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i?8 I If i ur.r. J: '' II AM ' in if h ft. k,r 1 :u ' I' If . 4 ,' t 1 i ir '! .iir v- .1 i Hi! '4 , . 1 ! f ; . ' i i i I'M 11 fi; Is Mil i 1 il til ( si l it 1 : ill ;! ; '. i t i s " i 1 qTI)c (Oregon Slrguo. w, i iiiiw, sihtos ni rsuriusTo. OBXOOIf CITY I SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1830. ' (T A bu nco from lioioe during tli w iH of this work is our excuse fur lick of eilitotisl, if indeed mi apology is necessary. We hav filled up I lie paper with other inullr, w liii.li w pictumu nill prove more ucrfitulilu than any tiling "a would have written. . OtT We r i- HJ to notice an awe kened Intercut in ill" country generally upon iho subject of education. Thesthouls in every dirocn'on, to far as we ire advised, ore in n flourishing condition. Tho citi zin of Oregon City, Portland, Forest (rov, McMiniivill.', Bethel, and Moo rootiih, ero nil exerting- themselves in Iki Imlf of the rising generation. We noticed in i.a.ing through McMinnvill thit week llmi the icoplo in lhat vicinity have erect ed A very Urge seminary building, and have a thriving school in ojicralion, nud, like Bethel, the beautiful prairie ii eel oil' to fino advantage by a building that would do honor to a thriving village in one of ike Kastern Slate. A number of house are already erected in the iuimodiato vicinity of both tliee institution for the accommo dation of thn who have st'tilcd there to Jthool I heir children. ' There are yet many firmrr in the coun try who lire remote from school, who are amply nolo to cither lenve ilmir claim and reinovo to aomo suitable placo to educate tlii.'lr children, or to hire ilum bun nlcd and cho'iled away from homo. Hut iu Oregon, like (omo other eounlrivs, the people are generally nltogclher too worldly, Toamaw more propurty, by toil and wearing aniluty, aceint to be the great businen of life with loo many. They have not yet got quite rfiongh,' nor got fixed just a they would like to he, and they never will. We hope nil will begin to look around ihcm, and make up their minds whether il is not now time to devote a little more attention to this matter, and spend a litilo more meant iu behalf of that which add infinitely more to human liappincsa than all tho ac cumulated trcnturet lhat they enn hope to gidhvr around them. OtT During a visit to I'ulk county this week wo noticed that tho spring gruin looks remarkably well, what linle there is. The winter wheal w'nt nearly all killed out last winter, and wo shall havo to depend upon the spring crop. There will probably not bo-half the wheat to hui vcst this season thpro was lut year. , VitctOc Ttli'Ktnli. ,.; The energies of tho Pacific Telegraph Company, which havo been ralhur flagging for, a fw mouths past, are beginning to relive, and they are di'teriniued to -pu:,li 1 Iki work rapidly forward to completion. We lenm from Mr. (Iiuiiam, the Superii:. ti'udtilit, ill lit a KuOicirnt iUntity of wire in already cuiilnioied for, lo extend tho liue 1o Kugeno City, besides connecting Sulein fiiul Albany with the main lino. The oflico in this city payt well, and it in thought thai when the lino in completed lo Kugeno City tho Company will got a fair dividend upon the whole enpi'al slock. CT Sonio unkuowu person hits been in the habit of cutting tho Telegraph wire ev ery few dys tinco it was put up a few miles west of this city. There have been proba bly not less than a thousand feot of wire luken out of otio pui titular part since last winter. The operator iu this city has beeu j. ul to much trouble and rxpcnuo in repair ing llio damage ; and not unfreiieuily, upon his return from mending it, he has Ken obliged to rolurn inmiudiaiely lo ro jiair a similar injury perpetrated while com ing back. Although (he mixcreant is not 'yet fully Implicated, from circumstantial evidence suspicion rents strongly upou n eertnin character, who it ia hoped will yot 'be brought to justice. ' ' Such an act of villainy ought lo he pun hhed with ten years' imprisonment iu the "penitentiary. Tho man who would do tho like is mean enough to rob a neighbor's 'orchard. ' ' ' ' We rcgrt to leant that the fine steamer EttttrprUt rati on a rock just shove Fair- field, in coming down the river last Wuduet , duy, and stove a bole in her liottom which . suuk her. She lies in shallow wator, to , close lo the shore that a perion cua step rom hor guards upon tho hank, and with , her outer guards about six inches under water. She had on aliout fifty tout of ; freight, mlly flour, which hat been re . moved and deposited on iho bank. Capt. i. Wygant iufoinn ua lhat the will be rainl , iind reaired without much difficulty. AVe are glad to Irarn the lout watnol so grat u first reiorled. f Mr. AlilUr, oppoite Caneimili, has laid upon our table several hones of the Mastodon Maximu which he found on the bank of tha Willamette m ar his rosideuce. '. Il must hv been the muU of the one, tin looth of wbih was found iuCam-mah last ummer by Samuel lv. Harlow. -The knee , bone h.it to. ti mueh oru by eiponura for . ;: , but vlill inuasiiies about two feet in , urtruiiifirciuys IF The wiwtihvr has auttlvd at lt, and ' u hi.e uiuiiii-r upon ua all at alio, af- t. r in.". I. of cool ruir-T weather, with oe- Pttttte Rllroa. Thf re seems to bo considerahla interest being awakened in tLt Statei in ref erence to iho 1'acific Railroad. Texai has not only granted charter to the Western Texat Railroad, but ba given 10,400 acre of laud, for every mile of the road construct d, enough, il it said, to complete tha road through that State. W leirn from the N. . San that the company hut already made and aigned an agreement with rei poutible men in Ohio and Texas for tho construction of the first lection of the road, between Trinity and Red Riven, which ia to be ready fur the rail' by the first of Au gust. ' Tha construction of a Railroad to the Pacific w e look ujmmi as the grand enter prise of the ago, a consummation more de voutly to be wished for than the success of any other enturprite that now agitates tho mind of the nation, l'rukident making and parly triumph fade into insignificance when compared with the untold benefits thit road would bo lo this coast. Wo shall look in vain for capitalists and iho heavy immigra tion of the bone and tinew of the States that we must have to build up Oregon, and do vclope ber rcaourcet, till this road it made. The day that the road it completed every laud holder in Oregou will be worth tun timet what ho now it. OCT Loe anybody recognize the follow ing extract t "God knowa I've done all I could for you sinco I reached Washington. There ia no man iu Oregon in whom 1 have mora con fidence, as a true friend, and a tried demo crat, (Jod knowa. You thall have an oflico of some kind before long if I can prevail on the President to iojutlicc lo one of Ore gon's best democrats, nnd a man in whoso judgment and qualification I place the most unbounded confidence. I think I shall succeed iu your behalf, though I shall have to uvrk for it, fur you mutt know, all the Whig, Know Nothings, and Black Republicans, are against me, and if I am finally overpowered it will be wholly owing to such opposition. "Keep wriiinsr lo mo: your letter aro truly refreshing, and help to star up rm band, if all my friend were like you1 1 could do a good deal mora in Washington. I fuel a though I wo willing to work my self to death io pasting law and getting appropriation for my friend, and God know I would dot little more for you than for any other living man. Lie low and watch for black duck." . Baptist Atsoelattoa, The eighth anniversary of the Willam ette Raptist Association held it session in Linn county on the 20th ult. Wo have no full rcor( of proceedings, but (lie minute w ill soon be published. Wo learn that there wa protty strong open opposition to adopting the Expositor as a Baptist organ ; hence the commilteo recommended it merely as "a medium of dawntimitioiial eonetpomkuet," nnd not as nu organ of the church. There are many liap'itta in this section who are iucliuod to question it orthodoxy ou more matters than one. Dut here are tho resolutions adopt ed by tho Association '. Whereas, C. II. Mat loon and others hav ing invested their funds very liberally in on giuutini! a nowtnnpor do cacv of Baptist doctrine or devoted to the advo- rinet and polity, callod ositor,"ntl2ohi,0. T.J "The Religious Expositor, llicrelore, Resolved, That the Expositor be recqan mended to tho Baptist denomination of Ore gon Territory, a a medium of denomina tional rorrosKiideiice. W. F.BOYAKIN.Ch'nofCoiu. OiT The grasshopera aro committing fearful ravngca in some pans of the valley. Not only the grass but much of the small grain will bo completely ruined on Baker's l'rairio and other sections further south. jt iT We have beon frequunlly interro gated as to the real advantage to be derived from using washing powders in cleaning clothe. Tor the benefit of all our renders of the fair sex, wo would sny that tlieso washing powder which are sold by noarly nil the merchants in this city who adver tise, are no humbug. No woman ought to bo without them, who think it of any ad vantage io save half the labor on that worst of all days, "washing day." Direction for using always accompany tho powder. For Iki Argut. Onset, r.Uj am Keats. Mr. i.lilor The improvement of tho oountry by running roada to different point it a praitoworthy matter, and the writer of this is glad to behold an Increased and growing interest in this rospect in various localities. But it appears to mo that this kind of spirit doe not cuter as largely inta the minus of tha people of Oregon City as it should. Tortland, our titter city below, i making commendable efforts in thia re gard J iu enterprising citizens are pushing out roads, making cut-oils, and in other ways making that poiut more and more accessible all the while, thereby diverting and securing the trade of a large tcope of country, and in this way nionopoliaingand in a great degree diverting from the Falls a large portion that naturally belongs to this locality. 1 do not w ish to censure the people of l'ortland for acquiring iu much of the trade as they can j but if there is any such thing, I would like to wake up tha businesa men of your Iowa from their doxing inditC-rence in the matter. ' I have no immediate or remote interest that I know of In adverting to this subject, but a good feeling for your locality, its prosperity, dc-, induces me "oeall attention to jour much neglected interesla as ro- ecit the trada of the country. A new road hat laioly been opened out (and is now much travrW between '.Isb- sa. letn, which crosses the Willamette River tome four miles below Buttoulla. This route shortens the distance about four or five miles, even between l'ortland and Bulteville, and it comparatively level road, with no streams lo cross except the Tualatin. Over that stream arrangements are being made to erect aWe bridye, the tubtcriptiona for which amount to nearly enough to completo the structure. By going this route, Pudding river, Mo; lalla, aud tho Clackamas are avoided. There is not only a saving of distuned, bul there is great saving of tax iu tho way of ferriage, which is no small consideration in our present state of finances. I he Juul ntin river can bo forded at severnl points the summer through. It will bo aeon from this that there is no ferriage t" pay between Salvia and Portland excepting on the Wil Iniuelte. The distance betwecu tho rivers, Willumetto and Tunlalin, is only six miles from Rooue's ferry, where the road crosses the Willamette, to Bulteville, four miles Now what I wish to show by this is. that it behooves the pcoplo of your city to bostir ihemsolves to run out roads make bridges, and repair the thoroughfares lead ing into your city, or the trade ia bound to leave you. It will not do to rely upon you natural advantages alone to keep the trade that of rizht belongs to rou. You must spond a little of your energy, aud cash too Unless something of tho kind Is dono, and that quickly, your fate is sealed. Yours, Radius. l'r l!ti Argut. Nrgro Hale la Orrgoa. Editor Arg us Thero is a rumor afloat in the upper part of this valley that there was a negro girl sold at, or near, Eugene city Litis ipriug for the sum of $1)00. Tho girl is said to have been brought from Mis souri by a widow woman now residing in Marion. The man who tcok her to Eu gene is also said to havo had a bill of tale from the widow aforesaid. Designedly no names are given, tho writer bavins nolhint? authentic. This nolo is written with the view of calling pub lic attontion, hoping that aome ono nbout Eugene will give the public some more definite information en the subject. In these days of slavery aggression freomen can not be too vigilant. If treating negroes as chattels is w inked at for a year or two, the fell destroyer of penco and prosperity. will grnpple the vitals of Oregon, and to shako the monster off will be no easy mat ter. Xo niau lias any legal right to traflio in a human being iu Oregon. If tho girl in qucstiou was a minor neither her person nor her guaidiansbip is a matter of traffic. Her lime until her majority can not be bought nnd sold. It is the imperative duty of the Probate Judge of Lane county lo look into tho matter. It is tho duty of the District Attorney and of the grand jury lo inquire into it. Whero is the correspon dent of tho "National Era" from Lane county t why don't ho report! Tho public are eu tit led to the truth about this matter. Your truly, j? f Free Oregon iUui' I ,'50. MnnmoulU Vnlvcrsliy. uCoutm, 0. T., Juno 21 According to previous appointment, meeting was held at this placo for tho pro motion of education. Mr. Samuel Simmons was elected presi dent, aud conducted to tho chair by Rev. J. E. Murphy. Jesse Slump was elected sec retary. The meeting was called to order by tho president, and opened with prayer by Rev. J. E. Murphy. Rev. A. V. McCarty was then called upon to address tho nudienco. Tho lecture was ablo, interesting and impressive. Rev. J. E. Murphy was called upon to follow with some remarks ; he spoke chiefly of the design, position and future prospects of ihe Institute which are quite flattering. A number of interesting toasts wore read; after which tho following resolutions were unsnimously adopted, viz : Eutolvett, That A. V. McCarty merits our thanks for the very interesting and in structive lecture just delivered by him. lletohtd, That our thanks are due to Samuel Simmons, Esq., of Marion Co, for the able manner in which he has presided over this meeting. Jiegolivd, That feeling deeply impressed with the great necessity of schools of the higher order in our midst we will try bv our united effort to promoto the cause of education. Resolved, That a copy of Our proceedings bo forwarded to the Expositor, Argus and Statesman, with tho request to publish. JESSE STUMP, Sec'y. Wo copy the above from the Expositor, as since our return home we have not got not got 7 lur- hold of the original manuscript. 1&l It is set forth iu the geological' vey of Missouri, "that the coal bedf that State can furnish 100,000,000 tons per an num for the noxt 1,300 years; and with regard to iron that there is ore enough of the very best quality within few miles of Pilot Knob and Iron Mountains above the surface of ibe valleys, to furnish 100,000, 000 tons per annum of manufactured iron for the next 200 years." tW Florence Nightingale, the woman beloved of all men and all natious for her noble humanity, has been gazetted official ly as Direct ress-Gsneral of all hospital in tiie Uritisb dominions. No nurses can for the future be appointed ia any public bos-1 pita!s without her sanction. She las been '.'! f.cm a f.! Irt i u!e rtcewfil tat touriu, Tho celebration of the Fouitii yestor day went off to the satisfaction of all pres ent. The Cold Water Army must have consisted of some two hundred or more, embracing both sexos, of all ages, from the child of six years to the grey-heuded vet' eran. The table under the bower were loaded with ihe bot the country affords an ample repast for all. Tho speeches were excellent, nud well suited lo the occasion i the songs wero admirable aud well execu ted ; the order thai pervaded the asir-mbled throng was remarkable, and spoke well for tho character of our citizens. I pon the whole, wo prnnoituce it tho best celebration we have seen in thirlv-fivo years. It was ono which not oi.ly nuimaled our patriot ism, but cnlishtcned the intellect and warmed the heart. The Aetaaera dear or .tarrlraa C.lvU- lattou. Below wffl bo found the address of Gen Wai.kf.e to his troops after the surprise and defeat of ihe forward detachment of his army at Sauta Rosa. It is, as tho N. Y Jlcruld says, "a most remarkable efl'usion, and gives a clearer insight into the charac ter and motives of the man than anything, perhaps, that he baa before either said or done": "Soldibhs! We are engaged in no or dinary war. A powerful combination aur rounds us on every side. A hatred loour race has united adverse States aud recon ciled the most hostile and repugnant fuc lions. The object of this league ia to ex pel' us from the land with which we have identified our lives; but through your for lilude nnd courage the effort is destined to defeat. Invited lo this country when it was torn by civil strife, nnd so exhausted by long dissension that it had no vigor oh to re-cotistituta itself, we undertook the task of its redemption and protection from the encroaching grasp of servilism. In defi ance of all obstacles, ia despite of armed opposition, and regardleas of every discour agement in the way of odds, we ateadily pursued our purpose ; and it is known to vou at what sacrifices we have succeeded. The forces of the aristocratio party, which threatened lo ovorwhelm the liberties of the State, were checked and overthrown; the constitutional guaranties of free gov ernment were established, and a system of order put in operation, so vigorous and comprehensive that not even the most da ring treachery or extendod conspiracies have been ablo to disturb it. For six months a profound peace has been main tained ; prosperity lias blessed the coun try ; private rights, whether of friend or foe, have been respected, nnd tho laws so justly and equally administered that no man can lift his voice and charge against us a single act of injustice. Notwithstanding this notwithstanding all the sacrifices we have made, all the dan gers we have encountered, all the sufl'er- ings wo have cudured sacrifices not only of our blood in battle, but of our lives to the pestilence bear witness the graveyard at Granada! are wo to be driven from this country, merely becauso we wero no! born upon the soil . "No, soldiers I The deslmy of this re gion aud ihe interests of humanity aro con fided to our care. We have come here as the advanced guard of American civiliza tion, and 1 know your hearts respond to mino, when I declare that sooner than ra ti ro before accomplishing our dutv. we will spill the last drop of our blood, and porish I lo the 1 Sold '8 aD 01 last man ! iers 1 The task that Is confided to ns arduous one. It is full of self-denial, and suffering, but it is-at the same time promise. It spreads beyond the limits of ordinary vision, and comprehends the fate not only of Nicaragua, but perhaps the redumption and proper civilization of an spamsn America. Soldiers! This task, as I have said, is an arduous ono. Obstacles are yet to be en countered, and difficulties overcome, that may try our fortitude and courage by sterner tests than any we have yet expe rienced. AVe must content ourselves, too, in performing it alone. Though we should have been encouraged by those who claim to be enlisted in the cause of progress, we have not thus far had one voice to cheer us from the surrounding nations, while that to which we turned at the outset, with an almost filial yearning, stands coldly br. But the nobler for us if we win unaided. The consciousness of our mission is all the encouragement we require, and there is uo man here so base as to wish to retire from iho task and leave his share of it undone. Soldiers! In view of the great trusta con fided to you, I need not impress upon you the importance of vigilance and order. To the officers and men alike I look for that obedience and discipline which are the chief requisites of soldiers ; and with these qual ities, and the help of that Power who never deserts the brave and just, "victory and honor will be our sure reward." Col. Frvmeat la Sew nampsblre. The Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Bah lot states that in all parts of the State the opponents of the administration are almost unanimously in favor of Col. Fremont as the candidate for the Presidency. At the Slate Council at Plymouth, all the speakers xp opi rooi M, pressed their preference for him, and the mon that his nomination would be the roost popular with the people, of any that could be made. All the delegates to the New York Convention elected by the Coun cil, will give their influence and votes in kit behalf. , . rATKSTS The British and American Commissioners of Patents have shaken bands over two hundred volumes of speci fication and drawing, presented by the former to the latter, aa evidence of the good feeling that binds the countries in friendly bonds. A year ago last January, our Commissioner forwarded to the British Office copies of all the Tatent publications issued here up to lhat time, and Prof. Wood- returns the compliment this spring. Ninety-three volumes of the sett are filled I with drtsnect tf DritMi Patera. lt nolle Herwea. Tho following interesting document was found sovoral years ago among the papers of Maj. John Shaefuiyer, a decoased patriot of the Revolution. It la a discourso dcliv .rod ou tho eve of iho battle of Brandy wiue, bv Rev. JocobTroute, to a large portion of ' ' . .. . . n the Ainoricau soldiers, in prcscuco ui vuu, Washington, Gen. Wayne, and other of fleers of the army : "limy that Uk Hut sword thsll perish by lbs sword." Soldiers and Coi-mtbyme.v ! We havo met this evoning perhaps for tho lust time. We hnve shared iho toil of the mnrih, peril of tho fight, and the dismay of tho retreat, aliko; we hnvo endured the cold and hun ger, the contumely of the intornal foe, nnd courage of the foreign oppressor. We hare sat night after night by the camp-fire, we havo together heard the roll of tho roveillo which alls us to duly, or the boat of the tattoo which gives ihe signal for tho hardy sleep of the soldier, with ihe earth for bis bed and th knapsack for hit pillow. And now, toldiors and brethren, we have met iu this peaceful valley ou the eve of battle, in the sunlight lhatlo-morrow morn will glimmor on scenes of blood. We have mot amid the whitening tents of our en campment ; in ihe lime of (error and gloom have gathored logciher. God grant that it may not be for the last time I It is a solemn moment. Brethren, does not the solemn voice of nature seem to echo Ihe sympathies of tho hour! Tho flag of our country droops heavily from yon der staff; the breeze has died away along tho green pluin of Chudd's Ford ; the plain that spreads before us glitters in the sun light ; the heights of Brnndywine arise, gloomy and grand, beyond tho waters of yonder stream ; all nature holds a pauso of solemn silence on tho eve of tho uproar and bloodshed strife of tomorrow. 'They that take the sword shall perish by Iho sword." And havo they not taken tho sword t Let tho desolate plain, the blood-sodden valley, the burned farm-house, blackening in tho sun, the sacked village and the rav aged town, answer ; let tho withered bones of the butchered farmer, strewn along the fields of his homestead, answer ; let the starving mother, with her babe clinging to tbo withered breast that can afford no sus tenance, let her answer with the death rattle mingling with murmuring tones lhat marked tho last moment of her life ; let the mother and the babe answer. It was but a day past, and our land slept in the quiet of peace. War was not here. Fraud and woe and want dwelt not ninonir us. From the eternal solitude of tho green woods arose the blue smoke of the sottler's cabin, and golden fields of corn looked from amid tho waste wilderness, and tho glad music of human voices awoke the silence of the forest. Now, God of mercy, behold the change ! Under the shadow of a pretext, under the sancily of the name of God, invoking the Redeemer to their aid, do those foreign hirelings slay our people. They throng our towns ; they darken our plains, and now they encompass our posts on the lovely plain of Chadd's Ford. "Thcj that takothe sword, sliull perish by the sword." Brethren, think mo not unworthy of be lief when I tell you that tho doom of the British is scaled. Think me not vain when I toll you that, beyond the clcud that now enshrouds us, I oe gathering thick and fast the darker cloud and thicker storm of Divine retribution. They may conquer to-morrow. Might and wrong may prevail, and we may he driven from the field, but the hour of God's own vengeance will come 1 Aye, if in the vast solitudes of eternal space there throbs the being of an awful God, quick to avenge aud sure lo punish guilt, then the man George Brunswick, called king, will feel in his brain and hear the vengeance of etornal Jehovah ? A blight will light upon Lis life a withered brain and an accursed intellect ; a blight will be upon his children, and on his people. Great God, how dread the punishment ! A crowded populace, peopling the dense towns where-the men of money thrive, while the laborer starve ; want striding among the people in all forms of terror ; an ignorant and God-defying priesthood chuckling over the miseries of millions ; a proud and mer ciless nobility adding wrong to wrong, and heaping insult upon robbery and fraud ; royalty corrupt to the very heart, aud aris tocracy rotten to the core ; crime and want linked band in hand, and tempting men to deeds of wee and death ; these are a part of the doom and retribution that shall come upon the English throne and English peo ple. Soldiers, I look around upon yonr fa miliar faces with a strange interest ! To morrow morning we go forth to the battle for need I tell you that your unworthy minister will march with you, invoking God'e aid in the fight I we will march forth to battle ! Ncd I exhort you to fight the good fight lo fight for your home steads; for your wives and children! . My friends, I might urge yon to fight by galling memorjes of British wrong. Wal ton, 1 might tell you of your father, butch ered in the silence of the nigbt,on the plains of Trenton ; I might picture his gray hairs dabbled in blood ; I might ring his death shrieks in your ears. Sbelmire, 1 might tell you of a butchered mother and sister outraged, the lonely farm-honse, the ai.-Jit assault, the rof in f am, th v..'f of tho troops at they dispatched tber v0. tint, the cries for inorcy, and pleading! 0f fnnocenco for pity. I might paint this all again, In the vivid color of tha terrible ro nlity, If I thought courage Deeded uch wild exoitomeut. But I know you are strong ia the might of the Lord. ' You will march forth to bat tie on the morrow with light hearts and de termined (pirils, (hough the solemn duty the duty of avenging the dead may rest beavy on youraouls. ' And in tho hour of uatUe'whenTail around is darkness, lit by the lurid cannon glare and the piercing musket, flash, when the wounded strew the ground, and the dead litter your path, then remember, soldiers, lhat Cod is with you. The eternal GoJ fights for you ; ho rides on the battle cloud; ho sweep onward with tho march of tha hurricane charge. ; ."' ' God, tho awful and infinite, fights for you, and you will triumph. ' ' ' ' 1 ,.' "They that tuke the sword, shall perish by the sword." You havo taken tho iword, hut not io the spirit of wrong or rovenge. 1 You have tak en the sword foryour homes, for jour wires', for your little ones. You have taken the sword for truth, justice and right, and to you the promise is, be of good cheer, for your foes have taken the sword in defiance of all that men hold dear, in blasphemy of God they shall porish by thetwerd. ' And now, brethren and soldiers, I bid you all farowell. Many of us will fall in the battle of to-morrow. God rest the souls of the fullen I Many of us may lire to tell ihe story of the fight to-morrow, and io the memory of all will ever rest and linger the quiet scene of this autumnal eve. - Solemn twilight advances oer the valley, tho woods on the opposite hoighta fling their long shadows over the green ef the meadow, around us are the tent of the con tinental host, the suppressed buttle of the cninp, the hurried tramp of the soldiers to and fro, among the tonts, the stillness aad awe that mark the eve of battle. - When we meet again, may the shadows of twilight beflungover the peaceful land I God in Heaven grant it! Let ut pray. Maritime Law. Declaration respecting maritime law, signed by the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, nnd Turkey, assembled iu Con gross at Paris, April 16, 1856 : The Plenipotentiaries who signed the treaty of Paris, of the 30th of March, 1850, asseinbled'in conferenco Considering , .Th'at Maritime law, in time of war, ha long beon the subject of deplorable dis putes ; That the uncertainty of the law and of the duties in such matter, give rise to dif ferences of opinion between neutrals and belligeronls which may occasion serious difficulties, and even conflicts ; That it is consequently advantageous lo establish a uniform doctrine on so import ant a point ; - t That the Plenipotentiaries assembled in Congress at Paris cannot better respond to the intention by which their governments are animated, than by seeking to introduce into international relations fixed principles in this respect ,,,!.. The above mentioned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized, resolved to concert among themselves as to the means ef at taining this object j nnd, having comedo an agreement, have adopted iho following solemn declaration : . , 1. Privateering is, and remains, abolish- . 2. The neutral flag . covera enemies' goods, with the exceptiou of contraband pf war. , . , j . 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemies' flag. 4. Blockades, in order to.be binding, must be effective that is to say, maintain' ed by a force sufficient really to prevent ac cess to the coast of the enemy- The Governments of the undersigned Plenipotentiaries engage to bring the pit" ent declaration to the knowledge of .th Slates which have not taken part in the Congresa of Paris, and to invite them to ac cede to it. ' . , ',,'", " Convinced that the maxims which they now proclaim cannot hut be received with gratitude by the whole world, the' ander signed Plenipotentiaries doubt not that the efforts of their governroontt tt obtain tha general adoption thereof wifl ha erre1 with full success. . The present declaration is not and shall not be binding, except between those Pow era who have acceeded, or shall accede to it. - ' 1 r Done at Paris, the 16h of April, 185. Ought Pbitateerino to be Abolished! Americans do not object ta the abolish ing of privateering, but do object to the maintaining of a nary on a war footing ia time of peace. They are ready to mak to meet a proposition for the neutralisation of the high seas. This spirit is fully shown in the restrictions voluntarily aausnedbr our government with regard to. the naval force that can be maintained on the North ern lakes. And it is more strongly exem plified by the small force which it keeps in commission on the high sess. di d . We are bold enough to make for .' countrymen and government the empbalio proposition that the Atlantic, the .Pacini and all other ocean sens, shall henceforth bercto!!ir-d, if a'l erJ evfj cue of-fl1