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THE OREGON ARGUS, flUUHIKD (VCKV I.VTUKIMV MO UMNO, BY1 WILLIAM L. ADAMS. Edito- Office-Oood's Building, ?r.ir st. rial Room in lirst story. TEKMSrhi A anus in In hmi.hed at n,.ti. i i.e,.. i'...,. .. m nnifit inuviriorrt I ton Dollar) tacH to clulit of ten ul one otTice. C3y Tut Dollars fur six montlitSa subscrip tions rrreiectt fur a less iierioJ. US" No paprr diicuntiiturd until all arrearages are ;, umrss ai ins option at llif fu'tlmlirr . Ik veap ii DEB ADVERTISING RATES. One ixgnart (11 tinea or lea) out hiseriion, 11,00 " " two Insertions, " " three inaertiuiit, ,'i,uo Etch subsequent inaerUon, I, no fteaennob! deductions to those who advertise by iiio year. Job Printing. Tin rioriiKTOR or Tin AKGIS ii uttrt to inform I he public that In Inn in.it received a -A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jcffersoninn Democracy, and mlvoeutin- the Hide of Truth in every issue.- tt.ul!Jtata'u t ir n ... . , ; eulity. IIAMHIII.IX, I'tiMTKIIS, IIMXKK, W'J.. II. OllKOON fiTTY OT S V. V T V. f Tl V i? o tccn v.. o CAlins. ultt;l'l.Ai:s. lAMl'llMT.wol:lv, - 1 " , - -. .u 1 i? U VJ 11 1?. t. I , , ' I mill other kill, a. (lull,. In m.li.1. .in vluir li.il nil. 'Iryta'j to Please Uverytiody. Hints tu kditoiis. One render cries, jour strain's loo grave, Too inudi morality you have, Too much uboiit religion ; Give me tiio wilch anil wiiarJ tides, Of slip-shod gliosis nilli flue uuj scales, Aud fcuiheis like a pgruit. I lave t'i re.id, another cries, Tho niouslrous fusli oiiuble lies In oilier word, lliuto novels, C'oiupoaeJ of king, mid pried, end lord, Of bolder wars, unci gothic horde That med to live in hovels. No, no, ctirt one, we've had cnoo(jli Of Midi confounded love lick etuir, Tooruze die fuir eical on; G'.vt liitunio recent foiiin neni, Of RiiwiIuii, Tn: k, llie I'ulie, or Jiv, Or any oilier nation. The innii of dull eclmluilic lore Would I ke to tee a little more Of liii.t-r.jte n ruii of La:iu The grocer fuin would leurn the prue Of tea and tugut, fruit un l lice ; The dr.ipor, silk and tuliu, Another cr'e, I waul mure fun, A witty anecdote or pun, A rilu or a riddle ; Some wish for pjrli.uiieiit.ir) newt, And Kinie, pirhow, of uinor view, Would I utlie.' hear it fi Idle. The crilie, loo, of cl.ishic flail, Mint dip in Kail ln' pundi'r-iiidl Andacrjwt ng.iiiKt the piper; Of till Iho liliiury foole, Drrd in our cullrgea ami schools, Ho cu:a the greatest eiiper. Another cries, I want to ee A jumbled up Vjrely, Variety ill all ihiiiH A nmcrllum oii liodge podge print, Co.iipomd (I "ill) give the hint) Of multifarious ismull thing. I w.mt some m irrtugo nc.vs, favs miss; It eoiittilutes my h'ghest b!i.s To hear of wedding plenty ; For in a time of genelul rain Xuuc sulhrr from u droughl, 'lit plain, At ieai-t not one ill twenty. I mil to hear of death", says one, Of people lotully undone Ily lo.-si, fne or lever j Anoilier unawerx full us nice, I'd radie,' have ihe full und rite Of ruceoon skins and braver. Some signify u scerct wiidi For now und Ihen n fuvorilo diali Of p'lliticn lo nut them ; Bur hero no rest ill pei feel ease, For elionl I they sweur the moon wun cheese, We never flionld eoi.futo llicin. Or grave or hiinioi ous, n ihl or tame, Lofty or loiv, 'lis all the fame, Too haughty or too humble ; So, b; other idiio:i), pursue The path thut ceeiiw the best lo you, And let Ihe grumbler grumble. EJl-lujm.lnj.Jj j si Seulblo Avllele. Thu New Voik Minor ilefnum its posi lion in lliu neselit itiiiivn.Ns us lullon n; ; I . . t ... -i ... ii isiiiih iii our rvtiiipis iiiui Miu .Mirror bIiuuKI tJi-liiio i t niiiiiiii mi im u r st ioi i ot tiio I ii'suli iicy. e lunc tv.-uti J vvitieliiol, imiiivil, jli-ri viul, und ill liln r.i tuil cnltrilv on tli ulji'ct; tui'J luivu di ti itii in vuiu inr r isk.most. I Iih ren-niis lliui have IriJ to this c inclusM), we Ijrii flv sl.iic: "In the fust place, hp. like llm M.l lii idiurauti'i' itml liis L-nrcrr. VV'u l'k' liim fur " h it hi' is iiinl lor wlmt m has lone; iiml iiri- willing lo lakii lite record of the p.tsl ns fl ouiiraiiiy lor t I'uiiuv. Willi hi iu!iiic.il pi inoijilcn, us iinliciileil liy Ilia vou-s uml sit'i cln s in tin' United Stales Senate, ttiid us si't liirtli in his rrcfiil leiter of acci'i'tunce, we IniVu no fault lo find. And wu have private, reasons far belie-v i ii u, ihut, in thu event of his eleclinn, lie will prove as ood and prompl a l'ic.-d dent us tint. Juckon. "Hut, oilier iiii'l sti'oiior ciitisiilcralions than ihosc liiive delenninpil the eleelion we luivo iiitide. After lioliiing ilif. hattli- of the Soit'h for twelve loii years, ilefendiny US pulitical rights, tlnmr-Mic insiitiiliniis, uriintrrrupti-il lim social cliurncter iinu intiiiiirrs on nil occn aions, recent OLCiinencrs Imvn cOnvinui d us th.-it the timo litis come fur the North, nftho fire Suite turn tiliini, who ha uhvo I th" hj! of his country upon the top of Anieiicti, as io tho riiiiL' Slur of the UepiiMic. i liu Horn und man have tome iny. tln-r, its they ninny do cmiie, in liu riolil lininof it nation's neril. "It I not our purpose lo proiihesy we linvo not even niade an iiriilinii'licalculcu hilion nf the chimees of this complicated I taitipai'Mi. 1 lie ii ileal ton with ns la nut one id' policy, hut of principle; not of I'ollllCS PVrli, lint ol pll'lloll'lll. In llll' event of l- renmiii i l-clioti, the very ti i- umpli would niirorst n c.mrsn of IliatjiiH. niiiiit y towanl the .South. The Kei.iiUicnn Cuhinet ami I'oivisu Mi.ioiis hotild fairly reprenoin every n'CMoti ol t lie Lnioii. And it in the clioni; iistiiiincn that mcli n Sjeneruiis nnd purely iiiilinnul policy would be adopted, more than all other Considers- lions, thut has decided the alcp wu have Ink. ii. "A'aiiiht the oilier ctiudidntm in tin eld Fillmore uml lliiehiiunn the .Mirror hus nothing to say. They are tiond men, hoth. Unl the platforms oil ' which they are nmunli'il ; the alliiiiices und usoclu 'ions tin y have fniiued ; and the measures to which they are committed, are not hro.-nl 'iiinc'li. Iree ciiouli, "rami eiioiiirli lo nc ceinniodiito the uoorrnivp, iiidepeliileiit, and co ahi'inl spirit of Young Amen'cu, Did l7iii;yiin may lift its spi cludes, shake Ms ofcer vruij locks, ami warn ns against vieldiiii; to u Kiiddeil Inn I'ienne that is sweeping over ihe North. Hutco o as the hrei iti. blows III the right tlireelioli, it is belter to t'u wtk it than iignhut it ; and ttillmiil throwing overboard a siii"le con- srrvnlivr principle hitherto advocated by the Mirror, wn can j:o into the fiohi for FKKHONr and )avton ; for the Union of the Siui.'s and thu coiistitiitioiiul rijihls of iiutli the North mil South, us conscientious. I . ty as ever eril-aib is tniilh il nr Jeriisiileni. In (lines like these, to be neutral is to ben cowanl. The Sclavonic nod American Uncos. History is full of stiii tliliir CJllllil-ts. When ihe Ciirlhiioeiiiaiis ruled three hun dred cities ami covered the Mediterranean with their coinmeice. ilu y looked whhcoii- teinet on the horde of refuirces. who were I'oiindiii u ci v on the banks of ihe Tiber : not iiiino;iniii that i here was Iho germ of a penpn who would not only sweep t.'urllin'o limn the lute of the ear'lt. but rule the . While I'hili ii e-inul sli iiiii vi r.-al papal and iiiine- wasarilciitly stri wiirli vin rial power, und Louis llie XIV. Was cher- l-liiiij; hi- ainhilioiis proju-ts, amid llie flit terin' splendor of Versailles, there were eioitii; up in obscurity mid iiiiuoliccd, in the iitanl nintliea-l ol l'.urope. and on ihe fai oT shores of the Atlantic, llie (lot humble institutions of two people, whose rapnl progress since has hecn the marvel of mankind. When in 14":i Mahomet II. was balterini; dow n the walls of Constanti nople and build ng up Otiotnnn power in Ltirope on llie ruins ol the Uin,.; Kmpue, llnssi i w us a stn.ill feeble state, haviti" a population of six millions of people, nnd a territory of some two hundred thousand siiia-o miles; inn he times as hiii.'e a the irea ol iln.'Slu'eol New link. I he bat tle of I'ultow a in 1 700, which struck a I . t I I . . I I .. c . . m i ii i mow n i ine ascendency owftlcn in j the Ninth, was the critical point in ihe his tory of Uiivii.'i, and from thai day herprojr. less has scarcely A liauillel auionir nations. Instead of two hundred thousand souitre miles of torriloiy, ami six niillioiis of peo ple, her Kmpeior rules over nearly seven millions ol siinnre miles, mure lliaii one. ieltlh of nil the hind of the earth, and sev- n'y inillioiis of obedient siilijeeis. Unlike I me iioiiiiuiiiii ot li'iiam, le r terrttorv is iiieciunp.iei, unbroken whole, from the 11 d- lie Sea ,'iuniss liunipu and Aia to the ores of the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian and Mluck Seas. Blie possesses, therefore, in her coulinil- ily of territory, nun of the chief eleinenls ol strenotli. 1 1 . i' means of internal com munication are equal lo those rf anv part of ihe jrlobc. Her rivers flowing into th" A'cltc Ocean, the Sea ol Japan, and the Caspian and lllack S. as. are navigable for a greater distance than any of the earth, xueptiii!; thoe of America. Tho rivers of the Cas'iinn and lilack Seiis, uml also l hose of the White Sea and the Caspian, are united bv canals, thus forming three of waier coiiimimica- lion ncross the enlire. length of l'"uropean litssiii. There is a coiiilih to net work of f rivers and canals, ihtoU"li w hich flows livuied nn addrcii. In this he suid Ihat ha felt deeply llie tlifllculties and renponsl. bi lilies which ihe ollico involves. The State was menaced by dangers from wiih otitatttl fmin within, nod (here wus need of sleepless vigilance nnd untirinj; energy to preservfl thu gorernnienl from thefneinicp who threaten it. In order, therefore, to aduiinistcr properly llie nfTairs of the Re public, he required all the assistance he could derive from the patriotism of its citi zen, mid tho skill, courage, nnd self re straint of its soldiers. He hoped that day would close Iho revolutionary epoch of N icu ragun, nnd that ihe struggles of thirty. five ycurs had taught the people that lib erty wus not to be obtained nmid the petty feuds of contending chieftains, nnd that prosperity did not result from a constant state of civil broils nnd iuiestiiio commo tions. Urging tho nssisiance of all good citizens in the maintenance of order, lie pro. ceeded ; "Not only is internal order required for uie nnvHiiceineni ol matenul Weallh and prosperity, b'll also for tho proper defence of ihe Republic from the externa! enemies which threaten its repose. The other four Stales of Central America, without renson and without justice, have undertaken loin leifcro tu llie domestic affairs of Nicamirun Conscious of iheir own weakness, and fenr- lul lest llie prosperity of Nicaragua should detract Horn llieir wealth, these neighbor nig fttates nre enviously endeavoring to in terrupt our progress by force of arms. The imbecile rulers of these Slates, loo, feeling that I hey luivo lulled to peiform their du ties to the people they undertake to govern oicau iesi mcir impoverished countrymen may filially fly for refuge toihnsewho have redeemed JNicaragua Irom anarchy and ru in. Moved by such ijinoblo sentiment. these miserable relics of n once powerful aristocracy nro striving to inipedo llie march of events in litis Itopublic Uut the impotence of their chVl is b. i'innitiL' lo bu made manifest to themselves and lo the world ; and lliey are now nppearing as blind instruments in ihe hand of all-wise Providence, which, out of the bad passions and unworthy motives of men, educes good and improvement. "In our relations with ;he more powerful nations of llie world, 1 hope they may be led to perceive that, ullhoiigh Nicaragua may be compatativcly weak, she is vel jealous of her honor, nnd determined to ui.'iiiilain Ihe dignity ot her independent KOi'creiiMitv. ''The principles which shall guide nio in the administration both of the foreign and domestic otFairs of the Government are few and simple. To allow the inmost lib erty of speech and action compatible with order nnd good government, shall bo llie leading idea of my political conduct. Therefore, the greatest por.sible freedom of trade will be established, wiih the view of innking Nicaragua what nature intend ed her to be the highway of commerce between i wo oceans. And with this free, dom of trade will come the arts ol a civ ilizution which grows an. I increases by the wants anil necessities itsell creates. In conclusion, he said that to promote education end encouragn tho practices of. religion, should bo wiih his government objects of primary importance. This ad dress is on tho whole very high. toned and dignified ; but his reference lo the oilier Central American Slates appears to argue but too plainly iho contemplation of fur t her conquests so snon os ho may secure firmly his p resent possessions. fncluring iiitcrcsis, her people being dvo. ted chit fly lo the pleanurcs of life, or the ex ciieinenUnf w ar, tho was compelled to im port almost every nniclo of use or orna ment which she rrquired. Having nolbinjr to exchange for these foreign fabrics, ex cpl her gold nnd silver, and the luxury of her people increasing in iho ratio that the products of her transatlantic mines d. creased, she wn compelled finnlly lo re sort lo forced legislation, in order to keep Ihe precious metals within her own tcrrito ries. An export duly of from five to fif. Iccn per cent, was laid on all exportation of specie, and this additional burthen broko the bucks of her pnoplo. Smug tiling was resorted to, and tho government found itself daily growing weaker am poorer, in spile of the Alcarula tax, whilst the people hourly plunged into greater ex cesses of extravagance nnd i fi'eminacv The world sees the consequences, nnd Ihe nineteenth century pnvs with lis shame for Ihe sickly splendor of the sixteenth. It is, therefore, evident to the shallowest mind, lhat mere mineral wealth cannot long sustain n nation in a position of pow er or opulence If there be no correspond ing commercial and agricultural interests lo keep the specie at home, it will go abroad to seel; after luxuries, and when Ihe bid a nee of trade is once fixed against a coun try no human power can long postpone the catastrophe. It was a knowledge of this great princi. pie in political economy, and n full appre ciation of its importance, thai gave lo the American System of Clay its grrnt popu larily nnd its triumphant vindication, in ihe enrltcr days of the Republic. Had not New England been enabled to build up her commercial mid inanufuuiuring inter. esls, so as to compete successfully wiih other countries, our country, instead of he ing rich ahd powerful, wou'd at this day be n second-rate power, and a more depend ency of hnglnnd and France. America owes more lo the memory of Henry Clay, than she does lo that of Jackson or Jefl'erson. In arms. Jackon was pre eminent, in po'ilics Jeflerson, but in wise and beneficent statesmanship, Clay surpassed ull his contemporaries. The plcndoi of his eloquence could not subdue the perspicuity of his mind, but wisdom and enthusiasm for the first lime in the an nals of our history met nnd embraced each other. Let no man sny our country owes no debt of gratitude lo Henry Clay because tho protective principle is no longer neces sary to foster our commerce and manufac tures. Ho buill ihcm up, and left them just ns they wore able to walk alone. Ho nursed them into si length, nnd their merid ian glory will bo bis best monument. San Francisco True Culifornian, if . r t . i . .... I . . . utaianco irom .m w lorx, mo way iiio line ot the screws luru in her own axis, or in a runs, of 1,700 mile. It ( not improbable "I"" of four hundred fti t. She is to be that European new. will soon be furnished '"?"n,eJ " ''!' lwc"-v Kun"' ol ll,e ,,mic,t , ' . o . cabbie and ihe longrst range. by steamers .topping nt S. Johns. T, dock Uenhihit 0ll(crfu floalin Th. P.ein. .,e .... ,. batiery is now lying is very mysteriously W- l..v- .... ... K'M'M . Owing lo the extreme length of , ' ' ' ..-.. .. ...... tMe vf,rt.i rockH lat0 b,.Pn excavated, and I.- t ... " . a a I ' me uemocraiie convention, asseinUlcU at one of I lie street of Iloboken has been tun Cincinnati, recommended lo Congress lo I neled to admit one end of the monster. do what it conm'tutionally could for tlic u ,n Hobort L. Stevens died he left .. ' ....l..l.. .....!. ! l. Vl'..ll,. .I. s;. .... I'acilic Road. Ve have now lonuiice alw ! , , . V. . V V I f , ,i , ,. n. f, . I'ltendutit of her construction, lo complete v ihe vessel in accordance with his originul assrmbl.'d at Philadelphia, lias cmlursed in conception. She has cost the government strong language the construction of that '"us far, over half a million ot dollars, all road. It may be laken, therefore, ns an r wUku hH bctn l"'w' ",,J lalelr 1.11,.,i r,, ,i . ,i ii- .. . , worn uas ocen ciuricu on oui oi ine private assured fuel, that the publiu sen.tment of ru,uU of Mr. Steu.n ' ihe notion is in favor of the I'acillo Rail- This vessel, or two orll.reolike Iier, roau, ami nun congress is nol only author- will guard New lork from any forco that ized, but required to lake some Positive uiuy be brought against the place Shot's stepson this subject. Whet shall they be ? P"1'? i'"Pfviou lo shot i.nd shell, from It stems lo bo pretty well settled lhat a ,, , , , ... ,1MJ ' , ,r e i i . .i. i i i , I . i . . . . . . . (i.noi ui ioiiu. on mo oho iiiino, ami an nu- each thoroughly tested by cannon shot be. vunce pay of mileage for Ihe transportation fore being fustened to the framo of the vos. of mnils nnd trcops, are the only proper 'lvt maoldnery is all below the water meihods of accomplishing nnyihing eflect- ? '"" 0 , ' ' . mil. W c cannot see why tins plan should bual- of ........j,.,.. vi. U'ith two i i ... . i . i . . . .. . . .. . . . . noi oe uuopieu, or wny u snout j not nc- or three such vessels, Xew.lork would In coinjilish Iheolject. Suppose that there deed bu impregnable. arc two roads actually made one by the XaUomvt Weallh. The chief sources of wealth, the world over, are principally tt.ree: Commercial, mineral, und agricultural. The nation which possesses all ih tee in greatest abun dance, anil nt llie same time in proper equi liljiium, will become the most powerful. It is not sufficient that an empire can boast of the richest mines of gold nnd sil ver, lo iu il power and permanency. Tho precious meials may dar. zle for a while, but they also corrupt w hilst they shine. If there bn no corresponding commercial preponderance, or agricultural excellence, gold and silver canhol save such a country fi out premature ruin. Spain of the six teenth century furnishes a melancholy il lustration of this great axiom in political economy. Her political supremacy was ...:.i. :. . .l . . . n: . . I . . . i , , hum i is sopo.ioi iioiooeis, intelligence, 1 iiii internal commerce ontv collated in v,i weallh and power, lo laku a aland, firm tie bv that of America. Her svtem of nnd fixed as its granilo hills, against the railways is jiiitantic, hikI bevotid question threatening, bullying, brow. beating, skull- her whole surface will, befoie the lapse of breaking spirit ol ihu fcowli, a spirit that la auutier of a ceitlurv, be entirely inter- 1 rumples upon compromises; violates the twined with n web ot iron roads. sacreu irerumn or niiriiumeniurv ae iate:l nrnirn imcress ins not heen ess rnnn and murders tho settlers upon our coinuioii than or inferior to Russia. Tim America I !"r,lps 'ho shortest lived of any In the soil for sinijily opposing, by voice and vote, of die R-volulion was a narrow section of I whole annals of history. During a few ine tastenuig ot slavery tijion a lieu and tins coiiliueii', thnfly ot forest land, lying iiryiu lerri'orj. I along the Atlantic Oc mi, cmnprising sumo -U is nol necessary to assure the readers 00.0(10 souaro inil-s, inhabit, d by -carcely of the Jlirror that we have no sympathy 3,0(111,000 of inhabitants, mid dolled here Willi polnical A holt lion ists the lireeleys, snd there with a few small towns. Nmv miles. years after the discovery of America in 1492, it continued only about half a centu ry on thn sea, until the time of Elizabeth, and a century on land, till the lime of Lou is XIV. After these dates Spain rapidly the Giddingses, and tho Van Hurens o the we have thrco millions of square .orm, wnn nave 0, en ri-i ng u,0 nigg.-r inore than twenly-lne millions of people, decline ! lo a second, nnd then a third rate Howry tor lutein years, se( hing otlice while ami our ciiu-s have increased in number. "shrieking fur fieedom." Uut, however s,ze. and snl. ndor. until lln v lival llie can- mischievous an l detestable the sentiments itols of the nljr w0rl I. The territory of promulgated by ihese sectional tlemagegiies the Republic is three limes n lari'e as llie may be, lliey have never lesorted lo but- whole of Uiitain, France. Spain. Poitii"iil. lets and bludgeons to carry llieir points, or I'russia, Austiia, Ijennvuk, Heloiuin, and lo silence their opponent. I hey have Holland, combined, equals in ex'eut that of even made a virtue of ikci-s-iiv bv sub- ihe Roman Emoire. when Aul'iisIiis Ca-sar prescribed in bis last te tamrni it bound aries. Baltimore Republican. mining to the operation of the Fugitive Slave Law, (the bitterest pill ever swal lowed by the North for the benefit of the. South,) and even llie repeal of the Mis souri Compromise wouIJ have been qtiielly acquiesced in. had "fair i.lav and iioizoiil'- ... I - rr c pow er, which she still remains. Why was it ilia! with all the gold and silver of the J ing the next year. two Americas at her command, she could not retain the trident and the sword I One thing is certain in political economy, Kubinarlae Telegraph, The Steamship Propoiitis sailed from London on the 2d of June, with the sub- marinn electric cable, lo bo laid down to cross the Oulf of Si. Lawrence, and con nect Newfoundland with Cape Brelon. The New Yoik Journal of Commerce, mentioning I his says I Besides this, another similar cable will be extended from Prince Edward's to New Hrunswick, snd it is expected they will both belaid by the last of llie present month Fne English Government have sent the war steamer Argus to be present when the wire is put down, and render any needed assistance. A number of persons vailed from Hostoti, in the Niagntn, to wimess the execution of this interesting portion of the woik,and will he met by other pail if leav ing England with the vame object. The manufacturers of the wire, in London, as sume all ribk in connection with this por tion of the enterprise, it being Agreed thut they shrill receive a certain amount in pay ment when the wire is laid down and guar antccd. Tho company have for some time past had 600 men constantly employed on the lire ucross Newfoundland, where n parallel road is built, nnd houses nre erect ed at every ten milts, for iho occupation of the operators and laborers. All this work is only preliminary to the formidable enterprie of linking the old world to the new by electric telegraph. Experiments are constantly making, with a view to as certain the best description of cable adapt ed to this purpose, and it is confidently ex pected that the work will be completed dur- middle or l'lalto route, and one by El Puso; the cost of both will not reach what many people imagined some years sinco that one road will cost. The Texas road, allowing for all contingencies, will not cost over 870,000,000; and the other is now, we believe, reduced to ubout 8100,000,000. If economy could bo evinced, we havo no louht both may bo mado for thai. But, granting there is not economy, we believe tico hundred millions w 111 cover both branch es. Suppose ihe Government were indi rectty to furnish liu IT of that, viz: 8100,. 000,000, where should be tho difficulty ? Suppose they give $(100 per mile for fifteen years, for transportation of ihe mails, nnd give this only when each section of fifty miles uro made, lhat is, when fifty miles ore made, and their mails nnd freights bo- gin to bo transported, then they pay in ad vance for fifteen years use of that SO miles. Thia is 8-130,000, or 89,000 permilo. Now, nt the same lime, lliey give !i0 sec- lions nf land per mile, or 1,500 sections, or 000,000 ncres, W'hich is 113,1100 acres per mile; which ngniu, at fl 25 per acre, is lo.Diiu per nine, uoin grants nre equal Jim Lmpkiior op tkanck and tub lo n lililo more than half the supposed cost Americans. The Washington correspon- l the road ; and on the basis of this, there dent of llie l'hiladi Iphia North American can doubtless be found sufficient capital lo writes that for reasons which are best known accomplish the object. Railroad Record, to iho Emporor, but which must beassum- ,., ed to ho good, the fueling of the Govern. ... . ioU,.t,,.-iuo namniore me(U of Fl,lluo rect,m, u.it)Vej t0 bode Patriot, in speuk.ngof the question of the ojJ ,,, llIltl.iendly. has underuone a sud au.nisston o that Male says : One of the d d f y , T, ....,.. . ITI....1. . ll ...i." i. r .....Mil o A Novel Iuka I'afkii from Mummies. Mr. Deck, of New York, comes out wiili the startling statement that henceforth all paper may bu derived from the mummy catacombs of Egypt. The doctor lins ex plored llie enlire valley of the Nile, and has become so accustomed to speak the Arabic thut he lias almost forgotten hit mother tongue. Ho estimates that the mummy pits ol the iNilooontain about ouu millions of embalmed Egyptians, who, lie says, will, with their linen and papyroiii cerements, furnish excellent material for first class paper. He does not explain the rationulo of his theory, but as iho adipose and muscular nuiiter of these, bodies have all been transformed into fibre, it is possible, us ho says, that it can bo converted into pulp with ihe sumo facility ns vrgetublo matter. Let this idea be put into practi cal eHcct,aud il may even happen thut one of the Ptolemies, or Cleopatra, or Nebucli nezcr himself, may yet furnish material upon w hich to print a daily newspaper. They would thus certainly bo useful iu death ns well ns in life. Capt. Berryman, who is shortly to sail on a surveying expedition in one of llie U. S. Government steamers, and by whom the l.ro. Walker. President of Mcaraina. Accordni"; loiho correspondence of tho NewOil'-aus Picayune, Walker received thai specie is the actual representative of survey of the proposed route of the trans wealth, and that country is ihe richest nnd j Atlantic cable was made, ascertained thai most powerful which tun command the j the ground was liighly favorable for (he ex largest sums, in cases of emergency, j ecution of the project. One fact not a lit Spain stood in this position until about tie remarkable is, that no rock was any tha middlo of the sixteenth century, whsn , where found in deep water, the entire bol- ing" been secured to the settlers in Kansas. H. 000 out of 21,00 vo'es that were polled, j she first bcj;ao lo feel ihe drain upon hen torn examined being covered by a dpep lay- "A the representative of Northern feel-I The fact of his bavins been elected wn1 purse and the consequert decline of her ' or of minute tropical shells, such as mh'ht ing aroused by a series of uiiwon ed out. form!Iv proclaimed nn the 10'h of July, lerval interests. Now il most not be for- afford effectual protection to the wire. .i ...... .r? I.. ..:.l . .1 . f -ii- 1 ... .i... ... ... -..!. o : i. ' Tl .i - . . I . a , . n . . . . in uir aur-cis u. ur.innuii. Humes, ine leeoir "iieii inni up in iuis lime npauiao ariua . tuo co.i.ijuuv mifipjite ine receipt Ol a an.l countenni.cr.-l by ihe Pierce adinnin- , , , , ' ' . I . , , . ' tration, Jon C. Fremont has been select- vn" r n,IVM '0I,1 cheer of anil commerce kept equal pace with each considerable revenue immediately on the ed as a candidate for the Presidency. In theso'diery. Ou the 1 'ith die inaugural other, and flourished side by side. But j line to St. Johns, (connecting with the Noa t grc.tt cmert ey of tie nation theres ereinoa:es were p-rforaied, when be de- 'Laving Oo great ;'iu':u;aj tai oanti- 6tii lint at pert HH, Cp Breton,) a most difficult problems which Congress will linvo shortly lo solve will bo tho admission of Utah into tho Union, with a peoplo whose religious tenets have been perverted by n gross imposture, nnd whose social customs nt wurnlike with decency nnd propriety. Are we lo recognize a commoiiweulih of polygamists i Are tho followers of Joe Smith, tho nrch hypocrite nnd blasphe mous defumer of sacred things, lo be allow ed lo be represented in Ihe national coun cils, or shall Utah be repudiated, un inde pendent Republic be Buffered to inaugurate itself in the heart of ihe Rocky Mountains Theso are llie questions which Congress will soon have to decide. A Christian peo ple shrinks from the recognition of this li centious Commonwealth, but Congress pos sesses no power to prohibit any form of worship, however gross or sensual j nnd though it nay claim the right to deny loa territory, disgraced by its excesses, admis sion into tho Union as a State, there yet remains the equally serious point to be de cided, as to whether its people shall be al lowed to establish on lauds the property of the United States an independent form of government. Steam Iro.n Floating Battery. Tho late Robert L. Stevrna was employed for some years before his death, in the construc tion of an immense- iron flouting buttery for the defence of New York. Several months ago, the Secretary of the Navy sent an in telligent naval officer to inspect the battery, and report progress. liis report, now on file at the Naval Department, is an inter esting document at this time, when gun boats and all sons of defensive and offijtisive modes of warfare aro being developed. Tho Washington correspondent of tho N. Y. Herald writes I This vessel, mys'eriously docked nnd hid fiom public view, has already been four, lecn years under way, mid of course con siderable progress lias been niadn in her construction, and, she could bu finished, if necessary , in one year. She is four hun dred feet lonjr, and thirty or fortr in breadth. She is built entirely of wrought iron (dates, and rich plate seven inches in thickness ; thea are attached lo her iron frame woik. She will have eight attain en gines, snd istobe propelled by two screw paddles, on each side of tier sterii post. In smooth water the w ill run, il is expect ed, from twenty tu twenty-five mile an hour ; and a she is intended solely for liar, bor defences, she will Lave amooih water to run in at all timr. She can, by ber double propnlsip p9we', ojr Tevr;ng one are no longer any intimations thrown out tlmt strength will bo measured, or resistunce of fered to our supposed policy of territorial extension. On the contrary, tho senti ment is quite conciliatory, and the dispo sition one of overture, rather than fornialt- J- IJifi erk.ncb of Opinion. It is fino re mark of Rousseau's, ihal the besi of us dif fer from others in fuwoi particulars than we agree with them in. The dillbrcnco of n tall and short man is only a few inches, whereas they are both several feet high. So a wise or learned man knows many thing of which the vulgar are ignorant J but I here is a still greater number of things the knowledge of which lliey share in com mon with them. llazlill. A ''ItKFRESiiiNfl I'laci:." Now and then n "specimen" of llie bygone raco of river boatmen, who have mostly set tled down to farming, will luru up on the western steamboats j and on such oc casions their propensiiy to "rough fun will beak out afresh. Some years since one of them look passage down for Now Orleans, and for several days Le seemed quite desponding for want of excitement. ,t last, the boat put into Napoleon, in ihe Stale of Arkansas, for supplies. Just at the moment there was a general light, ex tending all along in front of the town, which, at that lime, consisted of a single grocery. Ihe unhappy passenger, h.lgct ing about, jerking his feet up and down, as if they were touching upon hot biicks, in quired of a i pec tutor : "Stranger, is '.hi ere a free figl.l ?" ' Wal, I reckon it ar'," was llie prompt reply. ''If you want to go in, you need nt stand on any ceremony." Tho passenger went in, anJ oon came out again, appearing to be reasonably sat. isfied. Groping bis way on board, Ins hatr half torn out, Lis coat in titers, one eye closed up, ate! several of his teeth knocksd into hi'J throat, he sat down on a hen-coop and toliioqui.ed : "So this Is Ne-po le on, is it f It a jeest the most refreshing place I ve seen in many a day I" tJfAkuniier lha Great, seeing Dingenaa l ivg ateniivtly at a large collection of humaa bones, p ltd one upon another, atked thaphiloao phar what he waa looking for. "I arp searching." aid Diogeuae, "for th bone of your faUW. hot I etonrt distinguish them from tb-y bis !,'' t ,, I , i ., I i 1 1 i .'. i . I Is hi h; 1 2 & i A1 I l j I I 'j ' 1 . I- ..fd I .L XI I i .1 r: .i t'i ft I. 1 ' ?1 -4 ill lie 1 if '.7. ''i ;:e ! i i I 'Jr' o. i 1 1 ' ; . . i l';