g)c (Oregon SVtgitg.
W. L. ADAM, KDITO ASO MoralSToa.
OREOON CITYt
SATURDAY, MAKCII 29, 1857.
Judge Uice, writing fiom Rogue
River Feb. 7ib,ayS
b P. S I open tliii to ask you of the
truth of Lovejoy's remarks on th " ne
gro bill." Ha ) when ilii Territory
win being taken under lie wing of llie
Uuiied States. Webster anil Calhoun
voted against the clause prohibiting slave,
ry, on constitutional grounds poe-ibly
such wni tlii case, ; no doubt Calhoun did i
but as to Webster I have my doubts."
H will be recollected thai in Th Argus
of Jan'y 31st we culled tlio statement
made by Lovejoy in question. We did o
tipon the authority or our niomory, not
having reud the S-nsto debate upon the
Oregon question for many years. Since
that tim we have examined our file of
the Spectator and in the issue of that pn
per for September 8th 1817, we find mine
light upon thi matter which we have no
doubt other of our reader besides Judge
R. would like to have. Mr. Lovejey was
entirely at fault in the matter, though we
have no doubt he horeily b-ll veil what
be naitl. Hi mistake i eaiily account d
for from the following fact: The bill or
ganizing the Territory of Oregon, which
panned tho House Jan'y lOih 1817, was
very different from the one which wn re
ported by the Judiciary committee of the
Senate Feb. 10th, against which -Mr. Wb
iter voi d.
The House bill contained the following
ulause prohibiting alavery, by extending!
the Ordinance of 1787 over this Territo
ry: 'Sec. 12. And bt it further tnact-d,
Thnt tho inhuhitenla of said territory
ahull be entitled to enjoy all and singular
the lights, privileges, and advantage
grunted and secured to the people of the
territory of the United S'ntcs northwest
of the river Ohio, by tho article of com
pact contained in tho ordinance for the
government of said territory on tho thir
teenth day of July, seventeen hundred and
eighty-seven ; and shall be subject to all
the condition, and rcstiictiona, mid pro
hibition in aid article of compact im-
nosed upon the people of aid territory i
andl The existing law in force in the
territory of Oregon, under the authority
ot the provisional government esiuniisu
ed lv the people thereof, shall common
to bo valid and operative therein, so far ns
the anine bo not incofiipuliblo with the
principle! ami provisions or thisncl, which
litwg shall be subject, ne ortlicslees, to he
altered, modified, or repealed, ny me gov
ernor and legislative assembly of auid
territory or t'regon.J
The Judiciary committee itruck out
the whole of tho foregoing that is inclu
dud in brackets, and among other amend
ments substituted tho following :
"Provided, however, Thnt no provis
don of such laws or any act hereafter imss
ed by tlio legislative n-semlj'y of said tor.
rilory shall bo so construed ns to restrict
citizens of any of the United States, or of
any territory thereof, from eniigruting with
their property to and settling and resid.
ingin said territory, and holding nnd poss.
essing their properly therein, and fully
participating in all the benefits, advanta
ges, privilege, nnd immunities thereof os
territory of the Uu'ned Suites, wiih mich
oronertv. on equal footinir wi'h citizens ol
anv of' the United Slides ; nnd all laws
and parts of laws which shall operuto in
restraint of or detriment to the full en
joyment of such rights arc hereby declar
ed to be null and void."
This of co u r so removed the restriction
clause, nnd fully endorsed whut i now
called the Southern construction ot the
Nebraska Dill. Upon a motion to lay the
bill a reported to the Sennlo bylheju
dioiary committee on the tuble, Webster
voted aye. Consequently ho did not, as
Lovejoy suid, vote against the restriction
clauso ; as there w as no such chute in the
bill, it having been already expunged by
the Judiciary committee, ami a "squatter
sovereign" clause substituted in its place,
LETTER OF COL. BRNTO.t.
Iu tho same number or the Spectator
we find a letter from Col. Denton, written
to the people of Oregon, in which ho dc
nounces tho Seuote amendments, remov
ing theslavury restriction as the olT-piinji
of Calhoun' " fire-brand resolutions," mid
promised us that tho restriction c bin so
should be restored to tho bill. The letter
is of much interest and we shall publish it
entire :
Washington Citv, March, 1347.
My Fkibmps (For such 1 may call
many of you from personal acquaintance,
and nil of you from my thirty years devo
tion to the interest of your country) I
think it 'iflbl to make this communication
to you at tho present moment when I lie ad
journrneiit of Congress, without passing
the bill ror your government and protec
tion, st ems to have It ft you in a state of
abandonment by your mother country.
Hut such is not tho esse. You are not
abandoned ! nor will you be deuied protec
tion unless you a;rco to admit slavery. I,
man or the South, and slaveholder, tell
you this.
The House or Representative, as early
ts the middle of January, bail passed the
bill to give you a Terriio'ial Government ;
nd in that bill had sanctioned and legal
ized v"r Provisional Organic Act, onu of
the clause or which lorever prohibited the
existence or slavery in Oregon. An
amendment from the Senate's eoinmi'tee,
to which this bill was referred, proposed to
abrogate that prohibition; anil in the de
lay and venations to which that amend
ment gave rise, the whole bill was laid np
on the table, and lost for the session.
This will be a great disappoioment to you
and a real calamity, already five years with
out law, or legal institutions lor the pro.
i ..... ...I ... ... I
taction oi Hie, tiuenj "uu
aw stooii.ed tJ wan a year longer,
This
is a strange and cnomolou condition! al.
most incredible to contemplate, and most
critical to endure I a colony of free men,
401)6 mile from the Metropolitan gtvern.
ment, and without law or government lo
preserve iliem I But do not be alarmed,
or dusperato. Yott will not be out U'd
for not admitting ilavery. Your fundamen
tal act against thai Institution, copied from
the Ordinance of l787-(tbe work cTHie
creat men of the south, In the great day or
th. 8'jUtii, prohibiting slavery in a TERR.
Tour for less northern than your.) will
not be abr'-gated ! nor is that the intention
or i he rim mover of i he amendment.
Upon the record of the Judiciary committee
of ihr Senate is the author of ihavt amend,
mem : hut not o the fact I It i only mid
wife to it. It author is the same mind
that generated the "Firb Hraho Resold--tions,"
or which I send you a copy, and or
which the amendment is the legiiimalM o
rivaiion. Oregon i not the object. The
most rabid propagandist of slavery cannot
epct to plant it on the shores of the Pa
cific, iu the latitude of Wicoiiin and the
U!;e of the Woods. A home agnation,
for election and disunion purposes, is all
thai is intended by thrusting this hre brand
question into vour bill! nnd, al the next
Ftiion. when it is thrust in ayaw,
scourge it out I and pasi your bill aa it
ought to be. I promise you tbi In the
name or the south as wen a ine hobth ,
and the even: will n"t deceive me. In the
mean lime, the President will give you all
the protection which existing laws, and de
tachments or the army ami navy, con ena
ble him to ex'end lo you ; and, umil Con.
gress ha lime to net, your fricndu must rely
upon you lo continue lo uovern yourselves,
us you have heretofore done, under the pro
visiunk orvotir own volun'ury compaot,
and with the juMico, harmony and moder
ation which is due to your on character
and to the honor of the American name.
I send you, by Mr. Shively, a copy of the
bill or the late session, both nt it passed the
House or Representatives and a proposed
to be amended in the Senate, with this Sen
atn'a vote upon levin it on the table, and
a copy of Mr. Culhoun's Resolutions
f posterior in date to the amendment, but,
neverthelesss, its father) also a copy or
vour own Provisional Organic Act, printed
r . . a . . . i i. :n
by orilcr ol the beuate; an wincu "in pm
you completely in possession of the proceed
ings of Congress on your Petition for a
Teiieitorial Government, and for ihe
protection and security of your rights.
In conclusion, I have lo assure you that
the same spirit which lias made me the
friend of Oregon for thirty years which
led me lo denounce Ihe joint occupation
treaty the day it wns made, and to oppose
its renewal in 1928, and to labor for its ab
rogation until it was terminated : theame
spirit which led me to reveal Ihe grand
destiny of Oregon in articles written in
1AI8. and to support every measure for
her hem fit since this same spirit still an.
imntes me, and will continue to do so while
I live which, I hope, will be long enough
to see an emporium of Ablatio commerce
at the mouth of vur river, and a st red in
of Asiatic trade pouring into tlio Valley of
the Mississippi through the channel ot
Oregon.
lour friend and tellow citizen,
Thomas H. Henton.
caliioc.n's " fire brand resolutions."
Rclovr we publish the resolutions refer
rid lo in Benton's letter. It will he seen
by these thnt Calhoun was really the au
thor of modern democracy, instead of
Douglas. There is enough of specious
nuss and plausibility in thorn to catch the
simple and unwary :
Ucsolved. Thnt the territories f the
United States belong lo the several States
composing this Union, and are held by
tliem as their joint and common property.
Resolved, That Congress, as tho joint
agent and representative of tho States of
this Union, has no right to make any law,
or do any act whatever, that shall directly,
or by iu edi cts, niako any discrimination
between the States or this Union by which
nnv of them shall he deprived of Hs full
and equal right in any territory of the
United States, acquired or to be acquired,
Kesolvod, J hat the enact mom ot nny
law w hich should directJv, or by its effects,
dt privo the citizens of nny of the Slates
of ibis Union from emigrating with th ir
property into any of the territories of the
United Mates, would make such uiscnmi
natron ; and would therefore be a viola
linn of tho constitution, nnd the rights of
the States from which such citizens emigra
led, nnd in derogation of that perfect
equality which belongs to them as members
of this Union, and would teud directly to
subvert tho Lnton Itself.
R.solved, That it is a fundaimntal
principle in our political creed that a peo
iilo. in forming a constitution, have the
unconditional riuht to form and adopt the
government which they may think best
calculated to secure their liberty, prosper!
ly, and happiness ; and thnt, iu conformity
thereto, no other condition, is imposed by
tlio federal constitution on a Stale in order
to Ve nilrnitted into its Union, except that
its constitution shall be republican; and
thut the imposition of any other oy (Jon
cress would not only be a violation of the
constitution, but in diiect conflict with the
principle on which our political system
rests.
tV We notice in the last Standard I
call for a meeting of tho citizens of Port
land, irrespective of party, to take meas
ures for securing a ticket or six good names
for city officers. The oall sets forth that
the signers believe that a better city ad
ministration can be procured by choosing
men from " the various political parties,"
and they propose to divide the office equal
ly, between them. "This would be giving
each party one representative, vis : Re
publican one, Whig one, Know nothing
one, bushito one, Algerine one, and Inde
pendent one, as "cheermsn of the coa
ssrn," perhaps. The call is aignej by
Waterman and Lei and. We would like
to a-k these gentlemen if a city adininis
trution consisting of representatives of all
the parties is a good thing, why may not a
County or Territorial one be ?
By the way, we nominate Judge Water
man as Ihe A'aoir nothing candidate.
CCT Correspondents will be atlendcJ to
. next wk.
rraactsc Prices.
Flour 911,60 to 9 13 ; Oats 81,10; But
tr 28 to 30 e; Potatoes 11,27 Pork,
mess, 130 to 39j Bacon 17 lo 17Jc
In the llulleliu reports we find the follow
ing: ' The receipt of Oregon meats thu
far this lesson have not coma up lo ihe es
timates which had previously been made,
and we have the best authority for ser.
ing lht the curing process for the Uam
and Shoulder has been in many cae loo
.... I ...I!.,.
htily perlormedj some parcels wniun
have undergone careful examination here,
have been pronounced by competent judges
as nut sufficiently lo keep in warm weath
er, and the country trade gives the pre
ference to Eastern packed gooiis.'
This i what we expected. The market
in California for Oregon bacon has been
badly damscod by the conduot of some of
our kblppeis. We knew an instance or
two in this county, where hog wre
slaughtered, suited, smoked with fir chips,
and delivered in this maiket In just three
weeks from the day the hog wre ilaugh
tered. The meat ought to have been
cured at least six weeks, and been well
smoked with bsrd wood. A few more
such exports as that, and Oregon bacon
will b at fifty per cent discount.
Bachsisa's Cs blast.
It is tt last generally understood in
Washington that Mr. Buchanan's Cabinel
is to be made up at follow ;
Department tf State, Lewis Cass. Mhh. ;
Treasury, Howell Cobb, (la.; Interior,
Jacob Thompson, Miss.; Navy, Aaron
V. Bhotvn, Tenn. ; War, Johm Floyd.
Va.; Post-Office, J. Clancy Jones, Pa.;
Attorney-General, Isaac ToucEY.Ct.
Four oul or tho seven are Southern
mec, but we believe of rather a conserva
tive character.
We would always prefer to risk the
government in the hand of sue!, men a
Cobb nnd Floyd, to those of such unmiti
gated dough faces as Toucey, who, a
a Senator from Connecticut, trampled on
the will of hi constituents in helping
poor Tierco engineer the Nebraska bum-
bug through Congress.
t3T Coroner Connerv ho closed hi
fourteen days' investigation into the tnur
dor of Dr. Burdell. The result has fast
ened suspicion by strong circumstantial
evidence upon Mrs Cunningham and
young Snedgrass as having been parties
to the transaction. Eckel, w ho lived in
the house with them, is also implicated by
something more than circumstantial cti
dence. A witness testified that he sat on
Burdell's door steps fixing his shoe string
when Burdell went np ihe steps into his
room, lie snon aner pearu a cry oi mur
r-w . , . A
der, and something fell heavily upon the
floor. In a miuuie or two, a man came
to the door in his shirt sleeves, and angrily
ordered him off. The witnoss was taken
into a room containing some thirty persons
and picked out Eckel as the man who or
dered him off tho door steps. A woman
who koepsa hardware store, picked youn!
Snodgriiss out of a company, a tho per
son to whom she sold the dagscr wiih
which Burdell was supposed lo have been
killed. Eckel, Snndgrnss, nnd Mis Cun
ningham are in prison, where they appear
to be ch.'erfol and happy, nnd entirely con
fident that they shall be honorably ac
quitted. Tho conduct of tho prisoners
seems to be a puzzle to every ouo of ihe
thousands who visit them.
(KrThe Atlanlio Telegraph bill lias
passed both bouses of Congress. This
Government and that of Great Britain are
each to furnish a man of war ship to nssi-t
iu laying down the wires, besides wo have
lo pay seventy thousand dollars a year for
the use of tlio telegraph. It is justified ns
a " cmtribulion to commerce," nnd it is
argued that it will save our Oovornmcnt
two millions a year in expenditures now
made to increase the expedition of mail
steamers.
OCr " The Corruption Investigating
Committee" of Congress have made their
report, implicating Francis S. Edwards,
0. B. Matteson, and Win, A. Gilbert of
New York, as also Win. W. Welch or
Connecticut, as having been guilty or be
ing bribed to vote for certain rail-road and
pension bills. The committee offered res
olutions expelling these members from the
House, as also Mr. Simmiton, reporter for
the N. Y. Times, with whom the commit
tee had a good deal of trouble as a wit
ness. Mr. Matteson went before the com-
mil tee aud made oath thai he was innocent
of the charges. The House had not acted
upon the committee's report up to the time
of the steamer's sailing, but it is to be
hoped that examples will be made of every
scoundrel whose guilt is clearly established
OCT A mong the correspondence sent to
the Senate by the President in relation to
Indian difficulties in Oregon and Washing'
ton, we find a letter of Wm. L Mercy's to
Gov. Stevens, informing him that the Presi
dent can find no excuse for his unwarrant
able assumption or power in proclaiming
martial law in Washington, and ibat the
President is not pleased w ith his conduct
in that particular.
tf On last Wednesday we had a par
tial eclipse of the Sun and a new moon.
The weather up to that time was truly
horrible. The cold rains came don in
such torrents on the "evil and en the good,"
lhal the oldest inhabitants begun to con
clude that Ihe "rainy season had fairly set
iu." Since Wednesday ibe weather has
been baffling, bnl w ibiuk the omens are
J al present eplcicss.
arTbe eastern pspere contain ac
counts of experiments with the Chines
Sugar Cane which has been Introduced in
to the country, and cultivated with suo-
test In the MiJdle and Western States.
The molatse made from it Is said to be
qual to the product of the maple. We
notice a correspondent of the Prairie Farm
er say lhal ho cut up and split with hi
knife about a bushel of stalks, and steeped
them an hour In boiling water, getting oul
about half of the juice, from which he
made a quart of molasses equal lo the
best maple molasse. The) Patent Office
ha been engaged in distributing Ihe seed,
and we should be glad lo have some of it
find Its way lo Oregon, as we believe H
would do well enough here lo enable every
man to make bis own sugar.
Who will send for the seed ?
P. S. The foregoing was crowded out
of our last week's psper for which it had
been prepared.
Since that lime, tLe arrival of ibe steam
er has filled us with exceeding great joy,
by bringing u a fine lot of seeds, sent by
ihe Hon. Charles Mason, Commissioner of
Patents, among which we find the seed ef
lbs Chinese Sugar Cane. We shall plant
sfw of these seeds ourself, and distribute
ihe rest among settlers in different por
tions of the Teriitory.sothat they may be
come as widely diffused next year as poss
ible. The seeds (excepting the bugnr
Cane) are all from England and Japan.
The following is a list : Chinese Sugar
Cane, Sea Kail, Sweet Scented vernal
Grass, Crimson Clover, Pure Early York
Cabbage, Marcollin Savay Cabbage, Win-
ningstadt Cabbage, Snowball Turnip,
Yellow Six weeks Turnip, Yellow Alt
ringhom Turnip, and some five varieties of
peas.
(r The democratic members of the
Indiana Legislature have perpetrated a
gross fraud by the election of Jesse D,
Bright and G. N. Filch, as U. S. Senators.
In the Senaloriul convention there was less
than a quorum of the House nnd less than
a majority of the Senate. Th) Senate re
fused to go into joint convention, and was
in regular session during the whole lime
or the election faro. Fitch has mude his
appearance and been sworn in ns a member
of the U. S. Senate, and, as is customary
in such cases, the papers have been refer
red to the Judiciary committee. Tho Sen-
ate will probably purposely defer the mat
ter till tho Indiana Legislature shall have
adjourned bofore they declare the seats
vacant, when it will devolve upon Gov.
WillurJ to appoint, in which case the lo
cofoco'g will have arrived at their object
by fraud and villainy as is very common
03" Congress has passed a bill by a vote
of 03 lo 79, repealing the bogus law of
Kansas, and providing for an election of a
Legislature by the people. The Senate
will most lik-ly kill the bill. Upon th
vote in the House, the 9H who voted yea
are- all from the free States, making the
bill of course a " Sectional" measure. Of
the 79 nays, 14 were from free States, nnd
the rest from slave States ; making tho
policy of crushing the Kansas people
under the iron heel of border ruffian des
potism as " national" as pure black de
mocracy itself.
Wonderful Discovery.
We find more than four columns of the
IS. Y- Tribune occupied with en article from
the pr n of Dr. Hardingo of New York city,
disclosing tho greatest discovery of this
aje, or perhaps any other. The Dr. de
dares, and proves bis statement by certifi
cates of well-known chemists, thnt ho is
able by simple machinery he uses at present
to convert fifteen to:is per day of quartz
rock into a pure liquid, as transparent as
spring water, and then turn il back again
to solid rock. While in the fluid state, by
letting it stand a short time, every particle
of gold that tho quartz contained settles to
ihe bottom and is saved, whereas by the
common process of extracting the gold
from quartz, in California, Central Amer
ica, and Australia, nnd even in Virginia,
North and South Carolina, aud Georgia,
the gold-bearing quartz contains from $')0
to $3000 per ton of pure gold, yet hitherto
the machinery for saving it has been so
imperfect that a per centum of the precious
metal barely sufficient to pay expenses on
the whole has been saved. By the Dr.'s
process or course erery particle is saved.
The process of liquefaction is carried on
by means of calcining kilns, whore the
rock is made friable by means of great
heat, from whence il passes into grinding
mills, where it is reduced to a powder, in
which state it is incorporated with a few
simple solvents, preparatory to a passage
into a huge iron boiler, where the whole
process is completed, and to all appear
ances the rock becomes pure water.
The Dr. is then able lo solidify the li
quid, and produce from this silicia in solu
tion, artificial granite, porphyry or con
glomerate, and in fact all the precious
stones except the diamond. But what
seems ju?t here most lo enhance Ihe value
or this discovery, the liquid in its Irsnsi.
tion state assumes the solid form so grad
ually that it may be moulded into any
desired shape. By ibis means the most
beautiful and permanent building material
may be produced at a cost not exceeding
that of brick.
Just here we let the Dr. speak for him
self: "As an illustration of the architectaral
and ornamental uses to which my iuven
tiers may t profitably turned, bv usinj
the liquid rock after separating the gold, I
bave salil tua( i iwnu,
public locality, to erect model edifice, of
moderate sixe.of material the most besu.
liful Slid durable which imagination can
conceive equaling in luilliancy any and
all of Ihe precious ione rxcepi m m
mond, and yet el cost for material not
exceeding the price of common biitk.
The chief object of t his structure will be
lo how al a iflance the practicability of
molding and coloring cheaply all ihe ma
terials requi-ed for architectural purposes
of utility and ornament, so a lo produce
edifices of ll.e mo. enduring character,
rivaling ihe splendors of oriental romance,
and yet al a cost not exceeding the price of
common brick."
If this is reslly as Dr. Hardingo repre
sents, (snd we see no reason to doubt il.)
he has come noar unraveling the myste.
ry which alchemists have scratched
their heads over in vain for ages. Il W
decidedly tlio greatest discovery of the nge,
and we are filled with astonishment al th
narra ion. The idea of those beautiful pal
aces of precious slones at the present cost
of our poor dingy brick, is certainly re.
freshing. Truly, the march of improve
ment is carrying us onward and upward.
0- We learn from the California
Chronicle that Sheriff Jackson, w ho went
down with Jack Hurley as a prisoner on
the schooner J. R. Whiting, was drowned
on his pssssge down lo Sun Francisco.
The Captain staled lhal when within ten
miles of the Heads, he was tubing an ob
servation, and noticed Jackson and Hur.
ley silling together near the edge of the
vessel, on a pile of lumber, engaged in
conversation. lie turned his head a mo
ment to give some order, when, upon look
ing again, hs discovered the Sheriff over
board and floating on the water. A boat
was lowered but too late to save him. The
Free Masons and other citizens hsd of.
fered a reward of 93000 for the arrest or
Hurley, and Jackson had been in Oregon
hunting him for nearly a year.
fUr Capt. Crosby, formerly of Portland,
died at Hongkong on the 17th of Decern
ber last.
Notice has been been given in the
U.S. Senate of bills for constructing Nort h
etn, Central, and Southern Railroads to
the Pacific, nlo for a Telegraph line.
0 iT Leschi, who was arraigned at 01) in
pin for the murder or Col. Moses, lias been
tried and convictod.
We hear repented complaints from
our sulwcriber in Washington Territory
that our paper seldom reaches thorn.
The postmasters will do us a favor ifthey
will mend their ways in distiibuiing the
mail for that Territory.
tlT The Columbia reached Portlan
last Tuesday, W are under obligations
to the immortal Sullivan for bundles of ex
changes.
05- II m. Wm. II. S.:vnrd und Hon. L
I). Campbell have our thanks lor public
documents.
OO" By. reference io advertisement it
will be seen that Mr. A Cook has opened
a l ar.iits maker's s'op in Butteville.
07"In answer to our inquiry some time
ao, Rev, Neil 1 Johnson wrius us that he
has both Black Walnut and Butternut trees
growing in his nursery.
Tncairt.
Thornnn's Theatrical Troupe have been
ploying for three nights this week in this
ci'y with deserved success. The Troupe
has lately received additions from Cnlifor
nia, which add considerably to its attract
ions. Fur lite Argus,
Mr. Editor In your last issue I ob
serve that some person over ih" signature
of A Piker lukes me to task for connecting
Tikery and slavery together, and, as 1 was
partially convinced or the justice of his
complaint, I would make publio apology,
and offer such explanation as I trust will
be satisfactory.
Though quite young when I parsed
through the State of Pike, I can distinctly
recollect having seen whi'e peoplo within
its border who were considerably advanced
in civilization, having at that early period
introduced many of the refinements of
life, (such as drinking whisky, chewing to
bacoo, and swearing, which latter art they
had acquiied in great proficiency,) and,
judging from the nature of the article
which calls this out, I am willing to admit
the possibility of its having once possessed
a gentleman who, though now absent, still
honors his native land by acknowledging
it. The course of the Pikes in regard lo
Kansas led me to imagine that the tribe in
general were so fully satisfied of the bless
ings resulting from slavery, that they con
ceived it to be thoir duty to enlighten their
neighbors, and even to convince them by
force that the laws of Tike were the most
proper ones to be adopted, and should at all
hazards be enforced in Kansas. But I am
willing to receive my friend's theory, and
absolve the masses, attributing the wrong
to their leaders, whosailed onHer the ban
ner of a once noble but now corrupt political
party, and through iu name and influence
led the Pikes astray. j. D. l.
6 The composition of the British Par
liamentnow on the eve of reasembling,
is said to be as follows : Liberal Minis
terialists 323 : Derbyite Opposition. 237 :
Tories leaninir to LorJ P,lmer,nn in.,..,!
of to Lord Derby, 37 ; Peelite. and liberal j Had I the power, I d (orthwiih sex! Liawheie
Conservative, 28 ; and Radical and Irish ' Od hi ewa bock be d boot tor puilt er-men-Vers
eppesrd te the Gove'DT.it, 17. , I -ss-r H:-r.t Muca HV-
Th Ortal w Hlorss-OkssrvSiUat.
Lieutenant Maury, ef the National Ob.
servstnry al Washington, has addressed a
htier in the press, staling lhal he wishes la
study the rise and progress of the recent
great snow storm, and requesting such in.
formation as will eiiubls him lo do so. U
says i
I do not confine this request exclutivel
to tho-e who are provided with instrument
and who keep meteorological journal; bat
1 make it to those also who have no meteor.
ological Instrument. Iti'irumenialobserv.
aiion are to be pref.-red j but when nona
of them are to be had, then those that are
mudii with the eye alone Will be very ao.
veptaoi. ror convenience I submit
pro forma set of question to be answered
lor eacii day irom tlio I4iu tu the 2 2d Jsn.
inclusive i '
Name or Place, Jan. 1 1, 1857,
1st. What wm the appearance of ih(
skyt 2d. The force ana direction of the
wind I 3d. When did it change, freshen,
or go down I 4th. When did it commence
to snow or rain I Ath. When did H step f
0th. How much fell I ,
Let those who keep meteorological teg
latere give, in addition le the above, exirsoie
from their journals for each day, sutio
the reading of their instruments.
Person at sea, anywhere within Ire
hundred miles of the Atlantic coast or in
the Gulf of Mexico, aud person in all parte
of the country, from Cuba to Canada aadf
the Brilish possessions, are requested to
answer this call. From the citizens of
the United State I hope to receive in in
swer st least ono report fioin every coanty
in every State and Territory.,
Grgat National Trial or MAcmm
and Implements. Tim Committee of tit
United Statos Agricultural Society, apv
pointed nt tho Fifth Annual Meeting, held
at the Smithsonian Institution, in Ihe city
of Washington, on the 14th of January,
"to designate the time and te make all ne
cessary arrangement for t national trial
in the fidd of agricultural implements and
machinery" have invited the inventors and1
manufacturers of all such ariicies in the
United Slate and foreign eonntrios, to par.
tic'patein a public triafio be made in Lov
isville, Kentucky) under the auspices of
the S ie'y. during the fall of 19-' 7.
Ths Atlantic TeuwiArit A very
strong feeling prevails in London against
the exclusive manner in which the AlW
tic Telegraph Company has been :ot up,
and tho xi lusive machinery with which
il is clowned. Another company is being
organized, with the intention of going ifi.
red to l he shores or the United Stales in.
stead or passim.' through English Colonial
possessions. This will place Knland sad
America on an equal fiotin, in a poliricaV
point of view, ami it is hoped that both
the government and people of the Unitfd'
States will giro the new company their
best support.
03" We bam Irom ilm liufula (Va)
Nitive, that a a'nvn mm was burned sf
A'lbi-villn, in that State by a mob of peo.
plo numbering ovi-r four thousand. He
was taken from jail, -the Sheriff oTering no ,
resistance, and ned to a, stake, around
whi.-h was fai-pine wood, so as to make a
pile six feel ii'i diameter and four fed Lil'
l'V was then Hpp'ied. and ihe poor wreieh
was burned to ashes. The crim;- of which
he was ruil'y wus the murder of li'w
master.
Ths Piigss in Ukkmany It was stated"
nt the General Asaernbly of the Roman.
Catholic Associati'in, that of the four hun.
died and fifty six large papers or Germany,
"four hundred are decidedly hostile to ths
Kutni'h church, nnd that even tho remain
ing fifty six, one-liiiif are bm half Catholicf
which is just as much as uncatholic."
Many of the Roman Ca tholic papers are
not sell suppirti tg, but are with difficulty
kept alive.
051" A Constitutional Convention met si
Iowa City onthe 1 0 h Jan. It consists
of ihirty-foiir memoes, twenty-one of whom
are Republicans and thirteen Democrats.
Death opMiis. Wm. Wirt. The wid
ow of the late Wm. Wirt died at Annpoli,
M '., on Sunday.
Dtlasloa.
sr a saoTiiea rut.
Once mors I tuns my harp for Posey song,
A fool's my (heme, let satire be my song.
Ye lofty peaks that lower toward ths sky,
Ye hills and dales that plesso the poet's eya,
Ye creeks llml Row from out your muuntsin sourcs.
Your voices joia and help to chant my vers.
Unlike all mea whe sprung from Adam'srsc
Is great Delusiou, branded in the face,
Xo streuk of honor o'er his feature pus,
But every member is a lump of brass.
He has been known to take a preaeher's place,
But not to preach of everlasting grace.
For 'twould be bard for such as he to show
Where, after death, Ihe righteous tre te go
Like some sky-rocket that is tossed on high.
Whose scintillations 'lumiusle the sky.
He for a time went sparkling, hissing forth,
The wonderment of natives Sooth and Nerth i
No office from the people could he gst,
So Tyler took him for his darling pet,
Aud sent him down among the southern bog"
To make "reports'' of crocodiles and frogs,
Aud show us through Ihe Patent Cffic book
Just how these vanuiul live and how theyawk.'
I'm said he was iuslrueted to mske haste
And bring home samples of osch Soother re
Of flying sod of ere t ping things, to shuW
That be bad been to where Iheee vermis grew,
And to the government had made amende
For cash paid out to on of Tyler's frisada.
His stay was long, so loug that doubl ana
With Polk sod Buck, ('tis thus lb story goj
Concerning the result of Tyier's plaa
To cage such varmints with a single ma
Munchausen sirs ght was sent le buat kiss V
Aud bring bim home forthwith to fc-Ul op.
When from the treasury he drew bis pay.
! W Buck, was heard is- dreadful writh lo ST.