THE OREGON ARGUS. mumr.a xvssv satckdav mosnino, ' ' BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. Office-Good's Building, Main $t. Edito rial Room in lirst story. TR RMS-Tit A so us will bt fumiihti Tkrei Dollar t and Fifty Cent! per annum, to tingle lubtcribert'l'kret Dollars i tack It tlubtoften at am oHiet. 13T Tuo Dollar! for lit monihtNo tubtcrip- liont rtremti for a leli period. (3lf N' paper ditcontinved until all arrearages art paia, unlen at lie option of the publtthtr. ODE (or I He Hit of lEIinVAAY. IT OI.IVSS WCNDEXI. IIULMU. Welcome to lln day rpluruiof, Penrnr (till u agn flow, AVhiU Ilia torch ol fa 111 b burning, Lung u freedom'! nitnri glow I Bet tli liero tint il gave tu tiluiiilwriug an a mother's brent Far lha inn Tia stretched to save ua, Bo ill morn forevur blent ! Hi nr tha tula of youthful glory, While of Uritaiu'a rescued bund I'riend anil foa repeat tha story, ' Spread hla fame o,er tea and land . Where tit red cross, proudly mrtaining, Flaps above tha frigute'e deck, Where tha giilJen 1 ides gleaming, Star tha watch-tower of Quebec Look ! Tbo ahaduw on Ilia dial Marks lha hour of de.idher strife Dayt of terror, yean of iml 8cnurge a nation intu life. Lo, the youth biwrnoe her leader ! Ail her baffled lyrmila yield ; Through hiaarin the Lrd hath freed liar; Crowu him on lha tented field! Vain It Einpiru'e mail temptation ! Nut fur Imh an enrihly vruwa I He whiwe sword hath freed a ualion, Strikes the offered sceptre down. Sea tha thruneleia conqueror aeated, Ruler by a people 'a clioioo See Ilia l'striot'e laik completed j Hear the Father's dyiug voice ! 'By the name lh.it you iulierit, By the aufferlnga you recall, Cherish tho fraternal up rit Love yuur country first of all ! Listen nut to idle questions If Ua banda mny be untied Doubt the patriot whom) euKgentlone Whisper lliat its pn.ps m.iy alide !" Father ! wo, whoe care have tingled With the (Uncord noira of aliawe : Vi'e, wli'wn rei their blood huve mingled In the battle's thunder flame; Gathering, while tliia holy niurniug Lighta the land from aea to era, Hear thy counsel, heed thy warning, 'frart us while we honor thee ! For the Argat. Orrgoi Cows- Prodi of. SiLEM, Fib. 10, 1857. Jl. Ea't'tor U order to make farming pay woll, farmers limit be real Sharpers.'' Sharpers nut in the bail sense of that word, but in looking sharply after tlie various way in which they may increase tho pro ducliveiiuss of iheir farms. In Oregon thus far tint great question has been, how tha! I bast iucrcaso t lie number of my stock of catle. To ibis end ull or nearly ull of tin) productive resources of tluir cows Itatu bi'fn turned. The calves have been turned nut with their dams, and nil liavo run together und helped themselves to 'milk as th'V chose. But tho lime has now como when the profit of raiting slunk, or at least I he profit of greatly increasing llrir iitiniijors ha, with many farmers, Vonp to nn phi). They nlieai!y have as tnany, ond some mure, than their fuimsnr t do "range" in w hich they live can sustain. Tito fi'i'd is all kept short in summer, anil in winter they are subjected to a system of cruel starvation, which mint their growth, and will, if Hhiwed, in a few years reduce uttr best blooded calll'u to a 1 sort of Indian pony heed, killing out all that is thrifty and nublo ill their character. The question, then, as to how we shall profit by our cattle must look for its answer r to sonic oilier smtrco than that of increase of numbers, and it seems to me that butter . making can bo as successfully and as prof ' itably carried on hero as at tho East. ' Scarcely a summer passes without our Laving buyers from California, nud that . too while we have scarcely begun lo think of making butler for makei. If buyers will thus comi now, when there is to little butter made, and when what is made is much of it so poor, and givo from 30 to 40 'cents per pound, how much more woulj tbey ba likely to come when the making c( it is reduced lo a system, and when far- niers have taken pains lo cluster about them those little conveniences which are necessary for making it sweet and good. Good butter, Mr. ISdiio', I consider one of tho glories of the land. "Butter and honey" are among the precious things spo ken of as a partof the good of the land of - Canaan; and it is surely one of those lux uries which make everything else good. If we have good butter and bread, we can use hospitality which wo are not ashamed of. It i good enough for kings to eat, ' and in this country we are all kin;s. But poor, smol"; bBl,w made from railk in the same room " tlle whoIe ftt'niy ilive, -night aad day, rccci.Vg lne dust and lint that are constantly falling, drinl ing in the noxious vapor of breatheo-.',ver ir, as nothing tu! cream and butter will drink it in, (for it is well known that only few hours are necessary to give the sweetest butter the taste and smell of the J:h or room it is in. ) Such kinJ of but- Any man with a common genius ani ten coi- l.r expense caJ put u? 'n fmlk bouse with shd.5 nJ fixture, liich will enable him, his fami"?. "d ne ' who vUit him to tat butter yellow, rich, aweet, and good, fir the next ten years, . but which he must eat poor, or in other a 11 word orowJ into his stomach what it does not reli.h f r the same length of time, if he will not take the nscessary pnins to make it guoj. But the question aries, can butU r ma Viiig in Oregon, where labor is so high, be - iii rfiVbUf V'e w-wr , an A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Trinciplt'S of Jefici-souiun Democracy, and advocating VOL. II. the truth of this answer we hope lo show before we are through. With a few dol lars' expense in preparing a convenient milk house, and making such a crank churn is given by E. M. Fuller in the "Country Gentleman," and cut of which may bo found iu the Illustrated Register of j Rural Affairs for 1850, a man and his wife m glit, without over work, attend lo a dairy of twenty cows. These will vary in their milk both as lo quantity and quality, Taking lha common cows of Oregon, they ill yield from two to ten pounds of butter each per wrck. Some of the very best cows will yield fifteen pnundi per week, but theso are uncommon "milkers." Du ring the last spring and summer I milked Only one cw, and aha was farrow, and we did not think her anything more than an ordinary cow. From her we made by weight aoven pounds of butler per week Supposing, then, we take ibis as the aver age amount which can be made to each cow, we shall have a hundred and eighty two pounds of butter each year if we make the milking time for the year to be only six months. This, at 30 cents per pound, (which is probably about the average price for tho last year,) would amount tot54,60 to each cow ; multiplied by twenty, gives 81092 as the product of twenty cows' milk. I hi, Ms. Editor, is a uood littlo sum. It is no doubt fur moro than the real profits which many of our farmers make from their harder toil in plowing, nnd sowing, and reiipiug, and thrashing their large crops of wheal, nnd in the butler part there is this advantage, that tho whole labor from first to last, till the time it is mar keti d, is much lighter than it is in the raising of wheat. Suppose now thut tho 50,000 cows in Oregon (of course I have to guess at the nuiilber) should yield half tho above amount lo the cow, nnd suppose two thirds of this amount could bo spared from our homo consumption, we should even then hnve a direct income to the Territory of. 8910.000. How much pocket change this would mako our farmers, how ninny store bills it would pay, how it would help them along with their lasses, and, in fact, with all those little pinching neccssiliea whicli trouble them so much lo meet. Your, truly, O. Dickinson. 'or the Argut. Crass (trowing In Orrgon. Mr. Editor Thero is perhaps no sub jeet in which the farmer and stock raiser are moru iinmedinlely interested than that of grass "rowing in litis Territory, nnd we aro admonished by tho lowing of the flocks and herds during the present winter that this branch of our agricultural interest tins been too long neglected already. Aly object tu tins communication :s to cull the attention of farmers to this subject. Wo have indubitable evidence in the lux uiiance of tho growth of the wild grass sufficient to convince any man that tho soil of Oregon, or at least tho Willamette val ley, is unsurpassed by any country in the orhl in this respect. And although I am a miniature farmer, I will give my expe rience in regard to timothy. I put in four acres about the middle of March last, sow ing one gallon of seed to the acre. (The greater part of this laud was sod, har rowed down, and brushed in well.) I had this grass cut it) August, and it was sup posed to yield two tons and a half of bay per acre j other kinds of grass may do equally well. Now as this is about the lime to put in such seed, I hope these few broken remarks may call the attention of some of your numerous subscribers to this subject, when my object will have been fully accomplished. Respectfully, V. C. VVAnsiXEK. Bethel, Plum Valley, O.T., Feb. 16, 1857. Eloquent Tribute to the Memory f Henry Clay. lion. Humphrey Marshall, in a speech at Covington, Ky., during the late canvass, pronounced this brief but brilliant culo gium on IlENn? Clay: "The friends of Mr. Cla? meditate the construction of rnunument, to mark Hie spot where repose the remains of that frail tenement which once held his fiery soul. It will be hono'able to them, and will form a graceful ornament lo the green woods w hich surround I he. city of which he had himself been so long the living ornament, but it will be useless to him or lo his fame, lie trusted neither himself nor his fame to mechanical hands or perishable materials. Exgil monumtntum perenniut are. They may lay llit-ir pedestals of grar,',ie they may rear their polished columns till they pieico and flout the skies they may cver their marble pillars all over with the bla zonry of bis deeds, the trophies of bis tri umphant genius, and mirmounl them with images of his form wrought by the enn ningest hands it matter not he la not there'. The prisoned eajle has burst the .!. and wared asv from strife, and em it: . ui.tv. H ! not dead I he , t 1 m.n nut the life eternal in yon other world, of which religion teaches, but j here on earth he lives, the life which men j cs'l fame, that life the hope of which j f..r' tha solace f.f biirh ambition, which I r.chfers -vol ;ntaiu tU brare, and wise,. OIIEGON CITY, O.T., F 12 13 11 U A 11 Y 28, 1857. and good, the champions of truth aud bu rn u kind, throuyh all their labors thai life is Lis beyond all chance or change, growing, expansive, quenchless, as time and human memory, lie needs no statue, he desired none. It ws the imago of his soul he wixhed lo perpetual, and he had lamped it himself in lines of flame upon the souls of his countrymen. Not all the murbU of Carrara, fashioned by the chisel of Angelo into the mimicry of breathing life, could convey lo the senses a likeness so perfect of himself, s that which he has left upon iho minds of men, lie carvod his own statue, ho built his own monument. In youth he laid the base broad as his whole country, that il might wall sustain the mighty structure ho had designed. He labored heroically through life on the colossal shaft. In 1850, the last year of tho firl half f the nineteenth century, he preps led the healing measures which bear his name, as the capital, well. proportioned and in pe'fect keeping wi h the now finished column, crowned his woik, saw thai it was good and durable, sprang to its lofty and commanding sum mit, and gazing from that lone higlit upon a horizon which embraced all coming lime, with eternity for his back-ground, and the eyes of the whole world riveted upon his solitary figure, consented there and thus to die." MtLEAoa or Members or Conhress. The following facts and figures from the Pergeanl-at-Arms' account book, are not without interest : The entire amount of mileage paid to the member and delegates in the last rrg. ulur session, was 8191.150 00 There was paid to tha several delegates from tho lorn lories, who have no vote: Territories. Miles. Anderson, Washington, 7,450 5,900 00 Bernhisel, Utah. 3,325 2.5-V7 00 Chapman, Nebraska, 2.530 8.024 110 Otero, New Mexico, 2,700 2,212 00 Lane, Oreiion, 7,4.10 5.000 0.) Rice, Minnesota, 2 3H 1,875 00 Whitfield, Kansns, 2,045 2,110 00 Total paid to Delegate, Of the Representatives, tho largrst mileage was paid to D-ncr of California, In contrast to this, th mile age of Mr. Bowie of Mary, land was Ihirbert of California received The thirty-seven members in clmbd within 2"'0 miles distanc from lh Capitol, receive in the a j x regale not as miirh as tlm delegate from Oregon or either of the members from Califor nia, viz : 20,123 00 0,800 40 16 60 40 5,130 00 The above exhibit is intended for a sin gle session, but as there aro two regular sessions of each Congress, tho above fig ures must be doubled to show the amount of mileage the members receive for each term. This would give the delegates from Oregon and Washington 811,920 each, as milonge for ono term, exclusive of per diem compensation, about 83,000 moro. In consequence of the President s calling an extra session last summer the Delegates from Oregon and Washington will each receive $5,000 additional mileage for walking from their boarding houses to the Capitol and back again making over 820,000 for two yenrs' service in Congress. o wonder Jo holds on with such a tight grip to the Delegateship 1 A Mother's Influence. In a speech delivered by Col. Benton (Old Bullion,) at the Anniversary Dinner ol the New Eng land Society, at (he Astor House, Now York, on Monday evening last, the Orator, in addressing the lady portion of the audi ence, referring in eloquent terms to his excellent mother, whose influence over him is worthy of note. Speaking of Tobacco, the Col. said : ' My mother askod mo never to use lite weed, and 1 have never touched it from that time tu the present day. She asked me never to game, and I have never gam ed : and 1 cannot tell this dor who is win ning and who is losing in any game that can be played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking; and whatever ca pacity for endurance I may have at pres ent, and whatever usefulness may at tain in life, I auricle to having complied wi'.ii ner pious and earnest wishes. When seven years of age, she asked me not to drink, and I made then a resolution of total abstinence long before societies for that purpose were formed. I was an absti nent society at a time when I was the sole constituent member of my own body ;and that I hare adhered to it through all lime, I owe to my mother." There is a moral in this that mothers should take to heart. A mother's influ ence in forming the character is undoubt edly more potent than any other that can be exerted in regard to establishing those fixed principles that follow a man through life. Almost every great man the world has ever produced, owed his position to the principles inculca'ed in his breast in child hood by her who gave him birth. K7 "I want to see some of yonr trim- blets," said a ureenhorn one day, as be en- terrd a hardware atore The dealer look down several parcels, neither of which suit'd. ' Well, the0, what kind do you want 1 tber is almost every variety." "Why, darn it, I want lbm what bores square bjks- The Mariesa't Sasa(. The following deeply Interesting story is related by Dr. Gibson, in one of his lec tures before the medical class of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. The hero of tho stniy is Vesale, one of the most eminent of Italian surgeons : Andrew Vesale first saw light in the city of Prussrls. His father was an ap othecary, attached to the service of the Princets Margaret, aunt of Charles V., and governess of the Low Countries. Up lo lha porlod when Vesale first ren dered himself conspicuous, the anatomy of lha human body was so imperfectly un duraiood as scarcely to merit that the lerma of science should bo applied to the dim and confused ideas relating lo if. Vesale was the first to break through tbo trammels with which Ignorance and bigotry hadcrij pled the march of science; .surmounting wiin aumtiabie courage and constancy the disgust, the terror and the peril insep arable from this description of the labor to whLh be had devoted himself, he was to be seen whole days and nights in the cem eleries, surrounded by the festering re mains of mortality, or hovering about the gibbets, and disputing with tbo vulture for its prey, in order to compose a perfect skeleton from the remains of executed crim inals, left there by the corrion bird Il was during a sojourn at Basle, after his return from Italy, that Vcnale first be held at the house of Hans Holbein, the painter, Isubelle Von Steenwrak, the daughter of a merchant at Harlaem, who was destined lo exercise some influence over his future life. He was scarcely twc'nty.eight years of age, and already he hud attained the summit of a well-directed af ambition. The family of Von Steenwrak was a wealthy and honorable ono, far superior to that of Vesale in birth and fortune; but the distinguished position the latter had acquired for himself, entitled him lo aspire to an alliance even more exalted. The son of the Princess Margaret's apothe cary would have been rejected by the rich Ilarlnem burgher, but as the cmro- ror's first physician, was accepted by him as the most eligible Bon-in-law. The mar ringo solemnized, Vesale, accompanied by his young bride, set off for Seville, whore Charles then held his court. Though she loved her husband, there was fo much awe mingled with her auct ion as lo throw an appearance of restraint over bar demeanor towards him, even in the privacy of domestic lifo. The very nature of his profession and occupation was calculated to increase that awe, and even lo create some degree of repugnance in n shrinking mind, which nothing but strong affection could overcome. Isabel la's nature required skillful drawing out ond tender fostering. Vesale, unfortu. nately, mistook her timidity for coldness, and resented it accordingly ; this led to es trangement on her part, which he attrib uted lo dislike, and jealous distrust at lost took possession of his soul. Vesalu's house became the resort of all that was noblo and gallant in Seville, and he for a time believed his own scientific conversation to be the attraction. At first the young w ife showed her usual calm in difference to the admiration that followed wherever sho was seen ; but, at last some thing in her manner aud uouutenance, whenever ono particular person appeared, or bis name was mentioned, betrayed that there did exist a being who bad discovered the secret for causing the blood to flow more tumultously through her veins That person was Don Alva do Solis ; and as he was young, handsome, gay, and the most inconstant gallant in Seville, the sus picions of Vesale were painfully aroused. He took silent note of the unusual emo tions that agitated Isabella whenever the nobleman was in her presence. The general conduct of pon Alva was calculated to bafllu suspicion, being mark ed by indifference. This would have mis led the vigilant husband, bad he not on one occasion when his back was turned toward Don Alva, perceiving him in an opposite mirror, fixed his kindling eyes upon Isa bella with a expression not to be mistaken, while she grew red and pale by turns; and then, as though unable to surmount her agitation, rose and left the room. Shortly afterwards Vesale received an an onymous note, saying : "Look loyour wife and Don Alva de Solis, and he not deceived by appearances. They only want a fitting opportunity tot dishonor you. Even now be carries about him the gloves she dropped for him at mass." Vesale shut himself up to ponder over the most effectual means of avenging him self. His resolution was scon taken. Having established sch'jols of anatomy at San Lticar'and Cordova, ho obtained the Emperor's permission to visit them, quil ted Seville otr-iisibly for that purpose, but returning the same night concealed himself in a tenement belonging to him at some distance from bii abode in Alcazar. wLiib the fide of Truth in every issuc.- No. 40. was devoted to tho doubU purpose of a laboratory and dissecting room. lie had taken no person into his confidence; he was alone in bis own counsel. Al dark on the following evening be is sued forth, muflled to the eyes in a woman's manl'e and hood, aud If ft a note at Dun Alva's habitation, containing an embroid ered glove of Isabella's, and thrsa words : "Have obtained lha key lo Vesalu's laboratory during his absence ; be at the gate an hour alter midnight, and you will bi admitted on pronouncing tho name of Isabella." Tha assignation was promptly kept by Don Alva. At an hour past midnight he left his house alone ; but ho never returned to it. Whither he had gone none could SJyj nor could any trace of him be dis covered. It was supposed he must have missed his footing and fallen Into tho Gua dalquivcr, near which his abode was situ ated ; and that his body had been swept away by the waves into the ocean. Such an occurrence was calculated to produce a great sensation in (he place where it happened ; and Vesale, recalled three weeks after by the illness of his wife, found the disappearance of Don AKn tho theme of every tongue. Tho altered ap pearance of Isabella was attributed by Vesale lo grief fur the mysterious absence of Don Alva, and that conviction took from him all pity for htr sufferings. It chanced lo be the festival of Sanla L-a-bd la, and to do honor to her patron saint, as well as to celebrate- the return of her husband, Isabella put on her wedding dress, and sealing hertclf by an open case inent that overlooked the Alva gardens, she watched for his coming. But whilst bcr eyes were vainly fixed upon the path by which she expected him to appear, a hand was laid ou her bhoulder, nnd turning round she beheld Vesale standing beside her. "I have ordered supper to be l.iiJ in my study," said he; and inking her hand, ho led her away to the room in question, dis missed the attendant and closed the door. Everything wore a festive air ; yet the re past was cheerless. Perceiving that she had tasted nothing, Vesalo poured a few drops of elixir in a cup of Malaga wine, and presenting it to her, "Drink this," he said, "it is a sovereign cure for the disense you are suffering from." "Pledge me the draught," aha replied, filling up a goblet from tho same flask, and banding it to him, "and it will biing a quicker healing to me, Let us di ink to our absent friend Andio." Vesalo accepted the offering, nnd they emptied their goblets together. "Talking of absent friends," said he, and suddenly fixing his ryes upon her, "you have not spoken to me of Don Alva de Solis. Aro all hopes of hearing from him relinquished t He was a braggart and a libertine, and boasted thut no woman ever resisted his seductions, that no hus band ever suspected the injury he was preparing for him." Then grasping his wife by the liund, ho led her up to the door at the further end of tho room, and, throwing tho door wide open, revealed to her viow a skeleton, sus pended within, holding In one of his bony bands one of her embroidered gloves. "Behold," he said, pointing In the ghast ly spectacle, "the gallant and bentiliful Dob Alva de Solis, the object of your guilty love contemplate him well, if tho sight can render your few moments any happier, for you are about to join him in another world the wine I have given you was poisoned 1" When the last dreadful sentence, and lis most dreadful illustration, fell upon her nfTrighted senses, she became paralyzed with excess of emotion, tha scream which bad risen to her throat died there in stran gling murmurs, and, sinking back, she fell as one dead upon the arms of Vesale. She was not dead, however. He had not oisonrd her; that crime ho had hesi tated to commit ; yet he was none tho less her murderer. Convulsion followed con vulsion, and at last she died ; and, in that supreme moment, the hour thut preceded death, her husband, who never quitted bcr, bdiold one of those phrnomenn which sometimes attend tha dying. Awakening from a torpid slumber, consciousness and memory returned at once, and with them a calm and courage ahe had never pos sessed in the flush of life. "Andrew," said the dying woman, fix ing her eyes on her husband, "I am dying by your hand, yet I am innocent. I never wronged you by thought or by dued. Do-i Alva pursued me with his love and threats, but I repulsed them. I nevnr loved but you. I feared and honored you as much as I loved, bat I dared not tell you of his pursuit. Oh ! Andrew, believe my words! the dying deal not in falsehoods. Should I be thus calm were I guilty I" Vesala, sinking upon his knees, solemn ly protested bis faith in the innoceacn of his wife, and, with choking sols, adjured her to b!iev h'otdv feigned to give her ADVKItTlhlNO UATKH. Ono square (I j lines or less) one insertion, $.1,00 ' " two liwertinni, 4,UQ " ' three internum, 6,00 Knell Milwrrjiicil! lluortien, 1,00 Itaaannuhls deductions lo iIium who ad venue y the year. JOB PRINTING. Tim raoraiTo ur tiik A KG I'M ham-v to inform the public ihat ha lias juat received a Inrire aiork of JUU TYPE and oilier new print ilia material, and will be in the ne.eilv rereim ,.f add itinita suited to all llie r(iiiremrnla of iIk o calily. HANDI'.ILIX, IOSTKI!H, FlI.AXKH, CAKUS, CIKCTLAKS, I'AM I'll LET- WOKK anil oilier kinds, done lo ordi-r, on short nonce. poison, that he could not nerve his hand to t ike her lifu ; but the terror of deaih, not death itself, was upon her. And while he yel spoke, Isabella murmured ''Thanks be lo Heaven for this," and, drawing his hand toward her, she laid it upon her heart, and, as she did so, it ceased to beat ! Prtact Xapolroa to aiarry a tlatttaa Uraad Uuehesa. Some time ago, says tho New Orleans Picayune of the 13th instant, wo mentioned that reports wero in circulation iu Paris, of a negotiation for a marriage between Prince Napoleon (the son of Jerome) and the Grand Duchess Maria, widow of the lulo Duke do Leuchlcul'urg (son of Hugene Beauharnais) the sister of the presont Em peror of Russia. It appears that these re pjrls were woll founded. A geiilluman of this ciiy received by yesterday's mail, a letter from a friend in Paris, dated Nov, IS, (brought by tho steamship Arago.) info'tning him that the mariiae hud been decided upon. The letter, we are assured, is from a well informed source, and the in formation mny bo relied on. It appears that the mar'iago was negotiated by Count do Morny, the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg. Tho writer of tho letter stales tha! tho tiows had nut been made public in Paris, nor was it likely to be for some time. He further says, that the pal ace of Fontuinblvau will be aasigned to Prince Napoleon nnd his consort for their fuiuro residence. May there not be some connection between this reported imperial alliance and the recent coolness between France and Great Britain I It is evident, assuming this intelligence to bo reliable, that tho two Emperors are becoming more intimately connected than will be agreea ble to John Bull, and that Louis Napoleon loses no opportunity to mako more secure hit position among tho crowned heads of Europe. The Hull Huvily. Everybody knos that sugar has greatly advanced in price, owing, it is said, to the short supply. If the Liverpool papers aro to bo credited, thero is danger of the price of suit running up the same scalo. Owing to some cause, the sinking of land, it is said, the yield of brino in the salt mines of Cheshire has grrntly fallen off, equal 10 7.5 per cent. As 1 30,0!)0 tons of tliia article wero shipped fiom these mines last year to '.ho United States alone, this calamity would be liki ly to affect tho price. Somo argue, however, that the decrease is only temporary, and the sinking of new tdmfis will remote it. As tho tnanufucluro has cxiended with gigantic strides of late, to will, of course, ihes-e temporary inconven iences occur somewhat more frequently, but nevertheless equally remediable. The best lest of the opinion of those w ho are most interested is the price of tho arliclu. The quotations in tho Drili.lt market re main thu sumo for some weeks iu fact aro rulher easier ; und it is probably this, ns much as tho small depreciation in thu strength of the brine nt Winsford, whicli causes there, n' a few works, tho present cessaiion of manufacture. On. of Must ah i in Kiieumati.sm. Where ono third of the male population complain tu some extent, of rheumatic puins, in tho fickle climate of Now En gland, but more especially along the sen shore, physicians have- it in their power to mitigate an immense amount of severe suf fering by prescribing the volatilo oil of mustard. It is employed as a rubefacient being first diluted in its own weight of al cohol at forty degrees. Some patients may object 10 its pungent odor, but that is temporary, while the remedy may in soma cases prove a permanent cure. Make the application at least twice a day, and pro tect the part with aofl flannel. Mustard mills are in operation in the cities general ly al which the oil may be procured, it be ing an article not much in demand in tho arts. Wero it not for delecting il by its pungent odor this oil would have become n stent remedy for rheumalio pains years , ago. A nostrum loses Its miraculous effi uienry and curalivo properties on becom ing known. Medical World. Gambling in Business not Lkcal. The Superior Court of New York has dc cided that sabs of produce or merchan dise deliverable at a future day, with no iu tcntiou of the pit' ties acluully to perform il, but merely to pay difference on the ono side or the oilier, according to the state of the market, such contract is a wager, and therefore, void. The policy of the law is to discourage gambling transactions of every kind, whether in bets, wagers, stakes, stocks or business merely specula. live. f5" A gentleman once said he should like to see a boat of ladies adrift on tho ocean to ace what course they would ateor. A lady in the room replied, "That's easy told they would Hct-r to the lata of Man to be ur '"