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X reps wllh two bucked hung ever a rool, Both einbty, ono p aud Ibo other below t Be jump'd ia the topmoot which turned the wheel . Aad dowa to Uio bottom did merrily go. There perched la the backet he eat la deopair l ' Tn nothing but moonshine, ho anid, after all) 'ire'erlgoteut.IaioetlQlemnlyiwoar,' ' I Into lenpUUea will never More fall ' " Ko poultry I'll oloal, but wiU bo a good Fox Nor lie or deceive my best friend or worst foe But fear I ihall aerer get out of IhU box I Tho father of Foxee ho only oia know t But juot at lliie moment a Wolf passing round, ' Oa a aimilar errand hie fortune to try la hope that a lamb, or a pig might be found . To ootiefy Hunger, or eouio other prey Feep'd Into the well while the Fox wea at prayer, . And thought ho woo watching for mice or for frsgs. ' Then eiid Mr. Fox i'whsl are you doing there) I'm eating torn cheeee unmolested by doge: I hare a rich treat, and moeh more lhaa I want t My dear Mr. Wolf here it plenty for both, ' The boon uato you I will readily grant, If lo partake witli a)e you will not lothi But bow ihall I get there t hie wolfship replied, ' The well it hi deep, I may fall I fear, . lint step lu tho bucket that hangs t'other side Aud eomo down w I did f you eoon will be herei He got in the bucket, brgan to descend, And felt rather blue, tho' bo looked very brown, When mooting the Fox, asked "which Way uiy good friend P ' "The way of Uio world, on goee up, and one down." From tho New York Herald. The Avmy ttitl tUatas A Cxerattvt suvewilsa aad a unitary DesaaiUmt . The Washington organ of the adtninis- tfation and its Buchanan echoes through out the country aro denouncing the altitude of the) House of Representatives upon the Army bill as a revolutionary movement tinparalelled ia it atrocity, and com pre' bending the desperate alternative of rule -or ruin. But ihe truth of history will speedily show where the Criminal policy of ''rule or ruin' Hong, and what branch 'of the government is responsible in tlie ' matUr of a disorganizing and revolutionary scheme. ; The Kansas-Nubraska bill repealed the Missouri' compromise, and from the vast territories north of 30 30 removed the Cotijjres-iiin.il ioterdim against the intro duction of Southern slavery, aud subttttu ted 'the dootnue of popular sovrei;nty. The vital clause in this new Kansas and Nebraska organic law, which has been de nominated by Mr. Benton "the stump speech in the bully of the bill," expressly declares that "it is uot the intention of this act to legislate slavery into these Territo ries, (KittiM and Nebraska,) nor to' ex. elude it therefrom ; but to leave It to the people to settle in their own way, subject only ) the. Constitution, of the United States." Kansas thus being opwl to set. tiers from both sections, an I t'te isiui of slavery er no slavery being thus left to the popular majority of the Territory, the con. test oetween the North ai.d South at once commenced for the supremacy, and emi. grants from both sections, armed and uri rmed, individuals, individual families, and organized bodies of men, and others of men, women and children, bfgan to pour into (ho Territory. ' So far, so goad. There waa nothing In all this at war with the Kansaa-Nebraska law, nor with the constitution. But as the elections approaehed for the n7t JiegUla iture, which was to shape the municipal laws ef the Territory, the Missouri slave holders (or rather the Missouri deuoerat.0 nullification politicians) oa the eastern bor der, began to bo alarmed, and made their preparations accordingly.' Against elec tion day they had invaded the Territory in armed bodies to the number of three or four thousand men, and on the day of elec tion, they took possession of the polls and selected a Legislature to suit their own pur poses. That Legislature, in adopting the worst features of the Missouri slavery code for Kansas, and certain unconstitutional pains and peoaHies which we do net be .lieve can be found in the legislation of any alaveholding community ia the world out- side of Kansas, commenced the border troubles, the ruffianism, terrorism and civil war, aad the fearful sectional excitements, animosities and agitations which have suc ceeded. Had that first spurious Missouri-Kansas Legislature bee set aside by the President, tbesapreme executive law ocer eve the Territories, and bad Mr. Pierce provided for a new legislature and the means for a fair ex press ioa of tho will of the bona fide settlers ef Kansas -Nortbera men and Sou&era menall the outrage os scenes which nave since made Kansas literally "the dark and Uoody ground" might have bea avoided. But Mr- Pierce had his A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of effereonian Democracy, and advocating Vol. II. heart and his small ambition fixed upon the Cincinnati Convention and tho ultra South em balance of power which vies to control ihnt nomlnstion. And so he not only shut hissyeeto the spurious Legislature placed over Kausas by the Missouri invaders, but to remove all Southern suspicion against him, he changed bis original free soil lice der programme, dismissed Render upon a set of trumpery charges, and went over bodv and soul to the border ruffians. The free Stale settlers rebelled they met in convention they adopted a free State con. stitution they elected a free State Gov. ertior, free State' membor of Congress, ic To put a stop to these proceedings the Mia- aeuiiani again invaded Kansas, and, head ed by the new Territorial Governor, Shan Don, they marched for the lewo of Law rence. . Out the place had been fortified ty tha rebellious free soilers, and was so tronely defended that Governor Shannon agreed to an armUtioe, and the MUsourians returned to their homes. But the armistice to the no-slavery party was a hort lived dsjusiou. The President the Missouri-Kansas Legislature, the Ter ritorial Judges appointed by the President, and all his other subordinates, in eo-eper-ation with tbn United States Army and the border ruffians, with the first blush of spring recommenced their operations lit mors syslematio style and upon a more compre hensive scale. Some of the leaders in the Toelts free State movomcut were arrested. put in chains, and held under military guard as guilty of treason i others escae d only by the xkin of their teeth ex-Governor Rceder atrnng them. Th border ruffi ans this time captured the town of Law rence and sacked it ; and this achievement on their part was shortly after most ably seconded by Col. Sumner and his dragoons in Ihe dispersion cf the Kansas Topeka free Stale Legislature. Such has been ihi interpretation and ad ministration of tho Kansas organic law of popular sovroignty by Mr. Pierce. Origi hnlly of a free soil type, resting on a sys tem of Kitchen Cabinet land speculations the policy of Mr. Pierce, from the ax'gen cies ef the Cincinnati Convention eoon de generated into ihe policy of the border ruf fians; and thia is the identical policy which the Buchanan democrats of the Senate at Washington have been laboring to thrust down the throHtsof the Housa of Repre sentatives the policy of border ruffianism ilto p tlicy of milimry coercion-the pol icy of making Kansas a slave State by the extermination or extirpation of anlUlnvery slllurs at the point of the bayonet. Marshall O'Donnell hasjust established this iMlicy of a military despotism over Spain Louis Napoleon, by this policy of the bayonet, overthrew the ropuulic of Krance Radetsky, by this policy crushed out the movement Tor the liberation of Ita ly ; and by thin policy Russia revered the Hungarian revolution, and reduced (hat brave people back again lo their vassalage io Austria. The Cabinet organ has aaid that the movement upon this Army bill is revolutionary ; and so, on the part of ibe President, it is. He has been false to his oath ; he has not seen the Kansas law "faithfully executed he has not been loy al to the constitution. lie has upheld a spurious Legislature, spurious laws, armed violators of Territorial rights, murder, ar son, robbery ; and his present policy, which the Buchanan ultra alavery men of the Senate seek to fasten upon ihe House is this atrocious Pierce policy of "moral trea son," crjrae, outrsge, and the conversion of Kansas into a slave State by military coercion. , In'resiating this despotic policy, if necse. sity should require it, the House will be fully justified in standing out for their pro viso to the . Army bill until this Congress shall expire, and this administration with it. The attempt te dragoon the House into Ibis policy of securing slavery in Kansas by the forcible S.xpulsion of the a ntislavery set tlers by the , United States army and the border ruffians, is a revolutionary and fear, ful precedent. It sets up fhe Executive a beve the constitution, the laws and public opinion it makes him a Territorial dicta tor, and clothes him with the powers of an absolute despot. It is a mockery of popu lar sovreignty, an outrsge upon justice, and a crime which csn only lead to a most disastrous reaction. . We warn the South that this experiment of securing Kansas as aslaveState by the agencies of fire and sword, wilt do no good. The Territory may thus be cleared of ami slavery squat ters; but the question of the admission of Kansas into the Union will have to be set tied by a different process. The military despotism, the military wop d'etat which the little man, Mr. Pierce, is thus attempting in behalf of Mr. Buchanan in the Soutb, should be resisted by the House, if necessary, to ths last dsy of the constitutional existence of this Congress. Better have no army than to permit the Executive, with the army, to) override the conetituties and U)e OREGON CITY, O.T., OCTOBER 18, 1850. Tbs Old Man's MeattaiUas. 1 ir c corns. Tbo old msa walked wilb weary feet, And gssed with cloodud eye, Slowly where the waves id best Us thought perbsps Ihe wladleg elieel Would eooa o'er blm lis folding ateet . Tbit iooa.be ws lo die. He thought of childhood's hippy hears, And knew thst they were ned He played enoo mere suiid ths Auwcrs, 1 Is built agtia the airy lowers, And sal wilhla Ibe shsdy bowers, With friends who now were deed. He thought opoo the distent land Wbieb hs had travelled e'erj He Silied Where is Ibst happy band Wbieb suited with me, heed in hsnd, Who left their footprints oa tho send, . And Ihea were sera so mejet1 t lis thought how fast the time had sped ' Ho ssw ths setting ens t When wes the wife which he bed wed Would she otsud by h s dying bed, Aad pillow op bio acblug head When life's last sand bsd run T Where wse ths mother who had prayed To God Is bloat ber child ; Who eootbed bis sorrow when afraid, And then in joy with him bsd stsyed, Aad called him back when ho bad slrsyed, Aud looked on him aad smiled 1 Where wse Ihe father whose kiad hand ITsd sver him been eset ; Who ia bis arms his child did bear, Whs taught la him hie evening prayer, Who rocked bim la bis little chair, And loved him te the last? Ho looked upon Ibe ses of years O'er which he long had called ) The dew-born hopes snd pregnant fears, The sudden joys and scalding tears, Anif tales of love agaia be hears, For memory had not foiled. Ho sees the wreck upon the chore, Aud everything io drear ; Ths rolling waves around him roar, The angry clouds their torrents pour, His friends are goue forevermore, And he alone is here. Tot through the long and gloomy night The old man taw a star; It Is s bsppy, cheerful light That gleams upon his misty tight ) It nearer oomes and shines more bright Heaven 'a light house from afar. LAla tress ILaasas Tres Htate aad Border Rafllaa Accounts. The Missouri Democrat of Aug. 81, pub- lishea the following letter, which it syi ed itorially Is "from the pd l a ent on whose statements we have every reason lo rely. He is a Southern man, and has been identified in all his principles and sentiment with the south. He writes, we confidently believe, in good fniih, and with a full knowledge of the facts which he relates. Kansas Territory, Aug. 11, 1856. 7b the Editor of thi Mistouri Democrat: Great excitement now prevails in every part of our unfortunate Territory. There has been a compact entered into by the Atchison and Stringfellnw men of the bor der counties of, Missouri and those in Kan sas Territory, to keep up excitement for the avowed purpose of preventing all op posed lo them from emigrating to the Terri tory, and the present and recent difficulties have been brought about by these and similar designing, lawless men most of whom are not citizens of Kansas, although they publish lo the world that they are now residents of Kansas Territory. Some four weeks since, a party of southerners, numbering in all about one hundred and seventy-five, formed themselves into a company and started from the town of Atchison, Leavenworth, and other points, for the Big Blue river, intending to drive the settlers from that part of the country, who were known to be free State men. The above company, armed and furnished with provisions, ammunition, and teams of conveyance by their friends in Missouri, took up their line of march, having previ ously declared that their intention was to take possession of Manhattan city and ihe country in that vicinity ; and on arriving found the citizens in that part of the Ter ritory employed in building houses, ma king improvements, dec, Shortly after their arrival a light commenced which re sulted io the defeat of the southern men by the citizens of Riley county. Had these men gone to work; atienJed to their own affairs and not have plundered private houses, stolen horses, and drove off actual settlers from their homes, the citizens of Riley county would never have made any complaint against them, nor would any violence have occurred. Only a few days elapsed until another company of pro slavery men to the number of one hundred and eighteen, look possession of the town of Franklin, fortified themselves, and called upon every man in the town to join them or leave their home. The free Slats men being thus compelled to abandon their property it was soon taken by these law and order men. It being impossible for free Stats men te get redress from the one si Jed courts of Kanras Territory, they, with some ef their friends returned, and asked permission; to peace'Jy enjoy the privilege of their rights and property. Ts answer was, you are abolitionists and must clear the Territory, and at the same time wher ever tbey made their appearance, they were fired at by some of ihe party who called themselves law and order men Then it was, and not till then, that the free State men determined lo return or die in the attempt. The fight which ensued, snd of vhich yon have, no doubt, beard then took place, and which lasted about three hours, in which ths invaders were beaten and some of them shot, while the rest fled, having lost their arms and cannon The free Slate men had it in their power to have taken the lives of all those persons who had collected in Franklin ; but thrir object was to get possession of their homes. so that '.heir wives and children could have those p?es of shelter which their industry had provided .for them. Since the report Las beon circulated that Robinson, Brown aud others were to be released, arrange' menta have been making by their enemies to get the prisoners from the guards and hang tliein. Vco who occupy prominent positions, boldly proclaim that if Robinson, Brown and others are released, that they will be shot down. The fight at Lecomp- ton was bejun by men who went to the capitol, te use their own language, to have a fight, and not permit a free State maato come to Lecompton. For weeks the pro- slavery party have been moving the south ern emigration into Douglas county for the purpose of routing the free State men. There are now several hundred men from the Soutb, supported by the nullifiers, and instructed by their masters, to keep up excitement. When a man comes to Kan sas, and refuses to act with the pro-slavery party, his name is placed upon the list of those who are to be disposed of. We have no law here no government. - The strong arm ef this once powerful republio has failed to protect the peaceable citizens of this Territory. It would appear that orders have been issued by government, that the free Slate men of this Territory are to be slaughtered and robbed of iheir property. Hundreds of armed men from the Soutb are flocking into our Territory, to drive us from our homes and to murder every one who refuses to obey their orders. Will the government at Washington fail to give us that prelection to which a fe people are entitled f Death would b reflsrable to the continuation of the bloody adminis tration of Kansas Territory. , We ask equal privileges, and nothing more when our homes are invaded, our lives threaten ed, our friends all murdered, our wives in sulted, what course must we take! If the government will not protect us, and we re ceive oo other assitianoe, we will sell our lives as dearly as possible. I have not time lo give you all the facts relative to the af fairs in our Territory. I was born and ed ucated in a slave Slate, and am sure that the conservative men of the South would promptly refuae to endorse the cruel action of the law breakers in Kansas. I wish to see a majority of the actual citixena of this Territory decide at the ballot box, wheth er it be a slave or a free State, and not force men to leave the Territory at tha point of the bayonet just before the election. We are determined, inasmuch as the war has been brought upon us, to defend our lives to the last, There can be no doubt but Ihe main object of the pro-slavery party is to drive the free State men from the free soil of Kansas; though I hardly think it possible for them to succeed in so unjust an effort to deprive freemen of tho right which they have inherited from their revolution, ary sires. AMERICA. PaeUe Katlreaa. That our brethren on the Pacific are ul timately to be united to us by bonds of iron, we presume no intelligent man who has consiu'c.ed the march of Internal Improve ment during the last half century can doubt. The circuitous, tedious, uncomfortable, ex pensive, unhealthy journey by either or by any route across the Isthmus of Darien cannot be allowed to remain the most prac ticable and expeditious mode of transit from one side of our Union to the other. To day, a citizen of Minnesota, who may be impelled to remove his family to Oregon or Washington Territory, must traverse more than four times the actual distance which separates bis present from bis fu ture home, in order to reach the latter. Half the white people now inhabiting our Pacific empire would gladly visit the hemes of their youth if the cost in comfort, time and money of the journey were sufficiently economized thousands of the adventur ous, or the discontented among us would look oJ on the Pacific if ten days' easy riding across a diversified country, through haunts not yet deserted by ihe Indisn and the EuTalo, would carry them thither at a cost of not more than a hundred dollars. If a good Railroad from St. Ijouis io San Francisco were to open next April, we be lieve it would increase the National wealth by tie fall amount of its cost in every three year cf thf next thirty, while yielding, if1 the side of Truth in every issne. No. 27, well managed, a magnificent income lo its stockholders That Railroad will yet be built ; the only question ia Shall Its credit and its benefits enure to the present generation or shall we doze on and leave it to be built by our more enterprising posterity ! Shall we hazard the alienation of our brethren on the Pacific, calculating that we may win them back after tbey shall have been com polled by their isolation and disadvantages to fall away from us f Is a Nation that must buy or beg the privilege of carrying the Mails between its chief commercial cities through remote and semi-barbarous foreign countries, a thousand miles out of the direct line between those ports, really and properly united I We believe the PacificKoad ought te be commenced et once, and constructed so fast as means can be obtained. We believe the Federal Government ought to retrench ita absurd expenditures for Army, Nary, 4c, and devote at least Tea Millions per annum to making a track for the Iron Horse across the western half of the continent, through the gorges of the Rocky Mountains, over the passes of the Sierra Nevada, from the Mississippi ' to the Sacramento. This would be a practical job of Union saving unlike xaost jobs undertaken on that pre textand ene every way benenclent. Even if it should be arrested midway by war or some other calamity, it would still be worth at least its, cost, aud would still insure a speedy and safe overland transit for persons at least. We rejoioe that the People s Convention at Philadelphia eo frankly and heartily de claredalike by ita Platform and Its Can didatefor the Paoifio Railroad. Other parties may deal in vaporous generalities, or only take a position one day to desert it io terror on the next ; but our support of the great enterprise ef the age was and Is spontaneous, nearly, unanimous, unmis. takabte. With the Pathfinder io the Pres. ideotial Chair, the path itself in pioneer ing which he has so persistently courted perils, endured hardships and rejoiced in sacrifices cannot fail to be made plain. N. V. Tribune. isiteriaat Wsws fresa Knslaad Nettle sssatet tfceOalrel American a,aesuea. (From the Evening Slate Register. 'By the steamship Hermann, arrived at this port from Southampton, we have dates to Aug. 15, 1898. The Central American question has been definitely settled. So far as Honduras is concerned, the matter has been arranged between Lord Claren don and Sr. Don Victor Uerran, Plenipo tentiary of Honduras in London. The treaties drawn up by these negotiators have already been signed, and consist t 1st Of a general treaty ef amity and commerce. 2d. Of a convention for the adjustment of all claims of British subjects on tha Gov ernment of Honduras, and for Ibe extinc tion of any Indian (Mosquito) tribes within the territories recognized as pertaining to Honduras ; and 3d. A convention for the restoration to the sovereignly of Honduras of the Bay Islands. The convention for the restoration of the Bay Islands is that which from the circum stance of their occupation and colonization by Great Britain having been regarded in the Clayton and Bulwer convention, first claims attention, and will excite much In terest. The convention restores these is lands to ihe sovereignty of Honduras, only stipulating, en behalf of the people who have established themselves there under Ihe British occupancy, the perpetual enjoy, mentof certain rights and privileges. The ground upon which tha restoration is made is the importance of preserving neutral the route of the proposed inter-occantc railway through Honduras. Such are the terms of the arrangement between Great Britain and Honduras, and it will only require the approval of the Leg islature of Honduras, which will be given, of course. It should be observed lhaj the Government of France has agreed to the article guaranteeing the Honduras Rail way, a an appendix to the treaty with Honduras already existing. It is well un derstood ihst these gust sntees secure an amount of public interest in this railway which insures its speedy construction. In respect to the remaining issues in the Central Ameriean complication, it has been agreed, between Lord Clarendon and Mr. Dallas, that the port of San Juan do Nica ragua (Greytown) shall return under the sovereignty of Nicaragua, subject, however to the same stipulstkms with the Bay Is lands. Tho Mosquito sovereignty, so call ed, is lo disappear forever, and the Mos quito Indians are to concentrate themselves within a certain defined territory, within which they shall have, for a term of years, such pnssewory rights as are accorded U the Indians on the "American Reserva tions." Meantime tbey are to enjoy a snwll annuity front the Siateof Nicaragua, to be fixed by arbiiraiori, wbe are to oe ap pointed In the same manner rith those charged witl similar duties in Heat,tirsv ADVERTISING KATKfl. One square (13 linos et Um) out hwertioa, t3A9 - - twu iatfsrtinas, sAP - - - - th iuttruont, M9 Kaeb sobstqoeot laatrtiea, lift) Reasooable dodssiiotia to thus who aiunmf tbe yrar. Job Printing. Tni rtortirros or raa AKOL'8 rs atrrr lo Inform tho nubile that be has Juot received a large stock of JOB TVFK and other aow print-' ins material, aed will bo ia Ihe spsody mesial of sddiUooi tutted lo ell the reesiromoais of this lo cality. IUNP1III.I. POHTKfW, HUNKH. CAIIDH, CIRCULARS. PAMl'HLKT-WORlC and other kinds, done la order, ea short notice. Such is the final result of the Central American imbroglio, and we cannot doebt but that It will prove satisfaclo7 to all parses interested, with the possible excep tion of Guatemala. (From ths Missouri Deanoeisl Tress aVaasee. Great Excitement alonfi the Borden Tit Free State People Fhjfxjf in mil Vtrtc tione Revolting Violent neier Leave worth Scalping an AboliHonhtGoe. Prite to Command the Xilitia ef Mi touriAtthiion on the Frontier Three Thouiaud People ofMiettmi in tUFUlJ Lecompton not Attacked. A gentleman who arrived yesterday af ternoon from Weston, en the David Tatim, reports that the most intense eadtesxtit prevails along the borders ef Missouri and mos. Of the free Cjie prty, tc::, women and children were flying ia all dl. tactions. While ihe David Tatom was ly. log at Leavenworth, upwards of ons bun. dred of these fugitives wont on beard. These persons bad left bellad them all their property, which had been takea pea. sossioa of by those who ordered then le leave. The ire1 mot "; excesses bad been committed a few sJaya age, within five miles ef Leavenworth. A party of men called alehouse, aad iaquir ed for tha head of the family. They were told he waa absent. They all at first af. footed to discredit this frequently repeated asseveration, but finally aaid to the femalse of the (amily, "D -n your souls, then come out here yourselves we, want you I" A mother and daughter were then takea out nle the bushes, where they were kept all night, being subjected to the most foul in- dignities. In the morning they were al lowed to erawl back borne, more dead taaa alirs. At Kansas City robbery of horses and valuables continued to be of common oc currence i and murders pre almost equal ly frequent. AreeiJent of Clay count haa toent that he would haee the tcalp of an abelitio' .a. 1 tt Croeeing the river te uavenemvt, nt went a few milte back into the country, and Aory returned eCA a rem which he exhibited ottenUUiouelf el Zsaw worth. HievictimwaamKhank,juttar' rind in the Territory. Ke had jutt re turned from Lawrwe tc.'idre he hi K," hie wife, and woe eteking employment at tht timehewatthotandecalped. Gov. Price has been in the disturbed districts, but was hurrying home, hourly expecting a dispatch from the President, ordering out the militia of the State. Ia ibis event, he would command tnem ta person. Atohison was also on tne nor- ders, fanning the movemenia egams Kansas. Lexington had five hundred men andef arms. Jackson. Clay and Platte counties were each to furnish the same number.. Three thousand men from Missouri were expeot- ed to arrive in the Territory in a few dayv LeeemDton bad net been attacked , ana to this extent the report in yesterday' Re publican is oorrecU Our informant that no attack had been made upon any place by the free State men; and there had' been no concerted action on weir pan. We further learn that Gen. Persifef Smith has declared that he will not inter. fere with the Misseurians, should they een. fine their opsrationa te the forces under Gen. Lane. . The information we have now givea rests on the testimony of a gentleman resi dent In Missouri, who holds a high peslliot , the State, and who has no parlizaa biaa whatever. i vir. IIeio. 10(53 In a menu. script in the Advocate's Library, at Edin hero," as the writer designates bim, ef nil mtm ins nmm iiiuun iiiw uutivw wa wnora one wuum " - I ...i.i hi i a in .in vnma hiii.-v account. A certain captain araee own, it appears, had in 1645 built a vessel in the north of Scotland, described aaef "prodig. , ions bigness,", and sailed with ner to tbe Straits. He was accompanied by his broth sr. thus mentioned t "William Scott' wse made a Colonel at Venice, ano nia mamai achisvements in defence f mat Ktate against the Turks may vsry well admit him be ranked amongst our worthies. He became Vice Admiral to tbe Venetian fleet, and tbe bane and terror of Musslr msn Navigators. Whether they lias gat. leys, galloons, or gallisses, or great war ships, it was all one lo him. lie eel uten all alike, saying tne more were were, iu more ho would kill, and the stronger the rencounter should bey the greater should be his honor and richer his prize, r He often, t'mee so scourged the Archipelago of the . Musslemen, that the Ottoman power ai the very gates oi vonni -vv-i quske at the report of his victories . mA he did to wrrei wowi om w u .ne creel, of the Adriatic Gulf, aud Vs sharply pet tbem to it, that they hn'.aly knew io what part of the Mediterranean they should best shelter themsel'.et from, tie fury of hJa blows. He died ia his bed of a fever, is the Isle er Candy, it K12. He was truly the glory of hit natioo and country, and ; was honored after his death wills a statue f mar'cjo, which I ssw near the Riatte of Vica, April, iW-liXnrf ?Kte.