THE OREGON ARGUS.
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' ' BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS.
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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
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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
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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 '"