryi presented her to General
Washington, who immediately promoted
her to be a Sergeant, nnd afterwards put
her titmo upon the half pay list for life.'
Previous to this, she fired the last gun wbed
the Americans were driven from Fort
Montgomery."
At the close of the devolution, Molly took
up her residence in Carlisle, where she)
was known as Molly McCauley. She lived
to ad advanced age, much respected by allf
and was buried with military honors.
California Letters. Oliver E.Woodti
of New It ork, will puEllsh oh and after1
May 6lh a "Pacifio mail list" for eschCali
nla mail, to contain the names of persons in
California aud Oregon, having letters id
the tnail, and whose place of residence is
not entirely certain. These lists will be
posle J in every post office in California and
Oregon, and thus the probability that many
lettors now returned to the dead letter of
fice will reach their destination is consider
ably increased. To secure the insertion of
names in the list, tbe letter will be mailed
as usual, nnd the directions sent to the "Pa.
cific mail list," New York ; with the name
of the place from which the person went to
California. The publication of the list, si.
though sanctioned by government, is en
tirely a private enterprise, and therefore it
will be necessary to send three cents with
each name presented for insertion.
tW The will of the late Dr. John &
Warren, of Boston, provided for tho dispo
sition of his body with nn especial reference)
to the science which he) had so long pur
sued and adorood. The will required that
the body should remain 34 hours, at the
close of which timo arsenic should be in
fused into tho veins ; at the snd of the next
24 hours, tbe funeral ceremonies should
take place, nnd the body be deposited be
neath St. Paul's Church, and 21 hours there
after was to be given for examination to
the ofheors of the Medical College and the
physicians of the Massachusetts General
Hospital, to ascertain regarding certain pe
culiarities which he supposed to exist. Af
ter this the flesh was td be taken from tilt)
bone, the bones maficerated, wired and df
pqsitcd in the College Museum. The will)
we understand, is peremptory.
Ti i'E Punches. The Americans are, is
a rulo, a quick-witted, intelligent, go-a liead
ativo raco. Thero aro, however, occupa
tions and pursuits requiring a union of skill
and patience with this cduntry is calculated
to dcvelope. What would America bo
without her press, her new-pipers; her
books t Yet we are assured that there is
not ft man in this country who can but a
punch for book type. Certain it is that
all the best book type used or cast In this
country is made from punches 'cut in Lon
don and Edinburgh. ' The Scotchv it is
genorully admitted, are the best cutters of
letters; the Germans ef music the French
of borders and ornaments. Those, who aro
not familiar with thefio matters may be sur
prised to loam that it'requircs vastly more
skill t6 make a set of steel punches with
'which to sink the dies or mafrics for an al
phabet, than to make the most finished
shronomcter. It is work requiring a pe
culiar organism.' A punch-cutter, like a
poet, an honest man, or a "dead shot, it
lorn, not made. Phonographic Reporter
3F Private letters from Anoona, Italy,
dated 2d of April, state that Mr. Fillmore
was there, rn roule from Rome to Venice,
and expressed a determination to visit St.
Petersburg, now tUrtt pence wot declared,
before returning to the United States.
OTThe Cotonitalion Herald says, about
GOO applications have been received by the
Pennsylvania Colonization Society, for a
passage in the expedition to sail on tbe 1st
of June next from Savannh, of whom the
grtat majority are slaves who are to be)
emancipated for the puryose.