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Vol. III.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, JUNE 13, 1857.
No. 9.
tnd oilisr kinds, dons lo order. n short nolle.
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Dloominqton, 1'olk Co., )
Muy 22, 1337.
Frifnd .Mams This bears tht painful
intelligence of tlio death of a bolovod litllo
daughter of iLrco year ami olght inoniln
old, which waa caused bjr fire ou iho 12th
Of May, illkt.
The particular aro at follows: Myself
and datighior, ami ihi litllo one referred tn
and grand child of tome iwo year old,
were all tht person about the house at that
timo. I had been reading, and my duugh
' ttr Lad itcjipcd out a few yards from the
hooso to pick a fuw berries to please the
children, and was left lu the house. They
tailed for lomu bread mid milk, which I
avo them, and ns thry seated themselves
on tlio (loor, I wnlked out into my garden
to notice tlio effects of the frost. I was
sibout ono hundred yards distuul, when 1
ncnrJ a serjAm. I ran at my speed, know
ing that nulliing could harm thrm but (ire.
Tho scream was from my daughter, who
had returned from berry-hunting, and
found tho child lying on tho door with the
clothing principally burned off, and motion
less, burned almost into a crisp. 1 think it
was not more than ten minutes from the
tima I left the Louso until I heard tho
scream, and when I returned I beheld that
which is loo horrible to describe, and you
can better imagine my feelings than I can
describo them, .to see tho lender offspring
of my bosom, who only a few minutes be
fore was in the bloom of health, lying al
most lifeless, scorched by tho torturing
lis me. She liwd about thirty minutes,
and her spirit took its flight to tho haven of
rest. I have loot three children besides,
aud a Moved wife, but owing to the cir
cumstances that surrounded this case, it
was tho hardest cross I ever had to bear.
Dut I mourn nut as those who have no
hope, for Jesus Christ has said, "Of such is
tho kingdom of heaven." In the ineon
lime, I received a burn, the maik of which
1 shut' curry as a memorial to my grave.
Respectfully, Yours,
Harrison Linville.
fJT We sincerely sympathize with our
esteemed friend in his exceeding great af
fliction. j i i
Tho Object ot I'.vubu's Expedition.
Sumo eight or ten month ago, General
Crubb, in company with his brother-in-law,
visited Sonora. For the information of
those who may nut be acquainted w ith all
tho foe's reluting to the expedition, it mny
bo necessary to state that Gen. Crabb wns
connected by marriage to ono of the most
powerful native families in Sonora, and
that in that family, resident at present in
this city, the death of three husbands and
two brothers is deplored to day. At the
timo of Mr. Crubb's first visit, civil war
prevailed in Sonora. One parly was head
ed by Oandara, Governor of the Slute and
representative of the Central Government
tho other by Pc-queiin. With tho chiefs
of the latter party Mr. Crabb had several
interviews. It was represented to him
that tne peoplo of Sonora weio anxious to
declare their independence preparatory to
annexation to the United States, fur op
pression was the only result of their con
nection with Mexico, und that with the co
operation of Americans the project was
entirely feasible.
Mr. Crahl) returned to this State to raise
men to aid the Souorinns in the their
Btruscle fur freedom, and in the mean-
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time the Gandara party were defeated and
their louder was driven from the country.
Tho first step towards conquering their in
dependence had been taken by the people
of Sonora. Tin) representatives of tho
" "'-id. Government had bOCO driven from
.. rt. . . . i lent oil ihrii
He iie, ana mo ueotaratiou
was required to reuder its independence a
nil accompli. Shortly after these events
transpired, Geo. Crabb reach the frontier
with his men. So confident was be that
M arrival would be the signal for tho per
formance of the formal act which was to
separata Sonora from Mexico, that, in a
letter received from him by one of his
friends, dated the 25tli of March, ho said
"he expected that, on his reaching Altar,
tho independence of Sonora would be de
clared." ill now turns tut that sometime before
'the arrivul of Gen. Crabb on the frontier,
some sort of a compromise was made be
tween the contending factions, and to this
compromise he and tho gallant band by
whom he was accompanied were sacrificed.
Such is the secret history of this last ex
pedition to Sonora. Of the results which
may be expected to flow from its sad ter
mination, it is not our purpose to speak at
present. Tho memory, however, of the
bravo men who were butchered at Cavorca
will not speedily be forgotten, nor the hope
of vengeance lightly abandoned. San
Frtnsico Herald.
05 The number of newspapers taken
in the town of LUrtforri, Coon., per week,
is 1770. The vote of the town seldom
reaches four hundred. It is one of the
most intelligent and moral communities in
ftw England.
Affairs la Nicaragua Walker' Condi
Worn.
TWO KORB BATTLES AT RIVAS I
Drfuro the arrival of the last stcnnior,
so desperate was the situation of General
Walker supposed to be, that hi friends
were inclined to regard the career of our
adventurous countryman in Nicaragua as
closed fur the present ; but the latest ad
vices give a slightly-different coloring to
Iho picture Walker still gallantly de
feuds himself in Rivas, and llcnningscn
threatens to eat bis prisoners before a sur
render is made. Tho following letter in
the Sun Francisco Herald, from a corres
pondent on the Isthmus, gives a good deal
of information relative to the recent bat-
tics at Rivns, and the actual coudition of
things in Nicaragua:
"On the 85th of April, when our last
news was recoivod here, via Grcytown,
Walker had still four hundred men. Ou
the 15th and 25th of April, he had two
battles, in both of which ho killed an I in
menso number of the Allies, sustaining
but litllo loss himself.
"The Costa Kicnn paper themselves
state that he wns fighting with as much
vigor ns evor Hint desertion had entirely
ceased in his little band, and that Hon
niugsen had declared to the Allied Gen
erals that ho would cook prisoners for food
before -he would surrender. The occasion
of this reply was as follows : 'At the last
battle, Walker and ITenningscn obtained
so much advantage over tho enemy as to
tuke from them an eighteen-pound gun, a
twenty-four-pound gun, and some other
pieces of artillery, and over two hundred
prisoners. Among these prisoners was
ono Escalunte, a nephew of tho Costa Ri
can Minister of War. In their anxiety to
save him, tho Costa Ricnn General who
is also commander-in chief of the Allied
forces solicited an exchange of prisoners
of Geu. Walker, who referred him to Gen.
llenningsen. The latter replied that he
would exchange a certain number of pris
oners, not for his own men, but fur cattle
ono man for each bullock that he knew
he (Mora) had no recently-taken prisoners,
and if bo had deserters whom he wished to
palm off as prisoners, ho preferred ho
should keep them ; and that if worst
cr.mo to worst, he know bow to make the
prisoners he himself had serve ns well as
bullocks.'
"In the battle of the 15th of April,
Walker retreated beforo the enemy fiom
houso to house, keeping up an apparent at
tempt at resistance, until he had decoyed
them into and among those houses lis hud
prepared fur them, and then llenningsen
blew up said houses, aud Walker turning,
charged so impetuously upon them that he
took n large number of prisoners. The
Costa Ricans at G re) town sny that their
forces were doing liitlo, in waiting for am
munition. The truth is, they are afraid to
fight him now, because their artillery is
mostly gone, and they cannot cope with
him on any such equality as that of de
pendence upon small arms. The slaughter
of the forces of the Allies was immense.
The Costa Rican papers persist in saying
that they have Walker hemmed in, so that
ho can du nothing that uo provisions for
a surplus party can be obtained that his
men do not get anything but at the risk of
their lives, and that some of them are sac
rificed daily in their desperate efforts to
obtain vegetables to sustain life that they
aro gaining upon him daily, and driving
him into a smaller space, etc. And yet,
say they, llenningsen was hurt by a full
from his borse, and his men only yield
their ground inch by inch, and with great
slaughter to our forces. What would Gen.
llenningsen do with a horse, if an area of
nly Lalf-a-Jo?en bouses was to bo trav
ersed, ana i.Cw oM men fiht wl,b
much vigor as ever, It" lJ 8tarved 1 No'
the truth is, Walker is perfectly ?h'e ,0
hold his own, and his rangers get him all
the provisions he needs but be has not tho
force to drive the enemy from tho siege
without too great a sacrifice. Moreover,
we know there are a considerable number
of American ladies, besides many native
women, in Rivas. Would tbey be per
milted by Gen. Walker, or Capt. Davis of
tho U. S. sloop-of-war St. Mary's (who has
frequent interviews with both Walker and
the Allies), to remain there if his situa
lion was a desperate one f He must have
help to do anything ; but be can defend
himself as he is for a considerable time.
Besides, everything is ripe, both ic
Costa Rica and Nicaragua, for rebellion
and the overthrow of 'the powers that be,'
and in Nicaragua, a large party are fast
making up their minds that if ibey have to
choose between Walker and tho Costa Ri
can, they would prefer tbe former."
Pit iful! " Why did Joseph' breth
ren cast him into the pit I" asked a Sabbath
school teacher of his class.
"Because," replied one young lady,
they thought it a good opening for the
young man."
Commentators are requested not to avail
themselves of this explanation, as copy
right ha been secured,-
r.nilan sad Ike Vnllea HUles.
At a banquet given to the Paluioraton
ministry by the Lord Mayor of London, on
tho 21st of March, Lord Paltncrston spoke
on the foroign policy of Great Britain, and
thus alluded to the relations with tlio Uni
ted Slates :
"I will only say I bclicvo that at no
time in recent years has thoro existed so
thoroughly sound and wholesomo a feeling
as now prevails between the people of this
country and the United States, who, under
standing their reciprocal interests, feel a
determination that those interests shall not
be disturbed by quarrels and disagree
ments, which may partially derange, tho
they do not interrupt, our fiiendly commu
nications. I believe that this amicable
feeling is shared a well by the Govern
ment of the United States as by the Gov.
ernment of Her Majesty, and w have this
advantage tbat tho eminent man who has
now been raised by the voice of his cuun-
trymen to preiido over the destinios of
those States, has but recently left sur
shores, has lived among us, has mixed with
all classes of our people, and has ben
able to appreciate the estoein and respect
felt fur bis country by all soctioni in those
Kingdoms.
Destruction ef Life la ('.Ulna.
Sir John Dewring, is his Notes on China,
states that human life there is held in very
little value. In addition to tho vast num
bers who perish from the want of means uf
subsistence, great numbers porish from
storms nnd typhoons, which visit the coast,
rivers, and lakes en which they expose
themselves in their frail boats of every
description, which are sometimes over
whelmed by buudrcds and by thousands.
So also whole towns nnd villages are often
swept away by inundations, against which
no adequato precautions are taken. In
addition to these causes of destruction, it
is reported that the late civil wars have led
to tho loss of millions of lives. The sac
rifices of lifo by executions, also, is fright
ful. " At the moment at which I write,"
tho author remarks, " it is believed that
from four to five hundred victims full dai
ly by tbe bauds of tho headsman in the
province of Quangtung alor.e." We close
with the following extracts ou tho subject
of infanticide:
Thero are various opinions as to the ex-
tont of infunticido in China, but that it is
a common practice in many provinces ad
mits of no doubt. Ono of the must elo
quent Chineso writers against infanlicido,
Kwet Chun f u, prolusses to have been
specially inspired by the " God of liters
lure" to call upon tho Chinese people to
retrain from the inhuman practice, and
declares that tho God has filled bis bouse
with honors, and civeu him literary des
cendants as the recompense for his exer
tions. Yet his denunciations scarcoly go
farther than to pronounce it wicked in
those to destroy their female children who
have the means of bringing them up, and
some of his arguments are strange enough :
" I o destroy daughters, he says' " is to
mako war upon Heaven's harmony," (in
the cquul number of the sexes,) " the more
daughters you drown the more daughters
you will have ; nnd never was it known
that tho drowning of daughters led to the
birth of sons." Ho recommends aband
oning children to their fute "on the way-
!d.' n m w, -f Ps n ) n I n A Uf n I ti r I tiAm a ltd
ns Mgibinuio iv i u n I iiiums saiiu
then says : "Tliorc aro instances of child
red so exposed having been nursed and
reared by tigers." Where should wo have
been, bo asks, " if our grandmothers and
mothers had been drowned in their infan
cy 1" And he quotes two instances of
the punishments cl mothers who had des
troyed their infants, one of whom had a
blood red serpent tastened to her thigh,
and the oilier her four extremities turned
into cow's feet. Father Rips mentions
that of abandoning children tho Jesuits
baptized in Pekin alone not less than three
thousand yearly. I have seen ponds
which aro the habitual receptacle of fe
malo infants, whose bodies lie floating
on their surface.
It is by no means unusual to carry a
person in a state of exhaustion a little dis
tance from the cities, to give them a pot of
rice, and leave them to perish of starvation
when the little sture is exhausted.
the War la China.
The jtonileut de la Flolte, of Paris,
publishes the fullowi detalU '
the war in China : The Chinese, it 8aid.
are at present making formidable military
preparations which are not to be despised.
Since tbe attack on Canton the Chinese
have executed enormous works on the
Pei ho, a river which falls into the Yel.
low Sea, and by which a communication is
maintained with Pekin. That river is now
barred in twenty-two different places by
dams built of stone, which completely in
tercept the navigation. These works aro
rrrord,d as a curiosity. Moreover, the
three branches of the Pei-ho, canalized by
the Emperor Kia Kang in 1817, are cut,
and the course of one sf them, the Uu bo,
has been turned off into the lake of Kobo
tcbi. When an army invade tbe Chinese
empire, tl.e principal means of defence is
to lot tho waters of this lake overflow the
country. This syttem of defence, effica
ciou against an enemy, but mot disas
t rou for tbe country, was first used against
the insurgent in 1852. Tbe city of Pekin
is consequently perfectly safe from an atr
lack either by land or by sea, and the Em
peror will, in any desperate cireamtUnce,
1 be protected by tht fanaticism of tbt eo-
pie, who will stop at no mean of destroy
ing the foreigners.
A circumstance has lately demonstra
ted tho truth of this fuel. Tho British
ships proceeding to Canton have been in
the custom of taking fresh water at
Whampoa from a small river which fulls
into the Tuhoukiang. It was remarked
thnt the sailors using this water lately have
bceu attacked with colic, and after a care
ful investigation it was discovered that the
water was poisoned by the Chinese, They
employed for this purpose the trunk of
certnin trees, which, after being prepared
for the occasion impart, a doadly poison.
Railroad Enterprise.
The London Times of tho 17th ultimo,
ha a lengthy article on tho enterprise of
American railroad companies, in which tbe
following paragraph appears :
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, as
first made, avoidod an expensive tunnel
by "a series of zigzags, ascending over a
bill by a gradient of 1 in 18 at its steep
est part, each zigzsg terminating in a short
level space, that the train could run up
one zigzag on to this level spsot, and then
backed up tho next zigzag, and so on."
This eccentrio expedition was suporsedod
by a tunnel afterwards, but the American
would not wait for perfection before he had
his railway in the first instance. We wish
our Indian authorities would tnko a bint
from American expedition. They go on
waiting fur perfect engineering, and doing
nothing till they can do everything as it is
done in this country. The Americans
would have covered Iridia with railways
before now. The mode of raising funds
for the construction of railways by means
of grants of land, is, porhsps, a useful hint
to our Australian authorities.
Heavy Snow in the Middle of April.
They bad a groat snow storm at the
East in April, which may well be called, by
way of distinction, the Great April Snow
Storm of 1857. It extended as far cast as
I'ortland, and extended some distance into
the State of New York, and as far South as
Washington.
Aluiig the Hudson river a foot or two of
snow fell during tho day.
In Delaware county, N. Y. some four
feet of snow foil, tho storm there continued
without abatement for twenty-two Lours.
Roofs were broken in by the weight of the
snow, and the stages were stalled in the
highways on account of its depth.
In Reading, Pennsylvania, the snow on
Monday was " fifteen inches deep and
heavy ns lead." The roofs of the rail
road machine shops and private houses
broke in under the weight of the snow, and
several other buildings fell down entire
with a crash.
In New Jersey and Southern New York,
also, thero woro several inches of snow.
At Pun's, Fauquier county, Va-, three
inches of snow woro reported on Tuesday.
Such a storm, attended with so grent a
quantity of snow, is unprecedented, at this
season. No one now living, at all events,
ever witnessed the like.
A Free-Soil Paper im Texas. Tbe
Galveston News is very severe in its de
nunciations of the Quitman Free Press, a
newspaper published in Wood county, for
its "open and bitter hostilities to Southern
institutions." It professes to support tho
Southern Domocraoy, and still ventures to
believe, and what is still moro important, to
say, that the interests of Texss would be
greatly promoted by substituting frco for
slave labor. And to render the case still
more alarming, the News says that the
democracy of Wood county have elected
the editor of this samo anti-Slavery pa
per to represent them in State Convention
The News is candid enough to concede
that " if tbe people of that section of the
State, or any large number sf lhem,'de
sire to rid themselves sf the institution of
negro slavery, we suppose they have a per
fect right to do so in a legitimate and con
stitutional manner." This is a stretch ef
common sense which has not been attain
ed in many of the Southern States. Tht
tima will come, however, when tht question
will be canvassed as pre-rninontly one of
home interest. New York Times.
tadlaa Massacre la Iowa.
The following is tht account, reaching
us through tht Dt Moint (Iowa) Citizen,
of the wholesale and shocking Indian mas
saere that lately occured in Xorlhwest
Iowa :
By a letter dated Boonsbero', March
28th, from our townsman, S. B. McCall, to
R. VV. Synher, we learn the following :
'The Indians have been doing much
mischief Northwest of Fort Dodge, omo
furty or fifty miles. They Lavt killed ten
or twelve familiet of whites, over 40
persons altozeiher.
Major Williams has raited a company
of near a hundred men, to bury the dead,
hold a coroner inquest, and take the In
diant if oossible.
This is but too true ; it i supposed that
the band of warriors number 50 or 60, and
thought to be of the tribe under Sknendo-
l tak't band of Sioux, tha same tbat robbed
old Lot at the mouth of Boone river, ten
years
a"o.'
OCT In Paraguay nearly every woman
chews toiac0i
Ths Predicted Court.
The following extrsct from a privato
letter written Inst November, which we
find in tbo National Intelligencer, not only
gives soma facts respecting tho nature of
comets, but also announces a thoory re
specting their electrical influenco which
mty explain the singular weather of tht
present season,
Now, by way of fortifyinj your mind
against fear, premit tne to remind you that
astronomers throughout tho world art at
this timo looking for tht re-approach of
IJalley' great comet of 1703. 1 lie near
upproachof this planet in embryo will in
fluence our plnnot, prthnp tho whole solar
system. It will be attracted by the sun,
and then repelled by it ; it will both at
tract aud repel the planeta of the solar
system, and appear to create disorder, con
fusion. But buvo no fears. It can nei
ther attract nor be attracted to as to come
in contact with any of lbs heavenly bodies.
The most it can do to any of the planets
(ours not excepted) will bo to chango tho
currents of their electrical envelops. This
will have a tendoncy to give u the warm
est or coldest weather (should tht comet
appear soon) experienced since 1765.
Sbeald the earth's tltotricity be attracted
or rtptlled to tither pole, the temperate
zenet will enjoy an unusual degree ef
mildness ; on tbt other band, should tbo
earth's elecirio sheen be gathered in folds
noanng tbe equatorial regions, then indeed
may we expect tht most intense told ever
experienced in this climato. In either
event tht disturbance of the ocean of elec
tricity in which Iho solar system floats
will produce extraordinary results in at
mospheric temperature, wind currents, and
vegetation, until the elecirio equilibrium
shall ho re-established.
Tht Coming Comet.
Mr. Hiram P. Goodrich, of St. Louis,
writes an article to tho Republican con
corning tbt approaching comet, and the
probability of its striking the earth. lit
lay t down the following propositions, and
challenges contradiction :
1. That there are no astronomical calcu
lations of the orbil.of tbo coming comet,
that warrant the prediction that it will
touch the onrth.
2. That it is beyond tho power of pres
ent science to calculate an orbit so eccen
trio as that of this comet, and of so long a
period, so as to say whether it will, or will
not, hit the earth. This no astronomer can
know.
3. The nucleus, or orb, of all comets is
very small, and most likely entirely gas
eous, iho tan ot a comet, wtucn is most
feared as the besom of destruction, is so
thin that you can see stars through it. It
cannot hit the eld earth a harder blow than
she could probably enduro without much
damage.
4. There is no proof on record that any
comet ever affected our ntmosphore or our
seasons in the least. The cold seasons of
comet years can all be explained as easily
as the cold seasons of years when there are
no comets.
Another gentleman in St. Louis very
promptly replies to the challenge in this
wise :
Hiram Pea Goodrich has made certain
statements and challenges contradiction ;
I mako others, and defy proof to the con
trary. 1. Thero are astronomical calculations
of the orbit of the earning comet, that war
rant the prediction that it will touch tho
earth ; I made 'ern myself.
2. Science can calculate the orbit of this
eccentrio comet, no matter bow long its pe
riod, aud I predict unhesitatingly, that tho
comet now approaching will come in con
tact with the Earth on the morning of the
ICth of Juno, about 20 minutes after 10
o'clock, and the point of contact will bo is
the vicinity of a place called Vide Pocho,
or Carondelet.
3. The nucleus of this comet is very
large, nnd composed of the bisulphuretiod
carbonate of tbe proioxida of manganese.
The tail it chlorine, and although you can
not see stars th rough it, they will probably
be seen by many individuals at tbe time of
the collision.
4. Thero is alenty ef proof on record,
that comets affect the atmosphere, livery
thing can bt explained very easily.
Progress op Frbb Gtiniox in the
Slave States. The St. Louis Evening
News, in speaking of tho address of the
Mavor and the response oi the i rosiueni
of tha Board of Aldormen at tho inaugu
ration ef a Freesoil municipal govornmcnt
in St. Louis, sty s:
That Mayor Wimer, an avowed Einan
cipntionist, should deliver a pantgyrio on
" free labor." tho " dignity of whito labor,"
the "toilinir masses who uphold tne Irame-
work of society." 4c, &c, is nothing more
than was to have been expected ; but that
the President of tho Uoard of Aldermen
George R. Taylor, Esq., a Virginian by
birth, in manner and habits, and the tough
est kind of a National Democrat, should
deliberately, in cold blood, and with malice
prepense, echo tho hyperborean utterances
ot the Mayor It a most surprising circuiu
stance.
Mr. Tavlor is a Southern Gentleman, an
eminent citizen, and a man of wealth
facts wbicb, it was supposed, clinched him
to anti-Bentonism forever. Judge of the
astonishment and ancuisb of bis old friendi
then, at seeing him give a hearty response
to tbe sentiments of tho Mayor, and de
Aare, that Kansas will be a free Stale, that
Missouri is bound to follow, a her climato
and economy ara not adapted to slave
labor.
Tin Maime Law in Maime. Tim Com-
mittet of tho late Legislature of Maine to
which was committed tht subject of tho
salo of tpiritous liquors, made a non-com.
mittal report, tha substance of which Is
That intemperanct is ono of tbt greatest
evils that sceurgo tho human rneej that
the peoplo of Muino have repeatedly taken
legUlstive action for the prevention of this
great evil; that from 18(0 to 1853 tho
state had a prohibitory ttalote, "the re.
suits of which are fresh in the memory of
tht public;" that In 1950, tho Maine law
was enacted, which thecoinmilteo thinks I
not operating so well as its finmert assum
ed, but as a question of such magnitude
shonlJ not bo decided rashly ; tho com-
mitteo recommend nothing, but say that
when a prohibitory law it enacted tguiii,
it should bo drawn with the most eautious
regard to its permanent, tt its efliciency,
and to popular confidence and support ;
and as the legislature was nut chosen with
reference to tht pastgo of a prohibitory
liquor law, the committee declare that they
should tekt no action to Iht tnbjttt but
Itavt It to the pctplc. Tht Legislature
ooncluded with tht coinmitttt.
The Poisoning- at Wasiiinoton. It is
now oelievcd that no less than seven hun
dred persons have been seriously tnd dan
gorously afl'ectcd by tho National Hotel
poison, at Washington ; and some twenty
or thirty deaths have occurred In conse
quence. Thoro aro still sevoral persons
very seiluusly ill in that city, whose re
eorery is doubtful. Among others tht
Hon. Robert J. W alitor has not ytt entire
ly rrenvered from his severe attack. Sen
ator Halo of New Hampshire has become
a thin, leas man, under its ravagts. It it
now the opinion of many persons that there
was a deliberate purpost to poison Mr,
Buchanan ; tnd that the diabolical scoun.
el hazardud the lives of thousands in tht
attempt.
New Governor of Utah. Tho Wash-
incton Union annonnocs, at tht head of itt
euding editorial column, that it under.
stands that tht Governorship of Utah Ter
ritory hat been tenderod to Major Denjt
McCullough, of Texts, and "that thert
Is every reason to believe that ha wilt tc
oipt tho ollice." Tha Union says: "It
would bo difficult lo natnt another person
who combines in himself so many qualities
for the successful discharge of the dutiet
of this important and delicate trust as art
undoubtedly possessed by Major McCul
lough." This rends much as if the Adi
ministration intended bestowing unequivo
cal attention upon the Salt Lake communi
ty. It is presumed that the great mass of
the Mormon people will bo glad to avail
themselves of an opportunity to escape
from the lonthsonio and exacting despotism
of the obsceno prophets, and that tht no
torious braggart, Brighnin Young, ooulJ
not, if ha dare, raiso much of a rebellion-.
Scarcity op Food in Western Iowa.
A correspondent uf the St. Louis Repub
lican, writing from St. Joseph, Mo-, undor
date of April 10ih, says that while on a
recent visit tt Western Iowa, ho met long
trains of wagont going, as tho driver said)
" into Egypt to purchase corn." The so-
vero and protracted winter had pressed
hard upon tho newly arrived Immigrants
who had not timo lo prepare fur its rigors,
while tho almost cutiro consumption of
flour, corn and bacon, had presented the
alternative uf famine, or sending into Mis
souri for supplies.
iT The National lutclligoocer, of April
1 lib, says: "The various works at tho
Capitol are being busily urged at this
timo. Tho foundations for the two cor-
iJors to connect the main building
with tho North and South wings ara
excavated, and the building of tht con
nections will soon eommenoe. In the in
terior tho fine colonadt of tht House of
Representatives is far advanced, tnd al
ready proscnts an imposing appearante.
The ceiling, too, is not vory distant front
completion, and never fails to strike every
beholder with admiration at its gorgeous
beauty."
(KT Tho impression that the world is W
bo at an end cn tho 1 3th of Jure it so
prevalent in Gallicia that the peasants are
becoming somewhat difficult to manage.
Tho poor ignorant creatures have betn con-i
firmed in iho idea that they have but few
weeks to live, by the abolition of tbt " pass
port torturt" in Austria, and tht reduction
of the passport tax In Russia. According
io a Polish oorrcspondent of tht Oil DeuU
chest Post, the lower classst txpress them
elves ts follow : " No one bow troubles
himself about the world and its inhabit,
ant. A man can go where ho pleases, a
it it now all the samo whether he is hers
or in America."
05" It is not generally known that a
lump of loaf sugar will often instantly
stop iho most troublesome hiccough.
05" Look out for the comet '.
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