THE OREGON ARGUS,
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BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS.
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In tbe year 1804, there resided io the
county or G., in tha Slate of Virginia, two
' families, whoso name were M. ic II.
They were in fuir circumstance and re
apeclable. Both families attended th
aame school, and received a liberal eJuca
lion. : John M. the eldest aon was a
young gentleman of noble and command
i ing appearance, and capable of ardent at
tachment. Mary II. was a young lady,
only to bo aeen to be beloved by all. N
' ture had bestowed upon her all those gra
eo and charm, calculated to win love and
' admiration. Tbcio two formed for each
' other, while yet they were children, a atrong
' and tender attachment, which, a they
grew to men and women' age, ripened in
' io devoted love. It was noted by all, that
these two lover only teemed to live to
' each other, and to be formed for each oth
' ei' society and companionship for lift).
The formality of a long courtship eemed
' with them unnecessary they knew each
other, nn J love with them reigned luprtmt,
. At length the consent of the parent of
' Miss II. was obtained far the hand of their
; chnrming daughter, and a day was looked
forward to, when the hand of these lov-
, era should be united a firmly in the silken
bands of Hymen, at their heart were uni
led in love. There was some business,
however, in Augusta county, Va., which
, required the presence of John M. in Ma
tion lo hi father' estate, whose executor
he was, lie would be detained about
tight works. Th quesiion was, whether
he should transact that business before or
aficr his marriage. He counselled with
' the pareut!, and with the lovely Mary, and
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mo conclusion was, mat me wedding
should be postponed three months, and that
he should take departure forthwith fur
Augusta.
The lima seemed almost endless to these
. devoted lovers, which should separata
them, even for three months I In a few
, days John M. departed on hi journey ;
and, not trusting his feelings to bid Miss
II. adieu, ho left for her the following lines:
June 29, 1804.
Mir Dearest Mary I have penned
these few lines for your prusal, and to be
retained till the writer shnll return and be
yours forever. Yes, dearest one, '.he love
; which dwells in my heart for you, cannot
bo bounded, only by this life; but, I feci
that we shall ever lie one, now and to eter
nity. I f.-cl ihnt without you, this world
would bo a dreary waste, n chao, a bleak
und frozen desert. I live for you and you
only. Never did I, nor ever can I, love
any woman but you ; and often I have
told you so, yol now tomaku it more stead,
fast, lei me record it on paper (would it
were on ndnmant) ilmt I am yours and
' you ore mine, sweet blissful word. The
time of our separation, till my return, will
seem an ne. I shall not doubt, in my
absence, of the fidelity of my own dear
Mary. And rest assired that your im.
age shall ever be present with me, and that
J shall hasten my return. 1 have left di
rections with my overseer to arrange the
buildings nnd grounds of our future home,
so dial all these, on my paternal estate,
Ckimllv loft lo nm hi mv lamented father
and mother) shnll be, ready to receive their
new mistress, who is worthy to own them,
nnd who will adorn my ample possessions.
Spend seme time, with my kind and dear
sister, Mrs. L., who, next to you, holds a
. deep ssat in my affijclions, and from the
Post Office you will receive loiters in my
absence from him who subscribes himself
yours forever, in the bond of truo love.
John M.
Arrived in Augusta, Jun M. viitccl L!s
uncle, Mr. God". The family ware oVf rjoJ'ed
see hirrij and his uncle and aunt kindly
invited him to spond all his time apart
from his business there with them. Ho
inviteJ them to hit wcdJing, and they
promised to accompany him on his return,
and be present at hi marriage with the
lovely Mary H. In a few day after his ar
rival, ho again addressed a letter to bis af
fianced bride, assuring her of his welfare
and afo arrival, and of hi devoted love
for her, and how tedious the time rolled on
.when away from her, whose presence was
"liis 'life, "his all. .
. Miss Anna Goff his coutin was then
18 years of age, and mistress of ten thous-
. and dollars in cash, slaves, and stock.
She was the reverse of Miss H. in all re.
-spects. Cold, calculating, cunning, and
full of intrigue, she set to with all her skill
tnd blandishments, to win over her cousin,
and bribe him, by the offer of her wealth,
io become her husband I She planned out
" pleasure trip" with John M., and never
failed to intimate lo him the difference be
tween marrying a poor girl as she termed
Miss II., and one like benelf, worth ten
thousand dollars, then ready to posset. It
wot rue that the father of Mitt Mary H.
had a large family and was yet in the prime
of life, and could notgiva bit daughter, at
that time, more than two thousand dollars !
Letter breathing love and constancy, eon.
' tinued to pass between tbe affianced ones
' The time had nearly expired when John M.
should take his departure for home. But
hew shall I state it f alat for fallen man 1
' the poison of avarica was dr'nking up
$lt tool' ggjbjni fountain of love, tod tbe
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advance nnd oflbr of hit cousin Anna
were taking .effect! The idea often
thoutand dollais ta aid in improving and
telling off to advantage, hit home estate,
took deep hold on Li mind. Till then,
he knew not hi own nature. The inordi
nate de.iro of wealth deep aeated avarice
wa a part of hi nature, but he knew it
not. Love with hiiu had lived and ruled
supreme and uncontrolled. But now
temptation had come, the tempter was in
the form of a Syren cousin, who, like De
lilah, set hard upon him, and who con
quered in ilio end I Yes, she conquered
and ruined the once devoted lover ; for, be
fore the day set for his departure, he and
Anna Go(T were married. Next day he
dispatched two letters one to his overseer
and one to Mary II. The letter to her
was written in a female's hand-writing and
dictated by her who had wrought such
wide and deep ruin to John M. and Mary
II. Tho signature, however, was that of
John M.
The letter ran thus :
Augusta Co., Va., Autr. 25. 1804,
To Mary II You likely by ibis time
are looking Tor a loiter from one whom you
expect shortly, to call your own ! Hut in
this expectation aad fond desire, no doubt
you are doomed to a tulle disappointment.
It it true that I thought I once loved es
teemed yon, but I find it was only a boy
ish freak of fancy. Love, when weighed
in the scale of wealth, is light as air.
Love cannot build houses and barns, slock
a farm, er fill a homestead with useful fur-
niiuro. I return all your letters, and with
them, all pledges on your part. You are
at perfect liberty to marry whom you will.
I was married on tbe 2 lib inst. to Miss An
na Goff, who has made me sole master to.
day of ten thousand dollars in cash, stock,
and s'aves a handsome Utile turn, and
perhaps seven or eight thousand more
than I could hnve received by marrying
tome other one! 1 nave written to my
overseer that I ahall be at home on the
very day set some time ago, but with a
richer tcife I This is a changing world and
the spico of life is in variety and change.
I hopo that you will soon find one who will
be happy to call you his" Dear Wifo."
John M.
'When John M. signed this colJ, cruel,
and heartless letter, his heart appeared to
sink within him. His love turned to hor
ror and despair, and the world appeared to
him indeed a " cold, uhaolio waste."
When Miss H. received this letter, she
bowed it to her parents, and they mourn
ed indeed over the snd downfall of poor J.
M. They had ever loved him as a child ;
ho was raised from infancy in their neigh
borhood ; and heartless ns was that letter,
nnonncing to them his marriage, they
could sco in it the work of her who was
the authoress of ibis nITiiir. None but the
woman, who could have been heartless
enough (knowing all tun circumstances) to
have acted as she did, could have dictated
uch a letter; yet her husband in signing
that letter, made its sentiments his own,
nd pierced bis own heart with unutler-
ble anguish and lasting remorse. Mary
II. uttered no word of complaint, but she
rooped and faded from that day forward.
The stalely mansion of John M., in a short
time, received Mr. and Mrs. M. with her
wealth. The brothor of the writer was
there when they arrived. But how sad and
ltcred was the owner of the premises.
On taking the hand of my brother, John
M. stated that he was a lost man, and that
all hope ef happiness with him had fled.
He enquired AoioMary II. and her parents
had received the intelligence of his mar
riage ; and when he heard that they made
no complaint, but christian-like forgave
him, and mourned over his downfall, utter
horror and remorse teemed added to his
tout's despair.
Some time after their arrival home
the newly married couple attended a re
ligious meeting near at hand, and Mary H.
and her parents were there. It was there
that the eyes of J-, M. and Mary II. met
for the first timo since their sad separation.
But what a difference in their looks I Calm
and subdued meekness, coupled with deep
sorrow shone in her now pale countenance J
whiU in hi face shone horror, remorse,
guilt and despair. Oh! cruel Avarice
hearties woman tbes are thy trophies.
Can wealth purchase peace of mind, and
truo enjoyment in the married life when
love is absent I In a short lime the once
noble John M. was seen reeling under the in
fluence of brandy! Hit nature became cruel
and vindictive, and he exercised the "ty
rant" over his slave. Two years after
hi marriage, hi wife, through careless
ness, left open, the garden gate, and bit
horse entered the walks in the garden,
and pawed and rolled on the newly made
borders. On perceiving it he enquired who
had left the gate open, swearing that he
would hill the person who had done it.
Ill wife, in order ta secure herself, and
knowing hi yiolent temper, told him that
Jack, a negro man who had been rawed
with Maasa Johnny," bad done the care
lose trick. Ho then rushed to that part of,
the farm where poor Jack was hard at
work, and, without teluog the poor fellow
I of any offence, commenced boating bin,
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and continued the abuse for an hour. Six
of his rib were broken, hi arm broke, and
his body a gore of blood, and in fourteen
hours poor Jack was a corpse. Before hit
death bis master becam sober, and visit
ed hi slave. The dying man reached
forth hi hand to hit matter and asked
him what had been hi offense, and on be
ing informed, he said that he had not benn
near the house er garden since h left, and
could not have left open the rate. To thit
the other slaves affirmed who hnd been
with poor Jack all that day. Again he
siczed his master's hand, and, with glory
beaming in his face, ha thus addressed him
who was dumb and horror struck with re1
morse for his cruelty :
'Massy Johnny, I am dying, but glory
and eternal life await me. For many
years, yes, ever sinco that protracted meet
ing at Massy II. 's ten years ago, Jesus has
visited and dwelt in (bit poor soul of mine
The love of God has made me a good slave,
and I have ever been true to you aad your
interests. I am done with earth, but may
I say to you, Oh ! turn to God and secure
the salvation of your soul ? I forgive you,
and may my kind Savior, who died for you
and me, seal your pardon, and pour into
your soul that joy and peace which you
have not in wealth and home. Your act
te me will soon open to me the gates of
the New Jerusalem, and I shall then for
get slavery and sorrow and pain. God
bless and forgive you, Massy Johnny."
Here his utterance failed, and his toul,
released from the slave's black body, soar
ed to tbe bosom of his savior, where all are
free aad equal ! But did this scene change
the course of John M.f No. Ho appear
ed a doomed man he quaffed still deeper
the cup of intoxication, and became still
more cruel and vindictive. His wife at
limes would try to expostulate with him on
his conduct. But he would turn te her,
and piercing upon her his scorching glance,
would say: "You, wretched woman, cte
what your arts have done; you conquered
it is trup, and with your accursed wealth
bribed me to my ruin. And do you expect
to escape that destiny which awaits you I
Yes, I am a lost man. In an evil hour I
beheld you, and your presence only in
creases my agony and despair."
About two moro years had, rolled around,
nnd the once lovely ntid bcautilful Mary
II. quitted earth for Heaven. She died
of a broken heart, but in her last moments
breathed the name of her false lover.
Horror, too deep for utterance, now shone
foith in tho visage of the wretched John M.
Io gave himself up to despair and ruin.
He drank deep and long. Heme to him
horrible. Tho presence of his wifo
was as the presence of ten thousand ser
pents 1 He gambled heavily. About this
time a negro man of his offended him, and
he tied him up lo the limb of a tree naked
his foet suspended in air, and gave him
during the day five hundred lashes wilh a
"cow-hide." In tbe evening he washed
his lacerated back with strong brin, and
his revenge not yet complete, he tied a
rope to his legs, and then tied upon it a
long fence-rail. In the morning he went
out, after drinking deeply at tbe brandy
bottle, to commence the torture of his poor
slave, who was innocent of any wrong to
him. But when he reached the place of
torture, he beheld the cold and rigid corpse
of poor Harry t The soul of his slave had
left its black tenement at 1 o'clock in the
morning. He too was a convert at the
protracted meeting at the father's farm of
ibe dear, sainted Mary H. Several of the
negroes had gone out after dark, and after
their brutal mnstor was fast asleep, to con
sole poor Harry, and to give him drink.
Ho forgave his cruel master and shouted
ictory over death.
In two years more tho large estate of
JohnM. was in ruins. Neglect of business,
drinking, gambling and carousing, had
made heavy inroads upon it. Tbe wretch
ed Anna now perceived that ruin awaited
them. Her love for him had not ceased,
for she never had any. And she kuew
also that he never had loved her.
About this time ene of his negro men
had received a severe cowhiding, aad fled
from the farm and took up his abode in a
large limestone cave in that neighborhood.
Hit whereabouts remained a secret to the
whiles for some weekt, but he cam out by
night and obtained from the blacks various
eatables from time to time. Finally his
master ascertained where Cesar dwelt, and
well armed, he arrived at the cave. He
entered, and groped hit way for tome dis
tance, when he called for Cesar to come
forth. The slave told him to come along
after him, and he would conduct him a
mile or to along his "dominion." Hit
matter then left a while man to guard th
cave, while be returned for a lantern and
an additional pistol. Soon after bit depart
ure, the white man left at a guard told
lar to come ont ana escape to anoiner
cave aboat a mile off. Alter the negro
bad left, a ft mmotes the man began to
bawl at moot lustily that the negr was!
0 Step
about to eacape. On hearing the outcry
at the cave, Mr. M. sprang upon hit broth
er horse which stood hitched at the gate
near the mansion house, and, with th Ian
tern and pistol in his hand, rode rapidly
in the direction of th cavo. Iu a abort
time hi brother missed hi horto and en
quired for him. He wa told, and be im.
mediately, in company wilh Mrs. M. and
bor little daughter, started towards the
cave frein whence the yelling issued. He
told them that no man could carry a lan
tern on that hone without being thrown ofT,
and that they would be likely to find him
thrown and badly hurt. At (be distnaoe
of four hundred yard they saw the horse
standing near the road, and the rider
thrown ofT and his skull masked. He was
insensible and bleeding, and was carried
home. In a short timo the horror stricken
Anna beheld the lifeless body of her
husband.
Tho eslate was administered on, and
when wound up was found to be insolvent.
A fow years more, and the wife of John M.
died, poor and neglected. I was present
at the funeral, and none wopt tave her poor
little orphan girls, who were taken and
raised by their aunt, Mrs. L.
Tfiu I have brought my narrative to a
close, presenting the sad spectacle of "ava
arice, slavery, and brandy." x. r.
Lebanon, Aug. 15, 1657.
Editor of Argut: I would like to be
permitted lo occupy a small space in your
paper for the purpose of "agitating" a little
upon a new subject. I believe that just
now there is a general spirit of enquiry
abroad ns le the best molhod of curing and
preventing disease, and of seouring the
most perfect health and the greatost
longevity. The spirit of enquiry is abroad,
and a great temperance reform is going on
as to diet and general habits of living.
Useluss stimulants and poisonous drugs are
inning to be looked upon as deadly
enemies of health, and people are beginning
to think of returning to a more simple
style of living. Now I regard the use of
poisonous mineral substances by soma of
our physicians as one very prolitio source
of disease. These medicines are, in refer
ence to the human constitution, decidedly
"unconstitutional," and ought to be sodo-
ided by the court of public opinion.
These medicines cannot bo taken into the
system with impunity, er without an in
fringement of physical laws. The conse
quence is, that there are thousands now
iving whose constitutions have been ru
ined by nothing less than the very medi
cines I hat are given to them to remove
disease, and they are now dragging outlives
more intolerable than death, when by tbe
use of harmless medicines they would have
been sound and well. It is a preposterous
idea that these minoral medicines are more
efficacious in curing disease than such as
aro to be found in the vegetable kingdom.
Then if vegetable cures are just as eflica-
cious, and can be used without danger of
poisoning the system, why should they not
be used in preference 1
Hoping that some one more skilled
than ni; self will take this matter in hand,
I close for the present. F.
LonD Palmerston. The Inst timo I
saw Lord Palinerstoo, was in the summer
of 1 854, in the House of Commons. It
was a field day, and he had been running
a tilt against every Parliamentary knight
that dared break a lance with him in' the
encounter of debate. His face was flushed,
his eye was bright, and wilh the snows of
seventy winters on his hoad, he appeared
lo mo a perfect miracle of intellect. There
is age in his hair, his limbs, and his voice ;
but this is physical decay only the intel
lect is unconcioits of decline. The sword
is not the less sharp, that It gradually cuts
through tbe scabbard.
The late Dr. McGinn, writing of the
mythically old Mr. Rogers, said that, after
passing the first eighty or ninety years of
iiis age in the dissipations of youth, he be
gan to think hiinofa profession; and in
the same way tuo illustrious career of
Palmerston commenced when hi lordship
wa attaining half a hundred years. It is
true, he wo in the House of Commons
before he was in a beard ; but the silenco
of some twenty years would appear to inti
mate his profound conviction that the Ro
mans were right in admitting to the Sen
ate only those who bad attained to the
dignity of forty years. But although he
came late upen tbe House of Commoas
arena, his wbol life bad been spent in
office.
He hat held office nineteen years under
the Tories, and about sixteen years under
the Wbijs. He was tbe Secretary of War
who signed warrants for the conveyance of
Napoleon 1 to at. Helena ; and be was the
Secretary of State who offended his Sove
reign by recognising that Napoleon HI
had commenced lo reign. At the English
cricketers would tay, "he bat had the long
est innings on record." His offices, too,
appear to have been no sinecures. He
was Secretary of War at war time : and
his sixteen years of Foreign Secretaryship
were sixteen years or attempt te break
the peace.
Wiib tbe pressure of see he bas nothing
to do ; tbe daring and the indifference of
youth are the salient points of bit character
to this day ; and from tbe lime whan on
behalf of Canning be undertook to crush
the side of Trutli iu every isstie.-
No. 10,
"The Duk." to that manifesto of a few
years tince, when in antwer to tome Scotc h
clorpymen, who peiiiiontd hfm to advi
her Majesty to fix a day Tor a national fat
on account of the cholory, ha iiiggetttd
"(key had better look after the town
drainage," he hat alwayt manifested the
tame energy, spirit and humor ; and now,
in 1857, in hit teventy-founh Tear, the
veteran statesman has triumphed in one of
the fierce! popular druggie r.ngland hat
witnessed since tbe day of the great lie
form agitation.
The high potitien ef Lord Palmortlon
in the House of Commons is attributable
not only to the fact that he is a first-rate
intellect, leading the century, but te hi
most emphatically practical character,
polished into statesmanship by th expe
rience of more than forty year of respons
ible office.
II is said to be the only peer of pur
Saxon descent, and ha has always appear
ed to me to be the intenscst Englishman
in English public life. No one ha pa
rused hi recent Parliamentary efforts,
but ha been struck with the vigor and va
riety ef his intellect. Practically compre
hending all the dctaila of English states
manship, and thoroughly conversant with
the political history of European politic,
be i a perfect giant in debate. Cool nnd
sagacious, he is ever prompt and rady at
aelf defense. Full of humor and abounding
in sarcasm, he i a most formidable adver
sary in the running tilt of an off-hand
debate. Neieark Advertitcr,
United States Revenuk Uetcb.ns.
Tbe Washington correspondent for the
Now York Courier says that tho quarterly
returns of revenue from customs, includ
ing hospital money, receipt from ttorage
and other incidental charge for the pres.
ent fiscal year, at tho principal ports, have
been as follows :
Now York,
Boston,
Philadelphia,
Baltimore,
Charleston,
New Orleans,
Savannah,
Mobile,
St. Louis,
Cinoinnali,
Portsmouth, Va.,
112,300,701
G,!00,0S
3,641,150
1,501,01)0
523,000
3,410,000
170,000
135,000
444,000
7(1,000
50,000
53,837,000
Estimated for tho remainder of
Juno,
2,500,000
Total ascertained nnd probable
receipts of the year, 01,337,000
There has been a great falling off in
the amount of duties collected at all the
ports during the present quarter, compar
ed with the last quarter of 1850, caused
by the entries of merchandise in bond, in
order to take advantage of the reduction
of duties on and after July 1st. The pub
lic ntores in New York and Boston' are
crammed with goods, and enormous pay
ments of duties will be mndo the first
week in July. The falling ofT in New
York, thus far in the quarter, hits been
about $5,000,000; at Boston, 81,655,-
000 ; and elsewhore, no doubt, correspond
ingly. The excess at New York, up to
March 31st, 1857, was 11,700,000 over
the samo period in 1850. If we add to
the total bafore piven, tho sum of $8,000,
000, which will have been withheld from
the Treasury, ns the duties on goods im
ported within the year, nnd warehoused on
account of the tariff, wo shall liavo an ag
gregate revenue- from customs, to be cred
ited to the year's transactions, of $71,-
387,000. ' Estimating the roceipts from
publio lands at 63,313,000, the total re
ceipts from all sources may be set down nt
$80,000,000.
Riots In tw 'York.
The celebration of Independence Day
was marked by the bloodiest riot which
the city has seen for five years. The close
of a day of remarkable quietness' was red
dened with the blood of a hundred men.
At about -5 o'clock, fire members ef the
Metropolitan Police in the Seventh Ward
were surrounded in Jackson street, near
Cherry, by several hundred of the occu
pants of the houses thereabout, and men
went to the Tenth and Thirteenth Wards
for help. Ten men from the Thirteenth
rescued the Seventh Ward men, although
they were so severely pelted wilh stones
and brick-bats from housetops and the
streets, that they were compelled lo use
their pistols. Three only ef their num
ber were injured.
Sergeant Davis of the Tenth Ward not
being able to respond to the call for aid,
sent to the headquarters in White street,
and Mr. Bowers of l he Ninth Ward, with
twenty-five men, all specials except two or
throe, was dispatched immediately. These
men went down White street into Baxter,
and as they were turning into Bayard
were attacked by a gang of rowdies known
a "Dead Rabbit" or Blackbirds."
While they were defending themselves
from the club and brick-bat of the Dead
Rabbiit, a party of th " Bowery Boy "
a race whose profession i to fight tbe
Dead Rabbits, cam down Bayard from
tho Bowery to the rescue of the police,
not to much from their lympathiet as from
their antipathies.
Tho policemen, whose prosprcta bad
beep rather gloomy, pitted through to
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to Inform the inihlis that lit has jurt reeelvxl s
largo Monk utJOU 1 VE anil oilir nw print
In nul rinl, w d will be in (he si rr,y reeiipt of
il,l,tiuii lulled Iu all Ut rt-quircmriiUi of lli i hw
ealiiy. IIANIUIII.!, l'Hfc'1'l Its, HI.ANKM.
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uil oilier kinJa. (lout lo vrjvr. on short notice.
Bowery and formed again, while the Dead
Rabbit gnih rJ in large number and
drove the Bowery Buy bark Bayard to
Elizabeth street, gniuing there a pile of
bricks, which facilitated their operation
for half an hour. i'Le Bowury ll)tlhen
drove lliem back lo Moll, and afterward to
Mulberry. Here firing commenced and
men lejan to full. Tho Bowery Boy
throw a barricade across Buyard, at the
corner of Elizabeth, from behind which
they made the it rest so unsafe that the
Dead Rtbbits dodged behind the corner of
Mott street, ouly occasionally runnlsg out
to shoot.
Before 7 J p. M-, two Metropolitan Po
lice officers, covering their badges, went
among the Dead Rabbits at Deputy Sher
ills and told ihem that the thing must be
stopped. The Dead Rabbits were willing
lo step if lie Bowery Boys would ; the
Bowery Boy wore willing to stop if the
Dead Rabbits would; the barricade were
torn down, and wilh the exceptioo of an
occasional shot, order was restored in the
Sixth Ward by 8 o'clock. The rioting waa
returned the aext day, but order waa re
stored by tha pretence of the Sheriff.
Iron and Stiax vi. Wood and Can
tas. A British publication predict that
befor tho cad of thit century there will
not probably be a wooden hull navigating
the Atlantic uudcr cnnvs. Upwards of
hit steamers, mostly screw propeller,
are being built in England for the Allan-
lie trade. In tbis country, it i turn inai
lliero is not a tinijle urow propollcr on
the stocks. It may wtll bo asked how
the mercantile iutorest of the United
SiaUt intend to maintain thomsclve
against this great competition, unlit they
preparo at once for tho struggle- The in
dications are plain that wood aud canvas
will be suporcodvd by iron and steam, and
those who are fir.it prepared for theoharge
will long enjoy superiority in the advan
tages. ,
Collude Prizes Secured Br Sandwich
Islanders. The New Haven Palladium
relates tne following interesting facts :
" Wo notice a ourious coincidence in the
prize lately declared to the graduating
class of Ynlo. Three young men have
now bron educated hero who wore born
and reared, and who still had their homes,
in tho far-ofT Sandwich Islands. Theso
three have all tnken the First Astronomi
cal Prizes, viz: Hiram Bingham of the
class of 1853, W. D. Aloxnnder of '58 and
D. D. Baldwin or 57. lliese prizes are
among the most honornblo of the course,
requiring not only intimate acquaintance
wilh the visible heavens, but great accura
cy in solution of problems, and especially
in calculation of eclipses. There is there
fore a great struggle among the ' mathe
matical heads' of each class for tho first
prize on the list. But the 1 Canibals' seem
to hnvs a prescriptive right to that henor.
Curious, to tee theso sons ef the Pacific
enmo round Cape Horn te wrest so surely
this particular laurel from the yeulh of
ArueriOH I"
Health op Children. Kiting early U
a habit of high importance to fix iu chil
drcd ; and in forming it than In other cases.
Tlioio Is a natural propom-ity in children
to early rising, which noeds only to be en
couraged. They usually retire to bed
some timo boforo their parents, and at dny-
lijjht, or at least suuriso, are generally
awake nnd anxious lo rise. , Many of them
aro actually bred up with difficulty to the
habit of taking a morning nap, which
when once foruiod, generally prevails
through lifo. Let iho father deny himself
so far as lo rise early, and btcom an early
riser also. His health, onioy ment and use
fulness, ho may depend epon it, will be
porcoptibly benefitted. And this may be
connected wilh another preventive of dis
easeactive employment. The morning
is tho season of activity ; the frame in
vigoratsd by repose, is prepared for exer
tion, and motion givts pleasure. The pure
atmosphere, to much mora bracing than at
other hours, to much tweeter aud more ex
hilernting thaa the air of a confined cham
ber, hat boen prepared to be breathed, and
like all nature's msdicini, it it superior to
any which science can produoe. Early
rising and early exercise may more prop
erly be called food than medicine, as they
are designed for daily use, and to protect
us from cisease rather than remove it.
Everylhing except mer sloth Invilrs us
nay, requires us to train up our children
to use. The morn is tha most favorable
season for exercising tho frame, as well as
for making useful impressions on the
mind and henrt ; nd whetver tries lo
conduct the education ef his child indq,
pendentty of tbit practice, will loie tome
of the most aV.e opportunities.
Summart Measures. That old sinner.
Brigham Young, in a late speech to Lit,
"Saints," made the following declaration,
which hat a alight air cf parental severity :
" Were my daughter to marry a Gentile,
I would save her in '.hit kingdom, namely,
cut her threat from ear to ear."
" Ueatilet" visiting Salt Lake City, will
please to notice, at lirijkam has some for-,
ty wives, it is not impossible that hit,
daughters are equally numerous,