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SATURDAY. JAXL'AKY 10. 1857.
l'mUT-KIUUEM NbW ENGLAND. The
ratult of ilia presidential election in New
Kit'dand prove tli -it majority of the
people have bowed llipir tuck lo lit" do
minion of religious fanaticl-in, Wliil
I heir Iwarts ire bleeding ovi-r the condition
of mIh vary in which ilia negroes Hi lie
Siutlt arc placed, ihey seem ui i wholly
iiimciiMcinim that ihey are the victims of it
far worse servility thenm-lve.
There is no freedom in N'ew England, The
church i supremo over llio minds "f ihe
priest-ridden peopli?."-- WaMn-jlon Union.
This poor black democrat, who edits the
organ of the Administration, lie the most
of hit brethren. as we notice, semis to be
wonderfully exorcised whenever he roll
up the white of hi eyes and lake n vu w
of New England society, all disjointed
iti with fice speech, ff o press, mi l free
sellouts, ( " the worst of theso damnable
ims.") The unclean bird of black de
mocracy finds Iirre no nil for llm solo of
her fuol. The lofiiesl peak of New Eng
land's grntiilo hills 'mill submerged under
llio "mighty water" of intelligence ami
liberty, denominated by Muck democrat
ui "prielcraft."
How this Poor, pensioned editor groan,
m he wipe hi watering eyes and paz-
after ; ho tiuclcun bird in it luztly flaps it
weary wjngs on iti return from its fruitless
icnrch of somo "guano island, on Inch
lo lit nnd scream, in the great ocean of
freo thought tint cover all New England
, Liulbarkl Do you lieur that chuckle !
Listen I It break out into an open shout,
a yell of exultant joy. The editor of the
Union first pitches llio key, howls, and
claps hii hands for joy. The whisky-,
moistened throat of a thousand end one
iiudcrslrupper editors, from him of the
N. Y. liy Hook down to the brainless
bloukliuud of Czapkny'a organ, nil echo
back tho shout.
This unclean bird has found a resting
place. She lias coirni lo a squal, on pto
pilious soil. She has found n place where
she cm gather hor bro id under lier wings,
untarnished by priestly r moral influence.
The precise spot is pointed out by the fol
lowing extinct from nn exchange :
"The voin in the precinct embracing
the Kive Points, No Ymk city, stood
JJuchanan 07(1, Fillmore 13, Fremont 17."'
Hero, gen'lo reader, is a placs where,
-wiih a black democrat editor, exists the
Loan ideal of social perfection. They
would reduce all New England to ''Points,"
if they could.
' gsT A black democrut recently inform
ed us that tho society of the 'The Points"
in New York city was entirely made, up of
"niggers." Well, as we never linvn been
there, we shall not dispute it ; but, if inch
is the fact, wo should jwlgo from the returns
of tho presidential election that must of
tlio "niggers" there, liko those in the loco
fooo procession at Indianapolis, are "Duck
niggers." uTIic tii-nik-iiuu from l.lan.'i
. Dulusion, tho great Mogul of black de
mocracy in Oregon, bus in! induced a bill
rciti ictiiig judges in their charges to juries.
It is said that Jmlo Williams failed lo
follow Delusion's piogruiiimn fur n jury
charge in the recent l'o (rial at Albany,
licuco llio I.e;islatui'u is tiskedjo enact
l)elusion's ''prngrumniu," lo bo Hed by all
judges hereafter, It will probably be
printed in painphlnl form, and the judges
will be compelled to carry it in their
breeches pockets, till llu-y commit it lo
.memory. We don't know how ho will
succeed with this Legislature, but if he
had the Legislature of last wind r, Wil
liams could be made to smart for his temcr
ity nt Albany, by an ex post facto law.
.Who has forgotten how ho niiiilu tlir mem
bersofthis nuguxt body tremble in their
bouts last winter, as, with his hoarse, banjo
voice, ho tliuniiercd (oi'th the "democratic
precedents of (li'eeco ami I'onui" in justi
fication of tho "party" fur causing linliun
Au'ent Palmer's head lo "roll from tin
block ' on suspicion of his having '-jined
Ilia Know Nothings"! This democratic
Mogul passed the uvn voco law to iiitiini'
datu ' sufls" lo support his party, and ev.
cry locofoeo, as he sits, kueils, or at amis
fur hours in the. scalding sun round the
polls, ailing his turn In vota viva voce,
is expected to uncover his hesd and offer
lip prayers 'o the great Moul, in whom his
' party lives, moves, and Ins its being. I:i
' passing round, stirring up the faithful, the
unwashed, who may desire to offer up ob-
Ulious to him, may know him by a whisky
bottle protruding fmin one coat tail pocket
and Czapkay's organ f om the other.
SS Tim lucofocos have issued a call for
convention lo nominate a caudidute for
Delegate lo Congress, in be held at S;
leni on tha J'.'ih of April nrt. The no
tice is published in Czap's organ with a re
quest that democratic papers copy. The
Argus is a deiiiut-ratic pap-r, but it seldom
publishes notice for black democrat with
out the pewter in advance. For real dem
ocrats we publish for nothing. Fur the
"iioiuu niygrr-oiivers m ii nu svm-
w i us sirn ritt-r a ,t iiiii iiism ii rn n
last Tuesday ha not ariived. The
7ti.imf.iA river is irorKeu un vun icr.
. . . ... . -.i I
wrhicli lias cut oil ail communication wnu
ijtA - f I
Wars ahaai rslsiur.
Tho following loiter, which was ad
dressed by Judica McLean, when ha was
Postmaster Ueneriil, lo an applicant for re
appointment as postmaster in a small, one
horsa town, we especially commend as an
fXcelW-iil looking (la wherein toi of
our Oregon postmasters can see their faces.
If 10 the list of defaults mentioned by
Mi Lean, was added that of lUali nemnnfj
from (lie mulh, imof you would !iav0 a
. s a a
foil Iciijr.h orlrait or yourselves. lUet
m, man put this emit on unless It fits him.)
Judije HcLeau camo near getting the
nomination fr the Preaid.ncy instead of
Fremont. W eN-cially commend the
(sdicy of McLean m aound ItrpuLllmn
policy, while w are sorry fo say that the
conduct of ihe postmaster lo whom he
wrote is in excellent keeping with thn offi
cial conduct of black democrat generally.
While we are clad to bo compelled in jus
lice t admit that there are some except ions,
we attribute it lo early pHrenlulor religious
training which n fuses lo yield to party in
fluences. Poit Office Dkpartmkxt,
Jum&, I -3 1.
Sir: The allegation again-t you are
numeiou and strong, and are thiclly
these ;
Thai you cannot write or read well
eiiouuh ; are not a safe accountant ', hav"
b. en irnilty of ihe groa-esl negligence in
not delivering letters when called for a
negligence always inconvenient, and often
attended with injury ; deliver letters fre.
rjili-ntly lo persons for whom they were not
intended, and suili-r lle in lolie taken away:
r..:i I 1. , . .... u..,l t,i.nM l.v ili..
11111 IO S,t lUI'. IB PIIU a 'j
mail in proper time, sometimes sending oil
I lie mail wnnoiii poiunj imo n ny i- u
or packages that had beea lodged at your
office ; reverse thn destination of letters,
and send I hem back to the places whence
i hey came J have not sene enough to (lis
cover the error, after the letters have been
repeatedly returned ; make (reiient and
gross mistakes in ihe bills forwarded to
other nllii-es ; open packages addressed lo
other post nflices, when a mail is called for
bv a neighboring postmaster, handing out
any one tight or wrong; disobey the rig
illations respictintt dead newspapers'; np
prnpriaiing half n doa-n of them to your
ow n use for two or three years, and resort
lo the miserable speculation of selling them
fur wrapping pu per; fdl up n rircubt'ng
library with periodical wmks obtained in
this way ; nrc uncouth in jour U-havionr ;
odious to the poputntiiin ; heap error upon
error, and avail yourself of those i r ors in
oiih-r to support your employer; have
been tiied by ihe vicinage, and found want
ing ; and, m sum up. they charge you with
w aul of principle and capacity.
ttesptcifully, your oln dient,
John McLeak.
Rrpnbllraa I'.oavtatlon.
It will be seen by reference to nnother
column, that n call hits been made for n
Itepublican Territorial Convention to he
held at Albany, on Wednesday, llm 1 lilt
of Februaiy. Perhaps wo owo nn np
ulogyiosuch as will not bo united with
ihe time and place if any there should be.
Wn havn rcceiod comiinnicatiuiis from
various counties inliinaliui.' that any time
and uny central placo would suit. Dele
gates from the Republicans of Multno
mah called upon us this week on their
way to the Tcrriioiial convention Milled
as they thought on the 8th i list . at Salem
In finding out their mistake, consultation
was had, nnd, from the best lights we had,
the time mid placo ns above mentioned
vvero fixed upon. An earlier tlay was
considered impracticable on account of the
weather and the ditliculty of sullicienlly
extending the notice, Wo hope ihe
friends of the Union and the Constitution
w ill turn out. We hope every county will
be represented. The Linn county Repub
licans are said to have large hearts and w ill
be (ilail to see as many national men as
possible.
Inrnrrooutfla AVaated.
We lea in from the most rclinhle nil
ihority that the "small upper room1' in
Portland, which has herclifbre been used
for transacting private Quartermaster's
business, is now graced vviih all the para
phernalia of a regular faro bank in full
blast, Who is the proprietor we know not,
but public curiosity is mi the 7111 n're to
know whether it is owned by ihe (iovem
men! or not, and whether or no the pro
ceedsof those "cash sales" are deposited
in the vaultsof this bank. If ao, and if
its fina-ices belorg not to "secret diploma
cy," we shall expect a full report of the
condition of it finances when the Quarter
muster complies w ith lha request of the
Legislature in making llmt "report."
Aaottetr ..Ortaw.'i
Some person has sent us the "Trophi
Iniical Star" psper printed at the
'Point," and devotrd exclusively to puflinif
the medicines advertised and told by
Cxa pkay'a agent at Salem. The'-S'ar"
makes no bones of holding up a mirror
befiio "d-'Crepit" humanity in its mot
loathsome form, and pointing with a
steady index to the remedy. It is the most
filthy sheet wo have ever seen from the
States, sod with a liulo tinkeiing by the
"lend of ihe clique" would be fully as
dirty as Cxapkay's organ. Siuee Czap's
agent has refused to exchang" with us,
we find the ' PnipliiUtticsl S'ar" answers
very well a a substitute.
The Almanac makers will unquestiona
bly quote this as a sounJ "democraiic pa
pur" in the Oregon Almanacs for 1S38.
Nw Baal.
The new boat Minnie Jfulmrs, Cspt-
llsnnsh, has commencej her up river
. . ci i l i i... .
iriw. oinamuw oe k!,uu
wH probably pt hsr share f lb Iraaa.
MW.
Trofessor Newell, in writing lo us from
Corvallis, says !
" There are three persons hero who gave
a conceit on Wednesday eveninff lasi,cu
siatiugof Mr. Ilouloii. a Frenchmen, who
is a professed violin player, hUliule ". a
boy of seven years, and a young man by
the nauw of Vuod. Tli fmher end sou
play the violin, an 1 1 consider the boy tho
.'realist wonder of llm age; for as long as
I have been in the music profession I never
eoold cmceivei.f a Imy "f his aur playing
any iuliumeut, much less a violin, wiih
sui h la-te and skill."
Well arn from the same letter that llirse
musicians will give a concert in this city
before long. It will d ubile be a treat
which most of our citizsn will avail them.
Selves of.
.1 With.. i t siniuK Li hind concrntu-
htes himself iiihiii having a fice lotto
. 1 .-. 1 ....rr.ii
lining ieillem'-n, ailer oein .n-,
kicked nnd spit upon, without re-en'ment.
dy S cretary ILudintf. and almut a half
dozen oihers. Of course; tin-re is not a
, re..liire in the Territory no utterly devoid
of shame." CtojJ.ay Onjan.
So vou think it a great virtue m hide
one's head, nnd moid the society of gen
il.-mni. after beiti'' cufl'. d, caned, nnd spit
upon. Well, Aloczo hahil'l these noble
trait developed, lo the ex'ent you justly
chim lo have. We have nu idea that he
w'uul I be willinji to shut himself up fir
three days and night and subsist on salmon
.kins, fir fear of being culled, ns we lenm
vou did whilst in ibis city. We suppose
your meekiii-ss is owing to rnily training.
Vrull.
0. W. Wullin-' Esq., has laid n under
obli.'ationi for specimens of the Raml
Hildwin, White Winter IV-armain, hue
lb !h flt'ur, Jonaihan, American l'ippin,
1'iiest, nnd Uoxbury ltussett apples.
These apples were not pulled from the tree
till the first of January. Some of them
are the finest specimens we have gren in
ihe country, ami the result of thn experi
ment has almost led us to adopt .Mr. at
ling' theory " that most people gather
ihrir apples before they are near maturity."
Jo Lar.t.
The last Times predicts that Jo Lano
will be our next Deb-gate. Of course
Lane has ordered him to make this pre-
diction. The caucus will nominate him
if he reou-sts it, without doubt, nnd his
a
election will bo considered suro under the
viva voce law.
Lost In (tie Woods. '
We lenm from 'he Standard that a son
of Mr. Hamlin, twelve years of age, liv
ing a few miles e.isl of Port hind, went out
hunting several days a?o, mid has not
bnen heard of since. The newly fallen
snow rendered nil elforls to trick him tin
available, and it is supposed that some
accident 11111-1 havo befallen him which
prevented Ids reaching home. He is of
course sttppii?-d lo have perished ere ibis.
2T The proceeding of a public meet.
ing at Atorin, in relation to Ul. Taylor's
treatment by the Legislature, will be found
on the ontsi le. of thn pupi-r today. Tho
resiilu'ions must express the sentiments of
every honest, impartial man who has ex
amined the evidence upon w hich Col. Tay
lor was ousted from his sent,
J In another' column vvill be found n
si-aichini; article in relation to Smith's
party's position on Slavery, signed "An
Old Fashi-ned Democrat." It was written
by a farmer up country who belongs to the
old-fashioned JefF'rsnninri democracy.
tV The vvrather has been quite cool
diirint! the whole of this week. Snow
is
lie on the ground In the depth of one
foot, nnd every body seems to have a great
penchant for sh i;h riding. ' This is a sport
wo never fancied ; wo enn always get
enough of that sort of pleasure by piling
inj our b ps into 11 snow bank nn the north
side of thn house, and silting ihero half
an hour or so.
jt-iT A sub-criber who is temporarily
residing np country, wiites : ''1'leaao to
s-nd mc nn occasional paper for I gel
uo'hing bui black democracy up here,"
Dlack democrat papers! Well they
are miserable liash to feed a mun on w ho
has gut a soul.
OCT We learn from Ihe Advocate that
the typhoid fever is prevalent in Denton
county. It has proved fatal in several in
stances. fop Mr. Sturtevant has recently opened
a furniture store in Portland, w hich he ad
vvrtise in another clunin. Tlioso who
visit Portland to do their trading would do
well to go lo Siiirtevanl's 4ur their furni
ture. Modsr.x IxvtiSTio.Ns. Voltaism was
discovered in March, ISilfl ; the electro,
m-g'iet in IM2t. Clcc'rutyping was dis.
covered only a few years ao. Hoe's
printing pres, cuthle of printing ten
thousand copies an hour, is of very re
cent discovery, but of the most important
chstsctrr. U.i light whs unknown in
18. Ht; now every city and town of any
considerable note ia lighted wiih it, and
there is the announcement in Franca of
a still greater discovery, by which light,
heat, and motive power may all be pro
decid from water with scri-1y any
Oust. Dagurrre communicated lo the
world his beautiful invention in 1S39.
(iun cotton and chloroform were discov
ered but f w year ago. The mag.
netie trlsgraph first wmmenesi in IS 13.
Krpubtlraa llsss Heeltei la ferllaaa.
Tho friends of tho Republican move
rnetil for Oregon met at the Portland Court
House on the 3d of January, 1837, pur
smtiil lo a tall for the organization of a
Republican party for the Territory. The
house being called lo order, II. J. iXms
was chosen thttlrman, and Jon Teawn.
10 1 R secretary.
After a few remarks from the chair sta
ting the object of ihe meeting, on motion a
committee of three was appointed to drufi
resolutions exrrcs.iv e of the sentiments of
the meeting. Matthew ration, Clnis. M
Carter, and L- Lemrick were appointed on
that committee. Their r-porl was read
and adopted, which is a.i follows:
Tho members if ibis rneeiiii',' a.'ix-mMed
pursuant to a call fur 1 he organization of a
Republican party for On-irou, "wiihimt re
gard to past ioi;ienl diifi-'reiices or divis
ions," who uie in favor of the reslorction
of Ihe actions of the. Federal Government
and of its territorial policy to the princi
ples of Washington and Jelle'son, llm ad
mission of Oregon into ihe I'nion ns 11 free
Stute, of a central IVilic Railroad across
the continent, nnd opposed lo ihe extension
nf slavery into free territory, do
1, Resolve, That while we concur wiih
oilier communities throughout llm Teiri
tory in the propriety of organizing 11 Re
publican parly for Oregon, we deem it cs
seiilinl that the territorial policy of our
(iovernmcnt should b immediately restor
ed to lis former liliernl u nil enlightened
standiiii!, unit will di-counieiiunce nil at
tempi, come from vvhaiever quarter they
may, to extend the iualiiuiimi of slavery
into free territory and to force Oregon into
the rnionasaslave Slate.
2. Resolved, Thiit we indorse the piicci
pens laid dow n in the Philadelphia plat
form of the 17th nf June, 18j!1. ns IhI
calculated lo restore harmony loihe tuition.
2. Resolved, That wo re in favor of a
central Pacific Railroad, nf ihe mlmi-siou
of Orrgon into the Union as a f'ee Suite,
of appropriaiioiis bv Congress fi.r the im
provement of ihe rivers and harbors of a
national character, which mo required for
the protection of our commerce and the
lives and property of our fellow-citizens, of
the perpetuation of iIip principle of the
Declaration of Independence, of the Fed
eral Constitution, and of the Union of the
Stales.
The meeting was1 addressed by Clius. M.
Carter, L. Leinrii k, Hull, Stephen
Coffin , and Mr. Lawson, when upon mo
tion Cha. M. Carter, Stephen Collin, and
John Terwiigi-r were appointed ib legates
to otterd tlio Territorial convention of ihe
Republican party to be h Id nt Albany 011
lheecuiid Wedm-sday of February,! 1 1th)
- On motion a committee of three were
appointed as 'a corresponding commil'ee,
with additional powers to act as nn execu
tive and county committee. II. J. Davis,
Matthew Pntton, and Thus. Carter weie
appointed said committee.
On further motion it was ordered that
the proceedings of this ine-iing be fi
warded for publication in all the papers
throughout the Territory favorable eiihei
to the Republican cause or lo a free State.
Adjutuned.
II. J. DAVIS, Cb'n.
JoU.N TKRWILtriBH, Sef'v.
for the Argtii,
Delusion HittUU aaa Klavriy.
Mr.EJilur The following paragraph I
clip from Debiison Smith' address before
the Legislative Assembly on Ihe subject nf
a Stato organization; in reported iuCzup
kay'a organ of Dec. 23 :
" But there is a faction hern which ,de.
sires to open this quest 'Oil (of slavery) to
divide ami distract tho deniuura'io parly,
and inuko capital out of ft. They are
willing to stir tip strife nnd contention
among our citizens to gain this end. Now
if therein any. one thing that shall cause
ibis to become a slave State, it vvill be the
eliorl of this class of persons. I am 1101
a pro slavery man. If 1 lived w here ii
existed I might own slaves, but I do not
propose to introduce it into Oregon. If I
should ever favor it introduction it would
be owing to the course of these fann'ics."
In another part of the speech he said
ha "believed five sixths nf tho voters
would vole against it." He further de
clares that the agitation of the slavery
question will como before the people vvMi
the S nte question. Hut why f If Smith
is not a pro-slavery man and the democrat
ic party is not a pro slavery party, nnd it
(he convention must be made up nf lea I.
ing democrats how can slavery get hi fore
the people? If they are not for slavery
tln-y must be, nf course, against it. Will
ihey then introduce an article into the con.
slitmion to test the question wheihcr the
people will vole it out I Will tln-y throw
llus bone of " strife nnd contention" among
the people lo "produce distraction"
Will they do the very mischief which
Smith charges on "certain fanatics"!
The subject is in their power. They can
present a plain free State constitution, and
they and ihiir " fanatics" will harmoni
ously vote for it. If the Republican party
should elect a majority of delegates to the
convention, the question of slavery will not
I be submitted to the people. Rut if the
I Democrats have the majoiiy- and submit
the question to the people will they not In
ressnible for the "strife and contention"
which may ensue I Besides, if "fivvsixths
of the voters w ill vote against" the intro
duction of slavery, is not the matter Jem
ocratialli settled and the convention
bound nut of regard to so powerful public
sentiment to frame a free Suite constitu
tion I And should the question under
these circumstances be submitted to the
people will not the democratic leaders be
justly- chargeable with intou raging the in
troduction of slavery, or at least wiih fo
menting excitement and il is true iun on the
subject I Rut those who are anxiously and
earnestly opposed to slavery, mith de -
iiounce as fometiier 01 -
lenlion." Why sol From deep and re-lij-ious
conviction, and intelligeu' princl
pie, they are nppol f,'Bl
cunstrainf d U ue their best efforts to f n-li-hien
their neighbors on the evils of I he
b'.titution. Now so long a they make
u-eof rea-onand fact for Ibis purpose
why should Smith deiiorince ihem for dif
fusing and defending principle enlerlained
by 'five-sixthsof the vole" of Oregon I
Hut ihe people must settle it f r themselv es,
s not this fair Invitation to disunion!
llowshall'Mhe people" act Intelligently
if the advocates nn one side are to be pig
gul and silenced, and essential fact with
held! Perhaps Smith will d'auvow an
intention of thi kind. What docs he
mean then by the implied threat that the
"course of these fanatics," in laboring
earnestly lo exclude slavery, might influ
ence him to vote for it. Does hn not
mean to banter and if po-sible frighten
them into silence ? We cun only regard
this silly twaddle with acorn and contempt.
It i the sheer driveling of party tyranny.
Smith shows in the extinct at the head
of this article that he is not a nmo of prin
ciple. ' Hu is not pro slavery, and yet
might hold slaves, lie tins no fixed prin
ciple on the subject, lie would, in order
to vent his spleen on "ihese fanatics,"
enliiil Ihe withering, blighting curse of
Imery on the present and future genera
tion of Oregon. Here is a degree of
malice and political recklessness sufficient
to secure their pus-essur the withering
scoMi or till hom-st men.
We notice another lliing in the above
extract worthy of comment. Mr. Suiiih
can see no motive in these families"
but the sole desire of dividing and distract
ing the democraiic party. No benevo
lence, no patriotism, 110 philanthropy, no
Immunity, 110 chn'stinnity, 110 desire to
promote the Mil interests of posterity.
Oh, no 1 The division of Smith's parly Is
the one, and the only on obj ct ihey have
in view. Hut how can their opposition lo
slavery disturb that parly I It is 110',
Smith says, a pro-slavery, that is, it is as u
party opposed to slavery. And thn ef
forts of zealous fieo State men to fortify
them in thi opposition is in danger of di
vidiug and distracting them- Strange!
Wonderful indeed 1 Docs not ibis whole
thing hear 011 the face of it the confession
that every man w ho becomes decidedly
an anti slavery man, is by that act lost to
the democratic party ? Tho truth is
Smith feels, iiulwilhsluiidiug all his palaver,
thai his parly is firmly wedded 10 slavery,
that their interests are perficlly amalga
mated. And every intelligent and con
scientious nuti-slavciy man feel that
Smi'li's party is not Jo bo trusted where
the interest of slavery ara concerned.
Wb would tln-ri exhort all who desire that
Oregon should be a free Siate, to watch
with iderplesa jealousy, during the coming
aiiuvgle nn the State question, the move
ments of D la7.on Smith ii Co.
'An Old Fashioned Dkmocmt.
CoMPLIMUNT TO pRINTKIIS. John C.
Rives, publisher of the Washington Globe,
iii a r.-ci nt published letter on the subject
of public printing, has a word of suggestion
to writers for the press, nnd a compliment
to 1 he composiior, whose duty it not tin fre
quently is to make sense out of ver, sense
less chiiogiaphy. None hut a writer for
the press can comprehend how much truth
there is in the veteran printer's remarks.
Many member of Congress and al-o not
a few greater men must have been stir
prised nt the respectable figure they cut
in print, without thinking of the toil-unie
labor and the exercise of the better talent
than their own w hich had been expended
by the journeyman printer in putting into
good shape the message or report of a
speech furnished them. Mr. Rivessays:
"I have seen the manuscript writing of
most great men of the country during the
past twenty years, and I think I tuny say
iIihC not twenty ofihem could stand ihe
list of the scrutiny of one half the journey,
men printers employed in my office. This
fact vv ill be vouched by every editor in the
Union. To a poor ''journeyman' printer
many a 'great man' owes his reputation for
scholarship; and were the humble compos
itors lo resolve, by concert, to set up man
uscript in their hands, even fur one little
week, precisely as it is wrineti by the au
thors, there would be more reputations
latighleredjhan their de.vils could shake
a slick at in twenty f ur hour. Stales
men would become 'small by degree, and
bi-Hiitfully less.' Many an ass would have
he lion's hide loin from his limbs. Men,
whom the world cull writers, would wake
up mornings and find themselves famous
as mere pretenders humbugs and cheats V
Tug New I'kockss of CoNVF.BTt.ito
Crude Iron into Steel. The essential
feature of this process is that the inventot
lakes crude iron directly from the blast,
furnace, and in the incredibly short space
of thiity minutes converts it into ingot of
malleable iron or steel of any size, and fit
fur ihe variuus manipulations ordinarily
employed lo adapt them to all the matetial
purposes 10 which they are now applied.
He thus dispenses with all the intermediate
processes to which recourse has been had
to produce the same effect within the last
seventy years, including the making iron
into pigs and refining, puddling, and squeez
ing stages, vith all their attendant labor
and fuel This achievement i the result
f the application to the iron, in its trans
ition from the blast furnace to the condition
of the ingot, of a heat inconceivably in
tense, generated without furnace or fuel,
1 and simply hy Masts of Hd air.
Hautwrra AtMtttlsaUts.
The following anecdote related by
Norfolk American is based on an incident
which recently occurred in one -of iht
car of lb North Carolina Railroad, and
afford a timely and appropriate illustration
of the tendency of Democraliu ultra South.
ernisin just at thi time. The American
ys!
'Two person of a highly respectable sp.j
pearaiice.sud with every appearance of ha.
ing gentlemen, commenced a coiive rsniion
wiih him upon the political issue of the,
day, in which they proceeded to stigmatize
the complete agitation of the slavery quel,
lion at the South a an arrnut humbug, got.
ten up for party effect, ice. After a whihj
they left their seal and went forward for
tome pit 1 pose, when two gentlemen who
had been listening in indignant silence' to
1 lie f thick Republican tirade efihe first
named gen' lemeii, opened a conversation,
in which they took occusion to castigate
and denounce most severely the Abolition
proclivities of tho gentlemen who had
dared lo stigmatize the holy horror nf the
Democrats over the slavery questiun as 10
much unmitigated humbug, and finally in.
limnted that such men were dangerous, and
that it would be bcltei for them lo leave
ihe Slate.
"Our friend tried first to induce a more
charitable feeling toward the first rpenker,
but the two Inst would not entertain it ;
then suggested that perhaps they (the last
speakers) were not capable of giving an un
biassed opinion, a probably each ofihem
owned an immense number of e'evri,
which projterty they were fearful would be
jeopardized by the liberal seiitiiueni of the
two first speaker. They assured him
that he was mistaken, that neither ofihem
owned fl single slave, that their indigna
tion at the loose and incen liury doctrine of
the two first speakers, aroso solely from a
pure devotion to the South unadulterated
by a particle of personal interest.
"After our friend who, hy the way,
has the keenest possible relish for a quiet
good thing had succeeded in (I rawing
nut an immcn-n union nt of Runcorn he in
dignation at lha vile and incendiary doe.
trine nl ihe first speaker, he very naively
inquired if they knew w ho the men were
w hose abolition proclivities Ihey were d.
iioiincing! No,' answered they. Then
said he, I have the pleasure of informiur
you that one was Mr. Pvttigrew, ol North
Carolina, who owns several hundred slaves,
and the other i James C. Johnson, who
owns nearly two thousand! The effect can
bo imagined.'' 1
ExfiLisii Love of Wealth. There is
no country in which ao absolute an hem
nge is paid to wealth. In America, there
is a touch of shumo w hen a man exhibits'
tho evidenco of large prosperity, as if,
after all, it needed apn'ogy. Rut the
Kuglishmun has pure pride in his wealth,
and esteems it n final certificate. A coarse
logic reigns throughout all English snuh;
it you hav e merit you can show it by your
good clothes, the coach and horse. - lluw
can a man be a gentleman without a pipe
of wine llaydon says: " there is a
fierce resolution to make every ' man live
according to thn means hn posesses."
There is 11 mixture of religion in it. They
are under the Jewish law, and read with
amorous emphasis that their days shall bo
long in the land, they shall have sons and
d. lighters, flocks and herds, wine nnu oil.
In exuel proportion is the reproach of pnv
criy. They do not wish to bo represented
except by opulent men. An Englishman
w ho has lost ' his fortune, ia said to have
died of a liroken heart. The last term of
insult is"n beggar." Nelson snid, "the
want nf fortune is a crime which I cm
never get over." Sydney Siii.ii h said pov
erty is infamous in England. Emrrtoni
EnijVm Traiit. ' '
Micitoscofic Akt in Ancient Times. A
glass has been discovered at Pompeii, about
the size of a crown piece, with the convex
ity, which lean one to suppose it to be n
magnifying lens. Now it haa been aaiJ
that the ancients wero not aware of line
power, and the invention is given lo Ga
lileo by some, 10 a Dutchman in 1021 by
others, while a compound micooscope is at
tributed lo one Fontana, in the seventeenth
century. But without a magnifying gl
how did the Greeks and Romans work
those fine gems which the human eye 11 nn-'
able to read without the assistance of a
glass 1 There is one in the Naples royal
collection, fur example, the legend of
which it is impossible to make out unleu
by applying a magnifying glns9. "
New Galvanic Hattkry. M. Breton,
of Paris, has coi.trived the following con
struction of battery, which maintain! ihe
same intensity of action always, on ac
count of its constant humidity ami lha
great number of iu element. ' One of
the poles is made of a mixture of saw
dust and copper filings, and the other
pole i composed of sawdust mixed with
zinc filings. The two polM re P,aced i0
one vessel, but are separated by a po
rous petition. The exciting liquid i
solution of the chloride of calcium, which
salt ii a great attractor of moisture fro
the atmosphere. This battery is uxi
for medical purposes.
X3T The Irish cetiaus tables, just po
lished, report that in one year, there were
21,770 deaths from ilarvation! Th
editor of the Medical Timee, commenting
nf 00 this appalling statement, aays : "Th
figure must be far short of the truth---
The harrowing details given in the bodye
Ihe report leave no doubt thai ullitJ
perished by the wayside, and in the cheer
less Irish hovel, whom neither policenwa
nor coroner's inquest ever took note ot .
KT In 146 the population of Iowa was
73,033. The estimate of the present yar
is 600,000. The increa.se last year
271,000. :